Inflation infected my burger

12 which isn't bad, I suppose. Unless it's something you don't enjoy, then it's bad. So I'm just gonna jump into this thing. And start with a meal I ate yesterday, look at this piece of shit. I ordered, I ordered a Whoa, a mushroom Swiss cheeseburger from from the Cheesecake Factory. And I generally eat a low carb meal. So what I did was I you know, excluded the bun, I included the french fries, and ask them to provide me some, you know, maybe some lettuce to wrap it in, and

salad and place in the fries. So this thing comes here and it's it was over $15 almost 16 bucks for this burger. And it comes in it looks just look sort of pathetic and lonely. You know, you when you eat lower carb, and you're cutting out bread and all that kind of stuff. You forget how much bulk it has just for the presentation. So this thing arrives and I look at it like this is fucking pathetic. You know, and you forget to that most of the cost of of that meal. Aside from the labor, you

know, it costs it it takes to produce it is is the meat. So so it's like one Patty of meat, maybe a couple of slices of Swiss cheese. And you know at most is like three or four mushrooms probably that information, probably three mushrooms that they slice up and put on there. You got tomatoes and lettuce and all that shit pennies. So 1516 bucks for a penny of meat. It was just so underwhelming and disappointing. You know? I don't know. I just thought I'd start. Start off

with it. It just it just kills me every time I look at this stupid picture. So what do we have this week this past? It's almost two weeks now since since I posted. I had the story on ivermectin. Which by the way, that is my personal box of ivermectin. There was a story. And I saw it was from a tweet from Professor, that professor, Dr. Pierre quarry. And he was talking a little bit about how he has to fight to keep the information accurate on his own Wikipedia page, because people

keep changing it around. So I searched around a little bit. And I found the original story from the desert review. And it was written by somebody who is a Wikipedia editor. And anybody, me, I assume everybody by now knows about Wikipedia and how its user editable. I've edited things on Wikipedia myself. I've tried to correct things that were not accurate about things that I've done or about things that I knew. And I know you're

not supposed to edit personal things. So there's no Wikipedia entry on me personally, but some of the things that I've done, there are entries about it. So I've tried to correct those and I don't know if that's legal according to wiki Wikipedia has rules or not, but I did it anyway. And so far they've been sticky. So what seems to be happening with ivermectin and Dr. Corey is that they're making change. to it, which are not

factual, and it's done with a political bent. So from the desert review, let's see this guy writes, and I forget his name, you can go there. There's a link in the show notes. This is, you know, these are all everything here that I talked about from my blog. So if it's not in the show notes, it's somewhere on the blog. So this guy says allow me to illustrate a case in point Dr. Pierre Corrie served as the chief of Critical Care Medicine at the University Medical Center. This

fact is accurately reported on his Wikipedia page. In addition, he published a book on ultrasound and won a British award for this again, this is also accurately portrayed on his page. He testified at the us senate about ivermectin, I blogged that video as well. A while back, and this is where the incorrect incorrect information gets written. The Wikipedia page reports during his testimony in December 2020.

Corey erroneously claimed that the anti parasitic medication ivermectin was a wonder drug with miraculous effectiveness against COVID-19. The one thing that's really been bugging me since more than one thing, I suppose, but since Trump got elected news reports or people, people writing in the general legacy media, they're always using falsely claimed here erroneously claimed. You know, it's claimed, you can't falsely claim something you can claim something that maybe later is

false. But you claim it you don't falsely claim it. That's just the stupidest thing that it can't even be grammatically correct. So anyway, erroneously claimed the anti parasitic medication, ivermectin was a wonder drug with miraculous effectiveness against COVID-19. In support, Wikipedia cites an AP back check article by a journalist, Mrs. Beatrice, doop de pui, what a name. Hopefully I'm pronouncing it correct, who

is not a medical professional. To my knowledge, she's never served as a medical director of critical care or pulmonary medicine. I believe she's written for the Star Tribune and Teen Vogue magazine. In the past, however, she somehow sufficiently is sufficiently competent to call Dr. corys. Testimony false. Let's see. There's also a senior editor of Wikipedia who seems to be singularly charged with defending vaccines and altering any positive information about

the drug. So the writer of the article in the desert review goes on to say, Wikipedia reports that there are 41 million editor accounts and some 127,566 are actively editing. Considering this. It's interesting that ASAP which is I guess, the handle, the Wikipedia handle for the editor, is the very same editor who reverted my edit. This is the man writing now, his edit unpair query and the same editor who recently edited the ivermectin Wikipedia page. Wow, what are the chances?

I was curious, I checked his other editing activity which displayed is displayed on Wikipedia. It turns out that he is also the same editor who manages the axpert AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine wiki page. And he's also the very same British retired computer scientist who edits the Big Pharma conspiracy theory wiki page, he also edits the spike protein wiki page. So you've got the guy that's obviously hired by pharmaceutical companies to keep the information on Wikipedia,

quote, unquote, accurate. You can't trust anything. This guy is posting about COVID-19 about vaccines or about ivermectin because there's a clear agenda to play one down and play the others up. So you have to be careful what you're reading out there. And it things have been really ratcheted up, I think in the past week, with what's her face, Jen Psaki out there, talking about working directly with Facebook and telling Facebook what they can and cannot post regarding COVID-19

the pandemic the response, vaccines, blah, blah, blah. And I think I saw somewhere posted that. I don't know who it was, I can't remember but just perusing Twitter, somebody came up with a good point. That right now Trump has a lawsuit against both Facebook and Twitter. And I think Jen Psaki, which is a Biden's press secretary, I think her statements this past week

should help his case in court about Facebook and Twitter. If Facebook is taking direction from the federal government for what is accurate information, what is inaccurate information and is taking direction to remove posts. That is then they've become a de facto arm of the federal government. And what they're doing is now government censorship. It's not just normal people, flagging posts, it's the government now coming in saying, shut up. You can't talk about

that your opinion doesn't matter. So then, that becomes direct government censorship. It's no longer a private company removing it. Anyway, I've got my own now supply of ivermectin, I'm not taking it. You know, I what I did was, is that I'm going to be doing some traveling July, August, September. And so I figured, okay, I am not willing to take a vaccine yet just yet. And from everything I've been reading about ivermectin and the protocols that they have listed on the

flcc C's website. It's, it's fairly benign. The chances of any adverse reactions from ivermectin and taking some multivitamins, and vitamin d3 is very small, so and you should be able to take it at first symptoms, you know, Dr. Corey says that he takes it as a preventive measure. But you know, I've never been one to just take medication or pills as a preventive You know, I've had all my childhood vaccines and

all that kind of stuff. And but it you know, I'm generally if I'm not sick, if I don't feel that there's a problem, I'm not going to take anything. So what my deal is, is that I will keep this kind of on the side, keep it on supply. And then because it's also supposed to be very effective upon first symptoms. So you know, if I feel something coming on, you know, and I should know, because I haven't been sick, and several years, I haven't had cold or flu or anything, and quite some time.

So if if something starts to go south, I should be able to feel it. And then I just keep a supply of a multivitamin and vitamin d3 and the ivermectin and then I can just start the protocol that they suggest. I've also done that, done that for my wife. So I have it not taking it until it is necessary. The next story I blogged was now this is all old stuff. Because it's been almost two weeks and I didn't really blog much within the last week. But supermarkets are stacking up stocking up on

things that have shelf life. Because what they're trying to do is they're trying to lock in the prices because of not just inflation but in supply chain problems. But you know, I still maintain that inflation is at least the current inflation is temporary because of all the we're in uncharted territory of gross government manipulation of everything. You can't close down entire economies and expect that ripple effect to go quietly it's

gonna take a long time. So here we have from the Wall Street Journal when prices start rising food sellers often purchase more inventory than they need to protect their profit. price changes have been minor in recent years executive said generally involving a pool of specific products. The current price increases are bigger or bigger and are playing out more

broadly across supermarket aisles. Executive said General Mills campbell soup, JM Smucker are among food makers raising prices to compensate for higher costs, meat and produce prices have been climbing to with retailers anticipating more increases through the rest of the year. So this is something

to watch out for. And if, if you have you know, I'm not saying hoard you know, like the crap that happened with the toilet paper and the paper towels that was just all stupid, especially back then there were no supply chain problems where now we have this ripple effect of people not going back to work or you know, So in raw materials you weren't able, people weren't able to produce, or companies weren't able to produce raw materials for, you know, other all the products that we use down the

line, and then you had the problem of not being able to ship them because people aren't working. And now you've got container ships and shit all over the place just kind of hanging about trying to get to where it needs to go. So this has got to shake out. I was thinking 2022 maybe about this time next year, or maybe towards the end of the year, but maybe

it'll be longer Who knows? With the price of labor that's shot up with all the money being pumped into the US economy by the federal government, they were talking about another $4 trillion. But I don't know. I Oh, who the hell knows everything so freakin unstable. Who knows? So you know, I have got an extra freezer in my basement and what I do is we go to Costco, or whatever, you know, I will keep a supply of meat and things like that in that freezer so I can at least

weather the storm for some drastic price shocks. You know, toilet paper is a different story. I I'll jump in the shower and just wash myself off before I start hoarding things like toilet paper and paper towel. Speaking of Jen Psaki from earlier night just now obviously, she had the most lame fucking thing in a press conference, and I think that's the this my post was dated July 8. So it was either that day or the day before. And when you watch and it was it was the same

way with when when President Obama was president. The news media and their reporters are just so it's so incestuous. When you when you watch them, it's just kind of sickening to hear them. bootleg, pretty much Sasaki walks in. And this is what she does.

life. 53 years I moved to the north eastern suburbs of Atlanta late last year after living my entire life in the Chicago area. So you know, my father still lives there. And I still have other family siblings there. But it was his 87th birthday on July 10. And I you know, I'm used to going out to dinner with him or whatever. So, this time I you know, I drove up and went to lunch. And you know, I worked with my father for I worked for

my family rather for over 30 years. And I worked with this my father here and the picture sitting in his office. You know, for I worked for my family for over 30 years I worked directly with my father side by side basically for over 20 years. And in various capacities. Mary's business My father is a classic entrepreneur. And you know, it's since it's been a solid year since I've seen him in person. I did take them to lunch last year. Even Through the, in the,

during the height of COVID. When in Chicago, you could not actually go to a restaurant and eat, so I went and got takeout and brought it to the office. So it's been a year and you know, my father has been on the decline, you know, he's, he's old. But, you know, after, after not seeing him for a solid year, you could tell that the changes are more pronounced. And I don't know if it's because I'm not there every day. You know, I

quit the family business two years ago. So I haven't been in the office on a daily basis over there, you know, since March, end of March 2019. So you see him every single day everywhere weekdays. And if you don't know him, you know, he, he might still seem like a pretty sharp guy. Because he tells, you know, my father has always been a storyteller, just like, you know, a lot of entrepreneurs. Guys like him, it's, it's hard to describe what he's like. I mean, he's very Trump, like, in

a lot of ways. Just not as bombastic. You know, he's Korean. He's, he's, you know, he was born in South Korea. But he's, he's a good storyteller. So if you don't know him, you know, and you're listening to him tell stories, you might think, yeah, he's, you know, pretty sharply. He's 87. He's pretty mobile, he still drives himself to work every day. But now, you know, he's getting to the point where he's starting to

tell stories that I know, for a fact never happened. Because, you know, because I worked side by side with them, almost on a daily basis for so long. That these things I know, for sure. Didn't happen, you know, places that he's flown to trips that he's taken, you know, for sure. He's not there. But the one thing the memory, your memory is a is a funny thing. And the things that stick with him that are have been consistent, the things that he's mentioned to me over decades, are his regrets.

And, you know, so now that I've had some time to kind of step away from everything and listen to him talk, the regret sound even a little bit more sad than before? Because now it's like, Okay, he's making up, you know, is that he's not making them up on purpose, these memories of his or the stories that he's now telling a lot of times it's two things mashed up into one or things from the news or, or something that he's kind of inserting into his own life.

lost my train of thought there. Anyway, it was his regrets. That's where both his regrets. Those are the things that have been consistent, consistently, those he hasn't changed for decades. And, you know, I suppose I, I always thought about this, you know, it's always been kind of in the back of my mind. But now, it makes me realize that, or maybe it's cemented in my brain. That He is my father, even though no matter all the things he's done and accomplished, he's the poster

child for. Don't wait. If there's something you want to do, don't wait. Just go do it. Even if you can't finish it, you can't complete it. Just get it started. Get moving. It's the only way you're ever going to get it done. That principle and then the other one is, don't listen to what people say. Watch what they do. Because people bullshit all the time, including my father. You know, or they will say things that they want people to believe, but they themselves don't believe it. Or

it's an action they never do. So. You have to look at if you really want to know what a person what what's very important to a person is you have to watch what they do. Because the actions they take those are the real intention. So those are the things that they are genuinely thinking. Now what

they say, people talk bullshit all the time. And, you know, the reason that oh, here's a picture here of him, we're getting in his suburban because we have to go out to the restaurant, because he can't ride my jeep first, it's very difficult for him to climb up into the jeep. And second, I brought my dog with me to Chicago, and it was full of Labrador hair. So I'm like, well just take your suburban, that's him climbing in the suburban now, here we are at the restaurant. And he is kind

of scanning the room as he's always done. He's looking for people that he recognizes. Because his, his, uh, he's, he's used to being recognized himself, it doesn't happen so much anymore, because his generation have all moved on. So he's very used to being recognized in the restaurant, by other customers, people from the community, you know, they come up, talk to him, shake his head, so it doesn't happen so much anymore. So he scans the room looking for other people, he

still spots people once in a while. But, you know, we were sitting down eating, and he's talking about some of the things that we've done together. And, you know, we did a lot over 25 years. And, you know, everything's business. So you know, yes, I, you know, he's my father. So, and we live, or we used to live about 10 minutes apart. So Christmases, birthdays, Father's Day, all those things, you know, all those events, we would always see each other after, after

hours after work. But even then, you know, when we're see we're out for his birthday with the family with the entire family. Even then, there's very little sitting down and just kind of enjoying the meal. And, you know, I don't know talking about whatever. Instead, it's always involved shoptalk, always because that's, that's, that's my father. It's like, wait, when you get back to the office, you got to go do this, we got to do

that we got to Don't forget about this. So now that he's combining these things, you know, he's, he's got these other stories in his head. So he's, you know, he's kind of reminiscing, but he's making them bigger, larger, more grandiose.

So I try to correct the record, you know, he talks about some properties that he says that he owns in Phoenix, or, you know, I used to own didn't I own that property over here, you know, own one over here by you know, the, in the Illinois Wisconsin border, and I have to correct you know, correct the record form and say, Nope, you know, you never did or you sold that off or whatever, whatever it is. And he looks at me with this perplexing look like, are you sure about that? You know, and

he knows that I don't lie to him. He knows I tell him the truth. So he trusts what I'm telling him, but he, it confuses the shit out of him, because he really believes that these things that he either owned, or had still either still owns them still has them. In some cases, he never owned a property that he thinks he now owns. You know, but he did get around some of his regrets. And with those, you know, we used to talk about it quite a bit. And we would joke about it because my father is is

a classic success story. He he did live the American dream. He came here with nothing, and built up his life into something massive, something, you know, very few people in the United States do in the world. And so we talked about, you know, some of the regrets and sometimes he talks about, you know, my mother and his current wife, and I would tell him, I was like, You know what, you're somebody who should have never gotten married ever. Hey, you know, look, no smile. And Jose, I think you're

right. You know, and yeah, sure. I'm talking about my own existence being just eliminated. But here we are at the restaurant. I asked him to smile for the camera on this picture, but he was so focused on preparing his napkin that he just he just didn't hear it. So I took it anyway. But anyway, so I told him, I was like, yeah, you should have never, never had Never had a wife never had children. Because to be quite

honest, all of us kids, we just held him back. You know, if he had his choice, he would stay at the office, you know, if he could 24 hours, seven days a week, he has such a drive, and what works, what works through his mind is always on the business. And so his work ethic, and his instincts are so strong, that it had really pained him every day to come home, to have

to deal with family. You know, and with his kids, you know, there's four of us, I mean, I have an older brother, and then I have a half brother, half sister from my father, second marriage. And none of us, none of us lived up to. I mean, you know, I suppose it's a classic thing that, you know, kids never

live up to their parents expectations. But in this case, you know, my, when you when you have a father that has such drive, it sort of like being Michael Jordan's son and trying to play basketball, you know, you are never going to live up to that height you can try. But there are intangibles, there are things that that person has, that you don't end. You know, it's, it's just my opinion, my siblings can speak for themselves. But, you know, to me, none of us none of us have

his instincts or drive. You know, each of us has maybe a little bit of something of him, you know, a little piece of, you know, whatever his total packages, but I think even you, you can put us together in a company in a business and we will not equal what he can do and what he what he has done. You know, so why why don't even have a family. He's Korean. So culturally, traditionally, you know, he, he believes part of being successful is having a family having a wife, children.

And, of course, a Cadillac. You know, maybe Cadillac these days isn't so much but he likes to tell the story about he was trying to get an SBA loan, I think it was and the loan officer at the time, came to visit him at his office and told them, you know, my father at the time was driving an Oldsmobile. Nice Oldsmobile, there was a Cutlass, I think at the time. And the loan officer said, look at Casey, you got to

be you got to look successful. And next time I come back here, I want to see you driving a Cadillac through a loan officer telling him to buy a more expensive car, which is weird. But anyway, so you know, Cadillac is is this thing, and he's ever since then, he has owned a Cadillac, either a car or an SUV, you know, he owns right now at Cadillac Escalade. He wasn't driving it today, but our that day. But he hasn't, I know cuz I was with him when we bought it. So he had to have a

family. And the problem is that being a family man is the one skill set. One major skill set my father did not possess. He doesn't know what to do with people on a personal level. If If you were a one of his business colleagues, say you were a salesman, or you were a, a competitor, you know, he knows exactly what to do. He knows how to talk to you. He knows how to

get out of you what he needs. But on a family level, when you're dealing more with emotional behavior and reactions instead of people motivated by profit and getting getting work done. It was terrible. He just could not understand why we couldn't do what he did, or where he couldn't relate to us, perhaps maybe even as to maybe what our needs were. And these are just things I'm not like, I'm not lamenting it or really complaining about it at all. It's just I kind of understand

it better now than I did before. And the last couple of years being separated from the family business not being around it's kind of cemented all these things. No, and I think the other part of it is that I you know, there's no perfect Father, there's no perfect mother, there's no perfect family, you know, we all have issues or problems or whatever. But now, you know myself, I have two kids that are grown. And now I have

two grandchildren. One, which, you know, these we're pretty close with for the first couple of years, our grandson, you know, he was born here in our house. So we saw him for a couple of months. But beyond that, you know, he's been living with his mother, and we haven't really seen him, we see him on video, so he, he won't really know us. But there's Godfrey there goes Godfrey. Godfrey. Yep, be quiet.

So, you know, having the perspective of being both the father and the grandfather, now I you know, I understand better, I believe, you know, motivations and, and these kind of problems. And the focus there really, is that you cannot live your children's lives, you cannot do it for them, which is, I think, a difficulty my father had, you know, he could do these things. Why can't you know, one of my father's other regrets, is retirement, he's never been able to do it. He's always talked

about, he's talked about it for maybe 1520 years. He would talk about wanting to buy a house in Arizona, or Florida, all these different places. And he just never did. You know, it's not like he couldn't, he had the ability. It's just that it. You know, this is where you watch what people say, Don't listen to what people say you watch what they do instead. And then you know, their real motivation. So what's really important to him. So he never pulled the trigger trigger on it, he would talk

about it a lot. He even talked to some real estate agents and talk to some business colleagues about what they think about this location, that location. But he never did it. You know, and I know this, because this is hair. There's a picture of my father. Here, I'll give you his voice. If you can hear that. Of course, now I've got a buffering issue. Why is a stupid thing buffering now? Oh, you know what? Probably

because I'm trying to live stream at the same time. So this is I could have should have just played this off my local machine. mistake. Okay, there we go. There's buffering. I should hit play earlier. I have no idea what he's talking about there. I couldn't identify. It couldn't identify what it was he was saying. Anyway, um, you know, just to kind of reiterate about my

father and regrets. And watching what people do versus what they say, you know, here's some of my father's basic accomplishments here. And he was in Chicago. He was pretty much the shit. He was one of the most prominent cranes in Chicago. We even were able to

get a street corner named after him. And there's a proclamation from the city Mac when Mayor Daley was mayor where they list a bunch of his accomplishments and you know, they even made the street sign the corner that that's named after him is the corner of fostering kedzie over on the north side. And the reason is that at that corner is because that corners where he founded a bank on the first Korean community bank in

Chicago. The getting the street sign down was my idea. But my my younger brother at the time, was in a position where he was able to push this thing through and get it done. So it was kind of cool, but, but what my father did, he came here in the 1950s. He went to school in downstate, Illinois, and Decatur. He worked in different pharmaceutical labs or different labs. He was a chemist by, by trade and by training. Then he started his

own pharmaceutical company. He produced generic drugs, liquids, tablets, and things and his generics. They were in Walgreens and Rite Aid and all the big chain CVS. He produced pharmaceuticals for the Defense Department. So his stuff was, you know, at veterans hospitals and with the military. After after that, you know, he did run into some trouble here and there. He was not not a perfect man. So, you know, he did run into some a bit of trouble and he sold his pharmaceutical

company. And with the success of that, and the money from there, he launched into a whole bunch of different things. He founded in, you know, as I mentioned before, Korean community bank in Chicago called foster bank. He bought a hotel, he bought a country club with, had a restaurant. And he owned a restaurant before that, as well, while he was doing a pharmaceutical company, it was called the day Whoa, a Korean restaurant on divine Avenue in Chicago. I don't even know if it

still exists. But he also bought a bunch of commercial real estate, he bought residential real estate that he would rent out. And he had other businesses over the years, things that I all worked at, the only place I did not work was the hotel. I even had a brief stint at the bank. But finally, the thing that he really ended up with that was kind of the largest part of his businesses was broadcast properties. And that's where I worked with him for the last 20 over 20 years. He ended

up first just doing a local cable news show in Korean. And then he found a way where he could acquire some low power TV stations. So he he did that he had two stations in Chicago, one in Milwaukee, and one in the Atlanta area. He still has one in Chicago and one, the lptv in Atlanta. And then over the years, we built a big stable of television stations, some full power, most of them low power, and radio, am FM radio all

across the country and Guam. So he started out from nothing. He came to the United States, not speaking English at 20 bucks in his pocket, as he famously says. And he rose to be, you know, quite a prominent man in the Korean community in Chicago, you know, I would joke around with him sometimes he's he was a big fish in a small pond. But you know, that that really is all joking aside, and it doesn't, I try to take away from his actual accomplishments, because he's done things that I I wasn't

could never do. It's just not in me to do what he does. So just that's just an example of if, if he truly wanted to retire, this is a man that's done so much in his life. It's not like he can't go out and buy a house someplace where he wants to go problem is that he doesn't know how to retire. You know, it's just it's not in his bones. He's not able to stop. You know, and his his motivations. Were never with business. It's never been to Okay, I'm going to build this business, and I'm going to

pass it off to my children. You know, I don't think I understand. I understood that in the beginning, either. Which is fine. It's, it's all his, you know, his deal is that he's addicted to business. He wants to do the next transaction, he wants to do the next deal. You know, it's, it's, like I said before, it's not a bad thing. It's something I didn't understand in the beginning. Let's see. Okay, there's the

Proclamation. In this picture here. And if you're listening to this on a podcasting 2.0 compatible podcasts, you'll be able to see this picture. I will put these up with chapters. He's putting away these takeout Chinese takeout boxes that are filled with candy. He likes to pass out candy to people. This is something he's picked up in the last decade. So every time he goes there to eat, they give him this little box filled with

a bunch of candy. So this is his giant stash. But anyway, you know, we used to have big fights, at work, all centered around business because I'm a very, I'm fairly conservative, in most ways. And I'm not a big risk taker, like You know, and he had already amassed a bunch of wealth. By the time, you know, I started working in broadcasting with him, I, you know, I worked in the other businesses with him. But it wasn't like side by side on a daily basis, it was kind of on

the side and other businesses. But in this case, I was with him in the office every day. And I see this, like, okay, you have all this wealth, and you have these businesses. So let's figure out a way where you retain the wealth and grow the business. But it wasn't, you know, my concept of what I thought he wanted wasn't the same. Or at least my concept, and what he wanted wasn't the same. I couldn't understand it,

he would never, he was never one to really explain it. It was always just like, well, this is it, we got to get this done, get this done, go do this. And, and I would literally tell him, I was like, What do you want to do that for, that's just going to

cost you a lot of money. And you're not going to get a whole lot of bang for your buck out of this, you know, and, you know, my, my thing was always like, Okay, if you want to do this, let's plan this out a little more carefully and do this, and do it in a more controlled manner, to try to preserve capital and expand the business the same time, but none of it ever moved at the pace that he needed to go. So you know, we would we would fight and we would argue about it, you know,

he'd always get this way because it says business. But you know, I couldn't, I was never able to not put in my two cents, so we will conflict a lot. And it took me such a long time to understand, oh, what the hell, that's stupid pictures off again, I gotta fix if you're looking at this as a picture of my father, and there's a bug in the, in the, in the corner of the photo, that's from a different blog that I run.

Anyway. So, you know, now that I quit. I've got like, two years of separation from it all, separation from the family separation from the businesses. And, you know, it's kind of just solidifying, I think that the ideas were always back there, but now solidifying that, that I, you know, where I can understand him better. It's, it's just kind of funny that

he's, you know, in some so many ways, his big man. And, you know, he should, at 8070, starting to shrink, but in reality, you know, he was a fairly big guy, fairly prominent guy. And the stories that he tells now are even bigger than before, you know, people that he that he thinks he's met, which he hasn't. And it's kind of a shame, because, you know, his his real story, the real reality of his life is pretty big to begin with.

But I think he makes these, his mind is making these stories bigger, because he's really never been satisfied where he is. And, you know, that's the part that's kind of sad with him, you know, when I go eat lunch with him, it's kind of sad that, that he's at this stage in his life, and that you can, you can be somebody like him, and accomplish so much, and accumulate even enormous wealth. At one point, him and his companies were worth probably close to half a billion dollars.

This is in the early 2000s. You know, it's not even close to that now. Because the broadcasting properties, the value of them, just plummeted. But he was at a stage where he owned enough I think, if he would have just cashed out, sold it all off at one time, it would have been in the hundreds of millions. So to be somebody like him, that was able to get to

such a point in his life. That is the envy of I would think most people in the world that the fact that he has such mundane regrets that really bug the shit out of them is a little sad. Yeah, you know, we all have regrets. But I think the lesson to take from my father with those with those type of regrets is, um, you know, I think most of our people's regrets are small. But they they bug the shit out of us. So the best thing to do is just accept them that they're there. You know,

you can still regret them. But don't let them eat at you. You just kind of leave it there. It's there. And now it's done. It's gone. You can't change it because it's in the past so you can you can still have the regret. But without the baggage You know, that's something he can't do all his accomplishments, and a little things still bugged him like, like the divorce with my mother, even though he's had a second

wife, second family. You know, and it should have been better for him because his second wife is Korean as well, my mother is not she is from upstate New York. So the second marriage should have been better form. But still, it's still the idea that he got divorced, that still bugs on which it shouldn't, you know, just move on, move on, those things are done. So, you know that in my blog post about the visit, you know, I say that the, the two things to take away are that the truth of people

lies in their actions. And that goes for everybody. Don't listen to what they say, you can hear what they say, as long as their words match their actions, you're fine. You know, that's the thing to watch. But when their words don't, when the words that they use have an opposite meaning to what their actions are, you can't trust them. That and the fact that and not the fact but that lesson. Plus, don't wait for tomorrow. If it's something you want to do, just go do it. And then you

won't have some of these petty nine regrets. And you may not be able to finish it, you may not even be able to accomplish it. But if it's something that you want, if you don't go for it, if you don't go towards it, you'll never get there. There's no chance zero chance. So that is the podcast for this week, because that's all I got, which is still the same lame name on the podcast. Let's see Let's cut to that. Oh, you can buy the

shirt if you want. I have a shop on my site. So again, this is this is a podcasting 2.0 compatible podcast, I've been trying to do it this is a you can stream money directly to me if you're watching this on an app like breeze or pod friend or someplace where you can stream satoshis which are micro payments micro I forgot what the hell they call her bits of Bitcoin. There is a list of podcast apps at new podcast apps

calm and you can go there. And there's a whole bunch of different apps and platforms that you can use that are podcasting 2.0 compatible. So you should go there, check out the different apps, go to podcast index.org support their efforts to extend RSS and to make and keep podcasting open for the independent podcaster because we all know Apple, Facebook, Spotify, even though this podcast, you can access it on all those platforms. They

don't give a shit about anybody. So you know right now what I'm doing, because this is just something I just feel like doing. It's I don't plan on making money if it makes money fine if I get anything fine. But this thing is self hosted. So I've got a dream dreamhost account. So that's where my mp3 files are. I that's also where my website is. And I have a

WordPress blog site. And with that, I have blueberries powerpress plugin, and another plugin from lemon creations that allows me to insert a few of the podcasting 2.0 namespace tags, one of which is the value for value tag or the value tag as they call it. And that that's the tag that allows you to stream money or not money. It's crypto money cryptocurrency. You know, I think normal people won't even know what the hell it is. But it's their satoshis and their bits of Bitcoin. That's

the best explanation I can give. So if you go and use one of these apps, you can load them up, you know, it doesn't take much you can put 20 bucks on it or whatever. And then you can set the app so it streams you know certain number of Satoshi is permitted. Then you can also if you hear something that you like, or an idea you like or something that you found particularly entertaining, you can hit the boost button to like, Hey, I like that and then you can boost now they're also

working now on messaging. And I know the messaging works inside of I think Curio caster and pod friend, so you can send money and also send a message to the podcaster it's all interesting stuff. You should go check it out. If there's anything Any questions, comments or ideas you have for me, you can email me at mail at Kevin Bae Comm. I'd be more than happy to answer any questions you might have. But that's it for this week. Hopefully. You know, normally I was gonna try to do this on

Monday. So I don't know if I'm going to podcast again this coming Monday, but we'll we'll find out. Anyway. That's all I got and I'll talk to you later. My dog Mark didn't help. Anyway, adios muchachos should learn how to say that in Korea.