WEBVTT 00:00:00.010 --> 00:00:03.490 Okay, let's light this candle. 00:00:04.310 --> 00:00:08.910 Alex is upset by something, probably because I quoted, like, Mater. 00:00:09.730 --> 00:00:14.190 No, he's upset by dying in a video game. Okay, here we go! 00:00:28.830 --> 00:00:28.930 We'll be right back. 00:00:36.290 --> 00:00:39.630 Welcome to curmudgeon's corner for saturday august 00:00:39.630 --> 00:00:49.210 30th 2025 uh 2238 utc as i'm starting to record this i am sam minter did i say 00:00:49.210 --> 00:00:51.730 that already i don't know if i said that already i probably said that already 00:00:51.730 --> 00:00:58.050 yvonne bow is not here and neither is anybody else well my son alex is in the background, 00:00:58.430 --> 00:01:01.010 but he's probably not going to participate. I don't know. 00:01:01.690 --> 00:01:07.670 But the, like Yvonne messaged me Thursday afternoon, U.S. 00:01:07.810 --> 00:01:10.930 Time to say that he wasn't going to be able to make it this week. 00:01:11.210 --> 00:01:15.730 And I was busy Thursday afternoon, Thursday evening. 00:01:16.290 --> 00:01:20.890 I meant to like send out, send out the thing asking for co-hosts, but forgot. 00:01:21.310 --> 00:01:24.630 I finally got around to it like Friday afternoon sometime. time. 00:01:25.090 --> 00:01:28.270 And I, and even then when I did it, I screwed it up. 00:01:28.390 --> 00:01:36.070 I always like exclude the last three co-hosts we've had, but I forgot to reflect 00:01:36.070 --> 00:01:40.530 the fact that Pete had co-hosted with us just last week. 00:01:40.590 --> 00:01:46.650 And so I included Pete in the email I sent out and had left out like Todd should 00:01:46.650 --> 00:01:49.790 have been back in the list and I didn't include Todd, but whatever. 00:01:50.050 --> 00:01:53.450 I did have one bite of interest. 00:01:53.890 --> 00:01:59.130 Shout out to our loyal listener, Matt, who's been listening to this podcast since the beginning. 00:01:59.810 --> 00:02:03.490 And he said he really wanted to, but then the timing didn't work out. 00:02:03.670 --> 00:02:06.510 So here I am doing a solo show. 00:02:06.650 --> 00:02:10.750 As usual, when I do solo shows, I am going to do one segment at a time. 00:02:10.850 --> 00:02:13.170 And in between segments, I'm going to go off and do other things. 00:02:13.510 --> 00:02:17.710 And I'm going to probably take all weekend to record this stupid show rather 00:02:17.710 --> 00:02:19.990 than doing it all at once. 00:02:20.790 --> 00:02:23.730 In in this case after i finish 00:02:23.730 --> 00:02:26.850 recording this segment my wife my son 00:02:26.850 --> 00:02:30.450 and i are going to go to like the the what's 00:02:30.450 --> 00:02:34.230 it called that well it's like a state fair kind of thing around here but the 00:02:34.230 --> 00:02:37.990 it's the evergreen state fair there we go here in washington state washington 00:02:37.990 --> 00:02:41.030 state has several of these fairs of different kinds like there's a puyallup 00:02:41.030 --> 00:02:44.950 fair as well and there are a couple others i think but this is the evergreen 00:02:44.950 --> 00:02:50.190 state fair and this weekend is the last weekend that's around and we're going to go and visit. 00:02:50.530 --> 00:02:56.490 And when we do this, my wife likes to actually wander around and check out all the stuff at the fair. 00:02:57.230 --> 00:03:00.450 My son basically just goes for some of the fair food. 00:03:00.610 --> 00:03:05.510 He likes the corn, likes the hot dogs, maybe likes a couple other things. 00:03:06.070 --> 00:03:11.910 And I like the food too. I basically don't like the experience of fairs. 00:03:12.350 --> 00:03:16.190 You know, they're just too crowded, too many people, too whatever. 00:03:16.990 --> 00:03:23.710 So, I mean, years ago, we would go to these things and actually go on a couple rides and stuff. 00:03:23.930 --> 00:03:28.970 Sometimes when we had my daughter with us as well, and when my son was smaller... 00:03:29.610 --> 00:03:32.830 But you have to wait in line for those. 00:03:33.770 --> 00:03:37.270 Like, I'm old. I get nauseous on the rides now. 00:03:37.870 --> 00:03:41.050 You know, well, I've always gotten nauseous on the rides. 00:03:41.190 --> 00:03:46.610 There's a nice story from years ago, me throwing up on a ride. 00:03:47.090 --> 00:03:50.610 We don't have to go there now. But, well, okay, yes, we do. 00:03:52.190 --> 00:03:57.270 I've probably shared it on the podcast before. But I had basically, 00:03:57.310 --> 00:04:01.890 I had flown to Chicago to meet somebody. 00:04:03.070 --> 00:04:06.870 Basically, you know, we'd been flirting online for months and months and months. 00:04:06.970 --> 00:04:11.010 And so this was, we're going to meet in person, have a couple dates, whatever. 00:04:11.770 --> 00:04:16.510 And anyway, one of the places we went was like a carnival. And we went on a ride. 00:04:17.130 --> 00:04:21.510 And it was one of these, I forget what it's called, but it had, 00:04:21.650 --> 00:04:25.910 you know, multiple layers of spinning. It had like one thing that spun and it 00:04:25.910 --> 00:04:27.530 was attached to another thing that was spun. 00:04:27.650 --> 00:04:30.490 I think it was the zipper. I think it was the zipper. Let me. 00:04:31.730 --> 00:04:37.870 Zipper ride. Yes. Yes. This is, it was definitely the zipper. Anyway. 00:04:39.230 --> 00:04:44.010 Anyway, we, multiple layers of spinning. Anyway, I, in the middle of the ride, 00:04:44.030 --> 00:04:49.170 I started puking and just people, and it was falling out of the like carriage 00:04:49.170 --> 00:04:53.330 we were in and like dripping down onto people below. 00:04:53.330 --> 00:04:59.250 People were screaming because there was vomit falling on them from the sky. 00:04:59.470 --> 00:05:00.790 It was very embarrassing. 00:05:01.590 --> 00:05:10.030 The person I was with was very understanding, but I will say after that weekend, I never saw her again. 00:05:11.070 --> 00:05:14.990 I don't know if it was related, but that was it. 00:05:15.850 --> 00:05:22.530 Anyway, it was a fun weekend anyway. But yeah, that part did not go so smoothly. 00:05:23.090 --> 00:05:26.790 There was another part of the weekend where we went to like a medieval times 00:05:26.790 --> 00:05:30.470 and there were horses. And it turns out I'm highly allergic to horses. 00:05:30.470 --> 00:05:32.730 So I had like a massive asthma attack. 00:05:33.630 --> 00:05:37.570 Yeah, this weekend had a few issues. 00:05:38.330 --> 00:05:42.670 But yeah, no. Anyway, I did keep in touch with her for many years after that. 00:05:42.770 --> 00:05:45.390 But I never saw her in person again. Anyway. 00:05:50.290 --> 00:05:53.070 This first segment will be media i was 00:05:53.070 --> 00:05:55.990 starting to talk about fairs i got i got distracted about the fair oh 00:05:55.990 --> 00:05:58.870 let me finish about the fair anyway this first segment is 00:05:58.870 --> 00:06:02.250 always the the light fluffy like personal stuff we'll 00:06:02.250 --> 00:06:05.030 talk about news in the later two segments i don't know exactly what 00:06:05.030 --> 00:06:07.890 i'll talk about yet because news events may change what 00:06:07.890 --> 00:06:11.390 i feel like talking about before i record those segments but oh 00:06:11.390 --> 00:06:14.070 yeah the fair i'll talk about the fair for a little 00:06:14.070 --> 00:06:16.830 bit and then i will do a couple 00:06:16.830 --> 00:06:19.690 movies but yeah so we don't do 00:06:19.690 --> 00:06:22.690 the rides and stuff anymore you know what my son 00:06:22.690 --> 00:06:25.470 and i typically do is we will 00:06:25.470 --> 00:06:29.690 go find a quiet corner as far away from the other people as possible where we 00:06:29.690 --> 00:06:35.130 can just sort of camp out bring the food eat and hang out and we'll just sit 00:06:35.130 --> 00:06:40.630 there for a while you know watching the world go by we'll we'll bring our devices 00:06:40.630 --> 00:06:43.890 and we'll we'll We'll play on our devices. We'll do whatever. 00:06:44.610 --> 00:06:50.350 And just basically stuff ourselves silly with fair food for a couple hours and then go home. 00:06:51.010 --> 00:06:55.150 And, you know, it's just become a tradition. Now, honestly, I... 00:06:56.400 --> 00:07:01.560 It's one of those, like, I would not mind not doing this in a given year. 00:07:02.980 --> 00:07:08.580 However, if my family goes and I don't go, I kind of feel left out. 00:07:08.800 --> 00:07:13.160 So my wife, Brandy, and my son, Alex, have actually already gone. 00:07:13.700 --> 00:07:19.360 Like last week, they went without me during the workday while I was at work. 00:07:20.380 --> 00:07:25.240 And so I was sort of like, well, I kind of feel left out, blah, 00:07:25.320 --> 00:07:27.040 blah, blah. And so now we're going again. 00:07:27.320 --> 00:07:31.320 Now I had said, I don't really need to go. It's okay. You guys are already gone. 00:07:31.780 --> 00:07:34.640 However, then Alex was like, no, I want to go again. 00:07:35.200 --> 00:07:38.580 And so we're going again. Well, I'm going for the first time, 00:07:38.700 --> 00:07:43.940 but you know, like I said, I, I, I would, I would actually be fine skipping 00:07:43.940 --> 00:07:46.840 it, but I did feel kind of left out when they go without me. 00:07:46.920 --> 00:07:48.620 You guys know this kind of thing? 00:07:49.360 --> 00:07:52.980 Like, it's not actually my favorite thing. I actually don't, 00:07:53.100 --> 00:07:56.760 I can't really say I enjoy going to the fair. 00:07:57.040 --> 00:08:00.560 It feels like a little bit of a chore. I mean, I do like the, 00:08:00.580 --> 00:08:06.340 like the buttered corn on the cob and the hot dogs and some of the other fair foods. 00:08:06.440 --> 00:08:10.160 I don't, I don't do any of the weird, like fair foods, like, 00:08:10.500 --> 00:08:15.700 you know, fried butter or whatever that they have at some of these things. 00:08:15.840 --> 00:08:19.500 I don't think I've seen anything really weird and exotic at this state fair. 00:08:19.500 --> 00:08:24.120 I know that's a big thing in some other places, but, you know, 00:08:24.220 --> 00:08:27.760 I don't do the deep fried Oreos or the deep fried butter. 00:08:28.260 --> 00:08:33.260 I don't know. I don't go for the weird foods, but I like the buttered corn because, 00:08:33.420 --> 00:08:41.220 you know, we sometimes have that at home, but very rarely, you know, and the. Yeah. 00:08:42.770 --> 00:08:46.570 And, and, you know, it's just different at the fair. 00:08:46.750 --> 00:08:50.330 I don't know. Like, and, you know, and so we sit there and we enjoy. 00:08:50.470 --> 00:08:55.630 Anyway, maybe if anything interesting happens when we visit later today in the 00:08:55.630 --> 00:08:58.850 next segment, I'll mention something, but I don't expect anything interesting will happen. 00:08:58.970 --> 00:09:02.310 I expect that we will be, we will go there, we will do the thing, 00:09:02.430 --> 00:09:06.570 and then we will come home, you know? And so, yeah. 00:09:07.190 --> 00:09:12.350 So anyway, for this first segment, before we do newsy stuff later, 00:09:12.650 --> 00:09:17.350 the main thing is I'm going to do two of the movies from my big movie list. 00:09:17.590 --> 00:09:22.590 We are now on movie. Well, we have been for a while. Movies I watched last November. 00:09:22.910 --> 00:09:29.350 So this next one, Alex and I watched it November 23rd of last year. 00:09:30.990 --> 00:09:37.610 And I've previewed this the last couple weeks. King Kong versus Godzilla. from 1962. 00:09:38.310 --> 00:09:45.130 Okay. Now this is a crossover, obviously, between the King Kong franchise and 00:09:45.130 --> 00:09:46.770 the Godzilla franchise. 00:09:47.090 --> 00:09:52.870 We actually did this, you know, as we're going through, we've been going through both, 00:09:53.170 --> 00:09:57.590 I guess both of these are on our list to go through, but we got to this from 00:09:57.590 --> 00:10:02.090 the King Kong side, because this is the third King Kong movie. 00:10:02.390 --> 00:10:09.130 There was King Kong from 1933, Son of Kong from later in 1933. 00:10:09.130 --> 00:10:12.050 They put out two, one in March, one in December in that year. 00:10:12.570 --> 00:10:19.270 And then this third one was almost 30 years later, King Kong versus Godzilla in 1962. 00:10:19.990 --> 00:10:24.590 Meanwhile, the Godzilla franchise, this was also the third movie in the Godzilla 00:10:24.590 --> 00:10:29.730 franchise, but Alex and I had only watched the first one before this. 00:10:29.910 --> 00:10:32.870 We watched the 1954 Godzilla, I believe. 00:10:34.130 --> 00:10:39.630 The second one was from 1955 Godzilla raids again and then this is number three 00:10:39.630 --> 00:10:46.890 so at some point we're going to have to go back and pick up Godzilla raids again and watch that but, 00:10:47.870 --> 00:10:50.710 Godzilla, or no, King Kong vs. Godzilla. 00:10:51.490 --> 00:10:56.890 Let me start with, this is not a good movie, okay? 00:10:57.390 --> 00:11:07.910 Under no stretch of the imagination, could you say, oh man, this is a great movie, okay? 00:11:09.650 --> 00:11:16.850 And, but, but, I am going to say, I'm giving it a thumbs up anyway, 00:11:17.310 --> 00:11:21.050 because it was a lot of fun, okay? 00:11:21.250 --> 00:11:30.110 And it was fun in the, this movie is so bad it's laughable kind of way. 00:11:31.090 --> 00:11:40.190 You know i mean awful special effects not particularly great acting a plot that 00:11:40.190 --> 00:11:45.710 you know doesn't make a whole lot of sense necessarily lots of disjointed stuff. 00:11:47.590 --> 00:11:50.590 And and of course like these are 00:11:50.590 --> 00:11:53.790 well known for like you know bad 00:11:53.790 --> 00:11:58.130 dubbing of the parts that are in japanese and it 00:11:58.130 --> 00:12:01.910 just but it it there 00:12:01.910 --> 00:12:04.890 are bad movies that i've given a straight up thumbs down 00:12:04.890 --> 00:12:08.290 because they are painful to watch they are horrible there's nothing 00:12:08.290 --> 00:12:11.110 redeeming about them this is one 00:12:11.110 --> 00:12:14.250 of the ones that is just so bad it's comical 00:12:14.250 --> 00:12:22.610 and frankly like the the you know the people in rubber suits being the two main 00:12:22.610 --> 00:12:27.910 characters fighting and throwing styrofoam rocks at each other and things like 00:12:27.910 --> 00:12:31.630 that is just hilarious. It is just hilarious. 00:12:32.250 --> 00:12:37.210 And so, yes, I had fun. 00:12:37.430 --> 00:12:43.630 I think Alex had fun. We kept pausing it to like discuss parts of it, rewind, 00:12:44.090 --> 00:12:47.950 see the weird stuff again, make fun 00:12:47.950 --> 00:12:50.690 of the the effects all of 00:12:50.690 --> 00:12:53.930 this kind of stuff now you know obviously there's 00:12:53.930 --> 00:12:58.270 both of these franchises are you 00:12:58.270 --> 00:13:06.370 know let's see here now there are now 34 godzilla films in the original sort 00:13:06.370 --> 00:13:16.050 of toho films japanese oriented ones and and i guess there's a yeah and then there's six. 00:13:16.950 --> 00:13:18.690 American Godzilla films. 00:13:19.110 --> 00:13:26.650 On the King Kong side, there are fewer, and the Wikipedia page is stupid and doesn't number them. 00:13:27.490 --> 00:13:33.210 But, let's see, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12. 00:13:34.310 --> 00:13:41.270 12 main movies and then 3 direct-to-video animated ones. And then there's some TV series as well. 00:13:42.520 --> 00:13:51.460 You know so these are these are well-loved long-lived franchises but and and 00:13:51.460 --> 00:13:59.760 and there's a whole genre of like monster films that go beyond these two of course as well and, 00:14:01.780 --> 00:14:04.680 it's a certain kind of thing i mean i guess that 00:14:04.680 --> 00:14:07.640 some of the newer ones try to be a little bit 00:14:07.640 --> 00:14:10.700 more they lean into the special effects 00:14:10.700 --> 00:14:14.240 and some other stuff and not try to be sort 00:14:14.240 --> 00:14:17.860 of the cheap pulp movies of the very early ones but 00:14:17.860 --> 00:14:22.180 still you know if you're going to like we were talking superhero movies last 00:14:22.180 --> 00:14:29.800 week monster movies are the same kind of genre you know where no no one's expecting 00:14:29.800 --> 00:14:37.080 high art you're expecting some sort of big creature rampaging and doing all kinds of damage and, 00:14:37.080 --> 00:14:41.360 and then the human beings valiantly fighting back. 00:14:41.560 --> 00:14:45.880 And, you know, in a lot of them, you get two of the big monsters fighting each 00:14:45.880 --> 00:14:50.540 other or more and, you know, cool. 00:14:53.220 --> 00:14:56.960 You know, if you're watching one of these, you kind of know what you're signing up for. 00:14:57.360 --> 00:15:02.560 Anyway, giving this one a thumbs up just because it's hilariously bad. 00:15:04.440 --> 00:15:11.440 And yeah. Again, there are bad movies that are just not enjoyable at all. They're just horrible. 00:15:11.700 --> 00:15:16.500 Then there are bad movies that are so bad they're comical and you can laugh 00:15:16.500 --> 00:15:18.300 at them. And this is in that category. 00:15:18.940 --> 00:15:21.880 So there you go. King Kong vs. Godzilla. 00:15:23.110 --> 00:15:27.350 Next up, All About Eve from 1950. 00:15:28.130 --> 00:15:33.070 And I believe this was, yeah, yeah, yeah. 00:15:33.190 --> 00:15:38.130 It was from the AFI list as we are working our way up. 00:15:38.330 --> 00:15:43.510 By the way, like, you know, I'm doing movies that we watched back in November 00:15:43.510 --> 00:15:49.470 right now, but we now only have number one left on that list. 00:15:49.470 --> 00:15:57.090 We, Alex and I watched number two on the 1998 AFI list a few nights ago. 00:15:57.670 --> 00:16:06.410 And so all we have left is Citizen Kane from 1941, which was number one on both the 1998 and 2007 lists. 00:16:07.190 --> 00:16:10.610 And which I've never seen. I'd seen number two before. 00:16:11.170 --> 00:16:16.930 Number two on the 1998 list was Casablanca and it was number three on the 2007 list. 00:16:18.050 --> 00:16:21.110 Anyway, I've never, ever seen Citizen Kane. 00:16:21.290 --> 00:16:23.950 So I'm actually kind of looking forward to it, to see if it lives up to the 00:16:23.950 --> 00:16:26.970 hype of being number one on all these top movie lists. 00:16:27.690 --> 00:16:34.770 Anyway, we'll get to reviewing those eventually. All About Eve was number 16 00:16:34.770 --> 00:16:42.290 in the 1998 list. It dropped to number 28 on the 2007 list. 00:16:43.250 --> 00:16:46.470 By the way, I don't know if I mentioned before, Alex and I have agreed that 00:16:46.470 --> 00:16:51.970 once we pass number one on the 1998 list, we're going to start over from number 00:16:51.970 --> 00:16:56.090 100 using the 2007 list and work our way back up again. 00:16:56.690 --> 00:17:00.750 But anyway, all about Eve. 00:17:00.930 --> 00:17:06.670 I will read the, I didn't even read the plot summary of King Kong versus Godzilla. 00:17:08.540 --> 00:17:11.520 You guys really need to know or care. 00:17:15.340 --> 00:17:19.640 Alex is indicating that maybe I should go back and do that. 00:17:20.340 --> 00:17:25.500 Okay, from Wikipedia, the one paragraph, the first paragraph of the plot description. 00:17:25.540 --> 00:17:27.920 I won't go past that because then, spoilers. 00:17:28.760 --> 00:17:33.300 But Mr. Taco, head of Pacific Pharmaceuticals, is frustrated with the television 00:17:33.300 --> 00:17:36.900 shows his company is sponsoring and wants something to boost his ratings. 00:17:36.900 --> 00:17:42.320 When a doctor tells Taco about a giant monster he discovered on the small Faro 00:17:42.320 --> 00:17:47.420 Island, Taco believes that it would be a brilliant idea to use the monster to gain publicity. 00:17:47.920 --> 00:17:57.260 Taco sends two men, Osamu Sakurai and Kinzaburo Furu, to find and bring back the monster. 00:17:57.540 --> 00:18:02.060 Meanwhile, the American nuclear submarine Seahawk gets caught in an iceberg. 00:18:02.060 --> 00:18:08.300 The iceberg collapses, unleashing Godzilla, who has been trapped within it since 1955. 00:18:09.080 --> 00:18:12.360 Godzilla destroys the submarine and makes its way towards Japan, 00:18:12.580 --> 00:18:15.780 attacking a military base as it journeys southward. 00:18:16.260 --> 00:18:18.140 Okay, one more paragraph. 00:18:19.020 --> 00:18:23.800 On Faro Island, a gigantic octopus crawls ashore and attacks the native village 00:18:23.800 --> 00:18:30.060 in search of farolactin juice, taken from a species of red berry native to the island. 00:18:30.940 --> 00:18:37.200 The mysterious Faro monster, revealed to be King Kong, arrives and defeats the octopus. 00:18:37.560 --> 00:18:42.260 Kong drinks several vases full of the juice while the islanders perform a ceremony, 00:18:42.280 --> 00:18:44.400 which causes him to fall asleep. 00:18:45.260 --> 00:18:50.660 Sakurai and Furu place Kong on a large raft and begin to transport him back to Japan. 00:18:51.120 --> 00:18:56.840 Mr. Taco arrives on the ship transporting Kong, but a JSDF ship stops them and 00:18:56.840 --> 00:18:59.000 orders that Kong must be kept out of Japan. 00:18:59.920 --> 00:19:03.540 Meanwhile, Godzilla arrives in Japan and terrorizes the countryside. 00:19:04.240 --> 00:19:07.820 Kong wakes up and breaks free from the raft. Reaching the mainland, 00:19:08.240 --> 00:19:13.240 Kong confronts Godzilla and proceeds to throw giant rocks at him. 00:19:13.920 --> 00:19:19.540 Godzilla is not fazed by King Kong's rock attack and uses its heat ray to burn him. 00:19:19.840 --> 00:19:25.200 Kong retreats after realizing that he is not yet ready to take on Godzilla. 00:19:25.780 --> 00:19:29.520 There's two more paragraphs of the plot description but I won't go there because spoilers. 00:19:32.270 --> 00:19:37.530 Okay, now the description of the plot of All About You. 00:19:38.350 --> 00:19:42.470 And again, I'll only do the beginning. I'll do two paragraphs to match, 00:19:42.510 --> 00:19:47.070 and then I'll leave the rest to avoid spoilers. 00:19:47.530 --> 00:19:55.270 At the Sarah Siddons Award Ceremony, honoring rising actress Eve Harrington, 00:19:55.810 --> 00:20:01.390 narration from acerbic theater critic Addison DeWitt introduces the attendees 00:20:01.390 --> 00:20:04.150 and hints that there is more to Eve's story. 00:20:04.390 --> 00:20:08.730 The narration switches to Karen Richards, wife of playwright Lloyd Richards. 00:20:08.950 --> 00:20:13.790 She recalls the previous October when she introduced Eve to aging Broadway star 00:20:13.790 --> 00:20:17.070 Margot Channing, who is starring in a play written by Lloyd. 00:20:17.510 --> 00:20:22.590 Eve tells Karen, Lloyd, and Margot's maid, Birdie, that she followed Margot's 00:20:22.590 --> 00:20:28.170 last theatrical tour to New York City after seeing her perform in San Francisco. 00:20:28.170 --> 00:20:31.930 She tells of her impoverished childhood and losing her husband in the South 00:20:31.930 --> 00:20:33.350 Pacific during World War II. 00:20:33.610 --> 00:20:38.210 And moved by Eve's story, Margot takes her into her home as her assistant. 00:20:38.650 --> 00:20:45.430 Eve quickly manipulates her way into Margot's life as both secretary and adoring 00:20:45.430 --> 00:20:47.490 fan. And it goes from there. 00:20:48.110 --> 00:20:51.590 Anyway, thumbs up on all about Eve as well. 00:20:52.570 --> 00:20:57.390 As with a lot of these sort of 1950s movies, it's a little bit stylized. 00:20:57.390 --> 00:21:05.250 You know you're not necessarily believing these characters as real characters 00:21:05.250 --> 00:21:11.130 it's not like intended to be super realistic like they're they're kind of caricatures, 00:21:12.070 --> 00:21:19.210 but it works anyway you know it you know you you see the the dynamics between 00:21:19.210 --> 00:21:23.790 these characters and i actually like after watching a bunch of these older movies 00:21:23.790 --> 00:21:28.510 as part of this afi top 100 thing I'll say that, 00:21:28.550 --> 00:21:31.310 you know, the trend towards, 00:21:32.970 --> 00:21:37.450 Being more realistic in sort of dramatic movies and making it, 00:21:37.650 --> 00:21:43.690 you know, you sort of, one reaction to it is people act better now because it's 00:21:43.690 --> 00:21:45.310 more convincing and more realistic. 00:21:45.590 --> 00:21:49.650 But really, it's not that per se. 00:21:51.330 --> 00:21:56.230 It's intentionally stylized. It's intentionally exaggerated. 00:21:57.090 --> 00:22:02.810 And it's not necessarily a bad thing. It can be really effective in telling 00:22:02.810 --> 00:22:04.110 certain kinds of stories. 00:22:04.690 --> 00:22:08.910 And it's not to say the highly realistic mode doesn't work as well, 00:22:08.910 --> 00:22:11.730 but it's a different feel. 00:22:11.830 --> 00:22:14.290 It's a different type of movie. 00:22:14.750 --> 00:22:18.170 But I think it works in a lot of these. 00:22:20.810 --> 00:22:23.970 And they're good to watch. 00:22:24.190 --> 00:22:29.010 You know, it still gets you. It still grabs you in the right places, 00:22:29.010 --> 00:22:32.990 even though you know it's a little bit stylized. You know it's a little bit exaggerated. 00:22:33.330 --> 00:22:37.570 I mean, we were talking about superhero and monster movies. Those are obviously 00:22:37.570 --> 00:22:43.750 stylized and exaggerated as well and aren't really concentrating on realistic characters. 00:22:44.130 --> 00:22:47.890 I'd say this kind of movie is different. I mean, there are no superheroes. 00:22:47.890 --> 00:22:52.990 There are no monsters. It's human beings interacting with each other. But they... 00:22:53.540 --> 00:23:01.580 By making them somewhat caricatures and somewhat stylized, you immediately sort 00:23:01.580 --> 00:23:06.600 of get the point of how these characters are supposed to be interacting with each other. 00:23:07.280 --> 00:23:10.900 Where they're coming from, what the kind of thing is. 00:23:11.220 --> 00:23:14.880 This does have a few twists and turns. 00:23:15.480 --> 00:23:19.060 I had not seen this movie before. 00:23:19.500 --> 00:23:24.880 I had not read about it, heard about it. I mean, I'd heard the title, 00:23:25.120 --> 00:23:26.880 but I did not know what the plot was. 00:23:27.180 --> 00:23:32.160 So like some of the twists and turns, I didn't know about till they happened. 00:23:32.300 --> 00:23:35.500 Now, some of them I suspected were going to happen. 00:23:35.900 --> 00:23:40.240 You know, they sort of, some things were a little bit telegraphed and you could 00:23:40.240 --> 00:23:43.340 see that they were coming, but it was still very well done. 00:23:43.500 --> 00:23:49.340 I mean, I think it deserves its place on this list. It's good. 00:23:49.640 --> 00:23:55.740 I enjoyed the movie. It kept me sort of on the edge of my seat at the right moments. 00:23:55.940 --> 00:23:58.920 It tugged my heartstrings at the right moments. 00:23:59.280 --> 00:24:06.000 This isn't one where it's, maybe tugged my heartstrings is the wrong way to say this one. 00:24:06.240 --> 00:24:09.820 Like there's some where you're really like, you know, something tragic happens 00:24:09.820 --> 00:24:14.500 and you're really feeling for the characters or, you know, the main characters 00:24:14.500 --> 00:24:17.540 fall in love and you're like, oh, that's so sweet. 00:24:17.720 --> 00:24:21.740 Oh, that's wonderful. And, you know, Alex always makes fun of me because I'm 00:24:21.740 --> 00:24:24.240 a sucker and I start crying at all of those moments. 00:24:24.400 --> 00:24:27.480 This did not have me like crying. 00:24:27.740 --> 00:24:33.280 You know, it's not that kind of emotional resonance, but you still sort of feel 00:24:33.280 --> 00:24:40.680 the tension of the situation and feel bad for the characters that are getting screwed over. 00:24:41.200 --> 00:24:44.260 And at the same time, feel... 00:24:45.800 --> 00:24:54.460 And you sort of enjoy watching the character who's doing the screwing over doing some of it as well. 00:24:55.060 --> 00:25:01.320 Anyway, I like it. Thumbs up. I don't have anything else to say about all about Eve. There you go. 00:25:02.120 --> 00:25:06.120 Let's see. Did it win any awards? I'm pretty sure the King Kong one didn't win. 00:25:06.560 --> 00:25:11.840 King Kong versus Godzilla didn't win anything. Let's see. Let's make sure. Oh, there is. 00:25:14.200 --> 00:25:17.200 Anyway there are apparently like multiple 00:25:17.200 --> 00:25:20.280 versions of the king kong versus godzilla you know 00:25:20.280 --> 00:25:23.320 like there's japanese version american version 00:25:23.320 --> 00:25:26.380 i kind of presume we saw the american 00:25:26.380 --> 00:25:29.180 version i usually try to 00:25:29.180 --> 00:25:32.980 make sure to get like if something has an 00:25:32.980 --> 00:25:35.760 original language i try to get 00:25:35.760 --> 00:25:38.840 that when I can and what you use subtitles 00:25:38.840 --> 00:25:42.620 or whatever and not dubbing and whatever this one 00:25:42.620 --> 00:25:45.440 had they they intentionally sort of made two 00:25:45.440 --> 00:25:48.340 versions and I got whichever one 00:25:48.340 --> 00:25:52.080 was most easily available so yeah did we 00:25:52.080 --> 00:25:57.580 no the Godzilla was the one where we went out of our no this is the one where 00:25:57.580 --> 00:26:03.480 we had to buy the DVD wasn't it okay so Alex is correcting me on the fly here 00:26:03.480 --> 00:26:08.640 like the The online streaming version was a dubbed version. 00:26:09.780 --> 00:26:18.480 And so we did get a remastered, I think it was the remastered version of the 00:26:18.480 --> 00:26:20.080 Japanese one on Blu-ray. 00:26:20.600 --> 00:26:23.960 You know, now I'm going to have to freaking check. 00:26:24.720 --> 00:26:31.220 Let's go and I'll check my order history and search for King Kong. 00:26:33.120 --> 00:26:36.560 That should do it. I don't have a lot of things. 00:26:37.060 --> 00:26:44.340 Okay. We bought a King Kong versus Godzilla on Blu-ray and we did get, yeah. 00:26:44.640 --> 00:26:48.920 So, and this is the 2014. 00:26:50.720 --> 00:26:56.040 No, anyway, anyway, we got it, we got it on Blu-ray to make sure we didn't have 00:26:56.040 --> 00:27:02.040 a crappy dubbed version like that we found online. So, yeah. 00:27:02.460 --> 00:27:09.560 Yeah. So there, there was apparently also, so let's see home media in July, 00:27:09.760 --> 00:27:13.380 2014, the Japanese version was released for a first time in Blu-ray, 00:27:13.440 --> 00:27:19.560 the English language version of the film on Blu-ray also in 2014. 00:27:20.060 --> 00:27:24.280 So we probably had the English language version 00:27:24.280 --> 00:27:27.780 of the blu-ray we had 00:27:27.780 --> 00:27:30.640 the japanese version well what we had was like 00:27:30.640 --> 00:27:33.320 the japanese when people spoke in 00:27:33.320 --> 00:27:36.080 japanese they spoke in japanese and we had 00:27:36.080 --> 00:27:41.200 english subtitles when they spoke in english we heard the english the the english 00:27:41.200 --> 00:27:47.000 language was in japanese too okay well alex knows better than i did so maybe 00:27:47.000 --> 00:27:55.180 i don't know anyway they they're slightly edited differently too apparently between the two. 00:27:55.700 --> 00:28:02.020 But anyway, I was looking to see if it had won any awards. No. 00:28:03.660 --> 00:28:05.600 It does not look like it. 00:28:09.580 --> 00:28:13.680 Oh, yes. Anyway, apparently there are ways to tell, 00:28:14.480 --> 00:28:18.820 which version we really saw, because in the Japanese version, 00:28:19.060 --> 00:28:24.000 both Godzilla and King Kong's roars are heard during the film's final fade to 00:28:24.000 --> 00:28:28.180 black, while in the American version, only Kong's roar is heard. 00:28:29.340 --> 00:28:33.800 However, in both films, the final shot of King Kong swimming away alone is on. Oh, no. 00:28:34.560 --> 00:28:38.640 Spoilers. I accidentally gave spoilers about the end. Oh, my goodness. 00:28:40.320 --> 00:28:46.560 Anyway, when we try to get the most authentic version of these that we can get 00:28:46.560 --> 00:28:48.100 our hands on when we do it. 00:28:48.740 --> 00:28:52.600 Anyway, all about it, you've won tons of awards. It was. 00:28:53.160 --> 00:28:58.420 Let's see. It won best motion picture Academy Awards, won best motion picture, 00:28:58.540 --> 00:29:02.340 best director. was nominated for Best Actress for two of the actresses. 00:29:02.580 --> 00:29:07.040 Best Supporting Actor won two nominations for Best Supporting Actress, 00:29:07.380 --> 00:29:13.880 one for Best Screenplay, nominated for Best Art Direction, nominated for Best Cinematography, 00:29:14.480 --> 00:29:18.540 one for Best Costume Design, nominated for Best Film Editing, 00:29:18.720 --> 00:29:22.380 nominated for Best Score, one for Best Sound Recording. 00:29:22.740 --> 00:29:28.200 And then there are a bunch of other awards that it won that weren't Oscars. 00:29:29.100 --> 00:29:35.160 So anyway, thumbs up for both King Kong vs. Godzilla and for All About Eve, 00:29:35.160 --> 00:29:36.920 but for very different reasons. 00:29:37.240 --> 00:29:39.940 All About Eve, I think, is actually a good movie. 00:29:40.560 --> 00:29:46.620 King Kong vs. Godzilla is a bad movie that's still fun to watch and laugh at. 00:29:47.080 --> 00:29:52.220 So there you go. There's all the stuff I have to say. 00:29:52.400 --> 00:29:57.300 I'm going to take a break. The family's going to go to the fair And sometime 00:29:57.300 --> 00:30:03.440 later I'll record another segment On something newsy And relevant to current 00:30:03.440 --> 00:30:07.840 events In the world Of what's going on These days. 00:30:08.880 --> 00:30:14.300 But in the meantime Here's a break for you A couple minutes for you Less than 00:30:14.300 --> 00:30:17.540 a couple minutes probably For me Many, 00:30:17.680 --> 00:30:24.020 many hours I don't know how many hours Depends on when I feel like continuing Enjoy the break anyway. 00:30:25.020 --> 00:30:27.380 Okie dokie. Here it comes. 00:30:34.000 --> 00:30:42.080 It's just my internet being stupid. My internet being stupid is a new song we will make. 00:30:42.080 --> 00:30:45.460 The baby build the body of the body 00:30:45.460 --> 00:31:03.120 of the body of the body of the body of the body of the body of Bob I don't know, 00:31:09.220 --> 00:31:14.000 Come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, 00:31:14.000 --> 00:31:16.380 come on, come on, come on. Come on, I'm tired. 00:31:16.820 --> 00:31:20.120 What's wrong? I'm really tired. 00:31:21.120 --> 00:31:27.840 It's amazing show on the road there's a road? there's a road? oh my god. 00:31:29.150 --> 00:31:35.410 And here I am. As I expected, it's like a day later. It's more than a day later. 00:31:35.610 --> 00:31:36.970 It's more than 24 hours later. 00:31:37.650 --> 00:31:44.450 And yes, now let's see. Sunday, August 31st, just after 22 UTC. 00:31:44.850 --> 00:31:49.910 So before I get on to the newsy stuff, I will do the quick fare report. 00:31:50.290 --> 00:31:57.650 As expected, we went, we ate, I had some corn, and I had a hot dog. 00:31:57.650 --> 00:32:03.070 I honestly did not eat as much as I usually do when I'm there because we'd already 00:32:03.070 --> 00:32:05.910 eaten earlier in the day. So whatever. 00:32:06.390 --> 00:32:12.970 And Alex had some corn. Alex had like some shaved ice and a hot dog as well. 00:32:13.390 --> 00:32:17.070 It was, yeah, it was a thing. 00:32:17.270 --> 00:32:20.870 The most notable thing, I think, we sat under a tree. 00:32:20.870 --> 00:32:26.570 The quiet area that we usually go was sort of is a sort of a shaded area with 00:32:26.570 --> 00:32:30.810 a bunch of trees, less people sort of in a in a corner. 00:32:31.430 --> 00:32:35.950 You know, behind like a bunch of the food booths. 00:32:36.030 --> 00:32:41.150 It was actually behind a vendor booth and next to where they do some shows. 00:32:41.150 --> 00:32:44.710 But when the show isn't actually going on, it's a sort of a quiet area. 00:32:45.050 --> 00:32:48.010 Anyway, in previous years, they'd had some picnic tables there. 00:32:48.330 --> 00:32:52.050 The picnic tables are gone. So now it's just a shaded area with trees. 00:32:52.070 --> 00:32:58.270 So we sat under a tree, we ate our food, and then I had packed a backpack containing 00:32:58.270 --> 00:33:00.250 my laptop and Brandy's laptop. 00:33:00.770 --> 00:33:06.890 And I pulled out my laptop and worked on some projects. Alex pulled out his, well, not his laptop. 00:33:07.960 --> 00:33:13.140 His mom's laptop and worked on some projects. So we just sat there with our laptops. 00:33:13.400 --> 00:33:17.480 Like I was, I was doing some work on one of my little projects. 00:33:17.480 --> 00:33:22.280 He was, I think, working on one of his projects. I didn't actually like spy 00:33:22.280 --> 00:33:25.760 over his shoulder to see exactly what he was doing, but it felt like he was 00:33:25.760 --> 00:33:28.140 working on something, not just playing a game or something. 00:33:28.940 --> 00:33:31.960 And yeah, we, we did that while my 00:33:31.960 --> 00:33:35.220 wife uh his mom obviously went 00:33:35.220 --> 00:33:37.980 out and wandered around and looked at 00:33:37.980 --> 00:33:45.100 vendor booths and did other stuff and you know whatever so we just sat and chilled 00:33:45.100 --> 00:33:53.360 and did that you know my main thing was this backpack with the two laptops a 00:33:53.360 --> 00:33:57.120 bunch of cords and stuff that we ended up not needing most of, 00:33:57.860 --> 00:34:03.140 like a jacket for when it got colder, a bunch of stuff, was really freaking heavy. 00:34:03.580 --> 00:34:09.100 And so when I was wandering around, I was like, this is so heavy. 00:34:09.480 --> 00:34:14.380 And I complained around. And we did go see some of the animals at one point, 00:34:14.560 --> 00:34:17.380 like look at the goats and cows and stuff like that. 00:34:17.900 --> 00:34:24.220 And yeah, so and because I was sitting on the ground by the tree or at one point 00:34:24.220 --> 00:34:26.140 lying on the ground by the tree. 00:34:26.560 --> 00:34:31.260 I ended up like my back was sore. My hip was sore. 00:34:31.720 --> 00:34:36.860 I was like, anyway, by the end of the day, I was just so ready to go home. 00:34:38.870 --> 00:34:47.750 And anyway, so, but the, the, the, the fair was done in the way that our odd family does it. Okay. 00:34:48.890 --> 00:34:54.690 Now to newsy stuff. There are a few things on the potential list here. 00:34:54.990 --> 00:35:00.530 I've got, we never really finished talking about this Trump-Zelensky subject. 00:35:01.010 --> 00:35:07.310 Got some stuff about hallway conversations at work, the weaponization of government, 00:35:07.650 --> 00:35:15.370 you know, that we got the Fed governor being attempted to be fired. 00:35:15.370 --> 00:35:21.870 The stuff at the CDC, the Bolton raid, the occupied occupation of DC, 00:35:22.450 --> 00:35:24.510 a bunch of other stuff, a bunch of other stuff. 00:35:24.750 --> 00:35:30.110 But for this first segment, and I will do one more newsy segment before wrapping up the show, 00:35:30.330 --> 00:35:36.770 but the thing that's been dominating social media in the last 48 hours, 00:35:36.910 --> 00:35:41.950 at least my slice of social media, obviously one of the whole things is like, 00:35:42.130 --> 00:35:47.630 this is very bubble oriented and you see certain things and not others, 00:35:47.870 --> 00:35:52.050 but has been first, like the, 00:35:52.590 --> 00:35:58.610 look, for weeks now, there's been an increasing buzz about Trump doesn't look good. 00:35:59.090 --> 00:36:02.450 We've talked about it here on the show, about Trump's health and. 00:36:03.170 --> 00:36:07.390 You know, he's not looking good and he's got bruises and what about his swollen 00:36:07.390 --> 00:36:11.010 ankles and does this mean he has congestive heart failure? 00:36:11.190 --> 00:36:13.990 Does this mean his death is imminent? All of this kind of stuff. 00:36:14.190 --> 00:36:20.710 Well, Friday of this week, this accelerated because somebody, 00:36:21.050 --> 00:36:26.110 I forget what, some personality or other, I forget which one it was, 00:36:26.770 --> 00:36:28.990 posted that, hey, by the way, 00:36:29.690 --> 00:36:36.470 Trump hasn't been seen in person in three days and there's nothing on his schedule 00:36:36.470 --> 00:36:38.090 for the long Labor Day weekend. 00:36:38.690 --> 00:36:45.570 What's going on? So, of course, the internet concluded, at least the left-leaning 00:36:45.570 --> 00:36:52.530 part of the internet, started speculating, he must be dead. He must be dead. 00:36:53.150 --> 00:36:58.350 And they are covering it up and or just haven't figured out how to release it 00:36:58.350 --> 00:37:01.530 yet and stuff's going on. 00:37:01.630 --> 00:37:05.610 He must be dead. He's either dead or almost dead or something like that. 00:37:05.810 --> 00:37:11.790 And any moment now will come the official announcement from the White House 00:37:11.790 --> 00:37:14.330 that he's dead and Vance is president now. 00:37:15.840 --> 00:37:23.460 The speculation was really, really rampant on Friday night, Friday night, 00:37:23.560 --> 00:37:25.140 U.S. time. It was just crazy. 00:37:25.940 --> 00:37:31.680 Like, and from, you know, not just like wackadoodle accounts, 00:37:31.840 --> 00:37:37.560 but like, you know, fairly prominent folks with lots of followers, 00:37:38.120 --> 00:37:41.240 responsible journalists, like for the most part, 00:37:41.860 --> 00:37:44.700 traditional journalists were not saying a damn thing. 00:37:44.700 --> 00:37:50.560 You know, they weren't about to touch this with a 10-foot pole, as they say. 00:37:51.180 --> 00:38:01.740 But they were the sort of next layer downs, like the George Conways of the world and sort of the pundits, 00:38:01.920 --> 00:38:06.960 the people who weren't sort of traditional journalists but who were liberal 00:38:06.960 --> 00:38:10.800 influencers of one sort or another, were running with this. 00:38:10.800 --> 00:38:14.860 And even when they were like, oh, we don't know anything. We're not sure, 00:38:15.040 --> 00:38:18.300 but maybe, but maybe, maybe, maybe he's dead. 00:38:18.460 --> 00:38:22.000 Maybe he's about to be dead. It's really suspicious that he, 00:38:22.040 --> 00:38:25.840 he hasn't shown his face in three days. And why doesn't he have anything scheduled 00:38:25.840 --> 00:38:27.760 for the weekend and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. 00:38:28.960 --> 00:38:37.640 I went into the curmudgeon's corner slack and my, my statement there was the following. 00:38:38.620 --> 00:38:43.240 Okay, so social media has now been going nuts over the fact Trump hasn't been 00:38:43.240 --> 00:38:46.380 seen in public for three days and has no scheduled events for the long weekend. 00:38:47.160 --> 00:38:53.320 I figure it is the usual rumors spiraling way past reality, and he will probably 00:38:53.320 --> 00:38:54.860 show up again at any moment. 00:38:55.180 --> 00:38:59.340 But I figured I would go ahead and note it here. Pete, who co-hosted last week, 00:38:59.480 --> 00:39:04.180 said his underlings are not publicly stabbing each other in the back yet, so it can't be that dire. 00:39:05.280 --> 00:39:09.620 And then approximately, what is it? Can I do math? 00:39:11.060 --> 00:39:16.500 Eight hours after I posted this, we did have a Trump spotting. 00:39:17.140 --> 00:39:21.360 He was spotted leaving the White House with his granddaughter, 00:39:21.780 --> 00:39:25.460 Kai, loading the motorcade to go golfing in Virginia. 00:39:25.860 --> 00:39:31.400 And then since then, there have been, he went jogging a bit, 00:39:31.620 --> 00:39:34.460 jogging, no, he's not jogging, sorry, golfing. 00:39:34.720 --> 00:39:41.620 There's a difference there, jogging and golfing. I have not seen any evidence of Trump jogging. 00:39:41.960 --> 00:39:44.840 I'm not sure that that is a thing he does. 00:39:45.420 --> 00:39:50.140 But anyway, no, yeah, he apparently went golfing again Sunday and there was 00:39:50.140 --> 00:39:53.320 another picture circulated of him leaving for golfing. 00:39:53.460 --> 00:39:57.760 There was a little bit of controversy because the White House also put out a 00:39:57.760 --> 00:40:04.760 picture supposedly of Trump actually golfing, but that picture turned out to be months old. 00:40:04.760 --> 00:40:07.780 So it's like why did they do that and a 00:40:07.780 --> 00:40:11.920 number of people have pointed out that in the pictures of him leaving the White 00:40:11.920 --> 00:40:17.220 House to go golfing he doesn't look that great at least that's what the commentary 00:40:17.220 --> 00:40:24.760 says but honestly they are not great pictures taken from quite a bit away, 00:40:25.640 --> 00:40:28.660 and you know look, 00:40:29.660 --> 00:40:33.920 there are a couple things I want to talk about this first of all is. 00:40:34.940 --> 00:40:42.240 This whole zeitgeist on social media had the feeling of people being super excited. 00:40:42.240 --> 00:40:45.120 Oh my God, this is great. Maybe he's dead. 00:40:46.120 --> 00:40:52.840 And getting really hyped up and worked up about it that maybe this is... 00:40:52.840 --> 00:40:56.980 And I'll add, this is a meme that's been going on on social media for quite 00:40:56.980 --> 00:41:03.000 a while too, is like, what will it be like when it happens? 00:41:03.920 --> 00:41:09.060 Where it is quite clearly an announcement that Trump has passed away. 00:41:09.880 --> 00:41:15.440 And people posting all kinds of, like, memes about how there will be celebrations in the street. 00:41:15.620 --> 00:41:18.620 And look, I'll be honest, there probably will be. 00:41:19.550 --> 00:41:25.030 There will be lots of excited people. There will be lots of upset, sad people as well. 00:41:25.170 --> 00:41:28.530 I mean, the country is very divided on this issue. 00:41:29.230 --> 00:41:38.190 And, you know, it's a few steps away from people actively being like, 00:41:38.190 --> 00:41:42.070 we hope something does something to Donald Trump. 00:41:42.210 --> 00:41:46.770 That's a whole different thing. This is people hoping he drops dead of natural causes. 00:41:47.410 --> 00:41:53.070 Yvonne has been on this show hoping that he drops dead of natural causes and 00:41:53.070 --> 00:41:56.410 expressing his wish that that happens sooner rather than later. 00:41:56.710 --> 00:42:03.290 And all over social media, and look, when I say social media at this point, I'm not on X. 00:42:03.850 --> 00:42:06.290 I check threads fairly rarely. 00:42:07.850 --> 00:42:10.950 I'm mostly on blue sky these days 00:42:10.950 --> 00:42:14.730 but i also still check mastodon regularly but 00:42:14.730 --> 00:42:20.650 on mastodon i usually check only my feed of people who post about the news not 00:42:20.650 --> 00:42:25.550 my feed of everything and then i'm on tiktok a lot so when i say on social media 00:42:25.550 --> 00:42:29.210 i'm talking about that universe of things oh i didn't even mention facebook 00:42:29.210 --> 00:42:34.310 i do check facebook occasionally but i don't see this kind of stuff there, 00:42:34.450 --> 00:42:37.170 and I don't check all the time for Facebook. 00:42:37.690 --> 00:42:41.110 But anyway, that's what I'm talking about on social media. 00:42:41.130 --> 00:42:46.350 But people were really excited about this. And first of all, look, I understand. 00:42:47.390 --> 00:42:54.610 But that's still not a great look, you know, but also the running ahead of the facts. 00:42:55.110 --> 00:43:03.270 And look, I understand nobody trusts the White House physician's office at this point. 00:43:03.410 --> 00:43:07.230 We talked about that on the show a couple of weeks ago, how even before Donald 00:43:07.230 --> 00:43:15.550 Trump, it's not been an office that's been particularly forthcoming about presidential health issues. 00:43:16.570 --> 00:43:21.770 Going, going back decades for presidents of both parties, you know, 00:43:21.910 --> 00:43:27.690 some have been more forthcoming than others, but even, even then it's not like, 00:43:27.850 --> 00:43:30.470 it's not like they're really releasing everything. 00:43:30.550 --> 00:43:36.250 It's always sort of, you know, here's some information, here's some basic information, 00:43:36.430 --> 00:43:38.050 here's the standard high level stuff. 00:43:38.350 --> 00:43:45.370 And I feel like the level of disclosure does vary quite a bit president to president. 00:43:45.750 --> 00:43:50.270 But in this particular case with Donald Trump, we know, like, 00:43:50.410 --> 00:43:55.690 he's had doctors lie about his weight, lie about other numbers. 00:43:55.910 --> 00:44:00.950 They always come out and say, like, he's the healthiest president ever. 00:44:01.730 --> 00:44:06.970 So nobody believes the official updates, understandably. 00:44:07.510 --> 00:44:11.330 And he has not looked great on a number of recent occasions. 00:44:11.850 --> 00:44:15.170 He's had the swelling of the ankles and And the White House doctor's office 00:44:15.170 --> 00:44:17.030 did provide an explanation for that. 00:44:17.250 --> 00:44:21.390 Some people think it's more than that, but they did provide an explanation. 00:44:22.090 --> 00:44:27.670 He's had the bruises on his hand. But as we've talked about here before, that is very common. 00:44:28.170 --> 00:44:32.910 It is not necessarily like some people have been talking about it like it's 00:44:32.910 --> 00:44:34.690 a sign of imminent death. 00:44:35.610 --> 00:44:42.670 And it isn't necessarily. Now, could Donald Trump drop dead of a heart attack 00:44:42.670 --> 00:44:46.570 or stroke or something else imminently? 00:44:46.970 --> 00:44:49.450 Could it happen at any moment? Well, yeah. 00:44:50.290 --> 00:44:57.110 He's, you know, he's an older man, not in the best shape in the world. 00:44:57.330 --> 00:44:59.890 So could it happen at any moment? Sure it could. 00:45:00.430 --> 00:45:03.170 He could also last years and years and years and years. 00:45:03.170 --> 00:45:06.870 And even people who've talked about some of his specific symptoms that have 00:45:06.870 --> 00:45:11.150 been obvious, even without trusting the doctor, they're like, 00:45:11.690 --> 00:45:18.050 yeah, those are sometimes indicative of serious underlying conditions. 00:45:18.590 --> 00:45:24.510 Sometimes they're not. But very often they do indicate some kind of underlying condition. 00:45:24.790 --> 00:45:29.490 But those underlying conditions can last for years. 00:45:30.210 --> 00:45:38.370 It is not necessarily a sign of imminent death you know it's not like you know oh he's definitely, 00:45:39.150 --> 00:45:41.970 going to be gone in days or weeks or anything 00:45:41.970 --> 00:45:45.270 like that again maybe could happen 00:45:45.270 --> 00:45:52.510 could also be years and so like you know i look i've watched a decent amount 00:45:52.510 --> 00:45:56.470 of the speculation i've seen all kinds of like people on tiktok that claim to 00:45:56.470 --> 00:46:01.610 be who knows if they really are not but claim to be doctors or nurses or people 00:46:01.610 --> 00:46:03.650 who work in hospice or whatever, 00:46:04.190 --> 00:46:09.470 you know, saying things like, oh, this looks like something I often see. 00:46:09.710 --> 00:46:15.350 And when I see this, things very often go downhill very rapidly. 00:46:15.350 --> 00:46:17.210 I've seen lots of those comments. 00:46:18.190 --> 00:46:24.150 I have also seen much more rarely, but I have also seen the countervailing. Yeah, but. 00:46:25.550 --> 00:46:30.890 Like, of course, you know, maybe hospice nurses see all this time right before 00:46:30.890 --> 00:46:34.570 people die, but they're hospice nurses. 00:46:35.290 --> 00:46:39.130 That restricts the universe of people they're seeing anyway. 00:46:39.410 --> 00:46:43.370 This kind of stuff also happens in people who last a long time. 00:46:43.370 --> 00:46:54.990 You know, and so there's a lot of wish casting here of people who want to see Trump gone and move on. 00:46:55.830 --> 00:46:57.830 And, you know... 00:46:59.490 --> 00:47:03.890 There's all kinds of other stuff. There's like, and people are saying, well, why? 00:47:04.170 --> 00:47:08.210 Like, when have you ever seen Trump stay away from the press this long? 00:47:08.470 --> 00:47:16.290 He loves like talking to the press and, you know, it takes every possible advantage of it. 00:47:16.410 --> 00:47:20.110 And now he's like intentionally like gone for days. 00:47:21.070 --> 00:47:24.490 And even his social media posts seem to 00:47:24.490 --> 00:47:28.850 be posts more like things 00:47:28.850 --> 00:47:31.590 that staff would write even one that he posted that 00:47:31.590 --> 00:47:37.650 was a long rant about somebody damaging the new patio where they paved over 00:47:37.650 --> 00:47:43.070 the rose garden apparently a contractor installing something else like scratched 00:47:43.070 --> 00:47:48.490 it or something and so there was a long rant complaining about that but people 00:47:48.490 --> 00:47:50.210 were like trying to read into it like. 00:47:50.570 --> 00:47:52.930 Oh, but this, yes, it was a long rant. 00:47:53.190 --> 00:47:57.850 It was a long rant that people clearly wanted to sound like Donald Trump, 00:47:57.850 --> 00:48:01.810 but it has proper punctuation and he never does that. 00:48:02.030 --> 00:48:04.950 So maybe that's not really Donald Trump posting that. 00:48:05.070 --> 00:48:09.470 Maybe that's somebody else and, you know, posting on his behalf and he's still 00:48:09.470 --> 00:48:10.690 not really doing anything. 00:48:10.690 --> 00:48:14.470 And he posted again, apparently 00:48:14.470 --> 00:48:17.390 earlier today just saying 00:48:17.390 --> 00:48:20.370 never felt better in my life all caps 00:48:20.370 --> 00:48:24.110 also dc is a crime freeze president 00:48:24.110 --> 00:48:27.190 djt so because people keep asking for 00:48:27.190 --> 00:48:32.270 like can we can we see that he's really good like and look it is very possible 00:48:32.270 --> 00:48:37.590 the man hasn't been feeling good the last couple days he was sick he was in 00:48:37.590 --> 00:48:44.450 bed took a little time off it is a holiday weekend the last couple days he's 00:48:44.450 --> 00:48:46.710 apparently been golfing and people have been like, whoa, 00:48:46.890 --> 00:48:50.190 but we got pictures of him leaving the White House, but we didn't have any like 00:48:50.190 --> 00:48:53.350 press sightings at the golf course, actually watching him golf. 00:48:55.080 --> 00:48:58.140 Look, sometimes we have that, sometimes we don't. 00:48:59.140 --> 00:49:07.760 And again, look, another aspect of this is obviously, given what we saw in 2024, 00:49:08.440 --> 00:49:14.080 the slightest little thing about Joe Biden also led to this kind of speculation, 00:49:14.500 --> 00:49:21.000 both on the right and with Democrats who clearly wanted to push out Joe Biden, 00:49:21.180 --> 00:49:24.000 even before the bad debate. 00:49:24.000 --> 00:49:27.620 So we did have this with Joe Biden as well. 00:49:28.080 --> 00:49:30.040 We're now having it with Donald Trump. 00:49:30.680 --> 00:49:37.280 So although I have seen a number of people on the left complaining that, 00:49:37.460 --> 00:49:42.960 yes, sort of the left-wing social media sphere has been full of this, but as I said earlier, 00:49:43.360 --> 00:49:48.580 the mainstream press, for the most part, was not engaging in this speculation. 00:49:48.580 --> 00:49:51.720 A couple mentions here and there, but they weren't going nuts with it. 00:49:52.660 --> 00:49:58.080 Whereas with the Biden stuff, of course, it became the all-consuming conversation 00:49:58.080 --> 00:50:00.040 for, like, months, it seems like. 00:50:00.840 --> 00:50:06.540 You know, is he too old? What's going on? Is he healthy? Does he have an issue? Does he do this? 00:50:07.040 --> 00:50:09.380 And yes, I acknowledge that asymmetry. 00:50:10.020 --> 00:50:15.480 But I kind of think it was overblown with Biden and I kind of think it's overblown 00:50:15.480 --> 00:50:20.720 here now just watch before I even publish this podcast episode he's going to 00:50:20.720 --> 00:50:24.300 drop dead or something but and again possible but. 00:50:25.320 --> 00:50:27.280 Fundamentally I feel like, 00:50:28.070 --> 00:50:34.550 Let's try to stick with the actual known information as much as possible. 00:50:35.410 --> 00:50:43.590 And there is plenty of things that the Trump administration is continuing to do day by day, 00:50:44.030 --> 00:50:50.730 hour by hour, that we can talk about and react to, that we know are happening. 00:50:50.950 --> 00:50:53.650 At the beginning of this segment, I listed a few of them, right? 00:50:53.650 --> 00:50:57.670 You know, we've got, you know, the troops in D.C. 00:50:57.910 --> 00:51:00.830 We've got potential troops going to Chicago soon. 00:51:01.310 --> 00:51:06.930 We've got the Bolton thing. We've got the decimation of the CDC. 00:51:07.450 --> 00:51:13.430 We've got firing the Federal Reserve or trying to fire a governor of the Federal Reserve. 00:51:14.150 --> 00:51:17.570 We've got lots of stuff going on that is 00:51:17.570 --> 00:51:20.530 real and we know for sure it's real 00:51:20.530 --> 00:51:23.850 there's no question about that it seems 00:51:23.850 --> 00:51:27.150 like this kind of feeding frenzy 00:51:27.150 --> 00:51:30.030 over donald trump like not showing 00:51:30.030 --> 00:51:32.870 his face for a couple days is a waste 00:51:32.870 --> 00:51:37.270 of time if he actually dies we 00:51:37.270 --> 00:51:40.050 will know about it We will know about it 00:51:40.050 --> 00:51:46.110 really quickly There's not going to be I could say this right now We're not 00:51:46.110 --> 00:51:54.030 going to have a gap Between when the president dies And when we get a news alert 00:51:54.030 --> 00:51:58.670 about it That is measured even in hours. 00:51:59.430 --> 00:52:01.590 Let alone days, okay? 00:52:02.210 --> 00:52:10.130 You know, worst case scenario He goes to bed and passes away right after he 00:52:10.130 --> 00:52:12.730 goes to bed and it isn't discovered until morning. 00:52:13.350 --> 00:52:18.730 So, okay, eight or nine hours, maximum, you know, in that sort of scenario. 00:52:19.390 --> 00:52:23.490 But if it happens during the day, 00:52:24.560 --> 00:52:31.220 There is no way that thing doesn't leak within moments of it happening because 00:52:31.220 --> 00:52:33.400 there's going to be a scramble at the White House. 00:52:33.560 --> 00:52:36.140 There are going to be ambulances. There are going to be people running. 00:52:36.380 --> 00:52:42.060 There are going to be members of the random White House staff who tell people 00:52:42.060 --> 00:52:44.420 about it instantly. That would be known immediately. 00:52:45.140 --> 00:52:51.460 And if he is sick enough to go to the hospital, even, that's going to come out pretty quick, too. 00:52:51.640 --> 00:52:53.940 Remember when he had COVID during the first term. 00:52:54.880 --> 00:52:57.540 Now, there was some hemming and hawing, and there was a lot of, 00:52:57.820 --> 00:53:02.340 you know, it became clear later that it was much more serious than they let 00:53:02.340 --> 00:53:08.880 on, but we knew he took the helicopter to Johns Hopkins, like, when it happened. 00:53:10.080 --> 00:53:14.180 This is not a universe where it is a realistic thing to think, 00:53:14.320 --> 00:53:17.960 oh, the president died and they're covering it up. 00:53:18.140 --> 00:53:20.380 We're not going to have a Dave scenario. 00:53:20.860 --> 00:53:27.120 That is the right movie, right? Dave, I remember liking that movie. Let's double check it. 00:53:28.040 --> 00:53:31.760 Dave movie. And I should add it to my list again. 00:53:32.440 --> 00:53:37.480 Yes, Dave is a 1993 American political comedy. 00:53:39.020 --> 00:53:43.520 There we go. I've taken a picture of it to make sure it's re-added to my list. 00:53:44.340 --> 00:53:47.720 He's a presidential lookalike hired by the Secret Service to be a stand-in, 00:53:47.720 --> 00:53:52.760 but the stand-in becomes stuck in the role indefinitely after the president suffers a major stroke. 00:53:53.240 --> 00:53:56.740 You know, that's the fundamental plot of the movie. And then things happen. 00:53:56.960 --> 00:54:00.800 And it turns out that the imposter Dave is better president than the one he 00:54:00.800 --> 00:54:02.320 replaced, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. 00:54:03.940 --> 00:54:09.000 That situation is not going to happen in real life. If something serious happens 00:54:09.000 --> 00:54:13.100 to Donald Trump, we will know really quickly. 00:54:14.840 --> 00:54:18.580 I'm sorry. Like anybody who wants to fantasize about these other scenarios. 00:54:18.580 --> 00:54:20.180 No, no, we would know right away. 00:54:20.940 --> 00:54:26.000 Now, that's if something acute happens, either death or something serious enough 00:54:26.000 --> 00:54:27.280 to go to the hospital right away. 00:54:27.580 --> 00:54:32.320 He's obviously got really good medical care right there at the White House. 00:54:32.440 --> 00:54:37.820 If he's just sick, and it isn't something that actually requires rushing him 00:54:37.820 --> 00:54:40.380 to the hospital, and he can be treated there at the White House, 00:54:40.500 --> 00:54:46.400 I absolutely believe they could and probably would keep that as quiet as possible 00:54:46.400 --> 00:54:51.040 and might be able to succeed in keeping that information from being out there. 00:54:51.340 --> 00:54:54.900 Like, is he getting IV treatments on a regular basis? Maybe. 00:54:55.440 --> 00:54:59.100 They could do that at the White House. They've got everything they need to do that there. 00:54:59.780 --> 00:55:04.260 You know, yeah, he could be treated for all kinds of conditions. 00:55:04.260 --> 00:55:09.480 He could have something serious that doesn't require hospitalization. 00:55:10.300 --> 00:55:12.720 And yeah, that could happen. 00:55:14.270 --> 00:55:20.130 But again, I feel like us spending, and of course, I'm spending a whole segment 00:55:20.130 --> 00:55:23.490 on this, but I'm kind of reacting not to the rumors themselves, 00:55:23.750 --> 00:55:27.990 but to the, well, not to President Trump may be sick or dead, 00:55:28.190 --> 00:55:31.650 but to how everybody's reacting to that. 00:55:32.330 --> 00:55:36.150 And I feel like it's kind of a waste of time. 00:55:37.050 --> 00:55:42.470 When we figure it out, not when we figure, if something serious happens, 00:55:42.470 --> 00:55:46.490 we'll know then, And then we can react to that then and whatever happens then. 00:55:46.970 --> 00:55:51.170 You know, like if Vance does become president, then we can start talking about that. 00:55:51.450 --> 00:55:55.370 I mean, it is interesting a little bit to speculate how Vance would be as a 00:55:55.370 --> 00:55:58.670 president compared to Donald Trump. What would be the same? What would be different, et cetera? 00:55:59.470 --> 00:56:02.410 You know, agendas would be different. Style would be different. 00:56:02.850 --> 00:56:07.350 He might keep some things. He might ditch others. Like, I think he'd probably ditch the tariffs. 00:56:07.590 --> 00:56:13.450 But there's a whole bunch of stuff he would double down on. uh who are the people 00:56:13.450 --> 00:56:18.330 that whisper in his ear is a different set of people etc etc etc. 00:56:19.250 --> 00:56:26.890 Interesting conversation but i feel like i don't know and look i i was watching 00:56:26.890 --> 00:56:32.030 all the rumors i was checking social media regularly to see if something was 00:56:32.030 --> 00:56:37.970 new you know has he shown up Has there been some leak of something? Look, yeah, okay. 00:56:38.130 --> 00:56:42.210 I was checking it regularly all night, Friday night. I fully admit that. 00:56:44.650 --> 00:56:47.810 But is that a waste of time compared to other things? 00:56:49.070 --> 00:56:54.710 I think it is. I think it probably was. You know, if something happens, 00:56:54.810 --> 00:56:55.950 it happens and we'll know then. 00:56:56.470 --> 00:57:00.250 In the meantime, we can talk about the other stuff. 00:57:00.930 --> 00:57:07.130 And with that I am going to take another one of these exciting breaks and I 00:57:07.130 --> 00:57:08.830 will once again go do other stuff, 00:57:08.890 --> 00:57:16.370 I'm going to do some stuff with my son I will come back and we'll do one more newsy segment unless, 00:57:16.790 --> 00:57:22.190 and I will tell you it will be one of the other things, 00:57:22.850 --> 00:57:25.950 something other than Trump's health, unless, 00:57:26.650 --> 00:57:31.370 Trump actually does get rushed to the hospital or dies before I do the next segment. 00:57:32.430 --> 00:57:38.170 I'm not holding my breath for that. But yeah, people are still talking about it right now. 00:57:38.510 --> 00:57:46.810 Within the last few minutes, Midas Touch just did another post linking to something they're saying. 00:57:46.970 --> 00:57:51.170 The mysterious case of disappearing Trump continues to leave more questions 00:57:51.170 --> 00:57:54.770 than answers with each proof of life post put out by him. 00:57:54.930 --> 00:57:59.470 Get the latest updates in this weekend's I'm not even bothering clicking through, 00:57:59.670 --> 00:58:04.190 but obviously it's a way to get engagement. 00:58:04.710 --> 00:58:07.330 Lots of people talking about this. Lots of people excited. 00:58:09.450 --> 00:58:12.370 Yeah. Okay. It's break time. 00:58:13.210 --> 00:58:16.750 Break time, break time, break time. And this time it's one, two, 00:58:16.830 --> 00:58:18.770 three, four, five, six, seven. 00:58:19.330 --> 00:58:23.790 Wait, did I count wrong? One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, 00:58:23.970 --> 00:58:25.250 eight. Oh, there we go. There we go. 00:58:25.570 --> 00:58:30.670 It's this one. It's super short. This is the new one. that's super short. Fun. Here we go. 00:58:31.650 --> 00:58:36.130 I want to be on top of the tree. 00:58:36.290 --> 00:58:43.750 I want to be on the floor when I fall off the tree. 00:58:48.930 --> 00:58:53.810 Okay. I am back as promised. It's a number of hours later. 00:58:54.110 --> 00:59:02.310 Let's It's now Monday, September 1st at 6, just before 6.30 UTC. 00:59:02.990 --> 00:59:13.410 So my goal of actually having this out while it was still Sunday Pacific time is going to fail at it. 00:59:14.710 --> 00:59:18.750 You know, it's only half an hour till the end of Sunday Pacific time. 00:59:18.890 --> 00:59:22.590 It'll be Monday. I, you know, the way these things usually go, 00:59:22.650 --> 00:59:29.050 I probably won't even finish recording this segment yet, let alone the extra steps I need to do to, 00:59:29.370 --> 00:59:35.270 you know, export it, put the three parts together and then post process and put it out. 00:59:35.450 --> 00:59:40.790 So whatever. And also, you know, I've been delaying because, 00:59:41.050 --> 00:59:43.730 well, first of all, like since I last stopped, 00:59:44.430 --> 00:59:49.410 I watched some TV with my son. But the more interesting thing, 00:59:49.510 --> 00:59:55.250 and I think I'm going to at some point put a video on my YouTube channel. 00:59:55.250 --> 01:00:03.710 I think you can find my YouTube channel by searching YouTube for Ablesmay, A-B-U-L-S-M-E. 01:00:03.830 --> 01:00:07.430 Or maybe you have to search for Samuel Mentor. 01:00:07.630 --> 01:00:09.970 I don't know. Let me check. We go to YouTube right now. 01:00:10.210 --> 01:00:14.510 Anyway, it's not there as I'm recording this. but I think I might put a time lapse here. 01:00:14.730 --> 01:00:18.710 You know, a few weeks ago, I mentioned that one of the contributing factors 01:00:18.710 --> 01:00:21.410 to my daughter clipping my car, 01:00:21.610 --> 01:00:26.590 trying to get out of the parking space is that Brandy has an old Buick Riata 01:00:26.590 --> 01:00:32.270 from like the late 1980s that hasn't moved under its own power in a decade, 01:00:32.270 --> 01:00:35.790 but is like taking up part of our driveway, 01:00:35.790 --> 01:00:38.790 but that it wasn't all the 01:00:38.790 --> 01:00:42.150 way scooched over to the edge of the driveway well today 01:00:42.150 --> 01:00:45.490 brandy and i well mainly brandy yeah 01:00:45.490 --> 01:00:49.630 i helped but mainly brandy successfully got 01:00:49.630 --> 01:00:52.570 this car scooched over several feet 01:00:52.570 --> 01:00:55.930 and we like the car again has 01:00:55.930 --> 01:00:58.850 not moved under its own power we tried putting it 01:00:58.850 --> 01:01:02.110 in neutral a little while ago and to 01:01:02.110 --> 01:01:05.170 like last week sometime to try to 01:01:05.170 --> 01:01:08.250 just see if we could just push it back and forward no luck 01:01:08.250 --> 01:01:11.390 like we needed to back it up turn the wheel move forward again no 01:01:11.390 --> 01:01:14.610 we couldn't push it and we tried jump 01:01:14.610 --> 01:01:17.470 starting the thing we actually had to have someone from like 01:01:17.470 --> 01:01:20.610 a mobile mechanic place start let help us open 01:01:20.610 --> 01:01:23.670 the hood so we could get to the battery because like 01:01:23.670 --> 01:01:29.230 the latches were all you know rusted shut apparently but we we got the hood 01:01:29.230 --> 01:01:35.130 open we got the battery attached and we got some power to it like the screen 01:01:35.130 --> 01:01:39.010 came on for for a second but then went off again and we We couldn't get it started 01:01:39.010 --> 01:01:41.070 either. Anyway, so we ended up. 01:01:41.700 --> 01:01:46.360 Buying these, these little rolly things that you can put under the wheels. 01:01:46.940 --> 01:01:51.820 We, we got a jack, you know, a nice hydraulic jack. We got like four of these 01:01:51.820 --> 01:01:54.180 things to go under the wheels. We got the stuff underneath. 01:01:54.720 --> 01:01:59.100 And basically with a little bit of effort, we were able to just push the car 01:01:59.100 --> 01:02:03.780 to the left, like six feet, maybe eight feet. I don't know. 01:02:03.940 --> 01:02:07.240 It was anyway, I've got video of it from the security cameras. 01:02:07.320 --> 01:02:11.820 And so I may make a time-lapse of that and put it on YouTube or something. 01:02:12.060 --> 01:02:17.640 If I do, I'll mention it in the next episode, if I remember. 01:02:18.420 --> 01:02:21.680 But yeah, let's see. Can you search YouTube for Abblesmay? 01:02:22.120 --> 01:02:29.480 Yes, you can search YouTube for Abblesmay, and it will say, did you mean abuse? 01:02:30.140 --> 01:02:35.320 You did not mean abuse. You meant Abblesmay. And the Samuel Minter channel will 01:02:35.320 --> 01:02:38.120 come up, and you can look at it. You can subscribe it. You can do whatever. 01:02:38.840 --> 01:02:41.520 And maybe I'll add this at some 01:02:41.520 --> 01:02:44.540 point the most recent video on 01:02:44.540 --> 01:02:47.820 there right now is still the the daddy 01:02:47.820 --> 01:02:51.140 torture video when alex made me 01:02:51.140 --> 01:02:54.380 drink some concoction that 01:02:54.380 --> 01:03:00.460 he put together of like all the random things on a diner table that you would 01:03:00.460 --> 01:03:05.300 expect to see in exchange for us having him sign some papers he needed to sign 01:03:05.300 --> 01:03:10.220 because in washington state if you're over 13 like in order to have parents 01:03:10.220 --> 01:03:13.540 be able to talk to your doctors and stuff. You have to sign stuff. 01:03:14.080 --> 01:03:19.720 And he drove a hard bargain. I had to drink this in order to do that. 01:03:20.140 --> 01:03:22.420 But yeah, so that's done. 01:03:23.540 --> 01:03:30.400 Anyway on the youtube like the daddy torture video before that we had like me doing a stupid dance, 01:03:31.140 --> 01:03:38.660 and then before that we had me playing a cpm game and yeah i don't really have a lot on, 01:03:39.620 --> 01:03:43.200 my youtube channel these videos go under curmudgeon's corner youtube channel, 01:03:43.900 --> 01:03:49.080 there used to be more from many years ago but i just haven't been posting much 01:03:49.080 --> 01:03:53.540 there lately You know, there have been a couple of TikToks lately on my personal TikTok. 01:03:54.320 --> 01:03:59.000 There's obviously I've been posting clips from this show on the Curmudgeon's Corner TikTok. 01:03:59.900 --> 01:04:04.300 Although I'm behind still. I'm still like, I'm way behind. I'm like a month behind. 01:04:04.660 --> 01:04:16.820 But the very most recent video I posted on TikTok was a clip from the July 27th episode, I think. 01:04:17.740 --> 01:04:24.860 July 26th. the July 26th episode. And it has more views than any other so far. 01:04:25.100 --> 01:04:31.080 Like as I'm recording this 3,982 views, 37 likes, and six comments. 01:04:31.360 --> 01:04:35.900 That's more views than any other TikTok clip I've posted by like more than double. 01:04:36.120 --> 01:04:38.900 The previous record was 1,287. 01:04:40.140 --> 01:04:45.880 So we'll see. I don't know. Like TikTok's picking up, but I need to catch up. 01:04:46.440 --> 01:04:52.300 Okay. What was it? Oh yeah. Yeah, like what I actually am talking about for 01:04:52.300 --> 01:04:58.720 like this episode on like actual newsy stuff for like actually now. 01:04:59.240 --> 01:05:02.420 One of the things, you know, besides all that like useful stuff, 01:05:02.560 --> 01:05:08.880 moving the car and stuff that I did, I also delayed a little bit because I wasn't 01:05:08.880 --> 01:05:11.140 sure which thing I wanted to talk about. 01:05:11.800 --> 01:05:17.000 You know, I rattled off the list in the last segment. And I'll rattle it off again right now. 01:05:17.820 --> 01:05:20.720 Trying to fire the Fed governor, Cook. 01:05:21.300 --> 01:05:26.940 The Bolton raid. The occupying D.C. and talking about occupying Chicago. 01:05:27.240 --> 01:05:29.560 And of course they did something in L.A. last month. 01:05:31.180 --> 01:05:32.420 Decimating the CDC. 01:05:34.260 --> 01:05:41.280 Look, let me sort of munge all these things together into one topic. 01:05:41.280 --> 01:05:49.880 Which is basically things are getting bad fast you know whether you know, 01:05:51.100 --> 01:05:56.960 there's been the question uh you know people keep asking you know are are we 01:05:56.960 --> 01:06:02.500 moving towards an autocracy are we what is our democracy in danger blah blah 01:06:02.500 --> 01:06:08.720 blah look and i've said before This isn't a thing where you just wake up one day and it's over. 01:06:09.960 --> 01:06:14.380 There is a gradual degradation that happens. 01:06:14.560 --> 01:06:21.000 I say gradual, but it's been eight months, January, February, March. 01:06:22.600 --> 01:06:28.980 End of January. Anyway, you know, it hasn't even been a full year yet. 01:06:29.440 --> 01:06:36.760 The damage being done by the Trump administration is huge already and accelerating quickly. 01:06:37.200 --> 01:06:43.220 At this point, we've had two cities where the National Guard has been called 01:06:43.220 --> 01:06:47.060 in and the military has been called in in L.A. 01:06:47.120 --> 01:06:54.480 As well, to do police work and help with ICE stuff. 01:06:55.280 --> 01:07:02.100 So we're sort of getting used to, oh yeah, Trump is calling in the military 01:07:02.100 --> 01:07:03.940 again, calling in the National Guard. 01:07:04.140 --> 01:07:08.220 They're wandering around the streets of an American city again. 01:07:08.440 --> 01:07:10.140 The talk is Chicago's next. 01:07:10.460 --> 01:07:15.660 And And, you know, the more that it happens, and also I'll add, 01:07:15.900 --> 01:07:21.740 the more that it's sort of been uneventful for the most part. 01:07:22.840 --> 01:07:28.260 There were a few little clashes in L.A. In D.C., no one's taken the bait. 01:07:28.260 --> 01:07:34.140 It almost seems like the desire is to get these people out here, 01:07:34.260 --> 01:07:41.280 get them confrontational, hope for some sort of conflict between protesters and these folks. 01:07:43.220 --> 01:07:47.080 And so far, that hasn't really happened. Nothing is blown up. 01:07:47.180 --> 01:07:49.320 There hasn't been a major escalation of violence. 01:07:49.820 --> 01:07:53.080 It seems like the kind of thing that at any moment could. 01:07:53.460 --> 01:07:59.820 But so far, we've avoided that. And, you know, in L.A., they did their little 01:07:59.820 --> 01:08:05.840 cosplaying for a few weeks, and then it's kind of died down to nothing. 01:08:06.280 --> 01:08:11.460 I don't know if they're still present. I haven't heard about it much lately. 01:08:11.680 --> 01:08:15.300 We've heard about the D.C. situation. But the D.C. 01:08:15.920 --> 01:08:23.160 Folks have mostly, with a couple of exceptions, deployed to parts of the city that... 01:08:24.100 --> 01:08:27.580 Didn't really have a huge crime problem to begin with. 01:08:27.840 --> 01:08:35.900 You know, they're going to the rich neighborhoods and the mall where all the 01:08:35.900 --> 01:08:40.640 federal buildings are and Georgetown where there are lots of restaurants and stuff. 01:08:40.960 --> 01:08:49.100 I did see... And so, like, not much has happened in terms of a real difference 01:08:49.100 --> 01:08:50.600 to sort of this crime thing. 01:08:50.600 --> 01:08:58.680 They have been supporting grabbing potential people who don't have their papers 01:08:58.680 --> 01:09:01.120 in order for immigration purposes. 01:09:02.720 --> 01:09:06.800 But, you know, it's sort of like it goes on and nothing major happens. 01:09:06.800 --> 01:09:10.560 And so it's like, oh, you know, so if Trump goes into Chicago, 01:09:10.780 --> 01:09:12.540 then it's like, oh, OK, there's another city. 01:09:13.120 --> 01:09:19.260 And then maybe Detroit's next or Pittsburgh or Seattle, where I am. 01:09:20.400 --> 01:09:23.960 And you sort of people talk 01:09:23.960 --> 01:09:27.380 about normalizing but that's what happens is you 01:09:27.380 --> 01:09:30.820 sort of start thinking oh well there 01:09:30.820 --> 01:09:33.620 he goes again nothing really bad happened last 01:09:33.620 --> 01:09:36.780 time maybe nothing bad will happen this time and 01:09:36.780 --> 01:09:39.860 but it's all part of the normalization you 01:09:39.860 --> 01:09:43.120 you sort of stop you you 01:09:43.120 --> 01:09:46.100 get acclimatized to it and then the outrage is 01:09:46.100 --> 01:09:49.000 not as much as it was before but it really should be 01:09:49.000 --> 01:09:52.000 and you know i i mentioned the 01:09:52.000 --> 01:09:56.100 ice stuff i mean that's horrid 01:09:56.100 --> 01:10:02.100 but it's been going on for months and months now at basically the same kind 01:10:02.100 --> 01:10:06.720 of levels we hear about the same kind of stories about people being pulled off 01:10:06.720 --> 01:10:14.420 the street and the first few times you hear it you see it it's absolutely shocking. 01:10:15.600 --> 01:10:20.480 The 30th time, it's a little bit less so. The 100th time, it doesn't even get 01:10:20.480 --> 01:10:23.540 the attention. It's just like, it's the background. 01:10:25.600 --> 01:10:30.780 But we've got essentially concentration camps being set up with people who are captured. 01:10:30.980 --> 01:10:37.640 There was a news story in the last week or two about how the number of people 01:10:37.640 --> 01:10:42.440 in these detention centers has hit a new all-time high. 01:10:43.060 --> 01:10:47.800 And we've heard that the conditions at these places are horrible. 01:10:48.400 --> 01:10:51.900 There were, you know, some of the stuff is going through the courts and they 01:10:51.900 --> 01:10:54.780 have been ordered in a few places to improve the conditions. 01:10:55.260 --> 01:11:02.740 This alligator Alcatraz nickname thing has been ordered to shut down. But. 01:11:03.820 --> 01:11:12.040 It's, you start, just the natural thing is, oh, you know, we've heard about that already. 01:11:12.700 --> 01:11:16.620 And so it's hard to maintain the constant level of outrage. 01:11:16.840 --> 01:11:22.580 And along those same lines, you know, we talked about, you know, 01:11:23.120 --> 01:11:25.320 firing, trying to fire, I should say. 01:11:25.440 --> 01:11:28.920 It's still legally up in the air, trying to fire the Fed governor. 01:11:28.920 --> 01:11:32.420 We now have a 01:11:32.420 --> 01:11:39.740 long history of Donald Trump and his minions firing all kinds of people in the 01:11:39.740 --> 01:11:48.720 federal government and doing so for no real reason other than they aren't 100% 01:11:48.720 --> 01:11:51.500 towing the line. Donald Trump is all about loyalty. 01:11:51.680 --> 01:11:57.000 Donald Trump is all about the only purpose of the federal government is to enact my will. 01:11:57.320 --> 01:12:02.920 The idea of a professionalized civil service is anathema. 01:12:04.280 --> 01:12:09.020 So, you know, in a healthy organization, 01:12:09.020 --> 01:12:13.720 you want your underlings to have independent ideas and opinions. 01:12:13.720 --> 01:12:21.480 You want them to tell you when you're wrong. You want them to provide opinions 01:12:21.480 --> 01:12:24.680 and expertise in things where the leader is weak. 01:12:25.700 --> 01:12:30.100 Donald Trump doesn't believe any of that. Donald Trump is just, do what I say. 01:12:30.440 --> 01:12:37.440 Do what I say and shut up. And if you express any doubt or any alternative opinion 01:12:37.440 --> 01:12:41.480 or anything other than that, you're out of here. 01:12:42.280 --> 01:12:50.420 Now, the way things were set up in the federal government was that the top layers 01:12:50.420 --> 01:12:51.960 were supposed to be like that Look, 01:12:52.060 --> 01:12:55.920 the top layers are supposed to be political appointees 01:12:55.920 --> 01:13:02.380 who enact the policies of the president And they serve at the president's will 01:13:02.380 --> 01:13:13.580 But all kinds of lower levels are supposed to be technocratic are supposed to be based on expertise. 01:13:15.120 --> 01:13:20.700 And that's not what's going on here. And this flows right into, 01:13:21.000 --> 01:13:26.760 I mean, and I was going to jump to the CDC, but let's talk about the Fed a little bit. 01:13:27.540 --> 01:13:33.780 They have really long terms as Fed governors, intentionally, 01:13:33.780 --> 01:13:40.840 because it is supposed to be nonpolitical. It is supposed to be independent of the president. 01:13:41.140 --> 01:13:44.200 They're supposed to last multiple presidents. 01:13:47.260 --> 01:13:51.640 The president is allowed to dismiss them, quote-unquote, for cause. 01:13:52.060 --> 01:13:56.620 But like a lot of these things, for cause is not defined. 01:13:57.320 --> 01:14:03.640 So that's why it's in court now. Like, for good cause? Or just any cause? 01:14:04.200 --> 01:14:06.540 And if it is good cause, what defines that? 01:14:07.940 --> 01:14:14.040 And the law is unclear on that because, you know, they expect people not to 01:14:14.040 --> 01:14:18.740 take advantage of it. But, you know, I can easily see this going straight, 01:14:19.000 --> 01:14:21.940 not straight, but eventually getting to the Supreme Court. 01:14:23.440 --> 01:14:26.760 And, you know, maybe lower courts will say, you know, for a cause, 01:14:26.880 --> 01:14:29.100 it needs to be a reasonable cause. 01:14:29.260 --> 01:14:35.560 It needs to be something well-defined and that makes sense, that has the right level of magnitude. 01:14:35.780 --> 01:14:41.320 And, of course, in the Fed governor case, he's said there's evidence of mortgage 01:14:41.320 --> 01:14:47.540 fraud. Now, they haven't actually supplied that evidence of mortgage fraud at this point. 01:14:48.160 --> 01:14:52.560 Apparently, there's some issue potentially with what she claimed as a primary 01:14:52.560 --> 01:14:54.540 home versus a secondary home, whatever. 01:14:55.380 --> 01:14:59.520 It's unclear. Maybe something there, maybe something's not. 01:14:59.760 --> 01:15:05.480 Does it rise to the level necessary here anyway? 01:15:05.640 --> 01:15:11.000 I don't know. Now, one of Trump's things, of course, is and she is not the first 01:15:11.000 --> 01:15:15.360 one that he's had investigated for mortgage fraud, which, by the way, 01:15:15.480 --> 01:15:19.560 is almost assuredly like everything's projection here. 01:15:19.640 --> 01:15:23.460 Because, of course, one of the charges against him was related to mortgage fraud. 01:15:24.360 --> 01:15:28.200 And so now he's going to go out and get everybody else for mortgage fraud. 01:15:29.980 --> 01:15:34.700 Now, there are differences in scale, differences in degree. 01:15:35.560 --> 01:15:38.960 We'll see, like, if evidence ever actually comes out on this, 01:15:39.080 --> 01:15:41.720 then we'll find out. But she hasn't been charged with anything. 01:15:42.080 --> 01:15:46.180 No evidence has been presented yet. Maybe there's something there, maybe there's not. 01:15:46.320 --> 01:15:54.060 But everyone, the consensus is, like, this is not a case where the mortgage, 01:15:54.860 --> 01:16:01.260 fraud was blatant and obvious and therefore needed to be gone after no matter what. 01:16:01.260 --> 01:16:04.860 Now, of course, Donald Trump will say the exact same thing about the charges against him. 01:16:05.200 --> 01:16:11.400 His line all along has been, if I wasn't the ex-president, they wouldn't have 01:16:11.400 --> 01:16:13.460 gone after me for any of these things. 01:16:14.360 --> 01:16:16.580 And maybe he's right on some of them. 01:16:17.640 --> 01:16:21.200 That's, and that I've said before, I think that's actually a problem. 01:16:21.340 --> 01:16:28.140 They should have gone after Donald Trump for his miscellaneous crimes as far back as the 1970s. 01:16:28.280 --> 01:16:33.760 I mean, we've got plenty of information about things that he's done that have 01:16:33.760 --> 01:16:41.600 at the very least been unethical, but I think in many cases have been illegal as well, 01:16:41.940 --> 01:16:46.520 going back decades and decades and decades, and people just didn't go after him, you know? 01:16:47.420 --> 01:16:52.400 Now, in this case, if she actually did something wrong, absolutely. 01:16:52.800 --> 01:16:56.600 And same thing with the Bolton thing. If he's actually got classified documents, 01:16:56.800 --> 01:16:58.220 absolutely, go after him. 01:16:58.860 --> 01:17:01.020 You know, do the proper investigation, go after him. 01:17:01.820 --> 01:17:07.580 Whether she should be fired or resign over it in the meantime while the investigation 01:17:07.580 --> 01:17:08.780 is ongoing, I don't know. 01:17:09.780 --> 01:17:14.020 But the clear motivation here seems to be get her out of the way so he can appoint 01:17:14.020 --> 01:17:19.480 someone to replace her so he can get a majority on the Fed and force interest rates down. 01:17:20.540 --> 01:17:23.240 And as a trial run to see if he 01:17:23.240 --> 01:17:26.840 can fire Powell as well. Because if he can fire her, he can fire Powell. 01:17:27.360 --> 01:17:30.040 He'll dig up something. 01:17:30.840 --> 01:17:36.560 People said that the old Soviet phrase, I think it was a Stalin thing actually, 01:17:36.560 --> 01:17:45.380 was show me the person and I'll show you the crime with the basic notion that almost anybody. 01:17:46.560 --> 01:17:52.920 Probably everybody, if you dig deep enough, you can find laws they broke because 01:17:52.920 --> 01:17:56.500 there are so many laws about so many things. 01:17:56.900 --> 01:18:03.060 I mean, the simplest example is, I don't think you can find, I. 01:18:04.340 --> 01:18:08.240 Maybe out of the millions and millions of drivers on this planet, 01:18:08.500 --> 01:18:12.820 you could find one, but I mean, show me somebody who hasn't broken the speed 01:18:12.820 --> 01:18:15.400 limit at least once. Come on. 01:18:16.500 --> 01:18:22.960 Even by accident, right? Like, did you go 22 in the 20 mile per hour zone? 01:18:23.520 --> 01:18:30.160 Throw the book at you. And the thing is, the book allows for more serious, 01:18:30.400 --> 01:18:33.860 in almost all cases, there's a range of potential punishments. 01:18:34.860 --> 01:18:39.080 And there's a lot of discretion involved. 01:18:40.200 --> 01:18:43.640 And so very few people are actually 01:18:43.640 --> 01:18:47.620 going to get pulled over and get a ticket for going 22 in a 20 zone. 01:18:48.240 --> 01:18:52.080 If you go 40 in a 20 zone, completely different story. 01:18:53.320 --> 01:18:59.040 And even within that, there's a range of potential punishments you may get. 01:18:59.180 --> 01:19:03.720 A lot of this varies municipality by municipality, state by state. 01:19:03.860 --> 01:19:06.600 Some of the places have very regimented rules. 01:19:06.760 --> 01:19:12.280 Some of them have less regimented rules. But the point is, there's a lot of discretion there. 01:19:13.400 --> 01:19:18.960 And that discretion is often a good thing. But if the way you are using your 01:19:18.960 --> 01:19:27.420 discretion is universally go after your enemies and leave your friends alone, that's problematic. 01:19:28.260 --> 01:19:34.260 And to the folks who say, well, that's exactly what the Clinton administration 01:19:34.260 --> 01:19:40.580 was doing against Donald Trump, I just don't think the facts back that up. 01:19:40.580 --> 01:19:47.160 If anything, it shows how careful and how reluctant they were and how they really 01:19:47.160 --> 01:19:51.520 didn't want to do that, but sort of had to. 01:19:52.160 --> 01:20:00.900 And even when they did so, they made sure to cross the T's and dot the I's and 01:20:00.900 --> 01:20:03.640 do as much as possible in the right way. 01:20:04.360 --> 01:20:09.060 I mean, hell, like a lot of the investigations they were complaining about happened 01:20:09.060 --> 01:20:13.920 during the first Trump administration, you know, and then we had more during 01:20:13.920 --> 01:20:17.580 the Clinton, during the Biden administration, obviously. 01:20:17.580 --> 01:20:21.840 But I think if anything, there's 01:20:21.840 --> 01:20:30.340 evidence that they were being super careful and they recognized the gravity 01:20:30.340 --> 01:20:37.420 of going after an ex-president and were extremely cautious about it and had 01:20:37.420 --> 01:20:41.260 been criticized over and over again for being as cautious as they were. 01:20:41.260 --> 01:20:44.420 And meanwhile there was tons of evidence of 01:20:44.420 --> 01:20:48.420 really serious stuff you know so 01:20:48.420 --> 01:20:51.380 but we're normalizing this we've opened 01:20:51.380 --> 01:20:54.440 investigations and and you know in 01:20:54.440 --> 01:21:00.160 the in the prediction show at the end of last year i had predicted there'd be 01:21:00.160 --> 01:21:04.440 lots of investigations along these lines but that i didn't think any indictments 01:21:04.440 --> 01:21:11.040 would hit yet and somebody correct me if i'm wrong but i think that's so far 01:21:11.040 --> 01:21:13.560 a little more than halfway through the year. 01:21:14.240 --> 01:21:17.180 Well, we're getting close to three quarters of the way through the year. 01:21:18.720 --> 01:21:21.380 That's pretty much what's happened. There have been a bunch of investigations. 01:21:21.660 --> 01:21:26.140 He's opened investigations into a lot of his political enemies, 01:21:26.140 --> 01:21:29.420 but there haven't been any indictments yet. 01:21:29.840 --> 01:21:34.540 And within people who actually work for the executive branch, 01:21:34.740 --> 01:21:40.940 he's fired a bunch of people and made things miserable enough for other people to resign. 01:21:42.160 --> 01:21:45.000 But the long and short of this is, 01:21:46.590 --> 01:22:03.010 The notion of the non-political expertise-based portions of the federal government have been eviscerated. 01:22:03.390 --> 01:22:12.290 You know, there have been, you know, DOJ already. There were lots of people, 01:22:12.330 --> 01:22:16.650 lots of people fired from there, and their priorities have been turned around. 01:22:17.250 --> 01:22:24.430 The biggest example from this week is CDC. I think he eventually actually fired the director there. 01:22:24.730 --> 01:22:28.030 Like, there was some back and forth on has he actually fired her yet personally 01:22:28.030 --> 01:22:32.370 because it was being done by intermediaries and tweets and blah, blah, blah. 01:22:34.010 --> 01:22:37.650 And whether or not she's technically been legally fired or not, 01:22:37.670 --> 01:22:39.410 I think she's filing a lawsuit too. 01:22:40.390 --> 01:22:45.910 But she's locked out. She's not actually getting into the building anymore. She's not doing the job. 01:22:47.530 --> 01:22:52.290 And a whole bunch of other people at CDC have resigned based on this. 01:22:53.330 --> 01:22:58.570 In this case, she was in a position that serves at the will of the president. 01:22:58.570 --> 01:23:00.070 She was a political employee. 01:23:00.350 --> 01:23:05.450 So he has every right to fire her. He's not even violating civil service protections 01:23:05.450 --> 01:23:11.470 for that one. And the only dispute was, does he have to do it himself by calling her up directly? 01:23:11.670 --> 01:23:14.190 And honestly, I feel that's kind of a weak case. 01:23:14.570 --> 01:23:20.070 Like he should be able to do it by directing somebody else to take the legal actions. 01:23:20.070 --> 01:23:31.070 But the reason for the dispute in this case was she basically refused to go 01:23:31.070 --> 01:23:37.050 along with some of RFK Jr.'s non-scientific anti-vax nonsense. 01:23:37.470 --> 01:23:44.170 They were looking for, and have started to at this time, change vaccination 01:23:44.170 --> 01:23:49.110 guidelines for the COVID vaccine in terms of what's recommended. 01:23:49.110 --> 01:23:57.050 They also had FDA change what's allowed, because I shouldn't quite say it that way. 01:23:57.250 --> 01:24:07.290 There are a lot of pharmacies and insurance and et cetera that if CDC and FDA 01:24:07.290 --> 01:24:09.490 don't recommend something, 01:24:09.790 --> 01:24:13.750 even if they're not saying it's not allowed, if they don't recommend something, 01:24:13.910 --> 01:24:16.150 then they will not proceed with it. 01:24:16.150 --> 01:24:20.910 There were a bunch of stories about how CVS has now restricted the vaccine in 01:24:20.910 --> 01:24:25.410 many, many states based on the guidance this week, the COVID vaccine. 01:24:28.060 --> 01:24:32.280 Even in those cases, I guess you can still get a doctor's prescription. 01:24:32.660 --> 01:24:38.040 Well, in some states, it's not available at all. 01:24:38.780 --> 01:24:41.520 But in other places, you need a doctor's prescription. 01:24:43.540 --> 01:24:47.080 And look, the guidelines they put out, I'm getting tangent a little bit. 01:24:47.160 --> 01:24:53.380 The guidelines they put out are fairly easy to, first of all, 01:24:53.420 --> 01:24:56.500 there's a list of pre-existing conditions that's pretty darn long. 01:24:57.080 --> 01:24:59.480 That says you can still get the vaccine if you have any of these. 01:25:00.020 --> 01:25:04.400 I've got at least two or three of the pre-existing conditions that say you can get it. 01:25:04.960 --> 01:25:09.660 So, like, I'll be able to get it. I'm also in Washington State where anybody 01:25:09.660 --> 01:25:11.420 will still be able to get it, basically. 01:25:12.780 --> 01:25:16.340 But there are conditions on the list, apparently, that are things like. 01:25:18.480 --> 01:25:25.740 Oh, I'm fairly sedentary. Okay? You can just lie about that kind of stuff, you know. 01:25:26.380 --> 01:25:32.620 And I've seen places that in other places, you know, it's just self-attestation anyway. 01:25:32.800 --> 01:25:35.940 Do you have any of these conditions? Yes. Okay, here's your shot. 01:25:36.160 --> 01:25:40.360 They don't check. but anyway the 01:25:40.360 --> 01:25:43.740 director was upset that he was pushing 01:25:43.740 --> 01:25:50.480 some of this stuff with no good science behind it in fact the good science says 01:25:50.480 --> 01:25:56.220 the opposite and all indications are he's going to go all in on more of this 01:25:56.220 --> 01:26:02.420 in terms of you know blaming vaccines potentially for autism potentially for other things, 01:26:02.760 --> 01:26:12.640 basically hamstringing the CDC to come up with justifications for the opinion 01:26:12.640 --> 01:26:16.460 he already has, rather than actually following the science. 01:26:17.280 --> 01:26:23.040 So there's already been cases where they're looking at cherry-picking evidence, 01:26:23.040 --> 01:26:30.440 they're looking at interpreting things in ways that do not match expert opinion. 01:26:30.940 --> 01:26:36.340 RFK Jr. specifically saying paying attention to experts is not what you do in a democracy. 01:26:37.020 --> 01:26:43.780 What? Give me a break. You know, you don't, I'm sorry. It's just so ridiculous. 01:26:44.220 --> 01:26:47.560 Like, you know, let's. 01:26:50.180 --> 01:26:52.900 There are certain things that 01:26:52.900 --> 01:26:57.920 you don't just want to have a vote on and go with what the public thinks. 01:26:58.540 --> 01:27:04.020 You want to ask someone who knows what the fuck they're doing. And then you do that. 01:27:04.740 --> 01:27:08.080 And look, there are always disagreements. Like, you know, 01:27:08.240 --> 01:27:15.140 there's the, the nature of science is nothing is ever 100% settled and lots 01:27:15.140 --> 01:27:20.100 of things are subtle and there's not like one single answer and there's complications 01:27:20.100 --> 01:27:22.140 and all kinds of caveats and, 01:27:22.780 --> 01:27:24.640 that's just the nature of the beast. 01:27:24.940 --> 01:27:31.420 And so you have a bunch of experts who can debate and come to a consensus and 01:27:31.420 --> 01:27:36.020 just, you know, recommend an approach and sometimes they're wrong, 01:27:36.200 --> 01:27:38.100 but it's the best you can do at that moment. 01:27:38.280 --> 01:27:45.580 The one thing you don't do is have some jackass who doesn't even believe that germs are real, 01:27:45.820 --> 01:27:49.500 which by the way, RFK wrote about that in one of his books, 01:27:49.660 --> 01:27:58.420 that he believes a long discredited 17th and 18th century theory of the miasma 01:27:58.420 --> 01:28:03.280 explanation of diseases and other stuff. 01:28:03.500 --> 01:28:07.100 It's basically like, he doesn't believe in germs. 01:28:08.300 --> 01:28:17.440 He basically wants to undo the last 100 to 200 years of medical progress in 01:28:17.440 --> 01:28:22.720 terms of understanding what the hell is actually going on with people's health. 01:28:23.020 --> 01:28:24.240 It's just unbelievable. 01:28:24.560 --> 01:28:33.140 Anyway, so there's no surprise that a bunch of CDC people are unhappy with that and are leaving. 01:28:33.380 --> 01:28:37.880 I mean, a whole bunch of them were fired anyway already in multiple rounds of layoffs. 01:28:38.300 --> 01:28:43.140 Of the ones that are left, the ones that can are leaving. 01:28:43.880 --> 01:28:48.080 I know they're ones trapped because they don't know where else they can go and 01:28:48.080 --> 01:28:52.540 are hoping that they can hunker down and still do some good where they are. 01:28:52.680 --> 01:29:01.160 But fundamentally, you are taking one of the premier public health institutions 01:29:01.160 --> 01:29:03.900 in the world, which has not been perfect. 01:29:03.900 --> 01:29:09.640 They made some mistakes during COVID, especially in the first few months of 01:29:09.640 --> 01:29:11.680 COVID. They made some big mistakes. 01:29:11.980 --> 01:29:15.980 Like there was that whole thing about insisting on using their own tests instead 01:29:15.980 --> 01:29:17.880 of using the European tests. 01:29:18.160 --> 01:29:23.580 And because of that, delaying things by a couple months. And there was the whole 01:29:23.580 --> 01:29:30.080 thing of being slow to realize it really was a fully airborne disease and not just droplets. 01:29:30.840 --> 01:29:36.080 And therefore, you know, the quality of mask mattered. So it wasn't just use 01:29:36.080 --> 01:29:38.440 a mask. You needed to say use a good mask. 01:29:40.400 --> 01:29:44.340 And there's been a whole bunch of things CDC has done wrong. They're not perfect. 01:29:44.940 --> 01:29:51.020 But they were still one of the best, if not the best, such institutions in the 01:29:51.020 --> 01:29:53.520 world. They've been destroyed. 01:29:54.680 --> 01:29:57.720 And no one can trust them at 01:29:57.720 --> 01:30:01.080 this point because there's no 01:30:01.080 --> 01:30:07.040 faith that they're actually making determinations based on the science at this 01:30:07.040 --> 01:30:13.360 point and you know things that they publish are being put through like political 01:30:13.360 --> 01:30:15.660 review before they can go out they've 01:30:15.660 --> 01:30:20.240 been prohibited from talking about certain topics at all. It's bad. 01:30:20.960 --> 01:30:24.400 And this is just the latest example 01:30:24.400 --> 01:30:32.620 of the federal agencies that are being systematically made ineffective. 01:30:33.300 --> 01:30:41.500 You know, I mean, we had all the USAID foreign aid stuff costing potentially 01:30:41.500 --> 01:30:45.920 millions of lives by taking away that aid from places it was really needed. 01:30:47.080 --> 01:30:52.940 Now we have CDC. It's also going to cost lives. They do good work there. 01:30:54.340 --> 01:30:57.320 And even when they make mistakes, they're trying their damn best. 01:30:57.500 --> 01:30:59.280 Now they can't try their best anymore. 01:31:00.660 --> 01:31:07.540 And, you know, it all comes back to Steve Bannon's comment about deconstructing 01:31:07.540 --> 01:31:08.780 the administrative state. 01:31:09.500 --> 01:31:14.040 This was all in Project 2025, too, for all the people who are like, oh, that's all made up. 01:31:14.140 --> 01:31:16.100 That's not really anything Donald Trump's going to be doing. 01:31:16.200 --> 01:31:21.760 I saw this one website. I don't have it handy, but they're tracking like exactly 01:31:21.760 --> 01:31:26.820 what of Project 2025 has already been implemented. 01:31:26.880 --> 01:31:31.020 Let me see if I can find it really, really quick. project 2025 01:31:31.020 --> 01:31:36.340 implementation tracker here 01:31:36.340 --> 01:31:40.380 we go okay this website project 01:31:40.380 --> 01:31:44.400 2025 dot observer and 01:31:44.400 --> 01:31:47.380 basically they've got a nice little 01:31:47.380 --> 01:31:50.400 little tracker here and let's see 01:31:50.400 --> 01:31:54.000 40 they what they track is 01:31:54.000 --> 01:31:57.620 47 percent of what 01:31:57.620 --> 01:32:07.320 was in project 2025 has already been implemented so that's there are 317 total 01:32:07.320 --> 01:32:14.380 objectives that they distilled out of project 2025 116 are done 63 more in progress. 01:32:15.520 --> 01:32:21.460 And the agencies where this has gone the furthest, there were six objectives 01:32:21.460 --> 01:32:23.820 for USAID, 100% complete. 01:32:24.200 --> 01:32:29.660 There was one objective for the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, 100% complete. 01:32:30.000 --> 01:32:35.600 For White House itself, 13 objectives, 92% complete. Department of State, 01:32:35.740 --> 01:32:37.760 10 objectives, 75% complete. 01:32:38.280 --> 01:32:42.780 U.S. Agency for Global Media, three objectives, 67% complete. 01:32:42.940 --> 01:32:44.560 And then it goes down from there. 01:32:45.520 --> 01:32:50.780 And if you go to this website, they track it objective by objective by objective. 01:32:51.380 --> 01:32:57.760 So, for instance, the latest was the Department of Labor. Provide robust accommodations 01:32:57.760 --> 01:32:59.060 for religious employees. 01:32:59.940 --> 01:33:04.220 Note, OPM issued a memo that allow federal workers to promote their religious 01:33:04.220 --> 01:33:09.280 beliefs to colleagues, display religious items at work, and pray together or individually. 01:33:10.100 --> 01:33:13.540 And then they've got sources for that one. And before that, at the CDC. 01:33:14.520 --> 01:33:19.840 Promote fertility awareness-based methods as opposed to contraception for family planning. 01:33:20.360 --> 01:33:25.260 Note, the administration is rerouting birth control funds to menstrual cycle 01:33:25.260 --> 01:33:29.200 education classes to try to prevent pregnancy without using birth control. 01:33:29.780 --> 01:33:34.560 And look, all of this stuff is, you know, you could say, well, 01:33:34.680 --> 01:33:36.780 what's objectionable about those things? 01:33:37.440 --> 01:33:41.160 Well, in the CDC example, it's because there have been plenty of studies about 01:33:41.160 --> 01:33:46.620 what's effective and what's not in terms of birth control, and the fertility 01:33:46.620 --> 01:33:50.020 awareness stuff is much, much less effective. 01:33:50.220 --> 01:33:54.200 So if you've got a dollar to spend, you want to spend it on the stuff that's 01:33:54.200 --> 01:33:56.840 more effective, not the stuff that's less effective. 01:33:57.640 --> 01:34:01.520 And on the accommodations for religious employees, look, 01:34:01.960 --> 01:34:09.220 as far as I know, well, I'm not going get out over my skis, but I have no problem with, 01:34:09.420 --> 01:34:15.040 you know, someone wearing religious headgear or religious necklace or otherwise, 01:34:15.040 --> 01:34:17.060 you know, discreetly doing stuff. 01:34:17.180 --> 01:34:19.440 But this is allowing proselytizing. 01:34:19.860 --> 01:34:26.100 This is allowing somebody in the workplace, you know, and this is federal employees 01:34:26.100 --> 01:34:33.260 in a federal place to try to convert me while I'm at work. No, that's not okay. 01:34:34.910 --> 01:34:41.170 Et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. And with, look, it's, again, 01:34:41.390 --> 01:34:44.450 deconstruction of the administrative state. 01:34:44.650 --> 01:34:54.070 It is step by step, agency by agency, taking away the effectiveness of government 01:34:54.070 --> 01:34:56.150 where it has been built up over time. 01:34:56.630 --> 01:35:04.470 Now, and this is, you know, there was another conservative goal going back years 01:35:04.470 --> 01:35:09.030 that didn't work, called Starve the Beast, which was basically, 01:35:09.790 --> 01:35:14.570 take the budget away from the federal government to the point where it becomes ineffective. 01:35:15.890 --> 01:35:22.910 And then you can make the argument that government is bad at XYZ and therefore 01:35:22.910 --> 01:35:25.370 shouldn't do it at all, and we should privatize these things. 01:35:26.310 --> 01:35:29.090 This is essentially the next level extension of that. 01:35:29.090 --> 01:35:34.390 Yes, they are reducing the budget to many of these things, but even where they 01:35:34.390 --> 01:35:37.710 couldn't reduce the budget because, you know, 01:35:38.530 --> 01:35:41.970 and they're doing that too, by the way, they're taking away funding from things 01:35:41.970 --> 01:35:43.890 that Congress has approved, 01:35:43.890 --> 01:35:51.810 but they're step by step taking away the ability to be effective, 01:35:51.810 --> 01:35:55.950 even when the money is still there. And it's part of that same strategy. 01:35:56.270 --> 01:36:01.470 It's like, you know, the argument all along has been government shouldn't be doing these things. 01:36:02.510 --> 01:36:08.170 And you would often hear this couched as government is not good at these things. 01:36:09.150 --> 01:36:12.630 Sometimes government hasn't been the best way to do some of these things. 01:36:12.770 --> 01:36:16.950 And when it's not, it's, you know, we shouldn't absolutely look at the alternatives. 01:36:16.950 --> 01:36:25.550 But in many cases, the reason government hasn't been good is because it's been 01:36:25.550 --> 01:36:27.930 hamstrung in one way or another. 01:36:29.280 --> 01:36:33.900 But in this case, they're taking even the things that government has been good 01:36:33.900 --> 01:36:36.620 at and has been having positive effects. 01:36:37.620 --> 01:36:40.700 They're systematically breaking it. 01:36:40.980 --> 01:36:46.240 They're breaking every aspect of the federal government one piece at a time. 01:36:47.080 --> 01:36:51.800 And part of the reason for that is so that you can then more effectively make 01:36:51.800 --> 01:36:54.800 the argument that government sucks at this, it shouldn't do it at all, 01:36:54.920 --> 01:36:56.780 we should let the private sector do that. 01:36:57.600 --> 01:37:03.280 I think so far, I mean, they're, they're breaking the military too. What am I even saying? 01:37:03.840 --> 01:37:08.780 They're doing all kinds of things that are going to make the military less effective as well. 01:37:09.340 --> 01:37:14.260 But I'm not sure we're quite at the privatized military part yet, 01:37:14.260 --> 01:37:20.120 but we are certainly at the, the whole, 01:37:20.360 --> 01:37:25.340 just like with everything else, the notion of a professionalized military who 01:37:25.340 --> 01:37:30.020 has certain rules that they operate by and certain things that are okay and 01:37:30.020 --> 01:37:31.200 certain things that are not, 01:37:32.440 --> 01:37:33.340 I think that's... 01:37:33.880 --> 01:37:39.500 Anybody who expresses any sort of dissent or question about that is gone or going to be gone. 01:37:39.700 --> 01:37:45.180 They're getting rid of trans people. They're getting rid of women. 01:37:47.040 --> 01:37:52.400 I believe at this point all of the female generals have been fired. 01:37:52.400 --> 01:37:56.260 If not all of them, certainly a lot of them at the highest levels, 01:37:56.260 --> 01:37:58.460 for sure. Maybe there's still some at lower levels. 01:37:59.560 --> 01:38:04.560 They, you know, it's get to go back to how I started this segment. It's getting bad. 01:38:05.870 --> 01:38:12.090 Point by point, step by step, power is being centralized in the president. 01:38:12.310 --> 01:38:16.170 And, you know, even if Donald Trump does die and it becomes J.D. 01:38:16.210 --> 01:38:21.570 Vance, by the way, latest speculation I saw, which resonates with me, 01:38:21.730 --> 01:38:28.190 is he probably had some non-hospital medical procedure that they could do at the White House. 01:38:28.190 --> 01:38:34.490 He was probably told about it several weeks ago, which explains why, 01:38:34.490 --> 01:38:39.250 you know, he was all talking about his mortality and wanting to get into heaven 01:38:39.250 --> 01:38:41.510 and all this kind of crap. 01:38:42.490 --> 01:38:47.830 And then he had the procedure and he's been recovering and he's like, 01:38:48.030 --> 01:38:52.230 you know, from whatever the procedure was, it was something they could do at the White House. 01:38:52.230 --> 01:38:55.990 They didn't have to take him to the hospital, but, you know, 01:38:56.130 --> 01:38:59.370 it put him out of commission for a couple of days and now he's recovered. 01:38:59.730 --> 01:39:05.610 Makes perfect sense. I saw a count called Hilly on TikTok that said that. 01:39:07.410 --> 01:39:11.790 So, yeah, it's specifically Hilly the nurse. 01:39:12.330 --> 01:39:15.630 There you go. TikTok.com slash at Hilly the nurse. 01:39:16.670 --> 01:39:21.030 Made perfect sense to me. But anyway, the point is they're consolidating power 01:39:21.030 --> 01:39:23.910 and executive to an extent we haven't seen in this country. 01:39:24.870 --> 01:39:30.910 Donald Trump is right up at, I'd say he's passed the verge of defying court 01:39:30.910 --> 01:39:34.950 orders and it hasn't been brought to a head at the Supreme Court yet, 01:39:34.950 --> 01:39:37.950 but he's been defying court orders left and right. 01:39:37.950 --> 01:39:44.790 He's been making changes to spending that should have to be authorized by Congress. 01:39:45.030 --> 01:39:48.190 He's been shutting down agencies that were authorized by Congress that should 01:39:48.190 --> 01:39:51.910 only be shut down by Congress. He's... 01:39:53.020 --> 01:39:59.940 Practicing putting troops domestically in various places, it's getting bad fast. 01:40:00.640 --> 01:40:09.520 We're seeing things that if you, I was going to say, you would be shocked to 01:40:09.520 --> 01:40:12.820 even see being considered if you went back 10 or 20 years. 01:40:12.980 --> 01:40:16.220 But that led me to think of the standard cliche, Like, 01:40:16.580 --> 01:40:23.340 can you imagine if Obama had done this, how this very same people who are rah, 01:40:23.460 --> 01:40:28.540 rah, Donald Trump are, you know, are happy about these things when Donald Trump is doing it. 01:40:28.820 --> 01:40:34.920 Can you even imagine if Obama had been doing this kind of stuff that already 01:40:34.920 --> 01:40:37.940 be, you know, armed insurrection? 01:40:38.940 --> 01:40:41.780 But what the hell am I talking about? There was one on January 6th. 01:40:44.340 --> 01:40:48.960 Although the a lot of people there had weapons it didn't actually escalate into 01:40:48.960 --> 01:40:55.860 a battle from both sides with with firearms anyway i mean obviously they were 01:40:55.860 --> 01:41:01.960 beating people with flag flagpoles and fire hydrants and all kinds of things but. 01:41:03.880 --> 01:41:08.460 Anyway i think it's just going to get worse before it gets better and i'm not 01:41:08.460 --> 01:41:12.820 and even if Even if Donald Trump is replaced by J.D. 01:41:12.900 --> 01:41:16.400 Vance, I don't have a lot of faith that it's going to get better fast. 01:41:17.980 --> 01:41:23.100 Keep watching, try not to get too accustomed to all this stuff. 01:41:23.220 --> 01:41:27.220 I mean, people said don't normalize things from the very first day Donald Trump 01:41:27.220 --> 01:41:30.480 was elected, before he even became president. 01:41:30.720 --> 01:41:33.940 And of course, what we've been doing, it's human nature. 01:41:34.540 --> 01:41:39.960 We get used to things, and then that is just the normal. 01:41:40.500 --> 01:41:45.120 Oh, there goes Donald Trump again. There he goes violating another norm. 01:41:45.120 --> 01:41:47.200 There he goes violating another law. 01:41:47.360 --> 01:41:50.280 It's not even news anymore because he does it every day. 01:41:51.220 --> 01:41:55.100 Try to retain the outrage because we have to. 01:41:55.940 --> 01:42:02.900 In the meantime, like I said, I don't see a way that it doesn't get worse before it gets better. 01:42:03.960 --> 01:42:07.860 And on that happy note, let's wrap up the show. I've gone a lot longer in this 01:42:07.860 --> 01:42:09.160 segment than I had intended. 01:42:10.180 --> 01:42:14.800 Curmudgeons-corner.com. You can find our archives. you can find all the ways 01:42:14.800 --> 01:42:20.600 to contact us find transcripts and i still haven't linked the tiktok i mentioned 01:42:20.600 --> 01:42:24.180 the tiktok you can search for curmudgeon's corner on tiktok you'll find it, 01:42:25.020 --> 01:42:30.880 and i i i reserved the handle for blue sky but i haven't set up anything so 01:42:30.880 --> 01:42:35.880 curmudgeon's corner is not yet posting on blue sky but we are on mastodon you'll find that, 01:42:36.880 --> 01:42:41.440 and of course there's a link to a patreon where you can give us money at various 01:42:41.440 --> 01:42:43.140 levels we'll mention you on the show. 01:42:43.280 --> 01:42:45.820 We'll ring a bell, send you a postcard, send you a mug. 01:42:46.940 --> 01:42:50.380 Soon, I'll set it up so you can just buy a mug if you want to buy a mug. 01:42:50.560 --> 01:42:52.660 I haven't done it yet. Maybe someday. 01:42:54.020 --> 01:42:57.520 And of course, at $2 a month or more on the Patreon, we will invite you to the 01:42:57.520 --> 01:43:03.720 Curmudgeon's Corner Slack, where Yvonne and I and a bunch of listeners are chatting 01:43:03.720 --> 01:43:08.300 throughout the week, sharing links, and all kinds of other stuff. 01:43:09.720 --> 01:43:14.020 Should I do the highlight? Sure. Here's something from the Curmudgeon's Corner 01:43:14.020 --> 01:43:15.600 Slack that I have not mentioned on the show. 01:43:16.280 --> 01:43:27.120 There was an article on the BBC, Taco Bell rethinks AI drive-thru after man orders 18,000 waters. 01:43:28.640 --> 01:43:33.180 This is exactly what you think it is. A whole bunch of fast food restaurants 01:43:33.180 --> 01:43:38.720 are experimenting with having AIs man the drive-thru. So when you talk at the 01:43:38.720 --> 01:43:43.600 drive-thru and make your order, there's an AI talking to you instead of a human being. 01:43:44.920 --> 01:43:48.180 McDonald's tried this a few months back and had to shut it down pretty quickly 01:43:48.180 --> 01:43:51.880 because it was doing all kinds of weird things like putting bacon in ice cream. 01:43:53.000 --> 01:43:56.880 Although, you know, I think about that and I'm like, maybe that would be okay. 01:43:57.140 --> 01:44:00.740 Maybe I should try that. But yeah, let's see. 01:44:00.940 --> 01:44:05.160 Last year, McDonald's withdrew AI from its own drive-thrus as the tech misinterpreted 01:44:05.160 --> 01:44:09.380 customer orders, resulting in one person getting bacon added to their ice cream 01:44:09.380 --> 01:44:11.500 in error, and another having hundreds 01:44:11.500 --> 01:44:15.340 of dollars worth of chicken nuggets mistakenly added to their order. 01:44:16.600 --> 01:44:21.380 This guy with the 18,000 waters was obviously just trying to screw with the AI. 01:44:22.040 --> 01:44:28.780 In another example from this AI, the Taco Bell AI, it kept asking, 01:44:28.940 --> 01:44:30.480 would you like a drink with that? 01:44:30.700 --> 01:44:33.260 Would you like a drink with that? Over and over and over again, 01:44:33.400 --> 01:44:35.440 after the guy had said what drink he wanted. 01:44:35.840 --> 01:44:38.620 And it just would never end. It got into a loop. It got stuck. 01:44:39.840 --> 01:44:45.160 Anyway, AI is awesome. Look, I'm using it for a bunch of stuff. 01:44:45.760 --> 01:44:52.140 You know, the question is where it's being used, where it's actually beyond 01:44:52.140 --> 01:44:56.100 what it's actually good at yet. I'm sure it'll get better. 01:44:57.660 --> 01:45:04.700 People keep trying to push the limits, and bad things are going to happen. 01:45:04.940 --> 01:45:08.200 More than just 18,000 waters at the Taco Bell drive-thru. 01:45:09.240 --> 01:45:11.840 Something massive is going to get screwed up at some point. 01:45:13.280 --> 01:45:19.920 Well, we already had AI determine the tariff levels, the initial tariff levels, so what am I saying? 01:45:20.900 --> 01:45:25.020 Ah, geez. Okay, that's it. I'm done. I'm out of here. 01:45:25.840 --> 01:45:28.960 Hopefully, Yvonne will be back next week. Have a great time, 01:45:29.100 --> 01:45:32.140 everybody. Stay safe. All the stuff I usually say. 01:45:33.200 --> 01:45:36.940 And it is indeed after midnight Pacific time as I'm wrapping this up. 01:45:37.060 --> 01:45:39.760 It's coming close to 1230 a.m. 01:45:40.060 --> 01:45:42.180 On Monday Pacific time. 01:45:42.500 --> 01:45:44.620 Coming close to 730 UTC. 01:45:46.100 --> 01:45:48.160 Ah, I'll get this sucker out. 01:45:49.860 --> 01:45:53.620 Probably, you know, sometime Monday. Whatever. 01:45:54.480 --> 01:45:59.900 I'm late. podcast is later than I like it to be, but it's not the first time it's come out on Monday. 01:46:00.020 --> 01:46:07.080 It's even come out on Tuesday before of the week after I anchored this in the week. 01:46:07.180 --> 01:46:10.880 It's supposed to be four because I started on Saturday. 01:46:11.480 --> 01:46:16.840 There's one podcast per Sunday through Saturday week. And this one started on 01:46:16.840 --> 01:46:18.500 Saturday. So it counts. Damn it. 01:46:19.780 --> 01:46:26.020 Haven't missed one. Not going to now, But I have been several days late finishing 01:46:26.020 --> 01:46:32.100 and posting them before because of things like this, where I space it out over 01:46:32.100 --> 01:46:34.060 the course of a couple days. Anyway, whatever. 01:46:34.620 --> 01:46:36.920 Here comes the music. Goodbye, everyone. 01:46:37.720 --> 01:46:40.200 I already said stay safe. Goodbye! 01:47:10.980 --> 01:47:15.820 Okay, I'm going to hit stop now. We had no live viewers this time. 01:47:15.820 --> 01:47:18.680 But you know last week we 01:47:18.680 --> 01:47:21.500 apparently did have some people watch the watch a good 01:47:21.500 --> 01:47:26.540 chunk of the podcast if not even all of it on on the live stream well on the 01:47:26.540 --> 01:47:33.980 recording of the live stream on youtube so hi to anybody on youtube and goodbye 01:47:33.980 --> 01:47:39.660 hi goodbye whatever i'm hitting stop bye folks.