WEBVTT 1 00:00:16.160 --> 00:00:21.960 Oh you just from you are listening to the Age of Transitions. I'm your 2 00:00:21.960 --> 00:00:25.960 host, Aaron Franz, coming at you live this Sunday night, October fifteenth, 3 00:00:26.199 --> 00:00:31.519 twenty twenty three. Live every Sunday night from the facilities of oochelly dot 4 00:00:31.519 --> 00:00:36.960 Com ten pm to midnight Eastern First hour the Age of Transitions. Second hour 5 00:00:37.039 --> 00:00:39.920 Uncle the broadcast. However, tonight, if you're listening live, this is 6 00:00:39.960 --> 00:00:43.479 going to be I think this is the first time ever done this a one 7 00:00:43.520 --> 00:00:47.640 hour show where we just do the Age of Transitions. No Uncle show. 8 00:00:48.679 --> 00:00:52.039 Uncle's not up for it tonight, but we will be back next week. 9 00:00:52.079 --> 00:00:55.759 Don't worry with the regular two hour show this week, just the Age of 10 00:00:55.759 --> 00:01:00.719 Transitions. 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What I'm gonna grab here 20 00:01:37.200 --> 00:01:41.560 is a piece of Aaron's original music to go to break. Okay, we're 21 00:01:41.599 --> 00:01:44.560 in trouble now, yeah, well you know what, I'm gonna grab a 22 00:01:44.599 --> 00:01:49.239 couple of them. How about that? Then, yes, we're gonna grab 23 00:01:49.280 --> 00:01:51.959 a couple of those, go to break real fast. I'm gonna establish the 24 00:01:52.000 --> 00:02:27.039 phone lines and the age of transitions where return after this and t t t 25 00:02:28.400 --> 00:04:23.519 t T t t T don t t t t t t tttting don't don't 26 00:05:13.920 --> 00:06:41.600 at the age your phone We're back with the Age of transitions back, get 27 00:06:41.639 --> 00:06:46.360 the phone lines reconnected. Thank you for listening live on Sunday on a Chili 28 00:06:46.519 --> 00:06:49.279 dot com Again. Support the network if you can at a Chili dot com, 29 00:06:49.439 --> 00:06:54.839 keep the live shows going, keep the network growing. 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This 57 00:08:56.279 --> 00:09:00.720 is our time, this is our place where we're here, either we like 58 00:09:00.840 --> 00:09:05.519 it or not. And so many things happening. There's a lot on my 59 00:09:05.679 --> 00:09:09.279 mind, a lot that I think I'm going to talk about, lots of 60 00:09:09.399 --> 00:09:13.720 stuff that before the show, like even the whole week, and I kind 61 00:09:13.799 --> 00:09:16.440 of, you know, I've taken to reading a lot of news articles. 62 00:09:16.559 --> 00:09:22.399 Actually the past even year i've been doing this, I've been basically like reading 63 00:09:22.399 --> 00:09:26.440 a lot of news articles. Where before I didn't do so much. Now 64 00:09:26.480 --> 00:09:31.759 I do for what that's worth, and maybe well, I'm going to try 65 00:09:31.960 --> 00:09:43.759 to cover some newsworthy events, but also try to get the greater context as 66 00:09:43.799 --> 00:09:48.279 far as I'm concerned from what I can gather, and before we even start 67 00:09:48.399 --> 00:09:52.399 here, I think I'm going to mention some geopolitical things, and I will 68 00:09:52.519 --> 00:09:56.440 just say at the outset, geopolitics is not my specialty. I am, 69 00:09:56.519 --> 00:10:00.799 by no means an expert. I don't always know what I I'm talking about, 70 00:10:01.120 --> 00:10:05.480 So if you know, if I'm doing this at my own risk, 71 00:10:05.559 --> 00:10:09.600 but just you know anything, I'm not pretending to be like the world's foremost 72 00:10:09.639 --> 00:10:15.279 authority on anything I'm even saying here, So just just putting that out there. 73 00:10:15.440 --> 00:10:20.000 This is my take, my commentary on things, So we'll say that 74 00:10:22.399 --> 00:10:24.879 now. I'd also like to, at the outset, try to I don't 75 00:10:24.919 --> 00:10:28.679 know if I'm going to hit all these I'm certainly not going to hit them 76 00:10:28.759 --> 00:10:35.120 in any sort of I'm not going to be able to do any real justice 77 00:10:35.159 --> 00:10:39.759 to any of these given topics. But I just want to point out that 78 00:10:43.039 --> 00:10:50.080 things that I think are interesting and important to be noting within these news stories. 79 00:10:50.120 --> 00:10:58.519 But just you know, the overall moment we're in are the American Empire 80 00:10:58.879 --> 00:11:03.799 and its status we are, of course, assuming there is such a thing 81 00:11:03.840 --> 00:11:07.399 as an American empire, I think you can stay that there is certainly, 82 00:11:07.080 --> 00:11:13.000 America has been dominant geopolitically since the post war period. It's been the major 83 00:11:13.120 --> 00:11:16.080 player on the globe. Right, can we agree to that? I think 84 00:11:16.200 --> 00:11:22.519 so that status as the top dog on the world stage is in jeopardy. 85 00:11:22.720 --> 00:11:35.480 Right, So everything from America's influence geopolitically to its foreign policy choices, right, 86 00:11:37.360 --> 00:11:41.679 the foreign policy choices we've been making for decades now and going into the 87 00:11:41.759 --> 00:11:50.559 future. Can America keep up and keep on doing what it has been doing 88 00:11:50.720 --> 00:12:01.399 for some time now? Is it sustainable? The foreign policy almost schizophrenic foreign 89 00:12:01.559 --> 00:12:09.679 policy. It's if you're saying, like there's there's a clear and defined strategy 90 00:12:09.799 --> 00:12:15.000 to America's foreign policy. Again, that's where things get schizophrenic, like wait, 91 00:12:15.080 --> 00:12:18.039 what is the idea behind this? What are we going for? Like 92 00:12:18.120 --> 00:12:20.159 we're saying one thing, we're doing another. Like, so, yeah, 93 00:12:20.200 --> 00:12:28.000 there's there's that, There's been that the whole time. But that America's foreign 94 00:12:28.039 --> 00:12:31.440 policy, they're influenced on geopolitics, their placed in the world. Right, 95 00:12:31.679 --> 00:12:37.200 That's one thing I'd like to try to get to and and talk to the 96 00:12:37.360 --> 00:12:46.440 other thing. One of the other things is the propaganda matrix that we're within, 97 00:12:46.919 --> 00:12:58.679 and not just the the the understanding that we now must realize that we 98 00:12:58.919 --> 00:13:09.399 live in a multi polar propaganda matrix. It's not, I think, what 99 00:13:11.360 --> 00:13:20.600 most people want to defer to, and certainly like the contrarian, conspiratorial, 100 00:13:24.039 --> 00:13:33.879 anti establishment whatever the folks who are supposedly should be freethinkers, right, whatever 101 00:13:33.240 --> 00:13:37.399 that group is, or whatever groups of those people are, like the alternative 102 00:13:37.519 --> 00:13:43.039 right, the alternative crowd. I think we all want to defer to the 103 00:13:43.159 --> 00:13:48.559 simplistic concept that the propaganda we have to look out for is that of what 104 00:13:48.799 --> 00:13:56.279 the US government or something like that, or our establishment, the Western establishment, 105 00:13:56.399 --> 00:14:01.600 right, because that's because again I think part of the thinking is actually 106 00:14:01.720 --> 00:14:05.879 comes from the concept like, look, America has been the top dog geopolitically, 107 00:14:05.919 --> 00:14:09.559 They've done all this over the years, They've been tanged power. They 108 00:14:09.639 --> 00:14:16.320 are the ones who are pulling the strings or are causing the problems. That's 109 00:14:16.559 --> 00:14:22.039 therefore we look to only them when we're analyzing propaganda, because they are always 110 00:14:22.120 --> 00:14:28.519 the perpetrators, you know, just a very narrow minded view of propaganda, 111 00:14:28.759 --> 00:14:39.879 especially given the situation now where the ability to craft influence operations. If you're 112 00:14:39.919 --> 00:14:46.559 not up on that buzzword, get up on it. Sounds like a cool 113 00:14:46.600 --> 00:14:54.480 song. But anyway, influence operations is the term being thrown all about as 114 00:14:54.639 --> 00:15:01.559 as well it should. They can be crafted by even individuals at this point, 115 00:15:03.840 --> 00:15:16.840 So individuals, corporate players, mercenary outfits, governments, small and large, 116 00:15:16.879 --> 00:15:24.279 governments alike, terrorist groups, you name it, any sort of weird 117 00:15:24.399 --> 00:15:31.639 little pocket of somebody, or even like political activists can do this. And 118 00:15:33.440 --> 00:15:37.759 so just you know, name a special interest group of any given kind, 119 00:15:37.960 --> 00:15:46.000 they can craft influence operations easier than ever. And certainly when you're talking about 120 00:15:46.759 --> 00:15:52.960 governments trying to get their way and move their gender forward, so you have 121 00:15:52.080 --> 00:15:58.440 to look, you have to be considering all of them. Okay, So 122 00:15:58.639 --> 00:16:04.559 remember that. So that's a point. The propaganda matrix that we are now 123 00:16:04.720 --> 00:16:10.600 in, it's augmented greatly by the other thing I want to speak to, 124 00:16:10.720 --> 00:16:15.960 which is the technological aspects. As per usual here at the age of transitions, 125 00:16:17.000 --> 00:16:26.960 the technical technologic place that we're in is something that has to be remembered 126 00:16:27.000 --> 00:16:34.159 as well. And this in the context of propaganda. Yes, we have 127 00:16:34.240 --> 00:16:45.639 to take technology into account, but also different conflicts, military conflicts, different 128 00:16:45.720 --> 00:17:00.840 skirmishes, wars, a conflict of all kinds across the globe. That is, 129 00:17:03.559 --> 00:17:07.079 the technology has a lot to do with that. And I think one 130 00:17:07.160 --> 00:17:12.039 of a thing I was looking at this past week is instructive in that sense. 131 00:17:12.319 --> 00:17:22.160 And I saw an article about a drone that was outfitted to take out 132 00:17:22.160 --> 00:17:26.039 a tank and all it had to do was just the drone just dropped a 133 00:17:26.079 --> 00:17:30.359 grenade inside a tank and took out a tank. So this highly inexpensive and 134 00:17:30.519 --> 00:17:36.680 small drone able to take out a large, much more expensive, much heavier, 135 00:17:37.960 --> 00:17:45.480 serious piece of military equipment taken out by a seemingly far lesser piece of 136 00:17:45.559 --> 00:17:52.240 military technology, right, just a simple drone that you know, that sort 137 00:17:52.279 --> 00:18:02.799 of thing is really indicative of the world that we're moving into that any sort 138 00:18:02.839 --> 00:18:11.079 of established players, first of all, are likely not ready to deal with 139 00:18:11.279 --> 00:18:15.480 but second of all, will they even be able to get up to speed 140 00:18:15.640 --> 00:18:22.519 at all to catch up to this new world that we're in where technology is 141 00:18:22.720 --> 00:18:32.720 the factor and in all spheres military, economic, governmental influence operations. So 142 00:18:33.799 --> 00:18:41.079 swaying public opinion, technology very instrumental, very important in that regard. I'm 143 00:18:41.119 --> 00:18:45.200 getting a call, okay, so let's go to the caller. Caller, 144 00:18:45.880 --> 00:18:56.720 what's your name? Where you're calling from? Jimmy James calling Michigan. All 145 00:18:56.799 --> 00:19:03.240 right, Jimmy, what's up? Man? I was just suping of an 146 00:19:03.279 --> 00:19:08.079 age of transition that I've been going through for three years. Oh what's that? 147 00:19:12.160 --> 00:19:18.680 Where is that Bob Dylan song Murder Most Fouled? That thing? Yeah? 148 00:19:21.680 --> 00:19:25.920 Yeah, that thing? When it hit April first, twenty twenty, 149 00:19:26.039 --> 00:19:33.359 a few weeks after that pandemic stuff started. Man, that is a powerful 150 00:19:33.519 --> 00:19:41.119 song, and the people were commenting on it. What a fitting epithet for 151 00:19:41.319 --> 00:19:48.240 the twentieth century. I thought, huh, I guess it's that's when I 152 00:19:48.440 --> 00:19:53.720 just kind of started realizing that it's over with. There is no going back 153 00:19:53.799 --> 00:20:03.200 to the twentieth century. Okay. When people started speaking about that song in 154 00:20:03.279 --> 00:20:08.079 that way, is that what prompted you to think that? Well? That 155 00:20:08.279 --> 00:20:15.720 in reality, I mean, we're a quarter century into this century, and 156 00:20:17.000 --> 00:20:21.720 it's a different world, different people, and I what can I tell you. 157 00:20:21.880 --> 00:20:25.640 I've spent more of my life in the previous century than this century, 158 00:20:26.640 --> 00:20:32.599 and I just I don't know, I look at everything different now. Yeah, 159 00:20:32.880 --> 00:20:36.039 I just feel like we have to Jimmy, right, I mean I 160 00:20:36.119 --> 00:20:40.000 look being alive in that century and having come of age in a different time. 161 00:20:40.279 --> 00:20:42.559 It is it's a bit of culture shock for us at this point. 162 00:20:44.079 --> 00:20:45.480 You know what's interesting, Aaron, I want to ask you a question right 163 00:20:45.559 --> 00:20:49.119 here about this because Jimmy brings up music, and I also wanted to just 164 00:20:49.200 --> 00:20:52.119 throw it on the table and then I'll get out of this discussion. But 165 00:20:52.720 --> 00:20:59.680 you and I have children in a similar age group, So I forget how 166 00:20:59.759 --> 00:21:03.400 old your kids are. I'm sorry, that's okay, but I got a 167 00:21:03.519 --> 00:21:06.400 nine year old. I think you have one that's close to his age. 168 00:21:07.160 --> 00:21:11.039 Yeah, basically, your your son is right in between the ages of my 169 00:21:11.119 --> 00:21:15.440 two children. Yes, I knew that, like if we put them together 170 00:21:15.519 --> 00:21:18.400 in a house, it wouldn't be that disturbing. It would be like kind 171 00:21:18.440 --> 00:21:21.279 of like they could all sort of play together. So I was paying myself 172 00:21:21.279 --> 00:21:25.400 would work perfect. Okay, Well, here's the thing. I don't know 173 00:21:25.480 --> 00:21:30.680 if your kids are picking up on some of the old songs that were really 174 00:21:30.839 --> 00:21:33.400 actually kind of political and interesting. You remember, okay, so you remember 175 00:21:33.440 --> 00:21:38.240 Dennis Miller, right, Yes, remember at one point he had Everybody wants 176 00:21:38.279 --> 00:21:42.000 to Rule the World. You know, remember that song every talking about Tears 177 00:21:42.039 --> 00:21:45.839 for Fear? Yeah, of course, yeah, I know Tears for Fear 178 00:21:45.880 --> 00:21:48.839 as well. Dennis Miller did what with that song. He used to use 179 00:21:48.880 --> 00:21:52.720 it as as part of his show a long time ago, and really like 180 00:21:52.799 --> 00:21:56.359 in the bumpers or the intro or something, the intro. Yeah, there 181 00:21:56.440 --> 00:21:59.680 was this thing really was like when pool balls and one of them was like 182 00:21:59.720 --> 00:22:02.920 a Jimmy. Do you remember the Dennis Miller show when he had that and 183 00:22:03.000 --> 00:22:07.400 he was mister you know, super politics and weird sub references before Yeah, 184 00:22:07.480 --> 00:22:15.000 the NFL was that when he was an HBO. Yeah. Yeah, that's 185 00:22:15.039 --> 00:22:19.200 when he was pretty much king of the world and liberal back then, liberal 186 00:22:19.279 --> 00:22:25.920 and all politics, all politics all the time, right, Jimmy, Yeah, 187 00:22:26.119 --> 00:22:30.000 yeah, yeah, different from one of these today. But what's weird 188 00:22:30.400 --> 00:22:32.799 is that, like, okay, see, I forget about Dennis Miller, 189 00:22:32.839 --> 00:22:34.599 but the fact is that that song is what he chose to use. It 190 00:22:34.720 --> 00:22:41.000 was a heavy license feed at HBO paid and that song was pretty interesting politically, 191 00:22:41.000 --> 00:22:44.119 even though it's a weird pop song, and you know, it was 192 00:22:44.160 --> 00:22:45.880 one of those things that a guy like me would have ignored back then and 193 00:22:47.000 --> 00:22:52.200 so on and so forth. Are your kids singing songs like Frankie sings that 194 00:22:52.319 --> 00:22:55.680 song all the time. I don't know where they use it I don't know 195 00:22:55.839 --> 00:22:59.799 what's going on, but he sings that song and I went and I'm like, 196 00:23:00.079 --> 00:23:03.200 he thinks it's something new somehow, and I'm like, that is far 197 00:23:03.359 --> 00:23:07.680 from new. That's like, you know, twenty years before or thirty years 198 00:23:07.759 --> 00:23:12.920 even before you were born. That song, you're singing a very old song, 199 00:23:14.240 --> 00:23:18.000 and it's heavily loaded with politics. And I'm telling you metaphorically, it 200 00:23:18.240 --> 00:23:23.920 is the difference between the kids that are born on that side of the millennium 201 00:23:25.440 --> 00:23:29.480 and us, right there is the weirdness with which they look at our history, 202 00:23:29.599 --> 00:23:32.400 don't know that it's even history. Matter of fact, there's even a 203 00:23:32.480 --> 00:23:37.240 movement of foot among younger people that are supposedly adults to basically deny that anything 204 00:23:37.279 --> 00:23:41.599 that happened before they were born even matters at all. It's a weird thing. 205 00:23:41.680 --> 00:23:44.200 Yeah, but before I was born, so I don't care, it 206 00:23:44.240 --> 00:23:48.160 doesn't matter, is a common response. And I'm just saying this is the 207 00:23:48.279 --> 00:23:52.039 fact that, you know, those of us who are now realizing, yeah, 208 00:23:52.079 --> 00:23:56.319 we're the old people now, and it's a very strange world. And 209 00:23:56.400 --> 00:24:00.640 I wonder about that transition, cause you know, we're not dead yet. 210 00:24:00.680 --> 00:24:04.279 It's not like we're you know, existing on the level of numbers of the 211 00:24:04.559 --> 00:24:11.079 World War two generation or anything yet, but we're recognizing we're gonna get there. 212 00:24:11.279 --> 00:24:15.680 See, and with the way the world's changing, it's really strange. 213 00:24:15.720 --> 00:24:18.519 So it's interesting that Jimmy brings up the whole. Yeah, I thought about 214 00:24:18.640 --> 00:24:21.319 we can't go back to the twentieth century. I mean, he sounds sad 215 00:24:21.359 --> 00:24:25.880 about it. I mean we all know mathematically, realistically, you can't go 216 00:24:26.039 --> 00:24:30.559 back. But what is back there is just picked up maybe as tropes, 217 00:24:30.720 --> 00:24:36.920 as memes, as jokes, and nothing more the things that we lived through. 218 00:24:37.440 --> 00:24:40.480 So you put that in perspective, and that's a hell of a transition. 219 00:24:41.640 --> 00:24:44.279 So I find it interesting that he brought it up. So, yeah, 220 00:24:44.319 --> 00:24:45.920 first, do your kids like know some of those old songs and do 221 00:24:47.039 --> 00:24:48.039 that to you, Like every once in a while you go, I know 222 00:24:48.119 --> 00:24:52.480 what that is that came from this guys, And they go, really does 223 00:24:52.519 --> 00:24:56.359 that happen? One and two? You know, I wonder what you think 224 00:24:56.400 --> 00:25:00.880 about that, that sort of transition, and you and Jimmy starting to discuss 225 00:25:00.960 --> 00:25:02.960 that. So I just wanted to lay that there. And now I'm gonna 226 00:25:02.960 --> 00:25:07.599 shut up. Honestly, I haven't I haven't noticed it with my kids with 227 00:25:07.720 --> 00:25:12.079 the music so much. I'm not saying that hasn't happened, because what I 228 00:25:12.200 --> 00:25:19.240 have noticed is, you know, they go online and the meme culture for 229 00:25:19.400 --> 00:25:22.880 sure is something that they're up on, Like all you have to do is 230 00:25:22.960 --> 00:25:29.960 play roadblocks like as a little kid, and some derivative form of whatever meme, 231 00:25:30.200 --> 00:25:33.480 Like they know what doge is, right, They know all about doge, 232 00:25:33.640 --> 00:25:37.319 Like the favorite dog is a sheibu enu because doge, right. And 233 00:25:37.480 --> 00:25:40.920 then like you know, at their age level, they don't really know what 234 00:25:41.119 --> 00:25:45.759 doge coin even is, but they any like sort of like associated memes, 235 00:25:45.880 --> 00:25:51.039 like they they know kind of right, so that whatever meme culture includes, 236 00:25:51.160 --> 00:25:56.119 which is everything, they get a taste of that, and then they'll they'll 237 00:25:56.119 --> 00:25:59.839 also like streaming. They'll stream old stuff all the time, so I know 238 00:26:00.039 --> 00:26:03.240 they do that. And the other funny perspective to just throw into this one 239 00:26:03.319 --> 00:26:07.319 last thing is that you know, I'm seeing commercials now for Mickey Mouse is 240 00:26:07.319 --> 00:26:11.720 one hundred years old basically, which is another weird thing. And I always, 241 00:26:11.759 --> 00:26:15.720 I always have to stop myself from saying Mickey Mouse, mick a mouse, 242 00:26:15.279 --> 00:26:18.279 because that is the weird. One of the weird things that my daughter 243 00:26:18.319 --> 00:26:22.079 couldn't pronounce. When she was little. She was perfectly eloquent, but she 244 00:26:22.160 --> 00:26:26.000 had a couple of weird, quirky things, and one of them, when 245 00:26:26.079 --> 00:26:29.880 she was like two years old, was Mickey Mouse. Mick a mouse. 246 00:26:30.200 --> 00:26:36.039 Uh, Mickey Mouse is one hundred years old. Yeah, that's weird to 247 00:26:36.119 --> 00:26:40.799 me. In general, I remember hearing a story pop up saying that the 248 00:26:41.319 --> 00:26:47.799 uh, like the copyright on Mickey Mouse or the license or whatever was about 249 00:26:47.880 --> 00:26:52.200 to expire and that for some reason Disney wasn't going to be able to renew 250 00:26:52.279 --> 00:26:56.920 it. So that's at the point that that happens, anybody could use Mickey 251 00:26:56.200 --> 00:27:00.240 Mouse royalty free without having to worry about gags c by Disney, which before 252 00:27:00.319 --> 00:27:04.200 you would for sure. I don't know about the validy of that. It 253 00:27:04.279 --> 00:27:07.759 seemed almost too good to be true. I'm like, what, but I 254 00:27:07.839 --> 00:27:11.440 remember that being a recent story. I haven't looked into it further other than 255 00:27:11.599 --> 00:27:15.160 just somebody saying it and me reacting by saying almost like that's too much to 256 00:27:15.200 --> 00:27:22.400 even be true. But maybe you're right. Yeah, I mean that's a 257 00:27:22.440 --> 00:27:30.200 whole other interesting topic too. It's intellectual property and you know, intangible things, 258 00:27:30.359 --> 00:27:36.119 and seeing as how we're likely moving more into the intangible world. But 259 00:27:36.240 --> 00:27:41.440 each passing day, I don't think people have realized how important the virtual space 260 00:27:41.759 --> 00:27:45.200 is going to be. We're not quite there yet. I mean, it's 261 00:27:45.319 --> 00:27:48.880 like the infant version social media and online activity as we know it is like 262 00:27:49.000 --> 00:27:53.079 sort of like the gateway to that. But the real virtual spaces haven't hit 263 00:27:53.200 --> 00:27:57.799 yet, but they will. There's no doubt in my mind that that's going 264 00:27:57.920 --> 00:28:03.680 to happen. And also the convergence of all media is in the middle of 265 00:28:03.799 --> 00:28:07.480 happening as well. Like we're seeing like the movies starting to die, right, 266 00:28:08.039 --> 00:28:12.799 and we're seeing streaming being weird, and streaming having trouble with its whole 267 00:28:14.799 --> 00:28:18.079 economic model is not sound, and like, well, what the hell's gonna 268 00:28:18.079 --> 00:28:22.599 happen with that people? And people don't seem to notice that. What's occurring 269 00:28:23.559 --> 00:28:27.720 is the convergence of all media. So you've got like movie, film, 270 00:28:27.920 --> 00:28:34.960 TV, video games which are interactive. And also I would say, mix 271 00:28:36.039 --> 00:28:45.160 in social media, online activity, online communities, internet, so we're connected 272 00:28:45.279 --> 00:28:51.279 via a technology like individual people, right, mix all of that stuff together, 273 00:28:51.559 --> 00:28:55.799 and artificial intelligence, right, artificial intelligence and making the imagery that it's 274 00:28:55.880 --> 00:29:00.759 making now, and its ability like to take all of its training data and 275 00:29:00.880 --> 00:29:10.039 like remash it and people building prompts prompting AI to make new rehashes and amalgamations 276 00:29:10.240 --> 00:29:15.720 of stuff, of everything like mixed together. Nobody seems aware of it. 277 00:29:15.880 --> 00:29:22.680 But what's happening is all this stuff is mixing into one giant new form of 278 00:29:22.839 --> 00:29:26.759 media. Is what's going on. And it hasn't matured yet, but not 279 00:29:27.079 --> 00:29:33.799 long. I don't think it will be much longer where it really starts moving 280 00:29:33.839 --> 00:29:38.279 on quicker advances and we're starting toly, oh okay. And even in this 281 00:29:38.440 --> 00:29:42.200 past year with the AI, like, oh, we got these videos of 282 00:29:42.440 --> 00:29:48.119 the only thing AI was able to do was make you know, pick a 283 00:29:48.200 --> 00:29:53.279 famous person. Now they can be made to eat spaghetti and that's and even 284 00:29:53.440 --> 00:29:57.839 the imagery of you know, eminem or Joe Biden eating spaghetti was like really 285 00:29:57.960 --> 00:30:03.000 horrific and gusting looking. That was the beginning of this year. And now 286 00:30:03.039 --> 00:30:08.480 at the end of this year, I'm seeing like very artistic looking AI imagery, 287 00:30:08.680 --> 00:30:15.799 right, so it's getting better pretty quick. I'm not getting into the 288 00:30:15.880 --> 00:30:19.759 debate of is AI is it artwork, because like it doesn't matter. It's 289 00:30:21.000 --> 00:30:26.799 it's it's a tool that's improving, and it's one I think that's going to 290 00:30:26.880 --> 00:30:32.440 be used as, like, you know, an intermediary of people acting as 291 00:30:32.519 --> 00:30:40.279 these weird visual media DJs prompting this thing like oh yeah, mixed together Heathcliff 292 00:30:40.400 --> 00:30:48.480 the Cat, make him playing tennis with Tom Brady and make it happening on 293 00:30:48.640 --> 00:30:53.720 Elon Musk's Mars Colony base and make me a video and make this weird techno 294 00:30:55.640 --> 00:31:00.839 death metal music playing in the background and make it funny, right, And 295 00:31:00.960 --> 00:31:04.960 then I want to be able to be in the middle of that and play 296 00:31:06.039 --> 00:31:08.720 as Heathcliff and then my buddy on the other side on his computer, he's 297 00:31:08.720 --> 00:31:12.319 gonna be Tom Brady and we're gonna play a game and guess what it'll be 298 00:31:12.400 --> 00:31:19.160 able to do that. And so that that's what's happening with media now. 299 00:31:19.880 --> 00:31:22.920 And that's not even I mean, we're not even touching on the propaganda on 300 00:31:23.039 --> 00:31:26.400 the war, I mean whatever, you know, just the every day mundane 301 00:31:26.640 --> 00:31:30.799 like this is the media. This is what I do to relax is I 302 00:31:30.880 --> 00:31:33.319 watch TV? Like, well, yeah, that's what you used to do. 303 00:31:33.559 --> 00:31:37.960 Now. I have a question there, you know, what's that I 304 00:31:37.039 --> 00:31:45.240 agree with? I think they're just looking at someone's, someone's. The people 305 00:31:45.279 --> 00:31:49.079 will finally find one platform they like. But I think they've been doing that 306 00:31:49.240 --> 00:31:55.240 for a while, just like you said, like you remember Microsoft's one effort 307 00:31:55.359 --> 00:32:00.680 where they wanted, you know, the one system set up the computer, 308 00:32:00.079 --> 00:32:07.519 the cell phone and their xboxes. Oh yeah, Well, all the companies 309 00:32:07.599 --> 00:32:12.160 want a proprietary version of that. I think they're I think they're gonna find 310 00:32:12.200 --> 00:32:15.319 it's not going to work out quite like that, but everybody wishes that they 311 00:32:15.359 --> 00:32:21.759 could just build that. Everybody's trying to do that ray one guy's building Meta 312 00:32:22.000 --> 00:32:25.960 and then the other guy's building what X world. What are they are they 313 00:32:27.039 --> 00:32:31.799 waiting? Are they waiting for people to choose one? Or are I mean, 314 00:32:34.799 --> 00:32:38.359 because people don't really seem to be flocking to any one system. If 315 00:32:38.480 --> 00:32:44.279 they were smart, and they are and evil, I'm sure they'll come up 316 00:32:44.319 --> 00:32:49.759 with some kind of sharing deal. I'm sure it's like fast food. I'm 317 00:32:49.759 --> 00:32:52.960 sure it's like fast food, you know where it'll exist in some level, 318 00:32:53.680 --> 00:32:59.400 Like there's every town has a McDonald's, but some places it's better to put 319 00:32:59.480 --> 00:33:01.599 KFC, And with some groups of people, it'll be better to serve in 320 00:33:01.680 --> 00:33:06.480 KFC, and some places it'll be better to put the taco bell, although 321 00:33:06.599 --> 00:33:10.400 I absolutely deny the idea from demolition Man the taco bell will win the restaurant 322 00:33:10.480 --> 00:33:15.000 wards. But you know, but the thing is, I think all the 323 00:33:15.039 --> 00:33:17.440 flavors will at some point find a coexistence level. But the truth is, 324 00:33:19.079 --> 00:33:23.599 after a while, Burger King makes a big mac and McDonald's makes a whopper 325 00:33:23.839 --> 00:33:28.799 basically, and you know, one way or another, they're all making fries. 326 00:33:29.880 --> 00:33:31.720 And yeah, I think that's what's going to happen here. I think 327 00:33:31.759 --> 00:33:37.960 we're going to end up with the fast food world of online facilities that you'll 328 00:33:37.960 --> 00:33:42.559 be able to do everything through. YouTube is also counted as a social media 329 00:33:42.640 --> 00:33:45.880 network now yep, which is weird to me because to me it was just 330 00:33:46.000 --> 00:33:49.559 the place you go and you watch videos. But and yeah, you can 331 00:33:49.720 --> 00:33:52.839 use it for that, but you know, you watch and you create and 332 00:33:52.880 --> 00:33:54.599 people compete in there. But no, it's also a social network. It's 333 00:33:54.640 --> 00:34:00.480 also a crowd sourcing, fundraising, creating independent media. Do your job there 334 00:34:00.519 --> 00:34:05.519 all day. There are people doing that on Twitter now, way outside of 335 00:34:05.599 --> 00:34:09.159 Tucker Carlson, you know, one way or another, subscribe to me on 336 00:34:09.519 --> 00:34:15.840 on X right, he got the subscriptions. So it's weird you know, 337 00:34:15.000 --> 00:34:20.000 Patreon lets you upload video now their video platform as well, if you're on 338 00:34:20.079 --> 00:34:23.280 that. Honestly, that took way too long, but yes, it took 339 00:34:23.320 --> 00:34:27.679 way too long. But what I'm saying is that eventually it's like everybody gets 340 00:34:27.719 --> 00:34:30.840 French fries, Jimmy James, right, everybody gets French fries. Eventually, 341 00:34:31.079 --> 00:34:38.079 even Taco Bell, Yeah, I get you, even tackle though, Yeah, 342 00:34:38.159 --> 00:34:42.440 you're right, they do, right, Yeah, that might be their 343 00:34:42.559 --> 00:34:46.559 method. Maybe they'll just start saying, hey, but so let everyone come 344 00:34:46.639 --> 00:34:51.519 to our part, but we'll just share all the information anyway. Maybe, 345 00:34:52.360 --> 00:34:53.519 I mean, that's what it looks like, because eventually it's, like I 346 00:34:53.519 --> 00:34:58.599 said, it's cross pollinating. And Elon Musk is constantly telling you we're going 347 00:34:58.679 --> 00:35:02.679 to make Twitter basically into everything. Yes, you know, so they're like, 348 00:35:02.760 --> 00:35:06.760 we got video now, we got that. You can podcast on Twitter, 349 00:35:06.880 --> 00:35:08.719 by the way, you can podcast and broadcast. They have a radio 350 00:35:08.800 --> 00:35:14.000 setup now in Twitter spaces, so you can go right now and get a 351 00:35:14.039 --> 00:35:19.079 live space and have co hosts and take callers basically who are just connected through 352 00:35:19.119 --> 00:35:22.639 their devices on Twitter, and you can bring and let them do all that, 353 00:35:22.800 --> 00:35:27.840 and they're they're also your audience simultaneously. It's interesting. I mean, 354 00:35:27.920 --> 00:35:32.039 anybody who thought that the format of Twitter was some sort of like eternal format 355 00:35:32.119 --> 00:35:35.639 that was never going to go anywhere, never going to change, I think 356 00:35:36.280 --> 00:35:43.440 has a lack of foresight, to say the least. I mean, don't 357 00:35:43.480 --> 00:35:46.559 get me wrong, I would I want to be in line to be somebody 358 00:35:46.639 --> 00:35:51.159 to criticize Elon Musk. However, I mean, at the same time, 359 00:35:51.400 --> 00:35:57.159 like, if Twitter changes which it is, I mean, first of all, 360 00:35:57.280 --> 00:36:01.960 doesn't matter. I'm of the opinion not really everybody takes these things. 361 00:36:02.199 --> 00:36:07.320 I just tem difficulty taking any of these things seriously. Well, and here's 362 00:36:07.320 --> 00:36:10.400 that's probably a problem of mine, but I default to that. And here's 363 00:36:10.400 --> 00:36:14.400 the other thing. If you don't evolve, right, you become Kenny Rogers 364 00:36:14.519 --> 00:36:17.800 Roasters or whatever. You become the fast food restaurant that it doesn't matter you 365 00:36:17.920 --> 00:36:21.920 got fries, you didn't make it. You become MySpace in this space, 366 00:36:22.119 --> 00:36:24.920 right because my Space, a lot of people might forget, I know, 367 00:36:25.039 --> 00:36:30.559 Grandpa, MySpace. My Space was huge. It was the biggest thing in 368 00:36:30.599 --> 00:36:31.639 the world. It was going to be the place where you could put up 369 00:36:31.760 --> 00:36:36.440 anything you wanted. You could share your art, your music, your videos. 370 00:36:36.559 --> 00:36:38.599 Right, you could share yourself on there. It was social networking. 371 00:36:39.760 --> 00:36:45.079 Everything was MySpace at a certain point, and Facebook said, yeah, it 372 00:36:45.199 --> 00:36:47.719 was fun, right. The thing that cracked me up about that, Chuck 373 00:36:47.960 --> 00:36:52.159 is I would go like, there's a guy I worked with at the time, 374 00:36:52.800 --> 00:36:57.559 and he was all like, I don't know the way dressed and act, 375 00:36:57.719 --> 00:37:00.639 you know, you think it heavy heavy metal. And then I went 376 00:37:00.760 --> 00:37:05.960 to my Space once and all it was was old country music. I like, 377 00:37:06.320 --> 00:37:09.760 huh, yep, well, and there you saw the first version of 378 00:37:10.119 --> 00:37:14.000 you know it. It doesn't matter what somebody is in real life. They 379 00:37:14.079 --> 00:37:17.880 recreate themselves into something else online, which you know, you can easily see 380 00:37:17.960 --> 00:37:21.679 through YouTube. I mean, there are people that now have cameras in their 381 00:37:21.719 --> 00:37:25.719 houses all day long pretty much, and then they cut it down into different 382 00:37:25.800 --> 00:37:30.000 videos and that's what they release and that's how they pay for their home. 383 00:37:30.840 --> 00:37:34.079 Yes, which is wild. There are guys that like, what will happen 384 00:37:34.119 --> 00:37:37.480 if we fill our entire you know, giant, huge vault ceiling living room 385 00:37:37.599 --> 00:37:43.400 with balloons? You know, yes, okay, and the whole house is 386 00:37:43.480 --> 00:37:49.039 devoted to like it's a YouTube house. Yes, it's an Instagram house now, 387 00:37:49.320 --> 00:37:52.599 you know, like everything in the house is on Instagram stuff like that, 388 00:37:52.360 --> 00:37:55.239 and and do these people live there and do this? I mean, 389 00:37:55.360 --> 00:37:59.920 yeah, today we're gonna find that happens. Yeah, today we're gonna find 390 00:37:59.960 --> 00:38:01.679 it what happens when you fill your kitchen with shaving cream? You know, 391 00:38:01.880 --> 00:38:07.880 like yeah, and you could you could certainly argue that that whole phenomenon was 392 00:38:07.920 --> 00:38:12.559 something that was born out of the old legacy media too, Like you know, 393 00:38:12.719 --> 00:38:20.639 you it's it's like the new iteration of Viva labam right, which itself 394 00:38:21.079 --> 00:38:24.159 was also influenced by previous shows, you know, derivative back and back and 395 00:38:24.239 --> 00:38:29.679 back derivative of like Tom Green and Jack Ash And then before that it was 396 00:38:29.800 --> 00:38:31.480 you know, if you go all the way back to first reality show again 397 00:38:31.960 --> 00:38:35.679 was real People right where it was like we're just going to go and find 398 00:38:35.719 --> 00:38:39.760 real people that are kind of extraordinary in a way, and people went, 399 00:38:39.880 --> 00:38:44.679 wow, I mean, other people will watch regular people on TV because there's 400 00:38:44.719 --> 00:38:47.159 something odd about them. And in a way, that turns into Jerry Springer, 401 00:38:47.159 --> 00:38:51.480 which turns into you know, because that came from Phil Donahu. And 402 00:38:51.599 --> 00:38:55.280 then what happens when Haraldo gets into a fight and Morton Downey Juni fights Nazis 403 00:38:57.000 --> 00:38:59.719 in a fake incident in an airport, and so on and so forth. 404 00:38:59.800 --> 00:39:02.880 Right, remember that he had he spray painted himself with a swastik on his 405 00:39:04.000 --> 00:39:07.679 head. It was hilarious, you know. Or Aldo got his nose broken 406 00:39:07.800 --> 00:39:12.440 by the UH. I don't know the uh. What is it? The 407 00:39:13.079 --> 00:39:15.480 war for Aryan rights or whatever war? I forget what it was, but 408 00:39:15.920 --> 00:39:20.960 the Aryan group that was sitting there literally with the swastika bands on, and 409 00:39:21.079 --> 00:39:23.519 all that was was one of those things where the swastika was like spinning the 410 00:39:23.599 --> 00:39:28.000 wrong direction, like it was like drawn the wrong way or something. Oh 411 00:39:28.079 --> 00:39:30.679 yeah, there was that too, the spray painted swastika on Moreton, because 412 00:39:30.760 --> 00:39:35.920 clearly he did it in a mirror. And that's how you're gonna put your 413 00:39:35.920 --> 00:39:40.119 swastika going the wrong way, because it looks right in the mirror. But 414 00:39:43.880 --> 00:39:46.280 I remember that, I remember actually Guar made a joke about that, I 415 00:39:46.360 --> 00:39:50.039 think in the song or of course, but why not, you know, 416 00:39:50.280 --> 00:39:53.039 And and then of course Jimmy Swagger against you. You know, all that 417 00:39:53.360 --> 00:39:59.599 going on and the downfall of the televangelist, which televangelism was a huge thing, 418 00:39:59.679 --> 00:40:02.280 and that's it still exists, that, yes, yes it does, 419 00:40:02.599 --> 00:40:07.239 and that's also getting influenced by the digital world and going in a whole new 420 00:40:07.360 --> 00:40:09.840 direction, right, right, kind of I mean new, not new, 421 00:40:10.079 --> 00:40:14.239 that's what I mean. Right, Peter Popov will still sell you as water, 422 00:40:14.360 --> 00:40:16.480 but some of these preachers are looking at cryptocurrency. I mean, you 423 00:40:16.559 --> 00:40:21.679 know, it's a thing just saying no. But it's just wild to take 424 00:40:21.719 --> 00:40:24.119 a look at how these things get remixed and reissued. But again, someday 425 00:40:24.199 --> 00:40:30.400 you might just be Kenny Rogers Roasters because even if you got fries, doesn't 426 00:40:30.440 --> 00:40:34.519 matter. Nathan's hot Dogs was going to be like a big national chain of 427 00:40:34.599 --> 00:40:37.400 restaurants at one point, and you know Nathan's famous from Coney Island, Da 428 00:40:37.480 --> 00:40:40.000 Da Da Da Da, And yeah, it kind of worked for a little 429 00:40:40.000 --> 00:40:44.639 bit, but it went away eventually. Some of the stuff that looks like 430 00:40:44.719 --> 00:40:46.960 it's well established that is the big thing, and all that good stuff. 431 00:40:47.440 --> 00:40:52.039 I mean, I'm some shocked still that Subway Restaurants exist as they do and 432 00:40:52.159 --> 00:40:54.559 have grown from this little company in the yea. I know, they were 433 00:40:54.639 --> 00:40:58.760 just as little tiny thing in Connecticut and quite honestly, they were one of 434 00:40:58.800 --> 00:41:01.280 the cheapest franchises you good bye at one point, and that's how they grew 435 00:41:01.440 --> 00:41:06.239 exponentially. Their strengths was the cheapness of it. Yes, it was so 436 00:41:06.480 --> 00:41:09.519 cheap. You know, like you needed a million dollars years ago, you 437 00:41:09.599 --> 00:41:14.360 needed a million dollars for Duncan Donuts, you needed two million for for uh 438 00:41:14.840 --> 00:41:17.760 A McDonald's to establish a brand new franchise, But for subway you could do 439 00:41:17.800 --> 00:41:24.639 it for like thirty grand. Yeah. Yeah. When in the Navy and 440 00:41:24.719 --> 00:41:30.239 I was leaving, they gave me this book from Navy blue to corporate grade 441 00:41:30.880 --> 00:41:37.280 and they had an ad buy your own subways franchise for ten grand. Yeah. 442 00:41:37.519 --> 00:41:39.440 Oh, and they were given discounts to veterans too to buy a big 443 00:41:39.519 --> 00:41:43.000 Oh. Yeah, I guess that's it. Yeah, that's right. I 444 00:41:43.119 --> 00:41:46.679 call that was so cheap. Yeah, I didn't think of that. Yeah. 445 00:41:46.760 --> 00:41:50.440 What they did is they gave a discount to veterans. And if you 446 00:41:50.519 --> 00:41:53.679 wanted to co brand, like say, you own a franchise that could support 447 00:41:53.880 --> 00:41:59.159 a small modular subway. How do I know this because I established one and 448 00:41:59.280 --> 00:42:02.480 an Exxon where we put one in just to see what would happen. And 449 00:42:02.760 --> 00:42:06.880 I told them, despite all their research, I said, this will not 450 00:42:07.000 --> 00:42:10.320 work in this area. And I was correct, But they re insisted, 451 00:42:10.400 --> 00:42:13.800 no, We've already done all the surveys, and we pay people to do 452 00:42:13.880 --> 00:42:15.440 this. And I'm like, you could have given me a hundred bucks and 453 00:42:15.440 --> 00:42:17.800 I would tell you not to do it, because this is what's going to 454 00:42:17.840 --> 00:42:22.760 happen. And it happened exactly like I said. But the thing is, 455 00:42:23.159 --> 00:42:27.239 I did put it in though, as per the orders of the franchise owner, 456 00:42:27.840 --> 00:42:30.119 I established it, and it was about ten grand to establish a module. 457 00:42:31.000 --> 00:42:35.840 And they also had mentioned to me that if I was a veteran myself, 458 00:42:36.679 --> 00:42:39.679 that I could establish one for cheaper, like normally cost thirty or thirty 459 00:42:39.719 --> 00:42:44.159 five grand to establish one a freestanding one, but I could get it cheaper 460 00:42:44.159 --> 00:42:45.519 as a veteran. So I guarantee that's why they gave you that book, 461 00:42:45.599 --> 00:42:50.760 dude. Ten grand. That is the modular price which they would charge to, 462 00:42:51.519 --> 00:42:55.199 yeah, a veteran, to encourage veteran ownership. It's interesting because this 463 00:42:55.320 --> 00:42:58.800 kind of gets that one of the points I was wanting to make was that 464 00:43:00.800 --> 00:43:06.079 the cheaper, easier solution is often the one that ends up on top, 465 00:43:06.440 --> 00:43:08.639 right, And I think that's going to be more and more the case on 466 00:43:08.760 --> 00:43:16.079 the technological military, for sure. At every angle, like whoever can come 467 00:43:16.159 --> 00:43:22.800 in and like cut costs and also exploit the vulnerabilities of these big, lumbering 468 00:43:22.880 --> 00:43:29.280 behemoths of the establishment. And you know, you name who the establishment is 469 00:43:29.400 --> 00:43:32.960 in any given arena, they're going to be toppled by these little guys coming 470 00:43:34.039 --> 00:43:40.280 in doing stuff on the cheap and being creative about how they're running their operations, 471 00:43:40.519 --> 00:43:47.000 be those military operations, you know, counterinsurgency operations, propaganda operations, 472 00:43:47.599 --> 00:43:52.920 or the operation of you know, establishing your influence across the world. We're 473 00:43:52.960 --> 00:43:59.239 going to do it by offering cheaper, better, faster solutions. And certainly 474 00:43:59.360 --> 00:44:04.760 speed is is attained by you know, new technologies which are always changing. 475 00:44:04.880 --> 00:44:08.159 So staying up on that being to be able to be clever enough to stay 476 00:44:08.199 --> 00:44:15.119 on the forefront of that, not be married to your old ways, your 477 00:44:15.119 --> 00:44:19.639 old established ways of doing things. And in the military sense, I definitely 478 00:44:19.679 --> 00:44:23.239 see, like you know, the F thirty five is like the perfect example 479 00:44:23.440 --> 00:44:30.960 of the old military establishment and the old even geo foreign policy establishment in the 480 00:44:30.159 --> 00:44:35.719 US, like from the post war period to now you could symbolize it in 481 00:44:35.800 --> 00:44:45.280 the F thirty five and then going forward, you've got you've got the tech 482 00:44:45.400 --> 00:44:51.599 establishment, Silicon Valley, and yes, the China doing what it does, 483 00:44:51.760 --> 00:44:59.039 but AI and all the converging technologies there, that is, you know, 484 00:44:59.440 --> 00:45:07.679 the way forward. Uh, I don't know, it's just that's that's kind 485 00:45:07.719 --> 00:45:09.440 of part of it. But anyway, Jimmy, what will say you to 486 00:45:09.559 --> 00:45:16.639 everything? Well, it's interesting you say that. May Brousse has said a 487 00:45:16.760 --> 00:45:22.239 long long time ago, the American people will always choose to cheap, the 488 00:45:22.320 --> 00:45:27.199 easy, and the vulgar. Sure, yeah, of course they will. 489 00:45:27.440 --> 00:45:31.440 Why wouldn't they. It's not just the American people though, this is like 490 00:45:31.519 --> 00:45:37.000 a global thing. It's just about what's economical, what's smart, and and 491 00:45:37.159 --> 00:45:43.039 what's what is a waste? What's wasteful? Like I think everything wasteful is 492 00:45:43.199 --> 00:45:45.519 now not only being called into question, and you could do that on the 493 00:45:45.599 --> 00:45:50.639 ecological side of the coin too. It's like, well, it's uh, 494 00:45:52.000 --> 00:45:54.360 is the way we've been doing things really the best way? Are there other 495 00:45:54.480 --> 00:46:01.239 alternatives? There's actually exploration in that regard, which is fascinating. For one, 496 00:46:01.480 --> 00:46:07.840 it remains to be seen what will come of that. But you know, 497 00:46:07.079 --> 00:46:12.960 what is actually the most practical, least wasteful way to do things? 498 00:46:13.719 --> 00:46:17.719 Certainly that was not the way we were going about business in the previous couple 499 00:46:17.960 --> 00:46:23.000 decades, but the previous even century. I guess you could say, I 500 00:46:23.079 --> 00:46:29.480 mean waste got to be the establishment on the corporate side of things. You 501 00:46:29.960 --> 00:46:32.280 build crap that breaks planned ops, the lescens, that's the way you turn 502 00:46:32.320 --> 00:46:38.920 a big profit. In the government sense, the military industrial establishment. Yeah, 503 00:46:39.000 --> 00:46:43.000 who cares if we dump a bunch of money into this project like the 504 00:46:43.119 --> 00:46:47.679 F thirty five. It creates jobs, it's good for the economy. You 505 00:46:47.760 --> 00:46:52.239 know, that's all well and good, But what's it do with you create 506 00:46:52.400 --> 00:46:57.360 like this pile of trash. Literally, you make a big pile of junk 507 00:46:57.840 --> 00:47:01.119 that wasn't there before you started this project. That's one problem. You got 508 00:47:01.239 --> 00:47:06.119 to clean that. And then the other problem is, well, what if 509 00:47:06.199 --> 00:47:08.880 somebody comes in that's clever enough. It doesn't take a whole lot of smarts 510 00:47:09.239 --> 00:47:14.000 to come up with a more efficient way to do things, right, How 511 00:47:14.039 --> 00:47:16.360 would somebody not? How could you not come up with a better way to 512 00:47:16.440 --> 00:47:21.360 do things? And then you got like again with the American military establishment. 513 00:47:21.440 --> 00:47:24.719 They're always whining about the budget, it's not big enough, that we need 514 00:47:24.840 --> 00:47:30.360 more money, and all the while they're like so wasteful and they bring up 515 00:47:30.440 --> 00:47:35.960 actual points, like they can't keep up with munitions, they can't even manufacture 516 00:47:36.119 --> 00:47:42.760 enough regular sort of just things like making things like that, but they can 517 00:47:42.920 --> 00:47:46.159 dump a bunch of money into all sorts of other wasteful stuff. So clearly 518 00:47:46.280 --> 00:47:51.320 there's a lot of issues that aren't going to be solved anytime soon. There's 519 00:47:51.320 --> 00:47:54.039 a lot of lip service like yeah, we're working on we're changing things. 520 00:47:55.599 --> 00:47:59.199 It just seems like it's going to be a story of too little, too 521 00:47:59.320 --> 00:48:01.800 late. Although you have to look on the other side of things and you're 522 00:48:01.840 --> 00:48:07.400 like, ooh, big scary China. You know, they're no, they've 523 00:48:07.440 --> 00:48:14.079 got problems of their own in terms of being wasteful and you know, entrenched 524 00:48:14.320 --> 00:48:19.960 established interests. I mean, their entire government is just one. So you 525 00:48:20.039 --> 00:48:22.000 know, like I guess that's the positive angle. Things like, yeah, 526 00:48:22.280 --> 00:48:25.760 we're bad and we do a lot of stupid stuff and we're wasteful, and 527 00:48:27.440 --> 00:48:30.920 you know, it looks like we could get taken advantage of but by who 528 00:48:30.639 --> 00:48:34.159 this clown over on the other side of the world. I mean, yeah, 529 00:48:34.239 --> 00:48:37.119 maybe it wouldn't take a whole lot, but they got to get their 530 00:48:37.199 --> 00:48:42.559 act together too, And I guess the good aspect of this is everybody's kind 531 00:48:42.599 --> 00:48:45.559 of doing a lot of stuff wrong. That's good, it's bad. It's 532 00:48:45.599 --> 00:48:51.480 where we're at, and maybe we're setting things up for a situation where the 533 00:48:51.559 --> 00:48:55.320 machines just get developed to a point where they come and they just start automating 534 00:48:55.400 --> 00:49:00.119 and take control of everything, And maybe that's good. Maybe it's good that 535 00:49:00.679 --> 00:49:07.440 machines start taking control of stuff, because you know, it's like I say 536 00:49:07.480 --> 00:49:10.280 this all the time, like half of it seems like most jobs out there 537 00:49:10.440 --> 00:49:15.079 just jobs that robots had ought to be doing. Anyway, it's not humane 538 00:49:15.719 --> 00:49:21.079 what we're the way we're spending our time. We're we're doing these tasks that 539 00:49:21.519 --> 00:49:25.719 were made their machine tasks, so of course a robot's can come in and 540 00:49:25.840 --> 00:49:30.320 start doing it. I mean you could expand that to the larger sense of 541 00:49:30.480 --> 00:49:35.960 like what are we doing? What is our society? What is our economy? 542 00:49:36.559 --> 00:49:39.960 Like it's it's just this thing that's running and it needs like it needs 543 00:49:40.000 --> 00:49:43.679 certain inputs, right, it needs it needs more money to keep out. 544 00:49:43.679 --> 00:49:46.360 It can't go broke. It's we've got can't go in the red, you 545 00:49:46.440 --> 00:49:49.639 gotta stay in the green. We gotta figure out a way to turn a 546 00:49:49.679 --> 00:49:52.480 profit. We we got, we got paid. The debt. We gotta 547 00:49:52.559 --> 00:49:55.119 we can't expand the debt. We gotta watch out about the debt. What 548 00:49:55.239 --> 00:49:59.400 do we do about the debt? Well, let's uh, let's just dump 549 00:49:59.400 --> 00:50:02.519 a bunch of more money into the military, because we need the economy to 550 00:50:02.599 --> 00:50:07.360 be boosted to save everything. But when we do that, when we create 551 00:50:07.440 --> 00:50:09.039 all this money to do that, we just made more debt. But we 552 00:50:09.159 --> 00:50:12.079 had to, so there's no way out of it, you know, I 553 00:50:12.159 --> 00:50:22.400 mean, like, what the hell is this stupidity? Exactly? Yeah, 554 00:50:22.480 --> 00:50:27.159 I mean there's there's I there's no way none of this makes any sense. 555 00:50:27.559 --> 00:50:30.079 Nobody's gonna ever like fool me into thinking that it should, because I know 556 00:50:30.239 --> 00:50:37.480 that it doesn't any You can pick anything apart again, like we we can't 557 00:50:37.519 --> 00:50:42.280 go into debt, but we have to go into debt. Like I don't 558 00:50:42.320 --> 00:50:45.320 know, it's like there, I guess there's no way out at this point. 559 00:50:45.400 --> 00:50:49.000 We just kind of have to charge forward. But it might be fun, 560 00:50:49.039 --> 00:50:51.920 it might be interesting, so you know, why not let's make it 561 00:50:52.039 --> 00:50:55.800 happen. I'm into it. Let's let's let's see what occurs. I'm not 562 00:50:55.880 --> 00:51:05.320 worried. Jimmy beck to you, Yeah, a lot of debt. I 563 00:51:05.360 --> 00:51:10.239 don't know, now, thirty six trillion, Yeah, how do you even 564 00:51:10.320 --> 00:51:15.119 keep up? And it's debt that's incurred as soon as you make that money 565 00:51:15.239 --> 00:51:17.199 to do whatever it's It's like, I don't see how it's even possible to 566 00:51:17.280 --> 00:51:22.880 pay back. Like maybe I'm maybe I'm missing something, but my understanding is 567 00:51:22.079 --> 00:51:28.079 like once that debt is created, you can't pay it off, like because 568 00:51:28.159 --> 00:51:34.199 because just all money that's it's being created and it's instantly attached debt to it, 569 00:51:34.679 --> 00:51:37.440 right, And maybe I'm wrong about that. Maybe I'm being ignorant on 570 00:51:37.559 --> 00:51:39.960 this. Maybe it's possible to do it, but I didn't. I don't 571 00:51:40.000 --> 00:51:49.400 think it is. No one's done it, so it must be pretty difficult. 572 00:51:50.679 --> 00:51:52.679 I mean, the only way you could do it is say it it's 573 00:51:52.760 --> 00:51:55.079 gone, Like let's let's just delete it, Like I think that's how it'll 574 00:51:55.119 --> 00:51:58.559 work out, Like let's get on our computer and just make it go away. 575 00:51:59.079 --> 00:52:00.800 Like all we gotta do is like type it in computer that's not there 576 00:52:00.840 --> 00:52:06.079 anymore. And it isn't Fight Club solution without the boobs, you know, 577 00:52:06.239 --> 00:52:08.000 like just wipe all the debt out, none that's gone. There, we 578 00:52:08.119 --> 00:52:15.239 go that was easy that we old last I checked. I mean, like 579 00:52:15.480 --> 00:52:19.639 ten twenty years ago, we old China five trullion. I'm sure it's ten 580 00:52:19.920 --> 00:52:23.119 right now. I would say, you know what, thanks for the COVID, 581 00:52:23.320 --> 00:52:27.360 fat and al. You know what, we're even Stevens right, there's 582 00:52:27.480 --> 00:52:31.199 ten trullion. Yeah, yeah, oh yeah, yeah. Okay. So 583 00:52:31.280 --> 00:52:37.320 you're saying, broker a deal between the debtor and the debt. Eve like, 584 00:52:37.360 --> 00:52:39.800 hey, look, we've got a mutual interest in making this debt disappear. 585 00:52:40.800 --> 00:52:44.920 Let's do that. Let's write up this contract that says it's that's gone. 586 00:52:45.079 --> 00:52:47.880 So since we owe you money and you screwed us, here's our bill 587 00:52:49.039 --> 00:52:52.480 for you screwing us. Take it off of what we owe you. Yeah, 588 00:52:52.519 --> 00:52:58.719 it's an interesting that's an interesting way to get that solved along behind the 589 00:52:58.840 --> 00:53:02.800 scenes. Yeah, would do behind stands so that everyone that's you know, 590 00:53:05.000 --> 00:53:08.519 but yeah, I would be calling up everyone's saying yeah remember w W two, 591 00:53:09.519 --> 00:53:15.199 Yeah, we're canceling your debt. Yeah. I mean, it's it's 592 00:53:15.360 --> 00:53:19.880 not that crazy of an idea, honestly, because like it might get to 593 00:53:19.920 --> 00:53:25.079 a situation where everybody again, because it becomes obvious that the debt can't be 594 00:53:25.159 --> 00:53:30.840 paid off in like a monetary sense, like we just gathered the money up 595 00:53:30.880 --> 00:53:35.079 and paid Like that's not how it works, clearly. So it becomes about 596 00:53:35.920 --> 00:53:43.239 the deals and like brokering these like deals between large actors, large debt holders 597 00:53:43.320 --> 00:53:45.599 and things like that. But like, hey, look, in the interest 598 00:53:45.679 --> 00:53:49.840 of you know, filling the blank world peace, let's say let's make a 599 00:53:49.960 --> 00:53:53.239 deal that makes this debt just disappear. And you know, we'll get our 600 00:53:53.280 --> 00:53:58.039 big shot lawyers to write up the contract and you know, we'll sign it 601 00:53:58.119 --> 00:54:01.800 and we'll make a big it'll be a big to do. Everybody can get 602 00:54:02.039 --> 00:54:07.159 happy about there's peace on earth or something at least for two seconds. And 603 00:54:07.599 --> 00:54:13.280 you know, I wouldn't doubt that things happen like that, or another side 604 00:54:13.320 --> 00:54:15.920 of it is, you know, just some sort of crazy event happens where 605 00:54:16.960 --> 00:54:24.039 the computers are jammed up by you know the concept of a cyber terrorist attack, 606 00:54:24.400 --> 00:54:30.639 where just all the information is lost on the system that was you know, 607 00:54:30.800 --> 00:54:37.159 the the purview of you know whatever central bank or whatever. It got 608 00:54:37.280 --> 00:54:40.400 messed up so bad that the records are all gone. Like well, I 609 00:54:40.480 --> 00:54:45.960 guess that debt and everything, I guess all that money, all those economic 610 00:54:45.039 --> 00:54:51.280 things. It's just it just evaporated instantly there. I guess we got to 611 00:54:51.639 --> 00:54:54.360 pick up the pieces and start over. And then that means that all that 612 00:54:54.519 --> 00:54:59.440 debt that was there, well that's gone now. And that brings up all 613 00:54:59.440 --> 00:55:01.199 sorts of quiet, just doesn't it. But you know what, I do 614 00:55:01.679 --> 00:55:05.719 have another question. I'm acting like a caller now, sorry, but I 615 00:55:05.800 --> 00:55:08.920 have another question about this, this debt resolution idea. Right, imagine this 616 00:55:09.000 --> 00:55:14.199 for a minute. This leads to a lot of almost funny but really great 617 00:55:14.360 --> 00:55:16.440 things that could happen where it's like, okay, so somebody comes to the 618 00:55:16.559 --> 00:55:20.280 United States and says, hey, look, you know what you charge China 619 00:55:20.360 --> 00:55:24.239 for ruining your country? Okay, cool? Remember when you ruined our country 620 00:55:24.239 --> 00:55:29.800 about fifty years ago, America? And I guarantee you you put a guy 621 00:55:29.920 --> 00:55:30.760 like me in there. I'm gonna look over and go, okay, what 622 00:55:30.880 --> 00:55:35.199 was the name of your country? Right? Right? So what's that twenty 623 00:55:35.239 --> 00:55:38.840 bucks? And they're gonna get pissed. I mean, I'm just saying at 624 00:55:38.880 --> 00:55:43.360 a certain point, somebody's gonna go, look, it wasn't worth that much 625 00:55:43.400 --> 00:55:46.239 to begin with, all right, you know, and I'll pay you something. 626 00:55:46.400 --> 00:55:50.599 But I mean twenty. How about fifty fifty I'm just because I'm a 627 00:55:50.719 --> 00:55:53.519 nice guy, fifty bucks, you know what I'm saying, Like that will 628 00:55:53.639 --> 00:56:00.239 happen where somebody will undervalue something that just to a lot of I'm like, 629 00:56:00.480 --> 00:56:02.679 can you imagine that for a minute though, where it's like, you know, 630 00:56:04.559 --> 00:56:07.000 somebody goes, hey, you know that little nation that was just outside 631 00:56:07.039 --> 00:56:09.199 of Paraguay, I'm picking a place at random, remember that place, and 632 00:56:09.360 --> 00:56:13.880 somebody, how about a hundred bucks? Wait, we could send in those 633 00:56:13.960 --> 00:56:19.599 guys to the praise trunk sassets'll come back. So yeah, that that that 634 00:56:19.719 --> 00:56:24.039 whole island was worth ten dollars, right, holy crap. You figure it 635 00:56:24.119 --> 00:56:29.400 out either way, though, depending on the situation. We send the guys 636 00:56:29.400 --> 00:56:32.239 who evaluated, you know, the space and his penthouse for the guys that 637 00:56:32.320 --> 00:56:36.880 we were sending them to negotiate where they did damage us. Hey, listen, 638 00:56:36.920 --> 00:56:37.800 it's worth eighty billion, and they go, no, it's not. 639 00:56:37.920 --> 00:56:40.440 It's worth like ten billion at most. They go, no, you don't 640 00:56:40.440 --> 00:56:44.519 realize the size of the country, do you. So you send those guys 641 00:56:44.599 --> 00:56:47.599 to negotiate on our behalf, and then you interject your own guys that will 642 00:56:47.639 --> 00:56:51.280 go, yeah, ten bucks ten bucks. I know it's ten square miles. 643 00:56:51.320 --> 00:56:52.119 What a dollar a mile? What do you think? Come on? 644 00:56:52.559 --> 00:56:54.760 How much? How much would I pay a trucker? Come on? What 645 00:56:54.880 --> 00:56:58.599 are we talking to you? Thirty cents a mile? Eighty cents a mile, 646 00:56:58.719 --> 00:57:04.360 let's go. I mean, really, this would be hilarious to watch 647 00:57:04.480 --> 00:57:07.400 people evaluate and devalue stuff. How many dead bodies? All right, look, 648 00:57:07.440 --> 00:57:12.159 our people are worth five times more than yours. How about we just 649 00:57:12.239 --> 00:57:14.800 send ten people to you. Okay, we'll send you a couple of prisoners 650 00:57:14.840 --> 00:57:17.360 to call them a bonus. You know, we don't just don't want to 651 00:57:17.400 --> 00:57:20.880 house them here, so we'll send them to you. And you got extra 652 00:57:20.960 --> 00:57:22.719 people, they go, we replace them. I mean, think about the 653 00:57:22.760 --> 00:57:30.920 negotiations that could go about value. I mean, just craziness could consume no 654 00:57:30.199 --> 00:57:36.360 or But yeah, I'm tiring, I mean, I just I'm just I'm 655 00:57:36.440 --> 00:57:39.159 just begging the question, like, isn't the whole thing crazy? Like so 656 00:57:39.440 --> 00:57:45.159 how I mean, we've gotten into so many situations that you just don't get 657 00:57:45.199 --> 00:57:49.840 yourself out of. There's no like logical just like, oh, we follow 658 00:57:49.920 --> 00:57:53.000 this set of instructions and you undo all of you know, the US government's 659 00:57:53.079 --> 00:57:59.119 debt right, like, there's no such a thing. Again, if you 660 00:57:59.159 --> 00:58:00.760 want to look at us, you got to be creative to figure out a 661 00:58:00.840 --> 00:58:05.599 way to tackle the issue. We'll send your ten subway franchises, free your 662 00:58:05.679 --> 00:58:10.039 charge. There you go, there, you go pretty good. There's some 663 00:58:10.280 --> 00:58:15.119 countries that might take that deal. They might because they don't have any you 664 00:58:15.159 --> 00:58:17.239 know, like all good for a tourists. Perfect. I'm just saying, 665 00:58:17.840 --> 00:58:21.360 you know, and like, look, subways a cheating You want a McDonald's. 666 00:58:21.400 --> 00:58:23.119 We can only send one, but we can send five, six subways, 667 00:58:23.199 --> 00:58:27.320 no problem, Kenny Rogers, I don't exist no more. But we 668 00:58:27.440 --> 00:58:30.199 we got we got KFC. We'll send you two and hose. I mean, 669 00:58:30.639 --> 00:58:35.559 you know, picking mix and match if you like, right, like 670 00:58:35.639 --> 00:58:40.880 you're a sand shock, I didn't know, Jersey. We got. Yeah, 671 00:58:40.920 --> 00:58:46.119 it's good, It's really good. It's definitely worth five subways. Tell 672 00:58:46.119 --> 00:58:50.639 you that, no problem. It won't give you as many jobs, but 673 00:58:50.760 --> 00:58:58.119 the subs will be better. I'm sorry. Quality over quantity, Quality over 674 00:58:58.199 --> 00:59:05.719 quantity, Jimmy James, right, exactly right. Well, I do think 675 00:59:05.960 --> 00:59:07.920 I do think like a step in that direction would be helpful, and this 676 00:59:08.480 --> 00:59:14.639 likely about to happen at some point of that quality over quantity, because quantity 677 00:59:14.840 --> 00:59:19.400 being the one of the key issues of causing so many problems in the past 678 00:59:19.480 --> 00:59:24.920 century, past decades, whatever. We've been making too much garbage right in 679 00:59:25.079 --> 00:59:30.599 every sense of it, figuratively, literally, we've been doing way too much 680 00:59:30.639 --> 00:59:36.440 of that. Maybe it's time to figure out stop to think what's worth doing, 681 00:59:37.960 --> 00:59:40.000 what sort of things we need to be doing, what things. Maybe 682 00:59:40.280 --> 00:59:45.840 we could save a little bit of energy, time and money by not doing 683 00:59:45.920 --> 00:59:49.000 a lot of the wasteful things we have been doing. I know that we 684 00:59:49.119 --> 00:59:53.559 made it into a business model, and we've so many people have been living 685 00:59:53.679 --> 00:59:57.519 high on that hog for a while. Maybe it's time to stop that. 686 00:59:59.440 --> 01:00:01.840 I don't think that sounds like such a bad idea. I mean, how 687 01:00:01.920 --> 01:00:07.760 it ends up working out remains to be seen, but just that concept I 688 01:00:07.800 --> 01:00:16.800 can get on board with. I think we do definitely need some financial reform. 689 01:00:19.039 --> 01:00:24.440 When every American agree with that, I think so, I think, 690 01:00:24.519 --> 01:00:29.199 snap, I don't know how they couldn't. Yeah, absolutely, say Eric, 691 01:00:29.280 --> 01:00:31.480 you have gone to your one hour here, so you know I'm not 692 01:00:31.599 --> 01:00:35.159 pressing you to end it. If you want to end it now or a 693 01:00:35.239 --> 01:00:37.679 few minutes or whatever. I'm here, So yeah, I'm here to do 694 01:00:37.760 --> 01:00:40.679 what you want. Unfortunately, we will not have Uncle live tonight, guys. 695 01:00:42.360 --> 01:00:45.440 But but Aaron is here and doing his thing, and Jimmy James is 696 01:00:45.480 --> 01:00:46.400 on the phone, and this is fun. And we'll put this out, 697 01:00:46.679 --> 01:00:49.880 you know, in a day or two, just like we do. All 698 01:00:49.960 --> 01:00:52.880 right, Okay, well how about this check in the name of getting more 699 01:00:53.119 --> 01:00:58.159 downloads, more hits, more listeners, I'm going to be controversial and take 700 01:00:58.199 --> 01:01:02.280 the pro euthanasia stands and put this show out of its misery. I proclaim 701 01:01:02.320 --> 01:01:07.719 the show over. It's dead, it's kill I'm doctor Kevorkian ing it right 702 01:01:07.800 --> 01:01:12.840 now. Okay, that sounds good, it's all you, bro. Okay, 703 01:01:13.480 --> 01:01:15.880 consider the plug pulled. But before that, let me plug a couple 704 01:01:16.039 --> 01:01:22.679 things. Ironically enough, Uh, we're gonna pull the plug before you plug 705 01:01:22.800 --> 01:01:25.639 somethings. He's still got Jimmy James was not part of the plugging issue. 706 01:01:27.039 --> 01:01:30.800 Who is still on the line with you. Yeah, yeah, So we're 707 01:01:30.840 --> 01:01:34.920 gonna plug. I'm gonna just allow me to plug here and then I'll pull 708 01:01:35.000 --> 01:01:38.079 the plug, is what we'll do. So this was the age of transitions 709 01:01:38.159 --> 01:01:43.920 on the Ocelly Radio network. The website is the age oftransitions dot com, 710 01:01:44.079 --> 01:01:46.280 do down, download the show, subscribe to the show, share it with 711 01:01:46.400 --> 01:01:51.199 people who you think are absolutely out of their mind. They're just gonna love 712 01:01:51.280 --> 01:01:54.440 it. They're gonna eat this kind of stuff up. Uh. My name 713 01:01:54.639 --> 01:01:59.119 is Aaron Franz, and I will leave you by saying secrets. Oh, 714 01:02:00.039 --> 01:02:28.559 that's goodbye. M H. Wall Street, window dot dot, gold Silver 715 01:02:29.559 --> 01:02:36.400 the stock market, Wall Street, window dot dot. Perhaps you're invested deeply, 716 01:02:36.760 --> 01:02:39.119 Perhaps you're not in deep enough. Maybe you're thinking about getting started. 717 01:02:39.679 --> 01:02:45.079 Wall Street, Windows dot com, doo dot com. Michael Swanson, the 718 01:02:45.159 --> 01:02:50.199 brilliant author of the War State, understood these trends professionally for many years, 719 01:02:50.320 --> 01:02:54.920 and now he gives you the benefit of his knowledge. Wall streetdo dot dot 720 01:02:58.360 --> 01:04:14.639 go there, now, go there. Now they're now bubble up. Bump 721 01:04:14.960 --> 01:05:04.599 bump, bump, bump b The War State by Michael Swanson explains the great 722 01:05:04.719 --> 01:05:09.960 national transformation that took place and put the Kennedy presidency in the context of the 723 01:05:10.039 --> 01:05:15.840 times and revealed never before published information about the Cuban missile crisis. President Kennedy 724 01:05:15.920 --> 01:05:18.440 would not have been assassinated if he had been president two hundred years ago. 725 01:05:18.960 --> 01:05:24.000 His assassination took place in the context of the Cold War and the rise of 726 01:05:24.079 --> 01:05:27.920 the national security state. Before World War II, the United States was a 727 01:05:28.000 --> 01:05:31.400 continental republic. In the decade that followed, it became an imperial superpower. 728 01:05:31.679 --> 01:05:35.960 Generals such as Curtis LeMay not only wanted to invade Cuba, but knew that 729 01:05:36.039 --> 01:05:41.079 there were short range missiles on the island armed with nuclear warheads that they could 730 01:05:41.119 --> 01:05:45.039 not destroy because they were on mobile launchers. Their invasion could have led to 731 01:05:45.159 --> 01:05:48.320 a Third World War, and they wanted to go to war anyway. The 732 01:05:48.440 --> 01:05:54.159 War State by Michael Swanson reveals why and will show you what President Kennedy was 733 01:05:54.239 --> 01:05:59.400 up against. For more information, the Warstate dot com to use expressed by 734 01:05:59.400 --> 01:06:00.960 cooler stools there anyone else that happens to get on the air of Chelly dot 735 01:06:01.000 --> 01:06:04.480 Com. Do not necessarily reflect the views of Chilly dot Com or Chilli and 736 01:06:04.599 --> 01:07:04.400 we are not responsible for any stupidity which might extue. Thank you, There 737 01:07:04.440 --> 01:07:17.559 will things that I will make you, so listen, being as show me 738 01:07:17.920 --> 01:08:38.720 not to say you, to save you from you the sa same you Hony 739 01:08:39.079 --> 01:08:44.920 Mony, Money, Morning Money, Money, Morny. This is a Montacy 740 01:08:45.119 --> 01:08:48.840 podcast. 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