WEBVTT 00:00:00.010 --> 00:00:00.750 Hello. 00:00:01.630 --> 00:00:07.950 Hello. Get this thingy. Here we go. Okay. 00:00:09.410 --> 00:00:15.870 By the way, you did not respond to my message about me coming to your area. 00:00:16.830 --> 00:00:17.430 That's right. 00:00:18.870 --> 00:00:20.730 Everybody else did except you. 00:00:21.770 --> 00:00:21.910 Yeah. 00:00:22.150 --> 00:00:25.710 Not everybody else. Emily has not either. But you did not. 00:00:25.710 --> 00:00:31.930 You are correct, because I got it while I was out, and I meant to, 00:00:32.110 --> 00:00:37.810 once I got home and had my calendar in front of me, block off the time and then respond to you. 00:00:37.910 --> 00:00:40.170 But then by the time I got home, I completely forgot. 00:00:40.730 --> 00:00:41.430 Of course. 00:00:42.110 --> 00:00:46.030 But it's far enough out, and it's an important enough event. 00:00:46.230 --> 00:00:46.630 I figured. 00:00:46.930 --> 00:00:47.070 I will. 00:00:47.270 --> 00:00:50.630 I already booked a hotel near where you live. 00:00:50.630 --> 00:00:56.870 I was going to respond on the Slack that I was shocked that there was any hotel 00:00:56.870 --> 00:01:01.010 establishment closer than Seattle that would meet your standards. 00:01:01.750 --> 00:01:07.770 I mean, well, I mean, it's not great, but there's a Delta hotel and like a courtyard. 00:01:07.990 --> 00:01:13.670 I mean, the courtyard actually looked horrible, but I went and I there is this 00:01:13.670 --> 00:01:19.970 relatively new Delta hotel that those hotels get decent reviews. It doesn't look too bad. 00:01:20.630 --> 00:01:27.630 Okay, okay. Yes, anyway. Yes, it'll be good to see you here. We'll do a thing. 00:01:28.510 --> 00:01:34.050 Yeah. So, I don't know. I am not convinced that my wife will come out that day 00:01:34.050 --> 00:01:37.510 simply because of the jet lag, because I know her. Right. 00:01:38.890 --> 00:01:40.370 So, you know... 00:01:41.300 --> 00:01:41.820 All good. 00:01:42.860 --> 00:01:47.540 Yeah, I mean, I know that I will be, you know, I'll arrive and do something, 00:01:47.700 --> 00:01:50.520 but, you know, I know my people. 00:01:50.740 --> 00:01:53.760 And I know last time I went to Seattle, the first thing she did when she got 00:01:53.760 --> 00:01:58.920 to the hotel was like climbing to bed and not leave for many hours. Yes, basically, yeah. 00:01:59.020 --> 00:02:02.720 Yes. Now, are you actually flying into Everett? 00:02:03.500 --> 00:02:04.940 No, no, no. We're flying to Seattle. 00:02:05.220 --> 00:02:08.060 Oh, man, you know, it's a cute little airport. 00:02:08.060 --> 00:02:12.020 There aren't very many flights to there. 00:02:12.160 --> 00:02:18.700 No, I know. To go almost anywhere, you have to do multiple stops on the way. 00:02:18.740 --> 00:02:19.900 There's no flights. 00:02:22.300 --> 00:02:27.780 You usually have to make multiple stops and pay more. But it's a nice little airport. 00:02:28.800 --> 00:02:31.520 Anyway, shall we go? 00:02:31.920 --> 00:02:32.520 Yes. 00:02:33.020 --> 00:02:34.320 Okay, here it goes. 00:02:58.130 --> 00:03:06.490 Welcome to Curmudgeon's Corner for Saturday, February 28th, 2026. 00:03:07.090 --> 00:03:11.090 It's just after 18 UTC as we're getting started. I am Sam Minter. 00:03:11.190 --> 00:03:12.950 Yvonne Boas here. Hello, Yvonne. 00:03:14.070 --> 00:03:15.410 I heard a beep. 00:03:16.390 --> 00:03:19.890 Once again, a beep. It's been a long time since you've actually heard them. 00:03:20.290 --> 00:03:21.950 Like, it's not like they've stopped. 00:03:23.410 --> 00:03:26.910 Well, but I just heard it again. And I just, all of a sudden, 00:03:27.030 --> 00:03:28.970 just as you finished, all I heard is beep. 00:03:29.210 --> 00:03:31.970 You know, I added, I added to my. 00:03:32.210 --> 00:03:37.270 You know what? You don't, you don't have a fucking day job right now. 00:03:37.750 --> 00:03:41.090 You're fucking like changing damn fucking battery. 00:03:41.690 --> 00:03:51.190 I have added to my probabilistic to-do list as a once a week priority one task, 00:03:51.330 --> 00:03:54.610 which means it'll probably actually come up on the agenda once every couple 00:03:54.610 --> 00:03:59.650 of months to identify and remove one beep from the house somewhere. 00:04:00.170 --> 00:04:00.770 Okay. 00:04:01.950 --> 00:04:06.470 Now, I believe at the moment there are two beeps going on in the house. 00:04:07.490 --> 00:04:08.630 Oh, fuck me. 00:04:09.170 --> 00:04:17.270 I think one of them is a smoke alarm, and the other might be related to our alarm system. 00:04:18.390 --> 00:04:24.250 But I'm not actually sure. But I have noticed that there is a beep. 00:04:25.030 --> 00:04:28.810 Listen, I will be clear that if I was, 00:04:29.310 --> 00:04:37.590 if beeps had been going on that long and I couldn't, 00:04:37.710 --> 00:04:43.410 and they weren't fixed, at some point I would find a baseball bat or something 00:04:43.410 --> 00:04:47.390 and just beat whatever was doing it into submission for it to shut up. 00:04:47.590 --> 00:04:48.130 Yeah. 00:04:50.440 --> 00:04:54.880 That would be the solution. Here's the other thing. 00:04:55.140 --> 00:04:58.200 Look, my, well, the other, but it's not even me. 00:04:58.400 --> 00:05:03.920 Look, my wife has made me wake up from bed in the middle of the night because 00:05:03.920 --> 00:05:08.920 one of those has started and basically it's been, you got to stop that right now. 00:05:09.800 --> 00:05:15.400 And my son also. I imagine by the. It's not like even like, like option. 00:05:15.520 --> 00:05:18.200 It's not like I could like, ah, I'll be fine. 00:05:18.200 --> 00:05:26.540 I imagine by the time I even notice there is a beep, it's probably already been going for months. 00:05:26.840 --> 00:05:35.580 And then when I notice it, it's like, I'm going up the stairs or something. 00:05:35.680 --> 00:05:38.300 And I'll notice there's a beep while I'm going up the stairs. 00:05:38.300 --> 00:05:42.660 I'm like, oh, there must be a smoke detector somewhere near here. 00:05:43.480 --> 00:05:48.080 Like someday I'll look at that. And then I won't notice when I'm in other parts of the house. 00:05:48.200 --> 00:05:54.360 so I have to be like walking by it when it makes the beep and like unless at 00:05:54.360 --> 00:06:01.440 that very moment I'm in like hey I'm going to take care of beeps mode then I'm not, 00:06:02.900 --> 00:06:07.480 I'll file it away as oh there's a beep and you know it's a very interesting. 00:06:07.480 --> 00:06:12.040 Mode I'm going to take care of beeps mode interesting, 00:06:14.680 --> 00:06:16.280 I'm going to take care of beeps. 00:06:17.240 --> 00:06:20.480 Right. And like I said, I just added it to my list. 00:06:20.620 --> 00:06:24.100 And once every few months, it'll probably come up. And I'm sure there'll always 00:06:24.100 --> 00:06:26.840 be a beep somewhere in the house to find out. 00:06:27.020 --> 00:06:33.740 The other day, a task came up that I'd added to change. 00:06:35.280 --> 00:06:43.220 I had noticed one of, we've got like on the back porch, there's like two lights, 00:06:43.560 --> 00:06:46.600 you know, and one of the bulbs had gone out. 00:06:46.600 --> 00:06:51.180 So I added to my to-do list to change that light bulb that had gone out. 00:06:52.240 --> 00:06:56.040 And several months later when it came up and I went out to the back, 00:06:56.240 --> 00:07:01.340 I went to unscrew the bulb and I just touched it and it came back on. 00:07:01.480 --> 00:07:05.120 So I'm like, oh, it just needed to be screwed back in. And I was disappointed 00:07:05.120 --> 00:07:06.920 because I didn't actually get to change a light bulb. 00:07:07.780 --> 00:07:12.840 Now, there are other light bulbs out that I know about, but they haven't come up on my list yet. 00:07:12.840 --> 00:07:19.000 I, I, I look, if I go up to a light bulb and I managed to like fix it without 00:07:19.000 --> 00:07:21.860 changing the light bulb, I don't, I don't get disappointed. 00:07:23.500 --> 00:07:27.680 No, I was really excited because, because it was one of, it was one of these 00:07:27.680 --> 00:07:32.400 old fluorescent curly Q type of bulbs. 00:07:32.580 --> 00:07:34.520 Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. And I was going to replace it with an LED bulb. 00:07:34.620 --> 00:07:35.040 The old curly ones, yeah. 00:07:35.460 --> 00:07:37.300 You know, but it turned back on. The old curly ones. 00:07:37.500 --> 00:07:37.600 Yeah. 00:07:37.600 --> 00:07:40.900 It turned back on when I tightened it. So I'm like, oh, oh, well, 00:07:41.020 --> 00:07:43.500 it gets to stay there another few years, maybe. 00:07:44.220 --> 00:07:47.200 There, there, you know, the, we had... 00:07:49.310 --> 00:07:56.110 Years ago, we did this, we did some remodeling, not planned. 00:07:56.150 --> 00:08:00.610 It was, we had this issue where we had this flood. 00:08:01.370 --> 00:08:05.030 Okay. And because we had to do a whole bunch of construction, 00:08:05.410 --> 00:08:10.690 the guy that came in to do the work said, hey, you want me to switch out all 00:08:10.690 --> 00:08:12.510 the hi-hats with LED lights? 00:08:13.070 --> 00:08:17.850 It's like, what the hell? You know, we're in the middle of it. What the hell? Do it. 00:08:18.010 --> 00:08:20.630 Okay. And that was when they were more expensive at that time. 00:08:20.750 --> 00:08:24.070 Because I think each fixture was like $50, $60 each. 00:08:24.790 --> 00:08:25.570 Now they're the norm. 00:08:26.150 --> 00:08:28.510 Yeah, now, yeah. Now they're, you know. 00:08:28.630 --> 00:08:32.190 Now if you don't want LED, you have to go out of your way to get something else. 00:08:32.310 --> 00:08:34.530 Right, right. But the one thing 00:08:34.530 --> 00:08:39.510 that happened with those LEDs that were original, a lot of those failed. 00:08:40.530 --> 00:08:40.910 Yes. 00:08:40.970 --> 00:08:43.790 They were a brand that. 00:08:43.790 --> 00:08:45.150 I mean, I remember. 00:08:45.150 --> 00:08:47.410 Had a high failure rate. 00:08:47.410 --> 00:08:53.230 Yeah, no, I remember, like, specifically, like, they were, one of the benefits 00:08:53.230 --> 00:08:56.710 that was touted was these things will last a long time, and then it turned out 00:08:56.710 --> 00:08:59.730 a lot of them didn't, and some of them would. 00:08:59.730 --> 00:09:01.090 They did last a long time. 00:09:01.090 --> 00:09:01.650 Some of them did. 00:09:01.650 --> 00:09:06.310 But they didn't last as long as they should have, okay? Well, and part of it. 00:09:06.410 --> 00:09:06.450 Like. 00:09:06.570 --> 00:09:07.830 That brand, but. 00:09:07.950 --> 00:09:08.290 Yes, yes. 00:09:08.290 --> 00:09:13.330 But wait, let me finish, because I had two brands of LEDs that I had put in. 00:09:13.750 --> 00:09:14.890 And one was better than me. 00:09:14.890 --> 00:09:18.170 Not in those hi-hats. Yes, one was way better. 00:09:18.250 --> 00:09:23.290 The ones that were not the hi-hats, I bought a whole bunch of Philips light bulbs. 00:09:23.330 --> 00:09:24.590 Now, remind us what's the hi-hat. 00:09:24.610 --> 00:09:31.050 Those Philips, the hi-hat are the ones that are embedded on the ceiling, okay? 00:09:31.210 --> 00:09:32.610 Right, right. That are kind of like flush. 00:09:32.910 --> 00:09:35.870 Okay? They're inside the ceiling. And then the other ones that I bought, 00:09:36.030 --> 00:09:41.830 these bulbs that were bulbs to replace where there were regular bulbs to stick in bulbs, okay? 00:09:42.090 --> 00:09:44.990 In other places that were not in the ceiling. Okay. 00:09:45.930 --> 00:09:47.970 Dough. And that I bought were Phillips. 00:09:48.970 --> 00:09:54.570 And the Philips, look, I still have, they're 15 years old. 00:09:54.930 --> 00:09:55.890 Well, one of the. 00:09:56.070 --> 00:10:00.170 Most of them actually did not fail. 00:10:00.350 --> 00:10:05.170 I actually came that the fixture, in some cases, the fixtures that rusted and 00:10:05.170 --> 00:10:08.010 the bulbs are still working with the Philips. Okay. 00:10:08.230 --> 00:10:12.190 So I was replacing the rusted fixtures. 00:10:12.190 --> 00:10:19.130 One of the problems with the first generation of LED bulbs was that they did 00:10:19.130 --> 00:10:21.890 badly in places that heated up. 00:10:22.110 --> 00:10:26.150 So like the ones that were actually in enclosures of one sort or another did 00:10:26.150 --> 00:10:28.230 worse than the ones that had more airflow. 00:10:28.570 --> 00:10:32.730 Now, and they fixed that subsequently. But that was one of the problems in the 00:10:32.730 --> 00:10:33.990 first generation of these things. 00:10:34.090 --> 00:10:39.890 And I think that, and that may be what happened with the ones in the ceiling 00:10:39.890 --> 00:10:43.230 itself. They did last eight years, eight, nine, ten years. 00:10:43.490 --> 00:10:48.410 Okay. But considering that, I had put in the Philips before and none of the 00:10:48.410 --> 00:10:51.410 Philips had failed. Okay. I mean, none of them. 00:10:52.010 --> 00:10:52.150 Right. 00:10:52.150 --> 00:10:58.010 Okay. I think maybe out of, I put in like 20 of those Philips bulbs, 00:10:58.170 --> 00:11:01.170 maybe more, one failed. Something like that. 00:11:02.650 --> 00:11:05.810 Philips knows how to manufacture a fucking bulb. 00:11:06.050 --> 00:11:09.730 Okay. I'll give them, I'll give them a hug. By the way, Philips is the one that, 00:11:09.970 --> 00:11:15.270 okay, because these bulbs were invented while I was at HP, okay, by the way. 00:11:15.390 --> 00:11:18.870 HP is the one that came up with this in HP Labs. 00:11:19.210 --> 00:11:23.710 The thing is that at some point, all of that was sold to Philips. 00:11:24.190 --> 00:11:28.570 And then Philips is the first one that actually made these work. 00:11:28.710 --> 00:11:31.750 Now, everybody else copied them afterwards, but Philips was the first one that 00:11:31.750 --> 00:11:35.430 made these. So the Philips ones were, they were really rock solid. 00:11:35.570 --> 00:11:40.010 They were really good, okay? And so the Philips bulbs were the best. 00:11:40.190 --> 00:11:42.450 Every other brand were cheap knockoffs and... 00:11:43.440 --> 00:11:48.260 Almost every other brand that I tried was shit except the Philips. 00:11:48.460 --> 00:11:51.880 And then I got these ones that were from Home Depot or built in. 00:11:52.000 --> 00:11:56.780 I had to, I think right now at this point I've, I had to replace all. 00:11:57.140 --> 00:12:04.060 No, I don't think I, I have replaced all of those that were put in, in 2014. 00:12:04.920 --> 00:12:12.100 So they lasted about 10 years, you know, now they're all replaced with the newer 00:12:12.100 --> 00:12:15.960 versions that, I'm going to guess that these will last a lot longer because, 00:12:16.360 --> 00:12:19.040 like you mentioned, they fix the issue with these. 00:12:19.380 --> 00:12:23.660 Right. That's just a lot of those in that situation where it's in the ceiling, 00:12:23.820 --> 00:12:27.520 not enough airflow, they heat, they died. Right. 00:12:29.660 --> 00:12:34.160 But yeah, no, I, but there was one time I went to replace one of them and started 00:12:34.160 --> 00:12:36.680 working again. I'm like, oh, wait, I was thrilled. 00:12:36.940 --> 00:12:40.440 I'm like, oh no, I don't have to do it. Good. But you were disappointed. 00:12:40.820 --> 00:12:45.040 I was disappointed because I don't get to change light bulbs that often anymore. 00:12:45.100 --> 00:12:46.940 It was like, you know, okay. 00:12:48.120 --> 00:12:51.660 I was excited. I went out to the back porch. I, you know, and then, 00:12:51.680 --> 00:12:52.960 and then the old one just turned on. 00:12:53.280 --> 00:12:55.860 I mean, I could have replaced it anyway because I was out there, 00:12:55.880 --> 00:12:58.120 but no, I was like, no, it's still working. 00:12:58.120 --> 00:13:01.360 No, no, no, it's working. No, no, leave it, leave it, leave it. 00:13:01.420 --> 00:13:05.800 Yeah, exactly. And also it's not like, it's, it's not one that, 00:13:05.980 --> 00:13:10.620 not that this would affect my decision, but it's, it's not like a, 00:13:10.860 --> 00:13:13.060 what I would call a key light bulb. 00:13:13.260 --> 00:13:17.060 I mean, it was probably out for a year before I even noticed it was out. 00:13:17.060 --> 00:13:20.380 You know, it's like, it's the backyard light. 00:13:20.560 --> 00:13:23.020 We don't use our backyard space very often. 00:13:23.440 --> 00:13:28.440 We turn on the light sometimes to look out to the backyard from inside. 00:13:28.440 --> 00:13:32.680 And there was still, there's like, you know, one bulb on each side of the door. 00:13:32.960 --> 00:13:36.340 And we noticed, and it was the one that was further away. 00:13:36.640 --> 00:13:42.380 And so, you know, unless you were looking from outside, you don't really notice. 00:13:42.380 --> 00:13:46.440 And we weren't looking from outside very often at that. So, but anyway. 00:13:47.480 --> 00:13:51.040 So with this fun, exciting talk about light bulbs. 00:13:52.540 --> 00:13:57.380 Yeah. We're going to do our usual, I guess, and do the... 00:13:58.170 --> 00:14:03.190 Less newsy stuff first. And then, you know, I got a couple of movies. 00:14:03.950 --> 00:14:04.910 There's no news. 00:14:05.150 --> 00:14:07.550 Oh, you're going to do this thing again? Yeah. 00:14:08.210 --> 00:14:09.110 Did anything happen? 00:14:09.710 --> 00:14:16.090 Yeah. This is Evod's little routine about how there's no news on weeks where there's clear news. 00:14:16.190 --> 00:14:17.770 I don't know what the hell you're talking about. 00:14:18.050 --> 00:14:18.910 No, nothing. 00:14:19.010 --> 00:14:21.690 I don't know why you're saying that I'm pretending about this. 00:14:21.790 --> 00:14:26.310 I don't know. There's news? There's news? What news? What are you talking about? 00:14:26.970 --> 00:14:28.990 something happened i'm. 00:14:28.990 --> 00:14:30.650 Sure you're talking about the winter olympics. 00:14:30.650 --> 00:14:33.930 They had they had their closing ceremony 00:14:33.930 --> 00:14:36.870 since we last talked didn't they something do you realize 00:14:36.870 --> 00:14:39.830 that i did you know i i am not i used to 00:14:39.830 --> 00:14:42.730 watch the olympics i am no longer an 00:14:42.730 --> 00:14:46.470 olympics person right i 00:14:46.470 --> 00:14:52.070 i just i didn't i don't think i watched a single i did not tune into an olympics 00:14:52.070 --> 00:14:59.630 channel watch like voluntarily like a single second of the olympics okay yeah 00:14:59.630 --> 00:15:02.850 i'm finding myself actually. 00:15:02.850 --> 00:15:04.450 I'm finding myself checking to. 00:15:04.450 --> 00:15:08.630 See did it actually end this week or not or was it like two weeks ago no no 00:15:08.630 --> 00:15:14.110 no it did no it was this week it was this week okay i mean i you know that's. 00:15:14.110 --> 00:15:16.330 Clearly it that's clearly what you're talking about. 00:15:17.980 --> 00:15:20.340 No, I woke up and we're at war, Sam. 00:15:21.020 --> 00:15:25.960 I was still awake when that happened. And, you know, so. 00:15:26.340 --> 00:15:27.820 Well, I was sound asleep. 00:15:29.760 --> 00:15:32.900 We got those extra West Coast hours over here. 00:15:32.920 --> 00:15:35.560 I had a long week, as I mentioned. I almost got myself killed. 00:15:35.900 --> 00:15:40.460 I came way too damn close to getting killed this week, Sam. I was not through. I was not. 00:15:40.820 --> 00:15:45.160 You mentioned this on the Slack, but tell our listeners. What happened to you this week? 00:15:45.160 --> 00:15:51.240 I'll tell the short version, because I know we ran long on light bulbs. But look, very simple. 00:15:52.340 --> 00:15:58.160 When I travel in most big cities, if I'm in a walking distance of somewhere, 00:15:58.200 --> 00:16:01.100 I will walk there. I'm not going to take a car. There's no point. 00:16:01.740 --> 00:16:05.940 Usually the traffic is so bad in big cities that it doesn't make any sense. Okay. 00:16:06.260 --> 00:16:15.780 So, you know, I, I was, I've, I've walked back and forth to this place many times and, you know, 00:16:16.300 --> 00:16:21.800 in the Dominican Republic and in the Capitol and Santo Domingo, and it's just that. 00:16:22.770 --> 00:16:27.330 The traffic is just brutal over there. But the thing is, the cyclists, 00:16:27.450 --> 00:16:29.130 the motorcycle guys are nuts. 00:16:30.150 --> 00:16:34.230 And, I mean, they have a reputation for it. 00:16:34.350 --> 00:16:39.350 They're very, very, very just crazy on the streets. 00:16:39.950 --> 00:16:40.530 Very, very. 00:16:40.590 --> 00:16:45.490 Gotcha. I mean, it's just, forget about just lane splitting, 00:16:45.750 --> 00:16:47.570 cutting, running red lights, whatever. 00:16:47.950 --> 00:16:53.610 They will do it all, okay? They just don't care. and at very high speeds. 00:16:55.210 --> 00:16:58.830 So, look, I was crossing the street in one place where traffic had stopped, 00:16:58.990 --> 00:17:00.090 crossing the streets over here. 00:17:00.230 --> 00:17:03.710 The cars aren't exactly like giving way anyway either, okay? 00:17:03.790 --> 00:17:05.190 They don't really like to give way. 00:17:05.570 --> 00:17:09.990 So the traffic had stopped, and I was on the phone talking to my wife, 00:17:10.630 --> 00:17:13.870 and I am at the middle of this intersection waiting for traffic to pass, 00:17:13.970 --> 00:17:19.850 and I see that the traffic had slowed down, but cars had stopped so I could weave through the cars. 00:17:19.850 --> 00:17:23.350 I said, I tell my wife, listen, hang on one second, because I didn't want to 00:17:23.350 --> 00:17:24.550 be on the phone talking as I'm 00:17:24.550 --> 00:17:26.670 crossing the street. I wanted to be paying attention to what I'm doing. 00:17:26.990 --> 00:17:29.990 And I'm like, just hang on one second. So I put the phone down like I had, 00:17:30.070 --> 00:17:33.330 like by my ear and I put it down like by my by by my waist. 00:17:33.470 --> 00:17:36.090 So so I'm not I'm not on the phone. I didn't want to hang up. 00:17:36.830 --> 00:17:41.330 So I'm I crossed the streets, three lanes. I crossed the first and the second one. 00:17:41.450 --> 00:17:45.270 I'm in front of a stopped car and cars were moving on the third one and a car 00:17:45.270 --> 00:17:47.690 over there stopped to let me through. 00:17:47.950 --> 00:17:52.690 OK, so there was a. big SUV behind me, and I looked to see if a motorcycle's 00:17:52.690 --> 00:17:56.730 coming, and I didn't see one, but this guy was coming up so fast that as I went across, 00:17:56.950 --> 00:18:04.750 this motorcycle was coming through, and I had walked in. I realized it's coming. 00:18:05.090 --> 00:18:11.450 I literally have this guy's cyclist face in front of me less than a few inches, 00:18:11.450 --> 00:18:17.590 and I did manage to jump back out and not get hit by the motorcycle. 00:18:18.170 --> 00:18:18.510 Okay. 00:18:18.990 --> 00:18:20.730 That was too close for comfort. 00:18:21.700 --> 00:18:22.700 I can imagine. 00:18:23.680 --> 00:18:25.480 Way too close for comfort. 00:18:26.140 --> 00:18:32.520 If you remember, not a motorcycle, but in my family, there were at least two 00:18:32.520 --> 00:18:38.040 pedestrian versus car accidents over the last, I don't know. 00:18:38.180 --> 00:18:44.980 Oh, it's been a while now. But a few years back, a car, my dad was crossing 00:18:44.980 --> 00:18:49.960 the street and had just stepped off the curb and a car ran over his foot. 00:18:51.160 --> 00:18:54.480 out you know as it was you know turning around 00:18:54.480 --> 00:18:57.560 the corner where he i mean he was crossing at an intersection 00:18:57.560 --> 00:19:00.380 with you know the the walk light for 00:19:00.380 --> 00:19:03.580 pedestrians on and then um my 00:19:03.580 --> 00:19:07.840 mother-in-law just like two years ago was crossing 00:19:07.840 --> 00:19:10.820 the street at a crosswalk in front 00:19:10.820 --> 00:19:14.720 of her church and and a 00:19:14.720 --> 00:19:17.540 car just barreled right into her like you know 00:19:17.540 --> 00:19:21.160 she was she was in the hospital for like a while 00:19:21.160 --> 00:19:25.080 for that and recovering for months after 00:19:25.080 --> 00:19:27.820 that and and i don't i don't know 00:19:27.820 --> 00:19:30.940 what the story was with the guy who ran over my dad's foot 00:19:30.940 --> 00:19:39.600 but the guy who was who who hit my mother-in-law um was paying attention to 00:19:39.600 --> 00:19:46.140 a baseball game on the radio and not looking at what was in front of him and 00:19:46.140 --> 00:19:49.780 speeding as he passed by this church nice. 00:19:49.780 --> 00:19:59.260 Not bad no i i mean in my case i i walk very defensively which is why i don't i don't i'm not on. 00:19:59.260 --> 00:20:03.920 My you know presumably the guy presumably the guy in the motorcycle was doing 00:20:03.920 --> 00:20:06.580 something wrong right he was he was going too fast the. 00:20:06.580 --> 00:20:11.640 Guy was like lane oh yeah the guy was like speeding and lane splitting and speeding 00:20:11.640 --> 00:20:16.300 at a very high I rate a speed, and if I remember correctly, he also ran a red light! 00:20:16.700 --> 00:20:18.160 Oh, excellent, excellent. 00:20:19.320 --> 00:20:22.600 Was it a hit and run? Did he leave? Well, he didn't hit you. He almost hit you. 00:20:22.600 --> 00:20:24.560 He didn't hit me. Oh, he just kept going. Yeah. 00:20:25.560 --> 00:20:30.400 Okay. Well, as I said on the curmudgeon's corner slack, I'm glad you're not dead. 00:20:30.420 --> 00:20:34.040 But like I said, one thing, look, all I said about that incident, 00:20:34.040 --> 00:20:37.320 the one thing that would have really made it way, way, way worse is, 00:20:37.440 --> 00:20:43.660 look, if my wife, if that guy hit me, right, my wife is listening to this as it's happening, right? 00:20:44.160 --> 00:20:44.280 Right. 00:20:44.280 --> 00:20:49.680 And she's a thousand miles away. I cannot imagine the ridiculously helpless 00:20:49.680 --> 00:20:53.380 feeling that she would have if that happened. 00:20:53.620 --> 00:20:54.920 Right. Yeah. 00:20:55.260 --> 00:21:00.780 I mean, if she doesn't hear it, it's not as bad. 00:21:00.920 --> 00:21:05.920 But I just thought this couldn't have been any worse if I got hit. Okay? 00:21:06.520 --> 00:21:06.880 Right. 00:21:09.590 --> 00:21:15.750 So, thank God that, you know, but that's the reason why I usually try to be 00:21:15.750 --> 00:21:19.350 very, like, I'm not, I don't, you know, she called me. 00:21:19.450 --> 00:21:22.570 I don't try to be walking and being on, when I'm walking streets like that, 00:21:22.670 --> 00:21:24.010 I'm not walking and being on the phone. 00:21:24.170 --> 00:21:27.290 Okay? I don't do that. I'll take a phone call like my wife called me, 00:21:27.350 --> 00:21:29.470 but I try usually not to even do that. Okay? 00:21:29.770 --> 00:21:35.410 But, you know, look, I'm traveling. You know, it's hit and miss when we can, 00:21:35.570 --> 00:21:38.930 like, you know, because she called me. I believe I called her because I had 00:21:38.930 --> 00:21:41.950 been in a meeting and she tried to call me a couple of hours earlier and I couldn't 00:21:41.950 --> 00:21:43.290 talk to her. So I was like calling her back. 00:21:43.810 --> 00:21:44.070 Right. 00:21:44.230 --> 00:21:47.790 You know, so it's one of those things. But but I but I usually try to like if 00:21:47.790 --> 00:21:51.770 I'm walking in the city streets like that, I'm like not on my phone. No, no. 00:21:52.070 --> 00:21:55.250 It's just you know, you have to be you have to be paying attention, 00:21:55.410 --> 00:21:58.530 especially in these cities where traffic is is crazy. 00:21:58.710 --> 00:22:02.090 You know, I mean, it's you know, it's crazier than here. 00:22:02.330 --> 00:22:04.730 And so, yeah. So, you know, you want to be mindful. 00:22:04.730 --> 00:22:11.190 Well, speaking of close calls, traffic in cities, et cetera, 00:22:11.510 --> 00:22:19.310 this seems like a good opportunity to once again tell the story of when I first came to Seattle. 00:22:19.310 --> 00:22:23.110 like I've mentioned 00:22:23.110 --> 00:22:31.330 this before I'm sure but it was I think I'd already interviewed and I'd gotten 00:22:31.330 --> 00:22:40.050 a job here but I was going to be in temporary housing and so the bottom line was. 00:22:41.300 --> 00:22:49.420 The, when I got my rental car, they were out of like regular old sedans or whatever. 00:22:50.180 --> 00:22:55.600 And they gave me like, I forget what it was, whether it was, 00:22:55.860 --> 00:23:02.120 I think it was in, in my head, it was a pickup truck, but it may have been like a, an SUV or something. 00:23:02.260 --> 00:23:07.700 Remember this was 20 some years ago, but whatever, it was a bigger vehicle than I was used to. 00:23:08.220 --> 00:23:18.340 Okay. And so I had found, like, my hotel or whatever, and it was brand new to the city, and, like, 00:23:18.880 --> 00:23:27.520 I'd found a place to park, whatever, and I was getting out of the truck in order 00:23:27.520 --> 00:23:30.220 to, you know, go check into my hotel or whatever. 00:23:30.220 --> 00:23:38.680 i i i had yeah and it was i'm trying to remember it if like it wasn't a it didn't 00:23:38.680 --> 00:23:42.580 have like a place to pull up to check in it was like a i don't know i parked 00:23:42.580 --> 00:23:47.120 across street or something or may i i forget the details anyway i had parked 00:23:47.120 --> 00:23:49.000 on the street and was getting out of the truck, 00:23:50.740 --> 00:23:58.960 and i was unused to the size of the truck so i went to step out of the truck Oh, boy. 00:23:59.360 --> 00:24:02.360 And the ground was not where I expected it to be. 00:24:02.820 --> 00:24:03.980 Ah, right. 00:24:04.100 --> 00:24:07.700 Okay. So I basically fell out of the truck. 00:24:07.700 --> 00:24:09.240 You fell out of the truck. Okay. 00:24:09.560 --> 00:24:12.540 And I stumbled forward several feet. Okay. 00:24:13.210 --> 00:24:19.370 And I missed getting squashed by a bus by less than five inches. 00:24:19.970 --> 00:24:20.650 Nice! 00:24:21.190 --> 00:24:28.430 Like, I saw the bus go vroom right in front of my face, like an inch or two away from my face. 00:24:28.990 --> 00:24:35.490 And, like, you know, that would have been the end of my Seattle adventures if 00:24:35.490 --> 00:24:39.470 I had stumbled one or two inches further at that moment. 00:24:40.090 --> 00:24:45.290 It would have been all done. it would not have been survivable I would have 00:24:45.290 --> 00:24:56.650 been done lovely and I was of course extremely traumatized but completely unhurt but like it was, 00:24:57.770 --> 00:24:58.870 probably, 00:25:00.990 --> 00:25:08.470 the closest call in my life to a life ending traumatic event like that that's 00:25:08.470 --> 00:25:12.930 very sobering There might have been another health issue when I was a teenager, 00:25:12.930 --> 00:25:16.490 like I was in the hospital for some asthma stuff and apparently it was touch 00:25:16.490 --> 00:25:18.990 and go for a while, but I barely remember that. 00:25:19.350 --> 00:25:26.170 This was like, I fell out of a damn truck and was inches away from getting clobbered 00:25:26.170 --> 00:25:31.130 by a bus, you know, that was going at, you know, full city bus speed. 00:25:31.250 --> 00:25:34.150 I mean, it wasn't like, you know, going highway speeds or anything, 00:25:34.170 --> 00:25:39.990 but it was quite enough that I would not have survived that incident if it had 00:25:39.990 --> 00:25:41.330 just been a couple inches different. 00:25:41.550 --> 00:25:48.550 And so, yes, it was very sobering. It was like I was quite shaken for the rest of that evening. 00:25:50.210 --> 00:25:56.110 Well, you're here, so we both are here, so there you go. So we've managed to make it so far. 00:25:56.210 --> 00:25:57.610 20-plus years later, I'm still here. 00:26:00.310 --> 00:26:01.850 How shall we do your movies? 00:26:02.090 --> 00:26:07.510 Well, let's do movies before we go to war. Well, we already went to war, 00:26:07.570 --> 00:26:12.870 but before we talk about going to war, the most recent war-like adventures from 00:26:12.870 --> 00:26:14.890 our wonderful president. Okay. 00:26:16.750 --> 00:26:19.350 War-like? War-like? 00:26:20.350 --> 00:26:21.350 Well you know. 00:26:21.350 --> 00:26:26.410 I don't i don't i don't i don't see it as war like it's it's it's it's pretty 00:26:26.410 --> 00:26:28.530 it's pretty actual war not. 00:26:28.530 --> 00:26:31.570 War like the thing is and we 00:26:31.570 --> 00:26:35.810 we can talk about this when we actually hit the subject but we 00:26:35.810 --> 00:26:43.150 have yet to see like to me there's we have it's unfortunate but we almost have 00:26:43.150 --> 00:26:51.170 to start making the distinction between the events that sort of last a few days 00:26:51.170 --> 00:26:52.790 or a week and then are done. 00:26:53.210 --> 00:26:56.230 Oh, I see what you're saying. Versus, you know. 00:26:56.390 --> 00:27:03.630 So how many days is it a skirmish versus a war? So Ukraine is a war. Ukraine is a war. 00:27:03.930 --> 00:27:07.170 But like, did Venezuela turn out to be a war? 00:27:07.330 --> 00:27:07.590 No, no, no. 00:27:07.590 --> 00:27:09.770 I mean, it was basically over in a couple hours. No. 00:27:10.510 --> 00:27:14.390 Right. Venezuela's not a war. Yeah. It's a skirmish. Not a war. Yeah. 00:27:14.390 --> 00:27:21.690 Now, was it an act of war, according to international law? Absolutely. 00:27:22.450 --> 00:27:24.210 But was it a war? But it's not a war. 00:27:24.370 --> 00:27:31.330 I mean, but not yet. Not yet. Not yet, Sam. I mean, you know. Anyway. 00:27:31.930 --> 00:27:38.010 Anyway. Okay. Movies. First up, from 2002, Blade II. 00:27:38.930 --> 00:27:46.250 Is that with what's his name the tax the tax uh tax guys snipes right yes yes 00:27:46.250 --> 00:27:53.330 why can't i remember his name i remember just about my head now it's he's always the tax guy and. 00:27:53.330 --> 00:27:58.270 A while ago we talked about me watching blade the original this is the sequel. 00:27:58.270 --> 00:28:03.470 Well for for those that don't know okay because i call him the tax guy wesley 00:28:03.470 --> 00:28:07.630 snipes got this brilliant financial advisor that basically told, 00:28:07.930 --> 00:28:10.910 that basically convinced them that he should declare himself, 00:28:11.070 --> 00:28:12.210 I think, a sovereign citizen, 00:28:12.530 --> 00:28:14.410 basically that he didn't own any taxes. 00:28:15.030 --> 00:28:22.150 And so he filed to get a tax refund for all the taxes that he had filed in two 00:28:22.150 --> 00:28:25.010 years prior, tens of millions of dollars. 00:28:25.210 --> 00:28:30.330 The IRS did not take this lightly and basically went after him. 00:28:30.490 --> 00:28:32.470 And then he hadn't filed other taxes. 00:28:32.670 --> 00:28:36.890 So they went after him criminally and threw him in jail for tax evasion. 00:28:37.490 --> 00:28:40.590 Okay. Yes. This is him. 00:28:41.150 --> 00:28:45.010 But it's the kind of stuff that doesn't happen to our president who does the same thing. But anyway. 00:28:45.610 --> 00:28:46.090 Anyway. 00:28:46.630 --> 00:28:48.330 Only two black guys. 00:28:49.450 --> 00:28:54.190 Now, Blade is technically a Marvel property, but this is. 00:28:54.310 --> 00:28:54.890 It is? 00:28:56.030 --> 00:29:00.310 Yes, I believe that we had discussed this last time we talked about this. 00:29:00.390 --> 00:29:02.730 Fuck if I know that I don't know any of these things. 00:29:03.170 --> 00:29:08.990 But this is not part of the MCU, the Marvel Cinematic Universe. 00:29:09.330 --> 00:29:13.250 But Blade was a Marvel Comics character. 00:29:14.090 --> 00:29:19.710 And I believe Alex and I were watching this as going systematically through 00:29:19.710 --> 00:29:25.290 Marvel-based movies, of which another was your favorite Howard the Duck. 00:29:26.030 --> 00:29:27.810 So, also Marvel. 00:29:30.680 --> 00:29:34.760 I still can't believe that's a horrible movie. Don't understand. 00:29:35.240 --> 00:29:36.980 Also not MCU, though. 00:29:37.780 --> 00:29:38.080 Right. 00:29:38.780 --> 00:29:47.320 Anyway, some of you may remember, I'm pretty sure I gave no better than a thumb 00:29:47.320 --> 00:29:50.420 sideways to the original movie and probably a thumbs down. 00:29:51.060 --> 00:29:56.240 These do not get better, I don't think, as you go along through the series. 00:29:56.440 --> 00:30:00.280 But they actually, didn't they do well at the box office? 00:30:00.680 --> 00:30:04.060 They did fine, I think. Box office. 00:30:04.060 --> 00:30:10.100 Well, I mean, I know he did a couple of these. I'm looking it up. 57% Rotten Tomatoes. 00:30:10.100 --> 00:30:12.680 This one made $80 million in the U.S. 00:30:13.920 --> 00:30:15.140 And Blade II. 00:30:15.500 --> 00:30:17.640 That's not a huge amount, but it's, you know. 00:30:17.640 --> 00:30:21.560 Well, no, but a U.S. But look, here's the thing. It's a low-budget movie. 00:30:22.320 --> 00:30:26.760 Blade II, $54 million budget, which considering where budgets are for movies, 00:30:26.900 --> 00:30:32.680 it's pretty low budget. But 155 million total box office. Yeah, not that bad. 00:30:33.200 --> 00:30:41.400 Yeah. Anyway, it's the kind of movie like, well, let me give the first couple 00:30:41.400 --> 00:30:43.280 paragraphs of the plot like I usually do. 00:30:44.020 --> 00:30:47.400 Again, from Wikipedia. In Prague, 00:30:47.760 --> 00:30:52.320 Blade searches for his mentor, Abraham Whistler, who is thought dead after being 00:30:52.320 --> 00:30:54.560 attacked by Deacon Frost, but 00:30:54.560 --> 00:30:59.040 was instead turned into a vampire and held prisoner by them for two years. 00:30:59.760 --> 00:31:05.080 After interrogating Vampire Rush on Whistler's whereabouts, Blade rescues Whistler 00:31:05.080 --> 00:31:07.120 and cures him of his vampirism. 00:31:07.540 --> 00:31:12.020 Whistler meets Scud, Blade's young, gifted new technician. 00:31:12.380 --> 00:31:14.320 Vampirism? Vampirism? 00:31:16.480 --> 00:31:17.420 Vampirism, vampirism, yeah. 00:31:19.450 --> 00:31:20.070 Okay. 00:31:20.710 --> 00:31:27.270 A pandemic is turning vampires into reapers, primal mutant creatures with a 00:31:27.270 --> 00:31:28.810 ravenous thirst for blood. 00:31:28.970 --> 00:31:30.690 So that's how we got RFK. 00:31:32.530 --> 00:31:37.930 And a highly infectious bite that transforms both humans and vampires alike. 00:31:38.190 --> 00:31:43.390 The original carrier of the reaper strain and cause of the pandemic is Jared 00:31:43.390 --> 00:31:47.310 Nomak, who bears hatred towards the vampire race. 00:31:48.110 --> 00:31:55.070 Are you sure this isn't a historical thing? If I use this to explain some of 00:31:55.070 --> 00:31:56.910 the shit we're going through, this explains a lot. 00:31:57.370 --> 00:32:06.250 Uh-huh. To combat the Reapers, vampire overlord Eli Demeskinos sends his trusted 00:32:06.250 --> 00:32:10.990 servant Assad and his daughter Nissa to strike a truce with Blade. 00:32:10.990 --> 00:32:14.130 knowing humans will be the reaper's next target after 00:32:14.130 --> 00:32:19.670 vampires blade reluctantly allies himself with them and it continues look my 00:32:19.670 --> 00:32:25.410 basic complaint about this one and probably why it still did decently is the 00:32:25.410 --> 00:32:30.370 same thing that i believe we talked about last week on like the last allegiant 00:32:30.370 --> 00:32:34.010 one and it's like it's like 100 percent, 00:32:35.210 --> 00:32:44.610 Move from like one violent action fight scene to a few seconds of exposition 00:32:44.610 --> 00:32:49.270 to the next violent fight scene to, you know, and. 00:32:49.270 --> 00:32:53.870 The whole point of the movie is the violent, the violent scenes. 00:32:53.870 --> 00:32:55.090 Yeah, I mean... 00:32:55.090 --> 00:32:57.990 It's not really the plot. Well, let's just... Listen, let's just... 00:32:58.830 --> 00:33:03.170 Let's just kind of, like, sprinkle some kind of semblance of a plot here, 00:33:03.330 --> 00:33:06.090 just for an excuse for a whole bunch of action scenes. 00:33:06.490 --> 00:33:10.670 Yes. I mean, and look, it's not all violence. There's also chase scenes. 00:33:11.590 --> 00:33:17.950 Oh, and chase... Well, you gotta chase the person to get to the violence. 00:33:18.150 --> 00:33:23.670 Yes, yes. And there's also... Okay, as I... 00:33:23.870 --> 00:33:31.690 As a former physics major, there was also, these are vampires who are sensitive, 00:33:32.010 --> 00:33:35.990 of course, to like sunlight and such. Yeah. 00:33:36.270 --> 00:33:36.410 Okay. 00:33:36.410 --> 00:33:43.670 And so, but one of the things they had in this movie was basically sunlight grenades. 00:33:44.270 --> 00:33:50.570 Okay. These things would go off and it would basically produce a bright light. 00:33:51.270 --> 00:33:51.990 Okay. 00:33:51.990 --> 00:33:59.050 And then the vampires would die exposed to this bright light and the other creatures 00:33:59.050 --> 00:34:01.290 that were in this as well. The Reapers. 00:34:01.610 --> 00:34:02.770 Sunlight grenades. 00:34:03.310 --> 00:34:04.810 But here's the thing. 00:34:05.930 --> 00:34:07.150 There's a thing. 00:34:07.950 --> 00:34:13.450 The light from these grenades went around corners. 00:34:14.190 --> 00:34:15.190 Whoa! No! 00:34:16.110 --> 00:34:23.570 And like, it's basically just a really bright flashlight. 00:34:25.320 --> 00:34:27.440 That manages to go around corners. 00:34:27.820 --> 00:34:32.180 It goes around corners. I mean, it's like the light would explode, 00:34:32.180 --> 00:34:34.600 like a regular explosion, but it was just light. 00:34:34.760 --> 00:34:39.580 But light does not go around corners. Light goes straight. 00:34:40.100 --> 00:34:43.820 I mean, it'll bounce off mirrors and stuff, but that's not what was happening here. 00:34:43.980 --> 00:34:50.960 They were in the sewers under some Eastern European city, and they would set 00:34:50.960 --> 00:34:55.680 it off, and the light would expand out. 00:34:55.780 --> 00:34:58.980 By the way, not at the speed of light. It wouldn't be just like turning on a flashlight. 00:34:59.020 --> 00:35:05.840 It would go vroom and expand out from wherever this grenade went off and go around corners. 00:35:06.380 --> 00:35:11.500 And every time this was happening, I was pausing the movie and complaining to 00:35:11.500 --> 00:35:14.320 Alex about how light wouldn't behave that way. 00:35:15.000 --> 00:35:19.540 And all these are are bright flashlights. So why is it happening this way? 00:35:20.380 --> 00:35:24.640 And then they were like, you know, they had, I don't know. 00:35:25.500 --> 00:35:30.220 It bugged me. It bugged me. That was a thing in this movie. 00:35:30.540 --> 00:35:33.580 And no, it was. Anyway. 00:35:35.480 --> 00:35:39.200 It does sound idiotic. Look, I love that this thing. 00:35:39.340 --> 00:35:42.700 Look, there's one thing. I was looking at Wikipedia page on this. 00:35:42.820 --> 00:35:46.060 I love this blurb. Okay. This is a fantastic blurb. 00:35:46.640 --> 00:35:48.380 There's a video game released on this. 00:35:48.620 --> 00:35:50.100 Okay. Okay. All right. 00:35:51.180 --> 00:35:56.180 Here's the blurb. This is the best blurb. Okay. It's just, there's a single 00:35:56.180 --> 00:35:58.960 line about this in the Wikipedia review. Video game. 00:35:59.220 --> 00:36:05.000 A video game, Blade II, was released for PlayStation 2 and Xbox on September 3rd, 2002, period. 00:36:05.740 --> 00:36:07.360 Reviews were generally negative. 00:36:07.940 --> 00:36:08.460 Okay. 00:36:13.770 --> 00:36:19.830 There you go you know yeah you know there is apparently a third this is about 00:36:19.830 --> 00:36:24.150 vampires so there's vampires third movie by the way yes. 00:36:24.150 --> 00:36:24.710 I have not. 00:36:24.710 --> 00:36:25.170 Yet seen. 00:36:25.170 --> 00:36:26.490 The third movie so don't spoil. 00:36:26.490 --> 00:36:29.410 It no I'm not no no no I'm not gonna go with spoilers I'm gonna go into revenue 00:36:29.410 --> 00:36:32.010 because you know what we talked about with Divergent how they started doing 00:36:32.010 --> 00:36:36.350 worse and worse each time yes they did increase the budget a little bit to 65 00:36:36.350 --> 00:36:41.230 million but the box office was down like 20 million to 132 million but still, 00:36:42.010 --> 00:36:43.390 considering, you know, 00:36:44.070 --> 00:36:49.070 movies and how they go now and spend $300 million on a movie only to get $300 00:36:49.070 --> 00:36:52.450 million in revenue, I would guess that for a studio, they're like, yeah, 00:36:53.270 --> 00:36:55.070 it's not bad. You know? 00:36:55.510 --> 00:37:00.250 Hey, this works. We can work with this. Exactly. 00:37:00.950 --> 00:37:02.970 They also made Blade the series. 00:37:03.850 --> 00:37:09.050 Man, I tell you what, I've never seen something more milked. 00:37:09.510 --> 00:37:12.670 I'm guessing the TV series is toned down a little. This had, 00:37:12.810 --> 00:37:18.890 you know, in addition to lots of violence, and they made it graphic and gory 00:37:18.890 --> 00:37:24.130 violence in many cases, there's also, you know, lots of swearing. 00:37:24.610 --> 00:37:28.910 Basically, Wesley Snipes is being a badass and, you know, doing the thing. 00:37:29.630 --> 00:37:35.590 There's not, it's like, I was going to say sex stuff, but it's not like real sex. 00:37:35.710 --> 00:37:40.470 It's not like, it's not even rated R, right? This thing's rated PG-13, I think, probably. 00:37:41.070 --> 00:37:44.630 By the way, speaking of how movies going downwards. 00:37:44.990 --> 00:37:45.530 Yes. 00:37:46.230 --> 00:37:50.910 The previous one had like Rotten Tomatoes. Blade 2 was like, 00:37:50.990 --> 00:37:54.070 I think it looked like 50, 60 Rotten Tomatoes approval. 00:37:54.570 --> 00:37:57.990 Okay. So I went to Blade, the third one, the Blade Trinity. 00:37:58.410 --> 00:37:58.570 57. 00:37:59.270 --> 00:38:04.470 57. On the Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a 24% approval rating. 00:38:04.470 --> 00:38:08.290 So this thing basically just, just like went off for number three. 00:38:08.970 --> 00:38:10.730 Yeah. For number three, it's just. 00:38:10.910 --> 00:38:12.810 You know, I'm looking forward to that one then. 00:38:14.700 --> 00:38:21.200 It basically is just driving off a cliff in terms of, you know, 00:38:21.260 --> 00:38:25.740 this goes with a little bit of, like, how I know that he must have done it for 00:38:25.740 --> 00:38:28.520 the money, the guy that did the Bourne film. 00:38:28.880 --> 00:38:31.880 Well, he did it for the money, I'm sure. But it's the same thing as, 00:38:31.940 --> 00:38:37.440 like, with the Jason Bourne films, where, what's his name, that did the Bourne films. 00:38:37.440 --> 00:38:41.980 He said at one point, and I'm like, he declined at one point to do a movie, 00:38:42.020 --> 00:38:45.800 and somebody else did it instead of him. And he said, man, look, 00:38:46.140 --> 00:38:48.560 they came to me. Let's do another one of these. 00:38:48.800 --> 00:38:52.440 I was just like, man, what are we going to call it? The Bourne redundancy? 00:38:52.700 --> 00:38:56.840 I mean, what the hell? It's the same shit over and over. 00:38:56.980 --> 00:39:00.800 We keep milking this for, you know, to no end. Okay. 00:39:01.220 --> 00:39:02.980 You know, enough. Enough. 00:39:04.980 --> 00:39:06.120 Okay. So. 00:39:08.280 --> 00:39:12.940 Thumb it down? Well, since we decided to be more graduated. 00:39:14.420 --> 00:39:18.820 Halfway between thumbs sideways and thumbs down. I'm not going to give it a 00:39:18.820 --> 00:39:20.220 straight up thumbs down. 00:39:20.520 --> 00:39:24.280 You're a thumb angled down, but not straight down. 00:39:24.780 --> 00:39:32.680 Yes, exactly. And because like I'm reserving straight down for the worst of the worst. 00:39:32.820 --> 00:39:34.840 And this isn't quite that bad. 00:39:35.160 --> 00:39:36.920 This isn't quite that bad. 00:39:36.920 --> 00:39:44.680 But I would certainly not recommend this movie unless what we have described 00:39:44.680 --> 00:39:47.160 here, like, is the kind of thing you like. 00:39:47.780 --> 00:39:55.560 You just want, like, some kind of, like, hey, I need my fix of graphic violence 00:39:55.560 --> 00:39:59.140 and some sexual innuendo on TV. 00:39:59.560 --> 00:40:00.240 Right. 00:40:00.480 --> 00:40:05.480 I'm bored. I can't find anything else. Where can I find this? Oh, Blade! 00:40:06.180 --> 00:40:06.820 Too, 00:40:09.060 --> 00:40:22.040 exactly okay next up next up from 2025 which we actually saw in the theaters a Minecraft movie oh. 00:40:22.040 --> 00:40:23.800 I've watched this. 00:40:23.800 --> 00:40:27.460 You've watched it okay okay yes so mine. 00:40:27.460 --> 00:40:29.600 Who likes Minecraft we went to see the movie yes. 00:40:29.600 --> 00:40:33.200 So let's get your thoughts first then what did you think of it, 00:40:34.250 --> 00:40:35.830 Now, let me ask. 00:40:36.050 --> 00:40:40.730 Okay, I'll give the short, brief summary because it was a while back when I watched it. 00:40:40.890 --> 00:40:45.190 Also, give, what is your experience with the game? 00:40:45.410 --> 00:40:48.950 Like, how much have you played yourself? I know Manu's played a little bit. 00:40:49.050 --> 00:40:50.190 How much have you played? 00:40:50.810 --> 00:40:55.530 I mean, I've played some, you know. I mean, I've played with them, you know. 00:40:55.710 --> 00:41:01.450 But you're not, like, deeply familiar with the Minecraft lore and things like that. 00:41:01.450 --> 00:41:07.430 Lore itself lore well I know all the characters like all the little like creeper 00:41:07.430 --> 00:41:13.950 you know I know all the you know I recognize all the things that appeared in 00:41:13.950 --> 00:41:20.170 the movie I don't know about the lore itself probably not but you know let me. 00:41:21.390 --> 00:41:30.030 Get a basic like level set did you understand what was happening when they had 00:41:30.030 --> 00:41:34.410 the Technoblade cameo or did you recognize DanTDM when he was on the screen? 00:41:35.150 --> 00:41:35.630 No. 00:41:36.130 --> 00:41:40.010 Okay. See? So you're not deeply enough. 00:41:40.130 --> 00:41:42.370 I'm familiar. No, no, I'm familiar. 00:41:42.450 --> 00:41:48.210 This is two YouTubers who, like, one was referenced and one made a cameo. 00:41:48.630 --> 00:41:51.290 No, no, no. And there were some others. Like I said, I'm, like, 00:41:51.490 --> 00:41:55.550 familiar with it, but I'm not. No, I'm not. No. 00:41:55.890 --> 00:41:59.370 Not even close. But, look, I found a movie. 00:41:59.590 --> 00:42:00.670 Me, personally, I'll give the 00:42:00.670 --> 00:42:04.110 preview. because you just saw it more recently. I liked it. It was fun. 00:42:04.110 --> 00:42:06.990 Well, I saw it when it was in the theaters. So like, you know, 00:42:07.090 --> 00:42:08.970 I couldn't have seen it that much more recently than you. 00:42:09.490 --> 00:42:13.750 Well, I thought it was, you know what? It was a fun movie. I liked it. 00:42:14.300 --> 00:42:19.500 I'm going to agree. Thumbs up from me as well. And I am like, it wasn't. 00:42:19.500 --> 00:42:24.660 I was surprised. I thought it was going to suck. I thought it was a terrible idea. 00:42:24.920 --> 00:42:29.660 How the hell are they going to make a whole fucking movie about Minecraft was what I was thinking. 00:42:29.900 --> 00:42:34.480 And I came out, and maybe that helped, but I came out very pleasantly surprised. 00:42:34.480 --> 00:42:36.660 I said, hey, this was fun. 00:42:37.060 --> 00:42:42.380 Mine would like it too. And I wasn't surprised about making a movie out of Minecraft 00:42:42.380 --> 00:42:50.500 because I've watched many an animated thing on YouTube that's in Minecraft, you know, fully. 00:42:50.740 --> 00:42:55.760 What I was dubious about was the fact that this mixes real life and Minecraft. 00:42:56.260 --> 00:42:56.520 Right. 00:42:56.700 --> 00:43:00.820 As opposed to really being an animated thing completely within the world of Minecraft. 00:43:00.820 --> 00:43:04.600 Instead, it, you know, it starts out in the human world and then they move into 00:43:04.600 --> 00:43:11.200 Minecraft and, you know, and it's sort of a weird hybrid and they sort of acknowledge 00:43:11.200 --> 00:43:13.940 the gaminess of it as well. Yes. 00:43:14.260 --> 00:43:16.800 And so it doesn't take itself super seriously. 00:43:17.560 --> 00:43:23.460 No, no. I haven't given the actual plot, so let me read the first couple paragraphs there, too. 00:43:23.840 --> 00:43:28.040 Struggling doorknob salesman Steve breaks into a mine to fulfill a childhood 00:43:28.040 --> 00:43:31.960 dream, where he discovers the orb of dominance and the Earth crystal. 00:43:32.300 --> 00:43:36.440 When combined, they create a portal that transports him to the overworld, 00:43:36.640 --> 00:43:40.080 a world where the terrain is made of easily manipulated cubes. 00:43:40.320 --> 00:43:44.380 He builds his own paradise and later stumbles across a porter to a hellish world 00:43:44.380 --> 00:43:49.720 called the Nether. He is imprisoned by Malgosha, the gold-obsessed piglin ruler 00:43:49.720 --> 00:43:52.400 of the Nether who gravely discourages creativity. 00:43:52.680 --> 00:43:57.320 Because the orb would allow her to control the overworld, Steve has his dog 00:43:57.320 --> 00:44:02.220 Dennis escape with the orb and crystal and hide them under his bed in the real world. 00:44:02.550 --> 00:44:08.150 Some time later, 1980s video game champion Garrett the Garbage Man Garrison 00:44:08.150 --> 00:44:12.310 owns a failing video game store in Chuglas, Idaho. 00:44:12.710 --> 00:44:16.850 He heads to a storage auction to acquire items to sell for cash, 00:44:17.370 --> 00:44:20.090 ultimately winning the contents of Steve's old house. 00:44:20.250 --> 00:44:24.430 While searching through the items, particularly hoping to find an Atari Cosmos, 00:44:24.710 --> 00:44:30.310 he instead finds Steve's old belongings, including the orb and crystal, dot, dot, dot. 00:44:30.310 --> 00:44:36.990 But anyway, a couple kids and that guy end up, you know, also following into 00:44:36.990 --> 00:44:41.070 the overworld, into the world of Minecraft and having adventures, 00:44:41.310 --> 00:44:43.570 rescuing Steve, etc. Sorry, spoilers. 00:44:44.610 --> 00:44:52.870 And anyway I agree it surprised me for being a lot of fun was it perfect? 00:44:53.250 --> 00:44:58.250 No there were things I could quibble with as someone who has followed some of 00:44:58.250 --> 00:45:06.930 the Minecraft stuff I liked the cameos I haven't watched all the like there are a whole bunch of, 00:45:08.570 --> 00:45:11.850 YouTubers that were did cameos let me. 00:45:13.670 --> 00:45:19.250 There we go. So cameos are of YouTubers. 00:45:19.930 --> 00:45:25.290 DanTDM, who I mentioned, who Alex watched tons of DanTDM when he was younger. 00:45:25.530 --> 00:45:31.610 Not anymore, really, but I'll occasionally put it on because I miss DanTDM. 00:45:31.710 --> 00:45:34.370 I watched it, too, because Alex was watching it. 00:45:36.170 --> 00:45:39.870 Apmow, who I don't know. MumboJumbo, who we watched a bunch of as well. 00:45:39.870 --> 00:45:47.350 mumbo jumbo is a a minecraft redstone youtuber he made makes all kinds of contraptions 00:45:47.350 --> 00:45:54.570 out of out of redstone in minecraft and does some other things too and apparently he didn't make a, 00:45:55.470 --> 00:46:01.410 i guess he he did make a cameo but he also helped design some of the the redstone 00:46:01.410 --> 00:46:04.990 mechanisms in the game to make sure that in the movie to make sure they were 00:46:04.990 --> 00:46:09.070 match the game ld shadow lady i didn't really watch a lot of her, 00:46:09.230 --> 00:46:10.310 but I would recognize her. 00:46:11.250 --> 00:46:17.030 And one of the developers of Minecraft, who's one of their spokespeople when 00:46:17.030 --> 00:46:20.110 they have events, announcing new features and stuff, made a cameo as well. 00:46:20.370 --> 00:46:24.130 And I mentioned Technoblade. Technoblade was a YouTuber who died. 00:46:24.510 --> 00:46:29.490 Died very young of cancer. He was a Minecraft YouTuber. Very big Minecraft YouTuber. 00:46:30.250 --> 00:46:34.330 And they included a cameo of his character. 00:46:35.530 --> 00:46:39.690 Walking across the street and made a little Just made a little statement to 00:46:39.690 --> 00:46:42.030 him. And like, I caught all those references. 00:46:42.810 --> 00:46:46.070 And so I don't know. I'm not. Right. I'm not that, you know. 00:46:46.350 --> 00:46:49.750 And so, like, I recognize the people. I was like, oh, there's Dan. 00:46:50.230 --> 00:46:53.850 And oh, that's the Technoblade reference. I never really watched Technoblade 00:46:53.850 --> 00:46:57.470 channel, but I knew who he was and I knew the reference and I knew it was coming, etc. 00:46:57.470 --> 00:47:03.450 And so I appreciated all that because I mentioned they didn't take themselves 00:47:03.450 --> 00:47:07.750 seriously at all, but they also treated it with some respect. 00:47:08.110 --> 00:47:14.310 So that if you played the game a lot and had all this background, 00:47:14.310 --> 00:47:19.870 you would appreciate it and not be like, oh man, they're completely messing it all up. 00:47:20.130 --> 00:47:24.010 They didn't mess it all up. They did it fairly well. 00:47:24.010 --> 00:47:27.130 and so yeah I enjoyed it I think there's I 00:47:27.130 --> 00:47:30.130 think there's going to be a sequel yep talks for 00:47:30.130 --> 00:47:34.090 a potential sequel began a few days after release looks 00:47:34.090 --> 00:47:39.450 like the release date of the sequel is going to be in 2027 so yeah I'll you 00:47:39.450 --> 00:47:45.690 know it was fun I liked it thumbs up even more thumbs up if you have sort of 00:47:45.690 --> 00:47:52.070 followed YouTube followed Minecraft on YouTube specifically and watched like, 00:47:52.430 --> 00:47:53.810 you know, some of, you know, 00:47:54.270 --> 00:47:59.450 I mean, there's everything from Minecraft music videos to whole stories that 00:47:59.450 --> 00:48:02.370 were done animated in Minecraft and all this kind of stuff. 00:48:02.370 --> 00:48:08.350 And if you followed like some of the long running sort of adventure series where 00:48:08.350 --> 00:48:13.610 people are playing the game, but sort of acting out an adventure within it on YouTube. 00:48:14.070 --> 00:48:17.450 You appreciate it even more, I think, if you followed some of that stuff. 00:48:17.530 --> 00:48:21.370 But even if you haven't, I think it was, it was just a fun little movie. 00:48:21.370 --> 00:48:24.150 So there you go. Thumbs up to a Minecraft movie. 00:48:24.660 --> 00:48:27.400 Yeah okay so all right 00:48:27.400 --> 00:48:30.620 ready for break and then i guess we can talk war 00:48:30.620 --> 00:48:37.120 and destruction and you know i only had two aside from movies and tv that i 00:48:37.120 --> 00:48:42.580 added to the list this week the only two other things on our list were the violence 00:48:42.580 --> 00:48:47.740 in mexico and iran oh fuck that's the only two things that got. 00:48:47.780 --> 00:48:50.480 Because of course, you know, to hell, Jesus Christ. 00:48:52.300 --> 00:48:57.700 Yes. Okay. But we'll, we'll be back after, uh, 00:48:59.940 --> 00:49:00.860 after this one. 00:49:38.470 --> 00:49:42.130 Okay. So, Iran or Mexico? 00:49:42.710 --> 00:49:45.590 Where do you want to start? Or do you want to throw a curveball and talk about 00:49:45.590 --> 00:49:49.450 something else entirely? Let's talk about Iran. And then save those for the next segment. Okay. 00:49:50.630 --> 00:49:55.810 So, as we are, I'm going to caveat like I often do with breaking news events. 00:49:56.090 --> 00:49:59.030 We are recording this Saturday. 00:50:00.330 --> 00:50:03.610 And Saturday, February 28th, as I mentioned at the beginning. 00:50:04.450 --> 00:50:09.010 This is an ongoing news event as we are, right, speaking. 00:50:09.390 --> 00:50:12.570 There are still attacks going on. Iraq. 00:50:13.250 --> 00:50:16.950 Iran is counterattacking. Things are happening. 00:50:17.490 --> 00:50:20.730 The events of the day are going to overtake us. 00:50:20.870 --> 00:50:27.230 By the time you listen to this, things will have changed since, 00:50:27.250 --> 00:50:29.990 you know, midday Saturday U.S. time. 00:50:30.110 --> 00:50:33.030 It's in the afternoon for Ivan. It's right before noon for weeks. 00:50:33.030 --> 00:50:34.790 Why are we doing this again, Sam? For me here on the West Coast. 00:50:36.190 --> 00:50:39.550 I ran bad, Alex. No, you're not Alex. 00:50:43.310 --> 00:50:50.670 i i get you you you all confused all the time i get the dog confused i you know 00:50:50.670 --> 00:50:55.270 luckily my family doesn't mind when i accidentally call them by the dog's name 00:50:55.270 --> 00:50:59.430 they get amused when i call the dog we need to you. 00:50:59.430 --> 00:51:02.970 Know we need to send you out to pasture you know you know just like we did with 00:51:02.970 --> 00:51:05.610 biden because you you keep getting names confused. 00:51:05.610 --> 00:51:12.010 Once i'm in that pasture with the cows i am sure Or I will call one of them Yvonne. 00:51:12.570 --> 00:51:15.710 Probably. So why are we doing this again? 00:51:16.750 --> 00:51:21.210 No, look. What the fuck? 00:51:21.410 --> 00:51:24.790 Sam, what the fuck are we doing? Listen, this is just another. 00:51:25.010 --> 00:51:35.810 It looks fairly clear that what Trump and or the people behind Trump that have been pushing for this. 00:51:35.950 --> 00:51:36.150 Yeah. 00:51:36.770 --> 00:51:42.370 They're straight up after regime change. Like, this is not... 00:51:42.370 --> 00:51:43.910 Oh, come on. Look. 00:51:44.230 --> 00:51:46.250 Now, whether or not they succeed is another question. 00:51:46.250 --> 00:51:47.050 No, no, no, no, no, no. 00:51:48.300 --> 00:51:48.680 No. 00:51:48.860 --> 00:51:51.160 You think it's all just distraction from Epstein or whatever? 00:51:51.480 --> 00:51:57.680 Are you fucking kidding me? I literally said on the Slack two weeks ago, 00:51:57.960 --> 00:52:00.480 literally asked, when are we attacking Iran? 00:52:01.520 --> 00:52:05.640 Well, the talk of us attacking Iran has been going on for months anyway. 00:52:05.760 --> 00:52:06.040 No, no, no. 00:52:06.340 --> 00:52:09.760 And Israel's been pushing it. Well, okay. 00:52:10.140 --> 00:52:11.240 Listen, listen. 00:52:12.860 --> 00:52:15.500 The specific timing may be influenced. 00:52:15.520 --> 00:52:18.080 One thing you just said is the biggest one. Israel, obviously, 00:52:18.400 --> 00:52:21.860 has been goading Trump to attack Iran. 00:52:22.320 --> 00:52:29.280 They have, this has been, I mean, Bibi has wanted this. 00:52:29.400 --> 00:52:35.220 But also, by the way, why does Bibi want to attack Iran? What's the primary reason? 00:52:35.580 --> 00:52:38.220 Oh, is he also trying to stay in office? 00:52:38.400 --> 00:52:41.580 No! And stay out of jail? No, you got, don't say, Sam! 00:52:42.880 --> 00:52:46.740 No, but I don't want to listen. Wait, wait. 00:52:46.980 --> 00:52:51.440 I don't like saying these words myself either. But to be fair to Bibi, 00:52:52.040 --> 00:52:54.340 he's wanted to go after I ran for decades. 00:52:54.660 --> 00:53:03.060 True, true, true. But but also as an extra motivation that this is that that is that does help. 00:53:05.070 --> 00:53:12.270 Yeah. Oh, yeah. None of this hurts. I'm sure the timing was probably influenced by stuff we need. 00:53:12.470 --> 00:53:16.050 I think that's the main thing. It's the whole timing. 00:53:16.430 --> 00:53:22.990 Why now? And I think it has to do more with trying to divert and distract from 00:53:22.990 --> 00:53:27.650 all the other shit going on, both in Israel and the United States, 00:53:27.850 --> 00:53:31.110 than anything else. Because we're in the middle of negotiations with Iran. 00:53:31.290 --> 00:53:33.490 When we're talking, we're doing a whatever. 00:53:33.710 --> 00:53:36.130 And you know what? We just go, ah, fuck it. We're bombing them. 00:53:36.670 --> 00:53:43.390 Well, I'm not sure how much of those negotiations was ever really in good faith anyway. 00:53:43.510 --> 00:53:46.910 Well, Sam, how could they be in good faith in the first place? 00:53:47.210 --> 00:53:50.970 Listen, this entire thing has been a charade from the beginning. 00:53:51.130 --> 00:53:59.870 Look, like Tim Kaine I just said, we had a deal with these guys. and we broke it. 00:54:00.770 --> 00:54:08.090 Yeah. Yeah. I mean, and look, in terms of what, you know, I said that the sort 00:54:08.090 --> 00:54:15.610 of nominal, all the language they're using is more aligned with regime change than anything else. 00:54:15.930 --> 00:54:22.770 But in terms of like what's actually likely to happen, I feel like, 00:54:22.950 --> 00:54:27.010 you know, maybe they'll get lucky and do something like they did in Venezuela. 00:54:27.010 --> 00:54:30.010 Sam, let me ask a question. But I think it's more. Wait, wait, wait. 00:54:30.210 --> 00:54:31.970 Let me finish the thought. Let me finish the thought. 00:54:31.970 --> 00:54:32.090 Let me finish the thought. 00:54:32.110 --> 00:54:33.570 For you about the regime change thing. 00:54:33.710 --> 00:54:33.810 Okay, okay, okay. 00:54:33.910 --> 00:54:37.710 When you say regime change, what do you think it means for them? 00:54:39.510 --> 00:54:45.910 I really don't think they think any further than let's get rid of the one or two people at the top. 00:54:46.690 --> 00:54:53.130 So it's just, hey, let's just topple it and then whatever happens, happens. Okay. 00:54:54.900 --> 00:54:55.320 Pretty much. 00:54:55.660 --> 00:54:56.800 Sounds like a brilliant plan. 00:54:56.900 --> 00:55:03.740 Sam. I honestly don't think they think multiple steps ahead in terms of this kind of stuff. 00:55:04.480 --> 00:55:09.260 It doesn't seem like they did in Venezuela. No. I don't think they would here, too. 00:55:09.620 --> 00:55:13.400 I mean, when experts are talking about, like, what happens in Iran, 00:55:13.700 --> 00:55:20.620 like, they're like, hey, let's say they succeeded and they killed the Ayatollah today. 00:55:21.000 --> 00:55:21.460 Uh-huh. 00:55:21.460 --> 00:55:25.320 And what is the most likely result of that? 00:55:25.540 --> 00:55:32.560 It is not, oh, wow, suddenly a democracy springs up tomorrow that's friendly to the West. 00:55:32.760 --> 00:55:35.580 No, most likely you get years of chaos. 00:55:36.360 --> 00:55:40.740 By the way, I just opened an article in the New York Times talking about this. 00:55:40.860 --> 00:55:43.740 Let me read this sentence here. 00:55:43.880 --> 00:55:49.360 This is from an article that says, Netanyahu takes a shot at regime change in Iran. 00:55:50.440 --> 00:55:56.040 I'll give you this line. Nothing would burnish the legacy of Mr. 00:55:56.200 --> 00:56:01.100 Netanyahu, Israel's longest-serving prime minister, more than toppling the Islamic 00:56:01.100 --> 00:56:07.300 Republic, which he has likened to Hitler's Germany and ending its nuclear program for good. 00:56:09.200 --> 00:56:10.100 How about that? 00:56:10.260 --> 00:56:16.760 Well, and look, and honestly, if he succeeded, he might be right. 00:56:17.000 --> 00:56:21.820 I mean, and this is the thing, too. Like, and this is the same kind of argument 00:56:21.820 --> 00:56:23.980 we were having about Venezuela as well. 00:56:24.980 --> 00:56:31.320 Let's assume, like, well, let's not assume. 00:56:31.500 --> 00:56:37.440 Well, OK, for the sake of argument, let's say everything about this goes perfectly for Donald Trump. 00:56:38.360 --> 00:56:44.740 Yeah. Okay. You know, we have limited to no American casualties. 00:56:45.540 --> 00:56:50.740 Civilian casualties aren't that big, although I've seen some unconfirmed reports 00:56:50.740 --> 00:56:53.160 that we may have hit a school by mistake. 00:56:53.620 --> 00:56:55.200 You know, I don't know if it's true or not. 00:56:55.680 --> 00:56:58.760 Fog of war kind of stuff. We'll know more eventually. 00:57:00.000 --> 00:57:05.260 But let's assume limited American casualties, limited civilian casualties. 00:57:05.260 --> 00:57:08.540 We decapitate the iranian government it falls 00:57:08.540 --> 00:57:15.200 and we get a good friendly government that is good on human rights and likes 00:57:15.200 --> 00:57:20.080 the west and blah blah blah i mean we're talking about like the the heir of 00:57:20.080 --> 00:57:23.720 the shah coming back he's one of the people that's been agitating lately in 00:57:23.720 --> 00:57:25.820 in iran well i mean the shah was. 00:57:25.820 --> 00:57:30.080 Another dictator and a brutal dictator anyway i mean what the hell man it's 00:57:30.080 --> 00:57:34.420 not exactly like, you know, like, the Shah was like this benevolent guy. 00:57:37.140 --> 00:57:40.220 What can I tell you? Anyway, so... 00:57:41.030 --> 00:57:47.810 Assume everything goes well. Then, yes, Donald Trump will get some accolades 00:57:47.810 --> 00:57:52.590 for doing something that ended up turning out positively. 00:57:52.970 --> 00:57:55.770 Now, it may not, but let's assume it does. 00:57:55.970 --> 00:58:01.270 It is still completely and totally illegal for him to have done it. 00:58:01.630 --> 00:58:07.410 It is? Oh, so the checks and balances will now come into play, right? 00:58:08.030 --> 00:58:13.450 There, yeah, there's been no, Congress has not authorized this in any way, 00:58:13.610 --> 00:58:15.450 let alone an actual declaration of war. 00:58:15.590 --> 00:58:18.050 He hasn't done any selling of this. 00:58:18.270 --> 00:58:23.310 I mean, he had the State of the Union a few days ago and did not talk about, 00:58:23.490 --> 00:58:28.010 he did not make a case for doing something against Iran at the State of the Union. 00:58:28.570 --> 00:58:32.970 I think he may have mentioned it, but not extensively. It wasn't like a major theme. 00:58:34.050 --> 00:58:38.470 If you poll the American public, support for us taking this kind of action is 00:58:38.470 --> 00:58:41.150 incredibly low. But he's doing it anyway. 00:58:42.430 --> 00:58:48.450 And that's just domestic stuff. Internationally, it also does not meet any of 00:58:48.450 --> 00:58:52.930 the requirements for a legal action as far as international law is concerned. 00:58:53.150 --> 00:58:56.330 Of course, we don't give even the slightest crap about that. 00:58:58.950 --> 00:59:05.190 But nevertheless, this is the kind of thing where, I mean, remember how conflicted, 00:59:05.330 --> 00:59:10.790 you know, when we talked about Venezuela, you're like, yes, Sam, 00:59:10.890 --> 00:59:13.770 he's doing it illegally, but somebody needed to do this. 00:59:14.230 --> 00:59:19.350 And there are a lot of people who are going to feel the same way about Iran. Yeah. 00:59:20.320 --> 00:59:26.500 whether or not like this goes into, I mentioned the positive scenario. 00:59:26.780 --> 00:59:32.620 Of course, the worst case negative scenario is an ongoing Middle East war that 00:59:32.620 --> 00:59:37.140 spirals out of control and consumes multiple countries. But I think the most 00:59:37.140 --> 00:59:40.240 likely scenario is neither of those. 00:59:40.400 --> 00:59:46.200 The most likely scenario is, you know, they've said this campaign is going to last days, not hours. 00:59:46.500 --> 00:59:53.300 I've heard like four or five days of intensive bombing and such of the country. We're going to do that. 00:59:54.260 --> 00:59:59.780 We're going to kill a few high-profile people. I saw there were initial reports 00:59:59.780 --> 01:00:02.880 that maybe we got the Supreme Leader, but it seems like, no, 01:00:03.000 --> 01:00:06.280 we probably didn't. He was evacuated. He's fine, probably. 01:00:06.560 --> 01:00:10.300 But we did get a couple of high-ranking people, and we'll probably get more 01:00:10.300 --> 01:00:13.220 before we're done. But we've done that before. 01:00:13.720 --> 01:00:18.780 And you remember, it was just a few months ago where we supposedly completely 01:00:18.780 --> 01:00:20.960 eliminated their nuclear capability anyway. 01:00:21.320 --> 01:00:21.840 Yeah, what happened? 01:00:21.840 --> 01:00:22.900 I mean, Donald Trump said so. 01:00:23.060 --> 01:00:26.480 Did they go with the day? Wow, they're so good, Sam. 01:00:26.720 --> 01:00:32.720 They managed to, after we completely, completely wiped out their nuclear capability, 01:00:32.920 --> 01:00:36.580 Sam, they managed to rebuild it in just a few months. They're incredible. 01:00:36.740 --> 01:00:41.300 Well, somebody in the Trump administration did an interview where he once again 01:00:41.300 --> 01:00:44.500 said they were one week away from making weapons. 01:00:45.550 --> 01:00:51.550 Which, of course, wait, but I thought we completely destroyed all their capabilities 01:00:51.550 --> 01:00:55.650 and made it so they couldn't even think of rebuilding anything for decades. 01:00:55.870 --> 01:00:56.230 Right. 01:00:56.530 --> 01:00:59.870 But apparently a few months later, we're one week away again. 01:01:00.730 --> 01:01:06.570 And so and look, bottom line is there's no trustworthy narrator here. 01:01:07.030 --> 01:01:10.410 So, you know, what's the real situation on the ground? 01:01:11.230 --> 01:01:15.470 Fucked if I know, you know, because you certainly can't trust. 01:01:15.550 --> 01:01:17.430 anything the Trump administration is saying. 01:01:17.550 --> 01:01:21.430 You certainly can't say anything. You can't trust anything Netanyahu is saying. 01:01:21.730 --> 01:01:24.510 You can't trust anything the Iranians are saying either. 01:01:25.170 --> 01:01:26.850 So who the hell knows? 01:01:27.130 --> 01:01:28.110 Who the hell knows? 01:01:28.130 --> 01:01:34.930 You know, but at the same time, yeah, I feel like the most likely scenario is 01:01:34.930 --> 01:01:38.890 once again, we engage in a military campaign. It lasts a few days. There's some damage. 01:01:39.090 --> 01:01:46.090 But basically, we end up not really changing substantially the facts on the ground. 01:01:46.410 --> 01:01:51.730 That's the most likely scenario. And I don't know, we repeat this again in another six months? 01:01:52.600 --> 01:01:57.720 I don't know. I mean, it could go the way that everything goes Donald Trump's 01:01:57.720 --> 01:02:01.360 way and we have a completely changed Iran in a few months, 01:02:01.360 --> 01:02:08.460 or it could go the way where we have the regional war that drags on for years. 01:02:08.780 --> 01:02:13.320 Either of those could happen, too. But I feel like the most likely is just we 01:02:13.320 --> 01:02:18.600 bomb them for a few days and then a week or two from now, we're not even talking about it anymore. 01:02:18.720 --> 01:02:21.260 Just like we're not talking about Venezuela much anymore. 01:02:21.420 --> 01:02:26.640 You know, about the... The only positive thing that I could say about the Trump 01:02:26.640 --> 01:02:31.480 administration for the first Trump administration was that they never got us 01:02:31.480 --> 01:02:34.220 into any major conflict like this. OK. 01:02:35.260 --> 01:02:40.420 And and and and and and and look, look now, look, look at this shit. 01:02:40.760 --> 01:02:43.100 I mean, look now. It's just I mean. 01:02:43.520 --> 01:02:49.340 I just to be clear, having having previewed the next three years, 01:02:49.520 --> 01:02:51.740 this is absolutely nothing compared. 01:02:52.600 --> 01:02:55.000 to the land war in Greenland coming up soon. 01:02:55.360 --> 01:03:01.140 Listen, yeah, well, of course. So what are we finding? Fighting polar bears, I guess. 01:03:03.040 --> 01:03:09.500 I mean, you know, is that what we're doing? I'm like, you know, it's, 01:03:10.540 --> 01:03:17.620 He's got now this taste for bombs, if you haven't noticed. 01:03:17.920 --> 01:03:23.960 He likes just unleashing his bombs and the airplanes and showing them off. 01:03:24.520 --> 01:03:28.600 So this is going to escalate, unfortunately. 01:03:29.220 --> 01:03:31.480 He's going to be doing this more and more. 01:03:34.040 --> 01:03:40.180 Well, frankly, it's just like tariffs. Once he finds a toy that he figures out 01:03:40.180 --> 01:03:41.600 the levers to play with it. 01:03:42.160 --> 01:03:49.640 And he knows if I do this, I can drive the news cycle. I can get attention. I can get this. 01:03:49.760 --> 01:03:50.540 I can get that. 01:03:51.360 --> 01:03:53.420 I can use this as leverage. 01:03:56.720 --> 01:04:01.780 This will drive the news cycle the direction I wanted to be driven in. 01:04:01.900 --> 01:04:04.920 This has nothing else to do with anything else, Sam. 01:04:05.500 --> 01:04:11.700 Nothing. Not regime change, not nothing. It's how can I drive the news cycle 01:04:11.700 --> 01:04:16.940 to pay attention to something else, what I want attention to be paid to. 01:04:17.440 --> 01:04:21.780 And that is the only, you know, the worst thing is this is the only thing that motivates him. 01:04:22.420 --> 01:04:26.200 Yeah, I mean, like, he gave that little speech last night about, 01:04:26.380 --> 01:04:29.620 like, now's your chance, Iranians, rise up. 01:04:29.680 --> 01:04:34.200 Like he could give two flying fucks about the Iranian people. 01:04:35.410 --> 01:04:42.470 Exactly. Isn't he deporting Iranian refugees who are here? I mean, come on. 01:04:42.750 --> 01:04:44.470 Come on. Give me a fuck about it. 01:04:44.470 --> 01:04:52.270 There are people who have fled the regime there that we are trying to send back. 01:04:52.370 --> 01:04:52.510 Right. 01:04:53.510 --> 01:04:57.530 And, you know, not just Iran, of course. Like, we're doing the same thing with 01:04:57.530 --> 01:04:59.350 Afghanistan, with all these places. 01:04:59.750 --> 01:05:02.770 Everybody, yeah. He doesn't give a fuck about any of them. 01:05:03.630 --> 01:05:11.550 No, no. Yeah. If he cared about any of that stuff, he'd be actively supporting 01:05:11.550 --> 01:05:17.050 the people who had fled the regime and all this kind of stuff. No, no, no, not. 01:05:18.550 --> 01:05:26.710 I'm sure there is some covert support for some internal Iranian opposition because, 01:05:26.810 --> 01:05:29.670 of course, we're doing that. I'd be shocked if we weren't. 01:05:30.190 --> 01:05:32.130 But it's not the same thing. 01:05:32.130 --> 01:05:36.170 It's not with the—it's the entire goal, once again, is disruption. 01:05:36.170 --> 01:05:37.830 It's not with their best interest action in mind. 01:05:37.850 --> 01:05:42.630 Exactly. The entire goal is disruption, not any, you know—, 01:05:43.330 --> 01:05:49.290 positive direction for Iran. I think that's the key thing. 01:05:50.110 --> 01:06:02.350 Yes. Anything that is done by Trump and his administration anywhere in the world is certainly, 01:06:02.690 --> 01:06:06.190 like, you would think, like, at least you could argue, okay, 01:06:06.330 --> 01:06:11.290 he's worried about the interests of the U.S., not the interests of that country. 01:06:11.290 --> 01:06:14.010 And you'd be like, okay, that's normal. That's like every administration. 01:06:14.010 --> 01:06:16.670 Of course, they're looking out for the interests of the U.S. 01:06:16.770 --> 01:06:21.830 But in Donald Trump's case, he's not even doing that. It's only his own interests. 01:06:22.090 --> 01:06:22.330 Correct. 01:06:22.370 --> 01:06:24.090 It's only his own personal interests. 01:06:24.350 --> 01:06:26.070 It's only his own personal interests. 01:06:26.550 --> 01:06:30.110 But frankly, one difference, even of previous administrations, 01:06:30.430 --> 01:06:37.270 that some have been more naked about, like, look, we only care about U.S. 01:06:37.290 --> 01:06:39.670 and we'll screw anybody else and we don't give a shit. 01:06:39.670 --> 01:06:46.030 But he cares. They care about what they believe is the good thing for the U.S. 01:06:46.410 --> 01:06:52.430 This is only about what is good for him. 01:06:53.690 --> 01:06:58.270 Right. But I was also going to say, even compared to that, we have had some 01:06:58.270 --> 01:07:06.230 administrations where they actually recognize that sometimes the best way to benefit the U.S. 01:07:06.810 --> 01:07:12.730 is to benefit the other countries as well. because there's a such thing as a win-win relationship. 01:07:13.490 --> 01:07:15.110 And when we, when we. 01:07:15.670 --> 01:07:23.010 In his, in his mind, there is no such thing as a win-win. Those don't exist. Ever. 01:07:23.880 --> 01:07:26.100 Ever. Those don't exist at all. 01:07:26.360 --> 01:07:34.440 And the whole concept of soft power where you end up benefiting this country 01:07:34.440 --> 01:07:38.360 by providing a good example and making people like you. 01:07:39.120 --> 01:07:39.880 No. 01:07:41.880 --> 01:07:47.820 Oh, they like you because you helped them when they were in need and provided 01:07:47.820 --> 01:07:51.460 a good example and blah, blah, blah. You know, now, the U.S. 01:07:51.480 --> 01:07:54.620 has a very mixed record of that kind of stuff, to be completely honest. 01:07:54.900 --> 01:08:01.060 However, at least, like, some administrations actually believed in that and 01:08:01.060 --> 01:08:05.240 tried to do that and, you know, and had some decent success over the last hundred years. 01:08:05.240 --> 01:08:08.440 Maybe they didn't do it to every country consistently, okay? 01:08:08.640 --> 01:08:12.300 All right? And they did it in some ways that it was bad. But the reality is 01:08:12.300 --> 01:08:16.520 that in many cases, they actively tried to do that and did that with some countries. 01:08:16.660 --> 01:08:18.440 With others, they didn't do it that well. 01:08:18.440 --> 01:08:21.480 Concept of USAID, which of course you eliminated. 01:08:21.480 --> 01:08:22.340 Yes, but of course we eliminated. 01:08:23.140 --> 01:08:32.000 Yes. I mean, is that we can use our extreme wealth to help out all over the world in ways that, 01:08:33.020 --> 01:08:36.720 really, in the grand scheme of things, did not cost us a lot of money. 01:08:37.120 --> 01:08:43.820 But helped a lot of people and left them feeling good about, hey, they helped us. 01:08:43.960 --> 01:08:44.340 Yes. 01:08:44.580 --> 01:08:51.120 And, you know, as we've both said, we haven't always been consistent about this. 01:08:51.240 --> 01:08:52.600 We've often done it badly. 01:08:52.720 --> 01:08:56.400 We've often taken advantage of people. 01:08:56.400 --> 01:09:03.560 But Sam, there was a general intention, direction in terms of advancing American 01:09:03.560 --> 01:09:08.280 interest and in many cases helping some of these countries, even when we sometimes 01:09:08.280 --> 01:09:10.240 we didn't do it positively. 01:09:10.240 --> 01:09:14.460 OK, many times, sometimes a failure of vision, many times it was a failure of 01:09:14.460 --> 01:09:19.000 us understanding the country, you know, for the for the most part, 01:09:19.160 --> 01:09:21.420 the president wasn't actively trying. 01:09:21.660 --> 01:09:26.860 You know, they they they they thought that they were advancing the interests of the United States. 01:09:26.960 --> 01:09:30.120 And sometimes they said, well, the interest of the U.S. is more important than others. 01:09:30.280 --> 01:09:34.880 We don't we don't care about it. But it was even in their misguided way, 01:09:35.040 --> 01:09:38.600 it was still the interest of the United States that they were thinking in the first place. 01:09:39.120 --> 01:09:42.520 This is completely different. This has nothing to do with this. 01:09:42.680 --> 01:09:46.980 Any action that Trump does, that is not even remotely a thought. 01:09:47.500 --> 01:09:48.100 Yep. 01:09:49.540 --> 01:09:55.140 It's all about what's in it for me. How is this going to help me in my personal situation right now? 01:09:55.360 --> 01:09:55.700 Right now. 01:09:55.900 --> 01:10:00.340 Whether it's distraction from other news that he doesn't want, 01:10:00.500 --> 01:10:04.320 or whether it's a monetary thing, or whether it's just attention. 01:10:04.540 --> 01:10:05.860 He does just like attention. 01:10:06.120 --> 01:10:10.780 Too. The guy is an attention whore. Everything is about attention to him, 01:10:10.860 --> 01:10:13.600 and everything is about a positive attention to him. 01:10:13.760 --> 01:10:18.220 And this, obviously, is much better positive attention than the Epstein files. 01:10:18.220 --> 01:10:25.020 or inflation or I lost at SCOTUS with the tariffs, etc., etc., 01:10:25.020 --> 01:10:27.580 or the polls are bad, whatever. 01:10:28.080 --> 01:10:33.660 And this is one of those things that you can almost count on. 01:10:34.180 --> 01:10:39.360 Most news coverage, including at outlets that are usually critical of Donald 01:10:39.360 --> 01:10:46.840 Trump, when you are at, like, a war footing, tend to be very deferential. 01:10:47.630 --> 01:10:52.430 To like, oh, yeah, we're doing this and here's why and blah, 01:10:52.490 --> 01:10:57.910 blah, blah, as opposed to, you know, just saying flat out over and over and 01:10:57.910 --> 01:11:00.630 over again, hey, this is an illegal action. 01:11:01.170 --> 01:11:04.010 I don't know what's going on on the ground. I was like, look, 01:11:04.150 --> 01:11:07.190 I was on the front page of the New York Times, like right now, 01:11:07.670 --> 01:11:13.030 my editorial board first article is basically saying that look at the articles, 01:11:13.090 --> 01:11:15.150 for example, one over here. 01:11:15.150 --> 01:11:19.770 For Trump, the Iraq Iran attack was the alt is the ultimate war of choice. 01:11:20.010 --> 01:11:24.010 That's one of the top top stories about this opinion editorial board. 01:11:24.110 --> 01:11:27.450 Number one opinion. Trump's attack on Iran is reckless. 01:11:27.750 --> 01:11:33.850 This is not like deferring to Trump and his action in any way, shape or form. 01:11:34.010 --> 01:11:40.310 I just saw MS now putting Tim Kaine like I said that this was completely idiotic. 01:11:40.450 --> 01:11:44.870 That was the main thing on there. OK, number one, you know, there, 01:11:45.010 --> 01:11:47.370 you know, look, opinions, Washington Post. 01:11:47.530 --> 01:11:50.810 There is no reason to think this war with Iran is necessary. 01:11:50.870 --> 01:11:54.590 The first fucking opinion under the editorial board. 01:11:54.950 --> 01:11:57.790 All of these are. Listen, there is nothing. 01:11:58.270 --> 01:12:04.330 Maybe it's shifting quickly. Like before I went to bed, before I went to sleep 01:12:04.330 --> 01:12:09.390 last night when this was already ongoing, a lot of the initial coverage was 01:12:09.390 --> 01:12:12.190 saying things like, you know, it. Thank you. 01:12:12.790 --> 01:12:19.570 was repeating without a lot of questioning, like, Israel says this is preemptive, for instance. 01:12:19.830 --> 01:12:23.790 Now later, a few hours later, I started seeing criticism of that. 01:12:23.930 --> 01:12:28.410 But the initial wave of coverage was basically just like, Israel says this, the U.S. 01:12:28.470 --> 01:12:32.050 says this, without much of what you're talking about now. 01:12:32.230 --> 01:12:35.450 Maybe even just a few hours later, the tide is turning. 01:12:35.670 --> 01:12:39.970 Because once again, I woke up again right before we started recording, 01:12:39.970 --> 01:12:43.090 after watching a few hours of this coverage last night. 01:12:43.330 --> 01:12:50.590 So we shall see. I mean, again, polling on this before it happened was universally negative. 01:12:51.010 --> 01:12:54.210 Like when people were asked, should we be getting? 01:12:54.750 --> 01:13:01.650 Yeah. I mean, you even even amongst Trump voters, if you remember one of the 01:13:01.650 --> 01:13:09.230 things that repeatedly was said during Trump's campaigns, both in 2016 and... 01:13:09.230 --> 01:13:13.190 The Democrats are warmongers! They're going out to go get us into war! 01:13:13.330 --> 01:13:14.830 Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. 01:13:15.630 --> 01:13:19.530 Look, here's one from Gavin Newsom's governor's press office. 01:13:19.890 --> 01:13:23.710 Donald Trump's old tweet. Now that Obama's poll numbers are in a tailspin, 01:13:23.930 --> 01:13:28.870 watch him to launch a strike in Libya or Iran. He is desperate. 01:13:29.110 --> 01:13:35.150 As usual, everything is a motherfucking projection! Everything. 01:13:35.510 --> 01:13:39.830 Yes. As Yvonne blows out the microphone, screaming into it. Yes, 01:13:40.010 --> 01:13:41.330 yes. Everything is projection. 01:13:41.970 --> 01:13:47.150 And, like, we've seen this, especially with Donald Trump, but frankly, 01:13:47.250 --> 01:13:50.690 the whole fucking Republican Party for years now. 01:13:50.930 --> 01:13:56.070 And this goes for the Epstein, like, sex scandal stuff, too. 01:13:56.310 --> 01:13:56.370 The whole Epstein thing. 01:13:56.370 --> 01:13:59.670 The whole pediophilia thing. The whole fucking, like, listen, 01:13:59.850 --> 01:14:02.030 the whole massive homophobia thing. 01:14:02.770 --> 01:14:03.290 Yes. 01:14:04.410 --> 01:14:05.810 For God's sakes! 01:14:08.320 --> 01:14:14.640 Like almost everything that they accuse the Democrats of, if you look at it 01:14:14.640 --> 01:14:18.300 in detail, the Democrats aren't doing it, but they are. 01:14:18.620 --> 01:14:19.160 Right. 01:14:20.420 --> 01:14:25.240 It's like, you know, and, you know, trying to mess with elections. 01:14:25.780 --> 01:14:27.420 Come on, who's doing that? 01:14:28.860 --> 01:14:34.120 You know, all of it, all of it over and over and over and over again. 01:14:34.500 --> 01:14:42.520 It's, it's just like, Like, you want to know what nefarious things the Republicans might be up to? 01:14:43.140 --> 01:14:48.500 Look at what they're accusing the Democrats of. You get a nearly 100% hit rate. 01:14:49.650 --> 01:14:53.690 Yeah. Damn. Okay. 01:14:54.790 --> 01:15:02.450 Again, my prediction is that like our previous strikes on Iran, 01:15:02.610 --> 01:15:03.850 this one may be a bit bigger, 01:15:04.490 --> 01:15:11.010 but a few days, the immediate strike will be over. Things will calm down. 01:15:11.650 --> 01:15:16.830 And I don't know about next week, but two weeks from now, we may not even be 01:15:16.830 --> 01:15:18.230 talking about Iran on the show. 01:15:18.230 --> 01:15:23.490 Here, I'm wondering, you know, because everything to him is driven by attention, 01:15:23.770 --> 01:15:24.930 phone numbers or whatever. 01:15:25.390 --> 01:15:31.710 If he starts getting a lot of negative publicity, right? Is that how this drives us real quickly? 01:15:31.910 --> 01:15:35.930 Where all of a sudden he's getting, you know, it starts like, 01:15:36.310 --> 01:15:40.890 you know, it being negative because he's getting shit from all his MAGA folks 01:15:40.890 --> 01:15:41.790 and everybody, whatever. 01:15:41.970 --> 01:15:45.390 Then all of a sudden he completely turns around and changes. 01:15:45.590 --> 01:15:50.250 By the way, here's one that I saw. Tulsi Garbert was in the Situation Room with 01:15:50.250 --> 01:15:51.970 Vance watching this launch. 01:15:52.290 --> 01:15:56.130 There's a tweet also that Gavin Newsom press office just shared from Tulsi. 01:15:56.250 --> 01:15:57.270 What do you think it says? 01:15:58.070 --> 01:16:02.330 Oh, she was very big against attacks on Iran for years. 01:16:02.630 --> 01:16:03.890 No more with Iran! 01:16:05.250 --> 01:16:05.690 Yes. 01:16:06.130 --> 01:16:10.870 You know what? Fuck you, Tulsi, 2.4. I forget, you know, which is my usual. I need to remember. 01:16:11.050 --> 01:16:15.110 Oh, by the way, before I give out my fuck yous for the week. 01:16:15.230 --> 01:16:17.510 Oh, fuck Jill Stein as well, too. this week. 01:16:18.550 --> 01:16:21.210 Wolves apparently crawled out of her cave early. 01:16:22.340 --> 01:16:27.660 Yes, she has surfaced. Yeah, it's like the groundhog. 01:16:28.000 --> 01:16:28.420 Yeah. 01:16:28.520 --> 01:16:35.180 When she pops up, you know. No, look, I think it's almost simpler than like, 01:16:35.480 --> 01:16:38.020 oh, there's negative backlash, so he backs off. 01:16:38.200 --> 01:16:43.260 I think it's almost no matter what's happening, good, bad, indifferent. 01:16:44.060 --> 01:16:46.980 Once we are done with the initial set of strikes that were planned, 01:16:47.160 --> 01:16:48.720 he's going to declare victory and call it done. 01:16:49.020 --> 01:16:51.380 I mean, that's the MO, right? 01:16:52.200 --> 01:16:55.960 Yeah. It doesn't matter what the actual results are. 01:16:55.980 --> 01:16:58.400 And if you think about it, it's almost like every battle. Like, 01:16:58.500 --> 01:17:02.140 you know, I'm not talking about battle war, just in general, 01:17:02.380 --> 01:17:04.500 okay? I'm talking about, hey, the healthcare debate. 01:17:04.680 --> 01:17:07.500 Hey, this, the thing, whatever. You know, how he goes and he says, 01:17:07.680 --> 01:17:10.140 you know, there's a whole bunch of arguing and blah, blah, blah, 01:17:10.140 --> 01:17:11.400 negotiating, blah, blah, blah, blah. 01:17:11.540 --> 01:17:14.580 Then he goes and he says, no, well, I'm going to have a solution in two weeks. 01:17:15.660 --> 01:17:21.000 And then all of a sudden, the two weeks pass and we forget about it and we're on to something else. 01:17:21.800 --> 01:17:25.840 Whatever new outrageous thing is going on. Now, I will say the one possible 01:17:25.840 --> 01:17:28.580 exception is... Well, even... 01:17:29.760 --> 01:17:35.100 We got Maduro and he declared victory, but like that still disappeared off the 01:17:35.100 --> 01:17:36.360 headlines in a couple of weeks. 01:17:36.540 --> 01:17:40.440 I feel like even I was about to say the one exception might be if they actually 01:17:40.440 --> 01:17:41.500 kill the Supreme Leader. 01:17:42.820 --> 01:17:48.540 But even if they did that, we're probably moved on to something else. And in a few weeks. 01:17:48.680 --> 01:17:52.020 There was this there was this gorgeous there was a headline. 01:17:52.020 --> 01:17:55.640 I remember this one that somebody reposted from like 2016, which I remember 01:17:55.640 --> 01:17:59.640 that I believe I wanted to fucking like punch a screen or something when I read this. 01:17:59.760 --> 01:18:06.020 It's an article by Maureen Dowd who talked about Donald the Dove, Hillary the Hawk. 01:18:06.160 --> 01:18:08.560 And I still fucking remember. Somebody reposted that headline. 01:18:08.740 --> 01:18:14.000 And that's one where I want to fucking find Maureen Dowd right now and beat the shit out of her. 01:18:14.540 --> 01:18:18.580 Grab a fucking copy of it and fucking like rub it in her face. 01:18:19.580 --> 01:18:25.980 Well, like you said, in his first term, he mostly stayed out of things. 01:18:26.180 --> 01:18:34.160 Now, I say mostly. He actually did dramatically increase the drone program from what Obama was doing. 01:18:34.360 --> 01:18:36.480 He was quieter about it. 01:18:36.880 --> 01:18:42.060 But there were more drone hits on more countries during Trump's first term than 01:18:42.060 --> 01:18:44.860 Obama had been doing. So he increased that. 01:18:45.020 --> 01:18:50.400 But he didn't outright start messing with additional countries. 01:18:50.680 --> 01:18:53.860 The second term, he absolutely has. 01:18:54.020 --> 01:19:00.560 He's all over the place. You know? I mean, hell, we did a military attack on 01:19:00.560 --> 01:19:02.700 Nigeria at the end of last year. 01:19:02.820 --> 01:19:03.700 Right, I forgot about that. 01:19:03.700 --> 01:19:05.400 Does anybody even remember that? 01:19:05.560 --> 01:19:10.880 Fuck no. Jesus Christ, we've had... Sam, Sam, it's like every fucking day, 01:19:11.040 --> 01:19:13.440 there's so much shit going on. 01:19:13.560 --> 01:19:17.060 I mean, if we went and we made a list of all the stupid shit that we've had. 01:19:18.820 --> 01:19:23.860 We've had Americans murdered on the streets by ice. We've had an invasion of 01:19:23.860 --> 01:19:26.160 Minnesota by our own federal government. Thank you. 01:19:26.750 --> 01:19:32.690 I mean, we had, listen, we were attacking, listen, we helped an attack in Mexico. 01:19:32.690 --> 01:19:37.810 We murdered this fucking cartel leader and unleashed complete chaos in Mexico. 01:19:38.390 --> 01:19:42.130 Well, with that, why don't we take a break and then talk about that? 01:19:45.350 --> 01:19:50.390 Ah, yes. Okay. This next one should be an Apple dream, but I didn't prepare it. 01:19:50.530 --> 01:19:53.390 So we'll have an Apple dream next week. And in the meantime, 01:19:53.690 --> 01:19:58.630 this break, and then we'll talk about Mexico and whatever else we end up talking about. Here we go. 01:21:00.790 --> 01:21:06.230 Okay, we're back. So, Yvonne, you were starting to describe what happened in 01:21:06.230 --> 01:21:08.570 Mexico last week, and then I said, let's take a break. 01:21:08.710 --> 01:21:13.630 So, continue where you left off. What the hell happened? We killed some drug lord? 01:21:14.010 --> 01:21:16.390 Or Mexico killed some drug lord with our alp? 01:21:16.390 --> 01:21:19.770 OK, so apparently it did involve the U.S. 01:21:19.950 --> 01:21:23.310 Not sure exactly the extent, but but but the U.S. 01:21:23.450 --> 01:21:30.450 was involved in this where the the chief of the Holisco drug cartel. 01:21:30.590 --> 01:21:36.010 OK, that was he used to be part of the Sinaloa cartel that got kept getting 01:21:36.010 --> 01:21:37.550 mentioned a lot in the U.S. 01:21:37.550 --> 01:21:40.530 he was murdered okay and the 01:21:40.530 --> 01:21:43.570 reaction by the members of the cartel was 01:21:43.570 --> 01:21:47.370 to unleash violence across significant 01:21:47.370 --> 01:21:50.490 parts of mexico okay in response to 01:21:50.490 --> 01:21:56.170 that i mean there was i mean you know i i've been to jalisco many times i've 01:21:56.170 --> 01:22:00.250 been to the city of guadalajara many times or or is the late uh what what's 01:22:00.250 --> 01:22:05.070 the name most of the most of the late wait wait wait i need to let me as a late 01:22:05.070 --> 01:22:08.410 The late Lou Dobbs on TV once called it Farfula, 01:22:08.730 --> 01:22:13.430 in which he was trying to pronounce the name of the city. You know... 01:22:14.860 --> 01:22:19.300 Guadalajara is the second, I would say the second most important city in Mexico. 01:22:19.300 --> 01:22:22.020 It is a tech and industrial hub. 01:22:23.420 --> 01:22:30.040 Most major U.S. companies have tech companies have operations in the city. 01:22:31.440 --> 01:22:34.920 So this is a very developed area of the country. 01:22:35.600 --> 01:22:39.260 I said, you know, Mexico is very developed, but one of the most developed areas in the country. 01:22:39.400 --> 01:22:46.300 So all of a sudden, the airport was under siege. OK, I mean, people had to run out. 01:22:46.480 --> 01:22:49.520 This is an airport that I've been to many times. OK, so this is particularly 01:22:49.520 --> 01:22:51.140 like very disturbing to me. 01:22:51.500 --> 01:22:55.720 OK, people wound up on the tarmac because the airport was under attack. 01:22:55.900 --> 01:22:58.340 The airport in Fort Ovalarta was also under attack. 01:22:58.600 --> 01:23:01.220 There were burning trucks. There were blocking roads. They were shooting. 01:23:01.420 --> 01:23:05.180 They burned down the Costco and Costco's. They burned out. 01:23:05.420 --> 01:23:12.780 It was just a massive just, you know, eruption of violence across the state. 01:23:12.780 --> 01:23:14.180 and in other parts of the country. 01:23:14.380 --> 01:23:16.480 It didn't affect the Capitol, okay? 01:23:16.980 --> 01:23:22.540 But the thing is that this was something that some of the people locally were telling me, 01:23:23.100 --> 01:23:28.860 that they didn't want to do this in large part because they feared what the 01:23:28.860 --> 01:23:32.340 reaction was going to be by doing this. 01:23:32.420 --> 01:23:39.440 But the president was forced by the Trump administration to pursue this action. 01:23:39.440 --> 01:23:45.580 This was not something that they were targeting, but that the Trump administration forced upon. 01:23:46.900 --> 01:23:51.940 Let me ask one question about the violence, because most of the coverage—, 01:23:53.040 --> 01:23:59.020 I have seen in U.S. media has sort of concentrated on the tourists. 01:23:59.660 --> 01:24:03.800 What's the actual balance in terms of where the violence was targeted? 01:24:04.140 --> 01:24:08.780 Is it specifically targeted against tourists or is it actually against everybody 01:24:08.780 --> 01:24:10.600 and tourists were just caught up in it? 01:24:10.720 --> 01:24:12.000 Yes. Tourists were just caught up in it. 01:24:12.040 --> 01:24:12.700 It was against everybody. 01:24:13.040 --> 01:24:13.920 No, it was against everybody. 01:24:14.160 --> 01:24:17.260 But of course, our coverage is about the tourists because they're more important 01:24:17.260 --> 01:24:18.100 than the locals apparently. 01:24:18.200 --> 01:24:20.960 Correct. Yes. No, no, no. But this is against everybody. Yeah, 01:24:21.040 --> 01:24:24.540 yeah, yeah. This is not targeting tourists at all. This is against everybody. 01:24:25.020 --> 01:24:27.640 Now, yeah, this is not targeted against the tourists in any way. 01:24:27.940 --> 01:24:29.240 They just happen to get caught up. 01:24:30.400 --> 01:24:34.280 Flights canceled and shit, and airports closed all of a sudden, you know? 01:24:34.760 --> 01:24:38.400 I mean, Mexico gets so many U.S. tourists. I mean, it's crazy. 01:24:38.620 --> 01:24:45.520 So it is, you know, it is a massive amount of Americas that go to Mexico for tourism. 01:24:45.660 --> 01:24:48.980 And so, yeah, I mean, it was very visible to the tourists. 01:24:49.120 --> 01:24:52.120 But, yeah, it was, the impact was local. I mean, there were, 01:24:52.220 --> 01:24:54.820 you know, the local residents were petrified. 01:24:54.940 --> 01:24:57.520 They were staying at home. They weren't going anywhere in Jalisco. 01:24:58.580 --> 01:25:02.600 I will say that I spoke to my friends in Mexico City, and they weren't really, 01:25:03.320 --> 01:25:04.680 you know, they know that it was going on. 01:25:04.780 --> 01:25:08.380 But they were somewhat concerned, but nothing happened in Mexico City. 01:25:09.020 --> 01:25:10.640 So this was really going to say, too. 01:25:10.920 --> 01:25:15.340 Now, was there a big spike that's calmed down? Yes. 01:25:15.340 --> 01:25:18.220 Or is this ongoing still? No, it's calmed down. It's calmed down. 01:25:18.220 --> 01:25:18.400 Okay. 01:25:18.580 --> 01:25:26.700 Yes. but but the one thing is is people were mentioning to me this was not look the current, 01:25:28.400 --> 01:25:34.680 the current president the party itself more i will say more the entire party, 01:25:35.720 --> 01:25:40.540 a lot of talk has gone over the years how they are they have this uneasy alliance 01:25:40.540 --> 01:25:43.520 with the cartels in some way, okay? 01:25:44.140 --> 01:25:52.060 So, to them, going against them isn't exactly in their best interests, okay? 01:25:52.930 --> 01:25:58.210 Because this was really forced upon them by the United States, 01:25:58.410 --> 01:26:03.930 which is why the reaction by them was so visible and violent right away. 01:26:03.930 --> 01:26:10.150 I think more as a warning to the president that they don't have control of the 01:26:10.150 --> 01:26:12.310 country, that they can control the country if they want. 01:26:13.010 --> 01:26:16.890 And that's, I think, the biggest signal that they wanted to send. 01:26:17.710 --> 01:26:23.630 And I also find that the way that the administration wanted to do this It seemed 01:26:23.630 --> 01:26:26.950 really like, once again, we were targeting an execution instead of like actually 01:26:26.950 --> 01:26:32.550 capturing as we have done with others in the past. They just wanted them killed. 01:26:32.790 --> 01:26:32.970 Right. 01:26:33.370 --> 01:26:34.470 They didn't want to capture them. 01:26:35.640 --> 01:26:40.320 Well, and also, I think this is just the fact that there was this backlash. 01:26:42.360 --> 01:26:51.820 I just can't view it any other way that this is just another example of where they don't think ahead. 01:26:51.940 --> 01:26:52.120 No! 01:26:52.660 --> 01:26:57.040 They only think of the very next action they want to take. 01:26:57.160 --> 01:27:03.220 And what the repercussions or what the long-term strategy is and what doing that gets us. 01:27:03.220 --> 01:27:08.000 There is nothing long-term. No, no. I mean, for years, people were talking about 01:27:08.000 --> 01:27:11.880 how, hey, it's not really that they're stupid. 01:27:11.900 --> 01:27:14.340 They're playing five-dimensional chess. 01:27:14.520 --> 01:27:21.180 They're thinking so many steps ahead. And they're, no, no, no, none of that. 01:27:21.460 --> 01:27:29.240 They are, at best, thinking about the very next step they want to take. 01:27:29.500 --> 01:27:29.680 Yeah. 01:27:30.140 --> 01:27:33.280 And figuring they'll deal with what happens after after. 01:27:33.720 --> 01:27:34.120 Yeah. 01:27:34.120 --> 01:27:36.240 You know, there's no thought. 01:27:36.240 --> 01:27:39.260 Well, they don't think, wait, wait, no, it's not even, they don't even think 01:27:39.260 --> 01:27:41.780 there's going to be an after after. They don't even get there. 01:27:41.980 --> 01:27:43.040 They don't even get there. 01:27:43.940 --> 01:27:45.420 They're just, oh, we're going to win. 01:27:45.680 --> 01:27:46.080 Yes. 01:27:47.340 --> 01:27:50.120 That's it. That's it. Yeah. We're going to get what we want. 01:27:50.280 --> 01:27:52.480 We're going to win. That's the whole story. 01:27:54.380 --> 01:28:00.200 And part of this is also just this complete disdain for expertise as well. 01:28:00.200 --> 01:28:07.580 Like, do you think anybody in the Trump administration consulted with people 01:28:07.580 --> 01:28:09.500 who actually had extensive local 01:28:09.500 --> 01:28:15.460 knowledge of what was going on in either Iran or Mexico or Venezuela? 01:28:17.680 --> 01:28:18.280 Come on. 01:28:18.940 --> 01:28:21.780 Or any of Ukraine, for that matter? 01:28:21.960 --> 01:28:24.620 Well, not that he would listen or consider it, you know, because, 01:28:24.700 --> 01:28:29.040 I mean, Marco Rubio, even though he is a complete dickhead and sellout, 01:28:29.200 --> 01:28:33.480 is not dumb. So he does understand a lot of the repercussions of these things, okay? 01:28:33.680 --> 01:28:38.020 And probably things further. But it's not like he knows that nobody gives a shit. Exactly. 01:28:38.280 --> 01:28:41.940 It's not like anybody gives a shit about that. So he's not going to be, you know, doing that. 01:28:42.360 --> 01:28:45.960 He's just playing his game. That's it. 01:28:49.050 --> 01:28:50.250 It's fun. 01:28:51.130 --> 01:28:54.490 Oh, yeah, fun. More fun. 01:28:55.390 --> 01:28:59.010 Fun in Mexico. Fun in the Middle East. 01:28:59.250 --> 01:29:06.550 I got a friend of mine who told me that their son was traveling with a group 01:29:06.550 --> 01:29:09.330 that was about to travel through Doha today. 01:29:09.730 --> 01:29:14.050 And that all their flights got canceled. And they got stuck in Africa right 01:29:14.050 --> 01:29:20.270 now because of this. because all air traffic right now is stopped, you know, through. 01:29:20.470 --> 01:29:28.870 So let me ask, given the current state, is now the perfect time to finally get 01:29:28.870 --> 01:29:31.870 around to my random trip to the southern Yucatan? 01:29:33.250 --> 01:29:35.130 Actually, the Yucatan is. 01:29:35.330 --> 01:29:40.230 I know it's the other side of the country from where most of this was going on. 01:29:40.230 --> 01:29:44.090 It's a very big country at it. I would say, well, maybe not the perfect time, 01:29:44.090 --> 01:29:48.710 But I don't think that you're, if you went, there would be not, no, no, no. 01:29:48.710 --> 01:29:52.270 And we're not talking about Cozumel or either. We're talking about a fairly 01:29:52.270 --> 01:29:54.090 rural area near the Belize border. 01:29:54.270 --> 01:29:56.810 It's, it's, it's, yeah, but it's near the Belize border. There's nothing going 01:29:56.810 --> 01:29:58.110 on over there. You should be fine. 01:29:58.590 --> 01:30:05.010 Okay. Okay. So after you visit Seattle, we'll just get on a plane and go straight there. 01:30:05.490 --> 01:30:06.930 Okay. You got to tell my wife. 01:30:07.130 --> 01:30:07.390 Okay. 01:30:07.990 --> 01:30:10.050 You got, you got to tell my wife about this. 01:30:10.570 --> 01:30:13.830 You, you, you can dump your wife at that retreat and we can go. 01:30:14.330 --> 01:30:16.810 That's what we're gonna do we dump her into the retreat and we just fucking 01:30:16.810 --> 01:30:22.590 like what are we charter a jet how are we doing this oh yeah drive oh, 01:30:23.760 --> 01:30:28.380 Well, I am grabbing a rental car. So basically, okay, so this is the thing. 01:30:28.620 --> 01:30:33.100 You get in the car with me. We drop her off at Long Beach. 01:30:33.300 --> 01:30:38.960 And then we go for the border in a rental car. Drive all the way to Yucatan. 01:30:39.780 --> 01:30:40.220 Yes. 01:30:40.380 --> 01:30:44.840 And then we try to make it back in five days. Basically, I had to do that round 01:30:44.840 --> 01:30:48.480 trip in five days. So then I could pick her up. 01:30:48.640 --> 01:30:51.220 We get back to Seattle. We take our flight and we go home. 01:30:51.760 --> 01:30:52.920 There you go. Perfect. 01:30:56.840 --> 01:30:58.780 I am tentative by this idea. 01:30:59.080 --> 01:31:01.420 Okay, I'm not going to lie. 01:31:01.760 --> 01:31:02.700 Okay, all right. 01:31:05.960 --> 01:31:09.700 Now, to get to the Yucatan by car from here. 01:31:10.080 --> 01:31:11.160 It's not a problem. 01:31:12.120 --> 01:31:17.180 It's drivable. Would we have to go through some more dangerous areas than the 01:31:17.180 --> 01:31:18.300 Yucatan itself? Not really. 01:31:18.440 --> 01:31:22.380 There's some, you know, Mexico has major highways. We could make it probably 01:31:22.380 --> 01:31:26.300 pretty close to where the hell we're going to go through the highways. Yeah. 01:31:26.960 --> 01:31:27.240 Okay. 01:31:27.440 --> 01:31:28.880 It's not that big a deal. 01:31:32.000 --> 01:31:32.740 There you go. 01:31:32.820 --> 01:31:33.440 I may have to change. 01:31:33.440 --> 01:31:34.200 Yeah, we have a plan. 01:31:34.880 --> 01:31:38.760 Jesus Christ. Okay, so let me see. Long Beach. 01:31:40.060 --> 01:31:46.860 Long Beach, Washington. Okay, great. Let me see. Directions to. Okay, from. 01:31:47.100 --> 01:31:49.720 You got to get the actual name of the town. Hold on. 01:31:49.720 --> 01:31:54.040 Yeah, give me the name of the town. Hold on so I can see the driving directions. Hang on. 01:31:55.040 --> 01:32:02.080 It is Chachoban, C-H-A-C-C-H-O-B-E-N. 01:32:02.420 --> 01:32:02.900 Wait, wait. 01:32:03.020 --> 01:32:04.120 In Quintana Roo, Mexico. 01:32:04.480 --> 01:32:06.020 Say C-H-O-B? 01:32:06.720 --> 01:32:13.000 C-H-A-C-C-H-O-B-E-N. 01:32:13.540 --> 01:32:17.680 Okay. Man, this is tough to prep. Chachoban. Okay, here we go. 01:32:18.140 --> 01:32:21.300 All right, let's see. Come on. Give me the driving directions. 01:32:21.960 --> 01:32:23.780 Two days and ten hours. 01:32:25.800 --> 01:32:32.960 3,619 miles tolls required but I'll tell you what it's a pretty straight shot 01:32:32.960 --> 01:32:37.000 through highways all the way there from up there to, 01:32:38.300 --> 01:32:44.680 yeah but I got straight out directions we gotta go, actually we'll go through 01:32:44.680 --> 01:32:49.500 yeah, because we'll go through very close to where my brother lives in Texas 01:32:49.500 --> 01:32:51.300 okay, cross the border through, 01:32:51.900 --> 01:32:55.840 Monterey, Mexico which is one of the other big cities in Mexico. 01:32:56.100 --> 01:32:59.240 We're Victoria, Tampico, Veracruz, Villahermosa. 01:33:00.160 --> 01:33:03.240 And then we get all the way there. Very close to, yeah. 01:33:04.200 --> 01:33:04.820 There you go. 01:33:04.820 --> 01:33:05.660 It's actually doable. 01:33:08.220 --> 01:33:11.400 Well, that's two and a half days of straight driving. 01:33:11.620 --> 01:33:11.700 Right? 01:33:12.660 --> 01:33:17.560 Yes. Okay. Eight hour shifts. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Basically, yeah. 01:33:17.680 --> 01:33:22.860 We basically, yeah. It's, you know, yeah. So, you know, let's see. 01:33:22.860 --> 01:33:25.320 No stops on the way, just straight out. 01:33:25.360 --> 01:33:30.100 I mean, it's basically, yeah, we're just, this is a mad dash all the way down there, basically, yes. 01:33:30.660 --> 01:33:31.860 And then all the way back. 01:33:31.940 --> 01:33:32.120 Yeah. 01:33:35.520 --> 01:33:38.740 Okay, enough of that. All right. Anything else on Mexico? 01:33:39.220 --> 01:33:40.280 Not at the moment, Tom. 01:33:40.900 --> 01:33:46.800 Are there any other topics you want to make sure to cover before we close things up? 01:33:46.900 --> 01:33:49.620 I know we're still a little bit short of our normal time, but. 01:33:49.820 --> 01:33:54.540 There was one thing, and I posted news, but I didn't put into topics. Sam? 01:33:55.100 --> 01:33:55.260 Yeah. 01:33:58.120 --> 01:34:02.640 Guess what? About inflation. Do you know what was reported? 01:34:02.640 --> 01:34:03.140 About inflation. 01:34:03.420 --> 01:34:07.220 Yeah. Do you know what was reported earlier this week about inflation? 01:34:07.220 --> 01:34:14.320 Well, I remember one of you guys posting a link about Boebert trying to define inflation. 01:34:14.680 --> 01:34:18.200 Well, yes. How did she do? Did you watch it? 01:34:18.700 --> 01:34:23.880 I think she said it was when prices were bad because of Biden. 01:34:24.460 --> 01:34:26.360 Something along those lines. Yes. 01:34:27.580 --> 01:34:27.900 Yeah. 01:34:30.360 --> 01:34:35.740 Anyway, was it revisions in the bad direction or something like that? 01:34:35.800 --> 01:34:36.860 What was the actual news? 01:34:37.220 --> 01:34:43.440 The producer price index was announced this week, okay? 01:34:43.780 --> 01:34:51.440 And it showed that hotter than expected increases, 0.5 for the month, 01:34:51.860 --> 01:34:57.920 and that the annual inflation rate was at 2.9% for producer prices. 01:34:58.200 --> 01:35:04.340 So think about this. This is the prices that manufacturers eventually have to 01:35:04.340 --> 01:35:06.160 pass on to consumers, okay? 01:35:06.700 --> 01:35:07.180 Okay. 01:35:07.440 --> 01:35:11.340 So their prices are up and it's hotter than expected. 01:35:11.580 --> 01:35:15.720 And also there were revisions to earlier months that showed that it was hotter 01:35:15.720 --> 01:35:18.160 than expected. Sam, take a look at that. 01:35:19.400 --> 01:35:24.540 Okay. Interesting. I thought all economic indicators were going well. 01:35:25.040 --> 01:35:28.800 Yeah. And inflation was down. Under control. 01:35:29.000 --> 01:35:34.640 Yes. Inflation is down. Jobs are good. Housing is good. 01:35:34.860 --> 01:35:35.000 Yep. 01:35:35.860 --> 01:35:39.340 Everything's operating on all cylinders. Everything's going great. 01:35:39.340 --> 01:35:44.560 By the way, in terms of goods, it was down, but simply because it was impacted 01:35:44.560 --> 01:35:46.300 by energy prices, which are down. 01:35:46.500 --> 01:35:51.080 Okay. Some energy prices are down. But that's, you know, energy prices are very 01:35:51.080 --> 01:35:52.480 volatile up and down, whatever. 01:35:52.740 --> 01:35:59.880 So, you know, there was a 5.5% decrease in gasoline prices. But, you know, but that's... 01:36:00.340 --> 01:36:02.140 Bottom line, Yvonne, your prediction 01:36:02.140 --> 01:36:05.000 is still the economy is going to hell before it gets better again. 01:36:05.360 --> 01:36:08.380 Yeah, I mean, there's just no... 01:36:10.680 --> 01:36:16.160 All the economic indicators suck. Except the ones that Trump can manipulate. 01:36:16.800 --> 01:36:17.260 Right. 01:36:18.470 --> 01:36:22.550 Okay, one update. While we've been talking here the last few minutes, 01:36:23.170 --> 01:36:26.010 Bob shared on our Curmudgeons Corner Slack an update. 01:36:26.510 --> 01:36:34.770 Netanyahu has apparently been on Israeli TV claiming that they did in fact get Ayatollah Khomeini. 01:36:35.050 --> 01:36:39.890 I always forget and do the earlier name, but the Supreme Leader of Iran, 01:36:40.070 --> 01:36:44.070 Netanyahu, is saying all indications show he's no longer with us. 01:36:44.070 --> 01:36:48.110 Now, a couple hours ago, I was hearing that he was scheduled to give an address 01:36:48.110 --> 01:36:50.850 to the Iranian people. I guess maybe he hasn't yet. 01:36:51.230 --> 01:36:54.750 Again, fog of war. By the time you listen to this, you'll know more. 01:36:55.110 --> 01:36:59.490 But maybe, maybe they got the supreme leader, which is one of the scenarios 01:36:59.490 --> 01:37:06.830 I mentioned that would result in more substantial changes than just, 01:37:07.110 --> 01:37:10.850 hey, let's bomb them for a few days and then things continue on exactly as they were. 01:37:10.850 --> 01:37:17.070 if they actually got the supreme leader and a few other you know top five top 01:37:17.070 --> 01:37:19.590 ten people in iran that's going 01:37:19.590 --> 01:37:22.390 to lead to some volatility because who the hell knows what comes next. 01:37:22.390 --> 01:37:27.390 I'm sure this will be fine it'll all break out in jeffersonian democracy tomorrow 01:37:27.390 --> 01:37:32.850 there's going to be like this this entire like just just you know but but i'm 01:37:32.850 --> 01:37:35.130 talking about it more in terms of like the 01:37:35.550 --> 01:37:46.410 myths where it will just all be it'll all be wonderful and happy roses on the 01:37:46.410 --> 01:37:49.170 streets and happiness and hugs and. 01:37:50.000 --> 01:37:54.580 Well, the one thing I will say about Iran, along the lines of, 01:37:54.700 --> 01:37:57.960 is that actually possible, is that 01:37:57.960 --> 01:38:03.880 the younger population, which is a significant majority at this point, 01:38:04.060 --> 01:38:06.420 has been, over the last couple years, 01:38:06.720 --> 01:38:13.680 getting increasingly vocal and agitated about wanting an opening of society, 01:38:13.980 --> 01:38:16.460 wanting real democracy, wanting that change. 01:38:16.460 --> 01:38:21.820 There were massive demonstrations in Iran just a month or two ago that were 01:38:21.820 --> 01:38:23.400 put down like they usually did. 01:38:23.500 --> 01:38:29.540 But if they are given an opportunity by a decapitation of the leadership, 01:38:29.840 --> 01:38:37.880 there is a non-zero chance that just like the revolution in the 70s that caused 01:38:37.880 --> 01:38:44.180 the hostage crisis and everything else, the Iranian youth actually do take over the country. 01:38:44.180 --> 01:38:50.120 It's not impossible. I mean, it could turn out good for whom? 01:38:51.380 --> 01:38:56.680 Well, it could be a net positive for the Iranian people. It's possible. 01:38:57.000 --> 01:39:00.980 I'm not predicting that, but I'm saying it is within the realm of possibility 01:39:00.980 --> 01:39:04.720 that the Israelis and U.S. 01:39:04.960 --> 01:39:10.940 decapitate the Iranian government and that Iranian reformers take advantage 01:39:10.940 --> 01:39:12.720 of it and we get a good outcome. 01:39:12.720 --> 01:39:16.100 But it's possible, but it's one of those things that, again, 01:39:16.540 --> 01:39:23.040 it happens by accident, not necessarily by any plan, because I'm sure that we 01:39:23.040 --> 01:39:26.860 didn't lay any groundwork in order to be able to support that. 01:39:28.600 --> 01:39:35.540 Right. It's kind of like, if you remember the Kurds in Iraq during the first 01:39:35.540 --> 01:39:36.760 George Bush administration. 01:39:36.960 --> 01:39:37.080 Right. 01:39:37.620 --> 01:39:44.220 Where we gave a lot of noise about like, you know, hey, we're liberating Kuwait. 01:39:44.360 --> 01:39:47.000 Now's your time. You may want to rebel too. 01:39:47.180 --> 01:39:51.000 It would be a good time. And they did. And we backed them up with zero. 01:39:51.600 --> 01:39:51.760 Right. 01:39:52.640 --> 01:39:53.080 Exactly. 01:39:53.240 --> 01:39:55.400 We'll let them get slaughtered. Yeah. Exactly. 01:39:55.400 --> 01:39:59.460 You know, and that's another possible outcome here. 01:39:59.660 --> 01:40:10.120 But the key is, and I think this is a standard of Donald Trump and his administration as well. 01:40:11.040 --> 01:40:15.560 And frankly, it's a reason why a lot of people like him, is he's willing to 01:40:15.560 --> 01:40:21.640 take huge bets where there may be a massive downside possibility. 01:40:21.640 --> 01:40:25.280 but there's also a massive upside possibility. 01:40:25.660 --> 01:40:27.200 And he's just willing to roll the dice. 01:40:27.460 --> 01:40:30.900 Basically, it's not even a roll of the dice, Sam. It's like putting all your 01:40:30.900 --> 01:40:33.480 money on one number on the roulette table. Okay. 01:40:34.160 --> 01:40:40.360 You know, there's 40 fucking numbers. The likelihood that you will succeed is stupidly low. 01:40:40.580 --> 01:40:42.820 It's not, this isn't the grand plan. 01:40:43.100 --> 01:40:47.820 I mean, if it happens, it's just pure luck. Yeah. 01:40:48.840 --> 01:40:53.000 It's dumb luck! Pure dumb luck! Period. End of story. 01:40:54.820 --> 01:41:01.300 Unfortunately, this man has had a lot of pure dumb luck and had things that 01:41:01.300 --> 01:41:05.140 should have landed him in jail decades ago, 01:41:05.280 --> 01:41:09.960 and instead, he's president of the fucking United States for the second time. 01:41:10.040 --> 01:41:14.340 Ah, for the love of fucking God. Yeah. Okay, so on that note, shit. 01:41:15.910 --> 01:41:22.210 Fuck me. Yeah. Shit. Yeah. You're right. Son of a bitch. 01:41:23.050 --> 01:41:26.010 Anyway. Yeah. Let's close it up. 01:41:26.310 --> 01:41:27.250 Yeah, let's close it up. 01:41:28.230 --> 01:41:31.510 Okay, everybody. You know, I almost said electiongraphs.com, 01:41:31.590 --> 01:41:35.770 but there's nothing happening there yet. Soon. Soon. We'll set up for 2028. 01:41:36.910 --> 01:41:41.190 But curmudgeons-corner.com. You can go there. You can find all our old shows, 01:41:41.350 --> 01:41:45.330 transcripts, all the ways to contact us, all that kind of fun stuff. 01:41:45.330 --> 01:41:54.290 and of course you can find our Patreon so you can give us money at various levels we will send you a, 01:41:55.050 --> 01:41:57.750 we'll mention you on the show we'll ring a bell we'll send you 01:41:57.750 --> 01:42:00.770 a postcard we'll send you a mug all that kind of fun stuff at $2 01:42:00.770 --> 01:42:04.830 a month or more or if you just ask us we will invite you to the Curmudgeon's 01:42:04.830 --> 01:42:10.470 Corner Slack where Yvonne and I and all kinds of other folks are chatting throughout 01:42:10.470 --> 01:42:15.430 the week sharing links talking about the news talking about other stuff and 01:42:15.430 --> 01:42:20.690 we would love to have you the more the merrier so Yvonne, what's a highlight, 01:42:21.370 --> 01:42:26.370 from the Curmudgeon's Corner Slack that we have not mentioned on the show yet okay. 01:42:26.570 --> 01:42:32.350 I will mention this I shared this on a random channel and this is something 01:42:32.350 --> 01:42:37.250 that I that I dearly love and there is this there was this article about, 01:42:38.130 --> 01:42:45.850 it was called the title is Inside the Cutthroat Competition for the best baguette in Paris. Okay? 01:42:47.670 --> 01:42:51.710 Bread is God in Paris. Enter the Baguette Grand Prix. 01:42:51.890 --> 01:42:59.210 There is this entire competition where all the bakeries in France go and, 01:42:59.210 --> 01:43:02.670 like, submit these baguettes to be judged for the best baguettes. 01:43:03.170 --> 01:43:07.790 in Paris, okay? And there is this entire process of evaluating, 01:43:08.070 --> 01:43:12.110 looking at them, tasting them, judging them in order to arrive at the best baguette. 01:43:12.250 --> 01:43:19.830 And my fucking God, I would give anything to be a judge on this fucking competition 01:43:19.830 --> 01:43:24.350 because I sure fucking love a baguette. Oh my God. 01:43:25.030 --> 01:43:25.830 There you go. 01:43:26.830 --> 01:43:30.590 You gotta look at the picture. It looks so delicious. 01:43:30.610 --> 01:43:34.090 Do you eat it straight or with butter? or with some other topping? 01:43:34.250 --> 01:43:37.150 How do you consume it? I know with butter is my preferred, obviously, yes. 01:43:37.390 --> 01:43:44.070 You know, with a nice, just, you know, a nice baguette warm with just a little bit of butter. 01:43:44.570 --> 01:43:48.810 You know, it's just excellent. There is this French butter brand that I like 01:43:48.810 --> 01:43:52.030 that's just, it's so expensive, which is why I don't normally buy it, 01:43:52.070 --> 01:43:54.390 but it's so good whenever I get it. Oh my gosh. 01:43:55.150 --> 01:43:57.210 Now you have me wanting one of these. 01:43:57.490 --> 01:44:00.090 Oh my God, it's, it's. 01:44:00.170 --> 01:44:01.310 Or at least some kind of breakfast. 01:44:01.470 --> 01:44:07.790 It's glorious, man. I'm telling you. I had to find the brand of the butter. 01:44:08.050 --> 01:44:15.350 I will tell you that out of all my butters, near my top are the European butter 01:44:15.350 --> 01:44:18.430 is usually like Lurepak or Irish butter. 01:44:18.610 --> 01:44:25.570 Those are really good. But there is this one specific butter that I'm pulling 01:44:25.570 --> 01:44:30.430 up the name like over here, which is it's not easy to find. 01:44:30.430 --> 01:44:38.710 And it's also stupidly expensive, which is why I will admit that it's just so expensive. 01:44:38.950 --> 01:44:46.750 You can't have this on a regular basis. 01:44:47.070 --> 01:44:50.490 It's called Eschire, okay? 01:44:51.350 --> 01:44:55.490 And you don't want to waste it on normal crappy bread. No, no. 01:44:56.790 --> 01:45:00.510 It's Eschire. It's from France. it's just, 01:45:01.590 --> 01:45:04.330 if you let me see if I last time 01:45:04.330 --> 01:45:08.070 I looked it up it was just so stupidly expensive it's it's 01:45:08.070 --> 01:45:14.930 but but it's it's absolutely delicious it see it one little container of SRA 01:45:14.930 --> 01:45:22.230 okay all right a little container is sixteen dollars okay if you buy I see where 01:45:22.230 --> 01:45:24.730 they sell it like in a package okay if you get like a, 01:45:25.880 --> 01:45:28.880 You know how you would get like four bricks of butter for like $10, 01:45:29.020 --> 01:45:33.820 $15, $20 at Costco? The same amount for this, $240. 01:45:35.760 --> 01:45:36.580 Yeah, okay. 01:45:37.120 --> 01:45:40.060 This is why I don't buy this butter. I'm not going to, I mean. 01:45:41.340 --> 01:45:43.840 I'll stick with some land of lakes or something, you know. 01:45:43.940 --> 01:45:47.800 Yeah, but, I mean, and the problem is that, yeah, you want to because you'll 01:45:47.800 --> 01:45:49.320 try it and then you'll be like. 01:45:49.940 --> 01:45:55.740 You know, Brandy occasionally gets some fancy Irish butter. 01:45:55.880 --> 01:45:56.640 Yeah, yeah, yeah. 01:45:56.720 --> 01:46:01.420 And, you know, and I'm like, okay, whatever. Like, I'll be honest, 01:46:01.420 --> 01:46:06.080 I can barely tell the difference, but I can recognize it's a little bit better. 01:46:06.540 --> 01:46:10.340 But, you know, I can see occasionally blurred. 01:46:10.340 --> 01:46:19.320 This one is, it's stupid. It's over and above the norm of how good it is. Okay, all right. 01:46:19.500 --> 01:46:22.880 I mean, literally, it's just stupidly good. 01:46:23.920 --> 01:46:28.040 I'm going to try to see if I find a place that has it cheaper than, like, at that. 01:46:28.200 --> 01:46:31.180 But almost all the places that I've seen it, when I've gone to buy it, 01:46:31.320 --> 01:46:32.980 it's been like, oh, it's $80. 01:46:33.360 --> 01:46:38.660 Oh, it's $200. I'm like, oh, fuck me. No, no. I can't start eating, 01:46:38.660 --> 01:46:46.140 you know, butter that costs, you know, $80, like, you know, for just something 01:46:46.140 --> 01:46:48.240 that costs, like, $15 on the other one. 01:46:48.300 --> 01:46:52.580 It seems like, on a daily basis, it seems extravagant. Extravagant. 01:46:52.680 --> 01:46:57.220 Right. Yeah. I mean, I can see splurging every once in a while as a treat, 01:46:57.220 --> 01:46:59.720 but that's different than making this your everyday butter. 01:46:59.960 --> 01:47:02.260 Yeah. No, it's just, it's too much. 01:47:03.530 --> 01:47:07.890 Okay. One last thing. I'm going to do my Robin letter promo again. 01:47:08.110 --> 01:47:18.210 Just as stats for everybody, we're up to 37 users at the moment who have made, where's my number here? 01:47:19.050 --> 01:47:28.370 47 updates so far between those 37 users across seven Robins. 01:47:29.050 --> 01:47:30.830 By the way, as you mentioned on the Slack. 01:47:30.990 --> 01:47:36.150 My thing about creating a pitch deck to sell it was only half in jest. It's not completely. 01:47:37.890 --> 01:47:44.250 I did it first kind of like jokingly, but I realized later, maybe this isn't 01:47:44.250 --> 01:47:47.410 a complete joke. After I started putting everything together. 01:47:47.650 --> 01:47:53.490 So we do need to discuss this at some point. Maybe not as much money as I put 01:47:53.490 --> 01:47:55.450 it there, but then I thought about it. 01:47:55.450 --> 01:47:59.290 Yvonne's joking about getting us $50 million in funding for this thing. 01:47:59.290 --> 01:48:04.930 But here's the thing, Sam. Look at all the stupid shit that's gotten a lot more money than this. 01:48:05.130 --> 01:48:08.310 And it's a lot dumber. And more expensive. 01:48:09.920 --> 01:48:12.620 Yeah yeah yeah i mean and you know 01:48:12.620 --> 01:48:15.340 as i've as i said on the curmudgeon's course 01:48:15.340 --> 01:48:17.980 slack about no i didn't say it on the sock i said it in one of 01:48:17.980 --> 01:48:21.500 the robins ah yes you know there there are 01:48:21.500 --> 01:48:25.780 potential issues with venture funding and how it matches and expectations and 01:48:25.780 --> 01:48:29.300 maybe there are ways to get money organically but i don't know i don't know 01:48:29.300 --> 01:48:34.620 i'm i'm willing to talk i'm willing to talk if if anybody wants to like buy 01:48:34.620 --> 01:48:38.340 me out for a few million dollars i'd have to at least think about it, you know, 01:48:38.500 --> 01:48:41.940 but anyway. 01:48:42.660 --> 01:48:48.120 Anyway, it's actually a lot of fun and people have been, it varies Robin to Robin. 01:48:48.280 --> 01:48:53.220 Like I have one that I tried to start up for like people I knew from the Seattle 01:48:53.220 --> 01:48:56.200 area that's starting very, very slowly. 01:48:56.620 --> 01:49:00.740 Only a couple of people have accepted their invitations, even after I solicited 01:49:00.740 --> 01:49:03.580 and said, would you be willing to do this? 01:49:03.660 --> 01:49:06.500 And they said, yeah, sign me up. And then they haven't actually followed up. 01:49:06.500 --> 01:49:13.020 So that, that one's going really slowly, but like my, the one for the curmudgeons 01:49:13.020 --> 01:49:16.260 corner Slack has with a bunch of people who are on our Slack, 01:49:16.440 --> 01:49:20.080 people have been giving like heartfelt updates about their lives. 01:49:20.440 --> 01:49:24.860 And for the ones that I've started with my cousins on the two sides of my family, 01:49:25.100 --> 01:49:28.420 I've, they're real updates from people where they've written about what's going 01:49:28.420 --> 01:49:31.960 on with them and their kids and stuff. And so it's, it's actually pretty. 01:49:32.490 --> 01:49:37.170 doing its intended purpose, you know, but it's still all people I know. 01:49:37.570 --> 01:49:42.870 So we need to get past that. And I need to build out a couple more features 01:49:42.870 --> 01:49:47.210 before it's like really fully baked. 01:49:47.230 --> 01:49:50.250 I would say like it's got most of the key functionality, but like, 01:49:50.310 --> 01:49:52.030 I know there's some things missing. 01:49:52.290 --> 01:49:55.010 You need to be able to upload pictures. People want to do that. 01:49:55.150 --> 01:49:58.990 You need to be able to comment on posts when it's not your turn. 01:49:59.150 --> 01:50:02.630 The more I've actually played with this, the more I've wanted to do that myself. 01:50:03.050 --> 01:50:05.250 So, you know, I've got a few, I've got work to do. 01:50:05.890 --> 01:50:08.970 But, but yeah, I don't know. We'll, we'll, we'll talk, Yvonne. 01:50:09.110 --> 01:50:13.790 We'll talk, Yvonne. Maybe we can do something. But anyway, my point was. 01:50:14.030 --> 01:50:17.790 My whole thing is, look, why not take a stab at it? You have a product. 01:50:18.010 --> 01:50:19.930 I, I, I, I think there's some potential. 01:50:20.230 --> 01:50:22.430 Okay. So I think we need to seriously discuss. 01:50:23.160 --> 01:50:26.760 Okay. Like we, we said we were going to talk last week and then we didn't. 01:50:26.860 --> 01:50:28.260 We'll, we'll, we'll make sure it happens. 01:50:28.600 --> 01:50:31.320 Almost getting killed and shit. Okay. 01:50:31.580 --> 01:50:37.500 You know, well, it was also me. Like I, I, I said, let's talk about it tomorrow. 01:50:37.980 --> 01:50:40.840 I'm sure it's on your task list. So it will at some point. Yeah. 01:50:41.140 --> 01:50:45.900 Like at some point I'll, I'll randomly pick, talk to Yvonne and then I'll text 01:50:45.900 --> 01:50:51.040 you and you'll, you will have gotten run over by a motorcycle and you won't be available. 01:50:51.340 --> 01:50:58.320 So that could be, you know, anyway, Anyway, my point was, I got 37 users now. I want more. 01:50:58.460 --> 01:51:04.960 So if you are listening to this and you have not yet been invited and actually 01:51:04.960 --> 01:51:06.680 joined one of these Robins. 01:51:06.860 --> 01:51:11.340 Oh, and by the way, I have, there are still how many people who have not accepted? 01:51:12.060 --> 01:51:17.580 I still have 20 open invites from invites that have gone out, 01:51:17.680 --> 01:51:22.420 but the people haven't accepted yet, in addition to the 37 that are already online. 01:51:22.420 --> 01:51:26.260 so if you are interested 01:51:26.260 --> 01:51:29.280 at all willing at all even if you're not super interested if 01:51:29.280 --> 01:51:33.160 you're willing to give it a shot contact me feedback at 01:51:33.160 --> 01:51:37.820 robinletter.com and i'll get you an invite anyway and then you can go from there 01:51:37.820 --> 01:51:42.660 that's it that's it i am done for real now thanks everybody for joining us yet 01:51:42.660 --> 01:51:47.460 again and after yvonne talked about all that bread i think i need to go find 01:51:47.460 --> 01:51:52.320 some breakfast soon i'm hungry i'm all i'm also tired because i mentioned i woke up just 01:51:52.420 --> 01:51:57.300 before the show, but I'd only been asleep like two and a half hours at that point. 01:51:57.840 --> 01:52:02.700 Cause I, I, I, I was, I was doing some stuff like we. 01:52:03.710 --> 01:52:06.910 I don't want to get into the whole story, but we replaced our projector that 01:52:06.910 --> 01:52:07.810 we use in our living room. 01:52:07.890 --> 01:52:11.850 The old one died, got a new one. I installed it, mounted it on the ceiling. 01:52:12.510 --> 01:52:15.950 Alex helped me mount it at first, but we had some problems. So, 01:52:16.070 --> 01:52:20.290 like, at, like, one in the morning, I realized I had to fix some shit because 01:52:20.290 --> 01:52:24.650 the way we'd done it the first time was not going to stay. Okay? 01:52:24.990 --> 01:52:30.270 It's kind of like the fucking scale that, you know, you guys are not experts 01:52:30.270 --> 01:52:33.310 at hanging anything on the fucking ceiling is what I'm realizing. 01:52:34.310 --> 01:52:39.950 We haven't told that story on the thing. My son bought a hanging scale to weigh 01:52:39.950 --> 01:52:43.270 the dog and mounted it from the ceiling and stuff like that. Anyway. 01:52:43.410 --> 01:52:46.430 And apparently on the first attempt, apparently, you know, I'm like, 01:52:46.570 --> 01:52:48.450 I went, I stupidly asked what he said. 01:52:48.710 --> 01:52:52.310 Oh, wow. He found the stud on the first try. That's amazing. 01:52:52.490 --> 01:52:57.050 And then Sam was like, oh, no, he actually didn't. And it came crashing down. Oh, of course. 01:52:57.710 --> 01:52:59.150 He found it on the second try. 01:52:59.270 --> 01:52:59.710 Of course. 01:53:01.210 --> 01:53:04.810 I asked him when I first came upstairs, I'm like, you remember to put that in 01:53:04.810 --> 01:53:06.930 a stud, right? And he's like, stud? 01:53:07.270 --> 01:53:08.230 He's like, stud? 01:53:10.130 --> 01:53:13.790 And then so he tried it and it, of course, came out. Like, it wasn't like a 01:53:13.790 --> 01:53:16.730 big crash and burn type thing, but it came out. 01:53:16.830 --> 01:53:21.070 It was just, yeah, well, it just slid out. Yeah. Well, thank God it wasn't more 01:53:21.070 --> 01:53:22.030 damaged. Yeah. Okay, good. 01:53:22.690 --> 01:53:26.870 Yeah. And so he put it back up and he did it the right way. And then when we 01:53:26.870 --> 01:53:30.450 mounted the projector, it was in fact a similar issue. 01:53:31.150 --> 01:53:39.210 And then I, like 1.30 in the morning, I'm like, okay, we're going to fix this. And he was tired. 01:53:39.370 --> 01:53:45.570 He fell asleep. But I kept working on it. I remounted everything properly. 01:53:45.910 --> 01:53:53.610 I had to readjust how some of the wiring was because it wasn't exactly in the 01:53:53.610 --> 01:53:55.050 same position as the old one. 01:53:55.050 --> 01:54:02.730 And there was one screw that in the mounting hardware that got broken in the process. 01:54:03.010 --> 01:54:06.690 And I had to figure out a way to make it all work anyway. 01:54:07.090 --> 01:54:10.910 Anyway, and by the way, while all this was going on, we were going to war. 01:54:11.330 --> 01:54:16.270 And so even once I got it all mounted, even once it got all mounted, 01:54:16.530 --> 01:54:21.330 I turned on my four up news channels and sat there watching news for a couple more hours. 01:54:21.850 --> 01:54:24.850 And yeah, so I've had less than three hours sleep. 01:54:25.050 --> 01:54:31.130 So I have competing impulses in me right now. I am hungry and I am tired. 01:54:31.590 --> 01:54:37.490 And Alex is still asleep. So the question is, do I get food or do I take a nap 01:54:37.490 --> 01:54:42.770 or do I actually try to do something productive or some combination of the three? 01:54:42.970 --> 01:54:51.590 Like I could drive somewhere to get food and on the way sleep in the car and 01:54:51.590 --> 01:54:56.230 then shove food into my mouth while I'm asleep as well and choke on it. 01:54:57.440 --> 01:54:58.480 Does that sound like a plan? 01:54:58.940 --> 01:54:59.340 Perfect. 01:55:00.160 --> 01:55:03.440 And I've got Robin Letter work to do. I rolled Robin Letter, 01:55:03.600 --> 01:55:06.380 more stuff on Robin Letter. I'm fixing some bugs right now. 01:55:06.560 --> 01:55:12.520 I have a list of bugs and things to look at before I go adding new features. So I got to do that too. 01:55:13.220 --> 01:55:17.800 And other stuff that needs to be done. So anyway, I was saying goodbye. 01:55:18.240 --> 01:55:21.880 Bye. Goodbye, everybody. Have a great week. Stay safe. Have fun. 01:55:22.000 --> 01:55:23.460 Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. 01:55:24.900 --> 01:55:27.560 And we'll talk again next week. Goodbye. Bye. 01:56:00.600 --> 01:56:04.380 Okay. That's it. Hit and stop, Ivan. Have a good rest of your weekend. 01:56:05.060 --> 01:56:05.540 Bye. 01:56:06.040 --> 01:56:06.520 Bye.