June 5, 2025 • 40 mins
A bitter political clash exploded between President Trump and Elon Musk, with Trump calling Musk “CRAZY” and vowing to end billions in federal contracts for Tesla, SpaceX, and other Musk-run ventures. The feud stems from Musk’s opposition to Trump’s massive budget bill, which slashes electric vehicle credits. Musk retaliated with accusations, including a shocking Epstein-related … Continue reading Trump Blasts Elon Musk as “Crazy,” Threatens to Cut Billions in Contracts
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The lead story for Monday excuse me. Thursday
Thursday, June fifth,
a bitter political clash has exploded
between president Trump and Elon Musk with Trump
calling Musk crazy
and vowing to end billions in federal contracts
for Tesla, SpaceX, and other Musk run ventures.
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The feud stems from Musk's opposition to Trump's
massive budget bill, which slashes electric vehicle credits.
Musk retaliated with accusations, including a shocking Epstein
related claim
and calls for Trump's impeachment. Tesla shares plummeted
as tensions rose threatening Musk's extensive federal ties.
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Well, welcome to episode 1,284,
and, wow, here we go.
My goodness. You know,
there there is
call this predictable.
Call this predictable.
You know?
As soon as I as as soon as
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the budget
end up being this massive thing and, again,
I I I know little about it
except what, you know, the pundits are saying.
And,
of course, Doge was trying to do all
those cuts,
and then they only what?
They haven't even codified 9,000,000,000 of whatever they've
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found.
You know,
I go back to my original
saying that I've said on this show for
years,
you know, the only solution for politicians just
to to fire them all. And,
you know,
I I saw a poll. I saw Elon
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Musk called for
a a new, new party.
He may be onto something there,
but this is
these guys are not happy with one another.
And, essentially,
you know, when when when,
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you know, you've had a guy that's been
in there trying to save the government money
and, you know, not making a lot of
people, you know, very unpopular with, you know,
the definitely with the left
And,
then saying cutting contracts,
and then he's like, okay. I'll just, you
know, I'm gonna cut government contracts. I said,
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well, I'll just start
decommissioning Dragon spacecraft.
A big war of words right now for
sure.
But,
you know,
we know that Tesla's already had some challenges,
but, man, it it just went
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south,
after this this war blew up between, you
know,
the, you know, essentially, the world's richest man
and the president.
And, you know, Musk is you know, he
wants efficiency. He wants the government to not
spend more than it earns. I think we
all
can agree to that situation.
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And,
oh my gosh. So there there is,
this this is
this is insane.
And,
you know, it's one of those situations where
you, you know,
you got two very strong minded individuals.
And, you know, you you get one against
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the other, and your must doesn't have anything
really to lose. He said he could go
broke. He doesn't care.
So,
Trump said it took his EV mandate to
force everyone to buy electric cars that nobody
wanted away, and he just went crazy. Well,
I think,
most,
Tesla vehicles were no longer
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eligible for for
electric vehicle rebates.
And
the electric vehicle credits, I think that was
already gone for
for Tesla for a long, long time. So
I don't know if there's any truth to
that. I maybe I'm not following it against.
But,
you know, obviously,
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Elon is campaigning against the the big budget
bill.
And,
you know, so this thing is just went
went went nuclear. So,
you know, people are people that hate
hate Elon have went on the bandwagon to
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to say, investigate Elon's immigration
status, his security clearance,
and, you know, check go into his drug
abuse and, you know,
I'm just like, wow.
Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow.
So
we'll see.
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But again,
you know, when you when you are the
only show in town that has a
repetitive basis to get to space,
you know, of course, you're gonna get a
lot of government money. You're gonna get a
lot of government money to put government satellites
up. You're gonna go have a lot of
money for,
you know, all the things that they're doing
to get to
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get into space.
So we'll see.
But what a way to, to end a
Thursday,
to have this this thing
this thing explode.
But,
yeah. Gonna you know, I you know, I
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think I said long
time ago.
I think I said long time ago, you
know,
you know, keep your investment in popcorn.
You know, because it's it's definitely gonna be
entertaining
and and, an interesting ride for sure.
So, I, you know, I can't say that
I
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yeah. Yeah. I didn't necessarily predict this, but
I'm not I'm not surprised.
I'm not surprised.
You know?
And, but one thing for sure,
there's more attention
than there ever ever has been on the
budget,
And
I think that's important.
I think people need to realize we've been,
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you know, we've been spending too much money,
for a long, long, long time.
And, something has to give for sure.
I I know they have a strategy,
but,
you know, I don't necessarily think it means
you you spend more money.
Whatever you do, I think I think you
just, again,
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I I think there's so much waste they
haven't found. It's been hidden. I
I am shocked that they've only found as
much as they have to be to be
quite frank.
So, anyway and we'll see what happens over
the weekend. Should be, should be good entertaining,
good for numbers here on the show for
for a bit. But, yeah, for,
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Trump to say that Elon went crazy.
Well, that's, that that's a statement, ladies and
gentlemen.
It really, really, really is. So,
we we will see,
what proceeds
here in the next seventy two hours or
so.
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I have been,
I always tell you guys I'm crushed. I'm
crushed. I'm crushed.
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This week,
let me just give you a kind of
a rundown.
Typical
not typical.
Just busy.
Recorded the show on Monday. Tuesday, I had
an interview.
Tuesday, I recorded a,
a demo video of one of five for
our stat system.
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Then Wednesday, so that's one, two, three. Wednesday,
I did a, the new media show, that's
four.
This morning, I recorded another stats video five,
then I did a Mythbuster
six.
What else? Now seven. So I think this
is the seventh
recording this week.
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So shaded editing.
The stats demos take a while, plus
planning, plus emails, plus reviews,
plus everything else. And, I'm
stick a fork in me. I'm I'm ready
for the weekend,
in in a big, big way. So,
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but, yeah, it's, you know, all in a
all in a week's work.
And
the,
the,
just, you know, busy busy busy. But then
I'm trying to track down some unusual
traffic coming to Geek News Central,
super spike in traffic, and
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I cannot see which page it's going to.
And it has me concerned that something is
going on, so I spent time in the
website today making sure
that there's not no funny business going on,
and I can't find anything.
So,
we'll see we'll see what happens.
Hopefully, I,
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I don't have something,
something some bug
have been introduced,
but so far,
no no sign of of,
exactly where that traffic's going to, which is
the concern.
When When you have a spike of traffic
that, Google Analytics can see, but they can't
define where it's going, that is suspicious.
(12:23):
And, we're gonna keep it keep an eye
on it. So,
I don't have any information today for those
of you that are insiders. I have not
been able to pull that data or the
PayPal one, so we'll get caught up with
you on on Monday on that.
But,
in some more exciting news going on, a
ship was abandoned off Alaska after electric cars
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on the onboard caught fire.
The good ship morning minus a roll on
roll off ferry was delivering 3,000 vehicles
from Yantai, China to Lazaro's Cardenas, Mexico.
It's currently around 304
miles south of Adak, Alaska.
The sailors of the Vesco operated by UK
based Zodiac Maritime, knows the fire, could not
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put it out, and they abandoned ship.
So this thing is, this thing is burning.
It may be sunk by this point,
but, yes, Chinese vehicles,
electric batteries
could not put the fire out.
Again, call me surprised, but, you know, water,
water everywhere. None of it's useful.
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So, you know, water and electricity do not
mix. Of course, salt water is even a
better conductor than fresh water.
And, of course, when salt water covers a
lithium battery, it can cause a short circuit,
and bad things happen
when that happens.
So, we'll see if we get any more
updates on this. But the crew has been
rescued.
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But far as I can tell, the ship
is,
is still burning
and,
or maybe maybe sunk. I don't know. We'll
see.
This should not come as a surprise. Apple
Store
generated nearly $1,300,000,000,000
in sales. 1,300,000,000,000.0.
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Think about that number for a second or
two.
And,
the findings part of a report commissioned by
Apple and performed by analysis group Jessica Burley
and Boston University professor
show the app store sales across biz physical
and digital goods have exposed
exploded over the past five years,
claiming from 514,000,000,000
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in 2019
to 1,290,000,000,000.00
last year.
Some 778%
of sales, 1,010,000,000,000.00
worth came from
physical goods
and services, which include categories like general retail,
travel,
food, delivery, and ride hailing. Another 10% came
from digital goods. In other words, they're getting
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30%
or 20% or 15% of every one of
your Uber rides.
So,
and Lyft rides
and food orders.
So you can see why these companies are
not happy
about Apple taking this bigger cut.
$1,000,000,000,000
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on the backs of other companies
that could have at least a a larger
percentage of that
could have went to,
to to those companies. So, you know, if
you wonder
why your Uber ride costs as much as
it does, just remember,
every time you o order an Uber,
at least 15% of that
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went to
Uber.
I mean, went to Apple.
About
a small percentage of it went to the
driver and the and the rest went to
Uber. So,
yeah. I I bet you Uber I bet
you Apple makes more on Uber rides than
Uber does,
to be quite, to be quite frank.
Made in smart glass ambitions just got supercharged
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by the US government.
A huge partnership with Lucky Palmer and Roll
and shows that smart glass is about to
have a big rollout,
a new partnership.
So, basically, it looks like they're gonna be
pushing these products towards US government military.
And,
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they've all done private r and d, so
the government
has nothing
in this,
so there's no,
there's no,
you know, no no discount.
But the their products are geared towards the
US government and military. And, so we'll see.
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But with budget cuts, we'll see if they
really do have a a big,
big advantage here.
So, again,
big winners on this on all sides.
Fake IT support calls are leading to cyber
extortion and stolen company data. Hackers are attacking
or tricking employees into downloading malware.
I mean, it's almost on a daily basis
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that I'm sending a Slack message to our
team saying, hey. I got I got today
in my email. I had,
three,
DocuSign documents that were fake. I had you
know, I just continue to,
you know, repeat to my group what I'm
seeing in email and making sure they're not,
reacting to this.
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And, you know, I got to thinking about
it. I wonder
I wonder at some point
if let's say it in the company that
was being faked was Salesforce.
I wonder at some point, there has to
be a
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policy setup
that's between Salesforce and the company they're supporting.
That if anyone calls from Salesforce, they have
to have, like, some special
verification
code.
Now Now I know it's only as good,
you know, maybe and maybe that circle is
limited.
You know, these 20 people can be can
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talk to Salesforce,
and these 20 people know what the company's
secret
code word is between the companies to make
sure you're really talking to someone at Salesforce.
I've thought about implementing at that at my
company to saying, hey.
You know,
if you get a call from me
and asking you to do something,
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you think it's me, but you wanna be
sure maybe we should have some sort of,
quote, unquote,
secret handshake
password or something like that,
to prove authentic
authenticity.
I don't know. There's gotta be a way
here for companies to
to start,
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protecting themselves easier because
20 companies lost their data.
And they they they,
this fake cybercriminal
or this cybercriminal
tricked,
people to download malicious software and install it.
So there has to there has to become
a better way here for for validation
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that you're talking to who you're you're you
are supposed,
to be talking to, I I I would
think.
It's being reported that AirPods are set to
get some nice free upgrades at WWDC
twenty twenty five, including more gesture controls and
sleep detection,
improved audio quality, and better connectivity too. So
we will see
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if AirPods two and AirPods four get to
may get camera control as well.
So,
you know, the gesture stuff on AirPods,
how many of you actually know the gestures
besides tapping?
I I I don't I I don't think
everyone knows all the gestures. I I know.
I don't.
Probably should look them up. It may make
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it easier when I'm using,
the AirPods.
If you're using Chrome, please update it now.
Your PC is at risk from a zero
day exploit.
And,
so, you know, if if you right on
my screen right now, it says new Chrome
is available
right in the upper right. And I don't
know if you guys can see this on
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the screen.
New Chrome update available. So I'm at risk.
So I need to update,
my Chrome.
So that gives you an update. It's when
it's in the right hand corner,
and if those of you that are listening,
when you have Chrome available, you've seen the
notification before. Right?
So make sure you update
your Chrome. There's a zero day out there,
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so I'll be sure to do this,
immediately after the show tonight
as well. Normally,
this computer has not been shut down for
a couple of days. So normally when it
reboots and it loads, it will update,
without me having to click anything. But I
haven't shut this particular computer down
a lot.
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Comedy Forecast said in the in the YouTube
channel, he says that 30%
adds up fast.
The problem of the codes is the scammers
are pretty good at figuring out how to
get around anything that involves humans. So that,
you know, that is true.
You know? And at this point, you know,
we've got everything
and for comedy forecast, it's in the chat.
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We've got everything
we've got everything we can under
authenticators.
That's super, super critical and sometimes double authentication.
I don't know. Will it help? If someone
gets in your email, you're screwed.
You know, there's ways around everything. So,
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the email is the most critical part.
Waymo set to double to 20,000,000 rides as
self driving reaching tipping point.
Google self driving taxi service has surpassed 12,000,000
total paid rides.
Wow. Marking significant milestone.
The company's growth trajectory
shows clear signs of exponential
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scaling
with weekly weekly rides jumping from 10,000 in
2023 to over 250,000.
And, And, again, Waymo's on track to hit
20,000,000
rides by the end of twenty twenty five.
So but they're only operating in Phoenix, LA,
San Francisco
with expansion plan for Austin, Atlanta, Miami, and
Washington DC. But think about that.
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That many rides in just those few cities.
They're big, big cities, of course, but,
that's amazing.
How many of you have rode in a
Waymo?
I don't I think I never talked to
anyone that has. I'd love to know.
More than 3,000,000 records, 12 terabyte of data
expose a major app builder breach. Here we
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go again.
Passion.io,
a major no code
app building app operating a non password protected
database.
So, again, found by a security researcher,
and, it belongs again a company called Passion.io.
Building platform allows creators, influencer, entrepreneurs, and coaches
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to create websites without having any prior coding
knowledge.
They can also create and sell interactive courses,
but,
3,000,000 records.
It seems like a small number these days,
right, when you hear of all of the
breaches
that are going on. Now don't be too
surprised in the near future if your Amazon
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delivery person might be a robot.
Amazon may be testing robot delivery people. Can
the Amazon robot just hang out and protect
my package to
actually get it? In the image being shown
for those of you watching
live, whisper quiet Rivian EVA Amazon delivery truck
pulls up to your front door. And before
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the driver even has a chance to step
out,
the back of the, van blast open
and out jumps this, robot carrying a package
to your doorstep.
And, instead of a humanoid
robots taking delivery cruise jobs, humanoid robots would
work in tandem, quote, unquote, until they don't.
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Until that van is self driving,
knows exactly where to park,
and the robot never forgets
where to put your package.
You're not you know, here, here, we've got
four different doors, front door, side door, back
door, my door.
Sounds kinda weird. Right? And you never know
where a package is gonna be left from
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day to day.
But if you have a specific place you
want the packages delivered,
the robot at least won't forget where to
do it. The drivers don't know because the
driver can change from day to day.
And most of them are lazy. They put
them in places where they're easiest to steal.
So the robot
may not do that. I don't
know. The FBI warns
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play ransomware hackers have hit nearly a thousand
US firms, and this just goes on and
on. And those of you that have companies
that are largely Windows based,
display ransomware known as PlayScript.
PlayCrypt
is a ransomware that attacks mostly Windows machines.
They're also going after Linux now. So that
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means that, you know, this could trickle over
into,
Macs, but it what they also are having
a challenge with,
even though I'm running running malware bytes on
all my computers, I'm running Norton antivirus.
Each time they go after a specific
company,
they do a new encode
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of the executable,
and,
it's very hard to detect because it has
a new
basically, a new,
what what's the word I wanna use here?
Has a new,
signature.
So
just beware. It it's it's only gonna increase.
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Be careful. Careful. Careful. If you live in
the, state of California operating mobile vehicle and
you're holding your phone looking at a map,
it is illegal.
So,
basically, they have ruled,
and in 2016
law intended,
strengthen previous restrictions,
alleged they intended to prohibit all handheld functions
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of wireless cell phones while driving and encourage
drivers to keep their eyes on the road.
I will tell you this from experience, having
gotten a ticket in Las Vegas,
years ago, do not even touch your phone
at a stoplight.
That was $250.
So they're serious about it there, and they
use motorcycle police to
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roll up to you and look inside your
car and see if you're,
if you're holding your phone. I and I
literally it was in a rental, of course,
and there's no place to put the phone.
I had it plugged in, and, of course,
I'm at a stoplight. And I look at
my phone as I
confess
and,
whoo, pulled me over and wrote me a
ticket. So,
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be careful out there.
And I was, again, at a stoplight. Doesn't
matter. In California, you can't be looking at
your map either, so get yourself a phone
holder.
And then, you know, touching your phone and
changing the map, you can't what about touching
your dashboard?
Is that illegal?
Touching the controls in your
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in your, screen on your on your,
what if you have a tablet that's mounted?
Is that illegal?
That's a question. Right? Not much difference. Right?
Okay. The,
little bit of science news. So think about
this one here, ladies and gentlemen.
What if the big bang wasn't the beginning?
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A new research suggests that it may have
taken place inside a black hole.
Or the better question is, are we in
a black hole
at this point?
Now, the Big Bang often described as the
closest birth of the universe, a singular moment
when space, time, and matter sprang into existence
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from something.
But they're saying, what if that was not
the beginning? What if our universe emerged from
something else? Something more far,
far radical.
And they proposed that it,
we we all came out of a black
hole.
Alright.
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I'll I'll leave you Science Nerd to read
up on that one.
Meanwhile, NASA is withdrawing support for conferences. They've
walked away from,
two conferences, the Center for Achievement
of Space in Science in Space.
It's not the name of the conference, though.
It's called the inter
the International Space Station National Laboratory
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has determined Anyway, couple of conferences.
ISSDRDC
or something like that. And the I
AIAA,
because of budget cuts,
NASA is not gonna be able to participate
and sponsor those events.
Conferences are not cheap,
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so
but it's, it's a sign of the times.
Strawberry Moon 2025,
June's full moon to light up the sky
this month.
So, what is the date?
Although the moon will technically be at full
phase at 03:45AM
eastern on Wednesday, June 11, the best time
to view it is actually going to be
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last night.
B last night.
Oh, b last night, Tuesday,
June 10 as the sun sets. Oh my
god. They could they broke that horrible. Not
last night.
The night before, they should've said.
So,
anyway, the moon
rises slow, so there's interaction between sun and
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moon and whatever happens there, but,
be on the lookout.
Tesla's trying to stop certain self driving crash
data from becoming public.
The company claims information is confidential, disclosing it
may benefit competitors.
So they've asked the judge to block the
request
for the National
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Highway Transportation
Safety Administration
to disclose certain data related
to crashes involving vehicles that have self driving
features.
So in other words, n h NHTSA
wants that data, and Tesla says, no. We
don't want to.
So we will see where this one goes.
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I think all this crash data should be
made public,
to be frank.
I think if we are gonna ever get
to the point where the public completely trust
self driving vehicles, I know many of you
have full solid full
SD FSD with Tesla,
and you're quite happy with it. But, again,
if there's been accidents and people have gotten
hurt, I think the public needs to know
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so that you have,
that you have a
you you have a you have an idea
what's happening.
Apple and Samsung smartphone growth to take hit
from tariffs uncertainty,
quote, unquote.
So Apple shipments are expected to grow 2.5%
year on year while Samsung shipments are expected
to be flat.
(31:10):
They said that they revised
down its overall 25 global smartphone shipment forecast
to 1.9%
year on year and 4.2, citing renewed uncertainties.
So globally.
But,
we will see. I think people just have
an appetite for this stuff and are just
gonna continue to buy it.
(31:32):
I really do.
Now
we all wear seat belts. I I don't
think I've gotten in a vehicle
in the last ten years where I've had
to look around and ask passengers to put
on their seat belts.
I may have forgot to put on my
seat belt once or twice for a very
short period of time, and then the car
(31:53):
is dinging at me. Ding. Ding. Ding. Ding.
But Volvo is introducing the first multi adaptive
seat belt technology on the
e x 60 e v.
The system can take a passenger's profile into
account. So in other words,
if you're a fat boy,
and I'm gonna use Min as the example
here,
(32:13):
if the pastor is large,
for instance, they'll receive a higher belt load
setting to reduce reduce
the risk of head injury in the event
of a serious crash.
For milder crashes, someone with a smaller frame
will receive a lower belt load
setting to prevent rib injuries.
But we didn't specify if the system also
takes the position of a seat belt on
(32:35):
women into account,
so that said it doesn't always fit right
over some women's chest. However, the automaker explained
that the system expands the number of load
limiting profiles to 11.
Load limiters control how much force a seat
belt applies on the body during a crash.
Typically, these seat belts only have three load
limiting profiles, but
(32:56):
Volvo's expanding them to 11.
And they use this from, database of 80,000
people involved in real life accidents
to design the new settings, which is curious.
Very, very curious as well.
So
these scooters,
of course, they were all over London too,
(33:17):
and a lot of people were riding them.
But one thing was different in London, for
those scooters. They weren't just thrown
in the middle of nowhere.
At least I didn't see them being thrown
everywhere.
But Lime has renewed vows with Uber ahead
of the busy summer system.
Lime is a shared scooter bike company that's
getting ready for another
another summer.
(33:38):
And,
you're gonna see them in US, Canada, Europe,
Australia, and New Zealand.
So, they're extending the relationship,
but I hate these things. I really hate
these things. Even in London, I was dodging
people that were riding these little scooters. Now
that wasn't specifically lime,
but whatever they were, they were green, but
(34:00):
maybe they were lime. I don't know.
But everything is just,
you know, some people riding those things should
not be riding those things.
If you're a fan of Jeopardy and Wheel
of Fortune, they're headed to streaming new apps
new episodes of both game shows appear on
Hulu and Peacock
one day after they air on TV.
So if you are a Jeopardy and Wheel
(34:23):
of Fortune fan and you have Hulu or
Peacock,
you'll be able to watch Jeopardy. I can't
even tell you.
Honestly, the last time I watched Wheel of
Fortune or Jeopardy, it's probably been
just even accidentally,
Maybe ten years.
(34:46):
Yeah. Maybe ten years. I
it's been a while for sure.
Reddit has sued Anthropic, alleging its bots access
Reddit more than a hundred thousand times since
July.
So Reddit is on the warpath.
And in the filing, Reddit calls Anthropic a
late blooming artificial intelligence company that bills itself
(35:08):
as a white knight of the AI
by stealing everything.
So we'll see
where in this leads, if it leads to
anything, but Reddit is suing
Anthropic.
Now AT and T,
I and, again, I haven't used an AT
and T product. You guys know part those
of you who've been here for a while
(35:29):
know my experience with AT and T and
know that I had, for many, many, many,
many years,
banished them and black and blacklisted them from
any purchases that I have ever made. And
to be honest with you, they can't remember
what they did. They did something.
So, you know, I've been at T Mobile
and, of course,
(35:49):
Verizon is the carrier that my company pays
my phone for. But,
AT and T is debuting a new discounted
senior mobile plan, and that's for those of
you 55
above.
They're calling us senior citizens.
I just wrapped up a birthday and,
you know, I'm getting close to that, proverbial
year
(36:10):
where if I have to deserve
decide if I'm taking Social Security or not.
No. I'm not quite there yet, but I'm
getting closer.
And but, anyway, customers 55 and up can
sign up for this new plan that's cheaper
than the carrier's other plan is available across
The US. How much cheaper is it?
(36:32):
So it's a bare bones offering
for $40 a month for a single line.
Okay. You get unlimited voice calls, texting, and
data in The US, Canada, Mexico.
And though AT and T senior plan indicates
it has five g access included, there's no
clarity on which circumstance will enable high speed
data downloads and uploads on the senior plan.
(36:55):
The plan also has 10 gigs of hotspot
data per month
and a maximum of 720
p SD streaming suites for video, which is
okay in a mobile device.
They offered a slightly discounted senior phone before
at $62.
So this is quite a bit of an
improvement
(37:15):
to the plan. So those of you that
are looking to save money and don't need
a business phone or don't you know, you're
just you're just gonna be doing calling and
texting, and this may be a great plan
for those of you 55 plus or $40
per month
or 35 per month with two lines if
you have a significant other.
(37:36):
But I like the unlimited voice calls in
US, Canada, and Mexico.
Although T Mobile has it beat
hands down
for international.
Hands down. I you know, like I said,
international has worked everywhere I've went
with my, T Mobile phone. Although,
because I've been traveling so much internationally,
(37:59):
I know from reading forums, T Mobile starts
to kinda look at those accounts.
And,
you may get throttled a little bit more
than others just because you travel so much.
So I always buy an eSIM
and have a data plan. So I'm using
data
from a local carrier, then I keep the
the telephone and texting on,
(38:22):
for regular communications. I just have the data
only
on the eSIM,
which is kinda tricky from a configuration standpoint,
but it it seems to work out.
Because
everything
and this is another thing. When I'm on
Verizon
internationally,
I I do an eSIM on that and
convert everything over, but yet and my tech
(38:42):
still come through, though.
And the techs are much cheaper, but third,
you know, two party validation
is part you have to have text.
You have to. You go international. You try
to log in to anything, and you have
two factor authentication. One of them is a
text. If that text plan isn't turned on,
you're not logging in to anything.
(39:03):
So
it it's just required. It just is. You
have to have it,
for sure. So
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The lead story for Monday excuse me. Thursday
Thursday, June fifth,
a bitter political clash has exploded
between president Trump and Elon Musk with Trump
calling Musk crazy
and vowing to end billions in federal contracts
for Tesla, SpaceX, and other Musk run ventures.
(00:20):
The feud stems from Musk's opposition to Trump's
massive budget bill, which slashes electric vehicle credits.
Musk retaliated with accusations, including a shocking Epstein
related claim
and calls for Trump's impeachment. Tesla shares plummeted
as tensions rose threatening Musk's extensive federal ties.
(00:42):
Well, welcome to episode 1,284,
and, wow, here we go.
My goodness. You know,
there there is
call this predictable.
Call this predictable.
You know?
As soon as I as as soon as
(01:03):
the budget
end up being this massive thing and, again,
I I I know little about it
except what, you know, the pundits are saying.
And,
of course, Doge was trying to do all
those cuts,
and then they only what?
They haven't even codified 9,000,000,000 of whatever they've
(01:25):
found.
You know,
I go back to my original
saying that I've said on this show for
years,
you know, the only solution for politicians just
to to fire them all. And,
you know,
I I saw a poll. I saw Elon
(01:47):
Musk called for
a a new, new party.
He may be onto something there,
but this is
these guys are not happy with one another.
And, essentially,
you know, when when when,
(02:07):
you know, you've had a guy that's been
in there trying to save the government money
and, you know, not making a lot of
people, you know, very unpopular with, you know,
the definitely with the left
And,
then saying cutting contracts,
and then he's like, okay. I'll just, you
know, I'm gonna cut government contracts. I said,
(02:29):
well, I'll just start
decommissioning Dragon spacecraft.
A big war of words right now for
sure.
But,
you know,
we know that Tesla's already had some challenges,
but, man, it it just went
(02:49):
south,
after this this war blew up between, you
know,
the, you know, essentially, the world's richest man
and the president.
And, you know, Musk is you know, he
wants efficiency. He wants the government to not
spend more than it earns. I think we
all
can agree to that situation.
(03:09):
And,
oh my gosh. So there there is,
this this is
this is insane.
And,
you know, it's one of those situations where
you, you know,
you got two very strong minded individuals.
And, you know, you you get one against
(03:31):
the other, and your must doesn't have anything
really to lose. He said he could go
broke. He doesn't care.
So,
Trump said it took his EV mandate to
force everyone to buy electric cars that nobody
wanted away, and he just went crazy. Well,
I think,
most,
Tesla vehicles were no longer
(03:52):
eligible for for
electric vehicle rebates.
And
the electric vehicle credits, I think that was
already gone for
for Tesla for a long, long time. So
I don't know if there's any truth to
that. I maybe I'm not following it against.
But,
you know, obviously,
(04:12):
Elon is campaigning against the the big budget
bill.
And,
you know, so this thing is just went
went went nuclear. So,
you know, people are people that hate
hate Elon have went on the bandwagon to
(04:34):
to say, investigate Elon's immigration
status, his security clearance,
and, you know, check go into his drug
abuse and, you know,
I'm just like, wow.
Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow.
So
we'll see.
(04:54):
But again,
you know, when you when you are the
only show in town that has a
repetitive basis to get to space,
you know, of course, you're gonna get a
lot of government money. You're gonna get a
lot of government money to put government satellites
up. You're gonna go have a lot of
money for,
you know, all the things that they're doing
to get to
(05:16):
get into space.
So we'll see.
But what a way to, to end a
Thursday,
to have this this thing
this thing explode.
But,
yeah. Gonna you know, I you know, I
(05:37):
think I said long
time ago.
I think I said long time ago, you
know,
you know, keep your investment in popcorn.
You know, because it's it's definitely gonna be
entertaining
and and, an interesting ride for sure.
So, I, you know, I can't say that
I
(05:59):
yeah. Yeah. I didn't necessarily predict this, but
I'm not I'm not surprised.
I'm not surprised.
You know?
And, but one thing for sure,
there's more attention
than there ever ever has been on the
budget,
And
I think that's important.
I think people need to realize we've been,
(06:20):
you know, we've been spending too much money,
for a long, long, long time.
And, something has to give for sure.
I I know they have a strategy,
but,
you know, I don't necessarily think it means
you you spend more money.
Whatever you do, I think I think you
just, again,
(06:40):
I I think there's so much waste they
haven't found. It's been hidden. I
I am shocked that they've only found as
much as they have to be to be
quite frank.
So, anyway and we'll see what happens over
the weekend. Should be, should be good entertaining,
good for numbers here on the show for
for a bit. But, yeah, for,
(07:01):
Trump to say that Elon went crazy.
Well, that's, that that's a statement, ladies and
gentlemen.
It really, really, really is. So,
we we will see,
what proceeds
here in the next seventy two hours or
so.
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I have been,
I always tell you guys I'm crushed. I'm
crushed. I'm crushed.
(10:16):
This week,
let me just give you a kind of
a rundown.
Typical
not typical.
Just busy.
Recorded the show on Monday. Tuesday, I had
an interview.
Tuesday, I recorded a,
a demo video of one of five for
our stat system.
(10:37):
Then Wednesday, so that's one, two, three. Wednesday,
I did a, the new media show, that's
four.
This morning, I recorded another stats video five,
then I did a Mythbuster
six.
What else? Now seven. So I think this
is the seventh
recording this week.
(10:57):
So shaded editing.
The stats demos take a while, plus
planning, plus emails, plus reviews,
plus everything else. And, I'm
stick a fork in me. I'm I'm ready
for the weekend,
in in a big, big way. So,
(11:18):
but, yeah, it's, you know, all in a
all in a week's work.
And
the,
the,
just, you know, busy busy busy. But then
I'm trying to track down some unusual
traffic coming to Geek News Central,
super spike in traffic, and
(11:39):
I cannot see which page it's going to.
And it has me concerned that something is
going on, so I spent time in the
website today making sure
that there's not no funny business going on,
and I can't find anything.
So,
we'll see we'll see what happens.
Hopefully, I,
(12:00):
I don't have something,
something some bug
have been introduced,
but so far,
no no sign of of,
exactly where that traffic's going to, which is
the concern.
When When you have a spike of traffic
that, Google Analytics can see, but they can't
define where it's going, that is suspicious.
(12:23):
And, we're gonna keep it keep an eye
on it. So,
I don't have any information today for those
of you that are insiders. I have not
been able to pull that data or the
PayPal one, so we'll get caught up with
you on on Monday on that.
But,
in some more exciting news going on, a
ship was abandoned off Alaska after electric cars
(12:44):
on the onboard caught fire.
The good ship morning minus a roll on
roll off ferry was delivering 3,000 vehicles
from Yantai, China to Lazaro's Cardenas, Mexico.
It's currently around 304
miles south of Adak, Alaska.
The sailors of the Vesco operated by UK
based Zodiac Maritime, knows the fire, could not
(13:06):
put it out, and they abandoned ship.
So this thing is, this thing is burning.
It may be sunk by this point,
but, yes, Chinese vehicles,
electric batteries
could not put the fire out.
Again, call me surprised, but, you know, water,
water everywhere. None of it's useful.
(13:28):
So, you know, water and electricity do not
mix. Of course, salt water is even a
better conductor than fresh water.
And, of course, when salt water covers a
lithium battery, it can cause a short circuit,
and bad things happen
when that happens.
So, we'll see if we get any more
updates on this. But the crew has been
rescued.
(13:49):
But far as I can tell, the ship
is,
is still burning
and,
or maybe maybe sunk. I don't know. We'll
see.
This should not come as a surprise. Apple
Store
generated nearly $1,300,000,000,000
in sales. 1,300,000,000,000.0.
(14:10):
Think about that number for a second or
two.
And,
the findings part of a report commissioned by
Apple and performed by analysis group Jessica Burley
and Boston University professor
show the app store sales across biz physical
and digital goods have exposed
exploded over the past five years,
claiming from 514,000,000,000
(14:31):
in 2019
to 1,290,000,000,000.00
last year.
Some 778%
of sales, 1,010,000,000,000.00
worth came from
physical goods
and services, which include categories like general retail,
travel,
food, delivery, and ride hailing. Another 10% came
from digital goods. In other words, they're getting
(14:52):
30%
or 20% or 15% of every one of
your Uber rides.
So,
and Lyft rides
and food orders.
So you can see why these companies are
not happy
about Apple taking this bigger cut.
$1,000,000,000,000
(15:12):
on the backs of other companies
that could have at least a a larger
percentage of that
could have went to,
to to those companies. So, you know, if
you wonder
why your Uber ride costs as much as
it does, just remember,
every time you o order an Uber,
at least 15% of that
(15:34):
went to
Uber.
I mean, went to Apple.
About
a small percentage of it went to the
driver and the and the rest went to
Uber. So,
yeah. I I bet you Uber I bet
you Apple makes more on Uber rides than
Uber does,
to be quite, to be quite frank.
Made in smart glass ambitions just got supercharged
(15:56):
by the US government.
A huge partnership with Lucky Palmer and Roll
and shows that smart glass is about to
have a big rollout,
a new partnership.
So, basically, it looks like they're gonna be
pushing these products towards US government military.
And,
(16:18):
they've all done private r and d, so
the government
has nothing
in this,
so there's no,
there's no,
you know, no no discount.
But the their products are geared towards the
US government and military. And, so we'll see.
(16:39):
But with budget cuts, we'll see if they
really do have a a big,
big advantage here.
So, again,
big winners on this on all sides.
Fake IT support calls are leading to cyber
extortion and stolen company data. Hackers are attacking
or tricking employees into downloading malware.
I mean, it's almost on a daily basis
(17:01):
that I'm sending a Slack message to our
team saying, hey. I got I got today
in my email. I had,
three,
DocuSign documents that were fake. I had you
know, I just continue to,
you know, repeat to my group what I'm
seeing in email and making sure they're not,
reacting to this.
(17:21):
And, you know, I got to thinking about
it. I wonder
I wonder at some point
if let's say it in the company that
was being faked was Salesforce.
I wonder at some point, there has to
be a
(17:44):
policy setup
that's between Salesforce and the company they're supporting.
That if anyone calls from Salesforce, they have
to have, like, some special
verification
code.
Now Now I know it's only as good,
you know, maybe and maybe that circle is
limited.
You know, these 20 people can be can
(18:04):
talk to Salesforce,
and these 20 people know what the company's
secret
code word is between the companies to make
sure you're really talking to someone at Salesforce.
I've thought about implementing at that at my
company to saying, hey.
You know,
if you get a call from me
and asking you to do something,
(18:25):
you think it's me, but you wanna be
sure maybe we should have some sort of,
quote, unquote,
secret handshake
password or something like that,
to prove authentic
authenticity.
I don't know. There's gotta be a way
here for companies to
to start,
(18:47):
protecting themselves easier because
20 companies lost their data.
And they they they,
this fake cybercriminal
or this cybercriminal
tricked,
people to download malicious software and install it.
So there has to there has to become
a better way here for for validation
(19:08):
that you're talking to who you're you're you
are supposed,
to be talking to, I I I would
think.
It's being reported that AirPods are set to
get some nice free upgrades at WWDC
twenty twenty five, including more gesture controls and
sleep detection,
improved audio quality, and better connectivity too. So
we will see
(19:29):
if AirPods two and AirPods four get to
may get camera control as well.
So,
you know, the gesture stuff on AirPods,
how many of you actually know the gestures
besides tapping?
I I I don't I I don't think
everyone knows all the gestures. I I know.
I don't.
Probably should look them up. It may make
(19:51):
it easier when I'm using,
the AirPods.
If you're using Chrome, please update it now.
Your PC is at risk from a zero
day exploit.
And,
so, you know, if if you right on
my screen right now, it says new Chrome
is available
right in the upper right. And I don't
know if you guys can see this on
(20:12):
the screen.
New Chrome update available. So I'm at risk.
So I need to update,
my Chrome.
So that gives you an update. It's when
it's in the right hand corner,
and if those of you that are listening,
when you have Chrome available, you've seen the
notification before. Right?
So make sure you update
your Chrome. There's a zero day out there,
(20:33):
so I'll be sure to do this,
immediately after the show tonight
as well. Normally,
this computer has not been shut down for
a couple of days. So normally when it
reboots and it loads, it will update,
without me having to click anything. But I
haven't shut this particular computer down
a lot.
(20:54):
Comedy Forecast said in the in the YouTube
channel, he says that 30%
adds up fast.
The problem of the codes is the scammers
are pretty good at figuring out how to
get around anything that involves humans. So that,
you know, that is true.
You know? And at this point, you know,
we've got everything
and for comedy forecast, it's in the chat.
(21:14):
We've got everything
we've got everything we can under
authenticators.
That's super, super critical and sometimes double authentication.
I don't know. Will it help? If someone
gets in your email, you're screwed.
You know, there's ways around everything. So,
(21:36):
the email is the most critical part.
Waymo set to double to 20,000,000 rides as
self driving reaching tipping point.
Google self driving taxi service has surpassed 12,000,000
total paid rides.
Wow. Marking significant milestone.
The company's growth trajectory
shows clear signs of exponential
(21:58):
scaling
with weekly weekly rides jumping from 10,000 in
2023 to over 250,000.
And, And, again, Waymo's on track to hit
20,000,000
rides by the end of twenty twenty five.
So but they're only operating in Phoenix, LA,
San Francisco
with expansion plan for Austin, Atlanta, Miami, and
Washington DC. But think about that.
(22:20):
That many rides in just those few cities.
They're big, big cities, of course, but,
that's amazing.
How many of you have rode in a
Waymo?
I don't I think I never talked to
anyone that has. I'd love to know.
More than 3,000,000 records, 12 terabyte of data
expose a major app builder breach. Here we
(22:42):
go again.
Passion.io,
a major no code
app building app operating a non password protected
database.
So, again, found by a security researcher,
and, it belongs again a company called Passion.io.
Building platform allows creators, influencer, entrepreneurs, and coaches
(23:03):
to create websites without having any prior coding
knowledge.
They can also create and sell interactive courses,
but,
3,000,000 records.
It seems like a small number these days,
right, when you hear of all of the
breaches
that are going on. Now don't be too
surprised in the near future if your Amazon
(23:24):
delivery person might be a robot.
Amazon may be testing robot delivery people. Can
the Amazon robot just hang out and protect
my package to
actually get it? In the image being shown
for those of you watching
live, whisper quiet Rivian EVA Amazon delivery truck
pulls up to your front door. And before
(23:45):
the driver even has a chance to step
out,
the back of the, van blast open
and out jumps this, robot carrying a package
to your doorstep.
And, instead of a humanoid
robots taking delivery cruise jobs, humanoid robots would
work in tandem, quote, unquote, until they don't.
(24:06):
Until that van is self driving,
knows exactly where to park,
and the robot never forgets
where to put your package.
You're not you know, here, here, we've got
four different doors, front door, side door, back
door, my door.
Sounds kinda weird. Right? And you never know
where a package is gonna be left from
(24:26):
day to day.
But if you have a specific place you
want the packages delivered,
the robot at least won't forget where to
do it. The drivers don't know because the
driver can change from day to day.
And most of them are lazy. They put
them in places where they're easiest to steal.
So the robot
may not do that. I don't
know. The FBI warns
(24:48):
play ransomware hackers have hit nearly a thousand
US firms, and this just goes on and
on. And those of you that have companies
that are largely Windows based,
display ransomware known as PlayScript.
PlayCrypt
is a ransomware that attacks mostly Windows machines.
They're also going after Linux now. So that
(25:09):
means that, you know, this could trickle over
into,
Macs, but it what they also are having
a challenge with,
even though I'm running running malware bytes on
all my computers, I'm running Norton antivirus.
Each time they go after a specific
company,
they do a new encode
(25:30):
of the executable,
and,
it's very hard to detect because it has
a new
basically, a new,
what what's the word I wanna use here?
Has a new,
signature.
So
just beware. It it's it's only gonna increase.
(25:51):
Be careful. Careful. Careful. If you live in
the, state of California operating mobile vehicle and
you're holding your phone looking at a map,
it is illegal.
So,
basically, they have ruled,
and in 2016
law intended,
strengthen previous restrictions,
alleged they intended to prohibit all handheld functions
(26:13):
of wireless cell phones while driving and encourage
drivers to keep their eyes on the road.
I will tell you this from experience, having
gotten a ticket in Las Vegas,
years ago, do not even touch your phone
at a stoplight.
That was $250.
So they're serious about it there, and they
use motorcycle police to
(26:35):
roll up to you and look inside your
car and see if you're,
if you're holding your phone. I and I
literally it was in a rental, of course,
and there's no place to put the phone.
I had it plugged in, and, of course,
I'm at a stoplight. And I look at
my phone as I
confess
and,
whoo, pulled me over and wrote me a
ticket. So,
(26:56):
be careful out there.
And I was, again, at a stoplight. Doesn't
matter. In California, you can't be looking at
your map either, so get yourself a phone
holder.
And then, you know, touching your phone and
changing the map, you can't what about touching
your dashboard?
Is that illegal?
Touching the controls in your
(27:18):
in your, screen on your on your,
what if you have a tablet that's mounted?
Is that illegal?
That's a question. Right? Not much difference. Right?
Okay. The,
little bit of science news. So think about
this one here, ladies and gentlemen.
What if the big bang wasn't the beginning?
(27:39):
A new research suggests that it may have
taken place inside a black hole.
Or the better question is, are we in
a black hole
at this point?
Now, the Big Bang often described as the
closest birth of the universe, a singular moment
when space, time, and matter sprang into existence
(27:59):
from something.
But they're saying, what if that was not
the beginning? What if our universe emerged from
something else? Something more far,
far radical.
And they proposed that it,
we we all came out of a black
hole.
Alright.
(28:19):
I'll I'll leave you Science Nerd to read
up on that one.
Meanwhile, NASA is withdrawing support for conferences. They've
walked away from,
two conferences, the Center for Achievement
of Space in Science in Space.
It's not the name of the conference, though.
It's called the inter
the International Space Station National Laboratory
(28:42):
has determined Anyway, couple of conferences.
ISSDRDC
or something like that. And the I
AIAA,
because of budget cuts,
NASA is not gonna be able to participate
and sponsor those events.
Conferences are not cheap,
(29:02):
so
but it's, it's a sign of the times.
Strawberry Moon 2025,
June's full moon to light up the sky
this month.
So, what is the date?
Although the moon will technically be at full
phase at 03:45AM
eastern on Wednesday, June 11, the best time
to view it is actually going to be
(29:24):
last night.
B last night.
Oh, b last night, Tuesday,
June 10 as the sun sets. Oh my
god. They could they broke that horrible. Not
last night.
The night before, they should've said.
So,
anyway, the moon
rises slow, so there's interaction between sun and
(29:47):
moon and whatever happens there, but,
be on the lookout.
Tesla's trying to stop certain self driving crash
data from becoming public.
The company claims information is confidential, disclosing it
may benefit competitors.
So they've asked the judge to block the
request
for the National
(30:08):
Highway Transportation
Safety Administration
to disclose certain data related
to crashes involving vehicles that have self driving
features.
So in other words, n h NHTSA
wants that data, and Tesla says, no. We
don't want to.
So we will see where this one goes.
(30:29):
I think all this crash data should be
made public,
to be frank.
I think if we are gonna ever get
to the point where the public completely trust
self driving vehicles, I know many of you
have full solid full
SD FSD with Tesla,
and you're quite happy with it. But, again,
if there's been accidents and people have gotten
hurt, I think the public needs to know
(30:50):
so that you have,
that you have a
you you have a you have an idea
what's happening.
Apple and Samsung smartphone growth to take hit
from tariffs uncertainty,
quote, unquote.
So Apple shipments are expected to grow 2.5%
year on year while Samsung shipments are expected
to be flat.
(31:10):
They said that they revised
down its overall 25 global smartphone shipment forecast
to 1.9%
year on year and 4.2, citing renewed uncertainties.
So globally.
But,
we will see. I think people just have
an appetite for this stuff and are just
gonna continue to buy it.
(31:32):
I really do.
Now
we all wear seat belts. I I don't
think I've gotten in a vehicle
in the last ten years where I've had
to look around and ask passengers to put
on their seat belts.
I may have forgot to put on my
seat belt once or twice for a very
short period of time, and then the car
(31:53):
is dinging at me. Ding. Ding. Ding. Ding.
But Volvo is introducing the first multi adaptive
seat belt technology on the
e x 60 e v.
The system can take a passenger's profile into
account. So in other words,
if you're a fat boy,
and I'm gonna use Min as the example
here,
(32:13):
if the pastor is large,
for instance, they'll receive a higher belt load
setting to reduce reduce
the risk of head injury in the event
of a serious crash.
For milder crashes, someone with a smaller frame
will receive a lower belt load
setting to prevent rib injuries.
But we didn't specify if the system also
takes the position of a seat belt on
(32:35):
women into account,
so that said it doesn't always fit right
over some women's chest. However, the automaker explained
that the system expands the number of load
limiting profiles to 11.
Load limiters control how much force a seat
belt applies on the body during a crash.
Typically, these seat belts only have three load
limiting profiles, but
(32:56):
Volvo's expanding them to 11.
And they use this from, database of 80,000
people involved in real life accidents
to design the new settings, which is curious.
Very, very curious as well.
So
these scooters,
of course, they were all over London too,
(33:17):
and a lot of people were riding them.
But one thing was different in London, for
those scooters. They weren't just thrown
in the middle of nowhere.
At least I didn't see them being thrown
everywhere.
But Lime has renewed vows with Uber ahead
of the busy summer system.
Lime is a shared scooter bike company that's
getting ready for another
another summer.
(33:38):
And,
you're gonna see them in US, Canada, Europe,
Australia, and New Zealand.
So, they're extending the relationship,
but I hate these things. I really hate
these things. Even in London, I was dodging
people that were riding these little scooters. Now
that wasn't specifically lime,
but whatever they were, they were green, but
(34:00):
maybe they were lime. I don't know.
But everything is just,
you know, some people riding those things should
not be riding those things.
If you're a fan of Jeopardy and Wheel
of Fortune, they're headed to streaming new apps
new episodes of both game shows appear on
Hulu and Peacock
one day after they air on TV.
So if you are a Jeopardy and Wheel
(34:23):
of Fortune fan and you have Hulu or
Peacock,
you'll be able to watch Jeopardy. I can't
even tell you.
Honestly, the last time I watched Wheel of
Fortune or Jeopardy, it's probably been
just even accidentally,
Maybe ten years.
(34:46):
Yeah. Maybe ten years. I
it's been a while for sure.
Reddit has sued Anthropic, alleging its bots access
Reddit more than a hundred thousand times since
July.
So Reddit is on the warpath.
And in the filing, Reddit calls Anthropic a
late blooming artificial intelligence company that bills itself
(35:08):
as a white knight of the AI
by stealing everything.
So we'll see
where in this leads, if it leads to
anything, but Reddit is suing
Anthropic.
Now AT and T,
I and, again, I haven't used an AT
and T product. You guys know part those
of you who've been here for a while
(35:29):
know my experience with AT and T and
know that I had, for many, many, many,
many years,
banished them and black and blacklisted them from
any purchases that I have ever made. And
to be honest with you, they can't remember
what they did. They did something.
So, you know, I've been at T Mobile
and, of course,
(35:49):
Verizon is the carrier that my company pays
my phone for. But,
AT and T is debuting a new discounted
senior mobile plan, and that's for those of
you 55
above.
They're calling us senior citizens.
I just wrapped up a birthday and,
you know, I'm getting close to that, proverbial
year
(36:10):
where if I have to deserve
decide if I'm taking Social Security or not.
No. I'm not quite there yet, but I'm
getting closer.
And but, anyway, customers 55 and up can
sign up for this new plan that's cheaper
than the carrier's other plan is available across
The US. How much cheaper is it?
(36:32):
So it's a bare bones offering
for $40 a month for a single line.
Okay. You get unlimited voice calls, texting, and
data in The US, Canada, Mexico.
And though AT and T senior plan indicates
it has five g access included, there's no
clarity on which circumstance will enable high speed
data downloads and uploads on the senior plan.
(36:55):
The plan also has 10 gigs of hotspot
data per month
and a maximum of 720
p SD streaming suites for video, which is
okay in a mobile device.
They offered a slightly discounted senior phone before
at $62.
So this is quite a bit of an
improvement
(37:15):
to the plan. So those of you that
are looking to save money and don't need
a business phone or don't you know, you're
just you're just gonna be doing calling and
texting, and this may be a great plan
for those of you 55 plus or $40
per month
or 35 per month with two lines if
you have a significant other.
(37:36):
But I like the unlimited voice calls in
US, Canada, and Mexico.
Although T Mobile has it beat
hands down
for international.
Hands down. I you know, like I said,
international has worked everywhere I've went
with my, T Mobile phone. Although,
because I've been traveling so much internationally,
(37:59):
I know from reading forums, T Mobile starts
to kinda look at those accounts.
And,
you may get throttled a little bit more
than others just because you travel so much.
So I always buy an eSIM
and have a data plan. So I'm using
data
from a local carrier, then I keep the
the telephone and texting on,
(38:22):
for regular communications. I just have the data
only
on the eSIM,
which is kinda tricky from a configuration standpoint,
but it it seems to work out.
Because
everything
and this is another thing. When I'm on
Verizon
internationally,
I I do an eSIM on that and
convert everything over, but yet and my tech
(38:42):
still come through, though.
And the techs are much cheaper, but third,
you know, two party validation
is part you have to have text.
You have to. You go international. You try
to log in to anything, and you have
two factor authentication. One of them is a
text. If that text plan isn't turned on,
you're not logging in to anything.
(39:03):
So
it it's just required. It just is. You
have to have it,
for sure. So
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