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It's Not Okay to be a POS
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Introduction and Icebreaker Game
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Why don't you go get one of them P's, boy?
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I want one of them O's.
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Now go get me one of them S's. What's that spell? POS. It doesn't stand for anything.
Jury Duty Adventures
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Look what I'm holding up, Matt. Look what I'm holding up. What is it? Can you see it? Legal docu- Oh shit! Jury duty! Hell yeah.
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matt look what i'm holding up what is it
00:00:59
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and see it we do oh shit jerryry duty yeah A retirement guy's dream. That's what I was just going to say. Now that you're like a retired old man, you're like, oh, I can go out and be in public. Wow.
00:01:14
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You're going to be that annoying guy that's all fucking happy to be there when everyone else is just like, don't talk to me. Don't talk to me. And you're going to be like, where are you in from? really No, I won't. I will tell you the last time I did it was, she's 20 years ago probably, but it was on the heels of being given a ticket for driving under the influence of drugs.
00:01:33
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I don't know if you remember that. I never did pot, but the police officer assumed I did. And he wrote me a preemptive ticket, which I can't understand why that's legal. But he was like, I'm not going to chase you down because I know you were driving high.
00:01:45
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Well, anyway, the drug test came back. i was not high, and but I still had to fight the ticket. Long story short, I get into this jury box thing. It was like a drunk driving thing and or some sort of DUI type of thing. And and I told them that story and it was like the prosecution was like boot. Bye bye. Because I was at least coming across as anti cop or I didn't trust the police.
00:02:10
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ah So we'll see what happens this time. yeah Yeah. I had one where made it. i didn't Nothing ever happened. i was I went there for five days and they kept narrowing it down. and and I was like the last person called. and they're like I think on Friday you can go home. They have the jury or something like that.
00:02:29
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I just sat in like the waiting area. That was in St. Louis. St. Louis is fucking crazy. My wife got on a murder trial there. It was like a a guy stabbed his wife. Like, I think she was a nurse at at one of the hospitals and he went in there and stabbed her.
00:02:45
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And it was like, he was already found guilty, but you had that. They had to decide if he was ah like mentally insane or something like that. Hmm. What races? Huh? Just kid don't answer that. What races?
00:02:59
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They're from the north
Crime and Justice Discussion
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side of St. Louis. So make your own judgments, my friend. but ah i don't know. I don't know. what that It wasn't like a I don't think it was like a ghetto crime, though.
00:03:10
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it was i mean It was a ghetto crime, but it wasn't like people got capped out slinging crack or something. It was like this lady had a job at the hospital. and This husband went in there and fucking stabbed her, like brought a knife and stabbed her in front of like a ton of people. And my wife got on that, which is kind of funny because she's, I mean, she had already lived in the U.S. s for a while at that point, but you know, she's just kind of like, what the fuck?
00:03:34
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She could relate though a little bit. You'd be walking into her elementary school classroom and punch your fucking face. That's, yeah, exactly. like Yeah. She, she's so used to abuse. she' was so used to giving domestic abuse all, beating me up physically dominating me. Uh,
00:03:55
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No, she couldn't relate. But there is actually like, a I don't know if it's a way, but there is a lot of like crimes like that against women down here. It's kind of a macho culture, bunch of jealous men.
00:04:07
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Really? Yeah. Well, they they, I mean, they make it sound like it's happening all the time. Like the news. i don't know if it's like, well, it's two a year and you're like, and they're, they're glamorizing because they want it to stop.
00:04:18
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Yeah. You get a macho culture with a lot of booze, you know, shit happens. A lot of big bellies. A lot of big bellies, a lot of self-loathing and depression. I knew you'd make it about weight, dude.
00:04:31
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I knew you'd make it about fat people. I knew it. Well, when is that? Jury duty. We should do a live pod, dude. June 3rd. We'll see if it if I get selected, but yeah.
00:04:46
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What's the pay on that? I have no idea. It's going right in the market, though, bro.
Stock Market Insights
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sufficient for
00:04:55
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Fucking FOMO. Speaking of that stock market, I know you don't pay attention very much, but. I do. what actually Do you? Okay. It's just. How about you? There's a term called melt up. It's sort of the last part of a long cycle of of going up, up, up, up. up It feels like this is a bit of a melt up.
00:05:15
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Given the world circumstances, yeah, I guess the earnings of some of these companies have come back good. But for people to drive it up that much, yeah, seems a little sketch, but we'll see. I'm always wrong, often wrong. Is after a melt-up a crash? is that what you're saying?
00:05:29
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Yeah, typically that's the idea. Sort of like there's a fear of missing out component and just a driving stocks up without any semblance of an idea of what future the future would look like. You're not really to the fundamentals anymore. It's just a big like momentum play, but it could be bad for society as a whole.
00:05:49
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Yeah, a lot of these motherfucking retirees, right? They're just making choices based on that and based on this this idea that this thing's just like a rocket ship all the time. We'll see what happens, though.
00:06:00
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It's never going to stop. As a matter of fact, on the way i was taking my kids to school today, my son said something like the... something about barrels of oil have come down.
00:06:10
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I saw the yeah so ah price of oil came down today, Dad. It's like, yeah, they there's they're just trading on nonsense news that there might be a deal in the Straits of Hormuz.
00:06:22
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Well, there's some interesting short trading happening right before every announcement. Yeah. when you When you go short, you're essentially wanting to buy the stock back at a lower price. You're hoping it'll go down. In this case, it's oil futures. But a lot of people are going short 30, 40, 50 minutes before these announcements come out. So it's like this big sort of corruption case potentially happening here with the Trump administration. Because it's happening over and over again. We're talking like huge positions. You like that? Like in that sort of gambling and take, like, do you think it's cool? It's like, ah, people are kind of gambling, taking a shot or you think it's all ridiculous?
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Well, first it's insider trading, so I don't think it's cool. It's these are people that know something. So they push the price down and then of course, whatever jank announcement Trump makes, it doesn't come true, it goes
Political Corruption Concerns
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back up. And they've been doing this, they've done it like four or five times now. But they're in ahead of the news with huge positions. So there's really no other way to explain it other inside trading.
00:07:17
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But it's interesting world. Yes, actually, ah somebody who was it was the the dad of a daughter, one of my daughter's friends. We went to dinner last week with him and he said that it might have been Baron Trump. Somebody made like one hundred million dollars ah in ah very quickly on something like that. Basically, remember what it was. but Of course. Yeah, basically training on information.
00:07:41
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But I mean, it's interesting that that's so what it's so clearly obvious and no one's like, I guess the Department of Justice has got, he's got them by the balls and they won't do anything or what? Like insider training is usually like prosecuted if they want to.
00:07:57
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Yeah, they're not. Why no action? I'm not bold in saying this is the most corrupt presidential administration in history. I don't think I'm bold in saying that. They're doing all kinds of stuff. But more importantly, corporate America is bolder in their raping of society and their predation. That's for sure happening.
00:08:20
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It's funny because I've gone here, look at your face, and I know you're going to offer sort of a counter opinion in the sense of some so some sort of hope, some sort of hope. But yet all everything I've said has been like, yes, happened.
00:08:32
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Oh, yeah, worse than expected. But I'm not saying that I know where this particular piece is going, but the corruption is... just Just think of society losing faith in the rule of law and losing respect for things.
00:08:48
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I was listening to my wife tell me a story about this client that like apparently he knows a lot about the legal system and apparently people just ignore the jury summons. at like huge rates.
00:08:59
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So they have real trouble getting actual people to come serve on juries, which is is supposed to be mandated by law that you participate. That small thing, that mindset, I think in a Trump era will plague the rest of society of like, who gives a fuck?
00:09:13
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Who gives a fuck, dude? You know, just how you run your business, how you treat other people. is it um It's a illegal, right? to not To not show up to jury duty without yeah at least like an excuse or something like that?
00:09:27
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And people are just like, what are they going to do? Well, that might be, i don't like, there are probably people, including myself, that's like, why the fuck am I going to pay taxes to that country?
00:09:38
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I'm not trying to evade taxes, but I'm like, what am I doing here? You know, like, if you don't believe what the current administration is doing or the government, you're less likely to want to pay it.
00:09:49
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I mean, but I'm but I whatever I'm fine. I'm not trying to my file my taxes. um I didn't I didn't just go. ah I'm going to I'm going to dodge this. But anyways. Yeah. I mean, I don't know what to say. It's all out there. I'm not
Societal Apathy and Education
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denying it.
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It's just like I don't know how to feel anything but apathy for whatever is happening. Because I mean, i don't I'm not I don't feel like I'm going to go like march on Washington or write my congressman or do anything about it.
00:10:14
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Yeah. Well, you better have some dry powder. can join them. What's that mean? It's just that idiots in the investment world saying have some cash ready to buy when the crash comes or or or when that something's on sale. It's just stupid. I don't have any dry powder, dude. Anyway, jury duty, world's falling apart.
00:10:38
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Wow. I think... Yeah, jury duty. I mean, jury duty is one of those things where we it's like a, I don't know, is jury duty like, like, i'm sure made sense in 1785. But does it really make any sense to put, like, if you walk around the the country, and you're like, I want these motherfuckers deciding my future, like, like 80 or 90% of the people you see, you're like, yeah, I'm gonna go ahead and not put it in their hands. Like jury duty seems like might not be the best way to go.
00:11:06
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I mean, so you could say, well it's better than having a corrupt a corruptible. You like jury duty? You like the idea of it? I like the concept of it, but you're right.
00:11:17
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60% of America reads at a sixth grade level or lower. And so these fat, big gulp drinking motherfuckers that are not super educated, like deciding my fate.
00:11:28
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And then you have this conspiracy culture. It just does not bode well for reasonable decision making. Yeah. um And then, I mean, I don't know. Then the whole idea of like, well, you have a like you just said, you you might have a healthy opinion about cops because of your experience. they're like, well that doesn't work for us.
00:11:49
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I mean, it's it's better. Probably like someone who came out of ah North Korea or or communist Russia might be like, no, this system's pretty good. You should be happy with it. It's like, what what other thing do you just go, well, let's get 10 people together that have no experience and no expertise in this and and let them make decisions. like you You don't really do that anywhere else.
00:12:11
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Maybe like coaching Little League or something. You just get some dads. or some sort of community gathering co-op to decide like what summer concerts come through.
00:12:22
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So you get a little Tom Petty, you get a little, maybe you get ah a weird guy that brings in poison, like a cover band. But, you know, I don't really know. Yeah, it is a weird thing. And to to rely on the dumbs. We just have so many more dumbs in the country. There should be an education requirement. Fucking shoot a gun at me because I'm a elitist. But really, do you want dumbasses deciding your fate?
00:12:46
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Now, dumbasses have life experience, but they're also dumb. Their reasoning is dumb. They haven't really had to think through complex things. What are we going to do? Dumbasses.
00:12:58
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I don't have a better way. i can't criticize it too much because I don't have a better way. But um I don't know. I mean, not that many trials actually go to jury either, right? It's like most of them are taken care of before that and pleas and before that. Do you want somebody that says, man, I just trust my gut when I make decisions. Do you want that motherfucker deciding whether you're going to jail or not?
Cultural and Intellectual Regression
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No. But there could be like, let's say I got busted for smoking weed in Colorado before it was legal. And I'm like, why? Why is weed? a I can't understand why it's why it's a prosecuted as as a what is it? Class three or class one misdemeanor or felony or whatever it is.
00:13:40
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But then someone who's highly educated might be like super, it might it might go against their religious beliefs or their MAGA or who fucking knows. But I'm like, so the education part, so I might rather have the dude who's like, man, the weed is fine. Somebody who's on it who's coming out of a trailer park, I don't know.
00:13:57
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So I guess that's what that's why you do jury duty selection. But at the same time, Like you could be, you could just be held. I mean, you already are with the judges in a way. You're kind of held to like, the you you might get lucky and have a judge that's more empathetic or one it's more hard ass.
00:14:12
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ah So you're already kind of at the at the mercy of what just people's beliefs. But like, it just seems like you're open to like, well, what if you have five people that are that are like super right wing?
00:14:24
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they're like reagan Reagan's ideas ah on the war on drug is is where it's at and therefore you had an eighth of an ounce of weed you should go to jail for 10 years or something like that.
00:14:34
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It's a fair point like in the sense that the system are already can't weed out biases and in a good way but that's why they do the voir dire and they select ah people from both sides to sort of counter that but what's happening in my opinion is we're so dumb now 60% reading at a sixth grade level that no matter what we're talking about, we're now selling arguments to people who are susceptible manipulation.
00:15:03
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mean, you look at our voting block, just the sheer fact that people voted for Trump and didn't believe he was a liar or were willing to accept that he was a terrible, terrible human and a liar, that that is okay.
00:15:17
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it's That's a weird dynamic. So apply that to something like jury duty. And the but dumber you get, ah the harder it is for you to reason through complexity.
00:15:29
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This is a new, I think this is a new thread for you. So you think part of one of the issues right now in the US is is we're getting collectively dumber? Oh, for sure. China is kicking the shit out of us educationally.
00:15:40
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Everyone always talks about progression. there's always There's always advancement and growth, but I think generally most, like, I think most things are, it's actually a regression. Music, like...
00:15:52
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I mean, you might you might have started with like a music, you most likely started with the best and it's been a slow regression from there. And like, I think a lot of and a lot of things are like like that. Like everything's seen as progress, but like but there's a regression. So like all the advancement technologies probably led to more of a dumber, least less street smart, less like ah ability to solve problems. But but definitely maybe a dumbing down of society.
00:16:17
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But I do think music is slowly deteriorating. It's not getting, it's not, there's not like a progression. The only, the only thing there's a pro there's constant progression as in the X games. And ultra marathoning.
00:16:30
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Yeah. Yeah. I wonder, you think people will be doing a thousand mile races and like, but even that seems probably not a progression. There's some insanity. But even in like snowboarding, which is pretty sweet. Like, you know, if I watch snowboarding from when I was snowboarding a lot to now, and like, it's it's insane.
00:16:47
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Skateboarding, all those x like extreme sports. But, you know, 360 was a big thing in 1990. Now, ahre I don't know what they're doing, 3200s or some shit. But it's also like...
00:17:00
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It's like, who gives a shit? Someone's doing this crazy thing and like a hundred foot gap and doing seven spins. And it's not more like aesthetically pleasing. The athletic feet is pretty cool, but it's just like, it's not, it doesn't seem better.
00:17:14
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Well, let's talk about that regression thing. Cause there's a financial guy listened to. It's pretty prominent. Morgan Housel says like, we're we're all depressed about the state of things. And you've, you take a poll of Americans about how they feel about the economy. It's the worst it's ever been. And he's like,
00:17:30
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it's It's just a contagion of bad thinking. And essentially, objectively, if you look at our lifestyles, we've it's um we've improved dramatically since 50 years ago.
00:17:42
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And I agree and I disagree in that like it does feel like these improvements, these capitalistic improvements on an individual level, to your point, they're not really helping us.
00:17:55
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They're not helping us be, I don't know, more balanced human beings. They're helping us fucking be the Guinness Book of World Records Society where we fucking chase the stupidest shit, thousand mile run.
Society's Changing Values
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Like, dude, why don't you go solve a problem for somebody?
00:18:10
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Like, I don't know, have a good have a good marriage. I don't fucking know, but something's going on where you're right. We're getting we're getting really weird. Well, it's all be it's like packaged a little bit into like, oh, well, not we just we just never knew what the what the capabilities of humans are. So we're just we're just pushing the envelope to find that.
00:18:29
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I don't mind. I think that's fine just because it's kind of like the counter. and It's like the counter and everything else you're saying in a way. I think if everyone really is kind of sad and they don't like the state or they feel like a disconnect, like the technology is helping them, but also, you know, but there's also just sort of a disconnect socially and, you know,
00:18:47
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So people are just like, they just go get wrapped up in something. And at least it's, well, I don't a thousand mile. i don't know if that's really capable, possible, good for your body, a thousand mile run, but let's just say, uh, you know, it seems like a healthy way to get out some of the emotional stress caused by modern life and physically just like, like we talked about it. We feel better when we feel kind of tired and relaxed and working out.
00:19:12
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I'm not saying you got to do like the lead bill 100 to get there, but, uh, but I don't mind that as much. But you're right, like it it's a huge, like to be able to train for this stuff, it's basically your life. it's it's and it's you But you can make that argument with anything. I could say that about me taking my kids surfing, like I could be doing doing good for mankind right now and I'm out here being selfish.
00:19:34
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ah So I think you could take that, I don't know, the the extreme, the progression in the extreme sports is like, it's weird, but I don't know if I have such a ah high criticism of it that you do.
00:19:46
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I don't have a high criticism of it. I think the people in it are amazing. I just, I think that it's another sign of a society going astray. And I listen to these stories of people that grew up you know, before this so-called modern era, and they were voracious readers, many of them, or at least the people that we're telling stories about.
00:20:07
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They were involved in this this type of thinking and exploration about the world that we don't often see base level of society doing, this like curiosity about how things work and and about how other countries live and just a more broad-based curiosity.
Technology's Impact on Knowledge
00:20:25
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We're a niche, find my fucking weird niche, obsess about it for most of my life and try to sell people on it, maybe even manipulate people on it type of society now.
00:20:37
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That leads to just increasing low levels of intelligence and low levels of effectiveness, which I seem to cross all the time. ah When I go to the grocery store, the people working are really bad now and they weren't always that bad.
00:20:54
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and everybody's real fucking weird. i went to recycle a battery at the Batteries Plus place and the dude just, just ah just a sad dude. These are anecdotes, I get it, but this modern world, whatever it is, it's kind of lame.
00:21:09
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But that, yeah, but you're almost saying that, but isn't that justification for in a way for these people that are like, I'm just going to get into this, whatever, rock climbing running, um because the rest of the world sucks.
00:21:23
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Like, does that, do you understand that though, at least? Yeah, it's a great cope. is i it's ah Like they might be running later literally and figuratively. Yeah, exactly. oh yeah It's a great cope. It's the best one we have. That's why I do it. I exercise twice a day, man, because it's like this this phone will suck me in texting back and forth with you and all these other MFs.
00:21:44
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And it's whatever. It would have been nice if we just lived close to each other and we would you know go have a brew together, casual brew and talk shit and then maybe play poker. But we got to do this bullshit.
00:21:56
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But I had to fuck that up, huh?
00:22:01
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Well, even texting even the fact that you're using your phone to communicate is probably good. I mean, this thing about like reading and quest for knowledge and everything, like...
00:22:12
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That's gone because everything is so readily available. Although I do see some hope in my kids a little bit and some of their friends. like I think some of it too, though, is just we're not... I mean, I've said it before. like you know YouTube, for example. I do like YouTube, but like my kid will use YouTube. If he gets into something right now, he's like he's he's going to do a chess tournament at school. And so he's watching a lot of chess.
00:22:36
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like the modern technology, some of it can be used where you might, ah you used to might go read a book, how to play chess or some, some, you know, Bobby Fisher's, uh, chess masters or some fucking book where now people are just go like instant access and they're watching, listening to people. i don't know if it has the same effect. Time will tell, but it's not all bad. You know, it's not all bad, I would say, but, but then the other side was it just people just zombieing out on just like scrolling through nonsense.
Consumerism and Capitalism Critique
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And, uh,
00:23:04
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I mean, it can happen so quick, dude. Like if if you're looking at Instagram or something, even if you're doing it for a positive, like for work or whatever, you you can go down a rat hole so fast.
00:23:14
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It's like, why would you ever read? You know, why would you ever pick up a book once you go down that rat hole? Right, right. We well we we should that. we should acknowledge the tendency for people who get around this age and older to be pessimistic about the direction society's going.
00:23:32
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um There is a bit of a tendency to look back and go, that was when it was good. Not necessarily true. Yes, there are things that are good that have happened for sure. But look at something like DoorDash, just as a technology.
00:23:46
Speaker
What's good about you know fast tracking fast food and restaurant food to your house at any time? Like just stuffing. The problem with our capitalistic, I've ranted on it many times. The problem with our capitalistic system is it's very good at manipulating our impulses and it sells us these vices. And now you have access to them.
00:24:08
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anytime 24 hours a day. What is good about within 25 minutes getting a Burger King Whopper with a large fry delivered direct to your door? What's good about that?
00:24:21
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Well, somebody might be like, well, you because you can work in that time you wouldn've went and got it, you could work or you could be with your kids or you could whatever. You could actually probably get something healthy, too, if you wanted to. Right.
00:24:32
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I've never used DoorDash. I've never used any of those services that we have them here, too. But you could get something healthy, but you won't because we're again, we're having to override our deepest biological impulses.
00:24:46
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Every time we experience the capitalistic society, we're having to be like, nope, nope, sugar, no sugar for me now. No, no salt. Yeah, so that's the problem, dude. And that's why the jurors, aside from me, when I go fucking do my jury duty, are going to be fucking dumb and large.
00:25:04
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um but It's
Public Behavior and Mental Health
00:25:05
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been so long since I've done had to do jury duty in the U.S., maybe like 15 years. But I just remember sitting in this room with like a thousand people and being like, look at these people.
00:25:14
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Wow. this is what This is what's going on here. There's like ah they like when you get into a group a large group of people, you realize how many people are just like dysfunctional or you're like, you are not normal.
00:25:28
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And then you're like, oh my God, it's almost everyone. know. I was talking about that the other day. Just like weird behavior. You're like, what? Yeah. Yeah, I was talking about it the other day. It just seems like so many people, this is in the context of my tragic family members, and and we're just like, but look around. So many people are living right on the edge. Our standard is extreme. You and i our standard for a healthy life across this world, or at least in America, is extreme.
00:25:53
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Yeah. Going like a public bathroom and just watch the behavior, you're like, hmm. One of my friends, she she got a job. At this, I think I talked about its like this big call center. Actually, she got another job. So she's moving out of there, which is great. So she so there's a giant public bathroom. She was saying that, like, there's like 15 sinks or some shit. So she went in there. She's going to go the bathroom. She put some stuff down at a sink and and there was no one else in there. And someone came in.
00:26:20
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and just went to the sink like where she put her shit and started brushing her teeth. And she was just like, what the fuck? Why wouldn't you like use any other, any other, like first of all, why would you wanna do that? Like brush your teeth around someone else's shit?
00:26:32
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And second of all, like why would you, it was like she sought out this this area. But yeah, like you're just like, what what is going through people's heads sometimes? that's I mean, that's like a not as socially, it's not going to ruin society. But when you get out in the public, you're just like, wow, there's people like on the fringe of of normal human behavior.
00:26:54
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And it's like everywhere. I don't know if that has anything to do with the modern world or that's just the way people are or what. or there's more
Convenience Culture Debate
00:27:02
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mental health issues and what the fuck, but don't you think just funny. That is funny. Don't you think the modern world though breeds ineffectiveness?
00:27:12
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i don't know if that's a word, but just sort of, it breeds a laziness and a despair. So like you watch people at the grocery store, an American grocery store, not your fruit stand in Costa Rica, but an American grocery store.
00:27:26
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It's a real sad state of affairs to watch these people hobble around right past the fruit area into the processed food area and get it because it's cheap food. It's not their fault, but get all that shit. And I look at what they're checking out with and I'm like, damn, bro, you don't need those those drumsticks. And I'm playing, um it it is, it's just set up for the path of least resistance, which happens to be nothing but vices and horrible things for you. So is it any wonder people are so fucked up?
00:27:56
Speaker
We focus completely on the convenience. And then a lot of people just don't have anything to do because because of efficiencies, there's not much to do. what What do you predict will be the fate of humanity AI?
00:28:09
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So when people no longer have to get up and we're surrounded by nothing but vices, I don't know, can't be good, but give me your positive, hopeful
Future Societal Predictions
00:28:18
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prediction. Maybe we can end this show with some positivity.
00:28:21
Speaker
Well, I think life is going to be great for, I mean, what you've talked about for small for a group of people, then there might be a ah gap. There's going to be like ah just the same service industry and then a bunch of people with a lot of money.
00:28:34
Speaker
who are in the, and then we have a lot of free time. Free time is what is our, is like everyone's goal, but it's not always a good thing. I mean, there's, there is a little bit of like, well, society is presses on. Every, every generation thought the world was falling. Remember the ozone layer, hairspray in the eighties.
00:28:54
Speaker
Everyone thought that was going to ruin us. i don't know what happened to ozone. It's ironic. Like whenever we have like more of a right wing president, like the world seems to be like oh shit. and And like, you know, you look at the 80s, you kind of had that vibe at the end of the 80s. It was like, oh, man.
00:29:10
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And then you and then it rolled into what we were talking about before that. the Yeah. Well, what were we just talking about before we came on air? Reality bites. That's sort of like depressing. Why are we here? Shit. It's like whenever you come out of like a conservative political cycle and you have this kind of like, what the fuck? happened with, um it even happened like when the market crashed with Bush, when the real estate market crashed in 08, you kind of had this like, what the fuck attitude like in the, in that area. Like, so maybe in the late 20s, early thirty s there's going to be this kind of like,
00:29:43
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vibe of like fuck all this bullshit maybe it's coming maybe it already is so they so what I'm I guess what I'm saying is like it's hard for me to say well everything is just so fucking doom there's like these cycles that always have there there is at least a little bit of correction every once in a while So I guess the the the thing would be if you if you are correct, at some point we'll get too far past the point of recovery and you think we're getting close to it.
00:30:08
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But still iss going to be people that are in a good place for it and they're going to have like fucking great life. It'll be like the Middle Ages, you know? We have like a few a few like rich landowners or people like, property in Europe where mostly the whole population was living in like sickness and and poverty.
00:30:26
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And then there were like a few rich, really super rich power brokers and landowners. We'll go back to that. That's my prediction. ah That's pretty rosy from my standpoint.
00:30:38
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You think even that is rosy? It's worse than that? I'm joking. No, I'm joking. No, I could just, I can picture it though. I just picture those like peasants like, meh.
00:30:49
Speaker
May I have some bread, sir? Can I have a little bread? And the teeth are all black and disgusting. And it's like, I can see us there. right But that that is like, like the most of man, most of history is that. Right.
00:31:05
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So there, I don't know if that gives you hope or fear, but like, you know, people make the argument that we're in by far the best time in human history right now. There's some conveniences. I'm just not sure what positive thing they're actually doing for us. But I don't i don't think I have a hopeful message. And so I can probably just end on that.
00:31:29
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Why don't you go get one of them P's, boy?
00:31:37
Speaker
I want one of them Now go get one of them S's.
00:31:46
Speaker
What's that spell?
00:31:58
Speaker
P to the O to the S, you know P to the O to the Ness, you know P to the O to the Ness, you know You stupid motherfuckers oughta know