Sick Monkeys... in Every Way

These allergy induced rantings of the Microphone Monkeys broach the topics of fast and ping-pong playing robots, exploding wheel chairs, Old Gorillas, animals being chased by robots and quoting from the lost biblical text of "Pulp Fiction."

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Transcript

SPEAKER_05 0:00

Here we come, walking down on the street. Got the goal, no taxes to me. Free to speak and free to trade. Market stuff, no need for the microphone monkeys. People say we're in our kids, funkies. Go on too busy, being friends.

SPEAKER_01 0:26

Hey guys, welcome to Microphone Monkeys. We have the uh the four original libertarian loony ape uh half sick crew today. I think Will's the only one who's not sick.

SPEAKER_00 0:40

Uh no. I'm just fatigued uh from travel, but that's it.

SPEAKER_01 0:44

Oh, I thought from your uh VHS taping with Graham in here. He gets a lot more exercise than we do.

SPEAKER_00 0:50

Well, I'm gonna I'm gonna give Graham some grace because he's in the hospital. Oh, really? Yeah, yeah. See not see you don't feel so hoppity down.

SPEAKER_01 0:59

Yeah, those STDs can hit you hard. Whoa.

SPEAKER_00 1:03

Whoa. Yeah, no rust for the word.

SPEAKER_01 1:10

Well, I did because this is a half, well, this is a three-quarter sick edition.

unknown 1:16

Oh.

SPEAKER_01 1:16

I did on the man very limited, even less research than usual. It's always sick. It's always sick. It's always very sick and twisted in there. Uh, but I have six stories that I accumulated over two hours. Sex stories. Sex stories. That'll be for the the Will Cigar so later, the Monica Lewinsky edition.

SPEAKER_00 1:36

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

SPEAKER_01 1:42

So I kept it in the whole AI robot theme mostly.

SPEAKER_00 1:46

Oh, fantastic.

SPEAKER_01 1:48

Beautiful.

SPEAKER_00 1:49

So straight out of India.

SPEAKER_01 1:52

Straight out of India times. Uh so Chinese. A couple of these are related. Well, well, there's no UFO stories today. He might be investing. Isn't isn't Steve an engineer?

SPEAKER_04 2:09

Yeah, he's an engineer.

SPEAKER_01 2:11

Hi, recovering. Aren't you like an engineer by the time?

SPEAKER_02 2:14

I'm an illities guy. I'm an illities engineer. See? Reliability, maintainability, quality, sustainability, interoperability. Yeah, that's me. Yeah, he's maintaining the robot. He's an engineer in theory. Yeah, my cohorts called called me a quasi-engineer in the car. They weren't nice guys. Quasimoto.

SPEAKER_01 2:38

Well, check this out because this is a new breakthrough. So China has a humanoid robot that is as fast as Usain Bolt. You would think I would run out of these robot stories. These are all 100% true.

SPEAKER_00 2:51

I actually saw the video of that bugger. That was incredible.

SPEAKER_01 2:56

Yeah. Well, and there's a tennis. We'll get to that too. Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 3:00

Is that the one that fell down, that fast one? I saw him running a track, and then all of a sudden, boop, he's down.

SPEAKER_01 3:05

Oh, I've seen the video.

SPEAKER_02 3:08

Four legs or two?

SPEAKER_04 3:09

The runner. Two legs. Standing on two legs. Yeah. Well, that's whole X major improvement. Yeah, it's my peel. Yeah. I mean, evidently there was there's robots in Ukraine right now fighting. And it won some little stronghold for them. It's happening fast. I mean, that was in the news a couple weeks ago.

SPEAKER_01 3:26

Now it'll be full terminator, robot on robot, Russian robots versus Chinese robots. Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 3:32

And you know, it's it's hilarious for the the smaller country of Ukraine going against Russia, they're out uh technologying Russia combined warfare.

SPEAKER_01 3:44

Well, they do have the whole West behind them and NATO and but I mean it just shows it shows where we're at.

SPEAKER_04 3:50

Yeah, it's robotic warfare, AI warfare, and drone warfare now. And economic warf warfare with it, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 3:56

You know when these changed when they started changing the uh zombie movies to where zombies could run?

SPEAKER_04 4:03

Yeah, and that's where we're at robots.

SPEAKER_01 4:06

Yes, he did. Now they can run at you like Usain Bolt. We we had on the previous shows about how they malfunction and they start just like doing a helicopter spiral and well, I used to watch that that uh competition.

SPEAKER_00 4:20

Um what is it? Like robot wars or something like that. Yeah, and and they also were so funny. Can you imagine what kind of stuff they're gonna come out with now? It's not gonna be like little twisting things or little hammers and little flamethrowers.

SPEAKER_01 4:38

These things are gonna be like full-on karate kung fu robots, they're already prepping them.

SPEAKER_02 4:45

Lasers and energy cannons.

SPEAKER_04 4:47

I told the CEO once that the I won't mention his name, but I I didn't really like him. He he would sit on my couch in my office with like two iPhones going at the same time while he looks like a check-in with me. He's like, Yeah, exactly. That's why it was like he'd have, oh, we're here for our check-in, and he'd never make eye contact. And he had this friend who came in and audited all of us. This is what he did, and we had to create binders, massive binders for this audit. And he was bragging about this guy. Oh, he's got this, you know, hunting range where he charges people to come and kill these exotic animals. And I just out of my mouth, I was like, you know, we could have robotic fancy cars like Mercedes-Benz and Rolls-Royce's, and give these people weapons to go around hunting these cars, and the cars could run them over. It would be a real challenge. And like he put both going after the Impala. Yeah, he put both phones down and looked at me like, what on earth did you just say? Now that I think about it with the robots, it's like that could be instead of like these hunting safaris, you could hunt down these robots that are running around, right?

SPEAKER_01 5:52

Well, when you have robot on robot, imagine if China backed Ukraine and sent all the kung fu robots. And I wonder Russia only has spy pigeons right now.

SPEAKER_06 6:03

Right.

SPEAKER_00 6:03

But if you Ukraine's coming in with these Western NATO robots, I mean Molotov cocktail, AK-47, uh, here's another mind-bending thing that goes along with this is I just saw a uh an article about um AI and its future impact on virtual reality. And they said that AI could possibly create these uh like on Star Trek when you go into those rooms and it would be like you know, virtual rooms that look like you're in a different place. That they they actually AI now can develop these uh types of things.

SPEAKER_01 6:47

Have live updating environments. That's like a shortcut around teleportation.

SPEAKER_04 6:52

Exactly. You actually could another one that's kind of funny with that is your brainwave states are all frequencies. Those frequencies can be read, yeah, they can then be transcribed by AI to be interpreted to create environments based upon how your moods are and how you feel.

SPEAKER_01 7:08

Here comes the Michi Okaku part of Michi Okaku had Okay, drink up, folks.

SPEAKER_00 7:14

He said Michi Okaku.

SPEAKER_01 7:17

Michio Kaku had a study he referenced in I think it was Physics of the Future, where they were able to have someone think of the Mona Lisa without telling the researchers. Yeah, and they recreated it from the brain scans. Yes, that he was thinking of the Mona Lisa.

SPEAKER_04 7:34

Oh, totally. They're doing that with dreams right now.

SPEAKER_01 7:36

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 7:37

So they're doing dream interpretation on your brain waves.

SPEAKER_01 7:40

Oh, by the way, I did have a little uh uh while I was out sick, I was able to do a little, I don't know if this will work on the pod.

SPEAKER_06 7:48

I'll knock that damn gold tooth out of your mouth and make it into a necklace for Stone Cold.

SPEAKER_01 7:55

You can't done that. I I have a little uh, you know, just as a little improv. You know, all I had the rock to.

SPEAKER_06 8:03

Shut your mouth your thumb, women, Patty.

SPEAKER_02 8:05

I I just wanted to so in the future, you'll probably find me in one of these little rooms of the AI environment, sitting at a table with a a continuous sushi boat going around. I weigh about 350 pounds. Yeah, how much of this is hopping behind?

SPEAKER_01 8:25

Inspector Gadget, he's gonna have his own cruise boat with his own uh self-serving tie.

SPEAKER_02 8:31

Have you ever been to a sushi boat restaurant? Oh, it's it's it's better than Saxon.

SPEAKER_01 8:38

Well, this ties into Will's uh I think they finally came in from back order. He already has the uh 19-year-old Chinese uh models coming in, robots.

SPEAKER_00 8:48

Oh, the robots.

SPEAKER_01 8:49

I don't know if they disappeared for uh so disappointed.

SPEAKER_00 8:51

I thought they were the real thing.

SPEAKER_01 8:53

I know.

SPEAKER_04 8:53

They look like the real thing on the video, but reality is so overrated. That's right. Who can afford who's gonna be able to afford reality anyways?

SPEAKER_01 9:03

Well, if you didn't think Usain Bold was dangerous in any way, it's just them competing with each other.

SPEAKER_04 9:09

I love that guy.

SPEAKER_01 9:10

Now we have electric wheelchair explosions. These digital wheelchairs that are almost like world controlled. So a Florida woman, it her electric wheelchair started making hissing and clicking sounds. Oh, and then it exploded.

SPEAKER_04 9:31

That was the timer going off.

unknown 9:32

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 9:34

Now we wait a minute. That's dangerous. How much did she weigh?

SPEAKER_01 9:38

She wasn't even on it.

SPEAKER_04 9:40

Oh, yeah. Yeah, those bikes blow up too, all of them.

SPEAKER_01 9:42

It might have been structural damage, though. We'll have to ask Steve. Yeah. His engineering uh analysis.

SPEAKER_02 9:46

Uh uh, first off, check her will. See who bought her their wheelchair.

SPEAKER_04 9:50

Yes, exactly. There you go.

SPEAKER_00 9:52

No, I just had, you know.

SPEAKER_04 9:53

That's always the case.

SPEAKER_00 9:54

I was imagining she was like one of the ladies on the view, and it just the stress made it useful size model. Or maybe it was Whoopi Goldberg and she farted. That's what I was thinking.

SPEAKER_04 10:05

A backfire cause this. Especially in Florida, it's like eating all that artificial crab, and then all of a sudden, k pow. Well, they don't even know it's in that crab. They just say whatever.

SPEAKER_01 10:20

It's like if you have electronic Wi-Fi controlled wheelchairs exploding, yeah, and they're making basically predator sounds before they explode like it's a roadside bomb.

SPEAKER_00 10:37

Sounds like a fraternity brother, but yeah.

SPEAKER_04 10:39

This is sounds like are you like you're insinuating like this is like an Iranian hack or something, and they're just like the self, like the pagers were blowing up a lot of people on their wheelchair.

SPEAKER_01 10:50

The Iranians don't have to do it, they're already blogging themselves the robots themselves. I don't think we need Israel Iran involved. Well, remember that story from a couple weeks ago where there was the remote controlled robot chasing the woman?

SPEAKER_04 11:09

Oh, yeah, yeah. There you go. Yeah, you get run over by one of those chairs.

SPEAKER_01 11:13

Well, that's also remote control with those spy pigeons.

SPEAKER_04 11:16

Ah, that's right. That's just glad it's just pigeons.

SPEAKER_01 11:18

What if it was invasion of the body snatchers, but they just put a chip in your brain and use the remote like the Russians do with their uh their spy pigeons.

SPEAKER_02 11:28

If Mossad can put a a chip in a cell phone or a beeper, yeah. Imagine what would happen if they put one in your brain. Ooh, that would not be a pretty sight of the way.

SPEAKER_01 11:39

Well, they already did it to uh to Glenn Beck and everything he's supporting with the Iran war. So they're already pretty advanced with that.

SPEAKER_04 11:47

Glenn's hard to watch. He makes me nervous.

SPEAKER_01 11:49

Well, here's the thing with Glenn is he he kind of tries to hedge. Yeah, he does, he does. Case of the future. He has the same position as Ben Shapiro. Uh but he makes it seem like he's just kind of Ron Ball.

SPEAKER_02 12:00

Uh Glenn Beck says that Massad is after him, or what?

SPEAKER_01 12:04

Oh, well, he uh he's basically come out at every stage of this whole Iran thing. So remember, Glenn Beck did a whole like nationwide tour, like he was a rock star, promoting the Iraq war and the buildup of it 20 plus years ago.

SPEAKER_04 12:21

I wasn't paying attention then.

SPEAKER_01 12:23

Well, and then as you go on with Libya and Syria and the Iran strikes and everything else, he he he tries to play it more hedged.

SPEAKER_04 12:30

Yeah, I thought he was an anti-war for a while, wasn't he?

SPEAKER_01 12:33

He well, it he opposed the Iraq war like years later when he had the show on Fox News.

SPEAKER_04 12:37

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 12:38

But then when Ron Paul would come on, he'd be all passive aggressive with him and all insinuating. And he he's uh he's a slippery one.

SPEAKER_04 12:44

He's a real slippery one.

unknown 12:46

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 12:46

Well, Steven Crowder kind of does the same thing. It's all like the Glenn Beck model of it.

SPEAKER_02 12:52

I watch Glenn Beck every night just for the diagrams.

SPEAKER_01 12:55

Cool.

SPEAKER_02 12:56

And he definitely does have those good diagrams.

SPEAKER_01 12:59

I I agree with that. He has a powerful delivery style too, and he can be very I just can't do it.

SPEAKER_04 13:04

Like, I I watch redacted, and I like to look at his wife because she seems so nerve-wracked about everything. Yeah, she's in a constant state of stress. Like, her looks alone are like make my week perfect. I'm like, yeah, we are falling apart. Just look at her. That's why I like watching redacted. And she has cool things to say, and her eyes just sharpen. It's like, oh my god, we are in the whole country's gonna collapse. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 13:31

That is that's an X Fox News act. Yeah, they're cool.

SPEAKER_02 13:35

I like them. Yeah. So what do you have to say to us today? Um uh definitely not Camera, definitely not Camera.

SPEAKER_01 13:45

Well, by the way, tied into the uh Usain Bolt robot, a Sony created robot named Ace was pitted against professional table tennis elite table tennis humanity.

SPEAKER_04 14:04

Come on, Sony. I'm rooting for Sony all the way, actually, on all this. But Sony, they might they might uh because they were so far ahead of everybody on robotics, they really were the little a bio robot dog, and yeah, they were doing all this robot production, and then all of a sudden Chinese China's taking the lead. That's not cool. So I want Sony, yeah. I'm I'm for them. The 200-year plan they've got, they rock.

SPEAKER_01 14:28

Well, and Japan Japan's doing it like a technological practice, like China's doing Kung Fu robot.

SPEAKER_04 14:34

China's doing military.

SPEAKER_00 14:35

China's a little more scary. This is, I mean, this is one of the in Asia table tennis is huge. Oh, yeah. And I I can imagine.

SPEAKER_01 14:45

Isn't that getting big here now, too?

SPEAKER_00 14:46

No, pickleball. Oh, pickleball. That's the pickle. Yeah, yeah. We still have to use our feet. Um but uh I mean is that basically pickleball?

SPEAKER_01 14:57

You're just doing table tennis running around?

SPEAKER_00 14:59

It's tennis. Well, or or real tennis and just a smaller court, you know, whatever you want to call it.

SPEAKER_01 15:05

Yeah, micro tennis.

SPEAKER_00 15:07

But uh the the other thing is if they're doing that, when how long till they start getting into their national sport, which was our old natural national sport baseball? Yeah, yeah. Would you go to robot baseball? Absolutely. I would. I would I would absolutely like that. Yeah, I mean, I liked I like watching um the uh the majors when they had the guys on steroids.

SPEAKER_01 15:32

I was about to say that. Yeah, they're they are already people that want to just allow steroids and like baseball, yeah. Like Barry Bonds is like breaking bats in half, like exactly.

SPEAKER_04 15:41

Maybe the robots might be good. I yeah, I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 15:44

There is something to say. It's like the Uncanny Valley odd thing is like with entertainment. How much of like watching musicians perform or watching movies is about the human talent involved? Yeah, even if it's subconscious when you're watching it, where when it's completely artificial, does it change how you interpret everything you're saying?

SPEAKER_00 16:03

You know, maybe all of us should invest in um XLB. Instead of major league baseball, we'll have X League Baseball, and we can have we can allow people to have stur steroids, robots, uh midgets. Is this a um product placement?

SPEAKER_01 16:22

It's like a zirk is absolutely your new brand.

SPEAKER_00 16:26

I mean, it was so cool when they uh I mean there was uh there was a midget steroid baseball. That's how I think it was in the 50s or something that they had a couple teams got midgets because then they had the short uh oh no um strike zone and stuff like that.

SPEAKER_01 16:43

Danny DeVito on steroids trying to do uh I I think it would be great.

SPEAKER_00 16:48

I mean, look how look how popular um the entertainers are uh for the uh Savannah bananas. Oh, I love the Savannah bananas. I mean, come on. Man, you didn't sell these guys, these guys are the midget paneling.

SPEAKER_04 17:04

I don't eat I don't need a Bo Jangles, and I don't know about the Savannah bananas.

SPEAKER_00 17:08

I know they called it they they do they do dance routines. Oh man, they do baseball paddock.

SPEAKER_01 17:15

And these are midgets.

SPEAKER_00 17:15

Yeah, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, they sell out a thousand people stadiums.

SPEAKER_04 17:21

They sell out Oh, is this like Harlem Globetro? Yeah, exactly. Oh, you gotta watch this.

SPEAKER_00 17:26

Oh, yeah, they're hilarious. Because they they do a lot of these commercials too, where they do the flips um and and stuff, you know, like you know, back flips and stuff. So yeah. Uh but uh I don't know how you missed this. I know, but you see the but you saw how it's a banana on the multiple. You saw how popular XFL was, and of course they had to absorb that and really.

SPEAKER_01 17:47

Was that Vince McMahon?

SPEAKER_00 17:48

XLB ain't gonna make it because they already had the XFL was already absorbed.

SPEAKER_02 17:53

Yeah, well it was absorbed, but I thought it just failed.

SPEAKER_00 17:55

By by the U USFL. Oh, USB. And then it became it's now the UFL. And so, and nobody watches it. And it and this was all done behind closed doors by the NFL because it was getting too entertaining.

SPEAKER_04 18:10

You could do combat-based skateboarding. Exactly. Like roller derby, but on skateboards, but you have like rollerball. Yeah, you have more of a more of ramps and stuff like that. Rollerball. Exactly, rollerball.

SPEAKER_02 18:21

Yeah, you don't need any of that combat stuff. You've already got pickleball. Pickleball has more injuries related to it than any other sport. How about pickleball with the exploding ball? Oh, see, that's where this X old people trying to play miniature tennis is not a pretty sight. Is it really up there with the injuries? Yeah, yeah. Number number one in injuries.

SPEAKER_04 18:41

Hip replacement. Knees. I bet it gives out those knees, man. That's a stupid concept.

SPEAKER_00 18:46

I have to get a knee replacement at some point in time. You don't want to be out there playing pickleball. Oh, well, I just play with my pickle. Oh, yeah. In private, I hope. Oh no. I don't know if I couldn't. I thought that's what the pickle courts were for.

SPEAKER_04 19:05

Somebody called for backup. Hey, that crazy lady up there in South Carolina that went and shot that cop and then went through all the different um counties.

SPEAKER_01 19:13

Oh, is that where the all the alerts were coming from? When did you date her?

SPEAKER_04 19:17

I saw her picture and I was like, wow, she's a poster child. Crazy too crazy scale. State poster child. This is someone at a bar in Myrtle Zillow. North Myrtle Beach council woman that got arrested for assault and battery. That's yeah, that's up there with the Chinese robots. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 19:36

It's nothing on the Atlantic Beach uh City Council. They just get in uh fist fights.

SPEAKER_04 19:40

There was a new guy, there's a new guy for them.

SPEAKER_01 19:43

Every week they injured people out in Atlantic Beach.

SPEAKER_02 19:47

And the mayor just resigned also on North Myrtle Beach. Wait a minute. This is not news, it happens every other day. Wait a minute.

SPEAKER_04 19:53

The mayor Atlantic Beach or North Myrtle Beach? Are you talking North Myrtle? Sorry, Atlantic Beach. Yeah. Okay, there we go.

SPEAKER_02 20:00

I get confused.

SPEAKER_01 20:02

For people unfamiliar, this is the beach.

SPEAKER_04 20:04

Yeah. We're in surfside, dude. It's a surfside beach.

SPEAKER_01 20:08

This is the Grand Strand internal Atlantic Beach is like the uh how would you describe it? Like the Detroit of No It's the Black Pearl. You guys the Black Pearl.

SPEAKER_04 20:17

Everybody's so afraid of Atlantic Beach, but it's actually kind of fun to go to Atlantic Beach.

SPEAKER_01 20:21

It is definitely fun to go. It's empty. I've done black bars on my motorcycle?

SPEAKER_04 20:25

Yeah, there's no sky, there's no gigantic building so far, and it's easy to park and it's very chill.

SPEAKER_01 20:32

Yeah. And if you need drugs or women or have you ever.

SPEAKER_04 20:34

I avoid any of that stuff. I just go. But I've got my own secret place now, and I'm not saying it on the air that has no skyscrapers, it's got hardly any people, and they give you a free chair. It's beautiful.

SPEAKER_01 20:47

A secret place, free chair.

SPEAKER_04 20:48

When you want to go to the beach, when you want to go to the beach. So I'm not saying it on the air, because then people will start going there and wrecking it.

SPEAKER_01 20:55

Yeah. In the Grand Strand.

SPEAKER_04 20:57

Yeah, it's beautiful. Oh, is this 700 acres, I think. Spiritually. Then you're gonna ruin it. I know. Well, you know what community we never hear about? You can't go outside, you know. I gotta go to all these tan people places.

SPEAKER_00 21:13

The community we never hear about here on the strand is Briarcliffe Acres.

SPEAKER_04 21:17

Oh, there you go. That's a good place for you to go. Yeah. But that's not what I'm talking about. And it's not even near it, so don't try and hunt this down.

SPEAKER_01 21:26

There are a lot of little one-offs. Does Spider Acres have their own little like city council?

SPEAKER_00 21:34

A square mile, isn't it? Yeah, they do. Yeah, and and they uh they actually have their own police force. Yeah, they do. And um one guy.

SPEAKER_04 21:42

I don't think you can go to the beach there, though. I think you gotta live there.

SPEAKER_00 21:44

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 21:46

But what I'm talking about, you don't have to live there. Right. You just have to be a good person.

SPEAKER_00 21:49

But uh it it physically separates it physically separates North Myrtle Beach from Myrtle Beach. Yep.

SPEAKER_01 21:55

Oh, Briarcliffe. Yeah. It's well extended.

SPEAKER_02 22:00

The deputy keeps his bullet in his shirt pocket to set stuff. I've seen it before we talk to that. Can we make a movie about that?

SPEAKER_01 22:06

He walks around and uh like like brass knuckles, he just shows his bullet. Yeah, there you go.

SPEAKER_02 22:12

So want to see my pickle. This is a pickle free zone.

SPEAKER_01 22:18

It'll be Will's new uh porn name. Pickle man. Fried pickle. Pickle balls.

SPEAKER_00 22:26

Our new shirt going on in our shop is Do you want to see my pickle?

SPEAKER_01 22:30

He does have a pickle colored shirt uh hat on. That's Atlantic Beach.

SPEAKER_04 22:34

You can bring your pickle.

SPEAKER_01 22:35

Oh, you can if you want to bring your pickle anywhere, it'll be Atlantic Beach. The fourth story. These are not in order because things are rougher. There's no order in the world.

SPEAKER_04 22:46

Order is just another way of saying you're really confused.

SPEAKER_01 22:51

Fatal is the world's oldest gorilla living in captivity.

SPEAKER_04 22:57

Let him go.

SPEAKER_01 22:58

69 years old.

SPEAKER_04 22:59

Uncool. That's just uncool, but go on.

SPEAKER_01 23:01

Well, here's the thing that's funny, though.

SPEAKER_04 23:03

What's funny about this?

SPEAKER_01 23:04

Gorillas in the wild only live in their 30s and 40s.

SPEAKER_04 23:08

That's normal, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 23:10

When they enslaved this one in captivity, it's the food.

SPEAKER_04 23:14

Why did he live so long? Food.

SPEAKER_01 23:17

Did I say food, not being eaten to death, no predators, no competition.

SPEAKER_04 23:24

Right.

SPEAKER_01 23:24

But Fital is dealing with a couple issues. Such a in Fital's old age, there's issues with arthritis and hearing loss and vision issues.

SPEAKER_00 23:37

Hoffman, he said that he's got issues with hearing loss. Arthritis.

SPEAKER_01 23:44

I was gonna say when they said gorilla with hearing loss and arthritis, they might be talking about will. He needs to get a VA card.

SPEAKER_04 23:53

What he needs is a woman.

SPEAKER_00 23:55

Uh yeah. Can't be happy forever. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 23:59

I think actually it is a female gorilla. What's a female one?

SPEAKER_04 24:03

Oh.

SPEAKER_01 24:03

Yeah. Well, don't ask, don't tell. Yeah. Yeah, whatever's down there. We don't want to look.

SPEAKER_04 24:10

So the the story here is we all age. I mean, like what aging gorilla?

SPEAKER_02 24:15

Yes. 69. So in captivity, he lived at 69 years old. If he was left in the wild, he'd only lived at 30 years old. That really proves that nature really is a bitch.

SPEAKER_01 24:26

It is. You know something.

SPEAKER_04 24:28

We should all be enslaved, so this whole tax thing is to our benefit.

SPEAKER_01 24:31

Is that worth well here's the thing that's weird?

SPEAKER_04 24:33

We'll live longer because we're taxed.

SPEAKER_01 24:35

Talking about nature being just a total madhouse. I was because everyone's oh, it's so beautiful, and animals and everything else. Hyenas eat their prey and keep them alive as long as humanly possible.

SPEAKER_04 24:50

They're just nasty.

SPEAKER_00 24:51

Well, they they like fresh food.

SPEAKER_01 24:53

They do, very fresh. Live and screaming and screaming monsters and little buggers.

SPEAKER_00 24:58

Now you know why they laugh.

SPEAKER_02 25:01

Man. They have a brutal. Like my ex-wife. Well, you know, so yeah, I forgot about that. Cheating.

SPEAKER_00 25:15

We're gonna have all day on this one. Chewing on your pickle.

SPEAKER_01 25:21

That's why uh Huffman needs all this engineering of his four alimonies going.

SPEAKER_02 25:27

Theoretically. The gummies help.

SPEAKER_04 25:34

This is another sponsor placement for sprinkle. Sprinkle goes good with just about everything. You can put it on your salad, you can put it in your juice, and you'll be high as a guy.

SPEAKER_01 25:46

It is fitting you have the green mic.

SPEAKER_04 25:48

So I look, I'm off the juice.

SPEAKER_01 25:51

Off the juice. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 25:52

Yeah, you keep claiming that. Hey, I'm on, it's all adaptogens for me at the moment.

SPEAKER_01 25:56

Yeah, he does this like pharmacist language. I'm on weed.

SPEAKER_04 26:01

I'm on C BG combined with C B D components and mix it with what I need. So far, they haven't caught up with me.

SPEAKER_00 26:11

Darren's pharmacology.

SPEAKER_01 26:15

That would be a scary one. We've had so many incidents with gummies and uh in the party.

SPEAKER_02 26:22

Mushroom garden in his basement.

SPEAKER_01 26:26

I I don't, yeah. His electric bill is very suspicious. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 26:30

Maybe maybe what we should do is uh uh an episode of um uh microphone monkeys with all of us on um one of gummies from uh Hoffman. Oh my god. That would be a scary concept. We could we could have the marathon uh one with that one, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 26:52

That would probably be a disaster, but it would also probably be entertaining.

SPEAKER_04 26:59

I think that would be a babysitting scenario.

SPEAKER_00 27:01

I think I I think I want to do that, and I want to do it um I want to do it as a Facebook Live. Oh my god. With you know, with video and the whole the whole nine yards.

SPEAKER_01 27:13

Let's just destroy everyone's reputation.

SPEAKER_00 27:15

Like we have a reputation, yeah. I love that you think we have a reputation to comedy reputation.

SPEAKER_01 27:23

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 27:28

That's a good podcast. Pass the chips.

SPEAKER_00 27:34

Cool, man. Is that your pickle?

SPEAKER_01 27:38

How that can Chichan Chong uh Liberty Edition. Yeah. Liberty Edition. Oh here's another. Again, these are three kind of scary robot stories in a row.

SPEAKER_00 27:55

Cough some more. I know.

SPEAKER_01 27:56

Let me call right the mic. Uh humanoid robots were engineered to chase wild boars. Again, I don't like this chasing shit. I don't like you saying bold running robots. But they're Polish boars. Yeah, it is Polish boars. It's in it was in Poland. This actually was.

SPEAKER_00 28:22

So don't be boring when you're in Poland.

SPEAKER_01 28:24

I know. Well, yeah, that this adds another horror element to everything. To Poland's uh already questionable listener. Uh they uh they found an unlikely solution to the scourge of wild pigs invading European cities. They created AI-powered robots that chased herds of wild pigs in Warsaw, Poland. During herding the wild boars, they ran into the forest and chased them down. It was described as dystopian. Uh the clip shows a Chinese firm Unitree. Unitree's been mentioned a lot on this podcast. Uh Michiokaku. Michi Yokaku in China.

SPEAKER_04 29:09

Those guys are busy over there.

SPEAKER_01 29:11

They're busy doing this kind of robotics.

SPEAKER_04 29:13

Yeah, the fun stuff. Yeah. Hunt them down and kill them type of stuff. Yeah, that's great.

SPEAKER_01 29:18

Well, and they're humanoid-shaped. Sure. The ubiquitous G1 humanoid bot.

SPEAKER_00 29:24

And they're fast as fast as Usain Bolt. Yeah, as fast as Usain Bolt.

SPEAKER_01 29:30

Well, and they're teaching them to chase animals.

SPEAKER_04 29:33

Well, that can come in handy.

SPEAKER_01 29:36

It could. For who?

SPEAKER_02 29:40

You've gone beyond the perimeter. I heard that that company is being sued by the entire redneck population.

SPEAKER_01 29:49

What are we going to eat here?

SPEAKER_04 29:50

So the thing is, they chase them. Then what? There's no then, I think, in there. They left that open. Yeah, they left that open. So what are they doing?

SPEAKER_01 29:58

Well, it might be like sheep or things. They just do it to scare them.

SPEAKER_04 30:02

You still have a boar problem. Hopefully.

SPEAKER_00 30:04

Maybe they they're trying to domesticate the boars and they just go and start petting them.

SPEAKER_01 30:08

Well, don't what what is the animal that chases animals off a cliff? Lemming? Lemming?

SPEAKER_00 30:15

Well, I think they they they follow each other off a cliff. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 30:18

Oh, there's one that like they'll send them. Take them off the cliff, yeah. Yeah, and then kind of trick them to go, then they'll go down at the bottom and eat them.

SPEAKER_02 30:27

That was our ancestors killing the mammoth elephants of what mammoth in case.

SPEAKER_04 30:33

You might get that in wolves or coyote, might do that kind of behavior. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 30:37

That's inbred and indoor psych.

SPEAKER_04 30:39

Yeah. We can't help it. The eagles will grab things and throw them off cliffs.

SPEAKER_01 30:45

Oh, yeah, that's another nice thing of uh nature. They'll go pick up like a floppy and throw them off a cliff.

SPEAKER_02 30:53

Three-dimensional reality is not safe. If you wake up in the middle of the night and you're standing on the edge of a cliff and your neighbor's du dog is at the bottom of the cliff, well, don't blame yourself. It's strictly.

SPEAKER_01 31:05

It was all hunter-gatherer modes.

SPEAKER_04 31:06

There's only one guarantee, and that's you're gonna die.

SPEAKER_01 31:09

That is that's a nice existentialist point of view. I do the best I can.

SPEAKER_04 31:15

That can a that canna's pushing it. We that's another uh product placement for Canna, K-A-N-C.

SPEAKER_01 31:22

See, we have ads on here. C B D Canna.

SPEAKER_00 31:26

I think I'm gonna reach out to them because yeah, we do mention it quite a bit.

SPEAKER_04 31:30

They're they're really good. I go with Ka Woman woman-owned. Oh. Yeah. It's kind of like you. Woman owed? No, I'm yeah.

SPEAKER_01 31:40

Woman for the. This is what he does to pick up the women. It's the Bill Cosby uh Steven Biggie. What Jell Like some can I with that?

SPEAKER_00 31:50

Like some jello.

SPEAKER_01 31:54

Sprinkling some uh special jello. Get you smiling right away out of that post-trauma haze that you're in. Well, no, because this will be a shortened sick edition of the monkey podcast. Oh no, we're gonna kiss. I only I usually have like 12, 15 stories caught in lock, and now I just have six today. What happened? I know. It's the cold, which I think I got from you.

SPEAKER_00 32:18

Well, you guys gotta stop kissing on the mouth.

SPEAKER_01 32:21

I know. We keep going to these weird clubs, and it'll be all of a sudden everyone's sick. I don't even want to go there.

SPEAKER_04 32:33

Open it up, look at it.

SPEAKER_02 32:35

Blame it on pine pollen season and the Carolina coastal area. Were we all kind of wondering, what was the original color of my car? No, yellow.

SPEAKER_04 32:44

You're so right. The pollination is where it started. Yep. Yeah. We got hit with it.

SPEAKER_00 32:50

Is this another sexual innuendo? No.

SPEAKER_04 32:53

Oh the yellow mist outside that was there. Ah, okay.

SPEAKER_01 32:57

Yellow mist. Yeah, yeah. See, it it has to be the pollen. It's not all these nightclubs. Now that gram's gone down, we need to stop the all the nightclubs.

SPEAKER_00 33:07

Well, that's true.

SPEAKER_01 33:09

No more porn video VHS tapes or nightclubs.

SPEAKER_00 33:11

Well, I want to take a little now that we're thinking about stuff going up our nose. Um I I have you seen those recent commercials uh against was it Norm Norman?

SPEAKER_04 33:24

Norman.

SPEAKER_00 33:25

Ralph Norman? Yeah, is is uh it's somebody that that had said something positive about uh decriminalizing um cocaine.

SPEAKER_04 33:35

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 33:35

Oh yeah, that's and um and Alan Wilson, who has been the bane of South Carolina's existence, yeah. Um his his campaign is behind it because you know he's the one that it wants to regulate any type of uh you know plant or substance of plant substance, any anything that could you you can make a personal decision on because he wants to control yeah, he wants to control everything in our lives.

SPEAKER_01 34:02

Yeah, he just did Operation Ganja uh on hemp stores. What a nice guy. Yeah. Good thing he doesn't know about Kana.

SPEAKER_04 34:09

K A product placement.

SPEAKER_01 34:14

Don't don't push it. It would probably uh Operation Kana.

SPEAKER_04 34:18

Operation we want you depressed. Yeah. Alcohol's fine. Alcohol's fine. Just as long as you beat yourself and other people, it's okay. But this antidepressant stuff, not cool. That's right. That guy?

SPEAKER_01 34:33

I thought I just saw a Mark Lynch ad where Lindsey Graham was going, oh, he wants to legalize crack because he was on drugs in like the 80s. Oh uh, but yeah, I missed that uh Norman thing.

SPEAKER_00 34:45

Well, I I think it was I you know, and I don't quote me. I have no idea. Maybe it was Lynch. I have no idea. I can't remember what politician they're attacking.

SPEAKER_01 34:54

Well, and I try to avoid South Carolina politicians. South Carolina political stuff is so crooked and nasty.

SPEAKER_00 35:03

Well, I I I I watch a lot of YouTube and force the algorithms, you know, pump all that crud into crackhead uh politicians and legalizing uh legalizing crack would actually reduce the number of deaths associated with crack.

SPEAKER_01 35:19

Yeah, poor child.

SPEAKER_02 35:20

Why did why did the b the haw? The chicken why did the hawk say that?

SPEAKER_03 35:25

Well, why didn't you?

SPEAKER_02 35:26

Because what is what do we do? We we make something illegal, and all of a sudden there's no place to go to resolve your differences. You can't go to court for contractual differences. No, you take it out on the street with a gun.

SPEAKER_01 35:37

Yeah, yeah. Which is why we have so much gun violence, is because of the drug war. It's because of guns.

SPEAKER_04 35:44

Guns do it, yeah. Those guns moved themselves. Yeah, that's right. Wait, wait, there's another one on your list that we didn't get to that wasn't added. They're making cigarettes illegal in the United Kingdom past a certain age. Oh, I heard that that was true. Is it true? Because I read that headline story, and I'm like, no way they're just think about that.

SPEAKER_02 36:05

Yeah, I like that. I'm gonna make a million dollars because I'm gonna be running cigarettes in the black market in the UK. I'm gonna make a lot of money.

SPEAKER_01 36:12

Old El Chapo, uh Hoffman. Crazy.

SPEAKER_04 36:15

That's a great idea. Those people, they wanted to make knives illegal too at one point.

SPEAKER_01 36:19

Oh, yeah. I mean, what's next?

SPEAKER_00 36:21

Only the turban guys have I mean, this is weird. And and I just I just did research uh for my liberty on nicotine. Yeah, that's got a big headline. Oh yeah. But I I the what I fell into the rabbit hole on is how much um tobacco, and especially cigars, was a crucible for comparing the economic systems of capitalism and communism. Oh because Cuba by the 1950s had a virtual lock on the cigar industry. Yeah, I mean, they were the giant, they were the capital of it all. Yeah. And as soon as the revolution took it took it over, they collapsed so quickly. It was crazy. They went from 140 uh major brands to less than 40.

SPEAKER_04 37:20

Yeah, but weren't they made illegal? You weren't allowed to export and improvise.

SPEAKER_02 37:24

You fled the Dominican Republic, they fled the Nicaragua making good cigars. Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 37:30

So the good cigar makers left. Yeah, it didn't have anything to do with you were no longer allowed to buy them. So that must have played some kind of a role.

SPEAKER_00 37:38

Oh no, well, the rest of the world, I mean, we embarked the biggest. The rest of the world was still still doing it. And um the yeah, I mean and the only thing that's keeping them alive really in the cigar business is is uh is uh unintentional. It's it's like uh you if you can't get something and it's restricted, that is essentially raises the price. Raises the price and so on. But the quality is so bad you don't know you're getting a lot of money. Well, I mean actually a Cuban cigar is really, really good if you get a good one. But the problem is you buy a very expensive box of Cuban cigars, which will be four times more than uh a comparable cigar would be on the market, and you don't know what you're gonna get in the box. Maybe 30% of them are really decent.

SPEAKER_04 38:37

Are they even from Cuba?

SPEAKER_00 38:38

Maybe so yeah, they're they're they're pretty much from Cuba.

SPEAKER_01 38:41

And they have counterfeit issues with the people uh getting fake Cuban cigars when they're not not really.

SPEAKER_00 38:47

I mean, uh some people that are new into cigars get confused between uh cohibas coming out of uh out of uh uh out of Cuba and the cohibas coming out of the original family that's coming out of uh Dominican Republic, and so but the bands are different, the prices are different, the quality is much better outside of Cuba.

SPEAKER_01 39:12

Is there some reason in Cuba it's all concentrated, like their soil or temperature soil plays a huge role in that?

SPEAKER_00 39:19

Soil, but they just uh those those Cuban um the original guys in the 40s and 50s, that the those families that came up through there, their their dedicated uh to the the craft it was and and innovation was really the thing. They were more innovative than anybody else in the world was with and they were competing with the Dutch, they were competing with us in the United States. Um and but they were so innovative, they were great. And as soon as the uh uh communists took over and they had it done by committee, yeah, innovation went down the door instantly.

SPEAKER_01 40:00

Well, that's interesting because when we did the whole David Spang hemp band thing they were doing in the state, and I talked to him for like over an hour on the phone, he was going through all the precise, delicate stages of even processing hemp. Yeah, and all the quality control and everything to go through. Exactly.

SPEAKER_04 40:15

But hemp's kind of funny because it it varies between indoor and outdoor. Like if you were to get outdoor cannabis, you're gonna want to aim for Northern California and uh Oregon, right? That whole triangle there has the soil and it has the sun and it's got the best flavor and the best age.

SPEAKER_00 40:34

The mountains of Hawaii.

SPEAKER_04 40:36

Yeah, that too, but it Hawaii it's a different kind of taste. It really, really is. I mean, Oregon is really good, but I mean they do so much indoor because they want to up the THC. They're less about the taste and the feeling on your lungs and and in your throat and your mouth. Whereas if you appreciate that, you want a good outdoor, grown cannabis.

SPEAKER_01 40:58

Well, that's fine.

SPEAKER_04 40:59

And that and that farm bill changed that tremendously because states didn't figure out how to get the THC in, so they started breeding really high-quality tasting cannabis for CBD. And that changed it completely. Whereas the West didn't have that. The West was focused only on THC, which brought the taste and the quality down and brought the THC up.

SPEAKER_01 41:23

Well, that shows the innovation in the private sector. When you legalize it and you allow people to make their own decisions and let the market decide.

SPEAKER_04 41:31

But what if the market the thing is, what if the market decided that though? But that's the funny thing. Because I think the market initially, I don't know for how many years it would have taken, they would have all targeted THC, up THC. They would have done these concentrates to up to THC quality. Whereas when the market was forced to not have THC, they upped the quality of the taste and the effects of CBD, which changed this market dynamic. And now they're killing that. So this farm bill, when it changes, they're not going to be able to produce flour for CBD. It just won't pass the regulation. So it's all gonna go illegal again.

SPEAKER_02 42:07

My CBD stash is about to run off, run out. So looks like I need to talk to you after the show.

SPEAKER_01 42:14

The CBD, the king of CBD, Darren. Well, here's the thing about that vape it.

SPEAKER_02 42:20

I mean, don't mess with my gummy.

SPEAKER_01 42:23

Well, and it was the alcohol lobby that had them during the when they ended the shutdown. Mitch McConnell was paid like a million dollars, and he did it to specifically take that one exemption out of the farm bill. Yep. So you have all these competing lobbies.

SPEAKER_04 42:39

They're still losing in alcohol, though. That's the funny thing. Alcohol consumption's going down the toilet.

SPEAKER_01 42:44

Oh, yeah. Well, that shows you.

SPEAKER_04 42:45

And they're still gonna lose.

SPEAKER_01 42:46

Well, that's what's funny about when you mentioned prices going up. That's how Crips and Bloods and Pagans and Hell's Angels and cartels, that's how they make money. That's how they're gonna do it. You make it illegal if they're highly addictive, people want them. It's like banning sugar or something. Yeah, and you just bring violence and death and high prices, and it's not a big deal.

SPEAKER_04 43:08

But see, they make money off of that too. So their police force is uh a money-making operation, and then their counterops is a money-making operation, and they can hide their money through there.

SPEAKER_02 43:19

And we all know this. That's my main complaint about Alan Wilson, and he does not understand basic economics, no understanding whatsoever.

SPEAKER_01 43:27

Yeah, or liberty. He's the ultimate paternalist, and you get a lot of that in the state on gambling, on almost sports betting is exploding nationwide. Yeah, and you can't get anything here.

SPEAKER_04 43:42

You can go on that boat.

SPEAKER_01 43:44

You well, you can go on the boat and in uh international waters and the Sun Cruise Casino on the little river.

SPEAKER_04 43:50

Insert the right near me. Yeah, and in insert the boat when I go hiking and they're all they just look like zombies to me. Oh, look, it's a big boat with zombies, or I don't know They're not going anywhere.

SPEAKER_00 44:04

I want to get their advertising. Sorry. They're happy zombies.

SPEAKER_02 44:10

Buy Canada from Ka. Move to South Carolina. You don't have to think about anything. Our government will do all the thinking for you. That's good.

SPEAKER_04 44:19

Just don't go to Alabama. You don't want to go to Alabama, people from the West. Don't you? Just a reminder, don't go to Alabama.

SPEAKER_01 44:30

Don't try to find this beach place.

SPEAKER_04 44:32

Tennessee's the place for you.

SPEAKER_01 44:36

Darren's doing some Psyop shit.

SPEAKER_04 44:38

You don't want to even look at Alabama. Tennessee.

SPEAKER_01 44:41

Well, that you know, another thing that's funny about the violence and the prices and everything, the RAN Corporation did a huge study and the Department of Justice that over 80% of gun deaths are drug and gang related. If you just legalize drugs just across the board, like it's like it's 1910. No FDA, no drug laws, just blank slate again, we would have the violent crime of like Norway. With all the guns. Because it's not the guns correlating with it. It's always the guns. That's one of the things.

SPEAKER_04 45:17

But there is drug violence. There is drug violence on its own. We have illegal drugs. I mean, alcohol violence. Alcohol violence is pretty damn bad. Yeah. Well, it is bad. Statistically proven bad. So is life expectancy.

SPEAKER_01 45:32

Well, and here's the thing Prohibition is when we got our first gun laws. Yeah. It's when we had the highest crime rate in US history. Was the second to last year of prohibition?

SPEAKER_04 45:43

Well, it was an acceptable drug. It was easy to produce. It came from from ancient times. Yeah. Yeah. So but it is a very violent drug.

SPEAKER_01 45:53

It's amazing going through American history how many people supported prohibition, like Susan McAnthony, Abraham Lincoln. They still do.

SPEAKER_04 46:01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 46:01

Yeah. And prohibition was the ultimate. You know, something interesting about how it ended is it's kind of like how uh weed and sports betting and things like that are going now. Is uh they basically just state by state nullified the 18th Amendment. Yeah, that's right. And then and by the time half the states had done it, they finally just passed the 21st Amendment and got rid of that.

SPEAKER_04 46:21

That's so slow and stupid. I mean, that's just another example of how we can slow things down.

SPEAKER_01 46:27

Well, and googling back to this UK thing with cigarettes, this is what happens when you have uh zero principles of liberty, and your whole mindset is just consequentialist, and the whole premise is that you can control everyone like Alan Wilson. I mean, that's about if they're gonna straight up ban tobacco, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 46:47

They they are.

SPEAKER_04 46:48

They're working on it, they're doing it.

SPEAKER_02 46:49

It's a nanny state mentality. You're too stupid to think for yourself, so leave it up to us, the government. We're gonna do your thinking for you. Yeah, and that's where you end up.

SPEAKER_04 46:59

You have stinking, you have stinking thinking, and you'll hurt somebody else, so we need to stop that. Yeah, well, because you can't stop yourself.

SPEAKER_01 47:06

Are they gonna stop vapes? Yeah, they'll stop it all. Oh my god.

SPEAKER_04 47:11

Yeah, they'll stop it all. And so they'll create this crazy illegal market and importation market and violent market, and they'll and then they'll be the people on the sidelines making money from it. They'll profit.

SPEAKER_01 47:21

Yeah, they'll profit from it. Yep. Well, that's remember that.

SPEAKER_04 47:24

A lot of corruption will profit from it.

SPEAKER_01 47:26

Yeah. Remember the Eric Gardner thing where he was selling Lucy's single cigarettes? Yeah, I think. There's a market, there's a market for it. And then the reason that was happening, and the police were called because it's illegal to sell Lucy's, is because the people go down south to the Carolinas, get cheap tobacco.

SPEAKER_04 47:42

In Carolina?

SPEAKER_01 47:43

They go up to Northeast where they have crazy taxes.

SPEAKER_04 47:47

I'm not even aware there's a northeast. I'm not even gonna go anywhere near it. I'm glad they're up there. Caroline goes, hey, what's going on up there? Are you buying cigarettes? Good. Yeah, I don't think they're gonna be able to afford to leave.

SPEAKER_01 48:02

And that's Well, Mom Donnie just did uh he's taxing any second homes.

SPEAKER_04 48:07

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 48:08

And they're basically still Larry Sharp was on his podcast talking about it. They're basically starting the process of not allowing you to leave New York.

SPEAKER_04 48:15

Will there be an exit tax to leave?

SPEAKER_01 48:16

Or is that we're talking about well, what they're starting is like yearly property taxes or something on second homes. Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_04 48:24

Vacant homes, right?

SPEAKER_01 48:25

Vacant or rented or whatever they are.

SPEAKER_04 48:27

They want to do that in San Francisco too. It's like if you have a vacant place they want to charge you.

SPEAKER_00 48:31

I you're gonna see arson go up. Oh, yeah. Definitely. Oh yeah. Insurance money. Yeah. I mean, I if if I can't, if I can't sell the thing and not get damage for it and everything else, I'm gonna burn it down.

SPEAKER_01 48:46

You call Mike, you get the good fellas uh well.

SPEAKER_00 48:50

That's why Mike's not here today. He's he's got a job. He's got a job to do.

SPEAKER_04 48:57

I thought he was a canna rep. Well, and that's maybe not.

SPEAKER_01 49:04

You know what's so crazy about that? San Francisco and that whole tech, it's all moving to like Texas, and they're slowly leaving.

SPEAKER_00 49:12

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 49:12

And California, New York, they're just tripling down on everything. So they have their own income tax, they have all these huge taxes across the whole state and in the city. And now Mom Donnie posted a video outside of like Ken Griffith's like penthouse or something, exactly. And going like, yeah, we're gonna confiscate and tax money from your property. Yeah, and it's like they're literally already the fact he's paying property tax.

SPEAKER_00 49:38

I'm making my promise.

SPEAKER_01 49:39

Yeah, making my promise. Tapping the lens.

SPEAKER_04 49:42

I saw you know, I'm I one of my uh progressive relations had this um video that they posted of this really overweight broker guy, like like some guy, investment guy who made all this money in investment, saying he wants to be taxed, right? He wants this, and we deserve to have this happen. It's gonna benefit everybody. And he he's not leaving, he supports this a hundred percent. I'm like, whoa, whoa.

SPEAKER_00 50:10

Well, then you can donate to the treasury, and then you see him at night wearing the uh the little leather outfits and the woman hitting him with a whip.

SPEAKER_04 50:18

Yeah, yeah, that's kind of it. It was really depressing. I'm like, I looked at this guy, I'm like, he was like, at first, he's like, I've made so much money, and I and I'm not benefiting anybody. I'm not and we need this.

SPEAKER_01 50:32

That's one thing about being a masochist. Yeah, fine, donate all of your money to the treasury. You can legally do that. They have a link on their website.

SPEAKER_04 50:39

You could donate it to that market they're making.

SPEAKER_01 50:41

Well, the guy who did uh Bruce Almighty, that director, he he made like tens of millions and like donated all his money away. Yeah, because he's a left-wing uh he's a little hip hop.

SPEAKER_04 50:51

Guilty for everybody. I feel so guilty.

SPEAKER_01 50:52

But what's nasty about it is the violent element of it is he's saying to confiscate other people's property.

SPEAKER_04 51:00

Property his too, though. I mean and his. He was saying his too, that he's a part of this problem and the problem needs to be solved, and that government's gonna solve it because they've done such a great job so far. Yeah, like I and everybody should pay.

SPEAKER_03 51:12

I'm gonna pay. I haven't done anything. I'm I'm fat and I'm shopping, really is what it is.

SPEAKER_00 51:17

It feels good doing it after the uh 15th of this month. That's another thing. Uh and I hate to hammer on the uh MAGA Republicans right now, but uh I didn't see any uh I ended up paying more in my federal taxes, not less. Fellows, did you get a big don't look at me?

SPEAKER_01 51:41

No.

SPEAKER_00 51:42

I'm gonna look at you. I'm looking I'm looking right at you.

SPEAKER_04 51:45

Yeah, I don't want to talk about that.

SPEAKER_01 51:46

You know when Trump came in in 2016 the debt was right under 20 trillion and now it's like over 40 trillion? Exactly.

SPEAKER_00 51:53

And and and he keeps keep coming out and saying all these tax cuts, all these tax cuts. I didn't see any.

SPEAKER_04 51:59

No, and in their what what on their social security thing, the money they take from you and God knows what happens, they're talking about a 25% reduction in it that's coming up, I think 2032. Well, my I mean this year what kind of scam are these people running? And I looked it up, I'm like, okay, well, if they're gonna do that, can we sue them? Right? Because they took your money and voluntarily took your money, and now they're taking it away. The money they took. Yeah, and there's nothing we can do.

SPEAKER_01 52:29

Yeah, it's it's really nasty. And I will say it's kind of unraveling now, and how Tucker's been treated, and how Oh, you mean the MAGA movement? The whole MAGA thing's kind of spiraling along.

SPEAKER_04 52:42

Yeah, I'm kind of glad in a way, those guys are at least coming out and saying, hey, we don't do we this is nonsense. I mean, that is nice to see, I gotta say that.

SPEAKER_01 52:49

The scariest part of this is because Trump triggers people so hard, and especially the left, when it swings back. I mean, we mentioned Mom Donnie and the New Jersey lady who just won and Virginia. Virginia's gonna be.

SPEAKER_00 53:05

The people who are the anti-Trumpers and the people who are the always Trumpers, they drive they both drive me equally nuts. Um, because they don't focus on actions, individual, you know, things that are going on. They're they're focused on personalities, and you know, uh, if Trump does this, I'm against it. If Trump does this, I'm for it. You know, it not looking at each and every action. There are some things that Trump does, I'm like thumbs up. Some stuff he does, I'm like thumbs down. Well, but I'm looking at each and every, you know, you're thinking logically and individualistically.

SPEAKER_04 53:45

There are groups that don't. They think cooperatively, they think of uh a whole whole.

SPEAKER_01 53:50

We'll talk about hunter-gatherers. We're tribal, and people get completely hypnotized by politics, and it turns into a tribal sport. Yeah. But one thing about uh and they're easy to play.

SPEAKER_04 54:03

Both sides are easy to play. And we've got great propaganda now, like the best propaganda.

SPEAKER_00 54:07

And and if you point out to the people that are on those teams that, hey, I think you're being played, in my opinion, you're being played, they go ballistic. No, I mean, I I just I just say, hey, this is my opinion. Um, if somebody posts this and it's you know, not it it's involved in the personality and it's not that, I discount it. You wouldn't believe. I've I've actually got people that that respond to that. How dare you? Yeah, no, you can't do that.

SPEAKER_04 54:34

The best thing to do is go look, get your booster. Alabama does not exist. You don't know where it is on the map, you're gonna be fine in New York.

SPEAKER_01 54:42

Derek has relocation plans, so I wonder where it's on a real depressing note.

SPEAKER_02 54:50

The progressives are winning the narrative. You know, how can they not be winning the narrative? The Democrat Party saying, we're gonna give you everything you want, and the Republican Party saying, Well, yeah, we're gonna help you, we're gonna develop this program or that program, or we're gonna increase your taxes. They're both saying the same thing. Nobody's talking about what are the benefits of individual and economic freedom. You're not hearing that at today. You're hearing the the progressive narrative. They're winning.

SPEAKER_01 55:18

Well, and that's that's what's scary about the so Scott Adams was huge on Trump, and Trump bluffs and he has a certain style of communication, and people can get like if you magnify every word he says, Andy Kauchrix. He's doing it, he's playing a different game. That they're reading it one way, it's Yanni Laurel type thing, and he's doing a persuasion game. But one thing about like this whole Iran thing and him fracturing MAGA, yeah, is this Virginia phenomenon, this New Jersey phenomenon, it the the yeah, New York of Mam Dani, the pendulum's starting to come.

SPEAKER_04 55:59

Oh, it's and because they have such an emotional hatred of Trump, it went so far emotionally, one way, that you might end up with like uh well, throw in, throw in the whole fear and from from the robots and AI, yeah, and then the goal of UBI and what was uh what was Musk saying, HBI now? The yeah, yeah. So it's a perfect storm for new age communism.

SPEAKER_02 56:28

We're all gonna lose our jobs. We need universal basic income. How am I gonna support myself and my family 10 years from now or two years from now? What are you, a forwardist? Oh, there you go. Time to join the forward party.

SPEAKER_04 56:42

Well, and that's something about Yeah, exactly.

SPEAKER_01 56:44

And well, that's what's well and AI hasn't happened as fast as people eating.

SPEAKER_04 56:48

Oh, yeah, tell that to the 8,000 people that are losing their job over there at Microsoft.

SPEAKER_01 56:52

Well, that's the beginning. So you jacked up. You mean at microphone? Microphone.

SPEAKER_04 56:58

Yeah, you tell that. I mean, no, seriously, I think there's like 16,000 people between them and Facebook that are all gonna be losing their jobs, and those are just the numbers we're hearing. Well, and here's the thing is I mean, and those people are already left at those two corporations on the left side of the of the country. Well, and it's a you're gonna go even further, and they want to punish you for these actions that have happened.

SPEAKER_01 57:18

Well, and w what everyone predicted at the beginning was the opposite, all the low-income jobs ago. No, all the high-income jobs say, and it's been the opposite, it's been the opposite, but it's about the speed of it. Yeah. Because uh the Foundation for Economic Freedom, they had a uh video come out about basically a lot of these jobs, it's basically humans are doing robot jobs, it's not a problem slowly over time. Yeah, when you get it too fast, the the ape brain kicks in and you end up with like UBI.

SPEAKER_06 57:47

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 57:49

But it's we the market is an adaptive uh ecology.

SPEAKER_02 57:55

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_01 57:56

So when they talk about the calculation issue, like Hayek and everything, or spontaneous order, it's a uh they just had a video on the Mises Institute about how AI can't solve the socialist calculation problem. Because you're dealing with quadrillions of decisions and it's an adaptive, it's like a flock of birds.

SPEAKER_00 58:13

Well, I will predict one thing. We, you know, we we see it here on the technology side with AI, but when it's really gonna when the shit's really gonna hit the fan, is when the legal uh profession is really smacked. They're gonna sit there and try to scramble by doing what are they gonna put in place? Yeah, you're right. Yeah, they're gonna try to scramble to start putting in um flaws and everything else. And the problem is that AI is gonna be able to outmaneuver them.

SPEAKER_04 58:44

I use it in course on the butt going back to what you were just saying, is like I it had me thinking is like, would my job that I had before exist? And I think the only reason why it's existing now is just out of habit. Like most of what I did on project management and production could be done by a team lead using AI. They don't even need the producer project manager anymore, other than the human element of rallying people to get stuff done. Well, look at the It's like it's gone.

SPEAKER_01 59:16

The piston engine, the internet, the internet and like Amazon destroyed a bunch of retail stores. Oh, the retail stores. It just at this it has to happen at a certain speed. Not that it has to be controlled forced the top down, but if it happens too fast, uh that's when people champ out one last story because I never run the last minute. I just thought this was uh hilarious. Pete Heggseth comes out, and this isn't even political, this is just hilarious. Pete Hegseth, the Secretary of Defense, he uh went to the Pentagon worship service and he uh told them to please pray with me. And he read not Ezekiel 2517, which is a one-sentence passage from Ezekiel, he went into a paragraph-long monologue with wording such as the path of the righteous man and uh my brother's keeper, and basically the whole first three sentences are from Pulp Fiction.

SPEAKER_04 1:00:28

That's great.

SPEAKER_01 1:00:29

Yeah. He quoted Samuel L. Jackson, which Quentin Tarantino took from a Japanese like martial arts confirm movie from the 70s.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:37

Yeah, uh, from um uh Yuan, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:00:41

Bodyguard Kiba from 1973, Japanese martial arts movie, substituting the Lord with Chiba, the bodyguard. Yeah, but he he read this pray with me, please. The path of the downed aviator is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Again, none of that's in Ezekiel. It sounds like blessed is he who in the name New Testament. He went on a whole speech, and he's known for kind of, we were just talking about alcohol. He's known for maybe being a little bit of a closet drinker. I don't have a alcohol issues.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:18

I don't think this was alcohol-induced. It may have been more AI-induced, but um but yeah, don't look up Ezekiel on ChatGPT.

SPEAKER_01 1:01:26

Yeah, they might uh uh give you a drifted version of it. But uh I I just thought we we'd end instead of on the AI uh economic apocalypse, I thought we'd end on more of a theological note.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:40

And folks, just don't worry about any of the things that we talk about or any of the topics getting you down because quite frankly, we all live in a virtual reality. All simulation. It's all simulation. It's a hologram, we're just a one-hologe. That's right. And with that, this has been another interesting, hilarious, and weird uh edition of Microphone Monkeys. Take a night.