WEBVTT 00:00:00.010 --> 00:00:01.890 Shall we jump in? 00:00:02.390 --> 00:00:03.730 Yes. Okay. 00:00:27.430 --> 00:00:33.090 Welcome to Curmudgeon's Corner for Saturday, October 4th, 2025. 00:00:33.730 --> 00:00:38.490 It's just a couple minutes before 14.30 UTC as we're starting to record. 00:00:38.650 --> 00:00:40.390 I'm Sam Mentor, Yvonne Bowes here. Hello, Yvonne. 00:00:41.150 --> 00:00:41.510 Hi. 00:00:43.950 --> 00:00:46.370 You sound enthused as usual. 00:00:48.250 --> 00:00:52.970 Well, no, I am worse. And I'll explain why. 00:00:53.310 --> 00:00:57.210 Well, I'm not—I need surgery. 00:00:57.790 --> 00:00:58.510 Yes. 00:00:58.510 --> 00:01:06.690 And this week, the pain that I've been experiencing has gotten markedly worse. 00:01:07.490 --> 00:01:13.030 That's not good. No, it's not good. I probably did it to myself. 00:01:14.770 --> 00:01:20.410 Look, I... Well, in order to find a doctor who could figure out very quickly 00:01:20.410 --> 00:01:23.910 what the hell my problem was, because I got a little bit frustrated with the 00:01:23.910 --> 00:01:25.690 doctors I've been seeing here. 00:01:25.690 --> 00:01:32.730 Well, my brother, my sister-in-law's a doctor and her office is right by another 00:01:32.730 --> 00:01:40.090 doctor's office who pretty much was the right person to see for what my problem was. 00:01:40.330 --> 00:01:45.790 And so last Friday, you know, I called my brother who works at the same hospital. 00:01:45.790 --> 00:01:50.650 He's a pharmacist, not a doctor, but he knows his stuff as well. 00:01:50.910 --> 00:01:53.330 I said, you know, I got this going on. 00:01:53.710 --> 00:01:59.290 What do I do? And he said, hang on, because he, aside from being a pharmacist, 00:01:59.590 --> 00:02:05.790 most of his time is spent managing the office at my sister-in-law's doctor's office. 00:02:05.990 --> 00:02:10.130 And anybody who's been a doctor now with all the paperwork and insurance and 00:02:10.130 --> 00:02:14.450 shit and whatever goes on, you need somebody that can do that. 00:02:14.530 --> 00:02:18.390 And so he's the guy that does that for their practice. 00:02:19.030 --> 00:02:21.990 So he walked over there and called me back. Well, they can see you on Monday. 00:02:23.090 --> 00:02:27.410 Right. And I'm like, okay, so, but, okay, this is in Texas. So I had to fly 00:02:27.410 --> 00:02:31.150 to Texas on, on Sunday to go get looked at. 00:02:31.890 --> 00:02:38.290 And the doctor, after doing the physical examination, was able to figure out 00:02:38.290 --> 00:02:41.650 that, yeah, you don't have a muscle strain. You don't have the particulitis. 00:02:41.750 --> 00:02:42.550 What you have is a hernia. 00:02:43.570 --> 00:02:48.390 I'm now realizing that this had been there for a while. 00:02:49.370 --> 00:02:57.390 I had some minor discomfort in the past that I had put off as soreness. 00:02:57.630 --> 00:02:58.410 You'd blown it off. 00:02:58.710 --> 00:03:01.370 Well, I put it. No, I thought I was just sore. 00:03:01.890 --> 00:03:02.110 Right. 00:03:02.470 --> 00:03:05.810 You know, I thought it was just something temporary. You know, I work out a lot. 00:03:05.950 --> 00:03:11.230 And so I just thought, no, you know, muscles get sore and you get some pain that must be just it. 00:03:11.310 --> 00:03:15.130 And it went and it came and it went away. So it didn't stay there permanently. 00:03:15.470 --> 00:03:19.990 But since July, it started permanently. OK, it didn't go. 00:03:20.130 --> 00:03:24.850 That's what that's how I wound up to the doctor, because I started getting pain 00:03:24.850 --> 00:03:26.890 and it started not going away. 00:03:28.290 --> 00:03:31.810 But look i had to fly to texas and back 00:03:31.810 --> 00:03:37.410 for that i i went on sunday i came back monday night and you know my brother 00:03:37.410 --> 00:03:41.110 doesn't live in dallas or houston where there's a direct flight i had to fly 00:03:41.110 --> 00:03:46.570 to i had to change planes to get where they live so it was basically six hours 00:03:46.570 --> 00:03:51.790 going there six hours going back i mean i got i got home on monday like at two in the morning, 00:03:52.550 --> 00:03:55.690 2 30 in the morning and then but okay i 00:03:55.690 --> 00:03:59.530 also had to go to guiana now look 00:03:59.530 --> 00:04:05.530 i i have to say i always looked at the map and i thought guiana was closer because 00:04:05.530 --> 00:04:12.010 i knew it was right right by venezuela and i've been to caracas before and it's 00:04:12.010 --> 00:04:17.610 like it's less than three hours well no guiana is okay, 00:04:18.070 --> 00:04:20.410 is really much further out. 00:04:20.970 --> 00:04:26.230 Another thing is, I mistakenly thought it was on the Caribbean Sea. 00:04:26.470 --> 00:04:32.470 It is past Trinidad. It is on the Atlantic coast. So it is that much further out. 00:04:32.770 --> 00:04:36.310 It's closer to five hours to get there. 00:04:36.450 --> 00:04:37.350 Okay. Yes. 00:04:37.610 --> 00:04:45.530 And I had to go on a Wednesday night, five hours there, and then came back yesterday, five hours back. 00:04:45.530 --> 00:04:50.750 While I was there, I started getting, the pain started getting worse because 00:04:50.750 --> 00:04:55.070 I spent 10 hours on a fucking airplane round trip. 00:04:55.350 --> 00:04:57.930 Plus, let me just say this. 00:04:58.230 --> 00:05:02.630 Look, Guyana right now is experiencing a huge growth spurt. 00:05:03.290 --> 00:05:08.730 Guyana for many, many decades was even poorer than Haiti. 00:05:09.090 --> 00:05:11.610 Okay? In the Americas. It was 00:05:11.610 --> 00:05:16.490 the poorest country in the Americas for an extended period of time. but. 00:05:18.330 --> 00:05:26.850 But Venezuela's stupidity has been Guyana's gain because what happened is as 00:05:26.850 --> 00:05:30.890 Venezuela destroyed their oil production and economy, 00:05:31.390 --> 00:05:35.670 you know, some guys at ExxonMobil figured out, you know what, 00:05:35.850 --> 00:05:40.890 they're bordering Venezuela, right? There's got to be oil there. 00:05:41.490 --> 00:05:47.650 And lo and behold, in 2015, they found it. And they found a huge amount of it. 00:05:48.290 --> 00:05:52.270 Um, and so their economy right now is booming. 00:05:52.730 --> 00:05:56.610 Listen, you know, I started doing my, my research as I go over there and I'm 00:05:56.610 --> 00:05:58.630 meeting with a customer, you know, 00:05:59.610 --> 00:06:06.930 do you realize that right now Guyana has like almost like the highest GDP per 00:06:06.930 --> 00:06:09.390 person in the Americas right now? 00:06:09.850 --> 00:06:12.450 I had no such realization. 00:06:13.070 --> 00:06:18.050 Exactly. No, neither did I. It's like shit like that that all of a sudden I realized, holy shit. 00:06:18.050 --> 00:06:24.890 I mean, they are basically, money is flooding in there, and the economy is the 00:06:24.890 --> 00:06:28.410 fastest growing right now in the Americas. 00:06:28.610 --> 00:06:31.070 Like, literally, like, it's been growing in recent years. Of course, 00:06:31.130 --> 00:06:36.390 it started from such a low base, so it makes it happen, but it's been growing like 50% a year. 00:06:36.990 --> 00:06:39.070 You know, crazy numbers like this. 00:06:39.250 --> 00:06:39.430 Okay? 00:06:40.350 --> 00:06:43.550 And so, but, but, but. 00:06:43.730 --> 00:06:44.750 But, yes. Yes. 00:06:45.680 --> 00:06:51.640 Listen, being that they were at the poorest state, their infrastructure is still, 00:06:51.640 --> 00:06:58.460 you know, that shows that they are still, you know, one of the poorest. 00:06:59.100 --> 00:07:06.280 The airport is, right now, it takes an hour to go from the international airport 00:07:06.280 --> 00:07:09.960 to downtown, to the city. Okay? It's an hour drive. 00:07:10.240 --> 00:07:10.740 Okay. 00:07:10.740 --> 00:07:17.740 The road is about the worst road that I've had to traverse over a long distance. 00:07:18.580 --> 00:07:23.760 I'm not saying it is the worst, but it matches the worst. 00:07:24.080 --> 00:07:33.600 Well, after you've been on a five-hour ride, you got to take a one-hour ride in a very bumpy road. 00:07:33.600 --> 00:07:42.500 In a car that is more made to be resistant to getting damaged rather than for 00:07:42.500 --> 00:07:47.160 passenger comfort, back and forth, that didn't help either. 00:07:47.160 --> 00:07:49.180 In a body that's already sore. 00:07:49.400 --> 00:07:53.280 In a body that's already having problems, that was not helpful. 00:07:53.480 --> 00:07:56.740 I will say this one thing. 00:07:56.940 --> 00:08:02.480 The people in Guyana, everybody that I met with, was incredibly pleasant and lovely. 00:08:03.600 --> 00:08:09.140 And I will take any of them over most of the MAGA idiots that we have here. 00:08:09.500 --> 00:08:13.340 I will ship them. I don't know. I will make out. 00:08:13.580 --> 00:08:17.600 Listen, I will quickly trade for them in a heartbeat. 00:08:17.880 --> 00:08:18.480 Right. 00:08:18.700 --> 00:08:21.980 Okay. No questions asked. You know. 00:08:22.400 --> 00:08:28.920 By the way, one also interesting tidbit. They are fanatics for KFC. Listen. 00:08:29.200 --> 00:08:29.860 For KFC. 00:08:30.280 --> 00:08:35.940 KFC. Look, Sam, I'm talking insanity fanatics. 00:08:37.070 --> 00:08:40.850 I went and I drove through, passed a couple of KFCs and they had drive-thrus. 00:08:41.230 --> 00:08:42.250 So you had some. This is the country. 00:08:42.870 --> 00:08:45.170 No, I did not. No, no. I passed by the drive-thrus. No, no, no. 00:08:45.210 --> 00:08:49.710 I just saw the drive-thrus. Look, I wasn't there long enough. I mean, I think I only. 00:08:49.710 --> 00:08:52.770 Was- Because I was going to ask for the comparison between their KFC and our KFC. 00:08:52.890 --> 00:08:56.730 No, what they told me, here's what they told me. The guy told me that. 00:08:56.830 --> 00:09:00.210 Now, remember another thing, another interesting tidbit about Guyana. 00:09:00.330 --> 00:09:03.250 Things that I felt, but look, I hadn't visited the country before. 00:09:03.270 --> 00:09:07.230 So I started reading up. I wanted to know about the culture, economy. 00:09:07.590 --> 00:09:10.390 You know, I don't like going to a place without... 00:09:10.390 --> 00:09:11.090 You don't want to go in cold. 00:09:11.450 --> 00:09:14.710 No, no, no, no. I want to find out everything I can about, you know, 00:09:14.770 --> 00:09:19.270 what's happened and so forth and so on. And I, you know, I hadn't really dug into it a lot. 00:09:20.510 --> 00:09:22.490 Largest population is of Indian descent. 00:09:23.190 --> 00:09:23.590 Okay. 00:09:23.890 --> 00:09:26.870 All right. The second is African slaves. 00:09:27.090 --> 00:09:30.490 Just to be clear, indigenous Americans, not like... 00:09:30.490 --> 00:09:32.090 No, no, no. No, India. 00:09:32.830 --> 00:09:37.770 Oh, India. Okay. From India. Largest population overall? 00:09:38.470 --> 00:09:38.690 Yes. 00:09:39.070 --> 00:09:40.190 Like greater than? 00:09:40.630 --> 00:09:42.470 Yes. Than everything else. 00:09:42.590 --> 00:09:42.830 Wow. 00:09:42.970 --> 00:09:46.890 Okay. And I'll explain why. Okay. This is what happened. Okay. 00:09:47.570 --> 00:09:54.770 You know, so it's people from India. Okay. That move to, move there. Okay. 00:09:55.790 --> 00:10:00.810 You know, descendants of African slaves. And the last one are the indigenous. 00:10:01.130 --> 00:10:06.270 Okay. That's the smallest set. Okay. So what happened is that when... 00:10:06.270 --> 00:10:14.170 I'm confirming this, and absolutely, it's like 40% Indian, 29% African, 00:10:14.410 --> 00:10:18.090 20% mixed, 11% indigenous, 00:10:18.530 --> 00:10:21.550 and then trivial portions of European and Chinese. 00:10:21.770 --> 00:10:25.550 Yes. And so here's how this happened, okay? 00:10:26.590 --> 00:10:31.730 Okay, first, you know, there's gold and other, you know, valuable things in 00:10:31.730 --> 00:10:35.790 Guyana, okay? It was a British column. They abolished slavery, right? 00:10:36.170 --> 00:10:40.230 So what did the British at the time decide to solve? How did they decide to 00:10:40.230 --> 00:10:43.270 solve the problem? Indentured servitude. 00:10:44.210 --> 00:10:49.530 Okay. They brought in Indians that they put on indentured servitude contracts 00:10:49.530 --> 00:10:53.490 that wanted to get out of India, put them on a contract, shipped them to Guyana, 00:10:53.570 --> 00:10:56.330 and that's how they were replacing the slave labor. 00:10:56.870 --> 00:10:57.710 Okay, then. 00:10:57.710 --> 00:11:06.270 And that's how, and by the way, that is why I had been to a few ex-British colonies, like Jamaica. 00:11:07.210 --> 00:11:10.110 I can't remember what other, which other island I went to. 00:11:10.350 --> 00:11:14.390 I think it was maybe in the Caymans, I experienced this, where I met a lot of 00:11:14.390 --> 00:11:18.150 people Indian descent. And I was like, why did, you know, why the Indians? 00:11:18.370 --> 00:11:24.030 And this is the reason the British in the 1800s decided to, when they abolished 00:11:24.030 --> 00:11:26.590 slavery, that they replaced it with indentured servitude. 00:11:27.660 --> 00:11:31.180 And many brought many Indians because India was a colony and many wanted to leave. 00:11:31.300 --> 00:11:31.640 Of course, yeah. 00:11:31.800 --> 00:11:34.660 Yeah, of course. And they, and they, and it was like, because the indenture 00:11:34.660 --> 00:11:38.560 servitude, the one thing about it is they were like, hey, it ends. 00:11:39.460 --> 00:11:42.580 Because the contracts had a fixed definition of time. It wasn't like forever. 00:11:42.800 --> 00:11:46.000 It wasn't like slavery where your kids are going to get sold as well. 00:11:46.240 --> 00:11:49.740 No, it was like, it was a period of time. And then after the period of time 00:11:49.740 --> 00:11:52.780 and then you, whatever. And so a lot of them took the deal. 00:11:53.400 --> 00:11:59.040 Just to be clear, generally speaking, those contracts were set up in such a 00:11:59.040 --> 00:12:01.180 way that they kind of trapped you anyway. 00:12:01.240 --> 00:12:03.440 Oh, yeah, they tried to – yes, yes, yes. 00:12:03.640 --> 00:12:09.140 It was like – It was very hard to actually get out of those under the theoretical terms. 00:12:09.160 --> 00:12:13.640 Because they would add debt to it and then you owed more and so then it would 00:12:13.640 --> 00:12:16.020 file on so it would add more time. Yeah, yeah, yeah. 00:12:16.240 --> 00:12:22.220 But the vision was like, hey, the contract ended. And in many cases, 00:12:22.300 --> 00:12:25.600 even though they trapped him, eventually they ended and it didn't carry on to 00:12:25.600 --> 00:12:27.080 the next generation and so forth. 00:12:27.220 --> 00:12:31.680 So therefore, but so that's how, so that was the, so that's the thing, 00:12:31.900 --> 00:12:35.360 which is why, you know, also it's like number one sport is cricket. 00:12:37.180 --> 00:12:42.520 It's also another thing, but, but, you know, but like, so, so the, 00:12:42.520 --> 00:12:47.140 the guy that I was speaking to who took me around, who's also of Indian descent, 00:12:47.660 --> 00:12:49.440 explained to me that the thing about the KFC. 00:12:49.440 --> 00:12:55.680 Well, he believes that basically they take whatever the herbs and spices they 00:12:55.680 --> 00:12:57.840 send, and they basically double them up. 00:13:01.220 --> 00:13:08.900 So that's the KFC local. Basically, it is the same, except if you remember herbs 00:13:08.900 --> 00:13:11.320 and spices, it's doubled up on herbs and spices. 00:13:11.740 --> 00:13:14.740 Okay. okay and and the sam the 00:13:14.740 --> 00:13:17.880 drive-through the car lines there were like 15 00:13:17.880 --> 00:13:21.100 20 cars long 25 it 00:13:21.100 --> 00:13:24.420 was they would wrap around the block okay it 00:13:24.420 --> 00:13:27.180 was like it was worse than any lines that i've seen a 00:13:27.180 --> 00:13:30.200 chick-fil-a which i i don't see them like having those lines anymore 00:13:30.200 --> 00:13:33.280 i realize they're not they're not as you know but 00:13:33.280 --> 00:13:36.060 yeah it was like kind of like that was crazy so i i saw 00:13:36.060 --> 00:13:39.380 that so that was like the one thing that that stood out uh 00:13:39.380 --> 00:13:42.520 now you got me wanting some kfc i know kfc 00:13:42.520 --> 00:13:45.640 is good but like i said he we both said yeah but 00:13:45.640 --> 00:13:48.320 i'm like you know i haven't eaten in a while because i'm like you know we're 00:13:48.320 --> 00:13:55.260 trying to you know it's it's just but but it's it's i mean i i i like it so 00:13:55.260 --> 00:14:02.980 so anyway so it it was it was just quite interesting but it's also i mean you 00:14:02.980 --> 00:14:05.220 can see obviously how the i mean, 00:14:06.540 --> 00:14:08.140 the poverty that, 00:14:08.940 --> 00:14:11.220 you know, it's starting to, like, be... 00:14:12.300 --> 00:14:15.880 Covered up to some way, but, but man, I mean, you could see how. 00:14:15.980 --> 00:14:20.160 But it's still there. Yeah. Because generally speaking, when you have sort of 00:14:20.160 --> 00:14:24.140 the kind of rapid growth you're talking about, it is not evenly distributed. 00:14:24.480 --> 00:14:28.920 It isn't, but it is being distributed. I will say that you can tell that's why 00:14:28.920 --> 00:14:32.840 so many people are like, one thing they were talking about was that right now, 00:14:33.000 --> 00:14:36.460 a country that had very few cars, that right now they're basically registering 00:14:36.460 --> 00:14:38.640 about 3,000 new cars a month. 00:14:38.640 --> 00:14:42.680 And this is so even they are extremely taxed as well. 00:14:43.100 --> 00:14:47.960 And they are building a new highway to the airport. Okay. All right. 00:14:48.100 --> 00:14:49.480 That is not finished yet. 00:14:49.760 --> 00:14:54.960 They did build this new airport, which is, it's gotta be one of the smallest 00:14:54.960 --> 00:15:00.220 airports I've been to outside of being in a, one of these Caribbean Island airports. 00:15:00.700 --> 00:15:03.400 Okay. um it is one of 00:15:03.400 --> 00:15:06.800 the smallest international airports that 00:15:06.800 --> 00:15:09.700 that i've ever been to it's pretty 00:15:09.700 --> 00:15:12.560 new and shiny it's a little bit of a it's a little 00:15:12.560 --> 00:15:15.340 bit of a wonky design but hey it's it's nice and 00:15:15.340 --> 00:15:18.500 clean it's got food it's got gates 00:15:18.500 --> 00:15:22.000 it's air conditioned it's you know i mean 00:15:22.000 --> 00:15:24.960 you know it looks it looks decent it's 00:15:24.960 --> 00:15:28.120 a the design is it's a little bit weird because 00:15:28.120 --> 00:15:31.000 the gates don't actually have the 00:15:31.000 --> 00:15:34.100 waiting areas there there is like this general and actually 00:15:34.100 --> 00:15:37.260 the signage if they put now that i know the 00:15:37.260 --> 00:15:40.040 the drill i know how to maneuver it 00:15:40.040 --> 00:15:43.340 but they didn't have signs there that explain this there's this 00:15:43.340 --> 00:15:47.300 general waiting area that is on the first floor and then when your flight gets 00:15:47.300 --> 00:15:51.840 called you go up to a second level and you walk over to the gate and then you 00:15:51.840 --> 00:15:59.000 go in but there isn't a waiting area at the gate itself ah right okay so so 00:15:59.000 --> 00:16:01.240 that was a little bit like confusing at first because I. 00:16:02.260 --> 00:16:05.800 They need to the only thing they really the only thing that was missing was 00:16:05.800 --> 00:16:12.100 really the signage to make it clear but it was you know nice clean good the 00:16:12.100 --> 00:16:16.900 security is better than a lot of other airports I've seen I'll tell you what they had a good, 00:16:17.910 --> 00:16:23.290 equipment and things and stuff and whatever. And the hotel was new and shiny. 00:16:23.870 --> 00:16:27.130 Another very interesting thing. They asked me, what about the beaches? 00:16:27.610 --> 00:16:30.270 And I'm like, well, no beaches. 00:16:30.850 --> 00:16:31.350 Okay. 00:16:31.470 --> 00:16:38.610 And the reason is, at first, I thought I looked at the water and I'm like, 00:16:38.710 --> 00:16:41.070 is that mud or is it pollution? 00:16:41.330 --> 00:16:46.870 And I'm like, I've been, but I've been to places that have rivers and waters that are 00:16:46.930 --> 00:16:49.950 very polluted and it's a lot of times very obvious 00:16:49.950 --> 00:16:52.710 from the smell you know it's just 00:16:52.710 --> 00:16:55.390 you know like in brazil specifically i remember that you know 00:16:55.390 --> 00:16:58.150 you'd get to these polluted waterways and the stench from the 00:16:58.150 --> 00:17:02.070 water is just yeah god it's awful that's the 00:17:02.070 --> 00:17:05.770 one that i remember most specifically but that wasn't that's not it at all it's 00:17:05.770 --> 00:17:10.750 not it's not pollution either it what happens is that they get runoff from major 00:17:10.750 --> 00:17:16.630 rivers going there including the amazon and that runoff actually is carrying 00:17:16.630 --> 00:17:19.390 quite a lot of mud, like a lot of mud. 00:17:19.610 --> 00:17:26.470 Like, it's just, but a lot of mud because these are very powerful rivers that are sending there. 00:17:26.670 --> 00:17:32.390 So all the water, like literally, when you go and look at it, looks like mud. 00:17:32.570 --> 00:17:37.970 And if you went and it's the, actually, it is the muddiest coast in the world 00:17:37.970 --> 00:17:41.550 is that I figured, because I looked at it and I'm like, is that mud? 00:17:41.690 --> 00:17:43.830 And so I had to look at it. That looks like mud. 00:17:44.370 --> 00:17:51.370 That was my thought. And I looked it up that Guyana has the muddiest water coast anywhere. 00:17:51.790 --> 00:17:54.630 Basically, if you went into the water like, yo, let me go to the beach. 00:17:54.690 --> 00:17:57.790 Let me take a dip. You'd come out and you're like basically caked in mud. 00:17:58.330 --> 00:18:00.910 Not exactly really the best beachgoing experience. 00:18:01.190 --> 00:18:02.730 At least a different experience. 00:18:02.810 --> 00:18:06.290 It would be quite a different one. It's not like you're going to come out polluted. 00:18:06.430 --> 00:18:07.650 It's just you're going to be covered in mud. 00:18:08.190 --> 00:18:11.810 I mean, I know some people that like being covered in mud. I've seen this. 00:18:11.990 --> 00:18:16.130 Okay, you know, but mud fights or whatever. I'm not one that likes to go get covered in mud. 00:18:16.570 --> 00:18:19.270 Yeah, no, it's never appealed to me either. 00:18:19.930 --> 00:18:24.890 Yeah, I saw these people at camp going to get into mud fights in the mud, 00:18:24.930 --> 00:18:25.950 and I'm like, ah, no, thank you. 00:18:26.270 --> 00:18:27.410 Yeah, no, no. 00:18:28.110 --> 00:18:28.950 I'm out. Thank you. 00:18:29.250 --> 00:18:30.270 Okay, so... 00:18:30.270 --> 00:18:34.330 So anyway, so yes, all of this travel and getting to know... 00:18:34.330 --> 00:18:37.570 Look, I will say, quite a cool experience. 00:18:37.890 --> 00:18:42.590 Okay, all right. I don't know, I didn't look into... is there any way to like 00:18:42.590 --> 00:18:46.550 get some proper tourism, like to get to know like the country? 00:18:46.670 --> 00:18:50.430 I didn't go, I didn't get, get time to research, to go into research it. 00:18:50.510 --> 00:18:53.590 But what I will say is that despite the fact that, you know, 00:18:54.650 --> 00:18:56.430 poor, whatever, there's not a lot of hotels. 00:18:56.570 --> 00:19:00.310 I mean, the hotel that I stayed at was, was a nice hotel, but, 00:19:00.510 --> 00:19:06.230 but it's not like a five-star hotel, but the rate was for a five-star hotel. It was like $500 a night. 00:19:07.330 --> 00:19:10.050 And I was like, geez, okay. So, so, 00:19:11.310 --> 00:19:14.490 Man, the people are so lovely. I really had a great time. 00:19:14.750 --> 00:19:20.890 That really was, you know, that was the positive of my experience. 00:19:21.310 --> 00:19:25.710 You know, it's like, it's just quite a lovely group of people. 00:19:25.890 --> 00:19:28.670 I really liked, you know, being there. 00:19:29.150 --> 00:19:34.370 Now, before I do my but first segment, and once again, I've forgotten the agenda 00:19:34.370 --> 00:19:35.190 at the beginning of the show. 00:19:35.330 --> 00:19:37.770 We're doing our but first where we sort of talk about personal stuff, 00:19:37.930 --> 00:19:41.350 movies, whatever. And then we'll get into the news in the next segment. 00:19:41.590 --> 00:19:44.070 Oh, I am scheduled for surgery on November 5th. 00:19:44.210 --> 00:19:47.470 That's what I was going to ask is what's your date? So you got a while yet. 00:19:47.570 --> 00:19:48.470 That's like a month away. 00:19:49.550 --> 00:19:50.690 I have a while. 00:19:51.410 --> 00:19:54.210 And it's getting worse. So that's not a good combination. 00:19:54.650 --> 00:20:00.910 Well, the one thing is I think I made it worse this week. I'm going to go to rest. 00:20:01.490 --> 00:20:02.950 That seems like a good idea. 00:20:03.430 --> 00:20:06.770 You know, I'm going to give it by I'm going to rest. 00:20:07.490 --> 00:20:12.190 I will say that it's a good another good thing is that I got an I got my a new 00:20:12.190 --> 00:20:19.130 chair for my office and I will say that I've noticed that sitting in the air 00:20:19.130 --> 00:20:24.190 on chair makes a big difference where I when I'm sitting here I'm actually not 00:20:24.190 --> 00:20:25.590 experiencing pain at all. 00:20:26.070 --> 00:20:32.550 OK, so that's that's a big that's a big plus apparently about getting the new chair. 00:20:32.550 --> 00:20:35.710 So so probably being at home and not 00:20:35.710 --> 00:20:38.790 sitting on some random thing and sitting 00:20:38.790 --> 00:20:44.970 on an airplane for you know 10 hours i i literally sat over 20 hours on a plane 00:20:44.970 --> 00:20:50.590 this week probably not the best smartest thing probably not but you know i had 00:20:50.590 --> 00:20:55.630 no i had no many other choices look i i planned this meeting with these guys 00:20:55.630 --> 00:20:57.170 i'd been working on this it had been. 00:20:58.270 --> 00:21:01.670 For months. It was just, it was months and months. 00:21:01.770 --> 00:21:06.750 I probably, I started talking to this customer in, started talking directly to them. 00:21:06.830 --> 00:21:12.010 I'd been sending trading messages or whatever, but really, really nitty gritty in March. Okay. 00:21:12.310 --> 00:21:17.490 And we had set up for our first in-person meeting now. 00:21:17.490 --> 00:21:22.930 And very close to getting, you know, this deal completed. And I met with their, 00:21:23.410 --> 00:21:28.010 it was with their CIO and their CEO. And I'm like, I can't blow this damn meeting off. 00:21:28.690 --> 00:21:33.390 After it's been set up for so long. I got to suck it up and do this. 00:21:33.790 --> 00:21:37.850 So, you know, I did. And it was, I know that I've paid, but I'm like, 00:21:37.970 --> 00:21:40.650 it was worth it in the sense of, it was a great meeting with them. 00:21:40.810 --> 00:21:44.590 It was nice to see the country. 00:21:45.090 --> 00:21:50.610 You know, the only thing we ever hear about Guyana is like Jim Jones. 00:21:51.050 --> 00:21:53.690 I mean, basically, if you ask anybody. 00:21:54.090 --> 00:21:58.030 If they know anything about the country. I made a Kool-Aid joke as soon as Yvonne mentioned it. 00:21:58.270 --> 00:22:01.990 It's the only, it's the only, I mean, the first, you say that name and that's 00:22:01.990 --> 00:22:03.910 the first thing that comes to anybody's mind. 00:22:04.090 --> 00:22:10.250 And I'm really glad to be able now to not have that as my first thought when 00:22:10.250 --> 00:22:11.650 we talk about the country of Guyana. 00:22:11.970 --> 00:22:13.970 And I'm very happy about that. 00:22:14.510 --> 00:22:17.830 Okay. So I'll do my stuff real quick. 00:22:18.190 --> 00:22:22.930 So first of all, I am going to do movies and I'm not going to let this be the 00:22:22.930 --> 00:22:24.990 whole thing, but I'm also traveling. 00:22:25.310 --> 00:22:28.690 Anybody who's watching our video live stream will notice I have a different background. 00:22:28.690 --> 00:22:33.410 Your background looks very, very, very, very, very, very, very, 00:22:33.410 --> 00:22:36.430 very different. Definitely doesn't look like your house. 00:22:36.890 --> 00:22:41.390 I'm at an Airbnb in Toronto. I'm visiting my sister. 00:22:41.650 --> 00:22:46.670 I have a nephew who is now six months old that I'm visiting for the first time. 00:22:47.030 --> 00:22:50.930 So that's very nice. Get to hold the baby and like play with it. 00:22:51.110 --> 00:22:56.350 It's old enough. so it like is a you know it's interactive a little bit it's 00:22:56.350 --> 00:23:00.430 not just sleeping all the time and crying you know it does a little bit of stuff 00:23:00.430 --> 00:23:05.290 but it's not yet a toddler so we're still in that middle zone but you can. 00:23:05.290 --> 00:23:06.890 Hold it you can hold the baby. 00:23:06.890 --> 00:23:11.450 You can hold the baby you can sort of bounce it you can like yeah yeah yeah 00:23:11.450 --> 00:23:16.610 it's like looking at you it's old enough it's like laughing and Yes. Yes. 00:23:16.850 --> 00:23:18.230 It's great time. Yes. 00:23:18.530 --> 00:23:23.750 So having a lot of fun also getting to chat with my sister and have a couple 00:23:23.750 --> 00:23:27.490 of conversations with her husband for really the first time I met him like for 00:23:27.490 --> 00:23:28.810 five minutes at the wedding, 00:23:29.070 --> 00:23:32.710 you know, but otherwise have not had a time to like sit down and really chat 00:23:32.710 --> 00:23:34.930 with him or anything. So I've done that a little bit. 00:23:35.230 --> 00:23:39.930 So it's a lot of fun. And I was traveling. I was, I was a little bit, 00:23:40.290 --> 00:23:43.010 you know, for, yeah, I don't travel that often. 00:23:43.110 --> 00:23:46.070 And we also had this government shutdown going on. So I was worried, 00:23:46.150 --> 00:23:48.450 like, am I going to have like massive TSA delays? 00:23:49.110 --> 00:23:52.630 Am I going to have, you know, issues with customs, whatever. 00:23:53.610 --> 00:23:58.250 And I'll just say that there was a delay. The plane itself was delayed more 00:23:58.250 --> 00:24:01.750 than four hours, but it was a, it was a mechanical issue. 00:24:01.770 --> 00:24:02.510 What hour line did you fly in? 00:24:03.380 --> 00:24:04.400 Alaska? Air Canada? 00:24:04.740 --> 00:24:09.180 This way was Air Canada. I'm going back on Alaska. But, you know, 00:24:09.280 --> 00:24:10.540 there was a mechanical issue. 00:24:10.660 --> 00:24:15.880 The plane that was, like, it was a plane that was coming, it was just going 00:24:15.880 --> 00:24:17.980 back and forth between Toronto and Seattle, right? 00:24:18.200 --> 00:24:23.720 So it hadn't left Toronto yet because there was some sort of mechanical issue. 00:24:23.860 --> 00:24:27.100 Turns out they switched out the plane because they'd already, 00:24:27.100 --> 00:24:31.260 like, boarded people onto the plane and they were taxing and they had to bring 00:24:31.260 --> 00:24:36.180 them back to the gate and pull them all off. and find another plane and all that kind of stuff. 00:24:36.380 --> 00:24:40.540 And so it was like four hours late for that. But like, you know, 00:24:41.420 --> 00:24:46.420 going through security in Seattle was incredibly quick. It was just minutes. 00:24:46.620 --> 00:24:48.220 Like I got through the whole thing. 00:24:48.660 --> 00:24:55.020 Like, you know, we have that clear thing, but I was like, I didn't even bother 00:24:55.020 --> 00:24:58.180 to try to figure it out because the line was going so fast and everything. 00:24:59.100 --> 00:25:04.060 And I haven't been through U.S. customs heading back yet. That'll be when I head back. 00:25:04.280 --> 00:25:07.700 And they're the ones who are being assholes right now. But like. 00:25:07.860 --> 00:25:12.680 Well, make sure that you, and this is advice for anybody, that if you don't 00:25:12.680 --> 00:25:17.940 have a global entry, okay, there is the mobile passport control app, 00:25:18.480 --> 00:25:25.040 okay, that what you do is once you land, it lets you like do the punch in the information. 00:25:25.040 --> 00:25:29.840 So that way they scan with the code. It expedites that process. 00:25:30.680 --> 00:25:33.440 Okay. so like u.s has one of those too i did one 00:25:33.440 --> 00:25:36.140 of those for canada but like u.s has one yes but 00:25:36.140 --> 00:25:43.300 but all i was gonna say is like canadian customs look took like 10 seconds yeah 00:25:43.300 --> 00:25:49.260 i i did that little app and then you know you had to go to a kiosk and confirm 00:25:49.260 --> 00:25:53.300 that what you'd done on the app was correct and i was like yes and i suppose 00:25:53.300 --> 00:25:55.220 if you hadn't done it on the app you could do the whole 00:25:55.260 --> 00:25:57.880 thing at the kiosk, but like I'd done it on the app. 00:25:58.020 --> 00:26:03.440 So I, and then like, you know, you, you go up to the little guy and you know, 00:26:03.600 --> 00:26:06.300 the last time I went to Canada, when I went up to the little guy, 00:26:06.580 --> 00:26:10.020 they, they asked me some questions, not a lot of questions, but they asked me 00:26:10.020 --> 00:26:13.480 like, you know, 30 seconds worth of, why are you here? What are you about this time? 00:26:13.640 --> 00:26:15.860 It was like, okay, good. Have a nice time. 00:26:16.400 --> 00:26:18.660 No, no questions at all. Just waved me through. 00:26:19.470 --> 00:26:22.970 Well, I will say I have global entry. So right now, basically, 00:26:23.230 --> 00:26:28.310 the process is I walk up to a kiosk, scans my face. I don't even pull out my passport. 00:26:28.530 --> 00:26:32.610 And then I walk past a person who confirms that they have a picture of me and 00:26:32.610 --> 00:26:35.010 they call my name and I go. So that's pretty much it. 00:26:35.350 --> 00:26:37.770 That's all it involves. Not even filling out a form. 00:26:38.830 --> 00:26:44.030 Going to Guyana. So usually when I go to a country that I haven't been to, 00:26:44.150 --> 00:26:48.550 I try to look up whether there's anything to fill out for entry. Okay. 00:26:49.070 --> 00:26:53.630 For some reason on the American Airlines app, it didn't show that there was an entry form. 00:26:53.750 --> 00:26:57.510 In some countries, I've been to either you get a paper form when you get there. 00:26:58.090 --> 00:27:02.050 Most of them have them electronic like right now. But I try to look up, 00:27:02.170 --> 00:27:05.410 hey, is there any form to fill out? It didn't say anything on the app. 00:27:05.810 --> 00:27:10.290 When I get there, I go and they have these automated kiosks that are now, 00:27:10.770 --> 00:27:16.270 Dominican Republic has these for departure control, where you put your passport, it scans it. 00:27:16.270 --> 00:27:19.550 And when it does, it looks up to see if you filled out your form, 00:27:19.810 --> 00:27:20.970 confirms, and whatever. 00:27:21.230 --> 00:27:27.070 So I didn't want to get into all this detail. My only point on this before dropping in movies. 00:27:27.170 --> 00:27:32.950 But here's the thing. What happened when I got there? Look, it didn't say anything about any form. 00:27:32.990 --> 00:27:35.250 And I've been to countries where right now they're not requiring forms. 00:27:35.570 --> 00:27:38.050 I want to get to go over there, put my passport on the thing. 00:27:38.150 --> 00:27:42.510 It's rejecting me. Well, you got to fill out the form. I'm like, oh, I have no form. 00:27:43.230 --> 00:27:48.210 So I had to go try to fill it out. And by the way, the CAPTCHA on this form, 00:27:48.590 --> 00:27:50.150 I don't know what the hell. 00:27:50.710 --> 00:27:57.410 The worst CAPTCHA in history. I literally had to type it, I think, for entry and exit. 00:27:57.610 --> 00:28:03.470 I kept typing it. Like, I did it more than 10 times. It kept regretting my CAPTCHA. 00:28:03.690 --> 00:28:09.090 Do you realize how annoying it is? All the capital letter, a small letter. I hate these things. 00:28:09.790 --> 00:28:12.610 Okay, fine. Can I move on now? 00:28:13.230 --> 00:28:13.750 You can move on. 00:28:13.930 --> 00:28:17.850 My entire point was just like, I was worried because of the governmental shutdown, 00:28:17.850 --> 00:28:20.050 there would be delays. There were none for me. 00:28:20.210 --> 00:28:20.350 No. 00:28:20.850 --> 00:28:26.090 There were none. Everything was smooth and rapid and, you know, 00:28:26.450 --> 00:28:29.630 aside from the mechanical delay on the plane, which cost me four hours. 00:28:29.770 --> 00:28:33.990 But luckily, I got the notification of that before I left home. 00:28:35.990 --> 00:28:40.070 So, like, you know, I wasn't stuck at the airport that whole time. 00:28:40.270 --> 00:28:42.290 That's good. Yeah. That's always good. 00:28:42.290 --> 00:28:43.550 You know when. 00:28:43.550 --> 00:28:46.350 I get the notification that my flight's been canceled and i haven't made it 00:28:46.350 --> 00:28:47.790 to the airport i'm like oh good. 00:28:47.790 --> 00:28:50.550 Yeah and like you know 00:28:50.550 --> 00:28:53.250 and honestly i needed the extra time to get 00:28:53.250 --> 00:28:59.450 ready like i i i was hurrying to try to rush and get out the door i got the 00:28:59.450 --> 00:29:03.690 notification that it was first it was delayed one hour and then later they delayed 00:29:03.690 --> 00:29:08.530 it another three hours and so as soon as i got the it's delayed one hour i went 00:29:08.530 --> 00:29:13.090 from like rushing to get everything ready to I'm going to take my time. 00:29:14.190 --> 00:29:21.970 I'm just going to relax. I'll do this slowly. I'm not going to worry about it. And then, you know, 00:29:23.300 --> 00:29:30.020 Anyway, so I ended up getting to the airport minutes before my original flight would have left. Yeah. 00:29:30.180 --> 00:29:30.300 Okay. 00:29:30.880 --> 00:29:36.320 You know, so now, but my behavior had changed. Like if my flight was still. 00:29:36.580 --> 00:29:38.280 You weren't stressed out in a rush. 00:29:38.640 --> 00:29:42.720 Yeah. Like if it was leaving at the time it was supposed to leave, 00:29:43.120 --> 00:29:46.000 I would have gotten out the door a lot quicker. 00:29:46.300 --> 00:29:48.480 You know, I just took my time. 00:29:49.400 --> 00:29:53.180 Anyway, no more travel adventures. We've had enough travel adventures, 00:29:53.360 --> 00:30:02.140 so I could go blow by blow with more travel stuff, including some interesting stories. 00:30:02.280 --> 00:30:08.180 But I will skip that, because instead, it's been a couple weeks since I did 00:30:08.180 --> 00:30:11.560 movies, so I'm going to do at least one. At least one, damn it. 00:30:12.380 --> 00:30:13.900 All right, we need to do a movie. Okay. 00:30:14.500 --> 00:30:22.640 Okay. The movie Dark Days from the year 2000. this is not one that anybody is 00:30:22.640 --> 00:30:25.520 likely to have really heard of probably okay. 00:30:25.520 --> 00:30:28.280 Good yeah i'm like what the hell i don't know what the hell this is okay. 00:30:28.280 --> 00:30:35.420 It is a because it is a documentary that and you know yeah documentaries are 00:30:35.420 --> 00:30:43.060 often you know big box office blockbusters right you know yes yes people are just running number one. 00:30:43.060 --> 00:30:48.460 Movie uh number one movies of all time i think top five, like grossing is all documentaries. 00:30:48.820 --> 00:30:53.060 Yes, exactly. So no, this was a small little movie. 00:30:53.260 --> 00:30:58.280 It was about homeless people in Manhattan, you know? 00:30:58.600 --> 00:31:05.960 And so specifically it was, it was released in 2000, but it was shot in the mid 1990s. 00:31:06.440 --> 00:31:13.860 It, it was a lot of the people who sort of specifically it was focusing on people 00:31:13.860 --> 00:31:19.880 who were living in old Amtrak tunnels that were not. 00:31:20.680 --> 00:31:25.620 And some of them were not in active use, others, you know, the tunnels in use, 00:31:25.760 --> 00:31:29.420 but there's places off to the side where there's room, you know, 00:31:29.480 --> 00:31:33.460 it's not like every single space is taken up by the train. 00:31:33.460 --> 00:31:41.180 And so it follows basically a community of homeless people there and sort of the, 00:31:41.480 --> 00:31:49.720 they'd built themselves like make two shelters and little houses like within 00:31:49.720 --> 00:31:51.280 the tunnels where they lived. 00:31:51.280 --> 00:31:57.640 But there were, you know, people who, you know, there were some that lived by 00:31:57.640 --> 00:31:58.920 themselves in their little things. 00:31:59.080 --> 00:32:04.360 There were people who lived as roommates. They had populated their little shelters 00:32:04.360 --> 00:32:08.740 with, you know, furniture and appliances and things that they'd, 00:32:08.760 --> 00:32:10.780 like, scavenged from elsewhere. 00:32:11.240 --> 00:32:15.800 And it follows their story up through the point where, you know, 00:32:15.880 --> 00:32:19.320 Amtrak basically kicks them all out because they're going to start using the 00:32:19.320 --> 00:32:20.320 tunnel again or whatever. 00:32:20.320 --> 00:32:24.740 And you know and obviously these 00:32:24.740 --> 00:32:27.740 people have various levels of 00:32:27.740 --> 00:32:32.460 issues there's drug addiction issues their mental health issues there are other 00:32:32.460 --> 00:32:38.400 things going on you know some of them are more sympathetic than others but you 00:32:38.400 --> 00:32:44.960 you know you get to know them as like you know look these are human beings. 00:32:46.460 --> 00:32:51.140 They're down on their luck for various reasons. They've got various issues they're 00:32:51.140 --> 00:32:56.020 working through, but they have lives. They talk about their families a little 00:32:56.020 --> 00:32:58.320 bit. They talk about how they got down there. 00:32:58.660 --> 00:33:02.980 Some of them talk about how, yes, they had opportunities to go elsewhere, 00:33:03.200 --> 00:33:05.460 but they chose to be there and here's why. 00:33:06.920 --> 00:33:14.280 And you feel for these people when their living space gets destroyed and things 00:33:14.280 --> 00:33:20.600 like that so you know it's i'll give it a thumbs up i mean obviously this is 00:33:20.600 --> 00:33:22.160 not you know you're sort of. 00:33:22.160 --> 00:33:28.300 It's not a comedy it is not a comedy oh my god you gotta be kidding me so you 00:33:28.300 --> 00:33:31.940 weren't laughing your ass off to this entire movie i wasn't. 00:33:31.940 --> 00:33:33.000 Laughing my ass off. 00:33:33.000 --> 00:33:37.020 So you're you're not like you know so you're not like some maga head that would 00:33:37.020 --> 00:33:39.820 have been just watching this and watching these people suffer and going, 00:33:39.980 --> 00:33:42.160 ah, look at those losers! 00:33:43.480 --> 00:33:49.760 Yeah, exactly. I mean, and, you know, look, it's also not, you know... 00:33:49.760 --> 00:33:54.160 Sam, the problem is they don't have bootstraps, Sam. 00:33:54.280 --> 00:33:56.960 Yeah, they're not picking themselves up by their bootstraps. 00:33:56.980 --> 00:34:00.940 They don't have boot... And it's this whole thing where we've moved away from 00:34:00.940 --> 00:34:05.600 boots and some people don't have bootstraps anymore, Sam. I'm telling you. 00:34:05.700 --> 00:34:07.860 That's right. But you just can't do the same thing with sneakers. 00:34:08.320 --> 00:34:09.780 No, no, no. 00:34:09.940 --> 00:34:12.760 No. But I was going to say, it's also not the type. 00:34:12.960 --> 00:34:17.960 Like, there's some documentaries that are narrator heavy, where the narrator 00:34:17.960 --> 00:34:19.180 talks you through the story. 00:34:20.770 --> 00:34:23.810 If there was a narrator here, I barely even remember them. 00:34:24.170 --> 00:34:29.630 It was, you know, basically, I think there was an interviewer, 00:34:29.730 --> 00:34:32.650 but even the interviewer, you didn't hear very much. 00:34:32.930 --> 00:34:39.030 You basically heard these people speaking in their own voices about their own lives, you know. 00:34:39.310 --> 00:34:43.850 And so it was powerful in that way. It apparently did win a few awards, 00:34:44.110 --> 00:34:49.950 won a Sundance Award for, you know, cinematography, documentary, etc. 00:34:50.790 --> 00:34:55.430 Won South by Southwest Film Award as well, a few others. 00:34:56.110 --> 00:35:00.790 Anyway, thumbs up. I liked it. You know, if you're in a in the mood for a more 00:35:00.790 --> 00:35:06.310 serious documentary, I mean, it is, it was 1990s that it was filmed. 00:35:06.470 --> 00:35:09.550 So this isn't current, per se. 00:35:09.770 --> 00:35:12.630 I mean, that was, it's a long time ago now, right? You know, 00:35:12.790 --> 00:35:14.290 but, but it was still good. 00:35:14.370 --> 00:35:18.550 And I think most of the problems that they're highlighting probably have not 00:35:18.550 --> 00:35:22.290 changed all that much, you know, in the subsequent 20 years. 00:35:22.570 --> 00:35:26.550 Hell, some right now, especially under this administration, has gotten worse. 00:35:26.990 --> 00:35:30.070 Yeah, I mean, these are not problems we have solved. 00:35:30.630 --> 00:35:35.310 No, no, we got, you know, we have so many places right now, especially in, 00:35:35.630 --> 00:35:41.870 I mean, even in democratic states, we're trying to make homelessness like illegal. 00:35:41.870 --> 00:35:49.370 Well, I mean, this is one of the fundamental problems is that in a lot of policy 00:35:49.370 --> 00:35:54.810 making to deal with homelessness, they're not really dealing with homelessness. 00:35:54.810 --> 00:36:00.770 They're trying to make it so that quote unquote regular people don't see it. 00:36:00.770 --> 00:36:01.610 Yeah. 00:36:01.830 --> 00:36:05.170 You know, they want to make it less visible. They don't want to actually solve 00:36:05.170 --> 00:36:08.790 the problem because so their policies are dealing with like, 00:36:08.890 --> 00:36:11.210 oh, let's go every every few weeks. 00:36:11.330 --> 00:36:14.230 Let's clean up the homeless encampments or whatever. 00:36:14.230 --> 00:36:17.490 And not actually addressing, hey, guys, why are you homeless? 00:36:17.730 --> 00:36:20.870 How can we help you to try to get you out of homelessness? 00:36:21.370 --> 00:36:27.110 Okay. And look, in some cases, by the way, it's not like there are many cases 00:36:27.110 --> 00:36:28.330 where you can provide help. 00:36:28.510 --> 00:36:32.370 But also, by the way, there's a lot of people that are actually voluntarily homeless as well. 00:36:32.890 --> 00:36:36.690 They're trying to live off the grid. They don't want to be. 00:36:36.690 --> 00:36:40.130 Although very often that is tied with mental illness as well. So they're. 00:36:40.150 --> 00:36:40.730 Yes, but. 00:36:40.750 --> 00:36:42.010 Not always, not always. 00:36:42.190 --> 00:36:46.570 Yeah, but the thing is, it is, it is, but the problem is, again, 00:36:46.810 --> 00:36:48.330 it used to be in the old days. 00:36:48.450 --> 00:36:51.530 What did we do with people that we considered mentally ill? Exactly. 00:36:52.170 --> 00:36:56.070 And so that it's, it's one of those things where if, if. 00:36:56.150 --> 00:36:58.490 There is a fundamental thing that back. 00:36:58.830 --> 00:36:59.490 It gets very. 00:36:59.990 --> 00:37:03.490 Going back to the 80s, I think it was during the Reagan administration where 00:37:03.490 --> 00:37:07.890 they sort of decided, you know, We're going to move away from this installation, 00:37:09.720 --> 00:37:12.660 institutionalization approach and we're going to let people 00:37:12.660 --> 00:37:15.700 out but the problem is they didn't replace it with anything 00:37:15.700 --> 00:37:21.380 to like actually help these people right um you know so and i i generally like 00:37:21.380 --> 00:37:28.460 there's a place for inpatient care for the mentally ill but there's if you're 00:37:28.460 --> 00:37:32.920 not and but it was overused it was massively in. 00:37:32.920 --> 00:37:34.660 Many cases it was involuntary. 00:37:34.660 --> 00:37:37.480 Which is also the problem because it gets into 00:37:37.480 --> 00:37:41.560 the way that the way that institutionalization worked 00:37:41.560 --> 00:37:45.120 there were many people locked up that shouldn't have been that could have been 00:37:45.120 --> 00:37:51.080 living good lives on the outside with the proper care right um and the problem 00:37:51.080 --> 00:37:55.880 is that didn't exist and you know like you said that it was sort of hide people 00:37:55.880 --> 00:38:00.960 away as well you didn't want them visible but then when they moved away from that, 00:38:01.620 --> 00:38:04.520 the right, there was nothing there to replace it. 00:38:04.620 --> 00:38:06.840 There was nothing there to serve those people. 00:38:06.980 --> 00:38:11.500 And so you ended up with lots of people on the street and you add economic stress, 00:38:11.720 --> 00:38:13.580 you add drug issues, you add all this. 00:38:13.900 --> 00:38:21.940 But yeah, the, the, yes, it seems trivially like, like duh, 00:38:22.320 --> 00:38:26.780 that for all of these sorts of problems, the real way to deal with them is to 00:38:26.780 --> 00:38:29.200 find the root causes and deal with root causes, 00:38:29.560 --> 00:38:34.680 not to try to deal with the symptoms, but a significant portion of our political 00:38:34.680 --> 00:38:40.140 world just doesn't like the idea of preventative stuff, of dealing with root causes, 00:38:40.360 --> 00:38:45.280 of we don't want to give people help that don't deserve it, you know, all this kind of stuff. 00:38:45.500 --> 00:38:49.740 Whereas in a number of places, like compared to other countries, 00:38:49.960 --> 00:38:52.480 compared to places where there have been limited scale testing, 00:38:52.780 --> 00:38:56.160 you know, the best solution is, 00:38:56.650 --> 00:39:00.650 to homelessness is give people homes get. 00:39:00.650 --> 00:39:01.650 Out of town. 00:39:01.650 --> 00:39:04.850 You know no and wait nah. 00:39:04.850 --> 00:39:06.270 Nah come on that. 00:39:06.270 --> 00:39:11.130 Can't be right you start with that with no conditions and then you deal with 00:39:11.130 --> 00:39:14.870 like oh let's help their drug issues let's help their mental health there wait 00:39:14.870 --> 00:39:18.950 wait but in the meantime you give them some place to live wait really and not 00:39:18.950 --> 00:39:24.170 just like some packed shelter with like a million people but you give them private place they have. 00:39:24.170 --> 00:39:28.970 You give them a you give the homeless a place to live what kind of fucking psychopathic 00:39:28.970 --> 00:39:30.970 communist are you you bastard. 00:39:30.970 --> 00:39:32.590 But the thing is we're gonna. 00:39:32.590 --> 00:39:36.970 Have you to have to send you to one of these new like magary education camps. 00:39:36.970 --> 00:39:42.050 Well but the thing is with all of this it's also you can't just give them a 00:39:42.050 --> 00:39:46.870 place to stay either you have to also back it up with the other supports that 00:39:46.870 --> 00:39:50.870 they need to in order to make that successful and and and then And yes, 00:39:50.990 --> 00:39:54.970 there are underlying problems with the cost of housing and all kinds of other health care. Yeah. 00:39:55.550 --> 00:39:59.230 Health care. The fuck are you talking about? That's also, you know, 00:39:59.330 --> 00:40:02.390 that's only for the rich, Sam. What the hell are you talking about, man? 00:40:02.850 --> 00:40:08.030 Listen, the Republic. Listen, the GOP policy right now is that if you show up 00:40:08.030 --> 00:40:12.170 to an ER and you're dying and if you can't prove that you're a citizen, 00:40:12.650 --> 00:40:14.790 we take you out. We fuck them. We let you die. 00:40:14.890 --> 00:40:17.570 Well, actually, as a matter of fact, we don't want other people to see you. 00:40:17.570 --> 00:40:19.890 Will roll you out to the dumpster and we'll just put you right. 00:40:19.890 --> 00:40:20.970 Put you right in. 00:40:20.970 --> 00:40:24.910 There for you to die and that's it you know that way you know the other people 00:40:24.910 --> 00:40:26.090 don't get to see your carcass. 00:40:26.650 --> 00:40:29.850 Yes because we can't leave that out yeah no. 00:40:29.850 --> 00:40:32.650 No no no no no no can't bother the other people. 00:40:32.650 --> 00:40:39.350 You know but yeah i don't know i and one and and the thing is like i promise 00:40:39.350 --> 00:40:44.470 i'll move on shortly but people even the people who are like i don't want to 00:40:44.470 --> 00:40:48.610 spend all this money dealing with like cleaning up the homeless camps and all this stuff, 00:40:48.710 --> 00:40:53.250 if you do the math or they say, I don't want to give them a house, that's expensive. 00:40:53.450 --> 00:40:56.150 It's less expensive than what we're doing now. 00:40:56.670 --> 00:40:56.930 Right? 00:40:57.450 --> 00:41:04.250 Like the preventative stuff costs less than dealing with the problem after it exists. 00:41:04.920 --> 00:41:08.440 You know, even if it seems like, oh, you're giving them a free house. 00:41:08.600 --> 00:41:11.640 Why don't I get a free house? You know, whatever. 00:41:12.000 --> 00:41:14.240 It's like, you know. 00:41:14.900 --> 00:41:19.200 And universal basic stuff is so many people are so against it. 00:41:19.340 --> 00:41:23.240 And it's like one of the one of the things is like most of the universal basic stuff. 00:41:23.600 --> 00:41:26.620 You know, Puerto Rico, there is a lot of public housing and a lot of people 00:41:26.620 --> 00:41:27.960 do live in public housing. 00:41:28.340 --> 00:41:31.960 OK, now Puerto Rico has a lot of people that are in the lower end of the income 00:41:31.960 --> 00:41:34.780 spectrum. That's just that's just a reality. 00:41:35.500 --> 00:41:39.660 But, you know, well, why do they get a free house? Look, the free houses are 00:41:39.660 --> 00:41:41.840 not bad. OK, they're decent. 00:41:42.180 --> 00:41:45.400 OK, but the reality is that if you can actually afford a house, 00:41:45.520 --> 00:41:48.660 you probably want to buy something else that isn't really the public house. 00:41:48.840 --> 00:41:53.500 But at the same time, you know, you want to give those people at a basic house 00:41:53.500 --> 00:41:58.120 something that is decent, clean, good, safe. 00:41:58.520 --> 00:42:02.900 OK, you know, it's not, you know, it's not a tent full of holes. 00:42:03.760 --> 00:42:09.180 You want to, you know, you want to give something that's basic but good. 00:42:09.440 --> 00:42:12.360 And these people complaining about, well, why don't I get a free house? 00:42:12.440 --> 00:42:21.660 Well, honestly, if you're making more money, you probably don't want the basic house. Okay? 00:42:22.060 --> 00:42:30.080 And I'm like, why the hell is it so bad in a nation and so much of the world that is so rich? 00:42:30.180 --> 00:42:32.720 It's such a fucking problem. 00:42:32.900 --> 00:42:40.260 To give those in the lower part of the income spectrum the basics to live instead 00:42:40.260 --> 00:42:45.980 of then going and complaining, oh my God, look at those homeless people over there driving me crazy. 00:42:46.140 --> 00:42:49.640 And I'm like, well, you know, listen, you want to complain about them, 00:42:49.740 --> 00:42:52.400 but then at the same time, you don't want them to get the basic shit. 00:42:52.720 --> 00:42:54.460 Decide what the fuck you want, asshole. 00:42:55.490 --> 00:43:02.810 Yeah, anyway, I mean, let's be clear. It's a hard problem. It's not like there's a magical solution. 00:43:02.810 --> 00:43:08.570 It is a very hard problem, but just making it criminal and illegal isn't the fucking solution. 00:43:09.190 --> 00:43:15.030 Right. Okay. Normally, I try to do two movies, but I talked about the other thing. 00:43:15.170 --> 00:43:18.750 So I'm back to never catching up unless I do two movies a week, 00:43:18.850 --> 00:43:21.830 but we will save Spider-Verse. 00:43:21.830 --> 00:43:23.770 Next week, we will get back to 00:43:23.770 --> 00:43:28.570 two. as a matter of fact, I'll even let you next week, we'll go to three. 00:43:28.990 --> 00:43:35.830 Ooh, three. Oh, amazing. You know, when one of these days, when you're out, 00:43:36.010 --> 00:43:37.670 maybe I'll just do an all-movies episode. 00:43:38.010 --> 00:43:42.370 Ah, do the all-movie review. Listen, here's the thing. 00:43:42.530 --> 00:43:45.930 But the problem is, I like bouncing them off you, because you have an opinion 00:43:45.930 --> 00:43:48.350 on them, too. Me just saying thumbs up, thumbs down, so I'm sideways. 00:43:48.610 --> 00:43:50.870 I mean, I could go through the whole damn list in ten minutes. 00:43:51.130 --> 00:43:56.750 Well, you can bring back the... Well, I may be too sick to do one soon. Okay. 00:43:57.230 --> 00:44:04.210 Not sick, but God bless you. You can bring back Chad GPT to see what he thinks about the movies. 00:44:04.370 --> 00:44:10.230 You know, the most agreeable idiot in history, you know, let him come in and 00:44:10.230 --> 00:44:14.210 like, and just nicely agree to everything. 00:44:15.130 --> 00:44:17.930 Yeah. No, we'll, we'll, we'll, we'll get to working on that. 00:44:17.930 --> 00:44:23.230 No, if I do three next week, the three will be Spider-Man Across the Spider-Verse 00:44:23.230 --> 00:44:30.730 from 2023, The Bridge on the River Kwai from 1957, and Hairspray from 1988. 00:44:32.970 --> 00:44:38.910 So, that would be the... But, let's take a break, and then we'll actually talk 00:44:38.910 --> 00:44:39.950 about the news of the week. 00:44:40.410 --> 00:44:42.870 So, back after this. 00:45:00.920 --> 00:45:02.760 Okay, we're back already. That was the short one. 00:45:03.100 --> 00:45:03.860 Oh, awesome. 00:45:05.280 --> 00:45:10.480 I think Alex made that recording of me in the car once. I don't know. 00:45:10.560 --> 00:45:11.840 It's many years old at this point. 00:45:12.320 --> 00:45:17.420 He had this little app that you can record like that and then add various vocal 00:45:17.420 --> 00:45:21.100 elements and all kinds of things and distort it in various ways. 00:45:21.380 --> 00:45:23.640 This is the undistorted version. 00:45:24.080 --> 00:45:27.580 There are some, you know, maybe we'll get one of the distorted versions one 00:45:27.580 --> 00:45:32.100 time where it's like a robot voice or something. Yeah. That'd be cool. Right. Yvonne. 00:45:32.720 --> 00:45:33.420 That'd be awesome. 00:45:33.740 --> 00:45:37.500 Yes. Okay. So where shall we start Yvonne? 00:45:37.720 --> 00:45:42.020 We've had like, you know, stuff, I guess. 00:45:42.860 --> 00:45:43.480 The shutdown. 00:45:43.860 --> 00:45:48.000 Oh, the shutdown. Right. Yes. Yes. We did have that. 00:45:48.560 --> 00:45:53.840 So what we are shut down. I mentioned, I was worried that that would impact 00:45:53.840 --> 00:45:55.300 my travels, but it did not. 00:45:56.740 --> 00:46:03.980 What do you got? Like, you know, we've, There seems to be much less concern 00:46:03.980 --> 00:46:09.040 about this shutdown than the last few times we had shutdown drama. 00:46:09.640 --> 00:46:13.400 Well, let's be clear about this. At this point right now, shutting down the 00:46:13.400 --> 00:46:17.940 government to me seems like a good idea. Can I be honest? 00:46:18.520 --> 00:46:23.000 With the federal government that we have, it seems that for the most part, 00:46:26.000 --> 00:46:31.800 against its citizens and the world, why the fuck do I want it open right now? 00:46:32.320 --> 00:46:36.640 I mean, how is that helping us in any way, shape, or form? 00:46:37.080 --> 00:46:42.080 Well, at least theoretically, there are a lot of services that help people potentially 00:46:42.080 --> 00:46:45.380 that will go away or be delayed or whatever. 00:46:45.580 --> 00:46:48.960 Listen, we're getting paid Social Security, okay? It's not going away. 00:46:49.160 --> 00:46:53.160 It's not like Medicare and Medicaid benefits right now are being stopped, 00:46:53.400 --> 00:46:57.600 okay? Now, if you need a new enrollment or you need to change your Social Security 00:46:57.600 --> 00:46:59.580 or something, yes, that is a problem. 00:46:59.760 --> 00:47:06.020 But like I said, this government spends every fucking day thinking of ways to fuck us. 00:47:08.220 --> 00:47:13.000 Every goddamn waking moment, everything that comes out from them is, 00:47:13.160 --> 00:47:15.440 hey, we figured out a new way to screw you. 00:47:15.440 --> 00:47:21.380 I mean, literally, Trump posted some AI video showing him as the, 00:47:21.380 --> 00:47:27.860 whatchamacallit, the Grim Reaper, with all his accomplices going after America. 00:47:28.280 --> 00:47:33.780 What the, I mean, who wants this government open? Me, right now, 00:47:34.020 --> 00:47:35.820 I am like, fuck this shit. 00:47:36.160 --> 00:47:40.660 Keep it closed as long as possible so they can stop fucking with us. 00:47:40.660 --> 00:47:45.940 Well, I'll say the thing is, though, and this is one of the reasons Schumer 00:47:45.940 --> 00:47:49.020 didn't allow this to happen back at the beginning of the year, 00:47:49.640 --> 00:47:58.300 was this offers the opportunity for the Trump administration to effectively 00:47:58.300 --> 00:48:03.140 change the facts on the ground to permanently shut down even more stuff. 00:48:03.340 --> 00:48:06.540 Listen, here's the thing about this right now. Exactly. 00:48:07.240 --> 00:48:11.760 Like, what are you talking about? Like, like, like, like what? 00:48:11.960 --> 00:48:13.380 Like it was stopping them all? It was open? 00:48:13.840 --> 00:48:16.920 They don't care. And so... 00:48:17.920 --> 00:48:23.120 Look, one thing about this is public opinion is totally running against the 00:48:23.120 --> 00:48:24.540 Republicans about this. 00:48:24.660 --> 00:48:29.260 They are not winning, even though they've tried to message more on this. 00:48:29.440 --> 00:48:35.820 To be clear, when you look at the polls on this, the biggest category is we blame everybody. 00:48:36.720 --> 00:48:41.340 No, no, no. The biggest category is not sure, which is not blame everybody. 00:48:41.760 --> 00:48:45.280 That's two very different things. Because you've got a big block of the country 00:48:45.280 --> 00:48:46.460 that we've discussed this before. 00:48:46.460 --> 00:48:51.320 I have no idea that it's even happening. so you can't count those people in 00:48:51.320 --> 00:48:55.560 the only people you could really look at are the ones that that that that are 00:48:55.560 --> 00:48:58.900 looking at it and say hey who are you blaming and if you take that group, 00:49:01.100 --> 00:49:08.100 almost north of 65 percent blame the republicans so i cannot go and like think 00:49:08.100 --> 00:49:13.980 about the fucking people that basically and blissfully have their head in the 00:49:13.980 --> 00:49:16.680 sand and have no idea what the hell is going on by the way and which Which is, 00:49:16.740 --> 00:49:19.820 by the way, quite a large number of people. 00:49:21.160 --> 00:49:30.420 So I'm looking for those numbers because I looked at, I remember seeing who 00:49:30.420 --> 00:49:34.280 the numbers, I don't know. 00:49:34.380 --> 00:49:38.980 I thought the numbers for people who had an opinion were actually bigger than 00:49:38.980 --> 00:49:42.860 I expected. And I remember that. In the Washington Post one. 00:49:42.940 --> 00:49:50.320 It was like 52, 30-something, and like 20-some-odd percent had no clue. 00:49:50.520 --> 00:49:57.680 No, I'm pulling it up right now. Da-da-da-da-da. So they actually... 00:49:59.160 --> 00:50:04.460 Interesting. They didn't give an option for both in this poll. 00:50:04.600 --> 00:50:06.180 I'm looking at the Washington Post poll. 00:50:06.640 --> 00:50:09.980 The biggest number was 47% Trump. 00:50:10.680 --> 00:50:16.560 The second biggest was 30% Democrats. And then it was 23% not sure. 00:50:17.080 --> 00:50:18.760 So not sure was actually the smallest. 00:50:19.180 --> 00:50:22.480 But you see, the thing is that when you look at between when you take out the 00:50:22.480 --> 00:50:25.500 not sure, when you look at that, when you look at that group, 00:50:25.500 --> 00:50:28.240 because that's the group that's actually paying attention. Okay? 00:50:28.380 --> 00:50:31.140 Well, yeah, but even, but not sure was actually relatively small. 00:50:31.280 --> 00:50:34.840 So even without that, it's 50-30, you know, so. 00:50:35.020 --> 00:50:38.540 No, but what I say, it's bad enough either way, but it's worth, 00:50:38.680 --> 00:50:43.760 but I'm saying, the group that's looking at it, the vast majority of it, 00:50:43.920 --> 00:50:45.180 blames the Republicans. 00:50:46.060 --> 00:50:51.580 Yes, that's clear regardless. It's almost 50%, even with the not-sures in the mix. 00:50:53.560 --> 00:50:58.260 And let's see what, Let's see one more. Let's see. It's the same one. Same one. 00:50:58.700 --> 00:51:01.840 Washington Post is the only real one. Here we go. Let's see. Did we have? 00:51:02.760 --> 00:51:06.280 Yeah. Not sure is the middle category. They didn't offer a both, 00:51:06.460 --> 00:51:08.620 which is interesting. If they 00:51:08.620 --> 00:51:13.200 had offered a both, I suspect a significant chunk would have gone to both. 00:51:14.220 --> 00:51:18.340 But, you know, OK, we got not. But but regardless, 00:51:18.520 --> 00:51:22.680 they are getting the blame for the moment, Which is interesting because if you 00:51:22.680 --> 00:51:26.700 listen to press reports on this, 00:51:26.860 --> 00:51:31.680 like I've listened to the TV news talking heads and a few other folks, 00:51:32.400 --> 00:51:39.140 there was most of the narrative has been around how the Republicans seem to 00:51:39.140 --> 00:51:42.620 be doing better on messaging. The poll does not match that. 00:51:43.020 --> 00:51:47.920 No, it doesn't. But but that's you know what? It's this whole thing how we live 00:51:47.920 --> 00:51:53.920 in all these people and, you know, that we follow the the pundits in the world 00:51:53.920 --> 00:51:55.520 that they live in. Right. OK. 00:51:56.600 --> 00:51:58.620 Whereas. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. They've 00:51:58.620 --> 00:52:01.460 got the messaging. They've got the messaging. And even like, you know. 00:52:02.700 --> 00:52:07.240 Which is why even some of the people that are inside, some people, 00:52:07.740 --> 00:52:12.040 the Democratic strategist complaining, why are they not only fighting about 00:52:12.040 --> 00:52:13.700 this and not everything else? 00:52:13.700 --> 00:52:21.200 And I'm like, Jesus Christ, look, in a world where messaging is so difficult, 00:52:21.200 --> 00:52:27.780 either you stick doing this very simple and binary, OK, 00:52:28.480 --> 00:52:34.880 or it risks being this walk debate that 90 plus percent of the people don't 00:52:34.880 --> 00:52:38.300 fucking pay attention to. Well, because the details just get lost. 00:52:39.260 --> 00:52:43.060 And especially here, we're talking a budgetary debate. 00:52:43.060 --> 00:52:47.360 We're talking about things where some of the issues that people are talking 00:52:47.360 --> 00:52:50.860 about most are, you know, changing, 00:52:51.300 --> 00:52:57.080 undoing some changes to the rules about tax credits that happened in the the 00:52:57.080 --> 00:52:58.920 big, beautiful bill a few months ago. 00:52:59.300 --> 00:52:59.680 Right. 00:52:59.840 --> 00:53:05.680 You know, and or or rescissions like ask a random person on the street, 00:53:05.860 --> 00:53:07.200 what the hell is a rescission? 00:53:07.980 --> 00:53:15.160 Yeah, come on. You know, this is not going to be, and I think this is absolutely 00:53:15.160 --> 00:53:19.200 one of those cases where, I mean, I looked at the breakdown. 00:53:19.480 --> 00:53:20.560 I have the breakdown up now. 00:53:20.900 --> 00:53:25.800 You know, we mentioned the overall numbers. Overall was 47% blame Republicans, 00:53:26.180 --> 00:53:29.960 30% blame Democrats, 23% unsure. 00:53:29.960 --> 00:53:38.460 But if you break it up, you know, among Republicans, 67% Democrat blame the Democrats. 00:53:38.720 --> 00:53:41.840 Among Democrats, 87% blame the Republicans. 00:53:41.960 --> 00:53:45.460 You see that even the Republicans are not, I mean, are down a little bit. 00:53:46.680 --> 00:53:50.020 And their number that grows is the not sure, really. 00:53:50.460 --> 00:53:55.760 8% of Republicans blame Republicans. So that's, you know, not bad. 00:53:56.420 --> 00:54:04.720 But the independent group, though, it's 50 to 22 blaming the Republicans. 00:54:05.040 --> 00:54:08.460 It's overwhelming. It's overwhelming among the independents. 00:54:09.100 --> 00:54:14.800 Listen, how can Trump go around and literally proclaim himself? self. 00:54:15.460 --> 00:54:18.980 Dictator. Because in that one video that he showed, he basically was saying 00:54:18.980 --> 00:54:23.020 how Congress is irrelevant. I rule everything. 00:54:23.620 --> 00:54:27.240 He said that, right? And so you want to turn around and blame the Democrats 00:54:27.240 --> 00:54:31.080 for it being shutting down when you are just claiming that you run everything. Dude, 00:54:32.000 --> 00:54:33.680 Okay, decide. Okay. 00:54:34.920 --> 00:54:40.000 Which one are you? They do this all the time, though. 00:54:40.920 --> 00:54:47.860 Like, you know, oh, Biden, you know, has lost his mind and is completely ineffective. 00:54:47.980 --> 00:54:51.080 Oh, but oh, he's so dangerous. You can't let him be in charge. 00:54:51.080 --> 00:55:01.260 You know, you know, this this sort of dual messaging where on the one hand something 00:55:01.260 --> 00:55:05.760 is irrelevant, but on the other hand, it's incredibly dangerous is commonplace. 00:55:06.080 --> 00:55:11.100 Yeah, I get that. But but but it's very difficult when you've been hammering 00:55:11.100 --> 00:55:12.660 to people how you are the. 00:55:13.640 --> 00:55:17.540 Have control of everything and have everything in the palm of your hand and 00:55:17.540 --> 00:55:20.800 then try to claim yourself helpless to the Democrats. 00:55:21.380 --> 00:55:25.280 Is very difficult. You know, once you've been pounding that message for, 00:55:25.280 --> 00:55:28.700 I don't know how long, very difficult to do. Okay? 00:55:30.100 --> 00:55:34.760 Oh, and so let's move to where we think this is going. 00:55:35.920 --> 00:55:39.520 So I think we're looking at the longest shutdown we've ever had. 00:55:39.740 --> 00:55:41.520 I really do at this point. 00:55:41.820 --> 00:55:46.000 The record right now was in Trump's first administration. It was 35 days. 00:55:46.760 --> 00:55:48.000 Oh, this is going to go longer. 00:55:48.540 --> 00:55:54.220 Yeah. Well, right now, there's no motion on it on any side to do anything like 00:55:54.220 --> 00:55:56.660 everybody's sort of digging in their heels. 00:55:57.120 --> 00:56:03.000 And a lot of people and look, there are folks in the Republican coalition who 00:56:03.000 --> 00:56:08.560 agree with what you said at the beginning with, well, we like it shut down. Let's just leave it. 00:56:09.060 --> 00:56:12.480 You know, this proves what do we really need and what do we not need? 00:56:12.800 --> 00:56:16.440 And the president actually has a lot of authority to declare that certain things 00:56:16.440 --> 00:56:17.800 are needed and have to continue. 00:56:18.360 --> 00:56:23.000 You know, the counter argument is, you know, do we really want to let Donald 00:56:23.000 --> 00:56:26.260 Trump be the one deciding that? But as you said, he's been deciding that anyway. 00:56:29.240 --> 00:56:34.340 So, you know, last time, the 35 day, and I was reminded of this. 00:56:34.500 --> 00:56:40.020 I haven't double checked it, but the 35 day shutdown, if you remember, was, 00:56:40.560 --> 00:56:44.040 It ended when the Democrats retook the House. 00:56:44.820 --> 00:56:50.320 Like it was right at the end of the term. So the stalemate did not resolve itself 00:56:50.320 --> 00:56:55.220 by the two sides coming to a better deal or whatever. 00:56:55.700 --> 00:57:01.220 There was actually a change in power that enabled them to do something that 00:57:01.220 --> 00:57:02.280 they would not do earlier. 00:57:02.580 --> 00:57:06.800 Now, at this point, we're a year and a quarter. And election's a year away. 00:57:07.820 --> 00:57:12.080 Yeah. Yeah, we're more than a year away from the election and add a couple months 00:57:12.080 --> 00:57:13.060 before they actually take power. 00:57:13.060 --> 00:57:14.920 Listen, but this is one thing where critical services are continuing, 00:57:15.040 --> 00:57:16.600 but problems will pile up. 00:57:17.180 --> 00:57:20.380 Look, I realize that a lot of things are going to pile up. 00:57:20.460 --> 00:57:23.840 Like, as I mentioned, for example, hey, if you just turn 65, 00:57:24.020 --> 00:57:25.300 you won't apply for Social Security. 00:57:25.320 --> 00:57:28.580 That gets problematic right now. You can't go to an office. You can't make changes. 00:57:28.720 --> 00:57:32.140 You can't get somebody died. You can't, like, register that. 00:57:32.380 --> 00:57:35.480 They're talking about flood insurance, for example, how right now you can't 00:57:35.480 --> 00:57:40.500 obtain it. You can't get it's complicates so many different things and processes. 00:57:40.520 --> 00:57:43.280 I think you can't even apply for passports right now. 00:57:43.400 --> 00:57:46.780 For example, you can't even get passports. 00:57:47.080 --> 00:57:54.620 It's there are so many things that start getting complicated that that it's 00:57:54.620 --> 00:58:00.540 it's you know, they start piling up at some point. 00:58:00.820 --> 00:58:05.520 I'm assuming something's going to happen because here's here's the thing. 00:58:05.960 --> 00:58:12.080 I don't think, well, I didn't, listen, I don't think that a large group of Republicans 00:58:12.080 --> 00:58:17.700 really wanted to take away health care from a large port of constituents either. 00:58:17.980 --> 00:58:20.720 They're just right now being jerk offs to be jerk. 00:58:20.800 --> 00:58:23.460 Or triple the prices and things like that that are happening. 00:58:23.600 --> 00:58:28.180 Exactly. They didn't really want this. Okay. Yeah. They didn't want this. 00:58:28.380 --> 00:58:31.360 Okay. So I think that right now, 00:58:33.630 --> 00:58:37.610 they're being stubborn just to show spine, but at some point, 00:58:38.370 --> 00:58:43.370 they're going to want to do something too, because they don't want to fuck their 00:58:43.370 --> 00:58:45.130 constituents that badly, as 00:58:45.130 --> 00:58:49.650 much as they try to sometimes. But they don't want to do it so evidently. 00:58:50.830 --> 00:58:54.410 And they still don't want to cross Donald Trump. 00:58:55.470 --> 00:58:59.810 Nobody wants to be the first one to cross Donald Trump, right? 00:59:00.070 --> 00:59:00.170 Right. 00:59:00.170 --> 00:59:06.330 And now, even as is, like we had a couple Democrats in the Senate cross over 00:59:06.330 --> 00:59:09.170 Fetterman and I forget who the other one was. 00:59:09.170 --> 00:59:12.290 I don't know what the hell. But listen, I don't want to count like anything 00:59:12.290 --> 00:59:15.210 about what the hell's going on in Fetterman's brain at this moment, 00:59:15.370 --> 00:59:20.210 given all everything we've heard around his staff, how he seems to be basically losing his marbles. 00:59:20.450 --> 00:59:22.330 OK, so I don't know. 00:59:22.750 --> 00:59:26.750 I discount that other people I'll consider. 00:59:26.910 --> 00:59:30.610 But I don't I don't consider like saying, oh, well, Fetterman decided to do 00:59:30.610 --> 00:59:32.850 this as something indicative of anything at this point. 00:59:32.850 --> 00:59:36.050 Right. So I'm just checking. 00:59:36.290 --> 00:59:42.810 The Democrats that voted for it were John Fetterman, Catherine Cortez Masto 00:59:42.810 --> 00:59:47.230 from Nevada, and Angus King, who's technically an independent, 00:59:47.410 --> 00:59:49.410 but who caucuses with the Democrats. Those were the three. 00:59:49.490 --> 00:59:50.870 Right. That's it. Yeah. 00:59:51.590 --> 00:59:57.290 And so you need a few more to reach the threshold. 00:59:57.390 --> 01:00:03.530 You need quite a few more. I don't like three, four, four, five. 01:00:03.830 --> 01:00:07.210 Yeah, somewhere around that ballpark. You need 60 votes. 01:00:08.190 --> 01:00:12.750 And so you already have three Republicans plus those three, that's six. 01:00:12.890 --> 01:00:14.610 You need four more. You need four more. 01:00:17.270 --> 01:00:20.670 But I don't know. I don't know who's going to get weak in the knees first. 01:00:20.670 --> 01:00:27.410 I think it depends a lot on the specifics of what pain does end up accumulating 01:00:27.410 --> 01:00:32.410 in the way you've mentioned, and who is most sensitive to that pain, 01:00:32.530 --> 01:00:35.070 what states is it affecting, all that kind of stuff. 01:00:35.070 --> 01:00:41.110 You also honestly have to not discount the possibility at this point of Donald 01:00:41.110 --> 01:00:45.570 Trump just reopening whatever he feels like, regardless of the rules. 01:00:45.830 --> 01:00:48.770 Say, oh, this particular thing is causing pain. OK, 01:00:49.110 --> 01:00:55.070 executive order reopening that and and essentially leaving it officially shut 01:00:55.070 --> 01:01:02.290 down indefinitely, but turning things on one by one as they feel as they feel 01:01:02.290 --> 01:01:03.910 like they cause pain to the Republicans. 01:01:05.070 --> 01:01:13.690 But, you know, I mean, that is obviously a possibility and given where SCOTUS 01:01:13.690 --> 01:01:17.610 is right now that basically decided that we are a monarchy at this point. 01:01:17.770 --> 01:01:21.710 I'm like, I'm not, you know, I don't I'm not holding my breath about them, 01:01:21.830 --> 01:01:24.350 you know, doing anything to push back on this administration. 01:01:25.050 --> 01:01:26.890 Right. And so. 01:01:28.470 --> 01:01:34.770 Yeah, so if I had to bet, I think you're right. This probably will go past 35 days. 01:01:35.530 --> 01:01:43.210 And I don't know. Like, I would not be surprised by any of the three options we talked about. 01:01:43.810 --> 01:01:47.790 You know, Democrats capitulating, Republicans capitulating, Donald Trump just 01:01:47.790 --> 01:01:51.690 pushing through and not giving a damn about it at all. You know, 01:01:52.070 --> 01:01:53.150 any one of those three options. 01:01:53.150 --> 01:01:55.650 Or just Donald Trump changing his mind, which has happened before. 01:01:56.350 --> 01:01:58.870 And by the way, he changed his mind and all of a sudden made it sold everybody. 01:01:59.050 --> 01:02:01.690 Like, he made a great deal and, like, convinced everybody that it was like he 01:02:01.690 --> 01:02:03.530 was right. This is what he wanted all along. 01:02:04.050 --> 01:02:04.690 Oh, yes. 01:02:06.890 --> 01:02:08.950 And, yes, now that you mention it, 01:02:09.130 --> 01:02:13.530 I mean, I would have fit that into the Republicans capitulate category. 01:02:14.010 --> 01:02:15.410 But you're absolutely right. 01:02:15.690 --> 01:02:20.370 This is not capitulating. This is him saying, I made a great deal and it's what I wanted all along. 01:02:20.810 --> 01:02:24.770 And, you know, finally, I got the Democrats to do what I wanted. 01:02:24.770 --> 01:02:28.930 And so, therefore, we have this great deal, even though what he's doing is just 01:02:28.930 --> 01:02:31.870 what the Democrats wanted. And he will sell it like it was his. 01:02:31.950 --> 01:02:39.890 Yes. Yes. This is his genius. I mean, in so many ways, he's a moron. But this is his genius. 01:02:40.650 --> 01:02:46.550 That is his superpower. Yes. That is totally his absolute superpower and genius. 01:02:46.730 --> 01:02:49.550 That he will completely change his mind on something. 01:02:50.430 --> 01:02:54.950 And then tell everybody it was his idea and then convince everybody it's such 01:02:54.950 --> 01:02:56.650 a great deal that he negotiated. Yes. 01:02:57.490 --> 01:03:02.690 Yes, even though he's actually just giving the other side exactly what they wanted. 01:03:02.870 --> 01:03:06.030 Yes, taking the complete other side of what he wanted like 30 days before. 01:03:06.130 --> 01:03:10.190 Well, this ties into the stuff we've talked about happening again and again 01:03:10.190 --> 01:03:15.130 on tariffs with other countries promising to do what they already did and getting 01:03:15.130 --> 01:03:20.870 credit for it as the massive new deal that was Donald Trump forced through because of the tariffs. 01:03:21.710 --> 01:03:22.030 That's right. 01:03:23.030 --> 01:03:23.670 Okay. 01:03:24.750 --> 01:03:26.470 You forgot that scenario, huh? 01:03:28.230 --> 01:03:31.930 I mean, well, I, like I said, I was counting it as Republicans capitulate, 01:03:32.030 --> 01:03:36.650 but it's not, but it's fun in a way that's not, you know, well, 01:03:36.730 --> 01:03:39.010 it is, but it's not, it is. 01:03:39.090 --> 01:03:43.270 But it isn't because if you listen, because if you make everybody else believe, 01:03:43.550 --> 01:03:47.310 and if your people believe that it's your, you made a deal and it's not seen 01:03:47.310 --> 01:03:52.190 what scenario is the other guys capitulate and everybody sees you're a loser. 01:03:52.190 --> 01:03:58.430 The other one is you you make it seem like you won, even though you lost and 01:03:58.430 --> 01:04:00.990 all your constituents believe you won. 01:04:01.370 --> 01:04:05.050 Well, yeah, this is I mean, I'm having flashbacks to the Mueller report. 01:04:05.190 --> 01:04:06.550 No obstruction, no collusion. 01:04:07.150 --> 01:04:07.670 Exactly. 01:04:08.870 --> 01:04:15.890 That's that's what Barr said, like Ed, for like the two weeks before he released the actual report. 01:04:16.050 --> 01:04:19.410 So that's what stuck in everybody's head. No obstruction, no collusion. 01:04:19.410 --> 01:04:24.330 Even though the actual report showed lots of obstruction and lots of collusion. 01:04:24.670 --> 01:04:25.610 That's exactly right. 01:04:25.650 --> 01:04:27.410 It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. 01:04:27.590 --> 01:04:34.010 It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. I came in last place. I won. I won. 01:04:34.510 --> 01:04:39.430 You walk up to the podium. By the way, Donald Trump has done this kind of like 01:04:39.430 --> 01:04:41.850 literally in even before he was president. 01:04:42.090 --> 01:04:47.950 OK, I mean, we're he he would he actually David Tepper, I think, 01:04:48.030 --> 01:04:51.390 is the one that said this, that he showed up to fundraising events, 01:04:51.710 --> 01:04:56.790 okay, to charitable events where he had not donated a single dime. 01:04:57.390 --> 01:05:02.510 And he showed up up there like he was some major contributor to help get this 01:05:02.510 --> 01:05:05.610 thing over the top, blah, blah, blah, showed up there, whatever, 01:05:05.790 --> 01:05:07.090 and he had not given a dime. 01:05:07.650 --> 01:05:11.870 Right. Okay. Let's take a break. 01:05:12.190 --> 01:05:16.650 And when we come back, I'll pick the topic for the rest of the time. 01:05:16.650 --> 01:05:23.250 And I will start with the speech from the generals and then move on to sort 01:05:23.250 --> 01:05:27.630 of going along with what we've just been talking about, 01:05:27.810 --> 01:05:35.910 sort of Donald Trump's mental state and stuff. Anyway. 01:05:37.810 --> 01:05:41.010 Yes, yes. Okay, here we go. We'll be back after this. 01:06:17.640 --> 01:06:21.120 He just posted a new video, like, a few weeks ago, by the way. 01:06:21.420 --> 01:06:25.400 Like, he's down, he's only posting, like, a few a year now, and there's still 01:06:25.400 --> 01:06:29.460 ones that he originally recorded when he was seven years old. He's now 16, by the way. 01:06:30.260 --> 01:06:34.840 But, yeah, there's a new video out. There's a new video out. So, check it out. 01:06:34.860 --> 01:06:38.720 Hey, Sam, before we go into the speech, Charles, just a brief mention. 01:06:38.920 --> 01:06:39.140 Yes. 01:06:39.600 --> 01:06:40.920 What about that coin, huh? 01:06:42.120 --> 01:06:46.860 Oh, yes. Well, you know, when he first mentioned the coin with Donald Trump's 01:06:46.860 --> 01:06:51.640 name on it, I got excited for a second because maybe it was minting the coin. 01:06:51.900 --> 01:06:52.680 Oh, the super coin. 01:06:52.900 --> 01:06:58.400 You know, the super coin. And, you know, I would almost accept a Donald Trump 01:06:58.400 --> 01:07:01.160 coin if they actually did the super coin idea. 01:07:01.380 --> 01:07:05.400 Because, like, it's just so disruptive and cool an idea. 01:07:05.840 --> 01:07:09.980 But, you know, no, it's a $1 commemorative coin, apparently. 01:07:10.760 --> 01:07:16.280 Um so i i i did read and apparently the law is that you can't have a coin as 01:07:16.280 --> 01:07:20.320 a somebody leader unless they are living person okay so so here's the deal i'm 01:07:20.320 --> 01:07:21.640 willing that has been the. 01:07:21.640 --> 01:07:23.340 Law for like 140 years or. 01:07:23.340 --> 01:07:28.620 Something so here's the deal i propose i'm good with a coin if you're promising 01:07:28.620 --> 01:07:35.100 me that he's going to die like tonight or something we can go ahead with listen if you're 01:07:35.200 --> 01:07:38.540 If you promise me that he's going to be dead by Monday, 01:07:39.180 --> 01:07:44.120 I, man, go ahead, make the coin. No problem. Make the coin. 01:07:45.420 --> 01:07:45.780 Yeah. 01:07:48.120 --> 01:07:50.320 That's a trade I'm willing to make right now. Yes. 01:07:51.600 --> 01:07:55.520 Yeah. So, but, but, but like, honestly, just by natural causes. 01:07:55.720 --> 01:07:57.280 By the way. Okay. That's what I'm saying. 01:07:57.420 --> 01:07:58.460 Yes. Yes. Yeah. 01:07:58.580 --> 01:08:02.240 You know, he has a heart attack or something. I mean, that cholesterol can't 01:08:02.240 --> 01:08:03.700 be helped. You know, those kinds of things. 01:08:03.880 --> 01:08:07.380 You are not calling for anything that would necessitate a secret service visit. 01:08:07.780 --> 01:08:10.740 No, no, no. I'm just, you know, just, just, just, just, 01:08:11.000 --> 01:08:13.220 you know, if that, I mean, they're playing to admit the coin because they think 01:08:13.220 --> 01:08:16.420 he's i'm thinking hey they're a bit to the coin because they think he's gonna 01:08:16.420 --> 01:08:20.740 be dead soon he's seriously ill we don't know that's why they're planning for 01:08:20.740 --> 01:08:24.120 the coin sam that's the new speculation since apparently he's not posting i 01:08:24.120 --> 01:08:27.380 i heard again that he's been like a little bit like he's been missing for. 01:08:27.380 --> 01:08:32.840 A couple days again yeah uh well and we'll get to that in a second but yeah no uh. 01:08:32.840 --> 01:08:36.200 He's getting one of those like just remember you remember the artificial heart 01:08:36.200 --> 01:08:41.540 guy the the the many you know it was the name but he's getting an artificial heart. 01:08:41.740 --> 01:08:42.360 Dick Cheney. 01:08:42.660 --> 01:08:45.180 Well, Dick Cheney got one, right. Yeah. 01:08:45.600 --> 01:08:48.300 Well, he didn't get an artificial heart, but he had like a... 01:08:48.300 --> 01:08:53.660 He got a... This ventricular assist thing, whatever it's called. 01:08:53.920 --> 01:08:54.180 Yeah, yeah, yeah. 01:08:54.620 --> 01:08:57.940 It's basically an artificial heart, basically, because it's too close to work. 01:08:59.280 --> 01:09:04.580 Anyway, just to finish up the coin thing, it is absolutely true that there is 01:09:04.580 --> 01:09:08.560 a law that says you cannot have a living person on a coin, and they are apparently 01:09:08.560 --> 01:09:13.060 90% of the way through the planning process to release a coin with Donald Trump's face on it. 01:09:13.580 --> 01:09:19.200 Absent your scenario, this is a clear violation of the law, but so is, 01:09:19.220 --> 01:09:23.240 you know, 80% of the stuff the Trump administration has been doing. 01:09:23.820 --> 01:09:29.600 And, you know, no one, it's just, it's, it is what it is. 01:09:29.880 --> 01:09:36.340 Because, like, the mechanisms aren't in place to effectively actually stop a 01:09:36.340 --> 01:09:40.640 rogue president who just says, I don't give a fuck. I'm going to do what I want to do. 01:09:41.630 --> 01:09:47.570 Which is unfortunate, or at least I shouldn't say the mechanisms don't exist. 01:09:47.870 --> 01:09:53.270 They exist, but nobody wants to use them. The Republicans control Congress, 01:09:53.270 --> 01:09:57.750 and they basically have said, eh, he can be lawless. We're good. 01:09:58.270 --> 01:10:03.290 And you've got a Supreme Court that is very sympathetic to the idea that the 01:10:03.290 --> 01:10:04.850 president can do anything they want. 01:10:05.670 --> 01:10:12.830 So you've got the three branches, the two branches that are supposed to do oversight, 01:10:12.830 --> 01:10:15.510 basically abdicating their role. 01:10:15.830 --> 01:10:20.450 I mean, the lower courts have been repeatedly going against Donald Trump over 01:10:20.450 --> 01:10:22.150 and over and over again on many issues. 01:10:22.730 --> 01:10:26.910 But there's just no level of confidence that when it finally gets to SCOTUS, 01:10:27.090 --> 01:10:29.370 SCOTUS won't just say, OK, fine, you can do that. 01:10:29.410 --> 01:10:30.610 He can do whatever you want. 01:10:31.290 --> 01:10:35.670 And Donald Trump has taken the position that until SCOTUS says no, 01:10:36.510 --> 01:10:42.030 he's pretty much going to keep going. You know, and, and, you know, 01:10:42.230 --> 01:10:44.650 even, and honestly, we still have that question. 01:10:44.770 --> 01:10:48.950 If SCOTUS absolutely says no to something that he cares about. 01:10:49.950 --> 01:10:55.170 What happens? I mean, we actually had that example from the Garcia in El Salvador. 01:10:55.490 --> 01:10:59.530 So the Supreme Court actually told him, get him home right away. 01:10:59.770 --> 01:11:01.670 And it took him like two months. 01:11:02.290 --> 01:11:05.950 Yeah, well, he delayed it, but he finally did it, is the thing that even though 01:11:05.950 --> 01:11:08.550 he dragged his feet, they wound up doing it. So. 01:11:09.470 --> 01:11:12.990 Yes. Although, yeah, they did drag their feet. 01:11:13.090 --> 01:11:17.330 But they wound up doing it at the end. 01:11:17.330 --> 01:11:23.270 So far, so far, when pushes come to shove in the end, Donald Trump and his administration 01:11:23.270 --> 01:11:26.430 have always backed down from the ultimate confrontations. 01:11:26.890 --> 01:11:30.210 And not only that, like we've talked about taco with the tariffs, 01:11:30.450 --> 01:11:35.310 whenever something seems to be getting unpopular, he has backed off as well, 01:11:35.430 --> 01:11:40.530 you know, because in the end he wants to be loved and he wants people to be 01:11:40.530 --> 01:11:43.370 like excited about it when, and, you know, 01:11:43.590 --> 01:11:46.410 it seems his people hide a lot of things from him. 01:11:46.410 --> 01:11:49.510 But when he gets a whiff. 01:11:49.730 --> 01:11:52.910 Did the generals laugh and love him when he was given the speech? 01:11:53.670 --> 01:11:55.870 Yeah, let's move on. Let's move on to the generals. 01:11:56.950 --> 01:12:00.830 So they love. OK, so my key question, did the generals, you know, 01:12:00.950 --> 01:12:03.430 clap and love what he was when he was given the speech? 01:12:03.910 --> 01:12:12.010 Well, first of all, let's just level set this with the the protocol that generals 01:12:12.010 --> 01:12:15.690 and other military folks are supposed to follow anyway. 01:12:16.650 --> 01:12:21.450 Is that they are non-political, and so they shouldn't clap at something like this. No, no, I know. 01:12:21.590 --> 01:12:27.170 I know, but I guess he was expecting that, right? 01:12:27.310 --> 01:12:30.810 He specifically said at the beginning, I know you're not supposed to, 01:12:30.910 --> 01:12:35.170 but feel free to clap if you want to, and stuff like that. And no, nobody clapped. 01:12:35.850 --> 01:12:41.510 Nobody clapped, nobody hooted and hollered. He was giving, and this is both Hegseth and Trump, 01:12:42.270 --> 01:12:47.790 were hoping for some positive reactions. They got the generals and admirals 01:12:47.790 --> 01:12:49.470 basically sitting on their hands. 01:12:50.290 --> 01:12:55.030 Which is what they should be doing! Which I'm proud of them for doing so, by the way. 01:12:55.130 --> 01:12:57.870 Which is what they should be doing. And just to be clear, 01:13:01.470 --> 01:13:07.230 first of all, this type of audience, bring in all the generals that exist into 01:13:07.230 --> 01:13:08.730 one room, has not happened before. 01:13:08.730 --> 01:13:09.250 Doesn't happen! 01:13:10.350 --> 01:13:14.110 But speaking more generally in front of military audiences, 01:13:14.510 --> 01:13:20.010 the military audiences can get animated and hoop and holler and stuff when presidents 01:13:20.010 --> 01:13:24.130 give speeches and the speeches are wholeheartedly like, hey, 01:13:24.330 --> 01:13:25.470 we're going to support the troops. 01:13:25.790 --> 01:13:29.230 We're doing a good effort. America is great. Blah, blah, blah. 01:13:29.230 --> 01:13:34.210 You know, it's things that are somewhat universal where they're just, 01:13:34.430 --> 01:13:38.710 you know, they're visiting troops in Afghanistan and they're talking about supporting 01:13:38.710 --> 01:13:42.230 the effort and how important the work they do is and stuff like that. 01:13:42.530 --> 01:13:47.670 Okay. In those cases, the military is fully allowed to like clap and express 01:13:47.670 --> 01:13:49.530 appreciation, all of that kind of stuff. 01:13:49.870 --> 01:13:57.550 But what Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth are doing here are, and they really were too different. 01:13:57.650 --> 01:14:00.510 I don't want to lump them in together. because they had different purposes and 01:14:00.510 --> 01:14:01.430 were doing different things. 01:14:01.750 --> 01:14:04.630 But they're fundamentally, especially to Donald Trump's speech. 01:14:05.110 --> 01:14:08.890 It's like 100, well, especially, they were both. 01:14:08.890 --> 01:14:17.070 They were both 100% political issues that are controversial in politics today, 01:14:17.370 --> 01:14:21.410 pushing their view, talking about Democrats' evil, et cetera, et cetera. 01:14:21.550 --> 01:14:25.610 This is exactly the kind of thing where Protocol says the military should sit 01:14:25.610 --> 01:14:26.590 on their hands, and they did. 01:14:26.590 --> 01:14:33.730 And a lot of the, you know, it took a few hours for the feedback to start coming 01:14:33.730 --> 01:14:37.410 in, sort of anonymous generals talking to reporters and such. 01:14:37.730 --> 01:14:40.610 The feedback is universally that, like... 01:14:41.140 --> 01:14:46.220 The vast majority of people in that audience were disturbed by the speeches 01:14:46.220 --> 01:14:50.380 and upset by the speeches, not support. 01:14:50.520 --> 01:14:54.100 I mean, obviously, there's some there's some proportion that would be supportive, 01:14:54.100 --> 01:14:58.060 but the vast majority were not. They were upset by this. 01:14:58.680 --> 01:15:02.480 They were like, this is not the kinds of conversations where we should be having. 01:15:02.760 --> 01:15:07.980 They didn't like being lectured by Hegseth on what it means to be a warrior. 01:15:08.920 --> 01:15:16.740 The feedback on Donald Trump was things like, after the first five minutes I 01:15:16.740 --> 01:15:20.620 stopped taking notes because it was just incoherent and rambling and it made no sense. 01:15:21.140 --> 01:15:29.440 Standard Trump speech. The Hegseth stuff was all anti-woke anti-trans, 01:15:29.760 --> 01:15:33.180 anti-woman, like we don't we want to restore, 01:15:33.560 --> 01:15:39.480 and pro-war pro-war crimes I guess like pro-war crimes yeah that was. 01:15:39.480 --> 01:15:40.180 Very clear yes. 01:15:40.180 --> 01:15:45.040 Yeah it's like we don't want any of these rules that tell you how to behave 01:15:45.040 --> 01:15:50.600 we just want you to kill people kill people and break things you know I. 01:15:52.500 --> 01:16:01.980 This hexathetic is arranged I I've never heard anybody in military leadership in my as an adult, 01:16:03.760 --> 01:16:07.820 that I as I remember talk to generals like this. 01:16:08.900 --> 01:16:17.200 Yeah. And even if you actually hear actual military people talking about their jobs, 01:16:18.160 --> 01:16:24.180 like, they don't, with very few exceptions that probably should be run out of 01:16:24.180 --> 01:16:29.540 the rail, they don't talk about the kill people and break things with pride. 01:16:30.380 --> 01:16:34.040 They recognize that it's part of their profession as a necessity, 01:16:34.040 --> 01:16:37.840 but it's all 01:16:37.840 --> 01:16:41.640 about professionalism and being able to do 01:16:41.640 --> 01:16:45.500 what's necessary and not what's more than necessary and 01:16:45.500 --> 01:16:51.320 we want to use our power to achieve the political goals but we want to do so 01:16:51.320 --> 01:16:57.260 carefully they really care about things like rules of engagement and trying 01:16:57.260 --> 01:17:01.640 to avoid the civilian casualties when possible now, 01:17:02.570 --> 01:17:06.790 They could, you know, they could be a lot more careful than there are. 01:17:06.950 --> 01:17:11.330 You know, there have been a lot of unnecessary deaths in U.S. military engagements. 01:17:11.630 --> 01:17:15.110 I mean, we don't quite we don't quite reach Israeli levels. 01:17:15.390 --> 01:17:20.550 But the one thing is that the primary mission is is, you know, 01:17:20.650 --> 01:17:24.850 and I see this in a lot of places is defending is defending the country. 01:17:25.610 --> 01:17:32.230 OK, and that's the primary. Exactly. I've seen a number of retired folks commenting, 01:17:32.230 --> 01:17:36.070 the oath is to support the Constitution. 01:17:36.570 --> 01:17:37.890 The Constitution, exactly, yes. 01:17:37.890 --> 01:17:41.070 And these fucking jokers are undermining it. 01:17:41.390 --> 01:17:41.910 Right. 01:17:42.730 --> 01:17:46.250 You know, and so they are not happy about this. 01:17:46.250 --> 01:17:54.290 I, you know, I've even started, started to see some things on TikTok about like, you know, 01:17:55.390 --> 01:18:02.410 military folks starting to talk about the possibility of a military coup at some point. 01:18:02.410 --> 01:18:05.570 Now, I think this is not a likely scenario, 01:18:05.570 --> 01:18:11.930 but even the fact that you've got a few people sort of starting to murmur about 01:18:11.930 --> 01:18:18.970 those kinds of options indicate how much these people feel actually feel disrespected by this nonsense. 01:18:18.970 --> 01:18:23.670 I mean, that's the thing. I think that's the key thing. 01:18:23.810 --> 01:18:32.770 That whole event was totally disrespectful to the entire military leadership of the United States. 01:18:33.230 --> 01:18:34.970 That's the one thing that it was. 01:18:35.810 --> 01:18:39.450 Everything from the call everybody in for something that could have been a memo, 01:18:40.790 --> 01:18:45.230 to the the things you're actually saying i mean and the fact that part of donald 01:18:45.230 --> 01:18:50.050 trump's speech involved you know oh and prepare to use the american cities as 01:18:50.050 --> 01:18:54.410 training grounds we're gonna you know be be prepared for that and if you don't 01:18:54.410 --> 01:19:00.730 like it resign now you know and this is you know So like I said, 01:19:01.030 --> 01:19:08.230 the culture in the military for many, many decades now is we are a professional 01:19:08.230 --> 01:19:10.410 organization. We live by standards. 01:19:10.510 --> 01:19:16.410 We're not just thugs that go out and kill people. You know, yes, 01:19:16.630 --> 01:19:18.170 of course, it's the military. 01:19:18.390 --> 01:19:21.510 They kill people. They break things. Yes, that's part of what they do. 01:19:21.990 --> 01:19:31.470 But the whole ethos is around service and professionalism and doing things by 01:19:31.470 --> 01:19:37.710 the rules and all of this kind of stuff and honor. 01:19:39.000 --> 01:19:42.080 And this is not respecting any of that. 01:19:43.200 --> 01:19:49.380 And part of it, of course, is like, you know, Trump and Hegseth don't actually 01:19:49.380 --> 01:19:52.720 think any of what I just mentioned is valuable at all. 01:19:53.040 --> 01:19:57.720 By the way, and I'm pretty confident that most of those guys that got to be 01:19:57.720 --> 01:20:01.640 general had zero respect for, even though Hegseth was in the military. 01:20:01.640 --> 01:20:04.060 I wasn't sure he was. He was. 01:20:04.060 --> 01:20:04.680 Military. 01:20:04.920 --> 01:20:11.020 He was in the military, but he wasn't exactly. He didn't really make it that far. 01:20:11.520 --> 01:20:16.580 And it's something that I read some people mentioning. It's this is how far 01:20:16.580 --> 01:20:19.140 a mediocre guy gets in the military. 01:20:19.700 --> 01:20:23.460 You know, that was the thinking that I heard around some people. 01:20:23.460 --> 01:20:30.080 And so, so these guys knowing when that's the mindset of these guys and they 01:20:30.080 --> 01:20:34.640 realize that they got the mediocre guy who you basically like, you know, 01:20:34.700 --> 01:20:38.700 the reason he's not there is because he was mediocre and now is the head of them. 01:20:39.240 --> 01:20:44.820 You know, I know that I've been in those kind of situations in corporate when that happens. 01:20:45.100 --> 01:20:47.820 Let me tell you something. The rest of the people that were there looking at 01:20:47.820 --> 01:20:51.280 this guy, they're all like, this fucking loser is the only thing. 01:20:51.280 --> 01:20:54.600 And this is a different scenario, by the way, than a civilian who's never been 01:20:54.600 --> 01:20:56.920 in the military at all, but has other experience. 01:20:57.280 --> 01:21:00.040 Exactly. Yes, absolutely. 01:21:00.360 --> 01:21:01.140 Yeah, this is worse. 01:21:01.500 --> 01:21:02.660 This is way worse. 01:21:02.700 --> 01:21:08.800 And he's coming in and lecturing them, and he's, you know- When they know. 01:21:08.800 --> 01:21:09.380 He was mediocre. 01:21:10.500 --> 01:21:14.820 You know, and a lot of these things, like the administration has been so hostile 01:21:14.820 --> 01:21:18.600 to like women in the military at all, for instance, let alone trans people that 01:21:18.600 --> 01:21:22.660 they've been absolutely hostile to, but women more generally. 01:21:22.840 --> 01:21:23.160 Oh my God. 01:21:23.300 --> 01:21:26.240 Now, and look, there is still, 01:21:26.820 --> 01:21:32.620 you know, the military hadn't fully succeeded in transforming to be fully open 01:21:32.620 --> 01:21:39.080 to women in all places anyway, but it's moved on quite a bit from where it was 20, 25 years ago. 01:21:39.080 --> 01:21:42.140 Like there were there were women in 01:21:42.140 --> 01:21:45.520 significant command positions there are women in various combat positions 01:21:45.520 --> 01:21:48.560 celebrated the culture has moved 01:21:48.560 --> 01:21:52.020 on the culture you know it is 01:21:52.020 --> 01:21:57.680 certainly not perfect but they're trying to drag it back 40 years you know and 01:21:57.680 --> 01:22:03.760 and with with all of the or more and with all of this kind of stuff when you 01:22:03.760 --> 01:22:09.080 you don't let's say you did legitimately want to change the culture. 01:22:09.680 --> 01:22:11.840 This is not the way you do it successfully. 01:22:12.720 --> 01:22:14.360 No, not at all. 01:22:14.580 --> 01:22:18.840 You know, I mean, just, just like we're, we're talking about, 01:22:19.280 --> 01:22:24.120 you know, first the military integrated, you know, integrated, 01:22:24.420 --> 01:22:26.720 not non-white people into the military. 01:22:26.900 --> 01:22:31.380 Then they started accepting women in non-combat roles and eventually some combat 01:22:31.380 --> 01:22:33.880 roles and, and, and trans people 01:22:33.880 --> 01:22:37.240 more recently and gay people more recently, you know, and, you know, 01:22:37.380 --> 01:22:43.520 this has happened over the course of quite a few years and it's the, 01:22:43.700 --> 01:22:45.200 it hasn't been easy. 01:22:45.840 --> 01:22:51.380 The, the, the cultural change has been slow and it is imperfect and it hadn't 01:22:51.380 --> 01:22:57.580 finished yet, but it had gotten to the point where you can't just snap your fingers and undo it. 01:22:57.580 --> 01:23:04.620 And, you know, what they're doing, I just, I mean, on the one hand, 01:23:05.040 --> 01:23:09.160 you know, I hate what they're trying to do, but at the same time, 01:23:09.340 --> 01:23:12.020 I'm glad they're as bad at it as they are, 01:23:12.440 --> 01:23:21.300 you know, because it makes it more likely that it will be easier to reverse 01:23:21.300 --> 01:23:23.000 some of this stuff once they're gone. 01:23:24.840 --> 01:23:25.720 So i. 01:23:25.720 --> 01:23:28.880 Don't know i i have some more to talk about uh about donald trump specifically 01:23:28.880 --> 01:23:31.340 any more about these speeches before i. 01:23:31.340 --> 01:23:39.060 Now move on okay oh can i say one thing wait yeah go ahead let's just you're 01:23:39.060 --> 01:23:44.540 going to talk about donald trump you said oh can i am i my regular reminder fuck donald trump. 01:23:45.260 --> 01:23:46.700 Oh okay yes. 01:23:46.700 --> 01:23:50.320 Yeah i just wanted to make sure that was clear in the program i don't want to forget to. 01:23:51.790 --> 01:23:54.870 Of course not. No, no. Can't forget that. 01:23:55.350 --> 01:24:01.550 No. So, look, we've talked about Trump's health before. 01:24:01.770 --> 01:24:04.110 We've talked about Trump's mental health before. 01:24:04.990 --> 01:24:06.890 I think it's time to do so again. 01:24:07.870 --> 01:24:13.890 I i mentioned how like generals were off the record quoted as saying they stopped 01:24:13.890 --> 01:24:17.110 taking notes because it made no sense and it was just rambling and going nowhere 01:24:17.110 --> 01:24:23.310 if you listened to donald trump's speech here and i did not listen to a lot 01:24:23.310 --> 01:24:25.550 of it i listened to i listened to. 01:24:25.550 --> 01:24:30.430 None of it i just read what it is i i like i said before i have a visceral. 01:24:30.430 --> 01:24:35.110 Problem to hearing his voice and I want. 01:24:35.110 --> 01:24:40.290 To like fucking like, like, like throw shit at it or something. So I have to turn it off. 01:24:40.950 --> 01:24:45.330 So let me start with, first of all, yes, it was rambling and incoherent. 01:24:45.430 --> 01:24:50.230 He's, he's often rambling and incoherent, but it does seem like it's getting worse. 01:24:51.010 --> 01:24:54.690 But also he just physically sounded like shit again. 01:24:55.110 --> 01:24:58.330 Like you remember a few weeks ago we were all talking about, 01:24:58.490 --> 01:25:01.070 oh, he's been missing for a week. Where'd he go? Blah, blah, blah. 01:25:01.230 --> 01:25:03.790 Something clearly happened. And then he showed up again. 01:25:04.720 --> 01:25:09.560 And fine, but he once again sounds like shit. 01:25:09.740 --> 01:25:13.000 Like, he was very, very low energy. 01:25:13.500 --> 01:25:19.140 His voice was a monotone most of the time. It was somewhat gravelly. 01:25:19.540 --> 01:25:22.580 He did not sound well. 01:25:23.940 --> 01:25:28.400 And so the speculation's not going to go away. 01:25:28.700 --> 01:25:35.040 I mean, I still think, like, more so than anything else, like if something really 01:25:35.040 --> 01:25:41.880 acute happens I still believe we will hear about that relatively quickly like if something, 01:25:42.560 --> 01:25:44.060 wrapped no, 01:25:44.980 --> 01:25:51.220 no way they will hide it as much as possible they will absolutely hide as much 01:25:51.220 --> 01:25:54.720 as possible but what I mean by something really acute is like if it's serious 01:25:54.720 --> 01:25:57.900 enough he has to get rushed to the hospital like we will know about that they 01:25:57.900 --> 01:25:59.460 will not be able to hide it, 01:25:59.980 --> 01:26:01.860 absolutely I. 01:26:01.860 --> 01:26:07.640 Think I mean But listen, I think that they are geared up to even hide that because 01:26:07.640 --> 01:26:14.980 if, listen, I think speculation is that last time he had to have some kind of 01:26:14.980 --> 01:26:16.520 procedure, which is why he was like. 01:26:16.660 --> 01:26:18.880 Really like, but they might have been able to do it at the White House. 01:26:19.320 --> 01:26:22.240 Yeah, but, but I think that they bulked up what they could do at the White House 01:26:22.240 --> 01:26:25.100 precisely so they can hide whatever the fuck is going on with this guy. 01:26:25.700 --> 01:26:32.880 So even if he has something major, that they could do it and hide it as much as possible. 01:26:33.200 --> 01:26:36.680 I've never seen a president, you know, listen, we've had presidents wear the 01:26:36.680 --> 01:26:38.340 health condition or whatever, they tried to hide it. 01:26:38.600 --> 01:26:41.220 Sam, this guy's been wearing makeup to hide shit, okay? 01:26:41.820 --> 01:26:43.980 Well, he's been wearing makeup for decades. 01:26:44.000 --> 01:26:47.520 No, no, no, but he's been wearing makeup to also hide now, like, actual... 01:26:47.520 --> 01:26:50.080 Yes, I know, when he put the stuff on his hands and things like that. 01:26:50.080 --> 01:26:56.080 Yeah, he's been hiding medical, you know, things that are actual physical ailments. 01:26:56.200 --> 01:26:59.560 He was wearing makeup because he likes to look orange for some fucking reason. 01:26:59.720 --> 01:27:05.060 I'm talking about wearing makeup in order to hide signs of some physical issues, okay? 01:27:06.550 --> 01:27:12.310 So what I was saying, though, is I think, like, I hear what you're saying. 01:27:12.310 --> 01:27:13.610 I still think if there was something 01:27:13.610 --> 01:27:17.030 really acute, they would be incapable of hiding it for very long. 01:27:17.510 --> 01:27:25.210 But I think what we're seeing is just regular, gradual decline associated with 01:27:25.210 --> 01:27:29.290 aging, both on his mental state and on his physical state. 01:27:29.550 --> 01:27:34.770 And it's not a dramatic, like, one day he's like this, the next day he's so much worse. 01:27:34.770 --> 01:27:37.810 But it's just gradual decline and 01:27:37.810 --> 01:27:40.970 he's got better days and he's got worse days and you 01:27:40.970 --> 01:27:44.570 know and that's going to continue to happen but 01:27:44.570 --> 01:27:52.090 i also feel like i think we're seeing increasing evidence of him being significantly 01:27:52.090 --> 01:27:59.770 checked out a lot of the time uh in terms of you know like look you you talked 01:27:59.770 --> 01:28:03.150 about him posting the Grim Reaper meme. 01:28:03.930 --> 01:28:07.330 A few days earlier, he posted this med bed thing. 01:28:08.770 --> 01:28:11.310 Oh, yeah, that's right. 01:28:11.850 --> 01:28:16.950 So for those who don't know or didn't follow this, first of all, 01:28:17.010 --> 01:28:20.850 I didn't know this, but apparently this is an ongoing conspiracy theory on the right, 01:28:21.630 --> 01:28:28.570 that the government secretly has developed med beds using alien technology Yeah. 01:28:29.420 --> 01:28:34.340 Over the last couple of decades. And these are basically beds that you can put 01:28:34.340 --> 01:28:37.120 a person in and they will heal everything. 01:28:37.700 --> 01:28:40.200 They will. By the way, this is. 01:28:40.440 --> 01:28:43.940 Okay. As far as I can tell, these people watched the movie Elysium too, 01:28:44.080 --> 01:28:48.180 too, too many times. And you need to add that to your list if it's not on there. 01:28:48.220 --> 01:28:49.260 I'm adding, I'm going to. 01:28:49.440 --> 01:28:54.680 Okay. All right. This is, this seems to be Elysium to give you the, the gist, 01:28:54.860 --> 01:28:59.160 the main thing is a movie in a, in a future where earth is like, 01:28:59.160 --> 01:29:02.820 so contaminated that people are living on space stations and like the president 01:29:02.820 --> 01:29:04.540 and like all those people are living there. 01:29:04.640 --> 01:29:09.020 And the space stations have these med beds where, where people can get instantly 01:29:09.020 --> 01:29:12.800 healed of any condition, but only the, the elite people, the, 01:29:12.800 --> 01:29:16.920 the chosen people, the bed beds actually DNA scan you. 01:29:17.040 --> 01:29:23.080 And so they won't give you, if you're not a citizen, they won't give you the healing stuff. Okay. 01:29:23.500 --> 01:29:25.880 Okay. Yeah. So, so that, so that. 01:29:25.980 --> 01:29:31.000 So I think, I think these assholes. basically watched that movie too many times. 01:29:31.000 --> 01:29:33.760 So yes the idea is it can heal 01:29:33.760 --> 01:29:36.840 anything like from you've got a cold cancer 01:29:36.840 --> 01:29:42.080 somebody chopped so cancer somebody chopped off your arm it will regrow it and 01:29:42.080 --> 01:29:47.280 even d8 and even de-aging like yeah oh you don't you don't you don't like being 01:29:47.280 --> 01:29:54.020 in your 50s anymore okay try out your 20s again you know whatever but and and 01:29:54.020 --> 01:29:55.380 part of the conspiracy of course, 01:29:55.500 --> 01:29:57.980 is the government has this, but is hiding it from people. 01:29:58.380 --> 01:30:01.860 So Donald Trump posted an AI generated 01:30:01.860 --> 01:30:07.920 fake newscast of somebody talking about the new initiative that Donald Trump 01:30:07.920 --> 01:30:13.860 was announcing that included video of a fake Donald Trump talking about how 01:30:13.860 --> 01:30:18.520 they were starting to roll out the MedBed program and it would be available to people. 01:30:19.220 --> 01:30:23.020 And it wasn't going to be available to everybody all at once, 01:30:23.180 --> 01:30:26.760 but they were going to sign up and there's a way and blah, blah, blah. 01:30:27.180 --> 01:30:33.580 And he just posted it. Like, it's like, okay. 01:30:34.580 --> 01:30:38.380 And the question is, did he see this online and just think, oh, this is cool. 01:30:38.980 --> 01:30:44.660 And it's like, oh, I don't remember announcing this, but okay, 01:30:44.900 --> 01:30:49.240 I guess I did repost Or what? 01:30:49.960 --> 01:30:55.040 You know, and they did take it down a few hours later. Like, it was taken down. 01:30:55.060 --> 01:30:56.160 Oh, they did take it down. 01:30:56.620 --> 01:31:03.200 Which is apparently relatively rare for Donald Trump to take down his social media posts. 01:31:03.320 --> 01:31:06.320 But they did remove this one after a little while. 01:31:07.210 --> 01:31:14.190 And just generally speaking, I mean, his unhinged things that he posts on Truth 01:31:14.190 --> 01:31:19.650 Social seemingly get more unhinged and more unrelated to reality. 01:31:20.030 --> 01:31:20.630 They're nuts. 01:31:20.930 --> 01:31:24.090 Which is hard because they were already bad. 01:31:24.430 --> 01:31:28.510 Right. But yes, it has escalated in insanity. 01:31:28.830 --> 01:31:32.270 I mean, it's like, I mean, I am like right now. 01:31:32.270 --> 01:31:35.630 I realized that I was so busy the last few days that I stopped really reading 01:31:35.630 --> 01:31:39.750 a lot of media because I, unfortunately, because how much I, you know, 01:31:40.190 --> 01:31:43.510 actually I was busy and I was having a good time because I, by the way, 01:31:43.730 --> 01:31:48.670 I realized that my favorite part of, of this job is actually visiting customers. 01:31:48.730 --> 01:31:49.850 Okay. I've known that before. 01:31:50.010 --> 01:31:50.230 Okay. 01:31:50.410 --> 01:31:54.550 And I'm like, damn it. I'm like over there. Honestly, I was having a great time. 01:31:54.850 --> 01:31:59.070 So I wasn't reading any of this. And all of a sudden, after I got busy late 01:31:59.070 --> 01:32:03.230 yesterday, I started catching up on some of this shit and I opened it and I'm 01:32:03.230 --> 01:32:06.230 like looking at some of these posts and some of the posts that he was posting. 01:32:06.610 --> 01:32:12.610 I don't know, a few of the another on the hinge stuff. And I'm like, what in fucking hell? 01:32:13.390 --> 01:32:16.070 It's just it's in there and they are worse. 01:32:16.930 --> 01:32:21.630 Yes. And I and, you know, and I think there's a lot of. 01:32:21.930 --> 01:32:25.650 Well, here's the one quote from a couple of days ago. And of course, 01:32:25.750 --> 01:32:27.390 you'll say like it was a mistake, whatever. 01:32:27.590 --> 01:32:33.950 But Representative Dean from Pennsylvania confronted Johnson, 01:32:34.310 --> 01:32:37.930 Speaker Johnson, in the hallways at the Capitol. And this got caught on camera. 01:32:38.690 --> 01:32:44.990 And she started out by saying, the president is unhinged. He is unwell. 01:32:45.310 --> 01:32:49.950 And he's pleading for Johnson to like, do something about this. 01:32:50.890 --> 01:32:55.430 Johnson's answer, his immediate answer before he moved on to other things was, 01:32:55.670 --> 01:32:59.650 a lot of folks on your side are too. Too. 01:32:59.950 --> 01:33:00.430 Are too. 01:33:02.350 --> 01:33:09.070 You know, and yes, look, I mean, some people have started talking about, 01:33:09.210 --> 01:33:11.790 like, Pritzker's calling for the 25th Amendment. 01:33:12.010 --> 01:33:14.090 Of course, no one's going to listen to Pritzker, right? You know, 01:33:14.730 --> 01:33:20.310 this is like the 25th Amendment has to be the vice president and a majority of the cabinet. 01:33:20.990 --> 01:33:26.630 And by the way, even after they declare it, the president just has to submit a letter to Congress. 01:33:27.210 --> 01:33:31.370 The president has if the president submits a letter to Congress saying, 01:33:31.470 --> 01:33:32.550 no, never mind, I'm fine. 01:33:33.210 --> 01:33:37.050 Then Congress has to weigh in and it has to be a two thirds majority. 01:33:37.590 --> 01:33:42.270 So like the 25th Amendment is really, really hard. You know, I mean. 01:33:42.350 --> 01:33:45.810 It's basically about as hard. Close to as hard as impeachment, basically. 01:33:46.270 --> 01:33:52.510 Yeah. And basically, like, if the president himself disagrees, it's impossible. 01:33:52.850 --> 01:33:57.310 Like, for all intents and purposes, it's impossible. Like, it... 01:33:58.000 --> 01:34:03.120 It's a workable mechanism if the president is in a coma, okay? 01:34:03.640 --> 01:34:03.940 Right. 01:34:05.240 --> 01:34:11.340 But if the president is around and disagrees and doesn't think it should, 01:34:11.480 --> 01:34:12.640 or if the president agrees. 01:34:12.940 --> 01:34:16.000 Like, you know, we've had a number of occasions now where the president's going 01:34:16.000 --> 01:34:21.120 into surgery and they sign a letter themselves invoking the 25th to hand over 01:34:21.120 --> 01:34:22.980 power while they're in surgery. 01:34:23.360 --> 01:34:29.260 You know, that kind of thing. But it is not a workable mechanism in a situation 01:34:29.260 --> 01:34:37.040 where the president actively does not agree with being removed. You know, it just isn't. 01:34:37.520 --> 01:34:40.980 So anybody talking about that— I mean, it is if everybody—if Congress—it's evident 01:34:40.980 --> 01:34:43.040 to everybody— If everyone agreed. 01:34:43.340 --> 01:34:44.620 If everybody agrees. 01:34:44.720 --> 01:34:45.780 But given the. 01:34:45.780 --> 01:34:48.800 Current state of affairs—, 01:34:54.860 --> 01:34:59.300 is to get Vance to take over. And so, of course, they're going to pull the trigger at some point. 01:34:59.720 --> 01:35:03.860 I don't buy it. I don't buy it. Like, if the opportunity arises, 01:35:04.160 --> 01:35:07.680 do I think Vance would, you know, grab it? Of course. 01:35:07.740 --> 01:35:11.240 Oh, Vance is a grifter, of course. I mean, if the opportunity arises, 01:35:11.740 --> 01:35:20.500 like you said, if he's in a coma, fuck, man, Vance is getting that shit signed like yesterday. Okay? 01:35:21.340 --> 01:35:28.280 Right. But yeah, no, I think a far more likely scenario is like what you were, they'll hide it. 01:35:28.480 --> 01:35:32.900 They'll hide it. I mean, they'll trot him out when they need to, 01:35:33.100 --> 01:35:37.960 and the rest of the government will work around him. 01:35:38.160 --> 01:35:43.080 I think we've got increasing evidence at this point that that's what's happening 01:35:43.080 --> 01:35:48.180 anyway, that he's not really engaged, except every once in a while on an issue 01:35:48.180 --> 01:35:49.400 that he really wants to be. 01:35:50.120 --> 01:35:53.060 I mean, hell, to some degree, this was true even in his first term, 01:35:53.180 --> 01:35:55.240 but I think it's much more so true now. 01:35:55.480 --> 01:36:00.980 There are a couple of issues where he's engaged and cares, but for everything 01:36:00.980 --> 01:36:06.500 else, the people around him are running things, you know, and depending on the, 01:36:07.000 --> 01:36:09.620 depending on the subject matter, it's a different person. 01:36:09.900 --> 01:36:12.640 Like on anything immigration, it's Miller, you know 01:36:12.640 --> 01:36:15.960 and there may be other people in other areas whatever 01:36:15.960 --> 01:36:18.820 but he's basically you know 01:36:18.820 --> 01:36:21.660 that they're they're deciding on the policy they're deciding what 01:36:21.660 --> 01:36:25.740 to do one of the things that was reported out of the meeting that he had with 01:36:25.740 --> 01:36:31.360 the democratic leaders over the over the shutdown last week was that they went 01:36:31.360 --> 01:36:34.180 to him and were like look there are all these things that are going to happen 01:36:34.180 --> 01:36:38.440 with health care that people's premiums are going to go up people are going 01:36:38.440 --> 01:36:40.740 to be kicked off it's you know, 01:36:40.820 --> 01:36:44.200 result of the big beautiful bill and we want to make sure that doesn't happen. 01:36:46.300 --> 01:36:47.100 And then... 01:36:47.830 --> 01:36:53.170 Apparently his response was, I've never heard any of that. That, that can't be true. 01:36:53.630 --> 01:36:57.530 You know, that's the, you know, whatever. 01:36:57.850 --> 01:37:02.510 And, and also, by the way, oh, I, I, I think this happened after our last show 01:37:02.510 --> 01:37:07.330 when he was sending troops into Portland and he finally talked, 01:37:07.650 --> 01:37:12.270 like he talked to the governor, the governor of Oregon and the governor of Oregon. 01:37:12.270 --> 01:37:14.610 And he was like, Portland's not like that. 01:37:14.890 --> 01:37:17.330 Portland's, there's nothing going on. We don't need you. 01:37:17.690 --> 01:37:20.370 And he's like, but I saw it on TV. 01:37:21.210 --> 01:37:26.750 And, and, and she's like, but it's not, it's old stuff, whatever. 01:37:26.950 --> 01:37:31.190 And he's like, are you telling me that what I see on TV isn't true? 01:37:35.950 --> 01:37:39.130 I'm like that general that they saw that put his fans in his face, 01:37:39.230 --> 01:37:45.070 which I think, you know, basically just, just, just It's channeled all of us. 01:37:45.770 --> 01:37:51.690 I mean, because it seems clear. Like the Portland thing. There's been other reporting as well. 01:37:52.370 --> 01:37:55.130 What's going on in Portland? What the fuck is going on? 01:37:55.630 --> 01:37:59.730 The reporting on that seems to be that what actually happened is there was no 01:37:59.730 --> 01:38:02.410 long-term planning on this. Nobody on his team expected it. 01:38:02.670 --> 01:38:09.170 He saw a report on Fox News where they mixed in coverage from the year 2000. 01:38:09.550 --> 01:38:12.410 The thing that happened, right, what happened years ago. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. 01:38:12.570 --> 01:38:18.510 Which, by the way, even in 2000, it was one event that happened on one block one time. 01:38:18.630 --> 01:38:19.090 In one block. 01:38:19.170 --> 01:38:20.810 Where somebody burnt a car or something. 01:38:21.230 --> 01:38:22.170 Yes, yes, yes. 01:38:22.830 --> 01:38:29.650 And so he saw that footage. And then the next morning he started tweeting out 01:38:29.650 --> 01:38:33.270 or truth socialing out, we're going into Portland with everything. 01:38:33.690 --> 01:38:39.210 And then after that, his team scrambled to figure out how to actually do it. 01:38:39.210 --> 01:38:43.870 Now, there's some reports that some of that planning with the team that did 01:38:43.870 --> 01:38:47.070 not end up happening was they were going to send in the 82nd Airborne. 01:38:47.670 --> 01:38:51.530 You know, they were like not just like National Guard. They were going to send 01:38:51.530 --> 01:38:54.590 in like elite troops and all this kind of stuff. 01:38:55.690 --> 01:38:58.490 Yes. OK. Donald Trump is a psychopath. Yes. 01:38:59.190 --> 01:39:04.710 Bottom line. Yes. There's after after careful analysis of all the information 01:39:04.710 --> 01:39:09.770 we've got, Donald Trump is a deluded psychopath. Okay, there you go. 01:39:10.090 --> 01:39:16.830 And I think specifically, he's been, he's had serious mental health issues basically 01:39:16.830 --> 01:39:21.330 his entire life, but now they are being aggravated by age. 01:39:21.510 --> 01:39:25.250 They are getting aggravated by age and getting worse. And stress, yeah. Yeah. 01:39:25.840 --> 01:39:28.920 So, okay. With that, let's wrap it up. 01:39:29.100 --> 01:39:35.100 The usual, go to curmudgeons-corner.com and see all our stuff. 01:39:35.700 --> 01:39:39.960 Stuff. You can see our archives. You can see all the ways to contact us. 01:39:40.740 --> 01:39:43.920 Transcripts of shows. All kinds of cool stuff. 01:39:44.540 --> 01:39:49.240 I still have not added a link to TikTok there, so if you want to see TikTok, go there. 01:39:49.560 --> 01:39:53.500 The most recent thing on there, I need to post more. 01:39:53.660 --> 01:39:57.360 I'm still way behind i'm like a month behind the most recent thing on tiktok 01:39:57.360 --> 01:40:02.440 is the clip of me talking about the trip i took where you know i went on a carnival 01:40:02.440 --> 01:40:07.060 ride with a date and threw up and the people below us were screaming in horror 01:40:07.060 --> 01:40:11.240 as the as the vomit rained down from above on their heads, 01:40:11.880 --> 01:40:14.420 we are so good at setting up sam. 01:40:14.420 --> 01:40:18.620 On a date i i contributed to setting up sam on that date and Let's just say 01:40:18.620 --> 01:40:21.580 that I think it went quite well, honestly. 01:40:22.300 --> 01:40:24.400 You know, it did. 01:40:25.140 --> 01:40:28.120 As I said, there were a few speed bumps. 01:40:28.800 --> 01:40:33.380 We had 30 years of stories out of this. 01:40:33.840 --> 01:40:38.200 Yes, I would say that I proclaim it a success in the end. 01:40:38.400 --> 01:40:44.560 Even, let's see, it was the vomiting, the horse thing, the horses, 01:40:44.760 --> 01:40:49.600 the horse allergies at the ER. I mean, you know, there was, you know, 01:40:49.700 --> 01:40:52.380 there was some action going on, enjoyable for Sam. 01:40:52.900 --> 01:40:57.680 Everything included all in one event. And I'm like, damn it, you know, yes. 01:40:58.200 --> 01:41:04.020 Yeah. So anyway, that's the last thing on the TikTok is a clip from the show from about a month ago. 01:41:06.380 --> 01:41:10.760 Anyway, that is that. Importantly, there's a link to our Patreon where you can 01:41:10.760 --> 01:41:13.660 give us money at various levels. We will mention you on the show. 01:41:13.780 --> 01:41:16.520 We will ring a bell. 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All right. Story this week on the under random. 01:42:00.860 --> 01:42:08.840 QAnon Shaman says he's rightful president, sues Trump for 40 trillion dollars. OK. 01:42:09.520 --> 01:42:10.340 In a reasonable amount. 01:42:11.080 --> 01:42:17.400 Yes, of course. In a rambling complaint, Jacob Chansley claims DJs are spies, 01:42:17.860 --> 01:42:22.160 and the NSA stole his work for Batman movie and more. 01:42:23.120 --> 01:42:27.640 I mean, yes, damn it. This is so fitting to 2025. 01:42:28.680 --> 01:42:32.640 And he sued him for 40 trillion dollars. 01:42:33.380 --> 01:42:34.200 40 trillion. 01:42:34.720 --> 01:42:35.260 Yes. 01:42:35.560 --> 01:42:35.700 Yeah. 01:42:36.600 --> 01:42:40.660 Get get get on collecting that moment right away, buddy. There you go. 01:42:41.180 --> 01:42:46.280 And now that the med beds are out, you know, he'll be able to enjoy this 40 trillion over many. 01:42:46.360 --> 01:42:49.340 Many years. Forever. There you go. 01:42:50.000 --> 01:42:54.900 OK, with that, let's wrap it up. Thanks, everybody, for joining us. Stay safe. 01:42:55.020 --> 01:43:00.260 Have a good week, and we will see you again next time. 01:43:00.560 --> 01:43:07.420 I will be hopefully back in the Seattle area, and Yvonne will hopefully continue 01:43:07.420 --> 01:43:08.920 to be well enough to participate. 01:43:09.740 --> 01:43:10.740 Yes, I hope so. 01:43:11.940 --> 01:43:16.520 Okay. Thanks, everybody. Here comes the music. Goodbye. 01:43:17.020 --> 01:43:17.500 Bye. 01:43:48.240 --> 01:43:51.280 Okay, hitting stop. See you later, Yvonne. Feel better. Rest. 01:43:51.620 --> 01:43:54.260 Ugh. Thank you. Okay. Bye.