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The Insanely Great Podcast is your weekly mix of tech, AI, sports, politics, and whatever other shiny object grabs our attention. One minute we’re breaking down the future of artificial intelligence, the next we’re debating game-day drama, political chaos, or the kind of random topic that somehow becomes the best conversation of the episode. Smart, funny, and just unhinged enough to keep things interesting, it’s the podcast for curious people who like their insights sharp and their conversations a little unpredictable.
Christopher Weeks AI (00:00)
Welcome to the Insanely Great Podcast, episode number fourteen, Siri Why Can't You Count?
Christopher Weeks (00:15)
for august third, twenty twenty six. I'm Chris and this is my buddy DJ. Hello DJ, how you doin'?
DJ (00:23)
Hey, coming to you live from the swamps of Louisiana.
Christopher Weeks (00:26)
The swamps. You s you sound like
you sound like swamp thing. Swamp th
DJ (00:30)
I just crawled out.
Christopher Weeks (00:32)
swamp thing unleashed.
DJ (00:33)
Yes. I just crawled out, showered, did my beard up, but
Christopher Weeks (00:36)
Yeah.
DJ (00:37)
we're good to go.
Christopher Weeks (00:37)
Yeah. sp speaking of like swamp, how are the gas prices in the swamp?
DJ (00:42)
They're they're pretty damn high. We're I think a little over three fifty a gallon, if I'm not mistaken, clawing its way up to four.
Christopher Weeks (00:49)
yeah, I feel bad for you. We just hit five five dollars thirty cents. I feel bad for you. You're you're gonna you're
DJ (00:54)
You should, you should.
Christopher Weeks (00:55)
gonna get a lot of sympathy from me on that. Lot of sympathy.
DJ (01:00)
The crazy part is it is n I think it only crept over three dollars a gallon when Biden was in office. Maybe once. It had always
Christopher Weeks (01:08)
Yeah.
DJ (01:08)
stayed a little under, but now it's just it's unseen here before. Cause we're in a
Christopher Weeks (01:14)
Yeah.
DJ (01:14)
state that refines it. So it's when they ship it, it's like ten miles up the road.
Christopher Weeks (01:19)
Wow. Yeah, we used to have a bunch of refineries here and we well we've closed a bunch of them. and now we just import most of our
Don't even get me started on that. We've got so many issues with putting taxes on our gas so that the roads can be amazing and you'd think that every road that I drive on would be like freshly coated from all the tax money we pay. And they're not. Fucking shit's roads are falling apart, potholes all over the place.
DJ (01:46)
Yeah, I've heard Los Angeles is is particularly bad.
Christopher Weeks (01:49)
Yeah. I'm selling California really well, aren't I?
DJ (01:51)
Well, Texas is in a I don't know if you know this, but they're in a constant state of construction
because as soon as they think one highway has worn out, they start repaving it and they just do this constantly. They have some of the
Christopher Weeks (02:04)
Yeah.
DJ (02:04)
nicest roads I've ever been on.
Christopher Weeks (02:06)
So, alright, let's dive right into it. I'll start with iOS twenty-seven. I guess we can start down that road. I thought
DJ (02:12)
Mm-hmm.
Christopher Weeks (02:13)
was kind of disappointed. I thought there would be a new beta five that would be coming out today. and no such thing. So I wonder what's going on at Apple if they're like
The beta just wasn't quite ready for enough people to send it out to developers for it to hit prime time. Cause the way that it's worked in the past is June, July, about every two weeks they do a beta and they've started doing more and more public betas. usually after a beta drops about a week or four days later, if there's no showstoppers with it, they get
it gets a public release. so I was kind of surprised to see that there wasn't one this morning.
DJ (02:49)
Hmm. What are your thoughts as to why that might be? Do you have any?
Christopher Weeks (02:53)
my guess would be something that they're trying to put into it is taking longer than they anticipated to g get working or w work out all the bugs or it's my hopes that they're trying to make Siri more efficient. that seems to be the big the big complaint that most people have with the new Siri betas is that the
there's a noticeable lag
DJ (03:17)
I mean, I'll say today I had an email pulled up and I said, Hey Siri, set a reminder for this, thinking that it would look at the screen. I tried it two times and it just failed. It said sorry, some kind of issue. And then I waited two minutes, tried it again. It finally did it, but this is not the first time I've had that happen where it just fails completely and absolutely. It doesn't even try, it just spins and then stops.
Christopher Weeks (03:42)
Hm. Wow.
DJ (03:43)
A lot.
Christopher Weeks (03:43)
A lot, yeah. I mean, they can't have that stuff happening.
DJ (03:47)
No,
which is surprising me because this is like the Siri update.
Christopher Weeks (03:51)
Yeah, though I've been reading more and more that it looks like that the heavy Siri up usage, there's concerns about whether Apple can handle it all.
DJ (04:02)
Hmm.
Christopher Weeks (04:04)
and so that they're going to l limit usage heavier usage of it to the people that pay for the iCloud Plus storage. and you have to have this top tier package to get larger requests.
DJ (04:15)
I was about to say, is it any plus storage? 'Cause I I subscribe to the two terabyte, but I don't think that's anywhere near the top storage cost.
Christopher Weeks (04:23)
Yeah. I I don't know.
DJ (04:25)
I think mine's on the lower end actually, like almost the lowest.
Christopher Weeks (04:28)
Yeah. I mean two terabytes seems like a lot, but I mean I mean I look at my usage and I got like five hundred gigs worth of photos. I think we had this conversation
DJ (04:37)
Yeah.
Christopher Weeks (04:39)
last week or last time. But yeah, it just yeah. And did we have the com did we have the conversation?
DJ (04:43)
That's that's that's normal for you.
Christopher Weeks (04:46)
Did we have the conversation about I think we might have about
Like Apple picking and choosing which search words are okay and acceptable?
DJ (04:53)
We did, but I don't remember how you how we came up on that. I think you had s searched for something, right?
Christopher Weeks (04:58)
Yeah, I mean it's just like I don't know. It it just seems like they're micromanaging how good the search can be. like I don't know, if I type like red swimsuit, it'll come up with all these red swimsuits, no problem. But if I type red bikini, it's just like nope, can't do it.
DJ (05:16)
Mm. Yeah.
Christopher Weeks (05:18)
which is kind of crazy. And more weird.
If I go to Google Photos, where I usually put backups of all my photos and it indexes them all there, I could type red bikini and it'll come up no problem. And if I type red swimsuit, comes up no problem. So it seems Google's good with they want to really maximize the search and it to be as efficient as possible. But Apple is just like, no, we're we're very PT thirteen. You can't we gotta be careful.
DJ (05:43)
Apple's always had more stringent guardrails though. And it's it we're gonna see how that really pans out with the image generation app that they put in there. Has has any have you seen anyone try to push its limits?
Christopher Weeks (05:57)
I I gave up on that thing so long ago. I I know it's handicapped beyond belief. Like yeah. It'll it'll do dumb little fun pictures that are useless to just about everybody. kind of like the Gen Moji thing. Like I've never seen anybody actually use that. I've never
DJ (06:14)
Yeah, me neither.
Christopher Weeks (06:15)
I've never gotten a a text with a genmoji in it where I've like, hey, somebody finally used this thing.
DJ (06:21)
I tried to use it and it was awful 'cause you have to go over and over trying to get it to show you what you have are describing and usually it never nails it. At least in my opinion.
Christopher Weeks (06:32)
Yeah. No,
it that's true. You're right. It's crazy.
DJ (06:37)
I will say that the widgets on both my iPad and iPhone now, certain apps are just
not like the widgets there, but it's blank. Gemini,
Christopher Weeks (06:46)
Really.
DJ (06:47)
Gemini's one of them, and YouTube are both Google stuff, I guess.
Christopher Weeks (06:51)
Wow. Wow. That's crazy. Yeah, so moving on, let's talk about some AI news. did we cover the hugging face problem?
DJ (06:58)
The hugging face issue, that was w open AI letting their model get out, right?
Christopher Weeks (07:04)
It was OpenAI letting their model get out. and interestingly enough, Hugging Face tried to use Fable and the latest Open AI model to figure out what was going on with their website. and all there were too many guardrails in place and it kept rejecting the help. said it couldn't help. So they literally had to go to a Chinese model. I think it was
DJ (07:26)
GLM five point two. Mm-hmm.
Christopher Weeks (07:28)
Yes.
and they had to go to a Chinese model, which the Chinese model was able to fastly figure out what was going on and provide a solution. I mean, isn't this just kind of the the debate that we're gonna be having for a long time? Open versus closed models.
DJ (07:44)
Absolutely. And I I just find it absolutely ironic that the model, the producer of the model that escaped, you can't even use their model to fix their model's escape. That right there proves the the guardrails. And I don't know I'm sure there's guardrails on the API. I just know that they're not as stringent on the API compared to the web page.
Christopher Weeks (08:07)
Right. Right. Yeah.
DJ (08:09)
I'd I'd like
to know I can probably look into which one they use, the API or the like the webpage. That that would be crazy them trying to use the webpage, like copy and paste back and forth.
Christopher Weeks (08:19)
Yeah, yeah.
It's that's nuts. yeah. what else? you wanna talk about Deep Seek? I think it's Deep Seek V four or am I right?
DJ (08:29)
Yeah, Deep Seek V4 flash, and
the checkpoint is 0731. So it's just at the end of last month. So it's only been out a few days. It released what that think that was last Friday. And
Christopher Weeks (08:42)
Right.
DJ (08:43)
this thing, they're claiming that it is Opus 4.8 levels of intelligence, but it's not Opus 4.8, not even sonnet levels of cost.
Like right now, I'm seeing live prices from Deep Infra on input per million, it's nine cents, and output is eighteen cents. The average
Christopher Weeks (09:04)
Wow Wow.
DJ (09:06)
though is 14 cents in, 30 cents out, and then two cents per cash hit. So deep infra is cutting it down, trying to get a bunch of people over there, but they actually have about sixty or seventy token per second.
So it's the same size as the last model, and it's the same cost as the last flash model, but it's been trained for better long-term engagement. And I've noticed that if you turn it loose on a problem, it will continuously talk to itself. Ask
Christopher Weeks (09:37)
Mm-hmm.
DJ (09:37)
and it'll even, I've seen it realize like, that's the wrong thing. Let me try this other way. So they have post-trained the model to catch its own mistakes, essentially.
Which is what a lot of Frontier labs have done, and they're doing it now with an incredibly cheap and efficient model. And that just goes to show you a lot of the intelligence of these models is not necessarily the size, but it's the post-training as well. Like you can have a giant model like Kimmy came out with Kimmy K3, and that thing's almost three terabytes in size.
Christopher Weeks (10:08)
Yeah, that th that thing is huge.
DJ (10:10)
Or sorry, three trillion parameters in size. And they're
There's speculation that that's how big GPT five and then five point five have been. Even bigger. I mean, I think Elon had said that X was gonna be more than two,
Christopher Weeks (10:22)
Yeah, and equally the fable model is equally as big.
DJ (10:26)
if not larger. Yeah.
Christopher Weeks (10:28)
Yeah.
Right.
DJ (10:29)
I mean, at this point, they it this was like two years ago. Everyone thought we were going to run out of good, clean data, and then we realized that we could take one model's output, train on it, and make it even smarter than the model it trained from. So you can just use synthetic data all day long.
Christopher Weeks (10:46)
Right. Right. Makes sense.
DJ (10:48)
But Deep Seek's upsetting
everybody. And and ChatGPT lowered their prices for Terra and Luna. And I think it's in response to just how bad the price difference has become.
Christopher Weeks (10:58)
Right. Makes sense. Crazy. yeah. So you're
DJ (11:01)
Have you used any of them?
Christopher Weeks (11:04)
Kimmy K three just became available on my perplexity account. I w for a while I was gonna I think it's Moonshot, that you have to subscribe to, to use it.
And I just thought, I'm just gonna wait for it to get available somewhere that I pay for and not have an additional subscription to you know, add to my life.
DJ (11:26)
Yeah.
Christopher Weeks (11:28)
So yeah, I've been playing with it there. It seems very very good. I don't know. I like I like that it's not so personable and just gives you the longest answer that is very specific.
and that that that seems good for me. yeah.
DJ (11:45)
Interesting. You're talking
so like is the answer the quality stays even though the length of the answer has grown? Because these
Christopher Weeks (11:52)
Yes.
DJ (11:53)
models are constantly not only getting larger context windows, but larger output windows.
Christopher Weeks (11:57)
Right, right. yeah. Which makes me think about like, you know, what kind of stuff are we gonna get out of the iPhone Siri answers. anyway, but
DJ (12:06)
Well, I I did want to mention that the iPhone, and naturally so, has an incredibly small context window. I think it's like 4,000
Christopher Weeks (12:14)
Right.
DJ (12:15)
tokens. And the other day I was trying to put something in a shortcut, and it basically said you've reached the max number of tokens that this can process. Basically, there's no room for your your actual prompt because it was all
Christopher Weeks (12:26)
Well
DJ (12:27)
in the instructions. Luckily, I did read where the
New models are gonna have I think sixteen K maybe of
Christopher Weeks (12:35)
Hm.
DJ (12:36)
context window, but that's still incredibly small.
Christopher Weeks (12:38)
Mm. Wow. I would have thought you there would have been larger limitations to that being that they're pushing most of that stuff to the cloud with the studios that are gonna be pushing the the the Siri slash Gemini answers back and forth. I don't know. I guess that's what I've been reading. Google is worried about being able to handle
that many people coming at coming at them.
DJ (13:05)
So it's not
even a fully an Apple thing, it's both.
Christopher Weeks (13:08)
Yeah, I mean the you know, think about the companies that are running running this Perplexity Claude, OpenAI, the amount of servers that they have to have, the amount of memory that they need for all this to work, right? And to to fit the needs of their consumers that they have that are using it. All of a sudden Apple's in a space where they're like
They're they're doing something they haven't done before.
DJ (13:33)
Mm-hmm.
Christopher Weeks (13:33)
provide something back and forth to a large amount of customers that for the first time are gonna be trying to use Siri in ways that they've never used it for a long time. It's also potentially possible that the majority of some people have just been like, Siri's just my dumb cousin and I'm not ready to go back to having a conversation with my dumb cousin.
DJ (13:56)
I will say, even when I use Siri now, it has not become habitual that I talk to it like Chat GPT. I my
Christopher Weeks (14:03)
Yeah. Yeah.
DJ (14:05)
brain has not, I know that it's smarter, but I don't I don't know. Cause you can switch from Chat GPT to Siri in the actual Siri app. And every time I switch and I switch over to Chat GPT, I just think like this is this is so much better still.
Christopher Weeks (14:19)
Mm. Yeah.
DJ (14:20)
Like I don't know what
they're doing to to Siri, but it it's not hot.
Christopher Weeks (14:24)
Right, right. On a fun note, my golf trip that I went on, I was frequently using the AIs in the car.
DJ (14:32)
Mm-hmm.
Christopher Weeks (14:33)
just f it was really it was really kind of impressing the shit out of my co partner in the
car, my buddy Jimmy who was riding along with me, he was like just amazed that we're having a conversation with an AI bot and and it's giving us all these conv it's looking up traffic and directions and things to do where we're going and, you know, all this stuff. he was he was pretty impressed with that.
DJ (14:59)
Which one were you using?
Christopher Weeks (15:00)
I kept going back and forth between OpenAI and Grok.
DJ (15:04)
Hmm.
Christopher Weeks (15:05)
there isn't
DJ (15:06)
I I
Christopher Weeks (15:06)
a there isn't a Clawed one yet, which is kinda surprising to me.
DJ (15:10)
That's a good point. There is a Siri app I noticed for CarPlay. Have you tried that?
Christopher Weeks (15:13)
There is.
I have not. just 'cause I expect it to be so bad and I don't have the patience to be dealing with that while I'm driving.
DJ (15:20)
Yeah, right now it would probably be pretty unreliable. I will say that, you know, talking about capacity to serve all its customers, my son has probably single-handedly been the heaviest user on my phone, asking my three-year-old son, asking it to count from one to fifty. And a fun little thing is once it gets to 30, it just loses the plot. It's like 31, 31, 35, 37. Like
It's going in
Christopher Weeks (15:44)
Well
DJ (15:45)
the right direction, but it's skipping all the numbers.
Christopher Weeks (15:48)
Huh. That's interesting. Wow.
DJ (15:52)
The crazy part is if you look at the written output, it's perfect.
Christopher Weeks (15:56)
Wow. Wow. Yeah. There's definitely some bugs there.
DJ (15:59)
Every service does this though. Google, Alexa, Siri, even Chat GPT, will
Christopher Weeks (16:06)
Mm-hmm.
DJ (16:07)
Hey. So yeah, none of the AIs
Christopher Weeks (16:08)
No problem. Good news is
DJ (16:10)
can count.
Christopher Weeks (16:11)
Yeah. Well, I imagine, you know, it won't take too long before that that'll be all fixed.
DJ (16:16)
You say that, but you know, the whole strawberry. You remember the strawberry, how many R's are in there?
Christopher Weeks (16:21)
Yeah.
DJ (16:22)
People have found other ways to test these things that aren't being trained on, let's say. Like you can ask all of them, Hey, I I'm going to the car wash. I need my car washed. Should I walk or drive to the car wash? It's just across the street. They're getting better, I guess, because this is showing up on the internet now that they're training on.
But for quite a while they would be like, You should walk. You should walk. Yeah, you can wash
Christopher Weeks (16:44)
Mm.
DJ (16:45)
your car later. Like, okay.
Christopher Weeks (16:46)
Yeah.
DJ (16:47)
So these little logical tricks almost
Christopher Weeks (16:50)
Right.
DJ (16:50)
are are still throw it. And I'm sitting here like, I trust this thing to write code. Like, is it cause these models all talk to themselves? Are they secretly going the wrong direction and taking your
Christopher Weeks (17:01)
Right.
DJ (17:02)
app in the wrong direction? Like that's a
The whole economy is going that way. Everyone
Christopher Weeks (17:06)
Right.
DJ (17:07)
is using AI to write code now. I don't think there's hardly anyone that writes code without AI assistance.
Christopher Weeks (17:13)
Mm. I mean it makes sense. If you could do it faster and then quality check it, yeah, you'd kind of be a fool to do it otherwise. I mean, I've started using it in my photography workflow.
Yeah. getting on to a different subject. have you s heard about this new Apple lease program that got announced?
DJ (17:29)
I saw that. Yeah.
Christopher Weeks (17:31)
you know, it's just it just seems like Apple's kind of they know for a fact that the prices are gonna go up in the iPhones and that they're gonna be expensive
DJ (17:39)
Mm-hmm.
Christopher Weeks (17:40)
for people and they're looking for a way to make the sticker shock not seem so bad.
DJ (17:46)
Yeah. But you know, a phone, leasing a phone makes sense.
Christopher Weeks (17:47)
I wouldn't I wouldn't be s
I wouldn't be surprised if we don't see a price tag at the keynote.
Yeah.
DJ (17:56)
They've always put down below before, even with increases.
Christopher Weeks (17:59)
Well, yeah, they've done the starting at. They do the little they like to do that. But you know like I was th thinking about this, 'cause the new Samsung Galaxy fold got announced. that that didn't get didn't just get announced, it's actually available for purchase and people are buying it and picking it up and all this stuff. and it's rumored that the Apple one is going to be twenty five hundred dollars.
Can you imagine?
DJ (18:21)
Wow.
Christopher Weeks (18:22)
Like, you know, we I used to tell my wife, you don't ever buy the entry level MacBook, MacBook Pro, MacBook Air, you always do some modest updates to it, so you can get a little bit more power beef out of it, it can handle a little bit more. And so you know, back in the day the seventeen hundred dollar laptops always end up with some add ons, always ended up being about twenty five hundred dollars.
DJ (18:46)
Mm-hmm.
Christopher Weeks (18:46)
Can
you imagine now spending twenty five hundred dollars on just for a phone that you were using for maybe two years?
DJ (18:53)
No, no. But how how expensive is Samsung's fault? I heard it's pretty pricey too, right?
Christopher Weeks (18:59)
Yeah, it's it's it I think it comes in at about twenty five hundred bucks, twenty three hundred bucks. You know and the funny thing all of this all and I you know, but it's it's gotta be a little bit comical. Samsung announcing their fold that comes out. Guess who's making the screens for the iPhone Ultra that is coming out? It's Samsung.
DJ (19:19)
Samsung. Yeah.
Christopher Weeks (19:21)
So it's like
You know, they know what they're making for Apple, they know the screens that they're making, they know the type of screens that they're making for them. and then, you know, they just come out with their own version of that screen with the OS running Android that they want. you know.
DJ (19:37)
Beat him to the market by half a year.
Christopher Weeks (19:39)
Yeah, yeah. Well
and it's not like cheating. They're literally we're the company that's making your damn screens. They're you know, th I mean like it's the worst kept secret that it's a four by three aspect ratio and that it's gonna be like a two two K screen and that, you know they stress tested it with like a million up and down folds in this robotic stress room. and then they dropped this like
five pound bowling ball on it, to see
DJ (20:06)
Wow.
Christopher Weeks (20:06)
whether the screen could take it and not crack and all this and yeah. I guess this was the final straw where they were like we can go forward with the foldable is that it wouldn't show a crease after,
DJ (20:19)
Hmm.
Christopher Weeks (20:19)
you know, a million times of folding it back and forth.
DJ (20:22)
I just I have a hard time I have a hard time fathoming that. I've seen the foldable phones in the past. I mean, Samsung's had for years now and they all crease.
Christopher Weeks (20:33)
Yeah. I just you know, I I don't need that much screen real estate. if if I do need that much screen real estate, I'm gonna use my studio display or go to a laptop or my iPad. I don't need that in a phone. and on a little bit of a kind of like a slight detour a little bit. Well 'cause we were kinda talking about sticker shock from the cost of the new iPhone.
I read that the next Samsung Ultra to negate the cost increase and not increase the phone cost to the consumers because of the memory shortage and all this stuff, that they're removing a telephoto lens from it to decrease the cost overall to the consumer so that they can
come in at a the same price point that they were at before for the customers, what they were used to paying, but it it's actually coming with a lesser feature set.
DJ (21:28)
Mm. I don't
Christopher Weeks (21:28)
I
DJ (21:29)
like that.
Christopher Weeks (21:30)
I would not be surprised if we see Apple do the same thing. Not this year.
DJ (21:34)
Really?
Christopher Weeks (21:35)
Not this year. Happened after they had already started production on their new iPhone. But
DJ (21:41)
Mm-hmm.
Christopher Weeks (21:42)
I could see next year them cutting some corners to be like, We gotta make this thing a little bit cheaper. and
so that they can come in at a price point where they're like, yeah, we're now eight ninety nine again.
Crazy. What do you what
DJ (21:53)
Well, they did just get
two billion dollars.
Christopher Weeks (21:56)
Are you talking about for the tariff money? Yeah.
DJ (21:58)
Yeah.
Throw that at the iPhone.
Christopher Weeks (22:01)
insert my joke. how much money did you get back from the tariff check? Zero ninety nine? Yeah. I I got a
DJ (22:04)
Yeah, it's zero ninety nine. Yeah.
Christopher Weeks (22:09)
big whopping zero dot zero zero zero zero zero zero a whole bunch of zero. I get it I get into this conversation with my with my neighbor all the time where I'm like when did we become alright with tariffs and consumers paying for it?
Like how is everybody just not instantly just super pissed off about this?
DJ (22:31)
Yeah. And if it were them paying for it and not us, why did they just give Walmart, Apple, Nike literal billions back? Literal millions.
Christopher Weeks (22:42)
Yeah, yeah. Well, you know, and th the crazy shit is we we pay the tariffs, 'cause the companies put that on us and then Apple and all the other companies are getting their two billion dollar checks back and, you know, all this crap.
DJ (22:58)
Yeah, I I everything he does, everything he's does and has done, in my mind, is just a way to make the rich richer. I mean, the oil crisis, the oil companies are now showing market, what is it, higher market revenue. Like their their bonuses are going to be huge this year, even though we're paying more the pump. They never fail to exploit a good crisis.
And I see,
Christopher Weeks (23:22)
Right.
DJ (23:23)
you know, now that we're over the tariff hump, supposedly, now you see how that also helped the mega rich companies. Like we
paid because they passed the cost on. And then they go to the government and say, Hey, you know, we had to pay all this in tariffs. Give us more money back.
Christopher Weeks (23:39)
Yeah, yeah.
DJ (23:41)
They they got they got it from both sides.
Christopher Weeks (23:43)
Right. Right. I was trying to see the list. there was a list of all the companies that got their tariff money back.
'cause
Let's see can find it. here
DJ (23:55)
You know why we didn't get paid?
Christopher Weeks (23:56)
we go. Yes. Apple received two point two billion dollars in tariff refunds, Amazon
DJ (24:02)
Mm-hmm.
Christopher Weeks (24:02)
six hundred million, Walmart ten billion, Target two billion, Costco two billion, Nike one billion, and the Home Depot two billion.
Meanwhile, like I say to my neighbour, where's my cheque?
DJ (24:14)
Yeah. Wasn't there going to be like he said, we're making so much money off this, we're going to give every American a check.
Christopher Weeks (24:20)
Mm.
DJ (24:20)
And never did.
Christopher Weeks (24:21)
Yeah, it's crazy. It's just absolutely bunkers. yeah, I don't know how how I I just I you know, I think we're gonna look back at our history and we're gonna be like, How did the Republican Party of yesteryear, the party of Lincoln and Reagan, and how did they go so far extreme right that they find this to be okay?
DJ (24:41)
That they like Putin. Let that sink in.
Christopher Weeks (24:43)
Yeah.
DJ (24:44)
They're pro Putin.
Christopher Weeks (24:45)
Yeah, it's just crazy. I I I don't get it. I probably never will. You know, it's just like you know, it even even drives me more crazy is that people that are like, well, I I I could never vote for Kamala Harris. Well fine, don't vote for Kamala Harris, but you don't need to vote for the asshole. You don't need to vote for him. You could vote for like the last election I voted for a third party, you know. Well be
The more people that do that, kinda the better. This is how we need to get out of this deeply rooted tribal nature of everything that my party does is great and I have to stick with it and love it and no matter what, they have my full support. That that that insanity has gotta stop.
DJ (25:26)
Yeah. I I'm gonna I've always asked this, but I'm sure it's gonna be asked in history books down the line. But how is it that Republicans, the actual people that get voted into office, can
just kowtow to some rich asshole that's never really had to work a day in his life, right? He just money since he was a baby.
Christopher Weeks (25:48)
Yeah.
DJ (25:48)
Like
why do they just fall in line?
Christopher Weeks (25:50)
It's crazy. yeah, nuts. I just like, yeah. And did did you hear about this, Donald Trump paying for access to his Truth Social posts ahead of time for what he's gonna post for a hundred thousand dollars I think a month. you can get access to his truth social posts before he posts So if you wanna do
Transactions, financial discret transactions ahead of time, while go at it. I'm just waiting. I'm
DJ (26:13)
Mm-hmm. Yep. It
Christopher Weeks (26:16)
just waiting, seriously, for this to happen. For anybody that actually shells out that much money to do this, and that they do market trading based on the information that they were given, and then I'm just waiting for them to end up in jail from the SEC.
DJ (26:30)
Do you think it'll actually happen though? Like for it to come from him, and you know it's only a certain very small group of people that can afford to do this.
Christopher Weeks (26:39)
I w I would not be surprised if it doesn't happen under the Donald here. but if it if the presidency changes hands to a different party or even head for heaven forbid, a Republican takes over and he's got a more clear cut definition of right and wrong.
DJ (27:01)
Ethics.
Christopher Weeks (27:01)
ethics and has some internal integrity here. we could yeah, we c we could have that policed where they could be like, Yeah, those that profited off of paying paying the president money to get access to financial markets and financial data ahead of everybody else, yeah, we're gonna prosecute you.
DJ (27:19)
I I just wanna know what's gonna happen to Donald Trump's sons once he's gone. I mean, they've been just as influential in all of this as he has.
Christopher Weeks (27:27)
Yeah, it's kind of bonkers. Yeah. Anyway, I don't mean to cut this kind of short today. but I just wanna get a kind of a quick episode out. Maybe we'll do another one later in the week. you know, two thirty minute episodes instead of just the hour one. anything else you wanted to kinda say real quick?
DJ (27:42)
Mm.
Shout out to Recharge. I got a security manager job at Recharge. So life's looking up. Still willing.
Christopher Weeks (27:47)
Okay. Yeah, and you're liking it there?
DJ (27:50)
Yeah, loving it. Still willing to do consulting if anyone needs any security consultancy or AI. But yeah, it's a it's a great company.
Christopher Weeks (27:57)
Nice, nice. I'm glad that you got that job and things are looking up with that.
DJ (28:02)
Yeah, thank you.
Christopher Weeks (28:04)
I just had my stepdaughter Lauren come in from the United Kingdom to visit for the summer, so we enjoyed having her for the week. anytime I can get all my stepkids together kind of under one roof and hanging out and having dinner, it's always kind of a fun time for me. So
DJ (28:19)
yeah.
Christopher Weeks (28:19)
I enjoyed that. on that note,
Sorry, go ahead.
DJ (28:22)
I was gonna say she's in England, right, where they actually have time off, actually take vacations.
Christopher Weeks (28:26)
They actually have they
they actually want people to get recharged and not work people to death. It's
DJ (28:33)
Yeah.
Christopher Weeks (28:34)
kind of courage. but you know, I never really got a chance to ask her the thing I wanted to ask, which I could just use AI to look up, but I always find it funner to ask questions of people that are actually there. The difference between afternoon tea and high tea. I never got to ask that. there is.
DJ (28:51)
I didn't there was a difference. I didn't know they
had that.
Christopher Weeks (28:54)
They do, yes. yeah. Anyway, but
DJ (28:56)
Didn't you you said you lived there for a little while, right? You didn't you never
Christopher Weeks (28:59)
I did. I I
studied abroad there. dated a couple girls that were in English. yeah. I spent six months studying abroad there. It was it was good. I mean it was at the time I was there it was very expensive. Like it was two dollars to one pound. so I remember looking for a new pair of running shoes and it was
Like normally it would have been about a hundred and sixty dollars, and these shoes were a hundred and sixty pounds, so it was the equivalent of yeah, nearly four hundred dollars. And I
DJ (29:32)
That's crazy.
Christopher Weeks (29:34)
yeah, and I just refused to pay for it. The same yeah. Anyway, on that note,
Thank you for listening today. I'll try to get this out as fast as possible. And if you're lucky, there will be a second episode this week. So thanks for listening, everybody.
DJ (29:46)
See ya.