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August 22, 2023 • 15 mins

Ever wondered what it takes to bounce back from a series of quality issues? If you're curious, join us as we explore Boeing's remarkable resurgence. Imagine a world where sensors catch wildfires before they spread, and internet connection is as unlimited as the sky above us. What if technology theft was the norm? How would our world change if a company became too big to fail? We'll get into all of these questions and dive into the latest happenings around Washington State and beyond.

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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Hello and welcome to Foundation Nation.
I'm your host, matthew Cote.
Along with Daniel, we're bothhigh school educated, masters of
nothing and gifted with aknowledge of well a lot.
Today on the podcast, we'regoing to talk about some
interesting recent goings-ons inour beautiful state and maybe
even a few things going on inthis amazing round thing we call
home.

Speaker 2 (00:24):
Let's see what the hell is going on in the world
today.
We got oh, I know what I wantedto talk about Boeing.
So the economy it's a little.
How do you feel about theeconomy right now?

Speaker 3 (00:38):
Economy is done.

Speaker 2 (00:40):
Well, hold on.
How do you feel about theeconomy?
I mean in Washington state InWashington state.

Speaker 3 (00:45):
Washington state is fine.
Yeah, I feel like we're doingokay right, yeah, we are doing
okay, yeah, it feels reallystrong and healthy and things
are moving along.

Speaker 2 (00:53):
Yep, because we are home for many good businesses
yeah big time and reallyactually not just good for
everyone, but just greatcompanies in general.
So Boeing the good news isBoeing's first quarter was

(01:15):
awesome and it's bouncing back.
They got all their repairs doneand now they're focusing on
making money and it's startingto look good.

Speaker 3 (01:21):
Yeah, they had a glitch in March that some of the
planes had some quality issues,but they're bouncing back and
getting it back.
Comparing to airbus, they're alittle bit lower out of the door
production, but they're gettingthere.

Speaker 2 (01:43):
Yeah, and they're a great company.
I mean, overall, I have nothingto complain about.
My entire family has worked forthem and still does, even.
But Boeing, what are you doing,boeing?
Are you being accused ofstealing technology for your
bolts on rockets and jets andspace stations?

Speaker 3 (02:02):
Yeah, any company.

Speaker 2 (02:04):
Please say no.
This is not happening.
Tell me no.

Speaker 3 (02:10):
When you're too big to fail, you start to believe
that you can get away withanything.

Speaker 2 (02:18):
Oh, you know what that reminds me of?
I was watching some kind oftechnology movie.
Oh, I remember what it was.
Have you watched any of thoseseries on Netflix Black Mirror?

Speaker 3 (02:29):
I wanted to, but no.

Speaker 2 (02:34):
So I won't give any of the plots away or whatever,
but all the episodes are aboutkind of technology involved with
humans.
So every story is technology,humans related.
And this one episode was thisguy was talking and there was a

(02:55):
problem in the social medianetwork or world and he
basically controlled the socialmedia of the whole planet in
this episode scenario.
And there was a problem.
And he said he was sitting athis computer, his laptop, while
he was sitting at a vacationplace and there was a problem
and no one in the whole worldcan fix it.

(03:17):
There was all kinds of problemsand really terrible.
And he said you know what, as heopened up his laptop, every
once in a while I get toactivate God mode and he gets on
his laptop and he just likefixes the whole world with like
two clicks.
And that's just what this kindof makes me think, you know,

(03:38):
because I'm sure they didn'tdeal the technology by hand.
If they stole it maybe theydidn't, who knows, but I'm sure
they didn't like physically takesomething.
I'm sure it's like digitallymoved from one place to another
is probably what we're talkingabout.

Speaker 3 (03:53):
Well, I'm looking at these news.
It is actually about some sortof range, torque range, whatever
Looks like Boeing really likedthe range and they just
continued to use it after theybroke off with the company which

(04:16):
provided it there is a kind ofshady story that they're saying
that someone misused it orwhatever.
Maybe the range was too good oractually not that good that it

(04:37):
broke or didn't do its jobproperly or something, and
because of that some stuffhappened.
They mentioned space station,but I haven't heard much about
stuff On one side.
yeah, the design of the tool.

(05:00):
Yes, it is your intellectualproperty.
On the other side, who knows,maybe they're just trying to
milk money from Boeing.

Speaker 2 (05:07):
Yeah, I mean, you know that happens all the time.
This is a very interestingcountry we live in.

Speaker 3 (05:14):
Yeah, I would see to it and kind of fall up on a
story, but I do believe thatthis lawsuit is probably going
to take years.
Yeah yeah, because it's Boeing,they're going to drug
everything and if they're guilty, they're going to drug this
thing.

Speaker 2 (05:32):
To the end of time.
Yeah kind of run them out ofmoney kind of thing maybe Well,
that's one negative thing abouttechnology.
Here's a positive thing Sensorsthat can help us catch
wildfires before they spread.
How cool would that be.

Speaker 3 (05:48):
That is actually really cool news.
I just stumbled upon it and Iam really amazed that how far
people want to go to actuallyprevent all of these wildfires.

Speaker 1 (06:03):
I'm glad.

Speaker 3 (06:04):
And this is actually really good news, because they
are implementing computers tofight wildfires.
Yeah, that's awesome.
That is awesome, becausecomputer technology nowadays is
really good and Elon Musk'sinternet that is used here also.

(06:27):
I do believe it's going toprovide internet to places where
there's no internet.
And these sensors I mean wirecan break, whatever can break,
but internet is still going tobe because it is in space.

Speaker 2 (06:43):
Yeah, I think it's super cool yeah you know,
because if you have a littlefire, you know they can get on
it before it's like the size ofa city, Not millions, tens of
hundreds of millions of dollarsa worth of damage.
And we really don't need forestfires right now.
We could go 10 years withoutanother goddam forest fire.

Speaker 3 (07:05):
Yeah, look in Canada.

Speaker 2 (07:07):
Well, I know they say you know forest fires or make a
healthy forest and all thatbullshit, but I feel like
they're all burning up andthey're going to be gone.

Speaker 3 (07:16):
They're burning too much.

Speaker 2 (07:17):
Yeah, it's way too much.

Speaker 3 (07:19):
Way too much, especially last year, in Oregon
and California, especiallyOregon.

Speaker 2 (07:24):
That was a disaster.

Speaker 3 (07:26):
Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 (07:27):
Well, good for them, for you know, figuring out the
forest fires and stuff.
I mean it's like it's abouttime somebody figured out how to
catch it when it's a littlefire, before it's the whole
goddam country on fire.

Speaker 3 (07:39):
Yeah, I'm just kind of surprised that they deployed
only 10 sensors.
Probably these sensors cost alittle bit.

Speaker 2 (07:48):
Yeah, or they're not completely figured out with
their technology, so it's tryingthem out, yeah they'll dial
them in.
Yeah, and then they'll dialthem in.
I mean, this couldn't be.
It wouldn't be that big of acost, you know, like some kind
of system that you could justdraw, you know you could almost
do is you could take a plane andyou could just fly over a

(08:09):
forest and just throw sensorsout the door.

Speaker 3 (08:12):
Yeah you know, instead of trying to get there
on foot.

Speaker 2 (08:15):
Yeah, and you know, you could just like I don't know
some kind of like parachutinglittle triangle that just sits
somewhere and it, when itdetects a fire, it sends it
through the satellite, you know.

Speaker 3 (08:28):
Yeah, on the other hand, you will always.
I mean, there is always aperson who is going to look like
oh what?

Speaker 2 (08:39):
is that that?

Speaker 3 (08:40):
is so, cool.
Oh, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 (08:42):
Okay, Okay, I'm going to take it with me, All right,
Okay, how about?
Okay, how about let me think,how about helicopter be too
expensive?
But how about let me see, Maybesomething?
Oh, what about a?
Somebody goes in with a truckout in the middle of nowhere and
they have a bunch of drones andthe drones have like 10 mile

(09:04):
radius and on that drone it'scarrying a little sensor that
they clip onto a tree at the top.

Speaker 3 (09:10):
Oh yeah, in general, all you have to do is just put a
big, big fine, like a 200,000dollar fine If you touch it, if
you touch that sensor.

Speaker 2 (09:24):
Yeah, and it will take a picture of you when
you're touching it.

Speaker 3 (09:26):
Oh yeah, oh yeah, and immediately it uploads it to
iCloud.
Yeah, absolutely, like on Insta.

Speaker 2 (09:32):
Instantaneously and you're on the front page of the
news for the biggest fire in theplanet of the history.

Speaker 3 (09:36):
Uh-huh, I like it so, and I think it would work.

Speaker 2 (09:39):
Yeah, I do too.
I think it's, I think they're,they're onto something.
I hope they really get goodfunding and support and get that
taken care of, because theforest fires really suck.
Oh yeah, and the majority ofthem I think pretty much all of
them are human, started byaccident 99% of all the fires
are started by humans.
Yeah, they ain't no lightningfires anymore.

Speaker 3 (10:01):
And it is all.
Oh, I wanted to make somecoffee.
Oh man, you cannot leavewithout one 250 million dollar
cup of coffee.
Uh-huh, yeah.
So I heard that one guy justwanted to make a cup of coffee,
and that's it.

Speaker 2 (10:18):
That's it.
It's just went to town on him.
Yeah, yeah, well.
So what happens if you find amillion pennies?

Speaker 3 (10:26):
Uh, that's a good and bad.
Yeah, good that you found somefree money, right.
Bad how can you spend it?

Speaker 2 (10:35):
A million pennies.

Speaker 3 (10:37):
Just just imagine you're going to the store and
buying a TV for 1000 bucks.
Uh, you need a truckload ofworse of pennies, just and about
a hundred people to count themin.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (10:56):
Is it?
Is it again?
Would a store be able to say no?

Speaker 3 (11:03):
I think they can, because this is something out of
uh.

Speaker 2 (11:08):
Like it's crazy, right.

Speaker 3 (11:09):
Yeah, it is super crazy.
And uh, I do remember there wasa clause that guy was.
Guy hated the utility companies, uh-huh, and he decided to pay
the debt that they put on him inpennies.
Oh damn, yes, he collectedthese pennies everywhere and

(11:34):
finally came up with like a 1500dollars worth of pennies and he
brought them there and he'slike here it's all yours and
they're like we cannot accept itbecause we cannot count.
Right, we are not going tocount and you will have to count
them.

Speaker 2 (11:53):
Okay.

Speaker 3 (11:55):
On a video camera and that was uh.
I mean, he tried to refuse it,but they made him to count every
single fucking penny.
Oh my, God.

Speaker 2 (12:08):
Yeah, they got kicked in the balls for that one, oh
yeah, oh yeah, jesus.

Speaker 3 (12:14):
And the same thing goes to these guys who found a
one million pennies in a crowspace under the house.
I mean, they, they cannot cashit because there is a percentage
involved.
Right, if you ask professionalsto count them, sure, sure.
And if you don't want to paypercentage, you have to come up

(12:39):
with something like a bring 100pennies to a bank and change
them to a dollar and do it10,000 times.

Speaker 2 (12:49):
Yeah, so a million pennies.
What's that?
What is that?
10 grand?

Speaker 3 (12:52):
Yeah, 10 grand, yeah yeah, it's not that big of a
money.
No but it is quite big.

Speaker 2 (12:58):
It's like it's borderline.
What do you do?

Speaker 3 (13:01):
Yeah, yeah, it's like a should I or should I not yeah
.

Speaker 1 (13:06):
Like.

Speaker 3 (13:07):
I would just take a.

Speaker 2 (13:09):
Take that percentage and just give it to them,
because it's free money.
Well, if you figure like so,100 pennies in that little roll,
if that takes you, let's saythat takes you two minutes and
you got to do 10,000 rolls.

Speaker 3 (13:22):
That is a lot of minutes.

Speaker 2 (13:23):
Yeah, 10,000 rolls, that's 2000 minutes.

Speaker 3 (13:28):
And in a row.

Speaker 2 (13:29):
In a row.

Speaker 3 (13:30):
No stop.

Speaker 2 (13:31):
No, pn, no, eat nothing.

Speaker 3 (13:33):
Yep, and that is counted in fatigue.

Speaker 2 (13:37):
Yeah.
Good luck, yeah, and you knowhow they check them at the bank.
They weigh them, so if you'reoff they won't take them.
Do you know that I turned in aroll of quarters one time?
They didn't even check it.
They put it in this littlething and it weighs it and they
give you it.
You know your 20 bucks orwhatever.
Oh, or I think a roll ofquarters is 10 bucks.
But whatever it was, they justyeah, they said it on this

(13:58):
little thing and waited and gaveme the $10.

Speaker 3 (14:01):
Yeah, the thing is If there is a Canadian quarter in
there it was little, it wasdifferently.
Oh, they probably would checkit, they probably could get it
yep, and the way thing is goingto show you that one of the
quarters is off.

Speaker 2 (14:15):
Yeah, what?
What idiot came up with moneythat looks just like ours?
That's bad.

Speaker 3 (14:20):
That's a bad neighbor .
Canadians, what, what can I say?

Speaker 2 (14:24):
Well, they brought us hockey.
Thinking Canadians.

Speaker 3 (14:26):
Oh yeah, yeah, it's hockey.
It's really really good.

Speaker 2 (14:29):
All right.
Well, that's all I got for you.
You got anything else?
No, all right, I'm Matthew Cote, and this is Foundation Nation,
along with Daniel by them.
See ya.

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