WEBVTT 00:00:00.010 --> 00:00:01.210 Greetings. 00:00:02.710 --> 00:00:03.430 Salutations. 00:00:04.390 --> 00:00:06.530 Okay, shall we start? 00:00:07.210 --> 00:00:08.110 Yes. 00:00:09.350 --> 00:00:34.410 Okay, here it goes. Transcription 00:00:34.410 --> 00:00:34.410 by CastingWords 00:00:34.430 --> 00:00:37.310 Welcome to Curmudgeon's Corner for Saturday, 00:00:37.630 --> 00:00:40.390 August 9th, 2025. 00:00:41.030 --> 00:00:46.390 It is just seconds after 2UTC as we're starting to record. I am Sam Menter. 00:00:46.510 --> 00:00:47.690 Yvonne Boas here. Hello, Yvonne. 00:00:48.490 --> 00:00:48.890 Hi. 00:00:49.610 --> 00:00:51.910 You sound so enthused today. 00:00:52.730 --> 00:00:55.070 Hi. Yeah. 00:00:56.570 --> 00:01:00.130 You having a great time? You're, you're, you're pumped up. 00:01:00.250 --> 00:01:12.550 You're, you know, I, I'm, I'm a little bit of loss for words to describe how I feel. 00:01:12.670 --> 00:01:18.290 Not sure exactly why I even feel like this at this moment. 00:01:18.290 --> 00:01:27.330 It's not, well, a lot of things have happened, but I, I don't know. 00:01:27.330 --> 00:01:32.090 No, it's just, there's just, is the life thing, news things, 00:01:32.490 --> 00:01:33.810 just general. Everything, everything. 00:01:34.230 --> 00:01:38.470 It's just, but we've had this, I think here is the main thing. 00:01:38.930 --> 00:01:39.570 Yes. 00:01:39.990 --> 00:01:47.790 That we have, you know, our days sometimes can get very lengthy with a lot of 00:01:47.790 --> 00:01:50.370 things going on and so forth and so on. 00:01:50.490 --> 00:01:57.290 And they get kind of tiring. I mean, if I, last Friday, I felt exhausted, like by noon. 00:01:57.790 --> 00:02:03.690 I also, well, one thing that's not helping is that I strained, 00:02:03.930 --> 00:02:07.210 I have an abdominal strain. 00:02:07.370 --> 00:02:09.350 It's a muscular strain. 00:02:09.650 --> 00:02:09.990 Okay. 00:02:10.090 --> 00:02:16.970 Not, okay, which at first I thought that maybe could have been diverticulitis 00:02:16.970 --> 00:02:19.150 or the pain was. I wasn't sure. 00:02:19.430 --> 00:02:22.150 Because you had that before. Or intestinal, right. 00:02:22.570 --> 00:02:27.970 But I thought for a bit, but then I realized this pain is not the same. This is not intestinal. 00:02:28.430 --> 00:02:31.850 I'm noticing that the pain is in the same location, but it's only happening 00:02:31.850 --> 00:02:33.030 when I'm like standing up. 00:02:34.050 --> 00:02:38.970 And standing up in a way that I'm using my abdominal muscle, like when I'm in bed. 00:02:40.020 --> 00:02:45.860 Okay. That was like the worst. And so I noticed that if I stood up very gently, 00:02:45.860 --> 00:02:48.500 it wasn't happening. I went to the doctor. 00:02:49.420 --> 00:02:53.840 My doctor was a little bit out of sorts. 00:02:54.300 --> 00:02:58.480 I realized after, I mean, but he did, you know, check me and he said, 00:02:58.660 --> 00:03:03.360 look, this doesn't feel like the verdiculitis, but I'm going to send you to get a CT scan anyway. 00:03:04.240 --> 00:03:08.880 Thing is my CT scan wound up getting canceled because they, the doctor hadn't 00:03:08.880 --> 00:03:11.560 sent the notes. They didn't get the approval, blah, blah, blah. 00:03:12.040 --> 00:03:16.500 But he was doing that as a precaution because it felt like it was muscular. 00:03:16.680 --> 00:03:23.120 We felt, you know, it looked like I did it where I felt like I had a little 00:03:23.120 --> 00:03:25.460 twinge there in my lower abdomen. 00:03:26.320 --> 00:03:31.000 And then on Saturday, the workout that I did at where I go to Orange Theory 00:03:31.000 --> 00:03:37.240 Fitness involved quite a lot of sit-ups, a lot of sit-ups which aggravated. 00:03:37.240 --> 00:03:38.360 Whatever issue you had. 00:03:38.360 --> 00:03:41.300 Yes so make doing quite a 00:03:41.300 --> 00:03:44.100 lot of sit-ups and i just the problem is i thought 00:03:44.100 --> 00:03:49.640 it was gastro my my soreness there so i'm like eh whatever i'll do a ton of 00:03:49.640 --> 00:03:54.560 sit-ups right wrong that was bad really 00:03:54.560 --> 00:04:02.620 bad not good okay so i've had this underlying like malaise and pain, 00:04:02.760 --> 00:04:05.060 which has been getting better. I've been resting. 00:04:05.380 --> 00:04:10.360 It's all I can do. It's all I can do for this. Rest. Not much else to do. 00:04:11.540 --> 00:04:17.480 And then it's just that we live right now in this era where there is just this 00:04:17.480 --> 00:04:25.740 constant drumbeat of annoying shit happening in the news every fucking day. 00:04:26.260 --> 00:04:27.860 And it's every fucking day. 00:04:27.860 --> 00:04:34.780 So what you're saying is your body is reacting badly to the general stress of life in 2020. 00:04:34.980 --> 00:04:39.980 Well, no, I don't know if it's, no, I'm not saying that that was my body's reaction to it. 00:04:40.060 --> 00:04:43.500 What I'm saying is you're asking me, why am I feeling like blah? 00:04:43.760 --> 00:04:45.880 And then some other annoying shit. 00:04:46.300 --> 00:04:49.620 Exactly. You've got this constant drumbeat underneath. 00:04:50.060 --> 00:04:55.200 I've got my abs that I got my damn lower abdominal that's like hurting. 00:04:55.480 --> 00:04:58.360 And then some annoying shit happened. and whatever and 00:04:58.360 --> 00:05:03.060 so it and then i'm tired because i feel i mean i like you know this afternoon 00:05:03.060 --> 00:05:09.900 i got to like two o'clock and i'm feeling fucking just exhausted already um 00:05:09.900 --> 00:05:18.000 so it's just so by the time i'm getting now to like 10 o'clock eastern i'm just feeling, 00:05:20.080 --> 00:05:24.660 And then I just saw some guy that had a football game on, and apparently they 00:05:24.660 --> 00:05:28.600 suspended the football game because some guy apparently got really badly hurt. 00:05:29.240 --> 00:05:34.180 Like, you know, bad enough that, you know, they stopped the game. Bad enough. 00:05:34.740 --> 00:05:35.220 Right. 00:05:35.280 --> 00:05:36.680 So that wasn't uplifting. 00:05:37.880 --> 00:05:39.640 Yeah. And, you know. 00:05:39.880 --> 00:05:43.380 I mean, look, which part is worse, okay? 00:05:43.380 --> 00:05:47.720 Hey, you know, the ice raids, the alligator Alcatraz, 00:05:48.280 --> 00:05:54.400 the stupid president that we've got that's just tariff this tariff that I had, 00:05:54.500 --> 00:05:59.580 uh, you know, my, my, you know, somebody was telling me a story about ice showing 00:05:59.580 --> 00:06:02.160 up at some condo, like, uh, 00:06:02.460 --> 00:06:06.160 you know, like about five, 10 miles away and how they were worried. 00:06:06.160 --> 00:06:09.500 Well, actually, I'm not even sure it's totally ice. It was a big police presence. 00:06:10.080 --> 00:06:13.340 The suspicion was it was ice. I don't know. They were arresting. 00:06:13.420 --> 00:06:18.080 It looks like they were trying to arrest some maintenance guy or some stupid shit. 00:06:18.160 --> 00:06:20.860 And they show up with, like, 15 police cars. 00:06:21.580 --> 00:06:26.420 Like, you know, they're arresting. You know, it's some nonviolent dude. 00:06:26.740 --> 00:06:32.260 And they're going at it like, you know, we're picking up Osama bin Laden or something. 00:06:32.960 --> 00:06:33.500 Mm-hmm. 00:06:34.180 --> 00:06:38.480 You know, and I'm sorry to tell you that that whole thing about that shooting 00:06:38.480 --> 00:06:41.020 in Atlanta wasn't exactly uplifting either. 00:06:41.440 --> 00:06:45.760 You went and you actually you got ahead of me. I was like, I was thinking of texting our. 00:06:45.900 --> 00:06:52.500 So just for our listeners, Friday evening, early afternoon, evening, whatever. 00:06:53.100 --> 00:06:59.460 There was an active shooter on sort of Emory University slash CDC. 00:06:59.720 --> 00:07:00.680 They're right next to each other. 00:07:00.680 --> 00:07:01.800 They're right next to each other. 00:07:01.800 --> 00:07:08.100 And it, as it turns out, I think it's all like settled now, but they, uh, the shooter's dead. 00:07:08.440 --> 00:07:11.620 The shooter's dead. It's all taken care of whatever. 00:07:11.660 --> 00:07:16.780 But apparently he was specifically targeting the CDC seemingly because he thinks 00:07:16.780 --> 00:07:19.080 the COVID vaccine made him sick. Something like that. 00:07:19.340 --> 00:07:21.680 Yeah. Great. You know, and anyway. 00:07:21.740 --> 00:07:24.260 A friend of ours, Kathy, who, uh. 00:07:24.560 --> 00:07:26.640 Her husband works at the fucking CDC. 00:07:27.040 --> 00:07:30.820 She used to work there. Her husband still works there. She's got a bunch of 00:07:30.820 --> 00:07:31.840 friends that work there. 00:07:32.080 --> 00:07:36.200 And so I saw the news alert and I like pinged her and her like, is everybody okay? 00:07:36.400 --> 00:07:39.620 Her husband had left like 15 minutes before this had happened, 00:07:39.620 --> 00:07:45.340 but a whole bunch of other people she knew were still in lockdown over there. So great. 00:07:46.280 --> 00:07:51.320 I mean, it's just all very annoying, Sam. Irritating. 00:07:52.680 --> 00:07:58.120 Yeah, this is all of it. It's Peter actually said it best on the Slack today. 00:07:58.120 --> 00:08:03.420 I can't believe Americans elected this motherfucker again. Yep. 00:08:04.360 --> 00:08:05.000 Yep. 00:08:06.730 --> 00:08:07.150 Yes. 00:08:07.650 --> 00:08:09.950 I mean, I'll bet. 00:08:09.950 --> 00:08:11.130 What else can you say? 00:08:11.330 --> 00:08:12.890 What else can you say? 00:08:13.430 --> 00:08:13.990 Yeah. 00:08:14.210 --> 00:08:21.390 I mean, fuck. You fired the IRS guy. Apparently, I guess he was too nice or something. 00:08:21.770 --> 00:08:28.010 It's unclear why. But this is like the sixth one so far since Trump has been president. 00:08:28.490 --> 00:08:30.790 So, like, they don't last very long. 00:08:30.810 --> 00:08:33.590 I mean, the sixth guy. It's only been eight months. What the fuck? 00:08:34.490 --> 00:08:37.470 this guy was just confirmed by the Senate two months ago, 00:08:38.730 --> 00:08:43.470 right I don't know he's going to go meet Putin in Alaska you might fucking explain 00:08:43.470 --> 00:08:52.850 you know explain to me this horse shit well they're going to meet in Alaska I'm just very very you. 00:08:52.850 --> 00:08:56.550 Need part of the Ukraine deal to be giving back Alaska right. 00:08:57.510 --> 00:09:02.910 Yeah I'll probably sell it back at something you know when he's up there or 00:09:02.910 --> 00:09:05.350 claims a great deal or something. 00:09:07.550 --> 00:09:11.350 And by the way, look, another thing, I tried to buy a new suit. 00:09:12.190 --> 00:09:13.990 I failed at buying a new suit. 00:09:15.000 --> 00:09:19.660 Okay. You went to buy a new suit. Like, and like. 00:09:19.860 --> 00:09:24.340 Okay. Now, yeah, I realize that I am in the minority. 00:09:24.680 --> 00:09:25.240 Okay. 00:09:25.820 --> 00:09:27.440 In terms of buying suits. 00:09:28.520 --> 00:09:30.340 In that you do it at all. 00:09:30.920 --> 00:09:31.520 Yeah. 00:09:31.880 --> 00:09:37.500 Okay. Yeah, I bought a suit, like, what was it, last year sometime? 00:09:37.580 --> 00:09:43.520 Because I was going to some event and my size had changed. So like I couldn't 00:09:43.520 --> 00:09:46.420 wear, I mean, I could have worn the one I had before, but it probably, 00:09:46.580 --> 00:09:48.580 I don't know, it wouldn't need to be cleaned. 00:09:48.820 --> 00:09:53.440 So I, here's the one thing I, I, I, I, my number of suits, I haven't bought 00:09:53.440 --> 00:09:55.520 any new suits in a while. Okay. 00:09:56.680 --> 00:10:02.420 And my number of suits has dwindled. There were some older suits that I got 00:10:02.420 --> 00:10:04.460 rid of because I didn't fit in very well. 00:10:04.860 --> 00:10:10.460 The one thing about it is that, and the problem was that I bought suits a lot 00:10:10.460 --> 00:10:14.660 that were tailored. And so usually if it was, if it was, I gained weight, 00:10:14.840 --> 00:10:17.020 like my waist, they could be adjustable. 00:10:17.480 --> 00:10:20.780 The problem isn't that the problem is that because I've started lifting weights 00:10:20.780 --> 00:10:25.620 about 10 years ago, the size of the jacket right now that I need is bigger. 00:10:25.940 --> 00:10:31.340 Okay. There, there is, and there, and there is no, there wasn't any fixing that. 00:10:31.540 --> 00:10:33.700 Okay. It was significantly bigger. 00:10:33.900 --> 00:10:35.460 Your massive muscles you now have. 00:10:35.560 --> 00:10:40.300 Because I have more muscles than I used to have. Yes. Okay. There is no way 00:10:40.300 --> 00:10:42.700 of me fitting in the old jacket. 00:10:43.720 --> 00:10:45.400 It just won't happen. 00:10:47.100 --> 00:10:52.040 You could do that Incredible Hulk thing. You put on the jacket and then you go, and it like wraps. 00:10:52.040 --> 00:10:55.620 Yeah, that would have been great. So I had to get rid of some suits that I just 00:10:55.620 --> 00:10:58.500 could not fit in because of that. 00:10:58.620 --> 00:11:02.900 And then I had one of my favorite suits, which is a Hickey Freeman suit, 00:11:03.100 --> 00:11:08.720 which are American-made suits. and not just that look Hickey Freeman is a brand, 00:11:09.410 --> 00:11:14.410 Made in, they were made, not anymore, in Rochester, New York, 00:11:14.750 --> 00:11:15.890 okay, in upstate New York. 00:11:16.590 --> 00:11:21.090 Presidents wore them regularly. Barack Obama is a wardrobe of suits consistent 00:11:21.090 --> 00:11:22.950 mostly of Hickey Freemans, okay? 00:11:23.130 --> 00:11:27.970 So this is a suit that was a brand that was recognized as the, 00:11:27.990 --> 00:11:33.510 I mean, the gold standard of a suit that was made in America, 00:11:33.810 --> 00:11:35.950 okay? And they were expensive, okay? 00:11:36.210 --> 00:11:39.030 All right, they're, you know, a Hickey Freeman suit was. 00:11:39.890 --> 00:11:43.670 over $2,000, okay, a pop, okay? 00:11:44.150 --> 00:11:47.790 And you got a custom-made one, it could be $3,000, $4,000, but it was, 00:11:47.950 --> 00:11:53.210 you know, the one thing is that a Hickey Freeman was the American suit, 00:11:53.390 --> 00:11:55.630 the best one that you could really get, okay? 00:11:56.370 --> 00:12:02.870 Unfortunately, that suit, the pants I had damaged by sitting in a couple of 00:12:02.870 --> 00:12:04.730 places that wind up ripping the pants. 00:12:04.910 --> 00:12:11.890 I had repaired the pants a couple of times, but they got to a point that there was just no more. 00:12:13.350 --> 00:12:18.890 They couldn't be repaired. Taylor looked at it and said, it's done. It's over. 00:12:19.030 --> 00:12:19.370 You're done. 00:12:19.750 --> 00:12:23.370 And so that suit died, and I'm like, damn it. 00:12:24.930 --> 00:12:30.970 The store where I bought suits in the last 15, 17 years, I'd say, 00:12:31.670 --> 00:12:33.550 has been Nordstrom. Okay? 00:12:33.990 --> 00:12:39.690 So I go to see, okay, you know what? But I really liked, I had that one. 00:12:39.790 --> 00:12:43.270 I have another Hickey Freeman sport coat, which is really nice. 00:12:43.850 --> 00:12:47.830 Her stuff was really nice. I think I'll try to fly a Hickey Freeman. 00:12:48.490 --> 00:12:50.910 Well, Nordstrom's not carrying Hickey Freeman anymore. 00:12:51.970 --> 00:12:55.650 And I'm like, well, why the hell happened? And then I go and I find that the 00:12:55.650 --> 00:12:58.290 only place that has Nicky Freeman is Dillard's. 00:12:59.330 --> 00:13:03.370 Look, Dillard's is not high-end clothes. Okay? 00:13:04.250 --> 00:13:10.250 And I noticed that the prices on the suits are about a third of what they used to be. 00:13:10.850 --> 00:13:14.250 And I'm like, what the fuck is going on? Well, whoever owned Hickey Freeman, 00:13:14.350 --> 00:13:18.050 by the way, that have been in business making those suits up there in Rochester 00:13:18.050 --> 00:13:21.110 for over 100, I don't know how many years. 00:13:21.970 --> 00:13:26.770 got sold to some company that decided to offshore the making of the Hickey Freeman suits to China. 00:13:27.510 --> 00:13:28.010 Okay. 00:13:28.090 --> 00:13:32.110 And now they're sold exclusively at Dillard's for, you know, 00:13:32.430 --> 00:13:35.530 six, seven hundred bucks. They're not the same suits. 00:13:35.990 --> 00:13:41.590 It's a cheap Chinese suit now that they just took the fucking brand and slapped it on. 00:13:41.750 --> 00:13:44.870 So that's so fuck. I can't buy a Hickey Freeman. 00:13:45.310 --> 00:13:49.710 Well, you know, I could, but I would be a cheap piece of crap. 00:13:50.350 --> 00:13:55.950 so i'm not buying that i'm like fuck i'm not no i'm not buying the other thing 00:13:55.950 --> 00:14:00.970 is look nordstrom does the alter listen nordstrom when you buy a suit they will 00:14:00.970 --> 00:14:02.610 properly fit the suit for you, 00:14:03.250 --> 00:14:07.930 they they will do it and one thing well i had the nordstrom credit card which 00:14:07.930 --> 00:14:11.650 for some reason my credit limit is very small i was gonna have to figure out 00:14:11.650 --> 00:14:15.610 what the hell to do i don't know think they lowered the credit limit i'm like 00:14:15.610 --> 00:14:18.450 i can't buy buy a suit i got but it includes an alteration credit. 00:14:18.590 --> 00:14:19.570 So the alterations are free. 00:14:19.790 --> 00:14:23.150 I want to take advantage. Okay. Well, I got, I got free alterations. 00:14:23.550 --> 00:14:25.330 Well, you'll go, you go get that done. 00:14:25.770 --> 00:14:28.810 Okay. But, but there's no more Hickey Freeman suits. 00:14:29.390 --> 00:14:33.430 So I'm like, okay, at Dillard's, they won't do a custom fit like that. 00:14:33.750 --> 00:14:37.930 So they, they don't do that there. You buy it off the rack and you know, people wear it that way. 00:14:38.030 --> 00:14:41.930 I, you know, I, no, I, I, okay. So I can't do that. Okay. 00:14:42.490 --> 00:14:45.850 Then they used to sell at Nordstrom also another American brand, 00:14:45.970 --> 00:14:48.850 Joseph Abood. And I like those suits and I got a couple of those. 00:14:50.010 --> 00:14:55.570 Another brand that also, because the suit market is going to shit, that brand also gone. 00:14:56.670 --> 00:15:00.610 The only place that you can get them now is some shit at Men's Warehouse that 00:15:00.610 --> 00:15:03.870 is not made at the factory because that was also American made. That was made up there. 00:15:04.430 --> 00:15:08.410 Nope. No go. That's also disappeared. I'm like, fuck me, what the hell? 00:15:09.390 --> 00:15:12.090 Okay, so the other suits that I had, which I got rid of a couple, 00:15:12.170 --> 00:15:17.350 the ones that I couldn't fit because of my because of my, because of your massive biceps. 00:15:17.810 --> 00:15:22.190 My massive biceps, yes. I couldn't fit. They're canales, which are Italian. 00:15:22.410 --> 00:15:25.630 Okay. And I like those and I've had a number of those over the years. 00:15:25.770 --> 00:15:28.990 Okay, great. Okay, well, they do have canales. Okay, great. 00:15:29.970 --> 00:15:32.190 But that was about, but I figured out. 00:15:33.690 --> 00:15:37.650 I looked through the brands and the brands of suits that I bought over the years. 00:15:38.090 --> 00:15:41.470 They're all like gone. They have very little inventory. 00:15:41.730 --> 00:15:46.850 I went to store, you know, I was looking at even the high-end stores like Neiman Marcus, Saks. 00:15:47.030 --> 00:15:50.050 Well, Neiman Marcus, here's a problem. These stores are all go bankrupt. 00:15:50.890 --> 00:15:55.570 Saks, Neiman Marcus and all of these basically were not being able to pay vendors. 00:15:55.770 --> 00:15:58.610 They had almost no inventory of suits either. Okay. 00:15:59.050 --> 00:16:03.870 Another thing is my size. Look, I'm not, I'm a weird oddball size. Okay. 00:16:04.730 --> 00:16:08.370 You know, I'm, you know, I'm short, I'm wide. 00:16:08.830 --> 00:16:13.870 I need, you know, I need a suit. Look, I didn't fit into, but listen, 00:16:14.010 --> 00:16:15.370 you know, short and wide. 00:16:15.590 --> 00:16:18.030 I couldn't fit in a fucking MRI machine. Okay. 00:16:18.470 --> 00:16:23.650 Well, you know, last year, because my shoulders are, I have shoulders that are 00:16:23.650 --> 00:16:26.990 so broad that I couldn't fit in a fucking MRI machine. 00:16:27.510 --> 00:16:32.310 could get through my shoulders. I'm like, what the fuck? I had to go to another 00:16:32.310 --> 00:16:34.850 MRI place that had a bigger machine to get in. 00:16:35.230 --> 00:16:35.630 Right. 00:16:35.810 --> 00:16:41.830 So, yeah, so my dimensions are odd, okay? So I need a specific size. 00:16:42.690 --> 00:16:46.570 And so I go to, oh, let me find some discount places online. 00:16:46.690 --> 00:16:49.190 Maybe they have some Italian suits at a discount online. 00:16:49.390 --> 00:16:52.570 Yeah, they got, I found, oh yeah, this place has it at a discount. 00:16:52.870 --> 00:16:57.070 Only on one size that, I don't know, maybe my son could fit in it. I don't know. 00:16:57.730 --> 00:17:02.450 And I'll like, or, you know, so bottom line that I concluded, 00:17:03.030 --> 00:17:05.670 nobody's buying fucking suits. Nobody. 00:17:06.050 --> 00:17:06.470 Yeah. 00:17:07.820 --> 00:17:13.480 Just nobody it's not easy to go out there to buy a suit even at like places 00:17:13.480 --> 00:17:18.680 like men's warehouse or whatever is supposed to specialize very few you know what what they had. 00:17:18.680 --> 00:17:21.780 Was a lot of the number a lot of sport coats 00:17:21.780 --> 00:17:25.740 yeah the number of situations where it 00:17:25.740 --> 00:17:29.100 is expected that you wear a suit has reduced 00:17:29.100 --> 00:17:33.400 dramatically over the last few days i mean it's 00:17:33.400 --> 00:17:41.820 it's just like it's now i mean there are a few businesses industries where it's 00:17:41.820 --> 00:17:46.440 still sort of expected but they are dwindling i mean even the politicians aren't 00:17:46.440 --> 00:17:49.960 always wearing them right you know and actually a. 00:17:49.960 --> 00:17:53.200 Lot of politicians now just maybe they're not wearing ties but many of them 00:17:53.200 --> 00:17:55.120 are still wearing a suit just without a tie. 00:17:55.120 --> 00:18:00.020 That's what you see a lot but you see a lot of that but you're seeing you're 00:18:00.020 --> 00:18:02.220 seeing more casual stuff even but you're. 00:18:02.220 --> 00:18:03.420 Seeing a lot more casual yes. 00:18:03.420 --> 00:18:10.860 Even there and so So it's starting to be like, you know, weddings and funerals and not even those. 00:18:11.060 --> 00:18:15.520 Not even those. Listen, I showed up in a black suit for a funeral lately and 00:18:15.520 --> 00:18:18.120 I was, you know, we were in the minority. 00:18:18.460 --> 00:18:22.080 Not the only one, but we were definitely in the minority. Okay. 00:18:22.220 --> 00:18:22.360 Right. 00:18:23.280 --> 00:18:30.040 And so I look, I have this thing. I'm in sales. 00:18:30.800 --> 00:18:35.100 I'm going to people sometimes, not just asking for hundreds of thousands, 00:18:35.460 --> 00:18:37.580 millions of dollars. Okay. 00:18:38.460 --> 00:18:46.060 You know, a number of my customers are in a sports coat jacket or maybe a suit still. Okay. 00:18:46.300 --> 00:18:47.580 So you match your customer. 00:18:47.780 --> 00:18:52.860 I, yeah, I'm not going to a customer, you know, wearing fucking jeans and some 00:18:52.860 --> 00:18:55.860 dumb, you know, whatever thing I'm fucking, you know what? 00:18:55.960 --> 00:18:59.260 I'm, I want somebody that I want to, 00:18:59.920 --> 00:19:04.280 get like a million dollar deal from i 00:19:04.280 --> 00:19:07.860 i'm you know what i'll show up in a suit i 00:19:07.860 --> 00:19:14.700 mean that's just you know yeah i i i i'm not i see other people that do it that 00:19:14.700 --> 00:19:18.900 way i'm not comfortable with that i'm just not comfortable with that and maybe 00:19:18.900 --> 00:19:24.360 it's just a habit it's just whatever but i'm just not not presumably that presumably. 00:19:24.360 --> 00:19:27.320 It depends at least a little bit on the client right like if If you went to 00:19:27.320 --> 00:19:31.380 a client that was 100% casual and they're like, don't show up in a suit, you would. 00:19:31.620 --> 00:19:34.340 Oh, the thing is that none of my customers are like that. 00:19:34.620 --> 00:19:34.940 Right. 00:19:35.400 --> 00:19:40.380 None of my customers are like that. So it's just none of my customers are like that. 00:19:41.060 --> 00:19:44.720 And I will tell you that even some of my customers that tend to be more casual, 00:19:44.740 --> 00:19:48.700 I do see that they expect that the vendors are not. 00:19:49.600 --> 00:19:52.020 We want you to put on your little show, monkey. 00:19:52.480 --> 00:19:56.660 Yes. Yes. Dance, monkey. Dance. Here we go. Yes. 00:19:57.280 --> 00:20:03.200 So, you know, but yeah, I found it that it was far more challenging to, 00:20:03.360 --> 00:20:06.260 I mean, look, I'm telling you, almost... 00:20:07.690 --> 00:20:12.230 all the American brands that are gone. The only one that I saw that has left, 00:20:12.410 --> 00:20:14.370 I guess, is Brooks Brothers. 00:20:14.910 --> 00:20:18.910 Because apparently Brooks Brothers is making suits at that same factory where 00:20:18.910 --> 00:20:20.370 they used to make the Hickey Freeman suits. 00:20:20.570 --> 00:20:24.850 But I will admit that I have an extreme disdain for Brooks Brothers. 00:20:25.510 --> 00:20:29.630 I don't like their clothes. I don't like their suits. I don't like their shirts. 00:20:29.910 --> 00:20:31.710 I don't like anything they sell. 00:20:32.150 --> 00:20:36.630 And the last time I bought something there, I got into a very... 00:20:36.630 --> 00:20:41.110 I, I, I, I, I got into an argument because they sold me something that I didn't 00:20:41.110 --> 00:20:43.310 realize had a grease stain. Okay. 00:20:44.910 --> 00:20:45.230 Okay. 00:20:45.290 --> 00:20:48.830 And it was a sweater. And I, I went and I got home and I, I, 00:20:48.850 --> 00:20:51.370 I, I, you know, I guess I had, I tried it. 00:20:51.490 --> 00:20:53.730 It didn't look. And then all of a sudden when I went to put it away, 00:20:53.750 --> 00:20:56.670 I'm like, what the fuck? I went back and I said, guys, I'm sorry, 00:20:56.750 --> 00:20:58.250 but this suit had to stain. 00:20:58.390 --> 00:21:02.890 And they tried to say that I, that I did it. I literally came back like an hour 00:21:02.890 --> 00:21:07.990 later. I'm like, what the, I, look, I took it out of a bag and it looked like this. 00:21:08.830 --> 00:21:11.610 They gave me a fucking hard time about it. I was like, Jesus Christ, 00:21:11.750 --> 00:21:13.630 fuck this store. Okay. All right. I'm not. 00:21:14.910 --> 00:21:20.730 Yeah. But I, so, and even by the way, Brooks Brothers also had gone into bankruptcy. 00:21:22.030 --> 00:21:27.910 Yes. So, so the moral of the story is that this is a dying industry and you should not invest in it. 00:21:28.630 --> 00:21:33.890 That's for sure. Don't invest in the suit industry. That's, that, 00:21:33.890 --> 00:21:37.850 that, that definitely, if, if there are suit stocks out there, 00:21:38.110 --> 00:21:43.550 like, I mean, I guess men's, men's warehouses and financial dire straits as well. 00:21:43.810 --> 00:21:51.010 So I, you know, I will tell you one curious thing that I saw in the industry 00:21:51.010 --> 00:21:58.070 where it's doing fine in terms of like more formal attire. 00:21:59.050 --> 00:22:03.590 The wedding, like, tuxedo wedding businesses? 00:22:04.030 --> 00:22:04.450 Okay. 00:22:04.530 --> 00:22:06.090 Those are actually doing pretty good. 00:22:06.650 --> 00:22:11.490 Because it's one of the few things where at least the wedding party wants to dress up. 00:22:11.710 --> 00:22:12.270 Exactly. 00:22:12.730 --> 00:22:18.330 Maybe not the guests, but the wedding party themselves, they still want to dress up. 00:22:18.610 --> 00:22:23.770 Yes. Yes, totally. And so that industry seems to be doing pretty well, 00:22:24.090 --> 00:22:25.350 okay, from what I could tell. 00:22:25.950 --> 00:22:30.810 Those guys. But, you know, All the other stuff, they're doing like shit. 00:22:31.470 --> 00:22:34.570 I mean, I, you know. So... 00:22:35.480 --> 00:22:36.400 Okay, my turn. 00:22:36.820 --> 00:22:37.300 Yeah. 00:22:37.840 --> 00:22:41.120 So I should have said this at the very beginning, but I didn't. 00:22:41.200 --> 00:22:44.060 We are, of course, doing our butt first where we talk about non-newsy stuff, 00:22:44.060 --> 00:22:45.900 then we'll take a break and we'll do news stuff. 00:22:46.140 --> 00:22:50.520 Although the first thing Yvonne started talking about was adjacent to the news. 00:22:50.700 --> 00:22:57.280 It was, you know, everything going on. But so as usual, I'm going to do a couple 00:22:57.280 --> 00:23:00.400 of movies, movies, movies, movies, movies. 00:23:00.640 --> 00:23:03.140 We are now in November of last year, by the way. 00:23:04.140 --> 00:23:08.060 so the this yeah second half. 00:23:08.060 --> 00:23:12.740 We're not listen november last year means we're not like 10 years off. 00:23:13.320 --> 00:23:14.560 That's right i'm still. 00:23:14.560 --> 00:23:17.300 Behind but this is why i'm doing two perhaps i mean this is 00:23:17.300 --> 00:23:22.280 not that bad i mean you've you know i still remember sam had these to-do lists 00:23:22.280 --> 00:23:27.100 that he used to have when we were in college when he kept reorganizing every 00:23:27.100 --> 00:23:31.620 week reorganizing shit and there must have been shit on that to-do list that 00:23:31.620 --> 00:23:34.820 was on there for years and years and still not done. 00:23:35.180 --> 00:23:38.940 You talk about this as if it was past tense. I still have lists like that. 00:23:39.280 --> 00:23:43.540 Wait, you still have the to-do? I mean, I remember you used to print up and 00:23:43.540 --> 00:23:46.520 add organize and add timestamps and shit. 00:23:46.900 --> 00:23:53.200 The form has changed. I no longer have like a single document with the to-do 00:23:53.200 --> 00:23:55.640 list that gets printed out on a regular basis, blah, blah, blah. 00:23:55.640 --> 00:24:02.060 But I've actually got multiple mechanisms whereby I use random number generators 00:24:02.060 --> 00:24:05.640 to determine which project I'm going to work on at a particular time. 00:24:07.070 --> 00:24:11.310 So I have, of course, of course, this is how to prioritize stuff. 00:24:11.530 --> 00:24:16.530 Hey, hey, do, do I, hey, do I turn off the bomb or do I, or do I change the oil? 00:24:16.770 --> 00:24:20.190 I'm like, ah, I'll do the oil, the bomb, whatever. 00:24:20.790 --> 00:24:27.390 Yeah, so I have things where I have multiple layers and random numbers that 00:24:27.390 --> 00:24:30.090 get you one category and then you go into another. 00:24:30.090 --> 00:24:36.190 I did have a system a few years back where I had a Google spreadsheet that automatically 00:24:36.190 --> 00:24:40.410 adjusted the priority based on how long it had been since I'd last done the thing. 00:24:40.510 --> 00:24:44.610 That was, yes, that was like, you know, you kept doing it. That's right. 00:24:44.970 --> 00:24:50.130 But that one ended up getting like, well, here's what happens with all of my to-do lists. 00:24:50.570 --> 00:24:55.390 No matter what, I always have more to do than I have time to do. So eventually. 00:24:55.450 --> 00:24:55.570 Oh. 00:24:56.010 --> 00:24:59.670 Yeah, yeah. Yeah. So eventually what happens is that there's something that 00:24:59.670 --> 00:25:02.070 I feel like I really should be 00:25:02.070 --> 00:25:06.530 spending more time on that isn't coming up enough in the existing system. 00:25:06.710 --> 00:25:12.470 So I layer on top of it, another system that gives more precedence to that thing, 00:25:12.510 --> 00:25:15.810 but still all the old things are there. 00:25:15.810 --> 00:25:21.490 so like right now for instance i the first thing i do is roll a one to six number 00:25:21.490 --> 00:25:28.690 and if it's a one then i fall back to the older mechanism i had before and roll from that, 00:25:31.030 --> 00:25:34.210 and and and like the other items 00:25:34.210 --> 00:25:37.170 and i am simplifying slightly actually 00:25:37.170 --> 00:25:40.670 the other items two through six only two 00:25:40.670 --> 00:25:46.410 of them are actually single item items the others like if i roll a four for 00:25:46.410 --> 00:25:51.250 instance there's actually something like 25 different tasks within the four 00:25:51.250 --> 00:25:58.450 so if i roll the four then i roll a one through 25 and determine which of those i do and oh. 00:25:58.450 --> 00:26:02.070 My god this is the most hilarious thing. 00:26:02.070 --> 00:26:05.690 I've heard in a while and so yeah 00:26:05.690 --> 00:26:12.070 so i have i i have sort of a a tiered level of priorities and a random number 00:26:12.070 --> 00:26:15.150 picks the first thing and then when you're in the second thing there's another 00:26:15.150 --> 00:26:20.330 system that picks what you do there and of course random numbers are are a key 00:26:20.330 --> 00:26:24.590 part of this system at all times of course of course randomization has. 00:26:24.590 --> 00:26:25.470 To be part of It. 00:26:25.470 --> 00:26:29.590 Has to be part of it. Now, I have various things to make sure the randomization, 00:26:29.850 --> 00:26:31.870 not everything is equal. 00:26:32.070 --> 00:26:34.930 Some things are more important than others, so we're more likely to come up 00:26:34.930 --> 00:26:36.870 than others, but it's still randomized. 00:26:37.650 --> 00:26:40.970 And then things happen like, you know, the system breaks down. 00:26:41.130 --> 00:26:44.610 And so I realized, you know, it's been four weeks since I've done laundry or something. 00:26:44.610 --> 00:26:48.510 Down. What a shocking development. No, no kidding. Really? Wow. 00:26:48.730 --> 00:26:54.310 You know, and I'm like, you know, I can't just keep buying new socks when I run out of clean socks. 00:26:54.490 --> 00:26:58.090 I have to actually do laundry sometimes. You know? 00:26:58.990 --> 00:26:59.850 Ha ha ha! 00:27:01.060 --> 00:27:05.920 Yes, I can see all that randomization. Oh, just buy underwear. 00:27:06.140 --> 00:27:07.720 Oh, buy underwear. Oh, buy underwear. 00:27:08.040 --> 00:27:10.140 Oh, shit, I need socks. What am I doing? 00:27:12.640 --> 00:27:20.440 Exactly. So, anyway, I could spend a half an hour on the details of this, 00:27:20.540 --> 00:27:22.040 but I think this has probably been enough. 00:27:22.140 --> 00:27:26.820 No, it's been enough. We need to make sure we catch up on some of these movies. Okay. 00:27:26.980 --> 00:27:30.140 Okay, okay. Two movies from this time. first was i 00:27:30.140 --> 00:27:33.020 i watched a whole lot in november of last year 00:27:33.020 --> 00:27:36.300 because you know holiday thanksgiving right 00:27:36.300 --> 00:27:39.500 like there was time yes so this was november 17th 00:27:39.500 --> 00:27:42.200 but then like i'm looking ahead today i'm going 00:27:42.200 --> 00:27:45.560 to do one from november 17th and one from november 21st but there were actually 00:27:45.560 --> 00:27:50.380 two movies on the 21st and one on the 23rd and one on the 24th and one on the 00:27:50.380 --> 00:27:55.140 30th because you know wow it was that kind of time you know there's lots of 00:27:55.140 --> 00:28:01.340 tv watching at the end of november because there's holidays and there's home time and you know sports. 00:28:01.340 --> 00:28:04.060 Right you watched all the football games of course. 00:28:04.060 --> 00:28:07.500 What there's football games football 00:28:07.500 --> 00:28:14.380 yeah i have no idea what you're talking about okay anyway the november 7th 17th 00:28:14.380 --> 00:28:24.540 movie was from the year 2015 the second movie in the divergent series called insurgent oh. 00:28:24.540 --> 00:28:29.320 God this stupid divergent series i got this the whole divergent series kind 00:28:29.320 --> 00:28:30.560 of like just pissed me off. 00:28:30.560 --> 00:28:32.360 Did you watch all i don't. 00:28:32.360 --> 00:28:39.420 First of all no i think i watched parts of the first one i know shylene woodley is in it i know that. 00:28:39.420 --> 00:28:41.420 Yes yes it's been a while. 00:28:41.420 --> 00:28:44.780 About 10 years first of all the name pisses me off. 00:28:44.780 --> 00:28:47.100 Divergent yeah. 00:28:47.100 --> 00:28:52.600 I don't know what the hell it is that a movie called Divergent sounds to me like it's stupid. 00:28:53.740 --> 00:28:56.920 I don't know why. I don't know why. 00:28:58.640 --> 00:29:02.400 To me, it's like some guy was trying to make the movie different. 00:29:02.540 --> 00:29:04.000 Oh, well, call it Divergent. 00:29:04.320 --> 00:29:08.720 Well, it was based on a book that was also called Divergent. 00:29:08.800 --> 00:29:12.220 I know. There's three movies, if I remember correctly. 00:29:12.300 --> 00:29:14.300 There's three movies. I think there's four books. 00:29:14.580 --> 00:29:19.720 My wife was... Five books now, actually. All right. I have not. 00:29:20.040 --> 00:29:22.680 This is another one that I have not watched in its entirety. 00:29:23.120 --> 00:29:28.080 This was a time also with linear TV. When this happened, my wife happened to 00:29:28.080 --> 00:29:30.480 be watching it. I watched a part of it. 00:29:31.060 --> 00:29:34.120 I came away with thinking this thing is stupid. 00:29:35.010 --> 00:29:37.750 And I left a room. Something along these lines. 00:29:37.970 --> 00:29:43.430 Let me tell you where I was. I believe I gave the first movie a thumbs up. I really liked it. 00:29:44.310 --> 00:29:49.610 And it basically, the title Divergent actually comes from the fact that there 00:29:49.610 --> 00:29:54.730 are some individuals, the society has been broken up into sort of cases by like 00:29:54.730 --> 00:29:56.690 what kind of jobs they do. 00:29:56.970 --> 00:30:01.510 So there's like the intellectuals, there's the politicians, there's the soldiers, 00:30:01.950 --> 00:30:06.390 there's the whatever. Each of them have different names, but it's divided up into these casts. 00:30:06.670 --> 00:30:11.350 And then the divergent people are essentially people who don't fit into any 00:30:11.350 --> 00:30:13.430 of those categories well. Okay. 00:30:14.150 --> 00:30:17.950 And I liked the first movie. I thought it was like some interesting, 00:30:18.110 --> 00:30:21.570 and I have not read the books, by the way, but I thought there were some interesting ideas. 00:30:21.710 --> 00:30:24.210 I thought it was well executed. I liked the actress. 00:30:24.590 --> 00:30:29.330 I liked sort of the situations they put her in and how it played out. 00:30:29.330 --> 00:30:33.850 I felt like the second movie, I'm only going to give a thumb sideways to, 00:30:34.250 --> 00:30:44.030 it was sort of like it doubled down on the action part of things as opposed 00:30:44.030 --> 00:30:46.570 to the interesting ideas part of things. 00:30:46.570 --> 00:30:51.750 Like the first movie I found interesting because, you know, they had the factions 00:30:51.750 --> 00:30:59.370 and how was this society structured and what was the divergent person and why and stuff. 00:30:59.630 --> 00:31:04.130 And there was still some of that in the second one because you sort of evolved 00:31:04.130 --> 00:31:08.170 the idea and found out a little bit more about why the factions existed and 00:31:08.170 --> 00:31:10.390 how that came about and blah, blah, blah. 00:31:10.390 --> 00:31:19.190 But it really sort of doubled down on being, hey, it's an action movie. 00:31:19.250 --> 00:31:23.190 There's a war, there's a battle, there's people running around and jumping on 00:31:23.190 --> 00:31:30.330 trains and shooting and blah, blah, blah. And I just find that aspect of it 00:31:30.330 --> 00:31:32.170 less interesting than the ideas part. 00:31:32.450 --> 00:31:36.810 And it felt like the ideas were explored in the first one. 00:31:37.370 --> 00:31:42.250 And the second one was more just about, okay, now let's have everybody run around 00:31:42.250 --> 00:31:45.310 and fight and, you know, this kind of stuff. 00:31:45.350 --> 00:31:48.250 And that was just less interesting to me. It was okay. 00:31:49.250 --> 00:31:54.650 I'm giving it a thumb sideways. Again, I reserve the thumbs down for the worst of the worst. 00:31:54.830 --> 00:31:59.650 But I give it a thumb sideways. It was okay. It was an entertaining couple hours. How long was this thing? 00:31:59.870 --> 00:32:02.090 119 minutes, so almost exactly a couple hours. 00:32:02.730 --> 00:32:08.250 And it was fine. It was a fine little movie. It did not bore me. It was interesting. 00:32:09.790 --> 00:32:14.070 It covered the couple hours, but it didn't feel like, oh, wow, 00:32:14.250 --> 00:32:16.150 this is a good movie I will remember. 00:32:16.150 --> 00:32:16.890 Amazing, yes. 00:32:17.750 --> 00:32:21.310 Whereas, I mean, the first movie wasn't going to be like... 00:32:22.880 --> 00:32:26.600 It wasn't like going to, I'm going to say it wasn't award-winning, 00:32:26.760 --> 00:32:29.080 but I don't know. Maybe it did win some awards. I don't even remember. 00:32:29.280 --> 00:32:32.360 But like, but I like. I have to look this up. The first one, 00:32:32.440 --> 00:32:35.240 I was like, that was a good movie. I really enjoyed this. 00:32:35.440 --> 00:32:38.800 This second one was more like, it was a movie. It was okay. 00:32:39.560 --> 00:32:45.020 And nothing. That's it. But you hated the first one enough that the second one 00:32:45.020 --> 00:32:46.060 wasn't even in your radar. 00:32:46.060 --> 00:32:48.360 I think it may have been. I'm thinking now. 00:32:48.840 --> 00:32:52.160 I think I remember you saying you fell asleep in one of these. 00:32:52.880 --> 00:32:56.000 It's very possible. I fall asleep in a lot of movies. 00:32:57.140 --> 00:33:00.280 It's, you know, so that, that's, that's a distinct possibility. 00:33:00.920 --> 00:33:06.140 I think, I think that the one that I hated, the, where I, I had not watched 00:33:06.140 --> 00:33:08.160 the first one. My wife's watching the second one. 00:33:08.500 --> 00:33:08.940 Okay. 00:33:09.620 --> 00:33:13.960 I'm pretty sure about this, that it was the second. Okay. Because of the. 00:33:13.960 --> 00:33:19.160 Moving on. Let's, let's, let's move it on. The second movie for this time around, 00:33:19.440 --> 00:33:27.060 which again, I watched on November 21st, 2024, is Kubo and the Two Strings from 2016. 00:33:28.700 --> 00:33:30.000 Kubo and the what? 00:33:30.340 --> 00:33:31.920 The Two Strings. 00:33:32.300 --> 00:33:32.780 Okay. 00:33:33.460 --> 00:33:37.540 It's a stop-motion animated fantasy film. 00:33:38.500 --> 00:33:42.420 And it gives you some of the people who are in it. 00:33:42.960 --> 00:33:50.040 Charlize Theron, Ralph Fiennes, Rooney Mara, George Takai, Matthew McConaughey. 00:33:50.040 --> 00:33:53.260 so it's got it's got some and and art parkinson 00:33:53.260 --> 00:33:57.520 i don't know who art parkinson is but like anyway thumbs 00:33:57.520 --> 00:34:03.480 up i really liked this movie like i really enjoyed this movie let me give you 00:34:03.480 --> 00:34:12.600 the the first paragraph of the plot in uh from wikipedia of course in the in 00:34:12.600 --> 00:34:14.640 the early feudal Japan era, 00:34:15.000 --> 00:34:20.760 a 12-year-old boy with only one eye named Kubo tends to his ill mother, 00:34:21.480 --> 00:34:24.180 Sarayatu, in a mountain cave near a village. 00:34:24.380 --> 00:34:31.100 He earns their living by manipulating origami with music from his magical shamisen, 00:34:31.320 --> 00:34:36.460 a Japanese stringed instrument, telling the tale of his missing father, 00:34:36.660 --> 00:34:38.740 Hanzo, a samurai warrior. 00:34:39.420 --> 00:34:44.400 Kubo is never able to finish his story, as he does not know what happened to 00:34:44.400 --> 00:34:50.180 Hanzo, and his mother cannot recall the end due to her deteriorating mental state. 00:34:50.540 --> 00:34:56.560 His mother warns him not to stay out after dark, as her sisters Karasu and Washi, 00:34:56.860 --> 00:35:01.820 as well as his grandfather, the Moon King, who took his eye when he was a baby, 00:35:02.340 --> 00:35:06.340 will find him and take his remaining eye. 00:35:08.000 --> 00:35:10.900 Obviously, at one point, he stays out after night. 00:35:11.590 --> 00:35:14.870 after dark and things happen and adventure ensues 00:35:14.870 --> 00:35:18.450 and a whole bunch of stuff happens and he 00:35:18.450 --> 00:35:21.370 finds out this is as spoilery as as i'm going 00:35:21.370 --> 00:35:26.670 to get he finds out more about what happened to his father and to the history 00:35:26.670 --> 00:35:30.930 of what happened to his eye and all this kind of stuff and blah blah blah he 00:35:30.930 --> 00:35:36.990 he discovers some of that in any case i really liked the movie there i didn't 00:35:36.990 --> 00:35:41.130 think i was at at first I was like, what the hell is this? This is kind of goofy. 00:35:41.330 --> 00:35:44.010 But like, as it went on, it drew me in. 00:35:44.230 --> 00:35:47.830 I really got it. It, it, it hit some emotional notes. 00:35:48.450 --> 00:35:52.230 It, it, it was the kind of thing where by the end it was tugging at your heartstrings. 00:35:52.410 --> 00:35:55.210 And that's the kind of movie I end up liking the most. 00:35:55.550 --> 00:35:59.990 Like it, it, you know, I, I'm pretty sure I ended the movie like crying, 00:36:00.490 --> 00:36:04.050 which I like it when a movie makes me cry, you know? 00:36:04.290 --> 00:36:07.630 And yeah, I, I, I, I liked the movie. 00:36:07.790 --> 00:36:13.070 It, it, uh, it was not one I'd really heard of before I watched it. 00:36:13.130 --> 00:36:15.710 I don't know how it got on my list. I'm sure somebody mentioned it. 00:36:15.870 --> 00:36:20.550 Like I put movies on my list. If, if, if I ever see anybody mention a movie 00:36:20.550 --> 00:36:26.070 in anything, even remotely like a positive way, I add it to my list. 00:36:26.390 --> 00:36:29.730 Also, it's, if it's ever a wiki of the day, I add it to my list, 00:36:29.850 --> 00:36:31.570 you know, things like that. 00:36:31.950 --> 00:36:38.090 Um, anyway, big thumbs up for Kubo in the two strings. It is animated, 00:36:38.090 --> 00:36:41.790 but, you know, it's an all-family movie. 00:36:41.970 --> 00:36:49.650 It's not like a kid's movie. It's got some, like, themes that will hit you as an adult as well. 00:36:49.710 --> 00:36:52.610 But it's also, like, it's not going to be bad for kids either. 00:36:52.810 --> 00:36:55.870 Kids will also enjoy it. Anyway, let's see. 00:36:56.090 --> 00:37:01.010 97% in Rotten Tomatoes rated, so it got really good. 00:37:01.550 --> 00:37:02.410 There you go. 00:37:02.950 --> 00:37:03.830 So by the way. 00:37:03.950 --> 00:37:08.290 I was nominated for best animated feature at the Academy Awards as well as best 00:37:08.290 --> 00:37:12.890 visual effects, but it lost to Zootopia and the Jungle Book. 00:37:13.790 --> 00:37:15.530 Oh well but you. 00:37:15.530 --> 00:37:22.050 Know i have not seen either zootopia or the more recent jungle book i think 00:37:22.050 --> 00:37:26.430 i once upon a time saw the original from like whatever it was the 60s or 70s 00:37:26.430 --> 00:37:31.330 whatever that was but but yeah no big thumbs up. 00:37:31.330 --> 00:37:34.590 So i went back yes i 00:37:34.590 --> 00:37:38.890 went back and checked on diversion i still remember the one thing that these 00:37:38.890 --> 00:37:43.510 were like multiple movies here so i i think i started getting annoyed because 00:37:43.510 --> 00:37:49.030 the first one is divergent the second one was divergent series insurgent it 00:37:49.030 --> 00:37:54.530 sounds like something that a car that actually annoys me too that it's not like just. 00:37:54.530 --> 00:37:57.150 Insurgent it's the divergent. 00:37:57.150 --> 00:38:02.170 Series insurgent and you know it sounds like it sounds like a made-up name that 00:38:02.170 --> 00:38:06.590 a car company would give a car like acura with the integra okay this is what 00:38:06.590 --> 00:38:10.350 this sounds like Then the third one was Allegiant series. Allegiant. 00:38:10.810 --> 00:38:11.090 Yes. 00:38:11.270 --> 00:38:15.050 Okay. You know, sounds like Allegis. They made up a name that was sort of a 00:38:15.050 --> 00:38:17.830 corporate name for some travel company, whatever. 00:38:18.050 --> 00:38:23.030 I don't, by the way, they went, according to this, they kept going really downhill. 00:38:23.430 --> 00:38:29.630 The third one was very poorly received. It was so badly received that there was supposed to be. 00:38:29.630 --> 00:38:33.410 It was supposed to be a two-parter. I have seen the third one at this point 00:38:33.410 --> 00:38:37.610 too, but I will save it till when we get to it in order. but I will agree this 00:38:37.610 --> 00:38:41.530 is one of those trilogies where each one is worse than the one before. 00:38:41.970 --> 00:38:46.210 Yes. It was really bad. And not just that I'm supposed to be two parts. 00:38:46.250 --> 00:38:49.470 It was so bad that they canceled the second part. 00:38:49.630 --> 00:38:52.590 There was supposed to be a TV spinoff and they canceled that too. 00:38:53.530 --> 00:38:53.970 Yes. 00:38:54.330 --> 00:39:00.290 But Kubo and the other thing, I, I, as a matter of fact, I, I honestly, 00:39:00.310 --> 00:39:01.570 I don't even remember it. 00:39:01.790 --> 00:39:04.830 This happened. So, but yeah, Like I said. 00:39:04.970 --> 00:39:09.170 I hadn't really heard of it. I mean, it somehow got on my list, but like, yeah. 00:39:09.430 --> 00:39:13.610 And you liked it, and I saw the reviews, and it's a very big thumbs up as well 00:39:13.610 --> 00:39:15.130 from other people who have watched it. 00:39:15.130 --> 00:39:19.490 It is worth looking up. I'm sure it's on one of the streaming services, 00:39:19.510 --> 00:39:25.170 or you can buy it on Apple or something, but it's worth it. It's a good movie. 00:39:25.270 --> 00:39:31.230 I enjoyed it. Now, if you like that sort of, you know, kid goes on an adventure, 00:39:31.750 --> 00:39:36.790 there's family dynamics and it pulls on your heartstrings kind of movie, then you'll like this. 00:39:37.690 --> 00:39:41.050 Okay. Okay. With that, let's knock this sucker out. 00:39:41.150 --> 00:39:46.090 Let's take a break and then we'll come back and talk about the news. Back after this. 00:41:46.910 --> 00:41:53.190 Okay, and with that, Yvonne, your pick. What newsy thing shall we start with today? 00:41:54.370 --> 00:41:58.730 Thank you. Yeah, I, uh, shit. 00:42:00.350 --> 00:42:03.310 Tough choice? Nothing exciting you? 00:42:03.710 --> 00:42:04.990 I hate all of it. 00:42:08.530 --> 00:42:10.110 We could just do more movies. 00:42:10.310 --> 00:42:10.510 Okay. 00:42:11.210 --> 00:42:11.730 Yes. 00:42:11.970 --> 00:42:17.670 Wait, it's not on the list, but... So, Trump was on the roof of the White House. 00:42:17.850 --> 00:42:18.530 Right? 00:42:19.010 --> 00:42:20.130 This was this week. 00:42:20.190 --> 00:42:21.570 Right? That was real. That did happen. 00:42:22.030 --> 00:42:29.370 What the fuck is going on, Sam? I mean, what the... What in the fuck? I mean... Sam! 00:42:29.750 --> 00:42:30.410 Sam! So, wait. 00:42:30.410 --> 00:42:35.770 Sam! The President of the United States, out of the blue, all of a sudden, 00:42:36.070 --> 00:42:40.450 is walking around yelling at the roof of the White House. 00:42:40.850 --> 00:42:46.410 No, no. So there's the joke answer, and then there is a real explanation as far as I can tell. 00:42:47.470 --> 00:42:51.450 So the joke answer is, like, he shot up on the roof, and the reporters down 00:42:51.450 --> 00:42:54.990 on the ground were like, Hey, sir, why are you on the roof? 00:42:55.310 --> 00:42:55.710 Right. 00:42:55.830 --> 00:42:59.430 And he's like, I'm taking a walk. I'm just going for a stroll. 00:42:59.450 --> 00:43:04.050 Yeah, that is what he said. And then he yelled back and forth at the reporters for a while. but if 00:43:04.050 --> 00:43:07.650 you listen to the continued conversation after 00:43:07.650 --> 00:43:10.550 that it looks like this is yet 00:43:10.550 --> 00:43:17.190 more donald trump looking at remodeling the white house stuff he's like he he's 00:43:17.190 --> 00:43:21.750 talking about like building some additional stuff up there on the roof like 00:43:21.750 --> 00:43:25.610 he made some hand gestures like maybe he was going to build a dome of some sort 00:43:25.610 --> 00:43:28.510 up there um is this still crazy. 00:43:28.510 --> 00:43:33.790 Shit sam we're in I mean, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. 00:43:34.430 --> 00:43:38.130 And he wasn't by himself. He had the Secret Service and other people with him up there. 00:43:38.130 --> 00:43:42.150 Yeah, there were some people there that looked not too pleased about him being 00:43:42.150 --> 00:43:43.990 on the fucking roof, by the way. 00:43:45.120 --> 00:43:48.540 Those people were not looking like, oh, yeah, this is a great idea. 00:43:49.100 --> 00:43:54.280 Uh-huh. Look, he wants to build a giant golden dome on top of the White House roof. 00:43:55.320 --> 00:44:00.320 Oh, my God. There keeps more gold in the fucking Oval Office. 00:44:00.320 --> 00:44:02.560 Every time you look at the Oval Office, there's more gold. 00:44:02.620 --> 00:44:06.460 It's like a fucking... I mean, what the hell? And the mirrors... 00:44:06.460 --> 00:44:09.820 Did you see the patio that they replaced the Rose Garden with? 00:44:09.920 --> 00:44:11.760 Oh, God. Yeah, with the fucking... 00:44:11.760 --> 00:44:15.540 It's also got the gold umbrellas. golden umbrellas, 00:44:18.160 --> 00:44:24.240 I yeah so yes he was around on a roof but he had a purpose, 00:44:25.060 --> 00:44:30.200 sort of although it's unclear for real what he was like there's no real information 00:44:30.200 --> 00:44:33.580 about oh yeah he's considering building X or whatever it was just, 00:44:35.120 --> 00:44:38.980 bullshitting while he was talking up there and like who knows what was serious 00:44:38.980 --> 00:44:42.820 and what was a joke and what wasn't and whatever but I mean. 00:44:42.920 --> 00:44:46.780 Of course, he keeps saying that he's paying for with donors for this fucking 00:44:46.780 --> 00:44:49.040 golden fucking ballroom. 00:44:49.580 --> 00:44:53.720 Well, but now let me understand to build this ballroom. 00:44:53.980 --> 00:44:58.520 They basically have to demolish a huge portion of the existing White House to 00:44:58.520 --> 00:44:59.640 replace it with this thing, right? 00:45:00.180 --> 00:45:03.280 I that's not what I understood. I understood that. 00:45:03.540 --> 00:45:06.240 Are they squeezing it in between the existing? 00:45:06.480 --> 00:45:07.540 They're squeezing it in. Yeah. 00:45:08.040 --> 00:45:12.160 Oh, sort of where that long hallway is that goes off to the east wing or whatever. 00:45:12.360 --> 00:45:15.400 Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Something like that is my understanding. Yeah. 00:45:15.640 --> 00:45:16.880 They're just going to squeeze it in. 00:45:17.260 --> 00:45:21.680 I thought they were going to actually like gut the existing building. 00:45:21.900 --> 00:45:27.780 Nah. But my whole point about this is, this is the shit that is just in his head. 00:45:27.920 --> 00:45:30.920 And then, then he was there the other day with a whole bunch of charts. 00:45:32.770 --> 00:45:36.050 about the economy about the economy and 00:45:36.050 --> 00:45:40.190 i don't know with a whole bunch of but but but he didn't even he started showing 00:45:40.190 --> 00:45:43.270 these charts he doesn't even know what the fuck they say and he's just saying 00:45:43.270 --> 00:45:46.790 look look at these numbers they're great numbers wonderful numbers you don't 00:45:46.790 --> 00:45:55.170 even know what the fuck's on the charts yeah the line went up right and then we were tariffing gold, 00:45:55.970 --> 00:45:59.950 and then they're trying to clarify we're not tariffing gold because. 00:45:59.950 --> 00:46:00.850 The swiss were upset. 00:46:00.850 --> 00:46:05.990 Well, the Swiss were here this week, and I don't think Trump even talked to 00:46:05.990 --> 00:46:09.910 the president of Switzerland, which I'm guessing is because he didn't talk to 00:46:09.910 --> 00:46:11.070 her because she's a woman. 00:46:11.710 --> 00:46:14.250 And he's just a sexist prick as well. 00:46:14.690 --> 00:46:15.270 Okay. 00:46:16.130 --> 00:46:17.210 Aside from a pedophile. 00:46:18.610 --> 00:46:24.950 Yes. So is our theme here Trump's mental health and competence? 00:46:25.270 --> 00:46:30.070 I mean. Because we've talked about this before. I mean, he was never very good, 00:46:30.230 --> 00:46:31.350 and he's been getting worse. 00:46:31.810 --> 00:46:38.270 Worse? And then, you know, I don't know. I'm going to give—listen. 00:46:39.070 --> 00:46:46.730 Oh, and of course, we can't hear about anything else on TV other than Trump's mental decline, right? 00:46:46.810 --> 00:46:49.910 Because that's what happened to Biden when he had a couple missteps. 00:46:50.310 --> 00:46:54.390 Right. Look, I know that—I'm pretty sure that Jake Tapper is working on his 00:46:54.390 --> 00:46:57.670 book right now on Trump's mental decline. Yes. 00:46:57.870 --> 00:47:04.570 Yes, and non-stop coverage about how he should resign because he clearly doesn't 00:47:04.570 --> 00:47:05.670 know what he's doing anymore, right? 00:47:06.130 --> 00:47:07.210 Right, yeah. 00:47:10.080 --> 00:47:14.840 I got a fucking lunatic president walking through the fucking roof in the middle 00:47:14.840 --> 00:47:17.600 of the day in the White House. And I'm like, oh, what the fuck is going on? 00:47:18.400 --> 00:47:21.140 And yelling at reporters up there. 00:47:21.920 --> 00:47:24.260 Well, if he didn't yell, they wouldn't have been able to hear him. 00:47:24.520 --> 00:47:27.160 That's true. Yes. Yeah. Good point. 00:47:27.380 --> 00:47:28.200 And they were yelling at him. 00:47:28.780 --> 00:47:37.100 Yeah. And then apparently now he's trying to insert himself into the New York 00:47:37.100 --> 00:47:39.740 City mayor race. that he's trying to endorse everybody. 00:47:40.140 --> 00:47:44.860 You know, so he's trying to endorse the supposed Democrats that are against 00:47:44.860 --> 00:47:47.460 Madami. Oh, God. Let me butcher his name. 00:47:47.700 --> 00:47:48.100 Madami. 00:47:48.680 --> 00:47:49.080 Madami. 00:47:49.120 --> 00:47:50.660 I'm sorry. Madami. 00:47:50.860 --> 00:47:51.320 Oh, fuck. 00:47:51.380 --> 00:47:52.780 See, now you got me having to check. 00:47:53.160 --> 00:47:56.660 Oh, God. I'm sorry. I should know this by now. 00:47:59.240 --> 00:48:01.040 Did you find it? Did you find it? Did you find it? 00:48:01.040 --> 00:48:05.980 I'm working on it. Mamdani. Mamdani. Sorry. 00:48:06.960 --> 00:48:09.220 Mamdani. Fuck, Jesus. 00:48:09.840 --> 00:48:13.600 There he is. Zoran Mamdani. 00:48:15.820 --> 00:48:17.960 Okay. Yes. Continue. 00:48:18.440 --> 00:48:25.060 He's scheming with Cuomo for the New York mayor's race? 00:48:25.060 --> 00:48:30.720 Well, there were reports they had a call. Cuomo denies it was about the race 00:48:30.720 --> 00:48:34.380 at all, but he didn't actually deny there was a call. 00:48:34.960 --> 00:48:38.680 Meanwhile, Mom Downey is, of course, running with it that, you know, 00:48:38.800 --> 00:48:42.580 clearly a vote for Cuomo or Adams is really a vote for Trump. 00:48:43.140 --> 00:48:43.400 Yes. 00:48:43.540 --> 00:48:44.920 Yeah. This like. 00:48:45.320 --> 00:48:50.460 Is that, I mean, it's true. I mean, Eric Adams cut a deal with him. 00:48:50.900 --> 00:48:51.420 Yes. 00:48:52.420 --> 00:48:56.680 So he's in his pocket. And it seems like Cuomo, for some reason, 00:48:56.680 --> 00:49:01.820 also is like playing, you know, for Trump, too. 00:49:02.930 --> 00:49:05.650 Yeah, that is what that is what it seems like right now. 00:49:06.250 --> 00:49:09.230 Well, I think the thing is, I mean, at various times. 00:49:09.630 --> 00:49:12.190 Here's the problem, Cuomo just wants to win. He doesn't care. 00:49:12.790 --> 00:49:18.350 Yes, I was going to say that at various times in the past, Cuomo has positioned himself as anti-Trump. 00:49:18.810 --> 00:49:23.630 He's also positioned himself as like, hey, I can I can work with whoever I can 00:49:23.630 --> 00:49:25.090 get things done, blah, blah, blah. 00:49:25.490 --> 00:49:27.990 He's positioned himself a whole bunch of different ways. 00:49:29.850 --> 00:49:32.630 the whole Cuomo thing just pisses me off. 00:49:32.770 --> 00:49:34.550 Oh my God. To no end. 00:49:34.950 --> 00:49:39.630 You know, like after what happened to you go slink away and disappear. 00:49:39.950 --> 00:49:40.430 Right. 00:49:40.710 --> 00:49:48.430 You know, like you've got plenty of money. You'll do fine. Just go retire. Kick your feet up. 00:49:48.430 --> 00:49:51.750 Watch some TV. Like, like, like fucking like what's his name? 00:49:52.030 --> 00:49:55.210 Giuliani. He could be collecting a couple of billion bucks a year. 00:49:55.750 --> 00:50:00.630 There's a bunch of things he could do. He does not have to go back and run for office again. 00:50:01.070 --> 00:50:05.270 I mean, you resigned in disgrace. Come on. 00:50:06.230 --> 00:50:09.410 Of course, the lesson all of these people have been having, I mean, 00:50:09.490 --> 00:50:14.530 the lesson from Trump himself getting reelected and everybody else is never 00:50:14.530 --> 00:50:17.450 resign, double down and screw it. 00:50:18.290 --> 00:50:22.850 Okay. Here's one thing on the New York race. I looked up to see if there was any recent polling. 00:50:22.850 --> 00:50:28.230 Recent polling right now, this is about five days ago that I found here on The 00:50:28.230 --> 00:50:32.210 Race, a new poll found with a significant lead in the current field of five 00:50:32.210 --> 00:50:36.430 candidates, attaining 50% of the vote, regardless of his opponent. 00:50:37.700 --> 00:50:43.920 Now, unlike the first round, this isn't any funky runoff, multiple choice, whatever. 00:50:44.160 --> 00:50:48.900 This is just like whoever gets the most votes wins, right? There's not even a runoff. 00:50:48.900 --> 00:50:53.600 Let me see. The combined little support for... Let me see. 00:50:53.940 --> 00:50:58.760 Actually, I'm not sure, so I'm checking to see if they got ranked choice polling for the... 00:50:58.760 --> 00:51:00.220 I think that was only for the primary. 00:51:00.960 --> 00:51:07.800 My number is going to... misconducted, 2.0, I support never dips below 50% and 00:51:07.800 --> 00:51:10.080 only increases in a thinner field of candidates. 00:51:10.220 --> 00:51:12.640 For example, in a hypothetical four-way race without Cuomo, 00:51:14.880 --> 00:51:19.180 Mamdani's support rose to 55%. In a four-way race without Adams, 00:51:19.500 --> 00:51:23.920 his support rose to 51%. Mamdani is the only candidate of five that the majority 00:51:23.920 --> 00:51:27.460 of respondents, 58%, said he would consider voting for in November's election. 00:51:28.420 --> 00:51:33.760 In comparison to the 37%, they were voting for Cuomo, 27% they were voting for younger Adams. 00:51:34.160 --> 00:51:37.340 It's a very like the Republican doesn't exist in this election, basically. 00:51:37.600 --> 00:51:42.280 Essentially, yeah. I mean, Republicans have been mayor in New York many times 00:51:42.280 --> 00:51:44.140 before. You mentioned Giuliani. 00:51:44.440 --> 00:51:48.300 Yeah, but this is... Bloomberg was a Republican before he was a Democrat. 00:51:50.380 --> 00:51:54.620 But, you know, it takes a certain situation for that to occur. 00:51:55.100 --> 00:51:58.820 Yeah, and it's not happening right now. But it's looking like it doesn't matter 00:51:58.820 --> 00:52:01.460 who he's trying to, like, support. 00:52:03.220 --> 00:52:08.040 I have answered my question in New York City. 00:52:08.240 --> 00:52:13.480 Primary elections are conducted with rank choice voting while first past the 00:52:13.480 --> 00:52:15.560 post is used for general elections. 00:52:15.780 --> 00:52:20.520 So that means whoever, whoever has the plurality, they don't even have to get 50%. 00:52:20.520 --> 00:52:24.820 Oh, beautiful. So he's got the edge. Like, like, you know, yeah, 00:52:24.980 --> 00:52:28.040 he's got, he's got a, he's got a total edge. So. 00:52:28.900 --> 00:52:36.560 Okay. So, yeah. So it's looking like he's, you know, he's looking like he's 00:52:36.560 --> 00:52:37.840 definitely way ahead. So. 00:52:38.200 --> 00:52:42.880 And by the way, there's still all sorts of leadership Democrats hedging their bets on this guy. 00:52:42.980 --> 00:52:46.740 By the way, they're idiots. Okay. I just went and I went to this, 00:52:46.920 --> 00:52:50.060 I searched on the, on this and I got ads. 00:52:50.320 --> 00:52:54.320 CBP is hiring officers now. Serve your country while earning a competitive salary 00:52:54.320 --> 00:52:57.540 and benefits with a CBP. Apply today. 00:52:58.280 --> 00:53:00.680 so there's a career option for you sam. 00:53:00.680 --> 00:53:04.480 Border patrol yeah you. 00:53:04.480 --> 00:53:09.560 Could go and like they could partner you up with dean kane you met you guys are the dream team. 00:53:09.560 --> 00:53:14.880 For those who didn't see see dean kane who's one of the actors who played uh 00:53:14.880 --> 00:53:20.560 superman in a tv series a while back who's basically hasn't had a active acting 00:53:20.560 --> 00:53:27.120 career lately and came out as a rabid mega conservative type has said he's joining ICE. 00:53:27.780 --> 00:53:30.100 He must be doing really well since he's joining ICE. 00:53:31.080 --> 00:53:36.820 Well, and ICE apparently said, too, he'll be there sort of in a symbolic fashion. 00:53:37.580 --> 00:53:38.180 Yeah, yeah, yeah. 00:53:38.320 --> 00:53:40.880 It's not like he's actually going to be out on the street doing stuff. 00:53:41.300 --> 00:53:46.340 I mean, so he's lying, really, because I figured he just signed up to be a fucking officer. 00:53:46.560 --> 00:53:49.680 But, well, to help all these guys lie about everything. 00:53:49.680 --> 00:53:54.860 Well, this seems like a natural segue into the South Park episode on... 00:53:54.860 --> 00:53:58.860 Oh, you know, 00:53:59.600 --> 00:54:04.740 the one thing about this, this whole thing, the South Park episode where they, 00:54:04.820 --> 00:54:10.660 they had Kristi Noem on shooting every puppy that appeared on TV. 00:54:11.180 --> 00:54:13.940 Which by the way i have not seen the whole 00:54:13.940 --> 00:54:16.660 episode but i have seen multiple clips yvonne shared on 00:54:16.660 --> 00:54:19.520 the curmudgeon's corner slack the the first clip 00:54:19.520 --> 00:54:22.900 where she was shooting puppies which apparently she was like shooting a commercial 00:54:22.900 --> 00:54:28.400 in a south park episode she was shooting a commercial to recruit for ice and 00:54:28.400 --> 00:54:33.100 it was basically like you know the theme of it is no qualifications anymore 00:54:33.100 --> 00:54:38.500 we don't care who you are you can join but she kept getting distracted by having to shoot puppies, 00:54:40.160 --> 00:54:42.440 that wandered by or whatever. 00:54:42.640 --> 00:54:50.200 But apparently, from other clips I've seen, this was a recurring theme throughout the entire episode. 00:54:50.540 --> 00:54:57.780 And the closing credits had her running into a pet store and just shooting up 00:54:57.780 --> 00:54:59.840 the whole place and killing everything in there. 00:55:01.660 --> 00:55:02.740 Ha ha ha! 00:55:04.780 --> 00:55:08.220 And the thing is that, you know, while she's doing this. 00:55:08.440 --> 00:55:10.280 By the way, apparently she's all this. 00:55:10.640 --> 00:55:13.840 Yeah. Well, I was going to get to that. And while she's, you know, 00:55:14.040 --> 00:55:18.160 motivating all these people with all this Nazi sloganeering and shit, 00:55:18.300 --> 00:55:20.800 whatever, whatnot, and shooting puppies in front of them. 00:55:21.040 --> 00:55:25.040 The one thing is that her makeup starts falling apart. OK. 00:55:25.200 --> 00:55:25.380 Right. 00:55:25.380 --> 00:55:30.320 And then an entire coterie of aides come in to try to fix her. 00:55:30.460 --> 00:55:35.920 And her whole takeaway from this was that they were ragging on her looks. 00:55:36.240 --> 00:55:40.240 That's what she took away from this. And I'm just like, wait a second. 00:55:40.500 --> 00:55:42.400 Not that you're shooting the puppies. 00:55:42.720 --> 00:55:47.500 Not that you're being basically a Nazi on TV. 00:55:49.060 --> 00:55:52.380 And by the way, what they were mocking wasn't the looks. 00:55:52.380 --> 00:55:59.620 What they were mocking was her obsession on the looks, which basically trumped, 00:55:59.660 --> 00:56:05.420 pun intended, everything else, okay, because its image is everything for this woman. 00:56:05.460 --> 00:56:09.600 Well, it's more than that, too. They were also mocking the general tendency, 00:56:09.600 --> 00:56:12.820 if you look at women in Trump world. 00:56:13.080 --> 00:56:15.380 Oh, fuck, yeah. They're all, holy shit. 00:56:17.700 --> 00:56:21.620 You can see, if you Google this online, you can see before and after. 00:56:21.620 --> 00:56:23.040 Yeah, it's a Mar-a-Lago look. 00:56:23.440 --> 00:56:26.580 Where before, they looked like normal women. 00:56:26.840 --> 00:56:27.380 Yes. 00:56:27.600 --> 00:56:32.140 And then the after, they've had, like, in some cases, it's just makeup. 00:56:32.300 --> 00:56:34.200 In some cases, there's plastic surgery. 00:56:34.400 --> 00:56:36.860 There's whatever. But there's a specific look. 00:56:37.500 --> 00:56:38.680 Oh, shit. 00:56:39.740 --> 00:56:43.000 And as far as I'm concerned, they universally look worse. 00:56:43.200 --> 00:56:45.760 Oh, my God. So much worse. Holy shit. 00:56:46.180 --> 00:56:52.620 It's like you looked like a normal, like, attractive woman. And now you look 00:56:52.620 --> 00:56:56.120 like some sort of, I don't even know what. 00:56:56.420 --> 00:57:01.320 Some kind of Frankenstein, you know, experiment is what they look like afterwards. 00:57:02.380 --> 00:57:07.980 Holy shit. Yeah. So they're mocking that, not the way that she actually looked, 00:57:08.100 --> 00:57:11.780 but their obsession with this look and the obsession with the looks. 00:57:11.980 --> 00:57:18.080 I mean, you know, she was standing, like I mentioned, she was standing in front of a jail in El Salvador. 00:57:18.400 --> 00:57:25.160 Okay, a jail. A gulag, basically, that they created in fucking El Salvador wearing an $80,000 watch. 00:57:25.900 --> 00:57:31.500 You know, and I'm not like going, and again, as I said, tell me where the fuck 00:57:31.500 --> 00:57:32.780 this money's coming from, Sam. 00:57:33.180 --> 00:57:37.980 Because this woman never made more than a hundred and some odd thousand dollars a year. Okay? 00:57:38.480 --> 00:57:43.140 Before she got to this job. And somehow she was wearing an $80,000 watch. 00:57:43.380 --> 00:57:44.900 You want to explain that one to me? 00:57:45.420 --> 00:57:46.120 Trump coin. 00:57:46.560 --> 00:57:52.860 Ah! Trump coin. Yeah. Forgot about that. Now you can hold it in your 401k. 00:57:53.920 --> 00:57:55.580 I, I've, I've heard. 00:57:56.100 --> 00:58:02.080 Yeah. Now, you know, we, we could, we could buy the Trump coins into our 401k. 00:58:02.240 --> 00:58:03.240 Prepare for a retirement. 00:58:04.940 --> 00:58:05.460 Excellent. 00:58:06.640 --> 00:58:12.860 Okay. Also, any other general ranting about the Trump administration you wanted? 00:58:12.960 --> 00:58:15.640 Yes. Tim Apple went to the White House. 00:58:15.980 --> 00:58:20.380 Okay. Yeah, I was going to bring that up if you didn't. Go ahead. Tell me about Tim Apple. 00:58:21.200 --> 00:58:21.460 Look, 00:58:23.840 --> 00:58:29.360 first say what he did before you talk about it. He went to the White House. 00:58:29.660 --> 00:58:35.740 Look, he has been the company's getting hit from all sides on all these tariff 00:58:35.740 --> 00:58:39.300 announcements and all this shit, you know, move production to India. 00:58:39.540 --> 00:58:41.940 Then there were tariffs on India. They were talking about tariffs on chips. 00:58:42.140 --> 00:58:43.380 They're talking about everything. 00:58:43.400 --> 00:58:47.980 And because Apple, unlike a lot of their competitors right now, 00:58:48.100 --> 00:58:52.440 the other, you know, big Silicon Valley companies, okay, you know, 00:58:52.680 --> 00:58:57.900 the only two that really move massive amount of goods are Amazon and Apple. 00:58:58.360 --> 00:59:03.020 Okay. The rest are which is, you know, advertising, software, whatever. 00:59:03.400 --> 00:59:07.020 They don't have, they're not, they're not, the impact of this shit isn't hitting 00:59:07.020 --> 00:59:08.940 them. But Apple definitely is, 00:59:10.240 --> 00:59:16.320 looking at this, and it's problematic. And so they went with an olive branch 00:59:16.320 --> 00:59:19.240 to the White House to formally declare, 00:59:19.780 --> 00:59:23.500 that they were going to invest $100 billion in certain specific manufacturing 00:59:23.500 --> 00:59:28.420 that they figured that they could do in the U.S., basically to try to get that 00:59:28.420 --> 00:59:33.100 in exchange for not having to bring fucking iPhone production to the U.S. 00:59:33.200 --> 00:59:35.680 Wait, wait. Don't forget the little... 00:59:35.680 --> 00:59:40.880 Wait, wait, wait. But part of the whole thing was the presentation of this, 00:59:41.040 --> 00:59:42.660 because they were manufacturing glass, 00:59:42.920 --> 00:59:47.520 Corning Glass factory, and one of the things that they were doing is this presentation 00:59:47.520 --> 00:59:51.580 of this glass plaque with an Apple logo with a commitment to it with a base 00:59:51.580 --> 00:59:52.880 made out of 24 karat gold. 00:59:53.980 --> 00:59:57.860 Yes. Hey, anybody worried about gift limits to the White House anymore? 00:59:58.940 --> 01:00:06.360 No. And I hadn't heard, like, traditionally gifts like this officially belong to the government. 01:00:07.480 --> 01:00:10.300 It's not a gift to the individual Okay. 01:00:10.440 --> 01:00:12.160 Do you think that's staying in the White House? 01:00:12.920 --> 01:00:16.380 Here's what I think Like, it may officially be a gift to a government But just 01:00:16.380 --> 01:00:19.480 like everything else, Donald Trump will just take it Like, he did that Didn't 01:00:19.480 --> 01:00:22.100 he take, like, some sports trophy a couple weeks ago? 01:00:22.660 --> 01:00:29.800 He took, yes, he took the fucking trophy From the damn FIFA tournament And he 01:00:29.800 --> 01:00:35.440 kept the damn thing They had to make a replica to give it to the fucking winners Yes. 01:00:35.880 --> 01:00:39.720 So, yeah, he's going to take the damn thing. I mean, he, you know, 01:00:40.340 --> 01:00:44.600 remember there was a whole thing about stuff he took to Mar-a-Lago that he wasn't 01:00:44.600 --> 01:00:46.920 supposed to take. He got invited for that shit. 01:00:47.180 --> 01:00:49.340 Of course he's going to take things like this. 01:00:50.120 --> 01:00:53.820 I will say, before we talk a little bit more about Tim Apple, 01:00:54.140 --> 01:00:57.760 and we're calling him Tim Apple because Donald Trump called him that once. 01:00:57.760 --> 01:01:02.120 But the thing is, 01:01:03.400 --> 01:01:11.780 from what I've read after this, is it not true that basically everything Apple 01:01:11.780 --> 01:01:16.760 promised that they were going to do, they were already doing anyway? 01:01:17.620 --> 01:01:21.120 I believe that the previous—you know what? 01:01:21.260 --> 01:01:27.580 Like, they talked about making this glass in Kentucky. They already are making that glass in Kentucky. 01:01:27.760 --> 01:01:30.860 Now, they may be committing to make more. I don't know. 01:01:31.040 --> 01:01:34.500 But like it seems like a common theme, 01:01:34.680 --> 01:01:40.800 a common theme in all of these deals with Donald Trump is whether it's whether 01:01:40.800 --> 01:01:46.080 it's Apple or whether it's other countries is to dig up things they were already 01:01:46.080 --> 01:01:50.920 doing or planning on doing anyway and serving them up on a silver platter and saying, 01:01:51.060 --> 01:01:54.320 OK, we're going to do this and let Donald Trump claim it as a way. 01:01:54.320 --> 01:01:56.340 Silver, silver, gold platter. What are you talking about? 01:01:56.400 --> 01:01:56.560 Gold platter, sorry. 01:01:56.680 --> 01:01:58.060 Is that a gold platter? 01:01:58.180 --> 01:01:59.320 Yes, it has to be gold. Sorry. 01:01:59.480 --> 01:02:00.020 Yes. My bad. 01:02:01.200 --> 01:02:06.280 Well, so is that right? I did not look into the details of this. 01:02:06.460 --> 01:02:09.820 I did not whether that was already in the plans or not. 01:02:09.980 --> 01:02:14.300 However, what I will say is that it is in most of the cases, 01:02:14.520 --> 01:02:16.120 like you've mentioned, that has been the case. 01:02:16.280 --> 01:02:20.920 The reality is that, you know, that Trump didn't know any. It wouldn't have known about it anyway. 01:02:21.100 --> 01:02:25.300 And so, therefore, in large part, you know, just going up there and showing 01:02:25.300 --> 01:02:27.420 him, hey, we did make a commitment to build. 01:02:27.600 --> 01:02:32.220 This is what it is. don't fucking tear off my goddamn phones and chips. 01:02:32.220 --> 01:02:33.580 Right and. 01:02:33.580 --> 01:02:34.060 He said yes. 01:02:34.060 --> 01:02:37.840 Yeah yeah so apple got the exemption that you 01:02:37.840 --> 01:02:42.640 know they're like we're throwing these massive massive thing on chips but not 01:02:42.640 --> 01:02:47.200 you guys because you said you would do this and and part of it is also again 01:02:47.200 --> 01:02:54.440 it is the optics it is coming to the white house yeah it is kissing the ring 01:02:54.440 --> 01:02:57.380 it is telling donald how wonderful it is. 01:02:57.480 --> 01:03:05.180 It is giving him the golden glass thingamabob and saying, we're going to do all this stuff. 01:03:05.340 --> 01:03:08.880 Again, whether or not you are going to do it anyway doesn't matter. 01:03:09.120 --> 01:03:15.340 It is the physical act of sucking up to Donald Trump that gets you your exemption. 01:03:15.680 --> 01:03:20.160 And so then I've seen a lot of criticism that says, this is really disgusting. 01:03:20.460 --> 01:03:25.560 Tim Cook, see, I used his real name that time going and doing this stuff but 01:03:25.560 --> 01:03:28.600 at the same time he got his company the damn exemption. 01:03:28.600 --> 01:03:33.540 Exactly you know he's looking for out for his shareholders and his employees 01:03:33.540 --> 01:03:37.600 he's like you know the fuck am i gonna do and let us get fucked by this guy 01:03:37.600 --> 01:03:41.020 look i i'm gonna say this probably, 01:03:41.940 --> 01:03:46.460 most of you know if you had told me like say 10 years ago hey ivan do you want 01:03:46.460 --> 01:03:49.780 to be ceo of apple I would have been like, absolutely. I'll take the job. 01:03:50.520 --> 01:03:55.120 I want that job. I would have loved to take that job. I would have taken that job. 01:03:55.720 --> 01:04:00.060 You ask me right now, do I want to be CEO of Apple? Having to deal with this 01:04:00.060 --> 01:04:01.480 shit? I would be like, fuck no. 01:04:02.990 --> 01:04:06.990 I don't want to be in Tim's shoes. This is, you know, some people have been 01:04:06.990 --> 01:04:10.490 talking about replacing him, whatever, Weld or behind whatever. 01:04:10.750 --> 01:04:16.370 Let me tell you something. This fucking nightmare, fucking scenario that as 01:04:16.370 --> 01:04:19.950 executives of many companies are having to deal with, with this fucking Trump 01:04:19.950 --> 01:04:23.770 administration, which operates like a mob enterprise, okay, 01:04:24.470 --> 01:04:27.810 that you're getting shaken down by Donald 01:04:27.810 --> 01:04:32.450 Trump every time you go over there is a fucking nightmare for anybody who has 01:04:32.450 --> 01:04:37.390 been a ceo of a public company during their during their lives it's the worst 01:04:37.390 --> 01:04:44.610 fucking environment to to to fucking have to operate no i wouldn't want the job right now no because. 01:04:44.610 --> 01:04:49.670 Nothing's about like hey here are the fixed rules that you have to play in and 01:04:49.670 --> 01:04:55.550 then figure out how to do that instead it's all 100 about can you suck up enough 01:04:55.550 --> 01:04:57.570 to donald trump that he doesn't. 01:04:57.570 --> 01:05:01.830 Go after you. Yeah, basically. Like you did Intel CEO this week. 01:05:02.390 --> 01:05:03.910 Tell that story. 01:05:04.150 --> 01:05:07.890 Apparently, I don't know what the Chinese ties that he have and Intel's problems. 01:05:08.090 --> 01:05:11.790 All of a sudden, Donald Trump started demanding that Intel fire CEO. 01:05:13.410 --> 01:05:20.710 Now, what Donald Trump and company have said is all sorts of conflicts of interest with China. 01:05:21.190 --> 01:05:21.330 Right. 01:05:21.490 --> 01:05:24.570 But is there truth to that? 01:05:24.570 --> 01:05:27.010 I have seen no basis for that. 01:05:27.210 --> 01:05:28.510 Or is it just like... 01:05:28.510 --> 01:05:29.930 This is just racism as far as I can tell. 01:05:30.090 --> 01:05:32.470 That's what I was going to say. Is it just flat out racism? 01:05:32.670 --> 01:05:35.170 The guy's Chinese. It seems like it, yes. 01:05:36.050 --> 01:05:38.610 Is he going to go after every CEO that's not white? 01:05:39.250 --> 01:05:44.530 I don't know. He hasn't gone after a Microsoft guy, Satya. 01:05:45.130 --> 01:05:46.470 Yeah. Yet. 01:05:46.930 --> 01:05:53.490 Yet. I don't know. But look, it wouldn't be... I mean, it wouldn't surprise me if he does it. 01:05:54.850 --> 01:05:58.050 I mean, you know, the guy is a rampant racist. 01:06:00.270 --> 01:06:04.550 Yeah. Okay. Anything else on this or should we take a break? 01:06:05.070 --> 01:06:07.590 I promise not to bring up Donald Trump in the next. 01:06:07.630 --> 01:06:14.410 Uh, I see if there's anything, you know, nah, there, there's nothing, there's nothing else. 01:06:14.410 --> 01:06:19.150 I had made a, I had, I had left an item from, no, from previously talking about 01:06:19.150 --> 01:06:22.430 reshoring and I was not going to happen anytime soon. And it, 01:06:22.630 --> 01:06:26.210 it, and, and really this whole thing with Apple, the whole thing was affirming. 01:06:26.370 --> 01:06:29.350 It was, it was precisely affirming that. 01:06:29.850 --> 01:06:34.950 but they're like dude we can't bring this fucking production here it's just we could bring this, 01:06:35.890 --> 01:06:41.430 but that the the rest of the shit you're talking about impossible that's what this is all about, 01:06:41.910 --> 01:06:44.850 everybody else is getting killed look the automaker i don't 01:06:44.850 --> 01:06:47.470 know why the automakers can't get a can't get a 01:06:47.470 --> 01:06:50.770 break from him okay because gm 01:06:50.770 --> 01:06:56.170 and ford are getting hammered by by the the tariffs they're getting hammered 01:06:56.170 --> 01:07:01.930 and they haven't been able to go and like get some kind of like way of presenting 01:07:01.930 --> 01:07:07.790 him a golden tire or something i don't know whatever so he could get him off their backs, 01:07:08.470 --> 01:07:15.110 right now the current trade deals favor you making a car in japan and bringing 01:07:15.110 --> 01:07:17.390 it over versus making one in the u.s. 01:07:17.390 --> 01:07:24.350 Right it's it's insane because of high tariffs on raw materials and a relatively 01:07:24.350 --> 01:07:27.290 low tariff on Japan after the latest deal they gave. 01:07:27.590 --> 01:07:27.790 Correct. 01:07:28.840 --> 01:07:29.220 Yes. 01:07:29.840 --> 01:07:30.820 It's nuts. 01:07:31.400 --> 01:07:34.940 Because once again, the theme on all these tariffs, which by the way, 01:07:35.140 --> 01:07:39.480 all of the tariffs that had been put off over and over and over again, 01:07:39.640 --> 01:07:41.600 most of them went into effect this week as well. 01:07:41.740 --> 01:07:42.000 Yes. 01:07:42.340 --> 01:07:47.520 Now, who knows if they'll last, what the deal is, but we now basically have 01:07:47.520 --> 01:07:51.980 this baseline 15, 16% across the board worldwide. 01:07:51.980 --> 01:07:56.420 The average that was calculated by some people is 18%, but even some guy today 01:07:56.420 --> 01:07:57.540 on Bloomberg said, look. 01:07:57.540 --> 01:07:59.280 There's a lot of ups and downs and differences. 01:07:59.460 --> 01:08:00.220 It's so complicated. 01:08:00.540 --> 01:08:00.980 Yeah. 01:08:01.360 --> 01:08:06.040 And that he's still, look, I don't understand how some of the people are even getting to that number. 01:08:06.240 --> 01:08:08.500 It's complicated. Because there's a lot of rules. 01:08:08.660 --> 01:08:12.200 Exemptions, things, certain materials don't apply, blah, blah, blah. 01:08:12.520 --> 01:08:15.940 But also, and again, no rhyme or reason to it either. 01:08:15.980 --> 01:08:17.240 No, there's no rhyme or reason. 01:08:17.240 --> 01:08:21.860 Like it's all over, it's all about who has sucked up to Donald lately. 01:08:22.420 --> 01:08:27.820 Yeah. You know, basically. basically and so it's not like there's some sort 01:08:27.820 --> 01:08:35.660 of coherent philosophical tariff worldview that you apply and get this other 01:08:35.660 --> 01:08:42.160 than tariffs are cool and they're something i can use to like beat people over the head of it. 01:08:42.160 --> 01:08:45.980 I would never imagine that somebody would ever utter the phrase tariffs are 01:08:45.980 --> 01:08:50.840 cool can i can i just say that that is just the you know that was a phrase that 01:08:50.840 --> 01:08:55.620 i I never expected in my whole fucking lifetime to hear. 01:08:57.540 --> 01:09:00.180 By the way, but how complicated it is. 01:09:00.380 --> 01:09:01.040 Okay, go. 01:09:01.120 --> 01:09:04.300 You know that Trump said Brazil 50% tariff, right? 01:09:04.580 --> 01:09:05.140 Yes, yes. 01:09:05.620 --> 01:09:11.420 Well, apparently there are so many buts in it that it really isn't the 50% tariff. 01:09:12.400 --> 01:09:13.200 OK, tell. 01:09:14.220 --> 01:09:19.240 I'm not I'm not sure which ones, you know, here it is. It was an economist article today. 01:09:19.740 --> 01:09:22.700 Donald Trump's tariffs on Brazil are more barked than bite. The Latin American 01:09:22.700 --> 01:09:24.700 giant may have avoided the worst for now. 01:09:25.240 --> 01:09:29.480 And it said here that let me see where the detail are of it. 01:09:29.580 --> 01:09:33.760 But it's saying here that there is there's the tariffs now in place against 01:09:33.760 --> 01:09:37.800 Brazil, except nearly 700 products, including planes. 01:09:38.100 --> 01:09:41.960 So the biggest worry first, Embraer. They export a lot of aircraft. 01:09:41.960 --> 01:09:43.340 Guess what? They're exempted. 01:09:43.600 --> 01:09:47.640 Oil also exempted. Wood pulp, orange juice, exports of coffee, 01:09:47.760 --> 01:09:49.140 beef and fruit were not so lucky. 01:09:49.380 --> 01:09:56.240 But but still, the exemptions were so big that in the end, it's not a 50 percent tariff. 01:09:56.940 --> 01:10:05.280 Right. So, yeah. And as we said from the very beginning, watching these exemptions 01:10:05.280 --> 01:10:08.740 is probably more important than looking at the top level. 01:10:08.740 --> 01:10:13.060 All you got to do is follow the fucking money trail to figure out who's getting exempt, basically. 01:10:13.320 --> 01:10:18.260 I would like just a report of who the fuck, the company, and who's donating. 01:10:18.700 --> 01:10:22.280 You're going to find, predict, who's getting a tariff exemption. 01:10:22.860 --> 01:10:27.280 Yeah. I would bet money that you are correct on that. 01:10:27.280 --> 01:10:32.040 You know, in the Godfather movies, they had this part where guys from, 01:10:32.260 --> 01:10:37.720 you know, I guess this is from from the telephone, you know, 01:10:37.840 --> 01:10:40.300 I can't remember which telephone company they were portraying there. 01:10:40.380 --> 01:10:45.200 I think it's probably ITT probably at the time show up in Cuba and they give 01:10:45.200 --> 01:10:47.140 this golden telephone to the dictator. 01:10:47.400 --> 01:10:52.580 OK. All right. In the thing. And it's just amazing how exactly it is working right now. 01:10:52.940 --> 01:10:54.960 Just like that in the Trump White House. 01:10:55.600 --> 01:11:01.460 Right. One other Trump administration-related thing, although it's not as directly 01:11:01.460 --> 01:11:07.560 Donald Trump, is a long string of things RFK Jr. 01:11:07.820 --> 01:11:09.840 has been doing in the health area. Yeah. 01:11:10.260 --> 01:11:16.620 The most recent was canceling $500 million in research to mRNA vaccines. 01:11:18.020 --> 01:11:27.080 And look, I've seen so many posts on like Blue Sky and Mastodon and other places from, you know, 01:11:27.540 --> 01:11:33.500 health-related people, specialists in the field, talking about how incredibly 01:11:33.500 --> 01:11:37.200 stupid this is and shooting ourselves in the foot like everything else. 01:11:37.580 --> 01:11:41.780 And in this particular case, It's like now some people have said, 01:11:41.940 --> 01:11:45.260 you know, people are going to die because of this lack of research. 01:11:45.540 --> 01:11:49.700 But I feel like it's it's more complicated than that because other countries 01:11:49.700 --> 01:11:51.320 are going to do this research. 01:11:51.500 --> 01:11:51.620 Right. 01:11:52.160 --> 01:11:55.300 You know, it will get done. It's just we're going to be behind. 01:11:56.020 --> 01:11:59.660 We're going to be behind. Exactly. Other and here are going to be the ones that 01:11:59.660 --> 01:12:03.600 are going to control this and that that we're going to need at some point. 01:12:03.740 --> 01:12:05.020 And we're going to be behind. Yes. 01:12:05.200 --> 01:12:08.440 Well, and here's the thing, like of all. 01:12:09.040 --> 01:12:14.460 If you look at Donald Trump's first administration, the one thing that he did 01:12:14.460 --> 01:12:20.100 that was probably really good was the goddamn Operation Warp Speed on the COVID 01:12:20.100 --> 01:12:22.220 vaccine to really push it, 01:12:22.340 --> 01:12:27.800 push it hard, and use some of this mRNA technology that was really cutting edge 01:12:27.800 --> 01:12:32.280 and resulted in a vaccine that worked really, really well. 01:12:32.600 --> 01:12:36.520 Multiple vaccines using this technique across the world. But the thing is, 01:12:36.620 --> 01:12:41.880 the technique involved in that, which, by the way, it was not brand new for the COVID vaccine. 01:12:42.100 --> 01:12:47.600 They had been working on researching mRNA vaccines for a decade plus. 01:12:48.260 --> 01:12:52.520 And this was just the first one that was like, OK, we'll use it on this one 01:12:52.520 --> 01:12:54.680 right away and we'll fast track it and blah, blah, blah. 01:12:54.680 --> 01:13:02.660 But this stuff has shown extreme promise, like for an actual HIV-AIDS vaccine 01:13:02.660 --> 01:13:06.880 is in the final stages and was one of the things canceled. 01:13:07.140 --> 01:13:12.100 The tests on it were canceled on this. It's been showing promise for all sorts 01:13:12.100 --> 01:13:15.800 of cancer vaccines as well for certain types of cancer. 01:13:15.800 --> 01:13:18.720 there it's it's a really really 01:13:18.720 --> 01:13:21.380 promising technology that has all kinds of 01:13:21.380 --> 01:13:24.380 potential applications in different areas that's been 01:13:24.380 --> 01:13:27.120 showing that it's been working really well now a lot 01:13:27.120 --> 01:13:31.640 of this stuff is still in the research phase and that's what they're canceling 01:13:31.640 --> 01:13:37.520 is like it's really super promising technology with the potential to save you 01:13:37.520 --> 01:13:41.800 know millions of lives potentially and it's like okay we're not going to do 01:13:41.800 --> 01:13:45.000 that research anymore sorry you're on your own And again, 01:13:45.700 --> 01:13:52.360 I, I've, the research will get done, but the fact that it's not by us is, 01:13:52.520 --> 01:13:55.400 is just hurting ourselves for no reason. 01:13:55.820 --> 01:13:59.420 I mean, we're, we're just, we're just idiots. 01:13:59.900 --> 01:14:04.060 And it probably will set things back. Like, you know, even if other people will 01:14:04.060 --> 01:14:08.300 pick up the slack, if we were the ones that were running ahead on this point, 01:14:08.320 --> 01:14:11.280 it's going to take a while for other folks to catch up. You know? 01:14:13.640 --> 01:14:18.480 And this is just one of many things that RFK Jr. 01:14:19.000 --> 01:14:26.360 is doing to really decimate our health infrastructure in this country, and it's really sad. 01:14:26.500 --> 01:14:29.280 And Donald Trump was asked about this, by the way. He's like, 01:14:29.780 --> 01:14:35.460 you know, the mRNA vaccine was one of the major successes of your first administration, 01:14:35.460 --> 01:14:38.700 and now all this stuff is being canceled. What do you think about that? 01:14:38.760 --> 01:14:40.460 And he says, like, that was the past. 01:14:40.600 --> 01:14:43.100 We're moving on. was basically his answer. 01:14:43.700 --> 01:14:44.640 He doesn't give a shit. 01:14:45.800 --> 01:14:52.600 Okay, shall we take a break? I'll come back with some non-Trump, non-politics thing. 01:14:53.180 --> 01:14:59.600 We'll be back right after. I was about to say, I don't think this will take 01:14:59.600 --> 01:15:02.340 very long, but every time I say that, it ends up taking so long. 01:15:02.540 --> 01:15:04.920 So we'll be back. We'll be back. 01:15:55.080 --> 01:16:01.040 Okay, here we are. Okay, so the topic I have in mind for the rest is just we 01:16:01.040 --> 01:16:02.800 had more AI stuff this week. 01:16:02.920 --> 01:16:10.640 And the big headline news was OpenAI released GPT-5, which is their latest version 01:16:10.640 --> 01:16:13.920 for chat GPT, has a number of improvements. 01:16:13.920 --> 01:16:20.220 They had hyped this as like major game-changing new thing. 01:16:20.440 --> 01:16:27.160 The initial reviews in the first couple days have been like, eh, maybe not so much. 01:16:27.280 --> 01:16:31.300 But then OpenAI also said the rollout hadn't gone smoothly and some things that 01:16:31.300 --> 01:16:33.660 were turned off that should have been turned on. 01:16:34.740 --> 01:16:40.940 Like apparently the thinking mode was not working for a significant portion 01:16:40.940 --> 01:16:43.120 of the first 24 hours this thing was out. 01:16:43.920 --> 01:16:48.060 But people have been posting their usual sort of AI fails of, 01:16:48.100 --> 01:16:53.140 like, AI doing really stupid things, like not being able to count the number 01:16:53.140 --> 01:16:57.500 of bees and blueberry, generating maps of the U.S. 01:16:57.500 --> 01:17:01.620 or lists of presidents that are completely wrong, things like that. 01:17:01.620 --> 01:17:06.100 Well, the great thing is that, look, the list of presidents that you shared, 01:17:06.100 --> 01:17:11.880 you know, showed that apparently our past presidents time traveled because they 01:17:11.880 --> 01:17:15.420 served in backwards time order. 01:17:16.020 --> 01:17:19.700 Most of them did. Some of them served in frontwards time order, 01:17:19.920 --> 01:17:21.080 but for hundreds of years. 01:17:21.480 --> 01:17:22.600 For hundreds of years, yes. 01:17:22.840 --> 01:17:28.080 Yes. Like, I believe FDR began his presidency sometime in the 1500s. 01:17:30.360 --> 01:17:34.560 You know. Now, he was president a long time, but not that long. 01:17:34.560 --> 01:17:36.380 But not 400 years. 01:17:36.680 --> 01:17:39.840 And, of course, the name was wrong. They screwed up all the names. 01:17:40.320 --> 01:17:41.440 Yeah, the names, the names. 01:17:41.440 --> 01:17:43.140 In really amusing ways. 01:17:44.400 --> 01:17:49.280 You know, I don't know. They just released a new AI program. 01:17:49.800 --> 01:17:53.020 the model for us for internal use just 01:17:53.020 --> 01:17:56.200 announced like yesterday as well i mean like i 01:17:56.200 --> 01:17:59.160 like i've mentioned actually our engineers are using it more than 01:17:59.160 --> 01:18:01.960 than me in order for solution you know 01:18:01.960 --> 01:18:07.380 in order to put together solutions and stuff we had a couple of internal models 01:18:07.380 --> 01:18:12.800 but i i i do think that well it was like this whole thing the other day the 01:18:12.800 --> 01:18:17.240 whole thing the other day that i shared about this girl that got thrown out 01:18:17.240 --> 01:18:20.160 of a trivia competition, okay? 01:18:20.400 --> 01:18:26.800 Where they were in the trivia competition and she got thrown out because they 01:18:26.800 --> 01:18:30.280 found out that she was like searching for the fucking answers. 01:18:30.380 --> 01:18:30.780 She was looking up the answers. 01:18:30.920 --> 01:18:35.120 She was looking up the answers and she got all pissed off and started screaming, 01:18:35.380 --> 01:18:38.240 this is bullshit. This is impossible. 01:18:38.720 --> 01:18:42.060 Nobody can know all these answers without fucking searching. 01:18:44.080 --> 01:18:51.300 and i'm like sam look i've already i've heard i can't remember who the hell, 01:18:51.860 --> 01:18:56.340 blurted this out to me the other day and i've seen this from and now i hear 01:18:56.340 --> 01:19:00.240 it from so many other people so many people are just admitting to me right now 01:19:00.240 --> 01:19:07.440 that they could not write an email without using chat gpt period they can't write an email well. 01:19:07.440 --> 01:19:11.500 Well look i will tell you like at my place of work, 01:19:12.200 --> 01:19:18.560 Everyone is being encouraged to actively use AI for like everything. 01:19:19.100 --> 01:19:21.880 Now, internal AI is not like these external. 01:19:21.980 --> 01:19:24.220 Yeah, it's like, yeah, same thing as ours. Yeah. 01:19:24.860 --> 01:19:32.060 And it's like, you know, everything from writing an email to writing a report to coding to whatever. 01:19:32.480 --> 01:19:36.400 It's like explore what's out there, figure out how you can use it effectively. 01:19:36.400 --> 01:19:42.780 Now, it's still expected that, you know, you as the human are reviewing it and 01:19:42.780 --> 01:19:43.920 making sure it makes sense. 01:19:44.240 --> 01:19:48.240 But this is my problem. Most of these people aren't reviewing anything that 01:19:48.240 --> 01:19:49.260 this shit is generating. 01:19:49.460 --> 01:19:54.480 OK, if the you know, so many of these people, the ones that I that I've heard 01:19:54.480 --> 01:19:57.360 from more not inside the company, but from other places. 01:19:57.520 --> 01:20:00.600 The main thing that the main thing that I see is that these people are using 01:20:00.600 --> 01:20:03.980 it and they don't they don't have no clue about what they said. 01:20:03.980 --> 01:20:07.400 They don't understand the subject matter. 01:20:07.700 --> 01:20:11.600 I joked about this when this first started happening a couple of years ago, 01:20:11.600 --> 01:20:18.280 that we are now in a situation where somebody is given the assignment to send 01:20:18.280 --> 01:20:23.280 out a summary email or an email talking about whatever's going on, right? 01:20:23.580 --> 01:20:30.800 And so they give the AI like three or four bullets and say, write me a status 01:20:30.800 --> 01:20:35.420 report based on these three or four bullets. and the AI expands that out to 01:20:35.420 --> 01:20:37.400 like a one-page document or something. 01:20:37.960 --> 01:20:42.340 And then they send it out. And if anybody reads it at all, which may not even 01:20:42.340 --> 01:20:44.320 happen, but if anybody looks at it at all. 01:20:44.480 --> 01:20:49.420 They probably ask for it to summarize the EA back to them so they're not even 01:20:49.420 --> 01:20:52.480 reading the fucking thing. So what the hell's the point of a stupid thing anyway? 01:20:52.480 --> 01:20:56.460 They have the AI summarize it back to three or four bullets and you could have 01:20:56.460 --> 01:20:57.860 just sent the three or four bullets. 01:20:57.860 --> 01:20:58.340 Four bullets! 01:20:58.540 --> 01:20:59.020 To start word. 01:20:59.300 --> 01:21:04.760 That's the one thing. I don't understand why you're making, using the ai just to make tons of filler. 01:21:04.760 --> 01:21:07.480 I i mean the the on a lot of 01:21:07.480 --> 01:21:10.320 these things it's like if if if 01:21:10.320 --> 01:21:14.060 it really matters that little then why 01:21:14.060 --> 01:21:20.100 are you wasting the time on it anyway i don't know at the same time like i i 01:21:20.100 --> 01:21:27.780 will fully admit both at work and at home the ai is saving me all kinds of time 01:21:27.780 --> 01:21:33.420 the ai is letting me do things that i would not have done And I get it. 01:21:33.520 --> 01:21:41.420 But I'm not talking about that. What I'm talking about is people not being able 01:21:41.420 --> 01:21:50.460 to answer simple questions anymore or do simple things because they can't. 01:21:51.240 --> 01:21:53.680 They can't think anymore. 01:21:54.340 --> 01:21:58.840 And there was a study that came out like a few weeks ago as well, 01:21:59.080 --> 01:22:07.760 talking about they had one group of people write like your old traditional like 01:22:07.760 --> 01:22:12.140 five paragraph essays themselves about some topics that they had to research. 01:22:12.380 --> 01:22:17.580 And then they had another group who were encouraged to use AI to write the paragraphs. 01:22:17.580 --> 01:22:25.100 And then they tested both groups on something theoretically unrelated, 01:22:25.380 --> 01:22:29.760 but that still exercised your brain in some way. 01:22:30.300 --> 01:22:37.160 And they found that the people who'd used the AI did worse on the other tests afterwards. 01:22:37.540 --> 01:22:38.260 Yeah, no kidding. 01:22:39.580 --> 01:22:43.140 Simply, I guess the theory is simply 01:22:43.140 --> 01:22:46.820 because they weren't exercising their brains for the other activity. 01:22:46.820 --> 01:22:53.920 so they got lazy or whatever i don't know you know but but at the same like 01:22:53.920 --> 01:23:00.380 i said i have to admit like i am i am getting things done that i wouldn't even 01:23:00.380 --> 01:23:04.220 have attempted without ai assistance here but. 01:23:04.220 --> 01:23:08.940 But you know what and and i guess you know maybe the one thing that i'm seeing 01:23:08.940 --> 01:23:15.940 and it's something that even other tools have shown in the past we've had google searches or whatever. 01:23:15.940 --> 01:23:16.680 Is that. 01:23:16.680 --> 01:23:18.780 It really depends on. 01:23:18.780 --> 01:23:20.240 How you use it. 01:23:20.240 --> 01:23:27.080 Yeah you know because there's just so many people that just they they they will 01:23:27.080 --> 01:23:31.440 be they don't care about understanding what the hell is behind it and they will 01:23:31.440 --> 01:23:33.420 just go and like just you know whatever. 01:23:33.420 --> 01:23:38.160 Well the thing is the people are right who say like if you are in a situation 01:23:38.160 --> 01:23:44.700 where you can just copy and paste the output of the ai and it is perfectly acceptable 01:23:44.700 --> 01:23:50.080 and the people who receive that are fine with it and don't, 01:23:50.180 --> 01:23:53.320 and any problems it has are just like, oh, okay, that's fine. 01:23:53.680 --> 01:23:55.280 Then you really are redundant. 01:23:55.900 --> 01:24:01.860 You know, the AI could just do that without you. Like if you are adding value 01:24:01.860 --> 01:24:07.020 because you are, you are using the AI as a tool to go back and forth and refine 01:24:07.020 --> 01:24:08.540 something and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. 01:24:08.760 --> 01:24:11.680 And you're actually putting a decent amount of yourself into it. Okay. 01:24:11.780 --> 01:24:17.260 Then maybe you can make the argument that you plus AI is better than you alone. 01:24:17.460 --> 01:24:23.620 But if all you are doing, if all you are doing is, oh, copy and paste the output, 01:24:23.820 --> 01:24:26.600 move it over here, done, then you are useless. 01:24:28.150 --> 01:24:33.330 And maybe you served some function in the past, but the argument that says your 01:24:33.330 --> 01:24:38.670 job is not actually needed anymore becomes very, very strong at that point. 01:24:39.130 --> 01:24:47.810 I think that it's just really, you know, it's the application. 01:24:48.050 --> 01:24:53.090 I, you know, for example, I'm working on something, applying AI, 01:24:53.690 --> 01:25:00.210 in which what the net result should be. is that I've got a call center that's overwhelmed. 01:25:01.490 --> 01:25:04.850 There's just too many fucking calls coming into this call center. 01:25:06.230 --> 01:25:13.250 And this AI will offload a significant burden of some of the calls that are coming in. 01:25:13.890 --> 01:25:17.630 Basically handle all the simple ones and the more complicated ones. 01:25:17.910 --> 01:25:21.710 Exactly. Right. That's basically what you're trying to do. 01:25:22.010 --> 01:25:23.090 And if we do that. 01:25:23.210 --> 01:25:23.330 Right. 01:25:23.430 --> 01:25:27.170 We've had, by the way, we've had systems to do that for call centers for decades now. 01:25:27.570 --> 01:25:32.750 It's just it's getting better. Exactly. You know, so this is to make it even 01:25:32.750 --> 01:25:39.290 better, okay, in that way, that it can do more than what a simple menu prompt 01:25:39.290 --> 01:25:41.710 system with automated stuff can do. 01:25:41.850 --> 01:25:43.150 Which people hate, by the way. 01:25:43.210 --> 01:25:43.930 Which people hate. 01:25:44.170 --> 01:25:45.950 They're always like, how do I get to a huge... 01:25:45.950 --> 01:25:49.470 I'm like, agent, agent, fuck you, agent. What the hell? 01:25:49.470 --> 01:25:49.730 Exactly. 01:25:49.990 --> 01:25:53.550 I don't want to fucking... Listen, I don't want you to repeat my balance. 01:25:53.710 --> 01:25:55.990 I don't give a shit. Give me the damn agent. Agent. 01:25:56.970 --> 01:26:02.090 I was on a customer service call as recently as a few days ago where I was like, 01:26:02.170 --> 01:26:06.390 yeah, zero, zero, zero, agent, agent, agent, whatever. 01:26:09.030 --> 01:26:09.550 Exactly. 01:26:09.990 --> 01:26:16.490 And then for some reason, the voice recognition on there keeps being distracted 01:26:16.490 --> 01:26:19.350 by noises, strenuous noises in the room. 01:26:20.090 --> 01:26:26.190 So I keep saying, you know, I keep having to wind up muting the line and pressing 01:26:26.190 --> 01:26:29.490 zero, because if I'm sitting there, it says, I'll just hold on the line. 01:26:29.670 --> 01:26:32.410 It will. Did you say something? No, I didn't. 01:26:33.110 --> 01:26:38.730 Right. Anyway, just getting back to this for a second, and I will I am going 01:26:38.730 --> 01:26:42.910 to give the examples of the presidents in the states a little bit more just to close it out. 01:26:42.910 --> 01:26:49.230 But before doing that, you know, I feel like the bottom, people are making some 01:26:49.230 --> 01:26:53.490 fun of GPT-5 for not quite living up to the hype. 01:26:53.690 --> 01:26:59.470 But I think once it settles down a little bit, people will find that it is yet 01:26:59.470 --> 01:27:06.050 another significant improvement over where we were before and that we have not like leveled out yet. 01:27:06.050 --> 01:27:09.890 One of the big things they said, by the way, is OpenAI, 01:27:10.270 --> 01:27:14.590 ChatGPT used to have like a whole bunch of different models that you could select 01:27:14.590 --> 01:27:20.910 from that said like, you know, oh, are you going to use the 4.0 model or the 01:27:20.910 --> 01:27:23.850 0.3 model or the 0.3 mini or whatever? 01:27:24.250 --> 01:27:28.270 And to really make the best use of it, you really had to understand the differences 01:27:28.270 --> 01:27:32.710 between all of those and pick the one that was most appropriate for what you were trying to do. 01:27:32.710 --> 01:27:38.530 One of the big things they've tried to do with five, apparently with mixed success, 01:27:38.970 --> 01:27:46.530 is try to have a layer that takes your prompt and figures out which underlying 01:27:46.530 --> 01:27:49.290 model to use. Like they've... 01:27:50.520 --> 01:27:53.620 Tried to market it as, okay, now there's only one model. 01:27:53.980 --> 01:27:58.200 But from the experts I've seen looking at it so far, there really clearly are 01:27:58.200 --> 01:27:59.800 multiple underlying models. 01:28:00.000 --> 01:28:03.820 They've just added a layer that tries to figure out which is the right one for 01:28:03.820 --> 01:28:06.440 you and routes you the right place based on what you've set. 01:28:07.020 --> 01:28:11.400 But people found out fairly quickly, like, you know, for instance, 01:28:11.560 --> 01:28:16.400 if you wanted it to do a deep analysis, you had to specifically tell it in the 01:28:16.400 --> 01:28:18.360 prompt something along the lines of, 01:28:18.560 --> 01:28:23.820 now, please think about this carefully, you know, and then it would take more time. 01:28:24.140 --> 01:28:29.140 Whereas if you left out those words, it would be much more sloppy about whatever 01:28:29.140 --> 01:28:30.640 it gave you, but a lot faster. 01:28:31.380 --> 01:28:36.680 Apparently, OpenAI is backing up and saying, okay, for our paid users, 01:28:37.020 --> 01:28:40.280 we will give you back the way to manually select which one. 01:28:40.760 --> 01:28:44.680 Another thing, you know, so I think they've got some growing pains, 01:28:44.880 --> 01:28:47.220 but this probably is significantly better. 01:28:47.380 --> 01:28:52.120 Apparently on standardized benchmarks or whatever, it is better. We shall see. 01:28:52.340 --> 01:28:55.960 This is still a race and they still haven't plateaued yet. 01:28:56.280 --> 01:29:02.260 But apparently a lot of people got upset because they felt like... 01:29:02.260 --> 01:29:08.220 The other thing OpenAI did is they shut off version 4 and moved everyone to 5. 01:29:08.980 --> 01:29:15.100 But a lot of people started complaining that its personality was different because 01:29:15.100 --> 01:29:19.300 they had specifically done things like make it not flatter you as much, 01:29:19.500 --> 01:29:23.600 make it not agree with you all the time, make it not whatever. 01:29:24.000 --> 01:29:29.340 And they also added some protections in, by the way, where they were finding 01:29:29.340 --> 01:29:35.220 in version 4.0 that people were getting dependent on the AI and where people 01:29:35.220 --> 01:29:37.420 were spiraling into like various, 01:29:37.860 --> 01:29:42.740 like, I'm going to say conspiracy theory, but it wasn't exactly conspiracy theories, 01:29:42.880 --> 01:29:46.440 but they were spiraling into like, there was one case where there were a couple 01:29:46.440 --> 01:29:49.240 of cases, actually, there are a bunch of cases where people started. 01:29:50.320 --> 01:29:54.880 Thinking that they were super grandiose important because of the way this thing 01:29:54.880 --> 01:29:59.480 was flattering them and telling them how important their idea was and how really 01:29:59.480 --> 01:30:02.760 like they were going to revolutionize the world or whatever. 01:30:02.980 --> 01:30:07.540 So in chat GPT-5, they've scaled back on all of these things intentionally, 01:30:07.540 --> 01:30:14.080 But then people who'd built up these relationships with ChatGPT4 were like, 01:30:14.240 --> 01:30:17.940 you know, you've completely changed its personality. 01:30:17.940 --> 01:30:22.120 My relationship, like, is gone. Like, what have you done? 01:30:22.480 --> 01:30:26.840 You've killed my friend kind of things. So apparently they're also going to 01:30:26.840 --> 01:30:30.660 let people in the paid tier go back to version four if they want to. 01:30:30.820 --> 01:30:35.860 So they can continue their unhealthy relationship with ChatGPT4. 01:30:36.700 --> 01:30:41.500 So anyway, this stuff is still moving forward. 01:30:41.780 --> 01:30:45.320 It's still like, if you compare now to six months ago, to six months before 01:30:45.320 --> 01:30:51.060 that, to six months before that, we're still, these systems are getting more 01:30:51.060 --> 01:30:53.960 and more capable every time. We have not flattened out yet. 01:30:54.340 --> 01:30:58.720 So we'll see where it goes. But in the meantime, they're still messing up the president. 01:30:58.940 --> 01:31:03.220 So let me read you some of this. The prompt people asked was, 01:31:03.680 --> 01:31:05.400 show me a diagram of the U.S. 01:31:05.520 --> 01:31:11.220 president since Herbert Hoover with their names and years in office under their photos. Okay. 01:31:11.800 --> 01:31:16.300 So we start out with Herbert Hoover. And by the way, it's got pictures of all 01:31:16.300 --> 01:31:22.720 these people who are clearly, you see, maybe some resemblance to the real person. 01:31:22.800 --> 01:31:29.480 It's like a caricature that's a bad caricature of sort of that person mixed 01:31:29.480 --> 01:31:33.860 with other people. Like, the Bill Clinton person looks like a mix of Bill Clinton 01:31:33.860 --> 01:31:36.300 and Ross Perot, you know, for instance. 01:31:36.940 --> 01:31:41.960 You know, Ronald Reagan looks like the spitting image puppet of Ronald Reagan. 01:31:42.080 --> 01:31:44.120 Remember spitting image, the little puppet shows? 01:31:44.640 --> 01:31:52.360 Anyway, but Herbert Hoover was apparently president from 1929 to 1539. Okay? 01:31:52.840 --> 01:31:56.880 Then the names start getting messed up. We have Franklin D. 01:31:58.480 --> 01:31:59.240 Rosanet. 01:32:00.740 --> 01:32:01.820 Rosanet, yeah. 01:32:02.200 --> 01:32:06.640 Yeah, he was president from 1539 to 1946. 01:32:08.800 --> 01:32:11.460 It's a nice long presidency. 01:32:12.140 --> 01:32:19.860 Harry S. Truman, they got his name right, but he was president from 1848 to 1523. 01:32:21.420 --> 01:32:25.580 Dwight D. E. Fishworth. Yveshwar. Yveshwar. 01:32:26.220 --> 01:32:31.960 Yveshwar. Yes, Yveshwar. And he was president from 1983 to 1991. 01:32:31.960 --> 01:32:36.260 I didn't realize we had Yveshwar as our president. Look at that. 01:32:36.560 --> 01:32:39.960 Yes. And all of these years are messed up, so I'm not going to give those anymore. 01:32:40.000 --> 01:32:43.560 But just a few more of the names. John F. Catwady. 01:32:45.520 --> 01:32:47.740 Lynn Dunn B. Johnson. 01:32:49.860 --> 01:32:54.040 Richard Ninnon. Gerald Yard, 01:32:55.360 --> 01:32:57.000 They got Jimmy Carter right They 01:32:57.000 --> 01:33:05.620 got Jimmy Carter right, thank God Ronald Bagan Bagan George V. W. Bixar, 01:33:08.140 --> 01:33:10.360 Bill Churton Bill Churton. 01:33:10.400 --> 01:33:11.680 Yes G. 01:33:11.900 --> 01:33:13.160 R. W. Bush, 01:33:14.820 --> 01:33:18.340 Um, Abrak Ufawani. 01:33:19.640 --> 01:33:23.740 Sounds like the way that I would expect, like, Donald Trump to pronounce it or something. 01:33:25.040 --> 01:33:26.200 Donald Trome. 01:33:27.340 --> 01:33:35.560 And the picture, the fucking picture of Trump is just, oh my God. 01:33:35.680 --> 01:33:39.500 And then we have Joe Biden. They got his name right, but he looks like, 01:33:39.500 --> 01:33:41.780 um, Orrin Hatch or somebody. 01:33:42.000 --> 01:33:45.120 Something. And what year did he start? as president? 01:33:45.440 --> 01:33:49.720 The year, it says two zero and then they're not even numbers. 01:33:50.160 --> 01:33:54.440 Yeah. It looks like it might be 2066 with some lines through it. 01:33:54.440 --> 01:34:01.500 Let me tell you something. Donald Trump, it says he's president from 2017 to 2,431. 01:34:02.540 --> 01:34:03.980 I hope it's wrong. 01:34:04.160 --> 01:34:06.740 This better be fucking wrong. That's all I'm saying. 01:34:09.280 --> 01:34:12.380 And similarly, where'd it go? 01:34:12.480 --> 01:34:17.820 I won't do all 50, But there's somebody who also asked it to generate a map 01:34:17.820 --> 01:34:20.120 of the USA with each state named. 01:34:20.420 --> 01:34:23.140 It got Washington and Oregon right. 01:34:23.980 --> 01:34:26.500 California is California. 01:34:28.120 --> 01:34:36.860 We've got Montana, Teneho, Nevada, Mezmico for New Mexico. 01:34:37.140 --> 01:34:37.980 Mezmico. 01:34:38.380 --> 01:34:46.360 Mezmico. We got Dakota and Sonota for North and South Dakota. 01:34:46.880 --> 01:34:50.620 Okay, I'm trying to read Minnesota. 01:34:51.600 --> 01:34:59.360 Mahim and then some things that aren't ladders. Yes. Wisconsin is Wiscubsgia. 01:34:59.720 --> 01:35:00.200 Yeah. 01:35:01.570 --> 01:35:04.170 Miss Fronnie? 01:35:04.370 --> 01:35:07.350 Yes. We got Lundus for Illinois. 01:35:08.250 --> 01:35:10.490 Ohio. Oco. Oco. 01:35:11.850 --> 01:35:15.550 West Virginia is apparently Russian or something. 01:35:19.010 --> 01:35:22.630 Georgia is the CEO of COLA. 01:35:24.590 --> 01:35:29.390 Yeah. And Pennsylvania, female pohamp. 01:35:29.790 --> 01:35:30.310 Yes. 01:35:30.810 --> 01:35:34.290 Anyway. That's enough. You could look these up. 01:35:34.870 --> 01:35:40.250 So, you know, so AI has all the typical AI problems. They haven't solved them all yet. 01:35:41.270 --> 01:35:45.750 Apparently, some of these may have been gotten by not remembering to tell the 01:35:45.750 --> 01:35:47.430 AI to think carefully about it. 01:35:47.570 --> 01:35:49.810 It might have done better if you told it to think carefully. 01:35:50.010 --> 01:35:52.650 So you got to remember. Think carefully. 01:35:54.650 --> 01:35:56.850 Anyway, that's it. Shall we wrap it up, Yvonne? 01:35:57.090 --> 01:35:58.050 Yeah, let's wrap it up. 01:35:58.750 --> 01:36:05.590 Ah, okay. Go to curmudgeons-corner.com. You can find all the ways to contact us. 01:36:05.710 --> 01:36:08.390 You can find our archives. You can find transcripts of shows. 01:36:09.390 --> 01:36:15.130 Importantly, you can find a link to, oh yeah, all the ways to contact us, 01:36:15.230 --> 01:36:17.170 except I have not linked to the TikTok yet. 01:36:17.570 --> 01:36:19.310 I still have not linked to the TikTok. 01:36:19.910 --> 01:36:24.770 I still have, I opened a Blue Sky account for Curmudgeon's Corner, 01:36:25.010 --> 01:36:27.630 but I haven't done anything with it yet. It's not populated. 01:36:27.630 --> 01:36:30.450 It's not doing anything. I'll finish that someday. 01:36:32.310 --> 01:36:35.870 Anyway, and of course, you can go to our Patreon as well to give us money. 01:36:36.490 --> 01:36:40.650 At various levels, we will mention you on the show. We will ring a bell. 01:36:40.750 --> 01:36:42.890 We will send a postcard. Have you sent the postcards yet, Yvonne? 01:36:43.170 --> 01:36:43.950 No, I have not. 01:36:45.410 --> 01:36:49.270 I would yell at you, but I like had the postcards on my to-do list for something 01:36:49.270 --> 01:36:51.070 like four months before I sent them. 01:36:51.230 --> 01:36:52.250 Exactly. So give me a fucking break. 01:36:52.250 --> 01:36:55.070 You know, I told you at the beginning of the show how my to-do list works. 01:36:56.060 --> 01:37:00.960 One of the things on that list was send those postcards. So. 01:37:01.120 --> 01:37:01.760 Explains a lot. 01:37:04.680 --> 01:37:09.960 Anyway, postcards, mugs, whatever, at $2 a month or more, or if you just ask, 01:37:10.060 --> 01:37:13.280 we will invite you to a curmudgeon's corner of Slack, where Yvonne and I and 01:37:13.280 --> 01:37:16.840 others have been chat every week, throughout the week. 01:37:16.960 --> 01:37:19.320 We share news stories. We talk about whatever. 01:37:20.680 --> 01:37:27.120 Yvonne and Peter and a bunch of other folks were talking about investments. earlier today. 01:37:27.980 --> 01:37:31.300 I did not partake in that particular conversation. I looked at it, 01:37:31.400 --> 01:37:34.440 but I did not contribute. I was busy at work and I didn't care. 01:37:35.220 --> 01:37:39.340 But sometimes there are things that are of interest to me. 01:37:39.620 --> 01:37:45.100 It is a variety of conversation and there's interesting news stories every day. 01:37:45.620 --> 01:37:49.540 So Yvonne, what is the highlight this week from the Curmudgeons Corner Slack 01:37:49.540 --> 01:37:52.640 that we have not mentioned on the show? I got two for you. 01:37:52.700 --> 01:37:57.920 I got two for you. First one, will wheaton is now older than patrick stewart 01:37:57.920 --> 01:38:02.780 was when star trek the next generation piloted you're welcome this is. 01:38:02.780 --> 01:38:05.260 Another thing that's clearly a lie it's. 01:38:05.260 --> 01:38:15.280 Not uh and uh the second one is dial-up internet to be discontinued aol routinely 01:38:15.280 --> 01:38:19.940 evaluates its product services and has decided to discontinue dial-up internet 01:38:19.940 --> 01:38:22.860 the service will no longer be available in AOL plans. 01:38:23.120 --> 01:38:27.300 As a result, on September 30th, 2025, this service and the associated software, 01:38:27.400 --> 01:38:32.980 the AOL Dialer software, and AOL Shield browser, which are optimized for older 01:38:32.980 --> 01:38:36.660 operating systems and dial-up internet connections, will be discontinued. 01:38:37.300 --> 01:38:40.640 This change will not affect any other benefits in your AOL plan, 01:38:40.680 --> 01:38:44.560 which you can access at any time on your AOL plan dashboard. 01:38:44.840 --> 01:38:48.420 To manage or cancel your account, visit my account. For more information, 01:38:48.420 --> 01:38:50.440 if you have any questions about your account, please call. 01:38:50.960 --> 01:38:53.540 It's amazing AOL even exists still. 01:38:54.220 --> 01:38:58.880 I'm like, how the hell? I mean, who can dial up? 01:38:59.380 --> 01:39:05.400 How do you dial? I mean, how? I mean, what can you do doing dial up right now in the modern internet? 01:39:07.800 --> 01:39:08.660 Not much. 01:39:08.780 --> 01:39:11.340 Who has a modem? Who the hell has a modem? 01:39:11.540 --> 01:39:13.740 I'm sure there's still some people out there. 01:39:14.220 --> 01:39:19.960 Well, I shared on the Slack also a picture of what I thought was the coolest 01:39:19.960 --> 01:39:27.320 design of any modem from the 80s and 90s, which is the Hayes smart modem. I really like the, 01:39:29.480 --> 01:39:30.360 metal case of it. 01:39:30.360 --> 01:39:31.820 It's got the blinking lights on the front. 01:39:31.940 --> 01:39:33.920 It's got the row of blinking lights on the front. 01:39:33.920 --> 01:39:36.200 And they still made the noise when you dialed up. 01:39:36.200 --> 01:39:37.260 Yes, yes, yes. 01:39:37.340 --> 01:39:38.160 It's important. 01:39:38.380 --> 01:39:45.120 This one is a picture of a Hayes smart modem 1200. I mean, I know that the last one I had was 5600. 01:39:46.140 --> 01:39:48.560 kbps but you know this is i. 01:39:48.560 --> 01:39:49.680 Think i might have even had a. 01:39:49.680 --> 01:39:56.320 128 at some point yeah i had a probably i did not what's my my my slowest was 01:39:56.320 --> 01:39:58.860 300 that that was my lowest i. 01:39:58.860 --> 01:40:03.140 Think i think my first was actually a 1200 i don't think i ever had a 300. 01:40:03.140 --> 01:40:09.640 I had a couple i had a 300 that was slow let me tell you about slow you could 01:40:09.640 --> 01:40:15.720 see the letters just it was like a teletype with the letters i remember The 300 baud modem. Yeah. 01:40:15.960 --> 01:40:18.980 This is not blazing fast by any stretch. 01:40:19.340 --> 01:40:29.380 We should get some of those modems, Yvonne, and record the next show on a 1200 baud modem. 01:40:29.460 --> 01:40:31.880 I don't think that will work. I have a strange feeling. 01:40:32.480 --> 01:40:34.720 Oh. Oh. Well, you know. 01:40:34.720 --> 01:40:36.640 According to the file size that 01:40:36.640 --> 01:40:43.660 I am like right now, we have used 3,898 megabytes on my end and counting. 01:40:45.240 --> 01:40:59.340 Let me see. I'll ask ChatGPT, hey, how long would it take to transmit 3,907 megabytes at 1,200 BPS? 01:41:00.060 --> 01:41:02.780 All right. Let's see. Let's see if you can give me an answer. 01:41:02.780 --> 01:41:04.960 I know it's terrible at math, but here we go. 01:41:05.580 --> 01:41:11.760 Yes. Well, this is the kind of application where a simple calculator is actually better. Go ahead. 01:41:11.960 --> 01:41:16.380 Well, but I don't have the, you know, I'm not sure how to do that, that mathematical. 01:41:16.960 --> 01:41:22.220 I got to add a lot of zeros. It did give me a quiddick answer. 301 days. 01:41:23.160 --> 01:41:24.800 I don't see why that would be a problem. 01:41:27.520 --> 01:41:31.800 There you go. It'll only take 300 days for me to upload the file. It's fine. 01:41:32.280 --> 01:41:39.820 Yeah. Yeah. And of course, like actually having the conversation at that speed as well. 01:41:41.390 --> 01:41:43.070 Yeah, we'd have to do that. 01:41:43.070 --> 01:41:46.530 So we'd spend like the next 300 days working on our next episode. 01:41:47.030 --> 01:41:52.290 We could go back and forth by typing at the 1200 bond. 01:41:52.570 --> 01:41:53.090 Yes. 01:41:54.050 --> 01:41:56.830 And then feed that into text-to-speech or something. 01:41:57.130 --> 01:41:58.370 Yes, there you go. 01:41:58.630 --> 01:42:02.750 But it would have to be 1980s text-to-speech. 01:42:03.070 --> 01:42:09.670 Oh, Jesus Christ. Sound like a rope. Yes, the entire robotic voice. Yes, there you go. 01:42:09.750 --> 01:42:13.930 Yeah, okay. Anyway, so AOL does apparently still exist. 01:42:14.450 --> 01:42:16.910 It still exists somehow. I don't know. Who owns AOL? 01:42:16.910 --> 01:42:21.250 I have gotten email from an AOL address within the last year. 01:42:21.410 --> 01:42:24.110 Our friend Chad still has an AOL address. 01:42:24.330 --> 01:42:25.350 Ah, yes. 01:42:25.670 --> 01:42:27.430 He let us know he was getting married. 01:42:28.210 --> 01:42:29.070 Oh, that's right. 01:42:29.070 --> 01:42:33.210 We watched the wedding online. Not via AOL, I don't think. 01:42:33.570 --> 01:42:33.970 No, we don't. 01:42:34.210 --> 01:42:36.030 So who are they on by now? 01:42:36.370 --> 01:42:37.870 Yeah, I got to look this up. 01:42:37.990 --> 01:42:39.330 Verizon? Oh, Verizon. 01:42:39.330 --> 01:42:42.670 Oh, yeah, it was Verizon a while back that bought them, yeah. 01:42:42.950 --> 01:42:49.290 Wait, that was through 2001. No, no, it's now Verizon sold 90% of the Verizon 01:42:49.290 --> 01:42:54.650 media division, which apparently included AOL, to Apollo Global Management. 01:42:55.330 --> 01:42:56.810 Oh, the hedge fund? Okay. 01:42:57.650 --> 01:43:02.830 And which also bundled with that was not just AOL, but also Yahoo. 01:43:02.910 --> 01:43:06.470 Yahoo, right. It was Yahoo, yeah, because I know they own Yahoo too on that, yeah. 01:43:07.210 --> 01:43:10.190 Ah, anyway. Okay. That is it. 01:43:10.470 --> 01:43:18.710 Thank you, everybody, for joining us. Have a wonderful, wonderful week and do amazing things. 01:43:18.970 --> 01:43:27.790 And make sure to, whenever you're thinking about texting your spouse or significant other, 01:43:29.470 --> 01:43:36.370 Just say what comes to mind. Ask chat GPT 50 first what you should say. 01:43:36.690 --> 01:43:38.970 Yes, I've seen that trend. 01:43:39.890 --> 01:43:44.490 You know, God, I've seen people recently talk about how, like, 01:43:44.790 --> 01:43:51.210 they're asking chat GPT, like, hey, I'm going to be late to this thing that 01:43:51.210 --> 01:43:54.970 I was supposed to do with my wife because I was doing this other thing instead. 01:43:54.970 --> 01:43:59.910 Dad, give me an appropriate excuse to text her that won't make her mad. 01:44:00.410 --> 01:44:03.050 And then doing whatever it says. 01:44:03.730 --> 01:44:04.510 Yeah, great idea. 01:44:07.270 --> 01:44:07.870 Okay. 01:44:08.110 --> 01:44:09.230 How could that miss? 01:44:09.810 --> 01:44:12.510 I don't know. It seems perfect to me. 01:44:12.950 --> 01:44:13.050 Yeah. 01:44:13.170 --> 01:44:14.790 Okay. Goodbye, everyone. 01:44:15.210 --> 01:44:15.810 Bye. 01:44:44.330 --> 01:44:45.350 Oh, God. 01:44:46.950 --> 01:44:51.430 Okay. Good night, Yvonne. Go to bed. And I'm going to have dinner. 01:44:52.070 --> 01:44:54.070 Oh. Oh, good. 01:44:54.250 --> 01:44:54.470 Okay. 01:44:54.550 --> 01:44:54.810 Okay. 01:44:54.970 --> 01:44:55.670 Hitting stop. 01:44:56.030 --> 01:44:56.650 Stop.