Episode 119: Historical Events in Our Lifetimes

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Welcome back to another episode
of Record My Father.

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Today we're going to be talking
about historical events that

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have happened in our lives.
The the one number one on my

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list that I think about probably
the most often is the terrorist

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attacks on September 11th, 2001.
It was my first day of

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preschool.
You decided not to go to an SEC

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law firm Information something
like that was his.

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Conference Securities It was a
bond traders conference put on

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by Waters that was at the top of
the World Trade Center.

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Was it tower two?
Well, which one was that?

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Yeah.
I it was, it was Windows over

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the World.
I think that's, I don't know if

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that's tower one or tower two.
It was in that restaurant and it

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was it was like 2500 bucks,
which I paid and I was staying

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at the Liberty Marriott.
I had two nights there and I

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think I ended up canceling the
night before because your mother

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like looked at me in a weird way
and said, well, you can always

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go to what?
What the heck was it?

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Yeah, he'll have a lot more
first day of preschools or

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something.
Just said something like that.

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It was just sort of very
backhanded.

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And I was just like, oh, and it
just it, it, it hit me the right

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way, which, you know.
And then you die.

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I mean like when?
Yeah, when?

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You're busy and you're doing
things like that.

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You don't, you don't really,
you're not cognizant of every

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single thing that's supposed to
be important.

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It is important.
But if your, if your mind is

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focusing on one thing and
someone's telling you over here,

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hey, your kids dying, you're
like, yeah, just a minute.

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I'll be right there.
As soon as I finish making this

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waffle, you know, it's like, I'm
never, no, no, the waffle's not

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more important than the kid.
It's just that you, you have a

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you have a, a stream of
consciousness.

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It's focused on a single thing.
And you forget, you forget that

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there's like, Oh my God, there's
all these other things.

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And, and it's like I've seen it
since then like 50 times where

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it's like, Oh well.
There's something about being a

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breadwinner as well, I think,
Right.

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And then you made it this far,
and I think you were

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experiencing exponential growth
at that time.

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And so, I mean, yeah.
That's Oh yeah, it was crazy.

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Yeah, that was, that was crazy.
But yeah, no, I saved your life.

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You owe me for the rest of your
life.

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I guess inherently, right.
I think that's kind of how it

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works.
But let's go back 'cause that's,

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that's kind of like the big
whatever.

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Is that the biggest event You
could you I printed you

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something out.
That was just the first one.

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We did, we did, we what we did
this time is to look at it like

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we did an, an artificial
intelligence search from Zach's

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birthday to present and all the
significant events happened.

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And then we did one for me.
And, and The funny thing is, is

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it like a couple of them I
didn't even think about or

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realize that I was born in
November 59 that year, 1959.

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Do you know that when, when in
the beginning of the year, we

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only had 48 states?
Hawaii and Alaska became states

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in that year, 5959.
Yeah, in 59 they became the 59th

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and no, the 49th and 50th state.
Wow, I know that.

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Isn't that wild?
It's like I wasn't.

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I was born when we weren't Done.
What?

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Was Alaska before then?
If it wasn't a state, was it a

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territory?
I have no idea, it's probably a

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a cat house.
Or is it just an island?

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I don't know.
No, it's an island out there

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that's connected to.
I don't think that's Alaska.

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I think you're you're talking
about the other one, Hawaii.

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No, no, I like the Rhode
Islands, you know.

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I thought we did.
We buy it from the Indians.

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Probably, yeah.
I mean Hawaii, yeah, Hawaii was

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bought by that was.
Whose property was that?

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Alaska was a Russian colony
until 1867, when the United

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States purchased it.
That makes sense it.

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Was AUS Military District then
organizes the District of Alaska

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and finally became incorporated
the Territory of Alaska from

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1912 until 1959.
Well, there are thousands of

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islands up there, hundreds of
them, and there's an area where

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you can walk from 1 island in
the winter 'cause it freezes

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over the ocean does to Russia
and it's like 4 miles across

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ice.
It's crazy.

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You know a man that did it on
Bob Sled.

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HI, Hawaii.
Was first dog sled.

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Hawaii was an independent
constitutional monarchy.

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Did you know that?
It was overthrown by the

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American businessman who formed
a Republic, was then annexed by

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the US in 1898?
We took it so it was stolen.

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OK, cool.
And it was the territory of

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Hawaii, just like Alaska was.
We took it in 1898, becoming a

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territory of Hawaii in 1900, the
status it held to territory just

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like Alaska.
And then they flipped it in 59.

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So I mean, it's kind of like if
you look at Puerto Rico a lot

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like that, like Puerto Rico
could be a state.

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Why is it a territory?
Guam is a territory.

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We we've got a bunch of those.
But I mean, those are two things

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that I think it's kind of
interesting for me, the end of

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this of the Cuban Revolution
happened in 59.

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That's when Fidel Castro took
power.

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I didn't, I mean, I always knew
Cuba was, I never saw it as the

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mobster hangout and all the kind
of cool stuff that everybody

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talked about in the 50s where
they had everything.

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I've been back to Cuba and seen
the beautiful cars and the cool

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stuff like that.
But everybody lives in poverty

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and the and things that that I
saw.

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Is it really poverty?
Is that what it is?

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Because poverty is a very
subjective term, I feel like.

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OK, the pill.
The buildings are crumbling.

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The the healthcare system's
really good.

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The food.
Is all the foods organic because

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no one sells some fertilizers
their health care?

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System being really good is is
hard to say that that's poverty,

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yeah.
No, no, but that.

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But the housing is.
It's probably more housing and

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food because they cannot.
They can only get what they make

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on the island.
Which is nothing, not a lot.

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Right.
There's not a lot of different

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things.
They don't have a lot of

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diversity in foods and things.
Unless you're ultra compatriot,

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you know you're the head
military did.

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Otherwise, you the, the housing
in what the Hell's, what's the

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main city in Cuba?
Havana, housing in Havana.

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When you look around it, it's,
it's like it hasn't been touched

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in 50 years.
So things are kind of falling

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apart, you know, everywhere,
unless you look at the hotels,

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which is where people like me
go.

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We come in, it's air
conditioned, we go outside,

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nothing's air conditioned and no
restaurant, nothing.

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The public, no, no.
And think about being on an

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island where and you live on it,
where there's zero air

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conditioning.
The homes, the homes are very,

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you know, they're 1940s.
That's when they were built.

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They are, they're, they're built
in a really nice in the 1940s,

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but they're not like, hey, no
one has high speed.

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You, you, you go to the center
of town and you sit down on a

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bench to get Internet because
there's a Wi-Fi signal there.

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And it only goes out like 50
yards in each direction.

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So in the town squares.
And there in Trinidad, we went

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to a couple different cities.
Everybody commutes there at the

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end of the day and late at
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In Havana in particular, say
around 10:00 at night, every

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night, it's really, really,
really hot.

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So everybody goes to the edge.
They go along the border like

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we're, you know, because of it's
not like beach, it's like rocks

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where it goes into the ocean and
everybody just hangs out there.

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They hang right out because the
wind's blowing in off the ocean

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and it's actually really cool.
But if you stay in your, in your

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apartment, in your house, you
could just got a fan.

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And it reminds me of what it was
like for us in the 60s because

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we didn't have air conditioning
all through the 60s.

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We had no air conditioning.
And one by one we had neighbors

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that were, we talked said Rich,
but they lived in the same house

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we did.
They would get a window unit to

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cool off this or another window
unit for this or whatever the

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case may be.
But we we didn't.

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I don't think we got one time.
What did central air

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conditioning start?
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It started as window units and
then you kind of had these

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recently, a newer kind of thing
that was a window unit where it

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was something that you kind of
circuit through your wall, you

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know, then it's just in one
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It's not a central air
conditioning unit.

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It's just one unit for one room
and then one.

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Unit for a room is like.
Is used to be just a window

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unit.
You just put in the window and

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it blows the but there's.
Ones that are internal now, is

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what I'm saying.
That's what I'm talking about,

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yeah.
That are just for one room.

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Yeah, I don't know why.
And I mean why you would just

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want it for one room, you would
want it for the whole house.

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And I think the probably because
of the duct system that's that's

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always been the issue with the
older buildings is like, well,

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what kind of what kind of space
do we have?

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And that's why older buildings
that had, you know, 12 foot

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ceilings in the hallway now have
9 foot ceilings because they,

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they hung suspended ceilings and
they have all the duct work up

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there.
You know, that would be the

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older ones, the newer ones.
It's built that way.

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It's built to have vents,
electricity, all the different

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types of Internet flow and
everything like that to run

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through it, you know, So it's
very, very different.

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But the second one I have on
mind is the invasion of

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Afghanistan, which I think went
on for about 20 something years,

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20 years.
I look at a million.

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Killed entirely and women and
children included.

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It robbed a lot of people of the
belief of American, well, no, I

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guess it reinforced American
imperialism and the ideology of

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that and being concurrent with
what we did in South America.

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And a lot of people lost their
childhood innocence from or I

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guess young adolescent or not
adolescent, but teenage years

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from 18 to 24, I would say for
those who served.

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And maybe that's for even who
did 2 tours, which we know a few

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people.
And I find that really.

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We had the.
Gulf Wars thing for the past 20.

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Years they were the Gulf wars.
Remember we were in we went into

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Qatar and we pushed a rock all
the way out that was Bush won.

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He pushed them out and and Jeff
was in that conflict and that

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was like.
I'm talking about from mine.

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Yeah, I'm talking.
About he doesn't want and that

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would be that's pre you.
That's right.

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OK.
And then and then all of a

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sudden, 10 years later, whatever
Afghanistan happens because we

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believe that Afghanistan had
something to do with 911.

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So we go in there and instead of
just nuking a bunch of them or

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bombing them, we decide to put
troops on the ground and fight

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for what we thought was going to
be, you know, is Rumsfeld and

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said, you know, they'll be
giving up as soon as they'll,

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they'll see how great freedom
is.

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And that will be that.
It's like.

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Oh, yeah, A country that's been
fighting for its entire history

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is really going to lay down
their arms?

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Yeah, that's a really great
idea.

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I think that the IT was being
sold by the news.

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You would see it on Fox News.
They would come and talk about

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how we're going to have shock
and awe and it's going to go in

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there and everybody's going to
back away.

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And they did the same thing with
the Rock.

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They did it less with
Afghanistan, but everybody was

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angry when they went into
Afghanistan.

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So it was sort of like, OK, you
know, that's cool.

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Well, everybody believed it too.
They were.

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They were a part of the the
kool-aid because it was, it felt

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good to get revenge.
I mean, revenge seemed like

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something that was deserved.
And weirdly and weirdly was

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Pakistan, but and and we know
that that every single every

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single person that was involved,
we knew then and we knew before

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we even flew over there, every
single person that was involved

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in that was a Saudi.
Think about that.

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Oh yeah.
I mean, Can you imagine if every

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single person that attacked,
they took a plane and ran it

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into one of our buildings, was
Japanese and we bombed the

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fucking Germans?
What?

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Pretty strange, pretty strange.
You know what I find interesting

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though?
Historical list.

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On this historical list that you
sent me, we don't have Joe Biden

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ending the 20 year war, which is
funny.

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I find that interesting.
That's not a big moment on here.

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You have Barack Obama elected as
first African American

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president.
You have the 2008 global

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financial crisis.
You have.

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The Airspring, you have to be
careful.

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Be careful when you say you it
wasn't me.

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It was it was me doing a search
on a search engine called

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Perplexity looks on it, so it's
very well.

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That's what I'm just saying.
Yeah, yeah, You gave me the list

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and I'm saying that it's.
On exactly good, good, good,

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good.
Which I find interesting.

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Yeah, I find that interesting
that it's not on there.

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What they do well, I mean in my.
That was looked over.

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That was very, very much looked
over in his presidency.

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And I don't know why.
I don't know why, because I

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remember going back home and
telling people that were more

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conservative leaning, which it's
funny to say conservative

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leaning when they endorsed the
war in Iraq, which isn't a

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conservative standpoint at all
really, because to conserve

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being conservative is too
conserve.

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And that's not conserving
anything at all.

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But they were saying that, oh,
well, he didn't end that war.

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And I'm like, then what did he
do?

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Then what?
What did he do?

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What did he then tell me what he
did if he didn't end the war?

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Well, oh, it shouldn't have
ended like that.

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Well, and then I asked them
like, so should World War 2 have

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ended with the bombing of
Hiroshima and Nagasaki?

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And they say no, it should have
been a.

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A slow, a slower.
Pull out of my oh, over the

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course of the next 10 years when
we would have killed everybody

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in that country.
Oh, yeah.

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What a great time that would
have been like.

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I don't know.
That was not these people.

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Live in a dream world that's
propagated by well.

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They, well, they see, they have
this idea and you hear it all

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the time.
And we've heard it from people

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that we know that are really
smart, that, you know, when they

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hear about Iran, they're like,
we're going to bomb them until

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their class.
And you're like, you know, we,

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we, we tried that in Vietnam and
we failed.

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OK, doesn't work.
We killed, we killed 2 million

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or 2.2 million out of 27
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And the Vietnamese were ready to
have the other 27,000,000 die.

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So they were not going and and
Afghanistan was at war with

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Russia for 10 years before we
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And we came along somehow we
were going to do something

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different that nobody else did.
And you say to yourself, like,

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it is just the dumbest thing in
the world to think that we were

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going to be able to go into the
Afghanistan and do anything

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other.
I mean, we had to retaliate.

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I don't know why we just didn't
go in and say, hey, Kabul's

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gone.
That's your that's your toll.

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Go in there, blow the whole city
up, just bomb it a million

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times.
Don't put any troops on the

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ground and say do it again and
we'll pick another city and just

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leave and just cut bait and say
this is what we're doing.

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This is what the charge is.
The charge is no more capital.

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Capital goes away.
That's what you did.

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You decided we're snapping your
capital.

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That's it.
And I would do.

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That there is a reason why it
lasted so long and it's because

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the vice president was CEO of
Halliburton for what, four or

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five years before he became vice
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I don't know.
That was kind of interesting.

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And then the stock rose 300%
over the next six years of the

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invasion.
I don't know.

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That seems kind of interesting.
I'm just going to say that.

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I think that the the most crazy
thing is, is the thing I heard

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about during the Afghanistan war
in Iraq war more so more so in

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the Iraq war was we were sending
not during Afghanistan, but

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during Iraq was pallets of money
because that's what they would

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do.
They would go with they would

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just and they would say, well,
how much do we need?

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We we want you to like us.
And that was the thing that they

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wanted to win to the hearts and
minds.

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They were trying different types
of campaigns because we knew we

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knew that what we were doing was
failing.

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And you can't go into a
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And I mean, just stop and think
for a minute and you're where

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you are in LA.
If, if if, if, if Trump takes

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out the National Guard, comes
into your community, takes over

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5 houses and starts looking for
insurgents to shoot and kill.

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How are you as a community going
to react to that?

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You're not.
I mean, and that's somebody, you

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know, that's not somebody that's
like if somebody from

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Afghanistan and think about it,
because they were what they were

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and we came into their community
and oh, there's terrorists

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there.
And it's like, no.

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Who's the real terrorist?
Who's the real terrorist?

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I think that the thing that we
have to we have to think about

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is that when we go into other
people's communities, how do we

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how do we get them to support
us?

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And so far, so far we've been
unable to, we have not been able

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to do it.
We, we would have little pockets

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where it worked, but for the
most part, we failed.

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We failed in Iraq, we failed in
Afghanistan, we failed in

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Vietnam.
We, we failed continuously every

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time we go and no matter how
big.

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And for some strange reason, we
do not go back and say, hey, you

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guys that we gave $500 billion
to.

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Can you can you tell us why you
failed?

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And, and then the ground troops
say it's because we had we

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couldn't do what we wanted,
which is, you know, you'd hear

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them in firefights and they're
like somebody's shooting them

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from an apartment building,
right.

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And we had a something called a
something of forces where they

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cannot try our military troops
if they're captured as people,

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just like we can't try their
their military as in our

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civilian courts, because we
would find them guilty of murder

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and put them to death and they
would do the same to us.

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So it's something of forces, a
uses of forces or source, source

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of forces, something like that.
And if you don't have that, and

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we didn't have that with Iraq
for a while.

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And that was the reason that
Obama was not putting people

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back in.
And they're like, and and what

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we do is we say we will not do
certain things.

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We will see if we see one person
in an apartment building and

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he's shooting at us.
If you're the guy being shot at

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you, you want that building
blown up.

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OK, But that apartment building
has 300 people in it and there's

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one guy in it.
Do you think it's reason it

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would be for the guy on the
ground being shot at to call in

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an air strike on that building
and blow up the whole building

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and kill 300 people?
And that's, and The thing is, is

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that's a real life situation
that happens all the time.

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We most of the time are not
allowed to do that.

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But if you're the guy on the
ground and you're trapped and

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your guys are getting cut to
pieces and there's a guy in a

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with a 30 caliber machine gun
that's on the third story in a

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building just mowing your guys
down.

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You want to liquidate that
building, You want to dissolve

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that building.
You don't care if anybody else

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is in that building, they should
all run away.

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But you got to realize that
that's like being in your

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neighborhood and somebody on the
3rd floor is machine gun and

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somebody down and you're like,
oh, what should I do?

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Boom, your whole building's
gone.

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Is that is that, I mean, I don't
have a good answer because, you

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know, if we want less people of
our people to die, we need to up

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the way that we kill innocent
civilians, right?

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But but that's not really a it's
AI don't think it's a good

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strategy because it's it's not
going to get us where we want to

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get in any type of war.
And so far our strategies in war

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have sucked.
We got nothing from Iraq.

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We got nothing from Afghanistan.
We've done nothing that's been.

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Billions and billions of dollars
and enrich our own military

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infrastructure.
Nothing but that.

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That's really what it is too.
I think.

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It's so funny how advanced.
We.

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Are but at the same time our
literacy rates.

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Are the military industrial
complex, Yeah.

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Yeah, over.
I mean, that's the kind of the

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backbone of our economy isn't
not well, it's funny.

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That's kind of what it is.
It's, it's, yeah, I know.

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I hear that a lot and I I don't
like it, but it is.

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I'm not saying that I enjoy
saying it either.

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I I think that it's funny that
during my lifetime, the one of

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the biggest funerals I ever
remember was Eisenhower being

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buried in 1969.
And, and for me, it wasn't that

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big a deal because I didn't care
who Ike, Ike, My dad called him

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Ike.
My dad watched the whole funeral

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and cried during the funeral,
which was weird, you know,

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because Eisenhower was World War
2, which is my father in Korea

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war, which was my father.
He ran the the the military and

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you're like, whoa.
Institutionalization at its

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finest and.
He watched him die, you know,

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But I mean.
You think about it too, yeah?

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I I was looking at other other
cool deaths that year.

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Sharon Tate.
Oh wow.

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That's the year that the Mansons
whacked.

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You know, when I start looking
at stuff happened, stuff that

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happened in the 60's, the civil
rights movement was probably one

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of the biggest things with.
JFK.

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You know, yeah.
JFK was crazy that did you just

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see what happened about that?
They just came out and said that

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it was 4 different shooters.
They just did finally isn't that

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interesting Senate hearing
really finally everybody's done

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that forever.
But I mean this was the.

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Whole you thought?
It was 1.

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No, no, I'm I'm disbelieving
anything that comes out of our

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current government's mouth.
Oh, that's fair.

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Yeah.
I mean, it's everything's a

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distraction, right?
Yeah.

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It's.
What's going on?

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You know, I mean, I just see
over and over and over the

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Vietnam War escalated, Watergate
scandal happened in the early

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70s where we had the 1st
president resign.

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Think about that.
I remember in middle school when

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that was one of the things that
we did.

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When you start to see history
happening in front of you,

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Covington and what the heck?
But need a more more Those two

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people were my history and
English teachers in 7th grade.

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And every day we came into class
they had ATV and we were

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watching the Watergate hearings
in 7th grade.

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And we did.
And I remember seeing them and

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thinking like why is this so
important?

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But it was like they knew and
and we saw it and then later we

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had a president resign, which I
didn't even think, wow, you

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know, what's the big deal?
I mean, it's kind of like when I

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saw the dude land on the moon.
I remember watching that and

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having him go down and he jumps
off the because the the the next

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to last step to the last one
step for mankind.

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The other.
Oh my gosh, that I mean, certain

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things that you stick out.
The one thing that's interesting

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here is I think it was an 85.
It's not AI mean.

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NASA was founded in 58 and by 69
they landed astronauts on the

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moon. 69 was the year they
landed them on the moon.

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The personal computer in the 70s
and 80s, we didn't have a

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computer in our office when we
started our business in 87, I

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don't know.
We had one and we by the time I

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would say 95, everyone had one
on their desk and we had laptops

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for all salespeople.
So 95 in six years and then

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remember, there was no, we still
had desk phones and we were we

449
00:24:09,120 --> 00:24:13,040
were going with those little
tiny phones up until probably

450
00:24:13,160 --> 00:24:15,720
when did we start to really see
the Apple phones come out like

451
00:24:15,720 --> 00:24:18,280
AO five O 6.
So it hasn't been that long.

452
00:24:18,280 --> 00:24:19,560
That was the first one.
Yeah.

453
00:24:19,560 --> 00:24:22,520
Well, I remember the iPod touch
I think was the first real

454
00:24:22,520 --> 00:24:24,280
thing.
And then the iPhone was after

455
00:24:24,280 --> 00:24:25,080
that, right?
Yeah.

456
00:24:25,120 --> 00:24:27,520
O.
Five O 6, so probably not till

457
00:24:27,520 --> 00:24:31,480
you were 10.
So 2010, so only 15 years ago,

458
00:24:31,680 --> 00:24:34,720
is when we really started to get
our whole mind sucked into it,

459
00:24:34,720 --> 00:24:36,720
you know?
And that it's a cancer.

460
00:24:36,840 --> 00:24:39,280
It's a cancer that spread
throughout society and it's.

461
00:24:39,440 --> 00:24:43,680
Only like Facebook, you look at
all these different things that

462
00:24:43,680 --> 00:24:47,440
happen that if that if really
just sucked us in to say that

463
00:24:47,440 --> 00:24:50,120
they're important.
And it's like, are they really?

464
00:24:50,400 --> 00:24:53,880
I mean, one of the things that
we have during ours is during

465
00:24:53,880 --> 00:24:57,840
mine is and it's not during it
isn't mentioned during yours

466
00:24:57,840 --> 00:25:03,160
financially is the the housing
market crash isn't that crazy.

467
00:25:03,920 --> 00:25:09,560
The 2008, the market crash,
literally a third got wiped out

468
00:25:09,600 --> 00:25:11,200
When I start looking at the
different stuff it.

469
00:25:11,320 --> 00:25:14,040
Was like saying.
It was a big deal, but it's not

470
00:25:14,040 --> 00:25:15,680
really.
I mean, the greater scheme of

471
00:25:15,680 --> 00:25:18,800
things in the US housing market.
And that's when I was asking for

472
00:25:18,800 --> 00:25:21,200
historical things that happened
in my lifetime in the US You

473
00:25:21,200 --> 00:25:24,160
know, when you go to world
events, it spreads out.

474
00:25:24,400 --> 00:25:30,640
But still, the Soviet breakup,
the Gulf war.com bubble, the

475
00:25:30,640 --> 00:25:33,800
rise of China, I mean China was
could never even feed their

476
00:25:33,920 --> 00:25:36,200
people.
Through not until about the 80s

477
00:25:36,200 --> 00:25:39,800
when Xi Jinping was later power
and then they finally opened up

478
00:25:39,800 --> 00:25:43,680
private businesses and
capitalistic kind of entities

479
00:25:43,680 --> 00:25:46,040
took over the small private
businesses developed.

480
00:25:46,040 --> 00:25:48,320
India was the same way.
And then it it really, really

481
00:25:48,320 --> 00:25:50,680
started to take off.
India was the same way, and

482
00:25:50,680 --> 00:25:53,240
honestly, with what?
China has been through, I mean,

483
00:25:53,240 --> 00:25:57,480
my gosh, like just seeing the
tremendous growth since the 80s.

484
00:25:57,480 --> 00:26:02,000
I mean they have double if not
triple folded over on us since

485
00:26:02,000 --> 00:26:04,640
then with the amount of
tenacity.

486
00:26:04,960 --> 00:26:10,680
They were in the I think in the
2012 Olympics.

487
00:26:10,680 --> 00:26:14,680
Is that correct?
2008. 2008, 2008, really,

488
00:26:15,160 --> 00:26:18,200
because Seth and I went and
walked the China wall the year

489
00:26:18,200 --> 00:26:20,320
before.
That's when we got arrested in

490
00:26:20,320 --> 00:26:24,680
China.
And that's a long story, but I

491
00:26:24,680 --> 00:26:31,640
remember how what was going to
go that we're sitting in, we go,

492
00:26:31,880 --> 00:26:35,040
we land, we go to Beijing, we're
downtown and we're looking out

493
00:26:35,040 --> 00:26:40,400
the windows and you cannot look
in any direction and count less

494
00:26:40,400 --> 00:26:45,480
than 10 T cranes.
And you were like every single,

495
00:26:45,480 --> 00:26:49,120
I mean, they were putting up 50
high rises.

496
00:26:49,160 --> 00:26:51,040
People often forget too, they
ask.

497
00:26:51,040 --> 00:26:52,960
I mean, why is the development
so fast?

498
00:26:52,960 --> 00:26:54,800
Why is it so strong?
People forget.

499
00:26:54,800 --> 00:26:56,480
It's a country of a billion
people.

500
00:26:57,000 --> 00:26:59,560
Yeah, but they also not a.
Billion people live there.

501
00:26:59,560 --> 00:27:01,760
It's crazy.
And they decide to do. 100

502
00:27:01,960 --> 00:27:05,440
million, though, live in, I
think it's more than that, in

503
00:27:05,520 --> 00:27:09,120
plebeian society, outside of the
cities, outside in the

504
00:27:09,320 --> 00:27:12,920
impoverished.
Lands when we were there, 600

505
00:27:12,920 --> 00:27:18,760
million farmers, 6, 100 million,
we slept on a number of farms.

506
00:27:18,760 --> 00:27:21,520
I mean, I remember, you know, it
was really kind of cool.

507
00:27:21,920 --> 00:27:24,720
You would, you, would, you would
during the day, you would go

508
00:27:24,720 --> 00:27:28,040
across the, the, the China Wall
and we were in the, we were in

509
00:27:28,040 --> 00:27:32,800
the, I guess you would say
Northeast Mount Semitai area,

510
00:27:33,040 --> 00:27:36,960
that province.
And I can't remember Edom or

511
00:27:36,960 --> 00:27:40,240
whatever province it was, but we
would walk across the wall all

512
00:27:40,240 --> 00:27:42,480
day and, you know, 8 or 10
miles, 7 miles, something like

513
00:27:42,480 --> 00:27:43,640
that.
It wasn't huge, but it was

514
00:27:43,640 --> 00:27:48,000
enough that in ancient wall, any
parts of the wall and we did

515
00:27:48,000 --> 00:27:52,160
this for 11 days and we would
start out at one location, then

516
00:27:52,160 --> 00:27:54,240
we would drive to the other,
locate and walk to the other

517
00:27:54,240 --> 00:27:56,160
location.
And in the morning you get up

518
00:27:56,160 --> 00:27:58,000
and you're sleeping in the
valley and you walk up to the

519
00:27:58,000 --> 00:28:00,520
top of the mountain where the
wall is, walls across the top of

520
00:28:00,520 --> 00:28:02,280
the mountain.
Then you walk along the wall and

521
00:28:02,280 --> 00:28:05,560
then you walk back down.
When you walk back down, our,

522
00:28:05,840 --> 00:28:10,640
our guides, whatever are, are,
are Sherpas.

523
00:28:11,040 --> 00:28:12,280
They weren't Sherpas.
What do you call them?

524
00:28:13,000 --> 00:28:16,040
Guide.
Yeah, but they would go to the

525
00:28:16,040 --> 00:28:18,600
next, the next place porters.
They're porters would go to the

526
00:28:18,600 --> 00:28:21,120
next place.
They would secure a place we're

527
00:28:21,120 --> 00:28:23,640
going to sleep.
And they would they would pay

528
00:28:23,640 --> 00:28:30,760
farmers like, OK, we need, you
know, 20 square meters of of

529
00:28:30,760 --> 00:28:33,200
space.
And no farmer had that just

530
00:28:33,200 --> 00:28:35,480
sitting there.
So they would have them cut down

531
00:28:35,480 --> 00:28:39,480
their corn, which was this was
really hot.

532
00:28:39,480 --> 00:28:43,800
So the corn was probably about
four feet tall at this time.

533
00:28:44,400 --> 00:28:47,960
And they would cut down that
section of corn and they put our

534
00:28:47,960 --> 00:28:50,680
tents there and then they pay
them for that amount of corn.

535
00:28:51,240 --> 00:28:53,720
It was really kind of wild.
And then you would go and you

536
00:28:53,720 --> 00:28:57,280
would sleep in the in.
Do these people also work at a

537
00:28:57,280 --> 00:29:02,840
hostel like Guatemala?
You remember that too.

538
00:29:03,000 --> 00:29:05,920
Oh yeah, I remember we walked
into the hostel and I said, oh,

539
00:29:06,680 --> 00:29:10,880
they said, I know they do it a
lot, but this is not a really a

540
00:29:10,880 --> 00:29:15,600
represented Tour Company.
I hired them because they they

541
00:29:15,600 --> 00:29:18,720
had like 3 or 4 star, they're
four stars and they were lead us

542
00:29:18,720 --> 00:29:21,600
and I thought I think.
The guy there was about a year

543
00:29:21,600 --> 00:29:26,200
older than me and I was like,
oh, don't know about this.

544
00:29:26,320 --> 00:29:29,200
And well, remember then they
shot us with.

545
00:29:29,200 --> 00:29:31,200
Rocks.
Well, remember when we got in

546
00:29:31,200 --> 00:29:33,920
trouble when when we were coming
down the mountain and the guys

547
00:29:33,920 --> 00:29:35,800
started shooting?
Oh, I thought.

548
00:29:35,800 --> 00:29:40,400
That was on a way out.
Way out, they were shooting

549
00:29:40,400 --> 00:29:42,480
wrist rockets and then those of
them.

550
00:29:42,720 --> 00:29:46,440
Mind you, yeah.
I remember it's like so weird

551
00:29:46,440 --> 00:29:51,440
that that with that as soon as
those guys start shooting wrist

552
00:29:51,440 --> 00:29:54,280
rockets, our guides ran away and
they just.

553
00:29:54,920 --> 00:29:59,280
Wasn't of a trusting guide.
Yeah, and I remember Bob

554
00:29:59,280 --> 00:30:01,680
couldn't walk faster because he
was dragging his foot and and

555
00:30:01,680 --> 00:30:04,560
Kiper's realized that and
Kiper's do Spanish, so he starts

556
00:30:04,560 --> 00:30:07,840
yelling at them.
He he yelled at the kids and the

557
00:30:07,840 --> 00:30:11,560
kids freaked out because he knew
Spanish and they stopped.

558
00:30:11,880 --> 00:30:14,560
Because he could tell on him.
Yeah, and he looked right at him

559
00:30:14,560 --> 00:30:16,840
and he said go ahead, you know,
he did something like that.

560
00:30:16,840 --> 00:30:19,160
And they were like, oh, OK,
these guys aren't going to mess

561
00:30:19,160 --> 00:30:22,440
around with it.
So but but our guides had run

562
00:30:22,440 --> 00:30:24,840
away at that point.
So interesting that he never

563
00:30:24,840 --> 00:30:27,280
I've never heard him speak
Spanish but he's fluent like 3

564
00:30:27,280 --> 00:30:28,160
languages.
Or something.

565
00:30:28,160 --> 00:30:29,200
Yeah, he's fluent.
Spanish.

566
00:30:29,200 --> 00:30:30,480
Portuguese.
French.

567
00:30:30,520 --> 00:30:32,840
And I've never heard him speak
any.

568
00:30:32,840 --> 00:30:35,440
German.
Oh my gosh, Anytime we go to a

569
00:30:35,440 --> 00:30:36,680
place like that, he's always
like.

570
00:30:38,240 --> 00:30:41,840
Well, what was the?
Japanese.

571
00:30:41,840 --> 00:30:44,240
A case where you people that
know, if you don't know

572
00:30:44,240 --> 00:30:46,640
Japanese, that's what it was.
If you don't know Mandarin,

573
00:30:46,640 --> 00:30:49,120
that's what it was if, if, if
you don't know, if you, if you

574
00:30:49,640 --> 00:30:51,080
don't know Roman, that's what
it.

575
00:30:51,080 --> 00:30:54,960
Was first successful mapping of
the human genome in 2003.

576
00:30:55,320 --> 00:30:57,080
That's really interesting.
Yeah.

577
00:30:57,160 --> 00:31:00,400
What even is a human genome?
I don't really remember from I

578
00:31:00,480 --> 00:31:02,120
think.
When you think about your DNA

579
00:31:02,120 --> 00:31:03,840
strand.
Complete set of genetic

580
00:31:03,840 --> 00:31:07,600
information of humans encoded as
DNA within 24 chromosomes as a

581
00:31:07,600 --> 00:31:10,520
nucleus.
Right, it's the 24 or 46.

582
00:31:11,400 --> 00:31:13,840
So they should be able.
They're probably cloning people

583
00:31:13,840 --> 00:31:15,880
by now if they figure that out.
They were.

584
00:31:17,360 --> 00:31:20,800
Cloning sheep.
And I'm going to bet, I'm going

585
00:31:20,800 --> 00:31:26,840
to bet that rich people have
cloned things that they're going

586
00:31:26,840 --> 00:31:29,920
to use for spare parts.
And I know that you can say what

587
00:31:29,920 --> 00:31:37,000
you want, but if you were a
trillionaire and I would think

588
00:31:37,160 --> 00:31:42,760
that there, there'd actually be
a place not legal here, but in

589
00:31:42,880 --> 00:31:46,200
Africa, India, South America,
where they would set up a

590
00:31:46,200 --> 00:31:52,560
hospital and they would take
your DNA and they would grow

591
00:31:53,200 --> 00:31:59,880
children to use their body parts
for you when you get old until,

592
00:32:00,000 --> 00:32:03,160
you know, and, and, and we've
seen this in movies, But I think

593
00:32:03,160 --> 00:32:06,720
that I would not, and it
wouldn't shock me at all.

594
00:32:06,720 --> 00:32:09,920
And I think it, I wouldn't, you
know, if looking at the elite

595
00:32:09,920 --> 00:32:14,320
people and Silicon Valley, the
hedge fund managers that are,

596
00:32:14,800 --> 00:32:18,040
you know, they're making
billions of dollars a year and

597
00:32:18,040 --> 00:32:21,640
they're still trying to make
more and they're 60.

598
00:32:21,640 --> 00:32:26,200
And you think like, and then you
wonder and you're like, oh,

599
00:32:26,240 --> 00:32:29,320
they, they figured out a way to
sort of cheat it a little bit.

600
00:32:29,360 --> 00:32:32,680
I go a little bit more nefarious
when it comes to that.

601
00:32:32,680 --> 00:32:36,880
Like I think about the aspect of
cloning yourself and using

602
00:32:36,880 --> 00:32:40,440
yourself as a slave, and then
it's like, what are the ethics

603
00:32:40,640 --> 00:32:42,800
on that, right?
What are the ethics on that?

604
00:32:42,800 --> 00:32:47,800
If I clone my own DNA to create
another copy of myself and to

605
00:32:47,800 --> 00:32:50,400
just make him do stuff for free,
like what?

606
00:32:50,440 --> 00:32:52,200
Like what would stop me from
doing that?

607
00:32:52,200 --> 00:32:56,080
Because that's me, right?
And I created me, therefore is

608
00:32:56,080 --> 00:32:57,000
that illegal?
I don't.

609
00:32:57,000 --> 00:32:59,840
Know, I think, I think that
you're not going to be able to

610
00:32:59,920 --> 00:33:02,520
truly create, you're only going
to be able to create your DNA.

611
00:33:02,520 --> 00:33:04,600
You're not going to be able to
actually create a duplicate

612
00:33:04,600 --> 00:33:11,000
because that person is not going
to go through your your life.

613
00:33:11,000 --> 00:33:13,480
They're not going to experience
the things you experience.

614
00:33:13,720 --> 00:33:16,880
They're also going to have free
will and that free will is the

615
00:33:16,880 --> 00:33:17,760
thing that's going to get in the
way.

616
00:33:17,760 --> 00:33:20,800
You may be able to scare them,
intimidate them for a while, but

617
00:33:20,800 --> 00:33:22,600
I think at some point they're
going to go.

618
00:33:23,480 --> 00:33:26,000
I don't need to listen to you.
If they're if they get.

619
00:33:26,080 --> 00:33:30,760
Any access to the outside world.
But you, you see, you see people

620
00:33:30,760 --> 00:33:32,840
like there was a guy recently
that wrote an article in The

621
00:33:32,840 --> 00:33:39,040
Atlantic and he had his mother
and father were intellectuals,

622
00:33:39,560 --> 00:33:43,280
left wingers and they had a
slave.

623
00:33:44,200 --> 00:33:47,360
I mean, for, you know, when they
were from India and they came

624
00:33:47,360 --> 00:33:50,240
over and they were one of them
was a professor on the other

625
00:33:50,240 --> 00:33:51,440
one.
I think they both were.

626
00:33:51,680 --> 00:33:55,440
And they had a she was the help
and they brought her over and

627
00:33:55,440 --> 00:33:57,480
she took care of the kids and
they had four or five kids or

628
00:33:57,480 --> 00:33:59,680
something like that.
And he didn't know it.

629
00:34:01,040 --> 00:34:05,120
And she was always like, she was
our caretaker and in the early

630
00:34:05,120 --> 00:34:08,719
years, she, they'd had a small
house, she would sleep where

631
00:34:08,719 --> 00:34:15,800
they didn't so think about that.
And they were mean to her and

632
00:34:15,800 --> 00:34:17,560
brutal.
And they always said, and she

633
00:34:17,560 --> 00:34:19,679
said I wanted to she want to go
home and see her family.

634
00:34:20,120 --> 00:34:22,719
And they said they would do it
every year and then they didn't.

635
00:34:22,840 --> 00:34:24,199
And they didn't do it every
year.

636
00:34:24,400 --> 00:34:26,199
And then they was going to be
every two years, three years,

637
00:34:26,199 --> 00:34:27,400
four years, five years, six
years.

638
00:34:27,880 --> 00:34:33,280
And then I think it was 32 years
later, he paid for her to go see

639
00:34:33,280 --> 00:34:37,800
the family and they're all dead
and she died.

640
00:34:38,360 --> 00:34:42,000
And it was just sort of like the
saddest thing in the world.

641
00:34:42,040 --> 00:34:46,280
And you're thinking like.
Yeah, Now that reminds me of

642
00:34:46,280 --> 00:34:50,760
Neil Gaiman, the the author and
his, I think it was his daughter

643
00:34:50,760 --> 00:34:54,639
or his son that realized that he
was having sex with the

644
00:34:54,639 --> 00:34:59,120
babysitter who was like 15, and
he was doing that all the time.

645
00:34:59,520 --> 00:35:03,640
And it's like, Oh my God.
And he's a left wing guy as wow.

646
00:35:03,640 --> 00:35:06,440
I mean, there's monsters in
every single corner of the

647
00:35:06,440 --> 00:35:06,840
world.
Yeah.

648
00:35:07,080 --> 00:35:11,440
Same thing about after the Haiti
earthquake of 2009, I believe.

649
00:35:11,440 --> 00:35:14,680
You had a bunch of Christian
missionaries go down there and

650
00:35:14,680 --> 00:35:18,480
then what they did is they took
people back to America for a

651
00:35:18,480 --> 00:35:21,000
better life and made them work
for free as.

652
00:35:21,080 --> 00:35:23,440
Right.
That's a big, that's a big

653
00:35:23,600 --> 00:35:24,440
thing.
You see that?

654
00:35:24,440 --> 00:35:29,840
What kind of Jesus would want to
have you enslave somebody?

655
00:35:29,840 --> 00:35:31,960
I don't really understand that,
you know, I don't.

656
00:35:32,000 --> 00:35:36,200
Really it's, it's, there's a lot
of people that use religion to,

657
00:35:36,480 --> 00:35:39,320
to, you know, sort of get what
they want.

658
00:35:39,520 --> 00:35:41,280
Say the majority of people do,
but that's.

659
00:35:41,280 --> 00:35:44,160
Yeah, I, I think so and I think
so and I don't, and I, I don't

660
00:35:44,160 --> 00:35:46,960
know, there's, there's people
that believe in and it's good

661
00:35:46,960 --> 00:35:49,560
and wonderful.
And, and from my perspective, I,

662
00:35:49,560 --> 00:35:54,200
I, I disagree.
But but, but also when I've been

663
00:35:54,200 --> 00:35:59,040
a, a, a somewhat of a donor to
food banks and I know capillary

664
00:35:59,040 --> 00:36:03,760
food bank in the Northern
Virginia area, the DMV that up

665
00:36:03,760 --> 00:36:06,680
until about last time I looked
at their stats, because they do

666
00:36:06,680 --> 00:36:09,880
periodic stats and they did
stats seven or eight years ago.

667
00:36:10,480 --> 00:36:18,280
And like I think it was 87% of
their food distribution networks

668
00:36:18,760 --> 00:36:22,880
were faith-based.
So the people that are feeding

669
00:36:23,120 --> 00:36:27,520
the poor, that are taking the
food that you give to the food

670
00:36:27,520 --> 00:36:31,320
banks and distributing it at the
end, those are churches.

671
00:36:31,680 --> 00:36:36,040
And I've been to many of those.
I've been to churches in north,

672
00:36:36,320 --> 00:36:40,000
northeast, southeast, southwest,
whatever the case where they

673
00:36:40,000 --> 00:36:42,480
actually set it up and the
people come in and they pick

674
00:36:42,520 --> 00:36:45,280
three things.
And you know, they, they get

675
00:36:45,280 --> 00:36:48,160
like you get a, you get a
carbohydrates, you get this,

676
00:36:48,160 --> 00:36:50,560
this, this, the fresh
vegetables, it's all sorts of

677
00:36:50,560 --> 00:36:52,000
stuff like that.
But throw the bread away.

678
00:36:52,000 --> 00:36:54,440
If you're donating food, don't
donate bread please.

679
00:36:54,760 --> 00:36:58,720
I remember that we threw away.
Oh God, it must have been like

680
00:36:58,720 --> 00:37:00,920
100 lbs of bread one day.
Because well, but, but, but

681
00:37:01,000 --> 00:37:04,960
remember, but remember, you know
what that is what that's Panera

682
00:37:06,480 --> 00:37:08,120
more than anything else.
Panera uses.

683
00:37:08,640 --> 00:37:10,640
They they, they have, they have.
It's like the white.

684
00:37:10,640 --> 00:37:12,240
Company really good.
They burn their stuff.

685
00:37:12,240 --> 00:37:13,920
Yeah, no.
No, they, they.

686
00:37:13,920 --> 00:37:15,200
The one company that doesn't is
what?

687
00:37:15,200 --> 00:37:17,640
I was saying they use it for two
or three days and then at the

688
00:37:17,640 --> 00:37:20,440
end it's only got 2 days of life
left.

689
00:37:20,440 --> 00:37:23,280
So they give it to, so they give
it to some, they give it to all

690
00:37:23,280 --> 00:37:26,160
the food kitchens.
The food kitchens use it for a

691
00:37:26,160 --> 00:37:27,400
day.
And if they don't use it for a,

692
00:37:27,600 --> 00:37:31,400
if they don't use it in a couple
days, it's trash, it dies, it's

693
00:37:31,600 --> 00:37:32,880
molds.
The same thing with bread.

694
00:37:32,880 --> 00:37:36,920
Bread is usually you're getting
it four or five days before

695
00:37:36,920 --> 00:37:41,480
exploration, which means that
it's going to go get purple and

696
00:37:41,480 --> 00:37:42,040
that.
And.

697
00:37:42,040 --> 00:37:46,360
And so that's why when you're
serving food at food kitchens,

698
00:37:46,360 --> 00:37:49,000
we were like, we were always
really heavy on the bread.

699
00:37:49,000 --> 00:37:50,400
We're like, yeah, take more
bread.

700
00:37:50,440 --> 00:37:52,080
Why you want some bread?
I want some bread.

701
00:37:52,080 --> 00:37:55,000
Yeah, you can have some bread
because it's like, it's dead

702
00:37:55,040 --> 00:37:56,720
really, really soon.
It's the same thing with

703
00:37:56,720 --> 00:37:59,400
vegetables like.
It's really interesting to look

704
00:37:59,400 --> 00:38:02,480
at that actually just popped
them in my head and to look at

705
00:38:02,480 --> 00:38:05,840
that pantry, that bread pantry
and to think about countries

706
00:38:05,840 --> 00:38:08,720
that have zero waste, you know,
isn't that interesting because

707
00:38:08,720 --> 00:38:12,880
like you think about this is how
we try to be 0 waste, right?

708
00:38:13,280 --> 00:38:16,080
And and donating the bread from
Panera, the Panera gets rid of

709
00:38:16,080 --> 00:38:22,080
it and they use maybe what like
less half, maybe half before it

710
00:38:22,080 --> 00:38:24,400
goes expired, maybe a little
more than half.

711
00:38:24,400 --> 00:38:27,600
I don't know.
I don't that's a a kind of a

712
00:38:27,600 --> 00:38:29,120
guess.
I want to say.

713
00:38:29,160 --> 00:38:32,760
I want to say.
That other countries can use it

714
00:38:32,760 --> 00:38:36,200
all, which is shocking to me
'cause when I looked at that

715
00:38:36,200 --> 00:38:40,000
kind of situation, and that's
one of the many situations, I

716
00:38:40,000 --> 00:38:42,360
mean, think about trash, think
about recycling in this country

717
00:38:42,600 --> 00:38:46,280
where countries have zero waste
is crazy to think.

718
00:38:46,280 --> 00:38:49,720
Well see I don't think I so I
disagree with I disagree with

719
00:38:49,720 --> 00:38:51,600
your statement that they have 0
waste.

720
00:38:52,000 --> 00:38:53,880
I mean, there's zero waste
nations out there.

721
00:38:53,960 --> 00:38:56,400
Look it up.
Yeah, they're really Denmark is

722
00:38:56,400 --> 00:38:58,680
one of them, yes.
Zero waste.

723
00:38:58,840 --> 00:39:01,640
Zero waste.
How do they do that?

724
00:39:01,720 --> 00:39:06,000
That's what I wonder.
You know that that OK, let's,

725
00:39:06,120 --> 00:39:08,920
let's, let's make that the next
episode because I think that

726
00:39:08,920 --> 00:39:12,000
that is a really, really how to
make a zero waste.

727
00:39:12,400 --> 00:39:15,560
Oh, wait.
All right, hold on.

728
00:39:17,440 --> 00:39:21,160
Global waste index.
Let's see.

729
00:39:21,720 --> 00:39:27,480
Yeah, because I can't see that
being real while no country's

730
00:39:27,480 --> 00:39:29,960
achieved a completely 0 waste.
System kind of like.

731
00:39:30,120 --> 00:39:33,240
Japan, South Korea and Sweden
are leaders in reducing waste

732
00:39:33,240 --> 00:39:35,880
through advanced recycling.
Low landfill rates virtually.

733
00:39:35,880 --> 00:39:39,280
Run out of rubbish, but I don't
know what that means.

734
00:39:39,280 --> 00:39:42,560
What is Sweden's?
So it says Sweden has virtually

735
00:39:42,560 --> 00:39:44,920
run out of rubbish, but I don't
know what that means.

736
00:39:45,320 --> 00:39:49,160
Yeah, maybe aim for zero waste.
Household waste is recycled or

737
00:39:49,160 --> 00:39:51,760
converted energy, with less than
1% going to landfills.

738
00:39:51,760 --> 00:39:54,960
That's that's pretty cool 'cause
our household waste is.

739
00:39:55,560 --> 00:39:58,080
So there's no country that's
fully, fully accepted.

740
00:39:58,080 --> 00:39:58,960
OK, interesting.
Right.

741
00:39:59,440 --> 00:40:01,960
We start to look at it, it's
like, I would that that I think

742
00:40:01,960 --> 00:40:06,920
that's really recycling is
probably a really good episode.

743
00:40:08,920 --> 00:40:10,720
Yeah, No, I think that that
would be interesting.

744
00:40:10,960 --> 00:40:14,000
I don't believe in recycling.
That's just me, because a lot of

745
00:40:14,000 --> 00:40:16,000
it ends up in the landfill
anyway.

746
00:40:16,320 --> 00:40:18,800
So we're going to.
Talk about that now, big coal.

747
00:40:18,960 --> 00:40:22,680
Big coal tends to lie to us and
say it's our fault when it's

748
00:40:22,680 --> 00:40:24,120
really them.
But that's a different episode

749
00:40:24,120 --> 00:40:26,760
for a different day.
What time are we out here?

750
00:40:27,240 --> 00:40:30,440
We're talking about what are the
I mean when you think that one

751
00:40:30,440 --> 00:40:32,360
thing I did want to say, and I
don't know if I said this

752
00:40:32,360 --> 00:40:37,120
already for me and during my
lifetime, one of the biggest and

753
00:40:37,120 --> 00:40:42,360
most crazy things was and I got
a I'm looking it up right now.

754
00:40:45,320 --> 00:40:56,320
It was it happened in January
28th, 1986.

755
00:40:57,720 --> 00:41:01,800
It was space shuttle Challenger
when it took off and went into

756
00:41:01,800 --> 00:41:05,080
the sky.
I remember I was going to work

757
00:41:05,080 --> 00:41:09,800
in the morning and for me, you
know, when people say, oh, I

758
00:41:09,800 --> 00:41:13,040
remember where JFK was, I
remember 911 happened and it was

759
00:41:13,040 --> 00:41:17,480
like this 911 to me was like,
it, it wasn't the fact that it

760
00:41:17,480 --> 00:41:20,760
started, it was just like it was
this ongoing thing for a month

761
00:41:20,760 --> 00:41:22,360
and 1/2.
It wasn't like, hey, I remember

762
00:41:22,400 --> 00:41:24,680
when JFK got shot.
It wasn't like that.

763
00:41:25,040 --> 00:41:29,200
You know, it was very, it was
this long process of years of

764
00:41:29,200 --> 00:41:31,680
just dragging on one thing after
the other got big.

765
00:41:31,960 --> 00:41:36,680
Whereas the Challenger was boom,
everybody's dead.

766
00:41:38,400 --> 00:41:41,400
And it was just shocking because
our space program was so far

767
00:41:41,400 --> 00:41:43,640
ahead and we were so far.
We're we're, you know, we're

768
00:41:43,640 --> 00:41:47,720
flying people and vessels into
the sky and taking them to near

769
00:41:47,720 --> 00:41:51,240
the moon and stuff like that.
And, and you hear about Musk now

770
00:41:51,240 --> 00:41:53,040
and he's talking about, oh, I'm
going to, I'm going to put

771
00:41:53,040 --> 00:41:54,800
people in space.
And it's like, we did that in

772
00:41:54,800 --> 00:41:59,240
1986, OK, I realize you're
reusing certain things and yeah,

773
00:41:59,240 --> 00:42:01,760
that's cool.
But we already did that.

774
00:42:01,760 --> 00:42:04,880
We show us what we could do,
show us to do something that we

775
00:42:04,880 --> 00:42:08,080
haven't done before.
You know, I don't understand.

776
00:42:08,080 --> 00:42:11,000
Like we're we're using things
like, well, the space shuttle

777
00:42:11,000 --> 00:42:14,280
was reused every time.
So you know we.

778
00:42:14,280 --> 00:42:17,080
Were doing that and yet did
Lance itself and I'm like what?

779
00:42:17,080 --> 00:42:20,440
What use does that have?
I don't understand other than,

780
00:42:20,440 --> 00:42:23,200
you know, what people were
talking about is that he is kind

781
00:42:23,200 --> 00:42:28,760
of designing an aircraft for
major sort of travel to Mars to

782
00:42:28,760 --> 00:42:31,600
start a Mars colony.
I don't really understand the

783
00:42:31,600 --> 00:42:36,560
obsession with that when we can
just fix what's here.

784
00:42:36,920 --> 00:42:38,160
I don't really understand.
See.

785
00:42:38,600 --> 00:42:40,640
I don't.
I believe that's, I believe

786
00:42:40,640 --> 00:42:44,360
that's a made-up story and I
believe that that's a side dodge

787
00:42:44,880 --> 00:42:48,560
and that he's sending these up.
SpaceX is sending these up over

788
00:42:48,560 --> 00:42:49,840
and over.
And the theory that they're

789
00:42:49,840 --> 00:42:52,440
testing, but each and every time
they take a payload up and

790
00:42:52,440 --> 00:42:55,240
they're taking satellites up
that are building his network of

791
00:42:55,240 --> 00:42:57,880
communications that circles our
globe.

792
00:42:58,440 --> 00:43:02,160
I don't believe that that this
is doing the reason it's

793
00:43:02,160 --> 00:43:03,880
reusable is because you go to
Mars.

794
00:43:03,880 --> 00:43:07,720
Because here's the thing, if
you're sending a rocket to Mars,

795
00:43:07,720 --> 00:43:10,160
you don't need a reusable
rocket.

796
00:43:10,160 --> 00:43:12,560
How long does that even take?
That's that's five years.

797
00:43:12,560 --> 00:43:13,880
It's stupid.
There we go.

798
00:43:13,880 --> 00:43:14,880
Yeah, there's.
No, absolutely.

799
00:43:15,080 --> 00:43:16,200
It's absolutely.
Stupid.

800
00:43:16,200 --> 00:43:18,400
Yeah, there's no.
Reason you need a reusable

801
00:43:18,400 --> 00:43:21,440
rocket is if you're putting
something up in our atmosphere

802
00:43:21,440 --> 00:43:24,000
all the time.
And that's what he's doing.

803
00:43:24,200 --> 00:43:27,280
He's building a communications
network and he's slowly and, you

804
00:43:27,280 --> 00:43:30,600
know, he tried to knock Verizon
out of their contract, their

805
00:43:30,600 --> 00:43:35,240
nationwide contract here and
they had with, with the federal

806
00:43:35,240 --> 00:43:36,800
government.
And it's like you're seeing

807
00:43:36,800 --> 00:43:42,320
it's, it's, you know, all of our
communication, all of our social

808
00:43:42,320 --> 00:43:47,280
media, all of our phone systems
are going to be controlled by 6

809
00:43:47,360 --> 00:43:55,000
guys, you know, kind of crazy.
And and not that they're, it's

810
00:43:55,000 --> 00:43:59,400
just the matter of I don't think
they're going to think do what's

811
00:43:59,400 --> 00:44:04,720
best for me and you and.
It's becoming Soylent Green very

812
00:44:04,720 --> 00:44:10,600
fast and I, I don't know, are
people going to want to live

813
00:44:10,680 --> 00:44:14,560
when a Soylent Green kind of
world where you're going to eat

814
00:44:14,840 --> 00:44:17,280
other people that are compressed
discs?

815
00:44:17,720 --> 00:44:19,200
I don't know if I want to do
that.

816
00:44:19,200 --> 00:44:21,840
I would rather die honestly than
do that.

817
00:44:21,840 --> 00:44:25,640
I'm not going to lie, I'd rather
be dead, but that's just me.

818
00:44:25,880 --> 00:44:28,360
That's just me.
I would rather be dead than

819
00:44:28,360 --> 00:44:32,520
enslave to the government.
But it's not going to really.

820
00:44:32,720 --> 00:44:36,120
And the government just going to
be AI think I I see that as

821
00:44:36,120 --> 00:44:41,880
being a subterfuge for 12 the
the the rich 12 or whatever they

822
00:44:41,880 --> 00:44:43,840
are.
The weird thing that I don't

823
00:44:43,840 --> 00:44:49,040
understand is that none of these
are conservative standpoints and

824
00:44:49,040 --> 00:44:51,120
yet they can claim to be
conservative.

825
00:44:51,480 --> 00:44:53,800
And I don't really understand
that 'cause they're not really

826
00:44:53,800 --> 00:44:55,880
conserving anything.
I don't I.

827
00:44:55,880 --> 00:44:58,680
Don't understand that.
And the people that that jumped

828
00:44:58,680 --> 00:45:03,360
on the bandwagon more recently
were all very, very, very

829
00:45:03,360 --> 00:45:05,520
liberal.
They were.

830
00:45:05,560 --> 00:45:08,280
They were.
Donald Trump or for Oh yeah.

831
00:45:08,520 --> 00:45:10,680
Yeah, Silicon Valley was all
liberal.

832
00:45:10,760 --> 00:45:14,040
Well, then you have Ted Cruz
saying, I entered Congress 13

833
00:45:14,040 --> 00:45:18,240
years ago and my main standpoint
was to always defend Israel.

834
00:45:18,240 --> 00:45:21,360
And I'm like, why?
Like why would you go work in

835
00:45:21,360 --> 00:45:25,160
American government to defend a
foreign entity?

836
00:45:25,520 --> 00:45:27,240
And you're not.
And you're not even Jewish.

837
00:45:27,840 --> 00:45:32,000
Have you ever seen me?
Seems like a bootlicker to me.

838
00:45:32,000 --> 00:45:33,960
But that's just, that's just
what I'm going to say.

839
00:45:34,000 --> 00:45:38,880
We have, we have, we have 535
members of Congress, right?

840
00:45:38,880 --> 00:45:42,920
Four No 435 and 100 senators.
Is that right?

841
00:45:42,920 --> 00:45:53,480
So it's 535 total of those 300
and 24324 are supported,

842
00:45:53,480 --> 00:45:58,320
strongly supported and directly
supported, heavily supported by

843
00:45:58,920 --> 00:46:01,840
AIPAC.
OK, I don't know how you

844
00:46:01,840 --> 00:46:06,480
pronounce it.
So AIPAC it's very and and now

845
00:46:06,680 --> 00:46:08,520
here's the thing that's really
weird.

846
00:46:09,880 --> 00:46:18,280
We give, we give, we give Israel
$40 billion this year and

847
00:46:18,280 --> 00:46:22,720
support.
They spend $100 million on

848
00:46:22,720 --> 00:46:26,640
buying our politicians so they
can get another 40 billion.

849
00:46:26,760 --> 00:46:29,040
Well, they get free healthcare
as well, which I don't really

850
00:46:29,040 --> 00:46:31,520
understand and pretty confused
about that.

851
00:46:31,520 --> 00:46:37,480
Yeah, don't really get that.
And and Flint, MI still doesn't

852
00:46:37,480 --> 00:46:39,880
have clean water, so I also
wonder about that.

853
00:46:40,720 --> 00:46:42,760
Really.
Will they ever get clean water?

854
00:46:42,760 --> 00:46:44,960
I don't know.
I I really don't know.

855
00:46:44,960 --> 00:46:47,880
Not feeling very optimistic
these days about that.

856
00:46:48,760 --> 00:46:50,600
OK, we're going to.
We're going to, we're going to,

857
00:46:50,600 --> 00:46:51,880
we're going to have to go
because.

858
00:46:51,880 --> 00:46:53,920
We're.
We're we're, we're, we're

859
00:46:53,920 --> 00:46:56,200
really, really off.
We've got the mapping of the

860
00:46:56,200 --> 00:46:58,760
human genome and the
proliferation of I mean, I think

861
00:46:58,760 --> 00:47:04,040
about smart everyday life has
really changed.

862
00:47:04,440 --> 00:47:06,320
I mean, for me maybe because
I've retired.

863
00:47:06,680 --> 00:47:09,480
But for the most part, when you
think about what's happened for

864
00:47:09,480 --> 00:47:11,800
you in your lifetime, that is
that you think is different.

865
00:47:11,800 --> 00:47:13,360
You think.
The phone has just ruined

866
00:47:13,360 --> 00:47:15,920
everything.
The phone has ruined humanity as

867
00:47:15,920 --> 00:47:19,480
we know it and torched personal
relationships.

868
00:47:19,480 --> 00:47:21,080
Well, how did how did early
effects?

869
00:47:21,920 --> 00:47:23,520
Not really that bad to be
honest.

870
00:47:23,520 --> 00:47:26,840
I got into a great school, went
to the great school, graduated

871
00:47:26,840 --> 00:47:28,560
from grade school and that's
pretty much what happened.

872
00:47:28,800 --> 00:47:33,880
But you know what the cool thing
is, is on May 29th, 1999, OL

873
00:47:33,880 --> 00:47:37,760
Saigon Abbasanja was inaugurated
as President of Nigeria ending

874
00:47:37,760 --> 00:47:40,760
16 years of military rule.
Think about that.

875
00:47:40,960 --> 00:47:44,480
And now Nigeria is a country of
330 million people.

876
00:47:44,720 --> 00:47:46,200
Isn't that insane to think
about?

877
00:47:46,200 --> 00:47:48,880
You how many Princess they have?
I think about Nigeria all the

878
00:47:48,880 --> 00:47:50,320
time.
I'm not going to lie.

879
00:47:50,400 --> 00:47:53,680
On a daily basis you think, no,
I definitely.

880
00:47:53,680 --> 00:47:55,960
It's because you get texts from
guys saying that they're

881
00:47:55,960 --> 00:47:58,320
Princess from Nigeria and
they're trying to get loose and

882
00:47:58,320 --> 00:48:01,960
if you send them $10,000, they
will be able to, they will be

883
00:48:01,960 --> 00:48:04,800
able to get their $1,000,000 out
and they'll give you half.

884
00:48:04,880 --> 00:48:07,720
Known as the Yahoo Boys.
There was a somebody who was an

885
00:48:07,720 --> 00:48:10,760
ambassador to Gucci.
They got arrested by Interpol

886
00:48:10,760 --> 00:48:14,480
back in 2010.
I can't remember what his name

887
00:48:14,480 --> 00:48:17,920
was, but he was one of the
founders of that scam actually.

888
00:48:18,200 --> 00:48:22,720
And he's in prison for life.
Yes, but also in 1999 the

889
00:48:22,720 --> 00:48:25,720
introduction of the euro as a
currency isn't.

890
00:48:25,760 --> 00:48:26,600
That interesting.
I would.

891
00:48:26,600 --> 00:48:28,480
Have thought that it was in the
20s.

892
00:48:28,640 --> 00:48:30,120
I'm not going.
To lie really.

893
00:48:30,120 --> 00:48:32,960
But the, the whole weird thing
about the euro is, is the euro

894
00:48:32,960 --> 00:48:37,200
came out and it was like $0.70
to the dollar and it was like

895
00:48:37,200 --> 00:48:39,120
70.
You know, you had to have like,

896
00:48:39,160 --> 00:48:41,040
you know, ���4,000,000 to get a
dollar.

897
00:48:41,400 --> 00:48:46,360
And now the dollar is devalued
so much that the euro was worth

898
00:48:46,360 --> 00:48:49,120
more than the dollar.
So when, and what that means is

899
00:48:49,120 --> 00:48:52,720
when you go to Europe, your
dollar doesn't buy what it did

900
00:48:52,720 --> 00:48:55,480
before.
It now means, you know, you want

901
00:48:55,480 --> 00:48:59,400
to buy a beer.
It's $12.00 instead of five or

902
00:48:59,400 --> 00:49:01,560
four.
And it used to be a, you know,

903
00:49:01,560 --> 00:49:04,040
and that's what, that's what you
see more than anything else.

904
00:49:04,040 --> 00:49:07,680
It's it's your the devaluation
is really hurt, but go ahead.

905
00:49:07,680 --> 00:49:10,680
I'm sorry the.
Rise of major franchises and

906
00:49:10,680 --> 00:49:13,880
cultural phenomenon such as
Harry Potter and Star Wars

907
00:49:13,880 --> 00:49:17,040
Episode 1 released in 1999.
Interesting.

908
00:49:17,120 --> 00:49:20,680
So you don't think that when I
hear that, I have to say, what

909
00:49:20,680 --> 00:49:24,480
about Scarlett O'Hara?
And what's that one?

910
00:49:24,880 --> 00:49:27,720
It's Scarlett O'Hara.
You don't need Scarlett O'Hara.

911
00:49:27,880 --> 00:49:30,000
Then that answers the question.
Catherine O'Hara.

912
00:49:30,000 --> 00:49:32,880
I know, Catherine.
No, no, Gone with the Wind.

913
00:49:32,880 --> 00:49:34,720
Have you ever heard?
Of that, no, I've never seen it.

914
00:49:35,360 --> 00:49:38,520
Have you ever heard?
Have you ever heard of Wizard of

915
00:49:38,520 --> 00:49:40,160
Oz?
Yeah, yeah, I love that movie.

916
00:49:40,600 --> 00:49:43,080
OK, he was crazy.
I I read it.

917
00:49:43,080 --> 00:49:45,760
Judy Garland.
The paint destroyed those

918
00:49:45,760 --> 00:49:47,080
people.
Oh my gosh.

919
00:49:47,560 --> 00:49:50,400
The paint gave like permanent
cancer cell.

920
00:49:50,400 --> 00:49:56,360
Oh yeah, damage on the concerts.
Like she was, was she the, the,

921
00:49:56,440 --> 00:50:01,520
the slipper woman?
She was the the little people

922
00:50:01,520 --> 00:50:04,640
sexually assaulted her on the
set of that crazy.

923
00:50:04,760 --> 00:50:06,080
Yeah.
She was like a girl.

924
00:50:06,120 --> 00:50:09,520
She was like.
That was a dark, dark set to

925
00:50:09,520 --> 00:50:10,400
work on.
Yeah.

926
00:50:10,400 --> 00:50:13,640
No, that was pretty horrific to
work on that set.

927
00:50:13,640 --> 00:50:15,760
Yeah.
There was lights falling from

928
00:50:15,760 --> 00:50:18,000
the the sky all the time.
There were hidden people in

929
00:50:18,000 --> 00:50:19,760
that.
It was not a it was not a great

930
00:50:19,760 --> 00:50:21,080
time.
Yeah.

931
00:50:21,080 --> 00:50:23,160
No.
But it was to make what's his

932
00:50:23,160 --> 00:50:26,480
face Cecil BB Demille's dream
come true.

933
00:50:26,960 --> 00:50:30,520
And I mean, did he create a
world at which will forever be

934
00:50:30,520 --> 00:50:31,480
remembered?
Of course he did.

935
00:50:31,840 --> 00:50:32,840
Yeah.
But I don't know.

936
00:50:34,320 --> 00:50:36,240
Yeah, amazing.
What are you going to do?

937
00:50:36,640 --> 00:50:38,960
Well, on that note, how far are
we on this thing?

938
00:50:39,200 --> 00:50:40,560
Oh wow, we're we're over an
hour.

939
00:50:40,880 --> 00:50:42,560
All right.
Well, I think we're good.

940
00:50:42,560 --> 00:50:46,760
This was fantastic historical
events a lot and with the side

941
00:50:46,760 --> 00:50:49,680
political side note that keeps
happening because the world is

942
00:50:49,680 --> 00:50:52,480
falling apart so and.
We like and we like to talk

943
00:50:52,480 --> 00:50:54,480
about the world falling apart.
We do.

944
00:50:54,480 --> 00:50:57,720
It's really enjoyable.
Well, I will catch you guys in

945
00:50:57,720 --> 00:51:01,280
the Cayman Islands when I move
next week, but we'll still be

946
00:51:01,280 --> 00:51:04,080
doing this.
So Friday, Friday, every Friday.

947
00:51:04,080 --> 00:51:05,560
Catch us every Friday.
Yeah.

948
00:51:05,560 --> 00:51:08,160
And you're coming here in two
weeks and we're going to and

949
00:51:08,160 --> 00:51:09,440
we're going to do another one
from here.

950
00:51:09,760 --> 00:51:12,280
Yeah, I'm gonna.
I'm gonna hug Ken Burns and I'm

951
00:51:12,280 --> 00:51:13,880
gonna show him what I've done so
far.

952
00:51:14,040 --> 00:51:16,040
I love that 5 minute teaser is
getting cut tomorrow.

953
00:51:16,040 --> 00:51:17,840
I'm gonna post it I guess.
Party on.

954
00:51:17,960 --> 00:51:18,440
Yeah.
Bye.

955
00:51:18,440 --> 00:51:19,560
Bye everybody.
Bye.

956
00:51:19,560 --> 00:51:19,760
Bye.