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A roaming conversation between brothers covering topics from LA fires to cognitive decline.
Hosted by: 

- Jesse Fries

- Jamon Fries

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(00:00:20) Introduction

(00:01:32) Challenges with Finding Current News

(00:02:31) LA Fires and Firefighter Issues

(00:08:49) Blame and Causes of LA Fires

(00:12:00) Trump and January 6th Prosecution

(00:15:03) Hunter Biden's Legal Troubles

(00:17:00) Trump's Legal Challenges and Felony Status

(00:19:19) Celebrity Culture in the US vs UK

(00:21:19) Elon Musk's Influence and European Politics

(00:26:09) Potential Sale of TikTok to Elon Musk

(00:31:10) UK's Controversial Fines and Harassment Laws

(00:38:31) US DOJ's Consent Decrees with Police

(00:44:11) Pete Hegseth's Nomination for Secretary of Defense

(00:47:05) Legislation on Biological Males in Girls' Sports

(00:52:36) Firefighter Strength and Gender Issues

(00:55:45) Legal Threats Against Law Enforcement Helping ICE

(00:57:23) Greenland's Potential US Statehood

(01:00:49) Biden's Tobacco Industry Regulations

(01:02:21) Marijuana Tar Levels and Health

(01:04:46) Cuba's Removal from Terrorism List

(01:08:18) Podcast Value for Value Model

(01:09:31) Advancements in Prosthetic Limbs

(01:11:05) Chloroplasts in Animals Experiment

(01:13:47) Optimal Temperature for Cognitive Ability

[00:00:20] Jesse Fries:

Good morning, everybody. It is Wednesday, January 15th, and we are live with episode number 20 of the mindless meanderings.   I'm Jesse Friese coming to you from Central Kansas where I'm trying to figure out if my peeps and my jelly bellies will taste different since red number 3 is now banned.  

[00:00:41] Jamon Fries:

It very well might. Yeah. Yeah. And I'm Jamen and I'm Jamen Friese coming at you from Eastern Kansas where   when trying to find something to figure to talk about today is what's going on around here.   I figured out that the Internet really   sucks at news. Everything I found was from 2023.  

[00:01:02] Jesse Fries:

That's no good. That's no good.  

[00:01:04] Jamon Fries:

I mean, the the absolute   late or the the latest story is from February of 2024.  

[00:01:12] Jesse Fries:

Whew. That that that's, that's not good at all. That is not good at all. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. No.  

[00:01:18] Jamon Fries:

Very, very disappointing when you're trying to find out what's going on in in your state today,   and the best you got is 2023.  

[00:01:26] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. That would really be yeah.   That's not what's going on in the state.   Yeah. No. No. Accommodation.   Yep. But, you know, the people in LA, they know what's going on. You know, all those fires that's going on. Absolutely. Yeah. It's a it's a mess out there. It is a complete mess.  

[00:01:45] Jamon Fries:

And it doesn't seem like that it is.  

[00:01:48] Jesse Fries:

It doesn't seem like really anybody knows what's going on. Looks like there's so much finger pointing back and forth,   whether or not you're blaming the mayor who is in Ghana or   the,   Ghanaese,   is if that's how you say it. The Ghani's president, he was being inaugurated. And so, apparently, that's why she was over there was for his,   inauguration, but she's not gonna go to the Trump one. Not that she was invited, but  

[00:02:13] Jamon Fries:

well, yeah. Of course.  

[00:02:15] Jesse Fries:

But yeah. So that's why she was over there. And then you have the whole issue of,   people are going on that there's 3 lesbians in charge of, the LA firefighters.   So that's what was fun too. Some people are   blaming that as well.   Yeah.   And then you have people, like,   states are, like, sending in trucks and everything like that to help out.   And there have been stories saying that the Californians   are doing emission tests on the trucks.   Oh, god.  

[00:02:49] Jamon Fries:

Oh, wow. I I you know, it wouldn't surprise me if it were true, but,  

[00:02:55] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. But it's not true. It is not true. No. It it's not.   Well, if you can believe LA fire, you know, LA fire says that's not the truth. What they're doing is doing safety checks.   Like, they said some of the tires were, like, 20 years old.   And so they had to be fixed.   Some were leaking oil.   One actually broke down trying to come from Idaho   to get to the fire. It just broke down. I had heard about that one. Yeah.  

[00:03:24] Jamon Fries:

So yeah. I'd I've I've actually yeah. That's one that's one of the other things I've seen is that, while this is going on, they've got so many of their trucks are in the shop.   They they can't they can't get out there to do their job because they don't have the trucks to get there. Yep. Yep. Yep.  

[00:03:42] Jesse Fries:

And they say, like, a 100 LA fire trucks are waiting for repair.   But, yeah, to me, that   that could just be normal. You know? But Well,  

[00:03:52] Jamon Fries:

absolutely. I mean, you it it's   it I would be willing to bet that probably at least 80 to 90 of those 100   are in a state where,   you know, maybe,   like,   with my with my vehicle, you know, the knuckles are going are wearing a little bit, so they need to be replaced.   Right. I mean, it with when you're talking commercial vehicles like fire trucks, that's gonna be listed as a needed repair   even though it's not something that's going to affect the vehicle in any way, shape, or form, in performing its duties. Mhmm. Mhmm. Yep. Yep. So I'd I'd be willing to bet that that's probably what's going on with most of those 100, but it wouldn't surprise me if there's a good deal that aren't in in good repair that can't operate.  

[00:04:36] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. That's what I was thinking too because it's just part of the whole sequence and everything   like that. Oh, yeah. Yeah. But one thing I knew I knew   Uh-huh.  

[00:04:45] Jamon Fries:

That that I was thinking, you know, I used to be a truck driver, and   we you know, there there were times where we'd have, like,   50 trucks sitting in the lot that needed to be fixed and couldn't move. You know, I mean, that's just normal when you're dealing with large amounts of vehicles.  

[00:05:02] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. No. Yeah. That that's that's kinda like how I was thinking on that. So it's,   you know   but then I also found this thing where,   apparently,   LA, they only have well, they have less than 1 firefighter for every 1,000,   population.  

[00:05:25] Jamon Fries:

That seems a little dangerous. Right. Right. And, basically,  

[00:05:29] Jesse Fries:

every other major city is much better than that. It's like Houston   has is closer to 2   firefighters for every 1,000. So   Mhmm. They are, like, really on the low end   of it. The only other halfway major city that's worse than LA is San Diego.   So it's also a California thing.   Yeah. Plate.   But yeah. So and then they keep getting their budget cut and everything like that by the mayor and everything. It's   Yeah.   And apparently, their population has gone up since, like, 1960 by quite a bit. Right?   Millions of people. But they actually have less fire houses than they did in 1960.  

[00:06:12] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. It's it's amazing how that works. You know, as cities grow and stuff, they don't bother to to worry about the the infrastructure that actually protects them. Well, some don't.   Well, right. But, I mean, e even here in the town that I live in, which is just a I mean, comparatively, just a small little town. Right.   I I was talking to some,   to some ambulance pea personnel when I last time I went into the hospital, and they were saying that, you know, they've got   that they've got some areas of Lawrence that   you just can't   get that they don't have enough coverage because they haven't built a new station   in, like, 10 years.  

Well, this town has been growing massively since and expanding its size quite a bit. Right. Right. Right.  

[00:07:02] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. That's crazy.   Yeah.   Hopefully,   they had too many firefighters to begin with.  

[00:07:10] Jamon Fries:

You you know? Yeah. Yeah. They yeah. He he did say, you know, it hasn't it hasn't been a problem lately yet, but,   he could he could see a time where, if nothing else for the ambulance for the,   for the paramedic part of the of the system,   that it could be an issue with getting paramedics out to you out to people quickly if they don't build a new one further out  

[00:07:34] Jesse Fries:

Right. Very soon. Which makes sense. That does make sense. So Yep.   Okay. So   that's LA.  

[00:07:44] Jamon Fries:

Sorry, LA. It sucks to be here right now. I I I do feel for you. Yeah. Yeah. It's Haven't heard haven't heard much coming out of there. I mean, they've what? Like, 12,000 houses have been destroyed or something like that?  

[00:07:55] Jesse Fries:

Or Probably more. It's in 12,000 buildings have been destroyed. Probably not all houses, of course. Hundreds of thousands of people are, at least over a 100,000 are without a place to stay now.   Yep. And it really wiped out, like, a lot of historical,   places Oh, yeah. The Hollywood history. And then it's also wiped out a lot of rich people's,   and movie stars' houses and everything like that. So Yep.  

[00:08:20] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. I saw an art saw an article a few days ago that was talking about,   trying to pin it all on one factory that had some electrical   issues,   and they're trying to figure out if that was what caused everything to spark up and go or if it was something else.  

[00:08:36] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. Then there have been people blaming the homeless and everything like that. You you you never know. It's   it it it's a tinderbox over there no matter what. You know? Oh, it is. Yeah. There's not It absolutely is. Yeah. So with a tinderbox,   any little spark can set it off,   and it's just normal of LA, actually. There's the Yeah. It really is. There's writings from, like, the 1800   talking about all the wildfires.   You know? So   you can blame a lot of people right now are liking to blame climate change, because, well, everything is climate change now.  

[00:09:13] Jamon Fries:

Right.  

[00:09:14] Jesse Fries:

But   it really isn't. You know? It's just the way that's always been. It's like the smog. Remember, everybody goes, oh, the smog of LA and everything like that. It's because of the cars. Yeah. And then there's also historical proof that it was always smoggy. There was just always smog   because it trapped sea air and everything like that. And Yeah. It it's it's the positioning of the city. I mean, you've got a city that's in between mountains. It's  

[00:09:39] Jamon Fries:

that's got the sea on the one side. The   the the smog or the smoke or whatever they've got going on, you know, the smoke from fires back in the day. Right. You know, they they can't get up over the mountains, so it never clears out.   Mhmm. Yep. Yep. I mean, that that's just it's   geological. You you can't blame it on cars.  

[00:10:03] Jesse Fries:

You really can't. You really can't.   Yeah. It it it's almost like, Jack Smith trying to blame Trump for everything that happened on January 6th and everything like that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.   And then you get his his diatribe,   that he published. I like to call it diatribe because   that's how I view prosecutors. They always think that their case is the best. It's gonna win no matter what. Yeah. This is, prosecutors are like, yes, he's guilty. No matter what, he's freaking guilty. You know, you're like going, yeah,   that's your say so, dude.  

You know? It's not  

[00:10:39] Jamon Fries:

actual. You you know? And Well and and, you know, it it's not something that happens all the time. But in this case, especially, I think it's very obvious that   there's probably a lot of stuff that is just getting ignored because he's so dead set on him being guilty.   I mean  

[00:10:57] Jesse Fries:

Yep. Yep. He's he's he's   yeah. I understand.   Yeah.   Because you you   you you you're so focused on him being guilty or something like that that you ignore all the evidence that might show that it was just happenstance   or this or that.   You you look for the nefarious in everything. And I think that's Oh, yeah. Yeah. Absolutely. From what how I I didn't actually read the full report or anything like that, but from the excerpts and everything like that that I saw,   it it was basically just him trying to find the nefarious   in so many   things. You you know, it's   like, oh, he he he he knew that he lost.  

How do you know that? He never said it publicly. Well, we have this aid that said that they heard him say that he no knew that he lost.   So Yeah. So so you have to go down a couple ways, like hearsay and everything like that to try to figure it out.   And so   to me, that's not good enough. Not for a Carter Law or anything like that. You say No. No. Not by no means.   And so much of it other other of it is   so,   circumstantial. It's like he goes, well Yeah. He's been supporting,   the January 6 rioters,   on Twitter. He says that they're patriots and everything like that. That shows that he is guilty.   It's like, that that's actually not how it works.  

No. That's not how it works at all. That's a after the fact situation. You know?  

[00:12:30] Jamon Fries:

It's not a right then situation. So, you know, you know yeah. That's all I need. That kind of stuff happens all the time. But, I mean,   you know, when when you're coming from a the DOJ that can try to change laws so that they can   prosecute him or they   extend the,   statute on limitations   so that they can prosecute him. Yeah. I mean, it's just it just shows the corruptness of the system.  

[00:12:58] Jesse Fries:

Oh, yeah. Yeah. And and you can see that   going on the other side, the prosecutor   for,   Hunter Biden,   he released a thing himself   just today or something like that. Did he really? Yeah. He did. And he he goes, Biden's full of crap. Yeah. This was there is this this was good case law. There there is nothing nothing political about it and blah blah blah blah blah. And I'm like, what you know?   Well, I'm sure there was something   something political in there no matter what, you know.   Don't get me wrong. Hunter, he broke the law and everything like that, but   it it was fishy how the whole thing went down, You know, where he had the plea deal and then the judge and the prosecutors and everything like this all messed it up. To me, that's where the hinkiness got to.  

It was in that whole thing where the judge said, no. We won't take a plea deal in. There was something going on there that  

[00:13:54] Jamon Fries:

I I speak with. There there was, but it it wasn't on the part of the judge. Be do do you know why the judge turned the plea deal down?  

[00:14:02] Jesse Fries:

I can't remember at the off top of my head. It's because the the plea deal  

[00:14:06] Jamon Fries:

gave him a plea for a lot of things that weren't involved in that case.   It got him off the hook for a lot of things that weren't involved in that case, and no sitting judge should ever allow that kind of plea deal to fly.  

[00:14:18] Jesse Fries:

So it was just like his pardon is what you're telling me. Yeah.  

[00:14:22] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. The the the DOJ basically came up with the with a,   plea deal that would exonerate him all well, not it would make him unprosecutable   for all for many other crimes.   And the judge looked at it and said, what the hell are you trying to do with my court?  

[00:14:39] Jesse Fries:

Okay. Yeah. See, that makes sense. But, yeah, it it it there was something hinky going on, you know, with Oh, yeah. Yeah. Absolutely. Yeah. And and so, yes, there is political, but political on which way? You know, there's always something   to that end, you know. So  

[00:14:52] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it you know, it can't help but be it can't help but be political when you're talking about the president's son. I mean Right. Right.   That there's politics has to play in that.  

[00:15:04] Jesse Fries:

Yep. Yep. And if it's like a circumstantial case, like, it seems like permission the Trump one is,   you cannot   you know, if there's hard evidence, okay, you can believe the prosecutor, probably. You know? Yeah. But if it's pure circumstantial   where he has to weave this tail just to try to get anything,   you really can't believe the prosecutor on that one. He he's gotten into his own head, and he, thinks he knows what he's  

[00:15:30] Jamon Fries:

doing. That's why I think even worse. Yeah. No. Absolutely. That's absolutely true. And it gets even worse when you realize that all of this circumstantial stuff that he has   is because he confiscated   attorneys' cell phones that he could find dirt. Right. I mean, that is just insanely unconstitutional.  

[00:15:48] Jesse Fries:

It is. It is. So so so much of it would have been it's like this case in, that finally where Trump was,   what was it?   You you you had the story exactly what happened with the sentence Oh, yeah. Yeah. The,  

[00:16:04] Jamon Fries:

let me pull that up real quick here.   Yeah. Where he got in the New York case with the, with the fraud and everything else like that Right. Where he didn't actually commit fraud. But, yeah, he got an uncondition he was sentenced with an unconditional   discharge   Right. Which means that there's no no jail time, no fine, nothing. Yeah. As if the case didn't even happen.   But  

[00:16:35] Jesse Fries:

The felony still exists. Right. Right. Right. Exactly.   And, you know, I know Trump, he went off on that and everything like that.   I can understand why he did. I think it should have been dismissed,   just because there doesn't seem to be much case there. But   I personally think the appeals court, probably the first one, will just dismiss it.   Oh, yeah. Yeah. It's almost a guarantee, I would say. Yeah. And then he won't be a felon anymore. So, you know, there you go. Yep.   Yep. And and then the news has to stop. Sworn in as a felon.  

[00:17:10] Jamon Fries:

But tech is the that's the no. Right. Right. Right. But Yeah.   If it's sealed, then it shows that he 20th on 20th when he's sworn in, they will be able to say we have just sworn our 1st felon into into the presidency.  

[00:17:24] Jesse Fries:

Right. But if the appeals court  

[00:17:26] Jamon Fries:

quashed Then then he'll then that felony will have gone away, so he wouldn't have been a felon. Exactly.   It's it's just a play on words.  

[00:17:35] Jesse Fries:

Timey wimey stuff. Right? There's doctor Yep. Absolutely. Absolutely.   Let's see. Speaking of Trump and inauguration,   apparently, missus Obama   is not gonna be at the inauguration.   Everybody else will be.   The   Clintons,   Bushes, Laura Bush, and every I'm surprised that they're all going there, because last time, Trump was not his his little speech was pretty harsh against every single last one of them.   But the only you know? Yeah. The only one that won't be there is missus Obama. I I I I I wonder what's going on because she also wasn't at Jimmy Carter's funeral. So that that   that's that's why I'm bringing this up. To me, it's odd. So   there's something going on. Yeah. Yeah. It's kind of odd that she hasn't been at a couple of state events that are massive state events. Right. Right. Especially a Jimmy Carter one. You know, to me, it's like it's like the Trump thing. It's like, okay.  

Yeah. Whatever.   But but to miss both, I hope she's fine.   Really do. Absolutely.   But, yeah, it seems kinda odd that she isn't gonna be at either one of them. You know?   Yeah.   And we kinda does seem that way. Yeah. Yeah. And we don't have royals to,   gossip about, so we might as well gossip about her   or former first ladies.  

[00:18:59] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. You know, that that is kind of it's one of the interesting things about this country is that there really isn't anybody   up top to gossip about, like, tell that much, except for, you know, of course, the sitting president. But, why movie stars. That's why we do movie stars and everything. Well, yeah. Yeah. It's, But  

[00:19:19] Jesse Fries:

yeah. We see,   we   here in the United States, we love celebrity. It's what we love.   In the UK,   the it's a status thing. It's your class.   Yeah. It's like a movie star   to a lot of Brits. It's just a movie star. They don't care. Right? Yeah. But Yeah. But to us, a movie star is more of the height. And for them, it's like, what's your bloodline say? You know, that's, that's the height over there. You know? So  

[00:19:47] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. Well, it it's it's that way in a lot of countries too. I mean, you know, in many countries,   the the movie stars and the the singers and stuff like that,   the people that that perform live for audiences and stuff,   they are seen   as   kind of a servant type situation.   Yep. Where they're they're there to serve the the public. Whereas here in the   US, they are like the gods and everything they say is it has to be true and we have to follow what they do and say. Yep. That's one thing I've never understood about US culture is why do we put them on such a high pedestal   just because they know how to act?  



[00:20:28] Jesse Fries:

Well, to me, I don't think it's necessarily the act. It's just   that's all we have.   Who else does everybody in the country know?  

[00:20:37] Jamon Fries:

You you know? That's true. Yeah. That is true.  

[00:20:40] Jesse Fries:

We had the Kennedys for a while. You know, there was that. That was   entertaining, you know, following their Yeah. Back and forths and everything like that. But   beyond that, so   the lords or whatnot, if you wanted to call them that of the United States, like, they generally don't go out in public, unless if you're like Paris Hilton Yeah.  

[00:21:00] Jamon Fries:

Who has a That's true. Yeah. Little show for this. The the the children the kids of the of the   very rich go out,   and they get they get talked about a lot. But,   it it the the actual people that are out there making the money and stuff like that, yeah. No. You're absolutely right. They don't they don't really go out in the public that much. The yeah. The one the one supreme exception should now be in Musk.  

[00:21:24] Jesse Fries:

Oh,   yeah. Musk is causing problems everywhere right now. The the he is,   he's pissing off Europe, like, to no   end. I'm loving it. Oh, yeah. Yeah. I've heard about that.   Yeah. They're calling what he's doing, like, undemocratic. He's, interfering and everything like that,   which is even the Brits are saying this, which is rich because,   Keir Stormer or Starmer, however you want, whatever his name is,   the British,   prime minister.   Mhmm. During   Trump's election, during the election cycle, they sent people over here to interfere   to actually Brits to talk to us about   voting for Kamala Harris. Yeah. It's like, you know, dude,   go away.  



[00:22:10] Jamon Fries:

You're not welcome. Wait. No. That that's that's the same that's the same thing I've always thought. You know, why   is it that we get so pissed off that somebody   tries to put their foot into our elections   when we put our foot into almost every election in the world?  

[00:22:30] Jesse Fries:

No. No. I I'm I'm right there with you on that one. Yeah. Wait. Wait. You know, it's like   we we we do it, like, through the CIA. You  

[00:22:39] Jamon Fries:

know? Yeah. We do it somewhat secretly.  

[00:22:42] Jesse Fries:

Right. Right. Right. But they actually send your   he they actually sent labor party people over here Yeah. To actually to about that. Yeah. Yeah. Which is it's crazy. You know?   Yep.   Yep. And apparently,   what is it?   The Italian prime minister. Now her name is,   Giorgia,   Meloni or something like that. Prairie butchering the pronunciation.   But she she's a   she's a right wing, so she's a conservative,   situation.   And she's actually defending Musk,   because a lot of people are, like, going over there, like, saying he's a threat to democracy and everything like that. Yeah. Yeah. I have I have a few quotes from her. She said,   the problem is when wealthy people use their resources to finance parties,   political parties,   associations, and political,   opponents   all over the world   to influence political choices.  

She said Musk is not doing this. He's using his words. All he is doing   is saying that that's wrong.   He's using free speech to say that's wrong. You shouldn't be doing that. This is so undemocratic   what you're doing, so on and so forth. That's what he's doing.   Yep.   Let's   see. Let's   see. She went on. Musk is not doing that. Elon Musk financed an election campaign in his own country. So here in the United States,   for his candidate,   Trump, in a system in which, by the way, this is what she's saying.   I would point out that this was quite common for rich people to affect their own Oh, yeah. Elections. It happens all the time here. Right. Right. It it happens everywhere in the world. It's what you do. Yep. Your rich people, they finance the campaigns and everything like that, and they get the laws that they want. And all this other plebians out here, you know, we can just all suck off, you know. That's yeah. Absolutely.   She said, I'm not aware of Elon Musk financing,   political parties, associations, or political exponents   from around the world.  

This, for example,   is actually   what George Soros does. He's the one   that actually   sends money around the world trying to interfere   into, local elections Yeah. And everything like that.  

[00:25:08] Jamon Fries:

Well, he also may he also tries to buy all of the press in the area that he can and stuff like that. Oh. And he tries to silence the opposition and support it support the people that he wants to be in power. Yep. So, I mean, that yeah. That's there's a huge difference between the 2. The huge difference. And, yeah, he finances  

[00:25:26] Jesse Fries:

all these other things, yeah, around the world and everything like that. He is completely against Orban   in Hungary. He hates him, like, with a passion.  

[00:25:37] Jamon Fries:

And so yeah. Must be that Arbonne's a pretty good guy.  

[00:25:41] Jesse Fries:

I think so. Yeah. He sticks up for I mean, if if if Saros hates him, it means that he's gotta be doing a good job where he's at. To me, if you stick up for your country, you're a good guy. I don't care if you're left, right, or whatnot. If you stick up for your country,   screw everybody else.   Absolutely.   You you know, yes. Be allies with people that you actually get along with and everything like that. Yeah. Yeah. But   otherwise,   leave me alone.   You know, that that that's how I figured it. So if if somebody's gonna leave me alone, I   I'm all for it.  

So yeah. And apparently, Germany   tried to influence   or interfered in the Italian elections,   by claiming that this lady was far right and a danger to the EU and so on and so forth.   So   Yeah.   It is pure craziness.   But, yeah, Musk.   He he's the danger. Yep. He is the danger. Yeah. Yeah.  

[00:26:39] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. He's the danger because he's saying things.  

[00:26:41] Jesse Fries:

Right. Exactly. Exactly. But speaking of Musk as well,   apparently,   there might be some talking between him and China   to actually buy TikTok.  

[00:26:54] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. I've I've heard about that.  

[00:26:56] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. So if if the Supreme Court decides against TikTok, which I think they will, by the way.   It does seem that way. Well, it's for security reasons. And if the federal government says it's for security reasons,   the Supreme Court always just goes, okay.  

[00:27:13] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. Pretty much. The the  

[00:27:16] Jesse Fries:

this inner   national interest? Okay. That I'm not gonna say anything again. So that that that's your purview to decide that. It's not our purview. It's how the supreme court usually views that. So   yeah.   But yeah. They're thinking that if they don't win the supreme court, there'll be a last minute,   sell off to Musk if he can come up with the money.  

[00:27:38] Jamon Fries:

Nice.   Oh, that, reminds me of an article I just read that, was talking about how and I kind of find it kinda funny.   So   TikTok, a Chinese con company,   is   possibly gonna   be changing hands or shut down.   And so millions of people have been rushing to   another   Chinese owned social,  

[00:28:02] Jesse Fries:

media. Note, I think it's called? Yeah. Red note. Yep. Yep. Yep. Yep.   I I've seen that too. I I've seen that on TikTok. It's like, I'm going to red note, and I'm, like, going,   okay.   I don't know what to do with that. I I'm gonna let   everything wash out and then see which one to join. It looks like that one's a pain in the butt. I saw   one one of the tutorials I said is how to change the language from Chinese   to English.   And so you have to click on all these Chinese characters, and I'm like, okay. No. Oh, god. No. No. No. That's not good. I I I cannot decipher one Chinese character from another Chinese character. You you know, I, my eyes Yeah. Tuned my eyes are tuned to, like,   Latin letters.  

You know? Yes. Yes. Absolutely. Yeah. I might be able to get away with some Cyrillic maybe because they're kinda like they're they're also like,   Latin letters. So there's similarities there. So but yeah. No. Chinese characters,  

[00:29:06] Jamon Fries:

I can't tell one from the other. There's no Chinese, Korean, Japanese. I mean, I can tell the difference between them as to which language they're from.   Right. But I can't there I will never be able to   figure out, you know, this one means this or anything like that. That's just   Well, right. My brain's not wired that way.  

[00:29:26] Jesse Fries:

Those are actually different. It's like the Japanese and the Chinese, those are, like, characters based. So each character is a word. Right? Yes. Yes. And then you can build them up. Korean is actually different. Korean   is actually more of a   it's a newer written language. It it still has the characteristics   of, like, Right. Chinese and whatnot, but they're actually letters.  

[00:29:51] Jamon Fries:

So Okay. And there's a access It's are they kind of a phonetic? Is their written language a phonetic language then in sort? It's something. Because because it's a modern it's more modern,  

[00:30:02] Jesse Fries:

in how it was developed.   So, yeah,   from I think it actually if you spent time, you could actually figure it out,   much easier than Chinese is more just memorization.   But Korean, you can actually figure it out. You can actually figure out Yeah.   The sounds of it. At least it sounds, if not exact language, but at least sounds.   So yeah.   Okay.  

[00:30:28] Jamon Fries:

Yep. Yeah. That that was the one thing, you know, about the Chinese language I've always found fascinating   is the   is how,   you know, you can have   5 were 5 written words   that can be used in the same place because they have the same   sound and basically the same meaning. Uh-huh. But,   like, the story behind them is so different that it doesn't make sense for them for that to be in there for except for one of them.   And Right. You know, it just   it it's fascinating   how that works.  

[00:31:04] Jesse Fries:

It is. It really is fascinating. Yeah.   Okay. What else you got? But,  

[00:31:12] Jamon Fries:

well,   since we're off on international   stuff,   a,   company in   England is   getting a little bit of heat right now. Uh-huh.   England had hired the the,   there's this   company that's that's been hired to handle, like, the infrastructure and stuff like that of the cities and stuff.   And   they they're also the ones that send out fines for people that that dump the trash wrongly in the wrong places. Right. Right.   They find a 5 year old girl   a £1,000   for what they call fly tipping, which is illegal dump trash dumping.   Okay. I found that with the I found that even more he may more more hilarious that it's called fly tipping.  

[00:32:03] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. What's the terminology   of that one?   Yeah. I have no   idea.  

[00:32:09] Jamon Fries:

But,   but yeah. No. So they fined her 5 they fined fined her a £1,000   Uh-huh. And then threatened   to fine her more and to take her to court if she didn't pay.   And this is all because   a parcel with her address   was found on the ground   near the local   trash   dump area.  

[00:32:34] Jesse Fries:

So so it could've fallen out. It could've Yes. Could've  

[00:32:38] Jamon Fries:

The because the the tran the the trash dump was overflowing.   Right. So I guarantee it fell out. Right. Right. And it was it was something that her parents had probably tossed into a bag,   tossed the bag up,   the bag ripped apart or or the whole bag fell out, and her name was on the part was on a parcel. And so they fined her specifically   a £1,000.  

[00:33:05] Jesse Fries:

How can you find a 5 year old?  

[00:33:08] Jamon Fries:

There's a, I don't know.   But it's even worse is that when the, when the family   went to contest it, right?   The company told her that a police officer had seen her   dumping the   trash.  

[00:33:24] Jesse Fries:

Shit.  

[00:33:27] Jamon Fries:

When it was really just they found a parcel with her name laying on the ground.  

[00:33:31] Jesse Fries:

Wow.   Wow.  

[00:33:33] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. So so that city is is, very heavily thinking about not no longer,   contracting with that company.  

[00:33:40] Jesse Fries:

Right. It's it's a child for god's sakes. You tell you you you Yeah. And if you if a cop saw that happen, the cop what the cop is supposed to do is go there and say, hey. Pick that up. You know? Kind of just Exactly.  

[00:33:52] Jamon Fries:

Scare the kid in a good way to realize that figurine is bad. And then Well, I I think I think they said that before they knew that she was a 5 year old.  

[00:34:04] Jesse Fries:

It's like, once you realize it's a 5 year old, you you just need to stop. Yeah.   Yeah. Just Yeah. Just stop. It's a 5 year old for Christ's sakes. It's like   yeah.   Is it is it British law that 5 year old can actually be fined? I I don't think it's even American law that you could find a 5 year old.   Is it even possible?  

[00:34:26] Jamon Fries:

No. You you could you could find the parents of the 5 year old if they were doing something drastic. Like, you you know, if they started spraying graffiti all over the place, you could find the parents. But you couldn't you can't find the kid.  

[00:34:37] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. Yeah. Even the graffiti, that's kinda   Yeah. I know. Yeah. That's kinda iffy. You know, it's,   that that was one of the weird things about American law. You never know. Now they're trying to go after them, though, like, with the shootings at school and everything like that. They're going after the parents as well for supplying guns. So Yeah. May maybe it'll get down to where, we'd have to pay a $5,000   fine if, our kid,   littered.  

[00:35:02] Jamon Fries:

It very well could be. I mean, it wouldn't be shocking.  

[00:35:05] Jesse Fries:

No. It would not be shocking. But speaking of, crazy Brits,   apparently, there's a new law,   over there   that   if you, like, own a pub or something like that or any sort of retail establishment,   you have to ensure   that your employees   are not harassed   or,   like,   or anything like that,   to where   this is might cause problems because some people say, well, actually, this is under the proposed legislation   harassment,   because so   they can't be harassed, the employees. Right.   By customers, by the way. They can't be   harassed by customers. And harassment is defined as unwanted conduct that has the purpose or effect of violating the recipient's   dignity or creating an intimidating,   hostile, degrading, humiliating, or an offensive   environment.  

Okay. So you add all that up together,   and what do you think is an offensive   environment? What do you think is degrading?   What do you think is hostile? You know, it's like,   this this could be they're they're afraid that this will stifle just people being at the pub and talking about whatever is going on in the world. You know? LGBT,   however they view that from one side or the other,   or, you you know, anything.   So   the the Brits are really legislating themselves out of being able to talk.  

[00:36:36] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. They really are. And, you know, I mean, I I can see   I can see some purpose for those laws, but at the same time, I don't think it should be law. But, you know, I mean, you know, no, no woman working at a pub likes having the drunk guy grab her ass as as she walks by, you know, that type of thing. Well, right. Right. But that's also physical. But So yeah. Yeah. Yeah.  

[00:36:59] Jesse Fries:

For the school versus Yeah. To to  

[00:37:02] Jamon Fries:

I mean, that that'd be the same as outlawing   construction workers from doing cat calls on good looking women that were walking by.  

[00:37:10] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. Yeah. You you you know, they want to stop it. Yeah. Of course. You know? And Yeah. Most of the time, they don't do it anymore. But, yeah, it happens. And, you know, but it also falls under speech. And Yes.   Yeah. I I really don't   understand what's going on over there. They really are they have a hard on for getting rid of,  

[00:37:30] Jamon Fries:

Oh, they really do. I mean, anything   anything related to speech. I mean, you know, even memes and stuff like that from from not too long ago. I remember stories about how you go to jail for memes   Yep. Yep. If it's if it's the wrong meme. You know? And I mean, that's just,   yeah. And and then the disinformation,   I've I've heard that they're doing stuff about making laws against disinformation.  

[00:37:56] Jesse Fries:

Right.  

[00:37:57] Jamon Fries:

You know? I mean, it yeah. And anything that doesn't tow their line, they wanna make a law against, which, you know, as I've said in the past, is very reminiscent   of Nazi Germany.  

[00:38:09] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. Or other authoritarian sort of things. Yeah. Yeah. It's it's Russia communist Russia, communist China,  

[00:38:16] Jamon Fries:

You say the wrong thing, and you're in jail. Yep. Yep. Or you get fined a 1000 lucky.  

[00:38:22] Jesse Fries:

Yeah.  

[00:38:25] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. Absolutely.   Yeah. Speaking of, of those kinds of, of rules and laws and stuff like that here in the US   I guess the department of justice has been,   trying to make sure that the that they get some   court stuff taken care of before Trump goes into into office.  

[00:38:50] Jesse Fries:

Okay.  

[00:38:54] Jamon Fries:

The   dealing with the police.   Uh-huh. They are trying   to get,   trying to basically make it so that wealth policies   are   have to be taken have have to be handled by the police, and they're doing it in a way   that   Trump, when he's when he's sworn in, can do absolutely nothing about.   He can't Right. He wouldn't be able to he wouldn't be able to do a presidential order to reverse them.   There there's nothing that can be done to reverse them. You can't even take it to court to reverse them.  

[00:39:28] Jesse Fries:

Okay. Like what? And  

[00:39:30] Jamon Fries:

what they're doing is a   consent decree with the police.   Okay. Are you familiar with what a consent decree is?  

[00:39:39] Jesse Fries:

Not fully.  

[00:39:41] Jamon Fries:

Okay. So it's a consent decree   is   so 2 parties go go in front of a judge, say, like, they're doing this mostly for in Minnesota   for the, for police brutality and stuff like that. The Uh-huh. The cases from New York from from Minnesota about that. They go to they go to the judge,   and the police department   and the people bringing the the case   come to an agreement   that the police will have to take certain   certain things into consideration and take certain actions   to make it so that they are more,   so that they're a nicer, kinder police force, basically.  

[00:40:21] Jesse Fries:

Okay.  

[00:40:23] Jamon Fries:

This the the consent decree is then signed by the judge as a consent decree.   Any time and this can go for years. The the longest one running right now is 19 years. Uh-huh. Where and up until the point where the police department   matches what the board that they put together   says 100%,   any time they break the decree,   they are found in contempt of court.  

[00:40:53] Jesse Fries:

Oh, Jesus.  

[00:40:55] Jamon Fries:

But it's not a court ruling, therefore, it cannot be overridden by any other court.  

[00:41:03] Jesse Fries:

Oh, Jesus Christ.   Sounds about right. Sounds about right. All these Yeah.  

[00:41:10] Jamon Fries:

They they've got 3 cases right now that they're pushing hard and heavy to to that the DOJ was pushing hard and heavy to get this consent decree going on them, Kentucky, Minnesota, and Maryland.   And,   so they're pushing real hard. They they're they know that once Trump's DOJ comes in Right. That it's that this is basically gonna go away. I mean, you know, they're not gonna pursue this anymore probably. Right. And so they're they're pushing hard and heavy to make sure that that, that they can tie Trump's arms a little bit more.  

[00:41:41] Jesse Fries:

So okay.   Why those 3 states?  

[00:41:45] Jamon Fries:

Because those are the those are the 3 states where,   where parties like the,   where where certain parties have found that there is,   racial bias   in jailing or in ticketing   or something like that. And so they took it to court, and they're trying to enforce their view on the state.  

[00:42:08] Jesse Fries:

Got it. Got it.   They do realize that Minnesota is led by a democrat. Right? And, basically, the whole government is democrat?  

[00:42:15] Jamon Fries:

Yes. Of course. But the this group is still found that the police force there is very racist   in their in their,   in their how they deal with the public and who they deal with in the public.   You know? Got it. Got it. There's more tickets written to certain ethnic groups according to them. There's more,   there's more interactions   with the police in certain ethnic groups.   And I mean, but, yeah, I mean, there's, there's a lot that goes into all of that stuff.   It's not just, it's not just, well, you're this color, your skin is this color, so we're gonna go after you hard and heavy. It's more of, you know, in in many cases, like in Chicago,   the the cases of interactions between,   the police and the black person are much higher, but that's because,   oh, there are a lot of black people that are doing bad things too.  



[00:43:11] Jesse Fries:

Well, also just   the the socioeconomic   situation. You know? Yeah.  

[00:43:16] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. Absolutely.  

[00:43:17] Jesse Fries:

The   the poor, no matter race, color, creed,   there's more crime in those areas. Just Yes. Yes. It's a worldwide phenomenon. It it doesn't matter. Yep. You know? It's Yep. Yeah. So,   of course, because, well, that's where it is. So  

[00:43:35] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. Yeah. And and so they're they're doing they're trying to get consent decrees in those 3 states   to make it so that the police are basically controlled by a board that's not elected or   not chosen by anyone in government.   It's   their their lawyers,   psychologists,   and all this other stuff were part put onto these boards,   and none of them know anything about policing.  

[00:44:00] Jesse Fries:

No. Of course not. Of course not. Why would you want somebody that knows anything about it to actually be part of it? Mhmm.   Let's see here.   Oh,   things are kinda, you know, starting to heat up with the the nominations and everything like that.   Yep. Pete Hegseth,   he's been up on the Capitol Hill.   Looks like he's gonna make it. Looks like he'll be the secretary of defense. Probably no problem. Okay.  

[00:44:32] Jamon Fries:

That's good.  

[00:44:34] Jesse Fries:

I don't know if it's good or not. I really don't. He he he's got some issues.   But Yeah. Yeah. But, yeah, it looks like he he's gonna be able to   breezily   just get on in there. The democrats,   they tried to put up it was the most pathetic fight, really, if you   from what I can tell. They just   hegseth always had just just quick. He handled it so smoothly and everything like that. He never got agitated or anything. And Yeah. The democrats just couldn't get anything. They   anything. They tried some gotcha questions, and it never really worked.   But then the Republicans aren't actually asking him any real questions. You know, it's it's like, what color is your dog? You know? Oh, he's proud. Oh, isn't that a great thing? Yeah. Yeah. The equivalent of that, you know. It's like Yeah. Yeah. That sort of thing. So the republic but but this is very typical of, that sort of thing. Oh, it is. Yeah.  



[00:45:30] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. That's that's the way it goes no matter who's in who's the president. Their their side is going to give very softball questions,   and the other side is gonna try to rip them apart. I mean, that's just the way it works.  

[00:45:40] Jesse Fries:

It is how it works.   The only exciting thing was that's there were, like, 3 protesters at this thing.   And I know one guy, he was screaming, you're a misogynist.   You're a misogynist.   And that was it.   That that that's all that was. So I'm like, okay. Wow. Yeah. Kind kind of a boring that's kind of a boring,   hearing for that. It really is. Really is. I think he was just trying to get laid, personally. You know? It's   why why else do men get involved in that sort of thing? They wanna get laid. Yeah. No kidding.  

[00:46:17] Jamon Fries:

He he was probably interested in some woman that was wearing a blue a blue bracelet.  

[00:46:23] Jesse Fries:

Yes. He he probably has a girlfriend who or a girl that likes this, part, that's a hardcore feminist. Nothing against it. That that is how it works all the time. Oh, yeah. So many Yeah. So many guys joined the Communist Party just because there's a cute girl that was in the Communist Party back in, like, the sixties.   Yeah.   Yep.   It's how it works. It's how it works. And if you can get arrested for it if you get arrested for it, you know, you know, the the the that's showing some stuff. Like bonus points. Exactly. Exactly.  

[00:46:57] Jamon Fries:

Yeah.   Yeah. Well, you know, the the one, at the same time, the house is doing something really good, it looks like. Uh-huh.   They have, the house has   passed a law   that needs to go to the senate now. The senate's about to bring it up too   that will ban biological   males from girls' sports.  

[00:47:20] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. Yeah. I saw that. Yep. That's,  

[00:47:24] Jamon Fries:

Finally.   It's it need to happen.  

[00:47:27] Jesse Fries:

Well,   yeah. But to me, it's not like a finally thing. It's just, it takes time because nobody ever thought that you could   to begin   with. And then the trans,   things started kicking off and everything like that. And so they go, well, there's no law against it. So you have to be nice to me. So,   you know, it's like, yeah. There's no luck because we all just thought it was common sense. So  

[00:47:53] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. Yeah.   I mean, it's the one thing that I've never really understood is, you know, the the   the thought that   everyone knows   that there are massive differences between men and women. Right. Right. As far as physicality   and stuff like that. Otherwise, you wouldn't have to you wouldn't have to separate,   you know, the military or the police departments or the fire departments.   They wouldn't have to separate   a women's   standards from a men's standards.  

[00:48:26] Jesse Fries:

True. True.  

[00:48:28] Jamon Fries:

And any, anytime you have to separate standards like that, it means that there is a discrepancy between the 2.   And so   to throw   men into women's sports   to to anyone   10 years ago, that would have been an insane thought.  

[00:48:47] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. It was. It was an insane thought. And so but yeah. So what I'm saying is that it's   just   this was a new thing that came up, and so we had to pass a law. Yeah. It it it needs it's need it needs to be,   legislated because   you you you don't want the danger of a guy with Oh, yeah. That has denser bones, more muscle, and everything like that to actually cause damage to a woman that   would not have had that damage if she wasn't playing against them, a biological man.   Yeah. So  

[00:49:23] Jamon Fries:

yeah. No. Yeah. There's there's some sports that there's some sports I don't think it really matters that much.   Then there's some sports that, you know, I I find it I find it hilarious that, you know, they they talk about how   it's because they're finally playing with a sport in the body with the body that they that they think that they should be in. Uh-huh.   Yet they're never going into sports where being female   is a distinct advantage.   I have never seen   a figures a male figure skater that tried to go up against the women.  

[00:49:59] Jesse Fries:

There's that. There's that. Because females, they do things that men can't do. Men can also do things that men can't do. But, yeah, it's,   that is true. That is true.  

[00:50:11] Jamon Fries:

Anything dealing with grace   and   Yeah. With, dexterity,   women are gonna overpower men in that sport in any situation almost. Yeah. The gymnastics, the female side of gymnastics,  

[00:50:24] Jesse Fries:

because Yeah. Yeah. Biological men couldn't do a lot of that stuff,   that what women do. So   yeah.  

[00:50:31] Jamon Fries:

And I have never seen a biological male try to go into any of those sports.   Maybe they have. We just don't know it. Yeah. Who knows? Well, that very well could be. They could be, you know, they didn't win, so they didn't get so no one was talking about it. But,   you know, you've never seen it on the news. The only ones I've ever seen on the news were the swimming or the Oh, yeah. Basketball   and stuff like that, volleyball.  

[00:50:56] Jesse Fries:

Yep. Yep.  

[00:50:58] Jamon Fries:

Basically, you see it on the news because swim some woman got hurt or   the record was just completely   crushed.  

[00:51:07] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. Yeah. Or   or or it's like with volleyball, like,   every team basically,   just decided that they're gonna forfeit the round. It's like yep. No. So so so they came in second, whatever team that guy or that, person was on.   And it's like, okay. Well, that's not really   right, but, you know, move on from there. Yeah. But, actually actually, you   know, the the this whole gender thing, that that actually plays a part in that, Pete Hegseth,   nomination process.   Because he said, a while ago, he had said in his books and everything like that that he doesn't think that women should be on the front line.  

[00:51:44] Jamon Fries:

Okay.  

[00:51:45] Jesse Fries:

And so he he and so that really came up in everything like that, although, especially women in congress were like, oh, what do you mean by that? Come on. Come on. And he was like, oh, okay.   He's modified it. Now. He says, if you could pass the tests, the physical and the strength tests that are required for a man.   Yes. You can be   But otherwise, no. Yeah.  

[00:52:11] Jamon Fries:

So so yeah. Things went well. That's always been my thought too. You know, I'd as as with this with how large I am   Right. If I'm in a if I'm in a building in a in a that catches on fire,   I want a couple of male firefighters to try to pull me out, not a female, because a female ain't gonna be able to budge me. Well, speaking of that, did you hear what the head of the,  

[00:52:32] Jesse Fries:

LA fire department said?  

[00:52:34] Jamon Fries:

No. I didn't.  

[00:52:36] Jesse Fries:

So she   she she she was like, it's a TikTok video. And she was like going on about, how,   people were asking her questions. It was a news conference or something like that. And so he goes, well Mhmm. What about,   your your strength? What what what if you have to pick up a man,   and get him out of the fire? Her response was, well, he shouldn't have been there.  

[00:52:59] Jamon Fries:

Oh my god.  

[00:53:02] Jesse Fries:

So your home catches on fire, and her response is, you shouldn't have been there. Yeah. Basically. Yeah. I'm paraphrasing, mind you. It's not exactly what she said. Yeah. Yeah. It it's like you were in the wrong spot. So too bad. It it it   to to me, that's, like, that's blaming the victim. You you you know? It's like, oh, oh, it it it's like going to a woman saying, oh, you should've worn a short skirt. You know? It's like Yeah. There there's nothing you could do about it. You have the right to be where you are and dress how and everything like that. So it's like, yeah. Not not only not only is it blaming the victim,  

[00:53:40] Jamon Fries:

but it's also removing   the core   responsibility   of the firefighter   Yep. That they have. They are there to rescue the citizens.   Yep. Yep. That is their job. Gonna say, well, you know what? You got caught in the fire, so,   you know, we shouldn't, you shouldn't have been there. No but no firefighters   basically, that's saying no firefighters should ever go into the building to look for survivors.   Instead, just hose it down from the outside.  

[00:54:10] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. Exactly. Exactly. Makes sense to me, man. I mean  

[00:54:15] Jamon Fries:

no.  

[00:54:18] Jesse Fries:

They they no. That's just wrong on every in every way. It is. It is wrong on every way. But, yeah, that that's what that that was one of the news stories that came out of this,   this LA fire. It's like you're just like Oh, man. Are you kidding me? Really? You're kidding me there. Right? That's,   yeah,   fun fun.   Wow.   Yeah.  

[00:54:45] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. Stay staying in the same line of subjects.   There's some liberal groups that are threatening to sue law enforcement   in   Colorado and other blue states if the law enforcement decides to help ICE   depart the illegal aliens.  

[00:55:01] Jesse Fries:

Sue them for what?   Like, going against what the city or state said?  

[00:55:07] Jamon Fries:

No. They're gonna they they wanna go after them for,   for   the human rights, basically.  

[00:55:20] Jesse Fries:

Interesting.   I I   why why why don't they just sue ICE then?  

[00:55:28] Jamon Fries:

Well, because ICE is a federal   government. Well, right. But the thing you can't see the federal thing. This the federal's for doing that. So instead they're gonna what it's only the county it's only the sheriff's because this the police state the the local police stations, they report to the mayor. So if the mayor says we're not doing this, they don't do it. Right.   Whereas the sheriff is an elected official,   and so that I guess it makes it so that they can be sued or something like that if they do something. Well, I think it probably, depends on, like, the how it's set up in each individual jurisdiction.  

[00:56:03] Jesse Fries:

It most likely. Because I'm not sure if every sheriff is actually voted in, but, yeah, I don't know.  

[00:56:09] Jamon Fries:

No. Every sheriff is voted in. Oh, okay. Okay. Every that that's,   that's that's why   that I've always found it very interesting that the local police have to have to listen to the feds in almost every manner. So if the FBI comes in, the local police have to give way to the FBI.   Okay. But because the county sheriff is an elected official,   they can tell the FBI to shove off.  

[00:56:37] Jesse Fries:

I like that.  

[00:56:39] Jamon Fries:

Because it since it's an elected official versus a government bureaucracy, they   hold more authority in the situation.   Whereas the the local police don't have that because they're not elected officials.   Therefore,   the feds have more more authority,   but the county sheriff will always have more authority than the feds.  

[00:57:00] Jesse Fries:

That's interesting. It it was, like, last night, me and girl were watching   the FBI Most Wanted.   Yeah. And and and the sheriff was, like like, arrested   some of the FBI agents and everything like that. So I guess they must've,   have Yeah.   Odd.   Odd. I did not know it. Kinda cool.  

[00:57:20] Jamon Fries:

Kinda cool. Yeah. It is. Yep.  

[00:57:24] Jesse Fries:

Let's see here what else we got here.   Oh, Denmark, Greenland.   I guess we could talk about that a bit. Oh, yeah. Yeah.   So, yeah, apparently, yeah, Trump's been saying that he wants   Greenland, of course,   for national security reasons and everything like that.   He said many different things saying,   we'll either buy it or invade it or something. I you know, Trump. He's crazy.   Yeah.   But apparently, Denmark has said, okay. Okay. Well,   we're not gonna sell it to you,   but   you can add more bases and more troops to Greenland to, for security reasons.   And and now the PM is, like, say, of the the prime minister of Greenland because it's actually it's not part of Denmark. It's owned by the crown   of Denmark, not by Denmark itself.  

And so the PM of Greenland   is saying,   well, we'll see now.   At first, he was like, no. No. No.   And then they did a poll. They did a poll of the 50 some thousand people there.   Yeah. The poll said that 57%   of them wanna join the US.   Nice. So if they have a plebiscite   Yeah. They're they're gonna join the US. You know? I   at that rate, I don't think they have enough people,   for a statehood.   I think you need a 100,000.   But,   yeah.   So there's that. You know, we could have Greenland.   I I I'm not sure if they'd go Republican or Democrat.   Being up there in the cold, I'd almost say Republican, leave me alone sort of situation.  

Then then we could also let Puerto Rico become in. And they could be the democrat and then the republicans, so then it's all evened out. You know? More or less. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Absolutely.  

[00:59:32] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. It's insane.   It really is. It really is. I've got one more kind of political thing. Uh-huh.   Biden is,   taking his last chance at that,   at the tobacco industry.  

[00:59:48] Jesse Fries:

Okay.  

[00:59:50] Jamon Fries:

The FDA right now is trying to   is looking at limiting the nicotine levels in cigarettes.  

[00:59:59] Jesse Fries:

Okay. It's too high? Is that what they're saying?  

[01:00:02] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. Yeah. The cigarettes are too addictive,   so the nicotine is too high.  

[01:00:07] Jesse Fries:

So they wanna basically just get rid of the nicotine? Is is that basically what they wanna do? Essentially, yes.  

[01:00:13] Jamon Fries:

Okay. But they're not but they're not gonna target vaping   or   ecigarettes   or anything else that has nicotine.   It's just tobacco itself.   And, you know, this this reminds me of I I'm a former smoker.   I smoke, like, 2 2 and a half packs a day at at my highest level. It was bad.  

[01:00:35] Jesse Fries:

Remember when we, tested those, phones in Kansas City? Yes.   Yes. We were smoking, like, 2 packs a day.  

[01:00:44] Jamon Fries:

Oh, oh, yeah. That was like When when all you when all you're doing is driving around town for 8 hours a day. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That  

[01:00:52] Jesse Fries:

that was some good money.   Oh, it was. It was. I had a lot of fun doing that too. Yeah. But,  

[01:00:59] Jamon Fries:

but no. So I I remember you know, I I can't remember exactly, but I remember hearing stories   when I was growing up   that one of the reasons that that cigarettes were so bad was because of the high levels of tar.   But I also remember hearing that   the federal government had mandated that they had to increase the level of tar   so that it would replace the nicotine so they were less addictive.   Really? I haven't I haven't been able to find anything   since about that, since I started looking recently. Right. I remember hearing people talking about that. I I   don't remember exactly where it was from,   but, you know, I so my my thought on this, so if you're going so the only way to adjust the level of nicotine   is by making,   changes to the plant itself,   Basically modifying the plant to get rid of the nicotine because it's naturally in the plant. Right. Right.  

But when you do that, how else are you going to be affecting the plant? And is it going to make it so that it's even worse than it is now?  

[01:02:07] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. You never know. You never know.   And do they add nicotine   just to make it even more addictive? I don't know. It's,   who knows? That that that is a bit interesting. That is a bit interesting.  

[01:02:21] Jamon Fries:

Let's see. I have a few more kind of As I was as I was reading this about the nicotine, I ran into some articles about marijuana, how they have 40 times more   tar than than cigarettes   do.  

[01:02:34] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. Not a surprise. Not a surprise. Yep. Yeah. We're we're gonna find out all the bad things of, that sort of thing.   Oh, yeah.   Let's see.   International,   apparently,   gay people can now be priests or gay men because, well, it has to be men because it's a Catholic church. Right. But gay men can   be   Catholic priests.   I thought they were already. I'm just saying.  

[01:03:01] Jamon Fries:

Yeah.   Yeah. That's kind of, the boys and everything. Been the running joke. I mean Right? Yeah. So  

[01:03:09] Jesse Fries:

I I I I'm like, good.   You you you you need this out there? You know, it's like and and then it goes, you could be gay now. You just can't practice. It's like, well,   you can be heterosexual and not you can't practice that either if you're a priest.   So wait.   This is like a distinction without a difference.  

[01:03:28] Jamon Fries:

It really is. Yeah.  

[01:03:30] Jesse Fries:

It just makes no sense to me. He's like, okay. Well, the pope said it now. So yeah. Yeah. I'm, like, going I think that's how it always was.  

[01:03:40] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. Absolutely.  

[01:03:46] Jesse Fries:

Let's see here. Was there anything else that I had on, like, the international   side?   Oh, Biden removed Cuba from the   the list of state sponsored terrorism.   So there's that. Apparently,   Cuba's gonna release some political prisoners   for it. So   Okay.   Well, it it still won't change anything,   but Yeah. They just won't be on that list. And then because Obama did it, and then Trump put them back on. And now Biden is taking them off. So when Trump comes, he'll probably put put them back on. And then Yeah. Yeah. It's it's just this back and forth.   Yep. You know, I I I love the Cubans   and the floor Floridian Cubans and everything like that, but come on. Can we just stop this? Just just get off Cuba, you know? The the the Yeah.  

It just doesn't make sense why we're still pissed at them. It really doesn't.   You know? It's like No. And it failed. All our everything we've done failed. Now we're just making them miserable miserable for the sake of making them miserable.   And it's just  

[01:04:57] Jamon Fries:

You know, I mean, it it made some sense to   when when the you know, back in the with the Cuba missile crisis, it made some sense to try to stop Russia from putting missiles on Cuba. I mean, it seems to make perfect sense. We didn't wanna we didn't want those missiles nearby. Yep.   But ever since then,   Cuba has never really done anything to negatively impact us that I've heard of.  

[01:05:22] Jesse Fries:

No. They really haven't.  

[01:05:24] Jamon Fries:

I mean, we don't like their government, but just because we don't like their government doesn't mean that they're, like, an axis of evil.  

[01:05:31] Jesse Fries:

Right. Right. A lot of it comes down to, though,   is the Florida vote.   Yeah.   Especially, like, earlier, like, right now it's a deep deep red state.   But Yep.   Before it was a toss-up state. And so the Republicans who or whoever, both Democrats and Republicans, they were like going, well, we don't wanna piss off the Cubans.   Yeah. Yeah. Because they won't vote for us.   So Right. I think that's where a lot of it comes from. But, you you know, they just   I know some of them are still alive that came from Cuba and everything like that, but   and some come every so often. But, you know, I'm sorry.  



[01:06:10] Jamon Fries:

Let's just stop this. Idiocy. I I Yeah. It just makes no sense to me. It really doesn't. Let them Yeah. No. It it doesn't. Yeah. It makes no sense to me. So I mean, the the only the only reason that we have to even think about doing anything to them right now is because they're still essentially a communist party.   It's still communist Cuba.   And so it's the fact that it's communism is the only thing that the US could have any concerns about, nothing else because they haven't done anything   been so long.   So why are we punishing them because of the form of government that they are operating under?  



[01:06:46] Jesse Fries:

It just doesn't make a lot of sense to me. It doesn't make sense to me either. It's like China.   Yeah. North Korea, that's a whole different issue.   It's not necessarily because they're communist. You know? It's,   is Vietnam still communist? I can't remember if they are or not. But we're friendly towards   them. Yeah. We're friendly towards them, you know. It's,   you know, we've kinda made up with them, and we're all good now with them. So I I don't see   I really don't see the issue.  

[01:07:16] Jamon Fries:

So Yeah. The only the only thing that I can see is just because of their proximity,   so is how close they are to the US.  

[01:07:23] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. But   if we actually become friendly towards them, then   they won't wanna go towards the other side. So Yeah.   Yeah. You know, that's what I'm thinking. You know, just,   be happy and,   help us here at the mindless sea or mindless meanderings,   spread the word of our podcast.   Let everybody know how awesome we are or whatever.   And, we work on a value for value model here. So if you wanna pitch in and, help us out in any amount, a dollar, $300,   doesn't matter,   we would gladly appreciate it. It would help defer some of these costs. But, we do love doing this. And so please spread the word. And the more that can hear us, maybe we'll get better with a bigger audience. You know? You want a better podcast?   Help get a bigger audience. There you go.  

Makes sense to me.   No. Yeah. Yeah. The correlation might be a little bit off, but it it makes perfect sense.   Per perfect sense. Perfect sense.   What type of stuff you got, Jamin?  

[01:08:32] Jamon Fries:

Well,   found something very interesting. You know, I'd   a couple weeks ago, we talked about the, prosthetic limbs and how there was one that was doing an inflatable one.   Mhmm. Well, they've now found a way to make it so that they can operate better. You know, up till now, prosthetic limbs have always they've just attached to the nervous system   and the nerves, you know, you clench your fist or you've clench your fist in your mind, and it makes the the fist clench. And, you know, your hand actually forms a fist. Right.   But   you couldn't really do any fine tuning. You couldn't you couldn't control how strong it would hold something. You couldn't control   anything like that. So   MIT has come up with a new thing where they implant little tiny magnets into the muscles   just above where, just above where the the,   break is.  

Uh-huh.   And based on the muscle move, the and then they put sensors   next to the next to the those muscles as well.   And then based on the movement   of the magnet, if it's just a little bit of movement, it means that you're not using much strength. If it's a big movement, it means you're using a lot more strength. And so they're able to they're start they're finding that they're able to fine tune   the   con the strength of the of the of the appendages as well now   rather than just the   clench or not clench.  

[01:10:03] Jesse Fries:

Oh, that's pretty sweet.   That is pretty sweet.  

[01:10:06] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. They're they're, looking at going into clinical testing before too long. Probably in the next couple of years, they wanna go into clinical testing,   using with,   with, like, with with people that have been amputated below the knee and stuff like that. Uh-huh.   So yeah. But, if if it works out, I mean, that's an ingenious method of using magnets.  

[01:10:28] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. That is pretty cool. That is pretty cool.  

[01:10:31] Jamon Fries:

And the the great the great thing about it is that the magnets that they implant, they can be left in for life. You never have to worry about taking them out or   changing them out or anything like that.   So the there's they haven't experienced any of the rejection that that other types of implants would have.  

[01:10:48] Jesse Fries:

That is awesome. That is completely awesome. Yeah. Yeah. Yep.   Yeah. Love technology. Love technology.  

[01:10:56] Jamon Fries:

Oh, absolutely. It's a great thing. But then again, sometimes   science and technology can also be used a little bit weird. Uh-huh. Yep. Yep.   So   there there have been biologists   that have attempted to transplant,   plant chloroplasts   into animals.   Uh-huh.   And   I guess they've had some success according to them.   The chloroplasts from LG, they they put them into hamsters,   and they survived for 3 days transferring,   transferring energy into the cells.   Okay.   Okay.   Yeah. Yeah. The they're trying to make it basically so that the human being does not need to eat anymore.  

[01:11:43] Jesse Fries:

Just soak up the sun.  

[01:11:45] Jamon Fries:

Yeah.   They wanna turn us into plants.  

[01:11:48] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. So that,   is that Alanis Morissette?   Wanna soak up the sun.   It's a whole new meaning to it.  

[01:12:01] Jamon Fries:

Absolutely, it is. Yeah.  

[01:12:04] Jesse Fries:

That is   Yeah. 3 days, though?  

[01:12:08] Jamon Fries:

Yeah.   Well, I mean, you know, it's it's actually not   terribly bad because, you know, the life of a single cell is not that long anyways.  

[01:12:18] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. But Go ahead. Or film The the problem the problem is,  

[01:12:22] Jamon Fries:

yeah, the the problem is   is that every time the cell, that's one cell dies, you would then have to go and implant the chloroplast   into the new cell because   your body will never make chloroplast   in the cell.   So you would have every 3 days, you would have to go in   and get in get this get this stuff put into every cell in your body   to eliminate the food. So I don't really see what the point of any of it is. So so so was it the cell site died the cell died, or was the hamster dead?   The cell itself died. The the blood clast stopped working.  

[01:13:00] Jesse Fries:

But the hamster was still alive?   They didn't say one way or the other, but it didn't it didn't it didn't sound like the hamster died. Okay. Okay. The way you had said it made it sound like the hamster died after 3 days. So I was like  

[01:13:16] Jamon Fries:

Oh, okay.   Yeah. No. The the the chloroplast   worked for 3 days. The the article that I read didn't get into whether the hamster survived afterwards or not.   Got it. Got it. I'm kind of assuming that it did, considering that the body replaces cells on a regular basis.  

[01:13:34] Jesse Fries:

I I don't know. Hamster's dead, but but you never know. Yeah.   I say hamster's dead. Yep. Yep.   Works for me. Yep. Yep. Yep. Let's see here. One last story here. Got,   apparently there's a perfect temperature for   cognitive ability.   Apparently there's a sweet spot of 68 to 75 degrees Fahrenheit,   and that is,   the best   place for brains,   especially they they did a study of,   old folks' homes,   elderly care establishments.   And, basically, it says that this range is when they can actually have a good   cognitive ability.   Anything   if it gets too cold,   then the cognition, like, almost drops to next to nothing because nobody likes to be cold. Just saying. Right. Yeah.  

But above 75,   it it it starts to drop, but cognition is still fine and everything like that. Because heat isn't there. It it doesn't make you crazy like cold can. So it's,  

[01:14:42] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. Not not until it gets insane heat. Yeah. Yeah. The Yeah.  

[01:14:47] Jesse Fries:

The this whole but the research project, I had a problem with it because   fine. So you find what temperature it needs to be, which is the sweet spot for humanity. We all generally keep our house about 68 to 75 degrees. Right? Yeah. That's what we do.   But   this article and even the study, it seems like the whole thing was tailored towards climate change. I think they needed climate change money.   And so they go, we're good to find a way to tie   cognition to climate studies   so we can get that federal grant money.  

[01:15:22] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. Yeah. And and, you know, there's another interesting thing about this. In order to to get these readings and these for the study,   this means that they were essentially   torturing   old people   by making them   by by making them be in   in below 65 degree normal room temperature   and above 75 degree normal room temperature  

[01:15:49] Jesse Fries:

for long I mean, it had to have been for long periods of time. There is that. There is that. I never thought about that torturing old people,   bastards.   They they they probably did get consent, I'm hoping. But but then Oh, no. Yeah. Probably. Yeah. Then they they were studying people with cognition.   So  

[01:16:14] Jamon Fries:

Hey. Yeah. Yeah. You never know.   Yeah. Yeah. They they could've turned the temperature way down and then had them sign it up because, you know, they they don't operate as well cognitively.  

[01:16:25] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. But throughout the whole thing, it was like, the research suggests that as climate change brings more extreme temperatures, elderly individuals may face increased cognitive challenges unless their indoor environments are properly  

[01:16:37] Jamon Fries:

regulated. That's how it is all the time. It's got nothing to do with climate change for Christ's sakes. You know, this is It's it's the middle of winter right now, and if I went outside, my cognitive abilities might decline a bit   because it's freaking cold out there. I I think my cognitive I think my cognitive abilities actually declined   before I went outside. Otherwise, I wouldn't have freaking gone outside when it's so cold out. Yeah. So yeah. I'm sorry. No. I I Yeah. I know.  

[01:17:08] Jesse Fries:

To say   you could do the study without mentioning the climate change is what I'm basically getting. You don't need to do that because there's there's temperature gradients   without even talking about climate change. So I really think   they just went for the climate change Pell grant money or whatever. You know? Absolutely. Yeah. Yeah. Without a doubt. They go, we need money for this. How can we tie this and get some money?  

[01:17:33] Jamon Fries:

Yep.   Well, you know, there there's another one trying to get trying to get money to you. I just read today that,   there's on the Himalayas and stuff like that where saffron is produced,   They're starting to worry about the saffron plant products, so they're trying to find ways to be able to grow them in greenhouses now.  

[01:17:52] Jesse Fries:

Ah, okay. Okay.   It it's,  

[01:17:56] Jamon Fries:

well, it kinda makes sense just to grow them in greenhouses anyways. But, yeah, it's, Yeah. You you can control the climate. And, I mean, you could grow you could grow it pretty much anywhere if you grow it in a in a greenhouse.  

[01:18:07] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. And and okay. So it's not, growing there anymore. We'll find a place where on earth where it grows again. The the this is how it works, people.  

[01:18:16] Jamon Fries:

That's how it's always worked. Yeah.  

[01:18:18] Jesse Fries:

Exactly.   And thank you for joining us for episode   20 of the mindless meandering podcast. I'm Jesse Fries.  

[01:18:26] Jamon Fries:

And I'm Jamin Fries.  

[01:18:28] Jesse Fries:

You guys have a great day.