WEBVTT 00:00:01.050 --> 00:00:01.650 Hello? 00:00:03.970 --> 00:00:04.570 Hey. 00:00:06.470 --> 00:00:07.830 Rise and shine! 00:00:10.890 --> 00:00:12.090 Shining, rising... 00:00:15.270 --> 00:00:22.350 There we go. Beep. Yes, it has not risen to the level of attention yet. 00:00:23.290 --> 00:00:26.730 You know, you notice because it's the closest one to here. Like, 00:00:26.790 --> 00:00:28.510 when it's the ones downstairs, you don't notice. 00:00:28.510 --> 00:00:32.630 Well, yeah, well, the other night, 00:00:32.910 --> 00:00:40.010 a couple of weeks ago, in the middle of the night, the one in our master bedroom 00:00:40.010 --> 00:00:44.130 at five something in the morning beeped a couple of times. 00:00:44.270 --> 00:00:48.810 I think you mentioned this and Juana made you get up and fix it right then at that second. 00:00:48.890 --> 00:00:50.910 No, no, no, no. I mentioned in the past. 00:00:51.050 --> 00:00:51.850 If it had happened. 00:00:52.010 --> 00:00:57.930 She would get to it. But then after we had that conversation, it happened. 00:00:57.930 --> 00:00:58.530 Okay. 00:00:59.050 --> 00:01:03.630 But here's the thing. It didn't beep again. And I'm really confused with what 00:01:03.630 --> 00:01:05.090 the fuck happened with it. 00:01:05.630 --> 00:01:06.190 Okay. 00:01:07.190 --> 00:01:09.230 I mean, it just... Did it... 00:01:12.180 --> 00:01:14.160 And then didn't do it again. 00:01:14.700 --> 00:01:15.260 Okay. 00:01:15.400 --> 00:01:16.140 It's been weeks. 00:01:17.300 --> 00:01:21.640 It decided it was okay after all. Or maybe it just died completely. 00:01:22.060 --> 00:01:24.080 No longer enough energy even to beep. 00:01:25.320 --> 00:01:30.840 Well, these have like an electrical connection. 00:01:30.840 --> 00:01:31.480 Yeah, yeah. 00:01:31.600 --> 00:01:34.460 As well as the battery. 00:01:34.820 --> 00:01:35.200 Right. 00:01:35.560 --> 00:01:40.400 I'm wondering if there was a power flicker or something and it's just... 00:01:40.400 --> 00:01:40.940 Flicker. 00:01:41.320 --> 00:01:44.920 Yeah. Anyway, but I thought that was curious. 00:01:45.760 --> 00:01:47.120 Ah, yes. 00:01:47.340 --> 00:01:51.660 I noticed that you had not put any topics. I have put some topics. 00:01:52.400 --> 00:01:58.660 I, yeah, I, yeah, it was, I was distracted this week, I guess. I don't know. 00:01:58.940 --> 00:02:02.240 But, yeah. Okay. 00:02:03.760 --> 00:02:08.000 Shall we go? Beep. Is that a yes? 00:02:08.300 --> 00:02:11.460 Yes. I think it was answering for me. 00:02:12.180 --> 00:02:14.220 Oh, okay, okay, here we go. 00:02:38.150 --> 00:02:45.590 Welcome to Curmudgeon's Corner for Saturday, March 14th, 2026. 00:02:45.830 --> 00:02:51.610 It's just after 17 UTC as we're starting to record. And I have two things to say about that. 00:02:51.910 --> 00:02:58.550 One, it's 17 instead of 18 because of clock changes and savings time and all that kind of stuff. 00:02:58.690 --> 00:03:03.190 So we're actually doing this earlier than we normally do it when we do it on a Saturday. 00:03:03.790 --> 00:03:09.410 And so let me just, that is our abbreviated version of the daylight savings time rant. 00:03:10.170 --> 00:03:15.870 We don't have to like get deeper. And second is, of course, it is March 14th, which means it is Pi Day. 00:03:16.700 --> 00:03:18.600 Oh, it's Pi Day. Yay. 00:03:19.700 --> 00:03:20.880 Pi Day. Yes, indeed. 00:03:21.420 --> 00:03:24.720 I mean, pretty soon it will be 15 hours. 00:03:25.420 --> 00:03:25.860 Yes. 00:03:26.180 --> 00:03:29.780 So it'd be, you know, 3.14. 00:03:30.240 --> 00:03:34.740 Oh, well, on Eastern time, I guess. Yeah, true. 17. Yeah, we missed that. 00:03:35.360 --> 00:03:39.460 Oh, well. Anyway, Pi Day. Go get yourself some pie. 00:03:40.300 --> 00:03:43.880 You know, I'm not a big actual fan of pie. Like, cake is fine, 00:03:43.940 --> 00:03:47.260 but I'm not a big fan of pie. They're very, you know, I'll occasionally have 00:03:47.260 --> 00:03:50.120 some pie, but it's not my favorite thing. 00:03:51.140 --> 00:03:57.560 Well, there is one pie that is one of my favorites. The pecan pie. 00:03:58.040 --> 00:04:01.960 I will say that the pecan pie. I can't say I have a mental, like, 00:04:02.100 --> 00:04:06.320 you say pecan pie, and I'm sure I've had it at least once in my past, 00:04:06.360 --> 00:04:10.840 but I cannot bring to mind what that tastes or even looks like. 00:04:10.840 --> 00:04:17.920 Like Publix, the supermarket chain here in Florida, makes a fantastic pecan pie. 00:04:18.380 --> 00:04:21.980 And so the thing is that Publix has these desserts that they have pre-made. 00:04:22.200 --> 00:04:25.340 They have like, if you go and say you're going to have a little party or something 00:04:25.340 --> 00:04:27.000 or whatever, you want to pick up a dessert. 00:04:27.360 --> 00:04:34.240 They'll have like a shelf with like freshly baked pecan pies or apple pies. Okay. 00:04:34.920 --> 00:04:41.520 And a few other assorted things. But I have heard other people comment, 00:04:41.940 --> 00:04:49.080 just like I have, that the pecan pie is superb. I have had it many times. 00:04:49.360 --> 00:04:56.780 It is absolutely delicious. I am not one that usually will have a pecan pie from other places. 00:04:56.780 --> 00:05:06.260 But that Publix pecan pie here is quite, quite spectacularly good. 00:05:07.780 --> 00:05:08.500 Very well. 00:05:08.840 --> 00:05:17.220 My other favorite dessert is probably, I don't know, not so easy to get in Washington State. 00:05:17.480 --> 00:05:22.200 But, I mean, usually the ones that I eat it either because I'm in Puerto Rico 00:05:22.200 --> 00:05:28.060 and it's available at the restaurants or like my family makes it. A cheese flan. 00:05:28.960 --> 00:05:29.640 Okay. 00:05:29.860 --> 00:05:32.900 Not the regular flan, but the cheese flan. 00:05:33.280 --> 00:05:34.020 Cheese flan. 00:05:34.020 --> 00:05:43.740 Yeah, and a cheese flan is, oh my God, that is just, that is, mmm, delicious. 00:05:43.960 --> 00:05:46.240 And I don't know, a flan is not a pie. 00:05:46.760 --> 00:05:48.780 I don't think it's considered a pie. 00:05:48.940 --> 00:05:49.700 Is it more like a pudding? 00:05:49.700 --> 00:05:50.460 It's more like a custard. 00:05:50.960 --> 00:05:51.340 Yeah. 00:05:51.880 --> 00:05:53.320 It's more like a custard. 00:05:53.580 --> 00:05:55.080 Yeah. Right. No crust. 00:05:55.140 --> 00:05:57.560 Yeah, so, no, no crust. Yeah. 00:05:58.460 --> 00:06:03.400 Like that, the crust is what makes it a pie, right? You have a crust and then you put stuff inside it. 00:06:03.400 --> 00:06:07.780 Right, exactly. Right. But no, it's not a pie. It's a custard. It's not a pie. 00:06:08.720 --> 00:06:11.620 But you get the opportunity to try a cheese flan. 00:06:12.060 --> 00:06:12.500 Okay. 00:06:12.700 --> 00:06:13.760 I highly recommend it. 00:06:13.940 --> 00:06:18.980 I will keep this in mind next time someone is offering cheese flan. 00:06:19.440 --> 00:06:22.920 Or you're in a place that maybe, you know, all of a sudden could be, 00:06:23.040 --> 00:06:28.600 you went to, you know, many, even though I think it's more, I'm not sure if 00:06:28.600 --> 00:06:31.560 it's completely Puerto Rican, but it's very typical in Puerto. 00:06:31.560 --> 00:06:37.080 Well, I don't know if there's a lot of shared foods that Cubans and Puerto Ricans have. Okay. 00:06:37.540 --> 00:06:37.800 Okay. 00:06:38.120 --> 00:06:42.660 I'm not sure if it's ours or theirs. I can't claim that. 00:06:44.110 --> 00:06:48.010 Ownership for it. I'm not sure, but it's very typical in Puerto Rico. 00:06:48.170 --> 00:06:51.510 But I'm not sure if we also share that with the Cubans. 00:06:52.710 --> 00:06:59.650 That's exciting. Anyway, our usual agenda, we'll talk about lighter stuff like 00:06:59.650 --> 00:07:06.370 cheese flan and pie at this beginning part of the show. I'll do a couple movies. 00:07:07.050 --> 00:07:10.790 Yvonne may bring up something else. And then after our first break, 00:07:10.990 --> 00:07:15.430 we'll talk about more strictly newsy stuff, newsy stuff. 00:07:15.770 --> 00:07:22.970 Sam, so last week I got a call from someone that we both know in a panic. 00:07:23.190 --> 00:07:25.470 Oh, no, I know what this is going to be about. 00:07:25.810 --> 00:07:31.170 Oh, I want it because all of a sudden they decided. 00:07:32.770 --> 00:07:38.670 And I, you know, I had I had heard people having horror stories and, 00:07:39.930 --> 00:07:49.270 trying to synchronize their files with Google Drive and losing data and it not being recoverable. 00:07:49.610 --> 00:07:53.350 I can't remember from where I read it, but I know I read about this, 00:07:53.550 --> 00:07:56.250 people online complaining about this. 00:07:56.950 --> 00:08:06.650 And our non-tech savvy, very risk-averse mutual friend for some reason decided. 00:08:08.350 --> 00:08:12.810 To try to synchronize all their files, 00:08:13.730 --> 00:08:16.990 using Google Drive now just to be, 00:08:17.750 --> 00:08:24.550 wait wait wait you can go into this later and then let me explain how this happened 00:08:24.550 --> 00:08:29.890 you can talk about this later all of a sudden she calls me that there are all 00:08:29.890 --> 00:08:36.170 these messages that all these files that she was freaking out about preserving, 00:08:36.810 --> 00:08:38.790 were tossed in the trash. 00:08:39.490 --> 00:08:42.330 The message said they were tossed in the trash. 00:08:43.250 --> 00:08:47.610 Problem is that when you clicked on the message that said that they're in the 00:08:47.610 --> 00:08:51.930 trash, and they weren't in the trash, okay? 00:08:52.510 --> 00:08:56.550 The fucking message kept saying, oh, all the photos are in the trash. 00:08:56.750 --> 00:08:59.930 You go in the trash. Nothing in the fucking trash. I mean, nothing, nothing. 00:09:00.350 --> 00:09:01.010 Mm-hmm. 00:09:01.010 --> 00:09:08.070 I was driving. She is screaming. I just, I. 00:09:09.930 --> 00:09:10.850 So you sent her. 00:09:11.090 --> 00:09:16.930 And then I go, no, no, no, I did not. Okay. I did not. 00:09:17.150 --> 00:09:17.450 Okay. 00:09:17.610 --> 00:09:21.790 What happened is, look, I was on the phone with her an hour and a half. 00:09:22.670 --> 00:09:26.390 And on the screen, the thing is that the first thing I think is, 00:09:26.690 --> 00:09:29.670 well, you're Mrs. Backup. Where's your backups? 00:09:30.610 --> 00:09:35.550 Oh, yeah, I got the drive. It's sitting right beside the computer. It's not plugged in. 00:09:36.030 --> 00:09:38.610 I'm like, fuck. Fuck. Fuck. 00:09:44.980 --> 00:09:52.800 Lesson number one a time machine backup drive doesn't do backups unless you 00:09:52.800 --> 00:09:58.260 connect it and set it up to do the backups it can't it doesn't just it can't just sit to. 00:09:58.260 --> 00:10:03.240 Be clear it wasn't it wasn't just sitting there it was still in the box unopened if i. 00:10:03.240 --> 00:10:08.900 Understand the box unopened yes in the box unopened doesn't do anything. Okay. 00:10:09.580 --> 00:10:15.080 So she has an old computer and I'm like, that was connected and synchronized. 00:10:15.260 --> 00:10:21.220 I thought, Hey, let's pull the time machine backup from that computer. 00:10:21.720 --> 00:10:24.840 Well, the backup was from October. 00:10:25.840 --> 00:10:31.900 I, I was actually, look, I spent a lot of time looking at it, 00:10:32.280 --> 00:10:36.840 I knew the files had, some had to be hidden somewhere. 00:10:37.580 --> 00:10:44.160 Because I went into the recents, and many of the files appeared in the recents listed. 00:10:44.380 --> 00:10:47.980 And I went and I'm like, show me the folder where they are. 00:10:48.120 --> 00:10:54.660 And it would open the folder and show the file, but only that one file that 00:10:54.660 --> 00:10:57.100 recents had, not the rest of them. 00:10:57.220 --> 00:11:02.740 It was really weird. So I'm realizing, look, there's something here where these 00:11:02.740 --> 00:11:09.280 files have been made invisible somewhere for some reason, at least a good number of them. 00:11:10.560 --> 00:11:15.800 But I did not send her to her. It said to her, what happened is that I did. 00:11:16.220 --> 00:11:21.960 I was like, you are in an earlier time zone than I am. 00:11:22.970 --> 00:11:27.230 I was, it was getting very late. I was at my parents' house. 00:11:27.550 --> 00:11:32.570 I, I, I'm like, I was with Manu the day that I took, that we took his cast off. 00:11:32.930 --> 00:11:36.330 Okay. Just last week, Manu got his cast off from surgery. Okay. 00:11:36.650 --> 00:11:38.490 So he's recovering very well. 00:11:38.970 --> 00:11:45.030 And I, I'm like, look, my last, my last thing was, you know what? 00:11:45.170 --> 00:11:46.970 Let me tell you something. I think you're fucked. 00:11:47.710 --> 00:11:52.550 And the easiest thing to do is just to restore what you have from October. 00:11:52.970 --> 00:11:58.070 And then try to figure out what you're missing. Okay? And I've had to do this before with a backup. 00:11:58.310 --> 00:12:03.470 I once, like, lost stuff. And the backup was a week or two old. 00:12:04.270 --> 00:12:09.390 And I just had, you know what? Look, I lost some stuff from recently. 00:12:09.890 --> 00:12:15.410 But I have to go back to that backup. And do the best with the rest that disappeared. 00:12:15.930 --> 00:12:17.790 You know? It is what it is. 00:12:18.450 --> 00:12:21.350 That's where I left it. I did not. 00:12:22.070 --> 00:12:26.690 Direct you to. But she did say, at some point she was going to talk to you, 00:12:26.770 --> 00:12:29.370 and I was like, well, it's getting very late. 00:12:29.650 --> 00:12:35.470 You're in earlier times, so I figured you could help. So what did you manage to do. 00:12:35.630 --> 00:12:35.750 Sam? 00:12:35.830 --> 00:12:37.610 Did you manage to find these files? 00:12:37.990 --> 00:12:40.990 Well, I found some. Here's a few additional things. 00:12:41.130 --> 00:12:48.650 So first of all, to be fair to her as much as I can, the... 00:12:50.990 --> 00:12:57.250 Look, what her thought process was she was installing Google Drive for something 00:12:57.250 --> 00:12:59.430 else in order to access some files. 00:12:59.610 --> 00:13:05.970 And it offered her the opportunity to also sync her desktop and her documents folders. 00:13:06.410 --> 00:13:10.990 And she's like, awesome, an additional backup of those things. 00:13:11.230 --> 00:13:11.830 Yes. 00:13:11.990 --> 00:13:13.490 So I will turn those off. 00:13:13.890 --> 00:13:17.170 Yeah, but here's the thing. And this is where my thing that got, 00:13:17.310 --> 00:13:23.710 I'm like, here's the thing. she has always been so cautious about doing anything. 00:13:23.710 --> 00:13:26.490 Right well so he i. 00:13:26.490 --> 00:13:34.650 I was like so wait what that was offered you've asked about every fucking thing multiple times. 00:13:34.650 --> 00:13:35.650 So why. 00:13:35.650 --> 00:13:37.430 Didn't you ask if that was a good. 00:13:37.430 --> 00:13:42.030 Idea yeah yeah so here's the thing yeah fundamentally and 00:13:42.030 --> 00:13:45.910 and people get this screwed up all the time iCloud 00:13:45.910 --> 00:13:49.370 and Google Drive and these things are not 00:13:49.370 --> 00:13:52.130 backups they're not backups they are 00:13:52.130 --> 00:13:55.890 not backups they are they synchronize and 00:13:55.890 --> 00:13:59.090 whenever you have something synchronizing that means 00:13:59.090 --> 00:14:02.110 if something gets removed from 00:14:02.110 --> 00:14:08.470 one of the locations it gets removed from all of them so in some senses it actually 00:14:08.470 --> 00:14:14.230 makes your stuff less secure you know now it's distributed they have it in multiple 00:14:14.230 --> 00:14:19.930 it's safer against some kinds of things but what it's not safe and. 00:14:19.930 --> 00:14:25.670 Listen it's safer against like i've had the the experience where say my computer died right. 00:14:25.670 --> 00:14:33.270 Yes it is safer What it is not safer against is something getting removed. 00:14:33.670 --> 00:14:38.370 Like you actually, you accidentally delete a file or you move something or, 00:14:38.550 --> 00:14:43.010 you know, cause, cause then it will propagate what you have just done everywhere else. 00:14:43.630 --> 00:14:47.170 Yeah. Oh, it's removed. Oh, great. Let's delete it everywhere. Everywhere. 00:14:47.990 --> 00:14:48.490 Exactly. 00:14:49.420 --> 00:14:56.280 And also just as a general thing, I mean, it's much, much better than it used to. 00:14:56.400 --> 00:14:57.900 But synchronization used to 00:14:57.900 --> 00:15:02.720 be kind of iffy, you know, like it would sometimes work and sometimes not. 00:15:02.920 --> 00:15:09.380 It now is fairly reliable as long as you're syncing with one thing. 00:15:10.000 --> 00:15:13.600 Once you are trying to sync with multiple things at the same time, 00:15:13.780 --> 00:15:17.220 they can still get confused in a variety of different ways. 00:15:19.300 --> 00:15:23.720 So and by the way I will continue the story from where you left it off but I 00:15:23.720 --> 00:15:28.920 will not be able to finish it because she the last update I had from her was 00:15:28.920 --> 00:15:32.560 yesterday afternoon and there was more that she was going to, 00:15:33.840 --> 00:15:42.060 try to deal with tonight okay um so anyway here's the thing i i looked in a 00:15:42.060 --> 00:15:47.760 bunch of places and i was like it it looks like you know it looks like stuff 00:15:47.760 --> 00:15:50.400 is really gone okay yeah that's what. 00:15:50.400 --> 00:15:52.680 I that was my thing i kept going into different. 00:15:52.680 --> 00:15:54.380 Places you know it should but stuff. 00:15:54.380 --> 00:15:55.320 Should be and. 00:15:55.320 --> 00:15:58.560 Nothing was there the one weirdness that 00:15:58.560 --> 00:16:01.300 i noticed that led me somewhere and like i 00:16:01.300 --> 00:16:04.200 also spent several hours on on the phone and on 00:16:04.200 --> 00:16:11.420 screen share with her okay okay um you know so that so i am significantly abbreviating 00:16:11.420 --> 00:16:17.220 this story but one thing that i i noticed at one point that got me suspicious 00:16:17.220 --> 00:16:23.700 there were a bunch of empty folders that nevertheless reported they had multiple gigabytes in them. 00:16:23.700 --> 00:16:25.540 Oh what the fuck. 00:16:25.540 --> 00:16:30.760 So you would look at finder and the folder would say you know seven gigabytes 00:16:30.760 --> 00:16:32.880 or whatever in the folder but you went in and. 00:16:32.880 --> 00:16:34.680 There was no no files showing up. 00:16:34.680 --> 00:16:37.840 Right exactly so i i 00:16:37.840 --> 00:16:40.720 had looked at a variety of different things and i was like 00:16:40.720 --> 00:16:45.440 okay and also at the moment we later got it to work but at the moment i could 00:16:45.440 --> 00:16:53.840 not get her screen sharing to let me have control so i'd been reluctant to try 00:16:53.840 --> 00:16:58.560 this earlier but i'm like okay i i need i need you to go into terminal. 00:16:58.560 --> 00:16:58.780 You need control. 00:17:00.820 --> 00:17:02.900 Oh, you had her go into terminal. Okay. 00:17:03.160 --> 00:17:05.640 Right. But I couldn't type. Okay. 00:17:05.700 --> 00:17:05.960 Right. 00:17:06.540 --> 00:17:10.980 So I had her go into terminal and I was, you know, 00:17:11.580 --> 00:17:18.460 saying out loud, okay, now type L S space hyphen L A space. 00:17:18.840 --> 00:17:23.760 And now I'm going to need you to, I'm going to need the path to a directory. 00:17:23.960 --> 00:17:29.060 But luckily I knew, you know, you can drag that from finder into terminal instead 00:17:29.060 --> 00:17:32.020 of typing it. So I'd have her find the folder. 00:17:32.360 --> 00:17:32.740 Okay. 00:17:33.100 --> 00:17:37.620 Yeah. So like, if you've got a folder or a file in finder that you want to access 00:17:37.620 --> 00:17:41.360 in terminal, you can just drag that into terminal and the name of it will show up good. 00:17:41.360 --> 00:17:41.920 To know i. 00:17:41.920 --> 00:17:42.800 Didn't realize. 00:17:42.800 --> 00:17:43.520 Okay all right. 00:17:43.520 --> 00:17:49.600 So i had her do that i started looking and then i saw like i listed the directory 00:17:49.600 --> 00:17:56.700 of one of the empty directories and boom it's full of files whoa so i had her 00:17:56.700 --> 00:17:59.820 copy one of the files onto, 00:18:00.400 --> 00:18:05.420 i had her plug in an external drive you know copy it onto there and check it 00:18:05.420 --> 00:18:07.360 and it was there The file opened. 00:18:07.460 --> 00:18:10.520 It was successfully there. So I'm like, Oh. 00:18:11.000 --> 00:18:11.880 Fucking hell. 00:18:12.140 --> 00:18:21.280 I'm like, okay, let's do this then. So I set her up from terminal to copy documents, 00:18:22.200 --> 00:18:27.220 desktop, and like one other place recursively, just copy everything it could 00:18:27.220 --> 00:18:29.220 find onto the external drive. 00:18:29.520 --> 00:18:32.440 Now this was going to take many hours. It would run overnight. 00:18:32.440 --> 00:18:35.060 So I let it run overnight, but I warned her as well. 00:18:35.180 --> 00:18:39.280 Like, Because we spot-checked a few things. There are still some things missing. 00:18:39.640 --> 00:18:43.860 And here is the other thing. And this applies to the time machine backups, 00:18:43.940 --> 00:18:45.460 because we ended up checking this as well. 00:18:46.280 --> 00:18:49.620 And, you know, if any of our listeners know better, feel free to chime in, 00:18:49.720 --> 00:18:53.660 because maybe Apple's gotten smarter. But it used to be the case. 00:18:55.190 --> 00:18:59.890 ICloud also does not play well with Time Machine, okay? 00:19:00.290 --> 00:19:06.070 Because fundamentally, Time Machine will only back up the files that are actually 00:19:06.070 --> 00:19:09.130 on your hard drive at any given time. 00:19:10.110 --> 00:19:12.490 You mean, okay, so let me see if I understand what, 00:19:13.320 --> 00:19:17.720 What you mean by this, because you've got an option for Time Machine, 00:19:18.140 --> 00:19:24.380 I mean, for iCloud Drive to either optimize your storage or to have all the 00:19:24.380 --> 00:19:26.480 files copied in both places. 00:19:26.680 --> 00:19:27.120 Yes. 00:19:27.220 --> 00:19:31.660 Are you saying that if you're in optimized storage mode, basically, 00:19:31.900 --> 00:19:37.560 if the file is not, there's just an alias, but not the file, it won't get backed up? 00:19:37.980 --> 00:19:38.500 Correct. 00:19:38.960 --> 00:19:39.380 Okay. 00:19:40.040 --> 00:19:45.120 So, and on her old machine, which was... It was set to optimize. 00:19:45.400 --> 00:19:47.900 It was set to optimize because there just wasn't enough space for everything. 00:19:47.920 --> 00:19:48.900 There just wasn't enough space. 00:19:49.100 --> 00:19:54.440 Her new machine was set to download everything. But it hadn't finished. 00:19:54.520 --> 00:19:56.400 But the time machine backup had never been attached to it. 00:19:56.740 --> 00:20:01.240 Correct. And also, it hadn't finished downloading everything. 00:20:01.500 --> 00:20:01.600 Correct. 00:20:01.600 --> 00:20:06.760 Because her connection is not that fast either. So, yeah. Yeah. 00:20:07.300 --> 00:20:12.940 So, so anyway, so I was like, look, when we're going to copy over all of this 00:20:12.940 --> 00:20:16.020 stuff, but there's still clearly stuff missing. 00:20:16.800 --> 00:20:22.860 So we, we caught, you know, it went overnight. I talked to her briefly in the morning. 00:20:23.200 --> 00:20:27.940 She confirmed lots and lots of stuff was there, but there were things missing. 00:20:27.940 --> 00:20:33.100 You know there were things that just weren't there and then we checked her backups 00:20:33.100 --> 00:20:43.560 from like october same well same thing but the the problem is there because that one was on optimize, 00:20:44.400 --> 00:20:51.080 right just the fact that it wasn't in the most recent time machine backup doesn't 00:20:51.080 --> 00:20:53.220 mean it's not in any Time Machine backup. 00:20:53.520 --> 00:20:58.620 Because, you know, Time Machine lets you, you can look at last week's backup 00:20:58.620 --> 00:21:00.340 or the week before or the week after. 00:21:00.520 --> 00:21:06.000 So it's very well possible that some file might be in the backup from two years 00:21:06.000 --> 00:21:07.320 ago, but not the backup from last week. 00:21:07.320 --> 00:21:09.120 Right, but not in a recent one. That's right, correct. 00:21:09.200 --> 00:21:14.720 So like to fully search for this stuff, you would have to comprehensively look 00:21:14.720 --> 00:21:18.100 through all the backups, not just the most recent one. 00:21:18.840 --> 00:21:26.080 Okay um and so i was like look i'll help you do that if if i have to so but 00:21:26.080 --> 00:21:33.080 i was like look your next step i'm sorry just just call apple like hope and pray, 00:21:34.500 --> 00:21:40.300 that they have a backup of your iCloud from before you corrupted it okay because 00:21:40.300 --> 00:21:44.540 and i guess we didn't say explicitly what happened was when she turned on iCloud 00:21:44.540 --> 00:21:49.180 the google sync Like, it just started deleting all kinds of crap. 00:21:49.440 --> 00:21:55.640 My best guess was it was deleting stuff that wasn't locally present on her Mac 00:21:55.640 --> 00:21:58.180 and making it not present anywhere. 00:21:58.800 --> 00:22:01.420 Like, it was deleting those aliases or something. 00:22:01.880 --> 00:22:02.500 Yeah, okay. 00:22:02.720 --> 00:22:06.880 That's a complete guess. I don't know. I don't know exactly what was happening, 00:22:07.060 --> 00:22:08.500 but things were disappearing. 00:22:09.820 --> 00:22:14.840 And just hope that Apple actually has a backup. I'm sure this happens to people 00:22:14.840 --> 00:22:18.180 and they do whatever. Anyway, she eventually did call them. 00:22:19.060 --> 00:22:23.680 And we had checked, by the way, online on iCloud.com. We'd looked at it recently 00:22:23.680 --> 00:22:25.020 deleted. There was nothing there. 00:22:25.600 --> 00:22:30.420 But what Apple told her, hey, look, we used to do this all the time. 00:22:30.540 --> 00:22:36.000 We used to like, you know, we actually kept things for 30 days and we could 00:22:36.000 --> 00:22:38.160 restore. But we don't do that anymore. 00:22:40.540 --> 00:22:46.280 But, but they said the reason we don't do it anymore is because we made it available 00:22:46.280 --> 00:22:47.720 directly in iCloud.com. 00:22:48.600 --> 00:22:51.500 There is a restore feature. 00:22:52.750 --> 00:22:56.370 That, and we don't guarantee how long things will be available. 00:22:57.250 --> 00:23:01.350 Like it might, it might be a couple of weeks. It might be a few days, 00:23:01.410 --> 00:23:04.370 but as soon as possible, go check there. 00:23:04.810 --> 00:23:09.050 And I'd looked at the recently deleted, but I had not known to go look for a store. 00:23:09.690 --> 00:23:13.550 I did not. And she, she actually texted and asked me that. And I'm like, 00:23:13.630 --> 00:23:15.710 I, I'm like, I said, I didn't know about this. 00:23:16.770 --> 00:23:21.030 So, so that That is the thing that she theoretically is going to be trying tonight 00:23:21.030 --> 00:23:26.690 and, and will be potentially screen sharing me again to see. 00:23:26.950 --> 00:23:32.070 And I'm like, well, cross your fingers, hope it's there because like, 00:23:32.470 --> 00:23:36.910 then, then you just like, you know, restore everything to the state it was in 00:23:36.910 --> 00:23:38.530 like three days ago or something. 00:23:39.070 --> 00:23:43.410 Of course, with her luck, there will have been a new backup made after the things 00:23:43.410 --> 00:23:46.290 were deleted and you can't get to the old backup or something like that. 00:23:46.870 --> 00:23:53.090 Um, Anyway, we'll see. But, you know, the moral of the story, 00:23:53.250 --> 00:23:58.130 as always, is backups are not backups unless you test or restore. 00:23:58.890 --> 00:24:03.850 And you have to take them seriously. And you have to sort of understand where 00:24:03.850 --> 00:24:05.210 things are going and why. 00:24:05.790 --> 00:24:11.110 And synchronization is not backup. It's not the same thing. and I'll say, 00:24:11.290 --> 00:24:14.490 I'm pretty obsessive about this too, but I have gaps too. 00:24:14.670 --> 00:24:19.290 Like I was just, I was going through an exercise the other day. 00:24:19.810 --> 00:24:24.730 Here it is. I just, by the way, I just went to iCloud.com and I just saw this 00:24:24.730 --> 00:24:28.670 and they do have this very prominent thing there that is called data recovery. 00:24:28.950 --> 00:24:33.530 And it says, recover files deleted from both iCloud Drive and other apps within 00:24:33.530 --> 00:24:38.370 the last 30 days or restore an earlier version of your calendar contacts and Safari bookmarks. 00:24:38.990 --> 00:24:39.370 Nice. 00:24:39.610 --> 00:24:41.210 Huh. And it's... 00:24:42.870 --> 00:24:43.250 Okay. 00:24:44.010 --> 00:24:49.010 Now, I will mention one other thing with her scenario, and I'm sure we've bored everybody. 00:24:49.270 --> 00:24:52.250 But, like, apparently there was stuff that was on Google. 00:24:52.250 --> 00:24:54.550 Well, we have a lot of nerds that listen to us. 00:24:54.610 --> 00:24:58.690 Yeah. So what the fuck? But apparently there was also stuff on Google Drive. 00:24:58.910 --> 00:25:03.190 She apparently is on three Google Drives. 00:25:03.190 --> 00:25:07.430 One is a personal drive, and then there's one for one organization she's involved 00:25:07.430 --> 00:25:09.910 in, and there's another for another organization she's involved in. 00:25:09.910 --> 00:25:14.630 She connected all three of them and told all three of them to sync. Okay. 00:25:15.410 --> 00:25:21.570 And apparently things that were on those Google drives for those organizations 00:25:21.570 --> 00:25:26.650 that had nothing to do with her personal files also have gotten deleted. 00:25:27.090 --> 00:25:31.550 And I have no idea what was going on there or what to do about that. 00:25:31.770 --> 00:25:36.890 The thing is, I'm telling you right now, I had heard horror stories about the 00:25:36.890 --> 00:25:39.370 fucking Google drive synchronization. 00:25:39.370 --> 00:25:45.930 I probably shouldn't look for it online, but I had heard these and how it just 00:25:45.930 --> 00:25:48.590 basically made shit just disappear. 00:25:49.670 --> 00:25:53.370 And people were very frustrated that, you know, you would contact Google and 00:25:53.370 --> 00:25:56.150 whatever. And even though they say a whole bunch of different things about, 00:25:56.290 --> 00:26:00.130 well, you can do this, do that to restore. How basically you just couldn't. 00:26:00.410 --> 00:26:04.630 It was it was a waste of time. Well, you just lost the stuff. 00:26:05.070 --> 00:26:12.810 Anyway, what I was going to say about myself is I am also fairly uptight about backups. 00:26:13.670 --> 00:26:18.990 I know. And that's the thing that gets me. She is very uptight about all these fucking backups. 00:26:18.990 --> 00:26:23.330 But let me say, let me say, I, I, I am missing stuff anyway. 00:26:24.170 --> 00:26:28.030 Um, because, because of, you know, every once in a while I slip up, 00:26:28.170 --> 00:26:29.990 like, I'll, I'll tell you what I was doing recently. 00:26:30.670 --> 00:26:36.270 I was trying, I, I, I've developed, I set up a new way of doing stats for curmudgeon's 00:26:36.270 --> 00:26:37.510 corner downloads. Okay. 00:26:37.830 --> 00:26:43.250 And I was going to be like, okay, I will reconstruct the entire history all 00:26:43.250 --> 00:26:47.710 the way back to 2007 using this. I just have to like, you know, 00:26:48.430 --> 00:26:50.830 have it analyze the old log files. 00:26:50.970 --> 00:26:56.730 So I went looking for all my old backup log, backed up log files of curmudgeons 00:26:56.730 --> 00:26:59.470 corner download logs going back to 2007. 00:26:59.730 --> 00:27:02.470 Well, guess what? I've got gaps. 00:27:03.280 --> 00:27:10.120 Like, basically, 2007 and 2008, I have no record of whatsoever. Can't find them at all. 00:27:10.640 --> 00:27:18.640 In 2018 or 19 or something like that, I've got, like, a six-month gap, you know? 00:27:18.800 --> 00:27:28.200 And these are all places where I know what happened is at one period of time or another, I got slack. 00:27:28.280 --> 00:27:32.740 There was something that wasn't working, and I didn't. And I probably had an 00:27:32.740 --> 00:27:37.920 alarm going that told me, hey, your backup's old, your backup's old, your backup's old. 00:27:38.920 --> 00:27:43.860 And I'm backing up the log files from the server that only keeps them for like a few weeks. 00:27:44.300 --> 00:27:47.160 And I let it go more than a few weeks before I fixed it. 00:27:47.300 --> 00:27:53.700 And so a gap ensued, you know, and so I can't reconstruct the entire history. 00:27:53.920 --> 00:27:56.820 I can reconstruct most of it, but I've got a few gaps. 00:27:56.820 --> 00:27:59.820 And i know other things over the years have 00:27:59.820 --> 00:28:02.720 probably gotten gone missing and there have been gaps at various 00:28:02.720 --> 00:28:05.600 points and there there was one 00:28:05.600 --> 00:28:08.560 time uh recently i i you know 00:28:08.560 --> 00:28:13.460 i i probably never gave the follow-up on this there was one of alex's drives 00:28:13.460 --> 00:28:19.420 that you know he keeps his videos on for his youtube channel that the drive 00:28:19.420 --> 00:28:27.760 died okay um but and i'm like it's okay i have backups I went to check the backup. 00:28:28.060 --> 00:28:33.860 The backup was old. The backup had like, was missing... 00:28:34.490 --> 00:28:38.830 I actually went, I paid to restore the backup. The backup ended up having about 00:28:38.830 --> 00:28:40.910 half of what I expected on it. 00:28:41.290 --> 00:28:44.590 And I was like, oh crap, there's a bunch of stuff missing. 00:28:45.150 --> 00:28:49.610 And what am I going to do? So I looked into like disk recovery services. 00:28:49.610 --> 00:28:54.450 So I'm like, I'm going to like, I'm going to actually send this disk off, 00:28:54.610 --> 00:28:59.490 do disk recovery. One place gave me an estimate, but it was like insanely high. 00:28:59.670 --> 00:29:00.850 It was like thousands of dollars. 00:29:01.190 --> 00:29:05.090 And I'm like, I cannot justify thousands of dollars for this right now. 00:29:05.290 --> 00:29:11.610 I found some other place that was like going to be like less. 00:29:12.230 --> 00:29:15.530 It was still expensive. Okay. It was still many hundreds of dollars, 00:29:15.570 --> 00:29:18.450 but it was three digits and not four. Okay. 00:29:18.730 --> 00:29:23.510 And I'm like, okay, maybe we can consider this, but I will hold off for a little 00:29:23.510 --> 00:29:25.970 bit. I did a little bit of more research, different places. 00:29:26.110 --> 00:29:29.250 The place I got that had the multi-thousand dollar estimate, 00:29:29.250 --> 00:29:33.610 I found out had an online reputation of just gouging people for like, 00:29:33.810 --> 00:29:37.150 people are desperate for their data, so we're going to charge them a lot more. 00:29:37.350 --> 00:29:40.890 And there are other services that'll do the same thing at the same quality for 00:29:40.890 --> 00:29:42.210 better prices, et cetera. 00:29:42.590 --> 00:29:45.550 And so I did some research and I was finally ready. 00:29:46.670 --> 00:29:53.950 And it had been, it had been probably at this point, two to three years since the drive had died. 00:29:54.110 --> 00:29:57.250 And I was like, okay, I'm finally ready. I'm going to send this sucker in. 00:29:57.650 --> 00:30:03.210 And on a whim, I'm like, let me plug it in one more time just to see. 00:30:03.490 --> 00:30:05.370 Oh, get the fuck out of here. It worked. 00:30:05.530 --> 00:30:09.410 It worked. And I'm like, holy fuck. 00:30:09.590 --> 00:30:11.910 And I immediately started copying 00:30:11.910 --> 00:30:16.410 everything off that drive onto a fresh drive. I restored everything. 00:30:17.730 --> 00:30:22.110 You know, it just needed a little rest. It was tired. 00:30:22.470 --> 00:30:23.590 It was tired, Sam. 00:30:24.070 --> 00:30:24.550 Exactly. 00:30:25.070 --> 00:30:25.890 You know, we're all tired. 00:30:26.350 --> 00:30:33.850 You know, and I had been, I had tried multiple, before I even thought about 00:30:33.850 --> 00:30:37.030 I'm going to restore to drive, I'm going to send it to disk recovery, whatever. 00:30:37.270 --> 00:30:40.830 I have, of course, tried everything. I had tried everything. 00:30:40.930 --> 00:30:41.310 That's absolutely hilarious. 00:30:41.650 --> 00:30:46.510 You know, but like three years later, I plugged the drive in and kaboom, it's there. 00:30:47.190 --> 00:30:56.270 Holy shit anyway I got everything that's hilarious anyway okay whoa it's been 00:30:56.270 --> 00:30:59.210 30 minutes should I even do movies should we move on. 00:31:00.190 --> 00:31:05.690 We could skip the movies for this week we did a whole bunch of movies let's go I. 00:31:05.690 --> 00:31:13.970 Will preview what they will be for next time Murder by Death from 1976 have you heard of it. 00:31:15.390 --> 00:31:17.210 I've heard of it but I don't. 00:31:17.210 --> 00:31:18.230 Think I've... 00:31:18.230 --> 00:31:20.830 Who is the stars of this movie? 00:31:21.230 --> 00:31:26.230 Oh, let's see. Starring Eileen Brennan, Truman Capote, James Coco, 00:31:26.470 --> 00:31:29.970 Peter Falk, Alec Guinness, Elsa... 00:31:29.970 --> 00:31:31.890 I've heard of it, but I don't remember it right now. 00:31:31.970 --> 00:31:33.670 Peter Sellers, Maggie Smith. 00:31:34.170 --> 00:31:37.890 I probably watched it, but I don't remember it right now. 00:31:38.690 --> 00:31:39.170 Okay. 00:31:39.170 --> 00:31:44.050 Now that you mention all the... Yeah, it rings a bell now that you read the actress list. 00:31:44.070 --> 00:31:51.330 And movie two, a small little movie that you have probably not heard of from 2002 yeah, 00:31:52.090 --> 00:31:54.210 Star Wars Episode II, Attack of the Clones. 00:31:55.030 --> 00:31:55.230 Okay. 00:31:56.130 --> 00:31:57.330 Yeah, obscure. 00:31:58.830 --> 00:32:01.450 Now, of course, that's a classic. 00:32:02.190 --> 00:32:06.650 Yes. Anyway, we'll save them for next week. Let's take a break. 00:32:06.870 --> 00:32:11.090 I once again owe an Apple dream that I did not do because I suck. 00:32:11.350 --> 00:32:15.130 So instead, you get some other random thing. 00:32:16.130 --> 00:32:20.850 And so here's a break, and we'll be back, and we'll talk newsy stuff. Back after this. 00:32:58.330 --> 00:33:01.150 And we are back. Welcome, Yvonne. 00:33:01.250 --> 00:33:08.610 Okay, so, by the way, I did go in to the restore property there. 00:33:09.510 --> 00:33:11.570 It's got a list of files that I deleted. 00:33:12.170 --> 00:33:12.770 Good. 00:33:13.210 --> 00:33:17.930 Recently. Delete it March 8th. Delete it March 8th. Yeah. 00:33:19.270 --> 00:33:22.150 It seems to be possible. 00:33:22.790 --> 00:33:23.390 Good. 00:33:23.670 --> 00:33:24.650 That that could work. 00:33:25.530 --> 00:33:26.130 Yeah. 00:33:26.250 --> 00:33:34.030 Okay. so okay crossing fingers cross yes let's cross fingers okay and. 00:33:34.030 --> 00:33:42.170 Toes whatever else yeah okay so what's our first actual serious thing of the uh week ivan. 00:33:42.170 --> 00:33:50.970 Hey how's that iran war thing going sam what i mean some people were making 00:33:50.970 --> 00:33:57.250 were making comments that it's a misnomer to call it the Iran War, but I am like... 00:33:57.250 --> 00:33:59.710 I guess because Iran didn't start it. 00:33:59.910 --> 00:34:02.710 Okay, I get that. Well, what should we call it? 00:34:03.110 --> 00:34:07.990 The War of Northern Aggression? Oh, no, wait, that was what the South called the Civil War. 00:34:10.450 --> 00:34:10.930 No. 00:34:12.250 --> 00:34:18.830 I mean, it seems fitting, actually, but... The Trump War? The Trump-Epstein-Files War. 00:34:21.710 --> 00:34:28.990 I like that name. This should be the Trump Epstein files distraction war. Yes. 00:34:29.970 --> 00:34:37.030 You know, on the one hand, I am fully on board with the idea that part of the 00:34:37.030 --> 00:34:39.310 motivation of this probably was distraction. 00:34:40.150 --> 00:34:46.070 But I think that also understates it. I think there... 00:34:48.810 --> 00:34:51.490 There, there's real stuff going on here. 00:34:51.570 --> 00:34:51.630 I think it's a motivator. 00:34:51.950 --> 00:34:54.470 They're real, they're real people dying. It, it, it, you know. 00:34:54.650 --> 00:34:58.650 No, no, no, but, but I'm not talking, I'm not trying to minimize that in any 00:34:58.650 --> 00:35:03.770 way, but the, what I'm trying to do is like, the reality is that what is the 00:35:03.770 --> 00:35:06.710 driver that caused this stupid thing, 00:35:07.050 --> 00:35:10.430 this barbaric act to be done? I mean, there's a. 00:35:10.570 --> 00:35:12.950 I mean, one, one of them is that. 00:35:12.970 --> 00:35:20.750 The other one is that he's, I don't know. Yeah. BB as well. Yeah. The BB War. There you go. 00:35:21.650 --> 00:35:25.150 BB's Revenge and Destruction Tour. 00:35:25.570 --> 00:35:31.170 Look, in terms of how it's going, I think you've got... 00:35:32.100 --> 00:35:38.120 Different ways of looking at it. The administration would like you and the Israelis 00:35:38.120 --> 00:35:43.040 would like you to just judge it based on how much shit have we blown up. 00:35:44.920 --> 00:35:48.680 We've blown up a bunch of shit. Okay. 00:35:48.680 --> 00:35:52.180 That's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, yeah, that we, 00:35:52.260 --> 00:35:56.100 we, I mean, yeah, we've blown up a bunch of shit, Sam, like a lot. 00:35:56.960 --> 00:36:01.420 And, and, you know, Hey, that's a success in its own right. Right. 00:36:01.800 --> 00:36:04.960 And they can say once again, like they did a few months ago, 00:36:05.120 --> 00:36:09.320 that we have success as we've put them back decades. Let's be clear. 00:36:09.460 --> 00:36:13.800 We're not saying that's a success. You're saying that they claim it's a success. 00:36:14.620 --> 00:36:19.420 Yeah. I mean, look, they can say just like they did a few months ago that they've 00:36:19.420 --> 00:36:22.400 ended Iran's military capabilities forever. 00:36:23.400 --> 00:36:25.040 Forever, Sam. for. 00:36:25.040 --> 00:36:32.000 A few months anyway you know look and there's no question they killed a whole 00:36:32.000 --> 00:36:36.060 bunch of the leadership you know and in fact like one of the. 00:36:36.060 --> 00:36:44.560 Yeah and and has that improved the the leadership of iran is it is it now uh 00:36:44.560 --> 00:36:50.660 uh you know the kind of leadership that and i quote he he was saying And Iran's 00:36:50.660 --> 00:36:53.620 leadership goes out on the streets and kills its own people. 00:36:53.700 --> 00:36:56.000 And many people were saying, hey, is he talking about Minnesota? 00:36:56.000 --> 00:36:57.100 Is he talking about Iran? 00:36:58.080 --> 00:37:01.940 Right. Well, before we even get there, let me state something else. 00:37:02.120 --> 00:37:05.780 We had talked about how much of the Iranian leadership was killed here. 00:37:05.780 --> 00:37:14.620 One of the things that came out about this is that there were people that we 00:37:14.620 --> 00:37:21.600 were actually thinking about as potential new leadership to take over that we 00:37:21.600 --> 00:37:22.940 thought we could work with better. 00:37:24.130 --> 00:37:25.630 We accidentally killed them, too. 00:37:26.370 --> 00:37:26.650 Right. 00:37:27.310 --> 00:37:31.670 It's like we had people specifically pointed out that said, after we killed 00:37:31.670 --> 00:37:39.470 Ayatollah, hopefully this guy will become the leader and we think we can work with them. Oops. 00:37:39.570 --> 00:37:41.510 We killed them, too. We killed them. 00:37:42.730 --> 00:37:49.490 You know, a friend of mine sent me a, I think it was, it was actually today, 00:37:50.730 --> 00:37:55.690 talking about the situation that the word of the day is fucktangular. 00:37:56.470 --> 00:37:57.610 And it seems appropriate. 00:37:58.550 --> 00:38:04.670 Yeah, fucktangular. And it's a noun. And the definition is when a situation isn't just messy. 00:38:05.090 --> 00:38:07.270 It's fucked up from every angle. 00:38:07.950 --> 00:38:12.270 You fix one problem and three more pop up. Likely they're awaiting their turn. 00:38:12.730 --> 00:38:17.650 And this is, definitely, this fits the bill. 00:38:18.310 --> 00:38:24.270 Because they think they fixed stuff. All they've made is everything way worse. 00:38:25.390 --> 00:38:28.970 What is the improvement in the situation for the people of Iran? 00:38:29.630 --> 00:38:33.110 None that I can see. Are we safer, Sam? 00:38:34.170 --> 00:38:36.150 I don't believe so. 00:38:36.710 --> 00:38:45.610 Nope. Okay. Right. Have we achieved any tangible success that you could point 00:38:45.610 --> 00:38:50.190 to other than the blowing up that you mentioned? We blew shit up and killed people. 00:38:50.870 --> 00:38:53.590 Yeah, we blew shit up. Is that a success? 00:38:54.930 --> 00:39:00.690 Well, the problem is with answering that question is nobody's defined what the 00:39:00.690 --> 00:39:03.610 goals even are. So how can you measure whether or not... 00:39:04.190 --> 00:39:07.870 Exactly. You don't even know what the fuck we're trying to accomplish. 00:39:08.170 --> 00:39:11.330 So how the hell do you say that it's been... 00:39:14.310 --> 00:39:19.570 And, okay, I mean, the other problem is, what's the endgame? 00:39:19.990 --> 00:39:22.230 Like you said, nobody's set to success. 00:39:22.870 --> 00:39:26.390 Nobody's defined an endgame. And like right now, we're just, 00:39:26.510 --> 00:39:29.130 hey, we're just going to send more bombs. 00:39:29.950 --> 00:39:36.270 Just more bombs. ah, okay, and what now? 00:39:37.350 --> 00:39:41.430 And the other thing that shows the... 00:39:42.810 --> 00:39:52.250 The number of dead U.S. military compared to other military campaigns that have 00:39:52.250 --> 00:39:56.930 not involved boots on the ground is astoundingly high, okay? 00:39:57.870 --> 00:40:05.850 The other thing is just, it is very obvious that we have, once again, 00:40:06.150 --> 00:40:11.430 with this administration, they put in charge just people for their loyalty, 00:40:11.430 --> 00:40:12.550 not for their knowledge. 00:40:12.810 --> 00:40:19.730 They don't understand much of anything. They fail to prepare for any contingencies. 00:40:19.930 --> 00:40:25.650 Because if you were going to attack Iran, what was the number one threat that 00:40:25.650 --> 00:40:27.170 you should have prepared for? 00:40:27.930 --> 00:40:28.690 Clowns. 00:40:29.030 --> 00:40:30.910 Oh, clowns. Oh. 00:40:33.830 --> 00:40:36.650 Flying clowns? That would have been interesting. 00:40:37.630 --> 00:40:43.430 Yeah. The Iranians are known for their clown militias. 00:40:43.430 --> 00:40:44.910 For the flying clown. Oh, wow. 00:40:45.910 --> 00:40:52.130 Okay. Well, it's not the clowns. It's these dumbass fucking drones that they've 00:40:52.130 --> 00:40:53.630 been selling the Russians. 00:40:53.810 --> 00:40:56.530 Oh, I thought you were going to say closing the Straits of Hormuz. 00:40:56.750 --> 00:40:58.190 Okay, we'll get to that in a second. 00:40:58.350 --> 00:41:04.290 No, or the Strait of Hormuz. It's my theory decided. Yeah, the theory decided 00:41:04.290 --> 00:41:06.170 that it's not the Strait of Hormuz. 00:41:06.530 --> 00:41:15.610 It's the Strait as the S-D-R-A-I-G-H-T, Strait of Horror Moose. 00:41:15.910 --> 00:41:20.290 I didn't realize that we had moose that were running in horror in the middle 00:41:20.290 --> 00:41:22.130 of the water. But anyway. 00:41:22.790 --> 00:41:22.950 Right. 00:41:23.490 --> 00:41:28.370 Well, no, the whole drone attack, which, by the way, also forced that closure. 00:41:28.570 --> 00:41:34.750 But the reality is that you're launching million dollar missiles against $50,000 00:41:34.750 --> 00:41:36.690 or cheaper fucking drones. 00:41:36.930 --> 00:41:42.430 And that is just idiotic. I mean, the Ukrainians have developed, 00:41:42.570 --> 00:41:49.190 obviously, much cheaper ways of defending these, and nobody prepared for it. 00:41:50.010 --> 00:41:53.550 Nobody spent the minute preparing for it. You started this thing, 00:41:53.670 --> 00:41:57.310 it's just asymmetrical. We send these massive bombs. 00:41:57.510 --> 00:42:04.970 They counter with these smaller devices that are plentiful and cheap and can cause damage. 00:42:04.970 --> 00:42:08.690 Obviously, not the same damage as these massive bombs that we sent. 00:42:08.690 --> 00:42:19.370 But it doesn't need to be to to cause the fucking Strait of Hormuz to be closed. 00:42:19.530 --> 00:42:21.850 I mean, you closed off the oil traffic. 00:42:22.230 --> 00:42:24.830 Oil is now at over one hundred dollars a barrel. 00:42:25.250 --> 00:42:31.190 They keep saying, oh, you know, what was Pete Hex that said? 00:42:31.810 --> 00:42:35.950 Oh, yeah. I mean, you know, any ship can go through. The problem is just, 00:42:36.130 --> 00:42:39.670 you know, the Iranians are shooting. I'm like, I don't know shit, Sherlock, really? 00:42:41.830 --> 00:42:45.390 And I'm like, I don't know which tank or company. 00:42:46.860 --> 00:42:52.340 Is going to go and say, you know, hey, let's just go through there anyway. 00:42:52.860 --> 00:42:56.180 Well, that's what Donald Trump said they should do. Just man up and go. 00:42:56.680 --> 00:43:01.860 Man up and go. Yeah. Now, today, he said something about that. 00:43:02.200 --> 00:43:05.020 Everybody should send their navies over there to reopen it. 00:43:05.160 --> 00:43:08.460 And that doesn't that doesn't. I mean, just because we send a whole bunch of 00:43:08.460 --> 00:43:11.220 military ships over there doesn't reopen it. 00:43:11.360 --> 00:43:15.160 I mean, the volume of ships. Wait, someone pointed out like in the past, 00:43:15.360 --> 00:43:21.780 like in the 80s, I believe we did have a situation where at one point the American 00:43:21.780 --> 00:43:24.660 Navy and some others escorted some tankers through the state. 00:43:24.880 --> 00:43:27.080 But it wasn't it wasn't this kind of threat. 00:43:27.080 --> 00:43:32.800 Well, no, here's the thing. Here's the fundamental thing. The reason why having 00:43:32.800 --> 00:43:41.200 American warships around the shipping was protective was the Iranians would be like, 00:43:41.440 --> 00:43:43.760 oh, if we hit the Americans, 00:43:44.100 --> 00:43:48.440 then the Americans will attack us. And so it's a deterrent. 00:43:48.680 --> 00:43:49.320 Right. 00:43:49.400 --> 00:43:53.200 The Americans are already attacking. There's no deterrent there anymore. 00:43:53.300 --> 00:43:53.580 Right. There's no deterrent. 00:43:53.580 --> 00:43:58.540 But it was beyond that. Remember that back then the threat wasn't these types 00:43:58.540 --> 00:44:00.560 of drones and things and whatever. 00:44:00.800 --> 00:44:09.320 The threat was small boats that were approaching the tankers and attacking them with small weapons. 00:44:09.500 --> 00:44:15.580 The reality is that with the Navy being there, there were threats that could 00:44:15.580 --> 00:44:20.980 be easily disabled by these ships. The reality is... 00:44:22.510 --> 00:44:25.490 You know, they had fast boats that would go around and stop them. 00:44:25.790 --> 00:44:29.010 This threat was a lot smaller. 00:44:29.350 --> 00:44:33.310 This is, we're talking about hundreds and hundreds of drones all of a sudden 00:44:33.310 --> 00:44:35.970 being launched by air against ships. 00:44:37.550 --> 00:44:42.350 And you can't just, just because there's, I mean, how many Navy, 00:44:42.470 --> 00:44:46.950 you probably, what I said is if you're going to want to defend these, 00:44:46.950 --> 00:44:48.470 you're probably going to have to, like, what, 00:44:48.850 --> 00:44:55.770 one Navy ship with the type of weapons needed to stop this, basically by tanker? 00:44:55.850 --> 00:45:01.230 Because most of the weapons that I saw that are effective against this are the 00:45:01.230 --> 00:45:06.970 type of closed weapons that these ships have to defend against threats that, 00:45:07.070 --> 00:45:10.810 you know, that use bullets, basically. 00:45:11.110 --> 00:45:16.390 All right? That is ideally what you want to do. You don't want to be using missiles 00:45:16.390 --> 00:45:18.610 or whatever. You want to be using guns. 00:45:18.830 --> 00:45:21.630 The guns only really work at close range. 00:45:22.210 --> 00:45:27.270 So that means that the ship, the Navy ship, needs to be right by the damn tankards 00:45:27.270 --> 00:45:28.850 escorting in order to be effective. 00:45:28.850 --> 00:45:31.950 If there is a significant gap between them and the other one, 00:45:32.170 --> 00:45:35.190 yeah, they'll be able to stop the Navy ship from getting hit, 00:45:35.350 --> 00:45:37.550 but not the fucking tankard they're escorting. 00:45:37.710 --> 00:45:41.290 And there are two things there, too. One, we don't have enough. 00:45:41.650 --> 00:45:43.410 And we don't have enough ships. 00:45:44.030 --> 00:45:51.010 Two, and I've heard this specifically called out as well, is that those defenses, 00:45:51.010 --> 00:45:54.070 you know, they're not perfect. 00:45:54.410 --> 00:46:00.350 And so the Navy is actually worried that if they did this, they'd get some Navy ships sunk as well. 00:46:00.510 --> 00:46:00.970 That's right. 00:46:01.250 --> 00:46:01.810 Yeah. 00:46:02.250 --> 00:46:03.270 Damaged, at least. 00:46:03.670 --> 00:46:05.090 At least damaged. Yes. 00:46:05.310 --> 00:46:11.490 At least damaged. Yeah. It's not as easy as it sounds. My anti-strike. Rich. 00:46:11.490 --> 00:46:14.170 So look, 00:46:15.300 --> 00:46:24.980 Again, like in terms of, there are a lot of folks on the right who were not 00:46:24.980 --> 00:46:27.180 enthused about this in the first place. 00:46:27.280 --> 00:46:30.420 And maybe we can talk a little bit about the divisions on the right coming out of this. 00:46:30.580 --> 00:46:37.920 But who are desperately trying to get Donald Trump to just declare victory and go home. 00:46:38.340 --> 00:46:45.240 You know, call it, we won, we succeeded, we got everything we needed, we're done. 00:46:46.060 --> 00:46:56.300 So far he is refusing now i see the speculation being you know that he's just he's still assuming, 00:46:57.240 --> 00:47:02.180 that any of the disruptions that are caught coming out of this will be short-lived, 00:47:02.800 --> 00:47:08.920 and the iranian iranians will collapse at any moment and it'll just be over 00:47:08.920 --> 00:47:10.720 in a couple weeks as he originally said. 00:47:10.800 --> 00:47:16.300 They have no incentive to collapse. There is nothing. What is the incentive 00:47:16.300 --> 00:47:18.080 that they have right now to... 00:47:19.450 --> 00:47:22.990 Well, you know, kill a few more of them, you know, things change. 00:47:23.150 --> 00:47:29.730 But like, but the speculation is that if it doesn't collapse immediately, 00:47:29.730 --> 00:47:36.050 then it's only a matter of time till we do get Trump collapsing. 00:47:36.050 --> 00:47:41.450 And basically saying, okay, the stock market is down too much. 00:47:41.570 --> 00:47:43.890 Oil is too high for too long. 00:47:44.150 --> 00:47:48.290 This is my approval ratings are going down even further. 00:47:48.510 --> 00:47:54.750 Although I believe it was Tucker Carlson who said that based on his conversations 00:47:54.750 --> 00:48:00.590 with Donald Trump, he doesn't believe that Trump is actually seeing any of this. 00:48:00.590 --> 00:48:03.650 Like he is being completely isolated to 00:48:03.650 --> 00:48:06.970 any negative opinions about this like so 00:48:06.970 --> 00:48:10.510 nobody is telling him that this is unpopular nobody 00:48:10.510 --> 00:48:13.690 is telling him the negative things people are only telling 00:48:13.690 --> 00:48:20.150 him yes sir it's going great everything's wonderful and so he doesn't believe 00:48:20.150 --> 00:48:27.430 it but that at some point the pain will become obvious and he'll just like literally 00:48:27.430 --> 00:48:32.530 declare victory and go home He never will admit he was wrong, but he'll say, 00:48:32.850 --> 00:48:39.450 we've decimated them, we've destroyed them, everything's great, and we're done. 00:48:40.290 --> 00:48:42.110 Great. Fantastic. 00:48:46.350 --> 00:48:47.510 And so we wait. 00:48:48.630 --> 00:48:55.950 And so we wait. So let's, you know, let's talk about some of that pain. 00:48:57.430 --> 00:49:02.010 Because this again, like the theme to intro it is that, 00:49:02.190 --> 00:49:06.230 and we talked about this last week, but it really, really does appear and more 00:49:06.230 --> 00:49:10.370 and more has come out basically validating this over last week, 00:49:10.550 --> 00:49:19.250 that the Trump administration really honestly thought that the Iranians would 00:49:19.250 --> 00:49:21.870 react in some sort of tepid, half-hearted way, 00:49:22.070 --> 00:49:28.090 maybe throw a couple missiles out with no severe consequences and be done in a few days. 00:49:28.710 --> 00:49:33.110 And that basically would just take it while we attack them and, 00:49:33.270 --> 00:49:39.310 hey, maybe the people would rise up and we'd have a new friendly government 00:49:39.310 --> 00:49:41.550 there. They really thought this. 00:49:41.710 --> 00:49:47.030 And so they were absolutely shocked when the Iranians actually fought back and 00:49:47.030 --> 00:49:50.070 attacked civilian infrastructure all over the region, et cetera. 00:49:50.970 --> 00:49:57.030 And now, you know, as we sit, the horror moose is closed. 00:49:58.710 --> 00:50:02.130 Price of oil has gone up significantly. 00:50:02.510 --> 00:50:06.890 What, it's almost doubled, hasn't it? Isn't it close to doubled at this point? 00:50:06.890 --> 00:50:11.230 Yeah, it was about $60, $70. 00:50:11.390 --> 00:50:15.950 It's over $100 a barrel right now. The thing is that... 00:50:15.950 --> 00:50:18.070 Stock market's down too, et cetera. 00:50:18.650 --> 00:50:28.230 But the thing is that gas prices in the last 20 years, because of refinery capacity 00:50:28.230 --> 00:50:29.910 being significantly diminished, 00:50:30.290 --> 00:50:36.350 are far more sensitive to oil moves. 00:50:36.930 --> 00:50:41.510 And what do I mean by that? What I mean by that is that 20 years ago, 00:50:42.260 --> 00:50:49.480 $150 oil, which we did get in some brief moments, okay, like it was well north 00:50:49.480 --> 00:50:55.900 of $100, caused gas prices at $4, okay? 00:50:56.540 --> 00:51:04.800 Now, $100 oil gets you $4 or $5 gas, just at $100, okay? 00:51:05.440 --> 00:51:14.300 And so the impact is way worse. Look, I'm looking at recent gas prices that 00:51:14.300 --> 00:51:17.600 were updated, like, on the GasBuddy app. 00:51:18.260 --> 00:51:28.060 I mean, regular is, right now, north of $4, like, in most places that I see 00:51:28.060 --> 00:51:29.560 that recently updated prices. 00:51:29.800 --> 00:51:30.400 I think we're over $5. 00:51:30.400 --> 00:51:33.840 Yeah. As high as $4 at $80. This is for regular. 00:51:34.260 --> 00:51:39.620 I saw premium already at places at over $5, okay? 00:51:39.620 --> 00:51:43.640 In a lot of places It's You 00:51:43.640 --> 00:51:52.540 know It's crazy Okay And so This is something that You know Oh We didn't expect 00:51:52.540 --> 00:52:00.920 this But this administration Is populated by Idiots Who never expect anything to happen I just, 00:52:02.810 --> 00:52:08.010 You think people are thrilled that gas is at $4 or $5 a gallon right now? 00:52:08.210 --> 00:52:16.350 I just checked GasBuddy here locally. The spread near me is pretty widespread 00:52:16.350 --> 00:52:20.530 for regular, from $4.45 to $5.49. 00:52:21.050 --> 00:52:22.930 Depending on which gas station you're going. By the way, I noticed that a lot 00:52:22.930 --> 00:52:28.250 of the lower prices on GasBuddy are gas stations that haven't reported prices recently. 00:52:29.290 --> 00:52:32.670 And so it's you know the lower. 00:52:32.670 --> 00:52:37.030 Ones i just reported were 20 hours ago the higher ones were also 20 hours ago so. 00:52:37.030 --> 00:52:40.030 Okay so that's that's actually pretty recent but you're yeah but but yours 00:52:40.030 --> 00:52:43.770 are all over four dollars okay all right i 00:52:43.770 --> 00:52:51.270 mean yeah i mean it's just this is it's a shit show man i mean i i none of these 00:52:51.270 --> 00:52:57.650 guys expected any of this uh and let me just share it yeah I just shared this 00:52:57.650 --> 00:53:02.070 thing on Bloomberg where in December, 00:53:02.690 --> 00:53:11.730 Trump had this rally, and the background on the rally was lower prices, bigger paychecks. 00:53:12.110 --> 00:53:15.490 That was the banner. He was awed in December. 00:53:16.190 --> 00:53:17.910 How's that working out? 00:53:19.550 --> 00:53:26.670 Look, you mentioned gas prices. One of the things is if we have a temporary 00:53:26.670 --> 00:53:29.270 spike that's like one or two weeks and then it goes back down again, 00:53:29.970 --> 00:53:32.050 fine. But wait, wait, wait. But here's the thing. 00:53:32.310 --> 00:53:33.850 But these spikes are never temporary. 00:53:34.430 --> 00:53:40.130 Right. But if it is, then things will go back to normal. 00:53:40.350 --> 00:53:45.150 But like you said, they never are. But what people don't automatically recognize 00:53:45.150 --> 00:53:47.270 is the follow-on effects. 00:53:47.590 --> 00:53:57.270 Okay. Gasoline In the US A very high proportion of products Are transported by truck. 00:53:58.400 --> 00:54:04.240 Diesel prices are at oh my god the the price of diesel you think gas diesel 00:54:04.240 --> 00:54:05.800 has been over five dollars. 00:54:05.800 --> 00:54:09.560 So the point is that what 00:54:09.560 --> 00:54:15.580 that means is because gas prices are high everything else is going to increase 00:54:15.580 --> 00:54:21.560 in price too because oh god guess what that thing you buy at your local walmart 00:54:21.560 --> 00:54:27.600 did not grow in the walmart parking lot it had to be it had to be shipped No. 00:54:27.740 --> 00:54:33.460 You're shitting me. So it isn't just a big farm outside in the Walmart parking 00:54:33.460 --> 00:54:41.160 lot growing shorts and, you know, T-shirts and, you know, sporting goods. 00:54:41.400 --> 00:54:46.000 There isn't like a farm section out there growing sporting goods. 00:54:46.140 --> 00:54:48.140 That would be quite interesting, I would say. 00:54:48.580 --> 00:54:51.860 You've got the orchard full of basketball trees. 00:54:52.360 --> 00:54:55.800 Oh, my God. That would be wonderful. 00:54:56.900 --> 00:54:57.420 What. 00:54:57.420 --> 00:55:01.420 Are you doing today oh i'm gonna go you go oh no do you like to pick apples 00:55:01.420 --> 00:55:03.740 no no no i go pick basketballs. 00:55:03.740 --> 00:55:15.060 Yes anyway so this all has you know knock-on effects like you can't, 00:55:17.100 --> 00:55:22.560 and this gets me back to and i hate to be redundant but it's just this it's 00:55:22.560 --> 00:55:28.860 so stunning the level of ignorance and lack of foresight. 00:55:29.620 --> 00:55:37.120 I mean, this is what people have said about, you know, potential consequences of, 00:55:38.130 --> 00:55:41.090 Doing things in the Middle East, going back generations. 00:55:41.570 --> 00:55:45.410 All right, so, by the way, I checked the diesel price. The national average 00:55:45.410 --> 00:55:50.810 price of diesel has reached $492 a gallon today. That was yesterday. 00:55:51.310 --> 00:55:56.930 By the end of the weekend, we will likely see an average of $5 a gallon national 00:55:56.930 --> 00:56:01.670 average for diesel, which will likely re-accelerate inflation the longer it sticks around. 00:56:02.670 --> 00:56:09.730 And the revised inflation measures. Look, I just shared the news about it earlier this week. 00:56:10.610 --> 00:56:17.470 The PCE, which is the, oh my God, the damn, the PCE, 00:56:17.950 --> 00:56:27.290 it's the personal consumption expenditure index, which is basically what you're 00:56:27.290 --> 00:56:32.130 spending, not looking at prices, but how much you're actually spending. Okay. 00:56:32.290 --> 00:56:36.950 Are you having to spend more for stuff on aggregate? Okay. 00:56:38.110 --> 00:56:41.850 That went up 3.1% in January. Okay. 00:56:42.690 --> 00:56:48.630 And that's, you know, that means that for the same basket of stuff that you're 00:56:48.630 --> 00:56:51.870 buying, it's going up at an annual rate of 3.1%. 00:56:51.870 --> 00:56:55.650 That was like before this shock. 00:56:55.650 --> 00:57:06.430 Okay they revised fourth quarter gdp to be down 0.7 we are 100 percent in stagflation 00:57:06.430 --> 00:57:08.850 territory right now which. 00:57:08.850 --> 00:57:11.170 Means high inflation low growth correct. 00:57:11.170 --> 00:57:14.570 Right that's. 00:57:14.570 --> 00:57:15.290 Good though right. 00:57:17.350 --> 00:57:24.050 It's good if you're, like, half nostalgia for the late 1970s with, 00:57:24.070 --> 00:57:27.950 like, high unemployment, gas lines. 00:57:28.510 --> 00:57:29.830 It was a good time. 00:57:30.430 --> 00:57:37.190 You know, interest rates over 10%. If that's your, you know, 00:57:37.270 --> 00:57:41.250 make America great again theme, then okay. 00:57:41.950 --> 00:57:47.130 I'm sure that when Donald came up with that slogan, he was thinking about the 00:57:47.130 --> 00:57:48.050 Carter administration. 00:57:48.770 --> 00:57:51.850 Yeah, that was what he was looking at. It was the Carter administration. 00:57:51.970 --> 00:57:52.750 Which, by the way. 00:57:52.750 --> 00:57:54.770 A lot of those things were not Carter's fault. 00:57:55.110 --> 00:58:00.290 I mean, including, you know, Iran stuff, just to be clear. 00:58:00.670 --> 00:58:02.770 Including Iran, yeah. Fuck me. 00:58:05.150 --> 00:58:09.170 And by the way, a lot of that stuff was not Jimmy Carter's fault. 00:58:09.170 --> 00:58:12.250 He inherited a lot of this from the Nixon and Ford administration, 00:58:12.250 --> 00:58:16.030 from shit that happened before the Arab oil embargo, you know, 00:58:16.230 --> 00:58:20.230 other policies that were that were done in the past, the fucking hangover from 00:58:20.230 --> 00:58:23.790 the Vietnam War and all the spending happened with the Vietnam War. 00:58:23.970 --> 00:58:30.310 I mean, there was it was a bad hangover of an economy that he inherited. 00:58:30.670 --> 00:58:35.350 OK, with all these things happening at the same time. And and Iran. 00:58:36.330 --> 00:58:38.230 And fucking Iran again. 00:58:39.510 --> 00:58:45.430 So I don't know, like in trying to predict the future for this, 00:58:45.850 --> 00:58:53.070 because Trump is so unpredictable, you have the whole range of possibilities here. 00:58:53.290 --> 00:58:56.930 You have him declaring victory and going home within a few days. 00:58:57.290 --> 00:59:01.650 And of course, people have pointed out, even if he does, Iran has a vote. 00:59:02.450 --> 00:59:07.810 You know, like Iran doesn't have to stop hostilities because we decide that we're done. 00:59:07.810 --> 00:59:08.190 Correct. 00:59:08.610 --> 00:59:11.670 You know, that's very. 00:59:11.850 --> 00:59:17.830 That's totally correct. You know, I know that the, the, a lot of the countries 00:59:17.830 --> 00:59:23.430 in the Persian Gulf that are getting shot at are actively trying to make this 00:59:23.430 --> 00:59:26.350 stop. It's costing them billions. 00:59:26.350 --> 00:59:29.590 Well a whole lot of the area 00:59:29.590 --> 00:59:32.870 i mean they were trying to build brands around how 00:59:32.870 --> 00:59:35.670 they're safe and friendly and they're 00:59:35.670 --> 00:59:40.190 not like the rest of the middle east they're like you know it's a good place 00:59:40.190 --> 00:59:44.590 to do business hell it's a good place to go on vacation you know all this kind 00:59:44.590 --> 00:59:53.330 of stuff and and that brand is somewhat diminished by drones coming in and blowing 00:59:53.330 --> 00:59:55.430 things up somewhat Look. 00:59:55.990 --> 01:00:00.290 Recovering from this will be quite painful for them. 01:00:02.950 --> 01:00:09.410 I mean, a brand, like you said, that had been tried to be cultivated over decades... 01:00:11.720 --> 01:00:13.240 Has been shattered by this. 01:00:16.800 --> 01:00:25.440 So the happy side of the equation, I guess, is declare victory and go home and 01:00:25.440 --> 01:00:29.860 then live with the fact that you actually didn't make anything better for anybody. 01:00:30.100 --> 01:00:33.180 In fact, it looks like you probably made things worse. 01:00:33.480 --> 01:00:38.540 Like you killed some of the moderates that were potentially the hope for doing 01:00:38.540 --> 01:00:41.260 something better after the Ayatollah died naturally. 01:00:41.720 --> 01:00:45.360 And instead put into place somebody about venezuela 01:00:45.360 --> 01:00:49.920 and i was yesterday at the airport with my boss who is from venezuela by the 01:00:49.920 --> 01:00:55.720 way and he was we we were talking about this and you know what the you know 01:00:55.720 --> 01:00:59.060 what the deal is with venezuela and you know we've all forgotten about venezuela 01:00:59.060 --> 01:01:03.320 already okay by the way and how it's, 01:01:04.880 --> 01:01:11.140 It really hasn't improved as of now, the situation in Venezuela, 01:01:11.420 --> 01:01:14.780 even with this whole thing with them capturing Maduro. 01:01:15.180 --> 01:01:19.400 Has it really improved that he could go back to visit? 01:01:19.780 --> 01:01:22.560 No. As a matter of fact, one of the problems that he has, like, 01:01:22.660 --> 01:01:28.840 right now is that as many Venezuelans that are not in Venezuela is that they can't get passports. 01:01:30.220 --> 01:01:35.540 And if you try to get a passport i've seen people like brokering them and you 01:01:35.540 --> 01:01:43.780 have to pay like five thousand dollars for a passport and they can't they are not allowed to go home, 01:01:44.500 --> 01:01:49.780 without a venezuelan passport so these people are not can't go home. 01:01:49.780 --> 01:01:53.300 Well look here's the thing and 01:01:53.300 --> 01:01:56.420 i know we've said this before we're always very repetitive 01:01:56.420 --> 01:01:59.580 on the show repetitive on the show repetitive on 01:01:59.580 --> 01:02:02.920 the show but donald trump's 01:02:02.920 --> 01:02:05.760 goal in venezuela was never to make things better 01:02:05.760 --> 01:02:14.200 in venezuela ever that wasn't part of his plan his plan was at best it was i 01:02:14.200 --> 01:02:20.080 want somebody in there that i can make deals with to benefit me me that's it 01:02:20.080 --> 01:02:24.500 that's it and you can argue that he's potentially achieved that. 01:02:24.880 --> 01:02:26.940 Like, is he getting something out of this? 01:02:27.900 --> 01:02:33.700 Like, you know, I'm sure he is. Right. And that was, that was the goal goal achieved. 01:02:35.220 --> 01:02:40.140 Maybe he's got something similar going on in Iran. Have we checked out what 01:02:40.140 --> 01:02:42.460 kind of deals Kushner's got going on yet? 01:02:43.920 --> 01:02:47.920 Yeah, I mean, I think that's always the first thing to look at is what the hell? 01:02:48.220 --> 01:02:50.060 What deals does Kushner have? 01:02:50.640 --> 01:02:56.200 You know, anyway, the best scenario was the backing off, like, whatever. 01:02:56.200 --> 01:03:01.380 The worst case, of course, is we get sucked into something prolonged here because, 01:03:01.380 --> 01:03:07.320 you know, Iran continues to expand it. They have no reason not to. 01:03:08.540 --> 01:03:15.660 And we continue to get increasing chaos that lasts for an extended period of 01:03:15.660 --> 01:03:22.440 time, like years, not months, you know, it'll probably be somewhere in between that. Who knows? 01:03:22.620 --> 01:03:25.460 But like, that's the range of possibilities here. 01:03:26.200 --> 01:03:30.040 I mean, I saw one report, I don't know if this was confirmed yet, 01:03:30.780 --> 01:03:37.100 but that Iran, you know, there were negotiations happening between the U.S. 01:03:37.660 --> 01:03:42.340 Administration and Iran up until like literally days before we attacked them, right? 01:03:43.100 --> 01:03:48.800 And I saw one report that basically said, look, the Iranians had realized that 01:03:48.800 --> 01:03:51.420 all Donald really cared about was... 01:03:52.180 --> 01:03:56.500 Or at least what they thought all he really cared about, was bragging rights 01:03:56.500 --> 01:04:03.780 to be able to say, that deal Obama did was shit, and I got a better deal. 01:04:04.340 --> 01:04:11.780 So the Iranians were actually starting to offer things that went beyond the 01:04:11.780 --> 01:04:18.780 Obama deal in the hopes that Donald Trump would just do exactly that. 01:04:19.180 --> 01:04:21.960 Obama's deal was shit. I came up with something better. 01:04:22.180 --> 01:04:23.200 I got a better deal. 01:04:23.340 --> 01:04:29.760 Give me the Nobel Peace Prize again, please. You know, but that, no. 01:04:30.180 --> 01:04:36.020 Like, in the end, even though the Iranians were there and starting to offer 01:04:36.020 --> 01:04:39.820 stuff that was at least comparable and maybe better to the previous deal, 01:04:41.680 --> 01:04:47.700 the other voices got in Donald's head and convinced him that doing this would be better. 01:04:49.190 --> 01:04:56.130 Ah, nice. Well, I think, well, the voice that got to him was one. 01:04:57.210 --> 01:04:58.330 You're going to say Bibi? 01:04:59.010 --> 01:04:59.490 Yeah. 01:04:59.490 --> 01:05:03.710 I mean, I think he was definitely part of it, but I think we shouldn't pretend 01:05:03.710 --> 01:05:07.730 that there aren't a lot of folks on this side of the... 01:05:08.250 --> 01:05:12.550 Yeah, I think Bibi was very loud, but there are certainly people within his 01:05:12.550 --> 01:05:16.250 administration that were cheering that on. 01:05:16.250 --> 01:05:19.430 Now there were some that weren't like 01:05:19.430 --> 01:05:22.250 supposedly vance was not thrilled by this at 01:05:22.250 --> 01:05:25.230 all but was donald gonna pay attention to 01:05:25.230 --> 01:05:27.970 jd vance fuck that no of course 01:05:27.970 --> 01:05:35.250 not you know i mean and you know apparently there were people that were saying 01:05:35.250 --> 01:05:42.310 be careful donald straits of hormuz be careful donald iran can cause trouble 01:05:42.310 --> 01:05:46.190 be careful donald this won't be like your little attack before, 01:05:46.430 --> 01:05:50.370 this will be a big thing, and they were all just completely ignored. 01:05:51.350 --> 01:05:53.730 Well, so here we are. 01:05:54.050 --> 01:05:58.210 So here we are. Anything else to say, or should we take a break and move on? 01:05:58.390 --> 01:05:59.710 Nah, let's take a break. 01:06:00.050 --> 01:06:04.330 Okay. Break, break, break, break, break, break. 01:06:55.020 --> 01:06:56.340 And there's the end. 01:06:56.340 --> 01:06:59.220 Okay here's an interesting thing yes i 01:06:59.220 --> 01:07:02.160 i i had mentioned that when i went to uh 01:07:02.160 --> 01:07:05.080 on the slack i'd mentioned and when i went i got 01:07:05.080 --> 01:07:08.700 to miami all of a sudden me just 01:07:08.700 --> 01:07:11.960 well it was quite early in the morning it was 01:07:11.960 --> 01:07:15.580 4 45 in the morning i'm getting to the airport i'm like seeing this qatar 01:07:15.580 --> 01:07:18.840 airways plane parked there and usually in a 01:07:18.840 --> 01:07:21.660 location where it's never parked and i'm like why the fuck is 01:07:21.660 --> 01:07:25.260 this plane parked here and i'm like oh you idiot of course it 01:07:25.260 --> 01:07:28.760 can't go home right uh but then 01:07:28.760 --> 01:07:34.460 when i got back last night there were two of them okay okay so i'm like what 01:07:34.460 --> 01:07:40.240 the fuck well i just saw that one plane did come down from london from from 01:07:40.240 --> 01:07:45.740 qatar airways to miami yesterday but right now i i checked to see what aircraft 01:07:45.740 --> 01:07:48.380 are in the air for Qatar Airways right now. 01:07:48.620 --> 01:07:52.640 There are two aircraft right now that, according to Flight Radar, 01:07:53.740 --> 01:07:58.740 are supposedly flying to Doha right now. 01:07:59.100 --> 01:08:05.540 I don't know if they're carrying passengers, but there are, yeah, 01:08:05.780 --> 01:08:15.140 there are two flights that seem to be trying to land in Qatar today. 01:08:15.140 --> 01:08:20.120 So I'm not sure if they're just risking it and saying, fuck it. 01:08:21.900 --> 01:08:26.740 Or is there a material change right now in the situation that is allowing this right now to happen? 01:08:28.580 --> 01:08:31.560 Because there's one from Dallas, and there's one from Miami. 01:08:31.920 --> 01:08:36.880 They're both heading there, according to the flight plan. And they're in the air right now. 01:08:38.160 --> 01:08:41.760 So I just thought that was interesting. But anyway, all right. 01:08:41.920 --> 01:08:45.020 So I had picked that subject. So what do you want to talk about, Sam? 01:08:45.740 --> 01:08:51.040 Ah, geez. You know, you had mentioned... 01:08:51.200 --> 01:08:54.280 When we first started recording, I hadn't put anything on the list. 01:08:55.100 --> 01:08:59.420 Yeah. And there are two reasons for that. One, I will fully admit, 01:08:59.640 --> 01:09:02.860 I was not paying as much attention to this this week. 01:09:03.720 --> 01:09:09.480 I'm not going to give a full update here, but basically, I had my surgery thing on Monday. 01:09:09.560 --> 01:09:09.820 Uh-huh. 01:09:10.220 --> 01:09:14.840 Right. And as it turns out, there's one more step I have to do. 01:09:14.900 --> 01:09:19.380 It's just a doctor's office visit in a few days, but there's one more step I 01:09:19.380 --> 01:09:22.660 have to do. And so I still have, crap inside my body. 01:09:23.140 --> 01:09:28.000 And it's actually hurt more this time than last time around. 01:09:28.200 --> 01:09:32.200 So I've been spending a lot of time just sitting, doing nothing, 01:09:32.920 --> 01:09:37.660 watching TV with the kid, trying to avoid moving because moving hurts. 01:09:37.660 --> 01:09:40.580 So I haven't been paying as much attention to other things. 01:09:40.720 --> 01:09:44.380 And also just, you know, this goes to what we were talking about last week. 01:09:44.560 --> 01:09:46.860 You know, okay, war in Iran. 01:09:47.220 --> 01:09:50.060 Okay, big. but other than that how many 01:09:50.060 --> 01:09:53.220 big stories have there been this week they're not 01:09:53.220 --> 01:09:59.220 that many i'm i'm looking at like you know google news right now scrolling up 01:09:59.220 --> 01:10:06.720 and down and like let's see i i on the home page okay i ran stuff i ran stuff 01:10:06.720 --> 01:10:13.000 we did have you know a shooting and a synagogue attack. 01:10:13.660 --> 01:10:15.520 So we did have that kind of stuff. 01:10:16.200 --> 01:10:17.600 We, we have, Hey. 01:10:17.780 --> 01:10:20.380 But I, you were, you know, I tipped an election. 01:10:21.120 --> 01:10:25.200 I, I, I've thought about literally tipped an election. 01:10:25.700 --> 01:10:29.300 Okay, fine. Tell, I was going to talk about a few of these other things that 01:10:29.300 --> 01:10:33.160 are nothing, but since go ahead and do this one, then I can talk about more nothing. 01:10:33.620 --> 01:10:40.280 Basically, look, there was an election for mayor over here, the city of Boca, city of Boca Raton. 01:10:40.420 --> 01:10:44.380 Now, the reality is that this is a nonpart, a partisan election, 01:10:44.600 --> 01:10:49.100 the people we know, so theoretically, but no, but the reality is that I've been 01:10:49.100 --> 01:10:49.780 through these elections. 01:10:49.780 --> 01:10:55.640 Most of the time, there's no talk about the candidates have not in the past 01:10:55.640 --> 01:11:00.140 identified themselves as aligned, that they're doing this with the party or whatever. 01:11:00.560 --> 01:11:03.320 Most of the stuff that they do is pretty innocuous. 01:11:04.100 --> 01:11:10.780 But there was a controversy here related to a very big bill, 01:11:11.320 --> 01:11:15.380 a very big project that had been pushed by the previous mayor, 01:11:15.440 --> 01:11:22.220 who, he wasn't up for re-election, and he's actually in recent weeks declared 01:11:22.220 --> 01:11:24.840 himself as a kind of MAGA, 01:11:25.000 --> 01:11:31.100 I'm going to go MAGA-like guy, but he's more a rhino. 01:11:31.680 --> 01:11:35.720 And so he was going to run for the House under by the Republicans. 01:11:36.300 --> 01:11:42.120 As a matter of fact, I had no idea. Honestly, he had kept his political leanings pretty silent. 01:11:42.220 --> 01:11:45.040 I had no idea until recent times that he was even a Republican. 01:11:45.460 --> 01:11:48.220 Okay. I'd met this guy personally every time. I had no idea. 01:11:49.160 --> 01:11:53.980 But this development bill was passed by the city council downtown. 01:11:54.400 --> 01:12:03.060 A lot of people very loudly were opposing it. and a group of people were rallying, 01:12:03.790 --> 01:12:07.670 you know, people to vote against the development, okay? 01:12:07.990 --> 01:12:11.930 It was going to give a whole bunch of a big tract of public land, 01:12:12.050 --> 01:12:13.590 a 99-year lease to a developer. 01:12:14.210 --> 01:12:17.730 The city was going to make a significant amount of money, but a lot of people 01:12:17.730 --> 01:12:20.070 were opposed to the deal to the developer. 01:12:20.590 --> 01:12:23.590 And this caused, like, huge turnout. 01:12:23.830 --> 01:12:27.330 And when I'm talking about turnout is my wife, who ran a polling station, 01:12:27.470 --> 01:12:32.230 told me that in recent city elections, they had had, like, about a hundred voters show up. 01:12:32.590 --> 01:12:33.150 Okay. 01:12:33.170 --> 01:12:38.350 In this one, she had 450 people vote in her polling station. 01:12:38.550 --> 01:12:41.410 I mean, like four times the normal amount of people. 01:12:41.730 --> 01:12:44.030 So it drove turnout significantly. 01:12:44.970 --> 01:12:52.130 This coalition that was pushing for, I guess, to vote against the development, 01:12:52.870 --> 01:12:59.850 also had put a slate of people to be on the city council, but not actually someone to run for mayor. 01:13:00.630 --> 01:13:01.930 They hadn't endorsed anybody. 01:13:02.770 --> 01:13:08.150 The guy who is a Democrat on there that I believe he had been on the city council, 01:13:08.470 --> 01:13:14.270 he was he had come out and was personally against the development. 01:13:14.510 --> 01:13:17.370 But what he had said is, look, this is the will of the people. 01:13:17.390 --> 01:13:18.790 It's being put up to a vote. 01:13:19.330 --> 01:13:23.250 If the people want to do it, I'm going to follow the law and I'm going to, 01:13:23.270 --> 01:13:27.510 you know, do what the people vote for, even though I'm personally against it. 01:13:27.610 --> 01:13:33.330 But, you know, but that was his position. The other two were for what actually 01:13:33.330 --> 01:13:38.290 now that there's the other guy who came in second place. He was also against the project. 01:13:39.500 --> 01:13:43.720 I don't know. He was a Republican. So bottom line is that the deal, 01:13:43.900 --> 01:13:49.960 so much turnout, the slate in the city council that the Save Boca Coalition, 01:13:50.240 --> 01:13:54.380 as they're called, put up, they all swept their seats. They won. Okay. 01:13:55.400 --> 01:14:01.460 They won the seats. And then for the mayor, the guy that won was a guy that 01:14:01.460 --> 01:14:05.000 I think a lot of people do was a Democrat and he won and he won. 01:14:05.180 --> 01:14:06.800 Well, the first count came out. 01:14:07.000 --> 01:14:09.140 It was by one seat, by one vote. 01:14:09.900 --> 01:14:14.580 That was already a machine recount of the original count. 01:14:14.900 --> 01:14:17.860 Yeah, that's right. And I, shit, I didn't. 01:14:18.880 --> 01:14:20.720 One vote. One vote. 01:14:20.740 --> 01:14:25.760 One vote. And I almost didn't go to vote. Because I was like busy. 01:14:26.040 --> 01:14:26.880 There was only what? 01:14:26.880 --> 01:14:28.020 It was like 15,000. 01:14:28.140 --> 01:14:35.100 15,000 votes total. So this is like a relatively small election with not that 01:14:35.100 --> 01:14:36.740 many people voting to begin with. 01:14:36.880 --> 01:14:37.000 Right. 01:14:37.120 --> 01:14:37.900 Still one vote. 01:14:38.320 --> 01:14:41.180 It was one vote. But I almost didn't go, Sam. 01:14:42.480 --> 01:14:43.720 How would you have felt? 01:14:44.940 --> 01:14:50.680 Oh, my God. I would have been like, and I was voting for the guy, 01:14:50.920 --> 01:14:54.540 you know, for Andy Thompson. I was going to go vote for him, okay? 01:14:55.040 --> 01:14:59.000 I was like, no, no, no. I was like, no, fucking, I got to go vote. I got to go vote, okay? 01:14:59.200 --> 01:15:03.680 And so I went and I fucking went to vote. And when I saw that, I'm like, holy shit. 01:15:05.640 --> 01:15:09.220 Apparently a second recount that I think they did it came out that he was ahead 01:15:09.220 --> 01:15:16.200 by five so I guess he found like four you know four votes are you sure you'll have those in. 01:15:16.200 --> 01:15:18.260 The right order and the five was. 01:15:18.260 --> 01:15:23.100 After the one and not the one after five was after the one yeah five was after the one. 01:15:23.100 --> 01:15:24.540 That's still pretty close. 01:15:25.020 --> 01:15:28.080 That's still very close I mean occasionally you. 01:15:28.080 --> 01:15:31.940 Do get these exact tie elections that they like do coin flips and crap for. 01:15:31.940 --> 01:15:32.200 Yeah, 01:15:34.290 --> 01:15:39.390 I don't I do think that people make an ad a lot about this being the Democrat 01:15:39.390 --> 01:15:41.150 Republican or a thing or whatever. 01:15:41.490 --> 01:15:46.030 I think that this election doesn't really didn't really carry that. 01:15:46.250 --> 01:15:49.770 Well, the one thing I don't know, the one thing also, though, 01:15:50.010 --> 01:15:54.730 this was this was a final election, not a primary. Right. This is he's won. 01:15:54.850 --> 01:15:56.550 This is an election. This was the election. Yes. 01:15:56.670 --> 01:16:01.150 Right. And so what's what's interesting about this is another this is another 01:16:01.150 --> 01:16:03.510 one of these cases where you don't have. 01:16:03.510 --> 01:16:06.510 You know a rank choice you don't have a runoff you 01:16:06.510 --> 01:16:09.410 don't have a whatever because nobody got 01:16:09.410 --> 01:16:13.650 a majority here like basically and 01:16:13.650 --> 01:16:16.570 i know you say don't don't really count this as partisan because it's not quite 01:16:16.570 --> 01:16:22.470 the same thing but like if you add up the quote-unquote republicans they were 01:16:22.470 --> 01:16:27.610 way ahead there were more of them there were more but they were split and and 01:16:27.610 --> 01:16:32.530 this ties to i guess i I guess here's another topic that's related, 01:16:32.530 --> 01:16:35.530 since we're talking about split votes and that kind of stuff, 01:16:35.710 --> 01:16:39.250 which is the California governor's race that's happening right now. 01:16:39.850 --> 01:16:47.310 And for those who haven't been following that, California does have a primary. 01:16:48.390 --> 01:16:49.210 The jungle primary. 01:16:49.350 --> 01:16:54.130 But it's a jungle primary. And so what that means is the top two candidates 01:16:54.130 --> 01:16:58.930 end up in the general election regardless of party. 01:16:59.110 --> 01:17:03.830 So, like, if the top two are Democrat, you have a general election with two Democrats. 01:17:04.030 --> 01:17:07.550 If the top two are Republican, the general election is between two Republicans. 01:17:07.970 --> 01:17:13.470 And so what is happening right there in California right now is the Democrats 01:17:13.470 --> 01:17:17.650 are actually somewhat—California is a very Democratic state right now. 01:17:17.650 --> 01:17:23.750 You know, they tend to win by large margins in statewide elections, 01:17:23.750 --> 01:17:31.970 but there are like a thousand Democratic candidates and there's like two Republican 01:17:31.970 --> 01:17:34.290 candidates, maybe three or four, but two big ones. 01:17:35.430 --> 01:17:38.470 And if you look at recent polling... 01:17:39.190 --> 01:17:44.910 The two Republicans are coming in in the number one and number two slots because 01:17:44.910 --> 01:17:47.930 all of the Democrats are splitting the rest of the vote. 01:17:48.170 --> 01:17:53.690 Oh, God. With what percentage of the vote? Like with 30%, 30%, 40%, 35%? 01:17:53.910 --> 01:17:57.610 Less. Oh, God. Let me see if I can find some. 01:17:58.530 --> 01:18:04.450 I'll see if I can find some polling on this to actually get you. Hold on. Let me look. 01:18:05.650 --> 01:18:08.190 As I look this up. 01:18:09.550 --> 01:18:16.210 Let's see. Here we go. 270 to win. Blah, blah, blah. That UX sucks. 01:18:17.850 --> 01:18:21.050 Latest polls from RCP. Let's try this. 01:18:22.110 --> 01:18:27.190 Okay. So this one poll I'm looking at, well, 01:18:27.530 --> 01:18:31.530 just looking at the latest two polls, one has a Democrat in the lead, 01:18:31.610 --> 01:18:35.590 one has a Republican in the lead and it's not the 01:18:35.590 --> 01:18:38.450 ux is not helpful here but it has the 01:18:38.450 --> 01:18:42.690 the the leading candidate is just under 20 in 01:18:42.690 --> 01:18:51.550 these polls and with by the way something like 25 undecided okay so man so like 01:18:51.550 --> 01:18:57.370 people have been begging like democrats who are polling at like five or six 01:18:57.370 --> 01:18:59.830 percent to please drop out drop out. 01:19:00.070 --> 01:19:02.390 Drop out, drop the fuck out. 01:19:02.550 --> 01:19:07.970 You know, and we don't have, I forget exactly when this election is, 01:19:08.110 --> 01:19:09.870 but it's coming up before too long. 01:19:10.150 --> 01:19:16.050 And so, yeah, the worry is that two Republicans, neither one of which could 01:19:16.050 --> 01:19:22.190 ever, ever, ever win in California normally, might be up against each other 01:19:22.190 --> 01:19:24.910 with the Democrats shut out of the general election in California. 01:19:25.310 --> 01:19:25.750 Hmm. 01:19:27.200 --> 01:19:35.420 Now, 25% undecided, all they have to do is consolidate around some of the higher-ranking 01:19:35.420 --> 01:19:39.460 Democrats, and this problem goes away. So that may still happen. 01:19:39.720 --> 01:19:48.500 But still, you know, this is where, like, I like in general the idea of open primaries. 01:19:49.400 --> 01:19:55.140 Jungle primaries, things like this where it could be Democrat versus Democrat 01:19:55.140 --> 01:19:58.520 or Republican versus Republican, and if that's what the constituency is. 01:19:58.920 --> 01:20:03.460 But the straight-up jungle primary, I think, is the stupidest way of doing this. 01:20:03.680 --> 01:20:07.600 Like, if you're going to do something like this, you want something like rank-choice 01:20:07.600 --> 01:20:15.480 voting or instant runoffs or something like that where you take the people at 01:20:15.480 --> 01:20:19.620 the bottom and you redistribute their support and you keep doing that until 01:20:19.620 --> 01:20:20.740 somebody has a majority. 01:20:21.080 --> 01:20:26.200 You don't just say, okay, top two in the jungle primary go against each other 01:20:26.200 --> 01:20:29.380 Because then you get this kind of situation where where the top two got like 01:20:29.380 --> 01:20:35.980 17 percent and 13 percent or something like that and are not representative at all. 01:20:36.700 --> 01:20:41.140 And so I don't know. You may get some craziness here. 01:20:41.320 --> 01:20:47.220 I mean, I believe this is how Schwarzenegger won, too, in this kind of split 01:20:47.220 --> 01:20:54.000 where where the Democrats split and you ended up having a Republican sneak in. 01:20:54.000 --> 01:20:57.200 Now, in that case, you got a fairly moderate Republican. 01:20:57.640 --> 01:21:02.360 Arnold Schwarzenegger is not a crazy MAGA type. In fact, in more recent days, 01:21:02.380 --> 01:21:03.900 he's been very anti-MAGA. 01:21:05.460 --> 01:21:10.100 But I don't even know about these people at the top. 01:21:10.200 --> 01:21:14.940 I mean, I guess you should look into it, but I don't know. Crazy stuff. 01:21:15.540 --> 01:21:16.480 It is crazy stuff. 01:21:17.820 --> 01:21:22.920 Okay. Should, should, should, should, should I find something else to talk about to finish things up? 01:21:23.560 --> 01:21:25.080 Uh, let's see. Uh, 01:21:30.340 --> 01:21:30.340 yeah. 01:21:31.200 --> 01:21:31.600 Yeah. 01:21:31.760 --> 01:21:32.860 Because I picked that one too. 01:21:32.860 --> 01:21:40.300 Yeah, you've been picking everything, you know, and I feel like I have a duty to pick something. 01:21:40.960 --> 01:21:49.940 And look, I'll be a lighter, fluffier thing again. 01:21:50.680 --> 01:21:53.660 Just an off news. Yesterday morning. 01:21:54.600 --> 01:22:00.900 It was announced that, and this hits one of my special interests, 01:22:01.340 --> 01:22:08.580 Alex and I, amongst the other shows that we're watching, we're making our way through Doctor Who. 01:22:08.740 --> 01:22:11.780 From the very beginning, the 1960s Doctor Who's. 01:22:11.940 --> 01:22:12.060 Okay. 01:22:12.200 --> 01:22:17.040 We're actually into the 70s at this point. We're into the third Doctor in the 1970s at this point. 01:22:17.040 --> 01:22:26.000 But it is somewhat famous that a significant portion of the episodes from the 01:22:26.000 --> 01:22:30.660 1960s, the first and second Doctors in Doctor Who, are missing. 01:22:31.520 --> 01:22:39.540 Because the BBC, at one point, to save costs... 01:22:40.300 --> 01:22:40.480 Trashed them? 01:22:40.680 --> 01:22:45.520 Yes. Well, not trashed. They reused the videotape. they're like oh. 01:22:45.520 --> 01:22:49.900 Yeah and that's a common thing it wasn't just a bbc that's a common thing that happened. 01:22:49.900 --> 01:22:52.940 Yeah like a lot of the tonight show 01:22:52.940 --> 01:22:58.240 is missing for that same reason yeah a lot of american shows but you know basically 01:22:58.240 --> 01:23:03.500 they were like oh we we're we need to make this new show go get some scrap tape 01:23:03.500 --> 01:23:09.700 from that room over there and you know so they they taped over a bunch of these 01:23:09.700 --> 01:23:11.700 episodes so they're lost. 01:23:11.940 --> 01:23:15.820 And, you know, some were able to be recovered because they'd been distributed 01:23:15.820 --> 01:23:22.340 overseas and people found them in archives in Australia and Africa and wherever. 01:23:23.160 --> 01:23:25.040 But there were... 01:23:26.150 --> 01:23:32.430 It had been 13 years since the last one of these missing episodes had been found. 01:23:33.890 --> 01:23:38.870 But yesterday, it was announced that two more were found. Two more of these 01:23:38.870 --> 01:23:40.970 lost episodes. Oh, cool. 01:23:41.690 --> 01:23:48.390 And as it turns out, this was not in some TV station archive overseas where 01:23:48.390 --> 01:23:51.730 these things were shipped for broadcast in some other country. 01:23:51.730 --> 01:23:58.670 This was a private collector who had had these in their personal stash along 01:23:58.670 --> 01:24:02.390 with thousands of other, you know, they were a collector. 01:24:02.590 --> 01:24:07.630 They were a collector of rare film and videotape and other stuff. 01:24:08.030 --> 01:24:14.130 And they apparently were reluctant to come forward while they were alive. 01:24:14.870 --> 01:24:18.110 But once they died because there's some 01:24:18.110 --> 01:24:20.890 question on the legality of having possession of some 01:24:20.890 --> 01:24:24.230 of these things okay oh now 01:24:24.230 --> 01:24:27.030 now the bbc has said you know don't 01:24:27.030 --> 01:24:29.850 worry about it if you've got these things we'll be grateful to have them back 01:24:29.850 --> 01:24:34.830 just give them back you know but right but there's some question um anyway the 01:24:34.830 --> 01:24:41.590 guy died and his estate was going through his archives and got in touch with 01:24:41.590 --> 01:24:47.490 some film archival organization that's dedicated towards saving, 01:24:47.490 --> 01:24:48.630 you know, 01:24:48.830 --> 01:24:51.190 historical stuff like this. 01:24:51.470 --> 01:24:55.150 Okay. And they'd been going through his archives and finding stuff. 01:24:55.310 --> 01:25:01.050 And there may be other things as well in here, but amongst them were two of 01:25:01.050 --> 01:25:06.650 the archival, or two of the missing episodes. And let me be specific. 01:25:07.390 --> 01:25:12.210 It was from 19... 01:25:14.530 --> 01:25:20.070 Oh, come on. You know, if you're going to write an article about this, 01:25:20.230 --> 01:25:23.790 put the specifics in here. Let me find a better article. 01:25:24.510 --> 01:25:30.490 This one has some of the information, but not the specific information that I wanted to say. Okay. 01:25:31.670 --> 01:25:36.050 You know, websites suck. I go to another news site and it's full of pop-ups 01:25:36.050 --> 01:25:44.130 and like subscribe here and doesn't even have the article that I want. And okay. 01:25:51.520 --> 01:25:55.980 Oh, and I have to say I'm okay with cookies. That's important. 01:25:56.900 --> 01:26:03.040 Okay, these are from the third season from 1965. It's the first and third episodes 01:26:03.040 --> 01:26:07.440 of the 12-part epic called The Daleks' Master Plan. 01:26:08.460 --> 01:26:12.220 And so, like, more than half of this story is missing. 01:26:12.400 --> 01:26:16.260 Alex and I already watched this story. We watch reconstructions and stuff because 01:26:16.260 --> 01:26:22.780 people have made like take surviving snapshots and and put put put it together 01:26:22.780 --> 01:26:29.220 with because all of the audio survived because people at home would turn on 01:26:29.220 --> 01:26:31.540 their tape recorders and record the audio. 01:26:31.840 --> 01:26:35.420 So 100 percent of the audio survived from all of these. 01:26:35.720 --> 01:26:36.440 But it's the images. 01:26:36.780 --> 01:26:39.420 But it's the images that were missing. And for some of them, 01:26:39.580 --> 01:26:45.080 they had like production pictures where, you know, there were still images available. 01:26:45.460 --> 01:26:47.100 And sometimes there were little 01:26:47.100 --> 01:26:50.820 clips because a clip was used in a trailer and the trailer survived. 01:26:51.220 --> 01:26:54.680 So there were a few seconds here and there. And so people have made reconstruction. 01:26:54.680 --> 01:26:59.600 So we watched the reconstructions of the missing episodes as we went through these. 01:27:00.040 --> 01:27:04.000 But anyway, so private collection, they found this. They're restoring them. 01:27:04.140 --> 01:27:06.280 They will be available to the public in April. 01:27:06.940 --> 01:27:09.940 And yeah so cool news i 01:27:09.940 --> 01:27:13.400 guess it's one of those things where you 01:27:13.400 --> 01:27:16.800 know people had people had been starting to give up hope that 01:27:16.800 --> 01:27:20.440 any more of these missing episodes would ever been found but would ever be found 01:27:20.440 --> 01:27:24.200 because there were 13 years but with this people are like you know they're probably 01:27:24.200 --> 01:27:30.060 more in private collections still out there that people are just you know they 01:27:30.060 --> 01:27:33.240 don't want to give them up while they're alive but once they die maybe they'll 01:27:33.240 --> 01:27:35.320 come to light you know whatever. 01:27:36.700 --> 01:27:38.000 And, you know, so we'll see. 01:27:38.140 --> 01:27:41.420 Now, you know, these 1960s episodes... 01:27:42.740 --> 01:27:49.740 You know, it's a, it's an acquired taste. This, you know, the special effects were horrible. 01:27:50.800 --> 01:27:54.900 The acting was not super great. Like, you know, some people, 01:27:55.100 --> 01:27:56.820 some of the actors were better than others. 01:27:57.280 --> 01:28:04.700 The plots were relatively thin, very slowly paced. Like this is a 12 part episode, 12 part story. 01:28:04.920 --> 01:28:10.040 Each episode is like 20 something minutes long. and, you know, 01:28:10.100 --> 01:28:13.820 these artificial, like, cliffhangers to draw it out. 01:28:14.040 --> 01:28:19.780 And, you know, Alex and I have been enjoying them because you can make fun of 01:28:19.780 --> 01:28:21.580 the things that are bad about it. 01:28:22.180 --> 01:28:26.040 But anyway, they found two new episodes. So that's exciting. 01:28:26.440 --> 01:28:30.740 And maybe someday somebody will find those Johnny Carson episodes, 01:28:31.180 --> 01:28:36.300 those, you know, early Tonight Show episodes, you know, or other things. 01:28:36.300 --> 01:28:43.420 But it is amazing to think about how, you know, these aren't that long ago. 01:28:44.000 --> 01:28:47.660 And it is hard to find some of this stuff. 01:28:47.760 --> 01:28:52.700 I remember there was another story in the U.S. 01:28:52.980 --> 01:28:55.360 And I forget which shows this impacted. 01:28:55.980 --> 01:29:07.240 But there were a bunch. There was some lady that just literally VHS taped everything 01:29:07.240 --> 01:29:11.260 she watched for like 30 years before she died. 01:29:11.380 --> 01:29:11.940 That's a lot of tapes. 01:29:12.240 --> 01:29:19.100 That's a lot of tapes. She had rooms full of VHS tapes of like everything. 01:29:19.100 --> 01:29:28.740 And her collection her collection ended up being the only remaining like and, 01:29:29.740 --> 01:29:36.480 archive tape of some like critically important historical episodes of like several 01:29:36.480 --> 01:29:42.380 TV shows and some news events and some other stuff that turned out nobody was 01:29:42.380 --> 01:29:45.200 keeping this shit, but she was, you know? 01:29:45.660 --> 01:29:48.460 Look, I, I, I still, I remember that back then. 01:29:48.560 --> 01:29:53.800 And I, I, I, I, I don't know what happened with all the tapes that I made, but I, I had, 01:29:54.940 --> 01:29:58.120 collection of stuff that i taped that 01:29:58.120 --> 01:30:01.700 was there were several hundred tapes there okay 01:30:01.700 --> 01:30:04.520 of many different things like that and some 01:30:04.520 --> 01:30:10.180 of them were in one tape there probably had been like multiple episodes of things 01:30:10.180 --> 01:30:14.800 because the tapes were multi-hour tapes and so you know you you just wouldn't 01:30:14.800 --> 01:30:19.240 use one tape for something maybe i recorded four or five episodes of a tv show 01:30:19.240 --> 01:30:21.960 on on a tape or something. Oh, my God. 01:30:22.340 --> 01:30:26.460 Oh, my God. You have a tape. What the fuck is on that tape? 01:30:26.540 --> 01:30:31.960 I've got a case full of tapes here. I'm picking out two at random. 01:30:32.340 --> 01:30:36.500 Well, this one's not labeled, so who knows what that is. Let's find. 01:30:36.880 --> 01:30:40.620 These are labeled only with Roman numerals, so I don't know what those are. 01:30:41.020 --> 01:30:50.400 But the one I picked here, It has a November of 1988 edition of a TV show called 01:30:50.400 --> 01:30:54.540 World Monitor that apparently my dad was a guest on, 01:30:54.680 --> 01:30:57.860 and The Wizard of Oz taped off TV. 01:31:00.140 --> 01:31:01.000 There you go. 01:31:01.240 --> 01:31:06.380 Let's see what else we got. Let me try to pick up another random tape here. 01:31:07.980 --> 01:31:14.320 Oh, that's off a camcorder, something with my dad. Oh, this one's a classic. 01:31:15.260 --> 01:31:15.460 Yeah. 01:31:17.180 --> 01:31:25.360 November 26th, 1988. My appearance on the It's Academic game show in the Washington. 01:31:25.580 --> 01:31:30.640 D.C. area. Hey, we got to digitize that. Come on. 01:31:31.020 --> 01:31:35.380 And also on the same tape, Dallas, the early years. 01:31:36.140 --> 01:31:36.540 Ha ha! 01:31:38.930 --> 01:31:41.610 Anyway, hey, we got to digitize that one. 01:31:41.870 --> 01:31:49.930 I think, yeah, I think somebody else digitized that already, 01:31:49.930 --> 01:31:51.730 but I don't know if I know where to find it. 01:31:51.850 --> 01:31:57.650 I have some still pictures from it, but I haven't seen that video in a while. 01:31:58.150 --> 01:32:04.170 Of course, he also has these digital audio tapes of our old Curmudgeon Corner 01:32:04.170 --> 01:32:06.130 podcast somewhere, which, you know. 01:32:07.150 --> 01:32:12.950 Someday maybe it'll be found or or you know maybe it was lost in a move someday i don't know. 01:32:12.950 --> 01:32:18.110 Like or maybe they or maybe we'll go put pop the tapes in like as happened with 01:32:18.110 --> 01:32:22.970 like old backup tapes that i i had that once happened i popped in the tapes that they were blank. 01:32:24.030 --> 01:32:25.530 Right that would suck. 01:32:25.530 --> 01:32:30.950 Yeah all right well i think we we can end it we. 01:32:30.950 --> 01:32:34.150 Can end it early we don't we We don't have to stretch it out to make our. 01:32:34.150 --> 01:32:36.510 Two-hour money. No, you didn't have things. 01:32:36.550 --> 01:32:39.730 I was ill-prepared. I was ill-prepared. 01:32:40.030 --> 01:32:46.550 We did have that plantier guy making comments about how AI would marginalize, 01:32:46.550 --> 01:32:48.050 like, smart women or something. 01:32:48.770 --> 01:32:49.950 No, smart people. 01:32:50.210 --> 01:32:53.770 Smart people in general. Well, he specifically called out women, too. 01:32:54.130 --> 01:32:57.190 Oh, he did. I didn't hear that part. 01:32:57.190 --> 01:33:03.230 Oh, yeah, yeah. He was like, this will, this will enable the, 01:33:03.390 --> 01:33:09.610 this will increase the power of working class men and diminish the power of 01:33:09.610 --> 01:33:10.650 like those uppity women. 01:33:15.210 --> 01:33:16.950 Yep. Awesome, huh? 01:33:17.910 --> 01:33:24.970 Very much so. Anyway, shall we end? Are you looking for anything new? 01:33:25.270 --> 01:33:28.370 No, no, we don't have anything. Let's just wrap it up. 01:33:28.370 --> 01:33:32.770 You know, you were complaining just like last week or the week before about 01:33:32.770 --> 01:33:35.150 all these crazy weeks with so much happening. 01:33:35.270 --> 01:33:39.410 You know, I already picked a couple of subjects. It's okay. We can end it early. 01:33:39.410 --> 01:33:44.170 Well, you know, but the thing is, like, I honestly don't feel like there was. 01:33:44.170 --> 01:33:49.430 I mean, obviously, the war in Iran is huge, but I don't feel like there was 01:33:49.430 --> 01:33:51.910 anything else really big and exciting. 01:33:52.050 --> 01:33:54.990 I was looking through lists of news, and I was like, I don't care about that. 01:33:55.050 --> 01:33:57.290 I don't care about that. I don't need to talk about that. 01:33:57.630 --> 01:34:00.570 Okay, that, you know, okay. So we can end it early. 01:34:00.750 --> 01:34:01.210 You know? 01:34:01.550 --> 01:34:03.150 It's good. It's not a big deal. 01:34:03.630 --> 01:34:08.510 Could go back to murder by death. No, we'll leave that for next week, like we said. Okay. 01:34:09.230 --> 01:34:15.030 Thank you for joining us for Curmudgeons Corner again. go to curmudgeons-corner.com. 01:34:15.570 --> 01:34:19.170 You can find all the ways to contact us. You can find our archives, 01:34:19.370 --> 01:34:21.970 you can find transcripts, you can find all that fun stuff. 01:34:22.230 --> 01:34:28.610 You can also find a link to our Patreon where you can give us money and at various levels, 01:34:29.500 --> 01:34:34.480 You can get us mentioning you on the show, us ringing a bell, 01:34:34.880 --> 01:34:40.340 us sending you a postcard, us sending you a mug, all these exciting things. 01:34:40.620 --> 01:34:47.540 Or at $2 a month or more, or if you just ask nicely, you can get invited to 01:34:47.540 --> 01:34:51.340 our Commissions Core Slack where Yvonne and I and others are chatting and sharing 01:34:51.340 --> 01:34:52.820 links throughout the week. 01:34:53.200 --> 01:34:57.460 So Yvonne, I guess for our one last thing, what's something fun and exciting 01:34:57.460 --> 01:35:00.060 from the slack that we have not mentioned on the show. 01:35:00.300 --> 01:35:07.160 Well, Sam went to the post office and there's a sign there, okay, 01:35:07.400 --> 01:35:10.940 about what to do to get your packages ready. 01:35:11.340 --> 01:35:14.880 Is your packages. Is your packages. 01:35:14.980 --> 01:35:15.920 Yes, is your packages. 01:35:16.480 --> 01:35:23.460 Is your packages. And returns ready to mail. Tapped up. Packaged. Label tapped down. 01:35:24.280 --> 01:35:28.760 Written addressed. Tape is for sale on the retail wall. 01:35:29.400 --> 01:35:34.540 Please only service pets allowed inside. Thank you. So you tapped it, 01:35:34.640 --> 01:35:36.920 huh? Did you tap your packages? 01:35:37.160 --> 01:35:39.260 I tapped it at the post office, indeed. 01:35:39.500 --> 01:35:45.040 Nice. Nice. Very nice, Sam. Very nice. Very good. 01:35:45.200 --> 01:35:47.100 You know, they needed to see my package. 01:35:47.600 --> 01:35:49.540 Yes, they needed to see your package. 01:35:51.100 --> 01:35:54.200 Make sure it was tapped up. Another thing 01:35:54.200 --> 01:36:00.820 that I found kind of funny was that Musk actually somewhere admitted that his 01:36:00.820 --> 01:36:07.520 whole thing that he's done with XAI and how he's decided to try to make it into 01:36:07.520 --> 01:36:12.180 some kind of like unwoke chatbot. 01:36:12.360 --> 01:36:17.400 I guess it's led to an exodus of employees that he really doesn't have. 01:36:17.820 --> 01:36:17.900 Surprise. 01:36:17.900 --> 01:36:23.580 Yeah, that they don't really want to work over there to do the shit that he 01:36:23.580 --> 01:36:27.280 wants XAI to do. How shocking. 01:36:28.100 --> 01:36:34.580 You know, but isn't his whole mode of operation to fire everybody anyway? So what's the big deal? 01:36:34.600 --> 01:36:38.080 Well, the thing is that, you know, there's a thing of like him wanting to fire 01:36:38.080 --> 01:36:40.360 people. The thing is that he started this company himself. 01:36:40.540 --> 01:36:46.020 So he had been doing the hiring. The problem is that he can't keep the people he wants to keep. 01:36:48.420 --> 01:36:51.340 Well then you know he didn't really want them after 01:36:51.340 --> 01:36:57.100 all right although apparently from what you sent over to the slack he is going 01:36:57.100 --> 01:37:02.400 through he is ordering people to go back through old interviews yeah for people 01:37:02.400 --> 01:37:09.040 that they turned down to reevaluate them and right maybe ask them to come after all. 01:37:09.040 --> 01:37:17.920 Yes it's so stupid i don't know how the hell he keeps any but i it's just it's just, 01:37:19.550 --> 01:37:22.870 It's amazing that any he runs actually runs. 01:37:25.470 --> 01:37:29.410 Yes. And I don't know. 01:37:29.630 --> 01:37:37.550 There's just so much that right now I feel like, I mean, not only his companies, 01:37:37.770 --> 01:37:43.890 but other companies too, are trying to figure out a lot of things. 01:37:44.730 --> 01:37:49.830 Specifically in response to ai but also in response to trump also in response 01:37:49.830 --> 01:37:55.490 to other things and there's a lot of there's a lot of flailing going on i mean 01:37:55.490 --> 01:38:01.490 some of the stuff will stick and work some of it will not and i don't know it 01:38:01.490 --> 01:38:03.790 seems like we're it's a very chaotic time, 01:38:04.850 --> 01:38:10.170 and i feel like we're in for more chaos before things stabilize again i don't know. 01:38:10.170 --> 01:38:14.570 I think a A lot of it is just a lack of understanding what things are and what 01:38:14.570 --> 01:38:16.890 they can do and what they can't do and so forth. 01:38:17.050 --> 01:38:24.190 And, you know, and we have had like waves of tech that have been confusing in this way before. 01:38:24.910 --> 01:38:29.470 I mean, look, remember the dot bomb, the dot bomb, the dot, the dot, 01:38:29.590 --> 01:38:35.450 the dot, the dot com crash in part was because we kept building shit. 01:38:35.570 --> 01:38:37.330 We didn't really understand what the fuck we were doing. 01:38:37.470 --> 01:38:40.410 We're just playing with it. We didn't know what could make money, 01:38:40.570 --> 01:38:43.170 what didn't make money, what was value, what was not value. 01:38:45.590 --> 01:38:52.030 It was just a lot of that. I think that you've got a lot of that confusion in 01:38:52.030 --> 01:38:53.150 a lot of different places. 01:38:53.930 --> 01:38:58.290 And the one thing that I might take away from all of this shit that they were 01:38:58.290 --> 01:39:02.930 talking about recently, most people, is this lack of understanding that tools are tools. 01:39:03.530 --> 01:39:07.910 And that, you know what, if you give an idiot a tool, it doesn't matter how 01:39:07.910 --> 01:39:12.010 good a tool is, the idiot is not going to get value out of the tool because the guy's an idiot! 01:39:15.720 --> 01:39:18.200 It doesn't matter how good a tool it is. 01:39:20.820 --> 01:39:21.960 But, yeah. 01:39:22.220 --> 01:39:26.280 But a lot of people over time, I mean, this is historical. 01:39:28.580 --> 01:39:34.000 Keep thinking that the tool will overcome the stupidity of the person there. 01:39:34.160 --> 01:39:38.520 I still remember this was a big thing in the 1980s with GM with robots. 01:39:39.160 --> 01:39:42.460 They were going to robotize the entire production line, blah, 01:39:42.560 --> 01:39:45.240 blah, blah. We're going to, you know, we're going to take the people out. 01:39:45.300 --> 01:39:48.700 This is the whole thing. And it turned into a fucking disaster. 01:39:49.180 --> 01:39:49.560 Okay. 01:39:50.180 --> 01:39:54.500 It turned into a complete disaster where a lot of the robots had to be scrapped. 01:39:55.390 --> 01:39:59.650 Because even still, the robots depended on a proper process, 01:39:59.650 --> 01:40:04.330 somebody telling them what to do correctly, managing it, doing it. 01:40:04.450 --> 01:40:10.270 And in the end, the robots just were not that as efficient as they thought they would be. 01:40:10.550 --> 01:40:15.910 So it was but it was another thing where it's not that the robots didn't have their place. 01:40:16.770 --> 01:40:21.910 It's just that everybody overestimated what the robots could do and then wound 01:40:21.910 --> 01:40:25.750 up having to scrap a whole bunch of that automation because the automation turned 01:40:25.750 --> 01:40:28.130 out to be more expensive, wasteful, and stupid. 01:40:28.130 --> 01:40:33.790 Well, and it's also a question of timing, too. Like, some things that were not 01:40:33.790 --> 01:40:39.650 actually practical and the best way to do things at point A in time, 01:40:40.090 --> 01:40:42.830 three or four years later actually were. 01:40:43.250 --> 01:40:43.730 Correct. 01:40:43.950 --> 01:40:48.790 You know, because people were just getting ahead of where the technology actually was. 01:40:48.870 --> 01:40:52.130 Yeah, they were getting ahead. They were getting behind. It's one of those things. 01:40:52.230 --> 01:40:55.490 I mean, shit. Yeah, I mean, it's just engaging that. 01:40:55.610 --> 01:40:59.330 Look, it's part of what's happened with the EV industry like right now. 01:41:01.730 --> 01:41:06.550 It's not that electric cars are disappearing or like people. 01:41:06.630 --> 01:41:07.670 People get all the wrong impressions. 01:41:07.770 --> 01:41:09.670 Oh, my God, nobody's buying an electric car. That's not the case. 01:41:09.730 --> 01:41:10.470 That's not what's happening. 01:41:10.610 --> 01:41:14.810 It's a thing of like where the market is and whether you're trying to sell too 01:41:14.810 --> 01:41:16.450 many of them or too little of them. 01:41:16.610 --> 01:41:19.750 We had a period where there were not enough cars. There was more demand and 01:41:19.750 --> 01:41:24.730 prices went up. And now there's a period where all of a sudden the man does not cut up to where... 01:41:25.930 --> 01:41:29.250 Production is and so it creates 01:41:29.250 --> 01:41:34.350 these these issues with you know with companies right now where they're over 01:41:34.350 --> 01:41:38.890 you know they overbuilt and now they're scaling back and then i'm going to tell 01:41:38.890 --> 01:41:44.190 you right now with gas i can guarantee you one thing gas at this price guess 01:41:44.190 --> 01:41:47.130 what's going to get a boost yeah. 01:41:47.130 --> 01:41:53.850 Like i i i'm i haven't i haven't pumped gas since i bought my car in july. 01:41:54.350 --> 01:41:54.790 Yeah. 01:41:55.410 --> 01:41:59.730 And I'm quite happy with that. I don't miss it one tiny bit. 01:42:00.250 --> 01:42:04.210 Nope. My wife's just said the same thing. She doesn't miss the fucking going 01:42:04.210 --> 01:42:08.130 to a gas. I mean, she was always, like, horrible about running low on gas regularly. 01:42:08.450 --> 01:42:11.610 And that the fact that she doesn't have to worry about it anymore is just. 01:42:11.730 --> 01:42:17.550 Like, so liberating. Yeah. And just plug it in overnight. I'm good. You know? 01:42:17.690 --> 01:42:21.210 It's here at home. And you just plug it in over there. And the car's ready to go. That's it. 01:42:22.310 --> 01:42:23.910 Yeah. So. anyway. 01:42:24.590 --> 01:42:25.090 All right. 01:42:25.330 --> 01:42:28.470 Okay. We are done. Thank you everybody for joining us for yet another Curmudgeon's 01:42:28.470 --> 01:42:30.490 Corner. Stay safe. Have fun. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, 01:42:30.490 --> 01:42:32.610 blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Happy Pi Day. 01:42:33.710 --> 01:42:34.810 Pi, Pi Day. 01:42:34.930 --> 01:42:37.910 By the time you listen to this, it won't be Pi Day anymore. It won't be Pi Day. 01:42:38.010 --> 01:42:41.610 But you know, we're recording it on Pi Day and that's all that really matters, right? 01:42:42.430 --> 01:42:45.790 Our experience is what matters, not your experience as a listener. 01:42:46.470 --> 01:42:46.830 Exactly. 01:42:47.090 --> 01:42:49.890 Who the fuck cares about you? That's, it's all about us. 01:42:51.140 --> 01:42:53.680 Oh, actually, as a matter of fact, as I just finished saying that, 01:42:53.820 --> 01:42:56.240 there's an article like right now that came out on Bloomberg. 01:42:56.740 --> 01:43:00.980 Surging gas prices reignite EV interest. No shit. 01:43:01.660 --> 01:43:08.400 Maybe that's what Trump is trying to reignite the EV industry. That's what he's doing. 01:43:08.400 --> 01:43:09.800 Well this. 01:43:09.800 --> 01:43:15.040 Is this is he's playing chess sam it's 5d chess that's. 01:43:15.040 --> 01:43:18.680 What it is the 5g 5 5d chess 01:43:18.680 --> 01:43:21.600 theory that i heard about 01:43:21.600 --> 01:43:25.060 this is that he is intentionally raising 01:43:25.060 --> 01:43:28.080 oil prices because that will put 01:43:28.080 --> 01:43:30.840 additional first of all you know he 01:43:30.840 --> 01:43:33.880 relaxed some of the sanctions on russia 01:43:33.880 --> 01:43:36.660 uh so they could sell some oil so that helps out 01:43:36.660 --> 01:43:39.840 putin also the increased the increased 01:43:39.840 --> 01:43:43.300 oil prices will put a lot of pressure on europe and 01:43:43.300 --> 01:43:46.240 further weaken them and cause them 01:43:46.240 --> 01:43:52.900 to reassess their positions vis-a-vis ukraine and russia and nato and everything 01:43:52.900 --> 01:44:01.560 else and so and also while he doesn't like oil prices are not popular amongst 01:44:01.560 --> 01:44:04.940 the high oil prices are not popular amongst the general populace, 01:44:05.140 --> 01:44:13.240 he has a bunch of buddies who own oil companies who will enjoy the higher prices. 01:44:13.520 --> 01:44:18.040 And so that's what matters here. And that's the 5G chess that's going on here, 01:44:18.560 --> 01:44:21.760 or 5D chess, not G. 5G is a different thing. 01:44:22.480 --> 01:44:25.440 He'd probably play 5G chess, actually. What are we talking about? 01:44:25.800 --> 01:44:30.320 So it's helping all the people he cares about. It's helping Putin. 01:44:30.760 --> 01:44:35.920 It's hurting the Europeans. It's helping his buddies at the oil companies. Done. 01:44:37.420 --> 01:44:39.600 There you go. Okay, we're done. 01:44:42.400 --> 01:44:47.000 Yes, sure. Okay, goodbye, everybody. We'll see you next week. 01:44:47.320 --> 01:44:49.460 We're out of here. Yeah, bye. 01:45:20.140 --> 01:45:23.380 Okay, that's it. Heading stop. Later, Yvonne. Have a good weekend. 01:45:23.860 --> 01:45:24.260 Okay. 01:45:24.440 --> 01:45:24.560 Bye. 01:45:25.060 --> 01:45:25.460 Bye.