WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.019 You are listening to Two Douchebags in Microphone, 00:00:04.080 --> 00:00:10.720 alternate universe edition. The alternate douchebags 00:00:10.720 --> 00:00:14.400 pledge. Turn up the show and scream obscenities 00:00:14.400 --> 00:00:17.260 while flapping your arms like a chicken. That's 00:00:17.260 --> 00:00:20.960 it. We keep it simple in this universe. Three, 00:00:20.960 --> 00:00:30.879 two, one, and go. Two douchebags and a microphone? 00:00:31.160 --> 00:00:33.679 We don't stand behind our journalistic integrity. 00:00:34.200 --> 00:00:37.780 Go ahead and assume we got the story wrong. At 00:00:37.780 --> 00:00:40.859 least we admit it. Not like all those other guys, 00:00:41.039 --> 00:00:43.740 we can and will lie if it makes the story better. 00:00:45.340 --> 00:00:57.219 Two douchebags and a microphone? Hey everybody, 00:00:57.479 --> 00:01:00.329 this is Uncle Rob. I'm going to give you some 00:01:00.329 --> 00:01:04.689 tips for life. When you want to save a park bench, 00:01:04.930 --> 00:01:08.090 but you have to come back to it, just carry it 00:01:08.090 --> 00:01:11.469 with you inside. And bam, you'll have the bench 00:01:11.469 --> 00:01:17.650 all year, so when you get back... This is Joshua 00:01:17.650 --> 00:01:19.950 Belmont, your food for thought man on The Hustle. 00:01:20.409 --> 00:01:22.790 So I just realized a genius that gets absolutely 00:01:22.790 --> 00:01:26.230 no credit. His name is Marshall Taylor. he is 00:01:26.230 --> 00:01:28.310 credited with the first bag of salad makes that 00:01:28.310 --> 00:01:31.489 was bagged and sold yesterday was his birthday 00:01:31.489 --> 00:01:35.409 i believe he is still alive this guy's genius 00:01:35.409 --> 00:01:38.390 will never be fully appreciated before this ban 00:01:38.390 --> 00:01:41.090 we settled for iceberg lettuce with maybe a couple 00:01:41.090 --> 00:01:44.250 of croutons and some cheese was mr taylor satisfied 00:01:44.250 --> 00:01:48.069 with that hell no He realized that Billy Americana 00:01:48.069 --> 00:01:50.049 would never go out and buy a couple of radishes, 00:01:50.230 --> 00:01:52.489 a couple of carrots, a head of purple cabbage, 00:01:52.670 --> 00:01:55.310 maybe snow peas and possibly some cute romaine 00:01:55.310 --> 00:01:59.189 bladders for extra bougie. Mr. Taylor, you should 00:01:59.189 --> 00:02:03.730 have a national holiday. Next up, Things Overheard 00:02:03.730 --> 00:02:08.030 in Hell. The brand new Charles in Charge reboot 00:02:08.030 --> 00:02:13.599 is the only show available all week. And now 00:02:13.599 --> 00:02:16.180 we look in on the adventures of the technical 00:02:16.180 --> 00:02:19.919 explanation guy. Excuse me, sir. Could you please 00:02:19.919 --> 00:02:22.319 be a good gentleman and pass the malt acetic 00:02:22.319 --> 00:02:26.080 acid my way? Do you mean the malt vinegar? Why, 00:02:26.099 --> 00:02:29.199 yes. Yes, I do mean the malt vinegar. Then just 00:02:29.199 --> 00:02:32.590 say the malt vinegar, you dumb buck. All right, 00:02:32.689 --> 00:02:35.009 no sports bastards, because quite frankly, if 00:02:35.009 --> 00:02:37.150 the NFL isn't involved, we don't fucking care. 00:02:37.270 --> 00:02:39.449 Yeah, and there's not much really going on at 00:02:39.449 --> 00:02:41.530 this point. Yeah, don't tell me about the Olympics. 00:02:42.150 --> 00:02:45.569 Yeah, yeah. No, they're carrying on like... They're 00:02:45.569 --> 00:02:48.129 so segregated now, they're carried on like 500 00:02:48.129 --> 00:02:51.030 different channels. Yeah, yeah. People don't 00:02:51.030 --> 00:02:52.669 have that attention span. They need to know that. 00:02:52.909 --> 00:02:56.030 Yeah, yeah. It's like, that's when you realize, 00:02:56.330 --> 00:02:59.889 was it NBC this year? Yeah. That's when you realize 00:02:59.889 --> 00:03:03.050 which channels belong to NBC. Yeah, because they're 00:03:03.050 --> 00:03:05.689 all on their other channels. Yes. Yeah, like 00:03:05.689 --> 00:03:10.449 something stupid like, I don't know, Checkers 00:03:10.449 --> 00:03:13.900 with one IP. Yeah. And, you know, that'll be 00:03:13.900 --> 00:03:18.780 on NBC's worst performing station. Yeah. And 00:03:18.780 --> 00:03:21.259 don't forget, in two years, there's going to 00:03:21.259 --> 00:03:25.139 be flag football in the Olympics. Yay! Oh, my 00:03:25.139 --> 00:03:29.680 gosh. I am just standing here waiting. Hey, if 00:03:29.680 --> 00:03:31.879 it's good enough for grade school kids, I guess 00:03:31.879 --> 00:03:33.479 it's good enough for us to watch. It's good enough 00:03:33.479 --> 00:03:37.259 for the NFL? Yeah. So, all right. And what's 00:03:37.259 --> 00:03:39.340 even worse is there are going to be people lining 00:03:39.340 --> 00:03:43.800 up to gamble on it. I mean, what does that say 00:03:43.800 --> 00:03:45.599 about your life when you're betting on Olympic 00:03:45.599 --> 00:03:48.060 flag football? Okay, you're betting on football, 00:03:48.199 --> 00:03:50.400 okay? And someone sees a gambling line, right? 00:03:50.539 --> 00:03:52.599 Uh -huh. Okay, they don't say anything. Their 00:03:52.599 --> 00:03:54.500 buddy has some money on a certain way or not. 00:03:54.599 --> 00:03:57.159 He just accidentally misses the flag when he 00:03:57.159 --> 00:03:59.560 reaches out. Oh, gosh. What an error. Oh, man. 00:04:00.159 --> 00:04:03.439 My buddy just won 50 grand. Oh. Oh, what a shame. 00:04:03.599 --> 00:04:06.219 Yeah, damn. Too bad he's going to come over later. 00:04:06.300 --> 00:04:10.949 Yeah. Give me my cut. Yeah. So... is you oh thank 00:04:10.949 --> 00:04:15.409 you um okay we are the two douchebags in microphone 00:04:15.409 --> 00:04:18.569 this is the alternate universe edition yes i 00:04:18.569 --> 00:04:21.149 like the alternate universe yep or back in time 00:04:21.149 --> 00:04:24.629 even yeah yeah we could be hey have a back in 00:04:24.629 --> 00:04:26.949 time and an alternate universe just like the 00:04:26.949 --> 00:04:30.170 watchman that's right okay yeah that was like 00:04:30.170 --> 00:04:33.910 said in the 1988 alternate universe there was 00:04:33.910 --> 00:04:37.040 a hawk Just flew through here. Did you see that 00:04:37.040 --> 00:04:38.939 guy? I saw a big bird. I didn't realize it was 00:04:38.939 --> 00:04:43.699 a hawk. Yes. Yikes. He's after something. I wonder 00:04:43.699 --> 00:04:45.819 if they kill pigeons maybe or something. I wouldn't 00:04:45.819 --> 00:04:47.720 be surprised. Hey, he's probably looking for 00:04:47.720 --> 00:04:50.060 a little pigeon food. Here he comes again. Oh, 00:04:50.319 --> 00:04:51.980 no, that's a pigeon. That one. That one's a pigeon. 00:04:52.120 --> 00:04:54.680 Yeah, the other one was a hawk. Yeah. Oh, well. 00:04:55.980 --> 00:05:00.199 So back in time, alternate universe. Okay, yes. 00:05:00.279 --> 00:05:03.920 This is where we're at. Topher, how about if 00:05:03.920 --> 00:05:05.920 I hand this over to you? Because here in a little 00:05:05.920 --> 00:05:08.699 bit, I got a segment about Valentine's Day that 00:05:08.699 --> 00:05:12.439 just happened a few days ago. Anti -Valentine's 00:05:12.439 --> 00:05:15.740 week follows. Needs a whole week. Yeah, it needs 00:05:15.740 --> 00:05:17.899 a whole week. Yeah. But we'll go to you first. 00:05:18.060 --> 00:05:21.740 All righty. I have been learning some stuff about 00:05:21.740 --> 00:05:25.339 Harley Davidson and how they seem to be intent 00:05:25.339 --> 00:05:27.720 on destroying their own brand and business for 00:05:27.720 --> 00:05:33.660 some reason. Yep. Yep. In a nutshell, Harley 00:05:33.660 --> 00:05:37.480 is trying to position itself as a luxury brand, 00:05:37.600 --> 00:05:39.560 the kind of thing you buy when you've made it. 00:05:41.379 --> 00:05:43.660 Except the thing is, you can't run an entire 00:05:43.660 --> 00:05:47.519 motorcycle company on just selling a few bikes 00:05:47.519 --> 00:05:50.899 to rich snobs. But they seem to think they can. 00:05:52.459 --> 00:05:57.240 They had... A CEO between 2021 and 2025 named 00:05:57.240 --> 00:05:59.660 Jochen Seitz. Oh, our food's here. Thank you. 00:06:00.459 --> 00:06:04.220 Look at the chow. Oh, that looks beautiful. Oh, 00:06:04.220 --> 00:06:10.959 wow. Thank you. Take a little pause here while 00:06:10.959 --> 00:06:14.759 the food shows up. Yes. Enjoy, guys. Thank you. 00:06:14.860 --> 00:06:19.500 Good thing it's a podcast, right? Where was I? 00:06:19.600 --> 00:06:21.980 Okay, so he had this thing. He called it the 00:06:21.980 --> 00:06:25.279 Hardwire Plan. Basically, he wanted to strengthen 00:06:25.279 --> 00:06:28.019 the core models, which, according to Harley, 00:06:28.160 --> 00:06:30.240 they're core models of the large cruisers, the 00:06:30.240 --> 00:06:34.639 touring bikes, and the trikes. He also wanted 00:06:34.639 --> 00:06:39.319 to become more of a premium brand overall. Horn 00:06:39.319 --> 00:06:43.540 kits started selling for $150 for a horn kit 00:06:43.540 --> 00:06:51.060 for your Harley. That's crazy. They also intentionally 00:06:51.060 --> 00:06:55.959 said, we are prioritizing profits over volume. 00:06:57.000 --> 00:07:00.379 So they want to sell fewer and fewer bikes, but 00:07:00.379 --> 00:07:02.939 for more and more money. Wow. They want high 00:07:02.939 --> 00:07:05.879 profit margin bikes, which means mass produced 00:07:05.879 --> 00:07:11.899 and similar technologies. So that's going to 00:07:11.899 --> 00:07:14.560 give them a high profit margin. Yet, they said, 00:07:14.600 --> 00:07:17.079 we want to be a luxury brand and not sell so 00:07:17.079 --> 00:07:19.240 many. So how are you going to mass produce a 00:07:19.240 --> 00:07:20.980 bike that you're not going to sell too many of? 00:07:22.120 --> 00:07:25.639 It just doesn't make any sense. It's like they 00:07:25.639 --> 00:07:29.420 think selling enough bikes to rich snobs who 00:07:29.420 --> 00:07:31.720 will just put them in their man cave and ten 00:07:31.720 --> 00:07:33.500 years from now that bike will still have four 00:07:33.500 --> 00:07:36.300 miles on the odometer. That's what they're thinking 00:07:36.300 --> 00:07:39.139 of, except that doesn't support it. That'll support 00:07:39.139 --> 00:07:42.019 like a single custom builder who can build a 00:07:42.019 --> 00:07:45.000 bike in like six months and sell it. Harley cannot 00:07:45.000 --> 00:07:47.519 live on that, but they seem to think they can. 00:07:49.180 --> 00:07:52.779 They went big into electric motorcycles, green 00:07:52.779 --> 00:07:57.060 policies and sustainability. They spun off their 00:07:57.060 --> 00:07:59.839 electric motorcycles into a company called Livewire. 00:08:00.040 --> 00:08:03.759 Oh, yeah. Zero entry -level bikes in Livewire. 00:08:03.879 --> 00:08:06.459 All of them were expensive. So it's like, no, 00:08:06.519 --> 00:08:08.740 people want something entry -level to get into 00:08:08.740 --> 00:08:11.480 it, see if they like it. Everything was expensive. 00:08:13.739 --> 00:08:15.839 Livewire has since been shut down. All it did 00:08:15.839 --> 00:08:21.399 was lose money. The riders also saw the brand 00:08:21.399 --> 00:08:25.120 ditching its heritage and focusing on EVs and 00:08:25.120 --> 00:08:29.439 bikes for rich dudes. New riders, young riders, 00:08:29.639 --> 00:08:32.139 young riders are considered anyone under 40, 00:08:32.279 --> 00:08:36.120 and lifelong riders felt Harley -Davidson was 00:08:36.120 --> 00:08:38.539 ignoring them and actively didn't want their 00:08:38.539 --> 00:08:41.899 money. They're not designing any products for 00:08:41.899 --> 00:08:45.480 their... core market which is you know your blue 00:08:45.480 --> 00:08:49.120 collar guy or gal or your military personnel 00:08:49.120 --> 00:08:53.120 who has enough you know expendable cash that 00:08:53.120 --> 00:08:54.980 they can buy a motorcycle something they can 00:08:54.980 --> 00:08:58.860 ride a lot and often and work on themselves harley 00:08:58.860 --> 00:09:01.639 doesn't make a bike like that anymore their bikes 00:09:01.639 --> 00:09:03.419 are coming out with more and more electronic 00:09:03.419 --> 00:09:07.740 gadgets and touch screens and displays and pretty 00:09:07.740 --> 00:09:09.980 much if you want to work on your harley anymore 00:09:09.980 --> 00:09:13.690 you need a laptop and all the cables that connect 00:09:13.690 --> 00:09:17.230 up, and the software that Harley won't sell to 00:09:17.230 --> 00:09:21.389 anybody but a dealer. Wow. So the age of you 00:09:21.389 --> 00:09:24.389 parking your Harley under something and just 00:09:24.389 --> 00:09:26.950 working on it yourself, they're actively trying 00:09:26.950 --> 00:09:30.509 to kill that off. That's their core market. What 00:09:30.509 --> 00:09:34.929 is Harley thinking of? Yep. But that's basically 00:09:34.929 --> 00:09:36.990 two -thirds of their market. They're being ignored. 00:09:37.110 --> 00:09:39.389 They want smaller and cheaper bikes. They want 00:09:39.389 --> 00:09:42.129 smaller displacement bikes. Yep. For teenagers, 00:09:42.490 --> 00:09:47.250 that kind of thing. Harley said, nope. Just didn't 00:09:47.250 --> 00:09:50.190 want to do any of that. Their stock prices fell. 00:09:50.710 --> 00:09:54.370 Dealerships started closing. Example, that one 00:09:54.370 --> 00:09:58.850 out on I -70 towards Blue Springs. First they 00:09:58.850 --> 00:10:01.309 stopped stocking motorcycles, and all they had 00:10:01.309 --> 00:10:03.850 was the merch. You could order a bike there. 00:10:04.169 --> 00:10:09.080 Now it's closed. It's gone. Wow. In South Kansas 00:10:09.080 --> 00:10:11.580 City, we had Gail's Harley Davidson that was 00:10:11.580 --> 00:10:14.299 huge for a while. Big multi -story building, 00:10:14.600 --> 00:10:18.460 big lot they're on. Now, a few years ago, she 00:10:18.460 --> 00:10:21.259 quote -unquote retired. I remember that. Yeah. 00:10:21.340 --> 00:10:23.139 She didn't retire. She went out of business. 00:10:24.519 --> 00:10:27.759 She spun it as a retirement because that sounds 00:10:27.759 --> 00:10:30.700 better. But the fact is, no one bought that business. 00:10:31.039 --> 00:10:33.539 If it was making money, somebody would have bought 00:10:33.539 --> 00:10:36.340 that business and kept it going. Well, she did 00:10:36.340 --> 00:10:40.019 all the promotions and everything, too. It was 00:10:40.019 --> 00:10:45.080 like 101 to Fox Studios and all that. She spent 00:10:45.080 --> 00:10:47.679 quite a bit of money working on her brand. Yep. 00:10:47.860 --> 00:10:51.019 But, you know, Harley started doing things like 00:10:51.019 --> 00:10:53.000 that. Yeah. So it didn't matter how much she 00:10:53.000 --> 00:10:55.320 worked on her brand. Exactly. She was being stabbed 00:10:55.320 --> 00:10:58.820 in the back by corporate. Harley started this 00:10:58.820 --> 00:11:02.529 by... Harley has a history of this, number one. 00:11:02.690 --> 00:11:05.669 They went to Canada in the 80s. Everybody knew 00:11:05.669 --> 00:11:07.309 it. And they're like, okay, we're going to go 00:11:07.309 --> 00:11:09.470 to India or something like that, right? Okay, 00:11:09.710 --> 00:11:12.429 so everyone went to Triumph or whatever. They 00:11:12.429 --> 00:11:14.190 got away from them. So they're like, we better 00:11:14.190 --> 00:11:16.429 bring it back to America. Because they did that, 00:11:16.490 --> 00:11:18.649 people eventually forgot. It became a big thing 00:11:18.649 --> 00:11:21.350 again. Then they started going, well, we need 00:11:21.350 --> 00:11:23.149 to make them a little bit different and raise 00:11:23.149 --> 00:11:25.649 the price because we want lawyers to buy them. 00:11:25.710 --> 00:11:27.870 We don't want the ham and egg or working at the 00:11:27.870 --> 00:11:31.389 factory. Hedgeman managers. Yes. The board members. 00:11:31.850 --> 00:11:35.450 Yeah. And then now that that isn't a thing, now 00:11:35.450 --> 00:11:38.269 they have razors and slingshots and stuff like 00:11:38.269 --> 00:11:40.049 that that they can buy. Yeah. All of a sudden, 00:11:40.070 --> 00:11:43.350 Harley's getting left. Yeah. And Harley has now 00:11:43.350 --> 00:11:45.570 this new business model where they want to sell 00:11:45.570 --> 00:11:49.269 10 of them at a million dollars instead of 100 00:11:49.269 --> 00:11:54.490 of them at $2 ,000. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's... 00:11:58.980 --> 00:12:02.860 If Gail's Harley -Davidson, if Gail could have, 00:12:03.100 --> 00:12:05.559 she would have sold that business, or at least 00:12:05.559 --> 00:12:08.899 the building, the property, something. But it 00:12:08.899 --> 00:12:11.740 sits there vacant and rotting for all these years. 00:12:11.940 --> 00:12:15.139 Not a single thing done with it because there 00:12:15.139 --> 00:12:18.200 is no market anymore. As you said, she did everything 00:12:18.200 --> 00:12:22.440 good, but... No, she was everywhere. I mean, 00:12:22.539 --> 00:12:27.299 you heard her product everywhere. Well, in 2025, 00:12:27.539 --> 00:12:32.320 they dumped Jochen Zeitz, and they hired a new 00:12:32.320 --> 00:12:36.700 guy, Arthur Stars. What they're doing recently 00:12:36.700 --> 00:12:41.539 is reviving older models and calling it the Icon 00:12:41.539 --> 00:12:46.320 Series. So like the old pan heads or shovel heads 00:12:46.320 --> 00:12:50.480 or a soft tail or the Electra Glide or whatever. 00:12:50.820 --> 00:12:52.879 So they're bringing those back? They're bringing 00:12:52.879 --> 00:12:56.379 them back in limited numbers. They are making 00:12:56.379 --> 00:12:59.440 only enough changes to the design to bring them 00:12:59.440 --> 00:13:02.759 up to current legal requirements. But all of 00:13:02.759 --> 00:13:05.200 the flaws the bike designs originally had, they're 00:13:05.200 --> 00:13:08.019 leaving those in. They're not fixing them. So 00:13:08.019 --> 00:13:10.460 if it leaked oil around the head gasket that 00:13:10.460 --> 00:13:13.379 way back when, it's going to do it now too. But 00:13:13.379 --> 00:13:16.399 they're making them in limited runs to artificially 00:13:16.399 --> 00:13:20.399 hype up scarcity. And then they're pressuring 00:13:20.399 --> 00:13:22.279 people like, oh, these are only available for 00:13:22.279 --> 00:13:24.820 limited time to try to give you a sense of urgency. 00:13:25.320 --> 00:13:28.899 And they are far more expensive than the regular 00:13:28.899 --> 00:13:31.639 line of bikes. Yeah, I forgot which model it 00:13:31.639 --> 00:13:33.740 was, but you said like the head gasket with leaking 00:13:33.740 --> 00:13:36.299 oil. Uh -huh. Okay. I remember that because it 00:13:36.299 --> 00:13:38.120 used to be a going gag if you really wanted to 00:13:38.120 --> 00:13:42.059 fuck with someone. You take oil and put it underneath 00:13:42.059 --> 00:13:45.379 their bike when they're somewhere parked. Yes. 00:13:45.379 --> 00:13:48.080 And they come out, ugh. Oh, my God. I'm leaking 00:13:48.080 --> 00:13:51.659 somewhere. Yeah. A mean, mean trick, but funny. 00:13:53.120 --> 00:13:56.620 Anyhow, go ahead. But basically, these Icon series, 00:13:57.019 --> 00:14:01.200 they're not selling well because the general 00:14:01.200 --> 00:14:05.039 attitude is this is yesterday's technology at 00:14:05.039 --> 00:14:07.659 today's prices. What the hell are you doing? 00:14:08.519 --> 00:14:11.399 I wouldn't buy one if I had the money, you know, 00:14:11.399 --> 00:14:17.740 just to toss around. No. Uh -uh. As of seven 00:14:17.740 --> 00:14:20.899 months ago, the Grey Ghost model, which is a 00:14:20.899 --> 00:14:26.500 fairly popular model, $25 ,000 to start. Yeah, 00:14:26.580 --> 00:14:29.080 okay. And then if you want any kind of options 00:14:29.080 --> 00:14:33.200 or anything put on. $25 ,000, I go buy my Bronco 00:14:33.200 --> 00:14:36.559 that I want. You know, I'm not buying that. But 00:14:36.559 --> 00:14:39.659 now Harley is trying to figure out, okay, we're 00:14:39.659 --> 00:14:43.159 not selling as many. We're kind of pricing people 00:14:43.159 --> 00:14:45.860 out. So, hey, we can either bring down the price. 00:14:46.320 --> 00:14:48.940 Well, no, we don't want to do that. Let's jack 00:14:48.940 --> 00:14:51.620 with the financing. So that's what they're doing. 00:14:51.620 --> 00:14:56.100 They're offering 1 .49 % on seven to eight year 00:14:56.100 --> 00:15:00.740 loans. And then you go into the dealership and 00:15:00.740 --> 00:15:03.779 you find out that 1 .49%, that's just the name 00:15:03.779 --> 00:15:08.100 of the loan. It's not really the rate. Now, if 00:15:08.100 --> 00:15:12.039 you've got like a 900 credit score and enough 00:15:12.039 --> 00:15:15.090 money to buy the bike outright, then you would 00:15:15.090 --> 00:15:17.789 probably qualify for the 1 .49%. Everyone else 00:15:17.789 --> 00:15:21.909 is getting 6 % and 7%. Yeah. But it's just to 00:15:21.909 --> 00:15:24.029 hook you and get you in the door, and then they'll 00:15:24.029 --> 00:15:26.370 work on you. Okay, we're sorry, but there's a 00:15:26.370 --> 00:15:28.690 couple of blemishes on your credit score. We 00:15:28.690 --> 00:15:35.330 tried. Yeah. The Harley CVO is the latest engine 00:15:35.330 --> 00:15:42.809 and model. They start around $40 ,000 and up. 00:15:42.940 --> 00:15:45.779 to like 51 grand and then if you put all the 00:15:45.779 --> 00:15:49.080 options on it's about 57 grand now what they 00:15:49.080 --> 00:15:52.100 don't tell you is they also add closing costs 00:15:52.100 --> 00:15:57.000 there's dealership fees prep fees so like a loan 00:15:57.000 --> 00:16:01.019 yeah uh uh let's see oh they they push you for 00:16:01.019 --> 00:16:03.220 the lifetime membership and harley owners group 00:16:03.220 --> 00:16:07.039 also yeah yes typical closing costs on a on a 00:16:07.039 --> 00:16:12.049 bike of that price 10 grand extra which you can 00:16:12.049 --> 00:16:15.029 fold into the loan and pay interest on for the 00:16:15.029 --> 00:16:19.169 next 70 years. And the funny thing is, when they 00:16:19.169 --> 00:16:21.690 say that, people are relieved. Oh, you're just 00:16:21.690 --> 00:16:24.450 going to put in the payment? Oh, thank God. It's 00:16:24.450 --> 00:16:25.929 like, wait a minute. They're going to charge 00:16:25.929 --> 00:16:27.850 you 7 % interest on that. Isn't there another 00:16:27.850 --> 00:16:31.009 way to do it? Yeah, really. But everything that 00:16:31.009 --> 00:16:34.070 they can put on the loan, the loan company gives 00:16:34.070 --> 00:16:40.620 them to kick back on. Not legal, but... But Harley 00:16:40.620 --> 00:16:44.019 is basically priced out the daily rider. If you're 00:16:44.019 --> 00:16:46.519 going to buy a Harley, it's a showpiece for occasional 00:16:46.519 --> 00:16:51.080 use, kind of like a toy, like a speedboat. Occasionally 00:16:51.080 --> 00:16:55.340 you go out and use it. The daily rider, you just 00:16:55.340 --> 00:16:58.500 can't afford a Harley. The very cheapest Harley 00:16:58.500 --> 00:17:00.460 I could find on their website was called the 00:17:00.460 --> 00:17:04.740 Nightster. Uh -huh. Odd name. It is. It's... 00:17:04.990 --> 00:17:07.750 Bare bones, smaller displacement engine. I think 00:17:07.750 --> 00:17:13.190 it's the 883cc. And it's got a seat for the driver 00:17:13.190 --> 00:17:16.829 and barely enough room for a 10 -year -old to 00:17:16.829 --> 00:17:21.190 sit behind. Stripped down, very basic, still 00:17:21.190 --> 00:17:24.829 10 grand. Shit. Yeah. That's the cheapest bike 00:17:24.829 --> 00:17:31.190 they offer. Wow. Yeah. So now the older Harleys 00:17:31.190 --> 00:17:34.640 are starting to get rare. People are hanging 00:17:34.640 --> 00:17:39.720 on to them. The newer bikes are too expensive. 00:17:40.140 --> 00:17:44.779 Uh -huh. So the new riders, and even the seasoned, 00:17:44.839 --> 00:17:48.700 long -time Harley enthusiasts, they're switching 00:17:48.700 --> 00:17:50.799 up to other brands. I don't blame them. Specifically, 00:17:50.880 --> 00:17:53.579 Indian and Kawasaki are really leading the charge. 00:17:53.579 --> 00:17:55.599 Yeah, Kawasaki's got a great product. They really 00:17:55.599 --> 00:17:58.099 do. They have nice bikes. So, yeah, why wouldn't 00:17:58.099 --> 00:18:02.220 you? Yeah. No, they, Harley -Davidson's had a 00:18:02.220 --> 00:18:06.500 history. shooting itself in the foot and they're 00:18:06.500 --> 00:18:12.640 not stopping. They keep going. This guy did an 00:18:12.640 --> 00:18:18.019 extra dive into the state of Texas and he was 00:18:18.019 --> 00:18:21.819 talking with a lot of Harley riders and owners 00:18:21.819 --> 00:18:25.759 groups and various others and this specifically 00:18:25.759 --> 00:18:28.359 was about the dealerships in the state of Texas. 00:18:30.589 --> 00:18:33.990 Overall perceptions from the customers is when 00:18:33.990 --> 00:18:38.230 you walk in, they act like you should feel lucky 00:18:38.230 --> 00:18:39.789 that they're going to sell you a motorcycle. 00:18:39.809 --> 00:18:43.849 You should be grateful. Now, unless you drive 00:18:43.849 --> 00:18:49.809 up in a brand new Ford F -250, then they see 00:18:49.809 --> 00:18:52.809 you got money and they fawn all over you. But 00:18:52.809 --> 00:18:55.430 one guy said, you know, I work on an oil rig. 00:18:56.430 --> 00:19:00.730 So I get paid to buttload. And I just spent however 00:19:00.730 --> 00:19:04.250 many weeks out there on the rig. Came in with 00:19:04.250 --> 00:19:06.769 a lot of money ready to buy a Harley. They looked 00:19:06.769 --> 00:19:08.970 at my clothes and the oil under my fingernails 00:19:08.970 --> 00:19:12.210 and they wouldn't even talk to me. Yep. It froze 00:19:12.210 --> 00:19:15.869 them right out. Well, I have a great example 00:19:15.869 --> 00:19:18.529 of that. When the Nissan Frontier came out many 00:19:18.529 --> 00:19:22.190 years ago in the 90s, I saved up money specifically 00:19:22.190 --> 00:19:25.970 to buy a car interest -free. I was single at 00:19:25.970 --> 00:19:27.789 the time. I was working for the union. I was 00:19:27.789 --> 00:19:29.789 making good money, so I was able to do it. I'm 00:19:29.789 --> 00:19:34.170 like, hell yeah. So I go into there, and I thought 00:19:34.170 --> 00:19:36.390 as soon as I said the word cash, people would 00:19:36.390 --> 00:19:39.410 be jumping everywhere. Yeah. As soon as I said 00:19:39.410 --> 00:19:43.829 cash, everybody ran off. And one guy came up 00:19:43.829 --> 00:19:45.529 and he goes, I don't know if you know this, but 00:19:45.529 --> 00:19:48.250 we make probably $1 ,000 off of that car at the 00:19:48.250 --> 00:19:52.450 most. What we make money off is interest. And 00:19:52.450 --> 00:19:55.589 he said, We can sell you a car, but I don't know 00:19:55.589 --> 00:19:58.569 how much help you're going to get. Okay. All 00:19:58.569 --> 00:20:00.970 right. I went somewhere else. I have heard the 00:20:00.970 --> 00:20:03.390 advice that when you go in to buy a car and you're 00:20:03.390 --> 00:20:06.150 planning to pay just cash for it, just tell them 00:20:06.150 --> 00:20:07.950 you're going to finance it. And then pay cash. 00:20:07.950 --> 00:20:10.509 Right up to the point where you're agreed on 00:20:10.509 --> 00:20:13.349 the price, and it's like, oh, no, wait, I'll 00:20:13.349 --> 00:20:16.029 just pay cash after all. And if they try to change 00:20:16.029 --> 00:20:19.849 the price, that's a violation of the law. They 00:20:19.849 --> 00:20:23.720 cannot charge a different price. for cash over 00:20:23.720 --> 00:20:27.019 finance. But if you tell them up front, they'll 00:20:27.019 --> 00:20:29.539 find a way to work it in. You're right. But you 00:20:29.539 --> 00:20:31.279 tell them at the very end and then they're stuck. 00:20:31.359 --> 00:20:33.440 All they do is they call their finance guy. They 00:20:33.440 --> 00:20:35.079 go, oh, I'll be right back. And they call their 00:20:35.079 --> 00:20:37.480 finance guy and go, hey, work this into a loan 00:20:37.480 --> 00:20:39.900 because he wants to pay cash. Or work this into 00:20:39.900 --> 00:20:41.960 a price because he wants to pay cash. Then there'll 00:20:41.960 --> 00:20:44.200 be administrative fees and all that good shit. 00:20:45.079 --> 00:20:48.720 Just because we feel like it, fee. Oh, no. What 00:20:48.720 --> 00:20:51.450 are you going to do about it, fee? Oh, no, I 00:20:51.450 --> 00:20:54.750 know a guy that's done that before. All right, 00:20:54.829 --> 00:20:58.190 hang on a minute here. My phone is ringing, and 00:20:58.190 --> 00:21:01.349 it's a number I don't know, so bye -bye. All 00:21:01.349 --> 00:21:05.049 right, let's see what else. Okay, so in Texas, 00:21:05.230 --> 00:21:10.390 if they don't think that you have enough money 00:21:10.390 --> 00:21:15.109 to buy the best, they'll steer you towards a 00:21:15.109 --> 00:21:18.710 lower -priced bike and then ramp up the interest 00:21:18.710 --> 00:21:22.740 charges. Wow. Yeah. So then, like you said, they're 00:21:22.740 --> 00:21:25.079 making money off the loan, but they figure if 00:21:25.079 --> 00:21:27.099 you do default, it'll be on this cheaper bike 00:21:27.099 --> 00:21:29.099 and it won't be such a financial hit to the company. 00:21:29.460 --> 00:21:32.460 Wow. So they're looking at you. I mean, that's 00:21:32.460 --> 00:21:34.500 a very predator way to look at your customers. 00:21:34.740 --> 00:21:40.220 But they are predators. They are. Yeah. Let's 00:21:40.220 --> 00:21:44.960 see. Military personnel. This is a big one. The 00:21:44.960 --> 00:21:48.460 state of Texas has a lot of military bases. Army, 00:21:48.759 --> 00:21:51.380 Navy, and Air Force. And I don't know if they 00:21:51.380 --> 00:21:52.920 have a Marine base there now, but I wouldn't 00:21:52.920 --> 00:21:54.619 be surprised. Thank you. Yeah, you're welcome. 00:21:56.319 --> 00:22:00.019 Enlisted personnel who go in in uniform to buy, 00:22:00.220 --> 00:22:05.039 most of them say, I'm treated like I'm a little 00:22:05.039 --> 00:22:07.019 kid who shouldn't be there. This is for grown 00:22:07.019 --> 00:22:11.500 -ups. Wow. Yeah. And if they have to go in out 00:22:11.500 --> 00:22:16.079 of uniform, Then once the dealership learns that 00:22:16.079 --> 00:22:18.019 that's their job as their military personnel, 00:22:18.140 --> 00:22:21.319 enlisted, not officer, they say they get noticeably 00:22:21.319 --> 00:22:26.720 colder in the room. Wow. And dealership after 00:22:26.720 --> 00:22:29.099 dealership, they're shitting on the military 00:22:29.099 --> 00:22:32.740 personnel who want to buy their bikes. I would 00:22:32.740 --> 00:22:34.660 drive up to Oklahoma then. Well, what they're 00:22:34.660 --> 00:22:36.160 doing is they're driving down the road to the 00:22:36.160 --> 00:22:39.799 Indian dealership. Universally, they say Indian 00:22:39.799 --> 00:22:43.279 treats them great. They've got a really good 00:22:43.279 --> 00:22:46.160 dealership network. They're very friendly. They're 00:22:46.160 --> 00:22:50.299 very open. They negotiate with the prices. And 00:22:50.299 --> 00:22:52.900 pretty much everyone who's bought an Indian said 00:22:52.900 --> 00:22:55.380 this is better designed than Harley, better built 00:22:55.380 --> 00:22:56.720 than Harley, and it was cheaper than Harley. 00:22:56.720 --> 00:22:58.980 That's what I was going to get into. Okay. All 00:22:58.980 --> 00:23:03.299 this not being. Let's say you had to buy one 00:23:03.299 --> 00:23:05.500 or the other, and you don't know anything about 00:23:05.500 --> 00:23:07.480 either one. I'd rather buy an Indian anyhow. 00:23:07.700 --> 00:23:10.400 Me too. I like them better. I always have. I 00:23:10.400 --> 00:23:12.279 always thought Harleys were somewhat overrated, 00:23:12.339 --> 00:23:15.559 and now they're very overrated. And they're leaning 00:23:15.559 --> 00:23:20.559 into trying to rely on their name to get everything 00:23:20.559 --> 00:23:22.359 they want. It's just not going to work. Well, 00:23:22.380 --> 00:23:24.119 their name's only going to go so far because 00:23:24.119 --> 00:23:27.569 ask Gen Z what a Harley is. And they'll go, oh, 00:23:27.650 --> 00:23:30.089 that's that thing that those older guys, they 00:23:30.089 --> 00:23:32.970 like, they drive around on the weekends. Do you 00:23:32.970 --> 00:23:36.730 like them? No, no, no, that's not me. Now, recently 00:23:36.730 --> 00:23:39.390 they had a surge of popularity when Sons of Anarchy 00:23:39.390 --> 00:23:42.829 was big. Yeah, but then after that, boom, no 00:23:42.829 --> 00:23:46.069 more. Another thing that the Texas dealerships 00:23:46.069 --> 00:23:49.789 do is whoever's in charge of that territory. 00:23:50.009 --> 00:23:53.519 Yeah. made sure that no dealership is closer 00:23:53.519 --> 00:23:57.220 than like an hour, hour and a half drive. So 00:23:57.220 --> 00:24:00.440 they're really spread out. They are shrewd. Yeah. 00:24:01.259 --> 00:24:05.380 So story after story, there's one that's fairly 00:24:05.380 --> 00:24:08.619 typical. Guy goes in, he buys a new Harley for 00:24:08.619 --> 00:24:13.319 around $30 ,000. A couple months in, he needs 00:24:13.319 --> 00:24:16.799 warranty work done. Calls up the dealership and 00:24:16.799 --> 00:24:20.039 they say, okay, three week wait until we can... 00:24:20.440 --> 00:24:24.599 and get your bike in. Then when he three weeks 00:24:24.599 --> 00:24:27.019 is up, he takes the bike in on a flatbed because 00:24:27.019 --> 00:24:30.140 it's not running. And the dealer says, okay, 00:24:30.180 --> 00:24:31.880 we need to order a part. It's going to be another 00:24:31.880 --> 00:24:34.859 couple of weeks. They actually do have the part 00:24:34.859 --> 00:24:37.740 in stock. They don't need to wait for it, but 00:24:37.740 --> 00:24:40.579 they only hire one person to work on the bikes 00:24:40.579 --> 00:24:43.880 because they know that once they have your bike, 00:24:43.920 --> 00:24:45.660 you can't get it back and they can take their 00:24:45.660 --> 00:24:48.819 sweet time. So instead of having four mechanics 00:24:48.819 --> 00:24:51.279 in there getting the bikes done on time, they 00:24:51.279 --> 00:24:53.819 have one person and making everyone wait because 00:24:53.819 --> 00:24:55.880 their attitude is, what the hell are you going 00:24:55.880 --> 00:24:59.799 to do about it? Wow. Yep. That's crazy. And when 00:24:59.799 --> 00:25:01.960 the next dealership is like three and a half 00:25:01.960 --> 00:25:05.079 hour drive away, and they're probably going to 00:25:05.079 --> 00:25:07.440 treat you the same way anyway, you're just stuck. 00:25:07.559 --> 00:25:09.619 You're being held hostage by the dealership. 00:25:09.700 --> 00:25:13.559 Yeah. Jeez. This is not a knock on Harley Davidson. 00:25:17.579 --> 00:25:21.779 As a brand, or the owners, or the enthusiasts 00:25:21.779 --> 00:25:25.640 of it, this is what's being done to you by corporate 00:25:25.640 --> 00:25:28.339 and the dealership network. Yeah, exactly. They 00:25:28.339 --> 00:25:31.440 have to play in line with the rules because that's 00:25:31.440 --> 00:25:34.680 the company they work for, essentially. So you, 00:25:34.759 --> 00:25:37.079 the Harley -owning or Harley -loving public, 00:25:37.240 --> 00:25:39.480 you're getting royally screwed by this. Harley 00:25:39.480 --> 00:25:42.130 apparently doesn't give a shit about you. Well, 00:25:42.170 --> 00:25:44.269 I think it's showing in sales, isn't it? I think 00:25:44.269 --> 00:25:46.430 it is, yeah. I think it's only a matter of time 00:25:46.430 --> 00:25:49.769 until you see them probably go tits up, gone. 00:25:49.869 --> 00:25:54.289 There was another video that I was going to get 00:25:54.289 --> 00:25:57.970 to and watch, which talked about the enormous 00:25:57.970 --> 00:26:01.430 backlog of built motorcycles that no one's buying. 00:26:01.650 --> 00:26:04.869 Bless you. Thank you. So it's already hitting 00:26:04.869 --> 00:26:08.029 them that Harley is, it's like Tesla and the 00:26:08.029 --> 00:26:10.589 Cybertrucks. They've got so many they've built, 00:26:10.690 --> 00:26:12.289 and nobody wants to buy them. They're sitting 00:26:12.289 --> 00:26:15.069 around, rotting. Harley's the same way. They've 00:26:15.069 --> 00:26:17.109 got a ton of money in this inventory that they've 00:26:17.109 --> 00:26:19.369 built, and probably most of it will never get 00:26:19.369 --> 00:26:22.390 sold. You're right. Yeah, I bet. It's crazy. 00:26:22.730 --> 00:26:30.269 Yeah, it is. Wow. Is that it? That's pretty much 00:26:30.269 --> 00:26:32.910 it, yeah. Okay. Well, we're going to go into 00:26:32.910 --> 00:26:36.319 something completely different. Anti -Valentine's 00:26:36.319 --> 00:26:38.640 week. Have you ever heard of it? No, but it sounds 00:26:38.640 --> 00:26:42.839 intriguing. Oh, it is. These are disgruntled 00:26:42.839 --> 00:26:46.000 people or, I don't know, been jilted, you know, 00:26:46.000 --> 00:26:48.440 romantically or what. Oh, wait a minute. Try 00:26:48.440 --> 00:26:50.279 that sandwich, dude. You know what it kind of 00:26:50.279 --> 00:26:53.220 reminds me of is everyone gathers for the plaza 00:26:53.220 --> 00:26:55.819 lighting ceremony around Christmas. I know at 00:26:55.819 --> 00:26:58.099 least one guy who shows up for the day they turn 00:26:58.099 --> 00:27:01.440 them off. He calls it the plaza dimming ceremony. 00:27:02.299 --> 00:27:04.180 And he rents a hotel room that overlooks the 00:27:04.180 --> 00:27:06.839 plaza and gets champagne and throws a party to 00:27:06.839 --> 00:27:10.980 watch the lights go off. This is kind of the 00:27:10.980 --> 00:27:14.180 same thing. Well, you know, these people that 00:27:14.180 --> 00:27:16.680 don't like Valentine's Day, not only, isn't that 00:27:16.680 --> 00:27:21.059 just ridiculously good? It's the City Market 00:27:21.059 --> 00:27:24.359 Coffee. Their special is a prime barbecue beef 00:27:24.359 --> 00:27:27.740 brisket sandwich. it has an onion ring on it 00:27:27.740 --> 00:27:32.160 and uh what uh pickled cabbage that's it and 00:27:32.160 --> 00:27:35.000 oh it's so good and my tongue has an erection 00:27:35.000 --> 00:27:39.359 it is so good oh and their fried pickles are 00:27:39.359 --> 00:27:42.700 the best ever so what a place and their coffee's 00:27:42.700 --> 00:27:48.019 awesome so um okay from february 15th to the 00:27:48.019 --> 00:27:53.730 21st is um is um This anti -Valentine's Day. 00:27:54.130 --> 00:27:58.230 And it says here, their description is, seven 00:27:58.230 --> 00:28:01.269 -day tongue -in -cheek anti -romantic counter 00:28:01.269 --> 00:28:05.849 celebration for singles, the heartbroken, and 00:28:05.849 --> 00:28:08.769 those who want to bypass the pressure of Valentine's 00:28:08.769 --> 00:28:12.890 Day. So, and I mean, Valentine's Day was pretty 00:28:12.890 --> 00:28:15.109 much a hallmark thing anyhow. You know, I mean, 00:28:15.130 --> 00:28:18.009 it was like, hey, show your, who's not going 00:28:18.009 --> 00:28:20.960 to go, I'm not going to do it. You know, show 00:28:20.960 --> 00:28:23.819 your participation for the one you love. No one's 00:28:23.819 --> 00:28:26.259 going to say no to that. You're pretty much forced 00:28:26.259 --> 00:28:29.200 to say yes. It's like, you know. Mother's Day 00:28:29.200 --> 00:28:31.180 is the same thing. Yeah, it is. It's like you've 00:28:31.180 --> 00:28:34.680 created to sell more jewelry. Yeah, and it worked. 00:28:35.119 --> 00:28:37.700 The series of theme days including slap day, 00:28:37.920 --> 00:28:44.259 kick day, perfume day, flirt day, confession 00:28:44.259 --> 00:28:51.140 day, missing day, and breakup day. So here is 00:28:51.140 --> 00:28:56.220 the 2026 Anti -Valentine's Week calendar. February 00:28:56.220 --> 00:28:59.920 15th is Slap Day. Symbolically slap away negativity, 00:29:00.359 --> 00:29:03.500 toxic relationships, and past mistakes. So you 00:29:03.500 --> 00:29:06.059 see, this is actually kind of a self -help thing. 00:29:06.140 --> 00:29:08.519 It is. It's not really a fuck you Valentine's. 00:29:08.519 --> 00:29:11.839 No, no, it's not much. Because when I first saw 00:29:11.839 --> 00:29:13.940 this article, I'm like, oh, this is going to 00:29:13.940 --> 00:29:18.420 be really sinister. Rude and cynical. But actually, 00:29:18.480 --> 00:29:23.089 really not. February 16th is kick day. Symbolic 00:29:23.089 --> 00:29:26.150 kick away lingering baggage and emotions. Yeah. 00:29:26.970 --> 00:29:32.089 February 17th, perfume day. Focus on self -love. 00:29:32.170 --> 00:29:34.069 I don't think you're talking about masturbation. 00:29:34.190 --> 00:29:36.869 Okay, say it one more time. I think it's, you 00:29:36.869 --> 00:29:40.109 know, spiritual. Self -care. Yeah, yeah, self 00:29:40.109 --> 00:29:42.170 -care. So, yeah, get your hand off your wiener. 00:29:42.369 --> 00:29:45.970 Okay? And treating yourself to something special 00:29:45.970 --> 00:29:50.829 like a new fragrance. and new lube that's today 00:29:50.829 --> 00:29:54.069 yeah yeah or a new flavor of lube yeah okay cool 00:29:54.069 --> 00:29:58.230 i'm gonna get uh um peep flavored easter's coming 00:29:58.230 --> 00:30:02.569 up oh i hate peep i'm gonna go with uh pepperoni 00:30:02.569 --> 00:30:06.609 and garlic i'm with you i'm with you pepperoni 00:30:06.609 --> 00:30:12.029 and garlic i'm sorry i stand corrected that would 00:30:12.029 --> 00:30:14.789 really make you want to get busy it's like man 00:30:14.789 --> 00:30:19.140 topher what happened to you I don't know. Hey, 00:30:19.259 --> 00:30:20.819 with the garlic, it'll weed out the vampires. 00:30:21.220 --> 00:30:23.640 Yes, that's true. And it will. All right. Yep. 00:30:23.799 --> 00:30:25.720 Because we all know that's a big problem here. 00:30:26.660 --> 00:30:29.180 Too many vampires on Valentine's Day. Yeah. Oh, 00:30:29.180 --> 00:30:31.019 shit. Yeah. Yeah. Little bastards are everywhere. 00:30:33.180 --> 00:30:35.339 You know what I want? I want a midget or a little 00:30:35.339 --> 00:30:38.240 person or whatever they call it. Vampire. Wow. 00:30:38.440 --> 00:30:42.500 You'd have to bite your leg. Wow. Yeah. Yeah. 00:30:42.519 --> 00:30:44.740 You'd be like, hang on, hang on. It's like, get 00:30:44.740 --> 00:30:47.200 out of here. I'm a vampire. Give me your leg. 00:30:48.420 --> 00:30:54.500 All right. February 18th is work day. A playful 00:30:54.500 --> 00:30:57.119 day to get back into the dating scene or just 00:30:57.119 --> 00:31:00.700 have some fun. Yeah. And this is really weird 00:31:00.700 --> 00:31:03.539 to read. When I downloaded it, I didn't look 00:31:03.539 --> 00:31:07.440 at it. It has commas behind every word. And I've 00:31:07.440 --> 00:31:09.660 got to distinguish which one should have a comma 00:31:09.660 --> 00:31:11.680 and which one doesn't. That would mess you up. 00:31:11.799 --> 00:31:13.779 Yeah, it's weird. Well, you know, I've heard 00:31:13.779 --> 00:31:18.130 of... unofficial flirt days for like a person 00:31:18.130 --> 00:31:20.390 who's been in a relationship a long time oh yeah 00:31:20.390 --> 00:31:22.789 yeah is just go out and practice flirting you're 00:31:22.789 --> 00:31:24.650 not really trying to pick someone up you're really 00:31:24.650 --> 00:31:27.549 not trying to you know start anything but it's 00:31:27.549 --> 00:31:29.450 just a random person you can practice flirting 00:31:29.450 --> 00:31:31.960 on because you're really out of practice It's 00:31:31.960 --> 00:31:34.160 kind of the same thing. Oh, okay, I get it. It's 00:31:34.160 --> 00:31:36.240 kind of like, you know, riding a bike or something. 00:31:36.420 --> 00:31:37.599 It's like, you know, I need to get a bicycle. 00:31:37.819 --> 00:31:39.839 I haven't rode one in a long time. Yeah. Let 00:31:39.839 --> 00:31:41.980 me go run some practice laps so I remember how 00:31:41.980 --> 00:31:43.980 this is done before I get in the race. Yeah, 00:31:44.059 --> 00:31:45.619 and first you suck, and then you get a little 00:31:45.619 --> 00:31:48.019 bit better. So I'd love to see the premier one 00:31:48.019 --> 00:31:50.279 where the guy's like, oh, okay, I'm going to 00:31:50.279 --> 00:31:52.039 go out and flirt a little bit because it's okay 00:31:52.039 --> 00:31:53.960 to do it today. I've got to stay in practice. 00:31:57.149 --> 00:32:00.250 So, yeah, don't you hate it whenever the grocer 00:32:00.250 --> 00:32:05.230 puts the heavy stuff on top? By that time, she's 00:32:05.230 --> 00:32:09.470 like, oh, I've got to go. All right, February 00:32:09.470 --> 00:32:13.990 19th is Confession Day. Oh, that could get you 00:32:13.990 --> 00:32:15.470 in some trouble, maybe. That could, yeah. You've 00:32:15.470 --> 00:32:16.750 got to be careful. You've got to filter that 00:32:16.750 --> 00:32:19.869 one. Be honest about your feelings or clear about 00:32:19.869 --> 00:32:23.900 your conscience. I'll skip that one. No. I can 00:32:23.900 --> 00:32:26.400 see that being useful if you look at it as confessing 00:32:26.400 --> 00:32:28.539 to yourself. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like being totally, 00:32:28.579 --> 00:32:30.680 completely honest and truthful with yourself. 00:32:31.039 --> 00:32:33.299 Instead of painting yourself as the poor victim, 00:32:33.440 --> 00:32:36.140 realize, oh, let's see what I did wrong here. 00:32:36.420 --> 00:32:38.839 Yeah. Like, Val, the other day when you accused 00:32:38.839 --> 00:32:40.480 me of looking at that girl in that skirt and 00:32:40.480 --> 00:32:42.779 I said no, I was looking at the bricks because 00:32:42.779 --> 00:32:46.299 I used to do tuck pointing and I see that it's 00:32:46.299 --> 00:32:49.099 a great job. No, I wasn't doing that. I was looking 00:32:49.099 --> 00:32:53.180 at her skirt. Yep. No, no, no, no. Nope. So, 00:32:53.180 --> 00:32:56.960 all right. And then finally, February 21st is 00:32:56.960 --> 00:33:01.660 Breakup Day. Breakup Day. The final step to letting 00:33:01.660 --> 00:33:04.359 go of unhealthy connections and moving forward. 00:33:04.680 --> 00:33:07.539 I like that. I do, too. This week is popular 00:33:07.539 --> 00:33:11.920 for promoting emotional detox and independence 00:33:11.920 --> 00:33:17.000 by focusing on self -care and humorous... Against 00:33:17.000 --> 00:33:22.380 humorous will and also... A romantic holiday. 00:33:22.700 --> 00:33:25.680 And I'm sorry, the commas really screwed me up. 00:33:26.000 --> 00:33:35.500 I can see the breakup day. I've seen people use 00:33:35.500 --> 00:33:41.140 a similar technique with the term divorce. When 00:33:41.140 --> 00:33:44.200 you're married, legally married, then you divorce 00:33:44.200 --> 00:33:47.420 your spouse. But they also say have a divorce 00:33:47.420 --> 00:33:51.549 ceremony. When you quit your job, you're divorcing 00:33:51.549 --> 00:33:54.170 your job. Treat it like a divorce. Or when you 00:33:54.170 --> 00:33:56.549 decide that you don't want to talk to this friend 00:33:56.549 --> 00:33:58.750 because they've been treating you bad, have a 00:33:58.750 --> 00:34:01.190 divorce from that friend. Or divorce yourself 00:34:01.190 --> 00:34:03.950 from the habit of going to this dive bar all 00:34:03.950 --> 00:34:07.950 the time. Or whatever. Instead of breakup, they 00:34:07.950 --> 00:34:10.809 use the term divorce. Go through an actual divorce 00:34:10.809 --> 00:34:13.769 in your head to where you're separating yourself 00:34:13.769 --> 00:34:16.829 and you're not going back. Yeah. I can see how 00:34:16.829 --> 00:34:19.489 that would work. No, no, no. I mean, yeah, I 00:34:19.489 --> 00:34:22.389 kind of did that with my old job, man. I left 00:34:22.389 --> 00:34:26.929 out there skipping for sure. I think people thought 00:34:26.929 --> 00:34:28.590 I was going to be all glum and go, I'm never 00:34:28.590 --> 00:34:31.889 coming back here. I'm like, oh, hell yeah. I'm 00:34:31.889 --> 00:34:36.250 like, amen, thank you, God. Yeah, there's a point 00:34:36.250 --> 00:34:39.869 where you realize that it's going to cause some 00:34:39.869 --> 00:34:42.989 problems and your life's going to change, but 00:34:42.989 --> 00:34:45.960 if you don't do it, Life is basically going to 00:34:45.960 --> 00:34:48.179 end anyway. You just got to do it. My biggest 00:34:48.179 --> 00:34:51.519 issue was always insurance. Yeah. So then you 00:34:51.519 --> 00:34:54.519 had to get creative. I had Cobra. Oh, true. I 00:34:54.519 --> 00:34:56.860 had to save up enough money to buy Cobra. Yeah. 00:34:57.559 --> 00:35:01.500 I had to, or be willing to spend the money for 00:35:01.500 --> 00:35:03.599 Cobra. I mean, it's pretty damn high. It is. 00:35:03.780 --> 00:35:06.480 Yeah. And then I got on Val's insurance because 00:35:06.480 --> 00:35:08.460 I wanted to take another couple months off, which 00:35:08.460 --> 00:35:12.630 I did, which was fantastic. Kind of reboot yourself. 00:35:12.889 --> 00:35:14.530 Oh, yeah. Learn what it was like to be yourself 00:35:14.530 --> 00:35:17.449 again. I needed it so bad. Yeah, yeah. I was 00:35:17.449 --> 00:35:22.710 in the mode of being the postal employee. And 00:35:22.710 --> 00:35:25.949 I'd kind of forgotten how to be myself. But when 00:35:25.949 --> 00:35:32.570 I quit slash retired, I took a while to figure 00:35:32.570 --> 00:35:35.090 out what is me? What do I like to do? What do 00:35:35.090 --> 00:35:39.369 I want to do? How do I enjoy spending time? Some 00:35:39.369 --> 00:35:41.769 self -discoveries are always a good idea. Oh, 00:35:41.769 --> 00:35:44.210 yeah. Yeah. You know, and another thing that 00:35:44.210 --> 00:35:48.269 I did was this. Hey, how you doing, Franco? All 00:35:48.269 --> 00:35:51.170 right. The other thing that I did was this when 00:35:51.170 --> 00:35:55.329 I left the old company. Yeah. People are coming 00:35:55.329 --> 00:35:57.750 up to me and going, oh, hey, we'll come back 00:35:57.750 --> 00:36:02.130 and visit. And I told them, I said, I'm never 00:36:02.130 --> 00:36:05.309 coming back to this spot ever again. You won't 00:36:05.309 --> 00:36:08.320 see me. You want my number or not? That's the 00:36:08.320 --> 00:36:10.820 only way you're going to get a hold of me. So 00:36:10.820 --> 00:36:13.719 three weeks, no, actually not three weeks, three 00:36:13.719 --> 00:36:16.519 months or so, probably a little bit more than 00:36:16.519 --> 00:36:19.960 that later, I had to roll over my 401k to the 00:36:19.960 --> 00:36:23.739 new place. And I thought I had to go there. And 00:36:23.739 --> 00:36:25.960 I'm like, oh, fuck, I was stressing. I was like, 00:36:26.000 --> 00:36:29.280 I swore I would never go there. Finally, I got 00:36:29.280 --> 00:36:30.980 a hold of this place called Creative Planning 00:36:30.980 --> 00:36:33.280 that was handling their stuff like that for them. 00:36:33.599 --> 00:36:35.739 And I talked to them. I go, is there any way? 00:36:36.219 --> 00:36:39.360 that I can avoid going there. And he's like, 00:36:39.460 --> 00:36:41.019 you don't want to go there? Is it too far? I 00:36:41.019 --> 00:36:44.380 go, no. I said, I hate that pit of fucking vipers. 00:36:44.820 --> 00:36:48.000 I didn't say fucking. And she laughed. I think 00:36:48.000 --> 00:36:49.880 she might have had some dealings with him. Probably 00:36:49.880 --> 00:36:51.599 so. And she goes, you know what? She goes, I 00:36:51.599 --> 00:36:53.179 think there is a way to do it without going and 00:36:53.179 --> 00:36:55.460 seeing them. She said, you might have to talk 00:36:55.460 --> 00:36:57.280 to them on the phone, but you don't have to go 00:36:57.280 --> 00:36:59.400 there and see them. And I did talk to them on 00:36:59.400 --> 00:37:02.420 the phone, and believe me, it was not cheerful. 00:37:04.110 --> 00:37:06.869 Anyhow, but anyhow, this isn't a program about 00:37:06.869 --> 00:37:10.030 airing stuff like that. We got there from the 00:37:10.030 --> 00:37:14.750 anti -Valentine's Day. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So anyhow, 00:37:14.829 --> 00:37:20.929 that is all of the anti -Valentine's Day week. 00:37:21.909 --> 00:37:26.130 Yeah. You know, there's a friend of mine whose 00:37:26.130 --> 00:37:31.289 wife is fairly needy and celebrating her birthday 00:37:31.289 --> 00:37:35.000 once a year. isn't enough anymore. Now she insists 00:37:35.000 --> 00:37:39.420 on a birthday week. Every single day for a week. 00:37:39.619 --> 00:37:44.559 Does he do it? Yes, he does. Pushover. She demands 00:37:44.559 --> 00:37:47.039 to be treated like the special birthday girl 00:37:47.039 --> 00:37:52.380 seven days in a row. You know, he probably gets 00:37:52.380 --> 00:37:55.880 sex once every three months. If that. If that, 00:37:55.960 --> 00:37:59.210 yeah. A guy like Ed, I'm sorry, but it's true. 00:37:59.550 --> 00:38:02.690 Yep. They hold the upper hand and they know it. 00:38:02.690 --> 00:38:04.610 And it's just like, eh, not today. Okay, sure, 00:38:04.690 --> 00:38:07.369 baby, I understand. When she already knows you'll 00:38:07.369 --> 00:38:10.010 do whatever she wants, she just makes you wait 00:38:10.010 --> 00:38:11.369 because she knows you'll do it. That's where 00:38:11.369 --> 00:38:13.989 so many guys go wrong. You know, don't call them 00:38:13.989 --> 00:38:19.190 back the next day. Yeah. Yeah, so. Yeah. Ed, 00:38:19.190 --> 00:38:21.909 yeah. So I make fun of it occasionally. I say, 00:38:22.050 --> 00:38:23.690 oh, I guess she's having her birthday month. 00:38:26.760 --> 00:38:28.780 And I felt like saying, hey, I'm just going to 00:38:28.780 --> 00:38:30.920 start having a birthday year. And then once it 00:38:30.920 --> 00:38:42.179 ends, it starts again. Yeah. The anti -Valentine's 00:38:42.179 --> 00:38:45.079 week reminded me of her insisting on her birthday 00:38:45.079 --> 00:38:48.000 week because she's seven times more special than 00:38:48.000 --> 00:38:50.920 anybody else on the planet, apparently. I used 00:38:50.920 --> 00:38:55.000 to tell guys this. Okay, when you first meet 00:38:55.000 --> 00:38:58.329 a chick, Don't smother them. But don't ever smother 00:38:58.329 --> 00:39:01.710 them. Ever. But the first thing you do is you've 00:39:01.710 --> 00:39:05.190 got to act preoccupied. I always tell them that. 00:39:05.210 --> 00:39:07.469 I go, you know, talk to them and act nice and 00:39:07.469 --> 00:39:09.070 act like you're kind of interested in, but act 00:39:09.070 --> 00:39:10.610 preoccupied. Like maybe you've got something 00:39:10.610 --> 00:39:13.570 else going on. Yeah, that's the basic idea is 00:39:13.570 --> 00:39:17.610 to leave the impression that I have a life of 00:39:17.610 --> 00:39:20.110 my own. Yeah, and I'm not sure if you're going 00:39:20.110 --> 00:39:22.150 to be in it yet or not. You've got to earn your 00:39:22.150 --> 00:39:24.659 way in it. You don't just, you know. And I see 00:39:24.659 --> 00:39:27.519 so many guys just jump in. Oh, man, let's do 00:39:27.519 --> 00:39:28.599 this. And then tomorrow we're going to do this. 00:39:28.599 --> 00:39:30.360 They make her their entire world right away. 00:39:30.599 --> 00:39:32.820 Then all of a sudden they're like, I don't know 00:39:32.820 --> 00:39:36.139 if this is going to work. And, you know, honestly, 00:39:36.260 --> 00:39:38.599 a lot of guys do that at first because they want 00:39:38.599 --> 00:39:41.519 to have sex. And once they have sex, they decide 00:39:41.519 --> 00:39:44.099 either to keep doing it, to keep having sex, 00:39:44.239 --> 00:39:46.340 or it's like, eh, I'm ready to move on. Yeah, 00:39:46.360 --> 00:39:50.980 not that big a deal. Yeah. Okay. All right, you 00:39:50.980 --> 00:39:53.650 got something you want to go into? The majority 00:39:53.650 --> 00:39:58.309 of my stuff has to do with music creeps. Okay, 00:39:58.409 --> 00:40:02.530 well, I got a bunch of stuff for the... Actually, 00:40:02.550 --> 00:40:04.989 the one thing I have about producers. Oh, yeah, 00:40:05.030 --> 00:40:07.750 yeah, yeah. Yeah, it's on the same page, but 00:40:07.750 --> 00:40:12.449 here we go. Well, producers could be used on 00:40:12.449 --> 00:40:15.230 either show, so... Yeah, yeah. And don't worry, 00:40:15.329 --> 00:40:17.489 I got enough stuff to carry us over for a long 00:40:17.489 --> 00:40:21.869 time on the alternate douchebags. All righty. 00:40:22.960 --> 00:40:27.539 So that's what we got here. Okay. So we've talked 00:40:27.539 --> 00:40:32.719 before about how some TV and radio shows, they 00:40:32.719 --> 00:40:37.139 seem to have a lot of producers and editors and 00:40:37.139 --> 00:40:39.739 assistant staff writers and this, that, and the 00:40:39.739 --> 00:40:41.639 people they list in the credits. There's all 00:40:41.639 --> 00:40:44.340 sorts of reasons to list people in the credits. 00:40:44.539 --> 00:40:51.000 Thank you. First thing I did was I got the Internet 00:40:51.000 --> 00:40:54.679 AI... definition of what a TV producer does. 00:40:56.239 --> 00:40:59.500 This is what it gave me. A TV producer oversees 00:40:59.500 --> 00:41:02.340 the entire life cycle of a television program 00:41:02.340 --> 00:41:05.820 from conceptualization and financing to production, 00:41:05.920 --> 00:41:09.420 editing, and final delivery. They are responsible 00:41:09.420 --> 00:41:12.260 for hiring key staff such as writers, directors, 00:41:12.440 --> 00:41:15.679 and cast, managing budgets and schedules, ensuring 00:41:15.679 --> 00:41:18.019 the creative vision is met, and coordinating 00:41:18.019 --> 00:41:20.420 technical aspects to ensure the show is completed 00:41:20.420 --> 00:41:24.639 on time. Key responsibilities include development 00:41:24.639 --> 00:41:26.780 and pre -production, such as generating ideas, 00:41:27.079 --> 00:41:29.199 pitching concepts to networks, securing funding, 00:41:29.300 --> 00:41:35.900 and writing or editing scripts. Very, very important 00:41:35.900 --> 00:41:39.380 that I remember writing and editing scripts is 00:41:39.380 --> 00:41:42.280 something a producer can do. Generate ideas, 00:41:42.679 --> 00:41:49.050 securing funding. These are vague terms. Production 00:41:49.050 --> 00:41:51.289 management, hires the crew and cast, manages 00:41:51.289 --> 00:41:55.530 logistics. We see set design and technical elements. 00:41:55.769 --> 00:41:58.210 There's another key one, set design and technical 00:41:58.210 --> 00:42:01.630 elements. And ensuring adherence to the schedule 00:42:01.630 --> 00:42:03.869 and budget. Post -production, supervising the 00:42:03.869 --> 00:42:06.690 editing, music composition, and final adjustments 00:42:06.690 --> 00:42:09.050 to ensure the project meets network standards. 00:42:09.710 --> 00:42:13.289 There's another key one. Types of producers. 00:42:15.159 --> 00:42:17.699 Let's see. Executive producer handles high -level 00:42:17.699 --> 00:42:21.159 business financing and overall vision. Showrunner, 00:42:21.179 --> 00:42:23.219 often the executive producer who manages the 00:42:23.219 --> 00:42:25.219 creative direction, day -to -day writing and 00:42:25.219 --> 00:42:28.219 production. Line producer focuses heavily on 00:42:28.219 --> 00:42:30.260 the budget and day -to -day logistics. And field 00:42:30.260 --> 00:42:33.300 producer manages production on location. And 00:42:33.300 --> 00:42:35.000 then if it's a news program, you have a news 00:42:35.000 --> 00:42:37.159 producer who coordinates content, story placement 00:42:37.159 --> 00:42:42.119 and timing for local and live news broadcasts. 00:42:43.440 --> 00:42:45.800 So that's what the Internet says. Okay, the vague 00:42:45.800 --> 00:42:48.719 terms are probably jobs that give to their friends 00:42:48.719 --> 00:42:52.159 or other, which I'm doing in air quotations, 00:42:52.159 --> 00:42:57.880 other. Well, think about, let's see, generating 00:42:57.880 --> 00:43:03.360 ideas in the production. So if you want your 00:43:03.360 --> 00:43:07.539 show to have an agenda, there's where a producer 00:43:07.539 --> 00:43:09.659 puts it in place. And then that's where we get 00:43:09.659 --> 00:43:12.210 a lot of the stuff, yes. If they want to get 00:43:12.210 --> 00:43:14.489 on their soapbox and preach about a certain social 00:43:14.489 --> 00:43:18.050 issue, producer puts that right in there. They 00:43:18.050 --> 00:43:21.710 do all the time. Securing funding, product placement. 00:43:22.250 --> 00:43:25.050 Oh, yeah. Dealing with the advertisers. Making 00:43:25.050 --> 00:43:28.309 sure your scripts, and see, they have writing 00:43:28.309 --> 00:43:30.570 and editing scripts, too. So they can make sure 00:43:30.570 --> 00:43:33.849 the script is exactly the way the sponsors want 00:43:33.849 --> 00:43:36.710 it to be. I'll give you an example. It's the 00:43:36.710 --> 00:43:40.050 show Friends. Yeah. was from the beginning designed 00:43:40.050 --> 00:43:42.949 to rehabilitate the image of the city of New 00:43:42.949 --> 00:43:45.050 York as a tourist destination. Oh, yeah. And 00:43:45.050 --> 00:43:48.110 it was funded very heavily by the New York City 00:43:48.110 --> 00:43:54.110 tourism agencies. So they made sure you never 00:43:54.110 --> 00:43:58.510 saw garbage or dirty streets. There was always 00:43:58.510 --> 00:44:01.570 a taxi available when you wanted one. Everyone 00:44:01.570 --> 00:44:05.670 had cheap housing. Nothing jobs. Yeah, yeah, 00:44:05.670 --> 00:44:08.389 serving at a coffee shop or whatever. Phoebe 00:44:08.389 --> 00:44:10.849 played at the coffee shop occasionally, and she 00:44:10.849 --> 00:44:12.909 still had an apartment all by herself. Yeah, 00:44:12.949 --> 00:44:16.849 how did that happen? Air travel was always really 00:44:16.849 --> 00:44:20.150 easy and cheap and affordable. You could do it 00:44:20.150 --> 00:44:21.929 last minute, and everything worked out fine. 00:44:22.010 --> 00:44:24.190 No one was ever delayed or bumped or anything. 00:44:24.389 --> 00:44:27.610 See, all of these elements were coordinated to 00:44:27.610 --> 00:44:30.590 be put into the script by the sponsor, which 00:44:30.590 --> 00:44:34.360 was the New York City... Board of Tourism. So 00:44:34.360 --> 00:44:36.719 the producers worked with them to make sure the 00:44:36.719 --> 00:44:39.380 show painted the city of New York in the best 00:44:39.380 --> 00:44:43.579 possible light. Because it was propaganda for 00:44:43.579 --> 00:44:47.260 the city of New York. So I'm sure that some of 00:44:47.260 --> 00:44:49.880 those producers they have listed are specifically 00:44:49.880 --> 00:44:52.960 there to be the liaison with the advertisers 00:44:52.960 --> 00:44:55.719 for the commercials. When the commercials are 00:44:55.719 --> 00:44:58.119 coming, where they're coming, how do we modify 00:44:58.119 --> 00:45:01.449 the script. You know, like Apple. doesn't want 00:45:01.449 --> 00:45:03.289 any of the bad guys on the show to have their 00:45:03.289 --> 00:45:06.449 product. Only the good guys can have Apple products. 00:45:06.550 --> 00:45:09.929 So there's a producer somewhere in that crew 00:45:09.929 --> 00:45:12.730 that is responsible for making sure that happens. 00:45:13.230 --> 00:45:15.429 There's probably another one for product placement. 00:45:18.670 --> 00:45:21.730 There's also probably one or more producers that 00:45:21.730 --> 00:45:24.369 are liaisons with the advocacy groups that say, 00:45:24.429 --> 00:45:27.750 we want more of the people we advocate for on 00:45:27.750 --> 00:45:30.059 your show. and here's what we're willing to pay 00:45:30.059 --> 00:45:32.840 to get them put on. Here's the storylines highlighting 00:45:32.840 --> 00:45:36.059 the group that we advocate for. Whether it's 00:45:36.059 --> 00:45:41.900 mentally disabled, whether it's the alcohol industry, 00:45:42.460 --> 00:45:46.619 whether it's whatever. Everyone has lobbyists. 00:45:46.880 --> 00:45:51.639 Yes. There are probably producers there whose 00:45:51.639 --> 00:45:53.900 job it is to get drugs and hookers for the cast 00:45:53.900 --> 00:45:58.019 and crew. Yep, we know this. There are probably 00:45:58.019 --> 00:46:02.159 producers there who are producers in name only. 00:46:02.639 --> 00:46:04.920 And the person actually doing the work and getting 00:46:04.920 --> 00:46:08.119 the money is somebody who has been canceled or 00:46:08.119 --> 00:46:10.639 is controversial and they can't afford to have 00:46:10.639 --> 00:46:12.820 their name tied to their production. So they 00:46:12.820 --> 00:46:16.119 have a straw man in the place. So they can pay 00:46:16.119 --> 00:46:19.260 the person they really want to. Yep. And a lot 00:46:19.260 --> 00:46:21.739 of those producers are there as a way to skim 00:46:21.739 --> 00:46:24.000 money from the production. Oh, yeah. It's like, 00:46:24.079 --> 00:46:26.590 you know, here's ten people. We'll list them 00:46:26.590 --> 00:46:28.690 in the credits as executive producer, pay them 00:46:28.690 --> 00:46:31.150 each 50 grand for this episode, so there's 500 00:46:31.150 --> 00:46:33.489 grand. Then I'll just take that out of the budget 00:46:33.489 --> 00:46:36.150 and put it in my own pocket because those 10 00:46:36.150 --> 00:46:37.690 people really didn't do anything. All I have 00:46:37.690 --> 00:46:39.829 to do is put them in the credits, fake up some 00:46:39.829 --> 00:46:42.730 payroll, and I'm 500 grand richer. That's what 00:46:42.730 --> 00:46:45.130 a lot of those producers are there for. And then 00:46:45.130 --> 00:46:48.070 a lot of them are favors and air quotations. 00:46:48.769 --> 00:46:52.030 Oh, I can give you this assistant producer that 00:46:52.030 --> 00:46:58.000 is in charge of the chair lounges. It's pretty 00:46:58.000 --> 00:47:00.619 ridiculous. And you have to be their favorite 00:47:00.619 --> 00:47:02.980 for that. And to be their favorite for that, 00:47:03.019 --> 00:47:06.440 well, I mean, I guess you can guess, right? Yeah. 00:47:07.860 --> 00:47:10.960 There are a lot of different types of producers 00:47:10.960 --> 00:47:15.440 that get listed in the credits. You have producer. 00:47:16.159 --> 00:47:19.739 You have associate producer. Executive producer. 00:47:21.019 --> 00:47:24.500 Supervising producer. Wow. Co -executive producer. 00:47:25.980 --> 00:47:32.119 consulting producer and co -producer. Now you're 00:47:32.119 --> 00:47:34.420 familiar with the term churning. Yeah. Where 00:47:34.420 --> 00:47:36.840 you just stir up all the mud and into the water 00:47:36.840 --> 00:47:39.500 so no one can see what's really going on. That's 00:47:39.500 --> 00:47:41.840 churning. All these different kinds of producers 00:47:41.840 --> 00:47:44.019 they're churning to make sure the paper trail 00:47:44.019 --> 00:47:46.980 is really tough to follow. Yeah and also I mean 00:47:46.980 --> 00:47:49.139 the reason these productions cost so much is 00:47:49.139 --> 00:47:52.340 because of the hidden fat like that. Yeah. I 00:47:52.340 --> 00:47:54.039 mean, they could probably get by doing it half 00:47:54.039 --> 00:47:57.239 the price, but nobody could go in there and just, 00:47:57.360 --> 00:48:00.619 you know. Yeah. It's like, I need to give this 00:48:00.619 --> 00:48:04.980 person the job on my TV show, and if I give them 00:48:04.980 --> 00:48:06.900 this job, they'll have sex with me. And then 00:48:06.900 --> 00:48:08.380 when I'm tired of them, I'll boot them off the 00:48:08.380 --> 00:48:11.539 show. Yeah. So you get the TV show to pay for 00:48:11.539 --> 00:48:15.079 your hooker. Basically how it works. Wow. So 00:48:15.079 --> 00:48:19.019 I took a current TV show, once it's currently 00:48:19.019 --> 00:48:21.460 under production. Uh -huh. It's a show called 00:48:21.460 --> 00:48:23.679 Brilliant Minds, Zachary Quinto. It's a medical 00:48:23.679 --> 00:48:26.840 drama. Yeah. And I looked over the, I didn't 00:48:26.840 --> 00:48:30.480 look at the cast, I looked at the crew. Okay, 00:48:30.599 --> 00:48:36.380 it has made 22 episodes. Over those 22 episodes, 00:48:36.440 --> 00:48:45.219 it has had 35 producers. 35. 35. Now, four of 00:48:45.219 --> 00:48:48.079 them were only on for one episode. There are 00:48:48.079 --> 00:48:50.579 three more that were on for nine episodes, which 00:48:50.579 --> 00:48:53.400 is like half a season. All the rest were there 00:48:53.400 --> 00:48:57.579 for double digits and on up. Wow. That many producers 00:48:57.579 --> 00:49:01.900 for every single episode. And then in addition 00:49:01.900 --> 00:49:07.420 to all those producers, they have five cinematographers. 00:49:08.099 --> 00:49:10.940 Wow. They have seven people in their editing 00:49:10.940 --> 00:49:14.920 department. Six people in production management. 00:49:16.389 --> 00:49:19.309 Their second unit, which basically films everything 00:49:19.309 --> 00:49:22.409 that doesn't have any of the stars in it. 17 00:49:22.409 --> 00:49:28.190 people in that crew. Art department. 19 more. 00:49:31.570 --> 00:49:35.929 Sound department. 32. Sound department. Yeah. 00:49:36.210 --> 00:49:40.449 Just for sound. 32 people. You can get by on 00:49:40.449 --> 00:49:44.230 a concert with less than that. Yeah. Wow. Camera 00:49:44.230 --> 00:49:49.429 and electrical. 27 people. Casting. In addition 00:49:49.429 --> 00:49:51.789 to the casting agency, they have 10 additional 00:49:51.789 --> 00:49:56.590 people. Wow. Editorial for editing and splicing 00:49:56.590 --> 00:50:00.949 together, 14 people. Production department. I 00:50:00.949 --> 00:50:02.489 thought that would be covered by the producers. 00:50:02.670 --> 00:50:04.369 No, there's an additional production department 00:50:04.369 --> 00:50:11.050 with 18 more people in it. And then under additional 00:50:11.050 --> 00:50:16.579 miscellaneous crew, 17 more. And let's see, this 00:50:16.579 --> 00:50:21.820 one was fun. Intimacy coordinators. Two. To help 00:50:21.820 --> 00:50:24.599 you if someone's going to be having sex on camera. 00:50:25.179 --> 00:50:27.559 They coordinate with them how to do it properly 00:50:27.559 --> 00:50:30.139 and how to do it. You have two intimacy coordinators. 00:50:30.280 --> 00:50:33.500 But here's the best one. Visual effects. Now 00:50:33.500 --> 00:50:36.380 this is just a regular routine medical show. 00:50:36.480 --> 00:50:38.840 It's not science fiction. It's not drug trips 00:50:38.840 --> 00:50:41.099 or anything. Their visual effects department, 00:50:41.340 --> 00:50:47.159 91 people. How much visual effects do you need 00:50:47.159 --> 00:50:49.420 on a medical doctor? No kidding. I can't think 00:50:49.420 --> 00:50:51.139 of much in the way of visual effects. Oh, that 00:50:51.139 --> 00:50:53.539 blood needs to be redder. I don't know. Yeah. 00:50:53.679 --> 00:51:00.000 Well, yeah. 91 people. Wow. That's all fat. 35 00:51:00.000 --> 00:51:03.820 plus 5 plus 7 plus 6 plus 17 plus 19 plus 32 00:51:03.820 --> 00:51:06.900 plus 91 plus 27 plus 10 plus 14 plus 18 plus 00:51:06.900 --> 00:51:09.980 17 plus 2. And you're telling me that's the minimum 00:51:09.980 --> 00:51:12.119 number of people you need to put out a TV show? 00:51:12.579 --> 00:51:15.500 No way. Every once a week. And they're on hiatus 00:51:15.500 --> 00:51:18.280 right now. Because they can't even do a full 00:51:18.280 --> 00:51:21.780 season in one go. You need to have that many. 00:51:21.820 --> 00:51:24.440 That's over 200 people. Easily over 200. Probably 00:51:24.440 --> 00:51:33.260 250. For one TV show. That's insane. And then 00:51:33.260 --> 00:51:37.900 all that goes as favors, too. Okay, I've got 00:51:37.900 --> 00:51:40.119 some odd facts. Remember we used to do those? 00:51:40.360 --> 00:51:43.559 Oh, I love odd facts. Yeah, this is good. I got 00:51:43.559 --> 00:51:48.860 some interesting ones. So, all right. Your brain 00:51:48.860 --> 00:51:52.460 eats itself when it doesn't sleep. Oh, I think 00:51:52.460 --> 00:51:54.460 I've heard that. It actually physically consumes 00:51:54.460 --> 00:52:00.059 itself. Uh -huh. That's creepy. During sleep 00:52:00.059 --> 00:52:05.420 deprivation, cells called astrolytes start breaking 00:52:05.420 --> 00:52:08.739 down the absorbing parts of your own brain a 00:52:08.739 --> 00:52:12.909 little as normal. Too much is not great. So someone 00:52:12.909 --> 00:52:17.289 that doesn't sleep well and stays up a lot actually 00:52:17.289 --> 00:52:19.710 might have some problems later on in life because 00:52:19.710 --> 00:52:22.309 of this, it sounds like. I wonder if there's 00:52:22.309 --> 00:52:26.329 any link between that and dementia, Alzheimer's, 00:52:26.329 --> 00:52:28.630 any of the cognitive decline. Everybody I know, 00:52:28.730 --> 00:52:33.059 including myself, has insomnia. I don't know 00:52:33.059 --> 00:52:36.239 if it's chemicals in our food. Part of that, 00:52:36.280 --> 00:52:39.679 partly the medications we're told to take every 00:52:39.679 --> 00:52:42.880 day for the rest of our lives, which make us 00:52:42.880 --> 00:52:46.019 need other medications every day. Have you ever 00:52:46.019 --> 00:52:48.780 run into those weird people who brag about how 00:52:48.780 --> 00:52:51.980 little sleep they got? Yes, it drives me nuts. 00:52:52.199 --> 00:52:55.039 It's just the stupidest thing ever. That used 00:52:55.039 --> 00:52:57.019 to do that at the post office all the time. They'd 00:52:57.019 --> 00:53:00.179 come in Monday mornings like, oh, man. Only got 00:53:00.179 --> 00:53:02.360 about six hours of sleep over the whole weekend. 00:53:02.559 --> 00:53:05.219 Oh yeah, well I only got about five. Oh yeah, 00:53:05.260 --> 00:53:08.059 well I only slept two hours last night. They're 00:53:08.059 --> 00:53:10.460 trying to outdo each other with how much damage 00:53:10.460 --> 00:53:12.900 they're doing to themselves. Oh, I know. It's 00:53:12.900 --> 00:53:14.900 like, go stand in a corner and hit yourselves 00:53:14.900 --> 00:53:16.820 with bricks. That makes about as much sense. 00:53:17.739 --> 00:53:20.260 They're just so happy and cheerful and bragging 00:53:20.260 --> 00:53:22.920 about how little sleep they got. You're an asshole. 00:53:23.239 --> 00:53:29.119 You're an idiot. Go away. Very cool. Yeah, no, 00:53:29.219 --> 00:53:32.579 no, no. I went and did the same thing. I remember 00:53:32.579 --> 00:53:34.880 when I was a teenager, we used to do that. We 00:53:34.880 --> 00:53:37.340 just thought it was so cool. I've been on a bender 00:53:37.340 --> 00:53:39.500 all night. Oh, no shit? Really? Yeah, yeah, yeah. 00:53:39.619 --> 00:53:43.019 I went to Topeka for some reason. I ended up 00:53:43.019 --> 00:53:45.980 in Omaha, and now here I am back in Kansas. Actually, 00:53:47.219 --> 00:53:49.619 a friend of mine fell asleep in the back of a 00:53:49.619 --> 00:53:52.420 station wagon years ago. This is my teenage years. 00:53:52.579 --> 00:53:55.389 It's an old 70s station wagon. He woke up in 00:53:55.389 --> 00:53:58.070 Pennsylvania. Oh. Well, they didn't know he was 00:53:58.070 --> 00:54:01.010 back there, and his buddies are going to Pennsylvania. 00:54:01.010 --> 00:54:03.690 I don't know for what for. Yeah. He woke up, 00:54:03.690 --> 00:54:06.670 and he, you know, went out there and, like, started 00:54:06.670 --> 00:54:08.829 walking around, and they're like, hey, isn't 00:54:08.829 --> 00:54:11.329 that, his name was Jimmy. Isn't that Jimmy? What 00:54:11.329 --> 00:54:15.909 the fuck is he doing here? Okay, so, all right. 00:54:16.829 --> 00:54:20.730 Rats laugh when they're tickled. Oh, I didn't 00:54:20.730 --> 00:54:22.869 know rats could laugh. Who the hell did that? 00:54:23.309 --> 00:54:25.349 Who grabbed a rat and started going, kiki, kiki, 00:54:25.349 --> 00:54:28.530 koo? Ah, let's see. There's a movie like that 00:54:28.530 --> 00:54:32.110 called Willard. Ah, yeah, okay. Back in the early 00:54:32.110 --> 00:54:35.010 70s, a guy that could communicate with rats. 00:54:35.130 --> 00:54:36.670 I bet he tickled a few rats in his life. I bet 00:54:36.670 --> 00:54:38.750 he did, too. And we don't want to know what he 00:54:38.750 --> 00:54:40.630 used to tickle them with, but that's not our 00:54:40.630 --> 00:54:43.369 business. A very young Michael Jackson sang the 00:54:43.369 --> 00:54:46.369 theme song for the sequel movie called Ben. Oh, 00:54:46.369 --> 00:54:53.059 okay. And Ben was a rat. All right. Okay, but 00:54:53.059 --> 00:54:57.500 they only giggle if they trust the person. Yeah, 00:54:57.619 --> 00:54:59.840 I can see that. Yeah, yeah. I'd be like that 00:54:59.840 --> 00:55:02.039 as a rat, too. It's like, that's a bad tickle. 00:55:02.059 --> 00:55:05.760 I don't know you. Yeah. Yeah. All right. That 00:55:05.760 --> 00:55:08.000 kind of works with people, too. It's one of the 00:55:08.000 --> 00:55:10.880 reasons you can't tickle yourself, because you 00:55:10.880 --> 00:55:13.840 trust yourself. But when someone else reaches 00:55:13.840 --> 00:55:16.500 and starts doing that, it's almost like a panic. 00:55:16.559 --> 00:55:19.469 The laughter is... To me, anyway, it's kind of 00:55:19.469 --> 00:55:21.869 like panic. It's a cry for help almost, yeah. 00:55:22.429 --> 00:55:25.389 But if you really, really trust the person, then 00:55:25.389 --> 00:55:28.289 they lose their ability to tickle you. I never 00:55:28.289 --> 00:55:30.469 thought about that, but that is true. And you 00:55:30.469 --> 00:55:32.110 can still tickle yourself if you take yourself 00:55:32.110 --> 00:55:35.010 by surprise. Like you actually bump your foot 00:55:35.010 --> 00:55:36.889 into something and it scrapes the bottom. It's 00:55:36.889 --> 00:55:39.730 like, whoa, that tickled. But if you try to tickle 00:55:39.730 --> 00:55:42.210 yourself, nothing happens because you are yourself 00:55:42.210 --> 00:55:44.030 and you know you're not going to actually do 00:55:44.030 --> 00:55:47.840 anything wrong. Yeah. It's weird. Yep. Trust 00:55:47.840 --> 00:55:50.300 is a big part of tickling. That is interesting, 00:55:50.400 --> 00:55:54.739 isn't it? Alright, the next one. You have ancient 00:55:54.739 --> 00:55:58.159 viruses in your DNA. You know, I've heard that. 00:55:59.659 --> 00:56:01.940 But I never could find confirmation. But yeah, 00:56:01.960 --> 00:56:04.539 that makes a lot of sense. About 8 % of your 00:56:04.539 --> 00:56:07.760 genome is made up remnants of long dead viruses 00:56:07.760 --> 00:56:10.960 that infected your ancestors. Viral fossils live 00:56:10.960 --> 00:56:13.619 inside you. Yes, they do. And that's part of 00:56:13.619 --> 00:56:17.269 our immune system. I think. I think it is, yeah. 00:56:17.369 --> 00:56:19.889 It protects you against it. It's kind of like 00:56:19.889 --> 00:56:22.050 COVID. They had to give you COVID in a vaccine 00:56:22.050 --> 00:56:26.449 to make you have the antibodies to protect you 00:56:26.449 --> 00:56:29.329 from COVID. Yeah, kind of think of it as, you 00:56:29.329 --> 00:56:32.030 know, here are these escaped criminals on the 00:56:32.030 --> 00:56:34.329 loose. Here's a picture of what they look like. 00:56:34.789 --> 00:56:36.989 That's like a vaccine is showing you a picture 00:56:36.989 --> 00:56:38.510 of how they look so you know which ones they 00:56:38.510 --> 00:56:39.909 are. Don't let those in. Those guys are going 00:56:39.909 --> 00:56:45.380 to, yeah. Has anyone ever gone in depth about 00:56:45.380 --> 00:56:50.079 how viruses actually work? You know what? I would 00:56:50.079 --> 00:56:52.599 love that because I know exactly how they work. 00:56:52.679 --> 00:56:55.219 I know this because I've read up on it. And that 00:56:55.219 --> 00:56:57.800 would be a really good subject. Maybe next week 00:56:57.800 --> 00:57:00.599 we can do that and do some research for the alternate 00:57:00.599 --> 00:57:05.239 program. Yeah. The bizarre concept you have to 00:57:05.239 --> 00:57:07.980 get your head around first is viruses are not 00:57:07.980 --> 00:57:11.989 alive. Even though the commercials say it kills 00:57:11.989 --> 00:57:14.510 the flu virus, well, it deactivates. And they 00:57:14.510 --> 00:57:17.329 also call it a live virus, too. Yeah, yeah. But 00:57:17.329 --> 00:57:22.230 viruses are like chemical robots. They're no 00:57:22.230 --> 00:57:26.170 more alive than your cell phone is. I mean, your 00:57:26.170 --> 00:57:28.570 phone can do stuff. It can do stuff on its own. 00:57:28.670 --> 00:57:32.289 But it's not alive. Viruses don't eat. They don't 00:57:32.289 --> 00:57:36.030 poop. They don't reproduce. So they're not alive. 00:57:36.090 --> 00:57:38.260 They're not a life form. They're just... self 00:57:38.260 --> 00:57:40.400 -replicating molecules. It's interesting, though. 00:57:40.420 --> 00:57:42.199 I bet a lot of people view them as life forms. 00:57:42.400 --> 00:57:44.719 Yep. There's nothing alive about them. Nope. 00:57:44.940 --> 00:57:48.440 Oh, this next one I love. Octopuses sometimes 00:57:48.440 --> 00:57:52.260 punch fish for no reason. Isn't that awesome? 00:57:53.599 --> 00:57:57.820 That's pretty funny. It is. Divers observe octopuses 00:57:57.820 --> 00:58:00.900 randomly striking fish that are cooperating with 00:58:00.900 --> 00:58:04.199 them during hunts. Not survival, just attitude. 00:58:04.800 --> 00:58:07.260 They're just in a bad mood, and a fish is in 00:58:07.260 --> 00:58:11.480 their area, so they punch them. Octopuses are 00:58:11.480 --> 00:58:14.400 really smart anyhow. So I guess, you know, they 00:58:14.400 --> 00:58:16.440 woke up, didn't have their coffee, whatever that 00:58:16.440 --> 00:58:20.480 is in the ocean. That kind of reminds me of a 00:58:20.480 --> 00:58:25.480 thing that dolphins do. When a puffer fish puffs 00:58:25.480 --> 00:58:28.659 up, it releases a little neurotoxin in the water, 00:58:28.760 --> 00:58:30.900 which will get the dolphin a little bit high. 00:58:32.300 --> 00:58:35.000 So the dolphins will grab a puffer fish and make 00:58:35.000 --> 00:58:37.559 it puff up and then get the effects of the toxin, 00:58:37.599 --> 00:58:39.480 and then they'll pass the puffer fish around. 00:58:40.219 --> 00:58:41.599 Puffer fish are whippings. While they all take 00:58:41.599 --> 00:58:45.980 a hit. It's just like passing a joint around. 00:58:46.039 --> 00:58:47.980 They're passing this puffer fish around so the 00:58:47.980 --> 00:58:50.480 dolphins can all get wasted. Here's what I compare 00:58:50.480 --> 00:58:53.699 it to. Remember back in the 80s when all the 00:58:53.699 --> 00:58:56.679 whipped cream had that ingredient in it and all 00:58:56.679 --> 00:58:59.280 the kids were grabbing it and sucking all the 00:58:59.280 --> 00:59:00.480 gas out of it? Puffing the propellant, yeah. 00:59:00.800 --> 00:59:02.730 Yeah. That's kind of what they're doing, puffer 00:59:02.730 --> 00:59:04.530 fish. Pretty much, yeah. They're like, here, 00:59:04.610 --> 00:59:08.829 here, there's some more left. Don't bo -gurt 00:59:08.829 --> 00:59:10.469 that puffer fish, man. Hey, give me that puffer 00:59:10.469 --> 00:59:12.869 fish back, you motherfucker. You've got to watch 00:59:12.869 --> 00:59:18.110 him. He'll puff half of it. But I love that, 00:59:18.150 --> 00:59:21.610 man. They smack fish for no reason. Humans are 00:59:21.610 --> 00:59:24.050 not the only creatures that want to get high 00:59:24.050 --> 00:59:27.369 and find ways to do it. Oh, I know. Elephants. 00:59:27.530 --> 00:59:30.449 I've seen elephants and monkeys. There are certain 00:59:30.449 --> 00:59:33.309 fruits that kind of rot, fall off the tree, and 00:59:33.309 --> 00:59:36.110 kind of ferment on the ground. And they get drunk 00:59:36.110 --> 00:59:38.090 eating these fruits. And they know they're going 00:59:38.090 --> 00:59:39.489 to get drunk. And they do it on purpose because 00:59:39.489 --> 00:59:41.530 they want to get drunk. And another thing that 00:59:41.530 --> 00:59:44.309 they proved is they do it in the evening like 00:59:44.309 --> 00:59:47.170 people do. So they can sleep it off. Yeah. I 00:59:47.170 --> 00:59:50.869 remember seeing a nature show and a hungover 00:59:50.869 --> 00:59:55.030 elephant is pretty funny. It's like, dude, you 00:59:55.030 --> 00:59:58.510 did it to yourself. Yes. A little sympathy, not 00:59:58.510 --> 01:00:02.590 much. A hungover elephant. I've got to see footage 01:00:02.590 --> 01:00:09.610 on that. Like any lion's roar, I'm coming after 01:00:09.610 --> 01:00:11.969 you with my trunk. Yeah, and you know what? It's 01:00:11.969 --> 01:00:14.670 probably barely wave its tail to get the flies 01:00:14.670 --> 01:00:17.630 away. Yeah. Instead of constantly going every 01:00:17.630 --> 01:00:25.050 now and then it goes. All right, next one. There 01:00:25.050 --> 01:00:27.730 are lakes beneath Antarctica ice sealed for millions 01:00:27.730 --> 01:00:32.769 of years. Subglacial lakes underneath Antarctica 01:00:32.769 --> 01:00:35.969 have been isolated longer than humans have existed, 01:00:36.590 --> 01:00:40.110 if I could speak. Unknown ecosystems may be in 01:00:40.110 --> 01:00:42.409 there. I'm sure they do. There would have to 01:00:42.409 --> 01:00:44.949 be. Yeah, they're called extremophiles. It's 01:00:44.949 --> 01:00:47.269 living organisms that can live under extreme 01:00:47.269 --> 01:00:51.010 conditions. I imagine those lakes are kept liquid 01:00:51.010 --> 01:00:53.030 by the immense pressure of all the ice pushing 01:00:53.030 --> 01:00:55.030 down. I would think so, yeah. Because in order 01:00:55.030 --> 01:00:57.949 for water to freeze, it has to expand. Ice is 01:00:57.949 --> 01:01:00.650 bigger than the water it comes from. But if there's 01:01:00.650 --> 01:01:02.590 no room to expand, the temperature still goes 01:01:02.590 --> 01:01:04.969 down, but it stays liquid. It simply doesn't 01:01:04.969 --> 01:01:07.309 have the room to form ice. Yeah, so it's just 01:01:07.309 --> 01:01:11.449 like, I'm staying liquid. Which is weird because 01:01:11.449 --> 01:01:13.329 you think that it wouldn't have a choice or anything 01:01:13.329 --> 01:01:15.690 like that, but that's not true. If it doesn't 01:01:15.690 --> 01:01:20.369 expand, it can't do it. So, all right. Teeth, 01:01:20.389 --> 01:01:22.750 I think everybody knows this, though. Teeth are 01:01:22.750 --> 01:01:24.989 the only part of your body that can't heal themselves. 01:01:26.070 --> 01:01:28.949 Well, that's true. Enamel cannot regenerate. 01:01:28.969 --> 01:01:33.670 Much damage, it's permanent. That's it? Yeah. 01:01:33.789 --> 01:01:36.909 I mean, and that's how dentistry is so popular. 01:01:37.130 --> 01:01:39.289 Yes. It's because, yeah, you can't put a Band 01:01:39.289 --> 01:01:41.449 -Aid on it and go, oh, man, yeah, I got a bad 01:01:41.449 --> 01:01:44.690 root. Hang on, let me go get some ointment. No. 01:01:45.110 --> 01:01:47.369 Nope. Yeah, it's odd to think that our teeth, 01:01:47.550 --> 01:01:51.250 pretty much under all circumstances, will wear 01:01:51.250 --> 01:01:55.050 out before we wear out and die. Yeah, isn't that 01:01:55.050 --> 01:01:58.110 weird? Yeah, if left without dentistry, everyone 01:01:58.110 --> 01:02:00.769 would lose their teeth before they die. I want 01:02:00.769 --> 01:02:04.079 to know, like, like an infected root canal or 01:02:04.079 --> 01:02:05.719 something what they did back then they had to 01:02:05.719 --> 01:02:07.980 have had some sort of a plant or something that 01:02:07.980 --> 01:02:10.900 made you you know not feel it yeah because that 01:02:10.900 --> 01:02:13.460 pain would kill you if you just kept having that 01:02:13.460 --> 01:02:15.900 pain it would literally probably oh yeah yeah 01:02:15.900 --> 01:02:20.079 yeah it's the stress of being in that much pain 01:02:20.079 --> 01:02:22.579 will actually damage your heart yeah and kill 01:02:22.579 --> 01:02:28.449 it but aspirin was refined from tree bark I forget 01:02:28.449 --> 01:02:31.590 what's tree, but, yeah, people used to peel off 01:02:31.590 --> 01:02:33.610 the bark of a certain tree and boil it and drink 01:02:33.610 --> 01:02:35.730 the liquid, and it was like taking an anti -inflammatory. 01:02:35.889 --> 01:02:39.530 It wasn't chicory. No, no. Hmm. That's interesting. 01:02:39.750 --> 01:02:42.550 Yeah. Okay. But, yeah, there's tons of, I mean, 01:02:42.550 --> 01:02:45.349 a lot of modern pharmaceuticals were derived 01:02:45.349 --> 01:02:48.449 from plants or are synthetic versions of what 01:02:48.449 --> 01:02:53.349 plants make. Yeah. Okay. Like opioids are a synthetic 01:02:53.349 --> 01:02:56.369 version of opium, which is made by the poppy 01:02:56.369 --> 01:02:59.449 plant. Yeah. But the opioids didn't come from 01:02:59.449 --> 01:03:01.929 poppies. They were created with chemical processes. 01:03:02.309 --> 01:03:06.829 Yes. All right. You can remember things that 01:03:06.829 --> 01:03:10.349 never happened. False memory implantation has 01:03:10.349 --> 01:03:12.230 been demonstrated in controlled experiments. 01:03:12.630 --> 01:03:15.289 Your brain can confidently create entire events 01:03:15.289 --> 01:03:18.550 that never occurred. Yeah, yeah. I have actually, 01:03:18.690 --> 01:03:22.349 without intending to, done that to myself. I 01:03:22.349 --> 01:03:26.010 have too. Yeah. I have too. I remembered a certain... 01:03:26.659 --> 01:03:29.340 line of dialogue in a certain movie and I knew 01:03:29.340 --> 01:03:31.300 exactly where it came in the movie and who spoke 01:03:31.300 --> 01:03:34.199 it and I could hear it in my head. And I watched 01:03:34.199 --> 01:03:36.500 the movie again and it wasn't there. And I thought, 01:03:36.579 --> 01:03:38.940 huh, this must be a different version. Maybe 01:03:38.940 --> 01:03:41.000 I saw the director's cut. And I went through, 01:03:41.019 --> 01:03:43.260 I found every single version of that movie I 01:03:43.260 --> 01:03:45.579 could find and that line was not in there. So 01:03:45.579 --> 01:03:48.079 I googled it and I googled, you know, I looked 01:03:48.079 --> 01:03:51.860 at a photocopy of the script on mine. The line 01:03:51.860 --> 01:03:54.179 isn't in there. I just convinced myself it was. 01:03:55.150 --> 01:03:58.989 I was dead sure it was in there. But the funny 01:03:58.989 --> 01:04:01.429 thing is, once I realized that I was wrong and 01:04:01.429 --> 01:04:03.489 that line was in there, I can't even remember 01:04:03.489 --> 01:04:06.570 what the line was anymore. That's something similar. 01:04:07.849 --> 01:04:10.269 I thought I said a certain line that was really 01:04:10.269 --> 01:04:14.349 good in a certain podcast with Rob, and I couldn't 01:04:14.349 --> 01:04:16.610 find it in there anywhere. I'm like, I must have 01:04:16.610 --> 01:04:18.389 just missed it. It was not in there. I listened 01:04:18.389 --> 01:04:21.690 to it several times. I started listening to old 01:04:21.690 --> 01:04:24.860 episodes, and it was in one of them. a long time 01:04:24.860 --> 01:04:28.440 ago. So I took that memory that I did and inserted 01:04:28.440 --> 01:04:31.579 it in a different memory. Isn't that odd how 01:04:31.579 --> 01:04:34.679 that can happen? I would have swore any amount 01:04:34.679 --> 01:04:38.079 of money that I said it in that podcast. I can 01:04:38.079 --> 01:04:40.420 remember it clearly. Even now I can remember 01:04:40.420 --> 01:04:42.840 saying it in that podcast. It's not the truth. 01:04:43.000 --> 01:04:45.860 I said it a year ago. I guess it's possible you 01:04:45.860 --> 01:04:48.539 thought it in that podcast. I think so. I thought 01:04:48.539 --> 01:04:53.690 it and I was like, oh, that's a great one. Okay, 01:04:53.789 --> 01:04:55.809 I think you probably know this too because this 01:04:55.809 --> 01:04:58.150 is true with goldfish because I've had it happen 01:04:58.150 --> 01:05:01.550 in my koi pond. There are worms that can survive 01:05:01.550 --> 01:05:06.010 being frozen solid. They are called tardigrades 01:05:06.010 --> 01:05:09.829 or water bears. Oh yeah. They can survive extreme 01:05:09.829 --> 01:05:13.530 radiation, vacuum, dehydration, freezing near 01:05:13.530 --> 01:05:16.409 absolute zero. Not just zero, absolute zero. 01:05:16.570 --> 01:05:19.969 Yeah. They even survived exposure to outer space. 01:05:20.130 --> 01:05:23.349 Yeah, which dries them right up. They just desiccate 01:05:23.349 --> 01:05:26.030 and dry right up. And they become like this little 01:05:26.030 --> 01:05:28.030 inert thing. And then as soon as they get moist 01:05:28.030 --> 01:05:30.510 again, they come right back to life. Some of 01:05:30.510 --> 01:05:33.389 those little water bears, tardigrades, they might 01:05:33.389 --> 01:05:35.940 be hundreds of thousands of years old. Because 01:05:35.940 --> 01:05:38.780 they just don't die. Nothing kills them. They 01:05:38.780 --> 01:05:41.139 just dry up and wait for the next bit of moisture 01:05:41.139 --> 01:05:43.639 to bring it right back. Well, this is where ideas 01:05:43.639 --> 01:05:46.760 of reincarnation came from. And the dung beetle 01:05:46.760 --> 01:05:50.460 also, ancient Egyptians highly believed in reincarnation 01:05:50.460 --> 01:05:53.000 because they watched the dung beetle bury itself 01:05:53.000 --> 01:05:55.599 in dung, then come back three months later, but 01:05:55.599 --> 01:05:57.780 it never did disappear like they got or died. 01:05:58.280 --> 01:06:00.739 But, you know, if we are all living in a simulation, 01:06:01.000 --> 01:06:03.500 that makes reincarnation even more likely because 01:06:03.500 --> 01:06:05.360 they're just recycling characters. Yeah, they're 01:06:05.360 --> 01:06:08.400 kind of like, hey, this time let's put Mark in 01:06:08.400 --> 01:06:14.480 the middle of a war. Yep. What? Wow. Without 01:06:14.480 --> 01:06:16.699 trying to spoil too much, I'm suddenly thinking 01:06:16.699 --> 01:06:22.460 of a movie called Dark City. It was one of Kiefer 01:06:22.460 --> 01:06:26.500 Sutherland's minor roles. I forget the main character 01:06:26.500 --> 01:06:29.360 in it. Okay, I'll have to look for it. Yeah, 01:06:29.440 --> 01:06:32.559 I don't want to give too much away, but when 01:06:32.559 --> 01:06:37.659 the Wachowski siblings, who did The Matrix, were 01:06:37.659 --> 01:06:39.559 planning The Matrix and how it was going to look, 01:06:39.659 --> 01:06:43.340 they watched Dark City, and they got a lot of 01:06:43.340 --> 01:06:45.500 their look from Dark City. In fact, they reused 01:06:45.500 --> 01:06:48.000 some of the sets from Dark City for The Matrix. 01:06:48.340 --> 01:06:52.340 Wow. So if you like The Matrix, you'll at least 01:06:52.340 --> 01:06:56.420 like the look of Dark City. And it's a pretty 01:06:56.420 --> 01:06:58.860 cool movie. I liked it quite a bit. It was cool. 01:06:59.900 --> 01:07:03.860 All right. And then finally, your gut has its 01:07:03.860 --> 01:07:07.619 own nervous system. The second brain in your 01:07:07.619 --> 01:07:09.860 digestive tract contains hundreds of millions 01:07:09.860 --> 01:07:13.599 of neurons. It can operate independently of your 01:07:13.599 --> 01:07:16.719 main brain. Your stomach literally can have an 01:07:16.719 --> 01:07:20.679 opinion. That's true. Yeah, we are kind of unusual 01:07:20.679 --> 01:07:24.099 only having one brain. because there are a lot 01:07:24.099 --> 01:07:26.380 of creatures that have multiple brains, either 01:07:26.380 --> 01:07:30.639 a main one in an auxiliary or just all, I mean, 01:07:30.659 --> 01:07:32.760 instead of having one central brain, it's scattered 01:07:32.760 --> 01:07:34.920 around their body. They have a lot of smaller 01:07:34.920 --> 01:07:40.239 brains that work together. Bonk there. Very cool. 01:07:40.440 --> 01:07:42.940 All right. Well, that's all then. Okay. When 01:07:42.940 --> 01:07:44.880 you're talking about worms, I wanted to mention 01:07:44.880 --> 01:07:47.960 something. There's a little worm called, I think, 01:07:48.019 --> 01:07:51.000 a planaria. I've heard of that. It's not quite 01:07:51.000 --> 01:07:53.400 microscopic, but it's pretty, pretty tiny. Not 01:07:53.400 --> 01:07:55.820 a plantain. No, not a plantain. Those are kind 01:07:55.820 --> 01:07:59.920 of like bananas. Yeah. Now, this was an experiment 01:07:59.920 --> 01:08:03.260 done in, I think, the 1950s, maybe early 60s, 01:08:03.260 --> 01:08:05.139 because I remember hearing about it when I was 01:08:05.139 --> 01:08:09.940 a kid. These little planaria worms have a very 01:08:09.940 --> 01:08:13.260 basic and rudimentary nervous system. They really 01:08:13.260 --> 01:08:15.780 have much of an identifiable brain. Uh -huh. 01:08:16.220 --> 01:08:18.779 But in a lab situation, researchers... I know 01:08:18.779 --> 01:08:21.399 people like that. Yeah, I do too. In a lab situation, 01:08:21.920 --> 01:08:27.039 researchers found out that they could put these 01:08:27.039 --> 01:08:30.739 worms in a maze and they would eventually figure 01:08:30.739 --> 01:08:34.779 out the maze to get the reward at the end. And 01:08:34.779 --> 01:08:38.359 they noted how long it took your average worm 01:08:38.359 --> 01:08:43.039 to figure out the maze and go do the maze. Now, 01:08:43.039 --> 01:08:46.050 once they had figured out one maze... they learned 01:08:46.050 --> 01:08:49.670 subsequent mazes more quickly. Now this is a 01:08:49.670 --> 01:08:52.630 creature without a recognizable brain, but it 01:08:52.630 --> 01:08:57.250 has learned how to learn. It's like, okay, another 01:08:57.250 --> 01:09:00.609 maze? Okay, I know how to learn these now. So 01:09:00.609 --> 01:09:04.270 they reached a point where they just wouldn't 01:09:04.270 --> 01:09:06.970 get any faster. But they definitely got significantly 01:09:06.970 --> 01:09:08.909 faster when they'd already learned how to learn 01:09:08.909 --> 01:09:11.649 a maze. Now the next step was really bizarre. 01:09:12.810 --> 01:09:15.510 They would take the smart worms that had learned 01:09:15.510 --> 01:09:17.869 mazes and learned how to learn mazes and ground 01:09:17.869 --> 01:09:21.289 them up into a paste and fed them to worms that 01:09:21.289 --> 01:09:23.949 had never seen a maze in their life. And those 01:09:23.949 --> 01:09:27.289 worms learned the maze more quickly than worms 01:09:27.289 --> 01:09:30.670 that had not eaten their smart brothers. Wow! 01:09:30.949 --> 01:09:34.569 So eating a smart worm transferred some of the 01:09:34.569 --> 01:09:37.159 knowledge and information to the next worm. and 01:09:37.159 --> 01:09:39.140 it was able to learn the maze faster. I wonder, 01:09:39.279 --> 01:09:42.579 okay, something like that happened back in England 01:09:42.579 --> 01:09:46.159 in the 1400s, where the elite were eating mummies. 01:09:46.479 --> 01:09:49.720 Yep. And the mummies were like the elite of the 01:09:49.720 --> 01:09:53.140 elite in the Egyptians. That's interesting how 01:09:53.140 --> 01:09:55.000 they got that idea. I don't know how they got 01:09:55.000 --> 01:09:57.000 that idea. Did they know about the worms then? 01:09:57.159 --> 01:10:00.760 Probably not. No, no. I can remember there were 01:10:00.760 --> 01:10:03.239 a lot of more primitive cultures that lived this 01:10:03.239 --> 01:10:06.390 nomadic hunting existence. Uh -huh. But their 01:10:06.390 --> 01:10:09.590 feeling was, whatever part of the animal you 01:10:09.590 --> 01:10:13.390 eat strengthens that part in you. So if you want 01:10:13.390 --> 01:10:15.529 to be brave and strong, eat the animal's heart. 01:10:16.210 --> 01:10:18.489 If you want to be smart, eat the animal's brain. 01:10:18.890 --> 01:10:21.210 If you want to have lots of children, eat the 01:10:21.210 --> 01:10:22.930 animal's testicles. Do you think that's where 01:10:22.930 --> 01:10:27.850 Arlie Ermey got his... Arlie Hammer? I said Arlie 01:10:27.850 --> 01:10:31.770 Ermey. He's a different guy. I love him. Do you 01:10:31.770 --> 01:10:34.060 think where he got that idea from? I think it's 01:10:34.060 --> 01:10:36.619 been around in human cultures for thousands of 01:10:36.619 --> 01:10:39.720 years that you consume a part of your enemy or 01:10:39.720 --> 01:10:41.920 your prey or foe and you absorb that part from 01:10:41.920 --> 01:10:47.439 them. In the movie District 9, there was a guy 01:10:47.439 --> 01:10:49.680 who had mastered some part of alien technology 01:10:49.680 --> 01:10:53.920 by partially becoming alien. And this warlord 01:10:53.920 --> 01:10:55.859 said, I want your power and I'm going to kill 01:10:55.859 --> 01:10:59.949 you and eat you so I can gain your power. I mean, 01:10:59.949 --> 01:11:01.930 it's a very common thing. This thought has been 01:11:01.930 --> 01:11:04.489 around a long time. Yeah. Okay. And, you know, 01:11:04.510 --> 01:11:06.850 certain powerful elite groups that are, you know, 01:11:06.850 --> 01:11:10.569 currently being investigated for cannibalism 01:11:10.569 --> 01:11:13.029 and eating children, et cetera, it's the same 01:11:13.029 --> 01:11:17.670 thing. So Jeffrey Dahmer was brilliant. Oh, no, 01:11:17.750 --> 01:11:20.470 he probably ate stupid people, actually, people 01:11:20.470 --> 01:11:22.869 that couldn't get away. Now imagine that you're 01:11:22.869 --> 01:11:26.170 some egotistical actor or actress who is really 01:11:26.170 --> 01:11:28.270 dependent on your good looks and youth for your 01:11:28.270 --> 01:11:31.279 career. and somebody convinces you to start eating 01:11:31.279 --> 01:11:33.699 children, it'll prolong your youth. Oh, they 01:11:33.699 --> 01:11:36.640 do it? Yeah. And that apparently is one of the 01:11:36.640 --> 01:11:39.140 things that some people are under serious investigation. 01:11:39.199 --> 01:11:41.960 And some of those leaked emails actually hear 01:11:41.960 --> 01:11:44.899 celebrities talking about eating children. You 01:11:44.899 --> 01:11:48.100 know what? With all of this stuff, what I read, 01:11:48.140 --> 01:11:53.199 and it's true, America's not going to be the 01:11:53.199 --> 01:11:58.180 same. There's going to be so many people... Outcasted. 01:11:58.180 --> 01:12:00.420 America shouldn't be the same. No, it shouldn't. 01:12:00.800 --> 01:12:04.539 You know, like I said, everybody that has spoke 01:12:04.539 --> 01:12:08.220 about that in the past, we owe them an apology. 01:12:08.579 --> 01:12:11.619 Yep. For not believing them. Yeah, and there's 01:12:11.619 --> 01:12:13.739 quite a few people that did speak of it, you 01:12:13.739 --> 01:12:17.500 know, in media. Quite a few. I mean, not like 01:12:17.500 --> 01:12:21.600 hundreds. There are a good 10, 12 of them, you 01:12:21.600 --> 01:12:25.260 know, that have spoke about this often. Yeah. 01:12:27.529 --> 01:12:30.470 Yeah That's a whole other subject there that 01:12:30.470 --> 01:12:32.430 whole thing right there and then always heard 01:12:32.430 --> 01:12:35.529 about the satanic ritualistic abuse and how the 01:12:35.529 --> 01:12:37.989 Satanists believe that if you torture and kill 01:12:37.989 --> 01:12:40.109 children and eat them and all that good stuff 01:12:40.109 --> 01:12:43.630 that You're actually gaining power. Yeah, so 01:12:43.630 --> 01:12:48.770 Allegedly, but probably I think would be true 01:12:48.770 --> 01:12:56.090 after thing I read that happened All right I've 01:12:56.090 --> 01:12:59.670 got right here. Oh, go ahead. You got something 01:12:59.670 --> 01:13:01.890 you want to go into? Mostly I got music anymore 01:13:01.890 --> 01:13:04.310 from after this. I'm going to try to work off 01:13:04.310 --> 01:13:06.369 of your stuff. Oh, no, that's cool. Actually, 01:13:06.710 --> 01:13:08.770 it works really well. You found like subjects 01:13:08.770 --> 01:13:11.630 right off of everything. Okay. First off, were 01:13:11.630 --> 01:13:15.109 you done? Yeah. Okay. All right. This is a list. 01:13:15.149 --> 01:13:17.229 We're speaking about the elite and the stuff 01:13:17.229 --> 01:13:20.649 that they do. This is a list of elite people. 01:13:21.149 --> 01:13:24.489 or people well -known in the media or movies 01:13:24.489 --> 01:13:30.430 or whatever that went to prison quietly went 01:13:30.430 --> 01:13:34.569 to a country club. Ah, of course. Yes. And these 01:13:34.569 --> 01:13:36.630 are people that, and this all started because 01:13:36.630 --> 01:13:40.270 my wife's mom was a victim of Robert Courtney. 01:13:40.789 --> 01:13:45.029 Robert Courtney was a pharmacist that was diluting 01:13:45.029 --> 01:13:48.789 cancer drugs, admittedly, admittedly for profit. 01:13:48.970 --> 01:13:52.100 Yep. I could have maybe, I wouldn't have thought, 01:13:52.180 --> 01:13:55.039 oh, okay, but I would have at least saw this. 01:13:55.340 --> 01:13:56.920 If it wouldn't have been for profit, I'd say, 01:13:57.000 --> 01:13:58.800 well, those people are going to die anyhow, and 01:13:58.800 --> 01:14:01.039 I didn't want to prolong their misery. Or something 01:14:01.039 --> 01:14:03.220 like that. Okay, all right, well, his beliefs 01:14:03.220 --> 01:14:04.920 are fucked, but all right, he did it for that. 01:14:05.119 --> 01:14:07.920 But no, he admitted he did it for money. There 01:14:07.920 --> 01:14:10.359 was a Law & Order episode where they rewrote 01:14:10.359 --> 01:14:14.960 that exact story. And in the episode, his motive 01:14:14.960 --> 01:14:20.329 was that these chemotherapy drugs, weren't helping 01:14:20.329 --> 01:14:22.289 the people anyway. It just prolonged their suffering. 01:14:22.470 --> 01:14:25.770 So he just replaced them with clear water and 01:14:25.770 --> 01:14:28.189 let these people die their death anyway. But 01:14:28.189 --> 01:14:30.750 then the investigation showed that he was taking 01:14:30.750 --> 01:14:33.170 all sorts of extra steps to make sure he got 01:14:33.170 --> 01:14:35.470 all the money from it too. So it was like, yeah, 01:14:35.489 --> 01:14:37.569 you were after the money weren't to do. Yep. 01:14:37.909 --> 01:14:40.010 Probably Courtney did that too. He probably said 01:14:40.010 --> 01:14:41.149 that and then they said, well, wait a minute. 01:14:41.210 --> 01:14:42.949 You did this, this, and this to make sure the 01:14:42.949 --> 01:14:44.789 money went in your account. Yep. Why did you 01:14:44.789 --> 01:14:47.489 give the money to the next of kin? Yeah. Yes. 01:14:47.829 --> 01:14:51.430 So... It started with that, that the word is 01:14:51.430 --> 01:14:55.170 he has cancer and he's dying from it. Just dessert. 01:14:55.409 --> 01:14:58.489 Yep. Okay. But because of that, they decided 01:14:58.489 --> 01:15:03.710 to put him on house arrest. Okay. Yeah. This 01:15:03.710 --> 01:15:06.430 is a guy that made people suffer and die of cancer. 01:15:06.510 --> 01:15:09.069 They didn't need to. And then they have mercy 01:15:09.069 --> 01:15:13.369 on him. I see absolutely no reason to have mercy 01:15:13.369 --> 01:15:17.539 on him. That fucking judge. If the idea is, well, 01:15:17.600 --> 01:15:20.260 we put this guy in prison, he's done such despicable 01:15:20.260 --> 01:15:22.600 things that they'll kill him in prison. Oh, well. 01:15:22.880 --> 01:15:25.460 Too bad. That's where you put yourself in. I 01:15:25.460 --> 01:15:28.500 would love to see that judge. I would love to 01:15:28.500 --> 01:15:30.800 see that judge. I tell you that. You know, that 01:15:30.800 --> 01:15:33.960 judge needs to burn in hell. Yep. My opinion. 01:15:34.220 --> 01:15:37.720 You know how they hold bartenders liable if you 01:15:37.720 --> 01:15:39.819 over -serve a patron and they get into a drunk 01:15:39.819 --> 01:15:42.960 driving wreck? Yeah. There's legislation starting 01:15:42.960 --> 01:15:45.420 to hold these judges responsible for releasing 01:15:45.420 --> 01:15:47.680 violent criminals if they go out and re -offend. 01:15:47.859 --> 01:15:51.199 Good. Yep. I think they should. Stop this fucking 01:15:51.199 --> 01:15:53.399 pat on the ass when you do something horrible. 01:15:53.699 --> 01:15:56.800 Yep. No, that stuff's got to stop. Yep. And there 01:15:56.800 --> 01:15:58.739 have been judges who have openly said when they 01:15:58.739 --> 01:16:01.260 see a defendant of a certain ethnicity or gender, 01:16:01.439 --> 01:16:03.840 they have already made up their mind to let him 01:16:03.840 --> 01:16:06.800 go. They don't care what it says and what's done 01:16:06.800 --> 01:16:09.140 or whatever this is like now. I've already made 01:16:09.140 --> 01:16:11.140 up my mind. There you go. I want to enact the 01:16:11.140 --> 01:16:12.800 You First that I'm talking about. The You First 01:16:12.800 --> 01:16:15.779 policy. So, okay. These guys are reformed and 01:16:15.779 --> 01:16:17.739 you love them and everything. They have to live 01:16:17.739 --> 01:16:19.840 with you for rehab. Take them home. Give them 01:16:19.840 --> 01:16:21.939 a free run of your house. Hand them a credit 01:16:21.939 --> 01:16:24.979 card. Yes. Yep. Let them babysit your grandchildren. 01:16:25.380 --> 01:16:29.300 Yes. You First. Yep. I think that's absolutely 01:16:29.300 --> 01:16:33.039 fair. Yeah. The You First initiative, I'm trying 01:16:33.039 --> 01:16:35.060 to spread everywhere. And it's like, okay, cool. 01:16:35.420 --> 01:16:37.920 You want me to do this? Okay, you're starting. 01:16:38.359 --> 01:16:41.579 You know, that's something I remember back when 01:16:41.579 --> 01:16:43.819 I used to argue with my idiot brother, John. 01:16:44.539 --> 01:16:48.079 And I would talk about accountability for elected 01:16:48.079 --> 01:16:51.659 officials. And his argument was, well, with all 01:16:51.659 --> 01:16:54.159 these restrictions, nobody would want to run 01:16:54.159 --> 01:16:57.479 for public office. And my response was, fine. 01:16:58.260 --> 01:17:00.680 That's fine with me. If they only want to run 01:17:00.680 --> 01:17:04.239 because they can get away with stuff, then I 01:17:04.239 --> 01:17:07.170 don't want them. Well, you just got to have somebody. 01:17:07.189 --> 01:17:11.069 No, you don't, idiot. You don't got to have somebody. 01:17:11.369 --> 01:17:14.369 He was scraping to try to win the argument because 01:17:14.369 --> 01:17:17.729 you won it. That's all. That was his personality. 01:17:17.729 --> 01:17:21.210 Whatever I said was absolutely wrong. People 01:17:21.210 --> 01:17:24.689 like that. Okay. All right. The first one is 01:17:24.689 --> 01:17:29.649 very famous. Martha Stewart. Oh, yeah. Obstruction 01:17:29.649 --> 01:17:32.350 of justice and lying to investigators in 2004. 01:17:32.689 --> 01:17:35.750 Yeah. If they could have gotten her on insider 01:17:35.750 --> 01:17:38.510 trading, they would have. Yeah, they would have, 01:17:38.569 --> 01:17:43.729 but they did not. Some people argued that she 01:17:43.729 --> 01:17:47.029 was a token to get people off of their ass. Yeah, 01:17:47.869 --> 01:17:50.350 I can see that. We brought you somebody. Here's 01:17:50.350 --> 01:17:53.430 your sacrifice. Yes, that's your sacrifice. And 01:17:53.430 --> 01:17:56.329 everyone else, Scott, nothing happened. So they 01:17:56.329 --> 01:17:58.649 put their sacrifice out there. Everyone's like, 01:17:58.689 --> 01:18:04.199 yeah, burn her. And then, yep. Well, not a transfer. 01:18:04.300 --> 01:18:09.460 She was in FPCF, Alderson Minimum Security Prison. 01:18:10.699 --> 01:18:12.760 And she probably should have been in the minimum 01:18:12.760 --> 01:18:15.300 because, you know, I mean, what she did was wrong 01:18:15.300 --> 01:18:17.960 and all that, but it wasn't a violent crime per 01:18:17.960 --> 01:18:21.340 se. Plus, she had a lot to return to that she 01:18:21.340 --> 01:18:23.680 probably wasn't going to jeopardize by continuing 01:18:23.680 --> 01:18:26.520 to do wrong things. Yes. So, yeah, I can see 01:18:26.520 --> 01:18:29.550 her being a minimum security. And also... Probably 01:18:29.550 --> 01:18:31.390 she might have known a little bit about it, but 01:18:31.390 --> 01:18:33.529 maybe not everything. Maybe her people around 01:18:33.529 --> 01:18:36.329 her knew a lot more about it, but that could 01:18:36.329 --> 01:18:38.930 be discussed. While not a transfer from the harsh 01:18:38.930 --> 01:18:41.729 prison, she served time in minimum security federal 01:18:41.729 --> 01:18:45.350 prison camp, often described as relatively comfortable 01:18:45.350 --> 01:18:47.810 compared to the high security facilities. Yeah, 01:18:47.810 --> 01:18:51.430 I imagine that. Yeah, so, okay, there. All right, 01:18:51.550 --> 01:18:54.609 next one you might know, too. Rod Blagojevich. 01:18:55.609 --> 01:18:59.470 Blagojevich, yeah. convicted for political corruption 01:18:59.470 --> 01:19:01.949 in 2011. He was trying to sell Obama's seat. 01:19:01.970 --> 01:19:03.989 Yeah, trying to sell Obama's Senate seat. Yeah, 01:19:04.029 --> 01:19:06.689 because he became president, so that was up for 01:19:06.689 --> 01:19:10.750 the law. Yeah, he was allowed to appoint a person 01:19:10.750 --> 01:19:12.949 to finish out Obama's term in that Senate seat, 01:19:13.069 --> 01:19:17.529 so he openly was taking bids. Yeah, openly. That's 01:19:17.529 --> 01:19:19.470 the problem. Very openly saying, who's going 01:19:19.470 --> 01:19:21.329 to pay me the most? That's a guy that got full 01:19:21.329 --> 01:19:26.899 of himself. Yeah. I can do this. So, okay. The 01:19:26.899 --> 01:19:29.319 transfer, he's moved from a higher security federal 01:19:29.319 --> 01:19:31.920 prison to a lower security facility in Colorado 01:19:31.920 --> 01:19:35.100 before his sentence was commuted. Served part 01:19:35.100 --> 01:19:37.520 of his sentence at a facility considered far 01:19:37.520 --> 01:19:40.100 less restrictive than typical high security institutions, 01:19:40.119 --> 01:19:44.220 but he got out. He got out. He was commuted after, 01:19:44.380 --> 01:19:46.239 what, a year maybe, something like that? Yeah, 01:19:46.260 --> 01:19:48.260 it was very little time. But considering the 01:19:48.260 --> 01:19:50.560 amount of harm he could have done to the country, 01:19:50.739 --> 01:19:55.000 he should have gotten way longer than that. He 01:19:55.000 --> 01:19:59.399 could have put any type of a creep in there if 01:19:59.399 --> 01:20:03.680 they paid him. Yeah. Satanist, a communist. All 01:20:03.680 --> 01:20:07.520 of the above. Anybody who hated America. Yeah. 01:20:09.079 --> 01:20:12.000 That's unforgivable in my opinion. All right. 01:20:12.180 --> 01:20:16.560 Lori Loughlin. Conviction. College admissions 01:20:16.560 --> 01:20:18.960 scandals in 2019. I think everybody remembers 01:20:18.960 --> 01:20:22.640 that. Yeah. She served at FCI Dublin. A low security. 01:20:22.840 --> 01:20:25.060 While not transferred from this brutal prison, 01:20:25.220 --> 01:20:27.420 her placement was in a lower security federal 01:20:27.420 --> 01:20:30.979 correctional institution known for housing nonviolent 01:20:30.979 --> 01:20:36.579 offenders. Yeah. Okay. And some of these, I see 01:20:36.579 --> 01:20:38.640 where they're going, but some of them, I mean, 01:20:38.640 --> 01:20:43.279 like Martha Stewart and Laura Laughlin, I mean, 01:20:43.300 --> 01:20:47.359 yeah. I think primarily they got lighter treatment 01:20:47.359 --> 01:20:51.500 because... Mostly what they were getting trouble 01:20:51.500 --> 01:20:53.899 for was not being smart enough to not get caught. 01:20:54.100 --> 01:20:56.619 Exactly. Everyone else does it, but they did 01:20:56.619 --> 01:20:58.619 not get caught. And it's like, we've got to give 01:20:58.619 --> 01:21:00.939 you some sort of token punishment, but yeah, 01:21:00.979 --> 01:21:02.539 we're all doing it. We're just smart enough not 01:21:02.539 --> 01:21:04.680 to get caught. So learn your lesson, do your 01:21:04.680 --> 01:21:07.060 tiny sentence, and learn your lesson and be more 01:21:07.060 --> 01:21:10.319 discreet next time with your corruption. Yep. 01:21:11.619 --> 01:21:15.579 The next one, Felicity Huffman. Yep. College 01:21:15.579 --> 01:21:18.300 admission scandals. Same thing. It was the same 01:21:18.300 --> 01:21:23.340 pack. Now, one of those two, one of the girls 01:21:23.340 --> 01:21:29.000 that did not get college admission because the 01:21:29.000 --> 01:21:32.140 actress's daughter got it instead was so distraught 01:21:32.140 --> 01:21:36.859 she killed herself. Yeah. And that was never 01:21:36.859 --> 01:21:39.119 brought up, though. Nope. They never addressed 01:21:39.119 --> 01:21:42.770 that. And it should have been. Yeah. I mean, 01:21:42.789 --> 01:21:45.390 there's some real consequences of the corrupt 01:21:45.390 --> 01:21:48.489 action of these elitist snobs who thought they 01:21:48.489 --> 01:21:49.850 were better than everybody else and they could 01:21:49.850 --> 01:21:51.670 just buy their way into whatever they wanted. 01:21:51.909 --> 01:21:53.710 That's a great way of putting it, too. Elitist 01:21:53.710 --> 01:21:58.149 snobs. True. Okay, so this is the same thing. 01:21:58.210 --> 01:22:01.529 She served FCI Dublin. And for the same thing, 01:22:01.609 --> 01:22:04.229 she was in pretty much a country club, another 01:22:04.229 --> 01:22:08.050 division of that prison. Yeah. At first, here's 01:22:08.050 --> 01:22:09.590 what happened with them because I read up on 01:22:09.590 --> 01:22:12.050 it. This doesn't necessarily describe it. When 01:22:12.050 --> 01:22:13.390 they first put them in there, they put them in 01:22:13.390 --> 01:22:16.010 general population with everyone else. Yeah. 01:22:16.250 --> 01:22:18.550 Then a couple days later, they quietly moved 01:22:18.550 --> 01:22:21.529 them to the country club, in parentheses, section 01:22:21.529 --> 01:22:26.729 of that prison. And from the impression I get, 01:22:26.789 --> 01:22:29.149 generally speaking, in prison, when something 01:22:29.149 --> 01:22:31.350 like that happens, you don't openly ask, you 01:22:31.350 --> 01:22:32.789 know, where's so -and -so? What happened to so 01:22:32.789 --> 01:22:35.430 -and -so? You might ask around behind the scenes, 01:22:35.529 --> 01:22:39.229 but to openly ask is to ask to get a beating. 01:22:41.380 --> 01:22:45.319 So they can sneak these preferred prisoners out 01:22:45.319 --> 01:22:48.539 without any kind of fuss. Nobody tells their 01:22:48.539 --> 01:22:50.020 relatives when they come to visit, oh, yeah, 01:22:50.079 --> 01:22:51.760 so -and -so was in here, but they moved him out 01:22:51.760 --> 01:22:54.079 to the country. You learn just to not say those 01:22:54.079 --> 01:22:56.319 kind of things. It's an inside gentleman's agreement. 01:22:56.840 --> 01:22:59.640 This is the way it works. Don't question it. 01:22:59.960 --> 01:23:03.020 Don't cause a rift. Yeah, the good old boy network 01:23:03.020 --> 01:23:06.060 isn't just for good old boys anymore. That type 01:23:06.060 --> 01:23:08.960 of network exists for all sorts of groups. Yep. 01:23:10.520 --> 01:23:13.199 All right, the next one would be Mike Tyson. 01:23:14.720 --> 01:23:18.140 1992, he was convicted of rape. Robin Givens. 01:23:18.140 --> 01:23:21.439 Yep. Initially incarcerated at Indiana Youth 01:23:21.439 --> 01:23:24.560 Center, which is a medium security, later moved 01:23:24.560 --> 01:23:27.079 to a lower security work camp with less restrictive 01:23:27.079 --> 01:23:32.640 conditions before his release. And there again, 01:23:32.760 --> 01:23:35.539 I got the impression when that whole thing was 01:23:35.539 --> 01:23:38.850 going on. that the majority of the people who 01:23:38.850 --> 01:23:41.250 were prosecuting Mike Tyson really didn't want 01:23:41.250 --> 01:23:44.090 to. Yes. I got the overall impression they're 01:23:44.090 --> 01:23:48.430 like, they believe that Robin Givens was lying 01:23:48.430 --> 01:23:52.189 because she wanted a relationship and he didn't, 01:23:52.189 --> 01:23:55.489 and so consensual sex turned into her accusation 01:23:55.489 --> 01:23:58.210 of rape. Yes. I'm not saying that was what happened. 01:23:58.229 --> 01:24:00.470 I'm saying that was the impression that a lot 01:24:00.470 --> 01:24:02.649 of the people prosecuting the case were giving. 01:24:02.710 --> 01:24:04.409 It's like, we don't believe this was rape. We 01:24:04.409 --> 01:24:07.859 really don't. We can't find a way to not try 01:24:07.859 --> 01:24:09.600 him for it. The thing that got me, though, is 01:24:09.600 --> 01:24:14.520 the jury said we convicted him with his own words. 01:24:16.239 --> 01:24:18.359 Yeah, I remember that. I don't exactly remember 01:24:18.359 --> 01:24:20.880 what words he said. I don't know if they ever 01:24:20.880 --> 01:24:24.000 released him. I wonder if he just worded something 01:24:24.000 --> 01:24:27.359 wrong then or something. Maybe said something 01:24:27.359 --> 01:24:29.500 really unflattering about her, like, you know, 01:24:29.500 --> 01:24:31.420 well, this dumbass bitch is just trying to rip 01:24:31.420 --> 01:24:33.300 me off. She deserved it. Yeah, anything like 01:24:33.300 --> 01:24:36.420 that could turn a jury. So who knows what it 01:24:36.420 --> 01:24:40.159 was. It's one of those things that you can guess 01:24:40.159 --> 01:24:41.920 what happened, but nobody's really going to know. 01:24:42.140 --> 01:24:43.800 Well, it sounds to me like he might have had 01:24:43.800 --> 01:24:46.859 it won, but he said something. When they word 01:24:46.859 --> 01:24:50.380 it like that, it's like, well, there is no doubt 01:24:50.380 --> 01:24:52.800 in our mind that he did it or a preponderance 01:24:52.800 --> 01:24:55.039 of evidence. Instead, they came out with that 01:24:55.039 --> 01:24:58.279 statement, which I found odd. That was a lot. 01:24:58.640 --> 01:25:01.979 Yeah. All right. How about Paris Hilton? Oh, 01:25:01.979 --> 01:25:05.930 yeah. Probation violation 2007, initially jailed 01:25:05.930 --> 01:25:09.069 in Los Angeles County, transferred to house arrest 01:25:09.069 --> 01:25:12.090 due to medical and psychological reasons, which 01:25:12.090 --> 01:25:14.930 critics described as preferential treatment. 01:25:15.210 --> 01:25:18.189 Yep. And it was. Because she's too much of a 01:25:18.189 --> 01:25:21.130 spoiled brat to actually live a genuine human 01:25:21.130 --> 01:25:23.689 being's life. She had to be coddled and protected 01:25:23.689 --> 01:25:26.130 every step of the way. Yep, and they did too. 01:25:26.699 --> 01:25:29.680 And, you know, in a very small way, I can see 01:25:29.680 --> 01:25:31.880 that because somebody who's been so sheltered 01:25:31.880 --> 01:25:34.100 and protected and has never had to deal with 01:25:34.100 --> 01:25:36.680 any of the consequences of their actions and 01:25:36.680 --> 01:25:39.640 choices and just suddenly throw them in a situation 01:25:39.640 --> 01:25:43.119 where this is all real and consequences are immediate 01:25:43.119 --> 01:25:45.520 and you need to start making smart choices like 01:25:45.520 --> 01:25:48.020 right now, they can't handle it. Their mind just 01:25:48.020 --> 01:25:50.140 breaks down. That's right. They simply cannot 01:25:50.140 --> 01:25:54.960 handle it. So I get it. Yeah, I do too. Yeah. 01:25:55.649 --> 01:26:01.350 Next one, Bernard Carrick. He's lesser known, 01:26:01.470 --> 01:26:03.970 but this is in the Madoff type of situation. 01:26:04.949 --> 01:26:07.770 He was convicted of tax fraud and false statements. 01:26:07.989 --> 01:26:11.470 Financial fraud. Yeah. Served part of a sentence 01:26:11.470 --> 01:26:14.010 at a federal prison camp, minimum security, rather 01:26:14.010 --> 01:26:18.869 than a higher security facility. Okay. To me, 01:26:18.890 --> 01:26:21.449 that depends on the severity of what they've 01:26:21.449 --> 01:26:23.409 done and how many people they affected and how 01:26:23.409 --> 01:26:27.270 much they stole. Yeah. If it was just kind of 01:26:27.270 --> 01:26:29.090 like shuffling the deck a little bit to get an 01:26:29.090 --> 01:26:31.369 edge, then I think maybe they should have been 01:26:31.369 --> 01:26:33.710 in the lower security. Now, if it was higher 01:26:33.710 --> 01:26:36.430 than that, like you got some racketeering and 01:26:36.430 --> 01:26:38.750 some strong arming and stuff like that, then 01:26:38.750 --> 01:26:40.829 yeah, then you go for the higher one. But I'm 01:26:40.829 --> 01:26:43.130 not really sure. I didn't read up on it to see 01:26:43.130 --> 01:26:48.449 exactly what he did. So I can't really say if 01:26:48.449 --> 01:26:50.689 I think that's fair or not. Well, I've noticed 01:26:50.689 --> 01:26:53.310 with a lot of people who commit embezzlement 01:26:53.310 --> 01:26:58.109 and fraud, the sentence they get depends on how 01:26:58.109 --> 01:27:01.149 much of the money was recoverable. That's true. 01:27:01.170 --> 01:27:03.430 But it actually goes the opposite way of what 01:27:03.430 --> 01:27:06.430 you think. If most of the money was recoverable, 01:27:06.529 --> 01:27:09.789 they get the book thrown at them. They get hammered. 01:27:10.170 --> 01:27:13.069 But say only 10 % of the money was recoverable 01:27:13.069 --> 01:27:15.210 and the other 90 % is like, well, it's just gone 01:27:15.210 --> 01:27:17.409 and it's out there. That person will get a light 01:27:17.409 --> 01:27:21.770 sentence because everyone who's surrounding that 01:27:21.770 --> 01:27:25.319 case... knows that that 90 % is untraceable and 01:27:25.319 --> 01:27:27.840 they can steal it themselves. And they make a 01:27:27.840 --> 01:27:29.640 deal with the defendant saying, hey, we'll give 01:27:29.640 --> 01:27:31.279 you a light sentence, but now you've got to start 01:27:31.279 --> 01:27:33.699 sharing that 90 % you got hidden because now 01:27:33.699 --> 01:27:35.239 it'll be hidden for us and we don't have to pay 01:27:35.239 --> 01:27:39.220 taxes on it. So since they know it's hidden, 01:27:39.359 --> 01:27:42.020 untraceable money, they give him a light sentence 01:27:42.020 --> 01:27:44.279 in exchange for sucking some of that money out 01:27:44.279 --> 01:27:47.979 for themselves. Okay. So that guy probably had 01:27:47.979 --> 01:27:50.899 a lot of that cash and money still on hand. That 01:27:50.899 --> 01:27:53.800 he could just transfer over. And that's how he 01:27:53.800 --> 01:27:55.840 got his life sentence. Yep. He fought his way 01:27:55.840 --> 01:27:58.779 out of jail with untraceable money. Happens all 01:27:58.779 --> 01:28:01.420 the time. It does. Yep. If you're rich enough 01:28:01.420 --> 01:28:03.239 in this country, you can break just about any 01:28:03.239 --> 01:28:06.319 law you want. And they do. Yep. Look at the current 01:28:06.319 --> 01:28:09.520 news with Epstein and West. Yep. And how about 01:28:09.520 --> 01:28:13.460 old Hillary? Yep. Old Hillary up there. Yep. 01:28:13.479 --> 01:28:17.640 Well, my problem is everyone's not getting involved. 01:28:18.620 --> 01:28:21.079 No, right now we're focusing on you. We'll get 01:28:21.079 --> 01:28:23.680 to them later. I think it's really funny how 01:28:23.680 --> 01:28:27.560 the Clintons avoided going to testify as long 01:28:27.560 --> 01:28:31.420 as they could. They just went silent. They didn't 01:28:31.420 --> 01:28:33.760 say no. They didn't refuse. They just pretended 01:28:33.760 --> 01:28:35.899 that no one had ever subpoenaed them. Guilty. 01:28:36.140 --> 01:28:39.960 Guilty. But what they were working on was Chelsea 01:28:39.960 --> 01:28:44.640 Clinton and her escape plan. Yes. Because there's 01:28:44.640 --> 01:28:46.460 all that money missing from the Clinton Foundation. 01:28:50.030 --> 01:28:53.590 Chelsea has said, oh, well, now that I know about 01:28:53.590 --> 01:28:55.409 my parents' involvement with Epstein, I just 01:28:55.409 --> 01:28:57.170 can't have anything to do with him, so I'm leaving 01:28:57.170 --> 01:28:59.529 the Clinton Foundation. That's the cover story 01:28:59.529 --> 01:29:02.850 for why she's leaving. She's also sold her house 01:29:02.850 --> 01:29:05.630 that's next to Bill and Hillary and says, well, 01:29:05.689 --> 01:29:08.270 maybe I'll just go live in Tel Aviv with my husband. 01:29:08.760 --> 01:29:12.060 Gee, wasn't Epstein from Israel? Yes, he sure 01:29:12.060 --> 01:29:15.279 was. So she's giving the public perception of 01:29:15.279 --> 01:29:17.300 disavowing her parents and wanting nothing to 01:29:17.300 --> 01:29:19.359 do with them and going to another country to 01:29:19.359 --> 01:29:22.180 start over. No, she is still doing exactly what 01:29:22.180 --> 01:29:24.880 she's already done. She's taking seed money and 01:29:24.880 --> 01:29:27.199 a perfect cover story, and she's setting up operations 01:29:27.199 --> 01:29:30.680 in Tel Aviv. Yeah, and I mean, it's allegedly, 01:29:30.979 --> 01:29:35.350 but I mean, I believe it. So the other thing 01:29:35.350 --> 01:29:37.590 is, is all the money that was stolen from there 01:29:37.590 --> 01:29:40.069 that no one can account for, her bank account 01:29:40.069 --> 01:29:42.329 grew. Isn't that amazing? And what does she do? 01:29:42.649 --> 01:29:45.829 Some public speaker? People are fucking rubes 01:29:45.829 --> 01:29:48.750 buying that dumbass? Yeah, see, here's how you 01:29:48.750 --> 01:29:51.649 launder money. Laundering money is you provide 01:29:51.649 --> 01:29:54.310 a credible source for that income. List yourself 01:29:54.310 --> 01:29:57.449 as a consultant for businesses. List yourself 01:29:57.449 --> 01:30:02.140 as... giving speaking engagements to boardrooms 01:30:02.140 --> 01:30:03.859 and private groups. I don't think she's that 01:30:03.859 --> 01:30:07.439 smart. Pretend that you've written a book or 01:30:07.439 --> 01:30:09.500 two and got published, or somebody bought the 01:30:09.500 --> 01:30:11.180 publishing rights but it hasn't been published 01:30:11.180 --> 01:30:13.659 yet. These are all things you can fake and create 01:30:13.659 --> 01:30:15.960 paper for, and it's like, oh yeah, this is where 01:30:15.960 --> 01:30:18.920 I got my $1 .8 million last year, but you never 01:30:18.920 --> 01:30:21.979 did any of that stuff. But that's the perfect 01:30:21.979 --> 01:30:25.740 cover. Consulting, public appearance. publishing 01:30:25.740 --> 01:30:28.640 rights, just all sorts of vague, intangible things 01:30:28.640 --> 01:30:31.500 that nobody can prove ever happened. Yeah. So 01:30:31.500 --> 01:30:33.560 that's probably where Chelsea's money come from, 01:30:33.640 --> 01:30:36.199 is from all these money laundering schemes that 01:30:36.199 --> 01:30:39.479 they've got figured out. Oh, yeah. So, all right. 01:30:40.239 --> 01:30:43.239 Jeffrey Skilling, remember him? I do. All right. 01:30:43.340 --> 01:30:46.539 He is fraud in the Enron scandal. Yep. Enron 01:30:46.539 --> 01:30:49.680 was a company that never did really exist. Yeah. 01:30:49.720 --> 01:30:52.560 It was made up an energy company. They pumped 01:30:52.560 --> 01:30:56.039 up the stock, and then... Everyone pulled out 01:30:56.039 --> 01:30:58.359 with all the money, and the people that didn't 01:30:58.359 --> 01:31:01.140 know about it, they lost everything. You know, 01:31:01.140 --> 01:31:04.840 that same scheme has been used on Broadway. Someone 01:31:04.840 --> 01:31:10.100 will come up with a fake play project and get 01:31:10.100 --> 01:31:14.340 a bunch of investors to invest, except they get 01:31:14.340 --> 01:31:17.819 like, oh, you can buy a 100 % stake in it, and 01:31:17.819 --> 01:31:20.100 they'll sell a 100 % stake to somebody else. 01:31:20.180 --> 01:31:25.069 They'll sell like 800%, 900%. of their show, 01:31:25.350 --> 01:31:27.329 and then there never was a show. They just take 01:31:27.329 --> 01:31:29.689 the investors' money and just care. That's kind 01:31:29.689 --> 01:31:33.289 of what Enron did on a massive scale. Isn't it? 01:31:33.590 --> 01:31:36.829 Yeah, no, it is. Absolutely. So a lot of these 01:31:36.829 --> 01:31:38.909 schemes are exactly the same. It's just you dress 01:31:38.909 --> 01:31:41.590 them up different. Yeah, yeah. Damn it, I was 01:31:41.590 --> 01:31:43.050 going somewhere with that. I forgot. Oh, well. 01:31:43.430 --> 01:31:48.050 I interrupted. No, no, it's fine. I would have 01:31:48.050 --> 01:31:50.359 done it anyhow. It wasn't you. While you were 01:31:50.359 --> 01:31:51.880 talking, I was like thinking, wait a minute, 01:31:51.920 --> 01:31:53.880 what was that? Anyhow, it doesn't matter. All 01:31:53.880 --> 01:31:57.279 right. He was at a higher federal prison. He 01:31:57.279 --> 01:32:01.260 went to a low security prison in Colorado before 01:32:01.260 --> 01:32:04.779 an early release. So pretty much nothing happened 01:32:04.779 --> 01:32:08.399 to him. Yeah. How about Bernie Madoff? Yeah. 01:32:10.180 --> 01:32:14.020 Ponzi scheme? Yeah. Served FCI buttoner, medium 01:32:14.020 --> 01:32:17.789 security. Medical facility, so he was in a medical 01:32:17.789 --> 01:32:21.210 facility, so he was protected anyhow. Yeah. So 01:32:21.210 --> 01:32:24.069 somebody's great aunt that was defrauded and 01:32:24.069 --> 01:32:28.289 lost everything and died in poverty because of 01:32:28.289 --> 01:32:30.750 him couldn't get to him. Yeah, but he bribed 01:32:30.750 --> 01:32:33.989 his way into the prison infirmary so he could 01:32:33.989 --> 01:32:37.170 do easy time lying in a bed. Yeah, and anyone 01:32:37.170 --> 01:32:39.449 that he affected couldn't get near him. Yeah. 01:32:40.630 --> 01:32:43.149 Weasel. So he must have been another one of those 01:32:43.149 --> 01:32:45.090 that had a lot of untraceable money to spread 01:32:45.090 --> 01:32:49.069 around to smooth his way. Exactly. Yeah, a lot 01:32:49.069 --> 01:32:51.770 of the times the prosecutors, the police, the 01:32:51.770 --> 01:32:53.989 federal agencies, they don't want to recover 01:32:53.989 --> 01:32:56.210 that money. Because if they recover it, they 01:32:56.210 --> 01:32:58.770 have to give it back. If they don't recover it, 01:32:58.789 --> 01:33:02.670 then they get to steal it themselves. Yeah. Yeah, 01:33:02.710 --> 01:33:05.350 that's the way, I mean, it's bullshit, but... 01:33:05.350 --> 01:33:09.569 Yeah. Alan Stanford, Ponzi scheme, same exact 01:33:09.569 --> 01:33:13.439 thing. Yeah. Jordan Belfont, securities fraud. 01:33:14.739 --> 01:33:17.659 He went to a minimum security and then got out 01:33:17.659 --> 01:33:21.100 early, way real early, for no apparent reason. 01:33:21.479 --> 01:33:23.439 He probably went to work for somebody else teaching 01:33:23.439 --> 01:33:25.539 him how to commit securities fraud and not get 01:33:25.539 --> 01:33:29.279 caught. Yep, yeah. See, a lot of these criminal, 01:33:29.500 --> 01:33:31.760 you know, these people who get convicted and 01:33:31.760 --> 01:33:33.659 go to jail, it's not because they're, you know, 01:33:33.659 --> 01:33:36.680 bad people and they won't fit in society. It's 01:33:36.680 --> 01:33:38.779 just they had the bad taste of getting caught. 01:33:39.229 --> 01:33:41.109 But there's a ton of people out there who would 01:33:41.109 --> 01:33:43.489 love to hire them to do the exact same thing 01:33:43.489 --> 01:33:45.210 and only just not get caught this time. It's 01:33:45.210 --> 01:33:46.949 just like all the criminals on the internet. 01:33:48.109 --> 01:33:50.689 Norton and all those guys hire them because they 01:33:50.689 --> 01:33:53.029 go, we want to know how you broke into us. Let 01:33:53.029 --> 01:33:55.430 us know so we can fix it. And they pay them high 01:33:55.430 --> 01:33:57.890 dollar to do that. And some of them work from 01:33:57.890 --> 01:33:59.949 jail. They're like, yeah, yeah, you can do it. 01:34:00.529 --> 01:34:05.869 Of course, Norton and McAfee and all those places, 01:34:06.029 --> 01:34:09.489 they don't want... hackers and virus makers to 01:34:09.489 --> 01:34:11.970 go away because then their business would go 01:34:11.970 --> 01:34:17.710 away. It's like the termite companies love termites 01:34:17.710 --> 01:34:19.390 because that keeps them in business. They don't 01:34:19.390 --> 01:34:21.670 want termites to go away. They want people to 01:34:21.670 --> 01:34:23.909 keep getting termites so they can come and get 01:34:23.909 --> 01:34:27.229 your money for clearing your house. It's subscription. 01:34:27.710 --> 01:34:30.189 Everything wants to be subscription because they 01:34:30.189 --> 01:34:33.880 want you to pay every month. They can borrow 01:34:33.880 --> 01:34:36.319 enormous amounts of money based on their subscription 01:34:36.319 --> 01:34:38.439 base. Yes, they can. Yeah, they got all this 01:34:38.439 --> 01:34:41.500 capital. We got 3 million people. Look at how 01:34:41.500 --> 01:34:47.020 that idiot parked. Thank you. That is actually 01:34:47.020 --> 01:34:49.699 pretty funny. It is. That's a new way of parking 01:34:49.699 --> 01:34:55.640 I've never seen over there. All right. How long 01:34:55.640 --> 01:35:01.960 have we got? An hour and 32? What is that? Yeah, 01:35:02.020 --> 01:35:04.260 an hour and a half. Okay, do you want to keep 01:35:04.260 --> 01:35:05.840 going on with this, or do you want to go hit 01:35:05.840 --> 01:35:08.560 the music creeps, or what do you think? Let's 01:35:08.560 --> 01:35:10.680 hit the music creeps. All right, let's do that. 01:35:10.840 --> 01:35:14.699 So I can contribute. Okay. Well, you are. I mean, 01:35:14.720 --> 01:35:17.079 you're piggybacking off of my subjects really 01:35:17.079 --> 01:35:19.659 well, but let's go ahead and go there. All righty. 01:35:21.359 --> 01:35:24.899 All right, this has been the alternate douchebags. 01:35:25.619 --> 01:35:27.600 We're in an alternate universe right now. What 01:35:27.600 --> 01:35:31.199 is the name of our planet and the universe? Smegma 01:35:31.199 --> 01:35:36.359 3. Okay, we're in Smegma 3 right now. Penis cheese. 01:35:36.899 --> 01:35:42.359 Yes. Lovely stuff. Yeah, so this is something 01:35:42.359 --> 01:35:44.520 we plan on doing regularly, I guess. Yeah. And 01:35:44.520 --> 01:35:47.699 then when football stuff comes in, we will switch 01:35:47.699 --> 01:35:51.100 back over to the sports baskets. Yep. But anyhow, 01:35:51.279 --> 01:35:53.579 we... Thank you guys for joining in on this brand 01:35:53.579 --> 01:35:56.960 new program. And if you turned us off, fuck you, 01:35:56.979 --> 01:35:59.760 but you're not going to hear anything. But we 01:35:59.760 --> 01:36:01.699 appreciate you listening. 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