WEBVTT 00:00:00.010 --> 00:00:00.270 Oh! 00:00:00.750 --> 00:00:01.450 Hello! 00:00:04.030 --> 00:00:05.710 Volume, volume, volume. 00:00:06.870 --> 00:00:12.530 Here we go. Here we go. It's starting up. Almost there. 00:00:13.210 --> 00:00:14.550 Almost there. 00:00:14.950 --> 00:00:19.090 Almost there. That song. That is a song. 00:00:21.590 --> 00:00:28.150 From the thing. There we go. Almost there. From the Princess and the Frog. 00:00:29.290 --> 00:00:34.970 good song Disney movie 2009 Disney movie thumbs up. 00:00:34.970 --> 00:00:39.810 I don't remember this movie I must have missed. 00:00:40.570 --> 00:00:47.890 It's a good Disney movie there's the girl in New Orleans and there's a prince 00:00:47.890 --> 00:00:53.110 they both get turned into frogs and then they go through an adventure to get 00:00:53.110 --> 00:00:58.430 back and she gets her spoilers there's a happy ending. 00:00:58.810 --> 00:01:03.470 Although there are sad things along the way. There you go. Okay. 00:01:03.850 --> 00:01:07.370 Disney movies have a tendency to include some sad thing in them. 00:01:07.930 --> 00:01:10.390 Somebody dies, you know. 00:01:10.390 --> 00:01:16.070 Well, it's a whole, like, trope that in almost all Disney movies, 00:01:16.070 --> 00:01:19.070 the main character's parents die near the beginning. 00:01:19.110 --> 00:01:19.970 Die. Right, right. 00:01:19.970 --> 00:01:20.250 Yes. 00:01:20.310 --> 00:01:26.850 Yeah. Yeah. It's like, you know, it's really awful. if you think about it. 00:01:26.850 --> 00:01:31.770 Yeah okay shall shall we go here comes, 00:01:56.450 --> 00:02:03.250 Welcome to Curmudgeon's Corner for Saturday, March 28th, 2026. 00:02:03.290 --> 00:02:08.690 It's just after 1630 UTC as we're starting to record. I am Sam Minter. 00:02:09.450 --> 00:02:15.270 Yvonne Bowe is back with us again this week. And yeah, so hello, Yvonne. How was Texas? 00:02:16.490 --> 00:02:17.490 Very Texany. 00:02:18.030 --> 00:02:18.890 Very Texany? 00:02:19.370 --> 00:02:19.890 Yeah. 00:02:20.770 --> 00:02:25.690 Did you have a good time with all your flights and TSA and all that kind of nonsense? 00:02:26.290 --> 00:02:30.150 Absolutely. None of that was an issue. Okay. 00:02:30.850 --> 00:02:36.930 You know, we, Miami, there was no lines. 00:02:37.330 --> 00:02:38.990 There's no ICE agents either. 00:02:39.650 --> 00:02:39.910 Mm-hmm. 00:02:41.130 --> 00:02:47.910 And so that was uneventful. Manu, you know, was discussed a long time ago. 00:02:47.910 --> 00:02:53.350 The main thing that I was trying to, we didn't have a lot of time for a vacation this year. 00:02:54.710 --> 00:02:57.630 my work my wife is taking 00:02:57.630 --> 00:03:03.210 a class at the university the spring break for the university doesn't coincide 00:03:03.210 --> 00:03:11.410 with the spring break for manu's school it left very little time for any vacation 00:03:11.410 --> 00:03:15.950 okay right and so we wound up only going i was like, 00:03:18.330 --> 00:03:25.310 i was trying to i was trying to make sure that manu could fly somewhere Right Anywhere Okay, 00:03:26.230 --> 00:03:32.530 I had been When I had been in Texas Back for my surgery Months back I had had 00:03:32.530 --> 00:03:36.810 some blood work With a With my With a doctor, 00:03:38.550 --> 00:03:43.050 With my sister-in-law Who's a doctor She actually wanted to check How it was 00:03:43.050 --> 00:03:47.730 doing And so I was like Well what the hell Let's just all go to Texas Let's 00:03:47.730 --> 00:03:49.370 visit my brother I mean what the hell It's not like, 00:03:50.790 --> 00:03:54.050 You know, so let's just go. I mean, what the heck? I mean, it wasn't my brother. 00:03:54.210 --> 00:03:58.190 I mean, we have a good time. So we did. We went over there. We had a good time. Manu had a great time. 00:03:59.910 --> 00:04:03.670 Manu, you know, in between the fact that I took him on that flight simulator, 00:04:03.830 --> 00:04:06.950 I don't know if I discussed that. I can't remember. 00:04:07.210 --> 00:04:10.350 I know you talked about it on the curmudgeon's course Slack. 00:04:10.530 --> 00:04:11.810 I'm not sure you mentioned it on the show. 00:04:11.990 --> 00:04:15.210 No. So I, you know, one of the things that I was doing in order to acclimate 00:04:15.210 --> 00:04:19.790 Manu to get back the flying was that I was able to get them, 00:04:20.210 --> 00:04:22.750 get some, book some time at a flight simulator. 00:04:22.870 --> 00:04:26.310 It looked like a real A320 cockpit. 00:04:26.530 --> 00:04:30.390 Just to be clear, we're talking about not like you're running it on your little 00:04:30.390 --> 00:04:32.830 computer, but a full-fledged, big. 00:04:32.950 --> 00:04:38.250 Like... A full-fledged cockpit experience, you know, this really felt like, 00:04:38.390 --> 00:04:46.070 it's not completely like the one that pilots use, but it's a very good one, okay? Okay. 00:04:46.670 --> 00:04:51.530 And, you know, it was a full cockpit. Actually, I believe that pilots do use 00:04:51.530 --> 00:04:58.910 this for ground school because it's, but this is not the ones that they use 00:04:58.910 --> 00:05:00.430 for certification. Okay. 00:05:00.650 --> 00:05:06.230 Okay. So it wasn't the one on a big, like, hydraulic platform that moves and stuff. Yeah. 00:05:06.310 --> 00:05:09.450 Yeah. I mean, those are the ones that they use for certification flights and 00:05:09.450 --> 00:05:14.370 other stuff. But this one, for ground school to train, this is good enough to 00:05:14.370 --> 00:05:18.530 train a pilot on an A320 for grounds. That's for sure. Okay? 00:05:18.770 --> 00:05:24.010 Make sure that they know how to operate the controls. Make sure they know how to set destinations. 00:05:24.290 --> 00:05:28.830 Make sure that they can, everything replicates truly an A320. 00:05:29.710 --> 00:05:33.930 I got it. Manu had a blast with it. I had a blast with it. 00:05:34.560 --> 00:05:42.200 And the pilot was a little bit like, well, he did ask me, do you have any flight experience? 00:05:42.400 --> 00:05:44.940 And I'm like, yes, I do. It's not been a long time. 00:05:45.220 --> 00:05:49.580 But the thing is, I sat behind the controls and I've watched enough videos and 00:05:49.580 --> 00:05:54.260 things and used different flight simulator software that I know what I'm looking 00:05:54.260 --> 00:05:59.520 at when I'm looking at an A320, you know, display. 00:05:59.860 --> 00:06:03.360 So when he set it up, I know that I've, listen, I've got the controls. 00:06:03.360 --> 00:06:07.420 He had set the auto throttles. I didn't have to mess with those. He set the speed. 00:06:07.620 --> 00:06:10.160 He lined us up for landing. 00:06:10.680 --> 00:06:15.460 And I know that on the artificial horizon, what I got to do is when he set it 00:06:15.460 --> 00:06:21.080 up in the ILS, the thing that Airbus aircraft have is this really cool flight director thing. 00:06:21.380 --> 00:06:25.240 And the flight director, basically, it's like these couple of things on the 00:06:25.240 --> 00:06:29.580 artificial horizon where, listen, you just need to keep it lined up with that 00:06:29.580 --> 00:06:35.380 and you will land the plane. Now, it's not as easy as it sounds, okay? All right? 00:06:35.540 --> 00:06:35.820 Okay, yeah. 00:06:36.600 --> 00:06:40.780 Okay, it does take some skill and you using the controls to do it. 00:06:40.880 --> 00:06:46.580 But if you've had some skill at using the controls to do it, okay, you could do... 00:06:47.660 --> 00:06:51.440 okay. All right. And so I actually did pretty decent with it. 00:06:51.500 --> 00:06:55.620 And he was like, what the hell you're, you know, I had some issues with like 00:06:55.620 --> 00:06:57.480 the actual touchdown itself. 00:06:57.700 --> 00:07:03.760 And he told me that what he noticed is, well, look, you learn to fly on small planes. Okay. 00:07:03.860 --> 00:07:07.120 So what happens is that when we're about to land on a small plane, 00:07:07.380 --> 00:07:10.660 we, we pulled a nose up a lot. Okay. 00:07:11.060 --> 00:07:13.960 For the land. all right okay on you don't 00:07:13.960 --> 00:07:18.720 need to do as much on an a320 i kept instinctively as 00:07:18.720 --> 00:07:22.660 it counted down 50 40 30 i 00:07:22.660 --> 00:07:25.600 kept instinctively pulling back on the 00:07:25.600 --> 00:07:28.640 nose and so i i i kind of like i 00:07:28.640 --> 00:07:31.580 i lofted it a little bit instead of letting it touch 00:07:31.580 --> 00:07:34.300 down okay so i did that a couple of times when 00:07:34.300 --> 00:07:37.120 he told me about it the second time around that i did it i got it 00:07:37.120 --> 00:07:41.040 right on and he was like why don't 00:07:41.040 --> 00:07:44.080 you get your license again he's a 00:07:44.080 --> 00:07:47.360 flight instructor so he gave me his card i may 00:07:47.360 --> 00:07:50.100 take him up on it right now i'm just there's so 00:07:50.100 --> 00:07:55.400 much going on right i don't want to add anything more yeah i don't want to add 00:07:55.400 --> 00:08:00.140 anything more right now but but i definitely left me thinking about it because 00:08:00.140 --> 00:08:05.040 i really quite enjoyed doing that manu had a great time manu's main thing that 00:08:05.040 --> 00:08:08.400 he liked was first fucking with me with the controls or he was pushing the, 00:08:08.420 --> 00:08:13.000 he kept pushing the, the, the runner and kept getting me offline. 00:08:13.000 --> 00:08:15.200 And I'm like, why the hell am I getting offline? 00:08:15.360 --> 00:08:18.020 Then the pilot told me, your son's pushing the runner. 00:08:18.200 --> 00:08:23.160 And I'm like, and also setting off the alerts. 00:08:23.720 --> 00:08:29.260 Okay. Oh yeah. He loved like, you know, pull up, pull up. Yeah. 00:08:29.680 --> 00:08:34.240 Making it like, you know, pointing the nose down and getting it to, 00:08:34.320 --> 00:08:36.080 to yell at me to pull up, pull up. 00:08:36.180 --> 00:08:38.420 Yeah. Yeah, he liked that. He definitely liked that. 00:08:38.600 --> 00:08:44.540 See, this is the thing with flight simulators and kids in general. The fun part... 00:08:45.660 --> 00:08:49.440 is not straight and level flight or takeoffs or landing. 00:08:49.720 --> 00:08:51.000 No, no, no. 00:08:51.000 --> 00:08:55.900 The fun part is, like, can we crash in creative ways? 00:08:56.360 --> 00:08:56.540 Yes. 00:08:56.540 --> 00:09:01.360 Or can we do flips in a plane that clearly should not be doing flips, you know? 00:09:01.360 --> 00:09:02.660 Should not be doing flips, yeah. 00:09:02.800 --> 00:09:07.200 Things like that. Aerobatics in a large airliner, you know? 00:09:07.320 --> 00:09:11.460 Yes. Those are not fun for any of the passengers. I know that, 00:09:11.560 --> 00:09:17.600 I don't know if you, in which one, the one for X-Plane, If you're using it, 00:09:17.740 --> 00:09:21.360 they actually add a sound where you hear the passengers scream. 00:09:22.280 --> 00:09:27.780 Yeah, I use X-Plane all the time, and so does Alex. I've never heard the passengers scream. 00:09:27.920 --> 00:09:30.880 Oh, well, maybe you don't have 00:09:30.880 --> 00:09:35.540 all the sounds up. You will hear the passengers all of a sudden go, ah! 00:09:36.720 --> 00:09:42.640 Okay, I'll have to get a large... I mean, because Alex has crashed large planes 00:09:42.640 --> 00:09:47.460 in X-Plane quite a few times. I'll have to get that spun up again and see. 00:09:47.780 --> 00:09:51.780 If you go and like I keep flying usually like a triple seven, 00:09:53.700 --> 00:09:58.640 simulator a lot if you go like say push the nose down like really hard where 00:09:58.640 --> 00:10:05.300 you create like a big G input you will hear the passengers like scream. 00:10:05.960 --> 00:10:10.940 Okay. Okay. Gotta work on that. Gotta work on that. Somehow I've missed that. 00:10:11.620 --> 00:10:14.440 I gotta get the passengers just screaming so yeah so. 00:10:14.440 --> 00:10:21.300 Uh one of the very early videos on his channel is him playing x plane and as 00:10:21.300 --> 00:10:25.420 the plane is doing various things me in the background saying you know this 00:10:25.420 --> 00:10:30.500 is why they don't let six-year-olds pilot planes yes yeah i. 00:10:30.500 --> 00:10:35.640 Mean you know in real life you had that that guy that russian pilot that let the his kid end up. 00:10:35.640 --> 00:10:36.440 I know right. 00:10:36.440 --> 00:10:38.320 And literally did crash it. 00:10:38.800 --> 00:10:40.960 I know. Yes. Yes. 00:10:42.040 --> 00:10:46.160 So, yes, it's been demonstrated in real life. That doesn't work well. 00:10:46.760 --> 00:10:48.160 Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. 00:10:49.510 --> 00:10:49.950 Yes. 00:10:52.330 --> 00:10:56.450 I mean, not to say that there might not be some very responsible six year olds 00:10:56.450 --> 00:10:57.730 who could handle it properly. 00:10:58.230 --> 00:11:00.790 However, however, it's not a good idea. 00:11:01.030 --> 00:11:02.370 I don't want to be in that plane. 00:11:02.850 --> 00:11:07.430 No, I don't want to be on that plane. Okay. So we flew over there. 00:11:07.550 --> 00:11:09.250 Look, we gave him a tranquilizer as well. 00:11:09.490 --> 00:11:14.010 I, you know, I had that gas for some tranquilizers. And the first flight, 00:11:14.090 --> 00:11:18.670 he was a little bit like, he was a little bit. He actually. 00:11:19.510 --> 00:11:22.550 And the last time I tried, he wouldn't even get on the plane. Okay. 00:11:22.770 --> 00:11:22.950 Okay. 00:11:24.010 --> 00:11:26.890 We had, and he was actually anxious all the way to the airport. 00:11:27.450 --> 00:11:27.850 Uh-huh. 00:11:28.010 --> 00:11:31.990 He was fine. He may have been a little bit, oh, let's go to the lounge. 00:11:32.130 --> 00:11:34.010 I'm like, no, we're not going to the lounge. We don't have time. 00:11:34.190 --> 00:11:38.070 Okay. We're going straight to, straight to the, and when we got to the gate, 00:11:38.090 --> 00:11:39.170 we were boarding already. 00:11:39.770 --> 00:11:40.090 Okay. 00:11:40.230 --> 00:11:44.990 Uh, so we went straight on and boarded and he didn't, he didn't make a fuss. We sat down. 00:11:45.270 --> 00:11:49.170 He's a little bit like a little bit anxious on takeoff, but that was it. He was fine. 00:11:49.510 --> 00:11:52.010 Everything went fine. It was uneventful. 00:11:52.690 --> 00:11:57.250 Okay. So, and he likes Dallas Airport. Dallas Airport's quite good. 00:11:58.170 --> 00:11:58.550 Okay. 00:11:58.890 --> 00:12:01.510 It is the biggest airport in the world. Okay. 00:12:01.830 --> 00:12:03.570 Like square foot wise or? 00:12:03.790 --> 00:12:04.950 Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. 00:12:05.030 --> 00:12:07.890 It is the biggest airport. It's not the busiest. 00:12:07.930 --> 00:12:14.330 But, but in terms of like size, geographical. Yeah. It is the biggest airport in the world. 00:12:14.330 --> 00:12:17.050 Which is appropriate for Houston, which also is known for sprawl. 00:12:17.490 --> 00:12:19.910 Yeah. But, but sit Dallas, not Houston. 00:12:20.210 --> 00:12:23.330 Oh, sorry. I got confused. Well, Dallas is known for sprawl too. 00:12:23.990 --> 00:12:28.150 Dallas is very, it's a Texas, all of those Texas cities are known for sprawl. 00:12:28.170 --> 00:12:33.690 brawl and so you know he had uh the thing is that they have like uh now i'm hearing the. 00:12:33.690 --> 00:12:35.970 Damn theme music from the show the. 00:12:35.970 --> 00:12:40.650 Dallas theme music in my head oh yeah interesting so 00:12:40.650 --> 00:12:46.570 we we were going around look that the airport has uh the the skylink train which 00:12:46.570 --> 00:12:52.830 is very you know that listen you very difficult to get around that airport without 00:12:52.830 --> 00:12:56.850 the train i mean i i know that i've i've had to, 00:12:57.450 --> 00:13:02.650 one time a long time ago walked from like say terminal C to terminal A, 00:13:03.290 --> 00:13:05.390 that's a lot of walking okay, 00:13:06.450 --> 00:13:12.130 I mean, that's a lot of walking. So having the, so he likes the Skylink train. 00:13:12.410 --> 00:13:16.670 And the cool thing about the Skylink, unlike like in Atlanta, they have subway. 00:13:17.030 --> 00:13:20.750 You don't get to see anything. You're down underground. You go, you go back and forth. 00:13:21.930 --> 00:13:25.070 But Skylink, I mean, you get to see the whole airport, you know, 00:13:25.150 --> 00:13:29.170 you're riding around and you, you see all the airplanes, all the movements, all the gates. 00:13:29.310 --> 00:13:33.290 It's, it's, it's, it's very cool to get a full view of all of the operations 00:13:33.290 --> 00:13:36.970 at the airport just to basically just ride around in Skylink and you can see 00:13:36.970 --> 00:13:37.890 what the heck is going on. 00:13:38.410 --> 00:13:43.810 So he likes riding to Skylink. He also was very adamant because we couldn't 00:13:43.810 --> 00:13:47.710 get on the lounge before departure. We had a long layover to return that he 00:13:47.710 --> 00:13:50.950 wanted to make sure that we did go to the lounge. 00:13:51.430 --> 00:13:53.010 Okay. Very cool. 00:13:53.670 --> 00:13:57.830 To sit down and eat and, you know, things. Okay. 00:13:58.150 --> 00:14:02.810 So I didn't say at the beginning. As usual we're doing lighter stuff at the 00:14:02.810 --> 00:14:05.850 beginning and And then we will move on to newsy stuff later. 00:14:06.110 --> 00:14:06.430 Frothy. 00:14:06.550 --> 00:14:07.170 Frothy stuff. 00:14:07.350 --> 00:14:07.450 Frothy. 00:14:07.570 --> 00:14:10.790 Last time I didn't do any newsy stuff at all. When you were gone last week, 00:14:10.910 --> 00:14:14.470 I just talked, you know, random other crap the whole time. And I was like, 00:14:14.530 --> 00:14:15.750 I don't, I don't feel like news. 00:14:15.890 --> 00:14:18.910 I don't feel like news. I'm not doing news. You know, but. 00:14:19.090 --> 00:14:21.230 The news. I mean, the news suck. 00:14:22.290 --> 00:14:23.330 Yeah. Yeah. 00:14:23.810 --> 00:14:29.190 I mean, all the news suck. You know, it sucks. Everything sucks. 00:14:30.090 --> 00:14:30.970 So do you have any. 00:14:33.130 --> 00:14:38.390 I don't want to get into any details at work. Things at work have been rough. 00:14:38.730 --> 00:14:39.290 Yeah. 00:14:40.130 --> 00:14:40.550 Yeah. 00:14:42.500 --> 00:14:47.920 I mean, to the point that I wound up at one point even tearing up how bad how bad it was this week. 00:14:49.620 --> 00:14:54.440 Yeah. So anything lighter before I do my stuff? 00:14:54.620 --> 00:14:59.140 I'm going to replace one of my two movies with a story that I have from a couple 00:14:59.140 --> 00:15:00.420 of weeks ago that I saved for you. 00:15:00.720 --> 00:15:05.680 Anything lighter, lighter, lighter, lighter, lighter. Oh, well, OK, I will mention this. 00:15:05.860 --> 00:15:09.720 I wound up, you know, look, this week I wound up traveling. 00:15:09.940 --> 00:15:15.300 I went to Texas on Friday. I came back on Monday I went to Santo Domingo on 00:15:15.300 --> 00:15:20.040 Tuesday morning And I flew back from Santo Domingo On Wednesday night Okay, 00:15:22.380 --> 00:15:24.940 Then I had a friend of mine, 00:15:25.590 --> 00:15:30.850 This very good friend of mine from Brazil that, you know, we've known him from 00:15:30.850 --> 00:15:36.290 when I started working at HB almost 30 years ago, for God's sakes. Fucking ridiculous. 00:15:37.450 --> 00:15:41.390 Well, last minute he said, hey, I'm coming to town. I'm going to go see tennis. 00:15:41.630 --> 00:15:45.170 I'm getting there Friday and I'm getting there on Friday. I'm going to be all 00:15:45.170 --> 00:15:46.930 week. I'm like, fuck, he's getting here on Friday. 00:15:47.070 --> 00:15:50.290 I'm like, dude, I'm leaving right now. I'm literally leaving. 00:15:50.550 --> 00:15:52.590 I'm not coming back until like next Wednesday. 00:15:53.050 --> 00:15:56.250 Okay, we'll see you when you get back Wednesday. So then I texted him, 00:15:56.370 --> 00:15:57.850 hey, when are you leaving? 00:15:58.690 --> 00:16:03.070 And he says, Friday morning. It's like, fuck, Friday morning. 00:16:04.030 --> 00:16:08.970 Shit. So the only night is Thursday. So he was in Miami, which is, 00:16:09.050 --> 00:16:10.050 you know, it's like downtown. 00:16:10.350 --> 00:16:12.850 Like, you know, like to you to go to downtown Seattle, you know, 00:16:12.930 --> 00:16:16.570 it's, I mean, it's a, it's a, you know, it's a pain. 00:16:16.670 --> 00:16:19.250 And I've already been to Miami already three times the damn week. 00:16:19.310 --> 00:16:20.490 And I'm like, fuck, fine, fine. 00:16:20.530 --> 00:16:23.730 We'll go meet you for dinner. Problem is, of course, you know, 00:16:23.890 --> 00:16:26.810 having to meet him for dinner, not on the, I was hoping the weekend, 00:16:26.970 --> 00:16:31.870 not on the weekend. It was like, hey, let me meet him after work on Thursday. Okay. 00:16:32.590 --> 00:16:36.450 Fuck. I leave here. Rush out. It's just nuts. 00:16:36.690 --> 00:16:42.150 Okay. So it took like an hour and a half to get to Miami. 00:16:42.490 --> 00:16:46.550 To give you an example, at four in the morning one day that I drove to the airport, 00:16:46.670 --> 00:16:48.490 it takes me 40 minutes. Okay. 00:16:49.110 --> 00:16:52.150 It took an hour and a half. Okay. to get there. 00:16:52.450 --> 00:16:57.930 And then to come back, it took two hours because Florida Department of Transportation, 00:16:57.930 --> 00:16:59.470 the geniuses that they are, 00:16:59.870 --> 00:17:03.830 decided that the construction they were going to do on Thursday night, 00:17:04.070 --> 00:17:08.390 hey, I go and I get to this place, you're going on I-95 North, 00:17:08.550 --> 00:17:12.890 which has four lanes, okay, four or five lanes, you know, northbound. 00:17:14.190 --> 00:17:19.750 Express lanes closed. So that leaves three or four. It has six. 00:17:20.050 --> 00:17:22.410 So that took cut it down to four. 00:17:23.400 --> 00:17:25.100 Then at some point, it splits into 00:17:25.100 --> 00:17:29.560 the turnpike where you can go take the turnpike or continue a 95 north. 00:17:29.780 --> 00:17:34.800 Oh, well, the exit to the turnpike is closed. I'm like, fuck. 00:17:35.300 --> 00:17:38.020 Exit to the turnpike. And by the way, here's the crazy thing. 00:17:38.300 --> 00:17:43.400 I think they closed it just as I was driving north because the GPS showed it 00:17:43.400 --> 00:17:45.760 was open when I was going. 00:17:45.880 --> 00:17:49.200 And then all of a sudden, traffic built up and it's closed. 00:17:49.520 --> 00:17:54.620 So they must have just closed it, okay? as I'm driving up. And I'm like, 00:17:54.960 --> 00:17:56.840 fuck. They closed. Okay. 00:17:57.460 --> 00:18:04.060 All right. But then it says, hey, lanes closed on I-95. More lanes closed. 00:18:04.520 --> 00:18:08.340 Like, more lanes closed. How many fucking lanes could they decide to close if 00:18:08.340 --> 00:18:09.260 they already closed the turnpike? 00:18:09.380 --> 00:18:14.080 Look, they had narrowed it down to only one fucking lane. 00:18:14.580 --> 00:18:16.220 One lane northbound. 00:18:16.740 --> 00:18:23.920 When normally you've got six fucking lanes plus the turnpike where people get 00:18:23.920 --> 00:18:29.500 off, which is an extra three more lanes, nine lanes, and they narrowed this down to one fucking... 00:18:29.500 --> 00:18:34.260 Listen, you can't close the turnpike and close all the lanes on 95 at the same 00:18:34.260 --> 00:18:37.400 time. You got to do one or the other, you cheap fucks. 00:18:37.920 --> 00:18:43.780 The hell? It was like midnight, and it's the biggest traffic jam ever at fucking 00:18:43.780 --> 00:18:46.300 11 o'clock at night. It was just crazy. 00:18:47.740 --> 00:18:50.740 Okay but when 00:18:50.740 --> 00:18:53.760 i got to downtown yes oh my 00:18:53.760 --> 00:18:57.840 god sam this whole influencer live 00:18:57.840 --> 00:19:02.880 stream crowd is just so fucked up man so i get to this place look we'll go to 00:19:02.880 --> 00:19:06.900 this restaurant that i've normally gone to but the area around it has grown 00:19:06.900 --> 00:19:10.500 a lot and i haven't been there last time i was there was like two years ago 00:19:10.500 --> 00:19:14.480 and and this has been like a change post-pandemic by the way this is this This 00:19:14.480 --> 00:19:15.880 wasn't like that pre-pandemic. 00:19:16.340 --> 00:19:21.640 And I get there, and it's just so crowded, but it's all these young influencers 00:19:21.640 --> 00:19:25.100 with their media sticks and the things that they're all live streaming to show 00:19:25.100 --> 00:19:27.340 how they are downtown and we're so cool. 00:19:27.420 --> 00:19:30.840 And I'm like thinking, could you fucking guys go and like have a good time instead 00:19:30.840 --> 00:19:34.480 of like trying to stream to everybody to tell them that you're having a good time? 00:19:34.680 --> 00:19:39.420 And all of them are all in these hyper, they're all like in their 20s, 00:19:39.520 --> 00:19:41.180 and I guess their parents have 00:19:41.180 --> 00:19:44.820 a lot of money, And they're all in these ridiculously expensive carts. 00:19:44.980 --> 00:19:47.500 Like, all of them are over $400,000. 00:19:47.760 --> 00:19:53.080 And they're all parked, like, in this spot, like, up there. And they're all, 00:19:53.100 --> 00:19:55.480 like, showing themselves live on video. 00:19:55.620 --> 00:19:59.060 And I'm trying to avoid all these. Look, I'm just trying to get to this fucking restaurant. 00:19:59.240 --> 00:20:02.560 I need you all to get the fuck out of my way. Okay. 00:20:03.960 --> 00:20:13.020 But it was just a bizarre, bizarre look at the modern influencer lifestyle for 00:20:13.020 --> 00:20:16.580 more minutes than I really wanted to. 00:20:16.820 --> 00:20:20.720 So what you're telling me is after we finish recording the show, 00:20:20.720 --> 00:20:26.660 I should just switch from live streaming on my computer to live stream on my 00:20:26.660 --> 00:20:30.360 phone and live stream the rest of the day, no matter what's going on, 00:20:30.440 --> 00:20:31.200 no matter what I'm doing. 00:20:31.200 --> 00:20:39.860 But you need to go and trade in your car for a $450,000 Rolls-Royce SUV. 00:20:40.220 --> 00:20:41.720 Oh, I'll get right on that. 00:20:42.120 --> 00:20:46.560 Yeah. Because that's the thing that gets... Yes. Because that's the thing that 00:20:46.560 --> 00:20:47.540 apparently gets attention. 00:20:47.960 --> 00:20:49.420 Oh, okay. Okay. 00:20:50.090 --> 00:20:55.210 Can I get one of those, like, sort of kits where I just change the logo of my existing car? 00:20:55.230 --> 00:20:59.030 You know what? Actually, that would be even better. I got to be honest with you. 00:20:59.210 --> 00:20:59.790 Let's just get it. 00:20:59.950 --> 00:21:03.290 Yes. Let's just do a kit. There's got to be some kind of kit. 00:21:03.430 --> 00:21:07.090 Hey, turn Ionic 5 into Rolls kit. 00:21:07.330 --> 00:21:10.530 Listen, people have done that throughout time. 00:21:10.810 --> 00:21:15.810 There's got to be a kit. And that would be fantastic. And then we live stream that. Perfect. 00:21:15.850 --> 00:21:16.230 There you go. 00:21:16.270 --> 00:21:22.370 We are the anti-influencer group. We go in there, and we arrive in the Kitted 00:21:22.370 --> 00:21:24.850 Out Ionic 5. Perfect. I love it. 00:21:25.270 --> 00:21:31.890 There you go. Okay. My turn. Do you want a movie first or my story first? 00:21:32.950 --> 00:21:35.210 Let's go to the story first. Okay. 00:21:35.430 --> 00:21:41.370 So I had intended to do this last week, but you were out, and I decided to save 00:21:41.370 --> 00:21:44.430 it for when you were here. So this is almost two weeks ago now. 00:21:45.410 --> 00:21:53.350 But I figured you would appreciate this story more than me just saying it to myself last week. 00:21:53.350 --> 00:21:53.490 Okay. 00:21:53.750 --> 00:21:57.110 Okay. So here's the fundamental deal. 00:21:57.590 --> 00:22:03.430 Two weeks ago, Brandy had finished up her session at the legislature in Olympia 00:22:03.430 --> 00:22:07.630 and, you know, was moving all her stuff out. Okay. 00:22:08.050 --> 00:22:13.890 Okay. Because she rents a house with another legislature, legislator, 00:22:13.890 --> 00:22:18.150 for the months that they're in session. And so she's got all kinds of stuff. 00:22:18.390 --> 00:22:20.110 How long is the session, by the way? 00:22:20.890 --> 00:22:24.990 From early January. Well, it changes by year. 00:22:25.410 --> 00:22:29.690 Like, they have short sessions and long sessions. election years are like are 00:22:29.690 --> 00:22:34.430 shorter so this wasn't this is an election year so it's shorter so it went from 00:22:34.430 --> 00:22:39.870 like the second week of january to the second week of march okay so basically two week of. 00:22:39.870 --> 00:22:42.510 January to okay so it's only two weeks okay. 00:22:42.510 --> 00:22:44.650 Two months months not two months. 00:22:44.650 --> 00:22:46.130 Two months no two months okay. 00:22:46.130 --> 00:22:51.170 Yes and then in the long session it's like it's like three months instead okay 00:22:51.170 --> 00:22:53.930 so okay And I'm rounding here. 00:22:54.050 --> 00:22:57.310 It's like, it's not quite. And it's like, whatever. 00:22:57.690 --> 00:22:59.190 It's close enough. Two months and three months. 00:23:00.710 --> 00:23:03.670 And so she's got stuff in her office to move. 00:23:03.890 --> 00:23:07.530 She's got stuff in the place she rented to move. Because she, 00:23:07.610 --> 00:23:09.490 of course, brings like all kinds of supplies. 00:23:09.670 --> 00:23:12.810 She's got stuff because she's going to be there for, you know, a couple months. 00:23:13.090 --> 00:23:16.850 So it's basically like moving in for a couple months. It's not like the stuff 00:23:16.850 --> 00:23:19.730 you bring to a hotel for a week, you know. 00:23:19.970 --> 00:23:20.690 Right, right, right. 00:23:21.350 --> 00:23:22.950 You know, so, anyway. 00:23:23.690 --> 00:23:27.330 Is it like an Airbnb? I mean, what do you get? Do you get like an Airbnb? 00:23:28.190 --> 00:23:32.830 It's an Airbnb. It's a whole house. But it's, yes, they get it through. 00:23:32.990 --> 00:23:36.390 I don't know if they used Airbnb or some other service, but they rented an entire 00:23:36.390 --> 00:23:39.490 house. Okay. Her and one roommate. Right. 00:23:39.810 --> 00:23:40.110 Okay. 00:23:41.070 --> 00:23:45.310 So, anyway, or housemate, I should say. They didn't actually share a room. 00:23:45.690 --> 00:23:46.830 At least I don't think they did. 00:23:46.830 --> 00:23:47.050 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. 00:23:47.050 --> 00:23:50.490 Maybe they did and they're just not telling me, you know, but, you know. Anyway. 00:23:50.490 --> 00:23:53.310 I keep forgetting that. I call room, you know, I've made that mistake, 00:23:53.410 --> 00:23:54.950 and you're absolutely right. 00:23:55.070 --> 00:23:59.910 Like, when I had, like, you know, when somebody, you know, shared a, 00:24:00.950 --> 00:24:06.350 One of the rooms in my apartment, their housemates, they're not a roommate. We didn't share a room. 00:24:06.690 --> 00:24:08.910 Right. Right. Exactly. So anyway. 00:24:09.250 --> 00:24:09.530 Okay. 00:24:09.690 --> 00:24:12.650 So I am at home with Alex. 00:24:12.990 --> 00:24:16.970 We are, the initial expectation is just she's going to pack up the rest of her 00:24:16.970 --> 00:24:18.670 stuff and then come home. 00:24:19.850 --> 00:24:21.910 And it's in the evening. 00:24:23.490 --> 00:24:28.310 But around like, I don't know, 8 p.m. 00:24:28.470 --> 00:24:34.450 or something, she starts telling me that two things, two important notes. 00:24:34.850 --> 00:24:36.830 One, she's not feeling that good. 00:24:37.590 --> 00:24:43.690 And two, she's not sure all the stuff will fit in her car. Okay? 00:24:46.530 --> 00:24:51.570 So she's calling me, and she has to be out of the house that night. 00:24:51.910 --> 00:24:56.090 So like, you know, she, so there's no, like, oh, we'll just do it tomorrow. 00:24:56.370 --> 00:25:00.350 Okay. So she has to be out of the house that night. So she's working on the stuff. 00:25:00.870 --> 00:25:05.810 And I, I, I ask a few times, like, okay, do I need to, you need me to come down? 00:25:05.970 --> 00:25:08.190 Do you need a second car? You need, do you need help? 00:25:09.170 --> 00:25:13.290 And for longest time, she's like, no, no, I got it. I'll, I'll figure it out. I got it. 00:25:15.150 --> 00:25:19.350 Eventually she's like, yes, I do need you. Okay. 00:25:19.350 --> 00:25:22.030 by this time it's like 10 30 p.m or 00:25:22.030 --> 00:25:27.130 something you know olympia is like at least it's the middle of the night like 00:25:27.130 --> 00:25:31.190 if it if it was during the day it's like two hours plus to go because of traffic 00:25:31.190 --> 00:25:34.890 but like in the middle of the night you can do it in under two hours i mean 00:25:34.890 --> 00:25:40.190 you could probably do it in 30 minutes because you know you're a maniac on roads but you know how. 00:25:40.190 --> 00:25:41.090 Many miles is it. 00:25:42.410 --> 00:25:44.150 I'll tell you hold on, 00:25:48.120 --> 00:25:49.680 It's 67 miles. 00:25:50.360 --> 00:25:55.340 Oh, fuck. Wait, how long did you say it was going to take you a night? 00:25:55.460 --> 00:25:59.740 Right now, if I drove it, at this very second while we're recording, 00:25:59.880 --> 00:26:01.700 Waze says an hour and 35 minutes. 00:26:02.280 --> 00:26:03.580 Oh, fuck that. 00:26:04.020 --> 00:26:04.980 Fuck that. 00:26:05.220 --> 00:26:09.060 I'd be there. Jesus Christ. Like, 50 minutes tops. 00:26:09.360 --> 00:26:13.720 See, the problem is you have to go through downtown Seattle to get there. 00:26:13.880 --> 00:26:19.220 Ah. No, but even still, you go through the highway through downtown. 00:26:19.580 --> 00:26:21.600 Yeah, but there's traffic, you know. 00:26:21.740 --> 00:26:23.740 Yeah, but not at 11 o'clock at night. 00:26:23.740 --> 00:26:26.600 No, no, not at 11 o'clock at night. No, no, no. 00:26:26.840 --> 00:26:30.820 So like I said, you could probably make it in like 30 minutes or some crap, 00:26:30.980 --> 00:26:33.760 you know, but we're not going to make it in 30 minutes. 00:26:33.900 --> 00:26:34.020 No. 00:26:34.220 --> 00:26:39.380 Anyway, the point is, I'm not leaving home until like 1030 or something. 00:26:39.640 --> 00:26:41.120 I forget exactly what time it is. 00:26:42.260 --> 00:26:49.340 and you know and i'm meeting her and here's the thing here's where the story part you have a. 00:26:49.340 --> 00:26:51.120 Full charge on your car. 00:26:51.120 --> 00:26:53.840 I did not so here's where 00:26:53.840 --> 00:26:57.140 the story starts coming in because i 00:26:57.140 --> 00:26:59.940 had not planned on a long trip so i was just you 00:26:59.940 --> 00:27:03.360 know trickle charging like i usually do and i was going to catch up on the weekend 00:27:03.360 --> 00:27:09.480 so it was a little low and i actually had not plugged in that particular time 00:27:09.480 --> 00:27:17.180 yet that day even because this was before my last procedure and I was in a lot of pain still. 00:27:17.930 --> 00:27:21.690 And, like, the last time I had come home, I had brought Alex home from school 00:27:21.690 --> 00:27:27.170 or whatever, and I had just gone straight in because I had to carry, 00:27:27.210 --> 00:27:28.870 like, stuff or whatever. 00:27:28.930 --> 00:27:32.850 And I was like, I just went in and collapsed. I didn't go back out and plug the thing in. 00:27:32.850 --> 00:27:34.970 Okay, well, fuck it. You got to supercharge somewhere. Okay. 00:27:35.150 --> 00:27:40.150 Right. So I'm like, no problem. There's going to be—we're going up and down I-5. 00:27:40.430 --> 00:27:43.190 There are going to be superchargers all over the place. Not a problem at all. 00:27:45.370 --> 00:27:50.850 Anyway, so—and I checked. There was enough to get there. just not enough coming back okay right. 00:27:50.850 --> 00:27:51.590 Right right right. 00:27:51.590 --> 00:27:54.510 So because i and i was like i'll charge 00:27:54.510 --> 00:27:58.650 i'll charge on the way back i'm not going to bother charging now and then going 00:27:58.650 --> 00:28:03.390 because that was an option i could have charged a supercharger near me topped 00:28:03.390 --> 00:28:07.830 up and then had enough for round trip right but i didn't do that i went down 00:28:07.830 --> 00:28:11.670 there i met her at the state capitol because she'd already finished everything 00:28:11.670 --> 00:28:14.370 at her house but she needed to get a few more things from her office, 00:28:14.830 --> 00:28:19.750 And so I met her at the state capitol at after midnight, took a picture of the 00:28:19.750 --> 00:28:22.630 state capitol, posted it to Blue Sky or whatever. 00:28:23.530 --> 00:28:26.850 And we got the rest of the stuff we needed. Also, I'll mention, 00:28:27.030 --> 00:28:30.430 this is still me. Like I said, before surgery, I'm in pain. 00:28:31.190 --> 00:28:36.850 Whenever I move, it hurts. Whenever I move, like if I move even a little bit, 00:28:37.030 --> 00:28:41.110 then the side effect of me moving is I desperately have to pee. 00:28:42.180 --> 00:28:45.440 Oh, nice. At least I feel like I have to. 00:28:46.380 --> 00:28:51.240 And there's a disconnect between how much is actually ready to come out of me versus how I feel. 00:28:51.440 --> 00:28:55.360 Like, I feel like I'm about to explode. And then I actually get to a bathroom 00:28:55.360 --> 00:28:56.520 and there's like a few drops. 00:28:56.780 --> 00:28:57.180 It's just a squirt. 00:28:57.600 --> 00:29:02.240 Yes. Right. But in any way, it becomes incredibly desperate. 00:29:02.540 --> 00:29:07.500 Like, if I walk like 30 feet, then it's like, ah, I gotta go. Okay. 00:29:07.780 --> 00:29:11.120 So anyway, I'm there. I help her with the last couple things. 00:29:11.120 --> 00:29:15.760 And honestly, I was basically providing just room in my car for these last couple 00:29:15.760 --> 00:29:21.540 things because she managed to fit everything from her B&B or whatever into her 00:29:21.540 --> 00:29:23.780 car, but not the extra stuff from her office. 00:29:23.880 --> 00:29:30.020 So I was providing the backseat of my car and, you know, the trunk of my car for a few extra items. 00:29:30.300 --> 00:29:32.380 You know, that's basically what I was there for. 00:29:32.800 --> 00:29:36.180 And so we do that. And then it's like one in the morning or something. 00:29:36.220 --> 00:29:38.440 And I'm ready to go. I'm like, OK, great. 00:29:38.620 --> 00:29:42.380 I find the closest supercharger. it's only like two miles away no problem i 00:29:42.380 --> 00:29:47.280 go to the supercharger and i go to charge and she's going off she decided she 00:29:47.280 --> 00:29:50.900 was booking a hotel for the night because she wasn't feeling good she was she 00:29:50.900 --> 00:29:55.280 booked a hotel for the night she was gonna sleep and then come home in the morning okay. 00:29:55.280 --> 00:29:56.680 Probably yeah okay. 00:29:56.680 --> 00:30:06.040 Sensible so so i go to the supercharger oh boy and i plug in and it says it's 00:30:06.040 --> 00:30:08.780 charging for 10 seconds and then it stops. 00:30:09.560 --> 00:30:13.900 And I'm like, well, crap. Okay, well, I've done this before. 00:30:14.780 --> 00:30:19.880 At the supercharger near me, this has sometimes happened, where one of the chargers doesn't work. 00:30:19.960 --> 00:30:23.140 I just change to a different parking spot and it works just fine. 00:30:23.280 --> 00:30:26.060 So I do that. Same thing. Doesn't work. 00:30:27.880 --> 00:30:31.740 I try a third spot. Same thing. Doesn't work. 00:30:32.450 --> 00:30:37.110 I'm like, well, shit. And by the way, the process of doing this, 00:30:37.250 --> 00:30:38.470 I already need to pee again. 00:30:38.850 --> 00:30:40.750 Like, because I've been moving to do it. 00:30:41.490 --> 00:30:45.050 And I'm in the middle of, like, some parking lot at, like, a mall. 00:30:45.630 --> 00:30:46.870 Everything's closed because it's 00:30:46.870 --> 00:30:49.510 1 in the morning. It's not like there's someplace I can run in to pee. 00:30:49.750 --> 00:30:51.830 Just pee somewhere around there in the bushes. 00:30:52.150 --> 00:30:54.170 I wasn't going to do that. 00:30:54.390 --> 00:30:58.130 What do you mean? Fucking Jesus Christ, it's midnight. There's nobody, 00:30:58.310 --> 00:30:59.810 2 in the morning, there's nobody around. 00:30:59.810 --> 00:31:04.670 Well, there were actually there were two other cars at the supercharger and 00:31:04.670 --> 00:31:06.270 it was working just fine for them. 00:31:06.630 --> 00:31:09.090 OK, it was working just fine for them, apparently. 00:31:09.290 --> 00:31:10.350 All right. So it's a you problem. 00:31:10.610 --> 00:31:15.770 OK, so it's probably a you problem. But I'm like, well, where's the next closest supercharger? 00:31:17.050 --> 00:31:22.290 And, you know, I there was there were a couple like ones and twosies superchargers 00:31:22.290 --> 00:31:25.230 that were low speed and I ignored them. 00:31:25.230 --> 00:31:27.970 there was a and i i also 00:31:27.970 --> 00:31:31.270 like i never got the adapter thing to work properly so 00:31:31.270 --> 00:31:34.450 i'm only going to tesla you know ones with tesla plugs 00:31:34.450 --> 00:31:37.410 but then and and actually that's 00:31:37.410 --> 00:31:40.350 a thing like i was like maybe whatever was 00:31:40.350 --> 00:31:43.070 wrong with getting the adapter to work which i've never gone back 00:31:43.070 --> 00:31:46.010 to ask a dealership about because maybe there's a 00:31:46.010 --> 00:31:48.910 chance it was related to when amy hit my car if 00:31:48.910 --> 00:31:51.770 you remember okay yeah like the normal 00:31:51.770 --> 00:31:56.370 charger worked fine but the the adapter never did and i don't think i ever tried 00:31:56.370 --> 00:32:03.210 it before then but anyway for those of you who can't see yvonne is holding his 00:32:03.210 --> 00:32:09.010 head in his hands he is appalled so yeah because. 00:32:09.010 --> 00:32:13.490 Here's the thing right like with my wife's car and this is not even my car i 00:32:13.490 --> 00:32:18.970 went and i fucking went and myself double checked to make sure that the stupid fucking, 00:32:19.610 --> 00:32:23.550 charging was working like it's a super charge even though we never needed it 00:32:23.550 --> 00:32:29.330 just to make sure I tried the adapt I'm like I need to make sure this shit works I'm like, 00:32:30.530 --> 00:32:35.190 I can't be on a business trip, and all of a sudden, my wife is somehow low on 00:32:35.190 --> 00:32:36.670 charge, and it doesn't fucking work. 00:32:37.130 --> 00:32:42.830 Yeah, and so we had tried the adapter. We just, it never worked. It never worked. 00:32:43.510 --> 00:32:45.570 So the regular Tesla charger worked for it. I made sure, like, 00:32:45.610 --> 00:32:47.190 I had the issue where I had with 00:32:47.190 --> 00:32:50.110 the charging over here where it wasn't working. I made sure I fucking. 00:32:50.210 --> 00:32:53.130 Like, almost didn't sleep. It's not just that you checked, because we checked. 00:32:53.330 --> 00:32:55.990 You just, when you found out it didn't work, you did something about it. 00:32:56.130 --> 00:32:56.570 Yes! 00:32:56.810 --> 00:32:58.810 Correct! Okay, that's the part I didn't do. 00:32:58.810 --> 00:33:04.170 I fixed the problem. I went and I fucking spent like a whole day figuring out 00:33:04.170 --> 00:33:05.590 what the fuck the problem was. 00:33:05.690 --> 00:33:09.310 Which, by the way, I found out in my case, it was the form of payment. 00:33:10.070 --> 00:33:14.930 And the stupid ChargePoint app should have... I wanted the people at ChargePoint 00:33:14.930 --> 00:33:19.330 should be shot because, dude, really? 00:33:19.690 --> 00:33:22.570 You couldn't explain to me there was an issue with the form of payment? 00:33:23.230 --> 00:33:23.670 Right. 00:33:24.450 --> 00:33:26.190 You're going to tell me that that was your problem. 00:33:26.770 --> 00:33:29.390 Not quite, but you're getting warm. Okay. 00:33:29.570 --> 00:33:30.850 Oh, fuck. 00:33:31.950 --> 00:33:37.910 So I find the next supercharger and it's like another like 20, 00:33:38.030 --> 00:33:40.590 30 miles up the road or something. And I have enough to get there. 00:33:40.950 --> 00:33:46.310 But I'm like, OK, here's the deal. If I get like right now where I am, 00:33:46.550 --> 00:33:49.890 I'm like three miles from my wife's hotel. 00:33:50.350 --> 00:33:53.290 I could go to her hotel and figure it out in the morning. 00:33:54.050 --> 00:33:59.790 If, on the other hand, I go to this Charger, there's a chance I won't be able 00:33:59.790 --> 00:34:04.010 to get home and I won't be able to get back to her hotel either. Okay? 00:34:04.170 --> 00:34:05.870 Oh, my gosh. Oh, God. 00:34:06.290 --> 00:34:09.250 I decide to go to the next Charger anyway. 00:34:09.530 --> 00:34:10.410 Oh, no. 00:34:12.370 --> 00:34:17.690 So I drive the extra 20 or 30 miles down the road to the next Charger. 00:34:19.650 --> 00:34:25.590 And same damn thing. I try three or four different chargers at the spot. 00:34:25.830 --> 00:34:29.970 I try, I'm like, maybe there's a loose connection. I try sort of just like holding 00:34:29.970 --> 00:34:35.030 the charger and in weird positions and seeing, you know, does it help if I shove 00:34:35.030 --> 00:34:37.270 it in harder? Maybe something's loose. 00:34:38.390 --> 00:34:44.370 And I call Brandy and I'm like, nothing's working. Nothing's working. 00:34:45.090 --> 00:34:51.110 What, you know, what should we do? And I check the distance. 00:34:51.110 --> 00:34:53.870 I do have enough to get back to her hotel. 00:34:54.670 --> 00:34:56.830 Barely. With like maybe two or three miles to spare. 00:34:56.830 --> 00:35:00.190 Was there a trickle charger there perhaps at that hotel or something? 00:35:00.450 --> 00:35:00.870 No. 00:35:01.550 --> 00:35:01.850 Fuck. 00:35:01.950 --> 00:35:08.450 No. But I could get back to her hotel with maybe two or three miles to spare. I'm like, okay, fine. 00:35:09.680 --> 00:35:14.480 I will come to your hotel. We will call and get this like towed to a Hyundai 00:35:14.480 --> 00:35:16.780 dealership in the morning for them to check it out. 00:35:16.880 --> 00:35:19.240 There's obviously something wrong with the car. Okay. 00:35:20.040 --> 00:35:21.620 There's something wrong with the charger. 00:35:23.080 --> 00:35:28.680 I'm like, okay, Alex may have to miss school tomorrow if neither of us can get 00:35:28.680 --> 00:35:32.620 home in time to take him to school, whatever, whatever, but I'll do this because 00:35:32.620 --> 00:35:35.200 I'd left Alex at home. He was asleep when I left. 00:35:35.560 --> 00:35:40.560 Like, so, you know, I texted him a message of where I went in case he woke up. 00:35:40.900 --> 00:35:42.400 I mean, yeah, he's an adult. 00:35:42.980 --> 00:35:49.400 An adult. Close, close. He's 16. He's 16. He can handle it. 00:35:49.440 --> 00:35:52.480 In some places, he would be considered a legal adult. 00:35:52.660 --> 00:35:57.540 We have no concerns about leaving. We could leave him alone for a week. He'd be fine. Okay? 00:35:58.260 --> 00:35:59.340 Starving, but fine. 00:35:59.680 --> 00:36:01.940 No, he would feed himself. He feeds himself all the time. 00:36:01.940 --> 00:36:02.880 Oh, he would feed? Okay. 00:36:03.380 --> 00:36:08.960 Yeah, he feeds himself. He's made Instacart orders for more groceries. 00:36:09.520 --> 00:36:11.660 You know, he can take care of himself. 00:36:11.700 --> 00:36:13.520 Okay, okay, so he won't starve. Okay, okay. 00:36:13.620 --> 00:36:15.560 He won't starve. He can take care of himself. 00:36:16.460 --> 00:36:19.560 now would what he eats be 00:36:19.560 --> 00:36:25.160 great probably not but honestly it would probably be better than when i'm feeding 00:36:25.160 --> 00:36:31.280 him you know like he'll make me dinner he'll make me like hamburgers and stuff 00:36:31.280 --> 00:36:36.960 and other he's made thanksgiving dinner for us like so he'd be fine he'd be better than us. 00:36:39.520 --> 00:36:45.160 Anyway i on the way back to hotel i'm like i'll try that first supercharger 00:36:45.160 --> 00:36:50.260 one last time It's only like a little bit off the highway. I'll try that one last time. 00:36:50.660 --> 00:36:56.940 I go there and I'm like, maybe I'll just try a different one. 00:36:57.060 --> 00:37:02.280 I will try one of the slots where I saw someone successfully charging a couple hours ago. 00:37:03.780 --> 00:37:09.100 And of course, nothing. And of course, this entire time, this entire time driving 00:37:09.100 --> 00:37:12.780 back and forth, I'm like desperate to pee. That's what, you know. 00:37:14.100 --> 00:37:23.560 So I finally get to her hotel I meet her there I park the car in the hotel parking lot I go in I'm like, 00:37:24.160 --> 00:37:28.980 The whole plan is We'll call and we'll deal with it in the morning I can sleep 00:37:28.980 --> 00:37:31.800 And by this time it's like 2.30 in the morning or something, 00:37:33.340 --> 00:37:37.660 I get in there And of course as I said I desperately needed to pee I go to the 00:37:37.660 --> 00:37:41.540 bathroom And as you do when you go to the bathroom You pick up your phone, 00:37:43.230 --> 00:37:48.750 I look at my phone. I pop into my email. I see email from Hyundai. 00:37:49.290 --> 00:37:53.310 I see 15 emails from Hyundai. 00:37:53.970 --> 00:37:58.770 And what do you think those say, Yvonne? 00:37:59.170 --> 00:38:00.830 Your credit card has been declined. 00:38:01.290 --> 00:38:04.430 No. No. No? Okay. 00:38:04.550 --> 00:38:10.450 There are 15 emails saying that charging service is blocked because I have not 00:38:10.450 --> 00:38:12.610 accepted the revised terms of service. 00:38:13.130 --> 00:38:15.210 Oh, get the fuck out of here. 00:38:17.210 --> 00:38:21.330 Sam, you live looking at your phone. 00:38:21.870 --> 00:38:26.910 How the fuck had you not looked at this? 00:38:27.170 --> 00:38:32.590 There were no alerts. I had to go into my email and not even my priority. 00:38:33.050 --> 00:38:35.990 You live looking at your fucking phone. 00:38:36.250 --> 00:38:40.110 I don't look at my email very often. And when I look at my email. 00:38:40.110 --> 00:38:41.890 Oh, well, not your email. You have said that, yes. 00:38:41.890 --> 00:38:48.350 And in my email, I have accounts that are set to VIP, and I almost always only 00:38:48.350 --> 00:38:51.550 look at the VIP mailbox. I only look at the other mailbox, like, 00:38:51.550 --> 00:38:56.290 every couple weeks, like, that has my non-VIP mail. 00:38:56.310 --> 00:39:01.990 I just happened to poke in while I was, you know, in the bathroom, and I saw this. 00:39:02.150 --> 00:39:08.550 And so there were 15 fucking emails. And by the way, no alerts on the damn phone. 00:39:08.550 --> 00:39:14.710 like Hyundai sends me alerts Hyundai's app sends me alerts if I leave the door 00:39:14.710 --> 00:39:19.990 unlocked for 20 seconds it doesn't send me an alert for this yes. 00:39:19.990 --> 00:39:23.350 That is a big massive fail. 00:39:24.810 --> 00:39:33.050 And so like yeah I had to go into the app and then within the app go into a 00:39:33.050 --> 00:39:37.470 sub menu and then within that sub menu accept the terms of service, 00:39:38.590 --> 00:39:42.950 And then everything was okay. So I did, I did at this point, 00:39:43.150 --> 00:39:47.510 like sleep for several hours at the hotel. I was like, it's already three in the morning. 00:39:48.410 --> 00:39:52.750 I slept. My intention was to sleep for like an hour and then get back on the road. 00:39:52.890 --> 00:39:56.430 In fact, I slept until like 8 a.m. or something. And then I got back on the road. 00:39:57.190 --> 00:40:01.890 But eight or nine. But yeah, as soon as I accepted the damn terms of service, 00:40:02.030 --> 00:40:03.010 everything worked perfectly. 00:40:03.710 --> 00:40:08.090 But it didn't tell me. It didn't tell me. Like if it had popped up. 00:40:08.810 --> 00:40:13.250 I mean, but that's it's a similar fail to mine, except a different one, 00:40:13.290 --> 00:40:17.290 because I mean, I went and I had I had gone and like made sure, 00:40:17.550 --> 00:40:20.290 right, that I wasn't in a situation where I was in a. 00:40:21.690 --> 00:40:24.690 almost out of charge to figure out that i i 00:40:24.690 --> 00:40:27.430 had a situation where you know i i 00:40:27.430 --> 00:40:30.310 came home the car had 30 i plugged 00:40:30.310 --> 00:40:33.250 tried to charge it wouldn't charge i didn't understand 00:40:33.250 --> 00:40:36.430 what the fuck was going on and i i went 00:40:36.430 --> 00:40:39.530 and i the thing is that i could plug it into my 00:40:39.530 --> 00:40:42.330 garage on the trickle charger just you know on the 00:40:42.330 --> 00:40:44.990 110 and so i just went like look i'm gonna 00:40:44.990 --> 00:40:47.870 plug it into the i'm gonna put it in the garage and put 00:40:47.870 --> 00:40:50.650 it on the slow charger and let me see what happens 00:40:50.650 --> 00:40:53.530 and then and and the thing is that i also tried to plug to charge 00:40:53.530 --> 00:40:56.630 my volvo and it wouldn't charge either and 00:40:56.630 --> 00:41:00.150 i'm like what the fuck you can't charge either car what the hell is going on 00:41:00.150 --> 00:41:05.410 and then and i took it to a supercharger nearby and it worked perfectly so i'm 00:41:05.410 --> 00:41:11.010 like what the fuck you know but but our chargers here are charge point the the 00:41:11.010 --> 00:41:16.230 supercharger's fpl is a different account and so um properly. 00:41:16.230 --> 00:41:17.910 Or it had different. 00:41:17.910 --> 00:41:23.830 Apparently apparently the card had expired okay but it didn't tell me that way 00:41:23.830 --> 00:41:30.370 i'm like you know like you said about all these dumb ass notifications hey tell 00:41:30.370 --> 00:41:37.290 me the fucking card expired right it didn't say anything it actually no. 00:41:37.290 --> 00:41:38.250 Not a single. 00:41:38.250 --> 00:41:41.030 Message warning nothing Now. 00:41:41.210 --> 00:41:45.470 If I had gone into the app and looked in the right submenu of the app, 00:41:45.590 --> 00:41:46.610 I would have seen something. 00:41:47.090 --> 00:41:52.170 But I never use the app when I plug into the chargers because I have it all 00:41:52.170 --> 00:41:56.410 set up to be automatic. I just plug in and it charges me and I don't have to look at a damn thing. 00:41:57.150 --> 00:42:01.590 And so, no, I had not opened my Hyundai app. And so... 00:42:02.630 --> 00:42:07.750 Yes. It's like, again, I get all these stupid notifications for all kinds of 00:42:07.750 --> 00:42:08.990 other things. And I shouldn't say stupid. 00:42:09.130 --> 00:42:10.390 I actually appreciate it when 00:42:10.390 --> 00:42:13.970 it tells me my car is unlocked that I forgot and I lock the car, you know? 00:42:14.230 --> 00:42:18.250 But at the same time, I would appreciate this one even more. 00:42:18.430 --> 00:42:22.850 And when I finally rolled into that charger in the morning, after I figured 00:42:22.850 --> 00:42:26.650 this out, I had less than five miles on the thing. 00:42:27.370 --> 00:42:29.470 Like, if it had not. Well, you made it. 00:42:29.590 --> 00:42:29.930 You made it. 00:42:29.930 --> 00:42:31.090 I made it. I did make it. 00:42:31.090 --> 00:42:34.030 You made it. You made it. You made it. You made it. You made it. 00:42:34.130 --> 00:42:35.270 You didn't get stranded. 00:42:35.850 --> 00:42:42.290 I had expected. I fully expected. Sam finally got stranded with no charge story. 00:42:42.630 --> 00:42:49.430 And no, I did not get that. You wound up, you wound up, you know, barely eking it out. 00:42:49.730 --> 00:42:54.690 Yeah. Barely eking it out. Because if I had run out, then I would have been stuck. 00:42:54.690 --> 00:42:56.910 I would have had to call somebody. would have had to do something, 00:42:57.110 --> 00:43:00.010 you know, get it, get it like whatever it would, it would have been, 00:43:00.170 --> 00:43:07.250 or if I had not looked at my email, this part of my email that I don't usually check, then. 00:43:08.340 --> 00:43:12.220 Then we still would have called and had the thing towed in the morning and they 00:43:12.220 --> 00:43:14.320 would have been like, you dumbass, everything's fine. 00:43:14.640 --> 00:43:18.600 This shit is a reason why I even still to this day, even though I've got like, 00:43:18.700 --> 00:43:22.640 you know, I'm using like with with Apple Mail, I'm using the I don't I don't 00:43:22.640 --> 00:43:26.640 use the VIP part that much. But I do, you know, my primary bail box, 00:43:26.800 --> 00:43:29.340 I have the with Apple Mail. 00:43:29.600 --> 00:43:35.760 I have it set that I am getting my primary notifications there where it's filtered 00:43:35.760 --> 00:43:42.400 out enough that I'm not I'm not like before where I would get like 50 emails in my primary inbox. 00:43:42.600 --> 00:43:45.600 It's like like yesterday, for example, my primary inbox, I got one, 00:43:45.680 --> 00:43:48.600 two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, ten messages. 00:43:48.940 --> 00:43:51.240 OK, you scroll through those or whatever. 00:43:51.500 --> 00:43:56.400 My stuff is still a mess. I tried the categorization that Apple Mail does now, 00:43:56.520 --> 00:43:58.840 and I hated it. So I went back to not having that. 00:44:00.240 --> 00:44:05.680 I'm sorry, but once you get it sorted, it is really easy. 00:44:05.720 --> 00:44:09.200 I got my transactions in one side. I got my primary receipt. 00:44:09.320 --> 00:44:12.460 I got the people that send newsletters and updates on one side. 00:44:12.460 --> 00:44:16.020 And I got promotions on another one. It didn't work for me, not because it wasn't 00:44:16.020 --> 00:44:19.000 doing what it was supposed to be. It didn't work with how my brain works. 00:44:19.020 --> 00:44:22.360 Your brain. They work with your brain. But I still, even with that, 00:44:22.540 --> 00:44:27.400 I still occasionally will scroll through to junk just in case something is going there. 00:44:27.540 --> 00:44:31.880 Oh, I still have to check my junk on a regular basis because there are routinely 00:44:31.880 --> 00:44:36.120 non-junk things in there. But anyway, that's a whole different topic. 00:44:36.180 --> 00:44:39.720 I have to say that at least it's... I have been... 00:44:41.000 --> 00:44:44.140 I've got it set up right now that I'm not getting stuff. 00:44:44.400 --> 00:44:49.400 It's been a long time that something's gone to junk that shouldn't be there. Thank God. 00:44:50.580 --> 00:44:55.620 I would bet you that if I open my junk mail right now, I would find something 00:44:55.620 --> 00:44:57.440 within a few minutes if I looked. 00:44:58.360 --> 00:45:02.580 Of course, I'm doing that. Let's see. Did I find anything? 00:45:03.460 --> 00:45:07.320 Not in the first screen of stuff. 00:45:07.320 --> 00:45:14.160 well there's an email from next door which technically speaking is not spam 00:45:14.160 --> 00:45:18.540 but honestly i don't really want it so you know what. 00:45:18.540 --> 00:45:21.720 Do you mean it's not spam next door is i'm like i'm. 00:45:21.720 --> 00:45:27.200 Well i actually have the next door account and i apparently did not set my preference 00:45:27.200 --> 00:45:33.180 to not have that particular email so it's legit it's not you know it's not someone 00:45:33.180 --> 00:45:35.560 i have no relationship with But that's the only one. 00:45:35.700 --> 00:45:40.240 Oh, oh, oh, here's one from my son's school district. 00:45:40.780 --> 00:45:46.120 Okay. So that's real. So two in the first screen full, I, in the first screen 00:45:46.120 --> 00:45:49.000 of about 50 messages, I found two that weren't spam. 00:45:49.660 --> 00:45:55.140 So anyway, so that was my story. That was my exciting story. 00:45:55.560 --> 00:46:00.760 I made it, but I was, you know, when, when I was in the bathroom, 00:46:01.880 --> 00:46:05.420 Brandy heard loud swearing suddenly coming out of the bathroom. 00:46:07.460 --> 00:46:09.560 And of course she's thinking... 00:46:11.080 --> 00:46:16.460 She's thinking that you're feeling bad from the peak or something or whatever. It's like, you know... 00:46:18.350 --> 00:46:19.070 Exactly. 00:46:21.410 --> 00:46:26.850 It's like, is he passing a stone? Is there an issue? Do we have to go to the hospital? No. 00:46:27.550 --> 00:46:33.030 No. No, it's you saying, fuck, fuck, this stupid thing. Fuck. 00:46:34.870 --> 00:46:38.150 Stupid fucking app, you stupid hot day idiots. 00:46:38.830 --> 00:46:45.670 Exactly. So, anyway. That took a while. Let's just, we'll forget the movies. 00:46:46.030 --> 00:46:50.710 Yeah, we'll skip the movies for this week. I will give the preview next week 00:46:50.710 --> 00:46:53.110 will be Lawrence of Arabia from 1962. 00:46:54.210 --> 00:47:02.890 That's number five on the 1998 AFI list and The Martian from 2015. 00:47:03.450 --> 00:47:06.410 So those will be the movies for next time. 00:47:06.550 --> 00:47:11.590 But in the meantime, we will take a break and we will come back and we will 00:47:11.590 --> 00:47:16.510 talk actual news of the day back after this. 00:47:59.500 --> 00:48:04.460 Okay, we are back. So on serious newsy stuff, where do you want to start, Yvonne? 00:48:06.980 --> 00:48:10.840 We sort of, you know, you said TSA wasn't an issue for you. 00:48:10.940 --> 00:48:16.240 It was for other folks. We had the ICE folks there. We had the LaGuardia plane 00:48:16.240 --> 00:48:18.780 versus fire truck thing. We have Iran, of course. 00:48:20.620 --> 00:48:25.240 Well, let's talk about aviation. That way I can mix into TSA and the accident. 00:48:25.780 --> 00:48:27.400 Okay, then we'll go from there. 00:48:27.400 --> 00:48:37.160 Well, hey, Sam, what did the president do on Friday related to paying the TSA employees? 00:48:37.480 --> 00:48:41.420 Oh, I was going to say he slept through some meetings like he usually does. 00:48:41.520 --> 00:48:42.000 Well, he did that, too. 00:48:42.720 --> 00:48:44.980 No, he signed an executive order. 00:48:45.420 --> 00:48:51.160 Yeah, but Sam, what did we find out when he signed the executive order? 00:48:51.500 --> 00:48:54.400 Did you read through the fine print of this? 00:48:55.060 --> 00:48:56.680 Because. Yes. 00:48:57.640 --> 00:49:05.200 Because the thing is that we found out that they had not run out of money to 00:49:05.200 --> 00:49:10.480 pay the TSA employees, that they had chosen not to fucking pay the TSA employees. 00:49:10.480 --> 00:49:14.580 I was going to say, I've heard semi-conflicting things on this. 00:49:14.700 --> 00:49:18.000 One is that, in fact, they have not run out of money yet, and they could have 00:49:18.000 --> 00:49:20.840 been paying these people all along, and it was just an administration choice 00:49:20.840 --> 00:49:24.480 not to, specifically to sort of increase the pain or whatever. 00:49:24.720 --> 00:49:25.020 Yes. 00:49:25.020 --> 00:49:30.640 But also, I've heard, nevertheless, Trump's executive order to pay them is probably 00:49:30.640 --> 00:49:35.640 illegal, because that's not the right mechanism to do this, etc. 00:49:36.000 --> 00:49:42.200 But the reality is that they had not run out of money to pay the guys. 00:49:42.200 --> 00:49:48.540 Every other part of the Department of Homeland Security was being paid, except TSA. 00:49:50.450 --> 00:49:56.230 And maybe a couple other stragglers. But, like, you know, the funding bill that 00:49:56.230 --> 00:49:57.470 was holding up was for all of you. 00:49:57.470 --> 00:50:01.870 By the way, Global Entry was reopened, by the way, when I came back from Dominican Republic. 00:50:02.230 --> 00:50:06.290 But it was all of Department of Homeland Security that the bill is for. 00:50:07.230 --> 00:50:11.830 And various other parts were being paid properly. 00:50:12.430 --> 00:50:16.150 And, you know, there are all kinds of rules about in-government shutdowns, 00:50:16.150 --> 00:50:18.870 who gets paid, who doesn't get paid. There's a lot of discretion. 00:50:19.410 --> 00:50:24.610 There's a lot of determination of sort of what's critical, what's not, et cetera. 00:50:25.870 --> 00:50:31.670 So bottom line is it seems to be consensus that they could have paid these folks 00:50:31.670 --> 00:50:32.970 all along if they'd wanted to. 00:50:33.710 --> 00:50:35.070 Right. But they chose not to. 00:50:35.430 --> 00:50:36.210 They chose not to. 00:50:37.290 --> 00:50:38.790 I mean, it's just... 00:50:40.760 --> 00:50:43.700 And of course, the problem that was happening in many airports, 00:50:43.860 --> 00:50:45.240 but not all, as you said, in your 00:50:45.240 --> 00:50:48.380 airport, there was no significant delays whatsoever in the trips you had. 00:50:48.840 --> 00:50:53.640 In other airports, there were delays of multi hours to get through security lines. 00:50:53.840 --> 00:50:58.120 But I don't know if you saw, I shared a chart that, listen, it's really- Basically. 00:50:58.160 --> 00:50:59.800 Houston was the only bad one, right? 00:50:59.900 --> 00:51:05.860 Yeah. Yeah. And I don't know, you didn't comment on this, but I actually said 00:51:05.860 --> 00:51:08.080 specifically, was this on purpose? 00:51:08.800 --> 00:51:09.200 Right. 00:51:09.860 --> 00:51:14.280 You know, given the name of the airport, that was why I said, 00:51:14.380 --> 00:51:16.420 yes, George Bush Airport. 00:51:18.040 --> 00:51:24.440 These fuckers did that on purpose. Sam, every other airport was at 22 minutes. 00:51:25.060 --> 00:51:28.020 Houston was at three hours and 20 minutes. 00:51:28.200 --> 00:51:29.640 So the thing is about it. 00:51:29.840 --> 00:51:30.780 This had to be intentional. 00:51:30.780 --> 00:51:37.220 The only thing about it being intentional that I would question is, from what I understand, 00:51:38.320 --> 00:51:44.480 the airports, the reason there were trouble was, I mean, is that TSA employees, 00:51:44.740 --> 00:51:47.820 despite not being paid, were theoretically supposed to show up. 00:51:47.940 --> 00:51:51.220 But of course, some were calling out sick because they're like, 00:51:51.320 --> 00:51:52.920 fuck this, I'm not working for free. 00:51:54.260 --> 00:51:59.840 And so the places where there were delays were where more people were not showing up. 00:52:00.020 --> 00:52:00.480 Right. 00:52:00.780 --> 00:52:05.160 So, but that would be sort of under the control of the individual TSA employees, 00:52:05.160 --> 00:52:09.460 not like a choice from above, unless somebody was like, hey, 00:52:09.600 --> 00:52:11.560 you Houston folks, why don't you all hang back? 00:52:12.440 --> 00:52:12.980 I don't know. 00:52:13.180 --> 00:52:16.300 That's what I'm saying. Because, I mean, it's crazy. 00:52:16.500 --> 00:52:21.860 But understand, here's the problem of, well, unless you use sick pay. 00:52:22.100 --> 00:52:24.480 Listen, if you don't show up to work, you're not going to get paid. 00:52:24.720 --> 00:52:27.600 Well, they were calling out sick specifically. 00:52:28.100 --> 00:52:28.460 Right. 00:52:29.160 --> 00:52:34.560 Okay. Which presumably for these agents, there is sick pay. I don't know. I guess. 00:52:35.160 --> 00:52:39.700 Normally after these shutdowns, Congress pays them retroactively. 00:52:39.720 --> 00:52:41.160 They get paid retroactively, right. 00:52:41.260 --> 00:52:44.140 Yeah. I mean, Congress has to explicitly do that. 00:52:44.400 --> 00:52:48.540 But if you don't show up to work, you're not going to get paid. 00:52:48.940 --> 00:52:52.880 Right. Unless it's a sick day and it's an approved sick day. 00:52:53.600 --> 00:52:57.800 So they were calling out sick. Now, do you actually believe everyone was sick 00:52:57.800 --> 00:53:00.180 at exactly the same time during the shutdown? 00:53:00.480 --> 00:53:03.260 I don't know. But, you know, what are you going to do? 00:53:03.860 --> 00:53:06.280 I guess they could ask them all for doctor's notes. 00:53:06.640 --> 00:53:11.240 I guess. But yeah, three hours and 20 minutes in Houston. 00:53:11.400 --> 00:53:12.840 I mean, like, if you looked at 00:53:12.840 --> 00:53:15.700 the chart, it was like three hours and 20 minutes of Houston, Phoenix 20. 00:53:15.880 --> 00:53:20.120 I mean, Miami, like I said, look, Checkpoint 3, which I don't use Checkpoint 3. 00:53:20.280 --> 00:53:24.900 I usually use, it's one nearby it, which has pre-checkpoint. 00:53:25.080 --> 00:53:27.740 It was, that Checkpoint 3 had 15 minutes. 00:53:28.900 --> 00:53:33.380 Actually, I just realized right now, no, we did go through Checkpoint 3, 00:53:33.600 --> 00:53:34.920 because Manu doesn't have pre-check. 00:53:35.120 --> 00:53:38.180 I keep forgetting about this. I'm going to have to sign him up for... 00:53:38.180 --> 00:53:42.160 Now he's old enough, I've got to sign him up for global entry. 00:53:43.920 --> 00:53:47.180 Otherwise, yeah, so I've got to do that. 00:53:47.360 --> 00:53:52.340 And, yeah, we did go to Checkpoint 3. As a matter of fact, they actually... 00:53:52.340 --> 00:53:56.420 Because they saw that we both had pre-check and he didn't, they actually let 00:53:56.420 --> 00:53:59.500 us cut in front of everybody. That was actually faster. 00:54:00.340 --> 00:54:00.780 Okay? 00:54:02.100 --> 00:54:03.020 So, but... 00:54:04.690 --> 00:54:11.890 I, it's just, my whole thing is that they, they didn't have to not pay TSA employees, 00:54:12.030 --> 00:54:13.450 but they chose to do so anyway. 00:54:13.690 --> 00:54:14.210 Yes. 00:54:14.810 --> 00:54:20.970 Because it's just the standard bullshit, fucking bullshit that we deal with 00:54:20.970 --> 00:54:23.690 every day with this fucking bullshit administration. 00:54:24.770 --> 00:54:29.730 Well, and despite the executive order, and theoretically they could be paid 00:54:29.730 --> 00:54:35.910 as early as Monday, but despite this executive order, the actual funding of 00:54:35.910 --> 00:54:38.770 Department of Homeland Security still has not resolved. 00:54:38.950 --> 00:54:40.730 Well, is that right? Because even though the Senate. 00:54:40.850 --> 00:54:41.930 They didn't make a deal. 00:54:42.270 --> 00:54:42.510 Right? 00:54:43.310 --> 00:54:48.690 They made a deal in the Senate, even though Donald Trump was yelling at them to not make a deal. 00:54:49.130 --> 00:54:50.670 Right. But the Senate made a deal. 00:54:50.670 --> 00:54:55.210 They passed something through unanimous consent a couple of days ago. 00:54:55.450 --> 00:54:59.670 And then the house was like, no, fuck that. I'm not doing that because apparently 00:54:59.670 --> 00:55:02.730 they pay more attention to Donald than, than the Senate does. 00:55:03.370 --> 00:55:08.410 And they passed their own thing, which does not match at all, 00:55:08.490 --> 00:55:11.850 in which the Senate says is a non-starter in the Senate. 00:55:12.250 --> 00:55:16.890 And I think the difference is the Senate actually did make some nods towards 00:55:16.890 --> 00:55:24.450 adjusting ICE and funding for ICE and rules for ICE and things like that. 00:55:24.530 --> 00:55:28.710 And the House is not willing to do that at all. And so— Well, the House. 00:55:28.830 --> 00:55:30.570 Well, the House. 00:55:30.930 --> 00:55:33.970 Well, Speaker Johnson. it and leadership thank you 00:55:33.970 --> 00:55:37.150 yeah because this is a yet another thing where 00:55:37.150 --> 00:55:40.810 you know you might end up with a discharge position petition 00:55:40.810 --> 00:55:44.130 to override but that takes a long time you 00:55:44.130 --> 00:55:46.910 know that's not going to happen anytime soon that you know right 00:55:46.910 --> 00:55:55.670 and so we'll see we'll see but if now that we're paying tsa it's not going to 00:55:55.670 --> 00:56:00.030 be painful anymore so there's no incentive to resolve it sooner rather later 00:56:00.030 --> 00:56:06.210 so it'll it'll just hang out there for a long time probably yeah yeah now. 00:56:06.210 --> 00:56:09.510 There's really no incentive to make a deal quickly anytime 00:56:09.510 --> 00:56:16.470 soon well if they make the deal they still haven't yet so i i well i don't know 00:56:16.470 --> 00:56:20.250 but the whole thing is that this is just my whole point about this is it's a 00:56:20.250 --> 00:56:24.170 it's it's the standard substandard bullshit of these guys and it's always it's 00:56:24.170 --> 00:56:27.530 always a show It's always bullshit. It's all bullshit. 00:56:28.250 --> 00:56:34.210 Nothing is what it seems. They're never making anything in terms of trying to 00:56:34.210 --> 00:56:35.630 solve a problem, legislation, whatever. 00:56:35.810 --> 00:56:38.350 They create problems. They fake create problems. 00:56:38.930 --> 00:56:44.370 Everything is a straw man, and this is another one of them. 00:56:45.150 --> 00:56:52.810 Right. I don't know. Well, going back to the issue at sticking with aviation, 00:56:53.070 --> 00:56:54.750 that crash at LaGuardia. 00:56:55.370 --> 00:56:55.530 Right. 00:56:56.090 --> 00:57:02.910 I shared some detailed information on this on the Slack. The thing is that at night at LaGuardia, 00:57:03.130 --> 00:57:11.890 they lower the number of people at control tower well below what is in the daytime, 00:57:12.110 --> 00:57:14.550 even though in many cases traffic is not lighter. 00:57:15.950 --> 00:57:19.270 OK, and one of the things that they do is that they've got two runways that 00:57:19.270 --> 00:57:22.910 they combine their responsibilities for ground. 00:57:23.290 --> 00:57:28.770 And OK, so you've got a ground controller that is the one that supervises movements 00:57:28.770 --> 00:57:30.970 on the ground of vehicles and aircraft. 00:57:31.210 --> 00:57:34.750 OK, authorizes when an aircraft is supposed to cross a runway or not, et cetera, whatever. 00:57:35.490 --> 00:57:42.410 And then you've got the tower controller, which is the one that controls takeoffs and landings. 00:57:42.410 --> 00:57:48.270 Anybody that is close to the airport, when you are about close, 00:57:48.510 --> 00:57:52.970 you know, because there's a departure controller and there's an arrivals controller 00:57:52.970 --> 00:57:55.470 that controls the airspace around the airport. 00:57:55.710 --> 00:57:59.510 Once you get very close to the airport, you switch to the tower, 00:57:59.690 --> 00:58:02.830 which is the one that gives you instructions for final land. Okay. 00:58:03.450 --> 00:58:08.710 So that's the tower controller. So they combine tower and ground at night. 00:58:08.710 --> 00:58:15.710 But look, at an airport like DeGuardia, that's too much work for one guy. It's just too much. 00:58:16.770 --> 00:58:19.150 But even still, here's the reality. 00:58:20.910 --> 00:58:27.690 The tower, you know, that controller that was doing both, did clear the fire 00:58:27.690 --> 00:58:33.710 trucks that were involved in the incident to go across that active running. 00:58:33.850 --> 00:58:36.130 Explain the scenario that was happening. 00:58:36.130 --> 00:58:41.350 Okay. So here's what happened. A United aircraft on the other side of the airport, 00:58:41.530 --> 00:58:46.270 okay, on the east side of the airport, had reported that they had fumes, 00:58:46.270 --> 00:58:50.070 that there was an issue, and they needed emergency equipment right away. 00:58:50.070 --> 00:58:54.990 So for those fire vehicles to get there, they had to cross the active runway 00:58:54.990 --> 00:58:57.370 that was being used for takeoffs and landings, okay? 00:58:57.550 --> 00:59:03.610 So the vehicles called the ground controller to get clearance to go across. 00:59:04.630 --> 00:59:09.970 The controller cleared them to cross, but also he had cleared this Air Canada 00:59:09.970 --> 00:59:12.870 airplane to land at the same time. Okay. 00:59:14.530 --> 00:59:18.270 All of a sudden, after the controller did clear the ground and he's looking 00:59:18.270 --> 00:59:23.090 and they have radar that shows the vehicles on the ground, not just the aircraft, 00:59:23.270 --> 00:59:26.470 but that shows what vehicles are on the ground. Okay. 00:59:27.410 --> 00:59:31.330 The tower controller realizes that those vehicles have been cleared across, 00:59:31.350 --> 00:59:32.730 but there was an airplane landing. 00:59:32.970 --> 00:59:39.050 He calls out twice for, and he called out vehicle one, stop, 00:59:39.170 --> 00:59:41.490 stop, stop, stop. He tried to get them to stop. 00:59:42.370 --> 00:59:44.510 Here's another thing that should have been at play. 00:59:45.750 --> 00:59:53.550 That airport has this lighting system that will, if you are an airplane or a 00:59:53.550 --> 00:59:56.570 vehicle approaching to cross an active runway, 00:59:57.390 --> 01:00:00.150 red lights will flash to tell you 01:00:00.150 --> 01:00:03.850 hey forget about don't cross 01:00:03.850 --> 01:00:07.030 don't fucking cross now people 01:00:07.030 --> 01:00:09.990 need to verify they're working correctly i mean 01:00:09.990 --> 01:00:12.690 it's a system that's been installed in place at many airports for 01:00:12.690 --> 01:00:15.670 a long time i see them all the time when i'm plane spotting work 01:00:15.670 --> 01:00:18.470 you will see them like light up right there they will be lighting up right 01:00:18.470 --> 01:00:21.270 right right until all the sun you get cleared they go and they 01:00:21.270 --> 01:00:24.210 go white so you can you so you can go onto the onto the 01:00:24.210 --> 01:00:27.270 active runway uh but that that that 01:00:27.270 --> 01:00:30.010 fire truck should have seen that but here's the thing about it 01:00:30.010 --> 01:00:35.250 the lead truck didn't stop but when the stop got called out ground radar showed 01:00:35.250 --> 01:00:41.110 that all the vehicles following him did it was only that one that didn't stop 01:00:41.110 --> 01:00:45.770 right so i'm not understanding what the hell happened in the communication inside 01:00:45.770 --> 01:00:48.850 the lead vehicle that there were about, 01:00:49.350 --> 01:00:54.590 eight or ten trucks that were heading over there, all of the other trucks heard 01:00:54.590 --> 01:00:56.770 the stop but not the lead vehicle. 01:00:57.570 --> 01:00:58.050 Right. 01:00:58.230 --> 01:01:03.710 When the Air Canada plane landed and that vehicle crossed, there was nothing they could do. 01:01:03.830 --> 01:01:09.390 There was nothing they could do. They had, they were going way too fast. 01:01:09.570 --> 01:01:13.510 It was too close to the point where they landed. They were doing over a hundred knots. 01:01:14.150 --> 01:01:16.090 They're fucked. There's nothing they could do. 01:01:17.490 --> 01:01:22.350 So now the investigation has to go is to understand why the heck that lead vehicle, 01:01:22.450 --> 01:01:24.590 despite the fact that it got told to stop twice, 01:01:24.970 --> 01:01:29.070 despite the fact that it had flashing red lights, why the heck all the other 01:01:29.070 --> 01:01:34.250 vehicles understood the command to stop and he didn't. 01:01:34.410 --> 01:01:37.370 The controller did make a mistake to clear them. 01:01:37.530 --> 01:01:43.830 However, the controller did call back to correct it to stop within enough time 01:01:43.830 --> 01:01:46.770 that they should have stopped. Yes, absolutely. 01:01:48.430 --> 01:01:53.950 And to be clear, we should learn more about this. The people in the firetruck survived. 01:01:54.670 --> 01:01:55.070 Yes. 01:01:55.590 --> 01:02:00.230 You know, they had to be hospitalized. I don't know their current condition, but they survived. 01:02:00.610 --> 01:02:02.690 Now, the question is, of course, if they're going to fess up. 01:02:02.690 --> 01:02:05.850 I make sure that they're going to fess up. Why the hell they fucked up? 01:02:06.050 --> 01:02:11.210 Oh, well, I'm sure they are already lawyered up. If not, they should be. 01:02:11.810 --> 01:02:15.430 They should be. Yeah, that's my concern right now. Now, I mean, 01:02:15.490 --> 01:02:19.230 was it an equipment failure or did they fuck up? 01:02:20.170 --> 01:02:22.790 That's good because it could have been an equipment failure as well. 01:02:24.310 --> 01:02:29.090 Like radio equipment something. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They just weren't working 01:02:29.090 --> 01:02:31.930 right something. Yeah. So that's a possibility. 01:02:33.390 --> 01:02:38.890 Hey, the ground, I mean, those systems work very well. 01:02:39.490 --> 01:02:45.030 Did the ground light system with the flashing red lights, did it not activate for some reason? 01:02:45.350 --> 01:02:48.250 And that's something that needs to be determined as well. It needs to be tested. 01:02:48.970 --> 01:02:52.990 Because that's the reason why that's been put around almost every airport around the U.S. 01:02:53.350 --> 01:02:57.690 And that's something that has reduced those kinds of runway incursions a lot. 01:02:58.470 --> 01:03:02.690 And it's a system that people depend on. So we got to check to see if that system was working properly. 01:03:03.560 --> 01:03:07.560 But yeah, it's very unfortunate, man, because, you know, the controller made 01:03:07.560 --> 01:03:09.880 a mistake, but the controller caught his mistake. 01:03:10.040 --> 01:03:13.540 But the reality is that the reason the controller made the mistake is because 01:03:13.540 --> 01:03:18.120 there was no reason he should be doing that job by himself with that much traffic in the air. 01:03:18.600 --> 01:03:19.060 Right. 01:03:20.280 --> 01:03:22.160 But this was not the controller's fault. 01:03:22.600 --> 01:03:28.080 Yeah. The other thing here, though, is it actually seems remarkable that we 01:03:28.080 --> 01:03:31.480 only had the pilot and co-pilot die. 01:03:31.860 --> 01:03:32.520 Oh, yeah. 01:03:32.520 --> 01:03:35.580 You know, given the nature of the accident. 01:03:35.880 --> 01:03:38.260 A lot of people did get hurt on the plane. 01:03:38.420 --> 01:03:39.060 Yes. Yes. 01:03:39.340 --> 01:03:39.680 Yeah. 01:03:40.380 --> 01:03:43.940 A lot of concussions. A lot of people like slamming their heads into the seat 01:03:43.940 --> 01:03:47.140 in front of them. Things like that. But only two dead. 01:03:47.660 --> 01:03:52.840 And I gather the, and some people weren't injured at all. 01:03:52.880 --> 01:03:57.760 The emergency vehicles, thankfully, were right there. There was an entire gaggle of them. 01:03:58.760 --> 01:03:59.240 Yes. 01:03:59.240 --> 01:04:02.080 It didn't take too long to get rescue on it. 01:04:03.240 --> 01:04:08.620 Yeah. I guess it probably delayed the attention to that other plane that had the smell or whatever. 01:04:08.860 --> 01:04:14.400 Yes. The other plane, it was a fume incident. You know, I don't know how they 01:04:14.400 --> 01:04:17.200 dealt with, you know, they dealt with that. They were, yeah. 01:04:17.460 --> 01:04:21.540 So, they had been originally, the other plane had been trying to avoid evacuating 01:04:21.540 --> 01:04:23.900 the airplanes and they were trying to get the fire trucks over there for them 01:04:23.900 --> 01:04:28.960 to, I'm assuming they finally, they probably evacuated that plane because of the fumes. 01:04:28.960 --> 01:04:31.660 So i mean in this case like you said there were 01:04:31.660 --> 01:04:34.460 a bunch of people injured enough to go to the hospital there are a bunch of people who 01:04:34.460 --> 01:04:38.700 walked off the damn plane without anything um the 01:04:38.700 --> 01:04:41.860 the pilot and co-pilot died there was one stewardess who 01:04:41.860 --> 01:04:47.000 was ejected from the plane found 300 feet away and needed medical attention 01:04:47.000 --> 01:04:56.420 but will be fine in the end um you know so i i heard you know some some conflicting 01:04:56.420 --> 01:04:59.300 reports on like, you know, we're, 01:05:00.160 --> 01:05:06.160 Did the pilots do things that helped, even though, like, they ended up dying? 01:05:06.780 --> 01:05:11.940 Like, you know, like, for instance, if they had tried to swerve to avoid the 01:05:11.940 --> 01:05:15.360 truck, it probably would have made things worse, not better. 01:05:16.900 --> 01:05:21.720 Because, like, given the speed they were going, given the amount of time they had. 01:05:21.940 --> 01:05:23.360 If they turned— It would have flipped the plane over. 01:05:23.520 --> 01:05:28.100 It would have flipped the plane over or hit on the wings that still had fuel 01:05:28.100 --> 01:05:29.380 in them and caused a fire. 01:05:30.080 --> 01:05:30.160 Yeah. 01:05:30.840 --> 01:05:36.320 You know, and I've heard a little bit of conflict of whether they were able 01:05:36.320 --> 01:05:42.920 to slow down more than they would have on a normal landing so that to just be 01:05:42.920 --> 01:05:46.220 a little bit slower when they hit the truck, I don't know. 01:05:47.280 --> 01:05:52.480 Maybe that helped a little bit, maybe not. But it clearly could have been a lot worse. 01:05:52.880 --> 01:05:58.540 Oh, it could have been. It could have been a lot worse, But I really feel bad 01:05:58.540 --> 01:06:00.960 for those pilots. They really just... 01:06:01.710 --> 01:06:06.090 And there's nothing they could do. They were just at the worst possible moment, 01:06:06.090 --> 01:06:07.290 something like that to happen. 01:06:07.310 --> 01:06:13.830 It's one of those where, you know, I still remember, it reminds me of this car 01:06:13.830 --> 01:06:16.230 accident that we had where we were driving down. 01:06:16.730 --> 01:06:22.170 I was a passenger where this guy just ran a stop sign right at the moment that we're coming through. 01:06:22.170 --> 01:06:26.550 true and it's just this helpless feeling you can't there it doesn't matter how 01:06:26.550 --> 01:06:31.730 good you're there's nothing to do nothing to do all i did was close my eyes 01:06:31.730 --> 01:06:33.850 put my hands over my head i said oh shit. 01:06:33.850 --> 01:06:34.870 Because there. 01:06:34.870 --> 01:06:35.910 Was nothing else to do. 01:06:35.910 --> 01:06:38.870 Yeah and there are 01:06:38.870 --> 01:06:42.190 a lot of scenarios that end up being like that i 01:06:42.190 --> 01:06:45.190 mean you know you you talk about first of 01:06:45.190 --> 01:06:48.370 all if you're the driver driving carefully driving defensively all 01:06:48.370 --> 01:06:51.910 that kind of stuff but there's some scenarios where there's 01:06:51.910 --> 01:06:54.670 just absolutely nothing nothing you can do 01:06:54.670 --> 01:06:57.470 there i mean i remember you remember a 01:06:57.470 --> 01:07:00.490 few years ago where sort of across the 01:07:00.490 --> 01:07:06.170 street from where i was working in seattle a crane fell on the damn road right 01:07:06.170 --> 01:07:11.550 you know and you know there was dash cam video right you know there was somebody 01:07:11.550 --> 01:07:19.390 that was at a stoplight right red light waiting for it to turn green and a crane fell on the car right, 01:07:20.790 --> 01:07:22.030 nothing defensive. 01:07:22.030 --> 01:07:27.550 Driving technique are you using in order to avoid the crane falling on your car. 01:07:27.550 --> 01:07:35.930 Right you know but yeah and and of course this is same thing for pilots in this 01:07:35.930 --> 01:07:40.330 kind of situation obviously it's just like the the thing that happened happened 01:07:40.330 --> 01:07:44.430 too late and at a time where there was nothing to do nothing to. 01:07:44.430 --> 01:07:46.070 Do nothing to do nothing to do unfortunately. 01:07:49.070 --> 01:07:52.750 Okay anything else aviation wise before we move on to another topic, 01:07:54.640 --> 01:07:58.080 Okay. Ah, let's see. What do we do then? What do we do then? 01:07:58.160 --> 01:08:00.060 What do we do then? I guess I ran. 01:08:00.800 --> 01:08:05.140 I fucking ran. How's it going, Sam? Are we winning? 01:08:05.680 --> 01:08:09.900 Oh, yes, clearly. Well, I mean, I keep hearing Donald Trump's... 01:08:09.900 --> 01:08:13.340 Hey, did you notice that the Iranians hacked Kash Patel's private email? 01:08:14.100 --> 01:08:23.020 Talk about the great... We have the dumbest fucking heads of anything ever. 01:08:23.020 --> 01:08:24.360 Uh-huh. 01:08:27.410 --> 01:08:32.410 I would say at least it wasn't his work email, but reality of these guys is 01:08:32.410 --> 01:08:33.710 they don't use their work email. 01:08:34.110 --> 01:08:37.870 They're using their personal email for government duties. They're using Signal. 01:08:38.810 --> 01:08:43.690 Right. You know, from previous history, it's remarkable that they're not, 01:08:43.690 --> 01:08:46.170 like, signaling journalists about what they're doing anyway. 01:08:46.910 --> 01:08:47.110 Right. 01:08:47.230 --> 01:08:54.430 You know? So, no. If you remember just in the early days of this war, 01:08:54.770 --> 01:09:03.510 there were pictures released of Trump and his advisors at Mar-a-Lago managing 01:09:03.510 --> 01:09:09.910 the start of the war with a black curtain separating them from the diners that 01:09:09.910 --> 01:09:11.990 are just at Mar-a-Lago as customers. 01:09:12.370 --> 01:09:17.010 Why are they so stupid? I mean, okay, fine. 01:09:17.850 --> 01:09:23.610 Take your stupid positions. That's fine. You know, but why are they just so 01:09:23.610 --> 01:09:25.410 stupid about even this shit? 01:09:26.150 --> 01:09:33.010 What is it? I don't get it. I mean, even Putin, with all his despicable positions, 01:09:33.850 --> 01:09:37.650 manages operational security of his shit a lot better than this. 01:09:38.090 --> 01:09:42.630 I mean, okay, so these guys are assholes. I mean, the problem is that they're, 01:09:42.830 --> 01:09:52.270 okay, Putin is an asshole, an evil one, but not stupid. these guys are evil stupid assholes. 01:09:52.270 --> 01:09:54.890 Right fuck, 01:09:58.470 --> 01:10:04.550 they are and but i keep hearing donald trump say over and over and over that 01:10:04.550 --> 01:10:09.570 we come you know we've completely destroyed and obliterated and blah blah blah 01:10:09.570 --> 01:10:12.950 and but we're still gonna go for a couple weeks but then we'll be done okay. 01:10:12.950 --> 01:10:19.510 Okay okay yeah the the economist gave the perfect quote about this where they 01:10:19.510 --> 01:10:22.610 said that what was it they said that, 01:10:24.930 --> 01:10:30.550 Yes, Donald, you said that you obliterated, you know, all their capability, 01:10:30.850 --> 01:10:35.830 100% of their military capability, but it's amazing how much damage to the world 01:10:35.830 --> 01:10:39.290 economy that 0% of their capability is doing. 01:10:40.470 --> 01:10:40.550 Yeah. 01:10:41.540 --> 01:10:43.600 I've heard. Yes. 01:10:44.760 --> 01:10:45.680 So stupid. 01:10:46.100 --> 01:10:51.800 The latest I've heard, by the way, is that in addition to the oil that is not 01:10:51.800 --> 01:10:56.480 going through the Gulf of, the Gulf of Hormuz, the Strait of Hormuz. 01:10:56.560 --> 01:10:57.500 Gulf of Hormuz? 01:10:57.840 --> 01:11:02.520 Yeah, the Gulf of Hormuz. Well, I also, I'm trying to be careful because it's really- I have. 01:11:02.520 --> 01:11:09.300 All these fucking names. I have the Strait of Hormuz. Now we're calling it the Gulf of Hormuz. 01:11:09.920 --> 01:11:11.340 Well, also the thing that. 01:11:11.540 --> 01:11:14.460 That should be the name of the episode. The Gulf of Hormuz. Yes. 01:11:14.920 --> 01:11:19.020 The mistake that I've made myself that I've heard others make as well, 01:11:19.120 --> 01:11:22.760 including Donald Trump, by the way, is to make it plural straights. 01:11:22.900 --> 01:11:28.920 It is not the straights of Hormuz. It is a single straight of Hormuz. Okay? 01:11:31.680 --> 01:11:32.440 Jesus Christ. 01:11:32.440 --> 01:11:35.560 You know, it is one, not multiple. 01:11:35.880 --> 01:11:38.220 Not multiple. Not multiple. 01:11:38.640 --> 01:11:43.640 Right. So anyway, in addition to the oil that's not getting through, 01:11:44.120 --> 01:11:52.020 there are apparently some necessary raw materials for making fertilizer that 01:11:52.020 --> 01:11:53.400 are also not going through. 01:11:53.460 --> 01:11:54.760 Yeah, that is correct. 01:11:54.760 --> 01:11:59.780 And there is, there are apparently, it's starting to cascade because there are 01:11:59.780 --> 01:12:04.940 fertilizer manufacturing plants in Bangladesh and elsewhere that are shutting 01:12:04.940 --> 01:12:06.280 down because they don't have- 01:12:06.280 --> 01:12:09.500 Fertilizer prices have been going through the roof. Yes, that's correct. Yeah. 01:12:10.300 --> 01:12:10.980 And this is... 01:12:10.980 --> 01:12:14.080 It's part of the winning, Sam. It's part of the fucking winning. 01:12:14.540 --> 01:12:17.940 Well, this is one of those things that also cascades because, 01:12:17.940 --> 01:12:23.380 you know, first the fertilizer prices go up, then fertilizer becomes harder 01:12:23.380 --> 01:12:27.220 to get because the price is going up and just supply, 01:12:27.440 --> 01:12:33.200 which then affects agriculture, which then affects food prices, 01:12:33.580 --> 01:12:35.800 which then affects food availability. 01:12:36.280 --> 01:12:43.660 You don't understand the 6D chess that we're playing, Sam. This is the thing. 01:12:44.280 --> 01:12:52.440 We're winning, Sam. We are winning. We have eliminated 100% of their military capability, Sam. 01:12:53.580 --> 01:12:57.660 100%. Now we need to get rid of the other 100%, I guess. 01:12:57.700 --> 01:13:05.740 From what I understand, though, Iran is making deals on a one-off basis at a 01:13:05.740 --> 01:13:09.320 time with different countries, different freighters, whatever, 01:13:09.560 --> 01:13:11.560 to let specific things through. 01:13:11.560 --> 01:13:15.880 Listen, that is complete bullshit anyway. It doesn't matter. 01:13:16.120 --> 01:13:19.340 This whole thing about cutting one-off deals. 01:13:20.260 --> 01:13:27.920 Nobody is going to go and sail a ship through a fucking shooting war. 01:13:29.820 --> 01:13:34.860 OK. Most companies, most, most ships are not. 01:13:34.860 --> 01:13:36.300 There have been a few going through. 01:13:36.700 --> 01:13:38.160 Very tiny amounts. 01:13:38.540 --> 01:13:39.220 Very tiny amounts. 01:13:39.240 --> 01:13:40.240 Very tiny amounts. 01:13:40.760 --> 01:13:43.920 But the point is, some of those are because of these one-off deals, 01:13:44.120 --> 01:13:46.780 which are gaining, you know, Iran's making money off it. 01:13:46.860 --> 01:13:49.100 But Sam, it doesn't matter. 01:13:49.480 --> 01:13:50.800 Oh, no, it won't affect the globe. 01:13:50.860 --> 01:13:50.960 It's not enough. 01:13:51.100 --> 01:13:55.140 It's not enough to affect. No, here's the thing. It's not enough to affect the 01:13:55.140 --> 01:13:57.240 global economic situation. It 01:13:57.240 --> 01:14:02.580 is enough for Iran to claim some specific victories and to gain some cash. 01:14:02.580 --> 01:14:08.880 Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's it. But we have eased sanctions on Iran. 01:14:09.240 --> 01:14:14.280 Cash, Iran's oil. We fucking eased sanctions on the fucking Iranian oil anyway. 01:14:14.680 --> 01:14:16.980 So what the hell? We gave the fucking money. 01:14:17.540 --> 01:14:18.140 Yes. 01:14:18.280 --> 01:14:19.320 And the Russian oil. 01:14:19.500 --> 01:14:22.540 And the Russian oil. Yeah, this is the point. 01:14:22.540 --> 01:14:29.460 Like, if you start, and this harkens back to the conversation we had a couple weeks ago on this, 01:14:29.620 --> 01:14:35.540 where the way that the Trump administration is calling this a success is, 01:14:35.540 --> 01:14:37.960 look at all the shit we blew up. 01:14:38.880 --> 01:14:40.480 Look at all the people we killed. 01:14:40.860 --> 01:14:47.200 Listen, apparently Donald Trump is getting a daily, like, clip. 01:14:47.480 --> 01:14:50.880 It's like a video clip. It's like a YouTube. 01:14:51.240 --> 01:14:54.700 Yeah, a two-minute clip. of like just shit being blown up. 01:14:54.960 --> 01:14:55.460 Right. 01:14:56.930 --> 01:15:00.750 You know, and he obviously, it's 01:15:00.750 --> 01:15:05.450 one of those montages that I'm sure looks cool in the abstract, right? 01:15:05.750 --> 01:15:10.390 And for a dumbass like him, makes him feel like he's totally winning. 01:15:10.970 --> 01:15:17.650 Yes, and this is the thing. If you are grading solely on shit blown up and people 01:15:17.650 --> 01:15:20.850 killed, you can rattle off the list of the things you've blown up. 01:15:20.910 --> 01:15:24.890 We've apparently dropped a shit ton of weaponry on it between us and Israel. 01:15:24.890 --> 01:15:31.710 we have blown up lots of things we have killed lots of people now 200 of them 01:15:31.710 --> 01:15:39.790 were innocent school girls but whatever we killed a bunch of people but whatever whatever well. 01:15:39.790 --> 01:15:43.550 Listen you're channeling what they would say 200 innocent. 01:15:43.550 --> 01:15:47.750 School girls they weren't that innocent they weren't that. 01:15:47.750 --> 01:15:49.510 Innocent they're iranians. 01:15:49.510 --> 01:15:52.790 You know anyway however Well. 01:15:53.370 --> 01:15:57.770 I'm sorry. Is that what they—I'm sure that that's what they were saying. 01:15:58.150 --> 01:16:03.230 Yeah, I'm sure. Now, however, if you start looking at potential strategic goals 01:16:03.230 --> 01:16:05.370 here— Okay, regime change. 01:16:05.990 --> 01:16:10.070 We have succeeded in getting someone more hard-line than where we started. 01:16:12.270 --> 01:16:15.070 Win, right? Yeah, clearly a win. 01:16:15.230 --> 01:16:19.150 Not just that, but listen, we have emboldened Iran. 01:16:19.910 --> 01:16:21.490 We have emboldened them. 01:16:22.710 --> 01:16:28.390 Why would they make a deal right now? For deal what? For what? 01:16:29.250 --> 01:16:35.610 Yes. And look, all sorts of, if you look at, 01:16:35.810 --> 01:16:40.870 there's probably a half dozen different strategic goals that you could potentially 01:16:40.870 --> 01:16:46.690 say were a goal of this endeavor or excursion, excursion, as Donald Trump says. 01:16:47.850 --> 01:16:51.130 Oh, that's an excursion. yes every single one 01:16:51.130 --> 01:16:54.810 of these 01:16:54.810 --> 01:17:00.950 strategic measures as opposed to how much shit did we blow up is going the wrong 01:17:00.950 --> 01:17:09.110 direction so like this is not this is completely backfired in terms of any of 01:17:09.110 --> 01:17:13.110 these other things you know and and look, 01:17:14.690 --> 01:17:21.790 Donald Trump is saying now that he has delayed the next phase of like blowing 01:17:21.790 --> 01:17:26.350 up power plants and stuff multiple times now because we are in healthy, 01:17:26.590 --> 01:17:31.930 fruitful negotiations with the Iranians on a way out. Okay. 01:17:32.090 --> 01:17:33.610 So do you believe this? 01:17:34.170 --> 01:17:36.810 Here is. I am trying. 01:17:37.390 --> 01:17:43.930 Do you believe this? No, no, no. Yes or no question. Do you believe that statement? 01:17:44.690 --> 01:17:52.430 I believe something is happening, but not what Donald—let me explain what I think, okay? 01:17:52.530 --> 01:17:59.750 Because I have been trying to parse Donald Trump's completely addled statements 01:17:59.750 --> 01:18:02.170 that clearly are not well tied 01:18:02.170 --> 01:18:06.830 to reality to try to figure out what might actually be going on, okay? 01:18:07.470 --> 01:18:11.990 Because he has said we are in fruitful negotiations. And when asked who we are 01:18:11.990 --> 01:18:15.910 in negotiations with, has been like, no, we're not talking to the Ayatollah. 01:18:16.030 --> 01:18:18.490 No, we're not talking to this group. No, we're not talking to that group. 01:18:18.850 --> 01:18:26.530 What I think is happening is they are talking to some random Iranian that they 01:18:26.530 --> 01:18:33.670 hope might be able to take over once they kill a few more of the current leadership. 01:18:33.670 --> 01:18:39.050 This sounds like the Ahmed Shalabi of Iran. 01:18:39.570 --> 01:18:47.750 Who was an exiled Iraqi, for those who don't remember, who hoped to become president 01:18:47.750 --> 01:18:51.410 of Iraq after the U.S. killed Saddam. 01:18:51.750 --> 01:18:53.430 They had a lot of work out, Sam. 01:18:53.610 --> 01:18:58.250 That did not work out at all. But I think that's what's happening here. 01:18:58.250 --> 01:19:03.110 I think when they are saying they're talking to Iranians and negotiating with Iranians, 01:19:03.250 --> 01:19:09.510 they are talking to some random Iranian who's not actually in a position of power, 01:19:09.530 --> 01:19:16.550 but they hope could be the head of a puppet government after they kill a few 01:19:16.550 --> 01:19:18.750 more people. That's what I think is happening. 01:19:20.250 --> 01:19:20.530 Great. 01:19:20.990 --> 01:19:22.070 Sounds great. 01:19:22.690 --> 01:19:26.030 Awesome. It's like, you know, I mean, 01:19:26.410 --> 01:19:31.850 listen, this, this, there was this guy who during the financial crisis, 01:19:32.190 --> 01:19:36.970 right as the 2008 financial crisis, right as Bernie Madoff went down, 01:19:37.150 --> 01:19:40.750 there was another guy that went down with a similar Ponzi scheme, 01:19:41.010 --> 01:19:44.750 but that does not get as much coverage for it. 01:19:44.750 --> 01:19:47.970 It was, if I remember his name is Fred Dreyer, right? 01:19:48.450 --> 01:19:50.030 Okay, I don't remember this. 01:19:50.170 --> 01:19:54.430 Mark Dreyer. Yes, Mark Dreyer. Okay, well, let me tell you the thing that he 01:19:54.430 --> 01:19:59.990 was, one of the things that he was trying to do to further his scheme near the 01:19:59.990 --> 01:20:02.270 end, that is the one thing that almost brought him down. 01:20:02.530 --> 01:20:06.510 He was trying to sell these notes, okay? 01:20:06.690 --> 01:20:10.250 And he claimed that they were from an insurance company somewhere in Canada, 01:20:10.250 --> 01:20:11.170 if I remember correctly. 01:20:11.170 --> 01:20:17.810 And so he went and somehow he got access to the office of the insurance company, 01:20:18.090 --> 01:20:23.130 got access to a conference room, and sat down in there to negotiate the sale 01:20:23.130 --> 01:20:27.210 of these securities like he was part of the insurance company. 01:20:27.210 --> 01:20:32.030 But all he did was manage to hijack a conference room into place to act like 01:20:32.030 --> 01:20:33.170 he was the insurance company. 01:20:33.310 --> 01:20:38.010 And this is kind of like the people I feel that this administration is talking 01:20:38.010 --> 01:20:43.630 in Iran. It's some fucking guys that decided to go and say, hey, we'll talk to you. 01:20:43.850 --> 01:20:47.690 OK, well, yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, you know, we'll make a deal with something, 01:20:47.870 --> 01:20:48.570 whatever, blah, blah, blah. 01:20:48.710 --> 01:20:52.490 They got the Pakistanis in the middle, which I believe are trying to also curry 01:20:52.490 --> 01:20:54.410 favor with Trump in some way. 01:20:54.550 --> 01:20:57.890 And so they're saying that they're talking to them. But who the fuck knows who 01:20:57.890 --> 01:20:59.230 the hell they're talking to anyway? 01:20:59.650 --> 01:21:02.810 You know, might as well. They're probably just bullshitting him anyway. 01:21:02.810 --> 01:21:06.830 Because, by the way, he doesn't, you know, because if you were a real president, 01:21:07.170 --> 01:21:10.370 okay, you'll be using your intelligence services to figure out and figure it 01:21:10.370 --> 01:21:14.450 out who the fuck you're talking to and making sure that whatever you're talking to is a real source. 01:21:14.750 --> 01:21:18.110 Instead, you know, this is like, hey, bro, I trust you, baby. 01:21:18.450 --> 01:21:21.350 Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah. You tell me what the fuck it is, you know, 01:21:21.450 --> 01:21:23.250 and that's who they're talking to. 01:21:23.720 --> 01:21:27.300 Like, meanwhile, the actual Iranian leadership, which, by the way, 01:21:27.380 --> 01:21:30.440 apparently the new Ayatollah has not been seen in a while. 01:21:30.560 --> 01:21:34.480 So there are rumors that maybe he was significantly injured and maybe he's not 01:21:34.480 --> 01:21:36.280 dead, but he's not really functional. 01:21:36.760 --> 01:21:42.080 But the folks who are talking in Iranian leadership are 100 percent. 01:21:42.440 --> 01:21:46.700 Why would we ever negotiate with the Americans again? 01:21:46.700 --> 01:21:51.360 The last two times that we were negotiating with them, 01:21:51.740 --> 01:21:55.040 right in the middle of the negotiations, where we, by the way, 01:21:55.300 --> 01:22:02.720 were offering real things and real concessions, right in the middle of that, they attack us. 01:22:03.100 --> 01:22:07.340 So why would we bother? There's no trustworthy negotiation. 01:22:07.700 --> 01:22:14.080 We had a deal that we made with Obama that was really strict and had a whole 01:22:14.080 --> 01:22:16.540 bunch of stuff on it, and it was going well. 01:22:16.700 --> 01:22:20.160 And Donald pulled out of that thing last time. 01:22:20.580 --> 01:22:24.860 And then these last two times they've attacked us during negotiations. 01:22:24.860 --> 01:22:26.900 Why would we ever do that again? 01:22:27.100 --> 01:22:32.520 If you remember, in one situation, the Israelis even attacked the negotiating 01:22:32.520 --> 01:22:38.340 team at their hotel in, I forget which Gulf state it was. 01:22:39.110 --> 01:22:44.350 You know, why would we trust any of this? And that's completely legitimate. 01:22:44.530 --> 01:22:46.630 Why would they? Why would they? 01:22:47.490 --> 01:22:49.490 There's no incentive for it whatsoever. 01:22:50.050 --> 01:22:51.410 I mean, the deal was terrible, Sam. 01:22:52.070 --> 01:22:59.370 And look, apparently, they were offering stuff close to the previous Obama deal 01:22:59.370 --> 01:23:03.210 this time around, if not ahead of it in certain areas. 01:23:03.210 --> 01:23:13.270 And, you know, but it certainly appears that, you know, the Trump administration didn't actually care. 01:23:13.410 --> 01:23:15.410 It was all just a sideshow. 01:23:15.630 --> 01:23:17.390 Like, they didn't really want a deal. 01:23:17.830 --> 01:23:21.530 They wanted to do this. Although there's some question about that, too. 01:23:21.630 --> 01:23:24.350 It may have been one of these things where Trump was going back and forth and 01:23:24.350 --> 01:23:29.650 this and Yahoo was just the last person he talked to before he gave the yes, 01:23:29.990 --> 01:23:31.950 you know, to to do the attack. 01:23:32.930 --> 01:23:34.450 But I don't know, Yvonne, are 01:23:34.450 --> 01:23:39.210 we going to we still have we still have all kinds of taco opportunities. 01:23:39.210 --> 01:23:46.050 Donald Trump has not bombed the power facilities and such because Iran said, 01:23:46.190 --> 01:23:49.030 you know, you do that, we're going to bomb similar facilities all throughout 01:23:49.030 --> 01:23:50.870 the Middle East, you know. 01:23:51.150 --> 01:23:55.270 And so Donald apparently backed out, apparently. And he's talking about these 01:23:55.270 --> 01:23:56.870 negotiations that are going well. 01:23:57.830 --> 01:24:02.250 Donald could stop our involvement at any moment. 01:24:02.890 --> 01:24:07.450 There's a question whether Iran would back off. There's a question of whether Israel would back off. 01:24:08.700 --> 01:24:13.520 But do you believe that in another two weeks, we'll all be done here? 01:24:13.840 --> 01:24:15.220 Everything back to normal? 01:24:16.180 --> 01:24:19.340 No. No. There's no way. No. 01:24:20.260 --> 01:24:28.400 And by the way, even if hostilities stopped tomorrow, all of the price implications 01:24:28.400 --> 01:24:31.780 of this stuff, they don't reset in a week. 01:24:32.440 --> 01:24:36.340 That's going to take a long time to rebalance and get things back. 01:24:36.340 --> 01:24:43.200 Like, listen, the inflationary effects that we have right now are going to last a very, very long time. 01:24:44.140 --> 01:24:50.600 This is a worst scenario that they have created related to inflation in the economy right now. 01:24:51.600 --> 01:24:59.020 Okay. Yeah. So, I mean, I feel like we've already got baked in, 01:24:59.180 --> 01:25:03.380 I mean, at least through the end of this year, right? Even if things get better right away? 01:25:04.360 --> 01:25:10.380 Oh, yeah. Yeah, I mean, listen, the supply shock of oil isn't going to get rectified anytime soon. 01:25:10.480 --> 01:25:15.820 So this is going to create a serious issue in terms of prices, in terms of everything. 01:25:16.040 --> 01:25:22.220 It's like these shocks just don't go away that quickly. 01:25:23.140 --> 01:25:29.260 And so when you have depleted inventories, when you've got like fuel shortages, 01:25:29.860 --> 01:25:32.900 when you people are going to start one of the things that's going to happen 01:25:32.900 --> 01:25:37.900 is people are going to start hoarding supplies also which that drives up prices 01:25:37.900 --> 01:25:49.460 um no i mean like right now listen five dollar a gallon for regular gas right now is real it's here, 01:25:50.450 --> 01:25:52.150 And it's not going away anytime soon. 01:25:52.330 --> 01:25:58.010 I shared a picture to the Curmudgeon's Corner Slack of one gas station near 01:25:58.010 --> 01:26:01.170 my son's school that's at $6 for regular. 01:26:01.410 --> 01:26:04.830 Now, to be fair, it's the most expensive I've seen around here. 01:26:04.990 --> 01:26:07.450 Almost everywhere else is between $5 and $5.50. 01:26:07.970 --> 01:26:10.130 But there's this one that's at $6. 01:26:10.830 --> 01:26:13.610 I don't know how they can get away with it when all the ones around them are 01:26:13.610 --> 01:26:16.590 $5.50, but whatever. Location, I guess. 01:26:16.810 --> 01:26:19.530 Listen, it probably, let me tell you something. Like, one of the things about 01:26:19.530 --> 01:26:22.430 now, but one of the things about gasoline prices is having, like, 01:26:22.550 --> 01:26:28.130 my uncle had a gas station. So I remember how they set prices a lot of the time. 01:26:28.410 --> 01:26:31.350 So it depends on when they get shipments, okay? 01:26:31.510 --> 01:26:35.750 All right? So they will set the price depending on when the last shipment of gas that came in. 01:26:35.810 --> 01:26:41.310 You pay, you know, your gas station, you will be paying for spot price for gasoline 01:26:41.310 --> 01:26:42.590 as it arrives at that moment. 01:26:42.590 --> 01:26:46.990 And then from that, you will set price. And so, you know, if it's a high volume 01:26:46.990 --> 01:26:52.330 gas station, they get pretty frequent shipments, your price, 01:26:52.550 --> 01:26:54.890 you're going to have to push the price up immediately. 01:26:55.130 --> 01:26:59.830 Because if you get a new tanker that you fill up and it's 25% more than the 01:26:59.830 --> 01:27:01.870 last one, you can't be selling it. 01:27:02.030 --> 01:27:06.970 You can't sell it at four bucks when you paid five, you know? 01:27:07.310 --> 01:27:10.030 Yeah. Yeah, and that's why I said location as well, right? 01:27:10.130 --> 01:27:14.670 Because if it's in a good location, like this one gas station that's at six, 01:27:15.110 --> 01:27:18.310 there are cheaper gas stations nearby, but not within sight. 01:27:18.750 --> 01:27:22.870 It's a little different than when it's the one like 30 feet down the road, right? 01:27:23.090 --> 01:27:26.330 You know, you're going to, the people driving by are going to go to the cheaper 01:27:26.330 --> 01:27:27.970 one if they can see both of them at the same time. 01:27:27.990 --> 01:27:31.210 Yeah, when they're like right across the street sometimes. Yeah, 01:27:31.590 --> 01:27:34.290 that does happen with gas stations across the street where they have. 01:27:34.290 --> 01:27:38.350 But eventually, what I'm saying is that when the other gas station gets their 01:27:38.350 --> 01:27:41.070 next shipment, their price is going to go back up. Yeah. 01:27:42.520 --> 01:27:45.600 Yeah, so we're fucked. 01:27:46.520 --> 01:27:53.820 Nice. Well, I mean, the one good thing from my point of view on this is the 01:27:53.820 --> 01:27:57.540 more this kind of stuff is fucked, the better the Democrats are going to do in November. 01:27:57.900 --> 01:28:08.120 So, listen, this is, this is the, this is, I mean, you want to talk about bad 01:28:08.120 --> 01:28:11.080 scenarios for a party, okay? 01:28:12.300 --> 01:28:15.780 this is almost as bad 01:28:15.780 --> 01:28:19.460 as 2008 like right now it's 01:28:19.460 --> 01:28:26.360 edge it's it's it's it's going towards 2008 1980 type but here's the thing even 01:28:26.360 --> 01:28:30.060 in 1980 the democrats didn't lose the house well of course the democrats held 01:28:30.060 --> 01:28:36.340 the house forever okay it was like 50 plus years until neil law until newt Inrish. Yeah. 01:28:38.480 --> 01:28:42.380 And you say they didn't lose, but I think they lost ground. Like, 01:28:42.500 --> 01:28:44.720 they lost, they just had enough of a buffer that they could... 01:28:44.720 --> 01:28:48.120 They lost ground, but they, yeah, but they never, but they never, 01:28:48.320 --> 01:28:52.060 they didn't lose it for fucking 50 years, okay? You know? 01:28:52.920 --> 01:28:59.520 So, I mean, this is, you know, this is a very different territory than 1980. We can't compare it. 01:29:00.580 --> 01:29:01.680 Ah, yet. 01:29:02.740 --> 01:29:03.240 Yet. 01:29:04.240 --> 01:29:07.480 Yes. We can, you know, like never 01:29:07.480 --> 01:29:13.700 underestimate the potential for this administration to make things worse. 01:29:14.880 --> 01:29:23.020 Oh, God. Yeah. I mean, that is one thing that, I mean, they are being quite 01:29:23.020 --> 01:29:26.580 impressive at just fucking with everything. 01:29:26.900 --> 01:29:28.840 And the thing is that... 01:29:30.640 --> 01:29:36.040 Right now, everything they are doing is so unpopular. And they keep doubling and tripling down on it. 01:29:36.380 --> 01:29:43.440 And it's like... But of course, they go and they show Trump all these videos of the bombs, right? 01:29:43.660 --> 01:29:48.840 So he's like, yay, look, my bombs. They're so cool. 01:29:49.180 --> 01:29:54.060 Look at all those cute little bombs over there, killing all those people. 01:29:54.060 --> 01:30:00.540 it's like listen they were playing the DOD was putting out fucking videos combining 01:30:00.540 --> 01:30:07.840 video fucking game footage with fucking war footage like this is some kind of 01:30:07.840 --> 01:30:11.960 game not like we're killing people meanwhile. 01:30:11.960 --> 01:30:16.180 And I shared this on the curmudgeon's corner slack Iran put out, 01:30:17.060 --> 01:30:22.500 Honestly, a really good music video with like Lego versions of Donald Trump and everybody. 01:30:23.120 --> 01:30:28.220 Oh my God. They did a brilliant job. You know, this is one of these things where 01:30:28.220 --> 01:30:30.400 I'm just like, man, look, let me tell you something. 01:30:30.620 --> 01:30:33.300 On the one side, I have a repressive regime. 01:30:33.300 --> 01:30:35.860 I mean, 100% propaganda, but come on, it was good. 01:30:36.860 --> 01:30:43.900 Yes, but it was good. But this is what I'm cheering on the Iranian side. 01:30:43.900 --> 01:30:49.060 A brutal, repressive regime that has murdered so many people, 01:30:49.200 --> 01:30:53.700 that oppresses them, that kills gays, that kills whatever, puts people in prison 01:30:53.700 --> 01:30:56.220 without any due process, blah, blah, blah, whatever. 01:30:56.580 --> 01:31:00.980 Okay, it's a horrible regime. On the right side, I got fucking Donald J. 01:31:01.120 --> 01:31:05.060 Trump, who is also an evil asshole on it. 01:31:05.180 --> 01:31:13.340 And I never thought that I would be on the cheering side for Iran on something. 01:31:13.340 --> 01:31:16.460 They put out that video, and I'm like, this is brilliant. 01:31:16.720 --> 01:31:21.300 They are right. What the fuck can I say? I can't argue about anything. 01:31:21.580 --> 01:31:25.160 They put out this fucking video. Not one fucking thing. Nothing. 01:31:26.180 --> 01:31:31.820 It was things about Donald Trump making people's lives worse. 01:31:31.860 --> 01:31:34.800 It was about him doing this to distract from the Epstein file. 01:31:35.100 --> 01:31:41.320 It was about, yeah, search up the Iranian Lego propaganda video. 01:31:41.880 --> 01:31:46.080 It's worth a watch. honestly it's funny it's 01:31:46.080 --> 01:31:48.780 it's got uh yeah it's got a 01:31:48.780 --> 01:31:54.440 song behind it that's actually catchy you know yeah and like and like yvonne 01:31:54.440 --> 01:31:59.820 said most of what they say in there you you look at it and you're like you know 01:31:59.820 --> 01:32:05.780 they're right about this part they're right about that part you know there are 01:32:05.780 --> 01:32:08.440 parts where they're like calling for revenge and stuff almost. 01:32:08.440 --> 01:32:09.120 None of it. 01:32:09.120 --> 01:32:15.820 You know So anyway, one other thing about Donald they'll say, and then let's wrap up. 01:32:17.220 --> 01:32:21.380 And I know I'd said something about this to a curmudgeon's corner slack and 01:32:21.380 --> 01:32:23.240 Yvonne's like, you know, Sam, nobody cares. 01:32:23.520 --> 01:32:27.520 And I agree. Nobody cares. But Donald Trump's mental state is getting worse. 01:32:27.760 --> 01:32:32.820 Mental and physical state is getting noticeably worse, like on a week to week basis. 01:32:32.880 --> 01:32:37.480 But the thing is that, listen, I know, but we've talked about it for so long. 01:32:37.680 --> 01:32:40.240 And the Republicans don't give a fuck. 01:32:40.460 --> 01:32:44.180 They are not going to do a goddamn thing about it. 01:32:44.180 --> 01:32:48.640 No, they are not. And they're actively covering for it, if anything. 01:32:48.960 --> 01:32:54.940 I mean, I mentioned earlier him falling asleep. I think Hegseth was talking or something. 01:32:55.120 --> 01:32:59.900 And Donald Trump was sitting right next to him, two feet away, and was clearly asleep. 01:33:00.560 --> 01:33:04.860 Hegseth sort of mentioned his name a couple of times to try to get him to wake up. 01:33:05.820 --> 01:33:11.420 And you saw his eyes roll a little bit. And he's saying things that are, 01:33:12.180 --> 01:33:15.100 I mean, and look, we're grading on a curve here. 01:33:15.260 --> 01:33:19.360 We're talking against, like, Donald Trump was never particularly hinged to begin 01:33:19.360 --> 01:33:22.280 with, but he's even more unhinged now. 01:33:22.500 --> 01:33:28.880 Like, the things he's saying and how much they are or are not related to reality, it's getting worse. 01:33:29.120 --> 01:33:29.740 You know what, what, 01:33:30.820 --> 01:33:40.440 Listen, what really pisses me off to no end now is where the fuck are all these 01:33:40.440 --> 01:33:44.600 people that kept complaining about Biden's mental state? 01:33:46.140 --> 01:33:51.020 Fuck you all. Okay? Fuck you all in hell. Okay? 01:33:51.600 --> 01:33:59.700 Yes. I mean, hell, even during the 2024 campaign, like, with everything you 01:33:59.700 --> 01:34:03.880 could say about Biden, Trump was arguably worse even then. 01:34:04.260 --> 01:34:06.340 He's definitely worse now. 01:34:07.780 --> 01:34:10.360 You know, he, like, and, yeah. 01:34:10.360 --> 01:34:11.080 Way worse! 01:34:11.420 --> 01:34:13.200 And there's something you could be. 01:34:13.280 --> 01:34:19.560 Hey, where is Jake Tapper's expose on Trump's mental fucking facilities, 01:34:19.960 --> 01:34:22.100 huh? Where the fuck is his expose? 01:34:22.860 --> 01:34:25.640 you know what that prick still to this day and I 01:34:25.640 --> 01:34:30.740 swear to God if I bump into that guy I'm gonna yell at him okay if I if I bump 01:34:30.740 --> 01:34:35.380 into that asshole that fucking part about well they were considering putting 01:34:35.380 --> 01:34:40.560 him in a fucking wheelchair hey Sam have you seen Rin right now even with cancer 01:34:40.560 --> 01:34:44.340 being rolled around through airports in a fucking wheelchair no. 01:34:44.340 --> 01:34:49.340 No I've seen I've seen recent pictures of him getting ice cream again on planes 01:34:49.340 --> 01:34:55.260 at the airport, like, you know, all walking by himself. Yeah. 01:34:56.120 --> 01:35:01.880 And that's with cancer. And by the way, even if he had to be in a wheelchair, 01:35:02.380 --> 01:35:05.280 that says absolutely nothing about his mental state and what matters. 01:35:05.600 --> 01:35:08.500 You know, we had a president in a wheelchair before. 01:35:08.760 --> 01:35:14.380 Yes, you have seen him interacting with people, random interactions with so many people. 01:35:14.540 --> 01:35:20.520 Has he sounded like an incoherent, blubbering idiot that our president right now sounds like. 01:35:21.460 --> 01:35:23.760 No, no, no, no. 01:35:24.160 --> 01:35:28.060 But if I fucking, I swear to God, that motherfucker, better Jay Tapper, 01:35:28.320 --> 01:35:31.460 never, ever I see that fucking guy in front of me. 01:35:31.520 --> 01:35:37.000 Because that guy will experience a screaming match that he will have never gotten in his life. 01:35:37.860 --> 01:35:45.520 Well, and looking back at 2024, the problems with Trump's mental state and with 01:35:45.520 --> 01:35:47.200 Biden's mental state were different. 01:35:47.440 --> 01:35:52.300 You know, when you look at Biden, okay, he's tired sometimes. But he's still smart. 01:35:52.500 --> 01:35:53.780 Biden was tired. 01:35:54.640 --> 01:35:56.240 Biden was tired. 01:35:56.680 --> 01:36:01.540 And went to that debate sick with a fucking cold. 01:36:01.920 --> 01:36:08.100 With Donald Trump, the issue going back decades, not all of this is new, 01:36:08.380 --> 01:36:11.880 is the stupid narcissistic personality disorder. 01:36:12.200 --> 01:36:18.740 The fact that he doesn't distinguish truth from fiction at all. 01:36:18.740 --> 01:36:23.180 he believes that's like irrelevant never the 01:36:23.180 --> 01:36:31.440 fact that he's he has zero reading comprehension has like he's just not that 01:36:31.440 --> 01:36:37.660 smart in general can't like really absorb the materials that you need to be 01:36:37.660 --> 01:36:42.780 a competent president and and frankly just the the whole fact of like Like, 01:36:42.960 --> 01:36:49.620 I guess this is encompassed in the narcissistic personality disorder, but it's all about him. 01:36:50.220 --> 01:36:58.180 It's all about him all the time. You know, and these are all problems. 01:36:58.640 --> 01:37:02.860 But he did say that it, hey, Sam, have we confirmed who the former president 01:37:02.860 --> 01:37:05.520 is that he talked to about the war like recently? 01:37:06.760 --> 01:37:09.580 It's probably George Washington. Okay. Okay. 01:37:12.730 --> 01:37:16.410 Is the ghost of George Washington in the White House? Oh, okay. All right. That's it. 01:37:16.830 --> 01:37:20.850 Exactly. No, you know, George Washington never lived in the White House. It was built after him. 01:37:21.690 --> 01:37:24.970 But, no, the, look, and just. 01:37:25.410 --> 01:37:27.930 Aren't there any pieces? Wait, wait, wait, wait. But no, but I, 01:37:28.150 --> 01:37:32.290 didn't when they did their remodeling, there's some things from George Washington. 01:37:32.490 --> 01:37:36.290 Oh, I'm sure they're George Washington artifacts. But he did not live in it. 01:37:36.310 --> 01:37:36.410 Yeah. 01:37:36.550 --> 01:37:39.130 He did not live in the White House. He did not die in the White House. 01:37:39.370 --> 01:37:39.590 No, no, no, he didn't. 01:37:39.590 --> 01:37:41.490 So his ghost is somewhere else. 01:37:41.870 --> 01:37:42.330 Yeah, yeah, yeah. 01:37:42.750 --> 01:37:44.930 His ghost is off in Mount Vernon or something. 01:37:45.010 --> 01:37:47.050 Well, okay, fair enough. Fair enough, fair enough. 01:37:47.090 --> 01:37:49.330 Fair enough. That was George Washington's place. 01:37:49.330 --> 01:37:49.730 Right? Yeah, Mount Vernon. 01:37:49.910 --> 01:37:50.250 Yeah, Mount Vernon. 01:37:50.470 --> 01:37:53.090 Yeah, Mount Vernon. Yeah, Mount Vernon. It was Mount Vernon. 01:37:53.250 --> 01:37:54.190 Yeah, so Mount Vernon, yeah. 01:37:54.670 --> 01:37:56.030 Anyway, I just want to say, 01:37:56.810 --> 01:38:03.370 Like, in terms of Trump's own mental state, I mean, the falling asleep is a physical thing. 01:38:03.650 --> 01:38:08.830 But, and I'm not saying, some people are directly saying dementia. I'm not going there. 01:38:09.010 --> 01:38:17.290 I'm just saying pre-existing problems he has had are getting worse over time. That's all I'm saying. 01:38:17.610 --> 01:38:23.030 And so, like, you get him, when you listen to his speeches, he's confused. 01:38:23.350 --> 01:38:28.810 He's rambling. he's saying things that are nonsensical he's getting facts wrong 01:38:28.810 --> 01:38:34.570 and all of these things are happening at an increasing pace and he was never 01:38:34.570 --> 01:38:38.990 good at any of this stuff to begin with never ever ever and. 01:38:38.990 --> 01:38:39.970 Now they are worse. 01:38:39.970 --> 01:38:43.290 And now they are worse and they seemingly are 01:38:43.290 --> 01:38:46.270 getting worse quickly so i 01:38:46.270 --> 01:38:49.310 don't and and and like you said like nobody seems 01:38:49.310 --> 01:38:52.330 to care the republicans certainly don't care the mainstream 01:38:52.330 --> 01:38:55.130 media isn't talking about it a lot like you know 01:38:55.130 --> 01:38:58.250 they're they're they're all they'll write 01:38:58.250 --> 01:39:00.930 an article about like he'll get he'll he'll give a little 01:39:00.930 --> 01:39:06.250 news conference and when they write about it they'll sanitize it all and try 01:39:06.250 --> 01:39:11.030 to like like like i did when i was like oh he's probably talking to the you 01:39:11.030 --> 01:39:13.970 know these people in iran who aren't the people in charge but he hopes they'll 01:39:13.970 --> 01:39:19.430 be in charge i am trying to interpret like you're saying watching it. 01:39:19.610 --> 01:39:24.730 Yeah, I'm saying, watch, I'm trying to find some aspect of reality out of what 01:39:24.730 --> 01:39:31.610 really most likely are just incoherent ramblings, you know? So, I don't know. 01:39:32.990 --> 01:39:34.210 Are we done, Mr. Bo? 01:39:35.670 --> 01:39:36.110 Yes. 01:39:36.950 --> 01:39:39.910 Okay. So let me wrap this sucker up. 01:39:40.930 --> 01:39:47.090 Go to curmudgeons-corner.com. You'll find all of the ways to contact us. 01:39:47.150 --> 01:39:48.050 You'll find our archives. 01:39:48.210 --> 01:39:50.350 You'll find transcripts. You'll find all that kind of stuff. 01:39:50.650 --> 01:39:54.430 You will, of course, also find a Patreon where you can give us money. 01:39:55.050 --> 01:39:58.930 Money is nice. Give us money. And at various levels on the Patreon, 01:39:59.270 --> 01:40:00.290 we will mention you on the show. 01:40:00.390 --> 01:40:02.870 We will ring a bell. We will send you a postcard. We will send you a mug. 01:40:03.050 --> 01:40:06.050 All of that kind of stuff. at $2 a month or more. 01:40:06.350 --> 01:40:10.810 Or if you just ask us, we will invite you to the Commissions Chorus Slack, 01:40:11.050 --> 01:40:13.570 which we have mentioned quite a few times on this show of like, 01:40:13.650 --> 01:40:15.990 oh, well, we discussed this on the Slack. We shared this on the Slack. 01:40:16.130 --> 01:40:18.570 We share all kinds of stuff. We talk about things. 01:40:18.910 --> 01:40:24.370 We, whatever, the news. Like while we have been talking, Yvonne has simultaneously 01:40:24.370 --> 01:40:29.350 been having a conversation about his condo association on the Slack. 01:40:29.590 --> 01:40:31.490 So all kinds of things are going on all the time. 01:40:31.490 --> 01:40:36.690 I shared my campaign. Okay, I did. And if you look at it, look. 01:40:36.970 --> 01:40:40.270 I have not opened a link. Because I've been paying attention to you. 01:40:41.240 --> 01:40:46.220 Okay, my campaign site right now, you should take a page from mine, 01:40:46.460 --> 01:40:51.420 you should take a page from my campaign site for your wife's in terms of the issues part. 01:40:51.860 --> 01:40:57.780 Because if you look at my issues part, I am fucking detailed as, 01:40:57.920 --> 01:41:03.500 I will put anybody to shame on details about the issues, the facts, 01:41:03.900 --> 01:41:06.820 an action plan, what we're doing, whatever. 01:41:06.820 --> 01:41:14.620 However, it's nauseatingly thorough, okay? Let me just put it to you this way, okay? 01:41:14.840 --> 01:41:17.040 It is nauseatingly thorough, okay? 01:41:17.580 --> 01:41:22.860 And backed up with just a ridiculous amount of detail, okay? All right? 01:41:23.540 --> 01:41:29.540 I also, by the way, I took the opportunity to expose my nemesis. 01:41:29.540 --> 01:41:35.920 I downloaded all our text messages and I summarized them so they can see clearly 01:41:35.920 --> 01:41:42.440 how he lied while saying that I was never cooperative. 01:41:43.420 --> 01:41:49.100 And saying publicly, in private text messages, he repeatedly said the opposite. 01:41:49.480 --> 01:41:50.080 Okay. 01:41:50.820 --> 01:41:56.120 So I downloaded our entire, there was a massive trove of text. 01:41:56.280 --> 01:42:02.080 I saved them all. I summarize them and have it there in detail to expose him 01:42:02.080 --> 01:42:05.320 as a fucking lying piece of shit he is. 01:42:05.640 --> 01:42:10.720 There you go. That's very nice. So aside from that, Yvonne, what's a highlight 01:42:10.720 --> 01:42:14.700 from the Curmudgeon's Corner Slack that we have not talked about on the show 01:42:14.700 --> 01:42:16.700 that will make people want to join our Patreon? 01:42:17.320 --> 01:42:18.240 Or our Slack. 01:42:18.860 --> 01:42:22.580 It's related to air travel, but really isn't. Okay. 01:42:22.740 --> 01:42:29.620 All right. And I will say, here's the thing. This happened the first time I, over the years, 01:42:29.920 --> 01:42:40.620 airlines have combined train or bus travel together with air travel as like a one ticket. Okay. 01:42:40.960 --> 01:42:46.960 So a flight segment made appear on an airline ticket as a flight segment, 01:42:46.980 --> 01:42:48.940 but may actually be on a train. 01:42:49.120 --> 01:42:55.280 This is something I had heard that is rare, has been rare, but has happened, okay? 01:42:55.520 --> 01:43:02.140 In the 80s, I remember specifically out of Newark specifically, there was a way, 01:43:02.380 --> 01:43:05.940 you know, it was out of New York area airport where you could combine a certain 01:43:05.940 --> 01:43:11.640 portion of the travel by air or bus to get to certain places in order to complete your trip, okay? 01:43:11.860 --> 01:43:15.780 And so the thing about it is that allowed all the, all you could to be able 01:43:15.780 --> 01:43:17.480 to pay it on your airline ticket. 01:43:17.680 --> 01:43:20.700 And so you're not buying a separate bus ticket and whatever. 01:43:20.980 --> 01:43:26.140 So you get your entire transportation all in one. But it's not common. OK, it's very uncommon. 01:43:26.400 --> 01:43:31.360 And so a few months ago on a podcast I listened to, somebody was going to South 01:43:31.360 --> 01:43:36.080 Bend, Indiana, and there are planes that travel from Chicago to South Bend, Indiana. 01:43:36.460 --> 01:43:41.580 But American Airlines went and substituted that with a bus. Okay. 01:43:42.100 --> 01:43:48.580 And so all of a sudden, and the thing is that you board the bus from a gate at the airport. Okay. 01:43:48.980 --> 01:43:54.340 So the thing is that he goes and he lands in Chicago. He's going to the gate for his connection. 01:43:54.620 --> 01:43:59.400 And then he gets taken down to a bus. And then he thinks that the bus is going 01:43:59.400 --> 01:44:02.160 to take him to the plane. But no. 01:44:03.070 --> 01:44:06.370 bus was taken up to South Bend. Okay. 01:44:06.690 --> 01:44:07.270 Excellent. 01:44:07.570 --> 01:44:13.690 And it arrived at the airport and it left them not like at a bus depot, 01:44:13.830 --> 01:44:18.990 but it drove to like where the planes arrived and then offloaded them there and his bags. 01:44:19.270 --> 01:44:23.790 And this was very confusing. So a story came out about this, 01:44:23.890 --> 01:44:28.690 you know, on the Washington Post, you know, about this when your first class 01:44:28.690 --> 01:44:30.750 flight turns out to be a bus ride. 01:44:30.750 --> 01:44:34.930 Some airlines are operating bus routes as flights from small communities to larger. 01:44:35.170 --> 01:44:40.110 And the one thing that why some people are confused, as I realize, 01:44:40.390 --> 01:44:46.710 is that if you're buying this now, not from the airline website, 01:44:46.990 --> 01:44:50.270 okay, but you're buying it from a third party. 01:44:50.550 --> 01:44:52.030 Like an Expedia or something. 01:44:52.030 --> 01:44:57.190 It's not obviously clear. Yeah. It's not obviously clear that it's a bus. 01:44:57.910 --> 01:45:00.830 and that's where people like if you because you go to 01:45:00.830 --> 01:45:05.210 American Airlines you know you buy it from there it's it's it's very very obvious 01:45:05.210 --> 01:45:10.490 that part of the trip is on a bus but these people went on Expedia or whatever 01:45:10.490 --> 01:45:13.670 bought this thing and then all of a sudden you know they're like wait a minute 01:45:13.670 --> 01:45:18.310 what the fuck a bus and it's a nice bus by the way some people have mentioned 01:45:18.310 --> 01:45:20.190 that and I've seen the bus. 01:45:20.670 --> 01:45:22.870 I'll tell you what, this is nicer than some planes. 01:45:23.810 --> 01:45:31.910 Well, yeah. I mean, especially the economy class jammed in on some airlines, right? 01:45:32.430 --> 01:45:35.510 Buses usually have a decent amount of legroom, for instance. 01:45:37.110 --> 01:45:40.430 It's a luxury coach bus. 01:45:40.590 --> 01:45:44.030 It's not, you know, it's a very nice, if you go into the article and you see 01:45:44.030 --> 01:45:45.410 the pictures, it's a very nice bus. 01:45:45.690 --> 01:45:47.630 It's not a 1980s school bus. 01:45:48.630 --> 01:45:52.910 No, no, no. Oh, no, nothing of the sort. It's even got fold-down tables like 01:45:52.910 --> 01:45:54.770 on the airplane and everything, you know? 01:45:55.050 --> 01:45:57.770 It's got video screens, fold-down, Wi-Fi. 01:45:59.010 --> 01:46:00.890 Very good. Okay. 01:46:01.130 --> 01:46:01.930 So, anyway. 01:46:02.690 --> 01:46:08.350 Nice, nice, nice thing. I will do my obligatory Robin Letter promotion, too. 01:46:09.330 --> 01:46:14.370 Trailing four-week active users is up to 80. So, that's good, you know. 01:46:14.610 --> 01:46:17.770 And I suspect, since I've mentioned it on the show several times, 01:46:17.810 --> 01:46:20.430 anybody who's interested here has already contacted me. 01:46:20.830 --> 01:46:26.490 So, I've stopped, like, inviting my own people. So I have to figure out what 01:46:26.490 --> 01:46:30.630 the next growth burst will be and how I will engineer that. 01:46:30.790 --> 01:46:36.550 But I now have, there are three Robins that have been created that I am not 01:46:36.550 --> 01:46:41.410 personally on at this point. And all three of them seem to be active over the 01:46:41.410 --> 01:46:43.850 last few days. So that's going well. 01:46:44.330 --> 01:46:44.630 There you go. 01:46:44.730 --> 01:46:49.290 So we'll see. We'll see. Yvonne's presumably still working on getting the millions 01:46:49.290 --> 01:46:50.930 from this for this for me. 01:46:51.090 --> 01:46:54.970 And I am working on getting the individual dollar bills at some point. 01:46:54.970 --> 01:47:00.470 I was traveling, but I have modified the documents and stuff. 01:47:00.470 --> 01:47:03.190 I have some action items that I had. 01:47:03.310 --> 01:47:07.110 I had been traveling this last week. I've been busy, but I had promised to catch 01:47:07.110 --> 01:47:09.350 up on it this week when I got back. 01:47:09.490 --> 01:47:13.270 That's all cool. And I've been slogging through some... 01:47:15.200 --> 01:47:19.500 Some behind-the-scenes stuff, like improving metrics collection and stuff like 01:47:19.500 --> 01:47:23.680 that, that hasn't had a new user impact. I've got a list of things to get through. 01:47:23.760 --> 01:47:29.820 I've got a couple bugs before I get to the next new major things that users would be able to tell. 01:47:29.940 --> 01:47:36.060 So I have to decide when my next social media posts and stuff to try to get more people. 01:47:36.740 --> 01:47:39.840 Anyway, we'll see. Anyway, robinletter.com. If you're not on it, 01:47:40.380 --> 01:47:44.880 hit me up in email, and I'll get you on it, because it's still an invite-only 01:47:44.880 --> 01:47:46.920 mode. So you can't just go to the website and sign up. 01:47:47.060 --> 01:47:51.380 You have to still have to talk to me or be invited by somebody who's already on it. 01:47:51.400 --> 01:47:52.260 Invite. Invite. 01:47:52.360 --> 01:47:56.000 Invite. Anyway, that's it. Thanks, everybody, for joining us. 01:47:56.100 --> 01:47:57.920 Have a safe week, all that. 01:47:58.260 --> 01:48:02.100 I'm about to go to—by the time you guys listen, it'll be long over, 01:48:02.140 --> 01:48:04.840 but I'm about to go to the No Kings stuff. 01:48:05.100 --> 01:48:10.800 This is the third No Kings event, and Brandy and I are going to try to hit probably 01:48:10.800 --> 01:48:16.280 two or three of them in our area over the next little bit. So we'll see how 01:48:16.280 --> 01:48:17.960 many people they get this time. 01:48:18.120 --> 01:48:22.260 Honestly, the hype for this one seems to have been a bit less than last time. 01:48:22.480 --> 01:48:25.260 So I know they hope that these are going to be even bigger than last time, 01:48:25.340 --> 01:48:31.620 but I'm not sure if we'll end up there because I heard less about these in the run up. 01:48:31.900 --> 01:48:36.040 Like only in the last few days, it was I really aware, oh, there's one coming 01:48:36.040 --> 01:48:38.780 up this weekend. So we'll see, but I'm going to go. 01:48:40.000 --> 01:48:43.860 So that's it. Have a safe week. Have a fun week, blah, blah, blah. 01:48:43.860 --> 01:48:55.180 and we will talk to you next time goodbye goodbye hold on the outro is not playing, 01:48:56.300 --> 01:48:59.540 okay oh wait is it going is it going yes, 01:49:29.090 --> 01:49:34.650 Okay. Thanks, Yvonne. We'll talk to you later. Have a good rest of your whatever. Bye. 01:49:35.070 --> 01:49:35.850 Okay. Bye.