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- Jamon Fries

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(00:00:20) Cold open: winter weather, EV batteries, and travel woes

(00:04:45) EV pros and cons: crab walk fun vs. cold-weather range hits

(00:04:50) Trump legal updates and Georgia case dropped discussion

(00:06:20) Health care debate: HSAs, premiums, and subsidy politics

(00:14:11) Senate probes rogue judges and immigration arguments

(00:21:01) USPS hiring controversy and delivery delays

(00:23:20) Texas redistricting map temporarily restored by Supreme Court

(00:24:25) Minnesota fraud scandal and alleged misuse of funds

(00:30:00) Climate conference skepticism and unusual hurricane season

(00:34:52) Arctic rare earths find and Californias blue wild pigs

(00:39:06) DC National Guard shooting discussion and radicalization concerns

(00:41:43) Ukraine-Russia talks, EU EV mandates, and Europes migration policies

(00:47:39) Japan-Taiwan defense talk, gay marriage ruling, and Venezuela tensions

(00:55:49) Government tit-for-tat, legal risks, and working in public service

(00:56:09) Housekeeping: value-for-value and support info

(00:57:30) Airbus A320 software grounding and solar radiation link

(01:00:02) GM software shake-ups, Apple alumni, and car tech monetization

(01:02:31) Meta eyes electricity trading and power market gripes

(01:04:52) AI for legal immigration and AI liability in a suicide case

(01:10:34) Legal news: case dismissals, jury data leak, and court mechanics

(01:13:35) Studies roundup: climate, GLP-1 hype, orange juice, and AI learning

(01:22:31) Tattoo inks, lymph nodes, and long-term health risks

(01:26:14) Louvre heist password fail and password overkill rants

(01:30:08) Closing oddity: rectal oxygenation research and sign-off

[00:00:21] Jesse Fries:

Good afternoon, everybody.   It is Monday, December 1, and we are live with episode 82 of the mindless mannerings.   I'm Jesse Fries.   And, yeah, the cold could really set those batteries dry pretty quickly. Just saying in the EVs.  

[00:00:37] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. Yeah. It can. And speaking of the cold, I'm Jamin Fries,  

[00:00:42] Jesse Fries:

and I'm looking outside at about two plus inches of snow on my deck. Oh, fun. Fun. Yeah. We're we're we're at chilly what is it? 49 degrees right now. So  

[00:00:55] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. I think our high today was is, like,   in the   maybe mid twenties, probably.  

[00:01:06] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. No. Yeah. No. With that, Arctic blast coming down and everything like that, not a surprise. It's,   Yeah. No. It's just good to be in Texas again because when we left, it was in the thirties and everything like that from Kansas.   And I swear to God, it   we we we we took the Hummer, and it was supposed to be just   it was supposed to be,   like, on the way back, it estimated, like, three stops to charge. Right.   I I don't know. It was, like, four it was at least five stops, if not six stops,  

[00:01:42] Jamon Fries:

just because the the battery would drain. It was, like, for Oh, yeah. Yeah. Batteries are extremely inefficient in cold weather, which Yeah. It was half as bad. Largest which is one of the largest reasons   that EVs   still will   have a problem here in The United States because Oh, yeah. Yeah. I mean, over half of the country,   they're only effective half the year.  

[00:02:05] Jesse Fries:

No. Exactly. You you know, I think much of Europe would be the same way. You know? It's kinda   it's kinda useless.   You know? Gasoline,   it produces the same amount of power no matter the temperature outside. As long as you can get the battery to crank it started   Yeah. You're good to go. You know? It's  

[00:02:24] Jamon Fries:

And, another plus side to the to the gasoline,   ICE engine, the internal combustion engine,   is that it also creates heat. Yep. Yep. Making it so that everything can get warm again. I mean, it drives the heater in your in your car instead of the, you know, there there isn't, like, an electric coil for the heater in your car. It just comes right off of the engine block.   And so with that, it's it's it as it gets colder,   the batteries become more inefficient than an electric vehicle because they also have to be used to create the heat for the ins for inside the vehicle. Yep. Yep. Yeah. No. It's a now the heat is practically instant.  

[00:03:05] Jesse Fries:

Oh, yes. In a EV. You know? You you don't have to wait for the engine to warm up. Yep. But   beyond that, yeah. No. It it was kinda   it was I was it was and the wind was blowing. Holy hell. That wind was blowing in case it was We had some we had some really good wind   for a couple of days now. You had 30 degree weather with the wind, and   all the my family just stayed in the car. They go, and I'm not going out there.   So I had to go out and charge the car. It was like we were No worries. Yep. We were stopping, like, every hour there for a bit. Yeah. Oh, yeah. It was it it was ridiculous.   Yeah. And usually   yeah, we could go maybe a 100 miles instead of the 300 some.  



[00:03:46] Jamon Fries:

Yep.   Yeah. That is one of the that is one of the big drawbacks that prevents EVs from becoming popular in the Northern part of The US.  

[00:03:56] Jesse Fries:

It is. It is. But   it's a fun toy. It really is a fun toy. Yeah. And we showed,   like, pretty much everybody that we saw, they go, oh, can I see? And so we showed them the crab walk and everything like that. And Okay. It was a they had fun with that. But beyond that, you know, it's not   yeah. Yeah.  

[00:04:17] Jamon Fries:

So can it go   completely sideways? No. No.  

[00:04:21] Jesse Fries:

Okay.  

[00:04:22] Jamon Fries:

No. If it could, it would be perfect for parallel parking.  

[00:04:26] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. Yeah. It would. It would. But, no, it can't go perfectly,   sideways. It's Okay. The most is maybe, like,   a 45 degree angle.  

[00:04:35] Jamon Fries:

Okay. So   Still helpful, but not nearly as Oh, yeah. Not nearly as much for parallel parking.   Yep. Exactly.  

[00:04:45] Jesse Fries:

Yeah.   Very cool.   Okay. Let's see here.   Looks like Trump had some good news, like, a week or so ago.   The prosecutor,   in Georgia has dropped the case against him and all the other ones,   for the electioneering   case.   Yep.   So,   yeah, kinda kinda knew that would happen.   It was just,   one of those things. Yeah. It it there wasn't much of a case there. And then No.   Now he probably did say some things that he shouldn't have to, whoever. But,  

[00:05:19] Jamon Fries:

yeah. I mean, it it's very it's very possible that that people said things that they shouldn't have. However,   it has never been illegal to question   and ask for  

[00:05:30] Jesse Fries:

someone to recertify the results of an election. It is true. It is true. So yeah. You you can say anything you want. You know? It's just whether or not it's, done or whatnot. But yeah. Yep. So there's that. Yep. That was a win for  

[00:05:44] Jamon Fries:

Trump. Yeah. Yeah. Absolutely.   Yep.   They let me see here. The   found a few different stories out of the Fed, and,   one of them is,   was it was this this I found this   a while back, about a week and a half ago, so I'm not sure just how relevant it is now. I don't know if he's brought his plans out and through into the public yet or not. But they were talking about some of his ideas and some of the inside efforts to revamp the health care system.  

[00:06:20] Jesse Fries:

Mhmm.  

[00:06:25] Jamon Fries:

And I don't like what he wants to do.  

[00:06:28] Jesse Fries:

What does he wanna do? So much anyways.  

[00:06:30] Jamon Fries:

Well, you know, so so congress is trying to get the the, the democrats in congress are trying to get the extra funding for the,   for the,   Obamacare people. Right. Right. The rebates. So low. They're yeah.   Well,   what Trump wants to do is instead of giving that money to the insurance   companies to reduce   the   their premiums   Mhmm. He instead wants to give that money to the people that are on   the Obamacare   into, like, a HSA   so that they can use use it to use that money and help drive down their,   their deductibles.   Mhmm.  

So   while   this   would help some people without a doubt, it would make it set the deduct set their deductibles were essentially paid for,   but   it doesn't address any of the issues.   Right. Right. Premiums would still be massively high,   and   Obamacare would still be there.   Couldn't you just use that instead of be giving we'd still be giving the money to   only Obamacare people.  

[00:07:52] Jesse Fries:

Right. Right.  

[00:07:53] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. So it doesn't fix any of the problems that are seen.   Yeah. No. It's more of a mandate. Have the issue the Republicans have the issue with the with   the fact that we're subsidizing it and Mhmm. Massively subsidizing it. Oh, completely. And it's only it's only for, what is it, 22, 23,000,000   people Mhmm. Which   compared to the entire population population of The United States is fairly low.  

[00:08:20] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. It is. It is. Yep.  

[00:08:24] Jamon Fries:

And   so it doesn't address the Republican issue about   the subsidies   Mhmm. Because they don't want to use that money in that manner.   Right. The but it also doesn't   handle what the Democrats are on about about low keeping their premiums low.   It does nothing for anyone.  

[00:08:49] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. Yeah. Because it's not just premiums that are the matter problem. It does many things. You know? If if you have a Yeah. If you have high premiums   or even lower premiums, but you still have a huge deductible, how how is that gonna help you on anything?   Except in maybe, like,   wellness checks as in, you know, the your physical and everything like that that are generally covered. Oh, congratulations.   That's a $100. How much did you spend a month on this? 200? Yeah. That makes sense. Right? Yeah. It's a yeah. Yeah.  

[00:09:19] Jamon Fries:

But no. So I mean, just, you know, to me,   it seems like it's an answer   that doesn't answer any of the questions.  

[00:09:30] Jesse Fries:

Right. Right. Because,  

[00:09:32] Jamon Fries:

a,   if you   if you   don't have a lot of medical expenses,   you're never gonna meet the deductible, which means that that money that they put into the a to your HSA   does absolutely nothing for you. Well no. No. Not You don't well, no. You don't spend the money on the deductible.   Right. But it Because you're not spending money on the health care. Would it actually be HSA,  

[00:09:59] Jesse Fries:

or would it be the other one?  

[00:10:01] Jamon Fries:

He he wants to do it into a health savings account. So Okay. Because  

[00:10:05] Jesse Fries:

the HSA, the law on that, the legalities of that is that once it's in there, it's your money.   You don't it doesn't go away at the end of the year.  

[00:10:16] Jamon Fries:

Well, no. I I know that. Yeah. So it's not wasted money on the car. You can only use it on   that is true, I guess.   Yeah.   But, I mean, it doesn't help anyone now because they still pay the high premium.   You know, it it'll help the people who have a lot of health care expenses Right. Right. Because it'll pay off the deductible so that in so the insurance actually starts covering what they need to have done. Well, then what you do is you just,  

[00:10:45] Jesse Fries:

like, get the very lowest plan that you possibly could get so you can remain on Obamacare.   So Yeah. What like, $2 or something like that. And then that   bump into your HSA, you just use that for your real expenses on medical. You know? It's Basically. Yeah.   Or just get rid of Obamacare and just give us money into our HSA. There you go.  

[00:11:06] Jamon Fries:

Well, I mean, I I think honestly, I think that that would be a better way to do it. I I Mhmm. Been looking at all sorts of stuff and thinking about all sorts of stuff. And I kinda came to the opinion that it to completely revamp everything, including   Medicare   Uh-huh. Wouldn't it be more efficient for the government to mandate that everyone has an HSA account? I don't I wouldn't have a problem with that because   it's   for your health, you know, if you if they're they were talking about mandating insurance,   which is money that you would be forced to pay to to an external source to pay for your medical.  



[00:11:46] Jesse Fries:

Right.  

[00:11:47] Jamon Fries:

I'd be much happier if they said you have to have an HSA account   so that you can   put money into   your own HSA account instead of paying premiums and stuff like that at a to a to an insurance agent. Mhmm. And that way, you determine   what procedures it covers instead of some board somewhere else  

[00:12:10] Jesse Fries:

denying claims. No. Yeah. Yeah.  

[00:12:12] Jamon Fries:

But all but then so   all all you have to do then is say for Medicare.   Instead of having a Medicare insurance that that does everything, Mhmm. Medicare could just put a certain amount of money into the Medicare recipients   HSAs.   Right. It could be done the same with Medicaid. It could be done with all that stuff. You know? The only problem with that is that when you get with, like, Medicare and Medicaid,  

[00:12:41] Jesse Fries:

they actually negotiate prices.   So it might be better than what you could get otherwise.  

[00:12:47] Jamon Fries:

I'm well aware of that. But I think if everybody went to HSAs,   it may not drive the prices down to the same as what Medicare drives it down to. Lower   than   what it is now   for everyone else. Possibly. Yeah. Because right now, because Medicare makes everyone accept   you know, they don't negotiate with hospitals. They just Right. Right. Tell them how much they're going to pay for everything. Mhmm.   And so what that does is it makes us that the hospitals have to charge everyone else more. Right. Right.   So not only are we paying taxes so that they can be on Medicare and you receive their social security and all that other stuff, but we're also now paying higher pre higher medic medical expenses   because they're forcing the hospitals to take much, much, much less money. Mhmm.  

So, you know, while, yes, it would increase the cost for those people's   health insurance   to the government,   it would   kind of even out the system, I think.  

[00:13:56] Jesse Fries:

Right.  

[00:13:58] Jamon Fries:

No. Yeah. I could see that. There there are some downsides to it, but I I think that that would be a much better way to go about it. Yep. I could see that. I could see that.  

[00:14:07] Jesse Fries:

Oh, what else you got?  

[00:14:11] Jamon Fries:

It's it's, okay. So breaking news, something new Uh-huh. This week.   The senate has is holding accountability   hearings targeting rogue judges.   Interesting. Kinda so The judge the judges that have   basically   turned everything that Trump says and does and put orders out saying it can't be done. Right.   They're starting to investigate those judges,   for with the possible intention of impeachment.  

[00:14:45] Jesse Fries:

No. I could see it. I could see it. That's Bausburg. Yeah. He could   he seems to be shady shady as fuck.  

[00:14:52] Jamon Fries:

Well, there there's at least one of them also is tied back to,   back to   the tap back to the, the Yeah. That was Bausburg. Congresspeople. Yeah. That was Bausburg.   Yeah. Yep. They they didn't say his name in in what I read. So I just I No. Yeah. I just remember from other stories. Yeah. That was him. So Yep.   Yeah. I mean, there there's a lot of shady shit that's been happening. Yeah. Lots of shady shit. The congress is starting to look into it now. That makes sense. Well, he needs it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. No. As long as congress is doing it, the that makes sense.  

[00:15:24] Jesse Fries:

Mhmm. Yep. It does make sense.  

[00:15:27] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. And then the last story from the Fed is,   the   talking about illegal immigration.   Mhmm. You know, everybody everybody comes out and says, well, you know, they're paying their taxes and stuff like that. So they you know, if you by getting rid of them, they're going to hurt our economy.   Right. That seems to be one of the biggest new arguments for keeping them. Yep. It's you know. At least they're no longer saying, well, who's gonna clean our toilets for us? Right.  

[00:15:57] Jesse Fries:

We can even do that. Imagine that. Yeah.   Yeah.  

[00:16:04] Jamon Fries:

But that argument is   absolutely   false.  

[00:16:10] Jesse Fries:

Oh, awesome.   Because  

[00:16:15] Jamon Fries:

there have been enough stories that have come out, including one very recently   about a guy in Minnesota  

[00:16:22] Jesse Fries:

Mhmm.  

[00:16:24] Jamon Fries:

Where somebody had stolen his Social Security number,   was using his name,   and   he ended up having to pay extra extra thousands of dollars in fact in income taxes.  

[00:16:41] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. I could see that. I could see that. Yep.  

[00:16:44] Jamon Fries:

When you steal the the only way as an illegal that you can pay taxes   is by stealing someone's Social Security number.  

[00:16:54] Jesse Fries:

Yep.  

[00:16:55] Jamon Fries:

Because you have to have a social security number to pay taxes.  

[00:16:58] Jesse Fries:

You do. It's the number that everything is tracked by. Yep. Yes.  

[00:17:04] Jamon Fries:

So   what this means is that not only are they,   you know, stealing the social security number, which is a crime. Right. They're also   whatever they do while they're in the country is in your name.  

[00:17:19] Jesse Fries:

Mhmm.   Yep. So It's called identity fraud. If  

[00:17:24] Jamon Fries:

yeah. If if they do, like, bank fraud or something like that, if they take out a loan in your name Mhmm.   You will be responsible for it. Oh, yeah. Completely.  

[00:17:36] Jesse Fries:

Completely.  

[00:17:36] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. There is absolutely nothing innocent about them being able to pay tax taxes because, well, half of them don't, which means that the which means that the actual US citizen has to cover both people's taxes.  

[00:17:50] Jesse Fries:

Right.  

[00:17:52] Jamon Fries:

But then another   that that was the most recent argument against this one that I heard. But the another argument that I heard   is that   getting rid of illegal immigrants is going to   massively boost our economy   because,   also,   having   extra millions of people here means millions of houses that are not up for sale.   Right. That that that aren't available on the market.   It's it's been   they're they've actually been seeing results in this as as ice has been kicking has been removing people   that the housing prices have started dropping in some communities.   Good. And there   is also a lot less traffic on the interstates.  



[00:18:47] Jesse Fries:

True.  

[00:18:48] Jamon Fries:

So you can commute easier.  

[00:18:50] Jesse Fries:

Okay.  

[00:18:52] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. I mean, there's there's there's a lot of benefits to them not being here.   Imagine that.  

[00:18:59] Jesse Fries:

Well, yeah. And just come legally. That's all. I I Yeah.   And if you come,   you have to accept us and our culture. Plain and simple. No. No. No. No.   You can you could even prefer your old culture and whatnot because that that's what you grew up and whatnot. Yeah. But   in public and everything else, you have to abide by what we do. Culture. Exactly. Plain and simple. You you you don't like it? Too bad. You wanna wear,   like,   covering your whole face and everything like that? Go back to where you came from. You know? If you wanna accept us, accept us and move in with us. But you have to accept us. Play and simple. Because otherwise, what's the point?   Yeah. Yep. Yep.  



[00:19:42] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. It'll it'll immigration   is   immigrant legal immigration is only effective   when the immigrant conforms to the societal standards of the place that they're moving to. Yes. Exactly.  

[00:19:55] Jesse Fries:

That's the only way it works. It will slowly change with them there and everything. Oh, yes. And that's fine. That's completely fine. Yeah. Well, I mean, our culture has has drastically changed as more immigrants come in. Yes. Completely. Completely.   But we, as a society, decide which of those to adopt to. No. Yeah. And and you you can also keep as a society accept them into our culture. Yeah. And you can keep your, ethnic culture and everything like that. You know? Italian Americans, Irish Americans, everything like that. You know?   African Americans, everything. You they   there's the culture at the home, and then there's also culture   outside Yes. That we all just accept.  

You know? And it's just that's what you have to do. You you can have your own culture, your own food, your own this, all this. And but when you're out amongst everybody, you do what everybody does. You know? That's just how the culture works. That's how all culture works.   So Absolutely.   Yep. Well, speaking of immigration and legals,   so,   apparently   so, you know, this whole huge crackdown on non domiciled CDLs?   Yes. So, basically, all the CDLs and everything like that that were given to illegals?   Yep.   Well, guess who was hiring these people?   Who? The postal service.  

The   US postal service   was   hiring these people, and   they they threw a tantrum and actually refused to comply   with the   2025   emergency rule,   that, the DOT put out   to stop them. They actually refused to comply with it.   And it's like,   they they they were and and what then they started to do it, but you know what happened is that,   basically, all their routes were run by these people, and so trailers just sat empty. Delays exploded nationwide. You know, this would explain. So   during Thanksgiving, look, or the day after Thanksgiving,   we,   my, sister-in-law,   and brother-in-law, they they they hosted a murder mystery thing. Right?  



[00:22:09] Jamon Fries:

Okay.  

[00:22:10] Jesse Fries:

And so they she had sent us a package that   we needed   for this whole thing.   Right. She sent it on what was it? Like,   Tuesday, the week before we left or something like that, and it didn't show up by the time we left.  

[00:22:25] Jamon Fries:

Oh, wow.  

[00:22:27] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. Yeah. So   yeah. This could explain it. Just saying. It absolutely could. Yeah. Yeah. If if she sent it through the US postal service, it definitely could. She did send it through the US postal service. But yeah. So  

[00:22:40] Jamon Fries:

That was her first mistake.  

[00:22:42] Jesse Fries:

Well, she thought, okay. It'll be fine. You know? It's cheaper option. Yeah. So Yep. That it is.   But yeah. So the USPS   our USPS   that is mandated   by our constitution.   Yep.   Has been using illegal labor.   What the hell is this crap?   That needs to be investigated.  

[00:23:06] Jamon Fries:

Oh, absolutely.  

[00:23:07] Jesse Fries:

Yes. It's like, how the hell? It just doesn't make any sense.  

[00:23:11] Jamon Fries:

No.   It doesn't.   It it makes no sense at all.  

[00:23:19] Jesse Fries:

But yeah.   Let's see here.   Onto more, like, state news and whatnot. So the Supreme Court,   has temporarily restored,   Texas's,   2025   congressional map.   So   yeah. Yeah. So because the judge had said, no. You have to go back to the 2021 even though the 2021   was the DOJ said you can't use it. And couldn't be used. Yeah. Exactly. Exactly. And then,   some judge said that the 2025 was racist and couldn't be used. So I I so but, yeah, the Supreme Court just put it back, to the 2025   temporarily,   for arguments to continue on. But I think there's only, like, a week or two   left   before it's too late to change anything.  

Yeah.   Because you have to get all the   paperwork. You have to get all the districts, all the election stuff Absolutely. Up and going for next year's election. So Yep.   Yeah. So, yeah, Texas is back. You know? So there you go. Yeah.   Let's see here. Apparently,   in Minnesota   so you've heard about the fraud in Minnesota? Oh, yeah.   Yeah. Yeah. It's getting it's getting bad. It looks like Waltz is to blame for practically all of it from   what some insiders have said,   through   the machinations of the federal of the state government and himself and everything like that. Looks like whistleblower's   families were,   threatened and everything like that.  

Yeah. And it just all dealt with,   basically, like, charity funds and everything like that. Yeah. And it went to a whole bunch of Somalis.   Yep. Just racked up a whole bunch of,   income for themselves,   by saying, oh, yeah. We're feeding thousands, but, don't feed anybody.  

[00:25:13] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. It it was, it so it went to   it it if the purpose   was to feed   the Somali people in Minnesota.   Mhmm.   But they they have a people from Somalia and other countries, of course, have a reputation   of sending money back home.  

[00:25:38] Jesse Fries:

Right.  

[00:25:39] Jamon Fries:

In fact, Somalia itself,   like, 80%   of the money that they that they have to spend   is remissions from overseas.   No. Sounds about right. Yep.  

[00:25:52] Jesse Fries:

There's nothing there. It's war torn country. Yeah.  

[00:25:55] Jamon Fries:

And one of the one of the problems with this one is that   some of that money was going to known terrorist groups.  

[00:26:04] Jesse Fries:

Well, yeah. Yeah. Al Shabaab probably. Yeah. Whatnot. Yep. That would be it. I know it. It's the one it's the one that blew up the US embassy,  

[00:26:13] Jamon Fries:

in Kenya, in Nairobi. Yeah. Yeah. So men the state of Minnesota   was funding international terrorism.  

[00:26:22] Jesse Fries:

Wow.   Wow. That's lovely,   mister Wallace. Yeah. Yeah. That's,  

[00:26:27] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. That that was that was the latest story that I saw just yesterday that they that they found out that some of that money had gone to them.   Right. Right. Yeah. I mean, it it's just   it's insane.   You know, I mean,   if you the the here here's the biggest problem that I have with a lot of what happens.   When the government decides that they wanna give help,   they throw cash at it.  

[00:26:54] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. Right? Mhmm. Well,  

[00:26:57] Jamon Fries:

when you receive cash,   you don't necessarily spend it on what you're supposed to spend it on.  

[00:27:05] Jesse Fries:

True. True.  

[00:27:07] Jamon Fries:

You know, at least with food stamps, you can only buy food with it. Now I dis I disagree with the quality of some of the food that you can buy with it. Well, right. At least it's still food.  

[00:27:19] Jesse Fries:

No. I understand. You know? I understand. And and people have been quite   brilliant in scamming that system as well. Oh, yes. They have. To where they will buy SNAP, and then they will actually cook that food and sell it to other people.  

[00:27:35] Jamon Fries:

They'll do that or they'll just or they'll, back when,   or they'll just take their SnapCard and sell their SnapCard to somebody for cash. Mhmm.   The back when it was actual food stamps, they would sell the food stamps to other people for cash. Oh, yeah. So I mean, there there's always ways you you could just take someone to the grocery store with you pay with your SNAP and they give you the cash for it. Yep. Yep. You know, I mean, this is stuff that that has always been going on and, of course, you know, it's they they do what they can to to prevent it, which isn't Oh, of course. Of course. Yeah. And then you go you bust the ones that you can bust and you move Yeah. Because there were loads of withdrawals. Once you're and once you're convicted of having done it, then you you lose your SNAP benefits for a certain amount of time. Mhmm.   If you do it enough, then you permanently lose SNAP SNAP benefits. So, I mean, there there are ways around it. But at the same time, it's a lot it it when you when they just give you cash,   I'm sorry, but I can very easily send money to somebody else.  

Yeah. Yes. You can. Yes. You can. And nobody's gonna know the difference because Mhmm. They won't know that the money that I sent wasn't my own money.   Because it just blends into what the money to the money that you have.   Mhmm.   Yep. Yeah. I I don't I don't agree with just giving cash to anyone. I think that's a horrible idea. Mhmm. No. Completely. Completely. But yeah. So just when it's for welfare.  

[00:29:08] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. Yeah. But yeah. Walls is,   it looks like he's, up the wall.   And, he he he shit out of luck because it looks like   yeah. There's whistleblowers. There's all sorts of,   people coming out of the woodwork saying, yeah. He's the one that really   led this Yeah. Let this happen and everything like that. So it was from the top down. So  

[00:29:30] Jamon Fries:

And just recently here, he, of course, tried to blame Trump.  

[00:29:34] Jesse Fries:

Of course. So it's always Trump's fault. Saying that he's limited because of the stuff that the federal government does. So he can't really research. He can't really look into it that much. Of course. Of course. Yeah. Yeah. So is Trump's fault. It doesn't matter. Of course. Yes. It it doesn't matter this was going on under Biden or whatnot. You know? It doesn't matter. You know?   I see. Well, some good news for us that don't want us taxed for no good reason, you know, or our lives   affected. Looks like COP thirty,   has basically failed to do anything. Woo hoo.  

So What's COP thirty?   It's the   climate action,   conference.   It it it the COP twenty seven, COP whatever, but this was COP thirty this year.   And, basically,   this   was what this is this whole conference is why Bill Gates came out with that whole thing saying,   we we we we need to stop the whole climate stuff and basically just focus on people and everything like that. Uh-huh. It it's why he released it when he did.   Okay. Basically, it was his statement for this cop 30 to let them know, yeah, nothing's really gonna happen, buddy. It's all a bunch of   Jack anyways. So Yep.  

Yep.   Yeah. Nobody really cares. So it's Okay.   Yeah. More and more, it seems like people are starting to   become awake to these real things that,   not just   do what feels right. You know? It's like   feeling right doesn't help anybody. It's doing right. You know? That's what you need to do. And   the climate is not the issue they make it out to be.   So   it's like, what? This year was the least active,   hurricane season in, like, almost forever.   Yeah. Yeah. Not a single hurricane hit Mainland.  

[00:31:36] Jamon Fries:

Which is highly unusual.  

[00:31:38] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. It never happens, really.   There's usually, like, seven hurricanes, but there were only five hurricanes this year.   One hurricane did start in The Caribbean and went out, but none actually entered The Caribbean, which is just weird.   Oh, wow. Yeah. That is very weird. Yeah. They not a single one actually entered The Caribbean. We're not one, like, started there, you know, and Right. Yeah. Jamaica and, Cuba and whatnot. But, yeah, none actually entered from the, Atlantic. So   Wow.   Yeah. Isn't that isn't that the way they normally work? Yeah. That's that is usually how they work. Sometimes they do start off in The Caribbean and everything like that, but,   generally, it's, from the dust and everything like that Yeah. Along the from the Sahara   Mhmm.  

That they   that actually comes about. So yeah. Yeah.  

[00:32:30] Jamon Fries:

Yeah.   That is very interesting.  

[00:32:32] Jesse Fries:

Mhmm.   Yeah. So, you know, it and then we get this Arctic   blast that everybody's getting. Yeah.   So   I'm just glad I'm not gonna get that bad. So  

[00:32:46] Jamon Fries:

yeah.  

[00:32:47] Jesse Fries:

We like Texas. We like it. We're  

[00:32:49] Jamon Fries:

we're not getting it terribly bad. I mean, we've had lows in the, you know, low teens. So  

[00:32:56] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. Yeah. It's it's like, you don't have to close for it anymore. You you know, you just   you don't bring them with you anymore. So, yeah, it's like you're like a.   You don't have the hats, the gloves you need or anything. So Yep.  

[00:33:11] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. It's one of those things where when you're traveling, you know, if you're traveling up north, you usually have to say, well, I'll buy my winter gear when I get up there. Yeah. Yeah. No. Completely. It's like we have some friends  

[00:33:26] Jesse Fries:

who are gonna go skiing,   this year   up in Colorado.   And Okay.   She's from South Africa. He's   born in Brent, Texas.   So   yeah. He's gonna be a huge shock to them. Yeah. They were, like, going, do you have any winter clothes we could borrow? We're, like, oh, well, maybe.   Not for your kids because our kids were smaller at the time. But Yeah. Let's see what we got for you. I don't know, dude. We're   different. But, yeah,  

[00:33:54] Jamon Fries:

maybe. And and whatever you do, don't buy your winter clothes in Texas.  

[00:33:59] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. Don't. No. Completely.  

[00:34:01] Jamon Fries:

Because they will not withstand   Colorado at all.  

[00:34:06] Jesse Fries:

No. They won't. They won't at all.   No. I have some ski gear. I just don't know if it'd fit him. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's   a the ski ski gear works. I I've even used that in Colorado and everything like that. But, yep.  

[00:34:22] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. If it's designed for skiing, it's gonna be   it's gonna be good. Right. What? By now, though, it's ten years old. Jesus Christ. Yeah. Yeah. So the the in the insulation might it might be getting old.  

[00:34:35] Jesse Fries:

Exactly.   So who knows on that?   Yeah. It hasn't been used very often, but, you know, here. Nope. It might start be getting a bit getting old up here. Yeah. Yeah. Just maybe.  

[00:34:47] Jamon Fries:

But,   talking about the Arctic and cold Uh-huh.   Up in the Arctic, they have found   something that   may reduce our dependency on China for rare earth metals. Oh, nice. Nice. They've been,   Graphite Creek deposit   is now is US is is the,   is the largest in The US that contains defense qualifying materials including neodymium.   Nice. Whatever that Nice.   But yeah. So they they found a a very rich deposit of rare earth metals up in up in,   up in the Arctic,   which will   give which if they're able to   to,   extract it will mean that we will not be nearly as reliant on China or rare earth metals anymore. So that'll be hugely   that that's hugely important.  



[00:35:50] Jesse Fries:

Nice. Nice.   Let's see here. What else do I have anything?   Let's do your   neon pigs.  

[00:36:00] Jamon Fries:

Hold on real quick. So California has truly become a blue state.  

[00:36:05] Jesse Fries:

Uh-huh.  

[00:36:07] Jamon Fries:

Hunters have noticed that when they go out to kill wild pigs, which I'm surprised they actually can still do in California.   Right. Right. Well, they're evasive. So yeah. Yeah. But they they cut into the wild pigs,   and their flesh is blue.  

[00:36:24] Jesse Fries:

What?   Blue?  

[00:36:26] Jamon Fries:

Yes. Are they alien? Is that what it is? No. No. What what it what it is is,   there is a,   a rat poison   contains a chemical compound   that is often solid dyed blue for indicate   for identification.  

[00:36:51] Jesse Fries:

Right.  

[00:36:52] Jamon Fries:

And so by cutting into their meat and seeing that blue, that means that they've been eating that rat poison.  

[00:36:58] Jesse Fries:

Oh, Jesus.  

[00:37:01] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. So now all of a sudden there's massive warnings out everywhere in those areas.   You know shit. I guess that they've,   just this year, they stopped   using that   chemical.  

[00:37:14] Jesse Fries:

Uh-huh.  

[00:37:16] Jamon Fries:

They they finally decided, well, you know, this is kinda bad to be used and shouldn't be used anymore.  

[00:37:22] Jesse Fries:

Why?   Why if it gets rid of the rats? And the blue if you see the blue, you don't eat it. You know? It's that simple.   Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I do see. It's  

[00:37:35] Jamon Fries:

it it's   it's   the type of chemical that it that it is. It's not it's,   let me see here.   Mhmm.   I'm not really sure   why   they stopped using it.   Because, I mean, it's essentially Coumadin.  

[00:38:06] Jesse Fries:

Right.  

[00:38:08] Jamon Fries:

Which is an anticoagulant   that was   originally derived from rat poison.   Right. Right. It it just it it stops the body from recycling vitamin k   Right.   Which makes it so that you   stop   so that clots don't form. So you internal bleeding becomes much more much more   effective and and deadly.   So I'm not really sure why they stopped it.   Inhumane? I don't know. It could be.   It's the it's a it   it's been highly okay. So they didn't completely stop it, I guess.   It's been highly restricted in California   since 2024.  

[00:38:54] Jesse Fries:

Well, that's California. Of course. Yeah. Yep.  

[00:38:57] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. But yeah. So I I just found it interesting that even the pigs are blue in California.   That's funny. That's funny.  

[00:39:06] Jesse Fries:

And then onto the news that made the everything, the National Guard's Yeah. Men, in DC that were shot, one died. Mhmm.   Yeah. That that's a   and then the person that did it was some mentally disturbed   Afghan   part of the CIA,   whole thing and everything like that.   Yeah. To have people   narc on their fellow Afghanis and whatnot.   Yeah. So   yeah. Yeah. It's,   apparently, they say that,   the NGO that was dealing with him   had gotten warned   that he was mentally disturbed, like, as far back as, like, '23 or something like that.  

[00:39:46] Jamon Fries:

Doesn't surprise me. Yeah. No. It  

[00:39:49] Jesse Fries:

it's   yeah.   It's it's a  

[00:39:54] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. There there are some reports that,   he was   shouting, like, Allah Akbar and stuff like that when he was killing when he was shooting. Uh-huh. I I didn't hear anything about it specific. It's just   what the media has been saying. So I'm Right. Assuming it's probably true.   But according to Fox News, they said that, there's signs that he became radicalized   while he was here in The US.  

[00:40:22] Jesse Fries:

Well, yeah. It's, it's not surprising. A lot of, immigrants when they come over,   they actually become more nationalistic   Yeah. Towards their own nation.   Their former nation than the one that they moved into. It it just happens. They can't deal with the cultural differences and everything like that. Yep.   Yeah. No. It it's it's like if you help the occupying force in the country, I'm sorry. Your life is gonna be horrible. It's just Oh, yeah.   There's no other way around it. You know? It's No. That. Nobody   will trust you in your home country or anything like that. It's just  

[00:41:02] Jamon Fries:

And why should they? You've already turned against them.  

[00:41:05] Jesse Fries:

Exactly.   Exactly.   That's no. I I'm right there with you. Yeah. You know, it's a   if you're shady, you're shady. You know?   Exactly. Yeah. It it's like   if a spy turns you, the spy knows that you can be turned to get. You know, it's like this whole situation, you know. It's Yeah. If if you get if you get turned by a spy, you will never be trusted by anyone  

[00:41:29] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. Yeah. That knows that spy and what and that he's turned you. Exactly. Because Exactly. If you can be turned by one, you can be turned by another. It just means that you're weak.  

[00:41:39] Jesse Fries:

It   yep. That's all it means. That's all it means. Yeah.   I see. International news.   Things are chugging along with the peace,   plans with,   Ukraine and Russia. Mhmm.   Trump, like like, the week before Thanksgiving,   he came up with a plan, with Russia.   Zelensky really didn't like it, and Europe really didn't like it. But then, you know, it got some talking going.   Zelensky   actually came to   or Ukraine,   sent people to Florida.   Okay. And Marco Rubio met him up and everything like that, and they just left, like, yesterday or the day before.   Mhmm.  

And it says that things are looking good. Things are looking good. And now   Witkoff,   our guy, will be headed to Moscow,   to Okay. Talk with Putin,   on what can be done and everything like that. So, yeah, it Nice.   Seems to be   possibly actually getting close to being done. So   That would be a good thing. It really would be a good thing. Let me see how the war is since the last time I checked here.   Yep. It looks like it's still going in Russia's   favor.   Yeah. All the indications shocker there. Yeah. Yeah. No. The troop movements are all into   are further into Ukraine than   yep, out.  

So, yeah, that's a deep state map dot line. It's an interesting little thing.  

[00:43:16] Jamon Fries:

Yeah.  

[00:43:17] Jesse Fries:

Let's see here.   Beyond that, talking about immigration and everything like that, but this one's in The UK.   The immigration because The UK also has problems with illegals and everything like that. Oh, yeah.   And so their,   home secretary,   her name is Shabana   Mahmoud.   She is actually starting to crack down on migration.   Wow. And as you could probably tell, she was a second generation migrant.   So,   yeah, Muslim Pakistani.   But, yeah, she she even once called for a general amnesty   for all illegals working in Britain.   But   last week, she unveiled a package of measures she described quite reasonably as the most substantial reform in UK's asylum system in a generation.  

Apparently, some people on the left are,   accusing her of being a Donald Trump   or Tommy Robinson   or even a Adolf Hitler.   Oh, of course. Of course. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. The the the Pakistani   Adolf Hitler. Yeah.   Mhmm. But yeah. No. It it's   people are just taking advantage of the system, the asylum system. You know? The this whole idea   that,   oh, you're poor over there, so that means you can come to my country. No. That's not how it works.   No. No. You know, you it has to be actually, like, a political   sort of situation.   You know? Yes. War,   politics.  

That's why you can get asylum. Not just because you're poor. It has to be it has to be a war  

[00:45:02] Jamon Fries:

or it has to be that your government   is a threat to your life. Yes.   Yes.   Pure and simple. Those are the only acceptable mean reasons.  

[00:45:14] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. Yeah. You know, possibly some, like, if there's   gangs or whatnot that the government does does control or is in bed with, then you can also somehow try to get through that. But,   yeah, that that that's it. That that's the only Yeah.   You you know? It's like Yeah. Otherwise,   go home. Yeah. Just because you're poor, that's got nothing to do with us. No. It doesn't. We have poor people too. Not as poor as you, but Right. Yeah. Poor people too.  

[00:45:40] Jamon Fries:

Our poor are a lot better off than yours are. But Yeah. Yeah. Our poor are your rich.  

[00:45:46] Jesse Fries:

Yeah.   We still have them. Goddamn it. You know?   But yeah. So that's good for The UK. There yeah. Europe is starting to see sense and everything like that.  

[00:46:03] Jamon Fries:

Well, you know, luckily, they do have a few examples that have refused to give in to the immigration craze and stuff like that.   And they're seeing everything going wrong with their own countries, and they're looking at their neighbors, and they're like, why isn't that happening to them?  

[00:46:19] Jesse Fries:

Mhmm.   Yep. Yep.  

[00:46:21] Jamon Fries:

Maybe we should do something about that.  

[00:46:24] Jesse Fries:

Oh, yeah. Yeah.   I also saw a news report that,   Germany is starting to push back on the EU's,   EV mandate   because the EU had a EV mandate that was gonna come in real quick. And Yeah. Germany's like, go and we can't do it. We can't do it. There's no freaking way we could do that. I think once again, it's like, it gets cold in Germany. It does. Yes. It really gets cold in Germany. And It's it's not like Texas where it's almost always warmer. No. And they have ever since the Ukraine war, they've had Ukraine   bombing the Nord Stream   pipeline. They've been Yep. SOL. So   yeah. No. It's not gonna help. It's yeah.  

We we it actually comes down to actually implementing things. You know? It's like,   can we even do this? You know?   It's like, is it even feasible?  

[00:47:15] Jamon Fries:

Well, and and that's, you know, that's one of the big problems with dreams in the government.  

[00:47:21] Jesse Fries:

Oh, yeah. Yeah.  

[00:47:23] Jamon Fries:

90% of the dreams that they have and that they convince people they should do   can't be done. Mhmm.   And the other 10% shouldn't be done. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Completely.  

[00:47:36] Jesse Fries:

Completely.   Let's see here.   Also,   Japan's   prime minister, she is a ball buster, dude.   This lady, she   she actually went out and she   said that they may create some sort of defensive alliance with Taiwan.   Okay. And China's like, oh, you're fucking kidding me? And so China has just   China is not happy at all because that's China's red line. Oh, yeah. Yeah. You know, you don't you yeah. So so she she she she walked up back a little bit,   but she's basically still said, yeah. We'll defend you.   It turns, like, going, not good enough. And Japan's, like, going, that's the best you got, dude.   Yep.  

So, yeah, it's,   she is something. She is something. Also, out of Japan,   I heard that their supreme court   has said that it's constitutional   to ban gay marriage. So   that that was Okay. It just came out.  

[00:48:40] Jamon Fries:

So yeah. Interesting.  

[00:48:42] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. I yeah. I don't know how that works over there. But yeah. So   yeah.   More in the America side,   Trump told Maduro   that he needs to leave Venezuela   to save himself.   Maduro's   that's president of Venezuela. Maduro said he still wants to control the military and whatnot, and Trump's like, no, dude.   It's not happening.   So,   yeah, all this ratcheting up and sending the whatever fleet   battle group into,   it seems to,   be affecting Maduro a little bit. I wonder why.  

[00:49:19] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. Yeah. So  

[00:49:21] Jesse Fries:

Big shocker there.   Yeah. There is, like, some scuttle butt that he's actually in Brazil or whatnot.   Oh, okay. Somebody saw his the presidential plane in Brazil,   you know, the flight trackers and whatnot. So Yep. Yep. But yeah. So they're he's it looks like that's trying to be negotiated too because Trump just talked directly with Maduro, apparently. So  

[00:49:44] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. Yeah. And talking about that front,   the, just recently here, the president came out and said that he's   that,   I I don't I didn't actually hear what he said. But according to the media,   it's that the ground phase of the war on drugs is about to begin.   Oh, okay. I'm good. So I don't know if that means going into Venezuela   and stuff like that with troops or if it means,   just   toughening up the border enforcement and stuff like that. I'm not entirely sure what he means by that. Right. I do know that part of that carrier group is,   does have, I think,   two,   marine transport ships in it. Okay. Okay.  

So the carrier group that's down there by Venezuela   has two boat pulls the marines that could take action if needed. Right. Right. So I don't I but I don't know exactly where it's going with there. I didn't I didn't hear exactly what Trump said.   But the media says that the ground the ground option is about to happen.  

[00:50:54] Jesse Fries:

Okay. Okay.   With that whole thing, there's all that problem with the Heggseth that, was in the reported that said that he said, kill them all.   And so somebody decided to hit them again to make sure that they were all killed.  

[00:51:08] Jamon Fries:

So Well, according to Hegseth and according to the president,   he never actually said that.   That it's two anonymous   sources that have come forward saying that he said that.  

[00:51:21] Jesse Fries:

See, that's the thing. It's like the these freaking anonymous sources. You know? It's like Yeah. Most of the time, they're crap.   You know? It's   yeah. If if   you have it, say it. Lance Mhmm. You know? Don't,   you know, anonymous   sources. I I never believe anything they say. But, yeah, it's gonna it's causing an uproar in congress and whatnot, of course. Yeah. Yeah. It is. So  

[00:51:47] Jamon Fries:

but, you know,   it's still not illegal.   It's still not a crime of war like they're saying.  

[00:51:56] Jesse Fries:

I I I have no clue. I don't know what the and who's who's   whose law? You know? Is it Geneva? What what what is it? Is it the Well, what what they're saying is that it's illegal,  

[00:52:10] Jamon Fries:

in US.   And if they if so, essentially, what they're saying is that there is it is,   military law   that if there are wounded soldiers,   you can't just go up and shoot them. Oh, but that's uniform.   Right? Uniform soldiers. It it it's not necessarily uniform. Just anyone any combatant.  

[00:52:34] Jesse Fries:

Okay. Alright.  

[00:52:37] Jamon Fries:

Essentially, if they're not armed,   if they're not a threat to you   after their after you've already hit them once, you don't finish them off. Essentially, is is what it is. Right. Right. But   there's also a section of US military law   that   says that   if those people   could possibly be in communication   with other groups   Mhmm. To bring other groups in for to aid them to attack your soldiers   or to do things Right. Then it is legal to finish them off.  

[00:53:15] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. I I   I don't know which way one way or the other. Both sides will say their piece and everything like that. And Yep. You you   I don't know. I I really don't care when it comes to that. You know? It's like Oh, yeah. You you get angry with this, then you should get angry with Obama's,   defense department.   Oh, absolutely. Where where they strike and then wait until ambulance shows up and then they strike again. You know? It's like  

[00:53:44] Jamon Fries:

That that seems to be   slightly more   slightly worse because,   you know,   an an ambulance means that it's civilians trying to give aid.  

[00:53:55] Jesse Fries:

I I'm not saying which one is worse. I'm just saying everybody does this crap. You know? It's not   yeah. No. It's   it's all   this it's war, people. You know? It's war. Yeah. It's not pretty. Exactly.   You you know, you you you can you can   claim   to be superior and to be just after you've killed everybody   that is attacking you. Then you can be the superior for it. I think the victor is the one that determines what history says about it. Exactly. We carpet bomb Dresden guys just, like Yeah.   Flattened it, you know, Nagasaki,   Hiroshima, you know. It's just  

[00:54:33] Jamon Fries:

plus, you know, during Obama, if I remember correctly, there were even some drone strikes strikes targeted against US citizens Yep. That were abroad. Yep. I mean,   that's  

[00:54:43] Jesse Fries:

highly illegal according to their military laws. I know. Yeah. American citizen. You can't target American citizens. Yeah. Yeah. It's,   but, you know, it's it's a it's a war, you know. It's,  

[00:54:57] Jamon Fries:

so Talking about talking about the law and stuff like that,   that video that was put out about the illegal orders   Mhmm. I heard an interesting   take on that. Okay.   They're like, they're they're not the take was is that they didn't this guy didn't think that they were trying to convince people to disobey the orders. Uh-huh.   Instead, what they're doing is they're setting the groundwork for after they get control   to bring charges against people that didn't refuse the orders.  

[00:55:31] Jesse Fries:

I wouldn't doubt it. It's a interesting thought, but you never know. Yeah. You never know. It's,   yeah. No. It's getting   into this tit for tat.   Oh,   It's horrible.   It really is. It really is.   Yeah. It's   it it is getting yeah. There's no way you could pay me enough to work for the government right now. Oh, wow.   It's like you choose to do one thing, and next thing you know, somebody's saying, oh, criminal. Blah blah. We'll do.   Back and forth. You know? No. No.   Yep.   Couldn't do that.   No. Well, here at the Mindless Meanderings, we are a value for value podcast. What this means is that if you got any value out of this, please help us out in any which way you can.   You could send us money through our PayPal and everything like that through our website. There's a PayPal,   link.  

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[00:57:14] Jamon Fries:

Yes. That's the reason for improvement, though. I mean, come on now.   Yes. Yes. There is. Yes, sir.  

[00:57:24] Jesse Fries:

Well, yeah, please help us out any which way you can.   And then on to business. The big one really making the headlines right now is this Airbus issue with the a three twenty. Holy balls.   That is, like, grounding everything.  

[00:57:40] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. It is  

[00:57:42] Jesse Fries:

so it's basically due to a software fix,   because, apparently, the plane would just, like,   go up and down a little bit too hard and everything like that.  

[00:57:51] Jamon Fries:

It's   the it's   partially that, but they've,   what they've found is,   in in investigating   some other plane crashes that have happened where this is going on Uh-huh. They found that it's actually due to an increased amount of solar radiation.   Right. Right. And it's affecting the the software itself. So they had to   they had to rebut revamp the software to protect the plane against that solar solar radiation making making that kind of thing happen. Yep. But the a three twenty is one of their big boys that's used internationally.  

[00:58:27] Jesse Fries:

So yeah. This is just causing half, like, around the planet   for air. And it's it was like, you put a whole stop, complete stop to all planes, and I think most people did as well. Yeah.   So yeah. Craziness.  

[00:58:41] Jamon Fries:

Just after the government   reopens it reopens and air traffic gets says becomes   to a   somewhat normalcy again. Uh-huh.   Airbus is shut down. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.  

[00:58:57] Jesse Fries:

The timing is perfect. It really is, isn't it? It really is.  

[00:59:05] Jamon Fries:

Yeah.   So I guess,   GM   is having some   pretty massive,   redoing,   I guess Uh-huh.   In their   software teams. Right. Right. There there have been a lot of the the the few of their upper   upper, management software   people have been let go.  

[00:59:30] Jesse Fries:

Right. Right.   Could have to check with   yeah. Let's see.   Yeah. These are the Apple people. These are the Apple people.  

[00:59:44] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. I was I was wondering if if, if your if Farrell knew any of these people.  

[00:59:50] Jesse Fries:

I I'm not sure. For him. Exactly. But she's   talked about   dealing with, people that came over from Apple.  

[00:59:59] Jamon Fries:

Okay.  

[01:00:02] Jesse Fries:

And so   yeah. And which changed a whole lot. They were wanting to do other things.   And so yeah. Yeah. No surprise. No surprise. Is is that part is that part of them, getting  

[01:00:15] Jamon Fries:

moving away from the,   the   I can't remember what it's called. The CarPlay? ApplePlay. The CarPlay. Yeah. No. No. It really isn't.  

[01:00:27] Jesse Fries:

Okay.   It it be because it's not just GM. It's everybody.   Right.   These car companies, they wanna nickel and dime us to death. It's every single last one of them. Yeah.   And so they they want you to have Internet through them. They want, you to have,   whatnot. The the maps only through them, you know, that sort of thing. So Yeah.   And, of course, you have to pay for all that, of course. So and so you can't just have, you know, just you can't just buy the car. You know? You have to have all the extra things, you know, and everything like that. So Yep.   But, yeah,   that's not a   from what I understand, it was, like, basically, there was one guy who came over from Apple.  

And Okay. He   and he was there, and then he had, like, a health issue.   And so he resigned.   Yeah. And then   it tumbled from there.   Then there's some more shenanigans that I'm not sure if,   yeah. No. I won't talk about some of the shenanigans,   but there there there is some   shenanigans going on with,   one or two people   Okay.   That led to another resignation.   So, yeah, things have been,   these Apple   these Apple people haven't been there that long, maybe a year of that.   Okay.   So   but,   you know, it's like, okay. So you got the Apple people. Are these the people that Apple actually likes, or is this the people that they just wanted to get it out the door? You know? It's like people that they wanted to get rid of, but they didn't have a really effective   reason for firing up. Exactly. Exactly. Oh, Bara, you wanna take our trash?  



[01:02:13] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. Yeah.  

[01:02:16] Jesse Fries:

Yeah.   You you you never know how that goes. You know? It's Yeah.   So but, yeah, it's a it's a kinda crazy. It's a kinda crazy. Easy. Yeah. I'll have to ask the wife about that stuff.  

[01:02:30] Jamon Fries:

Talking about a little bit crazy.   Uh-huh. Meta   has decided that they want to   get into the electricity  

[01:02:38] Jesse Fries:

trading business. Oh, Jesus Christ. They're coming for Texas, aren't they? Oh, shit. Yep.  

[01:02:44] Jamon Fries:

Or something.   I think they they wanna get California back to the way it used to be. Oh, Jesus. With the brownouts?  

[01:02:52] Jesse Fries:

Oh, god.  

[01:02:53] Jamon Fries:

God.  

[01:02:55] Jesse Fries:

And that's what happens when you trade energy. No. It is what happens. Yeah. Yeah. No. It doesn't work, people.  

[01:03:01] Jamon Fries:

No. It does. Just   have  

[01:03:06] Jesse Fries:

a   monopoly, a state controlled monopoly   Yeah.  

[01:03:10] Jamon Fries:

In charge of electricity. It's the only way it works.  

[01:03:13] Jesse Fries:

Otherwise, it's just   Yeah. Just give me the rate. I'll pay the rate. You set the rate. The government says the rate. That's it. Yep. It's like, I don't wanna have to go shopping every two years for electricity, which is what I have to do. I have to go shopping for rates.   It's stupid.   Yeah. It is. It's completely stupid.  

[01:03:33] Jamon Fries:

Yeah.   I mean, it it it you know, it's for me, it's not quite to that point. But that one thing I don't like is that   one of the places that I'm looking at moving to, the most likely one I'm gonna move to,   They buy their they buy energy from   Evergy,   and then they sell the energy for an increased price Right. To the consumers in this town. Right. Right.   I   I don't think that should be legal.  

[01:04:04] Jesse Fries:

So it's basically what we have, but you only have one option. Right? Yeah.   It's like a monopoly on a monopoly.  

[01:04:11] Jamon Fries:

Yes. Exactly.   You know, if if if you're gonna be monopolistic about it, you need to be the one that creates the energy. Right. Right. Right. That's what I'm thinking. Yeah.   You can't   buy the energy from somebody else and be the only person that can sell this entire town energy.  

[01:04:28] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. No. No. There's shady   shady stuff.   Yeah. Lovely.  

[01:04:34] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. That that was one of the downsides that, the realtor told me about  

[01:04:38] Jesse Fries:

about that down. I could see that. I could see that. Yeah. That'd be bad. That would be bad.   Yeah. But yeah. Yeah.  

[01:04:47] Jamon Fries:

But yeah. And then the last one I have is kind of an interesting story, and it makes sense. Mhmm. There's a company that is,   that is   developing a way to use AI for the good   involving immigration.  

[01:05:04] Jesse Fries:

Okay.  

[01:05:05] Jamon Fries:

What they're what they're doing is they're they're programming AI. They they programmed an AI to   so that it will provide   everything that you need   to apply for legal immigration in The US. Okay. Okay.   Rather than having to hire all sorts of immigration attorneys to find everything,   it'll just upfront and say, this is what you need to do. Right. Right. No. Makes sense. Makes sense. So it'll make it a lot cheaper for people that want to become legal. Right. Right. Is one of the other issues with, with the illegal immigration is that   in order to come here legally   in in many ways, it costs quite a bit of money to get everything processed.  



[01:05:50] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. It's like,   my wife, you know, she went through the legal process, marriage, and everything like that. And it is a spendy   thousands of dollars. You know? It's just   but, you know, that's the way it is. I I Yeah. And and a lot of that cost is because you have to hire immigration attorneys and stuff like that. Oh, no. You don't. That's only if you have a special case.   Yeah. Yeah. No. Yeah. We didn't hire any, immigration lawyers at all. Okay.   It's just the fees and everything like that. And, you know Oh, yeah. If you can read a form   and read instructions   Oh, yeah. You're fine.  

Unless if you have a specialty case, if you have a specialty case  

[01:06:31] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. Yes. Yeah. Otherwise The way the way I look at it, it's like doing your taxes.   Yeah. Yeah. Why does everyone go to H and R Block to do their tax? It's because   they're lazy. It's not because they can't do them. Mhmm. Because let me tell you, I've filed many, many   taxes for and for the average person,   the ten forty e z,   you need, like, three pieces of information, and you've got your taxes done. Oh, completely. Completely. Yep.   And yet people still go to these companies   to get   to do exactly what they could do for free. It makes no sense to me. It really doesn't. It makes absolutely no sense. But it's what it is. That's what people do. Yeah. You know? Yeah. I I can I can see going to them if you have, like, a lot of deductions and stuff like that? Oh, please. You've got a lot if you've got, like if you've got five jobs   Yep. Yes. Go to them because you are not gonna be able to do everything right. But if you just have one job or two jobs in the household and Yep.  



[01:07:36] Jesse Fries:

That's a easy math situation. It is. Yes. You can even just   do the software. It's cheaper for you. Yeah. You could even do it yourself, though. That's how easy it is. All you need is the paper form. It's so easy to fill out. Well, there's even the online legal,   online free one, that the IRS has developed. So Yeah.   Yeah.  

[01:07:57] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. You might need a calculator,   but that would be it. Exactly.  

[01:08:00] Jesse Fries:

Speaking of AI, so AI is being sued by   a family of a teenager who committed suicide.   They blame their   AI chat for   telling them, yeah, you should commit suicide.   Mhmm. So yeah. Yeah. It's, the way of the world, apparently. So  

[01:08:19] Jamon Fries:

Yeah.   Well, you know, I have   a thought on that. Uh-huh. That is   if the if the person   viewing that   navigates around all of the defensive the defenses that have been put in place  

[01:08:37] Jesse Fries:

Mhmm.  

[01:08:39] Jamon Fries:

It's not really the AI's fault.  

[01:08:43] Jesse Fries:

No. Yeah. I I understand.   I understand.  

[01:08:46] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. It it's not like the only place AI gets that information from is from the Internet, which means that it's all on the Internet. Well, yeah. And and if it wasn't AI, they would just they would just be googling  

[01:08:58] Jesse Fries:

googling this. And Well, not only that, but chatbots, they're designed to agree with you.   Yeah.   So, you know, it's like, should I end my life? Well, you know, there are better options. But, you know, if you do, yes, it'd be a great thing for you. You would be in less pain. You wouldn't be depressed and so on and so forth. You know? It's like yeah.   Yeah. So   yeah. No. It's,   no. Completely. Completely. It's it's user and that's AI's,   OpenAI's   argument is bay basically, it's   they they were using it wrong.   You know, basically, it's how it comes down to it, which is kind of a bad argument in my book. But that's really what it is. I mean, it's it's that they were using it wrong, but then also the, you know, the fact that  

[01:09:45] Jamon Fries:

they do have things in place. I mean,   not only yes. It did   eventually   give them a way to do it potentially.   Mhmm.   But   it recommended   help so many times from my understanding.   And the final way that he got it to that they get that some of them got it to say, this is how you do it, is by saying, no. I'm not thinking about committing suicide myself. I'm researching for a book.  

[01:10:14] Jesse Fries:

Oh, yeah. Completely. Completely.   So if I'm I'm researching this, how do you think I should   build Yeah. A Molotov cocktail?   You know?  

[01:10:24] Jamon Fries:

It's yep. Yeah. I mean, it's   you you can't really blame the AI for that. Nope. You really can't. You really can't.  

[01:10:33] Jesse Fries:

Let's see here. Onto league. Looks like we both have this story.   The James Comey and Leticia James,   those were all dismissed,   because   I think they really didn't wanna go after him. They just threw this other attorney at them and   knew it probably failed. That's what I'm thinking. So Well, from what I heard,  

[01:10:55] Jamon Fries:

it was a matter of   the,   so they had   an attorney assigned to the case for a long time. Right. But a special attorney can only be assigned to that case for a certain amount of time. Yeah. Hundred twenty days.   And then something happened that brought the original attorney off of the case. Uh-huh.   And so instead of dropping the case and starting fresh, they're like, well, we'll just throw this new attorney attorney in at it. Yep. Yep.   You know, I By doing so, it didn't reset that hundred and twenty days or anything like that.  

[01:11:33] Jesse Fries:

Yeah.   Yeah. Yeah. No. It's   I I I really don't think they wanna go after it personally.  

[01:11:39] Jamon Fries:

It's possible that they don't. However, I did hear   an interesting anecdote on this. Mhmm. And that   because the judge threw it out for this reason instead of, like because there was another issue with,   with the grand jury and information given to the grand jury and stuff like that. Right.   If he had thrown it out because of the grand jury issue Right. He would have done it with prejudice.   Correct. Correct. Which means that the the state can could not rebring charges. Yep. Yep. Now the now the state can again. So yep.   But now because it was it was thrown out because of this reason, it can be rebrought.  



[01:12:21] Jesse Fries:

Yep. Yep. And they can do a better job.   Yeah.   Because   yeah. They half assed it. I'm sorry. They Oh, they did half assed. Especially the call me one. That was just ridiculous.   Yep.   Yeah. No. So yeah. Yeah. That's about it. So  

[01:12:37] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. And then there was some some other   shocking news that came out from the, judicial system Uh-huh. Involving the jury systems, the jury duty systems.  

[01:12:48] Jesse Fries:

Oh, lovely.  

[01:12:49] Jamon Fries:

There was a pretty bad bad bug in it that made it very   easy   to access   names,   addresses,   phone numbers,   personal information  

[01:13:04] Jesse Fries:

of the jury pool. Well, that's no good. That's no good.  

[01:13:08] Jamon Fries:

Yeah.   So, you know, it it wouldn't be the this specific jury, but   if you access it and you get to find out the names of the people on the jury, you've got their address, you've got their phone number.   You can do whatever you want with it.  

[01:13:25] Jesse Fries:

Lovely.  

[01:13:26] Jamon Fries:

Love. I I guess this this was this affected, like, 12 states or something like that. It was it's pretty massive. Yeah. That's not good at all. That is not good. Yeah. Yeah.  

[01:13:36] Jesse Fries:

Okay. So onto studies. And please remember, everybody,   a study showed that most studies are inaccurate,   but sometimes they're right.   But since the study told us this,   can we actually believe that study?   I don't know.  

[01:13:54] Jamon Fries:

I love that that I love that conundrum.   Okay. So what I'll start off. I've got a lot more studies than you do.   So the first study the first two studies I've got   are, in my mind,   scientists   trying to convince you   to believe a way or to Uh-huh. Take a drug. Right. So the first one, new research identifies molecular pathways linking   hot weather and preterm birth risk.  

[01:14:30] Jesse Fries:

Okay.  

[01:14:31] Jamon Fries:

Which means that we need to fight global warming.  

[01:14:34] Jesse Fries:

Okay.   Wow. Molecular   pathways.   Yeah.   Yeah.   Okay.  

[01:14:44] Jamon Fries:

So the hotter it is, the more likely you are to   have preterm birth risks.   Uh-huh.   I'm assuming they mean preemies.  

[01:14:55] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Premature.   Preterm. Yep.  

[01:14:59] Jamon Fries:

But does that mean that   in Sub Sahara Africa,   the pre preemies are more abundant than, say, in Scandinavia?  

[01:15:11] Jesse Fries:

Well, you couldn't say that necessarily because   it's not necessarily hot   down there because Nairobi is, like, seventy, eighty years degrees a year round.   So   yeah. Yeah. It's hard to I don't think you could extrapolate that exactly, but, deserts, definitely.   Maybe that explains   I I won't say where I was gonna say because that that would just sound   bad.   But,   yeah. Yeah. So  

[01:15:41] Jamon Fries:

I mean, so, like, Malaysia,   you know, do they have a higher a higher premium   premium account than, say, Scandinavia does? Because Malaysia is pretty hot.  

[01:15:53] Jesse Fries:

Right.  

[01:15:55] Jamon Fries:

So I mean,   if they do, I mean, maybe there's something to this study, but at the same time, using it to convince to try to convince people that we need to combat global warming is, to me, a huge issue. I I don't like science being used for that. Yeah. No. Me neither. Whenever you tie anything to how could we tie this to climate change? You you know, it's like,  

[01:16:19] Jesse Fries:

just shut up. You know? If you if you have to try to tie it to climate change, that means that you've got money   from the climate change groups to actually create the study, which kind of means that this study would probably fall into that inaccurate  

[01:16:33] Jamon Fries:

bit. I'm just saying. Most likely. Yes. Now some of the information they found may be accurate, but Maybe. They don't trust their conclusions.  

[01:16:40] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. No. Not at all. Yeah. Not at all. And then the next study,  

[01:16:46] Jamon Fries:

this one I think is hilarious. Uh-huh. So a study has found that g l GLP one drugs, so Ozempic and stuff like that Right. Right.   Improve   strength and reverse aging biology   advice.  

[01:17:00] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. Really? Okay. Yes.  

[01:17:03] Jamon Fries:

So in other words, everyone should be taking GLP once because you'll be stronger and you won't age as fast.  

[01:17:11] Jesse Fries:

Well, that's what they want. They want everybody on these drugs. You know? I know.  

[01:17:15] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. Who  

[01:17:18] Jesse Fries:

who who funded this study?   Well, that's what I wanna know. Who funded this? Probably Ozempic or whichever one they reckon. Right?   It's,   yeah. It's just like how Yeah.   It's just like,   the   tobacco companies funding   the tobacco research, you know, cancer. You know? It's  

[01:17:43] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. It it's insane.  

[01:17:45] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. That is   I'm trying to see if I can find any of this here.   It's out of Hong Kong, looks like.  

[01:17:55] Jamon Fries:

Okay.  

[01:17:56] Jesse Fries:

So no clue. No clue. Sometimes they hide this sort of stuff quite well. Right.  

[01:18:04] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. That website, they usually don't talk about who funds anything or anything like that.  

[01:18:09] Jesse Fries:

Right. Right.   Let's see. Limitation of study. First, we have not demonstrated lifespan extension in mice.   Well, the strong similarities with effects of whatever inhibitor, which is, well,   for longevity benefits suggest.   So you you would have to actually test for that whether or not it can prolong life.  

[01:18:36] Jamon Fries:

Yep.  

[01:18:39] Jesse Fries:

Okay. I I I was just going down a rabbit hole. Sorry, guys. I I just, yeah, my brain   started  

[01:18:45] Jamon Fries:

wandering. Studies that you you start looking at it, you're like, oh, god. Why? Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. Exactly.   But,   and then there's a well done study.   Uh-huh.   Orange juice may be more much more for you much made but do much more for your body than scientists ever realized.   Okay. And in the results of that study, 90%   of what they talked about   is what vitamin d consumption does for you.  

[01:19:17] Jesse Fries:

Sounds about right.  

[01:19:18] Jamon Fries:

Sounds about right. So they're saying you need to drink your orange juice.  

[01:19:23] Jesse Fries:

So this was brought to you by Florida oranges.   Yeah.   Well, I don't know that for sure, guys. I'm just saying. But yeah. Yeah. Yep.   But  

[01:19:34] Jamon Fries:

there's a huge problem because they they say that, you know, the sugar   that that orange juice could help fight diabetes and stuff like that Right.   As well a little bit.   But   if you listen to   anyone else talk   Mhmm. You should be eating the fruit, not drinking the juice.   Right. Right. Right. Because the fruit has all the fiber and stuff like that that helps the body counteract the sugar that's in the fruit juice.   Yeah. No. Sounds about right. Sounds about right. So so I think that I so instead of drinking juice like they say, I think this means that you should just start eating more oranges.  

[01:20:16] Jesse Fries:

Sounds like a good plan to me. Sounds like a good plan to me.  

[01:20:20] Jamon Fries:

Okey doke. You gotta love those well, duh things, you know. Oh, orange juice is good for you because oranges are good for you. Imagine that. Imagine that. Yeah.   So you want me to do my last one? Yeah. Do your last one. So Okay.   So   another well done study.   Yeah. There's too many well done studies out there. Uh-huh. Using AI to find information   could diminish your knowledge.  

[01:20:48] Jesse Fries:

Imagine that. Yeah. That's been around for a while.   Yeah.  

[01:20:53] Jamon Fries:

I I didn't even have to read the article. Because, I mean, I I just knew that that they were, you know,   it's such a well, duh and duh thing. I mean, if you use AI, that means that, a, you're not looking up the information. And looking Correct. Up the information   finds you so much more knowledge as you read a lot of things that cooperate with that information.   I agree. I agree. It also means that you're not learning how to look up the new information.   Mhmm. And it's very important to know how to research.  

[01:21:28] Jesse Fries:

Oh, yeah. You need to know how to Very important. Yeah. Yeah.   Completely. Completely. No. You know, it might   just had a thought of how you could use AI. You know, you could do the research. Right? Yeah. And then give all the research, all of what you think is important in the research, and then you just give that to the AI and say Absolutely. Write a paper for that. Yeah. Let let the AI extrapolate the information and pinpoint the things that are productive to your argument. Yeah. Yeah. I like it. That would be a great way to use AI for this. You'd but you should never use AI  

[01:22:03] Jamon Fries:

to find the information for you because you're missing out on so much learning. But then Oh, no. That it's  

[01:22:09] Jesse Fries:

they've showed that it's only good, like, 50% of the time if that's Yeah. You know? So   yeah. Yeah. That that it's about as good as studies.   Maybe that's where studies are getting the problem. They're all done by AI. Look at that. It could be. Yeah. Look at that. Yeah. I need to start cheating. You know? I I need to start make some making some money in my life. You know? Yeah. I do.   Okay. So the last study we have, this would it is kind of, disturbing, especially for   the new trend of   of how so many people are getting tatted up.   Yeah.  

So, apparently, a study finds that tattoo ink   accumulates in the lymph nodes.   And so it can really   affect your,   white blood cell count and everything like that.   Damn.   Yeah. Yeah. And it can cause, local and systemic inflammation   that persists for months. Surprising though.   No. It really isn't. It really isn't. And but see, the problem is the main problem is is that these inks, they're not really tested very well. No. They're not.  

[01:23:14] Jamon Fries:

So   In fact in fact,   every tattoo   most tattoo shops   have their own formulas for their ink. Uh-huh. Yep. Yep.   And this is this is how they can look at this is how they can take an example of a tattoo,   and they can find out where it was inked is because of the makeup of the ink.  

[01:23:36] Jesse Fries:

Yep.   Yep.   It looks like in 2024,   a Swedish study tracking 12,000 people found that individuals with tattoos   had a twenty one percent higher chance of malignant lymphoma.   Oh, damn.   And a Danish twin study published earlier this year reported similar trends. Tattooed participants showed higher rates of skin cancer.   Yeah. So   It sucks. But, yeah, it doesn't surprise me. No. Yeah. Yeah. And now you have all these,   especially young women. Young women are really going on the whole tattoo   train. It's kinda crazy how many of them are doing it.   I I can't wait till   this style of tattoos is gone. I really don't like the new style personally, but, you know, it's all Okay. Just random whatever all over. It looks like a smooth Yeah.  



[01:24:29] Jamon Fries:

It does not look good.   I I the the only tattoos that I don't mind are the ones that   are, like,   designed as a whole.   Right. Right. Or just like a nice little simple phrase or something like that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. No. Absolutely. But I mean, if you're gonna go with the whole body tattoo,   you need to have it all matched together. It shouldn't be   there there are some people that I've seen lately. It's like they have   this symbol and that symbol and Yeah. No. That's the new trend I'm talking about. Everything just kind of all over the place, and it makes absolutely no sense. No. It it it's basically this generation's  

[01:25:06] Jesse Fries:

tribal tattoo or trampster. Yeah. That's all it is. Yep. Yep.   Yeah. It's that that's just the style of it. I I I personally don't like the style very much. I never have.   But, you know, to each their own, I guess, you know, simplistic tattoos, you know, I guess. Sure. Why not? But My myself, I've never really been a big fan of tattoos to begin with. So Yeah. No. Me neither. But only for the simple fact that I know I couldn't stick to anything. Okay. I'm surprised I've been married to my wife for about twenty years now. You know? It's just  

[01:25:41] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. That's about Yeah. Unholy shit.  

[01:25:43] Jesse Fries:

In January, dude, twenty years. Damn.  

[01:25:47] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. Yeah.   Yeah. That that's   a long time.   Yeah. It it  

[01:25:56] Jesse Fries:

it feels forever, and it feels instantaneous   all at the same time. Yep. You know? It's a  

[01:26:02] Jamon Fries:

Yep. The way it works.  

[01:26:04] Jesse Fries:

Yep.   Okay. What do we what are we closing with here? I I'd probably say the butts one last. Yeah. Yeah. That that was my plan. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.  

[01:26:15] Jamon Fries:

So it's been reported now, the the Louvre heist.   There there were so many people saying, you know, was it an inside job because that camera wasn't wasn't pointed at where where it probably should have been and stuff like that. Right. That would have allowed them to get to call the police before   anything happened instead of waiting till after they were already there. Right.   Well, it turns out that the password   for their   video  

[01:26:44] Jesse Fries:

capture system For the Louvre's video capture. For the Louvre's  

[01:26:48] Jamon Fries:

video capture system   was  

[01:26:54] Jesse Fries:

Louvre. God bless it. That that that's just as good as password and 123456789.  

[01:27:01] Jamon Fries:

Yes. Yes. Absolutely.  

[01:27:05] Jesse Fries:

That is hilarious.   Love it. Love it. That's, Yep.  

[01:27:10] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. They they don't know who changed the password to that. I guess it was just a temporary password or something. But Sure.  

[01:27:17] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. That's what they claim anyways. Exactly. It's like, oh, fuck. We fucked up. You know?   It was a temporary. We did we did no. You know?   Yeah.   That's hilarious.  

[01:27:29] Jamon Fries:

I got a feeling that some people are gonna be losing their job over that one now. No kidding. And then you don't like the  

[01:27:35] Jesse Fries:

restaurant on the trip.   Jesus Christ. It's what restaurant? It's like, okay. What's the password? It was like a whole bunch of characters. This and that here, like, oh,   guys, you're just you you're just a restaurant. You realize this. Right? You you know? You make it you make it like, oh, burgers and fries. You know? That's what you do. You don't go   blah blah blah blah.  

[01:27:56] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. Exactly.   Yeah. So the the places that should have really stringent passwords   have their own name as the password.   Yep. Yeah. And people where it don't really matter shit. You know, like, I I've I've seen I've I've gone into some houses   and you ask them, you know, what's the password to your Wi Fi if you're gonna be there for a while. Right. Right.   And there's, like, this in-depth,   intricate password.  

[01:28:24] Jesse Fries:

Yep. Yep. Dude,  

[01:28:28] Jamon Fries:

you have unlimited Internet, and all this password is doing is making it that other people can't access your Internet. Yeah. That's awesome. Does it really need to be that   harsh   of a password?  

[01:28:41] Jesse Fries:

No. It really doesn't. You know? It's like   yeah. No. It really doesn't. You know? Yeah. It's,  

[01:28:48] Jamon Fries:

somebody stealing your password. If you have a bad neighbor, fine. You know? Yeah. Absolutely. If you've got if you if you know somebody stealing your Internet, then absolutely protect it a little bit harder. Right. Right. Right. But even, like, the   the,   websites that   mean absolutely   nothing.   Mhmm. For example, I I read a lot of online books.  

[01:29:11] Jesse Fries:

Right.  

[01:29:12] Jamon Fries:

And in order to set up an account there, you have to have the their password restrictions   are just as strong as they even stronger than they are for my bank. Yep. Yep.   It's insane.  

[01:29:26] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. No. It is. It is.   It's like the other day we ran into,   triple factor authentication.  

[01:29:33] Jamon Fries:

It's like, oh god.  

[01:29:35] Jesse Fries:

Really, dude? Triple   triple fact it's like,   just keep it.  

[01:29:41] Jamon Fries:

I I I ran into that I ran into that not too long ago too where I had to I had to put my password in. Uh-huh. And then they sent me a code on my phone. Uh-huh. So I typed that code in. And then they said, now we've emailed your email address account. You need to type that in too.  

[01:29:57] Jesse Fries:

I know. It's like,   yeah. No. No. No. It's no.   No. No. Yep. It's   it's not worth all that. Just saying. No. No. It's not. It's not.  

[01:30:09] Jamon Fries:

Okay, Jamie. And for the last the   day. Yeah.  

[01:30:14] Jesse Fries:

I'm scared. So  

[01:30:17] Jamon Fries:

I think this is in Japan again.   Okay. They seem to like doing these weird studies.  

[01:30:23] Jesse Fries:

Okay.  

[01:30:25] Jamon Fries:

I now,   I guess, there are some animals like pigs, rodents, turtles, and some fish  

[01:30:33] Jesse Fries:

Uh-huh. That  

[01:30:35] Jamon Fries:

can absorb ox oxygen rectally.  

[01:30:39] Jesse Fries:

Rectally as in the butt?   Yes.  

[01:30:45] Jamon Fries:

So their butt can absorb oxygen, put the oxygen into the blood to replace the lungs  

[01:30:51] Jesse Fries:

essentially. Lovely. Lovely.  

[01:30:54] Jamon Fries:

Well, so now they're testing if humans have that ability as well. So there is some there's some inclination that they do.  

[01:31:02] Jesse Fries:

Right. Because the intestines absorb a lot. Yeah. Yes. Yes.  

[01:31:07] Jamon Fries:

And   so what and, you know, I mean, this would be for extreme cases, like, say, for example, if your throat is crushed   or something is wrong with your lungs, you know, your lungs are filled with up with blood. Right. If they can't find a way to get oxygen   into your lungs to get into your blood system Right. They are trying to come up with a liquid that they can shove into your rectum   to allow it to absorb the oxygen. So it would be a highly oxygenated   thing.   So I could just imagine in an ER, you'll no longer hear,   guys, grab the intubation tube.  

It'll be, guys, grab the enema kit.  

[01:31:47] Jesse Fries:

Seriously?   Oh,   yeah. Yeah.   Talk about bad breath.  

[01:31:56] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. No kidding.   There's there's a problem though. If if they don't   if they can't exhale the carbon dioxide,   if they've put if they're if they're breathing, you know, not Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Rid of the carbon dioxide because only the lungs can do that.  

[01:32:16] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. That's a very good one.   Look at you being smart.   You you you you you you just made  

[01:32:22] Jamon Fries:

this funny thing like a real thing to you. Come on. It just popped in. It popped into my head and I'm like, what's the fucking point? They can't sell the carbon dioxide.  

[01:32:31] Jesse Fries:

Dude, you made this not funny.   You're talking out of your butt.  

[01:32:40] Jamon Fries:

Literally.  

[01:32:41] Jesse Fries:

And with that, I'd like to thank you for joining us for episode 82 of the mindless podcast.   I'm Jesse Friese. And I'm Jamin Friese. And we will see you on I I think it's Thursday. Right? Yeah. Thursday. Thursday. That that is the plan.