WEBVTT 00:00:00.010 --> 00:00:07.110 There we go. Boom. Boom. Okay. 00:00:08.050 --> 00:00:10.110 Music. Live. 00:00:11.170 --> 00:00:13.850 Any preliminaries or can I just take go? 00:00:14.350 --> 00:00:14.810 Go. 00:00:15.310 --> 00:00:40.530 Okay, here goes. Transcription by CastingWords 00:00:40.550 --> 00:00:43.930 Welcome to Curmudgeon's Corner for Saturday, 00:00:44.450 --> 00:00:47.530 February 14th, 2026. 00:00:48.010 --> 00:00:52.930 It is just after 18 UTC as we are starting to record. I am Sam Enter and Yvonne 00:00:52.930 --> 00:00:54.850 Bow is back this week. Hello, Yvonne. 00:00:55.530 --> 00:00:56.090 Hi. 00:00:56.970 --> 00:00:58.490 Happy Valentine's Day, Yvonne. 00:00:59.250 --> 00:01:00.810 Oh, happy Valentine's Day. 00:01:02.990 --> 00:01:05.170 Will you be my Valentine, Yvonne? 00:01:05.750 --> 00:01:07.150 Sure. Why not? 00:01:10.070 --> 00:01:13.090 Ah so it's it's it's a week it's 00:01:13.090 --> 00:01:16.910 a week uh we'll do our usual sort of less 00:01:16.910 --> 00:01:22.590 newsy stuff up front and then newsy stuff as we go along i don't know yvonne 00:01:22.590 --> 00:01:29.750 well you know i i i am i i i i'm still discombobulated via various things i 00:01:29.750 --> 00:01:34.470 just woke up a few minutes ago as i often do when we record on saturdays you 00:01:34.470 --> 00:01:35.930 know so i i'm still like oh. 00:01:35.930 --> 00:01:44.230 You you you have been you know we have been through a series of health issues and crises. 00:01:44.230 --> 00:01:51.590 Oh yeah over the last i had several months right i mean you. 00:01:51.590 --> 00:01:57.430 Know my son had surgery i had surgery i mean what the fuck man. 00:01:57.430 --> 00:02:00.190 And and i and i'm not done i have 00:02:00.190 --> 00:02:04.730 one more surgery i it was just scheduled it's scheduled for march 9th which 00:02:04.730 --> 00:02:09.530 is later than i hoped it would be originally they had me scheduled for uh february 00:02:09.530 --> 00:02:14.310 23rd but then they couldn't get some piece of equipment they needed booked so 00:02:14.310 --> 00:02:18.830 they had to push me back so you know that doesn't. 00:02:18.830 --> 00:02:22.870 Sound great when they need like specialized equipment to deal with you sam. 00:02:22.870 --> 00:02:26.090 It it was a laser they couldn't get the laser. 00:02:26.750 --> 00:02:30.030 Exactly. They need a laser. I mean, you know, what the hell? 00:02:30.270 --> 00:02:34.690 What are we getting this from? We're bringing this down from the ISS? What are we doing? 00:02:35.150 --> 00:02:40.130 No, I think they just had other patients booked to use the laser because apparently 00:02:40.130 --> 00:02:41.470 they don't have enough lasers. 00:02:42.070 --> 00:02:46.930 When it's this specialized that the laser needs booking like a month, 00:02:47.050 --> 00:02:49.510 you know, plus in advance. I mean, this isn't great. 00:02:51.050 --> 00:02:54.750 So, yeah. So I was excited when they said the 23rd. I'm like, 00:02:54.750 --> 00:02:57.430 that's pretty soon. I'll be done with this crap. 00:02:57.870 --> 00:03:04.010 You know, they'll, they'll take the stuff they put in my body back out again and I'll be done. 00:03:04.410 --> 00:03:08.170 Right. But then they called back and you're like, you know, I'm sorry. 00:03:08.310 --> 00:03:10.410 We can't actually do the 23rd. 00:03:10.950 --> 00:03:16.030 How about March 9th? And I'm like, crap, that's like, that's like so far in the future. 00:03:16.770 --> 00:03:19.050 I mean, it's not that far in the future. 00:03:19.190 --> 00:03:23.210 But, you know. Well, it's a thing, like, we got, like, my son's, 00:03:23.270 --> 00:03:29.370 like, when he broke his arm, and then, I mean, we got him to see a doctor. 00:03:29.690 --> 00:03:35.470 It happened on a Friday night. I mean, we got him to see the specialist on Monday, 00:03:35.470 --> 00:03:37.930 and we did the surgery on Wednesday. 00:03:38.310 --> 00:03:40.750 So that was like, you know, yeah, we had boom, boom. 00:03:40.950 --> 00:03:46.230 Well, I am glad the doctor, by the way, the surgery I had this Monday could 00:03:46.230 --> 00:03:51.390 have been later because the doctor was about to go on vacation. 00:03:51.810 --> 00:03:57.090 And the first dates he was having for the first one were like after he got back. 00:03:57.510 --> 00:04:01.610 And then he managed to squeeze me in before he left. So I was like, 00:04:01.730 --> 00:04:08.350 that's good because, you know, I have further progressed and I'm in a better 00:04:08.350 --> 00:04:11.310 state than I was before Monday. 00:04:11.910 --> 00:04:16.670 And I will be in a yet better state again after the March 9th one. 00:04:16.830 --> 00:04:18.950 I just have to wait for the March 9th one. 00:04:19.310 --> 00:04:23.350 It's like they started to break up the kidney stone and stuff. 00:04:23.570 --> 00:04:27.690 They put in an extra drain and they used the laser the first time and apparently 00:04:27.690 --> 00:04:29.530 they got 90% of the stone. 00:04:30.370 --> 00:04:35.570 But they could not get that last 10% because of where it was located. 00:04:35.570 --> 00:04:39.250 They would have had to do something else in some different way, blah, blah, blah. 00:04:39.550 --> 00:04:44.450 So they would have had to have me back in anyway because they put in an extra little... 00:04:45.490 --> 00:04:51.810 Like thing thing to like increase the drainage between my kidney and my bladder. 00:04:52.370 --> 00:04:55.870 I, whatever does some, I don't know. There's something inside me. 00:04:55.870 --> 00:05:01.850 But like I said before, if we can figure out a way to harvest these stones, 00:05:02.190 --> 00:05:07.650 apparently they're very, you know, difficult and we could use them for some kind of purpose. 00:05:07.810 --> 00:05:11.190 We could sell these for something. I mean, imagine we could sell some of these, 00:05:11.370 --> 00:05:15.190 you know, it's like a diamond or something, you know, and sell for a million 00:05:15.190 --> 00:05:20.090 dollars or something, you know, and I'm all for harvesting Sam for stones. 00:05:20.750 --> 00:05:24.830 I would like, I mean, we just start harvesting, you know, fuck everything else. 00:05:24.990 --> 00:05:29.110 We'll just start harvesting Sam for stones. That's it. There you go. 00:05:29.350 --> 00:05:30.070 That'd be beautiful. 00:05:30.190 --> 00:05:32.750 I'll start, I'll be the stone dealer here. 00:05:33.250 --> 00:05:36.210 Yeah, it really is too bad these aren't like diamonds or something. 00:05:36.690 --> 00:05:39.830 Exactly. I mean, if we were like going in there and we're like, 00:05:39.990 --> 00:05:43.250 you know, we're extracting diamonds out of Sam, I'm like, what the hell, 00:05:43.370 --> 00:05:47.030 man? you know, or I don't know, some other rare metal or whatever, 00:05:47.230 --> 00:05:49.590 you know, whatever or something. 00:05:49.770 --> 00:05:54.410 Yeah. But you know, maybe we could use it to power your car or something. I don't know. 00:05:54.770 --> 00:05:55.170 Exactly. 00:05:55.570 --> 00:05:59.090 Like some kind of like, you know, like nuclear fusion material, 00:05:59.390 --> 00:06:02.710 you know, material could be used in nuclear fusion or something or fission for 00:06:02.710 --> 00:06:04.170 that matter, whichever, there you go. 00:06:05.330 --> 00:06:05.730 Yes. 00:06:05.830 --> 00:06:07.010 Now, exactly like that. 00:06:07.130 --> 00:06:12.370 Yeah. So, so now like, yeah. So I, you know, so I still have like, 00:06:13.130 --> 00:06:18.390 I'm still on painkillers. I'm still on antibiotics. I have the prescription 00:06:18.390 --> 00:06:25.170 painkillers, but after the first day after surgery, I switched myself to over-the-counter. 00:06:25.950 --> 00:06:29.250 So I'm taking some ibuprofen, some Tylenol. 00:06:29.510 --> 00:06:36.870 I'm mixing them up to avoid... Because I could just take Tylenol or whatever, but I want to be careful. 00:06:37.110 --> 00:06:40.930 You're not supposed to take too much Tylenol. So I'm taking a little less Tylenol. 00:06:40.930 --> 00:06:45.570 I mean, yeah, you're supposed to limit it to under 4,000 milligrams a day. 00:06:45.830 --> 00:06:50.450 Really, the dose that gets you effed up is 10. But the reality is that, 00:06:50.650 --> 00:06:53.110 look, you can mix e-ibuprofen. 00:06:53.310 --> 00:06:55.650 Right, so you can mix them, so I am. So I'm taking a little less Tylenol, 00:06:55.650 --> 00:06:57.790 a little more ibuprofen, and blah, blah, blah. 00:06:58.350 --> 00:07:04.670 And so I still have some aches and pains, you know, because I just had freaking surgery. 00:07:05.170 --> 00:07:13.990 God damn it. So, and of course, this was just to be fun and entertaining and graphic for our users. 00:07:14.190 --> 00:07:17.850 This is not the kind of procedure where they made an incision. 00:07:18.270 --> 00:07:21.970 This is the kind of procedure where they went in through an existing hole. 00:07:22.810 --> 00:07:27.650 If you're heading towards my bladder and kidney, you can imagine which hole they had to go through. 00:07:28.170 --> 00:07:29.110 What? Yeah. 00:07:31.270 --> 00:07:37.130 Yes. Yeah. I'm assuming it's in the front, not in the back. That would be quite a long route. 00:07:37.410 --> 00:07:43.190 That would be quite a weird route to get to your blood, to get to your kidneys. But yeah. Okay. Yeah. 00:07:43.490 --> 00:07:45.130 So, you know. 00:07:45.770 --> 00:07:49.570 They didn't go through your mouth. They didn't go through your ears or nose. 00:07:49.870 --> 00:07:51.950 That's right. You know, so. 00:07:52.130 --> 00:07:52.290 Okay. 00:07:52.290 --> 00:07:55.650 And there's a good reason why you are asleep when they do this. 00:07:56.450 --> 00:07:56.890 Yes. 00:07:56.890 --> 00:07:57.150 So. 00:07:57.430 --> 00:08:04.470 Yes. I, you know, I, I, you know, look. I highly recommend anesthesia. 00:08:04.850 --> 00:08:09.030 Look, there's nothing great. You know, I'm sorry, but I had my surgery, 00:08:09.270 --> 00:08:11.650 and there's nothing better than, boom, I'm out. 00:08:12.250 --> 00:08:17.950 And I wake up, I'm in recovery, and I felt all of a sudden I started feeling 00:08:17.950 --> 00:08:20.130 pain. I said, nurse, painkillers. 00:08:20.290 --> 00:08:22.810 Now, oh, we gave you something. No, not strong enough. 00:08:24.610 --> 00:08:29.930 No. Whatever I want. No. Stronger. Ah, that feels better. 00:08:30.110 --> 00:08:32.930 Okay, good. All right. Now I can sleep again. Thank you. 00:08:33.450 --> 00:08:38.330 Yeah. Yeah. So anyway, that's fun for both of us. 00:08:38.550 --> 00:08:41.630 We've had a great few weeks, few months, whatever. 00:08:42.090 --> 00:08:43.990 Well, the thing is that last week was. 00:08:44.250 --> 00:08:47.010 Well, last week you weren't. It wasn't a health issue. You had a birthday. 00:08:47.650 --> 00:08:51.850 Well, it was like, yeah. And the thing is that my, my, okay. 00:08:51.930 --> 00:08:57.030 My brother that lives in Texas that, uh, uh, came over for it. Okay. 00:08:58.210 --> 00:09:01.190 It's funny, but, but, you know, he comes visit all the time. but there was, 00:09:02.380 --> 00:09:06.600 There's a couple of times that he tried to come over for my birthday and something happened. 00:09:06.960 --> 00:09:10.840 Like one time, like for my 40th, he was going to fly over. 00:09:10.960 --> 00:09:14.760 There was a there was an ice storm in Texas that prevented him from being able 00:09:14.760 --> 00:09:18.300 to fly in it. All his flights, everything got canceled. 00:09:18.520 --> 00:09:22.900 He couldn't he couldn't leave. So that was like one thing. So you see, 00:09:22.940 --> 00:09:24.780 like one thing or another always happened. 00:09:25.320 --> 00:09:31.020 And so but he managed to come over this time. My oldest brother told me, 00:09:31.160 --> 00:09:35.000 well, he was going to be out of town for business. 00:09:35.260 --> 00:09:41.420 The thing is, my oldest brother sells industrial products, and his route is one that, 00:09:42.220 --> 00:09:48.400 It's he goes, he has a work truck that, you know, from his company that he drives 00:09:48.400 --> 00:09:53.220 to these places because in many cases is not that convenient to fly. OK. 00:09:54.000 --> 00:09:58.520 And so he's covering, you know, places like Savannah, Georgia, 00:09:58.880 --> 00:10:01.640 Athens, Georgia, you know, northern Florida, stuff like that, 00:10:01.760 --> 00:10:04.780 which actually it's not even like that easy to fly into anyway, 00:10:04.880 --> 00:10:06.500 which is why he's driving. Okay. 00:10:07.320 --> 00:10:10.780 And he's driving, he's driving this truck right now. If I understood correctly, 00:10:10.900 --> 00:10:14.600 he told me he's putting in like 50,000 miles a year on this truck. It's a company truck. 00:10:14.740 --> 00:10:17.920 They pay for it. So, you know, but it's like crazy the amount of miles that 00:10:17.920 --> 00:10:20.640 he's having to, to put in for, for this. 00:10:20.920 --> 00:10:25.340 So he was going to be like in Savannah, like, and it's like, 00:10:25.420 --> 00:10:28.720 well, I don't think I could make it down, but he actually went and figured out 00:10:28.720 --> 00:10:31.780 because he heard that my other brother's coming in. He actually figured out a way. 00:10:31.900 --> 00:10:34.260 And all of a sudden, as we're at the restaurant, we're at the, 00:10:34.260 --> 00:10:38.900 we're at the bar area just waiting for a table, then all of a sudden he showed 00:10:38.900 --> 00:10:40.960 up. And I was like, whoa, you're here. 00:10:41.620 --> 00:10:46.400 Oh, good. So, so, so yeah. So, uh, so that was good. So we had a, we had a good time. 00:10:47.060 --> 00:10:50.240 So yeah. So because everybody was here in town, I was like, you know, 00:10:50.500 --> 00:10:54.100 take care of people. I didn't have time to record all of a sudden. So I was like, you know. 00:10:54.640 --> 00:11:00.140 Yeah. Yeah. I understand. Well, we had Ed, Ed was great. We did the thing, you know? So yeah. 00:11:00.740 --> 00:11:04.280 And I don't know. Well, I, I, I, I don't know if you mentioned it last week, 00:11:04.280 --> 00:11:08.000 but I'll mention it because I sent this note and I know that I haven't been 00:11:08.000 --> 00:11:08.060 in the podcast in the past. 00:11:08.060 --> 00:11:12.240 Oh, I did not. I actually thought about it but saved it for when you were here 00:11:12.240 --> 00:11:14.220 if I'm thinking about the thing you're thinking. 00:11:16.080 --> 00:11:21.020 The person that gave us the musical rights, the music that we have used on the 00:11:21.020 --> 00:11:25.800 show since back in college, WRCT, so this is like longer than 30 years, 00:11:25.920 --> 00:11:29.260 Ray Lynch, his family posted news that he passed away. 00:11:30.740 --> 00:11:32.080 He passed away in December. 00:11:32.790 --> 00:11:37.930 And I did not want to mention that, you know, his wife and him were very gracious 00:11:37.930 --> 00:11:42.350 to give us, you know, we were worried that we had been using it without permission. 00:11:42.350 --> 00:11:45.510 But we went and we reached out to them and said, hey, guys, you know, 00:11:45.570 --> 00:11:49.510 we've been using the music and I don't know. And we're small. 00:11:49.870 --> 00:11:53.990 We're small. You know, we're not making money off this thing. 00:11:54.130 --> 00:11:59.950 Money off of it. But, you know, we just wanted to make sure that we were using the music just in case. 00:12:00.070 --> 00:12:04.790 I mean, I don't know. You know, sometimes this thing gets big or something or 00:12:04.790 --> 00:12:06.610 whatever. We don't want to be impinging on their rights. 00:12:06.790 --> 00:12:10.890 Or even if it isn't, they could decide to be assholes, you know? 00:12:10.930 --> 00:12:15.090 Which some people are, you know, that we're using music without rights. 00:12:15.310 --> 00:12:19.590 But they gave us absolutely, you know, in writing, they put it down. 00:12:19.590 --> 00:12:22.730 We had absolute permission to use the music in our show. 00:12:23.130 --> 00:12:25.030 And we do promos regularly for them. 00:12:25.170 --> 00:12:30.830 In exchange, we do that break. And, you know, the first break we take this time, I will do that break. 00:12:31.090 --> 00:12:36.050 But yeah, it's and that was the deal. They said, just, hey, occasionally give us credit. 00:12:36.510 --> 00:12:41.990 So like, yeah, the show descriptions always have, you know, the Ray Lynch information 00:12:41.990 --> 00:12:45.570 and links to his website and all that kind of stuff. And we have that promo 00:12:45.570 --> 00:12:49.190 that runs every few weeks. It comes up in our rotation. 00:12:49.590 --> 00:12:52.750 And yeah, and that was the deal. And otherwise, they were they were very nice. 00:12:52.750 --> 00:12:57.390 And in fact, Ray Lynch's wife, immediately after we had that conversation, 00:12:58.070 --> 00:13:01.510 you know, start asking us for information because they were apparently they 00:13:01.510 --> 00:13:06.310 were apparently actually going after and suing some other podcast who used the 00:13:06.310 --> 00:13:07.750 music without permission. 00:13:08.310 --> 00:13:10.430 Oh, you don't remember this. 00:13:10.830 --> 00:13:12.470 And oh, God, I forgot about that. 00:13:12.590 --> 00:13:16.970 Yeah, it was some major like podcast done by like one of the big like, 00:13:17.640 --> 00:13:21.040 you know, affiliated with a major news organization. I forget which one, 00:13:21.120 --> 00:13:24.880 whether it was NPR or something else, but they, and it was one of these big, 00:13:25.020 --> 00:13:28.140 like highly produced, whatever, blah, blah, blah. 00:13:28.900 --> 00:13:33.000 And, you know, they had, they had used the music without permission and, 00:13:33.280 --> 00:13:37.320 you know, the, the lynches were trying to get them to cease and desist or whatever. 00:13:37.380 --> 00:13:41.820 And they were trying, they were trying to claim that like that completely impossible. 00:13:41.820 --> 00:13:43.320 We can't do that, blah, blah, blah. 00:13:43.440 --> 00:13:47.720 And I'm like, look, it's one thing for like a live podcast or whatever. 00:13:47.720 --> 00:13:53.660 But like, if you have done a completely produced thing where you have assembled 00:13:53.660 --> 00:13:59.660 all the musics and clips, you've got like some, some software somewhere with 00:13:59.660 --> 00:14:01.100 the edited version of this, 00:14:01.300 --> 00:14:04.900 where I'm not saying it would be trivial or not a lot of work, 00:14:04.940 --> 00:14:09.280 but you could go in and re-edit and re-release those episodes if you had to 00:14:09.280 --> 00:14:12.660 with different music or, or just take out the music entirely. 00:14:12.960 --> 00:14:13.160 Yeah. 00:14:13.280 --> 00:14:16.640 It might not be ideal, but is it possible? Yes. 00:14:16.980 --> 00:14:20.440 It's not, it's not like some, if you're doing a production, I mean, 00:14:20.560 --> 00:14:25.860 hell, even I, like I have all the raw tracks that I use to put these together, 00:14:26.100 --> 00:14:29.240 save from the beginning of when we started doing this show. 00:14:29.520 --> 00:14:33.160 Now there are, there was a time at the beginning where we just recorded, 00:14:33.320 --> 00:14:37.320 recorded live and whatever that was, it was, it was a single track. 00:14:37.580 --> 00:14:42.220 But for years and years and years, you know, we record all the individual tracks 00:14:42.220 --> 00:14:46.240 and I put them together and I, and the music gets added and it's all separate. 00:14:46.480 --> 00:14:48.520 And I like, you know, do some editing. 00:14:48.860 --> 00:14:52.480 At this point, I mainly do automated editing because I just don't have time 00:14:52.480 --> 00:14:56.380 for the human editing anymore, except for very small little bits and amounts. 00:14:56.540 --> 00:14:58.860 But like, you know, but I have all the originals. 00:15:00.360 --> 00:15:04.720 And I would be really unhappy about it, but if somebody came up and told me, 00:15:04.860 --> 00:15:10.060 there's a 2022 episode where you used a clip of something, you didn't have permission, 00:15:10.400 --> 00:15:12.140 you need to take that down. 00:15:13.280 --> 00:15:19.420 I could theoretically go back, find that episode, re-edit it, 00:15:19.560 --> 00:15:22.740 and republish that episode and leave it up. 00:15:22.840 --> 00:15:25.720 Or, of course, I could take it down. Right, right. 00:15:26.160 --> 00:15:32.340 And I would be unhappy. I wouldn't want to, but is it possible? Yes. Come on. 00:15:32.700 --> 00:15:36.340 Anyway, so we talked to them about that. And, you know, again, 00:15:36.520 --> 00:15:38.040 and we never talked to Ray himself. 00:15:38.180 --> 00:15:41.080 We talked to his wife, but she was very nice. 00:15:41.320 --> 00:15:47.360 Well, Ray, you know, Ray, what they posted had been in some ill health for a bit. 00:15:47.660 --> 00:15:49.040 Their house had burned down. 00:15:49.980 --> 00:15:53.340 Yes. And that was the other thing, that their house in one of the California 00:15:53.340 --> 00:15:58.000 wildfires, I think it was in the Palisades fire, burnt down. 00:15:58.160 --> 00:16:07.980 And not just that, you know, the house fire burned his original master recordings as well. 00:16:08.780 --> 00:16:10.220 Which that was horrible. 00:16:10.300 --> 00:16:14.760 Speaking of being able to go back and re-edit things, you can't if the masters go away. 00:16:15.460 --> 00:16:20.080 Yeah. I mean, their original masters were gone. 00:16:20.340 --> 00:16:25.320 So that was sad. And so, you know, according to what their post, 00:16:25.380 --> 00:16:29.160 he had been in ill health and he passed away in December and they did make a post. 00:16:29.320 --> 00:16:34.040 But they had not published it until like January that that happened. 00:16:34.200 --> 00:16:37.440 But I just wanted to make a recognition that, you know, because we did, 00:16:37.700 --> 00:16:41.640 you know, I know Kathleen passed a note on to Ray that we were very thankful 00:16:41.640 --> 00:16:44.300 for him to authorize us to use his music. 00:16:44.540 --> 00:16:46.740 And, you know, we really appreciate it. And I just want to be, 00:16:46.900 --> 00:16:51.680 you know, recognize how gracious they were with us and, you know, about it. 00:16:51.780 --> 00:16:55.960 And it's passing, unfortunately, that happened in December. So, yeah. 00:16:57.130 --> 00:17:03.510 He was, I mean, I don't know. Look, Ray Lynch's music is one that caught my 00:17:03.510 --> 00:17:07.210 ear a long, long time ago. 00:17:07.690 --> 00:17:10.010 And, I mean, I was in high school. 00:17:10.010 --> 00:17:15.610 I mean, we used this as a theme song for this show when we did it on the radio in the early 90s. 00:17:16.010 --> 00:17:22.590 Yeah. And I remember that I think I heard the album from a friend of mine in 00:17:22.590 --> 00:17:30.010 high school. And I went and I, I'm pretty sure I bought the CD and Tower Records in New York. 00:17:30.450 --> 00:17:37.130 Because we used this on the show. This was, I was not a music buying person up through college. 00:17:37.670 --> 00:17:42.110 This was like one of the first five CDs I ever bought, I believe. 00:17:42.290 --> 00:17:44.030 Because we were using it on the show. 00:17:44.030 --> 00:17:47.250 And it's uh and it's um i mean 00:17:47.250 --> 00:17:50.150 it's one of the he he is one of the first 00:17:50.150 --> 00:17:53.790 like pioneers in like new age music 00:17:53.790 --> 00:17:56.690 and the thing is that you know it's it's just one of those things 00:17:56.690 --> 00:17:59.510 and by the way he's a guy that's really a 00:17:59.510 --> 00:18:02.350 classical instrumental music musicalist he 00:18:02.350 --> 00:18:05.130 really mentioned that he's not not really good with 00:18:05.130 --> 00:18:08.030 tech and so but it sounds like 00:18:08.030 --> 00:18:11.030 it may sound like it was digitally produced but it really isn't 00:18:11.030 --> 00:18:13.890 but he was also one of the biggest 00:18:13.890 --> 00:18:16.950 independent you know he didn't have a a 00:18:16.950 --> 00:18:21.950 recording contract he was one of the most how 00:18:21.950 --> 00:18:27.550 do i say successful like independent music publishers that that have been out 00:18:27.550 --> 00:18:32.030 there and he published a few few records and they they were i mean they they 00:18:32.030 --> 00:18:38.550 sold millions of copies so so it was you know this wasn't you know he isn't an He isn't an artist, 00:18:38.710 --> 00:18:42.190 it's just some tiny artist that just had a few records. 00:18:42.190 --> 00:18:44.510 He actually was very successful, but it was all on his own. 00:18:44.670 --> 00:18:48.250 But, you know, so anyway, just want to recognize the fact that he, 00:18:48.390 --> 00:18:54.670 that this happened and my eternal life take care of him very well. 00:18:55.010 --> 00:18:56.730 Thank you, Ray. Thanks, Kathleen. 00:18:57.970 --> 00:19:03.130 Okay. So moving on, I guess. I am going to do movies. 00:19:03.510 --> 00:19:06.910 I have one additional thing I want to throw out there. 00:19:07.290 --> 00:19:11.970 As I've mentioned on the show before, I've been working on this Robin Letter thing. 00:19:12.570 --> 00:19:19.730 Basically, for over a year, lightly, but I didn't really get going until after 00:19:19.730 --> 00:19:21.350 I was laid off at the end of October. 00:19:21.350 --> 00:19:27.830 So basically, I've been working on it November, December, January, three and a half months. 00:19:29.750 --> 00:19:31.990 I'm going to jinx myself here. 00:19:32.390 --> 00:19:32.930 Yeah. 00:19:33.290 --> 00:19:36.170 But I think, I think. 00:19:36.570 --> 00:19:37.010 Yeah. 00:19:37.430 --> 00:19:45.770 I should be able to be at the point where I can invite the first real test users later this weekend. 00:19:46.470 --> 00:19:46.870 Whoa. 00:19:47.450 --> 00:19:50.850 Wow. Wow. Basically, 00:19:51.010 --> 00:19:56.010 what I have left is taking everything that I've done in a development environment 00:19:56.010 --> 00:20:00.310 and moving it to a real production environment and retesting things to make 00:20:00.310 --> 00:20:04.610 sure I didn't break anything in the process and then starting. 00:20:05.470 --> 00:20:11.270 I'm going to have it started out as basically, I'm going to start one of these 00:20:11.270 --> 00:20:16.410 with my mother's side of the family and one of these with my father's side of the family. 00:20:16.690 --> 00:20:18.710 Those are the first two I'm going to start. 00:20:19.250 --> 00:20:25.010 I'm going to see how they go for a few days to a week, and then I'm going to 00:20:25.010 --> 00:20:31.370 recruit for additional volunteers from other categories of people I know. I've got a list. 00:20:32.080 --> 00:20:40.100 Already of people who have explicitly said, hey, I want to be included in early tests. 00:20:40.340 --> 00:20:45.060 And so I will make sure all of them are included in the next round after that. 00:20:45.720 --> 00:20:49.980 And I'll do one for people who are active on the Curmudgeon's Corner Slack. 00:20:49.980 --> 00:20:52.760 I will start one with all of those folks. 00:20:52.940 --> 00:20:56.580 So if you're on there, consider yourself automatically included. 00:20:56.580 --> 00:21:02.900 If you've sent me thing saying you want to be included, you'll be included in that second round. 00:21:03.740 --> 00:21:08.320 But also the way I have the way I'm setting it up is like once I invite people 00:21:08.320 --> 00:21:14.080 for ones I create, they will in turn be able to make their own and invite more people. 00:21:14.100 --> 00:21:16.960 So we'll see if there's any organic growth based on that. 00:21:17.480 --> 00:21:20.540 But yeah, like all I have left is some some 00:21:20.540 --> 00:21:25.020 moving between environments and some final testing and blah blah blah which 00:21:25.020 --> 00:21:30.240 you know i i my intention at this point is to after we're done recording the 00:21:30.240 --> 00:21:35.500 podcast basically just move into my god i have to get this done you know i've 00:21:35.500 --> 00:21:40.460 only got a little bit spreading viruses and then we can start spreading viruses yeah so what. 00:21:40.460 --> 00:21:44.580 Is that what we used to do with like a lot of people used to do with like forwarding 00:21:44.580 --> 00:21:48.980 email you know they used to do all these email forwards like 20 20 plus years 00:21:48.980 --> 00:21:52.440 ago of shit oh yeah look i found this cool thing or whatever and sending it 00:21:52.440 --> 00:21:55.680 on to people and they were just like going and clicking on attachments like 00:21:55.680 --> 00:21:57.440 spreading viruses on a regular basis. 00:21:57.440 --> 00:22:01.760 Yes yes so so anyway just for everybody out there we're not we're. 00:22:01.760 --> 00:22:03.500 Not gonna is that we're bringing it back we're. 00:22:03.500 --> 00:22:07.180 Not bringing it back no no no no no no viruses anyway for anybody out there 00:22:07.180 --> 00:22:10.540 who is not already familiar who is not already expressed interest if they're 00:22:10.540 --> 00:22:12.820 interested robinletter.com, 00:22:13.270 --> 00:22:18.230 There's an email address at the bottom if you want to be sure to be included in my early tests. 00:22:18.910 --> 00:22:25.230 And the basic concept is an alternative to social media that's intentionally 00:22:25.230 --> 00:22:27.730 slower, intentionally longer. 00:22:28.550 --> 00:22:33.690 It's intended to not be sort of this thing where you're broadcasting to the 00:22:33.690 --> 00:22:39.270 world, but instead small groups of people that are explicitly defined that you 00:22:39.270 --> 00:22:40.470 want to keep in touch with. 00:22:40.470 --> 00:22:43.770 And you have to update 00:22:44.150 --> 00:22:48.630 when it's your turn. So it's not a free-for-all of everybody in the group can 00:22:48.630 --> 00:22:49.650 post whenever they want. 00:22:49.810 --> 00:22:55.030 You post when it's your turn. It ensures that everybody has an equal opportunity to contribute. 00:22:55.350 --> 00:22:59.630 It ensures that it's sort of like, it's not an everyday thing. 00:22:59.710 --> 00:23:04.210 It's not intended to be like, you know, the dopamine hit for your attention 00:23:04.210 --> 00:23:07.590 where you're, you're checking it five times a day, every day, whatever. 00:23:07.910 --> 00:23:11.450 It's like, Hey, you check in when there's an update and then you make an update 00:23:11.450 --> 00:23:13.470 when it's your turn to make an update, et cetera. 00:23:13.750 --> 00:23:19.810 So it's intentionally slower, which may hurt its virality, but you know, whatever we'll see. 00:23:19.990 --> 00:23:22.950 It's a, it's a concept I've been thinking about for more than a decade. 00:23:23.550 --> 00:23:30.950 And I finally built the damn thing. The initial version is only text, only text updates. 00:23:31.390 --> 00:23:37.550 But if, if, you know, the next up on the agenda after I launch these initial 00:23:37.550 --> 00:23:45.250 tests are, you know, everybody who gets invited will have a limited number of invites initially. 00:23:45.630 --> 00:23:50.210 I'm going to build a way to buy more invites. I'm going to add a premium tier 00:23:50.210 --> 00:23:52.510 that you can add images to your posts. 00:23:52.870 --> 00:23:56.270 I'm going to do things like being able to comment and react on posts, 00:23:56.290 --> 00:23:59.370 because right now you just make your own post when it's your turn, 00:23:59.490 --> 00:24:03.690 but I can see it being useful to be able to comment and react to a specific post. 00:24:03.930 --> 00:24:06.650 You know, that kind of thing i've got a whole bunch of things 00:24:06.650 --> 00:24:09.390 i want to further enhance it with it this is sort of 00:24:09.390 --> 00:24:12.410 the minimum viable product but if all 00:24:12.410 --> 00:24:15.890 goes well cross my fingers like i said i'm jinxing myself i'll try to move it 00:24:15.890 --> 00:24:19.430 to the new environment and absolutely everything will break or i'll accidentally 00:24:19.430 --> 00:24:24.770 delete everything at the moment i try to launch it instead of launching it but 00:24:24.770 --> 00:24:28.390 like if all goes well i'll have a test out this weekend if not within a few 00:24:28.390 --> 00:24:31.190 days because my intention is i'm not going to do other other. 00:24:31.660 --> 00:24:35.160 Other shit other than get this podcast out until 00:24:35.160 --> 00:24:38.500 this is out as well so robinletter.com check 00:24:38.500 --> 00:24:41.600 it out if you want to be in the first few waves of tests 00:24:41.600 --> 00:24:45.000 and you're not already on one of my lists and 00:24:45.000 --> 00:24:50.320 you're not an active curmudgeon's corner slack user then you know email the 00:24:50.320 --> 00:24:53.760 email there and i'll make sure you're included for the second round i'm going 00:24:53.760 --> 00:24:57.720 to make a post on facebook and say hey any any of my friends want to be in more 00:24:57.720 --> 00:25:00.940 rounds like i'm going to make one for like people who knew Sam in college, 00:25:01.180 --> 00:25:02.780 people who knew Sam in high school, 00:25:03.100 --> 00:25:05.740 people who knew Sam from Merrill Lynch, people who knew what, 00:25:05.880 --> 00:25:11.040 you know, I'm going to make lists like that, but only with volunteers who say they want to be invited. 00:25:11.300 --> 00:25:16.720 Of course, I have built the mechanism so that once, um, once you're in a Robin. 00:25:17.200 --> 00:25:21.200 You know, you can invite more people to the Robin, which may be problematic 00:25:21.200 --> 00:25:22.840 in the future. We'll see. 00:25:23.000 --> 00:25:25.480 I'll, I'll adjust things as needed anyway. 00:25:26.440 --> 00:25:30.180 So like, you know, I'll only invite people initially who've said they wanted 00:25:30.180 --> 00:25:34.100 to be invited, but then anybody else who's in there can invite whoever they 00:25:34.100 --> 00:25:35.500 want. So it could go crazy. 00:25:36.240 --> 00:25:41.760 Or it could immediately die because everybody thinks it's stupid and doesn't use it. So we'll see. 00:25:42.920 --> 00:25:47.680 So anyway, uh, okay. Beyond that movies. 00:25:48.280 --> 00:25:50.100 What movies do we got, Sam? 00:25:50.580 --> 00:26:00.520 First movie, another AFI movie from, and, uh, from the 1998 ranking, this was number seven. 00:26:00.840 --> 00:26:05.060 It is dropped to number 17 in 2007 ranking. 00:26:05.360 --> 00:26:10.060 And I noticed they have not issued any new rankings in nearly 20 years. 00:26:10.240 --> 00:26:14.620 They probably should. but you know whatever um. 00:26:14.620 --> 00:26:18.760 I'm sure trump will order a new ranking that will be an interesting ranking 00:26:18.760 --> 00:26:22.840 if trump is trump's favorite movies yeah well. 00:26:22.840 --> 00:26:28.100 They'll all be by that guy who made the melania movie and melania is probably number. 00:26:28.100 --> 00:26:33.620 One no no no remember that he also gave sylvester stallone like uh uh uh some 00:26:33.620 --> 00:26:39.960 kind of award so so it'll be a combination of like probably Sylvester Stallone, 00:26:41.160 --> 00:26:46.280 Kevin Spacey You need You need an accused Sex offender At least in there They 00:26:46.280 --> 00:26:51.780 all need You know Yeah I don't know Woody Allen Yes of course, 00:26:52.820 --> 00:26:57.320 Yeah, it'll be like, oh, who's the guy in Europe, the guy that fled the country? 00:26:58.300 --> 00:27:03.500 Rowan Polanski? What is it? God, I don't want to call. I don't want to. Wait, I don't want to. 00:27:03.740 --> 00:27:04.640 The under siege guy? 00:27:05.580 --> 00:27:09.720 Oh, wait, Steven Seagal. Yes. Oh, my God. Of course. 00:27:09.920 --> 00:27:13.240 No, no, I wasn't thinking of Steven. No, God. But yeah, it's I mean, 00:27:13.380 --> 00:27:15.620 shit. I mean, that's got to be at the top of the list. 00:27:16.160 --> 00:27:18.280 I mean, you know, yeah. No, the 00:27:18.280 --> 00:27:24.260 guy that fled the country because he was convicted of rape or something. 00:27:24.500 --> 00:27:27.340 Oh, Roman, that R guy? 00:27:27.700 --> 00:27:33.240 I think, well, the thing is, I don't want to disparage the wrong guy. 00:27:33.240 --> 00:27:33.540 The wrong guy. 00:27:33.960 --> 00:27:38.600 Yeah, so let me double check. I want to make sure, you know, 00:27:38.680 --> 00:27:43.740 hold on before I call somebody a fugitive and criminal and things. 00:27:43.740 --> 00:27:44.560 Roman Polanski. 00:27:45.140 --> 00:27:49.120 Yeah, it was Roman Polanski, okay. was arrested and charged with drugging or 00:27:49.120 --> 00:27:52.260 raping a 13-year-old girl. So this is like, you know, right? 00:27:52.660 --> 00:27:57.380 I mean, it seems like this would be up in the Trump movie collection. Yes. 00:27:58.140 --> 00:28:04.020 Of course. Okay. Anyway, the movie in question is The Graduate from 1967. 00:28:06.640 --> 00:28:10.080 I don't remember if I've seen it. I got to look this up. Hold on. 00:28:10.900 --> 00:28:16.440 Oh, I don't know. Did I see it? I think I did. But I got to look it up. 00:28:16.440 --> 00:28:22.240 This is one where, by the way, famous movie, I had heard things about it, 00:28:22.340 --> 00:28:25.200 but I had definitely not seen the actual movie. 00:28:26.680 --> 00:28:33.760 I had heard, there's a famous phrase from it that has been sampled in songs 00:28:33.760 --> 00:28:40.320 that when the lady says, I am not trying to seduce you. Do you want me to seduce you? 00:28:41.300 --> 00:28:45.200 Right. Yeah, that has been sampled in a variety of songs. It's also famous, 00:28:45.380 --> 00:28:46.500 the whole thing about plastics. 00:28:47.720 --> 00:28:49.800 You need to invest in plastics. 00:28:51.860 --> 00:28:53.560 You know what? I don't know. 00:28:53.700 --> 00:28:55.540 And of course, it's referenced like Mrs. 00:28:55.540 --> 00:28:59.280 Robinson. I know about it, but I don't know if I've watched it. Right. 00:29:00.120 --> 00:29:05.640 The Mrs. Robinson song from Simon and Garfunkel was actually made for this movie. 00:29:06.020 --> 00:29:09.560 It was part of the soundtrack of this movie. 00:29:10.740 --> 00:29:17.120 Anyway, basic. I'll read the first two bits of the plot from the Wikipedia summary. 00:29:17.120 --> 00:29:17.920 First couple paragraphs. 00:29:18.200 --> 00:29:22.040 After earning his bachelor's degree, Benjamin Braddock returns to his parents' 00:29:22.200 --> 00:29:23.420 home in Pasadena, California. 00:29:23.660 --> 00:29:28.180 During his graduation party, Mrs. Robinson, the wife of his father's law partner, 00:29:28.400 --> 00:29:29.860 asks him to drive her home. 00:29:30.300 --> 00:29:35.340 Once there, she tries to seduce him. He resists her advances, but later invites Mrs. 00:29:35.520 --> 00:29:39.460 Robinson to the Taft Hotel, where he registers under the surname Gladstone. 00:29:40.080 --> 00:29:42.900 Benjamin spends the summer idly floating in his parents' 00:29:43.040 --> 00:29:46.680 swimming pool and meeting mrs robinson at the hotel during one 00:29:46.680 --> 00:29:49.380 of their trysts mrs robinson reveals that she and 00:29:49.380 --> 00:29:52.320 her husband married after she accidentally became pregnant 00:29:52.320 --> 00:29:56.880 with their daughter elaine when benjamin jokingly suggests that he date elaine 00:29:56.880 --> 00:30:03.080 mrs robinson angrily forbids it benjamin's parents and mr robinson pester benjamin 00:30:03.080 --> 00:30:07.460 to ask elaine out he reluctantly takes her out but attempts to sabotage the 00:30:07.460 --> 00:30:11.080 date by ignoring her driving recklessly and taking her to a strip club. 00:30:12.160 --> 00:30:17.060 She flees in tears, but Benjamin chases after her, apologizes, and kisses her. 00:30:17.300 --> 00:30:22.180 They eat at a drive-in restaurant where they bond over their shared uncertainty about their plans. 00:30:22.660 --> 00:30:27.440 After they visit the Taft Hotel for a late-night drink and the staff greet Benjamin as Mr. 00:30:27.600 --> 00:30:31.560 Gladstone, Elaine deduces that Benjamin is having an affair. 00:30:32.060 --> 00:30:35.840 Benjamin admits to having an affair with a married woman who he does not name, 00:30:36.000 --> 00:30:41.780 because it's her mom. he tells Elaine the affair is over and asks to see her 00:30:41.780 --> 00:30:45.520 again dot dot dot it continues uh, 00:30:46.560 --> 00:30:50.760 It was a good movie. It's definitely, you know, it's a 1967 movie, 00:30:50.920 --> 00:30:53.100 but it kind of feels 1970-ish to me. 00:30:53.620 --> 00:30:57.440 But it, it, it is a good movie. I will give it a thumbs up. 00:30:58.100 --> 00:31:04.160 Is it number seven of all time? Eh, maybe not, but it was a good movie. It was enjoyable. 00:31:04.460 --> 00:31:08.020 And, and like I, again, like I had heard about the movie. 00:31:08.200 --> 00:31:12.760 I had known about parts of the movie. It's, if I didn't say it's Dustin Hoffman in the lead role. 00:31:13.340 --> 00:31:15.320 Um, and, it. 00:31:16.850 --> 00:31:23.030 Because I wasn't spoiled, I didn't know what was happening other than sort of... 00:31:23.030 --> 00:31:27.210 I mean, I knew it was about a guy having an affair with an older woman. 00:31:27.310 --> 00:31:29.290 But that's all I knew. That's all I knew. 00:31:29.810 --> 00:31:31.770 And it was good. It was good. 00:31:33.190 --> 00:31:36.910 1970s style, which I'm not always super into, even though it was 67. 00:31:37.830 --> 00:31:41.050 But I enjoyed the movie. Good movie. Thumbs up. Watch it. 00:31:41.270 --> 00:31:44.750 There you go. It's one of those things that's referred to in culture all the 00:31:44.750 --> 00:31:47.850 time. and like, I mean, maybe less so. 00:31:48.130 --> 00:31:52.230 It's getting old now. I imagine like there are probably lots of younger folks 00:31:52.230 --> 00:31:54.490 who know absolutely nothing about this movie. 00:31:54.670 --> 00:31:59.910 And even I, at our age, knew that it existed, but, you know, 00:31:59.930 --> 00:32:03.670 had not seen it and was not aware of the details. 00:32:03.850 --> 00:32:06.750 But it was a good movie. There you go. That's all for that one. 00:32:07.070 --> 00:32:10.190 And I'll rush through one more. I think this one will be pretty quick. 00:32:10.730 --> 00:32:17.110 This is also from the AFI list. next one on the list, number six in 1998, 00:32:17.470 --> 00:32:19.770 dropped to number 10 in 2007. 00:32:20.670 --> 00:32:27.170 But this is the 1939 Wizard of Oz, the one that everybody knows. 00:32:28.330 --> 00:32:35.290 Everybody's seen, used to be on TV every year, I think around Thanksgiving, if I remember right. 00:32:36.050 --> 00:32:41.430 And, you know, it was, you know, I mean, I don't need to describe The Wizard of Oz. 00:32:42.350 --> 00:32:50.530 Everybody knows The Wizard of Oz, right? Like, certainly anyone listening to this podcast, right? 00:32:50.730 --> 00:32:52.690 Yes, I'm pretty sure, yes. 00:32:53.210 --> 00:32:57.890 I'll give it a thumbs up. You know, it's one of those things where, you know, 00:32:59.930 --> 00:33:04.530 obviously I'd seen The Wizard of Oz before. I've, but yeah. 00:33:05.690 --> 00:33:07.010 I don't watch it regularly. 00:33:07.930 --> 00:33:14.030 I haven't watched it in, I'm sure, like in 30 plus years. 00:33:14.450 --> 00:33:21.950 And by the way, just to be clear, we watched the original on our screen at home. 00:33:22.010 --> 00:33:26.970 We did not go and see the one in the sphere on Las Vegas where they have recreated 00:33:26.970 --> 00:33:29.610 it with AI. We have not seen that. 00:33:30.590 --> 00:33:33.690 Where they have actual flying monkeys in the theater. 00:33:33.750 --> 00:33:36.530 This is black and white, right? did you or you watch colorized. 00:33:36.530 --> 00:33:41.390 Dude the wizard of oz is quite famous for its color. 00:33:41.970 --> 00:33:43.130 Was it a color. 00:33:43.130 --> 00:33:43.910 Which one. 00:33:43.910 --> 00:33:44.750 Is the one i'm. 00:33:44.750 --> 00:33:49.350 Confused the wizard of oz from that age the wizard of oz is quite famous because 00:33:49.350 --> 00:33:56.130 the first few minutes of it are are in sepia tone and then when she goes and. 00:33:56.130 --> 00:34:00.870 It switches to color which i'm thinking from that era that was colorized that 00:34:00.870 --> 00:34:04.510 was like very like controversial because it was colorized it was. 00:34:04.510 --> 00:34:08.350 Like they've colorized a whole bunch of things from that era and it's always 00:34:08.350 --> 00:34:12.570 controversial because it's like and not even that era but i mean there continued 00:34:12.570 --> 00:34:17.070 to be black and white movies released well after this because color was more 00:34:17.070 --> 00:34:21.710 expensive and some movies right it's didn't deserve it well. 00:34:21.710 --> 00:34:27.130 You see i don't know if you forget it started in sepia then it turns into color right when they're. 00:34:27.130 --> 00:34:31.750 Right and there this And because of that, lots of people think like this was 00:34:31.750 --> 00:34:34.610 the first color movie. It was not the first movie in color. 00:34:34.830 --> 00:34:41.450 But because of that transition, people like that transition was shocking to 00:34:41.450 --> 00:34:43.810 people because they come in, it looks like a black and white movie. 00:34:43.890 --> 00:34:47.890 It was sepia tone, not grayscale, but like, and then all of a sudden, 00:34:47.990 --> 00:34:49.670 kaboom, it's in Technicolor. 00:34:50.270 --> 00:34:55.090 And that transition was very famous. Now, and it's interesting, 00:34:55.230 --> 00:34:59.570 the mechanics of how they did that transition because Dorothy goes through that 00:34:59.570 --> 00:35:01.830 door and beyond the doors in color. 00:35:02.150 --> 00:35:08.150 And so they actually did a thing where Dorothy was before, they were actually 00:35:08.150 --> 00:35:11.150 recording in color, but everything was colored brown. 00:35:11.470 --> 00:35:17.070 So it was in sepia tone. Like the earlier scenes were actually recorded in sepia 00:35:17.070 --> 00:35:18.650 tone, but that particular transition, 00:35:18.810 --> 00:35:21.470 the beginning, you see Dorothy's back but it was 00:35:21.470 --> 00:35:25.150 a stand-in wearing a brown dress and 00:35:25.150 --> 00:35:27.890 then she opens the door and it sort of 00:35:27.890 --> 00:35:31.130 zooms in towards the thing and the Dorothy the real Dorothy 00:35:31.130 --> 00:35:36.890 yeah the real Dorothy Judy Garland in the blue famous blue dress comes in and 00:35:36.890 --> 00:35:40.770 goes through the door and so the you know so that the you know because of course 00:35:40.770 --> 00:35:46.290 this was you know special effects were all practical so this was done that way 00:35:46.290 --> 00:35:50.770 anyway Wizard of Oz deserves its place in the pantheon, I guess. 00:35:51.070 --> 00:35:54.470 There's some things that like every time I watch it, I'm like, 00:35:54.530 --> 00:35:59.170 I never remember that part because some parts of it are clunkier than others. 00:35:59.470 --> 00:36:04.630 But you know, the main parts are all famous and you know it and you know all 00:36:04.630 --> 00:36:08.150 the songs and you can sing along to them and you know, whatever. 00:36:08.650 --> 00:36:14.530 And you know, so, you know, The Wizard of Oz, what else can you say about it. So. 00:36:14.810 --> 00:36:16.330 Thumbs up. Okay. Good. 00:36:16.630 --> 00:36:21.650 There you go. And now I guess we'll take our break and we'll do newsy stuff. 00:36:21.650 --> 00:36:26.230 And as promised, we're going to start with the Ray Lynch break. 00:36:26.410 --> 00:36:32.390 So thanks again to Ray Lynch and his family. We appreciate it. Here you go. 00:36:37.320 --> 00:36:42.040 No no it's not the beginning of the show again we're just taking a little time 00:36:42.040 --> 00:36:46.160 to credit the artist responsible for the music we use at the beginning and end 00:36:46.160 --> 00:36:52.720 of the show what you are listening to right now is the o of pleasure by ray 00:36:52.720 --> 00:36:54.820 lynch We'll be right back. 00:37:10.360 --> 00:37:14.960 The music we close our show with is Celestial Soda Pop. 00:37:21.200 --> 00:37:26.260 Both of these songs are from Deep Breakfast. Now Platinum, Deep Breakfast was 00:37:26.260 --> 00:37:30.960 the first independently released album ever to be certified gold by the RIAA. 00:37:32.740 --> 00:37:37.860 Ray Lynch's other albums are The Sky of Mind. 00:38:14.260 --> 00:38:15.920 And the best of Ray Lynch. 00:38:21.860 --> 00:38:26.000 You can check out Ray Lynch or buy his music at raylynch.com, 00:38:26.180 --> 00:38:30.100 iTunes, Amazon, or anywhere you usually find music. 00:38:32.600 --> 00:38:39.020 Well, I want to take the opportunity. I looked up our last emails that we had 00:38:39.020 --> 00:38:41.420 traded with Kathleen at that time. 00:38:41.420 --> 00:38:48.060 There was a note that Ray Han wrote, because he wasn't very techie, but that he sent. 00:38:48.220 --> 00:38:49.940 It was one of the last notes that he sent to us. 00:38:50.360 --> 00:38:54.800 And he said, Dear Ivan, an answer to your question, Kathleen and I are recovering pretty well. 00:38:55.060 --> 00:38:58.980 This was after the fire, because I had inquired about that. We won't have a 00:38:58.980 --> 00:39:00.900 home of our own for about a year and a half or so. 00:39:00.900 --> 00:39:03.800 We both appreciate your continued use of of 00:39:03.800 --> 00:39:06.520 the music and we do hope that your listeners find it 00:39:06.520 --> 00:39:09.420 as attractive do find it to be as attractive 00:39:09.420 --> 00:39:12.300 as you have by the way i can tell you that the music is 00:39:12.300 --> 00:39:16.340 very dear to my heart as well and that i listen to it often as an artist after 00:39:16.340 --> 00:39:19.740 all i have to get it right and i can't release composition to the public until 00:39:19.740 --> 00:39:23.400 i know that it is beautiful i hope you and sam are doing well and i thank you 00:39:23.400 --> 00:39:28.460 for your kind words kind words and your support my best regards ray lynch so 00:39:28.460 --> 00:39:31.580 that was that was his note to us that was after a fire because, 00:39:32.180 --> 00:39:35.640 as you mentioned they had they had they had reached out to us over that issue 00:39:35.640 --> 00:39:39.840 with they had with podcaster and you know we had inquired about the fire so 00:39:39.840 --> 00:39:44.260 i'm saying yeah there we go all right okay so. 00:39:44.260 --> 00:39:46.260 Where do you want to start on other stuff as. 00:39:46.260 --> 00:39:53.120 Usual we have a list yes yes sam we are using lasers to shoot balloons the hell 00:39:53.120 --> 00:39:55.760 is going on did you see this Yes. 00:39:57.130 --> 00:40:00.370 Is it the same laser? Is that why I can't get my surgery? 00:40:01.210 --> 00:40:07.770 That's it. Yes. That's what's going on. They're using it to shoot balloons. 00:40:09.070 --> 00:40:09.550 Yes. 00:40:10.530 --> 00:40:12.450 Apparently, party balloons, Sam. 00:40:13.010 --> 00:40:17.030 So they closed the airspace for, where was it, El Paso or somewhere? 00:40:17.450 --> 00:40:22.410 Yeah, sometime in the middle of the night. They send out a note of saying we've 00:40:22.410 --> 00:40:26.830 closed the El Paso airspace for 10 days. 00:40:28.110 --> 00:40:28.970 Right, right. 00:40:29.410 --> 00:40:35.430 And everybody's like, what the fuck? 10 days? The hell's going on? 00:40:35.810 --> 00:40:36.110 Right. 00:40:36.750 --> 00:40:42.210 They don't, no explanation. All of a sudden, all flights canceled, whatever. 00:40:42.610 --> 00:40:46.730 Then a few hours later, well, yeah, we didn't mean it. 00:40:47.090 --> 00:40:50.410 Airspace opened again. and then everybody's like 00:40:50.410 --> 00:40:53.870 what the hell is going on and then they said oh the 00:40:53.870 --> 00:40:57.510 story changed like a whole bunch of times yes i 00:40:57.510 --> 00:41:00.210 mean you know they said it 00:41:00.210 --> 00:41:06.050 was drones then somebody said that they were testing yeah it's a weapons test 00:41:06.050 --> 00:41:14.970 and then it seems that it was just some party balloons that were floating the 00:41:14.970 --> 00:41:18.010 wrong way and they used some kind of, like, 00:41:18.830 --> 00:41:21.750 new weapon that appeared to be a laser to shoot him down. 00:41:22.330 --> 00:41:24.350 Awesome? What the fuck? 00:41:26.000 --> 00:41:30.020 This is, the hell are we doing, man? The hell are we doing? 00:41:30.480 --> 00:41:35.120 They were attack party balloons from south of the border, Yvonne. 00:41:35.660 --> 00:41:41.020 Oh, I see. So important. That's the kind of a, so that's the kind of stuff. 00:41:42.980 --> 00:41:50.660 You know, if the party balloon had said happy birthday instead of feliz navidad. 00:41:51.080 --> 00:41:53.400 Oh, then they wouldn't have shouted down. 00:41:53.600 --> 00:41:55.160 I know it's Christmas, but you know what I mean? 00:41:57.620 --> 00:41:59.400 I you know. 00:41:59.400 --> 00:42:03.160 It's close to december it's close 00:42:03.160 --> 00:42:09.260 yes i mean it could have been floating like since december yes exactly i mean 00:42:09.260 --> 00:42:17.580 yeah and it got up there like you know and so yeah it's possible sure yeah you 00:42:17.580 --> 00:42:19.620 know one of those things well. 00:42:19.620 --> 00:42:20.500 You you know, 00:42:21.620 --> 00:42:26.800 We did have, during the Biden administration, those Chinese spy balloon things. 00:42:27.120 --> 00:42:27.740 Right. 00:42:28.320 --> 00:42:32.580 I guess they've just been miniaturized in some way. 00:42:32.840 --> 00:42:33.700 To party balloons. 00:42:33.860 --> 00:42:37.220 To party balloons. And I don't know. 00:42:37.340 --> 00:42:43.680 Look, it just seems like this seems like another place where you had different 00:42:43.680 --> 00:42:51.500 agencies not talking to each other properly, staffed by people who are, I don't know. 00:42:51.620 --> 00:42:55.520 I don't know. Is this a scenario where all the career people who knew what they 00:42:55.520 --> 00:42:58.920 were doing are gone, and this is a bunch of, like, Trumpies? 00:43:00.620 --> 00:43:05.320 I think that this is just one of those things that it always shows the kind 00:43:05.320 --> 00:43:08.440 of, like, incompetence. 00:43:08.540 --> 00:43:11.540 But is this normal incompetence that could have happened any time? 00:43:11.660 --> 00:43:12.360 Like, this could have happened? 00:43:12.460 --> 00:43:16.600 No, no, no, no, no. You see, the thing is that under disadministration, 00:43:17.000 --> 00:43:23.340 incompetence at ridiculous levels is, like, the norm of the day. 00:43:24.320 --> 00:43:29.620 It's like there's this story about Christy Noem deciding that she fired a pilot, 00:43:30.640 --> 00:43:32.940 because they didn't bring her blankie. 00:43:33.140 --> 00:43:36.460 Well, didn't Lewandowski fire the pilot on her behalf? 00:43:36.960 --> 00:43:40.780 I, okay, I didn't see if it was Lewandowski or her. 00:43:40.780 --> 00:43:45.260 Because they're also having an affair and that's apparently semi-well-known. 00:43:45.260 --> 00:43:46.340 Which they keep denying. 00:43:46.680 --> 00:43:47.300 But, you know. 00:43:47.300 --> 00:43:50.340 But everyone knows it's one of those things. 00:43:50.340 --> 00:43:56.560 Yeah, but we fire a guy because a blankie didn't make it from one plane to the other. 00:43:56.940 --> 00:43:57.440 Right. 00:43:57.960 --> 00:44:01.560 And then they realize, oh, shit, we don't have another pilot. 00:44:02.060 --> 00:44:04.320 I guess we need to hire you back. 00:44:04.580 --> 00:44:04.800 Yeah. 00:44:06.600 --> 00:44:13.060 I mean, this is the kind of idiotic shit that these people do every day. 00:44:13.880 --> 00:44:14.360 Right. 00:44:15.300 --> 00:44:22.400 Just. Hey, we, we, we, you know, we tear off the shit out of, 00:44:22.540 --> 00:44:23.700 I don't know how many products. 00:44:24.680 --> 00:44:28.300 And I'm like, you know, oh, this is no big deal. 00:44:29.620 --> 00:44:34.980 And then all of a sudden they're like undoing. They started like undoing. Oh, well, shit. 00:44:35.140 --> 00:44:37.800 Coffee is through the roof. Maybe we shouldn't have tariffed coffee. 00:44:39.380 --> 00:44:42.640 I guess we weren't bringing coffee production back to the U.S., Sam. 00:44:43.480 --> 00:44:49.180 We're not going to... Sam, it's ridiculous, but we're not making coffee. 00:44:49.620 --> 00:44:53.440 I don't know why. We've had a few months. Why haven't... 00:44:53.440 --> 00:44:56.780 The tradition has not ramped up. We have a longstanding tradition of, 00:44:56.880 --> 00:44:59.800 like, you know, up in West Virginia and the Appalachians where we get all these 00:44:59.800 --> 00:45:03.060 coffee-growing regions that we have, as you're well aware. 00:45:03.920 --> 00:45:04.400 Yeah. 00:45:04.400 --> 00:45:08.220 The famous Appalachian coffee. Right off the Appalachian Trail. 00:45:08.460 --> 00:45:13.960 Just to be clear, in theory, you could have agriculture for any plant on the 00:45:13.960 --> 00:45:18.200 planet, anywhere on the planet, with proper indoor agriculture. 00:45:18.500 --> 00:45:19.040 Correct. 00:45:19.120 --> 00:45:22.480 Yeah, you could do climate control. You can bring in the necessary nutrients. 00:45:22.760 --> 00:45:24.080 You can do whatever, you know. 00:45:26.020 --> 00:45:32.080 So, they've had a year, Yvonne. Why couldn't they ramp this up? 00:45:33.060 --> 00:45:37.320 I don't know, Sam. may have to do something with a thing called economics. 00:45:38.280 --> 00:45:42.740 Yvonne, we have once again missed our opportunity. At this point, 00:45:42.900 --> 00:45:48.500 we could have been the coffee kings of Nebraska or something. 00:45:50.560 --> 00:45:54.380 This is the new thing that I'm doing. 00:45:54.660 --> 00:45:58.900 We're going to become coffee kings. I didn't have this on my bingo card. 00:46:02.380 --> 00:46:03.500 Okay uh. 00:46:04.940 --> 00:46:08.060 Uh any more on this or you want. 00:46:08.640 --> 00:46:13.120 You're officially talking about balloons yeah but but it's just you know it's 00:46:13.120 --> 00:46:20.080 just the thing we fuck why are we it's like every you know, 00:46:21.580 --> 00:46:27.740 we have a story like this popping up like just every week now every every other 00:46:27.740 --> 00:46:29.560 day I mean it's just it's just of just, 00:46:30.540 --> 00:46:38.780 sheer stupidity you know just just you know revealing itself on a regular basis right. 00:46:39.600 --> 00:46:42.540 Okay so should we alternate topics do like. 00:46:42.540 --> 00:46:47.820 Lightning round style we can go what's the next topic what's the next big one you got okay. 00:46:47.820 --> 00:46:56.100 I I'm gonna do what this thing where I pick one where I'm actually like asking 00:46:56.100 --> 00:46:58.280 you and you get to talk of it. 00:46:58.280 --> 00:46:59.320 Okay But. 00:46:59.320 --> 00:47:05.460 Let's hit the unbelievable economic data. What's going on with our economy, Yvonne? 00:47:06.060 --> 00:47:09.380 Okay. Well, according to the government, Sam. 00:47:09.780 --> 00:47:10.320 Yes. 00:47:10.560 --> 00:47:15.920 The economy is doing great. Awesome. I don't know if you've seen the economic 00:47:15.920 --> 00:47:22.300 reports, but a great inflation report, a great jobs report. 00:47:22.300 --> 00:47:30.340 I mean, everything just, you know, they keep saying the economy is like, it's doing great. 00:47:31.040 --> 00:47:38.720 The problem is that every other private sector data report that comes out shows 00:47:38.720 --> 00:47:41.300 quite the opposite. Okay. 00:47:42.080 --> 00:47:45.980 You know, it's like, hey, the tariffs, you know, the countries are going to 00:47:45.980 --> 00:47:49.120 pay the tariffs. One of the announcements that came out yesterday, 00:47:49.120 --> 00:47:56.000 a couple of companies announced where massive tariff bills that, 00:47:57.190 --> 00:48:05.290 tanked profits for automakers and other companies that just got crushed. 00:48:05.630 --> 00:48:12.090 You know, Ford had a billion-dollar extra tariff bill at the end of the year 00:48:12.090 --> 00:48:13.830 that crushed their profits. 00:48:14.470 --> 00:48:23.850 You know, housing sales, January had one of the worst drops in housing sales we've ever had. 00:48:27.170 --> 00:48:33.550 The private sector job creation report by ADP completely contradicted what that showed. 00:48:33.670 --> 00:48:42.330 But also, when the unemployment report got shown, they revised last year every 00:48:42.330 --> 00:48:44.790 previous report that they had issued downward. 00:48:45.410 --> 00:48:46.370 All of them. 00:48:47.010 --> 00:48:47.230 Okay? 00:48:48.490 --> 00:48:51.090 By a bunch, right? Not just like tiny. 00:48:51.330 --> 00:48:56.670 By a lot. Yeah, yeah, yeah. by two-thirds. By two-thirds! 00:48:56.970 --> 00:49:00.030 Just a slight revision. It was off by like a couple percent. 00:49:00.650 --> 00:49:02.350 Right. By two-thirds. 00:49:02.730 --> 00:49:02.890 Yeah. 00:49:03.530 --> 00:49:07.330 Americans with higher income are starting to fall behind on payments. 00:49:07.610 --> 00:49:13.050 Rising debt levels and more mispacements push the financial stress gauge to 00:49:13.050 --> 00:49:16.390 its highest level ever. Ever! 00:49:16.930 --> 00:49:17.370 Right. 00:49:17.650 --> 00:49:22.750 Okay? The U.S. cattle herd Okay, beef prices are soaring. 00:49:22.890 --> 00:49:28.250 The U.S. cattle herd is down to the lowest level in 75 years. 00:49:29.990 --> 00:49:31.810 I mean, it's just... 00:49:34.490 --> 00:49:42.690 Every single point of data from private sector, companies repeatedly stating 00:49:42.690 --> 00:49:46.450 how massive tariff hits, hits profits, 00:49:47.650 --> 00:49:53.070 you know, billions and billions and billions that they've had to take. 00:49:53.070 --> 00:50:00.310 Like, you know, but then on the flip side, they keep, you know, 00:50:00.450 --> 00:50:04.630 posting these economic reports that seem incredulous. 00:50:04.810 --> 00:50:10.830 They posted about inflation being down, you know, but there is no data. 00:50:11.090 --> 00:50:16.030 I mean, when you see the issue with, like, beef, there's nothing to, 00:50:16.090 --> 00:50:21.990 you know, that shows that any of this stuff is under control. 00:50:21.990 --> 00:50:25.190 December retail sales were flat, for example. 00:50:25.710 --> 00:50:26.490 Year over year. 00:50:26.850 --> 00:50:33.810 December, yes. You know, this is usually a very recessionary indicator, okay? 00:50:34.570 --> 00:50:41.910 You know, you got flat sales. You got people announcing multibillion-dollar tariff bills. 00:50:42.250 --> 00:50:45.710 You've got private employment data showing terrible stuff. 00:50:45.710 --> 00:50:50.030 You've got financial indicators, you know, financial distress indicators. 00:50:50.030 --> 00:50:54.710 It's like I said, a late payments and shit, and even including people that make, 00:50:54.750 --> 00:50:57.770 you know, higher levels of income in distress. 00:50:58.250 --> 00:50:58.870 Mm hmm. 00:51:00.290 --> 00:51:05.590 And but oh, yeah, we've had we had excellent hiring. No, no. 00:51:05.770 --> 00:51:10.350 But but ADP says totally the opposite. So. 00:51:11.590 --> 00:51:17.070 I mean, this is this was the concern that that, you know, we had like from before where. 00:51:19.210 --> 00:51:22.970 They've made the government data not trustworthy. 00:51:23.330 --> 00:51:23.750 Right. 00:51:23.910 --> 00:51:24.190 At this point. 00:51:24.190 --> 00:51:30.890 Well, and this aligns with, we've had more and more court rulings as well, 00:51:31.150 --> 00:51:37.850 basically saying we can't, like traditionally when folks go to court, 00:51:38.090 --> 00:51:40.670 the government gets sort of deference. 00:51:41.170 --> 00:51:46.490 Like we're going to assume good faith on the part of the government. 00:51:46.490 --> 00:51:52.250 And there have been increasing rulings from a variety of judges all over the 00:51:52.250 --> 00:51:54.570 country, appointed by a whole bunch of different presidents, 00:51:54.790 --> 00:51:55.730 including Trump himself, 00:51:56.370 --> 00:52:01.950 basically saying that the government has broken that track record and we can 00:52:01.950 --> 00:52:08.730 no longer assume the things the government says in filings are true without proof. 00:52:08.990 --> 00:52:09.690 Right. 00:52:09.690 --> 00:52:15.290 And and we can no longer trust them to do the things we tell them to without 00:52:15.290 --> 00:52:21.090 measures to compel it, you know, and exactly the same thing with the economic data here. 00:52:21.230 --> 00:52:27.770 And for that matter, not just economic data, you know, information coming out of CDC on health data. 00:52:27.910 --> 00:52:28.090 Right. 00:52:28.490 --> 00:52:36.150 Or out of wherever you just the you cannot. And lots of people say you could. 00:52:36.150 --> 00:52:43.470 How could you not trust our health information, the stuff coming from our top health officials, Sam? 00:52:43.710 --> 00:52:46.870 I mean, look, Health Secretary RFK Jr. 00:52:47.170 --> 00:52:52.150 Bragged recently that he wasn't afraid of COVID germs because he used to store 00:52:52.150 --> 00:52:54.810 cocaine off of toilet seats. 00:52:55.070 --> 00:52:55.310 Yeah. 00:52:56.670 --> 00:53:01.550 And I thought, I swear to God, that somebody made that up. 00:53:02.190 --> 00:53:08.210 I mean, honestly, when I first saw it posted, oh, come on, somebody made this up, right? 00:53:08.650 --> 00:53:09.130 Yes. 00:53:09.270 --> 00:53:09.730 But no! 00:53:10.090 --> 00:53:15.210 And I'll tell you what, my guard was down because of that. You posted that video clip. 00:53:15.430 --> 00:53:21.110 And then someone posted an AI-generated version of RFK Jr. 00:53:21.570 --> 00:53:26.170 Pretending to be Jar Jar Binks talking about Epstein. And I was like, 00:53:26.290 --> 00:53:31.110 well, you know, he's, he talked about licking toilet seats. I guess this is real too. 00:53:33.030 --> 00:53:38.230 And I was fooled for, for like a few minutes and then it was taken down. 00:53:38.450 --> 00:53:46.070 But like, yeah, at this point it's like, what do you know? 00:53:51.170 --> 00:53:54.630 I've done a lot of fucked up shit. Okay. 00:53:55.630 --> 00:54:00.550 Seriously I mean I'm one that has done a lot of fucked up shit, 00:54:01.700 --> 00:54:09.340 Damn it, RFK Jr. makes me look like just a saint compared to this shit. 00:54:10.840 --> 00:54:15.580 Well, yes. I mean, I remember when he was running for president. 00:54:15.580 --> 00:54:19.460 We had, like, new stories about his, like, craziness, like, every week. 00:54:19.840 --> 00:54:22.760 I mean, the thing with the bear in Central Park. 00:54:22.800 --> 00:54:24.180 But, Sam, I mean, holy shit. 00:54:24.180 --> 00:54:31.220 There was a whale head at some point. And we knew he had all kinds of drug problems. 00:54:31.220 --> 00:54:33.100 Yeah, but come on, man! 00:54:34.540 --> 00:54:43.020 Yes. And women, of course. We had the nuzzy thing, and that was just one of many. You know. 00:54:45.300 --> 00:54:49.160 There was something weird with how he broke up with his ex-wife, too, I think. 00:54:50.640 --> 00:54:55.240 Oh, my God. I mean, actually, I'm afraid to hear it. 00:54:55.400 --> 00:54:55.840 Okay? 00:54:58.060 --> 00:54:58.500 Yeah. 00:54:58.500 --> 00:55:05.900 Yeah, but these are the people issuing information and direction to our country right now. 00:55:06.960 --> 00:55:16.640 Right. And, you know, the systematic destruction of all of the actual professionals 00:55:16.640 --> 00:55:19.880 and experts throughout the entire administration. 00:55:21.160 --> 00:55:27.500 Here's one thing. Can this be covered for? The answer is yes, 00:55:27.540 --> 00:55:30.660 but it is damaging regardless, okay? 00:55:31.320 --> 00:55:39.800 You know, look, Argentina for years, okay, had leaders that manipulated economic statistics. 00:55:41.640 --> 00:55:48.160 I'm convinced they still do. For like, they started really manipulating them like 20 years ago. 00:55:49.450 --> 00:55:54.150 You know, one of the things that Argentinians have shown me is that despite 00:55:54.150 --> 00:55:59.550 all of this kind of shit, which they've lived through this kind of shit for 00:55:59.550 --> 00:56:02.350 a long time, you can still survive. 00:56:04.790 --> 00:56:11.930 It's not great, but you can still survive. But it's not great. 00:56:11.930 --> 00:56:19.270 Well, I mean, the thing with all of this is you get, there is a certain world 00:56:19.270 --> 00:56:24.990 you can live in if you have reliable, trustworthy information, 00:56:25.350 --> 00:56:27.270 a reliable, trustworthy government. 00:56:27.470 --> 00:56:32.310 You can be sure that contracts are enforced. You can be sure that laws are enforced. 00:56:32.350 --> 00:56:34.730 Well, Sam, we don't have any of that shit right now. 00:56:34.930 --> 00:56:38.330 Exactly. And that world, actually, 00:56:38.470 --> 00:56:46.850 that regularity where you have the infrastructure in place so that there's a 00:56:46.850 --> 00:56:50.690 level set on expectations, there's a level set on truth, 00:56:50.930 --> 00:56:56.550 all of that kind of thing, enables a whole bunch of activity and potentially 00:56:56.550 --> 00:57:01.910 prosperity that when all of those things are taken away, 00:57:02.330 --> 00:57:04.590 it fundamentally puts... 00:57:04.590 --> 00:57:06.390 It puts everything at risk. 00:57:06.550 --> 00:57:14.450 It puts society as a whole at a disadvantage. Now, the thing it does is it advantages 00:57:14.450 --> 00:57:17.330 those with inside information. 00:57:18.090 --> 00:57:20.290 Wow. Which is the intent of... Really? 00:57:20.710 --> 00:57:21.150 You know? 00:57:21.350 --> 00:57:25.950 Really? I mean, have you not known? I mean, it's like, that's one of the things 00:57:25.950 --> 00:57:26.990 that we've been talking about. 00:57:26.990 --> 00:57:33.410 How much insider trading, poly markets, weird bets, all of this shit is going 00:57:33.410 --> 00:57:37.050 on right now. And it's actually the same thing as in Argentina, for example. 00:57:37.250 --> 00:57:40.910 Look, one of the things that, for example, that was advantageous during all 00:57:40.910 --> 00:57:44.470 this era manipulation, one of the things we were doing with the currency was 00:57:44.470 --> 00:57:49.630 that if you had the right contacts, connections, or things set up, you could get... 00:57:50.380 --> 00:57:56.060 Currency at preferred rates. You could get all these other things at preferred 00:57:56.060 --> 00:57:59.200 rates and everybody else got the shaft. 00:57:59.400 --> 00:58:01.740 Okay. You know, they couldn't. 00:58:02.420 --> 00:58:10.260 You know, one example was of imports and exports because since they manipulated 00:58:10.260 --> 00:58:13.440 the currency, they limited your dollar buying and selling. 00:58:13.440 --> 00:58:19.800 And so when I was at my previous employer, because the company imported stuff 00:58:19.800 --> 00:58:22.100 that was deemed necessary, 00:58:22.660 --> 00:58:29.640 okay, we were able to go to the central bank and get currency in order to be 00:58:29.640 --> 00:58:33.240 able to properly pay and import shit, okay? 00:58:33.500 --> 00:58:37.220 But this distortion also created that the people that bought stuff from us, 00:58:37.280 --> 00:58:39.180 because we could get at the official rate. 00:58:39.180 --> 00:58:44.780 I have people like banging down my door to just buy shit because the official 00:58:44.780 --> 00:58:50.080 rate was so much better than any other exchange rate that people were just we 00:58:50.080 --> 00:58:51.960 just want to buy your shit and 00:58:51.960 --> 00:58:55.540 I'm like but why do you want to buy this much? well because it's at the. 00:58:57.160 --> 00:59:00.040 Preferred exchange rate then they could sell it 00:59:00.040 --> 00:59:02.700 at the at what it's really worth which is a 00:59:02.700 --> 00:59:07.600 ton more and they were like making tons 00:59:07.600 --> 00:59:13.420 of money off of that and this is the kind of like thing that happens with with 00:59:13.420 --> 00:59:17.460 these regimes and by the way and and by the way this applies to us in the terms 00:59:17.460 --> 00:59:22.900 of tariffs because like right now we have this fucking tariff regime right now 00:59:22.900 --> 00:59:24.960 where if you're in the right side of the tariffs, 00:59:25.160 --> 00:59:27.580 you're doing good. But if you're on the wrong side, you're fucked. 00:59:27.860 --> 00:59:34.300 And that all depends on your personal relationship with Donald Trump and his cronies. 00:59:34.600 --> 00:59:34.760 Correct. 00:59:35.020 --> 00:59:36.960 And whether or not you're paying them off. 00:59:37.360 --> 00:59:40.820 Right. And if you're getting exemptions or shit or whatever, 00:59:41.080 --> 00:59:42.100 or you're getting fucked. 00:59:42.620 --> 00:59:45.640 Right. Which is why you have things like, 00:59:45.640 --> 00:59:48.780 you know tim cook giving that 00:59:48.780 --> 00:59:55.400 little trophy to donald orb the gold orb the the the shiny customized iphone 00:59:55.400 --> 01:00:00.920 whatever the hell you know yeah it is because of this because people know at 01:00:00.920 --> 01:00:08.680 this point that how that it is 100 personal it is 100 transactional play. 01:00:08.680 --> 01:00:12.100 Man 100 you have to pay to play. 01:00:12.300 --> 01:00:16.860 If you're not paying to play, you're not going to be, you know, 01:00:17.400 --> 01:00:21.140 you're not going to be one of the people really making money. 01:00:21.720 --> 01:00:30.760 Which again, like that whole structure is 100% designed to benefit a certain 01:00:30.760 --> 01:00:33.940 group of people who control those strings. 01:00:34.560 --> 01:00:40.680 But as a whole, if you're looking at the impact to the overall economy, 01:00:40.920 --> 01:00:46.340 to society as a whole, to whatever, it's a negative drag, you know? 01:00:46.620 --> 01:00:52.560 And, and so, yeah, I mean, there, there will be certain people making tons of 01:00:52.560 --> 01:00:55.660 money off this and everybody else gets fucked. 01:00:57.030 --> 01:01:00.710 Basically, you know, so it's a new economy, Sam. 01:01:01.450 --> 01:01:05.170 Well, and the thing is also the, 01:01:05.910 --> 01:01:12.630 you know, there are many problems with this, but one of the big ones is let's 01:01:12.630 --> 01:01:17.350 say the quote unquote good guys take over everything. 01:01:17.910 --> 01:01:22.550 You know, come 2029 after the 01:01:22.550 --> 01:01:26.930 next elections, you can't just snap your fingers and undo all this shit. 01:01:27.590 --> 01:01:28.110 No. 01:01:28.550 --> 01:01:31.430 Like, there is... I mean, you can undo some of it. 01:01:31.470 --> 01:01:37.490 You can undo some things, but there is a lot of stuff that has been broken that 01:01:37.490 --> 01:01:39.450 will take a long time to repair. 01:01:39.950 --> 01:01:42.670 Once you break trust, it doesn't come right back. 01:01:43.210 --> 01:01:47.690 It's easier to destroy than it is to create. That is just a reality. 01:01:48.890 --> 01:01:53.830 You know, this is just the nature of this. 01:01:54.050 --> 01:02:01.510 You know, when you have... When you've created over decades ecosystems of checks, 01:02:01.850 --> 01:02:05.630 balances, controls, and things, and trust. 01:02:06.690 --> 01:02:12.370 Trust is a big part of it. Regardless of what is technically on the books and 01:02:12.370 --> 01:02:16.130 what the laws are, if you have changed the culture, 01:02:16.710 --> 01:02:21.750 if you have moved from an area where people can generally assume good faith 01:02:21.750 --> 01:02:26.390 to one where everybody assumes everybody's out to screw everybody else, 01:02:26.610 --> 01:02:33.070 it takes a long time to rebuild the culture you just broke, if ever. 01:02:33.350 --> 01:02:40.270 Look, one of the things, and why there are many foreign debt issuers, 01:02:40.430 --> 01:02:47.990 historically, issued debt that was either resolved in U.S. 01:02:48.150 --> 01:02:49.710 Courts or... 01:02:50.970 --> 01:02:54.270 Uk courts okay historically and the 01:02:54.270 --> 01:02:57.470 reason for that is trust in 01:02:57.470 --> 01:03:03.070 the legal system because if you if you signed it and then you did it that it 01:03:03.070 --> 01:03:11.830 was contracted in a country with a system of laws that you believe will be enforced 01:03:11.830 --> 01:03:15.650 then it's more likely that somebody's going to loan you money Right. Okay. 01:03:16.290 --> 01:03:27.170 And so now at this point still, I will say that one of the things that our courts have been. 01:03:27.910 --> 01:03:31.890 Even if they aren't making in many cases decisions that we like, 01:03:32.150 --> 01:03:37.650 what they have been is I think that they have shown more resilience than a lot 01:03:37.650 --> 01:03:41.270 of the other institutions just because of the way that our courts are structured. 01:03:41.270 --> 01:03:45.050 In terms of, for example, one of the things that we were concerned about, 01:03:45.370 --> 01:03:47.150 you know, prosecuting enemies, right? 01:03:47.770 --> 01:03:52.710 Most of the cases of this administration trying to prosecute people, 01:03:53.010 --> 01:03:58.590 you know, for stupid shit, keep being turned away. 01:03:58.950 --> 01:04:03.610 They don't get far, okay? The courts keep rejecting them, 01:04:03.850 --> 01:04:08.650 like like when they were trying to prosecute Comey or Letitia James or, 01:04:08.810 --> 01:04:14.110 you know, repeatedly, you know, when they were trying to prosecute like the 01:04:14.110 --> 01:04:16.050 guy that threw that sandwich in D.C. 01:04:16.450 --> 01:04:22.810 You know, it used to be that we said that a federal prosecutor could indict a ham sandwich. 01:04:23.130 --> 01:04:27.030 And right now they have been in a situation where. 01:04:27.970 --> 01:04:33.710 It's an unprecedented situation where they keep being turned away from indictments, 01:04:34.150 --> 01:04:38.150 something that normally doesn't happen because they keep presenting indictments 01:04:38.150 --> 01:04:40.870 that people look at them like, are you crazy? 01:04:41.270 --> 01:04:46.990 No. They tried to indict the House members, the Democrat House members, 01:04:47.130 --> 01:04:52.510 for example, because they said something, they made that statement about military 01:04:52.510 --> 01:04:55.530 people disobeying illegal orders. 01:04:55.890 --> 01:04:59.530 And they tried to indict them and they couldn't. 01:05:00.030 --> 01:05:04.630 The grand jury, basically not one person voted to indict them. 01:05:04.630 --> 01:05:08.170 It was zero. It wasn't even like they couldn't get a majority. It was zero. 01:05:08.270 --> 01:05:13.590 No, it was zero. And so that is one of the things that I will say that thankfully, 01:05:13.850 --> 01:05:19.530 even at this moment, because of the way it's structured, they haven't been able to crack that. 01:05:19.870 --> 01:05:25.230 Well, and I'll add on that particular case also, they were trying to go after 01:05:25.230 --> 01:05:28.670 Mark Kelly's like military retirement benefits. 01:05:29.010 --> 01:05:29.490 That also got. 01:05:29.610 --> 01:05:33.850 And the judge just slapped him down and said, this is obviously an infringement 01:05:33.850 --> 01:05:36.750 on First Amendment rights of veterans. And no. 01:05:37.930 --> 01:05:43.990 Yeah. So so there is that like right now in which the courts still in many cases 01:05:43.990 --> 01:05:48.130 are still, you know, standing in this. 01:05:48.270 --> 01:05:52.250 I mean, listen, the main problem that we've got with this entire situation right 01:05:52.250 --> 01:05:54.550 now is a completely spineless Congress. 01:05:54.970 --> 01:06:01.770 OK, it this it isn't it's not that the the mechanisms aren't there. 01:06:02.130 --> 01:06:07.350 It's that the people that supposedly have the mechanisms aren't using them. 01:06:07.350 --> 01:06:11.850 Well, they're all like, in the large part, the Republicans are either, 01:06:12.030 --> 01:06:14.410 they are complicit, many of them. 01:06:14.510 --> 01:06:18.070 Well, that's what I was going to say. I was going to quibble with the word spineless 01:06:18.070 --> 01:06:20.770 because a good deal of the Congress is actually supportive. 01:06:21.070 --> 01:06:24.570 Yeah, they're complicit. They're either complicit or spineless, 01:06:24.670 --> 01:06:27.330 depending on which ones you're looking at. Right. Right. 01:06:27.930 --> 01:06:31.890 So, yeah, I mean, and and and also listen. 01:06:32.050 --> 01:06:35.970 But Sam, you know, that in the listen in the in the whispers, 01:06:35.970 --> 01:06:40.270 a lot of these people go and say 01:06:40.270 --> 01:06:44.230 that he is a lunatic, that he needs to be impeached, but they won't do it. 01:06:44.330 --> 01:06:48.550 Well, and even a whole bunch of those that are that are that are going, yeah, yeah, yeah. 01:06:48.550 --> 01:06:52.590 Well, one of the things that I was going to bring up as a later topic, 01:06:52.750 --> 01:06:58.550 but we can just merge into, is we are seeing more splinters on the Republican side. 01:06:59.990 --> 01:07:06.430 Now, we've had various times where they've splintered before and then come back into the fold. 01:07:06.430 --> 01:07:11.830 So, as usual, I'm not anticipating any major actions until or unless we see it. 01:07:11.830 --> 01:07:20.830 But especially on this Epstein stuff, there are a half dozen Republicans, at least, 01:07:21.110 --> 01:07:28.490 who are clearly upset and unhappy with what the administration is doing. 01:07:28.490 --> 01:07:35.170 You have, you know, like Nancy Mace was ranting about what the administration 01:07:35.170 --> 01:07:40.770 was doing with the redactions and she was upset about them like spying on Jam Paul. 01:07:41.050 --> 01:07:45.570 Like those aren't exactly like allies. no 01:07:45.570 --> 01:07:48.530 you know but and what 01:07:48.530 --> 01:07:51.570 i mean is bondi when she was testifying in 01:07:51.570 --> 01:07:54.550 front of whichever committee it was about the epstein 01:07:54.550 --> 01:07:58.310 stuff had opened a binder that 01:07:58.310 --> 01:08:03.670 included a list of exactly what jay paul had looked at when she went to look 01:08:03.670 --> 01:08:07.230 at the epstein files that have been released to congresspeople to look at the 01:08:07.230 --> 01:08:14.070 unredacted versions and you know even even johnson was upset about that and 01:08:14.070 --> 01:08:15.250 said that should not be happening. 01:08:16.150 --> 01:08:19.030 I'll talk to whoever I need to talk to. That needs to be fixed. 01:08:19.410 --> 01:08:22.410 Hey, Sam, how was Bondi's testimony in Congress? 01:08:23.520 --> 01:08:28.060 So it went really well, I gather. She came off looking great. 01:08:28.500 --> 01:08:30.060 Oh, for Bondi, of course. 01:08:30.820 --> 01:08:36.460 She did wonderfully. No, of course. Like, look, she had her little burn books. 01:08:37.040 --> 01:08:40.000 Where apparently she'd done this before, so they were ready for it. 01:08:40.260 --> 01:08:46.380 Basically, her strategy for every question was to ignore the question and instead 01:08:46.380 --> 01:08:51.660 look up oppo research she had in a little binder on the person asking her the questions. 01:08:52.140 --> 01:08:56.080 And instead, why are you asking me about this when you blah, 01:08:56.220 --> 01:08:59.640 blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, whatever oppo research she had on the person 01:08:59.640 --> 01:09:01.860 asking the question? For the Democrats, of course. 01:09:02.700 --> 01:09:06.940 And when asked about Epstein, she started yelling about like, 01:09:07.040 --> 01:09:10.380 But the Dow, the Dow hit $50,000. 01:09:10.840 --> 01:09:11.320 Dollars. 01:09:11.600 --> 01:09:17.280 Dollars. It hit $50,000. Why are you asking me about this stuff? 01:09:17.440 --> 01:09:24.080 She was asked to apologize to the Epstein victims for not redacting their names 01:09:24.080 --> 01:09:30.360 from the files that were released while simultaneously redacting all of the potential bad actors. 01:09:30.920 --> 01:09:37.620 Right. And she absolutely refused to do that. And so like, and yeah, 01:09:37.760 --> 01:09:42.960 a lot of, a lot of Republican Congress people are pissed at her now too. 01:09:43.440 --> 01:09:46.240 So we'll see. And again, like, 01:09:46.520 --> 01:09:52.520 and people just more generally on the theme of splinters on the Republican side, 01:09:52.520 --> 01:09:58.220 you see a lot of Republicans increasingly uncomfortable about the tariff issues because they're like, 01:09:58.320 --> 01:10:04.760 it's the economy stupid and we're coming into the election and our polls are all bad. 01:10:04.760 --> 01:10:09.120 It looks like we're going to get slaughtered in the House, and suddenly the 01:10:09.120 --> 01:10:14.220 Senate is competitive, and it didn't used to be, and meanwhile you're making 01:10:14.220 --> 01:10:17.000 coffee prices high? What the fuck, dude? 01:10:17.300 --> 01:10:21.660 Fix this. You know, so there are a lot of Republicans getting upset. 01:10:21.840 --> 01:10:25.480 They're also, you know, it's just... 01:10:26.050 --> 01:10:29.890 Again, they've been upset before. Every once in a while. 01:10:30.070 --> 01:10:35.590 Going all the way back to the Access Hollywood tape in 2016, 01:10:35.590 --> 01:10:41.630 you get a flurry of Republicans being all like, oh, no, we have to dump him. 01:10:41.810 --> 01:10:43.830 Donald Trump's dead. He's over. 01:10:44.250 --> 01:10:47.770 But those were big swings that then reverted. 01:10:48.210 --> 01:10:54.050 Right now, it's more like a slow bleed. Yeah, it's more like a like a slow bleed 01:10:54.050 --> 01:10:58.590 of people either leaving Congress, resigning Congress, 01:10:59.190 --> 01:11:04.710 splintering and not going back to the mean and stopping being afraid of like 01:11:04.710 --> 01:11:07.550 calling him out on certain stuff. 01:11:09.110 --> 01:11:15.210 It's a slow bleed right now that that that he's enduring from from from those guys. 01:11:15.390 --> 01:11:18.030 And look, the economic data is not going to get better, Sam. 01:11:19.070 --> 01:11:25.130 Now, I will admit, and I said this because I finished my taxes this week, 01:11:25.150 --> 01:11:32.210 that there probably will be a bump this quarter because of tax refunds, okay? 01:11:33.630 --> 01:11:40.390 Because I mentioned, you know, on Slack that, look, I probably spent the last 01:11:40.390 --> 01:11:46.930 20 years that I had to write a check, whether a big check or a small check. 01:11:46.930 --> 01:11:52.570 Well, because you specifically designed it that way, right? So that you're not loaning the IRS money. 01:11:53.070 --> 01:11:57.050 Well, yes. Now, usually I try to design it that it was a small check. 01:11:57.290 --> 01:11:57.650 Right, right. 01:11:57.870 --> 01:12:04.370 But, you know, so I try to like err on the side that I might owe a little bit 01:12:04.370 --> 01:12:08.170 of money instead of me loaning the government money for free. Okay. 01:12:09.430 --> 01:12:15.210 But look, with the tax law changes last year, I've had the biggest tax refund 01:12:15.210 --> 01:12:16.550 I've ever gotten in my life. 01:12:17.700 --> 01:12:18.860 Like, by a lot. 01:12:20.520 --> 01:12:24.480 He was complaining about it a lot on the Slack, so I told him he should just send it to me. 01:12:24.820 --> 01:12:26.440 Yeah. No, I'm not sending it to you. 01:12:26.440 --> 01:12:30.320 I'll take care of it for you. I'll happily take that off your hands. 01:12:30.720 --> 01:12:35.980 But my thing is that I'm expecting that a lot of people, because they did not 01:12:35.980 --> 01:12:40.580 adjust withholdings last year according to the law, and so that a lot of people 01:12:40.580 --> 01:12:44.600 are going to wind up getting very big tax refunds right now. 01:12:44.600 --> 01:12:48.460 Now, of course, the thing is that, as I mentioned, with so many people in debt 01:12:48.460 --> 01:12:52.480 distress right now, anyway, I don't know if that's going to make a big difference. 01:12:52.700 --> 01:12:55.640 What, by the way, surprise, surprise, debt distress. 01:12:55.860 --> 01:13:01.840 What do you think is the biggest issue right now in terms of people all of a 01:13:01.840 --> 01:13:05.820 sudden defaulting on debt that they had not been on default before? 01:13:06.260 --> 01:13:08.140 What do you think is the number one thing? 01:13:08.920 --> 01:13:10.220 The school loans. 01:13:10.880 --> 01:13:11.320 Boom. 01:13:11.320 --> 01:13:14.740 Because the deferments and everything were all taken away. 01:13:15.120 --> 01:13:21.140 Right. They, it is at a level, at the highest level, like almost, 01:13:22.500 --> 01:13:25.340 I think ever it was in the chart, period. Okay. 01:13:25.560 --> 01:13:28.860 That's where we're at right now with that. And then that's having a negative 01:13:28.860 --> 01:13:33.140 impact on people's finances that, you know, 01:13:33.820 --> 01:13:35.540 either you're paying them or you're 01:13:35.540 --> 01:13:41.920 going to, you know, you're getting a negative impact because of this. 01:13:42.920 --> 01:13:47.540 And, you know, this is something, this is another bond that the administration threw at people. 01:13:47.900 --> 01:13:53.560 Okay. And this is an economic bomb that hits disproportionately people that make less money. 01:13:54.420 --> 01:13:54.560 Right. 01:13:56.220 --> 01:14:01.420 So, you know, and it hits a lot of people with higher incomes as well, 01:14:01.680 --> 01:14:03.320 which is that's one change. 01:14:03.460 --> 01:14:10.360 Because if you think about it, say you studied a profession that was expensive, 01:14:10.360 --> 01:14:17.180 that then you had gotten all these deferments in terms of not having to pay on those student loans. 01:14:17.180 --> 01:14:21.240 But maybe you borrowed a couple of hundred thousand dollars for that for that profession. 01:14:21.460 --> 01:14:27.440 But then, you know, all of a sudden, you know, you're you're you're screwed again. 01:14:29.600 --> 01:14:34.600 So it's the the the stress behavior is is really bad, you know, 01:14:34.660 --> 01:14:37.500 because we have seen issues with auto loans. 01:14:37.780 --> 01:14:41.060 OK, auto loan delinquencies have been soaring. 01:14:41.460 --> 01:14:46.160 OK, credit card delinquencies are at their highest level since the Great Recession. 01:14:46.160 --> 01:14:49.180 Okay auto loan delinquencies are 01:14:49.180 --> 01:14:52.960 the highest level since the great recession as well student 01:14:52.960 --> 01:14:57.420 loan ones are at the highest level even higher than before the great recession 01:14:57.420 --> 01:15:03.940 okay and more and mortgage ones are also rising now they are not anywhere near 01:15:03.940 --> 01:15:07.660 level of the great recession because that was like the biggest precipitator 01:15:07.660 --> 01:15:11.540 but if you look at mortgage defaults they had gone from, 01:15:11.780 --> 01:15:16.260 a share of loans that are at least 30 days of liquid mortgages, they went from about, 01:15:17.490 --> 01:15:26.010 Like 1.5% to all of a sudden they're like closing in on 3.5%, 4%. That's a big bump. 01:15:26.390 --> 01:15:33.490 Now, it's actually back to where it was the norm up until 2020. 01:15:34.050 --> 01:15:37.770 So that would like rose. But the trend isn't great. 01:15:37.770 --> 01:15:51.510 So look the Trumpian economics is a mother fucking disaster Sam okay this is 01:15:51.510 --> 01:15:55.210 all these fucking people idiots. 01:15:56.490 --> 01:16:03.030 Fucking idiots that voted for Trump because he's $50,000 yes. 01:16:03.030 --> 01:16:09.870 Like what are you saying the economy is horrible like all of these things are through the roof. 01:16:09.870 --> 01:16:12.910 You know i i i was going 01:16:12.910 --> 01:16:15.870 to try to pull for the podcast an analysis to 01:16:15.870 --> 01:16:18.970 try to separate in terms of the stock market 01:16:18.970 --> 01:16:25.150 performance where you've because because you've got a lot of a number of very 01:16:25.150 --> 01:16:33.250 large profitable companies that dominate these indices and they're doing well 01:16:33.250 --> 01:16:37.250 like we mentioned this whole thing about the economy where we've got winners. 01:16:37.610 --> 01:16:41.010 We got this winners and losers decided by the government. And you've got what 01:16:41.010 --> 01:16:43.830 a lot of people describe this K-shaped economy where people, 01:16:44.050 --> 01:16:46.830 some people are doing great and the other people are getting fucked. 01:16:47.150 --> 01:16:51.190 And the stock market is also exhibiting that behavior as well, 01:16:51.190 --> 01:16:56.030 where you've got restaurant chains going under one after the other. Okay. 01:16:56.450 --> 01:17:00.130 You've got Wendy shutting down 600 restaurants. Okay. 01:17:00.230 --> 01:17:04.310 For example, like they just announced like this week you've got, 01:17:04.430 --> 01:17:08.650 but, But on the flip side, you know, you got Apple that, you know. 01:17:10.450 --> 01:17:16.130 Just had one of their biggest quarters ever. No, their biggest quarter ever, okay, on the other side. 01:17:17.230 --> 01:17:21.890 And so that's the situation that you've got right now where you've got a lot 01:17:21.890 --> 01:17:24.030 of sectors getting bubbled. 01:17:24.130 --> 01:17:29.830 I mean, think about this thing about how housing historically has been a very 01:17:29.830 --> 01:17:33.210 big economic motor, okay, in the United States, okay? 01:17:34.390 --> 01:17:37.810 Home sales last month plunged, okay? 01:17:38.310 --> 01:17:41.150 They plunged. and this is 01:17:41.150 --> 01:17:44.250 already from a level that was already low and they 01:17:44.250 --> 01:17:48.210 dropped even more i mean if home 01:17:48.210 --> 01:17:51.490 sales are plunging it's because people can't 01:17:51.490 --> 01:17:54.550 afford to buy houses sam because there 01:17:54.550 --> 01:17:57.310 is and look people have talked 01:17:57.310 --> 01:18:04.190 about there is a dearth of on the flip side there's a dearth of of houses people 01:18:04.190 --> 01:18:10.250 affordable houses people are struggling to find homes but if you've got people 01:18:10.250 --> 01:18:16.470 struggling to buy homes and sales are collapsing it's it's the it's the worst of both worlds right, 01:18:17.290 --> 01:18:21.730 but according to the trump economic data it's the trump boom. 01:18:22.860 --> 01:18:28.080 It was Peter Navarro came on the news the other day, and I think that the reason 01:18:28.080 --> 01:18:33.000 he was saying this was because of all the restatements of the old labor data, 01:18:33.160 --> 01:18:35.940 where they had to cut down the previous reports. 01:18:36.040 --> 01:18:40.680 Once they took out all the bullshit estimates, 01:18:40.940 --> 01:18:48.700 because a lot of the more recent ones include estimates of certain things, 01:18:48.760 --> 01:18:51.100 extrapolations, because you don't have the full data. 01:18:51.820 --> 01:18:57.380 Peter Nomura went on TV and said some real, one of his usual lunatic lines. 01:18:57.920 --> 01:19:01.620 This was a different one, a new one. Let me see if I find it over here because 01:19:01.620 --> 01:19:07.080 I shared it on the Slack, where he said, it sounded kind of like Kellyanne Conway 01:19:07.080 --> 01:19:09.980 talking about alternative facts, like about many years ago. 01:19:10.720 --> 01:19:15.680 He said something along the lines of, you got to learn to look at this data 01:19:15.680 --> 01:19:17.700 differently from the past. 01:19:19.580 --> 01:19:22.780 And you're like, what? You know, yeah, yeah, yeah. 01:19:22.840 --> 01:19:26.560 You can't look at those labor numbers like they used to look at the labor numbers. 01:19:26.560 --> 01:19:29.700 You got to look at them and you got to think about them differently. 01:19:30.980 --> 01:19:39.340 You know, because here, the revision to the labor numbers specifically, I pulled it up over here. 01:19:40.680 --> 01:19:43.580 Prior year the slowdown that job 01:19:43.580 --> 01:19:46.800 gains averaged only 15 000 a month 01:19:46.800 --> 01:19:49.740 for last year but the original pace 01:19:49.740 --> 01:19:56.820 reported was 49 000 a month think about that okay it is one of the slowest bases 01:19:56.820 --> 01:20:02.380 of any job creation since the great recession and i and i think that the reason 01:20:02.380 --> 01:20:05.540 why he was saying that you have to look at this data differently and here here's 01:20:05.540 --> 01:20:08.480 a quote peter navarro the jobs report comes out tomorrow, 01:20:08.700 --> 01:20:13.300 we have to revise our expectations down significantly for what a monthly job 01:20:13.300 --> 01:20:14.800 number should look like. 01:20:15.100 --> 01:20:16.540 Wall Street has to adjust for 01:20:16.540 --> 01:20:20.260 the fact that we're deporting millions of illegals out of the job market. 01:20:22.220 --> 01:20:28.340 If you're, if we're, wait a minute, I thought they were mooches on, 01:20:28.580 --> 01:20:32.100 on, you know, on welfare, Sam. 01:20:34.500 --> 01:20:41.640 Once again, yet another place that exposes that all of the excuses about that 01:20:41.640 --> 01:20:43.980 kind of stuff are bullshit and it's just flat out racism. 01:20:44.640 --> 01:20:47.300 Correct. So. 01:20:49.500 --> 01:20:51.060 It's a brave new world, Sam. 01:20:51.060 --> 01:20:52.480 It is it. 01:20:52.480 --> 01:20:54.640 Is it is a brave new world. 01:20:54.640 --> 01:20:58.520 Okay somehow i'm sleeping better. 01:20:58.520 --> 01:21:03.760 I don't know why i think i've gotten to a point where it's just like i just i i. 01:21:03.760 --> 01:21:09.400 Well it's look it's so negative yeah well it's the thing that you know at the 01:21:09.400 --> 01:21:12.800 very beginning when donald trump first won in 2016, 01:21:13.640 --> 01:21:17.480 people were like don't normalize don't normalize but it's natural for human 01:21:17.480 --> 01:21:20.200 beings to normalize You get used to the new normal. 01:21:20.540 --> 01:21:24.540 And then, like, the things that were outrageous before are like, 01:21:24.620 --> 01:21:26.440 well, that's just how it is. 01:21:26.440 --> 01:21:31.280 But it's just in general. Like, I got to think, like, Londoners during the Blitz, 01:21:31.420 --> 01:21:33.880 right? Okay? They were getting bombed every night, right? 01:21:33.900 --> 01:21:34.020 Right. 01:21:34.020 --> 01:21:36.300 I could hear them. I'm sure the bombs were listening every night. 01:21:36.460 --> 01:21:39.720 I'm sure at some point, at first they couldn't sleep. But I'm sure at some point 01:21:39.720 --> 01:21:41.600 they started sleeping through the fucking bombs. 01:21:41.960 --> 01:21:42.940 Because you have no choice. 01:21:43.340 --> 01:21:45.520 You got no choice! Yeah. 01:21:45.740 --> 01:21:52.720 I mean, the humans are naturally resilient. You know, they will figure out how 01:21:52.720 --> 01:21:55.380 to deal with whatever situation they're in. 01:21:55.520 --> 01:22:03.460 That's not to say the way they deal with it may not have all kinds of negative effects over time. 01:22:03.740 --> 01:22:09.880 Like there's all kinds of trauma, you know, like you, you can argue that entire 01:22:09.880 --> 01:22:13.840 generations and how they interacted with the world were. 01:22:15.470 --> 01:22:21.750 After the Great Depression, after World War II, hell, after what we are going through right now, 01:22:22.270 --> 01:22:28.890 entire generations' ways of interacting with the world will be different and 01:22:28.890 --> 01:22:34.530 not necessarily different in a positive way because of the trauma that they've gone through. 01:22:35.450 --> 01:22:39.530 You know, you survive the trauma. You figure out how to deal with the trauma. 01:22:39.810 --> 01:22:44.210 You go on with life, even through the worst of circumstances. 01:22:44.770 --> 01:22:50.730 But that trauma impacts everything for the rest of your life. 01:22:50.890 --> 01:22:54.990 And trauma usually does not impact people in a positive way. 01:22:56.490 --> 01:23:02.610 No it doesn't with that excitement uh let's take a break we will be back and 01:23:02.610 --> 01:23:06.110 uh talk about a few other things i have an idea for the next thing and i'm gonna 01:23:06.110 --> 01:23:10.710 change the direction slightly but here we go change the direction slightly slightly 01:23:10.710 --> 01:23:14.590 you know whatever here's a break. 01:23:16.010 --> 01:23:18.670 Okie dokie here it comes, 01:23:24.530 --> 01:23:27.890 It was just my internet being stupid. 01:23:28.290 --> 01:23:33.370 My internet being stupid is a new song we will make. 01:23:33.370 --> 01:23:43.530 Do you believe in the blue the blue the blue the blue the blue the blue the blue the the, 01:24:00.670 --> 01:24:05.190 Come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, 01:24:05.190 --> 01:24:07.630 come on, come on, come on. Come on, I'm tired. 01:24:08.190 --> 01:24:11.430 What's wrong? I'm really tired. 01:24:11.850 --> 01:24:16.550 You, you, you, it's, it's amazing. To get the show on the road. There's a road? 01:24:17.110 --> 01:24:20.410 There's a road? Oh my God, there's a road. 01:24:21.250 --> 01:24:24.990 Okay, we are back. And so the first thing for my next thing, 01:24:25.110 --> 01:24:29.390 rather than pick another serious newsy thing, I actually, I should have included 01:24:29.390 --> 01:24:31.470 this during our media segment. 01:24:31.470 --> 01:24:37.790 It is not, you know, usually I only talk about, like, movies that I've watched 01:24:37.790 --> 01:24:40.990 or TV shows where I've watched the entire damn thing. 01:24:41.470 --> 01:24:47.750 But I think based on an episode Alex and I watched last night, 01:24:47.750 --> 01:24:51.810 it is time for another update on this show. 01:24:53.950 --> 01:24:54.710 Oh! 01:24:55.370 --> 01:25:05.370 Okay. Okay. We are watching Law & Order, and last night, Alex and I finished season six. Okay? 01:25:06.510 --> 01:25:11.570 Now, the one thing I'll say is, we were on the last episode of season six, 01:25:11.690 --> 01:25:18.410 episode 23 of season six, and, like, we were just a few minutes into the episode, and I was like, 01:25:19.030 --> 01:25:21.830 holy shit, this is... 01:25:23.300 --> 01:25:30.840 This is different and noticeably better than almost all Law & Order episodes 01:25:30.840 --> 01:25:32.420 that I've watched before. 01:25:33.740 --> 01:25:38.520 And so I paused the show and I'm like, am I crazy? 01:25:38.760 --> 01:25:44.660 I looked this up. There's a website called seriesgraph.com where you can put 01:25:44.660 --> 01:25:45.840 in your show of your choice. 01:25:45.840 --> 01:25:52.220 And it shows you a chart of the individual episode ratings from, 01:25:52.240 --> 01:25:56.060 I don't know, IMDB or one of these others. 01:25:56.060 --> 01:25:58.340 I'm assuming this is after McCoy joined the cast. 01:25:59.240 --> 01:26:01.580 McCoy is already in the cast at this point. 01:26:01.620 --> 01:26:03.220 Sam Waters, right. Yeah, but this is like, yeah. 01:26:03.620 --> 01:26:07.000 Yeah, he's in it at this point. But sure enough, 01:26:07.620 --> 01:26:11.120 and I stopped it after like five minutes into the episode, 01:26:11.300 --> 01:26:14.260 maybe 10 at the most, to check this because I'm like, 01:26:14.260 --> 01:26:17.000 holy shit what is going on with this episode this is 01:26:17.000 --> 01:26:19.800 like it's like on a 01:26:19.800 --> 01:26:22.920 whole different level than law and order usually is 01:26:22.920 --> 01:26:25.620 and sure enough out of we are 01:26:25.620 --> 01:26:31.300 now in the midst of season 25 of law and order is airing right now okay okay 01:26:31.300 --> 01:26:39.640 yeah this episode season six episode 23 is the single highest rated episode 01:26:39.640 --> 01:26:44.120 of all 25 seasons so far the one that i watched last night, 01:26:44.960 --> 01:26:47.820 it break and you will probably remember it 01:26:47.820 --> 01:26:51.340 because i know you're a law and order fan when i described the episode this 01:26:51.340 --> 01:26:55.320 is the episode where at the very beginning most 01:26:55.320 --> 01:27:01.120 of the cast witnesses the execution of somebody that they had arrested oh of 01:27:01.120 --> 01:27:09.240 course and so instead of the usual you have the law half and then the order 01:27:09.240 --> 01:27:14.160 half and they you know they go through solving the crime and then and then go 01:27:14.160 --> 01:27:15.240 to court and blah, blah, blah. 01:27:15.640 --> 01:27:18.760 Instead, the whole damn episode. 01:27:19.690 --> 01:27:21.170 Is about the aftermath. 01:27:21.630 --> 01:27:23.470 That's the name of the episode. 01:27:24.390 --> 01:27:25.910 Aftershock. It's Aftershock. 01:27:26.270 --> 01:27:31.330 Aftershock. But it's the aftermath and it's all of the characters and how they 01:27:31.330 --> 01:27:35.090 deal with having that experience. 01:27:36.210 --> 01:27:36.390 Yeah. 01:27:37.970 --> 01:27:39.910 Extremely powerful episode. 01:27:40.350 --> 01:27:42.150 Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. 01:27:44.210 --> 01:27:52.390 Everybody dealt with it so different. And it's, I mean, it really captured how human nature is. 01:27:53.210 --> 01:27:58.310 Yeah. And it completely broke the format that the show usually does because 01:27:58.310 --> 01:28:01.530 it was all about the personal lives of all the people involved. 01:28:02.050 --> 01:28:04.450 But it was, it was done very well. 01:28:05.090 --> 01:28:10.170 And of course, and I'm not going to give a spoiler, but it ended dramatically as well. 01:28:10.330 --> 01:28:14.030 It ended all, yeah. Not end well. 01:28:14.890 --> 01:28:21.790 Anyway, looking at all these ratings, these rate episodes from 0 to 10 or whatever, 01:28:22.010 --> 01:28:27.770 this is the only episode of Law & Order in all 25 seasons rated over a 9. 01:28:28.330 --> 01:28:30.690 It is rated a 9.1. 01:28:31.370 --> 01:28:37.950 I also noticed looking at the graph sort of how consistent Law & Order is in quality. 01:28:38.090 --> 01:28:44.270 You look at other shows and it's all over the place. There's some good episodes. 01:28:44.450 --> 01:28:46.450 There's some bad episodes. It's all over the place. 01:28:47.030 --> 01:28:52.470 Law and Order, like almost every, like if you, if you look at this chart, 01:28:52.930 --> 01:28:57.170 there's seven, seven point something all over the place. 01:28:57.350 --> 01:29:00.950 There, there's some eights there, there, there, there's some episodes in eights 01:29:00.950 --> 01:29:09.890 and apparently season 21 kind of sucked. It had the lowest ratings by far, mostly in the sixes. 01:29:10.090 --> 01:29:18.250 But overwhelmingly sevens with maybe 20-30% being eights. 01:29:18.410 --> 01:29:22.970 And just remarkably consistent as well through the entire run. 01:29:24.370 --> 01:29:29.730 Apparently, the season I just finished, season six, and the season following 01:29:29.730 --> 01:29:34.970 it, season seven, are the highest rated seasons in terms of average episode 01:29:34.970 --> 01:29:36.410 ratings of the entire run. 01:29:36.630 --> 01:29:40.810 So apparently I'm at peak Law and Order right now in season six and seven. 01:29:41.970 --> 01:29:49.790 And anyway, I just like, there are a handful of TV episodes in various places 01:29:49.790 --> 01:29:54.590 where you are just immediately shocked by the episodes. 01:29:55.540 --> 01:30:02.740 This was one of them. Like, I added it to the list to talk about as an individual episode. 01:30:02.860 --> 01:30:08.900 And I don't usually do that because it was just like, whoa, what the fuck did I just watch? 01:30:09.640 --> 01:30:14.620 You know? And so, I just figured I'd call that out. 01:30:14.720 --> 01:30:19.540 And I'll note that, like, you know, Law & Order, very consistent in the sevens. 01:30:19.620 --> 01:30:22.440 You know exactly what you're coming in to expect. I'm comparing. 01:30:22.660 --> 01:30:26.140 There's another show that Alex and I are watching right now. 01:30:26.280 --> 01:30:29.280 We're actually about to finish the series called The Closer. 01:30:30.060 --> 01:30:31.840 It's also very consistent, but 01:30:31.840 --> 01:30:35.840 consistent in the eights instead of consistent in the sevens. So, okay. 01:30:36.380 --> 01:30:41.140 It's a different kind of show than Law & Order, a little bit more to it. 01:30:41.200 --> 01:30:43.440 So I get that, but nice and consistent. 01:30:43.660 --> 01:30:48.440 But like, again, like the consistency is actually valuable. 01:30:48.740 --> 01:30:53.500 Like for, you know, you know, again, you know exactly if you turn on an episode 01:30:53.500 --> 01:30:57.020 of Law & Order, you know what you're going to get. 01:30:57.800 --> 01:31:01.240 It's a very consistent level of quality, and you can say, okay, 01:31:01.580 --> 01:31:06.020 maybe that gets a little bit repetitive, but they managed to make it so that 01:31:06.020 --> 01:31:07.740 there's enough different to do it. 01:31:08.240 --> 01:31:11.880 We'll see when we get to some of these later series that have lower ratings. 01:31:12.020 --> 01:31:14.460 I wonder what they fucked up in season 21. 01:31:15.140 --> 01:31:18.440 Well, season 21 was the return. 01:31:18.740 --> 01:31:20.700 No, season 22 was the return, wasn't it? 01:31:21.260 --> 01:31:22.220 No, I think it's season 21. 01:31:22.220 --> 01:31:24.620 Wasn't season 21 the last season of the old version? 01:31:24.640 --> 01:31:29.920 Hang on, hang on, hang on. Looking at our... No, it's the return season. Yeah. 01:31:30.200 --> 01:31:30.440 Okay. 01:31:30.780 --> 01:31:33.620 And it was kind of... It was a little... 01:31:33.620 --> 01:31:35.200 Shaky. Okay. Yeah. 01:31:36.820 --> 01:31:39.520 It looks like they got their feet again in season 22. 01:31:39.700 --> 01:31:41.460 Yes. They started getting their feet 01:31:41.460 --> 01:31:47.680 back again after that. But that first comeback was a little bit shaky. 01:31:48.080 --> 01:31:51.700 I think it's just too much time off. They started getting their feet back again 01:31:51.700 --> 01:31:54.720 after that. But yeah, that was a little bit eh. 01:31:55.740 --> 01:31:57.620 And it was short as well. 01:31:58.860 --> 01:32:04.640 They only did 10 episodes. They went back. I know it's really hard like in this 01:32:04.640 --> 01:32:07.380 in this era where to get like full. 01:32:08.360 --> 01:32:14.640 Well, most, you know, companies only order 10 10 shows of a season. 01:32:14.640 --> 01:32:18.920 But but but, you know, I mean, these new season, like I'm looking at season 01:32:18.920 --> 01:32:24.320 24 or low on orders back to like a full like 22 episode season. 01:32:24.460 --> 01:32:29.220 And I've heard like people talking about like the need for TV to get back to this. 01:32:29.220 --> 01:32:36.500 Like, rather than having, like, 10 super expensive, super involved, 01:32:37.120 --> 01:32:43.060 high-end episodes as, like, a prestige drama or whatever, just start cranking the fuckers out again. 01:32:43.740 --> 01:32:50.000 No, and then way too many of these shows have gaps that are way too long between seasons. 01:32:50.060 --> 01:32:53.980 They do 10 episodes. That too, but also people have pointed out, 01:32:54.100 --> 01:32:58.240 like, you need to give the shows time to breathe as well. You need some of the 01:32:58.240 --> 01:33:02.020 episodes that let you explore things. 01:33:02.280 --> 01:33:08.920 If you're crunching it down to 10, it's basically a miniseries or a super long 01:33:08.920 --> 01:33:13.560 movie, which is a different thing than a series series. 01:33:13.760 --> 01:33:21.400 Okay. Now, before I move on, I had mentioned episodes of shows that really just live. 01:33:22.320 --> 01:33:25.180 Individually knock you over i will 01:33:25.180 --> 01:33:28.380 mention two more from other shows neither of 01:33:28.380 --> 01:33:37.260 which i'm currently actively watching but one is buffy the vampire slayer episode 01:33:37.260 --> 01:33:45.900 five no sorry season five episode 16 the body um i don't. 01:33:45.900 --> 01:33:48.800 Think i've ever i i i am pretty confident on this. 01:33:48.800 --> 01:33:49.660 I don't think i. 01:33:51.250 --> 01:33:54.890 I've not even watched a single episode or a minute of the show. 01:33:55.070 --> 01:34:00.510 Maybe I passed by it on the TV and watched a few seconds, but I am pretty confident 01:34:00.510 --> 01:34:02.550 that I didn't watch like a full minute. 01:34:02.730 --> 01:34:06.030 It was a good show. Unfortunately, this is one of the shows where it turns out 01:34:06.030 --> 01:34:09.650 the creator turned out to be a scumbag, Joss Whedon, who did this. 01:34:09.910 --> 01:34:14.090 But it's one of those separate the art from the artist kind of thing. 01:34:14.190 --> 01:34:20.450 And also one of the actors in it also was a scumbag and ended up having all 01:34:20.450 --> 01:34:24.170 kinds of issues in jail, blah, blah, blah, afterwards. But, like, whatever. 01:34:24.490 --> 01:34:30.610 Like, anyway, The Body, season five, episode 16 of Buffy, it won't hit if you 01:34:30.610 --> 01:34:35.530 just watch this episode in isolation quite the same way. You have to know the characters already. 01:34:36.350 --> 01:34:38.130 But without giving... 01:34:39.150 --> 01:34:43.890 Detailed plot stuff. It is the episode where Buffy's mother dies. 01:34:44.310 --> 01:34:44.810 Okay. 01:34:45.330 --> 01:34:49.630 And it is just so incredibly well done. 01:34:50.710 --> 01:34:58.350 And it kicks you in the gut, etc. And I guess the episodes I'm mentioning have a theme. 01:34:58.990 --> 01:35:01.550 Because the other one that I immediately thought of. 01:35:01.590 --> 01:35:02.750 Apparently a lot of death. 01:35:03.350 --> 01:35:06.110 Yes, because the other episode I immediately thought of. 01:35:06.110 --> 01:35:07.790 It starts with a freaking execution. 01:35:09.810 --> 01:35:15.390 Yes, yes. And the other one is, 01:35:16.030 --> 01:35:20.350 just make sure I have the right episode here, there you go, 01:35:20.790 --> 01:35:29.510 is MASH Season 3, Episode 24, which is also, spoiler for that episode, 01:35:29.770 --> 01:35:31.450 from the episode that came out in what. 01:35:31.790 --> 01:35:32.410 1979? 01:35:32.410 --> 01:35:37.910 Yeah, something like that. 1975 for this episode. March 1975. 01:35:38.590 --> 01:35:45.190 It's where the first commander that you got to know gets to go home. 01:35:46.310 --> 01:35:54.830 And then in the last minute of the episode, you found out that his plane going home was shot down. 01:35:57.510 --> 01:36:02.070 The whole episode is like saying goodbye to him happy farewells blah blah blah 01:36:02.070 --> 01:36:07.190 and then he's shot down on the way home and you see everybody's reaction to hearing that news. 01:36:08.170 --> 01:36:08.730 Hmm. 01:36:10.050 --> 01:36:12.990 Anyway, all of those happy notes. 01:36:13.130 --> 01:36:14.910 Just all these happy notes. 01:36:15.050 --> 01:36:19.110 I mean, I'm sure there's, Oh, and the red wedding episode of game of Thrones 01:36:19.110 --> 01:36:22.830 also is like one of those like episodes with like a major. 01:36:23.050 --> 01:36:24.370 I've not watched, you know. 01:36:24.530 --> 01:36:28.330 And I have never finished game of Thrones, but I got up to that episode. 01:36:28.470 --> 01:36:35.930 And anyway, it was, it's, it's one of those where people are surprised by what happens in it. 01:36:36.110 --> 01:36:40.670 If they haven't been spoiled and, shocked and, oh my God, what just happened? 01:36:40.870 --> 01:36:46.190 Anyway, there are a bunch of classic episodes of shows. I wonder if any of them are happy. 01:36:46.450 --> 01:36:55.130 Our listeners suggest, are there any episodes of TV shows that are so incredibly 01:36:55.130 --> 01:37:02.650 outstanding that you remember that one episode of the show over and above everything else of the show, 01:37:02.810 --> 01:37:05.250 but where it's happy. 01:37:05.730 --> 01:37:09.790 It's not outstanding because it handled tragedy well. 01:37:09.790 --> 01:37:14.770 I'm not going to say episode of a show, but I did post a lot about this. 01:37:14.910 --> 01:37:17.250 Okay. It was on TV this week. 01:37:17.330 --> 01:37:21.430 But I will say that— I was going to transition into the Super Bowl next. Are you ready to do that? 01:37:21.430 --> 01:37:29.990 But listen, I'm sorry, but the Super Bowl halftime show that just happened with my compatriot, 01:37:29.990 --> 01:37:35.650 okay all right who i'm gonna let me clarify something here i'm not one that 01:37:35.650 --> 01:37:42.570 has a fan of his music not not because i was you know some people are like oh 01:37:42.570 --> 01:37:46.350 my god no it's like it's not my kind of music. 01:37:46.350 --> 01:37:48.110 Yeah you're more into the ray lynch. 01:37:48.110 --> 01:37:54.230 Yeah exactly it wasn't my kind of music you know i many times that his albums 01:37:54.230 --> 01:37:59.590 have come out before i listened to listen to it i'm But I will say that one 01:37:59.590 --> 01:38:00.490 of the things that, well, 01:38:01.110 --> 01:38:04.710 a couple of things. His last album was very different, and I didn't realize 01:38:04.710 --> 01:38:06.730 that the album was that different, okay? 01:38:07.030 --> 01:38:10.510 And so I started hearing the music relatively recently, okay? 01:38:10.990 --> 01:38:14.450 Where he incorporated a lot more elements of actually, like, 01:38:14.550 --> 01:38:19.270 doing more traditional Puerto Rican music, like salsa, okay? 01:38:19.370 --> 01:38:23.690 There's, I mean, this is a guy who's in a genre, genre, reggaeton, 01:38:23.870 --> 01:38:27.690 which is, it's a, I don't know how to describe it. 01:38:28.190 --> 01:38:31.310 It's a combination of, like, it's a 01:38:31.310 --> 01:38:34.390 danceable music okay with it's kind 01:38:34.390 --> 01:38:37.790 of like a i will say that it's a style of rap that's 01:38:37.790 --> 01:38:40.570 puerto rican in a certain extent with a 01:38:40.570 --> 01:38:44.090 very different vibe and rhythm to it okay it's 01:38:44.090 --> 01:38:53.710 very puerto rican and you know my one thing was and this is my ignorance okay 01:38:53.710 --> 01:38:57.710 i will say is a lot A lot of stars of this kind of music usually are people 01:38:57.710 --> 01:39:02.090 that aren't thoughtful or nice people, okay? 01:39:02.850 --> 01:39:09.190 But the show, the halftime show, which I think that when the global numbers 01:39:09.190 --> 01:39:12.950 come out will probably have been the most watched one globally. 01:39:13.170 --> 01:39:16.630 Even in the U.S., it was like fourth of U.S. 01:39:16.810 --> 01:39:21.150 Watch numbers. But from what I could tell globally, this was this had a lot 01:39:21.150 --> 01:39:28.970 more appeal because look, Bad Bunny has been number one global music streaming 01:39:28.970 --> 01:39:30.950 artist for multiple years. 01:39:31.330 --> 01:39:35.990 OK, you know, topping Taylor Swift in many cases. They've been like up there. 01:39:36.310 --> 01:39:39.890 OK, right. You know, in that in that competition. 01:39:42.530 --> 01:39:43.930 So, I mean, I. 01:39:45.210 --> 01:39:49.910 The entire production, and I had seen one that he had done earlier, 01:39:50.270 --> 01:39:54.090 shorter, one in Puerto Rico that was also very moving that I realized, 01:39:54.190 --> 01:39:55.410 shit, this guy is more thoughtful. 01:39:55.730 --> 01:40:05.790 But the entire production itself was an ode to Puerto Rico and to people and 01:40:05.790 --> 01:40:08.750 to the Americas and to our diversity. 01:40:08.750 --> 01:40:14.550 And it also touched many themes, 01:40:14.970 --> 01:40:23.930 talked about the happy things, the great things, the hurtful things, the struggle things. 01:40:23.930 --> 01:40:29.630 You know, it started shooting, showing a sugar cane plantation. 01:40:30.210 --> 01:40:38.770 You know, people in Puerto Rico were, I mean, those plantations were slavery for many years, 01:40:39.130 --> 01:40:42.950 you know, for many people in Puerto Rico up until like the abolition of slavery 01:40:42.950 --> 01:40:45.330 in Puerto Rico, which was late in 1871. 01:40:46.070 --> 01:40:52.270 And then even after that, when companies took over, the employers were basically 01:40:52.270 --> 01:40:57.110 almost indentured slaves to the companies that worked for them. 01:40:57.230 --> 01:41:05.570 They wound up always, like, being in debt to the—it was akin to slavery, 01:41:05.790 --> 01:41:12.030 okay, for a long time, until that industry went away in the first half of the 01:41:12.030 --> 01:41:14.190 20th century, finally, thank God. 01:41:14.190 --> 01:41:18.490 Than Puerto Rico for better and other employment opportunities. 01:41:19.870 --> 01:41:21.190 But it, it, it. 01:41:22.740 --> 01:41:26.820 To everybody that I spoke to that was from Puerto Rico that watched this, 01:41:27.020 --> 01:41:31.360 they all cried because of how beautiful it was and how it really shared everything 01:41:31.360 --> 01:41:37.440 that we have done from from how our culture is to the things that were the things 01:41:37.440 --> 01:41:38.740 that were hurtful and struggled. 01:41:40.120 --> 01:41:43.200 I mean, they had this entire scene where they did it with the, 01:41:43.460 --> 01:41:48.760 where all of a sudden the power lines, the utility poles like exploded. 01:41:48.760 --> 01:41:54.700 And that's a direct reference to the, what happened with Hurricane Maria, 01:41:54.900 --> 01:41:59.400 which is almost now 10 years ago, which was something that was very traumatic 01:41:59.400 --> 01:42:02.140 for everybody. I mean, it was traumatic for my family. 01:42:03.120 --> 01:42:11.200 Very much so. And so, and, but the one thing is that his message was one of joy and love, 01:42:11.680 --> 01:42:19.380 I mean, to everybody, and how he went through the trouble of mentioning every 01:42:19.380 --> 01:42:22.380 inch of land in the Americas. 01:42:23.930 --> 01:42:28.770 At the end to express the love for all of them. Okay. 01:42:29.510 --> 01:42:29.910 Mm-hmm. 01:42:30.630 --> 01:42:35.270 And, oh, it was, man, it was joyful. 01:42:35.610 --> 01:42:42.410 It brought tears, but it was more tears of joy, not tears of suffering to see him do that. 01:42:44.910 --> 01:42:50.110 Look, people are still, it's crazy. 01:42:50.110 --> 01:42:56.470 The attention it's gotten, like, on a global basis and how in media and other 01:42:56.470 --> 01:43:01.430 places, it just keeps being replayed over and over and over right now. 01:43:02.830 --> 01:43:08.490 So, you know, especially after Trump and a lot of MAGA idiots vilified him, 01:43:08.650 --> 01:43:17.290 that the show was just that good and that it was really done from the heart 01:43:17.290 --> 01:43:20.950 and with love and joy. Was so awesome. 01:43:21.490 --> 01:43:29.630 And I, you know, it made me very proud of him and my tiny little island. 01:43:32.250 --> 01:43:38.010 That, yeah, I mean, look, this kid, this kid is not from a rich family. 01:43:38.110 --> 01:43:41.370 This kid is from a town that's near from where my parents are. 01:43:41.570 --> 01:43:44.530 A very humble town, okay? 01:43:44.990 --> 01:43:47.890 This kid used to bag groceries, man. 01:43:48.330 --> 01:43:52.930 You know? And he started uploading music at the SoundCloud and all of a sudden 01:43:52.930 --> 01:43:54.070 started getting popular. 01:43:54.890 --> 01:44:03.390 And he started being popular. The thing about him that a lot of the way that he has... 01:44:05.160 --> 01:44:10.100 In general, is showing of such kindness and concern for everybody. 01:44:10.520 --> 01:44:18.440 You know, he mentioned that in his last album, one of his goals was why he made 01:44:18.440 --> 01:44:23.640 a lot of songs that were outside of his main genre was to give opportunities to people. 01:44:23.960 --> 01:44:29.120 And there's a public school of music in San Juan to give them an opportunity 01:44:29.120 --> 01:44:32.080 to shine, to get opportunities. 01:44:32.300 --> 01:44:35.200 So he decided that he wanted to do that because that's their kind, 01:44:35.400 --> 01:44:38.540 that's not, it's not a genre, but he wanted all those people to get opportunities 01:44:38.540 --> 01:44:41.100 to be musicians, to be successful. 01:44:41.580 --> 01:44:47.380 He said that basically, well, we're all going to die, so I need to do, 01:44:47.580 --> 01:44:52.500 you know, but that's just the way it is, so I love my people, why not help them out? 01:44:53.180 --> 01:44:57.020 Listen, he did that last year. You know, he held no concerts in the U.S., 01:44:57.020 --> 01:45:03.300 and the reason he did that is because he did 30 shows in San Juan over like 01:45:03.300 --> 01:45:05.860 a month It basically said, hey, you want to see the concert? 01:45:06.060 --> 01:45:07.480 Come to San Juan to watch it. 01:45:08.380 --> 01:45:13.160 And that was a huge boost to the local economy. I can tell you I was there. 01:45:13.280 --> 01:45:17.980 I mean, it was packed with visitors during a time that is usually low season. Okay? 01:45:18.730 --> 01:45:24.830 And so, and, you know, you know, they keep talking about price being price gouged 01:45:24.830 --> 01:45:28.930 out of concerts, people, you know, oh, my God, you know, ticket master the fees. 01:45:29.430 --> 01:45:35.330 So the first 10 concerts, he made sure that people locally could get tickets at really cheap prices. 01:45:35.650 --> 01:45:38.850 OK, there were paper tickets, so they couldn't be resold like a line. 01:45:39.010 --> 01:45:42.190 You had to go like they actually printed the paper tickets and they sold them 01:45:42.190 --> 01:45:48.370 at like these old prices. So he does all these acts and things that are just 01:45:48.370 --> 01:45:50.570 to care for people and show it. 01:45:50.730 --> 01:45:56.250 And he's a joyful and genuinely happy guy. And that's what he was trying to share with the world. 01:45:56.490 --> 01:46:03.090 And, you know, the thing is that Maga, I guess, tried to do this stupid kid rock show, whatever. 01:46:03.330 --> 01:46:07.810 I don't know if you saw the thing that apparently the because he did this entirely 01:46:07.810 --> 01:46:12.790 live and he did not lip sync one second of it. Okay. 01:46:13.430 --> 01:46:17.230 Of the show. Apparently Kid Rock, they have to reshoot it like 30 times. 01:46:17.350 --> 01:46:19.050 They spent three days shooting. 01:46:19.350 --> 01:46:20.890 And it was recorded like months ago, right? 01:46:21.090 --> 01:46:24.210 It was recorded like weeks. Well, it was weeks ago or something. 01:46:25.030 --> 01:46:29.350 And that they had to do reshoots after reshoots because people weren't getting 01:46:29.350 --> 01:46:32.310 excited. The people in the crowd were paid. 01:46:33.570 --> 01:46:36.410 I mean, it's just so fucking ridiculous. 01:46:36.830 --> 01:46:38.090 But Yvonne, Yvonne. 01:46:38.430 --> 01:46:38.910 Yeah. 01:46:38.910 --> 01:46:48.150 Bad Bunny is spitting on real Americans by speaking and singing in a foreign 01:46:48.150 --> 01:46:53.010 language and being like brownish. 01:46:53.570 --> 01:46:58.670 And just not, you know, what's wrong with him? 01:46:58.870 --> 01:47:01.950 Why can't we have real Americans at the Super Bowl, Yvonne? 01:47:02.470 --> 01:47:06.630 Ah, real Americans. Yes. So what are we going to do? 01:47:06.670 --> 01:47:09.090 Just to be clear, I am not expressing my own opinion. 01:47:09.510 --> 01:47:14.050 Are we going to have like the Seminole and Cherokee tribes do a show like live 01:47:14.050 --> 01:47:17.250 on the stage? Is that where we're going to move to? 01:47:17.390 --> 01:47:21.610 I mean, I would be all for that, actually, by the way. That sounds like a great idea. 01:47:21.610 --> 01:47:25.250 It would probably be a fun show, but no, like, 01:47:25.510 --> 01:47:31.070 and by the way, all of these MAGA people talking about real Americans do seem 01:47:31.070 --> 01:47:36.930 to get somewhat flustered when you start talking about Native Americans and being like, you know, 01:47:37.270 --> 01:47:42.050 oh, we're going to kick out all the immigrants who came here without permission. Okay, okay. 01:47:43.490 --> 01:47:46.930 So where are we starting? 01:47:47.190 --> 01:47:51.670 Okay, you know, it's just so fucking stupid. 01:47:52.110 --> 01:47:52.610 Yeah. 01:47:52.850 --> 01:47:56.490 The whole thing is just so stupid. The whole immigration enforcement, 01:47:56.490 --> 01:48:03.630 the whole fucking thing, the whole bullshit, it's all just fucking fascism and racism. 01:48:03.730 --> 01:48:09.110 That's it. And look, it's time to wrap up, so I'm not going to get into this extensively. 01:48:09.110 --> 01:48:13.950 But there was more that came out in the last week to two weeks about the conditions 01:48:13.950 --> 01:48:19.730 in some of these camps, you know, that they're setting up for adults and kids 01:48:19.730 --> 01:48:24.030 that are just I saw the stuff this morning about like, you know, 01:48:24.810 --> 01:48:26.510 diseases. 01:48:27.410 --> 01:48:31.310 It's all about cruelty. It is all about thing to do. 01:48:31.490 --> 01:48:38.710 It is all about being cruel to to to people that are to black and brown people. 01:48:39.450 --> 01:48:41.290 Look, now there are some, by 01:48:41.290 --> 01:48:44.930 the way, there are some white people being ensnared, by the way, as well. 01:48:46.270 --> 01:48:51.790 I saw a post this morning about, like, some Russians who are, 01:48:51.790 --> 01:48:53.830 like, locked up in these camps. 01:48:54.310 --> 01:49:00.390 Oh, somebody from Ireland that I saw. Yeah, no, you know, this is, 01:49:00.530 --> 01:49:05.870 the clear target is non-white folks. 01:49:06.390 --> 01:49:10.970 Right. But there's lots of collateral damage they're hitting as well. 01:49:11.290 --> 01:49:17.130 You know, I mean, the stuff in Minnesota got attention because we killed like 01:49:17.130 --> 01:49:20.190 reputable looking white people, you know. 01:49:20.690 --> 01:49:25.350 Very nice people, by the way. OK, I'm not I'm not going to because by the way, 01:49:25.470 --> 01:49:32.350 people that I by the way, I give my respects to them because they were out there 01:49:32.350 --> 01:49:34.210 protesting for people like me. 01:49:34.820 --> 01:49:38.940 That's why they were there. And that's why they lost their lives for people 01:49:38.940 --> 01:49:41.580 like me. And so I do appreciate it very much. 01:49:41.580 --> 01:49:51.780 Yeah. Look, one of the things, you know, when talking about when this regime is gone and we have, 01:49:52.280 --> 01:49:57.180 you know, hopefully somebody good in place, one of the things that I'm going 01:49:57.180 --> 01:50:02.900 to be looking for, honestly, to evaluate success or failure is not just that 01:50:02.900 --> 01:50:05.300 we stop doing some of these things. 01:50:05.520 --> 01:50:07.580 It's how we prosecute these fuckers. 01:50:07.580 --> 01:50:16.260 Absolutely. Like we cannot do the things like, oh, let's look forward, not back. 01:50:16.600 --> 01:50:23.800 No, like, no, no, we need to vigorously and especially look, 01:50:23.940 --> 01:50:28.080 look, I care about all the corruption crap, too. That should all be like prosecuted as well. 01:50:28.220 --> 01:50:33.700 But what really like what we are doing in terms of, you know, 01:50:34.080 --> 01:50:40.040 setting up goddamn concentration camps and and all of the abuses of power that 01:50:40.040 --> 01:50:42.100 are happening related to the immigration issue. 01:50:43.080 --> 01:50:46.120 This stuff is like send them to the hague kind 01:50:46.120 --> 01:50:49.240 of stuff yeah you know and yeah 01:50:49.240 --> 01:50:52.400 you know we need we need to like and and i'm 01:50:52.400 --> 01:50:58.700 not confident of the uh the ability of the of us to handle this stuff internally 01:50:58.700 --> 01:51:03.500 so honestly like yeah some of this stuff is like sign us up to the world court 01:51:03.500 --> 01:51:09.560 and hand people over you know and let let them deal with it as international 01:51:09.560 --> 01:51:10.900 crimes against humanity, 01:51:11.500 --> 01:51:13.800 you know, and, and, you know. 01:51:14.480 --> 01:51:19.780 With, with a whole bunch of this stuff, but especially like how we're handling 01:51:19.780 --> 01:51:24.400 the immigration issue, this is just completely intolerable. 01:51:24.580 --> 01:51:30.560 It is, it's like, and it's, it's the kind of stuff that makes you wonder at 01:51:30.560 --> 01:51:33.600 some point, and I'm not saying, I'm not advocating anything, 01:51:33.880 --> 01:51:39.040 but at some point you do wonder where does the, 01:51:39.640 --> 01:51:45.040 I still think nonviolence is the most effective way to deal with any of this stuff. 01:51:45.280 --> 01:51:51.100 But at some point, if somebody is being clearly abused on the street, 01:51:51.280 --> 01:51:56.200 when is it appropriate to intervene with violence to stop the cop from shooting the guy? 01:51:56.200 --> 01:52:01.540 Like, if there had been another bystander there in the two cases in Minnesota 01:52:01.540 --> 01:52:05.840 we're talking about that had a firearm and saw them about to shoot these innocent 01:52:05.840 --> 01:52:10.840 people, would they be in the right taking action against the ICE agents? 01:52:11.140 --> 01:52:13.760 I don't know. I don't know. 01:52:15.440 --> 01:52:16.640 So, anyway. 01:52:17.100 --> 01:52:19.240 Anyway. On that happy note. 01:52:21.860 --> 01:52:25.000 We sucked out the joy out of everything again. 01:52:25.840 --> 01:52:34.440 I'm sorry. I brought us down with very dramatic affecting episodes that like 01:52:34.440 --> 01:52:38.600 hurt your soul, but like are incredibly good and powerful. 01:52:38.860 --> 01:52:44.020 And then you were like, but joy, Super Bowl halftime show, joy, joy, joy. 01:52:44.220 --> 01:52:49.180 And then I'm like, concentration camps, human rights abuses. 01:52:49.680 --> 01:52:54.440 By the way, another reason why Bad Bunny decided not to do the shows in the 01:52:54.440 --> 01:53:00.600 United States was he was afraid that ICE enforcement was going to go and, 01:53:00.600 --> 01:53:01.520 like, surround the shows. 01:53:01.620 --> 01:53:05.000 And so many of his fans are Latino. He was like, fuck this shit. 01:53:05.140 --> 01:53:07.440 No, no, no. I'm not going to expose them. 01:53:07.600 --> 01:53:12.720 In Puerto Rico, it's a lot, you know, because you blend in so much, it's not such a problem. 01:53:12.840 --> 01:53:16.160 And so, therefore, that's why all the shows were done there. 01:53:16.500 --> 01:53:16.860 Right. 01:53:17.790 --> 01:53:27.670 Okay, let's wrap it up. Curmudgeons-corner.com. 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I got good stuff. 01:54:19.830 --> 01:54:24.570 I've got it. I've built out some stuff for, like I said, for the Snohomish Podcast Network. 01:54:24.730 --> 01:54:28.250 Go check them out. Check out all the other podcasts, including our UMSR. 01:54:29.670 --> 01:54:32.310 Who've done shows with us a couple of times. I've been on their show. 01:54:32.410 --> 01:54:33.130 They've been on our show. 01:54:33.570 --> 01:54:37.150 Well, one of them has. Sammy hasn't been on our show. Sammy, if you're listening, 01:54:37.850 --> 01:54:43.690 you should come on sometime. Anyway, but you can find all that stuff and archives, 01:54:45.050 --> 01:54:46.570 transcripts, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. 01:54:47.090 --> 01:54:50.430 And of course, a link to our Patreon where you can give us money at various 01:54:50.430 --> 01:54:52.710 levels. We will mention you on the show. We will ring a bell. 01:54:52.810 --> 01:54:54.630 We will send you a postcard. We'll send you a mug. 01:54:54.930 --> 01:54:59.350 And at $2 a month or more, or if you just ask us, we'll invite you to the Commissions 01:54:59.350 --> 01:55:05.290 Chorus Slack, where Yvonne and I and a bunch of other people are chatting and 01:55:05.290 --> 01:55:08.490 sharing links all through the week. Yvonne, do you have a highlight from this? 01:55:08.930 --> 01:55:13.190 I'll make some, back to comedy, okay? I got a couple, okay? 01:55:13.450 --> 01:55:13.690 Yes. 01:55:13.690 --> 01:55:21.850 One is, this was in the standard, hospital evacuated as man found to have World 01:55:21.850 --> 01:55:24.770 War I artillery share in rectum. 01:55:25.310 --> 01:55:32.290 The discovery of the century-old shell prompted a hospital evacuation amid fears it could explode. Yes. 01:55:33.510 --> 01:55:38.270 Greg made a comment that he said that he wanted to eliminate his kidney stones in a hurry. 01:55:38.890 --> 01:55:39.070 Yes. 01:55:39.250 --> 01:55:42.170 That was part of his plan. So that, that's one that I got. 01:55:42.510 --> 01:55:45.350 I should have thought of that. Exactly. I don't know. You're, you're not. 01:55:45.490 --> 01:55:51.610 And the second one is that there was some novelty items being sold around. 01:55:51.790 --> 01:56:00.630 There's like a, but, but one is apparently somebody has made Donald Trump butt plugs for sale. 01:56:01.270 --> 01:56:01.750 Okay. 01:56:02.050 --> 01:56:09.290 Yes. I, I, You know, that doesn't look very—I don't see who could be deriving 01:56:09.290 --> 01:56:13.450 any joy from having Donald Trump shoved up their ass. 01:56:14.250 --> 01:56:19.290 It is not enticing to me. That's all I can say. I'm not going to judge anybody. 01:56:20.010 --> 01:56:21.950 Yeah, but I'm out on that one. 01:56:22.390 --> 01:56:28.370 Yeah, I've had enough foreign objects inserted into orifices in the last week. 01:56:28.710 --> 01:56:32.050 Indeed. Let's quit on that. Yes. 01:56:32.050 --> 01:56:36.430 Now, two more things to mention. One, Alex just came up to me, 01:56:36.950 --> 01:56:40.690 wanting me to mention that I have shared this on the Commudgeons Corner Slack, 01:56:40.970 --> 01:56:44.070 but apparently there's a site where you can do custom wordles. 01:56:45.210 --> 01:56:53.290 And so he's made a whole bunch for me. But I was proud of one because it was 01:56:53.290 --> 01:56:57.510 a 13-letter one, and I actually got it. 01:56:57.670 --> 01:57:03.630 Because I realized with this custom wordle, every entry didn't have—I misspelled 01:57:03.630 --> 01:57:08.150 my first attempt at a 13-letter word because I didn't even attempt to spell 01:57:08.150 --> 01:57:09.310 hippopotamus correctly. 01:57:09.650 --> 01:57:13.910 So I put in hippopotamus but misspelled, and it still worked. 01:57:13.910 --> 01:57:18.230 So I was like, ah, you can put in non-words, and that helps with long words 01:57:18.230 --> 01:57:21.330 because you can just try a whole bunch of letters and see what works and what doesn't. 01:57:22.610 --> 01:57:27.990 Anyway, in five tries, I successfully got cephalothorax. 01:57:28.810 --> 01:57:29.910 Jesus Christ, that's it. 01:57:31.360 --> 01:57:36.540 I looked at it and my response is like, fuck no, I'm not doing this. 01:57:38.060 --> 01:57:45.180 Well, he sent me some with even longer words and I had that same response for the others. 01:57:45.400 --> 01:57:47.420 I'm like, okay, I did the one. I'm out. 01:57:48.360 --> 01:57:53.500 He also did one that only had four letters, which I did do. It was liar. 01:57:54.160 --> 01:57:57.580 Okay, that sounds more reasonable. Four letters. Okay. 01:57:58.320 --> 01:58:04.180 I shouldn't give... Lies? It was lies. It was, he, he's. 01:58:04.260 --> 01:58:07.080 He's upset at me because I'm not remembering properly. 01:58:08.020 --> 01:58:12.500 Okay. What was it? He's going to tell me. While he gets me that, 01:58:12.680 --> 01:58:16.580 I will repeat once again, Robin letter, robinletter.com. 01:58:16.840 --> 01:58:21.720 If you're, if you're interested, send an email and I'll, I'll get you on the 01:58:21.720 --> 01:58:25.100 list. I'll be expanding in waves. 01:58:25.620 --> 01:58:29.700 Hopefully people like it. And frankly, even if you don't like it, 01:58:30.480 --> 01:58:35.720 feedback would be useful for me to be able to iterate or just learn from my failure. 01:58:35.720 --> 01:58:39.220 Plus, we like feedback, positive and negative. You know, for some reason, 01:58:39.240 --> 01:58:43.800 we used to get more feedback, unlike other places. I think it's because we haven't been doing ads. 01:58:43.980 --> 01:58:48.120 But when we got feedback, it was funny, especially the guys that said we suck. 01:58:48.730 --> 01:58:52.170 It was lies-a. Oh. 01:58:52.610 --> 01:58:59.250 Oh, no. It was lies was my last guess, but I was wrong. So I never did find out that word. 01:58:59.750 --> 01:59:02.890 Oh. It ends in a yes. So. 01:59:03.310 --> 01:59:03.730 Oh, well. 01:59:03.990 --> 01:59:08.590 I thought, I misremembered. Anyway, robinletter.com. 01:59:08.990 --> 01:59:15.670 Yes. And Phil, you know, and we don't even check, like, the iTunes reviews anymore. 01:59:15.670 --> 01:59:16.770 I haven't looked in years. 01:59:16.770 --> 01:59:18.630 I checked it a while back. 01:59:18.810 --> 01:59:19.350 Nothing new. 01:59:19.370 --> 01:59:22.070 I checked it in the last year, and I didn't see any new reviews. 01:59:22.270 --> 01:59:24.010 That's because, you know. 01:59:24.190 --> 01:59:30.330 Well, let me try again. Let me check again. Hold on. Not that you mentioned it. There we go. 01:59:30.490 --> 01:59:33.650 But I did look not that long ago. 01:59:34.190 --> 01:59:37.950 Well, and I guess it's not even iTunes anymore. It's now the separate podcast app. 01:59:38.250 --> 01:59:39.210 Podcast app. 01:59:39.470 --> 01:59:42.630 Yeah. Anyway. See y'all. 01:59:42.770 --> 01:59:44.230 See y'all. 01:59:44.270 --> 01:59:44.710 Yeah. 01:59:45.230 --> 01:59:50.430 Yeah, the last written review was years ago. 01:59:50.570 --> 01:59:56.210 Well, we stopped asking, too. So, hey, if you're out there, go to your podcast 01:59:56.210 --> 02:00:00.450 app, whatever your favorite player is, whether it's the most of them have associated 02:00:00.450 --> 02:00:03.610 places to rate or review podcasts. 02:00:04.070 --> 02:00:08.410 So, you know, go to the Apple podcast app or whatever other thing you have and 02:00:08.410 --> 02:00:10.350 give us a rating and a review. 02:00:10.570 --> 02:00:14.210 The review I like the most. It's still here. This is from three years ago. 02:00:14.710 --> 02:00:20.210 Two guys ranting about stuff they barely know. Get a bloody editor. 02:00:20.870 --> 02:00:23.370 Unlistenable. By Basket Rabbit. 02:00:24.070 --> 02:00:26.330 There you go. Best review ever. 02:00:27.010 --> 02:00:30.710 Yeah. See, I, you know. Okay. 02:00:31.310 --> 02:00:34.550 We're done here. Thanks, everybody. Stay safe. Have fun. Blah, 02:00:34.590 --> 02:00:38.630 blah, blah. Blah, blah, blah. Blah, blah, blah. And yeah. Goodbye. 02:00:39.330 --> 02:00:39.750 Bye. 02:01:10.390 --> 02:01:14.390 And that was, of course, more Ray Lynch. So thanks again for Ray Lynch. 02:01:15.350 --> 02:01:21.830 And yeah. Okay. I'm going to head to stop button, Yvonne. Bye. 02:01:22.290 --> 02:01:22.790 Bye.