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Boom or Bust - Why we don't have Terms Limits on our Congressman
11 Plays5 months ago
Brian and Dave speak about Boomers and why it is your responsibility to scam your boomer parents (kidding obviously). Dave has the experience of being gaslighted at the red cross and Brian speaks about how life was like in the 90s.
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Transcript
Introduction and Episode Title Dilemma
00:00:02
David Isaacs
Hello there, everyone. It is June 30th, 2025, and I don't know what this episode's called yet. I call it Boomer Bus, because I was going to talk about Boomers, but we'll see. Brian, how are we doing?
00:00:16
Brian Leithead
All right, man, it's been a long week. Just looking to get through it, talk, talk through some things. no That's what our podcasts for where we, uh, come up with advice, even if no one needs it.
00:00:27
David Isaacs
Yeah, and now we're on video. So there's that.
Warhammer and Hobbies Discussion
00:00:33
Brian Leithead
Yeah. I hope or, uh, we look us do faces look, uh, or expect how the audience expects, expects us to look, um, I can't take you seriously with your Morpheus glasses.
00:00:47
David Isaacs
Yeah.
00:00:48
Brian Leithead
It looks looks like you're like you got like jeweler a jeweler glass on and you're like trying to I Don't know look make like an action figure paint like the tiny details of it it Yeah Yeah
00:00:59
David Isaacs
Yeah, i I just got finished painting a bunch of minis for Warhammer. So which I've come to find out. I'm just joking about that. But a friend of mine has started and it is quite the initial investment, probably around twelve hundred bucks, I think, because you have to have, well, eight to ten, twelve packs of minis and each one's like one hundred bucks.
00:01:22
Brian Leithead
Yeah, it gets even worse like I so I don't I've never played worm hammer. I have friends who play But growing up playing Magic the Gathering being a tournament grinder You know, you kind of go to all the local shops and you see some shit, but Yeah war hammer like especially if like you look like like ah like the hordes that can get real expensive real quick and
00:01:34
David Isaacs
No.
00:01:47
David Isaacs
Yeah, I like I said, I don't really know much about it. I know the video games that they've produced and some of the lore surrounding Warhammer. Obviously, Henry Cavill has been a big and I'm a little bit of an advocate or for it, so mostly like just Henry cable clips I've seen him talking about Warhammer I know Joey batty and him we're talking about like playing at one time in an interview and which armies that they had and all that stuff so
00:02:20
David Isaacs
Yeah, but anyways, with the glasses, I had bought them for a friend of mine and tried them on, but they're just so funny. And I kind of wanted to have somewhat of like a persona, I guess this is like my, this is my alter ego for the podcast world. and here we are.
00:02:40
Brian Leithead
With your like you're so somewhat dry wit in your glasses. It's kind of like that Saturday Night Live skit with the Jeopardy and it's like Bert Reynolds
00:02:51
David Isaacs
celebrity
British Comedy and Cultural Critiques
00:02:52
David Isaacs
jeopardy with Will Ferrell yeah like my my style comedy is like very British in a sense where
00:02:55
Brian Leithead
Yeah with Will Ferrell and Norm Macdonald sorry, Norm Macdonald is like this is hat.
00:03:02
Brian Leithead
It's real funny, right?
00:03:07
Brian Leithead
Anyway
00:03:18
David Isaacs
I never watched the Ricky Gervais um I really can't stand Ricky Gervais because he really plays these characters that are I watched the invention of lying. There's that Netflix show he did about his wife dying, but it seems like every one of his characters is just an I know better than you. I know more than you. Like, and that's his entire persona through those through that. I mean, I watched The Inbetweeners back when I was a teenager and that was like good teen comedy. I don't know. I'm trying. I'm trying to think of any British. Well, I guess
00:04:05
David Isaacs
that kind of stuff but I don't know if you could really constitute that I think it's like more situationally funny is kind of classic British dry humor
00:04:18
Brian Leithead
Uh, uh, yeah, I don't know, but I like the glasses slick. It's, uh, definitely not you. It's like not the one that I know. So I don't know.
00:04:28
Brian Leithead
I'm proud of you. Way to go.
00:04:30
David Isaacs
Yeah, you know, they're just trying out different things. You know, this is a new Dave. Right. I bought a I bought a walking pad.
00:04:35
Brian Leithead
Yeah.
00:04:38
David Isaacs
For my desk, so. Changes, changes are coming.
00:04:44
Brian Leithead
25 David,
Communication Quirks and Miscommunications
00:04:45
Brian Leithead
here we come.
00:04:46
David Isaacs
Yeah.
00:04:47
Brian Leithead
Might go by Dave or Davey. We'll coast with that for a second.
00:04:53
David Isaacs
Yeah.
00:04:53
Brian Leithead
Take it slow.
00:04:55
David Isaacs
da da Dave is Dave has been normal for. pretty much since I've been like 16 and on, because you said friends like Danny or Kenny, and then they became Dan or Ken, David becomes Dave.
00:05:13
David Isaacs
Brian never really becomes Bri because I don't know. I don't know if anyone ever really calls you that, but it's not really, I don't feel like it's a great shortening.
00:05:20
Brian Leithead
Uh,
00:05:24
Brian Leithead
no, it's not like, I think we, do we talk about this before where it's like, how did Richard become Dick and you know, like other weird short names like that. But, uh, I guess before we move on to that, we, uh, yeah, people, a lot of people don't call me Brian. It's like, you know, a quick, uh, you know, Hey, Hey, Brian, you know, type of thing.
00:05:47
Brian Leithead
I get brain a lot in emails, which is kind of upsetting. I know the old A before I rule, but it's literally in my signature when I respond. So, you know, I just follow that and, you know, we'll be okay as far as email correspondence. Otherwise I get a little upset.
00:06:06
David Isaacs
Yeah, no, I've definitely I don't know if I've done it to you, but I have done that before. And yeah, auto correct. I don't know. I feel like auto correct has not had an update since whenever it got introduced, because even still being a Lions fan, we used to talk about Stafford a lot. I would try to text and text people or group chats and it would always switch to Stanford.
00:06:34
Brian Leithead
Yeah. Detroit loins starting quarterback Matthew Stanford.
00:06:39
David Isaacs
Yeah. Or.
00:06:41
Brian Leithead
Brutal.
00:06:42
David Isaacs
Or sometimes Sam Ford, like the college.
00:06:47
Brian Leithead
Okay.
00:06:48
David Isaacs
And I was I was texting a group chat yesterday about the whole deep seek thing, because I don't know if you've heard about this.
AI Advancements and Market Impacts
00:06:57
David Isaacs
Have you heard about this?
00:06:58
Brian Leithead
I've looked
00:06:59
Brian Leithead
Yeah, I read a little bit about it, but why don't you, uh, you'd probably be able to explain it better than I could.
00:07:04
David Isaacs
All right, well, to get to the premise of why I'm speaking about this, they were talking about efficiency. And there is a Chinese company that is supposedly more efficient with AI prompts than chat GPT is. And this is a lot of word garbage that's going to be spit out at you here in a second for anyone listening that has no idea what this is. But their compression was using 8-bit instead of 32-bit.
00:07:34
David Isaacs
And I was trying to say bit in the group chat and it would continuously switch to butt. And I feel like AI with what we have now and autocorrect should know that if I have changed that word back, then I don't want it replaced again. Like where, how would we not figure that out yet? Who working at Apple? What are they working on? That's much more important than that.
00:08:04
Brian Leithead
Amen, Brother Preach.
00:08:05
David Isaacs
The Apple Vision Pro sucks. $3,500 to have a headache sucks. Like you have iMessage, you have iPhones that you update, nothing really ever happens. There has to be teams and teams of workers over there. are It's just like area 51. You've come out with one new product and every app updates like bug fixes, bug fixes have affected who.
00:08:33
David Isaacs
like there, I don't know, but anyways, the chat GPT deep seek thing. So there's a lot of, the stock market and video a few days ago went down a ton. I think Nvidia was down over 15%.
00:08:51
David Isaacs
The S and&P 500 finished down around 2%. And it was because of this news of an AI Chinese company named DeepSeek that had come out and was pretty comparable to chat GPT, at least the best version of chat GPT.
00:09:09
David Isaacs
And instead of costing $200 a month, it was free. They claim to be more energy efficient. In fact, using 3% of what chat GPT, the amount of energy they currently use. So the same prompt in deep seek uses 3% of that energy. So say it was 100 kilowatts or however you measure energy, I'm not entirely sure. They're only using three for the exact same prompt.
00:09:37
David Isaacs
uh, completely open sourced, unlike open open AI. So people can copy the code, run it locally to their system. It was touted as a side project for some rich Chinese person and only costs like $5.6 million create. And they had also claimed not to be using the H100s, which are considered one of the more,
00:10:05
David Isaacs
premium Nvidia chips and they are the chips that Biden tried to shut down from going to China because he didn't want them to be able to produce their own AI such as we have, which could also be a lie because Nvidia's balance sheet, I think Singapore buys 22% of their chips. So the ah ah people are thinking, and I think Singapore has been the intermediary for these chips since the ban was put in place.
00:10:44
David Isaacs
So there's a lot going on. There's a lot of people I know that are invested in Nvidia and a lot of people invested in Nvidia to begin with. So there are some fears that have come out. One, if they were able to achieve this without the more premium chips. Two, if it is as efficient as they say that it is, then. Oh, sorry. If it's efficient as they say it is, then companies will need less chips because you would assume that power correlates with
00:11:16
David Isaacs
computing power as well, not only energy. So to be able to run these things, they're not going to need as many chips to expand out. And what that means for Nvidia basically is I haven't looked at this, but I know the demand for Nvidia chips is so high, they've been able to name their own price and people have been paying it because they're competing with other large tech firms to get their hands on these chips to build out their own LLM models.
00:11:42
David Isaacs
So I I don't know what the future holds with that yet. I am currently not worried about it. There's a lot that's going on, but I have tried it. I did download it and signed in through Apple and it works. It works very well, exceedingly well. Watch some videos on the comparisons between the two relatively the same gave the and gave the almost same exact answers. Coding was similar, although they did a ah Python, they wanted them to code Python and the graphs that they both created look different. However, they came to the same conclusion essentially. So yeah, there is a large shakeup with what's happening right now for them. And I think as an investor,
00:12:37
David Isaacs
and then video the biggest fear that I have with the efficiency issue that Facebook, Amazon, Google, all these large tech companies that are building out their own LLMs are going to start basically jerking off their shareholders at these or earnings calls.
00:13:01
David Isaacs
So they're going to start saying, oh, we've become more efficient. We're not going to need as many Nvidia chips going forward and this and that, because, yeah, they're one of the main things that public companies try to do is try to cut expenses any way that they can. And the original thought was, well, they're going to start producing their own chips. Apple's started to and is trying to, but.
00:13:26
David Isaacs
Nvidia has just been so above and everyone else in terms of being able to use their chips for AI that it's kind of hard to really imagine that people would be getting away from it. However, if the efficiency is real and what's happening, then these companies aren't going to be spending as much on these Nvidia chips, the demand is going to go down and Nvidia is not going to be able to charge a hand and a foot to give them these chips. While that might be an issue for Nvidia, but it's also going to raise Facebook, Google, whoever else is using AI, it'll raise their stock price once they come out and talk about these things. But it's also good for.
00:14:14
David Isaacs
Smaller companies, if everything with DeepSeek is true, obviously, smaller startups to start expanding out into the landscape and developing their own LLMs.
Technology Misunderstandings and Privacy Concerns
00:14:26
David Isaacs
But it just, it's so funny that you try to.
00:14:31
David Isaacs
You try to bottleneck, you try to be anti-competitive, you worry about China. It's been the same thing with China and communism for however many years. like We need to spend more money on the military because of China. We got to get to Mars or colonize the moon before China or space force because of China. It's been the same thing over and over and over again. They basically just Yeah, they stunted on the U.S. by releasing this. And there are claims from OpenAI, which I'm not surprised that, say, they ripped off some of their code, they hacked into their system somehow, they just basically cloned our thing like. I don't know, but it's not surprising that they would come out and say that in defense, even if it wasn't true. So I don't know really what to believe.
00:15:21
Brian Leithead
Well, thank you for breaking that down.
00:15:24
David Isaacs
yeah go ahead no
00:15:24
Brian Leithead
I, I literally knew 3% of that. So you're the 100%. You're the chat chief, you're the open AI and I'm the deep seek. I'm but a, I'm, I'm but a humble servant, a humble student of yours.
00:15:39
Brian Leithead
That was impressive.
00:15:41
David Isaacs
no it's I wish I could explain it easier but I have like I said there's people that I know that are invested in video someone I know that has been in video for a long time And the group chat the last few days has been me going back and forth with this person and trying to understand more about it because I am an investor as well. It's a small part of my portfolio. But as we continue to go on with a company that has been valued for what they could be valued at in the future, depending on how much that they're earning. But it's the the the stock market always works in advance. So companies can be
00:16:24
David Isaacs
worth more by market cap than they're actually making, but the expectation that this company is going to be worth that much in the future is what drives those stock prices. So when you start to introduce fear, uncertainty, doubt, what some people on Wall Street bets call FUD, big investors start pulling out because they have a feeling that the sink is shipping, sinking,
00:16:52
David Isaacs
and they're starting to see the pinholes in the hole. Even I don't know if this is related, but Nancy Pelosi sold some Nvidia a few weeks ago before all this went down, so.
00:17:09
Brian Leithead
Good. Oh, good for her. like, must be nice.
00:17:15
David Isaacs
Yeah, it's a club we're not invited into.
00:17:17
Brian Leithead
I, yeah, I don't know. Seriously. The, uh, I guess the, uh, little tip that they got or something, I don't know, but, um, um, yeah, like I said, didn't know that, but I knew that, you know, us, uh, dorks down on the lower levels here, wherever you're like, Ooh, there's new AI model to test down, huh?
00:17:38
Brian Leithead
China, huh? And the funny thing is, is like all of the boomers, which I don't know is a topic you might have wanted to get into. Maybe this would be a transition was, you know, that's a Chinese spy model, but it's open source.
00:17:50
Brian Leithead
Like literally anybody could, I guess, technically spy on you. But I guess I have a hard time believing that if it's literally in a GitHub repo.
00:17:59
David Isaacs
It's. It's it's all media, dude, and they don't understand why legacy media, they use these terms, right? And stealing your data is this big blanket fucking term that they use and people associate it with private information or they're storing private user data.
00:18:23
David Isaacs
They're on the app store on the fucking iPhone. Apple controls what they can pull from you. And if you're really worried about any of that, you can sign in with Apple, which covers your email address. And the only thing that they are taking through their documentation and what they're saying is they are making an algorithm around what you search to better like train the model.
00:18:49
David Isaacs
But was the same thing with TikTok, like they're stealing your private data. What the fuck are they stealing? The fact I like watching somebody open Pokemon cards. Like that, there's this guy that does these videos of you made the mistake of mentioning Spider-Man in front of your millennial uncle, and he slows it down to half speed. And he's like, you're talking about Tobey Maguire, right?
00:19:17
David Isaacs
Tom Holland sounds like a menswear brand. Sam Raimi invented superhero movies and is just going on this entire rant. But yeah, what else can they possibly take? Apple controls what's on my phone and what an app can take. But the problem is and what I had seen Facebook wants those users. Reels does not have enough users. Twitter is never gonna have enough users. And they want those users on their platforms engaging with their platforms to be able to sell more ads.
00:19:58
David Isaacs
or that however many people are signed up on those platforms. Two, creators were paid a lot more on TikTok than they were paid on reels or YouTube shorts or whatever else. And that has been the entire basis on why they were trying to get rid of TikTok. It's because billionaires that lobbied the government claimed it was this potential fucking security threat and have been trying to get rid of it. The CEO is Singaporean.
00:20:27
David Isaacs
yeah yeah their entire basis of the Chinese government could come in and take all the information. But again, what fucking information do they have? Like, it's it's crazy. And if one day I'm proven wrong, then I'm proven wrong. But I don't put in what's your Social Security number. I don't fall for any of these like scams or whatever else that Technically illiterate people do and yeah, the terms and conditions of anything are going to be so long that you're not gonna read them but the same thing with Singapore and Nvidia chips who's saying that Facebook isn't selling my data to a country that is then selling that data to China If they really want it, they could get it from Facebook. They could get it from Twitter. They could get it from YouTube or wherever else But it's
00:21:23
David Isaacs
The other. Yeah. And that was the other part of it, the deep seek cyber attack. It was a fucking deal. S attack. That happened to him, but cyber attack. Ooh, that's spooky. So they shut down new users from being able to sign up unless you got an email and you got an email verification. And the ah ah other argument I had with the person that was invested in Nvidia.
00:21:48
David Isaacs
Because he was claiming if it's such this great AI, why can't they send an email verification? That's a different service. That has nothing to do with the AI itself. And they're dealing with the OS attacks.
00:22:00
Brian Leithead
Yeah, it's third party service.
00:22:01
David Isaacs
So.
00:22:02
Brian Leithead
It's not proprietary technology.
00:22:08
David Isaacs
But it goes into everything and thinking about it, I've been reading.
Power Dynamics in Society and Literature
00:22:14
David Isaacs
Blood over Bright Haven. And the basis of the book is that it follows a woman that's trying to be the first woman archmage in their entire society. It's dark fantasy academia. She was studying all this and whatnot to become an archmage. But the basis of the book is really about how the people in power see you as subhuman.
00:22:44
David Isaacs
They don't expect you to lash out. They don't expect you to know what you're doing. They don't expect you to be smart. Like they underestimate you at every turn. And that's pretty much where we've, what I was associating it to is that's pretty much where we've gotten to in our society with the boomer generation. And one, Congress cannot with equal branches of the government on things that they want to impose But Congress has to police themselves, and obviously they're not going to.
00:23:18
David Isaacs
We've seen what happens when people that think they're above the law and think they can get away with stuff. And what happens because of that? But Congress giving themselves pay raises.
00:23:31
David Isaacs
There was a. Actually a lawsuit, so we're going to speak bad about Ruth Bader Ginsburg here for a second, but
00:23:41
Brian Leithead
Whoa. Whoa.
00:23:43
David Isaacs
Yeah, there was a lawsuit, I guess, in the 90s that I wish I would have read up on this more so I don't like jabble over this. Basically, there was a certain amount of states that had a law that made it so states could put term limits on their state representatives in Congress. So that would be the Senate House of Representatives.
00:24:11
David Isaacs
And somebody sued, I don't know if a state sued, I don't know what exactly happened, but it made its way up to the Supreme Court and Ruth Bader Ginsburg voted that states should not be allowed to set term limits for the people that represent them in Congress. And the decision passed five to four, as most of those decisions do, because they know whatever, like,
00:24:37
David Isaacs
It could pass eight to one. It doesn't matter. But they want to seem like they're voting along party lines or whatever. So that was really the start. The other parts of it, too, like. The fact that they've been able to police themselves, all the money that they get from these lobbyists and bills that try to get passed to go through that are hundreds of pages long. That they don't read.
00:25:05
David Isaacs
The story about the woman that hadn't shown up and however long that was being treated for dementia dementia brian Yeah So they work half the year Giving themselves pay raises aren't policed by anything And they're the ones making these laws and they don't represent the people but and they look
00:25:17
Brian Leithead
no
00:25:33
David Isaacs
them, these rich people, and it's all encompassing. And it's just been going so downhill for however long, private equity coming after houses, buying houses, running the mouths of people, private equity, buying up these businesses.
00:25:41
Brian Leithead
Oh no.
00:25:50
David Isaacs
Like you back in the day, you used to have You got paid a lot more, you had better benefits. The person who was your boss that signed your paychecks, that approved your raises, that made the decisions were all in the same location with you. Now we are basically like animals getting killed and coming packages of chicken in the grocery store.
00:26:15
David Isaacs
Like these billionaires, these government officials, they don't look at us. They don't think about us. They don't associate with what our lives were, what we've had to deal with for anything. And you can't stand up to them. You can't do anything because it's it continuously going on for however many years of the people in power.
00:26:34
David Isaacs
developing a system that makes it so that they stay in power and they'll do Whatever it takes to continue working to continue making money They're not giving anything back or going away because why should they they don't have to they like having? wielding this power over people and as much as people try to say between Democrats and Republicans how different they are I think they're all fucking puppets and They're all got some fucking rich guy's hand up their ass or rich girl's hand up their ass and it's just fucking shaking them around. Like whether it's they're being paid by big oil executives or companies that say that they are greener or whatever else, like they've all got. They've all gotten to this point. By. Not sticking to their values and somebody comes up to him and it's like, hey,
00:27:28
David Isaacs
I'll pay you to run against this person and whatever as a state representative and then maybe make it up to a senator or maybe a governor of a state and then continue moving their way up. But it's only off the backs of rich interest groups that will represent their interests in on a state or national stage. And even with the company that I work for right now, who is owned by a private equity firm,
00:27:57
David Isaacs
It's like was once owned by a family that would pay their employees right. The commissions that salespeople got were really great. The benefits were really great. But eventually one day they decide, hey, I just got an offer I can't refuse. I'm going to go to Hawaii. But anyways, you guys can all keep your jobs. I'll see you later.
00:28:23
David Isaacs
And they leave and then that private equity firm comes in, cuts everyone's benefits. Healthcare, they were having severance or whatever else, cuts their PTO and the kind of top guys in the company are given raises and that's about it. So anybody knew that comes in like I did three years ago, doesn't get paid anything.
00:28:49
David Isaacs
They they set these budgets. They set how much you can get in a raise when they decide to give you a raise because we didn't get raises last year. And it's just shit. Somebody that's making a decision on how much more I'm getting in my raise doesn't know who the fuck I am. And couldn't care less, but they look at me and. Or not even look at me, they don't even know I exist.
00:29:17
David Isaacs
It's like a fucking chicken on a farm.
00:29:19
Brian Leithead
Thank you.
00:29:19
David Isaacs
I don't know where the chicken in my fridge, what chicken that came from. They don't know who's fucking doing data analysis for one of their websites in an office in Auburn
00:29:30
David Isaacs
They couldn't care less. They're the ones making the decisions. They know everything. So that's why I was saying with people that have, I've seen testimonials of people who are like, my parents lit,
00:29:45
David Isaacs
live in this giant house in Florida have tens of millions of dollars and all they do is complain and that nobody wants to work this that like just scam them literally just scam them it is your fiduciary responsibility to scam your out of touch boomer parents because if you don't do it someone will I've I've heard of stories of my mom's friends getting scammed on these things. She ran into an old lady at Target that was buying a bunch of Target gift cards because whoever was scamming her knew that she owed Target money or she thought she owned Target money. Like you have all their personal information. Just have somebody else send them a message or call them up and say, like, we know where you live. We're going to take away all your material possessions because that's the only thing that you care about unless you pay us X amount each month.
00:30:44
David Isaacs
and just do that. That's only way we're gonna get any wealth distribution because they don't know technology well enough to think that they're not getting scammed. Obviously a joke, don't do that.
00:31:02
Brian Leithead
I was like, what? All right. We're trying to grow an audience, not generation of scammers. but
00:31:10
David Isaacs
Anarchy, anarchy.
00:31:11
Brian Leithead
And now K in the UK. That's my favorite moment from V for Vendetta. it was a great, that was a great movie. Anyway. yeah. So the name of that lawsuit was, or a a Supreme court case was the U S term limits, Inc versus Thornton.
00:31:28
Brian Leithead
who I believe was the Arkansas, uh, attorney general. and this vote passed.
00:31:35
David Isaacs
Chode.
00:31:36
Brian Leithead
Yeah, it showed. this vote passed five to four, uh, and two because, and that the reasoning for this being struck down or whatever you want to call it, was because they wanted to give the power to the people to vote who they wanted to in their respective state, at the, at the state level, not federal. So.
00:32:06
Brian Leithead
Okay, whatever. But yeah, it completely invalidated 23 states, like proposals to put term limits on their representatives and senators.
00:32:21
David Isaacs
an RBG voted to get rid of it right as a fucked up Clarence Thomas was on the right side of that
00:32:26
Brian Leithead
That I can't find in this article. Oh, sorry. Yep. Hold on. Majority Stevens, Kennedy, Souter, Ginsburg, Breyer, son, Thomas, O'Connor, Scalia, and Rehnquist.
00:32:40
Brian Leithead
So.
00:32:43
Brian Leithead
Yeah. And Sandra O'Connor, but, uh, anyway, yeah, that that's interesting.
00:32:49
Brian Leithead
And you know, what's funny is like growing up in the nineties, like I have this very.
Nostalgia for the 90s and Media Evolution
00:32:56
Brian Leithead
like vivid memory of it like being so great you know because it's when I grew up and I was when I kid is before 9-11 you know blockbuster Nintendo 64 Pizza Hut video one all these things that like before the internet like really became a thing but then like as I don't want to say as like revisionist history and like my own brain but then you like found out that like
00:33:24
Brian Leithead
Almost everyone was probably on cocaine at the time, and then there was just rampant murder in below the south of the border because of the drug trafficking. And then there was, you know, ah ah countless events in the Middle East, and just all the things you didn't really realize when you were a kid, and also just, you know, the Supreme Court still being a shithead back then.
00:33:48
David Isaacs
Yeah, we have given power to very little amount of individuals and some of them are billionaires and other ones are supposed to be representing our interests on a state level in Congress. And I don't know, maybe the 90s, because I was I was born in the 90s, so I didn't get to see much of it, but I'd like to at least vision, not vision, visit when these things started changing, when news started becoming these 24 hour cycles and just trying to scare everybody, because maybe there was in the 90s, just more ignorance is bliss type deal.
00:34:43
Brian Leithead
Yeah. it definitely, it probably definitely and happened happened a lot because of the nine 11 era, just because they wanted to have 24 seven of coverage of things like that. And then obviously we had like, you know, the terrorist alert levels and all of that. Obviously I think they still actually technically have that, but it's, you know, you don't hear about it because we're on a different narratives, different time to,
00:35:09
Brian Leithead
you know, different color code or, you know, it was always color coded. Like red was, I don't know, high chance of terrorist attack I think that's when it really got ramped up. Cause people were just like, wanted to know what was going on in like Iraq and Afghanistan. How, so maybe it was after nine 11. I mean, I don't have any research to back that up.
00:35:33
Brian Leithead
You know, and it feels like the nineties were kind of like a rehash of like almost like this, like the fifties, like post world war two, where it's like, everyone just wanted to be happy and pretend like nothing was going on. So, you know, I was like a kid in the nineties, especially like, you know, A just being a kid and then everything that's going on in society. And they're trying to block that out. you're just kind of, you're just kind of grew up ignorant to it. Maybe that's just me and my, uh, you know, anecdotal evidence, but,
00:36:03
Brian Leithead
I guess I just always have a memory of, you know, the worst thing maybe happening was like us desert storm. you know, cause like I didn't have, I guess maybe the other thing to working against me is I didn't have cable. So like, it was just like our local channels that I would watch news and reruns of like Batman and stuff. So I probably just had like a sheltered life or something. So my, my viewpoint might be skewed.
00:36:31
David Isaacs
Yeah, no, I definitely will. Back then, too, you didn't have. You weren't overstimulated, and I think a lot of it goes subconscious between if you're watching TikTok while TV is going on and still trying to work and, you know, like your mind can get through that. Maybe in a sense, like subconsciously just being overstimulated and now you have anxiety or maybe you think you're going to die or something because you have health anxiety.
00:37:00
David Isaacs
or whatever and even with the news like when I was a kid I didn't watch the news I didn't give a shit what was going on and even now I don't really care cuz it's like what am I gonna do about it like there's nothing that I can do about it a bill gets passed okay what what am I supposed to do about it like how does this affect me if it not to say that I don't care if it doesn't affect me but They the laws and the powers that be are going to continue on until we do something about it.
00:37:29
David Isaacs
That's why I'm trying to start a coalition here, Brian. You got it. It first starts with scamming your parents.
00:37:35
Brian Leithead
Yeah, yeah.
00:37:35
David Isaacs
Your rich parents. Second step is I don't know.
00:37:40
Brian Leithead
Second step is getting termless back for state representatives and senators. That's where it goes.
00:37:45
David Isaacs
Yeah, I mean, if they can overturn previous precedent set by the Supreme Court in one case, then they should be able to do it again. But again, it will never happen because the powers that be have basically written into law that you can't get rid of them.
00:38:02
Brian Leithead
Yeah, which is funny because when giier ruth Bader Ginsburg stepped down from the Supreme Court because of her health, she said that Supreme Court justices should have 18 year terms. I was like, man, at the time, I was like, man, that is so like, self-aware, like, and so edgy, if you will.
00:38:27
Brian Leithead
but then I just, I didn't know that happened in the 90s. Now I feel like an asshole for being like, RBG, RBG.
00:38:36
David Isaacs
Yeah, I mean, we're going to we're going to be labeled.
00:38:38
Brian Leithead
I mean, yeah,
00:38:39
David Isaacs
This could be taken out of context. We'd be labeled as sexist so hard. Like it's unbelievable. Not just kidding, but.
00:38:48
Brian Leithead
we're gonna be, yeah, we're gonna be labeled as sexist anarchists.
00:38:53
David Isaacs
Yeah, there's there's always going to be somebody that disagrees with you, right? Even when I look up book reviews, the I don't care that somebody disagrees with a book that I like but the things that they put in there as to why they didn't like it and it's always it's always like something stupid and that's like what I have an issue with but Ruth Bader Ginsburg obviously been a lot of women's reproductive rights
00:39:24
David Isaacs
and has probably done a lot of good in her career. But I think the basis that I'm trying to get at is even these people that we look upon so highly have done things very questionable at times. So there's never really a politician that you like that hasn't been part of something that you disagree with.
00:39:47
Brian Leithead
Yeah.
00:39:48
David Isaacs
Don't look up Supreme Court cases on your heroes, kids.
00:39:53
Brian Leithead
Speaking of people who you, I wouldn't ever say this guy's really a hero of mine. I like the way he is. So there's a UFC fighter, relatively, I would say unknown to the mainstream. name is Bryce Mitchell.
00:40:10
Brian Leithead
He also from Arkansas, which is funny that we were talking about that. but he said that Hitler was a good guy.
00:40:20
David Isaacs
Hmm.
00:40:20
Brian Leithead
That's not taking that out of context. I can read you a full quote. he was on, let's see. Oh, he just went on social social media.
00:40:31
Brian Leithead
Okay. Got that. So his quote is I honestly think that Hitler was a good guy based upon my own research Not my public education indoctrination. I really do think before Hitler got on meth. He was a guy I'd go fishing with Let's see Fighter also claimed that the Holocaust never happened after Galgato said it was bad to put a whole camp in the races That's your public. That's what your public education will tell you
00:41:01
Brian Leithead
Because you believe your public education I believe your public education because you haven't done your own research When you realize there's no possible way they could have burned and cremated six million bodies You're gonna realize the Holocaust ain't real End quote So kind of initial reaction what the fuck I
00:41:27
David Isaacs
Yeah.
00:41:31
David Isaacs
Your public education and it always comes down to research with these people. But I feel like research, we've talked about it before, but.
00:41:45
David Isaacs
looking up stuff and looking at especially history because people can skew it any way that they want. You can say Hitler is named man of the year by time or person of the year by time or whatever it was, because he was leading Germany past the Treaty of Versailles, which it basically bankrupt them. He was leading them into economic reestablishment. However,
00:42:12
David Isaacs
even if, as a public figure, so let's start off one, Hitler is bad, but as a public figure, your own research or your public public school education should tell you that I probably should not say this. I am a prominent public figure and even if I do believe this, I probably shouldn't say it.
00:42:40
Brian Leithead
Knowing ah the intelligence level of this type of person, they they probably didn't
00:42:48
Brian Leithead
They're not going to give their data to the big corporation. They're going to use something like go.go to get their unbiased search.
00:42:58
Brian Leithead
And I'm always going to guess that his search was, is Hitler a good guy? And was the Holocaust real?
00:43:09
David Isaacs
Yeah. Yeah.
00:43:09
Brian Leithead
Because every, because the argument now for Holocaust deniers has been that they can't get people to not believe that the Holocaust happened. It's that 6 million.
00:43:22
David Isaacs
It wasn't as bad.
00:43:23
Brian Leithead
Yeah. 6 million people, 6 million people is too high. They're like, it was probably a couple thousand at most.
00:43:29
David Isaacs
Yeah.
00:43:33
Brian Leithead
Right, because we're going to rely on the records of 1940s Nazi Germany. But, you know, but that's my public education, you know, telling me I'm wrong. So I didn't do my own research.
00:43:46
David Isaacs
Yeah. And that's the other thing with conspiracy theories, I I can kind of entertain them when you say something like.
00:44:02
David Isaacs
I don't know. You say something like Covid was planned or something and you start following the money and you can understand why because companies had benefited and some people scam the government into getting money and you can kind of get at. Yeah, I can see.
00:44:22
David Isaacs
You know, a lot of these companies made money. They were able to push vaccine that otherwise wouldn't have been required without this happening. So I was like, yeah, I can kind of see it. And then you have like flat earth theory where I'm like, I I don't know who benefits from us knowing that the world is round. How are people making money off us thinking the world is round, which it is. But regardless,
00:44:53
David Isaacs
And then they'll come at you and be like, oh, where do you get your news? I don't know, I see news articles sometimes from mainstream media. Oh, mainstream media, huh? Yeah, so you're a sheep? Yeah, you must be a sheep. I get all my stuff from frickin'
00:45:12
David Isaacs
Dipsbit Dave on YouTube, man. He's got the no. He knows all about this stuff. And it's the same, sorry, Brian, but,
00:45:19
Brian Leithead
Yeah.
00:45:22
David Isaacs
It's the same thing. They are making money off of your engagement. So they are incentivized to just bullshit. They don't fucking know. You don't fucking know. I don't fucking know. Why are you pretending like you know more than me when I'm just telling you, oh, this is what I'd read. Oh, yeah.
00:45:48
Brian Leithead
Yeah. Those are the videos that they watch on YouTube are probably gentlemen in either like a truck or some sort of used, you know, 95 Dodge Neon. ah They're wearing white sunglasses. Typically from this view right here, it's kind of spewing about how, you know,
00:46:10
Brian Leithead
the liberal agenda or whatever conspiracy that they're talking about. And that's their new source. I heard it from a reliable source. What reliable source do you have with like 2000 subscribers on your YouTube page?
00:46:23
Brian Leithead
like
00:46:26
David Isaacs
Yeah, you imagine like back in the day or something. I mean, like coming up with conspiracy theories about the Trojan horse or some shit. Nah, dude, that was no. The aliens must have fucking created this. There's no way they would have been able to create this. So we shouldn't let that in here. And they ended up being right. But for a different reason, but still like that would be that would be a a kind of funny content and just like history of conspiracy theories.
00:46:59
Brian Leithead
Do you think they had like, yeah, like, like back in like, the way back, like, you know, BC era of like, Egypt, do know, do you ever think that like, Romans or something or whoever decided like conspiracy theories like, Hey, yo, I heard it wasn't the Egyptians who built that.
00:47:17
Brian Leithead
I heard it was Mexicans. You never heard of them, but you will.
00:47:22
David Isaacs
Yeah. The leader of China, like Mongolians, were actually pretty chill. The Genghis Khan was just like steezing it up there with the boys and the the leadership of China. They just owned like a fucking brick factory where they own like a brick plot.
00:47:41
David Isaacs
And they sold the people on this these Mongolians and now they're going to come and pill adjust and everything. So they just decided to build a wall because they're doing it was more beneficial for them.
00:47:47
Brian Leithead
Yeah.
00:47:53
Brian Leithead
Hey, yo, they wanted to keep the haters out.
00:47:56
David Isaacs
Yeah, these haters, these Mongolians be coming in, killing my vibe. got to keep them out. And by the way, my cousin owns this brick factory. don't worry about that, it's whatever. We're just gonna build the largest wall anyone's ever seen.
00:48:12
Brian Leithead
Dude, that's how Costco had to have started, right? Like I just have like this warehouse that I just want to like, I want to get rid of everything now. So I'm just going to open it to the public. They're like, what about the stuff on the pallets? ah Fuck it. They can buy that too.
00:48:24
David Isaacs
Yeah. and Just like one guy comes in to buy, like, I don't know. Can I have all your bread? And just imagine the cut, like what? All your bread. Can I buy it? Like, uh, I don't know what you need it for. Like it's like a guy trying to explain how much bread that he needs them going to get a forklift to like pick up the entire thing of bread. Maybe there were scalpers back in the day, like how they were for Pokemon cards, but it was just around bread. Like that, a specific bread that no one could get enough of.
00:48:59
Brian Leithead
Yeah, you want your you want your right you want your right Brad you want your sourdough
00:49:06
David Isaacs
Yeah. The fucking sunbeam white bread was only available at a specific store. Somebody went and bought all of it and then was upcharging the fuck out of it somewhere else.
00:49:21
Brian Leithead
Yes, so then they had to find alternatives. So they went with beef steak, sourdough bread, and I get that gluten-free room.
00:49:27
David Isaacs
Yeah.
00:49:30
Brian Leithead
Oh,
00:49:32
David Isaacs
Well, I know you said you got to get off, so we'll wrap this up here soon, but it's been a fun conversation. i'd I'd add of one thing that we didn't get to, and I will show people, but there's a trigger warning around
Medical Mishaps and Personal Stories
00:49:50
David Isaacs
bruising. I don't know if people have a fear of bruising, but can you see this?
00:49:58
Brian Leithead
Yeah, that's, that's brutal.
00:49:58
David Isaacs
Brian?
00:50:00
Brian Leithead
Where'd you get that from? That little piece.
00:50:07
David Isaacs
So I donate blood every six months, full disclosure I am on testosterone replacement therapy. And one of the side effects is that your body produces too many red blood cells. So you have to exercise more often kind of feeding your muscles, but eventually it gets to a point where the ratio of blood to water in your system gets out of whack and you're at risk for stroke, heart attacks, your blood just starts moving more sluggishly. So it's kind of symbiotic in the sense that I'm able to donate blood, but I'm able to donate blood and help somebody. But it also benefits me in a way, too. And there are some articles that saying donating blood is good for your health overall. So definitely go donate blood.
00:50:54
David Isaacs
And it helps employ people, even though the Red Cross, the people at the top are making a bunch of money, I'm assuming. But anyways, I get in and it's the same donation center I've been to countless times over and something seems off. The vibe seems off about this person. And I didn't know what it was, but I couldn't say anything because going in, I always have anxiety. I've had fainting from getting my blood drawn before I almost fainted. One of the times I was at that donation center. So I feel relatively safe if, in case anything happens and obviously I could be wrong, my health anxiety or whatnot about the vibe of this person. So get in, get in the chair. She starts the thing and she's like, well, I could feel, I could feel her moving the needle around.
00:51:53
David Isaacs
And I'm like, here we, I'm like, here we go. Here we fucking go. Are you kidding me? Like there's no way I have hydrated a shit ton. I ate before I came here. I got enough sleep. I did everything that they tell you to do before you come and get your blood done. I have been in here countless times over in and out needle in needle out within 10 minutes. No issues. She goes over, grabs another person. They look at it.
00:52:22
David Isaacs
Can't figure out what's wrong. They go grab a third person. They look at it. Can't figure out what's wrong. And the gaslighting, Brian, the gaslighting that had occurred from them blaming me, thinking it was my problem. Like I did something wrong. I didn't hydrate enough. Your veins must not just be working. There must be something wrong. And I'm in my head, I'm furious, but I'm like sitting here like this.
00:52:51
David Isaacs
because I can't look at it or I'll faint, because not that I will every time, but I have done before in the past. And it's continuing on like this for like 15 minutes. Ladies like, oh, well, your vein is like huge. I don't know what the issue is. And two other people have moved the needle around in my arm by this point.
00:53:16
David Isaacs
15 minutes go by and We're I'm telling him like listen, I've It's been so easy for me before I did. Yes. I'm hydrated. Yes. I did everything and They couldn't figure it out Eventually they go. Oh You're gonna be so mad There was a kink in the bag or a kink in the host of the bag.
00:53:40
David Isaacs
And as soon as they end, yeah, very kinky.
00:53:41
Brian Leithead
Kinky Watch it go in
00:53:43
David Isaacs
Really into blood play, yeah. Stick your needles in me and then gaslight me. That's really what gets me going.
00:53:52
David Isaacs
All right, that's enough. Anyways, I like try to be as as as sincere as I can. And I'm like, yeah, you know what happens sometimes? I'll be looking for something, and I can't find it. And I want to blame somebody else, and then I find it.
00:54:09
David Isaacs
and whatever. But then the blood flow stops. So they grab a fourth person to come over to confirm that my blood flow has stopped. Obviously it's stopped. You were digging a needle, moving it around in my vein for however long. And they only managed to get 67 milliliters of blood, which I believe a donation is around like 600.
00:54:38
David Isaacs
so they take the allowance. She's like, Oh, like, I know this sucks, but for me too, I'm getting, I get a report done because I wasn't able to do the blood draw properly. And I was just like, I never had one before. And my head I'm like, yeah, you, you need to be written up for, you need to be written up for this. You need to be reported for this.
00:55:01
David Isaacs
But at the same time, like at work and stuff. Well, obviously, I didn't say any of this to her. I'm like, oh, yeah, you know, that sucks. But at least you know, next time check the equipment because at work, I want to blame something and ends up being something else. But I'm not like immediately going to gaslight somebody thinking it's their problem. That stuff's not working when it was an issue with your equipment. Right. And I can't.
00:55:31
David Isaacs
In my mind, I couldn't say really what I wanted to say about much of anything because I don't know myself if there could be an issue with the equipment or whatnot. Um, but they're immediate immediately asking me these questions, thinking it's my fault. Nope. Her, the other person, the third person never thought to themselves, maybe it's wrong. Something's wrong with the equipment. Not once.
00:56:00
David Isaacs
And that was the whole thing that I'm like mad about, like my arm will heal. This like bruising is basically just blood under to the surface of your skin that'll get absorbed back in your body eventually. But yeah, I can't imagine what it would be like as somebody with a chronic illness or somebody that has been misdiagnosed or underdiagnosed and a doctor has just been gaslighting them or your quality of care isn't what it should be for having somebody that had made a mistake like that and blamed you for the fact that it was happening. So I i had to deal with that for 15 minutes. I know some people have to deal with it a lot more times or in ways that are much more severe.
00:56:56
David Isaacs
than dealing with some bruising and that I can't go and donate blood I think for another eight weeks unless I call up there. So that's another inconvenience. So add that to my inconvenience score. Not really. Yeah, I can't i imagine people having to had with that in more extenuating circumstances, like more severe circumstances.
00:57:21
Brian Leithead
Yeah, my boss kind of went through something similar a couple of months ago. she has like deep veins and for what a reason, like the doctor's office, she goes to, it just has like a high turnaround of nurses. and so the person who and normally take, draw her blood cause she goes over a couple of weeks. it's actually for a vitamin B injection. Uh, she doesn't get it.
00:57:50
Brian Leithead
how the body would um, so she has to get injections every couple of weeks. and probably totally butchering the story, but she had to spend two hours in a doctor's office waiting to get blood drawn because two out of the three nurses that they had on staff didn't really have any experience drawing from like a deep vein. So one person literally did what happened to you and was like,
00:58:18
Brian Leithead
digging around like in her veins. And she showed up with like a golf ball size, kind of similar to what you're experiencing. So that sucks. I'm sure you went a lot of pain.
00:58:34
David Isaacs
Yeah, well, it's like the other part of it too, just not being able to work out really, because I'm sure there's not too much issues. I did go yesterday or maybe two days ago and just did low weight, mostly cardio stuff. But even still, there's a change in the balance in your body between your blood and that because my vein had basically clotted up completely.
00:59:04
David Isaacs
And yeah, I did have a golf ball size of golf ball size swelling and write my elbow pit there. But yeah, not to say anything bad about the healthcare care care industry. I know so post COVID they've been dealing with a lot and healthcare companies not willing to take on more staff. So I know the quality of care has just gotten a lot worse. And a lot of people have to deal with stuff.
00:59:31
David Isaacs
every day or like your boss every couple of weeks to deal with this type of stuff. And I know I'm complaining, but I think the inconvenience is just the gaslighting and the fact that you didn't check the equipment when you should have or you haven't hired somebody that has dealt with deep veins or whatever else before. So, yeah, it's just tough and It's tough for people in the medical field sometimes to remember all these steps. Like I've said, I've done a network before where I think something's one thing and it's not, but at the same time, like we can try not to just have that bias thinking it's somebody's issue. Cause sometimes it's not, I guess a majority of the times it probably is, but we've, we've gotten to
01:00:28
David Isaacs
It happens too often, I think, that we develop these patterns in our brain based on the patterns that we see a lot and it's it's it gets a lot harder for us to see or think about what else could possibly be wrong. And with the whole political and conspiracy theory stuff, is easy to develop a cognitive bias just because you can, like you said,
01:00:56
David Isaacs
look up and what you're looking up is trying to figure out or finding some arguments as to why Hitler was a good guy or you and you can base your opinion on that and then that's the only opinion that you're going to really think about and really believe to be true or conspiracy theories about the government being lizard people or whatnot like it's easy to assume that these people must be subhuman for government officials, billionaires or whatever to be doing things like this.
Conspiracy Theories and Misinformation
01:01:33
David Isaacs
But at the same time, it also could be hunger for power or wealth or whatever else. So yeah, so anybody that goes to donate to donate blood or anyone that goes anywhere, just heed my warning and
01:01:52
David Isaacs
If something's going wrong with some sort of test, don't let them gaslight you. Don't sit there for 15 minutes. Just ask them, have they checked their machine? Have they checked to make sure everything is working properly on the equipment side of things? Because I didn't and I should have known to tell them, even though I did,
01:02:17
David Isaacs
that I haven't had an issue. There's definitely blood in my veins. I drank a ton of water instead. They just they really just didn't believe me because I'm sure other people have told them the same thing before. And it turned out that they were wrong. It was that the person was lying or whatever.
01:02:38
Brian Leithead
So, pro tips, kind of summarize that up. When you go for blood donations, ask them about their kinks.
01:02:53
David Isaacs
All right, and that concludes.
01:02:57
Brian Leithead
Listen, I would get mad too if I went around poking in and nothing came out after the blood stopped, you know what I'm saying?
01:03:03
David Isaacs
Yeah. Now, like I said, just the gaslighting, it was so terrible. Like, I can't imagine what it would be like being in an emotionally abusive relationship because I had to deal with it for 15 minutes and that sucked. So.
01:03:22
David Isaacs
I can imagine what it's like for anybody else dealing with that.
01:03:26
Brian Leithead
Yeah, I do.
01:03:28
Brian Leithead
I do like the lady. Well, I'm getting written up for this is like, uh, serving up like, without saying sorry, like, this was like, Hey, sorry about that.
01:03:32
David Isaacs
Yeah, I don't know.
01:03:39
Brian Leithead
I'm getting written up. Like, why are you trying to turn the empathy away from the person who just got stabbed for 15 minutes?
01:03:49
David Isaacs
Communication like when it's like we had been in a car accident or something and She was at fault and was like oh, well don't feel too bad because I'm getting a ticket like Yeah, you should get You were riding my ass going 10 miles over the speed limit and we hit a traffic jam and you Fender bendered me like yeah, you should be getting a ticket and
01:04:12
David Isaacs
And yeah, I am furious in my head, but I'm going to be civil because I think that's worth a lot nowadays. But for the Ask About Your Kings thing, I was half asleep last night, or I guess technically last night, but two days ago, like two o in in the morning.
01:04:33
David Isaacs
I was thinking of kind of a dark joke, but it'd be like, oh, yeah, Brian, I see you more than my own brother.
01:04:45
David Isaacs
Yeah, i I need to go back to the cemetery here soon.
01:04:54
Brian Leithead
Anyway, rose let's wrap it up. That's all all'll for this week folks.
01:04:58
David Isaacs
Yeah, Brian was supposed to be gone here a little bit ago, but yeah, thank you all for listening. Hopefully, I don't think we're sexist about the Ruth Bader Ginsburg stuff. Yeah, we'll get more back on topic next week. Goals are going well and underrated pieces of media and all that. So.
01:05:21
Brian Leithead
Yeah, hopefully you don't think of us as a Holocaust denying sexist, kink-shamers, but at the end of the day, you got to do your own research.
01:05:32
Brian Leithead
So anyway, see you.
01:05:33
David Isaacs
It's the people that like it's people that like feet to me, and I think we can just get rid of them.
01:05:38
Brian Leithead
All right. I guess I'm not on this podcast anymore. No, I'm joking. All right. Have a great week, everybody.
01:06:10
David Isaacs
Bye-bye.