Episode 96: Ideas

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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 ideas coming up and future

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episodes maybe.
Maybe future episodes ideas,

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future episode ideas, or more
so, how to come up with ideas.

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I remember one time when I was,
I think in high school, coming

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up with ideas for this artistic
portfolio that we needed to

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finish by the end of the year.
It was 12 pieces.

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And I remember looking up
different ways to come up with

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ideas.
And apparently the

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neuroplasticity in your brain is
exercised.

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If you force yourself to write
down 4 new things that you've

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never thought of each day, and
you keep doing that, you're

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doing that and it actually kind
of increases your creative,

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expansive mind.
I don't know, look that up.

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It was a YouTube video.
What do you think?

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I I'm trying to write down 4
things so I know what I can

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think about.
Yeah, we're going forward.

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We got some advice from my a
confidante of mine known as my

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significant other.
And she was talking about how

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maybe the original experience of
escaping poverty might be a good

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one.
I mean, because that's, that's

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something that you.
Yeah, well, I mean a lot of

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people.
It's it's really odd.

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It's really odd.
And I and, and I said it, I

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actually wrote it down and I
wrote it down to my mother's

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eulogy when I said we were poor,
What was it?

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It was really an interesting
thing the way I had it.

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I forgot what it said.
What was it?

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I never knew we were poor until
we weren't.

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Yeah, you know what I mean?
It's very strange if you live in

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a a community of people that you
know and you know, you're

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whatever the houses are
checkerboard houses, projects.

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You know, it wasn't really, but
we were not in the projects.

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We were we were one step out of
row houses.

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You know, if you think about you
wouldn't know Archie Bunker, but

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older people listen, would know
the Archer bunker houses.

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That's what we kind of grew up
in.

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If you look back at one of our
episodes, you get of oversight

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picture of where our house and
when it flooded and when we left

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and why I support charity.
One of the reasons I support

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charity is today.
And we didn't, you know, we we

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had less and we work with it.
And I mean, people would mess

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with you because they had, you
know, you wore Levi's and I wore

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Wranglers or you had Chuck
Taylor's and I had which these

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tennis shoes or you had a
members only jacket.

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That was like the coolest thing
in the world to have in high

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school.
And we couldn't afford that

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stuff.
And even when I worked, I

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wouldn't buy it because it would
have been, it would have been to

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me something that was it was
something that was here today

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and it was gone in the not too
distant future.

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Whereas if I put money in the
bank and I could actually save

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to do something that I would
feel would be lasting, I think.

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Well, I thought you also had an
individual experience with your

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parents because they always
endorsed for your college.

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Oh yeah, yeah.
They were like a financial plan

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for that necessarily 0 But they
they said you're, you're going

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to do it whether you like it or
not and.

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Yeah, only stupid people are
going to college.

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They were very they were the
smartest people in the in the

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neighborhood that they lived in,
which, you know, it's like after

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I got out of that and after I
looked back, I was just like,

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well, if you were so smart, why
didn't you do better?

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You know, that's that's how
messed up there was a you know,

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is a lot of psychological stuff
that was going on there that

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kind of messed it all up, you
know, and I.

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Think that that's kind of an
interesting idea, is overcoming

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the the mental anguish that you
did.

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Yeah, 'cause I think that I
don't.

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Think I'm a little sick?
I think I still have it, you

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know?
What about you overcoming

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poverty?
I never did.

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I was basically given the golden
spoon my entire life and I've

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always been very, at least I
acknowledge my privilege.

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I think so to some degree.
I understand that I wake up and

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I have opportunities that nobody
else has in the entire world.

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Maybe some in, maybe some in the
US, but also in Oman where they

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pump millions of gallons of oil
out of the girth each day.

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That's a level of wealth that
we'll never understand.

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But I, I definitely identify
with the opportunities that I've

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been given through your hard
work.

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And I, I, I think it's funny too
that we consider the other day I

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looked at Forbes and there was
this cover.

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It says Kylie Jenner first made
or self-made made billionaire.

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And I, I have to tell you that
when, when the this podcast

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makes $1 trillion because we're
going to be trillionaires off

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this podcast.
I'll tell you that much.

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Well, I was never self-made.
I, I, I don't see how I could

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identify as that so selfishly
and so and look in the mirror

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and not laugh at myself for
saying that I built my whole

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life from the ground up from
nothing.

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I think that that's hilarious
that she said that like and I, I

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don't.
It's, it's, it's incredibly

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self-centered, I would think.
I mean, I, I didn't do what I

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did, I didn't do on my own.
I, I didn't, I, I happened to

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Trump through life and trip over
things and recognize them.

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I think I was given opportunity
because I worked for certain

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things and I, I had a certain
level of integrity that frankly,

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a lot of people don't have, you
know, Well, I think you had a.

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Partner too that was willing to
help you through thick and thin.

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A lovely woman.
Both.

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Are you talking about mom?
Called my mom.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
OK.

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I was talking about my first
business partner was the same

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way him and I were.
Like I was talking about mom,

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but yeah, we.
Were married.

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We were, I mean, for all intents
and purposes, we were married

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for like 18 years.
You know, it was very anything,

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anything you need.
What do you need?

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What we what you know, that was
that there was no and there was

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no like worry about anything
ever not being taken care of

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when I wasn't there it.
And yeah, I mean the beginning.

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It's your own little psycho that
they can't do it without me.

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And in reality they can and you
can do it without them.

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And that that, you know, it's,
it's a hard thing to let go of

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that, but.
I think you still can't negate

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the the supportive spouse
though.

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I think you can't do that, yeah.
Yeah, there was just so many,

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many, many things that that she
allowed me to put the business

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first.
Almost always, you know, you

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just can't go.
I got to go to a show, can't do

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this.
I got to go to a show, can't do

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this.
I got to do a speech, can't do

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this.
I got to do that.

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What are you doing?
What are you doing?

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And then we got into calendars
and we would try to sync

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calendars.
So everything was, you know, but

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I mean, when you came along, I,
I, luckily I was in the throes

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of retirement for the for the
first few years.

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So there, there wasn't anything
to, you know, what are you

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doing?
I'm going to Zach's school.

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Oh, OK.
What are you doing?

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Was still working though when I
was 5 right?

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Yeah, or like 4.
Yeah, probably four or five up

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until 5:00.
That's when I come home, yeah.

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Yeah, that's when I quit smoking
because you found the Marlboros

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in my truck.
Who?

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Whose are these?
Somebody must have left them

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there.
And then I was like, I can't, I

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can't hide and lie to my kid
anymore.

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This is ain't.
Gonna change I'm glad I didn't

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find the the crack you know I
would have been I would have

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been a tough explanation would
have been a really tough

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explanation I.
Usually always smoke my all my

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rocks as soon as I bought on
them.

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I did not.
I didn't.

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I didn't like stuff them
somewhere for later that's.

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Why we never had the TV 'cause
you kept pawning the TV all the

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time and then you have to go get
it back.

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Mom will go get it back and, and
things like that.

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But no, nonetheless, that was an
idea.

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And then also financial planning
for the future for young people

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was another idea that somebody
told me about and.

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Oh, I love that you.
Have a level of knowledge of

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financial planning that not a
lot of people have and also I

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think we've talked about.
It seems so.

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The thing is so silly to me and
you know, and, and, and I and

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even even a lot of my friends
are not and, and I have a

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business degree.
I'm not like Mr. Advanced

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Financial, CFACF, whatever the
hell it is, certified financial

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planner or not, none of that
stuff.

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But I know enough about it.
I've seen the markets and I've

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seen what people do and how they
get, you know, screwed by the

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Merrill Lynch's and the Goldman
Sachs and the Morgan Stanley's

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and the JP Morgan's and all them
when they manage your money and

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for a 1% fee plus, you know,
some percentage and that, you

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know, you, you, you, you earn
half of what the market does

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when all you have to really do.
And, and I think The thing is,

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is people are frightened that
somehow if they put it in a

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professional's hands that it's
going to be taken care of and

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it's going to do better than if
they just put it into a fund

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that mimics the market and leave
it there and just let it go just

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everyday.
And no one touches it.

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No one manages it and just
grows.

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And, and 'cause I, I have tried
those money managers and you've

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seen it over and over and over
again.

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They lose, they lose over time,
they always lose.

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And when and when someone, and
here's The thing is, is their

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goal, it's not to beat the
market, it's to meet the market.

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And you're thinking like, well,
so, so your goal is to do as

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good as me putting my money in a
fund that that that that's just

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going to mimic the market.
And it's like, why would that

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be, you know?
To that extent, too, it was

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funny.
There's this guy named Martin

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Shkreli who got in trouble for
insider trading years ago and

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misleading investors, and he's
in prison for a long time.

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But there was a phone call
'cause he used to do this online

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Internet show and this guy calls
in.

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He's a young guy.
I think he got lucky either on

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the stock market or was from
inheritance.

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And he had about like 150, two,
$100,000.

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And he calls Martin Scarrelli
and he's like, So what would you

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do?
Like, how would you set up a

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portfolio?
He's like, well, that's just not

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enough money to start.
That's not enough money to even

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get close to invest in the stock
market.

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You shouldn't even be concerned
about that.

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You should be concerned about
starting your own business.

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And I find that interesting too,
because if he, I think this was

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around like 2008, if that guy
with the the inheritance or

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however he met the money found
something that he trusted in.

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And then I don't know why these
people make it seem like it's

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such a foreign kind of idea.
The stock market, they make it

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seem overcomplicated and they
make it.

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And they also diminish people
that try to do it at an entry

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level place as well because they
think that there's so much

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smarter and there's such a level
of elitism in this kind of

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stage.
And if you actually just

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understood that you took a
company and you said, OK, where

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will it be in five to 10 years
to have you trusted it your

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entire life?
Do you believe in it?

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Do you think it will exist?
And then you invest, I don't

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know, a certain amount of money
that you don't need to be

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liquidated in that company.
Chances are they all do pretty

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fucking well.
Chances are right.

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That's it.
And it's really that simple.

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And a lot of people don't see
that because of the gatekeepers

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out there.
And I think that they're, well,

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the gatekeepers are all.
Going to say that they're,

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they're, they're worried that
you don't have professional

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advice and you don't have
analysts and we research

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everything and we do all this
kind of stuff like that.

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But though, though, if, if I
consistently beat the market

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over time, that means that I
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And I mean, if the randomness
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does, why would I, why would I?
Hey you.

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And that's usually the thing
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they're, what they're, what
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which jacks it up by 1 or 2%,
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mean, that's another thing that
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We made 8.8 point percent last
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market went up 22.
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the nail in the coffin for my,
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because I'd given them, I
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people every so often to see if
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than what I'm doing.
And they didn't.

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Sure.
And what does that mean?

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I try what, what is, you know,
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year.
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You know, we didn't get 28%.
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we got 9.
And it's like, well, I just put

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my money in, you know, the
Vanguard, whatever the, the

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Russell 2000 and it was up 34%.
So that means all the money I

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put in went up 1/3.
It's like, holy crap.

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Wealth managers for me are under
the same occupation as used car

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salesman, car salesman and then
realtor.

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I would agree.
I would agree with that, which

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is somehow in this society that
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America, we've let snake oil
salesman have actual jobs and I

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don't understand how we see them
do that.

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I don't understand how we it's.
Very easy.

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It's, it's a financial market
that grew from, you did not see

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the proliferation of advisors
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with the whole people can't

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manage their own money 'cause
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and they wouldn't put it in the
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And everybody's trying to pull
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stock market was doing, you
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had most people I guess up into
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defined benefit.
What do you call them plans?

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So when they retired, they were
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a, an X dollar amount per you
weren't going to.

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four O 1K thing came in, which

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is defined contribution plan.
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for the future have to decide
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money.
And you put it in and you have

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a, a list of funds that are at
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You have the individual walking
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plan their financial future and
it's they think that there are

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other people that know how to do
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And unfortunately those people
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personal financial future.
Provide, you know, with a piece

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of what they make off of what
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And that is, you know, I mean,
in a true perfect world, if I

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was a, if I was a wonderful
financial planner or financial

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wealth person, I, you would give
me $1000 and I would say, OK,

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I'm not going to charge you a
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percent because that's what a
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Which what does that mean?
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You're not really doing
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You take money, you put in the
stock market and then you get a

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piece, you get like usually 20
to 50% of whatever the upside

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is.
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they'll have a fixed 1% or 2% or
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So, so when I look at them, I'm
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an, they'll say we'll see if you
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Then there's an, there's an
incentive to grow.

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And it's like, well, if I give
you $1,000,000 and you grow it

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by 10,000, I mean, I'm, you
know, and it could have grown it

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by 300,000.
Well, you still got your, your

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$10,000 fee and it's like, well,
you didn't really earn it.

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You, you got hammered.
You're not, you're not.

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If you can't beat the market,
then why wouldn't you?

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Just why would, why shouldn't I
put my money just in?

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And when I say the market, I'm
saying an index fund that

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Vanguard has them, Fidelity has
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They all, all the different
funds have them.

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They charge a .75 or a .65
percentage to, to invest in that

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or ETFs.
You can buy and sell them and

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trade them, which is exchange
traded fund.

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And they traded at a price and
that's a price of 1 stock or

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basket of stocks representing
the Fortune or the, you know,

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the Russell 2000 or the Fortune
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S&P 500 or you know, there's all
sorts of different baskets.

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And that's a, a microcosm of
what, what the market is.

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And since 19, whenever that,
that that has been around the

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average rate, I think it's like
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So if you put your money, you
throw it in the market, you put

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in an index fund, you leave it,
you're going to get 8 or 9% a

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year.
You're not going to get it

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consistently.
You're going to get, you're

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going to get 34% this year.
You're going to get, you're

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going to get a -10% next year.
You're going to get, you're

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probably going to get -10% this
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So those are the kind of things
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live through.
And I think that people feel

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that, that people that have
analysts behind him and a big

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name like a Merrill Lynch or JP,
what everybody else does, you

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know, when it's those, they were
not those huge, huge amounts of

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money coming into them and
behind them.

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And it's like, I don't, I, I, I
don't, I don't, I don't, I think

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people feel like you have to put
more time in when, when the guy

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that's managing their money
probably puts in 2 minutes a

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month if it most.
And and that's up to call you to

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say that you're fucked, Bob.
And it's gone.

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Yeah, and it's gone.
You remember that?

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I mean, I don't have anyone.
I don't.

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I haven't had a single person
tell me yet that their financial

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advisor broker person was doing.
Well, for them I've never heard

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that either.
They were always saying they're

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doing OK.
And then if I pose a question

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like, were they better than the
market?

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And then the question is that
they beat an index fund.

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And then they're like, well, I
don't know, you know.

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And I mean, I, I, I've had them
try to slice and dice the

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numbers and pitch them back to
me.

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I had this guy that we we first
started using stuff and the wife

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was like skeptical of me, just
the money and index funds and

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saying, well, you know, you're
not, you didn't go to school for

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that.
You don't you know, it's like,

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yeah, that's cool.
I understand that.

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So we put, we gave this guy at
Merrill lunch 100 grand and he

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and I said have at it go crazy.
And he lost immediately within

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the first two or three weeks.
It went down about 6 or 7000 and

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then and he had it for three
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So I was not going to be crazy,
you know, And at the end of

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three years, it was at like 100
and pennies or dollars or

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something like that, 100,000 and
100,000 and two, something like

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that.
Very, very minimal.

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And, and he proceeds to tell me
that he had like an 18%

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increase.
And I'm going to like, and he

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and he said, well, last year it
was at, it was at 87.

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And I was like, yeah, but, but,
but I gave you 100.

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And he goes, well, we're not
measuring from there.

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And I'm going like, well, I am.
We're we're measuring from what

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I lost, all right.
Exactly.

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And the year that he lost, it
was not a down year in the

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market.
And that's the and I was just,

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and that's when I was like, you
know, if you, if you lost money

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the year of the housing crash,
when the whole industry went

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down 28%.
Well, no kidding.

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You know, I think I was down 14
or 13% something like that I got

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or not even that.
I Remember Me and you made a

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mock portfolio for me when I was
around 13 and it was a fake one.

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And you said, all right, why
don't you go in here with this

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theoretical money that you have.
And it really seemed as if from

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about 2012 until what was it, I
think it was around 2018-2019,

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you couldn't really pick a wrong
stock.

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Twenty O 8 was the crash, yeah.
Yeah, yeah.

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But I'm talking about 20 that.
Was 23% down in one year the Oh

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yeah, that's right, you were
later.

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You missed that.
Yeah, we started when I.

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Was 13, so 2012.
You know, I mean, last year was

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28%.
Think about that, that, that

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means that if you put a dollar
in the market, you have $1.28

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that I mean that's, that's
incredible.

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That's just incredible. 2 years
ago I think it was 30%.

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You know, so it's, it's been,
it's been exceptional for a long

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time.
I am looking for a haircut of

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1/3 because of what is going on
in the marketplace now.

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Oh yeah, it's going.
It's going to get expecting.

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Worse and, and I would tell you
that I am 80% out right now,

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85%.
So if something goes completely

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wrong instead of my dollar will
be worth only $0.20 of my dollar

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is in the market.
So if the market goes down 10%

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or let's no, let's say it goes
down 30% because it's already

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down 8.
If it goes down 30%, I'm going

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to lose what is that I would
lose seven cents, $0.06.

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I'm going to lose 6 cents on my
out of my 100 instead of $0.30.

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So for me it's like because I
don't trust it right now.

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But on the other end, a large
portion of my money is in, is in

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a, what do you call it, money
market fund, Vanguard in

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particular, and it's returning a
little over, it's about 5 1/2%,

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which is to me is phenomenal. 5
1/2% on your money means that if

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you put $100 in, you got 105 at
the end of the.

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Year you got, that's great.
You know that's.

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Fantastic.
Yeah.

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What was another idea that
somebody was mentioning to me?

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Did you have any ideas about
future episodes?

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Because that's kind of what this
is about.

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When I when I think about future
episodes, it's what are the

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objects that you are, the
cluttering your life, You know,

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we think about that.
That in a way, organization with

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Marie Kondo.
We remember that we talked about

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Marie Kondo and the whole idea
of Marie Kondo invented this

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idea, this kind of philosophy.
Oh, if you don't use something

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for such and such time, OK, how
does it?

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Make you feel if you don't enjoy
it or something, throw it away,

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right.
It was kind of almost a what is

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that called?
The form of poetry.

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It's not alliteration.
That's a that's.

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AI think we call it chick
canning.

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Yeah, exactly.
I think that's what we're

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calling it.
But yeah, I don't know.

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Or anthro.
I can't even pronounce it.

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Clean water in America.
Anthro clean water.

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In the US, I can't.
I don't know how.

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To pronounce Oh yeah, that that
would be a good 130% of people

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don't have access to clean
drinking water.

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Yeah, I would like to do.
What I would like to do if we're

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going to do something like that
is I would like to have 10 or 15

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research questions that we ask
each other, like how many

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population that has access in
the US, number of cities that

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don't, and just and write down a
list of questions.

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And before we start the podcast,
I want to look up those answers

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and have them.
So they give us sort of fodder

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to talk about as we go through
it, because I think that that

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would be something really
interesting.

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And you know, it was be like,
oh, you clean water because

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everybody thinks Flint, you
think Flint, MI, they're still

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doing bottled water.
But now I talk to people in West

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Virginia and they're like, no,
no, we don't use that.

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We use bottled water.
What?

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And there's people in Michigan.
No, no, no, we don't drink the

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water there.
We drink.

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I'm like, I thought, I thought
that in the USI mean we're,

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we're the arguably the richest
nation, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th

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richest nation in the world.
And we don't give clean water to

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people.
I mean, that is, you know, what

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we call, I mean, when I think of
other things like pollution,

442
00:24:53,520 --> 00:24:55,800
pollution in my lifetime, I
mean, it's, it's been

443
00:24:56,200 --> 00:25:01,000
dramatically changed on the
things that that we as a society

444
00:25:01,000 --> 00:25:02,680
have done.
I, you know, and I think I've

445
00:25:02,680 --> 00:25:04,800
talked a little bit about it.
I don't know if that's something

446
00:25:05,120 --> 00:25:09,360
have we remember?
I remember when I was young that

447
00:25:09,360 --> 00:25:12,200
when you cleaned it out, I think
I mentioned this in a podcast

448
00:25:12,200 --> 00:25:14,800
where when people would just
throw their their trash right

449
00:25:14,800 --> 00:25:17,120
out of the window.
Yeah, we talked about the Clean

450
00:25:17,120 --> 00:25:20,760
Water Act under Nixon 1972.
Was it?

451
00:25:21,680 --> 00:25:22,760
We talked about that.
Maybe that's.

452
00:25:22,760 --> 00:25:24,960
Why kind of did talk about
pollution to some degree, I'm

453
00:25:25,080 --> 00:25:27,400
not going to lie, but I think
specifically clean water we

454
00:25:27,400 --> 00:25:31,120
could, we could do I think clean
water today that would be a good

455
00:25:31,120 --> 00:25:32,600
one.
You know what?

456
00:25:32,600 --> 00:25:36,680
I also thought my asphalt days.
Creating a a business plan for

457
00:25:36,680 --> 00:25:38,720
my business.
That might be that might be an

458
00:25:38,720 --> 00:25:40,920
interesting episode.
Yep, that's good.

459
00:25:41,320 --> 00:25:42,640
Well, I'm going to Mongolia
here.

460
00:25:42,640 --> 00:25:44,560
We're going to go do pre
production for this this

461
00:25:44,560 --> 00:25:47,520
documentary, and I think that
that would be kind of cool

462
00:25:48,520 --> 00:25:49,680
thinking of what we're going to
do.

463
00:25:49,680 --> 00:25:51,680
And then we're wrapping this
next project here in the coming

464
00:25:51,680 --> 00:25:54,080
month.
So you're not really looking for

465
00:25:54,080 --> 00:25:55,600
a business plan, you're looking
for a project plan.

466
00:25:56,600 --> 00:25:59,000
Yeah.
Well, distribution plan more so

467
00:25:59,400 --> 00:26:00,840
I think that that's really what,
yeah.

468
00:26:00,840 --> 00:26:06,320
OK.
So this project on a board, you

469
00:26:06,320 --> 00:26:11,600
want to write down first how you
want to do it, who you want to

470
00:26:11,600 --> 00:26:15,520
include, what it's going to
cost, how you're going to market

471
00:26:15,520 --> 00:26:20,040
it, who you're going to sell it
to, who, where, when, what, why

472
00:26:20,040 --> 00:26:21,400
and how.
I mean, those are the questions

473
00:26:21,400 --> 00:26:23,960
you generally ask when you're
asking a business plan and about

474
00:26:23,960 --> 00:26:26,280
how you're going to do it.
And it gives you an idea of

475
00:26:26,280 --> 00:26:28,760
scope, like how large is this
thing?

476
00:26:28,760 --> 00:26:31,600
Is this, is this a $200,000
project, you think?

477
00:26:32,000 --> 00:26:34,720
Any idea?
And, and, and you don't have to

478
00:26:34,720 --> 00:26:36,560
know.
You don't have to know for sure.

479
00:26:36,560 --> 00:26:38,680
You just say, well, we're going
to do airfare there.

480
00:26:38,680 --> 00:26:41,280
We're probably going to go there
four times each or three times

481
00:26:41,280 --> 00:26:42,400
each.
We're going to meet people.

482
00:26:42,680 --> 00:26:46,640
I'm going to have to pay my
average cost for a, a person who

483
00:26:46,640 --> 00:26:51,320
edits is $5000 for per hour.
This is going to be a 2 hour

484
00:26:51,320 --> 00:26:52,960
documentary.
It's that's going to be 10.

485
00:26:52,960 --> 00:26:55,960
I'm going to need four of those.
That's going to be 40 grand.

486
00:26:57,200 --> 00:26:59,080
I'm going to have my my
photographer that's going to

487
00:26:59,080 --> 00:27:01,240
come with me, my film at film
Master guy.

488
00:27:01,440 --> 00:27:03,760
He's going to cost me 25,000
bucks.

489
00:27:04,520 --> 00:27:08,120
And each time you throw their
number out, whatever you think

490
00:27:08,120 --> 00:27:12,360
it is, add like 10% that we used
to do that we were doing when

491
00:27:12,360 --> 00:27:13,760
we're doing product planning
because.

492
00:27:14,000 --> 00:27:15,560
Fringe right?
Is that what you're kind of

493
00:27:15,560 --> 00:27:18,040
thinking about?
Yeah, because they're things

494
00:27:18,040 --> 00:27:23,000
that happen that you don't
expect and, and, and as a rule

495
00:27:23,000 --> 00:27:30,320
of thumb, it is better to come
back and say, wow, you know, I,

496
00:27:30,560 --> 00:27:35,160
I plan to spend 14,000 for the
product guy and I only spent 10.

497
00:27:36,120 --> 00:27:38,040
I mean, it's not like that
hurts.

498
00:27:38,440 --> 00:27:41,520
That's actually feels good.
It feels like, wow, I was good.

499
00:27:41,720 --> 00:27:44,840
I I overestimated a little bit.
Now, when you underestimate, but

500
00:27:45,320 --> 00:27:49,800
we're going to get the money,
it's, it's a, it's a, it's a

501
00:27:49,800 --> 00:27:51,880
hard, hard thing.
That's what you're talking

502
00:27:51,880 --> 00:27:53,520
about.
Product, You know, when we first

503
00:27:53,520 --> 00:27:57,040
started doing products, I
remember we, we did this endless

504
00:27:57,160 --> 00:28:01,600
registration database that we,
we put these two guys on it

505
00:28:01,600 --> 00:28:06,080
working full time and they
worked on it for probably 3

506
00:28:06,080 --> 00:28:08,840
months.
And after the first month they

507
00:28:08,840 --> 00:28:10,320
said it and it's only going to
be another month.

508
00:28:10,320 --> 00:28:13,160
It's going to be done.
After the second month they said

509
00:28:13,440 --> 00:28:15,920
another month it'll be done.
At the third month they said

510
00:28:15,960 --> 00:28:18,800
it's it's almost it's like 3
weeks away and.

511
00:28:19,720 --> 00:28:22,280
Sounds a little like something
in my life, I'm not going to

512
00:28:22,280 --> 00:28:22,880
lie.
Yeah, yeah.

513
00:28:22,880 --> 00:28:26,000
And The thing is, is that you
don't get it's, it's because

514
00:28:27,280 --> 00:28:29,440
then you then you sit down and
you write down and say, well,

515
00:28:29,440 --> 00:28:31,080
what are the tasks you need to
do to finish?

516
00:28:32,280 --> 00:28:34,240
And if they don't know all the
tasks, then you realize that

517
00:28:34,240 --> 00:28:35,360
it's a lot longer than you
thought.

518
00:28:35,640 --> 00:28:37,160
So it's like, what do I, what do
I need?

519
00:28:37,200 --> 00:28:39,560
What, what goes into making a
documentary?

520
00:28:39,560 --> 00:28:42,200
What are the stages and what are
the things I would get AI would

521
00:28:42,200 --> 00:28:45,440
get some type of a template that
said the making of a

522
00:28:45,440 --> 00:28:47,240
documentary.
What are all the things that go

523
00:28:47,240 --> 00:28:49,040
into it?
The the people that are

524
00:28:49,040 --> 00:28:50,680
involved, the different things
like that.

525
00:28:50,680 --> 00:28:53,960
And I would put that on a sheet
and I would write some arbitrary

526
00:28:53,960 --> 00:28:57,160
dollar amount next to each one
if I wanted to do it financially

527
00:28:57,520 --> 00:29:01,400
if I wanted to.
Kind of have a list right now of

528
00:29:01,520 --> 00:29:05,400
specified dates and deadlines of
what we need to meet, right, in

529
00:29:05,400 --> 00:29:07,200
order to shoot at a specific
time.

530
00:29:07,480 --> 00:29:09,640
But then like, it's kind of
interesting too, 'cause now that

531
00:29:09,640 --> 00:29:12,200
we talked to cultural advisors
and now that we're talking to

532
00:29:12,200 --> 00:29:14,080
more people that are on the
ground there, they're like,

533
00:29:14,080 --> 00:29:16,720
well, why aren't you coming here
during the 9 nines, which is 81

534
00:29:16,720 --> 00:29:20,600
days of negative temperatures?
Because in order to understand

535
00:29:20,600 --> 00:29:24,000
Mongolia as a whole in the
climate change, if that's what

536
00:29:24,000 --> 00:29:25,960
we're really trying to target,
which I think is definitely a

537
00:29:25,960 --> 00:29:28,760
portion of the documentary, is
you need to go there during the

538
00:29:28,760 --> 00:29:32,440
most brutal time of.
So go there, do the groundwork

539
00:29:32,560 --> 00:29:35,400
or it's it hasn't passed 9 nines
will be there.

540
00:29:36,120 --> 00:29:39,520
Yeah, right in the area.
And then?

541
00:29:39,520 --> 00:29:41,040
And then what are we talking
temperatures?

542
00:29:41,400 --> 00:29:44,640
Temperatures, we're talking
negative temperatures -20.

543
00:29:45,440 --> 00:29:46,880
Stuff like that.
When your when your mother and I

544
00:29:46,880 --> 00:29:47,880
went to Finland, it was
negative.

545
00:29:47,960 --> 00:29:50,600
It was -27.
Yeah, we're talking.

546
00:29:50,600 --> 00:29:52,000
Negatives.
So there, there are Celsius

547
00:29:52,000 --> 00:29:53,520
there, correct?
Yeah.

548
00:29:54,040 --> 00:29:57,240
So it will be negative because
it was -27 Celsius, which is

549
00:29:57,440 --> 00:30:01,640
like a negative like 19 or 18
Fahrenheit.

550
00:30:01,640 --> 00:30:02,760
I don't know, it's one or the
other.

551
00:30:02,760 --> 00:30:05,360
It's something like that.
It's not that much more It's,

552
00:30:05,360 --> 00:30:07,880
but once it's below -20 you're
just like.

553
00:30:08,680 --> 00:30:11,920
With snow storms included too.
Yeah, with snow storms make it

554
00:30:11,960 --> 00:30:16,320
much worse and, and if you got a
heavy wind, then it's going to

555
00:30:16,320 --> 00:30:18,000
be to slice in right through
you.

556
00:30:18,720 --> 00:30:23,160
But yeah, yeah, that would be,
that makes absolute sense.

557
00:30:23,240 --> 00:30:27,080
So that should, so you should
plan a trip for five days or

558
00:30:27,080 --> 00:30:29,280
whatever, whatever amount that
does that.

559
00:30:29,280 --> 00:30:31,120
And then you have to incorporate
the cost into it.

560
00:30:31,280 --> 00:30:34,120
That's what.
Kind of is going to be later on,

561
00:30:34,120 --> 00:30:37,320
because right now this first
trip coming up on the the 10th

562
00:30:37,320 --> 00:30:40,720
through the 20th is going to be
I get there on the 10th and then

563
00:30:40,720 --> 00:30:45,000
I leave on the 20th is going to
be really relationship building

564
00:30:45,600 --> 00:30:49,440
and kind of understanding a
certain level of cultural

565
00:30:49,440 --> 00:30:53,080
aspects that we aren't really
garnering from a laptop, right?

566
00:30:53,080 --> 00:30:56,120
And kind of understanding where
these people are in their lives

567
00:30:56,120 --> 00:31:00,360
career wise and social wise and
where they kind of are in

568
00:31:00,360 --> 00:31:02,400
society.
And I think that at the same

569
00:31:02,400 --> 00:31:06,080
time, too, shooting documentary,
it kind of changes all the time

570
00:31:06,440 --> 00:31:09,000
because say we go there and we
we have this idea that we're

571
00:31:09,000 --> 00:31:10,280
going to do the ninja miners,
right?

572
00:31:10,280 --> 00:31:15,600
And how mining is affected the
cultural and environmental

573
00:31:15,600 --> 00:31:17,800
aspects of Mongolia.
But then at the same time, if

574
00:31:17,800 --> 00:31:21,680
we've discover something that is
so much more ingrained in that

575
00:31:21,680 --> 00:31:24,760
message and it's more niche, I
mean, that's, that's what we're

576
00:31:24,760 --> 00:31:27,400
going to do, right?
I can imagine going to the mines

577
00:31:27,400 --> 00:31:32,320
when it's -20 I would just that
in itself standing at the open,

578
00:31:32,320 --> 00:31:34,160
the face.
And when you say the ninja mines

579
00:31:34,160 --> 00:31:37,080
are those are those something
that are under the ground or

580
00:31:37,080 --> 00:31:38,920
what?
So ninja mines primarily are

581
00:31:38,920 --> 00:31:40,840
open pits, right?
And they're abandoned gold

582
00:31:40,840 --> 00:31:42,760
mines.
And these people come from

583
00:31:42,760 --> 00:31:46,520
foreign countries or even in
Inner Mongolia and go to these

584
00:31:46,800 --> 00:31:49,920
gold mines, kind of abandoned
gold mines to get the last kind

585
00:31:49,920 --> 00:31:52,520
of.
Excerpts -20 They're digging.

586
00:31:52,520 --> 00:31:55,880
No, see, that's what we're
talking about too, is the the

587
00:31:55,880 --> 00:31:59,040
kind of the combination of
mining in Mongolia and how it's

588
00:31:59,040 --> 00:32:04,040
attributing to these sporadic
winters that have been causing,

589
00:32:04,480 --> 00:32:08,000
yeah, massive famine and also
dried land.

590
00:32:08,000 --> 00:32:09,240
Yeah.
Oh, wow.

591
00:32:09,600 --> 00:32:11,600
Wow.
So you're going to draw the,

592
00:32:11,640 --> 00:32:13,480
draw the link, the scientific
link or?

593
00:32:13,480 --> 00:32:15,160
Yeah.
So there's two kind of parts to

594
00:32:15,160 --> 00:32:15,680
it.
Yeah.

595
00:32:15,680 --> 00:32:20,080
The the, the, the winners don't
have necessarily as much to do

596
00:32:20,160 --> 00:32:22,880
with the actual aspect of
mining, but the more of the

597
00:32:22,880 --> 00:32:25,600
environmental impact.
Yeah, yeah.

598
00:32:26,080 --> 00:32:28,280
But that's what we're going to,
we're think we're going to do.

599
00:32:28,280 --> 00:32:30,160
But then at the same time, we
might get there and we might

600
00:32:30,160 --> 00:32:32,200
discover something completely
new, because I think when you

601
00:32:32,200 --> 00:32:33,760
start putting feet on the grass,
you're talking to people.

602
00:32:33,760 --> 00:32:37,000
You discover so much more.
And it starts to grow like, like

603
00:32:37,000 --> 00:32:39,360
the reason, you know, now you
have to go when it's cold.

604
00:32:39,880 --> 00:32:42,080
Yeah.
I think that in order to get an

605
00:32:42,080 --> 00:32:48,000
actual cultural basis and to not
be afraid of kind of actually

606
00:32:48,080 --> 00:32:50,280
throwing yourself into the
entire project, you need to

607
00:32:50,280 --> 00:32:53,640
suffer or not really suffer, but
to understand.

608
00:32:54,080 --> 00:32:56,880
How?
Cold it actually is.

609
00:32:56,920 --> 00:32:59,800
Instead of trying to avoid
something that is so such a big

610
00:32:59,800 --> 00:33:01,160
part of that culture.
Yeah.

611
00:33:01,960 --> 00:33:05,640
Yeah, and it's when you breathe
in and your lungs hurt.

612
00:33:06,040 --> 00:33:08,480
That's it's cold.
Exactly.

613
00:33:08,560 --> 00:33:11,440
It's real cold.
I I I've never been, I've, I've

614
00:33:11,440 --> 00:33:13,880
been to cold places.
But, you know, we were in

615
00:33:13,880 --> 00:33:15,720
Antarctica, but we were.
It's the summer and, you know,

616
00:33:15,720 --> 00:33:17,760
it was cold, but it wasn't, not
really.

617
00:33:18,000 --> 00:33:20,120
You know, when jumping in the
water, We we did we jump in the

618
00:33:20,120 --> 00:33:21,160
water?
No, we never.

619
00:33:21,160 --> 00:33:24,400
No, I didn't want to do that.
Did you do it?

620
00:33:24,800 --> 00:33:26,920
You didn't do it either.
No, no were.

621
00:33:26,920 --> 00:33:28,800
We hungover I.
Think we were.

622
00:33:28,800 --> 00:33:31,360
Drinking.
I think we were drinking and I

623
00:33:31,360 --> 00:33:32,680
we.
Were hungover and we were

624
00:33:32,680 --> 00:33:34,120
drinking.
I looked at that.

625
00:33:34,120 --> 00:33:36,160
Well, I remember jumping in in
the Galapagos and I was like

626
00:33:36,160 --> 00:33:37,040
this.
Yes, we did that.

627
00:33:37,680 --> 00:33:38,440
That's fun.
Cold.

628
00:33:38,960 --> 00:33:40,040
Well, it was.
It was cold.

629
00:33:40,360 --> 00:33:43,080
It was cold too.
I think I swam around the boat

630
00:33:43,080 --> 00:33:44,880
though.
Did you?

631
00:33:45,600 --> 00:33:47,960
Were you allowed to?
You weren't supposed to.

632
00:33:47,960 --> 00:33:50,800
That's why I did it.
Breaking laws?

633
00:33:51,080 --> 00:33:55,000
Yeah, I was legal, man.
I'm like, I'm, I mean, I'm we

634
00:33:55,000 --> 00:33:56,640
could do something on breaking
the rules.

635
00:33:57,320 --> 00:34:00,280
Yeah, we could, but you're
coming up here with surgery too,

636
00:34:00,280 --> 00:34:01,880
right?
Yeah, that's tomorrow.

637
00:34:02,160 --> 00:34:04,080
That's tomorrow.
Yeah.

638
00:34:04,080 --> 00:34:08,320
You do you.
Well, how do you feel about

639
00:34:08,320 --> 00:34:10,760
that?
Oh yeah, I was wondering about

640
00:34:10,760 --> 00:34:17,000
the, the, the worries and that
come up with it is that I've had

641
00:34:17,000 --> 00:34:21,400
no problem or no worry about it
until like, I don't know, like 4

642
00:34:21,400 --> 00:34:23,920
nights ago.
That was the whole idea of what

643
00:34:23,920 --> 00:34:27,400
happens if this is it, you know,
you, you run those those

644
00:34:27,400 --> 00:34:29,760
scenarios through your mind late
at night and you don't and you

645
00:34:29,760 --> 00:34:32,360
don't sleep.
We had Harvey up the street who

646
00:34:32,360 --> 00:34:35,400
had a typical back surgery and
then he died on the operating

647
00:34:35,400 --> 00:34:38,840
table, right?
So there's things like that, but

648
00:34:39,320 --> 00:34:40,800
I don't think that's going to
happen.

649
00:34:41,120 --> 00:34:44,000
I think this is just this is.
Really mild stuff and if and it

650
00:34:44,000 --> 00:34:49,800
and it's like I think that you
can gin yourself up to believe

651
00:34:49,800 --> 00:34:53,639
in anything with all the
negative thoughts, but

652
00:34:54,159 --> 00:34:56,679
everything coming out of this so
far, everything going into it is

653
00:34:56,679 --> 00:34:59,000
positive.
I think that you're a good

654
00:34:59,000 --> 00:35:03,440
person too, and I think that you
know how you're really Christian

655
00:35:03,840 --> 00:35:07,960
and how you feel rewarded by
God's ever loving light.

656
00:35:08,200 --> 00:35:12,320
Well, if that's if that's the
case, then would.

657
00:35:12,440 --> 00:35:14,240
I mean, that's the thing I don't
understand is like, why don't

658
00:35:14,240 --> 00:35:15,840
all the Christians die or kill
themselves?

659
00:35:15,840 --> 00:35:19,000
Because, you know, if you want
to go to heaven, wouldn't that,

660
00:35:19,040 --> 00:35:21,240
I mean, I would, wouldn't you
say, hey, shoot me, I want to go

661
00:35:21,240 --> 00:35:24,760
to heaven because then I get to
go now instead of waiting on

662
00:35:24,760 --> 00:35:27,840
this place, which is nothing and
not beautiful at all.

663
00:35:28,200 --> 00:35:29,400
Well, I hope so.
What do you know?

664
00:35:29,440 --> 00:35:34,160
That I'm praying for you, which
really means I'm sitting in my

665
00:35:34,160 --> 00:35:37,520
room doing nothing.
Means you're trying to get

666
00:35:37,520 --> 00:35:38,880
attention.
We could do some on religion.

667
00:35:39,000 --> 00:35:40,240
All that too.
Isn't that?

668
00:35:40,280 --> 00:35:42,040
That is kind of interesting.
I never really thought about

669
00:35:42,040 --> 00:35:44,320
that.
We've never talked about you say

670
00:35:44,320 --> 00:35:46,000
you're.
Praying for somebody, it's kind

671
00:35:46,000 --> 00:35:49,240
of taking the them as a center
of attention off of them and

672
00:35:49,240 --> 00:35:51,960
putting it on yourself and see,
I'm doing, look at all the hard

673
00:35:51,960 --> 00:35:54,280
mental anguish I'm going.
I'm doing something.

674
00:35:54,320 --> 00:35:58,080
That's what it is.
Just Zach, instead of sending

675
00:35:58,080 --> 00:36:02,880
you a card, I'm going to.
I'm letting everybody know, not

676
00:36:02,880 --> 00:36:04,800
just you.
I'm posting it to Facebook and

677
00:36:04,800 --> 00:36:09,120
all these other places.
I'm praying for you and I want

678
00:36:09,120 --> 00:36:12,120
you to know that I'm doing that
when you're not there.

679
00:36:12,240 --> 00:36:14,640
I can't imagine what it's like
to get cancer.

680
00:36:14,640 --> 00:36:17,640
And then you have like maybe 150
people.

681
00:36:17,640 --> 00:36:19,600
If you know that many, I don't
really even know that many.

682
00:36:19,600 --> 00:36:22,960
I'm going to say maybe 25 in
your inner circle that say, Oh,

683
00:36:22,960 --> 00:36:25,400
well, I'm praying for you.
And you're like, well, so you're

684
00:36:25,800 --> 00:36:28,840
I'd rather you send me a gift
basket or something before I

685
00:36:28,840 --> 00:36:30,160
die.
Like, I don't know.

686
00:36:30,160 --> 00:36:33,760
I'd rather have like something
that actually is kind of

687
00:36:33,760 --> 00:36:36,400
implementing that you care,
right?

688
00:36:36,400 --> 00:36:38,640
I don't I don't really see how
talking.

689
00:36:38,640 --> 00:36:40,440
Well, The thing is, they don't
know what to say.

690
00:36:40,600 --> 00:36:42,440
Most people don't know.
I would say they don't, they

691
00:36:42,440 --> 00:36:44,440
don't, they don't and and so
they're going to ask some

692
00:36:44,440 --> 00:36:49,480
invisible being for some special
thing, which if you believe in

693
00:36:49,480 --> 00:36:51,720
the Bible doesn't has any
already made is all of his

694
00:36:51,720 --> 00:36:54,280
decisions.
So all of that praying is

695
00:36:54,280 --> 00:36:56,720
basically a waste of time
begging, right?

696
00:36:57,080 --> 00:36:59,040
You pretty much.
I mean if.

697
00:36:59,080 --> 00:37:03,160
God, if God already didn't
decided that if there is a God

698
00:37:03,480 --> 00:37:06,200
you know well, no, I won't.
Let's just not go down that

699
00:37:06,200 --> 00:37:10,480
precipice.
But but if they if this thing

700
00:37:10,480 --> 00:37:16,160
that they believe is ultimately
infallible, which that's one

701
00:37:16,160 --> 00:37:20,960
thing they believe, then your
destination is already decided

702
00:37:21,200 --> 00:37:25,560
by him, right?
And since he is infallible, he's

703
00:37:25,560 --> 00:37:29,600
decided that either you are
going to die where you were

704
00:37:29,600 --> 00:37:32,120
going to live.
He's already decided he's

705
00:37:32,120 --> 00:37:36,120
already decided when this hymn
that we call him a hymn, but

706
00:37:36,120 --> 00:37:39,200
that which is weird to make him
human when in the act.

707
00:37:39,200 --> 00:37:43,640
It makes no sense.
So if he's already decided that

708
00:37:43,640 --> 00:37:47,040
when you go in and you pray, are
you saying he's wrong?

709
00:37:48,440 --> 00:37:51,280
I don't know, you know,
question.

710
00:37:52,680 --> 00:37:55,720
It's in God's hands.
And it's like, no, I'd rather

711
00:37:55,720 --> 00:37:57,680
have it in my surgeon's hands.
I don't.

712
00:37:57,680 --> 00:38:00,000
I want, I want, you know, God's
guiding him.

713
00:38:00,000 --> 00:38:01,880
No, no, He went to medical
school.

714
00:38:01,880 --> 00:38:04,040
He has the same God that did the
Holocaust.

715
00:38:04,040 --> 00:38:05,040
Yes.
Yeah.

716
00:38:05,040 --> 00:38:07,760
In his hands, Yeah.
That's he's done a great job so

717
00:38:07,760 --> 00:38:09,360
far.
Such a great job.

718
00:38:10,240 --> 00:38:12,760
No, no, we, we could, we could,
we could definitely do an

719
00:38:12,880 --> 00:38:16,880
episode on bashing religion, you
know, But when I think that

720
00:38:16,880 --> 00:38:20,600
would piss that would that would
I don't understand the, you

721
00:38:20,600 --> 00:38:24,720
know, yeah.
Should people that don't believe

722
00:38:25,880 --> 00:38:30,440
stand up more for their rights
in anything, in anything?

723
00:38:30,880 --> 00:38:36,720
Because I think that, you know,
it's like like people that are,

724
00:38:37,280 --> 00:38:41,640
that have a problem with gays
have no problem shitting on

725
00:38:41,640 --> 00:38:45,120
them.
But people that like me, it's

726
00:38:45,120 --> 00:38:46,960
like, I I think that that's
wrong.

727
00:38:46,960 --> 00:38:52,200
I think that they're, you know,
they're people, they're the gay

728
00:38:52,200 --> 00:38:57,320
people feel the way about the
same sex as I do about the

729
00:38:57,320 --> 00:39:00,880
opposite sex.
So I don't, you know, and that's

730
00:39:00,880 --> 00:39:04,240
just something that happens, you
know, and it's, and it's, I

731
00:39:04,240 --> 00:39:07,360
believe it's biological.
I don't really understand the

732
00:39:07,480 --> 00:39:10,840
the personal investment in other
people's lives to such a degree.

733
00:39:11,200 --> 00:39:12,680
I don't know.
It almost seems like social

734
00:39:12,680 --> 00:39:17,600
media has made it almost
purposeful in the divisiveness

735
00:39:17,600 --> 00:39:21,520
that exists in opinions today,
because I don't think that

736
00:39:21,520 --> 00:39:26,840
people nearly gave that much of
A care about other people's

737
00:39:26,840 --> 00:39:29,080
lives in their decision making
10 years.

738
00:39:29,080 --> 00:39:30,400
They hated.
They hated gays.

739
00:39:30,400 --> 00:39:33,320
And, well, they hated.
Them, but I don't think it was

740
00:39:33,320 --> 00:39:37,160
you didn't have ready access to
hate because now you go on like

741
00:39:37,480 --> 00:39:40,600
somebody's Facebook profile and
then you could you could call

742
00:39:40,600 --> 00:39:43,240
them slurs or you go on any sort
of thing and there's just

743
00:39:43,240 --> 00:39:45,920
breeding hate constantly sick.
Remember.

744
00:39:46,560 --> 00:39:52,120
Remember Tory inclinations. 80s,
seventies, 60s, you, you had TV

745
00:39:53,000 --> 00:39:55,840
and then many people didn't have
TV in the rural areas, so they

746
00:39:55,840 --> 00:39:58,880
just had their parents.
And if your parents, parents,

747
00:39:58,880 --> 00:40:03,320
parents, parents, parents,
parents all thought black people

748
00:40:03,400 --> 00:40:12,880
were not at the same level, what
do you call it in any way?

749
00:40:13,520 --> 00:40:16,200
Then they would pass down that
same thing to you.

750
00:40:17,280 --> 00:40:20,320
So you wouldn't have anybody's
outside of pen in her voice.

751
00:40:20,320 --> 00:40:23,320
Well, that's how it is today as
well, but it's a little more of.

752
00:40:23,560 --> 00:40:26,200
A the only way that you got an
outside voice was to leave your

753
00:40:26,200 --> 00:40:29,960
family and go to and get
educated.

754
00:40:30,440 --> 00:40:32,880
And that's when you would when
you would go to college, you

755
00:40:32,880 --> 00:40:35,680
would meet people that had
differing views.

756
00:40:35,680 --> 00:40:39,440
And then you'd be like, oh, Zach
doesn't hate gay people.

757
00:40:39,840 --> 00:40:42,880
What's wrong with him?
And then Zach says because

758
00:40:42,880 --> 00:40:47,120
they're people and, and, and how
does it hurt you?

759
00:40:47,120 --> 00:40:52,520
Oh, I actually it doesn't.
And that, you know, and, and you

760
00:40:52,520 --> 00:40:55,360
start to see that and, and I
think that's why we, it seemed

761
00:40:55,360 --> 00:41:01,720
like we were on this progressive
movement for a long time and

762
00:41:01,720 --> 00:41:06,200
then social media sort of just
destroyed it, you know, in a lot

763
00:41:06,200 --> 00:41:07,960
of ways.
Well, because there's an echo

764
00:41:07,960 --> 00:41:11,880
chamber, that's what it is like.
You see the chamber like 4 Chan

765
00:41:11,880 --> 00:41:18,680
that which kind of breeded a lot
of these hyper, hyper racist

766
00:41:18,680 --> 00:41:22,000
people, hyper homophobic people,
'cause it's just a bunch of

767
00:41:22,000 --> 00:41:23,920
group of people and they're all
talking about the same thing

768
00:41:23,920 --> 00:41:25,760
together.
And that's, that's kind of what

769
00:41:25,760 --> 00:41:28,400
it's always.
But when you when you look at,

770
00:41:28,400 --> 00:41:31,080
when you look at an actual
number of posts, when you

771
00:41:31,080 --> 00:41:33,760
actually look at the social
media posts, the people doing

772
00:41:33,760 --> 00:41:36,840
it, it's a very, very small
number.

773
00:41:37,600 --> 00:41:41,480
It's not, it's not millions.
The people that are that are

774
00:41:41,480 --> 00:41:45,240
doing the most posts.
There's like I think there was

775
00:41:45,240 --> 00:41:49,680
a, there was like 8 or 10 on
Facebook that were posting all

776
00:41:49,680 --> 00:41:53,000
the racist stuff.
And you could get rid of 80% of

777
00:41:53,000 --> 00:41:55,120
it by just removing those eight
people.

778
00:41:55,120 --> 00:41:57,640
I think you're negating to think
about the comments though,

779
00:41:57,640 --> 00:41:59,480
because.
Even the comments, well, see,

780
00:41:59,480 --> 00:42:02,840
The thing is, is then, then the
comments sort of drive it.

781
00:42:02,840 --> 00:42:07,320
And you can see, you can see the
same model, the same model that

782
00:42:07,320 --> 00:42:11,920
I, that I see in every single
thing is that you go to a right

783
00:42:11,920 --> 00:42:17,680
wing site and they have a, a
right wing story.

784
00:42:18,000 --> 00:42:19,360
Same thing with a left wing
story.

785
00:42:20,080 --> 00:42:25,040
And then, and then the first
comment is attacking the story

786
00:42:25,720 --> 00:42:27,680
and, and just a totally stupid
way.

787
00:42:28,200 --> 00:42:31,360
Well, Trump's the greatest
president ever, you know, or

788
00:42:31,760 --> 00:42:34,960
Biden's a complete, he's a, he's
a pudding head.

789
00:42:34,960 --> 00:42:37,240
He's stupider than anybody in
the world, you know?

790
00:42:37,400 --> 00:42:41,320
And then they get 100 people
reply to that guy and you're

791
00:42:41,320 --> 00:42:42,760
just like.
Well, it's baiting, yeah.

792
00:42:43,000 --> 00:42:45,800
And also, if you think about it,
if you go to the top of a post

793
00:42:46,040 --> 00:42:49,320
and you pay somebody or have a
bond, kind of say something of

794
00:42:49,320 --> 00:42:52,960
the opposite of the post,
automatically you're already

795
00:42:52,960 --> 00:42:55,840
garnering a bunch of interaction
on the post.

796
00:42:56,160 --> 00:42:59,120
So you get a bunch of following,
you get a bunch of people

797
00:42:59,120 --> 00:43:01,360
looking at it.
Whereas if you didn't have that,

798
00:43:01,360 --> 00:43:04,120
you get about 1/3 of the the
amount of interaction user

799
00:43:04,120 --> 00:43:06,320
interaction on it.
So this is how we should grow

800
00:43:06,320 --> 00:43:08,000
our podcast.
I think so.

801
00:43:08,000 --> 00:43:11,920
I think we need to pay people to
make terrible comments on our

802
00:43:11,920 --> 00:43:12,480
posts.
Wait.

803
00:43:13,000 --> 00:43:15,880
I, I think about the devices and
it's like the, one of the things

804
00:43:15,880 --> 00:43:18,360
I've always is kind of good
about this is you and I sit here

805
00:43:18,360 --> 00:43:23,280
and talk and we don't talk about
we, we, we, we graze politics.

806
00:43:23,920 --> 00:43:27,360
And, and you can, you can listen
to these podcasts and see where

807
00:43:27,360 --> 00:43:31,520
I'm coming from and kind of what
I think, but it's not this head

808
00:43:31,520 --> 00:43:36,240
on in today's news.
Biden did this or Trump did this

809
00:43:36,240 --> 00:43:38,640
or Obama did this or somebody
did this.

810
00:43:38,640 --> 00:43:41,200
And this is shitty and This is
why and this is horrible.

811
00:43:41,440 --> 00:43:44,000
And they're, they're breaking
the rule of law and it's, no

812
00:43:44,000 --> 00:43:45,800
one's ever done it.
You know, just tell lie after

813
00:43:45,800 --> 00:43:47,920
lie after lie.
I just don't find it palatable

814
00:43:47,920 --> 00:43:50,520
anymore.
I'm just so tired hearing

815
00:43:50,520 --> 00:43:55,080
another white man's opinion on
what's going on in today's day

816
00:43:55,080 --> 00:43:59,240
and age, because as a white man,
I consider my own opinions.

817
00:43:59,240 --> 00:44:04,920
Not really that big of AI, don't
know that big of a thing to care

818
00:44:04,920 --> 00:44:05,840
about.
I don't really.

819
00:44:05,840 --> 00:44:07,440
I don't.
Know you no longer reflect

820
00:44:07,640 --> 00:44:10,520
society.
I don't really understand why we

821
00:44:10,520 --> 00:44:14,960
should focus on such terrible
things that are happening when

822
00:44:14,960 --> 00:44:17,520
there's so many beautiful things
in the world.

823
00:44:17,600 --> 00:44:20,840
Chats.
Well, comedians are doing it now

824
00:44:20,840 --> 00:44:25,360
more than ever, and I don't I'm
like, what happened to actually

825
00:44:25,520 --> 00:44:27,360
philosophizing?
Philosophizing.

826
00:44:28,000 --> 00:44:29,960
That's a word.
And.

827
00:44:30,400 --> 00:44:33,840
Being philosophical.
And analyzing your own life

828
00:44:33,840 --> 00:44:35,600
without having a political
agenda behind it.

829
00:44:35,960 --> 00:44:38,680
And I don't really like you
looked at even the inauguration

830
00:44:38,680 --> 00:44:40,400
for Trump and you had all these
celebrities there.

831
00:44:40,400 --> 00:44:43,200
And I'm like, what is this?
Like, this is like so strange

832
00:44:43,880 --> 00:44:47,400
that entertainers are now
considered, I don't know, the

833
00:44:47,400 --> 00:44:50,280
most important people in the
Western world.

834
00:44:50,760 --> 00:44:53,600
And I think that that's, well, I
think that's a little weird,

835
00:44:53,600 --> 00:44:54,120
Right?
Well.

836
00:44:54,480 --> 00:44:56,760
Because they they have reach.
Yeah.

837
00:44:57,440 --> 00:45:02,640
And, and if you like, if you
like the Kardashians or if you

838
00:45:02,640 --> 00:45:07,040
like Joe Rogan or if you like
Oprah Winfrey or if you like

839
00:45:07,040 --> 00:45:12,320
people, a politician or someone
that wants their sphere wants to

840
00:45:12,480 --> 00:45:14,720
cozy up to them.
And then they'll say, Oh, I like

841
00:45:14,720 --> 00:45:18,280
so and so, you know, but the
other side, the, the reciprocal

842
00:45:18,280 --> 00:45:20,480
of that is there are people that
hate them too.

843
00:45:20,960 --> 00:45:24,600
And so you're, you automatically
corner that those people that

844
00:45:24,600 --> 00:45:27,480
were on the other side that
liked you now don't like you at

845
00:45:27,480 --> 00:45:31,000
all because you you've chased
the the easy target, so to

846
00:45:31,000 --> 00:45:32,600
speak.
I don't know if we're ever going

847
00:45:32,600 --> 00:45:37,320
to get back to a serious level
of hair in, well, humility.

848
00:45:37,480 --> 00:45:40,920
I think that we're going down.
That the pendulum swings.

849
00:45:41,200 --> 00:45:46,800
And I would say that
politically, I've never seen it

850
00:45:46,800 --> 00:45:52,560
swing this far right where
people were trying to kick

851
00:45:52,560 --> 00:45:58,480
judges out and, you know.
And I think the only reason why

852
00:45:58,920 --> 00:46:02,800
that it's swung this far is
because of 2008 and how we had a

853
00:46:02,800 --> 00:46:05,040
black president.
I think that that's the only

854
00:46:05,040 --> 00:46:07,640
reason why.
And there was such an uproar in

855
00:46:07,640 --> 00:46:10,600
the reaction politically to what
happened.

856
00:46:10,960 --> 00:46:14,800
It was so weird because he had
one of the highest vote counts

857
00:46:14,800 --> 00:46:15,880
ever.
Exactly.

858
00:46:15,880 --> 00:46:18,360
Which I don't really.
It really brought people out of

859
00:46:18,360 --> 00:46:20,680
the woodwork that hadn't been
voting for a long time.

860
00:46:21,040 --> 00:46:23,160
And I feel like that that's
really what it did.

861
00:46:23,320 --> 00:46:27,520
So we represented America, but
then the people that represented

862
00:46:27,520 --> 00:46:30,920
America and voted for the black
president then kind of stopped.

863
00:46:31,360 --> 00:46:34,040
I mean, that was that was
Chappelle's observation.

864
00:46:34,040 --> 00:46:37,240
I remember that because he said,
yeah, I went to when I went,

865
00:46:37,320 --> 00:46:40,600
when I went for Trump in the
first time, I knew he was going

866
00:46:40,600 --> 00:46:41,320
to win.
It's like why?

867
00:46:41,320 --> 00:46:45,760
I said because the line out and
around the block was all these

868
00:46:45,760 --> 00:46:48,280
dusty white people.
It was a reaction of what had

869
00:46:48,280 --> 00:46:50,640
happened in 2008.
Yeah, that's that's what I think

870
00:46:50,640 --> 00:46:51,520
it.
Was, and then when I, when I

871
00:46:51,520 --> 00:46:56,000
went in 2000, the the first
Obama election, there were black

872
00:46:56,000 --> 00:46:58,560
people as far as the line could
see and it didn't matter if it

873
00:46:58,640 --> 00:47:00,240
lightning came out.
They were all waiting.

874
00:47:00,280 --> 00:47:02,440
I was like, I'm going to vote
for the first black president.

875
00:47:02,760 --> 00:47:05,920
Second time he ran, same thing,
got the same kind of turn out.

876
00:47:06,480 --> 00:47:09,560
I think Trump comes along and
it's like it's a white woman

877
00:47:09,560 --> 00:47:13,360
who, you know, pays lip service
to people, and they've been

878
00:47:13,360 --> 00:47:16,280
hammering her for eight years on
every horrible thing that she'd

879
00:47:16,280 --> 00:47:21,520
ever done, you know?
There's something about a mirror

880
00:47:21,960 --> 00:47:24,080
and looking at a presidential
candidate and you want to see

881
00:47:24,080 --> 00:47:26,920
yourself in them.
And I think that not only the

882
00:47:26,920 --> 00:47:30,760
long history of racism in the US
kind of is indicative of the

883
00:47:30,760 --> 00:47:34,880
reaction of 2008, but at the
same time, I find it interesting

884
00:47:34,880 --> 00:47:38,960
too, that people missed somebody
that looks so akin to them that

885
00:47:38,960 --> 00:47:41,640
really didn't.
Like, at least George W Bush had

886
00:47:41,640 --> 00:47:45,880
a manufactured accent, right?
At least he was appealing then.

887
00:47:45,880 --> 00:47:48,160
He wasn't honest about his
background.

888
00:47:48,160 --> 00:47:50,400
He wasn't very truthful about
where he came from.

889
00:47:50,680 --> 00:47:54,920
But Donald Trump was, he was,
he's like, oh, I'm a, I'm a

890
00:47:54,920 --> 00:47:56,280
billionaire.
I'm a really successful guy,

891
00:47:56,280 --> 00:47:58,880
which was so kind of polar
opposite to George W Bush, which

892
00:47:58,880 --> 00:48:01,040
I find interesting.
I don't know, like, I would have

893
00:48:01,040 --> 00:48:04,760
expected a good old boy again,
but that's not what he is, which

894
00:48:04,760 --> 00:48:06,040
is kind of strange.
I don't know.

895
00:48:06,640 --> 00:48:11,600
He tells it like it is.
He's in a particular moment.

896
00:48:11,600 --> 00:48:12,920
What was he?
He was from Massachusetts

897
00:48:12,920 --> 00:48:13,560
originally.
I think.

898
00:48:13,560 --> 00:48:15,000
That's crazy still.
Was he?

899
00:48:15,240 --> 00:48:16,360
Yeah.
Who's?

900
00:48:16,440 --> 00:48:19,920
George Yeah, yeah, yeah.
New Hampshire, I think, Or New

901
00:48:19,920 --> 00:48:21,120
Hampshire.
Yeah, that's what it was.

902
00:48:21,160 --> 00:48:22,560
New Hampshire.
Oh my gosh.

903
00:48:23,040 --> 00:48:25,920
Kenny Bunkport was there.
Whatever.

904
00:48:25,920 --> 00:48:27,200
I don't know, growing up,
whatever.

905
00:48:27,200 --> 00:48:29,040
Something like that.
Wow.

906
00:48:29,120 --> 00:48:32,320
What are we at for time here?
I got 48 on my clock.

907
00:48:32,720 --> 00:48:35,760
OK, you're right.
Yeah, we can stop, mine says.

908
00:48:35,840 --> 00:48:37,720
Well I turned mine on like 10
minutes after we started.

909
00:48:37,720 --> 00:48:39,080
I.
Think mine says 54 and we

910
00:48:39,080 --> 00:48:40,600
stopped for a few minutes so.
All right.

911
00:48:40,840 --> 00:48:42,720
Well, I think we're I think
we're good here.

912
00:48:43,000 --> 00:48:44,200
What do you think We think
we're?

913
00:48:44,240 --> 00:48:46,000
We have some ideas.
We're going to pull these out

914
00:48:46,400 --> 00:48:49,520
and use these in the future.
Or we we might post this as a we

915
00:48:49,840 --> 00:48:51,840
don't know what the hell we're
doing so we need to put an idea

916
00:48:51,840 --> 00:48:54,040
session.
I think that this is a good idea

917
00:48:54,040 --> 00:48:57,160
to make an idea about ideas.
I don't know.

918
00:48:57,200 --> 00:48:58,720
I think that we're.
Do you want, do we, have we done

919
00:48:58,720 --> 00:49:04,040
anything on technology?
Not really.

920
00:49:04,040 --> 00:49:06,280
I don't think so, no.
See, I think that one of the

921
00:49:06,280 --> 00:49:09,440
discussion, the starting of the
discussion was artificial

922
00:49:09,440 --> 00:49:10,880
intelligence that I did with
Brock.

923
00:49:10,880 --> 00:49:12,720
And I thought that that was
really, really cool.

924
00:49:12,840 --> 00:49:16,200
That's so saturated though.
I'm so tired of talking about AI

925
00:49:16,200 --> 00:49:19,400
to some degree because here, for
me specifically, it's just like

926
00:49:19,400 --> 00:49:22,000
a it's, it's just beaten to
death.

927
00:49:22,080 --> 00:49:23,600
It's like they took, Yeah.
But I think that we could.

928
00:49:23,600 --> 00:49:25,600
We could.
It's something that people will

929
00:49:25,600 --> 00:49:27,760
listen to.
Fair.

930
00:49:27,880 --> 00:49:30,680
That's fairpoint.
Well, actually, we don't know

931
00:49:30,680 --> 00:49:33,640
that.
Wait until wait until people, if

932
00:49:33,640 --> 00:49:36,880
anybody actually listens to his
podcast and posts stuff and says

933
00:49:36,880 --> 00:49:38,280
things, that's what I want to
say.

934
00:49:38,440 --> 00:49:39,840
Yeah, we'll see.
You know.

935
00:49:40,040 --> 00:49:41,840
I'm curious.
And I sent you the link.

936
00:49:41,840 --> 00:49:44,640
Post the link to your.
Can you just post that to our

937
00:49:44,640 --> 00:49:45,920
website?
I don't know how you do that.

938
00:49:46,520 --> 00:49:48,280
Can.
You post a link.

939
00:49:48,480 --> 00:49:50,760
I guess I could I could post it
in the link of this video if you

940
00:49:50,760 --> 00:49:53,520
want, but this is coming out in
2 weeks so no.

941
00:49:53,800 --> 00:49:57,080
No, no, I would say how do you
post a link to his thing on a

942
00:49:57,080 --> 00:49:58,520
record of my father?
Can't you go on?

943
00:49:58,520 --> 00:50:02,000
Oh, on the website, yeah, we
only really have episode pages.

944
00:50:02,000 --> 00:50:03,960
I could figure it out.
We'll figure it out.

945
00:50:04,040 --> 00:50:07,400
Well, as always, thank you guys
for listening and we will talk

946
00:50:07,400 --> 00:50:10,840
to you next week,
recordmyfather.com on YouTube,

947
00:50:10,840 --> 00:50:14,320
Instagram and Spotify.
Thank you guys for listening and

948
00:50:14,320 --> 00:50:15,200
we will talk to you later.
Bye.