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A live recoded roaming conversation between brothers covering Canada, Trump, AI and much much more.

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- Jesse Fries

- Jamon Fries

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(00:00:21) Introduction and Current Events

(00:02:16) Harvard's Policy Changes and Trump's Influence

(00:08:02) Immigration and Legal System Critiques

(00:16:17) Judicial System Inequities

(00:24:54) Compromise in Politics

(00:33:07) Trump's Executive Orders and International Relations

(00:42:03) Canada's Political Climate

(00:50:48) European Energy Issues

(01:00:14) Violence and Crime in Canada

(01:08:08) Russia's Motivations in Ukraine

(01:17:38) Cultural Differences and Perceptions

(01:25:25) Business and Economic Updates

(01:36:34) Scientific Innovations and Environmental Solutions

(01:45:24) AI in Education and Its Challenges

(01:47:14) Fun Stories and Closing Remarks

[00:00:21] Jesse Fries:

Good morning, everybody. It is Wednesday,   April 30, and we are live with episode 35   of the mindless meanderings.   I'm Jesse Fries, and I'm celebrating the eightieth anniversary of Hitler blowing his own freaking brains out.  

[00:00:37] Jamon Fries:

And I'm Jamin Fries, and I'm really wishing I had a judge, like, the judge that   took a person that was on trial for   abuse   and let him out of the courtroom without   out outside of custody   because I just happened to be in the area. Oh,   yeah. Yeah. I wish I had a judge like that. If I ever if I ever end up in front of a judge, that's the judge I want.  

[00:01:06] Jesse Fries:

Well, she was arrested, though. So, you know Yeah. I know she was.  

[00:01:12] Jamon Fries:

But, you know, a judge that'll just let somebody that's on trial just walk out of the building, not in police custody. I mean, hey, you know, if if I ever do something wrong, that's the judge I want. Right. I I I wonder if he was actually remanded or not or if he if he was out on bond anyways on that one. But yeah. So Yeah. I have no idea.  

[00:01:32] Jesse Fries:

No clue. Yeah. That's a crazy story. That is completely   crazy. It's   you know, there's there's all this back and forth about,  

[00:01:40] Jamon Fries:

whether or not ICE should have arrested her or the DOJ or what. I mean, you know? Yeah. It seems to be pretty typical.  

[00:01:48] Jesse Fries:

Judges have been arrested for it before.   So it's not   that uncommon.   Yep.   Yeah. That's a crazy story.  

[00:02:01] Jamon Fries:

Absolutely is.   You know, there's a lot of craziness that goes on.  

[00:02:06] Jesse Fries:

There is. There is. There is a lot of craziness out there.  

[00:02:12] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. Where to begin, Jamie? Where to begin?   Well, I mean, the the I the the story that I came across that I found the most amusing   was   Harvard capitulating   yet saying they're not?   So what now? I haven't heard that they capitulated   at all. So They have pledged   so I guess back in June,   they did an internal,   survey   to find out,   you know, how antisemitism   and anti Muslim   stuff was happening on was going in the campus.   Right.   Well, they just now have said, you know, this has nothing to do with Trump,   but   this this study that we put out did show us that we have a lot of antisemitism.   So we're gonna be changing our some of our hiring policies and some of this, but it has nothing to do with Trump.  



[00:03:12] Jesse Fries:

Wow.   That is hilarious.   That   we're still standing up for what we want. We're we're we're still fighting. We're still suing.   You know? But then Trump's gonna give them back this that money anyways because of this decision anyways because that's all he cares about. Some people are some people are saying that that Trump is gonna is probably gonna say you're not doing enough  

[00:03:35] Jamon Fries:

because it's just some minor changes and stuff like that. But, you know, I I can't imagine Harvard having changed it without Trump's pressure on it all.  

[00:03:47] Jesse Fries:

No.   Generally, when any,   group   capitulates a little bit, Trump usually goes, okay. You can have what you want. Yeah. He's done this to Mexico. He's done this to everybody.   Yep.   So   I I I think he if,  

[00:04:04] Jamon Fries:

yeah, with that, I could see Trump just saying, okay. You can have your money back. I I kinda I kinda chalked this up in the the win for Trump column.   Yeah. I I think that he's won this one.  

[00:04:16] Jesse Fries:

Well, yeah. You know, it's the the thing these people actually   hang their flags on and everything like that is just   it's like the Yeah.   It's like the   MS thirteen guy in El Salvador. You know? It's this it's that. You know? It's like   I I don't know why they defend some stupid ass shit. I really don't. You know that. There there there's much, much bigger battles that they should stand to the death on. No. Completely.  

[00:04:44] Jamon Fries:

Shit makes no sense.  

[00:04:46] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. Yeah. It's but then, I guess, you need to pick one so that you can   have that as your   attack against the whole thing. You know? Yeah. It's like Yeah. You have to make it a personalized story   to actually put it out there instead of just saying, oh, all these people that were just, shipped out, they need due process. You know? Because that's the whole thing is they want people to have due process.   Right.   So I think they just pick what it's a stupid thing because he's a gang member. You know, everybody says he's not or the Democrats say he's not, but everybody knows he is. Yeah.  

[00:05:20] Jamon Fries:

It just seems like he is. So, you know, it's I I was I was watching some clips from Gutfeld.   And   one thing that Tyrus said just really hit me is, you know, that just makes a hell of a lot of sense. Uh-huh.   And that is we can give them their due process.   But do they have to be in The US while they're waiting for their court date?  

[00:05:46] Jesse Fries:

Well, that's different.   Right now,   we let them in. Yeah. Yeah. Actually, they would need to.   Do they? Because because it's a it's to determine if they're gonna be deported or not.   So if we kick them out of the country, that's deportation just right there.  

[00:06:04] Jamon Fries:

Okay.   Okay.   So Yeah. His his comment was more for the immigration aspect,   for them coming to the for a seeking asylum and stuff like that, where he was saying, you know, we're if   if they're coming here, we just send them back   with it gives them a court date that's, like, twelve years from now,   which is what happens now anyways.  

[00:06:27] Jesse Fries:

Right. Right. Yeah. No. It's   yeah. That's the process anyways right now that you actually have to file,   like, in the country that you're from. You have to go to   Yeah. Like, the embassy or whatnot.   Mhmm. That that that's the process anyways. So, yeah, that's already the process. So I I'm not sure. Yeah. But nobody does the process.  

[00:06:48] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. They do. They they come here well, some do. But I mean, the the the ones that that just want to be here illegally, they come here, then they seek asylum,   and we   send them to a home somewhere within The United States, and they sit and wait for twelve years for their trial.  

[00:07:08] Jesse Fries:

Well, while they work They're court here.   Because, technically, they're given I think, Jerry,   they're given   the ability to work if it's for asylum. Yeah. So it's like Yeah. Yeah. I   yeah. I don't know. No clue. No clue. But I think that's the system anyways. So whether or not it's actually done or not,  

[00:07:27] Jamon Fries:

that's   Well, yeah. I don't know the question.   I I saw the political cartoon   that was, two people in a,   border border patrol vehicle.   Uh-huh.   And one guy is like, so   what did we do? How did we make it so that we can effectively stop them from coming into the country now?   The other guys just   we started enforcing our law?  

[00:07:53] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. Yeah. Plain and simple. That that that's all it was. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Biden, he decided not to enforce the law. He decided to let everybody in.   So   yeah. No. It's see, this is the   that's the one messed up thing that I've always thought is   that somehow our presidents have this belief   that they don't have to enforce laws.   Yeah. They can pick and choose which laws to enforce. ICC have always hated this. I don't care what president is in there or not. Congress passes a law. It's the law. Yes. A president signed it. That means every president after him has to go by what that president signed. Yes. And so it has to be enforced. If you don't like the law, get rid of it. Have congress pass a law to get rid of that law. Yes. Absolutely.  

[00:08:40] Jamon Fries:

Play it simple. There there shouldn't be none of this. Oh, yeah. That that's overburdensome.  

[00:08:45] Jesse Fries:

So, I'm not gonna do that one. Or I'm not gonna do this one over here because it doesn't align with what I believe.   It's the law of the land for God's sakes, people. Yep.  

[00:08:54] Jamon Fries:

Well, I Of course. You know, another another   group of laws that   I've always felt very heavily about in that same manner   is all the gun laws.   You know, they they keep making new gun laws to restrict   gun access.   But if they actually enforce the laws that are on the books,   I mean, you know, you'd you wouldn't have so many problems.  

[00:09:19] Jesse Fries:

That's how it always is. It's like if you actually there there the laws are in place anyways.   So just do those. You know? Congress should only be worried   not about what's not being   enforced anyways. They should only worry about what isn't being   what isn't law yet that needs to change to make life better for American citizens.  

[00:09:42] Jamon Fries:

Yeah.   And yet at the same time, we're not and yet at the same time, we're not enforcing these laws.   Yep. We're enforcing stupid insane laws such as   spitting on the sidewalk.   Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Which dates back to when every almost where where at least half of the population was chewing tobacco. Yeah. And you don't wanna step in that crap. Oh, no. No. No. No.   No.  

[00:10:09] Jesse Fries:

That shit's nasty. Yeah. No. Regular spit is like, whatever. You know? It's like no. If there's a lot of it, yeah, it's gross. But, generally Yeah. Not a big deal. But, yeah, that tobacco spit.  

[00:10:20] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. That is nice. It is. So so there's laws that and those laws are in the books and and are still getting enforced in certain situations. You know? It's like, okay. We don't like this guy, but we can't get him for anything else. But, yes, he spat on the sidewalk.   Yeah. Yeah. It's it's like they use them when they wanna try to get a guy. Yes.  

[00:10:40] Jesse Fries:

But they won't enforce him otherwise. How about you just get rid of the law? Just just get rid of the law. Yeah. Rid of the law.   Absolutely.   This would also stop all the   over policing   and stopping   of minority groups.   Yes. It would. If you get rid of all these stupid ass small little laws that really don't even matter anymore. Yeah.  

[00:11:00] Jamon Fries:

The the laws that are only used for a reason of being able to stop someone to start talking to them. Yeah. Yeah. Or what we do. Or what we do.  

[00:11:11] Jesse Fries:

Every law   has,   end date.   Yeah.  

[00:11:16] Jamon Fries:

Say, like, ten years have to keep Like, you have to keep you have to  

[00:11:20] Jesse Fries:

keep voting the law in. Exactly. Especially, like, criminal laws.   Like like like like like, a civil rights laws, I I think those can last for forever.   Things like that. But, like, criminal law, you know, just it's   you you could even make it so, like, well, murder. Okay. This is murder. Yeah. You know, that's what I'm saying. You gotta you you don't have to you shouldn't have to revote into the legalized work. Right. Right. Right. But, like, small little piddly little laws, like, you can't ride your horse into the town on Sunday. Yes. Yeah. It's   things like that, which there's crazy ones like that out there. So, you know Yes. There are.  

Yeah. Just like a ten year period. You know? It's like, do we need this anymore? Or at least just a review. You know? Do we need this? Yeah. Yes. No. And then you move on with your life. Yeah. You know? It's a Yep. That would be nice. That would be nice. It really would be. Yes. Mhmm.  

[00:12:11] Jamon Fries:

Because, I mean, a lot of those laws, they don't really   hold any meaning today.  

[00:12:17] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. They really don't. They really don't.   And then some prosecutors like the this Moriarty,   I don't know why her name is Moriarty. It's like the perfect villain. I I you know, it's absolutely, she is. Yes.   So so is she she's in Hennepin County, which is the Twin Cities up in Minnesota for you people that don't know.   Basically,   so there was that guy. We talked about him where he was just gonna be left off with a diversion and have to pay back for,   like, keen $20,000   worth of Teslas and everything like that. Yeah. Right? So   he just,   he got off on diversion.  

But   a lady who did the exact same crime   but wasn't a government   official,   She only damaged about $7,000   worth. Both of these are first time offenses.   Right?   Okay. He gets diversion.  

[00:13:17] Jamon Fries:

She where is it? Where is it?  

[00:13:24] Jesse Fries:

She threw the book at this 19 year old woman,   with no criminal record. She's now facing felony charges   for keying a coworker's car causing $7,000   in damage.   Holy shit. While the other guy,   He had lots of cars. Yeah. He keyed, like, three, four cars   for $21,000   worth of damage,   and he's getting diversion. Both of them first time   offenses for both of  

[00:13:52] Jamon Fries:

them. One's getting the book thrown at her, and then this guy who's a government official  

[00:13:59] Jesse Fries:

gets diversion.  

[00:14:02] Jamon Fries:

What is diversion?  

[00:14:04] Jesse Fries:

Basically, it says diversion is where I'm not gonna charge you,   right now.   And if you follow   our agreement, in this case, like restitution,   so on and so forth,   then   I'm not gonna charge you.  

[00:14:22] Jamon Fries:

So it's it's kind of like parole where,   you know, you get to be free and you're out, you get to do your thing. But if you screw up again or if you don't do what Correct. If you don't follow through on what we what you told us you would do, you're going to go away. Correct. Correct. And Okay. With diversion, he won't be  

[00:14:39] Jesse Fries:

there won't be that charge on his sheet.   There won't be a a criminal case. He won't have to say that he killed a felony or anything like that.   Yeah. So she's willing to do give this 33 year old man who okay. So he's 33 years old. His,   his brain is fully formed   Yes. Because that's about 25 when it finally forms. You know what you're doing.   Yeah. And you're gonna give him a pass, but a 19 year old   whose brain is not fully formed, as we all know, because she's under 25,   is getting the book thrown at her. Yeah.  

[00:15:17] Jamon Fries:

Someone who,   by just looking at history, is very malleable.   A 19 year old can be convinced to do just about anything.  

[00:15:26] Jesse Fries:

Yes. They can. They can.  

[00:15:30] Jamon Fries:

And because someone convinced her to do this,   she's Social media probably or something. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. She's potentially gonna go to jail for with a felony charge   Correct. Versus   a fully grown adult who absolutely   knows better   Uh-huh. And is in government,   you know, which should make it even worse.   Uh-huh.   Exactly.  

[00:15:55] Jesse Fries:

No. No. Yeah. Yeah. No. Some ethics charges or, whatnot. Yeah. Complaint complaints have been filed and everything like that. It is completely ridiculous.   I I just don't understand it at all. This Yeah.   But but that's not the only reason why that Moriarty is actually in the news either. So Okay.   So, apparently,   she has decided   to because, you know, that's not enough. So she's decided that she wants to consider race   in plea deals.   So, basically, she's  

[00:16:33] Jamon Fries:

yep. Uh-huh. So in other words, she really wants to take the blindfold off of justice.  

[00:16:39] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. Yeah. Completely. Completely. Completely. Yeah. The the this is   to me, this is completely unconstitutional.   Oh, yeah. You you you can't base anything off of race. You can't do anything like that. That's not it's not constitutional to do that. Yeah. Kinda simple. The she she's trying to make Minnesota   she's trying to make it or at least the Twin Cities were Hennepin, is that Minneapolis or is that Saint Paul? I I can't I don't know. I believe.  

[00:17:08] Jamon Fries:

Not really  

[00:17:12] Jesse Fries:

sure.   All you know is that that wasn't the county we lived in. No. We were in Washington County up there. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I I can't remember what's right next to it, though.   The Saint Paul One. But yeah. So she's   she's   she's trying to make it like The UK. Because The UK now, they they they they get to, send white guys to jail more than they send   black people or,  

[00:17:36] Jamon Fries:

black people or whatever.  

[00:17:37] Jesse Fries:

More time than what than black people. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Or women, they get less time than men and so on and so forth. They yeah. Well, white men are just fucked over there.   So it's like,   it's kinda crazy. You know? It's I I don't this is completely unconstitutional. You can't do that. You can't treat one race different than another race.  

[00:17:55] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. No. No. There's just no freaking way I do Minneapolis, I think.  

[00:17:59] Jesse Fries:

Okay. Okay. Yeah. It just doesn't make any sense.  

[00:18:03] Jamon Fries:

I know it doesn't.  

[00:18:05] Jesse Fries:

Is she Moriarty. She's living up to her name. Yeah. Just say it. Just say it.   Yeah.   Let's see here.   What else do we get?   Well, I guess I got some Trump stuff just in general. There's a few things about Trump.  

[00:18:23] Jamon Fries:

Okay.  

[00:18:25] Jesse Fries:

Well, actually, let me go to this one first. This is   a there's this   controversy   right now   in I think it's in Indiana.   They wanna do something about they're they're talking about, like, you know, the three fifths a person that's in the constitution Right. For slaves and everything like that. Yeah.   It's talking about that, and there seems to be some discussion.   The headline for this story was that the Republicans   are defending   the three fifths, whatever, but I don't know. It does I   I I to me, I read the article, and it didn't seem like   the way the Democrats say it is that the compromise, the three fifths compromise in the constitution,   encouraged discrimination,   that still goes to this day.  

Well, that that really wasn't the purpose of the compromise at all, but this is what they say it is. And so it was like,   it was   and then the Republicans say that the three fifths compromise is not a pro discrimination compromise. It was a pro it was not a pro discrimination or slave driving compromise.   It was actually just the opposite. It was a compromise that   the North made with the South. Yeah. It   is Yes.   The the South didn't wanna recognize them at all. The North said we are recognizing them. No. No. No. No. No. That was not it at all, Jayme. It was the opposite. Wasn't it? It was it was complete opposite.   It was completely opposite. Didn't wanna recognize them? Yeah. The North did not wanna recognize slaves because this is for representation.  

The the North's port point of view was that   it they're property. They're not people. And so because they're   property, then they cannot count towards   your how many seats you have in congress   and electoral votes you have.  

[00:20:19] Jamon Fries:

Okay.  

[00:20:20] Jesse Fries:

And   the South, they wanted   one for one. They wanted all their slaves to be counted as a person, as a citizen   for the sake of representation   and everything like that, which would give them much more power   in the Congress.   Yeah. And when in picking a president.  

[00:20:41] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. It would have given them a very, very overriding power.  

[00:20:45] Jesse Fries:

Right. Basically, the entire country would have been run by the South. Oh, yeah. And and it basically was anyways because, well Yeah. The it it was three fifths. Even that, they gave them a huge boost in population. Yeah. They really did. Otherwise, there was no way they could have competed.   Yep. But I I   this is   they say it's pro, discriminatory and everything like that. Well,   yes and no. But   these people were slaves, and once they weren't slaves after, '65,   '18 '60 '5,   well, that went away. It wasn't three fifths anymore. They were one person Yeah. Because they were all free. So there were no slaves to be counted as three fifths.   Right.  

So to me, that's like, okay. You're going on about nothing   is how I view it. But the way I view that compromise   is that it was actually a compromise.   Everybody hated it. Everybody hated it.   Yeah. I think we could actually   not in, like like, it was a good thing or anything like that, but as in a way to compromise.   It would it's a good lesson in what we could do today   when we both hate   both sides hate   what is happening,   and they both hate the compromise. But we still vote through it. This is the art of compromise. This is not   we don't have this anymore in this country. Right. No. We don't.  



[00:22:12] Jamon Fries:

There's no compromise at all within the government.  

[00:22:15] Jesse Fries:

There isn't, left and right. It doesn't matter. There is no compromise.   It it's a endgame situation.   Winner takes all sort of bullshit.   You know, this mandate. I have a mandate. This mandate that. Everybody fucking says it. The liberal guy up in fucking Canada now said it too.   You know,   the guy that just became that was elected for the first time,   you know, by the Canadian people. He says, oh, I have a mandate. He's a minority government that he had to get the other parties to come in with. Where's the mandate? Yeah. Yeah.   You know, I it's   it's all this whole mandate, this how democracy has evolved into this sort of thing. If you it's just  

[00:22:56] Jamon Fries:

As far as I'm concerned, the only way that you should be able to claim that you have a mandate to do something   is if you got at least 75%   of the popular vote.   If 75%   of the people in the country voted on you voted for you to do this, I would say that's a mandate.  

[00:23:13] Jesse Fries:

I can see that. I would percent? No.   See, I would give it a different percentage. I'd give it the two thirds, not the 75. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Two thirds works too. Yeah. So 66%.   Exactly. Exactly. That's what I would give. You know? Because   yeah. Beyond that, it's not a mandate. Work with other person. It's not. Yeah. Work with them. You know? Because half the other country half the country hates you. How is it a mandate?  

[00:23:39] Jamon Fries:

How is that a mandate? Country doesn't vote for you. How is it a mandate?  

[00:23:43] Jesse Fries:

Exactly. And oh, okay. So it's by a   a percentage here or percentage there. You know, in polling,   that is called a margin of error.   It is. Yes. And it's well within the margin of error. So, you know, it's just   yeah. No. I I it's pure bullshit. I I hate this whole idea of mandates. I hate it from both sides. I always have. It's like, oh, I have a mandate. It's like,   no. You really don't, you jackass. No. No. Wow. I   I'm in a mood today. Apparently, I like to swear today.   I like the mood, though. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But it's it's one of those things that  

[00:24:21] Jamon Fries:

when it was a a family guys. It it grinds my gears. You know? It's a Yeah. It's just really annoying. I Oh, yeah. Yeah. Absolutely.  

[00:24:31] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. Compromise people. Just truly compromise.   Yep.   That's a way to do it. And if you compromise,   that means nobody's happy.   Yeah.   Is it isn't that what we're taught about compromising?   Is that nobody's actually happy? And that means it's a good compromise? That is unfortunately  

[00:24:48] Jamon Fries:

how the government should work. No one should be happy about the good decisions that the government makes. Right. Because it means that they're in the middle. Exactly. And, you know, whether or not that means that you have to, like,  

[00:25:00] Jesse Fries:

pass like,   have two things that okay. I hate this and you hate that.   Well, if we put that in there, how about  

[00:25:08] Jamon Fries:

they negate each other, you know, but we'll both do what we want. You know? It's a Well, I get something that I like. You get something that you like.   Neither of us is happy that the other one got what they wanted, but, you know, it's compromised. It's it's what you do. It's it's part of the deal.  

[00:25:25] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. Yeah. You know, you know, it's like, I want   to be able to own a nuclear missile.   You want universal health care. How about we compromise? I get the nuclear missile. You get universal health care.  

[00:25:41] Jamon Fries:

Compromise.   Yeah.   Yeah.   That that might be a little bit out there. I mean, you know, we we we we can't give them the   total control total,   you know, the health care thing. We we need to be able to peel it back a little bit. We need to definitely No. No. No. No. I want the total nuclear weapon. I'm willing to give up total universal health care.   See, this is the cover. See, now you're trying to make you're trying to change the whole situation there, Jamie, with well, maybe not the whole thing. No. You have to go all in or not. That that ball's in, Jimmy. Oh. Ball's in. Okay. Okay. You're fine.   It's just that in my mind, you know, that the universal health care may be worse than the nuke. So Well, see and then the other side would think the same thing of the other. You see? This is how it works. Yeah. Yeah. You see? Uh-huh.  



[00:26:34] Jesse Fries:

Okay.   Maybe not maybe not nuclear.   You you you know, Patriot missile. I'll I'll go with the Patriot missile. There you go. Yeah. Yeah. No. No. I have something even better. Uh-huh. I want an f 15 that I can fly.   Perfect. Sounds good. Sounds good. Because it is completely illegal  

[00:26:53] Jamon Fries:

for a   civilian   to own and fly a military plane No. I understand. Yeah. On above US above US territory.   That's why most of them live over in Hawaii, and they just fly out over the ocean and then landed in on the on the island.  

[00:27:11] Jesse Fries:

Uh-huh. Yep. Yep.   Perfect. Perfect. You know? You know? See, that's compromising.  

[00:27:18] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Nobody's happy.   And and you might need that that universal health care when I set off that.   Just possibly.  

[00:27:38] Jesse Fries:

Let's see here. What else do I got?   Oh, apparently,   governor Whitmer of   Michigan, she's been   once again, she appeared with Trump because she was in the White House. Remember? I I talked about she hid about behind her folder   and everything like that. Well, he went to Michigan to tout his hundred days, and she was right there with him.   She spoke.   Yeah. Wow. Damn.   I know. I I   it seems kinda crazy to me. It really does. It's,   yeah,   Michigan is a swing state, so maybe she thinks that she   it's a dangerous game, I think. But I think she's trying   to maybe show that she can work with both sides   for her run for presidency in '28. Yeah. You know?  

Yep.   It it it kinda makes sense, but it's also dangerous. You know? I think it would work for the general election.   Right. But for She won't go through primaries with it. Yeah. No. No. No. She'll be killed in primaries with it. Yeah. It's just   yeah. So it's a dangerous game she's played, but, you know, it's It really is. Yeah.   But, yeah, it's a bit different. It's a bit different. So she's apparently, she's sticking with it, though. That's a kind of a good sign. She didn't let all the criticism of last time, get her down. She looked uncomfortable even at this one, apparently.  

[00:29:05] Jamon Fries:

So not a surprise really. But, Yeah. No. Not not at all. Not at all.  

[00:29:10] Jesse Fries:

Well,   and then there's the   oh, there's one where,   so Trump or the White House, they decided to put up yard signs in the White House. Right? Yes. Yes.  

[00:29:25] Jamon Fries:

That showed all the arrests of all the gang members reported. They were right in the place where when the when the press is doing their their speaking, their monologue stuff. Uh-huh. Those are right in the background.   Yeah. It's hilarious.  

[00:29:41] Jesse Fries:

That's some good trolling right there.  

[00:29:43] Jamon Fries:

You know what I found interesting though is that they there are some and some news agencies that started blurring them out.   What now?   Yeah.   I I Wow. From what I've read, the the the at first, there were   comments that that they should blur them out on CNN and stuff like that.   But   I saw something earlier that said that said that some of them are actually starting to do it.   Wow.   And they're, like,   the   only   picture that the media   ever blurs out   is a juvenile that's been arrested. It is a juvenile on TV. Yep. Yep. You never blur out an adult.   No. Never. It never happens.  

Yep. Yep. But now they are.   That is crazy. That is crazy.  

[00:30:35] Jesse Fries:

Speaking of photos, though, so there's been this,   the pope's funeral. Right? Yep.   So everybody went to the pope's funeral. Right?  

[00:30:44] Jamon Fries:

Yep.  

[00:30:45] Jesse Fries:

And and and, apparently, there's a dress code for a pope's funeral. Apparently, people are supposed to wear black. At least that's a memo that goes out. I don't I I'm not even sure if it's a memo. They just say that it's tradition or something like that. Right?  

[00:30:57] Jamon Fries:

I will I I've I've heard this story, and   the Vatican has actually responded to this saying we never sent anything out asking people to wear black.  

[00:31:08] Jesse Fries:

That's even funnier.   That's even funnier. Yeah. It's like the media had this huge uproar because Trump wore a blue suit instead of, and I saw this one report because  

[00:31:22] Jamon Fries:

he he wore a blue suit. Not even a navy blue suit.   He wore a blue suit  

[00:31:28] Jesse Fries:

that you're supposed to wear black. And I was like, oh, a navy. That would have been better. I don't know. But it's funny because they they have this photo, right, of Trump in his blue suit surrounded by people wearing black, including his wife, Melania, who's wearing black. Okay. That's typical. Right? But that's just a zoomed in photo. Once you zoom it out,   the the the news media said, oh, he's he was, like, the only one that did it. Right? Then when you zoom out the picture, it's, like, 40% are wearing blue.  

[00:31:59] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. And in this in those those stories, they were also saying that the Vatican had requested that everyone wear black. Uh-huh.  

[00:32:07] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. And not only that,   guess who else wore blue?   Who?   Prince William  

[00:32:14] Jamon Fries:

Okay.  

[00:32:15] Jesse Fries:

And Joe Biden.  

[00:32:19] Jamon Fries:

Well, I mean, you know, Joe Biden's faculties aren't all there, so he can be kind of excused for that. What do you mean he's sharp as a tack?   Yeah. But yeah. So this whole thing and it's, like, news story after news story about how stupid and inconsiderate,  

[00:32:37] Jesse Fries:

jackass Trump is. And you're just Yeah. Yeah.  

[00:32:40] Jamon Fries:

Really, dude? Wow.   That's funny. I did hear that Vatican came out saying so. We didn't say anything, dude.   Yeah.   That is funny. That is funny.   Yeah. And then a light note as well,   Trump has recently signed an executive order requiring truck drivers to speak English.  

[00:33:08] Jesse Fries:

Okay. Okay. I know Arkansas or something like that passed that law too or something like like that. Well, it was it it was the law of the land for basically forever  

[00:33:18] Jamon Fries:

because   we don't put our street signs in anything but English.   Okay. Makes sense. If you can't if you can't read English, you have absolutely no way of being able to read any of the of the signs.   You know, you can't read the road construction sign. You can't read anything, any of that stuff. Oh, yeah. Right. And then Obama came in and said, no. We have to be more understanding. We have to be   more lenient.   And so he he did away with that with that requirement.   And now Trump has just put it back into place. But,   I mean,   could could you imagine   having truck drivers   that can't read the signs?  



[00:33:58] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. Yeah. It seems kinda crazy. It seems like you actually do need to read those signs. You know, it's, Yeah.  

[00:34:05] Jamon Fries:

Yeah.   Only makes sense. Yeah. There's just it it's there's just   it it's just unsafe to not be able to read the signs.  

[00:34:15] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. It really isn't. It really isn't. Yeah. Yeah. You need those signs.   Yeah.   Let's see. Dealing dealing with people that don't speak English. You know?   So, apparently,   Kristi Noem, you know, her purse was stolen. Right? We talked about that, like, last week or something like that. Yeah. Apparently, it was two illegal immigrants  

[00:34:36] Jamon Fries:

that did   it. I love that. That's like a gotcha.   Yep. Yep.   That's funny. Yeah. I heard that they that they found one of them in a restaurant,  

[00:34:51] Jesse Fries:

like, drunk off his ass or something like that. Uh-huh. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. They've charged him with, well, everything under the sun because, well, they stole it. Yeah. The secretaries  

[00:35:01] Jamon Fries:

first. But yeah. Yep. Kinda crazy. Kinda crazy. Yeah. The the news article I I read said, you know,   the biggest problem was that he stole it from the wrong kind of secretary.   Wow. Wow.  

[00:35:19] Jesse Fries:

Sure. You you just had to find the one story where they add sexism right in there, don't you? Absolutely. Yes.  

[00:35:29] Jamon Fries:

Speaking of that,   of sexism.   So there's this Californian,  

[00:35:37] Jesse Fries:

he he he's, like, in the in the house or senate or something like that in California. Mhmm. His name is Kyle Langford.   He's a Nick Fuentes acolyte,   and he's running for the governor of California,  

[00:35:50] Jamon Fries:

apparently. Okay.  

[00:35:53] Jesse Fries:

And he wants to deport all undocumented   immigrants,   right,   in California. So, you know, he's not gonna be elected. But Right. For females for females,   you you could stay there for one year,   but by the end of that one year, you have   to marry a California   incel   to avoid deportation.  

[00:36:20] Jamon Fries:

Oh god.   No. No. I think I'd take deportation over that.  

[00:36:26] Jesse Fries:

I would take a deportation   real quick over that one. That's just like  

[00:36:35] Jamon Fries:

wow.  

[00:36:36] Jesse Fries:

Right. It's like, what the   who comes up with this shit? I swear to god. You know? Yeah. Yeah. You you you take a look at his picture, though, and you going, oh, okay. He he's given the Nazi salute a few times unironically. You know? It's  

[00:36:54] Jamon Fries:

a In craziness.  

[00:36:55] Jesse Fries:

Craziness.   Absolutely.   Marry our incels.  

[00:37:01] Jamon Fries:

No. Thank you.   No. Thank you.   Yeah.  

[00:37:09] Jesse Fries:

Let's see here.   Oh, Trump met up with Zelensky at the funeral,   Poops' funeral. Yep. They had a nice little chat, apparently.   Nobody knows what it was said from what I can tell or anything like that. But I do know,   Macron from France, President of France, Macron, he decided to go join the conversation,   and Trump told him to go bugger off.  

[00:37:33] Jamon Fries:

So he's like, no. We don't want you war mongering French,   froggies over here. You know? Yep. Yep.  

[00:37:40] Jesse Fries:

Let let let let me talk to this, pissant over here that wants war, and I don't need somebody else helping to find a good story. So   Yeah. At least that's how I view it. You know? I I think that's what Trump was thinking. You know? It's Yep. Absolutely.  

[00:37:55] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. And the Well, you know? It the with the French thing, I mean, there there's a   France well, Southern France and,   basically, the entire Iberian Peninsula   Uh-huh. Lost power.  

[00:38:11] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.  

[00:38:14] Jamon Fries:

They they they say it has absolutely nothing to do with green energy.  

[00:38:20] Jesse Fries:

That's what they say. That's what they say. I it let's see. In one report let's see.   Yeah. It hit, Portugal,   Spain, and, like, the Southern part of France.   Yep.   And, basically, the   Spanish electrical system, Red Electrica,   they said   that the blackout happened after back to back incidences.   So what it was is that a power plant,   probably a solar power plant,   disconnected itself,   which from the system, which destabilized   the system.   Yeah.   Just over one second later,   the same thing happened at a second plant.   Yep. And soon, the connections between the Spanish and the French grids were severed,   isolating the Iberian Peninsula from the rest of Europe. So, basically, as a way to safeguard Europe   Yeah. They they cut off, the Iberian Peninsula.  



[00:39:17] Jamon Fries:

Yeah.  

[00:39:19] Jesse Fries:

And then   let's see here.  

[00:39:21] Jamon Fries:

What what they don't mention there, though,   is that   not too long ago  

[00:39:28] Jesse Fries:

No. Yeah. I I I'm not done yet. I'm not done yet. Oh, okay. Okay. So then right after that,   all of Spain's renewable energy generation went offline   Mhmm. Forcing a complete shutdown of the country's remaining power sources.   Yeah.   But yeah. Just,   like, less than a week before that, they went completely   renewable.   Yeah. And they didn't have,   what does this say here?   Although excess solar powers   probably wasn't the root cause, it may have aggravated the situation once the system started to go down.   Normally, grid stability is insured by turbines and gas, hydro, or nuclear power.   Yeah. And those reliably   produce power.  

Yeah. Like like, consistent and no fluctuations or anything like that. It can just provide the same amount of power no matter what,   which,   provides what the industry calls inertia   in the power system. Power actually needs inertia. It needs to keep things flowing. If it doesn't have flow Yes. It just breaks down.   Yeah.   And so, basically,   the solar doesn't provide the same stabilizing effect, neither does wind. Yeah. So so, yeah, that you get all this together, and it just caused the whole thing just to crash.  

[00:40:47] Jamon Fries:

So Yeah. So going green,   going completely green   Yes. Is not the way to go with power because   you can't guarantee   that there's not gonna be clouds. You know, one little cloud going over a solar panel   will disrupt the the amount of energy that's that that's being produced.  

[00:41:08] Jesse Fries:

Right. Well, you could if you have hydro. Hydro is a good Yeah. Source.   Or,   no. It depends on whether or not you consider nuclear green or not.   You can also have a nuclear. So I personally consider nuclear green, but a lot of people don't. Right. Right. So it's, yeah.   Yeah. A lot of Europeans don't. But, yeah, it it was a massive   f up. Like, nobody's doing it. Yeah.   Yeah. I wonder if they're gonna learn any lessons on that one.  

[00:41:36] Jamon Fries:

No idea.   It is Europe, so probably not.  

[00:41:44] Jesse Fries:

Europe hating. Sure. Let's do it.  

[00:41:48] Jamon Fries:

It's not Europe hating. I'm just looking at history.  

[00:41:52] Jesse Fries:

True. True. True. True.  

[00:41:55] Jamon Fries:

Well, on this side of the pond doesn't learn too much of a of a too much from its from its problems.  

[00:42:01] Jesse Fries:

Not too much. Not too much.   But on this side of the pond,   Canada just had election.   I haven't heard any thank yous from the prime minister to Trump,  

[00:42:13] Jamon Fries:

because without that, the Liberals woulda lost, like, horribly. Oh, big time. Big time. But,  

[00:42:18] Jesse Fries:

the hate for Trump up in Canada right now really ensured,   that the Liberals won. Without that, seriously, I don't think they would've won. I don't think there's any chance that they would've won. All the polling showed, like, it was, like, double digit   sort of catastrophe for the Liberal Party. And then Trump came along.   So I wonder if he's, thanked Trump yet   for for the win.  

[00:42:44] Jamon Fries:

I highly doubt it, but you never know.   Right. Right. I I would and then also,  

[00:42:49] Jesse Fries:

I wonder if this will actually mean that because all this was happening   their response to Trump was all in this election cycle.   Right. And so, basically, I wonder if they're gonna start to calm down and be more reasonable, like, pretty much everybody else except for China in the world.   You know? It's a Mexico's,   reasonable. EU is reasonable and everything like that, and they're just trying to figure things out. Canada just went they they went   crazy up there. And now they're gonna have to try   to reel that back in because we are   their neighbor. So   Yeah. But I guess neighbors could fight. We can go tell them to suck eggs. So, yeah, that works. Yeah. That works. But yeah.  

But along that line, apparently,   in   Alberta,   Alberta is a conservative   province   of Canada. Very conservative.   It's also where they   all their oil comes from. So, basically, their mass   most of their export comes from Alberta   because most of it's oil. Because they've Okay. The only other thing that they have to export is, well, maple syrup.  

[00:44:01] Jamon Fries:

Right. And so, you know, it's  

[00:44:04] Jesse Fries:

yes. They're smaller things, but those are the two big ones. And so   so Alberta has made it so that, in a memo, they've made it so that they can force a vote for independence   from Canada.  

[00:44:17] Jamon Fries:

Okay.  

[00:44:18] Jesse Fries:

So kinda like   a Scottish,   referendum or the Brexit vote.   Yep. That sort of thing. Yep.   Yep.   And they may want that. They may want that.   Yeah. That might come in handy for them in in the not too distant future. Yeah. Maybe we will get our fifty first state, but we'd have to trade one. We would have to trade one. It would have to be traded.   We would have to bring in, like, that one, which would be conservative. So it'd be a red state.   So we would have to trade it for a blue state. We'd have to yeah. It's just it's just like in the slave state versus free state thing back in the day. We'd have to do the same sort of situation. So maybe then Puerto Rico could become a state   if they wanted to.  



[00:45:02] Jamon Fries:

If if I if memory serves right, Puerto Rico has taken has voted many times to become a state, but it's also the always declined the the pot the opportunity.  

[00:45:13] Jesse Fries:

Exactly. So this   could mean that they become a state.  

[00:45:19] Jamon Fries:

Which they don't want to do.  

[00:45:22] Jesse Fries:

Well, they kinda do. Yeah. They kinda do. Not really though.  

[00:45:26] Jamon Fries:

I mean, they they've had it it's   all that it would take for them to become a state. The polling night. All that it would take would be for them to vote to say, yes. We wanna be a state.   And they would become the fifty first state, but they have always voted no.  

[00:45:46] Jesse Fries:

Let's see what the polling shows. Let's see.   56.82%   voted for statehood.  

[00:46:01] Jamon Fries:

Oh, okay.  

[00:46:02] Jesse Fries:

So they voted for statehood,   but there's no way that   the Republicans would allow it in because it'd vote Democrat.   And so   this is politics. This is politics. Just Yeah. Yeah. Cut cutthroat politics.   So if we get Alberta   to come in,   we could have 52 states,   which is pretty much the only way that you would actually get it to happen. So Yeah.   Yep.   Okay.  

[00:46:34] Jamon Fries:

Mhmm.   Interesting.   Yeah. I didn't know that they had finally started think thinking that, statehood would be better than non statehood.  

[00:46:44] Jesse Fries:

Well, I don't know. I don't know what   it's been throughout the years.  

[00:46:49] Jamon Fries:

So Well, for for I I know for   for a very long time, they've they've wanted to mean maintain their partial independence.  

[00:46:58] Jesse Fries:

Well, there's benefits to just being a territory. You get citizenship and everything like that, but then you don't have to pay taxes.   You can't vote for president, and you don't get a voice in the Congress. But Right. Be beyond that, you can get pretty much all the different benefits of actually being a man. Oh, yeah. So Yeah.   And you can come to The United States and move around just as nobody Yeah. They don't need to be said to come to The US or anything. Well, they're citizens. So even when they get come here, then they can start to vote.  

[00:47:26] Jamon Fries:

Yep.  

[00:47:27] Jesse Fries:

Because it's only just people that live in Puerto Rico can't vote. But Puerto Ricans that come to The United States, they can vote because they're citizens. So Yep.   Yeah. Yeah. That was in 2024.   So just last year.  

[00:47:40] Jamon Fries:

Okay. November  

[00:47:42] Jesse Fries:

5.   So yeah.   Uh-huh. So we could   we could gain a little bit up north and a little bit down south even though the down south one is   we could improve their infrastructure, though. Holy hell. Oh, absolutely. We could we could make it more like Hawaii.   You know, get nice, infrastructure, everything like that.   Yeah. Now whether or not they'd want all the gringos,   white people moving in there, I don't know.   But   we're already doing it, but not as much as we would if, if it was a state. If it were actually a state.  

[00:48:19] Jamon Fries:

Yeah.   Yep.  

[00:48:22] Jesse Fries:

I don't see anything else interesting.  

[00:48:31] Jamon Fries:

A little bit in business news. I Uh-huh. You know, Trump has been talking about, drill baby drill.   Yeah.   Well, the oil companies are saying, you know, we we might not be able to drill more.  

[00:48:45] Jesse Fries:

Right. Right.  

[00:48:47] Jamon Fries:

Because the price of oil is way down at $63  

[00:48:50] Jesse Fries:

a barrel. Yeah. Yeah.  

[00:48:55] Jamon Fries:

Now if memory serves,   they didn't have that same argument   last time Trump was in office   when when oil was at less than $50   a barrel.  

[00:49:07] Jesse Fries:

Actually, they did.   They didn't pump as much. See, the thing is the funny thing about this is that they actually pump more under Democrats than they do under Republicans.   They always do.  

[00:49:21] Jamon Fries:

Yes. But the price of oil is way higher. Well, that's why they pump more. They make more. Exactly. That's why they pump it.  

[00:49:28] Jesse Fries:

If it's cheap,   especially in, like, these shale,   where they actually have to do fracking.   Yeah. It's a more expensive process.   Right. So you need the price of it to be high. I think it's something like   55 or $65,   they it has to be at. Otherwise, they won't make a profit.  

[00:49:48] Jamon Fries:

Okay.  

[00:49:49] Jesse Fries:

Yep.   Yep.   So  

[00:49:53] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. I I just I just found it interesting   that in four years, suddenly, it's not profitable.   So how much did their expenses get raised up in those four years? No. It's it's just the price.  

[00:50:06] Jesse Fries:

It's, if you pump too much, then the price has to come down, and so that sort of thing. You know? If there's more manipulation,   it actually allows you to   keep the price up there. Yeah. Exactly. So, you know, it's, it's kinda one of those weird things. You know? You you get in your permits during the Republicans. You you're not pumping, but you get your permits and you build everything. And then you start pumping once the Democrats are in. You know? It's just this it's just this cycle.   They probably use the cycle. They love it. You know? They love the cycle. Oh, yeah. Yeah.  

[00:50:40] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. Kinda crazy, though, isn't it? Yeah. It it really is. Yeah.  

[00:50:49] Jesse Fries:

Let's see here. It looks like Poland,   they're suspending   asylum rights.   And,   and EU commissioner said they're right,   which to me is crazy. So I it looks like Europe is starting to even come around on the asylum   and all the illegals that they have. I think they're getting sick and tired of them as well.   Okay.  

[00:51:11] Jamon Fries:

Whether we're not doing for Britain.   Except for England.  

[00:51:17] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. Well, the people are tired of it in Britain. Yeah.  

[00:51:21] Jamon Fries:

But the government is loving them.  

[00:51:24] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. And I don't know how long that will last.   I see problems  

[00:51:29] Jamon Fries:

for Oh, yeah. Yeah. I I it's,  

[00:51:31] Jesse Fries:

if the governments keep doing that sort of shit, you know, and then free speech is completely   curtailed and crap like that, you know, it's   it's gonna lead to political problems,  

[00:51:43] Jamon Fries:

you know. Like, I've already And I've I've I've heard a few people out on the extreme fringes that are saying that, you know, there's probably   gonna be an uprising in in The UK before too long. Well, if it keeps going, yeah. It's just Yeah. It's  

[00:52:00] Jesse Fries:

you can't   you cannot   you have to treat everybody equally,   and they have not been.   Yeah. You you you know? And in my belief, you need complete free speech. It doesn't even matter. You just need free speech.   Yeah. Free speech to me, it is the basis for a liberal   society, as in the Yes. Lowercase l liberal. Yeah.   You need that. If you don't have free speech, if you can't spout your crap,   it's gonna lead to problems. And then the other people get to decide whether or not it's right or wrong. You know? It's,   yes. Right now, it's crazy because of the social media, TikTok, this, that. You know? We're all trying to figure shit out.  

Yep. But   society will figure it out sooner or later. Yes. We're still just in the beginnings, infancy of this technological   revolution that we're in.  

[00:52:55] Jamon Fries:

Mhmm.  

[00:52:56] Jesse Fries:

And we will figure it out. We will figure out how we can all live   with   all this bad and good information being at our fingertips. You know? Yep. It's just   Yeah. And one side saying it's bad,  

[00:53:13] Jamon Fries:

it doesn't make it bad. See, that's the thing. It's  

[00:53:16] Jesse Fries:

the the   people think that you can be a arbiter of what's good and bad. You know? It's no. No. No. No. It's,   It doesn't work that way. It doesn't work that way. You know? It's it's just like the printing press and how that fucked over, society and everything like that. Well, it fucked over the regimes,   at the time.   Yeah. I think it helped   society as a whole.   Oh, yeah. Yeah.   But, yeah, it caused war, lots of death, everything like that. Yep.   So,   yeah, I think we're just in the middle of the same sort of thing. It's just a new printing press, that we're trying to figure out. Yeah. Absolutely.  

[00:53:53] Jamon Fries:

And,   you know,   speaking of, the techno   technological changes that have made   huge impacts on us,   I saw an article talking about,   AI being used for cheating in college campuses and stuff like that. Oh, yeah. No.   And   there was a you know, I've I've heard lots of lots of things about why it's bad. I've heard lots of things about why it's good that that AI can find all this information for us. Uh-huh.   But   the I heard one person talking about it, and what they said just made a lot of sense to me.   What they said was that   with AI,   Completely.  

Oh, yeah. Completely. It eliminates critical thinking.   Yep. Yep. Because you don't think at all. You just type it on a keyboard, and it tells you the answer, and you go with that. Yeah. And it's not necessarily right by any search of imagination. Oh, yeah. So, you know, it's  

[00:55:08] Jesse Fries:

it's like   when when I was teaching world, history, at a vocational school   Mhmm. There's this one lady.   She was she was African,   and I she was from Eastern Africa. And she knew Swahili, so I was speaking some Swahili, with her back and forth and everything like that. She was a fine girl. I liked her and everything like that. Yep. We had fun. But then she had to write a paper.   And, oh my god, it was AI bullshit. Like like   and and,   she she I you would copy, like, a sentence, paste it. I would cop because it seemed weird. Right? It wasn't English. And and just so you know, she spoke perfect English and everything like that just like most East Africans do. Mhmm.   And she   I would just copy segments of it, and then I would go in and I found that exact article. It was pure plagiarism,   but it was all mixed up. It was from, like, all these, like, about 10 different websites.  

Yeah. So the and this was a few years ago. So this was old AI where it would just take   Right. Like, all these different bits and pieces from this website, that website, and everything like that. And then it just compiled it into this one thing.  

[00:56:20] Jamon Fries:

Yeah.   And I'm just, like, going,  

[00:56:24] Jesse Fries:

I I I had to report her.   Oh, yeah. This is cool. Yeah. It's like   my boss is, like, good. Well, she's never been a problem before. I go, that you know of.  

[00:56:35] Jamon Fries:

You know that.   Has anybody ever done this to any any of our other papers?   Exactly.  

[00:56:41] Jesse Fries:

Maybe. I'm just smart enough to check, you know, and I'm teaching history. I I I'm not doing, like, math or something like that. You know? Right. It's just,   do this, do that. You know? I'm teaching world history. So   with the world history project, you know, it it was like a paper. So I could see  

[00:56:59] Jamon Fries:

everything and everything like that. So yeah. No. That was,  

[00:57:02] Jesse Fries:

it it caused me a bit of a headache  

[00:57:05] Jamon Fries:

trying to do that. The the proponents of using AI in school   are saying, well, you know, back in the day, the calculator   used to be something that that   everyone considered cheating, but now it's normal.   This this will eventually just become the normal thing.   And and so that was that was the the response that I was listening to that this lady was saying is, yes, the calculator at the time was considered cheating because you didn't weren't writing it out on hand. But you still had to know the principles of mathematics  

[00:57:38] Jesse Fries:

in order to utilize the calculator. No. See, that's the thing. It's like in school,   you need to learn   the principles.   Yeah. If you don't know the principles of something,   then you can never actually fully understand.   Yeah. You you know? So if you know the principles, you can look at what something has generated and then use that as a tool,  

[00:57:59] Jamon Fries:

to do. So yes. And AI leave and you'll understand   what it's saying.  

[00:58:04] Jesse Fries:

Correct.   AI is a great tool.   Yes. Right?   But   you have to know the basis.   Oh, yeah. You yourself have to know the basis.   Yep. You you you know, which just kinda scares me because, there's about about to be a bunch of doctors that cheated with AI coming out and graduating. So  

[00:58:25] Jamon Fries:

you know? It's yeah. Yeah. That should be fun.   Yeah. Yeah. I'm I'm not sure about going to the hospital too much in the future.  

[00:58:35] Jesse Fries:

Seriously.   How about you just give me the robot? You know, fuck you as a person. Let let let let robot just do everything.  

[00:58:41] Jamon Fries:

Exactly. You're you're just regurgitating   the robot anyways. Just give me the robot. Get take me to the source.   Yeah. Absolutely.  

[00:58:59] Jesse Fries:

Let's see. Oh,   I guess we could go back to Canada. I have a couple Canada stories here. A couple more. Okay.  

[00:59:06] Jamon Fries:

Did you hear about  

[00:59:08] Jesse Fries:

the some guy,   killing   11 people,   at a Filipino festival in Vancouver?  

[00:59:17] Jamon Fries:

No. I did not hear about that. This just happened.  

[00:59:20] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. It was just, like, over the weekend. There was a festival, a Filipino festival. They were celebrating   some,   Filipino holiday. I don't know what. Yeah.   But, yeah, this guy drove his car into the crowd.   I from his name, he may have been Filipino as well. He was 30 years old, had a history of mental issues Mhmm.   And everything like that. But he killed 11 people, wounded, sent 17 to the hospital, overall injured 33 people by driving his SUV   into the crowd. This is like,   okay. So you don't have guns. Well, these cars are causing you guys a lot of problems. I'm just saying. Yeah.   Yeah. Europe and Canada.  



[01:00:03] Jamon Fries:

Europe, Canada, even here in The US. I mean,   cars   are a lot more dangerous than guns.  

[01:00:11] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.   It's crazy. You know? It's Yeah.  

[01:00:17] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. So there was that one. If people if people wanna kill people,   they will find a way to do it regardless of what weapon they use.  

[01:00:25] Jesse Fries:

Oh, completely.   100%.   One hundred %.   It may be different ones because   different people like different weapons. You know? Some people are comfortable with cars. Some are comfortable with guns, so on and so forth. But, you know Some are comfortable with knives and Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.  

[01:00:42] Jamon Fries:

Personally, myself, I could never see myself using a knife   to kill someone if I if I really wanted them dead. Uh-huh. Because, well, I'm   not that good with the knife,   so I'd be very afraid of them being able to turn it on me. Oh, I they could easily turn it on me. Plain and simple. Yeah.   Give me at least something long, you know, like a speed or something. Yeah. So it's yeah. Something where I can keep a little bit of a distance.   I move slow enough as it is already.  

[01:01:17] Jesse Fries:

I know the feeling. I know the feeling. Yep. Yep.   Let's see here. Then the other funny one. So there's this guy,   girl, they, them,   something. So, basically,   there's this court dispute up in Ontario, Canada,   where the insurance or the government, however it works up there, they did not wanna pay for surgery to give a trans resident   a surgery.   So   the surgery   I I think it was a born a man, I think what it was.   And   this person, they they don't provide the surgery up in   Canada. The surgery is where you keep,   the   penis.   Right?  

But then they build a vagina as well, so you have both.   So, basically, you turn yourself into a maphrodite.  

[01:02:13] Jamon Fries:

Okay. Okay.  

[01:02:15] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. So so so so the Ontario said, no. We're not gonna pay for that. We're not gonna pay for that. There's no way.   It's not even a lot. Nobody in Canada does it. And so the guy, he he   he comes down here to Texas.   And there's somebody in Texas that'll do it for him. It's Texas. Come on. Yeah. It's always good. I always do it. Yeah.   And so and but he didn't wanna pay for it. He wanted the Canada to pay for it.   And a court just said that Canada has to pay for it.  

[01:02:45] Jamon Fries:

The hell?  

[01:02:46] Jesse Fries:

Yep.   Yep.  

[01:02:48] Jamon Fries:

So And here is why universal health care is bad.   Yeah. So yeah. There there you go. There you go. I I didn't know that was an option where you could have both. You know, it's, Yeah. No. No.   Yeah. Yeah. I thought that was kinda odd.   Yeah.  

[01:03:09] Jesse Fries:

That is very odd. More power to them? You know? I I I Yeah. Who  

[01:03:16] Jamon Fries:

knows?   Right?  

[01:03:20] Jesse Fries:

So, yeah, that's Canadian stories. Canada was full of news this, time around for some reason. Yeah. I'm not really sure why.   They're getting crazy out there, dude.  

[01:03:29] Jamon Fries:

It really is. The old the only other international story I have is,   the in India,   there is now a court order   that all of India has to block any email arriving from ProtonMail.   Okay. Are you familiar with ProtonMail?  

[01:03:51] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. It's one of those services that spams everybody.  

[01:03:54] Jamon Fries:

Yeah.   It's,   it's supposedly one of the most secure ones where no one can ever   find out where they will never release information on who sent something.   Oh, okay. Okay.   Which is why India is blocking them   because   somebody   sent pornographic   material to a couple of people in India's government   using   ProtonMail,   and they wouldn't tell India who sent it to them. So they've now said   ProtonMail   is now banned in India.   Well, there you go. Yeah. Look at that. Maybe I'll go with ProtonMail. This sounds, like a good advertising right there. You know? It really does, doesn't it? Yeah. It really does. It's  

[01:04:38] Jesse Fries:

I I love the people that won't buckle. That that that's what the that's what I like. You know? It's Yep.   I like Apple for that reason. I know a lot of people go, well, Apple, you can't trust them. But it's like,   I haven't seen   they say they're for the   customer   and will protect that privacy for the customer.   I haven't seen any news stories that say they don't.   Everybody says, oh, they're they're this huge company. You know they're not. Do you just know they're not? But I've never seen a news story that says they don't.   The only single one I've ever seen is  

[01:05:15] Jamon Fries:

that   The UK keeps trying to mandate that they open up back doors to them. Well, they did in The UK.  

[01:05:23] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. Because Apple will follow the law of the land. Yep. Yep.   But  

[01:05:29] Jamon Fries:

but that that it's not here in The US. Exactly.  

[01:05:32] Jesse Fries:

And we're in The US. We're not in The UK. So I don't care what Apple does in The UK. Yeah. From what I understand, they're not because UK wanted it for everybody. They wanted the backdoor for everybody in the world. Yeah. I don't know why The UK would need to have a backdoor and do   yeah. They can't use my backdoor. I'm just   Nobody can.  

[01:05:59] Jamon Fries:

You know? But yeah.   It it's just  

[01:06:04] Jesse Fries:

yeah. No. I I I so   that's why I like Apple still because everything that I know,   they seem to be pretty secure.   I I'm just Oh, yeah. Yeah.   You know? And so yeah. Put it on mail.   We may have to switch to them for our mail service.  

[01:06:21] Jamon Fries:

Just saying.  

[01:06:24] Jesse Fries:

Listen here.  

[01:06:26] Jamon Fries:

Intel   is changing their business practices a little bit. How so?   The right now, their their old well, not anymore. Their old policy was that   an Intel employee could could work from home two days a week.   Uh-huh.   They're changing that now to mandating that they have to, have to be in the office for at least four days a week.  

[01:06:51] Jesse Fries:

Week. Yeah. This is what I keep telling my wife, you're gonna have to go in five days a week here shortly. Just telling you. It's, Yeah. They've they've surprisingly  

[01:07:00] Jamon Fries:

found that   when people are working together,   they tend   to be more productive.   They tend to come up with better ideas   because they're constantly spitballing stuff amongst themselves.   It's amazing how actually being around people makes it so that you you're not just thinking your own thoughts.  

[01:07:22] Jesse Fries:

It's crazy how a social   animal   is better   than society.  

[01:07:28] Jamon Fries:

You know? It's It really is. By ourselves. It's craziness. Craziness. It is. Yes.  

[01:07:34] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. No. And it's like, when you just have a couple days, it's like,   right now, my wife,   at the GM place here in Austin, they don't have enough space, so they just go into the office two days a week. Okay. But, you you know, it's so you get work done, but then you don't see you're not seeing them every day, so you catch up a little bit more. So you're spending a little bit less time   working.   At least this is how it in my in my head. I I she she hasn't said any of this, so I'm just, spitballing. But it just makes sense because she went up to Michigan last week. Right?   Mhmm.  

For the whole week, she was up in Michigan, and   it was a bunch of catching up. You know? It's, got some work done, of course. But, yeah, it was a whole bunch of just catching up with old friends and,   well, work friends and everything like that. But, yeah, it's   yeah. If you do it every day, it's not a big deal. Yeah. Yeah. Just get right to work with your coworkers and everything like that. So   yeah.   Oh, did you hear that how that works. I know. Right? Did you hear that Trump,   and and Rubio and everything like that, they actually got, they're they got a a deal signed between Congo and Rwanda. They've been at war, apparently.   Yeah. And they've actually got,   they're on a pathway to a peace deal that should be signed anytime now.  

Holy crap.   Yeah. That's huge.   Yeah.   And part of it includes   Congo,   giving us some of their minerals.   You know, just like Ukraine.  

[01:09:07] Jamon Fries:

Yeah.   Look at it. This is not in the news, by the way. It's hard to find this one in the news. You know? Yeah. I haven't seen anything about this.  

[01:09:17] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. No. A major win for Trump, really. Oh, big thank you. Yeah. Yeah. So   let let's just hope,   Putin,   he announced a ceasefire   as well.   Yeah.   But he also said that he's keeping the land,   you know, that he's taken. There he he's just not he said, that's it.   I need everybody just to say that's our land. Everybody in the world can't have the EU coming back   for me and everything like that going, oh, that's not your land or anything like that. He's saying, I need everybody   to say what I have is mine.   Yeah.  

[01:09:55] Jamon Fries:

So Well, that that's that's the one thing I've I've have not understood for quite a while now.  

[01:10:02] Jesse Fries:

Mhmm.  

[01:10:03] Jamon Fries:

There's a war.   Right.   The boundary of the war changes   the   changes which country certain territory certain lands are in.  

[01:10:16] Jesse Fries:

It always does. That's how  

[01:10:18] Jamon Fries:

that that that that's how it travels. What is it? Ever since, like, World War one, World War two?   Two. We've always had to the the winner has to give back the land that they took.  

[01:10:31] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. No. It it's been this whole UN thing and everything like that that the borders are defined and everything like that. They say that it will actually lead to, peace and everything like that. Bullshit.   Well, it's a figment. It's a complete figment. You know? It's like   yeah. No. It it it's a complete figment. It it's just What is what is the purpose of war in most cases?  

[01:10:54] Jamon Fries:

The purpose of war is to get resources.   There's various different reasons for war. It is one of those cases, resources are at least in some way involved.  

[01:11:06] Jesse Fries:

Well, a lot of times, actually, when it comes to Russia,   Russia has never needed resources. Never Right. Needed resources.   Yeah. The reason why Russia generally goes to war is to protect   who they consider   kin.   Yeah. Okay. World War one,   they were allied with the Slavs, with the Slavic people of Eastern Europe.  

[01:11:33] Jamon Fries:

Mhmm.  

[01:11:34] Jesse Fries:

And that is why   they joined the side against Germany   Yeah.   Against the Habsburg Empire.   Right. It's because of that, because they were defending the Slavs,   and they consider themselves Slavs.   Okay. So it's a kin sort of situation.   Yeah. In the Ukraine   or in Ukraine, I always had the. I don't know why I do. A lot of people do too. But in Ukraine,   especially the regions,   that they have taken so far. Were Slavic.   Well, no. Not just Slavic. Well, the Russian Yeah.   The Russian. Like Yeah. Ethnically,   language speaking, they are Russian.   Yeah. And so it's the same sort of thing. Right? That's why they were helping them against,   the Ukrainians   that were bombing and killing them.  

Yeah. You you know, Crimea was always part of Russia.   And then during the Soviet Union,   I think it may have been Khrushchev or something like that. I can't I don't know exactly. But one of them   gave Crimea to Ukraine,   but it was always part of Russia before that.   Okay.   So the Russians.   Yeah.   So, yeah, it's just they're they're defending this is why Russia and also the ports because there's submarine ports in Crimea.   Right.   And that's a huge   strategic   they cannot lose that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But, yeah, generally, Russia generally goes for either strategic   or to protect   their kin   is how Russia actually deals. Yeah. Yeah. Their ethnic kin.  



[01:13:10] Jamon Fries:

It's gotten not so much Slavic because the Slavs most of the Slavs have kinda turned towards Europe.  

[01:13:15] Jesse Fries:

Right. They seem to like that, because the Russians were kinda   messed up towards   their kin during the Soviet Union   age. Yeah. You're saying? Yeah. They weren't so nice to  

[01:13:26] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. Their fellow kids. Slavs did not have a great experience in the in the communist Russia. Yeah. And and Ukraine really didn't. You know? So, you know, it's  

[01:13:37] Jesse Fries:

so yeah. It's   yeah. Russia's kinda paying for what it did. Yep.   But yeah. But that that's   that's generally the motivation for Russia because they have all the resources they need.  

[01:13:50] Jamon Fries:

Yeah.   Yeah. I know that's I'd always wondered exactly why Russia was doing this because resource grab just didn't make a lot of sense. No. It is A lot of wars are be are for resource grabs. Right. Right. Right. They they they took Crimea for the strategic,  

[01:14:07] Jesse Fries:

and that was a peaceful thing. The the Crimeans, they voted they actually voted for to go towards Russia.   So you have that.   And then you have,   these break off, Russian   areas in Eastern Ukraine,   and they're Russian by ethnicity   and language.  

[01:14:24] Jamon Fries:

And And they they never gotten along with the with the Ukrainian government either. They've they've I understand.  

[01:14:31] Jesse Fries:

They were they were fine before the coup   in 2014,   and then the coup happened.   Yeah. And then everybody turned against them. The Ukrainian government turned against them. And so   and Russia was supporting them because, well, yeah, they're they're people. They're Russian. Yeah. Exactly. Exactly. And this is how this is how Russians think.   They they they they they they have always protected their own. Yes.   Always have.   It it it it's not so so this is how I view, what's going on right now. I I I don't think I've ever heard anybody   articulate it before. But that really is I haven't heard anybody talk about it. Right. Right. But the the that's how we're we're once started. That's why the Russians,   decided to go against the Habsburg Empire in Germany.  

Okay. So which is, Habsburg, if you don't know, is the Austria Hungarian   Empire.   Yeah. Yeah. So Holy Roman Emperor, everything like that. So it's Yep.   Yeah. So, yeah, that that that's,   from a history side. That that that's kinda how I see it. Okay.  

[01:15:36] Jamon Fries:

Mhmm. Makes a lot of sense.   Yeah. Yeah. Americans  

[01:15:43] Jesse Fries:

like to think, especially since the Cold War and Europe has always thought of Russia as   people that don't make sense. They just don't understand Russians at all. Right.   But when you get down to the very basis of who they are, they're just people.   Yeah. And they have their own frame of mind just like we have our own frame of mind. We're not Europeans for God's sake. Sakes. The Europeans don't understand us either. Yeah. They look Europeans look down on us just like they look down on Russia. I actually think Europe can go suck an egg for all I care because they they all they do seem to do is talk about how bad we are and this and that. Mhmm. How stupid we are, how fat we are, how we don't know   anything, how we don't travel.  

We're bigger than you.  

[01:16:27] Jamon Fries:

Well, we we travel. I have probably I have probably traveled more than anyone else in Europe has ever traveled.   It's just that in order to to that amount of travel doesn't take me outside of The United States.  

[01:16:40] Jesse Fries:

Well, exactly. And not only that, but in the EU   or in Europe, it's like they go, oh, you don't know Romania? You don't know where Lithuania is? You don't know where Liechtenstein is? Blah blah blah. Right? Okay. Well,   that's, like, all within the size of The US. I I so   okay. So you know Europe.   Do you know South America? Do you know where Chile is? Do you know where Peru   is? Do you know where Bolivia is? Where's Nicaragua?   Can can you point to any of these places on the, on a map? I can. Can you? Yeah. It's like Yeah. I mean, it it'd it'd be like it it would be  

[01:17:18] Jamon Fries:

like asking a European. Okay. So can you point out Missouri?   Can you point out Kansas?  

[01:17:26] Jesse Fries:

Uh-huh. Yeah. Yeah. They could probably pick out   they they might be able to pick out New York City New York City. California.  

[01:17:33] Jamon Fries:

Texas. And Texas. Those are the and Alaska and Hawaii.   They should be able, well, maybe. But the I Those are the those are the ones that should   be able to be pointed out by the  

[01:17:47] Jesse Fries:

police. Americans know where Hawaii is because, well, it's part of America, but, also, it's where Americans go. Japanese know where Hawaii is too because a lot of Japanese no. No. No. They vacation there, like, all the time. Oh, yeah. Yeah. They do. Absolutely.   I actually heard some of the story.  

[01:18:01] Jamon Fries:

There's a lot of of   Asians that that go to Hawaii for their vacations from China to Japan. From from what I understand,  

[01:18:09] Jesse Fries:

I just saw this news story where   they're doing   they're opening a pod hotel. You know, those little pods that they do in Japan? They're opening one of those in Hawaii.   Are they really? Yeah. For the Japanese tourists.   Damn.  

[01:18:25] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. I thought that was kinda cool. It'd be a cheap way to go to   It would. Yeah.   Yeah. Seems perfect to me. You know? I could do   that. All I do is sit by the pool and drink anyways. You know, I have a nice pool in the bar, and I'm good to go, and I'll go Most most people that go somewhere to vacation,   they're not spending a lot of time in the hotel room.  

[01:18:46] Jesse Fries:

Exactly. Exactly. You know, just put me next to my wife. You know, I've been married about twenty years. I don't need to sleep with her. I'm good.  

[01:18:55] Jamon Fries:

Yep. Just make it so she's next door. Exactly. Exactly. Put put the put the kids put the, you know, maybe put the kids between you,  

[01:19:03] Jesse Fries:

but No. Maybe just right below. Right below. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Don't need them above just in case if they have some sort of accident. I don't need things   dripping on me.  

[01:19:19] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. Yep.  

[01:19:23] Jesse Fries:

Okay.  

[01:19:25] Jamon Fries:

And so   so you have anything else international or anything like that?   Let's see. Like, you've covered most of it.  

[01:19:35] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. I think, we actually did. Look at that craziness.   Yeah.   Oh, let's see. Business wise,   GM had a massive recall, like, 750,000   trucks.   Yeah. I heard about that. Yeah. It's like everything that has a 6.2 liter V eight engine, from '2 that was built from '21   to '24.  

[01:19:58] Jamon Fries:

Damn.  

[01:19:59] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. Yeah. So this this includes,   the Silverados,   the Sierras, the Escalades, the Yukons, the Tahoes.   It covers   all that.   So   750,000,   cars,   have been recalled   to and it's and and it's not just recalled. It's a stop selling order.   Yeah. They can't even sell anything that they have.   It's just Damn. Done. Yeah.  

[01:20:31] Jamon Fries:

That's gonna hurt.  

[01:20:33] Jesse Fries:

I'll do it to an engine to where it will just complete lose complete power.   Wow.   But some of them, they fix by changing the oil,   to a much heavier weight oil.   Okay.   But yeah. They're they're, like, changing out the caps and everything like that. Say so don't put in that one, put in this oil and everything like that. Supposedly, that helps. I I I don't know.  

[01:20:58] Jamon Fries:

Wow. Wow. Yeah. Yep. Yep. Yeah. That that's gonna hurt GM there pretty hard. Yeah. That's gonna help my that's gonna hurt my wife's bonus. You know? I'm just seeing it. You know? Yeah. Well, that's what my wife said. She goes,   there goes my bonus. Yep. Yep.  

[01:21:23] Jesse Fries:

Oh,   sticking with the car companies. Apparently, New York,   so New York allowed   Tesla to have dealerships.   Right. Okay. Well, now that,   Trump is on the or Elon is on Trump's side and is on the wrong side of history as they like to say,   now the,   rep there wants to   completely get rid of that. They they want to make it so that they can't have dealerships now in New York. And it is they said   so they said that   this rep said no matter what we do, we've got to take this from Elon Musk.   He's part of an effort to go backwards, and so they have to take this away from him.   Now   I know the federal government cannot make a law against one person.  

Yes.   It's illegal. It's unconstitutional.   Can't do it. Yeah. Can a state? Because it seems all wrong on so many levels. And since this rep said this   in the whole   process, Musk can take this and go,   this is a political attack. It's only against me.  

[01:22:38] Jamon Fries:

Yep.   I mean, I I I know that the states have to had to ratify the the federal constitution   into their own constitutions.   So I would think that it would still be unconstitutional.  

[01:22:53] Jesse Fries:

Actually, that's not how it works. For states to do it? No. That's not how it works. It? They ratified the constitution, but, actually, up until   I think it may have been the civil war or whatnot.   Sometime around there,   the bill of rights actually only counted towards the federal government.   States could Right.   Actually have laws that would actually go against the federal constitution.   They could have their own state religions.   They could do all these sorts of things. You didn't have to have free speech.   Okay.  

So all the rights, it it was solely   from the federal side. And then there was a Supreme Court decision that said, no. No. No. No. It goes all the way down.   Yeah.   So yeah. The that's,   yeah. Yeah. It isn't it wasn't that they said the state said that it was part of them. It was actually man, I'm getting a lot of history this time, man. Aren't I? These are.  

[01:23:55] Jamon Fries:

That's kinda cool.  

[01:23:56] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. Yeah. But, yeah, it was a it was a Supreme Court decision that said that,   everything goes down.  

[01:24:03] Jamon Fries:

Okay. So, essentially, the federal constitution   trumps anything that the states wanna do. Correct. And then the states The privacy law. States have their own cons their own constitutions   for anything that the federal constitution doesn't cover that they wanted to cover. Correct. Correct.   Okay. Okay.   Yep. Because it would still it would be unconstitutional   for New York to enact a law that specifically targeted Elon Musk. That's what I was thinking too. That's what I was thinking too. Yeah. Yeah. It seems kinda  

[01:24:31] Jesse Fries:

And for the rep to say this in the whole process, come on. Keep your mouth shut even if that's the reason.  

[01:24:38] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. You There are certain things that you don't say.  

[01:24:42] Jesse Fries:

Exactly. You can't just target one entity. It's against our constitution. This is why I love our constitution. Yeah. I really do. It's, Yep.   It's for things like this.  

[01:24:52] Jamon Fries:

So   Yeah.   And IBM is, pledging to spend a hundred and 50,000,000,000 in The US.   Okay. Nice. Nice. Building they're gonna build a home. They wanna they plan on building a whole bunch of factories and stuff like that to build their stuff. What what do they make?  

[01:25:10] Jesse Fries:

No. Seriously. Supposedly,  

[01:25:11] Jamon Fries:

they're still high up in the computer industry, I guess. I What? But I I haven't seen an IBM in so long.  

[01:25:19] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. They sold off ThinkPad.  

[01:25:21] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. But there's there's still maybe they don't actually Has to be main frames. Themselves.   Maybe they do the the frames and the the components of the computer. Servers, maybe?   Maybe. May yeah. I think I I think you still hear about IBM servers.   Okay.   Yeah. Because they do not have, like, a customer facing product that I No. They don't. So the the the only one is Watson. That's their AI. You know? Okay.  

[01:25:48] Jesse Fries:

That's the only thing that I've ever heard from IBM lately is the Yeah. Like, their AI and everything like that. So   Yep.   Yep. Yep.   Let's see here.   What else do we got?   Is it that? Did that? Oh, apparently, The US economy shrank.   It just came out. Shrank point 3%   Okay.   Due to businesses not under not knowing what Trump's gonna do. Yeah. Yeah.   He was up and down on those tariffs left and right. It it was not a good,   Yeah. No. Yeah. If there's a criticism of what Trump did, it's that.   There's also whether or not it's actually legal for him to do it. I I think that's,   there there seems to be a good argument that, especially when it comes to tariff, that's a congressional   power,   but, we'll see how that plays out in court.  

Yeah.  

[01:26:41] Jamon Fries:

Let's see here. What else do I got? Do I got anything else?  

[01:26:46] Jesse Fries:

Well, might as well just say here at the Mindless Meanderings, we are a value for value,   podcast. So if you help us out monetarily or with ideas, that'd be great. We love your ideas, and we will take them. Whether or not we talk about them or not, that's a whole thing. Because we have our own interests, but there are a lot of stories we don't know about or anything like that. So please send us what you got,   and, that would be great.   If you have artwork that you maybe for,   like, a episode,   artwork or something like that, we could throw that in or chapters or anything like that. We do chapters here.   So, yeah, anything you can help us out with, ideas, money,   it is a help. And it doesn't matter how much. Any amount helps. Just let us know you're thinking about us because we're awesome.  



[01:27:30] Jamon Fries:

Mhmm. That we are.  

[01:27:34] Jesse Fries:

Let's see here.  

[01:27:36] Jamon Fries:

Let's get into science a little bit. There Okay. Let's do science. Sound sound a couple interesting things in the science world. Uh-huh.   Supposedly, we can have cows again.  

[01:27:46] Jesse Fries:

We can have cows? Sweet.  

[01:27:49] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. You know, the,   methane burps was was the reason that they were using to get rid of a whole bunch of cattle and stuff like that across the world. They wanted to. I don't think they ever did, did they?   No. But for at the same time, for the same reason, New Zealand started cutting back their sheep,   their sheep pastures and stuff like that. They started they they had in New Zealand But that's not a cow. Illegal.   No. I I I know. I know.   But   the thing that's that's been found to help the cows should help the sheep as well, potentially.   Okay.  

So   what the the re the reason that cows give off methane is because of the feet what they eat.   Right.   And in the in their first stomach, it turns into a methane gas and they belch it out. Uh-huh.   Well, it turns out that   that's because what they're eating isn't something that they should normally be eating.   Grass fed cows do not belch out this melt this morphine this methane.  

[01:28:56] Jesse Fries:

Really? So it's only, like, grain fed?  

[01:28:58] Jamon Fries:

Yes.   And so this what this company found is they found a natural protein   that they can put into the that they can put into the feed   that disrupts the enzymes in the stomach from turning it into methane.   That's pretty cool.   So   so   the price of cattle may actually start   normalizing again,   you know, once it becomes something that's used everywhere.  

[01:29:32] Jesse Fries:

Has it gone up? I don't know. I think just regular inflation,  

[01:29:35] Jamon Fries:

for me at least. I'm in Texas, so we we we we we get we get cheap beef. So Yeah. No. I I was talking to mom about the about this article, and she was like, well, you know and she's the one that told me that grass fed never have this problem. Uh-huh. And and so I was like, well, how do you know that? And she's like, well, because they've tested the cattle around where they live.   And then  

[01:29:59] Jesse Fries:

And and and her sister, she used to work at one of   those, places that would, like, drill a hole into a cow's stomach and then be able to take things out and everything like that. So I I'm sure she's passed on quite a bit to mom on that one. So Probably.  

[01:30:12] Jamon Fries:

But,   the so what I did I I knew that   back in the day, the cattle ranchers would bring their cattle from Texas up into the Kansas area Uh-huh.   To fatten them up. Right. Right.   But I didn't know that the reason that they do it is because the grass   is different than grass in other places.   Oh, that makes sense. So the grass here   was very healthy for the cattle to eat to fatten them up.   Right. Whereas the grass is in other places, they have a lot of other stuff growing amongst the grass,   and so it wasn't health it wasn't as healthy for the cows.  

[01:30:51] Jesse Fries:

Okay. I must say, I've lived in Kansas, and now I'm in Texas.  

[01:30:56] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. The grass here sucks, dude. I'm just saying. It does. Yes. I've been to Texas many times. It sucks.  

[01:31:03] Jesse Fries:

It's like the little bits of grass that you could find. It's like, what else is that? Oh, it's green. Yeah. But I don't know what the hell that is.  

[01:31:11] Jamon Fries:

Yep. Yep.   Okay. I I I Which is which is why they always brought the cattle up to the Flint Hills areas of of Kansas is because the the prairie grass there was the perfect grass for fattening the cattle. No. Yeah. And then took them to the stockyards in Kansas City. Yep. Yep. Makes sense. Makes sense. Yeah. So that that was kinda cool, you know, that   so grass fed cows, as long as they're in the right area,   don't have this problem.   And now this company has found a natural protein that they can in that they can put into the food to replace some of the other proteins,   then it gives the it makes us at the pro so the cows get more nutrient nutritional value out of the food.  

Oh. And it it removes the the methane gas production. So  

[01:31:58] Jesse Fries:

There you go. Yeah. I wasn't gonna stop eating beef. But Oh, no. No. But Yeah. Actually, this isn't gonna change my life at all. Maybe my kids' life. But  

[01:32:07] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. Yeah. I mean, there there were a lot of people that were saying we need to get rid of cattle, though, because there's a methane gas.   Because   methane gas   is 10 times worse of a Oh, yeah. Yeah. Greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide is. So Mhmm.  

[01:32:24] Jesse Fries:

No. Yeah. But yeah. I know the arguments, but this is America. We need our hamburgers. I'm sorry. Absolutely.   Yes. We need our hamburgers.  

[01:32:31] Jamon Fries:

Yes.   I mean, could you could you imagine going over to India and saying you need to get rid of your cow?  

[01:32:45] Jesse Fries:

I'm sorry. We have to kill your goddess.   Just say it.  

[01:32:51] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. Or sacred. Not not really God's sacred. Well in There you go. Yeah. Yeah. I don't think that would go over so well in India. No. Probably not. Probably not. Yeah.  

[01:33:01] Jesse Fries:

Why is that the milk? You need milk. I swear to God. All this other milk Oh, yeah. Crap that they have out there, the the the nut slurries   and the oat slurries that they have, it's like  

[01:33:11] Jamon Fries:

And the the thing that I find absolutely disgusting about it is that they they advertised it as a replacement for milk.   Yep. If you wanna drink almond milk, fine. Drink almond milk. But don't replace it with milk. Don't replace milk with it. Oh, yeah. Yeah.   Yep. Milk has a lot of benefits   that almond milk will never have.  

[01:33:34] Jesse Fries:

Yep. Yeah. And not only that, milk won't kill me. Almond milk. Yeah. I had a coffee once with it. Dude, the reaction in my throat,   holy hell. I was like,  

[01:33:43] Jamon Fries:

done. Yeah. Those nut allergies there. They they don't the nut the almond milk does not work well with people with nut allergies. And it's like, I can I can eat nuts?  

[01:33:52] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. No problem. It's just this I could eat peanut butter. I I could do all that sort of thing. Right? It's that   soup it's also, like,   in beer. If there's, like, a peanut beer or whatever   Okay. That the I think it's the fineness   of the Okay. Particle,   how small it is. It's so small that it causes me issues every single last time. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Could be. One of those was in Canada too, so Canada was trying to kill me. Just saying.  

[01:34:21] Jamon Fries:

Yep. Yep. Absolutely.   Another thing I found interesting   was,   they have there have been some people that have found a way to utilize rain   to generate electricity.  

[01:34:36] Jesse Fries:

Okay.  

[01:34:38] Jamon Fries:

And it's kind of interesting.   Yeah. And it   essentially, what it what it what they do what they do   is you take   little tiny very, very narrow tubes that basically just a little bit of water can fit down through. Uh-huh.   And if you, like, line the roof with these Uh-huh. As the rain falls on the roof, the water moving through the tube   in   it cannot be a continuous stream is not good for for the energy production.   But with rain with rain, it would never be a continuous stream going down each specific tube. Right. Right.   And so those little gaps of air, they lead to   a higher amount of energy production of electricity production.  

And so you just you filled your roof with these tubes.   This is what they're trying to do. They they've they've they haven't gotten to the commercial aspect of it yet, of course. Right. Right.   But with the with the raindrops   sliding down through the tube generating energy, they've found a way to now collect that energy, and it actually produces more energy than   it wastes.  

[01:35:51] Jesse Fries:

Well, that's cool. That's cool. Yeah.   Alright.   Okay. That might work in, like, Seattle?  

[01:35:59] Jamon Fries:

Or Yeah. Yeah. They're they're they're they're attack they're the they're they're saying that,   its primary use would be when, like, Singapore and places like that where they get a lot of rain almost. Yeah. As I said, like, Seattle and whatnot. Yeah. Yeah. Yep. Yeah. It it's because   Wouldn't work in Texas. Here in Kansas. There's no freaking way that would help. Yeah. Yeah.   Oh, you might be I got ten minutes of energy.   A year. Yeah.   Yeah.   Yep.   Then a couple of, tech news things that I found.  

[01:36:37] Jesse Fries:

Uh-huh.  

[01:36:39] Jamon Fries:

The we've already talked about one of them with the cheating and stuff like that. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But the students are a lot more actually, the students are actually a lot more concerned about   AI in the classroom than teachers and the admin are.  

[01:36:56] Jesse Fries:

Okay. Why exactly?  

[01:37:03] Jamon Fries:

Let me see. I   had it on the tip of my tongue.  

[01:37:07] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. I understand.  

[01:37:14] Jamon Fries:

I don't buzz pushing the right button.   Okay.   Well, while I'm while I'm looking at this to remember this, I'll talk about the other one because the other one is really cool for people like you and me. Uh-huh.   So, you know,   as you get older, people that were that are nearsighted, they eventually have to start wearing bifocals, and people that are that have regular eyesight, they usually they eventually have to start wearing reading glasses. Yeah. Bifocals if you're poor, progressives if you're rich. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I'm wearing progressives. So   Yep.  

I I'm not wearing either. I just lift my glasses up and look.   Got it. Got it. Got it.   But the,   the problem is and and   the the the reason that that these people   decided to do what they did   is because   they had,   they were early into the Lasix   correctivist surgeries   Uh-huh.   Where they take the old lens out and replace it with a new with a fake lens. Uh-huh.   Mom recently had that done with her cataract. To get rid of her cataract, she had new lenses put in. Right. Right. But what she found is that no matter what she does,   she cannot look at something close by anymore.  

Yep. Yep. So I looked into it to find out why that was, and it's very interesting. The   the the reason that it can't is because there's muscles all the way around the lens. And as you try to look at something very close-up, those muscles contract and distort the shape of the lens.   Oh, okay. And so when you put a fake lens in, there are no muscles attached to it to to contract and and it also cannot be reshaping.   Got it. Got it. Got it. So that that's why you absolutely cannot see something close by once you've had the eye surgery done.   Okay. And so both of these people that that were working on this new invention   found they had both had gone in for the LASIK eye surgery   early on.  

Right. Right. And they just they didn't like progressive lenses. They didn't like bifocals.   Oh, yeah.   So they have they have created a they have created a form of glasses   that uses,   like, the   it it uses, like, the the,   kind of the same technology that monitors are moving towards. Uh-huh.   And it actually   with with AI,   it looks at where you're trying to focus   Uh-huh. And it'll bring it into focus without having to do anything.  

[01:40:00] Jesse Fries:

Oh, that is awesome.   Yeah. That's a use of AI right there.  

[01:40:05] Jamon Fries:

Absolutely.   And so the the the glasses that they make, they start out the if they start out with your normal,   prescription   nearsighted glasses.   Right.   But then if you if it sees that you're trying to focus on something nearby,   it will automatically   adjust the adjust   to make it set it's focusing on something nearby so you can see everything nearby.  

[01:40:30] Jesse Fries:

Oh, that's   cool. That is cool. Yeah.  

[01:40:33] Jamon Fries:

That's huge. The the re you know, they they thought about just making it so that it would always focus wherever you wanted it to. Uh-huh.   But they thought about it and they're like, well, if your battery dies,   you wanna still be able to see far away.   You still wanna be able to drive. No. Completely. Completely. Yeah. Yeah. So so they're gonna make the glasses for nearsightedness   and   then have it so that the AI will auto correct the focusing   for for the, for the stuff that's near up.  

[01:41:06] Jesse Fries:

Okay. So it's like a new type of progressive sort of thing. That's cool, though. Yeah. That is really cool.  

[01:41:12] Jamon Fries:

Yeah.   I think that's it. You know, that what they really didn't like is that is that with progressive lenses and with bifocals,   anytime you're looking downwards,   you're look you're you're looking through the correction for nearsighted for far sight.   Right. Right. Right. No. Yeah. Well, if you're up on top of a building and you look down,   everything suddenly becomes blurry.  

[01:41:39] Jesse Fries:

That is quite interesting. Really is. Yeah. That's cool.   That is   cool.   Let's see here. I think   that's about everything. Let's get you some fun stories. Okay? Yeah. Yeah. Okay.   I like fun stories, and then we'll close it out. So, apparently, I came upon this whole,   somebody looked at how many words each,   Supreme Court justice, current Supreme Court justice said in their first eight arguments.   Okay?   So so, basically, just how many words and everything like that. So   this this really shows   women talk more than men. It really,   really does. So   you have,   Kentaji,   Kentanji,   Jackson Brown Jackson. Right? Yeah. She she she was the max.  

11,003   words   in eight arguments. Right?   Okay. Then it then it goes down. And then the other women,   Barrett, Sotomayor,   and Kagan, they all spoke,   about 4,000   words. Right? Okay. And then you have judge, Roberts.   He was always   he's at the 3,400,   almost 35,   but he he was he went in as the chief justice.   So I think he just has to speak more anyways because he's the chief justice.   Right.   After that, you get Gorsuch   and,   Kavanaugh,   and they're in the   2 thousands. 20 6 hundred and 20 3 hundred. Okay? Okay.  

[01:43:16] Jamon Fries:

And then you have Alito, which was 08/1983.   So   barely anything at all. Then you have the ultimate man of Clarence Thomas,   ninety six words.  

[01:43:29] Jesse Fries:

Oh, damn.   It eight are you with so this just showed to to me, the meme that I saw,   it it it was talking about something else. But   it really shows   just   women just talk more than men. Nothing wrong with it. Yeah. Yeah. But yeah. From 11,000,   the, highest amount   for a woman to   96.  

[01:43:54] Jamon Fries:

So not even That that means that he averaged   12 words   for each case.  

[01:44:01] Jesse Fries:

Exactly.   Now he's always been known to be a quiet guy. Right? Yeah. He is throughout. But yeah. 96  

[01:44:10] Jamon Fries:

words. You you you don't.  

[01:44:15] Jesse Fries:

Damn.   It is crazy. It is crazy. Yeah. Yeah.   I love those disparities.   Mhmm. Oh, I forgot one news story. The son of a CIA official was killed in Ukraine. Right?   Okay.   And he was a mercenary fighting for the Russians.   Yeah. Not the Ukrainians. Is that which is usually it. But, yeah, just I thought that was a bit interesting.  

[01:44:42] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. That is a bit interesting.  

[01:44:45] Jesse Fries:

Right? Right.   Let's see here. And then   how do I wanna finish this off? We got,  

[01:44:55] Jamon Fries:

which Before you get into that, I I found the reason that,   that more students are against AI. Oh, yeah. What what's up?   It's because   they feel that   they're not learning   what's going on. They're not learning any of the basic principles.  

[01:45:13] Jesse Fries:

I could check. Love it. The teachers love it because they don't have to teach as much. Yeah. Teachers are cheating just as much as the kids, if not more. Yes. Just saying. Yes. Absolutely.  

[01:45:24] Jamon Fries:

Uh-huh. But yeah. So so it's it's all about   the the the students think that they believe that they're not really learning   what they should be learning.   And they're not they're not learning how to utilize   AI as the tool   in college.   Okay. And so a lot of a lot of them are having to go outside and research through YouTube and other other video places and stuff like that on how to actually utilize AI   to increase their knowledge rather than replace their knowledge.  

[01:45:55] Jesse Fries:

Well, the reason is is that nobody knows how.   Yeah. It it it it they are at the same level in this world as professors   when it comes to AI.   Yep.   We are all trying to figure out   how to integrate it if we integrate it. Oh, yeah. Yeah. I may be one of those old guys that just doesn't bother. I'm just saying I'm almost at that point. Yep.  

[01:46:22] Jamon Fries:

Yep. But  

[01:46:23] Jesse Fries:

yeah. Yeah. No. It it it it we're all trying to figure out how to integrate   AI into our lives,   whether or not we can, whether or not we should, that sort of thing. So   it's not a surprise that there's no college courses on it. It's impossible.   Everybody's trying to figure out. Everybody's going to YouTube because nobody knows.  

[01:46:44] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And, you know, the the teachers are utilizing AI, and they're telling students that they can utilize AI to do stuff. Uh-huh.   But   the students are like, okay. Yes. I can utilize AI, but   I'm not learning what I need to be learning. Yep.   Yep.   Because AI doesn't teach me what I need to learn. It just it just gives me a little bit of information.   Yeah. Yeah. No. Completely. Completely.  

[01:47:14] Jesse Fries:

Let's see. Back to finishing it up. These are two store I have two stories here that deal   with human,   byproducts.   Okay.   So so the first one,   they're both kinda disgusting because well as human byproduct.   So apparently, some guy on a Southwest flight decided to strip naked   and poop on a seat.  

[01:47:45] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. You know, I I I I I wish that would surprise me.  

[01:47:50] Jesse Fries:

Right? Right? Yeah. Yeah. No. It it it's hilarious. It is crazy.   And then the final story,   a sperm race. Somebody actually decided about that. To take sperm from two men  

[01:48:04] Jamon Fries:

and see whose sperm was faster.   And, apparently, women loved this thing. They loved it. And and and I saw pictures of it, and you would the the, the link will be in the show notes. There's a there's a link to   they microscope it really close-up, and you can see who's winning and everything like that. You see these little sperms going in. It's all hilarious. And they have these tracks, and it's like, oh, do you go down this one or this one? Which way is the best way?  

[01:48:32] Jesse Fries:

And there was a clear winner. Just saying there was a clear winner.  

[01:48:38] Jamon Fries:

Okay.   Yeah. I I saw I saw it, on Gutfeld. They they talked about it for a short little while. Uh-huh. I I found it really, really funny because at the end, they're like, and the winner ended up on this sock.   And thank you for joining us for episode 35 of the Mindless Meanderings podcast. I'm Jesse Fries. And I'm Jabin Fries. And you guys have a great week.