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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.
It is a true pleasure to have you onboard.
This is, The Paul Truesdell Podcast.
Unknown Speaker 0:00
Well, it says the average worker in New York according to a study is spending less on Meals shopping, entertainment, near where they work. And so as a results in some people are traveling into the city to work this whole idea of a three day work week and hybrid work. They're saving a lot of money, like a lot of money almost $5,000 a year, where do you think the money is going? Right now, especially in New York City, or I would guess the majority of that money is going towards just covering increases in regular consumer goods. Cost of living in New York is insane. And I would say the increases that we've seen out here in the hinterlands by comparison is nothing compared to what they see in the city. I can only imagine what they must be paying for egg Jinder for paying more than we are for eggs. Oh, definitely. Yeah. I mean, every everything up there, I mean, I've seen price sheet comparisons before and it's depending on what you're looking at, unless you somehow can get out out into, you know, the rural areas to get to a, you know, I say rural, you know, we're talking the suburbs. But, you know, to get out to like a Costco or something like that. I mean, everything is just crazy expensive. It least 50% More for just every basic item. You know, I remember I've told you this, and for those of you who are listening back in 1975, I believe it was, I drove to Washington, DC for a political convention. I drove my car had a couple of guys with me, we just went cross country. And instead of my mom and dad, they were down in Florida. I say, Guess where I'm going? Where are you going? I'm going to DC like you are. And I remember we pulled in and got our hotel and got squirt around and I went down to a little bit Daigo low you know shop restaurant out or order a Bacon Lettuce and Tomato Sandwich. I still remember this. I'm telling you the the number I'm gonna give you Hecht.
Unknown Speaker 1:58
Listen, I ordered a BLT I got Lay's potato chips and a little bag. And I got a Coke Cola. And I got a pickle spear. And it cost me $1.76 I was appalled. I was on a tight budget. I was appalled. Because that was like three times what we spent back home. Yeah, yeah, that makes sense. I don't think you can get that anywhere today. No, I don't think so. But it's interesting because it shows you how much Alicia's called the the inflation of government created in the DC area and how it's basically still the same. Everything in the DC area is, you know, effectively the same cost as New York last time I checked just crazy inflated and and then I'm always reminded of an anecdote from the last, you know, serious recession anyway. 2008
Unknown Speaker 2:51
I guess it was the last technical recession too. We haven't fallen into one yet anyway.
Unknown Speaker 2:57
How, you know, the construction never stops and the beltway how everybody just kept doing their thing. And anybody who visited there had this just unease because the rest of the country is going through this thing. Even places like New York, it was like yeah, things are not going so great. Meanwhile, the people that feed off of the off of the government coffers seem to be doing just a okay. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, there is a thing called inflation. I was with my mother and father. When my dad bought gas down in Texas one time out in the Panhandle for 99. The lowest I've ever bought, it was in I believe it was in Missouri, and I was out with a girlfriend and it was 19 Nine. But general rule of thumb 25 cents was the 2425 26 gallon 20 cents per gallon. Remember, as my mom would, would say to me, listen, hear go pick up some groceries. She gave me a grocery list. Give me $1 to do it. She knew that a quarter was for gas. I could go to McDonald's and get two all beef patties special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles onions on a sesame seed bun. I could get a little bag of fries and a coke. Coca Cola for 50 cents. Sure. Yeah, those were the days 5019 son hamburgers at McDonald's. Yeah. Well, I think the lowest I've seen is 89 Yeah, we're where we were traveling was like 2004 or five somewhere in Texas. It was before hurricanes really messed up a bunch of the infrastructure and gas is really cheap. For some reason. I don't remember what the the geopolitical situation was at the time, but I think we were probably flooding the market with cheap gas or something or another where we sure got lucky when we had the motorhome years ago but didn't win boy we cut gas at the low end and we sold it just as it was starting to go up. Yep, those things. They suck fuel. Speaking of gas, so release. Let's talk a little bit about a powerful cyclone that struck news
Unknown Speaker 5:00
Elan app in the Air Day, February 11. And 12th Give round of give or take. They are without electricity. They are in the dark because of high winds and intense rainfall. Now, this is a nation along with Australia, they're like 100% Electric, they know they're not, but they want to go 100% Electric, they want to ban all combustible sources and you know, blah, blah, blah, you know what's going on? Not everybody, but there's some wackadoodles down there. So my question to you is what happens to a place like New Zealand, it's an island, if they actually do go hog wild, all electric and something like this happens? They're screwed. Yeah, you need more, if you if you're gonna go completely electric, which few places have the ability to, just because there's not enough renewables that are cost effective, and all that sort of stuff. But if you if you can, the one issue that you always have to account for that very few people seem to is you need enough batteries because you need to store that energy somewhere. And, you know, or you need to have your doomsday machine that provides yourself some dirty fuel or dirty energy on dirty fuels to compensate for the times when it is too cloudy or too windy to run certain types of machines or whatever. So, and of course, your greenies the people that want everything electric and rape the earth of all of it's rare earth minerals, they're gonna fly their planes over because everybody's you know, yeah, they stopped making the Boeing 747 Last one is out the door. Yep, last one is out the door and there's even a little easter egg in the in the first flight of that, that aircraft they flew and they made a
Unknown Speaker 6:53
flight path and made a 747 like a little graphic in the sky over Idaho. I think it's progressing very cool. Well, I have it on good a good record. I received a call the other day from a monkey Joe in monkey Joe told me that the new 747 will be all electric. They're gonna have they're gonna have Yeah, true. Solar panels and all the 37 wings that will fly the thing strew monkey Joe told me it could be I doubt it though.
Unknown Speaker 7:23
So if we go all electric what are we going to do with the Air Force if we have to start shooting some more drones over us? I'm just wondering how far we're going to carry this will we? Will we be going to the Chinese route and having balloons built the balloon force? The answer to all that is no. No contrary to
Unknown Speaker 7:45
irate children who don't understand how the real world works. No, we will continue to burn we will continue to burn jet fuel we will continue to burn diesel and gasoline and and all the all the fancy other miscellaneous fuels we will use to power all of our machines. I think I think it's wrong. I think you're I think you're dead serious. I think you're dead wrong. I think that the Chinese are definitely leading the world in aviation. And they're just testing out their own little version of mini Hindenburg. And
Unknown Speaker 8:18
it's their way of, you know, spreading the love and the population to our side of the pond. Sure. No, I don't think so. Okay, well, it isn't the balloon and and all the drone situation is interesting. It's definitely something going on. Well, if they keep it up, the magical earthquake machine here in the United States will be turned on like we did in Turkey. And
Unknown Speaker 8:46
I told you last time, the moment I heard about the turkey earthquake and how bad it was, I was like, you know, the the wackos on the internet are gonna start talking about the earthquake machine. Wasn't the first thing that came to my mind. And I was 100%. Right? The Q anon. And libertarian leaning types immediately started blathering on social media about earthquake machines. And it was the funniest thing ever. Because I was just like, this, this was just such a sure thing for me in my head, I just knew that this is what these people were going to talk about. And the up here we go. Since we since we last talked about it, there was an interesting little piece of information that I discovered about that earthquake. Apparently, the, the angle of the energy was basically sideways. Okay, and it was really shallow. So that's why the level of destruction was extremely high. Interesting. So basically, it just kind of shot through the entire area.
Unknown Speaker 9:46
And a lot of that energy actually reached the surface instead of, you know, any other place. So yeah, it's it's pretty interesting. I saw some charts that showed roughly how the dispersion of energy went and it's like, yeah, pretty much anything in that
Unknown Speaker 10:00
area if it wasn't built to extreme standards was going to have serious issues. And it did. So, you know, like we talked about that castle, a castle can stand for 2200 years, and now it's gone. I mean, your your conditions have changed in the area a lot, to say the least. So you have an event that is so powerful that it's more powerful than anything that has happened in 1000s of years. At least 2200. Yeah. Okay. And you saw that they're blaming, and you saw that they are blaming shoddy illegal construction on a lot of the devastation in Turkey. And so they're going after people in the construction industry. My question to you is, that doesn't surprise me at all, like, the worst constructive things are going to fall down during a hurricane, or a seismic event, or anything like that. So yeah, well, if they're gonna go after those people want to go after government inspectors. Wow. You know, that's, that's a that's the problem when you have a government run by a little tin pot dictator, like Erawan. Wonder if they even have a building inspector seriously. They probably do. But like a lot of places where they don't really care. They take a little, they take a little handout, and they just keep on moving. And what I always find interesting is how they are the lot of the people in the area, it's been reported whether it's true or not, just like certain segments of our country, whining and carrying on, you're not doing enough for me. But then if you have, for example, tornadoes in the Midwest in these small hard working all American towns, they just go away. Oh, we got hit again. And we'll rebuild in other places. It's Oh, mama, Help me Help me. I see a lot of that. Well, one of those is happening as we speak. Last week, there was a train full of vinyl chloride or something like that in a small city in Ohio. Yep. derailed and caught on fire. And as with a lot of these highly toxic, you know, situations you don't, there's not a lot you can do. You just wait and let it burn out and burn out controlled burn deal with the aftermath. And anyways, vinyl chloride, I think that's what that was the chemical
Unknown Speaker 12:21
horribly toxic, it's going to permanently cause issues for the area. And it seems like after the initial news report, nobody in the country really gives two hoots about No, I did you see Biden or Camilla Camilla get out there and say anything or, you know, fly in with Air Force? One, two or three? And? Yeah, there's only one Air Force One. Oh, I thought. Okay, there's only one for Force One. Yep. I thought there was Air Force two and three. I thought three was the one that they have the for the dark gray state that that flies around to no Air Force One is a callsign designation. And whatever plane the President is on is Air Force One. That's how it works. You sure about that? Because I read I read a story that they you know, the shadow government has Air Force Two and Three up there. Well, they may but they're not that it's not called On Air Force. One of the President gets on a commercial airliner. It's piloted by military pilots Air Force One. Well, I you know, maybe I got some insights, secret information. We should not have disclosed a monkey Joe told me that toy. Monkey Joe knows a lot of stuff. So then what we got going on? I listened. I was on Twitter. The other day I told you about this. I decided to reengage Twitter in a different way. And I have a thing that I put together years ago, and it's all corporate websites. I just want to know if it's Walmart, GE, Boeing, you know, just corporate accounts. Yeah. Yeah. Because news blows just, you know,
Unknown Speaker 13:54
it seems like somebody writes a story that catches wind and you get 37 iterations of it. What point I'm getting at is I noticed that Walmart is literally flooding, Twitter, with tweets about every possible good and service cucumbers are on sale. They're a day and baby wipes and mean, what a great free advertising venue. Yeah. If anybody pays attention to. That's the issue, right? Yeah. But, but I'm wondering, I wonder how much Walmart is spending on ads with Twitter because I do know that they were one of the companies that when Elano musgo bought it said we're not going to advertise anymore, but they sure seem to be using it. Yeah, yeah. A lot of people kind of view Twitter at least as a
Unknown Speaker 14:45
public square type thing. So people have their bots set up and they automatically just kind of publish stuff out there. I never considered looking at these more corporate accounts for what they're doing. But I guess that makes sense what they're doing well here
Unknown Speaker 15:00
is a thing of the sea. Let me think about this, maybe four or five, six years ago, I had curated these sites. For one reason, one reason only you got to press releases, you got some decent information in their day or the prior podcast, whenever we talked about it. We're talking about how LinkedIn has gone the way of Facebook, it's so much trash. Yeah. If you want to be recognized, you got to put up you know, here, here's a key for those of you who are who are social media, dependent. Take a picture of a dog or a cat and put it in within anything you want to talk about. Yep, that's always been the case. Yeah, or or here's another one. I'm dead serious on this one. If you really want to get in, here's the formula. This is a secret formula for getting lots of likes and lots of views. Okay? I'm dead serious. No, it's Don't Don't, don't, don't get mad at me. One, you got to have a dog, and you got to have a cat really important. And ideally, if they're like sitting next to each other, that's perfect. Second, you got to have a background of flowers and like, like some kind of a nice meadow, that's really important. And you got to have a tree in the picture, you then have to have a couple with only one child can't have to. But if you but if you have to, there's a rule, the couple, at least one has to be of unknown race. Okay, you can't quite tell if it's black, brown, white. So you got to have that. And then you also then have to have if you have two children, one has to be handicapped has to have a crutch or a cane has been a wheelchair of some type.
Unknown Speaker 16:42
And that's the rule. And if you then have a feel good message like, life is beautiful. And diversity is wonderful. And we drink kool aid by Kool Aid, I'm telling you, you will get a million views. Yeah, well, there is a formula for get capturing people's attention. And it's pretty obvious what it is if you just watch any ads on television or anywhere else these days. But here's the thing, I don't believe that you're getting real views. I really do believe that the algorithms and I think some of these companies have bots, they just intentionally promote things we learned from Tiki talky talk talk the other day that they do the very same thing. If people inside a curate Oh, I like that. Let's push that. Yeah, of course. And none of this is organic. It's, it's all fake to some degree. And I bring this to your attention. Because every day we talked about how when I've been a little bit more vocal on it lately, that all this networking going and seeing things. I swear to God, some of these people that attend these things are non playing characters or NPCs. They're bots themselves. There's, there's just, it's, it's a waste of frickin time and effort. On the other hand, I've met some really cool people, we've acquired some great staff, and a couple of really good clients, but for the time and effort not such a good idea, folks, that it's definitely more more of a waste of time than not type situation. Artificial Intelligence is playing a greater and better role in the delivery of health care. According to some reports, there was more patient focused because of artificial intelligence. You know, if that's the case, then why do we have to have any kind of tort reform when it comes to medical malpractice? Yeah, that's a good question.
Unknown Speaker 18:32
When you expand about that, about what happened in Florida, in medical Mal, because we've got some insight on that. Yeah, yeah. Due to some recent circumstances. And some people we know, it's very interesting. We've gotten a good deep dive into what does it since 2017, I think 2017 There was some medical malpractice tort reform in the state of Florida. And basically, it's almost impossible to sue a doctor for doing the wrong thing. Now, it has to be extremely egregious like like cutting off the wrong leg type situation for you to be able to effectively or effectively Sue and do anything.
Unknown Speaker 19:17
They've made it the hurdles are just absolutely insane. So anyway, it's we shouldn't spend too much time on it, but it is a it is a terrible situation where you've got basically doctors will different attorneys have said to us specifically that you know, doctors can literally go into the surgical suite hire drunk, and that's still not technically malpractice. They have to do something above and beyond it can't be like Oh, a little mistake or this or that as to be again like, oh, you go you go on for a hand surgery and they cut off your whole arm type situation sterile do anything. So yeah, it's it's pretty gross. Yeah.
Unknown Speaker 20:00
The if you look online, and you see all the lawyers out there who sue their litigation practice, they'll say they do medical malpractice, but they really don't, they are so discriminatory. In taking cases, it literally has to be a winner winner chicken dinner right off the bat, you know, it's
Unknown Speaker 20:21
you got to get lucky number 777. And the two sevens already given for you. And then the odds are you get 666 and 777. So you have a good chance of getting the damn thing. But yeah, it's just it's not right. One of the things also I got a kick out of I saw on Twitter, what else Twitter, a big pharma company that so No, you'd be surprised at this. They said, quote, I love this quote, patients are the focus of all we do is happens to be a company that's made a few things for COVID type stuff, and their profits are out of frickin sight. So my question is, is there focus on profitability? Is it on political clout? Is it on shareholders? Or is it really for the patients? Their focus is on shareholder value, as it always will be? The the executives in these companies
Unknown Speaker 21:18
are hired and fired. Executives and these companies are hired and fired based on their ability to stimulate stock performance. So that's that's the reality of it. They all this other stuff is fluff. Well, listen, here's the thing. I don't know what really caused this COVID stuff. I don't know if it was a Chinese plot. I don't know if it was organized and created by our own government or some goofy combo. You know, it was organized by the Chinese it was the biggest backfire ever. If it was done by our own government, I don't really see how that benefited anybody. I know, I was just doing to take away though. I know. But I'm just saying from a very realistic perspective, this seems to me like, I think the initial kind of theory makes a lot of sense. The oopsie, we were testing on something that we found in the wild that escaped. And then the Chinese didn't really know what to do, because their whole government management system is pretty poor. And it got out of hand and they tried to save face. And you think the weaponized it or you think it's just we screwed up bed? I don't know. I mean, it's possible. It was definitely a place where that type of testing was being done. But you know, at the end of the day, the reality is, I think it's a fairly natural, it was a fairly natural evolution in SARS. And it was just a matter of time before that virus got out, given the history, and 10 or 15 years prior. You know what, I think we should create a mass hysteria ready, I can do it right now. Oh, boy. Here we go. So we started talking about
Unknown Speaker 23:03
New York, and our spending money and all that kind of stuff. And we talked a little bit about the Air Force. And, you know, we're actually having missions over the US right? I mean, think about that. We're actually having Air Force missions over the US Yeah, we have with two for two as far as Air to Air kills over North America. That's pretty interesting. Prior to that, the had never happened before. Multiple fought multiple world wars and all this stuff and never had one Air to Air kill over over the continental United States. Now we have to we have what, three or four in two weeks. Okay. And then and then we have COVID, right? Yeah. So here we go for for all of the conspirators, here we go. The balloons from China have been coming over for many years. And they were the delivery system for COVID. Oh, boy. So you see, it's a no win situation. When you shoot them down. You spread the COVID. And when they just fly over, you spread the COVID they're floating biological weapons. How long do you think before that starts making the mainstream news now that we set it? Well, that kind of thing has already been stated just less just not focused on on biologicals. People have talked about how, you know, when the first balloon was over, they're like, Oh, I gotta shut it down immediately. They're testing for MPs and all kinds of other similar ideas and all that's totally possible.
Unknown Speaker 24:37
Is that what they're doing? I don't think so. I think this is some strange game that they're playing. Plus, it's a good combination of they, their satellite tech is not very great. So well, you know, here's what I like doing. I like Dr. Strangelove and monkey Joe thinking. Here's what, here's what I want y'all to do out there in radio land.
Unknown Speaker 25:00
Think about all the different possibilities that the Chinese have for motivation in terms of floating a syncs. Is it for weather? Is it for spine? Is it for jamming? Is it for photography? Is it for bio logical chemical distribution of bad things? Or is it just to show three stooges cartoons on the CBS network in a jam it with idiotic television program? What? What could be the possible reason for Moe, Moe and Moe to be coming with all of their, their balloons? So that's just something that I mean, I think it's just a general surveillance program.
Unknown Speaker 25:48
And I mean, the obvious is the most obvious and likely Yeah, I don't I don't think that this is a there's some grand conspiracy at play. Oh, come on. I think NORAD has been watching these things for years. You mean, they don't tell us everything they're doing? And contrary to what a lot of the hyperbolic hyper political idiots out there on social media have to say? No, this isn't really a big deal that NORAD has finally had enough of the Chinese crap. And no, they didn't. They didn't do a an All Points Bulletin every single time. Some unidentified thing was flying through our airspace. And
Unknown Speaker 26:26
I would ask everybody to stop amplifying the ridiculous UFO crap. Because it's just getting annoying at this point. It's China, or it's Russia. Or it's some other sophisticated actor playing a game. Like we do the same thing. Obviously, we don't use balloons, we use a thing called satellites. I know they're really complicated. Understand, but you know.
Unknown Speaker 26:48
Yeah, it's a it's, it's it's obviously some type of surveillance thing. My guess is that the reports of these things going over in the years prior are 100%. True. And they're doing some type of mapping, or they've got some detection thing they're working on or something like that. And we've, because of the, what's called the political, geopolitical circumstances that we found ourselves in between China and the US mainly, and what's going on with Russia? We have decided to put our foot down, it's like, no, we're done. You're not gonna fly over our stuff anymore. Just like we decide to do ban.
Unknown Speaker 27:30
We're increasing our, our steps for banning things with relation to high technology, chip manufacturing, and all that sort of stuff. This is becoming a Cold War. This is becoming a cold war against China. And we're tired of their BS. And this is just another step. You know, it says these in the past have we in the Soviet Union did the same thing. And after a while, we stopped flying things over that weren't all the way in outer space, because everybody knew that one was going to shoot down the other one, the Oh, YouTube and then or YouTube, the YouTube flights and the horrible treatment that the government gave to Gary Powers who was captured and Yeah, well, but the reality is a lot of those types of missions are thankless jobs, just like in Ukraine, you have lots and lots of people, I've read a few articles about a few of them who are, you know, they're in Russia, they're doing stuff or assassinating Russian leaders and generals and taking out supply depots and doing intelligence and in paramilitary operations inside of Russia. And just it's the same thing when you're doing something that is highly illegal, or against international rules and standards, but as necessary for, you know, the survival of your nation. Yeah, whether it's whether it's against the Soviet Union or for Ukraine, it's against, it's against Russia to, you know, gather intelligence or cut the head off a snake or something.
Unknown Speaker 29:03
You know, it's a thankless job, but you know, somebody's got to do it. And in the situation of very powers, it's unfortunate, but that has happened a lot with us, you know, when you don't have any leverage to get somebody back. It's, um, you know, sometimes you have to act like, oh, I don't know what that was. And you have to look the other way. Well, I'm going to draw up a little turd bomb here. A lot of things that we talk about, really, it's all about connecting dots. One of our original podcasts was called connecting dots. And we're going to be making a lot of changes here with all of our corporate branding and a couple of other things. We're going to be changing the name of our podcast is the Paul Truesdale podcast that'll stay the same. But then we're going to have the Paul Truesdale podcast bites, and those little segments will be going up. Those used to be semi private, we're going to make them public. And they're just going to be little bites of segments of this podcast will be available and to what the
Unknown Speaker 30:00
So for those who haven't seen it, but one of the things I want to share with you right now and Paul, I want you to bear with on this. We have noncom office, we have non comms noncommissioned officers, your sergeant said to lead military groups police departments always run are only as good as their sergeants. That whole thing. Russians don't have that. Yeah. And I don't know, does China even have non comms that we know of? I have not studied the Chinese military structure. So I don't know. I honestly don't know. We have to do that. Someday, I'll have to dig into that and find out. I'm not sure. We're not going to get into that right now. But I want to tie a couple things together. It is a fact strokes of genius, are known to fuel nearly everything, which is considered a great achievement in the world. The question that I want to throw out there is why then do public schools and government entities continue to aggressively pour drugs into the bloodstream of hyperactive children? Who are literally some of the most creative among us. And I say this, because in Russia, in China, let's take China, for example. You know, oh, Chinese are so smart, they go to school, they get hype, great grades, there's not a lot of what I would call creative rocket scientists coming out of China compared to the US. And you have to think outside of the box, you have to reject the box even exists. When faced with a problem, some of these militaries in some of these countries. And if you meant an entire society that goes, well, I don't know what to do. Tell me what to do. You know, I think COVID really showed that, you know, we're just going to do what everybody tells us to do. So yeah, I think I want to have someday a real discussion about our we all train our nation, with all the drugs they pour into the veins of children because they're hyperactive. And at the same time, we have Baltimore, where basically, the overwhelming majority of the population of Baltimore schools cannot read and write. Yeah, I mean, they can't read and write well, the literacy thing. There's a million things to talk about with relation education. And this obviously, can be an ongoing topic. But, you know, the education thing to me really, is upsetting because one, how much money is spent on education, you know, every teacher or anybody associated with the education system, whether they're, whether they're an elementary school teacher all the way up to, you know, college professors, you know, their number one complaint, when you ask them about what what should the government help them with? Is, it's just always more money. Somehow, magically, there's, you know, you could pour half of GDP into education, and it wouldn't, it wouldn't make a dent, because it has to do with with what you're doing with that money. It's it's the organization of the system.
Unknown Speaker 32:58
But you know, the, there are some obvious tells that you have a serious problem with the education system. And that's go back to the founding of the country. You know, that I talked about this occasionally, it is just, it's baffling, that during the founding of around the time of founding of our country, we started to do surveys and do it do the first census and we start to figure out, okay, who actually lives here? And what can they do? Because that's another thing that they had to figure out who is here. How do we how do we even run a government if we don't even know who's here? And there's just kind of a funny obvious thing that if you're, if you have an upstart country, yeah, first thing you should do is figure out who's here and what do they need. And so one of the things that the these early studies, or polls or whatever,
Unknown Speaker 33:53
showed was that the citizenry of the newly formed United States, were somewhere around 98%, literate. And, you know, going into the middle of the 19th century, the US was the highest consumer of printed books and magazines and things of any other
Unknown Speaker 34:14
moderately literate society in the world. The US, obviously, people in the United States placed a high value on the ability to read write. And of course, you fast forward that today, and that number is nowhere near 98%.
Unknown Speaker 34:28
I've in the back of my head, I had an anecdote about I can't remember there's a there's a super popular book that was sold in the middle of the 19th century might be Tom Sawyer or something like that. I think it was it was, I think it's still per capita anyway, the highest distribution book in US history other than the Bible, like millions of copies were sold in an era where there was 10s of millions of people in the country. I mean, just crazy distribution people, just the scale
Unknown Speaker 35:00
which I mean, can you imagine a book coming out today that sold 50 million copies or 60 million copies? I mean, you just, it just won't happen. No, I mean, the one exception to that is religious texts. That's, that's it. And even then people don't read those, they just buy them and put them on a shelf. And they reference them, you know, once a week, if they're, if they're highly active, very few people actually read, read any book cover to cover. So anyway, you know, today, the the is true. Today, the literacy rate, in the US, I don't have the exact number in front of me, but I know it's somewhere around roughly 70%, you know, adult literacy, that's ridiculous. And, you know, so it starts with very, very basic things. And unfortunately, there's no amount of money that's gonna be able to fill that gap. And when you start to get those kinds of divergent trends in the people that can and cannot, you have to start making some very pragmatic decisions as to where you allocate resources. If you have somebody that is in their 30s, or 40s, I don't think there's a lot you can do to raise they're extremely subpar ability to read, like, you know, they can go and buy things at a restaurant or a store, and they can read stop signs, they're literate enough to drive a car, but they're never going to be able to read a Sherlock Holmes book cover to cover without falling over. Right, it's just not gonna happen. And so you can't fill that gap.
Unknown Speaker 36:27
You know, the reality with with the, with the literacy rates was that America was an agricultural country, that children were around their parents for the vast majority of their lives. So the education of their parents mattered a lot. They passed all the stuff down, we they lived in an era where the only entertainment you had was going and talking to other people, doing stuff with your hands, reading books, or sitting around with your imagination, you didn't have a lot of you didn't have, you know, the glowing screen in your pocket. And anyway, I guess the last point I have on this is that the it's it's disappointing. But, uh, you know, we've you and I've talked about this for the better part of a decade now.
Unknown Speaker 37:11
You know, you mentioned years and years ago, I remember you talked about Newt Gingrich and his comments back in the what, late 90s, mid to late 90s. About every child will have a computer and people, you know, made fun of him and treated him like his lunatic, but he was 100%. Correct. The Speaker of the House for the Democratic minority at the time, and I believe it might have been Pelosi actually said this. I remember very vividly and it literally could have been you know, what? Come to think about it. It might have been Hillary Clinton wouldn't surprise me, I now have this vision of Hillary Clinton going, oh, yeah, right. Like we're gonna put a computer in a giant backpack and every kid's going to have a broken back here in our computers back and forth. What is this man's nuts? I remember that as, like, I'm sitting right now. Wouldn't surprise me. But you know, my point is that, as forward thinking is that was it was very forward thinking, you know, Newt Gingrich making comments like that Steve Jobs, even after he left Apple in the 80s, continued with next and his other projects. And then after he came back to Apple, of course, always having a heavy emphasis on getting technology into education.
Unknown Speaker 38:28
You know, all these things being very forward thinking are true, right? It's preparing people for the future. But the one thing that it doesn't do is it doesn't do what everybody thought it would do, which is the computer is not a teacher. And more than anything. Yes, you have more information at your fingertips than any other person in the history of man. Yep. The problem is, it's it for most people in a way. It is used as a crutch. There are people there's a handful, like for you, your entire upbringing was pre computer, at least home computer. So you know, the reality is, is you know, the computer, at least when you were younger, you're when you grew up with computers and everything and but the issue was, they were in a giant room someplace. Yeah, IBM punchcards how to how to put a request in for time and in our time was always at three, four o'clock in the morning. And you know, yeah, so so it was one of those, you know, I was using a computer was no different than going to the library. So you while they were around, they weren't the magical tool that they are today. My father and his firm and I mean they had I remember when dad talked about the company had a a freezer type room. It was massive in size. I don't remember what he said but they had their first Sperry ran I think it was water cooled frozen type computer and the amount of energy
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consume the electric bill. But boy did it save them money in this, that and everything else in the accountants loved it. Like, is that was that was that was a big deal. Yeah, multimillion dollar calculating machines was exactly what it was my dad's Wait, by the way, I have to say that I don't want you to continue. But my dad paid $999.99 for one of the very first Texas Instruments, handheld calculators. And it probably made 1000 times that in profit did in ability to quickly calculate things on the fly without whipping out an abacus or doing it all by hand in front of somebody. Yeah. And then he used to say that damn son of a bitch caused me to get more IRS audits because I was depreciating it. And people said, There's no way a calculator cost that much needed. He always had to pull it out. Yes, it did. Here it is. Yeah, that's fine. But the you know, the reality is with technology, people thought that it was going to solve educational problems. And it didn't. You and I've talked about for decades, technology is doing nothing and it's in its it's even more obvious now than it was 10 years ago. It's a crutch now, because why should I learn it, if I can just pull it up in a thing? It's no different than people that own an encyclopedia, do people read an encyclopedia cover to cover, I know I was the kid that always would always read stuff to remember it. And obviously, that's, that's a consequence of my upbringing. Because, you know, the reality is, as well, computers and stuff are always around, I straddled the pre technology period, in my brain. So I remember a world where
Unknown Speaker 41:38
the if, if you didn't have access to anything, you didn't have access to anything, you know, if you weren't hardwired with a computer, and anything, it just didn't exist.
Unknown Speaker 41:50
You know, I, I vividly remember, you know, booting up computers, and, you know, moving data around and loading programs on floppy disks. That was, you know, that was the only way you got data into the machine. And wow, CDs came around. And that was amazing. And you could fit so much more data on all this stuff. But you know, an internet connection was a privilege, not a constant 24/7 thing. Now we have Wi Fi blasting in every building anywhere on the planet. So I mean, at least at least in the Western world, right? So you know, you can you can get access to any piece of information all the time, from your smartphones or Wi Fi pretty much everywhere. Well, that crutch is no different than carrying around, you know, your, your giant manual all the time. There are people who do memorize the manual for whatever it is that they're doing. Right. And my guess is that a large problem with test taking these days, for people that aren't in a serious school, is you go to take an exam for, you know, at least for our business,
Unknown Speaker 42:54
you know, insurance or any type of securities licensing. And I assume it's probably the same thing with law school now, the pass rates have got to be falling through the floor, because these people can't retain anything. Why would they retain it? They can pull it up on their device? Well, if you don't know it, you can't, you can't reason about it. So you just you have a serious problem with education now. Because everybody wants to substitute real learning with education. And there's some place for that, you know, people aren't going to memorize pi.
Unknown Speaker 43:28
Two 3.141592653, like I did years ago, yep, that is, I used to remember more. But that's, there's no need
Unknown Speaker 43:36
anything beyond that I can look it up. But if you don't even know what pi is, and where to begin, and you have to look it up on Wikipedia. Every time somebody mentions that you're you're nothing more I mean, you're about you're literally as dumb as chat GPT. Like you. It's just it's a waste of energy. So education has serious issues. If if I was to, on a very surface level, reinvent the education system, I would probably at this point strip all the technology out of it. It seems it seems counterintuitive at this point. And it seems like a Luddite approach of you will read, you will you will, you will stimulate your you will stimulate your own mind with the people around you. What is what is being spoken to you and what is in your textbooks first, the technology will come afterwards because it's obvious that this constant 24/7 glowing screen stimulation is not going to better educate the future. Well, there's a word I'm going to two words for the day, Luddite and troglodyte. Go ahead and look those two words up and have fun with it. One of the things going back to being having your face buried in a computer and phone. You know, I had many clients years ago back into or in the early and mid 80s that were physicians at a point of medical practice clientele. And your young residents used to carry around these big
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thick pocket books, their physician desk reference all the drugs and they're always, you know, flipping things back and forth. And they're shorthand, all the important interactions and all the stuff that, yeah, there's no way possible today that these doctors and residents are running around with their pads, iPads or their phones, and can rapidly access the information as quickly as it could years ago, because those little flip books were sturdy, they were laminated, they had tabs, you could go flip, flip, flip back and forth, you just can't do it. It's not like, they have these things every once in a while where somebody will have a calculator, and they'll be banging away at it. And then some kid will have an abacus and the kid will beat the calculator all day long with the cat with the abacus, not saying we go back to an abacus or a slide rule, which I actually still know how to use. But I'm saying that just because you can doesn't mean you should. And you and I have seen in recent years, the number of doctors and I'm not being mean, but we have because of the nature of our business, we have a lot of clients that use a lot of medicine, the over prescription, the lack of proper diagnosis, I think it's just because they're not thinking that's exactly the issue, right? That's it's the same thing with somebody who can use an abacus quicker than somebody that can use a calculator is the same problem you're describing with somebody who had an old medical reference versus it's on your iPad, problem becomes the the the tool is a crutch. When you're utilizing one of these, when you're utilizing something that is a reference, it requires you to rationalize. It requires you to reason with it, it requires you to think about it. If you're thinking whom drug interactions for aspirin, and you start, okay, you go to you go to the thing and you reference it and you look inside, okay, and you get two or three things to think about. And then you go and look at those. And you're starting to put the pieces together, you're starting to rationalize what is going on. When you look it up on your iPad thing, you just look for that, and it's gonna give you everything that it knows about, and you're not gonna think about that unusual thing that pops up occasionally that you've seen twice in your entire career, it's just not going to it's not going to happen, you're just going to go to, we're going to start we're going to start trying things from from the list A to Z, and then we'll figure out what's going on. Same thing with like, an abacus, right? When you are utilizing a calculator, you're not thinking about, or at least, you know, very few people that I've that I've ever talked with leverage and calculator for anything. Very few people actually think about the algorithms that are going into what you're trying to calculate, where with an abacus you actually have to do that. It's not just oh, three times five, you know, you're not thinking three, multiplication, five, equals no, your work. You're working the algorithm. You're you're modifying what you're trying to do into an abacus. Correct? Exactly. So it's just it gets your brain working in different ways. It's not this very static, I have question give me result, which is the problem with these machine learning technologies. This is something we'll talk about next time, which is chat GPT. And, and what a scam it is, because it is a fantastic tool for certain applications. But
Unknown Speaker 48:29
the tech industry is now starting to sell this as the next amazing thing that's gonna solve all these problems. And it's not it is people it is not intelligence. No, it is it is pattern matching. It is very simply machine learning. You feed it information, and it is able to answer questions based on the information that you fed it. If you feed it a bunch of bad information, it's going to feed you what it thinks is true. It is not actually intelligent.
Unknown Speaker 49:00
You know, going back to what fueled this, if you want to be a genius, you cannot follow the pied piper, you cannot be a lemming. And you have to realize that our nation was built upon those who refuse to be lemmings. Great people do that. Yeah. And with that being said, you have Ukraine, and I guarantee you that Ukraine is going to mop the floor of Russia is going to have a horrific next couple of months coming up on October 18. But he says shouldn't be hard for both sides coming up. Yes, it is going to be Ukraine versus the Horde. And it's gonna get ugly for both sides. But Russia. I mean, just the past few days. It's what 1000 Plus cat 1000 Plus casualties per day. It's just unsustainable. It doesn't matter. I mean, the Eastern Front in World War Two, the numbers were, I think, on average throughout the war like 2000 casualties
Unknown Speaker 50:00
per day. And this was a war that engulfed two of Europe's largest economies into full on war economies where nothing else was going on other than the propulsion of the conflict. So the scale of things is, is evolving is truly amazing. We haven't seen in nearly a century Yeah, but you've got, you've got Mighty Mouse against the big the big cat, let's just say and bear the big bear. And, you know, it's the Mighty Mouse is doing a pretty damn good job of poking the bear and taking the bear down, over and over and over when that and that's the thing that really, to me anyway infuriated me about how about a lot of Americans response. Now, it's nowhere near a majority, obviously, the polling and everything shows up. But there's a certain portion of the population that we've talked about before, that is pro Russia or
Unknown Speaker 50:57
pro Putin, you know, anti Ukraine because of something something Trump something something Biden, things are absolutely meaningless.
Unknown Speaker 51:09
And it's baffling, because some of these people are, at least historically speaking, are some of the most pro American freedom loving those types, you know, obviously, you know, they're there they are, at least they view themselves as real, you know, quote unquote, American patriots. Right. And it's, it's disturbing to me because they see what you just described, right? You know, the little guy, you know, the David versus Goliath situation, and their gut reaction to it was not go, David, how can we help David it was, well, Goliath is just going to win anyway. So just just get it over sooner, it won't, it won't be as much of an inconvenience to me on the other side of the planet. And that, to me, is probably the most disgusting response I've heard. It's a drug brain response is what it is, its people there, it's a cowardly response. At the end of the day, it's people who are not willing to endure any pain and suffering to solve a problem. And then includes a lot of boomers who are absolutely afraid of having their Social Security reduced or anything, or I want to go to Disney World No, is shut down because we're at war. No, that's, that's ultimately the problem with large social systems. That's the problem with with a large aging population, you know, these, these are new challenges, that it's not just us, China has a huge problem with that, no, everybody differs, every every developed country has a large problem with with aging with an aging population. And it's interesting, because an aging population is a massive vulnerability, because they're only interested in comfort in their final years. Note and ask anybody in that 65 or older, and ask them if they're ready to struggle to solve a great challenge. They're not, they just want to die peacefully? Well, I know I am. And I have no problem saying that, that I'm always been the weird guy out to have you with us true, right? I mean, you know, it is 100%, extended, you know, three, four fifths of your of your lifespan and you're not, you know, you're, I see so tired. And reality is a lot of people, they get to that point, and it's just I don't, I don't want to do it anymore. But so you know, the point is not to get into the heads of those people doesn't really matter. The point is, in the grand scheme of things, that is a new vulnerability that you have to worry about, and how we manage that going forward is important, because
Unknown Speaker 53:31
the thoughts and wants and feelings of a large, elderly population can be used as an intelligence tool to co opt an entire country. Absolutely. And obviously, in China, they have to worry about the same thing. They have, you know, a tremendous aging population. Does anybody think that China is going to continue to be extremely aggressive on an international stage and 20 years, I don't know, they're going to, they're going to step back, they're going to try and moderate their problems in our society. And and eventually, they will become, as I think I've said to you, and many other people over the past few months, China is a regional power, they always will be because of resources, their population is still going to be massive, even if even by 2045 2050 2060. When their population haves due to aging and a lack of, of new live bursts, they are going to still be 500 plus million people. That's a huge number of people. Yeah, Nigeria might be a same population as China Biden, probably Yeah. But it's but so by the way, folks look up the population growth and size of Nigeria that assumes no tapering of the birth rate, which the reality is we have yet to see any society that grows that rapidly, not significantly taper off just naturally. Yeah.
Unknown Speaker 55:00
famine, food, the collapse of social structure war that will eventually cure those issues. I'm also thinking more along the lines of how, when there's a lot of other people around, people tend not to have children. Yeah. When your standard urbanization, when your standard of living increases, you tend to not have as many children because they're expensive. So you have a lot of factors at play that that will likely taper that I don't think this exponential forever, growth is going to continue. But Nigeria will be probably the population powerhouse of Africa with without any problems. And that's a very, that's a very interesting shift in dynamic and Africa. Again, that's something else we can talk about, again, in the future, in more detail. But, you know, the, this next century, will be very interesting to see how does Africa become a much more dynamic economy? Or does it stay in stagnate as it has for the past? Since
Unknown Speaker 55:59
the past 60 years or so it'll be very interesting. I mean, not that they've stagnated. But there hasn't been as much advancement despite the foreign investment and stuff. So anyways, I've not shared this with you. But one of the things we're going to talk about coming up soon is how the COVID and zoom and parents watching their children do or not do schoolwork, has absolutely caused a ruckus when it comes to some of the fundamental procedures that are screwed up when it comes to education. And one of those is the fact that a lot of parents have realized their children can't read because they're not teaching phonics. And I'm going to I've got some information I'm going to share with you so we can have a real solid discussion on it. It is, let me just say this, the videos that I saw of children online learning, and what parents are talking about, I was utterly flabbergasted. I mean, just Well, yeah, I mean, I think the more meta point that you're driving at here is that parents have, for the first time had real insight into what's being taught in the classrooms. And that's exactly what I see you you're not allowed to be in the classroom and you know, there's really no PTA that's just a it's just a networking social thing that parents used to volunteers discourage you know that I know that exactly, you know, the resources out there for education could be astronomical using retirees to get into the classroom, there are so many things you could do, that would be economically spot on. But the what I saw is like, give me a quick example without letting everything ahead of time.
Unknown Speaker 57:39
So Johnny's, you know, there's Si, si de David ride the what? It's a blank, and the word is horse. So what they don't teach is the kid to you know, sound it out. There's no phonics, the teacher says things like, so. Which picture do you think they show pictures? And so the word horse, they show a cow, they show a person, they show a mountain? A show a horse? Which one of those do you think that word means? So it's, it's Picture Association? i You just, yeah, that's who the held? How the hell do you learn to read with pitcher Association? I think I think a lot of the education problem also comes down to like, I remember, vaguely, you know, growing up, parents should spend a lot of time with their kids, obviously, you did, and a lot of what children, a lot of what children can do when they go into school, almost all it will not allow the majority of what children can do intellectually, has already been set. There's a baseline set based on, you know, how much does anybody even talk to the kid? Yep, almost everything. A lot of so many parents, you see, they literally just shove an iPad, or a tablet in front of the kid. And they just, they just want them to shut up. Do you remember when I could put a helmet on him where it would silence the screaming and the talking? They would do it? You know, they view them as a
Unknown Speaker 59:12
they view them as like a social status item, and it's just gross. You know, it's no different than somebody who just abuses animals, you know, and they drag them around and treat them as if they're, you know, like a little status. I'm like, Oh, I'm gonna go take my dog for a walk. Because, you know, that gets me more attention from people on the street. And then, you know, what are they do they throw him in their room or their crate or whatever for, you know, 23 hours a day. I mean, it's, it's, honestly, it's some of some of the some of what people do now is just terrible. And of course, people, you know, cope with it. Animals cope, people cope, and it's just a it's just gross. So, you know, unfortunately, if you don't talk to children, engage them. Yeah, it's annoying. Some people don't like it, but it's just what you have to do because eventually, you know, children
Unknown Speaker 1:00:00
Have a really long tail. They're their children are an extremely long tail investment. Yeah, no. And that's why going back in time to much more agrarian society, you know, people like to focus on all I had lots of children's, so they would take care of me, it's like, well, yeah, they would take care of you, but also so that your business would sustain itself, so that they would have enough of an infrastructure so that they would be taken care of, you know, like you say, like, you like to point out that I've had mentioned in the past, you know, it's the old military. One is none, two is one. And that number then continues, you know, everything, what will children it's more like, especially in a, let's say, a 17th, and 18th, century, mindframe, you know, three is one, and six is maybe two, because how many of them are going to live to full age, not get injured, not die of a disease or get called out to a war or something. So you know, at the end of the day, you need to have six, eight children, to effectively totally replace yourselves and then actually grow the population of, of your family unit or, or your clan or whatever. And obviously, with technology and medicine and everything.
Unknown Speaker 1:01:17
There has been fantastic advancements in the in the reduction in, in deaths from disease and other complications. So we don't need that many people until the big one hits and then we're gonna wish we had a lot more people, but the reality is at bare minimum, you need like 2.4, or whatever the number is for sustainment. Yep. And most countries don't have that. I mean, it's a scary thing to realize. I
Unknown Speaker 1:01:44
I'll leave you with this one.
Unknown Speaker 1:01:46
Japan, historically has had one of the worst birth rates in the world, right? Tariffs Correct. Japan, I think is now now has the highest birth rate in Asia. Really? Yeah. Because everybody else fell not because there was rose, except for some small countries. It's, you know, we're talking about the majors, right. Okay. So my question is, did they rise or did the other everybody else just dropped everybody else's dropping really including North Korea, people have talked for years about Old North Korea is going to out populate South Korea, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. No, North Korea's birth rate is falling, there's nothing they can do to stimulate it cools, it's, it's just a general problem. It's almost as if people can kind of feel the earth is getting a little full.
Unknown Speaker 1:02:31
You know, for those of you who say something along the lines, oh, yeah, talk is cheap. What did you do? Well, you are my son, my eldest. And I remember you, we've heard it. I have no problem saying, my mother and father are passed away. I don't ever remember my dad ever saying anything close to this, but your mother's parents? You know, we took a lot of crap for having three kids. Oh, yeah, we have friends like why you haven't? Three? And we'll we're gonna keep going. If we can. We we had to stop at three because of medical condition. But, you know, here's the thing, you know, we, you know, we've always talked about we'd had four or five, six, we've kept on going. And people were like, I can't believe you are professionals. You have all this education. You don't need to do that. Enjoy yourself. I used to get so yeah, there's a lot of social programming around that. And, you know, I think there's an unfortunate reality we see it a lot with retirees.
Unknown Speaker 1:03:29
So much, even clients would say that to us. Well, what are you doing? Absolutely. But uh, but how do you do it? The one one of the major takeaways for me is just having seen talk to whatever lots and lots and lots of people over the past many, many years.
Unknown Speaker 1:03:47
Who Oh, you know, I had my my one child and you know, he died of cancer at age 50. And now I'm alone. Oh, yeah. No, we have how many clients we have like that. We have hundreds and hundreds they didn't have children. Yeah. Or whatever the problem is, and just to me the profound sadness that you get with with some of those people is is unfortunate. Yeah, they're pretty much living a lifestyle regardless of their wealth. They're living in a van down by the river eat and cheese. Really, a lot of them are just sad. Yeah. And you know, obviously, like, that's not everybody. There's some people that are perfectly happy doing what they've done. But point is, is those people tend to be engaged with very socially active and engaged and here's they're also physically fit. Yeah, we know of a person who has some physical issues but is absolute sharpest attack nothing gets this person down. Works out all the time. They're always engaged. Yep. Not gonna go down. You know, in pity. No pity party. Yeah. So So to my point is, you know, now take that and that being an anomaly and now take that and apply that to, like Japan or South
Unknown Speaker 1:05:00
of Korea or something where they have these horrendously low birth rates. Now multiply that by an entire country. Yes, that's a problem that people wonder why certain countries like South Korea in particular has this really crazy high depression and suicide rate? Now, there's a lot of factors for that has to do with the climate. As far as I know, South Korea has like the Seattle kind of climate seems very depressing live. Yeah, we know, we know a little bit about the Seattle area. But then, you know, you multiply it by these other problems. I mean, for goodness sake, in South Korea, they have air anti aircraft guns sitting on like high rises.
Unknown Speaker 1:05:36
Yeah, after a while, because after a while, like all these things kind of compress and you know, whatever. Also, I don't think people really understand how populated South Korea actually is. There's a lot of people there, it's not a very big place. It's not big. So there's also just the basic reality of it's expensive. There's not a lot of space to do so. Oh, claustrophobic. I mean, Seoul mic, I mean, if people haven't gone on, you know, Google Maps, or Google Earth, or whatever, and just kind of cruised around some of these major Asian metro areas, it will make your head spin as an American, like, you think you think New York is big New York is like a drop in the bucket compared to some of these places. It's wild. We're going to wrap up of two things. One, we're going to be changing some things. Now, I'll share that with you here in just a moment. But I don't know if you knew this, you know that the World Book Encyclopedia is still published. I figured it was. So when I was a little boy. Back in the early 60s, my mother and father would buy a World Book Encyclopedia every year. And I kind of regret having not kept those things.
Unknown Speaker 1:06:45
Because it'd be interesting to go back and look at those and compare what is being reported as history versus was history, then, you know, how do they portray Adams in Washington and Hamilton and Burr, then versus now that would be interesting. But the World Book Encyclopedia, the 2023 edition, is over 14,000 pages, long, 22 volumes, and it's $1,199. Now, for those of you who may be listening who have children, or if you are a grandparent with some money, if you want to give something to a child to a family, that is worth his weight in gold, get them a physical print edition of the World Book Encyclopedia, I'm gonna start pounding away at this and I'm going to get a hold of these guys. They also have of course, the the online version, but they also have these, it's really cool. They have the the Discovery Science encyclopedia, they have, you know, all these different year by year books, we say my mother and father would always get the year by year update books as well. But think about this, if you sat down and you have a little guy, you know, they're starting to read, you actually teach them phonics. And instead of, you know, watching the latest, stupid replay for the 450/7 time of the Super Bowl, which I did not watch, and don't give two craps about
Unknown Speaker 1:08:14
if you actually sat down with your kids and started reading, and they actually teach you now you and I and you know are you are the three of you and mom and I, we traveled the country, we'd always take maps, and you guys, we remember, we tracked everything, and you'd have to write your journals. And we Yeah, and then we used to do a thing where we'd go to some place some you know, Bo hung Ville, USA and I would get out of the car. Remember, I used to do this. Okay, Mom and Dad are no longer with you. We're dead. We're not here. How are you going to figure out what to do? And I always said, begin with charts and graphs and we'd make you stand there and Okay, we got to figure it out and figure out where you're at and where you're going. And then the other thing I always felt bad about but I don't anymore. I remember when I used to drag you guys into my office and and make you give speeches before Ali she she would cry sometimes and Graham and you didn't like it either. But all three of you can stand in front of anybody on any day any topic and and go at it because of a simple fundamentals. Yeah, it's a it's a skill, but it's also the ability to think on the spot. What are you talking about a man I remember, you've talked about this a lot, the ability to speak about what you're doing without having it pre choreographed or pre written or whatever is important. It's just a skill. You know, it's, again, it goes back to if you're sitting in front of the computer or your tablet or whatever, and all you're doing is consuming information and you're not actually creating anything. You're not communicating with people all these things are perishable skills. Yep. That's probably one of the missing pieces to
Unknown Speaker 1:09:56
was a castaway. Yeah, you know, he's talking to the
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I'm talking to the ball talking to the boson. Tom Hanks. That's great movie. You know, if if you don't continue to do that you'll lose it. And unfortunately that is you lose it very quickly. Oh yeah. Again, like talking about, you know, retirees and things. When retirees start to have some, let's say some cognitive challenges and they start becoming a recluse, they lose their communication and capabilities and irrational rationalizing capabilities really quickly. Oh, yeah. And again, that goes back to what you're saying earlier. You know, staying engaged, despite your circumstances is extremely important. Because humans are very, very social creatures. And that goes back to what we're talking about with COVID COVID lockdowns and all this BS behavior by the government and everything. It really shows you
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that it's extremely detrimental. I mean, you know, on the topic of education, it seems like all this is pretty connected.
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There were a lot of interesting news articles and things with relation to how children's
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speech development was significantly hampered because of COVID. Because it turns out a lot of children aren't being talked to by their parents. So there will surprise surprise surprises Gomer would say, so a lot of the those those skills were being driven by the their time in daycare, and battling with other children, and you know, get togethers and things like that. And obviously, then eventually school or pre K. Well, I'm going to say this, and I don't care what anybody thinks. This year marks the 50th year just dawned on me while we're sitting here. This is the 50th year that I have been lifting weights on a regular, consistent basis. No, actually, that's not true. I just realized that's also not true. This is my 52nd year.
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This is my 52nd year of lifting weights. And I'm not Charles Atlas, but I'm not, I'm not Bill Gates.
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Most people see me would say, you know, boys, the boys still pretty damn strong. And I could probably a buff up pretty easy. In a matter of just a couple of months. I could, I could do it again. And I'm not a young man. The point is, if you don't use it, you lose it. And you lose it a lot faster than you gain it. And I'll tell you, I'm dead serious. There's rarely rarely do I miss. I'll try to do it at least three to five times a week. I'll get 100 Push ups in every day. Not every day ever three to five times a week. And I always do push ups every every day. I'll do it never less than 25 to 50 but let me tell you something that's you know, that comes in handy you know doing the crunches doing the curls. Um, yesterday I worked out pretty heavy and I took a shower and looked in the mirror when damn little buffed up for an old guy. Yeah, it reminds me of
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what is it a Socrates quote about how it's disgraced to grow old for seeing what you're capable of physically? And
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a lot of people don't ever Don't ever do that. But the other aspect to it is that it's not something you can do overnight. It takes an entire lifetime of of persistence. Yeah 2000 789 I proved to you and your your brother How? How strong the old man good Bay didn't I? Absolutely. was one big ass strong. mofo okay, we say we get out of here. I gotta get out of town. I gotta fly out of here. We'll have to get this up and squirt around last parting words and then we'll call it I gotta get to Pluto. Just a few moments. Any final words of wisdom? No, I think leaving it on Socrates item is it's good. I like that. Okay, we're out here typical New tailor to hustling assuming Jana done. The Paul Truesdale podcast is produced by the Truesdell Media Group. Monkey Joe producer. All rights reserved.
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