Everything is a Scam (ft. Chief) | March 24, 2026

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We've teamed up with Shady Rays to bring you an exclusive offer. Head to ShadyRays.com and use code MAKRO for 40% off two or more polarized sunglasses. Try for yourself the shades rated five stars by over 300,000 people. Welcome in to macro dosing. Today is Tuesday, March 24th. I am here, Big T. I'm here with Chief. We have Madeline and Mackenzie here. Neither of our other two guys are here today. PFT I think is on some sort of vacation. I don't even know where he's at. I think they're with PMT and somewhere. Yeah, they're in Scottsdale or something. But I thought it was like a group vacation type deal. Oh, is this Max's bachelor party? No, because that's in Vegas. Okay, so maybe this is... I thought it was a spring break thing. Maybe a golf thing. Or maybe they're doing work stuff. Yeah, I don't know. There's probably golf involved if Hank's there. I think they're filming stuff. Yeah, PFT's gone. There's some baseball spring training content. Spring training is over. Season starts Thursday. I know. Wednesday for the giant champions. Netflix games. Yeah, I don't like it. I don't like what? Starting too early? Starting in March, that's insane to me. There should be a hard, fast rule that baseball can't start. They can't have opening day until the tournament's over. And then I also think that they should run it. They should run opening day how March Madness does Thursday and Friday, where it's on four different channels. You can do quad box. They're cutting the highlights and just be like... They kind of do that. Not really. I mean, they're starting with Netflix. One game. Yeah, but most of the games on Thursday are all like, you know, they're spaced out. I think they should just own that day. And everybody should start on the same day. And you should have half the league schedule start at one o'clock and half the league schedule start in prime time and maybe a four o'clock's late for the West Coast teams. And then there also like Wrigley Field shouldn't be open in March. That's so stupid. It's going to be 35 degrees. I thought it was going to be pretty nice. I don't know. I made the 35 degrees part off. There will be 35 degree days. Yes. On Thursday, it's supposed to be nice. I feel like there's enough Dome teams. High 55. That's not bad. What about the next week? Probably fucking cold again. Well, there's a low of 30 on Thursday as well. Also cold. That was such a kick in the balls too. On Saturday, we had such a nice day and you look at the forecast and it's like, oh, it's supposed to be 70 again tomorrow. Wrong. Yep. That was the only day. It was 70 at midnight. So they counted it and then the temperatures plummeted. I don't know that I went outside on Saturday. I think I stayed in and watched basketball the entire day. I was out for a bit. It was nice. Yeah. The four days and I love college basketball. I love the NCAA tournament. Once you get to Sunday. You basketballed out? I'm dragon. Yeah. And UT played Friday Sunday, which I guess gave me a little boost on Sunday that I otherwise would not have had. But I mean, by the time I get to Sunday morning, I'm just like, man, we really got to do this again, huh? Yeah. I almost don't want to say this out loud because I feel like it's sacrilegious. No, say it because I'm... The tournament doesn't hit for me the way that it did 10 years ago. Oh, okay. I didn't know you're going to say that. But... What'd you think I was going to say? I thought you were going to say maybe we space out these games a little more. No. I mean, they're spaced out. There's no games again until Thursday. You can rest up. Well, I know, but I'm saying we did what? 48 games in four days. Yeah. I think the format's pretty good, but it's just like, I don't know. I used to be able to tell you every coach, every player, every... I'm throwing darts. I pick my bracket the same way my sisters do. They'll be like, oh, I have a friend who went to North Carolina. I like the Washington's colors are purple and gold. I like that. I'm not really doing anything different. I don't know anything about this sport. That's just because you're not watching. Correct. So if you watched all year, you would like it more. I don't think so. I think I'm not watching all year because I don't like it as much as I used to. Yeah, I guess that's a chicken egg thing. I'd rather watch hockey. I'd rather watch soccer. I'd rather like the Thursday, Nottingham Forest had a Europa League game against Mitchell and some, I don't even, Denmark. Oh, Midgetland. No, we played them one time. Yeah. Got the dub, not the brag. But I was like, everyone in the whole world and everyone in this office was crammed into the two rooms. I was up in my office watching the soccer on my computer by myself because it's just like, I care about this more than whatever's going on. Yeah, I'm not there. Yeah. No, I mean, and I still like it. I still watched a bunch on Sunday. This second round was incredible. It was awesome. It was great. Iowa, like great stories, good games, St. John's at the buzzer, all that kind of stuff. Great. Entertaining. But I just, like I'm just not, and I also don't have a team I care about at all, which might be part of it. Like you're always Vols 100% of the time. I don't. Fourth straight, sweet 16. Yeah, pretty good. This is Rick Barnes. Playing in Chicago. That's basically a Rick Barnes national champion. No, no, no, no. If he gets a sweet 16. No, you're doing a dumb thing. You're doing a dumb thing. No, no, that if there. Tennessee being in the sweet 16 every single year. It's a dynasty. It's awesome. Yeah, it is. It's a dynasty. We're one of the best programs in the country. Agreed, dynasty. We're about to go to a third straight elite eight. Who do you have? Iowa State. Oh, you're not going to be to Iowa State. I watch enough of both of those teams. Iowa State, it's a problem. Name three players on Iowa State. They got the big white kid. Okay. They got the little. Milan Mamchilovitch, one of the best shooters in the country. Yeah. And the other white kid that dunks all over the place. I'm not sure. Look, it doesn't matter if I know the players. They're best player. It might be out. I Josh Jefferson. Oh yeah, he was hurt in that game. But I got eyeballs and I can look at Tennessee and I can look at Iowa State. I guess we'll find out. We will find out. Uh, Mad Dog, sorry that, uh, I know you were devastated. I was. I got to have a lot of fun during the playing game. Yeah. And that's, and that's good. Yeah. Yeah. Everyone, everyone needs that. Yeah. A little bit of fun and then reality kicks in. We had a March Madness win technically. That is technically true. That is true. And that's more than we could say pretty much every other year. Set a record in the game. Which was most white boys. Most three point attempts in a March Madness tournament. Oh yeah. That's all they can do. Really? Yeah. I mean, did you watch the game? Shot 43. I knew they took a ton. I didn't know it was the most. And the one kid, I believe it's Peter Souter. All his, his, um, three point shots have no arc. They just, just like the Ray Allen. They just go straight in. Yeah. It was very fun. It was very fun. And I got to experience that and that's kind of all I need. I didn't, you know what? I'm happy that my friend is happy because my team is not as good. Thank you. Welcome. Uh, did you see Tennessee is the only team in the history of the NCAA tournament to play their first two games against teams with 30 wins? No, did not see that. Oh, hang another banner. Yeah. Both of them. Yeah. And Jacobi Gillespie, one of only three players to have 50 points and 15 assists in their first two tournament games. Do you know the other two? Say it again. One, 50 points and 15 assists in the first two games of the NCAA tournament. One is easy, had like a historic tournament run. How recently? This century. This century? Yeah. Historic tournament run. Can I say Darren Williams? It's more recent than that. More recent than I'm out. Think like best run by a point guard in an NCAA tournament in the last 20 years. In the last 20 years. Best run by, I don't know. Kimba Walker. Okay. In 2011. And the other one was Billy Donovan. Ah, Providence College. 1987. Was that for Rick Barnes or did he play for Petino? You play for Petino. Okay. I think Barnes might have been like the next year. Really? I always just associated it. Barnes just like popped up at Texas one day. That's when I started realizing who he was. Rick Barnes coached at Providence from 1988 to 1994. Yeah. So, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, he followed Petino. But yeah, great tournament. Shout out to High Point. Those guys were fun to watch. They were. I guess we lacked like a true Cinderella, which I actually think is going to continue to get worse as time goes on. We were talking about this on the stretch. When I was a kid, we went through an insane run with Wichita State, VCU, George Mason, Loyola, where we were getting them all the time. Butler, before that, a Cinderella just meant making the sweet 16. You know? Sure, but I think even those are going to be fewer and farther between. But would you count Iowa as a Cinderella now? Iowa? No. They're at a nine seat. Maybe they have an awesome player. They're a power comp. They haven't made the sweet 16 17 years or whatever. You can't be a Cinderella from a power conference. Okay. Cinderella is a school that you don't know where it is. Fairly Dickinson. Yes. Okay. Yeah. High Point would have was. Yeah. I mean, they played Arkansas down to the wire like that. They did. They were a really good team. Yeah. But you're talking like a Florida Gulf Coast. Right. Yeah. I think to be a Cinderella, you only have to win one game. You're going to be a Cinderella, but Cinderella run, you have to get to the sweet 16 and you have to be a 12 seed or higher. All right. How about this? If Iowa makes the final four, is that a Cinderella run? No. No. It's an incredible tournament. Cinderella has to be a high point. A Fairly Dickinson. A George Mason. A major. Yeah. Okay. And another thing that I've seen a lot of people point out is we have so many metrics now that accurately ranked these teams one to 350 that the misseedings that used to happen that would lead to some of that. Yeah. That's a good point. Like Wichita State in 2011 or 2012, whatever year that was, they'd have been a four seed. Okay. And what were they instead of 12 or 13? No, they weren't that high. They were a seven or eight. Okay. I have another, speaking of analytics, I think there's too much analytics. Okay. I don't, like being a baseball fan, like I don't need to know. Wichita State was a nine in 2013. Okay. I went out to the final four. But I don't want to know about Exwaba and all these different statistics and all, like there's just too much. Like there's too many stats. Do you know what Exwaba is? No. Expected weighted on base average. Yeah. You should look into it. It's a good stat. But why is, why? Why do I need to know that? Because it accurately, it more accurately reflects a player's offensive worth than a lot of traditional statistics. WRC plus is the one you should look at. Weighted runs created plus. What's the plus? I don't know. But it, that is a hundred is always baseline. The average player in Major League Baseball. So if a player has a 128, you know, he's 28% better than the average player. All right. The advanced stats to lend themselves the baseball the best. Agreed. But like, if I have to look at PFF rankings and it's just like. Oh, PFF's fake. Don't ever look at PFF. Okay. But like you understand my point is that they grade out all, they have their metrics. Hockey, I think is the most egregious. Hockey they throw me numbers and granted I'm not the biggest hockey guy in the world. But when I see like a hockey analytics chart, I mean they've got stuff up there that may as well be in French. It's just like there's so many variable. You can't have like a war equivalent in hockey. Like it just doesn't, it does not work who you're out on the ice with when you're out on the ice where, you know, like there's, are your, are your chances coming at the end of a shift? Are they against the other teams best players? Are you playing with other good players? Like there's just too many variables. And then there's all these people who like, I remember I got into like a big internet fight about Seth Jones from the Blackhawks traded forum. There was like Seth Jones was like, sewered here on the internet before even laced up his skates because everyone was like, this guy had created a chart that said in, you know, it was like red was good and blue was bad. And Seth Jones had too much blue on this little PDF. And it's like, Oh, well he sucked. What a terrible trade. And like he had a hard time with the Blackhawks because the Blackhawks sucked and then they trade him to the Panthers. And what do you know? He's awesome. It's just because he needed like you have to have good players around you to have your metrics reflected. So if your metrics can only reflect the whole team, then don't give me individual player metrics because they just don't matter. They can't matter. Yeah. Hockey is a weird one too. Cause like the stats are just so different than other sports that like it's like plus minus is a huge deal. No, plus minus. They people don't use that. We don't care anymore. No. And that one does kind of make a little bit of sense to me. I think it makes I always thought it was a dumb stat. I think it's a good stat over an entire season maybe cause you have enough data points, but plus minus it's in a game. You might have, if you're minus two, but you lost two nothing, but you played 25 minutes. It's just like you could step on the ice. The other team could be scoring a goal and it's like, well, whatever. I think over time with, you know, a full season worth of data, if you're minus 30, that's not the best thing. But if it's over like a game or two here or there, like I just don't think it's reflective of how you play. Okay. Well, that's how much I follow the hockey analytics. I know that we should actually, I'm sorry. I told you this because I don't want you to look into it further. I don't want you to know. I promise I won't. Thank you. The extent of my hockey knowledge is I know the Preds have won four or five in a row. They're hot. Yeah. We're back. You're in a playoff spot right now. I think they're tied for it. Yeah. Yeah. The Colombian lattes are here crafted with a hundred percent Colombian coffee. Each can is a good source of protein and comes in two smooth flavors, espresso, cafe mocha and espresso, sweet cream. And whether you're braving your morning commute or chasing your pup, Stella blue cans are for those always on the go. And for those who care, Stella blue is more than just great coffee. It's about giving back. I named the brand after my rescue dog Stella, who inspired our mission to help more dogs find their forever homes. Every purchase supports animal rescue organizations. So when you drink Stella blue, you're not just fueling your day. You're saving a dog's life. Try the new cans today. Taste the difference and make a difference. All new Stella blue coffee can lattes now available at Stella blue coffee dot com or subscribe on Amazon for 10% off. Enough, enough sports. We got to talk about this TSA business, bro. Has anyone here been to an airport? Maddell, you didn't fly over there. No, we specifically drove because we didn't want to deal with the airports, which was I mean, this being the right decision. I saw this morning in Atlanta, the line was outside, which in the Atlanta airport, the security is not right when you get to the front door. You get to baggage claim, then you walk through like some shops and stuff. And then there's the security line and it snakes for quite a while before you even get to where the baggage claim could be a possibility. So my dad has to go to Atlanta for meetings this week. He's driving from Chicago because he's just like, I'm not, I'm not there. So he's driving to Nashville and then staying overnight and then Nashville, Atlanta. So Nashville, I think is like eight from here and then Atlanta's another four. Yeah. So it's like, it's like 11 or 12 hours. I'm sure he'll be stepping on it. But it's like, would you rather do that? Or would you rather, he's like, I was like, that's kind of crazy because he's 70. And he's like, no, I need time where I can just think, I won't be able to think in the airport. I just want to look at the windshield and think about things. I'm like, all right, well, God bless. And I feel that, but once I hit like six, I'm like, I really wish I wasn't driving anymore. Yeah. Well, I think that's why he's breaking it up. Yeah. But yeah. And I don't blame him. I got Sydney Wells wedding in what, what's today's date? We'll call it seven weeks. They're flying into Atlanta. I'm already being like, maybe we should cancel the flights and just drive. It's not going to be that long, right? I don't know. They might still be into the people in these tweets that you sent today might still be in security. Yeah. It was an hour and 53 minute wait at 6 AM. Or it could be like this where it was like, they open up, but then they shut down again for whatever reason. Like, we had this three months ago. What is going on? They're calling you. I hate you. The guy from a real world. It's the secretary of. Well, they're calling out of work, right? I don't know. They're like, we're not showing up. Well, they're not getting paid. Well, that's another reason we should privatize it. But that we're not here for that right now though. Privatize what? TSA. How about I'll do you one better? Let's just not have it. Let's just get rid of TSA. I'm listening. I don't know that I'm on board, but I'm listening. Okay. So, because like this is the whole thing where it's like, oh, like if you don't want to go through TSA, you just get, you know, clear or whatever, you can skip the line. Enough of this. It's been 25 years since we've had a major airline incident and there was nothing really before that. Make everybody just walk through a metal detector or whatever, scan your passport and be on your way. I have. I mean, how is that different than what we're doing now? Because you're taking your shoes off. Don't have to do that anymore. Sometimes you do. No. Don't start the eddy. I can't do this anymore. No, you don't have to take them off anymore. Bins. The bins are a problem. Okay. You're X-raying everything. And I would say that now that you lock the cabin doors, good. But like, is there any more of a threat on a bus or a train than there is on an airplane? Well, I've thought that as well. You just walk right on to an Amtrak and I'm like, I mean, someone could blow this up right now. I want there to be some, you know, level of security, but also, like, I think we could find somebody. Like why, let's just let clear run it. Clear bring in your metal detectors and let's do that. Because right now we have it tied to the government, which makes sense in theory because they, you know, the FAA runs the airports and stuff. But like, I mean, we can't have this. This is the disaster. The only thing with chiefs thing is I, chief's point is I do feel it's similar to the vaccine issue. Not, obviously not really, but where people don't give their kids vaccines because they're like, well, there is no, people don't have measles anymore. It's like, well, people don't have measles anymore because there's no, because we have vaccines that eradicate measles. I fear if we take away TSA, they're like, well, bombings don't happen on planes anymore. Is that because we have TSA though? Maybe. TSA is pretty ineffective though. I think I saw they don't catch like 60 something percent of weapons that go through. Yeah. They're bad. They catch my hairspray, but they can't catch a gun. Yeah. Yeah. Correct. I don't think it's guns. I think it's, you know, yeah, but still. Yeah. I don't know. And I don't know enough about the measles. I was, I can't remember what I was watching, but maybe just a TikTok where they were showing an old clip from the Brady Bunch talking about the measles and about how like it was just nothing. Like, oh, I got the measles. Stay home. I got a fever and then you're back. So I don't even, what do you, what do you even happens when you get the measles? I don't know because I have measles vaccine. Yeah. I didn't, I didn't have that. I think when, when it was at around, because I didn't have the chickenpox one either because it came out after I was older. I remember like getting the chickenpox when I was four. Measles is a highly contagious viral infection causing high fever, cough, red, watery eyes and a spreading skin rash, mostly affecting, mostly affecting unvaccinated children. But like, do you die? I'm sure that you don't. I mean, I'm sure there are cases where people die. Okay. I don't think it's like a fatal thing, but I, again, I'm sure as, as most illnesses, there are obviously complications. Probably cases. Yeah. Undercover investigators working for the department of Homeland Security's office of the inspector general managed to sneak fake guns, knives and explosives through checkpoints earlier this year, getting the mock weapons through 70% of the time. The unclassified summary noted quote, we identified vulnerabilities within TSA, screener performance, screening equipment and associated procedures. So they're not stopping 70% of weapons anyway. Then they just decide we're not working anymore. Let's find somebody that'll do this correctly. They're not getting paid. So why would they work? Yeah. Well, that's what I'm saying. If we don't have it tied to every government shutdown that happens every two months, then they'd be getting paid. What do they get paid? What is, I can't imagine. What does TSA cost nationally every year? So you're asking how, what is the TSA budget? I'm going to guess we spend $42 billion on TSA. You'd be shocked. You're getting a deal. Really? 11.8 billion for fiscal year 2025. So this is funding security operations such as 5.5 billion for the frontline screening workforce and 98.5 million for exit lanes. How the fuck can an exit lane be almost 100 million? What does that mean? What's an exit lane? Just because you're standing there putting your shoes back on? No, I think that's when you're leaving the airport and they're like, this is last stop. You can't go back. No reentry. That costs $100 million a year? Maybe the people who sit there. Yeah. Probably. So think of how many airports each of those guys is making. Multiple exits. 55 grand. Yeah. Yeah. See, how much does it say? All right, T. I got a question for you. Let's say that it is privatizing clear some other agency comes in to run it. Would you then be okay in theory with for your bag charges or you're baking another $5? Because they're saying it's $5.50 per one-way trip is how much it costs for TSA. They're saying that's what it breaks down to for a passenger? That's what it's saying. Yeah. So if they just bake that into your, as a line item. With every fee an airline has throw that in there, nobody will even notice. I'm saying. It's already exorbitant. I agree. As it is. Yeah. Yeah. I would pay that to never have to worry about waiting in a seven hour line. Yeah. I would too. And I'm already paying, I already do the clear. Clear as I think I just got the bill is like $209 a year, something like that. Yeah. I actually have to renew my, when you, because is there not a TSA fee now? I feel like I've seen TSA somewhere when you look at an airline ticket and like what it breaks down to. Let me see if I can find on these ones I have right now. I feel like there's something in there that says TSA. Let's see if I just bought the tickets for Sydney's wedding. So let's see. Like you're saying from the airlines. There's TSA fee. Yeah. Like when you buy a ticket and there's all the taxes and fees and stuff in there, there's something that says TSA. Uh, taxes and carrier imposed fees. It doesn't break down what the carrier imposed fees are. I just, I just sent myself a receipt of a flight I have coming up. Let's see if I can get into it. I don't know why you won't show me the receipt on your app and I have to email it to myself. You could just show me. Mine doesn't do, mine doesn't do a line item. It just says taxes. It's $155 and 34 cents plus taxes and carrier imposed fees totaling $27 and five cents. Okay. So on my ticket, I have a U S transportation tax. That's $43. I have a U S flight segment tax. That's $10. I have a passenger civil aviation security service fee. That's $11 and 20 cents. And you know what? The TSA budget is largely funded by a $5.60 per one way trip passenger fee. Multiply that by two. What is that? That's 1120. So that's exactly what that is. So then what the fuck? So when you pay your passenger civil aviation security service fee, that's $11 and 20 cents, that is the exact amount they've calculated that it costs to run TSA. You're already paying that. So then, okay. So then why aren't they being paid? This is what I mean. Because it's through the government and the government is shut down in quotation marks. They're still taking my money last I checked, but they're shut down. But then they, if, but this is one of the, this is one of those things where it's like the government is shut down. But if it's already funded by the people who use it, then why would it be shut down? Just put it in a separate bucket. The military is in a- It should be run by someone who will do it correctly. But the military is in a separate bucket. I'm pretty sure every time I open my phone, I'm seeing things that the military is still very active. So if they, if the government is shut down, just put this in a separate bucket and then just draw from their own funds, which we are currently paying. Yeah. I'm looking on this ticket. I'm paying $72 in some sort of tax that says the United States on it. God damn. Broken down into four different categories. So figure this out. Is there- Figure it out. Yeah. I mean, that's what I, that's what I- They'd be at work if they worked for clear. So, but it's like, that's where it's like, this is only an excuse when they want it to be an excuse because if when they need, then they need the funds for things that they want to do, they're always there. Seems like the funds for Iran are aplenty. They're humming. Yeah. They got plenty. Gas prices keep going up though. Right. I pay a ridiculous amount for gas. I was out, I had to go out to my parents' house on Saturday and I always like try to time up my trips when my gas tanks run low so I can have that nice suburban gas price get out of the co-county. Yeah, I do too. It was $4.45 in like a farm town. Well, I messed up and I needed to get gas the other day around here. I was like, I couldn't go another day without doing it and I went to the gas station around the corner was 470. The one by my house is 519. Holy shit. I always try to do it when I'm like going to church or somewhere out in the suburbs or I'll go to Costco, but I had to get it here. Yeah. That's crazy. I'm furious. Yeah. I just I've been I've been avoiding plane travel because I have a flight in two weeks. I'm terrified. Yep. You know what? Let's just stay home. Like if the government's going on strike, I'm going on strike. I like not paying anything. I'm staying home. I'm not spending any money. Fuck you guys. I'm out. It's impossible. Don't make me start making my own food. You want me to grow? Do you know it's illegal to grow your own wheat? Someone was telling me that. Can we that can't be accurate? For bread? Yes. I'm I don't know, but I'm calling cap. Let me see. Calling cap or Nick. Okay. However, large quantities is restricted under federal law regarding production quotas and saving seeds from protected patented varieties is illegal. I'm seeing that it's not illegal. Yeah. So you can grow patented wheat. There's patented everything. That's true. Okay. So because they do the GMO and then they own that genetic material, that this is like a big scandal because full scandal controversy because since the beginning of time, farmers would keep some seeds for next year's crop. Now they can't because if you retain seeds from like corn or whatever, Monsanto or these big ag companies will be like, Hey, you're stealing our IP. You have to buy that from us. So you can't just retain seeds from your previous year's harvest to replant, which is the basis of agriculture since the beginning of time, because that they will claim that they have sued and won saying that farmers are stealing their IP. So you pay you buy the use it once. Correct. And then you have to use it. It's a user to lose it. Right. Type two. So, but historically forever, you would keep a percentage of your seeds to replant for next year's harvest. Cause you obviously always have, you know, if you have a bushel of corn or a thing of corn, well, that's all just seeds on the outside with a little germ. So you would keep that and you can make another whole field of corn with like a bushel of corn, but now they will sue you for not rebuying it. Cause it's like, well, we own the IP on that seed. So we own that seed. So if you didn't buy it from us directly, then you're in violation of our patents by growing your own corn. Okay. It does say on here, did you say this that specifically over 15 acres it requires to government certification? Yeah. So I mean, that makes sense if you're running like a large commercial farm that you'd be subject to the, why the FDA or whatever. I'm not saying I think that's great. I'm just saying that. I think you should be. Yeah. If you want to, if you want to ensure that it's a safe product, but I think this is more about like price controls. Sure. I don't like that. This is America. God damn it. We got a lot of, we got a lot of gripes that I'll go back to one spot. Yeah. Man, this is supposed to be a nation of farmers ever read about Thomas Jefferson. Yep. Uh, yeah, I'm, I'm worried about that, uh, that six AM flight out of my bachelor party, if this thing still goes. If this thing is still rocking by the time it's your bachelor party. When's your bachelor party? May, May 1st. Oh, you're in big trouble, dude. Yeah. What? 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I genuinely don't know what I'd do if I showed up at the airport and they were like, yeah, the line's five hours. Cause I'm not standing in that. I'm not, I just wouldn't do it. I don't know what I'd do and I like had to be somewhere. I saw a tweet that maybe I'm dumb for agreeing, but it's like, who's getting on these planes? If the TSA line is four hours long, are these planes just leaving with like half filled? Oh yeah. Airlines run empty planes all the time because they have to run a certain amount of flights out of airports to like maintain their spots. So they'll just run empty flights all the time. That seems wasteful. Cause they had the flight has to leave in order. So if you're Southwest and you want to be at, they just, uh, they just went into Knoxville's airport. So if you want to maintain your relationship with that airport or whatever, yeah, you have to have a certain number of flights take off and land. Even if there's no real demand for it. Correct. So they will run empty flights because they've already budgeted the cost of that flight anyway. They don't care. So they'll, they're all credit card companies anyway. That's another thing we could talk about. So they'll just, they, the plane just leaves empty and comes back. I think some of them, they do intentionally look, look this up. I think they will intentionally run some empty planes for that reason. But I, I, I guess I don't understand the, the, so it's more valuable just to theoretically have a spot at the Knoxville airport than to, then you make up the difference in that it's more valuable. I guess. So yeah, here's an article from 2022. Thousands of planes are flying empty and no one can stop them as the headline. A pre-pandemic policy on airport usage is pressuring airlines to keep ghost flights in the air. The climate impact is massive. So I guess this is a, this is a climate thing, but that, that is a thing. Uh, that's, but okay. Now this might be a stupid question. Are there any airports that are not owned by municipalities? Isn't like really small ones. I don't know. Like any major airports. I mean, yeah, everyone I've gone to it's always, you know, the mayor is on the loud speaker. Yeah. No major commercial airports in the United States are almost exclusively public, publicly owned and operated. Huh. Yeah. I don't, I don't, I don't think there's an answer to this problem. In January, 2022 analysis from Greenpeace claim that more than a hundred thousand ghost flights would sail over European skies this winter. Damn, how do I get on one of those? Yeah. Cause, and are you even allowed to buy tickets on those? No, I think some of them there, they just do that. So then you probably don't have to staff it either. So you probably, yeah, you just have to have the pilots. Yeah. Well, but do you remember that analysis that came out a couple of years ago about, I think it was specifically Delta, but it's pretty much every airline now is just a credit card company that runs flights. No, explain that. Oh, like they don't make money on flying people. That's just points. They actually might lose a little bit. It's just all credit cards. Like Delta is a credit card company. And this, why is everything a credit card company? If I go, if I go into J crew, would you like our credit card? No, actually I wouldn't. Okay. And I don't care if you can give me one time 25% off, percent off this sweater. I'm about to buy it. Just like, who cared? Like, why are they pushing that every single time you check out? That must be such a core part of their business. What is the national credit card that up to? Oh, there's no telling. I'll guess this too, but I'm going to be all, it's got to be trillions. I'm going to say it's 17 trillion dollars. Okay, you're way off. He's not off with the T part. He's not off with the T part. He's off with the number though. 1.28 trillion. Okay. A 5.5% increase year over year. The average debt per borrower is around 6,300 dollars. That's crazy. Lord, I don't understand. Like I'm terrified of credit. Same. Me too. I have one begrudgingly because I paid off my student loans and they tanked my credit score because I no longer had, I no longer had debt. You want to talk about a scam? Let's just do scams. We're doing scams today. This is like, I argue, I've argued with like, because I don't use them. I don't, I have my debit card where I'll do cash and I have a credit card, obviously. But like, I don't like to use it and they're like, well, just pay it off every month and you get your points. Like, I don't fucking want to participate in that system. I don't either. But that's how they get you. No, the points are bullshit. You get for every thousand dollars you spend, you get 10 cents. It's a load of shit. And they, I vividly remember the morning that I got an email. It was like, your credit score dropped 112 points after cause I paid off my student loans. And I was this, I was so mad. I was so viscerally angry. And it's like, because I did the right thing. Correct. You're penalizing me. Yes. So I finally against my will got one credit card and I pay it off daily. Daily? Yes. Like every time it comes up, it's like, you owe $47. I pay it. Like I, I don't even let, I can't fathom spending money on a credit card that I didn't have. It's right. I wouldn't be able to sleep. And it's like this whole thing with like credit scores in general, cause like now I'm house hunting again, right? And it's like, they didn't even have credit, like credit scores is like a modern idea. Credit cards weren't widely used until the late 80s. So like our parents were buying homes and they would just have to show that they had money in the bank, show their, you know, your W twos and, you know, your, I don't know, your latest employment statement, which they can still do by the way. Not only can they still do, they do still do. Cause I just had to send in all these documents to get pre approved. And then it's always, you know, then they have your credit score as well. And then so I use one guy in particular, my mortgage guy. And then they get, you know, he gets you approved or whatever. But I noticed the thing that my credit score scored drop 43 points. And it's because, because why, why does it drop? Because they're checking to see if I can be approved. And it's like nothing has changed. And it's just, but the fact that they look at it drops your credit score. This actually is, I think it's the biggest scam we got going. It might be. It might just be. And we live in a world of scams. This is the biggest one. Like, but like make that make sense. Like you paying off a debt. That's good. Objectively good. I was very happy about it. As you should. That I didn't. I don't think your bank said this to you. So I'm going to say congratulations on paying off your student. Thank you. And then I was, I paid it off. You know, I didn't have to carry that into my 30s and 40s. Like a lot of people do. I'm very sympathetic to that. And they just immediately, you know what, fuck you. Yeah. We're not going to get extra money out of you. Yeah. Fuck you. I mean, they will just, yeah, I, the credit score is the worst thing we got going. Why does, how did this, how did everything get so fucked? I feel like everything is like, how does, like when you're presenting this, and this is the thing that has to be, it's used by everyone. And then there's multiple, like I only, my credit score went down 43 points because I had one lender check my score. If you're one of these people that are using multiples, then you have three, four, five pings on your credit report. You get tanked a ton. And that's what it's for, by the way. Correct. When they use it for its sole intended purpose. Right. It drops. How does, how is that legal? I don't, that's what I mean. Like who is in charge, who is in charge of this? I'd like to know. I'd love to know. It's nobody that we voted for. I'll tell you that. It might be. No, probably is. The people that are in charge of this, you'll never know their names. But they're still, but yeah, but it's still like, we'll never know their names and people who are in charge of it, but they're getting appointed by people who we probably voted for. And you guys too. Thank you. Yeah, I mean, this didn't come about a year ago. Okay, so. No, they're all fucked up. There's only one party in this country. That's like. It's versus or it's. Yes. Upper class versus the rest of us. Correct. We need, we need a, a, a, a class based revolution. You an, you an Aryan. Yeah, buddy. Credit score, specifically the fight ghost score, which is the one that everyone uses. Yeah. We're invented in 1956 by an engineer, Bill Fair, fuck you, Bill Fair and mathematician, Earl Isaac, who founded Fair Isaac and company. They aim to create a standardized objective and data driven system for lenders to evaluate borrow or credit, credit worthiness, replacing subjective assessments. Which on its surface, the way that's described, fine. You know, right. But it's like where it, this thing where it's like, you get penalized for people looking at it. That's, which is why it exists. Correct. There are so many things we have in society right now that just we accept because they've existed for a long time. Yes. That if I pitched to you, you would look at me like I was the craziest person in the world. If, well, I have some of these would get me in trouble, but we, we accept a lot of shit that, that is, if you, if you were proposing it for the first time, you'd be a nut job. Yeah. I think about that with all taxes. With all taxes. It's one of them. That's like the, how we founded this country was like, I'm not fucking paying taxes on that. And then guess what? You pay the tax for the TSA, TSA, not open. Taxation without representation is theft. Correct. I agree. By the way, this is literally taxation without representation. You're taxing me for an airline ticket and I'm not even getting the fucking TSA agent. Correct. That actually is like. And they're going to, but then they'll say like you are represented, but I don't feel like this. I don't feel represented. I don't feel represented. I feel very disenfranchised. What was, it's like a famous Supreme Court ruling where they're like corporations are people too. That's the United Citizens United. Citizens United, which what a fuck name that is, because that's the opposite of that. It's just corporations united. I don't get what that, I don't get that one. So basically there's a Supreme Court ruling because there's always been limits on how much you can give to a candidate for a particular cause. Like Elon gave $400 million. 30 years ago, that would not have been allowed legally. There's a cap. And then they decided that through, that's when you had like the creation of super PACs and because they're like spending your money is they ruled that it's a form of free speech and it's political speech. So you should be allowed to spend whatever you want on different congressional or presidential races. And because that became a free speech issue that the Supreme Court actually ruled that yeah, like corporations are people too. So now if you thought there were special interest problems before, now it's just like they have unlimited amounts of money to throw around. And like they can buy candidates and like people, everyone's sitting here. We have constraints with our money. We're competing for voices against major corporations in the political sphere and it's just like this is how things get way off the rails. Wait, did I hear you right? So this is basically how super PACs can have the right to exist? Without. Super PACs became legal in 2010 following the Supreme Court ruling in Citizens United versus Federal Election Commission. They only became legal in 2010. Yeah, that's what I mean. Like I remember when like I had never heard that term until Romney was running against Obama in 12. And I was like, why does this is super PAC? I'd heard of like political action, a PAC, but then like super PACs became its own different thing. Oh my God, it makes me sick to my fricking stuck. The Citizens United ruling January 21st, 2010, determined that independent political spending is a form of free speech and protected by the First Amendment. So then they could just do whatever they wanted. All right, what are more scams? What else are they getting us on? Hmm. I mean, beside the obvious. What's the obvious? I mean, just, you know, they, they get you on everything. They do get you on everything. You, you get your paycheck. Yeah. You've already paid taxes. Then you go to buy gas. You pay sales tax on that. Plus there's a gas tax. Do you know, do you know about the Chicago bottled water tax? No, tell me about it. Or the plastic bags. Sorry. Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I don't. And, and 15 at Trader Joe's. 15 cents. That's so agreed. Okay. That's another one. I paid 30 cents at Trader Joe's last night just so they could put my groceries in a fricking bag. Anyways, let me see. I have my receipt from the last time I bought groceries. I'm just too lazy to bring my reusable bags sometimes. Well, sometimes it's like I'm stopping on my way home from work. I didn't have time to bring my own bag. I'm not. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Bag. I'm not. You shouldn't have to make that excuse. Right. No. Give me the grocery bags. Now I will say Whole Foods covers it for you. But they charge you an arm and a leg for everything else. Well, I'm, I'm, look, I'm taking out a fricking loan for my Whole Foods. Anyways. Yeah. My credit score is going up based on my Whole Foods attendance. Yeah. Because of my loan that I take out to get my Parmesan cheese from Whole Foods or whatever I get. That's good parm though. So I am, I, I will only drink bottled water. Okay. Maybe that makes me an asshole. I don't know. I just, I won't. I buy like gallon jugs. Yeah. I don't do, I won't do tap water. It's disgusting. I won't do it. Not in this city. I like Chicago tap water. Okay. Brita. I bought the other day two 24 packs of bottled water. Okay. It costs $6.98 for the 48 bottles. Do you know what the Chicago bottled water tax on that is? No. $2.40. What? It's 30%. I don't know if that, I don't know how that breaks down, but it was 30% of the purchase. What is that? I'm already paying taxes on it. What is the bottled water tax? Here, and I'm sure that's like a green initiative thing for single use plastics and whatever. But like this is where I get so annoyed with the government in general because it's like I am taxed on everything to your point. And all I hear about is the debt, like the city, the county, Chicago, unbelievable debt, this big balloon looming, they can't pay it off. They got to raise property taxes. I think we're what, as a country like $39 trillion in debt or something? Who even know? That's all fake at this point. I think, I mean money's fake. Money's kind of scam. Yes, it doesn't even exist anymore. It's just on the screen. Yeah, it's just, it's all fake. Everything is fake. Everything is fake. I've been saying money's fake for forever. Like I don't, I don't get, it's like, what do you mean it's tied to nothing? It's just like, oh, it's consumer, it's just confidence in it. So if we're all just like, I don't believe in it, the dollar would crash? Yes, it doesn't exist. When I have conversations like this, I get really worried that we're in end times. Because I do think that eventually like, We're in the end credits, I think. Yeah, like the jig is going to be up and there's nothing coming behind it. And so when people are talking about like what's going on with Iran and it's like, how the oil prices are going crazy, but then we like lifted sanctions on them so they could sell it. So there's more in the market, but then they're going to, they're selling it directly to China. They're using the yuan, which hurts us because it threatens us as a Federal Reserve currency. And the only reason our economy still works and our dollar still works is because it's a Federal Reserve currency. Like if we lose that, I think we're just fucked. I think there is no more money. Like and this is, I'm getting, this was bad. We shouldn't have done this. No, no, no. Speaking of the money part though. So when you go, you know this thing where you go with the bank, right? What do you mean this thing? Well, you go, let's say we'll use round numbers again. You deposit $100 in the bank. Okay. Okay. They can loan out 90% of that. Yeah, they don't have any of it. They don't have it. That's why they're paying you interest. Right. Okay. But then so they give that, let's say they give $90 of it out. That person who received the $90 loan can then put it in the bank. So it's all fake. It's just on transaction. Yeah. So they put $90 on the bank to set up something else. They can take 90% of that. So now it's just like, and that can go on forever. Yeah. So they're like, that's what I mean, where there's really nothing. Yeah. There's no money anywhere. I know. If there was like, if people just. And by the way, the money you're depositing in the bank is already, you're just putting it from this number on the screen to the other screen. It's not even you're going to deposit it. Right. So it's all digital, which I understand too. But like in theory, if it was like an actual, even if this would apply, even if it was a hard currency, because it's just like they're just loaning it out and just it's all just could just be paper. Let me ask you this. Mm-hmm. So I get my paycheck. It's deposited into my bank account. Yeah. I don't, I haven't used cash and I don't know how long. Everything I do, I just tap my phone. So I tap my phone to get the money from the bank that Barstool put in there, that they just transferred from some other. How far back do I have to go before there was a real dollar? Is there ever one? Well, I mean, that was Nixon took us off the gold standard. So back then, oh, but I'm just saying literally, is there a physical dollar that is even at any point part of that? So I'm sure you've seen like the mints where they actually like make the money and like comes out in like paper sheets, right? But when you talk about that, this is a thing that I don't understand. So where they're like, oh, we need to take more money out of the system and they raise interest rates or whatever. I'm like, well, are they just slowing down like that? Because like no one uses cash anymore. So how do they even keep track? It's just all banks. The like, I think I forget what the number is. Look up the number of what percentage of bills we have in circulation or hundreds. It's like 95%. It's all hundred dollar bills. Because it's just the banks. Like all the cash we have isn't even. I don't even know what you're saying right now. You're saying where is the money going because nobody uses cash? Yeah. All the cash is just in banks. It's all hundred dollar bills. If you see the money we print, it's just all hundreds. OK. Like the ones in 20s that you have in your pocket is like 5% of our cash reserves. Why is it all in hundreds? Because the only the only time the cash like even exists is going from bank to bank. OK. Like it never even really goes out into circulation. I believe that's check me on that. Well, I'm going to look up something else. What percentage of money in the US system is physical cash? As of 2025, a hundred dollar bills accounted for approximately 83% of the total value of all US currency in circulation. Cash in circulation, roughly 2.1 trillion in US currency is in circulation with about 50 to 70% of these notes held outside of the United States. Where's that? I don't know. Not I'm reading these things and I feel like I understand less than 1% of this. Yeah. What does this mean? I don't know. That's the point, Chief. That's what they want. They want you to not know. And even though it might be a simple concept, they want you to not know. So then you don't ask questions because you're like, well, I don't get it. Here, watch your basketball. But I'm not afraid to sound or look stupid. I'm not saying you do, but that's what they want. That's like how investment banking and shit works. They just use fancy fucking words to throw you off. It's not a complex topic. They're just like using fancier and crazier terms to throw the common man off. Yeah. So then I just go and watch the tournament. Yes. Yeah. Enjoy it now. With that said, Vols are in the sweet 16. I'm excited about it. I'm still going to watch. Yeah. But two things he'll be true at once. Correct. At some point, I mean, we're this is crazy. What's going on? This is what I mean. And like, I don't understand like someone to me, like the government shouldn't be allowed to just run on credit. Like that. Well, I understand. We're past that. Oh, I know we're way past that, but it's just like, and then I remember watching this. Oh, what was that show? It was a bad show. I liked the first season newsroom. Oh, remember that show? Terrible show. I don't want to write now the concept of the newsroom. The show with was it Jeff Daniels? Yeah. OK. What's going viral about it? That people are saying they need a pit, the pit, but for a local newsroom. And they're like, no, we had that. It was the newsroom. It was really bad. And then someone posted the scene of spoiler, I don't know, of the people was 10 years old, so people on the plane telling the pilot that they killed some of them. It's one of the worst. In the history of television. But there was like a remarkably uncomfortable to watch. Yeah. But to your point before about how they try to make it complicated, there they were it was Olivia Munn. Talk about how unrealistic TV could be was a financial analyst. And she was someone who was like, well, why isn't it just the same as like balancing your checkbook? She's like, it is 13 million times more difficult to balance the federal government. But it's like it should just be in money and money out. And like World War Two, I remember reading somewhere that part of the reason why they decided to drop the nukes on Japan was like, we are out of money. Like we've we've done all the and they would raise money through war bonds where people would buy like a savings bond that went to the war department for munitions and tanks and planes and everything like that. And then it was like, look, we're we just don't have enough money in the reserves to invade Japan. So let's drop these bombs to see if we can get them to just quit. And we also didn't think that we could get we could conquer all of Japan before the Russians just tried to jump in like the north of Japan, too. So it's just like we're kind of like up against the clock. And it's like, well, what do you mean? We don't the government is around money. But like a generation ago or 80 years ago, that was a real concern in the biggest conflict in the history of the world that it was going to end over capital. But it's like something switched. We're now it just like it just doesn't. And we probably had who knows how much money we probably had. We had four knocks, which is now empty, obviously. It's all empty, brother. It's that's what I mean. But there's nothing anywhere. That's what I mean, where I get scared. Like eventually, like the jig is up. And it's just like, we're just going to enter into some feudal chaos state. Or it's just like you just everyone's talking about, you know, support your local and by local. We will not have a choice in the near future. We're just like everything is gone because everyone's just like, this is fake. We're going to be back on a barter system. Yeah, what happens when it all goes to shit? Like, do we go back to the like 1500s? Dark Ages. Yeah. I don't know. I think we're. I'm going to make the mistake that everyone made in 2008. I feel like it's kind of too big at this point to have that happen. And you're a nothing ever happens guy. Well, that's what I'm saying. I don't I don't think like now the economy might collapse to what degree that happens. I don't know. But I don't think we could ever go like that it would stop existing. So that. I have a fundamental issue with how 2008 was handled. As I'm sure you do too. But there's almost there's that thing called it's like the Tower of Babel or Tower of Babel where it's like too big to fail is not really ever a thing. It's always historically and there are many examples throughout history where it's so big that it has to fail that it can't like sustain itself because it's too big and too far reaching and that eventually it just collapses on the weight of itself. And I think this whole thing is just like artificially propped up. That's what that fucking freak Sam Altman says about AI that it's too big to fail. And then. Oh, I think we should let that. That's another scam. That's a bubble. Another scam. The government will bail us out. That's what he says. He's like, well, because I don't blame him for saying that because there is precedent for that. But it's like. Why is that my problem? It's not. And it shouldn't. But I'm going to have to fucking pay taxes for when open AI like collapses under the pressure of the of it ruining my my dearly beloved state of Ohio from their fucking data centers. Then I got to fucking pay taxes on the fact that open AI filed for bankruptcy because they have zero profit. So why is that my problem? They also want to charge you as a utility. Right. And they want to take my brain and they want to sell it back to me. I see you, Sam Altman. Say the devil incarnate. Literally. I get that guy. Nobody likes him. No. And not only that. You do you not? Oh, I can't. Like I can't I can't get on it with him. Like he genuinely makes me more him and Sean Duffy. I feel like I'm the only one talking about how awful Sean Duffy is sometimes. Those two fuckers. I want him taken down. I don't know enough about Sean Duffy. What's his face when we flew out to San Francisco was sitting ahead of Nikki Smokes. Mayor Pete on our flight out to San Francisco for the Super Bowl. I was like, do you know who that is? He's like, no. He's the one that used to make all this shit happen. Correct. You know, as we sit here talking about all this, you miss Pete. You judge. Hell no. Why? Because he he kept. We had we had a lot of problems under him, but not that it's even all his fault or Sean Duffy's fault. Like either way, I'm envious of the life of someone like a Nikki Smokes. He doesn't know any of this shit's going on. Rico Bosco doesn't know who BB Netanyahu is. Stop. He asked us. Zero chance. I posted a clip about it today. He said, who's that Benjamin Netanyahu? He, he didn't know how to say his name. He didn't know who was. He thought it was the Hasidic Jewish rapper from like 20 years ago. Was he was doing. Oh, the guy we talked about on this show. It's in Yahoo or whatever. Yeah. Modest Yahoo. Because I remember hearing it. I was like, that sounds like Netanyahu's name. That's got to be a bit though, right? I don't think so. He said, I don't do politics. But like it's not even. Do you think Nikki Smokes knows who's Benjamin Netanyahu is? Oh, I think Smokes does. Probably because they did the milk boys have him on. Very true. Good one, Mackenzie. I think Smokes is actually like peripherally aware of some things that Rico isn't. I'd agree with that. Yeah, I guess. Yeah. But it's like Smokes doesn't watch much ball. His brain isn't taken up by ball like Rico's is. Yeah. But like Benjamin Netanyahu. Big guy right now. But also he's largely been in power. Yeah, I think he had a little maybe like a four or eight year gap where he wasn't the prime minister of Israel, but he's had like two different stints. He's been around since I was a kid. Like he's been around since the 90s. Did you guys see that story where he had the Lewinsky tapes before the Republic because he tapped the White House phones when Clinton was in office? The blackmail Clinton. What? Let me pull this up. Also speaking of how have we seen him? Is he alive? Do we know? Yeah, he did a video with Mike Huckabee, of course. Oh, but people think that might not be real. Oh, is that right? See, this is I also. Well, that one looked real, but then he did a press conference or not even a press conference, like a recorded video after and his his suit jacket sleeve moved weird like it was AI. This is from Dropsight News. Did Benjamin Netanyahu, blackmail Bill Clinton over the Monica Lewinsky sex tapes? Is this scandal that has been lost to contemporary memory? Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was alleged to have blackmailed then President Bill Clinton by revealing to him that Israel had collected tapes of phone sex calls between the 42nd president and White House intern Monica Lewinsky. Clinton met with Netanyahu in the Oval Office in February 1997. Subsequently, according to testimony Lewinsky gave at a special House Council, Clinton's secretary, Betty Curry, reached out to Lewinsky to invite her to an Oval Office meeting, telling her Clinton had something important to tell her. So like that's the spec like I'd have to read this entire article, I guess, which I don't want to do. But that's that's what they're saying. In April, Netanyahu and Clinton met again for a private visit on a Saturday, May 1997. Clinton had invited Curry and Lewinsky to the White House during that visit. He broke up with her. Lewinsky testified. Damn. What could it been? Yeah. I mean, do you know who John Carriaccio is? Oh, he's the tech talk CIA guy. He's our white whale to get on this show. And I need it. I'll pay him personally. I don't care. I need him on this show. He's he's like the most accidentally hilarious guy. Yeah, he's the man. Yeah. He says that we give Israel like 95% of our intelligence, which we don't do for anyone else. And he said they have spies living in the United States to get the other 5%. They just got it all. Yeah. He's like they they're not they want everything. I don't know what we're doing with that. I mean, we got a lot going on. You got a lot going on. Chapel Roan. She was made to the 11 year old. George. You know, this kid. Yeah. That's what I got. I don't know, man. I've learned recently. I just don't have to have a take on everything. The Chapel Roan thing doesn't concern me. Not going to make my day one way or another is Chapel Roan was was rude, slightly rude to Jude Law's 11 year old daughter. I'm just going to keep. Wait, wait, wait, Jude Law's kid. Or no, sorry. It was a Georgianio. Yeah, I think it was Jude Law. Oh, just kidding then. But like, I don't know. Shout out the holiday though. Shout out. But like that kind of stuff I've I've learned. I can't I can't care about all of it. I don't care if Chapel Roan. I like her music. I can't. Yeah, she's got hit. Yeah, like that again, if she was one hit, if she was hitting children, maybe that's a problem. This I've got a TSA line to think about in two and a half weeks. Like I actually can't be bothered with this right now of the things that celebrities have been accused of doing to children lately. What's pretty far down the list? This is OK. Yeah, I don't need this one to dominate the headlines. Let's go back to the other issues. Speaking of, I think you guys might have talked about this while I was gone last week, Duggar. No, we did. It happened like Thursday or Friday. What was this? Oh, you don't know about the Duggar's. A new Duggar predator has has entered the portal. And his wife. Well, so that so that's different, but she's arrested too. But not for the same things. Well, not for all the same things that he got arrested. I think it was like endangerment to children. Right. OK, so I this has been what's up been on my brain all weekend. My whole tick tock is just the Duggar thing. So Joseph Duggar got arrested for. So he got arrested for a charge in Florida. They live in Arkansas for something that happened, I believe, in 2020 or 2021, five or six years ago of I want to get the charge right, touching a minor inappropriately. I just want to make sure I get the absolute charge right. It says Duggar was the charges come a day after her husband, Joseph Duggar, was charged with molestation. Yes, lewd and lascivious behavior involving unlawful sexual activity with a minor. So it was said that in, I believe it was somewhere in Florida, some beach in Florida, Panama City, Panama Beach. In 2020, this happened. He molested the girl while on vacation with her family. And she was nine years old at the time, I believe. And so that was one charge that he is going to get extradited to Florida for. OK, now, because of that and because it was with a minor, they have to, I guess, under the law, I think in Arkansas, they have to search your house if you have a minor living in the house. And he has to get a little bit of custody as for children to make sure that obviously this is not happening within the home as well. So then him and his wife also got charged with four counts of false imprisonment of a child. And what was the other charge? Child endangerment. Now, him and his wife both got charged for that because in the IBLP, I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know So one's a black sheep too, we're sensing a pattern. So the false imprisonment and child endangerment in the IBLP, which is the religious cult that they are a part of and high up in, they have these crazy, crazy, crazy rules for disciplinary actions against your children. Some of them teeter on the line of child abuse. And one of them is putting locks on the outside of your children's bedroom doors and locking them in their bedroom at night. But they, they, it got, you get charged because obviously fire code and if your child needs something, obviously. So they both got charged for that because obviously both of them are adults in the home. So she's obviously, she's not getting charged for the sexual misconduct with, with the child. She's getting charged for the false imprisonment charges. And it is said it is because of the locks on the outside of the door, which is crazy. But I have no sympathy for the man that you horrible, horrible, horrible, evil stuff. The woman is also from the same religious cult. She grew up like this in this world where these types of things, the locks on outside of the door, also the Duggar parents, Jim Bob and Michelle have been on air talking about these practices to keep the boys and the girls away from each other at night because they don't want them intermingling alone because also their son, Josh, the first one, snuck into his sister's rooms at night and touched them. So you got to put locks on the outside of the door for your son that molests his sisters. You grow up like that and they would say, we don't have the girl sit on boys' laps. We don't have the girls and the boys play together by themselves. All of this weird, weird, weird that you have to think that much about boys and girls being inappropriate with each other at a young age. So how, how it's so wrong. You should not do that to your children. This woman grew up in a world where this is what you do. This is how you train your children. This is Bill Gotherd, who's the head of the IBLP. This is how he says to discipline your child. You grew up in this cult. Who are you to disobey who you think is this like profit? So it's a crazy, crazy story. But this is the second son in the Duggar family out of the 19 that has now been arrested for inappropriate relations with minors, which is so crazy and so sad. And unfortunately it makes me think like. It was probably going on. Well, it's probably going on. And also if they're on, it was, it was on family vacation. Yeah. It was with another family member as well. Also this feels like if it's two, where is this like pattern stemming from? That's what I mean. Maybe it started with the parents. Is that what you're trying to say? I'm not even trying to like, I think they've done, they, they have a lot to answer for as well, just in life. It is what's going on. Well there was a book excerpt from one of their cousins. Oh, Amy. Who would be on the show and she was like the cool hip cousin that was like. Secular. Yeah. Like she would be like, we're going to go to the movies and shit like that. And so, and I guess she wrote a book and said that she wasn't allowed to be anywhere near the grandfather. Alone. Yeah. That her grandma was like, yeah, you're not. Yeah. You can't wear a bathing suit in front of your grandpa. You can't sit on his lap. What the fuck? Yeah. So it feels like it's the sick, sick pattern that's interwoven within this. I don't know if it's within the whole cult or this familial tree. It's disgusting, but I wanted to see if you guys had touched on that because that's been hit my timeline a lot. No, it was after we recorded. Have you guys seen that other, I think it was a Hulu documentary. Any happy people? It was like another like weird Utah. FLDS. Child abuse cult. FLDS maybe with Warren Jeffs. But it was the same thing. Like this woman started basically she was abused and then she, there was this mom who, I think they had like four kids or something like that and they had like a big YouTube channel. Oh, eight passengers. Yeah. Yes. Yes. Frankie. Yeah. She's Mormon. We've done an episode. Oh, yeah. The influencers. We know her. Yeah. They were just beating the hell out of their kids. Yeah. But then like to the point like that they had like the self-help kind of cult. Well, then the therapist moved in. The therapist moved in and then they started being allegedly the kids locking the kids. Yes. That too. Yes. To the point that like the husband had to move. He was forced to move out of the house and had no idea what was happening to his kids because he hadn't seen them in a year because the therapist had like stolen the mom's brain. And now they're in jail together. And now they're in jail together. Yes. Oh yeah. So they're Mormon. Yeah. They're in the fall of Ruby's friend. She's fucking nutty. And insane. I had watched her YouTube videos before. I mean I watched 19 Kids Accounting growing up like crazy. Yeah. That was a huge show, wasn't it? Yeah. Oh yeah. They were and that was another thing. They were making money hand over fist. And I think the girls, some of the girls said when they got married. Yeah. And they were like, we'll still be on the show, but like we're adults. Like if you want us on the show, like you have to give us something. Yeah. And the dad was like, no. And the dad, chief, listen to this. Tim Bob Duggar on the morning of all of the kids' weddings would come to them and present them a contract and would basically signing this contract. And it's the morning of your wedding would basically funnel all of the kids' earnings from the show back to him. It was basically them signing away their guaranteed money that they made from doing the show. So all of these girls are, the girls in the family, I mean the boys are young too, but the girls in the family are 19, 20 years old, getting married, have never been to a normal school, don't have a college education, don't have a job. And then not equipped to be signing. Then boom, you're taking their one lump sum of money that they have earned from growing up in front of a television camera. And they don't really have the full necessary processing tools to understand what's going on also on the morning of their wedding. So then they're like, well now I'm shit out of luck and I have no money and I'm 19 and I don't know how to read above a seventh grade level. And they've had to all like figure it out. Alright, what's going well? Is anything going well? I think it's something that's going well. I mean Jacobi Gillespie is playing great. Tennessee basketball. That Gillespie kid couldn't stop. Was he the one that scored all those points against Miami? Yeah, he destroyed it all. It's spring. Kind of. Yeah, I don't know. The opening day this week, which I know you're not happy about. But I mean, I'm glad it's back, but I just wish it was in like second week. You saw that Spencer Strider got hurt today. No, just real quick for anyone that cares. Since the start of spring training, Hassan Kim, who the Braves signed this off season, slipped on a patch of ice in Korea and tore ligament in his finger. Jerks and ProFar was suspended the entire season for doing PEDs twice. They've had four starting pitchers hurt for one towards ACL trying to cover first base out the whole year. Shwell and Buck and Waldrop, who were supposed to be really good, are both out indefinitely. And then today Spencer Strider has an oblique strain and he will start the year on the aisle. So I don't have to worry about the Braves for a wild card run. They are like 19 and six in spring training, which means nothing. But the offense has been good. They just, we don't, we have no idea who's going to pitch. That's a problem. Yeah. Um, going well. I hear people, if you've seen this Project Hail Mary movie, I see people talk about that. I don't know what it's about. I just keep seeing people talk about it. It's Ryan Gosling is a, I believe a middle school science teacher. And, um, they basically, I don't, I don't know. It's a book that they adapted, but he's a, uh, yeah, middle school science teacher. And basically NASA sends him up into space to like save the world. I'm on the fence about seeing it. I've, I've seen, I thought you were going to say you're on the fence about saving the world. Let it go. I might decide to, but yeah. Um, but yeah, it's a Ryan Gosling space movie. I feel like he hasn't been in anything in a while. Am I wrong about that? Oh yeah. I didn't, I didn't end up seeing that. I think it's a great movie. I'm not, I don't have an opinion because I didn't see it. Um, the fall guy, that's, he was like a stunt guy in that. That was like two years ago. I don't think he had anything come out last year, but I mean, Barbie was probably like his most recent thing. Yeah. Cause that was the same time as Oppenheimer, right? Barbenheimer. But yeah, he unfortunately beautiful man, too much, too much cheek filler. Oh, he's one of those too much cheek filler. Both of those movies, by the way, don't think I'd ever watch again. Which one? Barbie, obviously, but Oppenheimer, good movie. Uh, don't know that I'd ever sit down and watch it again. I watched it a second time because I think I've told somebody this story before, but I went to the music box theater for that because they were showing it in like the, what is it, 38 millimeter, something 35, whatever. And it's right up the street from my house. So I'm like, I'll go there. It's cool old theater. I'd been there for small productions before and then it was three hours of just sitting on my balls and sweat my ass off in the middle of summer. So I'm like, I hate this movie. This movie stinks. And then I saw it on like Amazon prime one day when I was a little bit hungover on a Sunday morning. Like, you know what? Pretty good film. So yeah, it was good. Yeah. I just don't, it's long. A lot of, uh, I might watch it one more time in like 10 years. I didn't need any of the storyline with, uh, Robert Downey Jr. I decided. Yeah. That whole thing. I'm like, I don't care about this guy. I just make the bomb. Yeah. Could have cut an hour out of that movie. Could have used a big boom too. They went silent. Yeah. Spoiler learned. Yeah. Well, maybe they could have, you know, show the Japan part too. Yeah. No chance they were going to do that. Give us three booms. Yeah. Anyway, is there any real video of that anywhere? Of those ones? I don't know. I, there's pictures of like the devastation. No, but like there's a picture of like the mushroom cloud, right? But I thought that was a test site. Oh, maybe. Maybe. So this picture is like from the sky, which makes me think it could have been from a plane or I guess it would have to be from playing, but from one of our planes. Yeah. Yeah, they're terrifying. Yeah. Not what you want. No. Uh, I mean, I had some other stuff, but are there any more scams? I mean, you, I'm endless. Yeah, but just that are really sticking in my crawl right now. See what the internet says for scams. I think we covered the big ones. Yeah. I have a couple more. I mean, your student loans are a scam. Those are scam. And do you know it pull this up? There's a chart Google like cost of college chart. Uh, when student loans are introduced. If you look at the cost of college at the exact point the government started paying for it, which is not that long ago went straight up. Yeah. Um, the introduction and expansion of student loans have correlated with a steep sustained rise in college tuition, which increased by 93.2% from 0506 until 2026. And that is just because there's more money available and it's easier to get. Yeah. I mean, if, if you can just, if the government's going to let you take out unlimited money, then guess what the schools are going to charge unlimited. Correct. There was, I'm looking for this. Um, yeah. Starting July 1st, 2026 federal law school student loans will undergo a major restructuring graduate plus loans will be eliminated capping federal borrowing at $50,000 annually for JD students. You know what all the law school prices went to immediately? Oh, well you don't say $50,000. Yeah. This is like another one of those things where it's like, they went, a lot of them went down is what I'm saying. Yeah. Right. Because that's what they know people can correct. A scam I was thinking about. Okay. Um, it's a future scam that, that fucker Sam Altman was talking about. Okay. Um, universal basic income. This might be not live of me. I'm not quite sure. I'm fascinated to hear what this is. Okay. So Sam Altman has talked about that his, his shit is going to take all the jobs and there will be no jobs and no one's going to have a job because his computer's going to do all that. Correct. And he said that the government should introduce universal basic income. So these poor people who lose their livelihoods based on his stupid idea, um, can live. Correct. Yeah. Yes. I've heard that. Okay. This may be anti-live of me. Yeah. Wouldn't that just, if universal basic income is introduced, wouldn't that just drive up the cost? Yes. Yes. Yes. Exactly what we just described with college. Of everything. Yeah. That's what made me think of it where it's like universal basic income. Wouldn't that just drive up the cost of everything? They will keep you poor no matter what. Housing. Same thing. Yes. Yeah. Housing. Same thing. Is that anti-live of me? No. I mean, it's just, it's common sense. But I don't get the universal basic income thing that he is introducing as like, well, they'll just have to give everyone the money. Baby, they'll just price you out still. There is no such thing as universal basic income because like money is not a fixed thing. Right. So you would, if you were to do that, you would probably also have to have price fixing on, on particular, like groceries or something, which would be the end of everything. Well, Sam Oatman's literally going to kill us all. Like that's like the end of it. Like that's, he's the end for us. But like this is what, this is one of those things where it's just like, let the bubble pop. Like, you know, oh, so, oh, the AI bubble pop. So the thing that's going to, all the people who are making things are to take everyone's job are going to lose their job. All right. How about you guys go first? You guys are out of a job. We don't have this AI who cares. The only other problem with that is then these countries like China, who are, everything is just government funded. Then they would, in theory, like, win that race. But what race are we racing there? Nobody knows. No, it's what's the race. Like death. It's like that Geico commercial where the guy's like, I'll call you back. I have to get in the line and he's like, what's everybody waiting in line for? And the girl goes, nobody knows. Just want to wait in the line. But I think about that sometimes with him and him saying the universal basic income bullshit, because I'm like, no, that's not, like, that's not a real thing. Yeah. You can give, if you give the people who lose their jobs, even 50,000, which they would never do, but let's just say they gave you $50,000, they're just going to make everything. They would drive the price up. Yeah. And then let's say, I don't even want to put real people attached to it. Let's say worker A loses their job and has to get universal basic income. Worker B does not lose their job. And they make $85,000. Yep. It ends up hurting both of them because then worker B can't afford the stuff because worker A can't afford the stuff. If you would like, you're, you're starting to catch on a little bit. We can go further into some other issues if you'd like to be enlightened on some other stuff. No, I'm okay. No, no, no, no, but, but I think that, but you know who gets rich? Sam Altman. Sam Altman. And frickin Elon Musk and all of them. Correct. But that's big T, but I'm going to bring it back. It's not left first is right. It's us versus them. Correct. No one, no one is on our side. No one is on the people side. And you can, I do really think that most of the things that the left and right argue about are just a distraction. Yeah. That's all it is. Like at the end of the day, who I don't care about anything. I just want to be able to live more comfortably. Brother. I, yeah. I, these political divisions should be based upon class and once the people, but here's the, I also worried that if like what we were talking about before, if we actually, if everyone kind of banded together, like we could do, if there was like a social media where it's like the people are, have had enough, we could do it run on the banks and like the bank system would collapse. Like they would just be like, you don't have it. Like there is no money. Every system in this country is just built on like, well, we hope that doesn't happen. Right. Do you know, do you know what percentage of court cases in this country go to trial? No. It's like less than 10. And they, I saw a lawyer asked one time, they're like, what would happen if everybody decided that they wanted to have a trial? It's like, nobody knows. Like we couldn't do it. Like, violation of the bill of rights. You won't have a speedy trial. I promise you that. Yeah. No, they're like, no, we, we couldn't do it. Banks, same thing. If everybody decided they want their money out of the bank, best of luck, doesn't exist. It's not there. Right. So like the banking, it would collapse. I thought you had quickly quickly. Yeah. Like in a day, if everybody was just like, give me my money, collapse. Cause there would be no more money. 100%. Welcome, welcome to America. It's all, it's all an illusion. I mean, I love the idea of it. I love the way it's still better than most places, but. And then, you know what? Because of all of the bad, like that's when I say, I'm just going to go by myself like a coffee or like buy myself a little treat because all these fuckers are going to ruin my life anyway. Like at least let me have. Mom, like enjoy simple pleasures. Like God, let me buy the flowers that are a little bit too expensive because you know what? Like, Cause money's fake anyway. Cause money is fake anyways, but you know what's real? Flowers. That's true. And just take it from this tab, put it over to this one. It's all, nothing's real. I know we need, we need to say something fun and nice though. Cause this is, this is. We went down a dark path. Find Jesus, go to church. It's all you can do. I think there is some truth to that. Go, um, have fun with your friends. Yeah. That's nice. Go outside and be with friends and not online. I got a brick. What's that? Oh, you don't know about the brick? No, I got a brick. It is how much do those cost? Okay. So it's a $60 piece of plastic that you tap. You can set it to be like, disable Twitter. Yeah. Whatever you want on your phone. You tap your phone on it and those won't work on your phone until you tap the brick again. So you can like tap it when you leave your house and you won't be able to access whatever you told it until you get home or whenever. Can you override it? Uh, there's emergency on bricks, but there's only a certain number you get. So your big trade goes down. But my scrolling is so bad. I'm going to try to brick. Okay. How long have you had the brick? Uh, it comes tomorrow. I don't have it yet. I ordered it though. What are you going to? Yeah. Tick tock for sure. Okay. Um, tick tock for sure. Probably Instagram because I feel like if I don't have a tick tock, I'll just go to my terrible Instagram reels algorithm. So that'll be gone. I don't go on Twitter on the weekends for my one mental health, but two, like I usually, I usually just use Twitter for work anyway. So I'm not usually on Twitter. Um, after hours, honestly, um, which helps my brain a lot. Honestly, tick tock and Instagram would probably be my biggest ones. I'll probably just brick Twitter for the hell of it. Cause I'm there. Um, and start there and like see, you can always post from your computer too. Yeah. And that's what I do anyways. Like if I'm on Twitter, it's 95% of the time on my computer. Yeah. Um, I'm going to start with those and like see. Like what I do. I, I just, it's so bad. My screen time is so bad and I do it for work. Like I do this for work. I'm on social media all day for work. I, I need to deep detach. When you get those reports, like that push notification from Apple on Sunday. What's, what's your number? I don't want to say. I'll say if you say it first. All right. So I'm, I'm down. I'm down off of like my historic norms, but I'm sitting at about six hours a day. Okay. Oh, I, I don't know what mine's at, but I guarantee it's way higher than that. About eight. Okay. Where do I find this setting? Wait, where do you find? Um, just searching your side of screen time. Yeah. I get the push notification every Sunday morning, which all like smacks me in the ass. I'm like, God damn. Cause I, I during football season, cause I try not to use it on Sundays as much, but during football season, that was impossible, obviously. That I was over nine hours a day. Yeah. On my phone. So I'm like, I got to make some changes. Yeah. Like I was, um, this is why I got a sauna too. I got a sauna. I put it in my second bedroom and my phone can't go in there. It can connect to the Bluetooth. So I can listen to a show or a podcast, but I, it'll melt if it's in there. So I just usually just bring a book and I just sit in there and that's like an, at least you know, a 45 minute break. Oh, oh, I'm only at a five, four. I'm only at four 13. That's shocking. For today. Get back to work. Today or is it on average? Daily average. Damn. Yeah. No, I'm, my brain is melted plastic at this point probably, which is why I just want to try it and see. I like this plan for you. Please report back. I can detach. I'm, I'm actually nervous. I'm going to go into like a withdrawal, which is going to be really, really scary and sad if I like, I'm genuinely like tweaking out over it. But I feel like if I do it at least like at night before I go to bed. In order to not scroll before bed as much. Yeah. And then like a sun, like maybe a Sunday. I think that's good. Well, I clean my house, you know, spend time with loved ones. Get ready for the next week ahead. I just fear it's not going to get better if I don't do something about it in a concrete way. I like it. Thank you. Please report back. Just in person. I wanted to look at your phone to send a text. Yeah, I'll see you. She'll work text. But that's my, that's my, my positive attribute or my positive outlook is I can, I can knock this screen time down. Like a couple of, I wonder if this will be like a person getting off of drugs where it's like, I'm nervous. It's going to be. Well, where it's really hard at first. And then you're just like, you like turn the, you know, like, a lot of people that I follow, funnily enough, I see a lot of Tik Tok influencers that I follow. Do this. And they are like, I'm not, I brick the whole weekend. I, that might be a later done the line thing for me, but they are like, my brain feels less foggy. I wake up better in the morning. Oh, I'm sure I have like actual physical cognitive differences that I can feel. And even if that's placebo, which I don't think it is, I think if you're just not on your phone as much, like you're going to feel better. I'll take the placebo. I don't care. Yeah. Whatever works. Right. And like nicer weather is coming. Yep. Let me, let me get bricked and then go outside. Bricked up. And then be. It's actually crazy. I bet that company is raking it. Yeah. It's literally just plastic. And then it's like, I think it basically scans it like a QR code, I think is how it works, but I'll let you know. But yeah, I paid 60 bucks for it. But like the screen time thing on Apple, you just press ignore. Like there's no barrier there. Yeah. So that's where I'm at. That's my, my one positive thing. Okay. I'm going to get bricked. I like it. Thanks. I'm not going to do it. No. And look, who's to say I'm going to stick with it? I hope I do. Yeah. But if I put it on my fridge and I see it every day, I think that helps too. Yeah. Yeah. I'd like to, I don't know. I wish there was a way to. Cause I see all this shit all the time. Makes me sad. I know. And it's like, I, you know, I listened to Rogan on occasion and like, he just doesn't do social media. He's got the biggest podcasts in the world. Never has to like do anything to promote it. He's just like, I envy the people who have social media where they just have someone else managing their shit and they just don't have to worry about even beyond being on for promotion themselves. I was going to say people just rip Joe Rogan's clips like and post them themselves. Yeah. And he's got like his, you know, two or three guys in his team that will post things and he just doesn't have to. Sounds nice. Yeah. And he makes millions of dollars. Hundreds of millions. Really? Yeah. He signed his Spotify deal was $200 million. So then he got a second one. So, but we could also have desk jobs and be super bored every day. So that too. I'd rather do this and I've had those jobs. Right. They weren't for me. So I do love this job, but there are elements where it's like, I like sitting and chatting with you guys, but I don't necessarily need to be reading. Well, hope so. Cause may need you a Thursday. Thursday. Record on Wednesday. Yeah. It should be fine. What do you want to do the show on? I mean, I feel like we got it. We got to find a scam. Some, just something we hate. I got plenty of things that I, um, we'll talk about it. We'll see if we can get maybe one more person in here on Wednesday. Uh, I guess that, that'll do it for today. Again, I had, I had some things on this list, like a regular show, but then we kind of just pivoted. Yeah. And I'm glad we did. We talked some things out. We didn't get anywhere, but it felt good to get it off your chest. We're not solving any problems. I mean, what, you know, when are we going to get the, how could we? You know, well, we converted one person today. She's no longer a listen. Look, look, just come in the middle. Come over here in the middle. And I can't vote middle. I think I might just not vote anymore. I love thinking about that. We count that Republican. Yeah. We count those. Those are supposed to be Iraq. I would vote if. No, I don't know. What, what, what, what? No, I love voting. It's like, I love fulfilling a civic duty like that. That's awesome. But it, but if I, I, cause I voted for Trump last time, I'm deeply disappointed in his administration. So it, and it just feels like, what's that? Sorry. Sorry. Um, but it's just like, I, I just feel like there's nobody to vote for ever. And it's not like I would go back and change it. Cause I don't like, like, I don't think it even matters. Yeah. That's why, like, I don't, I don't like what Trump is doing right now, but you can't say that because then, uh, like they're like, see, told you. It's like, well, I find your alternative unfathomable. So. Right. You were running a guy that had dementia last time. Somehow he won. And then they were like, no, he's got too much dementia this time. So we'll have someone else who had like, that's still not like a viable alternative. So it just, and the other thing I feel like all the things that Trump ran on that I liked, he has done the opposite. It's done like the exact opposite. I'm like, I didn't, I voted for you, but not for this. And, uh, so it's just like, you can't trust anyone. Is that what you were going to say when you said you can't say it? No, there is one person that I like, but I doubt he runs and I doubt he gets any actual. A doubt he runs. So it's not like a politician. Oh, he's a politician. He is a politician. Is any, is he Republican? He's a Republican. He's in office now. He is in office now. Trump hates his guts. Thomas Massey. Yes. I could see him running. I, I don't think he'll run. Why not? I don't know. I just have it. And I also, he would have no shot in a Republican primary. So he'd have to run as an independent, which they have scammed that. So you can't even be an independent really anymore. Like there will, I don't think there will ever be a true third party candidate, like independent candidate. Him going against Trump with the Epstein files is probably. Yeah. I like him. And you know, it's like, could we get something where it's like him and Rokana just run together? It's like, look, we got, we don't agree on them much, but this thing is so fucked. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I can't think of someone I'm like, yeah, I'm excited for them to run. Exactly. Yeah. I like that James Tallarico, but I don't think he's going for president right away. The Texas guy. Yeah. I don't know enough about him. I like his, again, I don't live in Texas. So I don't know, but I like how he speaks and yeah. How he has to say, yeah. Is pretty normal. You're not a Massey guy. Oh, uh, I don't, the little I know about him, I don't, I don't know enough to make a judgment. I'm not a Tallarico guy. I'll tell you that. Yeah. See, they still got me. I'm still a lib. Yeah. I would, but I would say Massey's a lib. Bertarian. And you can just get on that. You can just be a libertarian with Massey. Yeah. We got a long way to go before I can, who cares dude? That's what I, that's what I mean. That's why I'm saying I might not ever vote again. Cause it just doesn't matter. Yeah. Don't like it does. You know what? I do think we got somewhere today. I think we arrived at a, at a good conclusion and a good place to live your life. Well, maybe not a good, a healthy understanding. Yeah. I think, I think I've gotten to the point where I just have to focus on trying to do the right things myself on like a very small, like, treat my fiance well, treat my family well. Congratulations. Thank you. We talked about that before, didn't we? Not on the show. Not on the show. Okay. We got the exclusive info before it happened. Oh, that's right. That's right. Um, so yeah, just like try to do like the, the things that are in my immediate control. I want to try to do them as to the best of my ability. Not even necessarily that sometimes you got to give people the what for, you know, like, so, you know, like that's, I don't, sometimes you got to be the bad guy, but, um, but just try to control what I can control. And then everything else is just beyond me. So I'm not going to worry about that as much. All right. Well, that's it. Great show. Uh, chief. Thank you. I will see you back this week. I believe so. 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