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What's going in the World during the Holiday Season.

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- Jesse Fries

- Jamon Fries

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(00:00:19) Introduction

(00:00:40) Coffee Talk

(00:01:22) Kansas Supreme Court Voting Rights Discussion

(00:02:24) American Airlines Flight Delays

(00:04:04) Drone Sightings and Public Reactions

(00:08:20) Texas Billboards in Mexico and Central America

(00:12:04) Biden's White House and Cabinet Meetings

(00:18:01) Presidential Pardons and Commutations

(00:22:00) Herschel Walker as US Ambassador

(00:24:10) US Considering Ban on TP-Link Routers

(00:28:02) Internet Speeds and Old Technology

(00:30:45) Texas Immigration Billboards

(00:47:03) Cannabis Scientific Findings

(00:55:01) Alcohol and Nut Allergies

(01:00:02) AI in Scientific Experiments

(01:03:16) Space Elevator Developments

(01:07:37) Spacecraft Approaches the Sun

(01:12:42) Wind Energy and Environmental Impact

(01:14:13) Conclusion and Holiday Wishes

(01:14:45) Penn State vs. SMU Band Placement

https://mindlessmeanderings.com/episodepage/commuting-bidens-mental-decline

[00:00:20] Jesse Fries:

Good morning, everybody.   Merry Christmas and a happy Hanukkah to those who are about to celebrate.   It is Wednesday, December 24th, and we are live with episode number 17 of the Mindless Meanderings.  

[00:00:34] Jamon Fries:

It's Tuesday.  

[00:00:35] Jesse Fries:

It's Tuesday. Oh, yeah. It is Tuesday. Look at that. What do you know? Reading the script, it's what you get. I'm Jesse Friese coming to you from Central Texas where I'm drinking some, coffee with some, Irish cream in it and enjoying waking up late because the kids don't have to go to school.  

[00:00:52] Jamon Fries:

And I'm Jamin Friesse coming at you from eastern Kansas where   I just found out that as of June of this year,   voting is not a fundamental   right   according to the Kansas Supreme Court.  

[00:01:10] Jesse Fries:

Actually, yeah, I can see that. Yeah. I could see that in ways. Yeah. Yeah.  

[00:01:16] Jamon Fries:

Anyway, so that's what the a that that that's what the AP would have you believe this is what they found. Got it. Got it. That that was that was the headline. What actually happened   was there was a court case that went to in front of the Supreme Court saying that to,   here in Kansas, when if you're going to do a mail in ballot   Right. When you send in the application for the mail in ballot, they have to match your signature to your voter registration signature. Right.   And so they were trying to repeal having to match the signature.   Ah, I see. The lawsuit was trying to get away with matching the signature,   but I guess making it's that you have to match the signatures   means that voting is not a fundamental right.  



[00:02:05] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. That that that's generally what the the democrats   think think when it comes to that. It's,   they they they like to equate one or the other. But, really, the signature without you being there, without your ID being there, without,   a notary,   the only thing they can see if it is actually you is your signature. It's the only thing they can actually go look at it's the same signature. That's all I can do. Yeah. It's a   Yep.  

[00:02:32] Jamon Fries:

That's kinda crazy. Yeah. I I thought that was hilarious.  

[00:02:35] Jesse Fries:

That is hilarious.   Well, speaking of holidays, I just saw this news article.   Apparently, American Airlines   had to delay every flight. It it called the FAA and said, we need to ground all flights,   for American Airlines,   because of,   looks like   some sorta   they had a vendor technical issue.   So they were grounded for an hour this morning.   Oh,   no. On one of the busiest days of the year.  

[00:03:06] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. You know, not only is that gonna delay people getting to where they're going, but   that means that there's gonna be a lot of   of, missed flights when you're trying to switch over to a new plane. I mean   Yep. That that's   oh, god. That sucks.  

[00:03:24] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. It really does. It really does.  

[00:03:27] Jamon Fries:

Means there's there's gonna be there's gonna be a lot of people that are not gonna make it to where they're going by Christmas.   Yeah. Really? With that.  

[00:03:36] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. Yeah. There's quite quite a few. There are quite a few.   Oh, wow.  

[00:03:43] Jamon Fries:

That's insane.   It is. It is. What was was did did they say whether the vid whether the vendor issue was was it causing safety on the plane? Or was They they all they said is that safety is number one concern.  

[00:03:58] Jesse Fries:

So   no clue on that one. They always say that. So   yeah.   Yeah.   No clue. But speaking of planes and everything like that,   last episode, I said people might start shooting at these drones and whatnot. Right? And it might not be a drone?   Yep. The FBI actually said it, like, just that same day. It was, like, seriously, like, the next day or the same day, last Wednesday or Thursday or something like that. The FBI came out and said,   let's see here. They they wanna warn the public about the increase in pilots of manned aircraft being hit in the eyes with lasers because people on the ground think they see an unmanned aircraft system.   There's also concern with people possibly firing weapons at what they believe to be a UAS,   but could be a manned aircraft.  

Yeah.  

[00:04:48] Jamon Fries:

Well, yeah, that that reminds me of something that I saw not too long ago where,   I guess   someone someone in congress that there had been some people in congress that had a little bit of a hearing   about the about the the drones and stuff like that.  

[00:05:05] Jesse Fries:

Mhmm.  

[00:05:06] Jamon Fries:

And   there were there was one troop of people that reported drones in the air   that were just flying all all flying the same pattern, one after another, going to the same place. Right.   And it turns out   that those were   airplanes on a probe to JFK.  

[00:05:34] Jesse Fries:

Jesus.   That is hilarious.   That is true. The   you can't make this shit up. It's,   I knew it was gonna happen. The the these New Jersey people, I don't know what it was. They just started freaking out, and apparently, some New Yorkers do. It just makes no sense.  

[00:05:58] Jamon Fries:

Makes no sense at all. Well, you know, the the the the problem is to say, when you're looking up into the sky   and you see those lights,   you have no reference to how far away they actually are. Yep. Yep. So I mean, if it's a if it's a if it's a jetliner   on approach to an airport,   it's gonna be low enough that you're going to that it's not gonna look like just this little red and green light blinking up in the sky Uh-huh. Which is what you would normally associate with a with a jetliner.  

[00:06:30] Jesse Fries:

Right.  

[00:06:32] Jamon Fries:

But it's gonna be a small vehicle. And so there so people I mean, I wouldn't be surprised if that's probably at least 50% of the drone sightings.  

[00:06:41] Jesse Fries:

Oh, yeah. Yeah. I agree. Yeah. A lot of it was   just airplanes and everything like that. And just yeah. Of course, some of it's drones. There's always drones. But, you know, it's yeah.  

[00:06:53] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. The the the, the congressman that I that was talking, he he said that,   that they found that a lot of it was small manned aircraft. There was a lot of it. Even some helicopters   were reported as drones.   Uh-huh. And I'm I'm sitting there looking I'm sitting there, you know, I've been around enough helicopters.   They don't sound anything like any drone I've ever seen up in the air. No. They do not. Yeah. Yeah. Drone drones,  

[00:07:23] Jesse Fries:

of course, the depending on the size of them, but if they're   smaller, it's usually a high wind pitch. It's, it's not the   that that those big words have. You know? It's, it's Yeah.  

[00:07:36] Jamon Fries:

You you gotta have really large   propellers to to make that kind of noise.  

[00:07:41] Jesse Fries:

You you really do. You really do. And a little drone won't do it. Man, I wouldn't even say a medium drone.   Because usually the drones have at least 4   props. It's not like just the the one big prop that helicopters have.  

[00:07:55] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. I I saw a picture of one that's being used for deliveries right now. It has,   like,   12 along the top   vertical and then 4 on the front for forward and back for movement.  

[00:08:07] Jesse Fries:

Right. But they they wouldn't be, like, huge. So you you'd still have the They're small. Yeah. Yeah. So you'd have a more of a 12 of my top. So you'd have more of a high wind pitch and everything like that too. Abs absolutely.   But, you know, it's like,   we complain all these New Jerseyans or whatnot are complaining about it, but, you know, at least they're not in, like, Russia where Ukraine is bombing their high rise buildings and everything like that, even, like, a 1000 kilometers from the front line. You know? It's like Yeah.   See, that's a drone problem.  

That that that is definitely a drone problem.  

[00:08:42] Jamon Fries:

You know? Yeah. The the drones that we deal with,   yeah, it's nothing compared to what the what they have to deal with in other parts of the world. When when you're at war. Right? They're actually attack  

[00:08:54] Jesse Fries:

attaching bombs onto the drones, you know. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. If you're at war, yeah. I understand. But otherwise, just   just leave off, you know?   It just makes no sense to me.   Absolutely no sense to me. Especially  

[00:09:07] Jamon Fries:

since a lot of the increased,   sightings   are because it had it it's only been a few years now since the FAA   has authorized,   civilian used drones and commercial used drones to fly during the night.  

[00:09:23] Jesse Fries:

Yep. Yep.  

[00:09:25] Jamon Fries:

You know? So, I mean, the first few years of it, there probably weren't that many that went up at night. But, you know, it's it's now been about 3 years since that since they changed that ruling. And,   you know, now every all the commercial companies and stuff like that have been able to make up for it. And, you know, I'm seeing I've I've seen things about how, like, down in Texas,   DoorDash   is starting to use drones around the Dallas Fort Worth area.   You know, I've I've seen that there's so many companies,   that that don't deliver large things are starting to go towards drones.  



[00:10:00] Jesse Fries:

Right. Right.  

[00:10:03] Jamon Fries:

That's interesting. So, I mean yeah.   You you you guys see a lot more up in the air. Yeah. Oh. Yeah.   Like, can you imagine not having having to wait on them driving through traffic?  

[00:10:15] Jesse Fries:

Or or they pick up, like, 3 orders and you're, like, the last one. And   Yeah.   I swear that's what it is sometimes. Uh-huh.  

[00:10:25] Jamon Fries:

The   the the nephew came over a couple of days ago Uh-huh.   And   ordered DoorDash.   The driver   has 2 stops.   He when he when he gets up to the house here,   he keeps driving and sends me a message saying that   Burger King said that somebody had already picked up my food.  

[00:10:51] Jesse Fries:

What?  

[00:10:53] Jamon Fries:

And it just took off. Then he said that he completed the he put in that he completed the order. Oh, Jesus Christ.   So I so I go in so I go in and I I do the, you know, help and file that that my food didn't get here. Uh-huh.   And the next the the next guy is already sitting at Burger King,   and his first stop is at the same exact location as my first stop was.   So this this guy did it at at both of the at both orders. He got he's so he's gonna get paid for making the delivery,   and he kept the food.  

[00:11:31] Jesse Fries:

Wow.   That is messed up, yo.  

[00:11:34] Jamon Fries:

Yeah.  

[00:11:36] Jesse Fries:

That is really messed up.  

[00:11:42] Jamon Fries:

I mean, you know, if if you want if you enjoy gaming systems, that's a good way to game the system.  

[00:11:47] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. But it won't last long. They'll they'll figure that quick enough and then you're just happens a few times, it'll be done. But Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I don't understand people like that. It just doesn't make sense. I don't either. Yeah. Yeah. It's just like I I don't understand   Biden's White House just covering for him for so freaking long. The like, from the very get go.   That's the craziest thing. The the, Wall Street Journal article. It was crazy what he was what was going on there. It's like   it was like   from the very beginning, there were, like, limits on who Biden spoke to,   limits on what they said, and limits around the sources of information he consumed. So, basically, they were telling Biden well, now there's they they always,   like, tell the president what they want the president to hear, but it seems like there are more limits on it. Like, they were hiding bad news from him and things like that.  

It it seems like they were hiding a lot more from him than   what they do for normal presidents.  

[00:12:50] Jamon Fries:

That wouldn't really surprise me though. I mean No. No. Not at all. He's shown signs of mental decline since, like, the year I started noticing it the year after he was elected.  

[00:13:02] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. That's when things really started to get shown. But apparently from this article, it was like day 1 he was having issues.   It did get worse as the years went by. Oh, yeah. Yeah. But   yeah. And it was like he   somebody in the article said he had he has good days and bad days, and today was a bad day.   I'm like talking about this one thing. You know, it's just   it's really crazy. You know? It's It really is. Yeah. And then there was, like, in the article, it also talks about how, like, some representatives,   like, one of them was, Jim Hines. He's, like, a high powered Democrat now, but   at the very beginning, he wasn't. He was more of a lowly member.  

And he said, I really had no personal contact with president. I had more personal contact with Obama, who   okay. So under Obama, he was just a lowly Democrat. Under   Biden, he was, like, the chairman of 1 of the committees or something like that or the house   democrat ranking member or something like that.   Yeah. And he said that he had more personal contact with Obama as a underling,   than Biden as the man in charge.   Yeah. Yes.   It's just crazy.  

[00:14:18] Jamon Fries:

It's it's just crazy. It really is. It really is.  

[00:14:22] Jesse Fries:

There was, like, interactions between Biden and many of his cabinet members were infrequent,   lightly scripted. Mhmm.   Apparently,   like, actual,   cabinet meetings, like, where the whole cabinet got together.   Yeah. In 4 years, Biden had 9 of those.   But Obama held   19,   and Trump had 25 just in their 1st 4 years.   Yeah.   So Biden,   he's not even coming to half   of Obama.   You know? It's like Yeah.   This just makes me wonder, like,   who was actually in charge during this whole   time?   Does he even know what's going on?   Does he actually have the mental capacity to actually do anything? Like, does he have the mental capacity to pardon?   Like, all these murderers,   that he commuted the sentence for   Yep.  

Like child rapists and murderers and things like that. He just   committed or,   got him off death row. Just put him in life Yeah. Without prison. But Commuted commuted their death row sentence. Yeah. And  

[00:15:33] Jamon Fries:

I I yeah. There's there's so much about that that just you know, I I find it very interesting that the reason that he said he had to commute those sentences.  

[00:15:43] Jesse Fries:

What was that? I didn't hear that. His his reason  

[00:15:47] Jamon Fries:

doesn't really wind up because he only commuted 37 out of out of the 40.  

[00:15:52] Jesse Fries:

Right. What was the reason for you to say that are still gonna die. The reason was because  

[00:15:57] Jamon Fries:

I can't   even conceive   about allowing Trump to come in and change my policy   of not   doing of not killing the these death row patient these death row inmates.  

[00:16:11] Jesse Fries:

Are you freaking kidding me, dude? That that's really what but but Yeah.   It's funny, though. He's letting off these child murderers and rapists and crap like this. Oh, yeah. But he won't commute the sentence of the Boston Marathon bomber. Don't get me wrong. That's a terrorist attack and everything like that. But   let's see. Just bombing for your own terrorist beliefs, I that that that's one thing. Okay?   Raping and killing a child? I'm sorry. I know which one I want killed.  

[00:16:38] Jamon Fries:

Well, not not only not not not not only that, but they're they're one of those 37   was,   was a guy that was very up very high up in his gang   that firebombed one of his rival gang's houses, killing 6, including 3 children. One of which was only, like, 13 months old. Uh-huh. Yep.   Yeah. No. It is. Those are those are the people we need to we need to get rid of. Yes. Yes. Yes. It's,   yeah. No. Yeah. And the the the the biggest problem about this is is since they're no longer in death   row, now   you know how the system works. If it if the prisons become overcrowded again or something like that  

[00:17:21] Jesse Fries:

no. No. There there's there's always   a possibility that these guys might get out early. I   there is no early. They they're in there for forever from what I understand. Generally, that's what it is. It's like it's either death row or   a lot of times in these cases, it's like there's no possibility. It it's life without the possibility of parole.   That that's what a lot of these,   major assholes get. This is what, if a state doesn't have death penalty, that's what they get instead of the death penalty. They get life without the possibility of parole. So and they are in there for life. It's not the 20 year term. It is just life. Plain and simple. Okay.   Because you don't want them ever out. It's,  

[00:18:01] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. Well, that that's what that's one concern that I saw a lot on on,   on x that people had was that, you know, with the way the court systems are nowadays, you never know how long these people are actually gonna end up staying in jail   Yeah. Since they're not since they're not gonna be dead.  

[00:18:19] Jesse Fries:

That is true. That is true. But, generally, that is how it works.   It's it's   just life without the possibility of parole, and they actually mean life. Not the   not like what California is, like, 20 years or something like that is considered life or some I know some states it's that way. So  

[00:18:36] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. There was there was one guy that was talking about this, and I I really kind of   like his his opinion on on the reasoning behind he he he was talking about the reasoning for the for the,   for the commutations of the death sentence.   And he's like, this   just fundamentally   changes   what the paroles what what the the presidential   pardons and commutations   mean.   Yep. It's no longer about,   you know,   up until now, it's always been you look at each case individually and you say this does didn't really serve justice, so we're going to give them a pardon.  

[00:19:17] Jesse Fries:

Yep.  

[00:19:18] Jamon Fries:

Now it's,   well, my the next guy coming in might do something different than what I want to have done, so I gotta make sure that he can't do it.  

[00:19:28] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. No. That that's, yeah, which isn't the to me, that's not the purpose of this at all. You know? No. It's not at all. No.   Because that's a political   thing. That is not, because usually, if if you commute   a person's death sentence, you look at the facts of the case itself   and you go Yeah. Okay. The was this guy kinda   cheated in trial, but, technically, he was fine, but he was kinda cheated, that sort of thing. You know? It's like Yep. Or has he completely   turned around his life and everything like that while on death row and everything like that Yeah.   After being, like, on death row for, like, 20, 30 years, you know, that sort of thing. It it's Yeah. Yeah. It's not just because you don't like   the death sentence. It's federal law. Yeah. No. I'm sorry. No. It's federal law. Yeah. There there's not a   there's nothing beyond that. It's federal law. Suck up. If you don't like it If if you if you don't like it, get congress to change it.  



[00:20:23] Jamon Fries:

Yes. Yes. I mean, the the liberal the liberals who've been in charge of congress and and the house for so many different times Right. Right. Why didn't they change it if they don't like it? Well,  

[00:20:34] Jesse Fries:

you'd have to pass the senate too, and getting anything through the senate and the the   getting getting the 66 votes to stop a filibuster is kind of a pain in the ass, you know, or 60 votes, whatever it is. Yeah.  

[00:20:47] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. Regarding this, I I did see a very interesting,   Babylon Bee article.   Uh-huh. The headline was,   shit. Forgot the word.   That's babies that are going   babies that are gonna babies that are gonna that that may be aborted   Uh-huh. Are now are now identifying as death row inmates   to come to to get their citizens disputed.  

[00:21:21] Jesse Fries:

That's kind of funny.  

[00:21:23] Jamon Fries:

The the picture the picture was a fetus with the with the gang tattoos and the bandana on. Right. Right. Right.   Oh, it was hilarious.  

[00:21:33] Jesse Fries:

That is   that really is funny.   Let's see here. What else we got here?   Oh, Herschel Walker? He he's being tapped to be US ambassador?   For the Bahamas. Yeah. Oh, Jesus Christ. I think every Minnesota Viking fan is rolling in his grave right now.  

[00:21:58] Jamon Fries:

Absolutely.   Absolutely.   Jesus. Yeah. Yeah.   It it has to do with him being, like, an ambassador for the youth and stuff like that for a while now. No. I don't doubt it. He's like He's a great ambassador, so let's make him the US ambassador for the Bahamas.  

[00:22:15] Jesse Fries:

Well, you you know, he   I'm I personally, I don't have a problem with them or anything like that. Oh, yeah. Me either. As a Minnesota Viking fan, you just think back to the trade   that doomed the Vikings   and made the Cowboys   the instant hit that they were back in the nineties. Without that trade,   the Cowboys would have been shit throughout the nineties. But it's They would  

[00:22:37] Jamon Fries:

have been they would have been shit, and the Vikings could have been good.  

[00:22:40] Jesse Fries:

Yeah.   I can't even remember how many first round draft picks we gave Cowboys on that one. That was crazy. Oh, it was like 3 or 4, I think. Uh-huh. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it's been a while, so I don't remember exactly. But it was it was a decent number of them. Yeah. Yeah. It wasn't just one. Yeah. I'm I'm sure Habakkur is a fine guy and everything like that. But Oh, yeah. Yeah. I I still,   being down here in Texas now, I still bring it up with Texas people, and they're going, what what are you talking about? And I'm going, you don't know, do you? You know? It's like it's like only Minnesota Vikings. Like, old ones, like, you know, actually remember that trade. He was supposed to be the hottest shit ever and everything like that. And he comes in.  

[00:23:24] Jamon Fries:

Oh, yeah. Yeah. He he was not good.  

[00:23:27] Jesse Fries:

He wasn't.   He wasn't at all. Not for the Vikings. And then he went to another team, and then he was good again. It was hilarious. Yeah. Yeah.  

[00:23:37] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. I don't know what I don't know if he just didn't like playing for the Vikings or something. Maybe maybe it was too cold in Minnesota for him because he so. Texas. So Yeah. Shrinkage. You know? I don't know. Yeah.  

[00:23:59] Jesse Fries:

Is. Yeah. Let's see.   It it is good stuff. It is good stuff.   Let's go with some quasi international   domestic   sort of stuff.   Looks like the US is weighing a ban on Chinese made router,   company TP Link.   You know TP Link. Right?  

[00:24:19] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. I've heard I've heard the heard the name before. I've never purchased any of their product. Yeah. They're they're they're the biggest,  

[00:24:26] Jesse Fries:

actual routing router company, here in the United States.   Their their market share is about 60, 70%.   Nice.   Yeah. Yeah. And,   but it's been known   to kinda have some   issues   with the security and everything like that.   A lot of times,   a lot of times the routers are often shipped with security issues.   And even when there's security issues, TP Link won't actually fix the security issue   with the software update.  

[00:25:00] Jamon Fries:

It seems to be a little problematic.  

[00:25:02] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. Yeah. And when there's a lot of hacking going on, a lot of times it's targeted at the TP link because they know of those issues.   Yeah.   Yeah. And so because of that, it's,   the US is thinking of banning,   TP Link. It's a Chinese company.  

[00:25:20] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. So they must they must think that it's intentionally   done so that Chinese hackers can access  

[00:25:27] Jesse Fries:

basically anything that anything any information here in the US then? Yeah. Basically. It's kinda like the whole TikTok thing, you know, the bite dance Yeah.   Sort of thing. It's   but but this one is, like, hacking is one thing to me. Like,   taking my data that I give you, I don't have an issue with that. You know? Yeah. It's like Yeah. It's like when it comes to TikTok, I I know that ban is about to come in, like, on 19th January.  

[00:25:54] Jamon Fries:

Yep.  

[00:25:54] Jesse Fries:

But it's like, I'm giving you this data, so I don't mind that. You know? A hacking situation, that's a whole different issue. You know? It's a Especially  

[00:26:03] Jamon Fries:

since it's involving the router, which is an integral   part of basically everyone's home network.  

[00:26:09] Jesse Fries:

Well, yeah.   It is everybody's home network except for, like, those that one person that just plugs in the route the modem straight into the computer.   That one person, you know, it's, wait.  

[00:26:22] Jamon Fries:

I'm that one person.  

[00:26:23] Jesse Fries:

Do you see?   There you go.  

[00:26:32] Jamon Fries:

I've only I've only got 2 computers hooked up the network, and they're both right next to each other. My modem has 2  

[00:26:37] Jesse Fries:

2 Ethernet part 2 Ethernet parts on it. So Okay. Okay. You should you should check the brand of that modem. So it was maybe it's TP Link.  

[00:26:47] Jamon Fries:

It might be. Yeah. T Mobile. So who knows?  

[00:26:51] Jesse Fries:

Then I well, to get, like, 60, 70% of the market share, they they would have to Oh, yeah. Have deals with,   like, some big boys like Comcast and,   yeah, Spectrum and whatnot. They would have to   have those deals. I I do my own.   I buy my own stuff because I don't want that Mhmm. Surcharge they always put on there every month.  

[00:27:13] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. You know, I hate that, like, about 5 or $10 a month to rent a modem or whatever. No. That's that's that's what yeah. I I normally would do that too if I had cable Internet. I would be doing that because they do charge that surcharge. Right. With T Mobile, there is no surcharge for the modem. It's just a straight up $50 for the service. So You're still on T Mobile? I thought you were switching. Yeah. I was going to, but   I haven't really noticed any problems, so I haven't with it. So That is true. I haven't done it yet.  

[00:27:43] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. The connection is doing pretty good. So  

[00:27:46] Jamon Fries:

Yeah.   Yeah.   Lately here, I've been I've been averaging around a 100 megabyte down instead of the 5 to 10 megabyte down that I saw early on. So Well, that's better. Yeah. That's not too bad at all. Yeah. So yeah. 5 to 10, you can't really do anything with nowadays.  

[00:28:03] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. Yeah.  

[00:28:06] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. We're old. When when you complain about 5 to 10 megabytes.   When I was a kid room. I dealt with 12 mod modem.  

[00:28:19] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. The I think this   I think the slowest I ever dealt with was about,   maybe 10 kilobyte.  

[00:28:29] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. Yeah. It was  

[00:28:31] Jamon Fries:

Back with dial up? I mean, it was insanely small insanely low. Yeah. Those porn,   pictures would take forever to load one line and one line. Oh, yeah. Absolutely.   Yes.   It was horrendous.   But you know, at that point in time, we were just thinking, well, you know, at least I can see something. Yeah. No. It it it was better than nothing. At least at least at least, yeah. At least I can do something online rather than   having to   Go to a store and buy it. It. Go out yeah. Go to the store and buy it or go outside and play.   Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well I was I was able to dedicate my life to being in front of a computer eventually.  



[00:29:21] Jesse Fries:

Well, speaking of   the whole topic of, international and whatnot, apparently, Texas,   our governor and our government has put up billboards in Mexico and Central America.   Basically, letting people know that, they if they come   up to the United States, they are going to regret it.   It's it's these are pretty like, the wordy is pretty graphic. It's like one billboard   warns that wives and daughters will pay for their trip with their bodies.   You can't trust the coyotes,   because they will rape and whatnot you.   And then and then another one, the direct translation is how much did you pay to have your daughter raped?   Uh-huh.  

Yeah. Yeah. It's absolutely true, but Uh-huh. Wow. Another one was many girls are raped by the coyotes you hire. Uh-huh.   One was many girls are raped by the coyotes you   hire.   And then another one, danger ahead. If you cross into Texas illegally, you will regret it forever.   Yeah. Yeah. It's,   yeah. They they they they're trying to put the word out. Don't come to Texas. I I I think Texas is good. If you wanna come up, go to go to California. Yeah. Or New Mexico or something. You know? Just just don't come to Arizona,  

[00:30:42] Jamon Fries:

California.   Just don't come to Texas. It's just don't come to Texas. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yep.  

[00:30:49] Jesse Fries:

Going through those,   checkpoints about, like, a 100 miles from the border. Interesting.   There's, like,   ICE or whatever, you know, a border patrol. Yeah. That that about, like, a 100 miles out from the border, they actually have checks on the highways   Yep. Yep. To see if anybody's illegal and everything like that. They go, what's your citizenship?  

[00:31:14] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. I I never had to worry about those checkpoints,   when I was driving through Texas, but then again, I was in a rig. So,   you know,   the Well I I was in a  

[00:31:25] Jesse Fries:

That was a while ago. Because with the rig, they might be checking the back. They were they were still there, though. They were still there, though. Oh, yeah. Okay.  

[00:31:32] Jamon Fries:

I yeah. The they were always on the northbound side of the on the northwest side of the road. You're never on the southbound.  

[00:31:38] Jesse Fries:

Oh, okay. If you're going back to Mexico, we don't care. You know? Yeah.  

[00:31:44] Jamon Fries:

Well, that that was that's that's something that's actually very interesting. I   I was watching a video about, our northern border.   Mhmm. This this guy, he he had he did a lot of interviewing on the southern border, but then he's like, nobody ever talks about the northern border. So he went up to north to upstate New York and was talking to some county sheriffs up there.   And   it was it was so funny. You know, the Canada   has always had a had had always had a law   that it was illegal to go from Canada into the US illegally.  

[00:32:19] Jesse Fries:

Uh-huh.  

[00:32:20] Jamon Fries:

And so they they could stop   anyone that that that they saw trying to come into the US.  

[00:32:26] Jesse Fries:

Oh, okay.  

[00:32:27] Jamon Fries:

But they got pissed off at our sheriffs because there is no reciprocal law. There is no law saying that you can't go from the US into Canada illegally.   So our sheriffs would be sitting there waiting waiting to see if anybody was gonna cross the border coming south and people crossing the border to go in north were just could they they just walk right past them.   And that was pissing a lot of the Canadian   Canadian police officers and stuff off.   And they were talking about, you know, we were like, well, he was like, well, why would people wanna leave the US to go up into Canada illegally?   And he's like, well, because you can come down here, you can buy a gun for $600, go up there and sell it for 6,000.  

Yeah. I mean,   you know, it it's there there's so many things that that you can buy down here cheaply   that you can sell up there for a good profit.  

[00:33:21] Jesse Fries:

Oh, yeah. Yeah. But not only that, they they also have   a more friendly immigrant situation than even that we do and everything like that. So it's, because they just want everybody and anybody up there right now.   Not sure how that's gonna go after Trudeau is kicked out,   but it's,  

[00:33:38] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. Yeah. It'll   that that hopefully, that'll change some stuff up there.   And I I haven't seen any good news come out of Canada in a long time.  

[00:33:51] Jesse Fries:

Yeah.   After COVID just kinda screwed everything up. It really made Yeah. Canada so   authoritarian.   It really did. You know? It's Yeah.   The stories that come out because before then, I haven't been to Canada since COVID. But   before then, it was just easygoing.   Everybody was just Oh, yeah.   Canadian Nice as everybody knows, you know, and it was just   Yep.   Yeah. But now it's like, the   I I guess the only people up in Canada that have always had an issue were the Quebecois, you know, the Quebec people,   the French speakers. You know? Apparently, people are apparently, English speakers are   leaving Quebec because they're sick and tired of being,   the minority and being and just being   they're treated horribly up there.  

They don't get promotions. They don't get this. The the the French just are, like, going.  

[00:34:48] Jamon Fries:

Oh, I know. That's been going on for a very, very long time now. I mean Totally. When I was when   I was driving over the road, I I went up to up to Quebec a couple of times.   Then first of all, the biggest problem that I had was I couldn't read any single freaking sign on the on any building or anything like that because they're all in French.  

[00:35:09] Jesse Fries:

Right.  

[00:35:10] Jamon Fries:

But I would as I was delivering loads up there, I'd be talking to people   that were working the docs, and they're like, yeah. No. I'm not   I I don't speak French,   which means that   I can't get promoted in this job at all. I will be a dock worker for the rest of my life. Nope. Nope. And I'm like,  

[00:35:33] Jesse Fries:

that's just so messed up. It is. It is.  

[00:35:38] Jamon Fries:

It is. When when your national language is English   Well, it's English and French, but yeah. Well, yeah. But, I mean, the entire country swears fealty   to the to the to the crown of England.   Anyways, they did for a very long time. I don't know if they if they stopped doing that. No. They they still do technically,  

[00:36:00] Jesse Fries:

but that's just to the crown, not to the parliament. Right. And the crown doesn't care what language you speak.   Right. And Canada,   technically, is an independent country, and they just have 2 national languages is what they have. Yeah. Because if they did do that, the would probably just say, okay. We're out of Canada.  

[00:36:19] Jamon Fries:

We're out. We're gonna be our own thing. More than likely, that's what they would do. You know, I I I hate saying this, but would that really be a problem for Canada?  

[00:36:28] Jesse Fries:

Well,   there's Montreal. It's a big it's a big city and everything like that. You know? It's, Yeah.   But  

[00:36:37] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It it wouldn't it wouldn't separate off into its own entity. I mean, those people would just leave Canada,  

[00:36:43] Jesse Fries:

And then new the English speakers would move in and, hey. No. No. No. No. Where would they go? No. See see, the problem is is that the Quebecois,   they speak a old French. They they they they they they they they're made fun of by the French. The French make fun of them for speaking this old ass language.  

[00:37:02] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. I I I didn't know that.  

[00:37:04] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. My my wife's cousin, her husband is French. She's from, Brittany.   Okay.   Yeah. He   he he goes, yeah. It's old French. It is very old French. They really don't know how to speak French.   It's just what it is. So yeah. No. The   it's   but but, you know, it's just like how, like, Mexico speaks a different Spanish,   than Spain and everything like that. You know? It's,   it's like the c's are pronounced differently and things like that. You know? It's just Yeah.  

[00:37:35] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But It it's just it it's like the Cajuns here in the US. You know? Know, you very many people can understand what the Cajuns are saying. Well, that's different. It has to that that  

[00:37:48] Jesse Fries:

that   that that that's a creole language. That that that French is a creole language. That's not you know, with that hard, heavy   accent that they have. Oh, doggy. Yeah. Yeah. Even English,  

[00:38:03] Jamon Fries:

she can't understand that.   No. That accent is something. It's quite entertaining. I like it. Yeah. Oh, it is. Absolutely. Yeah. I I love listening to people talking talking with that accent. I I always loved going through Louisiana.  

[00:38:18] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. Yeah.   It's like my wife. She never could understand southern   accents. I think she can now because, well, we live in Texas now, but it's Okay. Yeah. She could not understand them. One time we were driving through I think it was through Kentucky. It and Kentucky isn't even that far south.  

[00:38:35] Jamon Fries:

Oh, no.  

[00:38:36] Jesse Fries:

It's not. And we were driving through Kentucky, and we stopped at Wendy's   to, get a meal. And the guy just asked, okay. What do you want?   You know, just to me perfectly fine English.   Yeah. Just looked at him like good.   I had to translate. It was hilarious.  

[00:38:56] Jamon Fries:

Oh, yeah. That is that's hilarious.  

[00:39:04] Jesse Fries:

Let's see here.   What else we got?   The  

[00:39:25] Jesse Fries:

yeah.  

[00:39:26] Jamon Fries:

You wanna get into smart politics?  

[00:39:30] Jesse Fries:

I'm kinda politic ed out.   Yeah.   I kinda was too.   Let's see here.  

[00:39:44] Jamon Fries:

Oh, do you did did did you hear that,   you hear about Trump's lawsuit and how he won the $15,000,000   from,  

[00:39:53] Jesse Fries:

the same settled.   Stethopolis or something like that? Yeah. Yep.  

[00:40:00] Jamon Fries:

You know, thinking about it, it's kinda funny and might be a new way to make some turn money.  

[00:40:05] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. But everybody's pissed.  

[00:40:07] Jamon Fries:

Well, yeah. But you get sued in a little civil lawsuit for something minor.   The media   said it exaggerates it massively.   Oh, yeah. Yeah. See the media.   So he paid 5 he he was he was forced to pay 5,000,000 to the lady. He got 15,000,000.   He's up $10,000,000.  

[00:40:30] Jesse Fries:

That does work. You know, just just pay her. Just just directly go there. Yeah.   Yeah. But, actually, that let's go in towards his library,   that 15,000,000.   Mhmm.   And then 1,000,000 for,   lawyer fees.   Yeah. So the lawyers are making up pretty good.  

[00:40:48] Jamon Fries:

Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.  

[00:40:50] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. No. I that that's   yeah. No. 7 novelist really pushed it on that one. I I know he says he didn't because the judge says well, it because because the judge said, well, for all practical purposes,   it it was rape even though it's not per the,  

[00:41:07] Jamon Fries:

Yes. But but when he specifically said that he was found liable   for rape Yep. Complete absolute lie.  

[00:41:17] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. Yeah.   You you you can hold him liable for that one. That's what I would say. Yeah. But If I if I if I understand correctly,  

[00:41:26] Jamon Fries:

they had   rape was even was even one of the things that they were considering,   but they didn't find him liable for rape. They found him lie they found him liable for for a sexual assault. Yep. Yep.   I mean, when so the fact that rape was included in there, but they said no, it wasn't he didn't rape her.   For then, Stephanopoulos or whatever his name was, I think it was Stephanopoulos Yeah. To to say   he was found liable for rape. They   explicitly  

[00:41:57] Jesse Fries:

said he's not liable for that. Right. But the judge in her  

[00:42:01] Jamon Fries:

in her Yeah. What she said, she said for practical purposes. So yeah. Matter. It doesn't really matter what the judge says in that matter. It's No. It really doesn't. It's a nothing lawsuit.  

[00:42:12] Jesse Fries:

Yes. Yes. It is. It really is. It's,   yeah, that was, that's a crazy situation.   Let's see here. And then,   Georgia, the appeals court stripped, the DA   from   Trump's case and all the other people with him   on the election interference case.   Yeah. So yeah. Because she was having an affair   or, yeah, having an affair or a relationship, maybe not a affair,   relationship,   with the prosecutor,   that   was on the same case, and so it caused all these issues. I don't know timing or anything like that. But, yeah, it made things kinda hinky.   And so she'll probably appeal that to the Supreme Court in Georgia.  



[00:42:57] Jamon Fries:

But, most likely.  

[00:42:58] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. Who knows what this is gonna do, though? The case is on hold for us. Right? I've I've never really understood what the big deal about her sleeping with the prosecutor  

[00:43:07] Jamon Fries:

was. I mean, it it's it's yes. Maybe he became the prosecutor of that case because he was sleeping with her.  

[00:43:16] Jesse Fries:

Right. But how does that actually affect the case? It was also something about   money used on a trip and stuff like that, if I remember correctly.   The it was a little bit more How does how does that affect the case itself? I mean Firstly, I don't know. We you know, to me, the more Yeah. The more, sinister stuff is that she was in talks with the j six committee and everything like that. Yeah. Yeah. And they were teaming up   trying to figure things or at least that's how it seemed. The the the the the collude the the apparent collusion between different aspects of the government  

[00:43:52] Jamon Fries:

that were colluding that were seemingly   colluding to put Trump in jail. I mean,  

[00:43:58] Jesse Fries:

that that seems to to be a lot more important than the fact that she slipped with the guy that she named the district, the the prosecuting attorney. Yeah. It's just sex. I I don't care about sex. You know? As long as it's 2 consenting adults, I really don't care. You know? It's a Yeah. You know? It's a Absolutely.   Let's see here.   Let's, do a little bit of   the show stuff. Here are the mindless meanderings. We are value for value   model, so please, help us out. Donate to our show. You can donate any amount.   You can send it through our PayPal if you go to our website,   minus meanderings.com   or just in the show notes and everything like that, you can click on that link there and you can help support us any dollar amount that you   want will help. Every little bit helps.  

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[00:45:28] Jamon Fries:

I I   ever since I learned a little bit of Spanish, I have always said that mom and dad were very very prophetic.  

[00:45:35] Jesse Fries:

Seriously?  

[00:45:37] Jamon Fries:

Damn.   That's hilarious. Yep.   Yep. Jaman. And considering   how large I am, you know, and and they were very dramatic.  

[00:45:48] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. I I was, like, I was watching this award show. I I it was talking about, like, you know, Spanish ham and everything like that. And then Yeah. I looked at the name, and it it it's it's Jamen. I'm, like, oh, Jamen.   And then they showed another one, a different brand, and it was Jamen. Yeah. I go,  

[00:46:05] Jesse Fries:

I'm on.  

[00:46:07] Jesse Fries:

Because where else does your name come from? I really don't know. Oh, yeah.  

[00:46:12] Jamon Fries:

I know.   The only other possibility that I can think of is that they want is that one of their thoughts was Jason,   but they're like, no. It's too common. Let's throw a different letter in instead of the s. Yeah. That's where we're in. That I have absolutely no idea. Yeah. That's where where the pronunciation for comes from is Jamen, Jason.   Yeah.   Yeah.  

[00:46:34] Jesse Fries:

That just cracked me up. I've been meaning to saying that for a long time. I just kept forgetting.   Yeah. That's how I that's always how I tell if people ask me how you pronounce my name, I always just say it's Jason with an m. Yep. That that makes perfect sense. That makes perfect sense. But, yeah, please help donate, spread the word about our podcast. We like to have fun. And, and if you help out and everything like that, that even makes the show better. So please help us out.  

[00:47:01] Jamon Fries:

Let's see here.   Let let's get into science a little bit. What is this about   the cannabis that you found?  

[00:47:09] Jesse Fries:

Oh, cannabis. Yeah. Yeah. There's been quite a few studies about cannabis.   And,   now that we can actually study it, because for the longest time, we couldn't study it. And so because of that, we never really knew what it was. And so it was it   was basically just myth and legend on what it could do and everything like that.   And so this article,   it was,   National Geographic,   5 Recent Scientific Findings That Changed What We Know About Cannabis.   And basically, what it is is that   so there's really 5 major things here. So the first one is pain relief. A lot of people say that pot is a pain relief. Right?   Mhmm. It's used for, like, cancer and everything like that, because it can reduce the pain and everything like that.  

The studies show that   it   it helps with pain relief   on the same things on the same pains that placebos can actually work on.   So it's not necessarily it's not like pain pain that   you you need to drug.   The the this is a pain that   placebos can actually help with. And so they're starting to see that pot is but it doesn't help with   actual, like,   pain that placebos can help with. It's still pain. It's still It's not gonna replace oxycodone  

[00:48:33] Jamon Fries:

or something like that. Morphine or anything like that. Yeah. Yeah. So it's basically it it's just your mental state that your mental state says this is supposed to relieve the pain, so it does. Yep. So it is completely a placebo effect.  

[00:48:48] Jesse Fries:

Well or maybe not   purely, but, you you know,   a good most most of it is, basically a placebo effect. They can't prove they can't prove that it's not placebo is what it is.   Okay.   So there's that.   Let's see here.   Cannabis. The second thing is that they   show that cannabis is highly addictive. You you can become addicted to it. A lot of times that's when people said, oh, you can't become addicted to pot. You can't you know, you can't.   And then it also can cause delusions   and paranoia.   I think we've always known about the paranoia, but witnessed them personally. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. I think we've always known about the paranoia.   That's always been in the mythos of pot and everything like that. Yeah.  

Delusions,   that's never really been there, but, yeah, it can cause delusions. It is a psychotropic   drug, so it's not really,   too much of a surprise there.   Mhmm. And then, do you remember the next thing is, do you remember, like, when   Colorado was first starting and everything like that with their,   legalizing pot and everything like that? There's a thing called scromatine.   Do you remember scromatine? I've heard I've heard of it. I don't remember what it was. Basically, it's screaming and vomiting at the same time, and people would be showing up people would be showing up at the ER,   with this.  

And, is it the the that that was just the term that they had because they didn't understand what was going on at the time. Yeah. But, apparently, the actual name of it is cannabinoid,   hyper   hypermesis   syndrome,   which is a it causes,   nausea,   vomiting,   and severe abdominal pain.   And, apparently, this affects 2,750,000   Americans a year.   Oh. So that is quite a large number of, the pot smoking community if,  

[00:50:43] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. It is.  

[00:50:45] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. Yeah. So and a lot of that is due to just the high levels of THC in this, today's pot and everything like that. Okay.   Okay.   Let's see. Another thing they found out is that weed,   pot may increase heart attacks by 25%.  

[00:51:01] Jamon Fries:

That sounds surprising.  

[00:51:02] Jesse Fries:

And strokes by 42%.   That's really not surprising. Yeah. Because apparently, it changes the arterial blood flow,   in your body, and so which can cause Yeah. Well, I mean, that that's  

[00:51:15] Jamon Fries:

yeah. It it has to affect the blood flow because, I mean, that's   blood flow basically controls everything. Yep. Yep. Yep. So if if you're if you're taking something that's going to impair anything, it's gonna affect the bed the blood flow.  

[00:51:30] Jesse Fries:

Yep.   Yep.   And then the last one is that, apparently, there's this mythos   that there   are 2 strains of weed. Okay. Two types of weed.   Indica,   oh, and sativa.   So the indica,   they say that indica helps you relax and can bring a   can bring sleep on. Basically, help you fall asleep and everything like that. And then sativa helps you be creative   is, what they say.   But the truth is is there's little to no difference, genetically or chemically, between the 2. Yeah.   There are slight   slight differences,   but, they're basically the same. Yeah.  

[00:52:12] Jamon Fries:

Well, you know, I mean, that   makes sense considering that most artistic people that I know have always been kinda chill and relaxed and zoned out   when they're not doing art when they're not doing something artistic.  

[00:52:25] Jesse Fries:

Thing. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And the part of the delusions and everything like that, the the psychotropic   nature of it,   can actually   help create,   art and everything like that.  

[00:52:38] Jamon Fries:

Yeah.   Yeah. But, yeah, that that that's, that's It makes you it makes you see things to different ways. So, I mean, it does and it obviously is obviously, it's gonna play into an artistic mode for some people.  

[00:52:50] Jesse Fries:

Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So I   found that a bit interesting. The the whole weed thing, you know, it's, it's fascinating to me. I don't smoke or anything like that. Never have. Yeah.   But I I I've always been   because it is   it's one of those things where it's like we don't know anything about it, and everybody thinks that we do. But these are just potheads that you're trying to get information from. It's just never a none that gets potheads. They're great people, but it's just Yeah.   What they know is, like, I know that in some areas, pot is considered, like, appetite suppressant,   and then some it's known as,   appetite inducer,   you know. So it's, like,   different countries have different things that   pot supposedly does to you, but it's just seems to be more of a placebo effect on all of on so many different Well, I mean I mean,  

[00:53:43] Jamon Fries:

it's funny. I was talking to one person and, you know, just now that now that you said that, I can kind of say, well, it actually does both.   Uh-huh. It's an appetite suppressor and an amphetiter   and and   amphetite enhancer.   He never wanted big meals, but he had to snack all the freaking time.  

[00:54:03] Jesse Fries:

Who is this?  

[00:54:05] Jamon Fries:

The guy that I knew out in Manhattan, one of the guys that I lived with for a while.  

[00:54:09] Jesse Fries:

Oh, okay. Okay.  

[00:54:12] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. He I mean, he   he he would never sit down to an actual meal. He just from time, he he'd he'd smoke pot and then he'd just start snacking.   And then he'd smoke I mean, he was always smoking pot. So, you know, that blew me why he never said that for a big meal because he was small with   snacking. But, I mean, even even on days where he didn't smoke pot, he never had a large appetite.  

[00:54:36] Jesse Fries:

Okay.  

[00:54:38] Jamon Fries:

That is weird. But he was all but when he was smoking pot, he was always   just snacking on on little things.  

[00:54:45] Jesse Fries:

So, like,   not while not smoking, it suppress his appetite. But while smoking, it induced his appetite.  

[00:54:54] Jamon Fries:

Is that kinda what you're saying? It makes it it it makes it made him it made him get the munchies.   Uh-huh. And so he would he would always he would always snack on little things.   But then when he wasn't when he wasn't smoking, he wouldn't get the munchies, but he also never had a big appetite.   He he would always just eat small little tiny meals.  

[00:55:14] Jesse Fries:

Interesting.   That's really interesting.  

[00:55:18] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. It's a weird thing. That's just him personally, but, you know,   as any as any drug, it affects different people in different ways. So Uh-huh. You know?   Yeah. That that was just something that I noticed with him, and I've just and just now I'm like,   that kinda makes sense.  

[00:55:36] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. Yeah. It really does. It really does.   Let's see  

[00:55:41] Jamon Fries:

let's see here. Let's go Talking about drugs, what what's this about,   drinking alcohol?  

[00:55:48] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. Apparently, if you have a nut allergy,   drinking alcohol   can make a nut allergy deadlier   is what this study shows. So, basically, if you're, like, eating peanuts,   while drinking beer, if you have a slight nut allergy, it can actually increase the nut allergy to where it'd be. So it might cause anaphylaxis.   Oh, wow. Yeah. Yeah. So uh-huh.  

[00:56:15] Jamon Fries:

Do they know why alcohol has that effect? And is it just some alcohols, or is it any alcohol in general?  

[00:56:21] Jesse Fries:

It's just generally any alcohol.   Okay. How it is. Let's see here.   Yeah. And then also, this really goes into, like, you know, those beers that actually have   nuts in them.  

[00:56:36] Jamon Fries:

Yeah.  

[00:56:37] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. Yeah. I I   I was up in went over   to, Windsor, Canada one day with a friend of mine,   and we went to a a brewery, and it had a peanut one. And I go, oh, okay. I have that. Holy hell. My throat just the first sip, I could   feel my throat   slowly closing, and I'm like and that was just one little sip. I go, here. Have him a beer. My friend turns there. I was like,   no. No. It's,   but then what to me have a nut allergy?   A very slight one. A very slight one. I I eat peanut butter and all this and eat peanuts. I eat peanut M and M's and whatnot. It's just very slight. I just get it itching and everything like that. It's just these   highly purified   or pureed   nuts and everything like that. It's   like one time I went to, we were at this kid thing up in Detroit,   and the only they had coffee there. And so we I got a coffee. I got a latte.  

They only use nut milk or nut slurries as I like to call them. Oh, god.   And and I drink it, and all of a sudden my throat just starts closing up.   I can eat every nut on the planet, but it's just this highly purified   slurries and whatnot,   that I think maybe get into my skin faster or something like that.   And so it yeah. It gets into the bloodstream faster, and so it's causing issues. But, yeah, it's  

[00:58:04] Jamon Fries:

Okay.  

[00:58:05] Jesse Fries:

Uh-huh. It's kinda crazy.  

[00:58:08] Jamon Fries:

Or it could be, maybe it's because the in order to thicken them a little bit, they have to put more nut powder in. So it it there's a lot more nuts in it than just eating a peanut butter or something like that. Who knows?  

[00:58:22] Jesse Fries:

Maybe so. I I   doubt that, but, you know, I I don't know I don't know why or anything like that. It's funny because I can eat peanut butter. Think of. Yeah. It's like it's funny. I can eat peanut butter and everything like that. No problem. It's just Yeah. These these nuts slurries or these peanut or walnut well, actually, not I don't know what nuts exactly. I'm sure there's some that I'm not allergic to, but it's like, I just stay away from  

[00:58:44] Jamon Fries:

from anything. Makes sense. Makes sense. Yeah. It's like it's like the older brother with strawberries.  

[00:58:49] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. Yeah. I I I think,   I think pecans might be fine, but I don't know. Or pecans. However you wanna pronounce that word.  

[00:58:57] Jamon Fries:

I've always pronounced it pecans.  

[00:58:59] Jesse Fries:

Well, I've lived too many places around the United States, so every place says it differently. So I don't know what I'm supposed to say here in Texas.  

[00:59:10] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. I've I've always, you know, I I the only   segue that I ever eat pecans is pecan pie.   But   I have never anywhere heard it pronounced pecan pie.  

[00:59:23] Jesse Fries:

I have. I have. I've heard it called pecan. Yeah. I have. So it's   a pecan pecan,   pecan   pecan.   Yeah. It's there's so many different ways. It's just a different stress and a different yeah. It's all craziness on that. Yeah. But, yeah, I thought that was crazy too. So it kinda explains, though, why I had such a issue in Canada,   on that one day, fateful day that I had to get a different   that's all it was. I didn't have to go to the hospital or anything. I just go, yep. No. That's not gonna work. Then I move on with my lab. Yep.  

[01:00:02] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. You know, all all these experiments and these tests and stuff that we're talking about that, brings to mind. There's a,   company that is started that is trying to introduce AI into doing scientific experiments  

[01:00:15] Jesse Fries:

Uh-huh.  

[01:00:17] Jamon Fries:

Rather than what   they basically want to replace the lab tech almost. Okay.   Right now, it's almost impossible   to   not use lab techs when you're doing testing and stuff like that. And I mean, we're we're talking just the simple stuff like the, you know, taking taking,   2 milliliters of this and putting it into another container,   doing this thousands of times just to run one test. Uh-huh.   Well, you've never been able to do that with, with the computers because   any little change that was needed, they'd have to go in and write write an entirely new programming code for it Oh, okay. For the machines.   Right. And so so this guy is like, well, why don't we just try to do this with the AI?  

And so they they've they've put putting sensors and stuff on it so that it can see if if the if something is crystallized   or or not because, you know, that was something that the lab tech was always watching for, which the machine would never be able to do. Mhmm. And so now so now they've basically   if it all works out, I don't think they've got the finished product out yet. But if it all works out,   then you won't have to have the lab tech spending 10   hours just moving one little thing from into 1 from 1 tube to another.   Instead, you'll be able to have the AI do it in like 5 minutes. Okay. That's pretty cool. That's pretty cool. Yeah. So that's that's if if it works out, that should improve the, testing capabilities of almost every lab   immensely. It'll also   weed out a lot of potential,   cross contamination   Right. Because the the AI with their scanners can can   can identify   a a much smaller amount of contamination   than the human eye can can figure out. So   that No. Yeah. Should make it set the testing as a lot more reliable as well.  



[01:02:14] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. No. To me, AI is a great tool, and it can really help.   If you know how to use it, it can really make your life easier. And so then you can focus on   other more important things. So I I really think if we can get it just right, it could really lead to an explosion   of, knowledge,   for humanity. Absolutely. Absolutely.   Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's quite fascinating what the AI can do.  

[01:02:40] Jamon Fries:

Yep. And what then another   aspect of AI is that   unlike the human brain, which, you know, we tend to   hyperfocus   on something   Mhmm. If the AI has multiple sources of information, it it will very quickly combine all of those sources of information   to find something new. Whereas with us, we'd   we've hyper focused on one thing and then we hyper focused on something else, but our mind doesn't always necessarily   put the 2 together even though the 2 would work very well together. Yep. Yep.   Yeah. So that would be pretty cool. That's another   yeah.  



[01:03:17] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. And then another cool thing is that it looks like, scientists are thinking that we're getting, like, only to be getting really close to actually having, like, a space elevator.   So Oh, nice. Sweet. Yeah. Yeah. They they they the whole trick has been to come up with something that,   a material that's, like, 50 times stronger than steel.   Yeah. Because because you need that kind of strength,   to actually have a space elevator.   Right. So they they think they've come up with it.   It's just carbon nanotubes   or graphene   nanotubes.  

Mhmm. And they figured that that can actually   work out.   So, yeah, they're thinking that it could become a reality in just a few years, like an actual space elevator.   Yeah. Damn.   Yeah. Isn't that cool?  

[01:04:07] Jamon Fries:

Oh, absolutely. Just imagine how much that would change the world.  

[01:04:11] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. It would completely change the world.   We can get to space for cheap. We could get everything, anything we want up into the atmosphere for cheap.  

[01:04:21] Jamon Fries:

Yes. And and the other but the other the other huge benefit for that and, you know, at first, it'll only be for people with money. Right. Because you don't have to physically escape earth's gravity,   you don't have to you don't have to be 100%   physically fit   in order to go into space with a space elevator.  

[01:04:40] Jesse Fries:

Yep. That's true. That is true. I never, actually thought about that. But, yeah, that that makes sense. That makes sense. So that would so that would open up this that would open up space to a lot more scientific minds  

[01:04:50] Jamon Fries:

that can go up there now. Mhmm. There'd be a lot more I mean, plus, you know, eventually,   what what I've always said   thought is that if we wanna get into space and if we wanna become a space faring world,   the first thing we need to do is be able to build  

[01:05:06] Jesse Fries:

ships in space. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Completely. You you really have to.   Other way because how else would you build interstellar ships or anything like that? It's just not a  

[01:05:17] Jamon Fries:

feasibility. When   when you're building for   escaping earth's gravity,   you can't possibly be considering   interstellar   travel at the same time. It's just not possible. Well, really even interplanetary.  

[01:05:30] Jesse Fries:

If you if you want like a decent ship beyond just survival,   You you know, it's like   the you need massive ships that rotate and everything like that to get gravity and things like that. Yeah.   If you wanna do a ride mention  

[01:05:45] Jamon Fries:

plus not to mention our rocket   technology would have to improve at least by 5 times Yep. To set you'd have enough power just to lift them up into space.   Mhmm.   Whereas if if we lift it up piece by piece through an elevator,   there ain't no limit to where we can go anymore.  

[01:06:02] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. Yeah. It'd be pretty sweet, wouldn't it?   It would be. Absolutely. Yeah. Just a few years. That's just craziness. So it's That is what that is.  

[01:06:11] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. I I I knew that I knew there was potential there. I knew that the problem that we were facing was the the strengths of the the cable to get up there. We've pretty much figured out everything else already. Yep. But,   I didn't think I'd see it in my life  

[01:06:28] Jesse Fries:

time. Yeah. No. I I didn't think so either. But this article says that, it's actually possible. So that would be pretty sweet.   That'd be freaking awesome. That would be,   living in the future, Damon. Living in the future. Absolutely. Absolutely.  

[01:06:45] Jamon Fries:

Now if only we can get flying cars.  

[01:06:50] Jesse Fries:

See,   I just don't know if that's  

[01:06:54] Jamon Fries:

it sounds good at everything like that, but, Well, you know, I I'm just thinking from my fight from my childhood, that's what the future was. It's like There is that. There is that. You know? It's it's just  

[01:07:06] Jesse Fries:

yeah. I just don't trust people. I'm not only that.   Yeah. I can't drive them up. Yeah. It's like, and cars can stop quickly.   Prieds in flying cars cannot stop quickly. You know? It's just not No. They cannot. No. Yeah. No. Just the amount of, energy required to actually keep it in the air and   going forward.   That's a lot of energy. You know, that's, Oh, yeah. Yeah.  

[01:07:29] Jamon Fries:

And it would take 10 times more energy to to stop quickly.  

[01:07:33] Jesse Fries:

Yeah.   Yep. Yep.   So what's the spacecraft attempts closest ever approach to the sun?  

[01:07:43] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. They've, they've they've they launched a,   a,   satellite a long time ago Uh-huh.   To to go to the sun, and it's gonna go   it's gonna   go, like, within   the the first outer layers of the sun.  

[01:08:01] Jesse Fries:

Oh, cool.  

[01:08:02] Jamon Fries:

It's supposed that they they're hoping that it'll survive through.   Mhmm. It it'll be about 7 or 8 days now from before they'll hear back from it is from the what the article I read said.   So they've actually lost communication with it now because it's in because it's entered into the range of the where the radiation is just way too strong.   But yeah. So they're they're hoping that with that, they can kind of figure out how the sun works and   maybe be able to utilize that in, nuclear fusion,  

[01:08:35] Jesse Fries:

technology. So That'd be nice. That'd be nice.   Yeah. Fusion is the way to go if you can do it. It really is. Yeah.  

[01:08:43] Jamon Fries:

That's  

[01:08:45] Jesse Fries:

really cool.  

[01:08:46] Jamon Fries:

From what some people have said, one nuclear fusion plant could almost power half of the US.   Right. Right. Right. Right. With the amount of energy that it can put out, I mean Oh, yeah. Well, you know,   considering that,   can you know, can   saw an article not too long ago talking about energy.   They're they're wanting to put up some more windmills here in Kansas   to give Missouri a little bit of a boost of electricity.  

[01:09:15] Jesse Fries:

Oh, Jesus.  

[01:09:18] Jamon Fries:

At at least this time, it's only going to new to to meet to Missouri   instead of the last one that they that they did,   they were they they they were sending the electricity   all the way to the East Coast   Holy moly. From windmills here in Kansas.  

[01:09:35] Jesse Fries:

Jesus. Can you produce an update? They   no.   They built it,  

[01:09:41] Jamon Fries:

and in the East Coast, they claim that it's green energy.   Right. But every power plant in between   the farm here in Kansas   and the East Coast has to input more energy to make up for what's been lost. Well, right. Yeah.   By the time it gets there, maybe   11000th  

[01:10:01] Jesse Fries:

of the energy is actually from the windmills here in Kansas. Yeah. Because there's loss in transmission. So it's Yeah. Yeah. Oh, that's crazy.  

[01:10:11] Jesse Fries:

But it's green energy. Yeah. It's green energy.   Yeah.  

[01:10:16] Jamon Fries:

Even though all the way along, coal plants and stuff like that are giving it more power.  

[01:10:21] Jesse Fries:

Let's just go nuclear until we figure out fusion. Come on. Let's do it. Absolutely. Yes. Get those baby nukes going, and then Yeah. When when we need to. I mean,  

[01:10:31] Jamon Fries:

energy would be so much cheaper if we went nuclear.   Yep. Yep. Yep. I mean, a coal power plant   is   way more expensive than a nuclear power plant would ever be. Yep. Wind power plants are even more expensive.   Solar power plants are   I mean, I I I don't know for no. Don't know for sure, but I know solar energy is expensive.  

[01:10:55] Jesse Fries:

Right. And the and, like, wind and solar, they do not have a long shelf life. The the the No. No doubt. Those facilities don't last very long.   Yeah. A nuke can last   a lot longer, at least twice as long, I figure, if not more.  

[01:11:10] Jamon Fries:

So more. Yeah. Yeah. So   yeah. All you need is a little bit of fuel, and I mean, those those power plants still run for   50 to a 100 years.  

[01:11:20] Jesse Fries:

Yep. Yeah. Yeah. And then one  

[01:11:23] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. I don't know exact science on that one, but yeah. It's quite a lot longer than,   just because wind turbines,  

[01:11:31] Jamon Fries:

they get rusted and everything like that. It's it's pretty bad. So it's, well, not only that, but they also, you know, if you build them in the oceans, they also kill the whales.  

[01:11:41] Jesse Fries:

And they kill birds like nobody's business.   Yeah. They really do. And then apparently, the noise that you  

[01:11:49] Jamon Fries:

Uh-huh.  

[01:11:49] Jesse Fries:

The the noise. Yeah. Yeah. It can cause, like, you'd go insane and things like that. Cows hate Yeah. Wind turbines. They hate them. Oh, yeah. Yeah.  

[01:11:58] Jamon Fries:

Well, they they, you know, there there's been a lot of,   a lot of whale carcasses off of the coasts   of areas that have windmills out in the ocean now. Uh-huh. Yep.   And there there was some people that went out there to figure out just what was going on.   And, you know, up above the ocean, they don't hear anything.   Right. So they lowered some mics down into the water, and oh my god.   The vibrations that those windmills put out was so   insane. It's it's it's literally killing all of the wheels in that area. Well, and partly any other manual that uses sonar technology. That's,  

[01:12:36] Jesse Fries:

yeah. Wow. That is not cool at all.  

[01:12:39] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. No.  

[01:12:42] Jesse Fries:

Well,   let's end this on a happy note. So apparently,   Penn State,   played SMU.   What is SM? What is SMU? I don't even know what is that Southern Missouri. What what is SMU?   What school is that?   No.   I know that it's a college playoff, and it says Penn State, but I don't know exactly what SMU is.   Southern Methodist University. It's Okay. Southern Methodist University. Texas.   Dallas? Oh, okay. Okay.   Go SMU. I think they lost it. That's what that's what that's what pulls up when I pull when I typed in m SMU. Yeah. I don't doubt it. I don't doubt it. Yep.   Maybe it was there's probably more than one. Who knows? I don't know. But, anyways, SMU. So at the football game,   college playoff. Right?  

Penn State   put   the SMU band   as high up at the back of the stadium as they possibly   can. If you look at the picture, it is just hilarious. It's it's just a small little group of a band that probably can't even be heard on the field.   It's like, good one, Penn State.   Yeah.   It's, like, way up there. It's,   it is truly hilarious.   But, yeah, that that that's pretty much it. So   thank you for joining us for episode number 17 of the Mindless Meandering podcast.   Everybody have a Merry Christmas, happy Hanukkah, and, happy Kwanzaa too.   So whatever you do, celebrate, have fun with that,   and enjoy the new year. We will see you on the 31st, actually. We will be coming to you probably on the 31st   or the first. One of those days. I can't remember. Anyways, I'm Jesse Fries.  



[01:14:41] Jamon Fries:

And I'm Jamin Fries.  

[01:14:43] Jesse Fries:

And you guys have a great day.