April 30, 2025 • 39 mins
Ep. 282 - Best of IP…Frequently
In this best-of compilation from 2025, David Pridham and Brad Sheafe slice through news from the beginning of the year with their signature unfiltered commentary. From analyzing Trump's hands-on leadership in disaster zones to California's self-inflicted wildfire catastrophe, the hosts expose the stark contrast between officials who act and those who vacation in Ghana while their city burns. The duo also tackles our society's technological decline - from AI companions replacing human connection to 490-pound rappers suing rideshare companies.
In this best-of compilation from 2025, David Pridham and Brad Sheafe slice through news from the beginning of the year with their signature unfiltered commentary. From analyzing Trump's hands-on leadership in disaster zones to California's self-inflicted wildfire catastrophe, the hosts expose the stark contrast between officials who act and those who vacation in Ghana while their city burns. The duo also tackles our society's technological decline - from AI companions replacing human connection to 490-pound rappers suing rideshare companies.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
In these bleak days, humanity is at a breaking point.
Economies are tanking, the woke mob is canceling everything, and
the little guy who's just trying to run a small
business is getting screwed from both ends. But not all
is lost. Amidst the chaos, two men offer up their
(00:26):
voices in the darkness, dropping two thousand pounds laser guided
truth bombs on today's lunacy, introducing the Sirens of Sanity,
David Pridham and L Bradley's sheaf.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Where are we going this time?
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Back in time? From home, back to the future, not
home alone?
Speaker 4 (01:02):
Yeah, right, back to the future?
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Great great Michael J. Fox movie, God bless him. He's
sick now, but we are. We're going back in time.
So Brad, Now, why don't we go to some of
our favorite segments from the year so folks can dig
into some of the best segments known to man.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
There you go, buddy, some tidbits of IP.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Frequently, a lot of stuff happened with terrorism, right You've
got the New Orleans terror attack, which that happened. That's
happened a few places where people just take use vehicles
as terrorist instruments. That happened in Nice, France a few
years ago. It's happened in a bunch of other places recently,
and now it's happened in New Orleans. And then you
(01:42):
also had the Tesla cyber truck that was blown up
in front of Trump Tower in Las Vegas on New
Year's Days. He's both happened hours apart on New Year's Day.
You know, there was the story that this was a
I guess this was a Special Forces guy that was
in the truck. But then there's this whole thing that
came out about how he was trying to blow the
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whistle on the drones on the East Coast and they
were really Chinese and nature and we need to be
worried about terrorism via drone And then and then, but
you know, that seemed to be all a lie, but
that that sort of hit around New Year's Day. But
what's your take on this? Is it it seems like
there's a lot more of an ability for people to
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crawl cause these sort of mass casualty events with new
technology and something that we really have to be on
the lookout for.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
Well, I mean, I think it's interesting because we don't
and I'm you can argue this both ways. I get that,
but we don't really do news the way that it
was sort of originally designed and built. Right, So we
don't have professional journalists anymore. And I know we have
people who call themselves that, but they're not really right.
(02:55):
They're they're clickbait headline writers, right, and or narrative crafters. Right.
The idea that you're going to go out and you're
going to research an article for the betterment of the
people around you, whether you're a local newspaper or a
national newspaper or whatever, that's sort of gone out the window.
R The idea of journalism has gone out the window
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because the market for news has shifted so dramatically to
where you get paid if people just click on it.
So your job is to write something that people will
click on, and or write something that when people do
click on it because it showed up in the social
media feed, because the social media algorithm knew they would
want to click on it, because that's how it works,
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then it would it would continue to feed into the
narrative that this person has already established for themselves through
their use of social media. So we don't do news anymore.
And so because we don't have sort of classic professional
journalists who are giving us facts but also you know,
sort of feathering the story so that you don't jump
to conclusions. We don't have that. So we nationally up
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to the conclusion that because these two events both took
place on New Year's Day, and you know, not for nothing,
but in any twenty four hour period, lots of events
take place that are not interrelated. But they both took
place on New Year's Day, and both cars were rented
from the same you know, sort of I don't even
know what you would call it, like the Verbo of
car renting, right, that they were somehow related, and of
(04:22):
course it turns out they're completely unrelated. And and it
also serves to point out that, you know, not for nothing,
if you're in the anti gun lobby. And for the record,
neither David nor I own a gun. We're not big
gun guys. But if you're in this anti gun lobby,
that says, hey, you know, we're fine as a culture.
It's not like there's a mental health crisis or anything.
(04:42):
It's it's just the fact that guns exist is causing
the violence. We'll note that you know, no guns were
used other than by the police officers. To kill the
guy who was using a truck as a battering ram
to murder people. Right, So we're screwed up in our culture,
and we will find all kinds of creative way to
kill each other. We don't need guns for that. So
just there's a little note aside. But I find it
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interesting that the from what I can read on the
event that took place in Vegas, I don't know that
it would even be a terrorist incident. So this is
what I understand. You correct me if I have the
facts wrong. So the guy rents this vehicle, you know,
near the place where he lives, drives at a long distance,
shows up on cameras in Vegas very early on the
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morning of New York's Day, and then is recorded driving
up and down the strip, you know, making a few
laps along the strip, before he pulls into Trump Tower,
and shortly thereafter, you know, nobody comes in the car,
nobody leaves the car. It explodes, and then the subsequent
investigation reveals that he had shot himself before the car explodes.
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So he obviously wanted to ensure you know, that he
died in this process, and it doesn't I've not seen
anything that says you know, the guy at an actra
grind against Trump or or any actra grind in general
song wondering and oddly and tragically he was a husband
and a father, a relatively new father, a young child.
(06:15):
And so my question is is this a situation where
you know, perhaps there was domestic issues or there were
financial issues, and so what the guy decided to do
was stage an event that was in fact a suicide
but might look like an accident to where his family
might see some you know, financial upside from the act. Right,
(06:38):
So did he decide to you know, he was obviously
trained in explosives. Did he decide to do something that
might be able to as opposed to being interpreted as
a terrorist event, which it sounds like, I mean, obviously
in this day and age, anything time something blows up,
you're going to say, oh, I wonder if it's a
terrorist event. But I wonder if what he was trying
to do was you know, kill himself and then be
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immolated in such a way that you know, the investigators
just go, oh my gosh, you know this this truck,
because you know, the cyber truck does have a reputation
for blowing up to where the investigators would say, oh
my gosh, you know, this truck just blew up on
this poor guy and he's now dead, and then the
insurance has to pay off, right. I mean, that's kind
of what it sounds like to me, but you know,
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who knows. Maybe I'm overthinking it as a former investigator myself.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
So anyway, that's that's it. But it's suck. Everything comes
full circle. What's up is down, what's down is up.
Everything is should be down and up. Remember that al Gore.
Speaker 4 (07:38):
Gore sad, But I mean, it's just it's things like
that that do you realize that Al Gore was very
nearly the president of the United States. Al Gore, Joe
Biden has in fact been the president of the United States.
Now we talk about this all the time, and I
don't want to go back into it, but of all,
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there are just hundreds of millions of people in this
country and Al Gore was almost the president and Joe
Biden was the president. It's crazy.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
And Tim Waltz was almost the vice president. I guess
not really given that the results. Can you imagine that?
Speaker 4 (08:18):
I mean, yeah, stop and think about that for a minute.
Kamala Harris and Tim Waltz, the one two punch leading America.
That was that was potentially a thing we honestly contemplated
that as a country. It's crazy.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
I mean she's running around now. I mean I think
she's hit hitting the bottle just the way it looks,
you know, some of the things she's saying, and you know,
it's it's unfortunate, I guess, but you know, it is
what it is. They'll be gone, so, I mean, you know,
they're as of the well they're gone now, Brad, as
of this recording. They're gone.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
We're hopefully never to be heard of or from again.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
Except on the reletive relative you know, the book tours.
And then it's a twenty eight campaign. Well, they'll probably
compete against one another for the Democratic.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
Along with the guy who's single handedly responsible for the
conflagration of the state of California.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
And we have we have to get to all that
we have. I can't tell you the number of d
ms I've got in my d M box where people
a direct message, right, direct message? Is that right? Jair
direct message? Yeah, direct message? Right? Okay, how about that? Anyway,
(09:33):
I've got a bunch of them from people on the
podcast right. Oh, and uh, they're they're wondering what they
should do. They're in California, and you know.
Speaker 4 (09:42):
They're get out. I can tell you that.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
Get whatever you can. And so in some cases there
not much left. No, I mean, the insurers are pulled
out because the state regulated them into the ground. And
insurance companies are vile anyway, but the state regulated them
to the ground. And then you got this the mayor
who was in do you see the mayor was in
Ghana during this all. She knew the Santa Ana wins
were kicking up, right, and she still went to Ghana. Why.
Speaker 4 (10:09):
I mean, Gonna is lovely. I've been there, But what
was she doing there?
Speaker 3 (10:12):
She was there for the inauguration of the president, I believe,
of Gana, the mayor of Los Angeles. It's important, Okay,
it's an important. So she was there that the city
was burning, and they have all the I mean, it's
it's just all it is, the and it's a terrible tragedy, right,
it's a terrible thing. Oh yeah, all these people who
have to live through this this I mean, yeah, I
can't even imagine, but it's just this, this liberal bastion. Right,
(10:39):
You've got the mayor. I mean, she ran this is
this is a congress woman who is just if you
look up ack in the dictionary, you'll you'll find this
woman's picture. She's total, total hack. Never had a job,
you know, again the typical of the Devinism, never had
a job. And so she's there. The first thing she does,
they take over the fire department. They institute this DEI
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thing where you know, they have the fire chief who
are one of them? One of one of the people
in charge there that did some video and was asked, well,
how is a woman And again nothing against women, but
how's a woman going to carry some tw hundred pound
man out of a fire? And this woman literally said.
This is a video on the la FD website, one
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of their websites. The woman literally said, well, you know,
if I'm a twittord pound man, I probably shouldn't be
in a fire to begin with. Literally said that, literally
said that. And so you got all this dea stuff going.
I mean, while you got this mayor and Ghana, and
then you got the reservoirs with with with tens of
millions of gallons of capacity empty during the high wind season,
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which is apparently the high fire the wildfire season empty
and then they're not clearing the brush because they're trying
to save the the platyposts or whatever. They're not they're
redirecting the water into the Pacific to save the smelt there.
I mean, they're they're you know, PG and e's out there,
whoever they you know, they're bankrupt. But whoever's out there
running the power lines they're trying to clear brush, they
(12:06):
won't let them them. I mean, it's just the craziest thing.
And this is what you get people with these these
houses that they couldn't get insurance for because the insurance
companies left the area because they were regulated into the ground.
Now have you know five ten million dollar homes that
are reduced to a pile of rubble that are not
going to yield much in terms of an insurance claim,
(12:27):
And even if it did, you can't rebuild shit because
you're in California and to get permits to build something
that's going to take years.
Speaker 4 (12:35):
Yeah. Well, I mean listen, if you had a five
to ten million dollar home and you couldn't get it insured,
you know, odds are you're okay, right, Like it's a
tragedy to lose your home. There's no making light of that.
There's no real coming back from that, right, I mean,
even if you rebuild the structure, I mean the you know,
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all the personal belongings and stuff. So I'm not making
light of that. But those folks are not the folks
I feel worse for. I feel bad for those folks,
but I feel you know, I'm just irate on behalf
of the average man in LA. Right, someone who has
just you know, just an average home with an average lifestyle,
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who can't get insurance. Now their house is god. They
don't have the resources to try and rebuild, and they're
looking to their leadership. And their leadership is this mayor,
this particular you know, fire chief, and this governor, all
of whom are personally responsible for what happened, right, I mean,
(13:39):
my fervent hope is at the courts. And now again,
you know, I'm sure the courts in California won't do it,
but maybe the federal courts will do it, although most
of the federal judges in California are just as liberal
as the rest of the leadership there. But to be
able to go no, no, no, you can't hide behind the position.
I don't want to sue the office of the mayor.
I want to sue the person who is the mayor, right,
(14:02):
I want personal jurisdiction over this person. They are personally
responsible for advocating abdicating their responsibilities and duties right, and
my life is ruined because of their policies. Now, the
first thing I would ask if I were a judge
in that case is I would say, well, did you
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vote for him? Now, of course it's a stupid question.
You're never going to find out, and we do secret
ballots in this country, and you shouldn't ask people, you know,
to air themselves out like that. But I will say,
if you voted for Gavin Newsom, if you're an LA
resident and you voted for the governorship to go to
Gavin Newsom, the mayorship to go to this gal, if
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you voted for that, then you know what. This is
the direct result of decisions you made. If you didn't,
then I mean, I just I don't even I don't
have words to describe how just increase rertably irate you
must be about the situation you're in. And the only
advice I can give is get out. I don't see
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any sign that it's going to get better anytime soon now.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
And you know, the issue is some of those people
that had five and ten million dollar houses, they there
are some laws in California that limit the tax on
family residences in certain areas, right, so they keep the
taxes low so they're not so burdensome the people have
to sell when they inherit a house that's just greatly
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appreciated in value. So a lot of those houses in
the Palisades, I understand, are people who are middle class
people who have inherited houses from their parents and they
have just greatly appreciated in value and that's their asset, right,
that's their nest egg, that's their retirement. And because of
the insurance problems, you know, I mean, you basically get
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a piece of land in a high ability wildfire zone
that you can try to sell to developers and who
knows what's going to happen with speculators and stuff like that.
I mean, that's another whole issue, but it's but that's
what's happening. You have a lot of middle class people
who just lost their entire retirement nest egg because that's
(16:17):
that's what they were counting on.
Speaker 4 (16:19):
Yeah, I mean it's just and again fire happens, right,
and so you know to just say, oh, well, you
know that's the risk you take when you buy a home.
Your house might burn to the ground, that's true, but
you know if it's caused by lightning and there's nothing
you can do about it. You know, if you live
in a well managed area for fire soil, like for instance,
(16:41):
where I live, fire management is the thing, right, I mean,
you live in the mountains, you have some advantage of
your house is never going to flood. We don't have hurricanes.
We don't have tornadoes, right, we don't. We don't have hail.
I mean that well, we have hail, but it's not
like you get in the Midwest. We don't have that stuff.
(17:02):
But fire is everything, right, I mean, if this house
is going to be destroyed by a natural event, it
will almost certainly be fire. And so people take it
incredibly seriously. Each individual takes it seriously, and the government
takes it incredibly seriously. I mean, clearing the underbrush, they
do controlled burns all the time, you know, forestry management,
(17:23):
I mean, all of that is a big deal. And
wildfires still occur, but you know they're oftentimes managed before
any property damage and when property is damaged, then you
just kind of have to shrug and say, well, man,
I mean, you know, we did everything we could. But
if you're in that situation California, and not only did
they not do everything they could, they didn't do anything
(17:44):
that they could. In fact, they specifically said no, we're
going to ratchet up the fire danger on behalf of
Perry the Platypus and Sammy the Smell, right. I mean,
you you cannot justify that. You cannot justify it. And
(18:04):
I don't know what the right answer is. I mean,
even if you know I allude to before, you could
suit people, but at the end of the day, even
if you sued in won and maybe you got some money,
your house is still burned to the ground.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
But I'll tell you what you and I talked briefly
about this. It is interesting to have a president who
has has issued hundreds of executive orders and pardons, including
other pardons by the way that I mean, if you
look at some of the stuff Biden did at the end,
he pardoned a lot of people off death row. He
pardoned some guy in Connecticut that was was a killer,
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and even the Connecticut senators, who are awful people have
come out and condemned that. But you know Trump is
you know there are a bunch of these I guess
anti abortion, peaceful protesters who were arrested and thrown pardon them.
But he does all that, he gets rid of it,
just gets gets rid of everybody who should have got
rid of last time, in these different cab level departments,
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all the way down to inspector in general. I mean,
he cleans house and puts in his people. He goes
up in front of the World Economic Forum at Davos,
speaks for an hour off the cuff, and then takes
questions for an hour and a half from bankers, not
not from journalists, from bankers, of course, he takes questions
from journalists. I think he had five or six press availabilities,
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and that might be it might be more than that
in the past in the past week. Then goes to
uh North Carolina and literally goes walking around the rubble
in the area that was impacted by the hurricane four
months ago with these families that have you listen to
their stories, They're horrific what's happened to them. And apparently
Biden pulled the Army Corps of engineers and you know
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they had they still have roads down. So Trump sent
in them back in to rebuild the roads, rebuild the bridges,
and not to leave until it's all done. He's now
got appropriate housing and supplies going up to these folks,
flies from there to La where he had meetings with
all these local officials and chastise them, you know, open panels,
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right open panels where he's sitting next to the mayor,
the governor, the congressman, and you know, the mayor's talking
about and people who were affected his houses were burned,
where they're talking about eighteen months to a permit, and
Trump's like, eighteen months, that's crazy. And you know, them
wanting to require that the city clears all the lots,
(20:27):
and Trump's like, get a dumpster, and these people want
to clear their own lots. It's nothing but ash, what's
the problem. He said that, And then he does that.
Then he goes to Vegas and does like a two
hour deal in Vegas and then walks around the casino
floors meeting people, I mean, and then goes back to
Florida the next day and plays golf for you know,
the seventh day he rested. There was sixth day and
(20:51):
it's just amazing to have a prey and all along
the way taking questions and answering and giving more information
and releasing the JFK files, and you know, dealing with Columbia,
dealing with this greenland stuff. I mean, it's really is
it really is incredible to have a president that, God
bless him, seventy eight, seventy nine years old, who's this
active and is actually serving in a presidential capacity after
(21:13):
four years of having like Rip Van Winkle as president.
Speaker 4 (21:17):
Yeah, well, buddy, I mean, you know, one of the
basics when in charge, take charge. And that's what he's doing.
And you can disagree with all of it if you want.
You can say, if you want, literally every single thing
that Trump has done since being sworn in is a mistake. Fine,
but he is doing it right, what he thinks is
the right thing to do. He is doing it. And
(21:40):
as you already pointed out, much of this has an
incredibly high approval rating amongst the American people. So if
you are on the side of this where you don't
think he's doing the right thing, fine that that is
your right. You can agree to that. You can carry
that feeling to the grave. That's fine. You're allowed to
do that in the United States. But to your point,
having someone who takes charge when in charge is incredibly
(22:04):
refreshing and the way it should be. And I would
just ask folks who are outraged by, you know, the
Ice operations, where's the outrage for the people who were
you know, whose lives were ruined by the January sixth thing? Right,
I mean, let's just be even handed, let's be fair
in our thinking. Okay, So, if you're going to be
(22:24):
outraged about Trump's pardons, where is the outrage over Biden's partans?
If you're going to be outraged over folks who have
clearly committed at least two crimes, they are legally present
in the United States, and then they committed a violent felony.
If you're going to be outraged about them simply being deported, hey,
(22:45):
I mean just being sent back to their homes, where
is the outrage over the folks that were rounded up
as a result of January sixth? Right, when you are deported,
you are simply taken from a place where you are
not allowed to be and returned to the place where
you are allowed to be. You're not jailed, no one's
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reading your email. No one's taking away your permits, no
one's ruining your life. You're just being taken from a
place where you traveled under your own power and committed
a crime by entering a place you're not allowed to go,
then committed another crime for which you should be jailed,
and instead you're given the mercy of just being sent
(23:28):
back to where you came from. So if you're outraged
about that, if you just think that's the end of
the world, then there are many other things that if
you're going to be fair and even handed and just
you have to be outraged about. But you know, I mean, unfortunately,
that's just not where we are.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
No, it's not. But you know, God bless them, and listen.
The first thing that happened in the last time he
was president was that whole Remember they tried to repeal
Obamacare and then they lost because McCain voted no, and
it was just still advised and it was vindictive and
it was. But this time, the first act that he
went through was the Lake and Riley Act, which basically
(24:05):
said that undocumented illegal aliens who are in this country
illegally who are accused of a violent crime or murder
can be deported based on the charge, right, not really controversial.
That's the first bill goes through the House, bipartisan support
goes through the Senate, bipartisan support. Fetterman voted for it,
(24:29):
a bunch of a bunch of Democrat handful of Democrats
voted for it, more than voted for more more than
Republicans who voted for the Biden infrastructure deal. So, and
Trump's gonna have a big signing ceremony for that bill
week two. That will be his first bill that he
that he signs, big win, huge, very important beast of legislation,
which I think is great and sort of sets him
(24:50):
up right. And I think I think, I think if
he keeps doing that, he's going to be He's going
to be on the right track because he is going
to get Democrats. I think when he pushes through tax
whatever the tax deal is with money for LA wildfires
and all that, he's gonna he's gonna get some Democrats
support for that too. So it's a much different tone
than twenty seventeen when he came in, where everyone was
(25:13):
just saying Russia got him in and we're not We're
never going to vote for anything he does here it's
a lot different. So time will time will tell you. Know. Now,
we talk about creating these dummy accounts to get subscribers,
but there are people out there who have created these
aiunt of these AI tools that allow you to create
(25:35):
online influencers who then you can get an only fans
account with and then they will provide companionship for these
men who are willing to pay for I don't know
what they chat, they get photos. But that is where
we are now in this society. Brad, so men, I
lost her for a second. So you get a dude.
(25:57):
You have a dude. He give a dude. He download
or theoretically brought a woman.
Speaker 4 (26:04):
Sure anybody, I guess, and he downloads an app.
Speaker 3 (26:08):
Well, take a look at what I take a look
what I look at this thing. There is a tool
where you can create your own AI influencer.
Speaker 4 (26:19):
To just influence yourself.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
I think the theory is. And this is back in
the day, this is before.
Speaker 4 (26:26):
Don't you have something to influence your No, no.
Speaker 3 (26:28):
No, no, you you you don't do that. You create a
a I influencer and then you put this person on
the well it's not a person. He put this thing
online and then this thing goes out and interacts with
these people that are willing to pay other than you.
Speaker 4 (26:44):
Oh okay, all right, I assume. I mean so you
you create you basically create a false person, yes you know,
is attractive and charismatic, and that false human being pretends
to be a real human being on online online they
have their own like social media accounts, and they create
(27:07):
which obviously AIS can do. They create pictures of themselves,
although that's an odd thing to say since they don't
really exist, and then they post those and so people
it's effectively being catfished by an AI. Right, Like people
start following these false human beings and being influenced by them.
Speaker 3 (27:24):
I guess they get they follow them. But then these
people get revenue. Well this is this, this is me
being a ludited I. These things start getting revenue, generating
revenue for the creator of these things, right, which ultimately
is the AI. But the person that creates this account
with this person, this thing they get. They get revenue
(27:48):
from the posts on the social media, but then they
also catfish people into this only fans experience where they
are getting so much per minute I guess where they
interact with people and the people that they're interacting with
that are paying for their time, don't realize that these
are bots.
Speaker 4 (28:11):
Well, I mean, I guess, I guess I have two
responses to that. One would be sort of the snarky.
This is what you get when you allow yourself to
be influenced, even if they're real human beings online. Like
when you turn to your Instagram account or whatever and
(28:32):
you say, well, what am I gonna wear today and
you say, well, let me look at what this influencer
is wearing, and I'm gonna wear that. Well, I mean,
this is this is just what you get, right But
the you know, go out and have real relationships with
real human beings and they'll, you know, sort of help
you through life. That's the way humanity is designed. But
I guess at the end of the day, it doesn't matter.
I mean, so my guess is that most people who
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are influenced by influencers have never met those people and
are never going to meet those people, and frankly don't
have any intention to meet those people. They just sort
of build their lives around what these influencers, who are
from whatever country and whatever corner of the world are saying. Well,
(29:15):
this is what you should do. This is the way
you should eat, this is the way you should wear,
you know, et cetera, et cetera. So what difference does
it make if it's not even a real human being, Like,
at the end of the day, they're not real human
beings to you anyway. You don't really have a relationship
with these people. You just see pictures of them presented
to you on your phone. So what freaking difference does
it make whether it's there's an actual human being that
(29:37):
somebody could you know, tap on the head, or it's
an AI.
Speaker 3 (29:42):
None.
Speaker 4 (29:45):
There you go, buddy, there you go. So I guess
it is sort of what you get. But maybe you
don't care. Frankly, maybe an AI is a better influencer
than you know, a real human being would be.
Speaker 3 (29:56):
But I don't know what about the poor bastards that
are like, I mean, here's what, here's what what I
don't get. Right, So you get these people who are
paying for to interact with this thing, right, and and
so they're interacting with this this non existent computer program,
(30:17):
and they're treating it as if it's some form of
companionship relationship, right, because that's why else would you do it? Right?
Why else would you do it?
Speaker 4 (30:29):
Yeah, well, I mean, I guess the same principle applies, right,
So if if what did you call it, be my
fan help me out?
Speaker 3 (30:39):
Only fans on?
Speaker 4 (30:40):
So, so if the idea behind only fans, and Jared
will correct us if we go straight here, if the
idea behind only fans is that there are live women,
you know, presumably attractive, who are posting pictures of themselves
in various states of undress and you know, willing to
interact with you through that medium for money. Right, But again,
(31:06):
you're in the same situation. So you you live in Kansas,
this woman is in Estonia. You're never going to meet her.
You don't even really care to meet her. In fact,
it might fracture the fantasy to meet her. So you
just want to interact with her online and you want
her to send you naughty pictures and tell you that
you know you're her favorite or whatever. Right, So again,
(31:28):
what what freaking difference does it make if that's a
real human woman or it's an A. Frankly, I mean
if it was an AI, guess you would be even
more suitable to the purpose, because then you could tell
the AI. Well, I don't like that outfit. You know,
change your outfit.
Speaker 3 (31:43):
I am not changing the outfit ever, ever never, you
know what I mean.
Speaker 4 (31:48):
These genus make my butt look big.
Speaker 3 (31:51):
I mean, I don't want to look fat. Look fat.
I mean that's what you get that it's a slippery
slippet you think about these guys. I mean, it is
the society we are gravitating towards, much like the Titanic
to the Iceberg. Right, I mean it's it's we have
people that the metaphverse, the metaverse was just the start,
and now you have people with these relationships with computer
(32:12):
programs who I don't even know if they care. And
there are no inner persons that don't care, and nobody
there are no interpersonal skills taught anymore. You don't need them,
you know What's interesting? So I was thinking about this
in the context of our business, right, because you and
I have a business, and what what so if we
could create like, go on this thing, right, let's just
go on this and create the perfect patent modelization licensing person.
(32:38):
Right because listen, once you create this AI deal, right,
we have a thing, this bot. Once you created it's
it's off to the races. And you don't have to
worry about it, right, you have to worry about feeding
it or or healthcare. There's no profit share, there's none
of that stuff. So you know, you get you just
go into it and you put like, you know, six
foot four some one who is well versed in the
(33:01):
patent laws, and there's all the back and forth and
case law, the civil law, the common law, all that stuff,
you know sort of, and then you just get like
build like an API into IPD and the automation of
innovation just like sink it in there, right, just sink
the damn thing in there. I don't know if you
need a chord for that or not. I don't know
if you do it why, I don't know. You do that,
(33:21):
you hook it up to the starlink or skylink or
whatever that Elon Mustling is. So it's constantly constantly calculating
these patent related probabilities, and then you give it the
look of like the nature boy Ric Flair and the
articulation of Rick Flair. And at that point, Brad, you
and I are done. We go to the beach bar
(33:43):
and we just collect the royalties, so to speak. Who So,
you know, have you heard of Dank de Moss the
four hundred ninety pound wrapper. Listen. This is again is
much in line with the AI stuff. This very attractive
woman rapper.
Speaker 4 (34:04):
Oh, apparently attractive.
Speaker 3 (34:06):
Is apparently was denied the ability to get into a
lift because she didn't physically fit in the car, and
so she is suing lift for millions. Again. I guess,
I guess what happened was she called a lift and
the guy showed up and he was worried that his
(34:26):
car wouldn't be able to handle. And there is a
quote handle her weight.
Speaker 4 (34:30):
And she says she weighs five pounds. I mean that's
probably true.
Speaker 3 (34:36):
Yeah, And she said, look, she said, if I stand
for something, I'll fall for anything, fighting for my kid
about people.
Speaker 4 (34:44):
If I stand for nothing, I'll fall for anything. But
it's probably neither or no there at this point.
Speaker 3 (34:49):
Something yeah, but at any event, she she basically has
said that she's doing this for the greater goods of
her fans.
Speaker 2 (34:56):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (34:57):
So what do you think about this? Danked? Well, first
of all, I haven't heard her music. Assuming it's really good,
how could it not be? You let her in your car?
Bread and you've got you've got like you've got like
I drive.
Speaker 4 (35:11):
Yeah, I drive a truck, so I would be okay.
Speaker 3 (35:14):
She'd have to be in the flatbed though, right.
Speaker 4 (35:16):
Well, yeah, I mean it's you know, to pick them
up drug. So yeah, I'm not based on this videos
that she's taken of herself, so you know, obviously it's
she's I don't think she's disguising herself. She's you know
(35:37):
what a five hundred pound person looks like. So yeah,
there are certain spaces where if you weigh five hundred pounds,
and again sort of like the AI thing, if that's
your choice, if your choice is you know, I'm I'm
going to get myself to weigh a quarter ton and
that's the way I want to be. Okay, that's fine.
(35:58):
You get one life, you live it, and you know
there may be some medical issu. I'm sure people are
jumping up and down. Well it say it's not her fault,
blah blah. Okay, my guess is to a certain degree,
that is absolutely her fault. She's made choices that lead to,
you know, weighing in at that weight, but perhaps there's
other issues that contribute to that. Fine, I'm happy to
give that to you. But if the choice that you made,
(36:20):
then that means are certain spaces that you're not going
to be able to get into. When a guy shows
up in a subcompact, rolls down the window and you know,
lays the paper on you and goes, well, sister, you
are not getting in here.
Speaker 3 (36:36):
You know that?
Speaker 4 (36:37):
How can you fault the guy for that? Oh? My god,
it's true. Yeah, I don't you know.
Speaker 3 (36:43):
I mean he would't even unlocked the car, would even
lock the door.
Speaker 4 (36:46):
Well, hell no. And and you know, but everybody's a victim, right,
I mean, it's it's he should have showed up in
a mac truck just in case the gal or guy
or whatever that pinged him through some electronic app happened
to weigh a quarter ton all by her onesie, right,
(37:07):
I mean, he should have known that. To not know
that is to be discriminatory. To drive a vehicle that
will not comfortably accommodate a person who weighs a quarter
ton is purposeful and discriminatory and mean. And he should
have known that, and therefore it's all his fault, right.
It is not your fault for being outside well outside
(37:32):
the norm. Again, whether you can control it is not
the issue. If you weigh five hundred pounds, you are
unquestionably larger than what most vehicle designers have in mind
when they put in a bucket seat. But but I mean,
I think that's probably as far as we could go,
(37:54):
want to go, need to go with this episode of
this very fine program. It has not been terribly uplifting.
Folks have reached the point where they're willing to sell
everything they own to confine themselves to a boat and
then get kicked off that boat. None of that's good.
But I mean, if we're being honest, and that's what
we try to do on this program, we try to
(38:16):
be truthful, We try to be honest. None of that's good,
but we're not deterred. Right, We will come back next week.
We will try this again. Hopefully there will be something
that's good. If I were a betting man, I would
bet on it. But hope, you know, Hope remains alive
and springs eternal, and we'll see where that little springing
(38:39):
action lands next week. Right here on IP frequently.
Speaker 1 (38:46):
This has been IP frequently, once again, clearing a forest
of lies with the machete of truth.
Speaker 3 (38:55):
You're welcome
In these bleak days, humanity is at a breaking point.
Economies are tanking, the woke mob is canceling everything, and
the little guy who's just trying to run a small
business is getting screwed from both ends. But not all
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Speaker 2 (00:46):
Where are we going this time?
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Back in time? From home, back to the future, not
home alone?
Speaker 4 (01:02):
Yeah, right, back to the future?
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Great great Michael J. Fox movie, God bless him. He's
sick now, but we are. We're going back in time.
So Brad, Now, why don't we go to some of
our favorite segments from the year so folks can dig
into some of the best segments known to man.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
There you go, buddy, some tidbits of IP.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Frequently, a lot of stuff happened with terrorism, right You've
got the New Orleans terror attack, which that happened. That's
happened a few places where people just take use vehicles
as terrorist instruments. That happened in Nice, France a few
years ago. It's happened in a bunch of other places recently,
and now it's happened in New Orleans. And then you
(01:42):
also had the Tesla cyber truck that was blown up
in front of Trump Tower in Las Vegas on New
Year's Days. He's both happened hours apart on New Year's Day.
You know, there was the story that this was a
I guess this was a Special Forces guy that was
in the truck. But then there's this whole thing that
came out about how he was trying to blow the
(02:03):
whistle on the drones on the East Coast and they
were really Chinese and nature and we need to be
worried about terrorism via drone And then and then, but
you know, that seemed to be all a lie, but
that that sort of hit around New Year's Day. But
what's your take on this? Is it it seems like
there's a lot more of an ability for people to
(02:25):
crawl cause these sort of mass casualty events with new
technology and something that we really have to be on
the lookout for.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
Well, I mean, I think it's interesting because we don't
and I'm you can argue this both ways. I get that,
but we don't really do news the way that it
was sort of originally designed and built. Right, So we
don't have professional journalists anymore. And I know we have
people who call themselves that, but they're not really right.
(02:55):
They're they're clickbait headline writers, right, and or narrative crafters. Right.
The idea that you're going to go out and you're
going to research an article for the betterment of the
people around you, whether you're a local newspaper or a
national newspaper or whatever, that's sort of gone out the window.
R The idea of journalism has gone out the window
(03:16):
because the market for news has shifted so dramatically to
where you get paid if people just click on it.
So your job is to write something that people will
click on, and or write something that when people do
click on it because it showed up in the social
media feed, because the social media algorithm knew they would
want to click on it, because that's how it works,
(03:37):
then it would it would continue to feed into the
narrative that this person has already established for themselves through
their use of social media. So we don't do news anymore.
And so because we don't have sort of classic professional
journalists who are giving us facts but also you know,
sort of feathering the story so that you don't jump
to conclusions. We don't have that. So we nationally up
(04:00):
to the conclusion that because these two events both took
place on New Year's Day, and you know, not for nothing,
but in any twenty four hour period, lots of events
take place that are not interrelated. But they both took
place on New Year's Day, and both cars were rented
from the same you know, sort of I don't even
know what you would call it, like the Verbo of
car renting, right, that they were somehow related, and of
(04:22):
course it turns out they're completely unrelated. And and it
also serves to point out that, you know, not for nothing,
if you're in the anti gun lobby. And for the record,
neither David nor I own a gun. We're not big
gun guys. But if you're in this anti gun lobby,
that says, hey, you know, we're fine as a culture.
It's not like there's a mental health crisis or anything.
(04:42):
It's it's just the fact that guns exist is causing
the violence. We'll note that you know, no guns were
used other than by the police officers. To kill the
guy who was using a truck as a battering ram
to murder people. Right, So we're screwed up in our culture,
and we will find all kinds of creative way to
kill each other. We don't need guns for that. So
just there's a little note aside. But I find it
(05:06):
interesting that the from what I can read on the
event that took place in Vegas, I don't know that
it would even be a terrorist incident. So this is
what I understand. You correct me if I have the
facts wrong. So the guy rents this vehicle, you know,
near the place where he lives, drives at a long distance,
shows up on cameras in Vegas very early on the
(05:28):
morning of New York's Day, and then is recorded driving
up and down the strip, you know, making a few
laps along the strip, before he pulls into Trump Tower,
and shortly thereafter, you know, nobody comes in the car,
nobody leaves the car. It explodes, and then the subsequent
investigation reveals that he had shot himself before the car explodes.
(05:52):
So he obviously wanted to ensure you know, that he
died in this process, and it doesn't I've not seen
anything that says you know, the guy at an actra
grind against Trump or or any actra grind in general
song wondering and oddly and tragically he was a husband
and a father, a relatively new father, a young child.
(06:15):
And so my question is is this a situation where
you know, perhaps there was domestic issues or there were
financial issues, and so what the guy decided to do
was stage an event that was in fact a suicide
but might look like an accident to where his family
might see some you know, financial upside from the act. Right,
(06:38):
So did he decide to you know, he was obviously
trained in explosives. Did he decide to do something that
might be able to as opposed to being interpreted as
a terrorist event, which it sounds like, I mean, obviously
in this day and age, anything time something blows up,
you're going to say, oh, I wonder if it's a
terrorist event. But I wonder if what he was trying
to do was you know, kill himself and then be
(07:01):
immolated in such a way that you know, the investigators
just go, oh my gosh, you know this this truck,
because you know, the cyber truck does have a reputation
for blowing up to where the investigators would say, oh
my gosh, you know, this truck just blew up on
this poor guy and he's now dead, and then the
insurance has to pay off, right. I mean, that's kind
of what it sounds like to me, but you know,
(07:23):
who knows. Maybe I'm overthinking it as a former investigator myself.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
So anyway, that's that's it. But it's suck. Everything comes
full circle. What's up is down, what's down is up.
Everything is should be down and up. Remember that al Gore.
Speaker 4 (07:38):
Gore sad, But I mean, it's just it's things like
that that do you realize that Al Gore was very
nearly the president of the United States. Al Gore, Joe
Biden has in fact been the president of the United States.
Now we talk about this all the time, and I
don't want to go back into it, but of all,
(07:58):
there are just hundreds of millions of people in this
country and Al Gore was almost the president and Joe
Biden was the president. It's crazy.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
And Tim Waltz was almost the vice president. I guess
not really given that the results. Can you imagine that?
Speaker 4 (08:18):
I mean, yeah, stop and think about that for a minute.
Kamala Harris and Tim Waltz, the one two punch leading America.
That was that was potentially a thing we honestly contemplated
that as a country. It's crazy.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
I mean she's running around now. I mean I think
she's hit hitting the bottle just the way it looks,
you know, some of the things she's saying, and you know,
it's it's unfortunate, I guess, but you know, it is
what it is. They'll be gone, so, I mean, you know,
they're as of the well they're gone now, Brad, as
of this recording. They're gone.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
We're hopefully never to be heard of or from again.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
Except on the reletive relative you know, the book tours.
And then it's a twenty eight campaign. Well, they'll probably
compete against one another for the Democratic.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
Along with the guy who's single handedly responsible for the
conflagration of the state of California.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
And we have we have to get to all that
we have. I can't tell you the number of d
ms I've got in my d M box where people
a direct message, right, direct message? Is that right? Jair
direct message? Yeah, direct message? Right? Okay, how about that? Anyway,
(09:33):
I've got a bunch of them from people on the
podcast right. Oh, and uh, they're they're wondering what they
should do. They're in California, and you know.
Speaker 4 (09:42):
They're get out. I can tell you that.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
Get whatever you can. And so in some cases there
not much left. No, I mean, the insurers are pulled
out because the state regulated them into the ground. And
insurance companies are vile anyway, but the state regulated them
to the ground. And then you got this the mayor
who was in do you see the mayor was in
Ghana during this all. She knew the Santa Ana wins
were kicking up, right, and she still went to Ghana. Why.
Speaker 4 (10:09):
I mean, Gonna is lovely. I've been there, But what
was she doing there?
Speaker 3 (10:12):
She was there for the inauguration of the president, I believe,
of Gana, the mayor of Los Angeles. It's important, Okay,
it's an important. So she was there that the city
was burning, and they have all the I mean, it's
it's just all it is, the and it's a terrible tragedy, right,
it's a terrible thing. Oh yeah, all these people who
have to live through this this I mean, yeah, I
can't even imagine, but it's just this, this liberal bastion. Right,
(10:39):
You've got the mayor. I mean, she ran this is
this is a congress woman who is just if you
look up ack in the dictionary, you'll you'll find this
woman's picture. She's total, total hack. Never had a job,
you know, again the typical of the Devinism, never had
a job. And so she's there. The first thing she does,
they take over the fire department. They institute this DEI
(11:02):
thing where you know, they have the fire chief who
are one of them? One of one of the people
in charge there that did some video and was asked, well,
how is a woman And again nothing against women, but
how's a woman going to carry some tw hundred pound
man out of a fire? And this woman literally said.
This is a video on the la FD website, one
(11:24):
of their websites. The woman literally said, well, you know,
if I'm a twittord pound man, I probably shouldn't be
in a fire to begin with. Literally said that, literally
said that. And so you got all this dea stuff going.
I mean, while you got this mayor and Ghana, and
then you got the reservoirs with with with tens of
millions of gallons of capacity empty during the high wind season,
(11:45):
which is apparently the high fire the wildfire season empty
and then they're not clearing the brush because they're trying
to save the the platyposts or whatever. They're not they're
redirecting the water into the Pacific to save the smelt there.
I mean, they're they're you know, PG and e's out there,
whoever they you know, they're bankrupt. But whoever's out there
running the power lines they're trying to clear brush, they
(12:06):
won't let them them. I mean, it's just the craziest thing.
And this is what you get people with these these
houses that they couldn't get insurance for because the insurance
companies left the area because they were regulated into the ground.
Now have you know five ten million dollar homes that
are reduced to a pile of rubble that are not
going to yield much in terms of an insurance claim,
(12:27):
And even if it did, you can't rebuild shit because
you're in California and to get permits to build something
that's going to take years.
Speaker 4 (12:35):
Yeah. Well, I mean listen, if you had a five
to ten million dollar home and you couldn't get it insured,
you know, odds are you're okay, right, Like it's a
tragedy to lose your home. There's no making light of that.
There's no real coming back from that, right, I mean,
even if you rebuild the structure, I mean the you know,
(12:55):
all the personal belongings and stuff. So I'm not making
light of that. But those folks are not the folks
I feel worse for. I feel bad for those folks,
but I feel you know, I'm just irate on behalf
of the average man in LA. Right, someone who has
just you know, just an average home with an average lifestyle,
(13:18):
who can't get insurance. Now their house is god. They
don't have the resources to try and rebuild, and they're
looking to their leadership. And their leadership is this mayor,
this particular you know, fire chief, and this governor, all
of whom are personally responsible for what happened, right, I mean,
(13:39):
my fervent hope is at the courts. And now again,
you know, I'm sure the courts in California won't do it,
but maybe the federal courts will do it, although most
of the federal judges in California are just as liberal
as the rest of the leadership there. But to be
able to go no, no, no, you can't hide behind the position.
I don't want to sue the office of the mayor.
I want to sue the person who is the mayor, right,
(14:02):
I want personal jurisdiction over this person. They are personally
responsible for advocating abdicating their responsibilities and duties right, and
my life is ruined because of their policies. Now, the
first thing I would ask if I were a judge
in that case is I would say, well, did you
(14:23):
vote for him? Now, of course it's a stupid question.
You're never going to find out, and we do secret
ballots in this country, and you shouldn't ask people, you know,
to air themselves out like that. But I will say,
if you voted for Gavin Newsom, if you're an LA
resident and you voted for the governorship to go to
Gavin Newsom, the mayorship to go to this gal, if
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you voted for that, then you know what. This is
the direct result of decisions you made. If you didn't,
then I mean, I just I don't even I don't
have words to describe how just increase rertably irate you
must be about the situation you're in. And the only
advice I can give is get out. I don't see
(15:07):
any sign that it's going to get better anytime soon now.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
And you know, the issue is some of those people
that had five and ten million dollar houses, they there
are some laws in California that limit the tax on
family residences in certain areas, right, so they keep the
taxes low so they're not so burdensome the people have
to sell when they inherit a house that's just greatly
(15:35):
appreciated in value. So a lot of those houses in
the Palisades, I understand, are people who are middle class
people who have inherited houses from their parents and they
have just greatly appreciated in value and that's their asset, right,
that's their nest egg, that's their retirement. And because of
the insurance problems, you know, I mean, you basically get
(15:56):
a piece of land in a high ability wildfire zone
that you can try to sell to developers and who
knows what's going to happen with speculators and stuff like that.
I mean, that's another whole issue, but it's but that's
what's happening. You have a lot of middle class people
who just lost their entire retirement nest egg because that's
(16:17):
that's what they were counting on.
Speaker 4 (16:19):
Yeah, I mean it's just and again fire happens, right,
and so you know to just say, oh, well, you
know that's the risk you take when you buy a home.
Your house might burn to the ground, that's true, but
you know if it's caused by lightning and there's nothing
you can do about it. You know, if you live
in a well managed area for fire soil, like for instance,
(16:41):
where I live, fire management is the thing, right, I mean,
you live in the mountains, you have some advantage of
your house is never going to flood. We don't have hurricanes.
We don't have tornadoes, right, we don't. We don't have hail.
I mean that well, we have hail, but it's not
like you get in the Midwest. We don't have that stuff.
(17:02):
But fire is everything, right, I mean, if this house
is going to be destroyed by a natural event, it
will almost certainly be fire. And so people take it
incredibly seriously. Each individual takes it seriously, and the government
takes it incredibly seriously. I mean, clearing the underbrush, they
do controlled burns all the time, you know, forestry management,
(17:23):
I mean, all of that is a big deal. And
wildfires still occur, but you know they're oftentimes managed before
any property damage and when property is damaged, then you
just kind of have to shrug and say, well, man,
I mean, you know, we did everything we could. But
if you're in that situation California, and not only did
they not do everything they could, they didn't do anything
(17:44):
that they could. In fact, they specifically said no, we're
going to ratchet up the fire danger on behalf of
Perry the Platypus and Sammy the Smell, right. I mean,
you you cannot justify that. You cannot justify it. And
(18:04):
I don't know what the right answer is. I mean,
even if you know I allude to before, you could
suit people, but at the end of the day, even
if you sued in won and maybe you got some money,
your house is still burned to the ground.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
But I'll tell you what you and I talked briefly
about this. It is interesting to have a president who
has has issued hundreds of executive orders and pardons, including
other pardons by the way that I mean, if you
look at some of the stuff Biden did at the end,
he pardoned a lot of people off death row. He
pardoned some guy in Connecticut that was was a killer,
(18:37):
and even the Connecticut senators, who are awful people have
come out and condemned that. But you know Trump is
you know there are a bunch of these I guess
anti abortion, peaceful protesters who were arrested and thrown pardon them.
But he does all that, he gets rid of it,
just gets gets rid of everybody who should have got
rid of last time, in these different cab level departments,
(19:03):
all the way down to inspector in general. I mean,
he cleans house and puts in his people. He goes
up in front of the World Economic Forum at Davos,
speaks for an hour off the cuff, and then takes
questions for an hour and a half from bankers, not
not from journalists, from bankers, of course, he takes questions
from journalists. I think he had five or six press availabilities,
(19:24):
and that might be it might be more than that
in the past in the past week. Then goes to
uh North Carolina and literally goes walking around the rubble
in the area that was impacted by the hurricane four
months ago with these families that have you listen to
their stories, They're horrific what's happened to them. And apparently
Biden pulled the Army Corps of engineers and you know
(19:47):
they had they still have roads down. So Trump sent
in them back in to rebuild the roads, rebuild the bridges,
and not to leave until it's all done. He's now
got appropriate housing and supplies going up to these folks,
flies from there to La where he had meetings with
all these local officials and chastise them, you know, open panels,
(20:07):
right open panels where he's sitting next to the mayor,
the governor, the congressman, and you know, the mayor's talking
about and people who were affected his houses were burned,
where they're talking about eighteen months to a permit, and
Trump's like, eighteen months, that's crazy. And you know, them
wanting to require that the city clears all the lots,
(20:27):
and Trump's like, get a dumpster, and these people want
to clear their own lots. It's nothing but ash, what's
the problem. He said that, And then he does that.
Then he goes to Vegas and does like a two
hour deal in Vegas and then walks around the casino
floors meeting people, I mean, and then goes back to
Florida the next day and plays golf for you know,
the seventh day he rested. There was sixth day and
(20:51):
it's just amazing to have a prey and all along
the way taking questions and answering and giving more information
and releasing the JFK files, and you know, dealing with Columbia,
dealing with this greenland stuff. I mean, it's really is
it really is incredible to have a president that, God
bless him, seventy eight, seventy nine years old, who's this
active and is actually serving in a presidential capacity after
(21:13):
four years of having like Rip Van Winkle as president.
Speaker 4 (21:17):
Yeah, well, buddy, I mean, you know, one of the
basics when in charge, take charge. And that's what he's doing.
And you can disagree with all of it if you want.
You can say, if you want, literally every single thing
that Trump has done since being sworn in is a mistake. Fine,
but he is doing it right, what he thinks is
the right thing to do. He is doing it. And
(21:40):
as you already pointed out, much of this has an
incredibly high approval rating amongst the American people. So if
you are on the side of this where you don't
think he's doing the right thing, fine that that is
your right. You can agree to that. You can carry
that feeling to the grave. That's fine. You're allowed to
do that in the United States. But to your point,
having someone who takes charge when in charge is incredibly
(22:04):
refreshing and the way it should be. And I would
just ask folks who are outraged by, you know, the
Ice operations, where's the outrage for the people who were
you know, whose lives were ruined by the January sixth thing? Right,
I mean, let's just be even handed, let's be fair
in our thinking. Okay, So, if you're going to be
(22:24):
outraged about Trump's pardons, where is the outrage over Biden's partans?
If you're going to be outraged over folks who have
clearly committed at least two crimes, they are legally present
in the United States, and then they committed a violent felony.
If you're going to be outraged about them simply being deported, hey,
(22:45):
I mean just being sent back to their homes, where
is the outrage over the folks that were rounded up
as a result of January sixth? Right, when you are deported,
you are simply taken from a place where you are
not allowed to be and returned to the place where
you are allowed to be. You're not jailed, no one's
(23:05):
reading your email. No one's taking away your permits, no
one's ruining your life. You're just being taken from a
place where you traveled under your own power and committed
a crime by entering a place you're not allowed to go,
then committed another crime for which you should be jailed,
and instead you're given the mercy of just being sent
(23:28):
back to where you came from. So if you're outraged
about that, if you just think that's the end of
the world, then there are many other things that if
you're going to be fair and even handed and just
you have to be outraged about. But you know, I mean, unfortunately,
that's just not where we are.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
No, it's not. But you know, God bless them, and listen.
The first thing that happened in the last time he
was president was that whole Remember they tried to repeal
Obamacare and then they lost because McCain voted no, and
it was just still advised and it was vindictive and
it was. But this time, the first act that he
went through was the Lake and Riley Act, which basically
(24:05):
said that undocumented illegal aliens who are in this country
illegally who are accused of a violent crime or murder
can be deported based on the charge, right, not really controversial.
That's the first bill goes through the House, bipartisan support
goes through the Senate, bipartisan support. Fetterman voted for it,
(24:29):
a bunch of a bunch of Democrat handful of Democrats
voted for it, more than voted for more more than
Republicans who voted for the Biden infrastructure deal. So, and
Trump's gonna have a big signing ceremony for that bill
week two. That will be his first bill that he
that he signs, big win, huge, very important beast of legislation,
which I think is great and sort of sets him
(24:50):
up right. And I think I think, I think if
he keeps doing that, he's going to be He's going
to be on the right track because he is going
to get Democrats. I think when he pushes through tax
whatever the tax deal is with money for LA wildfires
and all that, he's gonna he's gonna get some Democrats
support for that too. So it's a much different tone
than twenty seventeen when he came in, where everyone was
(25:13):
just saying Russia got him in and we're not We're
never going to vote for anything he does here it's
a lot different. So time will time will tell you. Know. Now,
we talk about creating these dummy accounts to get subscribers,
but there are people out there who have created these
aiunt of these AI tools that allow you to create
(25:35):
online influencers who then you can get an only fans
account with and then they will provide companionship for these
men who are willing to pay for I don't know
what they chat, they get photos. But that is where
we are now in this society. Brad, so men, I
lost her for a second. So you get a dude.
(25:57):
You have a dude. He give a dude. He download
or theoretically brought a woman.
Speaker 4 (26:04):
Sure anybody, I guess, and he downloads an app.
Speaker 3 (26:08):
Well, take a look at what I take a look
what I look at this thing. There is a tool
where you can create your own AI influencer.
Speaker 4 (26:19):
To just influence yourself.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
I think the theory is. And this is back in
the day, this is before.
Speaker 4 (26:26):
Don't you have something to influence your No, no.
Speaker 3 (26:28):
No, no, you you you don't do that. You create a
a I influencer and then you put this person on
the well it's not a person. He put this thing
online and then this thing goes out and interacts with
these people that are willing to pay other than you.
Speaker 4 (26:44):
Oh okay, all right, I assume. I mean so you
you create you basically create a false person, yes you know,
is attractive and charismatic, and that false human being pretends
to be a real human being on online online they
have their own like social media accounts, and they create
(27:07):
which obviously AIS can do. They create pictures of themselves,
although that's an odd thing to say since they don't
really exist, and then they post those and so people
it's effectively being catfished by an AI. Right, Like people
start following these false human beings and being influenced by them.
Speaker 3 (27:24):
I guess they get they follow them. But then these
people get revenue. Well this is this, this is me
being a ludited I. These things start getting revenue, generating
revenue for the creator of these things, right, which ultimately
is the AI. But the person that creates this account
with this person, this thing they get. They get revenue
(27:48):
from the posts on the social media, but then they
also catfish people into this only fans experience where they
are getting so much per minute I guess where they
interact with people and the people that they're interacting with
that are paying for their time, don't realize that these
are bots.
Speaker 4 (28:11):
Well, I mean, I guess, I guess I have two
responses to that. One would be sort of the snarky.
This is what you get when you allow yourself to
be influenced, even if they're real human beings online. Like
when you turn to your Instagram account or whatever and
(28:32):
you say, well, what am I gonna wear today and
you say, well, let me look at what this influencer
is wearing, and I'm gonna wear that. Well, I mean,
this is this is just what you get, right But
the you know, go out and have real relationships with
real human beings and they'll, you know, sort of help
you through life. That's the way humanity is designed. But
I guess at the end of the day, it doesn't matter.
I mean, so my guess is that most people who
(28:55):
are influenced by influencers have never met those people and
are never going to meet those people, and frankly don't
have any intention to meet those people. They just sort
of build their lives around what these influencers, who are
from whatever country and whatever corner of the world are saying. Well,
(29:15):
this is what you should do. This is the way
you should eat, this is the way you should wear,
you know, et cetera, et cetera. So what difference does
it make if it's not even a real human being, Like,
at the end of the day, they're not real human
beings to you anyway. You don't really have a relationship
with these people. You just see pictures of them presented
to you on your phone. So what freaking difference does
it make whether it's there's an actual human being that
(29:37):
somebody could you know, tap on the head, or it's
an AI.
Speaker 3 (29:42):
None.
Speaker 4 (29:45):
There you go, buddy, there you go. So I guess
it is sort of what you get. But maybe you
don't care. Frankly, maybe an AI is a better influencer
than you know, a real human being would be.
Speaker 3 (29:56):
But I don't know what about the poor bastards that
are like, I mean, here's what, here's what what I
don't get. Right, So you get these people who are
paying for to interact with this thing, right, and and
so they're interacting with this this non existent computer program,
(30:17):
and they're treating it as if it's some form of
companionship relationship, right, because that's why else would you do it? Right?
Why else would you do it?
Speaker 4 (30:29):
Yeah, well, I mean, I guess the same principle applies, right,
So if if what did you call it, be my
fan help me out?
Speaker 3 (30:39):
Only fans on?
Speaker 4 (30:40):
So, so if the idea behind only fans, and Jared
will correct us if we go straight here, if the
idea behind only fans is that there are live women,
you know, presumably attractive, who are posting pictures of themselves
in various states of undress and you know, willing to
interact with you through that medium for money. Right, But again,
(31:06):
you're in the same situation. So you you live in Kansas,
this woman is in Estonia. You're never going to meet her.
You don't even really care to meet her. In fact,
it might fracture the fantasy to meet her. So you
just want to interact with her online and you want
her to send you naughty pictures and tell you that
you know you're her favorite or whatever. Right, So again,
(31:28):
what what freaking difference does it make if that's a
real human woman or it's an A. Frankly, I mean
if it was an AI, guess you would be even
more suitable to the purpose, because then you could tell
the AI. Well, I don't like that outfit. You know,
change your outfit.
Speaker 3 (31:43):
I am not changing the outfit ever, ever never, you
know what I mean.
Speaker 4 (31:48):
These genus make my butt look big.
Speaker 3 (31:51):
I mean, I don't want to look fat. Look fat.
I mean that's what you get that it's a slippery
slippet you think about these guys. I mean, it is
the society we are gravitating towards, much like the Titanic
to the Iceberg. Right, I mean it's it's we have
people that the metaphverse, the metaverse was just the start,
and now you have people with these relationships with computer
(32:12):
programs who I don't even know if they care. And
there are no inner persons that don't care, and nobody
there are no interpersonal skills taught anymore. You don't need them,
you know What's interesting? So I was thinking about this
in the context of our business, right, because you and
I have a business, and what what so if we
could create like, go on this thing, right, let's just
go on this and create the perfect patent modelization licensing person.
(32:38):
Right because listen, once you create this AI deal, right,
we have a thing, this bot. Once you created it's
it's off to the races. And you don't have to
worry about it, right, you have to worry about feeding
it or or healthcare. There's no profit share, there's none
of that stuff. So you know, you get you just
go into it and you put like, you know, six
foot four some one who is well versed in the
(33:01):
patent laws, and there's all the back and forth and
case law, the civil law, the common law, all that stuff,
you know sort of, and then you just get like
build like an API into IPD and the automation of
innovation just like sink it in there, right, just sink
the damn thing in there. I don't know if you
need a chord for that or not. I don't know
if you do it why, I don't know. You do that,
(33:21):
you hook it up to the starlink or skylink or
whatever that Elon Mustling is. So it's constantly constantly calculating
these patent related probabilities, and then you give it the
look of like the nature boy Ric Flair and the
articulation of Rick Flair. And at that point, Brad, you
and I are done. We go to the beach bar
(33:43):
and we just collect the royalties, so to speak. Who So,
you know, have you heard of Dank de Moss the
four hundred ninety pound wrapper. Listen. This is again is
much in line with the AI stuff. This very attractive
woman rapper.
Speaker 4 (34:04):
Oh, apparently attractive.
Speaker 3 (34:06):
Is apparently was denied the ability to get into a
lift because she didn't physically fit in the car, and
so she is suing lift for millions. Again. I guess,
I guess what happened was she called a lift and
the guy showed up and he was worried that his
(34:26):
car wouldn't be able to handle. And there is a
quote handle her weight.
Speaker 4 (34:30):
And she says she weighs five pounds. I mean that's
probably true.
Speaker 3 (34:36):
Yeah, And she said, look, she said, if I stand
for something, I'll fall for anything, fighting for my kid
about people.
Speaker 4 (34:44):
If I stand for nothing, I'll fall for anything. But
it's probably neither or no there at this point.
Speaker 3 (34:49):
Something yeah, but at any event, she she basically has
said that she's doing this for the greater goods of
her fans.
Speaker 2 (34:56):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (34:57):
So what do you think about this? Danked? Well, first
of all, I haven't heard her music. Assuming it's really good,
how could it not be? You let her in your car?
Bread and you've got you've got like you've got like
I drive.
Speaker 4 (35:11):
Yeah, I drive a truck, so I would be okay.
Speaker 3 (35:14):
She'd have to be in the flatbed though, right.
Speaker 4 (35:16):
Well, yeah, I mean it's you know, to pick them
up drug. So yeah, I'm not based on this videos
that she's taken of herself, so you know, obviously it's
she's I don't think she's disguising herself. She's you know
(35:37):
what a five hundred pound person looks like. So yeah,
there are certain spaces where if you weigh five hundred pounds,
and again sort of like the AI thing, if that's
your choice, if your choice is you know, I'm I'm
going to get myself to weigh a quarter ton and
that's the way I want to be. Okay, that's fine.
(35:58):
You get one life, you live it, and you know
there may be some medical issu. I'm sure people are
jumping up and down. Well it say it's not her fault,
blah blah. Okay, my guess is to a certain degree,
that is absolutely her fault. She's made choices that lead to,
you know, weighing in at that weight, but perhaps there's
other issues that contribute to that. Fine, I'm happy to
give that to you. But if the choice that you made,
(36:20):
then that means are certain spaces that you're not going
to be able to get into. When a guy shows
up in a subcompact, rolls down the window and you know,
lays the paper on you and goes, well, sister, you
are not getting in here.
Speaker 3 (36:36):
You know that?
Speaker 4 (36:37):
How can you fault the guy for that? Oh? My god,
it's true. Yeah, I don't you know.
Speaker 3 (36:43):
I mean he would't even unlocked the car, would even
lock the door.
Speaker 4 (36:46):
Well, hell no. And and you know, but everybody's a victim, right,
I mean, it's it's he should have showed up in
a mac truck just in case the gal or guy
or whatever that pinged him through some electronic app happened
to weigh a quarter ton all by her onesie, right,
(37:07):
I mean, he should have known that. To not know
that is to be discriminatory. To drive a vehicle that
will not comfortably accommodate a person who weighs a quarter
ton is purposeful and discriminatory and mean. And he should
have known that, and therefore it's all his fault, right.
It is not your fault for being outside well outside
(37:32):
the norm. Again, whether you can control it is not
the issue. If you weigh five hundred pounds, you are
unquestionably larger than what most vehicle designers have in mind
when they put in a bucket seat. But but I mean,
I think that's probably as far as we could go,
(37:54):
want to go, need to go with this episode of
this very fine program. It has not been terribly uplifting.
Folks have reached the point where they're willing to sell
everything they own to confine themselves to a boat and
then get kicked off that boat. None of that's good.
But I mean, if we're being honest, and that's what
we try to do on this program, we try to
(38:16):
be truthful, We try to be honest. None of that's good,
but we're not deterred. Right, We will come back next week.
We will try this again. Hopefully there will be something
that's good. If I were a betting man, I would
bet on it. But hope, you know, Hope remains alive
and springs eternal, and we'll see where that little springing
(38:39):
action lands next week. Right here on IP frequently.
Speaker 1 (38:46):
This has been IP frequently, once again, clearing a forest
of lies with the machete of truth.
Speaker 3 (38:55):
You're welcome
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