WEBVTT 00:00:23.780 --> 00:00:32.420 Welcome to Curmudgeon's Corner for Tuesday, December 23rd, 2025. 00:00:32.980 --> 00:00:35.100 It's just after 18 UTC. 00:00:35.700 --> 00:00:39.480 And yeah, we're doing this only three days. Oh yeah, I'm Sam Mentor, 00:00:39.540 --> 00:00:40.660 Yvonne Bowes here. Hello, Yvonne. 00:00:41.320 --> 00:00:42.960 Hi! How? 00:00:43.520 --> 00:00:48.000 And we're doing this only three days after recording our last show, 00:00:48.140 --> 00:00:52.700 because as we alluded to during our last show, we had some scheduling to figure out. 00:00:52.700 --> 00:00:56.000 so because of holiday schedules and 00:00:56.000 --> 00:00:59.420 all that kind of stuff we're recording one show 00:00:59.420 --> 00:01:07.140 it like you know we do one show per saturday to sunday week or no sunday to 00:01:07.140 --> 00:01:10.840 saturday week sunday to saturday week there we go let's say sunday to saturday 00:01:10.840 --> 00:01:17.000 and usually we record on thursday friday or saturday wait. 00:01:17.000 --> 00:01:19.720 Wait wait no no it's monday through sunday week. 00:01:19.720 --> 00:01:23.200 No no no because you push it out You push it. 00:01:23.200 --> 00:01:24.000 Out on Sunday. 00:01:24.260 --> 00:01:33.120 No, no, no. If we record one show every Sunday through Saturday week. 00:01:34.700 --> 00:01:40.460 When I push it out is an entirely different story. It is when we start the recording. 00:01:41.160 --> 00:01:45.280 Yeah, but there is, we could technically record a show on Sunday. 00:01:45.640 --> 00:01:50.500 Yeah, but it would count for the Sunday week, not for the week that just ended. 00:01:50.500 --> 00:01:56.660 I don't think you're right. And I believe that in the past we used to record on Sundays. 00:01:56.660 --> 00:02:03.660 We did. We did. But when we shifted, I made sure the weeks were correct. 00:02:03.660 --> 00:02:09.240 We have done one show per every Sunday to Saturday week since we started. 00:02:10.550 --> 00:02:15.550 So I have been very meticulous about this. Every Sunday through Saturday. 00:02:15.550 --> 00:02:22.410 So you mean to tell me that when we switched, because when we switched the days, 00:02:23.050 --> 00:02:28.370 when we went from Sunday and started recording, that was to you, 00:02:28.570 --> 00:02:32.090 it counted as later in the week, not earlier. 00:02:32.630 --> 00:02:34.690 Yes, that is correct. 00:02:35.710 --> 00:02:41.370 Okay, I will say that I have not gone through and counted, so I trust your— 00:02:41.370 --> 00:02:42.910 And there was never— I trust you. 00:02:43.170 --> 00:02:48.170 I know math isn't your strong suit, but tracking this kind of shit is. 00:02:48.410 --> 00:02:52.350 We have never done a Sunday through Saturday with two shows, 00:02:52.350 --> 00:02:56.590 and we have never done a Sunday through Saturday with zero shows. 00:02:56.590 --> 00:03:05.130 We have all and and importantly, this the measure is when the moment we start 00:03:05.130 --> 00:03:07.990 recording the beginning of the show, 00:03:08.190 --> 00:03:13.470 not when the show is released, because if you count when the show is released, 00:03:13.670 --> 00:03:15.050 what I just said was not true. 00:03:15.350 --> 00:03:19.990 If you count when the show was finished recording, what I said was not true. 00:03:20.310 --> 00:03:25.770 I always kept thought about it based on release in my head. 00:03:26.410 --> 00:03:32.550 No, no. And I'm very careful. Like, the website orders things by the recording date. 00:03:32.890 --> 00:03:33.390 Okay. 00:03:33.710 --> 00:03:36.950 I mean, I list both the recording and release date, but, like, 00:03:36.950 --> 00:03:39.550 when I divide it into months and everything for the archive, 00:03:39.550 --> 00:03:42.010 it's by the recording date, not the release date. 00:03:42.750 --> 00:03:48.750 Okay. And because, you know, there have been circumstances where I have started 00:03:48.750 --> 00:03:53.350 the recording on set. And of course, these weeks are UTC weeks as well, 00:03:53.450 --> 00:03:55.730 of course, to, you know, to be clear. 00:03:56.190 --> 00:04:01.590 Well, that's, I mean, consistent. We've got people listening into a lot of different places. So, you know. 00:04:01.670 --> 00:04:07.890 But there have been weeks where I have started the recording on Saturday at 00:04:07.890 --> 00:04:12.250 the very end of the day UTC and then continued recording. 00:04:12.250 --> 00:04:17.290 Like when I don't have a guest when I'm doing a solo show, I spread the recording 00:04:17.290 --> 00:04:21.690 out. So I have started the recording on Saturday, done more recording on Sunday, 00:04:21.910 --> 00:04:26.570 and even continued recording onto Monday, and then released the damn show on Tuesday. 00:04:26.730 --> 00:04:34.310 But that still counts as the show from the Sunday to Saturday week that had 00:04:34.310 --> 00:04:36.430 ended before I released it. 00:04:37.270 --> 00:04:38.710 Okay, well. 00:04:39.450 --> 00:04:42.710 So anyway, the point is, because of scheduling, 00:04:43.470 --> 00:04:51.830 the show for the December 21st through December 27th week is being recorded 00:04:51.830 --> 00:04:57.630 now on Tuesday the 23rd, and it's going to be a normal show, normal show. 00:04:57.850 --> 00:05:09.510 And then the show for the December 28th through January 3rd will be the last. 00:05:09.750 --> 00:05:12.490 We will do that on the 31st. 00:05:13.950 --> 00:05:18.970 On Wednesday the 31st. And that will be our prediction show. 00:05:19.250 --> 00:05:24.210 Now, to be clear, that's the last show we are recording in 2025. 00:05:24.790 --> 00:05:31.890 It will not come out till 2026. I will probably get that thing out somewhere on New Year's Day. 00:05:33.590 --> 00:05:37.430 Unless I'm delayed, in which case it may be later. And then finally, 00:05:37.670 --> 00:05:44.290 the January 4th to January 10th week, we are going to record on Sunday the 4th, 00:05:44.770 --> 00:05:53.570 and that will be the third week, and that will be the review show of our 2025 predictions. 00:05:54.390 --> 00:05:58.750 So that is the plan for the next few weeks. Those are the dates we're going to record. 00:05:58.910 --> 00:06:03.330 I generally get it out one to two days. I usually get it out within 48 hours 00:06:03.330 --> 00:06:05.850 of recording, but, you know, things sometimes happen. 00:06:06.430 --> 00:06:13.090 You know, but usually I get it out. I try, you know, in my ideal world. 00:06:14.180 --> 00:06:19.400 I get it out, like, the same day we record it. But that often doesn't happen. 00:06:20.060 --> 00:06:26.240 So, anyway, that's our plan. And, you know, and given that we've only had three 00:06:26.240 --> 00:06:31.680 days since our last show, like, there's not a lot of new stuff that we have 00:06:31.680 --> 00:06:33.840 added to our list of things to talk about. 00:06:34.300 --> 00:06:39.440 I got a couple movies, of course, and we have had a few news items happen. 00:06:39.820 --> 00:06:41.960 We have had a few news items happen. 00:06:42.160 --> 00:06:43.620 Yeah, we have. We have. 00:06:44.120 --> 00:06:48.280 So, you know, it's not like we have a dearth of content like right now, 00:06:48.520 --> 00:06:50.800 you know, things happened. 00:06:51.740 --> 00:06:56.260 So, I mean, on Friday, we just had the release of the Epstein files. 00:06:56.420 --> 00:06:59.900 We've gotten more stuff on that, for example, and other stuff. 00:07:00.060 --> 00:07:05.780 We'll go cover that in the news. But once again, my pet peeve strikes again. 00:07:06.620 --> 00:07:07.680 Oh, no. Pet peeve. 00:07:08.720 --> 00:07:12.860 Dammit, this thing with no spare tires on new cars. 00:07:13.480 --> 00:07:21.160 My wife had a doctor's appointment this morning early, a recheck on her Achilles 00:07:21.160 --> 00:07:24.700 tendon surgery, okay, that she had from last year, okay? 00:07:24.880 --> 00:07:28.600 Because, you know, so she had an appointment early this morning, 00:07:28.600 --> 00:07:35.180 and when she leaves the appointment, she calls me up, hey, I think I got flat. 00:07:35.560 --> 00:07:40.200 I'm like, what? Now, this car is not five months old, okay? Okay, 00:07:40.580 --> 00:07:42.100 yep. And I'm like, what the hell? 00:07:42.780 --> 00:07:50.540 I'm like, now, one thing is that this car, okay, all new cars have TPMS in some way. 00:07:50.580 --> 00:07:56.580 But I've learned that there are two methods of tire, TPMS starts for tire pressure 00:07:56.580 --> 00:07:58.240 monitoring system. Okay, okay. 00:07:58.240 --> 00:08:00.420 I was like, what the hell is that acronym? Okay. 00:08:00.520 --> 00:08:04.820 Yeah, okay. TPMS is tire pressure monitoring system. It's this little thing 00:08:04.820 --> 00:08:09.960 that pops up in your dashboard in the simplest cases that shows this little 00:08:09.960 --> 00:08:14.740 tire and a warning, you know, to try to indicate to you that you've got a problem with a tire. 00:08:15.000 --> 00:08:19.700 OK, now, the one thing is that there are simple to complicated systems. 00:08:19.700 --> 00:08:23.420 OK, so there's not one universal implementation of this. 00:08:24.120 --> 00:08:29.940 Some cars, all you get is the little icon on the dashboard, and it doesn't really 00:08:29.940 --> 00:08:34.960 tell you which tire is low or by how much. OK, so it doesn't tell you that. 00:08:36.530 --> 00:08:43.390 A further step is that some, okay, will go in a display, tell you which tire 00:08:43.390 --> 00:08:49.150 it is, but there is no tire pressure sensor on the wheel. 00:08:49.630 --> 00:08:54.630 So all it tells you, hey, it's low, this tire. 00:08:54.890 --> 00:08:57.730 But at least you know which tire they're referring to, okay? 00:08:57.790 --> 00:08:59.050 But not like how much? 00:08:59.310 --> 00:09:07.370 Not by how much. My understanding is that the way that that system works is related to sensors, 00:09:07.850 --> 00:09:13.070 wheel speed sensors, and that it detects that there is something wrong with 00:09:13.070 --> 00:09:22.650 that wheel, how it's moving, compared to a stored value that you do when you fill up the tires, 00:09:23.030 --> 00:09:26.810 you hit the button for reset, you drive, 00:09:27.150 --> 00:09:30.250 it records a measurement of the tires, 00:09:30.250 --> 00:09:33.850 and then if later it the value of 00:09:33.850 --> 00:09:37.150 how it's reading that differs it tells 00:09:37.150 --> 00:09:40.690 you hey that tire has a problem but also again doesn't tell you how much the 00:09:40.690 --> 00:09:45.550 tire pressure is low i find that system annoying okay and it's weird like which 00:09:45.550 --> 00:09:50.050 car makers put that in or not i mean it's like you would think sometimes like 00:09:50.050 --> 00:09:54.630 oh well the luxury cars would have the one with all the luxury cars would have 00:09:54.630 --> 00:09:56.570 the one with the tire pressure, 00:09:56.770 --> 00:10:01.990 but no, my Audi or my Volvo depend on that one, which tells you which tire it 00:10:01.990 --> 00:10:04.610 is, but not the exact tire pressure. 00:10:04.850 --> 00:10:09.710 Now, I've noticed that, for example, here's the weird thing. Volkswagen owns Audi. 00:10:10.540 --> 00:10:15.720 In a regular run-of-the-mill Volkswagens I've had, it said the tire pressure 00:10:15.720 --> 00:10:21.340 on the fucking tire, but not the Audi, which doesn't make any fucking sense, okay? 00:10:21.660 --> 00:10:26.380 All right, I'm like, you know, wait, you took the luxury car, 00:10:26.380 --> 00:10:28.660 you didn't put that on the cheaper one? 00:10:28.840 --> 00:10:33.260 Now, thankfully, my wife's BMW not only gives you tire pressure, 00:10:33.360 --> 00:10:38.440 but I can log in from the app and it'll show that information. 00:10:38.440 --> 00:10:42.120 So lo and behold, at first when I logged in and hadn't updated, 00:10:42.320 --> 00:10:47.380 I checked and I'm like, shit, yeah, you've got, the tire is super low. 00:10:47.580 --> 00:10:53.980 It's like the normal reading is like 36 to 39 PSI, it had 16. 00:10:55.920 --> 00:11:01.160 So I was like, here's a problem. Once again, there's no spare tire. 00:11:01.600 --> 00:11:02.100 Right. 00:11:02.680 --> 00:11:06.980 She had to get towed to fucking BMW. There's no other way to fix this. 00:11:07.980 --> 00:11:14.380 annoying. This is ridiculous. This is the worst fuck. And here's the other thing. 00:11:14.740 --> 00:11:21.200 BMW used to, when they moved to removing spare tires, made a point to put run-flat 00:11:21.200 --> 00:11:23.320 tires on all their cars for many years. 00:11:24.440 --> 00:11:27.360 Many people bitched about the run-flat tires. 00:11:28.120 --> 00:11:33.420 They said they ride harder, they're more expensive, whatever. 00:11:33.800 --> 00:11:39.400 So for whatever the hell damn reason, They decide, ah, we'll stick non-run flat tires. 00:11:39.620 --> 00:11:42.780 Nobody else is anyway. We were the only idiots doing it. 00:11:43.160 --> 00:11:46.740 And we got shit from everybody for it. Yeah, well, great. 00:11:47.220 --> 00:11:51.000 She had to call fucking tow to go for a fucking tire. 00:11:51.220 --> 00:11:55.760 This is the biggest bullshit in autos ever. 00:11:56.400 --> 00:12:00.820 I, you know, having to get towed for a fucking tire is so dumb. 00:12:01.720 --> 00:12:05.520 Let me ask, at this point, couldn't you have... 00:12:06.410 --> 00:12:11.110 Yeah, the people who do tires, couldn't they have the service where instead 00:12:11.110 --> 00:12:14.830 of towing you, they bring the new tire to you and do it? Like, 00:12:14.950 --> 00:12:16.330 you don't have a spare with you. 00:12:16.530 --> 00:12:19.810 As a matter of fact, the answer is yes. Okay? And as a matter of fact, 00:12:19.830 --> 00:12:25.730 I've had a mobile tire installer come and do tires at my house. 00:12:25.990 --> 00:12:26.390 Okay? 00:12:27.330 --> 00:12:30.410 They come with this vehicle, the whole thing. They got the machine. 00:12:30.510 --> 00:12:32.850 They got everything. They can ride on the spot. Boom, boom, boom. 00:12:33.010 --> 00:12:34.730 Do the whole thing. But that's not very common. 00:12:35.890 --> 00:12:38.530 It's complicated. It's expensive. It's a lot of equipment. 00:12:39.050 --> 00:12:42.530 Because you have to have the right kind of tires as well. You have to have the right... 00:12:42.530 --> 00:12:50.410 Exactly. Yeah. Well, you probably, I think in this tire's case, you can repair it. 00:12:50.910 --> 00:12:51.630 Okay. Yep. 00:12:51.970 --> 00:12:54.790 Whatever it was, was repairable. You didn't need to replace the tire. 00:12:54.910 --> 00:12:57.910 But yeah, if it's a tire that needs full replacement, then you have to have 00:12:57.910 --> 00:13:01.810 the inventory of the tire on board and you may not be able to get that. 00:13:01.810 --> 00:13:08.550 So it takes a lay. So, but still, this is the greatest leap backwards in autos. 00:13:08.950 --> 00:13:13.190 No spare tire. And, oh, yeah, we're not going to give you a run flat tires either 00:13:13.190 --> 00:13:15.530 because people hate them for whatever reason. 00:13:15.690 --> 00:13:20.330 You could always buy your own spare tire and just put it in the trunk. 00:13:21.150 --> 00:13:25.050 Yes, but that's quite a small trunk. So, basically, our trunk would be quite 00:13:25.050 --> 00:13:26.610 useless. Now, I have heard. 00:13:26.610 --> 00:13:27.970 Just put it in the back seat instead. 00:13:28.790 --> 00:13:33.430 Oh, yes, of course, because I never have passengers in the backseat. 00:13:33.550 --> 00:13:35.510 Of course, why would I need the backseat either? 00:13:36.090 --> 00:13:38.130 Put it in the passenger seat up front? 00:13:38.230 --> 00:13:42.090 Look, I have heard they sell this kit for some kind of like... 00:13:42.090 --> 00:13:43.230 Tie it to the roof. 00:13:46.170 --> 00:13:51.330 That sounds lovely. Sounds like a great idea. By the way, they also do it because 00:13:51.330 --> 00:13:53.130 of weight reduction. You know this, right? 00:13:53.410 --> 00:13:54.250 Yeah, yeah, yeah. 00:13:55.170 --> 00:13:59.090 It's so dumb. I want, you know, fucking cars. 00:13:59.590 --> 00:14:04.390 If you're not going to have a fucking spare tire, you should be mandated to put run flat tires. 00:14:05.540 --> 00:14:08.220 It's just the dumbest thing. I hate this. 00:14:09.000 --> 00:14:09.820 Okay, then. 00:14:10.220 --> 00:14:14.260 So this morning, yeah, you know, she just, but literally, Sam, 00:14:14.400 --> 00:14:17.360 this happened at 930 in the morning. 00:14:17.600 --> 00:14:22.380 It took her three and a half hours to get this thing resolved. 00:14:23.520 --> 00:14:24.440 Very nice. 00:14:24.840 --> 00:14:30.280 So, yeah. Again, I rant. I hate no spare tires. 00:14:31.260 --> 00:14:34.780 I understand. I mean, yeah. 00:14:36.620 --> 00:14:40.180 Look, I'll be honest. If I had a flat, I wouldn't want to be... 00:14:40.180 --> 00:14:44.480 I probably would call AAA over changing the tire myself. 00:14:44.480 --> 00:14:47.480 But they would come in and change the tire for you right there. 00:14:47.900 --> 00:14:49.600 Exactly. Like, if you had one. 00:14:49.720 --> 00:14:49.860 Yeah. 00:14:50.380 --> 00:14:54.080 And obviously, my new car doesn't have one either. I don't think my one before 00:14:54.080 --> 00:14:57.920 this had one. You know? It's just... I don't know. 00:14:58.040 --> 00:15:00.360 But they would come over and fucking change the tire for you. 00:15:00.440 --> 00:15:03.100 That's what they used to do when people didn't know how to change a spare tire. 00:15:04.080 --> 00:15:07.540 And that got you going, like, real quick. You didn't have to be there for three 00:15:07.540 --> 00:15:11.880 and a half hours to fucking, like, deal with the damn tire. Pain in my ass. 00:15:12.720 --> 00:15:16.380 Okay, you got anything else for this segment? Or should I jump right into it? 00:15:16.380 --> 00:15:22.360 I will say that I, at changing spare tires, was pretty adept at it, okay? 00:15:22.880 --> 00:15:26.660 I still remember this one time that I had this Honda Accord. 00:15:26.760 --> 00:15:30.140 We were driving to the airport. I was driving to the airport to take a friend of mine. 00:15:30.560 --> 00:15:35.780 And I had a flat on the way. And it's not like this was the pre-TSA days. 00:15:36.440 --> 00:15:40.420 So it's not like we had, I was like, I built in like, it's not like I was heading 00:15:40.420 --> 00:15:43.700 over there to drop them off like an hour and a half in advance or something. 00:15:43.820 --> 00:15:46.040 No, we were going there tight on time. 00:15:46.520 --> 00:15:51.280 I was able to pull over and change the tire in less than 10 minutes and get 00:15:51.280 --> 00:15:53.460 to the airport without, without any issues. 00:15:54.100 --> 00:15:56.160 I got it done in less than 10 minutes. Boom. 00:15:56.280 --> 00:15:58.020 I'm in, you know, I'm impressed, Mr. Bo. 00:15:58.480 --> 00:16:06.380 Yeah. So, you know, I could do that. Fuck. you know anyway all right it's moving on sam movies. 00:16:06.380 --> 00:16:11.880 Movies well before movies i just want to mention one thing like the last few 00:16:11.880 --> 00:16:17.140 days since the last show i've been running an annoying fever in the afternoons 00:16:17.140 --> 00:16:26.360 and at night like no no i i am nearly 100 sure it is a uh a uti i. 00:16:26.360 --> 00:16:28.820 Was gonna say Don't tell me you got kidney stones again. 00:16:29.640 --> 00:16:33.940 Well, it might be. I don't know. Like the symptoms are consistent whenever I, 00:16:34.140 --> 00:16:39.600 for those who haven't listened long enough, I have had recurrent kidney stones since I was 25 years old. 00:16:40.060 --> 00:16:45.200 Like, you know, like once a year, maybe something like that. 00:16:45.360 --> 00:16:48.880 Anyway, like it's consistent with that. Like a couple of weeks ago, 00:16:48.880 --> 00:16:53.740 I had some, some lower back pain that's consistent with where the kidneys are. 00:16:53.740 --> 00:16:58.100 and then a couple weeks after that I'll often get like, 00:16:58.860 --> 00:17:02.540 a UTI as the stone works its way out. 00:17:02.740 --> 00:17:08.080 But every once in a while, I'll have a UTI without and noticing that I've passed anything. 00:17:08.280 --> 00:17:13.080 But anyway, so like the last few days, I've been like spiking till like last 00:17:13.080 --> 00:17:16.760 night, like I was at 103.5 for a while. 00:17:17.000 --> 00:17:19.240 Jesus Christ, I would have gone to the ER. 00:17:19.620 --> 00:17:22.520 I was like, we were considering it. 00:17:22.800 --> 00:17:28.440 We were like, if this doesn't go down, and, you know, I took some more ibuprofen. 00:17:28.640 --> 00:17:30.220 I drank a bunch of cold water. 00:17:30.540 --> 00:17:33.700 It went down a little bit and then started heading down. And then by the time 00:17:33.700 --> 00:17:39.720 I woke up in the morning, it was normal again, but it's inching its way back up now. 00:17:39.820 --> 00:17:41.820 Okay, tip, tip. 00:17:42.040 --> 00:17:42.460 Yes, tip. 00:17:43.860 --> 00:17:46.180 Acetaminophen is better for a fever than ibuprofen. 00:17:46.340 --> 00:17:51.560 I have heard such. It's just that's the one that I knew where the jar was. 00:17:52.080 --> 00:17:56.120 Okay, well, you should go find the acetaminophen because it is better for a fever. 00:17:57.500 --> 00:18:00.580 And by the way, you could take them concurrently, by the way. 00:18:00.700 --> 00:18:07.460 You don't have to. The other thing, though, is the fever is presumably doing its job. 00:18:07.660 --> 00:18:11.480 You reduce the fever in order for comfort. 00:18:12.400 --> 00:18:17.920 What, you think you're heating off? That's not the way it works. 00:18:18.320 --> 00:18:22.740 That's not the way it works. What the hell? You're listening to RFK Jr. 00:18:22.940 --> 00:18:27.380 for fucking, you know, healing tips? 00:18:27.660 --> 00:18:30.140 That's not the way it works. It's not like you're heating off, 00:18:30.260 --> 00:18:33.140 killing the bacteria with the heat. No. 00:18:34.080 --> 00:18:38.320 The fever is a sign of an infection that needs to be treated, 00:18:38.580 --> 00:18:41.520 not the fever is killing the infection. 00:18:42.160 --> 00:18:47.940 Well, the fever is your body's immune response kicking into the antibiotics. 00:18:47.940 --> 00:18:53.440 No, no, no, no, no. The fever is a sign that your body is fighting something, okay? 00:18:54.100 --> 00:18:54.360 Right. 00:18:54.380 --> 00:18:59.620 It's like your car is overheating. The overheating isn't fixing the engine. 00:18:59.840 --> 00:19:03.040 It's a sign that there is something wrong with the engine. 00:19:03.040 --> 00:19:08.100 That's why I have to go to the auto parts store and try to put that like hose on. 00:19:09.400 --> 00:19:10.800 Yes. Right. 00:19:12.740 --> 00:19:15.120 Anyway, I just want to mention. 00:19:17.260 --> 00:19:19.040 Yes. Yes. 00:19:19.260 --> 00:19:22.960 Anyway, I just wanted to mention, I've kind of felt like crap the last few days. 00:19:23.180 --> 00:19:26.960 Like better in the mornings and then getting worse in the evenings. 00:19:26.960 --> 00:19:32.620 You know, I'm surprised it's not the flu because my direct boss at the company 00:19:32.620 --> 00:19:34.540 is in the hospital with the flu. 00:19:35.400 --> 00:19:35.800 Okay. 00:19:36.120 --> 00:19:42.780 Okay. And our friend who is on the Slack, but come on, she's not listening. 00:19:43.920 --> 00:19:48.220 You know, I know Kathy. I mean, you know, it's probably on her list of things to do. 00:19:48.340 --> 00:19:51.760 Like it would be on your list of things to do and it will get to her list of 00:19:51.760 --> 00:19:53.760 things to do by the time we die. Okay. 00:19:54.020 --> 00:19:56.020 So Kathy also had the flu. 00:19:56.460 --> 00:19:56.860 Okay. 00:19:57.940 --> 00:20:04.660 And this flu going around is bad. So if any of you have not gotten your flu shots, okay? 00:20:04.920 --> 00:20:06.940 I have gotten my flu shot. I got flu and COVID. 00:20:06.940 --> 00:20:12.680 I highly recommend that you go get them because this flu going around right now is bad. 00:20:13.820 --> 00:20:18.600 Okay. Very well. Anyway, you know, and yet there might be an, like, 00:20:18.800 --> 00:20:23.460 just like UTIs and, and kidney stones don't always come together, 00:20:23.460 --> 00:20:30.280 but like my personal pattern has always been that I end up with a UTI around 00:20:30.280 --> 00:20:33.520 the same time as I'm about to pass a kidney stone. 00:20:34.300 --> 00:20:40.300 But again, not always, who knows? Anyway, I've felt like crap and we probably, 00:20:40.600 --> 00:20:44.700 if it continues, I probably will make a trip to the doctor. 00:20:45.100 --> 00:20:51.220 Last night, we were like, okay, if it stays over 103, we'll go to the ER. 00:20:51.460 --> 00:20:57.340 If it goes over 104, we're not even, like, pausing. We're going straight to the ER. 00:20:57.500 --> 00:21:01.380 But it started going down again, and, you know, so anyway. 00:21:01.780 --> 00:21:05.500 Okay, movies. I just wanted to give that up. Not like anybody cares. 00:21:06.040 --> 00:21:08.920 That's probably TMI. Too much information. 00:21:10.220 --> 00:21:17.240 But you know it has been a part of my life the last three days I felt like you know, 00:21:18.100 --> 00:21:21.580 I had all these things that I wanted to do and I've 00:21:21.580 --> 00:21:28.740 ended up during the mornings and days I felt like okay I can still do stuff 00:21:28.740 --> 00:21:33.640 at my computer I'm not going to do like heavily physical things but I can still 00:21:33.640 --> 00:21:38.200 do stuff at my computer and then by the time I got to evening I felt, 00:21:38.920 --> 00:21:43.900 Bad enough that all I did was sit and watch TV with Alex. 00:21:44.380 --> 00:21:47.360 I was trying to remember his name. I was having trouble remembering his name. 00:21:48.620 --> 00:21:50.840 You're doing great, Sam. You're doing awesome. 00:21:51.180 --> 00:21:56.600 I almost called him Chad. I almost called him Yvonne. And then I figured out, oh, yeah, it's Alex. 00:21:56.820 --> 00:21:59.460 Chad? Chad? You what? You reached for Chad? 00:21:59.800 --> 00:22:01.200 I reached for Chad. 00:22:02.400 --> 00:22:08.460 He kind of, you know what? He does remind me of Chad physically for some reason. 00:22:08.460 --> 00:22:10.320 Someone we knew in college. Yes, yes, yes. 00:22:10.780 --> 00:22:11.500 Anyway. 00:22:14.010 --> 00:22:18.810 Movies. First movie. And this 00:22:18.810 --> 00:22:29.250 was watched in February 16th of this year is the 2023 movie named Wish. 00:22:29.650 --> 00:22:31.330 Have you heard of this movie? 00:22:31.870 --> 00:22:32.470 No. 00:22:32.470 --> 00:22:35.990 Okay. It's an animated Disney movie. 00:22:36.570 --> 00:22:41.850 It is one that they put out as, it was like one of their, what was it? 00:22:41.930 --> 00:22:44.870 Was it Disney 100? Disney was 100 years old. 00:22:45.710 --> 00:22:48.150 Anyway, it was part of what they put out by that. 00:22:49.550 --> 00:22:55.050 And I'll give the first couple paragraphs, our first three paragraphs of the 00:22:55.050 --> 00:22:56.170 plot summary from Wikipedia. 00:22:57.790 --> 00:23:05.130 King Magnifico and his wife, Queen Amaya, established the kingdom of Rosas on 00:23:05.130 --> 00:23:07.210 an island in the Mediterranean Sea. 00:23:07.670 --> 00:23:13.850 Having studied sorcery, Magnifico is able to grant the greatest desires of his subjects, 00:23:13.850 --> 00:23:20.610 but they have to give up the memory of their wishes to be sealed away and protected 00:23:20.610 --> 00:23:23.390 by the king until he can grant them. 00:23:23.730 --> 00:23:29.670 Once a month, at a ceremonial event, Magnifico chooses one wish to be granted. 00:23:30.650 --> 00:23:36.190 Years later, 17-year-old Asha prepares to interview for the job of Magnifico's 00:23:36.190 --> 00:23:40.570 apprentice on the day of her grandfather Sabino's 100th birthday, 00:23:40.570 --> 00:23:45.170 hoping that Magnifico will grant Sabino's wish to inspire people. 00:23:45.470 --> 00:23:49.950 The interview goes well until Asha requests for Sabino's wish to be granted, 00:23:50.270 --> 00:23:56.530 which Magnifico declines, seeing the wish's elusiveness as a potential threat to his power. 00:23:56.910 --> 00:24:02.850 Asha realizes Magnifico never intends to return the ungranted wishes to their 00:24:02.850 --> 00:24:07.950 owners, and when she questions his methods, Magnifico refuses to accept her 00:24:07.950 --> 00:24:10.810 apprenticeship or grant any of her family's wishes. 00:24:12.160 --> 00:24:18.260 Asha tries but fails to convince Sabino and her mother Sakina that Magnifico is deceiving them. 00:24:18.660 --> 00:24:22.920 Distraught, she makes her own wish on a star, and to her surprise, 00:24:23.060 --> 00:24:24.540 the star descends from the sky 00:24:24.540 --> 00:24:30.640 in the form of an anthropomorphic ball of light, which Asha names Star. 00:24:31.380 --> 00:24:35.620 Star's magic gives the forest animals, including Asha's pet goat Valentino, 00:24:36.080 --> 00:24:40.020 the ability to talk, and they tell her that all life is made of stardust. 00:24:40.680 --> 00:24:44.180 Encouraged, Asha enlists Star's help in retrieving her family's wishes. 00:24:44.540 --> 00:24:48.900 Everyone in the kingdom senses Star's presence, and Magnifico feels intimidated by it. 00:24:49.120 --> 00:24:55.120 Despite Amaya's pleas, he turns to forbidden dark magic to maintain his position 00:24:55.120 --> 00:24:57.760 of power as his subjects begin to doubt his way of ruling. Dot, 00:24:57.880 --> 00:24:59.700 dot, dot. It continues. It continues. 00:25:00.760 --> 00:25:06.780 Bottom line, I'm going to give this one a thumb sideways. It was an entertaining movie. 00:25:07.060 --> 00:25:09.980 It was fine. It wasn't horrible. 00:25:10.460 --> 00:25:12.480 It wasn't too long. It's 95 minutes. 00:25:13.360 --> 00:25:17.560 But it was not memorable at all. 00:25:17.720 --> 00:25:21.540 I had no idea this movie existed. I just had to look it up. 00:25:22.060 --> 00:25:27.560 I completely blanked on apparently 2023 movies. 00:25:28.220 --> 00:25:31.260 I had no clue it existed at all. 00:25:32.820 --> 00:25:38.080 I just heard about it. I just looked it up. I saw that a lot of people didn't like it either. 00:25:38.380 --> 00:25:39.160 Mm hmm. 00:25:39.520 --> 00:25:43.880 So this is a rare Disney flop because most Disney, you know, 00:25:44.200 --> 00:25:48.740 Disney has a good record of making this kind of movies that people like. 00:25:48.840 --> 00:25:50.960 And this was this was a flop. 00:25:51.870 --> 00:25:55.690 Yeah. I mean, it, and like I said, it wasn't bad. 00:25:56.390 --> 00:26:02.870 It just wasn't memorable. It's like, okay, it's generic animated, 00:26:02.890 --> 00:26:10.250 you know, sort of standard story that proceeds in the ways you would expect it to proceed. 00:26:11.190 --> 00:26:17.310 And so, yeah, I mean, I don't regret watching it or anything, but you know, 00:26:18.810 --> 00:26:25.370 You know, when this came up on my list, as the next one I was going to talk 00:26:25.370 --> 00:26:31.150 about, I could not for the life of me remember what the hell it was about until 00:26:31.150 --> 00:26:32.850 I looked up the Wikipedia page. 00:26:34.990 --> 00:26:36.810 And in fact, I believe... 00:26:36.810 --> 00:26:40.510 That's a bad, bad, bad, bad sign. 00:26:40.850 --> 00:26:46.070 And I believe I had it confused in my head with another movie. You know? 00:26:47.770 --> 00:26:54.890 that's not good now it was nominated for a few awards but I don't think it won 00:26:54.890 --> 00:26:59.410 any well there's a section on what let's see yeah but. 00:26:59.410 --> 00:27:01.390 Let's see what the awards are because. 00:27:01.390 --> 00:27:01.930 They may not. 00:27:01.930 --> 00:27:03.990 Be about the plot or anything could be. 00:27:03.990 --> 00:27:12.550 The most notable one I think is Golden Globe for best animated feature it was 00:27:12.550 --> 00:27:15.590 nominated it did not win I guess my. 00:27:15.590 --> 00:27:23.310 Question is was 2023, given the pandemic, a year where very few of these got released. 00:27:24.170 --> 00:27:24.610 Maybe. 00:27:25.270 --> 00:27:30.150 Yeah, so it's like, hey, you know, if you, hey, we were in the top three. 00:27:30.870 --> 00:27:33.650 Well, there are only three, so what the fuck, you know? 00:27:36.000 --> 00:27:40.660 I mean, that's not really great, you know, when that's the case. 00:27:40.980 --> 00:27:48.740 It was nominated for Best Animated Female by the Alliance of Women Film Journalists. Best voiceover. 00:27:48.820 --> 00:27:52.700 That's a group that I'm always, like, looking for, you know, 00:27:52.820 --> 00:27:59.280 their annual rankings. I know there's watch parties for when they release those, I'm sure. 00:27:59.600 --> 00:28:06.380 Best voiceover performance by the Astra Film Awards. Best Original Song by Astrofilm Awards, too. 00:28:07.480 --> 00:28:10.760 Outstanding Voice Performance by Black Real Awards. 00:28:11.480 --> 00:28:16.080 Best Animated Feature by the Critics' Choice Movie Awards. Best Song by the 00:28:16.080 --> 00:28:18.640 Critics' Choice Movie Awards. I mentioned the Golden Globes. 00:28:19.160 --> 00:28:23.640 Best Original Song in an Animated Film by Hollywood Music and Media Awards. 00:28:24.220 --> 00:28:28.660 Emerging Technology Award by the Visual Effects Society. and, 00:28:28.900 --> 00:28:36.820 importantly, favorite female voice from an animated movie by the Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards. 00:28:37.340 --> 00:28:38.600 Okay, well, that one... 00:28:38.600 --> 00:28:42.060 It was nominated for all of those and did not win any of them. 00:28:42.480 --> 00:28:47.420 I mean, that's not a terrible one. Okay. 00:28:48.200 --> 00:28:54.240 You know, I'm looking at the list of what were the top movies from 2023 animated, 00:28:54.240 --> 00:28:57.840 and I will tell you that it's not a memorable list. 00:28:58.420 --> 00:28:58.980 Okay. 00:28:59.180 --> 00:29:00.100 Which is what I suspect. 00:29:00.100 --> 00:29:01.160 Tell me the rest. I don't have this. 00:29:02.620 --> 00:29:08.360 So, box office hits. The Super Mario Brothers movie, which I keep forgetting existed. 00:29:08.980 --> 00:29:10.680 Apparently people really liked that. 00:29:11.280 --> 00:29:16.700 Yeah, so that was the biggest hit. But it's not a movie that I see that, 00:29:18.890 --> 00:29:23.890 You know, there's these big animated movies that have this cultural resonance, 00:29:23.890 --> 00:29:26.950 like Frozen, for example, and some others like that. 00:29:27.370 --> 00:29:31.910 I don't think the Super Mario Brothers movie is one of those. Okay. 00:29:33.030 --> 00:29:38.350 It's not like that. Elemental was the second one. That was a Pixar one. 00:29:38.510 --> 00:29:38.690 I think. 00:29:38.870 --> 00:29:43.910 Yeah, that was a Pixar one. And that also, people considered that it wasn't, well, that's the thing. 00:29:44.090 --> 00:29:47.650 People considered that it wasn't like a great movie. Then the Teenage Mutant 00:29:47.650 --> 00:29:53.770 Ninja Turtles movie, Zazoom, Chicken Run, Dawn of the Nugget, and Blue Giant. 00:29:54.850 --> 00:30:02.490 Basically, not a list of movies that—I just read all those to you, 00:30:02.570 --> 00:30:04.730 and you were like, huh, that happened? 00:30:05.750 --> 00:30:09.210 Not a great year for animated movies. 00:30:09.530 --> 00:30:11.630 Probably not a great year for movies, period. 00:30:11.990 --> 00:30:15.010 Period, yeah, probably, yeah. Yeah, yeah. 00:30:15.850 --> 00:30:25.570 Okay. So, ready for a giant tonal shift from the animated Fluffy Wish movie? Are you? Are you ready? 00:30:26.050 --> 00:30:28.850 I'm ready. I'm prepared. I'm preparing. 00:30:29.170 --> 00:30:33.530 The next movie. 1993, Schindler's List. 00:30:34.170 --> 00:30:34.830 Fuck. 00:30:36.910 --> 00:30:37.630 Look. 00:30:38.050 --> 00:30:39.270 So, first of all. 00:30:39.270 --> 00:30:42.830 I have the book over here, too. First of all. 00:30:42.830 --> 00:30:43.210 Let me just say this. 00:30:43.350 --> 00:30:49.170 I watched that movie. Back in the year when it came out. It was released. 00:30:49.390 --> 00:30:49.810 Yes. 00:30:50.370 --> 00:30:54.390 I haven't watched it again, not because it wasn't an excellent movie. 00:30:54.550 --> 00:30:58.330 It was an excellent movie. It was made very well. 00:30:58.750 --> 00:31:04.110 And this, by the way, was on the AFI list number nine. 00:31:04.810 --> 00:31:06.350 And deservedly so. 00:31:07.910 --> 00:31:12.050 Deservedly so. But it's quite a depressing movie. 00:31:12.570 --> 00:31:13.210 Yes. 00:31:13.430 --> 00:31:17.990 It's not. You remember we were talking about last week about how they fucked 00:31:17.990 --> 00:31:24.090 up the ending of that Wall Street Money Never Sleeps movie by making it a Hollywood ending. 00:31:24.350 --> 00:31:30.470 Let me guarantee you something for those of you that don't know or haven't watched Schindler's List. 00:31:30.810 --> 00:31:33.110 It doesn't have a Hollywood ending. 00:31:33.110 --> 00:31:38.150 First of all, if you haven't watched Schindler's List, go watch it. 00:31:38.410 --> 00:31:39.330 Go watch it. 00:31:41.430 --> 00:31:46.890 The one thing, of course, that you bring up this movie, as we now have this 00:31:46.890 --> 00:31:52.390 revival of people really glorifying Nazis. 00:31:52.390 --> 00:32:01.210 is and literally trying to imitate many of the worst things of it in many ways, 00:32:01.210 --> 00:32:05.210 including our government directly with how it's treating immigrants. Okay. 00:32:05.950 --> 00:32:10.750 After, of course, you know, we've had this whole 60 minutes saga related to 00:32:10.750 --> 00:32:13.770 specifically one of those things. Yeah. 00:32:14.110 --> 00:32:15.830 I mean, we may talk about that later. Yeah. 00:32:16.590 --> 00:32:17.210 And. Yeah. 00:32:19.690 --> 00:32:23.770 You know, people just, I don't know, people forget history. It doesn't matter 00:32:23.770 --> 00:32:25.430 how brutal it was. They always forget it. 00:32:25.670 --> 00:32:29.170 They always just fucking forget it. You know? 00:32:29.610 --> 00:32:33.670 So, first of all, big thumbs up for Schindler's List. 00:32:34.150 --> 00:32:37.870 Like you said, excellent movie deserves its place. 00:32:40.750 --> 00:32:45.110 But watching this once every 20 years is probably enough for me. 00:32:45.530 --> 00:32:49.810 Yeah. I don't have the strength to watch that movie again. 00:32:50.090 --> 00:32:55.230 I mean, I am tearing up just talking about it like I am now. 00:32:55.750 --> 00:32:58.870 Without, like, getting into the details of anything that happened. 00:32:59.950 --> 00:33:03.670 So, I won't read the whole Wikipedia plot summary or anything like that. 00:33:03.850 --> 00:33:07.690 But just at a high level, this is a Holocaust movie. 00:33:07.950 --> 00:33:10.230 It is about, you know. 00:33:11.440 --> 00:33:18.260 Jews getting rounded up during World War II and sent to the death camps and 00:33:18.260 --> 00:33:19.600 all of this kind of stuff. 00:33:20.240 --> 00:33:28.920 Schindler was an industrialist who ended up basically providing cover to keep 00:33:28.920 --> 00:33:31.600 a whole bunch of people safe. 00:33:32.620 --> 00:33:39.040 And it goes through how he did that, what he did, and that whole thing. 00:33:39.040 --> 00:33:46.920 And you see, they don't shy away from the violence of what was going on. 00:33:49.400 --> 00:33:53.780 And, you know, there's a certain point, you know, there are parts of the movies 00:33:53.780 --> 00:33:58.480 where things seem to be going almost normally. You see the guy going around, he's doing the thing. 00:33:58.840 --> 00:34:04.620 And then, you know, you got the Nazis, like, arbitrarily shooting people, torturing people. 00:34:05.840 --> 00:34:13.300 very famously there's one one girl who like there's like there's segments where 00:34:13.300 --> 00:34:17.000 everything's in black and white except one girl's dress is in red, 00:34:18.160 --> 00:34:22.700 and you see her doing stuff and then later you see her body. 00:34:25.820 --> 00:34:27.920 All right, let's not keep going on the plot. 00:34:29.960 --> 00:34:34.480 It's just, it's a devastating movie. 00:34:34.840 --> 00:34:40.500 Yes. I don't know how the hell Steven Spielberg was able to finish making that damn movie. 00:34:42.120 --> 00:34:43.780 But it's an important movie. 00:34:43.980 --> 00:34:49.540 Oh, no, no, no. But I agree. I'm talking more about the emotional fortitude 00:34:49.540 --> 00:34:54.120 to go through that is what I'm referring to. 00:34:54.660 --> 00:34:59.700 And by the way, I'll make a somewhat small, funny aside. 00:35:00.100 --> 00:35:01.960 Okay. Let's lighten it up. 00:35:02.600 --> 00:35:06.520 Lighten it up. Because, you know, people don't realize that Liam Neeson was 00:35:06.520 --> 00:35:12.020 the star of that movie and that Liam Neeson was, this is the kind of movies that he used to make. 00:35:12.560 --> 00:35:19.020 And then you tell people that, well, I never imagined Liam Neeson as a younger 00:35:19.020 --> 00:35:21.460 people, some kind of action star. 00:35:21.680 --> 00:35:26.260 And I'm like, what are you talking about? He's always, no, no, 00:35:27.060 --> 00:35:31.160 this is the kind, this is what we do Liam Neeson kind of movies for making, 00:35:31.320 --> 00:35:33.160 making that kind of movie. 00:35:33.480 --> 00:35:39.840 Not being like James Bond, like, I don't know, some kind of like, 00:35:40.020 --> 00:35:44.640 you know, secret agent, you know, assassin guy. No. 00:35:45.980 --> 00:35:50.900 Yeah. And also, in terms of, like, how did Steven Spielberg pull it off, 00:35:51.020 --> 00:35:53.960 he released two movies in 1993. 00:35:54.040 --> 00:35:56.300 This was one of them. You know what the other one was? 00:35:56.480 --> 00:35:57.680 Saving Private Ryan. 00:35:58.040 --> 00:35:59.380 No, Jurassic Park. 00:35:59.720 --> 00:36:03.080 Oh, Jurassic Park. Oh, Jesus Christ. 00:36:03.080 --> 00:36:08.240 So, you know, they were both released in 1993. You know, at least in part, 00:36:08.400 --> 00:36:10.180 they had to be overlapping working on them. 00:36:10.280 --> 00:36:13.720 So can you imagine, like, in the morning, you're working in Jurassic Park, 00:36:13.900 --> 00:36:15.320 dinosaurs, special effects. 00:36:15.480 --> 00:36:18.600 In the afternoon, oh, let's flip over to Schindler's List. 00:36:19.380 --> 00:36:26.860 Jesus Christ. Talk about, you know, maybe, you know, I haven't seen him in an 00:36:26.860 --> 00:36:28.620 interview asked about that. 00:36:28.780 --> 00:36:31.300 I'm going to guess that it was probably a relief. 00:36:31.640 --> 00:36:35.500 It may have been. Now, I don't know the exact scheduling. Maybe he did a few 00:36:35.500 --> 00:36:38.040 months of one and a few months of the other, as opposed to, like, 00:36:38.560 --> 00:36:39.860 intermingling on a single day. 00:36:40.020 --> 00:36:42.600 But, like, but still, they were in close proximity. 00:36:43.360 --> 00:36:44.440 Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. 00:36:45.280 --> 00:36:45.720 Anyway. 00:36:45.780 --> 00:36:51.820 I did mention that I did meet Steven Spielberg once, right? 00:36:52.180 --> 00:36:56.720 Oh, I don't think I remember this. Tell us about your encounter with Mr. Spielberg. 00:36:56.800 --> 00:37:02.840 Okay, my brief, brief, brief, brief encounter with Steven Spielberg. Okay. 00:37:03.400 --> 00:37:04.320 Wasn't it an airport? 00:37:04.960 --> 00:37:10.460 No, it was not. At an airport. Come on. You think he, he travels private. 00:37:10.600 --> 00:37:13.120 What are you, what are you doing? I don't travel private. What are you, 00:37:13.120 --> 00:37:14.800 what are you doing? No, it's not at an airport. 00:37:15.040 --> 00:37:18.500 It was not at a restaurant, but it isn't a place where you would, 00:37:18.560 --> 00:37:23.600 it was, I went back when I had, when I had a yacht. 00:37:23.600 --> 00:37:25.360 Was it at the premiere of one of your big movies? 00:37:26.000 --> 00:37:30.040 No, it was when I had a yacht that I went to this, this, this island, 00:37:30.180 --> 00:37:31.980 the Bahamas. That's a very like, 00:37:32.990 --> 00:37:38.610 It's an island that only people usually a lot richer than I do go, 00:37:38.730 --> 00:37:46.130 but I was with the right captain that knew how to get to places, and he got us there. 00:37:46.130 --> 00:37:51.830 When I got off the boat, well, yeah, that wasn't the boat. It's a yacht. 00:37:52.010 --> 00:37:59.110 When I got off, and I was walking down the marina, Steven Spielberg was docked 00:37:59.110 --> 00:38:02.810 near where I was, and we crossed paths walking. 00:38:03.410 --> 00:38:07.670 past each other down the marina. That's how much I met Steven Spielberg. 00:38:07.850 --> 00:38:11.290 I didn't even have the, I actually froze. I couldn't even say, 00:38:11.490 --> 00:38:16.430 like, I think I may have said, I didn't recognize him. It took me a little bit like, oh, hi. 00:38:16.610 --> 00:38:18.870 So I did say, I think he said hi to me too. 00:38:19.250 --> 00:38:21.690 So I got Steven, Steven Spielberg said hi to me, Sam. 00:38:22.410 --> 00:38:24.090 Very good. Very good. 00:38:25.270 --> 00:38:29.370 So that was my brief, brief, brief, brief, brief, brief meeting. 00:38:29.510 --> 00:38:33.530 So, so about what year was that? We can see like, Like which of his movies you inspired? 00:38:34.290 --> 00:38:34.410 2006. 00:38:35.270 --> 00:38:36.930 Okay, 2006. So it's... 00:38:36.930 --> 00:38:37.750 Summer of 2006. 00:38:38.170 --> 00:38:41.610 Well, that makes sense then. His next movie after that was Indiana Jones and 00:38:41.610 --> 00:38:43.110 the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. 00:38:43.530 --> 00:38:44.410 Oh, there you go. 00:38:44.590 --> 00:38:45.670 Which clearly is all about you. 00:38:47.730 --> 00:38:50.370 Because of your crystal skull. That's why that movie flopped. 00:38:50.650 --> 00:38:53.430 That's why that movie was a disaster. Look, you see? 00:38:53.890 --> 00:38:58.350 Who bumps into me and his movie producing skills go into the shitter. 00:38:58.510 --> 00:39:01.230 Yes, this makes total sense. Absolutely. 00:39:02.170 --> 00:39:06.750 Jesus Christ, that blew me shit. How could we go from like Jurassic Park and 00:39:06.750 --> 00:39:08.710 Schindler's List to making that piece of shit? 00:39:11.700 --> 00:39:14.940 Anyway, reiterate, thumbs up for Schindler's List. 00:39:15.400 --> 00:39:19.820 If you have not watched it, you should watch it. If you watched it once in the 00:39:19.820 --> 00:39:25.500 1990s like Yvonne did, it might be worth watching again. It is hard, though. 00:39:25.900 --> 00:39:29.380 It is not a fun movie at all. 00:39:29.600 --> 00:39:35.640 It is a hard, serious movie, but it is well worth watching. 00:39:36.120 --> 00:39:39.580 Like I said, I don't think I could stand to do it more than once every 20 years. 00:39:39.580 --> 00:39:43.320 But if it's been more than 20 years since you've seen it, or if you've never 00:39:43.320 --> 00:39:47.440 seen it, go get, have yourself watch Schindler's List. 00:39:48.260 --> 00:39:53.740 98% on Rotten Tomatoes. 93% liked this movie. 00:39:54.400 --> 00:39:57.580 I guess the Nazis didn't like it, so that's why it didn't get 100%. 00:39:59.600 --> 00:40:00.120 Yeah. 00:40:02.860 --> 00:40:05.980 By the way, a budget, only $22 million. 00:40:06.740 --> 00:40:07.300 Right. 00:40:07.940 --> 00:40:12.940 He made it on a shoestring comparatively to what movies cost. 00:40:13.740 --> 00:40:15.820 Yeah. Anyway. All right. 00:40:16.380 --> 00:40:21.620 Yeah, and I have heard him interviewed about this being a movie that he felt he had to make. 00:40:21.800 --> 00:40:25.920 To make, yeah. I definitely heard him say that. And he was right. 00:40:26.580 --> 00:40:32.040 Okay, let's take a break, and then we'll talk about newsy stuff. Back after this. 00:40:32.860 --> 00:40:35.860 Okie dokie. Here it comes. 00:40:37.940 --> 00:40:44.700 Ugh. Ugh. Ugh. It's just my internet being stupid. 00:40:45.000 --> 00:40:50.100 My internet being stupid is a new song we will make. 00:40:50.100 --> 00:41:22.020 do you believe Come on, come on, come on. 00:41:22.980 --> 00:41:28.120 I'm tired. What's wrong? I'm really tired. 00:41:28.920 --> 00:41:33.280 It's amazing to get the show on the road. There's a road? 00:41:33.920 --> 00:41:37.200 There's a road? Oh my god, there's a road! 00:41:38.420 --> 00:41:41.180 Okay, we're back. So, Yvonne, where would you like to start? 00:41:41.560 --> 00:41:46.800 Where would I like to start? Where would I like to start? Where would I like to start? 00:41:48.340 --> 00:41:48.820 Ahhhh. 00:41:56.930 --> 00:42:04.250 Let's talk about the more more the epstein shenanigans. 00:42:04.250 --> 00:42:09.110 Epstein shenanigans okay how so hey. 00:42:09.110 --> 00:42:12.130 Hey sam how's that redaction process going. 00:42:12.130 --> 00:42:20.690 So they have again screwed up in the way everybody knows redactions can screw up. 00:42:21.130 --> 00:42:26.430 No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Sam, Sam, I'm sorry. 00:42:26.830 --> 00:42:32.690 If you have competent people doing redacting, okay, okay, all right, 00:42:32.930 --> 00:42:34.230 there is no screwing it up. 00:42:34.650 --> 00:42:39.230 You can't, you don't, you don't screw up redactions. You just have people that 00:42:39.230 --> 00:42:46.490 have no idea, that have no idea how to redact. 00:42:47.440 --> 00:42:54.580 Yes, well, although I've heard people speculate that maybe it's people who are 00:42:54.580 --> 00:42:56.100 intentionally doing this. 00:42:56.260 --> 00:42:59.460 Okay, that could be, but no, but I've seen them, no, no, no, 00:42:59.480 --> 00:43:01.380 but I've already seen them do this in the past. 00:43:02.260 --> 00:43:11.340 They keep hiring people to do shit where they have no idea how to do redactions, okay? 00:43:12.280 --> 00:43:16.160 and they i can't remember which documents they they've done before they were 00:43:16.160 --> 00:43:20.860 supposed to be redacted and they did the same thing and when people don't know 00:43:20.860 --> 00:43:24.940 what redaction is they keep thinking is oh we just go in a pdf and we just mark 00:43:24.940 --> 00:43:31.700 it in black right not realizing that if that's what you do that's removable so. 00:43:31.700 --> 00:43:36.260 To be clear the what people discovered because of course people checked for 00:43:36.260 --> 00:43:41.640 this, is that on a subset of the documents, so some of them were redacted correctly, 00:43:41.940 --> 00:43:45.400 even a majority of them were were redacted correctly. 00:43:45.700 --> 00:43:51.240 But on a subset of them, if you went into the document, into the PDF and, 00:43:51.260 --> 00:43:57.080 you know, did a select and copy paste into a new document, you would get the 00:43:57.080 --> 00:43:58.860 text that was under the black bars. 00:43:59.020 --> 00:44:03.460 Well, yeah, because what what what's happening is, look, people are going and 00:44:03.460 --> 00:44:09.240 like instead Instead of the redaction feature, okay, when you use it in, 00:44:09.500 --> 00:44:12.680 when you use the redaction feature in most, 00:44:13.610 --> 00:44:20.930 PDF tools or that you're using actually permanently removes that information from there. 00:44:21.110 --> 00:44:24.850 OK, it's it's not reaccessible. You can't it's gone. 00:44:25.150 --> 00:44:29.450 OK, the copy that you're sending out does not have the content there. 00:44:29.750 --> 00:44:32.070 OK, there is no way to undo it. 00:44:32.610 --> 00:44:37.970 OK, so what but what they are doing is because they don't understand that there 00:44:37.970 --> 00:44:41.110 is such a redaction feature and they see redactions, people market in black, 00:44:41.290 --> 00:44:44.830 they will go, oh, look, there's the paint tool. Let me paint this over in black. 00:44:45.030 --> 00:44:48.250 Well, painting over in black and then sending the document means that I can 00:44:48.250 --> 00:44:50.370 select that and delete and get rid of it. 00:44:51.170 --> 00:44:51.650 Right. 00:44:52.390 --> 00:44:57.670 You're using highlighting instead of redaction. And that's what happens when you get stupid people. 00:44:58.130 --> 00:45:03.170 Now, from what I've heard, people have started to go through like, 00:45:04.410 --> 00:45:08.050 Is there anything significant under these redactions? 00:45:09.250 --> 00:45:14.410 And mostly, they haven't found any smoking guns or anything under redactions. 00:45:14.770 --> 00:45:23.170 However, other than them saying most of the redactions have nothing to do with 00:45:23.170 --> 00:45:24.530 protecting the victims. 00:45:25.130 --> 00:45:31.270 They are just embarrassing to other people, whatever, but have nothing to do 00:45:31.270 --> 00:45:36.110 with actually protecting the victims, which is the one thing that was authorized 00:45:36.110 --> 00:45:37.970 by the law for redaction. 00:45:38.210 --> 00:45:42.770 I mean, it was protecting victims, national security, and ongoing investigations, 00:45:42.770 --> 00:45:44.530 I believe, were the only three things. 00:45:45.750 --> 00:45:49.870 And basically, people found, like, this isn't any of those. 00:45:50.290 --> 00:45:54.250 And in some cases, they've actually found, even independent of the redaction 00:45:54.250 --> 00:46:00.290 error, they found that some of the things they'd redacted had actually already 00:46:00.290 --> 00:46:03.670 been released publicly in unredacted form. 00:46:04.930 --> 00:46:11.490 You know, so yes, they are once again showing their incompetence or, or again, 00:46:11.710 --> 00:46:18.650 there's like some sort of mole in the investigation who's like doing this intentionally 00:46:18.650 --> 00:46:22.870 with the precise idea that somebody will get through the redaction and, 00:46:22.870 --> 00:46:26.010 and see something, you know, but. 00:46:26.010 --> 00:46:31.350 Yeah, no, no, no. And that's, you know, those are the two things that it could be. 00:46:32.150 --> 00:46:38.210 I think that, but they also released stuff that they didn't want released that 00:46:38.210 --> 00:46:39.630 then all of a sudden made disappear. 00:46:40.550 --> 00:46:44.890 Yes, and some of that's come back. They've done, some things disappeared, 00:46:44.890 --> 00:46:46.270 then some things came back. 00:46:46.590 --> 00:46:50.390 Sometimes they came back with different redaction. Oh yeah, after people like... 00:46:53.570 --> 00:46:59.230 It's after, listen, after they got discovered, oh, well, they put it back, Sam. 00:46:59.730 --> 00:47:05.190 If it wasn't discovered, they wouldn't have. I mean, come on. Give me a break. 00:47:05.710 --> 00:47:10.710 And of course, people noticed instantly. And of course, people have made archival copies of all this. 00:47:10.870 --> 00:47:16.610 So like if they remove something after the fact, I'm sorry, it's already out. 00:47:16.830 --> 00:47:19.510 You already released it, you know. 00:47:20.750 --> 00:47:22.030 so yes, 00:47:24.610 --> 00:47:30.890 and it's it's just a they're showing their and of course all of this is late 00:47:30.890 --> 00:47:36.010 and not you know the requirement was on Friday they release everything they 00:47:36.010 --> 00:47:37.550 didn't release everything on 00:47:37.550 --> 00:47:42.630 Friday so far they've released three tranches the one on Friday with what. 00:47:42.630 --> 00:47:47.550 The law ordered so far basically they've they have they have, 00:47:48.730 --> 00:47:57.590 They have released Epstein stuff, but they didn't comply with what the law demanded in full. 00:47:57.850 --> 00:48:03.430 And a lot of the specific documents that people are waiting for have not come out yet. 00:48:03.590 --> 00:48:10.770 Like they interviews with with victims, for instance, the FBI interviewed notes 00:48:10.770 --> 00:48:14.770 because like the FBI like is archaic. 00:48:14.770 --> 00:48:18.990 They don't record their interviews. They don't take transcripts of their interviews. 00:48:19.230 --> 00:48:21.030 They just have an agent take notes. 00:48:22.170 --> 00:48:27.970 But they want the notes of those interviews, and the victims themselves have 00:48:27.970 --> 00:48:31.450 been clamoring for those with their names redacted, of course. 00:48:31.690 --> 00:48:34.310 But that has not come out yet. 00:48:34.690 --> 00:48:39.050 The three tranches were Friday, Saturday, and now there's one Tuesday, 00:48:39.050 --> 00:48:41.650 a few hours before we're recording. 00:48:42.010 --> 00:48:49.590 The most significant thing that's come out of the last one is a, 00:48:49.830 --> 00:48:55.390 and I'll be careful how I say this, because apparently there is some question 00:48:55.390 --> 00:49:01.790 as to its authenticity, that it hasn't been validated. 00:49:02.090 --> 00:49:11.630 There's a handwritten note that was apparently sent from Epstein to another sex offender. 00:49:11.930 --> 00:49:13.170 Larry Nassar. 00:49:13.350 --> 00:49:17.670 Larry Nassar, whose name I don't remember, but I... 00:49:17.670 --> 00:49:23.310 Larry Nassar was this... Well, Larry Nassar was this guy who... 00:49:24.170 --> 00:49:26.950 Was the gymnastics team doctor. 00:49:26.950 --> 00:49:27.470 Oh, is that guy? 00:49:27.870 --> 00:49:37.790 Yes. Okay. And it said, we shared one thing, our love and caring for young ladies 00:49:37.790 --> 00:49:40.370 and the hope they reached their full potential. 00:49:41.030 --> 00:49:45.050 The letter also claimed that about our president and young girls. 00:49:45.730 --> 00:49:47.610 So let me. 00:49:47.610 --> 00:49:49.190 Here, I got the note. 00:49:49.190 --> 00:49:51.710 I've got it up. Let me read it. Let me just read the whole thing. 00:49:52.010 --> 00:49:53.730 You read the note because it's not very long. 00:49:54.170 --> 00:50:02.270 It's not very long. Dear L.N., As you know by now, I have taken the short route home. 00:50:02.490 --> 00:50:08.430 And by the way, this apparently was written right before the suicide. He committed suicide. 00:50:08.870 --> 00:50:14.750 And sent right after. So it was postmarked like two days after his suicide. 00:50:16.030 --> 00:50:19.110 I have taken the short route home. Good luck. 00:50:19.830 --> 00:50:25.110 We shared one thing, our love and caring for young ladies, and the hope they'd 00:50:25.110 --> 00:50:32.850 reach their full potential, our president also shares our love of young, nubile girls. 00:50:33.690 --> 00:50:40.730 When a young duty walked by, he loved to grab snatch, 00:50:42.230 --> 00:50:48.730 whereas we ended up snatching grub in the mess halls of the system. 00:50:49.050 --> 00:50:52.930 Life is unfair. Yours, Jay Epstein. 00:50:53.390 --> 00:50:58.430 Now, the controversy here is apparently like, this letter is in the files, 00:50:58.810 --> 00:51:06.410 but there's nothing authenticating, did Epstein really write this? 00:51:06.410 --> 00:51:10.310 Or did somebody else write something to try to set this up? 00:51:10.850 --> 00:51:15.410 Now, the other thing is, of course, even if Epstein wrote this, 00:51:15.690 --> 00:51:18.170 it's not proof of jack shit. 00:51:18.690 --> 00:51:22.970 You know, Epstein could say whatever he wanted, but it does not look good. 00:51:24.070 --> 00:51:31.430 Yes, you're right, Sam. It's not proof. We don't have a smoking gun here. Okay. 00:51:32.270 --> 00:51:35.870 But come on. Come on, man. 00:51:36.370 --> 00:51:38.530 Look, there is so much smoke here. 00:51:39.110 --> 00:51:43.750 I mean, there's so much smoke that I need my oxygen mask. 00:51:43.750 --> 00:51:47.590 I mean, even without the stupid letter. 00:51:47.790 --> 00:51:57.370 I mean, it's been obvious Donald Trump is a sexual predator for his entire damn life. 00:51:57.530 --> 00:52:03.630 Now, whether or not that included going after young girls, slightly less clear. 00:52:03.790 --> 00:52:06.170 But there's been plenty of smoke around that, too. 00:52:06.450 --> 00:52:11.190 Wait, slightly less clear? The whole thing about him walking in on the models 00:52:11.190 --> 00:52:14.170 and saying that he could just walk in whenever he wanted. 00:52:14.730 --> 00:52:19.310 The rape accusations, the repeated rape accusations. 00:52:19.630 --> 00:52:27.910 I know. Yeah. I mean, most of the public accusations against Donald Trump have been of legal adults. 00:52:28.410 --> 00:52:34.990 However, there was that one from right before the 2016 elections of the person 00:52:34.990 --> 00:52:37.530 who claimed that he raped her when she was 14. 00:52:37.550 --> 00:52:41.530 and there have been plenty of you know other. 00:52:41.530 --> 00:52:46.390 There was something else in the recent release there was something related to 00:52:46.390 --> 00:52:50.470 a conversation that I think that I saw that was overheard by somebody I mean 00:52:50.470 --> 00:52:56.830 somebody saying specifically a young woman claiming specifically that that, 00:52:58.920 --> 00:53:05.800 that they were raped by Trump. But again, you know, yeah, here's the problem. 00:53:07.220 --> 00:53:10.720 There's a preponderance of evidence, Sam. 00:53:11.320 --> 00:53:13.140 But not beyond a reasonable doubt. 00:53:13.920 --> 00:53:17.760 Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. I'm sorry. I didn't say that. 00:53:18.020 --> 00:53:22.000 I think it's beyond a reasonable doubt. 00:53:22.900 --> 00:53:24.440 There is a preponderance. 00:53:25.380 --> 00:53:32.280 Sam, there's just so much of it. I'm sorry. We are beyond that there is a doubt. 00:53:32.600 --> 00:53:36.400 The thing is, for a crime, it needs to be something specific, 00:53:36.400 --> 00:53:40.340 not just a general tendency. And like what I said... 00:53:40.340 --> 00:53:42.860 A general tendency. Sam, I mean, you've had... 00:53:42.860 --> 00:53:49.780 Look, what I said a couple months ago on these Epstein files was that the likelihood, 00:53:49.780 --> 00:53:52.780 as far as I could tell, is, look, 00:53:52.980 --> 00:53:59.660 if there had been stuff in here that they felt was good enough for a prosecutable 00:53:59.660 --> 00:54:05.300 case against any of these men other than Epstein, they probably would have done it. 00:54:05.460 --> 00:54:09.340 I feel like they think there's not enough to make the legal case. 00:54:09.460 --> 00:54:15.220 All right. I think that you are right in terms of meeting the legal threshold in a court of law. 00:54:15.780 --> 00:54:15.960 Okay? 00:54:16.300 --> 00:54:21.120 Because of how the evidence needs to be presented. But one of the things is 00:54:21.120 --> 00:54:24.380 that Many times we have rules of evidence that make, you know, 00:54:24.460 --> 00:54:28.880 certain cases far more difficult than what it is for an objective observer, 00:54:29.160 --> 00:54:33.520 looking at all of the information that you're getting and what your conclusion is. 00:54:33.700 --> 00:54:40.080 To me, if I'm just looking at this, not from the point of view of getting a 00:54:40.080 --> 00:54:44.580 criminal conviction, which is a higher bar, okay, versus me going and looking 00:54:44.580 --> 00:54:48.360 at this and seeing, hey, what does this tell me? 00:54:48.760 --> 00:54:49.940 Yes, I agree. 00:54:49.940 --> 00:54:56.100 There is no objective observer that could come away to the conclusion that this 00:54:56.100 --> 00:55:00.920 guy was not abusing underage girls. 00:55:02.030 --> 00:55:05.070 Everything points towards it. And here's the worst thing. 00:55:06.090 --> 00:55:13.030 The Justice Department is trying so hard to cover up shit in these documents, 00:55:13.670 --> 00:55:18.730 that all they are communicating is it's bad for him. 00:55:19.310 --> 00:55:19.830 Yes. 00:55:20.690 --> 00:55:23.970 With every action that they have done so far. 00:55:23.990 --> 00:55:27.010 Meanwhile, Bill Clinton has said, please release the rest. Release everything 00:55:27.010 --> 00:55:29.910 with my name in it. You don't have to redact my name. 00:55:30.070 --> 00:55:35.130 You don't have to do anything. Just release it because I have nothing to worry about. 00:55:36.630 --> 00:55:39.850 And even if it was, apparently, he thinks that even if it was something that 00:55:39.850 --> 00:55:42.610 maybe, like, didn't look good, it's not that bad. 00:55:42.990 --> 00:55:45.910 Or at least something that might piss off Hillary right now. 00:55:46.050 --> 00:55:50.650 Probably Hillary told him, for the love of God, dude, I already put up with 00:55:50.650 --> 00:55:53.470 all this shit. Whatever. Tell him to fucking release it. 00:55:54.090 --> 00:56:01.670 Yes. Well, and also, like, you know, he's not doing anything else politically. He's just, you know. 00:56:02.250 --> 00:56:08.150 But here's the other thing. If I remember, both Bill and Hillary studied law, right? 00:56:10.300 --> 00:56:15.680 So, one thing that somebody like that does, especially in a situation like this, 00:56:15.960 --> 00:56:18.360 you don't make a statement like that unless you know the answer. 00:56:18.460 --> 00:56:21.280 You don't ask a question like that. Get something unless you know the answer. 00:56:21.920 --> 00:56:22.060 Right. 00:56:23.120 --> 00:56:26.440 So, they already know. They're like, fuck, we know. Fuck you. 00:56:26.740 --> 00:56:28.600 You want to play games? Go release everything. 00:56:29.740 --> 00:56:32.500 Yeah. So, I don't know. 00:56:33.940 --> 00:56:37.440 More to come, I guess. They're not done. They said they'd be trickling these 00:56:37.440 --> 00:56:40.580 things out over a few weeks. And I don't know. 00:56:40.680 --> 00:56:42.220 Trump thinks it's over. 00:56:42.460 --> 00:56:45.420 Trump thinks it's over. He said, like, I don't know why they're still asking 00:56:45.420 --> 00:56:46.400 me questions about this. 00:56:46.880 --> 00:56:55.120 Look, and frankly, if you wanted to make it go away as quickly as possible, 00:56:55.380 --> 00:56:57.940 I don't see how stretching it out. Release it all in one shot? 00:56:58.420 --> 00:57:00.480 Yeah. Like, how does stretching it out help? 00:57:00.620 --> 00:57:02.840 Why would you be stretching it out? 00:57:03.520 --> 00:57:07.880 You want to delay the worst stuff for as long as possible. You're probably going 00:57:07.880 --> 00:57:11.980 to release it on Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, or New Year's Eve. 00:57:12.300 --> 00:57:14.160 This is going to be my Christmas present? 00:57:18.040 --> 00:57:18.560 Yeah. 00:57:19.660 --> 00:57:20.180 Fuck. 00:57:20.680 --> 00:57:24.540 Because you're going to try to release it at a time when nobody's paying attention 00:57:24.540 --> 00:57:28.740 and hope that everybody forgets by the time they get back from vacation. 00:57:29.560 --> 00:57:32.600 I see. Well, that makes a lot of sense. 00:57:33.340 --> 00:57:37.100 And meanwhile, they'll try to figure out better ways to redact. 00:57:38.760 --> 00:57:42.720 But this is, you know, the whole thing with the redactions. This is what happens 00:57:42.720 --> 00:57:46.620 every time to these idiots when what they do is, 00:57:47.000 --> 00:57:53.960 when you hire for loyalty instead of competence, this is what you get. Idiots. 00:57:54.940 --> 00:57:55.460 Yeah. 00:57:57.040 --> 00:58:00.200 Okay. You got any more on Epstein? 00:58:01.740 --> 00:58:02.140 No. 00:58:02.860 --> 00:58:06.680 You got any more on anything you want to bring up before we take a break and I pick something? 00:58:07.240 --> 00:58:08.080 Let's take a break. 00:58:08.620 --> 00:58:09.020 Okay. 00:58:09.600 --> 00:58:13.020 Or I can bring up the, well, because I don't have any details on it. 00:58:13.120 --> 00:58:17.260 I didn't really dive in deep because I must admit that I have been, 00:58:17.260 --> 00:58:22.700 like, checked out from everything. I've been trying not to do shit the last few days. 00:58:23.180 --> 00:58:23.580 Yes. 00:58:23.580 --> 00:58:30.640 They released a q3 gdp report like a couple of months late and the numbers are 00:58:30.640 --> 00:58:35.680 incredible literally incredible sam they're not believable i. 00:58:35.680 --> 00:58:41.400 Heard this is the best growth the u.s has had in like forever or. 00:58:41.400 --> 00:58:46.500 Something the numbers are literally not believable now tell me tell me what. 00:58:46.500 --> 00:58:47.500 Why what and why. 00:58:47.500 --> 00:58:53.400 Well they they released it and said the gdp growth as as was at 4.3 percent OK, 00:58:54.200 --> 00:59:02.920 and they said that this did not include like that, that, you know, 00:59:03.040 --> 00:59:06.020 consumer spending was not a driver of this. 00:59:06.400 --> 00:59:11.040 Now, once again, they said that the biggest driver was AI spending. 00:59:11.040 --> 00:59:20.020 OK, but they said given what is going on with labor and everything else, 00:59:20.020 --> 00:59:23.120 it's just not a believable report. 00:59:23.280 --> 00:59:29.940 Because the one thing I thought that maybe could have pushed up spending, OK, was consumer. 00:59:30.120 --> 00:59:33.040 But, you know, they said no, it's just. 00:59:35.380 --> 00:59:38.760 It's not a believable number. And as many of these, you know, 00:59:39.080 --> 00:59:42.840 right now, you can't believe our government's economic statistics. 00:59:44.160 --> 00:59:52.300 We are at that point where our statistics are no better than those of a third-rate government. 00:59:53.260 --> 01:00:02.080 Right. Which, like, one of the things that has led to this country being an 01:00:02.080 --> 01:00:04.400 economic leader all over the world, et cetera, 01:00:04.800 --> 01:00:08.540 among other things, but is that you could trust stuff like this. 01:00:08.840 --> 01:00:11.440 Yes. And right now we can't trust any of it. 01:00:11.740 --> 01:00:16.940 Because it's being manipulated for the political effect, or at the very least, 01:00:17.120 --> 01:00:24.940 there's enough uncertainty that you can't be sure it's not being. at the very least. 01:00:25.700 --> 01:00:32.100 A Fed governor recently stated, you know, that numbers were distorted due to 01:00:32.100 --> 01:00:36.800 many one-time items and things that they put in that usually they will call 01:00:36.800 --> 01:00:38.900 out in order to show what the true numbers are. 01:00:41.800 --> 01:00:46.500 So it's just, you know, I don't believe the number. 01:00:46.660 --> 01:00:52.300 Given what's going on with jobs and hiring and whatever, what they are saying 01:00:52.300 --> 01:00:54.860 versus what is happening in the labor market. 01:00:55.220 --> 01:00:57.340 And it was multiple months late anyway. 01:00:57.680 --> 01:01:02.020 And it was multiple months late. Anyway, they don't not, they are not, 01:01:02.400 --> 01:01:05.760 the data is not jiving. It just isn't. 01:01:07.790 --> 01:01:13.410 So, I don't know, what do you think? If you can't trust the numbers, you can't trust. 01:01:13.550 --> 01:01:18.170 Are there alternate sources of this kind of information that are more trustworthy 01:01:18.170 --> 01:01:21.350 from the private sector? Like, what do we think is really going on? 01:01:21.950 --> 01:01:25.570 Well, we know what is going on. 01:01:25.750 --> 01:01:30.250 We know the one thing is that we know that the labor market is stagnant because 01:01:30.250 --> 01:01:34.190 we know that from private sector data. So we know that. 01:01:34.350 --> 01:01:36.570 We know that wages are not growing. 01:01:37.110 --> 01:01:41.530 And if the economy was expanding at such a rate, you wouldn't be getting that. 01:01:42.450 --> 01:01:47.390 This is not compatible with that picture that's happening in the labor market. 01:01:47.550 --> 01:01:49.330 There's a huge disconnect there. 01:01:50.290 --> 01:01:51.030 That's. 01:01:51.030 --> 01:01:58.350 That i mean there there is your disconnect they just don't they the labor market 01:01:58.350 --> 01:02:00.410 and that data don't agree. 01:02:00.410 --> 01:02:08.230 Okay so you do not believe that this is a huge growth quarter because i mean 01:02:08.230 --> 01:02:12.730 everybody else has been saying we've got all sorts of flashing red lights that 01:02:12.730 --> 01:02:16.650 we are heading into recession or maybe already are in one. 01:02:17.010 --> 01:02:17.410 Yes. 01:02:17.430 --> 01:02:20.890 And this is like completely the opposite direction of that. 01:02:20.990 --> 01:02:24.770 Exactly. There are so many other indicators that indicate the opposite thing. 01:02:25.610 --> 01:02:32.170 Let me give you an example. Right now, auto loan defaults. Nerd records. Okay? 01:02:32.790 --> 01:02:35.050 The labor market. That's bad. 01:02:36.170 --> 01:02:38.050 Real estate. Residential real 01:02:38.050 --> 01:02:43.610 estate. It's in the shitter. Commercial real estate is not doing great. 01:02:44.690 --> 01:02:52.010 You know, you have all of these metrics that point towards bad, bad, bad, bad. 01:02:52.750 --> 01:02:56.970 Oh, no, GDP is growing. You're like, how? 01:02:59.640 --> 01:03:06.200 So I just saw that the Department of Justice has responded to that letter that we read. 01:03:06.700 --> 01:03:12.860 What they've said so far, the Department of Justice is currently looking into 01:03:12.860 --> 01:03:18.060 the validity of this alleged letter from Jeffrey Epstein to Larry Nassar, 01:03:18.160 --> 01:03:20.720 and we will follow up as soon as possible. 01:03:20.980 --> 01:03:24.320 In the meantime, three facts stand out. 01:03:25.320 --> 01:03:29.980 Bullet. The postmark on the envelope is Virginia, not New York, 01:03:30.120 --> 01:03:32.060 where Jeffrey Epstein was jailed at the time. 01:03:32.900 --> 01:03:38.240 Bullet. The return address listed the wrong jail where Epstein was held and 01:03:38.240 --> 01:03:42.180 did not include his inmate number, which is required for outgoing mail. 01:03:42.860 --> 01:03:48.140 Bullet. The envelope was processed three days after Epstein's death. 01:03:48.740 --> 01:03:50.200 That doesn't mean anything. 01:03:52.860 --> 01:03:58.320 So as i said like the question on that is like it was it really from epstein 01:03:58.320 --> 01:04:05.060 or did somebody like throw this it did somebody else make this up and it's. 01:04:05.060 --> 01:04:07.720 A very simple thing you've got the handwriting go compare. 01:04:07.720 --> 01:04:08.480 Yeah go. 01:04:08.480 --> 01:04:11.340 Do do the handwriting comparison start off with that. 01:04:11.340 --> 01:04:16.940 Yep i and that should and that should be easily resolved by third parties like 01:04:16.940 --> 01:04:18.520 you don't have to trust the DOJ. 01:04:18.680 --> 01:04:20.940 Somebody out there has got to have like actual... 01:04:20.940 --> 01:04:23.840 Yeah, we got the Epstein State Files. We got his handwriting. 01:04:24.100 --> 01:04:26.960 Go compare it. See if that matches up. 01:04:27.360 --> 01:04:27.760 Right. 01:04:27.880 --> 01:04:28.500 Start off with that. 01:04:29.340 --> 01:04:31.100 Okay. Shall we take a break? 01:04:32.670 --> 01:04:36.830 Okay, we're going to take this break and then I'll come back and spoilers, 01:04:37.150 --> 01:04:41.150 I'm going to do the 60 minutes Seacott story. Back after this. 01:04:41.790 --> 01:04:48.170 You're supposed to say do do do. Do do do Alex Emzela. 01:04:49.690 --> 01:04:53.690 Alex Emzela is awesome. Its videos are fun. 01:04:54.130 --> 01:05:00.470 And today, once again, we have one of our most loyal subscribers here to tell 01:05:00.470 --> 01:05:02.110 you how awesome Alex Emsola is. 01:05:02.430 --> 01:05:10.390 I'd say on a rate from 1 to 10, Alex Emsola is awesome at, I don't know, 37, 82. 01:05:10.950 --> 01:05:16.070 He's pretty radical. His videos are phenomenal. They're full of creativity. 01:05:16.490 --> 01:05:20.270 And they're so funny and exciting to watch. 01:05:20.730 --> 01:05:26.690 Wow, what happened to your voice then, Amy? Was that Dad pretending to be you 01:05:26.690 --> 01:05:33.290 because the audio was distorted when it really wasn't because I told him to? 01:05:33.790 --> 01:05:37.430 Yes. Good job on remembering, Dad. 01:05:38.130 --> 01:05:39.690 Do, do, do! 01:05:40.550 --> 01:05:46.670 Okay, we are back. And so, 60 Minutes. Barry Weiss. 01:05:47.210 --> 01:05:49.390 Did they handle that well, Sam? 01:05:49.390 --> 01:05:54.850 Them they handled it in about the worst way you could possibly handle it okay so here's the deal, 01:05:56.280 --> 01:06:03.500 For a while, the 60 Minutes reporting staff group, whatever it is, 01:06:03.680 --> 01:06:08.680 they had been working on a story on the conditions inside the Seacott prison, 01:06:09.300 --> 01:06:16.520 which is where the place in El Salvador where the administration had been. 01:06:16.960 --> 01:06:17.600 By the way. 01:06:17.920 --> 01:06:19.180 I. No. 01:06:19.580 --> 01:06:20.300 No. 01:06:21.000 --> 01:06:27.620 I have not yet watched it. I watched something similar on Frontline a while 01:06:27.620 --> 01:06:30.700 ago, but no, I have not yet. Why not? 01:06:32.280 --> 01:06:34.740 It's 15 minutes, not like three hours. 01:06:34.740 --> 01:06:39.080 I know it's 15 minutes. I promise I will watch it. 01:06:40.020 --> 01:06:43.260 So bottom line, they'd been working on this for a while. 01:06:44.160 --> 01:06:48.780 It had gone through all of the approval processes that it was supposed to go 01:06:48.780 --> 01:06:54.060 through, from legal, from standards and practices, from whatever. 01:06:54.780 --> 01:06:58.300 And it was already announced that it was going to be on the next newscast. 01:06:58.420 --> 01:07:02.280 It was announced. There were promos running. There was all this kind of stuff. 01:07:02.700 --> 01:07:06.220 Three hours before the broadcast, Barry Weiss pulled it. 01:07:07.100 --> 01:07:10.580 She'd apparently previewed it a couple days earlier, 01:07:11.640 --> 01:07:17.400 but didn't pull it until three hours before, saying that basically there was 01:07:17.400 --> 01:07:24.340 an inadequate amount of the administration's perspective in the story. 01:07:26.540 --> 01:07:32.580 And she said some things that were just not true in terms of it not including 01:07:32.580 --> 01:07:36.540 the administration's justification. They did include that. 01:07:37.560 --> 01:07:41.620 It may be not enough for her, but they included some of it. And, 01:07:41.620 --> 01:07:43.580 uh, and they had asked them for. 01:07:43.640 --> 01:07:48.920 For, for, you know, you guys want to comment, you guys want to talk, 01:07:49.060 --> 01:07:52.020 you guys want to send anybody to the interview and they refused. 01:07:53.360 --> 01:07:58.540 Correct. And so the excuse here is we're holding it for release at a later date 01:07:58.540 --> 01:08:02.500 so that we can do more reporting and we can get some of that kind of stuff. 01:08:02.660 --> 01:08:10.120 But the bottom line is if you follow that logic, then the administration basically has a veto. 01:08:10.640 --> 01:08:15.640 Exactly. All they have to do is not answer any questions on any story out there 01:08:15.640 --> 01:08:18.260 and they're just not going to publish them. 01:08:18.640 --> 01:08:21.840 Well, and this is the thing. It's a preposterous standard. 01:08:21.840 --> 01:08:22.860 People. 01:08:22.860 --> 01:08:27.540 Have speculated from the beginning that this is actually why Barry Weiss is 01:08:27.540 --> 01:08:37.120 there you know that she was well known worked at like a conservative online thing. 01:08:37.120 --> 01:08:42.400 But there's one thing about it I'd read up where she was working at one thing 01:08:42.400 --> 01:08:47.180 that I had read about her okay and read about the, 01:08:48.240 --> 01:08:54.620 reporting at the place was that at least based on, they were pretty factual. 01:08:55.240 --> 01:09:01.280 So whatever they published as stories, it was not the type of coverage where 01:09:01.280 --> 01:09:04.120 you could say, oh, these people are just making up the news stories. 01:09:04.600 --> 01:09:11.200 So they were factual. Okay, so I, you know, the one thing that I could see was 01:09:11.200 --> 01:09:13.640 that there were certain specific areas, 01:09:14.240 --> 01:09:22.000 more related to Israel than anything else where she had done a column in the 01:09:22.000 --> 01:09:25.620 New York Times and some other places that a lot of people vehemently disagreed with her. 01:09:25.900 --> 01:09:30.340 That was pretty much it that I had read. There wasn't really much. 01:09:30.460 --> 01:09:37.700 But the one thing that was very evident is she did not have the background or 01:09:37.700 --> 01:09:43.080 experience in running such a large organization ever. 01:09:43.480 --> 01:09:50.360 Like not even close. She had, she did not have the, she just didn't have the background at all. 01:09:52.590 --> 01:09:57.850 And I think that it was telling that Scott Pelley went and said, 01:09:57.970 --> 01:10:00.670 and he's been quoted as saying that this is not a part time job, 01:10:01.290 --> 01:10:10.570 you know, because what it felt like was that she, as I've seen many managers do. 01:10:11.540 --> 01:10:13.800 Was kind of like, you know, she's 01:10:13.800 --> 01:10:19.340 been like meddling, but not involved in strategy and stuff or whatever. 01:10:19.660 --> 01:10:22.440 And then all of a sudden at the last minute, she caught something she didn't 01:10:22.440 --> 01:10:25.880 like and then just arbitrarily pulled it without having been involved in the 01:10:25.880 --> 01:10:28.120 process where she should have been. 01:10:28.860 --> 01:10:38.460 You know, I my from my understanding, like most of the criticism of Barry White. Barry White? 01:10:38.680 --> 01:10:40.600 Barry White? You never. 01:10:40.600 --> 01:10:42.060 Barry White's a little bit different. 01:10:43.100 --> 01:10:47.080 I mean, I think that, you know, that's a totally different subject. 01:10:47.320 --> 01:10:48.620 We can cover Barry White. 01:10:48.700 --> 01:10:51.980 Totally different subject. Barry Weiss. 01:10:52.720 --> 01:10:58.580 I have certainly heard what you've been concentrating on, which is like inexperienced, 01:10:58.800 --> 01:11:01.680 doesn't know what she's doing, et cetera, et cetera. 01:11:02.320 --> 01:11:09.120 But also very much like, look, she was brought in because of her political views as well. 01:11:09.120 --> 01:11:11.800 I'll tell you the one thing CBS News. 01:11:12.000 --> 01:11:17.580 But but to be more friendly to Republicans and more friendly to MAGA specifically. 01:11:17.980 --> 01:11:22.200 But you know what? Listen, I think this can be done in many different ways. 01:11:22.200 --> 01:11:25.580 If you think about it and I think that's the whole problem here, 01:11:25.720 --> 01:11:30.700 because I think about, say, the Wall Street Journal. Right. OK. 01:11:31.220 --> 01:11:33.300 Obviously, the owners are conservative. OK. 01:11:33.860 --> 01:11:36.260 But the one thing that they don't fuck with is the facts. 01:11:37.520 --> 01:11:43.020 Well, the thing is that there there's a very—you can tell the conservative nature 01:11:43.020 --> 01:11:45.980 of the Wall Street Journal through the editorial page. 01:11:46.160 --> 01:11:46.320 Right. 01:11:46.420 --> 01:11:48.680 But they, for the most part, leave the news alone. 01:11:48.800 --> 01:11:51.680 And that's the point, right? And that's the thing. 01:11:51.980 --> 01:11:55.740 But it hasn't felt like that's what they're doing here. No, no. 01:11:55.900 --> 01:12:01.580 She has been injecting opinion. She has been directly going and—, 01:12:02.460 --> 01:12:11.060 Injecting what seems to be opinions into what's shaping the coverage of the news. 01:12:11.340 --> 01:12:14.000 I actually I was seeing somebody yesterday in 01:12:14.000 --> 01:12:21.840 the bulwark specifically saying that it feels like she got the job more because 01:12:21.840 --> 01:12:28.220 the new owners really wanted to put somebody there that other people like because 01:12:28.220 --> 01:12:32.380 they really didn't buy Paramount CBS for this. 01:12:33.260 --> 01:12:40.920 they didn't really want this okay they wanted the movies they wanted the 01:12:41.320 --> 01:12:46.160 entertainment that was the the part that they bought and this was yesterday 01:12:46.160 --> 01:12:49.700 in the bull war I just caught this yesterday I said look when they're buying 01:12:49.700 --> 01:12:56.900 this this is an extra thing that was like came with it that they really didn't 01:12:56.900 --> 01:13:00.120 want it so they wanted to put somebody there who you know, 01:13:00.860 --> 01:13:05.120 hey you know we need Washington to be happy with us let's just put somebody 01:13:05.120 --> 01:13:09.040 there who keeps us happy and that's the name that they came up with. 01:13:09.040 --> 01:13:15.680 Well right and this is what a lot of I mean you've seen similar moves at CNN 01:13:15.680 --> 01:13:24.840 um you know where it's what can we do to keep Donald Trump from getting. 01:13:25.740 --> 01:13:27.660 Exactly. That's right. 01:13:41.410 --> 01:13:48.750 If at any moment in your thought process, the question, how do we keep from 01:13:48.750 --> 01:13:53.690 pissing off the president, is part of what you are doing, 01:13:54.350 --> 01:13:57.230 then you cannot do your job properly. 01:13:57.230 --> 01:14:01.230 No, you can't. And, but, 01:14:01.450 --> 01:14:06.510 you know, this entire thing goes back and several people actually brought up 01:14:06.510 --> 01:14:11.270 that it's been almost like 30 years precisely to the day when CBS went through 01:14:11.270 --> 01:14:14.690 the crisis that I had mentioned related to Jeffrey Weingand, 01:14:14.750 --> 01:14:17.810 which is very aligned to a lot of what's going on right now. 01:14:17.810 --> 01:14:21.850 Because I've heard a couple of people mention it, but I don't remember it. So what was that? 01:14:22.190 --> 01:14:26.530 Listen, this was the story related to Brown and Willis and Tobacco and the testimony 01:14:26.530 --> 01:14:31.730 against the tobacco companies where the story was pulled in the same way. 01:14:31.890 --> 01:14:40.850 And the reason was, by the way, a big part of it was because Westinghouse was 01:14:40.850 --> 01:14:45.810 going to buy CBS from Larry Tish. Okay. 01:14:46.610 --> 01:14:49.250 and they needed this story. 01:14:50.130 --> 01:14:54.990 The thing is that there was all this litigation and this lawsuit and whatever 01:14:54.990 --> 01:15:01.450 that could potentially involve a lot of money and they needed the litigation 01:15:01.450 --> 01:15:05.550 to go away in order for the merger to close. 01:15:05.750 --> 01:15:11.430 So even though it wasn't the government, there was a deal, there was a merger, 01:15:11.570 --> 01:15:14.770 there was something happening and they just went, they said, 01:15:14.770 --> 01:15:18.290 no, you know what, let's just, you know, let's just kill the story. 01:15:19.840 --> 01:15:23.860 Over the, you know, similar, you know, back then they said the, the, 01:15:24.500 --> 01:15:30.240 the, the, what legal went and said that it was because they thought that CBS 01:15:30.240 --> 01:15:34.600 could be sued out of business for false accusations because there was a, 01:15:34.740 --> 01:15:37.240 because Jeffrey Weigand had a non-disclosure agreement, 01:15:37.460 --> 01:15:45.080 which he was violating in order to reveal that the tobacco executives at the time were lying. 01:15:45.900 --> 01:15:46.240 Right. Right. 01:15:47.470 --> 01:15:51.330 And so it was a lot of a similar dynamic with this. 01:15:51.550 --> 01:15:55.510 And by the way, the newsroom also revolted. 01:15:56.290 --> 01:16:04.070 They rebelled the same way. And you've got this merger sitting out there right 01:16:04.070 --> 01:16:07.130 now that they're trying to do again. 01:16:08.130 --> 01:16:15.050 And you've got the president that has been meddling with all these media mergers now. 01:16:15.510 --> 01:16:16.250 Mm-hmm. 01:16:16.250 --> 01:16:23.730 And so they're all trying to just, you know, satisfy him like like right now because of this. 01:16:24.870 --> 01:16:27.770 But this is what you get with. I mean, 01:16:27.930 --> 01:16:33.650 this is the abuse of power that you've got like right now from a presidency 01:16:33.650 --> 01:16:41.970 that is willing to to basically put their fingers into every aspect of business. which. 01:16:41.970 --> 01:16:48.730 Major news organizations at this point can you still mostly trust like. 01:16:48.730 --> 01:16:52.910 Because i feel like bloomberg doesn't give a shit he's been like oh my god he's 01:16:52.910 --> 01:16:59.890 been shitting on uh on trump like you know like with with no no qualms i. 01:16:59.890 --> 01:17:01.290 Know you're a big bloomberg fan. 01:17:01.290 --> 01:17:07.890 But he's but but have you but they're not pulling any punches and like michael 01:17:07.890 --> 01:17:11.490 bloomberg referred to him as like You know, what he said, you know, 01:17:11.570 --> 01:17:13.310 I'm a real billionaire, not like Donald. 01:17:14.150 --> 01:17:14.630 Right. 01:17:15.010 --> 01:17:18.930 So he could give a rat's ass if fucking Donald's gonna go after him. 01:17:19.290 --> 01:17:21.730 But like, I think this, this instant, 01:17:22.570 --> 01:17:26.310 Sort of is another nail in the coffin of CBS. 01:17:26.630 --> 01:17:31.970 It's like, okay, you know, I feel like you're going to end up with a lot of people leaving. 01:17:32.650 --> 01:17:34.910 You're good. And it's like, okay. 01:17:34.950 --> 01:17:39.430 Here's the one thing. One thing about this was that Barry Weiss was put there 01:17:39.430 --> 01:17:42.690 also in order to take care of things. 01:17:43.490 --> 01:17:48.730 I have a feeling that she's going to wind up out of a job because of how clumsy 01:17:48.730 --> 01:17:50.170 this whole thing was handled. 01:17:50.170 --> 01:17:53.230 Oh, because we didn't get to the point. Like, it was pulled from the U.S. 01:17:53.350 --> 01:17:57.970 broadcast. They neglected to pull it from international. So it aired in Canada. 01:17:58.470 --> 01:18:02.930 And then, of course, a lot of people ripped a copy off the airing in Canada 01:18:02.930 --> 01:18:05.250 and started distributing online. 01:18:06.230 --> 01:18:08.150 It's been a game of whack-a-mole. 01:18:08.150 --> 01:18:10.690 60 Minutes, CBS sells this internationally. 01:18:11.010 --> 01:18:11.410 Yeah, yeah. 01:18:11.850 --> 01:18:15.990 And so they had sold the story already, and they already had it ready to go, 01:18:16.010 --> 01:18:20.990 you know, because there are 60 Minutes international newscasts in other places, 01:18:21.090 --> 01:18:22.670 or 60 Minutes Australia, whatever. 01:18:22.870 --> 01:18:26.010 So, yeah, so they had that, you know, yeah, they pulled the story in the U.S., 01:18:26.010 --> 01:18:27.750 but they already sold the fucking story. 01:18:28.450 --> 01:18:32.390 Yeah, so, and they didn't pull, they didn't bother to pull it internationally. 01:18:32.590 --> 01:18:37.050 I've seen speculation of, like, nobody bothered to tell Barry about that. 01:18:38.150 --> 01:18:44.670 I'm sorry. You know what? You are the head of the news organization. 01:18:45.150 --> 01:18:49.170 You have been the head for many months. You should know. 01:18:49.990 --> 01:18:56.470 Anyway, it's a bit of whack-a-mole because CBS is trying to get it removed from everybody who posts it. 01:18:57.230 --> 01:18:59.430 But it's not working. 01:19:00.190 --> 01:19:07.390 It is 100% Streisand effect here. In fact, I've seen people say this puts the 01:19:07.390 --> 01:19:09.350 original Streisand effect to shame. 01:19:09.810 --> 01:19:13.950 Like, so many more people have seen this than would have if she just left it alone. 01:19:14.230 --> 01:19:19.850 Exactly. Listen, I guarantee you one thing. I would not have watched this if this didn't happen. 01:19:20.600 --> 01:19:25.220 Right. And so, look, it is Whack-A-Mole. 01:19:25.340 --> 01:19:29.560 They are taking them down sometimes, but it is widespread enough. 01:19:29.740 --> 01:19:33.560 And for every one they take down, there are three new ones that are put up. 01:19:33.700 --> 01:19:36.940 So if you want to see this, I am sure you can find it. 01:19:37.140 --> 01:19:37.580 It is freely available. 01:19:38.020 --> 01:19:39.240 It's freely available. 01:19:39.340 --> 01:19:44.500 I checked the link, the one I shared, and that one is working no problem. 01:19:44.640 --> 01:19:46.940 I checked right before the start of the podcast. 01:19:46.940 --> 01:19:50.800 The first one that was put up, there was some Canadian who put it up on YouTube. 01:19:51.140 --> 01:19:53.400 That one disappeared a few hours later. 01:19:53.840 --> 01:19:58.000 But by the time it disappeared, there were a half dozen others. 01:19:58.580 --> 01:19:58.700 Right. 01:19:58.860 --> 01:20:03.020 You know, and so, you know, it's all over the place now. 01:20:03.120 --> 01:20:05.960 I grabbed it from somewhere on Substack. Okay. All right. 01:20:06.540 --> 01:20:13.720 Okay. Yeah. No, it was put on archive.org. The Mueller She Wrote folks posted it. 01:20:14.020 --> 01:20:15.420 That's where I grabbed it from. Yep. 01:20:15.420 --> 01:20:18.560 That that's the one where you grabbed it um there was 01:20:18.560 --> 01:20:23.760 the original guy who put it on youtube it's available on on torrents for those 01:20:23.760 --> 01:20:29.740 of you who remember like torrenting things from like 15 years ago you know it's 01:20:29.740 --> 01:20:34.100 all over the place it's it's all over the place and every every time they take 01:20:34.100 --> 01:20:38.040 some down more come up so i checked and. 01:20:38.040 --> 01:20:44.020 Uh this one is yeah mueller she wrote yeah that one's still up. They haven't. 01:20:44.140 --> 01:20:44.420 Yeah. 01:20:44.660 --> 01:20:46.640 I don't think they'll be able to get to that one. Yeah. 01:20:47.220 --> 01:20:54.060 And, and look with all of these, the, it'll be interesting to see if they ever 01:20:54.060 --> 01:20:56.300 do. Like Barry Weiss has said, 01:20:57.040 --> 01:20:58.540 We'll do more reporting. We'll 01:20:58.540 --> 01:21:02.180 air it later. It'll be interesting to do a comparison, if they ever do. 01:21:03.340 --> 01:21:08.840 There's been enough pressure on it that it seems like maybe they actually will, 01:21:09.040 --> 01:21:10.240 because they were caught. 01:21:11.020 --> 01:21:13.580 Otherwise, I would assume it's just been spiked permanently. 01:21:13.840 --> 01:21:18.760 But the thing is, what this tells you is, okay, this one was pulled at the last 01:21:18.760 --> 01:21:23.120 moment, but what things aren't getting greenlit at all? 01:21:23.120 --> 01:21:27.580 But that's the thing that I talk about, the clumsiness of this whole damn thing, okay? 01:21:27.720 --> 01:21:31.900 Because that's, I think, that if you're expecting somebody to be doing what 01:21:31.900 --> 01:21:36.880 they're doing, it's you're expecting them to be doing it in that more, how do I say, 01:21:37.160 --> 01:21:42.080 artful way that it's like, well, you're just steering it and you're not going 01:21:42.080 --> 01:21:45.880 and like going three hours before a fucking news report is going up and then 01:21:45.880 --> 01:21:49.120 making it a bigger deal, which is the stupidest thing about this, okay? 01:21:50.180 --> 01:21:53.000 you know which is what again this is the same thing 01:21:53.000 --> 01:21:55.920 that happened with the with the with Jeffrey Wang and 01:21:55.920 --> 01:21:58.660 30 years it's ridiculous how much deja vu there 01:21:58.660 --> 01:22:01.380 is in this whole damn thing and once again I tell people that if you 01:22:01.380 --> 01:22:04.580 guys haven't watched the movie The Insider which covers this you 01:22:04.580 --> 01:22:07.680 know from completely it's a great number it's 01:22:07.680 --> 01:22:10.900 a very good movie there are some artistic licensing in it 01:22:10.900 --> 01:22:13.660 a little bit not that much you know as far as I as far as I've heard 01:22:13.660 --> 01:22:16.600 there are just certain things that are that are obviously not not not 01:22:16.600 --> 01:22:20.180 exactly the real but the movie's very entertaining and it's and it covers it 01:22:20.180 --> 01:22:24.720 quite well so so watch that it's russell crow and now pacino and that movie 01:22:24.720 --> 01:22:29.120 they did a they did an excellent job in that movie so go check it out but i 01:22:29.120 --> 01:22:36.100 but it's just here but here's the one thing sam look this wasn't honestly that big a deal, 01:22:36.800 --> 01:22:43.320 you mentioned before that frontline had covered this yeah they had already this 01:22:43.320 --> 01:22:46.880 this story already even done you know and. 01:22:46.880 --> 01:22:50.440 That's also one of the reasons she said we're not treading new ground here. 01:22:50.440 --> 01:22:55.180 That's one of the excuses but that's my point so why'd you pull it, 01:22:57.250 --> 01:23:02.850 I mean, it did do some, it did do, they did have certain interviews with. 01:23:03.250 --> 01:23:08.310 So let's step back a second because I have not watched it. 01:23:08.450 --> 01:23:15.370 You have. And I, I technically watched the front line that covered this. It was also only a 15. 01:23:15.570 --> 01:23:20.390 It was like the last 15 minutes of a longer front line. And I'll be honest, 01:23:20.410 --> 01:23:22.950 I think I might've fallen asleep. But. 01:23:23.530 --> 01:23:31.170 Number one is they cover that. Listen, they showed how they were flown there, 01:23:31.530 --> 01:23:34.350 how they were treated, how they first got told they were going to Venezuela, 01:23:34.390 --> 01:23:35.730 and then they wound up in El Salvador. 01:23:36.070 --> 01:23:39.290 They showed the entire treatment of how they were dragged off in shackles, 01:23:39.410 --> 01:23:42.950 how they were abused and tortured, the horrible conditions at the prison. 01:23:43.070 --> 01:23:50.950 They showed that in detail because the place is just it is it is absolutely an inhumane prison. 01:23:51.110 --> 01:24:00.610 It is, you know, already many human rights organizations have decried that it 01:24:00.610 --> 01:24:05.010 does not meet any minimum standards for treatment of prisoners anywhere. 01:24:05.370 --> 01:24:10.630 I mean, they have their lights on 24 hours. They don't give people proper places to sleep. 01:24:11.050 --> 01:24:16.770 It is just they deny food. They were making people drink dirty water. 01:24:16.930 --> 01:24:20.670 They wouldn't even give them fresh, clean water or food. Okay. 01:24:21.110 --> 01:24:27.250 There were beatings and torture. They denied them health care during the stay there. 01:24:28.180 --> 01:24:32.460 And the interviews with the people that were sent there, which is basically, 01:24:32.600 --> 01:24:34.620 they got sent there. Why? Because they had tattoos. 01:24:35.400 --> 01:24:37.680 And I'm like, that's it. 01:24:38.760 --> 01:24:45.360 When, by the way, it was very well known by ICE that they claimed they were Trenderagua. 01:24:45.800 --> 01:24:49.260 Trenderagua, they don't use tattoos to identify people. 01:24:50.160 --> 01:24:53.260 That the picture where Kristi Noem was standing in front of a whole bunch of 01:24:53.260 --> 01:24:56.980 prisoners, all the ones behind her, They were all Salvadorans. 01:24:57.160 --> 01:25:01.400 MS-13, they were not the people from the flight at all. 01:25:01.940 --> 01:25:08.340 That they didn't, you know, they sent them there, that they have a list that 01:25:08.340 --> 01:25:14.760 shows that less than 2% of the people that were sent there had violent criminal records. 01:25:15.320 --> 01:25:19.280 That the others that they said that 50% were criminals were basically people 01:25:19.280 --> 01:25:22.100 that they were criminalizing because simply they entered the U.S. 01:25:22.440 --> 01:25:24.900 according to them illegally. Which, by the way, in many instances, 01:25:25.140 --> 01:25:27.520 people were illegal, but then they turned them into illegal. 01:25:27.800 --> 01:25:29.660 So that's their only offense. 01:25:30.340 --> 01:25:35.500 And that they were just brutalized for four months until finally, 01:25:36.240 --> 01:25:43.660 amazingly enough, the guy who freaking got them out of there was the president of Venezuela. 01:25:43.660 --> 01:25:48.040 Not exactly a warm and cuddly guy either. 01:25:48.340 --> 01:25:53.720 Another fucking asshole. and it was in a trade for some Americans that had been 01:25:53.720 --> 01:25:55.560 imprisoned in Venezuela. 01:25:58.020 --> 01:26:03.120 So, you know, the detail of how badly they were mistreated and the kind of abuse 01:26:03.120 --> 01:26:06.100 that they were endured is really gut-wrenching. 01:26:07.160 --> 01:26:12.940 Sam, these people are being made to... They weren't being given not even water. 01:26:13.180 --> 01:26:16.240 They were being told that they needed to drink the same water they bathe with. 01:26:16.380 --> 01:26:18.160 That's the water they should be drinking. Right? 01:26:19.010 --> 01:26:19.450 Right. 01:26:20.170 --> 01:26:24.050 So, yeah, so it was the part. 01:26:24.250 --> 01:26:29.190 It's pretty damning. But again, I think, you know, one of the things they highlighted 01:26:29.190 --> 01:26:34.730 there also was that the president of El Salvador had been allowing a lot of 01:26:34.730 --> 01:26:39.070 like social media people and tours to to go visit the place. 01:26:39.650 --> 01:26:45.730 And so, by the way, a lot of the facts there to gather who it was, 01:26:45.970 --> 01:26:49.710 where they were located, how they were treated, and corroborate all the information 01:26:49.710 --> 01:26:53.070 was compiled by not just the interviews, 01:26:53.170 --> 01:26:57.690 but so many social media people have been allowed there to visit and take a 01:26:57.690 --> 01:27:03.270 look that they were able to build a composite and figure out who the people were, 01:27:03.630 --> 01:27:06.250 where they were being held, what was the criminal record. 01:27:06.250 --> 01:27:11.410 They were able to reconstruct just about all the details about the group and 01:27:11.410 --> 01:27:15.510 come to the conclusion, like I mentioned, that basically less than 2% of the 01:27:15.510 --> 01:27:17.410 people that got sent there had violent criminal records. 01:27:18.070 --> 01:27:18.590 Right. 01:27:20.470 --> 01:27:28.290 And look, I just, while we were talking about that, I saw a blue sky thing with 01:27:28.290 --> 01:27:33.010 Representative McIver coming out of— Now I got McIver? 01:27:33.950 --> 01:27:37.670 Not McIver. Not McIver. McIver. 01:27:38.170 --> 01:27:39.490 McIver. Okay. All right. 01:27:39.610 --> 01:27:40.210 McIver. 01:27:40.270 --> 01:27:41.130 Not McIver. Okay. 01:27:41.350 --> 01:27:45.510 Yeah. She just did a tour of an ice facility in Newark, New Jersey, 01:27:45.510 --> 01:27:50.130 and was talking about how conditions there were horrible. 01:27:50.690 --> 01:27:57.890 So I feel like we're missing—I mean, there's been some reporting on how bad 01:27:57.890 --> 01:28:04.270 the domestic camps are, but I think we need more of that and more visibility on that as well. 01:28:04.790 --> 01:28:12.170 Yes. Because I think we're going to find that we got some pretty bad stuff going 01:28:12.170 --> 01:28:14.630 on domestically, too, without even sending the telephones on. 01:28:14.630 --> 01:28:18.890 Yeah, and there has been coverage on those as well. 01:28:18.990 --> 01:28:19.490 There has been. 01:28:19.490 --> 01:28:24.710 But but again, the whole damn problem is people are people are there's so much 01:28:24.710 --> 01:28:28.030 bad news coming out with this shit that people are being desensitized. 01:28:28.130 --> 01:28:30.650 And the only reason they paid attention to it now is because of what happened 01:28:30.650 --> 01:28:31.610 when they pulled a story. 01:28:32.480 --> 01:28:40.120 Yes. Because, you know, it's very easy to ignore the latest piece of bad news. 01:28:40.300 --> 01:28:44.740 This gives us a different spin because it's more, oh, they're trying to hide it. 01:28:45.720 --> 01:28:52.960 You know, we've said before, even with all of Trump's obvious corruption and 01:28:52.960 --> 01:29:00.680 such, the fact that he just does it out in the open without even trying to hide it. 01:29:01.440 --> 01:29:05.560 like makes people automatically dismiss it to a degree. Well, 01:29:05.620 --> 01:29:08.360 it can't be that bad. He's not even trying to hide it. 01:29:08.780 --> 01:29:13.960 Well, you know, and now we are going to be made safe by the, whatchamacallit? 01:29:14.020 --> 01:29:16.000 The Golden Fleet? The Golden Fleet. 01:29:16.360 --> 01:29:20.820 Yes. I mean, that's how we're going to be safe and secure, with the Golden Fleet, 01:29:20.980 --> 01:29:22.080 the Golden Shower Fleet. 01:29:22.640 --> 01:29:23.980 Bring back the battleship. 01:29:24.980 --> 01:29:29.840 Bring back the battleship, yes. It's going to be, I think he said, 01:29:30.080 --> 01:29:34.880 a thousand times more powerful than any other ship. A thousand times. 01:29:35.860 --> 01:29:40.280 And it'll be a 6,000% reduction as well. 01:29:40.620 --> 01:29:43.700 Yes, there will be a 6,000% reduction in cost, yes. 01:29:44.020 --> 01:29:44.860 Yes, yes. 01:29:45.000 --> 01:29:49.020 And with a thousand times more power. Numbers are amazing. 01:29:50.870 --> 01:29:53.590 Okay, I think we're running out of steam here. Should we wrap it up? 01:29:53.750 --> 01:29:55.630 We're out of steam. Yeah, let's... 01:29:55.630 --> 01:30:00.410 Oh, will the Golden Fleet be steam-powered? Because we can't trust all that 01:30:00.410 --> 01:30:06.150 modern, newfangled, like, diesel or nuclear or whatever. It should be steam. 01:30:07.090 --> 01:30:11.430 It's coal and steam. It's going to be all coal-powered. Coal-powered. 01:30:11.470 --> 01:30:12.930 Clean coal. Clean coal. 01:30:12.990 --> 01:30:16.510 Yeah, clean coal. we're going to have we're going to use illegal immigrants 01:30:16.510 --> 01:30:20.970 to go and like you know be shoveling the coal into the furnaces no. 01:30:20.970 --> 01:30:23.510 No no no we have to go back farther. 01:30:23.510 --> 01:30:33.930 Slaves ores oh the ores slaves with ores slaves with ores yes yes yes unlimited power yes. 01:30:33.930 --> 01:30:43.010 Unlimited okay let's wrap this up oh I should before before I do the standard 01:30:43.010 --> 01:30:44.710 rappy-up-y-up-y stuff. 01:30:45.650 --> 01:30:55.530 Next week will most definitely be the 2026 Predictions show. We have... 01:30:56.710 --> 01:30:57.510 We have things. 01:30:57.750 --> 01:31:06.450 Okay. So we have the thing, the tinyurl.com slash ccpred2026. 01:31:06.450 --> 01:31:12.430 Yeah, and post it on the Slack. I thought you had posted it on the Slack for some reason, but yeah. 01:31:12.570 --> 01:31:16.490 No, no. I had only mentioned it on the show. Somebody on the Slack asked for 01:31:16.490 --> 01:31:19.430 it. You asked for it. So I posted it twice on the Slack as well. 01:31:19.570 --> 01:31:22.090 I will mention I just opened it up. 01:31:22.910 --> 01:31:30.650 We do have input from somebody. The other, we do have some things that are added onto there by my son. 01:31:31.070 --> 01:31:35.230 My son is the only one who has added things for us to predict. 01:31:35.650 --> 01:31:43.070 So far, he has added, in economy numeric, he has added, will one plus one equals two? 01:31:43.870 --> 01:31:47.150 Whoa! Good question. 01:31:47.830 --> 01:31:55.250 In hodgepodge medical, he has added, will Yvonne die? So, very nice of him. 01:31:55.490 --> 01:31:58.550 Nice of him to be so concerned with my health. 01:31:59.550 --> 01:32:06.630 In HodgePodge Sports slash Abelsmay, he has added, will Abelsmay become an athlete? 01:32:07.090 --> 01:32:09.850 And there are a couple others. Excellent. 01:32:11.490 --> 01:32:19.170 Anyway, everybody, look, you got one week. We are recording on the 31st. 01:32:19.960 --> 01:32:25.020 So get your stuff in by like the 30th, okay? 01:32:25.520 --> 01:32:34.440 Like we're recording earlier in the day on the 31st. So get your stuff in. 01:32:34.680 --> 01:32:40.980 I will start adding my own stuff to this list probably on the 30th. 01:32:40.980 --> 01:32:44.340 but go there for suggestions for 01:32:44.340 --> 01:32:48.460 us to do predictions of tinyurl.com slash 01:32:48.460 --> 01:32:51.880 ccpred2026 add in 01:32:51.880 --> 01:32:56.660 your suggestions we will prioritize anything that we have been asked to predict 01:32:56.660 --> 01:33:03.360 over other stuff and i will just fill in the blanks with our own ideas of things 01:33:03.360 --> 01:33:07.740 similar to what we've done in previous years if you know if they're not enough 01:33:07.740 --> 01:33:10.500 and of course yvonne feel free to add your own as well. 01:33:11.160 --> 01:33:16.340 And, but yes, we would prefer to be predicting all things that people have asked us to predict. 01:33:16.880 --> 01:33:20.800 So get in there, do this. Okay. With that said, 01:33:21.160 --> 01:33:26.460 curmudgeons-corner.com, go there for our archives, go there for all the ways 01:33:26.460 --> 01:33:32.720 to contact us, go there for transcripts, go there to buy mugs, go there for. 01:33:33.640 --> 01:33:34.900 You know, to have fun. 01:33:35.320 --> 01:33:37.580 You'll listen to all our old shows. 01:33:38.400 --> 01:33:46.840 You know, there's no better way to spend a relaxing Saturday afternoon than 01:33:46.840 --> 01:33:50.640 picking, say, you know, 2003. 01:33:51.200 --> 01:33:56.200 And just checking out what we had to say in 2003. Right? 01:33:56.840 --> 01:34:00.860 Did we start in 2000? We started in 2007, didn't we? 01:34:01.460 --> 01:34:03.040 2007, yes. 01:34:03.180 --> 01:34:05.540 So don't look at 2003. That won't work. 01:34:05.540 --> 01:34:06.540 Yeah, that would be, that won't work. 01:34:07.600 --> 01:34:14.900 But, you know, pick a random year, 2012. Let's say 2012. 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We will send you a mug. 01:34:32.360 --> 01:34:36.480 And, importantly, for $2 a month or more, or if you just ask us, 01:34:36.480 --> 01:34:40.660 We will invite you to the Cummudgeons Corner Slack, where Yvonne and I and all 01:34:40.660 --> 01:34:44.400 sorts of others are hanging out throughout the week, sharing links, 01:34:44.520 --> 01:34:45.880 chatting, all that sort of stuff. 01:34:46.200 --> 01:34:51.140 So, Yvonne, what's a highlight from the Slack that we have not talked about on the show? 01:34:51.140 --> 01:34:55.220 I got I got I got three tidbits. One was back in 1982. 01:34:55.520 --> 01:35:00.480 Neiman Marcus used to send out this catalog once a year for Christmas that they 01:35:00.480 --> 01:35:06.800 always had some kind of like outrageous, expensive item that was like available that year for sale. 01:35:06.800 --> 01:35:15.680 OK, and, you know, it was like this this super special expensive car or something in 1982. 01:35:16.080 --> 01:35:21.820 They had this recliner pod, OK, that looked like you were sitting in some kind 01:35:21.820 --> 01:35:26.900 of spaceship, OK, from like some 1980s, 70s sci-fi movie. 01:35:26.900 --> 01:35:35.020 And in it, you had like a TV, a phone thing, all these flashing lights and rotated 01:35:35.020 --> 01:35:38.640 electrically and rotated $32,000. 01:35:39.200 --> 01:35:44.220 Okay. For your nice little rotating pod where you could like basically just 01:35:44.220 --> 01:35:48.120 get in there and like feel like you're in some kind of space capsule. 01:35:48.340 --> 01:35:52.000 Okay. So that was like, I thought that was pretty cool. It could be actually, 01:35:52.140 --> 01:35:56.200 if you look at the video on the link, I mean, actually with some updates, 01:35:56.280 --> 01:35:58.440 it would be kind of cool to be sitting on right now. 01:35:58.560 --> 01:36:01.660 You know, if you can get one. The second one. 01:36:02.390 --> 01:36:07.470 Rescued owl was too fat to fly, Suffolk Century says. 01:36:07.870 --> 01:36:13.730 An owl rescued from a ditch and thought to be injured was in fact just too fat 01:36:13.730 --> 01:36:16.150 to fly, a bird rescue center has said. 01:36:16.350 --> 01:36:24.310 I had never seen this in my life, where a bird managed to get themselves too fat to fly. 01:36:24.670 --> 01:36:29.090 That's a new one, okay? 01:36:29.090 --> 01:36:32.510 Well, that's kind of what happens to all ostriches. 01:36:32.850 --> 01:36:34.310 It does? Okay. 01:36:35.190 --> 01:36:35.550 All right. 01:36:35.590 --> 01:36:36.850 But I never saw that with an owl. 01:36:37.530 --> 01:36:41.610 I guess, though, with an ostrich, even when they're little, they can't fly. 01:36:42.070 --> 01:36:42.170 Right. 01:36:42.170 --> 01:36:43.390 They just never fly. 01:36:43.390 --> 01:36:47.250 There are some birds like, well, you know, like turkeys. As WKRP. 01:36:47.410 --> 01:36:47.890 Turkeys can fly. 01:36:48.830 --> 01:36:49.630 Apparently not. 01:36:49.830 --> 01:36:52.970 As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly. 01:36:53.610 --> 01:36:59.110 Yes. That is what happened. And if you need to go back, review the WKRP in Cincinnati 01:36:59.110 --> 01:37:02.450 episode related to this. Okay. All right. And the next. 01:37:02.810 --> 01:37:06.830 Apparently, turkeys actually can fly a little bit, just like chickens can. 01:37:07.010 --> 01:37:09.070 They're just not good for it. Not when dropped from a helicopter. 01:37:09.710 --> 01:37:11.670 Well, that's a whole different story. Yes. 01:37:11.810 --> 01:37:16.370 Right. Okay. And the last one. Back in the day. 01:37:16.910 --> 01:37:20.010 And actually, you can still get this service for iPods. 01:37:20.590 --> 01:37:23.570 You know, when you order an iPod, you can get it engraved. I don't know if you 01:37:23.570 --> 01:37:27.870 can get the iPhones still engraved. I know that I got some engraving on the 01:37:27.870 --> 01:37:31.670 iPad for my wife, and I got them on the AirPods. 01:37:32.330 --> 01:37:38.330 But apparently some guy was trying to order an iPod, and so they asked for the engraving. 01:37:39.430 --> 01:37:42.430 And he didn't want the engraving, okay? 01:37:43.010 --> 01:37:49.370 But he didn't understand how the box worked. So he ordered the iPod and in the 01:37:49.370 --> 01:37:51.030 back and said, no thanks. 01:37:51.070 --> 01:37:53.270 I don't want my iPod engraved. 01:37:53.830 --> 01:37:54.750 Very good. 01:37:54.750 --> 01:37:55.510 Yes, 01:37:56.620 --> 01:38:04.340 So, yeah, that was, you know, that's an interesting way to get your iPod engraved. 01:38:04.740 --> 01:38:07.600 No thanks. You know, I don't want my iPod engraved. 01:38:08.080 --> 01:38:13.620 I think very early on, like I had a couple of my Apple devices engraved like that. 01:38:13.760 --> 01:38:20.400 But then I just realized through experience that eventually I'm going to have 01:38:20.400 --> 01:38:24.440 an issue with that item and I'm going to take it in under AppleCare. 01:38:24.440 --> 01:38:28.040 and they're going to swap it out with the refurbished one anyway. 01:38:28.360 --> 01:38:30.900 And the refurbished one isn't going to have my engraving. 01:38:31.420 --> 01:38:31.860 Yeah. 01:38:31.960 --> 01:38:34.260 So what's the point? Maybe, you know? 01:38:34.800 --> 01:38:38.740 Well, I got my wife's like a little... Well, one thing is that it was useful. 01:38:38.880 --> 01:38:41.940 And actually, I have my wife's iPad Pro here. Let's see. 01:38:42.540 --> 01:38:46.900 Did I get it engrained? I think so. 01:38:47.740 --> 01:38:50.260 Of course, it's got the case on. You can't. 01:38:50.980 --> 01:38:51.980 There's another reason. 01:38:52.580 --> 01:38:56.980 Yeah, there it is. I put her initials in the back. Yeah. Yeah. 01:38:56.980 --> 01:39:01.960 I think I'd put like, you know, my email address or something if it was lost 01:39:01.960 --> 01:39:05.100 or I don't remember what I put like. 01:39:05.200 --> 01:39:08.920 For example, for the AirPods, kind of like, you know, because we have both AirPods, 01:39:09.080 --> 01:39:10.340 so I could tell which one is which. 01:39:11.020 --> 01:39:11.460 Okay. 01:39:13.430 --> 01:39:17.930 So anyway, interesting. It would have been more fun, I guess, 01:39:17.950 --> 01:39:19.030 if I had said, no, thanks. 01:39:19.250 --> 01:39:21.850 I don't want... I'd have been great. 01:39:23.130 --> 01:39:24.810 And last but not least... 01:39:24.810 --> 01:39:28.270 Those forums can be confusing. And last but not least. 01:39:28.970 --> 01:39:33.930 A do-not-miss television extravaganza tonight at 8 o'clock. 01:39:34.650 --> 01:39:42.450 The Trump-Kennedy Center Honors will be broadcast tonight on CBS at 8 p.m. 01:39:42.450 --> 01:39:45.410 and Trump will be the masters of ceremony. 01:39:45.890 --> 01:39:51.690 I think the one thing that we don't get, unfortunately, is that this isn't live. 01:39:52.990 --> 01:39:59.070 Because I guess with quite a lot of heavy editing, this will not have Trump 01:39:59.070 --> 01:40:01.030 looking like a complete idiot. 01:40:01.230 --> 01:40:06.450 But if he tried to do this live, this probably would have turned into the most 01:40:06.450 --> 01:40:09.870 amazing fiasco in television history. And God only knows. 01:40:09.930 --> 01:40:10.250 It's not. 01:40:10.250 --> 01:40:10.930 Going to be a disaster. 01:40:10.930 --> 01:40:16.430 Is there an audience though it's it's like a live event though yeah so but they'll 01:40:16.430 --> 01:40:21.370 edit it for television yes but but if it's a disaster you'll hear from some 01:40:21.370 --> 01:40:25.330 of the people who are physically there you'll i'm sure well. 01:40:25.330 --> 01:40:27.450 It depends who got invited i mean. 01:40:27.450 --> 01:40:31.090 Well that's true it's probably a very select audience yeah. 01:40:31.090 --> 01:40:37.550 I mean i imagine it was extremely select now you know So this is another thing 01:40:37.550 --> 01:40:44.070 that, you know, like the stupid story on 60 Minutes. 01:40:44.490 --> 01:40:51.450 I mean, I don't think I've ever watched a Kennedy Center Honors. Have you? 01:40:51.510 --> 01:40:54.370 Yeah, I don't think I have either. No, no, I don't. I'm pretty sure not. 01:40:56.160 --> 01:40:59.280 It's one of these shows that I'm just like, who the fuck watches this? 01:41:00.780 --> 01:41:03.680 There are people who are fans of this type of show. 01:41:03.820 --> 01:41:10.620 Yeah, yeah, yeah. I know. I just don't just, you know, like me, my family. We don't. 01:41:11.180 --> 01:41:16.340 I don't. I'm trying to figure out what the audience is because I don't think 01:41:16.340 --> 01:41:22.480 that I have, like I know or my friends, any of us which watch a show like this. 01:41:23.460 --> 01:41:26.840 I'm trying to figure out who the heck the audience is. Is it people that are 01:41:26.840 --> 01:41:30.020 still stuck in TVs from the, TV, like the 1960s. 01:41:30.120 --> 01:41:32.320 And they're like, they're going to watch whatever CBS puts on. 01:41:33.260 --> 01:41:38.780 There's a lot of that, but there's, you know, these kinds of shows were much 01:41:38.780 --> 01:41:42.520 bigger, you know, in Trump's heyday. 01:41:43.120 --> 01:41:43.440 Right. 01:41:43.540 --> 01:41:47.260 Like if you go back to the seventies and eighties and stuff like this kind of 01:41:47.260 --> 01:41:49.900 show was a popular kind of show and people like. 01:41:50.040 --> 01:41:53.400 There was only three channels to watch. I mean, you know, and somebody put. 01:41:53.460 --> 01:41:54.800 this on for like two hours. 01:41:55.060 --> 01:41:59.000 Yeah. I mean, what the fuck else? It was an event. I mean, what else are you going to do? 01:41:59.560 --> 01:42:05.520 You know, and no, and I was about to say, you know, 01:42:06.180 --> 01:42:12.700 attendance at the Kennedy Center has apparently dropped like a rock since Trump 01:42:12.700 --> 01:42:15.560 did his hostile takeover of the Kennedy Center board. 01:42:15.800 --> 01:42:23.200 Oh, let me get this straight. So, so MAGA folks aren't really patrons of the arts. 01:42:23.460 --> 01:42:24.580 Hmm. 01:42:25.180 --> 01:42:26.700 Who could have guessed? 01:42:27.320 --> 01:42:34.440 And all of the non-MAGA folks are like, there's no way we're participating in this. 01:42:34.940 --> 01:42:35.140 Right. 01:42:35.820 --> 01:42:46.480 Yo, they killed our thing. And this is one of the ongoing permanent or semi-permanent 01:42:46.480 --> 01:42:50.480 damage of this Trump second administration. 01:42:51.520 --> 01:42:53.420 is how many things are just dying. 01:42:54.760 --> 01:42:59.320 You know, we're killing the Kennedy Center. We're killing CBS. We're killing CNN. 01:43:00.280 --> 01:43:05.060 We're killing, you know, we're killing the rule of law. 01:43:05.380 --> 01:43:10.020 Here, to be fair, on a number of things, okay, a number of these things had 01:43:10.020 --> 01:43:13.000 become less relevant over time, and like it just was mentioned. 01:43:13.140 --> 01:43:19.780 Yes, yes. These are things that he is— They were due for killing. Okay. 01:43:22.310 --> 01:43:27.170 But, you know, the one thing is that because a show like the Kennedy Center 01:43:27.170 --> 01:43:32.310 Honors, I'm guessing that's the only reason he wanted to take over this in order 01:43:32.310 --> 01:43:34.270 to be able to take control of the show. 01:43:34.710 --> 01:43:40.530 It seems like that is very clearly the case, because I'm sure that, 01:43:40.530 --> 01:43:44.410 you know, the regular plays and things and other stuff that's going on, 01:43:44.550 --> 01:43:47.250 that never interested him anyway. 01:43:47.750 --> 01:43:51.870 You know, so, so yeah, it seems this was like the goal, but like, 01:43:52.110 --> 01:43:54.710 as one of the Kennedy said, 01:43:55.010 --> 01:44:00.870 and I, I was in wholehearted agreement is like, they can't wait until Trump's 01:44:00.870 --> 01:44:07.150 out of office and that they will climb up on a ladder and fucking rip his stupid name off of there. 01:44:07.310 --> 01:44:09.970 And there will be a certain level of satisfaction, by the way, 01:44:10.290 --> 01:44:13.330 to be a, you know, the fact that he's doing this with so many things, 01:44:13.330 --> 01:44:15.090 I will take great pleasure. 01:44:16.090 --> 01:44:20.670 And getting all this shit renamed again without his fucking name. 01:44:21.230 --> 01:44:26.470 Well, I heard one person commenting on this this week, basically saying, 01:44:26.670 --> 01:44:36.050 Donald Trump, does he not realize that he is handing a big PR thing to whoever comes next? 01:44:36.370 --> 01:44:36.490 Yep. 01:44:36.490 --> 01:44:44.410 Where they have the ceremonial, like, restoration of things to how they were. 01:44:44.590 --> 01:44:47.410 Right. Like, all that gold shit in the Oval Office. 01:44:47.690 --> 01:44:48.970 Ripped off immediately. 01:44:50.130 --> 01:44:51.610 Immediately. Gone. 01:44:51.910 --> 01:44:55.830 I mean, unfortunately— All those plaques disparaging the president's gone. 01:44:56.650 --> 01:45:00.330 Unfortunately, they can't— I'll fucking make sure that, you know, 01:45:00.410 --> 01:45:06.470 what we have is a picture of a fucking orange instead of him in the White House, okay, for a few years. 01:45:06.490 --> 01:45:09.350 Years now unfortunately they can't 01:45:09.350 --> 01:45:13.050 just bring back the east wing now so someone 01:45:13.050 --> 01:45:18.290 someone the other day was talking about like some movie and on fox news there 01:45:18.290 --> 01:45:22.470 was a conversation about some movie and whether donald trump had watched it 01:45:22.470 --> 01:45:26.150 or not and somebody asked is there a movie theater in the white house and of 01:45:26.150 --> 01:45:31.010 course the answer is there was there was it was in the east wing It's gone now. 01:45:31.190 --> 01:45:31.610 It's gone. 01:45:32.510 --> 01:45:36.350 You know, but all of these things, it's just like... 01:45:37.530 --> 01:45:44.030 Some things will be easily restored, like taking Trump's name off the Kennedy 01:45:44.030 --> 01:45:47.210 Center will happen nearly instantly. 01:45:47.550 --> 01:45:50.510 Repainting Air Force One. By the way, I think that at this point, 01:45:50.610 --> 01:45:59.690 you do realize that right now they went and they bought two more 747-8s used from Lufthansa. Okay. 01:45:59.950 --> 01:46:03.650 All right. To add to the fleet, aside from the Qatari plane that we've got and 01:46:03.650 --> 01:46:10.750 the two that we're building. So right now we have five 7478s being tried to 01:46:10.750 --> 01:46:13.010 convert into Air Force One. 01:46:13.190 --> 01:46:15.810 And I'm going to bet you my bottom dollar. 01:46:16.110 --> 01:46:18.890 Not a single one is ready before he leaves. 01:46:19.070 --> 01:46:20.050 Exactly right. 01:46:20.630 --> 01:46:21.170 Yeah. 01:46:21.370 --> 01:46:23.290 He will never get to fly on him. 01:46:23.510 --> 01:46:29.670 I will also bet you that the ballroom ain't done by the time he leaves either. 01:46:29.730 --> 01:46:31.250 That's right. Yeah. 01:46:31.250 --> 01:46:35.630 You know, maybe they'll have some sort of ceremonial groundbreaking, 01:46:35.630 --> 01:46:36.910 but they're not going to. 01:46:37.090 --> 01:46:39.950 Like— They're not going to— It's not going to be done. It's not going to be done. 01:46:40.630 --> 01:46:47.750 It's not going to be done. And, you know, and hopefully it's not too far along so it can be stopped. 01:46:47.990 --> 01:46:50.510 Right. And something reasonable put there instead. 01:46:51.970 --> 01:46:55.290 Like, you know, and people have talked about, like, you know, 01:46:55.330 --> 01:46:58.610 for the East Wing, apparently people have talked for a long time. 01:46:59.010 --> 01:47:02.890 You know, the building is out of date. There are things that could be updated. 01:47:03.110 --> 01:47:10.170 There are reasonable arguments for, in a controlled way, renovating and doing 01:47:10.170 --> 01:47:11.690 something different with that space. 01:47:12.470 --> 01:47:19.310 Knocking the whole damn thing down and building a jimongous ballroom ain't it. 01:47:19.870 --> 01:47:19.990 No. 01:47:20.430 --> 01:47:24.010 Now, people have said, you know, hey, what's stopping him from knocking down 01:47:24.010 --> 01:47:25.250 the rest of the White House? Yeah. 01:47:26.650 --> 01:47:28.370 Well, I guess he won't have any place to stay. 01:47:32.650 --> 01:47:34.290 He could do it all from Mar-a-Lago. 01:47:34.910 --> 01:47:38.990 Oh, God, please. No, I don't want him down here more than he is already. 01:47:39.790 --> 01:47:43.550 Yeah, well, anyway, I think we're done here, Yvonne. 01:47:44.010 --> 01:47:44.530 We're done. 01:47:45.550 --> 01:47:51.290 Thanks, everybody. 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