The Age of Transitions and Uncle 5-3-2024

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Network. Glad to be here, a lot going on, a lot to talk about. So I do have quite a bit kind of lined up for topics tonight, so we'll just jump right into it. The first one I could have covered last week because it had already happened, but kind of I think I knew about that. I kind of slok my mind, and then I was reminded by reminded of this development through particle Ion. My old contributor there are trans Alchemy. He sent me this link on Twitter to this article.

We're gonna I might read little bits and pieces. I don't know if I'll even have to read from the article, but I'll reference it here. Let's see. The article itself is from the Guardian dot com. The title of the article is Eugenics on Steroids The toxic and Contested Legacy of Oxford's Future

of Humanity Institute. That's the article. Now, this article is about the closing of the Future of Humanity Institute, which is an interesting and noteworthy development, especially if we're interested in transhumanism, and I think we are here at the age of transitions. So what is the Future of Humanity Institute. It's a special little institute set up within Oxford University. It was the I don't know if his what his position was, like chairman or something like that,

but it was Nick Bostrom running the thing. You also had the only other member I know that was a member there at Oxford was Andrew Sandberg. Both both Boston and Samberg are well known transhumanists. Both members of the former World Transhumanist Association, which is now defunct that turned into the Humanity Plus and I think I don't know if the two of them, what their affiliation even with that group is now. Bostrom and Samberg but definitely prominent transhumanists to say the

least, and both professors at Oxford. They're part of this Future of Humanity Institute, which is very much a darling. The FHI there at Oxford was very much a darling of the big the big transhumanists, the big money backers of the ideology of transhumanism and things like this. So Bostrom himself interesting character. I think I already said he was the one time head of the WTA,

the World Transhumanist Association. He was like the president or again I forget the titles, but he was the head of that thing for a bit earlier on when it was called the WTA. Then he went on and to head this Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford. He has famously he's a philosopher.

His most probably most well known piece that he's written is the Simulation Hypothesis, which is the basic idea behind that is, you know, we can see that it's there's a likelihood that computers can create such advanced simulations in the near future. The idea is like, that's so likely to happen that our present is very likely our present reality that we experience, our life, everything that we know is just merely a simulation being run on a computer that's already been

made. All of you know maya right that hold the old like Vedic concept of you know, the world is an illusion. Taking that spiritual metaphysical concept that is, you know, it's been around for as long as humanity has been around. That idea. It's a new transhumanist spin on that idea. It's like, oh yeah, everything is a simulation. So he's most famous for writing that. It's kind of a crazy paper, and Boston is kind of a wacky guy. Bostrom. This article details this. Bostrom recently,

I think in the past year. It got in trouble because an old email from when he was younger. He was a postgrad student when he wrote this. He's like twenty three or something. He wrote this. This is many years ago. He wrote some racist things. Let me see if I can find where it mentions that I don't know and anyway it did, oh here we go, here, we go here it is. I'll read this paragraph

to explain what that was both Bostrom and the institute. Future of Humanity Institute, which brought together philosophers, computer scientists, mathematicians and economists, have been subject to a number of controversies in recent years. Fifteen months ago, Bostrom was forced to issue an apology for comments he made in a group email back in nineteen ninety six when he was a twenty three year old postgraduate student at the London School of Economics. In the retrieved message, Boston used the N

word and argued that white people were more intelligent than black people. The apology to li'l to play Kate Boston's critics. Okay, yeah, so you had to issue this apology because of that, And so Oxford was getting a little bit upset with the Future of Humanity Institute that they were looking for reasons to drop it, and recently they did a couple of weeks ago that they shut

it down. But the lots had happened up until that point. I mean, for one thing, on the well more unlike the sort of darker side of the whole thing. Bostrom. Yes, we can see he's got issues there, right, personal issues to say the least, but the whole humanist weird sort of philosophy that Bostrom definitely brings to the table with this whole thing ties into as the title of this article references, it ties into eugenics.

Apparently that email threat I think where he was where Bostrom got in trouble. He was talking about eugenics and dysgenics, saying that he did have a concern that they're these dysgenic trends in society where like if we don't if we're not careful, people are just gonna like breed and not be intelligent anymore. You give the old eugenic concept of like all the idiots are breeding real quick, and everybody's gonna be stupid soon, you know, like an idiocracy sort of

concept. And so a lot going on here. But this is another like like we were saying last week, as I was saying, this is a fun little article that just points out how me, myself and the things that I've put out over the years have been correct. Where I have equated the transhumanist movement with the eugenics movement, there's definitely similarities. There's definitely like certain

ideas that within transhumanism that are eugenic in nature. Absolutely Boston is one of these guys that's doing it, And I mean, this is a mainstream thing. Oxford's upset about it. Now. Oxford booted the Future of Humanity Institute in large part because of this. So you can't really relegate this to the concept of conspiracy theory. It's like, no, the transhumanists have a eugenic problem, eugenics ideal ideological problem. Period. There's really no contesting that.

The only thing you can contest is who within transhumanism can we point a finger at, and who maybe we shouldn't you could you make the case for oh, these are the good transhumanism, these are the bad ones? But I might not even go there now, we definitely could. There's distinctions to be

made. But Bostrom and the Future of Humanity Institute definitely darlings of the Silicon Valley elite sect, definitely funding going their way from the big billionaires, right Peter Thiels And I think Elon Musk's article mentions that Musk sent him some money

and some other some other Silicon Valley cook I can't remember who whatever. And then this article also makes mention that long termism and effective altruism, those two ideologies were sort of born out of really the Future of Humanity Institute and their version of transhumanism sort of born bore out long termism and effective all which have been problematic and sort of so people can easily sort of attack and see the

problems with all of this stuff long termism, effective altruism, eugenics, and the Future of human Institute, they're not. Now you'll notice, I notice that transhumanism, the word itself. I don't know if it's even mentioned once in this entire article. Oh no, it is. I'm sorry here it is. So it is okay, Like Sandberg Bostrom has advocated transhumanism, the belief in using advanced technologies to enhance longevity and cognition, and is said to

have signed up for cryogenic preservation. So okay, it does mention that, but it doesn't like make a lot of hay of transhumanism. But I will I'll restate my opinion on transhumanism that it is definitely another fringe outpost. It's a fringe ideology. It's almost I would not call it counter cultural, but

it's fringe to say for sure. It's got backing once again from huge moneyed individuals and organizations, a lot of individual money coming its way, Like again with the Teals, always funny this stuff, so it's it's It should not come as a surprise when some like extreme aspects, some weird stuff like eugenics, or maybe like neo Nazi ideology or some sort of crazy stuff works its

way into a fringe movement. It's kind of par for the course. That's as much true for Transhimanism as it is for something like nine to eleven truth. Okay, now I'm not making a judgment on either one of those things. Now, I'm just saying, if you out there listener, have an interest in a fringe ideology or a fringe concept, just remember that these things can go south really quick, and always be on the lookout for that, you know, no matter what the reason is. But Bostrom, I don't

feel bad for Bostrom. I don't like Bostrom. Andrew Samdberg isn't a bad guy. Honestly, he seems actually kind of cool. But you know, do I align with him ideologically? No, But he doesn't seem he seems actually like a really nice person. Bostrom, Yeah, I don't trust him at all. He gives nobody any reason to trust him except for these a billionaires give him a bunch of money. But you know, Bostrom has his

own problems with them. I'm sure he's got to keep them happy. But anyway, Future Humanity Institute closing its doors pretty interesting, interesting story in terms of the transhumanist front. So we'll just kind of I'll also I kind of want to make the point that with transhumanism, there's different branches of them, and you could sort of divide it into more right leaning cadres within the transhumanist circles and then more left wing sort of cadres. Both of these groups receive

massive funding from billionaires. Okay, I would going forward if transhumanism, if and when transhumanism is going to get more popular support and continuing onward as AI develops more and more becomes more in the mainstream and the ramifications of the development and deployment of these new technologies AI and everything else that comes with it, As that becomes more of the mainstream dialogue, I would say look to transhumanism

to mainstream itself, kind of like the MAGA movement has mainstreamed itself alongside of the Republican Party. Right, the Republican the Republican Party is magan. Now look for a possible future with the transhumanists glombing on to the more progressive side of the political spectrum. Look to like the IEE T of Martin Rothblat that's funded by Martin Rothblatt. Is the IEE T is very much a progressive outpost

of transhumanism. I would say there's that's likely to come to prominence and use progressive values to push the transhumi this agenda forward, just so that they can so that they cannot shoot themselves in the foot, as Bostrom seemingly has here and you know, to say that the like we're not eugenics anymore. That was the future of Humanity Institute. That was Bostrom and his That was effective altruism. Sam Bankman, Freed is in jail. Now we've solved that problem.

We're somebody else. You know, they'll distance themselves, it'll morph, it'll change. That's how these things go. The same general idea is there, yes, but things move around and mutate and change a bit. It doesn't change the fact that the actual important goings on in the world, like the development and deployment of artificial intelligence, is happening all the while, no matter how we think or feel about it. That is the main thing.

Politics rolls on and keeps changing the world as it always has continue to do so, whether MAGA is around or not. Right, So that's the idea there. Okay, But enough of the transhumanists, a bunch of Enough of that, Let's move on to other stories of interest. This is once again concepts that we've been talking about on the show for quite some time now.

We're continuing to cover the Cold War two point zero. Maybe we could call it, you know, the geopolitical scene between the big players America and China in particular, these sort of technological Cold war going on in the background or the foreground I think probably ahead I'll be the foreground is the development of AI, as we've been saying on the Sholl Show, the development and deployment of AI technologies, of machine learning systems, integrating them into the entire economic model

of an entire country. The United States is floundering around trying to do this, and China also doing the same thing, both countries having successes and failures at this, and successes and failures with their own economic systems and political systems at large. It's somewhat comical in a dark comical sense to see all of

this happening. It's also horrifying, terrifying, and the lives of all of us hang into balance as to whether and how all of this will pan out, how it continues panning out as each day, each minute, our day, year rolls on and on, continuing story. But I think think it's safe to say that the old neoliberal and neo con political system here in our wonderful country is very much now in crisis. The old business as usual does not seem to be working, and it's quite fascinating to see how that's panning

out. Now. I have another article here that's going to illustrate this, and man, this is a doozy. This one I found from JP Satilli's news vandal Rundown, so I did pull it out from that. Thank you again JP for the article. Here the articles from Asia Times dot Com and boy the author is got. You might recognize the author's name. This article

was written by none other than Eric Prince. You might remember him from Blackwater, being the head of that private mercenary group Blackwater, which I believe recently or probably not so recently changed its rebranded to I believe Z. I think it rebranded a couple of times. So the last one I remember it being Z. Sounds like it was changing its pronoun or something like that. But no, that's its new corporate identity. I don't even know what's corporate identity

now is. I can't keep up with that. But we know Eric Prince. He's a real star of the Bush era Neocon War on Terror extravaganza that was going on. Now this article is fascinating because what it does is it proceeds to tear apart the neocons, their war on terror, the entire establishment that they had going. He just rips into it in this which is it bends the mind. It's like I read this article then I didn't notice who

wrote this until after I'm like, what he wrote this? And yeah, okay, So so anyway, the title of this article from Asiatimes dot com is too Big to Win How neo conservatives and their military industrial complex allies keep America losing? And then okay, I'm going to I've picked out certain quotes

from this article which I'll read here. So we're just going to go through a couple of these quotes here's one an absence of strategic discipline and a military policy that prioritizes a tiny guild of contractors feeding an obese top heavy structure rather

than winning wars. Okay, so here he's again, Prince proceeds in this article to tear down the entire Neokon like Bush administration set up, where it's like, Okay, we're going to war on terror, We're going over to the Middle East, We're going to He cites a lot of interesting like price points of how overbloated and expensive this all was. We'll get back to that point. But he's really like laying into that whole system of which he was

a major beneficiary. So that brings up the main question. I was like, what's Eric Prince doing here? I think that answer will come when we get towards the end of the article, so we'll return that. I keep that back of your head. But here he is, he's railing away like an obese top heavy structure. They don't even care about winning wars. They

just care about paying themselves. They make sure that they're there and that they're getting paid by these government contracts to carry out these unwinnable They don't even care if they win, because they're just making money off of it. Yes, okay, tell us something we don't know. But anyway, here's another quote.

Partly as a consequence of the central economic role that the USSR had come to play for the US defense industries about Cold War era, the opportunity to positively engage with Russia after nineteen ninety one was rejected by the dominant neo conservative faction and their military industrial complex, allys of allies in Washington. Okay, so he's saying that, like, you know, Cold War kind of set

the gears in the motion. He mentions Reagan and all that too. It's like, okay, it was big business to make weapons in this Cold War scenario. Russia became independent. We could have decided to work together and try to help them out, become partners. But no, that's not what happened because it was more profitable all along, the old Cold War mentality of like, maintaining enemies was good for business. Yeah, and then he lists off

all sorts of absurd levels of economic waste during the Afghan War. He pawns that off on you know, the US government. It's in efficiency, et cetera, et cetera. Not not that that is not correct. Okay, here's another quote. The US military mows the lawn with Lamborghinis when Coubota attractors are what our allies need. Okay, so this is just him being kind of cute, saying like, look, we're so wasteful. We're spending all

this ridiculous amount of money when we're not being utilitarian. We just need to spend a little money to get the job that needs to be done done with the tools that are necessary, and we don't need to be like just wasting money just for the sake of it. Another quote, America's private sector has

always outperformed Okay before I okay, the screw. Here's where we're starting to see where Eric Prince is going with all this, I believe, and it kind of ties all togethers Like what the hell is this guy writing this for? Is he criticizing himself? Like what's going on? Okay? But anyway, quote, America's private sector has always outperformed government in solving problems. It is time to unleash America's entrepreneurs and foreign policy to cut costs and restore American

credibility. There's what Eric Prince is all up to. If I remember correctly, blackwater private private industry, private contractor private mercenary army that was employed to go over to the Middle East during the War on Terror. Thank you bush Eron, I don't see it. Thank you to the neocons here from Eric Prince, which you would expect. No, he's just tearing into like he hates him, and why because what he's doing is he'll like, oh,

look at look at the problem. Problems like bloated. It's it's government. Government does all the bad stuff, it's like and the solution as well, just get the private sector to do the whole thing, and it'll be efficient, we'll save money, they'll get the job done, they'll actually care about winning wars. Efficiency. Da da da da da da da. Hey, I'm a private country. I'm a private sector guy. I know this. You want to hire me, of course, it will be the government that's

hiring him and contracting him out. But his argument will be, oh, yeah, i'll cut the costs of you know, these old guys that that that are going to waste a bunch of money. I'll show you how to do it. Much about my business plans way better. So kind of interesting to see that going on similar to the Eric Schmidt thing with his whole push for AI and Silicon Valley to take greater command over the national security apparatus.

And it's mentioning the very same thing in this article of the Indo Pacific theater right in China, the threat of China. We have to shift over there. That's the real problem. We got to stop worrying about Afghanistan and Iraq and everything over in the Middle East. That's yesterday. We got to move forward. We got to do it. We have to trust the private sector to do this. And really, I mean to me, this whole article just misses the whole point on purpose. Right. It's not like the author

doesn't understand this, but the whole point to me is public private. It's the same damn thing. It's the government giving money to the private, to the military industrial complex, as he rightly calls it. It's just a matter of what companies are we favoring. Is this yet again another example of pointing of the finger at the old aerospace dinosaurs and saying those guys got to go.

It's all about the new kid on the block. We need to get these new tech companies more involved in this, and we need to get other new private sector solutions going here and cut off the money to these floundering old guys that we want to push out of the way. I think there might be a bit of that going on once again. Kind of interesting to see.

This past week another story broke where a whistleblower from Boeing, the second one, has died as their whistle blowing about quality problems at the Boeing's civilian aircraft assembly up in the Pacific Northwest. There so two different whistleblowers on that front have perished in this past year. One was died just before he was going to testify in court about this. I was the first guy, and I apologize. I don't have the names of either of these poor guys.

But this more recent one, I think he developed some sort of some illness, like a respiratory illness or something. And you know it's like, well, the first guy died by suicide, right by self inflicted gunshot. Supposedly this one was some kind of illness. I mean, it may have been just and nobody. I don't know what happened, but it's convenient for Boeing.

What actually happened, we don't know. I don't know, but Boeing definitely iconic, iconic military industrial contractor, iconic in its sort of in terms of the private sector civilian facing. It's iconic as the aviation brand that we

all know, they're simultaneously as the military contractor. And we went into this, We've gone this in the past couple of shows, but I'll just reiterate that, Yeah, it's I think there's a lot of really powerful, potent symbolic stuff going on in the continuing developments with Boeing, And there's just so much, so much of what's going on with our economy, with our nation, with our politics, with our military terry is really embodied in the the

never ending drama that is Boeing right now. You can you can really see a lot happening there. It's it's really crazy, the just the basic corruption of our entire system. Boeing iconic. You look look at the way what happened to Boeing as a company as a corporation, Their practices, the practices that they chose as a company to prioritize were those that pretty much every other

company is suing too. And what is the game? The game is just these financial little games that you play to make more money for who, for the shareholders, for the CEOs, for those that own stake in the company. They get richer and richer and richer off of playing stupid financial games that don't actually do anything other than lying their pockets. Meanwhile, their company takes a literal and metaphorical nosedive as they don't even care about the quality of their

product anymore. It's falling apart to the extent that's causing quite possibly irreparable damage to their reputation. And so that begs a question. Can they even go on as a company going forward? Do they even have a product anymore? Do they have a product that they can sell? Are do they care? Are they just still buying back their own stock right now and figuring out how to do all those stupid financial games, or do they actually care about their

product? You know? So that, I mean that is the story of the United States economy as a whole. Look at that. That's what everybody's doing. Does anybody care about anything that matters? No? Why they care about money? What is money? It's it's a game of monopoly. We've obsessed over this stupidity of something that is not even real, like this alchemical means of exchange has become so dominant over our entire system that it's it's destroying

the whole thing. It's it's almost poetic, it's almost a thing of beauty. It's dark comedy in a sense. In that sense, it's almost wonderful. But it's also horrendous because everything is falling in the wake of this nonsense. We the regular people, have to deal with this bs. We have to live our lives out. We have to sit here slaving away, doing hard labor for less and less money, while these goons off with everything. That is, when I say everything, it's essentially nothing. So they're almost

getting what they deserve get. They believe that they're getting everything, But what is everything? These are the philosophical questions that nobody could give rats ass about in the first place. Nobody cares about anything that really matters, anything real, the actual material world is getting forgotten. It's getting destroyed, it's getting trampled on, it's getting polluted. We're doing all of that. Meanwhile, we can't stop obsessing over some dumb thing we've made up in our own heads.

That's all it is, like, our own heads are all The financial system is like an extension of our greater mind, you know, and think we think abstractly with our minds. It's not a bad thing, it's a

good thing. But when we come up with these systems of quantification, systems of exchange that are meant to be there as systems of exchange to keep us actually doing things with one another, When those said systems, which are nothing more than just ways of counting, become elevated as the main thing to focus on, you've got a problem. That's what's happening in the world overall,

as far as I can tell. But who am I. I'm just another poor idiot that's stupid enough to go out there and again do labor for no real reason. There's no real benefit to me, not really, but I do it anyway because I'm stupid. If I was smart, I would figure out some stupid financial game to get rich, and I would, you know, play the dumb numbers game like everybody else that's successful, And I would do that. If I was truly smart, I would do that. But

I'm not. I'm an idiot, so I don't. But the point of this is that I'm happy to be an idiot. If being successful, if being intelligent means glomming on to this system of nothing. Then you may have that. You can have your success. It's a flash of pan It's not going to last very long, so enjoy it while it does last. You the beneficiaries of this are really lucky that the American people don't hold you accountable. You're very lucky that you're able to shoot down actual critiques like the like

the occupy Wall Street. Anything that pops up that's a problem for you, you just shoot it it, shoot it in the foot, You find some way to extinguish the flame. It goes away, and you go about your business. So keep doing that. Keep you, just keep doing that, and we'll see what the ultimate outcome of this is. All right, I hope you're enjoying your life, If any if anybody out there, those who are again the beneficiaries of this. I don't know if you actually listen to

this, but if you do, I hope you're enjoying yourself. I hope that life is good. I really do. I hope you enjoy your days. Just know that my days, when I'm spending my time doing stupid labor, I also have the time to live in my own head and think about all this. You don't think I'm not thinking about it constantly. Every month of every day, I'm thinking about this. This is going through my head. I do not forget. I remember all of this. I'm paying attention.

I'm not a complete moron. I am a moron, but I'm not a complete moron. I'm not the only one. People aren't totally stupid. They can read the writing on the wall. They know what's going on. So just keep that in mind while you're living the life. Know that we know. Okay, just be aware of that. I'm not asking you to repent. I don't know if you care to, but just realize that we

know what's going on. Okay, we're not. We're probably half as stupid as you think you are, but it doesn't take a whole lot of intelligence to see what's going on. Let me return my notes. Because I went off on tyree dying think I was gonna have Maybe it was because I had to read an Eric Prince article might have sent me off the rails. But let's see your asia. Okay, there is another article that hits on the

same general topic that Eric Prince is talking about. This one is once again, I read I think it was last week or the week or the show before that, I read an article from the same group. This is the the National Interest, formerly under the leadership of Henry Kissinger, now under somebody else's leadership. I don't know who, but whatever National Interest dot org. This article is by a Navy guy, Jonathan G. Wattel. The title

is America is losing Tomorrow's war in the Indo Pacific. Washington's foreign military financing program is wholly deligned with its stated Asia focus. Why don't we read a little bit from this again? This is all about the geopolitical tensions between the United States China and the potential future military implications of that in the Indo Pacific. This is another recurring topic on the show here that we keep continuing to return to. We will this is not going away. We are going to

keep talking about this. So let's read from this article a bit. I'll just start a paragraph on here. In twenty eleven, the Obama administration declared a strategic pivot to Asia away from the Middle East. Nearly a decade later, in October twenty twenty two, the Biden White House published a national security strategy that stated no region will be of more significance to the world and everyday

Americans than the Indo Pacific. In the twenty twenty four National Defense Authorization Act, the Sense of Congress declared its goal to strengthen United States defense alliances and partnerships in the Indo Pacific region to further the comparative advantage of the United States

in strategic competition with the People's Republic of China. Today, despite all of these grand declarations, eighty six percent of the annual US Foreign Military Financing FMF still goes overwhelmingly as it has for decades, to nations in the Middle East. And really that's the main point in the articles making this guy's saying, hey, look we've been we've been making the point we need to shift and switch gears from the Middle East over to the Indo Pacific, but we're not

quite doing that. Also, very interesting about this article is like the giant chunk okay, the the FMF that we just mentioned, the foreign military financing, it's thirteen point two billion dollars in total in the account for twenty twenty four Congress. And of that thirteen point two billion, this is mentioning that Israel got six point eight billion dollars of that. That's a topical thing,

isn't it. Is. Israel is certainly in the news lately. They're getting a lot of our money that again, should maybe a larger portion be going to funding our allies in the Indo Pacific, Thailand, the Philippines mentioned in

this article. Here, Here, let's three from this article. I mean, from this paragraph in the Oracle, the remaining thirty four countries authorized to receive this Grand Assistant assistance, including two US Mutual defense packed allies in the Unto Pacific, the Philippines and Thailand, must split the leftovers among themselves, even though they are in a more strategically important region According to the United States

National Security Strategy. All told, under two percent of you're the FMF funding goes towards America's priority theater, the Indo Pacific under two percent. So yeah, Israel maintains its alliance with the US even amongst all of the scandal. As of late, I mean, everybody knows the story. We all know what's going on. In the past week, it's all been about the student protests and Columbia and here in UCLA and Los Angeles and other universities of universities

across the country. Students are daring to protest against Israel's bombing of innocent civilians. How dare they? And that it has to be shut down. We got to shut down those horrible student protests, which is I mean, what the hell are we doing? From the looks of it, We're upholding our special business partners. We're trying to maintain ties with them for some reason,

although that's they're kind of floundering there. That's a tenuous relationship seemingly unbreakable between the United States and Israel for so long, as evidenced by all this money that continues to go over there. The current presidential administration has quite the crisis on its hands when it comes to all this, because Biden knows that the old neoliberal and neo conservative, the old establishment ways of doing business in Washington

is to pump a bunch of money at Israel. Keep doing that no matter what. The problem now is that Israel is committing horrific war crimes and crimes against humanity. So you know, the American public is going, We're not going to stand for this. What are we gonna do? And it's so bad that the actual the actual establishment is considering dialing things back, and they're pressing Nan Yagho is like Biden has had, you know, multiple shaky meetings

with them and things like this. So ah, so it's pretty wild. It's pretty wild to see all of this happening. It This will absolutely have ramifications for what happens in the presidential election this year. It's going to be a big problem for Biden. I don't know what the ultimate outcome of all this is if they're going to go forward. That there's been legislation now past that's trying to ban students from protesting on campus against Israel. I mean,

I how does this? How does this end? Well, it's it's it's a lot of things are going to have to work themselves out with this now and the election date it's gonna be. It already is a major thorn in Biden's side. I don't know, he likely won't rectify the situation, considering his the left wing voting base may be ostracized to such an extent that it costs Biden the election. Honestly that this could be one of those things. It could be. I'm not saying it's going to be, but it's it's

a problem for him, and so the neoliberals have their issues. They can't go on. They're trying to maintain business as usual, and it's just not working on all fronts. Business as usual is falling apart. That's the point I'm making here on this show, is that we can't keep this up. We can't keep doing all of this nonsense. Something has got to give. Something is giving. Many things are giving on many fronts. There's a lot of things going on all at once. This is a tough, tough time.

It calls, honestly, for some tough decisions and some shifting of gears. There's just no way around it. Things have to change. And the vested special interest groups that run our system, that's exactly what they are. Their best is special interests. They don't want to give up their power and their status and their cushy little position that they've carved out for themselves over all these decades. They want to just keep going on as business as usual.

Sorry, we have run this thing into the ground. That's what I was saying earlier. I hope you're happy and that you're living your best life, because this is over now for everybody. It's over for us plebs. It's likely over for you. I don't know. You probably have some contingency plan. You've got your luxury bunker to escape to when whatever horrible thing happens, you can go off to that. So enjoy that. Enjoy your time and your luxury bunker when the rest of us are doing whatever it is that we're

going to have to do the fallout of all this. I hope you're real proud when you're sitting there and you're luxury bunker enjoying yourself. You probably will be. You deserve it. You deserve it. You're smart enough to figure things out. Enjoy a world with nobody else in it other than if you're

lucky. There might be some AI systems that have survived whatever it is it happens, and if the rest of us are lucky, it actually becomes artificially super intelligent, and maybe it figure years out a way to deal with the remaining two of you that are left on the planet. Maybe it'll make a nice world, Maybe it'll do a nice fresh start over. But I don't know. Whatever. Now I'm living in the world of science fiction. I don't really these big events where the arm again comes, I don't think it's

going to come to that. I really don't. I don't. I don't mean to like do mong or anything like that. I don't think it's going to be that bad. And I think we're going to move forward. But that being said, we've got a lot of issues that are going to be have to dealt with and we're being forced to deal with it. We do what that means how everything plays out, I don't know. I'm not predicting

the future. Anybody who is is probably going to be wrong. We can see trends, we can see areas of importance, we can see what we need to keep our eye on. We can see what's now important. We can see how the world has changed. We can see the things like these new technologies which absolutely are incredibly significant, the AI and things like this. So that's what we'll continue to do here at the Age of Transitions, is keep our eye on all of this. As the governments of the world continue

to try to control the world in their particular brand of totalitarianism. The United States would like to rule with their capitalistic corporatists system. The Chinese would like to rule with their communists, one party centrally planned system rule the world that way. The Russians know they've got their autocracy going and their cadre of elite power brokers that are courting Puden's favor. They wouldn't mind running the world either.

It'd be a horrible system if any one of these places took over and just ran the whole show totalitarian style. Of course, as I was saying, that's what it would be. But more unlikely, not any of them or any other government will get the opportunity because they'll be too busy fighting each other in the run up to such a scenario, because none of these governments wants the other to get to that point, so there has to be a skirmish or two on the way to the top. So you know, that's

where we're at in history right now. Let's all just enjoy what we can of it. Okay, So here comes the ride. We're on it. There's no way off. But honestly, is there any other place you'd rather be? Is there any other place to be? I know, the transhumanists and all these techno utopians love to dream about living in outer space and flying out in the star trek style into the great expanse of the universe, But personally, that doesn't really appeal to me. I'd rather stay right here,

thank you. Rather live in the middle of the desert than go out into the middle of space. Absolutely horrifying the idea of floating out in a tiny little capsule out in the endless expanse of space, hoping that you make it

one way or another. No, thank you. I'll take my chances in the extreme heats of the summer, the extreme cold of the winter, the punishing winds, the poisonous animals, the sand in your feet, trying to find water, to make it a lot easier, a lot nicer, a lot prettier too, So I'll take that, thank you, my personal choice. So that's pretty much everything. I think we covered everything and a little bit more on tonight's episode of the Age of Transition, So thank you for

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We got Count Pupper over on Twitch. Hello, Count, He's like, do we get this text? Man on in there? So we got something to ask you? Oh? Oh you mean in the chat room? Yeah, yeah, the count, the Count is there. Do you want to ask something? You're talking about creative accent, crazy accidents? Okay, the Texas Man, he's Texas man. Yeah. Let me see. Let me check out Shelly chat. I can't remember if he is in there tonight or not. Let's check the old Shelley dot Com chat. It looks like

over there we have fase, shifter and shock. So no, I don't see creative accents tonight. I'm not sure if he's here tonight. Uncle. I know they're having trouble with all the rain over there in his area, so hopefully he's okay. I haven't spotted creative accidents. Yeah, because I wanted to tell him he's got a very good Texas meal we had from his place. Yes, yeah, And then that's why I want to ask a good meal tonight. It was what was the name of the cue, chicken

libs and can stuff? Yeah, it was Texas something Texas was in the name of the place, but it was barbecue food but Texas something Texas inspired or something like that. Yeah. Well, well I'm talking that because I know a person, man Caim, lives there, and I figured, did he know that? Does he know that he knows the company? And maybe he knows the company? And then I just asked if the name, if he was there, if he was, Oh, he's in the chat room

right now, Texas Roadhouse. He's saying, No, it wasn't Texas Roadhouse. It was a local place. They had a They had a restaurant in San Bernino first. Now they have their second one in Riverside, which is we went to downtown. We got the food there. It's Texas is in the name again, I can't remember the name of it, but not Texas Roadhouse. No, it isn't Texas. Whose crazy accidents is here? Uncle, But it's a barbecue place. You should try it out sometime, ya,

crazy accidents. Not the beef people. It's not the beef people there. He is, Oh creative accents. Also made it to the twitch chat as well, so he's twitch chat or chellie chat. Count Pepper there and twitch as well. We got some good twitch action going, so that's exciting. Weren't Papa Papa? What are you up to? Papa? Oh? Pepper, what's up? What's happening? Yeah, feel free to respond to that in chat. We will respond back. We see you there again live

Friday night at chelly dot com every Friday. I'm starting to miss the phone calls. Are you a little bit? Really not as much, but having conversation with him, But we just need to get some guests back in here, which I will. I'll get some more guests and that's what's I will. Let's try about this whole thing. I mean, I can get the talk. This is the problem getting the talking guns so but it's the week good. We call back to talk back at them, and they took back

at me, and no know how that goes. A listener in California asked me, if you're talking about cowboys barbecue and grill. No, no, no, not that it's not it. Okay, I guess I don't know. I never heard of it. But anyway, like Texas inspired or something like that. Oh. Count Pepper says that the Phillies won tonight. Uh working clearing out a room so I can play Sega Genesis. Oh he's gonna be playing old video games too, Count Pepper. Oh, so he's ready

to have a game thing this weekend. If we yeah, yeah, gay we can get to Yeah. Apologies to listeners. We said we're gonna do the VHS thing on Saturday. We didn't. This is what happens sometimes we just don't get to it. That last week was that if we can, we'll do one this weekend. We'll have well, hamp the dude. We are starting to do the three stages. That is already in to what I want to listen to you anyway, so it will be them if we listen

to that will be yeah. Yeah, if we can, we will do one of those live streams, either gaming or the VHS, or we watch the three Seaches. We'll do one of I love doing them. It's just carving out the time. Things get crazy. Follow up from our California listener. One place, he says, it's called Best of Texas, and another place is what did you say, spirit of Texas Park. That's it. That was the one. It was spirit of Texas, sir. Yes, that was the name of the place. I don't even remember the names.

It was Spirit of Texas. Was saying it. It was completely it's good. Over my head, it's good. He lives trying to Spirited Texas. Where's this listener live. He's only told me. I know he's in California, but he's told me that he's just down a certain number highway from you or something. Yeah, for ninety one. Perhaps I believe that's the number he's he gave. I got I got the text here somewhere, but I got a bunch of things in fro me. But anyway, that's what he

was telling me. But he never tried that place. The cowboys very good going there and get you had a plate if you like barbecue, like barbecue, Yeah, he said, he tried Cowboys barbecue and burgers, and he loves he likes that plate. He thought that was the place you were talking about, but he never tried this Texas. It's a new one, a new uh one. Yeah, Spirit of Texas. That's what. Yeah, that's the one, the one we liked it. Yeah, So listener,

that's listener slash neighbors who we're talking about here. Uncle, it's one of our neighbors. His name's he can run down when it's actually he does it. His family does it on family on a birthday, they pickuld choose a plate to eat. Shout how he shout out the Cliff. He doesn't show up on our stream count but he is listening on Apple Radio. So cool. Yeah. Hey, when we Cliff, you said, yeah, his name's Cliff, you know. No, No, I was just gonna say

Cliff. Uh. When we get the phone lines back, call in sometimes I'd like to talk to him. So just keep keep that in mind. We'll get them back up. They're not up now, but when they are, give us a call. We can talk about I E. Stuff would be fun. Yeah, it'd be a fun time. Yeah. So there you go, just putting that out there. Glad to have a listener interaction. Uh. Uncle, we're enjoying ourselves tonight. It's a good night. We got a lot of action in those chat rooms. Got a lot of

good listeners. Uh. Other people enjoy barbecue. People will enjoy playing video games and doing fun stuff. How can you go wrong? Cool? No, And now I got it's so clear over the phone that I'm happy that I got a clear and I can talk on the phone when I've gotten by waits with because I liked it, because I get the things off my phone to put on that so I can go just hey, you want to play a game, go to the pay it. Oh yeah, you have an iPad? Now, yes, I can add the new iPad is getting set

up. It's what how what do you have set up on it? You have got games yet? Games on the games I want? And I eliminated some since Dana one, so I eliminade mind I do play yeah, yeah, well sometimes they go want to play on it? And I said, you want to play this? You know, well I'm going on a trip. Okay, you're asking, I didn't play this? Play this? And I play this? Yeah, oh you're the kids. Yeah, and I'm

talking about yours. Oh uncle, you know. You know what game my wife and I have been getting back into lately your past few nights is Mine Sweeper? What is that on? Have you ever played that old PC game? It used to come on all computers might still, I don't know, Like all PCs had Solitaire, the card game. You've played that all? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah. The other game that came on the computers was this thing called Mind Sweeper, where it's this like board of a bunch of

squares there. It's all gray, and you click on them and it reveals either like a space with a number or you blow up because you hit a mine. And the point, the whole object of it is to find the minds and and to click mark the minds where they are, and then click the spaces with the numbers until you have the whole board. If they on, if they're on the and on the thing, goodness the same and put it on my mind pitch. Yeah, I bet you could get an app. Yeah, I mean I can get an in from it, but I

have to say, what what what? What kind of game it is? Yeah? Yeah, we're gonna we're gonna have to get you that app on your thing. I got the head. I gotta say it up. You can find it well. Count Popper says he loves my mind. I'm Sweeper, asked great, Yeah, I always loved that game too. I recently one of the things that spread me on with this game, Pupper, is that I saw this post. There's like these memes on social media or people like nobody knows how to play this game. I'm like, really, it's

not hard, it's like super easy. I don't understand how like so many people don't even know how to play it in the first place. It's a fun game. It's super simple. It was this game I had. It wasn't an imp It was like a sojier game, okay, and I was going after a plag I forget what that was cool. But it's an old video game. It was a game that I had. But I don't know if they have it on AMP, if it has it on a video on it. Was it a computer game? Was it a video game like Nintendo

or something? It playing game that we had. I'm wondering if they had it on iPad in video on video now it's like a soldier game. This is about what you were looking about. The bombs and stuff. I forget what it was. We got a lot going on, the shot capture going on, shot capture the flag. Maybe there used to be a Captured a Flag game something like that. Was it? Do you remember if it was on a computer or a Nintendo or anything like that. You don't know.

I don't think it was on a contendo or on a computer. It was not on it. Was it an arcade game that you put a quarter into? No, no, no, no, no, it is one of the games. I boy, there's always an actual board game. Oh, it's one of those. And I was wondering if they can put it on. Then a lot of those they made look through the stool or whatever and look through it, not anything, just to look through it and see if

they did. You're not talking about Street Ego where they had the little soldiers and you gotta you gotta capture the flag eventually, but you got the little soldier guys. You got scouts in general. Oh yeah, yeah yeah. Then Stratigo that stratego Stratigo. Yeah, you go ahead and look it up. Stratigo. It's this little thing. You have these pieces where you're moving them on the board. Your opponent can't see the pieces, but you can

see what your guys are. You got generals and scouts and different people, and you get a certain amount of moves and you got to move to try and capture the flag piece on the other side. That's exactly it. That's the that's the name of it. I've definitely heard that name. I had and I played, and I said, I wonder if they have them on video on maybe check that out and we will look through it this week. Strate mind it because I like that game. If you can get that on

the play it Aaron. In the days when PC games were multiple discs, right and you had to load up multiple discs on a PC, there was a Strateigo game. Now, I don't know if they made it since then. Maybe I'll check and see if it's been made into any other video games. But but I know it was made into a PC game, like you know, back in the floppy disc days. Okay, yeah, that sounds right. That is a fun game. I've had it. I actually had the game. I don't know what happened to it, but but I had

the game and I kept playing it. Oh boy, this is fun. I only it's gonna have a videos. So sitting here, but I'm playing with somebody and yeah, all right, I got read he got blue in a blue red melgn uh a Southern and uh Northern fighting fighting to get the flags and what he said? What check said? He's the players on the board. Yeah, that's cool. I mean it interesting. I could get into that. I'd get into that. Yes, a stratigo, what might

have to go? You know what? I could look for that on They might have made it for Nintendo or one of these things like that that could get an emulator game that we could play that on the gaming streams. Sometimes might find it and if you can find it, if he could, I'll look for that for that. So there's study. Yeah, so let's see here. There's a lot of action in the chat count. Pepper is excited about that. He says he doesn't remember he didn't know how to play my

Sweeper when he was a kid, but now he does. Uh. Phase shifter Ed is really mad that we're not taking calls anymore, and he he thinks we should. Creative Accidents agrees even though he never calls in. So what's if he calls in? How's that? Saill uh give us a tweet? Creative Accents also says that you uncle, need a proper cowboy hat. Yeah, so you need a cowboy hat? What poor for the sun to keep the sun out of yours? Oh? No, I have that, you do okay? I have the fish play Oh yeah, Gerald Sanders j

fish. I've been having worn it. I've been wearing that on that Yes, it has been getting worn them and I have been putting that on. So that's a good. I can't got my that's gonna have to go into the washing machine. Whenever I can get a chance. You get up here to do my wash. You're not ready for the full on stetson hat. Uncle Stepan's hat. Who's that? That's the fancy cowboy hat. It's a brand of cowboy hat. I haven't heard of it yet. Haven't come by

me to look it up. Look it up? Of course we do look at it. We go to these fairs and mom, watch hell. I might go looking for things, but they say, don't bite, don't bite. See. I want for the phone and the gone crazy and I'm going in there. And I go to my leather places where I was like to look and these and they all saying, don't bring your money down. You're saying this, Yeah, I think I've heard that before you And I said, well, when do I have a chance to go to a lither place

to look for stuff? Other than that, it's nice going to the market, the bizarre and being able to purchase something wanting to do. It's something to do. I mean only when I want to see what they make. And you know, lots awares at the athlete market, that's for sure a lot of interesting stuff. It was this one thing that was very very interesting to be these long long ting to come for a phone, phone chargers charger course, and this was a stretch d I said, this should be puffy

for your wife because she's always pulled too pulling. You got a cord, You got a cord. We can use this cording. Mother's stretching the neck and try turn on your phone, on your phone, on your on your on your in your truck that we turn. Well, she needs a cord every time, every time says chords. Now she can use them. There you go, yeah, okay, sure. So what you're saying is you

feel real encumbered when you're at the flea market. You wish you could go around buying all these things, which we if you were to buy these things, we would all use them. Well, yeah, you get a chance of using like a chord, even a chord. I mean, you know there's the one to get a call them useful items that we need. You won't use them too, not just me. You're all complaints. You don't body see, don't body what is your problems with you people? I don't

know, uncle, I don't. I don't know why you're getting held back at the pay Well I do, but hey, uncle, guess what there you can download Stratigo free to your iPad. Cliff just pointed this out to me. You can. Yeah, you can Stratigo online. They got it for your iPad for free. So I'm gonna go ask you a little guy to put it on right on time, uncle, because you're I got my Well you can do that one more? Yeah game, but I don't have it on all. You got to look it up. I can look it

up. Yeah. All you got to do is to be able to get in the apples, like I guess Apple has a separate app store because I don't use Apple stuff. But if you go into the Apple app Store, there's apparently a free download for Stratigo online. Okay, all right, thank you, thank you, that's very helpful. Is right place, the right time, perfect timing, because I'm putting the things on my hand and on the end paint thing instead of my phoney playing the game on the phone.

I thought these are supposed to be phone calls, not playing games on them. I get all these games. That's it. I'm going telling my birthday is an iPad to put the things on the I pad? Yes, so I did, Well, what are you gonna do with the cell phone? Are you saying someone off? Still using the phone? Oh? You will use you use the phone. Nothing else that and maybe my music unless I

put some on there music on the iPad. Yeah, I didn't hum both so okay that but but no, and the oh and the and the food and the food food apps, food apps that's on there are gonna be on the iPad or the phone on the phone, okay, the food apps. Yeah, and and these things, these things, the things the computer, No, no, yeah, I see the waving of the finger. Them for talking shows, oh, on my opinion, like YouTube and videos and stuff. Oh no, that was on my phone. The live streaming software.

You're talking a lot podcasts there, podcasting, Oh, for listening to podcasts of course, of course it is for something. Yeah, I may have to do something telling you straighten up. I know exactly what you meant all the time. That's what I meant. Podcasts. Oh coo, we're podcasting right now. I know, I know. I would like to know for D's time, if you had the time. No, you never do. Sure don't these fellas. I know. I want to know what's the

top subject on podcasting? What they like? Lighting their exhaust pipes on fire. That's a major topic. Making flames coming out of their exhaust system. That's probably got to be in the top three. I would say a thing. Uh they put that house? You know how they bought that house by shooting flames out of the exhaust their car. Well, how they do it? I don't get it. Kissing, podcasting, they do podcasts. They probably do the mother going together. Oh so so they're all in on it.

Yeah, they're conspiring. Okay, that's fine. It's making money. That's good. Every time I go buy that house at night, I see either a blue light or a red light in his room. You have the lighting yet light light? How what he's doings important? Uncle got out that good bite? And these are the broadcast guys I'm talking to do they're broadcasting any yeah? Yeah, maybe are the ones that you haven't been able to talk to. I haven't, No, I haven't. That's the ones I'm

talking about. Yeah, no, I know, I I follow you. Yeah. They seem to have really found their way, so to speak, in the world of podcasting or online media or whatever it is that they're up to over there and online and not so online media from the looks of it. So, oh, your wife had a piece of my u cake. She had a piece of ca doesn't taste sugary feet It's pretty good. You just have a bite. Oh yeah, I had some snake. Oh yeah,

sugar free cake. Okay, yeah, I'll try it out. It's all about it is about it. It sounds good to me, uncle. I know things are just great. Things are You should have been here in the hour before in government hour, man, What do you guys talk about? It was just fun? Was a topic? Being happy all the time? Was the second topic? Being joyful? Uh? Sound like my eat, pray love? That came up at one point. What else did I

mention? I think I mentioned bunny rabbits like on Easter, kitty kats presence, Uh, all the all the stuff from that song, like these are my favorite things, you know, all the stuff that they sing in that song from the musical, all that stuff. M Well, I'm glad it's getting better. It's been going down lately because of what you've been talking and honest stuff. But lately you went appeal been picking up. So things are heating up, uncle, things are good. Uh in an empire. Let

me see. I want to take a look at the numbers over here. I find that okay, yeah, during the show they're not always huge, but then after the fact, it seems like we're getting a decent amount of views across the live stream platforms, the YouTube, the Twitch, the Twitter, those three the other ones. But those three people are enjoying the content there, so that's pretty cool. Well, they're listening to us, jammit jewing closing, We are the only two talking at this time, because that's

what I want. Jabba Joe. Yeah, yeah, it's an old Hanna Barbara. Yeah he's a shark. Yeah, okay, yeah, that was one of the less popular, if the Hand of Barbary cartoons, but I do remember it. Yeah, let's see Neocelli chat. We've got creative accidents, asking how is Pierce Redmond, Uncle? You still picking up cans? And Caddie in Texas needs an armor scooter? Oh oh she does. Yeah, tell her that we could have had told one when we were doing a

business. Yeah, well, we don't have any, but they are still You can find them online. People sell them through eBay. The the Grofdale Machine Company is the armor scooters. You can find them different places online. If you go to Pennsylvania, if you're in Lancaster County, stop in Loyola at the Groffdale Machine Company shop slash store and you can buy one direct from them. I would suggest if you're able to to do that because it is

a experience to be there. That's for the one I really want. I wanted a pop one that you wanted this, you want this and give it to you and boy, but then we had the conversation, oh how are we gonna ship it? Not for the next question for a month. Because I like the purple one. I do want that. It's a good color. I think they call the color plum. They're all how they're coated. Yeah, it's a cool color. It was. Yeah, it's a good

color. Many different colors we've got We've still got three in the house of our own. Well, the kid's got the kids two. Well, the kids only have one. They have that's one ball, the yild size one yeah, oh yeah, and the silver one, the silver illuminum and you're green. The green one mine, which is steel, and it's got the big twenty four inche on the front, the twenty inchree on the rear. So that's the biggest one that they make. I do like that one allowed

with the big wheel on the front. I know, I know, I haven't even gotten out to do anything like that in a while. It's unfortunately. You need exercise. I do. I do anchicized I need exercise. We all do, but I definitely do. Yes exercise I was doing now that you mention it, Uncle, I was doing yoga in New York today. That was good. That was very good. I should do more of that. I should listen to each Mooney's tapes and I can get you going. Oh yeah, the Tai Chief for Health. That was a very good

tape that we watched. Yeah it we've got Tyebo. If I did ty Bo, I would be in shape. If I did that regularly. We have that VHS in right here. Right now. So there's nothing stopped to me other than stopping itself, right, that's what they say. So we'll have to fire up the old tybo and maybe a little bit tai chi tape here and there, and keep doing the yoga and everything will be good and get out on the armor scooter every now and again. I shouldn't get back

into cycling. I should. I want a blue one and get that blue one down. Yeah, I know I should. I should get a bike. I have a co worker, big blue one, and then it's set up. I don't want to you're talking about your bicycle and bicycle. I want to get back on it. Yeah, the old the old hard rock. That's a that's a good bike. Yeah, I know. I want to get back on it. I know I can line phil going on the

hills and maybe more difficult, but I can go up and down. I was like, say, go to the store instead of me getting people to take me, I'd rather go on my bicycle. Yeah. Down, I get my locks, I got all the things I need and I can go get my things do stuff. But yeah, we're not really in a bikeable community. Is a problem with that. I'd like I really like the idea that I don't want to shut it down, and I would be doing it more too. But we're we're out here, uncle, and we're also kind

of like the road back to the house is not an easy one. It's not like we can just go down the street and then come right back. That's the problem. It's an arduous trip, especially coming back home if that's what we were doing. So not really bike commuter area we're in, but if we were, I would be doing that all the time too. I did that Long Beach, and I did that in Orange, back and forth Orange, for I was doing my ex going going good bike. Orange was

fairly bike boy. Yeah it was nice and flat and all that ye in Orange. Yeah, Orange is pretty good. And Long Beach was the best Long Beaches. And I also at night even I was riding a bike. Yes, where where is he been? Well? Where is he going? You know, asking people getting nervous riding bikes at night. But I find that I feel safe for a lot of times, especially in town. I

feel like night, I don't feel less safe. The only thing you gotta watch out for is people that are like out of control, may be drunk driving, But as long as you're paying attention and you see that coming. You gotta be paying attention. Uncle. That's the hard part about cycling is that you must you must at all times be paying attention to everything around you. Yeah, you can't. You can't slack on that, dude to watch people. Yeah, you gotta watch out for them. I even I wait

a minute. Yeah, the first couple of times I was going to work on the butt, I know. Actually that was more exercise than it was good for. Yes, but that was before I hit the buses. Wait, I think it was before buses. Yeah, yeah, before the buses came because I was doing that well, going back and forth and using that. But yes, when you come down the bike back specialized. That was the specialize that we're talking about. Yeah, it's a good bike. It's

a good old bike actually, but yeah, we still have it. Yeah, there was talk about somebody wanted to sell it, but no, I'm keeping that. You know who wants to see it? Yeah, no, I'm not doing it. I am not showing that bike. Heck, I bought it for forty. I go up if it was going I would go up another high, well the fifty if I was wanting. We bought it cheap. It needed repairs, but that was easy to do. We just repaired a couple of things, put some new parts on. I put the

the Dynamo hub on it. I put a wheel with a Dynamo hub on the front wheel. And now you've got the light that the Dynamo hub powers. So when you when you roll down the road on the bike, the light comes on because of electricity. Electricity gets generated from the wheel. The only thing I need filled is the air in it. I need to add. Yes, who's got I go it? Yeah? Yeah, No, No, that that bike we have set up really good, So I don't

want to get rid of that one. I don't need that one. Or I have a similar old nineteen nineties mountain bike style frame that I have set up with the Dynamo hub and all that, and yours has a leather saddle too, and that's double course pies too. No way, no way, I can't sell that. No I'm gonna get that, so that ain't gonna happen. No, sorry, everybody, that heaven whatever. Of course you

really did it for ahead the bike. I mean, I haven't you know what I I remember that the bike market heated up a bit during the COVID era, but since then, I haven't keeping been keeping tabs on what bicycles. These bicycles are worth these days, so I'm assuming it probably went down from that peak in COVID, but I don't know. I haven't shocked either. I need to look into that. I don't know what the price points are these days on good old bicycle. Looked on bikes. You should find

out. I could. I could. It wouldn't be hard. Yeah, working on bikes is fun. That's something I haven't done in a while either. I should probably do that if I get around to it before I gotta see George again. Was that crazy nut wanting to fix my bike? One he comes in? Fix your bicycle? Oh? Yeah, aha, Oh that guy. I haven't seen him. Actually, I found those coveralls when I was cleaning out the garage the other day. I found that pair of

coveralls because he might have to be back to work on it. Yeah. I didn't know if I had him anymore, but I did find those, so that's good. Those still exist. I have that old pair of classes, the bark Borchert style glasses I have thus yeah yeah, so yeah, still that's all around. If anybody knows what we're talking about. I think only uncle and I know what we're talking about this point. But uh, you know that's fine inside jokes inside something we're indoors. We're inside right now.

Outdoor podcasting might be fun, but we're not gonna do that anytime soon. Well could that work, uncle, that's a lot of woo duds. Then if you go outside, then you're gonna take all this stuff outside, and you know how he will taking equipment down. Yeah, that smilling now, the most buds coming down down the down down there. Stay use, let's go outside and do podcast. Absolutely went on to take all this cup downstairs. I can hear it now, mm hmm, yes, all the

crap going downstairs. It's a beautiful sound, kind of like the sound of children coming downstairs on Christmas morning. In this case, it's all the crap coming down the stairs. So we can podcast outside. That's like a gift too. If we had a decent well, we did have a we did have run down here. The reason when we tried it down here, remember we even had a guess, oh yeah, you're talking about the party people.

We did we did do that. That might not be a bad setup to return to is the live in studio guests might be a good format to see if we can get back to that. You know, we'll see. It's it's it's a possibility. We'll see we can do some format changes. If we were so inclosed, if we could get the people then come, that would even be give that's a trick. You got to convince people to come out. Yeah, that's our hard part. Who are we going to

get who's crazy enough to come out here? Well, we're dumb enough podcast people wait to talk to them? He move here? Who has you don't haim the time? Yeah, yeah, I'll see. I don't know. Time is an illusion. Uncle, there's no such thing. You ever heard that one? Yeah? Anybody throw that one at at any point? I think I heard that one recently, right, didn't hear? For some reason? Your teeth the bottoms? What's it doing? And hurting? Not poason?

I don't know what it's poising? The problem. I don't want to check that one out. Yeah, take them out and the rest my mouth. When you take them out, it's a problem. I know I can rest my mouth. Oh oh okay, So it's it's kind of tough having them in for him now. A few hours and has this Why are you want to I don't know what course I have to tell the doctor about that one, the dentist or somebody. So that's something to keep in mind.

Let's see here we are now currently broadcasting uh YouTube, Twitch, twitter X. We're on it. Let me go to twitter X. Right now, I miss the guy talking, the wrestler guy all the time. I'm a car lose. I's gonna miss him, the wrestler. Do we have a wrestler that called Oh, yes, I know Jesse, Yes, of course I know. Yeah. We used to get a lot of calls from him. Do you here's the question, do you want the calls re instated?

Do you want to reinstate them? We could. We're not gonna do it tonight, but we could do it if you want in the following weeks. We could bring them back. Is that something that you would prefer to do? Yeah? I mean that gets me talking. Yeah, I think gets me talking more. Okay, and to get them I'm in the talk with the person all right, you know what I mean? Yeah, no, I know you me because right now as we stay in here, now I'm losing talking. I know we had a talk, but I lose t of

what the talk about. That's my problem. Yeah, have you seen that? I have that problem sometimes? So that's been my problem. I don't know when it's callers I can get in this. Well, the thing is the thing that we can take comfort in, uncles. It's a common problem in today's society. Well, a lot of people out there podcasting. What they do is they get on that mic, they start recording and they're like, they podcast for a minute, they talk for a minute. Then they

realize, I don't know what to talk about. That's this is an issue affecting millions of Americans. So that all over the place. I think so simple. And you get the pharmaceutical companies on this to figure out a cure for this. I'm sure that they're on it right now. The well, give me guys an exactly what he said. You've got a job to do. Do that and then we'll be satisfied. Call us Huey Lewis, because we need a new drug. We needed Yeah, that's you, uncle,

you're Huey Lewis. I'm the you. Yeah, I need a new drug, which later became famously Ghostbusters. That was Ghostbusters pretty much. I didn't know that little controversy surrounding the Ghostbusters song. It sounded a little bit too much, maybe like Huey Lewis's song. But whatever, it's not the first

time or last time that happened. Songs what what was that one? Sam Smith had that legal trouble with Jeff Lynn of ell O and and Tom Petty because his song sounded too much like Don't Back Down, which Lynn and Petty both had writing credits on. You remember that. This was a few years back. But Uncle too, I think stay with Me was the Sam Smith song stay with Me, You're all I Need. So it had like the same melody as Don't Back Down. And Lynn and Petty won that one.

They won that in court and they got money out of it. So it did. Yeah, as I remember, I believe. So, Yeah, singer is finally get something aded to do, Finally finally they get something. Yeah. It's it's odd because there's so many instances of similar cases. It's like a big a question like, well, why does that not happen a lot more? Because you think it could. There's all songs that sound just like others. But I don't know. I don't work in the record industry.

Uncle I don't know how this stuff works. I've done I mean the people that know that the song people, boy, I should dude like that song about the horses Shakira. Yeah, I can know. I know that. I'll Tellyson I know that song. But what know the song how she sings it? I am that down? Yeah you got that one down by memorized, memorized. Yeah, yeah, the horse song by Shakira. Yeah. Yeah, Whose hour is it? It's Uncle's hour, says a non zero three zero two. There we go. Bring back the callers, Uncle

says, career of accents spent. All the people are. The people are saying they want calls. So that's what the listeners or that's what the chat people see me saying. They want to hear the chat talkers. Well, if they do me a big favor, the big one, crazy accidents, you get up and call us and I'll have the money. That's okay, right, crazy, I want to know if he gets on the phone, I will definitely turn them on. There we go. How's that for a

president? I haven't heard his voice once. Yeah, there you go. Creative accidents. So that's something to think about. We put that one out there. Put that out there. We so so you Nancy next week, Oh, let's go talking to you. But what do you say? Do you think what you should we bring back the calls next week? Do you want to uncle or no? You want to stay with us? I want it. I want What I want to do is what I just said. I like crazy accidents to get on the call. And if he gets on

the call just to talk to I want to go. I want the mone And then I believe it was Cliff in the I E our I E neighbor listener friend. We want to hear from you. You want to hear it from him, So get ready. These phone lines are coming back soon. They're coming back phillly soon. Maybe maybe next week, maybe next week, maybe next week, next to two in the week after, we'll see it's your keeps showing up for the live show because the phone lines are hitting me

up at some point. So there you go. Be ready, everybody, because they're going to be back. It's just apon a time. I just want to listen to Kick's voice. Yeah, yeah, we do. Press the buttons in the meantime. Social media accounts, YouTube, Twitch, Instagram, uh Twitter, at uncle podcast on all of these at Uncle podcasts we're easy to find. We're out there, and press the button so that you're

following. That's an important thing to do. Uncle. If they don't do that, they're just not going to be on social media, not doing it right. At least there's the button push. Is it one time? Mike? Yeah, all you have to do is press it once and then you're subscribed. Oh yeah, that's right. That's right boy, that's easy. Punk that but puss it and boom, there you go and you're done. Uh face Shifter says, got to open the lines for crazy accents to call.

There you go, and crazy accent says, something to think about. He said, that's what he says, something to think about. Okay, and I'm thinking about you may get started talking. He also says he wants Big Gerald Sanders to call as well well him. He could. He's called before. I have to talk to him again, the Fishman, and went on for the fishman, the Fishman calling fish restaurant time. I think of

him him, I know. Robin has keeps trying to pitch his idea for the whatever town Fishmongers, like the Seattle Fishmongers should be a new team somewhere or some other fishmongers should be a team. Oh you know that's his idea. We'll see if they maybe could get out going somehow. It's important. We got a big publem. One of your favorite squoils running around here, my favorite no edge, oh say not, my favorite edge running around running

around. We don't know what he's doing. The ground squirrel right ground school, and he's looking at food, so he's trying to eat our crops. Could be manber this this is the problem. We gotta get in on it. Oh no, you gotta get on it and bring those bools over to you. Get this all on here, coax them away from riverside and then up to the Pacific northwest where you can contain them and feed them and they don't eat our beloved vegetables and fruit garden. That's what you was saying.

And this she saw one big boy walking down and taking some food some off the thing. Yeah, they've been around, they've been around. I've seen those plump little goofballs walking around. One ran across the road the other day. I did see that a lot of animal activity out there. Saw a couple of coyotes walker in the back on the back fence the other day. That's not unusual and that's not the dog attack. Yes, you hear the contact wake up time in the house. You get who's gutting the door down?

Let the dogs out? I should they love to bark. Yes, we're broadcasting from the facilities of a Chili dot com. We're also here in Riverside. As we were saying, Land of Citrus, we continues to be lots of cool citrus grows out here. The smell of the blossoms has been the air for the past month or so, which is a nice touch. They're starting to go away though, the blossoms and just turned into the fruit, slowly but surely. It's exciting cool. Never a dull moment. We've

we've actually sold some fruit cup now things off a tree here. We sold fruit. Now do we do? We give it away? I mean give it away. We gave it away, yeah, bunking people And boy, I've seen so many people and like it was good. They some good fruit on those trees. That'd be a single bag that was there. But they said they want to put him in them what bang and he's got these bangs come quots. We give away. I'm call that's what they want more than

we could eat. There are a lot of them on little small tree, but pomp on the yeah, fruits prolifically. The only thing he's got to work on is a dragon fruit tree. That. Yeah, still he's gotta work on. Get the pint. I need to steal the trellis for it before I plan it. Then I'll plant it so it crawls up the trellis and then once we have it going, it should. It's growing in its pot real good. I know. I need to get in the ground.

I wondered though, if it's going to break the punt soon. It could, and if it doesn't, you have to start, I guess, so you have to start. I just gotta figure out the trail is exactly how I want to make it. There's a couple of ways that could go about it. But I'll do that and i'll do that soon. Yeah, that thing because he hasn't asked. They gave it to us. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, we'll let him. We'll give him updates on the dragon fruit. Guess that's a delicious food. It's good, you guys,

honest, it's it even beats another one over there. It's close to that one that fan pomegranate. No, not the poem, the other one next to that. It's like a dragon fruit. It looks like the food like it. It looks like a dragon fruit. Something like another like sort of tropical, like a papaya or something, or a mango. Something pays in like the dragon for It's interesting because it grows on the succulent what. I don't know how many people realize that that it's a succulent plant that a

a pataiah or dragonfruit grows on it. It's a vining style circulent one dragon food. As we're walking the doors one day back to the west side here and they had had a tree up on the top and one just hanging over a wall, someone's wall. I guess they didn't notice. Oh he's now that's food. I tell these people that's food. Now. We got to get that ping to put it in the ground. Does need a trellis otherwise it'd be all over the ground. It needs something to climb up. It's

like a vine. It's like a vine. It's a succulent that's like a vine that has a crazy fruit on it. It's a very strange plant, but it's cool. It's a cool thing. Fun and it grows. It grows well out here. They grow very well. Those and many other fruit plants. The pomegranates do so good out here. The citrus trees do really good, a lot of different fruit trees. Palmcvran had one out to get gumbing. Yes it did not fruit last year, but we'll see you this

year. The one in the backyard pulling out, going in the BACKYARDO were good. Let's see if they on in the front and can do the same hopefully this coming year. I do like a pomegranate. Those are real good. Love those things. But yeah, we're gonna fruit trees. We got fruit trees out here in California. It's one of the nice advantages of living out here. You can do stuff like that, just grow fruit tree and it works out pretty good. But the only thing they have in problems with

right now is the orange trees. They had a fruit fly, yeah they did, and they took all off. Hopefully that doesn't get worse than what it is already, but yeah, that's concerning for the area. That could wipe out a lot of the citrus around here, which I hope that doesn't happen, but it's a possibility. Something to keep our eye on. So yeah, that's not cool. But we'll see right now the citrus is doing

well still, see if we can keep it that way. This one tree, the delicious orange tree, and what you're saying, and it's a different name, orange Tanglo tanglo, that is delicious. I like it over any other ones even out there. They're good. I could put I could probably put juice to that, if if you could just yehoo one of that juice maybe next year, and see how much juice gets out of that honest juice.

This how some people going for honest juice and he that Yeah, juice, it's out the door there, don't get the squeezes, I say, not hard to do. Yeah, it's wonderful, wonderful fruit Mineola TAngelo. Who doesn't love that, especially when it comes right off the tree. That's the best and get better and it is even better than the ones in the store. They're good store. Don't taste that they are I mean going to I saw your parents, for example, going for oranges. Yes, she

grabbed oranges. I think off the tree, well or was it on that trees? The trees? I don't know what they got? Well, sure and not go should not go to the store and kid them because they won't taste good. It won't taste good. Don't bother. Gotta get fresh out here, so you gotta come out to the riverside grab it off the tree. Sorry, you have to. So the way they eat orange, according

to us, it's true, sad but true. The one that crossed the street from a street is where I get some of them, and that one tree I can get from orange juice now on orange playing orange now, and the same that is the ones up on the hill you get off of Yes, orange, dude, un oranges. They do kinds of oranges, that's what any different varieties of oranges. That's what Joseph said. No, no, no, you don't do this. You just these you use use the

other one for eating. I didn't know that, and I didn't know that I was going juicing on. Geez well, Uncle, I would say, we've had a wonderful show tonight. It's been downright enjoyable. At least we've been talking, so we've been talking quite a bit. It's been good. Uh. We should remind people once again, our social media is at Uncle podcast. You're gonna find out on Twitter on Instagram, on YouTube, and even a couple other places like Twitch. It's at Uncle Podcast. The website

is Uncle Thepodcast dot com. We're live Friday every Friday here on the Chili Radio Network Chili dot com. Uncle. Why don't you bring it home for this week? H what was it? Number? Number of sex? A number was I don't