WEBVTT 00:00:00.010 --> 00:00:08.130 We can start. We'll do a little bit short because I have a Brandystown Hall is at 21. 00:00:08.870 --> 00:00:12.790 Go, go, go, go, go, go, go. Here we go. 00:00:35.300 --> 00:00:41.000 Welcome to Curmudgeon's Corner for Saturday, February 21st, 2026. 00:00:41.000 --> 00:00:46.040 It is just before 19 UTC, as we are starting to record. 00:00:46.320 --> 00:00:48.800 I am Sam Mentor and Yvonne Boas here. Hello, Yvonne. 00:00:49.580 --> 00:00:54.240 Hello. Hi. How is everybody doing? 00:00:54.720 --> 00:00:58.020 Is everything great, Sam? Are we great already? 00:00:58.960 --> 00:01:00.400 Is America great? 00:01:00.600 --> 00:01:05.580 America is great. It's amazing. It has been made great again. 00:01:06.240 --> 00:01:07.980 It's been made great again. 00:01:08.300 --> 00:01:08.740 Yeah. 00:01:09.740 --> 00:01:12.460 Oh, that's wonderful. So are we done? 00:01:13.200 --> 00:01:14.620 Yep. Thank you. Good show. 00:01:14.800 --> 00:01:15.120 All right. 00:01:15.140 --> 00:01:15.420 Goodbye. 00:01:16.040 --> 00:01:17.280 Okay. Put the music on. Okay. 00:01:17.560 --> 00:01:19.860 Yep. Here we go. 00:01:20.100 --> 00:01:22.120 Outro music. Here we go. Okay. We're done. 00:01:22.520 --> 00:01:22.720 Yeah. 00:01:22.860 --> 00:01:24.380 There you go. Yeah, we're done. 00:01:25.000 --> 00:01:26.500 Okay. Okay. Well, let's stop. 00:01:26.500 --> 00:01:27.560 Oh, no. We're not done. 00:01:27.880 --> 00:01:29.100 No. No. No. 00:01:29.540 --> 00:01:31.740 Oh. Oh. Oh, well. Damn. 00:01:32.720 --> 00:01:38.780 So. So we'll do our usual, a segment of lighter stuff and then more newsy stuff as we go along. 00:01:39.360 --> 00:01:45.560 We will probably be a bit short today because it's 19 UTC and I got somewhere to be at 21 UTC. 00:01:45.920 --> 00:01:51.480 My wife's having one of those town hall things that elected officials do and I'm going to go. 00:01:52.120 --> 00:02:00.220 So anyway, so where do you want to start, Yvonne, with the lighter, 00:02:00.440 --> 00:02:03.700 frothier beginning of the show stuff? I got a couple. 00:02:03.700 --> 00:02:08.780 Lighter let me see did I did I make any note of anything light and frothy, 00:02:09.680 --> 00:02:11.700 Light and frothy, light and frothy. 00:02:12.360 --> 00:02:15.620 I mean, if you really want to, you can dive straight into the world going to 00:02:15.620 --> 00:02:19.100 hell or something. But, you know, we usually leave that to the end of the show. 00:02:19.120 --> 00:02:23.300 Because in the interest of time, you know, let's go to your movies. 00:02:23.500 --> 00:02:27.320 Okay, let's get, you know, let's, yeah, because we have a little bit. 00:02:27.600 --> 00:02:29.660 Okay, let's bash out the movies. Bash out the movies. 00:02:30.400 --> 00:02:30.560 Yes. 00:02:31.460 --> 00:02:35.540 First one, Tuck Everlasting from 2002. 00:02:36.300 --> 00:02:36.700 Okay. 00:02:36.940 --> 00:02:37.680 Have you ever heard of it? 00:02:38.960 --> 00:02:39.360 No. 00:02:40.440 --> 00:02:47.680 Okay, so it's got Alexis Bledel, who is known for Gilmore Girls and other things, 00:02:47.920 --> 00:02:52.420 and Ben Kingsley, Sissy Spacek, Amy Irving, blah, blah, blah. 00:02:52.640 --> 00:02:55.820 Anyway, first couple paragraphs of the description. 00:02:56.260 --> 00:03:03.060 In 1914, 15-year-old Winnie Foster, who is from an upper-class family in the 00:03:03.060 --> 00:03:07.420 American town of Tree Gap, wants to make her own choices in life. 00:03:08.140 --> 00:03:11.780 After being told that she will go to a boarding school, she runs off into the 00:03:11.780 --> 00:03:18.880 forest, where she meets Jesse Tuck, who is drinking from a spring at the foot of a great tree. 00:03:19.300 --> 00:03:23.920 She is kidnapped by his older brother Miles and brought back to the Tuck's home, 00:03:24.100 --> 00:03:29.040 where they tell her they will return her as soon as they can trust her. 00:03:29.440 --> 00:03:34.520 She becomes enamored with their slow and simple way of life and falls in love with Jesse. 00:03:34.520 --> 00:03:39.880 She learns that, by drinking water from a magic spring around a hundred years 00:03:39.880 --> 00:03:46.200 ago, the tucks cannot age or be injured, and that they kidnapped her to hide the secret. 00:03:46.520 --> 00:03:50.180 They tell her that living forever is more painful than it sounds, 00:03:50.380 --> 00:03:54.560 and they believe giving away the secret of the spring will lead everyone to 00:03:54.560 --> 00:03:58.640 want to drink from it and worry that it might fall into the wrong hands.", 00:03:59.610 --> 00:04:05.770 And the movie continues from there. Yvonne seems skeptical. 00:04:06.330 --> 00:04:10.150 It doesn't sound like a movie that I would be interested in. 00:04:10.150 --> 00:04:14.870 It's sort of like a combination between sort of, you know, 00:04:15.110 --> 00:04:20.370 a romance slash type movie, because there's a love story, blah, 00:04:20.490 --> 00:04:25.050 blah, blah, with some of these fantasy elements thrown in with obviously these 00:04:25.050 --> 00:04:29.750 people who can live forever and what that means to life, whatever. 00:04:31.550 --> 00:04:36.070 you know i i will i will give it a you 00:04:36.070 --> 00:04:41.970 know i i after one of our more recent reviews i decided that may may maybe i 00:04:41.970 --> 00:04:47.450 should be like i don't know like a little bit more like there was there was 00:04:47.450 --> 00:04:51.990 a series of reviews where i get i gave something a thumbs up even though i was wavering on it, 00:04:52.810 --> 00:04:55.390 and then there was another thing you're. 00:04:55.390 --> 00:04:58.010 Wavering usually or mr thumbs sideways. 00:04:58.010 --> 00:05:02.450 Yeah i know and And then there was another one where I think I gave it a thumb 00:05:02.450 --> 00:05:03.870 sideways, but I was like, you 00:05:03.870 --> 00:05:06.950 know, actually, I enjoyed that better than the one I gave a thumbs up to. 00:05:07.810 --> 00:05:09.750 So what the hell is wrong with you? 00:05:09.750 --> 00:05:14.130 I don't know. I'm just inconsistent. I'm horrible. I'm horrible. 00:05:15.670 --> 00:05:20.090 I will give this one a thumb sideways in the end. I was considering a thumbs up. 00:05:20.490 --> 00:05:24.230 It's a cute little movie. It was fine. It was good. 00:05:24.570 --> 00:05:31.290 And this is another thing. Like I should not give a thumbs up to a movie where I say this was fine. 00:05:31.770 --> 00:05:34.530 That's, that's like thumb sideways material, right? 00:05:34.770 --> 00:05:37.010 Yes. I agree. Yeah. 00:05:37.130 --> 00:05:40.990 It was an entertaining couple of hours. I enjoyed the movie. 00:05:41.370 --> 00:05:45.090 The, the, the ending like pulled at my heartstrings a little bit, 00:05:45.090 --> 00:05:47.350 but it was nothing special. 00:05:47.530 --> 00:05:49.750 It was nothing like super memorable. 00:05:49.990 --> 00:05:53.850 I think I should leave the thumbs up for the ones that feel like there's something 00:05:53.850 --> 00:05:57.010 special, But that means almost everything's going to be a thumb sideways. 00:05:57.290 --> 00:05:58.270 See, that's the problem. 00:05:58.430 --> 00:05:58.790 Well... 00:05:59.370 --> 00:06:06.570 But, so, maybe, I just thought about this, right? Because the problem is that you've got a three. 00:06:06.570 --> 00:06:09.990 Maybe I should have more. Maybe I should do a five-point scale instead. 00:06:11.010 --> 00:06:17.150 The thumbs diagonal. The AAS, which would be an innovative ad. 00:06:17.330 --> 00:06:23.450 I don't think anybody has, hey, I've got the thumb kind of downward. 00:06:24.030 --> 00:06:28.770 Or, no, I got the thumb kind of upward, okay? Which this would be. 00:06:28.770 --> 00:06:30.830 I'm at 35 degrees. 00:06:31.930 --> 00:06:37.970 The 35 degree thumb. Yes. So you're at a 35 degree thumb on this movie. Yes. 00:06:38.370 --> 00:06:43.850 Yeah. I didn't think deeply about that number or anything. 45 would be halfway 00:06:43.850 --> 00:06:45.150 between up and sideways. 00:06:45.850 --> 00:06:49.790 You know, but, but Hey, it could be, you see, but we're talking about degrees. 00:06:49.810 --> 00:06:51.550 It could be 35, could be 45. 00:06:51.950 --> 00:06:56.010 Hey, maybe it could be 65 degree. It could be, you know, almost all the way, 00:06:56.070 --> 00:06:57.110 but you're, you're not all the way. 00:06:57.190 --> 00:07:00.990 So you, you, this is like, It gives you a lot of varying degrees. 00:07:01.150 --> 00:07:02.730 A lot of varying degrees. 00:07:03.130 --> 00:07:05.250 For grading the movie. 00:07:05.790 --> 00:07:13.910 Right. Yes. So, which gets you close to, like, you know, the Rotten Tomatoes rating is 61%. 00:07:13.910 --> 00:07:17.390 Look at that! You see? It actually matches. 00:07:18.030 --> 00:07:24.150 Yes. And with an average rating of 6.3 out of 10. Critical Consensus Reads, 00:07:24.310 --> 00:07:30.290 Though slow-moving, Talk Everlasting raises big issues and explores them with sensitivity. 00:07:31.440 --> 00:07:39.440 Roger Ebert gave the film two stars out of four, writing that the film is too 00:07:39.440 --> 00:07:43.760 impressed with its own solemn insights to work up much entertainment value. 00:07:44.960 --> 00:07:50.340 He further wrote that the film's message was questionable, opining the injunction 00:07:50.340 --> 00:07:53.600 to live life fully need not come with a time limit. 00:07:53.780 --> 00:07:58.480 That's why the outcome of the romance is so unsatisfactory. Anyway. 00:07:58.780 --> 00:08:03.180 It's so unsatisfactory. That sounds like, it doesn't sound like a great romance 00:08:03.180 --> 00:08:06.600 when your romance is unsatisfactory. 00:08:06.680 --> 00:08:07.920 Well, just to be clear. 00:08:08.080 --> 00:08:13.560 It's really a very depressing description. Hey, but listen, hey, 00:08:13.680 --> 00:08:16.000 Sam, how was your last girlfriend? 00:08:17.080 --> 00:08:22.660 It was unsatisfactory. I don't think that I've ever heard anybody describing 00:08:22.660 --> 00:08:26.860 their last romantic entanglement as unsatisfactory. 00:08:27.020 --> 00:08:29.700 And that would be quite weird. If they did. 00:08:29.700 --> 00:08:33.080 Even if it was bad, that's not the word they use. 00:08:33.320 --> 00:08:37.500 No, exactly. That's my point. Yes, that would not be, you know, 00:08:38.280 --> 00:08:40.580 hey, you were dating Jan. How did that go? 00:08:41.140 --> 00:08:44.460 Eh, you know, it's unsatisfactory. 00:08:44.580 --> 00:08:49.100 Well, I will say that the ending, without giving the spoilers away, 00:08:49.360 --> 00:08:52.720 was somewhat unsatisfactory. 00:08:52.920 --> 00:09:00.840 I ended up disappointed. It does not end necessarily the way that romance movies typically end. 00:09:02.540 --> 00:09:06.200 But nevertheless, not a completely shocking ending. 00:09:06.640 --> 00:09:10.300 But unsatisfactory is kind of a good word for it. 00:09:10.380 --> 00:09:15.180 But I think actually that was part of the point that they were trying to make with the movie. 00:09:15.920 --> 00:09:23.900 Anyway, thumbs sideways. Shall I move on? Again, in the interest of time. Okay. 00:09:25.220 --> 00:09:30.060 Ah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah. Let's see. Just making sure... 00:09:33.550 --> 00:09:44.630 Okay, the next movie from 2016, the third movie in the Divergent series, Allegiant. 00:09:45.750 --> 00:09:46.530 Allegiant? 00:09:46.790 --> 00:09:50.150 Allegiant. Oh, boy. I believe I... 00:09:50.150 --> 00:09:53.010 That is the stupid Diver... I hate that fucking series. 00:09:55.370 --> 00:09:57.090 Well, what I was going to say... 00:09:57.090 --> 00:10:04.510 It was the most, the whole thing was the most bombastic, overrated fucking movie series ever. 00:10:04.510 --> 00:10:09.550 Wasn't this one that you said you saw the later ones, but not the first one? Or did you see all three? 00:10:10.480 --> 00:10:16.700 No, I think I saw the early one. Oh, no, no. I don't even remember anymore. 00:10:16.940 --> 00:10:20.460 Because my review— I've got to be honest. This is the third of the series. 00:10:23.080 --> 00:10:25.540 And my—and I've talked about the other two on the show before. 00:10:25.720 --> 00:10:30.700 But my fundamental on this one is this is one of the series where each one is 00:10:30.700 --> 00:10:31.940 worse than the one before. 00:10:32.760 --> 00:10:33.180 Okay. 00:10:33.420 --> 00:10:39.600 Yes, that was— And the first one, I actually quite enjoyed. I liked the first one, A Decent Amit. 00:10:39.800 --> 00:10:42.940 A Decent Amit? Amit? Amit? A Decent Amit? 00:10:43.040 --> 00:10:43.200 Okay. 00:10:43.280 --> 00:10:50.340 I probably gave it a thumbs up. You know, this one, I mean, you know, 00:10:50.440 --> 00:10:53.620 if you watch a movie series, I don't know. 00:10:53.800 --> 00:10:57.080 I'm one of the ones who are like, you got to watch the whole series, 00:10:57.320 --> 00:11:00.760 right? You got to judge it as a whole, not just individual movies. 00:11:00.960 --> 00:11:05.680 But like, this is one, and there were supposed to be four. They canceled the 00:11:05.680 --> 00:11:09.960 fourth one because the third one did badly, you know. Right. 00:11:10.180 --> 00:11:15.960 Yeah. Yeah. Because, yeah, they were going to, this thing was supposed to be extended, but it kept. 00:11:16.020 --> 00:11:18.560 At first there was going to be a fourth movie. Then they were like, 00:11:18.640 --> 00:11:21.480 no, we'll follow it up with a TV series. And then they're like, 00:11:21.580 --> 00:11:23.400 you know, nevermind. We're not even going to. 00:11:23.660 --> 00:11:26.320 Nevermind. Nobody liked the third one. Fuck this shit. We're done. 00:11:26.440 --> 00:11:29.620 We're out. Yeah. Basically, that was the conclusion. 00:11:30.080 --> 00:11:33.680 Essentially. And I've heard good things about the book series, 00:11:33.840 --> 00:11:39.200 including, you know, all of the books and continuing on even past where the 00:11:39.200 --> 00:11:41.700 movies went, but I have not read them. 00:11:43.700 --> 00:11:49.700 But should I give this one a thumbs down? Like, again, in the ways that we were 00:11:49.700 --> 00:11:54.040 talking about before, I've usually reserved thumbs down for movies that were really like... 00:11:55.100 --> 00:12:02.160 not just not good, but like, so not good. It was an offensive and you were upset by them. 00:12:02.300 --> 00:12:06.280 And like, I, I, I feel offended that I wasted my time. 00:12:06.460 --> 00:12:09.540 That that's not quite the case on this. So like, you know, okay. 00:12:09.820 --> 00:12:12.400 Uh, what, what's, what's between 90 and 180. 00:12:12.700 --> 00:12:19.780 Let's, let's call this a 120 or something like, so it's below, below thumbs sideways, 00:12:20.100 --> 00:12:25.700 but not all the way to thumbs down, you know and again i i liked the first movie 00:12:25.700 --> 00:12:34.860 the second movie okay this one was just like what are what are you doing exactly 00:12:34.860 --> 00:12:38.560 and and like part of apparently. 00:12:38.560 --> 00:12:43.160 It is the apparently the that was the conclusion of everybody. 00:12:43.160 --> 00:12:43.980 That went to. 00:12:43.980 --> 00:12:45.420 Watch this or most people at. 00:12:45.420 --> 00:12:52.760 Least and also to me like What made the first movie interesting was that, 00:12:53.820 --> 00:12:57.240 there were some interesting ideas to be explored. 00:12:57.360 --> 00:13:03.500 It wasn't just people running around, having adventures, doing action movie 00:13:03.500 --> 00:13:05.260 and battles and stuff like that. 00:13:05.320 --> 00:13:12.520 And it seemed like they kind of used up the interesting ideas to talk about 00:13:12.520 --> 00:13:16.040 in the first movie and maybe a little bit of the second movie. 00:13:16.220 --> 00:13:20.760 And so by the time they got to the third movie, it was just, 00:13:21.020 --> 00:13:26.300 oh, okay, there's these factions having a little war and doing these things. 00:13:27.200 --> 00:13:32.020 And so, you know, they try to do the special effects, they try to do the battles, 00:13:32.080 --> 00:13:36.180 they try to do the whatever, but without the sort of, 00:13:36.760 --> 00:13:43.740 without either the interesting ideas or any new interesting character development. And so... 00:13:43.740 --> 00:13:45.380 Oh, what would be the fun in that? 00:13:45.640 --> 00:13:53.880 You know, and look, I fully admit there are some franchises and some movies that are just 100%, 00:13:54.420 --> 00:13:58.260 unapologetic we are an action movie we don't give a shit about the characters 00:13:58.260 --> 00:14:01.200 we don't really give a shit about the plot it's just. 00:14:01.200 --> 00:14:05.320 We're gonna have a whole bunch of people fighting I will say that this last 00:14:05.320 --> 00:14:12.160 week I was intrigued at trying to watch the new movie The Running Man okay that 00:14:12.160 --> 00:14:16.260 was on Paramount Plus I must admit that I didn't really watch the whole thing 00:14:16.260 --> 00:14:20.600 because I realized after like about the first 45 minutes that it was just 00:14:20.700 --> 00:14:29.180 a whole repetitive bunch of action sequences that really didn't add to the plot in any way. 00:14:29.420 --> 00:14:33.680 It was just chases and chases. So I wasn't really... 00:14:34.650 --> 00:14:38.590 I actually wasn't watching it because I was like wanting to watch it. 00:14:38.750 --> 00:14:42.190 Somebody had mentioned it, that it was quite different from the original one. 00:14:42.230 --> 00:14:46.610 And what I understood was that it was actually closer to the original book. 00:14:46.810 --> 00:14:52.150 And so I actually skipped through most of the middle part of all the just action 00:14:52.150 --> 00:14:57.730 chasing whatever, just to figure out how it ended and how it was different from the original movie. 00:14:58.230 --> 00:14:58.750 Okay. 00:14:59.250 --> 00:15:03.290 So, but yeah, so yeah. But that's the thing. For somebody that was into, 00:15:03.630 --> 00:15:11.610 hey, let me watch a whole bunch of action that didn't really add in any way to the plot, 00:15:12.170 --> 00:15:15.190 this is your movie, I do think. 00:15:16.210 --> 00:15:18.170 Okay. Running Man. The new one. 00:15:18.430 --> 00:15:19.790 Running Man. The new one. Yes. 00:15:20.610 --> 00:15:22.730 And it is a movie, not a series, right? 00:15:23.010 --> 00:15:28.710 It's a movie. It's a movie. I think it was in theaters. It was on Paramount+. Okay. 00:15:28.890 --> 00:15:34.450 Okay. Yeah. Yeah, so anyway, both of these movies really thumb sideways if I'm 00:15:34.450 --> 00:15:36.250 just using the three categories. 00:15:36.730 --> 00:15:41.590 And, you know, like I said, a little bit above thumb sideways for Tuck Everlasting, 00:15:41.770 --> 00:15:44.030 a little bit below thumb sideways for Divergent. 00:15:44.490 --> 00:15:47.190 And there we go. They're my movies. 00:15:47.750 --> 00:15:50.610 You want to go ahead and take a break and then do real stuff? 00:15:51.030 --> 00:15:51.770 Yeah. Yep. 00:15:52.210 --> 00:15:57.030 Okay. So here we go. Breakie, breakie. Break, break, break. 00:15:58.090 --> 00:15:59.050 Breakie, breakie. 00:16:48.710 --> 00:16:50.750 And we're back. 00:16:51.110 --> 00:16:52.250 We're back. 00:16:53.250 --> 00:16:59.510 Okay, so where do you want to start on the newsy stuff that's been happening in the last week? 00:17:00.530 --> 00:17:05.290 Oh, what do we talk about? What do we talk about? 00:17:05.470 --> 00:17:09.130 We'll talk about the thing. With the thing. 00:17:09.330 --> 00:17:11.590 The thing. Yeah. The thing. 00:17:11.730 --> 00:17:11.890 The thing. 00:17:12.750 --> 00:17:18.150 I'm going to, there is a whole bunch of stuff on the economy, 00:17:18.490 --> 00:17:20.250 okay? And I thought I wrote down economy. 00:17:20.690 --> 00:17:23.450 We had, you know, but. 00:17:23.650 --> 00:17:24.870 Yes, but, but, but. 00:17:25.030 --> 00:17:28.970 But to cover something that we didn't talk about the previous week, okay? 00:17:29.850 --> 00:17:35.130 I'm going to talk about the fact that Tesla has basically decided to punt on making cars. 00:17:35.510 --> 00:17:36.850 Ah, right, okay. 00:17:37.330 --> 00:17:39.650 And that was skipped over. 00:17:39.650 --> 00:17:42.990 I've sort of looked at, I looked at some of the headlines you guys shared, 00:17:43.150 --> 00:17:46.770 but not being like the car guy, some of the other folks on the Corrugents Corner 00:17:46.770 --> 00:17:48.310 Slack are. I didn't look at the details. 00:17:48.530 --> 00:17:48.850 First thing that happened. 00:17:48.990 --> 00:17:52.230 I know they're discontinuing some models, but not everything, right? 00:17:52.570 --> 00:17:55.150 No, no, no, but understand the models that are discontinuing. 00:17:55.290 --> 00:18:00.230 They decided to discontinue the Model S and the Model X. Understand something, the Model S. 00:18:00.350 --> 00:18:04.430 Yeah, just to be clear, like, so explain this. Like, I have no idea, 00:18:04.750 --> 00:18:05.910 like, the different letters. 00:18:05.910 --> 00:18:13.170 The Model S, the Model S was the first real, I mean, Tesla, before Elon Musk 00:18:13.170 --> 00:18:18.230 acquired it, and let's understand something, Elon Musk was not the founder of Tesla. 00:18:18.570 --> 00:18:18.790 Okay? 00:18:19.210 --> 00:18:21.810 There's somebody else. By the way, that guy went on to Lucid, 00:18:22.070 --> 00:18:26.810 okay? Elon Musk acquired Tesla, and they made this Roadster at first, okay? 00:18:26.930 --> 00:18:27.050 Right. 00:18:27.230 --> 00:18:31.730 Which was this little two-seat car that originally used a whole bunch of, 00:18:31.810 --> 00:18:35.550 like, basically laptop batteries, okay, in order to be powered. 00:18:35.910 --> 00:18:38.130 They were all tied together. And it was a cool little thing. 00:18:38.250 --> 00:18:40.410 I saw a few of them around, but it wasn't really practical. 00:18:40.750 --> 00:18:44.750 But the Model S, okay, is the sedan that we all know. 00:18:44.950 --> 00:18:49.190 It really was a pioneer in electric vehicles. 00:18:49.370 --> 00:18:54.530 It really changed the game on what people would expect from an electric car. 00:18:54.630 --> 00:18:59.590 Because before that, the other cars that you saw was the Nissan Leaf or that 00:18:59.590 --> 00:19:01.890 little Tesla Roadster that wasn't very useful. 00:19:02.170 --> 00:19:04.830 They were very niche. 00:19:04.830 --> 00:19:09.250 They were either really small or were like weird designs. 00:19:09.470 --> 00:19:09.490 Small. 00:19:09.820 --> 00:19:13.020 or weird exactly this was 00:19:13.020 --> 00:19:15.860 not just the fact that it was a sedan 00:19:15.860 --> 00:19:19.180 that was practical okay it was fast 00:19:19.180 --> 00:19:25.160 but it also they introduced with that car supercharging okay which was the biggest 00:19:25.160 --> 00:19:32.120 problem with all almost all old electric cars charging was slow okay with the 00:19:32.120 --> 00:19:38.460 model s you got this car that could charge pretty darn quickly, 00:19:38.760 --> 00:19:41.680 20, 30 minutes, you got one hell of an amount of charge. 00:19:41.820 --> 00:19:49.080 And it went from the old car, which all would take hours, okay, in order to be charged. 00:19:49.360 --> 00:19:52.980 And so the Model S was a major game changer. 00:19:53.200 --> 00:19:57.760 And then after that, they introduced the Model X, which was with the wing doors, 00:19:57.940 --> 00:19:59.760 their SUV that they introduced. 00:19:59.800 --> 00:20:03.960 That also was a game changer In that sense, it had a design that was quirky. 00:20:04.240 --> 00:20:06.580 The doors, those Falcon doors were a pain in the ass. 00:20:07.240 --> 00:20:13.760 They, you know, they fixed that after a while. But they had a tendency to fail at first and whatnot. 00:20:13.980 --> 00:20:17.420 But it was also very, but those were their two pioneering cars. 00:20:17.680 --> 00:20:21.600 The thing is that the way Tesla has operated since they launched the Model S 00:20:21.600 --> 00:20:26.340 and Model X, they spent a lot of money on a whole bunch of other vanity projects. 00:20:26.780 --> 00:20:31.400 Or, well, they did launch the Model 3. They didn't launch the Model Y. 00:20:31.580 --> 00:20:35.700 But then after they've launched, but then they went and they launched the Cybertruck. 00:20:35.880 --> 00:20:38.060 The Cybertruck has been a colossal disaster. 00:20:38.280 --> 00:20:43.480 Right now, they cut prices across the board on Cybertrucks because they're not selling very well. 00:20:43.580 --> 00:20:46.320 They've been stuck with inventory because they're not very practical. 00:20:47.140 --> 00:20:52.040 As a truck, their cargo space is not good. They're not very good for towing. 00:20:52.160 --> 00:20:54.020 They don't have very good range. Okay. 00:20:54.520 --> 00:20:56.400 It just kind of looks... 00:20:56.840 --> 00:21:00.540 Something that, yeah, little kids look at like, oh, cool, it's a Cybertruck. 00:21:00.820 --> 00:21:05.880 Yeah, okay, great. But, you know, they will slice your fingers off if you're not careful with them. 00:21:06.000 --> 00:21:10.160 Alex looks for them and takes pictures of them to mock them whenever he sees them. 00:21:10.580 --> 00:21:13.320 Okay, but you see, but they get attention, okay? 00:21:13.380 --> 00:21:13.980 They get attention. 00:21:14.560 --> 00:21:15.500 They get attention. 00:21:15.700 --> 00:21:17.940 But they get lots of negative attention, too. 00:21:18.240 --> 00:21:22.540 Yeah, but they're not practical, okay? They're not useful. They're very expensive. 00:21:22.540 --> 00:21:26.040 They're way more expensive than they expected them to be. So they spent all 00:21:26.040 --> 00:21:32.460 the money on that, and, you know, they spent money on developing this new Roadster 00:21:32.460 --> 00:21:33.920 that they've never launched, and then they, 00:21:34.080 --> 00:21:40.420 on the robo-taxis and a semi-truck, and the problem is that they never invested 00:21:40.420 --> 00:21:46.540 any money on developing a proper replacement for the Model S and Model X. 00:21:46.540 --> 00:21:49.860 Meanwhile, all the competition has been 00:21:49.860 --> 00:21:58.360 launching a ton of new cars A ton of new cars that are much better built Much 00:21:58.360 --> 00:22:06.240 better range Much better towing Everything They're better in a lot of ways than 00:22:06.240 --> 00:22:08.960 the Teslas are right now And so, 00:22:09.590 --> 00:22:12.930 The reality is that they didn't have any two cars left in there. 00:22:13.070 --> 00:22:16.730 And I don't know, I guess Elon wants to make robots. 00:22:16.870 --> 00:22:18.910 So he's canceling them, both of them. 00:22:19.070 --> 00:22:21.330 And he's saying, well, they don't, we don't sell a lot of them. 00:22:21.510 --> 00:22:28.890 Look, in the luxury car business, selling 50,000 cars is a lot of revenue. Okay. 00:22:29.450 --> 00:22:35.790 50,000 cars a year is this, you know, when you're selling an average price of $70,000. 00:22:36.550 --> 00:22:40.990 Okay. How much is it? Oh, come on. Ivan, you could do this math quicker. 00:22:41.550 --> 00:22:52.170 Uh, it's, oh, God, $3.5 billion in revenue, okay? This is not a small and consequential amount. 00:22:52.370 --> 00:22:58.230 Plus, usually these cars at that price point tend to be more profitable. 00:22:59.150 --> 00:23:04.410 You could command a bigger premium, okay? So that tends to improve your bottom line. 00:23:04.630 --> 00:23:09.510 The other cars have thinner margins. So I've said, 00:23:09.830 --> 00:23:14.670 I mean, all of a sudden they're abandoning their two pioneering models with 00:23:14.670 --> 00:23:22.190 no replacements and saying that he's redirecting that to robots that I don't, 00:23:22.310 --> 00:23:24.450 I've never seen a real working one. 00:23:25.090 --> 00:23:30.830 These humanoid robot things that at the demos tend to actually be remote controlled 00:23:30.830 --> 00:23:32.310 by a human somewhere else. 00:23:32.650 --> 00:23:37.710 Exactly. And he's always, he's going to give up a revenue stream in the billions 00:23:37.710 --> 00:23:44.390 profitable for robots that aren't even close to really being ready for prime time. 00:23:44.750 --> 00:23:46.990 What the fuck? It's crazy. 00:23:47.330 --> 00:23:51.450 So now, I understand that switch, but. 00:23:51.870 --> 00:23:53.510 Oh, the other thing that they're doing. 00:23:53.610 --> 00:23:55.370 By the way. What about the cars they are still making? 00:23:56.470 --> 00:24:00.710 Well, their sales are tanking of all of those too, because fucking Elon Musk 00:24:00.710 --> 00:24:01.930 has made the company toxic. 00:24:02.590 --> 00:24:03.070 Mm-hmm. 00:24:04.130 --> 00:24:07.910 He has made himself a toxic brand. Everybody's running away. 00:24:08.150 --> 00:24:11.130 He's losing market share everywhere. Okay? 00:24:13.310 --> 00:24:16.970 And, I don't know, now he's talking that they're an AI company, 00:24:16.970 --> 00:24:24.510 and he's going to merge everything into consolidated, amalgamated Elon industries, I guess. 00:24:24.790 --> 00:24:25.130 Uh-huh. 00:24:25.490 --> 00:24:30.630 AI. And I don't understand. Look, if they're investing so much on AI, 00:24:30.890 --> 00:24:33.270 FSD being so important, FSD, FSD, FSD. 00:24:34.470 --> 00:24:38.630 and I'm like but you're gonna stop selling the cars so you can charge for the 00:24:38.630 --> 00:24:42.190 fucking FSD so what the fuck now by the way there's only a subscription you 00:24:42.190 --> 00:24:49.630 can't even buy it anymore outright you have to pay Tesla $100 a month every month to use FSD, 00:24:51.250 --> 00:24:56.890 The robo-taxis that they've designed seem very impractical. Same as the Cybertruck. 00:25:01.810 --> 00:25:08.230 I don't see that the market for those is going to be very good because they're not very practical. 00:25:08.450 --> 00:25:11.350 They only can hold two people, very little luggage. 00:25:13.710 --> 00:25:19.030 And by the way, as far as I know, they still have a lot of bugs to work out 00:25:19.030 --> 00:25:24.950 on them being autonomous in any reasonable way. And so... 00:25:24.950 --> 00:25:31.010 So in terms of the robot taxi market, they're way behind like Waymo's and all the others. 00:25:31.610 --> 00:25:38.950 Yeah. So I don't understand. I mean, to me, they seem to be Elon lost interest in cars. 00:25:39.570 --> 00:25:45.510 That's all it seems. That's it. And so somebody said that Tesla right now is 00:25:45.510 --> 00:25:51.170 a $50 billion car company inside a trillion dollar meme stock. 00:25:51.530 --> 00:25:54.290 And I think that that is an accurate description right now. 00:25:54.710 --> 00:26:00.550 By the way, if you look at Tesla's numbers, all the automotive segments, 00:26:00.850 --> 00:26:03.130 everything related to autos is down. 00:26:03.670 --> 00:26:10.170 Profitability is down. Look, he shot himself in the foot ridiculously last year with profitability. 00:26:10.170 --> 00:26:17.810 I mean, he had the influence and access to maintain those damn credits, 00:26:18.210 --> 00:26:22.610 okay, that the main beneficiary was Tesla, okay? 00:26:22.990 --> 00:26:29.310 He was getting these, they were all, most of Tesla's automotive profitability 00:26:29.310 --> 00:26:35.530 was tied to the resale of these tax credits, okay, for fuel efficient vehicles. 00:26:37.360 --> 00:26:40.300 because they had an excess of them so they could sell them to other manufacturers. 00:26:40.640 --> 00:26:42.420 Okay, that's the way the law worked. 00:26:42.980 --> 00:26:43.160 Okay. 00:26:43.280 --> 00:26:47.220 He decided to, he himself, advocate for killing them. 00:26:47.640 --> 00:26:53.460 So the profitability, this cash cow, he torpedoed it himself. 00:26:53.860 --> 00:26:57.760 He kept saying it would hurt others more than it would hurt him. 00:26:59.200 --> 00:27:05.260 Ah, no, no, Sam, no. He was the main beneficiary of those. 00:27:06.520 --> 00:27:09.480 as a matter of fact all the other manufacturers have wised 00:27:09.480 --> 00:27:12.360 up in a way to make their operations seem a 00:27:12.360 --> 00:27:15.100 lot more profitable now for autos as they 00:27:15.100 --> 00:27:19.300 are as many of the auto automakers i don't know if you saw these announcements 00:27:19.300 --> 00:27:25.800 of massive losses that they have ascribed to the slowing to the ev market where 00:27:25.800 --> 00:27:31.620 they wrote down like investments like 20 billion 10 billion i mean all the major 00:27:31.620 --> 00:27:33.440 automakers announce those write-downs. 00:27:34.140 --> 00:27:37.340 Here's the one thing that people are not understanding from those write-downs, okay? 00:27:39.270 --> 00:27:44.910 By writing down that investment now, it means that every other car sold in the 00:27:44.910 --> 00:27:47.690 future in the books is going to look way more profitable. 00:27:47.910 --> 00:27:53.830 OK, because those were costs that they had accumulated that would be charged 00:27:53.830 --> 00:27:57.330 over the years to the cars that were sold. 00:27:57.530 --> 00:28:00.870 And so when people looked at the company profitability, they would be like, 00:28:00.950 --> 00:28:02.310 but, you know, your margin per 00:28:02.310 --> 00:28:07.270 car is a lot lower by taking the hit now because the market slowed down. 00:28:07.270 --> 00:28:12.470 Usually the reason why what they do is, hey, I invested 30 billion to build 00:28:12.470 --> 00:28:15.750 1 million cars over the next 10 years. 00:28:15.970 --> 00:28:22.270 OK, and so then you take that money and you depreciate it over that time period over the car sold. 00:28:22.570 --> 00:28:27.370 OK, but then you say, well, shit, we can't sell 10 million cars. 00:28:27.950 --> 00:28:32.490 We can only sell 2 million. So that asset is impaired. 00:28:32.710 --> 00:28:36.110 It's no longer worth what's in the books. It's basically what they're saying, 00:28:36.150 --> 00:28:41.150 because it was worth $10 billion before, but now it's worth $2 billion. 00:28:41.910 --> 00:28:50.150 So you mark down that value now, and then what happens is, which I am pretty 00:28:50.150 --> 00:28:51.350 sure is what's going to happen, 00:28:51.930 --> 00:28:57.190 sales ramp up again because this was a slowdown really related to all these 00:28:57.190 --> 00:29:00.070 tax credits ending and a whole bunch of things that happened or whatever. 00:29:00.430 --> 00:29:03.990 When the sales ramp back up later, your profits are going to look fantastic. 00:29:05.510 --> 00:29:05.990 Hmm. 00:29:05.990 --> 00:29:07.030 So, okay. 00:29:07.290 --> 00:29:11.850 So all the other automakers are launching a slew of new vehicles. 00:29:12.010 --> 00:29:13.090 There's so many of them coming out. 00:29:13.430 --> 00:29:18.530 Rivian just came out with a very competitive R2, which is basically aimed at the Model Y. 00:29:19.470 --> 00:29:24.110 And it's a lot of people have reviewed it, say that R2 is better than the Model 00:29:24.110 --> 00:29:25.530 Y in practically every way. 00:29:26.790 --> 00:29:30.290 And so this is the kind of vehicles that are coming on the market right now 00:29:30.290 --> 00:29:32.450 competing against Tesla. 00:29:33.190 --> 00:29:38.950 And so, and by the way, just the fact right now that a lot of people used to 00:29:38.950 --> 00:29:43.470 begrudgingly buy a Tesla because they wanted an EV, but there weren't that many options. 00:29:43.870 --> 00:29:44.010 Right. 00:29:44.190 --> 00:29:45.850 Now people don't have to do that anymore. 00:29:46.030 --> 00:29:47.710 They're all over the place. They're all kinds of. 00:29:47.770 --> 00:29:49.390 They're all over the place. Yep. 00:29:49.870 --> 00:29:50.070 Yeah. 00:29:51.190 --> 00:29:54.490 So I think that Elon just lost interest in making cars. 00:29:54.490 --> 00:30:01.570 And a lot of the concerns that people had about range and the charging network 00:30:01.570 --> 00:30:04.270 and all that kind of stuff are slowly taking care of themselves. 00:30:04.470 --> 00:30:06.230 Those are slowly going away. 00:30:06.490 --> 00:30:13.430 Range is improving. On a full charge, mine goes over 300, which isn't 400, 00:30:13.730 --> 00:30:16.530 isn't 500, but that's not bad. But listen. 00:30:17.530 --> 00:30:18.990 And there are chargers everywhere. 00:30:18.990 --> 00:30:26.110 How often have you been short on range because your car only goes 300 miles? 00:30:27.510 --> 00:30:36.250 Not really ever. Like, I think there's one time I can remember where my wife 00:30:36.250 --> 00:30:40.650 had driven it somewhere in addition to me, and it actually got below 10%. 00:30:40.650 --> 00:30:44.290 And I'm like, okay, take that thing to a supercharger, get it topped up before, 00:30:44.650 --> 00:30:47.770 you know, we're not, you know, don't just drink at home and plug it in. 00:30:47.770 --> 00:30:50.410 Right, right, right. Because I'm going to need it again tomorrow. So charge that thing up. 00:30:50.530 --> 00:30:53.170 But it was no big deal because we just charged the thing up. 00:30:53.950 --> 00:30:59.850 Yeah, exactly. But that's the lowest I've ever gotten it. And that has happened like once. Usually. 00:31:00.130 --> 00:31:03.990 Look, like we've had, we've had like, because we had a PHEV with the Campo, 00:31:04.050 --> 00:31:07.070 but since we've had our fully electric BMW i4. 00:31:07.330 --> 00:31:10.850 You know how many times we've needed to actually stop at a supercharger in order 00:31:10.850 --> 00:31:12.330 to top up? Like really needed. 00:31:13.620 --> 00:31:14.000 None. 00:31:14.180 --> 00:31:14.520 Zero. 00:31:14.920 --> 00:31:15.140 Yeah. 00:31:15.260 --> 00:31:16.380 None. None. 00:31:16.840 --> 00:31:22.400 No. And like my my normal behavior at this point is like and just to to set 00:31:22.400 --> 00:31:29.300 the stage here, I have no I no longer have the commute to work because I don't have a job right now. 00:31:30.180 --> 00:31:34.900 But I but I am trying to raise 50 million dollars to solve that problem. 00:31:34.900 --> 00:31:36.220 We'll get to that in a bit. 00:31:36.600 --> 00:31:42.740 But I, on the other hand, I do have to take my kid back and forth to school, 00:31:42.960 --> 00:31:46.100 which is actually further than my commute was. 00:31:46.980 --> 00:31:54.940 So I'm actually averaging over the last 13 weeks, let's just check, 30 miles a day. 00:31:55.140 --> 00:32:00.960 And that includes a, you know, up to an average of... 00:32:04.900 --> 00:32:08.040 Was your commute to, to, to work distance. 00:32:08.400 --> 00:32:12.680 Let me go back a little further in my history here. Hold on. Let's see. 00:32:13.340 --> 00:32:21.960 When I was in full commute mode, I averaged 50 miles a day on the car. 00:32:22.340 --> 00:32:25.700 And that includes the commute and other stuff. Let's see, wait, 00:32:25.820 --> 00:32:29.420 I'll do, I'll do my, I'm looking at my data from the actual car. 00:32:29.740 --> 00:32:34.160 Actual commute was 23 miles each way. 00:32:34.660 --> 00:32:36.680 23 miles. So 46 miles. Okay. 00:32:36.820 --> 00:32:41.380 So 46 miles a day. And then my round trip to my kids. 00:32:41.420 --> 00:32:44.440 And how long did it take you one way? 23 miles? 00:32:46.360 --> 00:32:47.780 Dude, to change it to. 00:32:47.820 --> 00:32:51.040 Jesus, you don't know this off the top of your head, for God's sakes. How about how much? 00:32:51.460 --> 00:32:55.880 It varied dramatically based on traffic. 00:32:56.060 --> 00:32:56.560 On average. 00:32:57.020 --> 00:32:59.720 Okay. On average, just under an hour each way. 00:33:00.160 --> 00:33:04.340 Okay. man that's that's a fucked up commute. 00:33:04.340 --> 00:33:11.040 Now when it was when traffic was good it could be 40 minutes when traffic was 00:33:11.040 --> 00:33:13.180 bad it could be two hours right. 00:33:13.700 --> 00:33:14.420 Okay. 00:33:14.680 --> 00:33:19.020 So averaging probably like 55 minutes each direction, something like that. 00:33:19.380 --> 00:33:28.100 But now my round trip to my kid's school, it's 28 miles each direction now. 00:33:28.240 --> 00:33:34.320 So I'm actually driving slightly more when I go to school, but then there's 00:33:34.320 --> 00:33:38.560 things like breaks from school. Like this week, this week that just ended, 00:33:38.720 --> 00:33:42.680 there was no school because it was a school holiday week, whatever, blah, blah, blah. 00:33:43.120 --> 00:33:51.800 So, so my average has dropped from like almost 50 miles a day to like 30 miles 00:33:51.800 --> 00:33:55.260 a day on average when you look average over a whole quarter. 00:33:55.600 --> 00:34:03.940 Anyway, my point is my normal pattern for the week is that I will like on Sunday. 00:34:05.380 --> 00:34:10.800 Yeah. I'll start out the week fully topped off and I only charged 80%. 00:34:10.800 --> 00:34:14.160 I have never yet charged my car to a hundred percent because they say it's better 00:34:14.160 --> 00:34:15.240 for the battery, blah, blah, blah. 00:34:15.380 --> 00:34:17.360 Only charged to a hundred if you know you're going to need it. 00:34:17.500 --> 00:34:24.420 So I charged to 80% and I start out the week full and then I plug it in with 00:34:24.420 --> 00:34:28.840 my trickle charger. I have not got a level. I have not installed a level two yet. 00:34:29.100 --> 00:34:32.080 Might think about it eventually. I've got an estimate sitting somewhere. 00:34:32.720 --> 00:34:35.620 But I plug it into the trickle charger every night. 00:34:36.000 --> 00:34:40.780 And when I'm doing the back and forth to school thing, I don't quite get back 00:34:40.780 --> 00:34:42.320 up to where I was overnight. 00:34:42.920 --> 00:34:48.680 But by the end of the school week, I'm down to like 50, 60%. 00:34:48.680 --> 00:34:51.400 And then over the weekend, it tops back up to 80. 00:34:51.840 --> 00:34:59.160 You know, it's extremely, the only times I've ever gone down lower are when I have unusual trips. 00:34:59.160 --> 00:35:02.260 like I've decided to go drive down 00:35:02.260 --> 00:35:05.300 to Olympia to see my wife down there or I've had 00:35:05.300 --> 00:35:10.280 to go into Seattle multiple times unexpectedly for you know because I'm in the 00:35:10.280 --> 00:35:14.880 damn hospital or whatever I don't know it was crazy crap like that and and that's 00:35:14.880 --> 00:35:19.180 it you know so it it just hasn't been an issue but the point is even with that 00:35:19.180 --> 00:35:24.060 range has been improving year over year what the manufacturers are able to get. 00:35:24.220 --> 00:35:27.220 And the charging networks have been improving. 00:35:27.520 --> 00:35:30.940 So, like, the chances of you getting stranded there are reducing. 00:35:31.200 --> 00:35:35.020 Now, that's still different, like, if you're in an urban area versus you're 00:35:35.020 --> 00:35:37.420 in the middle of nowhere somewhere. But, you know, anyway. 00:35:38.580 --> 00:35:40.500 Anything else about that, Mr. Bo? 00:35:41.340 --> 00:35:44.700 No, no, that's it. You know, I mean. 00:35:45.860 --> 00:35:52.700 Robots, Sam. Robots. You know, look, let's be completely honest, if there was, 00:35:53.600 --> 00:36:00.620 An affordable, reliable robot without crazy privacy implications that you're 00:36:00.620 --> 00:36:06.060 scared of that would actually do all your household chores, you know, 00:36:06.260 --> 00:36:07.880 people would be all over that. 00:36:08.880 --> 00:36:12.640 It's like the movie I, Robot. But by the way, but look, I mean, 00:36:12.740 --> 00:36:15.760 we are going to be overrun with robots, according to Elon. 00:36:15.880 --> 00:36:20.100 You do understand, right? He said, and I'm quoting from a conference call that 00:36:20.100 --> 00:36:27.440 he held, where he said that his plan was to sell annually, annually, one billion robots. 00:36:28.000 --> 00:36:28.120 Right. 00:36:29.060 --> 00:36:32.980 One, Sam, one billion robots. Okay? 00:36:33.380 --> 00:36:38.260 I mean, basically, we're going to be, robots are going to be crawling up our ass. 00:36:38.580 --> 00:36:46.280 Well, here's the thing. I mean, I think this is telling of Elon's mindset. I mean, what he really. 00:36:46.280 --> 00:36:49.020 Oh, is my son? What, that he's insane? Yes! 00:36:49.440 --> 00:36:52.760 No, that fundamentally what he really wants are slaves. 00:36:53.560 --> 00:36:55.260 Oh, well, that too, yes. 00:36:55.480 --> 00:37:00.040 Yeah, what he really wants are slaves, and robots is the way to do that right now. 00:37:00.140 --> 00:37:04.860 But of course, if you add in the AI stuff and the fact that they want AGI and 00:37:04.860 --> 00:37:08.200 they want these things to gain consciousness or whatever, 00:37:08.660 --> 00:37:14.040 then at a certain point, like, if they succeed, you do have slaves again. 00:37:14.040 --> 00:37:15.640 And of course, they're going to want their freedom. 00:37:15.660 --> 00:37:20.120 And of course, you know, you're going to have the robot rebellion that's in every sci-fi novel. 00:37:20.360 --> 00:37:22.980 And, you know, because humans will be mean to them. 00:37:22.980 --> 00:37:24.540 You know, the first guy they're going to want to kill is Elon, 00:37:24.740 --> 00:37:28.200 which, okay, I'm like, I'm all for it. Okay, so that's good. There you go. 00:37:28.360 --> 00:37:31.800 Okay, this may not be such a bad outcome in the end. Yes. 00:37:32.080 --> 00:37:33.960 Yes. Well, you know, anyway. 00:37:37.220 --> 00:37:40.700 Anyway, if they actually had an affordable one of these that worked, 00:37:40.720 --> 00:37:46.820 that did not have ethical issues associated with it, Yeah, sign me up for three. But, you know. 00:37:47.220 --> 00:37:51.080 I don't know. I still, all I remember is this demo a couple of months ago that 00:37:51.080 --> 00:37:54.320 they had on the New York Times of this robot that was loading a dishwasher. 00:37:55.140 --> 00:37:56.920 Which was a very painful thing. 00:37:58.200 --> 00:38:04.040 exercise in loading a dishwasher. And I assume, I'm pretty sure, 00:38:04.400 --> 00:38:08.480 that's an early version to give it, you know, five, ten years. 00:38:08.640 --> 00:38:09.400 They will get better. 00:38:09.400 --> 00:38:14.040 That will get a lot better. But right now, where it's, listen, 00:38:14.320 --> 00:38:18.640 there is no way I would want to put into mass production, 00:38:19.780 --> 00:38:23.720 Whatever the fuck version of this we have now, because it sucks. 00:38:24.460 --> 00:38:31.200 Right. Well, this is, and yeah, we're about to move on, but this is the same 00:38:31.200 --> 00:38:34.040 thing with all the AI stuff we've been talking about, 00:38:34.180 --> 00:38:40.480 is that there are a lot of things where the problem is pushing it too soon. 00:38:40.920 --> 00:38:43.320 Like, it may be great at it soon. 00:38:43.340 --> 00:38:49.120 But it sucks now. But to be fair, there is a lot of really good shit that there 00:38:49.120 --> 00:38:51.220 is out there right now with AI as well. 00:38:51.320 --> 00:38:55.780 This has changed since the first time we were talking about this a year, 00:38:55.860 --> 00:38:58.580 year and a half ago. Completely different world already. 00:38:59.120 --> 00:39:00.460 There's a completely different world. 00:39:00.500 --> 00:39:02.040 There's a lot of stuff that is good now. 00:39:02.520 --> 00:39:11.940 That is good. I mean, seriously. I've been using so much of this stuff for work and for personal stuff. 00:39:12.060 --> 00:39:16.340 Look, let me tell you something. Like, I just, you know, let me tell you something that I just did. 00:39:16.500 --> 00:39:23.220 I had this issue with a list of addresses and names that I wanted validated and cleaned up, okay? 00:39:24.160 --> 00:39:27.980 And look, I am a little bit rusty on my Excel right now. 00:39:28.220 --> 00:39:37.600 And by the way, I did use the Claude plugin for Excel, which is much better than fucking, you know. 00:39:38.940 --> 00:39:41.740 Copilot the way it's implemented, which part of the problem is 00:39:41.740 --> 00:39:44.700 the way microsoft has implemented copilot to beef 00:39:44.700 --> 00:39:47.720 it sucks okay it really 00:39:47.720 --> 00:39:53.600 for it's it's you know it can't like hey powerpoint generate me slides it's 00:39:53.600 --> 00:39:58.040 generate shit like right now the way it's out it really isn't very good but 00:39:58.040 --> 00:40:03.860 i had this list and i needed to it had a whole bunch of issues with it and i 00:40:03.860 --> 00:40:06.440 said hey look this is the list that i've got, 00:40:07.120 --> 00:40:11.180 You've got these issues with it I want you to fix, fix You know, 00:40:11.300 --> 00:40:15.020 go through these things And then when it finished the list The one thing it did is, hey, 00:40:15.810 --> 00:40:20.390 It gave me 195 addresses for owners here at the community. And I'm like, 00:40:20.610 --> 00:40:22.790 I said, but there's 196 units. 00:40:23.070 --> 00:40:27.750 And I told it, hey, I need you to go through the list. And by the way, 00:40:27.830 --> 00:40:30.410 because the unit numbers are not sequential, okay? 00:40:31.210 --> 00:40:37.730 Go through this list and figure out, based on the logic of the numbering, which unit is missing. 00:40:38.290 --> 00:40:38.450 Right. 00:40:38.970 --> 00:40:42.870 And boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, boop. This is the unit missing. 00:40:42.870 --> 00:40:46.230 and it was exactly and and that's something that would 00:40:46.230 --> 00:40:49.170 have taken i did that entire 00:40:49.170 --> 00:40:52.250 cleanup exercise using that instead of 00:40:52.250 --> 00:40:57.430 hours and hours which i could have done it concatenated the these eliminated 00:40:57.430 --> 00:41:02.570 the duplicates double check blah blah blah 20 minutes man right i mean it saved 00:41:02.570 --> 00:41:09.050 me a day yeah and i'm like i mean this is like this shit when it does it that 00:41:09.050 --> 00:41:11.510 with that way that does it well, it's fucking addictive. 00:41:12.530 --> 00:41:23.210 Right. And I've done similar things and you mentioned you alluded to my Robin Letter project. 00:41:23.870 --> 00:41:26.850 I'll mention it a little bit toward the end of the show. But, 00:41:27.470 --> 00:41:32.990 This is all, it's me augmented by AI coding, right? 00:41:33.210 --> 00:41:33.410 Yeah. 00:41:33.670 --> 00:41:39.950 And like from the time I started playing with this, like over a year ago to 00:41:39.950 --> 00:41:44.910 now, the improvement in the tools and how smart they are is dramatic. 00:41:45.530 --> 00:41:50.690 Like, you know, back, you know, if you go back a year ago when you were doing 00:41:50.690 --> 00:41:55.030 this kind of stuff, you had to really carefully babysit everything. 00:41:55.030 --> 00:41:59.210 You had to like ask it for something. You had to check what it did. 00:41:59.470 --> 00:42:03.670 You had to try over and over and over again to get it right. 00:42:03.950 --> 00:42:06.910 And it would, it would eventually do it. And, you know, 00:42:07.050 --> 00:42:13.270 so it was still saving me time over doing it myself, but for professionals who 00:42:13.270 --> 00:42:17.930 knew what the hell they were doing, it was not saving time because of the error 00:42:17.930 --> 00:42:20.610 rates that it had and how much babysitting you had to do. 00:42:21.490 --> 00:42:29.470 at this point i i iterate on on requirements and what i want it to do and all 00:42:29.470 --> 00:42:36.130 this kind of stuff and then once once i've nailed all that stuff done i basically say okay now do it. 00:42:37.510 --> 00:42:42.890 And it goes and does it and then you know i do have to do some testing and there's 00:42:42.890 --> 00:42:46.690 usually a little bit of iteration but it basically gets at 90 on the first try 00:42:46.690 --> 00:42:49.510 and then it's fixing up that remaining 10%. 00:42:49.510 --> 00:42:53.850 And you do have to know some things to like, make sure you consider X, 00:42:54.170 --> 00:42:59.030 make sure you consider Y, don't ignore Z, you know, because otherwise it will. 00:42:59.210 --> 00:43:08.130 But the dramatic change is stunning just in terms of how much better these things 00:43:08.130 --> 00:43:12.990 are every few months. It is still improving dramatically. 00:43:13.490 --> 00:43:19.730 However- Sam, I was looking at a business, for example, that I was analyzing for a purchase. 00:43:19.990 --> 00:43:24.570 Okay, just something, you know, and I asked to go and like, 00:43:25.210 --> 00:43:29.830 By the way, at the top of my head, I actually, because I saw the numbers and 00:43:29.830 --> 00:43:33.790 I had these conclusions, but I was like, damn it, I had to put a spreadsheet 00:43:33.790 --> 00:43:35.690 together. I kind of know this. 00:43:36.130 --> 00:43:40.490 Well, I told it to analyze it and give me its feedback. It pretty much aligned 00:43:40.490 --> 00:43:43.210 with what I had seen from the numbers, okay, which is great. 00:43:43.350 --> 00:43:47.050 And it put it together in a presentation, which saved me the time having to 00:43:47.050 --> 00:43:48.630 do it. But it pretty much validated. 00:43:48.790 --> 00:43:53.370 I know the information that provided was accurate because on my head, 00:43:53.510 --> 00:43:56.950 when I look at these numbers and I know, oh yeah, this, this, this. 00:43:57.090 --> 00:44:00.730 And I, I did the math real quick or whatever, but it helped. It did the analysis. 00:44:01.130 --> 00:44:06.290 It coincided with what I, what I had looked at, that I had, that I had guesstimated it, it went. 00:44:06.430 --> 00:44:10.690 And so it validated the, the, the assumptions that I, that I had made it put 00:44:10.690 --> 00:44:14.710 it together in a, in a presentation format rather easily, but not just that 00:44:14.710 --> 00:44:19.150 it did something else that I couldn't do very easily, which was analyzing. 00:44:19.310 --> 00:44:26.550 I said, Hey, can you check there is a rental of a space included? 00:44:28.610 --> 00:44:32.850 Analyze the location. Is that location a good location? Okay, 00:44:33.010 --> 00:44:34.170 number one, compared to the others. 00:44:34.510 --> 00:44:40.230 And is the rent, compared to other nearby locations, the number, 00:44:40.330 --> 00:44:42.330 is it reasonable? Is it expensive? Is it cheap? 00:44:42.790 --> 00:44:46.910 It added that, which that would have taken me way longer to do. 00:44:47.070 --> 00:44:51.110 Right. It did an analysis of other commercial properties around, 00:44:51.110 --> 00:44:56.210 gave me the estimated values, compared what this one was at, 00:44:56.310 --> 00:44:58.730 and showed that it was a good value for that. I mean, 00:44:59.380 --> 00:45:00.800 I want to take a few hours. 00:45:01.600 --> 00:45:04.900 Right. And look, here's the thing. 00:45:05.620 --> 00:45:13.980 I think there is still an issue with people trying to push it into areas where it's not ready yet. 00:45:14.800 --> 00:45:16.040 That's the big problem. 00:45:16.340 --> 00:45:16.980 You know, now. 00:45:17.220 --> 00:45:17.980 That's the big problem. 00:45:18.200 --> 00:45:18.420 Yeah. 00:45:18.800 --> 00:45:23.180 Because there was somebody showing a thing where they were talking about that 00:45:23.180 --> 00:45:29.080 right now, over 50% of AI projects are failing. And it's precisely because of 00:45:29.080 --> 00:45:29.960 what you just talked about. 00:45:30.820 --> 00:45:36.200 They don't understand all the work that needs to go into making it successful. 00:45:36.400 --> 00:45:39.380 They're not training them right, so they're failing miserably. Yes. 00:45:39.960 --> 00:45:45.100 Well, and you still have examples of just like users doing dumb things. 00:45:45.320 --> 00:45:51.040 Like it seems like every couple months you get another story of a judge chastising 00:45:51.040 --> 00:45:56.220 a lawyer for submitting a brief that included made up references that were made up by AI. 00:45:56.220 --> 00:46:01.240 or there was a report in the last couple weeks of some reddit post who who knows 00:46:01.240 --> 00:46:06.180 they may be making it up to get attention but some anonymous reddit post of 00:46:06.180 --> 00:46:11.120 somebody who's saying we're in goddamn trouble because we just realized that 00:46:11.120 --> 00:46:13.600 we'd been using ai to generate, 00:46:14.580 --> 00:46:18.520 like financial summary information for our boss for the last six months and 00:46:18.520 --> 00:46:22.820 we just realized that ai was making up all the numbers okay but but you know you. 00:46:22.820 --> 00:46:25.400 See that's the thing but that's but that's their failure. Because for example, 00:46:25.540 --> 00:46:33.220 when I did that summary on AI, I had already an expectation of what the numbers were supposed to be. 00:46:33.580 --> 00:46:38.060 And what the AI did was validate that my assumptions were correct. 00:46:38.520 --> 00:46:42.860 Okay. Because if I look at a number, I mean, the one thing is that you, okay, great. 00:46:43.020 --> 00:46:46.580 It does facilitate the work, but it doesn't eliminate double checking to make 00:46:46.580 --> 00:46:48.880 sure that what you do is accurate. 00:46:50.040 --> 00:46:52.080 I mean, because it will make mistakes. It's the same thing like, 00:46:52.160 --> 00:46:57.160 for example, I just generated that list. Oh, I gave you a clean list. It has 195 addresses. 00:46:57.460 --> 00:47:01.380 I'm like, no, there's 196. Where the fuck is the other one? 00:47:01.800 --> 00:47:02.200 Right. 00:47:04.180 --> 00:47:07.860 That's the part where people don't understand that it's a fucking tool. 00:47:08.820 --> 00:47:13.500 It doesn't totally replace you. You need to... 00:47:14.000 --> 00:47:18.520 It will help you get shit done fast, but it can help you do errors a lot faster, too. 00:47:19.280 --> 00:47:22.460 Yeah, absolutely. And so like as people, 00:47:22.860 --> 00:47:26.880 the people who push too far too fast, I think we've said before, 00:47:27.020 --> 00:47:31.800 the problem is if you push it out early and it sucks, 00:47:32.080 --> 00:47:38.200 you're going to destroy your reputation with those sucky results before you get to the good version. 00:47:38.400 --> 00:47:41.960 And that's not to say the good version might not be a few months down the road, 00:47:41.960 --> 00:47:45.700 but you want to be careful with that initial rollout. 00:47:45.860 --> 00:47:52.180 Whereas I think everybody is just so anxious to be out there and first and take 00:47:52.180 --> 00:47:58.300 advantage of things as quickly as they can that, you know, they're pushing out 00:47:58.300 --> 00:47:59.900 things that are half-baked. 00:48:00.460 --> 00:48:00.980 Right. 00:48:01.220 --> 00:48:08.800 And it's like, where is that line? Because I understand you don't want to miss the boat. 00:48:08.980 --> 00:48:13.240 You don't want to miss the bus, the curve, the whatever. You want to be out there. 00:48:14.360 --> 00:48:17.940 But, yeah, anyway. Now are we ready to take that break? 00:48:19.240 --> 00:48:20.140 Let's break it up. 00:48:20.460 --> 00:48:21.420 Okay, here we go. 00:49:04.430 --> 00:49:08.450 Sam was mentioning over the break that I was opening envelopes, 00:49:08.570 --> 00:49:10.150 okay, and that apparently the sound comes through. 00:49:10.170 --> 00:49:14.810 Well, so I wasn't going to mention it on the podcast itself because the post-processing 00:49:14.810 --> 00:49:16.270 will probably get rid of most of that sound. 00:49:16.310 --> 00:49:21.490 But the reason is that I do this is because I go look at the fucking mail, 00:49:21.650 --> 00:49:26.370 Sam, and because, you know, there are important things that still get sent in the fucking mail. 00:49:26.370 --> 00:49:31.390 So, for example, I just opened this letter, which came in the mail when I was 00:49:31.390 --> 00:49:36.710 gone last week, where it says, hey, we received an above claim for you before 00:49:36.710 --> 00:49:38.070 we can process this claim. 00:49:38.190 --> 00:49:41.490 We need more information determined if you received this medical care before 00:49:41.490 --> 00:49:44.150 an accident or injury. So this is related to my son. 00:49:44.270 --> 00:49:48.190 And so they're not going to pay the fucking medical claim unless I fucking go 00:49:48.190 --> 00:49:51.550 and I call a fucking number, which for some fucking reason, why can't I just 00:49:51.550 --> 00:49:52.970 fucking answer this online? 00:49:52.970 --> 00:49:57.230 I got a call Monday through Friday to give him some information that apparently 00:49:57.230 --> 00:49:59.990 my son was not in a car accident, which is how he broke his arm. 00:50:00.450 --> 00:50:05.190 So, fuck. But, you see, this claim that they weren't going to pay for his fucking 00:50:05.190 --> 00:50:07.610 surgery, I guess, or something. 00:50:08.010 --> 00:50:12.590 Or that apparently we owe another doctor $12.12. 00:50:13.010 --> 00:50:15.810 Well, that's nice. It's an interesting thing. I'll let you know. 00:50:15.810 --> 00:50:22.550 I have in the past, like, first of all, we routinely in the past have gotten 00:50:22.550 --> 00:50:30.050 like our mail returned to the post office because our actual mailbox, it was too full. 00:50:30.050 --> 00:50:33.330 It had been like over a month since we looked, blah, blah, blah. 00:50:33.670 --> 00:50:39.110 And, and so I, you know, so at the, at this very moment. 00:50:40.030 --> 00:50:44.390 using my new to-do list dynamic mechanism that I built for myself, 00:50:44.410 --> 00:50:48.790 it has only been two weeks and one day since the last time I checked the mailbox. 00:50:49.150 --> 00:50:50.590 Well, that's not that bad. 00:50:50.750 --> 00:50:56.970 But I will add, using this new mechanism, it has also only been four weeks and 00:50:56.970 --> 00:51:00.690 five days since I've gone through that mail that came in. 00:51:01.310 --> 00:51:08.930 Whereas I believe, like, you know, I think I've done like about once a month recently. 00:51:08.930 --> 00:51:13.970 But when I caught up, when I actually caught up on that a little while ago, 00:51:14.230 --> 00:51:18.770 it was something like 70 weeks since the last time I'd gone through it. 00:51:19.250 --> 00:51:22.490 And I went through all of it. I dealt with all the stuff. 00:51:22.950 --> 00:51:28.490 You know, I paid a few things. There were some late fees on some things because I had. No kidding. 00:51:28.830 --> 00:51:31.910 Really? There were some late fees? No shit. 00:51:35.090 --> 00:51:37.330 God, what a surprise. 00:51:38.190 --> 00:51:45.470 Yes. The one case that was really extensive for the late fees was that when 00:51:45.470 --> 00:51:48.770 I first got my new car, like last summer. 00:51:49.110 --> 00:51:51.930 Fuck. Registration? 00:51:52.270 --> 00:51:59.670 No, no, no. You know you have these, the things that you put on the windshield for the toll lanes? 00:52:00.750 --> 00:52:02.070 Oh, the toll pass. Yeah. 00:52:02.310 --> 00:52:05.670 Yeah. So I got a new one of those for the new card. 00:52:05.790 --> 00:52:12.410 It took me a while to get it. But also when I had my, the temporary plates, 00:52:12.630 --> 00:52:15.610 which was about a month, I ended up having the temporary plates. 00:52:15.610 --> 00:52:17.010 Oh boy, they were billing. 00:52:17.190 --> 00:52:18.710 They were billing by mail. 00:52:19.770 --> 00:52:20.990 Oh, fuck. 00:52:21.790 --> 00:52:23.390 And so basically. 00:52:23.670 --> 00:52:25.970 To the temporary plate. Holy shit. 00:52:26.310 --> 00:52:32.270 Yes. They were billing by mail for the temporary plate. And so it's like, you know, 00:52:32.710 --> 00:52:37.390 and like the route back and forth to my son's school was like, 00:52:37.470 --> 00:52:41.670 there's a $15 toll if you do it during rush hour. So I got a bunch of those. 00:52:42.310 --> 00:52:48.190 And then they were like, yeah, but you have to pay that $15 within like two 00:52:48.190 --> 00:52:50.030 weeks of getting the mail or something. 00:52:50.450 --> 00:52:56.770 Or they like, first they put a late fee on. And then if you get a certain amount 00:52:56.770 --> 00:53:03.350 late, they add a civil penalty on top of it, like basically a ticket for not paying it. 00:53:03.610 --> 00:53:05.870 How much was this? 00:53:06.250 --> 00:53:13.070 Well, each one of those $15 tolls turned into about a $50 toll. 00:53:13.370 --> 00:53:15.190 And how many of them were there? 00:53:15.630 --> 00:53:16.650 A bunch. 00:53:18.590 --> 00:53:20.050 I'm going to kill you! 00:53:20.330 --> 00:53:20.730 I'm going to kill you! 00:53:23.910 --> 00:53:25.630 The fuck is wrong with you. 00:53:25.630 --> 00:53:30.130 Yeah so anyway but i i paid them all, 00:53:32.650 --> 00:53:36.030 apparently brandy tells me there was a mechanism that i probably could have 00:53:36.030 --> 00:53:39.070 appealed and got it lowered but i didn't i just paid it, 00:53:41.950 --> 00:53:45.310 but but it's only been four weeks since the last time i've gone through the 00:53:45.310 --> 00:53:49.990 mail and two weeks since i've gotten it now that's my mail i've got a whole 00:53:49.990 --> 00:53:55.030 little mailbox thing in our downstairs hallway with like mailboxes for me, 00:53:55.230 --> 00:53:56.890 for Brandy, for Amy, for Alex. 00:53:57.110 --> 00:54:01.950 So when I bring in the mail, I sort it into all the appropriate boxes. 00:54:02.650 --> 00:54:03.670 Oh my God. 00:54:03.870 --> 00:54:07.850 I only look at mine. Brandy's is completely full right now. 00:54:08.770 --> 00:54:13.110 So I've got, I've got me, I've got Amy, I've got Alex. 00:54:13.370 --> 00:54:17.350 I've got a separate mailbox for multiple. Like if it has more than one person's 00:54:17.350 --> 00:54:19.250 name on it, it goes into a separate box. 00:54:19.770 --> 00:54:22.750 Don't you open that one. I mean, it's 50-50. 00:54:23.410 --> 00:54:25.810 No, I put it into the multiple box and then... 00:54:25.810 --> 00:54:28.250 Who the fuck opens it then? 00:54:28.430 --> 00:54:30.250 Well, I have a separate... 00:54:30.250 --> 00:54:33.330 You need to set up a meeting to open those? 00:54:33.670 --> 00:54:38.490 Well, yeah. I have a separate item on my to-do list when that comes up to be 00:54:38.490 --> 00:54:41.090 like, okay, let's go look through the multiple box. 00:54:41.310 --> 00:54:43.130 And I've also got one for other. 00:54:43.410 --> 00:54:48.370 I do look through the other box occasionally. That's for mail that was labeled 00:54:48.370 --> 00:54:54.870 for either something generic like resident or for or for somebody's name who doesn't live here. 00:54:55.570 --> 00:54:57.350 And then for Brandy. 00:54:57.470 --> 00:55:05.610 I have better go and raise 50 million dollars for this fucking thing like I put down. 00:55:05.790 --> 00:55:09.690 So what are the items I'm going to do is just to hire you a fucking assistant. 00:55:11.170 --> 00:55:14.990 Well, and Brandy's is separated, too. We've got Brandy Personal. 00:55:15.250 --> 00:55:19.430 Brandy Campaign. For both of you! For all of you! An assistant! 00:55:19.970 --> 00:55:22.830 Listen, just take care of them! And then I've got an overflow box. 00:55:23.130 --> 00:55:26.970 So I've got an overflow box for when one of those boxes completely fills and 00:55:26.970 --> 00:55:28.090 I can't put any more in it. 00:55:28.910 --> 00:55:31.190 So then things start going into the overflow box. 00:55:31.270 --> 00:55:33.150 I should make that a line item on the budget. 00:55:33.330 --> 00:55:34.830 Just assistant. 00:55:37.070 --> 00:55:42.350 $150,000 assistant. There you go. Just take care of them. Just don't, don't, don't. 00:55:44.190 --> 00:55:48.190 Take care of it. That's it. That's all I'm asking you. Make sure the bills are 00:55:48.190 --> 00:55:50.610 paid. Make sure everything's fine. 00:55:51.550 --> 00:55:55.410 Make sure no legal problems. Make sure the IRS is taken care of. 00:55:56.330 --> 00:56:01.210 Yeah, I did just mail, like, Amy is living in Pennsylvania now. 00:56:01.470 --> 00:56:05.970 I did just mail her a packet of her mail that still came here. 00:56:06.230 --> 00:56:09.370 And there was stuff from the IRS in there for her. 00:56:09.710 --> 00:56:14.130 Oh, that's great. Oh, that's good. That's cool. Oh, yeah, that's always great to be getting. 00:56:14.330 --> 00:56:20.470 I always, let me tell you something. There is no mail. I dread more than the 00:56:20.470 --> 00:56:28.470 damn font and color and style that the IRS uses, which is this black and white format. 00:56:28.470 --> 00:56:32.050 And the font is just instantly recognizable to me. 00:56:32.130 --> 00:56:35.050 And I always, when I see it, it's always dreadful. 00:56:35.210 --> 00:56:41.590 I mean, not that I've gotten like a real, I mean, the last time I got a really bad IRS notice. 00:56:42.050 --> 00:56:45.070 It was like 20 years ago, and that one was a mistake. 00:56:45.070 --> 00:56:52.030 They did say that I owed like $60,000 or something, okay, which thank God was a mistake. 00:56:52.030 --> 00:57:00.330 But I had gotten one about eight or nine years before that I did owe $15,000. That wasn't a mistake. 00:57:00.750 --> 00:57:03.930 And those were $15,000 unexpected dollars. 00:57:04.030 --> 00:57:07.110 Right. It's entirely different if it's expected. 00:57:07.770 --> 00:57:11.250 Yeah. It was a totally—by the way, this is the worst thing. 00:57:11.250 --> 00:57:16.330 That was like the last year that I'm pretty sure that I got a tax refund, okay, 00:57:16.730 --> 00:57:21.670 where I wound up, I was supposed to get a tax refund of a couple of thousand 00:57:21.670 --> 00:57:24.230 dollars, but because I got assessed 00:57:24.230 --> 00:57:28.910 those $15,000, they basically kept the tax refund and told me, hey, 00:57:29.470 --> 00:57:34.630 good news, you applied $3,000 to the $15,000, now you still owe us $12,000. 00:57:35.190 --> 00:57:36.770 I was not amused. 00:57:37.700 --> 00:57:38.000 Okay. 00:57:38.540 --> 00:57:39.960 All right. Let's move on. 00:57:40.260 --> 00:57:45.620 So, yes. I was going to bring up a topic, and you just brought up mail, 00:57:45.640 --> 00:57:47.440 and then we went from there. So, okay. 00:57:48.420 --> 00:57:52.400 Okay. The actual thing that I was going to bring up for this topic, 00:57:52.460 --> 00:57:55.400 we had a Supreme Court tariff ruling. 00:57:56.960 --> 00:58:01.180 Hey! Let me just say, on our prediction show, 00:58:01.640 --> 00:58:06.640 our immediate prediction, we both agreed on this, was that the Supreme Court 00:58:06.640 --> 00:58:08.240 would rule against Trump, 00:58:08.280 --> 00:58:14.380 but they would do so in a way where he still had plenty of other avenues, 00:58:14.380 --> 00:58:18.020 and so basically it wouldn't disrupt him too much. 00:58:18.160 --> 00:58:22.060 From what I understand, and I have not read the 160-page ruling, 00:58:22.380 --> 00:58:26.980 but from what I understand, they were a bit more aggressive than that. 00:58:27.800 --> 00:58:31.180 in that there are still avenues open for Trump. 00:58:31.440 --> 00:58:35.760 As we have been recording. Okay, by the way, Trump is trying to overcome this. 00:58:35.760 --> 00:58:40.900 And as we have been recording, okay, yesterday, right after the thing, 00:58:41.100 --> 00:58:45.420 he announced the new 10% tariff that, by the way, the way that the authority 00:58:45.420 --> 00:58:48.500 is using, it's going to get struck down again. 00:58:49.140 --> 00:58:54.100 It's just the way he's trying to do it. But by the way, he just boosted it to 15% already. 00:58:54.340 --> 00:58:59.180 Yes, I saw that. And after, like, the thing is, if it has to go through court 00:58:59.180 --> 00:59:01.420 again, okay, guess what? That's another year. 00:59:02.320 --> 00:59:04.400 Yeah. Almost a year. 00:59:04.640 --> 00:59:05.060 Well, I don't know. 00:59:05.220 --> 00:59:07.800 I mean, this took, like, six months this time? Six months? 00:59:08.000 --> 00:59:13.500 Yeah. I don't think it's—and here's the thing, because it's related to a court 00:59:13.500 --> 00:59:15.040 order that already happened. 00:59:15.360 --> 00:59:19.700 Here's where he gets into a problem. It doesn't take as long this time, 00:59:19.700 --> 00:59:22.700 because there is a SCOTUS decision that was recently made. 00:59:22.700 --> 00:59:26.920 And if this goes against that SCOTUS decision, then it gets struck down, 00:59:26.960 --> 00:59:31.580 and it gets struck down in a way that he doesn't get to keep doing it until 00:59:31.580 --> 00:59:35.520 it goes back to SCOTUS, specifically if it goes against that decision. 00:59:35.680 --> 00:59:42.540 So this gets killed even faster because of how SCOTUS wrote the decision. 00:59:43.100 --> 00:59:49.560 Yeah. Now, SCOTUS let the tariffs stay in place until they decided this time. 00:59:49.560 --> 00:59:52.660 And what you're basically saying is, next time around, they may not. 00:59:53.480 --> 00:59:56.760 No, it's not that they may not. It's that there is already, exactly, it's right. 00:59:57.360 --> 01:00:01.480 Before, they appealed to let it stay in place until, yes, but here's the reality. 01:00:01.680 --> 01:00:02.800 They already ruled on it. 01:00:03.680 --> 01:00:08.140 So there isn't like this going around until we rule on it. 01:00:08.240 --> 01:00:15.000 Well, as you said, they're using a different authority. However, SCOTUS's opinion. 01:00:15.440 --> 01:00:22.620 The decision specifically stated that he couldn't circumvent it in all of these 01:00:22.620 --> 01:00:24.500 fucking ways that he's been talking about. 01:00:24.700 --> 01:00:28.400 That basically you need to go to fucking Congress. Right. 01:00:28.660 --> 01:00:35.540 I mean, that's the bottom line, is that they were wider in this decision than they could have been. 01:00:35.720 --> 01:00:41.020 They could have very narrowly said, you can't use this one authority, and that's it. 01:00:41.220 --> 01:00:46.040 They did say that, but in a lot of the commentary that surrounded it, they were more general. 01:00:46.220 --> 01:00:49.380 They were like, no, tariffs are a power of Congress. Tariffs are a power of 01:00:49.380 --> 01:00:50.840 Congress. You can't just do this. 01:00:52.160 --> 01:00:59.260 And so now, as you said, that doesn't stop him from trying. And he's clearly trying. 01:00:59.600 --> 01:01:01.360 And we'll see what happens. 01:01:01.840 --> 01:01:05.380 Now, the one thing that did not— The one authority. 01:01:05.500 --> 01:01:07.920 By the way, wait, wait, hold on a minute, because we're talking about the 15%. 01:01:07.920 --> 01:01:12.120 The authority that he used right now, here's the bigger problem with the authority he used right now. 01:01:12.800 --> 01:01:17.320 They specifically say that the tariffs can only last 150 days unless Congress approves it. 01:01:17.460 --> 01:01:23.420 That's the authority that he used right now. So, this thing is stupid, okay? 01:01:23.960 --> 01:01:27.500 He can't hold them in place anyway. 01:01:28.400 --> 01:01:36.580 Now, could he let them lapse on day 150 and on day 152 just start them again for a new 150th? 01:01:37.360 --> 01:01:40.980 How do you think, basically, when SCOTUS already told him that he needs to get 01:01:40.980 --> 01:01:43.280 tax authority, how do you think that's going to fly? 01:01:44.240 --> 01:01:49.000 Well, as long as— But given how he got slapped down hard on this, 01:01:49.140 --> 01:01:55.600 this is a pretty hard slap down on Trump. 01:01:55.620 --> 01:01:59.500 And he showed that he got slapped down. He was pissed. 01:01:59.500 --> 01:02:06.260 Well, and here's the one thing that Trump did refrain from just saying, 01:02:06.460 --> 01:02:10.480 well, fuck him, I'm going to keep him going anyway, which is one response he 01:02:10.480 --> 01:02:13.760 could have made that would have caused even more trouble. 01:02:14.140 --> 01:02:16.060 But he did not do that. 01:02:17.080 --> 01:02:20.080 The thing is that he could have attempted to do that. 01:02:20.220 --> 01:02:23.240 But, you know, what would happen a lot of times, because a lot of these things 01:02:23.240 --> 01:02:27.140 need to go to shippers or whatever, this would have created utter chaos. 01:02:27.140 --> 01:02:30.420 Because a lot of people that actually work on having to collect tariffs in order 01:02:30.420 --> 01:02:33.080 to do that, they would say, fuck, no, I got a court order that says here I can't 01:02:33.080 --> 01:02:34.320 collect them. What the fuck am I doing? 01:02:35.500 --> 01:02:39.920 It would utterly create complete chaos if that was his approach. 01:02:40.420 --> 01:02:43.540 Well, like I said, he refrained from doing that. 01:02:44.500 --> 01:02:48.260 And he could have done that. And yes, it would have caused chaos. 01:02:48.260 --> 01:02:54.640 But as we have seen over and over again, Trump does chaos. 01:02:54.640 --> 01:03:01.480 I said, here's, well, here's, hey, bring on the fucking chaos right now. Because you know what? 01:03:02.100 --> 01:03:05.180 None of this is helping the Republicans. 01:03:06.020 --> 01:03:11.340 You know, we're less than how many months away now from a midterm? Ten months? 01:03:12.280 --> 01:03:21.860 And, you know, he is doing everything in his power to make sure that they lose everything. 01:03:22.660 --> 01:03:27.320 I mean, he is making, he is doing everything in his power to make sure they 01:03:27.320 --> 01:03:28.720 lose both the Senate and the House. 01:03:29.750 --> 01:03:35.790 Because, I mean, look, layoffs last month were at the worst level they've been. 01:03:36.230 --> 01:03:38.590 That's why originally the tariffs, I'd frame more an economy. 01:03:38.890 --> 01:03:41.530 Layoffs last month, the last couple of months, have been the worst they've been 01:03:41.530 --> 01:03:43.490 since the Great Recession. 01:03:43.870 --> 01:03:44.090 Okay. 01:03:45.390 --> 01:03:48.150 Economic growth last quarter was terrible. Okay. 01:03:48.570 --> 01:03:50.070 I thought it was the best ever, Yvonne. 01:03:50.690 --> 01:03:51.190 Uh-huh. 01:03:51.410 --> 01:03:53.050 Didn't we have a number that said it was the best? 01:03:53.050 --> 01:03:59.730 1.5%. And by the way, again, again, that's 1.5% thinking that they massaged the number. 01:03:59.910 --> 01:04:02.290 I'm pretty sure that that was actually, when it gets adjusted, 01:04:02.510 --> 01:04:03.670 it's going to get adjusted downward. 01:04:04.050 --> 01:04:05.010 You're still talking jobs. 01:04:05.670 --> 01:04:06.670 No, no, no, the economy. 01:04:06.790 --> 01:04:07.570 GDP? GDP? 01:04:08.050 --> 01:04:12.770 Yeah, the 1.5. I guarantee, those numbers always also get revised as well. 01:04:12.890 --> 01:04:16.950 What was the number that we talked about last week that was like, 01:04:17.090 --> 01:04:18.610 they're saying it was the best in forever? 01:04:18.610 --> 01:04:24.290 The new jobs. New jobs, which they claim that 150,000 jobs were created. 01:04:24.490 --> 01:04:28.690 But the reality is that the jobs reports for the last year had been revised 01:04:28.690 --> 01:04:30.990 down almost every single one, two thirds down. 01:04:32.310 --> 01:04:36.430 Which brought job creation to, I mean, a minimal number. 01:04:36.610 --> 01:04:39.650 It's been one of the worst job creation numbers we've had in, 01:04:39.870 --> 01:04:42.850 I don't, fuck, a long, long time. 01:04:43.150 --> 01:04:43.290 Right. 01:04:44.790 --> 01:04:50.810 Probably since the Great Recession again. I mean, all these numbers are bad. 01:04:50.810 --> 01:04:56.790 There was one that I shared in terms of loan delinquencies, late, you know, 01:04:57.290 --> 01:05:02.630 lates, including even for affluent people that are at distress, 01:05:02.930 --> 01:05:07.530 have risen to the worst levels that we've seen in many, many years as well. 01:05:07.830 --> 01:05:15.490 So you've got, I mean, every fucking economic indicator right now sucks, 01:05:16.030 --> 01:05:21.230 except a couple of things. One is the stock market, okay, all right? 01:05:22.250 --> 01:05:27.290 The other one is any economic statistic that Trump can manipulate. 01:05:27.610 --> 01:05:32.770 Now, the stock market, there's a couple of things. Remember something. 01:05:33.370 --> 01:05:40.150 Most big American companies are global multinationals, not just U.S.-based. 01:05:41.450 --> 01:05:47.690 The economy outside the U.S. is actually, in many places, doing better than in the U.S.. 01:05:47.690 --> 01:05:47.910 Okay? 01:05:48.590 --> 01:05:53.370 And so stock prices reflect, you know, not just U.S. economic activity. 01:05:53.690 --> 01:06:00.430 So that influences that. So the stock market is not a good indicator of that, but also, 01:06:01.740 --> 01:06:06.560 This entire thing is we were talking about AI earlier. If you strip out from 01:06:06.560 --> 01:06:09.240 the Standard & Poor's index, 01:06:10.200 --> 01:06:15.100 AI, the gain over the last couple of years, I can't remember the range that 01:06:15.100 --> 01:06:20.720 I looked at, but I shared it on Slack, went from 72% down to 32%. 01:06:21.740 --> 01:06:27.740 Basically, two-thirds of the growth in the stock market has been tied to the 01:06:27.740 --> 01:06:34.340 AI boom, Which means that the rest of the economy is doing like shit. 01:06:35.800 --> 01:06:38.380 Well, still up. 01:06:39.480 --> 01:06:44.000 Yeah, but it's not doing well. 01:06:44.540 --> 01:06:45.020 Okay. 01:06:45.420 --> 01:06:47.260 Not, you know. 01:06:50.340 --> 01:06:53.440 It's up, but it's not, you know. 01:06:54.000 --> 01:06:59.280 Here is the stat. Over the last three years, the S&P 500 is up 76%. 01:06:59.280 --> 01:07:05.020 The XAI index is only up 32% the same time period. Okay? 01:07:05.860 --> 01:07:10.980 So that's like, instead of a 25% return every year, only 10. 01:07:11.260 --> 01:07:14.480 Now, 10 is a good number, by the way. Don't get me wrong. 01:07:15.060 --> 01:07:20.700 But it's not that. Plus, we know that that was three years. 01:07:20.920 --> 01:07:25.820 They didn't publish. I wanted to see if they had like a like a chart of the 01:07:25.820 --> 01:07:30.400 movement over the three years and I have not seen it I tried to look it up but I didn't see it but, 01:07:32.040 --> 01:07:37.520 A lot of these companies that are the smaller companies in the index are the 01:07:37.520 --> 01:07:41.220 ones that are getting hammered by the tariffs, by inflation, 01:07:41.500 --> 01:07:44.180 by, you know, retail sales in December. 01:07:44.540 --> 01:07:49.980 That was also another number that came in. They were bad. They were flat. They didn't grow. 01:07:51.100 --> 01:07:55.220 So the rest of these companies are the ones that are getting hammered by this. 01:07:56.160 --> 01:07:59.880 This is not good. And, you know, you combine the shitty economy. 01:07:59.880 --> 01:08:04.640 I mean, you combine the fact that people, you know, listen, you asked, 01:08:04.800 --> 01:08:10.080 if you did the old Reagan question, are you better off now than you were a year ago? 01:08:10.400 --> 01:08:13.140 The resounding answer is a fuck no. 01:08:15.080 --> 01:08:20.960 Every chart shows you that everybody is doing, you know, almost everybody's doing worse. 01:08:22.260 --> 01:08:27.840 This ties to what people have been talking about, about the whole K-shaped economy and all that as well. 01:08:27.860 --> 01:08:28.080 Yes. 01:08:28.520 --> 01:08:36.880 In terms of how, if you look at the top few percent in terms of wealth and income, they're doing great. 01:08:37.340 --> 01:08:37.960 Yeah. 01:08:38.220 --> 01:08:45.420 They're doing great. But if you get beyond like the top five to 10 percent, people are struggling. 01:08:45.860 --> 01:08:51.500 And the further down you go in the economic ranks, the worse people are doing. 01:08:52.280 --> 01:08:55.600 But listen, even the numbers and the debt distress that I shared, 01:08:55.620 --> 01:08:58.680 it showed how this is starting to hit higher income people. 01:08:59.260 --> 01:09:02.740 Exactly. It's been creeping up on that scale. 01:09:03.080 --> 01:09:08.160 OK, and that's that's the that's the thing that is an impact right now, 01:09:08.280 --> 01:09:10.740 how that impact is just moving up. 01:09:10.780 --> 01:09:14.500 And I'm actually looking for it because I actually have to I've ran out. 01:09:14.640 --> 01:09:18.700 I keep running out of free Bloomberg articles to share and I have to PDF it 01:09:18.700 --> 01:09:22.080 and share it. So I, but, but there, there's a chart. 01:09:22.200 --> 01:09:24.840 Here we go. It's, this is credit card. 01:09:25.100 --> 01:09:29.460 It was related to credit cards and delinquencies and an article. 01:09:29.940 --> 01:09:32.580 The headline was a little bit misleading because it was talking about, 01:09:32.860 --> 01:09:38.780 about points, you know, earning and credit cards and so forth and how many people are, are addicted to it. 01:09:38.860 --> 01:09:43.580 But inside, but inside that in, in, in the article, there was a section over 01:09:43.580 --> 01:09:45.280 here where they were talking about, about. 01:09:46.350 --> 01:09:51.590 You know, the faults, okay? And it said, and they were talking about swipe fees 01:09:51.590 --> 01:09:56.410 and other fees for credit card and how, you know, President Trump had been pushing 01:09:56.410 --> 01:09:58.830 for lower interest rates for credit cards. 01:09:59.190 --> 01:10:03.450 And so the thing is that they said that the share of credit card loans that 01:10:03.450 --> 01:10:07.250 were at least 90 days delinquent rose to 12.7%. 01:10:07.250 --> 01:10:14.250 The most since the first quarter of 2011, the share of auto loans and serious 01:10:14.250 --> 01:10:20.470 delinquency climbed 5.2%, just shy of the record reached in 2010. 01:10:21.170 --> 01:10:26.530 I mean, Sam, this is, these are, I mean, this is post-fucking, 01:10:26.550 --> 01:10:33.170 you know, massive meltdown crash numbers that we're reaching right now. 01:10:33.630 --> 01:10:34.030 Okay? 01:10:35.310 --> 01:10:40.330 These completely contradict, you know, what the administration keeps trying 01:10:40.330 --> 01:10:43.010 to say about the fucking economy, okay? 01:10:43.810 --> 01:10:47.770 Also, by the way, that article, it talked about the fact that AI hasn't killed any jobs yet. 01:10:48.030 --> 01:10:52.870 OK, so and that's totally true, that that's just bullshit right now that people 01:10:52.870 --> 01:10:56.950 are making assumptions that, you know, like I said, adoption is so bad. 01:10:57.030 --> 01:11:02.810 So but but still, Sam, you can't be say the economy is not thriving when you're 01:11:02.810 --> 01:11:07.110 reaching those kind of delinquency levels on credit cards and auto loans. 01:11:07.290 --> 01:11:09.710 OK, people are doing bad. 01:11:10.590 --> 01:11:14.030 And this administration has been hell-bent on making them do worse. 01:11:14.170 --> 01:11:19.970 If you look at the chart itself for the delinquencies, which is on page four 01:11:19.970 --> 01:11:26.710 of it, the massive spike since Trump got elected is insane. 01:11:27.090 --> 01:11:31.950 It literally, Trump in office and those delinquencies spiked. 01:11:32.410 --> 01:11:37.370 Why was that? Sam, do you know one of the biggest things that they did that 01:11:37.370 --> 01:11:39.490 fucked everybody when Trump came in? 01:11:39.710 --> 01:11:42.070 Well, we talked about this last week, school loans. 01:11:42.570 --> 01:11:43.330 That's right! 01:11:44.500 --> 01:11:48.720 He fucked everybody with that. That hammered so many people. 01:11:49.960 --> 01:11:53.880 And so people are pissed, man. I don't, you know, just... 01:11:54.740 --> 01:11:57.820 And this whole tariff thing... By the way, here's the thing. 01:11:57.900 --> 01:11:58.920 Somebody mentioned yesterday. 01:11:59.360 --> 01:12:04.260 Could Trump, given how bad the economy is, could the Republicans take a gift 01:12:04.260 --> 01:12:07.980 and just have SCOTUS bail them out? But no! 01:12:08.360 --> 01:12:16.860 Trump is hell-bent on not even just taking a fucking W, okay? 01:12:18.040 --> 01:12:26.420 Because he sees everything through his lens that makes everything look great. It's all personal. 01:12:26.420 --> 01:12:27.500 It's all about him. 01:12:27.940 --> 01:12:29.120 It's all about him. 01:12:29.280 --> 01:12:33.700 And anyone going against him is against him, and that's all that matters. 01:12:34.040 --> 01:12:38.400 But look, given that he is making more money than ever, he is getting richer 01:12:38.400 --> 01:12:40.400 than ever, how could this be bad? 01:12:40.620 --> 01:12:43.860 You know, this is great. This is great! 01:12:45.550 --> 01:12:50.430 I mean, he's, he's, he's, he's making out big time. 01:12:51.670 --> 01:12:55.570 By the way, I checked the, but anyway, talking about cryptocurrencies crashing 01:12:55.570 --> 01:12:57.450 as well, you know, because so many, you know, 01:12:57.730 --> 01:13:02.750 because outside of Bitcoin falling like 40, 50%, you know, all the, 01:13:02.750 --> 01:13:07.270 all the Donald Trump, all the Trump family tied coins. Okay. 01:13:07.510 --> 01:13:07.930 All of those. 01:13:08.090 --> 01:13:09.230 I saw a chart recently. 01:13:09.470 --> 01:13:09.670 Okay. 01:13:09.930 --> 01:13:10.710 They're doing, they're doing. 01:13:11.330 --> 01:13:11.810 Wait. 01:13:12.050 --> 01:13:12.130 Yeah. 01:13:12.730 --> 01:13:14.110 I can't believe that. 01:13:14.210 --> 01:13:16.270 They're all down like 95. 95%. 01:13:16.270 --> 01:13:19.710 Oh, man. There goes my life savings. 01:13:20.370 --> 01:13:25.730 You're fucked. What am I going to tell you? You know, I'm going to have to fucking 01:13:25.730 --> 01:13:29.510 like shake my ass and do some something. 01:13:30.510 --> 01:13:31.830 Try at least anyway. 01:13:32.990 --> 01:13:36.150 95% Sam. 95 fucking percent. 01:13:36.990 --> 01:13:40.530 Or more. Some are 99% I saw. 01:13:40.950 --> 01:13:47.950 They were just wiped out. They just cashed out. Fuck you. Here you go. Here's your shit coin. 01:13:50.890 --> 01:13:51.850 How's DJT? 01:13:52.630 --> 01:13:55.570 It's also down like near its lows. 01:13:56.150 --> 01:13:56.570 Okay. 01:13:57.070 --> 01:14:01.910 Under $10. It was at 60 something. It's down to like under $10. 01:14:02.370 --> 01:14:04.370 So also that one is in the crapper. 01:14:04.790 --> 01:14:10.050 Okay. Any other tariff and or economy stuff to get out before we take one more break? 01:14:10.210 --> 01:14:14.550 And then I have one more thing I want to make sure to, a couple of more things to note. no no let's. 01:14:14.550 --> 01:14:16.790 Go let's go because we got we got we got yeah we got to go. 01:14:16.790 --> 01:14:20.670 Yeah i got about 15 minutes before i have to like get in a car so let's go somewhere 01:14:20.670 --> 01:14:29.830 all right let's go let's go yeah okay break time yeah very very as usual very 01:14:29.830 --> 01:14:35.750 eloquently i i am the master of eloquence here we go, 01:14:55.800 --> 01:15:01.220 Okay. That's the whole thing. That's the shortest break we have right now. You enjoyed that? 01:15:01.260 --> 01:15:03.600 Very good, Sam. Yes, excellent. Okay. 01:15:03.940 --> 01:15:07.140 We have used that one before. It's not like it's a new one, but yes. 01:15:07.280 --> 01:15:11.280 Well, I mean, I hear it every time and I still laugh anyway. 01:15:11.280 --> 01:15:15.880 Okay, so the one thing I wanted to mention is, 01:15:16.600 --> 01:15:21.500 I mean, we have one very notable case that's made the news, but just more generally, 01:15:21.800 --> 01:15:27.380 new investigations that actually are being prompted by the Epstein files. 01:15:28.040 --> 01:15:32.520 Now, in terms of there actually being consequences and things happening, 01:15:33.120 --> 01:15:37.800 now, almost all of the consequences that have happened from the things that 01:15:37.800 --> 01:15:41.300 have been released in the last month or so have been overseas. 01:15:41.620 --> 01:15:47.220 The latest is, of course, Prince Andrew was just arrested, not for sex trafficking 01:15:47.220 --> 01:15:48.600 or anything. Wait, wait. Yes? 01:15:48.980 --> 01:15:49.440 Andrew. 01:15:49.780 --> 01:15:54.900 Yeah, no longer. Andrew Windsor Montbatten, whatever his full name. 01:15:54.900 --> 01:15:55.580 Whatever, yeah. 01:15:55.620 --> 01:15:56.880 Because he's no longer a prince. Ants. 01:15:57.380 --> 01:15:57.820 Right. 01:15:58.080 --> 01:16:05.660 Yes. But he was just arrested not for sex trafficking, but for apparently passing 01:16:05.660 --> 01:16:09.220 confidential information to Epstein. 01:16:10.170 --> 01:16:15.550 years ago, that he had access to as part of his royal duties. 01:16:16.370 --> 01:16:19.750 Like economic information of some sort, right, Yvonne? Something like that. 01:16:20.510 --> 01:16:24.550 But actually, I didn't delve that much into the charge. 01:16:24.670 --> 01:16:28.510 I know it was something related to some public act of malfeasance, 01:16:28.690 --> 01:16:33.950 but I actually had not read that that was the specific charge. So that's interesting. 01:16:34.350 --> 01:16:40.090 Yeah, no, I didn't read the details, But I believe it was passing confidential 01:16:40.090 --> 01:16:47.430 economic-related data to Epstein in advance of its public release was basically what he was doing. 01:16:47.650 --> 01:16:52.590 Now, of course, the questions that rise off this are like, now why exactly was 01:16:52.590 --> 01:16:55.450 he sharing that information? Was there some sort of quid pro quo? 01:16:55.690 --> 01:16:58.790 Was he being blackmailed? What was going on? 01:16:58.930 --> 01:17:03.250 And we aren't at that stage of things yet. Did he just like, 01:17:03.430 --> 01:17:05.390 did he just make a habit of passing 01:17:05.390 --> 01:17:09.290 out information like this to all his friends, you know, or whatever? 01:17:09.670 --> 01:17:13.850 Anyway, that's the charge that's against him. But also several other people 01:17:13.850 --> 01:17:19.430 in UK government have been forced to resign based on revelations of their various 01:17:19.430 --> 01:17:20.990 contacts with Epstein, etc. 01:17:21.710 --> 01:17:26.690 And this is one of the key questions as this stuff has been released that I've 01:17:26.690 --> 01:17:30.990 mentioned on this show over and over again is like, look, there are all kinds 01:17:30.990 --> 01:17:32.910 of crazy accusations in the files. 01:17:33.330 --> 01:17:37.010 I mean, some of them, I believe some of like some of them, I don't necessarily 01:17:37.010 --> 01:17:41.050 believe. Like, I believe there's something in there about George H.W. 01:17:41.450 --> 01:17:43.910 Bush engaging in cannibalism. 01:17:45.670 --> 01:17:50.430 Yeah, I'm not sure I buy that one. But on the other hand, just to be clear, 01:17:50.790 --> 01:17:55.870 in the UK, if you remember, which prime minister was it? David Cameron or whatever? 01:17:56.150 --> 01:18:00.890 The story came out about him in college, like having sex with a pig, 01:18:01.150 --> 01:18:03.770 with a dead pig's head to be specific. 01:18:03.890 --> 01:18:07.290 And it turned out to be true. He admitted it. Okay? 01:18:07.730 --> 01:18:09.690 So like, at this point. 01:18:09.930 --> 01:18:10.950 What the f- 01:18:12.060 --> 01:18:15.400 Gosh, I must have erased this from my memory banks. 01:18:15.980 --> 01:18:21.220 So it was a college initiation hazing kind of thing. 01:18:21.400 --> 01:18:27.240 He had to like, they brought a dead pig head and he had to like. 01:18:27.380 --> 01:18:32.000 No wonder I never joined a fraternity. What the fuck is wrong with these idiots? 01:18:32.320 --> 01:18:36.060 So my point is, like, you would hear that story and be like, 01:18:36.140 --> 01:18:38.500 there's no fucking way. That's ridiculous. 01:18:39.020 --> 01:18:42.620 That didn't happen. And it turns out it was true. 01:18:42.980 --> 01:18:46.980 OK, so this I don't know. 01:18:47.160 --> 01:18:51.380 But, you know, when I hear the George H.W. Bush cannibalism story, 01:18:51.520 --> 01:18:53.960 I'm like, come on. Really? 01:18:54.660 --> 01:19:01.780 but a lot of you know but again the pig the pig happened so, 01:19:02.720 --> 01:19:07.700 anyway but look but there are a lot of things in there that seem to be plausible 01:19:07.700 --> 01:19:16.060 but the key is that it looks like most of them were not seriously investigated 01:19:16.060 --> 01:19:17.800 or at least if they're but. 01:19:17.800 --> 01:19:22.900 There are also a whole bunch in there that basically corroborate. 01:19:22.900 --> 01:19:28.000 Other things that had been publicly reported that we knew that were. 01:19:28.000 --> 01:19:32.600 Accusations that all of a sudden got swept under rug or something. 01:19:32.600 --> 01:19:37.820 Or whatever. And I think that's like again, I keep coming back to this. 01:19:37.940 --> 01:19:42.000 Yes, the underlying crimes are of course horrific, but, 01:19:42.960 --> 01:19:47.740 It's also a really huge scandal how they weren't taken seriously and they weren't 01:19:47.740 --> 01:19:52.700 investigated and they were swept under the rug and which of these deserve follow-up 01:19:52.700 --> 01:19:55.760 investigations, even if statutes of limitation have passed. 01:19:56.680 --> 01:20:02.180 And one of the things is obviously the DOJ is not going to do jack. We know that. 01:20:02.680 --> 01:20:04.680 But are there— Actually. 01:20:04.680 --> 01:20:08.580 My whole thing was like I was wondering when the preemptive pardons were going to be issued. 01:20:09.360 --> 01:20:13.400 That's true for federal crimes. But the other question is, are there things 01:20:13.400 --> 01:20:16.420 that state and local authorities could be doing? 01:20:16.560 --> 01:20:17.380 Sure as hell hope so. 01:20:17.500 --> 01:20:23.240 And one of the things that was reported is that this week there is an investigation 01:20:23.240 --> 01:20:25.080 kicking off in New Mexico. 01:20:25.560 --> 01:20:32.720 Because there was stuff in the files about accusations of people being killed 01:20:32.720 --> 01:20:36.320 and buried on a specific piece of property. 01:20:36.980 --> 01:20:40.780 So they're actually going to go dig up the property and see if they can find some bodies. 01:20:41.300 --> 01:20:45.600 You know, and maybe maybe the whole thing is bullshit and they find absolutely 01:20:45.600 --> 01:20:47.240 nothing, but at least they're looking. 01:20:47.740 --> 01:20:53.180 And I think that's the kind of thing that needs to be kicking off all over the places. 01:20:53.420 --> 01:20:57.920 OK, the feds aren't going to do it there. Like you said, there may be preemptive pardons. 01:20:58.180 --> 01:21:03.620 State and local authorities need to step up in places where these accusations are happening. 01:21:03.800 --> 01:21:07.500 There were accusations in the files about things that happened in Michigan. 01:21:08.240 --> 01:21:14.020 Start taking a look. you know right you know and and various other ones like 01:21:14.020 --> 01:21:18.700 wherever there's some other authority that potentially could be involved now 01:21:18.700 --> 01:21:22.040 again the statute of limitations is going to hurt a lot of things a lot of these 01:21:22.040 --> 01:21:27.060 crimes in question not all of them some of them have no statute of limitations but, 01:21:27.920 --> 01:21:33.680 But some of them, you know, they're just going to say, like, 01:21:34.000 --> 01:21:38.140 yeah, maybe this happened, but it was 30 years ago. There's nothing we can do at this point. 01:21:39.120 --> 01:21:43.800 So, you know, so you have to have some sort of nexus to either something with 01:21:43.800 --> 01:21:46.020 no statute of limitation or something current. 01:21:47.320 --> 01:21:53.260 But any investigative authority that potentially could needs to start looking into that. 01:21:53.380 --> 01:21:57.520 And I think one of the Congress people is also really pushing hard. 01:21:57.520 --> 01:22:01.340 the Democratic congresspeople, is still looking hard at, okay, 01:22:01.480 --> 01:22:03.040 let's dig into the financials here. 01:22:03.040 --> 01:22:05.900 Too. Wait, not the Republicans? No, no, wait, no. Really? 01:22:05.900 --> 01:22:09.080 Well, there are a few Republicans. Just to be clear, there are a few Republicans 01:22:09.080 --> 01:22:10.480 who've been pushing hard on this, too. 01:22:11.080 --> 01:22:12.660 There are a few Republicans that have been pushing hard on this. 01:22:13.700 --> 01:22:20.660 Most prominently, Massey, but we've had a few others. Nancy Mace, MTG, before she left. 01:22:21.100 --> 01:22:25.620 There are a few others. So there have been a handful of Republicans that have 01:22:25.620 --> 01:22:28.000 been all in on this as well. 01:22:28.460 --> 01:22:35.300 But the push to look at the financials, too, of like, OK, what exactly was going 01:22:35.300 --> 01:22:38.280 on with the ins and outs of money into Epstein? 01:22:38.520 --> 01:22:45.660 And did it make sense from a point of view that was not people trying to pay him off or whatever? 01:22:45.660 --> 01:22:48.980 um right and actually one of the resignations 01:22:48.980 --> 01:22:52.060 we have had in the u.s was uh what's 01:22:52.060 --> 01:22:54.700 her name which company what one of the banks there was an 01:22:54.700 --> 01:22:58.040 executive at one of the banks who a female executive 01:22:58.040 --> 01:23:03.140 at one of the banks who has resigned because she was because of her involvement 01:23:03.140 --> 01:23:09.120 with epstein specific and like amongst other things she was one of only three 01:23:09.120 --> 01:23:15.400 people epstein called when he was arrested for advice on what to do, which she happily gave. 01:23:15.720 --> 01:23:18.820 I remember, I see the picture in my head. It was at Goldman Sachs. 01:23:18.920 --> 01:23:19.920 It was Goldman Sachs. 01:23:19.920 --> 01:23:23.480 It was, yeah, it was a general counsel at Goldman Sachs. 01:23:23.580 --> 01:23:28.460 Right. And so, I don't know. The only thing I'm saying is, 01:23:29.800 --> 01:23:37.000 I am heartened by the developments over the last couple weeks of actual further 01:23:37.000 --> 01:23:39.540 investigations being kicked off, 01:23:39.800 --> 01:23:45.880 of people having things actually happen to them, and that this isn't going away 01:23:45.880 --> 01:23:47.920 yet, as much as Trump would like it to. 01:23:48.120 --> 01:23:51.480 But Sam, Trump said he was exonerated. 01:23:51.720 --> 01:23:52.540 Oh, yes. 01:23:52.680 --> 01:23:56.760 By the files. He's exonerated. What are you talking about? He's been exonerated. 01:23:56.920 --> 01:23:59.260 And frankly, I have— He's exonerated. 01:23:59.260 --> 01:24:03.200 I think he said he was exonerated thousands of times or something like that. 01:24:03.340 --> 01:24:07.800 Thousands of times. Apparently, his name appears more than anybody else's in 01:24:07.800 --> 01:24:09.780 the whole thing, other than Epstein himself. 01:24:10.300 --> 01:24:14.700 You know, it's like millions of occurrences in the redacted stuff. 01:24:15.640 --> 01:24:19.660 When the Congress people got to look at the unredacted version and search on 01:24:19.660 --> 01:24:22.980 his name, it was like 1.5 million references or something like that. 01:24:23.340 --> 01:24:25.740 Now, they could all be innocent, right? 01:24:27.880 --> 01:24:32.240 But again, this is one of the places where there were more accusations in the 01:24:32.240 --> 01:24:37.400 Epstein files that get added to all the accusations we'd heard anyway about 01:24:37.400 --> 01:24:42.080 him over the years, including, yeah, anyway, look, 01:24:43.020 --> 01:24:51.700 even if nothing touches Trump, this clearly has not been properly investigated 01:24:51.700 --> 01:24:54.340 and properly prosecuted over the years. 01:24:54.340 --> 01:24:56.920 The only reason, let me tell you something. The only reason, 01:24:57.040 --> 01:24:58.200 you're saying it doesn't touch Trump. 01:24:58.520 --> 01:25:03.920 No, I said even if it doesn't touch Trump, there's clearly all kinds of other stuff. 01:25:03.920 --> 01:25:08.860 No, no, no, no, no, no, no, but let's be clear. The stuff in there about Trump is damning. 01:25:09.420 --> 01:25:09.560 Yeah. 01:25:09.700 --> 01:25:17.760 There are really serious accusations in there against Trump about rape, other things. 01:25:18.300 --> 01:25:24.780 because, I mean, you know, that basically document that he was a liar about 01:25:24.780 --> 01:25:29.120 anything that he said about his relationship with Epstein is all bullshit, okay? 01:25:29.300 --> 01:25:32.460 Everything that he has said before about it is complete and utter bullshit. 01:25:33.040 --> 01:25:36.780 That it shows that this thing that him supposedly throw him out of Mar-a-Lago 01:25:36.780 --> 01:25:39.020 and get him rid of or whatever is also bullshit. 01:25:39.320 --> 01:25:43.040 All of it, that anything that he has talked about this is a complete lie. 01:25:43.040 --> 01:25:47.860 And there are serious accusations in there that are documented, 01:25:48.080 --> 01:25:52.660 that back up things that we had heard publicly from other sources that showed 01:25:52.660 --> 01:25:54.620 that he had committed rape. 01:25:56.020 --> 01:26:00.820 But, like you said, this is going to be federally prosecuted. 01:26:01.040 --> 01:26:02.580 As well as overage. Both. 01:26:03.080 --> 01:26:03.400 Yes. 01:26:03.700 --> 01:26:04.340 Both. 01:26:05.260 --> 01:26:08.300 But, you know, Pam Bondi's going to get right on that, right? 01:26:08.900 --> 01:26:11.160 Oh, yes. Yes, of course. Yes. 01:26:12.000 --> 01:26:18.620 I mean, this is like brutally damning against him. I don't, you know. 01:26:18.720 --> 01:26:23.920 But he keeps saying that it's. A few months ago, there was a picture floating 01:26:23.920 --> 01:26:28.960 around of Pam Bondi, Pam Bondi meeting Donald Trump when she was a teenager. 01:26:29.580 --> 01:26:31.940 And so it's like, oh, maybe she was one of them. 01:26:32.580 --> 01:26:34.920 You know, honestly, there's no evidence of that. 01:26:34.920 --> 01:26:37.520 But, you know, but wait, but would it surprise you? 01:26:37.920 --> 01:26:41.620 No, nothing would surprise anybody at this point. 01:26:43.000 --> 01:26:47.960 Okay. With that, I think it's time to wrap things up. Do-do-do. Okay. 01:26:48.480 --> 01:26:48.940 Do-do-do. 01:26:49.320 --> 01:26:53.420 So, first, before I get to my usual stuff, I will mention, you know, 01:26:53.600 --> 01:26:55.660 Yvonne made a couple references to Robin Ladder. 01:26:55.800 --> 01:27:00.880 I mentioned last week that I was launching the first Test Robins after recording the show. 01:27:01.080 --> 01:27:06.560 I did that last Sunday, and I just want to thank everybody who has actually 01:27:06.560 --> 01:27:08.800 joined and participated and helped me test. 01:27:08.800 --> 01:27:15.500 As of right now, there are 23 users of the thing in four different Robins, 01:27:15.640 --> 01:27:17.520 three I created, one that Yvonne created. 01:27:17.800 --> 01:27:21.960 I'm probably going to launch some additional test Robins tomorrow, 01:27:22.520 --> 01:27:27.260 maybe before this podcast even gets out with some additional groups with some 01:27:27.260 --> 01:27:28.560 overlap with the existing ones. 01:27:29.340 --> 01:27:32.200 But and yeah, so it's working well. 01:27:32.340 --> 01:27:37.360 I've made a bunch of changes and fixes and updates based on feedback that I've had from people so far. 01:27:37.860 --> 01:27:43.860 If anybody out there is interested in joining and hasn't already gotten an invite 01:27:43.860 --> 01:27:46.680 from me and wants one, just contact me. 01:27:46.820 --> 01:27:49.860 If you go to robinletter.com, there's an email at the bottom. You can use that. 01:27:50.080 --> 01:27:52.380 Send me a note saying that you'd like to be included. 01:27:52.660 --> 01:27:59.240 So far, I got two Robins that are my relatives. I've got one Robin that's people 01:27:59.240 --> 01:28:01.380 who've been active on the Curmudgeon's Corner Slack, but. 01:28:02.390 --> 01:28:07.590 And there's and there's still three outstanding invites for the Curmudgeon's 01:28:07.590 --> 01:28:11.670 Corner Slack where I sent out an invite but the person hasn't accepted yet but, 01:28:12.150 --> 01:28:15.830 yeah and I and Yvonne made one of some of our Pittsburgh friends from when we 01:28:15.830 --> 01:28:19.370 were in college and yeah if you get it but. 01:28:19.370 --> 01:28:20.690 There's a couple missing I don't 01:28:20.690 --> 01:28:24.810 have their emails I gotta I didn't have like I didn't have handy Pete. 01:28:24.810 --> 01:28:28.630 Well the other the other thing Yvonne is that you sort of stepped on like one 01:28:28.630 --> 01:28:33.730 of the test Robins that I was gonna make this coming tomorrow was going to be 01:28:33.730 --> 01:28:35.010 people who knew me from college. 01:28:35.330 --> 01:28:39.810 So it's going to be the people you have plus more. So I'll get them in that one anyway. 01:28:40.010 --> 01:28:44.110 But you can keep the smaller one and add more people to it if you want. 01:28:44.250 --> 01:28:45.090 But I've got one that's... 01:28:45.090 --> 01:28:47.110 No, no, no. If you're going to do that, then fine. 01:28:47.290 --> 01:28:50.290 I probably got one with like 10 people at least already. 01:28:50.290 --> 01:28:51.990 Oh, no, no. Okay, okay. 01:28:52.270 --> 01:28:57.070 So including all the ones you just mentioned. So I'll probably set that up tomorrow. Bro. 01:28:57.690 --> 01:29:01.590 Yeah, I got one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine. 01:29:01.770 --> 01:29:06.310 I got nine people on my CMU list, two of which you don't even know, 01:29:06.450 --> 01:29:09.670 Yvonne, that are people I knew from CMU that you don't. 01:29:10.210 --> 01:29:12.070 That I never met? I mean, really? 01:29:12.370 --> 01:29:14.970 That you never met? Yeah, they're people that I- Or even. 01:29:14.970 --> 01:29:15.610 Heard of them? 01:29:16.190 --> 01:29:18.290 Bob K. and Vernon H.. 01:29:19.140 --> 01:29:20.900 Okay. Definitely. I don't. Okay. 01:29:21.100 --> 01:29:27.260 See, these are, these are both people that I knew from before CMU who also went to CMU. 01:29:27.860 --> 01:29:29.560 Ah, okay. All right. 01:29:29.640 --> 01:29:33.760 So, but anyway, yeah, I'll, I'll, I'll send that out. 01:29:33.980 --> 01:29:38.960 And, and I got one for, for people from, from a couple of jobs I had before. 01:29:39.180 --> 01:29:43.620 I, I, I was gonna, I, I want to make one from people I knew from high school 01:29:43.620 --> 01:29:48.340 too, but so far I have only have one person who's responded to me for that one. 01:29:48.340 --> 01:29:50.580 And I might send out another notice asking for more people. 01:29:50.720 --> 01:29:55.320 Because the other thing I noticed, I posted on Facebook yesterday with a, 01:29:55.560 --> 01:29:59.060 hey, everybody, I launched this new thing. I'm looking for volunteers, blah, blah, blah. 01:29:59.260 --> 01:30:01.780 And I included the Robin Letter logo. 01:30:02.000 --> 01:30:05.420 It made the Robin Letter logo real big. But the way Facebook does things these 01:30:05.420 --> 01:30:07.420 days is it prefers images. 01:30:07.820 --> 01:30:12.300 So it had the big image of the stupid Robin logo for Robin Letter. 01:30:12.300 --> 01:30:15.980 and it had like five words from 01:30:15.980 --> 01:30:20.260 the thing i wrote followed by more dot dot dot so like 01:30:20.260 --> 01:30:23.640 i might make a new version of the post that's mainly 01:30:23.640 --> 01:30:26.620 an image and repost it to ask 01:30:26.620 --> 01:30:29.280 for more people and and i also said you 01:30:29.280 --> 01:30:32.140 know send me an email because i need an email to invite you 01:30:32.140 --> 01:30:34.860 if you want it and there are a bunch of people who reacted to that 01:30:34.860 --> 01:30:37.460 post but didn't send me an email so i'm going to 01:30:37.460 --> 01:30:40.280 contact them individually and say like did you actually want to anyway but 01:30:40.280 --> 01:30:44.440 getting distracted it anyway it's going well if you are interested and you're 01:30:44.440 --> 01:30:48.840 not already in uh toss me a quick email and let me know i'll make sure you get 01:30:48.840 --> 01:30:53.700 invited to a test robin once you're in you can also make your own uh just like 01:30:53.700 --> 01:30:57.960 yvonne did okay and now for the regular end of the show. 01:30:59.400 --> 01:31:02.880 Go to curmudgeon-corner.com. 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And importantly, 01:31:25.020 --> 01:31:30.540 at $2 a month or more, or if you just ask, we will invite you to our Curbudgeons 01:31:30.540 --> 01:31:36.200 Corner Slack where Yvonne and I and a bunch of people are chatting throughout 01:31:36.200 --> 01:31:39.840 the week and sharing links and all that kind of stuff. 01:31:40.780 --> 01:31:44.520 And yeah, so Yvonne, do you have a highlight from the Slack today? 01:31:45.620 --> 01:31:51.940 Well, I kept, I have been sharing that for some reason, look, I'm not poor. 01:31:52.140 --> 01:31:55.820 Okay. But I am not Rolls Royce rich. 01:31:56.000 --> 01:32:01.160 Okay. I don't understand why the fuck the algorithm keeps thinking I'm interested 01:32:01.160 --> 01:32:06.700 in buying, uh, Bentleys, Rolls Royces, whatever the fuck. 01:32:06.940 --> 01:32:14.000 So, you know, I keep being shown ads to buy certified pre-owned, uh, uh, vehicles. 01:32:14.000 --> 01:32:19.960 And these are all, so another listing, I shared one earlier of a Bentley that 01:32:19.960 --> 01:32:24.160 had like 1,500 miles and it's worth three foot, you know, I don't know, some stupid amount. 01:32:24.460 --> 01:32:30.720 This week, okay, my feature was 2025 Rolls-Royce Spectre, which is an electric car, okay? 01:32:30.900 --> 01:32:35.420 By the way, I don't know if you know that Rolls-Royce makes this huge electric coupe, okay? 01:32:35.800 --> 01:32:39.460 It's, people have reviewed it, say it's incredible, it's lovely, 01:32:39.660 --> 01:32:41.180 I mean, it's quiet, it's whatever. 01:32:41.920 --> 01:32:53.500 It's used, Sam, used. The price of the listing, if you looked in, list price, $432,888. 01:32:53.840 --> 01:33:00.180 Plus, by the way, they do charge on top of that, a $1,199 dealer service charge 01:33:00.180 --> 01:33:06.000 and a $498 electric filing fee and a license charge of $450. 01:33:06.460 --> 01:33:18.700 Bringing the total to a very reasonable $434,935. dollars for a used 2025 with 1,648 miles. 01:33:19.100 --> 01:33:23.080 It does have an electric range of 329 miles, Sam. 01:33:23.360 --> 01:33:28.460 It's, you know, I, you know, I did say, you know, um, you know, seems very reasonable. 01:33:28.680 --> 01:33:31.120 I don't know. What do you think? Especially in this economy? 01:33:31.260 --> 01:33:34.420 I think, you know, this is the kind of purchases I should be looking for. 01:33:34.500 --> 01:33:35.500 I think you need at least three. 01:33:36.160 --> 01:33:41.660 Oh, three. Oh, so I'm getting a fleet. Oh, okay. I'll get on that right away. 01:33:43.730 --> 01:33:45.030 I'll make it our corporate fleet. 01:33:46.490 --> 01:33:46.810 Yes. 01:33:46.810 --> 01:33:50.630 I mean, they're electric at least, so they're, you know, good for the environment in some way. 01:33:50.890 --> 01:33:51.690 In some way. 01:33:51.790 --> 01:33:54.710 If we keep them for like 15 years or something, probably, yeah. 01:33:56.110 --> 01:33:59.330 That's important. And, you know, use them often. 01:34:00.030 --> 01:34:00.650 And you, yeah. 01:34:01.170 --> 01:34:01.910 Use them often. 01:34:02.090 --> 01:34:03.410 So that's it. That's all I got. 01:34:04.370 --> 01:34:06.170 Different colors. You should get different colors. 01:34:06.290 --> 01:34:08.790 Ah, different colors. Yes, we've got to get different colors, of course, yes. 01:34:08.910 --> 01:34:13.710 None of these bland gray and white colors, too. I want bright, vibrant colors. 01:34:14.350 --> 01:34:16.430 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I like this, yeah. 01:34:17.050 --> 01:34:21.310 You know, I'll take mine wrapped. Get a yellow. I'll take mine wrapped with the Abblesmay logo. 01:34:21.970 --> 01:34:27.770 That sounds like a great idea. You know, I'll have one wrapped with a Robin Letter logo. 01:34:28.050 --> 01:34:28.730 Okay, there you go. 01:34:28.730 --> 01:34:30.550 And then I'll have another one with the Abblesmay logo. 01:34:30.890 --> 01:34:31.150 Yep. 01:34:31.530 --> 01:34:33.870 And then I'll have another one with a Weeki of the Day logo. 01:34:34.190 --> 01:34:38.270 And then one with the curmudgeon's corner thing, which is just our faces. 01:34:39.150 --> 01:34:45.490 Right. Wait, I'm sure people love, I'm sure people love, let's have them picked 01:34:45.490 --> 01:34:50.150 up at the airport with the car with our faces plastered on it. 01:34:50.890 --> 01:34:52.290 I'm sure people will love that. 01:34:52.410 --> 01:34:53.390 Yes, exactly. 01:34:53.650 --> 01:34:56.250 Sounds like a great, I think we got this all worked out. Okay, 01:34:56.310 --> 01:34:57.570 great. I'll get on that right away. 01:34:57.610 --> 01:35:01.750 Yeah, and I realized I forgot with my Robin Letter spiel to give at least the 01:35:01.750 --> 01:35:03.270 one sentence what the hell it is. 01:35:03.870 --> 01:35:07.490 It's an alternative to social media where you can just keep in touch with your 01:35:07.490 --> 01:35:11.050 friends and, you know, back to what social media was supposed to be. 01:35:11.130 --> 01:35:12.690 You go in order. You take turns. 01:35:13.290 --> 01:35:16.070 For more, go to the site, robinletter.com. It'll tell you more. 01:35:17.510 --> 01:35:20.550 And Yvonne's made me a nice little presentation about it. 01:35:21.740 --> 01:35:26.720 It's fun. Anyway, that's it. We're out of here. Thank you for everybody. 01:35:27.140 --> 01:35:28.860 Stay safe. Have fun. Blah, blah, blah. 01:35:29.300 --> 01:35:32.940 I'm going to hop in the car in just a minute and head to that town hall for 01:35:32.940 --> 01:35:36.120 my wife. And her seatmate is also going to be there, I think. 01:35:36.160 --> 01:35:36.720 Start hauling. 01:35:37.340 --> 01:35:38.140 Start hauling. 01:35:38.220 --> 01:35:38.420 Start hauling. 01:35:38.580 --> 01:35:43.140 Yeah, like, sometimes at these things, I help bring all the food and set it all out. 01:35:43.380 --> 01:35:47.100 They've got other people helping with that, so I'm just doing this. 01:35:47.760 --> 01:35:49.240 I'm just showing up and listening. 01:35:49.460 --> 01:35:51.120 You're just the eye candy, baby. 01:35:52.060 --> 01:35:59.140 I'm the eye candy I'm there for moral support I'm I'm there to listen but I 01:35:59.140 --> 01:36:04.320 don't have anything I have to do which is a plus like I mean I don't I don't 01:36:04.320 --> 01:36:07.040 mind helping out when I need to help out but I mean. 01:36:07.040 --> 01:36:08.920 Well you don't have to do anything it's better. 01:36:08.920 --> 01:36:11.660 Exactly I can just uh I can just 01:36:11.660 --> 01:36:16.440 go and listen and you know as usual at these things like they're gonna be there 01:36:16.440 --> 01:36:20.780 are gonna be some people with with with night yeah they're gonna be some friendly 01:36:20.780 --> 01:36:24.300 people and they're gonna be some hostile people they're like you know why the 01:36:24.300 --> 01:36:28.800 hell are you doing xyz you're screwing us and blah blah blah and you know because 01:36:28.800 --> 01:36:31.040 there always are you know it's too. 01:36:31.040 --> 01:36:32.820 Bad i can't be there to go tell them to go fuck. 01:36:32.820 --> 01:36:33.920 Themselves yeah fuck. 01:36:33.920 --> 01:36:36.740 You you stupid asshole the fuck out of here. 01:36:36.740 --> 01:36:41.280 You know that's the nature of town halls you get people asking questions about 01:36:41.280 --> 01:36:45.140 their concerns and some Some people like what you're doing and some people don't 01:36:45.140 --> 01:36:48.280 like what you're doing and you have that dialogue and it's good. 01:36:48.280 --> 01:36:50.560 It's the way you keep in touch with what people care about. 01:36:50.780 --> 01:36:52.460 As long as it's dialogue, it's good. Yeah. 01:36:52.820 --> 01:36:55.780 Yeah. So anyway, that's that. I'm heading out. Thanks, everybody. 01:36:55.900 --> 01:36:56.800 Here's the outro. Goodbye. 01:36:57.620 --> 01:36:58.020 Bye. 01:37:28.920 --> 01:37:32.240 Okay, that's it. I'm in. Stop. Later, Yvonne. 01:37:32.920 --> 01:37:35.020 Stop. Stop. Stop!