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Talking about Irish Hate Speech, Israel, the right to offend, and much more.

Hosted by: 

- Jesse Fries

- Jamon Fries

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(00:00:20) Show Kickoff

(00:01:08) Government Shutdown

(00:08:03) Qatar in Idaho

(00:10:56) ICE and National Guard

(00:15:40) China's Economic Hit and GMs magnet hedge

(00:18:42) Is This Your Child

(00:22:39) We are Dominion Now (Not us)

(00:25:40) Explosives Plant Explodes

(00:32:09) Pushing Back Against the EU

(00:36:55) Other European News

(00:42:20) Negotiations Without Key Players

(00:47:18) Third World Problems

(00:50:53) Value-for-value

(00:51:42) Business

(00:57:25) Defense and legal

(01:00:22) Studies

(01:04:01) Population Miscount

(01:06:27) UN, free speech, and misinformation critique; closing

(01:09:33) Sign-off and next episode timing

[00:00:20] Jesse Fries:

Good evening, everybody.   It is October 13, and we are live with episode 70 of the Mindless Meanderings.   And I'm Jesse Fries, and, yeah, I spent all day and the reason why we're late today is because I was sitting at a mall while my daughter and her friend shopped. It was exciting.  

[00:00:40] Jamon Fries:

I can only imagine. And I'm Jamin Fries, and,   yeah, I just sat around here waiting, playing computer games, doing not much until he got back.  

[00:00:51] Jesse Fries:

The fun times of a podcaster.   Oh, yeah. Yeah.   Absolutely.   Okay. So,   looks like we got some stuff here. So what should we start? Just a little bit. Just a little bit.   I guess, Trump. We can start with Trump. He   he basically told peep heads Hegseth, of course, that, he should just use some mysterious funds to pay the troops.   So   I don't know what I don't know what funds those are. He says they've he says they've got them, but I have no idea what funds he's talking about. Yeah. Exactly. I don't know if anybody does. Let's just pull it out of the hat and say we paid. Yeah. You know, that's how the government works anyways. So It really is. Yeah. Yeah. The Fed just can say, okay.   Yeah.  

No. This shutdown is crazy. I I I it's It really is.   But then also, again, it's not because nobody really seems to care.  

[00:01:55] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. I it is. Well, I mean, it the the effects the only people it affects is,   government employees because they don't get a paycheck at the end at the end of the middle of the month.   Right. Right. But Those the only people that are affected by it. You know, it it it used to be a huge deal because social security checks couldn't go out, The food stamps wouldn't go out. None of that stuff would none of that money would be sent out. But now it's all automated, and it's already approved by congress. It's it's one of those things where congress doesn't even have to doesn't even have to vote, put it into a bill to to to pay it. So Mhmm. Yeah. I mean, there's absolutely nothing that a government shutdown affects  

[00:02:36] Jesse Fries:

for the normal person. Yeah. It really does. It really doesn't. It's just we go, okay. Let's move on with life, you know. Now if you're trying to, like, get your disability set up, yeah, you're kinda screwed. Yes. Yes. You're trying to get a passport, like, I should be doing? Yeah. You're screwed. Things like that. Yeah. You know? But in general,  

[00:02:55] Jamon Fries:

not so much. Not so much. We can just keep going with life. That another one that would normally be affected by it is, a company that was trying to get an IPO. Uh-huh. The s in order for the SEC to   to authorize them from IPO,   the government needs to be running.   But they've got a policy in place   that   if the government   shut down,   you file the paperwork.   If, like,   a couple of weeks later,   it hasn't been approved, it just automatically goes through, and they'll look at it afterwards. But you'll already have your IPO.  

[00:03:33] Jesse Fries:

Well   so, basically, if you wanna do an IPO and it's a bit shady, just wait for a shutdown is what you're doing. For a shutdown and you do it. I'd hope it's a long shutdown.   Sounds like a plan. Sounds like a plan. Yep.   But then there's also those federal workers that Trump has laid off. He it's been said that he fired people.  

[00:03:53] Jamon Fries:

I have I've heard that he was going to. I've never heard that he actually did yet. I have heard that he has begun laying off federal workers,  

[00:04:02] Jesse Fries:

but I don't know who. That's the thing. It's like, who who? It doesn't say who. It just says he's begun. Yeah.   So I I don't know. Okay.   I really don't know who exactly   they're talking about. It's like maybe the EPA has, like, 20 or 30, but that's about it's just the it's probably just small,   piddly little things that they were about to retire anyways. But, yeah, in general. Probably. Or  

[00:04:28] Jamon Fries:

or re or places where massive redundancies   were happening.  

[00:04:33] Jesse Fries:

Mhmm. Now let's see here. The here's a here   there's a graph, and the the graph disappeared. It had all the fun.   Oh, seriously, it just disappeared. Interesting.   Alright. Alright. Let's see. Let's see if it pops up again.   Where do I have to scroll?   Let's see. Commerce, 315.   People, education, 466.   Energy, a 187.   The the biggest is treasury at, $14.46,   and that's it.   So,   h s   HHS,   1,100,   but,   surely, not too many. So  

[00:05:09] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. That's   actually pretty tame compared to what I what he was say what what people were saying he was gonna do. Yeah. People were saying, like, hundreds of thousands.  

[00:05:19] Jesse Fries:

Yeah.  

[00:05:20] Jamon Fries:

So Yeah. It was instantly gonna become a very small government. Yeah. Yeah. Would have been nice, but It would have been. Yeah. You know, it's like,  

[00:05:29] Jesse Fries:

there's all these things that are set up in a certain way. And   even if you wanna do it, you really can't sometimes.   You know, it's just   you can get rid of a few people, of course. You know? There's always a few you can, can, shove off, but  

[00:05:44] Jamon Fries:

during that time fire some people in the Capitol Building.  

[00:05:49] Jesse Fries:

But who? See, that that that that's all underneath them. That's not really up to him at all. No. I I know that. But do you know how much they spend every year  

[00:05:58] Jamon Fries:

just to do normal business?  

[00:06:00] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. Yeah. A lot.   Billions.  

[00:06:02] Jamon Fries:

Mhmm. Yeah.   And that's just paychecks   and   reimbursed for dinners.  

[00:06:09] Jesse Fries:

But   they are a branch of the government. So I I don't know. I I understand that. But I mean I'm okay with that.  

[00:06:17] Jamon Fries:

I for for me, it's it's more a matter of   the the one thing that I really disagree with.  

[00:06:24] Jesse Fries:

It's too much. Because how much they make on the side   is a hell of a lot more than that. Well, not not only that So why are we paying them? If you but if you only look at  

[00:06:36] Jamon Fries:

that amount of money and and consider that's their salary,   you're completely,   completely off the mark because they have   over millions of dollars worth of   budgetary   of expenses that they can spend on food, on supplies, on all this other stuff. So they don't have to spend a single penny on anything for themselves   for their office.   Well, right. But they for their work. They have to get a house and whatnot, you know, that they need. Yeah. Absolutely. But I mean, it's if you compare it to, like, say, teachers.   Well, right. Right. Teacher teachers don't have that slush fund. If they need more,   if they need more paper   for for artwork in in their classroom,   a lot of times they're buying it themselves.  



[00:07:24] Jesse Fries:

Right. But they're also a lot a much lower percentage of Well, no. I budget then. I didn't realize that.   Of a local school district. So it's Yeah. Yeah.  

[00:07:35] Jamon Fries:

No. I I fully I fully understand   that. But, you know, I mean, it's just   a lot of the stuff that these senators and stuff do,   I don't really see the need for it.  

[00:07:50] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. No. I can see that. I can see that.  

[00:07:54] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. I I I knew that they spent a lot of money. I just did not realize it was that much. Got it. Got it. Okay. You got anything else here for the this area?   Well, talking about money and the government and what they're gonna do with it,   They it has been announced that Qatar   that we won't actually be spending this money, but Qatar is going to build an airports   facility in Idaho.   Yeah.  

[00:08:25] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. I heard that. I it's I think it's kind of one of those   well,   Israel bombed them. We knew about it. We got messed up. This this is this has been in the works since Biden. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well, this Now this  

[00:08:39] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. This this is basically they're gonna have their I think their f fifteens there. They're gonna have some f fifteens there, and The US is gonna help them train their pilots. Yeah. It's just training facility. Yeah. It's a training facility. That's it. Yep. Yeah. Alright. Yeah. A lot of a lot of people are getting upset though because it's gonna be, you know, a foreign nation has a military base on our on our land. No. Yeah. Well, you know, if you really would think that that's bad to do something like that,   Germany, Japan Uh-huh.  

The Philippines. Yeah. I mean, that the list goes on and on and on.  

[00:09:18] Jesse Fries:

And and not only that, but, you know, I'm sure they won't be able to have live weapons or anything like that. So, you know, it's like Yeah. I I highly doubt they will.   So who cares? You know, the the it's a training facility. You know? Yeah. There's no other reason for   for Qatar to be there. There isn't. No. Or cutter. However you wanna pronounce it. Yeah.  

[00:09:41] Jamon Fries:

Cutter, Qatar, however you pronounce it. I Yep. Yep. I've heard it both ways, so I don't really know which one is right.   I'm assuming Cutter   because that's how most of the politicians say it. Yeah. But anyways,   they have a lot of money to spend. So this will probably be the most the best provision  

[00:10:00] Jesse Fries:

base in The United States. It might be. It might be.  

[00:10:04] Jamon Fries:

Everybody every all The US sold all the US air force personnel will wanna go there to train the people. Yep. Yep. Yeah. Have better food and all that other good stuff.  

[00:10:14] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. I I really don't see an issue with it.   As in Idaho,   So, you know, land of the potato.   You know? Nothing against you Idahoans out there.   Is it Idahoan, or what is it? Idahoan?  

[00:10:28] Jamon Fries:

What is it? It's Idahoan.  

[00:10:30] Jesse Fries:

Idahoan. Okay. Okay.   Pretty. Idahoia.   Yeah. Yeah.  

[00:10:35] Jamon Fries:

I don't. No. I did.  

[00:10:38] Jesse Fries:

It's like Michigander.   It's like, why is it Michigander?   But, you know, it's Michigander. You know? Yeah. It's Yep. Well, it's also Michiganian,   actually. It's both of   them. Just saying.   One newspaper does one, and then the other newspaper in Detroit does the other one.   Interesting.  

[00:10:56] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. Yeah.   So another another big thing that made the news is, Homeland Security has reassigned   a lot of their CISA   cyber staffers  

[00:11:09] Jesse Fries:

Uh-huh.  

[00:11:10] Jamon Fries:

Which the CISA is basically their the Homeland Security Investigative   that they do basically what the FBI does. They they research and they investigate crimes.   They they've they've reassigned hundreds of their cyber staffers to,   ICE   and   stuff like that to help with the deportation crackdown.  

[00:11:33] Jesse Fries:

Makes sense.   I don't see why not, you know, just readjust your levels and everything like that. If you don't need them for,   cyber  

[00:11:44] Jamon Fries:

for the other things, why not? You know? It's Yeah. If if you if, if the cyber attacks that are happening aren't really   big ones, then Yeah. Lots of people that you can have do other  

[00:11:57] Jesse Fries:

And I that I'm sure NSA has some cyber, CIA has cyber, you know. It's like yeah. It's a whole bunch of different things, you know. So it's Without a doubt. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. So okay. That's cool. See, this is how most people should read this news. Not like, oh my god. He did what? You know? Just go, okay. You know? Maybe there's something I don't know. It's okay. You know? Then we can go from there.   Let's see. The judges keep, supporting Trump on the National Guard thing.   This one was in Illinois.   A judge   lifted the block of, mobilizing National Guard troops in Illinois. I think there's still another block  

[00:12:35] Jamon Fries:

because there's just way too many blocks. I don't know. From from what I from what I heard, it was a partial judgment for Trump. Right. Right. They allowed them to stay in Illinois, but they couldn't deploy onto the streets.  

[00:12:50] Jesse Fries:

Yeah.   Yeah. Because that was a separate case or something. I don't know. It's all stupid. It's just  

[00:12:57] Jamon Fries:

Well, you you know why you you know why that decision was made. Why?   Well, it's because all of a sudden, last week,   for the first time since   since the since ICE started doing what they're doing in Chicago  

[00:13:12] Jesse Fries:

Uh-huh.  

[00:13:15] Jamon Fries:

They sent the state patrol to arrest people in front of the ICE building.   Wow.   I mean, there there there were videos of it. There were, like, 50 state patrol officers that went there, and they they arrested,  

[00:13:31] Jesse Fries:

like, half a dozen people or something like that. You you don't see this is the thing. You don't want the National Guard? Do your damn job.  

[00:13:38] Jamon Fries:

Exactly.   They're doing it now so that they can claim a win when the judge says, well, it's taken care of.   So I'm not gonna I'm not gonna let you bring the National Guard in. Right. Right. They'll probably send you that a win even though they did what the National Guard would have been going to do because they weren't doing it. Yeah. Yeah. No. I I I'd say a Trump win. Plain and simple. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's like   so okay. So we Okay. Fine. I I don't get the National Guard in there, but   your officers are now protecting the federal people. Right. Right. So now the  

[00:14:12] Jesse Fries:

new thing is for Trump. Because all he wants is peace and let his ICE people do what they're doing. Yeah. Yeah. So the new operandus here then would be to   basically just   get the troops in there,   sit and go, well, if you don't do anything about it, I'm gonna start deploying the troops.  

[00:14:32] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. Exactly.  

[00:14:34] Jesse Fries:

And so then Oregon, Illinois, everybody will just go, well because that's what happened in California too. Because, Oh, yeah. Yeah. Newsom, he started,   throwing his,  

[00:14:46] Jamon Fries:

the state troopers out as well and everything like that. It it's amazing how when when the federal government, when Trump decides,   you know, you're not gonna support our our people, so we are going to go in and protect our people. Mhmm. It's amazing how fast they decide to support the federal   agents.  

[00:15:03] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. Yeah. Just just how about you just do your job to begin with?   Yeah.   Otherwise,   yeah, you are actually going against just   everything. His Yep. History. Your how these   different agencies   interact with each other. You're completely changing that. And, generally,   the Supreme Court will even look at history. And if it's historical in nature, like, that's just the way it is that the everybody supports everybody, they're gonna side with Trump.   Oh, yeah. Yeah. Big time. Plain and simple. You know? It's   whether or not you agree with the policy. Yeah.  

[00:15:40] Jamon Fries:

In tariff news, Trump is threatening now threatening 100% tariffs in addition to the current tariffs on China.   Yeah. The bare earth mineral thing, the restrictions.  

[00:15:52] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. That is crazy what China did. That is really crazy.  

[00:15:56] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. That I I heard one guy talking about it, and I I can't say he was wrong.   He he's like, they see Trump doing   this here and that there and solving problems here and taking care of wars here.   They see him doing stuff all over the world,   and they had to do this to remind people that they still have power  

[00:16:20] Jesse Fries:

Yeah.  

[00:16:21] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. That they're still significant.  

[00:16:23] Jesse Fries:

It's also to try to cut   them from actually   interacting with us, that sort of thing. Yeah.   Yeah. And and if you guys don't know what it is, basically, what it is is that China came up with this idea that they do rare earth elements and everything like that. And so then they ship them to another company in a different country,   and then that company is trying to sell them to another   company, another country.   And it's that part that China is trying to control.   China is saying that you can't if we sell you a product, you can't sell it to a country we don't want you to sell it to. Yeah.  

[00:17:02] Jamon Fries:

Which They're making they're they're making companies register with them Yeah. To be able to buy the to be able to buy the materials.  

[00:17:09] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. It is completely   messed up.   Yeah.   It it's   it's   yeah. And they control pretty much   all of the rare earth,   elements right now. There's some in Africa and everything like that, but China   truly controls, the majority of it.   Mhmm.   Except for   there's one company in The United States, one automotive company that really,   is sitting pretty right now.  

[00:17:37] Jamon Fries:

Oh, is it how why is that?  

[00:17:38] Jesse Fries:

GM, General Motors,   back in, like, '21,   they came up with a partnership,   for   magnets.   Okay.   Basically rare earth magnets. They   heavily   put money into it.   Okay. Invested in rare earth, elements, and it's starting to pay off now as in they're actually getting product back. It costs more than the Chinese stuff.   But given this other thing, they might be the only ones with these magnets.   Wow. Yeah. That's pretty big. Yeah. Yeah. So right now, GM is sitting nice and pretty.   They're, like, going, okay. There's probably other elements that they might be screwed on.  

[00:18:23] Jamon Fries:

Right.  

[00:18:24] Jesse Fries:

But these are, like, magnetic the magnets,   that, the EVs require and everything like that. Not that they're gonna be selling many EVs, but, you know.   Yep.   But yeah. So yeah.  

[00:18:37] Jamon Fries:

Oh, that's cool.   Yeah.   Yeah. So down in Texas  

[00:18:42] Jesse Fries:

Mhmm.  

[00:18:43] Jamon Fries:

There was a,   a trafficking operation that got busted   that that was targeting the   undocumented   minors that came up. Uh-huh.   And   they've they rescued more than 30   at the time. Uh-huh. But they've also located   quite a few of them now. They've they've they've located over 2,000 of the kids,   and   a lot of them have returned back to their parents now. Nice. Nice. They wanted to go back to the parents. But,   yeah. No. Looking at the numbers and stuff, it was just insane.   Along those lines, you know, that they've the Trump has now made it so that in order to   in order to   claim a child   from   from the,   from   the border patrol   Mhmm.  

You have to   basically, if I remember correctly, provide DNA to prove that you're their that you that you're their parent.  

[00:19:54] Jesse Fries:

It kinda makes sense. It kinda makes sense Yeah. Given that some of these people are just trafficked.  

[00:19:59] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. Oh, yeah. I mean, it's it's amazing how many people   went in claiming that it was their children, but it was, like, the fiftieth person that they claimed.  

[00:20:10] Jesse Fries:

Yeah.   Exactly. And   under Biden, they never checked.   No. They didn't. They never checked. They go, oh, you're claiming them. Okay.  

[00:20:19] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. It is. There was absolutely no there there was zero work done   when somebody came in to claim a child.  

[00:20:26] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. Yeah.  

[00:20:29] Jamon Fries:

Which just doesn't make sense at all. Oh, not at all. Especially considering that we're treating them differently because we need to protect them. Right. Well, who the fuck are we protecting them from if we're just letting them go to anybody?  

[00:20:41] Jesse Fries:

No. Exactly. You're not protecting them at all. No. At all. You're giving them right to people that might be abusing them. You know? It's not   it is not good at all. Speaking of immigration, though, there is a benefit for this huge,   you know, with the truckers. They're really, like, cracking down on Yes. Illegal truckers and everything like that.   And, apparently, like, just one day in Oklahoma,   a three day sweep on I 40,   they netted 90 illegal drivers   in semis.   And there have been reports of, as high as, like, a 120   in a sting or a 130   in other stings. You know? So Yeah. Yeah. The the 121  

[00:21:28] Jamon Fries:

was there  

[00:21:30] Jesse Fries:

was a few weeks ago. I had talked about that one here on the show. Yeah. Yeah. But, this story, it was talking about how this is it's helping American truckers, like, real American truckers as in Oh, I can imagine.   Usually, this guy for this one trip I can't remember. I don't know exactly the trip details or anything like that. But, usually, he would   get about $1,200   for the trip. Okay.   Now it's up to 18.   Somebody called him. Just actually called him saying, can you please do this for 18, please?  

[00:22:03] Jamon Fries:

Wow. And he's going He's probably an independent driver then. So Yeah. Yeah. No. That that's that's really where it's sitting right now is the independence. Yeah. Yeah. It it won't be into the into the, company drivers yet because they're Right. Getting their normal pay per mile still. Oh, yeah. Yeah. But these independent drivers?  

[00:22:22] Jesse Fries:

Yeah.   So Damn.   Yeah. That that's that's good because independent drivers have it pretty tough. Oh, they do. They do. That's a 50% increase.  

[00:22:33] Jamon Fries:

Yeah.   That is a good chunk of change.  

[00:22:36] Jesse Fries:

That is a good chunk of change.  

[00:22:40] Jamon Fries:

There you   go. Then on to some national news. Uh-huh.   A former GOP election official   who started up a company a while back that was,   it was being used for,   to look into   improprieties in voting Right. During the twenty twenty and twenty twenty two election.  

[00:23:07] Jesse Fries:

Mhmm.  

[00:23:09] Jamon Fries:

He just bought Dominion Voting.  

[00:23:12] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. I saw that.   And I'm not sure if the headline was real or anything like that. But it was, like, Democrats now wanna go after Dominion voting.  

[00:23:23] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. I I've heard that. It's like, the the one the one of the headlines I saw was that Democrats   now want to   want to,   do, like, the in person voting.   Uh-huh. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. They wanna they want you have to show ID and all this other stuff  

[00:23:43] Jesse Fries:

because all of a sudden the tables are turned. That sounds good to me. Let's do it. You know? That's what I want. You know? I'm all for that. Fair elections. That's all I want. You know? Just,   you you know, I don't   show up. If you can't show up, well, guess what? That that that's how it is.   Yeah. You you know, it it that's how the world works. Generally, that's how the world works. Why should it change? Because we have new technology. I don't think it should. Yeah.   Yeah. Get the ink on the finger. I love that one. The ink on the finger that they do, like, in Kenya and whatnot. Yep.  

[00:24:16] Jamon Fries:

Well, almost everywhere that we're involved in their elections,   they have to do the ink on the finger. Yeah. We require them to have much in person had you have to do the ink on the finger. They have to show ID. Yep. And it's a paper ballot that's counted manually, not by machine. Mhmm. But for us   Yeah. Because they know they can't I mean, the the and those are regulations that we as The United States enforce   on their voting,  

[00:24:43] Jesse Fries:

like, on their elections. It's not like it's something that they chose to do. No. Yeah. But, you know, you you you see that that's a funny thing about America. America is hilarious. So it it's the same with, like, political systems.   It's like Yeah. When we set up a political system,   we set it up parliamentarian.   Yep. We do not set it our our way. We set it up with a prime minister.   Yeah.   Why?   We  

[00:25:10] Jamon Fries:

I love our system. I think it's a great system. I do as well. Why are you doing parliamentary? System allows allows us to be as strong as we are, which is why we can't let anybody else have our system.  

[00:25:22] Jesse Fries:

Possibly. Possibly. I just find it hilarious. I truly find it hilarious. Yeah. It it is. It is. It's hilarious.   Do as we say, not as we do. You know, that's the American way. That is the American way.   Let's see here. Uh-huh. Go ahead with yours.   Oh,   so in Tennessee a few days ago, there was a huge blast   at, explosive company. It was a military explosive plant.   Everybody's dead,   that was in the shop.   I think it was, like, 18 or so dead. 19 people dead,   Yeah. Or missing.   It was just a huge it shook the earth is what it did. It was just Oh, that that happens when the the explosive plant goes up. Yeah. Yeah. It it's a dangerous job.   It is   usually, they get paid   pretty decently because of that danger. But, yeah, it's, Oh, absolutely.  

Yeah, it sucks. It really sucks. But, yeah, it was just like either her life insurance premiums would be   If they can get it   with that sort of job, you know, it's like you work where? You know, it's,  

[00:26:34] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. I I I hate to make light of the situation,   but   that's just the first thought that popped into my head was,   you know Yeah. Come come the the you know, you were talking about the pay and part of pay is the pay package, which includes life insurance. And I'm like,   I wonder how much they have to pay for that. Holy Yeah. Yeah. That'd be a lot.  

[00:26:55] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. It'd be yeah. If you look at photos, the it's just wiped off the planet. Oh, yeah. Yeah. It's just  

[00:27:01] Jamon Fries:

I I wouldn't be shocked if there was absolutely nothing left within, like, a five mile radius almost. Oh, it wasn't that big. All the trees I mean, of the building stuff that Oh, yeah. Yeah. It's just debris. Yeah. Yeah. It's just debris. Far away.  

[00:27:16] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. Just debris.   Yep.   Yeah. It awfully sad for those people there. So  

[00:27:22] Jamon Fries:

Oh, yeah. Yeah. It it definitely is.  

[00:27:27] Jesse Fries:

And then you had something?  

[00:27:29] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. Marc   Banoff, I think is how you pronounce his name. I'm not sure.  

[00:27:34] Jesse Fries:

Benioff?   I don't know. Benioff, maybe.  

[00:27:37] Jamon Fries:

He was someone who has donated millions to liberal causes.   Okay. Is now asking is now telling Trump that he needs to deploy the National Guard to San Francisco to help clean the town up.  

[00:27:52] Jesse Fries:

It'll actually make San Francisco actually clean up some damn cells.  

[00:27:56] Jamon Fries:

Yeah.  

[00:27:57] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. Yeah. No. His,  

[00:27:59] Jamon Fries:

his PR people were just lummoxed when he said that because, you know, this is like a complete one eighty from anything he's ever said.  

[00:28:08] Jesse Fries:

See, the thing is and, seriously, it's not   the problem that conservatives have had, especially with the Democratic Party, it's not it's not just the trans. It's not it's not that. It's also just this whole   aspect   of fuck the law.   Just because just because the law says   just because they murdered somebody doesn't mean that we need to throw them in jail. Just because they Right.   Held up   they they stole thousands of dollars don't doesn't mean they need to go to jail. Crap like this.   Yeah. All it has done is led to worse crime.   That's all it's done. I I it it doesn't make any sense.  

I I I really don't know where they thought. They they they really thought there was a social issue. Well,   yeah, kind of. You know? Try to teach them that they get a job and help them out, get a job, education, things like that. Go for that way. Don't Mhmm.  

[00:29:03] Jamon Fries:

Stop. Well, it's the the thing is Processing, you know, for god's sakes. It being a social issue does not   take it away from also being a legal issue. No. Exactly.   Social aspect. Yes. You can work on the social aspect. You can try to get them   to   not commit the crimes that they're committing.   Yep.   But you have to the you're they're not gonna you're you're not going to be able to affect their their social   outcome   without first   enforcing the laws to tell them this is not something that's allowed to happen.  

[00:29:37] Jesse Fries:

And the laws   are society's way, a social   construct   Yes. Of telling people what they can do and that there's consequences to it. Of the proper behavior. Yeah. Yes. Yes. Without that,   you have anarchy. You know?   It's and all of   our Western countries here, we have this issue.   All of us. Oh, yeah. We're   Absolutely. I'm not sure if any of us are immune to it. You know? It's No. We're not.   It's truly pathetic just letting people get away with things left and right. You know?   Yeah. Europe has their problems. We have our problems. But, yeah, we just need to stop that. You know? It's,   the law is the law, and you go by that law. One law for everybody.  



[00:30:19] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. Well, it's like up in Portland just recently here now. There was   a large group of people on bicycles   that were protesting   ice Mhmm. That   stripped down and just laid on a bridge.  

[00:30:36] Jesse Fries:

Yeah.  

[00:30:39] Jamon Fries:

And then they run their bikes to the ICE facility.  

[00:30:42] Jesse Fries:

Uh-huh. Yeah. Yeah. The naked bike riders. Yeah. Yeah.   You know, to me, that's just   that's funny in my book. Oh,   absolutely. Absolutely. It is hilarious. So so so if you could have some comedy, you you know, or   or you you know, those press, the, what is it? The La Femme or something like that over in Europe?   They they protest   whatever social construct,   and it's just a bunch of women going topless. You know? It's like,   okay.   Keep protesting.   It sounds good to me. You know?   Yep.   No. No. No. With that movement, it it's always   it's either, like,   young, like, 18 to 20 year olds or   60 70 year olds. Like like,   all the other women are busy working and raising families,   but Yep. It's just doing that. So you   you you you get the you get both worlds. You know, it's Yeah. Yep.  



[00:31:45] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. Here in The US doing it, it's usually   it's predominantly   male.   Yeah. Yeah. That that bike ride thing, I'd I'd say maybe a quarter of the people in it were were female. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Well, the La Femme movement, it's more about,  

[00:32:02] Jesse Fries:

like, women's issues is really what it is. So that's why it's women. So Yep. Yep. Yep. Yep. Yep.   Let's see here. Let's, since I was talking about La Femme, that's your European,   let's,   stick with Europe. Why not? Alright.   Okay. So Ireland,   they've actually told the EU   that, they are not going to do the hate speech laws that the EU wants to   mandate all all over Europe.  

[00:32:31] Jamon Fries:

Good for them.   Yeah. Yeah. They're pushing back. They're pushing back. They're not the only ones either. It's Is Ireland part of EU right now? Yeah. Ireland is part of the EU. Yep. Okay. Mhmm. I knew I knew that Great Britain had separated off. I didn't know if Ireland had ever Well I didn't even know if Ireland had been part of it. Well, Ireland, it it it's there's Northern Ireland and Ireland.  

[00:32:53] Jesse Fries:

Right.   Northern Ireland, what, the five counties or something like that? Yeah. That's part of Great Britain. Yeah. Yeah. But that right there is a tension in between Great Britain and Europe because   because of the   British to to end the troubles,   the British and   the Irish,   they had a deal to where, basically, Northern Ireland   and Irish would be considered it it's separate countries, but it'd be   for ease of use and everything like that would be considered one country.   Right.  

[00:33:26] Jamon Fries:

You wouldn't have to get a passport to go back and forth and stuff. Correct. And also goods. This Yeah.  

[00:33:33] Jesse Fries:

Excuse me. Got something in my throat. Hold on.   Let's see if that's better. Okay. So   so, basically, right there is just some tension and everything like that. Yeah. Because   Ireland,   the EU won't allow   goods to go back and forth smoothly if they came directly from Britain into Northern Ireland.   And so there's this huge dispute and everything like that. They're still trying to fix it. They haven't come up with a new way.   Yep.   But, you know and   not only that, but, you know, other people are pissed off at, the EU too. Italy is threatening to leave   Oh, really? Because of yeah. Because of financial situations.  

The EU commission was trying to   put things down on Italy and everything like that, and their prime minister, Xi, was like,   no. This is enough. You know? Yeah. You you you can't do this to you you you're completely destroying us.   Yeah. With all the regulations. There's so many regulations out of   which is Oh, yeah. Yeah. Technocratic   authoritarian  

[00:34:40] Jamon Fries:

regime if you ask me. The problem that I've always seen that was going to show its head with in because with the EU,   at some point in time, it'll show its head Mhmm. Is that   you essentially have two governing bodies running each and every sing separate country.   You know, you have the EU   that   acts as if they're above   their own another country, but they haven't taken the sovereignty from that country. Right. Right. Yep.   That's a that's a failing proposition.  

[00:35:12] Jesse Fries:

It will never work. No. It is. It it is a failing proposition.  

[00:35:17] Jamon Fries:

You either have to you either have to eliminate the fact that there are many nations in Europe and just form one year   one union with it Uh-huh. And get rid of all the other nations' governments Yep. Or   you need to just let the nations do what they're gonna do.  

[00:35:33] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. No. It's just like, when,   the original colonies had   the articles of confederation   Yeah.   Before the constitution was created and everything like that. Yep. Because it was just too loosey goosey.   Oh, yeah. Yeah. There was no defined   anything. You know? It it was just a mismatch, and that's really what the system is over there. It is   it is completely horrible.   And then you also have, like, the commission,   the EU commission that is not it's not democratically elected.   But they put so many regulations out there Oh, yeah. Without any input from anybody else. Yep.   Yep. And so even Hungary, Hungary is joining Italy. They're like, go, it's about time to, maybe end this, whole thing. You know? So Yeah.  

Yeah. Yeah. It is.   Yeah. Yeah. It's it's a crazy   situation going over there right now. It's, absolutely.   The world is crazy right now.   Yep.   The world is a vampire.   Great song. Yeah. It is. It is.   Oh, let's see. Oh, I have more, European news. I might as well stick with that while we actually, I have quite a few, European. Let let's stick with that, and then we get to the other ones, some of your stories. Okay.   Let's see here. Apparently, the French president, you know, the prime minister resigned. Right? Yeah.   Well, the French president, McGraw, he just,   appointed that same guy to be prime minister again. So   so   So he didn't accept the resignation even though he No. No. He no. Technically, he did. He accepted the resignation,   but then he goes, well,   I have nobody better.  

Please try to get a government going. That that that that's basically what it is. That those,   yep. Yep. Yep. Yeah.   Mhmm.   Interesting   times. Right? Right? And then speaking of China, the Dutch government,   has decided to take control of a Chinese owned chipmaker,   Nexperia.   So because of all what China's doing with the rare earth elements and everything like that Right. Yeah. They don't trust the Chinese companies.   And so they actually took over a chipmaker.   So   yeah. Mhmm.   Damn. Which is funny because that's what the Chinese usually do. So Yeah.  

[00:38:07] Jamon Fries:

That's what communism   and socialism  

[00:38:09] Jesse Fries:

usually does. Exactly. Exactly. Well, the   holiday is kinda socialistic. I'm just saying it. You know what I mean? Yep.   So yeah. Yeah. That's what the Dutch did. That's what the Dutch did. And then I have one good story out of Europe. I have one good story out of Europe.   So a guy   back a while ago, he,   lit a Koran on fire,   in front of the Turkey embassy.   Okay.   And a judge actually said   that he had a right to offend people.  

[00:38:49] Jamon Fries:

Damn.   Right? In The UK?  

[00:38:53] Jesse Fries:

In The UK.   There is that right anymore. I know. There is a glimmer of hope.   Yeah.   Let let let's see how this goes on appeal.   But   there is a glimmer of hope,  

[00:39:07] Jamon Fries:

You know? So This is this is coming from a country where I I saw a Twitter post,   an ex post   that that was, like   that that said that, this girl this lady was singing church hymns in Uh-huh. In The UK.   Yep. The police came and told her that you could only sing church hymns in church.   You couldn't sing them in public.  

[00:39:33] Jesse Fries:

Oh, Jesus Christ.   Now now you just wanna go over there and go onward Christian  

[00:39:40] Jamon Fries:

souls. Yeah. And, like,   it's half an hour before she she was told this. Uh-huh. The the   big broadcasted   Muslim call of prayer had just ended?  

[00:39:55] Jesse Fries:

Exactly. It's like, what what are they actually thinking? Seriously? Yeah. Yeah. It's like, are you even rational?   You know, it's not Yeah. No. Not even remotely.   There's no rationality   there. You know, you let one, but not the other one religion and not the other. You know, I'm sorry, but  

[00:40:13] Jamon Fries:

every religion should be treated equally. That's what I say. Yes. You know, it's That is not how a free country is supposed to be. And No. I mean, our freedoms were all based off of The UK at one point in time.  

[00:40:26] Jesse Fries:

They were. They were. And then there's a reason why we broke off. I'm just saying. Absolutely. There's a reason we broke off. Yeah. It's,  

[00:40:35] Jamon Fries:

Because we knew that they're that they're   that the freedoms that we took that we wanted,   they had limits on them. Yep. Yep. Yep. They could be taken away at any time. Well, they were taken away. Yeah. Well, no. I I know. Yeah.  

[00:40:50] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. We had no right to anything. The way we had no representation   in parliament. Yeah. That's,   they say it's about taxes and everything like that. And, yes, it was, but it was primarily about   no taxation without representation. And it wasn't just taxation. It it would've that would've fallen under pretty much everything.   The phrase was taxation, but  

[00:41:11] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. It it was just purely that we had no representation.   Another thing that really got on people's   goats was that   British soldiers   could just   demand board at any in anybody's house. Yeah. Yeah. Have you seen  

[00:41:27] Jesse Fries:

speaking of that, I I don't know where it cover I really don't know where it came from. But, like, last week or something like that, I was seeing these TikToks   of   she Illinoisans,   like, saying,   oh, have they heard about the   four which one is it? Is that the fourth or the fifth amendment? I can't remember which one it is. But don't remember. I I may   maybe the third. I don't know which one it is. Maybe the third. I I I can't remember. But they go, oh, have you heard that one? That's the one that they're doing right now. They they they were saying, like, ice or something like that was just,   boarding, like,   being   forcing people to put them up or something like that. I don't even know where it came from. I haven't heard one news story about it. It was just on TikTok, so I'm like, oh,   okay.  

Okay. Yeah.   Yeah.   Yeah.  

[00:42:18] Jamon Fries:

Probably one more from Europe?  

[00:42:21] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. Actually, I do.   Just one more. They arrested three   terror suspects in a plot to target the Belgian prime minister.   Oh, damn.   Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And I think they were   if I remember right let me double check here before I   yeah. I I don't   they they were all   I'm trying to   see if they name them.   Young three young suspects.   Bomb squads. Blah blah blah.   I don't know who or what they are. Just, some Okay. Yeah. Yeah. So just some terror.   Don't know if it was, like,   from who or whatnot. But yeah. So Yeah. Three arrested.  

[00:43:26] Jamon Fries:

Yeah.   It's good that they got caught. Right?   Talking of terrorists.  

[00:43:33] Jesse Fries:

Uh-huh.  

[00:43:35] Jamon Fries:

Israel and Hamas have finally signed their peace deal,   their ceasefire,   and all of the remaining live hostages have been returned to Israel. Yep. Yep. And  

[00:43:47] Jesse Fries:

I think four dead ones  

[00:43:49] Jamon Fries:

have also been I I hadn't heard if any of this if any of the deceased had been released. If not now, very soon at least.  

[00:43:56] Jesse Fries:

Four of them at least. So Yeah.   Yeah. The the   that whole thing is kind of funny. You know? It's like they have this whole   ceasefire peace deal, whatever thing going on in Egypt right now.   Yep. But Hamas and Israel aren't there.  

[00:44:13] Jamon Fries:

Yeah.   I I found that very amusing as well.  

[00:44:17] Jesse Fries:

And Erdogan   Erdogan,   from Turkey and then the Iraqi   leader, they both said if, Netanyahu goes, they're not going. I was like, what what   how how are you gonna get anything done?   I just I I I just don't understand it.  

[00:44:36] Jamon Fries:

Everywhere is it they're talking about doing anything. They're talking about spending a whole lot of money to rebuild Gaza and stuff like that.   But that's currently still part of Israel.   You kinda need Israel's permission to go there and do that.  

[00:44:52] Jesse Fries:

I   you would think. You would think. But yeah. No. It's the craziest thing to me. It's like,   why don't you have these guys that like, Hamas isn't even there. Yeah.  

[00:45:04] Jamon Fries:

So it's like What you got this you got this peace deal that you've supposedly   signed, but the two parties that were at war haven't actioned it. It's like maybe the ceasefire. I I'm not sure if the ceasefire was signed. They did sign the ceasefire. Yes. They did. Okay. But yeah. Yeah. Officially signed a ceasefire  

[00:45:21] Jesse Fries:

back on the tenth, I think it was. Yeah. But, like, peace deal? Yeah. No. Neither of them are there.   It's like,   oh,   okay. And  

[00:45:31] Jamon Fries:

yet even Trump is saying that this is that this is going to usher in peace to the middle to the Middle East. And I'm like, but the two parties at war aren't even represented there.  

[00:45:41] Jesse Fries:

And and they have a ceasefire. So that means Yeah. That they're not fighting anymore technically, but they kinda are. So that means they should be able to get together.  

[00:45:51] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. One would think so.  

[00:45:53] Jesse Fries:

Maybe they're just   afraid of each one. God, your mother was a camel.  

[00:45:58] Jamon Fries:

You know? I don't know. Well, I I heard that part of the, ceasefire that was signed Uh-huh. Was that   Hamas would go through a demilitarization.   Right. Right. Right. It didn't say it didn't say that they had to give up their guns or anything else like that. They just had to go through a demilitarization.  

[00:46:18] Jesse Fries:

Right. And  

[00:46:21] Jamon Fries:

Israel   will not   withdraw out of   Gaza   until that demilitarization   has started.   That's specifically worded in in the in the ceasefire,   which means that you're gonna have two armed groups that hate each other facing each other   for a little while. I   Yeah. Yeah. Ceasefires like this do not usually last, unfortunately.  

[00:46:49] Jesse Fries:

A lot of times, no. A lot of times, no.   But, you know, Hamas is, like, fighting,   like,   a a big clan.   They've had fights with the,   Palestinian clan as well. So, you know, so it's,  

[00:47:02] Jamon Fries:

who knows? With with the war, Hamas had to go kinda go into hiding. Right. Right. Now now that the ceasefire has been signed, they all of a sudden were starting to come out again, and they're like, we don't like that you're doing that shit. We're we wanna be in control, so we're gonna have to fight you now too.  

[00:47:18] Jesse Fries:

Yep. Yep.   Speaking of uprisings and war and everything like that,   apparently, the president of Madagascar   had to flee the country,   because of a Gen z uprising.   So Oh, fun. Yeah. The military is backing the Gen z   uprising.   So Yep.   But then   the current president that had to flee   ousted the other president.   So, you know, I I I'm not it's like, okay. Well   and he he ousted it with the support of the military as well. So,   yeah, I I don't feel sorry for him, really. I really don't. So No. No. Absolutely not. Yeah. I don't know what the exact grievances are. But Right. Okay. Well, if that's the way things work, you know, Madagascar,   apparently, that's the way things work.  



[00:48:10] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. Yeah.   Yeah. Yeah. Seems I've I've got one last international   story. Uh-huh.   The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to a Venezuelan  

[00:48:20] Jesse Fries:

Okay.  

[00:48:22] Jamon Fries:

Because she has kept the flame of democracy   burning.   Oh, yeah. So so what what so what happened is is in their last election, she she ran against the Maduro.   Against Maduro.   And   according to   a lot of people,   she won.   Right. But according to the   group that these that determines the election results,   she lost.  

[00:48:52] Jesse Fries:

Right. The CIA said she won. So she has Right. Right. You know, it's a And so what what the reason that they say she kept the flame of democracy burning  

[00:49:02] Jamon Fries:

is because she   she went to a whole bunch of the ballot places   Uh-huh. And got copies of the ballots.  

[00:49:11] Jesse Fries:

Okay.  

[00:49:12] Jamon Fries:

So this proves that she actually won the election,   but it changes absolutely   nothing. And so because she can prove that she won the election,   she kept the flame of democracy burning and therefore deserved the Nobel Peace Prize.  

[00:49:28] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. No. No. But didn't she say Trump should have won it? Didn't she say something like that? I I I  

[00:49:34] Jamon Fries:

I don't know if she did. I know that Trump congratulated her on it. Yeah. Yeah.   I don't I didn't hear if she had said that he should have gotten it or whatnot. That's what I saw at one point. I don't know if it was,  

[00:49:47] Jesse Fries:

it was real or not.   It was at least a headlight. Good. Yeah. So,   yeah, it would have been funny because Yeah. Yeah. That would have. Yeah.   Well   Yeah.   The   the CIA is picking these people.   Oh, yeah. And they work with the CIA and Yep.   That's it.   South America, Central America, The Caribbean, that is our sphere of influence. It's the Oh, yeah. Big time. What is it? The Monroe Doctrine?   I think so. I think? Yeah.   That's ours, basically.   Even though we say it's not, we say we're not imperialistic,   but, you know, it's basically ours.   If they don't do what we say, we don't like them. So Yep. Which is why we don't like Cuba and why we don't like Venezuela. It's because Yeah.  

It's not just drugs. You know? It's it's it's Right. Doesn't matter about drugs. You know? It's just Yeah.   Yep. If you're communist or whatnot,   bad dude. Bad bad llama.   Let's see here. Here at the Mindless Me Andrews, we are a value for value podcast. What that means is that if you get any value out of this podcast,   please help us out. You can do this, with money. You can do this with art. You can do this with music. You can do this with a note to us saying, you guys are awesome. Just anything you wanna do. Help us out any which way you can. You can email me at jesse@mindlessc.com,   or you can email jamon@jamonatmindlessmeanderings.com.  

And we would love to hear from you no matter what. Just send us a note. It would be awesome.   And any amount would help. A dollar, $2, $3, $5, $20,   a million dollars. You know, whatever. We'll still do it no matter what.   But, yeah, help us out any which way you can to help us defray the cost of this podcast.   And on to business news.   Looks like GM is in   the house here. Looks like we have both a couple of years on GM.   300.   Yeah. Yeah. Let let's start with yours, Jay, and see what's going on there. Okay.  

[00:51:57] Jamon Fries:

So,   this is nothing official yet. It's just,   some stuff that I read while reading up on another article.   It appears   that General Mode Motors is moving forward with its autonomous vehicle development.  

[00:52:13] Jesse Fries:

Okay.  

[00:52:14] Jamon Fries:

A while back, it had bought a company that that was working on autonomous vehicles. They Yeah. Crews. They they since yeah. They since let a lot of those employees go, but they're starting to rehire them again. Okay.   And there's also some scuttlebutt being passed around that they're starting to to look into autumn the autonomous   aspect   pretty heavily.  

[00:52:36] Jesse Fries:

Nice. Nice. Yeah.   Yeah. No. It's, I   like   I don't know why they're fully autonomous, but I like their Super Cruise. I really love that. Yeah.   It could be better, but then it lets you know. And so you can be in complete control. You know? Apparently,   I heard that Tesla   doesn't fully recognize railroad crossings.   So, you know Yeah. Yeah. That's what I that's latest. Problematic. Yeah. Yeah. That that that's one of the stories I heard most recently about their autonomous system. So Okay.   Yeah. So GM, the with their Super Cruise, they it drives most of itself, but   it'll go if it starts to get hinky, it's like going, I don't know what's going on here. You take over. So   Nice. Yep. Yep. Yep. Yep.  

And it doesn't do stop signs, stop lights, or anything like that. It won't it'll just shut off in those areas. Okay. So Okay. Mhmm.   Very good. Let's see.   My other one beyond that rare earth one,   is that so   Ford and GM, they had this so, you know, the EV tax credit went away. Right? Yeah. Yeah.   That went away on, September 30. Apparently, before that was going away,   Ford and GM came up with this plan to where   they said, okay. What we're gonna do is   we're gonna buy the cars   from the dealers,   the EVs, before the deadline.   So we'll get the tax   credit.  

And then we will give them back   to   the dealers who can lease them out with that baked into the cost.   Yeah. Some senators got caught with of that   and saying, what the fuck you doing?   And so GM goes, oh, shit.   And so, basically   and then right after GM said, oh, shit, Ford followed suit and said, oh, shit. And so they're now they're not doing it. Yeah. Nice.   I   like that way. It's like, oh, you thought you had a loophole,   Apparently. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's a good try. Good try. I get a for effort a for effort. I'll give him that. Yeah. I'll give him that. Yeah. Yep. Absolutely.  

[00:54:54] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. So Elon Musk is in a little bit of trouble with regulators again. I wouldn't listen to you. But yeah. What's this one about? Nevada.   The borrowing company, you know, they're doing the tunnel,   tunnel from   the casinos to the airport and all of all of these other places.   Well,   I they started getting really nitpicky. Like, the fact that   some of the construction vehicles are bringing dirt onto   roads a couple blocks away.  

[00:55:25] Jesse Fries:

Mhmm.  

[00:55:27] Jamon Fries:

That that's supposedly one of the things that they   signed saying they wouldn't do.   And but it's supposedly   happening. They also say that they're getting rid of, they're putting wastewater   down. They're putting the the water that they're using for the boring.   They're putting it just into the street into the street,  

[00:55:51] Jesse Fries:

versus Right. In in yeah. Into the  

[00:55:55] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. Yeah. Drainage system. Yeah. Yeah. Into the drainage system. And so, you know,   the at the very end,   it lists out these things that they're doing and, you know, it only   briefly touches some of them.   And then at the bottom of the story, it's like, if these were each find individually,   Musk would be looking at fines of a couple of at least a couple million dollars. Uh-huh. But they decided to group them all together, and they're charging them 202,000.  

[00:56:28] Jesse Fries:

2,200?  

[00:56:30] Jamon Fries:

200 and 202   about 220,000.  

[00:56:34] Jesse Fries:

220,000.  

[00:56:36] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. So instead of paying a couple million, they only have to pay   10% of that, basically.  

[00:56:42] Jesse Fries:

Okay. So you just keep doing it.   Yeah.   That's really what you do.   I mean, that's sort of the okay. Okay. That's it. That works. That works, I guess. Yeah. That works. I I I just found it a a little hilarious. You know, they're they were  

[00:56:58] Jamon Fries:

they're they're saying oh, they're also saying that he's digging without permission.  

[00:57:04] Jesse Fries:

I would have thought he would have needed permission just to begin that first. I  

[00:57:08] Jamon Fries:

was pretty sure that he had permission.  

[00:57:11] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. Apparently, maybe not. I don't know. Who knows?   That is crazy. That is crazy.   We have about ten minutes before I have to get the kids to bed. So if we can   skip some, speed through others, whatnot not.  

[00:57:25] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. The only the only other   interesting one for business is,   Stokespace   is   is getting into the,   space launch industry now. They're a defense contractor.   Okay. They're now getting into space launch to   their their plan is to get all the contract get as many of the contracts as they can for the Golden Dome that's gonna be over that's supposed to go up and over The US. Yeah. Yeah. It's better than a golden shower.   Yes. Absolutely.  

[00:57:57] Jesse Fries:

On the legal   I just killed that one.  

[00:58:01] Jamon Fries:

Yep.   And then on on the legal,   Mike Lindell, I'm sure you're aware of him. Yeah. The MyPillow guy.   Yeah. So you you remember so he's got a lawsuit   against Dominion where Dominion is is suing him for libel.  

[00:58:17] Jesse Fries:

Right.  

[00:58:18] Jamon Fries:

Before going to court, before the trial, before   being in front of a jury,   the judge has already found him guilty   with a summary sentence.   And now what's going to the now what's going in front of the trial   in front of the jury is how much he has to pay.   So the jury is not even gonna get to determine if he's innocent or guilty.   Do you know what happened? Do you know what happened?   What's that? They told Dominion got bought.   Exactly. That's exactly what happened. Yeah. They had to speed up the process because Dominion is probably gonna drop that lawsuit.  

[00:58:58] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. No. They'll be kicked.   Yeah. I bet that will be kicked. I don't see It it has to be. Yeah. But you have to go through   but you have to do a trial, right, in front of the jury to figure out how much   he has to be  

[00:59:15] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. Fined a jury because a jury a jury is one that determines how much he would have to pay. So they have to go through all that. They haven't heard a thing, though. Right? Yeah. They haven't heard they haven't even been there hasn't even been a jury called yet.   Wow. There is no jury.   Wow. Wow. And he's just suddenly with a summary judgment been found guilty.   The That's completely true. Even made they haven't even made any arguments in front of the judge yet. Right. Right. Right.  

[00:59:44] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. That's,   okay. Yeah. I think that'll be tossed.   Of course, it has to be washed. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.   Speaking of weird things Democrats do, apparently, the Tisha James has been indicted by a grand jury for bank fraud.  

[00:59:59] Jamon Fries:

Nice.  

[01:00:00] Jesse Fries:

Yep. Yep. Yep. And I've seen one other thing where it's like it wasn't just that one time. It was, like, every one of her things there was bank fraud on. Just just Wow. Or mortgage fraud, whatever it is. What you know, bank fraud charges. Yeah.   It it was just, like, pretty much everything she's done. That's what one story   I saw said. So Yeah. There you go. There you go.  

[01:00:23] Jamon Fries:

Now on to studies.  

[01:00:25] Jesse Fries:

And remember, studies   are   not always accurate, and most of the time they aren't.  

[01:00:32] Jamon Fries:

So they're the study that I have. They they are sometimes. Yeah. So the first study I have is about ADHD.   Uh-huh.   Low and behold,   people with ADHD   seem to be more creative.  

[01:00:46] Jesse Fries:

Oh, look at that. Look at that. People that don't wanna be stuck in a classroom.   Yeah.   Being hyperactive when  

[01:00:53] Jamon Fries:

people who can let their mind wander happen to be more creative.   So in other words, by dragging them all up or destroying the creativity   that could have   that could have changed the world by now. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And instead  

[01:01:08] Jesse Fries:

of creating artists, you have created people that shoot up schools. Yes. Congratulations. Good boy.   Congratulations.   Let's see. Apparently,   rich people   are not ethical. They are they act more unethically   than everybody else. Imagine that, Jamin. Really? Yeah. It's I'm shocked.   I am seriously. Shocked. Flummoxed about that. Yeah. This is why I'm not rich because I'm halfway ethical, you know. You might not agree with me, but   I believe in right or wrong. I believe in ethics. I do I hate screwing people over. You know, rich people, Jerry, don't care about screwing people over. Just saying. Rich people generally get rich by screwing people over. Yes. Breaking the laws, twisting the laws, doing this, doing that. Yeah. Yeah. It it's the   they are the,   ask for forgiveness, not for permission.  

Yes. Absolutely.   So and that's why they're rich. You know? I'm not   yeah.   If you're if you're that way, more power to you. But,  

[01:02:09] Jamon Fries:

yeah. Yep. Yep.   A a new,   a new study has come out dealing with COVID nineteen.  

[01:02:16] Jesse Fries:

Uh-huh.  

[01:02:17] Jamon Fries:

Zest   a xelosteen,   which is a nasal spray that's used,   for allergies and stuff like that to help to stop allergy allergies Okay.   Is seventy percent effective   in   so according to the study in you not getting COVID.   So it's better than the vaccine?  

[01:02:38] Jesse Fries:

Yes.  

[01:02:39] Jamon Fries:

Okay. Stop the vaccine. Do this. Plain and simple. So all you had to do from from when it very from the very beginning was just spray this shit into your nose, and you were fine.  

[01:02:49] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. Makes sense to me. Yeah. I got it.   Yep. Yep. Let's do it. Let's do it.  

[01:02:55] Jamon Fries:

And then on global warming front Uh-huh. The University of Nebraska did some research.   Okay. And   now   many people are gonna misunderstand this one because   it they they're gonna say it's just cows completely and alone. Okay.   But what the University of Nebraska found is that with proper grazing scheduling,   in other words,   you the cow gray grazes through the fields,   and as long as it's done proper you know, this doesn't this doesn't count for, like, feed lots and stuff like that. Uh-huh. So proper proper grazing scheduling   actually   makes cows a net negative for their carbon impact.  

Grass fed, bitches. Let's do it. Yes. Because because all of the grass that they shit on as they're grazing   then grows and produces more oxygen   than it than it than it would without any animals present.  

[01:03:47] Jesse Fries:

Look at that. Look at that. That is awesome. That was cool. Cow.   Eat cow.   Exactly. Don't eat more chicken. Eat more cow.   Yep.   Let's see here. So,   apparently,   scientists may have, completely miscalculated   how many humans are on the planet.  

[01:04:09] Jamon Fries:

Really?  

[01:04:10] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. This was for a day.   Well, apparently, this all comes down to rural people. Right?   Okay. And about 43%   of the Earth's population   is rural in the country. Yeah. Okay? Yeah.   And per estimates, that is about 3,500,000,000   people.   Okay. Well,   there's this one thing where they did numbers and everything like that, and they say that   they miscalculated   or undercounted by 53 to 84%   of the rural people.   Yeah. Yeah. So what this means   is that either though   that's a different   difference about two to 3,000,000,000 people.   Right. So the world population   may be   from 10,200,000,000   people all the way up to 11,200,000,000   instead of the 8.2 that we say it is now. Okay.  

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So but then other people are going, that's crap, dude. That's crap. So Yeah. I I I   I I I one guy's defense was going well. If this is was right, it'd be a big story.   It is   that that was his defense of why it wasn't right. It was if it was right, it'd be a big story. The big story. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I'm like, oh, I love that argument. I've always loved that argument.   It's an awesome argument. It is an awesome argument.   Oh, remember that can't really refute. No. You really can't. You really can't.   Speaking of, you know, you had that one California law that you thought made sense and everything like that? Yeah. There's another one. There's another one.  

They've passed a law now where you have to have, like, a one click button in your browser that will protect you   protect your privacy   throughout every web   page. Oh, wow. Nice. So you don't have to click this, that button, or anything like that. It just does away with all those things and yeah. State did that one. Was that California as well? That was California as well. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. So I'll take that one. I'll take that one. Yeah. Absolutely.   And then I think the last story   Yep.   Is   yeah. So this this one was really this guy, he was from Australia. Right?   Okay. What what was his name? Here. Let me find his name real quick.  

I'm gonna find it. I swear. Okay. His name is Roland   Burke, and I think he's an idiot. Okay. So   he he he said the title of this article was the fledgling UN tried to reign in mass scale misinformation. The world turned it back and is not paying the price. Price. Basically,   he blames racism   on free speech. So without free speech, we wouldn't have any racism is what he's saying. What? Yeah. Yeah. This is what he says. This is what he says.   And that, let's see. He blames racism for free speech, but it is the disproportionate justice system that allows rape and other oh, yeah. Basically, it it but it's the justice system.   This is what I've said and everything like this. The justice system that needs to actually, like, lock these people up to begin with. If they commit one crime, you just lock them up, you know, until you know, that   yeah. Yeah.  

And then let's see here. He he also had this quote at the very end.   He said, with the ruinous result of The US approach to freedom of information and media, now apparent,   the few remaining democracies may wish to reconsider whether they are well served by their long history of capitulation.   So, basically,   he says The US approach is trash, but he never actually defines it.  

[01:08:01] Jamon Fries:

So when when where's this apparent problem?  

[01:08:04] Jesse Fries:

I I the see, this is the thing. All all the rest of the world, you know, if you go on TikTok and everything like that, apparently, The US is crap. We are we eat nothing but junk food even though there's so many good just regular restaurants with nice fresh food. Yeah. You know, we love fresh food. That that's what   a lot of that process crap you know, a lot of that came from, like, the fifties and sixties, just like the canned beans in The UK. Yeah. You know, except we don't eat those things anymore.  

[01:08:33] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. Most of us don't.  

[01:08:36] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But yeah. It it's, we're we're we're we're not that way. It's yes. Of course, we have some fast food and everything like that. But Oh, yeah. Whatever. But, you you know, it's like I I just don't understand it. I don't understand it. He he he claims that we're crap and then  

[01:08:50] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. The the average American eats, what, maybe   one fast one or two fast food  

[01:08:56] Jesse Fries:

meals a week? Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. Exactly. Yeah. No. It it's it's it's some a bit more, some a little bit less. Yeah. It's just yeah. But, yeah, he he he he says that we're   we have rudeness results of the in The US. And I don't know what that means. I really don't know what that means. Yeah. Yeah. I I wish he would delineate on that. Yeah. Yeah. Apparently, it's just a known thing in Australia, you know. It's just like around the world, they all think that we're crap, you know, and how everything we do is bad and everything like that. They they but then I think their life is so bad that they don't wanna internalize it. Because if they did,   they would be screwed.  



[01:09:32] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. Absolutely.  

[01:09:34] Jesse Fries:

And with that, I would like to thank you for joining us for the seventieth episode of the minus meanderians.   I'm Jesse Fries. And I'm Jamin Fries.   And we will talk to you on   I think it's Thursday, hopefully.  

[01:09:47] Jamon Fries:

Yeah.