WEBVTT 00:00:00.010 --> 00:00:03.310 Okay, we'll get started. Are we ready to get started, Yvonne? 00:00:03.970 --> 00:00:04.370 Sure. 00:00:04.730 --> 00:00:05.350 Here we go. 00:00:24.150 --> 00:00:31.790 welcome to curmudgeon's corner for friday october 10th 2025. 00:00:32.390 --> 00:00:36.370 It's just after 2 UTC as we're starting to record. I'm Sam Menter and Yvonne 00:00:36.370 --> 00:00:37.390 Boas here. Hello, Yvonne. 00:00:38.130 --> 00:00:41.270 Hello everybody. Hello. 00:00:42.170 --> 00:00:42.730 Indeed. 00:00:43.010 --> 00:00:43.510 Hi. 00:00:43.870 --> 00:00:44.930 Hello and hi. 00:00:45.330 --> 00:00:46.530 Sam, let me tell you something. 00:00:46.810 --> 00:00:49.430 Oh no, we're starting out good. 00:00:49.430 --> 00:00:55.130 I mean, there have been times you've been loud wrong. And I just went over the 00:00:55.130 --> 00:00:58.190 recording of how loud wrong you were. 00:00:58.950 --> 00:01:01.990 Wait, wait, wait. Did you find the timestamp? 00:01:02.190 --> 00:01:05.410 Yes, I have it. I can play it. 00:01:05.790 --> 00:01:12.610 Yes. And I can play just how absolutely, ridiculously loud wrong you were. 00:01:12.790 --> 00:01:17.270 And not just, no, wait, wait, wait. But before you say it, and not just that, 00:01:17.430 --> 00:01:20.210 but how absolutely right I was. 00:01:20.630 --> 00:01:26.230 And I told you you were full of shit before I said it, and you're talking out of your ass. 00:01:26.230 --> 00:01:32.350 and told you flat out exactly what actually played out and how you told me, 00:01:32.590 --> 00:01:36.370 oh, no, you're wrong. It's going to be that way. 00:01:36.450 --> 00:01:39.710 The tech companies know what they're doing. 00:01:40.270 --> 00:01:45.990 Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And Sam, damn it. 00:01:46.250 --> 00:01:48.410 Holy shit, were you loud wrong? 00:01:48.650 --> 00:01:59.850 Let's give the context here. So on October 9th, 2015, so 10 years and a day 00:01:59.850 --> 00:02:02.370 ago, we recorded an episode. 00:02:02.530 --> 00:02:09.350 It was episode 435 of this podcast, which I titled Check Us in 2025. 00:02:10.030 --> 00:02:10.570 Yes. 00:02:10.910 --> 00:02:14.570 Yvonne and I got into a discussion on self-driving cars. 00:02:15.380 --> 00:02:21.040 And I gave a very optimistic assessment, basically the bottom line being, 00:02:21.460 --> 00:02:26.200 well, I was going to try to pull this audio, but I didn't have time. But Yvonne has it. 00:02:26.360 --> 00:02:27.160 I have it. 00:02:27.280 --> 00:02:34.240 Yvonne's going to play it, and then I will edit in a higher quality version of it when we're done. 00:02:34.440 --> 00:02:40.120 But Yvonne, why don't you go ahead and play the appropriate clip from this show 00:02:40.120 --> 00:02:45.260 from 10 years and a day ago, and then we can discuss just how wrong I was. 00:02:45.380 --> 00:02:46.380 Now, hold on one sec. 00:02:46.380 --> 00:02:53.480 I will say that I realized fully, and we even discussed on the show, 00:02:53.640 --> 00:02:57.120 that I was going to be wrong about this like five years ago. 00:02:57.500 --> 00:03:01.660 Like, it did not take the whole 10 years. Because we remembered, 00:03:01.940 --> 00:03:07.760 like, Yvonne put a reminder on his phone for 10 years in the future. 00:03:08.060 --> 00:03:11.680 On our calendar, I sent you an invite. Was it still on your calendar? 00:03:11.860 --> 00:03:13.140 Let's see if it was still on my calendar. 00:03:13.360 --> 00:03:20.480 Because I saw my calendar. If you see the picture, it said that I sent you an in-play for it. 00:03:20.480 --> 00:03:24.400 Yes, I have it on my calendar. I never open my Apple calendar anymore, but it's right there. 00:03:25.000 --> 00:03:26.440 So it is right there. 00:03:26.540 --> 00:03:26.720 It is right there. 00:03:27.040 --> 00:03:33.060 I literally did set a reminder 10 years in the future. 00:03:33.080 --> 00:03:38.380 And the funniest thing about this is that all of a sudden, I see this thing on the calendar. 00:03:38.580 --> 00:03:44.040 And I'm like, what the hell is my wife doing? What is this self-driving car 00:03:44.040 --> 00:03:45.700 thing? What are you talking about? 00:03:46.180 --> 00:03:49.940 And I'm like, honey, what is it? I'm like, nah, it's not mine. 00:03:50.080 --> 00:03:52.340 And then I read it, and then I started remembering. 00:03:52.740 --> 00:03:58.060 And I said to Sam, I'm like, wait, I'm guessing this is a prediction we made 10 years ago. 00:03:58.600 --> 00:03:59.240 Yes, it was. 00:03:59.260 --> 00:04:01.560 And it was set as a reminder. It worked. 00:04:02.560 --> 00:04:06.540 Yes. Well, I guess technically you set it as an appointment on your calendar, not a reminder. 00:04:06.560 --> 00:04:09.460 Yes. Yes. I set it as an appointment on the calendar. Yes. 00:04:09.900 --> 00:04:10.520 Very good. 00:04:11.400 --> 00:04:14.580 And lo and behold, it worked. We remembered. 00:04:14.940 --> 00:04:20.880 And tell me and the audience what the time stamp is in that show from 10 years ago. 00:04:20.920 --> 00:04:25.320 I believe it's somewhere. It's around a minute, an hour, 35 minute mark. 00:04:25.320 --> 00:04:30.700 I got to around the time of the prediction, which is somewhere around a minute, 00:04:31.040 --> 00:04:33.920 an hour, 39 minutes and 30 seconds. 00:04:34.360 --> 00:04:40.300 I will. Here, hold on. I'm trying to scroll through this thing. Oh, come on. 00:04:40.860 --> 00:04:44.020 Here we go. Oh, 139. 00:04:44.960 --> 00:04:47.160 Okay, so here, let me see. Let's 00:04:47.160 --> 00:04:51.380 see if the audio will play here so we can listen. There we go. Let's see. 00:04:52.470 --> 00:04:54.410 Tooddly-doo, tooddly-doo, tooddly-doo. 00:04:56.950 --> 00:04:59.910 You say you want to sit there and not worry about it. 00:05:00.250 --> 00:05:04.810 The Google cars are already 100% autonomous. 00:05:05.490 --> 00:05:09.250 They're 100% autonomous and they still say, well, you still may have to watch 00:05:09.250 --> 00:05:12.050 because there may be situations where you may have to take over. 00:05:12.250 --> 00:05:15.250 No, no. They are only doing that for legal reasons right now. 00:05:15.370 --> 00:05:18.570 They're not because they have to. And they're still working on it. 00:05:19.330 --> 00:05:22.990 This is what I'm saying. The traditional car companies are coming at it from 00:05:22.990 --> 00:05:23.830 the approach you're saying. 00:05:24.230 --> 00:05:27.510 Google and the tech companies are coming from it from the opposite approach. 00:05:27.690 --> 00:05:31.390 They're saying right now that Google's overpromising what they can deliver on that. 00:05:32.050 --> 00:05:32.710 Maybe this is. 00:05:32.710 --> 00:05:34.950 What I'm telling you right now. Google's overpromising what they can deliver 00:05:34.950 --> 00:05:37.250 on that right now. They're talking out of their ass. 00:05:37.470 --> 00:05:40.050 I think what's going to happen, my predictions. 00:05:40.330 --> 00:05:42.430 I really think that they're way overpromising. 00:05:42.590 --> 00:05:45.970 My prediction is the companies that are coming at it from the Google approach. 00:05:46.070 --> 00:05:48.690 And I don't know if it's going to be Google or if it's going to be somebody 00:05:48.690 --> 00:05:52.890 else. But the companies that are coming at it from the approach of, 00:05:53.610 --> 00:05:57.090 we are going to build something that does not require a driver, 00:05:57.490 --> 00:06:00.410 period, stop, end of story, that's what they're trying to do. 00:06:00.530 --> 00:06:06.130 They don't succeed until they achieve that, will at some point lap the companies 00:06:06.130 --> 00:06:10.190 who are coming at it from the point of view of the other direction. 00:06:10.190 --> 00:06:14.370 Now, what I'm going to tell you right now is that those guys that are promising 00:06:14.370 --> 00:06:18.710 that right now, they are way overestimating how quickly they can get that to 00:06:18.710 --> 00:06:24.690 work the way that they believe it is going to work. They're not going to get there. 00:06:25.390 --> 00:06:28.490 That's what I think. I think they're way overpromising. 00:06:28.790 --> 00:06:31.510 I think within 10 years, they will be there. 00:06:32.270 --> 00:06:35.950 I think it's going to take longer than 10 years. It's going to take longer than 10 years. 00:06:36.030 --> 00:06:38.770 I'm going to tell you the main reason why that is, because there's just going 00:06:38.770 --> 00:06:44.710 to be millions of cars around those cars that are not that way. 00:06:45.050 --> 00:06:49.630 It'll take more than 10 years to get mass adoption, but it'll be less than 10 00:06:49.630 --> 00:06:51.350 years until you can buy a car that does that. 00:06:51.670 --> 00:06:54.990 Listen, even in aircraft that are 10 times smarter than any of the cars that 00:06:54.990 --> 00:06:59.690 we have out there right now, okay, it took for the technology to have, 00:06:59.690 --> 00:07:02.950 to have the infrastructure, to have the airplanes be able to talk to each other 00:07:02.950 --> 00:07:06.470 to everything in order to be able to be able to be able to fly autonomous. 00:07:06.850 --> 00:07:10.010 And what you're telling me is that, oh, no, we're going to build a car right 00:07:10.010 --> 00:07:12.810 now that, you know what, it's not going to rely on that. It's never going to 00:07:12.810 --> 00:07:14.730 end up going to accident and nothing's going to happen, right? 00:07:14.830 --> 00:07:18.810 No, not never, just less than human accidents. The Google cars already have 00:07:18.810 --> 00:07:21.290 a safety record better than human drivers. 00:07:21.770 --> 00:07:25.330 Listen, I'm telling you right now, but the problem is that you're not going 00:07:25.330 --> 00:07:29.090 to get away from the fact that you still have that many factors around. 00:07:29.850 --> 00:07:38.410 I don't know. I listen, like I said, it's but you see, my point is that there 00:07:38.410 --> 00:07:41.750 are a lot of situations and we're not just talking about driving the United States. 00:07:41.870 --> 00:07:44.210 We're talking about being able to drive anywhere in the world. 00:07:44.670 --> 00:07:48.890 OK, not just here, off road, on road, wherever the hell, whatever. 00:07:49.050 --> 00:07:54.010 The first ones of these will be geographically restricted. The first ones of these you buy will. 00:07:54.310 --> 00:07:57.770 Well, my point is that you're not going to get to something that can go anywhere. 00:07:57.970 --> 00:08:00.470 It's still going to require some level of human intervention. 00:08:01.030 --> 00:08:04.410 No, it's going to take, listen, I'm telling you, look, 00:08:04.950 --> 00:08:11.090 I, I will stake my ground even 10 years from now, the car may be 10 times smarter 00:08:11.090 --> 00:08:14.230 and be able to avoid to make it 90% of the mistakes you can do right now, 00:08:14.390 --> 00:08:17.750 but fully autonomous, fully a hundred percent, not 10. 00:08:17.970 --> 00:08:20.290 I tell you, I tell you this then. 00:08:20.610 --> 00:08:20.790 Yes. 00:08:21.030 --> 00:08:26.790 By 2025, it may be very, it may still be very expensive. 00:08:26.890 --> 00:08:29.630 It may be very limited in terms of. 00:08:30.780 --> 00:08:36.840 how many people have them. But by 2025, you will be able to buy a car that you 00:08:36.840 --> 00:08:39.780 can get in, tell it your destination, and go to sleep. 00:08:45.260 --> 00:08:47.020 Okay. Sam. 00:08:47.140 --> 00:08:48.140 Was that the end? 00:08:48.440 --> 00:08:57.080 No, I got it because it was a drag on Ferrari. But that's basically the main point. Sam? Sam? 00:08:57.540 --> 00:08:58.500 Yes? Yes. 00:08:58.660 --> 00:09:01.000 You're loud wrong. and I was allowed right. 00:09:01.680 --> 00:09:08.340 I was definitely wrong. I was thinking for a little bit, maybe I could finesse 00:09:08.340 --> 00:09:11.660 it, like, do Waymo's count? Because you can legally go to sleep in a Waymo. 00:09:11.760 --> 00:09:14.840 But you cannot just buy a Waymo. You can't just buy a Waymo, 00:09:14.900 --> 00:09:17.800 not just that it's geographically fenced, which is the one thing we're talking about. 00:09:18.040 --> 00:09:21.880 No, no, I said they might be geographically fenced or otherwise limited. 00:09:22.060 --> 00:09:24.700 The key part is you can't just buy a Waymo. 00:09:25.220 --> 00:09:30.320 Yeah, right. You were expecting some very rich people to be able to have one 00:09:30.320 --> 00:09:33.360 to work and you just can't just buy a Waymo. No. 00:09:33.960 --> 00:09:37.600 You can't just buy a Waymo and they are very limited. I mean, 00:09:37.880 --> 00:09:43.000 again, I allowed the fact they might be very limited, but I figured you'd be able to buy one. 00:09:43.140 --> 00:09:47.400 But the only people who have full autonomous, and even they cheat because they 00:09:47.400 --> 00:09:51.360 have like remote safety drivers that can take over. 00:09:52.360 --> 00:09:54.220 You know, so they cheat as well. 00:09:54.260 --> 00:09:54.620 Yes. 00:09:55.520 --> 00:09:57.120 And you can't buy those. 00:09:57.340 --> 00:09:58.160 You can't buy them. 00:09:58.660 --> 00:10:06.300 You can't buy those. You know, the autonomous taxis are growing while they do cheat. 00:10:06.920 --> 00:10:12.460 Yes. Tesla rolled out some and they had like people sitting in the fucking car watching them. 00:10:12.920 --> 00:10:17.000 Well, right. All of the, yeah, well, they had people sitting in the car. 00:10:17.100 --> 00:10:19.460 But even the ones that are theoretically, there's no. 00:10:19.700 --> 00:10:21.360 There's somebody somewhere. 00:10:21.760 --> 00:10:24.320 There's somebody remote. Even if there's not somebody in the car. 00:10:24.460 --> 00:10:24.600 Yes. 00:10:25.020 --> 00:10:29.860 You know, and if I remember right. If you if you played that further, 00:10:30.180 --> 00:10:34.500 we talked a little bit about, you know, I made the point about sleeping in the car. 00:10:34.760 --> 00:10:34.980 Yes. 00:10:35.440 --> 00:10:40.640 And now there are definitely people who actually do sleep in the car while they 00:10:40.640 --> 00:10:42.000 use their Tesla self-driving. 00:10:42.180 --> 00:10:45.740 But in our discussion, I specified that it would be legal to do so. 00:10:45.900 --> 00:10:47.640 It is definitely not legal. 00:10:47.820 --> 00:10:51.420 Well, the one thing that we're talking about was that being safer right now 00:10:51.420 --> 00:10:54.740 than that that you would drivers. And the reality is that right now, 00:10:55.040 --> 00:10:59.740 I mean, look, insurance data showed that Tesla drivers have some of the highest 00:10:59.740 --> 00:11:01.420 rates of accidents that there are out there. 00:11:01.520 --> 00:11:04.720 And there are the cars right now equipped with the most of the technology, 00:11:05.040 --> 00:11:07.060 the most advanced in that sense. 00:11:07.100 --> 00:11:07.140 Yeah. 00:11:07.770 --> 00:11:10.530 Well, aside from the Waymos of the world, right? 00:11:10.650 --> 00:11:10.750 Right. 00:11:11.050 --> 00:11:16.430 Like of cars you can actually buy. But one of the points I was making in our 00:11:16.430 --> 00:11:19.810 discussion from 10 years ago, because I have not re-listened to this episode 00:11:19.810 --> 00:11:23.810 like you just did, but I remember the conversation, even though it was 10 years ago. 00:11:23.810 --> 00:11:29.070 No, but one of the points that I have made probably in this episode, 00:11:29.190 --> 00:11:31.190 but over and over again when we talked about this, 00:11:31.410 --> 00:11:39.090 is the driver assist is actually more dangerous than actually doing full autonomous 00:11:39.090 --> 00:11:43.990 driving because it assumes the driver can take over at a moment's notice. 00:11:43.990 --> 00:11:48.810 I mean, that's been my biggest knock on FSD, the way it is right now. 00:11:49.410 --> 00:11:54.330 It's the reason why, during the episode, I was talking about technology helping 00:11:54.330 --> 00:11:57.010 people, stopping them from having accidents, for example. 00:11:57.370 --> 00:12:03.050 Which a lot of the driver aides that many car manufacturers do right now do a lot of that. 00:12:03.210 --> 00:12:08.270 Like, you know, like my car, for example, has avoided me, you know, 00:12:08.330 --> 00:12:12.530 getting into an accident by me changing lanes and not seeing somebody, for example. 00:12:12.970 --> 00:12:13.110 Right. 00:12:13.110 --> 00:12:14.390 You know, that kind of stuff. 00:12:14.510 --> 00:12:18.530 My new car has just basic blind spot warnings and stuff, and they've absolutely 00:12:18.530 --> 00:12:21.990 been helpful. It's gone beep, beep, beep when I'm about to try something stupid. 00:12:22.130 --> 00:12:22.310 Right. 00:12:22.510 --> 00:12:22.790 You know? 00:12:22.790 --> 00:12:27.970 That kind of stuff, which we've got a lot of that, and it's significantly improved from what we had. 00:12:28.610 --> 00:12:35.150 But, you know, the FSD technology, and look, I told the story about this guy 00:12:35.150 --> 00:12:39.210 was having lunch who was basically being cavalier and falling asleep and doing 00:12:39.210 --> 00:12:43.410 what the hell we're talking about and doing that whatever. And he got into, he totaled the Tesla. 00:12:43.710 --> 00:12:47.790 The Tesla drove into a wall because he was that cavalier. Okay. 00:12:49.820 --> 00:12:53.400 and totaled the car. I mean, this wasn't a small accident, okay? 00:12:53.760 --> 00:12:59.540 Yeah, and this is the thing, and the fully autonomous ones have been slower, 00:13:00.320 --> 00:13:04.860 because I had specified it had to be legal to go to sleep, and part of my argument 00:13:04.860 --> 00:13:10.420 was these cars would not even have the steering wheel. It would just be a passenger compartment. 00:13:10.660 --> 00:13:17.180 And some of the taxis are, in fact, structured that way, the autonomous taxis that are running out. 00:13:17.180 --> 00:13:19.120 Remote drivers anyways. What the hell? 00:13:19.600 --> 00:13:23.180 A lot of remote drivers have to sometimes take over. 00:13:23.180 --> 00:13:27.200 They have a wheel over there. So you took out the wheel from a car and there's 00:13:27.200 --> 00:13:30.160 somebody with a fucking wheel sitting in a room somewhere else. 00:13:30.640 --> 00:13:33.160 It might be a keyboard or a joystick. 00:13:33.160 --> 00:13:36.740 It might be a keyboard or a joystick, yes, as much as we know, yes. 00:13:37.000 --> 00:13:41.180 And you see videos every once in a while about people like, you know, 00:13:41.300 --> 00:13:44.080 oh, the Waymo got stuck. The Waymo's confused. 00:13:44.720 --> 00:13:46.800 Yep, yep, yep. You see that, yeah. 00:13:48.300 --> 00:13:51.740 Because, you know, something happens and it just has no idea what to do. 00:13:51.760 --> 00:13:55.080 Something happened that a human could figure out, but the Waymo could not, basically. 00:13:55.280 --> 00:13:55.480 Right. 00:13:55.640 --> 00:13:55.780 Yeah. 00:13:56.240 --> 00:14:01.080 So, yes, I was absolutely wrong. It did not happen within 10 years. 00:14:01.800 --> 00:14:07.740 You can go to sleep in your autonomous driving vehicle, but if it's a Tesla, 00:14:07.740 --> 00:14:11.860 you would be incredibly stupid to do so, if you're the driver, obviously. 00:14:12.400 --> 00:14:15.360 And in a Waymo, you're probably fine going to sleep. 00:14:16.220 --> 00:14:19.720 Well, there is somebody else minding the fucking store. 00:14:19.740 --> 00:14:21.620 It's geofenced. 00:14:22.360 --> 00:14:25.340 Somebody else is minding it. 00:14:26.300 --> 00:14:31.920 Now, have they disclosed? Is there someone actually monitoring in real time at all points? 00:14:31.940 --> 00:14:34.840 Or does the Waymo call for help when it feels like it's in? 00:14:34.840 --> 00:14:38.880 I thought it was the Waymo call. I thought it was alert. I think so, too. Okay? Yeah. 00:14:39.120 --> 00:14:39.940 I think so, too. 00:14:39.980 --> 00:14:40.200 Yeah. 00:14:40.380 --> 00:14:43.140 So there's not necessarily someone watching. 00:14:43.680 --> 00:14:48.480 But it's doing it, again, it's doing it in a very limited geographic area because 00:14:48.480 --> 00:14:50.100 it's the one that it knows very well. 00:14:50.300 --> 00:14:52.420 And even back then, 10 years ago. 00:14:52.540 --> 00:14:54.640 Although they're expanding the geographic area over time. Yeah, yeah, yeah. 00:14:54.840 --> 00:15:00.840 It is slowly. But, you know, even 10 years ago, I still remember seeing BMW 00:15:00.840 --> 00:15:05.120 demo a car that could go around a track by itself and a track that it knew very well. 00:15:05.480 --> 00:15:07.300 It's not like that wasn't possible. 00:15:07.700 --> 00:15:11.660 I mean, shit. I mean, we had, come on, man. When we were in college, 00:15:11.960 --> 00:15:15.560 and let's face it, Sam, when we were in college was a really, 00:15:15.780 --> 00:15:18.580 really, really long time ago now, okay? 00:15:18.840 --> 00:15:23.780 Yes, it was. And they already had self-driving on the CMU campus. I mean, it was slow. 00:15:24.860 --> 00:15:30.380 I remember going out to see the demos of the big self-driving Humvee that they 00:15:30.380 --> 00:15:32.220 put together or whatever in the park. 00:15:32.420 --> 00:15:36.280 And it's like maximum speed was like five miles per hour or something. 00:15:36.760 --> 00:15:42.560 But it did it. And, of course, they improved that rapidly over time and removed 00:15:42.560 --> 00:15:45.020 the amount of restrictions on it, etc. 00:15:45.400 --> 00:15:50.700 I think the first cross-country drive of one of these things was not that long 00:15:50.700 --> 00:15:55.120 after we were in college with the safety driver and all this kind of stuff. 00:15:56.060 --> 00:15:58.540 You know, so I was over-optimistic. 00:15:59.680 --> 00:16:00.760 I was indeed. 00:16:00.840 --> 00:16:06.820 I love this. Well, actually, I love this more The fact that I found this I mean, 00:16:06.880 --> 00:16:09.880 all of a sudden I'm just looking at my calendar I'm like, what? 00:16:10.340 --> 00:16:12.920 Wait, what? We fucking, wait, this was, 00:16:13.750 --> 00:16:15.530 Fuck. And I'm like realizing, Jesus. 00:16:15.730 --> 00:16:18.470 A reminder from yourself from a decade in the past. 00:16:18.730 --> 00:16:23.250 From a decade ago. And then it happens that Apple technology apparently is still 00:16:23.250 --> 00:16:28.050 so, I still use it so widely that it was still on the same fucking calendar 00:16:28.050 --> 00:16:29.350 I put it from 10 years ago. 00:16:29.550 --> 00:16:31.970 Now that's more amazing, I think, than anything else. 00:16:31.970 --> 00:16:34.690 Now i had remembered for a long time 00:16:34.690 --> 00:16:37.710 i i every every once in a while and certainly 00:16:37.710 --> 00:16:41.210 every time we've talked about self-driving on this podcast i've 00:16:41.210 --> 00:16:45.490 been like we had that thing that was like for some huge number of years in the 00:16:45.490 --> 00:16:49.570 future has that passed yet it seems like it should have passed yet but no not 00:16:49.570 --> 00:16:54.810 until just now and although like like i said for at least five years i have 00:16:54.810 --> 00:16:58.350 admitted whenever we've talked about self-driving that i was gonna be wrong 00:16:58.350 --> 00:17:00.850 about this when the time game oh. 00:17:00.850 --> 00:17:06.650 Gosh but you know but yeah so i mean so wait yeah okay so let me ask you a question 00:17:06.650 --> 00:17:12.550 do you guys have like a home family calendar like the you use what do you use for the or no. 00:17:12.550 --> 00:17:19.170 So here's here's the thing i had set up all of that stuff okay once upon a time 00:17:19.170 --> 00:17:27.130 uh-huh so yes i have we each have like on our phones a private calendar and 00:17:27.130 --> 00:17:30.950 a shared calendar and we're all subscribed to each other's shared calendars, theoretically. 00:17:31.170 --> 00:17:37.270 But is that which calendar? I mean, I guess it's not using your Apple calendar on the phone? 00:17:37.290 --> 00:17:43.090 No, it was using Apple, but let me get to the part why it's not actually practically 00:17:43.090 --> 00:17:45.210 in use anymore. Because... 00:17:46.350 --> 00:17:52.550 First of all, like my main constraints are generally my work calendar. 00:17:52.770 --> 00:17:52.890 Right. 00:17:53.450 --> 00:17:59.990 And it is possible for me to share my work calendar with my Apple phone. 00:18:00.410 --> 00:18:08.030 But I stopped years ago having anything work-related on my phone that allowed 00:18:08.030 --> 00:18:11.270 the company to have like management rights on my phone. 00:18:11.490 --> 00:18:12.110 Okay, okay. 00:18:12.310 --> 00:18:15.930 And so no more work calendar on my personal phone. 00:18:16.350 --> 00:18:20.170 OK, well, the way that I. OK, so wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, 00:18:20.230 --> 00:18:22.570 let me finish this. Let me finish this. 00:18:22.930 --> 00:18:26.750 And then so I had no more work calendar on my personal phone. 00:18:26.830 --> 00:18:30.690 Now, I could have done something like just block out big blocks of time where 00:18:30.690 --> 00:18:36.730 I'm at work. You know, just like, I'm at work these hours, these days, and boom, that's all. 00:18:36.910 --> 00:18:44.910 But I never did that. And then when Brandy started her work, 00:18:45.210 --> 00:18:49.370 she had similar constraints with her work calendars. 00:18:49.510 --> 00:18:54.430 And she had campaign calendars and work calendars, but they were all on different tech. 00:18:54.810 --> 00:19:01.090 And you couldn't be shared freely, blah, blah, blah. And so I still potentially, 00:19:01.370 --> 00:19:05.170 in some cases, put personal appointments on there. 00:19:05.210 --> 00:19:08.430 But frankly, none of us look at 00:19:08.430 --> 00:19:12.030 our Apple accounts enough or use our Apple accounts to make it worth it. 00:19:12.090 --> 00:19:18.110 Because we all have the things that actually matter and block our calendars on other systems. 00:19:18.630 --> 00:19:24.550 A whole diverse set of systems that aren't brought together because of constraints. 00:19:24.890 --> 00:19:28.750 Yeah, so basically you don't have family. I mean, here's the thing that we have about the family count. 00:19:28.850 --> 00:19:29.610 We set one up. We just... 00:19:30.030 --> 00:19:32.710 drifted away from it because of all these constraints. 00:19:32.930 --> 00:19:37.050 I have a family calendar, but the one thing that I do, if there's anything, 00:19:37.370 --> 00:19:41.070 look, I'm assumed to be at work during the day, bottom line. 00:19:41.210 --> 00:19:43.670 It's like, look, just assume I'm at work. 00:19:43.910 --> 00:19:50.570 However, if there is an event that requires me to block time from work to be 00:19:50.570 --> 00:19:54.430 at, what we do is send an invite to my work calendar. Okay? 00:19:54.430 --> 00:19:55.010 Right. 00:19:55.230 --> 00:20:00.810 And so that way blocks the work time because I have to be at a doctor or something like that. 00:20:00.810 --> 00:20:02.690 Well, this is what I do at this point. 00:20:02.690 --> 00:20:05.670 Too. That way is what I do. But then they have the family calendar and everything 00:20:05.670 --> 00:20:09.170 that they see. And Manu lives by the calendar, religiously. 00:20:09.250 --> 00:20:09.470 Right. 00:20:09.530 --> 00:20:15.470 Okay. So he is looking at, you know, I put my travel schedules on there and 00:20:15.470 --> 00:20:17.110 it's like, you know, synchronized. 00:20:17.110 --> 00:20:22.270 You know, if it's travel, I have it that I sent an invite to the home calendar 00:20:22.270 --> 00:20:25.950 so it's on there so they know what it is and, you know, that kind of stuff. 00:20:26.030 --> 00:20:29.650 So that way they will see the events that are relevant. And if they need to 00:20:29.650 --> 00:20:34.730 block time from me, I basically am like somebody else that is like you do business 00:20:34.730 --> 00:20:36.310 at another company. You can't see the calendar. 00:20:36.510 --> 00:20:39.370 Hey, you sent them an invite. So, hey, I'll get an invite. Oh, 00:20:39.450 --> 00:20:40.930 OK. No, I can't do that time. 00:20:41.050 --> 00:20:45.130 I'll decline it or I'll accept it. And I will be able to block my work time, basically. 00:20:45.750 --> 00:20:49.870 Right. Yeah. Yeah, no, I hear you. And like when I have appointments for anything, 00:20:50.130 --> 00:20:53.910 I put them on my work calendar because that's what I have. 00:20:54.050 --> 00:20:59.310 I put them directly on my work calendar because that's what I have to work around for the most part. 00:20:59.690 --> 00:21:05.090 And even even if it's something like if I have something Saturday that I have 00:21:05.090 --> 00:21:07.910 to remember, I will put a reminder. 00:21:08.290 --> 00:21:12.630 I will block some time on my calendar for Friday afternoon saying, 00:21:12.650 --> 00:21:14.450 remember, you have this thing Saturday. 00:21:14.670 --> 00:21:15.810 Right. Right. OK. 00:21:16.190 --> 00:21:20.010 You know, because I will look at it while I'm at work, but I'm not looking at, 00:21:20.520 --> 00:21:24.960 any of the personal calendars anymore i'm only looking at my work calendar realistically, 00:21:25.480 --> 00:21:29.460 and okay occasionally you know brandy would get pissed at me like what do you 00:21:29.460 --> 00:21:32.740 mean you didn't know about this i put it on the calendar i'm like well i don't 00:21:32.740 --> 00:21:40.000 look at that calendar anymore you know and i don't know so anyway that's that. 00:21:40.000 --> 00:21:46.940 Anyway all right so that's my but first basically i i figured i could make. 00:21:46.940 --> 00:21:50.520 Excellent i was gonna bring it up if you didn't right up at the front But you 00:21:50.520 --> 00:21:53.540 beat me to it because you wanted to, like, make fun of me. 00:21:53.640 --> 00:21:53.840 Yes. 00:21:54.220 --> 00:21:59.020 Which is important. You could be damn sure if I'd been right, 00:21:59.120 --> 00:22:00.300 I would have been making fun of you. 00:22:01.260 --> 00:22:07.020 Yes. You know, listen, Sam, for a number of, I mean, it was a long time. 00:22:07.720 --> 00:22:15.220 I made a prediction about Paul Sangas being the Democratic candidate who's going 00:22:15.220 --> 00:22:17.540 to be president, I said, in 1992. 00:22:18.220 --> 00:22:25.800 Sam took that clip, put it on his answering machine for everybody to listen 00:22:25.800 --> 00:22:30.940 to when they left him a message saying, wrong, sorry, Yvonne, but you were wrong. 00:22:31.080 --> 00:22:36.460 So, yes, I need to be able to take advantage of what I got right now, 00:22:36.540 --> 00:22:40.940 given that he spent like, it must have been like a year or more that that was 00:22:40.940 --> 00:22:42.280 his answering machine message. 00:22:42.280 --> 00:22:49.660 Okay, now, Yvonne, you want to go double and nothing for 2035 on the same prediction? 00:22:50.740 --> 00:22:54.900 I think 2035, they may have figured it out. Okay? 00:22:55.240 --> 00:23:00.200 I think another 10 years, they may have figured it out. So, no, I won't do double. 00:23:00.780 --> 00:23:03.420 No, no. I think 2035, they... 00:23:05.220 --> 00:23:09.580 What if we reverse our predictions then? You can say we will be able to buy 00:23:09.580 --> 00:23:12.180 a car that you can just go to sleep, and I'll say you won't. 00:23:13.140 --> 00:23:16.000 Gosh, but I'm not even that convinced about that one right now. 00:23:17.400 --> 00:23:23.500 I think it goes back to, during that, it goes back to the one problem that I said about, 00:23:24.100 --> 00:23:28.260 you know, with aircraft, one of the ways that they've made it that aircraft 00:23:28.260 --> 00:23:34.600 can literally like almost fly by themselves is with the adoption of stuff like TCAS, for example. 00:23:35.160 --> 00:23:38.320 ADS-B and other technologies that constantly share. 00:23:38.320 --> 00:23:42.400 Every plane is mandated to be able to communicate with each other so that you can. 00:23:42.520 --> 00:23:47.740 And communicate precise data on location, precise data on a lot of information. 00:23:47.740 --> 00:23:53.420 And they are able to talk to each other, to avoid each other and so much and so on. 00:23:54.420 --> 00:23:58.580 And you don't have the possibility of the kid running across the street chasing their ball. 00:23:58.700 --> 00:24:05.700 Exactly. You don't have that. But so the thing is that I think that even like 10 years from now, 00:24:05.860 --> 00:24:10.680 one of the things that I think would make a big improvement in this is that 00:24:10.680 --> 00:24:14.360 cars would be able to communicate to each other kind of like a way to say that 00:24:14.360 --> 00:24:19.080 airplanes do in a certain extent in order to avoid those kinds of things. 00:24:19.080 --> 00:24:22.720 OK, and that the roads would be smart roads and that kind of stuff. 00:24:22.860 --> 00:24:28.760 But that requires a massive multi, hell, I think over a trillion dollar investment 00:24:28.760 --> 00:24:34.240 in some of that in order to be able to get to the full level that I think. 00:24:34.360 --> 00:24:37.120 I think they may be able to get a lot closer, but but. 00:24:38.340 --> 00:24:40.740 But with the other advances, they may be able to get a lot closer, 00:24:40.820 --> 00:24:42.200 that it doesn't need to be that way. 00:24:42.280 --> 00:24:46.000 But my whole point is that since all the other cars don't have that, 00:24:46.360 --> 00:24:50.940 cars have to keep, even the smart car that can drive by itself or whatever, 00:24:51.240 --> 00:24:52.640 maybe in a perfect environment, right? 00:24:52.820 --> 00:24:56.340 You still have all these other morons that there's still hundreds of millions 00:24:56.340 --> 00:25:01.400 of these other cars and you just dart out of a place, just smash into you senselessly. 00:25:01.400 --> 00:25:05.100 And so that's the big risk that you have there. 00:25:05.160 --> 00:25:10.620 And the cars aren't really that well prepared to have some assholes like swerving, 00:25:10.760 --> 00:25:13.800 coming at, like say, for example, like a wrong way driver. Okay. 00:25:14.280 --> 00:25:19.760 Well, to be honest, to be honest, humans aren't necessarily that well prepared for that scenario. 00:25:19.980 --> 00:25:23.000 But I think the autonomy gets so confused. 00:25:23.140 --> 00:25:25.720 It's sometimes even worse. I mean, I've avoided a wrong way drive, 00:25:26.060 --> 00:25:29.900 like at least once in my lifetime. Okay. And it was. 00:25:29.900 --> 00:25:32.760 I've been a wrong-way driver at least once in my lifetime. 00:25:33.120 --> 00:25:37.300 Oh, fuck. Well, all right. And what I, okay. 00:25:37.480 --> 00:25:38.760 Not for very long. 00:25:38.860 --> 00:25:41.640 I realized it very quickly. Okay, yeah, no, no. And I meant, 00:25:41.800 --> 00:25:45.080 yeah, and I just realized, I meant like wrong-way driver, instead of being on 00:25:45.080 --> 00:25:48.040 a highway, okay, all right, where I had a car coming at me. 00:25:48.040 --> 00:25:48.680 For a long period of time. 00:25:48.740 --> 00:25:54.240 At 70 miles an hour, driving the wrong fucking direction on a highway, okay? Or more. 00:25:54.860 --> 00:25:59.520 I remember twice, once was turning onto a one-way street in Pittsburgh. 00:26:00.780 --> 00:26:02.720 And that's always, you know. 00:26:03.200 --> 00:26:09.400 You know, and I realized within like a dozen feet and pulled over and figured out how to get out of it. 00:26:09.540 --> 00:26:16.320 And then the other was accidentally heading on the off ramp of a highway. 00:26:17.100 --> 00:26:20.320 And then my family started screaming, what the hell are you doing, 00:26:20.480 --> 00:26:23.480 Sam? And then once again, I figured it out. 00:26:23.740 --> 00:26:29.380 You know, I had like our mutual friend who I haven't heard from in forever. 00:26:29.380 --> 00:26:32.820 So I don't even know if we're friends anymore, Marilyn, that once borrowed my 00:26:32.820 --> 00:26:36.620 car and she was lost and was in my car. 00:26:36.740 --> 00:26:38.900 This was the time that cars had cell phones. 00:26:39.380 --> 00:26:43.380 Maybe she didn't personally own one, but my car had a cell phone and she calls 00:26:43.380 --> 00:26:46.300 me from the car to try to figure out where the hell she is to make a turn. 00:26:46.480 --> 00:26:49.700 And I go and I tell her to make a left turn at this place where she told me 00:26:49.700 --> 00:26:53.140 that she was, but she made a left turn and started going the wrong way. 00:26:53.600 --> 00:26:57.440 And all of a sudden I hear her freaking out as she realized that she made the 00:26:57.440 --> 00:26:59.060 left turn, but didn't get on the right. 00:26:59.890 --> 00:27:03.670 Didn't get on the right lane, stayed on the left, was driving the wrong way. 00:27:03.850 --> 00:27:06.010 She's freaking out on the cell phone. 00:27:06.290 --> 00:27:11.850 She backs up, you know, trying to make a U-turn hurriedly and actually crunched 00:27:11.850 --> 00:27:16.490 the back of my car as I was on the other side of the cell of the phone. 00:27:16.930 --> 00:27:20.110 And I've already talked about a little bit how I'm a little bit of an anal about 00:27:20.110 --> 00:27:23.570 my cars. I will admit that I did not flip out at her because I realized that 00:27:23.570 --> 00:27:24.690 that would probably make it worse. 00:27:25.410 --> 00:27:25.570 Yeah. 00:27:25.810 --> 00:27:29.770 I remained calm and I just said, listen, just drive forward. Don't worry about it. 00:27:30.590 --> 00:27:34.950 and we'll figure it out. Thankfully, it wasn't too much. Okay, it was no big deal. 00:27:35.230 --> 00:27:40.050 But I know that I felt really like, I felt like somebody just stabbed me in 00:27:40.050 --> 00:27:44.850 the heart for a second as I heard this, but I maintained composure and did not 00:27:44.850 --> 00:27:45.870 make the situation worse. 00:27:46.290 --> 00:27:48.730 And I did not yell at her about it. 00:27:49.110 --> 00:27:52.430 Good job, Yvonne. So sorry, I distracted you from your story. 00:27:53.290 --> 00:27:56.610 Which, we're done. We're done with story. We're done with story. 00:27:56.610 --> 00:27:57.330 We're done with cars. 00:27:57.590 --> 00:27:58.410 Yeah, we're done with cars. 00:27:58.410 --> 00:28:02.830 And we have decided not to set another alarm for 10 years from now. 00:28:02.830 --> 00:28:07.070 No, I'm not setting another alarm. I'm not making another. Okay, 00:28:07.430 --> 00:28:09.530 wait. No, maybe we'll do a check. 00:28:10.110 --> 00:28:11.330 Okay, let's do a check. 00:28:11.330 --> 00:28:13.790 Let's do a check. You set the appointment right now. Okay, I'll set the appointment 00:28:13.790 --> 00:28:18.890 again for 10 years so we can check the status of where we're at with it, 00:28:18.970 --> 00:28:20.950 but no bet. No prediction. 00:28:21.210 --> 00:28:28.410 I don't feel very confident about my prediction back then. I felt very confident back then. 00:28:28.590 --> 00:28:31.330 I don't feel, I don't know. 00:28:31.670 --> 00:28:34.210 Now I'm in the area of I don't know. 00:28:34.730 --> 00:28:37.970 Instead of like, now, no way, never going to happen. 00:28:38.390 --> 00:28:42.510 So I'm on the I don't know, like right now. So let me, I'm making, 00:28:42.790 --> 00:28:45.550 looking at the calendar. Where the hell is this? 00:28:46.550 --> 00:28:52.550 Okay, I will make the change now in order for us to, there it is. Autonomous car fully. 00:28:52.870 --> 00:28:57.770 You can fall asleep. Here we go. Make a change for... 00:28:59.270 --> 00:29:05.230 October 9th, 2025, but 2035. Okay, here we go. 00:29:05.350 --> 00:29:09.850 Typing in 2035 onto the calendar. Here we go. 00:29:10.510 --> 00:29:15.630 Boom, boom. Yep. Here we go. So now it's launched into the future. 00:29:16.250 --> 00:29:18.790 10 years from now. Okay. 00:29:19.130 --> 00:29:20.330 We will reconvene. 00:29:20.450 --> 00:29:21.030 In 10 years. 00:29:21.550 --> 00:29:27.430 And somehow we will manage, and I will accept. I just got the meeting request. 00:29:27.650 --> 00:29:28.970 You see, you got the invite. There you go. 00:29:28.970 --> 00:29:35.290 I got the invite. Let's, I'm going to accept. There we go. Accepted the meeting invite. 00:29:35.490 --> 00:29:36.550 Excellent. Excellent. 00:29:37.170 --> 00:29:38.870 So see you in 10 years, Yvonne. 00:29:38.990 --> 00:29:40.310 See you in 10 years. Again. 00:29:43.230 --> 00:29:45.550 Okay. With that out of the way. 00:29:45.950 --> 00:29:47.290 You got to cover your movies. 00:29:47.970 --> 00:29:52.230 Yeah. Although I don't know if I want to. Last week we said we'll do three. 00:29:52.490 --> 00:29:55.250 But I don't know if, you know, two is plenty. 00:29:55.370 --> 00:29:57.630 All right. Go with two. Go with two. Go with two. 00:29:57.710 --> 00:30:01.570 All right. Two is plenty. We've already done half an hour on autonomous cars. 00:30:02.150 --> 00:30:08.670 Okay. Movie number one, Spider-Man Across the Spider-Verse. 00:30:09.500 --> 00:30:14.020 which I watched January 2nd of this year. So I'm in the same year again. 00:30:14.280 --> 00:30:19.560 Jesus Christ. I mean, when is this movie from? I don't even remember this movie. 00:30:19.740 --> 00:30:21.140 What's the name of the movie again? 00:30:21.380 --> 00:30:25.660 This was a 2023 movie. Spider-Man Across the Spider-Verse. 00:30:26.800 --> 00:30:35.840 How bad? The same as all the other fucking Batman movies, this Spider-Man reboot 10 times movies. 00:30:36.380 --> 00:30:37.040 Here's the thing. 00:30:37.600 --> 00:30:38.760 Confuse the shit out of me. 00:30:38.760 --> 00:30:43.620 So this is the second in the Spider-Verse franchise. 00:30:43.920 --> 00:30:48.560 The first one was Spider-Man Into the Spider-Verse from 2018. 00:30:48.900 --> 00:30:53.180 Okay. And there's a third one coming out, I think, next year. 00:30:53.860 --> 00:30:59.920 Okay. It's due to come out next year, I think. Or maybe it got delayed to 2027. 00:31:00.920 --> 00:31:05.700 Let me check that. Sequel Beyond the Spider-Verse. 00:31:05.720 --> 00:31:06.660 And this one's animated. 00:31:07.220 --> 00:31:09.340 Yes this series is animated. 00:31:09.340 --> 00:31:14.620 I had no clue i mean i literally just looked at the poster and it's like i swear 00:31:14.620 --> 00:31:19.080 to god i mean it's this isn't even one that i maybe saw the poster like no but 00:31:19.080 --> 00:31:24.380 i just saw it and i was just like shocked at the poster like i have no idea so. 00:31:24.380 --> 00:31:30.700 The third one is now due to come out june 2027 so we got a little bit of time 00:31:30.700 --> 00:31:37.780 yet for for that one so let let me you know Now, I will just put it this way. 00:31:38.160 --> 00:31:40.120 I've watched the first two movies. 00:31:40.700 --> 00:31:44.480 I really enjoyed both movies. Big thumbs up. 00:31:44.760 --> 00:31:52.900 These are about the Miles Morales Spider-Man, not the Peter Parker Spider-Man, just to be clear. 00:31:54.420 --> 00:31:58.340 Once again, I didn't even know there was a Miles Morales Spider-Man. 00:31:59.020 --> 00:31:59.760 You know. 00:32:00.000 --> 00:32:02.680 I mean, I didn't even know that. I don't know anything. 00:32:03.720 --> 00:32:08.060 So you should, Yvonne. Miles Morales is Puerto Rican. 00:32:08.380 --> 00:32:10.120 It sounded from the name of it. 00:32:13.620 --> 00:32:16.940 He's an African-American Puerto Rican descendant. 00:32:17.100 --> 00:32:21.500 But wait, wait, wait. His dad's African-American, his mother's Puerto Rican. 00:32:21.640 --> 00:32:25.140 I was mentioning that I wound up for some reason running into somebody online 00:32:25.140 --> 00:32:30.680 who was African-American from Georgia that got into my face and insisted that 00:32:30.680 --> 00:32:35.680 all Puerto Ricans were white and Spanish. Are we all white? 00:32:36.000 --> 00:32:37.280 Apparently. 00:32:38.460 --> 00:32:38.860 Yeah. 00:32:39.040 --> 00:32:39.240 Yes. 00:32:39.360 --> 00:32:39.500 Right. 00:32:39.800 --> 00:32:39.980 Yeah. 00:32:40.100 --> 00:32:40.980 So this must be fake. 00:32:43.560 --> 00:32:52.220 Anyway, the, the, the, they both got a lot of accolades for having interesting 00:32:52.220 --> 00:32:55.300 animation style, blending animation styles, et cetera. 00:32:55.660 --> 00:33:04.620 The second one really doubled down into the whole idea of the multiverse that 00:33:04.620 --> 00:33:06.620 into the spider first, the first one. 00:33:06.620 --> 00:33:11.440 And the first movie in the series introduced it. 00:33:11.580 --> 00:33:15.720 There was a sort of crossover between the different universes, 00:33:15.720 --> 00:33:19.820 you know, and so you had some intersection between them. 00:33:20.140 --> 00:33:27.100 The second movie went completely in there. Like there's this hub between universes 00:33:27.100 --> 00:33:31.940 where you have Spider-Men from like dozens of different dimensions interacting 00:33:31.940 --> 00:33:33.740 with each other with different histories. 00:33:34.120 --> 00:33:39.240 And they have sort of canonical events that happen in the lives of all spider 00:33:39.240 --> 00:33:43.440 creatures. Because, you know, some of them, there's men, there's women. 00:33:43.680 --> 00:33:46.640 So there's like a lot of spider creatures. 00:33:47.480 --> 00:33:50.460 Yes. Yes, from different, and, you know, there's some that are, 00:33:50.580 --> 00:33:54.020 like, in the first movie and appearing again in the second movie, 00:33:54.120 --> 00:33:57.500 there's, like, one version of Spider-Man who's a pig, you know. 00:33:59.460 --> 00:34:04.600 There's different animation styles, so you see them, like, interact with each other. 00:34:04.720 --> 00:34:11.640 I am so lost. I am so confused. There's Spider-Man. I have no idea about these things. 00:34:12.540 --> 00:34:18.940 Anyway, very creative. I really liked it. if I had to pick, maybe the first one's a little bit, 00:34:19.840 --> 00:34:23.240 better than the second one because it 00:34:23.240 --> 00:34:29.960 doesn't get quite all tied up in the mythos of all of these different like universes 00:34:29.960 --> 00:34:36.700 interacting with each other and it's more directly on like you'll look you have 00:34:36.700 --> 00:34:40.600 a small group of characters that you really get to know and like there's, 00:34:41.880 --> 00:34:47.180 and you you meet it's not just spider like one of the female spider-men is in 00:34:47.180 --> 00:34:52.900 some universes she's known as Spider Woman, but this was, colloquially she's Spider Gwen. 00:34:54.220 --> 00:34:57.900 And anyway, I liked both of them. I liked the second one. 00:34:58.020 --> 00:35:01.740 I say, if I had to put them, maybe the first one's a little bit better, 00:35:02.260 --> 00:35:04.460 but I really liked the second one too. 00:35:04.720 --> 00:35:07.580 And it completely sets up its sequel though. 00:35:08.340 --> 00:35:13.500 It's one of those situations where I was pissed at the end of the movie because 00:35:13.500 --> 00:35:18.120 I wanted to go straight to the next one. and it's not going to be out for like three years. 00:35:18.120 --> 00:35:19.940 For still, you got to, yeah, still a while, yeah. 00:35:20.420 --> 00:35:27.780 Yeah, so, but very creative, creative with the animation styles as well, 00:35:28.080 --> 00:35:32.740 like, and multi-animation styles, because, like, when you get the Spider-Men 00:35:32.740 --> 00:35:33.920 from different universes, 00:35:35.780 --> 00:35:40.320 they're animated differently in terms of how they look and feel. 00:35:40.540 --> 00:35:44.060 Like, some are more comic book-y, some are more 3D animation, 00:35:44.440 --> 00:35:46.020 some are more this, some are more that. 00:35:46.260 --> 00:35:51.700 You get some things where even the frame rate of the animation changes depending 00:35:51.700 --> 00:35:54.700 on what's going on with the character and stuff like that. 00:35:55.260 --> 00:36:02.360 So there's a lot of sort of artistry stuff about it, but then it's also just a good story. 00:36:02.560 --> 00:36:08.380 I will read the beginning of the plots from both of these from Wikipedia, 00:36:08.380 --> 00:36:12.780 from Spider-Man into the Spider-Verse. That's the first one. 00:36:13.240 --> 00:36:16.140 Here's the beginning of the Wikipedia plot description. 00:36:16.860 --> 00:36:21.520 New York City teenager Miles Morales struggles to live up to the expectations, 00:36:22.340 --> 00:36:28.080 of his father, police officer Jefferson Davis, who sees Spider-Man as a menace. 00:36:28.500 --> 00:36:30.980 Miles' uncle Aaron takes him 00:36:30.980 --> 00:36:34.440 to an abandoned subway station to paint graffiti as a way to cheer him up. 00:36:34.720 --> 00:36:39.600 There, Miles is bitten by a radioactive spider and gains abilities similar to 00:36:39.600 --> 00:36:42.060 Spider-Man. Because the original Spider-Man is also in here. 00:36:43.680 --> 00:36:47.900 Returning to the station where he got bit, he discovers a collider built by 00:36:47.900 --> 00:36:53.260 Kingpin, who hopes to access parallel universes to abduct alternate versions 00:36:53.260 --> 00:36:55.740 of his late wife, Vanessa, and son, Richard. 00:36:56.300 --> 00:37:00.680 Spider-Man attempts to stop the collider while fighting Kingpin's enforcers, 00:37:00.840 --> 00:37:02.920 the Green Goblin, and Prowler. 00:37:03.570 --> 00:37:07.970 I'll read the second paragraph. Green Goblin shoves Spider-Man into the Collider, 00:37:08.130 --> 00:37:13.770 causing an explosion that mortally wounds Spider-Man, who then gives Miles a 00:37:13.770 --> 00:37:17.110 USB flash drive designed to sabotage the Collider, 00:37:17.450 --> 00:37:21.090 warning that the machine could destroy the city if reactivated. 00:37:21.470 --> 00:37:26.430 After watching in horror as Kingpin murders Spider-Man, Miles flees. 00:37:26.690 --> 00:37:33.270 As the city mourns Spider-Man's death, Miles tries to honor his legacy by becoming the new Spider-Man. 00:37:33.570 --> 00:37:39.930 but inadvertently damages the drive. At Spider-Man's grave, he meets Peter B. 00:37:40.230 --> 00:37:44.690 Parker, a middle-aged and world-weary Spider-Man from another dimension. 00:37:45.150 --> 00:37:48.530 Dun-dun-dun. And then the movie proceeds from there. 00:37:48.770 --> 00:37:49.190 Ah. 00:37:49.450 --> 00:37:56.490 And then across the Spider-Verse, which happens later, on Earth-65, 00:37:57.190 --> 00:38:02.190 Spider-Woman Gwen Tracy has become increasingly isolated from her friends and 00:38:02.190 --> 00:38:03.930 estranged from her father, George. 00:38:04.350 --> 00:38:09.550 George is hunting Spider-Woman for killing Peter Parker, unaware that it was 00:38:09.550 --> 00:38:12.050 an accident after Peter turned into the lizard. 00:38:12.970 --> 00:38:17.250 Gwen encounters a version of the Vulture from an Italian Renaissance-themed 00:38:17.250 --> 00:38:21.990 alternate universe, and Miguel O'Hara and Jess Drew arrive through dimensional 00:38:21.990 --> 00:38:23.750 portals to help neutralize him. 00:38:24.110 --> 00:38:28.990 George corners Gwen and she reveals her identity to him, and he attempts to 00:38:28.990 --> 00:38:33.490 arrest her before she leaves with Justin Miguel. Miguel. Miguel. 00:38:34.690 --> 00:38:40.970 Second paragraph. In Bookland, Bookland, I'm getting really bad with the pronunciations here. 00:38:41.540 --> 00:38:47.360 In Brooklyn, on Earth-1610, 16 months after Kingpin's defeat, 00:38:47.480 --> 00:38:52.500 oh sorry, spoilers for the end of the first movie, and the destruction of the Alchemax Collider, 00:38:52.960 --> 00:38:57.100 Miles Morales is having trouble with his parents due to his duties as Spider-Man 00:38:57.100 --> 00:39:01.360 interfering with his personal life, and is grounded when he is late to a party 00:39:01.360 --> 00:39:04.940 celebrating his father Jeff's promotion to police captain. 00:39:05.840 --> 00:39:11.380 Miles encounters the Spot, an Alchemax scientist-turned-supervillain whose body 00:39:11.380 --> 00:39:14.700 was infused with portals during the Collider's destruction. 00:39:15.060 --> 00:39:19.620 The Spot blames Miles for causing his mutation and reveals that the radioactive 00:39:19.620 --> 00:39:24.520 spider that bit Miles and gave him his powers came from an alternate universe, 00:39:24.760 --> 00:39:28.480 Earth-42, while the Spot was testing the Collider. 00:39:28.480 --> 00:39:33.500 The spot accidentally transports himself into a void and learns to use his portals 00:39:33.500 --> 00:39:38.700 to travel to other universes and empower himself by using Alchemist's colliders and other dimensions. 00:39:39.340 --> 00:39:44.100 Gwen travels to Miles' dimension and they reconnect, sharing their struggles 00:39:44.100 --> 00:39:48.240 and hinting at feelings of attraction towards each other. 00:39:48.500 --> 00:39:50.480 Dot, dot, dot. Movie continues. 00:39:50.920 --> 00:39:56.500 Anyway, both good. Like them. I recommend them. Even if you don't like superhero 00:39:56.500 --> 00:40:00.920 movies, even if you don't really like animations, these are fun little movies. 00:40:01.040 --> 00:40:06.520 But you will have to wait till 2027 for the third movie in the trilogy. 00:40:06.960 --> 00:40:10.980 Well, 2026 is almost around the corner. 00:40:11.220 --> 00:40:11.720 Almost here. 00:40:12.120 --> 00:40:12.480 Yeah. 00:40:14.120 --> 00:40:18.300 You got like, what, a year and three quarters. Yeah. You got a year and three quarters. 00:40:18.360 --> 00:40:20.720 I'm sure it's going to be a summer release. 00:40:22.080 --> 00:40:24.540 Yeah, June. June. June 2027. 00:40:24.920 --> 00:40:25.960 So, thumbs up. 00:40:26.620 --> 00:40:28.500 Thumbs up, yes. And thumbs up 00:40:28.500 --> 00:40:31.780 for the older one, too, which I probably reviewed on here a few years ago. 00:40:32.540 --> 00:40:33.020 Okay. 00:40:33.420 --> 00:40:36.560 You know, Bridge on the River Kwai can wait. 00:40:37.020 --> 00:40:37.500 Okay. 00:40:39.020 --> 00:40:42.180 I'll never catch up this way, but Bridge on the River Kwai can wait. 00:40:43.400 --> 00:40:48.440 Let's take a break, and then we'll come back and talk about the actual news 00:40:48.440 --> 00:40:53.300 of this week, as opposed to things from 10 years ago and a movie from last year. 00:40:53.300 --> 00:41:03.940 So, or two years ago is 2023, 2023, you know, all these years just sort of merge together over time. 00:41:04.360 --> 00:41:06.320 You know, our discussion about 00:41:06.320 --> 00:41:09.780 that 10 year and a future prediction could have been last week. Yeah. 00:41:10.020 --> 00:41:18.880 You know, and so it's all, it's, it's all, all blurred together badly. 00:41:19.740 --> 00:41:24.500 Okay. Here comes a break. 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So anyway, all right, so I guess it's my time to pick a 00:43:44.180 --> 00:43:47.400 topic, and I'm going to pick something that is newsy. 00:43:48.460 --> 00:43:53.280 Honestly, I'm surprised that it's gotten, and I put this on the Slack because 00:43:53.280 --> 00:43:56.560 I'm still shocked that it's gotten zero, no, 00:43:56.680 --> 00:44:01.680 it's got zero attention, but maybe it's because there's so many scandals and 00:44:01.680 --> 00:44:05.040 frauds and shit related to Trump that they just. 00:44:05.180 --> 00:44:05.320 Is it the hotel? 00:44:05.580 --> 00:44:09.500 Yes, it's about the hotel. It's about the fucking hotel. Okay. 00:44:09.960 --> 00:44:12.480 Because nobody gave a shit about this. Okay. 00:44:12.700 --> 00:44:19.820 Yeah. And you putting it into Slack was literally the only thing I've heard about it. 00:44:19.860 --> 00:44:25.900 No one else has even talked about it. You know, so everybody remembers that 00:44:25.900 --> 00:44:30.980 Trump had this hotel during his first term that was basically a walking distance from the White House. 00:44:31.080 --> 00:44:36.080 And that that hotel basically became the hub, the meeting place for all the 00:44:36.080 --> 00:44:38.300 Republicans that were going to Washington. 00:44:38.580 --> 00:44:44.400 They were all spending money there. Many foreign governments would buy rooms. 00:44:44.660 --> 00:44:49.500 There were stories specifically about certain governments specifically buying 00:44:49.500 --> 00:44:56.760 blocks of rooms in the hotel, which they didn't even use, just to put money into the damn hotel. 00:44:57.060 --> 00:45:01.000 And the hotel was very active during that time. 00:45:01.000 --> 00:45:14.260 Well, soon after Trump lost, okay, back in 2022, okay, Trump sold the hotel for $375 million. 00:45:15.120 --> 00:45:18.480 Now, the thing about that sale at $375 million— Wait. 00:45:18.540 --> 00:45:19.260 Wait, real quick. 00:45:19.360 --> 00:45:19.600 Yes. 00:45:19.760 --> 00:45:21.120 It was you who bought it, right? 00:45:21.320 --> 00:45:23.760 Yes, of course. Yeah. I used my petty cash. 00:45:23.760 --> 00:45:23.900 Just checking. 00:45:24.120 --> 00:45:31.840 Using my petty cash, as usual. So, you know, no, it's a guy called Raul Fuentes, 00:45:31.840 --> 00:45:37.840 which I think I understood he's of somebody of Jamaican descent. 00:45:38.140 --> 00:45:44.020 I'm not really sure where, how, and his background is murky. 00:45:45.050 --> 00:45:50.070 Very little information about him. He owns something called CGI Merchant Bank 00:45:50.070 --> 00:45:53.070 that owned a few other hotels and real estate properties. 00:45:53.630 --> 00:46:01.670 Now, the $375 million everybody that had looked at this hotel said was a sky-high crazy number. 00:46:02.370 --> 00:46:05.750 I mean, even when Trump bought it, okay, and made the lease, 00:46:05.890 --> 00:46:07.570 they said that they way overpaid. 00:46:07.790 --> 00:46:11.590 That it was a sky-high crazy price. That there was no way to make money on that 00:46:11.590 --> 00:46:14.030 property. It didn't have enough rooms, okay? 00:46:14.830 --> 00:46:18.970 The location, the layout of the building was quite funky because it was the 00:46:18.970 --> 00:46:20.410 old post office over there. 00:46:20.510 --> 00:46:23.830 It was a historic building, so there was a lot of things and changes that you 00:46:23.830 --> 00:46:25.790 couldn't really do to the property, okay? 00:46:26.010 --> 00:46:29.050 There was a big rent that had to be paid, you know, because it was. 00:46:29.050 --> 00:46:36.170 Really— Just to throw it out there, I remember having a school group tour of 00:46:36.170 --> 00:46:38.590 that old post office when I was, like, in high school. 00:46:38.650 --> 00:46:41.930 Me too, okay? I did that as well, okay, during that time. 00:46:42.110 --> 00:46:42.670 It was cool. 00:46:42.770 --> 00:46:43.170 It was cool. 00:46:43.170 --> 00:46:45.470 Nice columns and things. 00:46:45.830 --> 00:46:49.170 A big open atrium in the middle, you know. Yeah. It's a very, 00:46:49.250 --> 00:46:50.310 very cool building, okay? 00:46:52.130 --> 00:46:55.150 So, listen, the price was sky high. 00:46:55.310 --> 00:46:59.610 There's no way to make money on this. But the guy that bought it also got a... 00:46:59.610 --> 00:47:05.030 So, but as other deals that Trump has been involved, like him being able to 00:47:05.030 --> 00:47:08.630 sell a house in Palm Beach that he bought for $20 million that all of a sudden 00:47:08.630 --> 00:47:13.090 got flipped for $100 million that a Russian bought, Which was like multiple 00:47:13.090 --> 00:47:14.530 times what anybody would pay. 00:47:14.910 --> 00:47:18.510 Okay. And nobody understands how the hell this deal happened. 00:47:18.710 --> 00:47:22.470 This deal happened with this hotel where this guy came up $375 million. 00:47:22.950 --> 00:47:27.890 The guy borrowed $285 million of the money for the purchase. Okay. 00:47:28.710 --> 00:47:33.750 And within it, he didn't even get to a year before he was in default. 00:47:34.560 --> 00:47:39.600 OK, yeah, I mean, this guy, I mean, yeah, he didn't even make it a year. 00:47:39.920 --> 00:47:45.640 OK, and then he said, well, we got hit with some taxes and blah, 00:47:45.760 --> 00:47:47.740 blah, blah. And I'm like, well, that's ridiculous. 00:47:48.180 --> 00:47:52.100 That's complete, utter bullshit on a three hundred and seventy five million dollar deal. 00:47:52.540 --> 00:47:56.560 You know, you're doing your fucking due diligence. You know what the fuck is 00:47:56.560 --> 00:48:03.960 coming up? There is no way that you got all of a sudden blindsided by some bill 00:48:03.960 --> 00:48:05.880 like this. It's bullshit. 00:48:06.140 --> 00:48:08.920 Especially saying it's taxes. It was crazy. Okay. 00:48:09.500 --> 00:48:12.840 So very quickly defaulted on the loan. Okay. 00:48:13.620 --> 00:48:20.160 Donald. Okay. Apparently since he got so much money. Okay. Paid on this. So the price was $375. 00:48:20.620 --> 00:48:24.340 Apparently agreed to carry $28 million. Okay. All right. 00:48:24.800 --> 00:48:25.000 Okay. 00:48:25.320 --> 00:48:32.880 As that. Which by the way. That's, in deals like this, that's not unusual, to be honest. 00:48:32.960 --> 00:48:35.660 In some deals where the person made a lot of money and there was like a little 00:48:35.660 --> 00:48:39.940 piece left over, I've done that in some deal where I've got a property that 00:48:39.940 --> 00:48:43.500 maybe I have a ton of equity on that the person went and like, 00:48:43.720 --> 00:48:45.940 maybe, you know, the price was $400,000. 00:48:46.780 --> 00:48:50.820 Well, they came up to me $370,000 and I figured, you know what, 00:48:50.920 --> 00:48:54.720 I'll carry a lien for the other $30,000. 00:48:54.940 --> 00:48:59.020 Okay, you know, whatever. It's not the worst risk. I made a lot of money on 00:48:59.020 --> 00:49:01.360 it already. I'll carry a note, you know. 00:49:01.920 --> 00:49:04.640 Well, let it ride. It's part of the profit. I'm just, you know, 00:49:04.680 --> 00:49:07.080 probably make some more money because I'm getting paid interest. Okay. 00:49:07.780 --> 00:49:09.800 Of course, he defaulted on that too. Okay. 00:49:10.540 --> 00:49:16.540 So the place went into foreclosure very quickly. Okay. It wound up being foreclosed already in 2024. 00:49:17.380 --> 00:49:21.360 Okay. And there was a foreclosure auction. Okay. In 2024. 00:49:22.340 --> 00:49:26.400 By the way, in which there was only one bidder. And the winning bid, 00:49:26.720 --> 00:49:32.680 I remember, paid $375,000, go to foreclosure auction, only one bidder, 00:49:33.000 --> 00:49:35.100 the price was $100 million. 00:49:36.340 --> 00:49:41.620 I mean, it's not, by the way, the hotel business has been booming the last few 00:49:41.620 --> 00:49:45.280 years, if anybody hasn't noticed, okay? But hotels have been booming. 00:49:45.960 --> 00:49:52.320 I mean, talk about $375 to only fetch $100 million? 00:49:52.840 --> 00:50:00.940 at foreclosure and you know and i'm like i'm sorry this guy that said that he 00:50:00.940 --> 00:50:05.660 you know that bought the hotel i still don't understand how the he got the loan 00:50:05.660 --> 00:50:09.460 who gave him the money why would anybody, 00:50:10.040 --> 00:50:16.660 knowing the hyper inflated valuation of this willingly go and loan this much 00:50:16.660 --> 00:50:19.820 money on this property that they knew was, 00:50:20.180 --> 00:50:25.120 everybody, everybody knew the price was ridiculously sky high. 00:50:25.300 --> 00:50:27.740 So they wrote that off. 00:50:27.980 --> 00:50:32.480 But by the way, Donald Trump sued for his $28 million, okay? By the way. 00:50:32.720 --> 00:50:36.040 And he won a judgment because, of course, Trump sued because he always sued. 00:50:36.200 --> 00:50:36.660 Okay? 00:50:36.900 --> 00:50:40.080 And he won a judgment for like $30 some odd million or whatever, whatnot. 00:50:40.080 --> 00:50:48.560 The bottom line is that, once again, another real estate deal that Donald is 00:50:48.560 --> 00:50:52.000 involved, where everything is murky. 00:50:52.580 --> 00:50:57.760 Pricing, you know, a deal where he buys it that everybody's saying it's impossible to make money. 00:50:57.980 --> 00:51:02.860 All of a sudden, he gets bailed out by somebody at a sky-high price. 00:51:02.980 --> 00:51:07.000 And then all of a sudden, the buyer defaults on it, the source of the money. 00:51:07.240 --> 00:51:11.920 Who the fuck understands this? I mean, it's and it was a significant amount of money. 00:51:12.080 --> 00:51:17.280 And if you remember, this happened during a period where Trump was under significant 00:51:17.280 --> 00:51:22.180 financial pressure because of the lawsuits, because of all this shit happening, 00:51:22.320 --> 00:51:24.380 because of judgments, because of all of this shit. 00:51:24.500 --> 00:51:27.160 He was under a lot of pressure. OK. 00:51:27.840 --> 00:51:33.820 And lo and behold, voila, a couple of hundred million dollars came out of the sky. 00:51:34.720 --> 00:51:35.260 Right. 00:51:36.340 --> 00:51:37.900 It's it's always. 00:51:37.900 --> 00:51:44.660 Ivan I am sure the authorities are aggressively investigating this as we speak uh-huh sure. 00:51:46.060 --> 00:51:49.280 Uh-huh. Nobody gives a shit about this. 00:51:49.620 --> 00:51:51.000 Right. Yeah. 00:51:51.140 --> 00:51:54.780 But nobody gives a shit about this because there's so much other shit going 00:51:54.780 --> 00:51:58.280 on that this is like, well, whatever. 00:51:59.160 --> 00:52:03.360 Yeah. I mean, we've talked about this general problem before, 00:52:03.360 --> 00:52:10.180 but the speed of events, and this was true in Trump's first term. 00:52:10.180 --> 00:52:12.340 It's even more so this term. 00:52:12.940 --> 00:52:20.740 There is so much going on so constantly, so many new things every single week 00:52:20.740 --> 00:52:27.280 that, you know, people did the comparisons to Watergate, right? 00:52:27.400 --> 00:52:29.760 We've got like 10 new Watergates every week. 00:52:29.860 --> 00:52:30.380 Every week. 00:52:30.860 --> 00:52:37.040 Every week. And, you know, some of them, you know, much, much more significant 00:52:37.040 --> 00:52:38.500 than Watergate ever was. 00:52:38.600 --> 00:52:38.820 Yeah. 00:52:38.820 --> 00:52:43.320 Some, some of them about the same, some of them maybe a little bit less, 00:52:43.500 --> 00:52:49.300 but like there's stuff every week that is of that scale or bigger. 00:52:50.820 --> 00:52:52.740 And it's just overwhelming. 00:52:53.040 --> 00:52:53.180 Yeah. 00:52:53.260 --> 00:52:57.480 There's so much of it. Like, like you mentioned this one, if you put a list 00:52:57.480 --> 00:53:03.700 of potential Donald Trump scandals of recent times, maybe this is number 30 00:53:03.700 --> 00:53:05.800 on the list. Maybe, maybe 40. 00:53:06.520 --> 00:53:11.180 You know, there's another one that came out today with this kind of murky money trail. 00:53:11.400 --> 00:53:16.560 And I think this also, by the way, I saw this and immediately I was like, 00:53:16.700 --> 00:53:19.700 this isn't for the reasons I think people think it is. 00:53:20.000 --> 00:53:22.960 The Dominion voting systems got sold. OK. 00:53:23.660 --> 00:53:24.600 Yes. Yes. 00:53:24.840 --> 00:53:25.640 And by the way. 00:53:25.860 --> 00:53:27.620 To some conservative group. 00:53:27.940 --> 00:53:33.280 Yeah. But the only reason this happened is because it was such a source of lawsuits 00:53:33.280 --> 00:53:37.380 and problems. And they were still suing and sent people that, 00:53:37.400 --> 00:53:39.140 how do you, how do you eliminate the problem? 00:53:39.700 --> 00:53:42.480 Buy them. That's it. Done. 00:53:43.860 --> 00:53:45.760 It's fucking crazy. 00:53:47.080 --> 00:53:51.600 And I guess the, you know, the buyer said that they want, oh, 00:53:51.760 --> 00:53:54.940 but the announcement is double better because, okay, not only does conservatives 00:53:54.940 --> 00:53:58.300 buy it, but they said that, I guess they're ending their technology and they 00:53:58.300 --> 00:54:02.000 want everybody to go back to paper, something like that. 00:54:02.220 --> 00:54:07.700 Well, if you actually look nationwide at this point, it's in the high 90s in 00:54:07.700 --> 00:54:12.240 terms of the percentage of people who use systems that are paperbacked anyway. 00:54:12.520 --> 00:54:14.760 Oh, they're paperbacked. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, sure. 00:54:14.760 --> 00:54:20.180 Yeah, in terms of having a paper trail that's left and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. 00:54:20.360 --> 00:54:26.140 And I forget exactly which technologies Dominion was, but yeah, whatever. 00:54:28.720 --> 00:54:34.960 There are many, many concerns about elections and how elections are going to 00:54:34.960 --> 00:54:39.620 work and how people are going to want to manipulate them in 2026 and beyond. 00:54:39.620 --> 00:54:42.720 I think Dominion is also relatively low on that list. 00:54:42.720 --> 00:54:47.480 Yeah, no, but I think it was more about the lawsuits. I really do. 00:54:47.920 --> 00:54:52.140 I really think that that was like the main thing. How do I stop in the lawsuits? 00:54:52.460 --> 00:54:55.880 Hey, buy them out. No more lawsuits. There you go. 00:54:56.440 --> 00:55:01.360 Problem solved. Hey, how did Donald Trump stop, you know, his legal problems? 00:55:01.900 --> 00:55:04.540 Take over the Justice Department. Problem solved. 00:55:07.680 --> 00:55:10.140 Hey, yes, it works. It works. 00:55:11.360 --> 00:55:18.780 So with that in mind do you want to transition from the hotel to any other issues we can transition I. 00:55:18.780 --> 00:55:21.700 Mentioned the Justice Department it was kind of like it was kind of like giving 00:55:21.700 --> 00:55:23.220 you the off ramp in that direction. 00:55:23.740 --> 00:55:28.860 Well I figure we will let you we will let you control for the rest of this segment 00:55:28.860 --> 00:55:31.480 go a little further and then we will take a break and then I will lightning 00:55:31.480 --> 00:55:34.260 round everything that you have not picked by that well. 00:55:34.260 --> 00:55:37.700 I mean this whole thing like right now with the Justice Department and like 00:55:37.700 --> 00:55:40.580 well we got the Comey indictment and now we got Letitia. 00:55:40.580 --> 00:55:42.400 James being indicted. Letitia James. 00:55:42.640 --> 00:55:42.920 Right. 00:55:43.500 --> 00:55:47.480 I was in the process of mispronouncing her name when you said it first, 00:55:47.480 --> 00:55:50.540 because I'm doing so well with that today. 00:55:51.060 --> 00:55:56.600 With a very flimsy, ridiculous—I mean, I read the fucking—it's stupidly—another 00:55:56.600 --> 00:55:58.480 ridiculous— It's another two-page. 00:55:58.480 --> 00:56:00.320 Indictment without that many details. 00:56:00.940 --> 00:56:06.780 It is so flimsy. And the accusation, which is just—it's the same. 00:56:06.780 --> 00:56:12.000 It's an accusation that, I mean, nobody gets prosecuted for this. 00:56:12.460 --> 00:56:16.380 And by the way, here's a, well, it's starting with that, but what they're claiming, 00:56:16.720 --> 00:56:18.940 which is also facts that, 00:56:20.220 --> 00:56:24.300 terribly in dispute. The reason why a lot of people don't go into this is because, 00:56:24.440 --> 00:56:26.960 okay, you look at the paperwork and maybe- Describe. 00:56:26.960 --> 00:56:28.600 What they actually. 00:56:28.600 --> 00:56:29.740 Said she did. Basically, it's 00:56:29.740 --> 00:56:34.320 the same thing they were trying to go after the lady in the Fed, okay? 00:56:34.480 --> 00:56:40.180 Which is that in the process of applying for a mortgage that they supposedly 00:56:40.180 --> 00:56:45.040 misstated that this house is a primary home and not an investment property. 00:56:45.540 --> 00:56:49.540 And therefore, by doing that, they got a favorable interest rate. 00:56:49.540 --> 00:56:55.620 Wait, just real quick. The Fed one, the accusation is she said it was a primary 00:56:55.620 --> 00:56:57.460 home when really it was a secondary home. 00:56:57.720 --> 00:57:02.840 In this case, it's that she said it was a secondary home, but she never actually 00:57:02.840 --> 00:57:04.880 used it as a secondary home. She just rented it out. 00:57:05.420 --> 00:57:13.180 Okay. So, yeah, it wasn't. Yeah. Okay. So it was a secondary home, but, you know, I mean. 00:57:15.100 --> 00:57:16.520 and supposedly over. 00:57:16.520 --> 00:57:20.940 The 30 year lifetime of the loan or whatever this is what just under 20 000. 00:57:20.940 --> 00:57:24.660 They save 20 000 they would save 20 000 which by the way the loan doesn't have 00:57:24.660 --> 00:57:26.160 20 years as far as i know anyway oh. 00:57:26.160 --> 00:57:27.620 It's not a 30 year it's like. 00:57:27.620 --> 00:57:34.160 A 10 year 15 or something that okay i mean this was on 2020 so only like five 00:57:34.160 --> 00:57:41.180 years have elapsed so that would be over the life of the loan There are maybe fucking 25 years. 00:57:41.620 --> 00:57:46.320 So what we're talking here is not even that. We're talking about a couple of 00:57:46.320 --> 00:57:47.900 thousand bucks in interest. 00:57:48.160 --> 00:57:51.140 Maybe if, and by the way, here's a problem. 00:57:51.380 --> 00:57:57.480 This whole thing, the problem is that this accusation is supposedly trying to 00:57:57.480 --> 00:58:01.160 read the person's mind and their intention. Because you know what? 00:58:01.420 --> 00:58:06.040 It's not illegal to buy a house, declaring it as a second home because you think 00:58:06.040 --> 00:58:09.600 it might be a second home. And then you're changing your mind and deciding to rent it out. 00:58:10.180 --> 00:58:15.400 That's not illegal. And so unless they tell me that they've got some x-ray vision 00:58:15.400 --> 00:58:19.220 into our head to determine, you know, that. 00:58:19.440 --> 00:58:23.020 I mean, I could do the same with my primary home, right? 00:58:23.020 --> 00:58:23.280 Yes. 00:58:23.280 --> 00:58:25.360 I could decide I don't want to live here anymore. I'm going to rent it. 00:58:25.360 --> 00:58:27.440 And the fact is not going to force you to refinance. 00:58:27.980 --> 00:58:32.360 Right. So that was actually going to be my question. And, you know, 00:58:32.440 --> 00:58:37.580 assuming that everything outlined is true, is this actually a crime? 00:58:37.980 --> 00:58:42.980 Like, I know the numbers are small and this is selectively enforced. 00:58:43.220 --> 00:58:44.240 Is it a crime? Well... 00:58:45.390 --> 00:58:47.790 Presumably the motivation has something to do with it, right? 00:58:47.870 --> 00:58:50.550 You have to go in there with the intent of defrauding. 00:58:50.770 --> 00:58:58.230 Yes. By the way, even the law says that if it's just an omission, it's okay. 00:58:58.930 --> 00:59:01.350 So if you made a mistake... 00:59:02.130 --> 00:59:06.510 Or if it's the scenario that you said. She intended to use it as a vacation. 00:59:06.650 --> 00:59:13.730 It's totally legal. This is about as stupid, you know... 00:59:14.370 --> 00:59:18.030 Well this is another scenario and it's it's the same and. 00:59:18.030 --> 00:59:21.270 By the way according to what i heard about letitia james was apparently there 00:59:21.270 --> 00:59:25.070 was a there was some papers that did say that but apparently that she corrected 00:59:25.070 --> 00:59:27.230 them is what i what i read today. 00:59:27.230 --> 00:59:34.930 Well this just this just like comey and involving the same players this was 00:59:34.930 --> 00:59:40.710 another one where the person resigned because he said there was no evidence. 00:59:40.970 --> 00:59:45.910 Actually, the initial reporting was he resigned because of Letitia James. 00:59:46.050 --> 00:59:48.210 It only later came out that it was also Comey. 00:59:48.710 --> 00:59:52.790 He resigned because they were pressuring him to indict in both these cases, 00:59:52.790 --> 00:59:56.730 and he did his investigation and found no reason to indict. 00:59:56.930 --> 00:59:57.290 Exactly. 00:59:57.830 --> 00:59:58.970 Like, he found... 00:59:58.970 --> 01:00:03.470 And once again, there's not... Lindsay Halligan couldn't find anybody in the 01:00:03.470 --> 01:00:08.110 office that wanted to sign this indictment either because nobody would put their 01:00:08.110 --> 01:00:12.850 name to this piece of shit, okay? And she wound up having to do it herself again. 01:00:13.170 --> 01:00:17.990 At least I will say this. This time it seemed like they learned to use some spell check. 01:00:19.710 --> 01:00:27.590 Although, apparently, in the indictment, they misidentify where Letitia James lives. 01:00:27.750 --> 01:00:28.270 Oh, of course! 01:00:29.290 --> 01:00:32.730 They got the name of the town right, but they said it was in New Jersey. 01:00:33.090 --> 01:00:36.610 Of course they did. Of course they you know, of course they did. 01:00:38.740 --> 01:00:46.140 I mean, this whole document is like, the counts, you know, it's five, 01:00:46.220 --> 01:00:48.700 it's five, well, four, four pages. 01:00:48.960 --> 01:00:51.420 So, yeah, two pages double-sided, yeah? Okay? 01:00:51.640 --> 01:00:52.020 Right, right. 01:00:52.060 --> 01:00:52.240 Yeah? 01:00:54.320 --> 01:00:57.220 I mean, you couldn't even get that right. 01:00:58.600 --> 01:01:05.720 Well, and this brings us back to, like, that these will probably get dismissed. 01:01:05.720 --> 01:01:09.420 There's a good chance of it because there's also, by the way, 01:01:09.700 --> 01:01:13.200 the legal talking heads who've been talking about both these cases. 01:01:13.320 --> 01:01:15.020 What's her name again? Halligan and again. 01:01:15.280 --> 01:01:16.240 Lindsay Halligan. 01:01:16.700 --> 01:01:17.860 Lindsay Halligan. 01:01:18.060 --> 01:01:25.140 Another one that, by the way, was picked. By the way, another one of her qualifications 01:01:25.140 --> 01:01:29.460 that I saw was that she was in some beauty pageant as well again. 01:01:29.680 --> 01:01:34.380 Of course. But here's the thing. for both of them. 01:01:34.500 --> 01:01:40.840 Apparently, the way she was put into this position did not follow the rules. 01:01:41.060 --> 01:01:41.160 Correct. 01:01:41.460 --> 01:01:44.140 She is not legally in this position. 01:01:44.320 --> 01:01:44.460 Correct. 01:01:44.820 --> 01:01:51.060 So they are likely to move to dismiss for at least two different reasons. 01:01:51.460 --> 01:01:58.860 One is the only person who signed the indictment was not in a legal position to do so. 01:01:58.860 --> 01:01:59.140 Right. 01:02:00.200 --> 01:02:06.020 And two, vindictive and selective prosecution where the primary evidence is 01:02:06.020 --> 01:02:08.360 a post that Donald Trump made on Truth Social. 01:02:08.840 --> 01:02:11.420 Specifically saying to go after these two. 01:02:11.580 --> 01:02:11.780 Correct. 01:02:12.360 --> 01:02:18.340 And by the way, the third name in that post was Schiff, Senator Schiff from California. 01:02:18.940 --> 01:02:23.220 So presumably the indictment against him is coming any day now. 01:02:23.560 --> 01:02:25.840 And we'll have all of the same flaws. 01:02:26.160 --> 01:02:27.580 Yes. Yeah, great. 01:02:27.580 --> 01:02:32.080 But here's the thing, and we talked about this when it happened to Comey. 01:02:32.930 --> 01:02:40.110 I don't know if Donald Trump even cares. Like, even if this gets thrown out, he has made his point. 01:02:40.570 --> 01:02:46.730 He has he has indicted his enemies. He has caused them to spend money on legal defense. 01:02:46.830 --> 01:02:54.190 He has proven that he can he can direct the Justice Department to indict whoever 01:02:54.190 --> 01:02:56.630 the hell he wants, regardless of the evidence. 01:02:57.390 --> 01:03:01.210 I mean, I mean, it's quite a pyrrhic victory, can I be honest? 01:03:01.210 --> 01:03:08.110 This victory is only for his own personal vindictiveness. 01:03:08.590 --> 01:03:13.730 That's it. But Ivan, that's all he cares about. That's his whole life. 01:03:13.970 --> 01:03:16.910 What a fucked up way to live a life. 01:03:17.870 --> 01:03:21.250 That and making sure the money keeps rolling in. 01:03:21.490 --> 01:03:24.070 Yeah. What a fucked up way to live a life. 01:03:24.250 --> 01:03:27.570 Oh, and that you can hurt brown people wherever possible. 01:03:27.610 --> 01:03:32.050 Well, that's definitely the top of his list. As I also shared a story on the 01:03:32.050 --> 01:03:37.390 Slack about how basically, you know, Trump is, anybody that's black, 01:03:37.590 --> 01:03:41.990 they're like first on the list to get fired. 01:03:43.010 --> 01:03:43.570 Surprise. 01:03:43.910 --> 01:03:45.970 I mean, that's not racist, is it? 01:03:46.370 --> 01:03:47.950 Oh, of course not. 01:03:48.050 --> 01:03:48.330 Nah. 01:03:49.010 --> 01:03:51.410 He's judging things purely on their merits. 01:03:51.670 --> 01:03:52.670 Purely on their merits, yes. 01:03:53.110 --> 01:03:58.070 Purely on their merits. I'm obviously sarcastic here, in case anybody can't tell. 01:03:58.070 --> 01:04:01.190 If anybody can't tell, yes, our sarcasm, we're laying it really, 01:04:01.330 --> 01:04:05.750 really, really, really, really, really, really, really thick. Just make sure, okay? 01:04:06.810 --> 01:04:10.570 Oh, yes. Be ditto. 01:04:14.590 --> 01:04:20.970 Look, that point being made about like, he'll indict anybody if you cross him, 01:04:21.250 --> 01:04:29.070 has power even if these start getting dismissed because there's not that much to them. 01:04:29.170 --> 01:04:33.310 Because one of these days he will find one that sticks. He will get the right 01:04:33.310 --> 01:04:36.150 grand jury. He will get the right judge. He will get the right jury. 01:04:37.290 --> 01:04:41.350 Well, one of these days maybe he'll find a criminal if he really looks at it. 01:04:41.350 --> 01:04:45.510 And right, yeah. I'm sure he can. There are plenty of criminals around that 01:04:45.510 --> 01:04:47.390 are also enemies of Donald Trump. Right. 01:04:47.650 --> 01:04:49.730 I'm sure that maybe at some point they'll be right. 01:04:50.270 --> 01:04:54.970 Remember what's his name? What's that guy who is defending the porn star and 01:04:54.970 --> 01:04:56.170 is now in jail? Oh, Avenatti. 01:04:56.310 --> 01:04:56.750 Avenatti. 01:04:57.050 --> 01:04:59.230 Avenatti. There you go. There's a good example. 01:04:59.590 --> 01:05:03.590 I figured that he would pardon him. He'd like it. After he figured out he was 01:05:03.590 --> 01:05:06.910 a scammer, he'd probably love him. Fucking give him a pardon. 01:05:08.030 --> 01:05:12.450 Yeah. So, look, yes, he will undoubtedly find a real criminal at some point 01:05:12.450 --> 01:05:15.430 as well, in which case, by all means, go after them. 01:05:15.550 --> 01:05:21.090 But the thing is, even there, the selectivity is the important part of this. 01:05:21.170 --> 01:05:27.490 Because a couple of people have done a quick perusal of mortgage documents for 01:05:27.490 --> 01:05:29.070 people in Donald Trump's cabinet. 01:05:29.270 --> 01:05:30.930 Oh, they all have done the same or worse. 01:05:30.930 --> 01:05:36.550 Well, they found at least three that have done the same or worse in terms of 01:05:36.550 --> 01:05:41.410 declaring things as a primary residence where they didn't live and things like that. 01:05:42.170 --> 01:05:45.990 And are they being gone after? No. Of course not. 01:05:46.290 --> 01:05:51.930 And we also have the Justice Department deciding not to investigate any way 01:05:51.930 --> 01:05:53.630 the guy. What's his name? 01:05:54.170 --> 01:05:59.690 Hoden. Hoden. I'm so bad with names. The guy who took the $50,000 in cash. 01:05:59.750 --> 01:06:01.670 Oh, Holman. Tom Holman. 01:06:02.370 --> 01:06:03.170 Tom Homan. 01:06:03.450 --> 01:06:03.570 Yeah. 01:06:03.830 --> 01:06:08.350 Now, I did see some legal analysis, by the way, that said, actually, 01:06:08.350 --> 01:06:11.670 it may have been hard to make that case against him. 01:06:11.670 --> 01:06:17.870 Oh, I know. I mean, I read why, especially because he wasn't in the administration at the time. 01:06:17.870 --> 01:06:25.530 Yeah, which apparently, by the way, that's a cool loophole that apparently with 01:06:25.530 --> 01:06:30.690 our current laws and the current Supreme Court rulings that they've been made 01:06:30.690 --> 01:06:34.230 weakening bribery statutes for the last couple of decades, 01:06:34.230 --> 01:06:42.290 it may actually be perfectly legal to if you have been appointed to a government job, 01:06:42.470 --> 01:06:45.450 but you are not in that job yet. And he wasn't even appointed yet. 01:06:45.590 --> 01:06:49.650 He just anticipated that he was going to be. Right, right. which makes it even further out. 01:06:50.190 --> 01:06:55.090 But if you, even if you were like the way it works, by the way, 01:06:55.410 --> 01:06:59.390 like when people, when president elects announced their cabinet, 01:06:59.690 --> 01:07:03.730 they can't actually appoint anybody until they're president, 01:07:03.730 --> 01:07:09.550 but they announce it between the election and the inauguration so that Congress 01:07:09.550 --> 01:07:12.750 can get a move on doing their hearings and stuff. 01:07:12.790 --> 01:07:16.870 But the official nomination can't happen until you're actually president. 01:07:17.110 --> 01:07:23.490 So in this whole middle zone where you have a fairly good idea that you're going 01:07:23.490 --> 01:07:27.050 to be a high government official but you aren't actually one yet. So at that point. 01:07:27.050 --> 01:07:31.290 You could just open the cash register and just grab every fucking dime you can. 01:07:32.230 --> 01:07:38.450 Absolutely. You could take all the money you want because the bribery statutes 01:07:38.450 --> 01:07:41.510 only apply to people who are actually in office. 01:07:42.030 --> 01:07:43.170 Motherfucking hell. 01:07:46.190 --> 01:07:51.750 Even though they have him on camera accepting a bag of cash, 01:07:51.750 --> 01:07:56.530 $50,000 of cash, which apparently he has not had to give back either. 01:07:56.570 --> 01:08:01.550 He's got, he got to keep that money, even though it was part of a sting operation 01:08:01.550 --> 01:08:04.030 where the government just handed him the 50 grand. 01:08:06.610 --> 01:08:12.770 And yeah. So, but anyways, they were continuing the investigation after Donald 01:08:12.770 --> 01:08:19.270 Trump took office, presumably to see if you got the other end of the quid pro quo, 01:08:19.530 --> 01:08:25.150 because then maybe you could still make some sort of case that even though he got the money before, 01:08:26.150 --> 01:08:30.890 you know, he did the action after and maybe you could still make that case. 01:08:31.590 --> 01:08:35.870 Maybe you could do something if he didn't declare it properly on his taxes. 01:08:36.430 --> 01:08:36.590 Right. 01:08:36.930 --> 01:08:38.230 You know, although someone. 01:08:38.810 --> 01:08:43.670 Yeah, my question is, did he really filed a 50, that would be the one where 01:08:43.670 --> 01:08:46.790 he could get caught. If he didn't declare it. 01:08:47.270 --> 01:08:52.330 Also, I heard a couple of legal experts where they were asking the question, 01:08:52.690 --> 01:08:55.550 okay, from a legal tax point of view, 01:08:56.370 --> 01:09:03.650 Is the bribe income considered income at the time you receive it or only once 01:09:03.650 --> 01:09:06.410 you do the action that you were being paid for? 01:09:06.930 --> 01:09:10.110 No, it's at the time you receive it. I don't know what the fuck they're talking about. 01:09:10.490 --> 01:09:14.490 Because apparently this is uncharted legal territory because there are certain 01:09:14.490 --> 01:09:17.990 things where you can defer the income if it was paid for a specific act. 01:09:19.850 --> 01:09:23.670 Yes, if for some reason it required you to follow through. 01:09:23.670 --> 01:09:29.050 So basically, it's kind of like in a contract where if you give money and you're 01:09:29.050 --> 01:09:31.950 supposed to deliver on something, but you didn't deliver on it, 01:09:32.030 --> 01:09:35.030 then it's not considered. But here's the thing. 01:09:35.310 --> 01:09:38.190 Because it's not income yet, you would have to give it back. 01:09:38.290 --> 01:09:42.070 If you had to give it back. But here's the thing. He hasn't given the money back. 01:09:42.250 --> 01:09:45.710 So unless there was a contract signed that said, hey, the money needs to be 01:09:45.710 --> 01:09:46.790 refundable or something. 01:09:47.170 --> 01:09:51.610 Hey, this is only if you pull through. But that's it. It's one of these things 01:09:51.610 --> 01:09:56.630 about contracts, whether something is refundable or not refundable. 01:09:56.950 --> 01:09:59.870 It doesn't matter in the end because they dropped the investigation. 01:09:59.870 --> 01:10:04.270 So even if he didn't declare it on his taxes or he declared it in the wrong 01:10:04.270 --> 01:10:07.230 year or whatever, nobody's looking. 01:10:08.650 --> 01:10:15.390 And basically, also just to put an even bigger point on it, they shut down the 01:10:15.390 --> 01:10:19.170 public corruption office at the DOJ. 01:10:19.830 --> 01:10:21.650 Completely? There's nobody? 01:10:22.270 --> 01:10:28.490 I think if they didn't shut it down completely, they reduced it by like 90% 01:10:28.490 --> 01:10:29.990 in terms of the staffing or something. 01:10:30.410 --> 01:10:35.290 Like, they basically outright declared, this is not something that we're going 01:10:35.290 --> 01:10:40.910 to spend any time on. So if you want to be corrupt in your public office, go for it. 01:10:41.370 --> 01:10:44.350 Listen, they said that they weren't going to investigate like... 01:10:45.590 --> 01:10:49.830 Companies like us, multinationals, where I work at, for FCPA violations. 01:10:50.590 --> 01:10:56.370 I mean, you know, I heard a discussion, some people talking about this, 01:10:56.450 --> 01:11:00.630 not at my company, but people talking about, well, what the fuck? 01:11:00.630 --> 01:11:03.230 I mean, let's just go bribe people. What the hell? Get business. 01:11:03.930 --> 01:11:08.770 I mean, what the hell? Nobody's going to do anything. now the one problem with 01:11:08.770 --> 01:11:11.650 this by the way is that you're. 01:11:11.650 --> 01:11:14.310 You're you're gambling that they won't change their minds. 01:11:14.310 --> 01:11:17.130 Or or no or you're 01:11:17.130 --> 01:11:22.270 also gambling i mean i don't think you know what you know that what these guys 01:11:22.270 --> 01:11:29.430 stay in power because statute of limitations of that isn't that short um so 01:11:29.430 --> 01:11:34.270 if the next administration says well we're going back you know and and investigating 01:11:34.270 --> 01:11:35.770 this shit that wasn't investigated, 01:11:35.790 --> 01:11:38.610 then you're fucked. So that's a big gamble. 01:11:38.830 --> 01:11:43.150 Well, and that applies to a few other things where Donald Trump has basically 01:11:43.150 --> 01:11:47.110 said, we're not going to enforce the law on XYZ. 01:11:47.310 --> 01:11:50.910 Yeah, the next administration could change their mind. But I think it's an even 01:11:50.910 --> 01:11:56.290 bigger risk that this administration could change their mind at any random moment. 01:11:56.410 --> 01:11:56.810 That's true. 01:11:57.030 --> 01:12:00.910 Because the law is the law and they could change their mind selectively. 01:12:01.130 --> 01:12:01.230 Yeah. 01:12:01.350 --> 01:12:05.270 Oh, you pissed us off? okay, we will enforce it against you. 01:12:05.450 --> 01:12:05.850 We will enforce it against you. 01:12:06.290 --> 01:12:12.550 Right. That's the whole point of this. And, you know, one of the things that I think we have to, 01:12:12.890 --> 01:12:20.750 look, it's just the reality now, is that the DOJ is now the enforcement arm 01:12:20.750 --> 01:12:22.470 for Donald Trump's will. 01:12:22.690 --> 01:12:22.790 Yeah. 01:12:23.070 --> 01:12:30.550 You know, it has nothing to do with what the law actually says is legal or illegal. 01:12:30.550 --> 01:12:34.510 it is about, are you a target? Did you piss him off? 01:12:35.130 --> 01:12:42.210 And he will, if, if he likes you, he will wave them away from whatever bad thing you are doing. 01:12:42.630 --> 01:12:50.250 And if he doesn't like you, he will sick them after you for anything they can find real or imagined. 01:12:50.790 --> 01:12:55.490 And if they find something real, you're screwed because you know, 01:12:55.650 --> 01:12:57.710 they'll be able to actually convict you on it. 01:12:57.950 --> 01:13:02.010 If they can't find anything real, well, they'll still indict you. 01:13:02.230 --> 01:13:04.150 Right. And they'll still make... 01:13:04.150 --> 01:13:06.090 They'll make their life miserable anyway. 01:13:06.350 --> 01:13:10.090 They will make your life miserable, and if you don't have deep pockets, 01:13:10.210 --> 01:13:12.310 they'll bankrupt you trying to defend yourself. 01:13:13.350 --> 01:13:13.950 Yep. 01:13:14.890 --> 01:13:15.130 Yep. 01:13:16.090 --> 01:13:19.550 Wow. Such a... Okay. 01:13:20.130 --> 01:13:23.910 Shall we take another break and then lightning round through the rest of the stuff? 01:13:24.770 --> 01:13:26.010 Let's break it up. 01:13:26.810 --> 01:13:32.070 Okay. Okay, here comes a breaky break. Enjoy. 01:13:32.390 --> 01:13:32.750 Breaky. 01:13:39.310 --> 01:13:42.630 Alexmzilla.com by alex and 01:13:42.630 --> 01:13:45.490 dad gaming videos and more 01:13:45.490 --> 01:13:53.870 from alex elementary school by day youtube by night alexmzilla.com alexmzilla 01:13:53.870 --> 01:14:05.050 is a l e x m x e l a and dot com is period F-M-C-O-M. 01:14:09.590 --> 01:14:12.610 Okay, let's lighten around this other stuff. 01:14:12.810 --> 01:14:20.450 Let me start off with just, I've had this iPhone 17 Pro Max for a few weeks now. 01:14:20.490 --> 01:14:20.610 Oh! 01:14:21.590 --> 01:14:28.190 And I will just say, compared to the 12, I had lots of upgrades, 01:14:28.350 --> 01:14:29.710 lots of advantages, blah, blah, blah. 01:14:29.710 --> 01:14:35.470 But by far the biggest one, the battery life on this thing is like, 01:14:35.590 --> 01:14:40.250 compared to my degraded five-year-old battery that I know I could have replaced. 01:14:40.250 --> 01:14:42.310 They have programs to do that, but I hadn't. 01:14:43.050 --> 01:14:46.970 You know, this thing, like I am ending the day. 01:14:47.270 --> 01:14:51.050 Like I'm looking at this thing right now. And admittedly, I like, 01:14:51.410 --> 01:14:55.030 you know, it charges while I'm driving back and forth from work as well. 01:14:55.150 --> 01:14:58.290 But we're near the end of the day. I'm at 73%. 01:14:58.290 --> 01:14:59.250 Nice. Nice. 01:14:59.710 --> 01:15:04.010 You know, now on a weekend where I'm heavily using it the whole time and I'm 01:15:04.010 --> 01:15:09.110 not like doing non-phone stuff at work and stuff, I can be down. 01:15:10.230 --> 01:15:15.270 I've hit 20% a couple of times. Like when I was off in Toronto last week and 01:15:15.270 --> 01:15:20.510 I was doing stuff and I, you know, whatever, I did get down to 20% a couple of times, but. 01:15:21.300 --> 01:15:24.920 I, it's, it's, it lasts a long time. 01:15:25.340 --> 01:15:26.160 Well, good. 01:15:26.480 --> 01:15:31.280 And I, and I enjoy that and I plug it in at night, get to a hundred percent, blah, blah, blah. 01:15:31.480 --> 01:15:35.760 But you know, I'm coming from a world that where I carried around a spare battery 01:15:35.760 --> 01:15:40.180 with me because I'd always be low by the end of the day, you know, 01:15:40.280 --> 01:15:44.620 or I would make, make sure to plug in every time I could, you know. 01:15:44.620 --> 01:15:52.580 I just today, I had, a couple of days ago, my wife's first friend in Columbia, 01:15:52.900 --> 01:15:59.980 she had bought an iPhone 13 that she had sent me money to go get her at the 01:15:59.980 --> 01:16:02.740 Apple store a few years back, whenever that phone was out. 01:16:03.640 --> 01:16:07.460 Unfortunately, she was out and about with her baby in a stroller. 01:16:07.700 --> 01:16:09.880 She had put the phone like in her purse. 01:16:10.420 --> 01:16:13.180 Somebody went and swiped it from her purse, stole the phone. 01:16:13.180 --> 01:16:17.100 okay just a couple of days ago good and 01:16:17.100 --> 01:16:20.320 it was an iphone 13 not a pro now my wife 01:16:20.320 --> 01:16:24.400 i'd gotten her an iphone 16 last year and you 01:16:24.400 --> 01:16:28.520 know me i keep the phones in good shape i had her own iphone 13 pro which i 01:16:28.520 --> 01:16:33.100 always keep like one of those phones as a spare to give away okay i've given 01:16:33.100 --> 01:16:38.120 away not i've given away a whole bunch of these phones like that and shit i 01:16:38.120 --> 01:16:40.700 mean what's old me well swipe the phone And I'm like, 01:16:41.160 --> 01:16:44.480 look, now with the exchange rates and shit to get a new phone in Columbia, 01:16:44.580 --> 01:16:49.580 the prices and local purchasing power, it's quite onerous. 01:16:49.740 --> 01:16:54.660 OK, so I was like, you know, she had had some issues with, you know, 01:16:54.740 --> 01:17:00.800 she's not with the dad of the of the of the baby and the guy is not paying his child support and shit. 01:17:00.960 --> 01:17:03.800 So so, you know, all of a sudden she swiped out of her phone. 01:17:03.960 --> 01:17:07.180 So whatever. And I was like, look, I checked the phone and I realized the battery 01:17:07.180 --> 01:17:11.760 life was was low. So, but I went, you know, I did the appointment yesterday. I went my lunch. 01:17:12.020 --> 01:17:15.320 I went and I made, I made an appointment at the Apple store, like at 1220. 01:17:15.640 --> 01:17:17.440 I drove over there to the mall. 01:17:17.900 --> 01:17:20.860 I dropped off the phone real quick. I went at lunch. 01:17:21.590 --> 01:17:25.250 And by the time I got back from lunch, they had put a brand new battery on it 01:17:25.250 --> 01:17:30.110 for $99, and I shipped it off to Columbia now so they can get a new phone. 01:17:30.250 --> 01:17:34.570 So the battery swap, I'll tell you what, 99, listen, 99 bucks. 01:17:35.450 --> 01:17:39.630 I mean, I did it during my lunch. It's not like it took me out of the day or whatever. 01:17:39.750 --> 01:17:44.850 I just went over there, dropped it off, said, hey, no problem. Come back in an hour. 01:17:45.050 --> 01:17:49.930 Here we go. I mean, in my case, if the battery had gotten really bad like a 01:17:49.930 --> 01:17:53.070 year and a half ago, I probably would have bothered with that. 01:17:53.150 --> 01:17:57.150 But it didn't start getting really bad until I knew I was only a few months 01:17:57.150 --> 01:17:58.790 away from replacing it. So I didn't bother. 01:17:58.990 --> 01:18:02.810 But this reminds me, I know we're lightning around two other things, 01:18:02.910 --> 01:18:04.490 but I have one more phone-related story. 01:18:05.270 --> 01:18:06.190 Ah, more phones. 01:18:06.850 --> 01:18:08.670 This is my wife's phone. 01:18:08.830 --> 01:18:09.070 Yeah. 01:18:09.070 --> 01:18:13.810 While I was in Toronto, I had finished doing stuff with my sister, 01:18:13.990 --> 01:18:18.470 her husband, and baby, and I was back at the Airbnb, and I was actually getting 01:18:18.470 --> 01:18:20.410 ready to edit last week's podcast. 01:18:21.350 --> 01:18:25.350 When I get a text from a friend of my wife. 01:18:25.490 --> 01:18:25.850 Oh, boy. 01:18:26.630 --> 01:18:33.730 Hi, Sam. So-and-so here. Brandy wants me to let you know that she has misplaced her phone. 01:18:34.470 --> 01:18:37.230 We are having dinner with blah, blah, blah, somebody else. 01:18:37.230 --> 01:18:39.890 she will do another sweep of the 01:18:39.890 --> 01:18:43.130 places she has been and if she can't find it she 01:18:43.130 --> 01:18:48.230 will stop at the apple store on the way home okay so 01:18:48.230 --> 01:18:54.790 you know obviously first thought is i've misplaced my phone fine fine so my 01:18:54.790 --> 01:18:59.450 immediate response is i had already noticed that i had not gotten i had checked 01:18:59.450 --> 01:19:05.010 find my a couple times for her and and the last location was two hours old so 01:19:05.010 --> 01:19:06.970 i'm like okay She let her battery dial. 01:19:07.130 --> 01:19:07.350 Okay. 01:19:07.670 --> 01:19:13.250 Okay. And, but of course, her first thought, I misplaced my phone. I'll buy a new one. 01:19:13.370 --> 01:19:13.550 Right. 01:19:14.470 --> 01:19:15.870 That's immediate first thought. 01:19:15.870 --> 01:19:16.030 Makes sense. 01:19:16.130 --> 01:19:23.030 You know? Okay. Okay. But I did, the last known location was where she was. 01:19:23.750 --> 01:19:27.690 She comes, she borrows her friend's phone and is talking to me. 01:19:27.890 --> 01:19:31.510 She's like, I had turned it off while I was at this event. 01:19:31.610 --> 01:19:34.530 She was at like a memorial service or something. So she turned it off. 01:19:34.530 --> 01:19:37.490 and she's like i went to put my coat 01:19:37.490 --> 01:19:40.610 in the car and then went back in i don't remember 01:19:40.610 --> 01:19:46.830 using it since then i'll check the car third time and i'm like did you turn 01:19:46.830 --> 01:19:49.550 it off because the battery was low or you didn't want to interrupt the service 01:19:49.550 --> 01:19:52.290 because you know you could just turn on silent yeah that's what i was saying 01:19:52.290 --> 01:19:59.570 yeah whatever she's like i didn't find it inside no one cleaning up has seen it. 01:20:01.430 --> 01:20:06.030 She's like, I had a piece of cake and I had that balanced on top of my phone 01:20:06.030 --> 01:20:10.590 and then a guy came by collecting trash and I think there's a chance I put it 01:20:10.590 --> 01:20:12.010 in the trash with my plate. 01:20:12.980 --> 01:20:22.460 You guys are, I will say that the one thing about you guys is that you guys are really, how do I say? 01:20:22.780 --> 01:20:27.760 It's, it's, you guys are in sync in doing this kind of buffoonery. Yes. 01:20:27.960 --> 01:20:32.040 And I'm like, you know, that was before the thing with the coat. 01:20:32.100 --> 01:20:35.340 I haven't looked, it hasn't had a location in the last two hours. 01:20:35.660 --> 01:20:36.980 Did you search the trash? 01:20:37.540 --> 01:20:42.320 and then i'm like i'm gonna go tell find my to make it deep even though it hasn't 01:20:42.320 --> 01:20:44.180 had a location in like two hours right i. 01:20:44.180 --> 01:20:49.360 Think that yeah because it's supposed to be able to if it's still got battery and you lost it even if. 01:20:49.360 --> 01:20:54.520 You're trying to like turn it off my assumption was that it hadn't located in 01:20:54.520 --> 01:20:58.580 two hours because the battery was dead because she lets her battery die all the time okay, 01:21:00.040 --> 01:21:03.720 but oh and she says i couldn't find it in the trash bag but there are about 01:21:03.720 --> 01:21:05.240 a dozen in the dumpster that she 01:21:05.240 --> 01:21:09.360 couldn't reach so she was searching the trash for the phone okay oh man, 01:21:10.300 --> 01:21:17.600 and then i made a beep and i'm like it says it's playing the sound and has battery okay so, 01:21:18.500 --> 01:21:24.600 then she's like okay but i'm in the restaurant with the people i was with so 01:21:24.600 --> 01:21:28.940 i'll let you know when i'm back out and can you add a lost phone note and i 01:21:28.940 --> 01:21:32.340 i said yes i'll add the lost phone note But I'm like, 01:21:32.960 --> 01:21:35.940 but it's locating in the parking lot. 01:21:36.240 --> 01:21:39.960 So it's either in the car and you couldn't find it or on the floor or under 01:21:39.960 --> 01:21:43.060 the car or it's on the ground. And I'm like, if it's on the ground, 01:21:43.260 --> 01:21:45.380 you should you should step out of the restaurant. 01:21:45.500 --> 01:21:46.320 Yeah, I get it. Right. 01:21:46.600 --> 01:21:51.100 Before someone runs over it or steals it or whatever. OK. 01:21:51.780 --> 01:21:57.800 And she replied to that. And I had said that I'd put the the lost phone notice on it. 01:21:57.900 --> 01:22:00.760 And she says, OK, text if you get a response. 01:22:01.100 --> 01:22:08.040 Now, I thought when she said okay, she was saying okay till she'll run out to the parking lot. 01:22:08.140 --> 01:22:12.180 So I immediately say, okay, I will beep it over and over again for five minutes. 01:22:13.150 --> 01:22:19.750 Now, actually, she was saying okay to thank you for putting the lost notice on it. 01:22:19.870 --> 01:22:22.270 She was not leaving the dinner she was at. 01:22:22.750 --> 01:22:27.170 So I sit there beeping it for five minutes. She's not even out. 01:22:27.350 --> 01:22:31.990 At the end of it, I'm like, okay, I beeped it for five minutes. Should I do it again? 01:22:32.430 --> 01:22:35.690 And she's like, no, I'm not out. I'm not out of the parking lot. 01:22:35.830 --> 01:22:43.150 I'll tell you what I am. I'm like, aren't you at all urgent about this? 01:22:43.250 --> 01:22:46.510 I recognize you're at a restaurant, but just step out for a minute. 01:22:47.070 --> 01:22:49.730 Apparently the answer is no at this point. Okay. 01:22:50.670 --> 01:22:53.390 The restaurant was like right across the street from the parking lot. 01:22:53.470 --> 01:22:56.430 It wasn't like it was a half mile away that they'd walk to or something. 01:22:59.230 --> 01:23:03.830 Anyway, when she finally got out, she said she'd looked at the car twice already. 01:23:03.830 --> 01:23:05.270 She was going to go look again. 01:23:06.030 --> 01:23:09.710 And when she gets out, she'll, she'll let me know when she's at the car. 01:23:10.210 --> 01:23:12.130 She gets back out to the car. 01:23:12.670 --> 01:23:18.370 And anyway, I, I, I, she says, we're now looking for it. I start to make the thing beep again. 01:23:19.230 --> 01:23:23.910 And then she sends me a picture. The phone was on top of the car. 01:23:26.450 --> 01:23:29.950 She'd looked in the car. She had not looked on top of the car. 01:23:30.290 --> 01:23:32.750 And she texted me. I would never have looked there. 01:23:33.310 --> 01:23:33.730 Never. 01:23:33.730 --> 01:23:37.150 Never in a million years I would not have looked there. I would have driven 01:23:37.150 --> 01:23:40.390 away to go buy my new phone with the phone on top. 01:23:40.430 --> 01:23:45.170 So, you know, I got the story of the guy over here who's my boss's boss's boss, 01:23:45.230 --> 01:23:47.470 who one time he had this Audi. 01:23:48.170 --> 01:23:52.430 He had a little Audi TT, Bluetooth, okay, on it. 01:23:52.530 --> 01:23:57.650 And I don't know where he stopped, but he somehow absentmindedly put the phone on top of his car. 01:23:58.130 --> 01:24:01.030 And then he got in the car and left. and then all 01:24:01.030 --> 01:24:04.570 of a sudden on the display on the screen bluetooth link 01:24:04.570 --> 01:24:08.130 disconnected and he's like bluetooth link disconnected 01:24:08.130 --> 01:24:12.690 it's like why the hell would the bluetooth link be disconnected i'm like then 01:24:12.690 --> 01:24:17.790 he realizes oh shit i left it i put it on the top of the car he turned around 01:24:17.790 --> 01:24:25.310 went back well he got he got he got he found the phone however it was it you 01:24:25.310 --> 01:24:26.750 know it would work over Bluetooth. 01:24:27.530 --> 01:24:31.110 Well, if you, if you, long time listeners will remember, 01:24:31.570 --> 01:24:38.210 Alex had an iPad that I left on top of the car and I was driving him somewhere 01:24:38.210 --> 01:24:42.530 and I saw it fly off the roof of the car and, 01:24:43.410 --> 01:24:50.610 behind me on the road but where i was i couldn't pull over immediately it took 01:24:50.610 --> 01:24:55.170 me like you know five minutes to find a place to turn around get back there 01:24:55.170 --> 01:25:00.410 run and walk and i found it had been run over like a dozen times by other cars 01:25:00.410 --> 01:25:02.550 by the time i found it but it still turned on, 01:25:03.490 --> 01:25:09.590 and we were able to back it up there you go and then alex ended up really upset 01:25:09.590 --> 01:25:12.290 because i did I did, while he was at school, 01:25:12.750 --> 01:25:20.390 go get it replaced at the Apple store under AppleCare, and he wished we'd kept the broken one. 01:25:20.650 --> 01:25:23.410 But, you know, oh well. Right? 01:25:23.570 --> 01:25:30.470 Right call. You did the right call. Otherwise, his fingers may have been like quite a lot of shards. 01:25:31.330 --> 01:25:35.590 He's indicating that I've got part of the story wrong. oh 01:25:35.590 --> 01:25:38.710 yes he's indicating that there was a major problem that 01:25:38.710 --> 01:25:41.590 there was one game they they have 01:25:41.590 --> 01:25:45.450 since fixed this i think but at the time terraria 01:25:45.450 --> 01:25:52.390 kept its save files local only unless you explicitly uploaded them they were 01:25:52.390 --> 01:25:57.850 not included in the the backups for the device because they didn't consider 01:25:57.850 --> 01:26:04.250 the game file save files important enough and they didn't bother backing them up And so to this day, 01:26:04.510 --> 01:26:09.530 he's upset that we lost those game save files. Anyway, sorry. 01:26:10.070 --> 01:26:10.930 All right. 01:26:11.210 --> 01:26:12.630 Continuing with the lightning round. 01:26:12.770 --> 01:26:14.570 Continuing with the lightning round. What's next? 01:26:15.590 --> 01:26:18.150 Sora 2 came out this week. 01:26:18.190 --> 01:26:19.110 Ah, yes. 01:26:19.450 --> 01:26:24.490 Which is an AI video clip generation thing. And there have been a number of 01:26:24.490 --> 01:26:25.690 different versions of this. 01:26:26.350 --> 01:26:32.090 But Sora 2, once again, significantly upped the level of realism. 01:26:32.790 --> 01:26:37.690 They also offered an ability where you can quickly like scan your own face and 01:26:37.690 --> 01:26:40.950 include yourself in the movies that you generate as a character. 01:26:41.610 --> 01:26:48.510 And you can choose to let other people use your face in their movies as well. 01:26:48.750 --> 01:26:51.870 So there are apparently three options. Only I can use it. 01:26:52.090 --> 01:26:57.730 Only me and my friends can use it. Or anybody can use it. But they also, 01:26:57.790 --> 01:27:03.850 I forget if they explicitly did it or whether people just figured out how to do it. 01:27:04.230 --> 01:27:11.030 But historical figures and copyrighted characters all over the place. 01:27:11.050 --> 01:27:17.130 They actually had to back off and decide and say, we're going to enforce against 01:27:17.130 --> 01:27:18.210 the copyrighted characters. 01:27:18.450 --> 01:27:22.290 I think they've still got some issues with the historical. Like there were a 01:27:22.290 --> 01:27:26.170 ton of videos going on about like Mr. 01:27:26.590 --> 01:27:28.290 Rogers in action movie scenes. 01:27:30.290 --> 01:27:30.930 Mr. 01:27:31.610 --> 01:27:33.170 Rogers. Mr. Rogers made a new Liam Neeson. 01:27:33.490 --> 01:27:34.590 Yes, exactly. 01:27:34.810 --> 01:27:34.990 Yeah. 01:27:35.410 --> 01:27:41.290 Well, there was one that was like a buddy cop film with Mr. Rogers and Bob Ross. 01:27:41.490 --> 01:27:42.670 The painter guy. Yeah. 01:27:43.340 --> 01:27:48.860 Where Bob Ross was telling Mr. Rogers, some people are not your friends. 01:27:49.040 --> 01:27:50.440 And then they pull out their guns. 01:27:50.620 --> 01:27:55.060 You know, you know, there, there were like lots of ones with like the Martin 01:27:55.060 --> 01:28:00.200 Luther King doing, you know, I have a dream that someday there won't be a line 01:28:00.200 --> 01:28:04.200 at Chick-fil-A, you know, all kinds of other stuff. 01:28:04.460 --> 01:28:07.140 Some of, some of which were actually kind of cute. Some 01:28:07.140 --> 01:28:11.880 of which were disturbing there were you know various tech journalists like i 01:28:11.880 --> 01:28:16.120 justine put hers out there for anybody to use and of course there are lots of 01:28:16.120 --> 01:28:21.560 really creative things that they made i justine do and there are some also rather 01:28:21.560 --> 01:28:26.120 tasteless things they made i justine do in some of these movies oh. 01:28:26.120 --> 01:28:26.900 Yeah i know. 01:28:26.900 --> 01:28:35.980 And the the point of this though oh gosh is these are video and they are voice They do the whole thing. 01:28:37.220 --> 01:28:40.580 This is yet another level of realism. If you look carefully, 01:28:40.880 --> 01:28:42.780 you can, of course, tell these are AI. 01:28:43.080 --> 01:28:47.700 And, of course, the elephant jumping out of an airplane effect is still in play, 01:28:47.700 --> 01:28:51.800 where if you see something that is just clearly unreasonable, 01:28:51.800 --> 01:28:53.060 you should be suspicious. 01:28:55.140 --> 01:29:04.540 But these are now at the point where, A, you have to pay attention to know they're not real. 01:29:04.580 --> 01:29:05.320 This is what— Like. 01:29:05.380 --> 01:29:06.240 In many cases. 01:29:06.340 --> 01:29:10.120 I'll tell you this. I think, like, short little things or whatever, 01:29:10.240 --> 01:29:15.300 but I've started noticing that the more I see these, the more quickly I realize they're fake. 01:29:15.460 --> 01:29:16.220 Oh, absolutely. 01:29:16.400 --> 01:29:16.860 Absolutely. 01:29:18.100 --> 01:29:25.060 But here's the thing, though. there i already like i see so many things shared 01:29:25.060 --> 01:29:30.760 by on facebook of people thinking that these things clearly have been fooled. 01:29:30.760 --> 01:29:36.640 Okay we do have okay look let's be clear i don't know why i have to reiterate 01:29:36.640 --> 01:29:42.020 this but if anything that has shown us over the last decade in is indicative 01:29:42.020 --> 01:29:49.320 of the level of intelligence of the average person on the internet is basically like that of a, 01:29:50.660 --> 01:29:56.240 you know, of a P, okay, you know, I don't know what to tell you. 01:29:56.360 --> 01:30:01.880 But, yeah, not like, I'm sorry, they all believe that, what, 01:30:01.880 --> 01:30:07.960 we've got 9-11 was fake, that Sandy Hook was fake, that, I mean, 01:30:08.020 --> 01:30:09.620 I don't know, you want me to go through the list? 01:30:09.780 --> 01:30:13.900 Well, of course they believe this immediately without thinking one second. 01:30:13.900 --> 01:30:21.280 And look, again, the biggest thing is still, like, use a little bit of common 01:30:21.280 --> 01:30:26.740 sense in terms of, like, okay, did Martin Luther King really endorse Chick-fil-A 01:30:26.740 --> 01:30:28.180 while he was giving his speech? 01:30:28.360 --> 01:30:28.680 Of course. 01:30:28.980 --> 01:30:29.760 His famous I Have a Dream speech? 01:30:29.760 --> 01:30:32.920 I mean, I don't understand. You know, but— I don't understand. 01:30:32.920 --> 01:30:40.300 I mean, I think that that was—his concerns were civil rights and chicken. 01:30:41.160 --> 01:30:44.640 Yes. but but the other thing is 01:30:44.640 --> 01:30:47.300 look there are other things you can tell 01:30:47.300 --> 01:30:50.160 like if you look carefully at the background things usually look a 01:30:50.160 --> 01:30:53.280 little weird you know and if you 01:30:53.280 --> 01:30:57.460 pay close attention and especially if you zoom in there's still all kinds of 01:30:57.460 --> 01:31:03.520 artifacts you can you can pay attention to but the other thing is these are 01:31:03.520 --> 01:31:09.200 just so quick and easy to make sora apparently i did download it You have to 01:31:09.200 --> 01:31:10.180 have an invite still, though. 01:31:10.460 --> 01:31:14.440 I don't have an invite. If anybody has an invite to Sora, feel free to send it to me. 01:31:14.680 --> 01:31:19.880 But it's like they built it as a mini social media app, apparently. 01:31:20.120 --> 01:31:26.060 So the feed there is just all of this AI generated slop that people are sharing with each other. 01:31:26.480 --> 01:31:30.000 And they are making it elsewhere. Like, I have... 01:31:31.100 --> 01:31:34.720 the percentage of this 01:31:34.720 --> 01:31:38.000 stuff that i see as i scroll through social media 01:31:38.000 --> 01:31:44.280 of all types is increasing rapidly but with especially with these the sora movie 01:31:44.280 --> 01:31:48.040 clip things and they're only a few seconds long which is another tell right 01:31:48.040 --> 01:31:53.520 like the ai still can't sustain like a three minute clip of this stuff it's 01:31:53.520 --> 01:31:55.140 so five to ten seconds processing. 01:31:55.140 --> 01:31:56.860 Intensive like right now so. 01:31:56.860 --> 01:31:59.940 Yeah right and and also people pointed 01:31:59.940 --> 01:32:03.240 out they're probably still losing tons of money on this it's like five dollars 01:32:03.240 --> 01:32:07.880 per clip and people are making like thousands of these things but you know it's 01:32:07.880 --> 01:32:14.740 just a percentage of my feeds that are this stuff is increasing dramatically 01:32:14.740 --> 01:32:19.780 and look i'll be honest some of it's amusing some of it's funny some of it's cute yeah. 01:32:19.780 --> 01:32:24.060 Yeah yeah i i it is By the way, it's good and it's getting better. 01:32:24.420 --> 01:32:30.640 And I, you know, look, my whole take on this and a whole bunch of people talking 01:32:30.640 --> 01:32:33.420 about the AI bubble and a whole bunch of stuff or whatever. 01:32:33.740 --> 01:32:40.520 And I'm like, look, as one that has now, as we have been deploying AI at our 01:32:40.520 --> 01:32:48.400 company and they have done a lot of work and doing some good stuff for our use. 01:32:48.400 --> 01:32:53.800 And I have been using it. I have found that my productivity with this shit is 01:32:53.800 --> 01:32:59.840 so much higher using this stuff that I am like when people are talking about the hype, 01:32:59.980 --> 01:33:03.680 I'm like, you know, these people sound like the right now, like the people that 01:33:03.680 --> 01:33:07.740 said that computers were a fad and the personal computers were a fad in the 1990s. 01:33:08.440 --> 01:33:13.840 I mean, look, my whole thing, you know, I've said a lot of criticism about it, 01:33:13.940 --> 01:33:16.760 has been about application and use, how certain people go out there. 01:33:16.960 --> 01:33:19.480 Using it for the right thing and understanding the limitations. 01:33:19.760 --> 01:33:22.620 And understanding what you know and being able to check, because a lot of stuff 01:33:22.620 --> 01:33:26.660 that I generate, I have to check and make sure that it's correct and making 01:33:26.660 --> 01:33:30.240 sure that I'm using it for the right stuff, okay, that I know it's trained on 01:33:30.240 --> 01:33:34.380 and not using it for other stuff that, you know, for example, like we've shown math. 01:33:34.380 --> 01:33:38.020 fucking ma'am the ai is really. 01:33:38.020 --> 01:33:40.960 Mass deficient so i now i shared on 01:33:40.960 --> 01:33:45.880 the curmudgeons corner slack right before we started recording a screenshot 01:33:45.880 --> 01:33:52.720 that somebody apparently took of the new integration with copilot into excel 01:33:52.720 --> 01:34:00.700 where they had you just three numbers one two three and three cells and And in the cell below, 01:34:00.940 --> 01:34:05.660 they said, you know, formula equals co-pilot, sum the numbers above. 01:34:06.660 --> 01:34:11.360 And it said 15 for one plus two plus three. 01:34:11.520 --> 01:34:11.960 Makes sense. 01:34:12.820 --> 01:34:18.400 Sounds good. The person who posted this, of course, now, of course, do I know if this is real? 01:34:18.440 --> 01:34:21.840 Or was this a fake Excel screenshot? I don't know. 01:34:22.160 --> 01:34:26.500 But they commented, this will crash the global economy. 01:34:27.460 --> 01:34:29.620 Well, what do we keep talking about? 01:34:29.620 --> 01:34:32.000 Excel is used in so many places, you know. 01:34:32.220 --> 01:34:39.100 But they have actually, Microsoft has said that using Copilot in Excel, 01:34:39.100 --> 01:34:42.160 that the accuracy is actually quite low. 01:34:42.660 --> 01:34:44.640 They actually said this. 01:34:44.740 --> 01:34:44.980 Yes. 01:34:45.100 --> 01:34:49.780 Okay. You know, so my thing is that I'm like, look, if I'm somebody that's using 01:34:49.780 --> 01:34:54.300 Excel, will you tell me, well, will we only be about 50% accuracy? 01:34:54.820 --> 01:35:01.300 I'm doing Excel. Listen, 50% accuracy in Excel is not acceptable, okay? 01:35:01.720 --> 01:35:06.980 I mean, hell, you know, I'm sorry, but I said, like, for a driving car or whatever, 01:35:07.080 --> 01:35:12.920 you were talking about how much, my criteria for how accurate I want my Excel 01:35:12.920 --> 01:35:15.720 versus even my car driving is higher. 01:35:15.980 --> 01:35:20.980 For Excel, I demand a lot more. I'm doing fucking financial calculations that 01:35:20.980 --> 01:35:25.840 sometimes are tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, sometimes millions of fucking dollars. 01:35:26.160 --> 01:35:32.280 You know, I'm sorry. I cannot have such a wide margin of error. 01:35:33.290 --> 01:35:37.210 You know, it tried. Isn't that good enough? 01:35:37.370 --> 01:35:39.110 Nope. Not for Excel. 01:35:39.770 --> 01:35:40.570 But anyway. 01:35:40.690 --> 01:35:47.930 Now, for video, dumb video clips, you know, showing like me flying like a, you know, like a bird. 01:35:48.730 --> 01:35:56.430 Sure. Or I did this. I did these pictures of me using AI to try to show me driving an F1 car. 01:35:56.950 --> 01:36:00.410 I looked as the fattest F1 driver in history. Okay. 01:36:00.910 --> 01:36:04.850 I don't know why the AI decided to make me even fatter than I am. 01:36:05.230 --> 01:36:10.070 Also, it attached a rearview mirror on my arm for whatever reason. 01:36:10.370 --> 01:36:11.350 Where else would you keep your rearview mirror? 01:36:11.350 --> 01:36:14.190 I mean, yeah. But, you know, other than that, it looked funny. 01:36:14.830 --> 01:36:17.710 But for funny effect, it was good. 01:36:18.270 --> 01:36:23.470 Well, but the thing is, I think we are definitely in the zone, 01:36:24.970 --> 01:36:31.390 where there's so many people uncritically accepting this stuff or just don't 01:36:31.390 --> 01:36:33.870 know to even think about it. 01:36:34.090 --> 01:36:34.450 Well, the tariffs. 01:36:34.650 --> 01:36:41.070 We are, the danger is increasing dramatically as this stuff improves. 01:36:41.190 --> 01:36:44.130 But I think that's, again, that's what's going to separate people. 01:36:44.470 --> 01:36:49.390 You know, they're talking about people now that are AI proficient, right? 01:36:49.870 --> 01:36:53.750 In order to do their jobs. I think, once again, That's going to be what separates 01:36:53.750 --> 01:36:57.530 people that know what the fuck they're doing or people that wind up bankrupting 01:36:57.530 --> 01:37:00.790 their company because they use the wrong fucking model to calculate, say, 01:37:00.990 --> 01:37:04.850 a car loan, for example, that basically all of a sudden winds up losing money 01:37:04.850 --> 01:37:06.470 on every damn car deal going out. 01:37:07.030 --> 01:37:11.210 Well, but I'm talking more tying it back to the political stuff, right? 01:37:11.310 --> 01:37:14.590 Oh, well, but fuck. Look, look, but come on. We've been living with this. 01:37:15.170 --> 01:37:17.930 Listen, did we really need it? 01:37:17.970 --> 01:37:21.370 I'm just saying it's getting worse. Not that it hasn't existed for a long time. 01:37:21.370 --> 01:37:26.550 Well, it's, I mean, I don't know how much worse it is because look, 01:37:26.710 --> 01:37:34.090 we already had armies of people generating junk, fake content constantly pumped 01:37:34.090 --> 01:37:37.190 out every day with armies of like, you know, 01:37:37.450 --> 01:37:42.650 using robotic, you know, RPA processes and bots and programs and just, you know, 01:37:42.950 --> 01:37:48.970 creating all these fucking bots all over the place, just pushing out the shit all the fucking time. 01:37:48.970 --> 01:37:51.790 So, I don't know. I mean, now... 01:37:51.790 --> 01:37:55.490 The most recent example being that whole Cracker Barrel thing from a few weeks 01:37:55.490 --> 01:37:57.730 ago turns out to be entirely driven by bots. 01:37:58.010 --> 01:38:03.630 Exactly. It was totally, you know, fake. Yes. I mean, I... 01:38:03.630 --> 01:38:07.450 Well, it was fake until it was real because the fake activity got some people 01:38:07.450 --> 01:38:08.570 actually caring about it. 01:38:08.570 --> 01:38:10.730 Got people actually riled up for real. Yes. 01:38:11.250 --> 01:38:16.250 Yes. Which is the point of it, which is why they do it. And all I'm saying is 01:38:16.250 --> 01:38:23.170 the amount of cost and effort to do that is plummeting, you know? 01:38:23.350 --> 01:38:25.010 I don't know about, I don't know. Listen. 01:38:26.150 --> 01:38:30.230 Right now, it's really not plummeting because the compute capacity is still 01:38:30.230 --> 01:38:31.410 relatively inexpensive. 01:38:31.810 --> 01:38:37.150 But the thing is, these companies are giving it away for free even if they're paying for it. 01:38:37.350 --> 01:38:41.190 Well, look, again, this goes back to what the fuck happened 20 years ago. 01:38:41.290 --> 01:38:44.010 Let me tell you something, okay? This free shit is going to end pretty quickly. 01:38:44.470 --> 01:38:47.090 I've got to tell you this right now because this is the fucking thing I talked 01:38:47.090 --> 01:38:48.650 about the internet or whatever 30 years ago. 01:38:48.810 --> 01:38:50.930 I'm going to say, oh, no, no, but it's all free. It's all free. 01:38:50.930 --> 01:38:53.330 Let me tell you something. This free shit is going to end pretty fucking soon. 01:38:53.970 --> 01:38:57.550 Somebody's got to pay the bills. So somebody's going to have to fucking pay 01:38:57.550 --> 01:38:59.510 for it. There's got to be a way to make fucking money. 01:38:59.730 --> 01:39:03.570 And the typical, the pattern that has happened industry after industry after 01:39:03.570 --> 01:39:08.390 industry that we've talked about before on this show is that the first wave 01:39:08.390 --> 01:39:13.290 who's jumping into this is not typically the one who actually ends up getting the money. 01:39:13.630 --> 01:39:18.890 Like a lot of the first wave ends up failing utterly and the second wave succeeds. 01:39:18.950 --> 01:39:19.490 Well, it depends. 01:39:19.810 --> 01:39:22.530 There are always a few survivors from the first wave. 01:39:22.670 --> 01:39:27.310 Look at streaming. Okay. For example. Look at streaming, right? 01:39:27.550 --> 01:39:30.410 You know, because everybody thought it was free. You could watch all these programs, 01:39:30.570 --> 01:39:31.130 blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. 01:39:31.490 --> 01:39:34.730 Reality is that the first one that really jumped into this was Netflix, you know? 01:39:35.510 --> 01:39:38.770 Well, they weren't the first first, but yes, they were the first to make it popular. 01:39:39.010 --> 01:39:42.250 Well, yes, but that's what I'm saying. They're the first one that really people 01:39:42.250 --> 01:39:44.450 used, okay, as a service. 01:39:44.950 --> 01:39:48.250 And, I mean, you know, they were a pioneer in it and the way that they marketed 01:39:48.250 --> 01:39:50.190 it, the way that had the programs held, man. 01:39:50.330 --> 01:39:54.670 I mean, and look where they are. I mean, it's still, you know, 01:39:54.790 --> 01:39:55.950 and at first it was super cheap. 01:39:56.110 --> 01:39:59.850 Now we're talking about how everybody's having to pay for everything, you know. 01:40:00.580 --> 01:40:05.940 I think we've had a lot of, I think like everything, of course, 01:40:06.300 --> 01:40:10.320 you know, yeah, some of the people right now, early, maybe later, 01:40:10.360 --> 01:40:11.940 are not going to be doing as well and whatnot. 01:40:12.140 --> 01:40:14.960 But my whole thing is that at some point, listen, somebody's going to have to 01:40:14.960 --> 01:40:16.420 make fucking money on this damn shit. 01:40:16.500 --> 01:40:20.640 Well, yeah, no, absolutely. My point was just it might the people who end up 01:40:20.640 --> 01:40:24.960 making the most money and may like transform the world may not be the sec may 01:40:24.960 --> 01:40:30.920 not exist yet. It may be the second round of companies after the first round makes all the mistakes. 01:40:31.000 --> 01:40:34.560 But one thing is that right now the- And builds out the infrastructure that 01:40:34.560 --> 01:40:37.660 the other ones can build on. The adoption rate right now of this across the 01:40:37.660 --> 01:40:44.860 board is so high that people, listen, people are addicted to this shit, okay? 01:40:45.060 --> 01:40:45.240 Yeah. 01:40:46.020 --> 01:40:50.960 They're going to spend money because, I mean, you want to take it away. They're addicted. 01:40:51.140 --> 01:40:55.540 Listen, like I said the other day- I am paying several, I am paying Anthropic. 01:40:55.780 --> 01:40:58.000 I am paying OpenAI right now. 01:40:58.280 --> 01:41:00.860 I'm paying whoever owns Cursor. 01:41:01.200 --> 01:41:05.700 I'm already paying several of these companies to use their products. 01:41:05.740 --> 01:41:09.300 Look, like there was a guy, I can't remember why the hell he blurted this out 01:41:09.300 --> 01:41:12.500 to me like a few months ago that I said this, that also just walked up to me 01:41:12.500 --> 01:41:18.260 and said, I don't know how I can't write, how anybody writes an email anymore without using AI. 01:41:18.720 --> 01:41:19.140 Right. 01:41:19.320 --> 01:41:22.900 Just blurted it out. That's the kind of dependence that we're talking about, okay? 01:41:23.260 --> 01:41:25.940 Oh, yeah. And that's what they're counting on, right? 01:41:26.060 --> 01:41:26.160 Right. 01:41:26.360 --> 01:41:28.840 You know, is that you give it away for free, you get people addicted, 01:41:28.840 --> 01:41:30.340 and then you ramp up the price. Yeah. 01:41:30.440 --> 01:41:30.620 Yes. 01:41:30.780 --> 01:41:36.940 It's the typical, I mean, this has been a pattern in many industries over the years. 01:41:37.100 --> 01:41:37.260 Yeah. 01:41:37.380 --> 01:41:38.860 This is no different. It's a well-known technique. 01:41:39.020 --> 01:41:39.980 And it is so different. 01:41:41.600 --> 01:41:46.060 Anyway, I'm just saying, trouble. Lots of trouble ahead. 01:41:46.300 --> 01:41:48.700 Fucking, come on. Listen, we have trouble. We've got to. 01:41:49.280 --> 01:41:52.460 We've always got trouble. We've got trouble in River City. Yeah. 01:41:53.910 --> 01:41:57.790 We got a four alarm fire going off every day right now, for God's sakes. 01:41:58.070 --> 01:42:02.490 And people are like right now so numb that they're like, what, 01:42:02.790 --> 01:42:05.630 what, Trump, what, Trump, he what? 01:42:07.310 --> 01:42:08.450 He's going to Walter Reed. 01:42:09.350 --> 01:42:12.630 Yeah, let's do that. That's on the list too. I had a couple down, 01:42:12.790 --> 01:42:13.990 but let's jump to Walter Reed. 01:42:14.210 --> 01:42:14.730 I don't know. 01:42:14.770 --> 01:42:19.990 Trump is having an annual checkup for the second time in six months. 01:42:20.690 --> 01:42:21.170 So 01:42:24.110 --> 01:42:30.430 I'm sure that's not that I'm sure it's fine nothing he loves doctors he just 01:42:30.430 --> 01:42:35.350 likes going to Walter Reed it's the fun little trip over there you know. 01:42:35.350 --> 01:42:36.830 It's where my dad was born. 01:42:36.830 --> 01:42:39.210 No shit my. 01:42:39.210 --> 01:42:40.350 Dad was born at Walter Reed. 01:42:40.350 --> 01:42:48.950 Oh look at that okay there you go but it's a fun tidbit but look We were talking 01:42:48.950 --> 01:42:50.170 about this. Something's wrong. 01:42:50.390 --> 01:42:52.590 I mean, his health is deteriorating. 01:42:53.050 --> 01:42:57.710 Seriously. I mean, I don't know. And I mean, I don't know if we're talking about 01:42:57.710 --> 01:43:03.530 90 to 30, 90 to 80, what exactly the degree is. 01:43:03.710 --> 01:43:06.670 But look, he has, there is something wrong. 01:43:07.610 --> 01:43:10.970 It's getting worse. He has been masking this stuff. 01:43:11.230 --> 01:43:14.050 He had been disappearing. all of a sudden, exactly like you just said, 01:43:14.470 --> 01:43:20.890 a second annual physical within six months, something's wrong, okay? 01:43:21.330 --> 01:43:25.230 And I hope whatever it is, it moves faster. 01:43:27.930 --> 01:43:31.970 Yes, you're eager to hurry up on to J.D. Vance. 01:43:32.150 --> 01:43:39.750 I mean, I gotta be honest, I like my chances against J.D. Vance a lot more. 01:43:41.770 --> 01:43:44.670 I'm perfectly fine trying to take on the couch fucker. 01:43:45.720 --> 01:43:48.800 I think he is a much easier target. 01:43:49.740 --> 01:43:53.300 Right. Anyway, yeah, he's going to Walter Reed. 01:43:53.580 --> 01:43:57.540 We'll see. Or we won't see because they won't tell. They will announce that 01:43:57.540 --> 01:44:02.400 he is, once again, the fittest male specimen that has ever been seen. 01:44:02.700 --> 01:44:03.280 Ever! Ever! 01:44:03.380 --> 01:44:04.240 Ever! Ever been seen. 01:44:04.400 --> 01:44:07.060 More, more, more potent than ever! 01:44:07.900 --> 01:44:12.940 Exactly. That's Donald for you. Anyway, yeah, so he's going to Walter Reed. 01:44:12.940 --> 01:44:18.520 Okay, but while he is at Walter Reed, he's undoubtedly—actually, 01:44:18.560 --> 01:44:25.960 if I remember right, the Nobel Peace Prize winner will be announced probably 01:44:25.960 --> 01:44:27.360 before we get this show out. 01:44:27.460 --> 01:44:31.420 It's due to be announced within the next 24 hours, and it's got to be Donald 01:44:31.420 --> 01:44:33.660 Trump because of the new Gaza peace deal, right? 01:44:34.200 --> 01:44:36.120 Right. Of course, he's going to win. 01:44:36.220 --> 01:44:36.320 Right. 01:44:37.580 --> 01:44:40.820 Apparently, that's not the case. Apparently, they already know that he's not 01:44:40.820 --> 01:44:46.920 going to win, and the regions are kind of, like, gearing up for Trump's tantrum 01:44:46.920 --> 01:44:48.880 over the fact that he didn't get his little prize. 01:44:49.360 --> 01:44:55.420 Now, having said that, though, as we record this, it does look like at least 01:44:55.420 --> 01:44:59.660 the first stage of this thing in Gaza is going to happen. 01:44:59.940 --> 01:45:02.740 Right, but that's where we're at. We're at the first fucking stage. 01:45:02.820 --> 01:45:06.280 And by the way, I don't give a shit, even if this thing works. 01:45:06.280 --> 01:45:10.740 He allowed the complete destruction of Gaza under his watch, okay? 01:45:10.940 --> 01:45:14.940 He stood not in the way of them. So now all of a sudden— Ivan. 01:45:15.060 --> 01:45:16.340 Ivan, Ivan, you've got to stop. 01:45:16.620 --> 01:45:17.100 It was Biden. 01:45:17.660 --> 01:45:18.560 It was Biden's fault. 01:45:18.560 --> 01:45:19.080 It was Biden, yeah. 01:45:19.180 --> 01:45:19.860 It was all Biden's fault. 01:45:19.880 --> 01:45:22.600 He did nothing. Right. And, you know, Mr. 01:45:22.720 --> 01:45:27.660 I'm just shooting people at sea because, you know, I'm good at doesn't get a 01:45:27.660 --> 01:45:30.700 fucking peace price for nothing. Stupid piece of shit. 01:45:31.220 --> 01:45:35.100 Now, what do you think of the thing in Gaza, though? Like, so the initial deal 01:45:35.100 --> 01:45:40.200 that looks like it may be happening is releasing the rest of my breath. 01:45:40.200 --> 01:45:42.020 That this will, this will last too long. 01:45:42.500 --> 01:45:47.600 Yeah. My, my thought is I'm, I'm honestly surprised it's gotten as far as it 01:45:47.600 --> 01:45:51.580 has, but it looks fairly possible. 01:45:51.740 --> 01:45:56.180 And you guys listening will know better than we do as we're recording on Thursday 01:45:56.180 --> 01:46:01.500 night, us time. But it looks fairly possible that the last 20 or so remaining 01:46:01.500 --> 01:46:06.660 hostages that are still alive may be handed back to Israel this weekend. 01:46:06.960 --> 01:46:09.380 And Israel has agreed to... 01:46:10.560 --> 01:46:14.420 They withdraw from the major cities, not withdraw from Gaza, 01:46:14.640 --> 01:46:20.160 but withdraw from the major cities in Gaza and stop the bombing of Gaza as part 01:46:20.160 --> 01:46:22.120 of this phase one part of the deal. 01:46:22.320 --> 01:46:27.260 They had their vote of their cabinet a few hours ago and they approved it, 01:46:27.440 --> 01:46:32.660 which some people were wondering if there might be hardliners that held out, but they didn't. 01:46:32.720 --> 01:46:37.500 So it looks like at least this first stage is happening. The remaining stages 01:46:37.500 --> 01:46:43.200 are tougher because they involve things like who will run Gaza afterwards? 01:46:43.620 --> 01:46:49.560 Does Hamas get any representation whatsoever? Israelis say no. Hamas says yes. 01:46:51.020 --> 01:46:58.060 how exactly will disarmament work uh how how far with the will the israelis 01:46:58.060 --> 01:47:03.620 withdraw will will the palestinian authority be involved in any way will there 01:47:03.620 --> 01:47:08.320 be peacekeepers from other countries there are all kinds of open issues that so yeah. 01:47:08.320 --> 01:47:11.520 I know this is like very early so who the hell knows okay yeah. 01:47:11.520 --> 01:47:17.200 So like you know so i i feel like again i'm surprised they got as far as they did. 01:47:17.800 --> 01:47:21.520 I will be pleasantly surprised if they get through this weekend and actually 01:47:21.520 --> 01:47:24.100 do the things they say this will happen this weekend. 01:47:24.580 --> 01:47:30.980 But I will be utterly shocked still if these later phases actually happen where 01:47:30.980 --> 01:47:38.260 the harder questions have been pushed off towards, you know, so we shall see. Okay. 01:47:38.780 --> 01:47:41.180 I'll bring up another thing. Okay. 01:47:41.280 --> 01:47:43.780 Bring up another thing. We all got like a couple more. 01:47:43.780 --> 01:47:47.480 Yeah, yeah, yeah. By the way, we just set $20 billion on fire. 01:47:48.800 --> 01:47:49.320 Yes. 01:47:50.640 --> 01:47:56.280 This bailout that we did of Argentina, I'm speechless right now what the fuck we did. 01:47:56.480 --> 01:48:00.820 We went and we basically bought, we took $20 billion U.S. 01:48:00.920 --> 01:48:06.000 dollars from our treasury, and I've never heard this being done like in this 01:48:06.000 --> 01:48:09.840 fashion, and just bought $20 billion of Argentine pesos. 01:48:09.840 --> 01:48:17.280 Now, any of you that you've heard me talk about the Argentine peso in this program, 01:48:17.620 --> 01:48:27.440 okay, it is one of the most devalued currencies that basically loses the values 01:48:27.440 --> 01:48:29.160 faster than anything, okay? 01:48:29.160 --> 01:48:34.660 Look, the last time I was doing shipments out of Argentina, when I was like 01:48:34.660 --> 01:48:43.600 doing mostly importing into Argentina, the exchange rate was something like about 50, 60 to one. 01:48:43.780 --> 01:48:46.620 That was five years ago. Right now is 1500. 01:48:47.540 --> 01:48:52.760 That's in five years. Okay. The Argentine peso does not hold value, 01:48:52.920 --> 01:48:58.540 which is literally just set $20 billion US dollars on fire. 01:48:59.160 --> 01:49:04.460 Well, but again, are you properly taking into account the corruption? 01:49:06.230 --> 01:49:09.990 Am I properly taking it into account? 01:49:10.610 --> 01:49:15.670 Because now isn't a significant portion of this, the reason for potentially 01:49:15.670 --> 01:49:21.870 doing this, that a bunch of Donald Trump's friends have investments in Argentina 01:49:21.870 --> 01:49:23.790 that they want to prop up? 01:49:23.790 --> 01:49:29.910 Here is, well, this has to do with the fact that a whole bunch of Scott Bessette's 01:49:29.910 --> 01:49:32.110 friends were directly, okay? 01:49:32.450 --> 01:49:35.710 I had bought up a whole bunch of distressed Argentine bonds. 01:49:36.230 --> 01:49:38.290 And they had been looking to get paid. 01:49:39.430 --> 01:49:42.790 And the bonds had dropped in value substantially. 01:49:43.250 --> 01:49:51.070 And one way to prop up the value of those bonds is by basically giving $20 billion 01:49:51.070 --> 01:49:54.590 to the Argentine treasury so they could have the money. 01:49:55.570 --> 01:50:01.970 There you go. So you're not setting it on fire. You are indirectly giving it to your friends. 01:50:03.530 --> 01:50:10.150 Okay. That's another way to look at it. Yes. Well, not my friends. 01:50:10.670 --> 01:50:16.330 Well, not your friends, but I guarantee the administration is not looking at 01:50:16.330 --> 01:50:19.690 this in terms of how will my investment in the pesos do. 01:50:19.750 --> 01:50:27.390 By the way, this thing about bondholders going and pushing action on distressed 01:50:27.390 --> 01:50:31.650 bonds so the administration does something that is favorable to them, 01:50:31.770 --> 01:50:33.910 isn't just they're doing the same thing in Puerto Rico. 01:50:34.190 --> 01:50:37.870 In Puerto Rico, he fired the fiscal control board, which, by the way, 01:50:37.950 --> 01:50:40.450 they actually sued and a number of them got their seats back. 01:50:40.610 --> 01:50:44.710 But the main reason he did that is because there's a whole bunch of other bondholders 01:50:44.710 --> 01:50:49.830 that are chubby with the administration that own, you know, electric authority bonds. 01:50:50.010 --> 01:50:53.530 And those bonds were going to get a massive haircut. 01:50:53.810 --> 01:50:58.450 And with this, they're hoping that they get a lot more of their money, 01:50:58.670 --> 01:51:01.770 that they're able to claim a lot more money than they were before. 01:51:02.690 --> 01:51:10.170 So it's just the fucking corruption from these guys is just, you know, incredible. 01:51:10.570 --> 01:51:15.130 And by the way, we gave the $20 billion to Argentina that right now is like 01:51:15.130 --> 01:51:19.770 open the spigot in terms of soybean exports. 01:51:19.770 --> 01:51:25.950 OK, right now, they actually did something which I actually agree they should 01:51:25.950 --> 01:51:29.830 have done a long time ago, which was hindering exports, which was they had an 01:51:29.830 --> 01:51:31.550 export tax in Argentina. 01:51:31.950 --> 01:51:35.210 for a long time, like 35%, if I remember correctly. 01:51:35.710 --> 01:51:39.310 So they were taxing exporters. And so a lot of the exporters were pissed off 01:51:39.310 --> 01:51:40.710 because, hey, we're trying to sell our stuff. 01:51:40.890 --> 01:51:45.570 You know, we're bringing in the hard currency and you're making us pay 35%. What the fuck? 01:51:45.970 --> 01:51:50.430 Well, they lifted that tax. Well, guess what? Makes their soybeans a lot more 01:51:50.430 --> 01:51:52.010 favorable. They're selling them to China. 01:51:52.850 --> 01:51:56.750 And what's happening with U.S. soybeans, Sam? Are we selling a lot of soybeans to China now? 01:51:58.590 --> 01:51:58.970 No. 01:51:59.810 --> 01:52:01.230 As a matter of fact, it's not just... 01:52:01.730 --> 01:52:02.090 Zero. 01:52:02.590 --> 01:52:04.610 The amount right now is zero. 01:52:05.430 --> 01:52:05.790 Yes. 01:52:06.630 --> 01:52:06.990 Zero. 01:52:07.690 --> 01:52:10.690 And how do the soybean farmers feel about this? 01:52:10.910 --> 01:52:15.690 Oh, they're feeling awesome. Great. Many of them have said that if they don't 01:52:15.690 --> 01:52:17.490 get any money by the end of the year, they're going to be bankrupt. 01:52:17.710 --> 01:52:19.550 That they need a bailout. So we're going to bail them out. 01:52:20.190 --> 01:52:22.910 So we bailed out the argentines of $20 billion, and now we're going to give 01:52:22.910 --> 01:52:27.270 another $15 billion. We're basically paying everybody not to do business with the United States. 01:52:27.270 --> 01:52:32.190 I heard Donald Trump specifically say that he would solve this farmer issue 01:52:32.190 --> 01:52:35.510 by looking for the money on the tariff shelf. 01:52:36.110 --> 01:52:41.750 So basically, we're turning us into a tariff-like profit machine, 01:52:41.750 --> 01:52:45.930 but actually stopping shit that makes jobs. Correct? 01:52:46.510 --> 01:52:49.890 I don't see why you... What's wrong with that, Ewan? 01:52:50.470 --> 01:52:55.430 Ah. Makes sense. Okay. I don't know. It's not the way. 01:52:55.430 --> 01:53:00.450 Anyway. Okay. two more things and then we stop number one how's the government 01:53:00.450 --> 01:53:06.690 shutdown going still shut down still shut down there are some weird things happening 01:53:06.690 --> 01:53:08.170 like marjorie taylor green, 01:53:08.830 --> 01:53:12.630 saying that she agrees with the democrats on what they want to do with the health 01:53:12.630 --> 01:53:15.850 insurance stuff yeah um by. 01:53:15.850 --> 01:53:21.090 The way but again it goes back to when did these people change their minds when. 01:53:21.690 --> 01:53:26.390 When it hurts them or their direct friends or family. 01:53:26.790 --> 01:53:33.530 Ah, bam. So two relatives of MTG went to her and said, what the fuck are you doing? 01:53:33.670 --> 01:53:39.190 You guys quadrupling my insurance premiums. I just got my renewal and it's going through the roof. 01:53:40.130 --> 01:53:40.610 Yes. 01:53:40.810 --> 01:53:45.050 And then she goes and says, well, our leadership didn't say any of this to us. 01:53:46.560 --> 01:53:49.180 We just thought there were democratic talking points. 01:53:49.760 --> 01:53:51.000 Yes, exactly. 01:53:51.940 --> 01:53:56.320 Like I said, you're worried about the AI? We don't need the AI to make these 01:53:56.320 --> 01:53:57.440 people believe bullshit. 01:53:57.740 --> 01:54:03.500 We're capable of perfectly generating it without AI on a daily basis. Have you seen the GOP? 01:54:03.880 --> 01:54:09.540 Seriously, these guys cannot. Man, there is a lie generating machine. 01:54:10.520 --> 01:54:15.380 These guys cannot. I mean, the non- And by the way. 01:54:15.460 --> 01:54:18.980 I said this before. I shared a video on the Slack that's related to this as 01:54:18.980 --> 01:54:24.020 well of AOC that I only saw it this week, but I think it was recorded a couple 01:54:24.020 --> 01:54:27.080 months ago when they were doing the big, beautiful bill stuff. 01:54:27.500 --> 01:54:32.120 And basically she said she pulled aside one of her Republican colleagues on 01:54:32.120 --> 01:54:35.760 the floor of the House, away from cameras, whatever, and said, 01:54:35.840 --> 01:54:38.420 look, you're in a rural district. 01:54:38.920 --> 01:54:40.240 You're getting killed. 01:54:40.680 --> 01:54:47.260 This thing is going to shut down rural hospitals. This is going to hurt your district really badly. 01:54:47.580 --> 01:54:50.260 How can you possibly be for this? 01:54:50.820 --> 01:54:54.880 And the person, and she didn't identify who it was or whether they were male 01:54:54.880 --> 01:55:00.140 or female, but the person says, we don't believe you. 01:55:01.580 --> 01:55:08.360 When you say things like this, you can say these Democratic talking points all 01:55:08.360 --> 01:55:12.120 you want, but we don't believe you. 01:55:12.120 --> 01:55:16.960 You are lying. This will not happen. 01:55:18.140 --> 01:55:24.680 And, you know, and AOC is like, but look, we've got all of this information. 01:55:24.800 --> 01:55:28.780 We've got this thing and this analysis and this analysis. 01:55:29.180 --> 01:55:29.240 You're fact diverse. 01:55:30.260 --> 01:55:34.360 And they're like, well, they're lying too, you know. 01:55:35.260 --> 01:55:36.120 Everybody's lying. 01:55:37.260 --> 01:55:38.160 Everybody's lying. 01:55:38.540 --> 01:55:42.240 Except the people that they hear, okay? You know, and this is the thing that 01:55:42.240 --> 01:55:46.060 I, you know, I mentioned this a couple of times that, And I realized that, 01:55:46.140 --> 01:55:49.180 look, Rush Limbaugh patented this, okay? 01:55:49.300 --> 01:55:51.640 He was really the pioneer at this, okay? 01:55:51.780 --> 01:55:59.160 And everybody in the GOP basically now with Trump, they are all completely on this, okay? 01:55:59.400 --> 01:56:04.140 Look, Rush Limbaugh got on the radio and basically every day for hours just lied. 01:56:04.880 --> 01:56:09.620 Lied, lied, lied, lied, lied, lied, lied, lied, lied, one day after another. 01:56:09.800 --> 01:56:12.660 And I mentioned, you know, I listened to hours, hours of him. 01:56:12.800 --> 01:56:14.040 It was just infuriating. 01:56:14.040 --> 01:56:15.620 I used to listen occasionally, too. 01:56:15.820 --> 01:56:18.680 And I kept listening. And I'm like, it was infuriating. I'm like, 01:56:18.860 --> 01:56:22.560 how the fuck do you people not understand that every fucking thing he's saying 01:56:22.560 --> 01:56:26.840 is one lie after another lie after another lie after another lie after another 01:56:26.840 --> 01:56:28.620 lie? And here's the reality, Sam. 01:56:29.140 --> 01:56:31.960 Most of the people don't. They just believe it. 01:56:32.660 --> 01:56:33.040 Yep. 01:56:33.320 --> 01:56:37.140 And I don't need a fucking AI machine to make up the lies because these motherfuckers, 01:56:37.280 --> 01:56:40.840 all of them in the administration, just get up there and just lie nonstop. 01:56:40.840 --> 01:56:45.000 And their constituents are like, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. 01:56:45.120 --> 01:56:47.860 No, that's just a Democratic talking point. I believe her. 01:56:48.300 --> 01:56:53.340 Tylenol. Now and, oh, oh, wait, wait. The circumcisions. Autism. 01:56:53.580 --> 01:56:53.740 Yes. 01:56:53.880 --> 01:56:54.360 Circumcisions. 01:56:55.200 --> 01:56:55.760 Yes. 01:56:56.620 --> 01:56:57.460 Fucking hell. 01:56:57.820 --> 01:57:03.740 So speaking of those kinds of lies, I will transition to my last one of this, 01:57:03.940 --> 01:57:08.380 which is the massive war zone that is Portland. 01:57:09.440 --> 01:57:14.300 Oh, my God. It's awful, Sam. It's really just... 01:57:14.300 --> 01:57:18.520 It's burning to the ground. Everyone's in danger. 01:57:19.580 --> 01:57:28.100 It is a hell zone. And you can tell this by the people in the inflated animal 01:57:28.100 --> 01:57:36.500 costumes singing and dancing and making rude gestures at the ice officers. 01:57:37.000 --> 01:57:37.620 Perfect. 01:57:37.620 --> 01:57:44.340 And the people doing the cha-cha slide and all of this stuff, 01:57:44.700 --> 01:57:49.740 it's just, and actually, we've had a couple legal rulings now. 01:57:49.880 --> 01:57:53.360 The most recent one was actually about Chicago and Illinois, 01:57:53.700 --> 01:58:01.760 where the judge specifically said, I'm sorry, there is no insurrection here. Right. 01:58:02.200 --> 01:58:08.060 You know, and the government was basically trying to say in their case that 01:58:08.060 --> 01:58:11.600 the courts can't override the president's judgment on that. 01:58:11.760 --> 01:58:14.420 If the president says there's an insurrection, there's an insurrection. 01:58:14.740 --> 01:58:15.820 It's fucking bullshit. 01:58:16.340 --> 01:58:17.860 And the judge is like. 01:58:18.790 --> 01:58:22.170 No, that's not happening. 01:58:22.450 --> 01:58:26.250 It just plain is not. The thing that you're describing is the justification 01:58:26.250 --> 01:58:29.590 for your actions is not happening. 01:58:30.310 --> 01:58:33.470 Now, who knows what will happen when that gets to SCOTUS. 01:58:33.910 --> 01:58:38.550 But, you know, for the moment anyway, you know, the courts are basically saying, 01:58:38.690 --> 01:58:41.730 yeah, actually reality does matter. 01:58:42.650 --> 01:58:46.690 and, you know, it is not, you know, 01:58:47.370 --> 01:58:55.310 a hellscape war zone insurrection when you've got the goddamn inflatable frog 01:58:55.310 --> 01:58:59.310 like making fun of the ice officers. 01:59:00.150 --> 01:59:02.590 And then, of course, they pepper spray the frog. 01:59:03.030 --> 01:59:03.770 Of course. 01:59:04.050 --> 01:59:08.810 And they, in fact, they pepper sprayed the vent into the frog costume so that, 01:59:08.930 --> 01:59:12.690 like, it would have the maximum effect on the person inside. Yeah. 01:59:13.970 --> 01:59:18.070 It's ridiculous. You see these videos. Jon Stewart did a good compilation of 01:59:18.070 --> 01:59:21.330 it. If you look on The Daily Show's YouTube and stuff, you'll find it. 01:59:21.650 --> 01:59:26.950 But, like, you know, all kinds of scenes from Portland. And the one thing that 01:59:26.950 --> 01:59:30.410 has got me more than everything else, they do have, like, you know, 01:59:30.510 --> 01:59:33.970 older people singing songs. They have people dancing. 01:59:34.250 --> 01:59:41.050 But the repeated theme over and over and over again are these stupid inflatable animal costumes. 01:59:41.070 --> 01:59:42.230 I love it. It's fantastic. 01:59:42.530 --> 01:59:46.490 You know, the frog, dinosaurs, unicorns, whatever. 01:59:46.710 --> 01:59:47.250 You need Barney. 01:59:47.350 --> 01:59:51.170 And people have pointed out, Barney, there you go. I have not seen a Barney 01:59:51.170 --> 01:59:52.530 yet, but I'm sure it's coming soon. 01:59:53.690 --> 01:59:59.490 But the thing that people have pointed out is, and this relates back to like 01:59:59.490 --> 02:00:05.130 what we said during the damn campaign about how mocking them works better than 02:00:05.130 --> 02:00:07.770 portraying them as dangerous. They are dangerous. 02:00:08.250 --> 02:00:09.810 But you need to mock them. But mocking them. 02:00:09.810 --> 02:00:10.130 Yes. 02:00:10.130 --> 02:00:14.510 Mocking them pierces that better than anything else. 02:00:14.730 --> 02:00:18.670 Yes, yes, yes. Both to them themselves, they don't like being mocked, 02:00:18.730 --> 02:00:20.230 and to their supporters. 02:00:20.490 --> 02:00:27.150 And so these people in Portland who are going around into animal costumes are doing this perfectly. 02:00:27.150 --> 02:00:35.570 Because it highlights just how ridiculous the over-the-top violence that these 02:00:35.570 --> 02:00:41.230 people are engaging in is compared to what's actually the reality on the ground. 02:00:41.410 --> 02:00:46.370 By the way, if a story today also said, who is Antifa's leader? 02:00:46.570 --> 02:00:52.690 Kristi Noem claims the arrest of the founder's girlfriend could unravel the movement, Sam. 02:00:54.270 --> 02:00:57.710 You know, they're taking the girlfriend's boss. 02:00:58.130 --> 02:01:03.490 I saw someone say, like, oh, I didn't know Eleanor Roosevelt was still alive. 02:01:04.610 --> 02:01:05.170 Yes. 02:01:05.950 --> 02:01:11.270 Of course, implying FDR is the founder of anti-fascist from World War II. 02:01:11.630 --> 02:01:12.990 Right. Anyway. 02:01:13.250 --> 02:01:20.210 All right. And we had some other guy. Like Trump had this anti-antifa, 02:01:20.550 --> 02:01:24.850 anti-antifa, whatever, whatever, like conference thing at the White House. 02:01:24.990 --> 02:01:29.850 And one of the people there said, Antifa is real and has been ever since. 02:01:30.050 --> 02:01:37.150 And they pointed out like anti-fascists, like in World War II as their example 02:01:37.150 --> 02:01:41.710 of being the bad guys who'd started this movement. 02:01:41.950 --> 02:01:42.070 Right. 02:01:42.070 --> 02:01:46.550 And it's like they're not even pretending anymore no. 02:01:46.550 --> 02:01:47.790 No no they're not. 02:01:47.790 --> 02:01:55.010 They're like of course we're fascists yes thank you and if you're anti-fascist that's bad sorry. 02:01:55.010 --> 02:01:56.710 Anyway all right we're done. 02:01:56.710 --> 02:02:01.470 Anyway we're done right we're done yeah we're done now done now okay everybody 02:02:01.470 --> 02:02:04.970 go to curmudgeon syphen corner.com look at our website find our archives you 02:02:04.970 --> 02:02:07.430 can check out that episode if you want. 02:02:08.070 --> 02:02:12.570 Again, that is from October 9th, 2015. 02:02:12.770 --> 02:02:16.870 You can go to the 2015 section of the archive and scroll down. 02:02:17.330 --> 02:02:21.470 I did have some weird experiences playing it. I could play it just fine on my 02:02:21.470 --> 02:02:24.430 iPhone, but I had some problems on my computer. I don't know why. 02:02:24.710 --> 02:02:27.690 I'll have to check into that later. But it's there. It works. 02:02:28.270 --> 02:02:31.450 I don't know. Maybe it'll work for you. Maybe it won't. Let me know. 02:02:31.610 --> 02:02:34.170 If it doesn't work for you, give me some specifications. 02:02:34.350 --> 02:02:36.610 It'll help me debug it. But apparently it worked for Yvonne, 02:02:36.730 --> 02:02:37.950 right? You played it off your computer. 02:02:37.970 --> 02:02:39.130 Yes, I played it no problem. 02:02:39.350 --> 02:02:42.590 So Yvonne played it no problem. So maybe it's just me. 02:02:42.750 --> 02:02:48.350 Maybe it's just me. But anyway, the Check Us in 2025 episode from October 9th, 02:02:48.430 --> 02:02:51.390 2015, go check that out. You can check out our other old episodes. 02:02:51.670 --> 02:02:56.070 It's back in the area where I have a little red note saying that the show descriptions 02:02:56.070 --> 02:02:59.150 are all messed up back then. I hadn't made it back. 02:02:59.750 --> 02:03:04.090 Like every once in a while, I'll fix a month of the old show descriptions. 02:03:04.090 --> 02:03:08.090 but we got a long archive here. We've been going since 2007. 02:03:08.770 --> 02:03:17.010 So sorry about that. Anyway, I've only fixed back through 2017 at the moment, August, 2017. I, 02:03:17.660 --> 02:03:22.320 Anyway, you can find all the ways to contact us as well. You can find transcripts of recent shows. 02:03:22.940 --> 02:03:29.560 And of course, you can find a link to our Patreon where you can give Yvonne 02:03:29.560 --> 02:03:31.880 and I money at different levels. We will mention you on the show. 02:03:31.980 --> 02:03:35.500 We will ring a bell. We will send you a postcard. We will send you a mug, all that kind of stuff. 02:03:35.840 --> 02:03:40.000 At $2 a month or more. Or if you just ask, we will invite you to the Commissions 02:03:40.000 --> 02:03:44.860 Corner Slack where Yvonne and I and a whole bunch of our listeners are chatting 02:03:44.860 --> 02:03:48.420 throughout the week about various things and having just tons of fun. 02:03:48.700 --> 02:03:53.420 So, Yvonne, one thing from the Curmudgeon's Corner Slack this week that will 02:03:53.420 --> 02:03:56.220 be so exciting, people will want to sign up and join the Slack. 02:03:56.380 --> 02:03:59.840 Or, if they're already on Slack, just come there more often. 02:04:00.020 --> 02:04:11.820 There was threads where they apparently, Donald was announcing a new line of Trump watches, okay? 02:04:12.160 --> 02:04:12.480 Yes. 02:04:13.080 --> 02:04:15.940 There is new designs in stock. 02:04:15.940 --> 02:04:18.760 There used to be Trump watches earlier, right? So this is a new... 02:04:18.760 --> 02:04:21.900 Yeah, this is a new, new, new watches. 02:04:22.100 --> 02:04:23.240 New and better Trump watches. 02:04:23.240 --> 02:04:27.520 New and, you know, watches. These are, yeah. 02:04:28.060 --> 02:04:31.500 You've got the president of the United States. 02:04:31.740 --> 02:04:37.820 Join President Trump's watch community. Be a part of history. I mean, I... 02:04:38.940 --> 02:04:44.560 There was this movie, like, years ago, that was, oh, God. 02:04:46.240 --> 02:04:49.240 What the heck? Jack Lemmon is president. 02:04:49.520 --> 02:04:55.540 And he was president also with, oh, my God, this other, My Fellow Americans, it was called. 02:04:55.600 --> 02:04:56.460 My Fellow Americans. 02:04:56.540 --> 02:04:59.640 My fellow 1996 comedies about Louisa. 02:04:59.780 --> 02:05:05.080 He was an ex-president along with, Dan Aykroyd was the current president at the time. 02:05:05.480 --> 02:05:10.460 And James Garner was another ex-president. And the thing is that Jack Lemmon, 02:05:10.660 --> 02:05:20.040 as a former president, was hawking every fucking product possible as president. 02:05:20.740 --> 02:05:26.660 I mean, he had this entire lineup of shit that he was just peddling as a former president. 02:05:27.200 --> 02:05:32.860 And honestly, this looks just like the parody that we're making in that movie 02:05:32.860 --> 02:05:34.900 of ex-presidents making money. 02:05:34.900 --> 02:05:41.440 it's exactly what the fuck we're making fun of back then at that movie okay 02:05:41.440 --> 02:05:46.340 i mean this guy is in the white house and he is out there filming commercials 02:05:46.340 --> 02:05:54.160 for these cheap shitty watches okay out there that are another one of his fucking scams right. 02:05:54.160 --> 02:05:56.900 And like he can't get enough scams i mean. 02:05:56.900 --> 02:05:57.780 We mentioned he's. 02:05:57.780 --> 02:06:04.320 Making making millions off the hotel he's making billions off like cryptocurrency scam bullshit. 02:06:05.120 --> 02:06:08.180 You know, he's making like, you know, huge amounts on all these guys, 02:06:08.300 --> 02:06:10.600 but he can't, he has to sell the watches too. 02:06:10.820 --> 02:06:11.720 And the watches. 02:06:12.760 --> 02:06:15.520 And you know, it's gotta be what, it's one of these licensing deals, 02:06:15.700 --> 02:06:17.420 right? You know, where he's whatever. 02:06:18.060 --> 02:06:21.580 Yeah, I'm sure he's making the pay up front like everything. He doesn't want it. 02:06:21.840 --> 02:06:21.860 Yeah. 02:06:22.300 --> 02:06:25.680 You know, they're like, hey, you write my check, a hundred million over here, 02:06:25.840 --> 02:06:27.660 50 million, 30 million, 20 million. 02:06:27.880 --> 02:06:30.580 Just, you write the check first and I'll do the commercial. 02:06:31.260 --> 02:06:35.900 Exactly. you know it's exactly what you want your president doing right yes 02:06:35.900 --> 02:06:37.320 well in the white house of course, 02:06:38.760 --> 02:06:44.540 Is there a corresponding exemption from the tariffs for importing those watches? 02:06:45.020 --> 02:06:49.340 I would, I, you know what? I'm going to guess that if you go through the tariff 02:06:49.340 --> 02:06:54.960 exemptions, I would bet my bottom dollar that that is there. Yes. 02:06:55.200 --> 02:06:56.780 Because you know they're not made in the U.S. 02:06:58.860 --> 02:07:03.880 Come on. Come on. Give me a break. What the, what are you talking about, man? 02:07:05.900 --> 02:07:13.120 i'm sure it's the purest and finest watch being able to made may be made in china absolutely. 02:07:13.800 --> 02:07:19.300 There you go okay we're done thank you everybody for joining us for yet another 02:07:19.300 --> 02:07:25.280 curmudgeon's corner and assuming nothing unexpected happens we will be back next week. 02:07:25.280 --> 02:07:28.720 Hopefully a meteor doesn't hit us this week or anything of the sort. 02:07:28.720 --> 02:07:35.020 No meteor well there's that there's that three-eye atlas thing which is an clearly 02:07:35.020 --> 02:07:40.240 an alien spaceship that's coming to rendezvous and you know i. 02:07:40.240 --> 02:07:41.580 Mean right now is it. 02:07:41.580 --> 02:07:43.240 That i'll turn i. 02:07:43.240 --> 02:07:48.400 Mean if i i could turn every day they'll take over from from trump okay all right sure. 02:07:48.400 --> 02:07:53.040 By the way for those who aren't in touch this is another online conspiracy theory 02:07:53.040 --> 02:07:58.240 that's been spreading is that this comet it is an interstellar comet, 02:08:00.980 --> 02:08:08.420 Comet, not comment. It is an interstellar object, a third ever identified that's 02:08:08.420 --> 02:08:09.640 coming through the solar system. 02:08:09.860 --> 02:08:15.300 All the reputable scientists, of course, are looking at all the planets. 02:08:16.300 --> 02:08:20.780 It's a natural object. There's no evidence that it's actually not a natural object. 02:08:20.920 --> 02:08:24.460 It all makes sense. You have reasonable explanations for everything it's doing. 02:08:24.660 --> 02:08:31.120 But there's a huge group online who are trying to say, no, of course it's a 02:08:31.120 --> 02:08:33.340 spaceship. Of course it's an alien probe. 02:08:33.600 --> 02:08:37.160 It's going to do, you know, all these things are going to happen. 02:08:37.160 --> 02:08:40.800 And it's a big conspiracy, whatever. Yes. 02:08:41.460 --> 02:08:43.380 Okay. We are done. 02:08:44.500 --> 02:08:50.300 We will see you later. We will have one of the aliens on next week. 02:08:50.460 --> 02:08:52.020 Oh, lovely. 02:08:52.400 --> 02:08:57.900 From the alien probe, once it gets done doing experiments on us. 02:08:58.160 --> 02:08:59.940 I don't want any probes. 02:09:00.200 --> 02:09:01.280 No probes? 02:09:01.380 --> 02:09:01.900 No probes. 02:09:01.940 --> 02:09:05.400 No probes. Okay. Bye for real. Goodbye. 02:09:05.940 --> 02:09:06.460 Bye. 02:09:36.460 --> 02:09:40.760 Thank you. okay here comes the stop button see you later von all right.