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- Jamon Fries

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(00:00:20) Housing Woes

(00:03:00) Good Bye Pelosi

(00:04:40) NASA Head

(00:06:52) Oh SNAP there goes the TSA

(00:10:58) Bougie Hotels

(00:12:58) UN Gaza Plan

(00:16:04) Minneapolis Mayor

(00:18:17) Supreme Court what-ifs

(00:22:56) Deep State Consistency

(00:24:19) News Roundup

(00:28:50) Representation

(00:34:09) Harry Potter and the Black Girlfriend

(00:39:02) Groping the President

(00:42:52) Free Oz Power

(00:45:01) Chinese Gilligan's Island

(00:48:41) Value-for-value

(00:49:44) Microsofts shopper AI agents misfire

(00:52:20) AI futures: UBI dreams vs. Terminator fears

(00:57:10) Studies corner: skepticism about research and food DNA risks

(01:03:01) Dating while Lying

(01:03:59) Walking Again

(01:06:51) No Such Thing as Dark Matter or Energy

(01:12:04) Online clinical trial fraud

(01:17:54) Sex at 90 MPH

[00:00:21] Jesse Fries:

A good afternoon to you. It is,   a Thursday. Yeah. It's a Thursday, and it's, November 6. And we are live with episode 77   of the minus meanderings. I'm Jesse Fries, and,   yeah, the kids have another three day weekend. I don't know why, but another three day weekend.  

[00:00:40] Jamon Fries:

Another one? Yeah. Yeah. Wow. Yeah. And I'm Jamin Friess, and, I'm doing a little bit of house hunting.   Fun? Fun. Yeah. Yeah. I'm thinking about possibly   buying or something else. I don't wanna rent.  

[00:00:55] Jesse Fries:

Oh, yeah. Yeah. Makes sense. Makes sense. Buying,   it's a static   payment at least. Yes. Yes. You know, that's it it's that's the best thing about it. You know? It's Yeah. Yeah. Taxes can go up and down a little bit generally, but Oh, yeah. In general, it's pretty static.  

[00:01:13] Jamon Fries:

Yep. Yeah. I I just, I just got noticed from the,   from the trailer cart where I'm renting the lot from. I own the trailer, but I'm renting the lot. And I just got noticed that my lot rent is going up another $40   next year.  

[00:01:28] Jesse Fries:

Oh, so they're taking everything but $16 of the Social Security raise.  

[00:01:33] Jamon Fries:

Oh, no. No. My Social Security raise is gonna be about 21.  

[00:01:37] Jesse Fries:

Oy.   I thought it was, like, 56 or something like that, or was that for retirement?  

[00:01:43] Jamon Fries:

No. That that depends. It it's a percentage   of what your norm of of what the check was you were getting. Okay. So if you were getting a larger check than I'm getting, then you would then you would re give it a you would get a larger increase.   Oh, okay. Makes sense. Makes sense. Yeah.   So yeah. That's but yeah. So I'm I'm   according to everything that I've seen, I should get about a $21   increase on my disability,   but   my lot rent is going up by about 40. So they're doubling it this time. It usually   follows right in in line with it, you know, where it's like, it goes up. My Social Security   cost of living increase goes up by, like, $30.  

My lot rent goes up maybe 29.   But but this time, it's just it's like doubling it. So I've   I'm   when I moved here eight years ago, I was paying 377   a month. Uh-huh.   Now I'm pay I'm gonna be paying   610   a month about.  

[00:02:45] Jesse Fries:

For a lot?  

[00:02:46] Jamon Fries:

Yes. Oi. Yeah. No. For Lynn to put my trailer on. Yeah.  

[00:02:51] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. Yeah. Just move. Just   Yep. That is what my plan is. Sounds good. Sounds good. Okay. So what do we got today?  

[00:03:00] Jamon Fries:

Well, first of all, so I didn't get this into our into our notes. I just saw it as I was perusing the website.   Nancy Pelosi has announced she will not be seeking reelection.  

[00:03:13] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. I I had that story. Jesus Christ. Yes. Yes. I did.  

[00:03:18] Jamon Fries:

I didn't know anything that I put in here.  

[00:03:21] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. It's actually right there. It's the Oh, wait. No. It is. Fourth one down. Yeah. See? Uh-huh. Shit. Yeah. I see that.  

[00:03:27] Jamon Fries:

Well, yeah. She's retired. I was when I was going through that. Yeah.  

[00:03:31] Jesse Fries:

She is retiring. How servant I was today. Yeah. No shit. No shit.  

[00:03:37] Jamon Fries:

Sorry about that. I don't know  

[00:03:39] Jesse Fries:

Steve. Oh, I don't care. I don't care. I'm just, like, going, what do you mean we don't have it?  

[00:03:44] Jamon Fries:

I didn't have it.   Uh-huh.   Uh-huh. Because this was the first I had seen it. Oh, got it. Yeah. She's retiring. Just,  

[00:03:51] Jesse Fries:

well, she's ancient. So Oh, yeah. Yeah. She she's like Yzma from,   Emperor's New Group. Yep. So She she's she's decided that they don't need any more, insider information for their,  

[00:04:01] Jamon Fries:

decided   that   they don't need any more, insider information for their for their, stock choices anymore. Right. Right. Exactly. They're rich enough now.  

[00:04:12] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. Well, she's up there. So it's yeah.  

[00:04:16] Jamon Fries:

It it is time for the old guard to step away, I think. Oh, wow. It absolutely is. It absolutely is. I just wish the upcoming guard wasn't as   so far left. But yeah. Yeah. That's the way it works.  

[00:04:30] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. It's the way it works exactly. You know, you're always gonna complain about something, you know.   So Yeah.   Yeah. Oh, let's see here. What else you got? Well, I've,  

[00:04:42] Jamon Fries:

Trump   the the article says he's flipped and renominates   Jared Isaacman   to lead NASA.   Okay.   Is   from forever. According to I mean, it the article talks about who he is a little bit, but just barely anything at all. Mhmm.   But it I guess, Trump had nominated him and then about about   they said six months ago, he took away the nomination.   Okay. And then I guess Elon Musk and a lot of other people that are involved in the space space industry   Uh-huh.   Just really just kept getting on his case about it, though. This was the group the perfect the perfect guy for NASA.   Uh-huh. And so   yeah. So now he's renominated him. Okay.  



[00:05:33] Jesse Fries:

That's cool. That's cool.  

[00:05:35] Jamon Fries:

And hopefully hopefully, he'd hopefully, he'll steer NASA in the good direction. He wrote a he wrote a paper,   that outlined what the future of NASA should look like, and I think that paper probably had a lot to do   with Trump's decision as well as why everybody wanted him in NASA. So Okay.  

[00:05:57] Jesse Fries:

Well, that's good. That's good. What was it? Do you know what the paper was what he said in the paper?  

[00:06:01] Jamon Fries:

The article didn't say. There was so little information about this guy and what he wants to do.   Oh, lovely. He essentially, he's a founder of a company that deals with space is is all the article said.  

[00:06:18] Jesse Fries:

I deal with space. The space of my room I'm in right now.  

[00:06:24] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. I mean, you know, it just   it was so poorly   researched   that it it just, I don't know. I I I didn't get anything out of the article.   Okay.   I could have done more research into it, but, you know, it was just kinda one of those stories.   Nope. I hadn't found anything better at the time, so I'm like, let's at least, you know, throw this in there if I can't find something else to talk about. No. Makes sense. Makes sense. Makes sense.  

[00:06:52] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. Feds of government is all crazy.   You know, SNAP benefits, they kinda have started, but maybe not for some people.   Anything like that.   Trump didn't fight the whole snap thing. It was just like, okay. Well,   okay. Because they don't mind feeding people. It's just a Oh, yeah. No. No. I mean, it's yeah.   Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So there's that, and   we'll see. It it but then, you know, with this whole shutdown, you know, things are just getting crazy. You know? It's Oh, yeah.   The US is, slashing air traffic by 10%   at 40 airports.  

That's understandable. Yeah. Yeah. So they're canceling all sorts of flights.   Oh, yeah. Yeah.   Other major airports are closing TSA checkpoints.   Like, one of them is Philadelphia. They're closing, like, two or three different TSA checkpoints.   And so, basically, they   the way Philadelphia is is that there's many different terminals. It's not just one terminal or or even two terminals. It's, like, many different terminals.   And so you have to, like, actually   they're saying, well, you have to go through checkpoint here and then go to another terminal.  

[00:08:04] Jamon Fries:

Oh, shit.   That is gonna create massive   bottlenecks.  

[00:08:12] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. Yeah. No. This this is But then again, 10% of the flights are being cut. So, you know, it may not affect anything. Well, that's it for now. You you you know, I've also seen articles where they're saying, yeah. Next week, it's gonna be a complete   shit show. Because this is this will be   the beginning of two months   Yeah. Of no paycheck for,   air traffic controllers.   Oh, yeah. Yeah. And you know so that they have to make money.  

[00:08:40] Jamon Fries:

Absolutely.   You you know And they're gonna start looking for part time jobs or for full time jobs and just put being in put their jobs. Yeah. They they'll have to because they could Yeah. A lot of people, they can survive  

[00:08:54] Jesse Fries:

one month.   Right. You know, it it it is doable.   But, Jerry, once you get into the two month range, that's like  

[00:09:01] Jamon Fries:

Oh, yeah. It gets harder and harder and harder and harder. Yeah. You know? So Yeah. I've I've always wanted to build at least a one month slush fund. Oh, yeah. Yeah. If something happened, I could survive for a month. I've never accomplished it, but I've always wanted to.  

[00:09:17] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. Yeah. It depends on the time of year for us. So if it's, like   because Carol gets a bonus in, like, March.   Uh-huh. And so, like, March to about, like,   October,   we have a good Too bad? No. No. Most of the year, we do. And then after that, it's like Christmas and everything, and then we're going Oh, yeah. Yeah. Wow. And then we wanna take vacations.  

[00:09:40] Jamon Fries:

There there's reasons to spend money.  

[00:09:42] Jesse Fries:

Oh, yeah. Yeah.   Yeah. Yeah. It's like these these guys always wants to go stay at   a hotel and everything like that. And my god, these hotels are getting expensive nowadays. Holy shit. I'm just like,   I I   it used to be, like, 4 $3.50, 400. I'd be going, okay. I guess. Now it's getting up to close to 500 a night. I'm like,   no. Yeah.   We could stay home. You know? It's like   Yeah. Yeah. Well, we   we It gets expensive.   We do. And we always like   when we do that, we we get a we go to hotels that have a pool with pool service and everything like that. You you know? So you you can't just go to your, local Hojo  

[00:10:27] Jamon Fries:

Oh, yeah.  

[00:10:28] Jesse Fries:

That has a pool. Like, oh, yeah. This is good. No. It's like, no. It's not that sort of thing. You know? It's like, you know, pure vacation. You want your drinks brought to you and everything like that. And so Oh, yeah. Yeah. If you're if you're gonna go on vacation,  

[00:10:40] Jamon Fries:

you know what for me,   at the it would always be the destination   was where I wanted to have the the fancy the the better hotel. Mhmm. I didn't mind staying in the the crappy motels as I was driving because all I wanted to do was just sleep so that I could get back on the road in the morning. Oh, completely. Completely. Yep. So I don't mind sleeping in the in the motels and stuff on the while I'm   during the the drive. But once I get there, yeah, you gotta have those creature comforts. Oh, yeah. Yeah. And we just do, like,  

[00:11:11] Jesse Fries:

locally, you know, within three hours.   Yep. Drive, you know, go out to Houston or down to San Antonio or whatnot, that sort of thing. Yep. So and then you Well, spend  

[00:11:21] Jamon Fries:

good money on hotels, you know. It's Oh, yeah. Yeah. You you also have to think about, you know, the fact that I'm used to when I'm driving,   a motel was an upgrade.   No. Yeah. I understand. I understand. Because I was living in the cab of a truck. So yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. A a motel is is, like, the highlight, you know. Completely  

[00:11:42] Jesse Fries:

stuff. Yep. Yep. But yeah. So so these poor TSA and, or even air traffic controllers that  

[00:11:50] Jamon Fries:

are working but aren't getting paid. They will get paid, but right now Oh, yeah. I mean, they'll they'll get a hell of a paycheck at the end of the shutdown.  

[00:11:59] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. Yeah. They will. But most of them probably have payday loans now, and so they're gonna lose, like, 30% of that real quick. Yeah. You know, it's,  

[00:12:07] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. It's   yeah. It it's I I can only I can't I can't imagine. You know, that this is one of the reasons that I always made sure never to work a union job and never to work for the government. Mhmm.   Because union jobs, they go on   strike, you got no income coming in. Yep. Yep. Government the government shuts down, you got no income coming in. I Yep. I would never put myself in that situation.  

[00:12:35] Jesse Fries:

No. I could see that. I could see that. Yeah. See, to me, it's like, if you have a if you have a spouse that I I I could do it, you know, because, you know, it'd be like a vacation.  

[00:12:46] Jamon Fries:

No. No. Absolutely. Yeah. If if you if you don't need the money that's coming in Yep. Yep. But if it but if it's your sole source of income   Oh, okay. No. Never. No. Yep. Yep.   Yeah. The only the only thing I have with the government is kind of international as well, but we'll go ahead and talk about it here.   So US did a draft resolution   for,   to get all of the   the countries around Israel to   bring to put troops into Gaza as a united force Right.   With   the potential   of that united force becoming the government of Gaza.   Okay.  

But they didn't include Israel in any of that discussion. They didn't let Israel know they they were talking about it. They didn't the the resolution was introduced to the UN.   That was when Israel found out about it.  

[00:13:46] Jesse Fries:

That's awesome. I love it. Now if I'm not mistaken,  

[00:13:49] Jamon Fries:

Gaza is still technically   part of Israel.  

[00:13:53] Jesse Fries:

Yes. So what?  

[00:13:57] Jamon Fries:

Trump make made peace. Come on. No. I I I know. I know. But still, I mean,   just   wow.  

[00:14:06] Jesse Fries:

You know? Yeah. But, you know, it's like,   sometimes you do that because you know they won't agree for whatever reason. And so you just go   you just put it in there. And then what are they gonna say? It's like,   do you have a better option?   You   you know, if it's behind the scenes of   piss and moan and go, no way blah blah blah. But if you just put it in to the, consciousness of the   the UN, you know, it's like,   oh, seriously, do you have a better option? That's all. You you you   this is what we have. Got a better one? Because Israeli troops in there is not is not an option. No. It's not. Not at all. Yeah. Yeah. And Hamas is not an option. No. The only and, you know, the best way to get Hamas  

[00:14:51] Jamon Fries:

out of there would be for the   Arab countries   to send their military people from their militaries in. Exactly. Have stable  

[00:15:00] Jesse Fries:

Muslim countries   Yeah. Send troops in to create a stable Palestinian state. It makes sense.   It does. Because otherwise, it's that tit for tat, that hate that never ends. You know? Oh, yeah. Yeah.   Yeah.   It's like Turkey and Armenia and everything like that. It's just  

[00:15:21] Jamon Fries:

Absolutely. Yes. So, yeah, it   it it's kind of a shit show. I just I just found it amusing that   is that the first time Israel even heard about it was  

[00:15:32] Jesse Fries:

at the was when they when they introduced it to the UN. It is crazy. It's a bit ballsy, but I kinda like it. I kinda like it. It's, just like It it's very Trumpian.   It is. It really is. Yeah. It's just,   I've had enough of you.   Yep. Yep.   You bitch and moan, and that's all you do. Let's get something done here. You know? It's Yeah. Exactly.   Makes sense to me. Makes sense to me.   Let's see here. Looks like, so, you know, Ma'am, Donnie and everything like that, he's mayor of New York and everything. Yeah. Yeah. So but it looks like Minneapolis   actually kept their mayor. They did not go crazy. Now, of course, he is a   a Democrat or a DFLer,   the the Democrat Farmers League up in Minnesota.  

But   they didn't go with the Somali that looked like the guy that says, I'm your captain now. You know? That guy.   You know?   And I think that Somalia, he was, like, socialist too. So we're communist. So   at least at least Minneapolis   didn't go that far. You know? So They they still remain retained their sanity. Yeah. Yeah. There is some sanity there. You know? Yeah. Yeah. I I I did see one video of the   the mayor. He goes, oh, you're you're you're maybe from Somaliland,   but you're a you you you you're a you you you this is your city. You may be from Mogadishu. This is your city.   He named all these places. And then he goes, you may be from Nairobi.  

And I'm like, oh, Nairobi? Why are you throwing Nairobi in there, dude?  

[00:17:15] Jamon Fries:

He was probably just naming off countries that he could think of. I don't believe I've  

[00:17:22] Jesse Fries:

it's in the vicinity,   but it's in Kenya. And Kenya is not a predominantly Muslim country. It's a predominantly Christian country.   And so it's like, I I I don't I don't get it. You know?   Yep. It's like, why you throw you're because lumping Mogadishu with Nairobi.   Oh, yeah. No. No.   I should show that to my wife. Let's see what she should. Yeah.  

[00:17:46] Jamon Fries:

That would be hilarious. I'm sure she'll have a good dish. I wanna hear what her reaction is. Alright. I should be doing told me that next week.  

[00:17:58] Jesse Fries:

Let's see. Tariffs,   the Trump,   tariffs and everything like that.   I was wrong about when last time I said they were happening on Monday, but it was, yesterday   Yeah. Or the day before or something like that.   And,   yeah, it's it's  

[00:18:15] Jamon Fries:

they might not stand up. Just saying. You know? But They might not. There it is a bit of a stretch.  

[00:18:22] Jesse Fries:

I I've always thought so. So  

[00:18:25] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. Yeah. I I I I fully I I fully understand   the thoughts that it's a stretch.  

[00:18:31] Jesse Fries:

Yep.  

[00:18:33] Jamon Fries:

But it all depends on how one   word is interpreted.   No. Yeah. Completely. Completely. Yeah. You know, because I mean,   technically,   he has   the authority   to   under the under the act that they declared, he has the authority to   deal with trade with trade  

[00:18:56] Jesse Fries:

Mhmm.  

[00:18:57] Jamon Fries:

With as part of international relations and stuff like that. Right. And the bay one of the largest meth mech methods of dealing with trade is the tariff. Oh, yeah. Yeah.   So   in some ways, it is. But   the problem that I have with it is that   the founding fathers in other areas, they specifically mention tariffs separately from from   the same stuff. So,   yeah, it it's it's kind of up in the air. It is. It is. I I hope they hold on because if not,   everything that's been accomplished,   everything that's been for the better is gonna go away.  

[00:19:41] Jesse Fries:

I I actually, I don't think it will. Do you know why?   Why?   Because the administration   goes, okay. So we want the Supreme Court to side with us. Of course, we want the Supreme Court to side with us.   But if they decide   to not go with us, we'll just   change   our legal authority. We'll we'll we'll just say it's under this other law instead of that one.   It's like, oh, shit.   Exactly.  

[00:20:12] Jamon Fries:

Exactly. So it's like, okay. These things aren't going any anywhere anytime soon. So So in other words, what you're saying, it's one of those things where it looks like president's like, alright. So which one of these 10 laws do we wanna try this under? No. Yeah. Yeah. That's exactly it. Okay. Shit. The Supreme Court said we can't do it under this one. So   we got   nine more. It's taken them, what,  

[00:20:37] Jesse Fries:

about  

[00:20:39] Jamon Fries:

eight, nine months to get rid of that one. So,  

[00:20:44] Jesse Fries:

yeah, we should be able to hold this on four years. No. Yeah. And and and, seriously, what he could do is go, okay. So I can't do these because of that. Okay. Well, what I will do is I will stop the tariffs and then instantly put them on underneath a different thing. And so you would have to do whole new court cases for the new law and everything like that. Keep changing it every single time. Exactly. Exactly.  

[00:21:06] Jamon Fries:

And it would have to go all the way up. You know, it would have to start in the in the lower the Uh-huh. Level courts and go all the way up to the Supreme Court.   And yeah. I mean, it works. It works. It works.   You you know, I think he's getting good deals for us. But, Oh, yeah. He's getting great deals for us. There's a lot of money coming in that   I mean, there there's a lot of money coming in and less money going out. So, I mean, that's a huge thing. No. It is. It is. Because a lot of because they've reduced their tariffs on us along with these deals. So   yeah. I mean,   the effect that it the the the effect that it's had to me   kind of outweighs the method used to do it.  

I don't normally say that, but   in this one situation,   I think it's   the   the results   justify   the means in a way.  

[00:22:07] Jesse Fries:

No. I I know what you're saying. I know what you're saying. Yeah.   It's   I I I don't like it,   but I think sometimes if you're gonna negotiate,   you you kinda have to have   complete and utter   power.   Yes.   Unfortunately. You you you know, it's just   and not the him and of the freaking congress and everything like that. You know? It's just not a feasible situation, you know, especially how congress is now. Look at we're in a shutdown for thirty some odd days now. You know? It's, like,   it's pathetic.   It is truly pathetic, and they can't do anything. And all they're doing is yelling at each other back and forth saying, oh, it's your fault. No. It's your fault. No. It's your fault. No. It's your fault. That's all it is. Yeah.  

[00:22:58] Jamon Fries:

You know,   as as much as I   dislike the way the Chinese government is run and the way that the things that they do Mhmm. I will say one thing for it.   It has massive consistency.   No. It does. It does.   You know, The US, you have foreign foreign powers never know what to do with The US because every   two to four years, it changes.  

[00:23:23] Jesse Fries:

No. And that's the reason for the deep state.  

[00:23:25] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. Yep. Yep.  

[00:23:29] Jesse Fries:

Because that the deep state allows some sort   of consistency   on the whole thing. Right. Yeah. No. That that's what it is. It's Yep.   It's   there is no perfect form of government.   Each has theirs has their benefits, each has their negatives.   Yep.   You know, overall, I like ours.   Right now, we're in a weird time in history. Than any other that I've heard of in the past. No. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And but right now, we're in a weird time in history. So it's We are. Yes.   So Definitely.   Yeah. We're just trying to get by. That's basically all we're trying to do.  

[00:24:08] Jamon Fries:

Yep. Yep.  

[00:24:12] Jesse Fries:

Alright. Okay. Well, you said news.   Yeah. Yeah.  

[00:24:19] Jamon Fries:

Let's see. You've got a lot of them. I've only got one. Okay. Well, the astronaut, that's that's international tech.   Okay.  

[00:24:30] Jesse Fries:

But oh,   the UPS  

[00:24:34] Jamon Fries:

flight that crashed. Oh, yeah. I saw a video of that. That was pretty bad. That was pretty bad. So many videos of that. Yeah. Yeah. No. That  

[00:24:43] Jesse Fries:

yeah. That   I feel for those, people.   Oh, yeah. What they say 12 dead now.   So Yeah. There were three on the plane.   Mhmm. And,   yeah, did you see the video where the where it while it was taking off and the engine was on fire? No. The only the only video the video that I saw was  

[00:25:04] Jamon Fries:

from a security camera in a in a,   truck repair lot Oh, yeah. Yep. Yep. Yep. That just showed the the fireball.  

[00:25:12] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. Yeah. No. There's there's there's many videos. One of them, they were, like, on the airport or something like that. They were pretty close to it in the it's Okay. You you see the plane taking off with one of its engines on fire, like   flames coming out of the engine.   And and the guys going, they're dead. They're dead.   Yeah. Because yeah. And then it just went down and then   big,   fast fire. So Yeah.  

[00:25:41] Jamon Fries:

They had they've had to have had so much fuel in there. Oh, yeah. Yeah. I mean  

[00:25:46] Jesse Fries:

yeah. Because they're they're headed to Honolulu.   Oh, shit.   Yeah. Yeah. So They were they were damn near fully loaded then with fuel. Yeah. Yeah. And I heard that they hit a petroleum   processing of some sort.  

[00:26:02] Jamon Fries:

Oh my god. Yeah. Yeah. So I didn't know what they what they hit. I knew that it was something that was insanely flammable. But Yeah. Petroleum.  

[00:26:11] Jesse Fries:

So yeah. Oh, wow. Yeah.   You know, it it that fireball was huge. I swear that was Yes.  

[00:26:20] Jamon Fries:

Yeah.   Yeah. I I've seen I've seen picture I've seen videos of plane crashes before. I've never seen one that turned into an inferno   just as quickly as that one did. Yeah.  

[00:26:32] Jesse Fries:

No no kidding. No kidding. That one it but it started on fire. That's the thing. Yes. Yeah.   It it didn't   hit and then explode. It was on fire.   And   it went down, and that was it. Yep. So Yeah. Yeah.   Let's see here.   There was a cowboy,   a Dallas cowboy,   Mershawn   Neland.   He died from suicide, it looks like.   Gunshot wound.   So he had Yeah. It sucks. Yeah. Yeah. He had texted his family and everything like that and said,   well, see you on the other side. That sort of thing. I don't know exactly what he said. Right. But,   yeah. It's,   yeah. So   his girlfriend called the cops, everything like that, but they weren't in time or anything like that. So Mhmm.  

Yeah. Sad story there. But, yeah, he was   currently on the Cowboys. So, apparently, he had mental   problems from   a long time. So Okay.  

[00:27:36] Jamon Fries:

Mhmm.  

[00:27:38] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. That's too bad. It is. It is.  

[00:27:42] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. That I ran across an article.   So you know those companies that   that other people hire   to negotiate   with ransomware,   people, people that put ransomware onto your computers? Well,   the DOJ   is arrested   and char and is is looking at charges   on   some of their some of those companies' employees   who were   doing ransomware   as well.  

[00:28:19] Jesse Fries:

Jesus Christ.  

[00:28:20] Jamon Fries:

So they were doing the ransomware,   then their company was negotiating with would negotiate with them.   And   yeah.  

[00:28:30] Jesse Fries:

That is messed up, you.  

[00:28:32] Jamon Fries:

That is very messed up.  

[00:28:34] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. It is   not surprising, really. You know? No. No.  

[00:28:38] Jamon Fries:

I thought about putting that into my funny stories one, but I think the one that I put in there is a lot better.  

[00:28:44] Jesse Fries:

I understand.   I understand.   Yeah. That's kinda crazy. That was kinda crazy. Yeah. Yeah.   Let's see here. It looks like, the number of, LGBTQ   plus characters are dropping in TV. So, you know,   thank god.   I that that's what I think. You know, it's like, I don't mind.  

[00:29:04] Jamon Fries:

No. I I have no problems if the story   requires it.  

[00:29:08] Jesse Fries:

If the story Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. A lot of times they just add it just   because they want to have a gay character.   Yeah. You you know, it's You know,  

[00:29:16] Jamon Fries:

I have I've I've   I've really enjoy watching rom com movies for some reason. I don't know why, but I like them.   Mhmm. But, like, for the last three years now,   every single rom com, either a brother or their best friend Yep. Or someone close to them   is gay. No. Yeah. Yeah. And I'm sorry, but that just doesn't   statistically make sense that it would happen in every single love story. No. See, that that's my thing as well. It's just it's like  

[00:29:50] Jesse Fries:

now,   of course, if you're   gay, lesbian, or bi or anything like that,   yes. Oh, yeah. There there's a lot of that in the people you know. But for those people that aren't part of that community, it's like Yeah. No.   It's just not a normal thing. It's just but now it's gotten to the point where it's like, you you watch a show or a movie. It's like going, okay. Which one's gay? Which one is   it's like   Jerry, you could tell if it's a gay guy. You can almost tell right away. Oh, yeah. Yeah. But but the lesbians, those are the tricky ones. Or the bisexual ones. Yes. They're the tricky ones. It's like They are. Yeah. Unless, of course, it's super butch or something like that. But it was just a Right. But, yeah, a lot of times it's like, well, you just threw that in there because you wanted to check a box, people. You know? Yeah. That's all it is. It's it's like the token black guy in the in the horror movies. You know. I mean, that's essentially what it was. Yeah. Yeah. You know, it's like,   not every story has to be   that. No. You know? Just No. It doesn't. Really doesn't. Yeah. No. I I that that that's how I am too. Yeah. So it's like Yeah. So I I'm pretty happy to hear that we may actually have a TV show. At least one TV show that doesn't have a gay person in it. Right. Right. I'm watching this one. Speaking of, whatever, I I'm watching this, show. It's called,   King and Conqueror or something like that. Okay. It's about, William the Conqueror,   and Edward the Professor and everything like that. It's about that time frame. Yeah.  

It   it's it's just so funny   to   see, like like, there's one duke.   I think the Duke of Wessex or something like that. Not Wessex, but a a different duke anyways.   They have him black in in the show. Oh my god. Oh, wow.   Okay.   You you you know, it's like,   I don't think so. But, you know, it's,   it it it throws you off. You know? It's like going Oh, yeah. Yeah. That's not historically right. Just say it. That that's one thing that always drives me nuts when you're doing stuff that's that's historical  

[00:31:55] Jamon Fries:

Mhmm. Where you can trace back and you can see who the actual person was   Yep.   To then   change either their race or their sexuality   or something like that Mhmm. When you have definitive historical proof that   that what you're saying about it is bullshit.   Yeah. Yeah. I mean, to me, that's   that's even worse than   completely changing the characters when you're making a  

[00:32:29] Jesse Fries:

a book into a movie. No. I understand. I understand. Yeah.   Except for Snape's gonna be black now, so that's gonna cause a bit of racial tension just for them picking on him because, well, he's a black guy.   Yeah. Yeah.   It was bad enough anyways. And then you add that into it, you're like, oh, it's gonna look like they're just little racist kids. Oh, fuck.  

[00:32:51] Jamon Fries:

Yeah.  

[00:32:55] Jesse Fries:

So Harry Potter's a racist now because he he hates Snape. He thinks Snape is the only reason he hates Snape is obviously because of the color of his skin. Well, right. Right. But that's basically how it's gonna be. You know? It's Yeah. It it is. Yeah.   What they're gonna have to do is give Harry Potter, like, a black girlfriend just so you go. I'm not racist. See, I got a black girlfriend.  

[00:33:18] Jamon Fries:

Make Hermione black and there you go. Yeah.   Exactly.  

[00:33:23] Jesse Fries:

Except Hermione and Ron get together, so that wouldn't work so well. No. It really would. It really would. But you could change that, you know? You know? Yeah. Make If you're if you can change everything else, you might as well change that. Make Ron black with his or his   sister half black. You know? You know, she she was she wasn't   a a full Weasley.   Yeah. Or just make the Weasley family black. Weasley family black. Yeah. Exactly. There you go. There you go.   I got black friend.  

[00:33:56] Jamon Fries:

I got a black friend, but my girlfriend's black. Damn it. I'm not racist.  

[00:34:02] Jesse Fries:

Oh,   goodness.  

[00:34:10] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. Oh, hilarious stuff.   Yep.   So what is this last dinner this last last national news story you have? Hold on one second. It was like  

[00:34:28] Jesse Fries:

no. Let's see which one was that.   The trucker treat.   Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So, apparently,   it looks like there   was never actually a trucker shortage.  

[00:34:41] Jamon Fries:

Really?   Yeah. That's what they say.  

[00:34:46] Jesse Fries:

They say that there's just,   that there's just been so much churn   of truckers   and that there's actually a oversupply of truckers in The United States.   It's just that   trucking companies don't wanna actually pay decently.  

[00:35:06] Jamon Fries:

Yeah.  

[00:35:07] Jesse Fries:

Oh, yeah. And so nobody sticks around.  

[00:35:09] Jamon Fries:

Yeah.   And so they would decide to hit to get more than, like, three years at a trucking company.  

[00:35:16] Jesse Fries:

Right. And so because of that,   they the trucking company, instead of actually fixing the problem of paying their people more or things like that Mhmm. They well, which would raise costs and everything like that, of course. But instead of doing that, they're relying on the government to bring   in foreigners.  

[00:35:37] Jamon Fries:

So, basically so, basically,   it's the it's a bailout.   They're they're   the foreigners coming in and driving for them is a bailout for the large companies essentially is what you're saying. Yeah. Basically. Basically. Yep.   Because   it you know,   if if they're still driving, it means that they're driving for a smaller company,   probably, or for a different company at least, which means that they're not driving for this company. So this company can't fulfill all the loads.   So instead of letting another company take their loads, they decided to go to the government and say, hey. Let us have some immigrants drive for us. Mhmm.  

[00:36:17] Jesse Fries:

Yep. Oh, shit. Now now It's like the American Trucking Association,   they said,   there never was a labor shortage.   What we have in The United States is a quality problem around drivers, much more so than an absolute number. There's never been a lack of people with licenses.   What we lack is the number of qualified drivers who meet our high standards of professionalism, safety, blah blah blah. Yeah.   How about you retain   qualified drivers? You know?   Keep them around. Pay them a decent amount. You know?  

[00:36:52] Jamon Fries:

Or put them into a better truck. Because some of those trucks that you get into when you you you know, they're like the ten year old truck that's   barely   barely livable when you when you move into it. Oh, good. God awful smells and stuff like that, you know? Oh, yeah. Yeah. Because you don't know what has gone on in those things for  

[00:37:11] Jesse Fries:

years.  

[00:37:13] Jamon Fries:

There there was one truck I moved into. I I   got up into the truck and I got out. I went back into the shop and I'm like, look.   Before I even think about climbing into that truck, I need you to do two things.   I need you to remove the mattress because my god, it's bad. Uh-huh.   And I need you to bleach the entire fucking thing.  

[00:37:40] Jesse Fries:

Wow. Wow. Probably a few orgy's that went in there. Yep. Yep. Yeah.   Yeah. I know. Yeah. I I I I yeah. Yeah. They they they yeah. They need to make life better for them. They need to probably pay them a bit more. You know? It's a Yeah.  

[00:37:57] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. Yeah. They they they need to either pay the drivers more so that so they'll be willing to put up with   slightly worse trucks, or they need to just keep at least keep their fleet in newer conditions.   You know?   Or both. Yeah.   Both would be would be perfect, but,   I mean, you know, we're talking about trucking companies. So Well, of course. You're gonna get one or the other. Yep. Yep. Yep. If you're lucky to get one or the other. Yeah. I could see that. I could see that.   Based on that article headline, damn it. I was hoping that that trunk or treat shit was gonna go away. No. That it says truck retreat. No. I I know. I just got hopeful.   You're in Texas. Everyone has trucks. You know?  



[00:38:46] Jesse Fries:

I see. I see. I see. Yeah. No. It was all about trucking. You know? Okay. Okay.   Mhmm. Let's see. International news. So,   apparently,   kind   of a odd story from around the world. So the president of, Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum,   you   know, some random guy just came up and groped her boob and gave her a kiss.  

[00:39:13] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. And her security did not do anything about it. Yeah. That that was the strangest thing. I mean, her security guard is standing right there.  

[00:39:22] Jesse Fries:

I thought he was security at first.  

[00:39:24] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. Because of how close he was to her. This guy come up, put his arm around her Uh-huh.   And then move to stand behind her and grope her up and kiss her. Yeah. Yeah. And the security guard just sat there and let him do it.  

[00:39:40] Jesse Fries:

Apparently, Mexico is a different place.  

[00:39:43] Jamon Fries:

Well, I mean, maybe, but at the same time, I also got the the idea that maybe this was all staged.   Oh, she's pressing charges. So Well, I know she is. Of course, she is. Yeah. So I don't know. Because she then very quickly came out and then did a press statement about how   she can't she can't believe, you know, that   that women have to go through this. If they would dare do this to me, they would do it to everyone. Oh, I see where you're going from this.   And, you know, I I just   have   two thoughts on the matter. The first the first thought is,   this is not okay no matter who's doing it, no matter what's happening. It is not okay to invade a person's privacy like that. Yep. Yep.  

But   how many male celebrities   get groped by women and nobody talks about it?   Well, it's double standard. It was his. Well, I know. But I mean, you know, they they keep saying, men are like this. Men are like this. Men are like this.  

[00:40:45] Jesse Fries:

But women do the same exact shit. If not more so. Yeah. Because they they don't get held accountable. Yeah. Right. No. I I know this. I I everybody knows this. You know? It's a women get away with more crap than men do. It's just  

[00:41:00] Jamon Fries:

And it's okay because you you you know, you See, I am a firm believer in women's equality. They should be equal to men. No. I understand. In the bad shit too.  

[00:41:12] Jesse Fries:

I I I agree. I agree. But then also,   just  

[00:41:18] Jamon Fries:

in general, men don't care if we Oh, yeah. Yeah. Most most hunters are okay. You know, it's You know, most men are like, oh, damn. That was kind of interesting. Yeah. Exactly. Exactly. Now, of course, if you'd be like,   well, no. Well, it it kinda depends on It Clinton would sure love it, you know. Oh, yes. Yes. Absolutely.   Absolutely.   And I I think it more depends on   where they fall on the scale. Are they a one or are they a 10? Well, no. That there's always that. You you know, it's like those,  

[00:41:52] Jesse Fries:

have you seen those,   memes and whatnot where it's like, so so some ugly guy   hits on a girl, and, you know, it's she goes, sexual harassment. Sexual harassment.   And and then a a good looking guy does the same thing, and she goes,   You know? You know? It's like   yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It it all   depends and   Yeah. And it does for a guy too, but for a guy, you have to be like a dog   Yeah. For it to be a pro like, a literal dog. Oh, yeah. Yeah. To to to you you know, not not just   a average, not not not just a little bit  

[00:42:32] Jamon Fries:

lower than average, but, like, a absolute dog. Yeah. You gotta be a one or a two at the most. Exactly.  

[00:42:39] Jesse Fries:

Exactly. You have to be on something. You have to be like, oh, yeah. No.   Yeah. Otherwise, we'll just accept it and keep moving on with our lives. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Absolutely.  

[00:42:52] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. Story that I saw was they found it was pretty interesting was, in Australia.   Mhmm.   They have so many   house like, every three one out of every three houses in Australia has solar panels on it. Okay.   And so   Australia   has such an abundance   of energy now Uh-huh.   That they're actually giving   three hours of free energy a day   to   the houses that don't have solar panels.   Nice.   Nice.   Yeah. So they've got so much energy coming in from all the solar panels on the roofs Uh-huh. That   that they can just give some of the energy away for free.  

[00:43:40] Jesse Fries:

That's kinda nice. That is kinda nice.   Yeah. No. I don't mind solar panels on roofs or anything like that. Oh, no. No. Absolutely not. You just have to have you just have to be able to support the grid,   with   things that can actually keep it going. You know? Yes. You you have to support the grid with consistent energy. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Solar a lot of times, especially up in the Northern Hemisphere is Oh, yeah. Always on that grid. So it's, Yep.   Down there, it's probably sunshiny way too much.   Yeah. That could be Australia. I   don't know. I've never been to Australia. So Yeah. Me neither. Me neither. Yeah. It's a It's a long flight down there, dude. It really is. Yes. And then, of course, it's a huge country. So it's like go coming to The United States and then you ask, what are you gonna see? You you know, it's like you go to Sydney. Okay. You see Sydney. Then it's a six hour flight.  

I went to Perth or whatever. You know? It's like Yep.  

[00:44:36] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Now now this now this free electricity right now is only in three states in Australia. So Mhmm. But, I mean, Australian states, if I remember correctly, are fairly large.  

[00:44:49] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. Some of them are. Most of them are. Yeah. There's, like,   one that isn't I can't I don't know if there's states. So Yeah. No   idea. Oh, yeah.   Okay.   Well,   apparently, there's some astronauts   stranded up in space.   So  

[00:45:08] Jamon Fries:

So another Gilligan's Island?  

[00:45:10] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. This one, it is on the   how do you   it is   On,   Tiangong,   space station, the Chinese space station. Space station. Okay. Yep. Yep.   So there was a crew up there, and then a new crew was going up.   And when that crew was going up,   their   the spaceship was,   hit by some debris of some sort.  

[00:45:47] Jamon Fries:

Oh, damn. And now they're stuck up there. So Oh, yeah. Yeah. You don't you don't wanna go back down you don't wanna enter this atmosphere unless you're 100%   certain that the field is gonna hold. So yeah. Yep.   Makes a lot of sense.  

[00:46:02] Jesse Fries:

So yeah. So it it it the station can hold six people, and that's how how many are up there right   now. Yeah.   But   yeah.   They they don't know they haven't figured out when they can, bring them back or whatnot. Maybe Musk will have to go up and say, that'd be hilarious.  

[00:46:19] Jamon Fries:

That would be.   You know?  

[00:46:22] Jesse Fries:

Musk is going, I got something right now. You want him down now? I I I I can go get him. I can bring him back for you.   You know he could too. Oh, yeah. Absolutely.  

[00:46:36] Jamon Fries:

Probably charge him As long as long as they used a inter as long as they they had an international standard for the docking   managers Right. For the docking system, then, yes, he would absolutely be able to get them out. Yeah. Who knows on that part? You know? It's a No idea.  

[00:46:52] Jesse Fries:

Otherwise, you'd, you know, just space walk over.  

[00:46:54] Jamon Fries:

Yep. Oh, yeah. You could do that, I suppose. Yeah. Yeah. Why not? Why not?  

[00:46:59] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. As long as they have airlocks. I don't know if they have airlocks, So I don't  

[00:47:04] Jamon Fries:

know. Yeah. I would assume that they would.  

[00:47:08] Jesse Fries:

I'm not gonna assume anything.  

[00:47:14] Jamon Fries:

But yeah. So I well, okay. I would hope that they would.   Uh-huh.   Because, yeah, it would be really bad if they didn't. You would think.  

[00:47:24] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. Yeah. You could think. But, you know, like the original ones didn't, you know, the Apollo. Yeah.   They didn't have an airlock or anything like that. Everybody would just get suited up.   Yep.   And then you would open the hatch. Suit up before they went out. Yep. Exactly. Before one person went out. There's your airlock.   Yeah. I I would I would think that the space station itself would be a little bit different. Well, right. But I wonder, like, if the SpaceX capsule I'm not sure if that has an airlock. That's what I was talking about. I'm sure the I'm sure the space station does.  

[00:47:56] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. I don't think it it probably doesn't. Yeah. I I have no clue. Maybe it does? I I don't no. I don't think it does because there's there's nowhere   the outside   is just   approximately   the same   shape and just just a little bit larger than the inside. Mhmm. So I don't think there's room anywhere where a person could go into   the   air dip to the to the airlock to and then closed it off so that it didn't so that it would so that it went to so that the the rest of the crew didn't have to suit up as well.   No. No.  

[00:48:33] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. So that that was my thing. But yeah.   Okay.  

[00:48:37] Jamon Fries:

Here I mean, you you send two or three people up. They all get suited up. That'd be great. Exactly. Exactly.  

[00:48:43] Jesse Fries:

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[00:49:44] Jamon Fries:

Well,   Microsoft   in in   researching for their AI   decided that one one thing that they want their AI to be able to do is when you are hungry for a hamburger   or something like that. Mhmm. Or if you want   to buy a specific item,   like, say, a fly swatter.   Just throw on throw on it. Right. Right. No. I understand.   AI would then   go through   all of the local stores that   if you say you wanted it delivered, then it would be local stores that have delivery.   If you wanna go pick it up, then it would be where the local stores is and tell you exactly where you can go to get the flyswatter   and potentially order it for you as well.  

And so they created   a fake market   place to test their AI agents.   And from everything that I read, it went   really bad.  

[00:50:52] Jesse Fries:

How so?  

[00:50:54] Jamon Fries:

Well, for example,   they found   that   the more choices   AI had,   it got bottlenecks   so bad, it couldn't make a choice.   So if you said, I want a hamburger, and it had to choose between McDonald's, Burger King, Culver's,   Five Guys,   you know, Wendy's, and all these other things,   it couldn't make the choice as to which hamburger to buy.  

[00:51:25] Jesse Fries:

Is that   I could see that. I could see that. Yeah. Yeah. The other problem it had  

[00:51:34] Jamon Fries:

is they noticed that by just changing a few words in their advertisements,   they could trick AI to buy from them instead of anyone else.  

[00:51:46] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. I can see that.  

[00:51:48] Jamon Fries:

So it is more susceptible   to the advertising   trickery   than humans are.  

[00:51:55] Jesse Fries:

Right.  

[00:51:56] Jamon Fries:

And it's more indecisive   than humans are.  

[00:52:00] Jesse Fries:

So  

[00:52:01] Jamon Fries:

yeah. It's useless. Completely eliminates the point of using it as that for that purpose.  

[00:52:09] Jesse Fries:

Well, there you go.   AI is gonna take over the world, don't you know? That that's what they said. Absolutely. Yes. Yes.   Yeah.   The other Joe Rogan podcast that he had Musk on just recently, they had an interesting conversation. They talked about space, but they also take talk about AI and everything like that. Yeah. And Musk was saying that he thinks,   that what are the possibilities? Because because there's many different possibilities   about, where AI could take us. You know, it could take us down the route of Terminator.   It could take us in,   maybe not the matrix, but, you you know, maybe that sort of thing. Yeah.  

But he he said that there's also a very good chance that it could be,   it it it could be   so good that it would actually take us into   the way he described it   was that you could have everybody have a very good   basic income,   like Yeah. Where you can afford luxuries, real luxuries and everything like that. So a very high level of basic income.   And I think that's true. I think, Oh, yeah. It's   he he didn't point it out or anything like that, but it's basically Star Trek is what he was talking about. Yes. Yeah. That whole the Gene Roddenberry universe. How Oh, yeah. Yeah. There there there you just there is no money. When when AI advances to a certain point where  

[00:53:38] Jamon Fries:

people don't need to work anymore Mhmm.   Then but everything is still being produced   Right.   Then,   yeah, it's gonna   it it that's probably the only way,   and   I   there's other issues that I that I   would want to make sure that this didn't happen. But that would probably be the only way that a true   socialist or communist  

[00:54:09] Jesse Fries:

society could could No. Yes. Like, a true Marxist AI. Yeah. Which which AI can with AI doing all of the work. No. Yeah. Yeah. And, actually,   that was actually Mark's   idea.   He it's just he thought it was due to the industrial revolution that it would come about. Yes.   But that still left menial tasks and everything like that there. Oh, yeah. Yeah. And so   you still had to have those menial tasks. And if you still have people doing those menial tasks, then   you cannot have pure communist.   It's just not a possibility.   Yeah.  

But yeah. No. Marx, even in his theories and everything like that, if you study them, he says that you go through capitalism   to actually get to socialism.  

[00:54:54] Jamon Fries:

Yeah.  

[00:54:55] Jesse Fries:

It makes sense. You have you have to and you have to get to the point that capitalism is so good that everybody can have such a high level of basic income, I think, just like Yeah. Musk was saying.   And then you get to where you actually wanna be. And I think everybody could agree with that. Be a great thing to have.  

[00:55:13] Jamon Fries:

Yes. Yes.  

[00:55:14] Jesse Fries:

It's just trying to force it on us when   we're not ready for it, like the communist, like, Mandani and whatnot. It just doesn't make any sense. But When when the technology  

[00:55:23] Jamon Fries:

doesn't exist to allow it to happen Yep. Naturally   Mhmm. It can't happen.   And so so   the government's become the type of government   that is very destructive   instead of instead of,  

[00:55:37] Jesse Fries:

creative. Oh, yeah. And I'm not sure if the technology will ever get there. But, you know, they they They may not. No. There is a possibility with AI and,   new robotics and everything like that. They could actually get there, but you actually never know. So No. No. No. Yeah. I mean, it  

[00:55:54] Jamon Fries:

it's considering how difficult it is just to get AI to drive a vehicle, You know? I mean, it's Right. Right.   We we can't really rely on AI right for at least the next   ten, twenty years to be able to reliably drive tractors   and, you know, to be to reliably   do all of the work that needs to be done out there. You know? Yeah. We'll see. We'll see. That's that's  

[00:56:21] Jesse Fries:

sometimes, the technology   just needs the right   switch. So so so so it things could switch overnight, so you never know. But, yeah, it's No. No. That that is More than likely not. But yeah. It's so you never know. You never know. Yeah. But, I mean, you know, for, like, the mining and stuff like that, that will require  

[00:56:41] Jamon Fries:

robotics to an extent that we don't have yet.   Yeah. Oh, completely. Completely. Yep. So the the there's a lot and   there's a lot   of stuff that would need to be invented   before it could happen. I mean, like, better metals and stuff before some of this stuff would be able to actually do it.   So yeah. I mean, there there's a lot of complications to it. No. Yeah. Completely. Completely.  

[00:57:09] Jesse Fries:

Let's see here. So on to studies. And just so everybody knows, studies there was a study that showed that studies are mostly false. Some of them are good. Some of them are bad.   But most of them   need to be taken with a grain of salt and maybe just ignored completely.   You use your judgment because nobody knows which ones they are.  

[00:57:31] Jamon Fries:

Yep. So I'll I'll talk about my science my study first. Okay.   There was a study that was done that,   they were studying ultra processed foods, and they went down   to the molecular level, to the DNA level   Mhmm. To see what effects   ultra processed foods had on the body. Okay.   Now according to the article,   women were affected a lot worse than men were. Okay.   But the ultra process the more ultra processed foods you ate,   the more your DNA would change   Oh. To the point of allowing   cancer   cancerous growths to potentially   occur.  

Things that, you know, it's the type of changes that lead to cancer or to,   developmental issues and stuff like that. Right.   And so   they so they've now have the   they now, according to the study,   have some very   heavy   science   backing   how bad the ultra processed foods are for you. Oh, okay. Okay. Yeah. It's  

[00:58:47] Jesse Fries:

yeah. I   I ultra processed is a bit much. You know, a lot of that stuff is garbage. You know? But some of it is I'm just saying, you know, it's like I I I Pretty damn good, though. Yeah. I don't eat them often, but, like, a hostess cupcake.   Oh, yeah. I love those things. Those things are some of my favorite things. Yep. So good. Zingers. I've I've always I've always been partial to the Zingers. Oh, okay. Okay.   Never was a huge fan of the Twinkie. It's okay. No. Never No. Never was a huge fan of the Twinkie.  

[00:59:18] Jamon Fries:

No. There was just something off about it to me. I don't know what it was, but yeah.   Maybe needed the chocolate, you know. That could be that could be. Or or at least some of their flavor, you know. Like, the Zingers, they they have, like,   they they have either,   chocolate on top of them or they'll have, like, the coconut shreds on them and stuff. Right. Right. Right. So it it just needed something else to it. Oh, yeah. Yeah.  

[00:59:42] Jesse Fries:

It's just   yeah. No. I I have no problem with trying to take care of,   get rid of, high ultra processed stuff. You know? We don't   most of the stuff we eat doesn't ultra process. So it's,   there is always some. It's hard to get away from it all. But,  

[00:59:59] Jamon Fries:

it it is. I've I've done pretty well so far lately.   Mhmm.   But, I mean, you know, I'm   basically just eating   eggs   and chicken   and pork and   yeah. Really nothing else. No good. Yeah. It's hard. It works. To have those be ultra processed.  

[01:00:20] Jesse Fries:

It really is. It really is.   So another study, it shows that people lie when they're dating. Can you believe it? Way.   Yeah. It's crazy.   The the article, it says, is your date financially catfishing you? No. They just lied to you. They tried to impress you. You know? It's yeah. It's like they say what is it?   Half of Gen Z and millennials admit to lying about their wealth   or financial success.  

[01:00:53] Jamon Fries:

Isn't that, like,   everybody?   Yeah. No. Exactly. Meet someone? Yep. Yep. Yep. Because, you know, if you don't have money, they're not gonna be interested   I know. In some with some people.  

[01:01:06] Jesse Fries:

I don't. I don't.  

[01:01:07] Jamon Fries:

You may you may get lucky and find the people that don't care about the money. But  

[01:01:13] Jesse Fries:

Or it's just like our older The money is something. Yeah. It's it's like our older brother. When when he was   dating his first wife, he was driving a Cadillac.   Yes. It was his daddy's Cadillac.   You know?   He didn't have the money for it.  

[01:01:30] Jamon Fries:

Oh, no. No. Absolutely not.  

[01:01:33] Jesse Fries:

But yeah. And, apparently,   37%   are willing to overdraft the accounts   their accounts to go on a debt on a date.  

[01:01:44] Jamon Fries:

Oh, god.  

[01:01:45] Jesse Fries:

46%   of men would overdraft to impress a date,   while only 28%   of women would.   I I'm surprised any woman would. That. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah.  

[01:01:56] Jamon Fries:

The woman would if the man   is   way out of their league.  

[01:02:03] Jesse Fries:

Maybe undress or whatnot. You know? I don't know. I guess Yeah. Well, I can see that.   Not too many of them pay that   I from what I could tell them. But I don't know. I'm an old folk. We haven't dated in freaking years, dude.   Decades.  

[01:02:17] Jamon Fries:

Technically, I've never really dated. Well, there you go. There you go. I don't   yeah. I don't think I've ever actually been on a date.   Well, you had a girlfriend, so that works.  

[01:02:31] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. It doesn't matter if it there is a date or not.  

[01:02:35] Jamon Fries:

A lot of people don't go on dates. They just start hanging out, and next thing you know, there you go. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I I got my girlfriend because somebody else convinced her to do something, and,   I was a mode of transportation   at the time.  

[01:02:49] Jesse Fries:

Well,   it doesn't matter how you meet. It's just how crazy they are. And she was crazy too. Oh, she was batshit crazy.   Let's see here.   Onto   energy.   Let's do yours, I guess.  

[01:03:06] Jamon Fries:

Okay. Why not? So Israel had a had a pretty big breakthrough.   They're they've now gone into their few first human trials   has has been done.   They've developed   a they've they've engineered   a spinal cord of sorts.   Mhmm.   It it's not really a spinal cord. But so what it is is it's they they take a person's   blood   and some fat tissue from their waist Mhmm.   And they they do some stuff to it to turn it into,   neural material.   Okay.   And then they put that neural material   next to a spinal break, a spinal cord break,   and that neural material   reforms the helps reform the connections.  



[01:04:00] Jesse Fries:

Oh, that's cool.  

[01:04:02] Jamon Fries:

They they had they took mice that had that had their backs broken and were completely immobile  

[01:04:08] Jesse Fries:

Uh-huh.  

[01:04:09] Jamon Fries:

Gave them a put this stuff right around the spinal cord where the break was. Right. Within three days, they were walking and running again. Holy crap.  

[01:04:19] Jesse Fries:

Yes. That is cool, dude.   That is  

[01:04:23] Jamon Fries:

So spinal column injuries   may no longer be a lifetime  

[01:04:30] Jesse Fries:

sentence.   That'd be fucking awesome, dude. It would be.  

[01:04:34] Jamon Fries:

It takes about six months for them to grow the neural material.   Right. And then   according to with the mice, it took about three days before they were fully active again. So So yeah. That's just crazy. Like time. Yeah. We're we're looking   at maybe seven months tops. Yeah. Yeah.  

[01:04:52] Jesse Fries:

Oh, that's pretty cool. That is That is freaking awesome.   It really is. That is really cool.  

[01:05:00] Jamon Fries:

And they came out of Israel. That's,   I didn't know their science was that advanced.  

[01:05:06] Jesse Fries:

I well, they're basically in a constant state of war. So, you know, it's   if you look at most   technological breakthroughs, a lot of times they come because of war.  

[01:05:17] Jamon Fries:

This is true. And and the one and one thing that they were heavily looking into   was,   with the war that's been going on with Gaza Mhmm. Is treating the injuries of their soldiers. So Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.  

[01:05:30] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. It's like the just since, like,   the medical you you really don't hear about it. But even here in The United States, ever since, like,   being invaded Iraq and Afghanistan   this last time,   Like like,   the amputees and and all the stuff that they have now, it is so far beyond what was there before. Like Oh. So far beyond.   Before, it was like, here's a stick. Put it on your arm. Exactly. They they they could handle gunshots like nobody's business now. You know? You there there is so much,   that   Yeah. It's sad to say for you. Yeah. You you know, much of our existence and our luxuries actually only comes about   because of   war and the need to try to better to help your soldiers or to advance and kill the other person more. Yep.  

It it it it's that's the way of the world. So  

[01:06:28] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. Yeah. They've got six they've got six people that have been approved to go by the government to go through the testing. So they're gonna do the human trials on those six people. Nice. And Nice. After that, they will see about   spreading it out much further. So Okay.   It's getting it's getting close if it works.  

[01:06:49] Jesse Fries:

Cool. Cool. Yeah.   So this whole idea of dark energy and dark matter and everything like that, it just keeps falling apart, dude. It keeps falling apart after Nice. Yeah. Yeah. Now now they're actually saying that you you know how they   always said that the the universe was expanding at a accelerated rate?   Yes.   And then just a little while ago, we talked about that's a study that said, well, no. It's probably just expanding. Right? Just at a normal rate. And then there's Yeah.   No gravity some places, so it affects time and space and everything like that. But now they're saying that   the expansion is actually probably slowing down.  



[01:07:35] Jamon Fries:

Yep. Which would make sense after an explosion.   No. It it would. You know? It would. If the Big Fang theory is true,   stuff will move very fast as it start when it's when the explosion happens. But then shit starts to slow down because it's affected by other things. Mhmm. Yep. Yep. It's the whole thing is That would that would make a lot more sense.  

[01:08:00] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. No. It it would. It is like it's funny. It's like they say   the study, it suggested   that we've been misreading the evidence all along.   Yeah. And they say that   it's because   we're basically comparing apples to oranges.   Oh, yeah. Yeah. More precisely, we're,   comparing exploding stars to old stars   Okay. Without accounting for the difference in their brightness and everything like that.   Makes sense. Yeah. Yeah. So it's   yeah. It's   look at that. So dark energy, all this fun stuff, dark matter, it just doesn't exist. That I I I think I I know scientists won't tell you that yet, but I think Oh, yeah. Yeah. That's where it's going to, you know. Yes.  

[01:08:50] Jamon Fries:

So how much money   have they wasted on that shit?  

[01:08:55] Jesse Fries:

I would not I would never say wasted when it comes to trying to understand the universe. I would just say that No. No. I mean, they while they've been researching that, they have found a lot of very interesting things. They have. They have. It's just how many people's lives have been waste to see that one?  

[01:09:14] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. Well, I mean,   because, yeah, there are a lot of people that do nothing but research  

[01:09:21] Jesse Fries:

dark energy. Dark energy and dark matter. Yep.   Yep.   That that and some people, their whole careers and lives were spent trying to Yeah. Figure it out. Yeah.   And   yeah. And they died unhappy because they couldn't figure it out. It's yeah. Yeah. You you know, it's like the whole thing of going,   just because you believe it. So so it was basically a religion.  

[01:09:46] Jamon Fries:

Yeah. Oh, well, absolutely. Yes.  

[01:09:49] Jesse Fries:

And so you just go it has to be real. And so because I I believe it. And so it has to be real. Yeah. You know? It it's Yeah. There's so many people   like that in all sorts of fields. They they they stake their whole career,   especially in academia.   They   stack their whole career on one thing,   on their dissertation,   and then that's it for the rest of their lives.   Yeah. So   yeah. Yeah. So   Yeah. Wow.   So I I I think I I I I'll just say I don't believe in dark matter and dark energy anymore. And let let let's see what people say to me about it.  

[01:10:30] Jamon Fries:

So but, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I I I have been convinced with those studies with those with those things that you've found so far. I am   pretty much 100%   convinced that it does not exist.  

[01:10:42] Jesse Fries:

Well, it's like to to me, it's   dark energy. Well, dark matter. Just take dark energy. You know, energy can be anything. Right? Oh, yeah. Yeah. You can't even see Energy is just energy. Yeah. You can't even see regular energy. Right? Yeah. So that's just energy. It's light. Whatnot. You you it it doesn't affect you. Right?   But matter. The whole idea that there can be this   this   matter   that doesn't interact with any other matter   and that you can pass through you. And out it's like believing in ghosts. I'm sorry. I I do.   I just   it's believing in angels and everything like that. You know? I just I just I just  

[01:11:25] Jamon Fries:

where's the proof? You know, there there's nothing there. It's like it's just a freak. Without without a doubt. Yeah. I I was always 75%   sure that it wasn't that dark matter wasn't real.   But now I'm about 99%   sure that dark matter isn't real. Yeah. So Yeah. Yeah. It's just yeah.  

[01:11:44] Jesse Fries:

Yeah.   Okay. So to end this off, do you wanna go with yours? I I think mine is seems to have the most potential. I'm just saying. Yeah. Absolutely. Yes. Okay. So mine is,  

[01:11:57] Jamon Fries:

so   research researchers   during COVID,   since there were the shutdowns, they still wanted to do their research. Right? Mhmm.   And so they started   doing   online research where they would contact people,   and those people would tell them   what was going on.  

[01:12:18] Jesse Fries:

Okay.  

[01:12:19] Jamon Fries:

So they didn't have to go to a doctor checkup to see to see if the doctor said that this was going on. There was absolutely nothing to verify that they were actually   giving   results   for having done something.   Okay.   And so now   researchers   have decided,   well, you of course, because just like going back to work,   once you can do it online and you get the results that you want out of it, you don't wanna go back to per in person trials where,   you know, you may not get the results you like.   So they had to develop a new checklist   to prevent fraud   in the online clinical trials.  

Okay.   Yeah. The the story didn't go into the what the checklist entailed or anything like that. It was just   it just one of those really weird stories.  

[01:13:15] Jesse Fries:

Okay.   So Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. No.   Online stuff. You know? There's   it it's like if it's a in person thing to where especially like a medical situation, it's like   you you can actually   they could check you. You know? They can actually check your blood pressure. They could take your blood. They could actually go, okay. So this is what it is. You know? If it's   online,   then you're just asking them.  

[01:13:44] Jamon Fries:

You know? It doesn't look Okay. So so one of the checks   that they've that they've said we need to implement   Mhmm.   Is   during your baseline   interviews   on video, we recommend that researchers   ask, but not mandate,   that participants   show photo identification   on the screen.   Oh.   Wow. So they weren't even verifying that these people were actually   who these people actually were. Wow. That is crazy.   Yeah. No. That that that that's not good. That is not good at all. They modified the study protocol to allow phone screenings to take place, but it had to be   on FaceTime or something like that.  



[01:14:42] Jesse Fries:

Yeah.  

[01:14:43] Jamon Fries:

The whole thing thing is monitor the participant in participants   appearance   and other suspicious behavior, such Yeah. Muting their microphone frequently after each question.  

[01:14:55] Jesse Fries:

Imagine that. You you you know, it's like these, interviewers who were you you you you they will hire somebody to take the interview for them.  

[01:15:05] Jamon Fries:

Yeah.  

[01:15:06] Jesse Fries:

Or at least be, like, they'll do all the work for you while you're in the interview, and then you're just on camera faking it and everything like that. There's Yep.   Carol has had to deal with this. Oh, yeah. People do that. You know? It's like,   it's the craziest thing.   So, yeah, anything online, it it it it's sus. Complete sus.   There's,   you have to be careful. You know?  

[01:15:28] Jamon Fries:

Yep.   Yeah. It says that, you should you should look for for patterns in email addresses. You should look at look for ZIP codes not corresponding with the participants home state.  

[01:15:40] Jesse Fries:

Imagine that.  

[01:15:42] Jamon Fries:

During the during the screening portion, team the team says researchers should also   investigate participants who enroll multiple   times.   I mean, this should all just be general knowledge   shit. This is not screening. This is what should have been this is normal   normal things.  

[01:16:06] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. No. Exactly. It's like we we when in the ZIP code field, they have our case 5678.   You know? It's like, that that that's that's the wrong country.  

[01:16:16] Jamon Fries:

Yeah.   Yeah. Yeah.   So   this really drives me so, you know, our our whole thing about studies  

[01:16:25] Jesse Fries:

Mhmm.  

[01:16:26] Jamon Fries:

With having to give that,   that  

[01:16:29] Jesse Fries:

that, disclaimer at the beginning of them Yep. Yep. Yep. It makes no so much more sense now. It does. It does. And and then you also just have scientists faking it, faking that of themselves. You know? You have the study participants,   lying this, that, faking it. You know, there's so much to where There is. Yes.  

[01:16:51] Jamon Fries:

Is there  

[01:16:53] Jesse Fries:

when they say trust the science, it's like, what science are you talking about? You know, it's like, is there actual science there?   You know, it's like sometimes you just go,   I don't know. I don't know.  

[01:17:07] Jamon Fries:

Well, and just because one scientist or a group of scientists   says that this is the way it is,   doesn't necessarily mean that that's the way it is. Exactly.   Exactly. It could just be group think. You know? Yeah. It it could be that they're just honestly mistaken.  

[01:17:24] Jesse Fries:

Yeah.  

[01:17:25] Jamon Fries:

Yep. Yep.   I mean, how many people have researched into how into so many different   theories of mathematics   that end up going nowhere?  

[01:17:36] Jesse Fries:

Mhmm.  

[01:17:37] Jamon Fries:

And yet, they keep expanding it into well, if this is true, if we can ever prove that this is true, that means that this could be true too. So we need to research this as well. Oh, completely. Completely.  

[01:17:51] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. Okay.   So there's that.   And then there's people having sex on the Autobahn   in Germany.   There is this couple. He was driving 90 miles an hour. Miles an hour, not kilometers. Oh my god. 90 miles an hour on the German Autobahn,   and it nearly caused a fatal pileup.   This is on the A 1, motorway  

[01:18:18] Jamon Fries:

or Oh, damn.  

[01:18:21] Jesse Fries:

Yeah.   Ein   Ein's,   motorway, whatever they would call it. But yeah. So they were actually yeah. The guy,   was, well, the people, one was 37, one was 33.   Okay. And they were swerving across the A 1 motorway. So he couldn't even keep it together.   You know? Come come if you're gonna do this sort of thing,   be safe about it. Yeah. Have Tesla journey. Yeah. Yeah.  

[01:18:49] Jamon Fries:

Absolutely.   Yes. Yes.  

[01:18:53] Jesse Fries:

But yeah. And then somebody called the cops on them, because they were   the male and the male driver and female passenger were engaged in sexual activity. I can just imagine.   Can you hear the German coming out, you know, the, like, speaking?   Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Not that. That that is Russian.  

[01:19:13] Jamon Fries:

Snell. Snell. Snell.   Snell.   Snell. Snell. Snell. I think that's a show title.   Absolutely.   Yes. Yes.   Yeah. And a one would be.  

[01:19:30] Jesse Fries:

Ah, okay.   Okay. Okay. Yep.   There you go. That is if if they just if if they do the phonetical a, the as it is in the German alphabet. So Yeah. Yeah. Or or if they just do the English one. You never know. Yeah. They're crazy over there. But yeah. So   he was they were arrested   at a gas station. So  

[01:19:50] Jamon Fries:

I can imagine.  

[01:19:51] Jesse Fries:

Yeah. They were videoed and everything like that. So Yeah.   Yeah. Yeah. Sex on the Autobahn.  

[01:19:59] Jamon Fries:

You know, I've I've seen it happening   in traffic jams, but   I've never seen anybody doing it at full speed.  

[01:20:10] Jesse Fries:

I plead the fifth.   And with that, I would like to thank you for joining us for episode 77 of the mindless meanderings podcast. I'm Jesse Fries. And I'm Jamin Fries. And we will see you on Monday.