WEBVTT 00:00:08.050 --> 00:00:24.810 We are the curmudgeons Doing a live stream I am a lone curmudgeon Because Sam's computer shit the bed, 00:00:33.130 --> 00:00:36.110 I can't sing worth a 00:00:36.110 --> 00:00:46.270 damn I am on live stream I hate being alone on the live stream I need to get 00:00:46.270 --> 00:00:56.050 back here Nothing I just said rhymes It's why I'm not an artist Please, 00:00:56.650 --> 00:01:01.930 for the love of God Can you get Sam to fix his shit? 00:01:35.170 --> 00:01:41.010 Welcome to Curmudgeon's Corner for Saturday, September 6th, 2025. 00:01:41.670 --> 00:01:47.870 It is just before 1630 UTC as we're starting to record. I'm Sam Entry, 00:01:47.970 --> 00:01:49.250 Yvonne Bose here again. Hello, Yvonne. 00:01:49.970 --> 00:01:50.390 Hi. 00:01:51.210 --> 00:01:51.730 Hi. 00:01:51.770 --> 00:01:52.290 Greetings. 00:01:54.890 --> 00:01:58.730 Yeah, so as usual, we'll do a butt first with non-newsy stuff, 00:01:58.730 --> 00:02:01.530 and then we'll move into newsy stuff as the show proceeds. 00:02:02.390 --> 00:02:07.430 I will start out by saying I promised something last week when you were out 00:02:07.430 --> 00:02:13.590 that I have not yet completed, which was a time lapse of my wife, 00:02:13.730 --> 00:02:18.650 son, and I moving her old Buick Riata over six feet to the left. 00:02:19.750 --> 00:02:25.650 Yeah so i i started to put that together from the the video clips from our ring 00:02:25.650 --> 00:02:31.090 camera but i haven't finished so i i have not put that out yet but i will i 00:02:31.090 --> 00:02:34.230 will i will eventually now i say that but but. 00:02:34.230 --> 00:02:36.210 But but it's been done but it was done. 00:02:36.210 --> 00:02:41.870 It was done without without any destruction without any destruction it was done 00:02:41.870 --> 00:02:45.410 before last week's show actually i mentioned it and it said I was going to do a time lapse. 00:02:45.650 --> 00:02:48.950 But yeah, and I say that I will produce this time lapse. 00:02:49.110 --> 00:02:56.610 But you should keep in mind, there was once a snowstorm here in Seattle, 00:02:56.810 --> 00:03:01.370 in the Seattle area, that produced like, you know, a couple feet of snow or whatever. 00:03:01.690 --> 00:03:05.390 And it took like, over a month for all the snow to melt away. 00:03:05.950 --> 00:03:12.370 And I started building a time lapse of that whole snowstorm from the Abelcam. 00:03:13.370 --> 00:03:15.870 And I called it Snow Lapse. 00:03:16.410 --> 00:03:17.910 Snow Lapse? Okay. 00:03:18.070 --> 00:03:22.230 And I am still theoretically working on the Snow Lapse video. 00:03:22.230 --> 00:03:26.190 It has been at least a decade since that snowstorm. I have not finished it yet. 00:03:27.630 --> 00:03:31.230 But, you know, but eventually I'll put it out. 00:03:31.470 --> 00:03:34.690 Look, at least I will say that you're consistent. 00:03:35.370 --> 00:03:38.870 There you go. But yes. So anyway, 00:03:39.850 --> 00:03:42.550 and I think I also, by the way, 00:03:42.750 --> 00:03:47.990 I'm going back and forth, whether I just include the moving of the car or I 00:03:47.990 --> 00:03:53.770 also include the reason for the moving of the car, which was that we we filled 00:03:53.770 --> 00:03:57.550 up a whole bunch of dumpster bags versus full of trash. 00:03:57.630 --> 00:04:00.350 That needed to be taken away and we needed to 00:04:00.350 --> 00:04:03.970 like make room for you know 00:04:03.970 --> 00:04:07.330 they were supposed to come in with a like a truck 00:04:07.330 --> 00:04:11.150 and pick up the things and we needed to make sure they had room to come in and 00:04:11.150 --> 00:04:15.650 get them so there's also the putting out of the bins the filling of the bins 00:04:15.650 --> 00:04:20.110 and the taking away of the bins i could include that in the time lapse too so 00:04:20.110 --> 00:04:23.670 of course my my regular but first is going to be a couple movies as it usually 00:04:23.670 --> 00:04:26.390 is these days to try to like move that stuff along. 00:04:27.190 --> 00:04:32.690 What do you got, Yvonne? Did you have a good Labor Day? Did you have a good long weekend thing? 00:04:33.170 --> 00:04:40.650 Well, I mean, it turned out fine, even though it started with some of the slack, you know, 00:04:40.790 --> 00:04:48.550 that I had this blowout at my attire on my car on the highway at night on Thursday. 00:04:48.970 --> 00:04:54.250 Which, one of the things that's just really irritating is that because a lot 00:04:54.250 --> 00:04:56.070 of new cars don't have spare tires. 00:04:57.450 --> 00:05:00.750 Probably yours doesn't. I'm going to guess. 00:05:00.970 --> 00:05:01.390 No. 00:05:02.450 --> 00:05:03.130 It does not. 00:05:04.010 --> 00:05:09.650 It's one of the things that's really irritating. That shit doesn't work. 00:05:10.450 --> 00:05:15.170 I already tried that once. Shit doesn't work. I don't understand how they're going to go away. 00:05:15.370 --> 00:05:19.650 That shit only works if you've got a minor puncture, like you've got a nail, slow leak, whatever. 00:05:20.430 --> 00:05:23.830 But anything else beyond that doesn't matter. 00:05:24.430 --> 00:05:27.510 And the one thing is that, for safety reasons, 00:05:29.050 --> 00:05:35.630 This has happened to me For whatever reason Twice in the last three years And, 00:05:36.430 --> 00:05:40.870 My choice has been If it happens on the highway Especially on the highways here 00:05:40.870 --> 00:05:45.890 in South Florida Where they have made the shoulders A lot smaller than they used to be, 00:05:46.490 --> 00:05:50.170 Meaning that if you get off the road You really have very little margin for 00:05:50.170 --> 00:05:54.390 safety On both occasions I have decided that I will drive that tire, 00:05:54.950 --> 00:06:02.310 As is until I manage to get off an exit and onto a safe place to park. Okay? 00:06:02.750 --> 00:06:02.950 Right. 00:06:03.250 --> 00:06:07.890 There is no way that I will stand on the side of the road, especially since 00:06:07.890 --> 00:06:11.410 on both occasions, I immediately knew the tire was not repairable. 00:06:11.570 --> 00:06:13.590 It's not replaceable. I can't do anything. 00:06:13.810 --> 00:06:17.570 All I'm going to do is just sit on the side of the road to wait for a fucking 00:06:17.570 --> 00:06:22.150 troll truck, and I might as well sit on a nice, safe place, 00:06:23.150 --> 00:06:30.770 Instead of In an unsafe location So I dragged it To the turnpike stop I left 00:06:30.770 --> 00:06:33.870 the car It was at night No towing it to anywhere, 00:06:34.490 --> 00:06:40.710 I took an Uber home I left it there overnight And then the next day I came to get the car with me, 00:06:42.410 --> 00:06:47.030 I mean, I called actually roadside from Volvo. They have roadside, whatever. 00:06:47.270 --> 00:06:51.530 They towed it to the dealer and they put a new tire on it. This is really the 00:06:51.530 --> 00:06:53.450 only thing. I mean, the tire was like shredded to bits. 00:06:53.930 --> 00:06:56.970 So that was the one thing that I was trying to take care of. 00:06:57.170 --> 00:06:59.690 And there was like a concert. I was going to some other stuff. 00:06:59.830 --> 00:07:03.970 But then the other thing that has been keeping us super busy is, 00:07:04.510 --> 00:07:11.090 as I've mentioned here, that I was doing all this work to try to claim Spanish citizenship. Okay. 00:07:11.830 --> 00:07:13.230 Right, yes. 00:07:13.450 --> 00:07:20.510 Which has been quite time-consuming in the sense of gathering all the required documents, okay? 00:07:21.210 --> 00:07:25.490 But the key document that in order to do this, which has been a document that 00:07:25.490 --> 00:07:30.670 I've been chasing for months, and I had asked my mom to get it. 00:07:30.770 --> 00:07:34.870 It's like, look, we needed her grandfather's birth certificate, okay? 00:07:34.870 --> 00:07:41.230 Because he was the one that was born in Spain and moved over to Puerto Rico 00:07:41.230 --> 00:07:45.870 in the early 1900s, or late 1800s. 00:07:48.070 --> 00:07:54.170 And the thing is that, well, I mean, you needed to get this birth certificate in Spain. Okay. 00:07:54.850 --> 00:08:00.630 And I'm like, well, I mean, I guess, or unless it was in my grandmother's paperwork or something. 00:08:00.630 --> 00:08:04.050 And i i said mom you need to get that birth 00:08:04.050 --> 00:08:07.550 certificate okay so but asking 00:08:07.550 --> 00:08:14.030 her sister or whatever come to find out that my my cousin one of my first cousins 00:08:14.030 --> 00:08:22.470 had also figured out decided that they wanted to claim citizenship but they 00:08:22.470 --> 00:08:25.810 had an edge on me they knew the the the the. 00:08:26.900 --> 00:08:29.680 Spanish consul in puerto rico because there 00:08:29.680 --> 00:08:33.020 is a consulate for spain and puerto rico okay and 00:08:33.020 --> 00:08:36.400 she knew the guy so she asked him for help to 00:08:36.400 --> 00:08:42.300 get the birth certificate and lo and behold we were able to get that birth certificate 00:08:42.300 --> 00:08:48.520 okay which is just i i i shared a clip of it it's just one of these i mean it 00:08:48.520 --> 00:08:53.460 the birth certificate isn't a birth certificate they put they put all of these in books, 00:08:54.340 --> 00:08:56.200 where they registered the births. 00:08:56.380 --> 00:08:59.700 I guess at some point, the government of Spain, as many governments, 00:08:59.800 --> 00:09:02.820 they digitized a lot of these records, so you could make them searchable, 00:09:03.220 --> 00:09:06.820 you had the copies, and we were able to get that. 00:09:07.100 --> 00:09:12.800 But then, you have to get all this documented trail to show, okay, great. 00:09:13.300 --> 00:09:17.020 That's your great-grandfather. You gotta get your grandmother's birth certificate, 00:09:17.260 --> 00:09:18.840 and then you gotta get your mother's birth certificate. 00:09:18.960 --> 00:09:24.140 You gotta show the trail of how every person is connected to. 00:09:24.140 --> 00:09:24.720 The ones before. 00:09:25.440 --> 00:09:31.360 Right, to the one that was born in Spain. There's also a thing that Spain had passed a law, 00:09:32.260 --> 00:09:38.520 recognizing that a lot of people in between the late 1800s and up until the 00:09:38.520 --> 00:09:43.140 dictatorship of Franco that were Spanish citizens were stripped of their citizenship 00:09:43.140 --> 00:09:45.240 for various reasons, okay? 00:09:45.700 --> 00:09:51.720 And that included everybody that lived in Puerto Rico. when the U.S. 00:09:52.500 --> 00:09:55.000 Invaded Puerto Rico because the U.S. 00:09:55.860 --> 00:10:00.860 Was invaded. It was a bloodless invasion, but it was still an invasion. 00:10:01.880 --> 00:10:06.600 And they took over the Spanish-American War and the treaty that ensued. 00:10:06.740 --> 00:10:09.760 They had taken possession of Cuba, the Philippines, and Puerto Rico. 00:10:10.180 --> 00:10:14.600 One of the things that happened is that for some reason, in the treaties, 00:10:15.160 --> 00:10:18.500 Puerto Ricans wound up stateless in a certain way. 00:10:18.500 --> 00:10:25.440 Nobody recognized Puerto Rican citizenship There was such a thing, 00:10:26.260 --> 00:10:33.920 existed between 1898 and 1914. But it was useless. You couldn't really travel with it. 00:10:35.100 --> 00:10:39.060 And then at some point in the U.S. they said, okay, we'll allow, 00:10:39.320 --> 00:10:45.340 in between that time period, we'll allow Puerto Ricans to go and they can go 00:10:45.340 --> 00:10:47.600 to mainland U.S. and be naturalized. 00:10:48.080 --> 00:10:52.940 Okay? We could do that. But that was complicated. Okay? 00:10:53.580 --> 00:10:57.780 Now, for some reason, Cuba and the Philippines And I guess because there were, 00:10:57.940 --> 00:11:00.260 Puerto Rico was a lot smaller. 00:11:00.480 --> 00:11:04.240 Puerto Rico had like, I'm not even sure if it had a million people back then. 00:11:04.620 --> 00:11:06.120 Cuba and the Philippines were way bigger. 00:11:06.720 --> 00:11:11.920 Those, that was pretty clear what it was. I believe that there were, 00:11:11.960 --> 00:11:14.680 you know, they were colonies. 00:11:15.060 --> 00:11:21.700 There were countries. They had a citizenship, okay, that was Cuban or Filipino 00:11:21.700 --> 00:11:26.420 citizenship established. So Puerto Rico was the one that was a little bit in flux. 00:11:26.540 --> 00:11:31.420 And I think also in part was because there was a time period where Puerto Rico 00:11:31.420 --> 00:11:36.340 was kind of like treated to an extent like a province of Spain. 00:11:36.600 --> 00:11:40.360 So people in Puerto Rico were Spanish citizens. 00:11:41.000 --> 00:11:47.480 But look, after the war, Spain stripped everybody that was there, 00:11:48.040 --> 00:11:49.520 the Spanish citizenship. 00:11:49.520 --> 00:11:55.680 Even if you were born in Spain and you were you had your residence in Puerto 00:11:55.680 --> 00:12:03.180 Rico you lost your citizenship period okay nice so that created a situation that. 00:12:04.160 --> 00:12:09.980 Eventually, Congress debated this for a long time for racist reasons. 00:12:10.640 --> 00:12:13.100 They said, no, we can't make that a state. 00:12:15.320 --> 00:12:19.720 But I will say that given the time to their defense, they were actually, 00:12:19.940 --> 00:12:21.140 they said, you know what? 00:12:21.580 --> 00:12:24.980 They were completely leaning. We need to give them just citizenship. The hell with it. 00:12:25.300 --> 00:12:28.920 Okay? It's not that many people, really. This solves the problem. 00:12:29.240 --> 00:12:32.320 Right now, they can't travel. They don't have citizenship. ship 00:12:32.320 --> 00:12:35.800 so puerto ricans this this 00:12:35.800 --> 00:12:41.700 whole situation congress kept dallying around for some reason they didn't get 00:12:41.700 --> 00:12:45.540 to it they wanted to do it before world war one i i do think in part because 00:12:45.540 --> 00:12:53.920 they they needed people okay so uh you know what a war but they didn't get around to granting, 00:12:54.520 --> 00:13:00.680 puerto rican citizenship until like 1917 and it was under the jones act and 00:13:00.680 --> 00:13:04.540 the one thing about about that is that borrowing and citizenship, 00:13:05.700 --> 00:13:10.980 and this has been a point of debate, it's just for a virtual that we by a law 00:13:10.980 --> 00:13:17.840 passed, okay, which in theory, some have discussed, also means, 00:13:18.400 --> 00:13:21.560 could mean that you could, by, 00:13:22.260 --> 00:13:25.580 eliminating the law, then we no longer would be citizens, okay? 00:13:25.820 --> 00:13:26.320 Right. 00:13:27.700 --> 00:13:30.880 And this is a tricky thing, and this has been discussed. I'll tell you that 00:13:30.880 --> 00:13:32.480 I don't know So, you know, 00:13:33.340 --> 00:13:41.280 given the current state of things, nothing would be shocking at this point of 00:13:41.280 --> 00:13:44.060 some kind of like craziness that happens. 00:13:44.060 --> 00:13:49.160 So, the Spanish government several years ago, 00:13:49.320 --> 00:13:56.860 in recognition of the turmoil that happened in that period where Spain endured 00:13:56.860 --> 00:14:02.280 quite an extended period of instability, the late 1800s through until the end 00:14:02.280 --> 00:14:03.860 of the Franco dictatorship, 00:14:04.360 --> 00:14:08.500 passed a law that allowed people that were stripped of, you know, 00:14:08.640 --> 00:14:12.840 and relatives of them, that were stripped of their citizenship from Spain to reclaim. 00:14:12.840 --> 00:14:19.960 Okay and you know the process basically you need to do this filing with documents where you show, 00:14:21.050 --> 00:14:27.130 your, you know, uh, your familiar relationship, you know, how, 00:14:27.310 --> 00:14:29.710 how it connects it and, and submit it. 00:14:29.870 --> 00:14:34.790 There is a deadline to submit that is October 20th of this year. 00:14:35.130 --> 00:14:37.030 Oh yeah. Okay. 00:14:37.190 --> 00:14:38.550 So now the thing is that. 00:14:38.690 --> 00:14:40.570 So you're running right up against the deadline here. 00:14:40.690 --> 00:14:41.810 Well, here's the good news. 00:14:41.950 --> 00:14:44.130 The thing is the deadline set like years ago. 00:14:44.390 --> 00:14:48.310 Yeah. It was like set a couple of years ago. Yeah. But here's the thing that 00:14:48.310 --> 00:14:50.790 they, they had a deadline to do it last year. 00:14:50.790 --> 00:14:56.510 They extended it one year, but, okay, to be, I had looked into this and was 00:14:56.510 --> 00:15:01.070 like, I wasn't really that motivated to do so. 00:15:01.610 --> 00:15:10.270 But, given the recent electoral events, then I did become far more interested in this. 00:15:10.270 --> 00:15:18.070 But then the thing is that I had sent this to my family, and now everybody in 00:15:18.070 --> 00:15:21.710 my family wants to claim this as well. 00:15:21.970 --> 00:15:29.090 So all of a sudden, it's just a blizzard of paperwork in order to get all the 00:15:29.090 --> 00:15:32.130 documents to do this right now. 00:15:32.930 --> 00:15:36.710 I mean at least but the one most important one, 00:15:37.370 --> 00:15:40.310 was my great grandfather's birth 00:15:40.310 --> 00:15:43.310 certificate which thankfully my cousin who 00:15:43.310 --> 00:15:45.910 had had I have a lot 00:15:45.910 --> 00:15:49.570 of cousins but only one of them had the brilliant idea the 00:15:49.570 --> 00:15:52.390 same idea as me to do so but they 00:15:52.390 --> 00:15:55.070 also had one edge that I did not have is that they 00:15:55.070 --> 00:15:57.990 actually do the Spanish consul so they were able to 00:15:57.990 --> 00:16:01.390 procure that birth certificate Which 00:16:01.390 --> 00:16:04.530 I Which I think is mentioning 00:16:04.530 --> 00:16:07.870 These are books man It's just 00:16:07.870 --> 00:16:10.790 Books they kept and they scanned 00:16:10.790 --> 00:16:13.790 And they registered It's just crazy But 00:16:13.790 --> 00:16:21.330 right now basically I've got that All of my siblings And as far as I can tell 00:16:21.330 --> 00:16:30.890 Almost all of my nephews Are submitting this They want to submit their applications All of them. 00:16:31.740 --> 00:16:36.220 I, all of them. And, and look. 00:16:36.340 --> 00:16:40.400 And so are you helping all of them or are they just, or is everybody doing their own? 00:16:40.440 --> 00:16:43.540 Now the first thing that I, the first, no, no, no, I am helping all of them. 00:16:43.660 --> 00:16:46.880 The thing is that the first thing I have to do, it was important that the first 00:16:46.880 --> 00:16:50.140 thing to do, which I just spent the other day and I, I got confirmation that 00:16:50.140 --> 00:16:51.400 it was successfully submitted. 00:16:52.320 --> 00:16:53.900 I was to set my mom's. 00:16:55.640 --> 00:17:00.240 So I got that done. and I do have a confirmation that it was properly submitted 00:17:00.240 --> 00:17:02.220 before the deadline and so forth. 00:17:02.560 --> 00:17:05.900 They said on the site that if for some reason you submitted something, 00:17:06.080 --> 00:17:09.880 a document that needs correction or something, then by virtue of just submitting 00:17:09.880 --> 00:17:11.560 it, they will give you time. 00:17:11.560 --> 00:17:17.780 If you say, hey, you didn't submit this right, you need to correct this, you have time to do that. 00:17:18.240 --> 00:17:22.040 So just by putting it in before the deadline, that gives you that. 00:17:22.300 --> 00:17:24.220 Eventually they will review the documents. 00:17:24.840 --> 00:17:31.100 They will set you up to have an appointment at the spanish consulate to review 00:17:31.100 --> 00:17:35.720 and then you know you can get the citizenship awarded the one thing there's 00:17:35.720 --> 00:17:40.320 no residency requirement for this either you don't have to uh and and there's 00:17:40.320 --> 00:17:42.900 and it can be a dual citizenship also as well, 00:17:43.740 --> 00:17:50.480 so so it seems pretty straightforward right now but yeah but it's but but it 00:17:50.480 --> 00:17:52.600 was complicated to get all the. 00:17:54.360 --> 00:18:00.640 Documents just straightened out and the forms that you had to fill out I always 00:18:00.640 --> 00:18:06.560 have to remember also that dates, you remember that the US convention for writing 00:18:06.560 --> 00:18:08.980 down a date is not the same as the rest of the world, 00:18:10.540 --> 00:18:17.920 and I kept the one thing is that just remembering that I gotta I have to write, 00:18:19.440 --> 00:18:23.040 I'm used to, well I'm actually used to it the one thing is that i think i came 00:18:23.040 --> 00:18:28.220 up with a website that it was like you know i i was like okay look i'm doing 00:18:28.220 --> 00:18:33.640 this in spanish so i have to put day month year not the other way and then 00:18:34.060 --> 00:18:40.780 for some reason the damn website was trying to do it one one place where i didn't 00:18:40.780 --> 00:18:45.060 expect that to be needed it tried to do it the reverse and i'm like what the 00:18:45.060 --> 00:18:47.940 fuck why are you rejecting my date you idiot. 00:18:48.320 --> 00:18:50.980 I was like, why are you asking for it in English format? 00:18:52.060 --> 00:18:54.620 By then I realized it was just the format. It's just like, 00:18:56.720 --> 00:19:00.740 But you have to just, it's just a, it was. 00:19:00.940 --> 00:19:04.020 It's a problem. It's a long, involved, convoluted process. 00:19:04.280 --> 00:19:07.100 Then things, for example, look, I'm sitting down with my mom. 00:19:07.720 --> 00:19:10.780 My mom doesn't know how to write an email. 00:19:12.400 --> 00:19:14.040 She should use Chapman GPT. 00:19:14.300 --> 00:19:17.960 But here's the one thing. Well, no, she doesn't know. Come on, she wouldn't. 00:19:18.600 --> 00:19:23.640 Here's the interesting thing. I think it's more refusal than anything else. I will tell you this. 00:19:23.780 --> 00:19:26.520 It's not, it's not that she can't. it says she 00:19:26.520 --> 00:19:29.600 doesn't want to because i remember when we were listen 00:19:29.600 --> 00:19:33.820 when we were growing up we had we had compute you know we had a computer system 00:19:33.820 --> 00:19:39.620 at the pharmacy to process like prescriptions and everything and like our account 00:19:39.620 --> 00:19:43.480 you know a customer accounts or whatever she used that perfectly without a problem 00:19:43.480 --> 00:19:48.900 okay all right there's this freaking idm you know whatever right whatever, 00:19:49.500 --> 00:19:54.240 yeah and it's like it's it was this is you know and she used one of these like 00:19:54.240 --> 00:19:55.480 mainframe type terminals? 00:19:55.600 --> 00:19:58.240 She used that perfectly fine. I just don't think she wants it. 00:19:58.640 --> 00:20:02.880 All of a sudden, to her, me making copies and scanning documents seemed like magic. 00:20:03.620 --> 00:20:11.360 My father, by the way, who has all this gadget to do this, basically every time 00:20:11.360 --> 00:20:16.760 he has to scan a document, has to call me to figure out how to scan a document. 00:20:17.780 --> 00:20:21.800 He doesn't understand how to scan a document yet. 00:20:23.120 --> 00:20:25.960 He will call me, so how How do you do this? 00:20:27.460 --> 00:20:30.580 Oh, God, look, you see the thing, the image. 00:20:30.760 --> 00:20:34.420 Okay, place it, you know, where it says. You see how it's got the stuff written? 00:20:34.480 --> 00:20:36.160 That means that direction up. 00:20:36.400 --> 00:20:38.800 And that might bother, damn it. I'll tell you something he did. 00:20:38.940 --> 00:20:43.100 He bought a combination printer, scanner, copier thing that he has. 00:20:43.640 --> 00:20:44.920 That's our common, yes. 00:20:45.080 --> 00:20:49.040 Yeah, that's our common, okay? That works pretty decently, except for one thing. 00:20:49.180 --> 00:20:50.700 It doesn't do double-sided scanning. 00:20:50.960 --> 00:20:54.340 And I find that quite irritating, okay? Can I be honest? 00:20:54.560 --> 00:20:57.300 That's just asinine, okay? 00:20:57.460 --> 00:21:00.980 Why would you have a printer that can do double-sided printing, 00:21:01.320 --> 00:21:02.960 but not double-sided scanning? 00:21:03.780 --> 00:21:07.240 I mean, that's just asinine with that thing. 00:21:07.560 --> 00:21:12.360 Here's another thing I discovered, okay? All right? By doing this all on my father's place. 00:21:13.120 --> 00:21:19.440 My dad has a laptop, an iPad, an iMac. 00:21:19.860 --> 00:21:24.240 You know, he doesn't buy shit. He doesn't know how to use most of it. 00:21:24.320 --> 00:21:30.700 But he just has it all, okay? I realized that I went to use his iMac that was 00:21:30.700 --> 00:21:34.100 directly connected to the scanner, okay, to do this. 00:21:34.320 --> 00:21:37.980 Number one thing that's a little bit perturbing is that for some reason the 00:21:37.980 --> 00:21:42.500 app for Yandex, the Russian search engine, is installed on there. 00:21:42.760 --> 00:21:47.500 I had removed it already several times. I don't know why he keeps reinstalling. 00:21:47.940 --> 00:21:53.380 Who keeps doing this? So that's very perturbing, okay, all right? 00:21:53.500 --> 00:21:57.740 And I removed it before, Sam. I know that I went and I removed this. 00:21:57.900 --> 00:21:59.560 And I'm like, why the fuck is this thing? 00:21:59.800 --> 00:22:02.180 Why is Yandex back on? Okay. 00:22:03.280 --> 00:22:07.500 But then, you know, I did use it. Scan some documents on it. 00:22:07.660 --> 00:22:10.860 Because for some reason, originally, I couldn't. I was under. 00:22:11.000 --> 00:22:16.680 My father, for whatever reason, has two Wi-Fi networks. I don't understand why. So I couldn't connect. 00:22:17.180 --> 00:22:22.500 I couldn't. At first, I was on the wrong Wi-Fi network that my computer or my 00:22:22.500 --> 00:22:26.460 iPad couldn't find. the damn multifunction. 00:22:26.680 --> 00:22:29.680 Then I realized I'm in the wrong Wi-Fi. I had to switch over. 00:22:30.360 --> 00:22:33.800 But before I did that, I used the iMac. But I realized something, 00:22:33.920 --> 00:22:35.640 Sam. That iMac, I'm shocked. 00:22:35.900 --> 00:22:39.920 It works pretty... Even though it's got the rushing thing or whatever, 00:22:40.400 --> 00:22:44.340 I was like, all of a sudden, I scanned and I looked at the interface. 00:22:44.940 --> 00:22:49.420 It seems like a very old macOS interface. This isn't recent. 00:22:50.140 --> 00:22:55.140 I'm like, how old is this thing? I did realize, I opened the about This is a 00:22:55.140 --> 00:22:58.500 2014 iMac that somehow still runs. 00:22:58.800 --> 00:23:03.460 You see, I had a couple of iMacs dating to that day that died on, 00:23:04.230 --> 00:23:11.450 father's, which has been on continuously, he does not shut it off. It's a 2014 iMac. 00:23:11.810 --> 00:23:17.350 So it's 11 years old. And by the way, it still works pretty reasonably well. 00:23:18.610 --> 00:23:22.870 I get stuff, and it's not like it was a crawling to a slope or whatever. 00:23:23.090 --> 00:23:26.490 No, I was able to scan the documents, airdrop them, do whatever. 00:23:26.870 --> 00:23:29.470 And I'm like, holy shit, this thing works. 00:23:30.410 --> 00:23:33.710 But my mom was like totally like completely like 00:23:33.710 --> 00:23:36.550 shocked at my skills of doing this there's another thing also 00:23:36.550 --> 00:23:39.910 i submitted this to the site but the file 00:23:39.910 --> 00:23:45.950 sizes have to be under one megabyte yeah and i'm like fuck me i scanned all 00:23:45.950 --> 00:23:49.930 of these i say hey they have to be person i think it said in some place scan 00:23:49.930 --> 00:23:54.650 them in full color okay scan them in full color okay great well and i'm like 00:23:54.650 --> 00:23:57.050 well oh but they can't be over one megabyte. 00:23:57.210 --> 00:24:02.130 I'm like, god damn it. You want high quality and then you're trying to get me 00:24:02.130 --> 00:24:07.510 to shrink the size like 70-80% people. Make up your damn mind. 00:24:07.710 --> 00:24:10.310 Okay? Whoever designed this damn site. 00:24:10.550 --> 00:24:16.870 Anyway, after going through all that, shrinking the files, using the 10 plus 00:24:16.870 --> 00:24:22.570 year old technology, impressing my mom with my ability to fill out a PDF without actually printing it. 00:24:22.630 --> 00:24:29.070 My mom actually had to send some letters to my to my aunt to have her go and 00:24:29.070 --> 00:24:35.030 be able to go to the office of Puerto Rico that has the, it's called the demographic registry. 00:24:35.270 --> 00:24:37.990 Okay. All right. That's the actual title of Puerto Rico. 00:24:38.250 --> 00:24:41.670 That's where they have birth certificates, you know, marriage licenses, 00:24:41.890 --> 00:24:43.250 all records of all that stuff. 00:24:44.010 --> 00:24:47.190 My mom wrote the letter by hand because she doesn't, that's a good, 00:24:47.230 --> 00:24:49.390 she didn't know how else to do it. She wrote it by hand now. 00:24:49.630 --> 00:24:52.890 Now I will admit she wrote it by hand now. She didn't know how to send it. 00:24:53.330 --> 00:24:58.970 So I have to have my nephew go Dude, go over there Take a picture of that letter. 00:25:00.250 --> 00:25:05.010 And somehow Send it to my cousin Who was able to print it and then give it to 00:25:05.010 --> 00:25:09.130 my mom's sister Who also doesn't know how to use any technology Of course So 00:25:09.130 --> 00:25:13.230 she can go over there and do this So anyway, this has been, 00:25:13.910 --> 00:25:17.750 A little bit of an ordeal And then I got all my brothers calling me Hey, 00:25:17.830 --> 00:25:19.010 how do you fill out this shit? 00:25:19.950 --> 00:25:26.470 Fine, look, listen Now I got this barrage of people Like all of them Asking 00:25:26.470 --> 00:25:29.310 for help to do this But you know, 00:25:31.030 --> 00:25:37.990 It's still The one thing underlying Me doing this Is a sense of anger Right, 00:25:38.630 --> 00:25:40.330 Because of why the hell I'm doing it. 00:25:41.190 --> 00:25:47.270 Yes, because of everything going on, let's just put it that way. 00:25:48.870 --> 00:25:55.250 You know, let me ask, before we move on to my movies and stuff, 00:25:56.850 --> 00:26:03.230 obviously the purpose of having this Spanish citizenship, which in turn gives 00:26:03.230 --> 00:26:04.530 you EU citizenship, right, 00:26:05.470 --> 00:26:09.050 is to give a potential 00:26:09.050 --> 00:26:16.550 escape route if things get really bad yes you know what what what what is thinking 00:26:16.550 --> 00:26:23.890 through this what kind of things would actually trigger you saying fuck this 00:26:23.890 --> 00:26:26.750 i'm out you're moving to europe i. 00:26:26.750 --> 00:26:35.690 Think the key the key has to do with protections for money because there are 00:26:35.690 --> 00:26:40.790 certain laws that give my son certain protections. 00:26:41.850 --> 00:26:49.630 And also there is a whole bunch of funding that has been available to kids with 00:26:49.630 --> 00:26:53.270 autism that comes from the federal government, state government, et cetera, and so forth. 00:26:53.710 --> 00:27:00.570 I mean, RFP Jr. has openly expressed his disdain for people with autism, 00:27:00.570 --> 00:27:04.470 saying that they're a burden on everybody and so forth and so on. 00:27:04.730 --> 00:27:06.510 And society, in general. 00:27:07.550 --> 00:27:15.490 And you keep getting all these wacko funding cuts just to give tax cuts to rich individuals. 00:27:16.290 --> 00:27:22.390 I mean, to the wealthier people. Which, by the way, includes me in a certain sense. 00:27:22.550 --> 00:27:28.850 But you know what? The tax does not make up for the loss of benefits that my son would get. 00:27:29.430 --> 00:27:32.650 It doesn't at all and so I'm worried about, 00:27:33.370 --> 00:27:36.210 protections I'm worried I mean what are the things I'm worried 00:27:36.210 --> 00:27:39.690 about what he might do to people of Puerto Rican to Steve 00:27:39.690 --> 00:27:42.670 Miller and his minions start getting fucking ideas of 00:27:42.670 --> 00:27:46.630 what they might do to people of Puerto Rican that have citizenship 00:27:46.630 --> 00:27:50.730 by virtue of something like how we have it for example yeah these guys have 00:27:50.730 --> 00:27:53.910 been making every damn move and what the hell the Supreme Court starts doing 00:27:53.910 --> 00:27:59.410 you know but I think that the number one thing is my concern about what programs 00:27:59.410 --> 00:28:03.890 and protections that my son can have in the future. 00:28:04.450 --> 00:28:11.050 And I know that in the EU, especially in certain countries, and across the EU, 00:28:11.170 --> 00:28:14.190 there are a lot more protections and programs. 00:28:14.970 --> 00:28:16.950 It does vary a lot by country. 00:28:17.130 --> 00:28:18.670 I've heard complaints about France. 00:28:18.670 --> 00:28:19.330 For instance. 00:28:20.110 --> 00:28:24.010 But, for example, I know that the Dutch, for example, have been experimenting 00:28:24.010 --> 00:28:27.490 with, for example, building these villages. 00:28:28.630 --> 00:28:30.990 That basically were, you know what? 00:28:32.400 --> 00:28:36.900 These people need to live in a place where they have certain protections so 00:28:36.900 --> 00:28:42.960 they can be more independent, where it's not like we're confining them to an institution. 00:28:43.080 --> 00:28:46.860 No, we're going to build a village to where they can go shop. 00:28:47.040 --> 00:28:51.560 They can go do stuff. they have everything that they have inside a perimeter 00:28:51.560 --> 00:28:57.220 where all protections that they need just to make sure that they, 00:28:58.100 --> 00:29:02.180 have services and we made sure that they're not exposed to like an environment 00:29:02.180 --> 00:29:07.100 where they could get hurt that they could live like comfortably you know but 00:29:07.100 --> 00:29:13.260 but given giving them the independence to you know be on their own so they can go to the, 00:29:13.980 --> 00:29:17.560 grocery store they can go to do stuff they can do whatever they have all of 00:29:17.560 --> 00:29:21.420 these things but also have an extra layer of protection for folks. 00:29:21.620 --> 00:29:26.680 And all this, of course, depends on the support level that's needed, which varies highly. 00:29:27.640 --> 00:29:31.940 Exactly. Because it's something to give people, hey, let's give people independence, 00:29:32.120 --> 00:29:35.060 but let's also give them, because they can do stuff independently, 00:29:35.120 --> 00:29:38.660 the concern is, hey, you want them to do it independently, but you also have 00:29:38.660 --> 00:29:42.400 them to have some additional layer of protection to them. 00:29:42.600 --> 00:29:45.980 It's this kind of middle ground. They're also trying to do that with older people 00:29:45.980 --> 00:29:47.240 and other stuff or whatever. 00:29:47.240 --> 00:29:51.700 Or, you know, say, you know, because one of the things that they do in the U.S., 00:29:51.700 --> 00:29:54.720 hey, we stuff them in our nursing home, and they're stuck in this fucking place, 00:29:54.920 --> 00:30:01.940 in this one building, with very little, like, you know, very little stuff to do, right? 00:30:02.900 --> 00:30:06.740 Kind of like, it's very depressing, okay, the way that this is set up. 00:30:07.100 --> 00:30:10.840 But, you know, you go and you change that into a situation where, 00:30:11.060 --> 00:30:14.760 well, no, they're not stuck in a fucking building. 00:30:14.760 --> 00:30:18.480 You're you're placed in a in a community where 00:30:18.480 --> 00:30:21.340 you have all the benefits 00:30:21.340 --> 00:30:24.140 you know all the benefits of living in a community like 00:30:24.140 --> 00:30:29.080 sometimes like a yeah you know i'm not gonna gosh it's a terrible example you 00:30:29.080 --> 00:30:32.100 think of places like the villages for example like that where people go to retire 00:30:32.100 --> 00:30:35.420 but but kind of like similar hey you've got like the towel you get the whatever 00:30:35.420 --> 00:30:38.960 but then you add all this all this layer of protection around them so we know 00:30:38.960 --> 00:30:44.060 hey we know that we're making sure that we're keeping them safe at the same time. 00:30:44.200 --> 00:30:48.080 And you have the resources to keep people safe, which I think is a great idea. 00:30:48.200 --> 00:30:52.360 My wife had an idea of a similar concept like that, but she kept thinking about 00:30:52.360 --> 00:30:53.960 building something like that in the U.S. 00:30:54.240 --> 00:31:00.040 Bottom line, your trigger that would be like, I got to get the hell out, 00:31:00.220 --> 00:31:06.320 would be if some of the protections and benefits that exist right now for you 00:31:06.320 --> 00:31:08.900 and your son start getting withdrawn. 00:31:09.180 --> 00:31:10.000 Yeah, absolutely. 00:31:11.180 --> 00:31:15.860 Now, one thing that I do have, thankfully, is the flexibility in going to Spain. 00:31:16.040 --> 00:31:20.140 And I know that it is that, well, look, I can speak the language. 00:31:20.660 --> 00:31:27.820 And so the one thing is that I also can probably get transferred to a job with 00:31:27.820 --> 00:31:30.040 my company there as well. 00:31:30.440 --> 00:31:30.960 Right. 00:31:31.480 --> 00:31:36.400 You know, because I don't think it'd be really practical for me to be working 00:31:36.400 --> 00:31:38.760 the Caribbean from Europe. 00:31:39.680 --> 00:31:42.840 So that that would be a little bit more more complicated 00:31:42.840 --> 00:31:45.680 but but i but i but 00:31:45.680 --> 00:31:48.920 i could get a a job you know 00:31:48.920 --> 00:31:55.520 in in in a similar thing you know doing that in in europe and you know with 00:31:55.520 --> 00:31:59.040 with the company and i wouldn't lose a number of things and benefits that i 00:31:59.040 --> 00:32:04.440 that i have as being part of the company and i mean it gives it listen i i'm 00:32:04.440 --> 00:32:07.800 doing this because you know my wife was like well to remove it to Spain? 00:32:07.980 --> 00:32:10.360 Like, no, we're not doing that right now, but you know what? 00:32:10.600 --> 00:32:15.140 I feel so uncomfortable right now. I want to have a plan B. Okay? 00:32:15.780 --> 00:32:16.060 Right. 00:32:16.160 --> 00:32:21.920 We need to have a... This is bad enough that there needs to be a plan B in place. Period. 00:32:22.580 --> 00:32:30.860 Yeah. Okay. Well, that like, we didn't really stay light and frothy for that first segment. 00:32:31.000 --> 00:32:36.080 Got a little serious, but you know, anything else before I do movies? 00:32:36.620 --> 00:32:37.880 No, let's go to movies. 00:32:38.680 --> 00:32:43.980 Okay, so two movies this time that were watched. 00:32:44.160 --> 00:32:49.560 We're still, this first one, November 30th of 2024, and then the second one 00:32:49.560 --> 00:32:53.440 will be December 1st of 2024 when I watched these originally. 00:32:53.720 --> 00:33:04.020 The first one is once again going through AFI's list of movies down to number 15 on the 1998 list. 00:33:04.570 --> 00:33:07.930 100 years 100 movies list and that 00:33:07.930 --> 00:33:11.210 is the original 1977 star wars 00:33:11.210 --> 00:33:18.770 okay which obviously i have seen before and i'm actually like we're going through 00:33:18.770 --> 00:33:24.270 the star wars franchise in order and we are past that at this point we like 00:33:24.270 --> 00:33:30.270 you know but but you know went back to watch the 1977 original okay Hey. 00:33:30.310 --> 00:33:33.810 Question. Question. I don't even know if this is possible. 00:33:34.530 --> 00:33:39.370 If you want to watch Star Wars right now, can you find the original, 00:33:39.510 --> 00:33:42.130 original one instead of the one with all the edits? 00:33:43.430 --> 00:33:49.250 Not. So there have been people who have reconstructed it, 00:33:49.370 --> 00:33:55.270 and you can find this online, where people have meticulously gone back and done 00:33:55.270 --> 00:34:00.450 the best through all of the available materials and tried to reconstruct the original. 00:34:00.850 --> 00:34:06.870 The original original is very hard to find. 00:34:07.310 --> 00:34:11.490 Like, I remember just a few months ago, somewhere in Europe, 00:34:11.810 --> 00:34:16.810 there was a showing of an original 35mm print in a theater. 00:34:16.830 --> 00:34:17.150 Oh, wow. 00:34:17.770 --> 00:34:19.970 Like, somebody that had been, like... 00:34:20.510 --> 00:34:21.730 Yeah, somebody had the print. 00:34:22.390 --> 00:34:26.310 Somebody had the print, kept it in cold storage, it was in good condition, 00:34:26.550 --> 00:34:33.030 whatever. They apparently, I think, did it legally. They got permission. 00:34:33.250 --> 00:34:37.930 For the most part, George Lucas has done everything humanly possible to prevent 00:34:37.930 --> 00:34:41.870 the original version from being re-released in an accessible form. 00:34:45.650 --> 00:34:51.670 His notion is that the versions he re-released are the real version of Star Wars. 00:34:51.770 --> 00:34:54.870 That's what he wanted all along. He just couldn't do it with the technologies. 00:34:55.070 --> 00:34:56.370 Yeah, with the technology at the time. 00:34:56.370 --> 00:34:59.010 Yeah okay you know but of course a lot 00:34:59.010 --> 00:35:02.530 of people are like you know the 1977 version as released 00:35:02.530 --> 00:35:07.370 in the theaters that's what won all the awards that's what got everybody excited 00:35:07.370 --> 00:35:14.790 originally you know and we don't need you like retroactively re-adding a cgi 00:35:14.790 --> 00:35:20.530 job of the hut for instance right like that i did at one point right what wasn't 00:35:20.530 --> 00:35:22.390 even really a great job of the hot, 00:35:22.890 --> 00:35:27.950 although they've, they've subsequently changed it multiple times to make it better over time. 00:35:28.330 --> 00:35:35.590 But, and, and so like there are sort of fan enthusiast groups who have done 00:35:35.590 --> 00:35:37.190 various forms of reconstructions. 00:35:37.230 --> 00:35:41.150 If you Google it, you can find, you can find these people, you can find articles 00:35:41.150 --> 00:35:42.010 about what they've done. 00:35:42.170 --> 00:35:47.330 I mean, literally there's like, there's people who have spent years of their lives and, 00:35:47.950 --> 00:35:55.750 meticulously getting the best possible available source material and reconstructing 00:35:55.750 --> 00:36:02.930 that original movie, plus trying to do some non-destructive, 00:36:03.310 --> 00:36:08.150 make it seem like the quality is consistent even though they're getting it from 00:36:08.150 --> 00:36:10.690 different sources, whatever. 00:36:11.690 --> 00:36:15.710 And apparently some of these are really, really well done. I mean, 00:36:15.830 --> 00:36:20.690 it's like professional quality, re-edited, back together, back how the original is. 00:36:20.790 --> 00:36:23.890 But George Lucas does not make it easy. And Disney doesn't make it easy. 00:36:24.130 --> 00:36:28.770 Because this was one of George Lucas's conditions to fail to Disney. 00:36:29.830 --> 00:36:33.490 That the original never be released, right? 00:36:34.030 --> 00:36:39.570 Now, you know, who knows if there's some, like, loophole that after George Lucas 00:36:39.570 --> 00:36:42.230 passes away, they can do something. 00:36:42.230 --> 00:36:50.430 And obviously, the average person who wants to go watch Star Wars not only wouldn't 00:36:50.430 --> 00:36:57.010 care, but would probably prefer the newer versions to the older versions. 00:36:57.010 --> 00:37:03.990 Like, if you remember, like, I remember watching when Star Wars was on TV, 00:37:04.550 --> 00:37:08.030 like, you know, in the 80s or whatever, and they would re-put, 00:37:08.130 --> 00:37:14.530 you could see the little rectangles around the spaceship because the black levels weren't quite right. 00:37:14.650 --> 00:37:16.790 Because they were calibrated for the theater. 00:37:17.030 --> 00:37:19.770 But then when you put them on the TV screen, you could see the thing. 00:37:21.910 --> 00:37:25.550 And some of that stuff, you could see if you paid close attention even in the 00:37:25.550 --> 00:37:28.850 theaters, even originally. I mean, it was good for the 1970s, 00:37:28.930 --> 00:37:33.170 but it wasn't perfect, you know, and we do have better technology now. 00:37:33.310 --> 00:37:38.390 And a lot of things that Lucas did in the reissues improved quality in various 00:37:38.390 --> 00:37:39.530 ways, improved lighting. 00:37:39.690 --> 00:37:44.410 I mean, I think the things that people object to are the... 00:37:44.810 --> 00:37:51.330 Let's add a completely new CGI animal in the background of this scene that trips 00:37:51.330 --> 00:37:55.930 over its feet and does some comic relief that is actually distracting from what 00:37:55.930 --> 00:37:57.510 was happening in the scene. 00:37:58.270 --> 00:38:01.250 Because there are a few of those where he just added stuff. 00:38:01.810 --> 00:38:05.130 I mean, George Lucas is really into the technology, and he likes showing off 00:38:05.130 --> 00:38:08.490 the technology, and he likes, you know, oh, we can do this. 00:38:08.630 --> 00:38:10.830 I mean, he was a guy that founded Industrial Light and Magic, 00:38:11.090 --> 00:38:15.710 okay? You know, I mean, it was basically the powerhouse for special effects 00:38:15.710 --> 00:38:20.270 in Hollywood for a long time and CGI and all of this shit. 00:38:20.430 --> 00:38:23.830 So, yeah, I mean, he really liked this shit. It's not it. This isn't just, 00:38:23.950 --> 00:38:26.550 you know, because he wanted to improve the movie. He really, 00:38:26.750 --> 00:38:27.850 really liked the technology. 00:38:28.050 --> 00:38:32.750 And I'm sure in his head, it's like you said, it was like, damn it. 00:38:32.850 --> 00:38:36.650 That's how I wanted it to look back then. But the technology didn't exist. 00:38:37.330 --> 00:38:40.530 Right. And look, you know, it's been said over and over again. 00:38:40.530 --> 00:38:46.250 Like the, this is the part of the movie making experience that George Lucas is really into. 00:38:46.690 --> 00:38:47.050 Yeah. 00:38:47.150 --> 00:38:50.230 Like the story and the writing and all that kind of stuff. 00:38:50.730 --> 00:38:54.430 Basically the best movies are the ones where George Lucas had the least to do 00:38:54.430 --> 00:38:55.390 with that part of things. 00:38:56.650 --> 00:39:02.270 You know, I mean, there's, you can go find, you can go find things that go into 00:39:02.270 --> 00:39:06.530 the detail of the original, the editing of the original Star Wars, for instance. 00:39:06.910 --> 00:39:08.890 And the first cut was crap. 00:39:09.690 --> 00:39:12.450 George Lucas's wife fixed it. 00:39:13.310 --> 00:39:19.270 Like she, she is the one who re edited the story to make it good. 00:39:19.550 --> 00:39:24.630 She took out some parts that were crap. She reordered it. She fixed the pacing. 00:39:24.870 --> 00:39:26.310 She did all kinds of like, 00:39:27.450 --> 00:39:32.470 the original star Wars was a good movie because of George Lucas's wife, 00:39:32.610 --> 00:39:34.850 ex-wife at this point, not because of him. 00:39:35.690 --> 00:39:39.870 Empire Strikes Back had a different director, you know, the, 00:39:40.150 --> 00:39:44.950 the, you know, and when, when he got back in full control and did a lot of the 00:39:44.950 --> 00:39:47.410 writing and everything for the prequels, everybody was like, 00:39:47.490 --> 00:39:48.670 the writing here is crap. 00:39:48.910 --> 00:39:53.650 You know, it's all wooden and whatever, and you've taken the life out of it. 00:39:54.010 --> 00:39:58.770 Yeah. So, and people will argue about those things, but anyway original star 00:39:58.770 --> 00:40:02.250 wars i have to give it a thumbs up oh in terms of which version i watched i 00:40:02.250 --> 00:40:06.230 did watch whatever the newest latest and greatest streaming version on okay 00:40:06.230 --> 00:40:08.430 on disney yeah yeah you were not. 00:40:08.430 --> 00:40:11.390 Yeah you weren't being picky you went okay i want to watch. 00:40:11.390 --> 00:40:14.370 I mean you know and honestly i've got 00:40:14.370 --> 00:40:17.150 copies of this see i've got 00:40:17.150 --> 00:40:20.030 copies of this on blu-ray i have probably more 00:40:20.030 --> 00:40:22.890 than one over the years but i still like when 00:40:22.890 --> 00:40:25.810 it was time to watch it i'm just like you know disney plus 00:40:25.810 --> 00:40:29.450 come on you know i'm not gonna like go through 00:40:29.450 --> 00:40:32.930 the pain in the ass of getting the physical copy here you 00:40:32.930 --> 00:40:35.930 know we'll just watch it and you know but bottom line thumbs 00:40:35.930 --> 00:40:38.710 up it's star wars what what the hell can you 00:40:38.710 --> 00:40:43.690 say you know it's the original star wars that started the whole thing it deserves 00:40:43.690 --> 00:40:47.730 most of the accolades some some of the modifications for the new version i do 00:40:47.730 --> 00:40:53.610 think were detracted i mentioned the job of the hut scene and there was a you 00:40:53.610 --> 00:40:56.670 know I mentioned this sort of creature in the background and Tatooine. 00:40:56.870 --> 00:41:01.490 Like I could have done without those, but for the most part, good movie. 00:41:01.870 --> 00:41:06.390 I mean, it's star Wars, you know? And yeah. 00:41:07.110 --> 00:41:09.590 Any, any additional thoughts on star Wars from your side? 00:41:10.190 --> 00:41:14.710 I'm sure I watched the last two years and I give it a thumbs up. It looked good. 00:41:15.210 --> 00:41:18.350 I mean, you know, yeah. I mean, it's still, still, still works. 00:41:19.100 --> 00:41:25.500 My son really loves at Disney all the Star Wars stuff. Yeah. 00:41:26.160 --> 00:41:30.240 They've got a couple of rides. There is one that was an older one that they 00:41:30.240 --> 00:41:34.880 have updated massively called Star Tours, which he likes very much. 00:41:35.520 --> 00:41:40.620 And like Smuggler's Run, Rise of the Resistance. The entire village they've got. 00:41:40.780 --> 00:41:45.520 You know, you've got regularly like Star Wars characters walking through stormtroopers 00:41:45.520 --> 00:41:50.280 and others, whatever and whatnot. But it is pretty cool, everything they did 00:41:50.280 --> 00:41:52.100 over there for Star Wars. 00:41:52.140 --> 00:41:56.260 And every once in a while, Anakin comes in and massacres the younglings. 00:41:56.560 --> 00:41:58.260 Yes. Yeah, that's always fun. 00:41:58.740 --> 00:42:03.720 Yeah. Okay, next up. Next up. Let's get this done and over with. 00:42:03.820 --> 00:42:05.180 Next. Next. Next. 00:42:06.220 --> 00:42:11.240 Those of you listening to audio don't know, but we had like a half hour of technical difficulties. 00:42:11.460 --> 00:42:14.560 So we're like, let's get this thing done. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. 00:42:14.560 --> 00:42:18.360 Sam's computer decided to, you know, I don't know. 00:42:18.540 --> 00:42:21.300 Completely crap out on me. Yes, yes. 00:42:21.880 --> 00:42:25.100 Anyway, we are over that now and moving on. 00:42:25.580 --> 00:42:30.100 But I actually have to take my wife to the airport immediately after we finish 00:42:30.100 --> 00:42:32.740 recording. She's going to Europe again for some conference. 00:42:33.100 --> 00:42:39.380 She's like getting tours of how they run ports in Europe and stuff. 00:42:39.620 --> 00:42:41.980 Anyway, she's okay. All right. Well, you started saying the word. 00:42:42.980 --> 00:42:46.120 She's getting tears out of you, run porn, what the hell is going on? 00:42:46.400 --> 00:42:49.280 What are these, what are these, what are we doing? 00:42:49.800 --> 00:42:50.200 Ports. 00:42:50.580 --> 00:42:50.880 Ports. 00:42:51.100 --> 00:42:54.820 P-O-R-T, like the place where ships come in and unload cargo. 00:42:54.900 --> 00:42:58.340 I mean, look, that could be something, listen, as much as it's funny, 00:42:58.480 --> 00:43:02.260 it could be something that is actually a regulatory standpoint. 00:43:02.580 --> 00:43:05.560 If you think about it, and now it's in Europe, so, you know. 00:43:06.120 --> 00:43:10.740 Yeah, she's the vice chair of the transportation committee, so this is directly in her Oh. 00:43:10.980 --> 00:43:12.720 So it's transportation. Okay. Fair enough. 00:43:12.840 --> 00:43:13.900 Yeah. Anyway. 00:43:17.140 --> 00:43:23.260 December 1st, 2024, I saw the Wicked in the movie theater. 00:43:24.700 --> 00:43:25.780 Wicked Part 1. 00:43:26.080 --> 00:43:27.480 Can I read? 00:43:27.760 --> 00:43:27.940 Yes. 00:43:28.800 --> 00:43:32.920 I don't even know what the hell Wicked's about. I know that I've heard about 00:43:32.920 --> 00:43:36.120 it. I've heard people raving about it. I have. 00:43:36.900 --> 00:43:44.540 I had no interest. And honestly My interest is so low That I Aside from the 00:43:44.540 --> 00:43:50.600 title And aside from that A lot of people liked it Yes No clue what else. 00:43:51.650 --> 00:43:56.450 Okay, so let me give you the background. First of all, have you heard of the Wizard of Oz? 00:43:56.870 --> 00:44:04.290 Oh, yes. That I've watched. Did you see that they did this Wizard of Oz thing at Sphere? 00:44:04.310 --> 00:44:08.170 At Sphere, yes, I did. I have not seen that, so I won't talk about it. 00:44:08.770 --> 00:44:14.350 Well, of course, now that you've brought it up, they expanded it with AI so 00:44:14.350 --> 00:44:17.710 that it fills the whole Sphere. It's more immersive. 00:44:18.030 --> 00:44:23.710 It's an immersive experience as well, so that if there's stuff coming at you 00:44:23.710 --> 00:44:26.990 and there's things in the volume with you. 00:44:28.470 --> 00:44:32.590 And it's shorter than the original movie. They cut like half an hour out of it. 00:44:32.870 --> 00:44:38.690 But there have been mixed reviews from that of some people who absolutely love 00:44:38.690 --> 00:44:43.270 it and some people who are like, they butchered the original. It's AI slop, et cetera. 00:44:43.890 --> 00:44:48.310 So, but, you know, whatever. Anyway, you've heard it. The original Wizard of 00:44:48.310 --> 00:44:50.250 Oz It was first a book by L. 00:44:51.110 --> 00:44:56.230 Frank Baum, and then, of course, there's the classic movie from, I believe, 1939? 00:44:56.970 --> 00:44:58.290 Is it that old? 00:44:59.450 --> 00:45:01.850 Yeah. Okay. Now I have to bring it up. 00:45:04.590 --> 00:45:11.670 Wikipedia. Okay. The 1939. Yes. And the novel was 1900. 00:45:13.170 --> 00:45:16.590 Um and there were actually like 00:45:16.590 --> 00:45:21.430 movie adaptations before the 1939 version even but obviously they're not as 00:45:21.430 --> 00:45:31.470 famous the wicked was first a a book and let me make sure i have give you the 00:45:31.470 --> 00:45:33.750 correct information for it. 00:45:34.710 --> 00:45:40.790 It is a novel from Gregory Maguire from 1995. 00:45:41.650 --> 00:45:48.070 The basic conceit of the novel is to retell the story of The Wizard of Oz, 00:45:48.170 --> 00:45:51.390 but from the Wicked Witch's perspective. Okay. 00:45:52.510 --> 00:45:53.150 Okay. 00:45:54.130 --> 00:46:00.670 Interesting. That is the fundamental thing. Now, I actually read the book years and years ago, too. 00:46:01.470 --> 00:46:13.310 And here's the thing. The book itself is very dark, very twisted, very, let's say, adult. 00:46:13.730 --> 00:46:22.070 Like, it involves, like, weird orgy sex scenes and stuff like that. Yes. 00:46:22.330 --> 00:46:23.750 Between, like— I mean, the book, Wicked. 00:46:23.990 --> 00:46:32.230 The book, Wicked, yes. Yeah. It involves weird orgy sex scenes with animals and stuff, okay? 00:46:34.790 --> 00:46:38.710 You know, because, of course, The Wizard of Oz has talking animals, 00:46:38.910 --> 00:46:41.670 right? So they are part of this. 00:46:42.230 --> 00:46:46.890 And just generally is very... 00:46:48.150 --> 00:46:54.310 It is a serious, like, mindfuck kind of a book, okay? There's a lot of stuff 00:46:54.310 --> 00:46:56.130 going on it. It's very political. 00:46:56.670 --> 00:47:00.670 It's very, you know, there's a lot going on there. 00:47:01.130 --> 00:47:05.170 But then there was a musical on Broadway made out of it. 00:47:05.630 --> 00:47:07.050 Correct. Yeah, that I forget. 00:47:07.430 --> 00:47:10.150 It takes away all of that stuff, okay? 00:47:10.150 --> 00:47:10.990 None of the orgies. 00:47:11.310 --> 00:47:16.450 None of the orgies. None of the, like, really weird, perverted stuff. 00:47:16.450 --> 00:47:20.330 Like that that gets like extracted it was 00:47:20.330 --> 00:47:23.910 it it's been on broadway for many many 00:47:23.910 --> 00:47:26.690 years now i mean it's still there as far 00:47:26.690 --> 00:47:30.610 as i know is it yeah anyway i 00:47:30.610 --> 00:47:33.730 actually my myself brandy and our daughter amy 00:47:33.730 --> 00:47:36.610 saw saw it with the original cast on 00:47:36.610 --> 00:47:39.390 broadway um and and liked it 00:47:39.390 --> 00:47:43.830 way back then that was in the early 2000s and basically 00:47:43.830 --> 00:47:47.430 it's it's still the the the fundamental conceit 00:47:47.430 --> 00:47:50.230 is the same you're telling the story of the wizard of 00:47:50.230 --> 00:47:53.030 oz but it's the backstory of the 00:47:53.030 --> 00:47:55.870 wicked witch so like and i say 00:47:55.870 --> 00:47:59.650 telling the story of the wizard of oz but it's actually starts way 00:47:59.650 --> 00:48:03.070 before the events of the wizard of oz and continues 00:48:03.070 --> 00:48:07.990 after the end of the events of wizard of oz a little bit like it basically ends 00:48:07.990 --> 00:48:13.470 at the same time as the wizard of oz but as a little bit more um and so you 00:48:13.470 --> 00:48:18.130 you basically you have the backstory of the wicked witch and the good witch 00:48:18.130 --> 00:48:20.310 going to college together, 00:48:20.990 --> 00:48:25.590 like before long before the wizard of oz happens so. 00:48:25.590 --> 00:48:28.330 Are they kind of like bending the timeline as well, 00:48:28.940 --> 00:48:34.740 Because, you know, the book was written in 1900. I mean, is this like a modernized thing? 00:48:34.960 --> 00:48:43.180 I mean, in terms of it's not really taking place, you know, I guess in the time frame of the original. 00:48:44.020 --> 00:48:50.980 There's nothing in it. There's nothing in it that where the time frame is indicated that matters. 00:48:51.320 --> 00:48:55.900 Like, like it is so much about the witches and the wizard and all of that kind 00:48:55.900 --> 00:48:58.920 of stuff that like the only place, like if you think about the wizard. 00:48:58.940 --> 00:49:04.440 Of Oz, the only place where the time in the real world matters is to Dorothy, 00:49:04.740 --> 00:49:14.660 because it's sort of set in the Dust Bowl, Great Depression era before she goes 00:49:14.660 --> 00:49:17.120 to Oz. Okay. In the movie, of course. 00:49:17.280 --> 00:49:19.520 In the movie, because in the book, obviously, that was born. 00:49:19.520 --> 00:49:22.600 The book was 1900. We had to have some of those events. 00:49:22.700 --> 00:49:25.340 Right, right, right. So that was, yeah, even that was modified. Okay. 00:49:26.200 --> 00:49:30.480 But but yeah but in 00:49:30.480 --> 00:49:34.280 the the musical and the movie like dorothy 00:49:34.280 --> 00:49:37.080 plays so little apart it's like 00:49:37.080 --> 00:49:40.120 an almost incidental thing and 00:49:40.120 --> 00:49:43.640 she's in the second half we'll see like but like for 00:49:43.640 --> 00:49:46.920 the most part it doesn't matter you never see 00:49:46.920 --> 00:49:49.840 like the real world it's all right place in 00:49:49.840 --> 00:49:53.780 oz exactly yeah okay okay and 00:49:53.780 --> 00:49:58.180 and so like fundamentally like it's 00:49:58.180 --> 00:50:04.660 a really really interesting take because it recontextualizes the events so first 00:50:04.660 --> 00:50:11.760 of all you try you learn about the witch's motivations why she was doing what 00:50:11.760 --> 00:50:15.920 she was doing the fact that you know it may, 00:50:16.880 --> 00:50:18.660 maybe she's not really evil. 00:50:18.840 --> 00:50:21.000 Maybe she had good reasons for everything 00:50:21.000 --> 00:50:24.680 she was doing, and she's just misunderstood, and blah, blah, blah. 00:50:26.360 --> 00:50:29.800 There's a whole subplot. The wizard was subjugating the talking animals, 00:50:29.800 --> 00:50:31.740 and this is why the witch was sort 00:50:31.740 --> 00:50:35.260 of rising up in rebellion to defend the animals, and blah, blah, blah. 00:50:35.720 --> 00:50:38.640 Anyway, bottom line, musical was great. 00:50:39.180 --> 00:50:43.580 I like the fact that we actually saw the original cast, 00:50:43.580 --> 00:50:48.560 although apparently all the subsequent casts have been good too in various ways 00:50:48.560 --> 00:50:55.380 the movie version was split into two parts part one came out last year part 00:50:55.380 --> 00:50:58.160 two is coming out this year in November I believe, 00:50:59.700 --> 00:51:06.540 and basically the cast here like the original it was what? 00:51:06.860 --> 00:51:13.740 Christian let's see where's the musical Oh, my God. 00:51:15.450 --> 00:51:21.570 Just making sure. Okay, the original musical with the cast that we saw was Kristen 00:51:21.570 --> 00:51:29.310 Chenoweth as Galinda, which is the good witch, and Idina Mazel as Elphaba, which is the bad witch. 00:51:29.550 --> 00:51:35.830 The movie version has Cynthia Erivo and Arianda Grande as the two main characters. 00:51:37.010 --> 00:51:39.830 And, you know, obviously there are a bunch of things you can do in a movie that 00:51:39.830 --> 00:51:41.070 you can't do in a stage play. 00:51:41.590 --> 00:51:46.610 It was really good. I enjoyed it. I mean, the source material was good, 00:51:46.790 --> 00:51:52.410 and they did a really good implementation of converting it into a movie. It was a lot of fun. 00:51:53.750 --> 00:52:00.230 We went with—Brandy was also, I think, in Europe, or at least on some trip when 00:52:00.230 --> 00:52:01.530 we did—no, she was in Pennsylvania. 00:52:01.770 --> 00:52:05.730 Anyway, she was gone when we did this. So my son, my daughter, 00:52:05.810 --> 00:52:08.510 and my mom and I watched this in the theaters. 00:52:09.210 --> 00:52:13.610 I enjoyed it a lot. My mom's main feedback was it was too loud. 00:52:14.070 --> 00:52:19.950 You know, obviously it is a musical. So if you do not like musicals in general, 00:52:20.270 --> 00:52:24.110 you're going to have the same feelings about this one. They sing all the time. 00:52:24.490 --> 00:52:28.450 You know, it's the whole point of the thing. There are a bunch of famous songs. 00:52:28.910 --> 00:52:32.570 But thumbs up, really good version of this. 00:52:32.710 --> 00:52:37.410 I'm actually intending to watch part two in the theaters when it comes out, too. 00:52:37.730 --> 00:52:43.830 It's a lot of fun. and yeah like uh you you said you you have no interest whatsoever 00:52:43.830 --> 00:52:50.210 blah blah blah i'd say like if you if if you generally hate music movie musicals 00:52:50.210 --> 00:52:53.890 then you're gonna hate this too because it's a movie that's. 00:52:53.890 --> 00:53:00.270 The problem i'm not big on musicals i don't really like movie musicals so this 00:53:00.270 --> 00:53:05.050 is why i was pretty sure that i'm just like i i i don't remember now i remember 00:53:05.050 --> 00:53:07.510 that it was the musical, but like I said, 00:53:08.290 --> 00:53:13.150 I, you know, you mentioned it, and I was struggling, I forgot about the musical. 00:53:13.730 --> 00:53:14.290 Right. 00:53:14.510 --> 00:53:22.230 I will say this, I like more a musical than a movie musical. 00:53:22.510 --> 00:53:24.610 Like, like, if you're going to the theater. 00:53:24.790 --> 00:53:30.690 If I go to the theater, I find that way more enjoyable than watching a movie 00:53:30.690 --> 00:53:32.130 that's made out of the musical. 00:53:32.790 --> 00:53:35.050 Right. okay i don't know why that. 00:53:35.050 --> 00:53:40.610 Is but i find it irritating in a movie and i find it cool like when i'm watching it being. 00:53:40.610 --> 00:53:43.370 Performed and i'll say it for movie it is 00:53:43.370 --> 00:53:50.770 not my favorite genre at all like i i do find like lots of lots of music lots 00:53:50.770 --> 00:53:56.810 of movie musicals i can find like what the hell is the point of this right but 00:53:56.810 --> 00:54:00.810 there there are a few classics i mean the original Wizard of Oz movie was a musical. 00:54:01.330 --> 00:54:04.110 I mean, I guess Grease was a musical. I like that. 00:54:04.170 --> 00:54:06.510 Grease was a musical. Yeah, I haven't seen Grease. 00:54:06.590 --> 00:54:07.170 A movie musical. 00:54:09.470 --> 00:54:10.570 Grease isn't on this list. 00:54:10.590 --> 00:54:11.510 Yeah, Grease was a movie musical. 00:54:11.690 --> 00:54:12.730 Why isn't this, 00:54:14.120 --> 00:54:17.620 Yeah, Grease is not on this list. So I've not seen Grease. 00:54:18.260 --> 00:54:20.220 You've never watched Grease? 00:54:20.700 --> 00:54:22.400 No, I've seen clips. 00:54:23.120 --> 00:54:27.060 Well, obviously, I mean, everybody has seen clips, but you've not watched them. 00:54:27.180 --> 00:54:28.700 Well, Grease was a movie musical. 00:54:29.260 --> 00:54:37.180 Yes, I know that much. And I will make sure it is added to my list. Well, here's the thing. 00:54:38.060 --> 00:54:42.440 Movie musicals to me are the kind where there are a lot of bad ones, 00:54:42.440 --> 00:54:47.660 but there are a handful of really good ones and I think this fits into that category. 00:54:47.860 --> 00:54:52.900 Okay, okay so that could be it. You know, fair. My wife would probably I'm not 00:54:52.900 --> 00:54:57.920 even sure if she's watched it I don't know, but I know this would be completely up my wife's alley. 00:54:58.160 --> 00:55:01.260 You start with the witches, number one, which for some reason right now, 00:55:01.740 --> 00:55:05.960 she everything that she's watching on TV is around witches, 00:55:07.320 --> 00:55:12.380 demons, things I don't know it's like, it's 00:55:12.800 --> 00:55:19.000 like you know like with me with like air disasters law and order to her it's 00:55:19.000 --> 00:55:25.140 like you know i don't know demons and then witches and. 00:55:25.140 --> 00:55:27.100 Then you know werewolves. 00:55:28.160 --> 00:55:29.580 That's all she watches. 00:55:29.580 --> 00:55:32.500 Yeah my wife's into those things too 00:55:32.500 --> 00:55:36.980 we should get them together yeah no but like the 00:55:36.980 --> 00:55:39.880 fundamental the the thing that gets me from the very beginning 00:55:39.880 --> 00:55:43.560 and i like this genre in general is 00:55:43.560 --> 00:55:46.640 sort of the take a character from 00:55:46.640 --> 00:55:49.440 a well-known story and reconceptualize the. 00:55:49.440 --> 00:55:52.280 Story around them i think that's 00:55:52.280 --> 00:55:55.260 a genre i like because it's an interesting sort of 00:55:55.260 --> 00:55:58.280 mental exercise as well like what 00:55:58.280 --> 00:56:00.980 like this is the this is the 00:56:00.980 --> 00:56:03.940 bad guy in the story right in in the original wizard 00:56:03.940 --> 00:56:06.980 of oz the witch is just like evil 00:56:06.980 --> 00:56:10.300 and bad and there's not much thought actually given 00:56:10.300 --> 00:56:14.760 to her character beyond evil 00:56:14.760 --> 00:56:17.840 and bad right wants to hurt people wants to 00:56:17.840 --> 00:56:21.080 do whatever and this like expands that 00:56:21.080 --> 00:56:24.320 out and really makes 00:56:24.320 --> 00:56:27.420 it make sense to the point where once 00:56:27.420 --> 00:56:31.020 you've watched this you sort of think 00:56:31.020 --> 00:56:33.620 like oh this is what really happened you know 00:56:33.620 --> 00:56:36.540 it forget what they showed in an original movie 00:56:36.540 --> 00:56:42.240 that's that's obviously just dorothy propaganda or whatever this is like this 00:56:42.240 --> 00:56:46.440 is what's really going on this is this is the scenario the witch was wronged 00:56:46.440 --> 00:56:54.180 you know anyway thumbs up thumbs up to star wars thumbs up to wicked let's let's take our break. 00:57:05.040 --> 00:57:11.280 What do you want real quick? We're running behind because we had our def... I want to get done here. 00:57:16.280 --> 00:57:21.180 I don't know what you want from this. Two curmudgeons corner from Alex. 00:57:21.700 --> 00:57:25.120 What two curmudgeons corner for Alex? I don't know. 00:57:26.460 --> 00:57:28.660 Alex has handed me... 00:57:28.660 --> 00:57:29.120 Note. 00:57:29.840 --> 00:57:37.480 A note with a list of how to actually make money from curmudgeons corner okay, 00:57:39.520 --> 00:57:42.600 so here is his list. 00:57:42.600 --> 00:57:47.260 He starts with corn but we do it on only fans curmudgeons. 00:57:47.260 --> 00:57:56.120 Corner with you and I as the main I'm sure that will I. 00:57:56.120 --> 00:57:58.400 Think people will probably pay for us to stop. 00:57:59.120 --> 00:58:06.340 I think you're probably right. Okay. Number one, Abel's May Passport required to listen. 00:58:07.380 --> 00:58:11.340 Yeah, that's definitely going to make us profitable. Well, I don't know. 00:58:11.520 --> 00:58:13.400 Number two, become millionaire. 00:58:14.320 --> 00:58:15.620 Yeah, sure. 00:58:16.660 --> 00:58:21.320 Number three, number three, the white noise Christmas special. 00:58:22.310 --> 00:58:27.990 Now, that I like. That I like. Okay. Okay. Okay. 00:58:28.170 --> 00:58:34.150 Yeah. It's not bad. Number four, the Apple FNAF brand deal. 00:58:34.630 --> 00:58:37.010 So, Apple FNAF is that game I'm working on. 00:58:37.010 --> 00:58:37.910 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. 00:58:39.130 --> 00:58:41.330 Number five, no swearing. 00:58:42.110 --> 00:58:42.750 Oh, fuck that. 00:58:43.230 --> 00:58:47.170 We've tried and failed so many times. Well, we've tried to reduce it. 00:58:47.290 --> 00:58:48.550 We've never tried to eliminate it. 00:58:48.550 --> 00:58:49.310 It's not going to work. 00:58:49.550 --> 00:58:53.230 It doesn't work. number six tiktok 00:58:53.230 --> 00:58:57.930 exclusives maybe maybe next 00:58:57.930 --> 00:59:00.730 and i'm losing count because he only had bullets and i was adding 00:59:00.730 --> 00:59:05.590 the numbers and i can't count this high true binary 00:59:05.590 --> 00:59:08.550 clock brand deal for anybody who 00:59:08.550 --> 00:59:11.550 has not seen it on applesmay.com i have 00:59:11.550 --> 00:59:14.450 a true binary clock that is 00:59:14.450 --> 00:59:19.510 like you know those things you can buy like binary clocks that try to do all 00:59:19.510 --> 00:59:23.710 the numbers in binary and it's just a bunch of dots that light up but my problem 00:59:23.710 --> 00:59:31.970 is they convert all the digits to binary so like if you have like you know the the time right now of you. 00:59:31.970 --> 00:59:35.590 Know but it doesn't i mean date and time or just the time. 00:59:35.590 --> 00:59:38.390 No it's just a well the ones you can buy right 00:59:38.390 --> 00:59:41.170 now like if you you can go out and buy binary clocks all over the 00:59:41.170 --> 00:59:45.350 place and like they do like if it is 12 56 00:59:45.350 --> 00:59:48.410 they will have the binary for one the 00:59:48.410 --> 00:59:51.410 binary for two the binary for five the 00:59:51.410 --> 00:59:56.050 binary for six and that's the display but i've 00:59:56.050 --> 00:59:59.750 always had a problem with this that if you're actually going to do binary time 00:59:59.750 --> 01:00:05.630 you should divide the day up in a binary way so half days quarter days eighth 01:00:05.630 --> 01:00:13.090 days etc so on my website there if you go to abosmay.com and then click on true binary clock. 01:00:13.470 --> 01:00:21.590 There is a four by four grid, each of which is a little ball that lights up or does not. 01:00:22.380 --> 01:00:25.860 Based on dividing the time in the way that I said. 01:00:26.000 --> 01:00:31.120 The 16th one is just a little bit over a second, if I remember right, 01:00:31.160 --> 01:00:34.940 or maybe it's just a little bit under a second, but it's close to a second. 01:00:35.400 --> 01:00:38.900 And the first one is a half day, you know, half day, quarter day, 01:00:39.520 --> 01:00:41.100 et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, all the way down. 01:00:41.420 --> 01:00:46.300 And so this gives you a little display that's a true binary clock. 01:00:47.060 --> 01:00:51.800 And yeah, I've toyed around over the years with the idea of building a physical 01:00:51.800 --> 01:00:53.520 one of these, but I don't have the right skills. 01:00:54.840 --> 01:00:57.600 So now maybe AI could tell me how to now. 01:00:57.740 --> 01:01:03.260 So I could just have ChatGPT, like give me the schematics for a proper true 01:01:03.260 --> 01:01:08.460 binary clock that I can send to some like place in China and have them make 01:01:08.460 --> 01:01:10.380 millions of them for me and sell them. 01:01:10.880 --> 01:01:12.880 Aha. Okay, there you go. 01:01:13.040 --> 01:01:17.520 Anyway, that brand deal. Oh, and then here we go. Spinoff TV show. 01:01:18.140 --> 01:01:19.540 What's been off TV show? 01:01:19.840 --> 01:01:24.820 Well we do have their live stream yeah but it's not quite the same we gotta sell us to like. 01:01:24.820 --> 01:01:27.820 I don't know i guess we don't sell it to like the networks anymore we gotta 01:01:27.820 --> 01:01:29.880 sell it to like what netflix apple tv. 01:01:29.880 --> 01:01:34.120 And this would not just be like a video version of the podcast it would have 01:01:34.120 --> 01:01:40.600 to be like a scripted sitcom or something about how we create the podcast i'm. 01:01:40.600 --> 01:01:44.640 Sure that'll like you know light the ratings on fire. 01:01:44.940 --> 01:01:50.280 And his very last item on how to make money off curmudgeons corner. 01:01:51.420 --> 01:01:53.340 Not make horrible podcast. 01:01:54.020 --> 01:01:56.240 Ah, well, okay. 01:01:56.840 --> 01:02:03.580 Okay, let's take a break. We will come back and do some serious stuff until 01:02:03.580 --> 01:02:06.400 I have to get out of here to take my wife to the airport. 01:02:07.040 --> 01:02:13.480 This will probably end up, once we take out, Like when I edit this and we don't 01:02:13.480 --> 01:02:16.960 include the half hour of technical difficulties that folks on the live stream 01:02:16.960 --> 01:02:20.940 would see, this may be short. We'll see. Whatever. It doesn't matter. 01:02:22.080 --> 01:02:28.040 We're good enough. Here we go. What? No, that was bad. 01:03:02.380 --> 01:03:03.020 Bye. 01:03:06.100 --> 01:03:09.980 Okay, two other quick things to mention before we hit the serious stuff. 01:03:10.300 --> 01:03:17.080 One, while we were recording this first segment, I have a big glass of water 01:03:17.080 --> 01:03:20.740 to drink while I have this. And while we were recording this segment... 01:03:20.740 --> 01:03:22.480 I bet I used to pour it over your head, but okay. 01:03:22.720 --> 01:03:30.080 Oh, yeah, sometimes. But my son comes in here, and he has apparently purchased 01:03:30.080 --> 01:03:33.460 himself a package of something that he's over there opening. 01:03:34.100 --> 01:03:38.440 And then he comes, and it's a light. 01:03:38.620 --> 01:03:42.080 He shows me a light. He flashes it in my face while I'm trying to record. 01:03:42.080 --> 01:03:43.300 I'm like, you're distracting me. 01:03:43.400 --> 01:03:50.820 I'm trying to listen to Yvonne stop this. But then he starts dropping these into my cup of water. 01:03:51.480 --> 01:04:01.180 It turns out he bought a whole bunch of waterproof LED light things that have 01:04:01.180 --> 01:04:04.640 a remote control so you can change the colors, you can change whatever. 01:04:05.180 --> 01:04:10.720 Okay, Sam, wait, wait. Were these cleaned before you put them in your water? 01:04:11.360 --> 01:04:13.560 I probably not. 01:04:14.960 --> 01:04:18.880 He dropped them in there, and I drank out of it anyway. 01:04:19.180 --> 01:04:26.160 Can you please not drink that water? Donnelly knows what chemicals coated those fucking little lights. 01:04:26.760 --> 01:04:27.780 Well, you know. 01:04:27.780 --> 01:04:28.660 Try to avoid that. 01:04:29.280 --> 01:04:33.480 Maybe he bought food-safe versions. I don't know, because you could see wanting 01:04:33.480 --> 01:04:35.280 to do this in drinks, in restaurants. 01:04:35.820 --> 01:04:39.500 Yeah, and I have seen that, yeah. But, you know. 01:04:39.820 --> 01:04:43.280 Or maybe he bought the kind that are meant for fish ponds or something. 01:04:43.280 --> 01:04:47.160 I don't know, but like. You know, I was still thirsty. 01:04:47.740 --> 01:04:52.440 Anyway, I have this glass full. Oh, he's showing me the thing. Is it food safe? 01:04:54.160 --> 01:05:00.240 Mini submersible LED lights, table centerpieces. They're probably not food safe. 01:05:00.440 --> 01:05:00.660 No! 01:05:01.680 --> 01:05:07.020 Da-da-da. Great for the centerpiece, vase, pond, swimming, cool fish tanks. 01:05:08.060 --> 01:05:12.840 It does mention ice buckets, but you're not supposed to eat that ice probably. 01:05:13.520 --> 01:05:23.360 Yeah so but you know I'm sure they weren't that dirty as I'm drinking it also it doesn't taste great, 01:05:25.040 --> 01:05:31.980 well it tastes about the same as it did before also there have been here in 01:05:31.980 --> 01:05:38.720 pacific northwest just over the last 24 48 hours forest fires not in my immediate 01:05:38.720 --> 01:05:42.100 area but close enough that it's been smoky. 01:05:42.100 --> 01:05:43.660 That's not good so. 01:05:43.660 --> 01:05:48.380 Like it's actually cleared up a little bit today but yesterday afternoon it 01:05:48.380 --> 01:05:53.840 was really bad like it was like when i was driving home from work there was 01:05:53.840 --> 01:05:56.700 a point where it felt like I went into a wall of smoke. 01:05:57.360 --> 01:05:57.620 Nice. 01:05:58.180 --> 01:06:03.660 And then it was just like you could feel it when you breathed. 01:06:03.800 --> 01:06:07.680 You couldn't see very far. Visibility was bad. 01:06:08.400 --> 01:06:14.360 And, yeah, so there have been some fires in British Columbia where the smoke 01:06:14.360 --> 01:06:17.820 has been making over here, and apparently within the last 48 hours there's also 01:06:17.820 --> 01:06:22.460 been a big fire in eastern Washington that's been contributing to it. 01:06:22.460 --> 01:06:27.120 But I'm not sure if it's the same one where ICE picked up some of the firemen 01:06:27.120 --> 01:06:29.280 a few, like last week sometime. 01:06:30.220 --> 01:06:36.060 There was a big deal. That was a story there where ICE raided the team of firemen 01:06:36.060 --> 01:06:40.720 who were actively combating the fire and arrested several of them and took them away. 01:06:41.520 --> 01:06:45.300 Which moves us on to the regular serious topics. 01:06:45.800 --> 01:06:51.480 Well, we already talked about immigration earlier. Well, I guess we need to revisit it a little bit. 01:06:52.040 --> 01:06:55.000 We can talk about the Hyundai plant, maybe. 01:06:55.740 --> 01:06:59.880 Yeah, that's what I... Well, it goes together with the whole jobs report. 01:07:00.120 --> 01:07:03.380 Hey, Sam, what did you hear about the jobs report for the last three months? 01:07:03.820 --> 01:07:07.780 I heard that it sucked again, even though apparently we're now... 01:07:07.780 --> 01:07:11.480 We fired the person who gave us the bad numbers, so I don't understand why we 01:07:11.480 --> 01:07:12.400 would have another bad one. 01:07:12.520 --> 01:07:16.460 By the way, the first thing that happened is something that I don't recall ever 01:07:16.460 --> 01:07:20.180 having happened. and as the jobs report was going to be released all of a sudden 01:07:20.180 --> 01:07:25.260 they said oh oh oh we got in the way because we got some technical difficulties and I was like, 01:07:26.330 --> 01:07:31.990 Wait, what? Which was suspicious in and of its stuff. 01:07:32.350 --> 01:07:37.270 Okay, I was like, oh, technical difficulties? What, Trump doesn't like the number? 01:07:37.970 --> 01:07:41.750 Right, that's the technical difficulty you'd think, yeah. 01:07:42.410 --> 01:07:47.430 Yeah, they released the number, and there were more downward revisions for the 01:07:47.430 --> 01:07:49.030 previous monthly numbers. 01:07:49.830 --> 01:07:51.870 Including making one of them negative. 01:07:52.230 --> 01:07:57.470 Negative, yeah. So, I mean, look, 01:07:58.530 --> 01:08:12.950 the uncertainty right now related to tariff policies is causing people to cause investments. 01:08:12.950 --> 01:08:22.170 I mean, there is no way that you as a company are confident in going and spending 01:08:22.170 --> 01:08:28.730 and investing money in a whole bunch of projects because of all the uncertainty 01:08:28.730 --> 01:08:30.930 he has created over the tariffs. 01:08:31.530 --> 01:08:38.650 Even if, say even if they were legal, say take the legal issue out of the equation, 01:08:38.790 --> 01:08:39.870 which is also another problem. 01:08:40.110 --> 01:08:42.930 Yes, because courts, the lower courts at this level. 01:08:42.950 --> 01:08:46.710 Have said that these tariffs are illegal, it's stayed pending appeal, 01:08:46.710 --> 01:08:48.670 and it will undoubtedly go to SCOTUS. 01:08:49.010 --> 01:08:53.430 Well, no, the appeal, you know, well, first you have the lower court and sentence invalid. 01:08:53.790 --> 01:08:59.070 The appeal was, you know, affirmed the lower court. 01:08:59.430 --> 01:09:03.610 The administration is right now, that decision has 30 days. 01:09:03.890 --> 01:09:07.530 They've appealed to Supreme Court, like right now. The bottom line is that they've 01:09:07.530 --> 01:09:12.370 lost at both levels, and it's been pretty much unanimous that there is, you know, 01:09:12.950 --> 01:09:19.230 There is no, you know, the law does not support this administration doing this. 01:09:19.550 --> 01:09:22.770 Okay, but take the legal, put the legal aside. 01:09:24.290 --> 01:09:31.530 The entire construct of these tariffs and the capriciousness of them and how 01:09:31.530 --> 01:09:33.990 they have changed and how they are, 01:09:34.430 --> 01:09:42.950 you know, how they, they, they see, even when you think they're set, they keep changing. 01:09:43.330 --> 01:09:43.850 Right. 01:09:43.850 --> 01:09:48.190 You know, because he'll wake up one day and say he wants to stick this country 01:09:48.190 --> 01:09:49.830 with this, stick this country with that. 01:09:50.090 --> 01:09:52.790 We're going to negotiate this. The fact that there are no treaties. 01:09:52.790 --> 01:09:57.190 I mean, there were some changes with what, was it Japan even this week? 01:09:57.730 --> 01:09:58.110 Yeah. 01:09:58.910 --> 01:10:02.030 There was some deal where things were. Yes. 01:10:02.370 --> 01:10:09.770 There's constant changes. I mean, there's been negotiations going on with Canada and Mexico. 01:10:09.770 --> 01:10:14.890 So the one thing is that Trump reeled, well, all these executives want certainty. 01:10:14.890 --> 01:10:20.390 And I'm like, you bet your fucking ass they do, because if you're going to make 01:10:20.390 --> 01:10:26.090 a decision to shift manufacturing from point A to point B at some point, 01:10:26.230 --> 01:10:30.490 have to spend billions or billions of dollars on it. 01:10:31.030 --> 01:10:33.370 You're not, first of all, doing 01:10:33.370 --> 01:10:40.990 that investment takes years for you to get that manufacturing set up. 01:10:40.990 --> 01:10:46.930 And you're not going to commit right now billions to do something that three 01:10:46.930 --> 01:10:52.810 months from now you're going to fucking change again so basically anybody who's an investor just say. 01:10:54.990 --> 01:11:00.890 I'm not going to invest in anything and the action that they're doing is right now first, 01:11:01.530 --> 01:11:05.930 is that there's a whole bunch of pricing uncertainty and a whole bunch of companies 01:11:05.930 --> 01:11:10.290 are a little bit leery of passing all the, 01:11:10.990 --> 01:11:15.430 Prices increases to see through, simply because if later change your mind, 01:11:15.670 --> 01:11:18.470 it goes back, then I just raise the prices, I'm going to lower them. 01:11:18.530 --> 01:11:19.450 You don't want to be doing that. 01:11:19.710 --> 01:11:23.230 You don't want to be changing prices back and forth the whole damn time, okay? 01:11:23.950 --> 01:11:28.790 Because that's going to hurt people. But then you've got this whole, 01:11:28.990 --> 01:11:33.390 there are going to be some looming shortages, okay? 01:11:33.970 --> 01:11:37.030 One thing that I've heard right now is 01:11:37.030 --> 01:11:40.510 that especially with European vehicles okay this 01:11:40.510 --> 01:11:43.370 is the one where I've heard this specifically alright you 01:11:43.370 --> 01:11:46.310 got you know ships take 30 days 60 days or 01:11:46.310 --> 01:11:49.170 you know 30 days I think from Europe to make it 01:11:49.170 --> 01:11:53.670 over here usually you know from the moment you float it on the ship went over 01:11:53.670 --> 01:11:57.350 here offload it whatever okay and then quit custom all of a sudden you heard 01:11:57.350 --> 01:12:01.670 that the courts wanted to invalidate the tariffs okay at 30 days I think you 01:12:01.670 --> 01:12:06.950 just ship a ship usually will have a couple hundred million dollars worth of cars on. 01:12:07.820 --> 01:12:15.460 A tariff's 25%. Hey, in 30 days, they make this go away. What would you do? 01:12:15.900 --> 01:12:19.080 Would you pay the $50 million right now to offload them now, 01:12:19.260 --> 01:12:23.320 extra $50 million, or would you dock the ship? 01:12:23.920 --> 01:12:27.880 Throw anchor in the ship and say, listen guys, you stay out there until we figure 01:12:27.880 --> 01:12:31.260 out what the fuck is going on. Yeah, hold off! 01:12:31.900 --> 01:12:37.500 As long as you can. If there's so much as a rumor that it's going to change, 01:12:38.320 --> 01:12:43.140 yeah i mean event you know eventually you're gonna have to land them you're 01:12:43.140 --> 01:12:44.920 not gonna keep them there years but. 01:12:44.920 --> 01:12:48.320 They're not gonna keep the years but they sure sell to stay there months and 01:12:48.320 --> 01:12:53.520 here's the one thing the thing is that as a supply chain is supply chain is 01:12:53.520 --> 01:12:57.040 something that it's like you 01:12:57.040 --> 01:13:01.840 get the effect of you ever seen these videos where they show the impact of 01:13:02.220 --> 01:13:06.160 a slowdown in traffic and how it flows all the way back. 01:13:06.640 --> 01:13:07.220 Mm-hmm. 01:13:07.360 --> 01:13:15.800 You stop that ship for 30 days, that translates and bring it and bring it on the wave. 01:13:16.380 --> 01:13:21.740 It's really, the disruptions have this ripple effect. Okay? 01:13:22.320 --> 01:13:26.820 Because you're stopping this machinery that was designed for decades, 01:13:27.520 --> 01:13:31.520 not just now, to be this machine that just, 01:13:31.840 --> 01:13:35.160 you know picked up ship delivered on time you know 01:13:35.160 --> 01:13:37.860 all of these items and all of a 01:13:37.860 --> 01:13:41.960 sudden you're fucking putting it telling it to break and stop and break and 01:13:41.960 --> 01:13:47.280 go and break oh we break break break oh no no accelerating it doesn't this thing 01:13:47.280 --> 01:13:53.720 must not design for this okay so i mean that's one issue so you've got that 01:13:53.720 --> 01:13:56.520 issue with suppliers it's not like. 01:13:56.520 --> 01:14:01.540 We don't even have recent examples of this. We had that We had COVID, 01:14:01.700 --> 01:14:04.680 and we had that time like the thing was stuck in the Suez Canal. 01:14:04.840 --> 01:14:05.860 The Suez, yeah? 01:14:06.020 --> 01:14:06.180 Yeah. 01:14:06.600 --> 01:14:13.160 So, you know, so you've got a lot of companies that all of a sudden are like, what the hell? 01:14:13.340 --> 01:14:16.780 We also had this buildup of inventories, okay? 01:14:17.420 --> 01:14:20.540 Which people, what are they doing? They're right now playing a waiting game. 01:14:21.000 --> 01:14:25.300 They're playing a waiting game, and if your profits are, and if your costs are 01:14:25.300 --> 01:14:27.740 higher because you've got to buy certain things, your profits are going to be 01:14:27.740 --> 01:14:31.260 squeezed you're going to start, you're not going to be invested. 01:14:31.840 --> 01:14:37.080 You're going to start cutting. I shared a video that was like from a meeting 01:14:37.080 --> 01:14:41.640 of farmers in Arkansas with congressmen and senators, 01:14:42.280 --> 01:14:47.060 them explaining how the tariffs right now have completely dried up their export market. 01:14:48.160 --> 01:14:54.860 For certain products. How, like, right now, especially for the soybean market, U.S. 01:14:54.920 --> 01:14:57.000 Was one of the largest exporters of soybeans. 01:14:57.680 --> 01:15:04.260 Soybean exporters are getting completely killed because China put these retaliatory tariffs on U.S. 01:15:04.320 --> 01:15:07.080 Soybeans, so that market is completely dried up. 01:15:07.300 --> 01:15:10.340 They're buying them now from Brazil. They're not buying them from us. 01:15:11.060 --> 01:15:14.460 A whole bunch of farmers... 01:15:14.460 --> 01:15:15.020 They're complaining. 01:15:15.960 --> 01:15:19.260 It's not just they're complaining. farmers are are 01:15:19.260 --> 01:15:22.820 are getting killed financially and there's 01:15:22.820 --> 01:15:27.500 a reason that basically yeah yeah and and many of them have said that basically 01:15:27.500 --> 01:15:31.040 to some the only option they've got is to take out federal government handouts 01:15:31.040 --> 01:15:37.620 so we've replaced right now we have killed a massive export of the united states 01:15:37.620 --> 01:15:42.640 to be replaced by government handouts i mean what the fuck is well. 01:15:42.640 --> 01:15:47.420 And to be clear this is one of the complaints as well is apparently the big 01:15:47.420 --> 01:15:54.980 beautiful bill did include some support for farmers but that won't kick in till next year. 01:15:54.980 --> 01:15:55.940 And so. 01:15:55.940 --> 01:15:59.020 There are a bunch of farmers who would be like that's going to be too late i'm 01:15:59.020 --> 01:16:00.080 not going to be able to make it. 01:16:00.080 --> 01:16:04.620 Till yeah we're going to be bankrupt by then yeah but it's also some support 01:16:04.620 --> 01:16:08.740 i mean we literally just you know there was an article in bloomberg basically 01:16:08.740 --> 01:16:14.100 recently the headline was how trump has basically made it that the rest of the 01:16:14.100 --> 01:16:16.740 world doesn't want to buy U.S. agricultural products. 01:16:17.980 --> 01:16:29.300 Right. Look, the whole tariff infrastructure is fundamentally hostile to trade. 01:16:30.120 --> 01:16:31.760 That's the bottom line. 01:16:33.660 --> 01:16:38.860 It's intentional. I mean, that's Trump's stated goal is he. 01:16:38.860 --> 01:16:44.780 Thinks every time we American farming was one of the most efficient machines 01:16:44.780 --> 01:16:47.180 out there and profitable. 01:16:47.780 --> 01:16:55.280 We, you know, and so all of a sudden you've made it that we're more expensive than everybody else. 01:16:55.840 --> 01:17:02.320 I mean, Trump's ideal vision of the world is that every country is self-contained 01:17:02.320 --> 01:17:04.140 and doesn't trade at all. 01:17:04.540 --> 01:17:07.420 You know, and so. 01:17:07.420 --> 01:17:11.460 Well, actually, no, Trump wants the mercantilist one. Trump wants, 01:17:11.520 --> 01:17:13.720 he wants every equation to be a winner. 01:17:14.500 --> 01:17:18.760 Mercantilism is that you export it as much and you import it as little as possible. 01:17:19.400 --> 01:17:23.360 That was the basic philosophy, and that's the one that he wants. 01:17:24.000 --> 01:17:24.480 Yes. 01:17:25.080 --> 01:17:25.520 Which is... 01:17:25.520 --> 01:17:28.840 Yeah, I was oversimplifying. He thinks exports are okay. Yes. 01:17:29.040 --> 01:17:31.980 But he wants no imports. He wants to be completely self-sufficient. 01:17:33.940 --> 01:17:35.380 But the thing is, 01:17:36.700 --> 01:17:39.700 doesn't work that way as you have 01:17:39.700 --> 01:17:42.640 just pointed out like if if you are 01:17:42.640 --> 01:17:45.640 hostile to the imports people are going to be hostile to your 01:17:45.640 --> 01:17:49.200 imports and then the exports dry up and 01:17:49.200 --> 01:17:54.320 and you know there's certain areas where you know we're at an advantage there's 01:17:54.320 --> 01:17:59.540 certain areas where we're not but all of this just works to shut things down 01:17:59.540 --> 01:18:06.240 and and and it's like all of the people who knew what the hell they were talking 01:18:06.240 --> 01:18:08.380 about, told you this was going to happen. 01:18:10.060 --> 01:18:16.700 But Donald Trump has his thing for tariffs. And just in general, 01:18:16.860 --> 01:18:20.080 even if you were stable about it, 01:18:20.360 --> 01:18:23.160 even if you just said, oh, okay, we're going to have high tariffs across the 01:18:23.160 --> 01:18:25.480 board, that's it, no negotiation, no changes, whatever. 01:18:25.700 --> 01:18:30.920 But add on top of that the instability and uncertainty that you've been talking 01:18:30.920 --> 01:18:33.600 about, then it just becomes harder and harder. 01:18:33.740 --> 01:18:36.920 Now, obviously, some countries sort of scrambled to like, hey, 01:18:37.060 --> 01:18:43.500 what can we give to make this 15% instead of 35% or whatever? 01:18:44.080 --> 01:18:47.420 And a few of them have made these deals. 01:18:48.600 --> 01:18:50.780 And in many cases. 01:18:50.980 --> 01:18:55.880 As we've talked about here before- The problem is that those deals are not final. They're not treaty. 01:18:55.880 --> 01:18:58.940 They're all they're all handshakes they're they're 01:18:58.940 --> 01:19:01.720 all letters of intent we don't and most of 01:19:01.720 --> 01:19:04.480 the most of them deal right and most of 01:19:04.480 --> 01:19:07.380 them we've talked about before not only are they 01:19:07.380 --> 01:19:10.320 just letters of intent or verbal agreements or 01:19:10.320 --> 01:19:15.740 whatever but in many of the cases the countries have only conceded to things 01:19:15.740 --> 01:19:20.580 they were doing anyway yeah they're they're just saying like oh yeah we'll do 01:19:20.580 --> 01:19:25.760 this and are relying on the fact that Trump and his people either don't know 01:19:25.760 --> 01:19:28.020 or don't care that that was the plan anyway. 01:19:29.300 --> 01:19:32.740 And then, well, I think I'll give you an example of a plan. 01:19:33.200 --> 01:19:39.240 Donald Trump was taking credit for the massive Hyundai manufacturing plant, 01:19:39.420 --> 01:19:41.620 which the immigration rated this week. 01:19:42.040 --> 01:19:42.360 Right. 01:19:42.520 --> 01:19:48.160 Which is a complex that when in full operation is going to employ 8,500 people. 01:19:48.740 --> 01:19:52.560 So, you know, you take a multiplier effect, usually of jobs or something like that. 01:19:52.720 --> 01:19:57.160 It's like minimum, minimum for such a large investment in factory, 01:19:57.440 --> 01:20:03.420 minimum three times. usually way more, okay, for a factory of that size. 01:20:03.680 --> 01:20:07.180 Just to be clear, the multiplier you're talking about is, you know, 01:20:07.260 --> 01:20:09.880 there's the people employed by the factory itself, but then, 01:20:10.160 --> 01:20:13.980 okay, you need restaurants where they can eat lunch. You need a place. 01:20:13.980 --> 01:20:19.260 Houses, restaurants, shopping for clothes, purchasing of supplies, 01:20:19.760 --> 01:20:26.420 maintenance, you know, everything that goes around, all the inputs that go into the factory and the tax, 01:20:27.200 --> 01:20:32.540 The taxes, the sales tax multiplier, I mean, it's just so much, okay? 01:20:32.980 --> 01:20:37.940 You know, a factory with that kind of investment and that many jobs generates 01:20:37.940 --> 01:20:42.080 such a crazy multiplier effect around it, okay? 01:20:42.240 --> 01:20:48.480 From everything, okay? From the moment of the manufacturing to all the property 01:20:48.480 --> 01:20:50.840 taxes to all, I mean, everything. 01:20:50.840 --> 01:20:54.520 Even if you give them a waiver in property taxes Still, you know, 01:20:54.700 --> 01:20:56.740 all those employees Have to get houses, 01:20:56.940 --> 01:21:01.560 have to get fed Have to, you know, will shop for clothes Will buy everything 01:21:01.560 --> 01:21:08.280 around there It is such a huge multiplier effect Okay, and these fuckers go 01:21:08.280 --> 01:21:09.880 in there Because the thing is. 01:21:11.560 --> 01:21:16.480 All of these are meant to be, they're for show. 01:21:16.960 --> 01:21:21.340 Because if immigration had an issue with visas for a lot of people there, 01:21:21.460 --> 01:21:25.920 they could have called the manager and said, hey, we've got these violations, 01:21:25.920 --> 01:21:28.780 we need to discuss how these visas are being handed. 01:21:29.200 --> 01:21:35.220 But no, what do they want to do? They want to show a force and they show up 01:21:35.220 --> 01:21:37.220 and they arrest all these people. 01:21:38.360 --> 01:21:42.920 Arrested hundreds of them, including a whole bunch of executives traveling on 01:21:42.920 --> 01:21:49.500 business from Korea, as many of us do, when something is being manufactured 01:21:49.500 --> 01:21:50.180 or something or whatever. 01:21:50.180 --> 01:21:53.840 I remember when I used to go to HB's factory, say, in Mexico, 01:21:53.960 --> 01:21:58.060 for example, and we would go and have discussions about inventory and stuff 01:21:58.060 --> 01:22:01.060 and whatever we're talking about, how stuff is being stored. 01:22:01.380 --> 01:22:05.920 All that kind of stuff, which is what usually somebody from headquarters goes 01:22:05.920 --> 01:22:08.120 to do at the operation over there. 01:22:08.280 --> 01:22:10.960 And, you know, when you're setting up a factory of that size, 01:22:11.100 --> 01:22:13.860 you're going to need a lot of people from corporate to make sure it's being 01:22:13.860 --> 01:22:18.900 executed the way that you had planned out for it to be executed, okay? 01:22:19.340 --> 01:22:24.060 And so, but, you know, they were saying that some people maybe had been overstaying some visas. 01:22:24.240 --> 01:22:29.540 This was, you know, this was something that somebody could have just shown up 01:22:29.540 --> 01:22:31.700 and said, hey, we've got concerns about these people. 01:22:31.900 --> 01:22:36.160 We need to discuss what the hell is going on here. Why are these people, these are, 01:22:37.280 --> 01:22:45.080 are the most part just minor violations. But by the way, Americans incur on 01:22:45.080 --> 01:22:49.800 a regular basis probably on some business trips and overseas assignments. 01:22:50.540 --> 01:22:50.700 Right. 01:22:51.160 --> 01:22:55.520 Okay? And so my whole thing is you guys want to start this cycle where other 01:22:55.520 --> 01:22:59.240 countries are retaliating and it's just arresting like U.S. 01:22:59.300 --> 01:23:02.460 Business travelers because of some minor bullshit violation. 01:23:03.140 --> 01:23:06.440 Is this what we're doing? This is what we're fucking doing now. 01:23:07.300 --> 01:23:13.140 Yeah, I mean, this is going to start a cycle that is just, you know, really dangerous. 01:23:13.340 --> 01:23:19.200 But one thing that I think is why I brought this up in terms of, 01:23:19.400 --> 01:23:23.480 and we're talking about what happened with jobs and investment, 01:23:23.900 --> 01:23:28.040 is that Trump was trying to take credit for this plant, as I mentioned earlier. 01:23:28.040 --> 01:23:34.500 This plant happened because of the Biden Inflation Reduction Act. 01:23:34.820 --> 01:23:38.420 That's why this plant is occurring. It has nothing to do with fucking Trump. 01:23:38.900 --> 01:23:40.720 This investment had started years. 01:23:41.200 --> 01:23:45.840 The reality is that the President of Russia put incentives on electric cars. 01:23:45.960 --> 01:23:50.720 This entire facility is dedicated on building electric cars. 01:23:50.900 --> 01:23:53.760 They're building Ioniq 5s, Ioniq 6s. 01:23:54.780 --> 01:23:57.740 They're building batteries. They're going to be selling batteries. 01:23:58.040 --> 01:24:02.260 This whole thing is focused on everything related to in-phase production. 01:24:02.460 --> 01:24:07.060 Not one fucking iota having to do with anything that Trump did. 01:24:07.240 --> 01:24:08.680 Construction started years ago. 01:24:09.000 --> 01:24:12.480 It's already producing cars. It had nothing to do with fucking Trump. 01:24:12.640 --> 01:24:16.740 He started trying to take credit. You see, this is a white terror student bullshit. 01:24:16.980 --> 01:24:18.840 No, no. Not one fucking thing. 01:24:20.220 --> 01:24:28.120 But it highlights how long what I'm saying is how long it takes for somebody 01:24:28.120 --> 01:24:32.200 to set a policy and for companies to invest in how it works. 01:24:32.300 --> 01:24:34.360 And that's why the IRA, that's why the... 01:24:35.280 --> 01:24:44.980 We're doing what the fuck Trump is saying, and Trump is going right now destroying those jobs. 01:24:45.440 --> 01:24:50.740 He's literally going and destroying those jobs, which is why job derasure right 01:24:50.740 --> 01:24:53.540 now isn't like shit, because he is destroying that. 01:24:53.760 --> 01:24:59.380 He's destroying trade while not offering anything to replace it, 01:24:59.460 --> 01:25:02.080 other than drill baby drill. 01:25:02.380 --> 01:25:08.660 Oh, wait, and better. Hey, to the sectors that do the immigrant work, 01:25:08.820 --> 01:25:14.760 because we're tired of most of these poor people is ripping away the people that they need. 01:25:14.920 --> 01:25:19.040 So they don't have what is in this article from Bloomberg this week also, 01:25:19.340 --> 01:25:23.760 that mass deportations are creating a workforce crisis because they are creating a workforce crisis. 01:25:24.200 --> 01:25:30.620 Where the fuck we need jobs? OK, because, you know, with the number of deportations, 01:25:30.760 --> 01:25:34.780 one of the things that is happening right now is that, you know, 01:25:35.380 --> 01:25:40.940 we've got the shortage of farmers all of a sudden for the stuff that is like 01:25:40.940 --> 01:25:43.620 fresh fruits, vegetable stuff. 01:25:43.780 --> 01:25:46.340 That is the stuff that comes to our tables. 01:25:46.760 --> 01:25:49.820 Well, I was going to say that the immigration. 01:25:49.820 --> 01:25:54.800 Crops are rotting. Yeah. California and Texas, crops are rotting in the fields 01:25:54.800 --> 01:25:57.180 for a lack of workers to pick them. 01:25:57.480 --> 01:26:00.840 So you're creating food. 01:26:01.220 --> 01:26:07.640 Do you realize how fucking incompetent you have to be to create food inflation 01:26:07.640 --> 01:26:11.300 at the same time as you're killing your agricultural exports? 01:26:11.660 --> 01:26:15.580 It takes fucking skill to beat this fucking fucker. 01:26:16.350 --> 01:26:21.330 Well, and going back to Hyundai for a little bit and sort of detaining people 01:26:21.330 --> 01:26:25.470 who are here on business trips, like, if you're looking for foreign investment 01:26:25.470 --> 01:26:27.850 in the country, this is a great way to discourage that. 01:26:28.250 --> 01:26:28.310 Too. 01:26:29.130 --> 01:26:30.570 You know, like... 01:26:30.570 --> 01:26:37.910 Everything you were doing, raising up the fucking bullshit that you were saying! 01:26:38.550 --> 01:26:48.430 Yes it's all a a continuous theme of all of this stuff is i mean you've said this before, 01:26:50.070 --> 01:26:56.030 like if you take some of what they say they're trying to do at face value then 01:26:56.030 --> 01:27:01.470 they're still really stupid right in terms of like this is not a good way to 01:27:01.470 --> 01:27:03.910 achieve the things you say you're trying to achieve. 01:27:04.190 --> 01:27:04.590 Nope. 01:27:05.050 --> 01:27:13.750 And you start thinking, well, then are they, is their actual goal actually just to destroy everything? 01:27:14.570 --> 01:27:20.850 Because, or are they really dumb enough to think that what they're doing will 01:27:20.850 --> 01:27:23.810 have these great positive effects and it doesn't? 01:27:24.010 --> 01:27:30.870 No, I do think that Trump is stupid it or not to believe that what he's doing, 01:27:31.530 --> 01:27:37.130 will somehow, because you know, we talked about that he's been able to in so 01:27:37.130 --> 01:27:41.510 many cases force things to happen you know, regardless of anything, 01:27:41.690 --> 01:27:43.350 to just bend reality to his will. 01:27:43.570 --> 01:27:46.710 He thinks that somehow he's going to be able to bend his reality. 01:27:47.050 --> 01:27:51.930 The reality is that you talk about, well, has he bent reality to his will? 01:27:52.050 --> 01:27:56.350 Listen, for the most part, all he's done is survive. 01:27:56.890 --> 01:28:00.150 All he's ever done. It's just about survival. 01:28:00.770 --> 01:28:07.150 It's shuck jiving and getting attention to himself as a narcissist, 01:28:07.630 --> 01:28:10.990 which everything that he does, does that. 01:28:11.430 --> 01:28:18.950 And to have the attention and to be able to appear successful is more important than success itself. 01:28:19.250 --> 01:28:23.930 So what does that mean? I will say that I'm going to create the greatest academy ever. 01:28:23.930 --> 01:28:29.190 As long as he can tell this bullshit To his followers and they believe it He 01:28:29.190 --> 01:28:33.590 doesn't care if it's real Because it's just like Oh I'm going to build the greatest 01:28:33.590 --> 01:28:35.590 hotel ever Even though it's shit. 01:28:36.330 --> 01:28:43.730 I'm going to make Oh my casinos and my golf courses are wonderful Whatever Even though they are Tappy, 01:28:43.870 --> 01:28:50.810 crappy And lose money constantly Because he figures out Some way that somebody 01:28:50.810 --> 01:28:54.530 bails him out Every time Somebody bailed him out, 01:28:54.670 --> 01:29:02.550 man Every fucking time And his last biggest bailout Was fucking winning the presidency again. 01:29:03.770 --> 01:29:09.650 Yes The voters bailed the motherfucker out Just since he was on the brink, 01:29:10.660 --> 01:29:14.140 His father bailed him out. The banks bailed him out. 01:29:15.220 --> 01:29:20.660 Banks repeatedly bailed him out. And then Republican voters came along and did it again. 01:29:21.360 --> 01:29:28.140 Okay. I want to lightning round through a few other things because for those 01:29:28.140 --> 01:29:33.380 of you not on the live stream, we just last another 10 minutes to technical 01:29:33.380 --> 01:29:34.660 difficulties. All on my end. 01:29:34.740 --> 01:29:37.580 I don't know what the hell is up with my computer. It keeps like crashing. 01:29:38.200 --> 01:29:43.520 Like, and nothing's different than it was, like, yesterday. I don't know. 01:29:43.800 --> 01:29:48.960 But anyway, so the Venezuelan boat that we blew up. 01:29:49.840 --> 01:29:54.260 We committed a war crime, Sam. We went out. 01:29:54.600 --> 01:29:58.340 It said a drunk boat. How do we know that was a drunk boat? 01:29:58.640 --> 01:30:03.180 How do we know anything about that fucking boat? Listen, we just went out there. 01:30:03.320 --> 01:30:09.420 Sorry. And even if it was, I mean, I'm sorry under the international rules of 01:30:09.420 --> 01:30:16.100 maritime law, you just don't have the right to just go and blow up a boat for no reason whatsoever. 01:30:16.500 --> 01:30:20.060 You can intercept it. You can detain it. You can give it warnings. 01:30:20.660 --> 01:30:22.620 But no, you can't just blow it up. 01:30:24.660 --> 01:30:28.220 The administration says they have radio intercepts and all kinds of other stuff. 01:30:28.340 --> 01:30:29.820 But like you said, it doesn't matter. 01:30:30.200 --> 01:30:33.620 It doesn't matter. It doesn't get the right to just shoot them out of the water. 01:30:33.760 --> 01:30:40.360 And apparently at the Pentagon, there were all kinds of discussions about like, this was not okay. 01:30:40.700 --> 01:30:44.160 This was a war crime. There was no justification. 01:30:44.420 --> 01:30:50.880 And then there was an after-the-fact scramble to try to come up with a legal 01:30:50.880 --> 01:30:52.160 justification for this. 01:30:52.160 --> 01:30:57.780 And the memo they put out, I think this was the notification to Congress they 01:30:57.780 --> 01:31:01.760 had to make, basically just said, we did it under the president's Article II powers. 01:31:02.220 --> 01:31:07.160 That's it. It didn't say anything else beyond that. Which is not—. 01:31:07.880 --> 01:31:10.420 That doesn't negate that it's a war crime! 01:31:10.420 --> 01:31:14.280 Well, and it's not within the Article 2 powers, theoretically. 01:31:14.540 --> 01:31:18.180 I mean, the stance of this administration— The right. 01:31:18.180 --> 01:31:18.540 To declare war? 01:31:19.000 --> 01:31:23.560 Well, the stance of this administration is basically that the president can 01:31:23.560 --> 01:31:26.220 do anything. That is their stated— Yeah. 01:31:26.320 --> 01:31:27.080 Well, yeah, well, yeah. 01:31:27.280 --> 01:31:31.500 That is their stated opinion, is that there are absolutely no limits on presidential 01:31:31.500 --> 01:31:33.660 power. The president can do whatever the hell they want. 01:31:34.140 --> 01:31:38.960 And that's basically what they said in their justification for this. Now—, 01:31:39.870 --> 01:31:47.410 And here's our fundamental problem. Like, okay, let's say this was clearly illegal. 01:31:48.190 --> 01:31:49.990 Who's going to do something about it? 01:31:50.570 --> 01:31:52.830 Not the Supreme Court, not Congress. 01:31:53.590 --> 01:32:01.150 Yeah, nobody. Let's bring them up in charges in the ICC? No. 01:32:01.650 --> 01:32:01.830 Right. 01:32:02.230 --> 01:32:09.450 Nobody's going to pay attention to that either. You know, this is yet another—this 01:32:09.450 --> 01:32:12.210 is—the Trump administration, 01:32:12.690 --> 01:32:18.330 systematically, over the course of the presidency so far, 01:32:18.870 --> 01:32:27.530 has been taking more and more and more steps to just say, okay, 01:32:27.650 --> 01:32:30.390 we're going to do it. Who the fuck's going to stop us? 01:32:31.090 --> 01:32:33.990 Like their their fundamental mindset and we've 01:32:33.990 --> 01:32:36.810 talked about this before i talked about this a little last week as well but 01:32:36.810 --> 01:32:43.710 the the is that there is no conception whatsoever in this administration of 01:32:43.710 --> 01:32:51.170 oh let's check if this is legal or not and then we'll do it no it's we will do what we want. 01:32:51.170 --> 01:32:54.490 And then try to justify it whatever way well or. 01:32:54.490 --> 01:32:58.170 Not even like then we'll see if somebody tries to stop us that. 01:32:58.170 --> 01:32:59.050 That of. 01:32:59.050 --> 01:33:00.410 Course they'll take us to court. 01:33:00.410 --> 01:33:04.010 Yeah and and okay yeah but 01:33:04.010 --> 01:33:06.910 the courts are slow and and and in many cases the 01:33:06.910 --> 01:33:09.930 courts of you know the supreme court is ruled on their side it goes 01:33:09.930 --> 01:33:13.590 and reminds me of the issue that you know we didn't put in the in here but the 01:33:13.590 --> 01:33:16.770 harvard decision that came this week and the one thing that that happened in 01:33:16.770 --> 01:33:21.250 that the one thing that i forgot to so to point out was that in the decision 01:33:21.250 --> 01:33:27.690 basically the the the judges went and and scolded the Supreme Court, okay, by the way, 01:33:28.350 --> 01:33:32.330 and in which they said, you know, because you remember that they said recently 01:33:32.330 --> 01:33:35.990 that the Supreme Court had written an opinion, something about lower court, 01:33:36.070 --> 01:33:38.570 you know, defying our orders. 01:33:38.810 --> 01:33:42.630 And they went, you know, this just ripped back and says, she acknowledged that, 01:33:42.850 --> 01:33:46.850 quoting from this article from MSNBC, you know, still called so, 01:33:47.090 --> 01:33:51.870 Judge and Harbour's case calls Justice Grisham's comments unhelpful and unnecessary. 01:33:52.290 --> 01:33:56.050 She acknowledged that, like, lower court judges that justices are doing their 01:33:56.050 --> 01:33:57.770 best to resolve complex issues quickly. 01:33:58.070 --> 01:34:01.970 Given this, however, she wrote, it's unhelpful and unnecessary to criticize 01:34:01.970 --> 01:34:06.070 this report for defying the Supreme Court when they are working to find the 01:34:06.070 --> 01:34:08.930 right answer in a rapidly involving doctrinal landscape. 01:34:09.110 --> 01:34:12.810 They must grapple with both the existing president and interim guidance from 01:34:12.810 --> 01:34:18.030 the Supreme Court that appears to set that president aside without much explanation or consensus. 01:34:18.510 --> 01:34:19.030 Right. 01:34:19.210 --> 01:34:23.830 Basically, you guys are wiping your ass with the doctrine that has ruled our 01:34:23.830 --> 01:34:28.790 courts forever and then you guys are giving a shit because we can't follow it 01:34:28.790 --> 01:34:35.210 when you guys just decide to fucking to say, oh, yeah, Trump did it. It's right. 01:34:35.880 --> 01:34:40.900 And you're saying we need to follow you when you don't give us any fucking explanation. Why? 01:34:40.960 --> 01:34:45.020 Well, and Kavanaugh this week as well, I forget what forum he said this in, 01:34:45.100 --> 01:34:49.640 but he was quoted as saying, well, the reason we do a bunch of these things 01:34:49.640 --> 01:34:52.620 on the shadow docket without a lot of explanation, 01:34:53.240 --> 01:34:56.880 is we can't get five justices to agree on an explanation. 01:34:57.580 --> 01:35:03.600 Then you fuckers shouldn't be doing it if you guys can't come to a consensus to explaining it. 01:35:03.880 --> 01:35:09.540 Jesus fucking Christ, If that isn't the clearest signal of how fucked up whatever 01:35:09.540 --> 01:35:11.460 you're deciding is, what is? 01:35:12.400 --> 01:35:16.320 Right. And so, yeah. 01:35:16.400 --> 01:35:22.220 And the problem with the Trump approach of do it and then see who stops us is 01:35:22.220 --> 01:35:27.960 that even when the courts do rule against them, like you said, it takes a long time. 01:35:27.960 --> 01:35:34.360 And they can change the facts on the ground in such a way that by the time the 01:35:34.360 --> 01:35:38.780 court finally gets around to giving a definitive answer and it goes through 01:35:38.780 --> 01:35:41.360 all the goddamn appeals and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, 01:35:41.720 --> 01:35:46.540 it doesn't matter anymore because the facts on the ground have already changed. 01:35:48.740 --> 01:35:50.700 And we'll see. Well, by the way. 01:35:50.940 --> 01:35:53.880 This is a Kilmar Obrego, by the way, with all deporters in general, 01:35:54.000 --> 01:35:55.200 has not been deported yet. 01:35:55.540 --> 01:35:56.720 Not yet. Yeah, yeah. 01:35:57.300 --> 01:36:01.180 They keep threatening it, but they haven't done it. 01:36:01.740 --> 01:36:05.440 Now, and there have been talks now of three different places that he could be 01:36:05.440 --> 01:36:09.060 going. And apparently his lawyers have—. 01:36:09.060 --> 01:36:12.400 Here's the problem. They're all retaliatory. This is all just fucking like— No. 01:36:12.400 --> 01:36:17.440 They're all retaliatory. But also, apparently, the government has been trying 01:36:17.440 --> 01:36:23.900 to get him to admit to some of these things he's accused of. 01:36:23.900 --> 01:36:28.800 I've been guilty in exchange for a better place to be deported to. 01:36:29.220 --> 01:36:30.220 Fuck you guys. 01:36:31.400 --> 01:36:32.660 You know, I mean. 01:36:32.760 --> 01:36:35.100 It's such horseshit, you know. 01:36:35.220 --> 01:36:36.680 With, with these kinds of things, 01:36:36.860 --> 01:36:43.080 frankly, like it's, it's actually surprising to me that with, I mean, 01:36:43.420 --> 01:36:46.880 obviously this won't work for every case everywhere, but for some of these high 01:36:46.880 --> 01:36:54.620 visibility cases, I'm surprised that some random nice country hasn't just come 01:36:54.620 --> 01:36:56.440 in and said, we'll give him asylum. 01:36:56.940 --> 01:36:59.440 Not only that, we'll give him asylum. We'll take care of him. 01:36:59.600 --> 01:37:01.160 Like, let's get this taken care of. 01:37:01.160 --> 01:37:05.340 I believe he talks about that, but it hasn't happened yet. I mean, but yeah. 01:37:05.920 --> 01:37:09.140 And some rich guy says we'll bankroll you. 01:37:09.400 --> 01:37:11.900 He's married to his mountain. He doesn't want to. 01:37:12.100 --> 01:37:13.760 I know he wants to stay here. 01:37:13.800 --> 01:37:14.800 He wants to go home. 01:37:15.660 --> 01:37:16.640 I know he wants to go home. 01:37:16.640 --> 01:37:17.700 He wants to go home. 01:37:18.560 --> 01:37:24.020 But, you know, you give the right billionaire says, look, we'll give you a nice 01:37:24.020 --> 01:37:25.520 salary. to go live in Spain. 01:37:26.020 --> 01:37:29.820 Listen, you asked me about earlier about what would motivate me to move. 01:37:30.040 --> 01:37:34.440 You know, the other day I was going around. I love where I live. I don't want to go. 01:37:34.980 --> 01:37:35.420 Right. 01:37:35.940 --> 01:37:41.220 I don't want to go. My friends are here. My family is here. 01:37:41.400 --> 01:37:42.580 Whatever the hell is here. But 01:37:42.580 --> 01:37:47.640 I may be forced to go because there is no choice. But I don't want to go. 01:37:49.160 --> 01:37:54.040 Yeah. Okay. Back to the lightning round here. Trump is alive. 01:37:54.500 --> 01:37:57.660 Despite all the rumors. And he seems to... 01:37:57.660 --> 01:37:58.620 But listen, listen, listen. 01:37:59.020 --> 01:37:59.260 Yes. 01:37:59.440 --> 01:38:03.200 Trump must have been seriously hurt. Something had to happen. 01:38:03.500 --> 01:38:09.300 There is no way he stayed out for that many days where all of a sudden he was 01:38:09.300 --> 01:38:13.560 going to sleep early where all of a sudden people were sending out true social 01:38:13.560 --> 01:38:16.880 messages on his behalf unless something happened. 01:38:17.280 --> 01:38:21.280 Okay? And it's something that they wanted to make sure that nobody noticed. 01:38:21.600 --> 01:38:26.420 I think the most reasonable explanation that accounts for all of the various 01:38:26.420 --> 01:38:31.300 things that have been talked about is that he had some sort of medical procedure 01:38:31.300 --> 01:38:34.660 that was serious enough that he had to recover for it, 01:38:34.760 --> 01:38:38.960 but not so serious that he had to be like sent to Walter Reed for it. 01:38:39.060 --> 01:38:41.340 It was something that they could do at the White House. 01:38:42.640 --> 01:38:47.500 Listen, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. I'm sorry, I'm sorry. No, know who it is. 01:38:48.000 --> 01:38:51.360 It probably was serious enough to go to fucking the hospital. 01:38:51.600 --> 01:38:57.080 But by doing so, That would have created even more rumors. So what do you probably 01:38:57.080 --> 01:38:59.160 say? Fuck you. You guys are doing it here. 01:38:59.420 --> 01:39:04.180 Right. Okay. Yeah, I can see that. And look, like the White House, 01:39:04.500 --> 01:39:07.500 you know, has some medical facilities. 01:39:08.120 --> 01:39:13.520 Yeah. You know, it is set up so that it can be an emergency bunker and blah. 01:39:13.700 --> 01:39:18.020 Blah, blah, blah. They needed, you know, in that case, you know. 01:39:18.970 --> 01:39:23.490 Listen, he's built a, he wants to build a goddamn ballroom. He built a fucking, 01:39:23.870 --> 01:39:25.710 you know, he cemented over the Rose Garden. 01:39:26.270 --> 01:39:27.690 Listen, he did all of this shit, 01:39:27.690 --> 01:39:31.870 I'm sure. But he probably had him build a fucking OR if he needed it. 01:39:31.890 --> 01:39:33.690 Oh, I'm sure there was already one. 01:39:34.110 --> 01:39:37.150 No, but he probably, like, if they needed more shit, they probably brought it. 01:39:37.230 --> 01:39:38.450 Bring it, whatever the fuck you need. 01:39:39.330 --> 01:39:43.890 Yeah, probably. I mean, like, but in the end, though, I think, 01:39:44.070 --> 01:39:49.310 you know, it was some sort of, I'm guessing. This is guess and speculation. 01:39:49.670 --> 01:39:54.650 There was some sort of medical procedure he had to do that sort of had him not 01:39:54.650 --> 01:39:57.370 in great shape for a few days while he recovered. 01:39:57.610 --> 01:40:01.250 He is clearly sort of back to normal at this point. 01:40:01.690 --> 01:40:05.330 Now, there is one thing that we didn't mention. You know, so Trump's alive, 01:40:05.530 --> 01:40:07.770 okay? All right? So, you know, hopefully he'll be dancing. 01:40:08.090 --> 01:40:12.490 But anyway, but not right now. But, you know, aside from that, 01:40:12.610 --> 01:40:19.250 another quick hit to mention related to these interventions in cities and so forth and so on. 01:40:19.350 --> 01:40:22.490 And there's been a lot of threats and talk about Chicago or whatever. 01:40:22.750 --> 01:40:25.330 And now that hasn't happened yet, because I do know, you know, 01:40:25.550 --> 01:40:29.810 by the way, I saw some not so guarded, you know, 01:40:29.930 --> 01:40:33.470 statements from Governor Pritzker that basically he said he was going to deploy 01:40:33.470 --> 01:40:37.890 law enforcement to kind of like counter if they if they tried to like send in troops. 01:40:38.770 --> 01:40:42.130 Okay basically to force almost a standoff which is 01:40:42.130 --> 01:40:44.970 what i've been saying for months that they should do i'm like look 01:40:44.970 --> 01:40:48.050 let's state state policists right now are almost as 01:40:48.050 --> 01:40:52.050 militarized i'm not sure that even more militarized are a national guard hey 01:40:52.050 --> 01:40:56.370 you know what tell them hey they're in violation of the law if they do if they 01:40:56.370 --> 01:41:01.110 move in and they do something illegal arrest fuck that shit blockade them you 01:41:01.110 --> 01:41:05.690 got more of them anyway they're gonna send you know a few hundred you know, cartoon crayons. 01:41:05.870 --> 01:41:07.910 We'll deploy a thousand state police. What's wrong with you guys? 01:41:08.010 --> 01:41:10.070 See what the fuck you guys do. What are you going to do? 01:41:10.830 --> 01:41:13.170 We'll see. I mean, it will be... 01:41:13.170 --> 01:41:15.250 But right now, they haven't done anything. Okay, but... 01:41:15.250 --> 01:41:18.670 Nothing's done yet. But Trump has been posting about it again today. 01:41:19.270 --> 01:41:22.190 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But you know what? Like, right now, that's been like... 01:41:22.190 --> 01:41:26.530 It almost sounds like his... Right now, he's starting to sound like his tradies. Okay? All right. 01:41:26.630 --> 01:41:30.110 Well, at one point in the last couple days, he even said, well, 01:41:30.270 --> 01:41:33.070 we've been talking about Chicago, but maybe we'll do New Orleans instead. 01:41:33.310 --> 01:41:35.490 Now you're going to go to... Exactly. It sounded like a trade deal. 01:41:35.610 --> 01:41:37.750 But anyway, aside from that, the one thing that's been happening, 01:41:37.970 --> 01:41:43.390 you know, you know, ICE enforcement, you know, is far more arbitrary than arresting 01:41:43.390 --> 01:41:46.490 people sending them to the police. I don't know if you've noticed. 01:41:47.050 --> 01:41:47.370 But... 01:41:47.370 --> 01:41:51.490 Wait, wait, wait. That's not the point. The point is that right now, 01:41:51.670 --> 01:41:54.530 in D.C., you know, they've done this takeover, whatever, and they've been trying 01:41:54.530 --> 01:41:56.150 to send people to criminal charges. 01:41:56.690 --> 01:41:59.930 Well, guess what? The grand jury's... Which, by the way, as somebody said, 01:41:59.930 --> 01:42:02.710 a grand jury usually will fucking, and like even indict a ham sandwich. 01:42:03.090 --> 01:42:03.730 Okay? Yes. 01:42:04.150 --> 01:42:08.330 They've been rejecting all the fucking indictments. They've been like, just fuck all of you. 01:42:08.530 --> 01:42:12.650 You know, so in numbers you've never seen ever. 01:42:13.330 --> 01:42:18.050 The graduates are saying, all of them are saying, this is not a criminal case, fuck you. 01:42:18.780 --> 01:42:22.700 So they're having this issue where, yes, on that side of the equation, 01:42:22.720 --> 01:42:26.760 they can go like whatever, but they keep trying to like force criminal charges 01:42:26.760 --> 01:42:29.620 and a whole bunch of stuff and all grand juries are just all no billing. 01:42:30.520 --> 01:42:37.300 Yeah. There have been like six of them so far, and that's really unheard of for this kind of stuff. 01:42:37.300 --> 01:42:38.960 That's unprecedented. Okay. All right. 01:42:39.140 --> 01:42:42.340 Yes. but like you said like what 01:42:42.340 --> 01:42:45.820 there is they're making the show out 01:42:45.820 --> 01:42:50.940 of the dealing with criminals but the actual effect of almost all of these actions 01:42:50.940 --> 01:42:56.160 has been almost all the immigration side almost all like grabbing people for 01:42:56.160 --> 01:43:03.700 not having their papers and and sending them off to these detention camps or whatever, 01:43:06.120 --> 01:43:13.240 it's still I mentioned last week one of the problems here is it's becoming they're 01:43:13.240 --> 01:43:20.800 doing so much of it so consistently that people are starting to become numb to it you know and oh yeah. 01:43:21.440 --> 01:43:24.340 Listen that's what happens in dictatorial society it's like. 01:43:24.340 --> 01:43:24.600 You know. 01:43:26.840 --> 01:43:31.720 But people well but people become numb in the sense also that they stop being 01:43:31.720 --> 01:43:33.560 intimidated by it, too, in the other way. 01:43:33.760 --> 01:43:37.300 Okay? They just don't give a shit anymore. Okay? The people are trying to intimidate at some point. 01:43:37.580 --> 01:43:40.040 I mean, intimidation only works at a certain point. At one point, 01:43:40.140 --> 01:43:42.000 you're just like, oh, fucking whatever. You know? 01:43:42.540 --> 01:43:49.660 I mean, you know, how much intimidation can you shove down somebody's throat? 01:43:51.380 --> 01:43:56.300 It just is what it is, you know, it's just at some point that that now, 01:43:56.460 --> 01:44:00.660 of course, the one thing that they keep trying to do is trying to amp it up every time. 01:44:01.120 --> 01:44:06.480 OK, well, it almost feels like they they've been hoping at every turn that at 01:44:06.480 --> 01:44:07.800 some point this turns violent. 01:44:08.080 --> 01:44:11.180 At some point, the peaceful protests turn violent. At some point, 01:44:11.720 --> 01:44:16.440 somebody this becomes an all out shooting thing, you know, where somebody is 01:44:16.440 --> 01:44:20.640 resisting and blah, blah, blah, because they want to like escalate further. 01:44:21.340 --> 01:44:25.120 It hasn't happened so far, which I think is actually a good thing, 01:44:25.320 --> 01:44:32.220 but it almost seems like the administration is just looking for the excuse to 01:44:32.220 --> 01:44:37.080 escalate whereby they can, you know, make this even worse. 01:44:37.440 --> 01:44:38.880 And so far they feel. 01:44:39.100 --> 01:44:43.440 And so far they feel. Okay, next lightning round. 01:44:43.780 --> 01:44:50.840 How did RFK Jr. do in Congress? A lot of truth You know, told You know, 01:44:50.960 --> 01:44:55.180 he was You know, used science And all that stuff, 01:44:56.160 --> 01:45:01.600 Obviously not We got a fucking heroin addict In charge of health and human services 01:45:01.600 --> 01:45:03.520 That doesn't know anything about anything, 01:45:03.700 --> 01:45:08.900 Sam He has no clue about nothing Everything is just some kind of Conjecture 01:45:08.900 --> 01:45:15.680 and bullshit That he pulls out of his ass Whenever it suits him Now autism is caused by Tylenol. 01:45:16.340 --> 01:45:21.540 So on the Tylenol thing, just to be clear, there was a paper last year and a 01:45:21.540 --> 01:45:27.920 new one last month that does talk about a correlation, but I've listened to 01:45:27.920 --> 01:45:30.680 a few people sort of go through, like, 01:45:31.140 --> 01:45:33.420 why this isn't what people think it is. 01:45:33.420 --> 01:45:40.040 So there is apparently a minor correlation between Tylenol use in pregnant women and autism in the kids. 01:45:40.540 --> 01:45:48.400 But there are dozens and dozens of confounding factors that are not accounted for in this study. 01:45:49.340 --> 01:45:53.740 There's a question here at the most fundamental level. 01:45:55.230 --> 01:46:00.190 Is it the Tylenol they took or is it whatever symptoms they were having that 01:46:00.190 --> 01:46:01.770 caused them to take the Tylenol? 01:46:01.850 --> 01:46:02.750 Take the Tylenol. 01:46:02.950 --> 01:46:08.210 You know, like they had a fever and they took a Tylenol. Maybe that has something to do with it. 01:46:08.410 --> 01:46:11.730 There are all kinds of confounding factors. There are all kinds of reasons. 01:46:12.030 --> 01:46:17.910 It's just the whole thing. You use the keyword that always got caught on in 01:46:17.910 --> 01:46:21.070 statistics that is the bane of our existence. 01:46:21.510 --> 01:46:27.850 For most human beings that don't understand, correlation. Because correlation is not causation. 01:46:28.110 --> 01:46:34.370 It's the first fucking thing you get taught in damn fucking statistics. 01:46:34.830 --> 01:46:35.370 Right. 01:46:35.550 --> 01:46:40.610 And just because there is some fucking correlation, it doesn't mean most of 01:46:40.610 --> 01:46:43.070 the time what the fuck you think it means. 01:46:43.070 --> 01:46:47.830 Yeah and look as i've listened to some of the people talking about this they're 01:46:47.830 --> 01:46:55.310 like at the very most what has been here so far is like okay maybe we could 01:46:55.310 --> 01:46:57.330 study a little bit more along this Tylenol. 01:46:57.330 --> 01:47:01.550 Direction hey sam do you know that but for the most part but for the most part. 01:47:01.550 --> 01:47:06.110 It was it's like there has not been any causal relationship found. 01:47:06.110 --> 01:47:08.730 There's no mechanism let me tell you 01:47:08.730 --> 01:47:12.530 something i saw a study i think i think there's a study probably there is one 01:47:12.530 --> 01:47:17.130 somewhere that found that as temperatures get really hot and people drink a 01:47:17.130 --> 01:47:21.710 lot more water okay yes that apparently there's a correlation with how much 01:47:21.710 --> 01:47:26.330 what water they're drinking and heat stroke so water. 01:47:26.330 --> 01:47:27.330 Causes heat stroke. 01:47:27.330 --> 01:47:31.770 It must be the water it's causing the heat stroke i mean they're drinking all 01:47:31.770 --> 01:47:36.370 that fucking water and all of a sudden they're they're getting heat stroke? Sam, what the fuck? 01:47:36.950 --> 01:47:42.910 But, yes. And look, there are so many problems with how RFK approaches all these 01:47:42.910 --> 01:47:45.910 things, it's hard to even start. Listen, there's so many problems. 01:47:46.110 --> 01:47:49.690 There's no many problems. No, there's a basic problem. He doesn't believe in science. 01:47:51.010 --> 01:47:51.450 Yes. 01:47:51.690 --> 01:47:52.010 That's it. 01:47:52.770 --> 01:47:57.910 And also, I will add to that something aligned with what you said earlier. 01:47:58.250 --> 01:48:00.110 He's a eugenicist as well. 01:48:00.830 --> 01:48:01.110 Right. 01:48:01.250 --> 01:48:08.230 He doesn't believe in science, but also, very much so, he believes in survival of the fittest. 01:48:08.250 --> 01:48:10.370 And if you have some problem, you should die. 01:48:10.890 --> 01:48:17.250 And like you were saying earlier, he doesn't believe that—the whole thing with 01:48:17.250 --> 01:48:24.270 this autism thing, it's all couched in, like oh this is a massive tragedy that like. 01:48:24.270 --> 01:48:26.490 This is horrible this yes the. 01:48:26.490 --> 01:48:29.570 These people have been ruined in some way and. 01:48:29.570 --> 01:48:30.730 Yeah you. 01:48:30.730 --> 01:48:32.690 Know and no no. 01:48:32.690 --> 01:48:33.790 Yeah not. 01:48:33.790 --> 01:48:35.230 At all you know. 01:48:35.230 --> 01:48:39.630 And i gotta be honest if his style of eugenics causes us to create people like 01:48:39.630 --> 01:48:45.510 him fuck this shit man because you know he is a walking talking example of how 01:48:45.510 --> 01:48:50.270 if you tell me about if i want to design eugenics I sure as hell don't want 01:48:50.270 --> 01:48:53.430 him to come out looking like fucking RFK Jr., I'll tell you that. 01:48:54.350 --> 01:48:58.930 Well, yeah, I mean, fundamentally, if you look at problems that you don't want 01:48:58.930 --> 01:49:00.590 in a population, he's full of them. 01:49:00.950 --> 01:49:05.010 He's full of them! If you're going to play, you said it. The first motherfucker 01:49:05.010 --> 01:49:07.810 we should have eliminated is you, you stupid... 01:49:07.810 --> 01:49:14.750 But yeah, like, he doesn't understand the science, and he's fundamentally coming 01:49:14.750 --> 01:49:19.090 from a viewpoint that devalues life in the first place. 01:49:19.550 --> 01:49:19.650 Yes. 01:49:19.990 --> 01:49:27.370 And, yeah. And the thing is that was interesting about these hearings were the 01:49:27.370 --> 01:49:31.290 Republicans were going after him too. It wasn't just the Democrats. 01:49:32.450 --> 01:49:37.790 And, you know, the layup that the Republicans have in order to show that they 01:49:37.790 --> 01:49:46.190 have even one little look on the fucking spine is to fucking go and, damn it, you know, 01:49:47.090 --> 01:49:51.270 we call it, oh, God, impeach this son of a bitch. 01:49:51.730 --> 01:49:55.210 Well, in the United States. 01:49:55.530 --> 01:50:01.890 80% of Americans, 80% of Americans still believe in vaccinations. 01:50:02.490 --> 01:50:05.170 8-0, okay? All right. 01:50:05.970 --> 01:50:09.950 Now, unfortunately, a lot of them really need to be 90-plus in order to be as 01:50:09.950 --> 01:50:11.850 effective as they could be. But yes, yes, still. 01:50:12.250 --> 01:50:14.190 But with all the horseshit. 01:50:14.430 --> 01:50:15.390 I know, I know. 01:50:16.370 --> 01:50:21.770 Even still, over 60% of Republicans support vaccinations, even if they say maybe 01:50:21.770 --> 01:50:24.630 the COVID one. No, the rest, they do. 01:50:24.870 --> 01:50:28.150 They don't want polio. They don't want measles. 01:50:28.590 --> 01:50:30.770 They don't want most of this shit. 01:50:31.350 --> 01:50:35.770 You know, I saw someone, this is social media, so who knows, 01:50:35.850 --> 01:50:39.010 it was probably made up, but someone saying that they were talking to someone 01:50:39.010 --> 01:50:46.230 who was explaining why they didn't trust vaccinations and why they didn't get their kid vaccinated. 01:50:46.470 --> 01:50:49.830 And they're like, you know, half the diseases they want me to vaccinate the 01:50:49.830 --> 01:50:51.450 kid for, I've never even heard of. 01:50:51.970 --> 01:50:52.250 Right. 01:50:52.610 --> 01:50:56.170 And it's like, there's a reason you haven't heard of these diseases. 01:50:56.170 --> 01:50:56.490 There's a reason, you asshole. 01:50:57.740 --> 01:51:01.260 There's a whole damn reason why, you stupid shit. 01:51:01.840 --> 01:51:06.800 Yeah. And, you know, part of what was going on in this hearing was he was like, 01:51:06.880 --> 01:51:11.940 oh, I'm not, anybody can still get their vaccinations. I'm not denying anybody anything. 01:51:12.040 --> 01:51:15.540 Oh, he's caused, he's making it more difficult. 01:51:15.760 --> 01:51:19.100 He's causing insurance companies that can find a way to deny them. 01:51:19.200 --> 01:51:21.740 He's forcing people to go and have to get prescription. 01:51:22.280 --> 01:51:26.700 I'm sorry, the vaccination. This is bullshit. He is, no, no, no. 01:51:27.960 --> 01:51:33.740 And what I was saying is even short of impeachment, if if the Republicans could 01:51:33.740 --> 01:51:38.380 apply pressure right to I mean, Donald Trump, Donald Trump. 01:51:38.380 --> 01:51:43.040 That's the reason why he got off and fired a CDC lady, because Bill Cassidy 01:51:43.040 --> 01:51:47.380 called him and fucking like laid him a new one over the shit that he was trying to do. 01:51:47.380 --> 01:51:52.420 And that's the reason why they wound up firing her so they have been already 01:51:52.420 --> 01:51:53.980 at this point because it's fortunate. 01:51:54.320 --> 01:51:57.680 But by the way, those motherfucking Republicans, you know what the thing is? 01:51:58.180 --> 01:52:00.080 They voted to confirm that bastard. 01:52:00.840 --> 01:52:02.840 Who's not even a fucking real Republican anyway. 01:52:04.080 --> 01:52:09.400 And look, part of it is like, yeah, especially these two doctors who, 01:52:09.620 --> 01:52:13.460 you know, Republican doctors are like, well, he promised us. Oh, come on. 01:52:13.760 --> 01:52:19.460 You fucking idiot. I mean, what kind of fucking, I mean, yeah, 01:52:19.580 --> 01:52:20.660 keep talking that to yourself. 01:52:21.380 --> 01:52:26.180 Here's the thing with Donald Trump. He has shown in the past that if somebody 01:52:26.180 --> 01:52:29.680 is embarrassing him and making him look bad, he will fire them. 01:52:30.240 --> 01:52:37.680 So the question is, can this be constructed in such a way that RFK Jr. 01:52:37.960 --> 01:52:42.700 Becomes just an out-and-out embarrassment to Donald Trump among his own base? 01:52:42.700 --> 01:52:49.800 I sure, that's what we need. You know what we need? We need to get Laura Loomer on board. 01:52:50.240 --> 01:52:55.940 There you go. Okay. One more. One more. The Epstein victims coming out and speaking 01:52:55.940 --> 01:52:59.480 and talking about things. Look, the—, 01:53:00.710 --> 01:53:03.770 This has not gone away yet as much as Trump wanted. 01:53:04.510 --> 01:53:08.630 We do not have the file. Well, some have been released, but the some that were 01:53:08.630 --> 01:53:10.870 released were almost all in the public domain anyway. 01:53:11.570 --> 01:53:17.470 Yeah, they released the shit that we already have. They did what our trade partners do to us. 01:53:18.170 --> 01:53:19.950 They gave us the shit that we already had. 01:53:20.530 --> 01:53:24.670 Now, supposedly, there's still more coming, et cetera, et cetera, but look, 01:53:25.750 --> 01:53:30.470 there's this been, the whole thing on Congress trying to vote, there's this, 01:53:30.710 --> 01:53:36.270 discharge petition where the Democrats plus a handful of Republicans, 01:53:36.490 --> 01:53:42.170 including like Marjorie Taylor Greene, for God's sake, and a few others who 01:53:42.170 --> 01:53:47.670 are to push this resolution to demand a full disclosure. 01:53:47.970 --> 01:53:52.290 Now, I want to state right out front, like people have been talking about this 01:53:52.290 --> 01:53:59.510 discharge petition, like even if this thing passed, it would have force of law. 01:53:59.690 --> 01:54:03.830 No, this is just a resolution asking the administration to do something. 01:54:03.990 --> 01:54:06.870 So even if they pass it, he can still ignore it. 01:54:07.870 --> 01:54:13.070 But it's still significant that you've got, they haven't got enough Republicans yet. 01:54:13.230 --> 01:54:16.870 They've got like three or four Republicans on board and they need like four 01:54:16.870 --> 01:54:17.930 more or something like that. 01:54:17.990 --> 01:54:22.750 I forget the exact numbers, but they need a few more in order to pass this thing out of the house. 01:54:22.750 --> 01:54:29.250 And hey sam sam but yes but but but speaker johnson ah yes i. 01:54:29.250 --> 01:54:30.650 Was gonna bring this up next yes. 01:54:30.650 --> 01:54:40.790 That trump was the incited yes he was the informant he he was in there trying 01:54:40.790 --> 01:54:47.310 to bring truth and justice to everybody that's that's why he was friends of epstein well. 01:54:47.310 --> 01:54:54.110 This is actually interesting. Like, people immediately pointed out, 01:54:55.330 --> 01:55:02.850 This thing is not a get out of jail free card, because if, in fact, 01:55:02.950 --> 01:55:06.070 he was an FBI informant, it means he knew something. 01:55:06.350 --> 01:55:09.570 If he knew something, he was probably involved. 01:55:10.170 --> 01:55:14.730 Like the whole thing, they typically when you offer an informant status. 01:55:14.890 --> 01:55:18.390 And by the way, there have been rumors about Trump being an informant for other 01:55:18.390 --> 01:55:20.990 things going back decades and decades as well. 01:55:21.610 --> 01:55:25.230 Like, you know, but, you know. 01:55:26.870 --> 01:55:32.050 Basically, like, did the FBI catch Donald Trump doing something and then offered 01:55:32.050 --> 01:55:34.350 him a deal to roll up on Epstein instead? 01:55:34.590 --> 01:55:38.930 Who knows? We don't know. This is speculation out of a single comment from Johnson, 01:55:38.930 --> 01:55:42.450 but basically saying that Trump, don't worry about all this. 01:55:42.550 --> 01:55:51.890 Trump told me he was an FBI informant, which, like, I don't know that he was supposed to say that. 01:55:52.350 --> 01:55:56.890 Who knows? And meanwhile, wow, the victims themselves have said they're going 01:55:56.890 --> 01:55:58.370 to compile their own list. 01:55:59.550 --> 01:56:02.210 And people have asked, well, why haven't they named names to begin with? 01:56:02.310 --> 01:56:10.870 It's because if they come out independent, they could be sued out of existence. 01:56:11.090 --> 01:56:17.590 They're talking about rich, famous, influential people that potentially they could name. 01:56:17.830 --> 01:56:18.190 It's not that simple. 01:56:18.410 --> 01:56:21.010 And if they just came out and said, oh yeah, they raped me, 01:56:21.860 --> 01:56:26.460 without having the level of evidence required to actually bring a criminal case. 01:56:27.920 --> 01:56:34.480 And remember, like, that sweetheart deal in Florida from decades ago potentially 01:56:34.480 --> 01:56:37.640 said they weren't going after any of these co-conspirators. 01:56:38.500 --> 01:56:41.580 So there are all kinds of things here. So, 01:56:41.960 --> 01:56:46.000 but they're talking about giving the list to the Congress people and, 01:56:46.120 --> 01:56:50.160 like, Marjorie Taylor Greene and these others are like, I'll read them on the floor, you know, 01:56:50.220 --> 01:56:54.940 because then they have speech and debate immunity and 01:56:54.940 --> 01:56:57.920 they can give that but some of 01:56:57.920 --> 01:57:00.660 them have have said specifically though no one's accusing you 01:57:00.660 --> 01:57:04.840 donald trump why don't you just out put this out but i don't know all of these 01:57:04.840 --> 01:57:10.880 other things coming together at the very least even if donald trump wasn't involved 01:57:10.880 --> 01:57:14.680 directly and i think we've had all kinds of anecdotal stuff about him liking 01:57:14.680 --> 01:57:18.360 underage kids himself over the years, 01:57:18.620 --> 01:57:26.460 even if he wasn't like guilty of that, it certainly seems like he was one of the facilitators. 01:57:26.680 --> 01:57:30.460 And, and this is, or at least knew something. And that's one of the things when 01:57:30.460 --> 01:57:35.960 you listen to the victims talk this week, which they haven't really talked as much when, 01:57:36.100 --> 01:57:41.300 when they are asked what they want out of the files, it's something very different 01:57:41.300 --> 01:57:42.520 than what you hear otherwise. 01:57:42.820 --> 01:57:46.000 Like everywhere else you're hearing, we want more of the men. 01:57:46.180 --> 01:57:50.740 Like we want the rich, famous people who are probably also raping children. Right. 01:57:51.080 --> 01:57:54.580 But when you listen to the victims, what they're, they're at, 01:57:54.740 --> 01:57:58.880 we want to know the story behind the sweetheart deal in Florida. 01:57:59.320 --> 01:58:04.640 Why did he get that deal? Who are the people who helped him there? 01:58:04.700 --> 01:58:08.520 They seem to concentrate mostly on, yeah, the main perpetrators were, 01:58:08.520 --> 01:58:12.220 you know, Maxwell and Epstein. 01:58:14.140 --> 01:58:15.560 Ghislaine Maxwell and Epstein. 01:58:15.580 --> 01:58:16.820 Yeah, Ghislaine Maxwell and Epstein, yeah. 01:58:17.140 --> 01:58:17.440 But, 01:58:18.170 --> 01:58:21.910 But there are lots of people who helped them get away with it. 01:58:22.090 --> 01:58:24.630 Those are the people that I want to hear about. 01:58:24.930 --> 01:58:31.870 And so the victims talked less about other people who were committing abuse 01:58:31.870 --> 01:58:37.730 themselves as to apparently circles of people who were enabling this behavior. 01:58:37.950 --> 01:58:41.350 Now, there probably were other people actually participating as well. 01:58:41.450 --> 01:58:42.750 We know about Prince Andrew. 01:58:43.170 --> 01:58:48.050 Some other names have been out there. So who knows? but like it's the point 01:58:48.050 --> 01:58:50.550 is it's not going away okay all. 01:58:50.550 --> 01:58:51.510 Right we gotta wrap this up. 01:58:51.510 --> 01:58:55.490 We gotta wrap this up because we had yet another crash of my computer i don't 01:58:55.490 --> 01:58:59.710 know what the hell is going on with that plus yvonne's been on the wrong microphone 01:58:59.710 --> 01:59:03.770 this whole time so he sounded like crap you know and and i gotta take my wife 01:59:03.770 --> 01:59:07.410 to the airport although she says she's not actually ready yet so oh. 01:59:07.410 --> 01:59:08.450 Okay well that's good. 01:59:08.450 --> 01:59:12.110 So so instead we're like we'll try to get her ready and then and see if we even 01:59:12.110 --> 01:59:16.370 get to our plane on time. You know, so better stuff. Okay. 01:59:19.550 --> 01:59:23.610 Thank you for being here. You know the deal. 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You know, a lot of people are just speculating, 02:00:13.150 --> 02:00:16.430 well, the Model Y, the new model, whatever, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. 02:00:16.970 --> 02:00:23.490 Listen, people in Europe basically have said, fuck you, Tesla, in droves. 02:00:23.670 --> 02:00:25.590 They used to dominate that market. 02:00:26.730 --> 02:00:32.710 And in the Washington Post, it came out that in Germany, which is one of the 02:00:32.710 --> 02:00:35.070 biggest markets for Tesla, 02:00:36.170 --> 02:00:45.210 They are down I think it was Across Tesla they dropped 33.6% In Germany it was 02:00:45.210 --> 02:00:49.750 even worse They dropped 75%. 02:00:49.750 --> 02:00:51.950 And they're having declines here too, right? 02:00:53.200 --> 02:00:57.520 Yes, yes, yes. But it's more, it's worse in Europe. 02:00:58.280 --> 02:01:01.440 They were, they, I mean, let's put it this way. Market share last year in Germany 02:01:01.440 --> 02:01:06.420 for Tesla was 11% of all, of all vehicle. 02:01:06.640 --> 02:01:10.720 This is not just electric, of all vehicles registered in Germany. Okay. 02:01:11.400 --> 02:01:14.700 All right. Think about that. It's the entire market. Okay. I mean, 02:01:14.740 --> 02:01:18.240 in the U S the entire battery electric vehicle market is around that. 02:01:18.520 --> 02:01:22.420 So imagine the penetration in Germany where there are 11% of all cars. 02:01:22.420 --> 02:01:27.420 Through three quarters this year, they're down to 3.4%. I mean, 02:01:27.460 --> 02:01:30.620 that is just a brutal beating that they have taken. 02:01:30.800 --> 02:01:36.540 And they basically ceded market to now Volkswagen, BMW, and BYD. 02:01:36.780 --> 02:01:39.000 And so they're just getting destroyed. 02:01:39.260 --> 02:01:43.360 And in response to that, the Tesla board, 02:01:43.560 --> 02:01:47.800 recognizing how bad a job Elon Musk has done, 02:01:47.800 --> 02:01:51.420 they have decided to award a massive 02:01:51.420 --> 02:01:54.260 new payout for him that 02:01:54.260 --> 02:01:58.320 if it comes to fruition he could potentially they 02:01:58.320 --> 02:02:03.480 use this valuation model Black-Scholes in order to value these based on future 02:02:03.480 --> 02:02:09.420 projections whatever the fun or whatnot it's magical but it still is the estimation 02:02:09.420 --> 02:02:14.380 based on that model it estimated it could be worth up to one trillion dollars okay, 02:02:14.980 --> 02:02:15.900 Bail up for us. 02:02:16.000 --> 02:02:23.340 Baby Ah, yes Okay, with that, I think we need to be done Thank you everybody 02:02:23.340 --> 02:02:27.080 for joining us Yeah, okay, 02:02:28.280 --> 02:02:31.700 Have a great week, have a good time Stay safe. 02:02:31.860 --> 02:02:33.880 Goodbye Bye Bye. 02:03:03.840 --> 02:03:07.640 Thank you. okay we'll see how this goes depending on what of my stuff got saved 02:03:07.640 --> 02:03:12.060 and where and what this is going to be a joy to edit okay we'll talk to you 02:03:12.060 --> 02:03:15.080 later hitting hitting stop bye Bye.