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But anyways, on to today's topic.

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So this this one's kind of a bit of a dual topic.

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It's something that I think both flow into each other and it's very much related.

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So we want to talk about the right to repair and decay of the service industry.

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And I feel like both these things are directly related.

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It's it's something to where because it's not solely because of one or the other,

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but they very much are closely linked.

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A lot of this actually comes from something that we're both very to a both very into tech,

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as you guys know, both very to technology.

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But we've also noticed the insane lengths that some of these companies are going to to make sure that you

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as the consumer don't actually own what you buy.

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You don't actually get to repair it.

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You don't have the right to look at it.

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Some companies actively go out of their way to make sure you cannot fix anything that you own.

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So effectively, you don't really own it.

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And as well in conjunction with that, the service industry is dying for a multitude of reasons.

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But this does factor into it.

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Right. It's not just service industries in general.

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When we say service, we're also talking about customer service industries.

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You you go to get a cheese.

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Sorry, I can't say that word.

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You go to get a meat sandwich with dairy product on it.

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Oh, that's why you can't say it.

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Yeah, took me by my dog is laying next to me, so I can't say the actual word.

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Otherwise, she'll perk up and go crazy and expect one.

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Yeah, the perks of training your dog to know a word.

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You go to get one of those at a at a burger joint and the weight is ridiculous because they're putting priorities on digital orders now.

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They're making the in-person customers wait.

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And it's it's pissing people off to the point where they're just walking out of the stores.

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Oh, yeah, I see all the time.

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They're losing money, but they almost don't care because of the volume of digital orders now.

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It's offset at that point.

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But how long is it going to be before those people decide?

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Well, if they wouldn't take my order in person, why would I make that digital order now?

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So I think a lot of that has to do with the different generations, too.

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It's a very generational thing.

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It might be more situation dependent if I'm just out and about.

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Maybe I'll walk in if I'm already home and I don't feel like going out.

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I'll door dash it. I'll Uber Eats it, whatever.

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But if I get spotted one too many times, I'm also one of those assholes who's going to say, OK, you didn't take care of me before.

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I'm not going to go there for a while, at least.

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So I mean, I I'm vocal with my wallet as it is.

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I individually make next to zero difference.

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I see a lot around here, particularly.

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I live in a state that has a higher minimum wage than you do substantially.

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Most states have a higher minimum wage than mine.

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But what's scary is in mine, a lot of fast food or any sort of quick kind of restaurant, they don't even have people at the register.

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Sometimes it's literally it is only the kiosks or only digital pickup.

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So how long is it going to be before you get to walk up to your food order and you're greeted with the kiosk?

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And when you don't have the money to pay, they just take your kid because you're a bad parent.

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No, the reference. It's an idiocracy reference for anyone that doesn't get that.

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That that documentary still scares me. I know that is that is required watching, by the way.

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I put that up there with like Fahrenheit, 451 and 1984.

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That is something where you need to watch it if you've never seen it.

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Watch it, please, please.

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Gible says he was baiting. But yet T-Mobile, like like Gible said, T-Mobile makes you do everything through an app now.

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They're not alone. Boost, who I use, you have lost so much functionality because it's all it's now all app based.

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I was trying to get some information that I know I used to be able to do back when it was through T-Mobile.

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But because I switched over to boost, I no longer have that functionality, even though they're on the same network.

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And little things like that really kind of piss me off because it's still there. It's still on the same servers.

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So it's one of the one of the problems that we see is the fact that because they do not want to hire people to work at these companies

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that rather have an simplistic AI system and have pre-made answers, they would rather you just go through an app and try to figure it out or use one of the stupid friggin AI chat bots.

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I was like, how can I help you today? And then you try to ask it something and it doesn't know what you're asking.

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Or worse, they pay some poor guy in a third world country that's just trying to make a buck and get by who barely understands enough English to understand what it is you're even asking.

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And you have to struggle with struggle through the language barrier, trying to get through whatever it is you're trying to do.

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And you may or may not get anywhere before you get cycled back into the queue again because you piss somebody off.

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And they just said, yeah, please hold. And they put you back in the queue. Yeah, I've never done that during my years in customer service.

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It's insane. It's just it's it's insane that we have to go through this, especially when there was a time in the US when he called a US company, someone from the US would answer.

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Right. And I'm not saying well, I'm not saying that to be a dick.

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But the fact is, like in America, there's a lot of slang in certain languages, certain things that people from outside the country might not understand what you mean or what you're getting at or where you want to talk about or who you want to talk to or what department or what this or that.

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And it gets really frustrating as an as an as an American when you're trying to get a very specific answer and all you're met with is computers or especially if you're somebody that's disabled, has some sort of like speaking barrier or problem.

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Or if you have to try to press a 97 bajillion friggin buttons to get somewhere, God forbid you can't just go to a representative and then talk to them.

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And so many places, if you ask for one, you just you will be ringing forever.

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I switched banks because of this. My old bank.

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You could not get somebody online anywhere.

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It was all chat bots.

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They couldn't do anything for you.

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Oh, I literally went there was like, I am stopping doing business with you because I cannot get anything online.

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My account kept getting hacked by bank account.

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So they just locked me out completely.

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I could not get I could not reset my password or anything.

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Do this.

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F this bank. Yeah, it no, I will never use them again.

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Very much happy with my new bank.

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But I think there's also another part in the service industry why it's dying.

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You have to consider that number one, the service industry as a whole doesn't pay enough for dealing with people.

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No, any retail position doesn't pay enough to deal with people.

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I in fact think that you should be as a retail worker allowed to fight one customer a week.

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So you have spited me.

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I challenge the just if OK, all seriousness.

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If you work in retail and you get those caring customers that try to like get off on belittling you,

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look them dead in the eye when they're doing it and just look, look at them and just be like, yes, to grade me, mommy.

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You will flip the script on them so quick they will not know what to do or how to react.

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They are expecting you to flip out.

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And if you just sit there and be like, degrade me more, please, I need it.

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Yeah, just reach under your reach under your smock.

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It's like, God, I need that degrading.

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Oh, my God.

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Degrade me harder.

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It's but what is sad about that, though, is I'm not saying that like every job deserves a ton of money.

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That's not what I'm saying at all.

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But in the service industry, if you are there to represent a company, you are the face of that company.

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And I'm sure what people see 99 percent of the time in most of them are these companies,

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they are the least paid positions and also the least trained positions.

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Usually most these places you get a couple of days of training.

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It's like, all right, fucking do it.

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Run the show. Do what you got to do.

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And that's not necessarily smart.

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That's not necessarily the best way to do it.

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And a lot of these companies, they take absolutely zero pride in training people in these situations.

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A lot of that falls on the fact that you go to the retail stores, the restaurants anywhere these days.

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Who's running the show?

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It's somebody probably under 30, maybe 25, probably doesn't have a whole lot of experience and or training under the belt to begin with.

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So they're just trying to get by.

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And they're going to have to train these teenagers coming up behind them with what limited training they have

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and what ideas were maybe put on their shoulders to say, hey, this is where we work.

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This is what we're supposed to do.

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Let's try to maybe make this work a little bit.

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I don't know.

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I literally just on my way back from work, I picked up a fun little fact.

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Domino's has a new pizza out today and I had to try it.

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But besides that, there's a sponsor of Domino's.

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I would have to take a sponsor.

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I'll tell you right now, I put enough money into that place.

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I think I would kind of owed one.

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But the store that I stopped at on my way back home from work, there's literally like a 26 year old kid that runs the place.

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Like he is the head manager.

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And I'm sitting there thinking going, every person that works here is basically 22, 21, 20, 19.

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Whereas I compared to the dominoes on the other side of town that it's run by someone that probably like their mid late 50s.

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And that dude doesn't give a fuck that he's just checked out.

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He doesn't give a shit.

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He has absolutely no training for these kids.

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They anytime I've ever been there, it's always a different group of people.

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The only reason I go to that one is because it has a drive through.

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So you can just stay in your car, drive up, grab your pizza, go.

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Which as a fat American, let me tell you, I appreciate a drive through pizza place, probably more than I should, but I appreciate it.

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Well, something I've noticed is that there is there's been this big divide, I think, where and I don't want to do this ageism thing or whatever.

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But I think there's a lot of older people in the service industry that checked out forever ago and that have absolutely no desire to train younger people in it.

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I'm not saying all, but boy, do I see a lot of older people in the service industry that are just like, fuck this.

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I don't care whatever.

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I'm getting paid.

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I come in.

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Did you know as as an elder person in in life, I feel I can maybe offer an answer.

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We're not paid to be trainers.

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Which they should be.

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Period.

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Shut up.

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Trade, you should be trained to offset that though, like you should be paid to offset the training time.

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Yeah, we're paid to do a job.

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Oftentimes we're being paid to do the job of at least one or two people.

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Yeah, besides our primary job.

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And then we're expected to also train somebody to do their job while still expecting full throughput on our side.

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And sometimes that new person is getting paid the same amount that you are because they need to hire somebody.

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Most often they are at a minimum, sometimes more than you, depending on where you work.

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That's always a fun one.

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When you find out the new guy makes more than you.

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That happened to me once.

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That's who if you if you're an employer or a boss and you do that, you are a piece of shit.

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I hope you know that.

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That's ridiculous.

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No, a lot of places don't pay for experience, though.

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I've noticed it's weird.

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They want five years of experience, but they want new pay.

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They want entry level pay with master's level experience, which is that's that's not how the world works.

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But I think what we're going to be seeing, though, as the boomers have really phased out of the workforce

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and even the younger boomers are starting to phase out, you're going to have this incredible skills gap at the top of a lot of industries.

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And somebody has to be trained to take the spot.

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Someone has to do it at some point.

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And I believe it's your generation now that's starting to kind of get to that point.

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And thankfully, your generation is way more apt to train people.

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Oh, yeah, because because you see what it's like to not fucking have people.

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Yeah, we've been kind of carrying shit on our shoulders for a while.

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So we're like the last generation kind of poised to get people set up to do shit.

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So we're we're like the apocalypse kids.

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You shut the grid off.

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We're going to survive just fine. We're the feral ones.

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So you guys are the generation that have have been you.

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You guys were used to being adaptable.

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You've seen society go through a lot of changes throughout your lives over a long enough time period where you're just kind of used to it.

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It's like times change.

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Things happen. Suck it up, buttercup. It is what it is.

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I was raised by it, molded by it.

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The first time I saw a cell phone, I was already a man.

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But I also feel like your generation was consequences for your generation was used to having consequences, though, for also behaving.

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Oh, yeah. Terribly.

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Yeah, there's some that the younger generation kind of gets away with, especially things like not showing up, being late, just generally not having a work ethic.

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And I know at the same point for them, it's very frustrating to work for a job that doesn't pay the bills anyway.

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So why fucking bother? But you then also can't bitch about not getting anywhere.

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Having a terrible service industry if you're not even showing up to work, it's kind of a it's kind of a problem.

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Like you got to fucking be there to like I gave a buddy of mine.

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I remember this was just out of high school. I have a buddy of mine.

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He lived at my house for a little while, whatever.

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And he was complaining about, you know, this fucking we have a notorious Wendy's down the street from my house.

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That while it's convenient, it's run by absolute fucking morons and they get your order wrong at least 80 percent of the time.

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There's always something wrong with it. But we accept it because it's the only one around.

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And he was thinking, man, what the fuck? Every time they get my order wrong, something's wrong.

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I'm like, aren't you the guy that like doesn't show up to two or three shifts a week at a fucking movie theater because you're too lazy to get out of bed?

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Like, why? Why are you bitching about those people? Like, at least there's people there.

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Right. Yeah, those are.

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And I agree with Gibles and chat shit. I ain't training no one, unless they pay me to do it exactly.

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But that's what many employers don't. They don't recognize and they don't pay people for their talents.

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And the fact they understand that training people is not something that's guaranteed.

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Not everybody can train. And not only that, but as somebody from education background, you have to know something really well in order to be able to teach it.

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You have to know it better than just being able to do it. You have to really know it and understand it to be able to teach it.

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Yeah. So it's not an innate skill. Just say, oh, yeah, my one of my regulars can train them.

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It's like they can. But that's not the way it's supposed to be. Right.

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Not everybody can convey knowledge and information effectively.

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And that's something that gets lost in translation when it comes to training.

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But before we get too far into that rabbit hole, I do want to kind of mushroom stamp a little bit onto the companies that don't like the repair portion of their other products.

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Apple, John Deere, Tesla are some of the big three that do not want their products being fixed.

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So if you buy something from them, they don't want you to be able to fix it. So I can talk person a little bit about the John Deere situation because I know quite a bit about this.

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Yeah, go ahead. So only because I think this is very important for people to understand.

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John Deere is one of the original OG American brands when it comes to the farming industry.

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That is one of the brands that revolutionized between them in case there's a few other brands farm on a few other ones.

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They were instrumental in American farming and without the American farming industry, we wouldn't be the same kind of country we are now in the 30s, 40s, 50s, even in the early 20s.

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John Deere was one of the premier brands coming out with a lot of farming equipment.

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And for a long time, it was heavy duty, American made, American pride.

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And they helped out a lot of farmers. They offered great incentive programs, financing options, things like that.

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Because people don't realize most farmers have a lot of overhead. They have a lot of expenses and farming equipment is really freaking expensive.

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Well, back in about 2012, 2014, a lot of a lot of John Deere actually got bought up by Chinese companies.

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And what they started doing is making the software proprietary and not allowing farmers to fix them.

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Now, previously, if you're a farmer, the middle of Iowa or Indiana, you might be two, four, 800 miles away from a John Deere dealership.

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And when things break and when you have hay on the ground, you got things going on, you got to fix stuff.

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You got to be able to fix your tractor. Your tractor is your life. Your farm equipment is your life.

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And by them not allowing you to buy parts for them, not allowing you to be able to repair the stuff goes against what John Deere really made was made famous for,

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which is the ease and availability of parts, as well as it being able to be serviced.

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I even have an old 76 John Deere when I bought my grandfather got it.

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I have three or four books that are all I shit you not huge. They are hundreds, if not thousands of pages.

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I could learn everything, how to replace every line, how to relash the valves, how to rebuild the engine, how to do all the hydraulics, everything.

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Because the idea was if you buy John Deere in America, you can fix it. You can operate it. You have everything you need.

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Right. It was a founding core principle because you could fix and keep it was an investment that you needed to be able to keep going.

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Exactly. Whereas with modern John Deere, because it was so much of it was bought up by Chinese companies,

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they do not allow American farmers to have access to any of the source code, replace almost any of the internal components.

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You have to even for simple fuel pumps and shit, you have to get them reprogrammed and coded for that specific tractor.

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And only the dealership can do it. There is zero aftermarket support.

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And guess what? If the dealership can't get to you. Oh, well, tough luck, tough shit. I guess you don't get a tractor.

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And people don't realize if you buy a modern like 250 horse tractor, that's not like a $20,000 tractor.

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That's not $80,000. You're talking two, three, $40,000. Even the combines are half a million.

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Some of them more. Yeah, they're not cheap. So imagine buying it.

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Imagine buying a car for half a million dollars and them saying, oh, you want to get it serviced?

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Ah, it'll be three to six, six, what days? Three to six months, weeks. No, probably months.

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Could be eight months. Who knows? Our farmers can't operate on those timescales.

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No, it's insane. And that's the reason why it just really upsets me is because they were a premier American brand

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that a lot of reputable farmers now won't even touch with a 10 foot pole. No fucking way.

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And not just farmers, homeowners, too. Yeah, I wouldn't.

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I'd say even the place that I used to work at in the past, we were placed, we repaired all sorts of like lawn equipment, tractors and things like that.

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John Deere was the only company that actively came after my company and said, you cannot touch our stuff.

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It must be sent to the dealer. If we find you're picking this stuff up, we will come after you.

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I just tell customers all the time, like they're like, yeah, we have a John Deere tractor.

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We love to have worked on. I'm like, sorry, I can't touch it.

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Literally, I we had paperwork framed up in my manager's office.

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That's our customer assets, like literally here. This is from them. Can't do it.

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I'd love to help you, but we can't. Wow.

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And not just John Deere, but places like Apple on the newer phones.

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I think it's after like 13. They had part pairings. So if if an unauthorized shop replaces a screen on your iPhone, it's embedded with an ID code or a serial in the screen that when it turns on, it'll be like, oh, this isn't the same screen.

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The automatic dimming will no longer work.

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It's a screen for fuck's sake. Come on.

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It's not like you're that petty. Are you serious? And their laptops, those things already have a premium on them because it's Apple, you know, the whole Apple culture.

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I won't get into that tonight.

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But oftentimes, one of the biggest fail parts on the Apple laptops is a $12 charge chip or chipset.

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Guys like me can replace that in like 1015 minutes. Plus, you know, disassembly time with a laptop.

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But Apple went in to the vendors, places like Mauser and DigiKey, and they were like, you can't sell this anymore to non commercial entities.

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And then they actually started saying, no, you can't sell this unless you're selling it with this ultra expensive part.

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And they effectively choked off the repair supply.

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So, yeah, they're they're strangling the part supplies.

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They're making it impossible to do small part repairs.

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And then the knowledge that you need to do the repairs, schematics, wiring diagrams, manuals, all that's out the door.

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You cannot get the information you need to do the repairs yourself.

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So good luck trying. There are knowledge bases online that people are putting together.

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There are some forums, Reddit.

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Sometimes you can get some of the shit you need, but oftentimes, no, you're on your own.

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Or what they want to do is just push you to get a new shiny product.

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Pay for their warranty. Never pay for the warranty.

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Throwaway culture, throwaway mentality has overtaken a lot of facets of society, unfortunately.

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Our high tech devices are full of rare materials that are not just costly monetarily to obtain.

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They're costly on the human side.

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And the more I'm not trying to sound like a hippie or a tree hugger or anything,

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but the more that we can reclaim those items, the less expensive they can be reprocessed into new items.

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And we don't have to use that same human cost to get new materials.

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There's my soapbox.

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I 100% agree with you. And especially I feel like that should be a mandate, by the way.

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If you're making electronic components, they should be designed to be easily be able to be broken down.

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That way you can be harvest and reuse because there's only so much lithium.

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There's only so many alkaline metals. There's only so much resource that we have on the planet.

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And with all the stuff that gets thrown into landfills that could be used to make new devices, it's insane.

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And you'll never get a 100% reuse. That's the problem.

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Like for that same pound of, let's just say, lithium, for example, you might be able to capture 80% of each time,

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but then you're still always going to have to mine more lithium.

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Right. But not as much. Now, yeah, some some things like lithium are not fully recyclable,

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but you've got things like copper, gold, silver. Those are completely recyclable.

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Those are re-obtainable. The amount of e-waste that we dispose of every year,

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it's in the millions of tons and the billions of dollars.

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That's waste. In e-waste that just ends up at the bottom of the ocean.

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So it's such a shame.

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But they should be designed to be worked on that way. At least these things can be repaired.

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Like, for example, the amount of things that we think are useless in this country.

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But I bet you there are other countries that would happily take something.

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There are other places that would happily take those older iPhones, those older iPads, computers, laptops, things like that.

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Even old radio, stereos. Why not?

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Why wouldn't you just ship them to somewhere like Africa or something that are India or whatever?

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North Korea, you know.

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If only. Right.

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But they should be designed. I feel like there should be a mandate where it's like, hey,

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these things should be able to be repairable, at least by a skilled technician.

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It's one thing to not give up your software.

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I understand that because that's more proprietary to a point.

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But the hardware, something you can physically handle.

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I'm not saying they have to allow aftermarket support, but you can't strangle aftermarket support as well to not exist.

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And on the software, I understand not allowing access to like source code level things,

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because if somebody gets in there and dicks with the software and then somebody else tries to come back and say, oh, well, now the product doesn't work after I had it repaired.

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And then they want the OEM to cover like a warranty type deal.

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No, that's obviously something that voided that level of warranty.

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If you have a repair done there, there needs to be protections in place for the OEM.

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Exactly. But when the repair is within the guidelines and it's done by a certified shop, having certification programs was a thing for a long time.

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Oh, yeah. I got several certifications back in my day.

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Back in my day.

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But you can make it so that either A, only certified people are doing these repairs or B, you can isolate the levels of the warranty that are covered post repair.

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So. And why wouldn't these companies promote these certifications?

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Think about it. What they could do. They could charge money for it and have a yearly up thing.

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And I feel like that that would drive so much more trust in that product as well, because at least if you could get it fixed, I'd be more apt to buy some of this stuff.

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But because I know I can't get it fixed, I don't even fucking bother.

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A lot of people would. You know, but like, wasn't there that phone that came out a little while ago that like you could replace every part of it?

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It's like almost like different Lego bricks.

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I believe it was like a Chinese phone. It was also American. Might have been a Huawei, but I know what phone you're talking about.

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But yeah, it was the Lego phones. And that's why they killed it, because they didn't want people being able to have that much control over the parts.

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It's it would almost make you. I really feel like these manufacturers to understand they're really selling software.

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If you're Apple, you're in the business of selling software, you're not actually in the business of selling hardware.

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Because the reality of it is everybody uses you not because your hardware, it's because your software.

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Nobody in their right mind is buying an Apple computer or Apple laptop saying they have the best hardware.

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No, they don't. I will tell you right now, for a fact, we know they don't. It's their software and their ecosystem.

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So why don't they just say, hey, you know what? Let's make it so our software works on more products, works on more hardware,

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and let the customer decide what they want and what they need. Because then here's the here's the inverse.

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If I as somebody that does a lot of music production and a lot of other stuff clearly with the podcast and everything else,

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if I could get an Apple desktop done to the specs that I want and I just throw on their software, I would have done that for the last 12 years.

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And I probably average spending a couple thousand dollars a year on computer components. I spend a lot on computer stuff.

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I would have happily had a nice high end Mac based desktop, but they will not freaking let me.

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Because anything that I want to do, no, they don't offer it right. It doesn't support. It's not supported.

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It's not allowed. Which is insane. Especially what if you wanted a phone that had a dual OS?

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If you want to like like a bootleg or something like that, you can't do that.

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Yeah, back in back in the early days, people would route their phones and have like a dual dual boot thing, which is so cool.

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Right. A buddy of mine in high school did that. It was awesome.

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But now it's very unfortunate that these companies decide to do these things.

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I do think that right to repair bills is something that needs to go national because right now it's usually sorry.

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Especially at a state level, which I'm glad some states care about it. But I really all need to.

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There needs to be a debate and a discussion that has to happen on if you buy a product, do you own it?

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And I'm talking the physical product, not the software, because I'm willing to leave that up for the debate.

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But for instance, if I buy a car.

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I'm going to put a big old fat, hairy donkey dick of a pen in that software discussion.

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But go ahead and if you.

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I feel like that's a longer discussion. I'm just talking about the physical components that you can see, which for most people, most objects they buy are physical.

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Therefore, most of what they care about is physical.

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So, for example, there are many car companies right now to where getting parts and replacement stuff is damn near impossible or very difficult.

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I work in the industry, so I'm kind of aware of how this kind of goes.

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But it becomes a pain in the ass to get anything that's even remotely complex, complicated with radio systems, navigation systems, any sort of blend controllers, HVAC controls, anything like that for cars.

406
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It's ridiculous. But these companies purposely make it difficult because they use proprietary connections, proprietary wiring, proprietary, this proprietary that.

407
00:34:20,000 --> 00:34:27,000
But yet the heart of the component is literally like a three dollar little no nothing do widget.

408
00:34:27,000 --> 00:34:38,000
It's like they've spent more money trying to make it only for them rather than just making the part better or even just putting their brand on it.

409
00:34:38,000 --> 00:34:49,000
Like, for example, one of the Mercedes that we were working on a while ago, that same door actuator from the dealership was like seven hundred dollars.

410
00:34:49,000 --> 00:34:52,000
We found the part that goes on to an older Ford.

411
00:34:52,000 --> 00:34:54,000
It was basically the same same design.

412
00:34:54,000 --> 00:34:58,000
Thirty bucks on eBay. Awesome.

413
00:34:58,000 --> 00:35:01,000
And I couldn't believe it because one of the techs pointed out like, oh, we could just buy one of those.

414
00:35:01,000 --> 00:35:04,000
I've heard they work and same connector and everything.

415
00:35:04,000 --> 00:35:09,000
All Mercedes did was pop on another character on that connector, just solder that.

416
00:35:09,000 --> 00:35:18,000
So we're like, wait a minute. So they're taking a part that they can get for like probably ten dollars, slapping their own little connector on it, putting their vehicles seven hundred.

417
00:35:18,000 --> 00:35:23,000
It's that kind of predatory stuff. I have no problem if it's a good product.

418
00:35:23,000 --> 00:35:29,000
But it's another thing when they just slap something on a product and charge thousands more.

419
00:35:29,000 --> 00:35:36,000
It's insane. Ferrari is notorious for doing that, by the way, just because it says Mercedes.

420
00:35:36,000 --> 00:35:41,000
It's a quality. It's not.

421
00:35:41,000 --> 00:35:43,000
It's not. I'll tell you that right now.

422
00:35:43,000 --> 00:35:48,000
Don't as a side note, don't buy newer BMW Mercedes for the love of God. Don't be that person.

423
00:35:48,000 --> 00:35:51,000
Don't do it.

424
00:35:51,000 --> 00:35:53,000
Don't. It's not worth it.

425
00:35:53,000 --> 00:36:00,000
I guarantee you. My my my manager, he got his Audi Q7 to 30,000 miles.

426
00:36:00,000 --> 00:36:05,000
That's all it went. I was just saying he got it. He got it that high.

427
00:36:05,000 --> 00:36:10,000
I've heard about the issues with the Audi's. Oh, it's unreal.

428
00:36:10,000 --> 00:36:15,000
But unfortunately, these companies, they do it purposefully. Yeah.

429
00:36:15,000 --> 00:36:26,000
So on on the software side, my big issue when it comes to digital content.

430
00:36:26,000 --> 00:36:35,000
You can only have access to it for as long as the company is around if there's no download option.

431
00:36:35,000 --> 00:36:48,000
Yep. So you spend the money to buy the new Venom movie that just came out in the UHD for twenty four ninety nine on Amazon or whatever.

432
00:36:48,000 --> 00:36:54,000
If they decide, oh, we're going to unlicense this from Sony.

433
00:36:54,000 --> 00:36:58,000
OK, well, my money bag. No.

434
00:36:58,000 --> 00:37:02,000
But I paid for it and I want to watch it tomorrow night.

435
00:37:02,000 --> 00:37:08,000
No. OK, then give my money back. No, no.

436
00:37:08,000 --> 00:37:12,000
If you bought it, you are expected to be able to use it.

437
00:37:12,000 --> 00:37:20,000
That's how it worked back when we had the little shiny frisbees that we could put in our little frisbee catcher under the TV.

438
00:37:20,000 --> 00:37:28,000
We had a physical copy that we could just go and stick it after we ordered a pizza on Friday night.

439
00:37:28,000 --> 00:37:31,000
I heard it's called a VHS tape.

440
00:37:31,000 --> 00:37:34,000
Those those were the dog chew toys.

441
00:37:34,000 --> 00:37:41,000
Oh, my bad. OK. Yeah. I know cats growing up, so that makes sense. Yeah.

442
00:37:41,000 --> 00:37:45,000
Oh, the cats got a hold of the film, too.

443
00:37:45,000 --> 00:37:50,000
But no, when with DVDs, I mean, you can still go buy DVDs, thankfully, for now.

444
00:37:50,000 --> 00:37:53,000
But even that's getting to be a lost a lost art.

445
00:37:53,000 --> 00:38:04,000
I think and this kind of segues back to our apocalypse episode, part of being prepared, have a good stock of digital entertainment

446
00:38:04,000 --> 00:38:08,000
because you may not always have access to what you get or want,

447
00:38:08,000 --> 00:38:17,000
whether you need to acquire it by other means through certain websites that we shall not mention

448
00:38:17,000 --> 00:38:25,000
or buying hard copies or even still making your own hard copies after you've acquired said files.

449
00:38:25,000 --> 00:38:30,000
Yes. Thumb drive storage is great and it's dirt cheap.

450
00:38:30,000 --> 00:38:35,000
I can hold all kinds of wonderful videos on the thumb drive these days,

451
00:38:35,000 --> 00:38:40,000
and I can just pop them in a laptop that I'm keeping in good condition,

452
00:38:40,000 --> 00:38:47,000
watch them whenever I want on the projector, if that is what I'm in the mood for.

453
00:38:47,000 --> 00:38:54,000
It's something to where having physical media will never be a bad thing. Absolutely.

454
00:38:54,000 --> 00:39:00,000
That's that's something to where I'm not huge on collecting it, but I do have like an old movie collection.

455
00:39:00,000 --> 00:39:03,000
And sometimes I'm thankful for having that.

456
00:39:03,000 --> 00:39:07,000
Sometimes it's very nice just to kind of throw a DVD in or something like that, just have that playing in the background.

457
00:39:07,000 --> 00:39:12,000
I just haven't having knowing that like I will always have my Lord of the Rings movies,

458
00:39:12,000 --> 00:39:16,000
not because I watch them all the time, but because if something were to happen,

459
00:39:16,000 --> 00:39:21,000
I got a solid nine to 12 hours of the director's cut. That is that's more than fine.

460
00:39:21,000 --> 00:39:28,000
Look, I you you can have your flying broomstick wizard people movies all you want.

461
00:39:28,000 --> 00:39:32,000
That's Harry Potter. You're numb nuts. Well, whatever.

462
00:39:32,000 --> 00:39:36,000
You know, they're all the same flying broomstick. If you'd never seen Lord of the Rings.

463
00:39:36,000 --> 00:39:41,000
No, not really. I don't know. What?

464
00:39:41,000 --> 00:39:45,000
Well, how have you never seen Lord of the Rings? Are you kidding? It's one of the best trilogies of all time.

465
00:39:45,000 --> 00:39:49,000
No, that would be Star Wars. No. The original.

466
00:39:49,000 --> 00:39:56,000
I don't think it's I don't think it's well, it's one of the better trilogies. How about that?

467
00:39:56,000 --> 00:40:00,000
OK, I'll give you that. It's it's one of the it's it's probably like in the well,

468
00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:02,000
I don't know if I could think of a better trilogy offhand, though.

469
00:40:02,000 --> 00:40:06,000
That's the problem, because most most of all the times of the trilogy, it's the third movies that suck.

470
00:40:06,000 --> 00:40:10,000
That's always the problem. Not Deadpool.

471
00:40:10,000 --> 00:40:15,000
Oh, dead. Deadpool's great, though. Oh, it's a little silly, though.

472
00:40:15,000 --> 00:40:20,000
Side rant. Watched the new one with my kids over the weekend. Yeah.

473
00:40:20,000 --> 00:40:25,000
My youngest was actually jamming out to the opening song.

474
00:40:25,000 --> 00:40:29,000
Bye bye bye. He was just bopping along. He's like, this is a really good song.

475
00:40:29,000 --> 00:40:34,000
Yeah, it's a classic. It's a classic.

476
00:40:34,000 --> 00:40:38,000
That song will never not be a classic. Right.

477
00:40:38,000 --> 00:40:45,000
Now I think about Marvel probably has some of the best trilogies as the Captain America trilogy is is awesome.

478
00:40:45,000 --> 00:40:51,000
Yeah. I mean, all the Marvel movies.

479
00:40:51,000 --> 00:40:59,000
Pre. Well, I think we'll cut it off at Spider-Man.

480
00:40:59,000 --> 00:41:03,000
Far from home. No way home is the third one. Right. Yeah. Yeah.

481
00:41:03,000 --> 00:41:10,000
That one's good. So if we call Spider-Man No Way Home, the last good Marvel movie.

482
00:41:10,000 --> 00:41:14,000
Now, don't get me wrong. I love Doctor Strange. I love the Doctor Strange character.

483
00:41:14,000 --> 00:41:19,000
The last movie they did for him was kind of shit. It's too silly. Yeah.

484
00:41:19,000 --> 00:41:24,000
That's the problem with the multiverse. I've been saying it for forever. Yeah.

485
00:41:24,000 --> 00:41:38,000
So even some of the off off shoot stuff that they've done, like the what if I liked some of those, I really liked the Ultron getting a hold of the Infinity Gauntlet one.

486
00:41:38,000 --> 00:41:43,000
That was a fucking good one. I haven't seen any of those.

487
00:41:43,000 --> 00:41:53,000
Oops. That's okay. You can spoil it. It doesn't. Yeah, no, it's it's not really a huge spoil, but they're they're short little cartoons.

488
00:41:53,000 --> 00:41:59,000
They're all just one offs solid watch and they're not very long. I think they're 45 minutes.

489
00:41:59,000 --> 00:42:05,000
To be fair, I will state Ultron deserved his own trilogy. Oh, they did.

490
00:42:05,000 --> 00:42:13,000
Ultron did not get what he deserved. He he he needed at least two episodes or two movies.

491
00:42:13,000 --> 00:42:21,000
Oh, yeah. So weird. Yeah. But I like the Ultron character.

492
00:42:21,000 --> 00:42:33,000
But yeah, you're making good point about the fact that like we went from you bought something you owned it to now you buy temporary licenses that can be revoked at any time.

493
00:42:33,000 --> 00:42:42,000
That's a big issue right now in the music industry with zero recompense to you. Yeah, I used a big word.

494
00:42:42,000 --> 00:42:49,000
Oh, my God. With with a lot of the digital stuff that you get, there's even a phone home feature.

495
00:42:49,000 --> 00:42:56,000
And if you don't have access to the Internet, it can't verify that you still have rights to the license.

496
00:42:56,000 --> 00:43:03,000
So it might still be a legitimate copy or whatever, but it can't verify. Therefore, you can't use it.

497
00:43:03,000 --> 00:43:07,000
OK, so it drives me nuts. Yeah, there are a lot of apps like that.

498
00:43:07,000 --> 00:43:14,000
So I have a lot of like spare tech. I mean, here are here are two old phones.

499
00:43:14,000 --> 00:43:17,000
Oh, yeah, right there. These are just sitting here on my desk.

500
00:43:17,000 --> 00:43:24,000
I keep them as backup for files and apps and shit just in case, you know, the zombie apocalypse happens.

501
00:43:24,000 --> 00:43:32,000
And they have apps and files that do not require a data connection or phone home feature.

502
00:43:32,000 --> 00:43:37,000
Google Maps will download locations that you look at often.

503
00:43:37,000 --> 00:43:47,000
And even the last used map will be at least relatively up to date if they can't contact the servers.

504
00:43:47,000 --> 00:43:51,000
OK, I didn't know that's something good to know.

505
00:43:51,000 --> 00:43:57,000
But it's it's crazy to me how many things now require the constant online connection for verification.

506
00:43:57,000 --> 00:44:00,000
Right. Even even like single player games. Yeah.

507
00:44:00,000 --> 00:44:05,000
Why should you need an online connection to play something that's one player?

508
00:44:05,000 --> 00:44:17,000
No. Just let me download it like we did back in the day and let me slap the one eyed bishop and play by myself.

509
00:44:17,000 --> 00:44:22,000
It was that's a phrase I never heard before.

510
00:44:22,000 --> 00:44:26,000
But it's this is something that's prevalent in the music industry.

511
00:44:26,000 --> 00:44:35,000
So there's a big problem where a lot of music apps or different programs, effects, even digital audio workstations,

512
00:44:35,000 --> 00:44:41,000
they got completely basically ripped and then resold or repackaged or whatever.

513
00:44:41,000 --> 00:44:49,000
So now a lot of them require a constant connection and verification with a serial number on your computer or motherboard and everything else.

514
00:44:49,000 --> 00:44:55,000
It gets really annoying, though, because then if you're someone like me that I use some of these programs for years and years.

515
00:44:55,000 --> 00:44:58,000
Well, sometimes the software goes out to date.

516
00:44:58,000 --> 00:45:01,000
I have right next to me a guitar processor.

517
00:45:01,000 --> 00:45:05,000
It's called an 11 rack. Basically, when it came out in 2011, it was a thousand dollars for it.

518
00:45:05,000 --> 00:45:07,000
It was considered a very high end unit.

519
00:45:07,000 --> 00:45:09,000
Now you can get them for like 200 bucks, 150 bucks.

520
00:45:09,000 --> 00:45:11,000
They're still good if you know how to use them.

521
00:45:11,000 --> 00:45:19,000
But the fucking company that made it stop supporting the fucking software.

522
00:45:19,000 --> 00:45:24,000
And I'm mad about it because that software I used to be able to use to edit everything on the computer.

523
00:45:24,000 --> 00:45:27,000
Now, you miss all the fucking little dials and little bullshit.

524
00:45:27,000 --> 00:45:33,000
It drives me nuts. I wish these for some reason they pulled support for it for no reason.

525
00:45:33,000 --> 00:45:36,000
And they decided, oh, yeah, we're no longer going to have the software around.

526
00:45:36,000 --> 00:45:40,000
For zero reason other than just no.

527
00:45:40,000 --> 00:45:42,000
Because they wanted you to. Oh, yeah.

528
00:45:42,000 --> 00:45:44,000
Then it comes out a few years later.

529
00:45:44,000 --> 00:45:49,000
Oh, they're going to drop a new line of products and they don't want anybody that use the old one to be able to even use them.

530
00:45:49,000 --> 00:45:58,000
My problem is the vindictive and evil nature of the idea of supporting a product that suddenly pulling the rug out from underneath it and just saying, oh, yeah, now you have to buy the new shit.

531
00:45:58,000 --> 00:46:03,000
No, that kind of stuff. It's one thing to say, hey, this is going to be our final legacy package.

532
00:46:03,000 --> 00:46:07,000
This is going to continue our support, but we're not going to actively support anymore.

533
00:46:07,000 --> 00:46:14,000
This is our last one. But the whole another thing to pull out the rug and just say, oh, yeah, you might have bought that thing a few years later for a lot less money.

534
00:46:14,000 --> 00:46:17,000
And we're not going to support you anymore. Go fuck yourself.

535
00:46:17,000 --> 00:46:22,000
That's Microsoft Office, which is now three sixty five.

536
00:46:22,000 --> 00:46:29,000
I want to use their shit. You have to pay the subscription fee, which I think is now one hundred and thirty dollars a year.

537
00:46:29,000 --> 00:46:33,000
That's why I switched to open office years ago.

538
00:46:33,000 --> 00:46:37,000
To fucking use Google Docs like shit or Google Docs.

539
00:46:37,000 --> 00:46:42,000
Yeah, Google Docs. I love it. It's way better. Yeah.

540
00:46:42,000 --> 00:46:58,000
So one of the things you have to kind of start thinking about is, are we just going to be forever renting everything from from our daily use items to our homes and our appliances even?

541
00:46:58,000 --> 00:47:07,000
That's actually kind of a current agenda plan, like the agenda was a twenty fifty, twenty thirty.

542
00:47:07,000 --> 00:47:12,000
The idea you will own nothing and you will be happy. Yep.

543
00:47:12,000 --> 00:47:17,000
So is there a middle ground for everything?

544
00:47:17,000 --> 00:47:24,000
I don't know, because if you own nothing, then who's responsible for everything?

545
00:47:24,000 --> 00:47:32,000
Well, that's that's the beautiful thing as a company, I can say, oh, you're renting it, but you also maintain full responsibility for that product.

546
00:47:32,000 --> 00:47:39,000
So you can basically get that monthly revenue without actually losing anything without having to sell much of anything.

547
00:47:39,000 --> 00:47:47,000
No, see, I as a consumer, I'm really not going to put as much effort into it if I don't own it.

548
00:47:47,000 --> 00:47:52,000
But then what if you're liable for damages? What if you're liable? Like, for example, look at leasing a car.

549
00:47:52,000 --> 00:47:57,000
Do you make people that lease a car compared to buy one because they can't afford to buy one and they can't afford to take the payments on?

550
00:47:57,000 --> 00:48:00,000
So I'll just lease it. I'll just basically rent it. I'll never own it.

551
00:48:00,000 --> 00:48:04,000
Well, if anything happens to that car while you're leasing it, it's up to you.

552
00:48:04,000 --> 00:48:10,000
That's your problem. You never own it, but you are fully responsible for it.

553
00:48:10,000 --> 00:48:13,000
The amount of people at least cars that don't understand that.

554
00:48:13,000 --> 00:48:17,000
Probably the vast majority of them.

555
00:48:17,000 --> 00:48:28,000
And that's how they make their money on that and over mileage. Twenty five cents a mile over whatever mileage package we give you because it was not adequate.

556
00:48:28,000 --> 00:48:30,000
Yeah. Fuck all that shit.

557
00:48:30,000 --> 00:48:36,000
No, no, no, no. Oh, I would say this right now is a bit of a advice for people.

558
00:48:36,000 --> 00:48:42,000
Unless you're in a very, very specific circumstance, don't lease a vehicle. Just don't. You think you're getting out ahead.

559
00:48:42,000 --> 00:48:47,000
You're not. They designed it that way on purpose.

560
00:48:47,000 --> 00:48:55,000
They're very good. Literally, unless it's like a weekend driver that you're just going to use around town every other weekend or something.

561
00:48:55,000 --> 00:49:02,000
Don't bother with it. Like, put it this way for someone like me that drives five miles to work in the five miles home and the car sits there.

562
00:49:02,000 --> 00:49:06,000
Maybe. Maybe.

563
00:49:06,000 --> 00:49:11,000
Hey, hey, I pay a lot next size taxes. Fucker. I'm allowed to have a shorter drive.

564
00:49:11,000 --> 00:49:18,000
OK, you do. And in my state, they also want to put a tax on the excise tax.

565
00:49:18,000 --> 00:49:21,000
Hey, we are like taxes. So here's a tax for your tax.

566
00:49:21,000 --> 00:49:29,000
Oh, dude, there are words I cannot say on Twitch or YouTube, but I'm sure you could guess.

567
00:49:29,000 --> 00:49:34,000
How how how much I despise that idea.

568
00:49:34,000 --> 00:49:38,000
Needless to say, my governor is probably going to be kicked out for for that shit.

569
00:49:38,000 --> 00:49:41,000
But yeah, probably not soon enough.

570
00:49:41,000 --> 00:49:47,000
No, yesterday wouldn't be soon enough. No.

571
00:49:47,000 --> 00:49:50,000
One of the. Where are we here?

572
00:49:50,000 --> 00:49:59,000
So one of the ideas that a lot of these companies are pushing is planned obsolescence.

573
00:49:59,000 --> 00:50:09,000
Ensuring a returning customer base, as long as they don't piss off in too many customers too much. And that's kind of what Apple got caught up in

574
00:50:09,000 --> 00:50:14,000
when it was confirmed that they do release updates that do slow down your phones.

575
00:50:14,000 --> 00:50:21,000
Supposedly, they don't do that anymore. I don't know. I've never owned one bullshit. I've been on Android for years.

576
00:50:21,000 --> 00:50:28,000
I think every company does it, though. Yeah. If you sell software, I will say I've seen it in cars as they age and they get software updates.

577
00:50:28,000 --> 00:50:34,000
All of a sudden they get an update in their car, acts a little slower with the touch screen and everything slows down and whatnot.

578
00:50:34,000 --> 00:50:40,000
Yeah, I will say that.

579
00:50:40,000 --> 00:50:52,000
Apple fan people are probably some of the I got to be careful here. I was going to say good luck with this one.

580
00:50:52,000 --> 00:51:07,000
The Apple crowd, when it comes to consumer electronics, likes to think that they are smarter with tech than they really are because they are more easily fooled.

581
00:51:07,000 --> 00:51:12,000
And this is all anecdotal. Don't don't burn me down.

582
00:51:12,000 --> 00:51:22,000
They are more easily fooled by the products that Apple releases than those who go for Windows and Android type devices.

583
00:51:22,000 --> 00:51:31,000
The videos that have come out of people saying that they can get upgrades on their phones and all they do is clean it and put a new case on it.

584
00:51:31,000 --> 00:51:35,000
And they're like, oh, wow, this is so much nicer. This is so much faster.

585
00:51:35,000 --> 00:51:43,000
No, it's not. It's it's literally your phone.

586
00:51:43,000 --> 00:51:49,000
Well, I think there's there's two different sides of it. You have some people.

587
00:51:49,000 --> 00:51:51,000
So there's a there's a few different avenues here.

588
00:51:51,000 --> 00:51:57,000
When you have some people that use Apple because simply put, they need something that can call, text and go on the Internet and watch YouTube.

589
00:51:57,000 --> 00:52:02,000
And that's fine. And for some people, it's a good option.

590
00:52:02,000 --> 00:52:07,000
But you have some people use Apple because, quote unquote, they think it's just a better product, which again, you're not buying the phone.

591
00:52:07,000 --> 00:52:10,000
You're buying the software. You're buying the brand. Yeah. Yeah.

592
00:52:10,000 --> 00:52:14,000
Because the software is good for the most part. It's solid software.

593
00:52:14,000 --> 00:52:22,000
And the way that is totally interconnected. I mean, that's great when you're sending a text and it pops up on your kids tablet.

594
00:52:22,000 --> 00:52:25,000
As far as an ecosystem, it is a good ecosystem.

595
00:52:25,000 --> 00:52:33,000
The problem is that means you have to buy the Apple hardware and only use the Apple hardware.

596
00:52:33,000 --> 00:52:37,000
And that is the downfall every single time because they do.

597
00:52:37,000 --> 00:52:40,000
They're not designed to age well. They don't have a lot of horsepower.

598
00:52:40,000 --> 00:52:51,000
The idea behind the Apple system is, hey, let's make a streamlined, efficient software that way we can use cheap hardware so it keeps working.

599
00:52:51,000 --> 00:53:00,000
And guess what? When it ages out, tough shit that your phone that used to run at 60 FPS now runs a five and works like a fucking brick.

600
00:53:00,000 --> 00:53:12,000
Oh, well, tough shit. They're like, just get a new one. Not only that, but those super duper expensive iPhones that they charge fifteen hundred dollars for cost them maybe eighteen dollars to build.

601
00:53:12,000 --> 00:53:17,000
Well, maybe not that little, but it's you know, it's down there, buddy.

602
00:53:17,000 --> 00:53:26,000
I know it, which is down there when it when it comes to like human costs and raw component cost there.

603
00:53:26,000 --> 00:53:30,000
They're down in like the sub fifty dollars. Yeah, probably.

604
00:53:30,000 --> 00:53:38,000
Which is insane, but that's because of also volume. They're able to make millions and millions and millions of them and people buy them.

605
00:53:38,000 --> 00:53:44,000
People are willing to spend that money and it unfortunately it's the reality of like people are selling. Oh, yeah, I'll spend the money.

606
00:53:44,000 --> 00:53:57,000
But that's also how you end up with a few child labor factories in Sri Lanka with with no unions or bathroom breaks.

607
00:53:57,000 --> 00:54:09,000
Well, it's also one of those things, too, that like I don't think people understand that if you buy modern technology in any facet, you are buying slave labor because none of the stuff is made anywhere in America anywhere in Europe.

608
00:54:09,000 --> 00:54:18,000
It's especially anything with cobalt. Oh, yeah. Like your fancy electric cars that everybody's been all hyped up about getting.

609
00:54:18,000 --> 00:54:26,000
Yeah, almost all the cobalt in those comes out of the DRC Democratic Republic of Congo.

610
00:54:26,000 --> 00:54:32,000
And all those mines are supposed to have no artisanal mining bullshit.

611
00:54:32,000 --> 00:54:48,000
You go and see the live pictures and live feeds every single miner there is an artisanal miner trying to get their little lump of cobalt so they can get enough money to feed their family for the month.

612
00:54:48,000 --> 00:54:56,000
And it's disgusting the conditions that they're in. Oh, yeah. And we justify that because oh, yeah, it's it's green.

613
00:54:56,000 --> 00:55:01,000
And you know what the scary part is. Have you seen the electric cars coming out of China?

614
00:55:01,000 --> 00:55:06,000
Have you seen that? OK. If you guys want a culture shock.

615
00:55:06,000 --> 00:55:14,000
Granted, I'm not saying they're going to last a long time, but they have Chinese. I probably won't. But you know what's crazy?

616
00:55:14,000 --> 00:55:24,000
They have not five, not 10, not 20, but dozens and dozens of different electric car companies in China.

617
00:55:24,000 --> 00:55:41,000
And what's crazy is they are selling things like minivans that have heated and air conditioned cup holders, big 24, 30 inch screen TVs, full fold out reclining chairs, heated and massaging everything.

618
00:55:41,000 --> 00:55:44,000
And they're like 30 grand.

619
00:55:44,000 --> 00:55:47,000
Massaging everything you say.

620
00:55:47,000 --> 00:55:51,000
I did not fucking stutter.

621
00:55:51,000 --> 00:55:57,000
That is not a good idea. I do not need to get in the handy J going down the road.

622
00:55:57,000 --> 00:56:01,000
No, it's not a good idea for the driver. For everyone else, it's perfectly fine.

623
00:56:01,000 --> 00:56:13,000
But but what I'm getting at is in America, because of our laws and everything else, we have stagnated when it comes to development of cars to work costs to become exorbitant.

624
00:56:13,000 --> 00:56:20,000
Whereas in places like China, they're coming up with cars that do things that Teslas can't do.

625
00:56:20,000 --> 00:56:24,000
I was reading about a car that a guy was reviewing. You're talking seven, 800 miles.

626
00:56:24,000 --> 00:56:27,000
They're doing something that we would talk about in America for over a decade.

627
00:56:27,000 --> 00:56:33,000
They use a small little diesel motor to then as a generator to put into the batteries.

628
00:56:33,000 --> 00:56:36,000
You can go 800 to 1000 miles at a time.

629
00:56:36,000 --> 00:56:39,000
I've been talking about that for fucking years.

630
00:56:39,000 --> 00:56:46,000
Yeah. Well, guess what? China's apparently smarter than Tesla because they fucking figured it out for literally less than a third of the price.

631
00:56:46,000 --> 00:56:57,000
And I'm not saying they're going to last 100,000 miles. But here's the thing in America, if I could buy a car for 20 grand that lasted 80,000 miles, it's cheaper than buying a Toyota for 40 grand.

632
00:56:57,000 --> 00:57:01,000
That's going to last 160. Here's the here's here's my hold up.

633
00:57:01,000 --> 00:57:08,000
There's no way that we could justify $20,000 for 80,000 miles. Not in America.

634
00:57:08,000 --> 00:57:17,000
Well, think about this. People spend $80,000 on a truck that lasts 140,000 miles.

635
00:57:17,000 --> 00:57:19,000
Think about that.

636
00:57:19,000 --> 00:57:23,000
There are people spending 80, 90, $100,000.

637
00:57:23,000 --> 00:57:25,000
Yeah, you're not wrong.

638
00:57:25,000 --> 00:57:27,000
I work in the industry.

639
00:57:27,000 --> 00:57:33,000
I feel like 20,000 needs to get you at least 100,000 miles.

640
00:57:33,000 --> 00:57:40,000
Realistically, it should get you about 200,000 miles, maybe 150. Maybe I'm just being greedy. I don't know.

641
00:57:40,000 --> 00:57:53,000
No, no. So here's the problem is in America, our emissions laws are so restrictive that our motors are not being maintained properly.

642
00:57:53,000 --> 00:58:05,000
So what has been happening is everything wears out too quickly. Things are not being maintained properly. And you're having companies that unfortunately they build a motor that meets emissions regulations and that's it.

643
00:58:05,000 --> 00:58:10,000
Emissions and engine efficiency standards. That's really it.

644
00:58:10,000 --> 00:58:14,000
They're also they're also being built out of inferior metals.

645
00:58:14,000 --> 00:58:23,000
Back when we have blocks getting milled out of steel, they didn't fall apart and crack after, you know, 50,000 miles.

646
00:58:23,000 --> 00:58:34,000
Not only that, but you have to consider because of efficiency standards back then they used to have oversized blocks where basically there was a lot more not to get into jargon about like cylinder spacing and everything.

647
00:58:34,000 --> 00:58:39,000
But basically back then there was a lot more material around inside the engine.

648
00:58:39,000 --> 00:58:49,000
Whereas now in order of things have to be lighter. So therefore the car is lighter and therefore it meets better emission standards better mileage standards.

649
00:58:49,000 --> 00:58:54,000
It becomes this ever evolving problem where with modern regulations.

650
00:58:54,000 --> 00:59:03,000
It's actually very difficult to meet cars that can meet these requirements. So what happens, you make smaller and smaller engines, and you ask them to do more and more work.

651
00:59:03,000 --> 00:59:12,000
No wonder why they blow up like not for nothing. You have cars that weigh five, six thousand pounds like for instance like the newer let's say the newer like Chevy Traverse.

652
00:59:12,000 --> 00:59:19,000
That's like basically the third road the big SUV that's just smaller than a Tahoe and it comes with a four cylinder engine.

653
00:59:19,000 --> 00:59:30,000
Like what? No, you're asking a tiny it's a small four cylinder too. You're asking these tiny motors to do a lot of work and you wonder why they break it's because you're overworking them.

654
00:59:30,000 --> 00:59:39,000
I'm seeing this in the industry all the time. People buying trucks, the high end trucks are coming with V6s and they're wondering why they're blowing up.

655
00:59:39,000 --> 00:59:48,000
It's because you're asking them to do the work of a diesel or a larger V8 motor that's in a much smaller package like half the size. You just can't.

656
00:59:48,000 --> 00:59:54,000
There's no way. Would you would you ask somebody that's five foot six and like 130 pounds to deadlift 500 pounds?

657
00:59:54,000 --> 01:00:01,000
No, you're going to ask them. They might try. They might try and you're going the hospital.

658
01:00:01,000 --> 01:00:08,000
But you know what you need. It's one of the things where you need sometimes a big person to do a big job.

659
01:00:08,000 --> 01:00:11,000
And the reality is with the motor sometimes you need a big motor to do a big job.

660
01:00:11,000 --> 01:00:21,000
Sometimes there is there's the old phrase on motor for there's no replacement for displacement or the idea that there's no way of substituting that engine size.

661
01:00:21,000 --> 01:00:25,000
And for some jobs in this world, that's just the case.

662
01:00:25,000 --> 01:00:31,000
So when it comes to what you're talking about, planned obsolescence and people and things being throw away.

663
01:00:31,000 --> 01:00:35,000
Look at, for example, some of the newer Kia cars. Kia as a brand right now.

664
01:00:35,000 --> 01:00:38,000
Well, they make some decent cars. You guys can look it up.

665
01:00:38,000 --> 01:00:45,000
There's a big lawsuit about them having to replace motors after 100,000 miles or even before 100,000 miles.

666
01:00:45,000 --> 01:00:51,000
So it's one of those things where they'll say, you know, hey, we knew these motors weren't going to last.

667
01:00:51,000 --> 01:00:54,000
And unfortunately, now we're on the hook to replace them.

668
01:00:54,000 --> 01:01:00,000
And there was a time where most any car out as long as you took care of it, they would last.

669
01:01:00,000 --> 01:01:03,000
Just do the maintenance. But also, that's also the other half of the problem.

670
01:01:03,000 --> 01:01:07,000
Most people don't do maintenance on their vehicle. So that's the other half of the issue.

671
01:01:07,000 --> 01:01:11,000
But yeah, but it is designed to be disposable.

672
01:01:11,000 --> 01:01:22,000
It's designed for you to buy a car and after 100,000 miles, 120,000 miles, everything fell apart. Tough shit.

673
01:01:22,000 --> 01:01:25,000
But yeah, it's something that's just going to stick around.

674
01:01:25,000 --> 01:01:32,000
Like I was reading about a guy that bought a BMW M2 and basically they don't use a cylinder liner in it.

675
01:01:32,000 --> 01:01:34,000
They just put a coating in the engine.

676
01:01:34,000 --> 01:01:37,000
So if you wear through the cylinder liner, you get a whole new engine block.

677
01:01:37,000 --> 01:01:41,000
It was like 20. It was had like 26 or 25,000 miles like an M2.

678
01:01:41,000 --> 01:01:44,000
That's basically like an 80,000 dollar BMW.

679
01:01:44,000 --> 01:01:48,000
Imagine buying it, driving 20,000 miles and say, oh, yeah, I need a new engine and be able to look soon.

680
01:01:48,000 --> 01:01:51,000
Says, oh, well, tough shit.

681
01:01:51,000 --> 01:01:54,000
That's just part of a buddy. Right.

682
01:01:54,000 --> 01:01:57,000
You know. No, no, no, no.

683
01:01:57,000 --> 01:02:02,000
Imagine buying a car and literally cost you four dollars a mile just in the engine maintenance.

684
01:02:02,000 --> 01:02:09,000
Oh, think about it. If you bought an 80,000 dollar car, you only made like 26,000 miles. You're talking like three dollars and 70 cents a mile.

685
01:02:09,000 --> 01:02:13,000
Yeah, no, you you don't do that.

686
01:02:13,000 --> 01:02:17,000
You can also make like you can make a couple of people in the chat mods if you want.

687
01:02:17,000 --> 01:02:19,000
That way they can also handle that problem.

688
01:02:19,000 --> 01:02:23,000
Yeah. Sorry, I had to.

689
01:02:23,000 --> 01:02:29,000
Handle some shit because for stream, you know, we.

690
01:02:29,000 --> 01:02:35,000
That's all popular, apparently. So we had one of those bots come into the chat.

691
01:02:35,000 --> 01:02:38,000
Yeah, I'm just mod the guys. You appreciate our homies in the chat, by the way, guys.

692
01:02:38,000 --> 01:02:45,000
I appreciate you all showing up. Right. Give us some love. Appreciate it.

693
01:02:45,000 --> 01:02:52,000
But yeah, since now we can wrap around to since these products are all disposable.

694
01:02:52,000 --> 01:02:56,000
The service industry is not as worried about customer retainment.

695
01:02:56,000 --> 01:03:01,000
They're not as worried about the idea of trying to keep that customer because quite frankly, they know their product is bad.

696
01:03:01,000 --> 01:03:08,000
But they know you're just going to come back and have to buy another one anyway, because odds are, if you want to buy the good product, the quality product,

697
01:03:08,000 --> 01:03:12,000
it's going to be double or triple or even quadruple in some cases.

698
01:03:12,000 --> 01:03:18,000
So it's like, great, do I have to buy the cheap crap to after a few years, I can at least afford to buy it.

699
01:03:18,000 --> 01:03:24,000
Or do I save up the money by the really expensive product and maybe get good service there?

700
01:03:24,000 --> 01:03:30,000
But even then, from what I've heard from people in different industries, you could buy the expensive products and still get shit service.

701
01:03:30,000 --> 01:03:36,000
Right. You know, that that was always the the thing that I always never understood.

702
01:03:36,000 --> 01:03:43,000
Again, as a musician, I went the other day over to a guitar shop that's considered a boutique guitar shop.

703
01:03:43,000 --> 01:03:47,000
They do high end stuff. It was a bit of background. I'm a musician. I've been a musician all my life.

704
01:03:47,000 --> 01:03:53,000
I taught six different instruments. I play instruments, do my own music stuff, my own little recording studio, yada yada yada.

705
01:03:53,000 --> 01:03:58,000
I play a lot of guitar guitar, something that I know very well.

706
01:03:58,000 --> 01:04:04,000
I went into this boutique guitar store that's nationally acclaimed. It's it's it's like 20 minutes away.

707
01:04:04,000 --> 01:04:12,000
I used to drive by on the way to work. And I was appalled at the fact that they did not let me play any of the guitars on the wall.

708
01:04:12,000 --> 01:04:17,000
Because I brought in a guitar strap. They said, no, no, if you put on that guitar strap,

709
01:04:17,000 --> 01:04:25,000
it might possibly maybe scratch a part of the guitar and therefore you'd be devaluing the guitar.

710
01:04:25,000 --> 01:04:28,000
So we cannot let you play it. You must play it without a guitar strap.

711
01:04:28,000 --> 01:04:33,000
And I said, I used to play casinos and like play big shows and do stuff all the time.

712
01:04:33,000 --> 01:04:38,000
I've been teaching like I've just always played with a guitar strap, mostly because for me, it's an ergonomic thing.

713
01:04:38,000 --> 01:04:45,000
And also, I'm fat. I'll have to tell you, like, if I play guitar without a guitar strap, it's kind of walking away from me.

714
01:04:45,000 --> 01:04:51,000
Like, I just got to have that. And they're like, yeah, but sorry, we just have no interest in serving like like if you don't have a guitar,

715
01:04:51,000 --> 01:04:54,000
if you have if you're playing with a guitar strap, we don't want to take that risk with you.

716
01:04:54,000 --> 01:04:59,000
And I'm like, you guys realize I spent more on guitars than I have on cars.

717
01:04:59,000 --> 01:05:06,000
Like I I'm somebody that would spend three, four or five grand on a guitar if it's the right one.

718
01:05:06,000 --> 01:05:12,000
But because they were so concerned about some little thing like that, I purposely told him, like, look, I'm never going back.

719
01:05:12,000 --> 01:05:15,000
Only because you don't treat people like that.

720
01:05:15,000 --> 01:05:20,000
If it's one thing, that's fair. And especially the guitars I want to play, they were twelve hundred bucks.

721
01:05:20,000 --> 01:05:26,000
They weren't even anything that expensive because I'm the kind of person as much as I have a couple expensive guitars.

722
01:05:26,000 --> 01:05:30,000
I have what I already have what I want, the high price range. I don't want to buy any more like that.

723
01:05:30,000 --> 01:05:38,000
Right. So they alienated a customer for no reason because they were so worried about something that was bullshit rather than talking to me.

724
01:05:38,000 --> 01:05:42,000
And that's something I've seen through many sectors, through many different areas.

725
01:05:42,000 --> 01:05:48,000
It's they have they have no I guess they have no skin in the game for a lot of service people.

726
01:05:48,000 --> 01:05:51,000
They don't get paid any different whether they sell or not.

727
01:05:51,000 --> 01:05:53,000
They don't get paid any different whether the company's doing well.

728
01:05:53,000 --> 01:05:58,000
It's my job is to stand here. And if I help people cool, if I don't, I don't.

729
01:05:58,000 --> 01:06:05,000
They're hourly. That's where getting rid of commission was kind of a detriment to the to the industry.

730
01:06:05,000 --> 01:06:09,000
Relying entirely on commission is a terrible thing.

731
01:06:09,000 --> 01:06:18,000
But making commission a nice bonus is incentive for people to drive sales.

732
01:06:18,000 --> 01:06:23,000
Don't be sharks in the water kind of competitive with it.

733
01:06:23,000 --> 01:06:28,000
But if you have like flat rates for certain things, that's great.

734
01:06:28,000 --> 01:06:34,000
Way back in the day, I used to work at Kmart back when it was still thriving.

735
01:06:34,000 --> 01:06:47,000
We had incentives to sell TVs, VCRs, DVD players, game consoles, anything over one hundred dollars.

736
01:06:47,000 --> 01:06:51,000
You got one level over 250. It was another level. And then 500.

737
01:06:51,000 --> 01:06:54,000
It was a whole different tier. OK. OK.

738
01:06:54,000 --> 01:06:58,000
But those commission bonuses added up, especially during the holidays,

739
01:06:58,000 --> 01:07:01,000
because you didn't just get them on the immediate sales.

740
01:07:01,000 --> 01:07:05,000
You got them on sales that went to layaway if you're old enough to remember what layaway was.

741
01:07:05,000 --> 01:07:11,000
Oh, yeah. OK. So as long as they completed the layaway purchase, you were golden.

742
01:07:11,000 --> 01:07:16,000
And by the way, let's bring back layaway. That was a great thing.

743
01:07:16,000 --> 01:07:19,000
Yeah, why did they get rid of it? It really was.

744
01:07:19,000 --> 01:07:24,000
It took up too much inventory space and storage room space in the stores.

745
01:07:24,000 --> 01:07:28,000
So what I'm. What? There was no way to make it.

746
01:07:28,000 --> 01:07:32,000
People would come in and put something on layaway, it would take it off the shelves

747
01:07:32,000 --> 01:07:34,000
and then they would never pay the layaway off.

748
01:07:34,000 --> 01:07:38,000
So sales that could have been made were lost.

749
01:07:38,000 --> 01:07:42,000
So why don't they just take like a 10 percent deposit?

750
01:07:42,000 --> 01:07:47,000
Well, then you got to guarantee the item is going to be there.

751
01:07:47,000 --> 01:07:52,000
Yeah, see, it's a balancing act. But but then if we have it.

752
01:07:52,000 --> 01:07:56,000
But then how can you put an item on layaway if it's not in the store?

753
01:07:56,000 --> 01:07:58,000
Well, that it was exactly.

754
01:07:58,000 --> 01:08:03,000
So if they take that item, they say, hey, put us on language, you put 10 percent down.

755
01:08:03,000 --> 01:08:06,000
That way, that store may we did. Yeah.

756
01:08:06,000 --> 01:08:10,000
But then they could cancel the layaway.

757
01:08:10,000 --> 01:08:13,000
And get their money back. Oh, see, I just would not.

758
01:08:13,000 --> 01:08:15,000
I would not have a front of the 10 percent.

759
01:08:15,000 --> 01:08:19,000
Well, but then what you're just giving money to a store for nothing.

760
01:08:19,000 --> 01:08:22,000
Well, if you're going to have the source of back then long term.

761
01:08:22,000 --> 01:08:27,000
Back then, the the the policies were a little more, you know, loose.

762
01:08:27,000 --> 01:08:29,000
Oh, so that's why they got rid of it.

763
01:08:29,000 --> 01:08:30,000
It doesn't exist anymore.

764
01:08:30,000 --> 01:08:37,000
Bring it back with some different policies and let's, you know, let's make shopping less painful again.

765
01:08:37,000 --> 01:08:41,000
All you have to do is make it so the layaway at the last like two weeks, three weeks, maybe a month.

766
01:08:41,000 --> 01:08:44,000
Why did you pay it off? And then you're fine.

767
01:08:44,000 --> 01:08:51,000
Yeah. And you know what? Not just shopping, but there are a lot of industries as a whole.

768
01:08:51,000 --> 01:08:57,000
A whole trying to min max the staffing levels.

769
01:08:57,000 --> 01:09:00,000
Let's knock that shit off.

770
01:09:00,000 --> 01:09:02,000
They're trying to focus on the wrong areas.

771
01:09:02,000 --> 01:09:13,000
Like I said earlier, pushing the digital orders, ignoring the in-person orders, trying to have six people do the work of 10.

772
01:09:13,000 --> 01:09:23,000
It's it's got to stop the false hiring practices advertising that there's, you know, open positions somewhere and there's really not.

773
01:09:23,000 --> 01:09:32,000
But they may or may not get bonuses or government grants or subs subsidies subsidies.

774
01:09:32,000 --> 01:09:37,000
I must be getting tired. Words are getting harder than me on the weekend.

775
01:09:37,000 --> 01:09:47,000
Giving money to places to not fill jobs needs to stop if it's still going on.

776
01:09:47,000 --> 01:09:53,000
People want to work. Guys like Mike Rowe, huge fan of Mike Rowe.

777
01:09:53,000 --> 01:10:02,000
I wish he would have gotten more involved in politics, but I do like what he's doing with micro works.

778
01:10:02,000 --> 01:10:10,000
Advocating for the trades. I know my oldest son. I'm I know he wants to be an engineer.

779
01:10:10,000 --> 01:10:22,000
I'm trying to kind of push him to look into trades as a backup because I know how many people go to college with these wide eyes thinking they're going to do one thing.

780
01:10:22,000 --> 01:10:27,000
And they become totally disenfranchised before the end of their first year.

781
01:10:27,000 --> 01:10:32,000
Also going trade route is way cheaper knowing that.

782
01:10:32,000 --> 01:10:45,000
But in some places you still make more money way faster and you make a lot more money because like our buddy Austin, he does electrician work.

783
01:10:45,000 --> 01:10:59,000
Once he gets all of his certification stuff, he'll be making what 40 50 60 $70 an hour as a certified journeyman electrician.

784
01:10:59,000 --> 01:11:03,000
I don't know many engineers that come out of school making that kind of money.

785
01:11:03,000 --> 01:11:06,000
Now that if you want to hear something really nasty.

786
01:11:06,000 --> 01:11:08,000
I'm near a major city.

787
01:11:08,000 --> 01:11:19,000
A buddy of mine's package is like for his union is somewhere in the 110 to 120 dollars an hour range between the health care, everything else, the retirement plan.

788
01:11:19,000 --> 01:11:22,000
He takes home like 140 a year.

789
01:11:22,000 --> 01:11:26,000
Yeah, which is for most people, that's like, holy crap.

790
01:11:26,000 --> 01:11:30,000
Is that good money? And what's even better is with a trade.

791
01:11:30,000 --> 01:11:33,000
If you do enough work, you can eventually open your own business.

792
01:11:33,000 --> 01:11:38,000
And that's how you really want to make money. You own open business.

793
01:11:38,000 --> 01:11:43,000
Absolutely. Yep. Then you you're basically printing money.

794
01:11:43,000 --> 01:11:49,000
It's insane. Yeah. If you hire an electrician or plumber for anything, you know, it's at least five dollars for them to walk in that door.

795
01:11:49,000 --> 01:11:52,000
You know, you're spending money easy. And think about this.

796
01:11:52,000 --> 01:12:00,000
How many people don't make five hundred dollars in a day, let alone some of them being able to make five dollars in a couple hours.

797
01:12:00,000 --> 01:12:05,000
Yeah, like that's it's going to be the new the new best thing.

798
01:12:05,000 --> 01:12:12,000
You know, I thankfully I didn't go my route with education because I got sick of it being the academic world and all that bullshit.

799
01:12:12,000 --> 01:12:16,000
And I went to like trade adjacent.

800
01:12:16,000 --> 01:12:22,000
Basically, and way happier, way happier to that right now.

801
01:12:22,000 --> 01:12:28,000
I think it's worth it. If you can get a trade, especially get a license and something or a certification at least, but get licensed in something.

802
01:12:28,000 --> 01:12:32,000
Don't just go into the trades, get licensed in something.

803
01:12:32,000 --> 01:12:37,000
Then you are absolutely all set in the most states, not all most states to have reciprocity.

804
01:12:37,000 --> 01:12:40,000
Would that do a little bit of research if you're looking to move or go somewhere?

805
01:12:40,000 --> 01:12:45,000
But if you really want to make money, there's always options for unions that have their pros and cons.

806
01:12:45,000 --> 01:12:49,000
But when the private sector or with unions, you are way better off.

807
01:12:49,000 --> 01:12:58,000
The amount of people I know that got degrees and don't make a lot of money is far more than the people I know that work in trades that don't make a lot of money.

808
01:12:58,000 --> 01:13:04,000
Or even worse, the people that get degrees and don't make enough money to pay off those degrees.

809
01:13:04,000 --> 01:13:14,000
And that's not even the alphabet folks that go and get pointless degrees like classic gender studies for the.

810
01:13:14,000 --> 01:13:24,000
Oh, yes. Ecclesiastical theatrical person or whatever bullshit jumbo of words they come up with to get a degree in.

811
01:13:24,000 --> 01:13:29,000
It's like, what the fuck can you get a job with that in? You know, my favorite one is.

812
01:13:29,000 --> 01:13:33,000
What's that political science?

813
01:13:33,000 --> 01:13:38,000
That's my favorite degree, because unless you go into politics, you have wasted your money.

814
01:13:38,000 --> 01:13:42,000
Oh, yeah. What do you what are you going to do with it? Exactly. Are you going to work in government? No.

815
01:13:42,000 --> 01:13:51,000
Well, then congrats. It's useless. Or or my or you or you can start a podcast.

816
01:13:51,000 --> 01:13:57,000
Oh, man. But even that even then, it has to be a political podcast at that point.

817
01:13:57,000 --> 01:14:04,000
Well, yeah, I would hope so. You don't go get a poli sci degree and sort of a tech podcast. You never know.

818
01:14:04,000 --> 01:14:08,000
You never know.

819
01:14:08,000 --> 01:14:15,000
Yeah. So I don't know. I would say college is overrated unless you know what the hell you really, really want.

820
01:14:15,000 --> 01:14:23,000
So doctors, lawyers, physicists, astronomers, engineers.

821
01:14:23,000 --> 01:14:29,000
Yeah, sure. I'm fully on board with having the college degree requirement.

822
01:14:29,000 --> 01:14:36,000
I do think that it needs streamlined. There is no reason somebody going for, you know,

823
01:14:36,000 --> 01:14:44,000
hands on shit needs to worry about philosophy, psychology.

824
01:14:44,000 --> 01:14:51,000
Let's cut the bullshit. I understand that the colleges are just trying to sit there and milk more money out of the kids, parents and shit.

825
01:14:51,000 --> 01:14:54,000
But no, let's streamline the shit.

826
01:14:54,000 --> 01:15:01,000
Most four year degrees can probably be done in two and a half to three years if they get rid of all the ancillary crap that isn't needed.

827
01:15:01,000 --> 01:15:09,000
I will say this from my degree. Most of my time I spend doing general eds or general education classes rather than actually just doing the classes I fucking signed up for.

828
01:15:09,000 --> 01:15:16,000
So, yeah, a lot of it's bullshit. And I hate to say it, especially a lot of the professors as well are incredibly biased in some areas.

829
01:15:16,000 --> 01:15:21,000
There's absolutely no quality control when it comes to the quality of the education you get.

830
01:15:21,000 --> 01:15:28,000
And there's absolutely zero guarantee. If you get that degree, it doesn't mean you're actually going to get a job or that you met the right people, because at the end of the day, connections mean more than anything.

831
01:15:28,000 --> 01:15:32,000
If somebody likes you as an employee, they're going to have you.

832
01:15:32,000 --> 01:15:37,000
When I got started in the automotive world, it was literally like, you're a really cool dude. You seem knowledgeable.

833
01:15:37,000 --> 01:15:44,000
You might have zero experience, but we're happy to take you on. And I got trained. And then now I'm like managing a shop.

834
01:15:44,000 --> 01:15:48,000
So like I went from a year and a half ago being like, I guess I'll do teaching to now.

835
01:15:48,000 --> 01:15:54,000
I'm like, I'm running an automotive shop, making a lot more money. And I didn't go to school for it.

836
01:15:54,000 --> 01:15:59,000
But if you just try and put in a good effort, you're worth way more than somebody.

837
01:15:59,000 --> 01:16:03,000
It's like, I have a degree. That means I could do something. It's no, it doesn't mean you can do something.

838
01:16:03,000 --> 01:16:07,000
That means you could sit there and do exactly what the teacher tells you to do.

839
01:16:07,000 --> 01:16:11,000
And sometimes you can be original, have an original thoughts, but there's really no guarantee.

840
01:16:11,000 --> 01:16:15,000
Because at the end of the day, unfortunately, since everybody went to college, it doesn't really mean a lot.

841
01:16:15,000 --> 01:16:19,000
It's not a big accomplishment anymore. It was back in the 80s or 90s.

842
01:16:19,000 --> 01:16:24,000
Well, I said, wow, you earned it. You got through your way. You went through the applicants. You paid for it.

843
01:16:24,000 --> 01:16:29,000
Now it's like, oh, you went to I I know more people that went to college and said, fuck that degree.

844
01:16:29,000 --> 01:16:33,000
I didn't use it at all than people that actually stuck with it.

845
01:16:33,000 --> 01:16:44,000
Yeah, I think back to some of the earlier like big Internet days, like with big social media, the one girl.

846
01:16:44,000 --> 01:16:49,000
Oh, that really Jenna Jenna Marbles.

847
01:16:49,000 --> 01:17:00,000
She had a skit where she used to sit there like talking about her day and it involved her crying and holding her degree.

848
01:17:00,000 --> 01:17:04,000
I will never forget that because that drove a point home.

849
01:17:04,000 --> 01:17:11,000
There are so many people that get degrees and all bullshit aside, there are a lot of people that get good degrees

850
01:17:11,000 --> 01:17:18,000
that should rightfully be able to get good, solid jobs with those degrees and can't.

851
01:17:18,000 --> 01:17:23,000
Because for whatever reason, at the end of the day, you a degree doesn't mean anything.

852
01:17:23,000 --> 01:17:27,000
It's all about marketable skills. That is what people hire.

853
01:17:27,000 --> 01:17:30,000
People do not hire a degree that sits on a wall.

854
01:17:30,000 --> 01:17:34,000
They hire somebody that has a marketable skill to do a job.

855
01:17:34,000 --> 01:17:40,000
And if that degree or your life experience or your job experience does not give you a marketable skill, you are doing something wrong.

856
01:17:40,000 --> 01:17:48,000
At the end of the day, you are far better off getting a marketable skill and something that you are with it just than just getting any any degree.

857
01:17:48,000 --> 01:17:50,000
Unfortunately, I hate to say it.

858
01:17:50,000 --> 01:17:54,000
A lot of my generation's parents were lied to them or my grandparents or whatever.

859
01:17:54,000 --> 01:17:56,000
Everybody thought just get a degree.

860
01:17:56,000 --> 01:18:00,000
They didn't realize if everybody's fucking parents tell every kid to get a degree.

861
01:18:00,000 --> 01:18:02,000
Guess what? You all got degrees.

862
01:18:02,000 --> 01:18:04,000
It didn't mean they're worth anything.

863
01:18:04,000 --> 01:18:07,000
It didn't mean they're useful. You have it.

864
01:18:07,000 --> 01:18:09,000
You know, not not to be rude.

865
01:18:09,000 --> 01:18:11,000
OK, I'm going to flack for this. I'm going to say it anyway.

866
01:18:11,000 --> 01:18:20,000
The amount of people I know with degrees in women's studies, but they work at Starbucks or Dunkin Donuts at the age of 30, 35.

867
01:18:20,000 --> 01:18:24,000
I hate to say it. You chose not to get something that's marketable.

868
01:18:24,000 --> 01:18:28,000
You chose something that was only useful in the realm of academia.

869
01:18:28,000 --> 01:18:33,000
Well, guess what? The realm of academia is not the realm for 99 percent of the population.

870
01:18:33,000 --> 01:18:37,000
If you're outside the major cities, nobody cares.

871
01:18:37,000 --> 01:18:44,000
Get a degree in something that is marketable for the love of God, which just side note,

872
01:18:44,000 --> 01:18:48,000
if you're at a Starbucks and you need and they're pissing you off, you a solid burn.

873
01:18:48,000 --> 01:18:51,000
Ask the barista how that degree in gender studies is treating them.

874
01:18:51,000 --> 01:18:57,000
Yeah. You get to study a lot of genders out of Starbucks.

875
01:18:57,000 --> 01:19:03,000
I guess it's working out for all of them, all all three hundred eighty seven of them.

876
01:19:03,000 --> 01:19:06,000
Oh, God, I would love to have the official list at this point.

877
01:19:06,000 --> 01:19:09,000
I have two now.

878
01:19:09,000 --> 01:19:16,000
Yeah, federally, yes. Yes, that that is the oh, man.

879
01:19:16,000 --> 01:19:19,000
We're going to cut that topic off real quick before we get demonetized.

880
01:19:19,000 --> 01:19:23,000
Oh, yeah. First stream demonetized.

881
01:19:23,000 --> 01:19:26,000
I actually know that before we got monetized. Right.

882
01:19:26,000 --> 01:19:30,000
We just got the no button. That's yeah. You will never be allowed to earn.

883
01:19:30,000 --> 01:19:36,000
Oh, sad face. OK. Looking your background.

884
01:19:36,000 --> 01:19:39,000
I got to step up my background. I can't just have the planet next time.

885
01:19:39,000 --> 01:19:41,000
I got to do like a right attack.

886
01:19:41,000 --> 01:19:45,000
See what it this background I obviously chose for the right to repair stuff.

887
01:19:45,000 --> 01:19:53,000
But it's for me, it's it's kind of all encompassing because it's a lot of my my stuff.

888
01:19:53,000 --> 01:20:01,000
Like everything here is stuff that I have trained with and used and worked with in my my life.

889
01:20:01,000 --> 01:20:05,000
This is kind of what one of my benches looked like for five years.

890
01:20:05,000 --> 01:20:10,000
Oh, stupid question. Now that you have it up, I have a random oscilloscope I'm not using.

891
01:20:10,000 --> 01:20:13,000
OK, next time you're out my way, do you want it?

892
01:20:13,000 --> 01:20:17,000
I mean, sure. Probably have a useful shit up on eBay. Oh, OK.

893
01:20:17,000 --> 01:20:21,000
I know if it's still worth any quarter bucks. Oh, yeah.

894
01:20:21,000 --> 01:20:24,000
I just have a use for it. Just random fact. Yeah.

895
01:20:24,000 --> 01:20:28,000
Well, I thought about because if I don't say it, I'll forget it. Yeah. OK.

896
01:20:28,000 --> 01:20:34,000
But yeah, no, get get yourself trained up in hands on skills.

897
01:20:34,000 --> 01:20:37,000
Learn to use these things as well as this thing up here.

898
01:20:37,000 --> 01:20:43,000
It does more than just hold a hat still. But I know. Right.

899
01:20:43,000 --> 01:20:52,000
But being able to repair and make our two skills that are rapidly going away and need to make a comeback.

900
01:20:52,000 --> 01:20:57,000
And their skills that the AI won't replace you. Exactly.

901
01:20:57,000 --> 01:21:09,000
For all the wonderful creative things that AI can do, they cannot use their hands like we can or think outside the box like we can yet.

902
01:21:09,000 --> 01:21:17,000
And speaking of AI, we are going to do an updated AI episode in the very, very near future.

903
01:21:17,000 --> 01:21:29,000
If not next episode, the one after that, because the amount of advancements that have come out of AI just since we started this podcast is horrifying.

904
01:21:29,000 --> 01:21:32,000
Yeah, I. Yeah, I. I was.

905
01:21:32,000 --> 01:21:40,000
I know if you guys go back and you have or if you have not listened to it, go back and listen to the our first episode.

906
01:21:40,000 --> 01:21:44,000
You had asked me about the singularity. Mm hmm.

907
01:21:44,000 --> 01:21:49,000
At that time, it was expected within about five years.

908
01:21:49,000 --> 01:21:54,000
And as of last week, it is now estimated to be about one year.

909
01:21:54,000 --> 01:21:59,000
And I'm going to cut that off because I don't want to give away too much for the episode.

910
01:21:59,000 --> 01:22:09,000
But holy shit. If if you haven't seen the Terminator movies, go get some refreshers because it's coming.

911
01:22:09,000 --> 01:22:14,000
All I can say is get your license to carry. That's all I could say.

912
01:22:14,000 --> 01:22:17,000
I don't think a license is going to matter at some point.

913
01:22:17,000 --> 01:22:20,000
So no, but I'm not going to tell people do things that are illegal.

914
01:22:20,000 --> 01:22:24,000
So get get your license to carry. That's what I will say for legally.

915
01:22:24,000 --> 01:22:27,000
It's just in case.

916
01:22:27,000 --> 01:22:31,000
But I don't think it'll matter because there won't be a government to have a licensing say,

917
01:22:31,000 --> 01:22:38,000
do you think a robot will be if I just identify as a robot, be booboo bop boobie boobop booboo bop booboo bop.

918
01:22:38,000 --> 01:22:43,000
I do that episode of Spongebob where crabs get mistaken for a robot.

919
01:22:43,000 --> 01:22:49,000
No, but there's there's another episode of Futurama where Fry and Lila had dress up like robots to walk around on the planet.

920
01:22:49,000 --> 01:22:54,000
That yes, that'll be the.

921
01:22:54,000 --> 01:23:03,000
You know what the scary thing is with the new musculature thing that I saw that they were doing with the robots that they're not going to move around like robots.

922
01:23:03,000 --> 01:23:06,000
You think of they're just if anything, they're going to ultra smooth.

923
01:23:06,000 --> 01:23:10,000
It's going to be weird. All of their movements are going to be incredibly smooth.

924
01:23:10,000 --> 01:23:21,000
Smooth gives so incredibly smooth with a little bit of oil.

925
01:23:21,000 --> 01:23:28,000
The new robots have some very realistic skin, I've heard.

926
01:23:28,000 --> 01:23:32,000
I didn't adult your adult, please stop, please.

927
01:23:32,000 --> 01:23:39,000
No. But no, that that isn't saying that they're going to rolling out the sex pods at some point.

928
01:23:39,000 --> 01:23:42,000
I'd be rolling out all that. Oh, they've been they've been on the market.

929
01:23:42,000 --> 01:23:45,000
They're just getting better. They're saying there's a movie. I haven't watched it.

930
01:23:45,000 --> 01:23:53,000
I saw the companion. Is that the one with Daniel Quaid or whatever? Or what's the name that was in Jack Quaid? Yes.

931
01:23:53,000 --> 01:23:57,000
Yeah, he's he's Boimler and lower decks and he's he's in the boys.

932
01:23:57,000 --> 01:24:01,000
Yeah, it was already in theaters. It's on its way to streaming services now.

933
01:24:01,000 --> 01:24:07,000
OK, I'm curious. I do. I do want to watch that one. That's on my list. I'd like to. Yes.

934
01:24:07,000 --> 01:24:13,000
Man. Shit is getting crazy.

935
01:24:13,000 --> 01:24:16,000
Yeah, I want a companion cube.

936
01:24:16,000 --> 01:24:21,000
Oh, God. Yeah. After you to be called the trauma cube. Jesus Christ.

937
01:24:21,000 --> 01:24:27,000
Are you kidding me? Oh, I love it.

938
01:24:27,000 --> 01:24:30,000
The end quote, no, is not consent cube. That's

939
01:24:34,000 --> 01:24:37,000
Hey, cubes can't say no.

940
01:24:37,000 --> 01:24:42,000
She. Well, there's there's some merch for us there, buddy.

941
01:24:42,000 --> 01:24:47,000
This is the Don consent cube.

942
01:24:47,000 --> 01:24:50,000
Oh, I love portal.

943
01:24:50,000 --> 01:24:53,000
Great series.

944
01:24:53,000 --> 01:24:58,000
Gladdus has some great lines, though. Oh, God. Yes. Oh, man.

945
01:24:58,000 --> 01:25:02,000
But I guess I think at this point, that kind of wraps up.

946
01:25:02,000 --> 01:25:04,000
I guess today's topic, huh?

947
01:25:04,000 --> 01:25:08,000
I think we can. Yeah, it was a little bit shorter of an episode, but

948
01:25:08,000 --> 01:25:12,000
it was it was good. We've been kind of our episodes have been a little girthy lately.

949
01:25:12,000 --> 01:25:17,000
So, yeah, you know. Yes, I've been forcing the girth on people and I'm sorry.

950
01:25:17,000 --> 01:25:22,000
I know you guys can't usually take stuff like that, but I'm glad that you do.

951
01:25:22,000 --> 01:25:29,000
We've had spit on it lately, but you know, it happens.

952
01:25:29,000 --> 01:25:34,000
Oh, that look of disappointment gives.

953
01:25:34,000 --> 01:25:40,000
Oh, anyways, we had to give it the Hawk to a.

954
01:25:40,000 --> 01:25:45,000
Oh, I know.

955
01:25:45,000 --> 01:25:48,000
Oh, yes.

956
01:25:48,000 --> 01:25:51,000
Master Pip from now on.

957
01:25:51,000 --> 01:25:56,000
Oh, I take bow.

958
01:25:56,000 --> 01:25:59,000
God, Princess Bride, one of the best movies of all time.

959
01:25:59,000 --> 01:26:02,000
If you've not seen the Princess Bride, I highly recommend it.

960
01:26:02,000 --> 01:26:06,000
One of the best.

961
01:26:06,000 --> 01:26:09,000
Oh, my God. Chat. Jesus Christ.

962
01:26:09,000 --> 01:26:12,000
I know. Right. And I want to say that was cool to have chat this whole time, by the way.

963
01:26:12,000 --> 01:26:15,000
I know we didn't address people that much.

964
01:26:15,000 --> 01:26:19,000
I'll try to get you so we'll do in this thing live with having chat, but we appreciate you all being here.

965
01:26:19,000 --> 01:26:23,000
I do like that. Hopefully in the future, we could do like a

966
01:26:23,000 --> 01:26:29,000
address in the chat with questions and stuff like that and comments and, you know, doing that kind of thing.

967
01:26:29,000 --> 01:26:34,000
I think we can probably hang out and do.

968
01:26:34,000 --> 01:26:37,000
Which stuff for a little bit extra while we handle the episode? Oh, cool. Yeah.

969
01:26:37,000 --> 01:26:46,000
Well, I'll get the edited down stuff like that. Uh huh.

970
01:26:46,000 --> 01:26:49,000
Oh, man. But.

971
01:26:49,000 --> 01:26:52,000
There's anything else before we wrap it up?

972
01:26:52,000 --> 01:26:59,000
No, just the typical, you know, join the socials, join the discord.

973
01:26:59,000 --> 01:27:03,000
Please stay tuned for the next two episodes.

974
01:27:03,000 --> 01:27:06,000
The AI update is going to be a good one.

975
01:27:06,000 --> 01:27:11,000
It's going to be kind of terrifying.

976
01:27:11,000 --> 01:27:20,000
The other one that I want to kind of go kind of elbow deep into is the techno feudalism.

977
01:27:20,000 --> 01:27:25,000
It was touched on by Joe Scott, a big YouTuber.

978
01:27:25,000 --> 01:27:27,000
I'm a big fan of his.

979
01:27:27,000 --> 01:27:31,000
He briefly mentioned it and talked about it for a little bit in one of his more recent videos.

980
01:27:31,000 --> 01:27:37,000
But I really thought that it was something that kind of deserved a little bit more.

981
01:27:37,000 --> 01:27:47,000
Well, girth worth of information and discussion just because he touched on a lot of topics and points that.

982
01:27:47,000 --> 01:27:51,000
Yeah. So we're going to be talking about techno feudalism.

983
01:27:51,000 --> 01:27:55,000
And we're also want to tie that into the technocratic movement.

984
01:27:55,000 --> 01:28:02,000
And that is something that just needs talked about and brought back into light a little bit.

985
01:28:02,000 --> 01:28:06,000
Oh, I can't wait for that one. I have an entire little segment already prepared for that one.

986
01:28:06,000 --> 01:28:09,000
Oh, good. Oh, you have you have no idea.

987
01:28:09,000 --> 01:28:10,000
Yeah.

988
01:28:10,000 --> 01:28:17,000
For for those that have watched and or understand the more that is 40 of Warhammer 40 K.

989
01:28:17,000 --> 01:28:20,000
You might have a taste of what I'm going to talk about.

990
01:28:20,000 --> 01:28:22,000
But I do have an idea to prepare for that episode.

991
01:28:22,000 --> 01:28:28,000
I have been listening to a podcast about it and I'm about 14 hours in.

992
01:28:28,000 --> 01:28:31,000
Tell us that all this stuff to purposely prepare.

993
01:28:31,000 --> 01:28:35,000
I still have another about 10 hours to go in the next week or two.

994
01:28:35,000 --> 01:28:39,000
Just to prepare for that episode, because that's that's how much I have to say about it.

995
01:28:39,000 --> 01:28:42,000
Good. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.

996
01:28:42,000 --> 01:28:51,000
All right. So for the for the technocratic episode, get your butt cushions and your popcorn ready.

997
01:28:51,000 --> 01:28:54,000
It's going to be long. It's going to be hard.

998
01:28:54,000 --> 01:29:00,000
It's going to be difficult to take. Could you not get through it together?

999
01:29:00,000 --> 01:29:02,000
Jesus Christ.

1000
01:29:02,000 --> 01:29:09,000
I have a fucking who else but Clagmire like Jesus.

1001
01:29:09,000 --> 01:29:12,000
Fuck God.

1002
01:29:12,000 --> 01:29:16,000
It's like you want everyone's butt to be sore or something. Jesus.

1003
01:29:16,000 --> 01:29:20,000
I mean, you know, sometimes.

1004
01:29:20,000 --> 01:29:28,000
I don't take a pass. No, no, no, no.

1005
01:29:28,000 --> 01:29:32,000
Yeah, I think that I think that probably wraps up.

1006
01:29:32,000 --> 01:29:35,000
Yeah, absolutely.

1007
01:29:35,000 --> 01:29:42,000
So, yeah, thanks for thanks for hanging out. Hit the socials and.

1008
01:29:42,000 --> 01:29:45,000
Tune in next time for the stand against.

1009
01:29:45,000 --> 01:29:48,000
Hell, yeah, we will catch you all later.

1010
01:29:48,000 --> 01:29:58,000
Oh, yeah.

1011
01:30:18,000 --> 01:30:38,000
Yeah.