WEBVTT 00:00:00.010 --> 00:00:03.350 Let's make sure those thingy is in anybody. 00:00:05.710 --> 00:00:12.830 Here it goes. And I'm not going to worry about the notifications and stuff. 00:00:13.010 --> 00:00:15.690 It'll just do what it does. Shall we start? 00:00:16.610 --> 00:00:17.210 Yeah. 00:00:17.970 --> 00:00:22.370 Okay, here we go. Oh, I haven't annotated the thing for you. 00:00:22.470 --> 00:00:25.150 I'll probably do it tomorrow. What? What? 00:00:27.750 --> 00:00:32.050 I'll get it done. I've been doing other stuff. Here we go. 00:00:53.830 --> 00:01:01.690 welcome to curmudgeon's corner first saturday march 7th 2026. 00:01:01.970 --> 00:01:05.670 It's just after 18 UTC as we're starting to record. I'm Sam Menter. 00:01:05.730 --> 00:01:07.490 Yvonne Bowes here. Hello, Yvonne. 00:01:08.490 --> 00:01:09.010 Hello! 00:01:11.090 --> 00:01:13.510 Sam, it's another boring week, huh? 00:01:13.810 --> 00:01:16.870 Another boring week. Yes, always. 00:01:17.510 --> 00:01:22.210 Always. You know, we do have them occasionally. Less often than we used to, 00:01:22.330 --> 00:01:24.250 but they still occasionally happen. 00:01:24.470 --> 00:01:28.630 Okay, you might try to remind me when the fuck was the last boring week. 00:01:28.650 --> 00:01:29.970 Because I can't remember. 00:01:30.690 --> 00:01:32.810 You know, now you're putting me on the spot. 00:01:33.410 --> 00:01:41.030 Yeah. You know, I, I don't, I mean, I'm trying to remember. Anytime do we have, I don't, I mean. 00:01:41.730 --> 00:01:44.910 Let me see. Let me see. I'm going to look at our archives. 00:01:45.650 --> 00:01:46.050 Okay. 00:01:46.350 --> 00:01:48.870 And see when the last episode was, 00:01:49.980 --> 00:01:57.520 That was mostly fluff. Okay. Last week, we had the Iran war stuff. 00:01:58.340 --> 00:01:58.480 Yeah. 00:01:58.880 --> 00:02:04.660 The week before that, we had some Epstein stuff. We had some tariff stuff. 00:02:04.820 --> 00:02:06.520 But there wasn't one big thing. 00:02:07.060 --> 00:02:15.620 Going back before that, we had Bad Bunny and some economic data stuff. 00:02:15.820 --> 00:02:19.500 But honestly, some government incompetence stuff. But honestly, 00:02:19.660 --> 00:02:22.800 it was it was an episode where we had a bunch of small little things and we 00:02:22.800 --> 00:02:25.360 didn't have a big overwhelming thing just like three weeks ago. 00:02:26.340 --> 00:02:30.960 I guess that in my thought, that's relative. 00:02:31.120 --> 00:02:34.500 Remember, there was a lot of controversy about Bad Bunny and they were like 00:02:34.500 --> 00:02:39.520 ripping him and MAGA was all on flames about it and blah, blah, blah. 00:02:40.060 --> 00:02:43.700 I guess I'm talking about this is all relative, right? 00:02:44.080 --> 00:02:48.060 I guess relative relative to like, you know. 00:02:49.380 --> 00:02:52.560 Trump era. The week before that was all small things, too. 00:02:53.280 --> 00:02:57.100 You know, in the Trump era, I guess that all seems minor. 00:02:59.300 --> 00:03:06.080 Whereas I'm talking about, you know, you don't seem to remember that there were 00:03:06.080 --> 00:03:10.120 weeks when Obama was president that we were, like, struggling to figure out 00:03:10.120 --> 00:03:11.580 what to talk about at all. 00:03:12.120 --> 00:03:13.160 Yeah, yeah. 00:03:13.720 --> 00:03:17.800 You know, like, you know, there was no week when the president said something 00:03:17.800 --> 00:03:27.260 like, I don't know, there was some truth post today about Iran. 00:03:27.260 --> 00:03:30.540 I, as usual, just woke up. So if something happened this morning, 00:03:30.600 --> 00:03:34.500 I don't know about it yet. He said something about losers. 00:03:35.080 --> 00:03:41.220 Things. It was just so, it's just another one of those unhinged things. 00:03:42.540 --> 00:03:52.160 posts, he was saying something about, I mean, he, let me see if I could find it real quick. 00:03:52.360 --> 00:03:55.300 I didn't even share it. It's just, it was just so unhinged. 00:03:56.580 --> 00:03:59.040 It's, but it was, it was about Iran. 00:04:00.720 --> 00:04:08.560 Let me see. I don't see it right now, but he, he was saying how Iran is just 00:04:08.560 --> 00:04:12.780 a bunch of losers and things and how we've made them, 00:04:13.080 --> 00:04:15.760 pounded them into submission, these losers. 00:04:16.140 --> 00:04:22.860 And, and just, it was just, it's just the post that if I took that post, 00:04:23.040 --> 00:04:29.740 okay, out of the context of Trump and had said that George W. 00:04:29.740 --> 00:04:33.980 Bush said something like this, he would have probably, I mean, 00:04:34.040 --> 00:04:35.540 he might've been impeached. 00:04:36.280 --> 00:04:39.620 He might have been. They might have gone with the 25th Amendment. 00:04:40.120 --> 00:04:42.120 Just for, like, the post. 00:04:42.460 --> 00:04:43.940 Just for that post. 00:04:44.240 --> 00:04:44.620 Right. 00:04:45.980 --> 00:04:55.200 Okay, just for that post, if Obama had made that post that Trump did last night, 00:04:55.460 --> 00:04:59.360 I think the Democrats themselves would have impeached him. 00:05:00.840 --> 00:05:05.940 Because it's so nutty. But this is how we have normalized the insanity right now. 00:05:07.460 --> 00:05:09.440 Because every day is like this. 00:05:09.620 --> 00:05:15.960 Okay, I found your quote for you. Okay. Okay, so this is a Donald J. 00:05:16.280 --> 00:05:20.720 Trump truth social post. I'm not going to call it a truth. 00:05:23.140 --> 00:05:24.160 It's not a truth. 00:05:24.320 --> 00:05:26.600 You're right. That's a misnomer. 00:05:26.760 --> 00:05:33.580 Whoever took the screenshot, it says 6.11 a.m. I don't know if that's Eastern or what, but anyway. 00:05:33.840 --> 00:05:34.220 Probably. 00:05:34.600 --> 00:05:41.180 I will read you this. Iran, which is being beat to hell, has apologized and 00:05:41.180 --> 00:05:42.780 surrendered to its Middle East neighbors. 00:05:43.180 --> 00:05:45.920 and promised that it will not shoot at them anymore. 00:05:46.460 --> 00:05:51.420 This promise was only made because of the relentless U.S. and Israeli attack. 00:05:51.640 --> 00:05:54.520 They were looking to take over and rule the Middle East. 00:05:54.700 --> 00:05:59.860 It is the first time that Iran has ever lost in thousands of years to surrounding 00:05:59.860 --> 00:06:00.840 Middle Eastern countries. 00:06:01.080 --> 00:06:06.620 They have said, thank you, President Trump. I have said, you're welcome. 00:06:07.040 --> 00:06:13.180 Iran is no longer the bully of the Middle East. They are instead the loser of 00:06:13.180 --> 00:06:18.540 the Middle East and will be for many decades until they surrender or, 00:06:18.540 --> 00:06:20.680 more likely, completely collapse. 00:06:21.140 --> 00:06:27.380 Today, Iran will be hit very hard under serious consideration for complete destruction 00:06:27.380 --> 00:06:31.300 and certain death because of Iran's bad behavior. 00:06:31.920 --> 00:06:36.920 Our areas and groups of people that were not considered for targeting up until this moment in time. 00:06:37.620 --> 00:06:41.060 Thank you for your attention to this matter, President Donald J. Trump. 00:06:42.210 --> 00:06:47.470 I mean, this is a normal fucking 6 a.m. 00:06:47.650 --> 00:06:53.550 post by our president that in the past, if any of them had done this and sent 00:06:53.550 --> 00:06:55.990 out a press release saying this, 00:06:56.870 --> 00:07:01.170 they, you know, probably his cabinet would have put him in a straitjacket and 00:07:01.170 --> 00:07:06.570 sent them to, you know, Walter Reed and made some excuse about his health. 00:07:07.530 --> 00:07:10.950 and said, you know, I don't know. We got to figure out something. 00:07:11.130 --> 00:07:12.390 This guy has lost his mind. 00:07:12.970 --> 00:07:13.530 Ivan, Ivan. 00:07:13.650 --> 00:07:18.110 That would have been the past. I mean, but wait, Sam, would that not be accurate? 00:07:18.970 --> 00:07:24.810 I think they would very, at the very least, be like sequestering him away and 00:07:24.810 --> 00:07:26.190 trying to figure out what was going on. 00:07:27.470 --> 00:07:32.790 But, you know, hear this thing. You know, this is just part of Donald Trump's 00:07:32.790 --> 00:07:34.690 charm. This is just how he is. 00:07:35.330 --> 00:07:38.310 this is this is what people elected him 00:07:38.310 --> 00:07:45.250 for because he's straight and to the point and you know tells it like it is 00:07:45.250 --> 00:07:55.910 etc etc etc right yeah you know i saw something and i guess we're dumping straight into news stuff no. 00:07:55.910 --> 00:07:57.110 No well here's the thing. 00:07:57.110 --> 00:07:57.910 Yesterday i. 00:07:57.910 --> 00:08:01.690 I do bring this up in part because yesterday I did go last night. 00:08:01.890 --> 00:08:06.670 My wife had bought tickets to go see this new Disney Pixar movie called Hoppers. 00:08:06.970 --> 00:08:09.030 Hoppers? Yes. Are you going to give a review of Hoppers? 00:08:09.210 --> 00:08:12.190 I am going to give a brief review about Hoppers. 00:08:12.510 --> 00:08:15.470 It's on my list, but obviously I have not seen it yet. 00:08:15.490 --> 00:08:18.110 I'm not going to give away any spoilers about it. 00:08:18.310 --> 00:08:18.670 Yes. 00:08:19.550 --> 00:08:27.910 But I guess the one thing is the main thrust of this is a young boy who's an 00:08:27.910 --> 00:08:34.630 activist for the green spaces in the city versus a mayor who is hell-bent on 00:08:34.630 --> 00:08:36.510 development. That's the main thing. 00:08:39.130 --> 00:08:42.850 And I'm going to tell you, look, it's a beautiful movie. 00:08:43.190 --> 00:08:43.670 Okay. 00:08:43.810 --> 00:08:47.590 I loved it. I mean, it's one of those great Pixar movies. 00:08:48.730 --> 00:08:54.570 So for a while, Pixar had a run where it was like, Pixar never does wrong. 00:08:54.710 --> 00:08:56.070 And then they had a few sort of, eh. 00:08:56.610 --> 00:08:57.410 They were like, okay. 00:08:57.610 --> 00:08:58.890 This is back to form? 00:08:59.210 --> 00:08:59.890 Oh, yeah. 00:09:00.270 --> 00:09:00.730 Okay. 00:09:01.190 --> 00:09:04.070 Oh, yeah. Absolutely. A hundred percent. 00:09:06.010 --> 00:09:12.670 And I don't want to give a spoiler, but the ending itself, in terms of our time, 00:09:12.750 --> 00:09:15.990 because if you think about the conflict between somebody, the development and 00:09:15.990 --> 00:09:19.950 somebody in these things is. 00:09:21.030 --> 00:09:21.910 There are parallels? 00:09:23.370 --> 00:09:24.410 Well, no. 00:09:24.910 --> 00:09:25.130 No? 00:09:25.310 --> 00:09:31.070 Okay. No, no, no, but it's beautiful, and sometimes you wish the world were, like, 00:09:31.670 --> 00:09:35.310 I was in the movie, which is why I make, you know, one thing that we forget, 00:09:35.590 --> 00:09:39.910 Hollywood made Hollywood movies because a lot of people's lives were miserable, 00:09:39.910 --> 00:09:42.510 and it was an escape from that. 00:09:43.030 --> 00:09:43.290 Right. 00:09:44.310 --> 00:09:48.750 And, oh, it's a Hollywood movie, whatever, whatever, well, you know what, 00:09:48.830 --> 00:09:52.330 because maybe people need a fucking escape from the drudgery and misery of a 00:09:52.330 --> 00:09:55.630 lot of shit that's going on. And that, you know what, is uplifting. 00:09:56.030 --> 00:09:56.570 Okay. 00:09:57.230 --> 00:10:03.670 And so the movie, look, total thumbs up. Don't miss it. 00:10:03.990 --> 00:10:04.430 Okay. 00:10:04.770 --> 00:10:07.610 It's really good. It is really good. 00:10:08.550 --> 00:10:13.290 And so I thought about how uplifting the movie was, and then I think about this 00:10:13.290 --> 00:10:16.650 asshole that we got as president, and it's like, you know, like, fuck. 00:10:17.350 --> 00:10:17.930 Okay. 00:10:19.600 --> 00:10:27.360 You know, fuck me. Why do we have this? It's just, I don't know. 00:10:27.740 --> 00:10:30.080 It sounds like you're having a good time. 00:10:30.900 --> 00:10:33.420 I didn't have a good time last night going to the movies for that. 00:10:33.560 --> 00:10:38.040 I stayed up late yesterday watching, it's the start of the Formula One season. 00:10:39.000 --> 00:10:42.060 Okay, so you were watching something live coming out of Europe or something. 00:10:42.500 --> 00:10:45.680 Well, not Europe, Australia. It's starting in Australia. 00:10:45.960 --> 00:10:46.280 Even worse. 00:10:46.300 --> 00:10:50.580 Which is even worse, which is the thing, right? because qualifying last night 00:10:50.580 --> 00:10:53.040 was started at midnight, okay? All right. 00:10:53.960 --> 00:10:58.200 You know, and so it lasted until like 1.30 in the morning. 00:10:58.420 --> 00:11:03.820 And a race is also tonight, so it's a what-the-hell time. 00:11:04.020 --> 00:11:10.320 I got it on my calendar. I have this thing from the F1 people that puts the 00:11:10.320 --> 00:11:16.400 stuff in my calendar, which is very helpful, okay, especially with the different time zones and stuff. 00:11:16.900 --> 00:11:18.740 What time does it say the race starts? 00:11:20.470 --> 00:11:27.310 Coverage starts at 11 p.m., but I think the race officially starts at midnight. So, yeah. 00:11:28.870 --> 00:11:32.730 So, no, I was watching that. Very excited about that. You know, 00:11:33.010 --> 00:11:37.730 the thing is that, well, number one, this year, there's a lot of changes. 00:11:37.770 --> 00:11:41.770 A lot of people are like, Apple TV bought the U.S. 00:11:41.850 --> 00:11:45.270 rights to broadcast the F1 races. 00:11:45.270 --> 00:11:55.110 Which, by the way, actually, they give you access, included with your Apple TV subscription, okay, 00:11:55.350 --> 00:12:00.950 to the F1 official coverage, okay? 00:12:01.110 --> 00:12:07.370 So you go to the F1 app now, which I used to have to pay for $150 extra a year, 00:12:07.410 --> 00:12:10.450 and now I get that free of charge, okay? 00:12:10.870 --> 00:12:16.910 So I don't have to pay. So it's good. And so Apple's doing that and providing, 00:12:16.950 --> 00:12:19.730 like, you know, with your Apple TV subscription and watching that. 00:12:19.850 --> 00:12:20.810 There's a lot of controversy. 00:12:21.010 --> 00:12:24.790 A lot of people bitching and moaning. But the reality is that for a lot of people 00:12:24.790 --> 00:12:31.230 that were really good F1 fans had both the subscription to F1 TV, okay, and to Apple TV. 00:12:31.470 --> 00:12:36.850 So all of a sudden, I get the same shit, and I don't have to pay extra for it. 00:12:37.030 --> 00:12:42.430 I'm sorry, but this is a massive win for me. 00:12:42.750 --> 00:12:43.050 Yes. 00:12:43.250 --> 00:12:50.530 Okay? The other people, I'm like, well, sorry for you, but, you know, but I'm thrilled. 00:12:51.270 --> 00:12:55.830 So I was watching that last night, and I don't know. 00:12:57.330 --> 00:13:05.390 But also, I have been doing all this stuff with—I've just been playing around with stuff now—, 00:13:07.890 --> 00:13:13.370 So since I started using the Claude co-work analysis tools, because you know 00:13:13.370 --> 00:13:16.670 one thing that we talked about, the ChatGPT isn't very good at math. Okay? 00:13:16.890 --> 00:13:17.030 Right. 00:13:17.210 --> 00:13:23.630 But Claude is. Okay? With spreadsheets and numbers and things and stuff or whatever, Claude is. 00:13:23.790 --> 00:13:29.650 Well, and that's because it's not trying to do that just with the LLM. 00:13:29.890 --> 00:13:35.850 It's using external tools that interact with the spreadsheet and know how to do math. 00:13:36.530 --> 00:13:37.070 Exactly. 00:13:37.070 --> 00:13:43.490 You know, and this is the thing where a lot of the developments that have caused improvements, 00:13:43.610 --> 00:13:49.110 and I believe we had like a conversation like a year ago or more about how they 00:13:49.110 --> 00:13:52.350 needed to do something beyond straight LLM technology. 00:13:52.550 --> 00:13:56.950 They needed to augment it with things that knew about truth, for instance. 00:13:57.230 --> 00:14:02.890 And this is augmenting it with something that knows about spreadsheets and how to use a spreadsheet. 00:14:02.890 --> 00:14:06.030 And, you know, and a lot of the tools now also, like, 00:14:06.730 --> 00:14:12.190 even when you add, when you ask it to do something that is deterministic, 00:14:12.450 --> 00:14:19.210 will write themselves a little program to do that rather than trying to do it natively. 00:14:19.210 --> 00:14:25.790 So, like, I remember one example, it just posted within the last month or so, where, 00:14:26.030 --> 00:14:31.210 you know, I think it was ChatGPT he was playing with, but still failed this 00:14:31.210 --> 00:14:37.530 test, where they asked ChatGPT to count out loud from 1 to 100, skipping no numbers. 00:14:37.530 --> 00:14:38.830 Oh, yeah, yeah, that was hilarious. 00:14:39.770 --> 00:14:46.970 And it would always go 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and then I will continue like that all the way to 100. 00:14:46.970 --> 00:14:52.750 and he's like no no no I want you to go all the way to 100 and no matter what 00:14:52.750 --> 00:14:57.890 he did it would still stop like that right um and but like, 00:14:59.280 --> 00:15:03.800 A lot of the more sophisticated ones now, like especially if you're in like 00:15:03.800 --> 00:15:06.360 one of the coding environments or co-work, like you said, 00:15:06.800 --> 00:15:11.840 will know to like don't just try to like spit out the LLM's response to that question, 00:15:11.840 --> 00:15:17.980 but instead recognize it as a request that you go and set off an agent to go 00:15:17.980 --> 00:15:23.040 do properly by writing a program or looking at a spreadsheet or whatever using 00:15:23.040 --> 00:15:24.840 tools that are actually meant for that task. 00:15:25.000 --> 00:15:29.020 Anyway, so your experience with it using the spreadsheets and analysis. 00:15:29.280 --> 00:15:32.100 No, so it's allowing me to do ear, 00:15:32.660 --> 00:15:36.800 The thing is that I find, because you know that I'm always a guy that's built 00:15:36.800 --> 00:15:39.400 a lot of spreadsheets, numbers, things, finance, blah, blah, 00:15:39.460 --> 00:15:40.960 blah. I always do a lot of that. 00:15:41.700 --> 00:15:45.060 Of course, especially when I worked in finance, I had a lot more time to do 00:15:45.060 --> 00:15:46.260 that and worked in operations. 00:15:46.460 --> 00:15:49.740 But the thing is that I'm doing so many other things so much of the time, 00:15:49.840 --> 00:15:53.340 I don't have the time to spend a couple of days to build a spreadsheet anymore, 00:15:53.500 --> 00:15:55.340 to detail analysis a couple of things. 00:15:55.940 --> 00:15:58.940 But the thing is that with using this, 00:15:59.220 --> 00:16:01.880 I could go back to doing some of the spreadsheet shit that 00:16:01.880 --> 00:16:05.440 I used to do and it helps me burn through it a lot faster because 00:16:05.440 --> 00:16:08.260 a big chunk of what I used 00:16:08.260 --> 00:16:11.120 to have to do in order to do analysis say at 00:16:11.120 --> 00:16:14.320 work okay was extracting stuff from databases different 00:16:14.320 --> 00:16:19.480 data sources whatever trying to make these data sets coherent in a certain way 00:16:19.480 --> 00:16:25.400 okay to normalize the data okay so you weren't you know say for example you 00:16:25.400 --> 00:16:30.520 you you you had like sales data in one format from one database, 00:16:30.540 --> 00:16:32.340 and then you had activity, 00:16:32.640 --> 00:16:34.240 you know, you had the sales. 00:16:34.500 --> 00:16:36.820 So say you had sales, okay? 00:16:37.240 --> 00:16:44.080 Then you had the performance of individual sales reps that was tied to that sales data, okay? 00:16:44.260 --> 00:16:48.340 But they may be organized in a different way. So how do you get those two data 00:16:48.340 --> 00:16:52.520 sets to not duplicate information, 00:16:52.520 --> 00:16:56.240 but to give you basically a more rich picture of what was happening with those 00:16:56.240 --> 00:16:59.360 accounts for example so that would take a whole bunch of work of me pulling 00:16:59.360 --> 00:17:03.560 data for maybe two three different four different spreadsheets putting it all 00:17:03.560 --> 00:17:07.020 together whatever but now i could go to shit hey claude here. 00:17:07.910 --> 00:17:11.950 I got this, this, this, and this. Fucking tell me, you know, 00:17:12.310 --> 00:17:14.350 integrate all of this in a coherent way and whatever. 00:17:14.570 --> 00:17:19.750 And the one thing is that I keep telling it, well, I look through it and I identify, 00:17:19.950 --> 00:17:21.690 well, no, no, no, you did this wrong. 00:17:22.530 --> 00:17:26.050 This part, no, no, no, you missed this. No, this doesn't add up. 00:17:26.150 --> 00:17:29.750 Because one thing that I've always been able to do, and it feels like it's like 00:17:29.750 --> 00:17:33.170 when I had like 10 employees in finance and they did shit and they did it wrong. 00:17:33.290 --> 00:17:36.110 And then I kept telling them, dude, that doesn't add up. 00:17:36.550 --> 00:17:40.830 What do you mean it doesn't add up? I know how much money is supposed to be 00:17:40.830 --> 00:17:46.570 in that bucket. And what you added it up to is wrong. And I just know it by looking at it. 00:17:46.810 --> 00:17:49.230 And then I go, oh, yeah, you're right. 00:17:49.490 --> 00:17:52.850 That is too much money. Yeah, I know how much it's supposed to be there. 00:17:52.930 --> 00:17:54.690 There's no way it adds up to that much. 00:17:55.050 --> 00:17:57.610 And it's almost the same thing as I got with Claude. Sometimes I'm like, 00:17:57.730 --> 00:18:02.090 I actually was trying to do some analysis for my own sales. 00:18:02.270 --> 00:18:04.550 And I'm like, that number's wrong. 00:18:05.070 --> 00:18:07.950 And then I tell it, oh, yeah, you're right. I added it up wrong. 00:18:08.450 --> 00:18:09.130 Uh-huh. 00:18:09.810 --> 00:18:12.870 So I kind of like been entertaining myself a lot with that. 00:18:13.410 --> 00:18:15.130 Okay. Very good. 00:18:16.070 --> 00:18:22.150 I find it very entertaining or like doing stuff like, you know, Apple. 00:18:22.330 --> 00:18:26.370 So Apple, you know, has a lot of like all this health tracking stuff. 00:18:26.470 --> 00:18:28.990 And over the years of it, I've been using it. 00:18:29.130 --> 00:18:32.910 And on the phone, it gives you a lot of information and richness in terms of 00:18:32.910 --> 00:18:34.750 like showing you trends and things or whatever. 00:18:35.150 --> 00:18:40.510 One thing that I'm annoyed is that Apple doesn't have the same app for the computer. 00:18:40.650 --> 00:18:41.830 It's not synchronizing it. 00:18:42.450 --> 00:18:48.230 Right. There's just no fitness app or whatever. The health app is not there. They haven't made it. 00:18:48.230 --> 00:18:51.850 Yeah, it's not. There's no equivalent for the Mac. 00:18:52.010 --> 00:18:56.530 So, okay, I can look at it on my phone, which is cool, and it doesn't give me very good information. 00:18:56.710 --> 00:19:01.770 On the latest versions of Apple, you can bring up the phone app on your computer. 00:19:02.450 --> 00:19:04.630 Right, but it's still a small window. 00:19:04.810 --> 00:19:05.530 It's still the phone app. 00:19:05.530 --> 00:19:05.750 Okay? 00:19:05.890 --> 00:19:06.190 I know. 00:19:06.250 --> 00:19:10.670 It's still the phone. Okay? And what I want is, no, listen, I want a health 00:19:10.670 --> 00:19:15.890 app that is on the computer so I can look at this stuff in the way that it is on there, which is cool. 00:19:16.630 --> 00:19:20.450 But there are some people that make tools in order to be able to extract some 00:19:20.450 --> 00:19:23.650 of that information. So I had been playing with extracting it. 00:19:23.910 --> 00:19:27.070 The thing is that for whatever reason, the one tool that I found, 00:19:27.670 --> 00:19:32.490 it would extract every workout in every session as an individual CSV. 00:19:33.430 --> 00:19:35.330 And I'm just like, oh, come on, man. 00:19:35.930 --> 00:19:38.890 Are you using the tool that I pointed you out a few months ago? 00:19:39.680 --> 00:19:42.520 No, I've had this tool for over a year, so I'm not sure if it's one that you 00:19:42.520 --> 00:19:43.760 pointed out a few months ago. 00:19:44.280 --> 00:19:47.880 Well, you know how my sense of time goes. A few months ago might be five years. 00:19:49.120 --> 00:19:51.720 That's true. It may have been one that you pointed out. Okay. 00:19:51.920 --> 00:19:56.300 So I don't remember how I stumbled on it. It may be the one you pointed out. 00:19:56.400 --> 00:19:57.560 But the thing is, okay, great. 00:19:57.720 --> 00:20:02.620 So I got, you know, 2,000 CSV files all of a sudden. Great. 00:20:02.820 --> 00:20:06.660 Beautiful. I'm like, okay, I could figure out a way to merge all this data, 00:20:06.700 --> 00:20:10.000 but I don't want to do this. And I'm like, and I believe, no, 00:20:10.100 --> 00:20:12.820 and I had done that, but it was a pain in my ass. 00:20:13.000 --> 00:20:18.540 But I realized, well, let me have Claude take a whack at it, okay? Well, shit. 00:20:19.120 --> 00:20:23.560 Damn it. It gave me now finally what I've been looking at in order to be able 00:20:23.560 --> 00:20:29.240 to track my fitness and my workouts in a better way that I can look at it on the computer as well. 00:20:29.240 --> 00:20:33.060 Not just my phone, which by the way, the functionality on the phone that Apple 00:20:33.060 --> 00:20:36.080 has is actually quite good because it does help me, you know, 00:20:36.360 --> 00:20:40.220 visualize it like very easily on my phone. Their visuals are actually quite good. 00:20:40.600 --> 00:20:44.720 OK, but but I but they don't they haven't made the same thing for the fucking 00:20:44.720 --> 00:20:45.840 computer. It's annoying. 00:20:47.260 --> 00:20:52.660 Apple, somebody fucking, you know, bring the damn health app also to the Mac. 00:20:53.470 --> 00:20:59.010 You remember how like for years they like didn't bring like stocks and weather 00:20:59.010 --> 00:21:04.810 or something like, or calculator wasn't on like the iPad or whatever for years. 00:21:05.270 --> 00:21:08.250 Well, yeah, there was no calculator on the iPad for whatever reason. 00:21:08.650 --> 00:21:11.810 Yes. I mean, and yes, there were third party alternatives. 00:21:12.050 --> 00:21:14.730 But it was like, just seemed like a gap. It's always there. I always remember, 00:21:14.770 --> 00:21:20.330 and I loved, I remember that one time, one of the first memories that I have 00:21:20.330 --> 00:21:24.350 of using a Mac was on one of the original Macs, 00:21:24.730 --> 00:21:28.990 you know, black and white, using the little calculator app on that Mac. 00:21:29.310 --> 00:21:34.210 And there was one time that I, funny story. I still remember this one. 00:21:34.430 --> 00:21:35.950 Funny story. Oh, prepare yourself. 00:21:36.710 --> 00:21:40.130 Well, yeah, you're going to, a barrel of laughs. Not really that much. 00:21:40.230 --> 00:21:43.130 But we did this talent show in high school, okay? 00:21:43.650 --> 00:21:47.630 And the thing is that the judges did all this stuff on scoring. 00:21:47.930 --> 00:21:53.970 And so we actually, so one of my classmates had brought his Mac. 00:21:54.150 --> 00:21:57.090 I think he had a Mac plus or something like that, that they had. 00:21:57.370 --> 00:22:01.890 I brought it over to the place where we held a talent show to help us with, 00:22:01.990 --> 00:22:06.590 we had some, we had used it to build some like flyers, things, 00:22:06.730 --> 00:22:07.670 a whole bunch of things or whatever. 00:22:07.670 --> 00:22:15.390 And then we had been keeping track of, you know, all the program and things on there. 00:22:15.730 --> 00:22:19.710 But then all of a sudden I realized, shit, we need to add up the scoring. 00:22:20.310 --> 00:22:25.450 And so I very quickly had to wind up, like, using that calculator because we 00:22:25.450 --> 00:22:27.170 didn't even have time for a spreadsheet. 00:22:27.170 --> 00:22:32.110 I was just like, you know, taking the scores of the judges and then writing 00:22:32.110 --> 00:22:39.510 it down, but I was like using very intensely that calculator app on the Mac on the original system, 00:22:39.670 --> 00:22:43.010 which was super cool. I like that calculator app. It's very nice. 00:22:45.570 --> 00:22:47.810 It was a calculator. 00:22:48.710 --> 00:22:55.310 Yeah. Come on. Back then, you know. Well, I'm, okay, I, look. 00:22:55.550 --> 00:22:57.110 You know, one of the things I saw. 00:22:57.110 --> 00:23:01.090 I was always fascinated with the fucking adding machines. 00:23:01.250 --> 00:23:06.430 And I remember that I would spend hours playing with the adding machines at our store. 00:23:06.650 --> 00:23:10.370 Dad had these Olivetti ones, okay, that he had bought. And listen, 00:23:10.570 --> 00:23:14.870 if you look up an Olivetti adding machine, the style of those machines back 00:23:14.870 --> 00:23:17.850 in the 70s and 80s was really cool. 00:23:18.050 --> 00:23:21.950 Okay. All right. They were like these digital ones with a little printer or whatever. 00:23:22.170 --> 00:23:28.050 And boy, would I love to just spend a burn paper on that little thing. 00:23:28.250 --> 00:23:32.170 Just, just doing, just, just typing away numbers for whatever reason. 00:23:32.310 --> 00:23:36.110 With no rhyme or reason just to have the, just to have the printer just make the noise. 00:23:36.110 --> 00:23:43.190 I remember doing the same thing with a handheld calculator with the little red LED digits. 00:23:43.530 --> 00:23:44.330 Yeah, yeah, yeah. 00:23:44.570 --> 00:23:48.430 Like that I had, it was my dad's. And of course, I would steal it and play with 00:23:48.430 --> 00:23:54.010 it and go into a closet where it was dark. And so the lights were just done. 00:23:54.770 --> 00:23:58.670 I would play with the buttons. I would also sort of move it around because it 00:23:58.670 --> 00:24:00.450 would leave like a trail behind it. 00:24:00.450 --> 00:24:01.330 Yeah, yeah, yeah. 00:24:01.350 --> 00:24:05.290 You know, when you moved around. Also, I was going to say, a few days ago, 00:24:05.350 --> 00:24:09.490 I almost shared it on the Slack, but I didn't, and I'm sure I wouldn't be able to find it again. 00:24:09.750 --> 00:24:17.770 But somebody on TikTok posted, and I don't know whether it was actually an original 00:24:17.770 --> 00:24:19.770 or whether it was an attempted recreation. 00:24:20.810 --> 00:24:24.310 It seemed like it could be an original, but you never know these days. 00:24:25.110 --> 00:24:27.350 A commercial, a television commercial. 00:24:28.680 --> 00:24:32.980 from the 1970s for, like, a calculator. 00:24:33.720 --> 00:24:34.080 Ah. 00:24:34.360 --> 00:24:39.880 Like, talking about all the benefits of this cool, amazing, like, 00:24:40.340 --> 00:24:43.780 calculator, and it was the only calculator you were ever going to need, 00:24:43.800 --> 00:24:46.960 and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, and how compact it was. 00:24:47.080 --> 00:24:49.340 And, of course, it was huge, right? You know, but. 00:24:49.340 --> 00:24:55.240 Of course. Look, I just on the Slack, on random, just posted a link to a calculator, 00:24:55.420 --> 00:24:58.940 like the one that we had at the store, okay? By the way, used one. 00:24:59.260 --> 00:25:01.180 There are vintage collectors. 00:25:02.220 --> 00:25:05.960 $170 on eBay to get one of these, like right now. Just check it out because 00:25:05.960 --> 00:25:09.520 it's a really cool design that the calculator had. 00:25:09.720 --> 00:25:14.820 And you go take a peek. But it was one just like that, okay, 00:25:15.160 --> 00:25:16.660 that we had. I don't know if you could see it. 00:25:17.620 --> 00:25:22.780 I brought it up. Yes, yes. It's to describe to people because this is, 00:25:22.860 --> 00:25:24.260 of course, an audio show. 00:25:24.540 --> 00:25:24.940 Yes. 00:25:25.160 --> 00:25:25.360 Yes. 00:25:26.920 --> 00:25:32.300 It's, let's see, it looks like it's about a foot on a side, black plastic, 00:25:32.940 --> 00:25:37.780 really big buttons, one of those little ribbon printer things on the left, 00:25:38.240 --> 00:25:41.000 some ventilation holes on the right. 00:25:41.100 --> 00:25:41.300 Yes. 00:25:41.400 --> 00:25:44.340 Because, of course, like, you know, the calculator is going to generate lots 00:25:44.340 --> 00:25:47.420 of heat. Yes, yes, yes, yes. You know, et cetera. 00:25:48.980 --> 00:25:54.440 So it's cool. I would bring up the, if this was, I mean, I know we do have video 00:25:54.440 --> 00:25:57.440 like for the live streamers, but if this was a video podcast, 00:25:57.700 --> 00:26:01.480 maybe I would search for the picture of the calculator I was talking about, 00:26:01.520 --> 00:26:04.520 or even that video of the commercial I thought I saw. 00:26:04.840 --> 00:26:07.180 But no, this is an audio podcast, so I won't do that. 00:26:07.360 --> 00:26:12.360 The one thing, the buttons on that machine were so, the tactile feel. 00:26:12.360 --> 00:26:17.260 Like, oh, just fantastic tactile feel. 00:26:17.680 --> 00:26:24.620 I mean, you know, it cannot, you know, cannot understate how cool those buttons felt, you know. 00:26:24.880 --> 00:26:29.440 And that big, you see, it's got a big ass plus button, okay? 00:26:29.680 --> 00:26:32.620 Because back then, most of the stuff that you were doing is adding stuff real quick. 00:26:32.860 --> 00:26:36.160 That's why they were called adding machines, not subtraction or division machines. 00:26:36.560 --> 00:26:37.880 No, it was an adding machine. 00:26:38.020 --> 00:26:40.880 I mean, of course, the very first adding machines could only add. 00:26:40.880 --> 00:26:43.220 but they later added other functions. 00:26:43.220 --> 00:26:47.640 But it's just so it's just so very satisfying to be hitting you know typing 00:26:47.640 --> 00:26:53.760 the numbers and plus plus plus plus plus plus plus I don't know okay let me. 00:26:53.760 --> 00:26:55.260 Let me bang out my two movies, 00:26:56.230 --> 00:26:59.930 Not in the movies. Yes. We're already almost half an hour in. 00:27:00.010 --> 00:27:02.550 So let's do this. Okay, number one. 00:27:02.550 --> 00:27:02.750 Right. 00:27:03.490 --> 00:27:04.070 From 2020. 00:27:04.290 --> 00:27:06.510 We're already getting one movie. So we're going to three movies. 00:27:06.690 --> 00:27:08.610 Oh, yeah. Three movies. Amazing. 00:27:08.770 --> 00:27:08.930 Yeah. 00:27:09.430 --> 00:27:14.650 I mean, one of them was you, which is fair. Fair. Absolutely fair. Fair. Okay. 00:27:16.290 --> 00:27:20.750 I was going to say yesterday. Last week, we did a video game movie, 00:27:21.070 --> 00:27:23.170 Minecraft. We both liked it. Thumbs up. 00:27:23.210 --> 00:27:23.970 Yes. Yes. 00:27:23.970 --> 00:27:29.590 This next one for me is another video game movie from 2023. It's the Super Mario Bros. movie. 00:27:31.250 --> 00:27:36.950 And surprisingly, this is another thumbs up. I enjoyed this movie as well. 00:27:37.710 --> 00:27:43.710 Folks may remember there were like Mario movies made and Mario cartoons like 00:27:43.710 --> 00:27:49.450 a few decades ago that I have not seen, but from all reports were bad. 00:27:49.450 --> 00:27:54.890 It was like a live-action Mario, and they did something. I don't know. 00:27:55.530 --> 00:27:59.910 But no, this is fully, like, you know, it's animated. 00:28:01.230 --> 00:28:08.590 And it doesn't—one of the things that people have praised about it is— and actually 00:28:08.590 --> 00:28:11.170 different from what the Minecraft movie did. 00:28:12.070 --> 00:28:16.550 Well, I don't know. There's some similarities. Anyway, they didn't try to do 00:28:16.550 --> 00:28:20.390 the thing where, okay, these characters are in the real world, 00:28:20.390 --> 00:28:25.990 and now we're going to do something with them, and it's going to be like, you know—. 00:28:28.010 --> 00:28:31.590 Use some of the characters, but very, very different from the video games. 00:28:31.730 --> 00:28:36.710 Instead, they like are continuously reproducing elements from the video games. 00:28:36.870 --> 00:28:40.950 And like the characters are doing things they do in the video games and such. 00:28:41.170 --> 00:28:44.190 Let me give you the first couple of paragraphs as usual. 00:28:45.410 --> 00:28:48.990 Italian American, from Wikipedia, Italian American brothers, 00:28:49.150 --> 00:28:54.130 Mario and Luigi operate a struggling plumbing business in Brooklyn to the derision 00:28:54.130 --> 00:28:56.890 of their ex-formin Spike and the disapproval of their father. 00:28:57.190 --> 00:29:01.470 After seeing a significant water main leak on the news, Mario and Luigi go underground 00:29:01.470 --> 00:29:05.170 to fix it, but are sucked into a warp pipe and separated. 00:29:06.110 --> 00:29:11.150 So it does start in Brooklyn, but it's still animated. It's not like humans or whatever. 00:29:12.070 --> 00:29:15.450 Mario lands in the Mushroom Kingdom, ruled by Princess Peach, 00:29:15.670 --> 00:29:19.810 where Luigi arrives in the Darklands, ruled by the evil Koopa King Bowser, 00:29:20.150 --> 00:29:25.610 who seeks to marry Peach and will destroy the Mushroom Kingdom using a superstar if she refuses. 00:29:26.370 --> 00:29:30.790 Seeing Mario as competition for Peach's love, Bowser imprisons Luigi to threaten 00:29:30.790 --> 00:29:34.210 him. Mario meets Toad, who takes him to Peach. 00:29:34.550 --> 00:29:38.970 Peach plans to ally with the primate Kongs to help repel Bowser, 00:29:39.170 --> 00:29:42.630 and trains Mario before allowing him and Toad to travel along. 00:29:43.130 --> 00:29:46.450 During their journey, she tells Mario that she ended up at the Mushroom Kingdom 00:29:46.450 --> 00:29:50.550 as a baby, where the Toads took her in and eventually made her their leader. 00:29:51.250 --> 00:29:56.930 In the Jungle Kingdom, King Cranky Kong agrees to help if Mario defeats his 00:29:56.930 --> 00:29:59.390 son, Donkey Kong, in a fight. 00:29:59.710 --> 00:30:02.850 Despite initially being overpowered by Donkey Kong's strength, 00:30:03.070 --> 00:30:04.790 Mario defeats him using a cat suit. 00:30:05.070 --> 00:30:08.630 Dot, dot, dot. It continues. They go through multiple adventures. 00:30:08.930 --> 00:30:12.690 Anyway, it does not take itself seriously. It is like, 00:30:13.150 --> 00:30:17.910 You know, it knows we're talking about cartoon video game characters and it 00:30:17.910 --> 00:30:21.450 leans into that and it's done well. And I had fun. 00:30:21.590 --> 00:30:26.950 And I guess that's the that's the bottom line for it. I mean, this is not a deep movie. 00:30:27.370 --> 00:30:30.930 It is a Super Mario Brothers movie. It is animated. 00:30:30.990 --> 00:30:36.050 It is. It is shallow. I mean, this is like this. 00:30:36.890 --> 00:30:41.270 This this is that doesn't even qualify as a shallow pool or pond. 00:30:41.550 --> 00:30:42.770 It's not even a kiddie pool. 00:30:43.970 --> 00:30:49.590 I don't know if I go that far, but it doesn't attempt to be like it doesn't. No, no, no. 00:30:50.150 --> 00:30:55.450 It is an unabashed video game movie that leans into that 100%. 00:30:56.070 --> 00:31:00.370 It is made as a family movie. So the adults are going to enjoy it too. 00:31:00.510 --> 00:31:04.590 Especially adults who have nostalgia for Nintendo stuff from decades ago. 00:31:04.910 --> 00:31:07.570 And I, you know, when I was a kid, I never had a Nintendo. 00:31:08.050 --> 00:31:12.650 You know, I, I, the first time I played like an actual Mario game, 00:31:12.770 --> 00:31:14.790 I was already an adult, right? 00:31:15.010 --> 00:31:20.130 You know, I had other stuff. I was like on the VIC-20, Commodore 64, 00:31:20.690 --> 00:31:26.830 and then briefly DOS, and then Mac. You know, I never had consoles. 00:31:26.830 --> 00:31:32.530 By the way, I am also one that did not have a Nintendo. I had a Sega. 00:31:33.090 --> 00:31:34.050 Okay, yeah. 00:31:34.430 --> 00:31:36.930 So I played Sonic. Right. 00:31:38.080 --> 00:31:40.980 Yeah so anyway it did 00:31:40.980 --> 00:31:46.020 well there's going to be a sequel it actually won a a few awards i mean we're 00:31:46.020 --> 00:31:51.260 not talking like i would make sure before i say this we're not talking to us 00:31:51.260 --> 00:31:57.620 picture best well it was it was nominated for a golden golden globe for best 00:31:57.620 --> 00:32:00.920 animated feature you know so that's. 00:32:00.920 --> 00:32:03.380 I thought that's that's a fair award yeah yeah. 00:32:03.380 --> 00:32:10.120 So you know so anyway and a bunch of others Anyway, fun, lighthearted movie, 00:32:10.860 --> 00:32:16.820 nostalgia bait for Nintendo fans, done well, et cetera. Thumbs up. 00:32:17.500 --> 00:32:18.220 Thumbs up! 00:32:18.480 --> 00:32:23.920 Next up, The Dark Knight Rises from 2012. 00:32:25.300 --> 00:32:29.680 Another movie that I didn't see. This is one of those where they, 00:32:29.820 --> 00:32:36.540 I gotta tell you, this entire thing with Batman making, I don't know how many 00:32:36.540 --> 00:32:39.280 fucking versions of the stupid thing. 00:32:39.400 --> 00:32:42.200 Well, they just reboot it every 15 years or something. 00:32:43.060 --> 00:32:47.620 15? It seems like they rebooted it every five years. It's so fucking confusing. 00:32:48.140 --> 00:32:52.520 I mean, like, none of the timelines align. They change all the actors. 00:32:52.780 --> 00:32:54.180 I'm like, just, you know what? 00:32:54.840 --> 00:32:56.840 I get, at what point I'm like, just fuck. 00:32:57.660 --> 00:32:58.920 I'm like, fuck Batman. 00:32:59.920 --> 00:33:00.380 Okay. 00:33:01.720 --> 00:33:02.880 That's my analysis. 00:33:02.880 --> 00:33:07.420 Let me see how often these actually are. So live action. 00:33:07.420 --> 00:33:11.120 Look how many Bat- Listen, go back and count. 00:33:11.180 --> 00:33:14.460 How many Batmans- I am doing that right now, okay? 00:33:14.460 --> 00:33:15.560 Okay, all right, all right. 00:33:15.560 --> 00:33:20.940 And you said every five years. So live action films. So we're excluding TV for the moment. 00:33:21.120 --> 00:33:25.960 We're excluding whatever, old serials, things like that. Okay, okay. 00:33:27.510 --> 00:33:31.650 The one that was based on the TV show, the Batman movie in 1966. 00:33:32.710 --> 00:33:32.890 Okay? 00:33:33.450 --> 00:33:38.010 That was actually, it was essentially an extended episode of the Batman TV series 00:33:38.010 --> 00:33:41.270 set between two of the seasons of the Batman TV series. 00:33:41.390 --> 00:33:43.430 But there was the Batman movie in 1966. 00:33:44.390 --> 00:33:48.010 The next Batman was 1989. 00:33:48.730 --> 00:33:54.870 That was the Tim Burton one with Jack Nicholson and Michael Keaton, okay? Okay. 00:33:55.070 --> 00:34:04.150 Now, in that sequence, you had 1992, Batman Returns, and 1995, Batman Forever. 00:34:04.870 --> 00:34:12.330 And then finally, 1997, Batman and Robin, which completely killed off that sequence 00:34:12.330 --> 00:34:15.290 of Batman. because it was really bad, apparently. 00:34:16.730 --> 00:34:21.130 Okay, so that sequence was the first, well, second. 00:34:21.290 --> 00:34:27.790 So we added the 1966 version, then we added the 1992 through 1997 version. So that's two so far. 00:34:27.910 --> 00:34:33.930 Now that's a total of six movies, but only two iterations. 00:34:34.470 --> 00:34:35.730 Two iterations, okay. 00:34:35.930 --> 00:34:39.790 Two iterations, let's see. Fourth and final, yeah, okay. 00:34:40.130 --> 00:34:43.990 Oh, sorry, I counted wrong. That's four. Four plus the one. So four in that sequence. 00:34:44.270 --> 00:34:51.510 Okay. The next, now we have related things. Like there was a Catwoman movie in 2004. Okay. 00:34:52.430 --> 00:35:01.910 But then in 2005 was the reboot that started the sequence that the one I'm talking 00:35:01.910 --> 00:35:04.710 about is in, I believe, wait, 00:35:06.010 --> 00:35:08.030 the Christopher Nolan version. 00:35:08.890 --> 00:35:15.390 Okay, so this starts in 2005 with Batman Begins. Okay, so just to be clear, from... 00:35:16.560 --> 00:35:25.500 The end of the last series to this one was, do my math, eight years? Eight years. 00:35:25.640 --> 00:35:34.180 Okay. Listen, I went and asked GPT for a list because otherwise we'll kill the 00:35:34.180 --> 00:35:35.440 rest of the audience at this point. 00:35:35.440 --> 00:35:35.700 Okay, fine. 00:35:35.720 --> 00:35:37.300 But look, I went. Hang on. 00:35:37.440 --> 00:35:37.820 Yeah, okay. 00:35:38.040 --> 00:35:46.120 There's been a total of nine different Batmans, okay, since the first fucking movie. Okay? All right? 00:35:46.560 --> 00:35:52.440 And I'm going to go back to just, you know, 1990, when we had 1989, 00:35:52.700 --> 00:35:54.860 we had Michael Keaton as Batman. 00:35:55.160 --> 00:35:59.140 I'm not counting the ones before that. But since 1990, okay, 00:35:59.940 --> 00:36:01.060 there's been six movies. 00:36:01.810 --> 00:36:07.530 Michael Keaton, Vol Kilmer, George Clooney, Christian Bale, Ben Affleck, 00:36:07.650 --> 00:36:10.230 and Robert Pattinson. Listen, I don't understand. 00:36:11.870 --> 00:36:14.970 And you're right. Some of those were in the same sequence, right? 00:36:15.110 --> 00:36:19.650 Like I mentioned Batman and Robin, I believe, was like the George Clooney one. 00:36:20.250 --> 00:36:25.770 Right. And that was actually the fourth movie of the sequence that started with Michael Keaton. 00:36:25.950 --> 00:36:29.670 And they were theoretically the same universe, but they did change actors. 00:36:29.910 --> 00:36:36.730 But here's the fucking thing, man. I mean, there is no other fucking movie goddamn 00:36:36.730 --> 00:36:42.670 series that has fucking changed the main character of Batman, 00:36:43.210 --> 00:36:45.990 you know, main character that fucking often. 00:36:46.370 --> 00:36:55.750 It's crazy. Okay. Listen, Daniel Craig played James Bond for 20 years. Okay. 00:36:56.310 --> 00:37:01.250 Over that same time period, there were five Batmans. Five. 00:37:02.250 --> 00:37:06.210 What the fuck man no fuck. 00:37:06.210 --> 00:37:08.330 Them you fight batmans. 00:37:08.330 --> 00:37:12.970 I think it does make more sense like the one where you sort of theoretically 00:37:12.970 --> 00:37:17.310 have the same sequence but you change the actors it's kind of goofy if you reboot 00:37:17.310 --> 00:37:20.550 the whole thing with a new actor that's all that's another story okay you're 00:37:20.550 --> 00:37:24.330 doing the new reboot for this decade right i'm okay with that but but. 00:37:27.110 --> 00:37:31.550 I mean, six versions in that time? 00:37:31.710 --> 00:37:35.410 I mean, literally, what are we doing? Barely five years per Batman. 00:37:36.010 --> 00:37:41.110 Well, again, though, if you treat it not as by actor, but by sequence, 00:37:41.110 --> 00:37:47.170 we've got the 1960s version, we've got the 1990s version, and we've got the early 2000s version, 00:37:47.370 --> 00:37:52.070 and then we've got a later 2000s version. So it's really four. 00:37:53.290 --> 00:37:56.750 Here's the one thing for me who is a casual guy with these movies, 00:37:56.910 --> 00:38:01.010 okay? Every fucking time I would go and see, oh, there's a Batman. 00:38:01.350 --> 00:38:07.370 And then I look at it and I'm like, but wait, what happened with the old Batman? Wait, so... 00:38:08.190 --> 00:38:13.370 Wait, again, we're rebooting again? And I'm like, wait, what does this timeline 00:38:13.370 --> 00:38:14.450 have to do with the old time? 00:38:14.650 --> 00:38:18.970 It, honestly, to me, confused the fuck out of me regularly. 00:38:19.290 --> 00:38:23.970 Now, I tend to generally agree with you on lots of things that I like the ones 00:38:23.970 --> 00:38:28.730 where it's continuations of the universe rather than flat-out reboots better. 00:38:29.370 --> 00:38:34.730 But, yeah, I don't know. I guess as long as they're sort of clear about it, 00:38:35.370 --> 00:38:41.850 like the the 1990s Batman sequence is not the same universe as the 2000s Batman 00:38:41.850 --> 00:38:44.830 universe is not the same as the 2020s Batman. 00:38:45.110 --> 00:38:47.910 No, no. So, I don't know. 00:38:48.050 --> 00:38:57.010 So, anyway, to get back to my movie, my movie is the Dark Knight Rises, 00:38:57.530 --> 00:39:06.890 which is the third movie, I believe, in this trilogy. Okay. 00:39:07.670 --> 00:39:10.810 Let me make sure. Okay. 00:39:10.810 --> 00:39:18.110 The Dark Knight Trilogy starts with Batman Begins in 2005, then The Dark Knight in 2008, 00:39:18.310 --> 00:39:24.470 and finally ends in The Dark Knight Rises in 2012, which is the one that I am 00:39:24.470 --> 00:39:25.850 talking about right now. 00:39:26.910 --> 00:39:28.330 Okay, so... 00:39:29.380 --> 00:39:36.880 So I'm going to give this one the, you know, as we've talked about more granularity, 00:39:37.300 --> 00:39:40.080 between a thumb sideways and a thumbs up, okay? 00:39:40.960 --> 00:39:44.600 And let me give you the beginning of the plot on this one as well. 00:39:45.160 --> 00:39:48.760 Bain, a former—I'm all blubbery today. 00:39:49.400 --> 00:39:54.440 Bain, a former member of the League of Shadows, leads an attack on a CIA plane 00:39:54.440 --> 00:39:59.340 over Uzbekistan to abduct nuclear physicist Dr. Leonard Pavel. 00:39:59.880 --> 00:40:04.520 Meanwhile, eight years after the death of Gotham City Attorney Harvey Dent and 00:40:04.520 --> 00:40:09.480 the arrest of the Joker, organized crime has been eradicated in Gotham by the 00:40:09.480 --> 00:40:13.700 Dent Act, legislation that gives expanded powers to the police. 00:40:14.140 --> 00:40:18.620 Police Commissioner James Gordon has kept Dent's killing spree a secret, 00:40:18.760 --> 00:40:22.460 and allowed the blame for his crimes to fall on Batman. 00:40:22.920 --> 00:40:27.780 Bruce Wayne, still mourning the death of Rachel Dawes, has become a recluse. 00:40:29.070 --> 00:40:33.790 Bane conspires to help Wayne Enterprises board member John Daggett take over 00:40:33.790 --> 00:40:36.930 the company, and they begin by trying to buy Bruce's fingerprints. 00:40:37.710 --> 00:40:42.230 Burglar Selina Kyle steals Bruce's prints from Wayne Manor for Daggett, 00:40:42.330 --> 00:40:45.130 but he double-crosses her and she alerts the police. 00:40:45.750 --> 00:40:50.830 Bane's henchmen capture Gotham in the sewer—sorry, capture Gordon in the sewers, 00:40:50.910 --> 00:40:55.590 but he escapes and is found by steadfast Gotham City police officer John Blake, 00:40:55.590 --> 00:40:58.970 an orphan who has deduced Bruce's secret identity. 00:40:59.410 --> 00:41:02.630 Blake persuades Bruce to resume his vigilantism. 00:41:03.330 --> 00:41:09.050 Bain attacks the Gotham Stock Exchange and uses Bruce's fingerprints to verify 00:41:09.050 --> 00:41:13.130 fraudulent transactions, leaving Bruce ousted from his company and bankrupt. 00:41:13.830 --> 00:41:17.190 Fearing Bruce will purposefully get himself killed fighting Bain, 00:41:17.370 --> 00:41:22.450 his butler, Alfred Pennyworth, resigns in the hope of saving him after revealing 00:41:22.450 --> 00:41:26.790 that Rachel was going to marry Dent and thus Bruce should let her go. 00:41:27.390 --> 00:41:31.710 Bane kills Daggett to pursue his own goals while Bruce and Wayne Enterprises' 00:41:31.910 --> 00:41:35.870 new CEO, Miranda Tate, become lovers. Dot, dot, dot, dot, dot, dot, dot. 00:41:36.530 --> 00:41:39.790 And it continues. There are adventures. There are battles. There are all those 00:41:39.790 --> 00:41:42.450 things that happen in your normal superhero movie. 00:41:42.890 --> 00:41:48.690 But I think, you know, last week we talked about Blade II and how it was just 00:41:48.690 --> 00:41:53.250 nothing but, you know, action sequence to action sequence to action sequence 00:41:53.250 --> 00:41:57.490 with blood and gore and things happening and gross-out stuff, 00:41:57.670 --> 00:42:00.250 and I was not impressed at all by that. 00:42:00.790 --> 00:42:04.930 This was a good superhero movie. I enjoyed it. I had fun. 00:42:05.090 --> 00:42:09.030 I mean, it's still just a superhero movie, but it was fun. I enjoyed it. 00:42:09.170 --> 00:42:10.890 And there we go. We're done. 00:42:11.330 --> 00:42:12.910 Okay, we're done with superheroes. 00:42:13.210 --> 00:42:17.010 And let's move on. Once again. I owe everybody an Apple dream. 00:42:17.150 --> 00:42:17.590 Fuck Batman. 00:42:18.330 --> 00:42:23.990 Yeah, fuck Batman. Gotcha. I understand that he's well-built and attractive, 00:42:24.010 --> 00:42:26.990 but I do not personally want to do that. But you can. 00:42:27.390 --> 00:42:32.390 No, no, no. I will avoid that as well. You know, the other day I realized, you know, 00:42:35.130 --> 00:42:40.810 Sam, there's one thing. Look, I have a lot of, I have, I don't know, 00:42:40.810 --> 00:42:43.110 I have gay friends, whatever. 00:42:43.390 --> 00:42:46.530 But you know what? I don't find men attractive. There's just nothing. 00:42:46.670 --> 00:42:49.470 I mean, there's nothing. Not, I mean, I. 00:42:49.490 --> 00:42:54.510 I, I, I am offended, Yvonne. Look at me. Look at me. 00:42:55.230 --> 00:42:55.950 An Adonis. 00:42:57.390 --> 00:42:57.750 Exactly. 00:42:58.250 --> 00:43:01.650 You're an Adonis, Sam. You're an Adonis. I, I, you know, look, 00:43:01.770 --> 00:43:05.410 I get, I get, I get, like, for example, I, I mean, I can understand to see somebody, 00:43:05.550 --> 00:43:08.270 a guy that looks very attractive. 00:43:08.610 --> 00:43:14.250 I can see how that guy, that guy's attractive. But am I, do I find him attractive? Nah. 00:43:15.190 --> 00:43:15.550 Okay. 00:43:15.870 --> 00:43:17.370 No. Not in me. 00:43:17.370 --> 00:43:25.790 Not my thing not your thing so you don't really want to fuck Batman no. 00:43:25.790 --> 00:43:27.830 Or Corey Lewandowski for that matter. 00:43:28.510 --> 00:43:34.290 Okay well with that transition let's take a break I owe you guys an Apple dream 00:43:34.290 --> 00:43:39.050 it was supposed to be last week and I said I'd do it this week and I still didn't 00:43:39.050 --> 00:43:46.510 do it so no Apple dream this week maybe next week but in the meantime here is the other, 00:43:46.870 --> 00:43:49.910 here's another one of our breaks, and we'll be back and we'll talk about, 00:43:50.150 --> 00:43:57.530 I don't know, Iran or the economy or MAGA fracturing or something. 00:43:57.850 --> 00:44:01.990 The primary elections, we had primary elections. We'll talk about something after this. 00:44:02.650 --> 00:44:02.870 Something. 00:44:45.360 --> 00:44:48.580 Kachoo. Kachoo. Kachoo. 00:44:49.180 --> 00:44:51.380 Kachoo. Kachoo. 00:44:51.540 --> 00:44:51.820 All right. 00:44:51.920 --> 00:44:57.440 So I got to pick something. Cuckoo. Cuckoo. Cuckoo. Cuckoo. Cuckoo. Cuckoo. 00:44:59.540 --> 00:45:02.840 Okay. So let's see. 00:45:03.340 --> 00:45:08.420 I got primary election results. 00:45:08.660 --> 00:45:14.040 Sam, I don't I didn't really pay close. I didn't pay very close attention to 00:45:14.040 --> 00:45:20.560 those. I know a little bit, but can you fill us in on what happened with all 00:45:20.560 --> 00:45:22.760 those primary elections that we had this week? 00:45:23.200 --> 00:45:23.680 No. 00:45:24.240 --> 00:45:27.600 No? Okay. All right, then. Thank you very much. Bye, everybody. 00:45:27.800 --> 00:45:30.600 See ya. So what do you know about it? 00:45:31.680 --> 00:45:37.180 I wasn't prepared. I don't have like a nice, neat little summary of everything that happened. 00:45:37.340 --> 00:45:42.200 Well, what do you know then? Which is probably more than what I do. 00:45:43.000 --> 00:45:46.980 Here are some high-level summaries that I can say. 00:45:47.260 --> 00:45:59.380 First of all, the big Democratic primary in Texas, the moderate-ish guy, his name starts with a T. 00:46:00.760 --> 00:46:01.280 Tallarico. 00:46:01.440 --> 00:46:02.060 Tallarico. 00:46:02.160 --> 00:46:03.480 That I know. Tallarico. 00:46:03.720 --> 00:46:05.880 He won over Jasmine Crockett. 00:46:06.360 --> 00:46:10.180 Why are so many people seemingly angry about this whole thing? 00:46:12.150 --> 00:46:19.990 There are a couple things. One, this is an example of the quote-unquote centrist 00:46:19.990 --> 00:46:24.810 winning where people were hoping to give the progressive a chance, 00:46:25.070 --> 00:46:30.030 where progressives were hoping to give the progressive a chance, just to be clear there. 00:46:30.170 --> 00:46:34.170 And they were kind of excited about her and thought she had a shot, etc. 00:46:34.510 --> 00:46:38.730 Even though polling sort of says that in Texas, the moderate is more likely 00:46:38.730 --> 00:46:41.790 to win in the general election. Surprise. 00:46:42.150 --> 00:46:42.350 Yeah. 00:46:42.790 --> 00:46:47.330 Surprise. But they figured, you know, I don't know. They were excited about that. 00:46:47.550 --> 00:46:53.330 They were also really upset about this thing that happened in Dallas County where... 00:46:53.330 --> 00:46:55.650 Oh, well, I did hear a little bit about that. 00:46:55.850 --> 00:47:01.670 So there was Dallas County, and this is apparently a county by county thing in Texas, 00:47:01.670 --> 00:47:11.530 but the Republicans refused to cooperate on allowing people to vote anywhere in the county. 00:47:11.530 --> 00:47:17.030 and forced a situation where people would have to vote within their own precinct. 00:47:17.710 --> 00:47:19.910 Okay. This caused a- Oh. 00:47:19.910 --> 00:47:24.530 You know, I, I, yeah, I was, I did see that. And I was just discussing that 00:47:24.530 --> 00:47:27.170 with my wife because my wife usually works elections over here. 00:47:27.170 --> 00:47:27.390 Yes. 00:47:27.810 --> 00:47:30.870 And I, and I, you know, I, I told her about this. 00:47:31.310 --> 00:47:36.850 That is one of those changes that is so insane to do. Okay. 00:47:37.250 --> 00:47:40.050 Because of the confusion. Okay. 00:47:40.050 --> 00:47:44.090 Well, and especially because it was a change. Like, if it had been that way 00:47:44.090 --> 00:47:46.510 forever, then people would be used to it, right? 00:47:46.910 --> 00:47:52.110 But last election, people could go anywhere in the county to vote that was convenient. 00:47:52.110 --> 00:47:54.090 And now they had to go to their precinct. 00:47:54.170 --> 00:47:57.090 But here's the funny thing about all of these changes. 00:47:57.870 --> 00:48:03.270 You know, I think the Republicans keep making a lot of these changes in the 00:48:03.270 --> 00:48:06.410 idea that for some reason they think that it will... 00:48:08.050 --> 00:48:12.890 But I'm going to tell you something. We keep seeing that Republicans are, 00:48:13.210 --> 00:48:18.370 with everything going on, their motivation level has been dampened. 00:48:19.290 --> 00:48:24.550 And I happen to think that this kind of shit, when you do this, 00:48:24.710 --> 00:48:29.050 and your emotions are already dampened to go vote, 00:48:29.650 --> 00:48:33.390 you know, as a Democrat, you'll probably get even more furious and go, 00:48:33.470 --> 00:48:34.910 the Republicans are like, ah, fuck it. 00:48:34.910 --> 00:48:42.410 But I don't, this is not, I don't think, this is stupid. 00:48:42.870 --> 00:48:46.970 Right. So anyway, they did this. And so lots and lots of people were confused. 00:48:47.210 --> 00:48:50.750 They would show up at one place to vote, be told they couldn't vote there, 00:48:50.970 --> 00:48:55.570 be told you have to go across town to this one that's near where you live instead 00:48:55.570 --> 00:48:57.930 of the one you went to near where you work or whatever. 00:48:58.330 --> 00:49:01.590 And it's probably less convenient and blah, blah, blah. Some of them would give 00:49:01.590 --> 00:49:05.210 up at that point immediately. Some of them would have to do it, but do it later. 00:49:05.470 --> 00:49:10.210 And that's where the next thing comes in, is because as polls were closing. 00:49:11.590 --> 00:49:14.550 There was, you know, somebody went to a judge and said, hey, 00:49:14.770 --> 00:49:17.070 because of all this confusion, we need more time. 00:49:17.450 --> 00:49:23.030 A judge granted them more time, allowed the polls to stay open extra hours. 00:49:23.330 --> 00:49:26.310 Like they were supposed to close at seven and he allowed them to stay open till 00:49:26.310 --> 00:49:28.490 nine, something like that. I forget the exact details. 00:49:29.150 --> 00:49:32.950 So more people were voting from seven to nine in this county. 00:49:33.250 --> 00:49:38.510 And then that was appealed by the attorney general, who, by the way, 00:49:38.590 --> 00:49:43.690 was on the ballot. So this affects his own election to the Texas Supreme Court, 00:49:43.690 --> 00:49:47.130 who ruled, no, no, no, that extension was invalid. 00:49:47.390 --> 00:49:52.070 So a bunch of people actually did vote from seven to nine. And then the judge 00:49:52.070 --> 00:49:53.610 ruled that their votes can't count. 00:49:54.360 --> 00:50:00.500 And then that was still being appealed. And this was an area where Crockett 00:50:00.500 --> 00:50:03.000 was expected to be strong. Okay. 00:50:03.280 --> 00:50:08.980 So you're theoretically disenfranchising Crockett voters through this action. 00:50:08.980 --> 00:50:14.880 And so a lot of Crockett supporters were really upset by this on top of the 00:50:14.880 --> 00:50:18.440 fact that, you know, they're just disappointed in general and wanted her to win. Right. 00:50:19.360 --> 00:50:24.320 Crockett didn't concede the night of because these lawsuits were going on, 00:50:24.400 --> 00:50:29.480 but did concede the next morning when it became clear that there just weren't 00:50:29.480 --> 00:50:31.680 enough votes in this county to make a difference. 00:50:31.780 --> 00:50:34.080 Like she lost by a decent amount. 00:50:34.460 --> 00:50:37.640 Like, I think it was like an eight point spread or something like that. 00:50:37.640 --> 00:50:43.620 And so she could not make up that ground based on whatever happens on the county 00:50:43.620 --> 00:50:46.160 and whether or not they allowed the votes for these two hours. 00:50:46.400 --> 00:50:51.180 Now, they're still going through the process to try to litigate the basic principle 00:50:51.180 --> 00:50:52.680 of, like, you should count every vote. 00:50:52.900 --> 00:50:57.620 You let these people vote. You should actually count them. You shouldn't just, 00:50:57.620 --> 00:51:00.180 like, shove them in a box to the side, right? 00:51:00.380 --> 00:51:03.420 You count the votes. But it's not going to make a difference in the race. 00:51:03.980 --> 00:51:08.460 and and so she lost the other guy whose name i've already forgotten again at 00:51:08.460 --> 00:51:14.460 one talarico talarico i keep you know i keep thinking of other t names but not 00:51:14.460 --> 00:51:20.440 that one tal talarico talarico talarico okay anyway yeah. 00:51:20.440 --> 00:51:24.900 I'm saying it i don't know why you know i'm doing this thing where i'm like you know. 00:51:25.640 --> 00:51:34.000 People on the left are also uncomfortable with how much he is wearing his religion on his sleeves. 00:51:34.320 --> 00:51:42.120 Like he's taking democratic positions, but he's doing it from a religious point of view. 00:51:42.320 --> 00:51:47.500 He expresses himself as an evangelical, even though he doesn't agree with all 00:51:47.500 --> 00:51:49.100 the right wing evangelical positions. 00:51:49.480 --> 00:51:53.220 And so that makes people a little bit nervous about like, is he going to be 00:51:53.220 --> 00:51:59.780 the kind of guy that you get him in office and then he moves Republican anyway, 00:52:00.200 --> 00:52:03.980 like, and sort of does, doesn't play along with the Democrats a lot. 00:52:03.980 --> 00:52:08.060 So they're worried about that kind of stuff, you know? So we'll see. 00:52:08.200 --> 00:52:10.920 But at the same time, it's Texas. 00:52:11.580 --> 00:52:12.060 Right. 00:52:12.300 --> 00:52:17.100 You know, how do you, how do you appeal to the potential people who are dissatisfied 00:52:17.100 --> 00:52:22.080 with Donald Trump, but don't like the normal Democrats, you know? 00:52:22.080 --> 00:52:27.840 You know, one thing is that I know plenty of people that are deeply religious, 00:52:27.960 --> 00:52:29.320 but are also very liberal. 00:52:29.620 --> 00:52:30.200 Yes. 00:52:31.050 --> 00:52:36.150 And there's not a straight, like, you're religious, therefore you're conservative. 00:52:36.330 --> 00:52:40.690 It's certain types of religion that go along with the conservatism. 00:52:40.910 --> 00:52:47.070 I mean, look, even with Catholics, which the whole abortion thing is an issue. 00:52:47.490 --> 00:52:47.650 Yeah. 00:52:47.810 --> 00:52:52.310 Man, let me tell you something. Some of the most liberal people I've ever met, 00:52:52.630 --> 00:52:56.930 I mean, like, extremely, are fucking Catholics. 00:52:57.550 --> 00:53:01.070 That'll make some people that we think are liberal look like just fucking, 00:53:01.070 --> 00:53:04.890 you know, you know, complete, you know, capitalists. 00:53:05.450 --> 00:53:07.450 So, I mean, there's the whole. 00:53:07.730 --> 00:53:12.710 Like, in the 70s and 80s, there was this whole Catholic liberation theology thing going on. 00:53:12.710 --> 00:53:16.330 Liberation theologists, exactly. Those people I'm referring to, yes. 00:53:16.330 --> 00:53:20.290 And, you know, people have said all the time that, like, if you actually, 00:53:20.310 --> 00:53:25.670 like, read the Bible in the New Testament as opposed to the Old Testament, 00:53:25.890 --> 00:53:30.290 it's fairly radical liberal ideas all through that thing. 00:53:30.810 --> 00:53:34.310 Yes. Well, I mean, that is the reality. And that's one of the things that, 00:53:34.470 --> 00:53:39.130 you know, because I did I did spend a lot of time with people that deeply, 00:53:39.130 --> 00:53:41.230 you know, study liberation theology. 00:53:41.830 --> 00:53:45.810 And, you know, I realize that it's one of those things where it's one of the 00:53:45.810 --> 00:53:52.770 worst fucking lies by the evangelicals that the New Testament, 00:53:52.910 --> 00:53:56.470 you know, that they completely act like the New Testament is some kind of right-wing 00:53:56.470 --> 00:54:03.270 fucking writing when it is about the most fucking flaming liberal thing you could see in your life. 00:54:04.410 --> 00:54:08.510 Yes. The whole, like, rich people passing through the eye of a needle. 00:54:09.130 --> 00:54:17.630 Anti-rich people. I mean, you know, anti-discrimination, anti-every, all of this shit. 00:54:18.050 --> 00:54:20.310 Yes. The golden rule. 00:54:20.550 --> 00:54:22.130 The golden rule. 00:54:22.690 --> 00:54:23.390 Yeah. 00:54:24.090 --> 00:54:27.530 I mean, it's just, it's bonkers. 00:54:28.990 --> 00:54:33.330 Yes. Anyway, so people are nervous about him for that reason. 00:54:33.870 --> 00:54:37.090 Also, for Texas Senate, and this was for Texas Senate, by the way, 00:54:37.270 --> 00:54:43.730 on the Republican side for Texas Senate, they've gone into a runoff between the incumbent. 00:54:43.890 --> 00:54:46.350 This is not Ted Cruz. This is the other one. What's his name, 00:54:46.450 --> 00:54:49.110 Yvonne? I'm so bad on names this time. 00:54:50.130 --> 00:54:50.570 Tallarico? 00:54:51.090 --> 00:54:55.510 No, no, no, no. The incumbent senator from Texas on the Republican side. 00:54:55.670 --> 00:54:58.110 Cornyn. Cornyn. 00:54:58.370 --> 00:55:03.870 Cornyn. Yes. So Cornyn is running against Paxton, and neither one of them got 00:55:03.870 --> 00:55:06.190 a majority, and so they're going to run off. 00:55:06.330 --> 00:55:10.410 And the runoff schedule in Texas is long, so we're going to have like a few 00:55:10.410 --> 00:55:11.430 months of this, apparently. 00:55:11.670 --> 00:55:11.690 It's in May. 00:55:11.870 --> 00:55:15.750 It's in May. So you're going to have this going on. 00:55:15.950 --> 00:55:20.470 And, you know, Paxton has his own set of scandals. 00:55:20.770 --> 00:55:23.410 So the dream Democratic scenario. 00:55:23.410 --> 00:55:33.090 I mean, how the hell this son of a bitch still is in politics is a testament to the new GOP. 00:55:33.270 --> 00:55:41.670 The GOP in Texas impeached him for all sorts of wrongdoing. And then he was 00:55:41.670 --> 00:55:45.030 acquitted as part of the impeachment proceedings. 00:55:45.230 --> 00:55:49.770 He's had issues with his wife. He's had issues with corruption. 00:55:49.850 --> 00:55:53.130 He's had issues with all kinds of different things. 00:55:53.410 --> 00:55:56.410 And yet he has survived all of them so far. 00:55:56.670 --> 00:55:58.450 The new GOP. 00:55:58.770 --> 00:56:05.330 Now, so again, the Democratic dream scenario essentially started with the victory, 00:56:05.590 --> 00:56:11.590 started with the moderate already winning on the Democratic side and ends with 00:56:11.590 --> 00:56:18.710 if Paxton wins the primary on the Republican side, they think that combination 00:56:18.710 --> 00:56:20.230 would give them a real chance. 00:56:21.230 --> 00:56:24.470 Well, I do agree. because look, you just said it yourself. 00:56:25.620 --> 00:56:29.820 The guys that fucking impeached him were his own party in the first place. 00:56:30.040 --> 00:56:33.320 They already tried to fucking torpedo him. Okay. 00:56:34.620 --> 00:56:39.700 They already believe he is, you know, irredeemable. 00:56:40.060 --> 00:56:47.280 So, yeah, that's going to, I think that that will definitely impact their chances 00:56:47.280 --> 00:56:49.040 of keeping the seat. Yeah. 00:56:49.540 --> 00:56:52.300 Right. So we shall see, like, you know. 00:56:53.500 --> 00:56:58.300 People on our Slack and elsewhere make the point that, you know, 00:56:59.000 --> 00:57:04.040 Texas for the Democrats is Lucy Charlie Brown and the football. Okay. 00:57:04.100 --> 00:57:04.460 I know. 00:57:04.900 --> 00:57:10.600 For years and years, it's like Texas is slowly moving. It's getting purple. 00:57:11.040 --> 00:57:14.320 The Democrats are going to win any time now. 00:57:14.900 --> 00:57:20.780 Any time now. And, you know, this last 2024 went the opposite direction. 00:57:20.780 --> 00:57:23.100 It went more red than it's been in a while. 00:57:23.780 --> 00:57:29.380 You know, but Texas has actually been like, you know, in people's heads, 00:57:30.340 --> 00:57:32.860 Texas is this solid red state. 00:57:33.580 --> 00:57:42.620 And in fact, it is not, it is a red state, but it is not as solid as people think it is. 00:57:42.720 --> 00:57:45.560 It's like, you know, the Republicans have an advantage. 00:57:45.740 --> 00:57:48.460 It's a decent advantage, but it's not like Wyoming. Okay. 00:57:48.460 --> 00:57:55.740 No, and it's also helped a lot by a lot of things that the Republicans have 00:57:55.740 --> 00:57:59.180 done to structurally tilt it their way, okay? 00:57:59.360 --> 00:57:59.580 Yes. 00:57:59.640 --> 00:58:09.460 Because if you see the general population, it's not as conservative as the voting would let you believe. 00:58:09.660 --> 00:58:13.720 It is, but it's moderate, okay? 00:58:14.560 --> 00:58:20.140 It's not, you know, right? It's a lot of big cities, okay? 00:58:20.380 --> 00:58:25.300 You know, you got San Antonio, you got Dallas, and they're very blue, and Austin. 00:58:25.600 --> 00:58:31.140 So, you know, the state is a lot more moderate than... 00:58:32.310 --> 00:58:34.490 It seems at first glance. 00:58:34.750 --> 00:58:38.210 Right. And so, you know, who knows? 00:58:38.550 --> 00:58:46.870 Like the safe response on anything Texas related is I'll believe it when I fucking see it. 00:58:46.990 --> 00:58:54.090 And not one moment before, you know, you know, because I don't know. 00:58:55.250 --> 00:59:00.270 Occasionally you get inroads and it really seems to be the common, the combination. 00:59:00.270 --> 00:59:03.590 you have to have a republican 00:59:03.590 --> 00:59:06.950 who's in trouble anyway okay right 00:59:06.950 --> 00:59:09.930 you know and then you have a more moderate democrat 00:59:09.930 --> 00:59:13.130 you know and with that combination 00:59:13.130 --> 00:59:20.490 democrats have gotten close before and yeah i i long-term trends yeah at some 00:59:20.490 --> 00:59:25.250 point you'll probably have a democratic senator again you know or you might 00:59:25.250 --> 00:59:30.930 have the state go blue in a presidential election at some point But again, 00:59:31.610 --> 00:59:35.790 believe it when you see it, not one moment earlier. Okay. 00:59:36.310 --> 00:59:41.470 Other stuff from the primary. There are lots of races all over the country. 00:59:41.610 --> 00:59:49.890 The only others that I saw someone talking about, and I think this was Chris Hayes on MS Now. 00:59:50.110 --> 00:59:54.430 I wasn't even fully paying attention, and I think it was on in the background, so apologies. 00:59:54.430 --> 00:59:59.650 But I think mostly in North Carolina, but in some other places, 00:59:59.650 --> 01:00:08.170 too, there have been primaries where there has been a Democrat who ended up. 01:00:08.860 --> 01:00:13.720 Cooperating with the Republicans on one issue or another. 01:00:14.160 --> 01:00:19.160 Like there was one in North Carolina, I believe, who provided the swing vote 01:00:19.160 --> 01:00:24.220 in the state legislature to allow some additional cooperation with ICE in the 01:00:24.220 --> 01:00:25.160 state of North Carolina. 01:00:26.060 --> 01:00:32.300 And then some Democratic constituent just got extremely upset about that, 01:00:32.680 --> 01:00:34.800 ran against them in the primary and won. 01:00:36.140 --> 01:00:38.980 Because and there were several examples of this sort 01:00:38.980 --> 01:00:42.820 of thing where there were more moderate republicans 01:00:42.820 --> 01:00:45.620 who actually did the thing and you see this 01:00:45.620 --> 01:00:51.320 in in the congress like uh all the time too where you have a handful of democrats 01:00:51.320 --> 01:00:55.880 who will go along with you know with this just this last week we had war powers 01:00:55.880 --> 01:00:59.900 resolution stuff we had democrats go along with that or we had democrats go 01:00:59.900 --> 01:01:03.600 along with reopening the government after the shutdown. 01:01:03.740 --> 01:01:05.820 We have Democrats go along with whatever. 01:01:05.980 --> 01:01:09.860 We have a small handful of them. And apparently at the local level, 01:01:10.060 --> 01:01:12.980 in North Carolina specifically, but I think a couple other states, 01:01:13.240 --> 01:01:17.000 there were Democrats who did that and then just immediately got punished. 01:01:17.000 --> 01:01:19.880 Well, apparently also, Fetterman's stroke made him a Republican. 01:01:20.220 --> 01:01:21.340 Well, yeah, pretty much. 01:01:23.760 --> 01:01:28.620 He didn't have a primary this time, but it's a tangent there. But yes. Yeah. 01:01:28.960 --> 01:01:33.560 So a bunch of these folks got punished. And so which is a little, 01:01:33.740 --> 01:01:37.000 you know, in Congress, you know, different states are doing different things. 01:01:37.080 --> 01:01:38.800 Right. In Texas, the moderate won. 01:01:39.040 --> 01:01:46.440 In a bunch of these other places, the moderate incumbent got punished and tossed 01:01:46.440 --> 01:01:53.760 out for not doing enough to fight what was going on and instead sort of going along in certain cases. 01:01:54.440 --> 01:01:59.260 So those are the, those are the two main things that I remember. 01:01:59.440 --> 01:02:02.480 There probably is more, like I said, I wasn't prepared. 01:02:02.680 --> 01:02:06.360 Like I, after, you know, sometimes after these, like there was a, 01:02:06.560 --> 01:02:08.440 there was another election of, 01:02:08.950 --> 01:02:14.350 A few months. I don't know. Whatever. I had like a nice little cheat sheet of 01:02:14.350 --> 01:02:19.530 here are all the things that happened that I saw some post online and I saved 01:02:19.530 --> 01:02:22.690 it and I had it ready and blah, blah, blah. I didn't do that. 01:02:23.290 --> 01:02:28.770 I did share on the curmudgeon's core Slack a TikTok that had all that kind of stuff. 01:02:29.170 --> 01:02:31.810 Wait a second. Yeah, and it wasn't even up to date when you shared it. 01:02:31.990 --> 01:02:32.730 Well, it was like. 01:02:32.810 --> 01:02:33.290 It had some mistakes. 01:02:33.290 --> 01:02:35.110 It was a few hours old. 01:02:35.230 --> 01:02:36.550 It had mistakes. 01:02:36.850 --> 01:02:37.930 The only mistake. 01:02:37.930 --> 01:02:41.370 I heard it and I'm like, what the hell is this thing talking about? 01:02:41.510 --> 01:02:46.270 The only mistake was it didn't have that Crockett had conceded. 01:02:46.370 --> 01:02:48.730 It was a few hours old. Everything else was fine. 01:02:49.290 --> 01:02:53.090 Let me actually find out. I'll play that for you. There we go. 01:02:54.920 --> 01:02:59.980 I just have to find it. I just have to find the thing where you complained about it. 01:03:00.720 --> 01:03:05.980 And then that'll be my shortcut to bringing it up. 01:03:06.600 --> 01:03:07.360 There you go. 01:03:08.360 --> 01:03:13.020 Okay, here we go. This is Amanda Nelson. By the way, good TikToker, 01:03:13.200 --> 01:03:18.040 political content, has good content every day. But let me bring it up. 01:03:18.540 --> 01:03:22.320 We had elections last night, and a lot of Republican incumbents had very bad 01:03:22.320 --> 01:03:25.120 nights. But let's start with the big one, the Texas Democratic primary. 01:03:25.400 --> 01:03:29.200 It's been called for James Tallarico by most places, but there were some issues 01:03:29.200 --> 01:03:30.600 with the Dallas county vote. 01:03:30.920 --> 01:03:34.140 Republicans introduced a precinct system to the county for the first time. 01:03:34.300 --> 01:03:36.720 Most people could vote before anywhere in the county that they wanted, 01:03:36.900 --> 01:03:38.480 but now they had an assigned precinct. 01:03:38.600 --> 01:03:41.860 Some of them, most of them, a lot of them had no idea. A judge ordered the polls 01:03:41.860 --> 01:03:45.980 to be kept open after 7 from 7 until 9 p.m. so that people could figure out 01:03:45.980 --> 01:03:46.860 where they were supposed to go. 01:03:47.120 --> 01:03:50.760 And then Ken Paxton, the attorney general for Texas and a candidate in this 01:03:50.760 --> 01:03:53.180 race for the Republican primary, appealed it. 01:03:53.380 --> 01:03:57.060 And the Texas Supreme Court sided with Paxton. So those votes that were taken 01:03:57.060 --> 01:03:59.700 in Dallas from 7 to 9 p.m. are not being counted. 01:03:59.940 --> 01:04:03.140 So Crockett is not actually conceded. And I expect there will be lawsuits. 01:04:03.380 --> 01:04:06.860 Dallas County primary voters are largely black. I don't care how you feel about 01:04:06.860 --> 01:04:09.800 who may or may not have won this race, but we should be calling for every vote 01:04:09.800 --> 01:04:11.560 to be counted. in all circumstances. 01:04:11.920 --> 01:04:15.140 Meanwhile, the Republican Senate primary is messy, messy, messy, messy. 01:04:15.280 --> 01:04:18.940 John Cornyn's already spent $60 million fending off this challenge, 01:04:18.940 --> 01:04:20.840 and it didn't work. They're going to a runoff. 01:04:21.060 --> 01:04:25.560 Back to the Dems. In the Texas second, Al Green is struggling to maintain his incumbency. 01:04:25.720 --> 01:04:28.680 Al Green was the rep at the State of the Union with the sign that said Black 01:04:28.680 --> 01:04:31.600 people aren't apes. He's 78 years old. Runoff. 01:04:35.650 --> 01:04:42.090 In the Texas 2nd, Dan Crenshaw has lost his primary to Steve Toth, who is crazier than Dan. 01:04:42.330 --> 01:04:44.930 Somehow, this is Dan, if you don't remember. 01:04:47.070 --> 01:04:52.570 In the Texas 23rd, Tony Gonzalez is also failing to stave off a primary opponent. 01:04:52.870 --> 01:04:56.270 This is the guy whose girlfriend set herself on fire. Run off. 01:04:56.870 --> 01:05:00.550 Yikes. And the attorney general race. Going to a runoff. Oh, 01:05:00.570 --> 01:05:02.250 who's that? Our good friend Chip Roy. 01:05:02.870 --> 01:05:06.070 Did not do well. Not going to be in Congress one way or to other. 01:05:06.330 --> 01:05:10.770 The North Carolina 4th had a primary rematch between Valerie Fushi and Nita Alam. 01:05:11.010 --> 01:05:14.410 Fushi held on by like a thousand votes. Super close. They had some differences 01:05:14.410 --> 01:05:17.670 on data centers and funding from Israel. Two votes! 01:05:18.970 --> 01:05:23.530 North Carolina's state Senate seat, the 26th. Phil has sat in that seat for 01:05:23.530 --> 01:05:26.590 20 years. He's been the Senate pro-temporary president for 15. 01:05:26.790 --> 01:05:31.570 He is responsible for redrawing the maps of North Carolina at Donald Trump's behest last year. 01:05:31.870 --> 01:05:35.930 He lost by two votes. Two. His son sits on the North Carolina Supreme Court. 01:05:36.150 --> 01:05:40.810 So, you know, expect shenanigans. North Carolina's House District 106. 01:05:41.090 --> 01:05:46.370 Carla Cunningham is a Democrat who has voted with Republicans in North Carolina to partner with ICE. 01:05:46.590 --> 01:05:49.090 She lost her primary 77 to 22. 01:05:49.730 --> 01:05:53.390 Ouch. Over in Arkansas, we had a special election and a flip. 01:05:53.690 --> 01:05:57.750 This is the 70th House District. Alex Holliday was running for that seat again. 01:05:57.950 --> 01:06:02.290 He lost by 200 votes last time. He won by over a thousand votes this time. 01:06:02.450 --> 01:06:04.070 I talked to him as part of Choose Your Fighter. 01:06:04.270 --> 01:06:06.890 You can go back on my feed and see that interview. 01:06:07.170 --> 01:06:10.070 Sorry about your bad day, Cornyn. Hope it gets better. 01:06:11.990 --> 01:06:13.050 Okay, that's it. 01:06:13.470 --> 01:06:16.350 I forgot about Crenshaw losing, you know. 01:06:16.370 --> 01:06:16.730 Yes. 01:06:16.910 --> 01:06:21.950 Oh, well. But the thing is that he lost to somebody who is more unhinged. 01:06:22.210 --> 01:06:27.250 Yes, and the guy whose girlfriend set herself on fire, he has since. 01:06:27.730 --> 01:06:28.790 Yeah, he's withdrawn. 01:06:28.810 --> 01:06:32.550 Well, it was going to go to a runoff, but he has since the party leadership 01:06:32.550 --> 01:06:34.670 basically told him, get out. 01:06:35.170 --> 01:06:39.690 And he is not resigning his seat, but he has announced he's dropping out of the race. 01:06:39.690 --> 01:06:43.090 That is something that is very important correction because I need to honor 01:06:43.090 --> 01:06:45.130 that girl about that. I don't want this to go wrong. 01:06:45.510 --> 01:06:51.970 That woman was not his girlfriend. That woman was pressured and harassed into 01:06:51.970 --> 01:06:55.330 a sexual relationship with this asshole who was her boss. 01:06:55.630 --> 01:06:56.150 Yes. 01:06:56.510 --> 01:07:03.850 And she felt bad about it, ashamed, embarrassed in her marriage and fucking killed herself over it. 01:07:04.230 --> 01:07:06.830 No, not her his girlfriend. 01:07:08.170 --> 01:07:09.510 I stand for it. 01:07:10.430 --> 01:07:14.530 But everybody's getting this wrong, and it's pissing me off. 01:07:14.670 --> 01:07:20.770 This woman was harassed intensely by this asshole into a sexual relationship, 01:07:20.770 --> 01:07:24.230 and she felt cornered as an employee. 01:07:25.090 --> 01:07:25.190 Right. 01:07:26.260 --> 01:07:27.900 That guy is really messed up. 01:07:28.800 --> 01:07:33.100 Yeah. And he has dropped out of the race. 01:07:33.640 --> 01:07:37.420 So I guess the runoff, the other guy is likely to win. 01:07:38.300 --> 01:07:42.960 But he is at the moment saying he's going to serve out the rest of his term. 01:07:43.180 --> 01:07:48.360 I know there had been some talk of disciplinary hearings within the House. 01:07:48.600 --> 01:07:56.080 Like, even the other Republicans are appalled by this guy and were about ready to take action. 01:07:56.260 --> 01:07:59.420 Yeah, even given they're really narrow margins. 01:08:00.220 --> 01:08:04.840 But I guess that I guess the deal has probably been made that he can serve out 01:08:04.840 --> 01:08:07.660 his term in exchange for dropping his reelection bid. 01:08:07.900 --> 01:08:11.940 So so I don't expect really more to come of that. But, you know, 01:08:12.080 --> 01:08:14.120 if more comes out, it could still flare up. 01:08:14.540 --> 01:08:18.000 So anyway, that's it for the election summaries. Shall we take a break? 01:08:18.720 --> 01:08:19.120 Yes. 01:08:20.680 --> 01:08:24.460 Okay. Here we go. Here comes a break. And when we come back, 01:08:24.520 --> 01:08:28.860 it'll be my turn. Back after this. 01:09:05.780 --> 01:09:11.780 Okay. We got two things. Maybe we can spend a little bit of time on each, at least the big things. 01:09:12.040 --> 01:09:15.540 One, I think we'd be remiss in not following up on Iran. 01:09:15.860 --> 01:09:19.240 Last week, we were still in the very first hours of it. 01:09:19.240 --> 01:09:24.800 Well, we did do some coverage of Iran first. You did read the message from our 01:09:24.800 --> 01:09:26.480 dear leader. Do you want to read it again? 01:09:27.000 --> 01:09:31.060 No, I don't want to read it again. Once was quite enough. 01:09:31.060 --> 01:09:37.400 I mean, it's like reading that shit, almost like it's like it's like almost 01:09:37.400 --> 01:09:41.360 like try to it's like almost clogging your heart arteries with something. 01:09:41.440 --> 01:09:45.480 It's like clogging my brain with like this garbage infusion. 01:09:45.720 --> 01:09:47.580 OK, of nonsense. 01:09:48.300 --> 01:09:51.740 Well, but but but wait. 01:09:51.800 --> 01:09:54.660 Wait, I need to say this since you mentioned Donald Trump's statements. 01:09:54.660 --> 01:10:02.560 there was also a press availability earlier today with donald trump and hegseth, 01:10:03.420 --> 01:10:09.500 and there are a few quotes i'm just going to scroll up and down i have not watched 01:10:09.500 --> 01:10:15.700 the actual video of this but i noticed as we've been speaking here on on i have 01:10:15.700 --> 01:10:20.520 mastodon up and there were a few highlights that were posted it was actually highlights you. 01:10:20.520 --> 01:10:21.800 Be you be lowlights. 01:10:21.800 --> 01:10:27.320 Yes. Posted by threads. It was actually threads. Aaron Rupar posting on threads. 01:10:27.460 --> 01:10:28.800 I just had a gateway into Mastodon. 01:10:29.080 --> 01:10:36.520 Okay. So the first highlight he posted was, this was Trump speaking to a grouping 01:10:36.520 --> 01:10:38.580 of Latin American leaders. Okay. 01:10:39.560 --> 01:10:45.780 Trump to Latin American leaders. Quote, I'm not learning your damn language. I don't have time. 01:10:47.500 --> 01:10:55.380 Well, we didn't expect that Trump at age 80 Whatever the fuck you are Nobody asked you Okay. 01:10:55.380 --> 01:10:56.500 Here's another one. 01:10:56.500 --> 01:10:59.460 Not learning your damn language Okay, all right, very good. 01:11:00.390 --> 01:11:05.310 Another quote from Trump. We use missiles. You want us to use a missile? 01:11:05.530 --> 01:11:07.050 They're extremely accurate. 01:11:07.550 --> 01:11:11.870 FOOM! Right into the living room. That's the end of that cartel person. 01:11:14.650 --> 01:11:15.750 Okay, let's see. 01:11:16.170 --> 01:11:20.410 The fucking hell. The fucking hell. 01:11:20.550 --> 01:11:24.190 How could we be living this right now for real? 01:11:25.050 --> 01:11:28.630 Okay, here's another one. Trump on Mexico. Quote. 01:11:29.190 --> 01:11:33.870 I like the president very much. She's a very good person. She's got a beautiful 01:11:33.870 --> 01:11:35.430 voice. Beautiful woman. 01:11:36.210 --> 01:11:41.290 I said, let me eradicate the cartels. No, no, no, please, president. 01:11:41.830 --> 01:11:45.270 We have to eradicate them. We have to knock the hell out of them. 01:11:45.530 --> 01:11:48.130 The cartels are running Mexico. We can't have that. 01:11:49.190 --> 01:11:51.110 Okay, here's a Hegseth one. 01:11:52.290 --> 01:11:58.110 So Hegseth was asked, oh wait, let me get the beginning, the question too, 01:11:58.370 --> 01:12:00.190 because that was important to this. 01:12:01.590 --> 01:12:06.370 Trump asked Hegseth, is Rubio better in Spanish? 01:12:07.090 --> 01:12:10.650 And Hegseth answered, I only speak American. 01:12:12.490 --> 01:12:17.490 Oh, my God. Oh, Jesus Christ. Fucking hell. 01:12:21.850 --> 01:12:24.030 Well, everything seems to be going well over there. 01:12:24.110 --> 01:12:24.190 Huh? 01:12:26.430 --> 01:12:28.170 Mi no spico americano. 01:12:32.490 --> 01:12:38.150 Okay, another Hegseth quote, and then I think we can move on and get back to Iran. 01:12:38.450 --> 01:12:39.350 Oh, God. 01:12:39.430 --> 01:12:42.250 This was all at the meeting with the Latin American leaders. 01:12:42.490 --> 01:12:48.090 Hey, Seth, for far too long, our country's gaze was only on borders in far-flung 01:12:48.090 --> 01:12:52.350 places, not our own border, not our own hemisphere, not the Western Hemisphere. 01:12:52.610 --> 01:12:56.390 President Trump has established the Trump corollary of the Monroe Doctrine, 01:12:56.530 --> 01:13:01.310 the Donroe Doctrine, and the War Department is implementing it as fast as we can. 01:13:02.780 --> 01:13:10.160 Just, you know, so eloquent, so full of, you know, strength. 01:13:11.520 --> 01:13:16.920 Okay, anyway, I ran. We did speak about it last week, but we were still in the 01:13:16.920 --> 01:13:19.600 very first early hours of the conflict. 01:13:19.940 --> 01:13:26.940 I think the main thing that, first of all, it was confirmed that the Ayatollah 01:13:26.940 --> 01:13:32.180 was killed. at the first, you know, while we were recording last week. 01:13:32.180 --> 01:13:37.600 Not just the Ayatollah, but almost literally. The whole, I still go and I'm 01:13:37.600 --> 01:13:43.220 like, I am still in shock at the stupidity of the Iranian leadership. 01:13:43.460 --> 01:13:44.460 That they had a meeting. 01:13:44.540 --> 01:13:47.420 In terms? Yes! With everybody in person. 01:13:48.360 --> 01:13:53.320 Yes, and it wasn't in some kind of like ridiculously hardened bunker. 01:13:53.660 --> 01:13:54.640 There's just some house. 01:13:54.640 --> 01:13:59.320 Of all places. Yeah. What do they think? 01:13:59.960 --> 01:14:04.060 What? I don't, I'm, I'm, it's stunning. 01:14:04.680 --> 01:14:09.780 Well, and the reports are, and, and, and I don't know how much of this has been 01:14:09.780 --> 01:14:14.480 confirmed because it seems actually kind of alarming that this level of detail was coming out. 01:14:14.620 --> 01:14:21.900 But I saw reports saying that specifically, you know, how the Israelis located 01:14:21.900 --> 01:14:24.760 him and everything was first of all. 01:14:25.140 --> 01:14:29.000 Well, no, no. First of all, they have all kinds of on-the-ground intelligence, right? 01:14:29.240 --> 01:14:35.360 Well, yeah, that they do. They do have, like, molds in the Iranian government, and they have that. 01:14:35.500 --> 01:14:35.560 Yeah, yeah, yeah. 01:14:35.780 --> 01:14:45.140 But also, more specifically, Tehran and lots of Iran has a massive, 01:14:45.140 --> 01:14:50.340 like, you know, CCD surveillance network around the whole city. 01:14:50.340 --> 01:14:52.220 And they infiltrated it, of course. 01:14:52.420 --> 01:14:57.360 And the Israelis infiltrated it. So they had access to all the security cameras 01:14:57.360 --> 01:15:03.220 across the whole city and were on an ongoing basis tracking the movement of 01:15:03.220 --> 01:15:05.320 all the significant leaders that they cared about. 01:15:07.140 --> 01:15:14.000 I mean, I'm just shocked that there's stupidity. 01:15:15.560 --> 01:15:22.580 Yeah. So anyway, when we recorded last week, there had been some reports of 01:15:22.580 --> 01:15:25.100 the Ayatollah's death. Iran was denying it. 01:15:25.680 --> 01:15:31.640 Other sources were saying yes. But and by the time we finished the show, 01:15:31.640 --> 01:15:35.660 it looked like it had probably happened, but still wasn't 100 percent confirmed. 01:15:35.760 --> 01:15:39.640 It was confirmed later. As you said, lots of other leaders killed. 01:15:39.980 --> 01:15:45.460 I mean, they basically decapitated huge numbers of the Iranian leadership. 01:15:46.920 --> 01:15:53.560 I mean, seriously, imagine the same effect as someone bombing the State of the Union address here. 01:15:54.540 --> 01:15:57.760 I mean, we're at that level of decapitation. 01:15:58.160 --> 01:15:59.380 That level, yes. 01:16:00.220 --> 01:16:04.580 But, you know, and, you know, there are people survive and there's still leadership 01:16:04.580 --> 01:16:07.220 and it's still continuing, just as it would here. 01:16:07.480 --> 01:16:13.500 We have the designated survivor, you know, and so, but all of that is going on. 01:16:13.860 --> 01:16:17.480 And then the Iranians have, of course, been retaliating. 01:16:18.420 --> 01:16:23.760 And they have been striking basically every fucking country in the region. 01:16:23.760 --> 01:16:29.520 I mean, especially places where there are American assets in place. 01:16:30.420 --> 01:16:34.340 But not only. I mean, they hit Azerbaijan the other day. 01:16:35.420 --> 01:16:40.060 Basically, every Gulf Coast state that exists has been hit. 01:16:40.580 --> 01:16:46.180 Israel, of course. Israel has been attacking Lebanon as well as Iran. 01:16:46.480 --> 01:16:54.000 The U.S. has been attacking Iran. One of the things that has been coming out over the last, 01:16:54.560 --> 01:17:01.520 I guess it's been a week now, is the administration has apparently been taken 01:17:01.520 --> 01:17:08.200 somewhat by surprise by the level of the Iranian response. What? 01:17:08.200 --> 01:17:10.700 They just expected that nothing was going to happen? 01:17:10.700 --> 01:17:16.400 Well, the last couple of times that Iran has been attacked, they've sort of 01:17:16.400 --> 01:17:20.940 done one half-hearted counterattack, and then it's been over, right? 01:17:21.840 --> 01:17:24.140 Yeah, but it's almost also because... 01:17:25.600 --> 01:17:29.380 I mean, on purpose, they held back. I mean, that is what they did. 01:17:29.540 --> 01:17:36.840 They held back on purpose. They held back on purpose before they specifically wanted not to escalate. 01:17:37.040 --> 01:17:41.400 Okay, this time, you killed their entire leadership. 01:17:41.980 --> 01:17:43.100 What did you expect? 01:17:43.120 --> 01:17:50.220 You're doing a massive ongoing attack that you have said explicitly will probably last several weeks. 01:17:50.800 --> 01:17:54.340 But here's the other problem. I'm going to tell you the other problem of what 01:17:54.340 --> 01:17:57.780 they have done. Okay, the biggest issue. 01:17:58.120 --> 01:17:59.500 What the Iranians have done. 01:17:59.960 --> 01:18:01.260 Well, I'm going to say... 01:18:01.260 --> 01:18:02.640 Or the Americans. Or the Israelis. 01:18:02.840 --> 01:18:07.400 The Americans in terms of like, why are they surprised that there was more of a response? 01:18:07.620 --> 01:18:07.800 Yes. 01:18:08.300 --> 01:18:16.460 Look, in the past, when we've done a military campaign of this type anywhere, okay, first thing to do, 01:18:17.580 --> 01:18:23.380 There was a mass buildup that took way longer than the buildup that they did. 01:18:23.620 --> 01:18:29.200 Yes. Spent a lot of time in preparation. And when they went in on first strikes, 01:18:29.520 --> 01:18:32.580 it wasn't a small first strike. 01:18:33.140 --> 01:18:39.960 The first strikes were meant to paralyze the other opponent, okay? 01:18:40.220 --> 01:18:47.460 To immediately inflict such damage that they were basically paralyzed. 01:18:47.580 --> 01:18:52.120 To be fair, they did decapitate the leadership, as we said. But the other part. 01:18:52.320 --> 01:18:55.380 But that's a relatively easy target, if you think about it. 01:18:55.640 --> 01:18:59.020 Well, no, no. But those are not. The key missing. 01:18:59.200 --> 01:19:01.140 And actually, that actually. Wait, 01:19:01.200 --> 01:19:04.560 wait, wait. But that actually is counterproductive for them to do that. 01:19:04.620 --> 01:19:07.840 Because if you take out the leadership, that there's nobody to talk to that 01:19:07.840 --> 01:19:10.480 to kind of like say, hey, we're going to do this. You can stop. 01:19:10.760 --> 01:19:13.420 No. You talk about there's no decision making. 01:19:13.760 --> 01:19:17.580 You got everybody here under attack. What I heard a little bit is that they 01:19:17.580 --> 01:19:21.440 decentralized decision-making at that point so that they all could fire anyway 01:19:21.440 --> 01:19:23.980 if they got hit. So what the hell? 01:19:24.380 --> 01:19:30.580 You went and you created this situation where they didn't – okay. 01:19:30.780 --> 01:19:37.180 The key missing element for the shock and awe kind of stuff that you were talking 01:19:37.180 --> 01:19:44.660 about for the Iraq wars was actually you start out by eliminating air power. 01:19:44.660 --> 01:19:47.600 and making sure you have that's 01:19:47.600 --> 01:19:50.700 the focus you you make sure you have 01:19:50.700 --> 01:19:55.820 complete control of the airspace as soon as possible now you'll notice what's 01:19:55.820 --> 01:20:01.640 happening right now and the other place that the americans had not well there's 01:20:01.640 --> 01:20:05.200 several places the americans had not thought through even last week we were 01:20:05.200 --> 01:20:08.640 talking about hey they had no plan for day two right but like, 01:20:09.190 --> 01:20:14.370 These they're using their cheap drones as part of these attacks that apparently 01:20:14.370 --> 01:20:18.830 they've stockpiled, you know, 100,000 of these things or something like they've 01:20:18.830 --> 01:20:21.470 been they've been constantly building these cheap drones. 01:20:21.470 --> 01:20:24.270 They cost like 20 grand each to make or something like that, 01:20:24.350 --> 01:20:25.390 something insanely cheap. 01:20:25.970 --> 01:20:30.530 And they've been attacking all of these Gulf countries where the Americans have 01:20:30.530 --> 01:20:35.550 been giving them Patriot missiles for defense against missile attacks. 01:20:35.550 --> 01:20:40.030 These patriots cost like a couple million dollars each per missile, 01:20:40.290 --> 01:20:44.890 and they're designed to go after missiles, so they're not actually all that 01:20:44.890 --> 01:20:46.250 good against these drones. 01:20:47.680 --> 01:20:52.400 And every time they shoot down one of these drones, they're spending $2 million 01:20:52.400 --> 01:20:54.700 to shoot down a $20,000 drone. 01:20:55.480 --> 01:21:00.340 And they've got a lot of these drones and not very many of the Patriot missiles. 01:21:00.460 --> 01:21:04.600 And this is just one of those planning things. So enough so. 01:21:04.720 --> 01:21:11.060 But this is once again, lack of strategic planning around this and forethought 01:21:11.060 --> 01:21:15.300 into, hey, what can they do? 01:21:15.440 --> 01:21:20.200 How do we prepare? How do we, by the way, because the preparation for this was not that complicated. 01:21:20.520 --> 01:21:27.180 Well, and look, who could give you the tools to prepare for this very effectively? What country? 01:21:28.120 --> 01:21:31.040 Well, this is what I was going to say. Ukraine, of course. Because here's the 01:21:31.040 --> 01:21:34.480 thing. This was not, there's no way this should have been unexpected. 01:21:35.100 --> 01:21:35.580 Exactly. 01:21:36.020 --> 01:21:42.080 Because the Russians have been using the Iranian drones in Ukraine as like their 01:21:42.080 --> 01:21:46.040 primary mode of attack for months and months and months now. 01:21:47.100 --> 01:21:52.080 I mean, they use other things, too, but they've been using extensively these drones. 01:21:52.480 --> 01:21:58.500 And so if you didn't have a strategy to completely neutralize that threat to 01:21:58.500 --> 01:22:01.620 do that, that you're a bunch of idiots. 01:22:01.800 --> 01:22:06.100 And let's be very specific here. It's not even the Russians using some Russian 01:22:06.100 --> 01:22:08.780 drones that the Iranians don't have access to are. 01:22:08.780 --> 01:22:10.500 Using Iranian drones. 01:22:11.080 --> 01:22:16.000 Yes. The exact same kind of drones that Iran is now using in the Gulf. 01:22:16.540 --> 01:22:25.980 Ukraine is fighting and neutralizing in very large swaths and they've developed defenses for. But hey! 01:22:26.900 --> 01:22:30.080 You know, we're smarter than everybody, right, Sam? 01:22:30.620 --> 01:22:35.960 Our leadership is, I mean, as you can see, I mean, those quotes you gave, oof, let me tell you. 01:22:36.420 --> 01:22:42.320 Talk about, talk about it. I mean, intelligence there. Oof, let me tell you, I'm overwhelmed. 01:22:42.460 --> 01:22:51.300 Well, look, I mean, the fundamental thing is just, it's seemingly just, 01:22:51.560 --> 01:22:54.320 it's not even that they had a bad plan. 01:22:54.320 --> 01:22:59.360 It's literally that, again, like we talked last week, the plan did not go beyond 01:22:59.360 --> 01:23:01.360 the first few hours of the conflict. 01:23:02.000 --> 01:23:06.880 The plan was like the plan of what we've done before, what Trump has done many 01:23:06.880 --> 01:23:11.340 times, which is just launch missiles and then, OK, bye. 01:23:11.900 --> 01:23:20.220 They expected just what you OK, you actually very well encapsulated it earlier when you said that. 01:23:21.570 --> 01:23:25.090 They thought they were going to get a response like what's happened before. 01:23:25.590 --> 01:23:32.590 And are shocked that it's been more extensive. And it shows absolutely no, 01:23:32.870 --> 01:23:37.690 as we've talked about how this administration operates, no long-term plan. 01:23:37.830 --> 01:23:41.950 No thinking of anything beyond, you know, the current moment. 01:23:42.190 --> 01:23:50.250 And they never, because I feel like this is fundamentally connected to the entire way MAGA operates. 01:23:50.250 --> 01:23:55.430 and the fact that they have no empathy for anything, no consideration whatsoever 01:23:55.430 --> 01:24:00.930 of, hey, let's try to think through what it would be like to be the other side 01:24:00.930 --> 01:24:02.590 of the conflict and what they would do. 01:24:04.070 --> 01:24:04.570 Right. 01:24:05.550 --> 01:24:13.650 You know, because they can't, they physically cannot put themselves into the position of the... 01:24:13.650 --> 01:24:14.210 Or mentally, not physically. 01:24:14.410 --> 01:24:20.570 But... Right. Into the mental position of the other side and try to role-play that out. 01:24:21.750 --> 01:24:25.630 It appears to just not be a skill they have at the leadership level. 01:24:25.710 --> 01:24:32.090 And look, I am sure there are people at the Pentagon who are very qualified to do this. 01:24:32.170 --> 01:24:34.510 Right, but they're not listening to them. 01:24:34.550 --> 01:24:39.830 I'm sure there were plans on the shelf that had been written and refined over 01:24:39.830 --> 01:24:44.990 the course of many years and decades of if we really had to do a full attack 01:24:44.990 --> 01:24:46.290 on Iran, what would we do? 01:24:46.290 --> 01:24:51.790 I can almost guarantee you those were ignored completely I'm. 01:24:51.790 --> 01:24:53.150 100% sure that you're right. 01:24:53.150 --> 01:24:56.930 Right you know because oh, 01:24:57.980 --> 01:25:00.520 experts did that. We don't like experts. 01:25:00.680 --> 01:25:01.720 Oh, we don't like experts. 01:25:02.000 --> 01:25:05.840 You know, that was touched by people that Biden and Obama liked. 01:25:06.460 --> 01:25:08.300 Therefore, we can't even look. 01:25:08.560 --> 01:25:10.680 We're going to shred them. Yeah. We're not going to look at those. 01:25:11.300 --> 01:25:11.440 Yeah. 01:25:11.600 --> 01:25:15.620 And, you know, and so we hadn't thought of that. 01:25:16.000 --> 01:25:20.360 Apparently, we hadn't thought of, oh, people might want to get evacuated from the region. 01:25:20.520 --> 01:25:24.080 How would we deal with that? And Rubio is out there. I think it was Rubio who 01:25:24.080 --> 01:25:27.940 said, And, like, this wouldn't be a problem except the airspace is closed. 01:25:28.700 --> 01:25:32.400 Oh, who could have foreseen that that could be a problem, Sam? 01:25:32.880 --> 01:25:38.460 And now, and they're also surprised that there may be shipping issues in the Straits of Hormuz. 01:25:38.960 --> 01:25:43.320 Oh, my God. Who the hell could have foreseen that as well? 01:25:43.760 --> 01:25:47.560 How could that have impacted the price of oil, Sam? Oh, my God. 01:25:48.180 --> 01:25:50.860 Right. Well, we'll just tell them it's safe. Go ahead. 01:25:50.860 --> 01:25:56.460 Hey, how could going and battling against every clean energy project of the 01:25:56.460 --> 01:26:02.320 United States and then all of a sudden launching a war that restricts the exports of liquid natural, 01:26:02.480 --> 01:26:07.240 liquefied natural gas and oil have an impact on energy prices, Sam? 01:26:07.440 --> 01:26:11.760 My God, who could have foreseen all of this, Sam? 01:26:12.420 --> 01:26:13.040 No one. 01:26:13.580 --> 01:26:17.140 It's completely out of the blue. There's a whole bunch of elitist, 01:26:17.600 --> 01:26:21.360 overeducated pinheads that we don't listen to. 01:26:22.160 --> 01:26:27.720 Right. Because, and then, and we had started to talk about this last week, 01:26:27.780 --> 01:26:30.780 but it seems to have become even more clear this week. 01:26:32.120 --> 01:26:35.720 No thought whatsoever. Okay, we're going to decapitate the leadership. 01:26:35.920 --> 01:26:38.360 Okay, who's next? And how does that work? 01:26:38.760 --> 01:26:42.240 And how would you have worked, if that's what you wanted to do, 01:26:42.520 --> 01:26:46.140 who did you want to? Because, okay, we're not, by the way, how many times did 01:26:46.140 --> 01:26:48.540 they flip-flop from regime change, no regime change? 01:26:48.800 --> 01:26:53.200 Regime change or no regime change? I mean, but of course, because they had no 01:26:53.200 --> 01:26:56.940 thought about it later because you would, what you would have been doing is working. 01:26:57.160 --> 01:27:00.860 Okay, who is going to replace them if you're going to kill them all? 01:27:02.460 --> 01:27:06.120 We negotiated with them in order to go and like do something. 01:27:06.340 --> 01:27:12.640 Now, Donald Trump has said in another Truth Social post that he does expect 01:27:12.640 --> 01:27:15.720 to have a say in who gets to be picked. 01:27:16.220 --> 01:27:17.240 Ah, I see. 01:27:17.420 --> 01:27:21.860 And that the one that the Iranians have picked so far, which is the son of the 01:27:21.860 --> 01:27:26.880 one we killed, the high total we killed, is unacceptable. And that won't do. 01:27:26.960 --> 01:27:27.500 I see. 01:27:29.700 --> 01:27:33.740 Now of course the i'm sure they're going to try to respond by that but just 01:27:33.740 --> 01:27:39.860 whoever the iranians pick just kill them until we get one that we think we like or maybe. 01:27:39.860 --> 01:27:43.140 Okay maybe the iranians will get a little bit fucking smarter this time and 01:27:43.140 --> 01:27:46.860 not just set him up somewhere where he can just get fucking killed. 01:27:46.860 --> 01:27:51.120 You know yes the the. 01:27:52.460 --> 01:27:57.660 I don't know. Listen, first of all, what we did is abhorrent. 01:27:57.840 --> 01:28:00.400 What the United States has done right now. 01:28:01.080 --> 01:28:04.760 And as we criticize the war plans or whatever, let me go back to one thing, 01:28:04.800 --> 01:28:07.640 because I do agree that some people have talked about how we're talking about 01:28:07.640 --> 01:28:09.220 this like it's some kind of sport or whatever. 01:28:09.220 --> 01:28:13.560 What the United States did in this attack and what it's done and the damage 01:28:13.560 --> 01:28:16.480 and the killing that is done together with Israel is abhorrent. 01:28:17.020 --> 01:28:19.760 It's ridiculous. There's no reason for this. 01:28:19.920 --> 01:28:22.980 There's never been any fucking reason for this. OK, you know, 01:28:23.080 --> 01:28:32.620 we had, OK, an agreement that President Obama forged to limit their Iranian nuclear plan, OK, 01:28:32.900 --> 01:28:36.140 to develop nuclear weapons. This had been solved. 01:28:36.440 --> 01:28:40.160 And the only reason we don't have it right now is because Donald Trump decided 01:28:40.160 --> 01:28:43.040 that because Obama did it, I don't want it. Okay? 01:28:43.440 --> 01:28:43.580 Right. 01:28:43.660 --> 01:28:48.660 This issue had been put to bed. Number one. Number two. 01:28:49.060 --> 01:28:54.560 Right now. The only reason this happened is because of the fucking Epstein files 01:28:54.560 --> 01:29:00.220 and because Netanyahu wanted it and dog walked Trump into it because he figured, 01:29:00.340 --> 01:29:02.480 well, how can I get this distraction off my head? 01:29:02.480 --> 01:29:05.180 Hey, let's go to war. Fuck it. 01:29:05.780 --> 01:29:10.680 I like bombs. I don't like those Arab guys. Persians. Yeah, not Arabs. 01:29:11.200 --> 01:29:12.940 Donald Trump was quoted this week. 01:29:13.080 --> 01:29:15.700 Well, he'll call them Arabs, even though they're Persians. I'm sorry. Yeah, yeah. 01:29:16.420 --> 01:29:21.500 Donald Trump said this week, in my first term, I built this military. 01:29:21.500 --> 01:29:23.760 In my second term, I'm using it. 01:29:24.900 --> 01:29:28.120 So, anticipate more. 01:29:28.760 --> 01:29:32.960 He's been talking about Cuba recently, too. He recently said something about, 01:29:33.080 --> 01:29:34.920 like, we're going to put Rubio in charge there. 01:29:35.920 --> 01:29:40.180 So, like, apparently Rubio's going to, yeah, they're going to do something in 01:29:40.180 --> 01:29:42.280 Cuba and Rubio's going to be president there or something. 01:29:42.340 --> 01:29:46.400 We're going to make him the governor of Cuba. 01:29:46.480 --> 01:29:53.640 Something. Yeah, I don't know. so he yeah he said repeatedly like Cuba's next, 01:29:54.300 --> 01:29:55.900 in one way shape or another, 01:29:56.990 --> 01:29:57.910 The peace president. 01:29:58.490 --> 01:29:59.650 The peace president. 01:30:00.090 --> 01:30:04.630 You know, he did say, didn't he say something like, since you didn't give me 01:30:04.630 --> 01:30:07.990 my Nobel Peace Prize, now I don't have to worry about peace so much anymore? 01:30:08.430 --> 01:30:13.230 I think he did say that at one point. But he probably stole the man the Nobel 01:30:13.230 --> 01:30:14.370 Peace Prize again anyway. 01:30:14.470 --> 01:30:17.870 Well, what better way to get peace than to. 01:30:17.870 --> 01:30:18.450 Go to war? 01:30:18.750 --> 01:30:22.330 Than to fully destroy your enemy so they can't fight back anymore. 01:30:22.590 --> 01:30:26.030 There is this movie that I always use to quote. 01:30:26.030 --> 01:30:33.970 it's not a it's not a good movie but it's uh oh god where the hell i had the dvd around here, 01:30:34.730 --> 01:30:38.330 it was it's called sale of the century okay and 01:30:38.330 --> 01:30:42.630 the sale of the century is a movie with gregory hines and chevy chase where 01:30:42.630 --> 01:30:49.530 they were arms dealers okay and they go to this there is this arms sales like 01:30:49.530 --> 01:30:54.170 bizarre thing whatever did you know they show what they do and the whole the 01:30:54.170 --> 01:30:55.990 slogan was arms for peace. 01:30:56.530 --> 01:31:01.130 You know, I always loved the slogan, arms for peace, Sam. 01:31:01.270 --> 01:31:06.870 That's what you got. You got, you know, you got, you know, war for peace, arms for peace. 01:31:07.190 --> 01:31:12.390 Yeah, you know, but sale of the century. It's got a few funny moments. 01:31:12.530 --> 01:31:17.590 It's not a good movie, but there's a couple of things that are funny in the movie. 01:31:18.450 --> 01:31:24.310 I am looking for this and not finding, Oh, a 1980, Deal of the Century. 01:31:24.710 --> 01:31:25.890 Deal of the Century. 01:31:26.010 --> 01:31:30.150 Deal of the Century, 1983 is the movie you're thinking about. 01:31:30.670 --> 01:31:34.690 Sale of the Century was, there were apparently a few game shows with that name. 01:31:34.890 --> 01:31:37.590 But in different countries. Yeah, that's the game. Deal of the Century. Deal of the Century. 01:31:37.590 --> 01:31:39.090 Deal of the Century. There we go. 01:31:40.150 --> 01:31:45.730 So, yeah. You know, arms for peace, Sam. War for peace. 01:31:46.490 --> 01:31:50.810 War for peace. The more we bomb, the more peace we'll get. 01:31:51.800 --> 01:31:57.000 That's that's lovely. OK, let's do a quick switch up because I don't want to 01:31:57.000 --> 01:32:04.580 end without letting you talk a little bit about more bad economic numbers that came out this week. 01:32:05.160 --> 01:32:08.500 Sam, hey, look at that. 01:32:08.600 --> 01:32:15.320 Look, the the the the golden era, the the jobs president. So I shared it. 01:32:15.340 --> 01:32:19.840 I know I know my situation has turned around. I just got like 30 new jobs this week. 01:32:20.500 --> 01:32:22.060 Wow. Congratulations. 01:32:22.520 --> 01:32:26.480 Yeah. Yeah. I'm no longer unemployed. I am over-employed. 01:32:26.660 --> 01:32:28.540 You're over-employed. Wow. 01:32:29.020 --> 01:32:29.220 Yes. 01:32:29.220 --> 01:32:34.920 Wow. That's great. Okay. So I don't know if you, I shared this chart that showed 01:32:34.920 --> 01:32:42.780 the average job gain, okay, over the last, since 2023 through 2020. 01:32:43.680 --> 01:32:46.620 February, 2026. Okay. 01:32:46.920 --> 01:32:59.320 And the one very salient point in this data is the dramatic slowdown in job 01:32:59.320 --> 01:33:04.840 creation that happened right after Trump basically came into office. 01:33:05.320 --> 01:33:10.800 Okay. And it's a, Sam, it's a 01:33:10.800 --> 01:33:16.680 stunning drop that I don't think that I have ever seen. No, I don't think. 01:33:17.100 --> 01:33:28.720 No president ever has been able to slow down job creation as effectively as Donald Trump has. 01:33:28.860 --> 01:33:30.900 Good job. Donald's done great. 01:33:31.580 --> 01:33:34.880 Since the start of the presidency. And let me be clear. 01:33:34.880 --> 01:33:38.900 Oh, come on, Yvonne. Sometimes presidents are hostage to— It's not under the 01:33:38.900 --> 01:33:41.020 president's control. It's nothing. 01:33:42.720 --> 01:33:46.260 Biden left him this destroyed economy. 01:33:46.640 --> 01:33:46.800 Right. 01:33:47.140 --> 01:33:51.420 And he's trying to fix it, Yvonne. Tariffs will fix everything, 01:33:51.520 --> 01:33:54.340 except the stupid Supreme Court is trying to get in the way. 01:33:55.000 --> 01:34:02.860 Right. Okay, the refunds. It's Sam, no president ever has been more job destructive 01:34:02.860 --> 01:34:05.160 as quickly as Donald Trump. 01:34:05.400 --> 01:34:12.660 It's crazy. It's just crazy. He came into office and ever since he started with 01:34:12.660 --> 01:34:16.380 this whole thing of his trade war, economic war, tariff thing, 01:34:17.000 --> 01:34:21.220 basically ending all these subsidies, cutting all these things, 01:34:21.740 --> 01:34:25.560 you know, Now, President Biden has started all these infrastructure programs 01:34:25.560 --> 01:34:30.980 and the Inflation Reduction Act and all this investment in the manufacturing economy and whatever. 01:34:31.140 --> 01:34:35.280 And he basically came in and fucking stopped. 01:34:36.320 --> 01:34:42.440 All of those and then proceeded to do all these things that made every employer 01:34:42.440 --> 01:34:44.920 be afraid of hiring people. 01:34:45.200 --> 01:34:53.600 And he just slammed the brakes immediately on all job creation and has led to job losses. 01:34:54.100 --> 01:34:57.780 And he did this. 01:34:58.000 --> 01:35:03.960 In other cases, you can blame, you know, hey, Obama came into a bad economy from W. 01:35:04.080 --> 01:35:06.340 I thought it was all AI. Right. 01:35:06.840 --> 01:35:13.220 No, it's not the fucking AI. OK, it's not the fucking AI. It's Donald. 01:35:13.640 --> 01:35:19.240 And it's not even his advisors. It's fucking Donald J. 01:35:19.640 --> 01:35:30.180 Trump directly has been the biggest job killing president ever, ever. It's incredible. 01:35:31.140 --> 01:35:36.740 It is. And then, you know, we keep spending all these months where people keep 01:35:36.740 --> 01:35:40.620 saying that the economic data that the government is showing is great. 01:35:40.740 --> 01:35:45.120 And me and Pete on the Slack have to keep saying, man, look, 01:35:45.340 --> 01:35:49.280 the data they keep publishing keeps getting revised backwards. 01:35:49.620 --> 01:35:55.000 OK, all the other data that isn't manipulated by the government shows you that everything is fucked. 01:35:55.680 --> 01:36:00.900 It can't be that they're saying that everything is under control while all external 01:36:00.900 --> 01:36:02.780 data says everything is fucked. 01:36:03.380 --> 01:36:07.700 And even their data now is showing that we're fucked. 01:36:08.020 --> 01:36:12.100 Inflation is rising again. And by the way. 01:36:14.060 --> 01:36:19.920 They think oil is going to hit 100 bucks. That's not going to push down inflation. 01:36:20.320 --> 01:36:24.640 By the way, the last time we had a big inflation push was precisely because 01:36:24.640 --> 01:36:28.400 oil soared when Russia declared war on Ukraine. 01:36:29.640 --> 01:36:36.540 I mean, that was one of the side effects. OK, now Biden didn't incite the war 01:36:36.540 --> 01:36:37.860 between Russia and Ukraine. 01:36:38.060 --> 01:36:41.880 Biden did everything he could to try to stop the war between Russia and Ukraine. 01:36:41.880 --> 01:36:49.560 In this case, this idiot launched a war and was like, oh, wait, 01:36:49.820 --> 01:36:51.320 this might stop the flow of oil? 01:36:51.980 --> 01:36:55.860 Wait, this might cause oil to rise? All of a sudden, now they're scrambling 01:36:55.860 --> 01:37:00.380 to try to, you know, fix the problem, okay? 01:37:00.640 --> 01:37:04.820 Oh, we're going to offer insurance guarantees. Look, let me tell you something. 01:37:04.820 --> 01:37:10.840 Do you think insurance is going to go and make a company try to sail a fucking 01:37:10.840 --> 01:37:14.300 boat that might get shot at? The crews won't want to do it. 01:37:14.540 --> 01:37:20.440 Who the fuck wants to go and sail a fucking oil tanker through a fucking war zone? 01:37:20.760 --> 01:37:23.980 Nobody's going to do that. This is idiotic. 01:37:24.660 --> 01:37:27.920 Vessel traffic from the Strait of Hormuz has dropped like 90%. 01:37:27.920 --> 01:37:33.520 And unless there is a ceasefire completely agreed upon, it's not going to resume. 01:37:34.020 --> 01:37:35.500 Another problem that we've got, 01:37:35.580 --> 01:37:40.480 by the way, is that these idiots had been depleting the SPR last year. 01:37:40.840 --> 01:37:43.160 Do you know why these idiots have been depleting the... 01:37:43.160 --> 01:37:43.640 The Strategic Petroleum Reserve. 01:37:43.720 --> 01:37:47.560 The Strategic Petroleum Reserve, yes. Do you know why these idiots were depleting the SPR? 01:37:47.860 --> 01:37:48.540 Why, Yvonne? 01:37:49.020 --> 01:37:52.820 Because they were trying to artificially push down oil prices, okay? 01:37:52.960 --> 01:37:57.160 Because they kept trying to fucking, like, lower inflation, okay? 01:37:57.340 --> 01:38:03.880 But using it just simply to lower the price of oil. Not because there was an urgency or whatever. 01:38:04.100 --> 01:38:10.020 Now the SPR has been depleted and now we've got a real shock that they created 01:38:10.020 --> 01:38:13.560 and the SPR has been significantly depleted. 01:38:13.800 --> 01:38:14.200 Right. 01:38:14.700 --> 01:38:16.440 So they can't use that. 01:38:17.670 --> 01:38:18.130 Awesome. 01:38:18.670 --> 01:38:26.010 This is the biggest bunch of fucking morons we have ever had in charge. 01:38:26.370 --> 01:38:33.730 Makes the George W. Bush administration look like an absolute cadre of geniuses. 01:38:34.150 --> 01:38:34.830 Indeed. 01:38:37.790 --> 01:38:45.150 It's, I mean, by the way, every fucking jobs report that's come out has, 01:38:45.390 --> 01:38:50.090 keeps being downward. And I said this recently, downwardly revised. OK. 01:38:50.990 --> 01:38:58.910 Over the last seven months, America has lost 76,000 jobs. That's the net result. 01:38:59.630 --> 01:39:04.730 In the last 15 years, there have been only nine months where America has lost jobs. 01:39:06.030 --> 01:39:10.390 All nine happened to be under Donald Trump. Now, I know it included COVID. 01:39:10.790 --> 01:39:11.170 Yep. 01:39:11.550 --> 01:39:18.710 But all these since 2025 are not COVID. We've had, think about nine, right? 01:39:19.150 --> 01:39:19.490 Mm-hmm. 01:39:19.990 --> 01:39:25.050 Since Trump is in office, we've had one, two, three, four, five. 01:39:25.570 --> 01:39:26.610 In his second term. 01:39:26.970 --> 01:39:33.550 In his second term. Yep. During COVID, we only had four. And now we've had five. 01:39:34.410 --> 01:39:37.930 You know... This is what folks voted for, right? 01:39:38.350 --> 01:39:42.170 Yes. And by the way, oh, here's another kicker. Check this out, 01:39:42.250 --> 01:39:45.690 how he wants to solve the price of oil problem, okay? 01:39:45.930 --> 01:39:49.810 You know, we talk about Ukraine and them helping with things and whatever, whatnot. 01:39:50.550 --> 01:39:54.550 Skazma sent one on TV with Larry Kudlow, another fucking psychopath. 01:39:55.550 --> 01:40:01.190 He says that Trump may now lift sanctions on Russian oil to try and reduce oil 01:40:01.190 --> 01:40:02.630 prices during Trump's war. 01:40:03.170 --> 01:40:10.230 Huh? How about that? Hey, now let's, hey, let's make the price of oil go up 01:40:10.230 --> 01:40:14.970 and let's let Russia sell the oil now at the higher price. 01:40:16.710 --> 01:40:17.610 How's that? 01:40:18.210 --> 01:40:27.590 Sounds good. You know, I'm sure like on his weekly one-on-one with Putin to 01:40:27.590 --> 01:40:30.270 report on his progress, he's able to say some good things. 01:40:30.390 --> 01:40:35.150 Oh, he's getting excellent marks. Yes, he's getting great grades, of course. 01:40:36.010 --> 01:40:39.830 You know, I'm sure that the Qataris are, at this point, are really disappointed 01:40:39.830 --> 01:40:41.430 in their investment, like right now. 01:40:41.530 --> 01:40:45.510 They give this guy a plane. They give a plane, I don't know, 01:40:45.610 --> 01:40:47.070 all of this shit, whatever. 01:40:47.410 --> 01:40:54.690 Somebody went through at one point, like, just listing countries and the bribes 01:40:54.690 --> 01:40:56.250 they'd given to Donald Trump, basically. 01:40:56.250 --> 01:41:01.750 either the plane, the investment in Kushner's stuff, buying, 01:41:01.950 --> 01:41:07.490 buying his stupid, like crypto company, like whatever, like, 01:41:07.610 --> 01:41:10.430 and they were just able to like, I, you know, 01:41:11.780 --> 01:41:17.360 tick through like five or six different countries and list the huge amounts 01:41:17.360 --> 01:41:19.900 of dollars that they're funneling towards the Trump family. 01:41:20.120 --> 01:41:25.300 And it's like, oh, well, we're not even usually talking about that because, 01:41:25.500 --> 01:41:29.500 you know, we've long ago determined, oh, well, that's just how it is now. 01:41:30.400 --> 01:41:35.160 But here's the thing that's worse for them. So you understand that the Qataris 01:41:35.160 --> 01:41:39.420 and the UAE, Dubai specifically, more than anything. 01:41:39.700 --> 01:41:39.800 Okay? 01:41:40.440 --> 01:41:48.440 One big economic engine that they've done is the super hubs that they have built for air travel, okay? 01:41:48.880 --> 01:41:53.900 You know, the Qataris with Qatar Airways and then Dubai with Emirates, okay? 01:41:54.280 --> 01:41:58.080 Well, what the hell do you think has happened in the last fucking week, like right now? 01:41:59.560 --> 01:42:07.000 So both hubs have had to completely shut down operations. It has stranded hundreds 01:42:07.000 --> 01:42:09.140 of thousands of people, okay? 01:42:09.160 --> 01:42:13.360 I have a friend who had people stranded recently because of this, okay? 01:42:14.100 --> 01:42:17.480 And many people were stranded there. They couldn't leave. 01:42:17.700 --> 01:42:20.540 So we're not talking—forget about America's not being able to get home. 01:42:20.760 --> 01:42:27.160 We're talking about the two of the largest—I mean, the Dubai hub is the largest 01:42:27.160 --> 01:42:29.400 hub right now in the world, okay? 01:42:29.680 --> 01:42:32.780 For global—for international air traffic, okay? 01:42:33.820 --> 01:42:39.080 and Doha is not far back. They've both been shut down. 01:42:39.400 --> 01:42:45.200 The negative economic impact of both Dubai and Qatar has been horrific right 01:42:45.200 --> 01:42:47.320 now at this point for this war. 01:42:47.500 --> 01:42:51.440 And they don't see how they can reopen right now. 01:42:53.160 --> 01:42:57.480 Now, I know that they said they tried to do this deal where they said, 01:42:57.540 --> 01:43:03.760 hey, if they don't use us to shoot at you, then you can't shoot at us deal. 01:43:03.920 --> 01:43:06.680 That was like this morning, which is part of it because they've been desperately 01:43:06.680 --> 01:43:08.440 trying to dial this thing down. 01:43:09.500 --> 01:43:12.820 But I don't know if that's really going to work. Well, like right now. 01:43:12.900 --> 01:43:16.700 I mean, frankly, like if all the Gulf states say you can't, you know, 01:43:17.100 --> 01:43:19.480 you can't do anything on your American basis. 01:43:20.040 --> 01:43:25.660 you know i i don't know that trump would listen he might do it anyway and that 01:43:25.660 --> 01:43:27.820 further deteriorates things right. 01:43:27.820 --> 01:43:29.480 Um yes you. 01:43:29.480 --> 01:43:33.720 Know like and so i'm not sure they would they're they're in. 01:43:33.720 --> 01:43:37.520 A hard place well they're yeah they're stuck between a rock and a hard place 01:43:37.520 --> 01:43:40.960 right now yeah so i suggest that the qataris and the dubai i don't know what 01:43:40.960 --> 01:43:42.100 the fuck they're gonna buy him now, 01:43:44.600 --> 01:43:50.080 well um yeah i don't know and it's the problem of trying to do business with 01:43:50.080 --> 01:43:56.080 trump okay because every deal you get fucked on and they're getting fucked they 01:43:56.080 --> 01:43:59.080 did these deals they thought yeah yeah yeah we got him we got him we got him 01:43:59.080 --> 01:44:02.700 our side or whatever and then he always turns around and fucks you anyway of. 01:44:02.700 --> 01:44:07.000 Course i i mean this is one of the things you know, 01:44:08.570 --> 01:44:13.590 The problem, well, there are many, many problems, but when you have Donald Trump 01:44:13.590 --> 01:44:17.850 specifically and the way that he deals with everything transactionally and the 01:44:17.850 --> 01:44:20.490 way where there is no history, 01:44:20.850 --> 01:44:26.270 like there is no, there is no concept of, I shouldn't go back on this deal because 01:44:26.270 --> 01:44:30.350 that will affect the next deal because the next deal doesn't matter right now. 01:44:30.490 --> 01:44:33.970 It's only the current one. And whenever it makes sense for me to go back on 01:44:33.970 --> 01:44:37.590 it, I'm going to go back on it because I'm never thinking. 01:44:38.570 --> 01:44:41.770 That far ahead. I'm only thinking right now. 01:44:41.970 --> 01:44:51.210 And so the whole basis of sort of American soft power over the last century 01:44:51.210 --> 01:44:55.170 was based on fundamentally, 01:44:55.530 --> 01:45:00.030 like, obviously there have been exceptions, but, you know, us keeping our word, 01:45:00.230 --> 01:45:03.330 you know, and across administrations, 01:45:03.770 --> 01:45:06.710 Republican, Democrat, President A, President B doesn't matter. 01:45:06.710 --> 01:45:15.490 Any diplomacy, any fucking diplomacy in the world ever only really works if 01:45:15.490 --> 01:45:17.710 people keep to their damn deals. 01:45:18.730 --> 01:45:24.550 Right. Because if you keep going back, I mean, the Iranians specifically, 01:45:25.110 --> 01:45:31.530 like this week, a couple days ago, were asked about whether or not they're ready 01:45:31.530 --> 01:45:34.550 to negotiate with the Trump administration on a ceasefire. 01:45:34.610 --> 01:45:37.490 No! Who the fuck would believe, you know? 01:45:38.010 --> 01:45:42.870 They're like, we have been negotiating for years. And every time we negotiate 01:45:42.870 --> 01:45:46.410 and we start to think we're getting close to a deal, they bomb us. 01:45:46.890 --> 01:45:48.410 So why would we do it again? 01:45:50.080 --> 01:45:50.660 Exactly. 01:45:51.160 --> 01:45:56.900 Yeah. I mean, if anything, the history of negotiations during the Trump administration 01:45:56.900 --> 01:46:02.380 has been like Iran's actually been engaging in the negotiations in good faith. 01:46:02.900 --> 01:46:07.100 The Trump administration is not. They've been using them as delaying tactics 01:46:07.100 --> 01:46:08.640 to get ready to do more bombing. 01:46:09.020 --> 01:46:09.740 That's right. 01:46:10.020 --> 01:46:14.360 So why the hell would you do that? Why would, why the hell? 01:46:14.540 --> 01:46:21.020 And frankly, it's the same dilemma Zelensky's in, you know, with negotiating with the Russians. 01:46:21.220 --> 01:46:23.880 Why would I negotiate with Russians? They broke the last deal. 01:46:24.240 --> 01:46:28.940 Well, let me tell you something. Even the Russians, I would believe them more 01:46:28.940 --> 01:46:32.620 keeping their word on a deal than fucking Donald Trump. Yeah. 01:46:34.260 --> 01:46:39.600 It is a sad state of affairs. Yeah. And, you know, and look, 01:46:40.120 --> 01:46:43.800 you know, last week I said, you know, this is probably going to be the kind 01:46:43.800 --> 01:46:47.400 of thing where something happens and then it dies out in two weeks and we're 01:46:47.400 --> 01:46:48.840 not even talking about it in a month. 01:46:49.580 --> 01:46:53.260 That may still happen, but it seems like the chances are reducing. 01:46:53.700 --> 01:46:58.520 You know, between Israel and Iran, they both want to expand this. 01:46:58.960 --> 01:47:02.160 You know, they both want to make it bigger, not smaller. 01:47:03.000 --> 01:47:08.720 And Donald Trump's not using— The Iranians gain nothing by making it smaller. 01:47:09.320 --> 01:47:12.540 It's totally to their advantage to expanding it, okay? 01:47:12.780 --> 01:47:17.280 Yeah. I mean, Bibi has been wanting to— They want the Gulf states to feel pain 01:47:17.280 --> 01:47:21.160 so that the Gulf states will push back against Donald Trump and Netanyahu. 01:47:21.160 --> 01:47:21.480 Correct. 01:47:21.860 --> 01:47:25.200 Correct. You know, and it makes perfect sense. 01:47:25.600 --> 01:47:30.160 And so, like, no, it does not make sense for Iran to back down or capitulate. 01:47:30.420 --> 01:47:34.940 And you get quotes from Hegseth and Trump basically being like, I don't understand. 01:47:35.260 --> 01:47:38.760 Complete capitulation. Unconditional surrender. 01:47:39.000 --> 01:47:42.620 By the way, can you explain to me what the fuck unconditional surrender means? 01:47:42.860 --> 01:47:44.320 Can you explain that to me? 01:47:44.360 --> 01:47:48.500 Yeah, but not only that, they're like, I don't understand why they haven't already surrendered. 01:47:49.540 --> 01:47:52.020 Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Right, right, right. They're like confused. 01:47:52.280 --> 01:47:56.560 Yeah. And again, it's that lack of the ability to put yourself in somebody else's shoes. 01:47:57.760 --> 01:48:04.240 But, no, to answer your question, they have almost explicitly said, 01:48:04.420 --> 01:48:07.940 what we want in Iran is what we did in Venezuela. 01:48:08.340 --> 01:48:13.680 We take out the top leader, whoever's second in charge, just decides to cooperate 01:48:13.680 --> 01:48:15.060 with us and do whatever we want. 01:48:15.300 --> 01:48:17.920 But they killed the second people at charge! 01:48:18.160 --> 01:48:20.020 And a third, and a fourth, and... 01:48:20.020 --> 01:48:21.300 A fourth, right! So... 01:48:23.820 --> 01:48:25.180 And we keep bombing them. 01:48:25.260 --> 01:48:25.680 And by the way... 01:48:25.680 --> 01:48:28.520 There's a difference in Venezuela. By the way, in Venezuela, 01:48:28.520 --> 01:48:30.960 we didn't go and bomb Venezuela like this. 01:48:31.100 --> 01:48:34.360 They went in and took Maduro. 01:48:34.720 --> 01:48:35.060 That's it. 01:48:35.800 --> 01:48:40.580 In this case, we have been bombing the shit out of the country for a week plus. 01:48:40.620 --> 01:48:43.660 We bombed a school full of elementary school girls. 01:48:43.800 --> 01:48:44.180 Yes! 01:48:44.360 --> 01:48:46.200 We killed like at least 150 of them. 01:48:46.280 --> 01:48:50.880 We fucking killed 200,000 children for God's sakes. Motherfuckers! Yeah. 01:48:52.030 --> 01:48:57.770 Look, and I'm sure that we have killed many other thousands more innocent people. 01:48:57.990 --> 01:49:03.530 OK, we are many more. We are not being I mean, obviously, we hit the leadership 01:49:03.530 --> 01:49:04.850 in a fairly targeted way. 01:49:04.990 --> 01:49:08.350 But more generally, we're not being very discriminant. 01:49:08.490 --> 01:49:13.430 And there are reports unconfirmed that we're using A.I. 01:49:13.710 --> 01:49:17.890 shit for targeting, that some of which had inaccurate old information. 01:49:17.890 --> 01:49:22.150 One of the things I heard is that even the targeting of the school may have 01:49:22.150 --> 01:49:25.710 simply been because we had inaccurate information about what was at that location. 01:49:26.650 --> 01:49:34.130 There have been reports where we were going back to like World War One level tactics. 01:49:34.770 --> 01:49:41.350 Iran had painted silhouettes of planes on runways and we bombed the silhouettes of planes. 01:49:42.170 --> 01:49:45.830 OK, where where we spent like here's another. 01:49:45.830 --> 01:49:52.430 Thing that we did. OK, we fucking said we used a torpedo to sink a fucking ship, 01:49:52.750 --> 01:49:55.270 OK, which we hadn't used since World War Two. 01:49:55.430 --> 01:50:00.050 And then we sent this other fucking Iranian warship that was thousands of miles 01:50:00.050 --> 01:50:04.890 away from the from the war zone and clear violation of international rules of 01:50:04.890 --> 01:50:06.390 engagement and such kind of things. 01:50:06.390 --> 01:50:11.090 Yeah, two things on that. One, it wasn't just the first sub it wasn't just us 01:50:11.090 --> 01:50:13.850 doing a submarine sinking a ship for the first time since World War Two. 01:50:13.850 --> 01:50:16.930 It's the first time anybody's done that since World War II. 01:50:17.690 --> 01:50:23.550 And then on the other one, it was an Iranian naval ship that had been in India 01:50:23.550 --> 01:50:29.570 for some sort of exercises, exhibition, training, that we also participated in, by the way. 01:50:29.670 --> 01:50:32.410 We were at the same event. Our Navy was. 01:50:32.750 --> 01:50:37.070 In order to participate in the event, the ship had to be completely unarmed. 01:50:37.490 --> 01:50:38.950 And it was just heading home. 01:50:39.610 --> 01:50:41.190 And not just that. 01:50:41.350 --> 01:50:46.330 I understood, I don't have a confirmed version of this, but apparently after 01:50:46.330 --> 01:50:54.570 we fucking sank the ship, we did not fucking off aid to the sailors. 01:50:55.010 --> 01:50:55.330 Right. 01:50:55.470 --> 01:50:56.610 We let them fucking drown. 01:50:57.670 --> 01:50:59.210 I believe that is correct. 01:50:59.330 --> 01:51:02.650 Yeah. These people are sick. 01:51:03.190 --> 01:51:07.350 This is one of those, are we the baddies moments. 01:51:07.690 --> 01:51:08.950 And yes, yes, we are. Oh, 100%. 01:51:09.610 --> 01:51:10.050 Yes. 01:51:10.330 --> 01:51:14.030 And I'm sorry, Hegseth and all the fucking people that authored that should 01:51:14.030 --> 01:51:16.030 be fucking tried for war crimes. 01:51:17.250 --> 01:51:17.670 Yeah. 01:51:18.270 --> 01:51:21.790 And they've already done a whole bunch of things to qualify for that shit. 01:51:22.070 --> 01:51:24.230 Yeah. Even before this. And now they're doubling down. 01:51:24.230 --> 01:51:24.510 Yes. 01:51:24.610 --> 01:51:29.650 Yes, absolutely. You know, and look, we at the same time, just like we had in 01:51:29.650 --> 01:51:35.130 Venezuela, you have like Iranian Americans and celebrating, you know, 01:51:35.210 --> 01:51:36.410 we've overthrown the Ayatollah. 01:51:36.590 --> 01:51:39.770 It was a horrible government. We have Iranians in Iran celebrating. 01:51:40.410 --> 01:51:40.850 Yes. 01:51:41.070 --> 01:51:44.490 To some degree. And so, you know, there's this argument that, 01:51:44.610 --> 01:51:46.050 well, we got rid of the bad guy. 01:51:46.270 --> 01:51:49.730 So no matter how we did it, it's okay. We got rid of the bad guy, 01:51:49.870 --> 01:51:51.130 both Venezuela and Iran. 01:51:51.630 --> 01:51:59.030 And I think you can't, that's once again, sort of first level thinking you have 01:51:59.030 --> 01:52:01.430 to go beyond that. Yes, you got rid of the bad guy. 01:52:01.970 --> 01:52:09.010 But if you do it in such a way that violates all the norms of how things are 01:52:09.010 --> 01:52:12.770 supposed to be done, and you don't have a plan for what's next. 01:52:12.770 --> 01:52:15.970 Not just norms not just norms 01:52:15.970 --> 01:52:22.790 sam laws doing it in a way it not just laws doing it in a way that we are just 01:52:22.790 --> 01:52:29.130 fucking not giving a shit about innocent people yes we're just going out there 01:52:29.130 --> 01:52:34.730 in a like in some kind of fucking murderous rage where they think this is fun, Sam. 01:52:35.090 --> 01:52:41.490 This asshole headset this week shared a fucking video combining footage of the 01:52:41.490 --> 01:52:45.550 attacks with a fucking goddamn video game, okay? 01:52:46.090 --> 01:52:49.310 Like, we're playing a goddamn video game over there. 01:52:50.690 --> 01:52:55.210 And, you know, people think like precedents don't matter, but precedents matter. 01:52:55.450 --> 01:53:00.010 We are doing things that we should fully expect at some point. 01:53:00.010 --> 01:53:02.830 We'll come back to bite us in the fucking ass heart. 01:53:02.830 --> 01:53:06.010 Somebody will do the same thing to us that we just did to them. 01:53:07.610 --> 01:53:12.990 And when we say, oh, it's a terrorist act, they'll be like, it's exactly what you did in our room. 01:53:12.990 --> 01:53:16.370 Exactly what the fuck we did. Exactly what the fuck we did. 01:53:16.890 --> 01:53:17.330 Yes. 01:53:17.330 --> 01:53:25.710 We have no, no, no defense whatsoever against, you know, morally, 01:53:26.050 --> 01:53:30.130 to stand on any moral high ground at all. 01:53:30.430 --> 01:53:34.470 And if you listen to the people in the Trump administration, 01:53:34.470 --> 01:53:37.990 they'd laugh at the mere idea of moral high ground anyway. 01:53:38.250 --> 01:53:44.110 Their whole view of the world is all just about power. And it's what you can 01:53:44.110 --> 01:53:47.630 do and who's stronger. And that's all that matters. I know, I know. 01:53:47.730 --> 01:53:49.290 That's their, that's their, that's their thought. 01:53:50.450 --> 01:53:50.890 Okay. 01:53:50.970 --> 01:53:53.230 They're a bunch of disgusting, evil people. 01:53:53.910 --> 01:53:55.490 Shall we close up then? 01:53:55.990 --> 01:53:57.510 Oh, on that happy note. 01:53:58.110 --> 01:53:59.730 We always end on a happy note. 01:54:00.250 --> 01:54:02.410 On such a joyous note. 01:54:02.610 --> 01:54:07.550 You know, we, we should put the movies at the end so that we could end it with like. 01:54:07.750 --> 01:54:10.630 We can, we can sign off on some kind of happy note. Yes. 01:54:10.790 --> 01:54:13.490 It's like, oh, that was an awesome movie. It was fun. 01:54:13.610 --> 01:54:14.290 It was enjoyable. 01:54:14.630 --> 01:54:16.350 Well, of course, you didn't talk about Batman. 01:54:16.550 --> 01:54:18.150 And I'm like, fuck, fuck Batman. 01:54:18.730 --> 01:54:21.110 But Hoppers was great, right? It was fun. 01:54:21.330 --> 01:54:22.010 It was inspiring. 01:54:22.670 --> 01:54:23.170 It was whatever. 01:54:23.370 --> 01:54:25.830 I tell you all to go watch Hoppers. 01:54:26.110 --> 01:54:27.110 There you go. Great movie. 01:54:27.470 --> 01:54:27.950 Great movie. 01:54:29.050 --> 01:54:35.490 Okay. So let's wrap this up. Curmudgeons-corner.com. Go there. 01:54:35.790 --> 01:54:37.910 Archives. All the ways to contact us. 01:54:38.250 --> 01:54:43.550 All the fun stuff, including our Patreon, where you can go and give us money 01:54:43.550 --> 01:54:45.270 at various levels. We will mention you on the show. 01:54:45.370 --> 01:54:49.730 We will ring a bell. We will send you a postcard. We will send you a mug, all that kind of stuff. 01:54:49.910 --> 01:54:53.510 And at $2 a month or more, or if you ask us nicely, 01:54:54.550 --> 01:54:59.010 You will, uh, we will invite you to the convention square slack where Yvonne 01:54:59.010 --> 01:55:02.310 and I, and a bunch of our listeners are sharing things throughout the week, 01:55:02.450 --> 01:55:03.750 chatting, all this kind of stuff. 01:55:04.170 --> 01:55:07.650 Yvonne, do you have a highlight from the slack before we close things up? 01:55:08.290 --> 01:55:13.830 Uh, a highlight from the slack, a highlight from the slack, right from the slack. 01:55:15.590 --> 01:55:21.370 Um, uh, let me see. Uh, let's see. Something funny. 01:55:21.970 --> 01:55:27.210 Something funny. I don't want to, like, uh, I should have been ready. 01:55:28.190 --> 01:55:30.490 Well, we're going to have to dock your pay. 01:55:31.390 --> 01:55:37.730 Yeah, I know. Well, I guess the only thing that I mentioned here that we did 01:55:37.730 --> 01:55:39.530 that I didn't mention, like, here. 01:55:40.230 --> 01:55:47.590 Far-right influencer urges followers to vote Democrat and abandon GOP over Iran war. 01:55:48.650 --> 01:55:51.530 Now, Nick Fuentes, of all fucking people. 01:55:52.600 --> 01:55:58.400 A right-wing neo-Nazi went on his stream and urged people to vote Democrat. 01:55:58.700 --> 01:56:00.760 What the fuck world are we in, Sam? 01:56:02.260 --> 01:56:07.060 Yeah. Well, we didn't talk about this aspect of it, and I'm not going to go 01:56:07.060 --> 01:56:10.940 into it long this time, but there are a lot of MAGA folks. 01:56:11.640 --> 01:56:16.120 Tucker Carlson was also apparently desperately on the phone with Trump over 01:56:16.120 --> 01:56:19.600 and over and made several personal visits to try to talk him out of doing this 01:56:19.600 --> 01:56:25.420 in Iran. and has even called him afterwards to say, please, declare victory and go home. 01:56:25.860 --> 01:56:29.240 Stop. Declare victory and go home. And Trump is like, no. 01:56:30.240 --> 01:56:36.820 And all of these other MAGA folks are very... Look, there are a lot of MAGA 01:56:36.820 --> 01:56:39.560 folks very upset that we're going to war in Iran. 01:56:39.660 --> 01:56:43.760 There are a lot of MAGA folks very upset about the Epstein files. 01:56:44.280 --> 01:56:47.760 And this is causing rifts. like 01:56:47.760 --> 01:56:51.240 the biggest rifts we've seen so far now 01:56:51.240 --> 01:56:54.460 you never want to say forever because we 01:56:54.460 --> 01:56:58.840 had so many examples over the years of something that looked like it damaged 01:56:58.840 --> 01:57:03.980 trump and then like a few weeks later they're all back in the fold but these 01:57:03.980 --> 01:57:09.900 are more significant than the other than any we've seen since the access hollywood 01:57:09.900 --> 01:57:13.880 tape i'd say you know in terms of people sort of you know. 01:57:15.700 --> 01:57:21.280 People on his own side chastising trump for what's going on so i don't know 01:57:21.280 --> 01:57:26.920 we'll see and also he's a lame duck so of course they're going to be like splintering off okay yes, 01:57:27.800 --> 01:57:33.040 anything more on that one hey that one wasn't particularly super funny but you know whatever. 01:57:34.380 --> 01:57:38.420 Well okay the one the one that i'm going to say is a completely oddball one 01:57:38.420 --> 01:57:43.140 is that i shared that Lexus actually launched an electric Lexus ES. 01:57:43.400 --> 01:57:48.520 And I don't know if any of you realize, but Lexus has taken the place that Cadillac 01:57:48.520 --> 01:57:53.980 used to have in American car buyers, the older buyers. 01:57:54.040 --> 01:57:58.740 We always thought of this old guy driving around in a soft and cushy Cadillac. 01:57:58.880 --> 01:58:00.940 Well, that's been replaced by the Lexus. Okay. 01:58:01.140 --> 01:58:08.420 And the ES is the epitome of the old, old Cadillac driver. My father actually 01:58:08.420 --> 01:58:12.020 drives one now, which is the reason why I know that this is exactly because 01:58:12.020 --> 01:58:15.900 that was my father used to drive a Cadillac and now he drives a Lexus. 01:58:16.060 --> 01:58:19.240 So Lexus launched an electric Lexus. 01:58:19.860 --> 01:58:23.640 But here's the kicker about this. They launched electric, hybrid, 01:58:23.820 --> 01:58:25.760 plug-in hybrid and gas versions. 01:58:25.960 --> 01:58:29.060 OK, they launched they're going to strategy that, by the way, 01:58:29.080 --> 01:58:31.460 the Chinese are doing for cars because that's what they're doing. 01:58:31.460 --> 01:58:34.800 It's one of the reasons they've been really successful by launching a car, 01:58:34.880 --> 01:58:37.260 but launching, you know, versions of all different types of fuel. 01:58:37.540 --> 01:58:41.680 The thing is that the electric car is the cheapest one in their case, 01:58:41.940 --> 01:58:43.540 instead of the more expensive premium one. 01:58:43.700 --> 01:58:47.940 They actually made it the cheapest car in the lineup, but not just they made 01:58:47.940 --> 01:58:49.040 it the cheapest car in the lineup. 01:58:49.320 --> 01:58:54.920 Unlike Tesla and others, hey, let's make the electric car the super high-performance car. 01:58:55.580 --> 01:59:01.660 The cheap version of the electric car is, well, by historical standards, it's. 01:59:02.400 --> 01:59:05.740 Fast enough but it's not it won't 01:59:05.740 --> 01:59:08.660 it's not it doesn't have the the neck breaking 01:59:08.660 --> 01:59:11.700 speed that a lot of electrics have but it's fast enough 01:59:11.700 --> 01:59:15.480 if you get into any regular car right now it's like you know hey it goes through 01:59:15.480 --> 01:59:20.920 60 in the seven second range which 20 years ago was considered plenty fast it's 01:59:20.920 --> 01:59:24.440 still plenty fast for most people but it's it's not going to break your neck 01:59:24.440 --> 01:59:28.800 or whatever but it's relatively cheap that's not something you want. 01:59:28.800 --> 01:59:30.860 In a car you don't want your car to break your. 01:59:30.860 --> 01:59:34.100 Neck well but sam a lot of electric ev 01:59:34.100 --> 01:59:37.060 manufacturers seem to help bent on this okay you 01:59:37.060 --> 01:59:41.920 know i know it's like i mean literally i mean you built these cars zero to 60 01:59:41.920 --> 01:59:45.240 just a standard car that some mom is going to drive the soccer that can get 01:59:45.240 --> 01:59:49.920 to 60 miles an hour in under four seconds and i mean literally that will snap 01:59:49.920 --> 01:59:55.260 your neck back literally and you're like why they don't need this. 01:59:56.020 --> 02:00:00.180 And by the way, it's a reason why I insist why Tesla has some of the highest 02:00:00.180 --> 02:00:03.000 death rates of vehicles out there. 02:00:03.180 --> 02:00:06.360 OK, if you look at Tesla, oh, no, our cars are safest. 02:00:06.540 --> 02:00:10.680 Listen, accident data bear out and more people get killed in Tesla's and in 02:00:10.680 --> 02:00:15.320 crashes than almost any cars right now, even though the cars and crash tests do very well. 02:00:15.320 --> 02:00:21.180 The problem is that because the cars are so fast, they really incentivize people 02:00:21.180 --> 02:00:25.160 to do shit that they shouldn't be doing with a car and wind up getting into 02:00:25.160 --> 02:00:27.860 more crashes. It's not that the car is inherently unsafe. 02:00:27.980 --> 02:00:33.720 If you drove it like driving Miss Daisy very slowly, you probably would be safer than average. 02:00:34.080 --> 02:00:38.500 But it's just it's just there are certain cars out there like Mustangs, 02:00:38.740 --> 02:00:42.960 Dodge Chargers or whatever that people get killed at crazy rates. Why? 02:00:43.180 --> 02:00:46.340 Because they're so fast, they incentivize people to do stupid shit behind a 02:00:46.340 --> 02:00:47.480 wheel and get themselves killed. 02:00:47.820 --> 02:00:55.620 And this car is the opposite. Nope. We want luxurious, dull, boring cars. 02:00:56.160 --> 02:01:00.540 Not slow, but not fast and cheap. 02:01:00.960 --> 02:01:06.980 And I think, you know, selling this car, when we're talking about that the average car in the U.S. 02:01:07.040 --> 02:01:09.420 right now is over $50,000. 02:01:10.440 --> 02:01:14.840 This Lexus electric car starts actually under $50,000. Okay? 02:01:15.060 --> 02:01:18.380 It's cheaper than a lot of cars. It's far more luxurious than other cars on 02:01:18.380 --> 02:01:23.660 the street. I think that they probably will sell quite well because they're nice and cheap. 02:01:23.920 --> 02:01:24.940 Right? Okay. 02:01:25.660 --> 02:01:26.560 So there you go. 02:01:26.780 --> 02:01:30.400 Okay. With that, one last thing for me. I'm going to do my Robin Letter plug. 02:01:31.100 --> 02:01:37.760 Robin Letter on Friday, March 6th, hit 50 users. 02:01:38.060 --> 02:01:39.680 Yay. I'm up to 50. 02:01:40.180 --> 02:01:43.680 43 of which were actually active in the previous seven days. 02:01:44.440 --> 02:01:47.460 And so I want to get that to 100 and then beyond. 02:01:47.640 --> 02:01:54.140 But so if you are listening to this and have not yet gotten a Robin Letter invite, 02:01:54.140 --> 02:01:59.280 email me feedback at robinletter.com I will get you an invite either to one 02:01:59.280 --> 02:02:05.300 of my existing Robins or to a brand new one or to you can make your own whatever 02:02:05.300 --> 02:02:08.200 but you know ping me ping me. 02:02:08.820 --> 02:02:14.940 You want, it's a lot of fun. And I've now, all of the Robins that were created 02:02:14.940 --> 02:02:18.940 either by me or by Yvonne are now getting real updates. 02:02:19.100 --> 02:02:22.620 One of them was having, was a little slow getting started, but they've now all 02:02:22.620 --> 02:02:27.540 got real updates from real people talking about stuff. People are sharing things. 02:02:27.860 --> 02:02:31.300 I've gotten a lot of feedback from people saying that they're enjoying it and 02:02:31.300 --> 02:02:33.920 And it's an interesting new way of doing things. 02:02:34.140 --> 02:02:36.080 So we shall see. 02:02:36.460 --> 02:02:40.800 But definitely, if you haven't gotten on board yet, get on board. 02:02:40.960 --> 02:02:46.560 And I'm especially interested, by the way, in people who are interested in creating 02:02:46.560 --> 02:02:52.320 their own Robins that do not involve me with their own other groups of people. 02:02:52.640 --> 02:02:57.840 Just a reminder, this is slower, sort of an anti-social media thing. 02:02:57.980 --> 02:03:01.760 Keep in touch with your friends. but just these tight groups of people where 02:03:01.760 --> 02:03:06.420 you take turns so that everybody sort of contributes equally and you talk about 02:03:06.420 --> 02:03:08.900 things and you keep in touch with people slowly, 02:03:08.900 --> 02:03:13.880 not with pressure to do it like every day and to capture your attention and 02:03:13.880 --> 02:03:16.360 algorithmically trying to manipulate you. None of that stuff. 02:03:16.820 --> 02:03:21.000 Anyway, up to 50 users. That's pretty good for like, what's it been? 02:03:21.940 --> 02:03:26.080 One, two, three, four, five. I launched on February 15th. 02:03:26.580 --> 02:03:28.940 Yeah, it's not even. We're not even in a month, three weeks. 02:03:29.360 --> 02:03:36.440 Yeah. So anyway, 50 users. Congratulations, me. I added comments yesterday. 02:03:37.340 --> 02:03:41.860 No, Thursday. Thursday, I added comments. I did some refinements to it based 02:03:41.860 --> 02:03:45.900 on feedback yesterday or last night as I'm recording this. 02:03:46.300 --> 02:03:50.720 And I have a list of little tweaks and bug things. And I always have those and 02:03:50.720 --> 02:03:51.960 I'm working through those as well. 02:03:51.960 --> 02:03:56.900 but those were the my big batch of new features was being able to edit your 02:03:56.900 --> 02:04:01.740 posts adding comments that you can edit to the next things i'm going to work 02:04:01.740 --> 02:04:05.500 on next big things i'm going to work on are going to be monetization crap so 02:04:05.500 --> 02:04:09.740 we'll see anyway that's it for the show thank you all the. 02:04:09.740 --> 02:04:15.720 Crap that i the crap that i i tell that i started arguing with sam already sam 02:04:15.720 --> 02:04:17.960 who needs to make money sam's like. 02:04:19.800 --> 02:04:22.100 The purity of the concept, Yvonne. 02:04:22.360 --> 02:04:23.000 Right, right. 02:04:23.120 --> 02:04:26.340 No, no, I want it to make money, too. I'm just, like, thinking, 02:04:26.340 --> 02:04:31.480 like, slow, gradual growth and, you know, like, but, yes. 02:04:31.820 --> 02:04:36.140 I'm like, Sam is, well, maybe we could make a buck here, a buck there. 02:04:36.140 --> 02:04:37.820 And I'm like, no, millions. 02:04:38.800 --> 02:04:42.300 What are you talking about? A buck here, there. What the fuck? 02:04:44.520 --> 02:04:52.560 I i hope uh i will be very gratified if yvonne's optimism is correct but uh we shall see optimism. 02:04:52.560 --> 02:04:57.020 I'm just look you can't turn you know if you target that you're gonna make a 02:04:57.020 --> 02:04:58.880 buck or two you're only gonna make a buck or two. 02:04:58.880 --> 02:05:06.180 Yeah okay i i owe yvonne some annotations of the deck he put together to pitch 02:05:06.180 --> 02:05:11.480 this to investors so i i will get that done this weekend before i go into surgery 02:05:11.480 --> 02:05:13.620 on Monday. Yeah, I have my final surgery on Monday. 02:05:13.700 --> 02:05:18.820 Yay! Woo! Surgery! Surgery! 02:05:19.620 --> 02:05:23.960 Yeah, and I'm presuming recovery will be fast and, you know, 02:05:24.080 --> 02:05:26.080 blah, blah, blah. I'll be back to myself in a couple days. 02:05:26.080 --> 02:05:26.860 Fast and furious! Yeah. 02:05:28.340 --> 02:05:31.560 We don't need to talk about those movies again. Okay, we are out of here. 02:05:32.120 --> 02:05:35.300 Thank you, everybody, for joining us. Stay safe. Have fun. Blah, 02:05:35.400 --> 02:05:38.820 blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. We'll talk to you next time. 02:05:39.980 --> 02:05:43.080 We'll talk to you next week. Goodbye! 02:05:43.640 --> 02:05:44.140 Bye! 02:06:15.360 --> 02:06:19.440 Okay, that's it. I'm going to hit stop, and then I'm going to go get some food. 02:06:20.280 --> 02:06:20.720 Food! 02:06:21.260 --> 02:06:23.780 Yes, food. Food is important. Later. 02:06:24.180 --> 02:06:24.540 Yes.