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A roaming conversation between brothers covering the Gulf of America/Mexico/(whatever you want to call it) to the elimination of the penny.  Please pardon our messy audio, we are trying new things. 

Host by:

- Jesse Fries

- Jamon Fries

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(00:00:18) Introduction

(00:00:36) Kansas Politics and Governor's Veto

(00:02:15) American Politics and Elon Musk

(00:05:08) Bureaucracy and Government Reorganization

(00:10:15) USAID Cuts and Impact on Kenya

(00:12:58) Discussion on Eliminating the Penny

(00:17:11) Trump's Federal Property Sale Proposal

(00:18:35) JD Vance and Executive Power

(00:24:42) Supreme Court Precedent Reversals

(00:26:56) Machine Guns and Legal Interpretations

(00:31:03) Church Sanctuary and ICE Arrests

(00:36:46) Standing in Legal Cases

(00:38:16) Authoritarianism and Political Power

(00:43:13) Bank Account Closures and Political Beliefs

(00:49:20) Government Spending and Budgeting Issues

(00:52:28) UK's Encryption Backdoor Law

(01:02:22) Freedom of Speech and Government Influence

(01:03:35) UK Assisted Suicide and Pension Taxation

(01:07:35) NYC Mayor's Corruption Case

(01:08:38) Ozempic Side Effects

(01:10:10) iPhone 17 Rumors

(01:14:00) Taylor Swift Booed at Chiefs Game

(01:17:08) Trump's Security Clearance Revocation

(01:21:31) Lego is Anti-Trans

(01:25:45) Google's Cultural Calendar Changes

(01:27:47) Gulf of America Naming Rights

[00:00:18] Jesse Fries:

Good morning, everybody.   It is Wednesday,   February 12,   and we are live with episode number 24 of the mindless meanderings.   And I'm Jesse Fries, and I'm coming to you from Central Texas. And I'm trying to figure out what I'm gonna get for my birthday on Friday. That's what I'm wondering. So  

[00:00:38] Jamon Fries:

And I'm Jamin Fries coming from you from Eastern Kansas,   where,   apparently, our governor has decided to veto the Help Not Harm Act that was just recently passed,   which is basically the,   getting rid of transgender care for for minors and stuff like that.   Okay. And it passed the senate with a vote   of 32 to eight.  

[00:01:06] Jesse Fries:

30 two to eight.  

[00:01:08] Jamon Fries:

Okay. Yeah.   Now the house vote was 80 was 83 to 35.   Uh-huh. So I don't think her veto's gonna hold any power there. Yeah. Yeah. I I wonder what the,  

[00:01:20] Jesse Fries:

override if Kansas even has a overriding veto sort of situation.  

[00:01:26] Jamon Fries:

I would assume they would. I mean You would assume, but, you know, just Yeah. You never know. Yeah. You never know. Every state's a little bit different. So Yeah. Is your governor a democrat? Is that Yes. Yes. Got it. Got it. We almost always put a a Democrat in as governor, and then we have a Republican house and senate usually.  

[00:01:46] Jesse Fries:

That is rather odd.  

[00:01:49] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. It really is.   The the few the few concern the few Republican governors that we've had Uh-huh.   Didn't really do much for the state. So   Yeah. You know, I I I think it's just   people got fed up with having both of them aligned, but still nothing happening.   So let's throw a Democrat in one and put the Republicans in the other, and then nothing happens. We at least know why.  

[00:02:16] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. That seems to be American politics. It really does. It's,   Yep.   It is crazy. So   It really is.   Just like our politics. It's like you never know what's going on. It's like a   a a day in our in US politics now is, like, two years. It's like  

[00:02:35] Jamon Fries:

no kidding.  

[00:02:37] Jesse Fries:

So bad. Yeah. It it's insane.  

[00:02:40] Jamon Fries:

You know?   You know, the ones the one thing that I've the one thing that I get sick and tired of hearing, though, is the   we didn't elect  

[00:02:50] Jesse Fries:

Elon Musk. Right? Yeah. Yeah.  

[00:02:53] Jamon Fries:

No. You didn't elect him, but the president that you did elect put him in the position.  

[00:02:59] Jesse Fries:

No. Yeah. Yeah. That that we don't elect   I I mean, many of the officials in there. You know? It's it's Yeah. Yeah.  

[00:03:06] Jamon Fries:

We we don't we don't elect we don't elect   anyone really except for the president.  

[00:03:12] Jesse Fries:

The president and the yeah. Beyond that, it's Yeah. Congress has some say in, like, the cabinet members and whatnot.  

[00:03:20] Jamon Fries:

Right.  

[00:03:21] Jesse Fries:

That's still technically not elected, you know, at least not by the people. So Yeah. No. Absolutely.  

[00:03:30] Jamon Fries:

And and, you know, they keep I I I keep hearing them blaming   Elon Musk for everything. Like,   you know, when the when the,   house when the Democrat house members   went to the,   went to the department of education   to try to get into the meetings and they were locked out. They were they were barred. They were blocked out from being able to enter into the building. Yep. That was hilarious.   It was But that was all because Elon Musk was there. You know? They they wanted to go in there because Elon Musk was there.   And   the the thing that I don't understand,   all these arguments, you know, they're saying that Elon Musk is shutting this down. Elon Musk is is taking this away.  

All he all he all Elon Musk can do   is tell president Trump   what's going on there, and then president Trump says, well, let's shut it down then.  

[00:04:23] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. Yeah. That is really all that,   can happen. There's not much beyond that. You know? It's Yeah.   Yeah. It's He he's it's an entirely it's an entirely advisory position. Nothing but Yep. But, you know, for the Doge and everything like that, it's the way I view it is that   you have all these different departments going, oh my god, and everything like that, like the DOE and, USAID and things like that. But, you know,   it   it it don't get me wrong. I do feel for the government workers right now because going through this would suck. You know? Like, is my job gonna be yeah. Is my job gonna be here or anything like that? I understand. It's frustrating. I it would completely suck.   But this sort of thing of cutting and   reorganizing   happens in every organization   on the planet. Oh, yeah. Yeah. And if it doesn't, then it just leads into this huge bureaucratic   crap, which is what it has been.  

Yeah. Yeah. No. It's not the worst  

[00:05:26] Jamon Fries:

that bureaucracy that we've been doing. There there are there are some countries whose bureaucracies are much worse than ours are. Oh, yeah. Yeah. There's, it's like the Austro Hungarian,  

[00:05:36] Jesse Fries:

like, long time ago. Their bureaucracy was   crazy. They they they wrote stories about how bad it was.   Yep. So, you know, it's   and and and with all these departments, agencies, and bureaus, to me, it's like the   it's like illegal immigration.   Very few people   were willing to work on it Yes. In our government.   You know, no matter what. You you you go, oh, yeah. It's a great thing. Yeah. We need to do that. We need to clean this up. We need to cut this. We need to do that. But when it came to it,   all it became for both parties,   and I'm stressing both parties here, it was just a political football.  



[00:06:15] Jamon Fries:

Yes. That's that's absolutely true. It was talking points. That's all it was. Yes.  

[00:06:20] Jesse Fries:

Completely. That is it. Just like immigration. You know? There was Yep.   Since, what, the nineteen eighties when the last under Reagan,   the last time that they  

[00:06:30] Jamon Fries:

had, like, amnesty for the illegals and everything like that. Yeah. I think it was under Reagan. And since then, it's just been a political football back and forth, back and forth, back and forth. So Yeah. And and it's in you know, nobody wants to touch it. And, you know, they keep I I keep hearing so many people complaining, you know, well, you know, this is going on. This is going on. This is going on. We need to reform.   We we need to reform   immigration   and all this other stuff.   I'm like, well, first of all, the first thing you need to do is you need to enforce the laws that are already on the books. Mhmm. Then if we still have problems, then you can go and think about changing the laws.  

[00:07:10] Jesse Fries:

Right. Right. Yeah.  

[00:07:12] Jamon Fries:

I mean, if if we don't enforce the laws, we won't know if they're effective or not.  

[00:07:17] Jesse Fries:

True. True.   Oh, let's see. Look at your headlights. What what's this,   tracking American students' academic progress?  

[00:07:27] Jamon Fries:

Oh, yeah. That's what the there's there's,   there's   a branch   of the education department   that specifically tracks the,   tracks the progress of students. It tracks,   it   categorizes   colleges   into the costs and stuff like that. You know? Just basically, they just make a whole bunch of lists and get take reports from people and fill and fill out forms and send it in. Okay.   And   they're,   Doge is recommending cutting, like, $900,000,000   out of that.  

[00:08:07] Jesse Fries:

That's a good chunk. That's a good chunk. Yeah. Yeah.  

[00:08:11] Jamon Fries:

They they have there there's, like,   something like a 67   subcontractors   working for it. One of one of the subcontractors,   all they do is they   watch the mail and make sure it gets where it's going.  

[00:08:29] Jesse Fries:

Wow.  

[00:08:30] Jamon Fries:

Sounds like get, like, $1,500,000  

[00:08:33] Jesse Fries:

for doing that. Oh, Jesus Christ. How many people are there?  

[00:08:37] Jamon Fries:

Exactly. I mean, that that's a job that five people can do.  

[00:08:43] Jesse Fries:

Yeah.   Do you okay. That that that's different. That is different. Yeah.  

[00:08:49] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. There there's a lot of other programs that they do that,   that   I'm really   they don't really do much at all. It's really not not important that they exist.   But,   the   of course, you know, the Liberals are getting up in arms about it because there's   certain things, you know, like the tracking of   basically, they they're they're the part of of the Department of Education   that reminds everyone that ever since the Department of Education was formed,   our grades have been dropping.  

[00:09:23] Jesse Fries:

Yep. Yeah. It which they have, which is hilarious. You know? It's, yes. It's like, what have you done for me lately? Well, what have you done for me? Period. You know? Absolutely nothing. Yeah. Ever. It's You know? From the day from the first year that it that it was in put into place Yeah. Scores have been dropping.   Yeah. It doesn't bode well for that. You know? It's, but then they have to No. No. It doesn't. Tied to what the school has to do and everything like that. The schools have to have Yep. They they have to hire administrators   just to deal with the DOE and everything like that. So Oh, yeah. This at at the money that they get from the DOE,   generally, just pays for that.  

It doesn't actually pay for any other money coming in, but they have to do it. And so yeah. No. Get rid of it. Yeah. I'm I'm Yeah. Absolutely.   100%   on that one.   Speaking of cutting and everything like that, just kind of a a slight switch, but we can keep going with, that later. But it was,   I apparently,   in Kenya,   I I I pay attention because, well, you know, Carol's from Kenya. But Yeah. You know, apparently,   the cuts in, like, USAID and everything like that is gonna cut about 40,000 jobs,   in Kenya.   And that's direct. Yeah. That get paid direct from USAID. Forty thousand people.   Yep. My sister-in-law might be one of those. I'm just saying. I don't know if she is or not, but she might be.  

Because she works at the age. She's a lawyer with the AIDS, whatever,   helping aids, getting aids taken care of and everything like that. Yep. So Yep. Yeah. So   yeah. And then they say maybe another three hundred forty thousand might be affected   just like   tertiary   jobs. Yep. Yep. So   yeah. Yeah. But Jobs that really won't have to be there anymore because the because these other jobs are gone, so yours isn't needed anymore. Yeah. Yeah. No. Some of them it looks like they're gonna have to close down a hospital, up in Northern Kenya and everything like that because we pay for it. Yeah. We just pay for the hospital.   So  

[00:11:39] Jamon Fries:

You know, I mean, it it's I'm   it's sad that a hospital's gonna have to close because of it. Uh-huh. But at the same time,   why are we paying for the hospital?  

[00:11:52] Jesse Fries:

No. See, that's the thing. And it was like, there was this lady,   on   TikTok. It was a lady   called Jerry,   and she just   she was like, go you know, we're gonna lose all these jobs, but we're happy about it because   this means that The US can't tell us what to do anymore.   Yeah. Yeah. So it's like, yeah. We're losing jobs, but we could do whatever we want now.   So  

[00:12:20] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. You know, that that's one of the things about USAID is, you know, once a country   brings the lets USAID in,   The US really dick can dictate   basically everything that they do. Yep. And they'll they'll even dictate laws from time to time. Yeah. It's the whole, like, trying to push LGBTQ  

[00:12:40] Jesse Fries:

and everything like that through and everything like that. Yep. So yeah. It's it's all that stuff. It's all that stuff. It's great. Oh, yeah. Absolutely.  

[00:12:52] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. And then,   on another level with money   Mhmm. Do you hear, they're thinking about getting rid of the penny?  

[00:13:02] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. Yeah. I heard about that. That's,   yeah. I don't know   what I think about that.  

[00:13:12] Jamon Fries:

I I you know, it's   at at one point, you know, I'm sitting there, you know, well, that's gonna suck because,   you know, yes, you can make prices that everything, you know, so it's 95¢   instead of 99¢ or something like that. Right.   But then you add sales tax in there, and there ain't no way in hell you can make it said sales tax doesn't always come up to  

[00:13:36] Jesse Fries:

come up to a 5 or whatever. Right. I think you just round it one way or the other. It'll probably always be up because that's how Probably.   Probably. But then if it's digital, if you're paying digitally   Yeah. You know, you can still have the sense. It's just getting rid of the pain. Yeah. It's it's it's only if you're actually dealing with money. And most people,  

[00:13:56] Jamon Fries:

honestly, even back   to, you know, when we were growing up, I mean, I I I still remember dad's big tub of pennies. You know? Yep.   You   which is one of the reasons why they're getting rid of them because they have to they have to make so many pennies every year   just because people hoard them like that.  

[00:14:16] Jesse Fries:

Well, they're useless.   Yeah.  

[00:14:18] Jamon Fries:

Seriously, they're pretty much useless. It's The only use that they have is waiting is sitting in a jar until you have enough of them to take them to a bank and cash them in.  

[00:14:28] Jesse Fries:

But not every bank nowadays.   No. Most banks are yes now. And if you don't even have an account, there's no freaking way they're gonna let you do that. If they even have a coin counting thing, and then you have Coinstar at these freaking grocery chains that take a percentage.   So it's like, just get rid of it.  

[00:14:49] Jamon Fries:

Oh, yeah. No. Abs absolutely.   Yeah. That was kinda surprising. It's the only currency   that actually costs more to make than the value of the coin itself. Yep. It costs, like, 13¢   to print a penny.  

[00:15:01] Jesse Fries:

I thought it was 2¢,  

[00:15:03] Jamon Fries:

But maybe 3¢. I I think From what I said, it was 13. Well, from what I read, it was 13.   They said that the price of copper has gone up quite a bit. Well, they're not copper.   There's zinc. There's still some copper in them, I think.  

[00:15:17] Jesse Fries:

Maybe. Maybe. Just a codeine. It's not much of anything. So it's Yeah.   My wife, though, she goes, you you you know, if if this is the case,   is it now a nickel for you my thoughts for your thoughts? Yeah. Not a penny for your thoughts.  

[00:15:33] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. We'll have to change the saying. That's definitely true.  

[00:15:36] Jesse Fries:

No. It's just gonna be one of those sayings. Everybody goes, what's a penny?  

[00:15:42] Jamon Fries:

I I I can imagine that, you know, ten ten, twenty years from now, kids growing up, somebody says, Penny, for your thoughts.   They'll just look at you strange.  

[00:15:52] Jesse Fries:

Yep. Yep. Yep.   It'll then we go, what now?   It was like, yeah. Penny.  

[00:16:00] Jamon Fries:

I'll have to keep some just in case. You know? Kinda like, you know, right now, if anybody ever said go into the phone booth.  

[00:16:07] Jesse Fries:

Yep. Yep. Yep. Yep.   God, I haven't seen one of those in The US in   forever.   Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. The absolutely. There's a couple still over in the The UK.  

[00:16:20] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. Just for tourists. Usually, they're Right. The phone in there. But Yeah. You know. Well, the the ones in UK, they're kinda fancy too. I mean, the ones that we had here in The US, they were just ugly.  

[00:16:34] Jesse Fries:

Well,   yes. But, also,   it it it's that they looked different. And so to us, they look cool. But but to parts, they're just, like, going.  

[00:16:43] Jamon Fries:

Oh, yeah. Yeah. No. Absolutely. Yeah. Yeah. But, you know, that that's one thing about England that someone coming from The US or from other parts of the world,   that's iconic. That that means that you're in England because nowhere else has that type of phone booth. Just just like the double decker bus. You know? It's Yep.  

[00:17:01] Jesse Fries:

That is so British. It's  

[00:17:03] Jamon Fries:

Oh, yeah. Yeah. Absolutely.  

[00:17:05] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. They still have them. They're just a bit look a bit different. But, yeah. Yeah.   But let's see here. Talking about cost cutting, it looks like,   Donald Trump wants to sell off, half of the federal property.   So he just   people are trying to figure out how that's gonna be, but,   he's   they're saying that because of the cuts that they're expecting to make with staff and everything like that,   they can get rid of half the property  

[00:17:36] Jamon Fries:

that, the government owns. So Well, yeah. I mean, they've there are there's already so many empty buildings that are still owned by the government.   You know, the government has to pay for all the upkeep on them, but they're completely empty. No one's going to go into them at any time in the near future, so  

[00:17:54] Jesse Fries:

why not sell them? That that's what I'm saying. But but I I like the Democrat response. So it's like, so you want people to come into work, but you also wanna fire them, but you also wanna get rid of their buildings.  

[00:18:08] Jamon Fries:

It's good talking. Yeah. It makes perfect sense. We're gonna fire them. The people we don't fire, we want them coming into work. Because we fired so many, we're gonna have more empty buildings, so we might as well sell those.  

[00:18:21] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. I I I know. I know. But it's just funny. It's just Oh, yeah. Yeah. Thing is. It's,   Yep.   Let's see what else we got here.   Politics.   Oh, JD Vance. Have you heard this where people are saying that,   JD Vance said that, Trump can just ignore courts?  

[00:18:47] Jamon Fries:

Yes. Have you heard this? Yeah.   Yeah.   There there was one, one demic one top Democrat that warned that it was the that   stare they were staring the death of democracy in the eyes because of this. Well, we've been staring that in the face for them for forever and a day. You know? It's Well, the the thing that I don't understand, the thing that I find   absolutely hilarious about that   is that they say that the centerpiece of our democracy is that we observe court rulings.   Right. Right. Does that not mean that we do not need the house, the senate, or the president? We should just have a court.   Well, yeah. Yeah. That's And that would be a democracy in their opinion.  

Because, honestly,   most lit most of the rules that most of the rules and laws in The US are there because of the courts.  

[00:19:37] Jesse Fries:

Well, they're there before   they're there because of everything. But, yeah, it's   it's like the Democrats can't pick one. They they they just keep hopping from one to the other to the other. You know? You need this. You need that. And, you know, it's like, they actually think that   JD Vance said Trump can ignore judges. But if you actually look at his quote, this is what he said. If a judge tried to tell a general how to conduct a military operation,   that would be illegal.   If a judge tried to command the attorney general to how in how to use her discretion   as a prosecutor,   that's also illegal.  

Judges aren't allowed to control the executive's   legitimate power.   That is all he said Yep. And all.   Nothing more.   So   to to to get what they're saying,   because they're saying that   this with this, he is saying that you that the executive can ignore   judges. Anything a judge does. Yeah. Right. That that's what the Liberals are saying that this is what he said.   But you can only get there if you read between the lines and then add whatever you want   without any knowledge of what he actually said Yes. You do have to add quite a bit. And then you can say that, the executive can ignore judges. Only if you do all these things because there's nothing in there that he said. What he's saying from the way I would interpret it is that   it's like if a judge doesn't like it, they're gonna take it all the way to the Supreme Court if need be. Yeah. That's it. Yeah. Bay basically, what he's saying is that there are  

[00:21:20] Jamon Fries:

the   courts have   the   power to enforce the constitution   and to to   rule on the laws. Right. As for the constitutionality   of them.   They do not have the power to nitpick and tell the president   that he can't do something that the that that is within the executive powers.  

[00:21:42] Jesse Fries:

Right. But that doesn't mean that he's gonna ignore those judges. It's just means he's gonna   appeal it.   Isn't that the normal process? You you you could   I I I don't under seriously,   this came came out of left field to me when it came to the Democrats saying this, and you're just like going, what? And then there was an interview.   This is, or a reporter asked   Trump about this, about how he   so JD Vance says that you can just ignore, the judges.   Trump seriously goes, I don't know what you're talking about.   Like, just I have no clue what you're talking about.   Yeah. Yeah.  



[00:22:20] Jamon Fries:

Well, I I was I was watching,   one discussion. I think it was on, NBC   where there, you know, they had someone that was slightly conservative and then the, then the rest of the liberals.   And they, they started talking about this and the one that's slightly conservative was like,   but   isn't that exactly   what Biden did when he kept trying   to forgive student loans even though the Supreme Court told him that he can't do that? Yeah. The Supreme Court told him he can't do that. Not these lower courts. It was the Supreme Court that said, no. You can't do that, and yet he still was doing it. Oh, yeah. He kept finding all these little loopholes and whatnot.  

[00:23:06] Jesse Fries:

Yeah.  

[00:23:07] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. No. It is. He's like, you you can't say that Trump is doing something that no one's ever done and by ignoring the courts   because   the president that you loved so much  

[00:23:20] Jesse Fries:

did it not more than two, three years ago. Yep. Yep. And they were trying to find a way to get everybody's   loans forgiven. Yeah. You know?   I'm just kinda sad that he didn't get to mine.   Yeah.  

[00:23:33] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. He didn't get mine either.  

[00:23:36] Jesse Fries:

Damn it.   Oh, speaking of judges and whatnot,   so justice Sotomayor,   apparently, she   was complaining about how the court is reversing precedents   at and she said, like, at an alarming rate. She was all upset about how quickly you're we're doing it and everything like that.   And then somebody actually   went through and got, like, her, like, court. So, like,   the chief justice, his court. You know? So if you go back to,   1953   to '69,   that's under, Earl Warren, chief justice Earl Warren. Okay.   He had a precedent alteration average of about 3.1   cases per year.  

So 3.1   time case cases,   it would just be he would overturn precedence.   Right?  

[00:24:34] Jamon Fries:

Okay.  

[00:24:36] Jesse Fries:

Chief, Warren Burger,   that was from '69 to '86.   He had a average of about 3.4   a year.   Okay? Okay. And then chief justice William Rehnquist,   that was from '86 to o five.   He had   a figure of 2.4.   Okay. So it's going down. Okay. And then under our current chief justice,   John Roberts,   he has   a average of 1.6   a year.   So so a And that doesn't seem like there's a lot of them then. No. No. No. Not really. So basically for the last seventy five years,   it's been, decreasing,   the situation.   Yeah. Yeah.  

[00:25:25] Jamon Fries:

And yet that's a problem. So do we need to start increasing it then?  

[00:25:30] Jesse Fries:

I think so. I think so. I think the problem  

[00:25:33] Jamon Fries:

What we need to do is we need to start increasing it so they can complain about it, and then we can decrease it again Well, that would work. To fix the problem. Yeah. I I think she's just complaining about the ones that  

[00:25:44] Jesse Fries:

the big ones. You know, like, Roe v Wade, and then the bureau and the the,   like the machine gun and everything like that. Yeah.   Yep.  

[00:25:56] Jamon Fries:

Should I get into that story about machine guns real quick? Yeah. That's kind of interesting. I I didn't know that they were   that banning them was unconstitutional   under Bruin.  

[00:26:08] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. Well, it's a it's a very interesting   thing. So I read I actually read this judge's opinion.   And this judge, he his name is Judge, Carlton Reeves,   and he was an Obama appointee. So you really can't   say that it's a   right wing judge or anything like that. But he basically ruled that machine guns are   legal   because   they are not unusual.   Okay. So in in in   in   it states that   you can ban something if it is dangerous and unusual.   Not just dangerous because any gun this judge even goes any gun is dangerous.   Just a six shooter is dangerous. A semi automatic is dangerous. Any weapon is dangerous. So you really can't use that.   And, apparently, the government really tried to use, like, historical laws and everything like that.  

One of my favorites, this was a   a bit from the decision.   They the government brought up this case from 1328.   Yes.   The year 1328.  

[00:27:20] Jamon Fries:

Okay.  

[00:27:21] Jesse Fries:

This was a statute of Northampton,   in The UK,   in England.   And basically, this statute   made the offense of riding or going armed, punishable by forfeiture of the offender's   armor.   Then the I don't know what that has to do with anything, but that's what it was.   Then the government,   brought up a colonial American,   policies,   where authorities,   they said that a colony could incarcerate a person who   rode or goes armed offensively   to the fear or terror of the good citizens.   Okay. So if he's riding about and whatnot causing citizens to go, what the hell you doing? And the citizens get all upset.   You can arrest them. So there's that. There's that.  

And then there was another one.   After,   we became a country   where it said that going armed with dangerous and unusual weapons, would be a crime against,   public peace.   So Okay. That's going out into   public. Right? The only issue is that   this was in his home.   This was in the guy's home. He had a machine gun.   Right? Fully automatic machine gun in his own home. So if you take   all three of those things, which say going out into public   or riding,   the judge is going, what are you doing? You can't even use that in this case.   The judge pointed out, yeah, the judge pointed out that the defendant wasn't in public or riding anywhere, and he was at home.  

So that history didn't even matter. But, basically, it all boils down to, the dangerous and unusual. Right?   Sorry. I'm kinda geeking out here. I love reading these opinions and get getting into funny things like that writing and everything like that. Oh, yeah. No. Absolutely.   But,   in this case, it's dangerous and unusual. And see,   there are apparently 740,000   of these machine guns in The United States   or of Okay. All machine guns. The judge goes,   740,000   is not unusual.   No. No. That makes it a fairly usual weapon. Yes. Right. Right. Right. And then it goes into he goes, well, that's the number that the defendants   said. The the   the prosecutors, they didn't give a number on how many there were in The United States. But there was a case that said maybe a hundred thousand or something like that. But the judge is going, it doesn't matter. Even that one, that was changed by Buren.  

So it all comes down to Buren of dangerous and unusual. And so there you go. We can have machine guns.  

[00:30:07] Jamon Fries:

Nice. Nice. Yeah.   That's very interesting.  

[00:30:14] Jesse Fries:

Isn't it?   Yeah. I'm not sure if they can be made, but,   you know, it's,  

[00:30:20] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. No. I don't I don't think they can legally be sold in The US.   So you you you could only get them through the black market or by altering themselves   altering them yourself,   and it's illegal to alter them yourself.   So   Right. I think you can also inherit. On the Yeah. I think Yes. You can inherit. That would that would be the one the one and only way that you could legally possess,   possess it. No. Because you can't modify it yourself. You can't buy it from a dealer.   And if you buy it on the black market, it's just automatically an illegal weapon anyways.  

[00:30:57] Jesse Fries:

Yeah.  

[00:31:02] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. It's just crazy.   Yeah. Talking about courts, you know, all the lawsuits that are popping up all over the place.   People suing to stop the different,   different things from happening. Like 27 different church organizations   have sued to start to to keep ice from going into the churches to arrest people. Right. Right. Right. Yeah.   What I find funny is they keep quoting this one this one occurrence where this guy was at the church,   pray it was at the church worshiping,   and he then he got arrested by ICE.   Uh-huh.  

But when I actually read what really what actually happened, they they arrested him outside of the church   while other people were inside the church worshiping.  

[00:31:49] Jesse Fries:

Well, yeah. That doesn't   count. No.   Sorry. You you stepped outside. That that's the   that's always been sanctuary. You you know, it's like sanctuary is if you stay in the church.   Yeah. You know, of long ago,   ways that sanctuary   would work and everything like that. If you stay in the church,   you're safe. Once you step out,  

[00:32:13] Jamon Fries:

the the government can grab you. Yeah. Plain and simple. Yeah. But, yeah, they're they're using that to say, see, we need to sue because, you know, we're we're afraid that they'll that they'll take our parishioners too because, you know, we have we have a lot of people that are illegal in our communities and in our churches.   And, you know, if we're doing a food drive or something like that, we're gonna have a lot of illegals come in. And so we're afraid that they'll come and arrest them. And so people will be afraid to afraid to come to get the food.   So, you know, yeah.  

Yeah.   Whereas where if you look at the actual wording of all of the laws and stuff. Uh-huh.   There is no such thing as a saint there is no sanctuary within a church.  

[00:32:59] Jesse Fries:

No. But it's been tradition is basically It's been tradition. It's But it's only been tradition with the Catholic church. Yes. Only with the Catholic church. Only with the Catholic church. So  

[00:33:09] Jamon Fries:

But   there's only   one group of Catholic churches that is that is filing this lawsuit. The rest of them aren't.  

[00:33:19] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. See, to me, that's,   yeah. No. It's, it's a Catholic thing. To to me, it's Yeah. It's just it's just a confession.   Yes.   You you know, confession is,  

[00:33:31] Jamon Fries:

that's Catholic. Plain and simple Yeah. Catholic. That's it. You know? It's, so Yeah. I I I know for a fact that I have never heard of anyone claiming sanctuary in a Lutheran church.  

[00:33:43] Jesse Fries:

No. No. I haven't. I haven't. They they might hide them. You know?   But   Yeah. Yeah. That's about it.  

[00:33:51] Jamon Fries:

So But now the the way that the laws are written, though, is that any   public portion of the building Right. They can go into.   Okay. Which means they can go into the sanctuary. They can go into the foyer.   They can go everywhere but the offices   in the church.  

[00:34:09] Jesse Fries:

That's interesting. See see that   I could I could see why a church would wanna argue against that. I I really do. Oh, yeah. No. I I absolutely can too. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Let's see. Because   to me, if I was a church, just as a church, as any entity, I'd want a warrant for that, you know, personally. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So, you know, I I I could understand that why you would want,   to at least have a warrant,  

[00:34:35] Jamon Fries:

otherwise because they they do need one if they're gonna go into, like, the offices and stuff. Right. Right. Because   the Everett because it's open to the public, it becomes a public place. Yeah. Therefore, they technically don't need a warrant to go there. But it's also private property, and so even just Yeah.  

[00:34:52] Jesse Fries:

You know, it gets iffy. It gets iffy when it comes to that. Yeah. So so yeah. No. It's,   you know, that's interesting. I wonder how they'll,   work itself out in the court. That's  

[00:35:04] Jamon Fries:

And then, groups are   suing the Doge because they have access   to people's information   with all of the with with all of their data dumps that they've done from the different bureaucracies   and stuff.  

[00:35:18] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. Yeah. I don't but isn't that, like, attorney generals that are suing   and not  

[00:35:25] Jamon Fries:

because no. The the the there is that, but there's also a cybersecurity   group Uh-huh. That is suing.  

[00:35:34] Jesse Fries:

I wonder if they have standing. See, a lot of these things, I'm not sure if the the people actually have standing.  

[00:35:39] Jamon Fries:

Because Well, with the cybersecurity group, I'm sure probably some of their customers   are the are government employees.   And so it they they potentially would have standing due to the fact that their customer who they're trying to protect,   their data is being given to these people.  

[00:35:56] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. I I don't think that's how standing works. I really don't. Yeah. I I don't know.   Yeah. That's interesting.  

[00:36:02] Jamon Fries:

Stand standing, though, is a very strange creature.  

[00:36:05] Jesse Fries:

It it really is. And   yeah. If if you don't have stand it's it's it's like attorney the attorney's general, like, suing also. It's like I'm going what standing do they have? They're not actually going after   Yeah. Because they also sued to stop, like, the people them getting into the treasury.   Yep.   What's their standing on that one? I I really don't know. Yeah.   Be because they say, oh, Social Security numbers and everything like that. Well, they found out that there's, like, a hundred thousand people with the same Social Security number in this country. You know? It's like Yeah.   You know? It's like so   how else are they gonna find that out? So, you know, it's like Yeah. No kidding. They're all illegals. You know? It's Yes. Absolutely.  



[00:36:50] Jamon Fries:

For me, the whole issue of standing   has just become a joke.   Ever since Trump tried to take,   of the election results to court Right. In 2020.   Uh-huh. And they told him as the person that was running for president   that he did not have standing to question the votes.   No. Yeah. Yeah. It it's If if the person running for office doesn't have standing to question   the votes,   who the hell does?  

[00:37:21] Jesse Fries:

That's the thing. This is how   bureaucracies   get to where they get to.   Over bloated is how,   all this stuff gets to be. Yeah.  

[00:37:31] Jamon Fries:

They make it so nobody can do anything against them. Mhmm. They make it so that no one can bring a lawsuit or anything like that. Yep.   And yet they say that they're serving democracy.  

[00:37:46] Jesse Fries:

Because they are. Don't you know it? Damn it. Yeah. Yeah.  

[00:37:49] Jamon Fries:

Strangest democracy I've ever seen. Right.  

[00:37:53] Jesse Fries:

Right?   Let's see.   What else do we got here?   What's this top Democrats war in The US is starting the death of democracy in the the  

[00:38:12] Jamon Fries:

Trump ignoring the courts.  

[00:38:14] Jesse Fries:

Got it. Got it. Got it. Yeah. Oh, let let let's do this. And so in the Atlantic, there is this article   about the new authoritarian   what not not not not.   And basically what it boils down to   is that who whoever is writing this now The Atlantic is very left leaning. Right? And so Okay. The the guy who's writing this or lady, I can't remember who it was. But basically,   he   he basically calls all conservatives   authoritarians,   like world leaders. It's kinda funny. It's like   he says,   incumbents deploy the machinery of government to push, harass, co opt, or sideline their opponents, disadvantaging   them in every contest, and in so doing,   entrenching themselves in power.  

This is   where he thinks Trump is going.   And then he goes on to say, crucially, this abuse of the state's power does not require upending the constitution.   Competitive autocracies usually begin by capturing the referees,   replacing professional civil servants   and policy specialists with loyalists in key public agencies,   particularly the those that investigate or prosecute wrongdoing,   adjudicate disputes,   or regular economic life.   Elected autocrats such as Hugo Chavez,   This is the that's the only leftist on this list.   It's Hugo Chavez,   who's dead. And then he goes, and Vladimir,   Vladimir Putin,   Recep,   however,   Erdogan, you know, the Turkey guy. Yeah.  

Viktor Orban,   the Hungarian guy,   Narendra,   Modi, Indian.   He's a conservative,   Indian.   And then Naeib   Bukele,   who is,   he's the guy down in   what what country was he in?   Down in South America?   He's the one that arrested all the gang members and threw him in jail. Remember him? Oh, Venezuela?   Yeah. No. No. No. No. Not Venezuela.   I can't remember   the name of the country. But   Yeah. I can't either. Yeah. Anyways, it's that guy. And so, basically, it's all these right leaning people.   And these he said that, they purge public prosecutors' offices, intelligence agencies,   tax authorities, electoral   authorities, and media regulatory bodies, courts, and other state institutions, and pack them with loyalists.  

Okay. So   as a conservative   now now I know how they think about it. But as conservatives I I I heard that entire list that you said of what they do. Uh-huh. Tell me what you think. And  

[00:41:01] Jamon Fries:

I'm like, hasn't that already been done by the Democrats?  

[00:41:05] Jesse Fries:

Yes. That was Biden. This this was exactly my point.   He he said all these things, and this is exactly why people voted for Trump.   Yeah. This is what Trump supporters think happened to him   from the other side. The FBI going after him. Them going after him trying to stop him from running for election.   Yeah. You know? It's like   everybody was against him.  

[00:41:29] Jamon Fries:

And you you you know, with with the loading the dem the bureaucracies   with with their with their own people,   Trump is not trying to load the bureaucracies with his own people. He's getting rid of those people.  

[00:41:43] Jesse Fries:

Yes. Yes. Now I understand   see, to me, the where the Democrats get hung up is that in all of his executive orders, he goes,   they need to be loyal to the president.   Yes.   That's all it says is president. This means both parties.  

[00:42:01] Jamon Fries:

Yes. It it does not mean that they need to be loyal to Trump. It means that they be that they need to be loyal to the executive that is voted into into power. Yep. They need to be they need to follow the president's direction, whoever the president is. And this is where  

[00:42:18] Jesse Fries:

the Democrats and everything like that really have a hard time. They add things into what is said.  

[00:42:24] Jamon Fries:

Yes.  

[00:42:26] Jesse Fries:

It's like, well, I I'm calling you what I what I am, you know.   It's it's basically what they're doing, you know. It's Yeah.   America's   Conservatives just want to be left alone, and   that that's all we want. Just let us live our life. And if you go after our people, that's not letting us live, you know? Just because of what we believe, you know? It's,   you know, it's just like the banks.   Good segue, actually. So,   so Warren Elizabeth Warren actually agrees with Trump on something. Can you believe that? No way. Yeah. Pocahontas agrees with Trump. It is crazy.   But basically, they both agree that banks closing accounts of people due to political or religious beliefs is wrong. They actually both believe this. Can you believe that?  

She she's  

[00:43:15] Jamon Fries:

she's siding with him on this one, actually. Wow. She was she actually made the same decision then. Yeah. Yeah.  

[00:43:21] Jesse Fries:

She said, that it it kinda gets funny.   Warren said that her office has identified thousands of these examples of people being kicked out of bank accounts and can't access their funds or anything like that. Mhmm.   Warren said, for me, this is straightforward. It doesn't matter who you voted for, what you believe in, or the origin of your last name. People shouldn't be, arbitrarily denied access to their banks, locked out of their accounts, or stripped of their banking privileges.   Yeah.   Let's see here. Looks like also with this, Biden apparently also told banks   to stay away from crypto companies   and crypto,   money and everything like that. So there's also that. Trump   has a different mind frame on crypto.  

Yeah.   And most of the complaints about,   banks, closing accounts or taking money, not letting people access it, it's from the big four banks. JPMorgan   Chase, Bank of America, Citigroup, and Wells Fargo.  

[00:44:21] Jamon Fries:

So Okay.  

[00:44:22] Jesse Fries:

But what's funny   this is the funny bit.   So   okay.   So Warren said that the best way to tackle all this issue   is through the bureau that she set up. This was the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau,   and which is hilarious because under Trump,   this thing has been completely shut down.   You know? So   so   this group,   this group is kind of interesting. Do you know anything about the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau?  

[00:44:55] Jamon Fries:

I've heard a little bit about it, but not really.  

[00:44:58] Jesse Fries:

Okay. So what it is, it's this group that   doesn't get its doesn't gets doesn't get its money from the Congress.   So it's not appropriated by the Congress.  

[00:45:10] Jamon Fries:

Okay.  

[00:45:11] Jesse Fries:

And it is completely separate from the executive,   but it's also within the executive.  

[00:45:19] Jamon Fries:

But if it's not Congress and it's not executive,   doesn't that mean it's not part of government? It it it is. It is it's  

[00:45:29] Jesse Fries:

loosely executive.   It is it is underneath   a department.   So there is that.   But it gets its funny straight its funding straight from the Fed.   And it can just ask for however much it wants.  

[00:45:46] Jamon Fries:

That seems a little bit off to me.   Right? Yeah.  

[00:45:50] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. It it it's the strangest thing.  

[00:45:54] Jamon Fries:

And so because I was reading on I was reading something about it too, and it's like it was saying that a lot of what it does is, like,   it ensures, like, social justice or something like that   Yeah. Or environmental justice or whatever. Yeah. I I can't remember exactly what what it was, but, you know, just some of that stuff that just makes absolutely no sense.  

[00:46:19] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. Yeah. There there there is that,   and a lot of it just doesn't make sense at all. But, yeah, it's,   I I I found that rather interesting.   And so because of that because of that,   Trump's appointee   to this,   I think I think it might be secretary of treasury. I can't remember exactly who is in charge of it. But what he did this year is that he said, we're not taking any appropriation.   He goes, we have enough money. We don't need that.   And and now he's thinking of giving money back.   Nice. So so it's kind of funny how Warren goes, yeah. This this is the group we should use. And   the Yeah.  

The chimp goes,   no no money there.   I think it's funny.  

[00:47:09] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. You know, one one of the arguments that I've been hearing for all of for against all of the stuff that Doge is doing and stuff like that Uh-huh. Is that is that they say that, you know, that the senate   that the that the house has has assigned all of this money to be spent by this by this bureau,   by this bureaucracy and stuff like that. And you can't, you can't prevent them for you can't say that they can't spend it. Mhmm. Because it's been approved by the house,   but   the house   approves a budget.   Whether the bureaucracy   uses the budget   Mhmm.  

Is not the purview of the house.   Right. Right. It's the purview of the executive   to use the, to use the money that's needed   in a way that's responsible   to the taxpayers.   Yeah.   Yeah.   So, you know, which which is where we come into the big problem and why there's so much government spending   is because for some reason, they've gotten into the mindset   that   the and this is all I think this is all related to the house,   where if you don't spend the money this year, it means you don't need it next year.  

[00:48:27] Jesse Fries:

Right. Right.  

[00:48:29] Jamon Fries:

So we're going to spend   $5,000,000   to put two toilets into into your building.   That way, we get that 5,000,000   next year too.   Mhmm. Yep. And that's a huge problem. I mean, just the the just that way of thinking is so critically flawed.  

[00:48:48] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. It really is. It really is. Because some years you need more, some years you need less. You know? Yeah. It's just how it is. Sometimes you have to do a big expense, and then other years you don't because you already made that big expense back in the day. You know? So Yeah. So sometimes you need to fix the roof on your building.  

[00:49:04] Jamon Fries:

Yes. Yes. You don't you don't put you you don't put the fixing the roof in the of the building into the budget every year. You need every once every twenty, thirty years.  

[00:49:15] Jesse Fries:

Yep. Yep.  

[00:49:21] Jamon Fries:

But, yeah, so, it's it's just really crazy.  

[00:49:25] Jesse Fries:

It really is. It really is. So let let let let let's just,   I think we're mostly done with politics. So   if anybody can tell, we're using new software today.   This is, we're using Clean Feed, which is   there's   a lot less latency in between me and   Jamin over here. Yes. We could we could actually talk like a real conversation. It's   pretty nice, actually.   But also,   I I I've been having some mic issues. So what I found out   was that you know how I had to bump up, Jamin, how I had to bump up, my mic? I always said I had to bump it up by, like, 400% or something like that. Yeah. I found out why.   Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So in my system, it was sent   set down to, like, 20%  

[00:50:16] Jamon Fries:

volume on the mic. I I was wondering why yours had to be bumped up to 400 and mine's at, like, 80 or something. Yeah.  

[00:50:22] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. It's because of that.   Because I'm an idiot.  

[00:50:28] Jamon Fries:

Oh, man. That's hilarious.  

[00:50:31] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. But I think, we're we're we're getting there. We're getting there. You know? Yeah. You know, we're we're we're getting we're starting to get to   low level amateur status, I I would say, with our our skills,   with this podcast   after 24 episodes. But we're getting there. We're getting there.   Yep.   But speaking of this podcast, we are a value for value model here. So if you guys can, help us out, send whatever donations you can for us, whether this show is worth, like, a dollar or worth $300   or $500,   just send us what you can.   Also, send us information if you wanted us to cover something. If you have some inside track on something, please let us know. Maybe we could use it on the podcast.  

You can email me at jesse@mindlessc.com.   And that's Jesse, j e s s e. You know, like biblical spelling, not,   no I in there, people.   And you can email Jamin, that's j a m o n, like ham in Spanish,   minus mianne rais dot com. Hey, now.   But,   yeah. Please, help us out any which way you can. We would just like to hear from you too. We like to hear from people.   If you disagree with us, we may, like, tell you that you're wrong. But, you know, that's okay. There's another wrong with that as well.   So please help us out. We have fun doing this. So  

[00:51:54] Jamon Fries:

Everyone learns more when people disagree.  

[00:51:57] Jesse Fries:

Right? Exactly. If everybody agrees, it's awfully boring. You know? Yeah. So  

[00:52:02] Jamon Fries:

but then some people Maybe that's why so few people listen to us. We don't disagree on anything. Yeah.  

[00:52:10] Jesse Fries:

There've been a couple things, but not too many. Things. Yeah. No. We're we're we're pretty simpatico   overall.   Yep.   Yeah. Oh, well. You know, what can you do?   We're we're just sharing our insights. Just because, we think alike doesn't mean much. So Yeah. Yeah.   Let's see here.   Well, with that, let let let's get into some crazy stuff. So The UK   so The UK ordered Apple   to open up to put a backdoor into their encryption.   This is this is specifically,   like, the advanced data protections   that Mhmm.   Apple did, which was,   ensuring that the encryption stayed in the cloud.  

Okay. Because for a while there,   Apple   if it went to the cloud, it wouldn't be encrypted.   And so now you can turn it on on your phone. It's a setting. You can turn it on so that whatever's on your phone gets transmitted to the cloud encrypted.   Oh, okay. Yeah. Yeah.  

[00:53:12] Jamon Fries:

Much more secure that way. No. Completely. Completely.  

[00:53:17] Jesse Fries:

The issue though is   is that The UK,   they did a secret order, a secret law,   that the where they ordered Apple and maybe other companies to create a backdoor into their encryption   on the cloud systems.   Now we don't know if any other companies are affected,   because the law itself states that the companies cannot tell anyone   they've they've been ordered to do it.  

[00:53:47] Jamon Fries:

Holy crap.  

[00:53:49] Jesse Fries:

Yes. So I don't know how this leaked that Apple   got this,   but   it leaks somehow. I I Yeah. I'm sure The UK will try to find it and find the person Oh, yeah. Throw them in jail.   But,   yeah, this leaked out. Okay?   And but so   this would be   bad and everything like that,   because, you know, it would apply to British citizens. Right?   So but I'm not British citizen, so who cares? Right?  

[00:54:23] Jamon Fries:

Right.  

[00:54:24] Jesse Fries:

No.   The UK this law says they this backdoor has to be there for the UK government to get into everybody's   account on the planet.  

[00:54:39] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. No. I don't think they can do that.  

[00:54:42] Jesse Fries:

Well, this is what the law says.   Yeah. Yeah. No. It is completely   fucked up.  

[00:54:49] Jamon Fries:

It is. Well, it's just that that's that's much along the lines of that one,   couple weeks ago where we where the   where the,   EU was trying to put laws in   that would force it that would force other countries,   companies and other countries to follow their their guidelines and stuff. Yep.   I mean,   you know, there there has to be a limit to it. There has to be something  

[00:55:20] Jesse Fries:

yeah. There there there has to be   sovereignty   Yes.   Of   about what you can actually make a law about. Like, you cannot go outside your borders.   Yeah. If   and it has to be a digital. Right now, we're still kinda   we're in the beginning phases still of the whole   IT revolution that's going on. Yeah. Absolutely. And so we really need to figure this out quick. Yes. And and it's advancing so fast that, I mean,   what's relevant now won't be relevant a month from now. Yeah. Yeah. And what's funny is that this comes after what, like, a month or two ago? Homeland Security says,   everybody should be using end to end encryption.  

Yeah.   Apparently, The UK did not get that memo.  

[00:56:09] Jamon Fries:

Well, you know, I mean, you can almost   say   that by   doing this, the UK is trying to spy on all of the con on every country.   Because how many government employees use Apple?  

[00:56:23] Jesse Fries:

No. A lot. A lot. But but as as I said,   we only know about the Apple.  

[00:56:30] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. And it's illegal to talk about it. Yeah. So I'm sure it's it's probably the others too, though. I mean, I'm sure it's Google and everything. Yeah. It it has to be. I mean, they they wouldn't they wouldn't only want the information from Apple. They would want it from everybody.  

[00:56:45] Jesse Fries:

Exactly. Exactly. So yeah.   That's coming through you playing with that wire there. Oh, sorry.   But, yeah, it it it's   people say that Trump is fascist,   but, seriously, the UK government   is really going down a totalitarian   route. It's crazy.   Well, I mean and and The US under Biden was starting to go down that route a little bit. Right. But we have protections at least. Thank God for the second amendment and everything like that. Oh, yeah. Yeah. The second and the first. All all of our amendments are so needed. It is crazy. Thank God we're a republic, not a democracy.   Right.  

Yeah. Yeah.  

[00:57:28] Jamon Fries:

But when I I was reading one thing talk where they were say where they were saying, you know, somebody somebody mentioned that we're a republic. We're not a democracy.   Right. Somebody else said, well, republican democracy, they're interchangeable.   You can you can replace one with one of with the other with no problems.   And I I'm sitting there thinking to myself, no. There there's one huge difference.   Uh-huh. That one huge difference is that in a republic,   the minority is protected by a constitution.   In a democracy,   the minority has no protection.  



[00:58:02] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. Yeah.   I   I sounds valid to me. Yeah. Yeah. So yeah. That constitution and   not   the British say they have a constitution, which it Yes. Cracks me up.  

[00:58:16] Jamon Fries:

It cracks me up. Most democracies   do have demark do do have them, but they don't have to follow them. No. No. That's not it, Jabin. That's not it.  

[00:58:26] Jesse Fries:

There is no written constitution in The UK.   Really?   Yes. There is no constitution.   So how why how can they say they have a constitution? They just do. I don't know how. They say these are the rights. And then they go, well,   it's not written down. So the government goes, well, I can do whatever I want anyways. But but but we have a constitution.   The only constitution that's been written down in The UK   was,   what the hell was it? It was a long time ago. Hundreds   of of years ago.   Magna Carta. Magna Carta. There you go. Yeah. Magna Carta. Yep.   That is the only   written   institution per se in the coo UK. Yeah.  



[00:59:12] Jamon Fries:

Okay. So that's the only one that's really written in that's only in stone.   Everything else is just lip service.  

[00:59:19] Jesse Fries:

Yes. Everything else is completely lip service.  

[00:59:22] Jamon Fries:

Wow.   Yeah.   That's kinda shocking.  

[00:59:26] Jesse Fries:

Right? Yeah. So there's a written constitution and then there's just a constitution.   The constitution doesn't mean anything.   It's the written constitution where it is   it's a stone tablet sort of situation. Yeah. Yeah. That's what you need. Otherwise Yep.   Yeah.   Because they say they have freedom of speech over there. We know they they they don't anymore.   You know?  

[00:59:49] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. I mean, that that's one thing that I've always found very hilarious. You know, even China says that it has freedom of speech. Yeah. Yeah.   But, yes, say something China doesn't like, and you suddenly lose all of your freedom.  

[01:00:03] Jesse Fries:

Well, you had   have the right to say whatever you want. Mind the consequences.   Yeah.  

[01:00:09] Jamon Fries:

It's basically what it is. Yeah. It's, Yeah. Yeah. There I've seen so many so many different countries that say that they have freedom of speech.   Mhmm. And   there's always a little caveat on there that's added that's, you know, added silently   as long as you say what we want you to say.  

[01:00:26] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. No. And that's how it was. It was starting to get here that way here with the cancel culture and Yeah. Everything like that.   Facebook and everything like that, not letting people talk about the the vaccine or Oh, yeah. Yeah. COVID in general or Yep. Ivermectin   or whatever. You know? It's  

[01:00:48] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. And, you know, normally, I wouldn't   say much about the cases here in The US with Facebook and stuff like that Uh-huh. Because,   you know, it's a private entity. It can do whatever it wants to.   Yes. I agree. The problem the problem that it runs into though   is when   the government started requesting them to to do that. That's that's where it came into big problems for me. Also, the fact that there was really   every single social media site was doing the same thing. So there was there was none that didn't do it. No. Exactly. You know, to me, that that made it more of   a more of a monopoly   on   on social media than anything else. Mhmm. Yeah.  



[01:01:38] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. No. I I agree. I agree. It's the government getting involved. A company can make any rules they want.   If you don't like it, leave. That that that's Yeah. Our view. But if the government is telling the company   what to do   Yeah. That's the government   affecting free speech.   Yep. So Absolutely.   Yeah. It it is pure craziness.  

[01:02:00] Jamon Fries:

Even though they weren't technically   telling them to block these people,   they were just making suggestions.   Yes. But that suggestion   is still an infringement of the freedom of speech.  

[01:02:12] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. Especially if it's like, okay. Well, if you don't do this, we may have to look at this other law over here, see how you Yeah. Yeah. You know?  

[01:02:20] Jamon Fries:

Yep.   Yep.   Yeah. Well, you you may you may end up getting audited every   year, you know, if you don't do this.  

[01:02:29] Jesse Fries:

Exactly.   Oops.   Let's see here.   I also have,   there's this which one was it? Oh, in The UK, another Since we we were kinda talking about The UK.   So in The UK, they're thinking of doing,   assisted suicide. They're thinking of allowing,   that sort of Okay.   The labor party over there is.   But,   apparently, there's also this thing where   if you're a pensioner, so you're retired,   if you die before 75 years old,   everything that's in your pension   will not be taxed   to the inheritor.   Okay. But if you're over 75,   it will be taxed probably at, like, 40 to 60%.   So if you're kinda feeling off   and you're coming up on 75,   you may just wanna off yourself to help your family out. Just say it.  



[01:03:34] Jamon Fries:

That's insane.   Right?  

[01:03:37] Jesse Fries:

Yeah.  

[01:03:40] Jamon Fries:

And if you were gonna tax, I'd tax them when they're younger   rather than when they're older because by the time they've older they're older, they've already gone through a bunch of it. Yeah. I know. I know. But yeah. So it's  

[01:03:53] Jesse Fries:

isn't that weird?   That is very weird. Yeah. But yeah. I could see it's it's like if you're pretty much dead anyway, so your birthday's coming up.   Yep. Just if you're gonna be dead in a year   Oh, yeah. It's gonna save your family a hundred thousand pounds.   Yeah. How much a hundred thousand pounds is holy? That's a especially with how quite a bit. Yeah. It is. It is.   It's even more than just the exchange rate. You know? It's a Yeah. Yeah. Absolutely.   What else we got? Let's see here.  

[01:04:29] Jamon Fries:

Well, coming back to,   stuff here in The US,   Do you hear   about,   the mayor in the New York mayor Eric Adams?   The Department of Justice   is directing them to drop all to drop the lawsuits against them.  

[01:04:46] Jesse Fries:

Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah.  

[01:04:49] Jamon Fries:

I I found it very hilarious.   Mhmm. You know, he's he's being charged with corruption and all this other stuff.  

[01:04:56] Jesse Fries:

Right.  

[01:04:57] Jamon Fries:

And   the thing that stuck out to me was within the deal within the the letter that the DOJ was given,   it says that the reason for doing this   is   because   it if you don't if he does get charged,   it may hinder   the the the   ICE response to illegal immigrants in New York City.  

[01:05:22] Jesse Fries:

I could see that, actually. I could see that. I can absolutely see that. But  

[01:05:27] Jamon Fries:

for that to be a reason to drop a case   of corruption?  

[01:05:35] Jesse Fries:

Well,   Trump and his,   people have always said that,   that that case against,  

[01:05:44] Jamon Fries:

the man Oh, yeah. Yeah. The the there's a lot of yeah. There there's a lot of oh, let me especially, you know, you can you can say that because they didn't even start looking at him until he decided   to start   speaking for Trump   Yep. Yep. With about about the illegal and still he's until he started complaining about illegal immigrants in New York City.   All of a sudden, they start going after a move for corruption. You see, you know I mean, I have absolutely no doubt that there was some political   some political aspect to that. And if that was the reason that they were having the Department of Justice drop it, I'm perfectly fine with that. Mhmm.   You know, I've I've also heard some people say that another reason for dropping it is because   the election is so close, they don't want this court case   to   to interfere with the election results in any way.  

Okay. Okay. I could see that. Which completely makes sense for me for me for that too.   And, you know, the it's it's not like he's being pardoned or anything like that, so they can always pick it back up, pick up the case when when they when they're done with him, basically.   Uh-huh. They can they can reinvestigate and see if there actually was corruption or not.   But,   yeah, it's just in in the written language that was the reason for dropping the case was because   it would it would hinder the the,   ISIS work in New York City. And I'm like, you know,   out of all of the reasons that you could've given,   that is gotta be the shittiest one by far.  



[01:07:19] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. Yeah. That is   that is kinda funny. It's,   yeah. Somebody just goes, this is gonna be a good joke.  

[01:07:27] Jamon Fries:

Yep. Yep.  

[01:07:31] Jesse Fries:

Nice. Nice.   Let's see here. Let's do,   some   science, I guess.   So,   apparently,   Ozempic can make people go blind. Did you know this?  

[01:07:48] Jamon Fries:

I didn't know that aspect of it. I knew a lot of other stuff about it.  

[01:07:52] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. Yeah. Apparently, it can make people go blind,   because of, like, some sort of it can cause,   like,   blood issues in your eye, and it will coagulate   and form a scab in your eye on the nerve and everything like that. Mhmm. And so it can cause some people to go blind. Don't get me wrong. It's not a lot. But Right. Just this just brought up some of the side effects of this, GPL one, or some meglutide.   So so some of these are thyroid tumors   Mhmm. Stomach paralysis   Yep. Which can lead to nausea, vomiting, and malnutrition.   Yep. And then always my favorite, suicidal thoughts. You gotta love that one. Oh, yeah. And then sexual dysfunction and hair loss.  



[01:08:37] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. Yeah. All of which are reasons why when I when my told when my doctor told me they wanted to put me on one of them, I looked at them and said, hell no.  

[01:08:50] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. Yeah. It it's   I don't trust drugs to do that sort of thing, you know. It's No.  

[01:08:56] Jamon Fries:

There are perfectly natural ways to lose weight. I don't need a drug to do it. Yeah. Now the the the fact that I don't have   the,   I don't have the ability to   keep myself   concentrated on losing weight is why I haven't lost weight.   You know, I I don't have the drive to do it. Yep. But   that's   you know, I mean,   if I had the drive to do it, I could very easily lose the weight.   Mhmm. It's just, you know, I really like sugar, and I really like carbs.  

[01:09:30] Jesse Fries:

No. I understand.   I understand.   I've actually   given up beer during the week. So Oh, wow. Yeah. Yeah. I which   I would always have, like, at least one or two, if not more.   Yeah. I had shifted down to, like, Miller Lite or just light beer, but then I got Okay. Let let me just try without. So, yeah, I I I still drink and whatnot on the weekends or special occasions. But Yeah. Yeah. I I've seen if that helps. I'll lose the few pounds I'm overweight and whatnot. So, yeah, we'll see. Yeah. Well We'll see. There's a lot of carb there's a lot of carbs in beer, and there's a lot of stuff like that. So Yep. Yep. It very well could help.   Yeah. Hopefully. Hopefully. Yep. So what are the iPhone rumors?  



[01:10:16] Jamon Fries:

Oh,   just the the it's just, the types of stuff that's gonna be on the iPhone.  

[01:10:22] Jesse Fries:

Anything new?  

[01:10:25] Jamon Fries:

They're replacing   the   they won't have a 17,   x,   which was the it, I think it was the x, which was,   basically the   the non pro version of the Pro Max.   So the big the bigger phone, but without the pro version.   Okay. So the XL or whatever. Yeah. Yeah. Max. Yeah. They they won't they won't have that one for the 17, instead they're gonna go with an Air,   which is going to be very, very thin and very light.  

[01:11:00] Jesse Fries:

We'll see.  

[01:11:02] Jamon Fries:

According to that. I mean, this is this it it's planned for a September launch, so No. Yeah. These are these are what they're these are what they're doing.   Another big change, though,   is   instead of making them out of, tungsten, I think is what they make them out of now.   Yeah. No clue. Something like that.   They're switching back to aluminum.  

[01:11:25] Jesse Fries:

Okay.   Okay.  

[01:11:27] Jamon Fries:

So there   some thoughts are that they're doing that because the   because they're increasing the price of the internal workings, and so they need to go they needed to go to a cheaper metal   for the for the outer case. Mhmm.   No. I I just found it really funny, you know, that it's, like,   just recently now, so so many people are buying the 16 because it finally has the AI in it and all this other stuff. Uh-huh.   And you'll have your phone for,   what, maybe   three, four months for for a lot of people,   and suddenly and then you're gonna look and you're they're pushing the 17 out so fast.  

[01:12:07] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. That's how it always is. Well, the Yeah. Well, the 17, it'll probably go on sale. They'll probably do the full reveal in September. They always do. Right. Right. So so but there's always these rumors and everything like that go on beforehand.   And then the   supposedly they'll announce iOS here soon, I think, in Right. Or something like that. Yeah. Supposedly, they're also looking at changing the,  

[01:12:31] Jamon Fries:

configuration of the camera   on the back. Uh-huh.   There's some people saying that they're gonna go to a,   straight bar all the way across the phone. Okay.   And some people are saying that they're gonna that they're gonna put the raised section so that it goes all the way across the phone, but the camera will still be in its triangle format.   Basically, it it has something to do with,   the reason that the that the cameras are situated, they are the way they are now,   is for more of a three d live type type picture   for video. Uh-huh.  

But   other companies are doing that with the with the bar all the way where the where the lenses are all in one line. They're just doing it with software. So they're they're not sure if they're gonna use software to correct and do the straight line bar or if they're gonna keep it in the triangle pattern. Who knows? But, they'll have to find some way to  

[01:13:28] Jesse Fries:

to to me, it's like, this is how Apple does it, and then Samsung does it a different way, then Google does it a different way. So they'll just have to come up with  

[01:13:36] Jamon Fries:

some other way to differentiate because you could tell a phone just from the backside, really, you know. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Absolutely. Yeah. Now the the biggest thing that they were the biggest thing that the that the video that I watched on it was, was talking about was, you know,   iPhones   looked exactly the same for way too long. We need to really change what it looks like.  

[01:13:58] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. Yeah. The the that's how it always is. That is Yep. How it always is. Yeah. It's,   let's see here. Oh, yeah. Taylor Swift getting booed.   So I'm sorry, Jamin. I'm sorry your Chiefs lost, you know. Yes. Yes. They they lost miserably.   And it wasn't just a  

[01:14:16] Jamon Fries:

loss. It was just a destiny. Oh, no. They they were they were destroyed. They were crushed. Completely destroyed. It was the only reason why they scored it towards the end is because it that was Eagles b team. Did you know that? Yeah. It was their b team. I I figured it had to be because their defensive line wasn't able to push the offensive line around anymore. Yep. Yep. You know, all of a sudden, the last ten minutes of the game, they're not getting the penetration that they were getting throughout the entire game. Yeah. And so I was like, okay. Either the Chiefs got really good real quick, which is not most which is very less very unlikely to have happened. Right. Right. Or they put their subs in. Yeah. They put the subs in. They they go, well, we're so far up. I think everybody can have a chance to play. Yeah. There there's no there's they have the Chiefs have no chance of winning. Let's just get everybody in the game that we can. It's like, it's it's like senior night in in varsity football Uh-huh. Where you make sure that every senior gets out on the on the field. Yep. Yep. Yep.  

[01:15:17] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. No. That that   god. The Chiefs were destroyed. There is there's just no other way to say it. They're Yeah. Destroyed. It was it was horrible.   It really was. It really was. They sucked.  

[01:15:30] Jamon Fries:

I did like some of the comments, like, especially that one about, were the Chiefs receiving   USAID before?  

[01:15:38] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. That was a good joke. That was a good joke. That that was a good one.  

[01:15:44] Jamon Fries:

But yeah. No. It's   it I I've read two different articles on Taylor Swift getting booed. Uh-huh.   One of them   was talking about how   it was the Eagles fans that were booing her because   she has been a lifelong Eagles fan.   Right. And suddenly, because because she   started dating   the chief,   you know, all of a sudden now she's a huge Chiefs fan. Everything's about the Chiefs all of a sudden.   And so the so so the the so there was a sports magazine   that was that that wrote that, that it was the Eagles fans that were booing her. Uh-huh. The other one, I think, is the same source that you had, which was Glamour.   Uh-huh.  

Where I just talked about the misogyny.   It just proves that everyone's that all that everyone's misogynistic.   Right. You could hear all the males booing in the stadium.  

[01:16:41] Jesse Fries:

No. I really, I think people are kinda tired over. I I've just Oh, yeah. Yeah. To to me, that's what it is. The people are just tired over it. It's just Well, I'm just every time. It's like, who cares?  

[01:16:52] Jamon Fries:

Wait. The the reason that stars   stay popular is because they're not always in front of the population.   Yep. Yep. As soon as they as soon as seeing them becomes commonplace, which it has been because   every Sunday,   she was up on the TV because she went to the Chiefs game. Yep.   As soon as that becomes  

[01:17:15] Jesse Fries:

It's not just that. It's also   that they're outside their sphere while they do it. Yes.   If if   if,   star stays to their sphere, so, like Yes. Like an actor who just sticks to acting or whatnot. Once they actually enter,   like, politics or something else,   which she did. She entered the fray.   Yep. And that also led to party the booing, I would say. Oh, yeah. Well, I mean, considering  

[01:17:45] Jamon Fries:

the considering the re the applauses for Trump   Yeah. I there there were a lot of people that like Trump, and everybody knows that if you like Trump,  

[01:17:54] Jesse Fries:

Taylor Swift didn't like you too much. Yeah. Yeah. So, you know, to me   that to me, that's really what it was about.   Oh, yeah. You you know, it was the politics of it. And when stars get into politics, it it it doesn't do them well.  

[01:18:08] Jamon Fries:

No. It never does. It's  

[01:18:12] Jesse Fries:

yeah. It's like Clooney,   he he kinda   he's kinda into politics, but he's also   his main pushes have always been, like, humanitarian,   which is fine.  

[01:18:23] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. But when He when when he gets involved in in politics, it's always on the humanitarian level. Right. Yeah. Yeah. He doesn't It's not about who who you're gonna be electing and stuff like that. Yeah. Yeah. We all know who he wants and everything like that. Yeah.  

[01:18:38] Jesse Fries:

Funds, whatever he wants to give somebody Oh, absolutely. Yes. Which is fine. It's just when it comes to actually preaching to us, it's generally about, like, humanitarian   aid and Yep. So on and so forth. So so to me,   if you're gonna be a star and you wanna get involved, that's basically what you stick to. Otherwise Oh, yeah.  

[01:18:56] Jamon Fries:

You you find you find your project   Yep. And you stick to that project. You don't spread your your wings into other areas of politics   Yep. Exactly. Because you're not a politician.  

[01:19:08] Jesse Fries:

Yep. Yep. Speaking of politicians,   Trump, took away Biden's security clearance.   Yes. I heard about that. Yeah. So that was funny. That was  

[01:19:20] Jamon Fries:

a E o. Not that he couldn't know anything anyways with how mentally gone he is, but, you know, it's, Yeah. Well well Well, which is one of the reasons that he's that he stated that he took it.  

[01:19:34] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. Yeah. But then also, to me, it's also tit for tat because Biden took Trump.   Yep. So it's like he   Biden said, oh, that was  

[01:19:46] Jamon Fries:

the and that's that's one that's one thing that, you know, you notice about Trump is a lot of things that he does   are tit for tat.   Yeah. Yeah. No. It's all a response to what's been done to him.  

[01:19:59] Jesse Fries:

Yep.   No. It it really is. It's like when he was first elected back in, when he first became president twenty seventeen,   you know, everybody thought he would go after Hillary.   Yeah. He didn't.   No.   He could've.  

[01:20:14] Jamon Fries:

He even said he would in the in the in his in the when he was running. I know. It's like  

[01:20:19] Jesse Fries:

he's not really going after anybody in the Biden administration either. Oh, no. There might be some law, whatever, some corruption that comes up. But yeah. Well, if if you look at  

[01:20:30] Jamon Fries:

basically everything that he's done   about investigating   into   all that stuff,   he's not investigating   the people themselves.   He's investigating   the corruption that caused them, the FBI and the DOJ Yep. To be able to go after him. Yeah. And then getting rid of those people from the organization itself. Yes. You know? Yeah. Yeah. He's not going after other politicians. He's going after the people that actually   went against the constitution of The United States. Yeah. Exactly.  

[01:21:04] Jesse Fries:

Amazing how that works. It's crazy, isn't it? It's,   yeah. So   they they they seriously go after him for all these horrible things, but it's like   there's no proof.   Yeah. You you you know, some of them still bring up the Russia hoax. You know, it's like Yep. Are you fucking kidding me? Everybody, including the New York Times, has said not a thing.  

[01:21:26] Jamon Fries:

Yep.  

[01:21:26] Jesse Fries:

But now you're still bringing it up, you know. It it's Oh, yeah. Yeah. Absolutely.   It's as crazy as   the science museum in The UK   saying   that   Legos are anti   LGBT.  

[01:21:44] Jamon Fries:

How?   How? Oh, is it because they're male and female? Yes. That's exactly it. Oh, god. Oh my god.   I I thought there's no way I'm getting this one right.  

[01:21:58] Jesse Fries:

That is why.   Because they're anti   tea, you know.   It's just   I   you you you know, all I gotta say is plumbers and electricians have to watch out.  

[01:22:14] Jamon Fries:

Yes. Absolutely.  

[01:22:16] Jesse Fries:

Because   that's also anti trans, really, if you think about it. You know? There's a male and female pipe fittings, and male and female electrical fittings. You know? Yep.   One goes in the other. This is all it means, people. Come on. Yeah.  

[01:22:33] Jamon Fries:

Oh god. That is hilarious.  

[01:22:35] Jesse Fries:

Right?   Oh, speaking of that, did you know that, our websites now, like, state department and everything like that, they cut off the t? It's just LGB now.  

[01:22:49] Jamon Fries:

Is it really? Uh-huh.  

[01:22:51] Jesse Fries:

Nice. Yeah. Under Trump, they got rid of the t. It's just Okay. When when it talks about, like,   like on the states state department website when   it's talking about,   if you're LGB,   the things to watch out for because some countries aren't   friendly towards LGBs and everything like that. Right. That's all it says is LGBs.   There is no not an ounce of tea in there at all. It's just What about the Q?   No. No. No. What is q anyways? I I know it's queer, but   queer is I I always thought that queer was the same as gay, which is the same as Right. And then they changed it to mean this other thing. You can be gay but not queer and queer but not gay.   It's   it's been a whole   it's just a weirdness thing if you ask me. I it makes no   it's   it's mental gymnastics   in my  

[01:23:47] Jamon Fries:

Well, it all of it really is because, I mean,   if you think about the definition.  

[01:23:52] Jesse Fries:

Gay and lesbian is   that that To me, that's not   That's  

[01:24:00] Jamon Fries:

not But it actually is because   now I'm not going with the current definition of gay,   where it's two men. Uh-huh. Gay used to be anyone that liked the same sex. Well, it still kinda means that.  

[01:24:16] Jesse Fries:

Still kind of,  

[01:24:17] Jamon Fries:

some lesbians Which means that you don't need lesbian because they're gay.  

[01:24:22] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. I know. But the the the I mean slight difference there. But it's I I understand your point, but   just just let them have it, dude. Come on. Yeah. Yeah.  

[01:24:32] Jamon Fries:

You know, I I I have nothing against the LGB. I mean, you know, that that's   that that's perfectly fine. You know, I'd whatever they wanna classify themselves as far as that whatever letter they wanna signify themselves with.   But,  

[01:24:47] Jesse Fries:

yeah. I don't know.   Yeah. To me, I I live and let live, but   Yeah. A lot of the t trans stuff and everything like that hasn't been just letting people be. It's trying to force an agenda,   which to me is a problem. It's it's not whether or not you're trans. That's not an issue to me. It's trying to force   a situation.   Yes.   You you know, it's like once they got gay marriage, it just went completely   hardcore that way because Yep. Basically, they had won every battle that   there was that wasn't completely   strange. Yeah. I can understand the love thing. Gay marriage, fine. I I yeah. Fine. It's just Well, I mean, and and not only that, but I I understand that they needed  

[01:25:33] Jamon Fries:

the protections that marriage gives. No. Completely. The ability to inherit and everything else like that. No. And that was absolutely necessary.  

[01:25:40] Jesse Fries:

Yep. Yep. 100%.   Mhmm.   Let's see here. Okay. You had something about Google? Because I have a last story to put Google   with.   Let me see. You had something about Google.  

[01:25:54] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. They've they've removed their cultural events from the calendar,   such as, like,   the   culture event, cultural events, such as black history month.   They're also, they've also removed the, national pride week and national,   the pride month.   They've you, they've removed all of that stuff.  

[01:26:16] Jesse Fries:

Uh-huh.  

[01:26:18] Jamon Fries:

They say   it's because they have gotten to the point now where   they're they're since they're since they're global   Right. They're trying they they've been trying to add culture events for cultural events in all of the different countries, and there's just become too many of them for them to be able to to process it.   That's a good issue. It just so happens,   though, that   this all came about at the same time that they decided to get rid of DEI.  

[01:26:47] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. And Trump's in office and everything. Yeah.   I I I'm calling bullshit on that one. Yep.   Yeah. I swear to god. Because there's not that many countries. You could quickly just put whatever in real quick for every country. Oh, yeah. And it Yeah. It just And it it's not hard. You know, databases   like databases like that are very easy to maintain. Yeah. And you could be country specific. So if you have this IP address, it'll have this, you know. Yep. If this if your account is from here, then that that's fine, you know, wherever you set it up from. You can have that. You know, it's like Apple stuff. It keeps   it it's like when you go overseas, even if you're overseas for, like, a month or so,   it will keep you in America.  

Yeah. Like like what you can download and everything like that. It's still just the American App Store and everything like that. So Yep. Yeah. Yeah. No. It's easy to do. Easy to do. Yeah. But I I found I found their reasoning for it hilarious.   That is hilarious.   That is hilarious. So   have you noticed now that it is now the Gulf Of America   in Google Maps?  

[01:27:56] Jamon Fries:

No. I haven't. I actually haven't looked at it yet. Yep. It is now Gulf Of America. And Apple has  

[01:28:04] Jesse Fries:

took a little bit longer, but Apple Maps now shows   Gulf Of America.   Okay.   So a friend of mine, he he he sent me this meme,   where it was the the Gulf Of Mexico.   And and and it said, Totina's Pizza Rolls presents Gulf Of America powered by the Home Depot.   So so so this got us   talking to the point where it's like so   with this and then you add so it's the Gulf Of America and you could name it whatever you want. What we could do is in addition to the sovereign fund that Trump is wanting to get going, you know Yeah. What we could do is we could actually sell naming rights to everything. We could have Statue of Liberty Mutual.  

[01:28:51] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. We could.  

[01:28:53] Jesse Fries:

And then that money would just go into the   Sovereign Fund.  

[01:28:59] Jamon Fries:

Yeah.  

[01:29:01] Jesse Fries:

Anything you want.   Mount Rushmore  

[01:29:05] Jamon Fries:

presented to you by Verizon.  

[01:29:07] Jesse Fries:

Yes. We're just Mount  

[01:29:10] Jamon Fries:

Verizon. Yeah. I I I could see it. They go and up up above the up above the, president's heads on Mount Rushmore. Uh-huh. You see a big Verizon sign up there.   Exactly.  

[01:29:21] Jesse Fries:

Isn't this for mediocrity?  

[01:29:23] Jamon Fries:

What was it that Oh, absolutely. Oh, yeah. Definitely.  

[01:29:27] Jesse Fries:

But no. I could see that happening. Seriously. I could see triple Yeah. We could make some money, guys.  

[01:29:34] Jamon Fries:

We'll get rid of that deficit. No problem.  

[01:29:40] Jesse Fries:

Well, thank you for joining us for episode 24 of the mindless meanderings podcast. I'm Jesse Friese. And I'm Jamin Friese.   And you guys have a great week.