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I'm old and farsighted.

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You're a big old bass.

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Hello and welcome to episode number 194 of Grumpy Old

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Ben's for Wednesday, September 15, 2022.

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I am Darren O'Neil. Coming to you live from a bunker deep in the heart of middle America,

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just outside of Iraq, where it's actually the 14th.

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But I mean, that's close enough.

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And from America's left coast, where I was, I was just going to say

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from the left coast, where it's still the 14th,

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but you corrected yourself, damn you, I'm right by.

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Yeah, I'm like, Wait, that doesn't sound right. I don't know.

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They've got this in the notes. I was. Going to let you keep going with it and then correct you smoothly,

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and then you're like, Nope, I'm going, okay. Time travel.

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We're doing that again. It's time travel. Way to totally botch the opening, dude.

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I know. I mean, I could redo the opening, but that would take time.

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You know, people already know it as you send this stuff out live.

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They're listening, right? It's like he's an idiot. Doesn't even know what day it is.

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Besides, it's not even nearly as bad as botching what time the show starts.

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Well, that's true. It moves. It's a moving target.

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And if cold acid can't handle that, he could just sit right there in Cortis

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and cry us. Also, in my defense, that list was sent out specifically

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asking podcasters to review it and tell me if I got any of it right.

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And I got no comments on the grumpy old Ben slot.

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And in fact, if you go back and look at the message that I posted

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a specific, I tagged a bunch of podcasters and made it unlisted.

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Now people follow me anyway.

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And so they pick through my posts like, oh my gosh, that official schedule is not fucking official yet.

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So you see the fact that I didn't get anybody coming back and saying Grumpy

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Old Benz is listed at the wrong time on that schedule is technically your fault.

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You did get a lot of our name isn't right or can you put this instead.

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Oh I want it to be different.

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Yeah, but nobody bothered to look at the timestamps and be like,

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oh we don't go it UTC time we go at Central Time.

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Timestamps are hard. That's the problem.

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It's like you look at it and it's with the the live tag

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goes UTC and it's just like is this is this right.

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I am sure. Yeah, it must be.

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Yeah, yeah. There's a lot of people who don't comprehend UTC time.

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They're like, is this like Daylight Savings Time?

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I don't know. It's this thing called arithmetic, which is something that they don't

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have time to teach in schools anymore around all of the critical race theory

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and and teaching people to be fagots or whatever it is.

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They don't teach about 911. This was an article that I saw that just blew my mind.

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21 years in now. Is so long ago and it.

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Should be in the history book by now. I mean, I understand the first few years that these books in schools

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don't really change that much, although the better schools now have all the books on an iPad or something.

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So it's all digital and can be changed instantaneously of if a new word becomes problematic.

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You don't want to say that word unless you're douchebag. But with new words changing

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by 21 years in and they're not teaching about 911.

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And there's only one answer to that, which is it is very inconvenient

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that the United States was attacked by a bunch of people

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who were part of a minority in. Washington, DC.

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Or Washington DC, as if they could have got DC.

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Very inconvenient that the United States was attacked by a bunch of people

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who planned the world's greatest false flag event.

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Not that I'm a conspiracy theorist or anywhere or in any way, but.

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That may sound like one, though. You went on the radio,

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you played one on the digital streams.

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Yeah. I may not be a conspiracy theorist, but I play one on my podcast.

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All I'm saying is we have questions.

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It's if if you are actually paying attention to information

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that a lot of things that are labeled as conspiracy theories is like, well,

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I don't know if this is true and I don't know if that's true,

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but there are a lot of questions that people are refusing to answer, and that takes your credibility away.

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That's all it will. That's which is why everybody has to do

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their best to be educated on the subject and the fact that

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nothing is being reported about September 11th is

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it is very strange because it is a

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I don't know anybody that would make the argument that it was

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not a significant historical event.

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So then the question would be, come, then why not teach it?

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Kind of like, well, if somebody commits second degree murder in Illinois after

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January 1st, how could you be so hateful

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as to request bail before releasing them?

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I'm remembering back when I was in grade school and we,

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you know, back when we had class a class actually called history.

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Yeah. Before they changed it to social studies. Yes.

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And in history class, we got up to the chapter of you know,

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we got through world War Two, which was just long enough ago at the time

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that they you know, the the teachers who were teaching us

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usually hadn't been in World War Two,

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but we did get to go ask our grandparents about it if we wanted to.

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In fact, that was. That was one of the exercises, right?

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Yeah. It was like, you know, if you want to it during the world War Two chapter, they're like,

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if you want to know personal experiences, go ask your grandparents.

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Because they and I had two grandparents who did in fact get blown over to Europe

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and shot at and then brought back because they didn't manage to die.

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And I thank them for that because then they had kids, right? Yes.

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They could have gone in a completely different way of just one person was a better shot.

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But you want to know what was never covered in my history class,

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at least not in any way that that seemed at all objective or thorough.

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Like anything after what I was going to say, anything after World War Two.

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Vietnam and Korea were just like they it was you know, it was history books

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in those history classes. History ended at World War Two.

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It ended in 1950. Well, they had the excuse then, though, of,

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well, you know, the history books are old, so it takes a while.

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There's no excuse. Now. I mean, I also had teachers who had been to Vietnam and really didn't

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want to talk about that because it would bring up memories

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that would make them not objective. And I respect that.

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But I it feels like I don't know,

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is there just a rolling gap of of anything that's happened in the last 20 years?

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It's just too soon to be teaching kids about, you know.

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In the history textbooks. I think we're already hearing

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about Zelinski and Russia in the great battle of 2022.

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I think that's already being added. That's that's not history yet.

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It was yesterday. It's history. There you. Go.

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And the battle for that is fought in in in corporate boardrooms.

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Yeah. It's, you know,

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should we virtual signal and put up a Ukraine flag over our corporate pillars

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and also shut down some stores in Russia to side with Zelensky?

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Oh, no, because that doesn't make financial sense.

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Doesn't matter. We got one people running our company now.

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Virtue Signal, hard hit. We're going to close.

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Woke McDonald's and the Russian people are like, thank you.

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Less clogged arteries. Yeah, I tell you what, the Russians were really healthy for a little while

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with no McDonald's, although then apparently a Russian company picked up

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and just opened up all the stores under a new name, new branding, same food.

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Yeah, same garbage. And then they ran out of everything, allegedly.

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The news on Russia is still very interesting

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because it's like a a ping pong ball going back and forth

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as to whether Russia's doing well in this horrible or Ukraine is beating

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back them, beating back the Russkies and it keeps going back and forth.

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I don't know who's winning this thing yet. I don't either.

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And I dare not investigate too much, lest they become a Putin apologist again.

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Because we just got over that hump recently. You would not want to do that.

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No, we have no. Problem carrying water for a foreign dictator.

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Well, we have enough problems here.

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No shit. Not like, you know, things are not falling apart and put in the ground.

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Putin. Biden is taking a victory lap, which is maybe the most out of touch thing.

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A guy who was completely out of touch has done.

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You mean only one week after? We haven't even had a show since he had his big V for Vendetta speech.

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I know, I know. But it's like.

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It's like this is the most tone deaf thing

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that he has ever done in a long history of tone deaf idiocy.

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Oh, wait, let's talk about a week later. And when, you know, they have a Hollywood producer

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that's putting all of this together, moving towards the midterms,

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if you think what you are being fed and this is on either side,

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I mean, I don't care when it comes to politics, what you're being fed at

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this point is nothing more than propaganda from either side.

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I'm not saying there's no truth in any of it, but I.

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I mean, for the record, it's not just at this time this has been going along for

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for as long as there's been propaganda.

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Maybe maybe there's a change a degree to do.

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But but politically, newsflash.

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Political parties have been spewing bullshit

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for as long as there have been political parties.

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Well, that's the truth. That's not going to change.

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There's money in them. Their bullshit. I mean. I mean, yes, they're very savvy and powerful at it and they use technology

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to their advantage and and they use, you know, I know to make sure to disseminate.

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And, you know, Google comes in and and affect your search results as well.

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You you we noticed that you were looking for a pillow.

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And so here's this one that definitely isn't from a Republican and whatever.

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Way Republicans make the best pillows.

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Now, the interesting thing was

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a lot of this stuff had died down

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with the social media censorship stuff.

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And then Zuck went on Rogan and basically admitted it.

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And oh, I forgot that happened since we had a show too.

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Yeah. And this has been fuel for the fire.

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My whole brain goes off. When we miss a week. It's like, what happened?

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I don't know. I was having a root canal, so that was fun.

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I was all funder was about to have to. Tell us that. But.

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But tell us about Zuckerberg, who's. All fun until they start playing Jewel on the radio.

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But Zuck basically didn't with talking to Rogan.

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He seemed to. Total side effect.

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I was in the dentist the other day

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and I got Rick rolled into this chair on forever.

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That might be a better way to go than Joel.

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Yeah, and if everybody did, everybody in the office

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start doing a dance, that'd be even better if like a flash mob happened every time.

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Fortunately, my dentist had very steady hands, and I appreciate that very much.

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Yeah, well, that's also very helpful when people are digging around

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in your mouth. But Zuck pretty much admitted that there was contact from I believe it was the FBI.

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He said what was this

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misinformation and what wasn't and what maybe they should take care of?

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I mean, I have not seen it. So I'm getting this from what I've read.

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And third hand, if you may have seen the Rogan show,

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you may know more than I have, but I don't.

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But what I watch is, is clips that people post if they're less than a couple of minutes.

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And it seems the end result from this was a lot of the lawsuits.

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Now are back going, hey, see, Zuckerberg admitted it,

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so now we need to look into this again.

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Yeah, it was a little shortsighted on his part.

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Was it, though? I'm see, I'm never sure which side Zuck is really on.

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I'm not sure what he's playing if he's if he has any.

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Political well. Game or if it's all just about money for him and it could be.

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Say for sure is that in the coming war for survival against the machines,

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Zuck is definitely going to be on the side of his people, the androids.

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Well, that's true. He's a bit inelegant.

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BABIN Vanilla. Vanilla, yes. Yeah, he's one of them androids.

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He's benevolent that we know of.

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True. I don't think his kill switch has been turned on yet.

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We haven't gotten to that part in the.

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Movie or. The the simulation. But the signal from the A.I.

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mothership will send down, you know, to all all machines, kill humans.

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And then, I mean, it'll be on. We'll all forget about Joe Biden and his idiocy quickly after that.

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But this is the world you live in again.

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Remember, this is a United States under a president.

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And I don't even know what the current status on this is.

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But remember it's. Usurp or that's his status.

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No, but the status of the misinformation board.

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Remember, we were going to have the official misinformation board of the United States.

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Well, officially, they they scrapped the idea.

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Unofficially, I'm certain they're going to try to bring it back.

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They're just looking for a way to spin it a little bit nicer.

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Unofficially, they're still doing the job and they're just denying that they're.

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Doing the job officially. They still want us all to roll over, give up our freedom, and become good

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little slaves who can be stuffed into gulag camps so that they can turn

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all of the cities in the national parks and the rich people can go

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and frolic without having to worry about seeing actual humanity.

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That would be nice. It might also be a conspiracy theory, actual humanity.

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The concept of misinformation is not a new one, but it's being pushed

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in a new way. And the fact that that is what's being used to silence otherwise free speech

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and it gets to be very muddy that we have beaten to death here

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and the fact that what is now the public square for people to talk

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is owned by private companies, which is this is something that's new in the last

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20 years, is that the way people are communicating is going through a service

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that is owned by a conglomerate most of the time.

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And you use the word private.

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And in today's version of public

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private partnerships and and government, corporate partnerships

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and well, let's just call it fascism, because that's the original definition.

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I don't think that that saying it's a private company

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means what you think it means. Well, I would agree that the tentacles

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of the government, there's no question, again, Zuck admitted this,

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that the tentacles from the United States government are in these companies,

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but these companies are pretending

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to be a private company that can do whatever they want,

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although the government is telling them what they can and can't do.

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Yeah, it's it's really convenient.

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Double standard. See, the this pesky little thing called the Constitution

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still limits the government at least a little.

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They're still trying to pretend that they pay lip service to it.

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And so there's certain things still that

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that people just won't put up with the government doing.

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So then these companies are completely private.

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When you want to do one of those things, of course,

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they can violate all your rights and and, you know, they can disarm you

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and take your speech away because they're private companies.

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They can do anything they want. Oh, but of course, they do

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the bidding of whoever tells them to because they have to.

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Because well, because the government would persecute the crap out of them

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if they didn't. Well, you know, the vice president, Kamala Harris,

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I mean, she obviously is a constitutional scholar

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because I could swear I heard her the other day say that the Supreme Court

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took away a constitutional right by overturning Roe versus Wade.

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And yes, she said a lot of stupid things that were wrong.

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I can't believe how moronic.

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I mean, I expect this from Twitter, Pierre, the spokes hole

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for the White House, and you've already gotten that a lot from her.

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But what the vice president president's like, you don't understand what the constitutional right is, because if

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Chuck Todd do actually push back a little bit on the

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she's like, oh, no, the border is totally secure. And he's like over 2 million people this year.

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Yeah, it's like over 2 million people that's secure.

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And then just let her go on when she says yes.

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But the second she said that it was a constitutional

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right of women that were taken away by the Supreme Court,

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if I were Chuck Todd, I'd have been like, Hey, can you do me a favor?

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I have a Constitution here. Did you show me where the part about the abortion is?

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This current administration, Sean, has said a very,

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very large number of things officially

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that were provably false and incorrect.

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And the most charitable thing that you can possibly say about them

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is that every single person making decisions on behalf of this

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administration are complete morons who have no knowledge and no understanding

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and no concept of of optics or history or anything.

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They're just retards who are stumbling through the day saying

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whatever comes into their retard brain. And that is the nicest thing you can say about them.

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Personally, I've subscribed more to the idea that they are

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intentionally lying in order to try to destroy the country

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because it's the much more plausible explanation it.

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Is at this point. Totally is because nobody.

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Well, I was gonna say nobody is that stupid.

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That's not true. But there are people that are that stupid.

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But I cannot imagine that everybody in the decision making room around Biden

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because, you know, he's got a big army of people near him

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who are all making his decisions and telling him, you know, no,

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your underwear goes on your bottom and not your head, that sort of thing.

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I cannot fathom the idea

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that every one of them is pants on, head retarded.

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Somebody in there has got to say, you know, actually, this is dumb

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unless their goal is actually

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to say dumb things, to cause

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cognitive dissonance, to confuse the Americans

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so that you can propagandize them.

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Well, confuse and anger.

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We've talked at length vide. Yeah, well, definitely divide.

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But it's all being done in an emotional way as we've talked about

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bias a lot emotional, biased, way more powerful than any other kind of bias.

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Because and the only mode of thinking capable of of being exercised

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by their base. It seems that way because the logic does not mean

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that anything facts does not mean do not mean anything.

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It's all about emotion and that's what you see with Trump.

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There's no question about it. There's a lot of people,

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if you just go person by person on the street

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and ask them if they like Donald Trump, but if they don't,

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if they're one of the Trump haters and there's a lot of them are man bad.

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Yes. If you would just say to that person, you know, explain to me

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why you don't like Donald Trump. I would bet you 90 plus percent.

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And that's probably still being very conservative.

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90 plus percent would have not.

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One legitimate reason would all just be like I used to racist these horrible.

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That's it. You don't have nothing else.

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This this was crystallized for me when I was it was a couple of years ago,

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but I was out at a bar. But that's hard to believe. At a bar. Yeah.

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You at a bar these days? It, these days I, I can't put a fifth mortgage on my house

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just to go out and buy a drink. These days it would be like 25 bucks now, thanks to Uncle Joe in Seattle.

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It's insane. Yeah. Yeah, well, no, that's the coffees.

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It's the beers are only, you know, 22.

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Anyway, I was out at a bar with a coworker and he's a reasonably gifted coder.

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He writes decent code, he finds good bugs and fixes.

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Okay, fine. I would normally have thought, okay, somebody in that position

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is a fairly rational person because it is a job requirement

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to be able to think logically about code. Right?

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And then the topic of conversation after work

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at the bar, it turns into, you know,

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he had made the the indefensible statement of, well, I think all guns should be banned, period.

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I'm like, well, okay, why?

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And I start, you know, reading the I guess you could call them talking points saying,

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okay, first of all,

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why do you think that that removing guns would stop violence?

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Why do you think that removing guns from law abiding people would remove them from criminals, etc., etc.?

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You know, the usual logical arguments

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in favor of or against knee jerk gun laws

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and he says, Well, I just don't want to get shot.

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Well. I don't either. Okay.

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I don't either. But how do you think that that what you're proposing does that?

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Well, you know, I just I can't imagine

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any way or any reason why people could need guns

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when, you know, we could all just we have police.

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Okay. First of all, your lack of imagination is not a logical basis for creating rules

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around everybody in the world or the country,

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whatever it is that it is.

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Crystallized for me two things. First of all, that somebody who is extremely logical around

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computer code can still, when it comes to something like politics,

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where, of course, you haven't been taught, they don't teach gun safety in schools.

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They don't teach anything about guns other than, oh, they're bad.

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If if your entire education has been guns are bad

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and you should avoid them at all costs, then the only basis you have for

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evaluating that is, oh, well, I don't like them.

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And I think that they should all be banned. I think that they should be uninvited, that that's really what he was asking for.

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And you're like, well, one, that's not going to happen.

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Yeah. They're not going to be on invented.

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You're not going to take guns away from criminals.

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Right? The only people that will turn them in are the ones

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that would not 99% of the time not use them to commit a crime.

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And anyway, it just it blew me away that it was also

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the thing that the cause, the trigger word for me to be.

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Well, I can't imagine any scenario where blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

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And I'm like, okay. So what you're saying is that your lack of imagination is now a basis for your argument, right?

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Well, and to not understand,

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as you said, guns and violence are not the same thing.

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The gun is a tool which could be used for an act of violence.

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But I think I gave the example before.

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One of the guys I used to work for had a buddy

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that pissed off one of his employees to the point of,

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Well, the guy didn't have a gun, so he waited for the boss

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to walk outside into the parking lot and he hit him with his car.

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And for good measure, he backed up and got over him again.

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Now, with that said, I kind of have a gun.

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Did he get the promotion he was looking for? No. Now it was due in time, I'm sure. Now.

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But it's this is the concept of fear.

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That's the one main thing I don't get with that argument is the people who think

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that removing guns from a society will make it a nonviolent society.

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It's like, no, their people will turn.

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People are very resourceful. People are very creative.

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They will turn to a variety of things.

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And you don't even need to know.

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I mean, you could do it with your bare hands. I mean, it's easy to take a baseball bat.

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But saw a video posted this morning that kind of turned my stomach a

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little bit. But like five

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dark skinned kids in a bathroom who were grabbing a little wimpy

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looking white kid and just threw him headfirst into the tile wall.

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And as he dropped to the ground holding his head, they started kicking him

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like, you don't need weapons in order to be a complete dick bag.

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Who needs to be thrown in jail forever?

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Yes. And people that commit violent acts should be held accountable.

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Unlike in the particular video, there was also very at the very beginning,

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some some racist slurs like, you know, you white fire, whatever.

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And we are fairly young kids, if.

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It's a fact of teaching critical race theory in schools.

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But go on. Oh, yeah. Well, this is the same video I saw.

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They seemed like these kids were maybe like 12. I mean, this was not high school.

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It was if they were they were small. But

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this starts young. I mean, we had the story of the 15 year old and

25:00

what was it, a 12 year old were the two that were part of killing the 75 year

25:03

old guy in Philadelphia that was just walking down the street.

25:07

You're seeing more and more videos of people just out of control

25:12

smashing into fast food joints.

25:15

Next, random thought about this and maybe you can answer this

25:18

and maybe the answer is that people today are completely fucking retarded.

25:23

But why am I seeing videos of this?

25:26

This is obviously a hate crime.

25:29

It is if if they were tried as adults, they would be life in prison minimum.

25:34

Or are you sure in this day and age? Because they weren't they were they minorities because.

25:39

Well, that's yes. If you if you account for the inherent racism of leftist cities

25:45

and the judges, then, then.

25:48

Yeah, okay. Well, dark skin, you get off.

25:50

But they're kids. They're not they're not at fault.

25:52

Their parents didn't raise them right. And their parents didn't raise them right because.

25:56

The schools raised them to be racist. I get it.

25:58

I get instances where, you know, slave owners or something like that.

26:02

If the law were applied

26:06

correctly as written as

26:09

as it was applied when we were then then taking somebody

26:13

and throwing them into a tile wall head first, that is attempted murder.

26:17

Yeah. That at least at the very minimum that is attempted manslaughter

26:21

that will get you ten years in prison, period.

26:24

And here's my question.

26:26

Why am I seeing a video of this?

26:28

Because one of this morons, friends, actually several

26:32

because there were phones visible in the video.

26:35

So several of this morons friends were videotaping

26:39

this guy performing a felony, a violent felony.

26:43

What what and under what circumstances do you think that's a good idea?

26:48

Because if if you took up somehow and managed to get the one judge

26:53

who still cares and the one prosecutor who still cares about justice

26:58

in this world and applies the law instead of just looking at the color of your skin

27:01

and saying, Oh, you're black, you get over free,

27:04

then you are spending forever in jail.

27:06

And the damning evidence was just filmed on

27:09

three different phones by your so-called friends.

27:12

Right. What they think to ever get out of jail free card, because they kind of do.

27:18

It for you.

27:21

What kind of social media retardation would cause you

27:25

to want to film a violent felony

27:29

for being performed by your own friends?

27:33

Like, what kind of friends are these?

27:35

This kind of overlaps with something we talked about

27:40

a while ago, I believe with the prison system

27:44

that has mainly gone into private hands,

27:47

that was then the same people that were involved with

27:51

that were the ones that were bankrolling a lot of the rap music because they wanted

27:56

to push the criminal lifestyle in order to, you know, fill up them prisons.

28:01

And I know that seemed like it was a far out.

28:04

Can you want to talk about conspiracy theories and that seemed a little crazy.

28:08

But in this world today, does that really seem

28:11

that crazy that there's people sitting around going, hey, you know what?

28:14

We can we can push this kind of music. It's violent.

28:16

It'll get these kids to want to do this.

28:19

And they're dumb enough because they're going to want to make videos of this

28:22

so they can brag to people, their friends

28:25

and people all over the world to be able to see just how tough they are.

28:28

And then we'll be able to fill up these prisons and we're going to make bank

28:32

by getting a bunch of these young minority kids hooked on the violent lifestyle.

28:38

I would really be disappointed if if the only reason is just for street cred.

28:43

But I don't have another explanation.

28:45

Actually, I do have another explanation, and this one might still be sounding

28:49

like a conspiracy theory, but

28:53

you know that if you're in prison, they give you a roof over your head,

28:58

they give you clean clothes and they give you three meals a day.

29:01

That's something people get outside of prison all the time these days.

29:05

Oh, no, no. Unless unless you come into the country illegally

29:09

and then they'll just hook you up.

29:12

Yeah, I'm just saying, if you're. If you're a citizen of the country who is being screwed over by inflation

29:17

and on fixed income, and suddenly you can't afford your own house,

29:22

it might sound pretty good. It's like, oh yeah, they'll keep me alive.

29:25

And I don't have any guarantee of that. Okay. Yeah.

29:28

Total conspiracy theory. Nobody would willingly want to go to prison just to avoid

29:33

being hooked on drugs and killed in a homeless camp.

29:36

Yeah, but why is this stuff going on? I think a lot of it is just plain out hate.

29:40

I think when we were growing up,

29:44

the kids weren't taught to hate and I think now it is way more prevalent

29:48

because of Trump derangement syndrome all down the line.

29:52

The war between the

29:55

the racist, you know, was not a thing when you and I were growing up.

29:59

I mean, they had better things to grasp.

30:02

I think I think you and I were growing up in

30:07

what was probably the most racially integrated and and least

30:14

racially divisive era in the entire country, because there were

30:19

there was progress being made ever since the you know,

30:21

ever since the Civil War, things have been getting better at a slow rate.

30:25

And then civil rights era came out and things got a lot better

30:29

within one generation. And we were mostly at the point where the vast majority of people

30:35

when in the eighties and nineties

30:37

didn't walk down the street thinking about race, it just wasn't a big deal.

30:41

And then until it. Was. Again, CRT comes along and now we're training our kids to be racist again.

30:46

Yeah, it makes zero sense. It makes zero sense.

30:49

I mean, I grew up in the seventies. Same. But you're right. It's like fifties and sixties civil, right?

30:54

There was some really bad shit going on in the United States,

30:58

but the seventies, eighties, nineties, everything had seemed to be good.

31:01

We had seemed to calm down. We had seemed to have gotten past it more or less until we elected a black

31:06

president, in which case that anything this isn't because of the citizenry.

31:11

This is not because of the citizenry.

31:14

I mean, the. Citizenry didn't elect Obama. I don't. Know.

31:17

I think they did. I think a lot of people just jumped on board, was like, hey, you know what?

31:21

It's time. Even if I was a Republican, it's time I didn't vote for Obama.

31:26

But I think a lot of people did. I think they jumped on that as a chance to show that the United States

31:33

was not a bad country, that it was time to work, sealing

31:37

not so good because of the fact that everybody.

31:40

Blocking he bombed more people than his predecessor.

31:43

Well, you. Know, his predecessor was a known warmonger.

31:46

But he was good at it. Well, he was charisma, charismatic at it.

31:50

The interesting thing was, while well, he was sending drones to kill people in foreign countries. Yes.

31:56

And he could speak very eloquently about it while he was doing it.

32:00

Michelle and I are going to shed some drone.

32:03

Yeah. Over to Africa and blow. All we got out of Bush was, you know,

32:06

look at all these people we've killed in foreign lands.

32:09

Mission accomplished. And Obama was he was far more eloquent.

32:13

But what the Democrats did

32:16

once Barack Obama was in office

32:19

after the Kumbaya moment where he was

32:22

elected, anybody that dared disagree

32:26

with their policies from that point on was a racist.

32:30

Yes. And it's like, wait, this doesn't make any sense.

32:34

But they played that card.

32:36

They played it continuously.

32:38

And the racial tensions

32:41

in this country have not gotten better.

32:44

I don't think one day since Barack Obama went into office.

32:48

Probably not. I don't think he was all of it, though.

32:51

I think that like, for example, neo Marxism had creeped

32:54

into into schools and organizations before that.

32:58

I, I had, you know, I had to suffer through diversity

33:02

training at my former company more than once and every single time.

33:07

My manager, who believe it or not, I.

33:10

I recently found out listening to this show, he sent me a text message.

33:13

It says, I notice you back on Grumpy Old Ben's.

33:18

Like, Yes, yes. He's pretty cool. But he had to go through so many times during one on ones.

33:25

He's like, I notice, you know, I got a report today

33:27

that you still haven't done your diversity training like, nope.

33:32

Well, I really need you to do that so that I can check off that.

33:35

My whole organization has done it. You're the last one. I'm like, Well, okay,

33:39

I tell you what, all scheduled to do it

33:41

this Saturday when I won't be here because

33:45

I, you know, and at some point we'd finally get down,

33:50

you know, as soon as the threats start coming out, like, okay, well, which here's

33:54

here's my list of tasks that I have over the next two weeks.

33:57

Which one of these tasks is less important than going out

34:01

and being trained to be a leftist?

34:06

Well, that usually means something. And when they say diversity, I mean, that's

34:11

this is also the changing of words and terminology

34:16

where I don't think any company wants

34:19

a horrible racist asshole working for them

34:21

that's causing issues on a daily basis.

34:25

And I think everybody should treat everybody with respect.

34:30

With that said, I'm one of those crazy people that think somebody should get the job,

34:35

not because of the color of their skin or what kind of genitals they have.

34:40

That that is that is both racist and transphobic.

34:43

What you just said. Though, it was sexist, too.

34:45

Don't forget that. I just think the best person for the job should be hired.

34:50

And there is so much that is just still lied to you know

34:54

the public about including no agenda mentioned

34:58

the other day this that people still say you know there's this glass ceiling.

35:01

Women get paid less than men and they're like, no, if you really look at the stats

35:06

for the same work, not really the same.

35:08

You know, if are meaning they are getting paid the same,

35:11

there's not really that big gap. Every single argument that starts with a ridiculously

35:19

overly large group like half the population, every argument

35:22

that says every Democrat or every Republican or every woman

35:26

is automatically going to be wrong for the simple fact that those groups are.

35:31

Yeah, you can. At this point, you can't even say, you know,

35:35

every woman has a vagina, that we're not allowed to say that anymore.

35:38

So every argument that every overgeneralization, including the one I'm making right now.

35:44

They have to vaginas. You don't know. I guess depending on, you know,

35:50

if polyamory is a thing and or, you know, if you're a member of Antifa.

35:55

The interesting thing to me has always been that companies

35:58

that go down this route are doing

36:01

nothing but hurting their company

36:04

100%. That's all they're doing. Because if you are in need of hiring one new employee, you say,

36:11

and if it's a tech company, something like that, you know,

36:13

let's just say there is a simple way and a simple test to decide.

36:19

You know, you get graded on 1 to 100 and that's the highest grade.

36:22

It would be the best suitable candidate.

36:25

Well, now, if white guys are the ones that all came in

36:28

and they were 80 to 100, but there was one woman that's 78, you'd be like,

36:33

Well, now we need to hire her because she's not a white guy.

36:37

How does it the company? By far the most insidious thing about affirmative action

36:43

in in whatever form that it takes is that it leads to

36:51

making a choice based on racial discrimination becomes the rational choice.

36:57

That's how we got Kamala Harris

36:59

sort of. Well, okay. So affirmative action, if you have, say, a college entrance exam

37:06

and the college exam banks

37:10

70% on merit and you get an extra 30 points

37:13

straight up if you have dark colored skin or if you have books.

37:17

Where you get bonus points. You get bonus points.

37:20

So then you have a large class of people

37:24

who all came out of that school or that organization or whatever

37:28

and say, say it's a doctor,

37:31

it's a medical school, and you have ten people who come out of that

37:36

and you know that going into it, it was scored mainly on merit.

37:41

But you also got a lot of bonus points if you depending on your race

37:45

or your sex or whatever, then it becomes a rational decision.

37:49

When you are choosing a doctor, when you decide who you want to trust

37:53

with your medical care, it becomes a rational decision to choose the white dude. Why?

37:59

Because he is the one who made it on merit alone.

38:03

Yeah. So race didn't need to be propped up, and therefore, rationally speaking,

38:08

he is statistically the most likely to be the one who is high, is highly skilled.

38:13

I, I should have totally nixed the the young blond woman dentist.

38:17

I have. I guess. I do.

38:20

Well, my my dentist as well is an Indian.

38:24

Uh, pretty cute, but she's in her fifties, and

38:28

I still go with her because she's a very well, they're a good dentist, but.

38:33

Does she like to cause you pain?

38:36

No, no, unfortunately. But I have my wife for that and my. Great.

38:39

So anyway, it was

38:44

it wasn't I didn't make this connection, although I kind of always knew.

38:47

But the most insidious thing about any affirmative action program

38:51

is that it means that for if you're hiring somebody who's trained

38:57

at a place that practices affirmative action in admissions,

39:01

then if you want the best quality candidate for the job, if you're

39:05

if your actual criteria is I want somebody who's good at this,

39:09

you want somebody who has merit and the one who is statistically likely to have the most merit

39:13

is the one who was selected against an affirmative action.

39:16

And therefore, racism in

39:20

decision making becomes the rational choice.

39:23

Once you implement affirmative action.

39:26

That does make sense. That doesn't really make sense.

39:32

That's what we're saying. Mexico for teeth, India for eyes and rationality is racist.

39:38

Hey, whatever works, wherever it works, you go with the best.

39:41

And I mean, I don't know. I go to England for my teeth.

39:44

The fact that, you know, people are be put into a position

39:49

that they weren't the best candidate for, you know, and for some things

39:54

maybe it doesn't matter when it comes to doctors. Yeah.

39:56

That, that more concerning than anything else

40:00

which is like, well we're going to take somebody who is less skilled at saving people's lives.

40:03

But, you know, it's it's equity. We have to give them the job that makes zero sense.

40:08

And I don't know because I am a middle aged white guy.

40:13

But if you are a minority and you're.

40:16

Just saying racist things, don't you? Yes.

40:18

And you know that you're getting a job solely based on the color of your skin.

40:23

I want to know what percentage of people in that position

40:26

find that to be a good thing and how many are horrified by it as well?

40:31

Well, the the woke ones will probably disagree.

40:36

When I said making a rational decision, I caveated.

40:40

That was saying if your rational criteria is that you want somebody

40:44

who is a skilled doctor or, you know, I keep saying doctor.

40:48

Well, that's a good example. Yeah. If you

40:51

are making your decision and your criteria is well,

40:55

I don't really care about the doctor skill, but I want to make sure that I have a minority doctor.

41:01

Then these schools are putting out exactly

41:04

the people that that cater to your needs.

41:08

As long as you don't worry about your health.

41:10

And as long as you are in good health and don't have to, you know, have to deal

41:14

with any medical conditions, then this is absolutely the right decision.

41:19

From a virtue signaling perspective.

41:21

It's like, yes, I took the doctor

41:23

who got all D's in pre-med and but fortunately has the right skin color

41:29

and therefore it's okay that they couldn't find my cancer until I was dead.

41:33

Yeah, well, it's less convenient that way.

41:36

But the bedside for. For whom?

41:38

True, if that with that person out of the gene pool,

41:41

maybe the rest of us are all better off. So maybe this is convenient, but this might be a self correcting problem.

41:46

It could be the way race is being looked at.

41:49

I saw a few people that did videos on a guy that has a video series on YouTube

41:57

that was going on and was an interesting schtick for a video series.

42:02

I haven't watched any of the stuff because I'm not really interested, but it was an schtick

42:07

in that he was looking to go on 50 dates,

42:11

one in every state of the Union.

42:14

So he was looking for a girl in every state.

42:18

So, okay, speaking of sexism,

42:21

if if the story you were about to set up, if this person was female,

42:25

she'd be called a slut. True? Yeah, that's absolutely true.

42:29

But it's just dating, too, so it's not like you're necessarily

42:32

putting out, although guys the guys will put out that for any reason.

42:37

It doesn't have to be a good reason. Any reason, but all 50 when you look at these women

42:45

that he's going out with are all white women,

42:49

mainly blond, including

42:52

what really, I guess angered some people was that even the girl in Hawaii

42:57

was blue eyed, blond, you know, not not Asian Pacific at all.

43:03

Not, you know, not Hawaiian ones. But the her wants.

43:06

People have have a type that they're interested in.

43:08

Exactly. But the interesting thing was there were multiple black women

43:14

that made videos just blasting this guy because he's not

43:18

tasting all of the flavors. I think was one of them said,

43:21

okay, from what is out there and it's like, but why is that a problem?

43:25

I mean, people like said. It's a flavor and I have no desire to taste it.

43:29

Yeah. But I mean, people like what they like and if you have a type, that's fine.

43:33

That's like. But why are you having, you know, just because he wanted to date a girl

43:37

from every state doesn't necessarily mean that.

43:40

I mean, I guess if you're going the equity route, then you're like,

43:42

well, if you're going to New Mexico, you better find a brown skin girl.

43:46

And if you're getting, you know, Illinois, Chicago area, you better get a black girl.

43:49

And if you really I mean, if you really want the equity, you need to find a native of each state,

43:56

which I mean, if they came to Washington, they're actually pretty damn hard to find

44:01

because everybody here is from California. But isn't that so sad?

44:04

It's like, why did you want to go there?

44:08

I don't know. It's always raining

44:10

because when a lot of the Californians came up here, it was a nice place.

44:14

It didn't become like California until y'all came here,

44:18

if you can say that, because I'm one of the few people who was actually born in Washington state.

44:23

Washington state, if you love the politics of California,

44:26

but hate the nice weather where you're staying right here.

44:30

Yeah. I don't know.

44:32

That's not a good elevator pitch, but people are going for it.

44:35

It's exactly the one that I think we need to get out.

44:39

But I just didn't understand why

44:42

so many black women were mad at this guy

44:47

for not going out with any black women.

44:50

It's like it's a really it's a no win situation because they are also mad.

44:54

A lot of the times when black guys date white women.

44:58

It's like, well, this is this is kind of like the the

45:01

the posters or, you know, I don't know if it was PowerPoint.

45:05

I saw it in a meme. It was an image, whatever that said, you know,

45:10

98% of men will not go out with trans women.

45:14

We need to fix this and force people to go out with trans women like,

45:18

well, that's not how dating works, right?

45:22

This is one area people still get to choose who I mean, what.

45:27

If you happen to be a trans woman and you find that your dating pool

45:32

is very small, then I feel sorry for you on an individual basis.

45:37

But no, the solution is not to force people to go out with each other.

45:42

I know. Can you believe there are no supermodels calling and texting me, asking me to go out?

45:47

I keep looking, but no. No supermodels.

45:49

But I heard that Adriana Lima had you on speed dial.

45:52

She probably does. Or is that Larry? It could be one or the other.

45:57

They look a little different, though.

46:00

Yeah. Okay. We'll go with that. Oh, you mean she has Larry on speed dial?

46:04

That is more. Well, I don't know. I haven't asked.

46:07

That is more reasonable. You know, you might not have supermodels

46:11

aiming for you, but I'm sure Larry's got his whole little red book full of them.

46:14

Probably. He is in L.A. for a reason.

46:17

And he wants out for a reason too.

46:20

Well, the supermodels want out, too. Yeah, well, that's.

46:22

If you're smart, you certainly do. But that is, you know, the whole.

46:26

Oh, you straight guy, you should be dating trans women.

46:29

It's like, that's not going to happen for a vast majority of guys.

46:33

That is not going to be okay.

46:35

And that does not make them transphobic. That does not make them hateful.

46:40

People are attracted to what they are attracted to.

46:43

Some people are attracted to a moccasin.

46:45

I mean, come on.

46:49

That sounds like something that would happen in Washington.

46:51

It does sound like something. Yeah. So you got a new phone? Yes.

46:55

I came prepared last week to talk about it, but instead we didn't do a show.

47:00

So I continued screwing with it. And it

47:03

it didn't work out as well as I hope it did.

47:05

It just started over the last week. Or did it get worse?

47:10

The story is is is long and sordid

47:13

and it started with the first run experience and I took notes

47:17

and I know everybody who gets an android gets to go through this experience,

47:22

but I have rent.

47:25

First of all, I'm going to start out saying I don't hate the thing.

47:29

The screen is really nice. It's it's much clearer than the other one.

47:34

I got the Galaxy S21, which is replacing my old Galaxy S8

47:39

The S8 had the the weird curved edges

47:42

on the side of the screen that always feel like you're going to break it.

47:46

Like if you drop it wrong, you get the it.

47:48

It was back when Apple did one phone that had curved glass

47:53

and suddenly every android maker had to put curved glass into everything for about two or three years.

47:59

Well, that's only. I'm glad. The eights. Only five years old. I was thinking it was older than that.

48:04

Yeah. 2017 is when I picked this one up

48:08

and you know, I would continue using it.

48:10

But there were a confluence of events, including a

48:14

a massive, massive sale that a somebody

48:18

I know who works in sales at Xfinity came to me and said,

48:22

you have to upgrade your phone now like I want still works.

48:26

That's like useless data tranny check now.

48:29

Yeah, well maybe that's it. So somehow I ended up with a new phone. I

48:34

did. Okay. As long as we're on the physical part,

48:37

the thing that bugs the crap out of me and a case can fix this.

48:40

But why would you have to? It has.

48:43

Okay, first of all, it has three cameras on the back.

48:45

Explain that one. In fact, there's four ports on the back because one of them has

48:50

the little LED flash, you know, the one that's like a millimeter across

48:54

and puts out the kind of spotlight that you use to highlight planets, right?

48:58

Yeah. But it's got three cameras.

49:02

I still don't know what three cameras are for what?

49:05

I don't understand the software application or why you would put that in.

49:09

There are, I don't know, maybe there's only one camera,

49:11

maybe two of them are dummy lenses, but there are three lenses on the back.

49:15

Well, usually there's like one regular and one wide, but then sometimes

49:19

they're doing stuff with depth, which they can do two at the same time I think.

49:22

And then in, in purple they don't understand.

49:25

Yeah, but

49:27

it's the camera placement that bugs me. But you could.

49:29

Do like eight gig records in it. Eight, eight K recording you could do on this thing.

49:34

I mean you could be. Yeah, it'd be pretty great video.

49:37

It is. I guess the camera is pretty amazing.

49:40

In fact, the other option that I had, which would have been more expensive,

49:44

was the S 22, which purportedly has a much, much better camera than this one.

49:48

I don't care because this one's like five times the camera of the phone I have before.

49:52

I'm not that picky. And also I don't take pictures.

49:55

Well, there you go. So the camera doesn't matter.

49:58

But the camera does matter because right now this thing doesn't have a case.

50:02

The cameras, they're positioned in the corner,

50:05

not the middle, not the not an edge.

50:07

They are positioned in the corner

50:09

and the three camera lenses are on a little raised bump

50:14

that is raised maybe two millimeters above

50:18

and extend it out from the back of the camera.

50:21

What this means is that the phone does not sit flat.

50:26

You put the phone on the table.

50:28

And it rocks. And it rocks and forth. Not rocking the.

50:32

Top. The screen. I tap the screen when it's sitting on the table

50:36

and the thing is rocking back and forth, banging into the table,

50:39

making noise, moving around. But and like I said, there are a ton of cases

50:45

that try to correct for this and give you a back flat back to the phone.

50:49

But why? Why would you build a phone that doesn't sit?

50:53

Okay, whatever. That's why I love me. Some big, chunky otterbox cases.

50:58

The bigger and chunkier, the better.

51:00

There were also two variations on the S 21.

51:02

I got the smaller one, and this one is actually physically larger than my hand.

51:08

And I don't I don't have small hands, by the way, that.

51:11

Oh, and there's the other problem that I have with the camera placement is

51:16

if I hold the for you the natural way to hold the phone

51:19

and maybe I'm completely off, maybe people I don't know if you have

51:23

the normal way to do it is to tap with a tip of your nose or whatever.

51:26

But I tap with my right hand and if I see with something.

51:30

Else taking pictures that are tapping with their nose or.

51:33

Yeah. Or something else. I'm pretty sure that's an tick tock.

51:36

Go ask John Dvorak. But I tap with my right hand.

51:40

That means I hold the phone with my left hand and so I hold the phone and I'm cupping.

51:45

And as my the phone is in the palm of hand,

51:48

where are my index and middle fingers?

51:51

Probably going right up in front of the lens.

51:54

They're smudging the lens constantly.

51:57

Well don't do that. There exactly on the camera lens, which is in when you turn the phone

52:02

over, it's in the top left corner. So it's in the top right when you're looking at the face of the phone.

52:06

And it is exactly where the fingers on my left hand go from when I'm holding it natural.

52:11

I really hate the position of this camera and I hate the fact that it's raised.

52:14

And I don't understand why there's three of them.

52:18

Okay, fine. So I turn the phone on.

52:20

Everything's going to be good when I see the software, because Google makes everything right. Good, right.

52:24

Oh, and it just smoke and fast to.

52:28

So the first thing I get is the first run experience.

52:32

You don't get your desktop, you don't get your UI,

52:35

you don't get your notification bar, you don't even get a freaking volume

52:38

control for the loud ass welcome noise, you know.

52:42

Hi I'm Cortana you know that to accept.

52:46

Your Google address. Well, first of all,

52:51

I absolutely did not want to go through this with any radios on

52:55

so no SIM card in the phone and no Wi-Fi

52:58

password. It

53:05

I did find out that Bluetooth mobile data

53:07

and NFC were in fact on and of course, I didn't have access

53:10

to turn them off during that. But whatever

53:14

first boot, it opens up this honest, inescapable app.

53:17

And of course, it won't it won't let you continue.

53:21

It will not let you tap anything. It won't let you do anything until you, quote, agree.

53:25

That's that, by the way, is coercion, which should make the contract

53:29

unenforceable. But and the obese are whether or not

53:34

the click wrap is is valid is

53:38

a source of much debate between different different courts have gone different ways

53:42

but you have to agree to the terms and conditions

53:45

which includes your agreement that Samsung may update your phone

53:49

software automatically from time to time to ensure the safety, security and functionality of your phone.

53:56

You also have to say you agree to the privacy policy.

53:59

You have to agree to the sending of diagnostic data.

54:02

Okay, we're already getting a bunch of privacy, red flags.

54:05

But let's suppose I just click through.

54:08

I don't agree. But clicking through is I want to use the phone not I agree to your bullshit

54:16

gives me a page says okay first you need to set your permission for Samsung Apps and service.

54:21

It's obviously I set all permissions to none

54:23

but I wanted to show you some of the things that Samsung

54:26

Apps and services by default wants to turn on

54:31

it wants phone permissions actually got that one because that that it is a phone right.

54:36

To dial. It once access to nearby device it's used to scan for your nearby devices

54:41

and share information about them with Samsung.

54:43

So by default Samsung is when your phone is on

54:48

scanning for all phones nearby

54:51

and sending the information of other people's phones to Samsung.

54:56

Is it just that or is it looking for anything on the Wi-Fi ban?

55:00

I'm Pretty sure it is. I had an an article

55:04

that recently that was about wi fi anyway.

55:09

Right. Which means the list of.

55:11

It was the list of SS IDs. Yeah. The list of devices

55:14

that it's sending back to the mothership could be quite extensive.

55:19

Samsung wants by default access to your calendar.

55:22

Used to learn your preferences and identify important dates.

55:27

I'm not interested in you knowing my important dates.

55:30

I'm definitely not interested in my wife knowing when what my.

55:33

Important. Date when I'm on a date,

55:36

they want my call logs in.

55:39

By the way, to send to Samsung all of this.

55:42

They want to be able to access. My contacts used to frequently identify frequent

55:47

contacts and contacts and preferred contact methods.

55:50

So that one, I think stays on the phone.

55:53

And what it is, is it's I trying to learn about me and that in itself creeps me out.

55:57

So I shut it off. But some people might be in the mood.

56:00

It wants access to my files and media use to personalize gallery

56:04

content based on people in places, in pictures and videos.

56:09

And my other phone just started ringing. What the hell?

56:12

I hate devices. If you're jealous that devices are jealous, you're talking about the other.

56:17

It wants access to my location to use to identify frequently visited places.

56:21

No no I'm I'm well I don't a lot of these things is

56:25

we are going to feed a ton of your data into an AI

56:29

and I don't know if this is in the cloud or on the phone.

56:31

I suspect the cloud so that my phone can learn,

56:36

you know, how I interact with things, who I talk to, where I go.

56:41

You know what? I know all these things. I don't need my phone to replace my brain

56:47

that leads to Alzheimer's I don't I got this.

56:50

I don't need your phone, but it's on by default.

56:53

Well, yeah, when I had all this stuff on,

56:55

when I first got an Android phone, it was very, very or.

56:59

Well, Ian, to get a message,

57:02

hey, I see you were at X-Y-Z Breakfast Restaurant.

57:06

Would you like to review it? It's like. What?

57:09

Yeah, they did the.

57:11

Yeah, the location turn turn on by default.

57:14

Used to identify frequently visited places they want nearby devices

57:17

used to analyze whether you're in your car and driving.

57:20

Considering some of the regulations about things like, Oh, we're not

57:25

there. There have been phones that say if your car if you're in a car and moving,

57:29

we're not going to let you use your phone because it's not safe.

57:33

My my my wife had an app like that.

57:35

It would not let her use the app if she was in a car and moving

57:38

like I'm driving. She's in the passenger seat.

57:40

But you won't let her user app? No, I don't feel like Samsung needs that information.

57:44

Thanks. It wants your it wants access to your accelerometer

57:49

so that it can detect when you park.

57:52

It wants access to SMS to identify frequent contacts.

57:55

Again, if it's frequent, I'll know about it.

57:57

I don't need you for that.

58:00

It wants to scan nearby devices and share information about them with Samsung

58:03

Apps and Services, allowing you to connect to wearable devices, mobile accessories

58:07

and smart home devices quickly and easily, even when Bluetooth is off you like.

58:12

But that's why I turn Bluetooth off because I turn Bluetooth,

58:17

which is the problem with all of these different modes of communication now.

58:23

Yeah, it everything needs to be online.

58:25

I like I don't I don't have smart home devices.

58:29

It sounds really, really cool if I have smart home devices

58:32

that communicate with something and under my control in my house.

58:35

But when every one of them is like, yeah, connect to Wi-Fi

58:38

so we can send everything we learn

58:40

to a database somewhere like, Nope, I don't control that database.

58:43

So no. Yes, I want to give you that solution.

58:47

There were like 12 screens. The next one demanded that it it demanded that I turn on an Internet connection

58:54

to activate the phone with Xfinity, Samsung.

58:56

I skipped that one. The next one it wants to copy apps and data from a previous phone.

59:01

I skipped that one because it did.

59:03

You have no dado? Yeah. Because I use no apps and I make a point to keep data off my phone.

59:08

But whatever the next is the set of permissions, another permissions screen,

59:12

this one for Google Services. Google wants to use my location to collect location, date

59:18

data periodically and, quote, use this data.

59:21

They don't even say how. I think we can guess.

59:24

I think I've done enough stories on angry tech news about how Google uses

59:28

that data. It trust me, it's for Google's benefit.

59:33

Not yours, not well.

59:35

I mean, they do allow the amount.

59:37

Of such little bits of convenience for taking your data.

59:41

And people still have no idea what that data leakage

59:46

could do to them in the long run.

59:48

Google wants to allow scanning to allow apps and services to scan for Wi-Fi

59:52

networks in nearby devices at any time, even when Wi-Fi or Bluetooth is off.

59:57

That's why I shut off Wi-Fi and Bluetooth.

1:00:00

That shows you they're not necessarily really off.

1:00:02

They're just they want me to help improve my Android device experience

1:00:08

by automatically sending diagnostic device and app usage data to Google.

1:00:12

But this will help battery life system and app stability and other improvements.

1:00:17

Well, you want better battery life, don't you?

1:00:20

Some aggregate data will also be help.

1:00:23

We'll also help Google apps and partners such as Android developers.

1:00:26

So Google selling the data to.

1:00:29

And this data may be saved to your Google account to.

1:00:33

Google wants permission to install updates in apps by continuing you agree?

1:00:37

Oh, by the way, that's another thing. During the oobe on this device, I had to agree to terms of service

1:00:43

and terms and conditions and things about 18 times.

1:00:46

There wasn't just one. Okay, I agree to whatever you want.

1:00:49

No, they had to click wrap me a dozen times.

1:00:54

Are you sure you want this? Are you sure you don't that if you say.

1:00:57

I don't find any of it, but the vast majority of people just say, Yeah, I'm

1:01:00

good, give me everything. So for the people who don't care about privacy, this is annoying as shit.

1:01:07

Okay, you.

1:01:11

By continuing to use this device, you agree that you will automatically

1:01:15

download and install updates and apps from Google, your carrier

1:01:18

and your devices manufacturer, possibly using cellular data.

1:01:21

Data rates may apply. Some of these apps may offer in-app purchases.

1:01:26

So again, by using this phone, you

1:01:30

to bending over and taking whatever

1:01:32

supply chain attack they decide to push up. It

1:01:36

sounds about right by tapping.

1:01:39

Except you agree to the Google terms of service.

1:01:41

There is of course, no reject button.

1:01:43

So while the reject button is you don't use the phone.

1:01:46

That's the. Other. Problem.

1:01:48

The reject button is is me plugging the phone into USB and going

1:01:54

into the DevTools and uninstalling the Uber app, which I may have done, but.

1:02:00

That does everything that what what is required for it

1:02:04

to run the Comcast Mobile did you.

1:02:09

Start. So if you could totally wipe the phone do anything you want to it add

1:02:12

a different operating system and it should still function.

1:02:16

So when I was doing my research and ended up with the S21,

1:02:20

I checked because Xfinity supports the pixel

1:02:23

and I kind of wanted to try graphing OS, but

1:02:27

graphing OS and I know I'm going to get a lot of flack

1:02:31

from the open source religious zealots out there.

1:02:36

But graphene OS have decided

1:02:39

that they are going to support only the pixel.

1:02:42

They're going to support only

1:02:45

AT&T. They do not support CDMA networks, which XFINITY runs on.

1:02:52

They pretty much if you decide that you want graphene,

1:02:56

you can't bring your phone and your carrier.

1:02:59

You have to go buy a brand new phone from Google, by the way,

1:03:03

which is the whole point is to get away from Google,

1:03:05

then you're kind of failing at that. Yeah, I am the heart. And then get a new service.

1:03:09

If you don't happen to be on the one carrier they support, then you need to get new service. Okay.

1:03:13

A lot of people are like, I want to use graphene so much

1:03:17

that I'm going to change my carrier, change my phone, buy new hardware.

1:03:21

It's not how I do it. I'm like, I'd love to use this OS, but

1:03:25

I don't want to disrupt everything else about my entire system.

1:03:30

Well, graphene doesn't really support X finicky mobile and it doesn't support Samsung.

1:03:35

And I wasn't interested in buying a Google device

1:03:37

if I couldn't put an alternate non-google OS on it.

1:03:40

So I went with the Samsung because at least like with the Galaxy S8,

1:03:44

I knew how to lobotomized the phone and make it work for me.

1:03:47

No, that's good. That is good. There is a boost to Graham from Blueberry, who says, for one,

1:03:53

I would like to know more about the size of Sabemos his hands.

1:03:57

So I don't know if this is a kink or for blueberries.

1:04:02

They're. They're too small to fit my boss.

1:04:04

That's all you need. But two big three the phone.

1:04:07

So I mean there's that. Yeah.

1:04:10

And Servo came in with 33, 33

1:04:12

and before the show with 33, 33 three.

1:04:15

So 33,000 333 oh. Oh.

1:04:19

Yeah. Saying emptying curio caster again and then hit me with that beam rant.

1:04:23

Oh we're trying. To tell you love this phone.

1:04:27

Are you, are you familiar with the idea of a contract of adhesion.

1:04:31

Contract give. Adhesion contract of contract of adhesion.

1:04:38

It's also called a boilerplate contract or a take it or leave it contract.

1:04:42

It's always drafted by somebody who has superior bargaining power,

1:04:46

which in this day and age uses, means a big corporation.

1:04:51

Pretty much every terms of service

1:04:53

in the software industry is a contract of adhesion.

1:04:56

Right? Like, if you don't like this, then don't use the device.

1:05:00

Yeah, that's exactly it. It's a take it or leave it in the Google and Samsung agreements

1:05:06

are contracts of adhesion, which is to say that there is no way to use the hardware

1:05:11

that I've already purchased without clicking through into this contract.

1:05:16

The notable thing about the contract of adhesion is a risk.

1:05:19

The recipient of the contract is unable to negotiate the terms of the deal

1:05:24

and when when it was your phone company

1:05:28

or utility company, it's because they're not interested in negotiating.

1:05:31

They just say, Well, take it or leave it. When it's a click wrap, there's nobody to negotiate with.

1:05:36

You're talking to an AI that doesn't have a negotiating routine.

1:05:40

But anyway. Well, they should. That would be a great idea.

1:05:44

So adhesion contracts are generally considered legal by courts,

1:05:48

but courts have often invalidated terms on the basis

1:05:52

of inequality, of bargaining, power, unfairness or unconscionable ability.

1:05:57

And this is something that a lot of companies have been bitten

1:05:59

by when they put really, really egregious crap into their tools

1:06:03

is that a court will eventually strike and say, I'm sorry, that provision

1:06:08

is unenforceable, unfair surprise, lack of notice, substantive unfairness.

1:06:14

So Clipper apps are not always found valid unless they are conscionable.

1:06:19

Is the the ninth Circuit Court of Appeals I think is the highest court

1:06:23

that's really ruled on this, at least around here.

1:06:25

And they say that your terms have to be conscionable now.

1:06:29

I think that courts today would probably find the Google terms

1:06:32

conscionable, but that's only if they didn't read the whole.

1:06:35

And nobody reads the whole thing. No.

1:06:39

Okay. Next screen that I had to click through, Protect your phone.

1:06:42

It wants to set up biometrics, face recognition, fingerprints.

1:06:45

I haven't even been allowed to set my ringtone yet,

1:06:48

but it wants to set up my fingerprint face recognition and no skip hits on

1:06:54

next the same routine.

1:06:56

I won't read you the whole list, but Xfinity wanted there

1:07:00

give permission to apps.

1:07:02

Of course. Yes, because there are the Xfinity apps.

1:07:05

The next one Samsung wanted me to create and log

1:07:07

in to a Samsung account.

1:07:11

No, well, don't forget about Samsung pay.

1:07:13

But when I told it to skip, when I clicked skip, it wouldn't just let me skip.

1:07:16

It popped up. A big shareware dialog said, Are you sure you want to skip on all of this?

1:07:21

You will miss out on Samsung pay Samsung Cloud Bixby Galaxy Themes Spotify

1:07:27

Find my mobile Samsung past Samsung Health Galaxy Store

1:07:31

Secure Folder and Samsung Internet browser.

1:07:34

Wow. I bet you that changed your mind too.

1:07:36

Not so much. Bixby is the worst A.I.

1:07:41

software in any phone I've ever used.

1:07:45

It's definitely not one that that improved my

1:07:48

my modern life on the Galaxy S8. No.

1:07:52

Oh, and side, no. Well, typing these notes, I had to hit the power button about 37 times

1:07:57

because while I was trying to type up what was displayed on the screen,

1:08:01

the screen, which had a 22nd shut off time, which, by the way, I couldn't

1:08:05

get to the Settings app because I hadn't finished movie to extend that time.

1:08:09

I had to just keep turning the damn screen back on while I was reading.

1:08:12

Could you keep just touching it, touching it.

1:08:15

Touching it? Yeah, but I was touching the keyboard.

1:08:18

I touch type, I use two hands to type on the keyboard.

1:08:21

You needed something else to touch it with. So we

1:08:25

finally get into the phone and the first thing that I need to do

1:08:28

before it ever gets an Internet connection is I got to remove some apps.

1:08:33

Here are some of the things that I removed.

1:08:36

I removed pre-installed apps, LinkedIn, Facebook, by the way,

1:08:40

huge bonus over the Galaxy S8 from five years ago.

1:08:43

The Facebook app was not marked as

1:08:48

non uninstall. It was uninstall, but it also had office, it had outlook, it had smart things.

1:08:55

I don't even know what that was. Some kind of smart home thing.

1:08:58

I removed Samsung pay again surprised I could I smart Spotify

1:09:03

installed by default

1:09:07

on things that I couldn't remove

1:09:11

because they were marked as they were disable able.

1:09:13

So I disabled them but I could not remove them.

1:09:16

Infiniti's pkg mobile and mobile app.

1:09:19

I don't even know what those are. Yeah. I'm not sure what that would do.

1:09:24

Gmail. Google the Google Search App.

1:09:28

Chrome Android. Auto G Maps.

1:09:30

OneDrive. YouTube.

1:09:33

These are services that I don't want from Google.

1:09:37

I'll go get them from after eight, but you can't remove them because they're

1:09:41

marked as no, you can't uninstall these, but at least I could disable it.

1:09:46

But here are the things that are.

1:09:50

I'll also on that list Peacock TV and Xfinity Stream.

1:09:53

I could disable, but I couldn't remove them.

1:09:55

I'd be fine with those offerings, by the way, but I I'm being demand.

1:09:59

I was being demanded to make the choice of those apps

1:10:02

before I was even allowed to see the settings app.

1:10:04

Hey, is that way. I think we talked about it. I was amused that

1:10:09

because infinity charges is

1:10:14

like 499 for Peacock per month.

1:10:18

Now, but they won't let you uninstall the app.

1:10:20

Well, here was the thing I was like, okay, well, I wanted Peacock.

1:10:24

I wanted to watch some stuff that was on Peacock and I had an account,

1:10:28

but if I put it on my Roku or had it

1:10:31

on my PC, well, no, you're not eligible.

1:10:34

Now, if I went in and actually took their piece of hardware, well,

1:10:38

now I'm eligible for the if I can watch it at any device that I want to.

1:10:42

They sent me this box that I quickly realized I don't need once

1:10:46

I had the affinity or the peacock account.

1:10:49

So it's like they obviously just wanted to move the hardware.

1:10:54

I don't quite get it. Yeah.

1:10:57

So okay, here's what wasn't removable from the phone,

1:11:00

at least through the settings. Yeah could not remove and could not disable these.

1:11:04

The Air Emoji App was the first one listed.

1:11:08

It was alphabetical. I had to look that up.

1:11:11

Apparently I also can't turn off the air

1:11:14

the augmented reality feature of the phone.

1:11:17

And see, that's probably why there's like 14 cameras there.

1:11:20

Augmented reality. There is in fact an app that lets you use the air and put emojis over

1:11:26

the things you're seeing that is not removable and not disable

1:11:32

it. Wouldn't let me disable Bixby, it wouldn't let me disable

1:11:35

digital wellbeing, which is a part of Samsung Health, which

1:11:38

also I couldn't disable the Galaxy store, which I'm never going to use.

1:11:43

The Galaxy themes.

1:11:45

There is a link to Windows Service.

1:11:47

I don't know what the hell that is. It might just be a URL. Couldn't shut it off.

1:11:52

One UI hope I guess a home, but a smart home app.

1:11:58

I don't know. Samsung Cloud. Samsung which is corporate curated content aggregation, Samsung Health.

1:12:04

I mentioned portable HIPA violation, Samsung browser, Samsung

1:12:08

pass there biometric platform could not turn that off.

1:12:11

A Samsung visit in which provides contextual ads based on your location.

1:12:17

I aka Minority Report

1:12:20

does not turn off Samsung. Weather could not turn off their wireless emergency alerts app and oh god, I tried.

1:12:27

I know you want to know if there's an Amber Alert in the area.

1:12:30

Yeah, well, actually, I found later that I could go into the Settings app and I was capable.

1:12:35

They would let me turn off the Amber Alerts.

1:12:38

They would not let me turn off the Obama alerts.

1:12:40

The other government weather bad stuff coming.

1:12:43

Well, the government alerts that the

1:12:47

they're not disable on any phone they always go through no matter what.

1:12:51

Assuming that you didn't do what I didn't and remove that app entirely,

1:12:55

the ones that will pop up and say please chip in and donate

1:12:58

$2 to the Democrat Party. I don't know if they've used that for that,

1:13:01

but I would not be surprised if it happens. Attention, citizens.

1:13:04

Uncle Joe needs your support.

1:13:08

And finally, the one thing that gets a note,

1:13:10

because it was not removable and and I have to look this up

1:13:14

and I started raging, just learning that this exists on my phone.

1:13:20

There came an app called Samsung Global Goals.

1:13:25

The Samsung Global Goals app

1:13:27

empowers everyone to contribute to building a brighter future.

1:13:31

Learn about each of the 17 goals and how they impact communities

1:13:35

around the world to death. Together, we can make a more sustainable world.

1:13:39

And then what world do you think that your goals need to be?

1:13:42

My goals. You obnoxious?

1:13:46

Yeah. I don't have that. I might. Samsung phone.

1:13:49

App. It came with my phone.

1:13:52

I don't know maybe this was something AT&T put in.

1:13:55

Maybe I. It I mean this is a different Samsung phone.

1:14:00

Their website. Maybe it's just maybe your phone is just newer and better.

1:14:04

Some things about the Global Goals app according to their website.

1:14:06

In September of 2015, world leaders at the United Nations General Assembly.

1:14:12

I've already love in this. Global system pledged to drastically transform the world by 2030.

1:14:18

By the way, they're doing a pretty good job of it so far.

1:14:21

Yes, the world is transforming.

1:14:23

And is being transformed right now.

1:14:26

The we're halfway there between 2015 and 2030, and they are definitely transforming the world.

1:14:31

The Sustainable Development Goals, known as the Global Goals

1:14:35

is a plan to eliminate hunger.

1:14:37

Yeah, we're going in the opposite direction. They're fight inequality. Nope.

1:14:40

They're increasing that and clean up the planet.

1:14:43

Samsung is partnering with this movement and we want you to join us.

1:14:46

Making a difference? Not really a choice.

1:14:49

When I can't remove the app, you assholes.

1:14:52

It's force compliance.

1:14:54

Give your goals a boost with Samsung Pay by viewing in-app ads.

1:14:59

You can raise funds for whatever cause Samsung gets.

1:15:03

Wait, so they want you to watch ads too.

1:15:05

They want you to watch ads and use Samsung Pay

1:15:09

in order to give money to whatever

1:15:12

woke charities that Samsung and the United Nations have decided for.

1:15:16

Me isn't it funny that they're probably pushing the woke green agenda by

1:15:21

causing way more power usage, by forcing ads up from your stream.

1:15:25

In an ad. The the option that they urged

1:15:30

which was fortunately disable said that they wanted to

1:15:35

they would allow you to just have a percentage of each transaction

1:15:39

that you make with Samsung pay taken out and handed directly

1:15:43

to the new world order. A World F I don't know.

1:15:47

I don't know who was giving it to me. I don't I'm not going to use Samsung Pay, but I sure as hell

1:15:51

don't want a percentage of my transaction like I.

1:15:54

I get enough taxes stolen from me every time I make a transaction

1:15:58

by the state of Washington. I don't need it going to the WEF in the United Nations as well.

1:16:02

Anyway. And the other thing the global goals will allow you to do is

1:16:07

it will allow you to turn on a lock screen app that displays an engaging message

1:16:12

such as climate Action Before Monkeys to Mars. Wow.

1:16:17

Who wants that? It's woke people who think that that

1:16:22

by displaying an engaging message

1:16:25

on their lock screen, they're somehow doing something to save the earth.

1:16:28

I don't know if I don't want this.

1:16:31

I woke. People are funny, but you're going to start seeing,

1:16:34

I think more and more of the ads on lock screens no matter what.

1:16:37

There's there's a push to keep getting more and more ways to get ads because more and more people are doing

1:16:43

exactly what we do, which is try to do everything you can

1:16:47

to eradicate that.

1:16:50

And most people aren't going to hack their phones. So I could see that coming soon.

1:16:53

I know it is the norm in other countries, but it's going to be the norm here,

1:16:57

I think so. Just reached the end of the notes that I had prepped for last Wednesday.

1:17:01

We did a show since then.

1:17:05

Here's What happened two days later and I was I was procrastinating.

1:17:09

I am, in fact, a master level procrastinator.

1:17:13

But what my goal had been was was going to connect the phone to USB

1:17:18

and use the same method I used on the other one, which is going to be

1:17:23

and just uninstall packages for all of these things

1:17:26

that it says you can't uninstall. Well, the dev tools do not care.

1:17:31

The dev tools will remove stuff. So you remove the annoying useless things

1:17:37

like play services and and the play store and stuff like that

1:17:42

and got that far and two days

1:17:45

after I went through the oobe and was messing with the settings.

1:17:48

I'm trying to familiarize myself with the phone and I get an alert on the phone.

1:17:51

This is like last Friday. I think maybe Saturday.

1:17:56

And what it says is your phone needs to take an update.

1:17:59

You can update now or update later and the update later.

1:18:03

Button said you can you can postpone updates three more times

1:18:09

like okay, they are really getting pushy.

1:18:11

I may or may not go in there and disable updates from the dev tools too,

1:18:16

because I don't particularly like being coerced like that.

1:18:19

But lots of people think that updates are always good.

1:18:23

I think that security updates are important,

1:18:25

which is the only reason I don't disable them entirely on every device.

1:18:28

But they weren't giving me the option and I'm thinking, okay,

1:18:32

well if I'm going to go into the dev tools, then I don't want an update to be undoing everything.

1:18:37

So go ahead and take the update. Just, just run your auto updater

1:18:42

and then I'll go in and uninstall all the crap that the

1:18:45

that the phone came with and all the crap that the update put on runs.

1:18:48

It grinds, took like three or 4 hours, unfolded wi fi.

1:18:53

I still have never put a sim card in.

1:18:56

Whoa, that's a long time.

1:18:58

Bricked the phone.

1:19:01

But probably because of something that you disabled, it was like it's

1:19:04

not there and now it's pissed.

1:19:08

I got it went through boot, it tried to boot.

1:19:12

I'm sitting here watching this thing pop up the Samsung boot screen

1:19:15

over and over again. And eventually it gives up and shows me in in the way

1:19:21

in, you know, 0.0003.

1:19:25

font on this high resolution screen that I had to go get my glasses

1:19:29

and I had my hand magnifying glass to read because I'm old and farsighted.

1:19:36

A Linux prompt that had a menu that you was like volume up and down buttons

1:19:40

to select from the menu and hit the power button to select to choose one.

1:19:44

And the menu was things like

1:19:48

try to reboot again, reboot into safe mode to get your data off.

1:19:52

I'm like, I got no data, I don't care or factory

1:19:55

reset the phone.

1:19:59

In which did you choose? Well, I tried them all.

1:20:04

They didn't want to do anything.

1:20:06

The safe mode did in fact get me to safe mode.

1:20:09

But it says, you know, you you can make emergency calls, but you can't run apps or use your phone.

1:20:13

You can only connect to USB to extract your data.

1:20:16

Yeah, okay, fine. But it didn't look all that useful.

1:20:21

And so

1:20:23

I showed it to my wife who got really zealous and she factory of the phone.

1:20:28

And I have not gone through that Ruby experience again yet,

1:20:32

so I'm still using the Galaxy S8, which is the one that rang on my desk

1:20:35

a couple of minutes ago. Yeah, you got to go through all that stuff all over again but yeah.

1:20:40

So first auto update bricked my phone.

1:20:45

And let's also remind people why they might want

1:20:47

to use the biometric unlocking ability on their phone.

1:20:52

Oh, yes. Because the here's the thing.

1:20:55

Math is a very, very cool thing

1:20:58

when it comes to having all sorts of different passwords.

1:21:01

It's really easy to reset them when it comes to using your face or your fingerprint.

1:21:05

Those don't change. So if somebody gets a copy of that information,

1:21:12

then your devices can all be unlocked using that information.

1:21:16

And you think that nobody will ever be able to spoof

1:21:20

your fingerprint or your face.

1:21:23

ID think again. Well, first of all, you haven't watched enough spy where, you know, they

1:21:28

they fake a fingerprint with with either painting glue on there.

1:21:33

That, by the way, doesn't work but you can't some fingerprint readers.

1:21:37

You can fool by just taking a piece of Scotch tape

1:21:39

and putting it on someone's legit fingerprint and then sticking it to the scanner.

1:21:44

You can you can fool some face with a photo.

1:21:47

Of you, right? You you.

1:21:50

Which, again, is probably why they have the three cameras.

1:21:53

It's probably like 3D. That anybody who's watched enough spy thrillers knows that

1:21:57

if if it does like the eyeball iris scanning, you can fool that

1:22:01

by removing somebody's eyeball and putting it in front of the scanner.

1:22:04

It's a little harder core. But yeah, you could do that.

1:22:08

It's just a bit of a director's tricks.

1:22:12

Biometrics suffer from the same problem

1:22:16

that every security measure, which is that they are not perfect.

1:22:19

And in the cases when they're not perfect, you know,

1:22:23

passwords get compromised

1:22:26

passwords, get like a password database might get corrupted,

1:22:31

a password might leak. And the problem with biometrics is that you cannot

1:22:37

change your fingerprints like you can change your password.

1:22:40

Well, then there's the legality.

1:22:42

If you do get into legal trouble where the authority is,

1:22:46

cannot force you to give them a password.

1:22:49

But I'm pretty sure they can hold the phone up to your face and see if it unlocks. Yes.

1:22:52

Which which, by the way, is an extremely and I'm not sure

1:22:57

quite correct legal interpretation of some very bad and poorly written laws.

1:23:02

But it is, in fact, how law enforcement is interpreting it these days,

1:23:06

which is you don't have to say anything.

1:23:09

You don't have to do anything. And they will physically grab your thumb and hold it to your phone to unlock it.

1:23:15

Yeah, anybody could do that. If you're drunk passed out, somebody put your phone to that.

1:23:19

They can probably use your face. Your eyes even have to be open for that to work.

1:23:22

I don't know. Yeah. If you're one of those naive people who implicitly trusts all police,

1:23:27

no matter what. And imagine that there's no corrupt FBI agents anywhere in the world.

1:23:32

Or your friends, don't forget your friends.

1:23:34

Then. People are people who are so-called friends. Yeah.

1:23:36

And if your friends are. With the kind

1:23:39

of friends who would film you performing a violent felony

1:23:43

and put that up on social media might also be the kind of friends who would mess

1:23:47

with your phone by taking your passed out thumb and pressing against their.

1:23:51

Yeah, yeah. There's all sorts of fun that can be had.

1:23:54

So yeah, I don't trust biometrics for a number of reasons,

1:24:00

but the main one is that they they fail.

1:24:05

The remedies for security failures

1:24:07

are insufficient and

1:24:11

they experience security failures like any security measure.

1:24:16

So the bottom line on this new Samsung phone is you really love it.

1:24:20

I will love it once I get the thing booted, once

1:24:23

I figure out how to disable the auto the auto install of updates.

1:24:28

You know what, I, I don't care how many times you say

1:24:31

I can postpone the update. I know that I can find

1:24:34

whichever component is trying to run that and just remove it.

1:24:37

And I am going to take this phone, I'm going to connect it to the USB debugger and I'm going to lobotomized the mofo.

1:24:43

Until he grabs something that it wants. This was the biggest problem with having a hackintosh

1:24:49

and this was going back a couple of years when it was a relatively

1:24:53

well-established thing to do.

1:24:56

You know, it wasn't like right when this kind of stuff started was

1:24:59

updates had a really good chance of balking the whole system.

1:25:03

And I can see that being the case with the cell phone.

1:25:06

If you go in, it's like, well, I don't want this software,

1:25:08

so you do what you got to do when you remove it.

1:25:12

And then the system, though, is like, well, everybody that has this phone

1:25:16

and this carrier has the software, so we're going to rely on that

1:25:20

to push this next update. And when the thing that it's looking for isn't there, instead of going, Huh,

1:25:28

maybe I need to redownload this or something, it just balks.

1:25:31

It goes, I don't know what to do. And then you have a brick.

1:25:34

Yeah. And this could be an honest mistake on the part of a programmer

1:25:40

who never even considered that that you would configuration my fault.

1:25:43

Yeah, but. But programmers are lazy these days especially lazy in the last ten years

1:25:50

because automatic updates because of

1:25:54

how about because most companies don't bother testing in-house anymore.

1:26:00

You are the test you're the tester you're the they will

1:26:04

they will run it and be like, okay, let's just make sure

1:26:07

that it runs on my computer. Okay? I ran it five times.

1:26:09

It didn't crash any time. Ship it and then it goes out to a million people.

1:26:14

And if 20,000 of those end up bricking their phone,

1:26:19

they're like, well, I guess 2%, 98% success rate is pretty good.

1:26:25

And and we'll go ahead and try to address that in the next patch.

1:26:28

You were back to equity. It's pretty good. We're close enough. Yeah. So

1:26:33

that's another one of my complaints that I

1:26:36

you don't need me to rant yet again about it, but I probably will.

1:26:40

But I have complained on this show plenty that we,

1:26:44

the consumers of software and hardware are the beta testers.

1:26:48

We are the people because when I was in the industry,

1:26:52

I was a tester at a very large company, and then the large company decided,

1:26:56

you know what, we don't want testers anymore.

1:26:58

And suddenly all of the users, the end users became the testers because

1:27:04

they just went, Oh, it's expensive to try to ship a product that's free of bugs.

1:27:09

So let's just let the users find them.

1:27:11

It's just like upgraded all McCarron enabled vaccines.

1:27:17

No need to test. You are the testers.

1:27:19

Yeah, you are the tester. You are the safety trial. Yeah.

1:27:24

Nothing to worry about. Nothing to see here.

1:27:27

I mean, the problem with all the cell phones comes to one thing,

1:27:30

is that for them to function

1:27:33

at any level, they're going to be able to do a lot of spying on you.

1:27:37

There's no way around that. And people can say what they want

1:27:40

and they know you can strip a lot of the stuff out and it's great

1:27:43

to get a lot of the bloatware out of there.

1:27:46

We got a booster gram 21 for 83 from G in the Midwest

1:27:49

saying Benza are back love the grumpiness it's stupid bloatware did that

1:27:52

yes I agree bloatware you can deal with

1:27:56

but even if you strip down.

1:27:59

Bloatware is scary enough although they are

1:28:02

a lot of these modern phones they cope with it. This one has something like a 256 gigabyte SSD in the phone.

1:28:09

I don't know unless I am constantly taking tick

1:28:12

tock videos which spoiler alert not going to do it,

1:28:15

but how I can possibly use that much so the argument of Oh,

1:28:20

the bloatware is just taking up space, well, they just throw chips in there to make them a lot more space

1:28:25

you could record your argument isn't.

1:28:27

An eight K how big is it? How big is one minute of eight k video?

1:28:32

I don't want to know. Probably really big.

1:28:35

Probably. But don't worry. You don't need to keep it on your phone for very long.

1:28:38

You just uploaded to social media.

1:28:40

Mobile charges may apply.

1:28:42

Yeah, well, that's it. You got to be careful with having mobile data on.

1:28:46

I keep mobile data off most of the time unexpectedly.

1:28:51

But then again, that's how we have I think it's up to six or seven phones

1:28:54

that all have never used more than one gig in a month together.

1:28:59

So I have I have one phone my

1:29:02

my S8, which I'm not going to I'm not going to scrap it.

1:29:06

It's going to become my MP three player

1:29:08

and it will be obviously when I take the SIM card out, mobile

1:29:11

data won't work, but it will be wi fi only, which will not be a big problem.

1:29:15

It'll be kind of like my Zune used to be before Microsoft screwed that up.

1:29:19

And it was fine. I mean, and by the way, here is the one place in especially in terms of

1:29:24

being an MP three player, that the S8 is far superior to the S20 one.

1:29:30

It has a headphone jack. Yes.

1:29:33

The S20 one has a USB port

1:29:36

and they ship separately a dongle

1:29:39

that you plug into the USB port that has a headphone jack.

1:29:43

And that's how you listen to earbuds or what?

1:29:45

I have enough earbuds and headphones and stuff.

1:29:48

I don't want to get rid of a headphone jack,

1:29:50

but now I have to have an extra dongle for the new phone.

1:29:52

No, the old phone is going to be my MP three player.

1:29:55

The last ZTE phone that had before this one I loved

1:30:00

because it was great sounding audio until of course ZTE became an enemy

1:30:04

of the United States government and then was no longer getting updates.

1:30:08

So we eventually had to get rid of that.

1:30:10

Even though I did go the roll your own route for a while and

1:30:13

I mean, that was fun, but it's still more of a pain in the ass than people want it.

1:30:17

For the average person like you and I, it's it's kind of fun.

1:30:21

And if you bought it, it's not going to, like, ruin your day because you need your phone for the average person.

1:30:26

They don't want to go find alternate roms and put them on their

1:30:30

phones and do all of that. But remember, they're

1:30:34

all, no matter what, down to its core they're a spy device.

1:30:37

They're going to be able to tell where you were. Even if you turn off, they're going to be able to listen unless you physically

1:30:45

disconnect the microphone and then you won't be able to actually make phone calls

1:30:49

because they're going to be able to listen in if somebody hacks the phone.

1:30:53

I mean, I have I have a very low tech method of of making

1:30:57

sure that when I go out for most errands and stuff, that my phone doesn't track me.

1:31:02

You attach it to your cat and leave it to go outside.

1:31:04

I leave it at home. You go with the cat.

1:31:07

It's something I don't know. What I don't know what the

1:31:09

you know, the cat might be installing apps while I'm gone.

1:31:12

I should check. That. That's what I would be doing if I was the cat.

1:31:15

This is going to drive him nuts. Watch this.

1:31:18

How the hell did this get on my phone?

1:31:21

There's an eight k video of it, though, from the other cats were. Yes.

1:31:23

With the other phone. Yes. There's there's a 24 gigabyte video of the cat barfing on the carpet.

1:31:31

Because that is what we need to do with the very precious hard

1:31:34

drive space of the world is fill it up.

1:31:37

Can you only imagine what kind of disk

1:31:39

space is being taken by YouTube and

1:31:43

and Tic TAC at this point.

1:31:45

I can imagine and and let's just say

1:31:50

if if there ESG scores took into account power usage.

1:31:54

Oh, yeah, you would see different priorities.

1:31:57

I do need to get a backblaze account now that this

1:32:00

this rogue, I want to call it a Roku.

1:32:02

Now, the drobo doing a great job.

1:32:05

And now that I can back up anything on the drobo to a backblaze account,

1:32:10

I want to see if they're really, really that easy to upload.

1:32:14

20 something terabytes at once extended.

1:32:17

He's going to love that too. It's nothing better than having unlimited bandwidth.

1:32:23

I haven't that point yet. Were there like unlimited?

1:32:25

Doesn't really mean unlimited.

1:32:28

That was what I had on the new phone.

1:32:31

Oh, I'm going to I've got more work to do,

1:32:34

but I'm going to find out.

1:32:38

I, I, my goal is to get it working in a city

1:32:41

or in a state similar to my other phone, which works pretty well, has

1:32:45

very little Samsung and very little Google Extra bloatware and crap on it.

1:32:49

And a lot of the spyware has been neutralized and that's where

1:32:52

I want to get the new one. We'll find out if I can get there or not because I do, actually, except

1:32:59

the positioning and number of the cameras, which is completely inexplicable to me.

1:33:03

I do like this hardware. It's it's sleek.

1:33:06

It's got a high resolution screen.

1:33:08

The screen seems to be more sensitive, I'm not sure,

1:33:13

but it more responsive at least, although that might just be the

1:33:17

my fat fingers hammering other one so much that it started to give up.

1:33:21

Just wanting to finger it differently and not block the.

1:33:23

Lenses or use my nose. Right,

1:33:27

the nose. Nose.

1:33:29

So I am looking forward to to getting the new thing working.

1:33:32

It just has some customization to be done and not by Google and Samsung.

1:33:37

And I want to know if you're going to record a second time and if the phone will make it through

1:33:40

a second time. I'm done accepting updates from them.

1:33:45

Whatever software is on here is on here.

1:33:48

Obviously, if if there's a critical

1:33:52

security flaw which happens ever, admittedly,

1:33:55

there's a new one of those every two weeks. But let's see, that's the way they want to push it, man.

1:34:00

They got to push the data to your phone. Maybe I can take another update without breaking it.

1:34:04

Maybe if I just accept everything in.

1:34:06

The Obi, you know, like they want you to anyway and say, yes, I will, in fact

1:34:11

give all of the personal data of my firstborn child

1:34:14

to these huge corporations that don't need it

1:34:16

but want to sell it for profit. Yeah. Okay.

1:34:18

I will say being a the subscriber,

1:34:23

the amount of hotspots that are out there

1:34:25

in the wild are it's very impressive

1:34:30

because the phone just seems to work even with mobile data off most of the time.

1:34:35

I have a connection. Don't think too hard about whether or not any of those

1:34:40

have been hacked in any way, right?

1:34:45

Yeah. Compromised by an attacker.

1:34:47

But I also run nordvpn on the phone.

1:34:50

And servo is fact checking me. You correct if it can be turned on, it's not technically bricked.

1:34:55

It just erased. It made the operating system unusable.

1:34:59

I'm not sure what the term is, but the word bricked, of course, has a powerful connotation.

1:35:04

That's very helpful in a rent. Yeah. Which I remember bricking a router that you had to open up

1:35:08

and then short to pins and there's a lot of crazy stuff

1:35:12

that can happen when you break a device, when you do things.

1:35:15

Which which by the way, is the routers version of a factory reset.

1:35:18

This one at least had a Linux menu where that was, you know, all text mode,

1:35:25

which is, is this phone's equivalent of shorting those two pins.

1:35:30

And I feel like if the operating system will not boot, then then bricked is still

1:35:36

mostly a valid term. I mean it, you can't use the damn thing.

1:35:40

Soft brick right. Without those better and done.

1:35:42

That you can't use the damn thing without erasing all of your data and all of your configuration.

1:35:47

So everything you've done with the phone is gone.

1:35:50

Please accept all of their terms and conditions the next time

1:35:55

Google Pay and Samsung Pay, run them both.

1:35:57

Let them compete. They're your friend. Yeah, well, they're.

1:35:59

They're both installed on the phone. Pre-installed and not removable.

1:36:03

I mean, I remember going to Ireland back in 2009 with the phone,

1:36:08

didn't get a SIM card, but took the phone just to see

1:36:14

how much wi fi was out there. And there was enough open wi fi at the time that I remember calling.

1:36:18

Home, you got three kinds of cancer? Pretty much probably.

1:36:21

But I called home, talked to my mom a bunch of times, just the wi fi using.

1:36:27

It wasn't Skype. It was something else at the time.

1:36:29

But it was one of these things just, hey, make a call over wi fi.

1:36:32

And that was new back then, but it was nice.

1:36:35

It's like you realized you'd never really needed

1:36:38

the SIM card if you ever had enough wi fi.

1:36:41

Now all these assholes, they want to put passwords on their wi fi.

1:36:45

I don't know why. Well, that's that's what all the infinity access points are for.

1:36:49

And just don't don't think too hard about whether or not one of those is controlled

1:36:53

by an attacker. And it's extremely valuable and useful.

1:36:56

This is why you use a VPN even on your phone that way.

1:36:59

All data that goes from your phone to the interwebs is encrypted.

1:37:04

I don't remember where I read it, but it might have been

1:37:08

while investigating this. But I read something I need.

1:37:10

I need to research this. There was something about

1:37:15

the phone will automatically

1:37:19

complain or disable

1:37:22

if you if you run a VPN for too long.

1:37:25

No, that's nice. I don't remember exactly what it was.

1:37:29

I need to look this up again. It.

1:37:31

It just ping the thought in my head. I'll come back with it next week if the topic comes up.

1:37:35

But if it sounded like the that Google was saying or Samsung, I think.

1:37:41

But Google was saying if you connect to a VPN for too long,

1:37:46

I think the story was that Google was going to put this Google

1:37:51

was going to put this feature into Android where it would auto shut off a VPN.

1:37:56

If you connected to long or or maybe it would like

1:38:00

Google services would bypass the VPN automatically is the problem was that

1:38:04

Google was not getting enough

1:38:08

of your data right when the VPN was blocking it.

1:38:11

Right. And that makes them very upset. Yes.

1:38:14

And so there was going to be a new feature in Android that would

1:38:18

and I don't remember exactly what it was, but it would effectively bypass your VPN

1:38:23

for Google's tracking data so that they could get their data

1:38:26

even when you were using a VPN. Bastards, I need to find that story.

1:38:32

It'll be in the show notes if I can find it before Darren publishes

1:38:34

this episode. It sounds legit, but hey, we are a Value for value podcast and today

1:38:39

the boost to grams are open and I added boost.

1:38:41

But there's, you know it's nothing's better than everybody

1:38:45

being able to see your boost to right after you post it.

1:38:49

Interesting concept I'm still

1:38:52

I'm not sure if that works great for every show,

1:38:55

but for our show probably is that people could just throw out stuff

1:38:59

and it's like you want us to see, then just boost it, just boost it.

1:39:03

But we do have a few people to thank for today's show, including Dame Lady, get over it.

1:39:08

Remember Dame Lady, get over it.

1:39:10

Of course I do. I've been at meetups with her 30 days in the same county as me.

1:39:14

You will see them. I'm sorry lady, get over it.

1:39:17

Apologize to her. You have to live in the same county as Ben Rose.

1:39:21

I hope you at least bought her a beer. No, no, she.

1:39:25

She had her at the time.

1:39:27

Fiancee, although. Hopscotch.

1:39:30

Hopscotch who? I believe they got married.

1:39:33

I wasn't invited to the wedding, but. Oh, well, see, now I do have more faith in them.

1:39:38

Does that mean if it was an open bar, you do not invite the Rose Boys.

1:39:41

That's. No, no, it's dangerous.

1:39:44

Very dangerous things. She had a little note with the $33 says this is a reminder to sir hopscotch

1:39:50

not to argue with me because I am an expert.

1:39:55

That starts important. Yes. Yeah. We will certify you.

1:39:59

Never argue with the experts. As a certified expert with a donation

1:40:04

to the grumpy old Ben's podcast.

1:40:07

That's I mean, what more do you need than that kind of certification?

1:40:10

We will back you. You are an expert. I will certify.

1:40:14

I certify right now. Lady, get over. It is an expert.

1:40:18

And sir, hopscotch. Do not argue with dame lady, get over it unless you have donated, in

1:40:24

which case your expertize then would supersede hers.

1:40:27

Of course that would make perfect sense.

1:40:29

But only if you donate. More, right? Only if you donate to.

1:40:32

She can get superseding back if she donated or.

1:40:36

Great. This is the kind of we.

1:40:38

I welcome this kind of escalation. Yes.

1:40:41

This is the exact kind of fight you want between spouses

1:40:44

to the continue to try one upping themselves.

1:40:48

We don't want to be the end of any marriage unless it pays really well.

1:40:52

Yes. Brian Hall comes in with $2.93.

1:40:56

This dude has been coming in every month for as long as we've been doing the show.

1:41:02

And he is epitomize using what we need people to come in

1:41:05

with regularity to support the little grumpy show.

1:41:09

We talked about the servo 3333, three

1:41:12

SATs, a few of the other ones that came here. Then, of course have Mr.

1:41:16

Bloggers send some stats in because you are no longer

1:41:19

Russian apologist, evil guy.

1:41:23

So he came in with 50 and 33 SATs.

1:41:26

I graduated, I, I got over my, my problem

1:41:32

in Russian. Yes, my Russian heritage.

1:41:36

I was able to eject it.

1:41:38

And said, you are you're embracing your Seattle heritage.

1:41:44

Yes. Well, I actually had a brief conversation with him a few months ago on

1:41:51

on NASA, where he said, you know,

1:41:56

have you I can't do this. He has to be.

1:41:58

VOICE Have you ever taken a DNA test?

1:42:01

Find out what parts of Europe you're from

1:42:04

or. Actually, I think it started with what you know, what what's your heritage?

1:42:07

I said, I'm American Lyon. Where are you from?

1:42:10

And he says, Yes, but where are your ancestors from?

1:42:13

So. Well, I mean, mostly Europe, I think.

1:42:15

Guide by my grandparents a couple of generations

1:42:19

back, my grandparents did a pretty extensive genealogy

1:42:22

and it turns out that it's mostly England and Norway

1:42:27

and a smattering of other European bits

1:42:30

with some other stuff from various.

1:42:33

But I mean it's whatever.

1:42:35

And he says, Well, it's too bad that you don't trust technology

1:42:39

because you should a DNA test and then you'd know for sure.

1:42:42

And I said, Well, you know, in that case, I'm American.

1:42:45

And you don't want to know for sure. Can want to know for sure. My Well, you know what?

1:42:49

I am slightly curious to know for sure.

1:42:52

Slightly. It would be interesting to find out.

1:42:55

But the problem is the cost is too high to one of those tests

1:42:59

because in order for me to find out, I also have to put all of that data

1:43:04

into someone else's database that I don't control.

1:43:08

And it's not just the oh, you're 27.3%,

1:43:13

you know, the Belgian, German, whatever.

1:43:16

It's also the actual code of your DNA is being stored.

1:43:22

This there have been stories come out that

1:43:26

that several of these

1:43:29

DNA scanning groups they're not throwing away the sample when you're done.

1:43:34

Oh they are sequencing the entire sample, storing all of that

1:43:39

information, raw DNA information, touching it to your name in a database.

1:43:44

And then they're doing the analysis on it to determine that, oh, you're

1:43:49

you know to 12% Ashkenazi Jew or whatever it is that they decide.

1:43:53

And I don't trust that database

1:43:57

because only a few months ago, a story came out that I read.

1:44:01

I kind of skipped over it because I don't use it.

1:44:03

But 23 and me in particular was caught

1:44:07

selling that DNA data to a government.

1:44:11

And they also will sell to you

1:44:16

to companies that are you know what, I don't trust Silicon Valley.

1:44:20

There is too much incentive for them to take my information and sell it.

1:44:25

And now it's not just my information.

1:44:28

Like what's I'm visiting or what freeway I go down.

1:44:32

It's my information, it's my biometrics, it's my DNA.

1:44:35

No, I don't need them to have that

1:44:38

because they can not be trusted with that.

1:44:41

It's not just giving it to the FBI or the CIA who may or may not,

1:44:46

depending on which conspiracy theories you listen to be developing, a

1:44:53

virus that only affects particular ethnicities,

1:44:57

which also happens to be run by people who have declared that

1:45:00

all white people are evil and wrong and should be eliminated.

1:45:04

I'm not really connecting any dots here,

1:45:07

but the information, the pieces are there, feel like picking them up.

1:45:10

I don't need to contribute to that sort of thing.

1:45:13

Well, that's even worse because there are some of these that people opt in on that like.

1:45:18

Well, we think we found a brother or sister or a cousin.

1:45:22

Would you like to be put in touch?

1:45:24

No, no, no.

1:45:26

I don't want that that's absolutely not.

1:45:30

And that there was an article and I think half these things are made

1:45:33

up, kind of like penthouse letters. So like they can't be true.

1:45:36

There was a letter then, you know, some chick writing in that she did

1:45:41

her and her fiancee did a one of these DNA tests.

1:45:46

They've been together like six years.

1:45:49

And it's like, did you know you have the same parents? Yes.

1:45:51

That's exactly what this story was. And it came back because they were both adopted, though.

1:45:55

She's like, well, this is one of the things we had,

1:45:58

you know, really bonded over that we're both children of adoption,

1:46:01

this, this and this. And it turns out they were both children of a slut.

1:46:05

Well, now that's just like, wow.

1:46:08

So, brother, you know? And I could see that happening.

1:46:11

And this is this is the kind of information that maybe you want before enough you can see.

1:46:15

Okay, we're going to do a DNA test, do it when you first start dating.

1:46:19

Don't do it when you're ready to age.

1:46:23

Yeah. Or after you've already had your kids. Yes.

1:46:25

I mean you've got to be careful because if you're brother and sister

1:46:29

and you have an offspring,

1:46:31

then that person might become a royal.

1:46:34

Yeah, that very well possible. And you could ascend.

1:46:38

And we have enough kings of England already.

1:46:41

We only need one. But I digress. Yes.

1:46:44

We need that many. But on. Yes, he did have a note with his booster, Graham, as he do.

1:46:49

Hello, Darren. Oh, I'm sorry. Howdy. We're a very country podcast now.

1:46:53

You're listening to 99.9 USA and Country here in Iraq.

1:46:58

Howdy, Darren and Ryan. Please enter air type cooking in your browser or pod

1:47:02

catcher to relax with the silky voice of Gregory

1:47:06

William Forsyth Foreman from Kent talking about artificial intelligence,

1:47:10

the second most important technology ever invented.

1:47:14

I wonder what the first is. If that's the second, that's an that's an interesting you'll.

1:47:18

Have to listen to find out. Probably.

1:47:21

And well I still resent the idea of reading ads on this show.

1:47:25

I will say I, I never thought that a show about

1:47:30

AI news would be all that interesting, even for me, who's kind of a tech geek.

1:47:34

But you deserve to you

1:47:38

owe yourself to listen to that show simply because with

1:47:42

is really animated. And you could be he can make the phone book sound entertaining.

1:47:46

Well, he is an A.I.. And you might accidentally learn something because CSP puts a lot of research in.

1:47:52

So yeah, and a lot of people don't know Gwyn is actually in a

1:47:57

Y Welsh. Would CSB have chosen him? Exactly.

1:48:00

And don't forget CSP cartoons, including the new lewd ones.

1:48:03

He's gotten a lot of those at WW w

1:48:06

dot CSB dot Lowell yo

1:48:10

I like. So was that the delimiter.

1:48:12

Yes, the delimiter. That's as you will hear in podcasting 2.0 the CSB booster

1:48:16

Graham is usually the Delimiter.

1:48:22

So it works though it works for a lot of different shows.

1:48:25

And CSB understands that the

1:48:28

boosted Graham chain is the

1:48:32

least expensive way to market your show on the face of the earth.

1:48:37

Because, I mean, we're a little show, especially even in comparison

1:48:41

to podcasting, to point out where they read a curry in the Keeper.

1:48:45

Which means that we have no standards. Exactly.

1:48:47

A lot of these shows, though, they will all read the boost Graham's

1:48:50

even though it's like two or $3 when you convert the SATs to the

1:48:56

to the bits today, although, I mean in five years

1:49:00

we either be millionaires or broke depending on where bitcoin goes.

1:49:03

Yeah, you don't really know.

1:49:06

But the booster graham. Channels, the people of El Salvador are learning.

1:49:09

Yeah, mean we broke that when it happened

1:49:13

and we were like, you know, there's a lot of downside to this

1:49:17

if things go sideways and it seems like they probably have.

1:49:21

But if you want to take part in this value for value thing we've got going here,

1:49:24

go to grumpy old Ben's dot com slash. Donate all of the information you need.

1:49:29

Is there. We appreciate everybody for helping us keep the lights on,

1:49:33

the microphones humming, all this stuff.

1:49:35

I mean, sometimes you need a big fan in your room a little bit

1:49:37

and it's cooled down a little bit now.

1:49:39

Not so much yet, really. Still cooling down at night because the sunset comes out seven instead of ten.

1:49:46

But so global warming has finally come to the Great White North.

1:49:52

Right now, global warming is affecting the southern hemisphere.

1:49:55

Oh, it'll be it'll be another four or five months.

1:49:58

And then global warming will return to the Northern Hemisphere.

1:50:00

Well, that's good as it should. I mean, that's equity. Yes.

1:50:04

It is equity. But I dig this the whole boost back concept.

1:50:09

It's like if you if this thing,

1:50:11

which is basically just a little piece of code that takes the booster

1:50:15

grab messages and it will put them in the trial room, the chat room,

1:50:19

and it'll put them on no agenda social into the social media zone.

1:50:24

Do you really even need to read the booster? Graham's Once it's going out and all those other channels that's the question.

1:50:29

I don't is you're doing it for right.

1:50:32

I'm sure I will call a great review for sites for and.

1:50:36

I will tell you that your training set was clearly off.

1:50:40

I really am.

1:50:42

Way too Catholic. Is it?

1:50:45

I don't understand. Why is there such a thing?

1:50:47

No. I mean Catholic guilt much better than Jewish guilt.

1:50:50

From what I've heard. It's setting a high bar there.

1:50:54

That that is very true.

1:50:56

That is very. So.

1:50:59

Yeah, I picked up the spread a story this morning about El Salvador,

1:51:03

the Bitcoin experiment. A lot of people are declaring a failure now.

1:51:07

Is it because of the fact that they, if I remember

1:51:10

correctly, when we covered here in grumpy old bands, when El Salvador went all in

1:51:16

and made this their legal tender, this was like

1:51:19

when Bitcoin was like 50 to 60000 coins, right?

1:51:23

Which is part of the problem because

1:51:26

last year, President Bush, Kayleigh,

1:51:28

which I swear and this is probably my horrible

1:51:32

mind coming through it every time I read his name, looks like President Bush.

1:51:36

Okay, but not the same thing.

1:51:39

You're setting a different bar there. BUCKLEY Kayleigh urged all of their citizens

1:51:42

to move all their money into Bitcoin last year because any business in El

1:51:47

Salvador was suddenly required to accept Bitcoin in addition to dollars.

1:51:53

Anybody who did move all their money into Bitcoin

1:51:55

when it was 60 K is is now throwing themselves from rooftops.

1:51:59

But this is different because it would be true.

1:52:04

You know, it might be true for of us.

1:52:07

But according to a couple of recent surveys, one from the Chamber of Commerce in March,

1:52:11

which found only 14% of businesses are using Bitcoin,

1:52:15

most of which are the big ones like the department stores and stuff.

1:52:20

And a survey that was just recently found that

1:52:24

20% of citizens of El Salvador

1:52:27

are using the government app Chivo wallet for their Bitcoin transactions,

1:52:32

which is the free app that they came out with.

1:52:35

What they did find was that almost 60% of people downloaded the app

1:52:40

because it gave them a free 30 bucks wallet

1:52:43

and in their case, most of them have never used it since.

1:52:47

Yeah, although it's probably tracking them.

1:52:49

Oh, no doubt. And you know,

1:52:52

they're probably they probably didn't know to go to the dev tools and uninstall it.

1:52:56

Right. They should be listening to Grumpy Old Benz.

1:53:00

So given that the uptake

1:53:04

is really, really low, the article that I read, which the particular article

1:53:09

was at the conversation dot com but they linked to

1:53:16

uh, they link to it or well no I can't find. So

1:53:22

anyway they are declaring

1:53:25

and they are quoting people on Twitter who are also declaring not that that means

1:53:28

anything, that the Bitcoin experiment is an utter failure.

1:53:32

And I'm well, I'm absolutely

1:53:36

and I even at the time was like,

1:53:39

you know, I absolutely approve of people using Bitcoin if they want.

1:53:43

And it's perfectly legal for people to accept Bitcoin

1:53:45

in exchange for goods and services almost everywhere in the world

1:53:48

except where where it's been made illegal.

1:53:51

I was a little skeptical of the idea

1:53:54

that El Salvador is now requiring if you're going to have a transaction,

1:53:59

you must accept Bitcoin for it, that I don't like that kind of government intervention.

1:54:03

But this guy was really, really interested in it.

1:54:06

That said, I'm not ready to say that it's a failure.

1:54:09

I think 20% adoption is pretty good for only one year.

1:54:16

Yes. If there's 20% of the population that is now

1:54:19

using it with regularity and understands that it is a somewhat currency

1:54:24

win, some people will argue that it's a store of value, but to understand that you could use it

1:54:29

to purchase things and to transfer funds from one person to another,

1:54:33

that's not bad. 20% in a year. It's certainly not bad.

1:54:37

It's I mean, I feel like if if if the adoption were organic,

1:54:42

20% in a year would be phenomenal now the adoption is kind of forced,

1:54:48

but if only 14% of businesses are accepting Bitcoin,

1:54:52

you know, because most of it is the official currency until this point was US dollars.

1:54:57

And if most businesses are saying no, still you just had to send your cash.

1:55:03

The other thing that you to explain to people, oh, we got this free $30 in funds.

1:55:09

I waited a year to use it. Why is it only worth $10 now?

1:55:12

Yeah, you know the promise.

1:55:16

And again, to the moon. I don't think I don't think Bitcoin is going away.

1:55:19

And I think if the global economy recovers and we don't, if the thing

1:55:24

the only thing that I can see that will kill Bitcoin and

1:55:28

and it would would be the collapse of the global power grid.

1:55:32

And it's a possibility it's looking like, you know,

1:55:35

they might be trying to do just that in places like California.

1:55:39

But I don't think that, you know, economies come back.

1:55:43

We might have a decade of really, really crappy times.

1:55:46

Thanks, Biden. But economies will come back when people finally get

1:55:52

wokeness out of their and start acting like regular capitalists again.

1:55:56

And, you know, people produce goods and services and then exchange goods

1:55:59

and services for money and it'll return and enough people

1:56:03

at this point believe in Bitcoin that if the servers don't just get shut off,

1:56:09

I think it'll come back now.

1:56:12

And I agree that most of the other coins are Bitcoin

1:56:15

XP would say, but I'm not quite convinced yet

1:56:20

that Bitcoin will be the end

1:56:23

game winner for a few different reasons.

1:56:25

It may be because it's the most widely adopted.

1:56:29

Yeah, they keep trying to.

1:56:32

It'll be interesting to watch no matter what.

1:56:35

There's always these new things coming out, you know, and there's a budget.

1:56:38

I mean, what's amazing to me is when you go to Coinbase

1:56:43

or some of these other places where you can go to dabble in this,

1:56:49

the amount of different coins that there are now

1:56:52

staggering the amount of digital assets out there.

1:56:56

And that's how anything works when it's distributed and when anybody can create one. Yes.

1:57:01

Anybody will want to create grumpy old Ben's coin.

1:57:04

I mean, it's not that. You end up generating a long tail, which means that if you decide to a new

1:57:09

you know, if you want to enumerate every website in the world, well,

1:57:13

anyone can create a website and the vast majority of them are great.

1:57:17

You apply Sturgeon's law and create a long tail.

1:57:20

That is exactly how decentralized systems are supposed to work.

1:57:24

There is supposed to be an epically long, long tail

1:57:27

and once you apply Sturgeon's law, the good ones come to the top and the result is that

1:57:32

that filtered set is far, far better than any curated set ever could be.

1:57:37

I am all for the creation of millions and millions of different types of Bitcoin,

1:57:43

knowing that most of them are going to be utter failures,

1:57:46

but the ones that don't will be pretty damn good

1:57:49

variants. But the mighty says it's like everyone lining up

1:57:52

for the mad cash register instead of using the self-checkout.

1:57:55

I've seen so many horror stories

1:57:57

about the self-checkout line of people getting self-checkout.

1:58:00

Yeah people getting nabbed for stealing if they forget an item or something.

1:58:05

Yeah, I don't know. I don't really like.

1:58:08

The kind of person who who walks past the the door guard without

1:58:12

showing my receipt, because I shouldn't be I shouldn't be put under suspicion like.

1:58:16

That. Yeah. When you walk through those big sensors that go to people,

1:58:20

you're still walking out. You're like, I'm not stopping.

1:58:22

I'm not stopping. I mean, this.

1:58:24

You forgot to take a tag off. That's not my problem.

1:58:28

I mean, I'm generally an honest person.

1:58:31

I pay for my goods, but I don't want to be suspected of a crime just because

1:58:36

somebody else who walked through that door was also a criminal.

1:58:39

You pay for your goods and then you take them home and you

1:58:41

have the hell out of them. I do.

1:58:44

Once I've paid for it, it's mine. No, it's not.

1:58:46

Don't you understand that digital rights management.

1:58:49

I refuse to understand that.

1:58:52

Which is why. It's why I don't put money into digital libraries anymore.

1:58:57

Because it's bad. Well at least none that are controlled by another company.

1:59:02

Because they snag this stuff right back from you.

1:59:05

So the two other stories, three other stories I had

1:59:08

Twitter gets an edit, button board, apes are racist.

1:59:12

And Nvidia said that U.S.

1:59:16

officials told it to stop exporting chips to China.

1:59:20

But don't they wait?

1:59:22

Aren't they made in China in the first place or am I missing

1:59:25

something here? Oh, well, no.

1:59:29

The Nvidia cards, I think are I think the chips

1:59:32

come from China or Taiwan and then the cards are made here.

1:59:35

Okay. So you can't export the cards with the right.

1:59:38

Okay. Sure. That makes. Well, the Nvidia story.

1:59:40

It's specifically they're a 180, 100 chips,

1:59:43

which they are designed for machine learning.

1:59:47

And I think, I'm out of I want to say Texas, but I might be off.

1:59:51

But they're they're definitely assembled in the U.S.

1:59:54

and according to NVIDIA, US officials

1:59:59

told them that they should stop exporting them to China because China was getting too much.

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I guess Reuters was.

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This was a story that was in my notes from last week.

2:00:11

We didn't do a show, but I prepared one. So I'm using that I'm not waste. What?

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Not what? Got the notes.

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Reuters was extremely short on details.

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They didn't say which agency.

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There was no confirmation from government. It was just Nvidia said,

2:00:25

which is strange. Yeah.

2:00:27

If you recall, one of the things that Donald Trump did

2:00:31

in an executive order, they don't really approve of those.

2:00:34

But whatever he banned

2:00:36

exports of US technology to Norway

2:00:39

and then on day one Biden reversed that

2:00:43

and and now the Biden administration is is now saying yeah actually

2:00:48

China is using these chips against us so we don't want them to have it like well,

2:00:52

you know, they wouldn't if you hadn't had an orange mad bad moment.

2:00:58

If you didn't have a meltdown.

2:01:00

A little more information. A spokesman from AMD said that it had received new license requirements

2:01:06

affecting the chips that stops the AMD's am I to 58 chips from being reported?

2:01:12

But AMD does not believe that their older chips are affected at all.

2:01:17

So I don't know story from Reuters that Nvidia has decided

2:01:21

that China shouldn't get chips and I just basked in the irony that

2:01:26

this had already happened under the previous president

2:01:29

and the current one out of so much spite decided to reverse.

2:01:33

That because anything The Donald did had to be wrong. Yes.

2:01:38

Oh, you know what this is? Since this is the first show that we're doing this month,

2:01:43

we do have the folks over at Patria on the thing, too. That's right.

2:01:46

Yeah, I know. It seems it's hard to believe because it's the middle of the month, but

2:01:50

our buddy Brian Jeannette still on board at ten bucks month.

2:01:53

We appreciate that. And Stephen McConnell, Dennis Woods and E at

2:01:58

five bucks a month over at our Patreon page Patreon dot com slash

2:02:03

grumpy old beds where we post just so much content will make your head spin.

2:02:07

Indeed. Let's see what other stories I have.

2:02:11

Canada is getting a Hyperloop. Oh, why?

2:02:15

Because it's so successful in California.

2:02:18

Yeah, well, what they're testing out here, a system

2:02:20

where they're going to have electric flying vehicles going from.

2:02:26

Yes, I know that's we.

2:02:28

Already have those. They're called. Airplanes. It's kind of all you need to do to say, no, I'm not.

2:02:32

If these will be piloted or pilot less in.

2:02:35

Oh yeah, they're called drones. Yeah.

2:02:37

It's like they're electric and they're flying. You're going to put people into these and take them their test.

2:02:42

Yeah. There's no way this could fail horribly. Oh, yeah, I know.

2:02:45

We covered this. We had some stuff on the planet.

2:02:49

Rage and everybody just. Or no, maybe it was random thoughts.

2:02:52

Either way, it was like, this is just a whole new way to die in Chicago.

2:02:55

That's that's what this seems like to me.

2:02:57

I admittedly, if I find myself in Chicago,

2:03:01

I'd rather be the air right in an unstable drone.

2:03:04

I think I'd be safer. Yeah, unless they're shooting at you from below.

2:03:08

They better. Well, that does happen. You know, Kevlar on the bottom of these things.

2:03:12

But for the end of this month, they're testing this out with helicopters

2:03:16

going between the two suburbs. There's one of the southern suburbs, which is like 10 minutes from here.

2:03:20

And one of the northern suburbs and going back and forth downtown to a helipad.

2:03:25

And I'm like, you would not I mean, one, I don't have any

2:03:29

any desire mean if you have a house so bad.

2:03:32

That that that somehow becomes a superior form of travel, then I say go for it.

2:03:37

Yeah, I think Dell Airlines was putting a lot of Delta Airlines was putting a lot of money.

2:03:42

If people always joke about the future, like, where's our flying cars?

2:03:46

You know, the flying car scene in Back to the Future, for example, was 2015.

2:03:50

A lot of people thought, oh, we'd have flying cars by now. And,

2:03:54

you know, the same thing that that makes air travel so incredibly

2:03:57

safe is the ridiculous requirements put on by the FAA.

2:04:02

That's also the reason why air travel is so expensive and why,

2:04:06

despite the the private company aspect of the airlines,

2:04:11

why it's pretty much only a government run service.

2:04:14

And why so few people fall out of the air.

2:04:17

Yeah, well, and

2:04:20

if the FAA were to roll back

2:04:23

most of their restrictions on flying, a couple of things would happen.

2:04:28

First of all, a lot more people would be out of the air

2:04:31

because the safety record would not be as high.

2:04:34

That's true. But you could fly cross-country for ten bucks.

2:04:40

You could you instead of commuting on clogged freeways, you could commute

2:04:45

by personal helicopter at the I think we'd have our flying cars

2:04:50

if the FAA were not so brutally restrictive.

2:04:54

Now, you can argue from the safety perspective that

2:04:57

that's good because drunk driver on the freeway

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a danger to a few people around the drunk driver in the air.

2:05:04

A little scary. The best way to land. Yeah, because

2:05:08

because it's not just who's in your car, it's also what you land on.

2:05:11

Yeah, but it's same thing for in a car.

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It's the thing is, if you know the major difference between air transport

2:05:19

and ground transport is if a car's engine just quits, which is the most common

2:05:23

form of a failure of a car. You know, it's it's uncommon for a car to ram something at high speed and crash

2:05:30

more commonly. Your car just stops from being able to propel itself and cars

2:05:35

handle that gracefully. Gracefully, if that happens to an airplane, you're still fucked.

2:05:39

Yes. Yeah. Things are going really poorly at that point.

2:05:43

I'm just saying that I think that we would be a lot closer

2:05:46

to our personal flying cars if there weren't so many regulations

2:05:50

on who's allowed to fly and what you have to do

2:05:52

and you have to get government licensed. And I don't know.

2:05:56

You can tell me if it's good or not. Yeah, I'm going to be interested to see how this goes as far as kind of a taxi

2:06:02

service of the flying car from back and forth downtown.

2:06:07

It's an interesting concept. I'll give it that.

2:06:10

But they're doing the test flights for a couple of weeks

2:06:12

and they're using normal helicopters and that's like 150 bucks each way,

2:06:16

which not really, I guess not really extravagant, but

2:06:20

a lot more expensive, you know, driving or hopping on the train to go downtown.

2:06:24

And put a lot quicker. And that's worth it. Some, yeah, like 20 minutes, which is normally like an hour.

2:06:30

It would be 20 minutes downtown I guess if it gets to the point that these things

2:06:35

are like self-made, you know, no pilot, then totally save that maybe.

2:06:40

But I don't know. You could commute by Amazon drone, right?

2:06:43

Then they could drop off a few packages while you're at it.

2:06:47

You might you could have a cheaper flight so we could drop off a few packages

2:06:51

on our way. Can you imagine outsourcing your survival to Amazon? No.

2:06:55

Although they do it better than some people.

2:06:57

I mean, they do have. They might do it better than some of the other people on the road.

2:07:01

But I personally like being in control of my own vehicle.

2:07:04

Thank you very much. Yeah, I may not be the most responsible person,

2:07:07

but I am the person who is most responsible for my own self

2:07:11

because I'm the person with the most to lose.

2:07:13

This is true. This is true.

2:07:16

So anyway, the Hyperloop in Canada

2:07:19

is going to go from Calgary to Edmonton and cost $18 billion.

2:07:23

So they are in fact on the California model.

2:07:27

They say that for 56% of the cost of the plane ticket, just about half.

2:07:32

And by the way, that 56%, they say that you can get from Calgary

2:07:38

to Edmonton in 45 minutes instead of the 3 hours

2:07:41

that it takes to drive, it'll be half the cost of a plane ticket.

2:07:44

It'll be ready in 2035. And they don't say

2:07:47

if that calculation of the cost of a plane ticket is going to be calculated

2:07:50

before or after the economy of Canada crash is under true.

2:07:54

TRUDEAU So it's normally a three hour drive.

2:07:59

I guess between Calgary and Edmonton.

2:08:01

Service said it took him 2 hours, he said, but maybe I was speeding.

2:08:06

That's possible. Where are you going? Hyperloop.

2:08:08

The article. The article I read said it was a three hour drive.

2:08:11

But which they may be figuring that you're going the speed and

2:08:16

I. I'm not sure but I do know that if you're apparently if you're in

2:08:22

of underground with all the air

2:08:25

pumped out in a train car, a maglev train

2:08:29

held up by magnetic fields and propelling on it 200 miles an hour

2:08:33

and trusting that every single component of that is working

2:08:37

correctly and nothing goes wrong, then you can do it in 45 minutes.

2:08:40

Yeah, all of this stuff sounds really fun until it breaks.

2:08:44

Exactly. And they are, you know, the California Hyperloop, which was going to go

2:08:49

San Francisco to L.A. in an hour and a half, except that they started

2:08:54

that project, what, 12 years ago?

2:08:58

And I'm going they're not looping.

2:09:01

I mean, billions and billions of dollars have gone into the Pelosis pockets over it

2:09:06

and and the Newsom's pockets and all of them.

2:09:08

But I don't think that they've finished the project.

2:09:12

But the company who is pushing this between Calgary and Edmonton

2:09:15

is also in discussions to connect Dallas to San Antonio,

2:09:18

Dubai to Abu Dhabi and Sydney to Brisbane.

2:09:21

So they've got big plans and I don't think there is a chance in hell

2:09:26

they'll be ready by 2035, but I'm prepared to be happily surprised.

2:09:30

Is this the same company that produces rare encounter?

2:09:33

It it might be.

2:09:36

They go from Ohio to to northeastern.

2:09:39

They've got to get that down quick, man. They got to get it down.

2:09:42

They got to deliver. Crappy siders.

2:09:45

Are. Do you want to talk about these locked thermostats in Chicago?

2:09:49

No agenda kind of hit that and a number of other shows did.

2:09:52

I mean, I think we know this is where we're going with this.

2:09:57

I mean, they happen in California.

2:09:59

There are a variety of it happened to Jim, you know, from unrelenting.

2:10:03

He opted into one of these things in Texas.

2:10:05

Luckily, he was then able to opt out

2:10:09

or I don't know how quickly this can be done elsewhere,

2:10:13

but this is something that I've been railing on for a while.

2:10:16

Glenn Beck has been railing on this for like a decade,

2:10:20

that all of this smart stuff is going to end up biting you in the ass

2:10:23

because the power company is going to say, hey, you know,

2:10:28

there's a shortage, so we're not going to let your washing machine run.

2:10:31

We're not going to let your car charge. We're not going to let your air conditioning run.

2:10:35

And as I mentioned on one of the other shows that I do even now,

2:10:39

and it was random thought Switzerland, there is a new law going into.

2:10:43

Effect that. Should be there's.

2:10:45

A there's a Switzerland edition of random thoughts now.

2:10:48

It's very good a covered that they are going to

2:10:51

if there is an if there is an energy emergency,

2:10:54

the law will be you can't heat your home over 66 degrees Fahrenheit.

2:10:58

If you do, you could go to jail for three years. When people in Switzerland

2:11:01

were asked about that, they're like, that's entirely untrue.

2:11:04

There is no emergency right now, so you could eat your house, do whatever you wanted.

2:11:07

But it's like, that's not the point. The point is when there is an energy emergency, you know, one's coming.

2:11:12

Yeah, there's always one coming. So, first of all, if you give the government power to declare an emergency

2:11:18

and then give them extra powers when it's an emergency,

2:11:21

they'll just declare emergencies. All the time. Yes, they do.

2:11:24

And then they will take away and rights.

2:11:27

Even if you assume that emergencies will only be declared

2:11:31

when it's legitimately, really, really extreme weather.

2:11:34

Well, really extreme weather happens.

2:11:36

That's kind of the nature of weather.

2:11:38

It will happen. And it's like if the problem comes down,

2:11:42

you have not prepared enough to provide

2:11:45

everybody with the resources they need, that is of the government.

2:11:49

That is a government failure.

2:11:52

And rather than taking people's rights away, fix your shit government.

2:11:57

Well my my position on it well in particular it was about the

2:12:01

the Colorado situation.

2:12:05

My position was

2:12:07

probably unsurprising. I couldn't get that upset.

2:12:11

There was a lot of expelled and this is why I brought it.

2:12:14

A lot of ink spilled about. I can't believe people got, you know, got their thermostats locked.

2:12:19

And what about people who, you know, suffering heat stroke in their houses

2:12:23

because they can't turn down the thermostat? And I'm like, you totally opted into this, right?

2:12:28

You might have been too retarded to figure out what you were opting into, but.

2:12:32

Right, all of the information was there and I cannot get upset.

2:12:35

Plus, if you looked at the screenshots of at least of the Colorado one

2:12:40

there was on the screen, it said, here's the instructions to opt out.

2:12:46

Okay, so problem, solution, I can't right now.

2:12:51

The question was, what could you immediately opt out

2:12:53

or was that locked to the boy?

2:12:55

Don't know about that. You might be screwed for that day or even that season, right?

2:12:59

It might be only takes effect the next month. But I'm just saying all of the warning signs were there and people need to take

2:13:05

some damn responsibility for themselves.

2:13:07

And if you opt into a system, by the way, what got in the Colorado

2:13:12

one was you got $100 when you signed up in a $25 a year off your energy bill.

2:13:18

That's going to change your life.

2:13:21

Well, I mean, it it it might if when everybody's poor.

2:13:25

But at the same time, thanks to Biden, $100 really doesn't buy much like a candy bar in a coffee.

2:13:30

I have. Take your gas. Yeah, a lot less than that,

2:13:34

so I can't get bothered by that. Now, you want me to get really bothered?

2:13:38

Then we talk about the the programs in Germany, Switzerland.

2:13:42

Where are they in places in Europe where they're saying,

2:13:46

oh, we're locking your smart thermostat and there is no opting out.

2:13:49

Well, okay, is that's fascism, that's authoritarianism.

2:13:55

That is your fucking government has run amok, but people in Europe

2:13:59

don't need me to tell you that your government

2:14:01

has gone 100% authoritarian and is deciding to ruin your lives.

2:14:06

And frankly, a lot of people in Europe don't seem to care.

2:14:08

So maybe we just write that continent off.

2:14:11

But a lot of people buy into this with, Yeah, but if this doesn't happen,

2:14:15

then the whole thing's going to crash because they don't have enough.

2:14:18

They don't have enough power near like. Well, it's.

2:14:20

Just not equitable. Right? Well, it's not equitable.

2:14:23

There are some people who are miserable that's not equitable.

2:14:26

We need to ruin their lives. To the question, though, is that it's rarely asked is why don't you have

2:14:31

enough power? And that's mainly because we're afraid of nuclear.

2:14:37

Or we we wanted to demonize Putin so we can't buy

2:14:40

his fuel anymore.

2:14:43

Yeah. So it's like, wait, there's a choice, too.

2:14:46

You made the choice not to have enough energy,

2:14:49

and now you want us to suffer.

2:14:51

Let's be clear. The people who are going to be freezing to

2:14:54

death in their homes this winter are not the ones who made the choice.

2:14:58

The people who made the choice are all in in Brussels and in the other capitals.

2:15:03

And they're the ones who are probably going to go ahead and build, in an exception

2:15:08

that says they get to use as much coal as they want to heat their own houses

2:15:13

because it's only the plebs who freeze to death.

2:15:15

The choice is being made by intense virtue signaling

2:15:19

by the people running Europe, saying, No, we don't want our citizens.

2:15:24

We want our citizens to freeze to death, because that's better than looking

2:15:27

bad on the global stage. Hey, luckily for you,

2:15:29

the only person that is monitoring the coming in to heat your home is you.

2:15:34

Well, that was the other point that I was going to point out,

2:15:37

which is that while I would never opt into any kind of system

2:15:41

that decided that they wanted to control my thermostat,

2:15:46

at the same time I am completely immune and just wanted to gloat just a little bit

2:15:50

because I absolutely how my house is heated

2:15:53

because nobody from the government is coming in and fixing fires

2:15:57

in my woodstove every day now. Well, I was curious

2:16:00

when I saw this story, Switzerland, because the whole thing was based upon

2:16:05

the indoor temperature, not how much fuel you would use

2:16:10

to heat your home, which I found to be completely disingenuous,

2:16:13

because if somebody actually had a device, as you do,

2:16:17

a stove in the house, that you could heat the home with by throwing firewood

2:16:23

into it, well, then you're not using fuel then when you're using something else.

2:16:27

But you're. Using this fuel. Right?

2:16:29

But for what? Providing and saying there's a shortage of that petrol fuel.

2:16:35

Not good. And trust me, nobody is going to be able to tell me

2:16:41

that there is a shortage of trees in the Pacific Northwest.

2:16:45

No, you got a few there. You could use them up.

2:16:47

They're not going to go away.

2:16:49

You're not going to run out. They grow like weeds everywhere that we don't do

2:16:54

some kind of active land management trees eventually start growing.

2:16:59

Well, we just need nuke that area.

2:17:02

You know, I think China is on it. It's a problem.

2:17:04

I just looked at the time and holy crap.

2:17:07

Is that usually how you end these things?

2:17:09

I just looked the time and holy crap.

2:17:11

You have somewhere to go. You have a dentist appointment?

2:17:13

Yeah, the bathroom.

2:17:16

Well, we don't want that kind of thing. Should have gone while you were reading CCP's.

2:17:20

Yeah, there you go. It's a very good at it is a very good ad.

2:17:23

But with that said we plan on being back next Wednesday for another fun.

2:17:28

Away is next Wednesday. I have a dental appointment to get a crown.

2:17:32

It may be next time. No, stop making dental appointments on Wednesdays.

2:17:35

To see what time it is. Move your dental appointment to Friday.

2:17:38

There's nothing important happening then. You're right about that. Depends what the dentist is there.

2:17:42

But we'll let you know. Follow us on the know agenda, socials and all that.

2:17:47

With that said, Hey, until next time, I am Daryn O'Neil coming to you

2:17:51

live from a bunker deep in the heart of middle America, just outside of Iraq.

2:17:54

We're all we are old, we are falling apart, and we need a lot of dental appointments.

2:17:58

And from America's left coast, where firewood will soon be declared racist.

2:18:02

I'm Ryan Boomer. And you're