Let's see what' topics we came up with this week. Some politics, some science, some tech, and some National Guard.
Hosted by:
- Jamon Fries
https://mindlessmeanderings.com
(00:00:21) Holiday kickoff, beers, and new tech setup
(00:04:26) Show logistics, mics, and settling in
(00:04:30) Bernie, single-issue bills, and legislative bloat
(00:08:09) Budget votes, plain-English laws, and process fixes
(00:08:33) Supreme Court debate: Guard vs. regular forces
(00:15:04) National Guard, posse comitatus, and federal authority
(00:20:03) Trump, naming rights, and the Kennedy Center flap
(00:22:21) Filibuster, Obamacare history, and governing speed
(00:29:59) Epstein files: redactions, proof, and partisanship
(00:30:01) Offshore wind, radar interference, and security
(00:31:47) Nigeria airstrikes and views from the diaspora
(00:33:22) State politics: Minnesota fraud talk and Boston missteps
(00:36:01) Work requirements, welfare, and social expectations
(00:37:17) New Jerseys reusable-only dine-in rule
(00:39:02) Chopsticks, dining out, and local food scenes
(00:42:21) Delivery apps, late-night markups, and fees
(00:45:27) Legal corner: shaken baby prosecutions revisited
(00:47:33) Parental notification, teachers, and mandatory reporting
(00:51:02) Border Patrol hiring and identity politics
(00:54:57) Licenses, visas, and corporate immigration memos
(01:01:14) Grand jury declines indictment in campus defense case
(01:03:13) Chiefs to Kansas: stadium subsidies and civic costs
(01:07:14) Hockey nostalgia, Dallas Stars, and Minnesota lore
(01:13:11) EU vs. US speech norms and internet walls
(01:32:19) Housekeeping aside and onward to business tech
(01:33:24) Browsers, AI backlash, and Firefox kill switch
(01:36:10) Waymo outage: blackout stalls self-driving fleet
(01:40:32) Studies: garlic mouthwash and Alzheimers energy angle
(01:46:13) Why AI lacks consciousness: always-on brains
(01:49:00) Vitamin C vs. air pollution and two big duh studies
(01:51:52) Gambling spikes with apps; surgery beats Ozempic
(01:55:02) Podcasts while driving and audiobook pitfalls
(01:58:01) Science: malnutrition-linked diabetes and lunar records
(02:02:31) Closing rant: NYFD pick controversy and sign-off
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Jesse Fries:
Good evening, everybody or night or whatever it is, wherever you are. It is December yeah, twenty seventh and it is a Saturday and we are live with episode number, oh man, I didn't figure that one out. 88. 88. Uh-oh. Yeah. I don't like that number. Okay. Of the minus meanderings, I'm Jesse Freeze and yeah, I've got so much to talk about just in general but you know, I decided to go with more beer. That's why we're a little bit late because I wanted to run and get some beer for this thing. This is one of those nights.
[00:00:58] Jamon Fries:
Yeah and I'm Jamin Freeze and I really wish I had beer.
[00:01:03] Jesse Fries:
I bet. I bet. You know, I don't normally say that but
[00:01:08] Jamon Fries:
after drinking the beer that dad left here one time he was here. Uh-huh. Yeah. I I like being able to crack one open for the show.
[00:01:18] Jesse Fries:
It it it there's just something good about beer. Just Yeah. Yeah. It's a it's a wonderful thing. Wonderful thing. Absolutely. Yeah and then I I hope everybody had a good Christmas. I did.
[00:01:30] Jamon Fries:
Yeah.
[00:01:31] Jesse Fries:
I made a nice prime rib roast. I did it on rotisserie.
[00:01:38] Jamon Fries:
Well, it would have been it was warm enough down there that you could have grilled, wasn't it? Well, that's what it was. I was I was grilling outside, but I had rotisserie for it. Yeah.
[00:01:49] Jesse Fries:
So I I spent all day outside in
[00:01:52] Jamon Fries:
shorts and T shirt. I I could have as well. I mean, it was with the a couple days before Christmas, they said that it was gonna be 71 as our low was our high for the day for Christmas, But, we ended up only hitting about 66. So, you know So good. Unfortunately, we had that cold front come through. Right. Right. Right.
[00:02:14] Jesse Fries:
Yeah. No. And then yesterday, what we hit, like, 86, I think Austin did. Oh,
[00:02:20] Jamon Fries:
Yeah. That is beautiful weather.
[00:02:23] Jesse Fries:
It really is beautiful weather. And it's like Yeah. Winter. So it's like it doesn't stay for long and the sun sets quickly, so it cools off real quick and everything. It's like a perfect thing. Yep. Yeah. And then also just for purposes of this podcast, my wife got me a 27 inches display for my computer. So, yeah, because otherwise, I've been working on an 11 inch laptop. Yeah. This whole time. So, now, I have a 27 inch. I I over doubled my screen size here. So, yeah.
[00:02:55] Jamon Fries:
Couldn't I couldn't imagine doing anything for this show on that small of a screen and I I've got my two twenty seven inch monitors and that's you know,
[00:03:05] Jesse Fries:
even sometimes that's not enough for me. No, yeah. Yeah. See, see, for me, it's like, I I can only do one monitor at a time. I cannot do two. Okay.
[00:03:15] Jamon Fries:
Bugs my brain out, my eyes out, whatever. Yeah. So, yeah. I just can't do it. But yeah, now I have. Well, I've I've gotten used to it. I only concentrate on one at a time. But like, right, but like right now, so the main monitor, I've got one that's straight just directly in front of me and then one that's off to the side. Mhmm. And right now, the one that had that's off to the side has the has the headlines on it and it has the and it has the clean feet on it. Right. So I can so I can see both of those over there while still having a full web page to look at when I'm looking at the at the links and stuff. Okay. Okay.
[00:03:52] Jesse Fries:
Makes sense. It
[00:03:53] Jamon Fries:
works really well for me. I've I've been using this kind of setup now for, oh god, at least the last fifteen years.
[00:04:01] Jesse Fries:
No. Yeah. Yeah. Makes sense. Makes sense. Okay. Let's see. But, for me, that's still there. But, yeah, I'm here. Hello. Oh, I muted myself somehow. Let's see. Yeah, I muted myself somehow. Not sure exactly how I did that, but, Yeah. After the problems that we had last show, I was worried that, you know, something was going bad again. Yeah. Yeah. Not not yet, at least. Not yet. That's good. That's good. Yeah. Yeah. Well, let's see here. What do we got you? What have you started? Well,
[00:04:32] Jamon Fries:
so Bernie Sanders got himself in a little bit of a pickle with a lot of people. Uh-huh. So, they were these they were trying to pass a a bill for researching children's cancer.
[00:04:53] Jesse Fries:
Okay.
[00:04:55] Jamon Fries:
And Bernie Sanders is the only vote that stopped it from going quickly. Oh, Jesus. Yeah. The reason he did it is because we still haven't fixed the health care problem.
[00:05:11] Jesse Fries:
Oh, Jesus. Yeah. Yeah.
[00:05:18] Jamon Fries:
So This this happened this happened, like, a couple days before Christmas. And so the headlines were were calling
[00:05:28] Jesse Fries:
Sanders Grinch and selfish and all that other stuff.
[00:05:32] Jamon Fries:
Yeah. I could see that. You know, the the one thing kids with cancer would have loved for Christmas is for the government to spend more money on trying to cure them.
[00:05:41] Jesse Fries:
Right. Right. Right. Yeah. I yeah. I know. I I understand where his heart is, but it's just stupid. It is. See, I don't even understand where his heart is.
[00:05:54] Jamon Fries:
Because the problem I the problem I have with this Uh-huh. Is that just because you want to get something through and this bill isn't talking about that, the other shit that this bill does is so fucking good that you don't nix it just because they don't add on what you want because what he wanted so this bill was purely and only about the child cancer. But he also wanted them to tack on to the bill, the health care Yeah.
[00:06:30] Jesse Fries:
Yeah. I
[00:06:32] Jamon Fries:
I I don't like it. So just because they're not tacking it on, you don't nix the entire
[00:06:37] Jesse Fries:
thing when it's such a good thing, you know? I I really think like each bill each bill should be like tiny, You know, it really should be. You know, nice and tiny. You know, not not all this bloat and everything like that, you know, and it was I
[00:06:50] Jamon Fries:
would I would love to see, first of all, I've said this before, single issue bills. Right. Right. There are no riders, no addendums. You have to pass every single thing individually except, you know, the the if you're doing the major budget thing, I can see, you know, that's kind of, you know, all over the place but
[00:07:13] Jesse Fries:
for just. Right, right. Single of just. Make it so that it's that everything in there is about the budget, not. Yes. No. Exactly. No.
[00:07:22] Jamon Fries:
Well, no. Not what you what you do is you set one is you you have multiple budget votes. The first one is for everything that the bureaucracies are asking for. For the monies, the money to fund the bureaucracies, you know, the Department of the Poor, the CIA, the FBI, you know, all that stuff. Right. Right. You have one that just funds the agencies with the money that they're requesting. And then if you want to fund other little pet projects, you have to pass them individually.
[00:07:59] Jesse Fries:
No, make sense. Make sense. Yeah. No, I'm with you. That's how I think it should work. It it makes sense to me. It makes sense to me. Yeah. Yeah. Definitely makes sense.
[00:08:09] Jamon Fries:
Oh, let's see here. I guess onto And and then and then, you know, make it set no bill can be more than five pages long except for that one budget bill.
[00:08:18] Jesse Fries:
That'd be nice. That'd be nice. Yeah. Yeah. Nice and simple. You you you know, maybe plain English too, you know? I don't know, you know. Yes, exactly.
[00:08:27] Jamon Fries:
You need to make it so that an eighth grader can read it and understand it.
[00:08:31] Jesse Fries:
Yeah. Yeah. No. Exactly. Exactly. You you you know, it's like this whole, the supreme court decision about Illinois and everything like that. Yeah. It is I've read it because I I I I had been seeing all these conservatives and everything like that saying, well, basically, all this does is they want Trump to use the actual military in Chicago. You know? It's Okay. And I'm like, good. That just doesn't sound right on, like, any level. No. That that that can't be. But they're right. Oh. Are you serious? In essence, yes. Because basically what it mean what it is, is it goes down into like a regular sources, you know, regular forces and everything like that. And the Supreme Court says, even though this wasn't in the dissent, some of the conservatives are going, I don't know why they brought that up because nobody was saying that in every other lower court decision and both sides were saying that did not mean the military. They were saying that it meant like the FBI and everything like that. Regular enforcement and everything like that. The Supreme Court, for some reason, they decided to say, okay, well, we want to narrow down on this even though nobody has yet.
Right. And so they asked for opinions from everybody. And so then it came to the point where they decided that regular forces or whatever it was means the military. And so basically what it means is that Oh, fuck. Right, right. So so the only time the National Guard can be called up underneath this thing is if all the regular forces, aka military forces, have been used, then you can call up the National Guard.
[00:10:33] Jamon Fries:
So in other words, you if if you've used the pros and that doesn't fix the problem, then we can send in the part timers. Correct. Correct. Correct. Oh my God.
[00:10:45] Jesse Fries:
But but, you know, this goes into the whole, where where where the military cannot do enforcement or anything like that? Yeah. Yeah. Right. Right. The the military cannot
[00:10:54] Jamon Fries:
take action against US citizens. Right. The posse,
[00:10:58] Jesse Fries:
Actually, though, it's not it's it's not that, Jayman. What it says is that they cannot enforce the laws. No, no. Enforcement thinks that's it. What that means by everything that they say it means is that they cannot be arrested. They cannot arrest people and things like that. But it doesn't actually say they cannot, like, quell a disturbance.
[00:11:26] Jamon Fries:
Oh, no. No, absolutely not. Because what what what it is is when this is always been used with the National Guard. It's never been used with the regular Maryland military. Actually it has. Because there are other well I mean it has but very very very rarely.
[00:11:43] Jesse Fries:
Brown V Board.
[00:11:44] Jamon Fries:
Yeah. Yep. And and the reason for that is because there are regulations within the military that they cannot be used against US citizens.
[00:11:56] Jesse Fries:
Right. But see, Jamie, that's where things get hinky. Oh, yes. Yeah, absolutely. If the National Guard is brought up by the state, then the National Guard has enforcement powers. Yes. The Fed, if it's federalized, they are just like every other military branch and they have no enforcement powers.
[00:12:25] Jamon Fries:
Okay. So, so why was that why did everybody get their panties in a bunch when the marines went into LA to protect the buildings?
[00:12:34] Jesse Fries:
Because of the whole idea of we we have the sense. It's I it's just a sense, mind you. I think that's what it is. Even I had the sense and everything like that is that we have the sense in The United States that the National Guard, it's like, it's there when things go bad, you know, but not like bad, bad, you know, it's like, oh, there's a riot or something like that. Then we send in the national guard and everything like that. According to the Supreme court, that is not the case now. That is solely so and by what they said, the military has to be completely used.
Now they will have no enforcement or anything And like so in the decision, they actually said, well, we don't see how they could even do this, use that posse or whatever, but to even be called up. Was like, they were trying to say that they don't even think the military could be called in for these purposes to protect US government buildings. But I don't think that's
[00:13:45] Jamon Fries:
Isn't that like specifically what that says? What positive comment is? Yes. Yes. Yes. They're there to protect the buildings and the federal officers? Right. They were splitting some hairs that just didn't make much sense. Oh god. Yeah. Really? But no, I mean, what what this means is that what Trump has to do is he has to send in the navy into the rivers. He has to send the Air Force into the into the air over Chicago and he has to send the marines and the army in with their tanks. Well, not the navy. They he doesn't because there's the coast guard.
[00:14:18] Jesse Fries:
Well, yeah. So, he could he could use the coast guard, I guess. No, the coast guard is for internal water basically is what the coast guard is for and they actually do have enforcement
[00:14:29] Jamon Fries:
powers. Oh, yes, absolutely. They do. Yes. If
[00:14:32] Jesse Fries:
when they're under the direction of the Homeland Security. Yep.
[00:14:37] Jamon Fries:
But not when it's wartime. Not when they're being used as a military force. Gets so confusing. I was like, does. I'm like, oh. Yeah. And do you know why the National Guard has arresting has prosecutorial powers when they're called up by the governor?
[00:14:56] Jesse Fries:
Why?
[00:14:57] Jamon Fries:
Because it's the state national guard so the governor can have them do whatever he wants them to. Right, right, right, right. The reason that the president can't is because when he calls him up, he's turning them into a military force.
[00:15:11] Jesse Fries:
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But yeah, see, it's just,
[00:15:15] Jamon Fries:
I I just wonder if Trump would have the balls to do it because the image of actually sending in the military. Even though that is what the Supreme Court is saying. Oh, could you could you imagine if he would send the army in with their with their APCs and their Right. You know, with with all that shit. Uh-huh. Just to quell that. I mean, my god. Send a tank down the streets. I know. Right? That'd be crazy. I don't quell that shit real fast. Sounds like funny. That's what the supreme court has just authorized him to do. Yeah.
[00:15:49] Jesse Fries:
Yeah. Because I've read it and then I had to do a whole bunch research on all the other stuff and everything. And I'm like Yeah. Okay. I I thought the conservative pundits were, oh, crap. But I think that's really Yeah. Is. Yep. Because they don't consider the FBI or any and so basically, what what it I think I think it may have been in the whole decision. One of the dissents was, so what this means is that Trump would have to use all of the the way they worded the opinion. They would have to use all of the forces of the United States military.
Yeah. In order to call up the National Guard. So they would have to use like everybody in the army. Everybody in the marines. All the millions of people. And then if that doesn't work, then they could do the National Guard. It just makes no sense.
[00:16:46] Jamon Fries:
Well, you know why they why they, you know, why the Democrats would have decided would have would have declared it to be that way. Why? It's because if he has to use the military first, it proves he's a dictator in trying to become a king. No, that that makes sense. That makes sense. Yep.
[00:17:05] Jesse Fries:
But I don't know why some of the people when when it was because it was a six three decision. No. So, like Roberts,
[00:17:14] Jamon Fries:
I believe. Yeah. A in a conservative in a conservative supposedly conservative led Supreme Court. Right, right. That is a really horrible decision.
[00:17:24] Jesse Fries:
But, you know, it's like, based off of the wording of things, I I think the whole regular, I think that was a bad mistake, personally. Because generally regular in for regular forces or whatever it is, usually that I think everybody seems to take that as like FBI marshals.
[00:17:47] Jamon Fries:
When operating within The US borders. Absolutely. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Not military
[00:17:51] Jesse Fries:
for Christ's sakes. Now, now the Supreme Court is telling our presidents to just use the military. Fuck everything else. I it just makes no sense. Going on? Don't don't bother with the FBI. Just send the military in. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So what now we they may have to set up some forces that are just for, internal use. And then and then Trump can just send his people wherever he wants, whenever he wants without anything. The states couldn't say shit about it. This is a slippery slope. This is these bad decisions. Oh, That will actually lead to not necessarily Trump but some president and probably not the too long future of being a dictator.
[00:18:39] Jamon Fries:
Oh, yeah. Absolutely. Yeah. It wouldn't shock me at all. I mean, this is such a bad slippery slope. I think so. I think so. I mean, we're we're we're talking like a 20 degree hill slippery slope.
[00:18:57] Jesse Fries:
Jamie, you're a trucker. You know what a 20 degrees slope is. You you you know us civilians.
[00:19:04] Jamon Fries:
Twenties degrees doesn't sound like much, James. So, you know Okay. Let me just put it this way. When you're going down a 20 degree slope, I've only been down one in my life. You feel like you're like your vehicle is not going to stick on the road. Like, you're gonna just flip over and fall off of it. No, I I I understand. I'm just saying,
[00:19:24] Jesse Fries:
using that terminology for me, I'm like, okay, congratulations. It's like, know, you see the, you see the signs on the road. It's like, oh, five degree. 12 degree. Okay. Here you go. Okay. Alright. Yeah. The 12 year head is nasty in a semi. Yeah. But, you know, you just like, okay. It's steep. Congratulations. Yep. Yep. Just say steep. And fucking steep.
[00:19:47] Jamon Fries:
And holy shit, it's steep. This is this is really, really fucking steep.
[00:19:54] Jesse Fries:
I want that road sign.
[00:19:57] Jamon Fries:
Hell, yeah. Perfect. Hell, yeah. I'm good with that. Yeah, another thing that they're saying, see this proves Trump is a dictator is the Kennedy Center, their board. Right. Voted to include Trump's name. So, it's now the Trump, the Donald Trump, and and Kennedy Center.
[00:20:22] Jesse Fries:
For the yard. Just Trump Kennedy Center. Yeah. Yeah. Why did he want his name on that?
[00:20:32] Jamon Fries:
I mean, it's Trump. He wants his name on every bill. I don't. He's stupid in my book. It it really is. Yeah. But, you know, I mean, but, you know, the reason that they voted for it and they're they're just ignoring all of the leftists that are coming out, including Kennedy's knees. And like, we have been in a state of massive disrepair for the last ten years. Oh, okay. Okay. And you Democrats haven't done You guys aren't donating any money to us. Trump put a ton of money into it to refurbish everything.
[00:21:11] Jesse Fries:
Yeah, 131,000,000 in private corporate donations.
[00:21:15] Jamon Fries:
He basically rebuilt the entire thing almost. And then Congress gave 275,000,000.
[00:21:21] Jesse Fries:
Yeah.
[00:21:22] Jamon Fries:
Yeah. No. So they're like, you know what? We're good with adding his name to it. That makes sense to me. Because without him, it wouldn't still be here.
[00:21:30] Jesse Fries:
Yeah. No. I I I I I don't see, I don't care, but also it's like, come on. You know?
[00:21:37] Jamon Fries:
Yeah. It's Well, you know, the the thing is it I what I the way I look at it is if it weren't for the fact that he wants his name put on so many different things. Mhmm. I wouldn't care if his name was added to it. Right. Right. Right. It it's the fact that he wants his name everywhere.
[00:21:55] Jesse Fries:
Yeah. You
[00:21:56] Jamon Fries:
know, it it it's not really a problem to me because, well, they can just take his name off anytime they want. You know, all it takes is the board to vote again and take his name off.
[00:22:10] Jesse Fries:
Oh, completely. Completely. Yeah.
[00:22:12] Jamon Fries:
You know, there's so many people saying, this takes an act of congress to read to rename it. No, it doesn't.
[00:22:21] Jesse Fries:
And they think everything. They think that doing the White House takes a act of congress. They think everything takes a act of congress. You know, they think it takes a act of congress because they know it'll never get through the senate. Which is why we need to get rid of the filibuster as we like to say on this show. Let's just get rid of it. Without a doubt. Yes. Because it's like, yes, it can lead to problems, but it can also help speed up the process of fixing the problems that it creates.
[00:22:51] Jamon Fries:
Oh, yeah. Yeah. Absolutely. With
[00:22:54] Jesse Fries:
this whole thing, it's like the Obamacare. It's like, that's a massive issue that needs to be taken care of. Massive issue. Yes. But because of how our congress works, it just won't ever be done. Oh. You know? Obamacare like that was like I don't even know how they manage that one. You know, but somehow they managed. Well, they they had they had a filibuster proof.
[00:23:15] Jamon Fries:
Oh, yeah. Yeah. Amounted in the senate. So, you know, they can they controlled the they had a very vast majority in both the house and the senate as well as Obama in in office. So, I mean, there there was they they could have passed anything that they wanted to at that time. They didn't need a single Republican to vote for anything. Oh, okay. Okay. Makes sense. Makes sense. Yeah.
[00:23:37] Jesse Fries:
But yeah, I I his name shouldn't be everywhere but you know, it it'll be taken down in a lot of places after he's gone anyways. So. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Well, you know, it's like
[00:23:48] Jamon Fries:
I'm still hearing a whole bunch of hoopla about the plaque, the plaque that he put up on the White House. The trolley. It's only there as long as he is. Yeah. Yeah. It is. Once he's gone, those that shit's coming down. I can guarantee it. And he hates those people. He probably put Bush up there too.
[00:24:05] Jesse Fries:
Because he never really liked Bush that much, but he's a Republican, so he's gonna save him, I bet.
[00:24:10] Jamon Fries:
Yeah, I They only they only talk about Biden and Obama.
[00:24:15] Jesse Fries:
But because there's only other ones that have the big plaques.
[00:24:19] Jamon Fries:
Well, no. No. The the plaques, everybody has plaques.
[00:24:23] Jesse Fries:
No, no, no. Right. But if you look at, I I've seen the picture. It it Obama, Trump, Biden, Trump, all four of those or at least three of those, they all have the double plaque. Okay. Okay. And and then like, from George Bush backwards, it's just the name plate is all it is. Okay.
[00:24:47] Jamon Fries:
Not I thought he had plaques on all of them. Just the Well, they're plaques. Yeah.
[00:24:51] Jesse Fries:
Yeah. It's a single plaque, but they don't really mention anything. It's not like the list of grievances
[00:24:57] Jamon Fries:
that he has for Obawa and minor. Yeah. I I don't know because the I saw an I saw I heard some people talking about it and they were like, yeah, he's he's there there's a few presidents where he's very anti them. Right. Right. Right. You know, that he was he was saying it kind of as if it wasn't just Obama and Biden.
[00:25:18] Jesse Fries:
Well, if you remember his but if you remember his like his first inauguration speech. Yeah. He ripped into Bush and Obama like nobody's business. Yeah. He didn't rip into a Clinton because I think he likes Clinton. Just in general as a man. Politically and and as a man, I mean, they're they're both fairly similar. No, they are. They really are. They really are. So, I don't think, yeah. So, it was but he ripped into both Obama and Biden in his first inauguration. I remember that. They everybody was Yeah. Yeah. Bush. Bush. Yeah. I remember them, like, going, what the hell? Yeah.
Yep. So but I think I think he knows that he can't rip too much into bush, and he's far away now in history. Oh, yeah. Yeah. So over a decade away. So it's like, doesn't even matter, you know, fifteen years or seventeen.
[00:26:15] Jamon Fries:
The damage is long done. There's nothing really to talk about anymore.
[00:26:19] Jesse Fries:
No, really isn't. Really isn't. Can you believe that's like seventeen years ago? Holy I know. Yeah.
[00:26:26] Jamon Fries:
We're old, dude. Insane. We are. Yes. I mean, fuck. I remember when Reagan was running for office.
[00:26:33] Jesse Fries:
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And then, of course, we have all the Epstein file stuff, you know? Oh, yeah. More and more keeps coming out. They found some more and everything like that. You know. Looks like they're doing a pretty decent job of it, not as fast as everybody says that they should've but. Right.
[00:26:55] Jamon Fries:
And they seem to be. Does take a lot lot of time to go in and strike out all the names of the people you don't want anyone to know about and strike out the names of the of the people that were victims of it and stuff like that. I mean, you know. Security stuff and whatnot.
[00:27:11] Jesse Fries:
So yeah. Yeah. No. I I It's Yeah. The the the the the anger over it not being all released that one day, it started to simmer because they've been pumping them out pretty quickly. Oh, yeah. Yeah. But no, it's like the redactions and everything like that. It's like, there's a whole page, there's pages of redactions. It's like, yeah, this is what happens. Is what happens. So, they go, like, oh, the grand jury was redacted. Well, it's First of all, the thing is,
[00:27:44] Jamon Fries:
is that until those are unclassified by the president.
[00:27:51] Jesse Fries:
No. No. None of them classified. Those are classified. Oh, okay. So so it's redacted for other reasons. Yeah. There there might be some national security stuff there but mostly it's due to reputation and also just to protect victims.
[00:28:10] Jamon Fries:
And Okay. For grand jury stuff because that's all closed anyways. So you can't see it. Right. Right. Some of it's closed. Some of it's not. Everything like that. Yeah. It's a whole murk. Yeah. The judge the judges have to officially open those records. Yep. Yep. Yep. Exactly. So. Yeah. I I I knew that this was going to happen. I mean, you know, that that's going to be so redacted that you're not going to really find anything in it anyways.
[00:28:38] Jesse Fries:
You really won't in the It's mostly known anyways. Yeah. You know, it's there's not that much new about it. You know, it was like, the DOJ, they did do a Twitter release going. So, don't pay attention to what you're gonna read about Trump because all this was like just theories that people were sending in to Epstein. Yeah. Yeah.
[00:29:02] Jamon Fries:
Well, and that's that's one of the big problems with with this kind of thing. Oh, completely. Is, you know, you can't factually prove any of it. No, you can't. You can't. Which is why the DOJ hasn't been doing much because they have to factually prove it before they can do anything.
[00:29:20] Jesse Fries:
Yeah, know. And if there's a lot of smear in there, you know, it's like. Yeah. Why would you
[00:29:26] Jamon Fries:
Yeah. No. Exactly. Exactly. Yeah, know. I mean, the the more the more bad stuff you'd be seeing about Trump in there, the better it is because it shows just how much Epstein hated Trump.
[00:29:38] Jesse Fries:
Right. Right.
[00:29:40] Jamon Fries:
And he wouldn't have hated one of his close clients.
[00:29:42] Jesse Fries:
I don't know exactly. Well, I think the Democrats have quieted a bit as well just because, well, there's so much Clinton in there. Yeah. You know? It's like so many pictures of Clinton. You know? It's a Yep. Yeah. So yeah.
[00:29:59] Jamon Fries:
Yeah. Well, so well, the so, you know, all those windmills out in the ocean that have been driving the whales onto the beaches and stuff like that. Well Right. Right. Run into another problem that they're causing.
[00:30:18] Jesse Fries:
Oh, really?
[00:30:19] Jamon Fries:
Yes. So the military replies on radar to track vessels and aircraft moving towards The US.
[00:30:30] Jesse Fries:
Right. Right.
[00:30:31] Jamon Fries:
When you have these big, huge windmills with their big blades moving. Yeah. It causes a huge amount of interference with the radar.
[00:30:43] Jesse Fries:
Yeah, I could see that. I could see that. And so, they've, so the
[00:30:47] Jamon Fries:
Trump has now put a pause on the leases for five new offshore wind projects.
[00:30:54] Jesse Fries:
Uh-huh.
[00:30:56] Jamon Fries:
Waiting until the military figures out how to counteract those windmills out there. I don't know if they if they can't, they may just say, okay, all those windmills out there, we're tearing them all down. Hey, no kidding. No kidding. Because I mean, that that is a pretty severe national security risk. It really is. It really is. Makes you
[00:31:16] Jesse Fries:
I wouldn't think that they would lie about it. So Yeah. It's makes sense. It it causes disturbances. It causes noise as well, which can go down into the water. So if there's any sonar working in the water,
[00:31:32] Jamon Fries:
Yeah, you you submarine's
[00:31:34] Jesse Fries:
very easy down there. Because especially since it's much unnatural
[00:31:39] Jamon Fries:
background noise. Yep. Yep. So. Yeah. Absolutely.
[00:31:45] Jesse Fries:
Makes sense. Makes sense.
[00:31:47] Jamon Fries:
And then the last one the government's doing, we both have, which is the strikes in Nigeria.
[00:31:53] Jesse Fries:
Right? Yep. Just taken out of ISIS. I don't see. I think Nigeria from what I could tell, Nigeria doesn't really have a problem with it, but they really didn't want it to happen. But Yeah. Trump wasn't gonna let it not happen.
[00:32:12] Jamon Fries:
Oh, yeah.
[00:32:15] Jesse Fries:
And then I saw some, some reporters do, like, man on the street, with Nigerians in The UK. Yeah. And they're going, well, we don't like that there's bombing, but, yeah, it needs to be done. Yeah.
[00:32:32] Jamon Fries:
They they they would not try to see troops on the ground. Actually, they had no problem with it at all. They they they Well, no. I I know that. But, you know, the bombings are not as good as troops on the ground would be.
[00:32:45] Jesse Fries:
Alright. But we're not gonna send our troops. That's that'd be stupid. That's no. No. We'll just bomb to smithereens and then Yep. Yeah. It it makes sense to me. You know, they're killing Christians over there. Somebody said, not just Christians. It's like, okay. So there's five Muslims that they killed, you know? Those
[00:33:04] Jamon Fries:
Muslims were probably trying to defend some Christians. They're proving that they're not good Muslims.
[00:33:12] Jesse Fries:
To the They deserve that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yep. Yep. Makes sense to me. Makes sense to me. Yeah.
[00:33:22] Jamon Fries:
And then the state government, we have state governments. There's a couple of interesting things going on. Uh-huh. So, the the Minnesota fraud and all that other stuff. The the attorney general came out and and said, you know, we're we're doing a great job cracking down on fraud because they've taken out some little tiny fraud rings that were, you know, by regular citizens. Uh-huh. Doing great on fraud here in Minnesota and oh god, the backlash was alright.
[00:34:01] Jesse Fries:
I wonder why. Yeah.
[00:34:05] Jamon Fries:
You know, of of the absolute worst things to say right now is that Minnesota is taking care of fraud.
[00:34:13] Jesse Fries:
Yeah. Yeah. No. They definitely are not taking care of fraud. Yeah. You know, there have been so many of these things and then, you know, it's like the the Boston mayor, she was like going, you know, you can't really bring up Boston history without Somalians. It's like, There's
[00:34:33] Jamon Fries:
a lot of Boston history that doesn't have Somalians in it.
[00:34:37] Jesse Fries:
Practically every bit of it.
[00:34:39] Jamon Fries:
I I mean, all the way back to the Boston Tea Party. Are are you telling Somalians were there for the Boston Tea Party?
[00:34:48] Jesse Fries:
Screw the Irish up there. No shit. It's it's it's a Somali, though. Man. I I just don't get it. I don't get it. You know, it's like it's pandering for no purpose. You know? It's like Yeah. Very barely any Somalis in Boston even. You know? Just Mhmm. Leave it be. I just don't Yeah. Absolutely. They should do the same in Minneapolis too. You know? And, you know Yeah. It's there's a lot of hinky stuff going on there, and so it needs to be sussed out. Oh, yeah. What exactly is going on? Yep. Of course, it's not everyone and everything like that. You you you know how it is. You know? Yeah. It's not.
[00:35:33] Jamon Fries:
But if there's a lot of fraud The one the ones that are bad make it look bad for everyone.
[00:35:38] Jesse Fries:
Nope. Completely. Completely. Yeah. Yep. Then you have the jackasses with the there was that one TikTok where a guy was a a Somali in, like, Minnesota is going, go to work. And he doesn't work. He was telling us that we should go to work so we can pay for his benefits. Yep. It's like, fuck you. You know, just just plain say fuck you.
[00:36:02] Jamon Fries:
You know, this is it it's even it it this is why socialism always fails. It's because people that don't wanna work expect people that also don't wanna work to work.
[00:36:14] Jesse Fries:
Right? It's like, you you you think we actually wanna work? It's not that not that I work. But, you know, when I work, you know, it's like, do you do you think I really wanna work? It's not that. It's like I need the money. And I'm willing to work. I'm not gonna go on the dole, you know? It's like you have a disability, I can understand why you need to do that. And we need to have those processes in place, safety But nets in just in general, if you're able-bodied, yeah, no, you need to work for it. Playing simple, you know? That's why I was really happy to see the
[00:36:51] Jamon Fries:
tack ons onto the food stamps and stuff like that where if you're able-bodied, you gotta be employed.
[00:36:59] Jesse Fries:
Yeah. Yeah. No. I I completely. Or do the what is it? The charity stuff? Mhmm. Or do some NGO work and everything like that. Yeah. Right. Oh, it makes sense to me. Yep.
[00:37:15] Jamon Fries:
Absolutely. And then the last thing I have from the state government news is kind of interesting. So, New Jersey has introduced a bill that would ban all on-site restaurants from providing single use utensils and condiments. What now? Oh Jesus. So they can't you they couldn't they they can't do plastic forks?
[00:37:47] Jesse Fries:
So they need to do like bamboo forks. Is that what they need to do now?
[00:37:51] Jamon Fries:
Well, no. Metal and anything that you can wash. It has to be it has to be reusable. Yes. It has to be washable.
[00:38:01] Jesse Fries:
Even fast food?
[00:38:03] Jamon Fries:
Anywhere where it's an on-site restaurant. So, if you're going to sit, so if you're going to be sitting in the restaurant while you're eating, right. What's wrong with that boot? McDonald's would have to have metal forks for anybody that wanted to eat in the restaurant if they were doing like a salad or something like that. Uh-huh. And the condiments, no more of those little ketchup packets.
[00:38:28] Jesse Fries:
Oh, Jesus.
[00:38:36] Jamon Fries:
Now, it's. Regulation to the point of killing, you know, it's. Oh, yeah. Yeah. It it's all acceptable if you're taking if it's to go. Uh-huh. Or if you're or or you know, drive thru or something like that. So, if you're not eating in the restaurant that you can still use the plastic forks and the ketchup packets and you know, stuff like that But if the if you're eating in the restaurant itself, no. That's a no go.
[00:39:02] Jesse Fries:
How about chopsticks? They're never Well They're never washable. Some are. But Alright. Not you. What Chinese restaurants do you know? Like, I I've been No. No. No. So so some pretty
[00:39:19] Jamon Fries:
not not like super high class, which might. Right. Just Yeah. Decent, like, middle class food, you know, upper middle class food and It's all wooden. Bamboo. They're all the ones where it's stuck together up at the top. You gotta peel it apart. Yeah. Well, some sometimes they're fancy where the it's not that. But. I have never I have never had or had one where it wasn't like that. I I have. I have. Yeah. You you needed, well, I mean, you you have a lot more money. So, you eat it a lot fancier places than I do. I don't know. You know, like chilies or you know, stuff like that. That's a lot fancier than I can do. Chili's? You you you oh, Jesus Christ.
I mean, for me, it's McDonald's, Burger King, Sonic. Applebee's
[00:40:00] Jesse Fries:
on a date night. Fancy like.
[00:40:07] Jamon Fries:
Maybe that's why I haven't been on a date in a very, very, very long time.
[00:40:11] Jesse Fries:
Well, you don't no. There I I took a girl back in high school. I took a girl out to Applebee's. She was What?
[00:40:19] Jamon Fries:
Applebee's.
[00:40:20] Jesse Fries:
She was so Oh, yeah. I mean, that that's that's like This girl thought it was like high class. I'm just saying. Absolutely. Yes. Girls from Perry, Kansas. You gotta love it.
[00:40:33] Jamon Fries:
I mean, here in Lawrence, it kind of actually is high class. There's not really
[00:40:38] Jesse Fries:
much here in Lawrence that's Food in Lawrence is it's a horrible food scene, it really is. I always I always hate going there for, like, Thanksgiving and whatnot. Yeah. Not that I see you really when I do that, but but, yeah, yeah, the food chain sucks. Yeah.
[00:40:55] Jamon Fries:
I I don't think I've ever seen you when you come up this way. Yeah. You have, like
[00:41:00] Jesse Fries:
Once. Twice. In the last Yeah. Twenty years? Yeah. Probably something like that. Yeah. It works. It works. Yep. Yep. But yeah. So it's it's a bad food scene up there. Just saying. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Fix it, Lawrence. Play it simple.
[00:41:16] Jamon Fries:
Yep. Absolutely.
[00:41:17] Jesse Fries:
I need better food when I visit.
[00:41:20] Jamon Fries:
It's all about me. It's all about me. Absolutely. Yes. Yeah. I I would be I would be absolutely for that too and you know, maybe drop the prices on some of the other Right. Right. Right. I I'm sitting here looking at like noodles. The the noodles restaurant. The noodles noodles and company or something like that. Uh-huh. To get something with meat, you're spending damn near $20 per person.
[00:41:46] Jesse Fries:
Yeah. Yeah. You you you're not paying for you're not paying for the food. You're paying for the staff and everything like that. No. It's a but yeah, I I think the food prices in Lawrence are cheap as hell in comparison to what I have to live with but. I mean, it very well could be.
[00:42:05] Jamon Fries:
Yeah. Yeah. If for the same quality. They have been going up quite a bit.
[00:42:09] Jesse Fries:
No. Yeah. But it's like we were able to eat like for under a $100 up there. Like well below a $100. Here it's always above a $100 when all four of us go up. Well,
[00:42:21] Jamon Fries:
I mean, it's like, okay, so, you know, I I say I eat at Burger King. Uh-huh. Well, I only order from Burger King during the day. I refuse to order from them after like 09:00 at night.
[00:42:35] Jesse Fries:
Well, The reason being is that, what's that? I I could see that. The staff at that time.
[00:42:40] Jamon Fries:
Well, no. It has not absolutely nothing to do with that. So most of what I most of the food that I eat is delivery through DoorDash.
[00:42:48] Jesse Fries:
Right.
[00:42:49] Jamon Fries:
And so there's one restaurant that still has their food at a decent price. You know, like the fish sandwich is like $5. Uh-huh. They they've got you know, they've got the the the bacon burger, the bacon king, which is basically a double Whopper with bacon on top of it. Is $8. Okay. Decent price. But after 09:00 that they closed, so it goes to the other Burger King restaurant. Uh-huh. And there, a bacon king meal, just a medium sized meal. $18.
[00:43:35] Jesse Fries:
Oh, Jesus.
[00:43:37] Jamon Fries:
Now, I don't know how much of that is with markup because, you know, a lot of restaurants, the the prices that they charge on DoorDash are higher. Uh-huh. So, I don't know how much of that is a markup. Right. But I mean, goddamn, you go from $8 to $18
[00:43:55] Jesse Fries:
No. Yeah. No. That that's how it is down here too. You know, it's. Yeah. They have to from because DoorDash and whatnot, Grubhub, they I saw this one restaurant tour. He was like going, well, when you go through them, they will take 20% of your food And then they will charge the delivery fee and then all this stuff on top. And so just to actually make money, you have to at least raise your prices at least 15%.
[00:44:28] Jamon Fries:
Yeah, I I don't mind that they raise the prices.
[00:44:31] Jesse Fries:
Right, right.
[00:44:33] Jamon Fries:
But I would want to know, do they not charge that fee if you're doing pickup instead of delivery? No, see, that's even on pickup, Jayman. Well, yeah, because there there's some restaurants here in Lawrence like Taco John's just down the street. If you order it for pickup. Uh-huh. You're going to spend like $3.59 for a meat and potato burrito.
[00:44:54] Jesse Fries:
Right.
[00:44:55] Jamon Fries:
You order it for delivery, you're spending about $5.80 for that same thing.
[00:45:00] Jesse Fries:
Right. They must be going through a different system for their pickup because if you go. Well, it's all through DoorDash. I mean. Well, then, it must be some sort of system because this guy, he goes even for pickup. You need to add the 15%. Otherwise, it just doesn't make any sense.
[00:45:15] Jamon Fries:
So. Yeah. I I I've I've noticed that if I if I switch between pickup and delivery, there's some restaurants, the prices change, some they don't. So, don't know. Right. Exactly what's going on there. Oh, yeah. Understand. Understand. Yeah. So, on to some legal news.
[00:45:33] Jesse Fries:
Yeah. Do you remember all those stories about the shaken baby syndrome and all that other stuff quite a while ago? It's been a long time since I've heard anything about that. Yeah, it was like the nineties and the early two thousands. It was like shaking baby, shaking baby, shaking baby, you know.
[00:45:50] Jamon Fries:
Well, experts now believe that a lot of those people are probably put in jail wrongly. I could see that. I could see that. Yeah. Because the reason the reason that that that I that they say that is because while yes, shaking the baby does result in those things. There's also other things that result in those things as well. Right. But the but the prosecutors back then, if they saw those signs, it was instant charge of shaken vape. No, yeah. They they've they've been saying this for at least fifteen years that it's messed up. Yeah.
Well, now now they're they're actually recently here. They've actually been going going in and opening up some old cases and stuff and they've been trying to get a whole bunch of people out of prison now. So, I guess it's kind of a mixed bag so far but they have been getting a decent number of people out of prison from it. That's good. That's good. Yeah. Yeah. It's
[00:46:58] Jesse Fries:
no, it seemed to be just bad science. Oh, yeah. So, yeah. Yeah. Yep. Yeah. We haven't heard about that in like forever. So it must not be everybody must know it's bad science. It's just trying to prove it to the court.
[00:47:15] Jamon Fries:
Well, it's it's it's a matter of trying to get the the judgments reversed is what the is the problem that there is what's taking so long to do everything. Because yeah, I haven't heard about anybody being charged with for shaken baby in a very long time now. Yeah. Yeah. It's been forever. So. Yeah. Yep. Yeah. Speaking
[00:47:35] Jesse Fries:
of kids, so apparently, a federal judge ruled that California schools cannot prevent employees from notifying parents about their children transitioning.
[00:47:50] Jamon Fries:
Yeah. I heard about that.
[00:47:52] Jesse Fries:
Yeah. Yeah. So that that's a good sign because, you know, there are kids, plain and simple. You you this whole this whole idea that these teachers have this almighty idea that they're that they're not my kids. They're her kids. You know, it's like then she knows better than the parents and everything like that. You know, it's like, no. No. You're you're a that went to school on how to teach. Not. Yeah. What to teach. Yeah. How to teach. You know? Yes. It's like, no, thank you. No, thank you. Yeah.
[00:48:29] Jamon Fries:
I think the problem came in in that teachers are I can't remember exactly what the term is but they have to report child abuse and stuff like that. Right. Right. For what what what is it? Yeah. Can't remember the term but yeah. Yeah. Something reporters. I can't remember what the first word. Yeah. Yeah. Top of my head. But but because of that, they they started saying, well, see this just proves that we know better. Right, right. And so they they use that to get away with it when what that really means is if your kid comes up and says, my dad yelled at me because he thinks I'm not a girl and it's a boy.
Then, what you should do is as a mandatory reporter, that's what it is. Yeah. Yeah. They would they would have to call social services and have social services go out to visit the family. Mhmm. You don't. Yep. You don't
[00:49:33] Jesse Fries:
quietly get the kid to let the kid just change their gender. That's no. No. No. No. No. No. That that that's not good. You you you know, like names, pronouns, everything like that. Just. Yeah. Completely hiding it from the parents. I I just. Yeah. Based off of a child's assumption of how the parents will react as well. Right. Not not not actually seeing how the parents are reacting to it.
[00:50:01] Jamon Fries:
Well and it's not even necessarily like the child's react. The child's belief on how the parents are going to react. It's the teacher's belief on how the parents would react too. Yeah. So, the teacher looks at it. They, you know, they they have a they sometimes they'll have a general idea of the of the of the political beliefs of the parents. Uh-huh. And so if they see that one's conservative, they know one's conservative.
[00:50:27] Jesse Fries:
They just automatically assume how they're going to react to this kind of news. No, that's true. Wait. See, the thing is it's not even a conservative thing. You know, there's so many. Oh, I know. Yeah. People on the left too. You know, that's probably. Yep. No. No. This is going way too far. Oh, yeah. Absolutely. There's nothing really good about it. You know, it's yeah. No, I I'm just glad that a is kind of struck. Oh, yeah. Judge. I am so glad about that. So that's going in the right direction.
[00:50:55] Jamon Fries:
Yes. That is very good news.
[00:51:00] Jesse Fries:
Mhmm.
[00:51:02] Jamon Fries:
And okay. So talking about going in the right direction. Uh-huh. I guess the border patrol on the southern border Right. Has been seeing a huge increase in Latino
[00:51:22] Jesse Fries:
people applying for the border patrol. I could see that. I could see that. Yeah. Let's see why not. And mayor mayor Bass from LA
[00:51:30] Jamon Fries:
came out and she was lamenting it because how are they gonna be how are they gonna deal with it when I see how their people are treated?
[00:51:40] Jesse Fries:
It's it's not their people. Their people are. No. It's not. These are good. Well, fact Blooded America. They're applying for it so that they can kick them out. Uh-huh. These are red blooded Americans. You know, we have a melting pot. Yeah. And that's it. It's Americans versus not Americans is what it is. You know? Exactly. Yeah. That's all it is. You know? Yeah. No. I'm you know, it's like to to say that they're they're people. So so it's like so that that means that all the Latinos or whatever, the Tejanos here in Texas, the the natives, you know, that were here before everybody was here, you know? Yeah. They say. Before Texas was even a state.
Right. Right. Before it was even Mexico, before it was even. Yep. Spanish, you know, the natives, actual natives. They were called Tehanos. That's what, you know, the word Tejas, you know? Have you heard that?
[00:52:42] Jamon Fries:
No, I haven't.
[00:52:44] Jesse Fries:
It's it's in some movies, cowboy movies and somebody's called like Tejas. Hey, Tejas and everything like that. Oh, okay. Okay. Basically, that's just meeting Texan. Okay. But it's also because the Tejados are like the native people of Texas. Yeah. Or at least one group of them. You know, one tribe. Right. Yeah. And so, you know, they just, the natives of Texas, that's when they go by their Tejanos and they're going, yeah.
[00:53:12] Jamon Fries:
Mexicans are not us. You know?
[00:53:15] Jesse Fries:
We may have the same some of the same shared culture probably it again. Sorry. We may have some of the same culture and everything like that, but it's not but it's just due to, well, being generally in the same vicinity.
[00:53:31] Jamon Fries:
Right. Yeah. And there's a bunch of group or, you know They've the the culture in Texas has melded together. You've brought in It has. It white culture, when you've brought in the the Tejanes culture,
[00:53:43] Jesse Fries:
and it just kind of melded together. Yeah. There's some Mexican, but really we were a border province, like, to keep the Comanches away. Yeah. It was really what we were for for the Mexican and the Spanish. Yep. So, yeah, I know. It's Texas is a once you live here, it brings you a whole different idea of life. It really makes
[00:54:09] Jamon Fries:
imagine. Yeah.
[00:54:11] Jesse Fries:
I can only But, yeah, I more power to the Americans, Latinos doing this, you know? Oh, yeah. Yep. Yep. Okay. Let's see here. Uh-huh. Go ahead. Oh, I I I could do my little bit. So, Tennessee, I think it was Tennessee. Was it? Let me double check. Yeah. Tennessee. They have made it illegal to use undocumented immigrants driver's license from other states. You know how other states will give an will give illegals driver's license?
[00:54:52] Jamon Fries:
Right.
[00:54:53] Jesse Fries:
In Tennessee, if you're driving through on one of those suckers, guess what? It's a class B misdemeanor. Oh, wow. Up to six months in jail, fine of $500. Uh-huh. That is awesome. It is. It is. God bless him. You know, it's Absolutely. You have to be an American, and if you're not an American, if you're a what? You have to be here legally. Yeah. You have what but but not only that. But no. No. Not only that. They if you're just, like, a lawful, permanent residence Mhmm. You will be given a driver's license, but just a temporary one, and it will have a distinct marker on it letting them know you're not a citizen, which means you can't vote.
[00:55:43] Jamon Fries:
Yep.
[00:55:45] Jesse Fries:
So Makes sense? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And residents with a temporary driver's license cannot use it as proof of identification to vote. Yeah. I don't know how long that temporary driver's license will be for, but, yeah.
[00:56:00] Jamon Fries:
It it makes sense. Well, the way I would do it is for the for however your visa is or for four years, whichever is shorter.
[00:56:09] Jesse Fries:
Uh-huh. No, that would make sense. For however long the yeah, the green card or whatever is. That that would make sense. That would make sense. But yeah, I thought that was kinda cool.
[00:56:22] Jamon Fries:
Yeah. And the story I ran across is Google and Apple reportedly were warning their employees here on visas to avoid international travel.
[00:56:37] Jesse Fries:
When did they do that?
[00:56:41] Jamon Fries:
Let me pull that story.
[00:56:45] Jesse Fries:
Because I know that they were they had done it like back when there was that whole kerfuffle of HoneBs and everything like that.
[00:56:54] Jamon Fries:
Yeah, I know. This this isn't the this this the article was written on December 20. Right. Right. It doesn't give any actual dates for when they did it. Okay. But the the reason that they did it was because of the because of the longer than usual visa processing times. Uh-huh. Due to, you know, having to check your social social media history and everything else like that. Right. But the article writes it as if it's for legal immigrants.
[00:57:33] Jesse Fries:
Right.
[00:57:35] Jamon Fries:
But yet when they talk, when they get into it, it's they're telling people to stay here in The United States rather than go back home to reapply for their eight for their visa. That just doesn't. Which means they're telling them to become illegal.
[00:57:55] Jesse Fries:
Right. Right. That just that doesn't make any sense on what a company would actually do. Especially a huge company like that because they can get in serious trouble.
[00:58:04] Jamon Fries:
Yeah. But no, they they did issue those warnings, and there's other large tech employers that have also issued similar warnings in September. Businesses.
[00:58:13] Jesse Fries:
Yeah. In September, they did. But but that was just like, watch out because that was when the decision Yeah. That that was for the the $100,000 fee for the h one b visa. That was a messed up situation to where the Yeah. Executive just fucked up on the messaging. They did not do that one very well. And so
[00:58:33] Jamon Fries:
Yeah. But I mean, so the the quote from the Fragomen memo. I'm not sure who Fragomen is. Okay. So, he's he's someone from BAL Immigration Law.
[00:58:51] Jesse Fries:
Uh-huh.
[00:58:53] Jamon Fries:
Well, no. Fragomen is the company that represents Apple for immigration law. Okay. And so Fragomen put out a memo saying, given the recent updates and the possibility of unpredictably unpredictable extended delays when returning to The US, We strongly recommend that employees without a valid h one b visa stamp avoid international travel for now. If you don't have a valid h one b visa stamp, that means that you're here illegally.
[00:59:30] Jesse Fries:
Well, you may be here legally but you might not be able to work, you know, just to. Right. Yeah. That's true. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So, Wow. Wow. It's. That is interesting. Because that could go because they have to go home to reapply. Or they have to. Oh yeah. They have they have to leave The United States to apply. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. I just go to Canada.
[00:59:59] Jamon Fries:
Who cares? Yeah.
[01:00:01] Jesse Fries:
Or whatever is your closest. You you you know if you're in the South like us you know go to Mexico. If you're up north go to.
[01:00:08] Jamon Fries:
Yep. Canada. If you're in Kansas well. Just pick one. Plan on Yeah. Plan on spending some amount of time though there because, you know, you have to do the application and then it has to be approved and all that other stuff. But I mean, yeah, to tell people without a valid h one b visa stamp not to travel internationally? Not to the borders of The United States? I mean, That's a little more than just problematic,
[01:00:40] Jesse Fries:
I would think. It's just due to
[01:00:44] Jamon Fries:
stamping delays. Yeah. You know, it's. Yeah. It's it's just due to the delays.
[01:00:48] Jesse Fries:
So, I I I wonder if it you actually I wonder if this is like a difference in between like stamping and actually having a H1B. Maybe you apply for the H1B here and then you go back home just to get a stamp. Could Bureaucracy is stupid. I I I it wasn't surprising. Yeah. But. That wouldn't that wouldn't shock me either. But yeah, it's kind of odd. Kinda odd. Yep. Yep. Yeah. Okey dokey. Okey dokey. Let's see here. What do I got? So, yeah. Okay. So, let let me pull this one up. It's so grand jury decided not to indict a father of two Kentucky State University students.
He was charged with murder because he went on campus and he killed one student and critically injured another. But they decided not to charge him or to indict him because he was basically just pissed off because his sons were being attacked by, like, 20 or 30 people. And so he he said the shooting's justified in this, grand jury goes, yep, that was justified. They were beating your son. He went and shot them while they were beating his son. Yes. Yes. Okay. Yeah. Completely justified shooting then. Like 20 to 30 people had gathered to attack his son and family. And then he was justified in shooting two people who were beating his son. Completely.
[01:02:34] Jamon Fries:
Yeah. Yeah. Uh-huh. I couldn't agree more.
[01:02:37] Jesse Fries:
That many people beating somebody? Yeah, guess what? You're in fear for your life like instantaneously. You you just shoot. Playing some. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah and I mean,
[01:02:48] Jamon Fries:
being in fear of your own life or your son's life, it don't make a difference. It doesn't make a difference.
[01:02:55] Jesse Fries:
Completely. Yep. So, yeah, we got off for that. So that's a good that's a good news story. That is awesome. Yeah. That's a good Southern story. You gotta love the Southern States. Oh, absolutely. Yes. We appreciate this sort of thing. Yeah. You know? Let's see here. Do we okay. Yeah. We'll save that one just for fun stories because Okay. But so the other big news especially out of Kansas and everything like that is that the Chiefs are moving to Kansas away from Missouri.
[01:03:31] Jamon Fries:
Yep. That
[01:03:33] Jesse Fries:
is they're moving everywhere.
[01:03:36] Jamon Fries:
Missouri decided not to build them a new stadium.
[01:03:41] Jesse Fries:
Yeah. It's a sweetheart deal they got. They basically they get a free stadium. It's it's pathetic what it is. It is. Yes.
[01:03:49] Jamon Fries:
They they get a free stadium. They don't have to pay a penny. Uh-huh. They get all of the proceeds from the stadium.
[01:03:58] Jesse Fries:
Yep. They do have to, like, pay a tax, but they can put that tax only goes towards like maintaining the stadium. Yeah. And janitorial services. So Yeah. That seems like it's free.
[01:04:12] Jamon Fries:
And it's paid for by sales tax.
[01:04:16] Jesse Fries:
Right. And then the property taxes also of the surrounding area, part of that instead of going to schools like it probably should, it will actually go into
[01:04:28] Jamon Fries:
into building the stadium.
[01:04:29] Jesse Fries:
Yeah, no. It is janky as Oh, It's a thing. I I just to get to who
[01:04:39] Jamon Fries:
cares? The Chiefs would are gonna stay in Kansas City area anyways. Why are you giving them that? There was no there was no doubt of them staying in here in the KC. I mean, you know, really, really what frustrates me the most though about all of this is and it's the same that happens in every other state that has a professional team there. Yep. Why the fuck do we, the people, the citizens of the of the city, because it's not even the state paying for it. It's just the local citizens that have to pay. Right. Right. So Yep. Thankfully, it does it doesn't affect me at all.
[01:05:17] Jesse Fries:
Seriously.
[01:05:18] Jamon Fries:
But why the hell would would they agree that I'm going to pay for it but you get to determine how it's used and you get all of the money from how it's used.
[01:05:32] Jesse Fries:
Yeah. No. And everything has all the studies have shown that it is not
[01:05:37] Jamon Fries:
Yeah, I know. It's not an economic driver. Especially, especially right with with this situation, it's even worse because right now, you know, when a new when a new team comes into town, it does drive some revenue because of the people coming in to see the team play. Right. Right. From from somewhere else. Uh-huh. But moving from Kansas City, Missouri to Kansas City, Kansas is not going to bring anyone new in. It's just moving where the money is spent at. Yep. Yep. It's going to do absolutely nothing. And they they keep they always say, you know, that putting a stadium here is going to drive everyone's profit up the up of the roof.
When it's been statistically proven that most places actually see their revenues decrease.
[01:06:31] Jesse Fries:
Yeah. Throughout the year. They do. They do. So, yeah. It's I don't understand it. I don't. Yeah. Missouri should have put up a better plan but they didn't want it. Yeah. I I really don't think they wanted it. They're like going, what? No. Yeah. Missouri is like, know, do something else.
[01:06:50] Jamon Fries:
As far as I'm concerned, if you can buy a professional team, you can build a freaking stadium for them to play. In. I would say why not. I would say why not. And it doesn't have The Hunts could have afforded to build their own stadium.
[01:07:04] Jesse Fries:
And I'm sorry. We don't need these monstrosities of stadiums. We really don't. You know? It's like, yeah. I yeah. Over the whole break, we went to see a Dallas Stars game. Okay. I felt like a trader, you know, being from Minnesota. I I Yeah. Yeah. I really felt like a trader there. Yep. But yeah, we went there. You went to see the former North Stars. Yeah, exactly. The former North now they do have they have the pennants and everything like that of the North Stars up, for when they want Is there to really? Yeah, they do. They do. Or actually, at least for yeah. Because they have, like, just the Dallas Stars logo for when it was them, and then it had the North Stars logo for the players and also when they won their respective of whatever. If the North Star's ever did. I'm not ever sure if they actually ever won anything because I think they used to suck up there.
[01:08:04] Jamon Fries:
Yeah, they were never a a great team.
[01:08:06] Jesse Fries:
Yeah, I know. It it it was kind of funny. It was like because we stayed in a hotel right across the street, from the stadium, from the arena.
[01:08:16] Jamon Fries:
Yeah.
[01:08:17] Jesse Fries:
And right after the game, me and Carol went down to the bar, and we were sitting there, and there was a guy there. And I think he was, like, a lawyer for the NHL. Okay. And he was like he just was talking. He's from LA. We we were just talking, and he goes, where are you from? And I go, well, Minnesota. I lied about where I was born. I said Minnesota. Because I don't wanna give up where I was born. Do some stranger. Anyways, you know, it was like, he goes, yeah, Minnesota. He knew that Minnesota hockey is not really the professional. It is the high school and the college level that actually gets on TV. Yep. He knew all this. I'm like, dude, I I forgot all that.
[01:08:58] Jamon Fries:
I completely Oh, yeah. Yeah. No. The the, the golfers. Oh, that was the hockey team to watch in Minnesota.
[01:09:04] Jesse Fries:
Yeah. And and that they would they would broadcast the state championships for high school. Yep. Yeah. No. It it was quite apparently, it's still to this day they do this because up there, it is and then we started making fun of the Minnesota team's name, the wild. It's like, what's the wild? What is a wild?
[01:09:28] Jamon Fries:
Yep.
[01:09:32] Jesse Fries:
But, yeah, I think it was a I think he was a lawyer for the NHL. He said he was a lawyer. So Okay. How much he knew about hockey? It's like and we're right outside the hockey arena. So it's like Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
[01:09:46] Jamon Fries:
There's there's definitely a possible chance there. Yep. Yep. Yep. So
[01:09:53] Jesse Fries:
Let's see. Wow. We digress there. But I think. We we've been digressing the entire time. Oh yeah. We we haven't done a show in a while. So you know it's
[01:10:05] Jamon Fries:
Oh, where did we leave us? We're we're already at what? About an hour and a half in and
[01:10:10] Jesse Fries:
No. Just hour fifteen because we started at Well Not even that. That's close to an hour and a half. I I have a eight year old son, Tim, and you have to be precise. Oh, snap. There's a. Love as they go. No. It's not it's not 10:30. It's 10:29.
[01:10:28] Jamon Fries:
Twenty nine. And thirty seconds. Exactly. Yep.
[01:10:35] Jesse Fries:
Yep. Yep. Let's see here. What else do I got? Apparently, Putin attacked Kyiv. So just today, and then I saw a news report. He goes, he attacked them on Christmas. I'm going, orthodox. So Christmas isn't January. I'm just saying. So Mhmm. Even though apparently Ukrainian church, they changed it to the twenty fifth so they can be like Europe.
[01:11:04] Jamon Fries:
Yeah. Because. They will, you know, they're like, well, you know, we're trying to get into NATO so we might as well try to be European.
[01:11:10] Jesse Fries:
Yeah. Yeah. And the EU. They want to be part of all that. So. Yep.
[01:11:15] Jamon Fries:
Don't know why that might all break up here shortly. So I don't know why anybody would wanna be part of the EU.
[01:11:23] Jesse Fries:
Yeah. No. Me neither. Me neither. It's yeah. I I heard pretty much everybody in Europe now when they wanna go vacation, they go to Poland. Makes sense. Because it's free. Yep. Oh, I saw this one thing. Speaking of that, I saw this one thing. I don't think we have it, but it was like a guy from Europe. He was saying, we are freedom, not America. America, they they they're but it's like, You're you're the one restricting speech over there, Pete. You know? You know? Yeah. He was like, free speech is us. It's like, no, it's not. Did you know what you're doing over there? Do you have any clue what you're doing over there? I don't think you do.
[01:12:07] Jamon Fries:
Yeah, I I've heard so many people talking about, you know, how it's how England still the how Great Britain still has free speech and all this other stuff and I'm like, no. Okay. So, you put someone in jail because they say something. That's a great free speech right there. You gotta love that form of free speech. Right.
[01:12:32] Jesse Fries:
Right. It's you have free speech unless if you offend somebody.
[01:12:36] Jamon Fries:
You know what kind of free speech that is?
[01:12:40] Jesse Fries:
It's not free speech.
[01:12:41] Jamon Fries:
Well, no. It it's it's a it's speech gives you free things. You get free room and board.
[01:12:51] Jesse Fries:
Good one. Good one. Did you come up with that or did you get that? Yeah. No. I haven't. That I I have not heard that one anyway. I just that. Oh, yeah. In fact, just now off the top of my head. That was a good one. That was a good one. Yeah. I like that one. That was a good one. Yeah. They get all free shit over there. You know? It's yeah. I don't. It's crazy over there. It really is. I I don't. Yeah. And my sister-in-law wants to move to The UK. But, you know Oh, from Kenya. You know, I I I Well maybe. I could see that. Maybe. Yeah. Well,
[01:13:26] Jamon Fries:
that and another one of your sister in laws still lives there. Right? Yeah. Yep. Yep. She does. Yep. Reading
[01:13:33] Jesse Fries:
area. So Yeah. We would say right outside London, but the British are going, no. What are you talking about? That's, like, forty five minutes outside of London. That's, like, far away.
[01:13:43] Jamon Fries:
Dude, that's, like, next door. That that's like It is next door.
[01:13:48] Jesse Fries:
That that's suburb territory. You know? I mean No. It's completely a suburb. Of the city. Yeah. Yeah. It's it's like it's like these these idiots. I I don't know why. I I'm on this whole TikTok thing where they bash Americans like, Brits and everything like that. They bash us. And they're really pissed off about the whole, World Cup thing. Right? Okay. So so the World Cup, you know, is the FIFA World Cup. It will be here in The United States, Mexico, and Canada. Right? North America. And they're so upset at us that our Dallas, arena is not in Dallas. It's in Arlington. Do you know how far away that is? That's, like, 20 miles away. What are you doing?
[01:14:36] Jamon Fries:
And then it's like Yeah. We we've already we we we that was they said it was in Dallas, so we booked hotels in Dallas. Damn it. Exactly. Now we have to travel 20 miles. Come on now.
[01:14:49] Jesse Fries:
It's a suburb. They got it. You know? I I didn't see what the and then it was like, then there's a new New York, New Jersey stadium. It's like, New York and New Jersey are different states. Do do do they even realize this? Yes. It's only, like, 10 miles outside New York, but you know what? It's like, Jesus. Yeah. The the Seattle one. The Seattle one.
[01:15:17] Jamon Fries:
I can see that complaint if if you had to, like, go through a border crossing to get into New Jersey. Oh, yeah. You don't. So who cares?
[01:15:26] Jesse Fries:
Now the Seattle would. I could kinda see. Seattle, the way it is, it it how Seattle is set up with all because it's on a peninsula. So you can only go peninsula. There's not much landmass. There's basically a big body of water in the middle of it. Oh, yeah. Yeah. So its stadium is, like, forty minutes outside of Downtown Seattle. Yep. Yep. And so, you know, it's like they go, that's 40 miles. And I go, yeah, that sucks. But, you know, it's like, 50 miles. No. Yeah. Yeah. And you got all that water. You see all that water there? You know, that's Mhmm. We're we're not gonna just like We're not gonna blow up houses just to put a stake. No. We'll split it someplace else.
[01:16:07] Jamon Fries:
Yeah. You know, except for recently, nobody ever built a stadium downtown.
[01:16:14] Jesse Fries:
No. No. They really didn't.
[01:16:17] Jamon Fries:
I mean, well, the last one that I've been in that was downtown was the old Metrodome.
[01:16:22] Jesse Fries:
Right. Right. It depends on the sport. It's like, Little Caesar's Arena in Detroit. That is downtown. Okay. Actually, in Detroit, it's all downtown, actually. Because there's Little Caesars, which is, Red, White, Texas. Stadiums, They're new. They're new. Oh, okay. Okay. Brand new. Well, the Little Caesars was when we were up there as being built. Yeah. That's new. Yeah. So, yeah, five, six years there. Co America which is practically across the street from there. It's a block or two away, from Little Caesars. It was even more into downtown.
That's that's where the Tigers play. That one is probably in the last twenty years. Yeah. And then you have, the Lions Ford Field. That is literally across the street from America America. So that's also downtown. So, yeah, Detroit stuff is actually downtown. It's kinda crazy.
[01:17:27] Jamon Fries:
Yeah. So And it's unusual. It really is. Yeah. It really is. It's Most of most of the ones that are close to downtown, it's because the city grew around it. It was built so long ago. Right. The the
[01:17:39] Jesse Fries:
the stars game that we went to is American Airlines Arena. Mhmm. It's where the Mavericks play as well, the Dallas Mavericks. Right.
[01:17:47] Jamon Fries:
And that is downtown as well. And that's a new stadium. That's don't I don't know how new, but you can tell it's new. So. Well, I mean, it it kinda makes sense though because, you know, Kansas, the Chiefs, when they were looking at building a stadium, the first time that Missouri turned them down, it was planned to be downtown.
[01:18:07] Jesse Fries:
It would make sense. It would make sense. I don't see. Yeah. It's just a parking issue. Know, dealing with parking, dude. That's the right situation. It's like, alright. Yeah.
[01:18:17] Jamon Fries:
No, I think part of the reason for that though is because, you know, for a long time, very few people wanted to actually live downtown and so in order to revitalize the downtown areas, they started building stadiums and stuff there to get people to come regularly.
[01:18:34] Jesse Fries:
No, that would make sense. That that would definitely be like Detroit. Yeah. Because with Detroit, it was like the Pistons actually used to be up in Auburn Hills, which is about, like, a thirty to forty minute drive from downtown. Yeah.
[01:18:51] Jamon Fries:
Detroit. So yeah. And I know Detroit back about twenty, twenty two years ago. Oh, man. You could Oh, yeah. You could drive through downtown and not see a single person. Oh yeah.
[01:19:04] Jesse Fries:
It was bad. Yeah. Yeah. No, they they've cleaned up downtown quite a bit. Actually, it's not too bad, at least from what I remember and everything like that. Yeah. The roads going to the bridge into Canada were just horrendous potholes everywhere. That was horrible. Well, that's Detroit. That that that Yeah. That's Michigan. You know? The pothole city is just what it is. Yep. Yep. Let's see here. What else do we got? So apparently, some women in Africa and, Senegal, apparently, they're having issues because their husbands will they they won't even tell the wives. They'll just, go, they'll just disappear on a boat to go to Europe.
They won't even tell the wives. And then a lot of times, the boats never make it. They just like well they drown and everything like that. So all these. Yeah. Senegalese women are having to pick up and just deal with life after their husbands just decide to try to get a better life. You know, it's like, you need to stop illegal immigration. It will help so
[01:20:20] Jamon Fries:
many things, you know? Like, you know, the the the worst part about illegal immigration is how many people die in the process of trying to illegally immigrate. Completely. Completely. Yep. I mean, death is very rampant in any of those paths for illegal immigration. Yep. It's horrible. You know, not not only that but then, you know, there's the the pain, the people to get you the coyotes. Stuff like that. Yeah. The coyotes with absolutely zero you know, it, you know, if a if a coyote could 100% guarantee everyone's going to make it. Right. Right. I could see paying a coyote. But if they're like, I don't know. We haven't had been having a good track record with our boats making it over there. No. Yeah. Yeah. I'm I'm thinking I probably wouldn't wanna take that chance myself. But then again, do live here in The US, so, you know, who knows?
[01:21:17] Jesse Fries:
And most people don't. See, that's the thing. It's like Yeah. It's a minority of people from these countries that are trying to do it but still, it's like, yeah, it's very dangerous. It's just dangerous. So, it it's just a sad story. That's all that was. I I just saw the story. I thought that was a bit sad and I thought. No, the the only the only thing that I would say about that is
[01:21:41] Jamon Fries:
if you're going to do it, make sure your family knows what you're doing.
[01:21:44] Jesse Fries:
Right? Wouldn't that make sense? Don't just don't just disappear.
[01:21:47] Jamon Fries:
Yeah. Just get everything get everything in order while you're there
[01:21:52] Jesse Fries:
so that they can survive once you've left. Yeah. Yeah. There's one story in this story where this woman goes, yeah, my husband said he was just going to go help this guy with the boat and he never came home. You know, it's like, okay then. There you go. Yeah. It's like, wow. Wow. And. Yeah. She has like three or five kids or something like that and now she has to figure out what to do with them and those cultures are very patriarchal. And so Yeah. The choices of these women to actually do something, you know, it's like
[01:22:30] Jamon Fries:
Honestly, the best choice that they have in that situation is to remarry.
[01:22:35] Jesse Fries:
No, completely. Completely. And that's almost the only choice they have. Yep. Yep. Nope. No, I agree. Yeah, I agree. It's horrible. That's horrible. And trying to do that is a pain in the butt. So. Yep. Especially when you have three or five kids. It's like, I don't want that. Yeah.
[01:22:55] Jamon Fries:
Italy was in the news a couple day a few days ago. Yeah. Looks like we have a couple Italian stories here. What's yours? Yep. So, they went and arrested nine people who allegedly had been using charities to fund more than $8,000,000 to Hamas.
[01:23:15] Jesse Fries:
Yeah. I can see it. That's what charities do. So Yep.
[01:23:22] Jamon Fries:
And that just screams out to me why I don't give to charities.
[01:23:27] Jesse Fries:
Right? It's I mean. Yeah. Yeah. I'll give money. I rarely. I don't do it often. Mean, I'd rather give just to somebody in need. Yeah. So Absolutely.
[01:23:40] Jamon Fries:
I I would rather if I were going to give to a charity, I would have to research that charity so freaking heavily. Uh-huh. I might as well just, you know, like when I was driving over the road, there were there were many times that I ran into people that were just really down on their luck and they needed money. Right, right. And you know, they some of them would come up and say, I'm hungry. Can you feed? Can can you give me some money so I can get some food? Some of you. Uh-huh. Yeah, I'm at a gas station. So, can I can I borrow some money to, can I get some money from you to put gas in my in my tank so I can get my kids home and stuff like that? Right. And I always treated it one way. I never gave him cash. Right.
I would go up to the pump with them and I'd say, alright, let's fill your tank up. I will go in and pay for it. Okay. Yeah. Or I will, I'm inviting you to dinner if it's because they're hungry. I'm inviting you to dinner. I'm going to feed you right now. Uh-huh. No, makes sense. That's how I was dealt with it because you you never know what they're what really and I I had so many where I'm like, okay, well, I mean, I've let's go in and buy you some food then. Uh-huh. No, I'm not hungry right now though. I mean, I I just want the cash, you know? So, I know they're not going to spend the money on food. Right, right, right.
[01:24:56] Jesse Fries:
You know, sometimes I go, you know, I know you're gonna I go, I know you're gonna use this for something that you shouldn't. And, you know, I respect that. And, you know, I like to buy alcohol too. You would need some alcohol too in your life or whatever your drug is. But as long as you realize that, you know, is fine. But no, I like your way.
[01:25:17] Jamon Fries:
Carol does that a lot. Yeah. Or she has the other the other time I would give people money is there there numerous times people would come up to me and say, hey, can I get $10 for washing the windows on your truck? Uh-huh. Absolutely. You're doing work for it. I'll give you the money. No problem. Right, right, right. Every single time. Mhmm. But if you just come up to me and ask for that handout and you're not going to let me buy you food or put gas in your vehicle, you're not going get the money. Make sense?
[01:25:48] Jesse Fries:
Make sense. Make sense. Let's see here. Speaking of Italy, apparently, their ant their antitrust agency is fining Apple a $116,000,000 over a privacy feature. Okay. So this privacy feature is let's see here. Which one was it? So it's like it's they they they try to stop app tracking you, you know, so they have it's the app tracking transparency policy that they have. Okay. And basically, what this means is that if you don't wanna be tracked by an app, well, you can tell your phone that you don't want that app to track you.
[01:26:40] Jamon Fries:
You know? That makes sense. Right. Right.
[01:26:44] Jesse Fries:
Apparently, that's bad to Italy.
[01:26:48] Jamon Fries:
Well, of course, because you have no freedom in Italy. So, you know, you have no privacy in Italy or in it basically anywhere in Europe. So, yeah. Right. Right. You you can see how bad that would be for them. Apparently, the problem is is that
[01:27:04] Jesse Fries:
Apple the Apple system requires third party app makers to ask users for consent twice in order to comply with Europe's strict privacy rules. So Okay. Yeah. Okay. So you have to ask twice. You know? How about you change your strict policy rules? Yeah.
[01:27:24] Jamon Fries:
Yeah. Yeah.
[01:27:25] Jesse Fries:
No. Change your policy to let them only ask once. Yeah. I think Italy just needs money so they're going after a big one. Oh, yeah. You you know, seriously, we are funding the European Union now with all these things. Oh, absolutely. Yes. Yes. But Trump has been taking care of that. Have you have you been seeing that?
[01:27:45] Jamon Fries:
No. I haven't really been paying too much attention to the He and state department
[01:27:51] Jesse Fries:
have, put sanctions, as in revoked visas of five people, leaders that were part of like the DACA and everything like that, all of these. Yeah. They put restrictions. One of them they're trying to kick out of The United States right now. The court has said that they can't yet. So that's on pause and everything like that. But yeah. Because there is this whole push to limit American speech. There's this whole idea where Europeans want to limit our speech through their laws. So they should not have to deal with our views over the internet.
And so because of that, our company should restrict us so that they don't see it over there.
[01:28:52] Jamon Fries:
Just have one thing to say about that. If if that's how you truly feel, then, build yourself an internet wall just like China did. No, exactly. Then, you don't have to say. Yeah.
[01:29:02] Jesse Fries:
That is exactly what I was gonna say. If you don't like it, do your great wall of Europe. That's just what it is, or the great firewall of Europe, because China has the great firewall of China. It does. So if you don't like our free speech, suck off plain and simple. That's it. And then with those companies, with the American companies that want to do business in your place, they can have separate rules for those people. And that's fine. Yeah, Absolutely. But if you want the same crap that we get, you have to deal with us. You cannot limit us. You have to go with the most free, which is us. Yep. Whatever you think about your old free speech thing over there, where you can't offend people because that's not freedom. Yes, it is. Yeah. There's nothing about freedom that says you can't be offended.
I'm sorry. No. No. You have you you need to be offended sometimes. This is how life is. Absolutely. You grow from it. You do. You, you, you, you, you need to be shamed. You need to be. Yeah. All these things. This is how society keeps others in line. This is how we keep people from pooping on the streets. You know, it's it's for other cultures. If you go out and do if you go out and do insanely dumb shit,
[01:30:20] Jamon Fries:
we need to be able to tell you you're doing dumb shit. Yeah, this is how you keep
[01:30:25] Jesse Fries:
people from raping your girls and everything like that. You know? It's the shame. The society needs to shame. Shame is a societal need. Offending them with it is a societal need. This is how society works. Not saying it's nice to be ashamed and everything like that. You know, it sucks to be on the other side of it. It always does. Course. It does. Yes. But it has to happen. Yep. That is how society can actually work. Without that, society falls apart. It just doesn't work. There is no society then. Yep.
[01:31:04] Jamon Fries:
Yeah. When when you're a young kid growing up, that shame helps form you into a better human that for social interaction.
[01:31:12] Jesse Fries:
Yes. And as an adult, it does the same thing. Because every so often, even as adults, we go off script of what Oh, yeah. Is societally acceptable. So that's just what it is. When you're moving to a new country, to a new culture, you need to understand what that culture is and you need to be shamed about it. Even if it offends you. That's because it may not be bad to you, but it's bad to the society that you moved into. That's it. Oh, yeah. Absolutely.
[01:31:52] Jamon Fries:
That was a good brand. I like that brand. That was. Yeah. I I like that one.
[01:31:56] Jesse Fries:
Yeah. And here at the Mindless Me Henrys, we are a value for value podcast. What that means is that you can be a producer of the show if you want to. Yes, you can. Yes, I'm talking to you. Just you personally and anybody else in your car that you're listening to. Yeah, help us out. You can send us a dollar. Can send us $3 Anything that you send us will help actually preserve the show and help us keep going and actually let peep let us know that you get something out of this entertainment, whether or not you yell at us, scream at us. I don't care. You can hate us. You know, if you're listening, how about you kick something back to us? Even if you're family, that counts as YouTube. I'm just saying.
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[01:33:17] Jamon Fries:
And
[01:33:20] Jesse Fries:
so on to business since we just took care of our business. Apparently, Firefox has learned that people don't like AI so much. Imagine that. Yeah. So they had integrated AI really into their whole browser into Firefox, and people just got pissed off at it because it's if anybody has dealt with AI, everybody knows it's not that good. Right? It's mostly slop, you know, especially if you are trying to get something real done. If you know how to do it, the right prompts, you have to be an expert at it really to actually get anything out of it and everything like that. But otherwise it's just crap. It's slop. It's just Yeah.
Yep. It's and most of it's lazy. It really is. Oh, very lazy. It's like, oh, I could do it too. Sure. Sure do. Yeah. So yeah, they're gonna put a kill switch for AI in their browsers.
[01:34:30] Jamon Fries:
That is awesome.
[01:34:31] Jesse Fries:
Yes. Yes. Yeah. I've
[01:34:35] Jamon Fries:
always disliked the AI, especially in the search engines.
[01:34:39] Jesse Fries:
Uh-huh.
[01:34:41] Jamon Fries:
Because many people use the AI and said, well, the AI says it, so that's gotta be the truth. Yeah. You know, whether it's in TikTok and whether it's in X with with rock or, you know, any of the other AIs out there. Uh-huh. But all it is is it's just it'll tell you what's seems to be the consensus amongst everybody that's written about it.
[01:35:13] Jesse Fries:
And not only is that. Doesn't mean it's real. Well, right. Because I I saw this whole thing. It was like this it was this TikTok. This he was like a a mathematician or something like that. Okay. He I think just an undergrad or something like that, but he was good. AI, all it does is it guesses at what the next word should be. So it's like in English language, what would be the next word that this could be? That's how it defaults if it doesn't have like hard fact, you know? And so if it has to and so it will, this is the hallucination because it will just create what it thinks is the next word that it should be. It's not actually thinking.
[01:35:55] Jamon Fries:
No, it's not.
[01:35:58] Jesse Fries:
I think I have a story about it. It's not thinking. Yeah. Yeah. I I think I have a story later where it's not thinking at all. So. Yep. Yeah. Yeah. So to AI sucks. We really does.
[01:36:11] Jamon Fries:
Well, talking about AI sucking. Did you hear what happened in San Francisco?
[01:36:17] Jesse Fries:
I could come up with so many jokes, but how about you tell me?
[01:36:24] Jamon Fries:
So, there was there was a fire in a in one of their power relay stations in San Francisco. Mhmm. And so there was complete blackout. All of San Francisco went down. Ouch. Well, every single Waymo vehicle
[01:36:43] Jesse Fries:
Mhmm. Just stopped. Oh, Jesus.
[01:36:49] Jamon Fries:
I it it from what it said, from what they said happened, it was that when the Waymo vehicle came up to a stoplight. They have programming on how to handle there not being a light there. Right. But instead of following that programming, they sent a request to the to the main office. Uh-huh. But because the internet was down, that request couldn't really go through very well. And even if it did go through, every single Waymo vehicle in San Francisco was sending the same request at the same exact time. Oh, Jesus. Jesus. And so, I mean, this is it was a system that they had in place from back when they first started Waymo.
[01:37:40] Jesse Fries:
Right.
[01:37:41] Jamon Fries:
They just had a few cars out there. So, there was absolutely no problem with, you know, you hit something that you're not quite sure how to deal with, send us a request and we'll tell you what to do. Uh-huh. But as they've increased the number of cars in their inventory and out on the streets, they never thought of making changes to that. So, they they now so they now they're now in the process of reprogramming all of their vehicles to no longer rely on that on peep on the sending on their requesting for information as much Instead, they're they're programming them just to basically go with the flow of traffic as much as you can in those situations.
[01:38:28] Jesse Fries:
Right.
[01:38:30] Jamon Fries:
But yeah, every single Waymo just stopped. Ouch. And the the reason that I'm not quite, I don't quite believe that that it's actually what they said it is. Uh-huh. Is because Waymo's on streets without stoplights were just stopped in the tracks as well. Okay. So, I don't think it was the stoplights. Right. I mean, I. Right. I saw, I, you see pictures. I I, you know, looking looking at this up, I saw pictures of just this Waymo vehicle just sitting there and it's like, you know, it's like, maybe there's a stoplight about six blocks up ahead of it. Well, that's not. But there ain't nothing around it. So, it wouldn't have been affected by no stoplight.
[01:39:13] Jesse Fries:
No kidding. No kidding. So,
[01:39:16] Jamon Fries:
I I don't think that's quite what it really was. I think it was more of I I I would be willing to bet it's more of a they had, no, I mean, I don't know this. This is just my conjecture but I wouldn't be surprised if they had their AI part of the AI programming in the vehicle and part of it at their home base. Which is And because the Wi Fi went out and all that other stuff, it couldn't connect very easily. Right. Right. And so they the, the AI just wasn't there anymore. That's just not a smart thing to do. You know? No. Everything, everything should be
[01:39:52] Jesse Fries:
in the car. In the vehicle. Yes. Just saying. You know, it's. Yeah. Every, because yeah, if you have to report back, you know, I can understand like, like just a one way sort of transmission. Yeah. Well, two ways to say, well, you need to go here now. That sort of thing, you know, just like a dispatcher and everything like that. Yeah, exactly. But basically it should just be like a dispatch situation with headquarters. It shouldn't be where all the processing is happening over there. Because latency and so many other things can cause problems with that. Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. No. Yeah, that's messed up. That is messed up. Yeah.
On to studies. And as we all know, there was a study that said that most studies are wrong. But since a study said that most studies are wrong, can we actually believe that study?
[01:40:52] Jamon Fries:
It is. So what you got to? The conundrum. So It is. We've got a lot of studies today.
[01:40:57] Jesse Fries:
Okay.
[01:40:58] Jamon Fries:
The most recent one that I found, I found it just today is that there the study was saying that they wouldn't be surprised if suddenly you started seeing garlic mouthwash.
[01:41:14] Jesse Fries:
Oh, god.
[01:41:17] Jamon Fries:
The reason being yeah. You know, they're like, not only does it keep away the vampires, but also, so it's if the the reason that they're that they're conjecturing this is because garlic extract is a antimicrobial. Right. Right. So it kills all of the bad germs in your mouth, including the germs that cause tooth decay. Okay. It'll just kill them right off the bat. I think it did but it's not like some of the harsher chemicals, the man made ones that kill everything in the mouth. Okay. So it'll it'll leave some of the beneficial germs in the mouth and just kill off a lot of the bad stuff. Mhmm. And so they they they were saying, you know, so that's what they found in their study. So they wouldn't be surprised if you didn't see started start seeing garlic mouthwash with the garlic extract in it.
[01:42:19] Jesse Fries:
But as long as it doesn't smell like it because holy, we don't need everybody running around with garlic mouth. I'm just saying.
[01:42:27] Jamon Fries:
Oh, That would be bad. That would be bad. So, if you if you can get the odor out of the garlic extract, you know, I'm all I'm all for it. Yeah. But Yeah. Yeah. It's it's bad enough when I eat a little too much garlic, you know? I don't want to deal with it all the time.
[01:42:44] Jesse Fries:
Oh, that's funny.
[01:42:48] Jamon Fries:
Another study came out and talking about the brain. Mhmm. So they they said that they think that part of part of the reason that people get Alzheimer's is because, you know, as you age, the energy in your in your cells starts decreasing. Uh-huh. But they've they've started testing a new chemical. They're testing it on mice right now. Now, this is kind of the weird thing about Alzheimer's and I did not know this until I read this read this article. I I've often heard people say, well, the dog has Alzheimer's. It's forgetting every everyone.
[01:43:32] Jesse Fries:
Right.
[01:43:33] Jamon Fries:
But Alzheimer's is a human only condition.
[01:43:38] Jesse Fries:
Okay.
[01:43:39] Jamon Fries:
It does not affect anything but humans. Interesting. Yeah. I was kinda shocked to read that. I was like, damn. Mhmm. That's interesting. But but yeah. So what they so what they found is use what they can genetically modify mice so that the brain has the same function, chemical balance, and everything like else like that as a human with Alzheimer's does. Okay. And so what they found is that by introducing this certain chemical, they don't go into what it is exactly but it's something that provides energy to the brain. Uh-huh.
Well, that provides energy to the cells. They found that they can actually reverse the condition, the the symptoms of Alzheimer's in the mice. Oh, that's cool. So, if if the mice is, if the mouse is really heavy into Alzheimer's, they can actually begin to reverse the condition and it's also a very, it's also preventative. It'll stop them from from getting Alzheimer's at all.
[01:44:44] Jesse Fries:
Oh, nice. Nice. Yeah. So,
[01:44:48] Jamon Fries:
if this all pans out, I mean, you know, it's still just in the very early testing phases but. Right. Yeah. They may have found the cure for Alzheimer's.
[01:44:58] Jesse Fries:
That is cool. That is really cool. Yeah. Let's see here. Speaking of brains, so apparently, some people have actually kind of figured out why AI doesn't have consciousness because, you know, everybody goes, oh, it's so smart. You know? It's like consciousness and everything like that. And what it said is that, basically, for consciousness, you need always on. Mhmm. And it it so let's see. This is what it's like. One biological neuron with its branching dendrites can perform computations comparable to an eight layer artificial neural network. It's this always on sort of situation of our brain and where it's not just our brain isn't just dealing with one thing. It's dealing with so many different aspects, physical, mental, this, that, and everything like that. And it's all of that that actually creates consciousness.
Oh, okay. Yeah. Yeah. So it's kind of interesting, you know? And it's like because of the because our brains, they're 2% of our body mass. Right? Right. But they actually consume 20% of our energy.
[01:46:28] Jamon Fries:
Oh yeah. Yeah. It's insane how much energy the brain uses. Correct. Correct. AI does not
[01:46:35] Jesse Fries:
use that much energy. Oh, no. In comparison. You know? So I don't know how much energy you would need to actually do that.
[01:46:45] Jamon Fries:
Well, that and another problem with AI, as far as that goes, is that while the brain does process a lot of things all at the same time Uh-huh. But it's also correlating everything into just like one central location. So Right. Right. If you're trying to walk, your body is controlling every muscle in your body to walk properly. Right. Right. While you're still thinking and doing it whatever you're doing. So it it all works together, whereas in a computer, it's all segregated.
[01:47:20] Jesse Fries:
Yep. Yep. They say that Yeah, they say AI needs new physics. It doesn't just need better algorithms. Oh, yeah. It said to support consciousness, artificial systems would need three current things technology lacks, hybrid continuous discrete computation in real physical time scale. So you can't turn off. Right. It actually has to be in real time. Everything has to be in real time. If you can actually turn something off, it just doesn't work. You need to just be always on. You need scale inseparable architecture shaped by energy constraints.
So the architecture itself is inseparable to everything. You cannot be able to separate anything, which you can with computers. You can take anything Yeah,
[01:48:14] Jamon Fries:
absolutely.
[01:48:16] Jesse Fries:
And then I said, you also have the, excuse me, the ability to continuously modify their own physical structures, what they would need. Not sure. Okay. Our brains, I guess, do that. They do. Yeah. Create new connections here or there and everything like that constantly. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. But yeah, that's why computers do not have consciousness.
[01:48:39] Jamon Fries:
Interesting.
[01:48:41] Jesse Fries:
Yeah.
[01:48:44] Jamon Fries:
That is cool. Then another study I found So so according to the study, they've figured out how to help protect your lungs from air pollution. Oh, okay. With very, very large doses of vitamin C.
[01:49:06] Jesse Fries:
Oh, that old hack,
[01:49:11] Jamon Fries:
Yeah, I mean, vitamin C, you know, they always say, you know, take vitamin C if you're feeling sick or something like that and that's because it does help the the body fight infection and stuff like that. Right. Right. Body fight a lot of stuff. But now they're saying that it also that the so what it says it does is that the reason that air pollution is so hazardous is because it's little tiny fine particles that can get into your blood. Mhmm. Through your lungs. And I guess that vitamin C helps to prevent the cells from being damaged by that.
[01:49:58] Jesse Fries:
Oh, okay.
[01:50:00] Jamon Fries:
So it reduces the loss of cells mitochondrial power stations and it also reduces the inflammation. Uh-huh. Which makes it easier for the body to take care of what's going on.
[01:50:14] Jesse Fries:
Oh yeah. There have been people selling this sort of stuff for a long time. So it's cool that science backs it up. Yeah.
[01:50:22] Jamon Fries:
No. Completely. Completely. That's pretty cool. Yep. And my last two studies, well, they're just really, well, duh. Uh-huh. I mean, why the fuck did you even look into it? Really, it's a waste of everyone's money and waste of your time. Right. So the first one, they've seen a very shocking trend lately in that gambling addiction has been increasing. The numbers of people that are addicted to gambling has been increase of increasing massively. And this all happened correlating with online gambling.
[01:51:01] Jesse Fries:
Imagine that.
[01:51:03] Jamon Fries:
What do you know? That's crazy, dude. Now, all you gotta do, you don't even have to go somewhere to gamble now. You just pick up your phone and you type, I'm gonna waste this money.
[01:51:13] Jesse Fries:
Yep. Yep. No. I I am And they're shocked that more people are having gambling addictions? I mean, come on. Yeah. Fuck. And then you have the NFL and all these things going, no. Gamble here. Gamble here. Gamble What
[01:51:26] Jamon Fries:
are the You you watch you watch a single NFL game, and at least five times, you're gonna see ads for draft Kings or one of the Completely. Other
[01:51:37] Jesse Fries:
Completely. Yeah. No. I I really don't know why they opened it up like they did. I really don't. It's like, yeah. Okay. Yeah. I just see it. Doesn't make any sense to me at all. And then the the other the other well done one.
[01:51:57] Jamon Fries:
So, they were trying to figure out, you know, the scientists for a long time now have been trying to figure out the best way to help you lead people lose You know? Okay. Gotta help people lose weight.
[01:52:08] Jesse Fries:
Right.
[01:52:10] Jamon Fries:
And now that Ozempic's come out and everybody's saying, hey, Ozempic is great. You you gotta try it. Uh-huh. So they did a study to see what the most effective form of weight loss was. Okay. And low and behold, it's still gastric bypass surgery. It's five times better than Ozempic.
[01:52:34] Jesse Fries:
Yep.
[01:52:37] Jamon Fries:
No. Make sense. There's two different kinds of gastric bypass surgery.
[01:52:42] Jesse Fries:
Right.
[01:52:43] Jamon Fries:
One of them is they just cut away a bunch of your stomach and make it so it's just a little tube that runs directly to your intestines. Right and then the other one just completely takes out your stomach, right? Well, it it it takes out a very large portion of your stomach as well as a large portion of your small intestines. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So, you you have less, there's less small intestines to absorb everything out of the food. Right, right. So, yeah, of course, that's going to be more effective than Ozempic.
I mean, my god. What? Why even look into that? Yeah.
[01:53:23] Jesse Fries:
Because they wanted because surgeons
[01:53:26] Jamon Fries:
wanted to prove. Yeah. Yeah. They still want people to go in for that surgery.
[01:53:31] Jesse Fries:
Yeah. They still need to make money, Jayman. You know? Yeah. Yeah. With with all this stuff.
[01:53:37] Jamon Fries:
Back about fifteen years ago, I would have gotten gastric bypass. Uh-huh. Except I wouldn't have gotten gastric bypass. I would have gotten the lap band which was the thing back then which was like a band that squeezes off the top portion of your stomach but they don't actually remove anything. Right, right. Which they later found out is very ineffective because, well, liquids and ice cream and everything else like that just goes right through it. It doesn't get held up by it. Dimension that. Oh, that's crazy. Yeah.
But, yeah. No. The only reason that I didn't actually go through with it is because they told me that in order to get the surgery, you'd have to lose about 200 pounds before we can before we can do it. Uh-huh. Because at the time, they didn't have any MRIs that could support my body weight. Right. Right. And so if anything went wrong, the only option would be to cut me open to find it. Yep. So they're like, no, we we're we're not even gonna take that risk. You say you gotta lose this weight. At that point in time, I'm like, well, fuck. If I can lose that much weight, mean, damn, what's another two hundred pounds on top of that? Seriously.
[01:54:47] Jesse Fries:
No, I'm with you. I am with you on that one. That makes sense. That makes sense. Yeah. Well, let's see. I have one more study and this one, it's all about podcasts. So apparently I don't, this is also the sort of situation. So this one says that if you listen to a podcast while driving, so this is where all of you listening in the car and everything like that, it does not distract you at all. Anything more than music or anything like that. It's not like talking on the phone or something like that because you're not talking. You're listening, but you're not going to try to respond generally. You're not really
[01:55:29] Jamon Fries:
using your brain that much when you're just listening.
[01:55:32] Jesse Fries:
No. You really don't. You really don't. You know? It's like when I listen to podcasts, I actually listen while I'm doing, like, meaningless, like, the dishes. You you you know, mowing the lawn, you know, brainless things where you can listen, but you can just go on autopilot all at the same time. Yeah.
[01:55:52] Jamon Fries:
Yeah. Yeah. Driving. For me for me, it's Driving. Watching when I'm playing boring video games.
[01:55:57] Jesse Fries:
Yeah. I could see that. I could see that. Yeah. It's like driving, it puts me to sleep. So I'm like, nope. I I I can't do that. I can't do that. I need I need music when driving.
[01:56:08] Jamon Fries:
So Yeah. I I always did audiobooks when I was driving. Oh, god. I've tried that. It's just as bad as podcasts
[01:56:15] Jesse Fries:
and.
[01:56:17] Jamon Fries:
Yeah. What are the are the ones are the the audiobooks that you listen to, are they the ones with just one person reading everything? Or do they have a cast of people that's reading all, reading their each individual lines? It doesn't matter, Jayman. It does. Okay. Because I I did find that if I listened to to audiobooks where just one person was reading it, the whole thing. Mhmm. Oh, I'd I'd be out like a light. No. I could see really bad when you're driving a semi.
[01:56:45] Jesse Fries:
It it really is. Yeah. It really is.
[01:56:50] Jamon Fries:
But, you know, if I were listening to other ones and, you know, I'd I'll just give them a shameless plug anyways, graphic audio. Uh-huh. I every every single one of their books that I've ever listened to, they have individuals. Now I don't know if it's good voice actors that can change their voices a lot. Right. But they they have like a long list of their of their actors for them. So Okay. Nice. Every every individual in the book except for like the people that don't have names, you know, the generic people. Right. Of course. But all of the the named characters that are gonna be repetitive throughout the book, they all have a different they all have a different person voicing their their so it it's like listening to, well, it's it's like watching TV without actually seeing it. Oh, okay. Okay. Yeah. Scared cool. So, I I found that that that kind of book, it kept me interactive enough but where I could still completely concentrate on what I was doing.
[01:57:56] Jesse Fries:
Okay. Okay. On the same science statement, looks like we only have two. You put my AI one choice. So
[01:58:09] Jamon Fries:
No, I didn't. Oh, did I? Yeah. Oh, shit. I did, didn't I? Yep. Oh, it's because I had originally put it in science and then I'd like, wait, no. This is a study. So I put it up into studies and I pretty much believe that I was science. How dare you, Jamie? How I'm sorry. Damn. I'm sorry. Deary. I'm sorry. Please forgive me. I won't I won't do it again. I promise. But it's unlike every other form of diabetes out there. Okay. This diabetes has nothing to do with the process of the with the the natural process of the pancreas or the insulin overload causing the insulin resistance and all that other good stuff.
Has nothing to do with that. This is because of malnutrition. Okay. So, they found that that people that spend a very good portion of their life being having malnutrition not getting the vitamins and minerals that the body needs. Their pancreas, it doesn't behave properly. So, sometimes it'll put out too much insulin. Sometimes, it won't put out enough. Right. Sometimes, you know, it just it varies a lot and so they found that unlike every other form of of of diabetes, if they use the same method to treat it, horrible things would happen. Interesting.
Yeah. So, it's like they they've gotta like, you almost have to for each time you're treating it, it's like you have to treat it differently for each time you're you have to treat it. Really weird and difficult.
[02:00:13] Jesse Fries:
Right, right.
[02:00:15] Jamon Fries:
But yeah, so on that's unlike all the other forms of diabetes because this is now the fifth type of diabetes that they've found. Okay. Okay. The rest of them, it's all just kind of a general way to treat it. Uh-huh. You either you either reduce the amount of insulin because there there's too much insulin in their bodies or you add insulin because there's not enough insulin. So, this one's a little bit different though, I guess. Okay. But yeah. So, that that was kind of interesting reading up on that. Nope. Then, the last one that I have, the last scientific thing is the Earth has been leaking its atmosphere to the moon. Okay. Well, I've been doing it for forever, right? It has been. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. And but they've figured out that taking moon samples.
Uh-huh. Like moon core samples. It would be more effective than ice core samples in figuring out the past of the earth.
[02:01:25] Jesse Fries:
Interesting.
[02:01:27] Jamon Fries:
Because once it get, once it's thrown on the onto the moon and gets into its layers, there's nothing there that affects it.
[02:01:39] Jesse Fries:
Nope. Makes sense. Makes sense. Yeah. Yeah.
[02:01:43] Jamon Fries:
That's good. You know, it's the the solar way, the solar radiation, the the solar waves is what's blowing. It blows a part of the. Oh, so. Off of the earth. So, we're like a comet.
[02:01:55] Jesse Fries:
So, we're basically like a comet. Okay.
[02:01:57] Jamon Fries:
That makes sense. It makes perfect sense. It's just there's a moon there to catch it. So, you know, it it it'll only catch it when it gets into like that perfect angle behind the Earth between where the Earth is between the moon and it'd is between the moon and the sun. Right. Right. And so, like, every every time it goes around the Earth as it's passing through that zone, it'll collect more of the Earth's atmosphere. So so they can yeah.
[02:02:24] Jesse Fries:
New things you learned. That was pretty cool. Yeah. No. That is really cool. That is really cool. Okay. Now on to the last story of the day. So so Mem Dani. We know Mem Dani. Right? Yep. Yeah. Yeah. So he he has announced the new chief of the New York fire department. Okay. Of course, he picked a lesbian for this because that worked in LA so well.
[02:02:57] Jamon Fries:
Oh, yeah. Yeah. But apparently, she's never been a firefighter in her entire life. What? Yeah. What the fuck?
[02:03:06] Jesse Fries:
I know. Right? See see, it's like, okay, lesbian fight. Whatever. But never been a firefighter. It's like, what the hell? I what kind of qualifications do you have? Oh god. Yeah. Wow. So guess what? You know how Chicago is called the second city? New York's about to be called the second second city because I'm just saying.
[02:03:37] Jamon Fries:
Yeah. Wow. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, man. It
[02:03:42] Jesse Fries:
it kinda shows that he just wants to burn the place to the ground. You know? I I just say it. Yeah. You know, it's like, screw New Yorker. We're just burning this into the ground, you know? Yeah.
[02:03:56] Jamon Fries:
That's essentially what that's basically what's going to happen to all these mayors there.
[02:04:00] Jesse Fries:
Hey, yeah. Yeah. NYFD stands for New York fried. You know? It's just Nice. Nice. And with that, I'd like to thank you for joining us for episode 88 of the Minus Meanderings. I'm Jesse Freeze. And I'm Jamin Freeze. And we will see you when we see you because it's the holidays, people. There's another holiday coming up and then this and then that and then this. We we we'll get back to you soon. At some point, we'll get on to a normal schedule again. Thank you for listening.
Good evening, everybody or night or whatever it is, wherever you are. It is December yeah, twenty seventh and it is a Saturday and we are live with episode number, oh man, I didn't figure that one out. 88. 88. Uh-oh. Yeah. I don't like that number. Okay. Of the minus meanderings, I'm Jesse Freeze and yeah, I've got so much to talk about just in general but you know, I decided to go with more beer. That's why we're a little bit late because I wanted to run and get some beer for this thing. This is one of those nights.
[00:00:58] Jamon Fries:
Yeah and I'm Jamin Freeze and I really wish I had beer.
[00:01:03] Jesse Fries:
I bet. I bet. You know, I don't normally say that but
[00:01:08] Jamon Fries:
after drinking the beer that dad left here one time he was here. Uh-huh. Yeah. I I like being able to crack one open for the show.
[00:01:18] Jesse Fries:
It it it there's just something good about beer. Just Yeah. Yeah. It's a it's a wonderful thing. Wonderful thing. Absolutely. Yeah and then I I hope everybody had a good Christmas. I did.
[00:01:30] Jamon Fries:
Yeah.
[00:01:31] Jesse Fries:
I made a nice prime rib roast. I did it on rotisserie.
[00:01:38] Jamon Fries:
Well, it would have been it was warm enough down there that you could have grilled, wasn't it? Well, that's what it was. I was I was grilling outside, but I had rotisserie for it. Yeah.
[00:01:49] Jesse Fries:
So I I spent all day outside in
[00:01:52] Jamon Fries:
shorts and T shirt. I I could have as well. I mean, it was with the a couple days before Christmas, they said that it was gonna be 71 as our low was our high for the day for Christmas, But, we ended up only hitting about 66. So, you know So good. Unfortunately, we had that cold front come through. Right. Right. Right.
[00:02:14] Jesse Fries:
Yeah. No. And then yesterday, what we hit, like, 86, I think Austin did. Oh,
[00:02:20] Jamon Fries:
Yeah. That is beautiful weather.
[00:02:23] Jesse Fries:
It really is beautiful weather. And it's like Yeah. Winter. So it's like it doesn't stay for long and the sun sets quickly, so it cools off real quick and everything. It's like a perfect thing. Yep. Yeah. And then also just for purposes of this podcast, my wife got me a 27 inches display for my computer. So, yeah, because otherwise, I've been working on an 11 inch laptop. Yeah. This whole time. So, now, I have a 27 inch. I I over doubled my screen size here. So, yeah.
[00:02:55] Jamon Fries:
Couldn't I couldn't imagine doing anything for this show on that small of a screen and I I've got my two twenty seven inch monitors and that's you know,
[00:03:05] Jesse Fries:
even sometimes that's not enough for me. No, yeah. Yeah. See, see, for me, it's like, I I can only do one monitor at a time. I cannot do two. Okay.
[00:03:15] Jamon Fries:
Bugs my brain out, my eyes out, whatever. Yeah. So, yeah. I just can't do it. But yeah, now I have. Well, I've I've gotten used to it. I only concentrate on one at a time. But like, right, but like right now, so the main monitor, I've got one that's straight just directly in front of me and then one that's off to the side. Mhmm. And right now, the one that had that's off to the side has the has the headlines on it and it has the and it has the clean feet on it. Right. So I can so I can see both of those over there while still having a full web page to look at when I'm looking at the at the links and stuff. Okay. Okay.
[00:03:52] Jesse Fries:
Makes sense. It
[00:03:53] Jamon Fries:
works really well for me. I've I've been using this kind of setup now for, oh god, at least the last fifteen years.
[00:04:01] Jesse Fries:
No. Yeah. Yeah. Makes sense. Makes sense. Okay. Let's see. But, for me, that's still there. But, yeah, I'm here. Hello. Oh, I muted myself somehow. Let's see. Yeah, I muted myself somehow. Not sure exactly how I did that, but, Yeah. After the problems that we had last show, I was worried that, you know, something was going bad again. Yeah. Yeah. Not not yet, at least. Not yet. That's good. That's good. Yeah. Yeah. Well, let's see here. What do we got you? What have you started? Well,
[00:04:32] Jamon Fries:
so Bernie Sanders got himself in a little bit of a pickle with a lot of people. Uh-huh. So, they were these they were trying to pass a a bill for researching children's cancer.
[00:04:53] Jesse Fries:
Okay.
[00:04:55] Jamon Fries:
And Bernie Sanders is the only vote that stopped it from going quickly. Oh, Jesus. Yeah. The reason he did it is because we still haven't fixed the health care problem.
[00:05:11] Jesse Fries:
Oh, Jesus. Yeah. Yeah.
[00:05:18] Jamon Fries:
So This this happened this happened, like, a couple days before Christmas. And so the headlines were were calling
[00:05:28] Jesse Fries:
Sanders Grinch and selfish and all that other stuff.
[00:05:32] Jamon Fries:
Yeah. I could see that. You know, the the one thing kids with cancer would have loved for Christmas is for the government to spend more money on trying to cure them.
[00:05:41] Jesse Fries:
Right. Right. Right. Yeah. I yeah. I know. I I understand where his heart is, but it's just stupid. It is. See, I don't even understand where his heart is.
[00:05:54] Jamon Fries:
Because the problem I the problem I have with this Uh-huh. Is that just because you want to get something through and this bill isn't talking about that, the other shit that this bill does is so fucking good that you don't nix it just because they don't add on what you want because what he wanted so this bill was purely and only about the child cancer. But he also wanted them to tack on to the bill, the health care Yeah.
[00:06:30] Jesse Fries:
Yeah. I
[00:06:32] Jamon Fries:
I I don't like it. So just because they're not tacking it on, you don't nix the entire
[00:06:37] Jesse Fries:
thing when it's such a good thing, you know? I I really think like each bill each bill should be like tiny, You know, it really should be. You know, nice and tiny. You know, not not all this bloat and everything like that, you know, and it was I
[00:06:50] Jamon Fries:
would I would love to see, first of all, I've said this before, single issue bills. Right. Right. There are no riders, no addendums. You have to pass every single thing individually except, you know, the the if you're doing the major budget thing, I can see, you know, that's kind of, you know, all over the place but
[00:07:13] Jesse Fries:
for just. Right, right. Single of just. Make it so that it's that everything in there is about the budget, not. Yes. No. Exactly. No.
[00:07:22] Jamon Fries:
Well, no. Not what you what you do is you set one is you you have multiple budget votes. The first one is for everything that the bureaucracies are asking for. For the monies, the money to fund the bureaucracies, you know, the Department of the Poor, the CIA, the FBI, you know, all that stuff. Right. Right. You have one that just funds the agencies with the money that they're requesting. And then if you want to fund other little pet projects, you have to pass them individually.
[00:07:59] Jesse Fries:
No, make sense. Make sense. Yeah. No, I'm with you. That's how I think it should work. It it makes sense to me. It makes sense to me. Yeah. Yeah. Definitely makes sense.
[00:08:09] Jamon Fries:
Oh, let's see here. I guess onto And and then and then, you know, make it set no bill can be more than five pages long except for that one budget bill.
[00:08:18] Jesse Fries:
That'd be nice. That'd be nice. Yeah. Yeah. Nice and simple. You you you know, maybe plain English too, you know? I don't know, you know. Yes, exactly.
[00:08:27] Jamon Fries:
You need to make it so that an eighth grader can read it and understand it.
[00:08:31] Jesse Fries:
Yeah. Yeah. No. Exactly. Exactly. You you you know, it's like this whole, the supreme court decision about Illinois and everything like that. Yeah. It is I've read it because I I I I had been seeing all these conservatives and everything like that saying, well, basically, all this does is they want Trump to use the actual military in Chicago. You know? It's Okay. And I'm like, good. That just doesn't sound right on, like, any level. No. That that that can't be. But they're right. Oh. Are you serious? In essence, yes. Because basically what it mean what it is, is it goes down into like a regular sources, you know, regular forces and everything like that. And the Supreme Court says, even though this wasn't in the dissent, some of the conservatives are going, I don't know why they brought that up because nobody was saying that in every other lower court decision and both sides were saying that did not mean the military. They were saying that it meant like the FBI and everything like that. Regular enforcement and everything like that. The Supreme Court, for some reason, they decided to say, okay, well, we want to narrow down on this even though nobody has yet.
Right. And so they asked for opinions from everybody. And so then it came to the point where they decided that regular forces or whatever it was means the military. And so basically what it means is that Oh, fuck. Right, right. So so the only time the National Guard can be called up underneath this thing is if all the regular forces, aka military forces, have been used, then you can call up the National Guard.
[00:10:33] Jamon Fries:
So in other words, you if if you've used the pros and that doesn't fix the problem, then we can send in the part timers. Correct. Correct. Correct. Oh my God.
[00:10:45] Jesse Fries:
But but, you know, this goes into the whole, where where where the military cannot do enforcement or anything like that? Yeah. Yeah. Right. Right. The the military cannot
[00:10:54] Jamon Fries:
take action against US citizens. Right. The posse,
[00:10:58] Jesse Fries:
Actually, though, it's not it's it's not that, Jayman. What it says is that they cannot enforce the laws. No, no. Enforcement thinks that's it. What that means by everything that they say it means is that they cannot be arrested. They cannot arrest people and things like that. But it doesn't actually say they cannot, like, quell a disturbance.
[00:11:26] Jamon Fries:
Oh, no. No, absolutely not. Because what what what it is is when this is always been used with the National Guard. It's never been used with the regular Maryland military. Actually it has. Because there are other well I mean it has but very very very rarely.
[00:11:43] Jesse Fries:
Brown V Board.
[00:11:44] Jamon Fries:
Yeah. Yep. And and the reason for that is because there are regulations within the military that they cannot be used against US citizens.
[00:11:56] Jesse Fries:
Right. But see, Jamie, that's where things get hinky. Oh, yes. Yeah, absolutely. If the National Guard is brought up by the state, then the National Guard has enforcement powers. Yes. The Fed, if it's federalized, they are just like every other military branch and they have no enforcement powers.
[00:12:25] Jamon Fries:
Okay. So, so why was that why did everybody get their panties in a bunch when the marines went into LA to protect the buildings?
[00:12:34] Jesse Fries:
Because of the whole idea of we we have the sense. It's I it's just a sense, mind you. I think that's what it is. Even I had the sense and everything like that is that we have the sense in The United States that the National Guard, it's like, it's there when things go bad, you know, but not like bad, bad, you know, it's like, oh, there's a riot or something like that. Then we send in the national guard and everything like that. According to the Supreme court, that is not the case now. That is solely so and by what they said, the military has to be completely used.
Now they will have no enforcement or anything And like so in the decision, they actually said, well, we don't see how they could even do this, use that posse or whatever, but to even be called up. Was like, they were trying to say that they don't even think the military could be called in for these purposes to protect US government buildings. But I don't think that's
[00:13:45] Jamon Fries:
Isn't that like specifically what that says? What positive comment is? Yes. Yes. Yes. They're there to protect the buildings and the federal officers? Right. They were splitting some hairs that just didn't make much sense. Oh god. Yeah. Really? But no, I mean, what what this means is that what Trump has to do is he has to send in the navy into the rivers. He has to send the Air Force into the into the air over Chicago and he has to send the marines and the army in with their tanks. Well, not the navy. They he doesn't because there's the coast guard.
[00:14:18] Jesse Fries:
Well, yeah. So, he could he could use the coast guard, I guess. No, the coast guard is for internal water basically is what the coast guard is for and they actually do have enforcement
[00:14:29] Jamon Fries:
powers. Oh, yes, absolutely. They do. Yes. If
[00:14:32] Jesse Fries:
when they're under the direction of the Homeland Security. Yep.
[00:14:37] Jamon Fries:
But not when it's wartime. Not when they're being used as a military force. Gets so confusing. I was like, does. I'm like, oh. Yeah. And do you know why the National Guard has arresting has prosecutorial powers when they're called up by the governor?
[00:14:56] Jesse Fries:
Why?
[00:14:57] Jamon Fries:
Because it's the state national guard so the governor can have them do whatever he wants them to. Right, right, right, right. The reason that the president can't is because when he calls him up, he's turning them into a military force.
[00:15:11] Jesse Fries:
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But yeah, see, it's just,
[00:15:15] Jamon Fries:
I I just wonder if Trump would have the balls to do it because the image of actually sending in the military. Even though that is what the Supreme Court is saying. Oh, could you could you imagine if he would send the army in with their with their APCs and their Right. You know, with with all that shit. Uh-huh. Just to quell that. I mean, my god. Send a tank down the streets. I know. Right? That'd be crazy. I don't quell that shit real fast. Sounds like funny. That's what the supreme court has just authorized him to do. Yeah.
[00:15:49] Jesse Fries:
Yeah. Because I've read it and then I had to do a whole bunch research on all the other stuff and everything. And I'm like Yeah. Okay. I I thought the conservative pundits were, oh, crap. But I think that's really Yeah. Is. Yep. Because they don't consider the FBI or any and so basically, what what it I think I think it may have been in the whole decision. One of the dissents was, so what this means is that Trump would have to use all of the the way they worded the opinion. They would have to use all of the forces of the United States military.
Yeah. In order to call up the National Guard. So they would have to use like everybody in the army. Everybody in the marines. All the millions of people. And then if that doesn't work, then they could do the National Guard. It just makes no sense.
[00:16:46] Jamon Fries:
Well, you know why they why they, you know, why the Democrats would have decided would have would have declared it to be that way. Why? It's because if he has to use the military first, it proves he's a dictator in trying to become a king. No, that that makes sense. That makes sense. Yep.
[00:17:05] Jesse Fries:
But I don't know why some of the people when when it was because it was a six three decision. No. So, like Roberts,
[00:17:14] Jamon Fries:
I believe. Yeah. A in a conservative in a conservative supposedly conservative led Supreme Court. Right, right. That is a really horrible decision.
[00:17:24] Jesse Fries:
But, you know, it's like, based off of the wording of things, I I think the whole regular, I think that was a bad mistake, personally. Because generally regular in for regular forces or whatever it is, usually that I think everybody seems to take that as like FBI marshals.
[00:17:47] Jamon Fries:
When operating within The US borders. Absolutely. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Not military
[00:17:51] Jesse Fries:
for Christ's sakes. Now, now the Supreme Court is telling our presidents to just use the military. Fuck everything else. I it just makes no sense. Going on? Don't don't bother with the FBI. Just send the military in. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So what now we they may have to set up some forces that are just for, internal use. And then and then Trump can just send his people wherever he wants, whenever he wants without anything. The states couldn't say shit about it. This is a slippery slope. This is these bad decisions. Oh, That will actually lead to not necessarily Trump but some president and probably not the too long future of being a dictator.
[00:18:39] Jamon Fries:
Oh, yeah. Absolutely. Yeah. It wouldn't shock me at all. I mean, this is such a bad slippery slope. I think so. I think so. I mean, we're we're we're talking like a 20 degree hill slippery slope.
[00:18:57] Jesse Fries:
Jamie, you're a trucker. You know what a 20 degrees slope is. You you you know us civilians.
[00:19:04] Jamon Fries:
Twenties degrees doesn't sound like much, James. So, you know Okay. Let me just put it this way. When you're going down a 20 degree slope, I've only been down one in my life. You feel like you're like your vehicle is not going to stick on the road. Like, you're gonna just flip over and fall off of it. No, I I I understand. I'm just saying,
[00:19:24] Jesse Fries:
using that terminology for me, I'm like, okay, congratulations. It's like, know, you see the, you see the signs on the road. It's like, oh, five degree. 12 degree. Okay. Here you go. Okay. Alright. Yeah. The 12 year head is nasty in a semi. Yeah. But, you know, you just like, okay. It's steep. Congratulations. Yep. Yep. Just say steep. And fucking steep.
[00:19:47] Jamon Fries:
And holy shit, it's steep. This is this is really, really fucking steep.
[00:19:54] Jesse Fries:
I want that road sign.
[00:19:57] Jamon Fries:
Hell, yeah. Perfect. Hell, yeah. I'm good with that. Yeah, another thing that they're saying, see this proves Trump is a dictator is the Kennedy Center, their board. Right. Voted to include Trump's name. So, it's now the Trump, the Donald Trump, and and Kennedy Center.
[00:20:22] Jesse Fries:
For the yard. Just Trump Kennedy Center. Yeah. Yeah. Why did he want his name on that?
[00:20:32] Jamon Fries:
I mean, it's Trump. He wants his name on every bill. I don't. He's stupid in my book. It it really is. Yeah. But, you know, I mean, but, you know, the reason that they voted for it and they're they're just ignoring all of the leftists that are coming out, including Kennedy's knees. And like, we have been in a state of massive disrepair for the last ten years. Oh, okay. Okay. And you Democrats haven't done You guys aren't donating any money to us. Trump put a ton of money into it to refurbish everything.
[00:21:11] Jesse Fries:
Yeah, 131,000,000 in private corporate donations.
[00:21:15] Jamon Fries:
He basically rebuilt the entire thing almost. And then Congress gave 275,000,000.
[00:21:21] Jesse Fries:
Yeah.
[00:21:22] Jamon Fries:
Yeah. No. So they're like, you know what? We're good with adding his name to it. That makes sense to me. Because without him, it wouldn't still be here.
[00:21:30] Jesse Fries:
Yeah. No. I I I I I don't see, I don't care, but also it's like, come on. You know?
[00:21:37] Jamon Fries:
Yeah. It's Well, you know, the the thing is it I what I the way I look at it is if it weren't for the fact that he wants his name put on so many different things. Mhmm. I wouldn't care if his name was added to it. Right. Right. Right. It it's the fact that he wants his name everywhere.
[00:21:55] Jesse Fries:
Yeah. You
[00:21:56] Jamon Fries:
know, it it it's not really a problem to me because, well, they can just take his name off anytime they want. You know, all it takes is the board to vote again and take his name off.
[00:22:10] Jesse Fries:
Oh, completely. Completely. Yeah.
[00:22:12] Jamon Fries:
You know, there's so many people saying, this takes an act of congress to read to rename it. No, it doesn't.
[00:22:21] Jesse Fries:
And they think everything. They think that doing the White House takes a act of congress. They think everything takes a act of congress. You know, they think it takes a act of congress because they know it'll never get through the senate. Which is why we need to get rid of the filibuster as we like to say on this show. Let's just get rid of it. Without a doubt. Yes. Because it's like, yes, it can lead to problems, but it can also help speed up the process of fixing the problems that it creates.
[00:22:51] Jamon Fries:
Oh, yeah. Yeah. Absolutely. With
[00:22:54] Jesse Fries:
this whole thing, it's like the Obamacare. It's like, that's a massive issue that needs to be taken care of. Massive issue. Yes. But because of how our congress works, it just won't ever be done. Oh. You know? Obamacare like that was like I don't even know how they manage that one. You know, but somehow they managed. Well, they they had they had a filibuster proof.
[00:23:15] Jamon Fries:
Oh, yeah. Yeah. Amounted in the senate. So, you know, they can they controlled the they had a very vast majority in both the house and the senate as well as Obama in in office. So, I mean, there there was they they could have passed anything that they wanted to at that time. They didn't need a single Republican to vote for anything. Oh, okay. Okay. Makes sense. Makes sense. Yeah.
[00:23:37] Jesse Fries:
But yeah, I I his name shouldn't be everywhere but you know, it it'll be taken down in a lot of places after he's gone anyways. So. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Well, you know, it's like
[00:23:48] Jamon Fries:
I'm still hearing a whole bunch of hoopla about the plaque, the plaque that he put up on the White House. The trolley. It's only there as long as he is. Yeah. Yeah. It is. Once he's gone, those that shit's coming down. I can guarantee it. And he hates those people. He probably put Bush up there too.
[00:24:05] Jesse Fries:
Because he never really liked Bush that much, but he's a Republican, so he's gonna save him, I bet.
[00:24:10] Jamon Fries:
Yeah, I They only they only talk about Biden and Obama.
[00:24:15] Jesse Fries:
But because there's only other ones that have the big plaques.
[00:24:19] Jamon Fries:
Well, no. No. The the plaques, everybody has plaques.
[00:24:23] Jesse Fries:
No, no, no. Right. But if you look at, I I've seen the picture. It it Obama, Trump, Biden, Trump, all four of those or at least three of those, they all have the double plaque. Okay. Okay. And and then like, from George Bush backwards, it's just the name plate is all it is. Okay.
[00:24:47] Jamon Fries:
Not I thought he had plaques on all of them. Just the Well, they're plaques. Yeah.
[00:24:51] Jesse Fries:
Yeah. It's a single plaque, but they don't really mention anything. It's not like the list of grievances
[00:24:57] Jamon Fries:
that he has for Obawa and minor. Yeah. I I don't know because the I saw an I saw I heard some people talking about it and they were like, yeah, he's he's there there's a few presidents where he's very anti them. Right. Right. Right. You know, that he was he was saying it kind of as if it wasn't just Obama and Biden.
[00:25:18] Jesse Fries:
Well, if you remember his but if you remember his like his first inauguration speech. Yeah. He ripped into Bush and Obama like nobody's business. Yeah. He didn't rip into a Clinton because I think he likes Clinton. Just in general as a man. Politically and and as a man, I mean, they're they're both fairly similar. No, they are. They really are. They really are. So, I don't think, yeah. So, it was but he ripped into both Obama and Biden in his first inauguration. I remember that. They everybody was Yeah. Yeah. Bush. Bush. Yeah. I remember them, like, going, what the hell? Yeah.
Yep. So but I think I think he knows that he can't rip too much into bush, and he's far away now in history. Oh, yeah. Yeah. So over a decade away. So it's like, doesn't even matter, you know, fifteen years or seventeen.
[00:26:15] Jamon Fries:
The damage is long done. There's nothing really to talk about anymore.
[00:26:19] Jesse Fries:
No, really isn't. Really isn't. Can you believe that's like seventeen years ago? Holy I know. Yeah.
[00:26:26] Jamon Fries:
We're old, dude. Insane. We are. Yes. I mean, fuck. I remember when Reagan was running for office.
[00:26:33] Jesse Fries:
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And then, of course, we have all the Epstein file stuff, you know? Oh, yeah. More and more keeps coming out. They found some more and everything like that. You know. Looks like they're doing a pretty decent job of it, not as fast as everybody says that they should've but. Right.
[00:26:55] Jamon Fries:
And they seem to be. Does take a lot lot of time to go in and strike out all the names of the people you don't want anyone to know about and strike out the names of the of the people that were victims of it and stuff like that. I mean, you know. Security stuff and whatnot.
[00:27:11] Jesse Fries:
So yeah. Yeah. No. I I It's Yeah. The the the the the anger over it not being all released that one day, it started to simmer because they've been pumping them out pretty quickly. Oh, yeah. Yeah. But no, it's like the redactions and everything like that. It's like, there's a whole page, there's pages of redactions. It's like, yeah, this is what happens. Is what happens. So, they go, like, oh, the grand jury was redacted. Well, it's First of all, the thing is,
[00:27:44] Jamon Fries:
is that until those are unclassified by the president.
[00:27:51] Jesse Fries:
No. No. None of them classified. Those are classified. Oh, okay. So so it's redacted for other reasons. Yeah. There there might be some national security stuff there but mostly it's due to reputation and also just to protect victims.
[00:28:10] Jamon Fries:
And Okay. For grand jury stuff because that's all closed anyways. So you can't see it. Right. Right. Some of it's closed. Some of it's not. Everything like that. Yeah. It's a whole murk. Yeah. The judge the judges have to officially open those records. Yep. Yep. Yep. Exactly. So. Yeah. I I I knew that this was going to happen. I mean, you know, that that's going to be so redacted that you're not going to really find anything in it anyways.
[00:28:38] Jesse Fries:
You really won't in the It's mostly known anyways. Yeah. You know, it's there's not that much new about it. You know, it was like, the DOJ, they did do a Twitter release going. So, don't pay attention to what you're gonna read about Trump because all this was like just theories that people were sending in to Epstein. Yeah. Yeah.
[00:29:02] Jamon Fries:
Well, and that's that's one of the big problems with with this kind of thing. Oh, completely. Is, you know, you can't factually prove any of it. No, you can't. You can't. Which is why the DOJ hasn't been doing much because they have to factually prove it before they can do anything.
[00:29:20] Jesse Fries:
Yeah, know. And if there's a lot of smear in there, you know, it's like. Yeah. Why would you
[00:29:26] Jamon Fries:
Yeah. No. Exactly. Exactly. Yeah, know. I mean, the the more the more bad stuff you'd be seeing about Trump in there, the better it is because it shows just how much Epstein hated Trump.
[00:29:38] Jesse Fries:
Right. Right.
[00:29:40] Jamon Fries:
And he wouldn't have hated one of his close clients.
[00:29:42] Jesse Fries:
I don't know exactly. Well, I think the Democrats have quieted a bit as well just because, well, there's so much Clinton in there. Yeah. You know? It's like so many pictures of Clinton. You know? It's a Yep. Yeah. So yeah.
[00:29:59] Jamon Fries:
Yeah. Well, so well, the so, you know, all those windmills out in the ocean that have been driving the whales onto the beaches and stuff like that. Well Right. Right. Run into another problem that they're causing.
[00:30:18] Jesse Fries:
Oh, really?
[00:30:19] Jamon Fries:
Yes. So the military replies on radar to track vessels and aircraft moving towards The US.
[00:30:30] Jesse Fries:
Right. Right.
[00:30:31] Jamon Fries:
When you have these big, huge windmills with their big blades moving. Yeah. It causes a huge amount of interference with the radar.
[00:30:43] Jesse Fries:
Yeah, I could see that. I could see that. And so, they've, so the
[00:30:47] Jamon Fries:
Trump has now put a pause on the leases for five new offshore wind projects.
[00:30:54] Jesse Fries:
Uh-huh.
[00:30:56] Jamon Fries:
Waiting until the military figures out how to counteract those windmills out there. I don't know if they if they can't, they may just say, okay, all those windmills out there, we're tearing them all down. Hey, no kidding. No kidding. Because I mean, that that is a pretty severe national security risk. It really is. It really is. Makes you
[00:31:16] Jesse Fries:
I wouldn't think that they would lie about it. So Yeah. It's makes sense. It it causes disturbances. It causes noise as well, which can go down into the water. So if there's any sonar working in the water,
[00:31:32] Jamon Fries:
Yeah, you you submarine's
[00:31:34] Jesse Fries:
very easy down there. Because especially since it's much unnatural
[00:31:39] Jamon Fries:
background noise. Yep. Yep. So. Yeah. Absolutely.
[00:31:45] Jesse Fries:
Makes sense. Makes sense.
[00:31:47] Jamon Fries:
And then the last one the government's doing, we both have, which is the strikes in Nigeria.
[00:31:53] Jesse Fries:
Right? Yep. Just taken out of ISIS. I don't see. I think Nigeria from what I could tell, Nigeria doesn't really have a problem with it, but they really didn't want it to happen. But Yeah. Trump wasn't gonna let it not happen.
[00:32:12] Jamon Fries:
Oh, yeah.
[00:32:15] Jesse Fries:
And then I saw some, some reporters do, like, man on the street, with Nigerians in The UK. Yeah. And they're going, well, we don't like that there's bombing, but, yeah, it needs to be done. Yeah.
[00:32:32] Jamon Fries:
They they they would not try to see troops on the ground. Actually, they had no problem with it at all. They they they Well, no. I I know that. But, you know, the bombings are not as good as troops on the ground would be.
[00:32:45] Jesse Fries:
Alright. But we're not gonna send our troops. That's that'd be stupid. That's no. No. We'll just bomb to smithereens and then Yep. Yeah. It it makes sense to me. You know, they're killing Christians over there. Somebody said, not just Christians. It's like, okay. So there's five Muslims that they killed, you know? Those
[00:33:04] Jamon Fries:
Muslims were probably trying to defend some Christians. They're proving that they're not good Muslims.
[00:33:12] Jesse Fries:
To the They deserve that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yep. Yep. Makes sense to me. Makes sense to me. Yeah.
[00:33:22] Jamon Fries:
And then the state government, we have state governments. There's a couple of interesting things going on. Uh-huh. So, the the Minnesota fraud and all that other stuff. The the attorney general came out and and said, you know, we're we're doing a great job cracking down on fraud because they've taken out some little tiny fraud rings that were, you know, by regular citizens. Uh-huh. Doing great on fraud here in Minnesota and oh god, the backlash was alright.
[00:34:01] Jesse Fries:
I wonder why. Yeah.
[00:34:05] Jamon Fries:
You know, of of the absolute worst things to say right now is that Minnesota is taking care of fraud.
[00:34:13] Jesse Fries:
Yeah. Yeah. No. They definitely are not taking care of fraud. Yeah. You know, there have been so many of these things and then, you know, it's like the the Boston mayor, she was like going, you know, you can't really bring up Boston history without Somalians. It's like, There's
[00:34:33] Jamon Fries:
a lot of Boston history that doesn't have Somalians in it.
[00:34:37] Jesse Fries:
Practically every bit of it.
[00:34:39] Jamon Fries:
I I mean, all the way back to the Boston Tea Party. Are are you telling Somalians were there for the Boston Tea Party?
[00:34:48] Jesse Fries:
Screw the Irish up there. No shit. It's it's it's a Somali, though. Man. I I just don't get it. I don't get it. You know, it's like it's pandering for no purpose. You know? It's like Yeah. Very barely any Somalis in Boston even. You know? Just Mhmm. Leave it be. I just don't Yeah. Absolutely. They should do the same in Minneapolis too. You know? And, you know Yeah. It's there's a lot of hinky stuff going on there, and so it needs to be sussed out. Oh, yeah. What exactly is going on? Yep. Of course, it's not everyone and everything like that. You you you know how it is. You know? Yeah. It's not.
[00:35:33] Jamon Fries:
But if there's a lot of fraud The one the ones that are bad make it look bad for everyone.
[00:35:38] Jesse Fries:
Nope. Completely. Completely. Yeah. Yep. Then you have the jackasses with the there was that one TikTok where a guy was a a Somali in, like, Minnesota is going, go to work. And he doesn't work. He was telling us that we should go to work so we can pay for his benefits. Yep. It's like, fuck you. You know, just just plain say fuck you.
[00:36:02] Jamon Fries:
You know, this is it it's even it it this is why socialism always fails. It's because people that don't wanna work expect people that also don't wanna work to work.
[00:36:14] Jesse Fries:
Right? It's like, you you you think we actually wanna work? It's not that not that I work. But, you know, when I work, you know, it's like, do you do you think I really wanna work? It's not that. It's like I need the money. And I'm willing to work. I'm not gonna go on the dole, you know? It's like you have a disability, I can understand why you need to do that. And we need to have those processes in place, safety But nets in just in general, if you're able-bodied, yeah, no, you need to work for it. Playing simple, you know? That's why I was really happy to see the
[00:36:51] Jamon Fries:
tack ons onto the food stamps and stuff like that where if you're able-bodied, you gotta be employed.
[00:36:59] Jesse Fries:
Yeah. Yeah. No. I I completely. Or do the what is it? The charity stuff? Mhmm. Or do some NGO work and everything like that. Yeah. Right. Oh, it makes sense to me. Yep.
[00:37:15] Jamon Fries:
Absolutely. And then the last thing I have from the state government news is kind of interesting. So, New Jersey has introduced a bill that would ban all on-site restaurants from providing single use utensils and condiments. What now? Oh Jesus. So they can't you they couldn't they they can't do plastic forks?
[00:37:47] Jesse Fries:
So they need to do like bamboo forks. Is that what they need to do now?
[00:37:51] Jamon Fries:
Well, no. Metal and anything that you can wash. It has to be it has to be reusable. Yes. It has to be washable.
[00:38:01] Jesse Fries:
Even fast food?
[00:38:03] Jamon Fries:
Anywhere where it's an on-site restaurant. So, if you're going to sit, so if you're going to be sitting in the restaurant while you're eating, right. What's wrong with that boot? McDonald's would have to have metal forks for anybody that wanted to eat in the restaurant if they were doing like a salad or something like that. Uh-huh. And the condiments, no more of those little ketchup packets.
[00:38:28] Jesse Fries:
Oh, Jesus.
[00:38:36] Jamon Fries:
Now, it's. Regulation to the point of killing, you know, it's. Oh, yeah. Yeah. It it's all acceptable if you're taking if it's to go. Uh-huh. Or if you're or or you know, drive thru or something like that. So, if you're not eating in the restaurant that you can still use the plastic forks and the ketchup packets and you know, stuff like that But if the if you're eating in the restaurant itself, no. That's a no go.
[00:39:02] Jesse Fries:
How about chopsticks? They're never Well They're never washable. Some are. But Alright. Not you. What Chinese restaurants do you know? Like, I I've been No. No. No. So so some pretty
[00:39:19] Jamon Fries:
not not like super high class, which might. Right. Just Yeah. Decent, like, middle class food, you know, upper middle class food and It's all wooden. Bamboo. They're all the ones where it's stuck together up at the top. You gotta peel it apart. Yeah. Well, some sometimes they're fancy where the it's not that. But. I have never I have never had or had one where it wasn't like that. I I have. I have. Yeah. You you needed, well, I mean, you you have a lot more money. So, you eat it a lot fancier places than I do. I don't know. You know, like chilies or you know, stuff like that. That's a lot fancier than I can do. Chili's? You you you oh, Jesus Christ.
I mean, for me, it's McDonald's, Burger King, Sonic. Applebee's
[00:40:00] Jesse Fries:
on a date night. Fancy like.
[00:40:07] Jamon Fries:
Maybe that's why I haven't been on a date in a very, very, very long time.
[00:40:11] Jesse Fries:
Well, you don't no. There I I took a girl back in high school. I took a girl out to Applebee's. She was What?
[00:40:19] Jamon Fries:
Applebee's.
[00:40:20] Jesse Fries:
She was so Oh, yeah. I mean, that that's that's like This girl thought it was like high class. I'm just saying. Absolutely. Yes. Girls from Perry, Kansas. You gotta love it.
[00:40:33] Jamon Fries:
I mean, here in Lawrence, it kind of actually is high class. There's not really
[00:40:38] Jesse Fries:
much here in Lawrence that's Food in Lawrence is it's a horrible food scene, it really is. I always I always hate going there for, like, Thanksgiving and whatnot. Yeah. Not that I see you really when I do that, but but, yeah, yeah, the food chain sucks. Yeah.
[00:40:55] Jamon Fries:
I I don't think I've ever seen you when you come up this way. Yeah. You have, like
[00:41:00] Jesse Fries:
Once. Twice. In the last Yeah. Twenty years? Yeah. Probably something like that. Yeah. It works. It works. Yep. Yep. But yeah. So it's it's a bad food scene up there. Just saying. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Fix it, Lawrence. Play it simple.
[00:41:16] Jamon Fries:
Yep. Absolutely.
[00:41:17] Jesse Fries:
I need better food when I visit.
[00:41:20] Jamon Fries:
It's all about me. It's all about me. Absolutely. Yes. Yeah. I I would be I would be absolutely for that too and you know, maybe drop the prices on some of the other Right. Right. Right. I I'm sitting here looking at like noodles. The the noodles restaurant. The noodles noodles and company or something like that. Uh-huh. To get something with meat, you're spending damn near $20 per person.
[00:41:46] Jesse Fries:
Yeah. Yeah. You you you're not paying for you're not paying for the food. You're paying for the staff and everything like that. No. It's a but yeah, I I think the food prices in Lawrence are cheap as hell in comparison to what I have to live with but. I mean, it very well could be.
[00:42:05] Jamon Fries:
Yeah. Yeah. If for the same quality. They have been going up quite a bit.
[00:42:09] Jesse Fries:
No. Yeah. But it's like we were able to eat like for under a $100 up there. Like well below a $100. Here it's always above a $100 when all four of us go up. Well,
[00:42:21] Jamon Fries:
I mean, it's like, okay, so, you know, I I say I eat at Burger King. Uh-huh. Well, I only order from Burger King during the day. I refuse to order from them after like 09:00 at night.
[00:42:35] Jesse Fries:
Well, The reason being is that, what's that? I I could see that. The staff at that time.
[00:42:40] Jamon Fries:
Well, no. It has not absolutely nothing to do with that. So most of what I most of the food that I eat is delivery through DoorDash.
[00:42:48] Jesse Fries:
Right.
[00:42:49] Jamon Fries:
And so there's one restaurant that still has their food at a decent price. You know, like the fish sandwich is like $5. Uh-huh. They they've got you know, they've got the the the bacon burger, the bacon king, which is basically a double Whopper with bacon on top of it. Is $8. Okay. Decent price. But after 09:00 that they closed, so it goes to the other Burger King restaurant. Uh-huh. And there, a bacon king meal, just a medium sized meal. $18.
[00:43:35] Jesse Fries:
Oh, Jesus.
[00:43:37] Jamon Fries:
Now, I don't know how much of that is with markup because, you know, a lot of restaurants, the the prices that they charge on DoorDash are higher. Uh-huh. So, I don't know how much of that is a markup. Right. But I mean, goddamn, you go from $8 to $18
[00:43:55] Jesse Fries:
No. Yeah. No. That that's how it is down here too. You know, it's. Yeah. They have to from because DoorDash and whatnot, Grubhub, they I saw this one restaurant tour. He was like going, well, when you go through them, they will take 20% of your food And then they will charge the delivery fee and then all this stuff on top. And so just to actually make money, you have to at least raise your prices at least 15%.
[00:44:28] Jamon Fries:
Yeah, I I don't mind that they raise the prices.
[00:44:31] Jesse Fries:
Right, right.
[00:44:33] Jamon Fries:
But I would want to know, do they not charge that fee if you're doing pickup instead of delivery? No, see, that's even on pickup, Jayman. Well, yeah, because there there's some restaurants here in Lawrence like Taco John's just down the street. If you order it for pickup. Uh-huh. You're going to spend like $3.59 for a meat and potato burrito.
[00:44:54] Jesse Fries:
Right.
[00:44:55] Jamon Fries:
You order it for delivery, you're spending about $5.80 for that same thing.
[00:45:00] Jesse Fries:
Right. They must be going through a different system for their pickup because if you go. Well, it's all through DoorDash. I mean. Well, then, it must be some sort of system because this guy, he goes even for pickup. You need to add the 15%. Otherwise, it just doesn't make any sense.
[00:45:15] Jamon Fries:
So. Yeah. I I I've I've noticed that if I if I switch between pickup and delivery, there's some restaurants, the prices change, some they don't. So, don't know. Right. Exactly what's going on there. Oh, yeah. Understand. Understand. Yeah. So, on to some legal news.
[00:45:33] Jesse Fries:
Yeah. Do you remember all those stories about the shaken baby syndrome and all that other stuff quite a while ago? It's been a long time since I've heard anything about that. Yeah, it was like the nineties and the early two thousands. It was like shaking baby, shaking baby, shaking baby, you know.
[00:45:50] Jamon Fries:
Well, experts now believe that a lot of those people are probably put in jail wrongly. I could see that. I could see that. Yeah. Because the reason the reason that that that I that they say that is because while yes, shaking the baby does result in those things. There's also other things that result in those things as well. Right. But the but the prosecutors back then, if they saw those signs, it was instant charge of shaken vape. No, yeah. They they've they've been saying this for at least fifteen years that it's messed up. Yeah.
Well, now now they're they're actually recently here. They've actually been going going in and opening up some old cases and stuff and they've been trying to get a whole bunch of people out of prison now. So, I guess it's kind of a mixed bag so far but they have been getting a decent number of people out of prison from it. That's good. That's good. Yeah. Yeah. It's
[00:46:58] Jesse Fries:
no, it seemed to be just bad science. Oh, yeah. So, yeah. Yeah. Yep. Yeah. We haven't heard about that in like forever. So it must not be everybody must know it's bad science. It's just trying to prove it to the court.
[00:47:15] Jamon Fries:
Well, it's it's it's a matter of trying to get the the judgments reversed is what the is the problem that there is what's taking so long to do everything. Because yeah, I haven't heard about anybody being charged with for shaken baby in a very long time now. Yeah. Yeah. It's been forever. So. Yeah. Yep. Yeah. Speaking
[00:47:35] Jesse Fries:
of kids, so apparently, a federal judge ruled that California schools cannot prevent employees from notifying parents about their children transitioning.
[00:47:50] Jamon Fries:
Yeah. I heard about that.
[00:47:52] Jesse Fries:
Yeah. Yeah. So that that's a good sign because, you know, there are kids, plain and simple. You you this whole this whole idea that these teachers have this almighty idea that they're that they're not my kids. They're her kids. You know, it's like then she knows better than the parents and everything like that. You know, it's like, no. No. You're you're a that went to school on how to teach. Not. Yeah. What to teach. Yeah. How to teach. You know? Yes. It's like, no, thank you. No, thank you. Yeah.
[00:48:29] Jamon Fries:
I think the problem came in in that teachers are I can't remember exactly what the term is but they have to report child abuse and stuff like that. Right. Right. For what what what is it? Yeah. Can't remember the term but yeah. Yeah. Something reporters. I can't remember what the first word. Yeah. Yeah. Top of my head. But but because of that, they they started saying, well, see this just proves that we know better. Right, right. And so they they use that to get away with it when what that really means is if your kid comes up and says, my dad yelled at me because he thinks I'm not a girl and it's a boy.
Then, what you should do is as a mandatory reporter, that's what it is. Yeah. Yeah. They would they would have to call social services and have social services go out to visit the family. Mhmm. You don't. Yep. You don't
[00:49:33] Jesse Fries:
quietly get the kid to let the kid just change their gender. That's no. No. No. No. No. No. That that that's not good. You you you know, like names, pronouns, everything like that. Just. Yeah. Completely hiding it from the parents. I I just. Yeah. Based off of a child's assumption of how the parents will react as well. Right. Not not not actually seeing how the parents are reacting to it.
[00:50:01] Jamon Fries:
Well and it's not even necessarily like the child's react. The child's belief on how the parents are going to react. It's the teacher's belief on how the parents would react too. Yeah. So, the teacher looks at it. They, you know, they they have a they sometimes they'll have a general idea of the of the of the political beliefs of the parents. Uh-huh. And so if they see that one's conservative, they know one's conservative.
[00:50:27] Jesse Fries:
They just automatically assume how they're going to react to this kind of news. No, that's true. Wait. See, the thing is it's not even a conservative thing. You know, there's so many. Oh, I know. Yeah. People on the left too. You know, that's probably. Yep. No. No. This is going way too far. Oh, yeah. Absolutely. There's nothing really good about it. You know, it's yeah. No, I I'm just glad that a is kind of struck. Oh, yeah. Judge. I am so glad about that. So that's going in the right direction.
[00:50:55] Jamon Fries:
Yes. That is very good news.
[00:51:00] Jesse Fries:
Mhmm.
[00:51:02] Jamon Fries:
And okay. So talking about going in the right direction. Uh-huh. I guess the border patrol on the southern border Right. Has been seeing a huge increase in Latino
[00:51:22] Jesse Fries:
people applying for the border patrol. I could see that. I could see that. Yeah. Let's see why not. And mayor mayor Bass from LA
[00:51:30] Jamon Fries:
came out and she was lamenting it because how are they gonna be how are they gonna deal with it when I see how their people are treated?
[00:51:40] Jesse Fries:
It's it's not their people. Their people are. No. It's not. These are good. Well, fact Blooded America. They're applying for it so that they can kick them out. Uh-huh. These are red blooded Americans. You know, we have a melting pot. Yeah. And that's it. It's Americans versus not Americans is what it is. You know? Exactly. Yeah. That's all it is. You know? Yeah. No. I'm you know, it's like to to say that they're they're people. So so it's like so that that means that all the Latinos or whatever, the Tejanos here in Texas, the the natives, you know, that were here before everybody was here, you know? Yeah. They say. Before Texas was even a state.
Right. Right. Before it was even Mexico, before it was even. Yep. Spanish, you know, the natives, actual natives. They were called Tehanos. That's what, you know, the word Tejas, you know? Have you heard that?
[00:52:42] Jamon Fries:
No, I haven't.
[00:52:44] Jesse Fries:
It's it's in some movies, cowboy movies and somebody's called like Tejas. Hey, Tejas and everything like that. Oh, okay. Okay. Basically, that's just meeting Texan. Okay. But it's also because the Tejados are like the native people of Texas. Yeah. Or at least one group of them. You know, one tribe. Right. Yeah. And so, you know, they just, the natives of Texas, that's when they go by their Tejanos and they're going, yeah.
[00:53:12] Jamon Fries:
Mexicans are not us. You know?
[00:53:15] Jesse Fries:
We may have the same some of the same shared culture probably it again. Sorry. We may have some of the same culture and everything like that, but it's not but it's just due to, well, being generally in the same vicinity.
[00:53:31] Jamon Fries:
Right. Yeah. And there's a bunch of group or, you know They've the the culture in Texas has melded together. You've brought in It has. It white culture, when you've brought in the the Tejanes culture,
[00:53:43] Jesse Fries:
and it just kind of melded together. Yeah. There's some Mexican, but really we were a border province, like, to keep the Comanches away. Yeah. It was really what we were for for the Mexican and the Spanish. Yep. So, yeah, I know. It's Texas is a once you live here, it brings you a whole different idea of life. It really makes
[00:54:09] Jamon Fries:
imagine. Yeah.
[00:54:11] Jesse Fries:
I can only But, yeah, I more power to the Americans, Latinos doing this, you know? Oh, yeah. Yep. Yep. Okay. Let's see here. Uh-huh. Go ahead. Oh, I I I could do my little bit. So, Tennessee, I think it was Tennessee. Was it? Let me double check. Yeah. Tennessee. They have made it illegal to use undocumented immigrants driver's license from other states. You know how other states will give an will give illegals driver's license?
[00:54:52] Jamon Fries:
Right.
[00:54:53] Jesse Fries:
In Tennessee, if you're driving through on one of those suckers, guess what? It's a class B misdemeanor. Oh, wow. Up to six months in jail, fine of $500. Uh-huh. That is awesome. It is. It is. God bless him. You know, it's Absolutely. You have to be an American, and if you're not an American, if you're a what? You have to be here legally. Yeah. You have what but but not only that. But no. No. Not only that. They if you're just, like, a lawful, permanent residence Mhmm. You will be given a driver's license, but just a temporary one, and it will have a distinct marker on it letting them know you're not a citizen, which means you can't vote.
[00:55:43] Jamon Fries:
Yep.
[00:55:45] Jesse Fries:
So Makes sense? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And residents with a temporary driver's license cannot use it as proof of identification to vote. Yeah. I don't know how long that temporary driver's license will be for, but, yeah.
[00:56:00] Jamon Fries:
It it makes sense. Well, the way I would do it is for the for however your visa is or for four years, whichever is shorter.
[00:56:09] Jesse Fries:
Uh-huh. No, that would make sense. For however long the yeah, the green card or whatever is. That that would make sense. That would make sense. But yeah, I thought that was kinda cool.
[00:56:22] Jamon Fries:
Yeah. And the story I ran across is Google and Apple reportedly were warning their employees here on visas to avoid international travel.
[00:56:37] Jesse Fries:
When did they do that?
[00:56:41] Jamon Fries:
Let me pull that story.
[00:56:45] Jesse Fries:
Because I know that they were they had done it like back when there was that whole kerfuffle of HoneBs and everything like that.
[00:56:54] Jamon Fries:
Yeah, I know. This this isn't the this this the article was written on December 20. Right. Right. It doesn't give any actual dates for when they did it. Okay. But the the reason that they did it was because of the because of the longer than usual visa processing times. Uh-huh. Due to, you know, having to check your social social media history and everything else like that. Right. But the article writes it as if it's for legal immigrants.
[00:57:33] Jesse Fries:
Right.
[00:57:35] Jamon Fries:
But yet when they talk, when they get into it, it's they're telling people to stay here in The United States rather than go back home to reapply for their eight for their visa. That just doesn't. Which means they're telling them to become illegal.
[00:57:55] Jesse Fries:
Right. Right. That just that doesn't make any sense on what a company would actually do. Especially a huge company like that because they can get in serious trouble.
[00:58:04] Jamon Fries:
Yeah. But no, they they did issue those warnings, and there's other large tech employers that have also issued similar warnings in September. Businesses.
[00:58:13] Jesse Fries:
Yeah. In September, they did. But but that was just like, watch out because that was when the decision Yeah. That that was for the the $100,000 fee for the h one b visa. That was a messed up situation to where the Yeah. Executive just fucked up on the messaging. They did not do that one very well. And so
[00:58:33] Jamon Fries:
Yeah. But I mean, so the the quote from the Fragomen memo. I'm not sure who Fragomen is. Okay. So, he's he's someone from BAL Immigration Law.
[00:58:51] Jesse Fries:
Uh-huh.
[00:58:53] Jamon Fries:
Well, no. Fragomen is the company that represents Apple for immigration law. Okay. And so Fragomen put out a memo saying, given the recent updates and the possibility of unpredictably unpredictable extended delays when returning to The US, We strongly recommend that employees without a valid h one b visa stamp avoid international travel for now. If you don't have a valid h one b visa stamp, that means that you're here illegally.
[00:59:30] Jesse Fries:
Well, you may be here legally but you might not be able to work, you know, just to. Right. Yeah. That's true. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So, Wow. Wow. It's. That is interesting. Because that could go because they have to go home to reapply. Or they have to. Oh yeah. They have they have to leave The United States to apply. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. I just go to Canada.
[00:59:59] Jamon Fries:
Who cares? Yeah.
[01:00:01] Jesse Fries:
Or whatever is your closest. You you you know if you're in the South like us you know go to Mexico. If you're up north go to.
[01:00:08] Jamon Fries:
Yep. Canada. If you're in Kansas well. Just pick one. Plan on Yeah. Plan on spending some amount of time though there because, you know, you have to do the application and then it has to be approved and all that other stuff. But I mean, yeah, to tell people without a valid h one b visa stamp not to travel internationally? Not to the borders of The United States? I mean, That's a little more than just problematic,
[01:00:40] Jesse Fries:
I would think. It's just due to
[01:00:44] Jamon Fries:
stamping delays. Yeah. You know, it's. Yeah. It's it's just due to the delays.
[01:00:48] Jesse Fries:
So, I I I wonder if it you actually I wonder if this is like a difference in between like stamping and actually having a H1B. Maybe you apply for the H1B here and then you go back home just to get a stamp. Could Bureaucracy is stupid. I I I it wasn't surprising. Yeah. But. That wouldn't that wouldn't shock me either. But yeah, it's kind of odd. Kinda odd. Yep. Yep. Yeah. Okey dokey. Okey dokey. Let's see here. What do I got? So, yeah. Okay. So, let let me pull this one up. It's so grand jury decided not to indict a father of two Kentucky State University students.
He was charged with murder because he went on campus and he killed one student and critically injured another. But they decided not to charge him or to indict him because he was basically just pissed off because his sons were being attacked by, like, 20 or 30 people. And so he he said the shooting's justified in this, grand jury goes, yep, that was justified. They were beating your son. He went and shot them while they were beating his son. Yes. Yes. Okay. Yeah. Completely justified shooting then. Like 20 to 30 people had gathered to attack his son and family. And then he was justified in shooting two people who were beating his son. Completely.
[01:02:34] Jamon Fries:
Yeah. Yeah. Uh-huh. I couldn't agree more.
[01:02:37] Jesse Fries:
That many people beating somebody? Yeah, guess what? You're in fear for your life like instantaneously. You you just shoot. Playing some. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah and I mean,
[01:02:48] Jamon Fries:
being in fear of your own life or your son's life, it don't make a difference. It doesn't make a difference.
[01:02:55] Jesse Fries:
Completely. Yep. So, yeah, we got off for that. So that's a good that's a good news story. That is awesome. Yeah. That's a good Southern story. You gotta love the Southern States. Oh, absolutely. Yes. We appreciate this sort of thing. Yeah. You know? Let's see here. Do we okay. Yeah. We'll save that one just for fun stories because Okay. But so the other big news especially out of Kansas and everything like that is that the Chiefs are moving to Kansas away from Missouri.
[01:03:31] Jamon Fries:
Yep. That
[01:03:33] Jesse Fries:
is they're moving everywhere.
[01:03:36] Jamon Fries:
Missouri decided not to build them a new stadium.
[01:03:41] Jesse Fries:
Yeah. It's a sweetheart deal they got. They basically they get a free stadium. It's it's pathetic what it is. It is. Yes.
[01:03:49] Jamon Fries:
They they get a free stadium. They don't have to pay a penny. Uh-huh. They get all of the proceeds from the stadium.
[01:03:58] Jesse Fries:
Yep. They do have to, like, pay a tax, but they can put that tax only goes towards like maintaining the stadium. Yeah. And janitorial services. So Yeah. That seems like it's free.
[01:04:12] Jamon Fries:
And it's paid for by sales tax.
[01:04:16] Jesse Fries:
Right. And then the property taxes also of the surrounding area, part of that instead of going to schools like it probably should, it will actually go into
[01:04:28] Jamon Fries:
into building the stadium.
[01:04:29] Jesse Fries:
Yeah, no. It is janky as Oh, It's a thing. I I just to get to who
[01:04:39] Jamon Fries:
cares? The Chiefs would are gonna stay in Kansas City area anyways. Why are you giving them that? There was no there was no doubt of them staying in here in the KC. I mean, you know, really, really what frustrates me the most though about all of this is and it's the same that happens in every other state that has a professional team there. Yep. Why the fuck do we, the people, the citizens of the of the city, because it's not even the state paying for it. It's just the local citizens that have to pay. Right. Right. So Yep. Thankfully, it does it doesn't affect me at all.
[01:05:17] Jesse Fries:
Seriously.
[01:05:18] Jamon Fries:
But why the hell would would they agree that I'm going to pay for it but you get to determine how it's used and you get all of the money from how it's used.
[01:05:32] Jesse Fries:
Yeah. No. And everything has all the studies have shown that it is not
[01:05:37] Jamon Fries:
Yeah, I know. It's not an economic driver. Especially, especially right with with this situation, it's even worse because right now, you know, when a new when a new team comes into town, it does drive some revenue because of the people coming in to see the team play. Right. Right. From from somewhere else. Uh-huh. But moving from Kansas City, Missouri to Kansas City, Kansas is not going to bring anyone new in. It's just moving where the money is spent at. Yep. Yep. It's going to do absolutely nothing. And they they keep they always say, you know, that putting a stadium here is going to drive everyone's profit up the up of the roof.
When it's been statistically proven that most places actually see their revenues decrease.
[01:06:31] Jesse Fries:
Yeah. Throughout the year. They do. They do. So, yeah. It's I don't understand it. I don't. Yeah. Missouri should have put up a better plan but they didn't want it. Yeah. I I really don't think they wanted it. They're like going, what? No. Yeah. Missouri is like, know, do something else.
[01:06:50] Jamon Fries:
As far as I'm concerned, if you can buy a professional team, you can build a freaking stadium for them to play. In. I would say why not. I would say why not. And it doesn't have The Hunts could have afforded to build their own stadium.
[01:07:04] Jesse Fries:
And I'm sorry. We don't need these monstrosities of stadiums. We really don't. You know? It's like, yeah. I yeah. Over the whole break, we went to see a Dallas Stars game. Okay. I felt like a trader, you know, being from Minnesota. I I Yeah. Yeah. I really felt like a trader there. Yep. But yeah, we went there. You went to see the former North Stars. Yeah, exactly. The former North now they do have they have the pennants and everything like that of the North Stars up, for when they want Is there to really? Yeah, they do. They do. Or actually, at least for yeah. Because they have, like, just the Dallas Stars logo for when it was them, and then it had the North Stars logo for the players and also when they won their respective of whatever. If the North Star's ever did. I'm not ever sure if they actually ever won anything because I think they used to suck up there.
[01:08:04] Jamon Fries:
Yeah, they were never a a great team.
[01:08:06] Jesse Fries:
Yeah, I know. It it it was kind of funny. It was like because we stayed in a hotel right across the street, from the stadium, from the arena.
[01:08:16] Jamon Fries:
Yeah.
[01:08:17] Jesse Fries:
And right after the game, me and Carol went down to the bar, and we were sitting there, and there was a guy there. And I think he was, like, a lawyer for the NHL. Okay. And he was like he just was talking. He's from LA. We we were just talking, and he goes, where are you from? And I go, well, Minnesota. I lied about where I was born. I said Minnesota. Because I don't wanna give up where I was born. Do some stranger. Anyways, you know, it was like, he goes, yeah, Minnesota. He knew that Minnesota hockey is not really the professional. It is the high school and the college level that actually gets on TV. Yep. He knew all this. I'm like, dude, I I forgot all that.
[01:08:58] Jamon Fries:
I completely Oh, yeah. Yeah. No. The the, the golfers. Oh, that was the hockey team to watch in Minnesota.
[01:09:04] Jesse Fries:
Yeah. And and that they would they would broadcast the state championships for high school. Yep. Yeah. No. It it was quite apparently, it's still to this day they do this because up there, it is and then we started making fun of the Minnesota team's name, the wild. It's like, what's the wild? What is a wild?
[01:09:28] Jamon Fries:
Yep.
[01:09:32] Jesse Fries:
But, yeah, I think it was a I think he was a lawyer for the NHL. He said he was a lawyer. So Okay. How much he knew about hockey? It's like and we're right outside the hockey arena. So it's like Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
[01:09:46] Jamon Fries:
There's there's definitely a possible chance there. Yep. Yep. Yep. So
[01:09:53] Jesse Fries:
Let's see. Wow. We digress there. But I think. We we've been digressing the entire time. Oh yeah. We we haven't done a show in a while. So you know it's
[01:10:05] Jamon Fries:
Oh, where did we leave us? We're we're already at what? About an hour and a half in and
[01:10:10] Jesse Fries:
No. Just hour fifteen because we started at Well Not even that. That's close to an hour and a half. I I have a eight year old son, Tim, and you have to be precise. Oh, snap. There's a. Love as they go. No. It's not it's not 10:30. It's 10:29.
[01:10:28] Jamon Fries:
Twenty nine. And thirty seconds. Exactly. Yep.
[01:10:35] Jesse Fries:
Yep. Yep. Let's see here. What else do I got? Apparently, Putin attacked Kyiv. So just today, and then I saw a news report. He goes, he attacked them on Christmas. I'm going, orthodox. So Christmas isn't January. I'm just saying. So Mhmm. Even though apparently Ukrainian church, they changed it to the twenty fifth so they can be like Europe.
[01:11:04] Jamon Fries:
Yeah. Because. They will, you know, they're like, well, you know, we're trying to get into NATO so we might as well try to be European.
[01:11:10] Jesse Fries:
Yeah. Yeah. And the EU. They want to be part of all that. So. Yep.
[01:11:15] Jamon Fries:
Don't know why that might all break up here shortly. So I don't know why anybody would wanna be part of the EU.
[01:11:23] Jesse Fries:
Yeah. No. Me neither. Me neither. It's yeah. I I heard pretty much everybody in Europe now when they wanna go vacation, they go to Poland. Makes sense. Because it's free. Yep. Oh, I saw this one thing. Speaking of that, I saw this one thing. I don't think we have it, but it was like a guy from Europe. He was saying, we are freedom, not America. America, they they they're but it's like, You're you're the one restricting speech over there, Pete. You know? You know? Yeah. He was like, free speech is us. It's like, no, it's not. Did you know what you're doing over there? Do you have any clue what you're doing over there? I don't think you do.
[01:12:07] Jamon Fries:
Yeah, I I've heard so many people talking about, you know, how it's how England still the how Great Britain still has free speech and all this other stuff and I'm like, no. Okay. So, you put someone in jail because they say something. That's a great free speech right there. You gotta love that form of free speech. Right.
[01:12:32] Jesse Fries:
Right. It's you have free speech unless if you offend somebody.
[01:12:36] Jamon Fries:
You know what kind of free speech that is?
[01:12:40] Jesse Fries:
It's not free speech.
[01:12:41] Jamon Fries:
Well, no. It it's it's a it's speech gives you free things. You get free room and board.
[01:12:51] Jesse Fries:
Good one. Good one. Did you come up with that or did you get that? Yeah. No. I haven't. That I I have not heard that one anyway. I just that. Oh, yeah. In fact, just now off the top of my head. That was a good one. That was a good one. Yeah. I like that one. That was a good one. Yeah. They get all free shit over there. You know? It's yeah. I don't. It's crazy over there. It really is. I I don't. Yeah. And my sister-in-law wants to move to The UK. But, you know Oh, from Kenya. You know, I I I Well maybe. I could see that. Maybe. Yeah. Well,
[01:13:26] Jamon Fries:
that and another one of your sister in laws still lives there. Right? Yeah. Yep. Yep. She does. Yep. Reading
[01:13:33] Jesse Fries:
area. So Yeah. We would say right outside London, but the British are going, no. What are you talking about? That's, like, forty five minutes outside of London. That's, like, far away.
[01:13:43] Jamon Fries:
Dude, that's, like, next door. That that's like It is next door.
[01:13:48] Jesse Fries:
That that's suburb territory. You know? I mean No. It's completely a suburb. Of the city. Yeah. Yeah. It's it's like it's like these these idiots. I I don't know why. I I'm on this whole TikTok thing where they bash Americans like, Brits and everything like that. They bash us. And they're really pissed off about the whole, World Cup thing. Right? Okay. So so the World Cup, you know, is the FIFA World Cup. It will be here in The United States, Mexico, and Canada. Right? North America. And they're so upset at us that our Dallas, arena is not in Dallas. It's in Arlington. Do you know how far away that is? That's, like, 20 miles away. What are you doing?
[01:14:36] Jamon Fries:
And then it's like Yeah. We we've already we we we that was they said it was in Dallas, so we booked hotels in Dallas. Damn it. Exactly. Now we have to travel 20 miles. Come on now.
[01:14:49] Jesse Fries:
It's a suburb. They got it. You know? I I didn't see what the and then it was like, then there's a new New York, New Jersey stadium. It's like, New York and New Jersey are different states. Do do do they even realize this? Yes. It's only, like, 10 miles outside New York, but you know what? It's like, Jesus. Yeah. The the Seattle one. The Seattle one.
[01:15:17] Jamon Fries:
I can see that complaint if if you had to, like, go through a border crossing to get into New Jersey. Oh, yeah. You don't. So who cares?
[01:15:26] Jesse Fries:
Now the Seattle would. I could kinda see. Seattle, the way it is, it it how Seattle is set up with all because it's on a peninsula. So you can only go peninsula. There's not much landmass. There's basically a big body of water in the middle of it. Oh, yeah. Yeah. So its stadium is, like, forty minutes outside of Downtown Seattle. Yep. Yep. And so, you know, it's like they go, that's 40 miles. And I go, yeah, that sucks. But, you know, it's like, 50 miles. No. Yeah. Yeah. And you got all that water. You see all that water there? You know, that's Mhmm. We're we're not gonna just like We're not gonna blow up houses just to put a stake. No. We'll split it someplace else.
[01:16:07] Jamon Fries:
Yeah. You know, except for recently, nobody ever built a stadium downtown.
[01:16:14] Jesse Fries:
No. No. They really didn't.
[01:16:17] Jamon Fries:
I mean, well, the last one that I've been in that was downtown was the old Metrodome.
[01:16:22] Jesse Fries:
Right. Right. It depends on the sport. It's like, Little Caesar's Arena in Detroit. That is downtown. Okay. Actually, in Detroit, it's all downtown, actually. Because there's Little Caesars, which is, Red, White, Texas. Stadiums, They're new. They're new. Oh, okay. Okay. Brand new. Well, the Little Caesars was when we were up there as being built. Yeah. That's new. Yeah. So, yeah, five, six years there. Co America which is practically across the street from there. It's a block or two away, from Little Caesars. It was even more into downtown.
That's that's where the Tigers play. That one is probably in the last twenty years. Yeah. And then you have, the Lions Ford Field. That is literally across the street from America America. So that's also downtown. So, yeah, Detroit stuff is actually downtown. It's kinda crazy.
[01:17:27] Jamon Fries:
Yeah. So And it's unusual. It really is. Yeah. It really is. It's Most of most of the ones that are close to downtown, it's because the city grew around it. It was built so long ago. Right. The the
[01:17:39] Jesse Fries:
the stars game that we went to is American Airlines Arena. Mhmm. It's where the Mavericks play as well, the Dallas Mavericks. Right.
[01:17:47] Jamon Fries:
And that is downtown as well. And that's a new stadium. That's don't I don't know how new, but you can tell it's new. So. Well, I mean, it it kinda makes sense though because, you know, Kansas, the Chiefs, when they were looking at building a stadium, the first time that Missouri turned them down, it was planned to be downtown.
[01:18:07] Jesse Fries:
It would make sense. It would make sense. I don't see. Yeah. It's just a parking issue. Know, dealing with parking, dude. That's the right situation. It's like, alright. Yeah.
[01:18:17] Jamon Fries:
No, I think part of the reason for that though is because, you know, for a long time, very few people wanted to actually live downtown and so in order to revitalize the downtown areas, they started building stadiums and stuff there to get people to come regularly.
[01:18:34] Jesse Fries:
No, that would make sense. That that would definitely be like Detroit. Yeah. Because with Detroit, it was like the Pistons actually used to be up in Auburn Hills, which is about, like, a thirty to forty minute drive from downtown. Yeah.
[01:18:51] Jamon Fries:
Detroit. So yeah. And I know Detroit back about twenty, twenty two years ago. Oh, man. You could Oh, yeah. You could drive through downtown and not see a single person. Oh yeah.
[01:19:04] Jesse Fries:
It was bad. Yeah. Yeah. No, they they've cleaned up downtown quite a bit. Actually, it's not too bad, at least from what I remember and everything like that. Yeah. The roads going to the bridge into Canada were just horrendous potholes everywhere. That was horrible. Well, that's Detroit. That that that Yeah. That's Michigan. You know? The pothole city is just what it is. Yep. Yep. Let's see here. What else do we got? So apparently, some women in Africa and, Senegal, apparently, they're having issues because their husbands will they they won't even tell the wives. They'll just, go, they'll just disappear on a boat to go to Europe.
They won't even tell the wives. And then a lot of times, the boats never make it. They just like well they drown and everything like that. So all these. Yeah. Senegalese women are having to pick up and just deal with life after their husbands just decide to try to get a better life. You know, it's like, you need to stop illegal immigration. It will help so
[01:20:20] Jamon Fries:
many things, you know? Like, you know, the the the worst part about illegal immigration is how many people die in the process of trying to illegally immigrate. Completely. Completely. Yep. I mean, death is very rampant in any of those paths for illegal immigration. Yep. It's horrible. You know, not not only that but then, you know, there's the the pain, the people to get you the coyotes. Stuff like that. Yeah. The coyotes with absolutely zero you know, it, you know, if a if a coyote could 100% guarantee everyone's going to make it. Right. Right. I could see paying a coyote. But if they're like, I don't know. We haven't had been having a good track record with our boats making it over there. No. Yeah. Yeah. I'm I'm thinking I probably wouldn't wanna take that chance myself. But then again, do live here in The US, so, you know, who knows?
[01:21:17] Jesse Fries:
And most people don't. See, that's the thing. It's like Yeah. It's a minority of people from these countries that are trying to do it but still, it's like, yeah, it's very dangerous. It's just dangerous. So, it it's just a sad story. That's all that was. I I just saw the story. I thought that was a bit sad and I thought. No, the the only the only thing that I would say about that is
[01:21:41] Jamon Fries:
if you're going to do it, make sure your family knows what you're doing.
[01:21:44] Jesse Fries:
Right? Wouldn't that make sense? Don't just don't just disappear.
[01:21:47] Jamon Fries:
Yeah. Just get everything get everything in order while you're there
[01:21:52] Jesse Fries:
so that they can survive once you've left. Yeah. Yeah. There's one story in this story where this woman goes, yeah, my husband said he was just going to go help this guy with the boat and he never came home. You know, it's like, okay then. There you go. Yeah. It's like, wow. Wow. And. Yeah. She has like three or five kids or something like that and now she has to figure out what to do with them and those cultures are very patriarchal. And so Yeah. The choices of these women to actually do something, you know, it's like
[01:22:30] Jamon Fries:
Honestly, the best choice that they have in that situation is to remarry.
[01:22:35] Jesse Fries:
No, completely. Completely. And that's almost the only choice they have. Yep. Yep. Nope. No, I agree. Yeah, I agree. It's horrible. That's horrible. And trying to do that is a pain in the butt. So. Yep. Especially when you have three or five kids. It's like, I don't want that. Yeah.
[01:22:55] Jamon Fries:
Italy was in the news a couple day a few days ago. Yeah. Looks like we have a couple Italian stories here. What's yours? Yep. So, they went and arrested nine people who allegedly had been using charities to fund more than $8,000,000 to Hamas.
[01:23:15] Jesse Fries:
Yeah. I can see it. That's what charities do. So Yep.
[01:23:22] Jamon Fries:
And that just screams out to me why I don't give to charities.
[01:23:27] Jesse Fries:
Right? It's I mean. Yeah. Yeah. I'll give money. I rarely. I don't do it often. Mean, I'd rather give just to somebody in need. Yeah. So Absolutely.
[01:23:40] Jamon Fries:
I I would rather if I were going to give to a charity, I would have to research that charity so freaking heavily. Uh-huh. I might as well just, you know, like when I was driving over the road, there were there were many times that I ran into people that were just really down on their luck and they needed money. Right, right. And you know, they some of them would come up and say, I'm hungry. Can you feed? Can can you give me some money so I can get some food? Some of you. Uh-huh. Yeah, I'm at a gas station. So, can I can I borrow some money to, can I get some money from you to put gas in my in my tank so I can get my kids home and stuff like that? Right. And I always treated it one way. I never gave him cash. Right.
I would go up to the pump with them and I'd say, alright, let's fill your tank up. I will go in and pay for it. Okay. Yeah. Or I will, I'm inviting you to dinner if it's because they're hungry. I'm inviting you to dinner. I'm going to feed you right now. Uh-huh. No, makes sense. That's how I was dealt with it because you you never know what they're what really and I I had so many where I'm like, okay, well, I mean, I've let's go in and buy you some food then. Uh-huh. No, I'm not hungry right now though. I mean, I I just want the cash, you know? So, I know they're not going to spend the money on food. Right, right, right.
[01:24:56] Jesse Fries:
You know, sometimes I go, you know, I know you're gonna I go, I know you're gonna use this for something that you shouldn't. And, you know, I respect that. And, you know, I like to buy alcohol too. You would need some alcohol too in your life or whatever your drug is. But as long as you realize that, you know, is fine. But no, I like your way.
[01:25:17] Jamon Fries:
Carol does that a lot. Yeah. Or she has the other the other time I would give people money is there there numerous times people would come up to me and say, hey, can I get $10 for washing the windows on your truck? Uh-huh. Absolutely. You're doing work for it. I'll give you the money. No problem. Right, right, right. Every single time. Mhmm. But if you just come up to me and ask for that handout and you're not going to let me buy you food or put gas in your vehicle, you're not going get the money. Make sense?
[01:25:48] Jesse Fries:
Make sense. Make sense. Let's see here. Speaking of Italy, apparently, their ant their antitrust agency is fining Apple a $116,000,000 over a privacy feature. Okay. So this privacy feature is let's see here. Which one was it? So it's like it's they they they try to stop app tracking you, you know, so they have it's the app tracking transparency policy that they have. Okay. And basically, what this means is that if you don't wanna be tracked by an app, well, you can tell your phone that you don't want that app to track you.
[01:26:40] Jamon Fries:
You know? That makes sense. Right. Right.
[01:26:44] Jesse Fries:
Apparently, that's bad to Italy.
[01:26:48] Jamon Fries:
Well, of course, because you have no freedom in Italy. So, you know, you have no privacy in Italy or in it basically anywhere in Europe. So, yeah. Right. Right. You you can see how bad that would be for them. Apparently, the problem is is that
[01:27:04] Jesse Fries:
Apple the Apple system requires third party app makers to ask users for consent twice in order to comply with Europe's strict privacy rules. So Okay. Yeah. Okay. So you have to ask twice. You know? How about you change your strict policy rules? Yeah.
[01:27:24] Jamon Fries:
Yeah. Yeah.
[01:27:25] Jesse Fries:
No. Change your policy to let them only ask once. Yeah. I think Italy just needs money so they're going after a big one. Oh, yeah. You you know, seriously, we are funding the European Union now with all these things. Oh, absolutely. Yes. Yes. But Trump has been taking care of that. Have you have you been seeing that?
[01:27:45] Jamon Fries:
No. I haven't really been paying too much attention to the He and state department
[01:27:51] Jesse Fries:
have, put sanctions, as in revoked visas of five people, leaders that were part of like the DACA and everything like that, all of these. Yeah. They put restrictions. One of them they're trying to kick out of The United States right now. The court has said that they can't yet. So that's on pause and everything like that. But yeah. Because there is this whole push to limit American speech. There's this whole idea where Europeans want to limit our speech through their laws. So they should not have to deal with our views over the internet.
And so because of that, our company should restrict us so that they don't see it over there.
[01:28:52] Jamon Fries:
Just have one thing to say about that. If if that's how you truly feel, then, build yourself an internet wall just like China did. No, exactly. Then, you don't have to say. Yeah.
[01:29:02] Jesse Fries:
That is exactly what I was gonna say. If you don't like it, do your great wall of Europe. That's just what it is, or the great firewall of Europe, because China has the great firewall of China. It does. So if you don't like our free speech, suck off plain and simple. That's it. And then with those companies, with the American companies that want to do business in your place, they can have separate rules for those people. And that's fine. Yeah, Absolutely. But if you want the same crap that we get, you have to deal with us. You cannot limit us. You have to go with the most free, which is us. Yep. Whatever you think about your old free speech thing over there, where you can't offend people because that's not freedom. Yes, it is. Yeah. There's nothing about freedom that says you can't be offended.
I'm sorry. No. No. You have you you need to be offended sometimes. This is how life is. Absolutely. You grow from it. You do. You, you, you, you, you need to be shamed. You need to be. Yeah. All these things. This is how society keeps others in line. This is how we keep people from pooping on the streets. You know, it's it's for other cultures. If you go out and do if you go out and do insanely dumb shit,
[01:30:20] Jamon Fries:
we need to be able to tell you you're doing dumb shit. Yeah, this is how you keep
[01:30:25] Jesse Fries:
people from raping your girls and everything like that. You know? It's the shame. The society needs to shame. Shame is a societal need. Offending them with it is a societal need. This is how society works. Not saying it's nice to be ashamed and everything like that. You know, it sucks to be on the other side of it. It always does. Course. It does. Yes. But it has to happen. Yep. That is how society can actually work. Without that, society falls apart. It just doesn't work. There is no society then. Yep.
[01:31:04] Jamon Fries:
Yeah. When when you're a young kid growing up, that shame helps form you into a better human that for social interaction.
[01:31:12] Jesse Fries:
Yes. And as an adult, it does the same thing. Because every so often, even as adults, we go off script of what Oh, yeah. Is societally acceptable. So that's just what it is. When you're moving to a new country, to a new culture, you need to understand what that culture is and you need to be shamed about it. Even if it offends you. That's because it may not be bad to you, but it's bad to the society that you moved into. That's it. Oh, yeah. Absolutely.
[01:31:52] Jamon Fries:
That was a good brand. I like that brand. That was. Yeah. I I like that one.
[01:31:56] Jesse Fries:
Yeah. And here at the Mindless Me Henrys, we are a value for value podcast. What that means is that you can be a producer of the show if you want to. Yes, you can. Yes, I'm talking to you. Just you personally and anybody else in your car that you're listening to. Yeah, help us out. You can send us a dollar. Can send us $3 Anything that you send us will help actually preserve the show and help us keep going and actually let peep let us know that you get something out of this entertainment, whether or not you yell at us, scream at us. I don't care. You can hate us. You know, if you're listening, how about you kick something back to us? Even if you're family, that counts as YouTube. I'm just saying.
Help us out any which way you can. You can go to our website, mindlessmeanderings.com, and there's a support link right there that you can send us some money using your favorite credit card or whatever method you want to. Or just in the little show description and everything like that, there is a support link that you can actually send us money with, with your favorite credit card and everything like that. Help us out any which way you can. Send us your ideas, send us your complaints, send us anything. Know, you can email me at jessiec dot com or jamonminusbeandreitas dot com. And please help us out any which way you can.
[01:33:17] Jamon Fries:
And
[01:33:20] Jesse Fries:
so on to business since we just took care of our business. Apparently, Firefox has learned that people don't like AI so much. Imagine that. Yeah. So they had integrated AI really into their whole browser into Firefox, and people just got pissed off at it because it's if anybody has dealt with AI, everybody knows it's not that good. Right? It's mostly slop, you know, especially if you are trying to get something real done. If you know how to do it, the right prompts, you have to be an expert at it really to actually get anything out of it and everything like that. But otherwise it's just crap. It's slop. It's just Yeah.
Yep. It's and most of it's lazy. It really is. Oh, very lazy. It's like, oh, I could do it too. Sure. Sure do. Yeah. So yeah, they're gonna put a kill switch for AI in their browsers.
[01:34:30] Jamon Fries:
That is awesome.
[01:34:31] Jesse Fries:
Yes. Yes. Yeah. I've
[01:34:35] Jamon Fries:
always disliked the AI, especially in the search engines.
[01:34:39] Jesse Fries:
Uh-huh.
[01:34:41] Jamon Fries:
Because many people use the AI and said, well, the AI says it, so that's gotta be the truth. Yeah. You know, whether it's in TikTok and whether it's in X with with rock or, you know, any of the other AIs out there. Uh-huh. But all it is is it's just it'll tell you what's seems to be the consensus amongst everybody that's written about it.
[01:35:13] Jesse Fries:
And not only is that. Doesn't mean it's real. Well, right. Because I I saw this whole thing. It was like this it was this TikTok. This he was like a a mathematician or something like that. Okay. He I think just an undergrad or something like that, but he was good. AI, all it does is it guesses at what the next word should be. So it's like in English language, what would be the next word that this could be? That's how it defaults if it doesn't have like hard fact, you know? And so if it has to and so it will, this is the hallucination because it will just create what it thinks is the next word that it should be. It's not actually thinking.
[01:35:55] Jamon Fries:
No, it's not.
[01:35:58] Jesse Fries:
I think I have a story about it. It's not thinking. Yeah. Yeah. I I think I have a story later where it's not thinking at all. So. Yep. Yeah. Yeah. So to AI sucks. We really does.
[01:36:11] Jamon Fries:
Well, talking about AI sucking. Did you hear what happened in San Francisco?
[01:36:17] Jesse Fries:
I could come up with so many jokes, but how about you tell me?
[01:36:24] Jamon Fries:
So, there was there was a fire in a in one of their power relay stations in San Francisco. Mhmm. And so there was complete blackout. All of San Francisco went down. Ouch. Well, every single Waymo vehicle
[01:36:43] Jesse Fries:
Mhmm. Just stopped. Oh, Jesus.
[01:36:49] Jamon Fries:
I it it from what it said, from what they said happened, it was that when the Waymo vehicle came up to a stoplight. They have programming on how to handle there not being a light there. Right. But instead of following that programming, they sent a request to the to the main office. Uh-huh. But because the internet was down, that request couldn't really go through very well. And even if it did go through, every single Waymo vehicle in San Francisco was sending the same request at the same exact time. Oh, Jesus. Jesus. And so, I mean, this is it was a system that they had in place from back when they first started Waymo.
[01:37:40] Jesse Fries:
Right.
[01:37:41] Jamon Fries:
They just had a few cars out there. So, there was absolutely no problem with, you know, you hit something that you're not quite sure how to deal with, send us a request and we'll tell you what to do. Uh-huh. But as they've increased the number of cars in their inventory and out on the streets, they never thought of making changes to that. So, they they now so they now they're now in the process of reprogramming all of their vehicles to no longer rely on that on peep on the sending on their requesting for information as much Instead, they're they're programming them just to basically go with the flow of traffic as much as you can in those situations.
[01:38:28] Jesse Fries:
Right.
[01:38:30] Jamon Fries:
But yeah, every single Waymo just stopped. Ouch. And the the reason that I'm not quite, I don't quite believe that that it's actually what they said it is. Uh-huh. Is because Waymo's on streets without stoplights were just stopped in the tracks as well. Okay. So, I don't think it was the stoplights. Right. I mean, I. Right. I saw, I, you see pictures. I I, you know, looking looking at this up, I saw pictures of just this Waymo vehicle just sitting there and it's like, you know, it's like, maybe there's a stoplight about six blocks up ahead of it. Well, that's not. But there ain't nothing around it. So, it wouldn't have been affected by no stoplight.
[01:39:13] Jesse Fries:
No kidding. No kidding. So,
[01:39:16] Jamon Fries:
I I don't think that's quite what it really was. I think it was more of I I I would be willing to bet it's more of a they had, no, I mean, I don't know this. This is just my conjecture but I wouldn't be surprised if they had their AI part of the AI programming in the vehicle and part of it at their home base. Which is And because the Wi Fi went out and all that other stuff, it couldn't connect very easily. Right. Right. And so they the, the AI just wasn't there anymore. That's just not a smart thing to do. You know? No. Everything, everything should be
[01:39:52] Jesse Fries:
in the car. In the vehicle. Yes. Just saying. You know, it's. Yeah. Every, because yeah, if you have to report back, you know, I can understand like, like just a one way sort of transmission. Yeah. Well, two ways to say, well, you need to go here now. That sort of thing, you know, just like a dispatcher and everything like that. Yeah, exactly. But basically it should just be like a dispatch situation with headquarters. It shouldn't be where all the processing is happening over there. Because latency and so many other things can cause problems with that. Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. No. Yeah, that's messed up. That is messed up. Yeah.
On to studies. And as we all know, there was a study that said that most studies are wrong. But since a study said that most studies are wrong, can we actually believe that study?
[01:40:52] Jamon Fries:
It is. So what you got to? The conundrum. So It is. We've got a lot of studies today.
[01:40:57] Jesse Fries:
Okay.
[01:40:58] Jamon Fries:
The most recent one that I found, I found it just today is that there the study was saying that they wouldn't be surprised if suddenly you started seeing garlic mouthwash.
[01:41:14] Jesse Fries:
Oh, god.
[01:41:17] Jamon Fries:
The reason being yeah. You know, they're like, not only does it keep away the vampires, but also, so it's if the the reason that they're that they're conjecturing this is because garlic extract is a antimicrobial. Right. Right. So it kills all of the bad germs in your mouth, including the germs that cause tooth decay. Okay. It'll just kill them right off the bat. I think it did but it's not like some of the harsher chemicals, the man made ones that kill everything in the mouth. Okay. So it'll it'll leave some of the beneficial germs in the mouth and just kill off a lot of the bad stuff. Mhmm. And so they they they were saying, you know, so that's what they found in their study. So they wouldn't be surprised if you didn't see started start seeing garlic mouthwash with the garlic extract in it.
[01:42:19] Jesse Fries:
But as long as it doesn't smell like it because holy, we don't need everybody running around with garlic mouth. I'm just saying.
[01:42:27] Jamon Fries:
Oh, That would be bad. That would be bad. So, if you if you can get the odor out of the garlic extract, you know, I'm all I'm all for it. Yeah. But Yeah. Yeah. It's it's bad enough when I eat a little too much garlic, you know? I don't want to deal with it all the time.
[01:42:44] Jesse Fries:
Oh, that's funny.
[01:42:48] Jamon Fries:
Another study came out and talking about the brain. Mhmm. So they they said that they think that part of part of the reason that people get Alzheimer's is because, you know, as you age, the energy in your in your cells starts decreasing. Uh-huh. But they've they've started testing a new chemical. They're testing it on mice right now. Now, this is kind of the weird thing about Alzheimer's and I did not know this until I read this read this article. I I've often heard people say, well, the dog has Alzheimer's. It's forgetting every everyone.
[01:43:32] Jesse Fries:
Right.
[01:43:33] Jamon Fries:
But Alzheimer's is a human only condition.
[01:43:38] Jesse Fries:
Okay.
[01:43:39] Jamon Fries:
It does not affect anything but humans. Interesting. Yeah. I was kinda shocked to read that. I was like, damn. Mhmm. That's interesting. But but yeah. So what they so what they found is use what they can genetically modify mice so that the brain has the same function, chemical balance, and everything like else like that as a human with Alzheimer's does. Okay. And so what they found is that by introducing this certain chemical, they don't go into what it is exactly but it's something that provides energy to the brain. Uh-huh.
Well, that provides energy to the cells. They found that they can actually reverse the condition, the the symptoms of Alzheimer's in the mice. Oh, that's cool. So, if if the mice is, if the mouse is really heavy into Alzheimer's, they can actually begin to reverse the condition and it's also a very, it's also preventative. It'll stop them from from getting Alzheimer's at all.
[01:44:44] Jesse Fries:
Oh, nice. Nice. Yeah. So,
[01:44:48] Jamon Fries:
if this all pans out, I mean, you know, it's still just in the very early testing phases but. Right. Yeah. They may have found the cure for Alzheimer's.
[01:44:58] Jesse Fries:
That is cool. That is really cool. Yeah. Let's see here. Speaking of brains, so apparently, some people have actually kind of figured out why AI doesn't have consciousness because, you know, everybody goes, oh, it's so smart. You know? It's like consciousness and everything like that. And what it said is that, basically, for consciousness, you need always on. Mhmm. And it it so let's see. This is what it's like. One biological neuron with its branching dendrites can perform computations comparable to an eight layer artificial neural network. It's this always on sort of situation of our brain and where it's not just our brain isn't just dealing with one thing. It's dealing with so many different aspects, physical, mental, this, that, and everything like that. And it's all of that that actually creates consciousness.
Oh, okay. Yeah. Yeah. So it's kind of interesting, you know? And it's like because of the because our brains, they're 2% of our body mass. Right? Right. But they actually consume 20% of our energy.
[01:46:28] Jamon Fries:
Oh yeah. Yeah. It's insane how much energy the brain uses. Correct. Correct. AI does not
[01:46:35] Jesse Fries:
use that much energy. Oh, no. In comparison. You know? So I don't know how much energy you would need to actually do that.
[01:46:45] Jamon Fries:
Well, that and another problem with AI, as far as that goes, is that while the brain does process a lot of things all at the same time Uh-huh. But it's also correlating everything into just like one central location. So Right. Right. If you're trying to walk, your body is controlling every muscle in your body to walk properly. Right. Right. While you're still thinking and doing it whatever you're doing. So it it all works together, whereas in a computer, it's all segregated.
[01:47:20] Jesse Fries:
Yep. Yep. They say that Yeah, they say AI needs new physics. It doesn't just need better algorithms. Oh, yeah. It said to support consciousness, artificial systems would need three current things technology lacks, hybrid continuous discrete computation in real physical time scale. So you can't turn off. Right. It actually has to be in real time. Everything has to be in real time. If you can actually turn something off, it just doesn't work. You need to just be always on. You need scale inseparable architecture shaped by energy constraints.
So the architecture itself is inseparable to everything. You cannot be able to separate anything, which you can with computers. You can take anything Yeah,
[01:48:14] Jamon Fries:
absolutely.
[01:48:16] Jesse Fries:
And then I said, you also have the, excuse me, the ability to continuously modify their own physical structures, what they would need. Not sure. Okay. Our brains, I guess, do that. They do. Yeah. Create new connections here or there and everything like that constantly. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. But yeah, that's why computers do not have consciousness.
[01:48:39] Jamon Fries:
Interesting.
[01:48:41] Jesse Fries:
Yeah.
[01:48:44] Jamon Fries:
That is cool. Then another study I found So so according to the study, they've figured out how to help protect your lungs from air pollution. Oh, okay. With very, very large doses of vitamin C.
[01:49:06] Jesse Fries:
Oh, that old hack,
[01:49:11] Jamon Fries:
Yeah, I mean, vitamin C, you know, they always say, you know, take vitamin C if you're feeling sick or something like that and that's because it does help the the body fight infection and stuff like that. Right. Right. Body fight a lot of stuff. But now they're saying that it also that the so what it says it does is that the reason that air pollution is so hazardous is because it's little tiny fine particles that can get into your blood. Mhmm. Through your lungs. And I guess that vitamin C helps to prevent the cells from being damaged by that.
[01:49:58] Jesse Fries:
Oh, okay.
[01:50:00] Jamon Fries:
So it reduces the loss of cells mitochondrial power stations and it also reduces the inflammation. Uh-huh. Which makes it easier for the body to take care of what's going on.
[01:50:14] Jesse Fries:
Oh yeah. There have been people selling this sort of stuff for a long time. So it's cool that science backs it up. Yeah.
[01:50:22] Jamon Fries:
No. Completely. Completely. That's pretty cool. Yep. And my last two studies, well, they're just really, well, duh. Uh-huh. I mean, why the fuck did you even look into it? Really, it's a waste of everyone's money and waste of your time. Right. So the first one, they've seen a very shocking trend lately in that gambling addiction has been increasing. The numbers of people that are addicted to gambling has been increase of increasing massively. And this all happened correlating with online gambling.
[01:51:01] Jesse Fries:
Imagine that.
[01:51:03] Jamon Fries:
What do you know? That's crazy, dude. Now, all you gotta do, you don't even have to go somewhere to gamble now. You just pick up your phone and you type, I'm gonna waste this money.
[01:51:13] Jesse Fries:
Yep. Yep. No. I I am And they're shocked that more people are having gambling addictions? I mean, come on. Yeah. Fuck. And then you have the NFL and all these things going, no. Gamble here. Gamble here. Gamble What
[01:51:26] Jamon Fries:
are the You you watch you watch a single NFL game, and at least five times, you're gonna see ads for draft Kings or one of the Completely. Other
[01:51:37] Jesse Fries:
Completely. Yeah. No. I I really don't know why they opened it up like they did. I really don't. It's like, yeah. Okay. Yeah. I just see it. Doesn't make any sense to me at all. And then the the other the other well done one.
[01:51:57] Jamon Fries:
So, they were trying to figure out, you know, the scientists for a long time now have been trying to figure out the best way to help you lead people lose You know? Okay. Gotta help people lose weight.
[01:52:08] Jesse Fries:
Right.
[01:52:10] Jamon Fries:
And now that Ozempic's come out and everybody's saying, hey, Ozempic is great. You you gotta try it. Uh-huh. So they did a study to see what the most effective form of weight loss was. Okay. And low and behold, it's still gastric bypass surgery. It's five times better than Ozempic.
[01:52:34] Jesse Fries:
Yep.
[01:52:37] Jamon Fries:
No. Make sense. There's two different kinds of gastric bypass surgery.
[01:52:42] Jesse Fries:
Right.
[01:52:43] Jamon Fries:
One of them is they just cut away a bunch of your stomach and make it so it's just a little tube that runs directly to your intestines. Right and then the other one just completely takes out your stomach, right? Well, it it it takes out a very large portion of your stomach as well as a large portion of your small intestines. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So, you you have less, there's less small intestines to absorb everything out of the food. Right, right. So, yeah, of course, that's going to be more effective than Ozempic.
I mean, my god. What? Why even look into that? Yeah.
[01:53:23] Jesse Fries:
Because they wanted because surgeons
[01:53:26] Jamon Fries:
wanted to prove. Yeah. Yeah. They still want people to go in for that surgery.
[01:53:31] Jesse Fries:
Yeah. They still need to make money, Jayman. You know? Yeah. Yeah. With with all this stuff.
[01:53:37] Jamon Fries:
Back about fifteen years ago, I would have gotten gastric bypass. Uh-huh. Except I wouldn't have gotten gastric bypass. I would have gotten the lap band which was the thing back then which was like a band that squeezes off the top portion of your stomach but they don't actually remove anything. Right, right. Which they later found out is very ineffective because, well, liquids and ice cream and everything else like that just goes right through it. It doesn't get held up by it. Dimension that. Oh, that's crazy. Yeah.
But, yeah. No. The only reason that I didn't actually go through with it is because they told me that in order to get the surgery, you'd have to lose about 200 pounds before we can before we can do it. Uh-huh. Because at the time, they didn't have any MRIs that could support my body weight. Right. Right. And so if anything went wrong, the only option would be to cut me open to find it. Yep. So they're like, no, we we're we're not even gonna take that risk. You say you gotta lose this weight. At that point in time, I'm like, well, fuck. If I can lose that much weight, mean, damn, what's another two hundred pounds on top of that? Seriously.
[01:54:47] Jesse Fries:
No, I'm with you. I am with you on that one. That makes sense. That makes sense. Yeah. Well, let's see. I have one more study and this one, it's all about podcasts. So apparently I don't, this is also the sort of situation. So this one says that if you listen to a podcast while driving, so this is where all of you listening in the car and everything like that, it does not distract you at all. Anything more than music or anything like that. It's not like talking on the phone or something like that because you're not talking. You're listening, but you're not going to try to respond generally. You're not really
[01:55:29] Jamon Fries:
using your brain that much when you're just listening.
[01:55:32] Jesse Fries:
No. You really don't. You really don't. You know? It's like when I listen to podcasts, I actually listen while I'm doing, like, meaningless, like, the dishes. You you you know, mowing the lawn, you know, brainless things where you can listen, but you can just go on autopilot all at the same time. Yeah.
[01:55:52] Jamon Fries:
Yeah. Yeah. Driving. For me for me, it's Driving. Watching when I'm playing boring video games.
[01:55:57] Jesse Fries:
Yeah. I could see that. I could see that. Yeah. It's like driving, it puts me to sleep. So I'm like, nope. I I I can't do that. I can't do that. I need I need music when driving.
[01:56:08] Jamon Fries:
So Yeah. I I always did audiobooks when I was driving. Oh, god. I've tried that. It's just as bad as podcasts
[01:56:15] Jesse Fries:
and.
[01:56:17] Jamon Fries:
Yeah. What are the are the ones are the the audiobooks that you listen to, are they the ones with just one person reading everything? Or do they have a cast of people that's reading all, reading their each individual lines? It doesn't matter, Jayman. It does. Okay. Because I I did find that if I listened to to audiobooks where just one person was reading it, the whole thing. Mhmm. Oh, I'd I'd be out like a light. No. I could see really bad when you're driving a semi.
[01:56:45] Jesse Fries:
It it really is. Yeah. It really is.
[01:56:50] Jamon Fries:
But, you know, if I were listening to other ones and, you know, I'd I'll just give them a shameless plug anyways, graphic audio. Uh-huh. I every every single one of their books that I've ever listened to, they have individuals. Now I don't know if it's good voice actors that can change their voices a lot. Right. But they they have like a long list of their of their actors for them. So Okay. Nice. Every every individual in the book except for like the people that don't have names, you know, the generic people. Right. Of course. But all of the the named characters that are gonna be repetitive throughout the book, they all have a different they all have a different person voicing their their so it it's like listening to, well, it's it's like watching TV without actually seeing it. Oh, okay. Okay. Yeah. Scared cool. So, I I found that that that kind of book, it kept me interactive enough but where I could still completely concentrate on what I was doing.
[01:57:56] Jesse Fries:
Okay. Okay. On the same science statement, looks like we only have two. You put my AI one choice. So
[01:58:09] Jamon Fries:
No, I didn't. Oh, did I? Yeah. Oh, shit. I did, didn't I? Yep. Oh, it's because I had originally put it in science and then I'd like, wait, no. This is a study. So I put it up into studies and I pretty much believe that I was science. How dare you, Jamie? How I'm sorry. Damn. I'm sorry. Deary. I'm sorry. Please forgive me. I won't I won't do it again. I promise. But it's unlike every other form of diabetes out there. Okay. This diabetes has nothing to do with the process of the with the the natural process of the pancreas or the insulin overload causing the insulin resistance and all that other good stuff.
Has nothing to do with that. This is because of malnutrition. Okay. So, they found that that people that spend a very good portion of their life being having malnutrition not getting the vitamins and minerals that the body needs. Their pancreas, it doesn't behave properly. So, sometimes it'll put out too much insulin. Sometimes, it won't put out enough. Right. Sometimes, you know, it just it varies a lot and so they found that unlike every other form of of of diabetes, if they use the same method to treat it, horrible things would happen. Interesting.
Yeah. So, it's like they they've gotta like, you almost have to for each time you're treating it, it's like you have to treat it differently for each time you're you have to treat it. Really weird and difficult.
[02:00:13] Jesse Fries:
Right, right.
[02:00:15] Jamon Fries:
But yeah, so on that's unlike all the other forms of diabetes because this is now the fifth type of diabetes that they've found. Okay. Okay. The rest of them, it's all just kind of a general way to treat it. Uh-huh. You either you either reduce the amount of insulin because there there's too much insulin in their bodies or you add insulin because there's not enough insulin. So, this one's a little bit different though, I guess. Okay. But yeah. So, that that was kind of interesting reading up on that. Nope. Then, the last one that I have, the last scientific thing is the Earth has been leaking its atmosphere to the moon. Okay. Well, I've been doing it for forever, right? It has been. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. And but they've figured out that taking moon samples.
Uh-huh. Like moon core samples. It would be more effective than ice core samples in figuring out the past of the earth.
[02:01:25] Jesse Fries:
Interesting.
[02:01:27] Jamon Fries:
Because once it get, once it's thrown on the onto the moon and gets into its layers, there's nothing there that affects it.
[02:01:39] Jesse Fries:
Nope. Makes sense. Makes sense. Yeah. Yeah.
[02:01:43] Jamon Fries:
That's good. You know, it's the the solar way, the solar radiation, the the solar waves is what's blowing. It blows a part of the. Oh, so. Off of the earth. So, we're like a comet.
[02:01:55] Jesse Fries:
So, we're basically like a comet. Okay.
[02:01:57] Jamon Fries:
That makes sense. It makes perfect sense. It's just there's a moon there to catch it. So, you know, it it it'll only catch it when it gets into like that perfect angle behind the Earth between where the Earth is between the moon and it'd is between the moon and the sun. Right. Right. And so, like, every every time it goes around the Earth as it's passing through that zone, it'll collect more of the Earth's atmosphere. So so they can yeah.
[02:02:24] Jesse Fries:
New things you learned. That was pretty cool. Yeah. No. That is really cool. That is really cool. Okay. Now on to the last story of the day. So so Mem Dani. We know Mem Dani. Right? Yep. Yeah. Yeah. So he he has announced the new chief of the New York fire department. Okay. Of course, he picked a lesbian for this because that worked in LA so well.
[02:02:57] Jamon Fries:
Oh, yeah. Yeah. But apparently, she's never been a firefighter in her entire life. What? Yeah. What the fuck?
[02:03:06] Jesse Fries:
I know. Right? See see, it's like, okay, lesbian fight. Whatever. But never been a firefighter. It's like, what the hell? I what kind of qualifications do you have? Oh god. Yeah. Wow. So guess what? You know how Chicago is called the second city? New York's about to be called the second second city because I'm just saying.
[02:03:37] Jamon Fries:
Yeah. Wow. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, man. It
[02:03:42] Jesse Fries:
it kinda shows that he just wants to burn the place to the ground. You know? I I just say it. Yeah. You know, it's like, screw New Yorker. We're just burning this into the ground, you know? Yeah.
[02:03:56] Jamon Fries:
That's essentially what that's basically what's going to happen to all these mayors there.
[02:04:00] Jesse Fries:
Hey, yeah. Yeah. NYFD stands for New York fried. You know? It's just Nice. Nice. And with that, I'd like to thank you for joining us for episode 88 of the Minus Meanderings. I'm Jesse Freeze. And I'm Jamin Freeze. And we will see you when we see you because it's the holidays, people. There's another holiday coming up and then this and then that and then this. We we we'll get back to you soon. At some point, we'll get on to a normal schedule again. Thank you for listening.
Holiday kickoff, beers, and new tech setup
Show logistics, mics, and settling in
Bernie, single-issue bills, and legislative bloat
Budget votes, plain-English laws, and process fixes
Supreme Court debate: Guard vs. regular forces
National Guard, posse comitatus, and federal authority
Trump, naming rights, and the Kennedy Center flap
Filibuster, Obamacare history, and governing speed
Epstein files: redactions, proof, and partisanship
Offshore wind, radar interference, and security
Nigeria airstrikes and views from the diaspora
State politics: Minnesota fraud talk and Boston missteps
Work requirements, welfare, and social expectations
New Jerseys reusable-only dine-in rule
Chopsticks, dining out, and local food scenes
Delivery apps, late-night markups, and fees
Legal corner: shaken baby prosecutions revisited
Parental notification, teachers, and mandatory reporting
Border Patrol hiring and identity politics
Licenses, visas, and corporate immigration memos
Grand jury declines indictment in campus defense case
Chiefs to Kansas: stadium subsidies and civic costs
Hockey nostalgia, Dallas Stars, and Minnesota lore
EU vs. US speech norms and internet walls
Housekeeping aside and onward to business tech
Browsers, AI backlash, and Firefox kill switch
Waymo outage: blackout stalls self-driving fleet
Studies: garlic mouthwash and Alzheimers energy angle
Why AI lacks consciousness: always-on brains
Vitamin C vs. air pollution and two big duh studies
Gambling spikes with apps; surgery beats Ozempic
Podcasts while driving and audiobook pitfalls
Science: malnutrition-linked diabetes and lunar records
Closing rant: NYFD pick controversy and sign-off
