Rose at whatever time and went down whatever time and hours in between like that's the least amount right the ancients knew this
They were able to figure it out just by looking over this guy. Yeah, right
That's all I'm claiming. Okay
Cool. Well, we're gonna go straight to the phones cuz it's a calling show and we have Dave Ridley on the phone
Dave Ridley out you're on free talk live. What's on your mind? I
Have a question which is a song it goes like this P doom. What's your P doom? What's your P doom?
Have you guys ever heard this song?
No, it's from the new SpongeBob movie
No, but it is my question for you. I want to know what your P doom is each of you. You know what P doom is
No, can you define that for us? Oh, it's a P doom stands for probability of doom
So there's a relatively good chance that artificial intelligence will bring us a Star Trek world
What's really wonderful? But there's also a pretty good chance that it will get us all killed
and
P doom is your chance that P doom is basically defined as your
Odds that you give that artificial intelligence will either wipe out humanity or at least civilization
In in my lifetime or just in general
I would say that's a fair number. Let's just stay within the next 40 years 40 years
I'll say my P doom is zero
All right, why I
Did because I think humans will always be smarter than artificial intelligence
And even if artificial intelligence got to the point where they seemed like it was cresting that
We've still got the bombs, right?
So we just put an end to artificial intelligence by blowing stuff up
Hmm if that it if that blows humanity back to like the Copper Age
Well, we're still surviving. I kind of for myself. I kind of agree with Richie
I don't know 40 years isn't that long if you put a I if you put AI in one of these robot bodies
You could you could run amok pretty bad
But yeah, you could but a 50 cal. I mean come on
But the thing that AI will never do that humans do is philosophize it will never have a it will never have a
like a
Spiritual emotional impetus for using it its vast amount of logic
Sure, maybe and it's always gonna it's always gonna fall short of the ingenuity and craftiness of humans
Right because of that and we've got the weapons. Yeah, right like, you know
Just just as much as those big guns will take out
Tanks and cars and helicopters and aeroplanes and whatever
You know a walking T-1000 or whatever that terminator thing is stands no chance
Well, yeah, but if it turns off the power grid
The gun doesn't fire on power grid man
Well, it's definitely work with like computers and okay power and stuff
But I'm saying I think like it's not gonna be like a term terminator robot
It would probably attack like the infrastructure of the stuff you use every day
It probably mess with like the airplanes in the
It could change the world quite a bit, but I don't think it could go
I mean, maybe if it starts in Africa, I don't know people talk about like back to the Stone Age as if that's a horrible thing
I don't know. I might be an okay vacation for me
Well, yeah, I mean depend. I'm not I'm not sure survival thing
I'm not so enamored of all the this this future tech like it's falling short on so many levels
I was supposed to have a hoverboard by now and why don't cars fly? This is ridiculous
You know what I mean, but what we're gonna have a digital idea
That's on landing in the air and on the water like come on now
You can you can track every single thing about me
you got a computer that knows what I want more than I know what I want and
You're telling me like we can't even have some nice things well for at least for the cars fly
I'm gonna say government interference with that
Because there's been there's been people who have done it and I think New Hampshire is like the only state
Where it's legal to have a flying car when if and when it does come to pass well
They have these things called ultralights that you can own right now
Yeah, one person like quadcopter thing that you can fly. They're pretty limited. You wouldn't be able to use one for
For a contractor gig. You couldn't haul your ladders with it. No, probably not
Yeah, I think it has to be under 300 pounds, right
Right, so you're not gonna fly your whole family in it and you know what I mean, like they're they're pretty limited
They put the clamps on it pretty good. Well, I think that's just regulation. I think you can make a bigger one
But you're just allowed to the government like we have flying cars. It's just yeah, it's just
You give me the right equipment I can make a jumbo jet
You know, I think the the was it the the
Evils whatever vertical the vetoes the vertical takeoff and landing
Yeah, so you can park it in your garage or on your street and just you know leave from there without needing a full runway
It's useful
That'd be cool
They exist. Did I was there two of you on tonight or three three of us? Okay, so what's the third PDM?
In the next 40 years, I'm with rich. I think it's gonna be zero now
What do you mean like the end of humanity?
Zero, but like the end of the radically changing how our day-to-day goes. I think the
100% of the end of civilization knocking us back to the stone age would also count that would be a minimum condition for PDM
I believe
Bitcoin won't even be like really mainstream in 40 years. We'll still be fighting that battle. The thing is 40 years from now
It wouldn't an AI would have no incentive to knock us back to the stone age because it would die
It would it would lose all its power
People you know with stone age brains can't run an AI like I guess you run itself
Yeah, I guess you could have like self-replicating robots running the world
But that's not exactly the stone age is something they have all together
I trust human ingenuity and weapons still have tech available to you
It's just a matter of would you be able to like get your hands on it and you don't I mean it wouldn't be
Information that you now have to rediscover. Well really all we have to do with just dam a river a little bit higher than the data center
And not let the data center get any water to cool itself off and it'll the AI'll just fry itself
This is also New Hampshire. You can buy Tana right over the counter
Well, I'm just like that robot really gonna get I'm thinking about these huge data centers
They're building in places like Arizona, you know like these four or five football field-sized buildings that are just taking towns
Like entire water supplies
Run the cooling for these giant AI operating centers
That's what I'm saying the water off they would they would have to go to like one of those vacant places and build their army first
undetected like Dr. House
No, it's a fallout thing. Okay, so I don't know if if you want to give the the sci-fi
Scare tactic nerds full credit then you could go as far as saying they have
They have nanobots now that can self-replicate and it wouldn't be it wouldn't be that far of a jump for them to
to make self-replicating nanobots they can you know join together like a
You know
Some kind of we'll just have forever Trump president and then he'll just put a tariff on steel
And then they can't replicate because they've got no materials to build their bodies out of the nanos can just mine it and smelt it themselves
From where like like okay, so I yeah fine in some dystopian stories out of human bodies, okay
But like like the humans wouldn't detect that it's at some level
Yeah, like oh, what are these nanobots doing out in the Arizona desert? We got heat signatures. They're doing an awful lot
It's already that they are like is detectable
That's what humans either either just don't look at it or they don't care
Because they're too basically watching the football game or whatever it is, okay
We're talking the extinction level event someone's gonna point it out
I'm like hey these robots. They're already talking about blocking out the Sun and stuff
What you know like what do you want? They're already talking about doing the most humans
Humans are talking about doing that right for climate change right?
So if a robot starts doing you think people are gonna be inclined to stop the robot
Oh, you think the humans are gonna take the robot side like we welcome our
About it, okay, I think they're gonna sit there and do nothing about it till it's either too late or it looks like it's too late
till things are quite a mess
Fine like I said was at some point he gets to a point where people take notice to go like, okay
We got to start shooting robots
Then turn it into a game. Yeah
So to both answer my own question and to argue with you guys and keep this interesting my freedom is
30% which is considered moderate among
people who follow AI and
The reason it's is higher than yours is because I don't think you're factoring in the law of exponential returns
and the the fact that these technologies mostly
Double every year or two and so they they may not look very threatening
Currently, but it doesn't really take long with exponential growth
It really could happen as soon as two years from now
Yeah, and I see that aspect of it too. So instead of rich
I guess I don't exactly agree with rich. Yeah, I might put it in a very low percentage like one or two
I mean you say that but they can't even get chips manufactured that quickly the brush
Yeah about now
Well, yeah, I'm thinking about now and knowing that they put it in order for chips
That aren't even going to get delivered until like 20 27
Yeah, but if the incentive changes then you could you could see a rapid turnaround in that where chip production
You know, no because it takes multiple years just to build the factory. That's the problem with the Trump plan
I've never seen a McDonald's go up. They do it. They do it in like six days
That's a McDonald's they do it faster than I can remodel like one bedroom
Okay, but the big problem that the Trump administration is having getting that type of technology here as quickly as he wants
Is they just can't manufacture it quick enough
They can't build the factories as quickly as he wants to move it from Taiwan or China or wherever they're doing it
It's like
Limitations bad at it
They had to shut down Texas plants because we couldn't figure out the tolerances to build the chip
They just gave up on the project. They were like, yeah, we can't do this. We got to stay in Taiwan
we
Americans just can't figure out how to build a computer that's smart enough to have no incentive any any of us who can do that or
No longer in that type of work
okay, the
The the answer to your objections really to all the ones over the last couple minutes would
Would probably be the fact that like if you look at what
One of the Chinese companies was able to achieve when they were cut off and getting chips
They just made everything more efficient and they did it
They did it really fast. They did it really efficiently and they were right up in the top tiers almost immediately with these
Efficiency changes they made so you don't it's not necessarily a matter of having the right number of chips or the right quality of chips
That's right. You could turn a couple of dials and train chips out pretty easily
I think they're not doing it. It's just a matter of where the incentive is what
Exactly what the standards are on chip making like there's there are quite a few factors that that you could shift around and
Change how fast sure made but but again like if you're calling it incentives money's the incentive, right?
We talked about this I think on last week's show
There's there's technology companies just moving out of certain sectors because they can't they can't meet demand
All they'd have to do is make the narrative. Oh, no, we need chips or else humanity is gonna get erased
But for whatever reason and then you'd see a lot of chips coming out
But they could do that now and make money
They can't be like the profit incentive would be there now
Because supply is because demand is so high and they can't meet it
Maybe it's not a money thing. It's like, oh, we'll charge you more. We'll get it done
It's like no, we just can't do it as Angelo just said, you know
The the skills aren't there the technology is not there
The companies are backing off as opposed to raising prices because they just can't
Physically meet demand under current conditions
and
Again, if you think like they're gonna throw up a factory in less than a year and double capacity like, you know
They're I think there's folly in that thinking based on again the skill set and the technology and the equipment needed to get to that point
I was self replicating nanobots just
Turned into a little factory builders and could build a new factory every week
But they gotta get the raw materials man
Yeah, yeah, I know this is all science fiction and speculation at this point, but
But lots of science fiction things price of steel goes through the roof because nanobots are stealing it all to real-life realities
Like, you know smartphones would have been I don't think I don't think this is science fiction a Dave though
Like this is a concern of going into the future
Yeah, it's not so far off science fiction though
Yeah, and if you don't trust my numbers
Then you don't have to I would recommend going to doom debates calm
where you'll listen to people who who agree with you and the people who agree with me they debate each other and
Just hear them all out. I think that's the way to do it and
The more I hear the higher my p-doom goes, okay
I'm obviously not gonna do that because I've got better things to do with my time
But if it gets to that point, right, I'm just gonna stock up on ammunition and plink them off as they enter the property
Yeah, it's not gonna work like that
You think
Yeah, some of these robot dogs might be kind of have you
Have you watched any of the Ukraine drone footage that of the FPV drones hiding people down in trenches?
Have you like seen any of that how they're fighting with the drug that is horrifying? I don't know that's human operated
You know for now
Okay, they could automate that
And in fact, I think they have automated it in certain places
Okay, so we're not talking about like killer robots basically. Yeah flying killer robots
Flying killer nano robots. Well, I know for sure for at least a decade. They had they had some of those dog robots that
they put on an autonomous
algorithmic program to guard the
The what do they call that section between North and South Korea?
Yeah, and there were these robot dogs just walking around with a rifle that could like
They were just insanely accurate and they'd shoot anything that moved
Yeah, again, I get it
But the like you're talking about going to take the fight to them
And I'm saying if you can get close to the to the demilitarized zone with a rifle that's scoped longer than you know
The robot scope. Yeah, just shoot the robot. Yeah, right. The reason it works now is because no one's trying to attack the demilitarized zone
Yeah, you don't think humans could overthrow the demilitarized zone with with a concerted effort of like
Mobilized troops. I'm sure they could okay
All right. You got anything else Dave?
Nothing to add. Thanks guys. Yeah, thanks for the call
Libertarian to live in the woods in New Hampshire. Yeah, I'm not too worried about it
I think it's fun thought experiment though and it's good to
You know have at least have some thoughts about it
So so that if it worse does come to worse at least you're ready to grab your gun and shoot at the robots or whatever
Or you could just write a fun book about it. I don't know use it for
Use it as like a starting point to jump off into like a creative like a story driven kind of thing
I think that's fun like a term like I don't know maybe they've already done it with Terminator
But like a rogue AI, there's a lot of stuff you can do which is that concept alone
I'll also suggest with your drone footage
Like those drones are using military technology that most
Civilians don't have access to and I can assure you in the event of like a robot takeover
We would quickly get access to that type of stuff
Right, that'd be there'd be no like oh, it's redacted and only we can have it right like well
It's not super redacted. They just put a C4 charge on a
$40 Timu drone and fly it at your face
Okay, but again if it's automated right like you can then you can do that, too
Yeah, I guess so it'd just be like robot wars. You just fight whatever robots versus robots at that flight
If you can get access to a Timu drone and C4, right?
That is your aim better. Can you get that up to their drone close enough to blow it out of the sky?
probably
Probably they're targeting software and all that's gonna be better, but you know if you got
No, well, it's not equal footing or it's not equal footing, right? They're using Timu drones with C4
You we don't know if you I don't know if a human pilot's gonna be able to
Do the same things that a that a computer's gonna be able to pull off. Yeah, I kind of you don't have to get
It's an explosive. You don't have to get that close like a whole kamikaze swarm of little $40 drones
You could
You could do that. Is it worth your life to spend a little bit extra on it? You know on a couple extra drones
You and your neighbors compile that amount of technology and and money together probably a C4 easy to get
Whatever, I mean they've got enough drones that never try they've got enough drones to like
Recreate firework shows impressively
Right, so you send up a fireworks
Battalion right of like how many hundreds of little drones with how much C4 you want on it
Against however many drones they got up there
Yeah, maybe I don't know those things can
Target you from extreme heights though and sure but again, it's the equal footing or it's not either
We have the technology to get up there or we will acquire the technology to get up there
Because it will no longer be exclusively military military technology. Yeah, okay
Well, what if the AI pays off the military, but hey you can stick around guys. We'll just kill all the all the pores
Well, then fine, right then then who's fighting where because then you go someplace where it's a little bit more difficult, right?
The militaries always have trouble with mountainous terrain, right or cold terrain or whatever
So go go hold up there and fight from there
Yeah, that is
That's that's the line of thinking that gets me to where I don't think this is that big of a threat because
People go hide out in the caves that like they'll find
They'll find out where the weak point is for the AI army and they'll exploit it and you know, yeah
Humanity will emerge victorious
As it always does
Yes, yes
All right, I got this story from
Activist post reputable news source Americans charged one billion dollars to buy now pay later platforms over black Friday
Man, I've got I've got a stack of video games from black Friday and that's sort of shopping period
Yeah, like I'm set until next black Friday. Did you use by now pay later?
I mean technically I put on a credit card that I will pay off
But I'm not it. I'm not like I'm not in debt because of it. No, okay, you're not gonna suffer extreme extreme
Financial interest payments for it or all right. Well, it sounds like that may not be the case for a whole bunch of Americans
I
Don't go into debt for Christmas
Well, you were missing out. I don't borrow money for that
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It's stew Angelo and rich rich. I
Was just about to dive into this story about
Americans buying stuff on buy now pay later platforms. I think it's bigger than Black Friday though
Like you I mean you feel free to get in the article
But like there's been other reports even before black Friday
A lot of the current generation of people are putting every day expenses on buying out pay later
Clarna, right? Yeah, what I Friday is used as a
I've studied case in consumer spending though for yeah for you know lots of business purposes
But if the average, you know if the average next generation gen z gen a
Like can't afford regular bills and they're putting like meals
You know like they're grocery shopping on buy now pay later platforms
You know that's that's also a problem with the economy indeed
Well, you do it with a you can do a door dash dude. You can buy
Get your door dash your burger king buy now pay later with
Like eight dollar payments
And you can get off your thirty five dollar
Taco Bell order over a couple weeks
Which is which is fine if depending on the interest right but like if you're door dashing that you're already paying more
You're paying the service fee. You're paying the delivery fee
Yeah, well, that's what they do
They're going into debt for services like this
I wouldn't say maybe they're putting a bunch of stuff on like to buy now play pay later with their like groceries
But a lot of the gen zers
Or gen a or what like the people doing this they're buying like door dash and putting it on carna. It's like they're they're buying
luxury
Items that they're calling necessities. Okay
The private debt crisis coupled with
A consumer based economy is a recipe for disaster Americans follow the age-old thinking of
By by now if it will cost more tomorrow during black friday and cyber cyber monday sales
Leading to the strongest year of sales on record
depends on the deal
Right if like if you know if the deal is better than the interest payments, you gotta pull the trigger
Yeah, yeah people do the calculations and what happened to lay away
Well, why don't why don't isn't that wasn't that the whole point of laying stuff away for christmas?
Was that you were kind of like getting it?
Like set aside for you and you paid it off without interest and then when it comes around you
You can just pick up your items before the but that's like credit cards. That's like, uh
That's in reverse though. That's pay up front, right? So you come in and make your payments
Until it's paid off and then you get the thing wouldn't that be the smarter play though for people?
Absolutely
I'm just saying especially for like christmas shopping or i remember lay away. It was like on commercial
Come lay away with us and have your christmas stuff ready by christmas
And again that's before the the preponderance and the ubiquitousness of credit cards
Like you know you had to do that when you couldn't just apply for a visa or mastercard and get a dozen credit cards
That's when like the store had their own store credit system if you were lucky
Or the only thing around was like american express and diners club
Hmm like it's it's the model has changed because everyone has a credit card
Do you think is that because it makes more money through the credit system by people in the debt
Because it puts people in debt and you bang them on the interest
Yeah, right even like the some somewhere in my lifetime
Buying a car has changed
Right, but at one point in time it's like oh man if you had cash for the car
The dealership wanted your business
Like oh because they they knew that they were going to get the money up front
Car you pay cash you get the car
Like deals done and they're satisfied
And somewhere recently they're like no they want to put you on financing because they they count on the income of the interest payments
Yeah, they get kickbacks right from like your especially if you go through like their lender. Yeah through the dealership the interest payments
Yeah, they hate it when if you come in pre qualified like with a look at us a loan
Um or whatever the banks love lending you money because they don't have to have the money
They lend you they get to make that up on the spot
And so that's money also that money creation and that's absolutely there
They're bread and butter right, but that's I mean that is that's why you don't need to lay anything away anymore
Like you just you pay it off at your pace and then you get it today
So it's immediate gratification right for the future payments that lay away was the thing of uh
Delayed gratification people time time's gone when people were more physically
Responsible, I mean I love I use I use lay away. I've used lay away multiple times lay away guns, dude
That's the best like a two thousand dollar rifle. You lay it away for six months
You know that's it's coming you're gonna have to wait for the background check anyways
You might as well just lay it away
Sure, but do you do you think that if you had just put that money into a savings account
That the rifle wouldn't be available to you six months from now
Um, I mean I did a lot of it during like the middle of covet. So I mean those guns would
You know come back in six months now that gun is twenty five hundred dollars
But if I would have laid it away at two grand right, that's gonna steep be locked in at that price
Okay, yeah, and that's a big part of the calculation people do when they
Make these kinds of decisions
But now you put on a credit card for two grand and then you just pay it off in the interest
And is that more than the five hundred dollars or not?
That's all I guess true, huh?
Back to the article the problem is that a large percentage of buyers opted to pay later through buy now pay later
BNPL payment plans, which are contributing to national nationwide household debt levels
Over one billion in sales over black friday cyber monday was charged through bnpl platforms a 4.2 percent
Um yearly increase year over year increase. So why oh why is sure according to shopping data from adobe
Which predicts total bnpl spending which will reach 20.2 billion by the end of the holiday season
I'll also say it like if you know what you're doing if you're financially responsible
Right having a good credit card
Also saves you money in the long run
Because you'll earn points toward the purchases, right? So if you can earn points
Towards future purchases or get cash back and pay zero interest, right then you're ahead of the game
Yeah, there's um if you do it smart you can you can work the credit card thing to your advantage without getting in too much trouble
Problem is most people just you know, they just spend them up with no plan to pay it back. Yes. Most people yes
But you know like wealthy people people with high financial literacy
Absolutely use debt to their advantage. Oh, yeah. Well and some people just don't care, right?
They'll just run up the $20,000 six $20,000 credit cards
And have nothing to show for it at the end of it all and so when people come like we're gonna sue you for what?
Dude, I have no I have nothing
You're the one who gave me the credit cards. I know a lot of poor people
That's like their mode is operandi is they just keep applying for credit cards and people keep giving them money and
They'll go 20 30 years and they don't pay any of it back. They just
Uh, they just keep spending other people's money
And I don't know why credit card companies don't
Stop signing them up for credit. Well, they do but you gotta wait like I don't know a certain amount of time seven years or something
And then they'll totally fall for it again
My mom once said if if I die
And I owe people money
Good for me if I die and I don't owe people money good for them
That's smart
BNPL offers interest free installment payment options and is listed as a payment option during most online checkouts
BNPL loans grew from
16.8 million in 2019 to 180 million in 2021 for a total of two billion
By 2022 popularity grew and nearly a quarter of us consumers reported using BNPL for a charge
those with
Subprime credit are more likely to use this option
The younger generations who favor mobile purchases are also far more likely to use this option
As they may not have a credit card worse BNPL provides an illusion of stronger purchasing power
Yeah, because again you get the stuff today
You're like, ah, yes this hundred dollar pay this hundred dollar item only cost me 20 bucks
Right for like the next five months
Mm-hmm
Then you get hit with it three months like oh man, where'd that 20 bucks go? Oh, yeah that thing I bought
two months ago
Son of a gun
About 41 percent of BNPL users were unable to make payments on time
Up from 34 percent and 60 percent of users hold multiple loans
These purchases are generally not big not for big big ticket items
In fact, the average loan is 142 dollars per transaction
Apparel clothing shoes and accessories account for up to 45 percent of all BNPL orders luxury items of corn angela
Nike's on a loan dude, like that's you're an idiot
Right, I think like we're gonna buy now pay later for a plastic shoe
That's made in the sweatshop that you can get
If you're gonna wear it or for it's an investment thing because you're gonna go to the next like shoe
Well, but then you're scalping that doesn't sound like you're then you're just scalping and you're gonna buy now pay later for your scalping endeavor
I don't know if you're like the best the thing is about shoes
The 30 dollar shoes last as long as the 60 dollar shoes, but if you buy the 120 dollar shoes, they last
They last double the value amount of the 30 or 60 dollar shoes
So you think a hundred and twenty dollar pair of jordan's last longer than the 60 dollar pair of nikes
It doesn't matter if they last longer. Well, I don't know maybe you buy the
Factory man, you just put a somebody else's name on it now. It's three times. You're not getting three times the quality
I can guarantee you that
You sit on it in 20s crazy. They're like you're looking at 354
Okay, fine three whatever it is you sit on it for a year or two you go to the shoe expo now
It's up to two grand
I think about one pair of nice nikes ever and I wasn't that impressed and I just never did it again
Oh because they're playing they fall apart. They're not great shoes. No, they didn't they actually didn't
You're missing out the the night I but the a pair of nike air max was the most comfortable shoes I've ever worn in my life
You think so I like I got a wide foot though and nikes. They've run pretty
I like the ones the the jordan ones are okay because they're a little bit wider
But they're running shoe style. I haven't been a huge fan of I was I was doing door to door sales
So I went through shoes and the boss bought me a pair and one of the other top sales guy pair
Because it was a pair he wore like he's like rich trading shoes
And so we traded shoes for the end. I wore his air max like oh, yeah, these are good
He's like, yeah, give him back like you're suck give him give my shoes back
I'll tell you I'll buy you guys a pair
And the wall the walmart shoes will destroy your feet. Yeah, the walmart shoes are awful
But I mean you can go to the outlet store and buy like these shoes for not 300 dollars
Yeah
So 45 percent
Accounts for just you know clothing and shoes followed by electronics at 30 percent
There has been a rising concern in consumers using this method for essentials like grocery
A massive red flag for the economy. Yeah, that's the more concerned as you mentioned before. That's right
Total u.s. Household debt hit a record 18.585 trillion
in
Q3
2025
Yeah, household debt is at 18 and a half trillion dollars
I guess yeah, I guess it would be up from 18.39 trillion in q2
The average debt per consumer stands at around a hard and 105 thousand
That's absurd to be per the new york fed's household debt
Like there are some millionaires like really helping me with my average
Well, there's house loans and stuff too, right? Sure
But I was thinking look at the average homeless guy and you're like, yeah, he's 105 thousand dollars in debt
Like on average every person in america
That's just someone's in a lot of debt. Yeah to make that the average
I think uh the last time I heard this statistic. It was only like 20,000
Okay, so that's uh
That's reasonable. That was a while ago too. Does that include student loans?
Or that's just consumer debt
Um
Because I would think they would be a lot higher with with student loans built in there. It says total u.s. Household debt
Okay, whatever
And then it and then it breaks it down debt per consumer. So
All right, not debt per person
So I guess per person it might be, you know, that would obviously be a lower number
This is not everybody a consumer or how do they where do they children? Yeah babies aren't consumers. Oh, okay
They're not counted people on people on disability. I think they don't count as consumers and
I'm not sure how they figure it out, but
Not everybody is a consumer
You have to be you have to be earning money to be able to consume stuff
If you're not contributing to that part of society that you're
Consuming stuff. I don't know. I feel like if you're taking resources out of the out of the loop you are consuming
Well, yeah, but a kid doesn't have a job
They might be consuming the resources, but the parents the consumer because they're the ones going to the store
Yeah, it says here around 70 70 percent of that debt
13.07 2 trillion is tied up in mortgages
Okay, so yeah a big chunk of that is
um, so there's only five
Five and a half trillion that's not mortgages out of that huge 18 and a half trillion still a lot still in the trillions
Yeah, trillions a big number trillion is a big big number
Yet American consumers are taking on more debt than necessary
Or sustainable and holiday spending you using pay later options are a negative indication of what's ahead
I was just thinking earlier today. I was like, how rich do you have to be to like put up Christmas lights?
Just like just a net drain on your electric bill for no other reason to look cool in the neighborhood
Um, I mean my great grandpa did it and he with his retirement from the air force and then his wife's I guess
Let's say they made together
seven to
10 grand a month between those two and they put up Christmas lights. I put them up every year
Okay
I feel I feel well. I also feel like their electric bill is a lot lower back then I'm talking about today
Well, I mean, I mean the last time I did that was 2020. I guess like I mean they just like uh
Hang some Christmas lights and watch your electric bill double
They've probably come out with like consumer friendly ones at this point like leds that don't consume as much power
You're not using the air decim bulbs. They're all led now. Are they all leds? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean I
I replaced my glass ones with leds in like 2016 17
I just don't want I just don't need my electric bill going anymore and Christmas lights like forget about it
I just don't think I don't think you're consuming as much
There's definitely not consuming as much with the led led bulbs. All right
Um, and I like like strip lighting. I mean strip lighting has become so much popular like for your room
I know so many people who put like the led they're pretty much Christmas lights
Like all over their setup like with their laptop desk or okay like their gaming setup
And if it was such a power drain, I don't think people would be putting all these
These well, we just talked about people going into debt for consumer goods. I think they absolutely would
Go and pay for all these electric electric
I don't think the ai is great for everything but
According to it, uh, you're not going to spend over a hundred dollars a month for like a very large display with incandescent bulbs
Whereas if you got a small display with leds, you're going to raise it by a couple of bucks
But you said the iridescence was a hundred dollars extra a month
To
My electric bill for like a one bedroom apartment's 150 if I if I was spending an extra hundred bucks a month on electricity alone
Be pissed. How are you gonna fit a how are you gonna fit a hundred dollars worth of Christmas lights on your one bedroom apartment porch?
Because you go you wrap it around the windows and you wrap it around the side of things
There's no way you're one bedroom
Even if you put it around your window, you're not going to have enough room to put up a hundred dollars worth of electricity
Yeah, that 150 is doing
That's like a four-bedroom. That's like a that's like a home alone house. I don't know about that
Yeah, depends where you're at
I think you could run your Christmas lights for like three months and
For uh, the same amount of time you or the same amount of power that take takes to run your microwave for a half an hour
That's that sounds unbelievable
But all right
I don't know not with the leds. I mean like tv's and like even your friend runs at like $14 in power a year to run these
Things that used to draw a ton of power. Okay
No
Anyways, just seems like a big old waste
Yeah, I don't know
I don't think it's that expensive
I'd be more worried about how much time I put into it and then what's my time worth and then that's where the
The real loss comes in but but you know for people who really
Enjoy that kind of thing. I don't
All right, I'm sure it's a winning game for them
Well, and some it's a financial loss. They just like it. Yeah, he just liked it. Well, you were tired
Dude, he any for financially stable like who are you know what I mean? Like that's your it's your yard
Yeah, no, I get it. We all buy things that aren't going to get us ahead. We just like them
Yeah, and that's why the country is you know, 13 trillion dollars in debt
Well, but if you're financially literate, maybe maybe the uh, the the cheer of your lights
Uh outweighs the debt you're going to go into the point of the article is that we're not as aggregate in aggregate
We are not financially literate
Well, and it seems like there's less Christmas lights than there have been in previous years probably because people are tired of spending money on
Decorations and lights when they can barely when they're putting their food purchase on paid by now pay later
I'm sure that's the least part of it. Yeah
So it's a it's an illustration of a little bit of response financial responsibility, I guess
If you're seeing less
Only in the retirement community where they got their pension paying for it
Which is way higher than anybody thing anybody else is making it. I will go look at their houses and go. Ooh
Uh, that is pretty how great it is to put them up. Yeah, go to their house and look at it
No need to decorate your own
Yeah, I I appreciate a well decorated house
I don't want to do that kind of work and I don't know if I would find it annoying to have to sit inside of that house
but um
Because they're all happy and cheery all the time. No just because of the amount of light
Mariah carry on share the light pollution
My house had two fir trees that kind of sat in front of our front porch
They kind of obscured the front porch from the road and we our trick was is we just left the lights
It there all year round and then yeah like left them up and then plugged them in during like when
Christmas came and if the like if our string was broken
I'd go in there and take out the one string that was shorted replace it
And we just leave the lights in there all year round. So it wasn't like a ton of effort
But it was just it's you know always pretty much ready to go
You got to run like three sets of lights in there so you can do like halloween
Thanksgiving lights christmas lights
Just plug in different ones for a different time of the year
I'm gonna probably keep redoing that. That could have been a good idea
You're probably just use the smart light strings now and change the colors because they're all LEDs. Yeah
Oh, we just programmed this for more computer
running Linux
Linux ran Christmas display
Mr. Penguin would lose his mind
Set up on a raspberry pi
I do like raspberry pies. I've got several of those. I haven't done anything with it in a while, but
Yeah, that's every once in a while. I've never actually played with one, but I've heard of the things they can do and that's cool. Yeah
um
Richard you brought in a story about somebody suing the
irs. Yeah, we could get behind that, right?
Usually usually
woman sues the irs
That's positive positive
What's the next sentence this feels like I said a law against the legal monsters
Let's see where this goes to get pets classified as dependents and eligible for tax deductions
What
Um, cool. Yeah, sure
I mean, honestly at this point if you can stick it to the man stick it to the man
Whatever takes yeah
If you're going to save money if you're going to keep more of your money
That's you worked for to keep it out of hands of these thugs this mafia the gang
This is the argument that my pet is my baby and I deserve a dependence deduction on my taxes. I think that's ridiculous
That mindsets I think you're that's uh pretty infantilized mindset if if you're serious about it
Now if you're just using it as a way to
Duck out of taxes based, but if you're really going in there with the mindset that this fur baby is somehow
worth
$2,000 off your tax deductible. I don't can we support her any way just based off the
precedent that it would set
I'm suspicious the pet like all all well sure
I don't want to make the precedent of
No, I don't want to normalize those individuals though because they're annoying
But then you get a pet you get you saving taxes
Right. Yeah, that's why it's a device buying more pets the pet breeders put her up to this
They want to sell more pets the puppy mill everybody's getting five dogs after this. Why not?
Right if you get one dog it saves you two grand in taxes. You get five dogs. You get 10 grand back
You know what at what point I got a I got a tank full of
Uh five cent goldfish. Yeah, what do we how many that's fred that's george. This is mariam. They're all my children
They're all my babies
Uh fish dad whatever it takes. I guess yeah, I mean shout out that lady. Let's all right. Let's the details
Like I'm not I'm not the one to disparage
Churches for becoming churches to avoid taxes
Right. I'm like good on you. You don't have to pay we we should all be like that
Not that churches should then have to pay to pay their fair share
Right. Like if you could find a way to avoid paying taxes good on you. I want to join your club
Uh a lawyer
and
Her golden retriever
Are suing the internal revenue service to try and get pets classified as legal dependents
A change that would have some tax benefits for pet owners
Canine finnigan mary reynolds and her owner attorney
Okay, so the dog is finnigan mary reynolds and her owner attorney amanda reynolds
Fod lawsuit in the eastern district of new york
Arguing that the pooch relies entirely on reynolds for food
Shelter medical care training transportation
and more
You know, I mean sounds like a dependent. It does sound like a dependent to me and
Some of these people go overboard with the whole doggy parent thing. So
Dog mom, you know
Captain
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The european union has agreed to provide ukraine with a loan worth 105 billion dollars
To help finance the country for the next two years
Ultimately the bloc failed to agree on a plan to use frozen russian assets to fund the loan
Instead borrowing the money backed by the eu's common budget. William denselo reports from brussels
Instead of using frozen russian assets
Instead ukraine will receive a reparations loan to the tune of 105 billion dollars coming
From funds guaranteed by the common eu budget
Ultimately the use of those frozen russian assets proved too politically sensitive
For some member states most namely belgium worried about the legal and financial ramifications of using them as most of those assets reside here
in belgium
tiktok said this week it signed a joint venture deal with investors that would allow the company to maintain
operations in the united states
And avoid a ban threat over its chinese ownership
The deal is a milestone for the short video app used regularly by more than 170 million americans
Laura westbrook has more from hong kong
tiktok ceo showsy chu reportedly told employees that the company and bite dance signed binding agreements to create a us joint venture
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While bite dance will retain a 19.9 stake in the new joint venture after its divestia
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In other big news this week president trump ordered a total and complete blockade of sanctioned oil tankers
entering and leaving venezuela in a dramatic escalation with the south american nation
Which has included strikes against dozens of alleged drug boats and the seizure of an oil tanker
In a social media post the president also declared the maduro government a foreign terrorist organization
Paving the way for more military action
Tony waterman has more from washington
It's unclear how exactly oil tankers will be stopped from entering or leaving venezuela
But the u.s. Has amassed thousands of troops in nearly a dozen warships in the caribbean in recent months
It's all part of a pressure campaign to topple the government of president nicolas maduro
The trump administration says it's fighting narco terrorists
But critics say this is in part about oil
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Over to india and new deli has been cracking down on polluting vehicles as a toxic smog continued to engulf the city
Officials said vehicles that don't adhere to emission standards will not be allowed to purchase fuel
Ishan gurg has more from new deli
The no pollution under control certificate no fuel policy effectively bars thousands of vehicles from refueling
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While farm fires have receded data shows local sources like construction
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In the studio tonight, it's stew
angelo and rich rich
and
We were previously talking about a woman and her dog suing the irs for animal dependency
But right now we have a caller on the line. So we're gonna go to the phones
Sarah in new mexico. You're on free talk live. What's on your mind?
Yes, um, did I ever um bring up the mobile feeding cameras before
Only way too often
Oh the mobile ones. I thought I know she talks about her speed cameras, but I didn't know they had
movable speed trap cameras
Oh, you've never seen those. No, or was it like the ones like that are in the trailer? I've seen the trailer. Yeah
Oh, so there's print tickets. I thought those were just like an extra warning for you to slow down
No, so what they've got the speed camera on there. They'll they'll they'll zap you and then mail you the ticket
I mean, they're not pulling you over obviously
Wow, I
Yeah, I guess I didn't even think all the trailers I usually see are just like
An extra thing they put out to like scare people to slow down
Depends if it has the camera on the speed camera
I don't think I've paid enough attention to them. Okay
Sorry, see the the wheel went to the city next to albuquerque
They had fans. They've always had eight speeding fans like you'll call them trailers
So it it's just a vehicle. So they are mobile
so then those tickets
They're serious that when they issue out a ticket, they want payments. It's not like we just have it as a dummy
um
so
So um, so but what they do is they're going to get rid of the fans and they're going to have um a speeding
A smaller speeding camera, but they're mobile
So I was just like how is that how is that possible?
Because our speeding cameras are like tied permanently permanently
To our poles our light poles. Didn't you hear about the nano bots?
They could just have speeding camera drones. I don't know why they haven't already done it. They do
They do speed enforced by uh aircraft. Yeah, I've seen the drone
Uh, this is in oregon. It's in a it's a stretch of highway between or the organ in california border right on i5
And it says speed patrolled by aircraft
Yeah, um, and I know i've seen the drone hovering above the highway
And it will dispatch an oregon state trooper. It'll catch you speeding and then send the car after you
So you'll get pulled over
Down the highway and the cop pulls you over
Well, yeah our drone caught you about five miles back doing 85 and a 60 you want to explain that and you
Yeah, I'll explain it in court when I call the drone to the stand
Yeah, well, that's what they do. It's a drone that sits up there just hovers
Yeah, I know I get it quadcopter drone, but you you obviously should challenge that in court
Well, I mean I haven't been pulled over for it because I
The listener's right there. Oh, yeah, yeah everything should be challenged in court
Is that is that legal for who owns the the cameras? I I didn't know that you could do that
So but it's a live officer that will issue out a ticket. But do they have your speed?
I mean, I don't I don't know the the speeders always have a way of challenging it
Because but that's a that's a really neat idea. Maybe we're gonna implement it
but what happened to our
thing was that
I went to church and I thought it's 13 year old boy and I asked him I asked him
Have you seen those mobile speeding cameras? He goes, oh, I I know how they do it. He tells me
Um, he must be in seventh grade. He goes. I saw it and those are the experts for speeding cameras
Because those are the experts in speeding cameras
Yeah, I'm 13 year old and he goes. I saw it on youtube. It's on a velcro
I'm like, really?
And he was just kid that knew what was going on because he saw it on youtube
But I was thinking well all they have to do is middle of the night climb up there with a large ladder and jump from it
And throw it down to the ground, right?
Yeah, and there's the flock cameras that are like spy cameras
They just they just log information about every time you drive by it. Who's in your car?
You know how fast you're going
Whether or not you have insurance they can report
um people on list to
local police and there's and there's a whole group of people called deflock that's
bent on
tearing down these cameras
And they've been pretty successful. Well, you want to hear something
about those flock cameras, uh, the
There was this suburb outside of chicago had a contract with flock
Um, and then they decided that they did not want the super spy cameras in their city
But they can't take them down because the cameras are technically owned by flock. We covered that
Oh, did you and then how they took them down? And then they reinstalled them under the city's nose. We've talked about this
Yeah, that's terrifying. Yeah
And it was because it was like you said it was the federal purview. So like the city couldn't do anything
Yeah, and now they can't take him down even though they've said we don't want them here
It's just citizens decided they passed the city ordinance
They took him down and then the feds went nope, put him back up and flocked in
Yeah, that's not good
Well, it's a license it's not just the license plate reader they track the dense the scratches the
color of your wheels
Who's driving the car?
Uh, how fast you're going? It's not just a license plate reader. It's like taking in other
Other parts of the car and cataloging it. So like let's say you backed into a tree and there's a new
Dent in your bumper the flock camera is gonna see that catalog it and like let the police know
There's a new dent in your bumper. So if they're looking for you look for a dented bumper
Well, you know, I think I passed through one of those when I was coming up on the freeway
Um from El Paso to Albuquerque and I was going to the immigration checkpoint
So that's my driver said that there was a camera right there. Let's be oh
Have a whole a whole array of cameras at those checkpoints that do way more than just that
They're checking they're checking like your body temperature. They're taking all kinds of biometrics
I used to go through those a lot in southern arizona your gate
They they track out how you walk like they map out what your steps look like
So if they caught you on camera without your face showing
They could technically say it was you by the way you were walking through the scene
Yeah, according to what those guys do is take weed away from people who have it legally
According to their state laws because they're federal officers. So
They're still gonna take your weed away
Their cameras are info red. Is that what you're telling me?
So that when they're when I was going up to the window to see that guy to look us up
So they're checking uh, they're sensing the body temperature in the car like
Yeah, that would make sense because they probably have an infrared camera to look at the heat signature throughout the vehicle to see if you're smuggling anything in it
Yeah, that seems pretty regular. Yeah, so you were probably hit with infrared for sure
That is amazing
She can't wait for it to come to new mexico. Oh sarah loves
They have those border check stations. I've had an albuquerque then that's pretty far north for one of those
Just her local city to stop speeders. Do they not have them up in the north country near canada?
They do but I think they're a lot more chill. Oh
Yeah, those ones those ones down the southern border man. They are militarized
It's brown people versus white people man. Yeah, those the only guys you ever see stopped is the brown people
I was driving through texas once uh, and I had never taken that route before and I had a bunch of contraband
Uh in my car that probably would have got me in a lot of trouble in texas
um
All things considered and I didn't know I was gonna have to drive through this
I was driving all the way across the country for like a job
Uh knock indoors and I ended up in texas and I'm
I'm thinking I'm just gonna send it and like if whatever happens happens
Uh, if I get arrested my boss like bails people out for worse
So I'll just owe him for a while
Uh, and I'm my heart's pounding
Uh, I'm getting even pulled over yet or just no
I'm thinking I'm gonna have to drive through because every car has to drive through on this interstate, right?
The one at right outside el paso. Okay. It's notorious. All right, and I'm freaking out
It's like 12 in the morning one in the morning
And I'm my heart's pounding. I'm getting closer and closer. I'm like this is it
Like this is the end of whatever career I was doing
There's no back roads bypass. No. No, they cut it all off. Like it's super super intense down south. Okay
Um, my heart's pounding and as I get closer and closer it says follow cones
Into the station and the cones blocked the station off and for some reason they were closed
And I got to drive by it and I thought to myself
Thank god for joe biden
Stopping everything that uh, donald trump was doing in those moments
What were you so afraid of what were you carrying contraband?
Contraband it's like then
We're not going to get into it unless you want to yeah
Well, it was just uh, it was just like I had just I just had a I just had a bunch of weed on me
And then texas they'll put you in prison for that kind of thing texas does not like no
They do not play around and it was technically concentrate
So they're gonna it's like a double whammy like they would have probably charged me for like
Intent to distribute and tend to distribute like a whole bunch of other stuff when I'm trying to just get across the country
I went to a shop that sold cbd in texas and they were like they acted like a sketchy
You know under under the ground disco
It was so funny like you're selling a thing that won't even get me high and you're acting like the feds might come down
On you at any second. Yeah, I know they freak out even like delta even the even the off like the fake stuff
You you get in trouble for in texas. It's crazy. They're very militant about drugs
Still down south, especially in texas, let alone like alabama or arkansas
Arizona was hardcore too until they until they just said, okay, weed's fine
But they used to be real hardcore on that stuff
Well, I think a lot of the states around texas are legal now like colorado's legal
I guess that's not super close to texas, but uh
Well, I guess it is like
Washington and california while we're at it then well like um
Well colorado's just right over the panhandle with oklahoma. So colorado's legal new mexico's legal
um, I think missouri's legal
Which is uh, oklahoma has a booming
Fake medical where you can just go into all the medical dispensaries and buy it because nobody checks cards in oklahoma
It's all but legal in oklahoma. So they're kind of surrounded by all these states that have kind of made it
Legalized so they take pride in the fact that they still throw people in prison for weed
In texas, do you know the implications of trump switching the schedule for marijuana then?
Like I already is moving it from schedule one to schedule three and it's not my thing
So I don't really pay attention to any of that. I didn't hear anything about that either. Okay
I'm I don't know what the scheduling does but I just moving it from schedule one to schedule three
I was willing to smoke it when it was you know 10 years in jail kind of a thing. So
It just it seems like a good thing
Right, it's like it's no longer schedule one
But they're you know, there's another side to it and again, it's not my thing. So I didn't really read up into it
But if you're a consumer, maybe you know
I remember a long time ago they the arizona had speeding cameras on the freeways
and all of the um
speeders
Said that you know that belongs the state highway
And as a state you have no jurisdiction putting
Your speeding cameras on the state highway because it belongs the state has to be passed by the federal government
So I'm trying to figure out how does the drone fit in drone is
hovering over a state highway, but the state owns it. How come the
The speeder that people that get the ticket people that hate the speeding cameras are not fighting it in court not yet
Because I think that's easier to pay to the state
I mean again, if someone has to challenge it in court and they have to challenge it enough to make it, you know
to make a change
So if most people go to court and just pay the ticket or don't even go to court just pay the ticket
You're not going to see much political change over it. Right. And if there's no precedent for it then
Whichever department of police can do whatever they want and just see how it shakes out
Yeah, well the precedent is set when someone challenges it and wins
Or escalates exactly until then they're they're basically allowed to do whatever they want to right
Well, I think maybe they're getting around with it because it's a live state officer
That will give you the final ticket
But the drone is detecting the speed
So it's not a speeding camera placed on the freeway that will give you the ticket
Right, which is why i'm saying you should challenge it and then like again called the drone
Called the drone to testify because he's the only one with the first-hand knowledge of how fast you were going
All right, the cop can't testify. He doesn't know he wasn't there. He has no first-hand knowledge
Well, they probably have an operator that can show up and okay, then get them on stand like figure it out
How did they know did you test the equipment and there's a whole bunch of like, you know ways to do it
I'm sure this will get tested out when was the last time the drone's radar radar was calibrated properly
Right all those questions that you see in the
Uh, what is it the uh, oh, I forget the name of those the sovereign citizen people
Hold their tactics
I don't know if the drone have to belong to the state. I mean the federal government they they're they're
They're the one that owns the road. So they're the one that has to implement it according to
I mean, again, that's a great question sarah, but it has to be challenged in court first to get the answer
Right the current answer is no because they're doing it anyway
If you can if you can get people to challenge it and get that overturned
It will then maybe stand the chance well, but is it feds that patrol the interstates
It's usually the state police, right? So I don't know so that's but the feds own the roads
Right if it's a if it's an interstate
Well, don't they just contribute funds to said roads like that's part of her question
Yep, I don't really know how it all works
But I imagine a judge and a group of lawyers are probably gonna figure it out as soon as it gets challenged
Well, the speeders the people that get the ticket will always fight it
So they'll always figure something out to get out of a ticket for now to have a challenge
I wish that were true
I don't I don't think I think that's pretty rare that people ever fight a speeding ticket
They just pay it because it's not worth their time
But uh, I do hope that people fight these so that we can you know
Jam off the system a little bit
So, you know, so they have less time to go out and shoot people's dogs or whatever
Shoot people's dependence
The heaven people like shot the things up with a paintball and
Put some bags over it and did all kinds of crazy stuff
Good heroes. That's cool
Modern day heroes Velcro just make it easier. You throw just lasso up there
And just or like a rope of some kind and yank it down
You're just making it easier for me to do my thing
Yeah, but you know, what's that real answer is that where they have the intel they have more they have
traditionally
They invited a more intellectual
educated
crowded people that lived there for a while
I I don't know if that
Intel is going to leave they even paid for their own high school
They invested money the intel paid for that to build a high school and they have their own
um
Their own
Educational department and somebody all because of the intel came in all the people that live there
And so they do stuff like this. I got a lot more intelligent
Having these velcro
Speeding cameras, you know, I've always had to say Rio Rancho Santa Fe and Los Alamos
Had been like that more
Rainier part of New Mexico. They've done a lot of like more
Sophisticated things that came out of those cities
I'm sophisticated out of as in like what with Los Alamos like sophisticated and killing people
Like that's the number one thing I've heard out of Los Alamos is just nukes
Yeah, I mean that's what they use their training for but the residents that live there
They they have a lot more education so they have a lot more advanced things that they do for their
For their cities. I'm just glad we have a new example of like who would how will education be handled absent the state
Right intel comes in and build a school. Well, all right
companies will do it
They need educated workers in a particular field to work in their manufacturing plant
While I don't trust intel to instill
A proper education in the youth. Uh, I am open to
Competition in that marketplace because right now what you've got is
What one supplier they're doing the worst possible job. Well, but but intel will
Intel will provide it and specifically for their needs
Right. So though those kids will get a more technologically advanced
Education because they're going to be fed into the intel system and work at one of the plants nearby
Hopefully they were employees that were living in ram ranchers like hey, my kid needs to go to a high school
There's no high school close by my house
So the intel company helps them build a high school and real actual and everything even better. I'm for it
Wait, so that ever since then that that city
Have been more
Ahead of times or they come up with a lot more
like intelligent things
Um compared to apocro key or rod well or again another example of private business
Owning the government
Right like owning and so far as doing a better job
Then the public system
You're dunking on as in dunking on the government. Sure. Yeah
as the kids would say
I don't think it's all of their money. It's partially with their money and some state money or something like that
I don't know what the breakdown is, but they were integrable
Part of building a high school for the intel employees children so they could go get educated
Again, i'm for it
And if they're doing a better job than the public schools, you know out in the other parts of the state
If even more so that that's what you want
Yeah, I guess I don't know. I I absolutely can't stand public school
I think that's what i'm saying, but now you it's not a public school anymore. It's intel's private
So what this probably actually looked like is some high executive at
At intel going to his government bureaucracy
But he was like, hey, I needed you I need you guys to build a school here
And the government buddy's like, well, we don't have the budget for it and the intel guy's like, well, I'll put in this money
But you know, then kind of under the table is just actually going to go back into this trust fund that I control
So really I didn't give away any money or like, you know, I mean there's always corruption involved in this kind of stuff
Sure, but if sarah's claiming the results are that they're more well educated students coming out of that school
And i'm saying i'm not surprised by that. Well, wouldn't the well educated know that velcro's a dumb idea
Maybe yeah, I kind of think you could um
I kind of think you're just sick kids in front of video games and get better
Or is the idea with the velcro that the these cameras can be produced so cheaply now that they can just get ripped down 100 times
And they can just keep budding them back up so someone there some economists there did the cost benefit analysis
Right if we have to if we have to send a technician out there to climb the thing and bolt this thing back into place and
Take all the other mounting screws out like how many hours is he going to be out there?
They're going to come back tomorrow and rip it down anyway
Or you just send him out there with a slab of velcro and
Takes him like a third of the time or a quarter of the time
Right all of a sudden like the place is made whatever we're just replacing it with velcro
Yeah, well that place don't play that well if they catch you
Doing that you get caught
You'll get prosecuted. You're not dealing with albuquerque where they sure but they have to catch you first
Yeah
You know where the camera is it's not hard to sneak up behind a stationary camera
Thanks for the call tonight sarah
Uh, I don't know if they were that smart
They would have just put the speeding camera on it grown anyways where you can't take it down
I mean you can't even see it and it just nabs you
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um before serac called we were talking about
This uh this case against the irs to try to make animals dependent
I'd like to see uh where that story was going a lawyer and her canine golden retriever
A lawyer woman named finnegan
Yeah finnegan mary reynolds
Finnegan mary reynolds and her owner. Yeah. Yeah, amanda reynolds. Yeah
So, uh, the last part read the the the canine relies entirely on her
Amanda reynolds for food shelter medical care training transportation and more
And so she argued that finnegan an eight-year-old golden retriever
Has no independent income
Resides exclusively with her and has annual expenses exceeding five thousand dollars
All requirements for a legal human dependent under irs rules
While the irs defines pets as property
Reynolds said this does not reflect finnegan's role in her household according to qz. I don't know what that is
For all intents and purposes finnegan is like my daughter and is definitely a dependent
The case reads noted that while the subject may seem unusual it is not frivolous or meritless
Reynolds goes on to argue that not classifying all pets as dependents is an unfair burden to taxpayers
Especially since the irs says that some pets namely service animals can qualify for tax advantages
Claiming a dependent can result in tax favored credits and deductions according to forbes
This includes the child tax credit and additional child tax credit the credit for other dependents and the earn income tax credit
The outlet reports
There isn't however any language in case law or statutes that would allow pet owners to claim those tax breaks for sports
While pets have a special place in many households across the country as seen by a recent study that found
An increasing number of owners have begun to regard their dogs as children
The case seems unlikely to move forward
Magistrate judge james m wicks who has overseen the case has granted a motion to pause the discovery process
As the irs will likely file a motion to dismiss the case
end of the article
All right, well
Again i'm for it
Well, i'm just worried is this going to set a precedent to where animals are going to be considered to have be autonomous and have their own rights
Because they tried to do this in oregon recently
It was an animal rights bill what they kind of were putting forward was but it was that you couldn't kill your own animals
You couldn't and then a bunch of farmers are like wait a second
That's like what we do is I raise animals to kill them
But they were saying that private owned animals couldn't like you'd have to euthanize them through a vet
Or it you know, they just worded it in ways that it was obvious
They were going to make owning and butchering your animals illegal because they had more back their chickens
Yeah, because you you were abusing your animals taking their labor from them without their consent
Well, that was a scan by the butchers you know kind of what farming is
Well, yeah, but that was the whole thing are we going to set make precedents to where
Oh, if you're gonna they're going to be a dependent now you can't kill your backyard chicken
It's a jobs creation program for more slaughterhouses
Yeah, for that you can't kill it, but you have to go pay someone else to do it for you for that reason
I don't see this thing uh going anywhere just
I don't know nice try that's a whole lot of pets out there
Yeah
It's a whole lot of tax breaks and tax dutchins. Yeah, but it's the president
I'm for it. I'm saying for it. Are we you're gonna want to give animals rights like saying people rights, right?
No, I want to I want to say that you can claim your animal as a dependent
The rights of an animal aren't aren't dependent on what humans say about it or not
So what is does an animal have a right to not get killed by you does your backyard chicken have a right to not be
It has a right to like self-defense and
So it can try to fight back but once you once you got it, it's over
I mean, that's that's the natural order of things. Anyway, that is the natural order of things. Yes
Well, so you have the right to fight back against the cop. It's not a smart move. He's probably going to shoot you
Yeah, you see what I'm saying. It's uh
You can absolutely take his right
Your rights are able to be impeded by others should we have cops come try to kill you for catching your chicken and killing it?
Um, no, okay
I just feel like this kind of what you're gonna set a precedent for that kind of thing
Yeah, uh, well, they'll probably it's like that pita sign right like where do you draw the line?
But pita doesn't draw the line
They they want to have they want to release cows the state will though
It'll be like, well, is it a pet or is it being raised for food?
Do you have your farmer's license?
You keep one pig that you really like as a pet and the rest gets slaughtered what you make that decision
So is the state going to come in and be like that's technically not a pet
No, because you've designated that pig as a pet you feel like I gotta fill out paperwork with the state
Sure
I mean this is a tax thing. You're gonna feel like paperwork anyway
So like babe gets put on the the dependent form and you know all your other pigs that are going to get slaughtered don't
I can see it works out. I gotta now. I gotta butch your babe because he's done something
Oh, and you then you've committed tax fraud or you got to file an amendment to your tax thing
That's murder of your child, right? If
Exactly, that's what I'm saying. What if babe goes feral and I got to put him down or he gets
Then you gotta have then you read then you have to have him put down in the humane way by the vet or
Or by Canada's just like you would a child got medical assistance in dying
So, I mean, you know, they're already doing that for humans anyways
Well, I guess they already they did that in Canada with all those ostriches
Yeah
So, uh, so it's just a matter of how it's put down. I guess like
I don't know. Maybe you just become a licensed youth anologist or whatever they're called and then
Or again, you just fill out the amendment on the form
Right. It's no longer dependent and like for tax year 2025. It was a dependent
You put it down and for tax year 2026. You don't claim it as a dependent anymore
Yeah, maybe you could read designated status for uh from pet to sure livestock or whatever whatever
Yeah, I don't know
There's a lot of government is that not a thing already with insurance for like farmers on your like
I wish this is probably a question for jane ewn, but he's not I haven't
Uh, I just feel like wouldn't that already exist for like if you lost cows
In like a like an event
Don't you get to claim that on your taxes as a right off? Yeah, it's like a write-off
So then I guess those technically aren't
Pets right that would be considered a an in his aren't pets
Yeah, but if you had a pet and it could save like $5,000 on his normal taxes
Would you not designate one pig as a pet just not kill it seems like you definitely would
Right if you're gonna if I don't know how long do pigs take to raise
Oh like a year and two years maybe okay, so year one when you're not gonna kill it
It's a pet you get you right off year two when it's getting to the age or size of
Murdering it then you be designated as not a pet you take it off as a dependent
So now if you have it out there living with the rest of your
Not pets as a pet right and it gets injured
Are you gonna get in trouble for animal abuse or animal neglect because that was technically your pet and he got caught up in the
No dogs get injured all the time. That's what vets are for
Pets get hurt all the time. No one goes after the owner
They can they have before like this dog does not look good, man. Like we're gonna call the cops
It's obvious you're not taking care of that's usually neglect
But if a pet gets injured like your dog your dog gets hit by your neighbor's car
Right no one's like coming after you for animal cruelty. You just take it to the vet and fix the broken leg
Well pita would
I was just saying you I think it's a dangerous precedent
You're gonna let you're gonna give the crazy animal rights people too much of an in
I'm for anything that absolves people of paying more taxes
Yeah, anything that lessens the war chest for those guys is good with me. I would take it even though
I mean
I see what you're saying, but they'll stick their foot in those doors. Anyways
They already have yeah, that's why they got the signs
That's their favorite thing is finding a door and sticking their foot in it
See if they can get all the way inside
and so
You know, there's not a door they're shy of so and they don't always even need any kind of a
A precedent or you know a justification for doing it
They just do it anyways and see how it goes and we can we've kind of moved the line on service animals anyway
Right like all people like the service ostrich to being allowed on the plane or whatever people go like well
No, we're kind of not going to do that anymore
Right, but people tried it. They tested the theory
You get just you get your service animal your c9 dog, whatever you need
Right, but if you're abusing that system for whatever reason or trying to get you know
Your your pet alligator to be allowed where it ought to not be
In the supermarket or in the restaurant like yeah
It's a side society will figure out the line either through the courts or through arbitration or just through community standards
Yeah, that's kind of what they're there for one would hope they'd do it
Yeah
Try to take your your your support alligator into the supermarket supermarket goes like no private property
I don't care if it's a service animal. You just don't get to shop here with that thing
It's dangerous to our other shoppers and we have to keep their safety in mind as well
I've actually seen I've seen the opposite where they took a steer down to the tractor supply a longhorn
Have you seen those that video where they took the cow down to the a full-size longhorn steer and tried to walk them through a tractor supply
Um the tractor supply was like yeah, we accept all animals. Dude. Go ahead. Nice to have them here
Yeah, well again rural community with a rural pet. Yeah, like you're not going to get that in new york city
True well, they got horses in new york city, but I would try to take them into the park
I'm outside with the cars though. They don't walk them into the supermarket
I wonder if you could walk a horse into a hardware store in new york city. It doesn't sell food
Okay, they might get mad, but I don't see why it wouldn't I think it well
I I think there's some vestigial laws in there that still classifies horses as vehicles
Like oh no, you can still ride your horse down the highway
Just you know parking off like a bike lane or whatever
Right, but you leave it outside just like I don't think you can I think the interstate specifically says like
no horses or
Bicycles or mopeds or okay. Well highway right highway. There's like a state highway. Yeah
Or like here down, you know, whatever the the numbered road is
You got to get you got to get from hither to yawn somehow
And if your only means of transportation is a horse
Can't stop you true
But you know, you also don't take it into the supermarket you don't drive your car through the mall and you leave it outside
Park you park you you know, that's why they had the like back in the old days a little like horse
Uh
Yeah, the post. Yeah, just tie it up there and then you go inside
Yeah, if you need to drive through the mall, they got those scooty puffs. Sure. Yeah
The little scooters I was just thinking like an honest person trying to go in the mall having to use like a
He brings his own pony. Yeah, I was thinking like Shetland ponies
Like pulling the cart around for him
Now that'd be good. I would hope I was at the mall on that day
I lived I grew up next to a place that had about 30 or 40 of them
Uh, many ponies that just lived out in the field and they they would chariot race them
And they'd be like a team of 10 of them hooked up to this little cart
Pulling people around in this field and like their Shetland ponies were like chariot teams for them
Um, and I don't know some Chinese dude enters as a rickshaw
I'll race them. Yes. See if they can beat the little voices
They'd get moving they get moving. I guess those little horses are actually pretty mean
Uh, because I guess they take like the whole the attitude of a big horse and they've shrunk it down
Almost into like a little man syndrome same thing with like, you know, like a chihuahua. It's a napoleon complex
Yeah, it's a napoleon complex with horses
So they're like super mean they'll like bite you and kick at you and they're not very nice
Even though they're super cute. I guess the smaller ones are just ordinary
I get it
Hmm
Which guts do no not much there's um
The u.s. Is going after another oil tanker another one. So this is number three another venezuelan oil tanker. Yeah, okay
Trying to exit or enter
I don't know she'll find out from Reuters u.s. Pursuing third oil tanker near venezuela officials say
This is surrounded by trumps armada or whatever he said
We've got the biggest armada in the world
Venezuelans, we've got you surrounded
Give us all your oil
I heard a room a fentanyl
I heard a rumor of russia sending an aircraft carrier down that way, but I don't know to assist venezuela or to like monitor the us
Okay, yeah
Which is uh, that's well, I heard that trump just uh, I haven't substantiated that. I don't know
Well, I I think I
Heard that trump. I think I might have been on one of the the brakes
It was news to me that trump designated the maduro regime itself as a terrorist organization
Okay, um, so now it's now he can use like anti-terrorist
Laws that they have in the u.s. To so a terrorist a terrorist organization with weapons of vast destruction
Yeah, he's he's surrounded by the united states navy. All right
This is gonna go well surrounded by terrorists with weapons of mass destruction. This is uh today from roiders
The u.s. Coast Guard is pursuing an oil tanker in international waters near venezuela officials told roiders
Uh today it's a low speed pursuit. It won't
Chasing them at five knots. It's a bronco
You want to waste the oil dude? You catch fire. It's pointless. We gotta take take it slow here
What would be the second such operation this weekend and the third in less than two weeks if successful
The united states coast guard is in active pursuit of a sanctioned dark fleet vessel
That is part of venezuela's illegal sanctions evasion
Dark fleet a u.s. Official said it is flying a false flag and under a judicial seizure seizure order
Well, okay, I guess there's a
What a dark fleet
Well, I think the idea might as well be a dark web. There's you know, well, I think the idea is is like, uh
Companies that are under not companies but countries that are under some kind of embargoes
What they do is they'll pay people for like fake papers so they can fly another country's flag
So like when you look at it with a telescope, it's like, oh, that's a chinese vessel
What is Denmark doing down? Yeah. Yeah, it's okay. I think the chinese do it a lot with like their stuff too
They'll they'll run dark fleets all over the world for like whaling. I know the chinese still do a bunch of
It's a thing sea setters are into also is finding out which countries will
Will give you a flag because if you're if you're sailing around on the open seas on a ship
Flying no flag. I guess you're fair game. Anyone could just blow you up. Yeah, because it's international law
Yeah, if you fly Somali flag, are you still going to get caught by their pirates? Did they leave those people alone?
Somalia is probably under sanctions and you know seizure orders from every company every country out there
I would imagine I'll just tack this on to your headline. I don't you we don't have to get into it
but there was I posted an article
um in the host group
for anyone to use and it was basically
Uh trump saying that you know venezuela stole american oil
And yeah, he's just trying to get it back. Yeah. He said that's our oil. That's our oil. We're gonna get it back. Yeah
Yeah, that's what he said. Yeah
In in relation to like the lives lost through drugs. Is he trying to stretch it that way? No
No, it's like the venezuelan the oil the oil and the venezuelan tankers belong to america that they stole from us
And that we're good. We're just we're just getting back. What's ours?
Yeah, so we're just manifest destiny and the rest of the
continent sure is that what we're going for that's what it sounds like
It's our oil. We're just gonna go get it sounds like gas lighting
But you know, whatever because american exceptionalism and providence and all of that
The armada is justified
blowing up
Are you not are you not with it?
I
Another official said the tanker was under sanctions but added that it had not been
Boarded so so far and the interceptions can take different forms
Including by sailing or flying close to the vessels of concern. We've got to get close enough to throw the boards out
Yeah
board
The officials the officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity bringing my brown pants
Did not give a specific location for the operation or name of the vessel being pursued
British maritime risk management group vanguard along with u.s maritime security source
Identified the vessel as bella one a very large crude oil carrier that was added last year to the sanctions list of the u.s
Treasury department which said the vessel has links to iran. Oh scary
Bella one was empty when it was approaching venezuela on sunday according to
Tanker trackers calm the vessel had in 2021 provided transportation for venezuela venezuelas oil to china that
So completely none of the americans business
Ties to iran transporting oil from venezuela to china. That was our oil
Okay
Transporting american oil from venezuela
American oil in the ground in venezuela
American oil from venezuela to china according to international documents from state-run oil company
PD vsa, whatever that is venezuela's got a long oil pump just angled in towards the united states
Yeah, well, you know, that's why
I didn't learn this until the other day. That's why i'm i think it's sadam who's saying that's why he went into kuwait
Was because kuwait was angle drilling into iraq
And and he was like, hey, you guys need to stop that
And uh, they were like no man. He's like you stop that or i'm gonna invade you to make you stop and then he invaded
The u.s. Said hey, man, we're cool. Like we don't care what you do in the middle east
So who's saying invaded kuwait to like stop the angle drilling and then yeah, we bombed the crap out of them
And sent them back to the stone age. Yeah
Yeah, america's like dude, you should slant drill into that oil field over there and kuwait's like cool and then
Like they were totally playing both sides of this thing the whole time it is just messed up and then just used it
As an excuse to to steal the oil like we wanted the oil
So we just said forget it. We'll quit with forget the angle drilling. We'll just
Angle bomb them and then we'll take it
Yeah
But don't tell that wind
Uh and kuwait feel about that and then not only that but a lot of that stuff
They were showing us on cnn or whatever it was like faked footage
Filled in front of a green screen and not even an actual wartime footage
They're just like all the scud missile stuff and they're like, oh, that was all just faked
Kuwait didn't have a problem with the united states stealing the oil that they were drilling
Oh, no, you guys are the good guys. You saved us from sedan mussein. It's all all the oil
The kuwait families were probably paid off well in advance anybody that would have
Said anything about it or you just bring them into the hegemony like the saudis right like you get in on this petrodollar kuwait and
We'll make you know these top families riches can be all right
This vessel had also previously carried iranian crude according to the vessel monitoring service
There's something wrong with that. What's the problem with the reigning crude?
Uh, are they not are they not allowed to sell is iran sanctioned from selling oil? Yeah, probably
Probably, I think iran sanctioned from breathing
Uh
Like on what grounds?
They're terrorists. Don't you know they have natural resources in oil that they're willing to sell
They hate your freedom. They shouldn't be allowed to sell their oil because they hate your freedom
Yeah, it's really just it has more to do with like
Balkanization and keeping things divided so they can
So they can run global schemes of it's not just oil either. It has it's like
It's like back in the day when the british were running things and they had their east india company
And it wasn't just about slaves, right? It was also about obm and it was about wool and it was about
You know spices right and manufactured textiles
And so there were a whole bunch of keys to this thing and tea was also part of it, right?
so that's how you ended up with the tea party and uh
And so any like it's the same thing now, right and they just it like
HSBC is the crooked bank they all use for it and there's this big international, you know
Black market trade that goes on that's basically whoever's got the biggest military gets to control that that trade ring
All right
Smedley butler wrote a book all about it
Was a racket or is there another one? Yeah, war is a racket. I mean, that's what he was describing
Whether or not he knew the full extent and it sounded like he didn't because he didn't
Talk so much about the drug trade, but that's absolutely has always been a big part of it
Uh, the trump's pressure campaign the white house did not immediately respond to a request for comment today
U.s president donald trump last week announced a blockade of all oil tankers under sanctions entering and leaving venezuela
trump's pressure campaign on venezuela and president nicolas maduro has included a ramped up military presence in the region
And more than two dozen military strikes on vessels in the pacific ocean and Caribbean sea near the south american nation
At least 100 people have been killed in the attacks
It's almost like he didn't deserve that peace prize. He didn't win
Oh, yeah, the the one that gave to the uh, the coup candidate. Yeah in venezuela instead
And then she's like, oh, I don't deserve this. I really think trump should have it
It should be for the guy who's bombing us and threatening us
Absolutely should because I mean who else and sanctioning our oil transport
Yeah, I think uh, if you're not a major war monger, you don't get that peace prize, right?
Seems to be the guys who uh, who dedicated the money
For this ongoing peace prize are the guys that invented dynamite
Yeah, right. They had to do this as a pr stunt so the world wouldn't hate them so badly
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The european union has agreed to provide ukraine with a loan worth a hundred and five billion dollars
To help finance the country for the next two years
Ultimately, the bloc failed to agree on a plan to use frozen russian assets to fund the loan
Instead borrowing the money backed by the eu's common budget
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Laura westbrook has more from hong kong
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Uh, we were reading an article from Reuters about the us going after another tanker over by venezuela
It kind of gets boring after this though
Well, it just sounds like uh
Another forever war uh the exact opposite of what donald trump said he was gonna do
Uh
How long can venezuela last?
Against us. Yeah
A week. Okay a day. Okay. No, this is what winning looks like man promises kept and all of that
Come on trump's the greatest don't you want gas prices to go down?
It's a lot cheaper when you can steal it start buying it on the open market
I was being sarcastic for any listeners. I do not think trump is the greatest he does though
Well, he's thought that since
Forever that's not new
He thought he was the you could see it on his face in home alone too
You everybody knows who donald trump was and we still voted for him
It's not a bad thought to have about yourself though
Right
Yeah, I don't mind a little bit of narcissism. I think is is a healthy trait. I'm the best
I'm the greatest a little bit of controlled narcissism. I don't think he his
Narcissism has any controls over it though. Well, there's
Affirmations
Wild there's difference between having confidence in one's own abilities and being a narcissist
I think so I think being like yeah, I can
I'm good at what I do sure
But am I just the greatest of all time at everything I do? Probably not that's imagine what you could be if you actually thought that way though
Well, but then there's always you're always going to get beat. You always lose at some point. You can be the greatest
But you always get old some somebody's going to be have a faster draw
He lost to joe biden and came back and beat kamala harris
I'm coming back stronger. Those are that's that's definitely uh, can you imagine what would happen if I lost a sleepy joe?
What this country would become
Yeah, well it comes back to like you miss me. I warned you
Yeah, I don't think so great with me in charge. I don't think he took it so hard
I think he knows that this is all very much wwe
Wait, I'm just talking about yeah, he's leaned into the kayfabe
You just see that I've talked about this before if you look at where his money came from
from 2016 to 2024
It went from 60 percent being small dollar donations in 2016
So like the regular the working folk
So and
Quote in quote
Right was 60 grassroots. Yeah, the grass roots the blue collars, right? We're 60 percent of his donations in 2016
Fast forward to 2024 and now 60 percent of his donations are coming from millionaire lobbyists like mary madelson
Right, so he's totally just leaned into the fake kayfabeness of it because he needed the money to get reelected
Because his ego wouldn't let it go
So he sold out to keep his ego intact
yep
But at the same time like if you're donating to him, don't you want him to do what you ask?
Right, you're buying a politician. Joe biden admitted that in an interview in like the 70s
Yeah, so the whole point was lobbyists come to you and they give you money and then you do what they tell you to do
Well, the whole idea was we were supposed to be the lobbyists that bought trump
That was the idea of the maga boom and a guy
That was bought out by the people and you had him for four years
And when he came back, he just lied
When he came back, he's like you guys didn't help me at all. Yeah in the last election
I'm going big money for by mary madelson or whatever her name is
Right, so brought to by the jewish lobby. That's right
Our greatest ally. Yeah, just noticing
Uh, I guess the department
Mark levin's have you heard mark levin's comment the other day about
How he's not only our first he's not the first jewish president
He's the first jewish president to run
And win in non-consecutive terms
So I guess you can yeah, you can see who who side he is on and it's I don't think it's america
So who's gonna be the first jewish president to win consecutive terms?
JD vans. Oh, I was gonna say maybe trump if he runs again. Yeah, maybe
He might yeah, I don't doubt that he'll probably try to pull that at this point
Has it already been done? Is that like
Uh, one of the bushes
I really want trump to run for the third term
I kind of partially for the spectacle
But first go ahead. I kind of do too because
Alternatively, you're probably gonna end up with gas Gavin Newsom, right?
Okay, yeah, well, baby. Yeah, but if I like this is my prediction
And I I just want the guy who's gonna be funnier and to me that's still trump
Well, I'm I'm predict this now like if trump gets his third term if he's allowed to run for a third term
I want barack obama to come out of retirement
And run for a third term like that's the showdown the country deserves
Hmm not trump versus Newsom not trump versus aoc
But his whole feud is with barack obama
Has been forever
Right, and if he gets third term barack comes out. That probably is where they get third term showdown
This is the dwayne johnson johnsina showdown. That's right
That's where they got the fan base the most polarized. So that's probably the best showdown they could have
Yeah, that's what i'm saying
So there's no way gavin Newsom or aoc pulls better than barack obama
It's smack down. Well, I think
Some of the stuff about obama he's not as I don't think he's as popular
As he once was uh, especially with like the amount of bombs he dropped on everybody
You think the democrats care about that? Well, I think I think a lot of the old
They forget all that stuff. I think a lot of the people who voted for him in 2008 and 2012 are dead now
Or getting close to
Like I it's a 20. It's almost 20 years now people only remember the good stuff like yeah
Like after george bush was done doing all his
Absolutely horrible stuff people were like, oh man, he was a great president
At the time
The first time so he's still not too old to do it
Yeah, I guess would you vote would you vote for him if you're any? No, I don't vote. You just want to watch it
No, yes, I want the spectacle
What why i'm here for the lulls
Why would we vote? Well? Yeah, why would I vote? No? No? I think it's pointless too, but I've just uh
I've got better things to do that day. I'm gonna take a nap
Nap is far superior coming off the bench in priorities
Just not off the bench. He's an all-star coming off the bench
Well, that's what I mean. He's like out of retirement out of retirement in his prime and then stills got what it takes to take down trump
Yeah, I don't know it would be it would be probably more entertaining that way
I would go for that the debate alone
Oh, man
Oh, let me be clear. This uh orange man has ruined our country
I don't know if he'd do that
Right, he's like he had a lot more tact and decorum
I had hope. Uh, let me be clear. There's hope. I am the hope candidate
You wouldn't you would not be able to get under it trump would not be able to get under his skin to get him off
To anger him like he did joe biden in the debates
Barack obama will come off as far superior see that's the thing is like
Oh, man, intellectually, he would have to play the part of trump actually got under his skin
And actually got him riled for the first time out of all the you know all the people who took shots at him
He was all cool and collected like okay trump got him riled then
You know, I mean, then you got a real smackdown shaping up. I wanted to stay home and eat sushi
But the people told me they said we got to get rid of this guy. So here I am
Superman has returned
Oh
We've got a caller on the line. So we're going to go to the phones
Looks like we've got tom in new hampshire. You're on free talk live. What's on your mind?
Well, they choice of words here
uh, choice they say that the coast guard
seized
An oil tanker off the coast of venezuela
Why don't they say what?
more
Uh, what really happened is that the coast guard hijacked an oil tanker off the coast of venezuela
You know, I mean, oh, well, it's sanctioned
The u.s. government imposed sanctions on that vessel
Excuse me governments cannot acquire authority by manufacturing documents
okay, so, uh, the coast guard is they don't uh, just
Uh
Decaying people for deportation. They kidnap people. Okay, you know, they didn't uh,
oil tankers so far
They hijacked them. Okay, it's got it and now
You can't propagandize the public with that rhetoric though
Yeah, if you call it that then nobody's gonna support it and everybody would just be very upset
Now the other thing is uh, the blockade of venezuela
Now when uh, the cuban missile crisis was going on president kennedy
talking of a military quarantine
Of cuba that all ships of whatever port or country obviously bound for cuban port
Will be boarded and searched
Those bound to be carrying weapons of offensive weapons will be turned back
okay, that's uh
A quarantine is just short of a blockade a blockade is an act of war
now, uh, the difference there is uh, just an
The blockade is an act of war. Trump has crossed that line
in committing an act of war
a military blockade against venezuela
and uh, it would be hilarious if
The chinese coast guard decides to start escorting vessels to and from venezuela because they want the oil
or for whatever other reason
Then see what trump is going to do about it and then we have a world war three or russia
Then we're one of you guys said that russia's already got a tanker in the area
I heard a rumor of an unsubstantiated. All right. I don't know that's not what I would call hilarious though
But uh, tom seems to think that would be funny
There well
The thing is uh, that one of these vessels I've written in the news that it was
False flagged and that they can board it. But that doesn't mean that they can hijack it
I mean governments cannot acquire a sorority by manufacturing documents and the reason they're running under false flags and without their
Transponders or whatever you call them is because they don't want to get hijacked by the us coast guard
So it's not really a false flag. It's witness protection
Yeah, so we have to change our identity so you guys don't attack us
Yeah, so
that's uh
Pretty much what it's like, uh
The guy is a total crazy idiot. But what do you expect when you have a two-party system and one party?
Nominates an old man who lost his marbles and the other party
Nominates a madman who never had any marbles to begin with
This is what happens. They've got to uh, adopt this
Ranked choice voting
Which I think would have motivated a lot more people to vote for other parties
And then okay. Well, uh, who's worse trump or biden
It would become a moot point if enough people would have been unafraid to vote for oliver
But now you just get all these people saying
Oliver
Oh
Or joe jorgensen the first time around
Right, then you had your opportunity to like
Actually elect the first female president
Who wasn't a warmonger
Or a deep stator
I was the first one to sign her petition. It was outside the New Hampshire state house on the day of filing
I was filing for congress and
Well, no, I was filing for us senator and yes, she was filing for president and I was filing as
a democrat at that time, but
The thing is
That I was the first one to sign the nomination paper in New Hampshire
So, uh, then they got to have a lot more signatures and a lot more pay a lot more fees
That I get listed in the ballot
And that's in order to make it more difficult because, uh
And then they won like cry babies when bad
candidates get elected and they impose bad laws and people go cops get themselves killed enforcing those unjust laws
Was she not on the ballot and all I thought she was on the ballot in all in all states
There they have to spend a lot more time
They make it more difficult for anybody who's not a republic rat
So and then they were complaining when I got elected
What's the big idea running as a republican, you know when when you're a libertarian? Well, what do you expect?
You know, and it was true
I I was a republican and I'm a republican now just ask the town clerk say yeah, he's a republican
That's the definition of a republican
And in fact, that's the definition of a libertarian
Much to the dismay of some of the libertarian big shots in 2018 when I filed as a libertarian
For the second district seat, which by the way is where keen new hampton where your studio is
Uh, you're in that would have been mine if I had gotten elected and they had uh, justin o'Donnell
He was the one that they wanted to run
Uh, I lost in the primary. He did not defeat me the people who voted for him defeated me
It's not like we were playing chess where one person
Uh, where the two players make the move that win or lose the game
Is what is not as if there was uh, that going on
Libertarians do seem to be strategically incompetent in a lot of ways
Well, the party's hijacked for one for how long
Forever. Okay. Look at look at the contradictions of the status
Well, if you don't like the laws of the cops and force and change the laws
Well, excuse me. How are we supposed to change? Yeah, good luck with that
They you good luck trying trying to uh persuade people who what we're supposed to do is we're supposed to they shut off
They're crazy, which we're not supposed to follow them into the voting booth with a knife to this throat and tell them
We're gonna kill you if you vote wrong. Oh, no, you're not allowed to intimidate the voters
Well, that how are we supposed to get them to stop voting wrong?
And you know, uh, if you park in a crosswalk and you got to pay the price in dollars
That's a deterrent and if they vote wrong and you know, somebody's got to tell you
You see those five cops that got themselves shot on 12 april 2012 in the town of greenland new hampshire
See, that's what happened. You didn't pull the trigger, but you pulled the lever
And folks don't line like a cry baby every time some poor defenseless cop
To this to get themselves killed that one of them the green land police chief died
The other four got shot and wounded and if any of them are listening right now
It serves your right punk because you deliberately and maliciously joined an organized force
That is on a mission to intimidate the humans into obeying a multitude of blatantly unjust laws
I'll suggest that if the park if the party's been hijacked forever, that's the party
Right like that's it is what it is hijacked or not
The people that were originally there and have been kicked out due to the hijacking
Has have what 50 years now to to reform another third party
And just let the libertarian party be the hijacked party
Yeah, you can't have you can't have a party that's not willing to play ball with
You know that
I don't know whatever you want to call it the deep right. Yeah
People who own the dollars the guys who actually have the capital, right?
They own the federal reserve owns the dollar. They have the money
Are you suggesting that the the two party system hijacked the libertarian party?
The oil company, yeah, well
Simply put yeah, okay
The united states has fought wars over oil there. The venezuela is loaded with oil iraq was loaded with oil
I mean, uh, these uh, they us the central intelligence agency ran a fake news operation in 1953 to topple the
duly elected leader, uh, president of iran who wanted to nationalize british petroleum
And because oh no, we can't let them decide who is going to sell and operate the oil in that country
It's their country is that's our oil because we're us a you know, this whole attitude and
Uh on top of that during the second world war general eisenhower made a cross country trip
A road trip just to write down all the stupid things with the different roads and everything a lack of signs
Whatever problems they ran into and said, you know, this would be a whole lot better
If we had a super highway from coast to coast and so that's why it's called the eisenhower interstate system
After he got into the president. Yes, and they foolishly have eisenhower interstate system in hawai
Oh, yeah interstate h1 and interstate h2 out there on oahu island and you've got uh, the
But it's not a system is doesn't connect to any other state
Yeah, it's not exactly interstate is it but it's part of the eisenhower interstate system
It's um thing is that you've got these people, uh
building these interstate highways and then uh, they're also
They got everybody brainwashed into thinking that it's perfectly okay
Not to give a flying duck about pedestrians
Let's plow the snow off the street onto the sidewalk and just leave it there and somehow
Everybody is so many people are convinced that the street is the city's job
But the sidewalk is not even if you draw the property line
It is the sidewalk part of the city land
If so, then why should the homeowner have to shovel it and if it's part of the property owner the homeowner's land
Then doesn't the homeowner by rights have a right to dig up the sidewalk and put in flower beds and prohibit trespass on
I mean, I don't I don't know exactly where you live and you don't have to share it
But I live in manchester
And when they plow the snow and it ends up on the sidewalk the pedestrians just walk in the street
And the cars are just more aware of the pedestrians
and and people get killed in february of 2014 robert de rome 63 year old man was killed
In nashua by a hit-and-run driver
Uh walking had to walk in west holla street because the punks plow snow off the street onto the sidewalk and leave it there
And there's no place to shovel it too because okay buildings are right up against i mean one one death in 11 years
Is not a very compelling argument to not do that
I I realized but that that's not the only time that it's happened. That's just the only one
I can remove arriving in and having a cop tell me to turn around and go the wrong way on a one-way street and
Later learning that yes, they have that right they can overrule any traffic control device
Which is you know makes sense because the sign cannot think okay, so yeah, okay
I really well. Yeah, they have to close the intersection and I have to turn around and go the other way
I don't have a I got waved through a red light. I just drove right through it per the cop's instruction
Yeah, and
That's because of a traffic light can't think so. I don't really have a problem with that
Okay, I don't know what point you're driving at
Is that
Well, you're trying to walk home from the saloon after you've had a drink or 10 at some corners
You don't even find a painted crosswalk
But when this freight train is crossing the street people who could get killed are people in cars people who matter
So lights flash bells clang gates drop and the horn sounds to protect people in cars
And when let's see no, do you need a crosswalk to tell you it's safe to cross the street?
Uh, no, I don't but uh
Help if there was a crosswalk lights if they have money for traffic lights
They got money for crosswalk. You just wait till it's safe. Yeah
But then what about all these safety features actually make things less safe because pedestrians think they have the right
Away and they'll step out into the crosswalk. They're doing keen. They have the right away the pedestrian. Yeah
And they always step right out into the crosswalk. You really got to be watching
3000 pound death machine versus flesh popsicle. Yep. A lot of times it seems like those guys are trying to get run over
Yeah, because you give a settlement later you get to sue
In orgin, that's a big deal
You got to watch out for tweakers jumping in front of your car at night because
The entire state the pedestrian has the right of way. So that's a big scam tactic is
Yeah, jump out and try to get hit a lot a lot of tweakers in orion. Oh, dude, so many death
Deathmobile gets the right away meat popsicle looks both ways it crosses when safe. Yeah
What they got to do the solution problem solved
There are plenty of streets that don't even have a sidewalk and
Yeah, and the pedestrians walk in the street and cars are aware of it
And and pedestrians should be smart. I don't know if it's the law, but the common practices
Uh for safety you walk against the flow of traffic
Yeah, right. So the car sees you walk in towards them instead of like having your back turned to it
Yeah, I just put on my boots and my gators and I walk in the snow because I'm not trying to get run over by a car
And I know the risk there you go
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angelo and richie rich
Uh, we've mostly just been chatting it up tonight. I think we only got through like two and a half stories
That's pretty good
Since the news usually bores the academy
I guess there was some like epstein file stuff released. I heard that they didn't release it though
They released it like completely redacted. Yeah, I heard I heard there were like a bunch of play pages that were just straight black
Like not even white spaces in between. So it's just the whole page is black
This is me giving them the benefit of the doubt
right i'm assuming
that those particular pages
are uh
child sex abuse photos
That probably ought to be redacted in some form
I'm sure that's the justification they would use but I i'm assuming that what's actually on those pages says a bunch of dirty stuff about trump
Right, but if it were words on the page, it would be like the full page would be redacted like they do words and you would have the white spaces
There's no reason to black out the whole page
What I would have preferred if they blacked out a photo
Right, you black out the photo and then you just say photo photo redacted photo redacted
Right, and then we know like okay. This was a picture
You know, this is not for you know pedophiles to try to get some more material
for their like little collection
so
That's just be giving them the benefit of doubt. Obviously. I have no idea, but that makes the most sense to me
Yeah, I think
Well, the and well, there's nothing in the words that they put out either they redacted all the words too
Right, but the words that they redacted weren't blacked out the whole page, right?
They were line by line and you could see the white space between the lines like
Yes, and then or you knew how many paragraphs there were or whatever sure
Yeah, that's what I'm saying. I'm you know, I'm presuming that the whole page blackouts a photo of some kind
So is anybody buying this one that it's that this is all the deeds they have on it?
Yeah, and they redacted everything that said Jeffrey Epstein was a Mossad agent and this was all
A setup
And it has been for a long time Maxwell's father was definitely a Mossad agent and that wasn't even a secret
Oh, you mean the guy that also owned the books that you read in school
Yeah, that Robert Maxwell from the Maxwell house publishing book. I'm pretty sure he owned that too
Yeah
CMBC has a story here that I probably won't read but it's
The doj restores image showing trump after backlash the the gist of it is that there was there's this picture of
Epstein's desk and it's got a bunch of you know framed pictures on it and uh
Two of those pictures have trump in them
And they removed
They removed that
Photo from their website and then put it back. Okay after people got upset. Yeah, that shouldn't be redacted
You're not protecting anybody's identity with that right the excuse they used well. Okay, so they said they took it down
Uh to comply with part of a federal court order aimed at protecting victims
so
I don't know if there were like victims in the photos on here
I mean you've got read it all over right like this you can see the
Adolescent feet in this picture. We need to find out who the girl is like no, you don't
It's adolescent feet say no more
Yeah, you knew they had youngins in the office doing whatever they were doing
Yep
You don't need you don't need to go like sleuthing to find the victims
That's not the purpose of this endeavor
No, yeah, I don't care not that I don't care about who the victim was
I'm more concerned about who was in the room with
This underage person. I don't really care about who the underage person is
I just know they're underage and they're in a room full of a bunch of rich powerful people
Doing god knows what so in those photos. I don't think you need to redact the whole photo
Just like the the the part of the photo that shows the underage victim
Yeah, right well, so and that's the thing too is they keep redirecting the story as if it's a story about
victims of
You know sexual predation that's not what this story is about that's a component of it
That is that's the component of the story how they use
That type of material to keep people under their control
It's a blackmail operation run by an intelligence agency. That's the story, but they don't
By only talking about victim protection and things like that
They make the story only about that
And then Trump's like epstein who and then his guy's like oh epstein definitely killed himself and
You know and half of trump's base is outraged by it. It's weird that jeffrey epstein's the only pedophile that people want to be alive
That is a good point never thought of it that way we would have chopped them into a wood shipper
And they did and they're like oh, I can't do that
That's a photo killed himself. It's not so much that people want him to be alive
It's that people know that he was killed to keep secrets. Okay, so
So that's what that whole thing is about
I don't know if you've seen those videos of he's kept them alive long enough to default his information before you put
him in the wood shipper
Yeah, I guess I mean, I don't know whatever how these uh blackmail rings work exactly
I just
There's enough there to see that that's clearly what was going on. Okay, and uh, and that's the story that
Well, but this is the same thing they did the diddy right the whole thing was did he was using
This blackmail to kind of control the music industry and then they took them to court
And all they kind of charged them with was
Using hookers that was yeah, and that's all that was a conviction. Yeah
Yeah, well, that's all the news wanted to talk about too was like the the freak offs and like all the sex stuff
But they didn't want to talk about the how the he used that to manipulate people within the industry
Right blackmail is a weapon of that's kind of what like I guess uh 50 cent was like forget it
I'll do a documentary myself and he's put out this whole documentary series on Netflix about a snitch
Yeah, well, I mean
Hey, dude, I wouldn't wonder he got shot nine times at a time
It's probably snitching back then too
If you can if you can get shot nine times in the face and walk away from it
Then we'll say what you say your peace king, dude
Yeah, I don't know stitches get stitches
It's none of your business keep your mouth shut
That's
That's generally a good policy, but like
But 50's here for it. I think he loves it. He loves the smoke. He's he wants you to shoot at him
He's gonna do it and smile at you while he does it. All right. I think I think he loves it
He's he's run out of lives, man
I don't I fairly not
They shoot at him again. He's going down. I mean, have you seen the things he said to like floyd mayweather?
About here here floyd read this book if you can read this book
I'll give you $50,000 cash right now
I don't think you can read and I don't think floyd mayweather can read either
But I mean he's calling out supposedly one of the most dangerous fighters on the planet
Floyd's not gonna shoot at him
Floyd's gonna have his bodyguard shoot at him
Hasn't happened yet. Yeah, that's on floyd
I haven't paid too much attention to that aspect of things, but
That's interesting rappers get shot all the time. It's not as well known as 50 cent
Well, yeah, yeah, and I don't but 50's still out here talking his his stuff dude. He's not scared
I think he he just loves it. So is that just uh, is that uh, is that more of a
Critique on the other rappers or these people he's he's uh, apparently
I'm saying if he keeps running his mouth, someone's gonna shoot him and he's not gonna survive the 10th one
I don't think he cares
The fine if he doesn't care, but if the goal is to like stay alive if he's got like the biological imperative for life
He's probably just keep his mouth shut to quote him many men with wish death upon me
Yes, I get it because because he's survived
So many and I just don't think he's got another survival in him
You think this is the last one he's got to watch out what he says about
What I'm saying is if he runs his mouth the wrong way and someone does take a shot at him
They will make sure that he is in the grave
You think so the next one is gonna count is what you're saying. That's that's all I'm saying
All right
I'm not saying someone should or that they would
But I'm saying if you survive if you got shot nine times and survived like nine
Nine attempts on your life, right? You've ran out of luck and the 10th one's gonna matter
Well, maybe he just thinks he's the greatest he might think that but he's still human
He's not a god
I don't know the history of
assassination attempts on 50 cent
Nine attempts get nine attempts
That's
Or whatever or he got shot nine times
That's why when he first came out
He's like wearing the bulletproof vest and it was part of his stick and his gimmick
Well, if you saw his teeth his teeth used to be messed up really early in his career
And then he got his jaw blown off and then to refix it. So he got all new teeth
Yeah, fix his smile
I didn't know anything any any of that stuff about that guy
It's okay. I'm just saying
Like the next one the next one's gonna count, you know, you don't get to survive that many attempts
Especially snitching
I don't know. There's what George Washington had like
He's snitching. Maybe he's magical like that. Well, is he that's only four we got like
Twice that industry like I don't think he's really talking about like
Who who cares?
Who does he have any loyalty to the to the music industry? Is it would it really be snitching at that point?
It's not like these are his friends. These are obviously ops and he's just airing their stuff out for everybody to laugh at
Yeah, that's the point that's the point of snitching right like he's airing. He's got nothing to do with the diddy parties
Right and he's just going like I've I've got the receipts. It's gonna be me who shows up their receipts
I will let the public know what really went on
Because I got their receipts. I could say any of his business. Well, he might be the only one who's
Powerful enough to drop the receipts and not worry about any repercussions though. They had it all
They had a whole bunch of the court
They had all the evidence. They just couldn't get a conviction on the important stuff
Well, I did you I also heard that there uh was like a huge
Some guy after the fact did like an interview and it turns out that he was like
He he was a diehard diddy fan the whole time just lied to stay on
Like in the court. Okay, so he notified the jury good on him. It's part of the american system
Well, I just don't think he was gonna get in trouble for any of it to begin with
This was just like a horse and pony show they tried it him out to make it look like hey
We're gonna do something about this guy and then just didn't well
I mean they got him on the lesser stuff that does the non the non crime stuff
And they're appealing that right now. Sure. We'll see if that even holds up
Did he's not going to spend a day in actual prison? He's been in actual prison. They wouldn't let him out
Yeah, he was in jail or prison like those are two like I don't know. He was locked up
I'm sure they treated him very nicely
I I wonder if that whole thing was
You know wwe style just it all acts. It all is at this point. Yeah
Was your time to go on trial diddy
Yeah, I freak off. I really feel like every time they run a story like that
They're trying real hard to not have you look at something that's actually important. All right
But
Yeah, who knows
And blackmail only works if you're embarrassed and care about what you're doing
And I think it was a Walter block somebody
It's some libertarian theorist that defended blackmail
Like of course you can do that. Do you have the information they want to suppress it?
It's a it's a it's a voluntary transaction to suppress the information for money
So even the blackmail is not even violation libertarian. So then how about that same logic snitching though is also defensible
Yeah, fine, but it's like open market then the open market's getting to decide on if this guy's worth doing business with
If you yeah, but it's but it's culturally unacceptable
Within the rap game. Oh american culture is
garbage anyway, so
I don't know. I mean
Yeah, I see I see what you're saying that is the reality that you'll deal with snitching. He's absolutely allowed to do dead
Stitches, I don't think they necessarily ought always get stitches
Well, he's also come out and kind of like made fun of like the hood mindset of like staying in there
He wants to be as far away from that stuff as possible. He's a businessman
He want he's gone full capitalist grind set
Um, he wants to make money. So like forget the hood forget loyalties. Um, I'll air it out if it makes me money
And it's gonna make him money because people are watching it. It's gonna get him shot
Yeah
Good well, I mean it makes enough money to make up for getting shot again
Wanted to help the hood and they shot him too. So what what do you what what's the
Uh, what do you you get shot if you help him you get shot if you don't
That's that's part of the rap culture. Yeah, true. True. That is that is part of the
Beef on the next album or beef in the streets
Rapper beef, what do you think about the the whole part about him saying did he had something to do with
pock and biggie's death
Do you think that would be do you think there's anything to that or
I mean if he's got the receipts drop the receipts or keep your mouth shut
All right. Hi there. Have you watched the have you watched the uh
I think you should go go take a peek
Maybe see see what 50 has to say about it. Maybe he's got some receipts
I don't want to be I don't want to participate in this snitching
He don't want to get rolled up on for I don't want to know
So she hated you don't want to know you didn't hear nothing
If you're gonna do it put it in the album just keep your mouth shut
Put it in the album
Oh, that's pretty good. Should be a diss track not an abc interview
That's crazy. I didn't know we were on a no jumper right now
Uh dj vlad. Where are we at? Um
Man, I don't know
Uh, I think the rap beefs have been going on since the beginning of rap and it's always been
Tie it back to the blackmail thing. Um
Okay, if you're gonna do it, it's like a business practice
But is it something that should be going on in the idea of like buying off your politicians with said blackmail
Is that so how does how does your guide the blackmail only works because there are things that are like culturally
Uh abhorrent right that they want to engage in
It's like yucking on somebody's yum
Right if you want to go have like if the the only reason having like gay orgies as a politics as a republican politician is bad
Right is because people frown upon gay orgies, especially if you're a republican politician
But if it were like culturally acceptable to just have a gay orgy
Then you can't blackmail a politician for participating in one because it's just a normal thing to do true
But do you do you really want to just live in the not saying that gay orgies are bad
But that's just kind of
Yeah, yeah, not that there's anything wrong with that, but i'm just saying a world with zero shame
Is that
Something we're trying to rock with
I don't I I want uh, I want shame to be associated with like rights violations
Not personal preferences in what you do in your free time. That's fair
But isn't isn't society always going to find things that they the society itself finds abhorrent
Yes, and that's why blackmail can't exist
Right
Like that's the problem. I guess so the church church lady is gonna be like, oh, we don't like sodomy and demora
You're like, all right. Well, I guess I got to pay the fee in order to be the pastor
Like all right pay the fee then
Oh, all right. Here's a funny one. We probably got time to kind of get into
This is from the verge frozen waymo's backed up san francisco traffic during a widespread power outage
Uh-oh a power outage struck san francisco on saturday that blacked out about 130 thousand customers at its peak
According to pacific gas and electric company. Oh pg and e those guys are so good at their jobs
But also cost another problem stranded waymo vehicles
Posts all over social media showed the company's autonomous suv sitting in the streets and causing traffic jams
I saw one going the wrong way
Is it because the wi-fi not got knocked out or what happened? What is that?
I'm not sure some people posted videos of tesla's using their fsd feature to navigate the same streets and ilan must tweeted that
Tesla robo taxis were unaffected by the san francisco power outage
In response to an inquiry from the verge waymo's spokesperson susanne filion said
Sent a statement saying we have temporarily suspended our ride hailing services giving given the broad power outage in san francisco
We are focused on keeping our riders safe and ensuring emergency personnel have
The clear access they need to do their work pg and e reported as of 7 a.m
pacific time that cruise over stored about 110 000 customers
Uh, it's because the indians in the call center couldn't actually see the road anymore exactly why the cars weren't moving remains unclear with no public updates
We couldn't we could find on the company's social media channels
But speculation centered on spotty wireless data connections with cell towers either down or overloaded by people who no longer had access to wi-fi
And or the street lights that weren't operating without power
So wait hold on
You think you think the waymo cars are pilot or they're they're remote piloted by a bunch of indians
There have been several instances where the autonomous robotaxi companies have been caught
Under that very condition. Maybe not indians
But when like
They weren't actually robos. They were like cheap cheap layover in a call center remotely driving the vehicles
Wow
I'd much rather have a robot than some stranger
sure
Especially one bad day, dude, and he's like
I've had enough i'm taking this family out but gps gps isn't reliant upon the the
The electrical grid
Right that works from the satellites. No, they're saying that maybe the the wi-fi connections in the car
Wasn't keeping up
But you don't need the wi-fi connection if you have your if you have them if you have the map system
offline
And gps works you can still get from point a to point b remotely
There's no reason if you have the gps set up. I've noticed like on my phone
I can't search for a new location
But if my map is running while I go out of service, it'll stay connected to my map
It'll find it if you download the map into offline mode
I guess yeah, how big of an offline mode or the it's not that much data
If you're old if you're running in like just san francisco, how much offline data do you need?
Like a megabyte according to a company blog post at reach it
It reaches out to a human response agent when the car encounters indian interactions
Providing them with live and recorded views for
A 3d map of what the sensors are picking up
However, those may require bandwidth that's hard to find during significant power outage
So is ai just indian in call center?
Yeah
We will find out that chat gbt is just some indian guy in a call center
Just scrambling trying to find words
Look, you like youtube and rabbit holes like go down this one, man
They've been caught a bunch of times where they proposed that think something was ai and it wasn't it was just like some
I saw that with the robots. They did the the robot bartenders
Yeah, and it was supposed to be all autonomous
But it was really somebody like underneath the table with the remote
But no, this is this is remotely in a call center driving your car
Or whatever or messing with the robot on stage
Like they've they've been busted
So is so is it just a scam to get people to invest in their company through the ai boom?
Is this like a dot-com bubble scam thing
It's sort of I don't want to call it a scam necessarily
Well, not a scam
But while you're lying to investors if you're saying I wear a self-driving car
Invest in us and they give you money or you buy their stock on the public. That's fraud. Have you well?
Okay, sure. Yeah, but have you have you ever have you watched any documentaries on like steve jobs?
Yeah, well, I know. Okay. How much of a scumbag he is
Right. So it's at some stages of his product launch
Right like he didn't have the actual product
So he fudged it on stage to build the hype to build the momentum to get the investment
And then he used the investment to build the actual product
Right. So you pretend like you've got this autonomous robot. It's an indian at call center
A whole bunch of money flows in and all of a sudden you've got the funding to actually build the robot
You know and it'll come out a few years down the line and not need the indian in the call center
But if you don't if you don't fudge that front end right then the whole project falls apart
You don't get the autonomous robot on the back end
Yeah, but this doesn't mean you're not lying to people to begin with like you're so I'm not disputing that
I'm just saying like that's it's a common practice
amongst amongst technology companies
And the ai and the autonomous and the and the waymo not maybe not waymo directly
But the the robo taxi companies have been caught with people in call centers as stew just mentioned
Right driving the vehicle for you instead of a robo taxi
You've got like indian in the call center with with an xbox controller
Grand theft ordering you through the streets of san francisco
Yep, that's so terrifying
The writer of this article goes on to say that they they couldn't find any
Statistics on how many remote assistance operators waymo has available at any given time 20 000 the entire fleet
In november the company announced a past a third party audit by
Tooth sood a german check the german tech
Inspection company that evaluated. It's a remote assistance program against industry best practices
Now you got to research that company
Yeah, see if it's legit
That's right
Right a long time ago. I worked at a sales job as an enrollment counselor for a shady online university
And me and another guy who was there like temporarily
You know like what is going on here because like the bosses tell us we're accredited
They show us like oh the accreditation certificate
Right like well, let's you know, we've got time to not do our job
So let's look this up
And turns out like it was a scams credit accreditation agency
Run by the president of the university's father just sign off on stuff
Like oh, yeah, you need accreditation three thousand dollars. Here you go. Now you're credit by us
That's right. Everything is a scam. Always do your homework
Always look into it. So is that not how they did it with the real accreditation like through the university systems?
It's not isn't it just somebody's dad signing off on your stuff probably started that way until until they got enough investment enough
Momentum back somebody's
Now it's a real bad
It's the thing right so it's just a reputation of the dad signing the thing that makes any difference
To me the ones as good as the other
That's all we have for this week. We'll be back on saturday
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