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The Paul Truesdell Podcast
Welcome to the Paul Truesdell Podcast. Two Pauls in a pod. Featuring Paul the Elder and Paul the Younger. So, what's the gig? Individually or collectively, Paul and Paul sit down and chat predominately at the Truesdell Professional Building and record frequently. They explain a few things about how life works before time gets away. They connect the dots and plot the knots, spots, and ops with a heavy dose of knocks, mocks, pots, rocks, socks, and mops. Confused? Then welcome aboard! You see, Paul the Elder and Paul the Younger enjoy telling complex stories that are always based on business, economics, and forecasting while having fun, laughing, and being among like-minded men, women, and children from Earth, Pluto, Jupiter, and Neptune. Individually and jointly, Paul the Elder and Paul the Younger, coupled with Team Truesdell, have been there and done it. If you enjoy front porch philosophers who take deep dives and connect the dots, while drinking coffee during the day and a whiskey after five, welcome.
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The Paul Truesdell Podcast - Two Pauls in a Pod
Tuesday, May 30, 2023 | 1:06:14
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I was checking our stats, and I realized it's been over a month since we recorded an episode. Yeah, this last time we record an episode. Yeah, it's been a little bit. I think we've been busy. Absolutely. We've been very, very, very, very, very busy. I think that understates. Yeah. I gotta tell you it today, you know, by 12 noon, I literally looked at my to do list, and I hardly got anything done. But I realized all the different things I accomplished, those get more done in the first eight hours of the day, because I get up early. And I think most people would get done in a week. Um, beat. Yeah, I was getting more stuff done early in the morning. So that first bit, that first sprint of the day is usually the most productive. Yeah, it is, hey, listen, this is an oldie but goodie. On May 24th, it was the golden anniversary of a an event that took place on in Washington, DC. And it was on the South Lawn of the White House. And it was a party that was organized by Patricia Pat Nixon, and Sammy Davis Jr. and it it was a golden anniversary of the golden anniversary of this event. They put on a giant tents, normal everyday American food in was for all the US prisoners of war Vietnam. Okay. And he had a massive number of them show up almost 1000. And so they held the 50th anniversary on the grounds of the Nixon library. Oh, okay, that's cool. Over 150 These guys showed up. That's night. And nobody ever talks about that. It's nobody ever talks about all those little things. And one of the things I know that, you know, when you talk about somebody like Nixon, and I'm a big fan of his He did things bad and No, no doubt about it. But when you say that, you know, some people are so knee jerk reaction, you know, they equate him to like Hitler. Oh, he was just a modern day Hitler. The guy had a lot of compassion and did a lot of he wouldn't he would go and visit troops quietly, and he didn't bring the press, just like a bush 43 did. Yeah. Yeah, I had to I had never heard of that. So yeah, it's a really cool thing we want to start talking about today. I thought that was just something I bring up. Do you think there's a lot of stuff that's happened? Is it machine learning keep scaring people to death, which, to me is nothing but nothing short of hilarious. What is the funniest thing I saw was some absolute genius in California decided to file a lawsuit against somebody, obviously, on behalf of a client. And he had chat GPT held them right up. And it referenced case law and all kinds of things. And turns out most of the reference cases don't exist, don't even exist don't even exist, don't even exist. God, God help us. Yes. Verify the, I guess the one that he was found out the he was asked if he even checked if these cases existed. And his response was that he asked Chet GPT about those cases, and it, it seemed to know about them. So he apparently wasn't trained or bright enough to try and just look up the reference cases in Westlaw or anything, just real, real bright individual. I can't believe somebody like that would not be disbarred. My guess is he will be disbarred or is pending, you know, whatever. The you know, the reality is like, he's going to be sued by both parties. He's going to be and he's going to have to go through potentially being disbarred. I would assume he probably will be given how absolutely dumb it is. But anyway, so I'm sure some lovely precedent will be set because of this guy's tomfoolery, which is perfectly fine with me. I can never pronounce her last name, Carly, whatever her name was, he ran for president fear, you know? Yeah. Purina dog photo Charcha Marina, sorry, V arena. Theory. She was on. I don't know if I told you yesterday. She was on just railing. She was calm, but she was just railing about Chad's gonna change everything. Also, just stupid stuff. Why did they were to dredge her up from underneath the stage she fell off. He's referring to the fact that when Ted Cruz made her his vice presidential nominee that if he got the Republican nomination when he was running against Trump, that she would be the VP she literally fell off the stage. He didn't even miss a beat. It looked over like oh, the hell with you. Go get that I'm sure it's still Due to. I mean, that's literally the last thing I remember of anything about hers. I remember her falling off the stage and some time was it 2016 20 2015 Whatever it was, yeah. I mean, it What wasn't funny. I mean, people fall off and get hurt. It was hilarious because it was it because it wasn't that it happened to her it was that the reaction was almost non existent. Yeah. Yeah. That did it for me for Cruz. That was that was all those things were like, You gotta be kidding me. Just, you know, we finished watching succession. And I thought was pretty good. Yeah, man. It was one way to end. Sure. Sure. Half of people hate it. Half of people think it's okay. I don't I don't. I don't really have much of an opinion of it. If it was, to me, it kind of felt forced. But whatever. I did, I liked it. I thought it was a very apropos because I started thinking about the guy who got to lead the merged companies. He was always angling. He was always cutting deals. He was he was the he was willing to fall on the sword for the company. And I and I don't know I thought I thought it ended. Perfect. She was a she well, she is what she is. And the boys are the boys and I like he always said that. And that's not not to your worth, or bucket a piss. And I think it was good. Yeah, I think it was interesting. The definitely perfectly exemplified corporate culture. The slimy a snake who's willing to throw his own marriage under the bus to achieve higher status in corporate America is the guy that's going to reach the chief executive officers role. That's that's for sure. Well, the limited number of people I've met that were bureaucrats in the world, that seems to be the case. Sorry, just is what it is. What I also will tell you is that there's a, an interesting thing out there where a lot of people are equating that show to the resurgence on a public level of understated quality. In other words, you didn't see anybody with big logos on their shirts, you didn't see godliness. It was everything was very high quality. Very, very, very well done. understated luxury. And one of the things I knew a lady years ago, 100 years ago, and she bought every gaudy piece of jewelry on the face of the earth, and I just don't do that. You. Yeah, well, I said, Welcome to welcome to the real world. People are very disconnected. Like the difference between your regular media and reality is quite quite a big quite big. Most people live in this very strange. I don't know, modified Hollywood, influencer world where everybody's driving a Lamborghini and of these ridiculous mountain top mansions and like, most wealthy people do not live anywhere near to these insane lifestyles. And people wonder why they people churn through mountains of generations of wealth in a matter of just a handful of years. Well, it's like that TV show Dallas, you and I were talking about that, you know, the JR Ewing thing and how it influenced culture and life back in the in the 80s. And yeah, that Robin leach lifestyle, the rich and famous and yeah, like, no, people don't live like that. Although now. I mean, some do, but you know, it's it's limited. And usually it's very short lived. Well, they're making money off the wannabes and no, yeah, you don't. Of course, I don't think a lot of people have any intelligence. We go to Mexico and have cement put in their bottom to make it bigger. Not knowingly, but that's what ended up happening to a lot of people. Did you see that one woman got charged with murder? No, I did not. She's a nurse practitioner. And she was going in flying from Miami to Los Angeles, who do those butt implant injections or whatever, and some woman died and who was toxic, whatever the thing was, and just got into her system and killed her. Yeah, just the whole concept is baffling to me. But whatever. I'm before we get into our usual topic of what's going on with Russia, because we tend to do a lot of that. Did you see about the guy who bought Trump bucks and is now bemoaning that he's broke? No. So they've been peddling Trump bucks. And they're emblazoned with a picture of Donnie, and they're on online being advertised. Yeah, I've seen that. And it's like a, you've got the golden ticket. If you You buy this thing and it's gonna propel him to his when he 24. When with with everybody. So anyhow, this guy, this guy, his name is John Amon am A N N why he would ever give his name on this? I have no idea. So he got on NBC News and he's bemoaning the fact that he really needs money. He's in a bad, bad way. He bought $2,200 worth of Trump bucks the past year. And now he's like, shocked to discover that he took them to his bank, and they told him they're worthless. Wow. Yes, I recall seeing these a few times on advertising related to Trump's Twitter clone website and other places where people his supporters congregate. It's um, I remember looking at them a few times going, if they're advertising, somebody must be buying, but what the hell is this stuff? I who? Who's bought? Who would buy this? But apparently we found out who people who think it's equivalent to currency. That's not Yeah. I don't know, man. I it there's just those dozens and dozens of posters, supposedly hundreds of complaints on this thing and people are? Well, I mean, it's pretty clear. I mean, if you if you're not aware that some crap somebody's printed up in their basement is not real money. And I guess you know, you kind of deserve what's coming to? I don't I don't know what to say about that one. Well, here's the thing. Apparently, some of these Trump books were actually printed by Trump direct or indirect organizations. Doesn't surprise me. And the guy says, Now I'm questioning whether he's aware of this. And then a repeated attempts to reach a spokesperson for Trump and his reelection campaign by email had gone unanswered. No evidence suggests the alleged scammers are connected to Trump or his reelection campaign. I mean, Trump was the guy that was sending out you know, gold club, platinum, gold and you know, cards and things like this to people. I kind of have a recollection of Trump bucks or something like that being associated with the campaign, even if it was like one step removed. Now this does this is perfectly within their typical sphere of stuff they would do, ever. Apparently, some people really buy it. Yesterday, we had a fantastic lunch. And we were talking about I think I brought up those get that guy in Australia in particular, who created his own tools from scratch, and you're kind of going through, I think these YouTube video guys are absolutely amazing. Just pick up on that, because I've got a cute thing here. Yeah, there's a YouTube channel called primitive technology. We were talking about it yesterday is it's not that the guy makes YouTube, he makes YouTube videos, but it's not that he makes tools. It's the he's making things without tools is starting from scratch to make, you know, how to how to do everything as if you were a caveman, basically. And what the thing that the thing that it proves to me is one a lot of this stuff is really basic. Really, the things that he does that are interesting are the multi order mixing of basic concepts, and you realize how powerful it is. And granted, this is just one guy someplace in the bush, Australia. But you know, in the grand scheme of things is very interesting to consider. People talk about the caveman and this and that. And as as time goes on, it becomes very obvious, especially as more excavated and more archeology is done. There's almost no point in time where humans were cavemen were were the these systemically trapped hunter gatherers that could just never get out of a cycle of just surviving off of the land. But son, wait a minute, that's not true. We all evolved from tadpoles we crawled up on the ground and lost our tails. And then we became cavemen fought the Neanderthals, it was the first Civil War. Sure, all that may have happened. But the, in the grand scheme of things, the point is that the the shows you how quickly even with no tools, you can start building a more somewhat of a semblance of modern society, houses and storage buildings and all the things that we attribute to modern infrastructure. How Yeah, it takes a lot more time and there's a lot more effort that goes into it. But once you have these things, they last for a while, enables you to focus on other things, you know, they're force multipliers in your, in your efforts. And you know, this guy in particular is very interesting, because it's like I said, it's just one guy. Now imagine if you had 10 or 20 people all working together, which is the A magnificent, you know, social technology is the thing that set apart, modern Homo sapiens versus all of our predecessors, it was our ability to work together and leverage groups, and then ultimately specialize in certain things. Right? That's, that's, that's the, that is the one thing that set us apart from Neanderthals or, or any or any other, you know, creature that we may have cohabitated with on this planet, which at one point, we've probably, at least were maybe half a dozen. So, yeah, you simply told the story about how he used stream and gathered, um, or even what you what you said how he did it, it was just, I found it fascinating. Yeah, I mean, he has loved videos like, Yes, more whole series. Yeah, he has some more advanced videos, where he's showing them capturing I iron bacteria, I believe, flowing through a creek or whatever. And he then separates that from clay and does a whole bunch of processes, basically, to turn to turn that iron bacteria into little iron spherules, that, you know, it takes a ton of effort to get just a few grams of iron. But then once you have enough of that, then you can start to combine that together and start to make something that resembles a modern tool. Yeah. And then you were also mentioning how a lot of the sores from way back in the day were Meteor based? And yeah, cuz it's one of the few places you could get a lot of fairly high quality metal in, in general. Because for people started, just think about, you know, as civilization and as, as we evolved, you're walking around and exploring and gathering things and whatever, you start to gather the shiny things that you find on the ground. Right, right. And over time, we assume that there is an absolute ton of fairly easy to collect meteoritic iron basically, well, it's not technically iron, it's it's pure iron as in like, you know, industrial uses, like we would want. It's really a mix of a whole bunch of different materials, and metals. And that also comes with different properties as well. But yeah, so some of the most ancient historical swords and tools that we've come across. Were these, what seems like meteorite source Steel's some people hypothesize that that's because it's one of the only ways they could get metals back then, because they didn't have an understanding of metallurgy and how to do these things. But at the same time, I think that it was more along the lines of these are just the ones that survived. Again, because they didn't have complex metallurgy that it could make things like stainless steel and stuff that didn't just corrode away within a few years. That's a huge problem with your bronze and copper tooling. There's an assumption that this is what they're using. But in a lot of cases, it's it's been long enough that the stuff is either soft enough that it wears away over time, or no corrosion. Elements have their way with the with the material. The reason I brought that up is that there is a article here that I've been looking at. And it's called, does Gen Z lack basic home owning skills? Yes. And it talks about how they don't know how to do things, and not not everybody, but they've been living in these bubbles renting. Their parents didn't teach them anything. They're a complete wreck when it comes to owning their own home. They have to call people to do everything for them. And when they do go online, they're looking for fatherly advice. YouTubers, that's why I thought about that's funny. Yeah. On Sunday, I yesterday, guess Monday, I thought about these people that show you know how to clean a gutter. How to unplug. I mean, everything's online. I tell everybody, if you want to learn how to do some just go to YouTube, obviously, we'd like to read it. But I do the same thing periodically, like, okay, who's made something interesting on this thing? Yeah, it's, it's interesting. It shows you how little responsibility most most people have been given for anything. But yeah, problem solving skills in general, among the younger generation is a serious problem that I see. I mean, I've even seen a few articles where people are talking about the massive gap in computer skills and competency between Gen Z and millennials and how that's going to be a real problem going forward because there's a lot of white collar jobs that require a decent proficiency with computers that, you know, just kids don't have at all, well, let's, let's talk about that. But first I want to I want to tie that also in with Ukraine, because I think it's, it's a Marvel what's going on over there. But it says here, older men, older man sharing their skills in a video form has allowed the creation of a massive online library of tips tricks, and taking care of your home and properties, even if you don't necessarily know what the hell you're doing. People have learned how to change a tire for example, if you don't know how to change tires, say go to YouTube and watch it. If you've never done it before, just go to YouTube and show how to unplug your washer from the wall and to rebuild a shower floor. And so it's just older generations are giving Gen Zia education by going to to YouTube. That's yeah, I think that highlights more than anything, the lack of community that most people grow up with these days, because I was just thinking, how do you absorb these skills, these these abilities, and it has to do with children, being around people who are doing these things. And that's how I picked up most of this stuff is stuff was going on. You just talk to people observe people somebody wants to show you know, most most people with skills that aren't on a hard time deadline are more than happy to sit around explain things to kids. And you know, you remember your first cross love fence that you built? First, what fence? fence for board fence with hardware? Yeah, horse fence. Yeah, I don't know which one was first. But I remember doing it many times, I think the very first time was here at the office, or the bubbles we hired from levy County. And I said, Hey, you went extra hand you went out there and you worked for them the whole time. And you learn exactly how to build a fence. Yeah, it's not hard. And we've rebuilt fences. Several Yeah, we have a ranch, you gotta rebuild fences, as for sure. But you know, it's just absorbing those things, you know, absorbing and observing other people doing those things, even if you're not doing yourself. And because everybody has a glowing screen in their pocket or their hand. It's just continuous. People are not observant or not absorbing these things that are going on around them. They're not getting involved in stuff just because they're bored. So worse, it's, uh, you know, it, this is probably one of the key factors behind why people don't have any problem solving capabilities. And they don't not that they don't have any, but they're very by comparison to somebody who's over the age of 40. under the age of 40, they seem to have very, most people seem to have a pretty difficult time solving complex problems. And over the age of 40, it seems like in general, obviously, extreme extreme generalities here. You know, you just start use Break, break the problem down into pieces, and try and work the problem and figure it out the best you can. But, you know, obviously, computers are a huge part of that. It examples, obviously, like, you know, you've had entire generations of people complaining about math, oh, you know, people are bad at math. And everybody complains that they hate doing math and blah, blah, blah. You know, people don't realize basic mathematical skills that are necessary to do basic, really basic things like calculating your inventory at a small warehouse, or, you know, calculating people's paychecks and commissions and all kinds of very simple things. People can't do it. Nope. So they rely on a spreadsheet. And then you get to the point where people can't even manipulate the spreadsheet, because they can't use a computer because all they've ever uses their phone. Oh, you know, the old joke was you, you give the, you know, somebody's got your bill and you give them cash into rounded up and they can't they can't figure out how to do that. Nobody even knows about caches. Well, yeah, I mean, no, no, literally nobody knows. Nobody can do. Nobody under the age of 50 can quickly, you know, do change in their head. Just not a skill anybody has anymore. The computers have been telling everybody how to do it. Exactly. Exactly what things to pull out of the register for 20 years now. Yeah. And listen, for all of you who are under the age of 50. You're under the age of 50. already. We're not I'm not ragging on you. I'm just telling you, your parents probably screwed you over by not actively getting involved in your education and teaching you things in my opinion. And it's just a general condition of modern society, condition and modern society in my opinion. We have anybody in the school system listening. Yeah, right. Oh, yeah, we've already upset everybody in school system. I guarantee that, you know, I'm gonna tie military service. I'm gonna tire the draft and I'm gonna tie this into internships, apprenticeships, and these stories where they take wayward children and they put them in wagons, they go across plains to, you've seen stories like that, right? You know, your mall is a armed robber and rapist, and they let him you know, work a farm and he suddenly has a breakthrough. And he now is, you know, a fine upstanding Farmer of society. But I really do believe because I mean, I grew up this way. And I've, you, you and I, and I've, I've let you do things. And everybody, I think there's so many kids out there in adults. Now today, I've never been on a farm wouldn't know how to milk a cow. They've never seen anything born. They just don't have a sense of of life and death. They couldn't plan anything to save their life. And that essentially, what I'm being mean about is just there's no context, they lived in a bubble. It did Farmville, rather than going out and learning to pot anything and how you get root rot and how you got to circulate your crops. I think it's, I think if schools legitimately in this country wanted to get good citizens, you would actually have summer programs that you actually had to kids had to be involved in those kinds of things like four h. And then when I was a kid, you had to run the school canteen, you know, you sold pencils, and erasers, or we did that kind of stuff, you know, you know, none of that stuff was done anymore. I mean, I get it, you know, I had the old man's talking, nobody uses, you know, manual typewriters anymore. But how are you gonna know where stuff comes from? Well, but that's a that is a problem with technology. And I've had this conversation with several people this week that the issue boils down to where, at what point is too much abstraction, completely devolving. And in technology, I see this all the time, you know, people people are working on, they're working on something that is so far, so far from the bare metal of anything, or 1010, abstractions, away from the thing that they're manipulating. They have no concept of what they're doing anymore. They're detached from reality. And that's what a lot of this AI Chatter is about. People have heard about AI their entire lives. You know, this concept of robots and stuff is older than anybody alive today. But, you know, the assumption about these technologies is, by the average person, the capabilities of these technologies is basically stuff that they've read in sci fi books and movies. Well, they've seen in sci fi movies and TV shows, nobody reads books. The same the same proportion of the population that buys books. Well, let me rephrase that. The same number of people that buys books, and reads books today is the same that did 100 years ago, that just shows you how, how poorly educated the average person is, by comparison two years ago. So scary but anyway, yeah, it's, it's a problem. I mean, you know, if you if you do not have the time to understand the, the trap that you're walking on top of things can go wrong really, really quickly. And then this is this is a conundrum, right? This is a conundrum. You can have your magical you can have a magical toilet that is run by you know, your Amazon Alexa and you tell it to flush and it's got all these motors and electronics and stuff in it. But at what point can nobody repair it or anything? It's just your your abstractions away from such a basic fundamental problem. I mean, yes, a movie Idiocracy. This goes in your mouth. No, no, it goes in your book. No, it goes in your wealth. Yeah, but it's like but my point is like with a toilet it's like oh, wow, we need somebody over here that knows the debug the software for the thing because I don't even know how to do that. Meanwhile, what do you need? Do you need a plumber to pipe the pipes clogged? You know, people don't even know where they're what they're focusing their energy on anymore. They're looking down dark hallways because nobody knows where anything is or how it all works. And that's the thing I'm seeing more and more and more of thing, it really boils down to it's over specialization of everything in society. A good example of this for anybody is like go to a Publix and look at how many different kinds of ao or mustard or ketchup there are there. It's like oh my god, like and then try and compare and contrast them. Like I get it. This isn't this isn't like a communism we only need one kind of anything type of rant but uh, but there comes a point where it's like, I do you need 18 Different kinds of mustard. I don't think so. Although yesterday we had a very good mustard. What was that? That was like a peppercorn, no, it was a whole grain mustard was very, it was different. It was different. It was very different. Good. But point to point, though, is just like, you know, you can, we're getting to the point where it's like, Oh, somebody's going to successfully make a store called the mustard store. Because they have that many kinds. You know, I mean, it's like, you're so far from the point here, the point was to go to the store, get a few things that to eat that are going to provide enough calories, so that you can get to next week to get on with your life and whatever. The whole point was not to sit around, and, you know, figure out what the best kind of mustard in the world is. That's, you know, I mean, it's, yeah, you know, at what point is everybody spending too much time on stuff that doesn't matter, I guess, is really what my, my analogy here is boiling down to. And that's what is going on. Good example. I remember seeing and I've mentioned it before, but there's a great YouTube show called The China show, two guys that used to spend over a decade each, it is a it's a good, it's a good channel, the China's show on YouTube. Yeah. And they did a show every Friday and their most recent one, they were showing, literally mountains of bicycles in different cities and China, how the Chinese government put all these incentives out there to create all these e bikes, oh, you know, electronic, by, you know, rent by the minute or whatever. And so all this grant money went out to these companies. And they I think they said at one point, they were making 70 million of E bikes a month. Oh, my God, they and one of them had video from when they lived in China, just walking down the street. And it was like, it was like every sidewalk in the city, which is a city that was I think it's 40 million people live there. Everywhere he was going it looked like it was a bicycle shop. They were just everywhere. And then they showed how they cracked like what well, the company started to go bankrupt. And they merged and whatever. And it's the subsidies ran out. They're saying there's basically two companies left that do this. And the waste is ridiculous. And they're showing the basically the air quotes storage facilities that they have for these spare parts, I guess for these bicycles. And literally mountains like hundreds of feet high, like size of massive dumps. No, except, number one, All there is is bicycles. And just the waste involved. Continues. prove my point is like, just because you can doesn't mean you should be producing 70 Million Bicycles a month is a little excessive. Maybe the whole country of China is not going to be renting bicycles by the minute to travel everywhere. Well, those ghost cities have got to continue to be a problem over there. It's just that's just one aspect of it. I mean, you know the so I'm saying because the population growth is not what they said it is it's actually declining. That's that was never what the ghost cities were built for them. Oh, no, I understand. I understand what they're built for. You can then elaborate but I'm point being is that they, they can deny it and hide it all they want. But you still get people to get over there and take videos. There's falling down. Oh, you know, it's it's terrible. No, they ghosts. This is something that people don't understand. From a Western perspective. Those Chinese ghost cities were never built to be inhabited. Yeah, few people live there to maintain things and hopefully keep people from burning the place down or whatever, maintain some small semblance of order, but they were built as investment properties. In China, if a house or apartment or condo has been lived in like it's worth, it's worth less than one that is brand new, and has never had a piece of furniture in it. So these ghost cities were literally built, as you know, built on spec as investment apartments slash homes. And it's insane. The if you do I mean imagine building something in the middle of nowhere that nobody will ever visit because there's no way to live in this place. And we're talking literally, just so everybody knows places like Tibet literally have ghost cities. I mean, not that far away, but But beyond the border. Okay. Yeah, I mean, the the map I've seen with most of these places, they are within 500 to 1000 miles of the Chinese east coast. Okay, but I know for a fact that there are some so far out there's a couple of places out there you know, I'm saying Mongolia way the hell out there. They've got some nice things like the idea was it was supposed to be manufacturing hub, Shang Zheng and various other things were supposed to come out that way. Like just don't know that. It's not gonna happen. Anybody. It was all part of that, that Belton road thing and you know, well, yeah, there is infrastructure along those those routes. That is true. But no, I mean, but the ghost city phenomenon in particular, is a little bit different from that. In that these places were never supposed to be inhabited. They were purely investment properties. But what I was saying a second ago is, you know, imagine you have a place that's built 2030 miles away from anything else, it's way out in the middle nowhere because that's where land is cheap. And the incentive is to do what I said, it's to build pieces of property that are investment only. Well, where's the incentive ever going to appear to build anything that is going to last more than 10 years, just isn't. That's how you get the crazy stuff of these buildings, literally, the pilings collapsing from underneath the weight, because they weren't engineered or were built properly. of, you know, the facades and finishes of these buildings just falling down in this stuff. This it's built shoddily like on purpose, you know, you can go into cities, I want this this show in particular, they showed yet another clip of basically the facade of a multi storey apartment building collapsing and, you know, tons of concrete and whatever other material you slap on the side of a building, literally just it gravity finally had its way and ripped it off, lifted off the side of the building, because it wasn't built well, and just collapsed on top of a bunch of people in their cars and stuff. That happens constantly. Well, the one thing I was shocked at, and I've seen video you and I've watched them were when the when the facade falls apart, and the building begins to collapse. There's hay bales in there. They literally put hay bales in any They cement it over them. I mean, they they will, there is China has a very disturbing culture, cutting corners, especially in public infrastructure. We talked about this the other day, there's a 2021. I believe there was a tunnel. big fancy tunnel someplace that was oh, there were three people that were killed. Yeah, I think they said they were like 12. But yeah. And they said, oh, a handful of people were killed and had recently been opened, it was whatever. Turns out, people on the ground there say that hundreds of people died in this thing. Because it was in the middle of rush hour, and it's full traffic. But yeah, like a dozen people got killed. Sure. It's China has mass scale atrocities and cover ups of mass deaths, due to accidents or other things all the time. And it is really, really disturbing that anybody would invest any money in that country. Because they just they lie, cheat and steal. And that's just their MO because it was theirs is a systemic problem just like Russians, they're, it's because they have, it's because they have there's multiple problems here. But one of the big problems is especially when it comes to how they handle foreign investment, and foreign investors. I wouldn't trust anything they do or say purely because they have an ethnic elitism, that is a massive blind spot for them in you know, the worst, cartoonish, silly, you know, extreme version of of like Hollywood's extreme white supremacy type thing that you would see, that is kind of the standard mo for Chinese people. They literally think they're better than everybody else, China, number one, and because of that, they that they just they use that elitism that self superiority to justify horrific things that they do not just other people, but no economic criminality. And, and it's a real problem. And COVID, obviously, as shown, has shined a lovely bright light that has not disinfecting anything quite yet, because a lot of people kind of seem to ignore this or look the other way. But I think the I think the reality of that situation is continuing to happen. I mean, a good example, like people are saying, Oh, well, the Chinese economy is not coming back as fast as everybody thought it would. Oh, look, they're not able to fulfill all these factory orders, and China's inability to do the things that everybody relies on China to do post COVID Turns out as causing a lot of the much more aggressive aspects of the recession, we're looking at Docker, Docker, is only so much inventory across the world to cope. And, and and fill the gaps for how we do things. Yeah, well, I have something along the same lines. I'll do a quick little change of have a little sidebar here. I'm going to say this a couple of times, so everybody gets it down. I want you to go online to Orlando Fox 35 Orlando Fox 35 Now, their title is new video shows. deadly shooting inside Florida Applebee's restaurant. New Video shows deadly shoot inside of Florida Applebee's restaurant, no. This is something inside an Applebee's. I'm sure this one's gonna be real good. Yep, it's good. So I actually watched the video after an insane number of commercials. I wanted to see this thing, right. And I watched a video and they showed the talking head, the guy in the gal when was white when was black and female. They had the perfect mix. Couldn't tell who was who or what was what. Okay, okay. Yeah, I'm just laying it out for you. And they laid out the scenario of what happened. And they had a field reporter this little girl was doing a talking head report. Okay. Now here's what happened. According to the talking heads. In the video, he had this guy, and he loses his cookies at another restaurant right nearby. So it's in the international, wherever it is that it's in lady Lake. I'm sorry. I back up. This isn't lady Lake. In news reports out of Orlando channel, 35. Fox. So he's shooting up his gun, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, screaming up people. He's like He's lost it. Now. The background before we go further is he's been arrested for violent behavior shooting at people. He shot people before. Okay. And Roscoe. Roscoe is a problem. So these people run the Applebee's and they they locked the door and they're, they're inside a certain place. It didn't confront them. They ran away. Yeah. So far, so good. Somehow some patron unlocked the door in either left about this. Yes. Now this is really good. Some idiot. Unlock the door. Yes. Yep. Now, I have to give through the race stuff now because then it'll all make sense. The guy who shouldn't gun is a black guy. He has dreadlocks. He's big and he ain't happy. You can tell by the video. Okay. And everybody, including his family says that, you know, the he's got problems already. Okay, in the Applebee's young white couple white guy sitting at a booth, trying to avoid any issue. The big guy comes in and he is screaming at them, who called the police on me. I'm going to shoot you and everything else. He starts taking things out of his pocket. And then if you look really careful, and I slowed it down, because not that good on the internet, but he puts his hand in his pocket. He's going for something. I thought well, yeah, you got smoked as you were pulling your gun out. He was unarmed. The gun was weak. He left the gun outside, whatever. But the guy sitting in the booth, young, blond, white guy, he's in his 20s has a concealed carry permit. He's like, Oh, poopy doobie. He pulls his smoke pole, boom, fires one shot, kills the guy dinner door now. Right? Bang done. Okay, so that's the actual thing. On the TV, they they call it just the way it is. They do a straight up report. That's not the point, though. The point is, when you read the article on channel 35, it is written as if it's a bleeding heart, white supremacist shot this unarmed black man, I started thinking about this. I said, Wait a minute, why would the written item on Channel 35 be so different? From the video? It doesn't make any sense. Then I started looking at other videos of a similar type nature. They're all that way. I suspect people who are going to call them mega Trumpers are video watchers. Yes. And people like to read tend to be a little bit more liberal. Generally speaking, yes, that I've seen that data. You saw the video, video, they report it straight up on 35. But the writing, it looked like it came from the Washington Post. I was I thought that was so amazing. And I here's the point. Do you remember years ago, before anybody talked about I kept saying, I'm telling you, your devices are listening to you. And I could prove it. And when I did my John Wayne thing and all that. I just think things like that when you can sit back and go, dude, something I ate right here in Denmark, I think is interesting, I think is to me is a really amazing insight that I stumbled on. Maybe that's old news. But I haven't heard that before. And to be honest, traditional mainstream news sources other than some very obvious basic stuff I avoid, like the plague. But that makes perfect sense. I mean, I've seen the data that shows exactly what that phenomenon. You are, you've observed. There is data to justify that behavior, though. Yeah, I mean, you know, so, you know, and I know, and for anyone listening to our podcast, we know a lot of our listeners because they're loud, more clients of ours. They get back to us and they say things. Of course Mike will always find something I still says After all, I'm not going to not going to advertise my peated whiskey coming up for my birthday. Don't worry, Mike, I won't advertise for that. But it is New York New York's finest. But here's the thing people listen to podcast tend to be a little smarter than the average cat. People that read books tend to be a little smarter than the average cat. people that watch the evening news and especially, it's not just intelligence, it's also just like, attention span. You know what I'm so I'm just dumping all of it into the whole thing. I mean, you know, he was he was younger people with the advent of tick tock and stuff like that. I mean, if your instruction booklet on how to put the bookcase together as longer than a tick tock video can be able to do it coming up. So I'll just like remember that girl, I'm not gonna give her name but she was like, oh, man, you need to advertise on Tik Tok. That's the place is happening was so cool. Oh, I know, you're you're not wrong. But the problem is we don't sell, you know, trinkets and workout equipment. And you know, like consumer goods. So if we did, yeah, tick tock, because big tech is really great for getting in front of those people, I guess. Well, I am about 70% 80% done with my book that I'll be publishing. And it is very, very cool. And it all has to do with getting older and a very certain thing. I'm not going to talk about it right now too much. But I will have a book that will be available. And I'll be doing on ebook first. I don't think we'll publish quite a few of them. And then we'll see what happens. Lamas giveaways but one of the things I'm talking about is a fella by the name of Dr. Stern. Dr. Stern started forgetting things and started putting post it notes and you know how to remember he's a surgeon by the way, and he has now retired at 65 because he has dementia. Rosalyn Carter today it was announced has dementia, but she's in her late 90s. So you Raquel Welch. It was not known. I mean, I remember seeing a picture of her. Before she died. She gained an awful lot of weight. She's she's beautiful for years and years and years. Like what hell happened was she got dementia and Alzheimer's? It is. It's interesting. I'm also doing a lot of research and correlating illnesses that have dramatically increased. For some reason nobody wants to talk about like Celine Dion, she has a horrible things called The Stone Man disease. Basically, we're bones in your body, you grow another skeleton, and I suppose it's going to kill her. And when they tried to do surgery and take them out, it just accelerates the growth. And it's just you're screwed, but used to be one in a million that would get these things. So you had three 400 people in the US. Now it's like 2345 and million, you know, the numbers are really dramatically increasing. I'm been reading some legitimate medical journals. And I start correlating things, and I just wish I only found one article and it. It's not well publicized. I'm gonna get into it. But there are more more cowboy scientists and medical people that are saying, Okay, why is this happening? And they're starting to correlate the vaccine, ID COVID. Okay, who had COVID? Who's that just you just start connecting the dots? Well, the issue now is there's a million potential items of influence for that stuff. And you know, in dirty water, dirty, dirty food in 50 years, so much has changed. I mean, you know, there's radioactive isotopes floating around everywhere, because of the detonation of nuclear weapons. There's everybody has microplastics floating through their bloodstream hanging out in their brain now. You know, we have all these residual pharmaceuticals and all the municipal water supplies, everybody's drinking little remnants of all kinds of designer vaccines and drugs and antibiotic, all antibiotics degrade, but anyway, you get my point. You know, you're everybody's getting a little bit of a little bit of AIDS and bipolar medication and stuff like that. Like the whole thing is like, you know, there is the exponential growth. There's no doubt about that. But what I'm saying, and they didn't make it clear, there's been a spike in the last three, four years of things. Well, yeah, that would be that's definitely true. But I'm just saying in general, it's very difficult to pinpoint what what is going on because there is so much general environmental toxicity that is likely also just building up in people. Yep. No, I don't I don't disagree with that at all. I just think that I just wish you could get people to get to this point where Just like the Rodney King, can't we just get along? We have to get scientists, you know, researchers that just, you know, cause a correlation is not necessarily causation. You've said that for years, I love that phrase. But you need to start looking at correlations in order to find a causation. And of course, no, Boo Han was not the source of the virus, though, that came from Ukraine, as we know from that mega card doctor, or he had a medical coat, he had a lab coat, so that makes him qualified. Now, it's, it's, it's an it's an interesting problem. I mean, in general, we have a huge, huge problem with people are completely unable to hear a differing opinion, or position from what their held beliefs are. And they are completely unable to hear out alternative ideas or alternative an alternative hypothesis. And we've completely lost the ability in important sections of society to just follow the scientific method. Yep, like, okay, cool. Just because somebody came up with a wacky idea, that does not mean we need to castrate him, and Burn them alive, and ruin his reputation and fire him and all these things. If he's wrong, he's wrong. Who cares? Like I don't understand why people are so upset about ideas. Now, the exchange of ideas and freedom of speech. I thought were core tenants of our society. But it's obvious that, you know, the kind of people who live and vote in the society today, they just want to hear the same broken record on repeat for their entire lives, because that's what makes them feel comfortable. And yeah, it's really, it's extremely disappointing. And it's extremely disheartening. As someone who is just shy of 30 years old, it's having a realization that I've read many, many, many other people have their 60s 70s and 80s. And the future is looking any brighter. In my view, it's quite depressing, to be honest. But yeah, I mean, it's, it's an interesting problem that has infected not just I mean, regular society is what it is, it's generally speaking, toxic and full of idiots. Most of the time anyway, that's always been the case, right? It's part of democracy is wrangling public sentiment, because most people don't know what the people who know things know. Right? So it's a matter of educating and convincing people to get on board with the program. But the issue is, is when these this kind of problem infects your more sophisticated areas of society. And, you know, like medicine, like, you know, academic researchers, with focuses on things like, you know, important stuff like engineering and things, and they're more worried about, you know, what names we use for things and, you know, not challenging the status quo, when the whole idea is that we challenge the status quo, you throw up and throw up wacky hypothesis and figure out how to prove it. True or False? Doesn't really matter. Okay, I came up with this interesting idea. Can we do it? Or can we prove one way or the other this is possible or not? I don't know. Let's go for? Well, the thing is, when some of the hearings, you some of the biggest advances in in physics and engineering and in medical science have been from people that come up with just the wackiest craziest ideas and see if they can figure out how to do it or not. And this is something comes out of that. Well, some of the biggest advancements in the world come from failure. But that's literally the scientific method. Fail forward. I think we fail forward towards progress minutes. I'm going to read something verbatim here because I think it's appropriate how far we have fallen since Steve Jobs in 1997. And the thing different Apple commercial. Okay, so here's the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, The round pegs in the square holes, the ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. You can quote them, you can disagree with them, you can glorify or vilify them, but the one thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things. Push the human race forward. While some may see them as crazy, the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world are the ones who do we lost that especially during COVID and a whole lot of other things this whole Kool Aid drinking I'm on the right he's on the left and I mean, how else do you explain these mega tardes? And I say that with a lot of with with the utmost compassion with the utmost compassion, these these as a As the guy on steg stand where was getting half Annapolis, I know he's slaughtered his name intentionally. I mean, how can you support Putin? They literally are supporting Putin. And you know, yeah, well, that's the thing is, I just, I don't my hands are thrown up, I get out of them. And it's a call. It's no, I mean, this is like, this is literally the worst case scenario for a cult of personality, cult of personality. I love a they will follow that. I mean, I'm literally convinced that at some point, if this thing goes the wrong way, that you may have a Jim Jones situation down at Mar a Lago. And I'm not even joking. Like, that wouldn't surprise me in the least. Like they will deify this, they will deify this guy in his lack of ideas at some point, well, hells bells are buying from bucks so I can I can buy that one, they bought his NF Ts, every now and then he needs a few million dollars for pocket change. And he goes out and he has some idiot steel are literally steel, and then you know, do some Photoshops with it. And then he sells them and he makes another two or $5 million. He's done this twice in the past year, I think how reserved so these are people that that you know, complain and oh, you know, modern technology is ruining the world. They they they think you know, they're they if given the option, they will be some kind of Luddite right. But at the same time, they will they will rush to figure out how to use cryptocurrency to buy an NF. T It's amazing. You have the Luddite who has a bucket of iron gun turned into gold. Yeah, they're gonna trade their money for a register and I digital list of of idiots gratulations it was so refreshing on yesterday to meet someone if you bought 100 or 200. Those NF T's. You got to go you got to be invited to a gala at Mar a Lago. He wasn't even there. No, no, he was gonna be there. It'll be there. I mean, you had to pay your own travel expenses after giving him like 10 grand. Oh, so you had the right to buy into the thing? No, you got to take it. You just you had to make your way there though. But the point is just that like, yes, people will. Suckers born every day. That's for damn sure. I was trying to say how refreshing it was yesterday to meet someone who is an artist who literally said what is this T stuff? You know, that was just a great discussion. It's just a scam all day long. It does not push the idea forward. It's not it's it's a worthless technology. Great for money laundering, though. Well, we have been chit chatting for over an hour. What do you got? Go ahead. No, I'm just gonna say NF T's are great for money laundering. It's one of the reasons the IRS is then on top of anybody who has been claiming interesting out of thin air capital gains from crypto projects well they just move down from artwork you know you get a piece and you get get it appraised at a massive amount you donate it you do really well and that kind of stuff differences it's really difficult to you need you need to two parties to make make a profit but if you're a funny money from illicit activities, it's really easy to invent you know your magical call Bob's Bob's puppy dog artwork by your own artwork and you have a magical capital gain sure that's what people were doing they caught a handful people doing it because they were dumb enough to properly conceal themselves or whatever but it's it's a thing you know, I as I understand there's a few people here in the in the area getting ready to go down for that PPP money again, there's gonna be another round of it. So yeah, I mean, they're just Hillsborough Marion citrus Hernando Pasco, you know you name it every county in the state every county in the country they're coming from more people you stole money from the government committed fraud Damascus in the easiest way possible to prove that you committed fraud to truly amazing Well listen, we're over an hour let's wrap this up I want to next time I want us to do a Russia update and in the war update will focus exclusively on that clown show all in and of itself. So yes, yeah. And I was I promised I was gonna talk about punch a via and I was gonna talk about purging old blackjack and and I was gonna talk about let's work that in next time about how the Russians in Ukraine who are doing their punch of via attacks. I think that's hilarious. I just hilarious but it's just I think it's interesting. It pierces the veil on so many fronts. Yeah, it's it's interesting. But one of the things we were talking about, I'll wrap this up. We were talking about some of the rock It said those guys make and we saw that motorcycle with a sidecar. You had that? Whatever that rocket? Well, you would know what it is. It was a recoilless rifle on they welded a stand on to a motorcycle that sidecar. Right? So you can drive around with three guys basically, I assume they had, like securing spikes or something welded on to the thing as well. And anyway, they just roll up and shoot a couple things and drive away. Well, from there, it is funny how the brain works. We use showed me that we watched the video and all that and it reminded me when I was a kid that I used to, we used to launch rockets. Sure. The STS whatever the proper name, we use always called STS rockets. And they're still around, they're still around, they're still making rockets. And if you weren't a kid in the 70s and 60s as I was 60s, and you bought the little e one rocket and all that. I saved my money from my I had a bike I hadn't my paper route and all the other things I didn't make money when I was a kid, but I bought my own 10 Speed bicycle. I had the first 10 Speed bicycle came from England came from Nottingham, England, it was called a Robin Hood. It was a it was fantastic. And but I bought the Apollo spaceship. And I had the big one. When this thing went up in the head, like I don't know what the alphabet, I think it was like a rockets or D rocket, they were just huge. And all of it looked like a damn thing exploded. If it didn't, it would have charged off and then the next one went up and then it had to parachute in multiple stages in multiple stages. So cool. I launched it like three times and I got a third time one of the rockets engines blew and blew my blew my rocket ship just like the Apollo one or whatever it was back in the day. I had a malfunction that NASA we have a problem here. And but it was so cool. The whole neighborhood come out and that thing was just massive. Had to build my own special rocket launch pad for it had to have a big long kind of skimmer I think, Well Mr. Sheep, I think he made me my long piece of metal. I couldn't get it up in the air because you didn't have anything long enough because you had you know, you'd have a little tube and you had like a straw and you had to go up on the thing. It was cool. But I looked it all up men are still making rockets are making rockets with with Astro cams with little cameras on them. So you can watch your Yeah, it's absolutely so cool. But I said to you, where the hell do you launch those things now probably have to get a, you know, private to get some kind of a permit now just to launch your rocket. I don't know. I know with drones, they don't want you going above 400 feet, something like that. Right 400 feet? Well, the earthing that I showed you and ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls want to know, if you get a chance just go to YouTube and look at some of these homemade rockets that these guys have done. Out in the salt flats. And in the Mojave and Death Valley. Holy crap, these guys have made the freezer, this guy made a three quarter scale of the mercury rocket and took John Glenn into space. Yeah, three quarters and the thing is like, yes. Yes, this absolutely amazing. Well, I mean that this is this is the thing with technology, right is that, you know, people want to regulate certain things and whatever. But there's almost nothing that most people with enough time on their hands. And obviously, some of these things require a decent amount of money for accurate machining tools and the experience and all that sort of stuff and the materials to do it. It's not that hard. I mean, it's, it was it was a little bit of creativity, isn't it? Well, it's not about creativity. I mean, this is like, you're following very well known things that people who add creativity figured out. Now you just need to follow the, you know, perform at a perfect accuracy to be able to build these things. It's really impressive, though, that you have people that do this stuff in our in their free time as a hobby because people have forged a way forward. The thing that is interesting, though, is that the most of the members send something about two years ago but the American in the United States before the rocket age there were rocket clubs all over the country. Well yeah. And because people were experimenting and there was no money from the government and then a the stuff because they didn't they didn't figure they didn't realize that they could use this stuff to bomb people yet. So this is literally like rich backyard hobbyists things and they that's where a lot of Orville and Wilbur Wright your mother side of Family I mean, that's that's Kenda as your kin absolutely but rockets in particular interesting because they were happening around the same time that people were figuring out flight rockets were going on. They were being discovered in parallel it's very it's just interesting as far as timing goes, you know, it's insane compared flying is interesting by itself but you know, rockets are a whole nother thing oh yeah, let's let's literally strap a bomb on something and see if we can control it. See how far we can get up while we get back? Well, we'll figure that out. Anyway. My point is saying all this was so we had another one of those mega tardes was saying that the US is doing all of the drone. I got this video I have to show it to you that we are doing all of the manufacturing of all the drones that are dropping that grenades and everything. We're doing all of that to Ukrainians are stupid, they couldn't figure this stuff out to save their lives. And I thought, oh my god, we could just do a whole podcast on just that one thing. He asked the whole world stupid, and only us. We're the only ones that can do things. Yeah, I don't think so. Not quite, not quite. Okay, I guess it's time to get out of here we say Rocco Done. Done.