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Ep. 2 - You're Not An Astronaut...
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On this week's episode we dive into the Blue Origin Space Shuttle and fall down a rabbit hole about world population and lab-grown extinct species.
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Introduction to 'Fuck You Boomer'
00:00:15
Speaker
Welcome back to Fuck You Boomer. I'm your host, Michaela, and I'm accompanied by my co-host, my wonderful grandfather, Papa Dennis.
The Blue Origin Space Shuttle Debate
00:00:26
Speaker
and Hi. today today, we're actually going to be talking about the Blue Origin Space Shuttle exploration thing, that whatever that bullshit was. Yeah.
00:00:41
Speaker
You know, you're yeah great your grandmother says, oh, I see he shot up another penis rocket, right? Is basically what it was. And on top of that, he had I was thinking in terms of that, he got five women off at the same time.
00:00:58
Speaker
I'm sorry, but all the jokes are there. They're all there, right? Oh, I know. you know And what what I thought was funny, and actually I thought it too, and so did his fiancee, apparently,
00:01:10
Speaker
in an interview that she did after a landing, she was like, well, she jokingly said, well, if you didn't want to marry me, there is no reason why you had to send me to space. And I'm like, for instance, I, the fact that he had that much confidence that his rocket was going to be making it there without exploding, like Bravo to him.
00:01:31
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Um, because
Understanding the Space Experience
00:01:32
Speaker
I haven't heard many success stories like specifically for the blue origin, um Or I'm assuming that's just the name of that specific rocket. and Is that the name of his actual space company?
00:01:45
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I believe, I'm pretty sure it is. And it's basically set up to be a tourist thing like this. Yeah. to Yeah. Make money, send people up, make money um on this touristy deal of going to space at 62 miles, which is where the atmosphere supposedly ends.
00:02:04
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And they classify you as an astronaut. It's 100, approximately 100 kilometers, 62 miles up. And they don't reach. If you look at the. Pardon me. I don't want to start going long here again on this. Yeah.
00:02:17
Speaker
As opposed to going to orbit, which requires 17,500 miles an hour to get to orbit. This right here is like the equivalent of, okay, look, I just climbed a whole curb before I actually got up to the first or second floor of a building.
00:02:38
Speaker
Okay. That's what it is in relationship. It's like going up a curb, stepping from the street and got onto the sidewalk, as opposed to going up to like, you know, up to the first, the second floor of a building. And that would be orbit at a lot of speed.
00:02:56
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Their speed, when was watching it, it didn't, I don't think it exceeded even 3000 miles an hour. seemed like it was going really slow when they were like 3000 feet.
00:03:09
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4,000 feet. And I'm like, I feel like I'm driving up the the Sierras faster than they were actually launching up into the sky. And they're they're designed to go straight up basically and then come down within a short period of time. The whole deal is computerized to bring down the ah lift vehicle.
00:03:29
Speaker
And then, of course, the capsule separates up at the top. They go weightless for a little bit. And they lose their um gravitational force back into their seats. Once that ends, then
Critique of Space Tourism
00:03:39
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all of a sudden, hey, they free float for a while.
00:03:41
Speaker
Yeah. They reach an aperture of top and then gradually float around. And they say, okay, everybody's got to get back to their seats before you're thrown to the top of the capsule. Because as you start to accelerate going down, you've got to watch it.
00:03:55
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You've got to be bolted back. and Pardon me. machined, I mean, that actually seat belted back into your seats. Otherwise you're going to be, wouldn't be pleasant. No, yeah. You'd be like stuck to the ceiling while it's falling down to the ground.
00:04:08
Speaker
Wouldn't be. Gravity's taking over. Yeah. Um, no yeah the reason why i wanted to talk about this today too is because it's brought a lot of backlash um on like social media there's like a lot of celebrities um that are using their platform to talk about like there this is not a good source of you know resources to be doing it to putting these people in space like the The purpose of it had nothing to do with mother nature or mother earth. It like, it has nothing to do with that. It's just this huge marketing ploy that he's doing for himself that like, look, this is what I'm going to be able to offer you, but you need to make a bajillion dollars. And then you can come stay at my four season space station and pay me, make me a the first trillionaire.
00:04:59
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his He's doing this now, make money, send rich people up. These are the top of the one percenters. Okay. These are the, if you want to call them oligarchs, they're right below oligarchs right now. You know, if you want to call that the deal who they are. But yeah, you and I will never be able to. And on top
Space Hotels: Feasibility and Impact
00:05:19
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of that, you know what?
00:05:21
Speaker
I don't want, the older I get, the less I want. it You can see everything you want to see. you know right now on video on a big monster television screen.
00:05:31
Speaker
Just put a VR set on and then you'd pretty much be living the same thing. But it's just like, to me, it puts, it smears this, like the whole space station, like NASA, all the, what the astronauts have to do to train their whole entire lives to become astronauts.
00:05:51
Speaker
And then now we're just going to be saying, hey, if you are this if you make this much money, you can afford to go and you can go and stay in space when in reality, they don't know the physical issues that they're going to be facing the moment that they come back to Earth. like
Space Programs and Government Contracts
00:06:07
Speaker
He's not going to be able to build this hotel in the rest of the life that he has.
00:06:12
Speaker
and don't even think he has any kids. So like what is going to be passing his company to you know to keep making this happen? like it To me, it's just it's a fucking joke.
00:06:24
Speaker
It's basically like right now it's a a deal where they just make money on putting the people up and we start talking about them, you know, look what he's done, that kind of thing. Um, as far as working with NASA or working with the government and getting government, a lot of government funding to make people's lives better down here on the planet for whatever kind of reason, because you need research and you need these things.
00:06:49
Speaker
You know, right now
Flat Earthers and Space Travel
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NASA is working with basically SpaceX and, um, Do you think that's a smart choice, to be honest? Well, the only reason they're working with him right now is because um basically they figure all that he's goingnna he's making it a commercial enterprise, you know, as far as making money on satellites and and the rest of the stuff and that he's put up there, you know, that kind of thing. Where every time the government does something, they do it for research purposes to...
00:07:21
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you know, to hopefully make things better for American citizens or the world if it comes down to it. Yeah. on Especially science when you're talking about learning about all these different things that they've done on the International Space Station and what they've done in previous space flights, learning different things.
00:07:40
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So. Yeah. But this little deal, this is nothing. This is, this little up and down is all about, you know, tourism kind of thing and just making money, that kind of thing.
00:07:51
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The funny thing is, i don't want to get too far off the subject, but I almost feel like you want to do the world a favor? Maybe we'll shut some people up and put a bunch of flat earthers on the fucking thing.
00:08:02
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Launch
Elon Musk: Controversies and Citizenship
00:08:03
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their ass up there 62 miles and take a look. Hey, dumbasses, you see the curvature of the earth? Open your fucking eyes, morons. Oh, no, no.
00:08:13
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oh I'm just so tired of seeing stuff on, why do they even put stuff like that on YouTube? I guess to get clicks. You know, so they have all the people that kick the flat earthers off or explain to them why they're wrong. and It's kind of funny because they don't believe in anything a scientist says.
00:08:33
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You know, right now you could take them to Antarctica in the middle of our winter when it's 24 hours of daylight, you know, down there for like three or four days, and even on the edges of Antarctica.
00:08:44
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And they go, oh, I thought the sun would go down. It never does for three days. Yeah. You can do the same thing by taking them to Fairbanks. You know, you don't have to go to Antarctica. You can ship their ass up to Fairbanks in the middle of summer, our summer, and show them that they have about almost three days of solid daylight, you know, in Fairbanks.
00:09:09
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So it's the same thing. But, you know. Yeah, the reason why I asked about the SpaceX thing, um because, well, one, i don't understand why he would be even given government contracts when he is ah government employee. He should not have his ties to his other companies while he's doing this. Well, apparently he's stepping down, so we'll see if that actually happens.
00:09:33
Speaker
Stepping out of the government doge thing? Yeah, i heard I heard that he's booty tickled. he's so booty tickled about everyone hating him and burning down Teslas and, you know, boycotting and stuff like that, that he's like, please stop. The democratic party is all about empathy. And I'm like, two weeks ago, you're on stage with a fucking chainsaw saying the chainsaw of bureaucracy. And like, he's like, Oh, it's a joke. You don't get a joke. And I'm like, well, us boycotting is a joke for don't, don't you get, is it not ha ha funny?
00:10:12
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You know, um
Military Service and Citizenship Discussion
00:10:13
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go back about three or four months ago before when he was talking about, he was pissed off at people canceling him on advertisers, right?
00:10:23
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On Mm-hmm. And he was ticked off. And he's he even said, he goes, ah he sat there as they were interviewing him. He goes what do you think about this? And he goes, well, frankly, if they're trying to do this and trying to blackmail me into, you know, being not being himself or saying different things that he wants to say about free speech and all the rest of this stuff.
00:10:40
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And he goes, you're trying to blackmail with advertisement because he was losing money on X too. And he was all ticked off about that. And he goes, well, then fuck you. And I said to myself, and I said, apparently the American people have said, fuck you.
00:10:54
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But he's not even an American citizen, is he? He doesn't even have a fucking green coin. I'm pretty sure he is now. Are Yeah, pretty sure he is. have to check on that. You can go and Google his ass, you know, and go through the whole whole deal on that. But I'm pretty sure that he's probably bought his citizenship.
00:11:17
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you know, that sort of thing. Go ahead and check it out. I wouldn't be surprised. um You got South African. you got Then he went to Canada. And then he came in through Canada. So, yeah.
00:11:29
Speaker
Yeah, he and he did end up getting... He became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 2002. Okay. okay I know, John... What was it? It was... um You know the guy that does does the the weekly on HBO. And he became a citizen. British.
00:11:47
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became a citizen. Uh, you're talking about, um, last week tonight with John Oliver. John Oliver. John Oliver became a U S citizen after him.
00:11:59
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He's been like back around. I want to say, you know, wasn't probably not that long ago, probably within five to eight years ago when he married an American, uh, married American woman. They've had a couple of children, I believe.
00:12:14
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And she was in the military. I believe. Yeah. Does that speed up the process? um About one of them being in the military? Yeah. No. No? No.
00:12:28
Speaker
In the old days, ah going back a ways, old days, let's go back 20, 25 years, 30 years, there was a lot of people that were in the military that came from other countries that joined the United States military. Yeah.
00:12:39
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And when they got out, they expedited their citizenship. That doesn't happen now anymore. It's a lot slower
Future of Space Exploration: Realism vs. Fiction
00:12:46
Speaker
for these people to get citizenship now, even after they've been in the military and actually been in battle, especially after nine eleven When you got guys going to Afghanistan and and Iraq, and a lot of them weren't even U.S. citizens, and they're fighting for this country because it wasn't just to become a citizen and try to get that expedited, but it was also because they loved it, loved their freedom.
00:13:09
Speaker
Love coming from a country that was a dictator, like in Nicaragua, you know? Well, they definitely deserve citizenship if they were coming to sacrifice themselves for a country that they're not even born into.
00:13:22
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I think that's a very fair trade. Very fair trade. I think as soon as they get out, they ought to be, you know? Yeah. long as they get out with an honorable discharge. um Yeah. I think they ought to be citizens right off the bat. They ought to be able to have, you know, all the... yeah They should have been given all the answers like to the questions if they really want to be a citizen. Right. Like they, they get a flashcard and there's a flashcard. here it is.
00:13:48
Speaker
Yeah. For question number one, flip the number one card over. There's the answer. question of When you were my age, could, could you ever imagine that to have people just going to space for fun?
00:14:06
Speaker
Um, I thought in 1968, I believe it came out and that's 2001, a space odyssey. And they had, if you've ever seen that movie, and which I'm pretty sure maybe you have for its time, it was an amazing picture, but they had a space station there that rotated around the earth, rotated, gave you artificial gravity and was there basically as a point where you would go there, you'd,
00:14:35
Speaker
You'd be able to phone back to Earth and all like we're doing now on a video conferencing. All this stuff was thought about. And um they would get in another ship that would take them to the moon from there.
00:14:50
Speaker
They'd come up in kind of like
Skepticism Towards Mars Colonization
00:14:51
Speaker
a space plane is what it looked like.
00:14:55
Speaker
When it came in, it didn't look like anything that was launched from straight up and down. The way it came in, it looked kind of like the space shuttle, but it was a little bit more aerodynamically sleek.
00:15:07
Speaker
It was kind of something like um they launched it like a regular plane and then they rocketized it up into orbit to where the space station was. And then from there, they would go in to the station and then they'd do their transfer and all that other stuff. Think of it as like a spaceport and they'd take off to another ship to the moon.
00:15:28
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and which, you know, it would go there and they'd have another one, another thing all there. This was supposedly going to happen in 2001, right? Well, it didn't happen. 1972 rolls around, funding gets cut and we don't go and we don't go back to the moon.
00:15:42
Speaker
Everything becomes low earth orbit stuff, missions, Skylab, you know, then getting the whole international community involved in the International Space Station. And then you become that kind of a thing. And we've all been in low earth orbit as far as humans were concerned ever since.
00:15:58
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haven't sent anybody to the moon, you know, since 1972. So that's just, you know, it comes down to money and how much you want to do it. You know, I think going to Mars is a stupid idea myself.
00:16:14
Speaker
Yeah. That's the whole SpaceX thing is that like Elon's like, let's provide other places for people to live because earth is overrated. Let's live on Mars. And I'm like,
00:16:25
Speaker
That place is a red dust bowl. No, thank you. It's like a frozen desert. yeah and it's Yeah. And when it cranks up the winds, it can be very inhospitable. But the big thing about that, there's a reason why there isn't an ocean there and and a big thick atmosphere there.
00:16:41
Speaker
It lost its magnetic shield like the earth has. So all of the solar solar radiation that comes and hits that thing, It's like it's blasted away billion a years ago, two years, two billion years ago or whatever, evaporated everything.
00:16:58
Speaker
You know, I don't know if it was a shift or it just ran out of, um you know, inside of it, the ability to produce the magnetic field that actually protects us, that sort of thing.
00:17:12
Speaker
So and that's what they need. I mean, you're talking about, there was a thing on, Tyson had a question like that given to so a person that that asked them on a broadcast, is there any way we can go to Mars and create a new magnetic field, you know, for the planet?
00:17:28
Speaker
And it didn't, cut I didn't get a chance to see the end of it. We had to leave or something, but I'm going, that would be great if you could do that. But if that requires what, how are you going to do that?
00:17:40
Speaker
You know, on a planetary basis. Get two ginormous Earth magnets and just kind of charge the Earth a little bit. And then maybe something. well Get Bill Nye on this. I feel like Bill Nye would know exactly what to do.
00:17:55
Speaker
Create big giant battery north and south and see if we can. ah Yeah. We can do something like that. But. No, the the Blue Origin thing and and this kind of stuff is just, it's insane because it's it's just a rich man's thing about sending people into orbit like that. I got enough money, I can do it.
00:18:14
Speaker
They're not sending them to orbit. They're just sending them up to 62 miles up. That's it. Bringing them back. I mean, that's nothing,
Flat Earth Beliefs: Logical Flaws
00:18:21
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you know. Heck, we came close, almost as close. So when the first people went up um in a balloon, there's a guy that jumped from a helium balloon.
00:18:34
Speaker
You know, and he was way up there, not quite as high as that, but he got up high enough to see the curvature of the earth, you know, to jump, to jump from a, um you know, this, this capsule that they had. he just, he was wearing a, basically it was kind of like a space suit.
00:18:52
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um Question. Yeah. This is just logic.
00:18:56
Speaker
If flat earthers would just get on a plane and fly just south, i mean, east to west, they'd make their way back to point A. Wouldn't that prove that the earth is round?
00:19:13
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Well, they would claim that the that the plane flight, if you ever looked at some of their logic, they would claim that the the plane flight in a circle. If you've ever seen the flat earth thing, it's kind of funny how they got it laid out. Oh, by the way, Antarctica is not a continent. Antarctica is one big ice wall.
00:19:31
Speaker
According their flat earth, it goes all the way around their flatness. That's what it does. It's an ice wall. See, it's approximately, they say, oh, 200 kilometers wide, they think.
00:19:42
Speaker
you know, with a big high ice thing. And it's like, what is this Game of throne Thrones with the with the big ice wall? That's the Antarctica. We're going have dire wolves waiting for you in the 200 kilometer range, you know.
00:19:56
Speaker
oh God. They think it goes all the way around the ice wall, you know. they have They actually have races in the Southern Ocean that go around Antarctica. Yeah.
00:20:08
Speaker
and have these huge
Continent Misconceptions: Antarctica
00:20:09
Speaker
They have these yacht races that go around. You want to talk about a tough, that's a tough race around the continent. That is a tough race. and So with that logic being seen, they would have to go around their total deal circumference all the way around if it was an ice wall.
00:20:25
Speaker
And it wouldn't be, you know, a simple thing of going around a a continent of Antarctica, you know, a simple thing like that in a How long would that travel be to go all around Antarctica?
00:20:38
Speaker
it's pretty good It's a pretty good length of time. I have to take a look at it, but I can imagine if you just look at something like, for example, just going across the United States, you know approximately from east to west in most places, it's 3,000 miles on average, right?
00:20:54
Speaker
And if you look at the size of Antarctica and you say, okay, if it's, if it is about, say, for example, 2,800 or 3,000 miles across, not quite in spots, and then take that measurement of the diameter and give me the circumference, baby, you know, there's a formula to it.
00:21:12
Speaker
You know, it's not 25,000 miles. That would be their ice wall around the total, the total part of Antarctica ice wall, according to what they claim, you know.
00:21:24
Speaker
But it's shorter than that. A lot shorter. a lot shorter. So what were the races? Like, how would they race? When you're talking about, I'm not sure if they go out and they leave from New Zealand or they leave from South America and they start at a certain point. Maybe it's the that comes out. The normal travel paths from Chile.
00:21:43
Speaker
Yeah. They come out from, the I think, where the peninsula is in that area or the Ross Ice ice Shelf area. And I think they take off and go around that the whole continent that way.
00:21:53
Speaker
Have you ever seen what Antarctica really looks like, just the land mass of it? Like if I'm looking at the bottom of a globe or just like pictures of it? Actually, what I'm saying is, have you ever seen it, what it would look like if it all melted?
00:22:09
Speaker
It's kind of scary. It looks like an archipelago, meaning like a lot of large islands and the ocean would go over. These have big, huge inlets and stuff. Interesting. Yeah. if you look at it, there's some, it's not one big, huge landmass underneath that's built up with ice.
00:22:27
Speaker
Okay. There's parts of it that would be open ocean if, you know, and we would be underwater where I am and where you are. Maybe not so much. um Maybe, maybe on the floor that you're on, but I would be underwater.
00:22:42
Speaker
You're on what floor? 18. Now you, you're probably up around and at the base and where you're at, I would say, no, no, you'd be underwater. Yeah. You'd be underwater.
00:22:52
Speaker
I'd be underwater here. You know, it would come all the way up the river and this whole area would be one big, huge fjord and i would be underwater because no, the top of the hills and everything would be under. Yeah. Around here.
00:23:05
Speaker
Yeah. um If it was all melted off and we were, we were living in a different world, you know? So, yeah. Yeah. Well, let's just prevent that. That's what going back
Resource Allocation for Earth's Preservation
00:23:16
Speaker
to what I was saying earlier, our resources should not be spent on putting one percenters in space or even just getting people to live on other um planets.
00:23:27
Speaker
We should be focusing on trying to keep our planet safe and livable, because I don't know if you know about that doomsday clock that's in Times Square. Basically, it's saying this is how much time we have left to repair our like irreversible damage that's happening to earth's ecosystem. And if we don't make it in that timeline, like it's fucked.
00:23:50
Speaker
Yeah. There's, there's, it's kind of funny when you talk about a doomsday clock, because during my time, when we were told to hide under wooden desk during an atomic attack, they, they basically had a doomsday clock too, possibly when the next atomic attack was going to be coming.
00:24:07
Speaker
And the earth would be coming a cinder ball. So we all live with our fears, right? And stuff like that. That was a man-made cataclysm that would have happened too as well.
00:24:19
Speaker
But this right here is all about greed. That's what this is about. Not about
Wealth, Greed, and Happiness
00:24:24
Speaker
communism. Not about, you know, somebody telling you what to but to do with your life. It's about greed.
00:24:33
Speaker
And they still, number one. Greed is good. You know, that kind of crap. So you got that going for you. And until you get over the human instinct of, look, when I die, I die with more toys than you.
00:24:50
Speaker
You know, that kind of fucking attitude. Instead of, are you happy? Are you happy with your fourth mansion? Or you want your fifth or your sixth or your third yacht?
00:25:01
Speaker
How many do you need? Well, Elon needs several. he keeps popping out kids with mistresses that he can't even remember that he put his penis in. I think he's fine. I think he's going to be fine about being able to pay for them.
00:25:14
Speaker
You know? I don't know. His like firstborn
Elon Musk's Family Dynamics
00:25:18
Speaker
daughter is like and an icon in my generation right now. by like I don't know if it was his firstborn daughter. some this is the one This is the one right now. Is she the one that's transgender now?
00:25:31
Speaker
Yeah, and she did an interview with, I think, like, I don't know if it was Vogue or something, but basically she was just, like, ripping him to pieces. Oh, I'm sure. And I was like, go off, queen.
00:25:45
Speaker
do win it.
00:25:49
Speaker
i feel I feel sorry that she won't have a loving relationship with her father. I mean, it's it's sad, you know? Well, no, I'm pretty sure there's been... i think she even said that, like, he has...
00:26:01
Speaker
like excommunicated her because of trans like transitioning and like but I don't even think you she probably even gets to see any child support because of that so I like i don't know how old is she is she in her 20s no I think she's like 17 or something like that really so that was her first that was his first huh Well, I think one of is he's been married and had so many women in his life.
Corporate Practices and Environmental Impact
00:26:31
Speaker
um Married? what Yeah. How many times was he married? He's married twice. Twice, but he's had multiple mistresses, right? Multiple pregnancies. Oh, and girlfriends and stuff like and girlfriends, yeah. Let's see. Well, that's his business, you know.
00:26:48
Speaker
I have to fact check myself. Oh, no, actually, she's older. She's 21. She's 21. 21. actually, today is her birthday. Oh, oh, wish her a happy birthday.
00:27:01
Speaker
Happy birthday, Vivian Jenna Wilson. Very nice. Well, you know, the amount of money that he spends, the amount of money that he gets investors to do things, you know, um and it is about making money, but it's also things that are going to happen, though, on a save the planet thing.
00:27:23
Speaker
when you're talking about what's going to actually happen, it has to be commercially viable. Meaning like, yeah, there are things that we can do that are important that the government can enlist money in and that sort of thing. And then the corporations run with it.
00:27:38
Speaker
And then they end up having solar panels built someplace in China or wherever, you know, that make them even more efficient. Yeah. I'm sorry,
Global Population and Geography Trivia
00:27:48
Speaker
we still get into the corporate the corporate deal of how greed is made and how things are made, you know, that sort of thing.
00:27:54
Speaker
Then we're worried about- No, it's like 150% tariff on China right now. Yeah. Well, numbnuts will come around to his senses if he has any, because all of a sudden he'll realize, hey, I've got a lot of stuff invested in this that they're dealing with.
00:28:08
Speaker
All of his hats, man, all of his stuff is made there. He explicitly writes made in America, like on everything. Yeah, but it's not true.
00:28:22
Speaker
You can say, hey, it was assembled in America, but all the parts came from China. Like how Apple is like designed and ah designed in Palo Alto or in whatever. and Yeah, but where was it actually put together?
00:28:37
Speaker
How many children did it take to put this iPhone together? Yeah. My favorite was one of those things they were talking about. We're goingnna bring all these all these jobs back. And you've seen them.
00:28:47
Speaker
They got all these big, heavy, fat guys sitting in an assembly line trying to put in little tiny screws. did. And then they're like now the sewing lines of all the grandmas sewing clothes and stuff.
00:28:59
Speaker
And it's like, come on. But also look about it. We're a population of only 300 million people. China's well over a fucking billion. They have the workforce. yeah.
00:29:13
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and like one point i think They're or something. I think India right now is pretty close has even more. We have to look at that. Go ahead and look at that stat. Because I think India now has surpassed them as far as the overall population goes or come to really close to them. We're at 300. That's not accurate. Let me see. 340 million is what we have here in this country.
00:29:35
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three hundred and forty million is what we have here so they are... 1.4 billion in India as far as right 1.463. Okay. China 1.5 billion? They're under 1.416. So they're 50 million less.
00:29:48
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Yeah. Yeah. you know what India is? billion they under one point four one six so they're fiftyre they're fifty fifty million less yeah yeah did you know what india is India is the largest democracy voting democracy in the world. Well, yeah, based off their population. People forget that.
00:30:12
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That's crazy. People forget that, but they're the largest voting democracy in the world. They actually vote for their leaders. That's amazing. Their country is so Yeah, when you think about it I can't believe there's so many people there. It's like stocked living. It's just like San Francisco on crack.
00:30:30
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Well, when you're looking at when you're looking at the cities, yeah, but there's a lot of people spread out in the country too. yeah but this In terms of just like square mileage, that country is just so small.
00:30:41
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It's just crazy. That's why they keep saying, look at the US, we still got a lot of empty spaces. We ought to fill them up with white babies. Oh, shit the fuck. White babies. Based on China, there are 391 people per square mile.
00:30:57
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In India, let's see what it tells me about. Holy shit.
00:31:05
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1,275 people per square mile. That's a lot of people. That's a lot of people. Holy moly.
00:31:18
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Yeah. That's amazing. ah money To give you an idea, do find the United States. Okay? And I want you to look up even California. Okay?
00:31:31
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California, and look at California. Our population's a little under 40 now. Oh, it's under now? Okay. Yeah, it it was 39 million something. They we lost some people in the last deal. Yeah, 39.6. On the last... ah Is it 39.6 million?
00:31:48
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Okay, what is it per square mile in California? To give you a ah juncture, everybody says, oh, it's so crowded, da, da, da, da. But look at it. Look at it. Compare it to something like China or India per square mile. It's 252 per square mile.
00:32:00
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the per square mile
00:32:04
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Little difference. That's like China. China was kind of like that. But also like California pretty big.
00:32:15
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Yeah. California is the third largest state. yeah here You got Alaska, Texas, California. Who's number four? Who's number four? Montana. Is it?
00:32:27
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Square mile. Really? Montana. These one of the weird facts that your grandfather knows. Yeah. Do you just know that because you like Yellowstone?
00:32:38
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No, I knew that long before yeah that the the series Yellowstone ever existed. and Okay. oh I almost knew that before Yellowstone National Park existed, almost, which was the first, by the way, the first national park in the world.
00:32:54
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So the United States set the idea about preserving lands way back in the eighteen hundreds Before other countries ever, hey, catch on. These are amazing wonders that you guys should really take into consideration on a government policy to save these wild places.
00:33:13
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Yeah.
Environmental Issues: Beached Whales
00:33:15
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That's why every time a Democratic leaves office and it drives the Republicans fucking crazy. Jimmy Carter. They go feral.
00:33:27
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you go They go fucking nuts. Every time they're getting ready to leave office, they sign these deals about preserving areas. Preserving areas even more so. you know When you're looking at Alaska, and that's why this, we want to open up the North Shore you know and all these different areas they want to open up for.
00:33:44
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Yeah, drill baby drill. yeah On oil that they can't even sell. you know. But this is what makes me sad is that du I don't know if it's related, but so far, two times in only a week, a beached whale.
00:34:01
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One was over here off the coast of Oakland, right? Like literally on the shores of like ah Richmond. Was it on al It was like Richmond, Alameda. Actually, it was like right across from like the Ikea, like shopping area in Emeryville.
00:34:15
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And then- Quick, call RFK. And then- Whale blubber sandwiches everybody. And then there was a beached whale in Huntington. Yeah. And. Yeah. Now, I want to tell you something about that, too. A lot of people think that it's because of, ah you know, experimental sound waves, pollution, things like that.
00:34:34
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The Navy was blamed for some of this activity and stuff where their underwater heavy bass sound waves they were using long time ago. But a lot of it has to do, with too, with...
00:34:45
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um You know, sometimes these whales, they get sick and they lose ah there their ability to navigate and stuff like that. And sometimes they get sick. Why is it one?
00:34:57
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Why isn't it more? It's like anybody like with a virus or anything that can happen to somebody. Sometimes it's like something that's a one-off that happens. when I'd be really worried.
00:35:10
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What happens sometimes, like to give you an example, down the Channel Islands, this was years ago, they had lost a lot of mammal sea life there because they had a poisoning of the waters through like a red tide that happened.
00:35:22
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And they got through there and a lot of them came down with all these different diseases and stuff like that, that they ended up beaching themselves and dying on, I think Santa Cruz Island down in the Channel Islands down off of California.
00:35:37
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This happened couple decades ago, I remember. And a lot of times people looked at it and said, that is a normal occurrence that happens. um When they looked at biologists came in, marine biologists came in, they looked at the whole situation.
00:35:49
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And
Ethics of Genetic Engineering and Extinct Species
00:35:50
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actually ah veterinarians came in and checked and did all these different, um took all this information down and they said, this is all part of a natural occurrence that happens normally.
00:36:01
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And sometimes it happens because of, You know, tidal changes, ah sometimes warming of the ocean affects life all the way up to the food chain. And it affected them.
00:36:12
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And a lot of them died. And they said, well, can't we do something? He goes, sometimes it's just part of the natural things that Mother Nature goes, hey, you got too many animals right here. You know, and the food chain goes, no, we're going to, you know, knock this off. And some of them are going to die naturally.
00:36:30
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That's so sad. It is. It is sad. And it does happen though. You know, another thing, like for example, in Yellowstone National Park, this is kind of a tangent, same thing. But when Parvo goes through a pack of wolves, it can take them out.
00:36:46
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The whole pack. It's like mother nature's going, okay, you know, that's it. It's a natural occurrence that happens sometimes. And there's nothing they can really do about it. You start going in you start immunizing wolves and you're going to end up with your up to your ass with too many wolves running sometimes outside of the park boundaries and going after sheep and other types of things that you have problems with landowners. And they're paid when it does happen.
00:37:14
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The government's supposed to pay them for any loss that they might have when they're talking about a sheep or something, you know, getting into their flock. But for the most part, most of the animals, it's all kind of a trying to keep an eco balance in Yellowstone itself.
00:37:29
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And when Parvo goes through a pack, it goes through a pack and it kills wolves. They die, you know? So it's it's bad and it's sad. ah Going off of that, though, but ah I'm going to just connect connect the dots here.
00:37:44
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um the dire wolves that they just genetically made. We're going to be living in Game of Thrones, baby.
00:37:58
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Sometimes I wonder, I go, okay, what is the medical reason that can help humanity or possibly help other types of animals down the road where they become possibility of being extinct?
00:38:12
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The dire wolves went extinct, not because of men hunting them possibly, but might have it might've been when climate change too affected their food chain, right?
00:38:25
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And let's face it this way. You know, Unk and his buddy with his club running around North America and stuff like that, they didn't have an effect on the environment. Okay. They were part of the environment.
00:38:37
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So, you know, Gronk and Unk were just out there hunting and doing their normal things because they're part of the food chain too. And they were not having anything.
00:38:48
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Anything to do with affecting the climate. Yeah, i started a lot of campfires. So do forest fires back then and lightning strikes. OK, you don't have an effect on the environment. Climate change because of volcanoes going off, things like that that happened that affected the dire wolves possibly and affected the woolly mammoths.
00:39:07
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what are What are you going to make? A furry element element elephant and we're going to end up stuck with a poor animal that's going to die from heat. No, seriously. They're planning. He's got a fur coat on. He can't get rid of them. planning doing ah the um mammoths. They're going to try to do that.
00:39:22
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They're even talking about trying to bring back dinosaurs. Okay. Haven't there been enough fucking movies to prove that that's not a good fucking idea? not a good idea. Chris Pratt made millions on telling us what not to do.
00:39:39
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don't we? We'll clone your raptor to be a guard dog.
00:39:47
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Your six foot raptor is going to be running around your estate as a guard dog. Guard Raptor. Okay. It's just for zoos or whatever. I'm like, how about this?
00:39:59
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We already have chickens. We already have crocodiles. These are some of the most closest living relatives that we have to dinosaurs right now. How about
Egg Pricing and Sourcing
00:40:09
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we just like maybe focus on chickens?
00:40:11
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Why the fuck are the eggs expensive? Maybe we need to do that. Then maybe make a fucking dinosaur. Yeah. You want to talk about we get want to talk about eggs? Did I tell you over at Spears $4.99 for a dozen?
00:40:25
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Only five bucks. That's not bad. I asked him, I said, why so cheap? He goes, we get them locally from Petaluma. There's been no ah strain that's run through that's scared anybody. They've been checking everything.
00:40:36
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I said, then how come Raley's, for example, that same set of eggs, same size, everything, and they're going for $9.98? They're $5 more. theyre five dollars more ah Believe me, there's markup going on too. These are corporate farms that raise a lot more chickens.
00:40:52
Speaker
So tell me, oh, we've had to destroy so many million chickens because we were worried about So you got in another million and then we have to pay for it. Where the small farm in Petaluma that raises these eggs, you know, and they might have like, you know, 5,000 chickens instead of 100,000. And they raise these eggs and they sell them locally to local small stores and are paying five bucks a dozen instead of,
00:41:17
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So tell me about it. Who's being, you know, the markup and all the other games that are played with that. We can get into that aspect of it. And I tell you, so I don't buy my eggs, israelis I buy them over Spirit. Maybe you should go to Butter and Eggs Festival this weekend.
00:41:33
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And maybe you should go befriend some farmers so you can get an even better deal. Possibly, yeah. Although I see these ones every once in a while when I'm driving like up to Windsor and places like that. And you look over and you go, oh, the guy's got eggs for sale. And you wonder how much he wants per dozen.
00:41:48
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One guy put it there on Maribel. He was selling them. He was selling them for like $6.50 a dozen. I'm going, no, dude, no. Before we end, I wanted to introduce a segment that we can do on the podcast every time we record. Okay.
00:42:08
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I want to
Gen Z Vocabulary Segment
00:42:09
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all right do a vocabulary test with you. oh specifically that's a good one. Specifically, Gen Z vocab.
00:42:21
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Oh, boy. want to see you start integrating these words in our conversations.
00:42:34
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I'd honestly be very, very surprised if you knew something. Now these are basically not just words. They're going to be like phrases, right? Some could be phrases. Some are words. I'll give you the word and I'll use it in like an example.
00:42:49
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And then you'll, hopefully you get to guess it. Okay. Big yikes.
00:42:59
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Big yikes.
00:43:03
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Um, Looking at those mountain climbers and how hard the, how hard it was to climb up that individual section of the climb gave me a, a real bad big yikes feeling.
00:43:17
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How's that? Okay, go ahead. yikes is It's abbreviated. The yikes means something else You're, you're on the right path, but wrong emotion.
00:43:29
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so Go ahead. It's used as a way to say that you're so embarrassed that yikes is just not enough.
00:43:41
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Really? So go ahead and use it in a, like, for example, in a sentence. This is almost like a spelling bee, right? I know, right? Going to the gynecologist can sometimes be a big yike.
00:43:56
Speaker
Oh, okay. Like super embarrassing when she's asking like, when was the last time you had sex? Are you sexually active? oh in the context of that, yes. That could be a big yikes. You know, I can see how that could apply. Or like a big yikes is like, oh my God, like she didn't know that she had eyebrow blindness. And eyebrow blindness is when like, for me, I know I had eyebrow blindness when I was younger, where I was like,
00:44:24
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Doing them a little... i had dark I have dark eyebrows, but I was sometimes filling them in too dark. And when I look at old pictures of myself, I'm like, yikes. Those were aggressive Nike swooshes.
00:44:39
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Okay. I got one for you. You were talking about a phrase or or something like that. Okay.
00:44:47
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He got decked. He got decked? He got decked. What does that mean? um
00:44:58
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I have it like on the tip of my tongue. Basically, like, basically he got decked like, oh, he got like sidelined. He's benched like he's out of the game. Yeah, that's close. It's not bad in a way.
00:45:11
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No, it's an old phrase that dad used way back when. Like, yeah, he said something wrong to me and I decked him. That was the next thing. Yeah, di I decked him like decked right in the face. I punched him.
00:45:22
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Yeah, bam. And he woke up and he was looking at the sky, you know. I decked him and he's on the deck. And deck comes from, when you say the deck, deck comes from stuff like being on an aircraft carrier.
00:45:35
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That phrase, the deck. Okay. That's what it was about. And when somebody punched somebody out and they ended up on the floor, either on the top of the aircraft, game on the flight deck or down below, you know, in the hangar deck, they got decked, you know?
00:45:51
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So those are expressions you don't hear it anymore, right? No, you don't hear them that often. I feel like I have heard that before, but it's not used a lot. No, it's not.
00:46:02
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Well, I think that you keep but You keep that up, I'm going to deck you, you know, that kind of thing. That's what it was actually. I'm going you if you don't let me end this podcast. You got I think that concludes our podcast for this week.
00:46:17
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