152: Blitzkrieg Tariffs

I'm having a little bit of a deja vu thing here. Gene, are you, are you free in your minds? So free. Yes, free in your. Hello, and welcome to unrelenting. 152 breaking. The show is so hot, your Apple devices will decide to update right when the show starts, right for you. If you insult them, they will. Yeah. I, I got my update then, right the minute I saw it. That was like days ago. Like, do you want to do this? I'm always like, yep, do it right now. Don't care what I'm doing.

I'm always like, just do it. Because otherwise this is what happens. They wait and they lie and wait until the worst possible moment. Apparently. Yeah, because I haven't touched my Mac for a week and now it's decided that, oh, somebody is moving the mouse. Okay, let's reboot right now. It's a good time. I could have done it when nobody was paying any attention to me for days. No, that's not how it works. That is not how it works. Although now the good news.

The Macs only do this like twice a year, right? I was going to point that out. I was doing every week with the windows machine. It's always like, hey, do you want to read? Not only with, the operating system, though, it has gotten better. You don't need to reboot after the video card driver updates on windows, but I usually do, just to be safe.

Because I'm old school and have had so many issues with audio and other bizarre things that, a lot of them are track down to the video drive every time there's a windows update, it has to follow up with, oh, hey, by the way, would you like to upgrade to Windows 11 for free? Because, you know, I can I know a guy. I can get you in there for free. Did. And oh, before them we got our. Scott Adams has his simultaneous setup.

We have our simultaneous pills and, supplements take because we are way healthier. But you can wash it down with your favorite vessel of coffee if you'd like. Or tea that I've got liquid death. You know, I tried that stuff. There's a lot of different flavors. What you do, you go for lemon. That is my favorite man. And they don't just call it lemon, though. It's severed lime. So I mean, it's but it is basically they're, some version of sprite or 7Up. It's what they had at the wedding. I went to.

Oh, the one that gave you the plague? Yeah. We're liquid. Death was actually liquid. Yes, they were spreading liquid that, like, here, have a little of this. It'll be good. You will enjoy it. But as we mentioned before, the, computer wanted to reboot somehow. Yeah. Apple is lost its overall biggest market share, biggest company in the world to Microsoft. And I'm trying to wrap my brain around this because Apple at least has hardware.

They have lots of very expensive way overpriced, sure, huge margins on the hardware, but somehow Microsoft has eclipsed. Keep in mind Apple is still the most profitable company, and they're true. They're just not the biggest seller. And the Microsoft. Yeah, the whole hey, do you want Windows 11? It kept telling me that. And the machine that I was using up until November when I switched to the Mac mini.

So then I tried to do the update and it should itself, so then I downloaded a Windows 11 ISO and once again tried to update it and it shipped itself. Yeah. So I guess I could try to do a fresh install, but I'm thinking I'm just gonna throw some kind of Linux distribution on there, Because why would you want Windows 11?

The fact that they're making more and more and they've got this much of a market cap, it's like, well, that's all your data, kids, because they're not even selling you operating systems anymore, but they're making more money by not selling you the operating system, it seems. But remember, Windows 11 takes photos of your screen every five seconds. I think it was up to every three now, which I mean, yeah, it's great for I mean, it's way more convenient because what if they miss something.

And I believe you can still turn that off. But the fact that's built into the operating system like you believe that it could be turned off. Yeah. And even if you do turn it off, if you are a target of anybody that can get into your computer, whether the government or somebody nefarious. Wait that's repetitive. Yep. They can turn that right back on.

And this again was a reason why everybody believes the cry, the overall outcry for things like oh no you can't have signal, you can't have anything with end to end encryption has gone to crickets because well end to end encryption doesn't mean anything. People still need to read the messages that you're sending them. Yeah. Which means they're showing up on their screen. So if you have the ability to capture their screen, they're sure there's end to end encryption in the middle.

They can't get your message. But that's not where they were getting it anyway. They're doing it at the end point. So keep that in mind. They have the fact that more is coming out for everybody that, was Pooh poohing signal, the fact that the government agencies are like, hey, yeah, you signal it's the best thing out there. It's not just you signal, it's pre-installed on all their phones. Which one tells me that they think it is accurate?

I don't agree with the no agenda, boys, that that means there's a backdoor. I think they actually just, Because it's open source, I don't know. I mean, could you hide something? I'm sure, but would be kind of hard with open source software. I think it actually is just a quality product that they feel is the safest way to communicate at this point. Yep. Which is why we use signal for all of our very high end, highly classified data that goes back and forth.

But what else would we be using for telegram? You know, I read telegram, though, some people still use telegram. There's a few of, like, what's, there's a bunch of the European ones that the, the Trump shooter that was, killed on the rooftop there in Butler. He was using, like, three, and a few other ones that I'd never heard of him. I can't trust anybody. Is that, you know, it's a very interesting, marketplace for all of these messengers.

There's also session which appears to me as a, yeah, very much like talks, which it's a, non centralized. The nice thing about session although session, I've tried it a few times and it just fails horribly. So I don't know where there's like what way. Like the messages just wouldn't work.

Oh so I don't know if there was you know, again with all of these things that don't have any centralization, as the Canadians might say, well, then, if something goes wrong with all this peer to peer, there is still some kind of way that has to get, hey, I want to communicate with this ID well, how do you find them? You know, it's not just like random. So there are, I guess, probably more of a chance that that is breaking down.

The pathways are breaking down, but still way better than using your phone phone's SMS system, which a lot of people still do and don't understand that everything you text, it's stored well, it will probably show up at some point if you ever do something wrong, or if they want people to believe you did something wrong, it's not even that nefarious. It can show up in a court case. I've been dealing with this with a client recently as well. Where? Civil suit. Right? Not not a criminal suit.

But when the other side asks for copies of all your text messages, relating to a certain topic or the courts do, is they get a court order to get copies of your messages from Apple or Android or Google or whoever, and then they just write it. It's sort of like there's there is no privacy if you're texting. Yeah, it's kind of like email back in the day where it was like, it's like a postcard.

Everybody in the interim, everybody in between point A to point B, good or bad enough to remember that analogy. I think people ten years younger than us didn't have that analogy. True. Like they thought email was secure. Yeah, totally. I mean, there are now secure emails systems that do the end to end encryption, but that was not the norm then, and I don't think it's still the norm now. No, I don't think so

now. If you really are paranoid, yeah, you can encrypt your emails and use a specific email client that will add that in. But still, most people don't care. Yeah, there's s mime. And then back in the day there was BGP. Oh yeah. Pretty good privacy, which I was like, why I want very good pratice, but what. Pretty good privacy. Pretty good privacy is what we have now that gets you into trouble. It was pretty good. Oh, and then I don't remember the name.

The guy that created BGP, but, you know, he was, they went after him, in, for criminal charges because back then, if you recall, encryption was treated as munitions. Oh, yeah. Well, yeah, it's not export. It. You couldn't use, like, the American version of browsers outside of the United States because of the encryption keys and things involved. Yep. We used to be a lot more paranoid about this than we are now. Well, now we want a one world government. Bring everybody together. Come by.

Yeah. The idea that the US government is using an Israeli app for secure communication would not have been the case 30 years ago now, but if you really wanted to pick something secure, the Israelis know what they're doing. So that would make a little bit of sense. The fact of again open source for anybody that know you know again there's always going to be the conspiracy theorist. But I think the overall vibe that I get from signal is that it's a real quality product.

And that's why people if the government's using it. Yeah. It can't be something that this was it Al Jazeera, one of those when the whole signal thing came up. Yeah. They said that they were like, oh, a kid that can do a Rubik's Cube could be a break. Their encryption, that's like, no, no. Then show me. Show me how that works. You know, put a bounty up, you know, I'd like to see that. So, show me that you can do it.

Yeah. That whole thing of accidentally inviting the wrong person to a signal chat. There's no accidental there. Yeah, somebody did it. No, we know who did it. Was the guy who just got fired. You mean given a better job? A job of of being the the U.N.. Ambassador, I don't know that that's. Is that a better job? I would for a better job? Yeah. Hanging out with you on people. They suck. Well, yeah, we probably get paid a lot. You probably get to eat caviar in the morning.

Definitely got fired. There's no two ways about that. But he got fired in a way that said, hey, we still like you. Yeah, it was a parachute, but we know, we know you're an idiot. So here's something. Now, I thought it was very interesting.

The only place I heard this and broken down was if you heard no agenda yesterday, was the fact that walls right hand dude was a, Chinese and very anti-China, that this was a or an olive branch to be grammatically correct, to China with the tariff talks that they were having that said, hey, we'll do this, we'll get rid of these guys for you just had to be a little sacrificial lamb. Trump's going, hey, I'll do something for you. You do for me. Part of the Biden crew. Yeah.

He was one of the guys that was for the status quo, for giving more and more and more to Ukraine, for getting Russia to blow up as a country and then carve it up and, invaded in the US. He was the wrong guy from the get go. But as happened with Trump in this first, his first go at presidency, he kept listening to the wrong people, and he kept bringing in people that were later going to backstab him and seemed like they have more in common with the Democrats and the Republicans.

It seemed like he kind of cleared his plate of that for a second run through, but now it's coming around that that's actually not the case. He still has a bunch of these, you know what? The people that have been dominating the Republican Party for the last 20 years, he still has by the, working for them. Yeah. And there's so many. That's the whole thing. There are so many. These the professional politicians, you know, professional bureaucrats.

He's got some of the top names were brought in from the outside, right. People like Tulsi of, they were not part of the in-group in the, the Republican Party for the last 20 years. No, Tulsi was a Democrat. There's a Democrat, but she wasn't very good Democrats. The Democrats either, though, so those are good things. But unfortunately, that still leaves a ton of positions that were filled, by the neocons. And I think that that was Trump's undoing the first time through.

It could end up being Trump's undoing the second time through, because he really ran on the idea that, no, no U.S. participation in foreign wars. And, certainly a big part of that was also, getting rid of the, illegals from the US. Well, it appears now that that getting rid of the illegals is stopped because it's now got multiple judges that have stopped it. The Supreme Court effectively has said you can't deport anybody without having a hearing. Well, they haven't really said that.

They have. Yeah. No they have. Absolutely. Yes. Ruling. As to who was they watching? I think it was the, Fox News with. Well, he can't believe Fox News. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, look, what they've said is that people can't be deported without having a hearing. So I guess I can look up the exact ruling here. Let me do that. Well, the thing is that they still haven't come back on, and maybe they never will.

Is this concept of Trump using the enemy aliens act to go after gangs and, and terrorist organizations, which it would be very interesting if the Supreme Court comes back and goes, well, no, I mean, you know, those criminal gangs and terrorist organizations, they've we want to elevate them to make it harder to remove them from the country.

As you know, I said that that may be the worst possible thing for these criminal aliens who are tagged as gang members or terrorists, because once you deem an organization a. Yeah, you know, either you know this group, right? That's always been the case. It's something that the president has the right to say, hey, seal team six, go blow their fucking heads off. Yeah. So I mean, you're going to go, well, if you're going to deport them, you have to get a court order.

It's going to be like, we're going to fucking kill them. Because it's like maybe the people that are part of these groups on the left maybe want to understand that part of it. It's like if you're going to throw something to the Supreme Court, it's ordered the Trump administration not to remove Venezuelans held in blue by a detention center here in Texas until further orders of this court. This is Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito dissented. So they're looking at something right now.

There's no actual ruling. It's like there's no there's no expulsions right now. Well, they're saying we want a little bit of time to look at this. A court here in Texas that gave a permanent injunction to deportation. Well, who cares about a state court? It means nothing. It does because the facilities in Texas. But it doesn't mean a federal law will always trump pun intended, these states.

But it doesn't, though, because the state employees will be the federal employees will be arrested by the state. Yeah. They even like I see that that's not that's the air that's that is literally what we did during Biden administration. This is how it works. Telling us with the lefty is that we're like, we're not gonna Texas, we'll do Texas, and we don't answer to the federal government. So if our governor wants to deport somebody, we'll do that.

So it appears, and again, you can say, well, we don't know yet. The bottom line is nobody's getting deported right now. So you can say it's temporary. Sure, it'll be temporary for the next two and a half years. Sure. So deportations have stopped, and now it appears that the war with, Russia and Ukraine is back on because Trump just signed the deal to, trade mineral rights for weapons.

So now that's back. Now, at least now the US is getting paid something for that, which is future potential rights. Not just sending money for no good reason. So. But we're back to selling weapons to, Ukraine. And you're a news source on this one is, that would be the white House press briefing. Yeah, I saw about the, minerals deal. Yeah. Part of the minerals deal is a sale of weapons. They're trying to recoup the money that they put into Ukraine.

We know that's what the minerals deal was previously when Zelensky was here. But the new minerals deal with, pressure from Europe and the meeting Trump had with Zelensky, at the pope's funeral is actually a trade for payments for future weapons sales for ten years and year long deal. Well, then you won't actually get any of the minerals out of there because Russia you gotta have the. That mean this is the the logic, right?

This is we need the weapons to be able to secure the territory that the US can then get the minerals from, which I'm not even sure why you would need any weapons. It's just a kind of a line in the sand. Which weapons are irrelevant if the United States goes in there? This is a line in the sand that doesn't need. You don't really need any weapons, because if you have a bunch of United States contractors in there pulling out the other roles in Russia, decides to invade or blow them all up.

Yeah, well, then there's just World War three. You don't really the reason why it's there, I think because the whole Russia has said that, anybody, any foreigners in Ukraine will be treated as, enemy combatants who they are, which they are, which there's tons of British and German and, and some Americans there as well. The foreign French Foreign Legion is there. There's a bunch of, non Ukrainians there for sure. Well, which is why the whole mineral deal should kind of de-escalate everything.

There's one of two ways in either de-escalate everything, because the United States is like, hey, this is our little brother. Now. We're we're we're protecting them. So if you fuck with them right now. Yeah, but I so I don't even understand at that point, like, well, get everybody else out of Ukraine. It's over. If the cease fire comes in, in the. There's no cease fire. The point is that this is the Ukrainian gambit, right?

Is that, is that they desperately, for four years now from Gori on, five have wanted US troops in the ground because to them, this is the only way that they can possibly, quote unquote, win some, and push Russia back to, their borders or even beyond is with U.S. troops on the ground, you know, all the current European troops, they're not helping. So what they've come up with for a plan is to say, look, you guys get ten years worth of complete exploitation of our country.

You treat it like, as though it's, Afghanistan or, you know, Iraq or whatever. So in later years, they're going to get like $48 trillion worth of military equipment that we're just going to randomly leave there. Yeah, exactly. That's exactly the point, really, where that comes in. It's like, look, the US has done this before where they can do it again.

So we need to do this in order to be able to start getting American civilian exploration, mineral people on the ground, which are basically human fields. They need to have a cease fire because that's what happens during the ceasefire. Is the country's flooded with American nonmilitary personnel, which of course, then Trump says if you harm anybody, there's a civilian. Oh, boy, that's it. We're gonna see, you're going to see the biggest, you know, American response possible

yet. Be very curious to so if they're going to have some kind of military base there at all, I would bet you the Russians answer, this is okay, we hear you. There will be no ceasefires, ever. You're not going to get an opportunity to bring in a bunch of people here. If you start bringing in people during active warfare, they, like we've always said, for four years, we'll be treated as foreign military combatants and be blown up along with everybody else. There will be no ceasefire.

There's no cover to bring in American human shields into Ukraine. Okay, now it's, now it's back to the US. What does the US do? Well, the US is threatening more sanctions on Russia. Well, of what? There's literally nothing that America sells that isn't already sanctioned. Nothing. Very bizarre stuff. Bottom line is Trump fumbled. He fumble the last time the president and he fumbles again. Now he's in his early fumble phase. We'll see if the fumble continues to be a fumble or if he can recover.

I don't know if he can recover, but what he should have done, what people voted for him to do, it's to say, not our war, not not our problem. You figure it out. Ukraine and or Europe and whoever else. And by the way, you can't be dragging these two into this is this is not what NATO's for. It is not to help a country who's not part of NATO, but Russia, which is not the country that NATO was created to fight.

You know, NATO should have ceased operations when the Soviet Union felt that should have been the end of the you know, instead of considering all that they didn't all they just rebranded Jean, don't you know? Yeah. Well, it's a pretty shitty rebranding. When they gave up half their territory. The Washington Post says concern is growing in Moscow. How does the Washington Post know what's happening in Moscow? I'm kind of curious on that as well.

Well, they they'd like to think that's the case anyway. Well that's. Yeah. With all. Yeah. I mean, the reality I think that, Americans for the most part have not had to deal with is the reality that Russia has had to deal with, which is dead people arriving in body bags on a weekly basis. And, most people that talk about this topic say that America is not interested or ready to have body bags driving.

Is seeing it's 18, 19, 20 year olds showing up dead and, frankly, I think the vote for Trump kind of confirmed that because that was a large part of dumping the Kamala Harris, Biden bandwagon was saying we have no interest in propagating foreign wars any longer like we've done it for to them long. It's time for America to stop going overseas and fighting other people's wars, because we know how all this stuff ends. Look at what the United States, the U.S. ever held.

Every single time the United States has entered the conflict since Vietnam, it has left with billions of dollars being wasted on the conflict, hundreds or thousands depending on how big it was of lives lost and nothing to gain for it. What are we getting with them? Nothing. We got fucked. We have? Well, I mean, if you were lucky, you got Fox. What? You basically got nothing. What if you were involved? I mean, what do we. What did we get in, Bush. The first invasion of Iraq. Nothing.

We turned around and left before we got to Baghdad. It cost a bunch of money, but we got nothing. What did we get in the follow up? Invasion of Iraq next time through a lot more dead people. So, Bush Jr, that war ended up costing way more money. We were literally shipping, hundreds of millions of dollars wrapped in plastic bags as cash to Iraq to buy off warlords, to keep them from fighting not just with us, but also with each other. We made a lot of Middle Eastern, Middle Easterners rich.

We also killed a bunch of Middle Easterners and a bunch of Americans got killed. But mainly it cost a shit ton of money. And where is the rock right now? Is are they a great, friend to America? Hell, no. That's where that's where a lot of the, current anti-American sentiment is coming from is. Iraq is a friendly nation of friendly. What's, Yeah. What do we get in Afghanistan? We we made sure the poppy trade flourished for a while. We were guarding poppy plantations.

There plenty of people that came back from Afghanistan, we'll tell you. That was effectively what they were doing for years in Afghanistan, were guarding plantations from being sabotaged. Because why? Because Taliban, first thing they did, when they came into power for the first time, is they burned all the poppy seeds because, well, they don't like drugs, unlike us. Don't like drug use. They don't know about all the money it brings in. Oh, they know about the money, but what?

They've got other ways to do it. Other ways to make money. I mean, the United States is. Biggest problem is that all of these countries that they basically taken over, they didn't be like, fuck you now, ours, man, you are a part of our territory. Yeah. And and the thing is, it's like liberating people and then walking out the door, it's like, fuck that. That's the stuff that's got to out. Yeah, yeah, but but there's no you're part of our territory unless you want to do what the college

kids call genocide. Yes. And they already consider America to be genocidal countries because they killed all the native Indians, and now they're killing all the non-native Indians, too. WaPo says behind the scenes, nervousness is rising among some members of the Russian elite that the deal could represent a new alignment between the United States and Ukraine, which could close a window of opportunity for Russia to secure a peace deal over Ukraine on advantageous terms.

So that's the card I think Trump is playing. That's not a that's not a card. It's a card. I don't know if it's a winning card. It's a card whether it's an ace or a deuce, I don't know, I don't know that that's a card. I mean, that's status quo. That card is called status quo. Doing the same thing that we've been doing, but it's in a different guise anyway. It's a different packaging. It's like taking those orange ponchos and putting them in a new box, and pretending brand new product. Hey.

Yeah. New and improved, I think. I think there's a, there was a way to walk this back. Maybe there still is. It effectively say that we like. Best case there, you could say we don't care about Ukraine. Worst case scenario, U.S. could say, well, we don't care about Ukraine as long as we get the minerals. And what they should have done is done a minerals deal with Russia for the minerals in Ukraine. And then they would have the U.S. would have its cake and eat it too.

Then it would be like, great, we cease all support of Ukraine, Russia finishes things up by taking over Ukraine, at which point we get the mineral deal, with friendly terms from Russia. Well, we know that Zielinski needs to go away. Not saying he needs to be killed.

He needs to get out of this process because he is seemingly, from what I've read, I'm willing to give up any concessions, like with Crimea, which has been I, if I understand, correct under Russian control for over a decade now, it's been under Russian control for 300 years. But more recently, once it was, he was always again under Russian control. It was never not under Russian control. The only it was never in Ukraine. It was never part of the Ukraine. The Ukraine doesn't exist.

There's just things. Ukraine, Ukraine simply means the southwest. It exists now. I mean, it's essentially like saying West has always existed. No, it's it's a territory. It's a it's what we call a certain piece of the empire. Well, somebody at some point said, hey, Crimea is part of your country. Ukraine. Yeah. They never said that that that was never a thing. What happened with Crimea is, Khrushchev had been getting pestered by people from the Ukrainian Communist Party.

And because Ukraine is a region, there are regional communist parties back in the day that they think that it's not fair that Crimea, is represented by Russia and not the Ukrainian Communist Party. And he didn't give a shit enough to say, well, I don't care. You fine. You guys have Crimea for your local elections then. And so Crimea was made part. This is this is for the Communist Party, which doesn't exist anymore.

It effectively got transferred as far as which districts Communist party Ukrainian members were members. Off they went from the Russian one to the, the Ukrainian one. But again, Ukraine is not a country at this point. It was never a country. Ukraine was created for the first time during the fall of the Soviet Union. During the breakup, it was always a territory, a region. It was literally from the name means borderlands. And borderlands, specifically are not even referring to Europe.

It's basically borderlands with the, the Muslim invaders who typically went there and the Asian invaders. It was the borderlands, that side of the border of Russia. And people also don't understand, not knowing the history that, you look at the map and what the Russian territory is on the map, what actual Russia is, and you're like, yeah, Ukraine's right next to it. What?

What you don't know or what you don't realize, or both, is that if you look at a world map prior to the communist revolution in Russia. So prior to 19, was it 18, 1917, 1918? What do you think you don't even know the Russian Revolution? Dude, I wasn't around back then. Okay, all I know is my my my grandma and my grandpa were participating in it, but during.

Because they were the the blue haired kids in the 18 teens that literally 100 years ago, my grandparents were part of that college blue haired crowd that were unhappy with the status quo. Shocker, right? So, so if you look at a map of Russia back then and it would have been called the Russian Empire, there is no Ukraine, there is just Russia, and that Russia extends along the border.

It's not exactly the exact same border, but very close to what the the border is, including what is now called Ukraine was always part of Russia. And why was it always part of Russia? Because that's where Russia started. It started in Kiev, Russia. And it's not pronounced Kiev. It's pronounced Kiev because Kiev is the qualification of the name. Like chicken Kiev. Yeah, it's chicken Kiev, not chicken Kiev. Yeah. Never heard that. Yeah. Never.

Growing up was they're like, give me some chicken Kiev, man. Yeah. There was no such thing. I mean, again, this is an invented country with an invented language, which is just a dialog of Russian mixed in with Polish. That's all it is. So this deal that Trump has now made with Ukraine, right. Is this possibly a way for Putin to save face with his people? Because now the war has changed a little bit. If there's the hey, it's like, we don't like this, but the United States is now in Ukraine.

So I mean, of course, know this is a different world order now. It's it's actually the, this this is just shot Trump in the face. I think, Trump is effectively now becoming more like the first presidency Trump than the second President Trump weak, controlled by neocons. Not able to do anything because he's going to get impeached soon. I think we're getting closer and closer to that for Joe. Me I, I had a lot of, hope for what happens with Trump.

And certainly in his first hundred days, he seemed to have pushed a lot of things through. He talked a lot of the talk, but he sure seems like his train is stalling. I see, yeah, totally. The answer is very is very intriguing. Stalling. But the with Putin, the answer is kind of the opposite of what you just described, which is what I said earlier, which is the only way that the US can enact this new agreement with Ukraine is during during a ceasefire.

Therefore, the US just effectively did something that will prevent the ceasefire from ever happening. This war will keep going until one side gives up literally for the US. Makes happen. Is, Trump giving Putin some kind of concessions? Putin doesn't need them, but he does because they are cut off. Putin wants to be back with the Western money coming in some things. That's, it would make a lot of sense that this is a way to be like, hey, Vlad, I made this deal in Ukraine.

It's going to be great for the United States. We need these minerals. We need to get the money back that all these idiots like Biden threw in. So what? What can I do for you to make this go away? And I think a deal will be made their way through. What's the deal? I signed the deal. The deal would be the, Russia and Ukraine thing would go away. I mean, maybe only until Trump's out of office. It's always been the same old saying it's going to go away. Nothing's going to go away.

Why would anything that happen at any time? The deal would be that, Putin says, okay, we're not going to worry about Ukraine at this point. You do what you gotta do. It's literally never going to happen. It probably will. But we'll see. Put it in the book. There's no first of all, there's no book. What are you basing this on? This is just fiction. This is written this is this has no, no, like anything speculation, no likelihood. Zero. You don't have zero. How the world works. Zero likelihood.

There are deals made. It's dominoes. It's one thing leads to another. It's that butterfly flaps its wings. Yeah. Which, again, you're not saying a single factor. You're just making up stories. Yeah. The fact is, the United States has a deal with Ukraine. They want to go in. They want to get their money out of it. The U.S. has with Ukraine. I agree with that. Yes, that's a fact. Okay.

So how does that lead to Putin after three and a half years saying, fuck it, we're going to stop this war because Trump can give him something that the Ukraine can't. And I don't know what that is. But Trump, that would be Ukraine. If Trump manages to give him to Ukraine, that we got a deal. We can go on to a different topic because you're insane. There is I'm insane. Am I insane because you're like, oh, there's this is fiction.

There's no way this could ever happen. Well, then there's no way. Sure. But then when it does happen, you say, but it's not fiction. That would be something that happened in the past. You're telling a story. This would be speculation. A fiction is something that has no basis in reality and is made up. It doesn't have to have a future or a past time. Yeah, and speculation involves looking at likely scenarios for the future.

The difference between fake excuse and non speculation has a likelihood they're not going to get anything that he wants. Is not good for Putin either. Because once you start throwing the United States in there then this is even worse than they throw in there. They have a total proxy war. Anyway. It has been a total proxy war. That's the now that you're actually going to throw United States boots on the ground, even if you can't militarily throw them in there, then you.

So what do you what do you think is going to have a better chance of selling this war as something that should continue happening? Putin, who's been doing it for three and a half years, or Trump saying, now we have to send boots on the ground. It is a negotiating tactic. Yeah. And one he's losing with China and now one he's going to lose with Russia. But he's not losing China. Trump is going you really read better sources of news. Oh my God. You think we're winning with China right now?

I don't think we're losing you. I see these reports out of China. This is assured economic look at for economic reports out of the US and that and China that they're both relevant. This is where your problem is. It's both relevant. The United States is like, man, we'd like to have all that stuff from China. But China's also going, we're slowing down our economy. This is not good. Surprisingly, to some people, China's economy is based on a communist controlled, not based on capitalism.

So a slowdown in Chinese economy does not have the same impact as a slowdown in America's economy. It does because it slows down their military building, because they're not getting billions or trillions of dollars, but they are because Russia has to buy everything from China, because the US doesn't want to sell anything to Russia. India is buying things from China as well. Right. But you're that makes sense.

Now you're going to pretend that what the United States buys from China is nothing to them. That's really you know, you know, you know, what the United States buys from China because I do. Do you know what percentage of Chinese exports go to the United States? I know, so no, it's 16%. They can afford to lose 16%. It's going to be painful, but it's not going to be devastating. The United States can't manufacture the vast majority of the things that are made in China.

The United States is going to be hurting a lot more if there's a total cessation of products coming in than China is, China will suffer financially.

The United States will suffer from a lack of product availability. They will both have issues and neither country really wants it. Amazing. Anything you know, based to go put this down in the book you will see it. Oh my god. But all you're just doing is guessing. I'm still living. Do you like, oh, this is going to happen. Let's just talk about shit that has happened, okay? Let's let's do that. China has been shifting more of its sales to other countries.

In the United States that's been happening. So the percentage of products that are sent to the United States every year has been shrinking for the last three years. China has less reliance net sales than it did a decade ago. Okay. What else? Nothing. I'm just kind of not really interested at this point. Okay. What do you want to talk about? Health. What do you want to talk about? I don't care, all right?

I mean, I look, I appreciate people that have a, optimistic attitude because I generally don't have an optimistic attitude. I have more of a pessimistic one. Surprise me. And and if I'm wrong, then it's it's for the better. That's my attitude, right? Is that I'm going to assume where it's going to go to shit. And if it doesn't go to shit, well, that's good. But if it does go to shit, well, at least that's what I was preparing for it. I mean, it's always good to prepare for things to go to shit.

I mean, that's in your opinion, I guess. Let's let's do this. In your opinion, do you think we are more likely, less likely, or the same likelihood of having a, prolonged trade war with China than, let's say, at the start of the, Trump presidency? I think about the same. I get I think this is all just a tactic that, is being used. Yeah. Now, I don't think Trump's going to be successful 100% of the time, but, there's too much money involved here on both sides.

And I think a big part of this, this tariff barrage, there seems to be a portion of that with the countries that Trump is making deals with, including, against the ones that are about to come out our, in the, and South Korea. Now, is that something? Yeah. I was just totally surprised why we even were talking about tariffs. I thought they were buddies now. Well, is anybody really your buddy in a, in the trade war that all this trades trying to equal things out?

I get it, but what if there is a portion of this deal that he's making with these countries that restricts what they're going to buy from China?

You could do that. If you have an alternative supplier that isn't a whole lot more expensive. What you can't do is say, okay, we're going to we're going to raise tariffs unless you pay us a lot more money to buy our stuff is that it's like, okay, well, what difference does it make whether you raise curves or we pay more the same amount. Like you have to have a persuasive argument, not just an argument.

There have I think a part of this whole thing is that what why this is instead of being a one at a time thing, nobody's really hearing about it. The blitzkrieg, we can use a good that's a good name for it. That's kind of is what it is. You know, we can do blitzkrieg tariffs. Yeah. I think a part of this is to get so many deals being made at once that we confuse everybody. Well, and to show China maybe more than the United States, they should be worried about.

Yeah. Yeah. And I think that's a good strategy. I've always been supportive of using tariffs to, and high tariffs, in fact, to try and push an agenda. However, what I'm not in support of it. Nobody that that is in business is going to be in support of is prolonged long term high tariffs because that is not conducive to growth for this country. I don't care about the other countries.

I'm more concerned about this country where we are banned, having high tariffs in place on products only hurts one group of people and that is consumers. Oh, I agree, I think most of this will be resolved probably within 60 days. I think the dominoes will start to fall. To use a cliche, once a few of these other big deals start coming to light, the dominoes have definitely fallen from Canada. Although with their new government, which is we should talk about as well.

I don't know how many of those dominoes are going to be allowed to land, but I've seen interviews with quite a few Canadian companies saying that they will be moving their workforces to the United States, in order to avoid tariffs. And that's essentially the conditions that Trump set out, which is close down your office or factory or whatever in Canada, open a one up in the United States with 100% Canadian ownership. You could even bring in the Canadians that we're going to work at your old one.

And then, they'll come into the US and they'll work in your Canadian owned factory, but it'll be on U.S. territory, and they will avoid all tariffs. Well, it makes sense because he wants the manufacturing here with back in the United States. Exactly. And this so what Apple said is like $500 billion they're going to innovate. Well we all know what that is right.

The Apple $500 billion payment is essentially oh my God, we're going to lose iPhones because iPhones will have a 100% tariff on them and no one can afford them. Trump. How can we possibly not have a 100% tariff on iPhones? Well, they will, building the iPhones in the United States for the iPhone in their states.

But what they are going to do and what they have already gotten is they've committed 500 billion to this idea and made the tariffs go away, which is likely not going to happen, which automatically created an exemption by name for the iPhone out of the tariffs. So there will be zero tariffs on any iPhones for the next ten years. Now Trump won't be president in three years. And Apple is no friend of Trump.

And they're certainly assuming that they don't have to change a goddamn thing other than giving an empty promise to Trump to build future iPhones in the United States, knowing full well that the only way they they make a crazy amount of profit on iPhones is by having slave children. Billion in China, they're very small hand. So it's actually even better because that's why they have to use slave children and what they have to use children.

But the reason they have to use slave children is because an awful lot of them commit suicide. That's why they need to automate Elon, to build them a robot. You know, you would think. But Elon took a lot of robots out of the Tesla factories. Initially the factories were I think it was like a 30 to 1 ratio of humans to robots. Or robots to humans, rather.

And after the first ten years, they actually scaled back and to more of like a 4 to 1 ratio, because what they found is that, that the robots one the thing about robots is they're repetitive, right? So if one isn't making a mistake, it's going to keep running perfectly. But if there's a slight mistake that the robot's making, it's going to make a thousand mistakes. Yeah. Over and over and over you will have, you know, one mistake per 100 units that they do.

The robot will either have zero mistakes or 100 mistakes, which is actually shifted because Elon just said that he believes that robotic surgeons, within two years, I think it was, will be better than the average surgeon, and within five years, a robotic surgeon will be better than the best human surgeon out there. Yeah, powered by grok, which is. Would you really? Why would you not want to do your eye surgery?

I don't know, I mean, I guess it all depends on, the race to do any worse than the last guy that operated. No, not from the first guy that that guy was training. So. I mean, there you go. There you go. That's the real problem right there. You nailed it. Like that was the issue. And yeah, there were, you know, questions. Although again, I don't like to, dwell on that because it's just depressing.

But when the surgeon that finally kept the retina up when he did the surgery, he requested extra long, whatever. I mean, utensils is, I guess, the easiest way to say that the tool that he needed to work with because of the size of my on set, kind of. Yeah. To keep the retina on the back, it's like, well, nobody else had ever, you know, asked for that. Which makes me wonder if the original surgeries here were doomed to fail due to lack of, oversize eyeballs.

That would think, yeah, oversize eyeballs which are more shaped like footballs than ovals. So that's what happens with a massive. The problem you have is your head isn't shaped like Stewie said. The eyes that your eyeballs are, right? Yeah. Now, if the head was shaped that way, everything would probably be. Yeah, it'd be all flowed together naturally. Yeah, it would be perfect. But the robotic stuff somebody said, yeah, when Apple moved, it had to be into China. They just do.

They go from like India into China or they move from somewhere into China. Fairly recently, somebody said whatever when they made whatever switch, it only took like two years to ramp up. So is it possible they can do. Yeah. With slave labor. Sure. Well, I mean, it's literally been built by Uyghurs. Their iPhones are built by Uighurs, is out of the box, probably like a little, little strap on it. Proudly built by design in California, built in China by Swedes.

Oh, I'm so glad the Apple is the devices we're using to record the show on, like they're not listening to us right now. We just set off alarm bells. So. So Apple's only have one product that was fully manufactured in the United States and, recently, I mean, like, obviously the first generations were, but recently and I owned that it and that was the garbage can. Yeah. Oh my God, that thing was $100,000 made in Texas. It was very upgradeable though, right? It was completely not upgradable.

You couldn't upgrade the goddamn thing. It was the most expensive computer I've ever bought. I bought it when it first came out for $9,999, which I could afford then, although there was not a good use of money because I sold it about, I think I had it for about three years, and then I sold it for $3,000. Now, here's the real question that what approximately what year was that? I don't remember exactly. I'm trying to think back. This was probably it's over a decade ago.

I don't know what the question was, how much faster is the $500 Mac mini today? Oh than that? That was running, on the Intel platform. So, so, but the thing that, well, here's here's the measurement we can use, that computer was theoretically in Apple ads capable of doing four simultaneous 4K streams.

Oh, well, the new I think the Mac mini is what, 16 streams or something? I don't know, but it seems reasonable. But if you look at Apple literature of some of their testing that they or the their speed metrics are how many 4K streams going to do the same time, that's one of the you they could do for now. In practice it never did for because I was using, video editing software that you were lucky to get double speed on one stream. So theoretically, I guess I could have done two.

But in all the marketing literature that was touted as it was capable of doing four 4K streams at once, which, incidentally, my current gaming machine, which is not that new anymore, it's about four years old now that this didn't do, three. So it's still slower than the old Mac in this particular metric. Yeah. Which is, you said kind of a bullshit metric, but it's interesting to see like I we're going to compare just like with all of the AI stuff. Yeah. Well here's how many teraflops.

What does that really mean. Let's see how many Kim simultaneous 4K streams can the M4 mini do. Well it says you can do three displays. That's not really what I'm looking at stat down that displays it just says it can handle multiple multiple K streams. What does that mean. Yeah I understand what multiple means. No direct play or maximum simultaneous six plus. It says six plus okay. So it's a minimum of one and a half times faster than my $10,000 Mac. That's $499 on sale, kids. Yeah, yeah.

Although you really need more memory than that. It. Yeah, I know with enough. That's why I went with the what 12 with. It's what is it 16 the. So I went with 24.4. Yeah. What I really want is a studio with 128 and the. I know for me, I want something faster to sit on top of it if it's right. So, they're not available when I go, and I type that in, and I go into the Apple Store and I'm pricing it out, looks like, oh, we can ship that in, like, three weeks. I'm like an idiot.

You want to get that into people's hands right away when they're like, give me that. Yeah, it's small volume. I mean, that's still considered a small volume product. Oh yeah, because most people are fine with the mini, although for doing things like the AI, image creation, even the Pro would have been a pretty big step up from the regular mini. And the Max is like way quicker. Something that would take what was it like 3.5 minutes on the mini?

Takes like 12 seconds on really that much difference. Damn. And because of all, now that they're finally using all those graphic, parts of the chip, you know, the cause they're using all the cores. That's what you want. You want all the core is to be oversaturated. Yeah. And I'm assuming more and more with all this stuff. They're with the AI, they're moving things towards the silicon, which is when it first came out, it was like, can't do anything like really slow.

You need your Nvidia card right. Or multiple Nvidia cards. But it's interesting. The graphical capabilities have gotten so much better with the ChatGPT. Although Sora for video, I tried and I thought this was a very interesting sale. I wanted a animated gif for do you say Jif for, If that's what I say, everybody says, Jeff, you're wrong. They're wrong. It's a gif of Beavis and Butthead. So I wanted like, one of the Beavis and Butthead with them head banging.

And I got to do the, the photo, you know, not the photo, but the still of. Okay, the AR in our show in neon and Beavis and Butthead wearing the AR in our shows and their hands are up in the air like they're in there at a concert. Yeah. And when Sora asks, okay, would you like to make a video? I tried, like, seven times, like different iterations of.

And when it got to the point where I realized it was never going to do it, the simplest thing was just having the two characters heads move back and forth. And it wouldn't do it really, though, was like, wow, this is like, this is like a basic video movement. You know, it wanted to add a bunch of other stuff in and changing the way their face looked and like, didn't do totally different characters every now and then.

It is just very bizarre what the, the AI will do or what it understands and what it won't do. Maybe it's easier if you're dealing with humanoid looking rather than cartoons, you know, more realistic that it wants to stay in, more realistic physics. I don't know, I guess it's all based on what everything was trained on, does it?

I wonder if you train it on cartoons, if it does a better job with all cartoons, and maybe that it would understand that you don't want to, like, make the head look different and like a different size when you're just like, move the head back and forth. I mean, I would think just saying headbang would be enough because that is a generic type of movement. Yeah, yeah. Oh man.

I you know, I recently on the this is not off topic that much, a little bit, I recently was helping a software developer like informally I use his app. So I've been beta testing and stuff. Oh. Vibe coding. See if he can get you the good. You can just vibe code. Vibe code. So one of the things I didn't like was one of the icons in his app I thought was wrong. So I thought, oh, then you know, you should use this game icon. It's for a video game.

And, he was like, yeah, but you know, I where do I find that?

I'm like a God dammit. All right. So I went and grabbed the icon out of the game, clean it up, and oh my God, dude, I, you know, I don't subscribe to Photoshop anymore. You're wherever. That's right. Well, because you're driving and then not using and not using it, I know. So now I'm using Gimp, which sucks the worst program in the planet. I wish there was an alternative somewhere between Photoshop and Gimp. I'm not aware one if someone knows one, let us know.

But, so I'm stuck on Gimp, which is god awful. It feels like you're back on the next computer circa 1996. That's about how Gimp looks. So, which is pretty bad. So I created this icon for them and then sent them four different versions of it for his app, but at the right size. So then a few days ago, he sent me a link, the new updated app that's using that icon. Except it looks so pixelated, I'm like, oh god damn it.

So I had to go in and then create a vector version of this image and I'm like, okay, so I used to use freehand and those are all the time I know how to use those products, but I haven't used them for 20 years, and I don't own an Adobe subscription anymore. So is there anything that does what illustrator does? And I found the product and it's actually really good. Surprisingly, it was just like a tip of the day. It's called Inkscape. I am k s c a p Inkscape.

And, it is a very similar interface to illustrator, and it does all the basic curves and everything. Same way that and I having never used a product, I figured it out. After about ten minutes, I kind of figured out the the user interface, and I was able to use the bitmap as a template and then create a vector version of the graphic and then send that to him so he can change size it and everything still looks nice and sharp.

So yeah, it's a I guess you could say it's tip of the day, but it's definitely along the lines of like there are still times when you have to do things manually when I ain't going to cut it. Your example being the Beavis and Butthead head tilt, which is it'd be done if you just had a 3D model of a Beavis and Butthead. Right? You could do the head tilt manually pretty easily. Oh yeah. With the Adobe software, it's not hard.

In the animator, like, okay, here we're going to tell you what part of the body it is and then just moving around. Exactly, exactly. And in my case, I had to do something I, I like, I literally used to do this back 30 years ago, over 30 years ago, where I was, doing technical manuals, of nuclear weapons back then. So it was, it was a really skill set that I haven't used for a long time that the muster up. Now, the photo editor that JCD uses is photo demon.org. Oh, I'm going to check that out.

I've not heard this is a free portable open source photo editor for Microsoft Windows, although I don't know if it's not available for, for the OS. This looks a little bit like paint, which may be why he likes it, which may be why he likes it. Because it like, say, it's like a paint. It is definitely between paint and Photoshop. I'm sure that's. Yeah, exactly. It has a lot more, a lot more tool things.

Besides. Did you hear that J.C was called out for not answering your text on the show yesterday? No, I didn't actually. That's where the, this clip came from. That's where the I'm sorry came from. Oh, that's that's wild. Well, I knew that his phone is, okay.

So first of all, that's a back channel call out because, you know, something that I've done for a long time in the past, not recently, but like five, six, 7 or 8 years ago is anytime I was at a restaurant where we were trying to decide which wine to order, I would say I have a guy and I would take a picture of the menu and I would send a text to John and like clockwork, within about five minutes there would be a reply back from John with a recommendation

and a little bit of a back story every time. Did you have to tell him, like what you were eating? I didn't even have to tell him. Who I was. Was he had no idea who you were. No, no, no, no. It was just like you did all he knew. And he occasionally would get these questions about wine. The data for answer and, so I hadn't done that for ages.

And I was in New York, so I was in an expensive restaurant. I sent them an image and nothing. And I figured, okay, well, I mean, I haven't talked to John for ages, and I'm sure he's got better things to do. And he talks about how his cell phone is in his drawer. Right. So that's his text, like I do with Google Voice. He says, so if he's out there, he says, yeah, so I, I but a week ago I texted Adam. I said, hey, I think, John's phone really is in the drawer because I didn't see a response.

That was as far as I expected, that message to go. It was terrible. Apparently Adam talks John about it then. Yes. Well, the only time they talk is on the show. So he's right there. Jean was complaining you weren't returning his message about the wine. Oh, I got you funny. There was an interesting gist of the, menu. Yeah. Kind of made me think of. There was a guy that released it, I video I saw the other day.

Okay. With using these, you know, deep research models that you have with some of these eyes. And he had a photo of a menu from a restaurant that was a Greek restaurant. And he made sure that the menu page did not have the name of the Greek restaurant, did not have the city, did not have any information, it was just the menu page. Okay. And he said this to the I with the question what restaurant is this from. And it was able to figure it out.

It would have been funnier if it sent him to a different restaurant that this restaurant copied their menu. Yes. This is Well, that's that's why I met one of my buddies. Was, back in the day when I had a website up and that he copied it, so I went and I fucking asshole.

And we start talking like, okay, we're getting we go. I was like, I was like, take my email address out of the code. At least. That would be nice that they totally different tangent. I think my buddy in, in Northern Ireland, Darren O'Neill, I did reroute one of his packages, so I hope he enjoys that. This like one. I was Irish buddy Darren O'Neill had a package sent to us. No, he, I get his emails because he uses my email address, so I got it.

I got an email from the company that was shipping it. And one of the things once you looked at the routing page was, change the address. So I did I picked a random address in his town. You bastard. I know, but it's not the first time. Why did you call him your buddy when you're being a dick? Because we're. We're brothers, I guess. You know Darren O'Neill, but I'm just. You're Darren O'Neill. He's dirt on him, so I just thought. I want to see what's going to happen.

I'm wondering if trying to figure out if this was the same one. Have you thought about, like, you know, contact him? Oh, I don't have his email address. I have his regular email. Dude, obviously he does. I guess he's got my email. Yeah, I'll just send it to that address, I think. I don't know if this is the same one that had the Teemu account, and this was maybe six months ago, and I got the thing that he ordered from the Teemu account. So I went in.

I think I had to reset the password in that case. Oh my god. But once you were in the account because his credit card was stored, I didn't get his credit card information, but it let me order more thing order things. Oh my god. And sent him to him. But then he canceled his credit card and they were still including the e my email address, the support stuff, which I thought was hilarious, is like, do you not realize what you've done? Well, don't you have his real address on there now?

I do, yeah. Okay. And you have his actual mail address. Well, that was actual mailing address. I don't have the I don't have the email address. I don't think it was BCC. The address to look for. A much nicer thing to do would be anytime you get an email for him is to print it out, put it in the letter, put a forever stamp on it and send it to Ireland. I'd be like, stop this. What? No, don't just just quit wanting to be a dick, man. Don't be a dick just because I'm old fashioned.

I should email delivery service. Yeah. Print it out. Hey, yo, you get the letter, like 30 days after the event you got. This email is very important. Somebody. You've been watching that TV show 1924 about the, Yellowstone. Oh, it was 23, right? Wasn't 1923 for the 19? The one with, Faith Hill? Tim McGraw. I don't know who that is. I don't know their country. No, it had the, it had, Indiana Jones that. Yeah. It's him two. Well, that's the 18 one 1800s. One yeah. No no no no, the 1801 had Sam.

Sam something. No, that was the first one, right. No, that that was the 1800s one. No. Was it okay? Am I just go to their website, go to Yellowstone? Yeah. No, and look them up. Looking up IMDb. Because I've seen both, but I thought that the Harrison Ford one was the early. That was 1923 or 4 or whatever. Harrison Ford, he is Raiders of the Lost Ark, a and more recently, 1923. Yes. Okay. Then the other one, though. Okay. You're correct. I don't know why I haven't switched to my mind.

Yeah, I'm sorry, I didn't hear that. What? You are correct. I had them switched in my mind. 1923. Yeah. Why did I think the 18 one was? Because that was the one with, Faith Hill and, Yeah, that one was good. Really? They were both good. I mean, Faith Hill was good is good. But the blond daughter, you were like that. She's really. The blond daughter was out of that world. Yeah. Oh, yeah. And they killed her. Yes. Of course. And the Harrison Ford trying to be a badass at, like, 80.

Whatever he is, is an interesting stretch. But otherwise, did 1923. Not bad. No. The reason I brought it up is because the Irish had. And, And the other reason is because the letters that the mom was sending. Or maybe she's not the mom, but whatever she was, the aunt was sending to the guy in Africa, each letter took like a month, right? Yes. Gotta come home. Bad things happening. Well that's a new season that just started. He must be home. I have to watch those.

I haven't seen any from this series yet. I haven't seen the new season yet either. But it was like yeah, that whole drawn out thing with the letters going back and forth and him not wanting to open. But I still hate these. Oh, we're doing 7 or 8 episodes for a season. All right. It's it's very British of them. MacGyver, it's, by the way, that one chicken that show from Africa, I yeah, I think she's British, but, you know, the the chick the guy meets in Africa. Yes.

Whoa. You're like, come on down. Oh my gosh. She is just a just perfect Aryan looking chick Julia. Blue eyes right here. That's a hell of a last name. Yep. Or Leslie. Sorry. German ish to me. Oh, yeah. Sounds like the, Well, born in the Bellevue, Washington. Oh, God, that's not Washington asks the ultra liberal, and it's. Well, you actress, born in Bellevue, Washington. Yeah I know, yeah. Not going to go well back into that guy. I remember going to Washington before they got so crazy.

Liberal used to be a nice state. Well used to be that Seattle in a very, small area there was ultra liberal and the rest of the state was fine, but it seems like it's spreading like a disease. There was a, cute redheaded chick that I shot photos of work that the Bellevue, gun Club. Well, checks and guns always make them cuter, I know. Right? Hells, yeah. And have you been watching?

I only started because, Adam Curry started talking about the new Jon Hamm show on Apple Plus, which is called Your Friends and Neighbors Are Your Friends and something. I got rid of my Apple TV. I don't have Apple TV. I was just saying I was watching an Apple TV show. I get what you're saying. You pick it up, now you're picking up what I'm laying down there. Yeah, I know, I know, but I'm telling you, I haven't, because I don't think you should look for it in, It's it's decent.

It is a dark comedy, which I like. A good dark comedy with a little bit of humor. The whole concept is he loses his job is a really, really, really wealthy hedge fund manager. And then one day is just walking through at a party and one of his friends through the house and opens up one of the drawers and sees a quarter million dollar watch and thinks, Anybody really missed that? Hey. So he just starts stealing from his friends, which is kind of a fun premise of the show.

I'm sure it's going to go poorly at some point, but, worthy of watching. It's been fun so far anyway. I mean, Jon Hamm, I liked Mad Men, so this was kind of like, oh, I could see this being the same guy. Let me ask you a question. Do you, do you watch the b the Babylon b? I do not, I mean, like, see things on social media, but I don't follow it like. But yeah, you don't you don't like, subscribe for anything? No. I think they've just been on fire lately.

Like, there's so much stuff, including making fun of Republicans that they've been doing lately. Well, you have to make fun of everybody that works. That's a comedy. Should work it. You should make fun of things that are funny. Yeah, yeah. But then once everything's political, then you turn into Saturday, right? Exactly. Like, for example, you know, the, army pilot, helicopter pilot that crashed into the, airplane, right in the Reagan Bowl. Yes. That's that was hilarious. It was.

It was a woman, the pilot of the the the helicopter was right. Yeah. So she she the pilot was the female. That was the pilot. Now that we have the black box, apparently the male copilot was warning her before this happened, and she ignored him because women don't like to be told by men what to do. Yeah. Saw that. That wasn't like Babylon bee, right? That was, legit of the, Oh, no. I've moved topics. Yeah, yeah. Like warning, warning warning. Like, no, don't do that.

I may never get helicopters and airplanes should never be sharing the same airspace due to the different ways they operate. I mean, really, you should never have. I mean, the air the airport is kind of a communal space for the I understand, but it's like the there's got to be some way to make sure the helicopter pads aren't directly in the line of the planes coming in. You can maybe put that corner, are they, though? I don't think they are.

I guess that would be the question how this happened, where the, is. It seems to me that this went the helicopter, from what I understand of that may not be enough in this situation. Went straight up in the plane. Hit it. That should never be. There's a big difference. If the helicopters start moving in one direction and then the plane hit it. But if you're just going straight up, those, those vectors should probably not overlap. I agree with that. Yeah, yeah.

I don't think it was just going straight up. I think that it was either too low or too high to where it was supposed to be. I remember them talking about that. Don't remember which though, but yeah, you're right. Like it. The helicopter, if it was right next to the airport taking off from the helicopter pad by going straight up would not be any airplane vectors. And I would think that's how it should be. Yeah. But then again, I don't know. We're not living in a should be world.

But you know, female drivers though, like, hey, don't tell me. I mean really, if that's the black box, that'll be great. Like no no no no no turn turn turn. Yeah. And then poof. Yeah yeah yeah. Air travel is dangerous. Yeah. Much more likely that you're going to die in a car driven by a robot. I mean, West probably less likely to die. Technically. Yeah, it's less likely, statistically speaking. Yeah. I liked on, x the other day, my buddy AJ Persian ski long time White Sox great.

Brought a World Series here back in 2005. Yeah. There was a case where in baseball. This is why I got out of the baseball game a few years ago. There was a play where the ball was in. The batter moved the ball, hit the end of the bat, which made it so it should have been a foul ball, right? They said he swung. Yeah. And it was a strike three and he was out. Now it's one of these things that for whatever reason it is not video reviewable.

So AJ's like you know I got to the ballpark today in a car without a human driver. And you guys still can't get this right. And it's like that. It's kind of kind of amazing that baseball wasn't a robot that determined that though because they wouldn't let it. Yeah. But it's like you have the technology. Why aren't you using it any. Yeah, they they should at the very least. Don't they have a camera above the mound. Well, it depends what part.

But I would think they would have they have a complete overhead view. So you could see where the ball is and in real time in slow motion compared to the batter. But the, video they had of home plate shows it hitting the handle of the bat. They just, for whatever reason, Major League Baseball handle it was the wrong side of the bat. Did they consider this a strike? Yes. They can't do that. Oh, shit. That's a horrible call. Yes, that was the point.

And it's like there's nothing you can do about it once the calls made because they're like, well, no, we can't, why can't you? What if you're wrong? You're just trying to somebody at least get fired for that. Make sure that's part of this whole like what is under video review and what isn't, which I think a everything should at this point. Everything should be because baseball moves so slow. Yeah. That you have time even if you don't do it on the field and stop play.

The guy in the tower can be like, oh, let's look at that again before anything else really happens.

Be like, wait a minute. Yeah, that's a do over. That was wrong. I watched the video from the 80s of somebody explaining Johnny Carson, why baseball games got longer advertising. You're correct. That's exactly why. Yep. It's all the time in between adding so the other fuckers can be on and off the field within 30 seconds. You know, it's not that it's all at once. Yeah. And once they start doing the TV timeouts, it's like, well. And then when I guess I never knew that, babe.

Baseball games used to be shorter. I was at an opening day and they could still be that way if nobody got hit. But my mom and I went to one of the opening days for the White Sox, maybe in 2007 or 8. Mark Burley one of the fastest working pitchers that the game has ever seen. He was a lefty junk bowler. Was so happy. I was at the park when he pitched his perfect game for me. There will never be a better baseball game than that. But the opening hitter, the right perfect game, no walks even.

Yeah. Wow. At the time, that was like one of like 15 or 18 or whatever it was in Major League Baseball history. And there's been a lot of games and they didn't swap pitchers, don't believe it or not, that like today where it's like, oh, they've gone three innings. Yeah, yeah, you better get somebody out there. But he was pitching was against the Indians. The other pitcher was quick. It ended up being a one to nothing game. The game was finished.

It sounds like soccer in like 95 minutes, 93 minutes, something like that. That sound like soccer. And it was it was such a fast game that the seats we had more of my parents had. We're on club level, which they were. The concession stands there. But overall you had these servers that would take your order and then bring it out. The game was so quick, like half the orders never came out, never made it because it was the first day in the kitchens trying to figure out how to do everything.

You don't want a super quick game on opening day that throws everybody into a tizzy. Yeah. Wow that's wild. I've never seen anything like that. But then again I've only been through a handful of games. The perfect game was above and beyond just because the pitcher was one of my all time favorite players. So if it happens to somebody at random, it's still cool. But if it happens for one of your favorite players, it's like, wow, that's never going to get any better.

Especially in the ninth inning, which is the clip everybody has seen. And it was, I think the first batter in the ninth inning hit one that would have been a home run if not for the center fielder, who was just brought in.

Dewayne wise, as a defensive replacement, went up over the wall and brought it back, which it was the oddest thing because you can imagine going into the ninth inning for a perfect game, even on a Thursday afternoon, with only 15 20,000 people in the stands, the place was rocking, that ball was hit and it was like a movie. Everything stopped like a whole. It sounds stop. And then he catches the ball, he falls down, he fumbles it and then holds it up and the place goes nuts. They'll never be out.

So what are the rules? As long as the ball doesn't leave the glove, doesn't matter where the player does, as long as it never touches the ground. Yeah. So if he like if the player hits his head and he falls under the warning track, but the ball falls on top of him, you're out. As long as it don't hit the wall. Yeah, yeah. Don't hit the it doesn't hit the wall. Doesn't hit the ground. I've seen a few of these sort of bouncing off, you know a guy's body parts and the been caught once.

Well Jose Canseco once had one go off his head that went into the stands for a home run. Oh, just just that what you want to be. That's the wrong way to go. Yeah. You're supposed to catch it, not make it mount. Yeah. That off of your head. Use your glove. Wham! Yeah, it's been I, I wouldn't mind going to another baseball game. I know I always bitch about how long those things were whenever I have gone to them, but, it really is more of just a, you know, eating hot dogs and. Right.

And have overpriced food and talking to friends while you're watching something that kind of takes like three hours. And you. Right, you go with somebody you want to talk with because, yeah, there's going to be plenty of time. That's what I knew had to had the, you know, the good broadcast ready voice was, was that a game was either in high school, maybe college was a buddy of mine.

And I yelled something at the player, and he looked at me and he's like, you know, there's like 20,000 people in the stadium. But I bet he heard you. Well, yeah, you gotta have you. You have to be able to emote. You do. But I tell you what, dude, I got a guy that I, play video games with guys even better voice new. Wow. I keep trying to tell him to start a podcast. Jeans. Got a video game guy friend. Well, I mean, that's not all he does, but he and I. Is he real?

No, no, he he's, he's a business owner out of Oklahoma or. No, he's in, Missouri, not Oklahoma. Probably a Russian plant. Gene. You think? But, boy, he has a really good radio voice. It's it's kind of in the same frequency range that yours is, but it's more luscious, like Larry. So if you took Larry's luscious ness and brought it up a little bit. Yeah. Brought it up.

Yeah. It's not as low pitched as Larry's, but every every time I him on discord and we're talking about, you know, video game shit, somebody that hasn't talked him ever gets in there and like, man, are you on the radio? You got a great voice. Yes, I am, I've been telling him that too. And I was like, dude, start doing a podcast. You're going to grow regardless of what the topic is. Doesn't matter what you.

Yeah, podcasting is the way to go because I remember when I was in high school, way back then, in the 1980s, when deciding on which college and all that, where it was like, hey, I wanted to do the, the DJ thing. I thought that would be awesome to be a rock and roll deejay. And then, yeah, buddy of mine had a sister that they had gotten a job working for here in Chicago as, like the, you know, the entry level, the overnight kind of thing.

And it was like they're they're making like four bucks an hour, you know, I mean, it was you're lucky. Yeah. It's like you're going to make nothing if you're not Jonathan Brand Meyer or Howard Stern. You got to be very lucky at that point to make money in radio. Now, I don't know how they do it if they pay less now, because everybody's just sitting at home doing a podcast. Yeah, yeah, I'm pretty much. No, you don't need you don't need the great voice because you can now just, No, I at all.

But he's he's got the whole package. He looks like a cowboy. He's got a big package. He's got. I don't know what kind of package he's got, but he's got the whole package. He's got, you know, cowboy looking mustache and everything, like the way. So you got a some kind of a mustache? Yeah. Like, Sam, what's the guy's last name? Sam. No, it's just not Lloyd. It's, Now, Sam, you know, we're talking about. Yeah. Big beef. It's. What's for dinner.

Yeah. That guy. Yeah. He does kind of have, like, a version of that mustache. He looks like he'd be just as, like, at home wrangling a steer as Sam Elliott. Sam Elliott? Yeah. As, doing his normal job. He flies airplanes. He's got a brand new Corvette that he bought, and he plays video games. So you got a little mad crush going on here? Oh, no, no, no, he's very young. Very young. Oh, you like him young? I know you like him young. Jean. Not not that kind of like.

But no, he's. I think he's, 29, I believe. Well, that's perfect. You say once those 30, they're pretty much done. They are. Well, the women are. But it's a it's interesting. I, I've been trying to get them on as a guest, on, just a good old voice, because I think you'd be a fun person in there. And he's like, what do you want to say? Very much. But he's like, why do you want me on your show? What is this all about? So he listens. He's a listener or a subscriber, I guess.

What would you call it? Is he paying or not? He's definitely not paying you. So he's a listener then? Not a subscriber. Oh good point. That's a good point. That's a distinction. Yes. And I do want to point out we did have some donations are the okay now we'll go from the low end to the high end because the high end was the funny and questionable left, but Kevin Seyfried came in with his $5 a month. So thank you. Go over to PayPal. Unrelenting that show slash donate.

We wow wow with his monthly 1080. Thank you weenie Wawa and then Sterling mofo which sent $75. Wow to unrelenting but then added a note which will make you depressed. He says okay donations. Donations have been somewhat constipated, but now that Biden has been flushed, hoping to be more regular, this is for all of your great shows. So please share with Larry Jean and maybe Ben Rose if he ever shows up. You guys were certainly so so so called up.

How does that sharing work? Does that mean we each get one sixth and you get half? They think if it's per each show, then that would be like $15 per show. Yeah. You could do the math, which I just did for you, but yeah, it sounds like you get half of that. And then we split the rest amongst us, which would be one sixth, although you actually would get, 750 each because it would be watched by each show. So that would be seven, 14, 21, 22, 50 goes to you three and then, and it's $50 into $52.

And no, that's not how that works. That's the wrong math. It's great math. I love it. Certainly, Malfoy, I think he was in the, the troll rulemaking, if he wants it broken down in any other way. I mean, I have to leave. Ben Rose's money in a band ever is found ever again. Jesus Christ. Like, where's Ben Rhodes missing? I mean, I guess he doesn't do any podcasts. I thought he, left comments for this podcast. Last show he hasn't been around. I think he's. What are you talking to him?

Like, you know, through text or whatever while we were recording last week. Yeah. And he doesn't. I guess he disappeared. He was probably, Oh, he was probably sad. Maybe. Did. Did you say that he's no longer delivery guy? He got some other job. Then somebody said that. But I didn't believe that. Okay? I didn't hear that directly from him. But thank you, surly mofo. It is very much appreciated. Everybody who listens and supports the show, it is appreciated.

And you should do it because certainly mofos, right? Biden. Remember, I haven't gets 1% of that. That's only if it comes in under, contract you sign. Is any money received. It would be 1% going to the even. I don't lawyer contracts. Remember it was a part of you didn't read the fine print. It's. Oh, my God, there was a contract. Yeah. You accept the contract by utilizing the service? Yeah. That is, it's just like Apple. It doesn't matter if you sign a product. The bad father doesn't matter.

It's freezing. Exactly, exactly. Regardless of what what the method of payment was, they automatically get their cut no matter what. This is sounding more and more like a cult. We need robes and purple bathrobes and, some nice comfy. I need some of them UGG slippers. You know what kind of bathrobe I have? I mean, just the cameras. I mean, they're still running. Okay. All right, well, I wasn't sure. I thought the batteries were dead.

Just because you can't see the cameras doesn't mean they're not watching you. Oh, I can see them. All right. They got the blinking red light on. Know it's annoying as fuck. I know that's how the olden days. It's like they people didn't even understand. You got to cover that up. Why is there a blinking red light? They would put them in the, smoke detectors. Like, know that blinking red light? Don't worry. Don't look at that. Do not pay any attention to that whatsoever. Yeah, people.

Real smoke detectors have no lights at all. It's the. Yeah, this is true. And they and they actually make noise if there's a fire. So those are the ways you can find out exactly if they're real or not. I mean I went around and I don't smoke detector has a late 18th in April. Yeah I don't I don't know if we talked about this this the we have our smoke detectors replaced a few years ago. And this has happened with the old ones a couple of times. And with this one it went off randomly again.

And of course this happens in the middle of the night. Always, always, always. The smoke detectors never miss fire during the day. I don't know why that is. And I went around because they're like, well, it could be a little bit of dust or there could be bugs. You know, little micro bugs crawl into something which is like, well, that doesn't seem like a good feature, you know?

So I went through and, vacuumed all of them and everything has been fine since, but it's like, very weird to me that this is whatever technology is being used. And I get it. It's kind of looking for a steam or a smoke and if there's, you know, enough condensation happening on one of these sensors, it is happen at night. No, which is what I can do. One time it was like over Christmas, it was like three in the morning and it was like, crack

it. Of course, that'll get you up for the rest of the night. Oh it will. And so it's interesting. I had mine replaced about five years ago. Probably do do you have a whole house? One where they're all wired together? They are now. They didn't used to be. Now they're all worked together. So one of them goes off. All of them go right, which makes it even. So now it's not like, oh, well, just the one in the basement is on the Fritz. Now everything. Now you have to see which one makes noise first.

But I can't do it. They're not user serviceable anymore. So these new ones, I asked them like, okay, so do I replace the batteries the same way as I used the old ones? And they said, no, these you don't have replaceable batteries with the other ones that work. Ours are. Well, they've got lithium batteries right. And they're mostly running on the power that they're plugged into. Right. But if the power goes out and then the don't run off the batteries, allegedly, allegedly.

But you don't have to worry about replacing them because, you know, they'll last like longer in your house or if you're like five years, five years exactly. So I will say this, and maybe, I don't know if this is true for everybody or not, but I've had fire alarms go off way more times for not having a fire than they have when there was actual smoke in the house from like, cooking or there was an actual cooking. That's I it's not like I'm burning shit right now. Cooking like hot oil smoke.

If you make home homemade fried chicken or something, there's a lot of smoke. Yeah, I've had that go off every now and then, which is why you don't have you don't put your, smoke detectors in the in the kitchen. Except in my house. Yes. So there is one in the kitchen, like I've got. It's a perfect design. I don't know what kind of low IQ moron with, smooth brain design. This. But there's a smoke detector in the kitchen. Well, do you have a good exhaust fan for the stove?

Because then that would be pretty good. It actually is pretty good. Yeah, that's what you're real exhaust. It's not a one of those recirculating fake ones. Right. Because there's like well there's the smoke. Just staying in the house. Yeah yeah yeah. Now this one's pretty good. But then they also put a fire alarm on the ceiling of the 18ft open section of the house.

Oh of course, you know, like where they, you just have the, the lower floor and then it's wide open up to the ceiling of the second floor, right, with the 18ft up. Right. And the and it's not next to the loft. It's like the furthest from the loft you can get. And so I most handymen don't even have ladders long enough to go up to. So no need like a scissor lift or something. You do. Yeah. And so I had to get a special service, do the charges $150 to replace the batteries.

But, on this thing, I mean, it's like, what the fuck? Who thought of this? The if look, if there's smoke in that part where that's currently installed, there would obviously also be smoke right above the loft where you could have just gone up on the climb the chair and replaced the damn battery. Well, Gene, smoke rises. See. So it's it's much safer if you can't touch the smoke detector more. Yeah. It's exactly that's about it. So yeah, it's poor design.

If I, if I built this house which I, I'm the first person that's living in after it was built. But I didn't design the house. I didn't build the house. I would have made sure that the smoke alarms were where I wanted them, not where the damn, original designs were because I was stupid. I make no sense at all. I also would have put twice as many outlets. And that's why I did in the last House, my last house in Minnesota.

I had, that when I did design, I had Ethernet jacks, coax jacks, and double the minimum required number of outlets that. So all the, you know, dual outlets that you normally have in the house, they were all put in as a quad outlets for a lot of openers, a lot of power. Well, yeah, I mean, it's say technically it's the same amount of delivery to the house, but more things can be like that. Yeah, it's what you need, man.

Every house I, I agree, it's like it's stupid to still have to just do like when the original requirements came out that you needed an outlet every eight feet of a wall segment with two outlets, it was the 50s. There was the only thing you'd ever plug in is the vacuum cleaner. Well, I can't believe people don't have a need for wired internet through the whole house with everything that we've got now. Oh, no Wi-Fi strength, not Wi-Fi systems. Beep. But why? For web surfing? It's fine.

Wired way better though, for anything because it's not going to drop anywhere near as much. Yeah, you need a nice ten gig line this anywhere between the whole house. Yeah I agree you got to plug it in. Boom. You are set. And that's the thing is nowadays if you're if I was building a house that I was designing, I would absolutely put it in at 8 or 9 in there. You know, any of those cats that are high quality cats, you gotta have good cats. Yeah. Good cats. You gotta get the high quality cat.

I think Cat eight will run ten gig and, yeah, just be ready for ten gig in the house. And that way you never have to worry about your internet ever again. Or your network. Not even just the internet. Yeah, exactly. You ever bought one of those, nav systems yet? That are all the other two drives? I've been. I've had a few of them in my shopping cart, but I haven't pulled the trigger on buying one. No, like, this is what you need. Here's the problem is, I think been they actually had a good point.

He says, you know, we did a gig. It's not as fast as you think it is. Right? But nobody has ten gig yet. Well, but I you know, I mean I could have ten gig. I've got those adapters in my shopping cart as well, but, but he's right because getting one that is thunderbolt like a thunderbolt NAS is B way faster than getting ten gig das. Yes, it just has to be near your machine. Which, if it is, you're right, better off them. Yeah, and that machine has always been on both of my machines.

Both the the Mac and the PC are within like three feet of each other. So you don't have to worry about it. Where I have my current NAS devices in the basement. So that's a different story. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. For cooling purposes, I assume. I mean, that was kind of part of the reason why. And because this office can only fit so many, devices running it. It would be very hot mirror if the, Yeah.

So yes, it was better cooling, but of course, you know, I didn't even think that much ahead because I should have run, you know, two cables down and done the, you know, aggregating the two. But really, at this point, just pulling one cable that can go, the two and a half is fine on the cable that I've got down there. So we added a little extra bandwidth, but yeah, ten would be nice. There would be nice. Yeah. With a mass system that was able to handle it as well.

Sure. Yeah. And that's where I think the only ones that can actually handle ten are going to be the solid state ones where you got people like, oh, just go find stuff. They're pulling out of commercial locations. And for your routers and your switches and all of that. I don't like that because the residential stuff they're selling for ten gig is still, like, way overpriced. It's on that bed. Get veteran gig for about 200 bucks. I mean, it's not horrible. It's five five port.

They switch managed switch router a switch. You got to do that way you get all of your podcasts and everything. You can have all of your data in a different place. Yeah, I've never done the, in the cloud back up and I'm like, I should because it's I mean, I just want to see if, like Backblaze, I was doing that back in the days with the trash can Mac, with this, robo unit that has, well, it's five, overall drives without, like, with one for parody.

I get six times four because there's six terabyte drives, so 24TB of storage. One of the nice folks at Backblaze, or if they were still okay with. Yeah, yeah, totally. But this is what you plug into your main computer. They don't care. That's all you need. They have a separate plan for, NAS devices. Right. Which is a lot more money, which also tells you it's a lot better than to just buy a pseudo NAS and plug it in to your machine directly.

So one thing I was looking at, new motherboard was, well, you're like one thing hitting the whole thing on your PC. I know it's probably not, because everything's got crazy expensive. The video card's $4,000 now, and you need at least 2 or 3 of those. Right now. You just need one. But $4,000? Dude, what's four grand? You're making so much money on just two good old boys and surging speeds. I mean, YouTube and your, YouTube channel. YouTube channel alone.

You should be able to buy, like, one of those a week. Yeah. Right. Everybody's tuning in. I keep they keep popping up in my little timeline, and I'm like, know, you better be thumbs up and everything. Like, I'm done. I'll thumbs up. I'm not gonna watch. I don't care if you watch them. Right. You thumbs up them. You're like, oh, the funnest, most efficient way to mine money or something. And I'm like, what? Most efficient and fun way to mine money. There's something like that.

Yeah, I saw something like that merits merits. Right. Okay. There's an actress named Merritt Patterson, which I wouldn't mind mining, but that's a different story entirely. I'm sure you enjoy liquid death. So you drink which flavor? This is the severed limb, and I do. Oh, it is. It's the same one. Yeah, I think I have carry on security also have, like, some kind of, pair or something or. Yeah. I've never tried that. I'm not a big pair. Yeah.

I mean I like a good pair, but I don't like you like a good pair. Yeah I like the taste of pair. But a good pair all do down on that. That the I don't really I've only had I think the cherry, the lime and some of their iced tea flavors. And the iced tea isn't bad either. This is why you're listening to unrelenting. You get your favorite tips. You get your bingo card. You get to see what's going to be checked off. Ilhan Omar apparently just said fuck off to, news media.

Oh, well, she did something like that the other day too. Or maybe that's the story just coming out, like when asked about something. So I think she did that the other day, but she just posted it like doubled down, like, that says, I said what? I said, you and all your miserable trolls can fuck off. That's her response. That's her tweet. You know, I remember back in the day when the people that were in politics were held to a higher standard. Natalie Moore yeah.

Now it's just like he's a Somali terrorist I don't know that married her brother. I mean we've heard all the stories. Yeah. But that's Minnesota baby. That's your old hometown. What's going on. Hey do you even recognize it at this point? Like, how did that. My husband told me he was cheating on me. I told him I'm going to tell mom. Me? You.