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Welcome to Any Stashes, I'm Mike.

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And I'm Nate.

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What are we smoking, Mike?

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We are smoking the Five Vegas Classic or the Vegas Five Classic.

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I can't remember which one comes first.

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I Googled it while I was waiting for you to hop on and it's Five Vegas.

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Five Vegas Classic.

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Perfect.

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At least according to Google, if that's incorrect, do not blame us.

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But this is our start of season two.

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Yes it is.

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And we're pretty excited to be back.

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Let's get this lit and then we can...

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Do you want to have any comments on the cigar before we get going and then we'll kind of

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do the catch up.

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Yeah, when I cut it, my cap kind of got damaged a little bit.

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Mine too.

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I'm kind of disappointed.

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Mine too.

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Yours too.

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I wasn't going to mention anything because I thought maybe I did something wrong.

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But no, I wasn't super thrilled with that.

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Yeah.

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And it's, as everybody knows, we don't humidify these in the same humidor and we don't use

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the same style cutter.

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So there we go.

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Very true.

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Okay.

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So I should mention this is the inaugural podcast of my new recording studio.

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Yes it is.

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Which is really just the garage, but I installed a bathroom fan which is doing a nice job of

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sucking all the cigar smoke straight up over my head.

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So that is delightful.

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Are you pairing your cigar with anything today?

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You're damn straight I am.

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I am pairing it with a Lagunitas Brewing Company Maximus Colossal IPA.

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It is 9% ABV and it's little thing says Robusticus Flavicus, which I think is Roman for mighty

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fine tasting.

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Interesting.

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How about you?

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I am pairing mine with a Nord East.

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An excellent choice.

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But right off the bat, the flavor is not bad.

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Yeah, I agree.

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Other than the cap getting damaged, so far it's been a pleasant experience.

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I have to concur with that.

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So I feel like we haven't spoken in like two years, but in reality it's only been a couple

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months I think.

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Well we've spoken since then, but we haven't had a podcast for a couple months for sure.

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Yeah, I feel like we go a little deeper on our podcasts than we do through random text

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messages and memes and things of that nature.

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Of course we do.

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But I guess like the biggest thing or not the biggest thing, I mean so much has happened

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since we last spoke on the podcast.

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I know we were, I think we were waiting for Brittany Greiner to be released and now she's

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been released.

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Yes.

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Or is in the process of being released.

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Funny how the news doesn't care once somebody says the thing is going to happen.

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They don't actually follow through and give you updates, but I'm sure somebody somewhere

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knows.

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I was going to look up some stats.

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I was going to look up some stats.

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Because I saw something where they were like, oh, for all of you people saying she's just

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a WNBA star, she represented our country in the Olympics and won medals and it's still

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sports.

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You know what I mean?

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I'm not trying to poo poo you if you've won medals and you like sports and that's what

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you play, but is sports a big enough thing?

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We talked about this and I don't want to rehash it too much, but is that worth turning loose

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an arms dealer?

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I don't know.

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It is if that sports star is a puppet of the global elites.

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Those people don't face consequences.

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That is true.

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So that happened.

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And let's see.

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I don't know.

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Do you want to talk about the spy balloons first?

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The Chinese, the quote unquote Chinese spy balloons.

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Don't forget the UFOs.

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I know.

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I know.

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And pretty soon we're going to have to call them the COVID balloons because we can't call

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them the Wuhan balloons.

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So we're at the point of this story where we pretty much have the solution to both,

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the US government claimed that there were unknown flying objects and then some of them

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were Chinese spy balloons and some of them were UFOs.

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It turns out that most likely the Chinese spy balloons were private weather station

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balloons and the unidentifying flying objects were hobbyist balloons, I guess, that there's

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a couple clubs across the world that send balloons up and track them and do all this

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sort of like balloon orienteering type of thing.

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probably theirs that they shot down.

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And now I don't, so I'm not 100% sure.

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I know back when I worked for the Boy Scouts, one of my volunteers flew a helicopter for

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one of the hospitals and he was telling me about how when he takes off, he has to file

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an emergency flight plan.

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But they made it super easy with an app.

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I don't know about balloons.

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I haven't looked into that if you would have to kind of say, hey, I'm launching a balloon

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and it should float this way.

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Like, I don't know if you have to launch like a float plan or something.

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I don't know, but I watched a story on it for this episode and this is a long standing

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organized club and they make these balloons for, I guess, the range of one of the places

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was 12 to 180 bucks and they have different features on them and people, they track them

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and they use hand radios and they do spotters.

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It's kind of like geocaching, but with a floating balloon, I guess.

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Or like when you do those little rockets, right?

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You remember those, you'd put up a parachute down the cardboard tube and send them up.

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I mean, you know, more slightly different, but I know that all sorts of these clubs exist

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not just for balloons, but there's all sorts of clubs out there.

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So right.

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And there is, and it made a lot of sense to me.

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And of course, each one of these missions costs like $2 million or something to shoot

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these potentially $12 balloons down.

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So it's well worth the taxpayer money is what you're saying.

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Oh yes.

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And I've watched many of the interviews with the congressmen who are all saber rattling.

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And it's just a...

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When I think what happened was the Russian-Ukraine war was getting boring because the news media

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has been talking about that almost nonstop.

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And then the United States and other countries decided to send these big missile, anti-aircraft

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missile batteries and things and these big tanks now over there to the tune of like what,

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$45 billion or something.

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Something like that.

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And so I think the general consensus on viewership is maybe let's not talk about that because

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it's not riling the people up like they used to.

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So we had to have Chinese balloons that are of course from China and not Russia because

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they want to remind us we have more than one enemy out there.

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And it's all...

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are on the same side, that it's going to be a false flag of some kind.

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So I was highly critical from the beginning.

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But I do enjoy those people that are convinced they're not balloons at all and that they're

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aliens trying to...

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I don't know.

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I mean, again, it's the internet.

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So you can find anything you want to find, you will find.

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Just like you can find people that are saying some crazy racist stuff about whatever group.

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You can find whatever you want.

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That's true.

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If you look for it, you're going to find it.

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So we have the balloons and that probably isn't as big a story as the current media

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is making it out to be.

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I'm sure in a week or two in this episode posts, the balloons will be an afterthought

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in most of our listeners' minds.

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The other thing though, I thought that was really interesting, was the airborne toxic

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event.

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Yeah, we should definitely talk about that.

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I didn't do too much research and I read somewhere that they were actually...

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It was in Ohio and they were extras or location shooting for the film White Noise, which is

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based off of a book by the same title, which is where the term airborne toxic event comes

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from, which is where the band airborne toxic event came up with their band name.

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And then this town, allegedly, is the same.

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I haven't verified the movie connection or not, but regardless, a train derailed.

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it.

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But apparently the authorities thought the best idea to get rid of this potentially hazardous

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material on this train was to blow it up.

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And then of course, this town is now under a noxious cloud and their water has been all

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polluted and animals are dying and the people had to evacuate their town.

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And I don't think they got compensated by the government to have to leave their homes.

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And I think they're just now starting to come back, be able to come back to their homes.

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That's part of the story.

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Another part of the story was that the reason why they were allowed to destroy it the way

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they were is because the chemicals weren't classified as the type that have to be contained,

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even though they should have been potentially, you know what I mean?

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And that derailment or the accident was caused by faulty brakes that the industry was criticized

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in the past for using and the Congress was on the verge of passing a law saying they

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had to update in the Obama administration.

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So it's like the typical American infrastructure decline type story.

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Yeah, let's help Ukraine fight their war.

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But if we need new brakes on our trains, we can't pass a law that quickly.

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Well, it's like the, well, I'm sure we'll talk about it, the railroad contract.

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You know, well, yeah, I know there's a lot of moving pieces and parts.

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The rail line industry is so powerful.

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It's incredible.

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It's incredible.

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They have all the benefits of the government backing, but they have none of the costs of

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having government regulation.

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You know what I mean?

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It's a very interesting fascist situation that we have going on.

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Actually, it'll tie in and maybe we'll talk about it more in depth in our next episode

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where we talk about one of the books that we've recently read and or in Mike's case

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reread so, but we'll leave that as a little teaser.

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But I did hear there was another derailment of a train carrying similar chemicals in Michigan.

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I don't think I heard about that.

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Crazily enough.

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Well, I mean, it is Michigan.

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And I don't know.

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I mean, I hadn't seen anything about the Ohio train derailment in any of the media.

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I guess there's a little blurb in my email digest that I get every morning.

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They had like a little tiny little blurb about it and I had to do some digging to actually

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find out more about it and how kind of not great that whole thing is.

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I mean, it's kind of a bunch of explosions from oil and I'm guessing that they're still

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going on, but it's not very popular to cover stuff like that, especially when so many people

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are gets pipelines, even though pipelines are the idea behind the pipeline is to get

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the oil off of the rail.

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You know what I mean?

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The pipelines are exploding oil.

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So, well, here's the train derails outside Detroit, Michigan with one car carrying hazardous

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materials.

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And so this one was the Van Buren township train and that's two weeks after the East

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Palestine, Ohio disaster.

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So maybe that's why, you know, East Palestine and you know, Palestine is kind of a touchy

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name to be talking about on TV.

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I heard a lot of Palestinian jokes.

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But let's see.

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I don't.

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Six, six cars were seen off the track in the Michigan one.

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That's crazy.

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There was a big derailment in Frazee as well.

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This one.

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Frazee, Minnesota.

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Oh, yeah.

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With all Amazon packages right before Christmas, I think, something like that.

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Which I'm sure didn't make national news, but.

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Yeah, probably not.

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Yeah, I'm guessing not.

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It made news where I'm at.

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I mean, if the Ohio crash where they actually released chemicals into the environment didn't

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really make national news, I'm sure Amazon packages wouldn't.

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Oh, people were pissed because that was going north.

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Yeah.

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It already was north, but that was a lot of people's Christmas gifts.

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So people were whining.

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Yes.

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As people do.

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Mm hmm.

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And maybe ratefully so.

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I don't know.

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Who knows?

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Oh, well, you know, first world problems, but.

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Yeah.

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It's also, you know, stuff sucks sometimes.

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So what else is going on?

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Well, I believe that Biden forced the railroad workers to accept the railroad contract.

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Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Almost forgot about that.

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And I have a friend who's in one of the railroad unions that was being represented.

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And the the backstory that wasn't told on the national news was that the union workers

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voted to ask for like a 42 or 38 percent raise, which was based on some certain metric.

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And then the union itself didn't put that forward, even though the members voted on

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it.

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They put forward some other number like 18 percent or something.

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OK.

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So immediately off the bat, the union fucked over their workers.

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Yeah.

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Right.

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And the railroad accepted the number because it was so much lower than what it should have

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been.

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Yeah.

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It was a screaming deal for them.

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And then they wanted to strike for one.

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They wanted the real number, the 40 some percent, because they haven't had a raise in like six

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years.

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Yeah.

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And then they wanted sick days.

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So instead of the Democrat president siding with workers, he sided with the power of the

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railroad and forced the railroad workers into the exact contract they didn't want to accept.

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And I know there was talks of maybe a wildcat strike.

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People were deathly afraid that the Biden administration was going to turn their guns

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on them.

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And that, I mean, Uncle Joe, they know that good old Uncle Joe would gun down railroad

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workers with the best of them.

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So that never accumulated.

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And now, by the way, the railroad is back in negotiations with the new contract because

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the contract they signed only covered the past.

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It didn't cover the future.

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That's how far behind they were on a contract.

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Oh, geez.

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Oh, yeah.

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So they get so then do they the workers all get back pay then?

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They so that's another thing that wasn't covered in the news.

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And I only know because, like I say, I have a very good friend that is directly affected.

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Yeah.

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Instead of experience with unions.

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So you would know more more so than I would.

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Oh, yeah.

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Well, I've been in unions my entire adult life, basically.

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But so the railroad, instead of writing the check out as a bonus to make it tax exempt,

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just wrote it as a regular income check.

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So the railroad workers only got like 60 percent or 50.

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What the hell was it?

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Fifty eight percent of the money.

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They must have done it.

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Forty two percent of it went to taxes straight to the government.

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Well, they must have done it the other way, then, because at least in my line of work,

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bonuses are taxed at a much higher rate.

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So maybe there's a clause for the railroad where if they have a year end bonus, it's

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taxed at a lesser rate because of their Social Security deductions and all.

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They have a special tax rate code for the railroad guys.

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Oh, OK.

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Oh, yeah.

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They have a sweetheart deal.

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That's why the railroad doesn't pay into Social Security and they have their own fund and

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all that jazz.

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I did hear, though, that Social Security isn't going to be able to pay out full amounts starting

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what June of this year?

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You know, something like that.

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They're going to come up with a solution that screws people over.

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They won't do.

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Oh, yeah.

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I mean, you and I know that.

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Yeah.

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They're not going to just raise the cap and tax people that make more than one hundred

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and forty thousand or one hundred fifty thousand or whatever the cap is at right now.

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OK.

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Three or something like that, maybe one hundred thirteen.

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I can't remember.

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It was it was in the low one hundred's, though.

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Yeah.

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That was always the goal back in the day was to break out of Social Security.

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Yeah.

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But yeah, they won't raise the cap to pay for Social Security or, God forbid, tax corporations.

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Yeah.

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You know, corporate humans.

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Yes.

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They won't be taxing corporate people for that one.

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But they're going to fuck people over.

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We both know that.

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Yeah.

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It's interesting.

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But yeah, who knows?

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I'm not I don't know what your retirement portfolio looks like, but when I built mine

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or as I've been building mine, I am assuming that there will be no Social Security or any

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form of government assistance for my retirement.

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Yeah.

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So that's what I've been going on, even though my 401k.

355
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Is seriously fucking me right now.

356
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Yeah, same.

357
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Yeah.

358
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I lost so much fucking money over the last three years.

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It's insane.

360
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So I guess that's a first word problems, quote unquote.

361
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But man, I was so much.

362
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Yeah, I guess.

363
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I mean, I don't know.

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Like they tell you that the American dream is, you know, you work till you're 50 and

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then retire.

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But everybody knows 65 is the retirement age.

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But everybody knows that's not the real actual retirement age of when you will be able to

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retire.

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So right.

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Mine is officially 66.

371
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Yeah.

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To collect my pension.

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Yeah.

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But it would be if I was, let's say, 21, I would assume it's going to be 68 or even

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70.

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Yeah.

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So.

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It's a kind of a strange thing.

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As far as no government response to people's needs whatsoever, it's kind of like the student

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loan thing.

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Yeah.

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I don't know if that all accumulated before we left either, but that was a total fucking

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scam.

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None of that came to fruition.

385
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No, they saw.

386
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I think they still have the open court case, though.

387
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But well, it's my understanding that the way the Biden administration chose to do it was

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a way that was commonly understood to not be able to hold up to legal scrutiny.

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OK.

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And that doesn't surprise me because even on private loans, the government makes a bunch

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of money.

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Oh, it shouldn't surprise anybody that Joe Biden wants to screw people and does not want

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to help them.

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This should surprise no one.

395
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So the Hunter Hunter Biden laptop thing came out, too.

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OK.

397
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Tell me about that, because I see Hunter Biden laptop and I just I don't get it disinterested

398
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immediately.

399
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OK.

400
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So there's two parts.

401
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The first part was that Hunter Biden, during his drug fueled days, left a laptop at a repair

402
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place and abandon it, and then this guy after the terms of the contract expired, took possession

403
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of it and leaked the information on it, which was totally legal by the contract that they

404
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had.

405
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Yeah.

406
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And this information, of course, has a variety of implications.

407
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Some of it's just Hunter Biden being an asswipe.

408
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Some of it's exposing Hunter Biden's corruption and possibly Joe Biden's corruption.

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Blah, blah, blah.

410
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But the bigger part was that the CIA and the FBI partially colluded with the news and Twitter

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and Facebook to ban the story from the presses right before the last election.

412
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OK.

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Yeah.

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00:23:09,560 --> 00:23:16,440
And that's kind of the bigger story that the federal government or the deep state was colluding

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with the corporations to limit people's access to information that was incriminating towards

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Joe Biden and Hunter Biden, which at the time was called a conspiracy theory.

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And now we know it's true.

418
00:23:32,920 --> 00:23:39,520
Well, and how many of those conspiracy theories that have been called by the news media conspiracy

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theories have turned out a year or two later to be actually true?

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I mean, look at Edward Snowden.

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In recent times, many things that have been called conspiracy theories by the mainstream

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media and corporations are in fact true.

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They just need to throw enough shade on it to where by the time the truth comes out,

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whatever they're trying to manipulate is already done.

425
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Yeah, like the general population fervor for it has subsided.

426
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So even if it comes out, they don't remember.

427
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Just like Panama papers and things.

428
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And that was like a huge bombshell, everybody thought.

429
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Then two months after that, nobody even heard it because the news media was pumping something

430
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else, like something else happened.

431
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Right.

432
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And then two weeks after that, something else happened.

433
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So it's kind of very, very cyclical.

434
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And those things are not coincidences.

435
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Our media does stuff like that very much on purpose.

436
00:24:43,160 --> 00:24:46,360
Yeah, because they're not journalists anymore.

437
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You know, their propaganda wings.

438
00:24:50,200 --> 00:24:54,520
Well, I don't know if I've been thinking about that a lot lately.

439
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I'm not sure journalists ever really were journalists.

440
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I think there's a good possibility.

441
00:25:00,960 --> 00:25:03,920
They were always doing propaganda for the state.

442
00:25:03,920 --> 00:25:06,080
Well, possibly.

443
00:25:06,080 --> 00:25:08,800
We know in Great Britain, they've been like that for a very long time.

444
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Yeah.

445
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I mean, you could make that argument.

446
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You know, because like, why would somebody break Watergate or why would somebody break

447
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the Catholic Church?

448
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Child abuse.

449
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Those things were covered up by a lot of people, too.

450
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So well, yeah, I just mean like, you know, there's got to be some journalists out there.

451
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But not in recent times, I don't think.

452
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They're limited.

453
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And when they do come out, the state attacks them.

454
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Yeah.

455
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Did you see the GOP stuff that came out?

456
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Like the recordings of their sessions and all the big like Fox News people were all

457
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like anti Trump.

458
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But then they went on air and were saying how much they loved them and stuff.

459
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No, there's something like that.

460
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And I didn't read the whole thing because I don't watch a whole lot of that kind of

461
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news.

462
00:26:01,200 --> 00:26:07,040
Well, you can't see my air quotes, but I don't watch a whole lot of that kind of news.

463
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Right.

464
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So but yeah, so I guess it just kind of goes to show that even the only place conservatives

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have and I say conservatives because this is the story that came out, but I really mean

466
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both parties.

467
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The Republicans and Democrats, they present a united front to the general population when

468
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it suits them.

469
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You know, and you and I have known that, you know, that both parties work together to keep

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third parties out of the out of the runnings and and to only allow certain things to go

471
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through or they try and start a fight amongst themselves just to distract us from the bigger

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issue.

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So, I mean, it didn't it didn't come as a surprise to me that these news anchors might

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not actually like the shit they're peddling.

475
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Well, that's manufacturing consent.

476
00:27:01,480 --> 00:27:02,480
Right.

477
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I mean, you don't become an elite power broker in that space unless you're down with the

478
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program.

479
00:27:09,120 --> 00:27:10,120
Yeah.

480
00:27:10,120 --> 00:27:12,320
You're going to self censor.

481
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They don't have to tell you.

482
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Yeah.

483
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They they pay for your discretion.

484
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Mm hmm.

485
00:27:19,640 --> 00:27:21,720
You're attacked.

486
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I don't know.

487
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I don't know what they call it nowadays, but one of those two.

488
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Right.

489
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Have you looked anything at the Twitter files?

490
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Oh, God, no.

491
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That whole thing.

492
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But let's talk about it.

493
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I think I'm about halfway with the cigar.

494
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I am a little less than halfway.

495
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Yeah, I'm a little less.

496
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But I mean, like, but before we get in launch into like this Twitter thing, I just figured

497
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let's do an update because we'll probably forget.

498
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Yeah, I would.

499
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Because it's a good cigar.

500
00:27:54,640 --> 00:28:01,160
It's yeah, it's it's you know, we saw when we got these, you were poo pooing them thinking

501
00:28:01,160 --> 00:28:04,040
that we're going to be not all that great.

502
00:28:04,040 --> 00:28:06,200
And this is exactly what I thought it was going to be.

503
00:28:06,200 --> 00:28:11,680
It's not great, but it's cheap, relatively cheap, and it's good.

504
00:28:11,680 --> 00:28:12,680
It's fine.

505
00:28:12,680 --> 00:28:13,680
It's good.

506
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Yeah.

507
00:28:14,680 --> 00:28:17,320
It's not overly complex, though.

508
00:28:17,320 --> 00:28:22,080
I did about a quarter of the way through.

509
00:28:22,080 --> 00:28:30,520
It kind of like the flavor changed slightly, I think, and became slightly more complex.

510
00:28:30,520 --> 00:28:32,180
But not overly so.

511
00:28:32,180 --> 00:28:33,600
It's not overly complex.

512
00:28:33,600 --> 00:28:34,600
It's pretty simple.

513
00:28:34,600 --> 00:28:35,920
No, it is very pleasant.

514
00:28:35,920 --> 00:28:38,500
Yeah, I just it's mine started out.

515
00:28:38,500 --> 00:28:45,200
I felt like it was very, very simple at the start and for maybe the first 10, 10 or more

516
00:28:45,200 --> 00:28:50,240
minutes and then it kind of shifted up a little bit, which was good.

517
00:28:50,240 --> 00:28:52,520
The end of mine is unraveling a little.

518
00:28:52,520 --> 00:29:01,200
Yeah, I've been I've been trying to be very aware of how I I don't want to say how I put

519
00:29:01,200 --> 00:29:04,920
my lips on the shaft, but how I put my lips on the shaft.

520
00:29:04,920 --> 00:29:05,920
Right.

521
00:29:05,920 --> 00:29:11,960
I mean, that is definitely I would say I mean, I cross cut mine and you I'm guessing flat

522
00:29:11,960 --> 00:29:13,320
snapped yours.

523
00:29:13,320 --> 00:29:14,320
Yeah.

524
00:29:14,320 --> 00:29:15,320
And they're both unraveling.

525
00:29:15,320 --> 00:29:20,600
And like I say, I almost immediately damaged the cap and I did wet it before I cut it.

526
00:29:20,600 --> 00:29:21,600
So yeah, me too.

527
00:29:21,600 --> 00:29:26,120
So not the best cap in the whole world, but it's also a very reasonable price stick.

528
00:29:26,120 --> 00:29:27,120
You know?

529
00:29:27,120 --> 00:29:30,000
Yeah, I'm not I'm not overly worried about it.

530
00:29:30,000 --> 00:29:34,720
You know, we've had other other cigars that have kind of unraveled a bit.

531
00:29:34,720 --> 00:29:40,280
But right, I guess halfway through the flavor is a lot better than at the start.

532
00:29:40,280 --> 00:29:41,960
Yeah, I agree.

533
00:29:41,960 --> 00:29:43,640
Yeah, which is good.

534
00:29:43,640 --> 00:29:45,080
That's as it should be.

535
00:29:45,080 --> 00:29:46,080
That's what you want.

536
00:29:46,080 --> 00:29:49,800
You don't want it to get worse.

537
00:29:49,800 --> 00:29:53,480
Not not to not to call out any of our least favorites from season one.

538
00:29:53,480 --> 00:29:55,480
Oh, man.

539
00:29:55,480 --> 00:29:57,840
So very fascinating.

540
00:29:57,840 --> 00:29:59,880
But all right.

541
00:29:59,880 --> 00:30:02,880
So have you learned anything about these Twitter files?

542
00:30:02,880 --> 00:30:10,200
No, I know that there's a lot of people that are upset about, you know, of course, Elon

543
00:30:10,200 --> 00:30:16,660
and whatever his giant man toddler meltdown is for running, you know, heavy air quotes

544
00:30:16,660 --> 00:30:20,800
again running the company.

545
00:30:20,800 --> 00:30:22,800
Subtext into the ground.

546
00:30:22,800 --> 00:30:23,800
Right.

547
00:30:23,800 --> 00:30:30,520
I mean, I've seen some some things about like disgruntled employees and, you know, I couldn't

548
00:30:30,520 --> 00:30:34,200
imagine ever working for Elon Musk, so I'll just say that up front.

549
00:30:34,200 --> 00:30:37,080
But I haven't heard of anything called the Twitter files.

550
00:30:37,080 --> 00:30:40,320
So well, so.

551
00:30:40,320 --> 00:30:45,080
I also would not work for Elon Musk, but.

552
00:30:45,080 --> 00:30:46,520
That's aside the point.

553
00:30:46,520 --> 00:30:49,040
I don't care for Elon Musk.

554
00:30:49,040 --> 00:30:52,080
I think that he's a scammer.

555
00:30:52,080 --> 00:30:57,960
I was very upset about several of the things that he's done and lied about, like solar

556
00:30:57,960 --> 00:31:03,400
roofing and Tesla semi truck is a total joke.

557
00:31:03,400 --> 00:31:04,400
Yeah.

558
00:31:04,400 --> 00:31:05,800
And I know Elon fan either.

559
00:31:05,800 --> 00:31:07,760
We've spoken we've spoken about that before.

560
00:31:07,760 --> 00:31:15,440
So yeah, no, I mean, his lies are in them, but not borderline criminal when it comes

561
00:31:15,440 --> 00:31:19,640
to his, especially his Tesla side of things.

562
00:31:19,640 --> 00:31:22,400
It's a borderline criminal.

563
00:31:22,400 --> 00:31:30,920
So anyway, the Twitter files were released and more or less confirmed that Twitter internally

564
00:31:30,920 --> 00:31:36,200
was doing all the things that conservatives were accusing them of, which everybody knew.

565
00:31:36,200 --> 00:31:41,640
I don't know why people are so think that it's such a bombshell because it was clear

566
00:31:41,640 --> 00:31:45,760
to everybody that they were banning and shadow banning conservatives.

567
00:31:45,760 --> 00:31:49,800
They it's clear they were colluding with the federal government to control information

568
00:31:49,800 --> 00:31:52,040
on certain topics.

569
00:31:52,040 --> 00:31:59,120
And the Twitter files just confirmed that the executives and people working there were

570
00:31:59,120 --> 00:32:03,700
actively colluding with the federal government to suppress certain points of view.

571
00:32:03,700 --> 00:32:10,320
They were also acting independently to suppress certain points of view, which were largely

572
00:32:10,320 --> 00:32:13,520
conservative and conspiratorial.

573
00:32:13,520 --> 00:32:17,320
But most of the things that were conspiratorial were also the truth.

574
00:32:17,320 --> 00:32:18,320
Yeah.

575
00:32:18,320 --> 00:32:21,400
You know what I'm saying?

576
00:32:21,400 --> 00:32:25,120
So it's not a bombshell to me.

577
00:32:25,120 --> 00:32:31,160
It was very clear that it was very clear that it was going on and Twitter was denying it.

578
00:32:31,160 --> 00:32:36,000
It was like, of course they're going to deny it, but it's true.

579
00:32:36,000 --> 00:32:39,000
So I don't know.

580
00:32:39,000 --> 00:32:40,720
Yeah.

581
00:32:40,720 --> 00:32:49,660
Which I don't know how many hardcore libs would accept that, even though the company

582
00:32:49,660 --> 00:32:52,920
internally was saying that's what they were doing.

583
00:32:52,920 --> 00:32:53,920
Yeah.

584
00:32:53,920 --> 00:32:55,920
So it's very interesting.

585
00:32:55,920 --> 00:33:01,120
One I know, Elon's big thing was I want to make it free speech again or whatever, which

586
00:33:01,120 --> 00:33:05,680
is eerily reminiscent of making America great again.

587
00:33:05,680 --> 00:33:10,680
But I don't think that he's done that.

588
00:33:10,680 --> 00:33:18,280
The funniest thing he did, which I really enjoyed, was when he was selling the verification

589
00:33:18,280 --> 00:33:21,320
check marks for like $8 at all.

590
00:33:21,320 --> 00:33:26,680
People were buying them up and tweeting his verified accounts.

591
00:33:26,680 --> 00:33:27,680
That was hilarious.

592
00:33:27,680 --> 00:33:30,920
But otherwise, I think it's been an absolute shit show.

593
00:33:30,920 --> 00:33:38,500
And I don't think personally that Twitter operates that much differently than Metta

594
00:33:38,500 --> 00:33:42,000
or any other social media for that matter.

595
00:33:42,000 --> 00:33:44,400
No.

596
00:33:44,400 --> 00:33:46,560
Like I say, we've talked about it before.

597
00:33:46,560 --> 00:33:51,840
I don't see a clear difference between the corporations and the government.

598
00:33:51,840 --> 00:33:59,800
It's very evident that social media companies do things that are outside of the legal limits

599
00:33:59,800 --> 00:34:05,480
of the Constitution at the best of the government.

600
00:34:05,480 --> 00:34:12,400
And it's just a way to get around the rules and laws that are supposed to protect us from

601
00:34:12,400 --> 00:34:13,760
the powerful.

602
00:34:13,760 --> 00:34:23,720
So it's not very clear to me that it's not just totalitarian.

603
00:34:23,720 --> 00:34:26,440
You know what I mean?

604
00:34:26,440 --> 00:34:28,840
I don't have a very positive view of it.

605
00:34:28,840 --> 00:34:29,840
Let's put it that way.

606
00:34:29,840 --> 00:34:30,840
No.

607
00:34:30,840 --> 00:34:31,840
I think if you...

608
00:34:31,840 --> 00:34:34,440
Man, if you were...

609
00:34:34,440 --> 00:34:39,280
This reminds me too, and I think we talked about this last season.

610
00:34:39,280 --> 00:34:40,280
Maybe we didn't.

611
00:34:40,280 --> 00:34:47,720
You and I just talked about it once, but it kind of reminds me of the Republicans, conservatives

612
00:34:47,720 --> 00:34:51,080
that were upset about Obamacare.

613
00:34:51,080 --> 00:34:53,880
And they were like, I don't want any Obamacare.

614
00:34:53,880 --> 00:34:55,500
And then somebody was talking about...

615
00:34:55,500 --> 00:34:58,200
And they were all like, yeah, let's reverse the Affordable Care Act.

616
00:34:58,200 --> 00:34:59,200
Let's reverse that.

617
00:34:59,200 --> 00:35:01,040
Let's reverse that.

618
00:35:01,040 --> 00:35:02,520
And they were like, wait, wait, hold on.

619
00:35:02,520 --> 00:35:04,080
I'm on the Affordable Care Act.

620
00:35:04,080 --> 00:35:08,680
And then somebody was like, well, that's what you're calling Obamacare.

621
00:35:08,680 --> 00:35:09,920
You don't understand.

622
00:35:09,920 --> 00:35:14,440
So they didn't know that they were championing trying to get rid of the thing that they were

623
00:35:14,440 --> 00:35:15,800
even on.

624
00:35:15,800 --> 00:35:22,000
So I think by and large, and this isn't...

625
00:35:22,000 --> 00:35:23,120
We have our own...

626
00:35:23,120 --> 00:35:28,000
You and I have our own political views and we differ in some things and we largely agree,

627
00:35:28,000 --> 00:35:33,040
I would say, but this is for just the general populace.

628
00:35:33,040 --> 00:35:35,760
And I would say if you're listening to our show, you're not part of the general populace

629
00:35:35,760 --> 00:35:39,720
because I don't think the general populace would understand what the term general populace

630
00:35:39,720 --> 00:35:40,720
meant.

631
00:35:40,720 --> 00:35:45,840
But they're not very bright and they don't know what everything's called.

632
00:35:45,840 --> 00:35:47,800
But part of that's by design.

633
00:35:47,800 --> 00:35:52,360
The government is trying to keep people just stupid enough that they don't know.

634
00:35:52,360 --> 00:35:55,080
So that's why you have multiple names for everything.

635
00:35:55,080 --> 00:35:56,080
What is it?

636
00:35:56,080 --> 00:35:57,080
Is it COVID?

637
00:35:57,080 --> 00:35:59,880
Is it the Wuhan virus?

638
00:35:59,880 --> 00:36:00,880
Is it whatever?

639
00:36:00,880 --> 00:36:04,720
And it's like...

640
00:36:04,720 --> 00:36:05,720
Is it coronavirus?

641
00:36:05,720 --> 00:36:06,720
Is it...

642
00:36:06,720 --> 00:36:08,520
I mean, how many names just for that one thing?

643
00:36:08,520 --> 00:36:11,360
And then you've got all the bills that they pass and they're like...

644
00:36:11,360 --> 00:36:15,760
They're always these super long acronyms like, yeah, we're passing the Death Star Act and

645
00:36:15,760 --> 00:36:19,040
D stands for this and E stands for that and A stands...

646
00:36:19,040 --> 00:36:22,760
And they go through the whole thing and it's like, well, nobody knows what that is.

647
00:36:22,760 --> 00:36:28,960
Plus they tack in like what they call the Obamacare, the Affordable Care Act was tacked

648
00:36:28,960 --> 00:36:30,560
into some housing regulation.

649
00:36:30,560 --> 00:36:33,400
It had nothing to do with healthcare.

650
00:36:33,400 --> 00:36:34,400
You know what I mean?

651
00:36:34,400 --> 00:36:35,400
So...

652
00:36:35,400 --> 00:36:36,400
Right.

653
00:36:36,400 --> 00:36:42,760
That's all just to say that these people that might not agree with what Twitter is doing

654
00:36:42,760 --> 00:36:46,240
or that they do agree with what Twitter is doing just because it happens to fall on their

655
00:36:46,240 --> 00:36:50,960
side of the political aisle, you know?

656
00:36:50,960 --> 00:36:55,280
And you and I can sit here and say, well, this sounds very totalitarianism, which is

657
00:36:55,280 --> 00:37:00,800
exactly what we're trying to fight but not fight with the Ukraine-Russia thing.

658
00:37:00,800 --> 00:37:01,800
You know?

659
00:37:01,800 --> 00:37:05,320
I mean, but we're kind of the same.

660
00:37:05,320 --> 00:37:12,000
The Ukraine-Russia thing is interesting and I'm glad you brought it up because it's become

661
00:37:12,000 --> 00:37:19,200
very clear that the people who are running Ukraine are Nazi sympathizers, right?

662
00:37:19,200 --> 00:37:26,520
At least large sections of the government are Nazi sympathizers.

663
00:37:26,520 --> 00:37:34,800
And it is absolutely unacceptable to criticize the war in Ukraine.

664
00:37:34,800 --> 00:37:35,800
You know what I mean?

665
00:37:35,800 --> 00:37:39,880
It's bizarre and the liberals are obsessed with it.

666
00:37:39,880 --> 00:37:42,080
And I don't understand...

667
00:37:42,080 --> 00:37:48,920
I mean, I do understand that it's all nonsense, but I don't understand how the average everyday

668
00:37:48,920 --> 00:37:53,320
person doesn't see through this charade.

669
00:37:53,320 --> 00:37:54,800
You know what I mean?

670
00:37:54,800 --> 00:37:55,800
Yeah.

671
00:37:55,800 --> 00:37:58,480
Well, and here's another interesting thing is we fought...

672
00:37:58,480 --> 00:38:07,040
I always thought it was a 20-year war after 9-11.

673
00:38:07,040 --> 00:38:16,680
I think on the 12th, I think a majority of America was ready to go over there and kick

674
00:38:16,680 --> 00:38:19,840
some ass.

675
00:38:19,840 --> 00:38:27,120
But the long sustaining thing was it was mostly the conservatives and that was their big thing.

676
00:38:27,120 --> 00:38:29,880
It's like, we're going to go and we're going to get Bin Laden and we're going to get all

677
00:38:29,880 --> 00:38:31,960
these people.

678
00:38:31,960 --> 00:38:34,600
And now kind of the Ukraine thing is...

679
00:38:34,600 --> 00:38:35,600
I don't know.

680
00:38:35,600 --> 00:38:39,520
I feel like it's more the liberals want to...

681
00:38:39,520 --> 00:38:43,640
You know, it's like a people outreach, but it's still a war.

682
00:38:43,640 --> 00:38:45,520
So it's...

683
00:38:45,520 --> 00:38:50,640
It was the Republicans' turn last time to warmonger and now it's the Democrats' turn.

684
00:38:50,640 --> 00:38:54,800
And after this, then it'll be the Republicans' turn again to go warmonger somebody else like

685
00:38:54,800 --> 00:38:56,800
China or something.

686
00:38:56,800 --> 00:38:57,800
Right.

687
00:38:57,800 --> 00:39:00,160
Oh, they're already ramping that story line up.

688
00:39:00,160 --> 00:39:02,760
Oh, yeah, they're getting it prepped.

689
00:39:02,760 --> 00:39:03,760
They have been.

690
00:39:03,760 --> 00:39:09,080
They leaked a document on purpose that some Air Force general was talking about how he

691
00:39:09,080 --> 00:39:12,400
predicted war in 2025 with China.

692
00:39:12,400 --> 00:39:18,040
And it's like, they're just trying to ramp it up.

693
00:39:18,040 --> 00:39:22,040
I don't know if a proxy war with China would even be real.

694
00:39:22,040 --> 00:39:23,240
You know what I mean?

695
00:39:23,240 --> 00:39:31,920
There's a possibility that it would be like a 1984 style war that we're sending resources

696
00:39:31,920 --> 00:39:35,680
to that's not actually happening anywhere.

697
00:39:35,680 --> 00:39:39,480
You know what I mean?

698
00:39:39,480 --> 00:39:47,080
Because the government is just advanced enough to where they can do that now, I guess.

699
00:39:47,080 --> 00:39:51,120
You know what I mean?

700
00:39:51,120 --> 00:39:55,840
It's just supposed to be a drain on the resources, that's all.

701
00:39:55,840 --> 00:40:03,020
Make people in debt, make the government in debt so that they can force austerity on America

702
00:40:03,020 --> 00:40:06,280
so the corporations can profit here even more.

703
00:40:06,280 --> 00:40:07,960
Yep.

704
00:40:07,960 --> 00:40:14,040
And I had an old coworker and I'm trying to remember now, it's like it's tough because

705
00:40:14,040 --> 00:40:15,900
we did what?

706
00:40:15,900 --> 00:40:16,900
We did what?

707
00:40:16,900 --> 00:40:19,240
30 some episodes last season?

708
00:40:19,240 --> 00:40:20,880
Sure.

709
00:40:20,880 --> 00:40:26,560
And we're probably on pace to do more than that this year.

710
00:40:26,560 --> 00:40:36,280
But I had an old coworker and he was convinced that the government started wars as a population

711
00:40:36,280 --> 00:40:39,200
control.

712
00:40:39,200 --> 00:40:41,700
And he served, he served in Iraq.

713
00:40:41,700 --> 00:40:44,940
And that was his heartfelt belief.

714
00:40:44,940 --> 00:40:50,440
And if you asked him about it, he would literally talk himself blue about how he knew that this

715
00:40:50,440 --> 00:40:55,840
was how they managed our population.

716
00:40:55,840 --> 00:40:56,840
That's interesting.

717
00:40:56,840 --> 00:41:03,320
And I haven't done the studies or looked into it, but it's weird that you get these people.

718
00:41:03,320 --> 00:41:09,040
Oh, and going back to the journalists, a lot of people say, well, World War II was the

719
00:41:09,040 --> 00:41:13,240
last just war and righteous war and stuff.

720
00:41:13,240 --> 00:41:16,600
And it's like, well, not if you talk to the World War II vets that wanted to talk about

721
00:41:16,600 --> 00:41:20,000
it, like Kurt Vonnegut and a lot of those people where they're like, this is the worst

722
00:41:20,000 --> 00:41:24,160
experience of my life.

723
00:41:24,160 --> 00:41:30,260
So maybe maybe journalists never were fighting for the little guy.

724
00:41:30,260 --> 00:41:34,720
And maybe war has never been glorious, you know?

725
00:41:34,720 --> 00:41:45,120
Oh, the it's a well known fact now that journalism was heavily censored during both World Wars

726
00:41:45,120 --> 00:41:49,040
and personal letters were heavily censored.

727
00:41:49,040 --> 00:41:51,640
Yeah, during World War II and World War I.

728
00:41:51,640 --> 00:41:54,760
Well, that was a whole plot point of Catch-22.

729
00:41:54,760 --> 00:41:57,920
Yeah, I haven't read Catch-22.

730
00:41:57,920 --> 00:41:59,920
Oh, OK.

731
00:41:59,920 --> 00:42:03,480
I was just talking about this the other day at work, because why wouldn't I talk about

732
00:42:03,480 --> 00:42:11,840
a politically charged novel in a workplace environment?

733
00:42:11,840 --> 00:42:17,060
But one of the big things in there, and this isn't spoiling any of the story, but maybe

734
00:42:17,060 --> 00:42:20,240
we should do a Catch-22 review later on this season.

735
00:42:20,240 --> 00:42:27,200
But one of the pot points is the main character gets put in charge of censoring the letters

736
00:42:27,200 --> 00:42:29,400
home to spouses and things.

737
00:42:29,400 --> 00:42:32,880
Well, the joke of it is that he gets bored doing that.

738
00:42:32,880 --> 00:42:37,600
So he just starts randomly censoring things or he censors everything but words like the

739
00:42:37,600 --> 00:42:42,800
and and or he'll censor everything but the classified information and send it out.

740
00:42:42,800 --> 00:42:45,720
So that's hilarious.

741
00:42:45,720 --> 00:42:52,160
Yeah, it's insane.

742
00:42:52,160 --> 00:42:56,080
And it well, the war in Ukraine is heavily censored.

743
00:42:56,080 --> 00:42:57,080
Yeah.

744
00:42:57,080 --> 00:42:59,960
Russian news is censored.

745
00:42:59,960 --> 00:43:04,120
It's incredible, incredible the lengths that our government goes.

746
00:43:04,120 --> 00:43:09,360
Well, speaking about Russian news and this ties back to earlier in our episode.

747
00:43:09,360 --> 00:43:16,760
But I saw somebody posted about the train derailment in Ohio and the kind of the hellscape

748
00:43:16,760 --> 00:43:19,640
that that town now is.

749
00:43:19,640 --> 00:43:22,960
And complete with like pictures of this like dark looming cloud that was like hovering

750
00:43:22,960 --> 00:43:26,080
over the city and everything.

751
00:43:26,080 --> 00:43:31,640
And the comment was, I didn't hear anything about this in American news.

752
00:43:31,640 --> 00:43:36,880
And I stumbled across these images and story from the Russian news.

753
00:43:36,880 --> 00:43:39,240
Oh, yeah.

754
00:43:39,240 --> 00:43:43,640
So I mean, I can understand why Russia would want to say like, look how fucked up America

755
00:43:43,640 --> 00:43:44,640
is.

756
00:43:44,640 --> 00:43:45,640
Right.

757
00:43:45,640 --> 00:43:47,280
On one hand, right.

758
00:43:47,280 --> 00:43:51,400
But you wouldn't think I mean, because that's kind of the thing, right?

759
00:43:51,400 --> 00:43:55,560
Like if you break it first, you're somehow more believable than somebody who didn't break

760
00:43:55,560 --> 00:43:56,560
it.

761
00:43:56,560 --> 00:44:02,520
So why wouldn't the American media be like, hey, by the way, this happened, but you know.

762
00:44:02,520 --> 00:44:10,400
Now that every Russian news story I've seen over the last year is propaganda, but it's

763
00:44:10,400 --> 00:44:15,360
propaganda that is only telling the truth.

764
00:44:15,360 --> 00:44:21,680
And they the best kind of propaganda is when you can tell the truth about your opponent

765
00:44:21,680 --> 00:44:24,160
because your opponent is trying to hide the truth.

766
00:44:24,160 --> 00:44:25,160
Yeah.

767
00:44:25,160 --> 00:44:31,000
And the United States government and our corporations and our society is definitely trying to hide

768
00:44:31,000 --> 00:44:38,080
the truth of what's going on about anything that makes our society look bad.

769
00:44:38,080 --> 00:44:39,080
Yeah.

770
00:44:39,080 --> 00:44:42,920
They would rather have us focus on gender politics and all this nonsense.

771
00:44:42,920 --> 00:44:45,960
And Super Bowl halftime shows.

772
00:44:45,960 --> 00:44:49,440
I don't know anything about the Super Bowl halftime show, I'll be honest.

773
00:44:49,440 --> 00:44:50,440
You don't have to.

774
00:44:50,440 --> 00:44:51,720
I didn't even hear anything about it.

775
00:44:51,720 --> 00:44:53,040
No, I mean, nothing happened.

776
00:44:53,040 --> 00:44:56,000
Like it wasn't like the Justin Timberlake like nipple thing.

777
00:44:56,000 --> 00:44:57,440
Oh, sure.

778
00:44:57,440 --> 00:45:00,800
Nothing happened, but they want you to be jacked up about that shit.

779
00:45:00,800 --> 00:45:03,400
They don't want you to care about what's going on.

780
00:45:03,400 --> 00:45:06,760
And I know I sent you this link over text and I don't think we actually talked about

781
00:45:06,760 --> 00:45:12,320
it, but they want and there's proof, there's written proof that the politicians want a

782
00:45:12,320 --> 00:45:19,560
dumb population because remember the article I sent you about the origins of student loan

783
00:45:19,560 --> 00:45:22,160
debt and I did Reagan.

784
00:45:22,160 --> 00:45:23,920
You didn't read it.

785
00:45:23,920 --> 00:45:24,920
I did read it.

786
00:45:24,920 --> 00:45:25,920
Yes.

787
00:45:25,920 --> 00:45:26,920
Yeah.

788
00:45:26,920 --> 00:45:32,320
And I remember the answer when he was a governor of California or something and he said that

789
00:45:32,320 --> 00:45:36,200
they want to because most of the colleges were free or very, very affordable at that

790
00:45:36,200 --> 00:45:42,080
time and they wanted to raise the tuition price because they didn't want everybody to

791
00:45:42,080 --> 00:45:43,080
be educated.

792
00:45:43,080 --> 00:45:44,080
Right.

793
00:45:44,080 --> 00:45:52,480
And so one of them to be educated and I am convinced that the government and the corporations

794
00:45:52,480 --> 00:45:58,440
want the educated people to be in a modern slave position.

795
00:45:58,440 --> 00:45:59,440
Yeah.

796
00:45:59,440 --> 00:46:00,680
And indentured servitude.

797
00:46:00,680 --> 00:46:03,840
They want everybody to be beholden to debt.

798
00:46:03,840 --> 00:46:05,680
And absolutely.

799
00:46:05,680 --> 00:46:10,740
And so this goes a little bit further and maybe this is my personal conspiracy theory,

800
00:46:10,740 --> 00:46:19,700
but not only did they make colleges expensive, but in my grandpa's day, the only thing employers

801
00:46:19,700 --> 00:46:26,640
wanted was a high school diploma and so he enlisted in World War II and he was I think

802
00:46:26,640 --> 00:46:27,640
16.

803
00:46:27,640 --> 00:46:33,000
So he came back and got his GED afterwards so that he could be employed and he went on

804
00:46:33,000 --> 00:46:40,040
to be like a consultant and testifying in courts of law all over the place and was very

805
00:46:40,040 --> 00:46:45,360
well respected in his field with only a high school diploma, a GED.

806
00:46:45,360 --> 00:46:49,720
And now all the corporations want you to have a four-year degree because everybody wants

807
00:46:49,720 --> 00:46:55,320
you to be in debt, but the four-year degree is no better than a high school education

808
00:46:55,320 --> 00:46:57,200
in most cases.

809
00:46:57,200 --> 00:46:58,200
In most cases.

810
00:46:58,200 --> 00:47:03,400
I know there's certain industries and professions where yes, it helps, but I felt like my college

811
00:47:03,400 --> 00:47:05,120
was high school kind of 2.0.

812
00:47:05,120 --> 00:47:10,640
Like yeah, I could drink, but they weren't really teaching me anything.

813
00:47:10,640 --> 00:47:11,640
No.

814
00:47:11,640 --> 00:47:14,520
It is basically high school 2.0.

815
00:47:14,520 --> 00:47:15,840
Unless you go into something specific.

816
00:47:15,840 --> 00:47:17,560
Well, that's what I mean.

817
00:47:17,560 --> 00:47:18,560
Yeah.

818
00:47:18,560 --> 00:47:24,200
Trade school is more viable as an education perspective or from an education perspective.

819
00:47:24,200 --> 00:47:25,200
Yeah.

820
00:47:25,200 --> 00:47:29,760
Because at least they're teaching you specifics to a profession.

821
00:47:29,760 --> 00:47:33,840
So very interesting.

822
00:47:33,840 --> 00:47:34,840
I think that-

823
00:47:34,840 --> 00:47:37,520
It all kind of ties together, but go on.

824
00:47:37,520 --> 00:47:38,520
Yeah.

825
00:47:38,520 --> 00:47:44,480
Oh, I said I came to this conclusion not recently, but I've slowly come to it that I think that

826
00:47:44,480 --> 00:47:51,480
the push to get everybody into college and get everybody into debt is a version of population

827
00:47:51,480 --> 00:48:00,560
control as well because I'm sure you've noticed many people our age do not have children.

828
00:48:00,560 --> 00:48:05,320
They haven't been able to afford to have children and they probably never will have children

829
00:48:05,320 --> 00:48:06,320
now.

830
00:48:06,320 --> 00:48:07,320
Yeah.

831
00:48:07,320 --> 00:48:08,320
And look at the housing market.

832
00:48:08,320 --> 00:48:12,600
They want to keep that out of our generation's hands.

833
00:48:12,600 --> 00:48:15,600
Oh, yes.

834
00:48:15,600 --> 00:48:16,600
Because that's the other thing.

835
00:48:16,600 --> 00:48:21,240
I mean, population is one side of the same coin or whatever, but-

836
00:48:21,240 --> 00:48:25,320
Oh, yes.

837
00:48:25,320 --> 00:48:30,280
Having student debt and a house loan makes it extremely difficult to have a family.

838
00:48:30,280 --> 00:48:31,280
Yeah.

839
00:48:31,280 --> 00:48:32,280
Even more so.

840
00:48:32,280 --> 00:48:37,960
And what's funny is like the house loan is easier than rent.

841
00:48:37,960 --> 00:48:40,280
Oh, yeah.

842
00:48:40,280 --> 00:48:43,440
Absolutely speaking, because the house loan is the house loan and sure they can slap more

843
00:48:43,440 --> 00:48:48,920
taxes on you or hey, they cleaned up their front yard, but let's assess it higher.

844
00:48:48,920 --> 00:48:55,360
But when we were renting, every year our rent would go up and up and up, but we wouldn't

845
00:48:55,360 --> 00:48:56,560
get anything else out of it.

846
00:48:56,560 --> 00:48:59,920
Like we didn't have more equity out of it then or we didn't have...

847
00:48:59,920 --> 00:49:02,000
You still get charged a cleaning fee when you move out.

848
00:49:02,000 --> 00:49:03,000
All right.

849
00:49:03,000 --> 00:49:07,080
Now I know exactly what you mean.

850
00:49:07,080 --> 00:49:12,840
My house loan now is the same approximately as what I was paying for a one bedroom apartment

851
00:49:12,840 --> 00:49:13,840
in Minneapolis.

852
00:49:13,840 --> 00:49:14,840
Yeah.

853
00:49:14,840 --> 00:49:16,480
And ours is the same.

854
00:49:16,480 --> 00:49:22,360
We were paying for a two bedroom in Minneapolis, but that was five years ago.

855
00:49:22,360 --> 00:49:23,360
Right.

856
00:49:23,360 --> 00:49:25,280
Oh, mine was five years ago as well.

857
00:49:25,280 --> 00:49:26,280
Yeah, yeah.

858
00:49:26,280 --> 00:49:33,320
We got our house two, three years ago and right before the pandemic and everything and

859
00:49:33,320 --> 00:49:38,440
all the prices went through the roof and all the rent stuff happens and I can't even imagine

860
00:49:38,440 --> 00:49:40,280
like...

861
00:49:40,280 --> 00:49:41,280
And that's another thing.

862
00:49:41,280 --> 00:49:45,440
Nobody really followed up on that because I remember Biden was trying to push out the

863
00:49:45,440 --> 00:49:51,320
end date on the rent because wasn't he giving people like free rent or they...

864
00:49:51,320 --> 00:49:55,720
Not free rent, but they couldn't be evicted for not paying rent.

865
00:49:55,720 --> 00:50:00,640
But then there's got to be a huge swath of people that didn't pay rent, but now I don't

866
00:50:00,640 --> 00:50:01,640
know.

867
00:50:01,640 --> 00:50:03,720
Can they be evicted now or can they not be?

868
00:50:03,720 --> 00:50:06,640
They can be evicted and that was never covered by the news.

869
00:50:06,640 --> 00:50:07,640
How many people were evicted?

870
00:50:07,640 --> 00:50:10,680
How many people were always paying their rent?

871
00:50:10,680 --> 00:50:14,800
The story was all about, oh, these people don't have to pay their rent, but I never

872
00:50:14,800 --> 00:50:18,040
heard how many people weren't actually paying their rent.

873
00:50:18,040 --> 00:50:20,120
Yeah, nobody ever went into that.

874
00:50:20,120 --> 00:50:23,560
No, well, they didn't want to talk about it.

875
00:50:23,560 --> 00:50:26,640
Student loans are going to come back online here too shortly.

876
00:50:26,640 --> 00:50:27,640
Yeah.

877
00:50:27,640 --> 00:50:30,000
So, that'll be interesting.

878
00:50:30,000 --> 00:50:33,160
Yeah, I think...

879
00:50:33,160 --> 00:50:34,160
I don't know, man.

880
00:50:34,160 --> 00:50:35,160
I feel like...

881
00:50:35,160 --> 00:50:36,160
I don't know.

882
00:50:36,160 --> 00:50:37,640
I mean, it could be all calculated.

883
00:50:37,640 --> 00:50:43,360
I don't know, but I feel like all of this manipulation, right?

884
00:50:43,360 --> 00:50:45,080
If you don't have to pay rent, you don't have to pay loans.

885
00:50:45,080 --> 00:50:46,080
You do have to pay loans.

886
00:50:46,080 --> 00:50:47,720
You don't have to pay loans.

887
00:50:47,720 --> 00:50:49,180
Take on more loans.

888
00:50:49,180 --> 00:50:51,080
Don't take on loans, pay off loans.

889
00:50:51,080 --> 00:50:52,080
All of that stuff is...

890
00:50:52,080 --> 00:50:56,560
I don't know if it's all calculated to bring everybody to ruin or if they're really just

891
00:50:56,560 --> 00:51:02,760
trying to keep the majority of people constantly on the edge.

892
00:51:02,760 --> 00:51:07,940
How close can we get them to actually living in the gutters?

893
00:51:07,940 --> 00:51:09,260
I think that's it.

894
00:51:09,260 --> 00:51:11,480
It's about population control.

895
00:51:11,480 --> 00:51:17,600
They don't want people to think about their slavery.

896
00:51:17,600 --> 00:51:18,600
You know what I mean?

897
00:51:18,600 --> 00:51:19,600
They don't want it uprising.

898
00:51:19,600 --> 00:51:23,280
They don't want people rioting.

899
00:51:23,280 --> 00:51:27,280
Now here's the other thing that I heard and I don't think we've talked about this yet

900
00:51:27,280 --> 00:51:28,280
on the podcast.

901
00:51:28,280 --> 00:51:31,400
I don't know.

902
00:51:31,400 --> 00:51:36,680
There's more cigar that I can smoke is starting to unravel because of the cap.

903
00:51:36,680 --> 00:51:41,760
My cigar is about two-thirds of the way through.

904
00:51:41,760 --> 00:51:44,120
It's unraveling at the end I'm smoking.

905
00:51:44,120 --> 00:51:46,760
Yes, mine as well.

906
00:51:46,760 --> 00:51:49,440
It's unraveling basically totally.

907
00:51:49,440 --> 00:51:51,280
The flavor has pretty much...

908
00:51:51,280 --> 00:51:53,880
I'm just pumping on hot air right now.

909
00:51:53,880 --> 00:51:56,880
It's not good.

910
00:51:56,880 --> 00:52:00,880
Let's talk about this last thing real quick and then we'll wrap up.

911
00:52:00,880 --> 00:52:01,880
Absolutely.

912
00:52:01,880 --> 00:52:05,480
It's AI, the AI art.

913
00:52:05,480 --> 00:52:10,240
I know they released chat GPT or whatever it's called and people are having fun with

914
00:52:10,240 --> 00:52:11,240
that.

915
00:52:11,240 --> 00:52:18,840
The art one was driving people crazy because they were using artists' art to generate this

916
00:52:18,840 --> 00:52:22,440
AI art without the original artist's permission.

917
00:52:22,440 --> 00:52:30,640
But I read something interesting that somebody was saying that now the government, the private

918
00:52:30,640 --> 00:52:36,560
corporation slash government are now trying to take all of our hobbies away from us and

919
00:52:36,560 --> 00:52:40,180
say, look, look, you don't need to go and paint.

920
00:52:40,180 --> 00:52:41,560
You don't need to write a book.

921
00:52:41,560 --> 00:52:45,080
We can have AI do that for you so you can work harder.

922
00:52:45,080 --> 00:52:46,760
You can focus solely on work.

923
00:52:46,760 --> 00:52:49,200
You don't have to do these other pursuits.

924
00:52:49,200 --> 00:52:51,240
These other things will be made for you.

925
00:52:51,240 --> 00:52:59,000
It makes sense in the terms of the general output from Hollywood and other media.

926
00:52:59,000 --> 00:53:00,000
Not all of it.

927
00:53:00,000 --> 00:53:03,680
There's some really good media being put out but not by the big studios.

928
00:53:03,680 --> 00:53:06,120
I don't know.

929
00:53:06,120 --> 00:53:07,120
It's possible.

930
00:53:07,120 --> 00:53:08,120
It's possible.

931
00:53:08,120 --> 00:53:09,120
I don't know.

932
00:53:09,120 --> 00:53:10,120
It was interesting.

933
00:53:10,120 --> 00:53:11,120
I don't think that there's some master conspiracy.

934
00:53:11,120 --> 00:53:16,560
I think that there's coincidences that people in charge take advantage of when they can.

935
00:53:16,560 --> 00:53:17,560
They can.

936
00:53:17,560 --> 00:53:21,280
They know before we know and so they can spin it however they want to and spin it to their

937
00:53:21,280 --> 00:53:22,280
advantage.

938
00:53:22,280 --> 00:53:23,280
Oh, of course.

939
00:53:23,280 --> 00:53:24,280
You know?

940
00:53:24,280 --> 00:53:25,280
So what?

941
00:53:25,280 --> 00:53:29,240
Maybe all the infighting at Disney and Disney pumping out just crap is getting the next

942
00:53:29,240 --> 00:53:34,020
generation of media watchers used to crap so that they can just easily offload that

943
00:53:34,020 --> 00:53:40,680
to AI and have AI write the next Star Wars movie and nobody will be the wiser and then

944
00:53:40,680 --> 00:53:41,680
they don't have to pay anybody.

945
00:53:41,680 --> 00:53:42,680
Oh, sure.

946
00:53:42,680 --> 00:53:45,080
Everybody can go work at the theme park and pick up trash.

947
00:53:45,080 --> 00:53:52,720
I am partial to the idea that the Disney stuff especially is the company itself is doing

948
00:53:52,720 --> 00:53:57,600
it to save on PR costs or on advertisement costs.

949
00:53:57,600 --> 00:54:02,400
They don't need to advertise because people will freely talk about how crap it is and

950
00:54:02,400 --> 00:54:05,640
then other people go and watch it because they hear about how crap it is.

951
00:54:05,640 --> 00:54:08,800
They don't care if people like it or they care if people watch it.

952
00:54:08,800 --> 00:54:12,320
And as long as they're making a billion dollars on the movie, they don't care if you like

953
00:54:12,320 --> 00:54:13,540
it or hate it.

954
00:54:13,540 --> 00:54:14,800
It's irrelevant to them.

955
00:54:14,800 --> 00:54:19,040
Yeah, it's completely irrelevant.

956
00:54:19,040 --> 00:54:21,080
It just needs eyeballs, whether good or bad.

957
00:54:21,080 --> 00:54:22,560
It doesn't matter.

958
00:54:22,560 --> 00:54:28,680
And the focus of many companies now is short term gains.

959
00:54:28,680 --> 00:54:31,040
They don't care about what happens in 10 years.

960
00:54:31,040 --> 00:54:32,560
That's not their problem.

961
00:54:32,560 --> 00:54:35,760
That's they just kick the ball down the road.

962
00:54:35,760 --> 00:54:40,000
You know, they don't care at all what happens 10 years from now.

963
00:54:40,000 --> 00:54:45,200
They don't care if the company even exists because all they're doing is making money now.

964
00:54:45,200 --> 00:54:50,680
So it's a it's a dangerous strategy, but it's working.

965
00:54:50,680 --> 00:54:52,040
It's not like Disney's losing money.

966
00:54:52,040 --> 00:54:54,040
Warner Brothers isn't losing money.

967
00:54:54,040 --> 00:54:55,040
It's not not working.

968
00:54:55,040 --> 00:54:58,660
Yeah, they're they're making tons of money.

969
00:54:58,660 --> 00:55:00,880
Look at Velma that came out.

970
00:55:00,880 --> 00:55:01,940
Oh, God.

971
00:55:01,940 --> 00:55:04,200
People are talking so much trash about it.

972
00:55:04,200 --> 00:55:07,680
And I guarantee you that people are watching it because there's so much trash being talked

973
00:55:07,680 --> 00:55:09,720
about it to see if it's that bad.

974
00:55:09,720 --> 00:55:10,720
Yeah.

975
00:55:10,720 --> 00:55:14,000
You know, hate watching is becoming the new watching for stuff.

976
00:55:14,000 --> 00:55:18,640
Well, it's no need to make something good if you can make something that people hate.

977
00:55:18,640 --> 00:55:19,640
Yeah.

978
00:55:19,640 --> 00:55:22,680
And you know, that's kind of our whole culture now is like hate culture.

979
00:55:22,680 --> 00:55:27,840
You hate the opposing political side, even though there should be more than two sides.

980
00:55:27,840 --> 00:55:28,840
Right.

981
00:55:28,840 --> 00:55:29,840
But you hate the other person.

982
00:55:29,840 --> 00:55:30,840
You hate the other football team.

983
00:55:30,840 --> 00:55:32,560
You hate you know, you hate, hate, hate, hate, hate.

984
00:55:32,560 --> 00:55:33,560
So right.

985
00:55:33,560 --> 00:55:34,560
Yeah.

986
00:55:34,560 --> 00:55:37,000
You hate the other side, the quote unquote other political side, even though both sides

987
00:55:37,000 --> 00:55:39,440
are working together to hate each other.

988
00:55:39,440 --> 00:55:40,440
You know what I mean?

989
00:55:40,440 --> 00:55:47,040
It's like, yeah, it's all bullshit when it comes to a vote to pass a huge bill that puts

990
00:55:47,040 --> 00:55:50,760
the government even more into debt so that the military can expand.

991
00:55:50,760 --> 00:55:52,520
It gets 100 votes in the Senate.

992
00:55:52,520 --> 00:55:53,520
Yeah.

993
00:55:53,520 --> 00:55:55,480
It's not like they're voting differently when it matters.

994
00:55:55,480 --> 00:55:57,640
No, not at all.

995
00:55:57,640 --> 00:56:03,520
So they just you know, Marjorie Taylor Green is the the psycho pretty lady from the Republicans

996
00:56:03,520 --> 00:56:06,320
and AOC is the psycho pretty lady from the Democrats.

997
00:56:06,320 --> 00:56:16,920
And they can banter about nonsense that has no it doesn't affect anybody.

998
00:56:16,920 --> 00:56:20,040
So people just they want to focus on it.

999
00:56:20,040 --> 00:56:21,560
But what affects me is this cigar.

1000
00:56:21,560 --> 00:56:27,480
And I just put it out because it was unwrapping and falling apart in my hands.

1001
00:56:27,480 --> 00:56:28,480
Mine's unwrapping.

1002
00:56:28,480 --> 00:56:30,000
I can still smoke mine.

1003
00:56:30,000 --> 00:56:31,000
Yeah.

1004
00:56:31,000 --> 00:56:32,560
But it doesn't taste like anything anymore.

1005
00:56:32,560 --> 00:56:33,560
No, no.

1006
00:56:33,560 --> 00:56:35,720
It has no flavor whatsoever.

1007
00:56:35,720 --> 00:56:38,680
So I think that's probably it for this episode.

1008
00:56:38,680 --> 00:56:39,680
I don't know.

1009
00:56:39,680 --> 00:56:40,680
I don't know.

1010
00:56:40,680 --> 00:56:41,680
Would you recommend this one, Mike?

1011
00:56:41,680 --> 00:56:42,680
No.

1012
00:56:42,680 --> 00:56:45,560
Yeah, probably not recommended for the price you can get.

1013
00:56:45,560 --> 00:56:48,280
It was like for a good chunk.

1014
00:56:48,280 --> 00:56:53,400
But the cap issue and the unraveling just not I don't think it's worth it.

1015
00:56:53,400 --> 00:56:56,960
Well, you can get like a factory second from Alec Bradley.

1016
00:56:56,960 --> 00:56:59,280
That's going to be way better for the same price.

1017
00:56:59,280 --> 00:57:00,680
You know, sure.

1018
00:57:00,680 --> 00:57:03,640
There's so many cigars in that price range.

1019
00:57:03,640 --> 00:57:06,800
Yeah, let's say five dollars a stick.

1020
00:57:06,800 --> 00:57:09,280
There's so many better cigars that you can get reliably.

1021
00:57:09,280 --> 00:57:10,280
Yeah.

1022
00:57:10,280 --> 00:57:11,280
So it's not bad.

1023
00:57:11,280 --> 00:57:12,280
No, it's terrible.

1024
00:57:12,280 --> 00:57:13,280
It's not terrible.

1025
00:57:13,280 --> 00:57:15,560
It's just not decent.

1026
00:57:15,560 --> 00:57:16,560
The cap issue.

1027
00:57:16,560 --> 00:57:22,040
I think if the cap wouldn't have been an issue for both of us and maybe it was a bad batch

1028
00:57:22,040 --> 00:57:23,040
or bad box.

1029
00:57:23,040 --> 00:57:25,680
Because I think I think we got them from the same.

1030
00:57:25,680 --> 00:57:26,680
Yes.

1031
00:57:26,680 --> 00:57:27,680
Oh, yeah.

1032
00:57:27,680 --> 00:57:28,680
Order.

1033
00:57:28,680 --> 00:57:30,080
So yeah, hopefully it was just just that.

1034
00:57:30,080 --> 00:57:34,760
But if it's kind of a rampant thing, then definitely not worth it.

1035
00:57:34,760 --> 00:57:35,760
Right.

1036
00:57:35,760 --> 00:57:36,760
So.

1037
00:57:36,760 --> 00:57:37,760
All right.

1038
00:57:37,760 --> 00:57:41,880
Well, we're going to be back next next episode with another five Vegas cigars.

1039
00:57:41,880 --> 00:57:43,640
So join us then.

1040
00:57:43,640 --> 00:58:00,600
Stay positive, people.