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HEADLINES: Robotaxis Run Solo, Orbit Gets Crowded, and Pepper Spray Hits the Drive-Thru · Nonsense with cj little and Jeff Parker

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  Masking tape's job isn't to not take off the paint like I feel
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  like its job is to take off the. Paint.
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  That is its job, but his job is to be a mask, not to take off
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  paint. I feel like if you are a
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  successful and profitable painter, whenever you finish a
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  project you should leave a couple rolls of masking tape
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  behind. I feel like that's the way to
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  maintain success and revenue is by just leaving some tape just
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  for goodwill. No, just like and tape stuff up.
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  It rips the paint back off. You gotta come back.
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  Oh, and then you're back working again.
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  Sure. Yeah, that makes sense.
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  Yeah, I've found the best jokes, the ones you have to explain
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  quiet plays, the ones where you really have to get in there and
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  get in, look at the details and the nuance.
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  Those are the ones that really four Yeah, knock it out of the
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  park 3. Now that that killed 2.
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  Now that killed. Company presents a truly
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  terrible podcast. Welcome to Nonsense Season 3,
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  episode 60. Seven, I'm Jeff Parker.
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  I'm This is our. Take on the week's business,
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  tech and entertainment headlines.
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  This time, Tesla ditches human safety monitors in Austin Robo.
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  Taxi test, Yeah, those safety monitors are overheard saying,
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  man, those things are not safe. Jordache driver arrested for
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  allegedly seasoning Arby's delivery with pepper spray.
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  But they checked the extra spicy box when they ordered so it's
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  kind of on them. A close call 350 miles up star
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  link and Chinese satellite. Nearly collide yet again.
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  The satellite drivers were looking get their phones.
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  It's just shameful. Google interpreter in your
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  earbuds is here. Porque Google necesita masdetos
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  also. Our big story later this week.
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  New Year's Spoiler alert. CJ and I make are probably wrong
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  predictions for 2026. Problemente inconnecto.
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  Google set CJ back to English. OK.
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  It's our pet ultimate show of the year.
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  After Thursday's episode will be off for two weeks to enjoy a
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  little holiday and New Year's. Celebration and football.
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  You'll be enjoying football in person and watching IU win at
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  the Rose Bowl. That's what you're gonna do.
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  Not if I can help it. How's your week going?
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  Give your Christmas decorations up.
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  Don't be trouble. Why are you always?
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  Trouble 'cause you put up big inflatable things in your yards.
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  We have did. You do it now the, the
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  inflatables, I'm waiting, 'cause I do with the kids and we
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  haven't had the time to do it. And now I'm like, do you feel
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  like diminish returns? And then I just become lazy old
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  man. I'm like, do I wanna put these
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  up for like a week and then just take them back down, have to
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  rinse them off and all that crap?
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  They're gonna make me do it. I'm probably still gonna do it.
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  We do a lot of inflatables. It's a whole, it's a disaster.
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  Yeah, the inside of the house is mainly done.
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  The outside, not so much. Yeah, but the inside's mainly
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  done. Bob Dylan.
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  Used to put up this crummy little cheap string of lights
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  out in front of his house for Christmas and every year, Sure,
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  Meryl Marco would go, 'cause she lives down the street slightly.
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  Yeah, and she would give you the her interpretation.
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  Of the lights of what? Bob, that's awesome.
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  Was telling you through his strings of lights each year.
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  Oh my gosh, so funny. Reading the tea leaves.
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  I'll put a link in the show notes if you want to read some
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  of the past episodes. She stopped.
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  That's really funny. She did it for years.
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  I am continuing in a lifelong tradition of bringing joy to
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  others by acting a complete fool, Yes, which I excel at.
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  I'd like to say I could teach a master class on this.
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  As many of you know, the Lions, the Detroit Lions played in the
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  Los Angeles. They put the Los Angeles Rams on
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  Sunday. Yes.
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  And my good friend Sean, who's a listener of the show and is at
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  least as crazy as me, I think probably more crazy than me, he
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  decided that we needed to go Good.
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  So of course we needed to go. This is after doing our our
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  Tigers ALDS tour earlier this year that we talked about.
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  Sean, of course, made outfits. We had blue Honolulu blue sequin
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  jackets, we had blue wigs. We had custom 3D printed chain
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  medallions that said 313 on them.
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  Yeah, we even had lion tails that that were easily mistaken
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  for butt plugs, which I thought was fantastic.
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  Oh, my lion tail hanging out. We had signs, we had Gothfather
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  signs. We had a Lionswood sign.
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  We had a 313 greater than 213 sign, which was hands down my
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  favorite. Sure, because most people didn't
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  get it. And I find that even more funny.
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  We probably took, I'm not kidding.
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  I want to tell you over 100 pictures with fans, which was.
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  People just came up to you and said.
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  Get a picture with Yeah, yeah. I mean, people were like, I'm
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  sorry, we do. I take another photo like, yeah,
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  what this like we're why we do this?
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  Yeah, we had and we had folks from like out of the country
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  that are at their first NFL game.
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  There are a lot of people there that had come in from Mexico
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  that had never seen an NFL game. They came in not to see the Rams
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  to see the Lions, which I thought was pretty awesome.
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  I don't know why, I don't know. But we had I feel like at least
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  1/3 of that stadium, maybe half was Lions fans.
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  I mean, it was crazy how many Lions fans there were.
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  The Rams fans were exceptionally welcoming.
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  They were very kind to us. It was it was really great or so
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  far is amazing. I mean so far is just a a giant
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  hole that they dug. You walk in the stadium and go
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  down, which is. Pretty crazy.
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  Not great for concerts, at least in my experience.
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  Not great for concerts. Put on a great show for the for
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  the football game was a great show.
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  Sadly, the Lions did not win the game.
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  There was at least one, I'd say very questionable call, but we
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  won't talk about that here. You and everyone else was
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  complaining about that call. Yeah, apparently downs don't
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  matter sometimes. Like you can be down and still
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  slide into the end zone and that's OK.
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  Is is, I think what the end and you only have to catch the ball.
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  You can just sort of trap it underneath you and all the
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  things they say. Never get control of it.
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  That's yeah, yeah, that's not important, important you it
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  doesn't matter. We're we're not complete idiots
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  and we are but but we know how outcomes work and we know that
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  the Lions will inevitably let you down year over year.
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  So we plan for this outcome and had our own take on the do you
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  know the classic sad lions fan paper bag head that they'd show.
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  It was like sad lions fans. They put a paper bag on there.
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  Sure, sure. We did our own version of that
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  and wore those huge hit at the end of the game.
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  Everyone loved it. We had a little paper bag sign
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  that said, you know, 68 years of saying maybe next year.
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  Huge hit. And my favorite part of this
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  whole experience was when we were walking out and some Lions
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  fan walked by us. We sell these paper bags in our
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  heads. Some Lions fan walks by us and
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  says, oh, come on, man, it's not paper bag bad yet.
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  And I was like, oh, he said, yeah, he knows.
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  He's a Lions fan. He knows.
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  So it was it was, it was really funny.
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  And then we got to to walk back to our car dressed as complete
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  idiots in Inglewoods. And I know what it feels like to
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  be a, a male prostitute. It was really great.
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  Nice, got that out. Of the way.
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  Just wanted to check that off the list.
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  We had a lovely time. I cannot tell you how much fun
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  it is to just go bring people joy.
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  I really care about the game. The game was fun, but it was
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  really fun to have this many people be happy for a moment.
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  And I'm, I'm on a bunch of social media posts you know of.
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  Course, of course. And now the question everybody
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  is going to be asking in their minds, because everybody asks
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  this anytime you go there, how long did it take you to get in?
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  How long did it take you to get out?
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  Oh, from Sofi. Oh yeah, the drive.
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  We went super early and the drive was easy peasy lemon
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  squeezy. That was great.
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  I made a calculation to not park at the stadium because I've
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  heard egress can be terrible, horrible.
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  So we parked about a mile away at a very nice Inglewood City
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  parking facility. They give you shuttle bus
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  tickets. How nice.
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  You didn't take the shuttle bus? We actually walked because that
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  was way more fun. I mean, we walked in.
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  That was a blast. We had we had VIP tour buses of
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  Lions fans cheering for us as we're walking.
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  Down the street. Awesome.
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  It also didn't hurt the IT was like 68° and beautiful out, but
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  egress wasn't bad. We got out, We just walked back
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  to the car. It was a 20 minute walk.
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  And then it was about 40 minutes back to the house where you know
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  the best time you're going to get 25 minutes.
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  So it was 15 extra minutes. It wasn't bad.
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  That's great. But the people that parked in
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  the parking lot, I think they're still there at the time of
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  recording. Oh yeah, yeah.
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  It's terrible, terrible. It is awful getting out of that
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  lot. I mean, I can, I can only assume
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  in the future there's going to be a day where you've got events
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  letting out at the form at Sofi and it into it all at the same
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  time. And I think the Earth might stop
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  spinning. Like I don't know what's going
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  to happen. It's going to be absolutely.
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  Terrible. Although I think, you know, at
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  some point we're going to be allowed to build train stations,
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  subway stations near those venues.
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  Yeah, and that will solve all of those problems.
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  But until then, why do you make a venue where we don't have a
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  subway? Well, you got to start
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  somewhere. OK, so but let's put the subway
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  in. I don't know, man.
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  They remember they wanted to put, they were talking about
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  putting the NFL stadium downtown.
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  I think that would have been worse if they if that thing was
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  downtown. Could you imagine the the the
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  gridlock you would have? Well, it's the red line.
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  I could have gotten out very, very quickly using the red
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  light. Yeah, but then.
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  You smell like urine. Is there a non urine car?
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  I've been on the road in a while but is it like smoking?
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  non-smoking? The last couple times I went on
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  there it smelled like two things, urine and COVID.
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  I was like, oh boy, it's time to get off.
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  COVID has a smell. Oh.
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  Yeah, you could. I mean, there's just a bunch of
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  people coughing. I was just like, this is not
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  good. This is not where I want to be
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  right now. Anyway, I I had a lovely, lovely
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  week. I'm sure folks have, have
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  already seen some of the pictures.
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  I'll, I'll, I'll post some. We had a great time and I'm I'm
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  happy to be back in the saddle for our last week before our
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  break end of our third season. This is a big deal.
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  It's a big. Big deal.
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  How about you? How was your week?
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  My week was lovely. I've been doing, I did nothing
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  like you. I didn't go anywhere or do
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  anything, but I am loading up a cart of cheap thread devices at
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  the IKEA website or I don't know why these are like normally
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  these devices are 30 bucks everywhere else and they're $8
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  motion sensors, $8 window door sensors, $6 remotes.
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  I don't know how they do it so cheaply and I would expect
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  because it's IKEA and historically their smart home
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  stuff has worked really well. I presume this stuff will work.
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  Really it's. Going to work great.
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  I've seen some tear downs of these devices.
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  They went out of their way to make them cost effective to make
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  like they're all single side PCBS.
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  They're they're relatively few components.
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  Like they've done an excellent job making these things
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  effective and cheap and I'm I'm extremely impressed.
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  I can't wait to to get them, although I absolutely have no
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  need for them. My house is fully smart now.
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  You don't need. Need needs, not important.
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  You got to have them. You just got to have them near.
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  Yeah, I understand. I just can't help myself.
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  It's like it's like your comfort blanket.
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  I just love this version of us where Sunday I'm at Sofi going
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  to a football game, interacting with lots of people I don't
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  know, taking pictures. Meanwhile, you're like
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  underneath a blanket on your couch with an iPad so your wife
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  doesn't see you ordering a bunch of crap from IKEA that you don't
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  need. And just like, is he watching
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  porn? No, he's probably ordering home
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  automation stuff. That's what he says.
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  He's just on IKEA site getting some motion sensors we had.
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  Games. They were just all away games.
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  The Lakers have been on a big road trip.
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  Yeah, how's that working out for him?
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  Let's get to our headlines. After seven crashes, Tesla
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  eliminates the Human safety monitor Tesla has achieved a
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  critical milestone by removing all human safety monitors from
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  its robo taxi test fleet in Austin, TX, a move confirmed by
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  CEO Elon Musk. This accelerates the company S
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  goal to launch a commercial autonomous ride service to
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  compete with Way MO. This decision intensifies
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  scrutiny, especially since the small Tesla fee has been
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  involved in at least seven crashes since June, with details
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  heavily redacted by the company. Tesla is focusing on Texas due
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  to its lighter regulations compared to California, where
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  multiple permits are needed. The company's current fleet of
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  25 to 30 cars is in sharp contrast to Musk's earlier
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  ambitious expansion goals. You know they've.
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  Already surpassed Forest Lawn. They've already beaten Forest
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  Lawn, so now they're going after Waymo.
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  They still don't have LIDAR in their cars.
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  They're still not gonna. Put Lidar in their cars.
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  That's not the plan. I know, but that's the problem,
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  at least for now. We no no optically not equipped
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  to for this to work. They're taking the Roomba
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  approach. They just put a little bumper.
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  They know when they hit shit, and then when they hit stuff
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  that's like, oh, turn around after the fact.
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  Just like, you know, in the Roomba runs into your wall and
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  it turns around and speeds the other way.
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  That's what they're gonna do. They're gonna just bump into
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  stuff they hit. Four objects in September, yeah.
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  Those objects had it coming. One of them was a.
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  Dog. Do you know how that dog was
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  dressed? Very provocative.
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  Was he? It's his fault you're blazing it
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  on the. Dog dog's fault.
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  What was the dog? Doing in the street.
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  See, that's the problem. That's where the car is.
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  Going to the other side. Unless it was on the sidewalk.
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  Yeah, they hit a cyclist. Oh, no, really?
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  Yeah, they hit a cyclist. Yeah, it's terrible.
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  They hit a car that was backing up.
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  Well, probably had it coming. What else?
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  That is, there's just 4. Of them were in September,
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  that's all you got? No, there were three of them in
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  July. OK, you got a dog, you got a
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  cyclist, and you got a car back in it.
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  That almost never happens in real.
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  Life. It's a higher rate of accidents
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  per mile driven than humans have.
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  It's a higher rate of. Accidents than the Waymo is the
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  opposite. They have way lower rates of
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  accidents. Than kids on learning permits
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  like you could get 3. Kids on learning permits
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  probably do pretty well. You could 'cause they're being
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  super cautious. We could go to Avis, rent a car
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  right now, put 3 rhesus monkeys in there and it would do better
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  than these things, yes. It's not an impressive.
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  Record. I'm I'm, I'm, I'm almost, almost
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  keyword tired of banging this drum over and over again.
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  Sure. Remember, this is the guy that
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  in July of this year said half of the population of the US
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  would be covered by robotaxi. Yeah, half right, You know, and
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  I was just like, good luck, like, OK, I see no path by which
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  you get there. Sure.
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  They've now revised that number, not Elon, but they've now
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  revised that number saying that they would get to maybe 60
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  vehicles by the end of the year. I'm sure, I'm sure I'm less
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  concerned like. Five orders of magnitude
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  different. Oh yeah.
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  Yeah, no, no, I'm less concerned about the, you know, the, the
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  lying about what they will do and more concerned about the
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  safety and the harm that they're about to do by taking out.
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  The Well, that's the. Good news, human safety
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  monitors. That's the good news.
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  California, you know us, we're just this bastion of regulation.
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  Just, you know, not we don't want businesses to succeed in
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  California. We want them all to fail.
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  Good news, Texas, no regulation. Sure.
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  So they can just go put these cars on the road and do, I'm not
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  gonna say whatever they want, but there's a lot less
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  regulation. Pretty close for for driverless.
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  Cars. Now, in all fairness, the reason
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  we have that regulation in California is because we had
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  driverless cars that were for a while crashing into people,
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  problems, dogs and things. Yes.
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  Turns out we we have a tendency to like.
• 12:40
  People, we got tired. Of it but I'd also like to to
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  remind folks that you know what 910 years ago I think it was
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  like 2016 Elon promised that every Tesla made would have all
• 12:48
  the hardware required to become autonomous we're just waiting on
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  the software and they've since walked that back technically
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  twice yeah like technically twice they were like Oh well the
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  first stuff no so much and then all the hardware 3 now they're
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  just like yeah no just kidding you're gonna need hardware for
• 13:02
  sure sure and we'll see like I think there was a lawsuit
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  several years ago that made them upgrade just for FSD from from 2
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  or 2.5 to 3:00 and they wanted to charge customers for it
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  they're just customers like no right that's not OK so who knows
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  where this is going but I'm not I'm not very optimistic that any
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  of these claims are gonna be met anytime soon I think.
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  Eventually your suits against Tesla for Musk's lies are going
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  to fail, because eventually it's going to be he's a known yeah
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  liar, Yeah. Good point.
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  Good. Point.
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  I mean, at what point did you not realize that this, what he
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  was saying, was never going to come?
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  True. Yeah, it's expected that this is
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  not gonna Yeah. How?
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  Long does it take you to figure that out?
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  Yeah. Anyway, I want to be optimistic
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  that there's a path with just optical sensors alone.
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  My problem is the optical sensors are worse than our eyes
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  currently. Pretty significantly, yeah.
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  So until you at least get it to be comparable, you're still a
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  long way. Away.
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  Oh yeah, for sure. And I go.
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  Up with this lighter stuff getting cheaper and it works
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  really, really well and now it's better than your eyes.
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  Lighter stuff is getting cheaper and cheaper.
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  It's amazing how much the prices have dropped for.
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  Lidar sensors, I mean, it's, it's really cool.
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  Like I've actually been looking getting some some LIDAR based 3D
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  scanning devices that are pretty inexpensive just to have to
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  screw around with. I mean, this is tech that was 2
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  orders of magnitude about, let's say a decade ago in cost.
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  And by the way, the resolution was a fraction of what it is
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  now. Like it's gotten better in all
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  regards. Probably probably beaten Moore's
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  Law if I had to guess, but I'll have to.
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  I'll have to go plot that. Pretty amazing.
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  Pretty nuts. Yeah, pretty nuts.
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  Anything else you want to include in the story?
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  Yeah, man, Tesla, I'm going to give it a buy rating.
• 14:27
  What are we doing? We're becoming the new Dick.
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  Kramer of podcast DoorDash driver faces felony charges over
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  tampered meal and Evansville, IN woman is facing felony charges
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  after allegedly spraying a DoorDash delivery with a
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  substance that caused customers to vomit and experience a
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  burning sensation. On December 7th, the man
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  reported that he and his wife became I'll after eating an
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  Arby's order. Doorbell camera footage
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  allegedly showed the delivery driver, Courtney Stevenson of
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  Kentucky, spraying A substance from a keychain aerosol can
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  toward the food after drop off Steven and told police she used
• 14:57
  a pepper spray on a spider, but the Vanderburg County Sheriff's
• 15:00
  Office disputed this due to the cold temperatures.
• 15:03
  Spiders apparently don't come out cold.
• 15:05
  I guess I don't know. After Stevenson declined an
• 15:07
  interview, detectives obtained an arrest warrant.
• 15:08
  She now faces charges for battery resulting in moderate
• 15:11
  injury and consumer product tampering and is awaiting
• 15:13
  extradition. DoorDash has permanently banned
• 15:16
  her from the platform. Apparently she can no longer
• 15:18
  order food either. Yeah.
• 15:18
  Well, good on you, DoorDash. Way to get in front of that one
• 15:21
  banner. Apparently that is too much.
• 15:23
  Yeah, it was like 37° overnight spiders, no worky in the freezy,
• 15:27
  right? Like that's not like, yeah,
• 15:29
  first of all, that's just silly. But more importantly, like
• 15:31
  you're blaming the pepper spray she sprayed on why you got sick
• 15:34
  from Arby's. I would question the Arby's
• 15:36
  before I'd question the pepper spray like it's Arby's.
• 15:38
  The pepper spray was probably fine.
• 15:40
  And by the way, it's. Arby's delivered to you even
• 15:42
  slower than getting it there, which just gives the bacteria
• 15:44
  more time to have a party. Arby's they were having at
• 15:47
  midnight. They were probably sober.
• 15:50
  Sober, probably reading the Bible if I had to guess what
• 15:52
  they were doing. Yeah, there might have been
• 15:54
  other reasons for them to vomit. I really want to follow this
• 15:56
  story because I want to know what she was thinking.
• 15:59
  I don't think it was as easy as these people made an Arby's
• 16:02
  order. I'm going to drop it off.
• 16:03
  Oh, wait, I'm going to paint it with pepper spray.
• 16:04
  Yeah. I don't buy the spider story.
• 16:06
  My hunch is she saw something like they had like AIU Banner up
• 16:09
  or something and she was just like.
• 16:11
  Oh baby LSU fan or. Some crap like that, sure, That
• 16:14
  I would find is more believable. So I really want to know what
• 16:17
  happened here. Hopefully she will say it.
• 16:18
  I would also like to point out that as of the time of
• 16:20
  recording, she's currently being held without bail in Kentucky
• 16:23
  awaiting extradition to Indiana. Yeah, Indiana, which I kind of
• 16:28
  love. It's about 7 feet.
• 16:29
  Evansville is just right. So close.
• 16:31
  Just love. That they're going to extradite
• 16:32
  her from Kentucky to Indiana for this sure, which I think they
• 16:36
  should. I'm not I'm not, I'm not being
• 16:37
  sarcastic. I absolutely think that they
• 16:38
  should, but I just it's like she's in there, the extras.
• 16:41
  And what are you in for? Murder?
• 16:42
  What do you do spiced up some Arby's like seasoned?
• 16:45
  Some Arby's. It's just like, oh wow, yeah,
• 16:48
  put her into solitary. She's definitely a threat.
• 16:50
  Anyway, this story. Would you have such a problem
• 16:53
  with it if it were not Arby's? You see?
• 16:54
  I mean the Arby's could have gotten the people sick too, as
• 16:56
  you said. Taco Bell, right?
• 16:57
  If it was Taco Bell or Mexican food stream, it would have been
• 16:59
  probably fine, right? Well, I.
• 17:00
  Would have been encouraged. I got a better tip.
• 17:02
  Maybe that's what it was. Maybe she just thought it was
• 17:03
  Taco Bell Yokiro pepper spray and then she just sprayed it on
• 17:06
  there. Close call 350 miles up,
• 17:08
  Starlink and Chinese satellite nearly collide A recent close
• 17:11
  approach in low Earth orbit occurred between a new, really
• 17:14
  launched CAS space satellite from China and a Starlink
• 17:17
  satellite missing a collision by a mere 200 meters.
• 17:20
  SpaceX blamed the Chinese operator for not sharing
• 17:22
  location data, which is crucial for Starlink's automatic
• 17:24
  collision avoidance system to function.
• 17:26
  Starlink VP Michael Nichols noted that no coordination was
• 17:29
  performed. Now, does that work like the
• 17:31
  Tesla Autopilot? The avoidance system only,
• 17:33
  except they have to know where objects are going to be.
• 17:36
  Ahead of time, I do think it would be great.
• 17:37
  I do see this being a defense. When the Tesla runs over like a,
• 17:40
  you know, a dog, they're just going to be like, well, the dog
• 17:42
  wasn't registered in its position, location data.
• 17:44
  We had no idea where it was. So you got to coordinate with
• 17:47
  us. They.
• 17:47
  Have to let us know in advance, yeah?
• 17:49
  Otherwise we wouldn't, I mean that curb could be anywhere.
• 17:51
  This is very interesting and I'm saying interesting with like a
• 17:54
  like a asterisk and a brow lifted up because really, OK,
• 17:58
  this is not good. 200 meters is insanely close, right?
• 18:02
  That's like 2 football fields. I'm like 600 ish.
• 18:04
  Sure. In space terms, that's very,
• 18:06
  very close. It's.
• 18:07
  Way too close for comfort and you run the risk.
• 18:10
  You know, there's so many objects up there.
• 18:12
  We currently have, you know, something, 4000 tracked objects
• 18:14
  up there. We expect that number to almost
• 18:16
  triple by 20-30, which is insane.
• 18:19
  It probably almost tripled that afternoon.
• 18:21
  Yeah. Well, I mean, if those objects
• 18:22
  would have collided, you would have had a gazillion little
• 18:25
  pieces scattered out. So that's.
• 18:27
  What we call the Kessler syndrome, right?
• 18:28
  So that that collision scenario is, we've talked about this on
• 18:31
  the show before. When you have a collision
• 18:33
  between objects in space, typically speaking, it's there.
• 18:36
  It's like rabbits breeding. You're going to get a lot more
• 18:38
  objects that come out of that right?
• 18:40
  When they when they meet, of course you're now going to have
• 18:42
  a bunch of parts that come out of that.
• 18:43
  Those parts now are going to fly around and run into more stuff.
• 18:47
  And that's going to make it very difficult for stuff to get out
• 18:49
  of the way. So you run this risk of having
• 18:52
  this incident and then this cascading catastrophic event
• 18:56
  that could just wipe out a whole bunch of satellites.
• 18:58
  Very. Quickly, you don't have
• 18:59
  satellites in space, you just have satellite.
• 19:01
  Parts exactly, yeah. And then you could, you know,
• 19:03
  you could certainly see a world where if somebody was planned
• 19:07
  for this and if you had your systems that were critical be
• 19:09
  able to avert from these things or be at a different altitude.
• 19:12
  They don't call it altitude. They call different.
• 19:14
  Is it attitude. Basically there's in a different
• 19:16
  a different layer of the gumball.
• 19:18
  You could wipe out an entire infrastructure.
• 19:21
  I'm sure there are folks way smarter than this that don't
• 19:23
  talk about it publicly that have figured out how to layer their
• 19:25
  satellite approaches so that this is less likely to happen.
• 19:27
  But man, this seems like real risk.
• 19:29
  Yeah. The other thing that's sort of
• 19:30
  that goes unnoticed in the in the press on this is that this
• 19:34
  this close call between this Chinese satellite and it was, it
• 19:36
  was it almost struck Starlink 6079, which of all the Starlink
• 19:41
  satellites is my personal favorite.
• 19:43
  OK, that's the one. You get your data 60. 79, it's
• 19:46
  the only one I get my data from just the other ones kind of
• 19:48
  phone it in 67, nine it's the hardest working Starlink
• 19:51
  satellite. Yeah, sure.
• 19:52
  I just, I just call him sure. Barry Barry he's Barry to you
• 19:55
  uses Barry. Google Translate now whispers 70
• 19:57
  languages in real time Google is rolling out a new beta feature
• 20:00
  for Google Translate on Android, enabling real time audio
• 20:03
  translation delivered directly through your headphones or
• 20:05
  earbuds. This tool, first available in
• 20:07
  the US, India and Mexico, sports over 70 languages including
• 20:10
  Spanish, Hindi and Japanese. It allows users to instantly.
• 20:13
  Understand live conversations, speeches, lectures abroad, or
• 20:16
  even TV shows and film in a different language without
• 20:19
  reading or fluency. Additionally, Google is
• 20:21
  enhancing translations to better handle idioms and slang like
• 20:24
  Stealing My Thunder, rolling out this week on all platforms in
• 20:26
  the US and India for English and almost 20 other languages.
• 20:30
  OK, two things. One, I mean, other than the fact
• 20:32
  that this is super cool. One, yeah, I am really glad to
• 20:35
  see Google catching up to Apple. I really think that's great that
• 20:38
  they're finally. Earbuds 3 that.
• 20:40
  They're finally getting caught up to Apple, yeah.
• 20:42
  Have you tried to do any of the translations on the earbuds 30?
• 20:45
  No, it doesn't work. The lag would.
• 20:46
  Kill you, you know, Plus it gets a lot wrong, yeah.
• 20:50
  It's basically like, you remember the old SNL Chris
• 20:53
  Farley bit where he comes up with something that's really
• 20:55
  funny, but it's like 30 seconds late.
• 20:57
  It's basically that. It gives you that.
• 20:58
  Yeah, it's. Exactly what those feel like.
• 21:00
  Yeah. The other thing I'd like to
• 21:01
  point out is that of the 70 languages that it supports out
• 21:04
  of the gate, JavaScript is not one of them.
• 21:06
  No, yeah, of course not. So I'd just like to point that
• 21:07
  out. There's sort of 2 takes on this.
• 21:09
  The one is, I love that this makes the world a smaller place.
• 21:12
  It makes your, your ability to interact with other humans
• 21:15
  easier. You can consume knowledge and
• 21:18
  content and culture easier. And I really do love that.
• 21:21
  But the other side of that sword is it gives me less
• 21:24
  encouragement to learn that language, which is a big part of
• 21:27
  their culture. And I don't know how I feel
• 21:28
  about that. Right.
• 21:29
  Like me, I'm, I'm not a, I'm not a Poly linguist.
• 21:33
  I can barely speak English, sure.
• 21:35
  And but I have friends that can speak, you know, 5 languages.
• 21:37
  And I'm always envious of that because they can go into these
• 21:40
  cultures and just communicate. And I feel like, like, I used to
• 21:42
  go to France all the time, and I would struggle so much with
• 21:45
  their language, but the French would appreciate it if I would
• 21:47
  just like, I'd butcher the crap out of French fries.
• 21:49
  And they would just come back to me in English and be like, like,
• 21:51
  what kind of croissant do you want?
• 21:52
  And I'd point at the butter and the chocolate 1, hold up my
• 21:54
  fingers and say 3. And I'd go on my way.
• 21:56
  But these Americans would walk in, like, right behind me and
• 21:58
  they'd be like, give me a croissant.
• 22:00
  And they would just look at them and yell at them in French.
• 22:02
  Yeah. And I was like, you know, 'cause
• 22:03
  I at least tried. And I'm afraid that this like me
• 22:06
  walking into the the cafe in Paris and holding out my phone
• 22:10
  to be like I would like 3 chocolate croissants please is
• 22:12
  not the experience. But I really want them to have
• 22:15
  and not the one I want to have. So I'm I'm torn on this 'cause I
• 22:17
  I can really see it both. Ways just depends on how many
• 22:19
  countries you go to and how many different languages 'cause
• 22:21
  you'res never gonna have time to learn them all of.
• 22:23
  Course, of course, I speaking. In France, I have been in France
• 22:26
  and had and actually use the Google Translate thing on the
• 22:28
  phone where you actually take turns speaking, which is not the
• 22:30
  same as the live translation but still 100% worked magically.
• 22:34
  Oh yeah, we each took turns speaking into it and then spoke
• 22:37
  back to us. Yeah, in our respective
• 22:39
  languages. And it worked brilliantly.
• 22:40
  The efficacy and accuracy, I'm not debating at all.
• 22:43
  It's It's incredible how well that works for.
• 22:45
  Sure was really cool. And the fact that they're
• 22:46
  bolting on like idiom support and slang is, is really awesome.
• 22:49
  I'd love to know more how they're doing that.
• 22:51
  Amazing. Yeah.
• 22:51
  So this is really cool and I'm glad they're all doing it.
• 22:54
  I'd rather have the ability, I guess, and not use it.
• 22:56
  But I do kind of. It does concern me that I.
• 22:58
  Use it to talk to the gardeners and and not too long ago and it
• 23:01
  was absolutely so useful well to you.
• 23:04
  But to them, you're still doing it in French and they're like,
• 23:06
  what is this guy doing? Like, just talk to us in
• 23:08
  English, buddy. Why are you?
• 23:10
  OK, enough of the headlines. In fact, enough of the episode
• 23:11
  we have to get out of here. Special links to our floor
• 23:13
  director Venkat Moody, Allah. Thanks.
• 23:15
  Ready. We'll be back.
• 23:16
  Later this week with our big story, the Oracle is out of the
• 23:18
  office. Educated guesses for
• 23:20
  unprecedented times. Until then, thank you for
• 23:22
  listening to all this nonsense. I'm Jeff Parker.
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  Now, I actually called that number because why not?
• 24:26
  And I'm not making this up. It picks up and it says
• 24:29
  congratulations, because you called today.
• 24:31
  We are offering you a free medical alert device that's just
• 24:34
  like, oh wow, are they just buying like old numbers and just
• 24:38
  like directing them to like met alert bracelets and necklaces?
• 24:40
  Oh, it's not even this. The Dynatech company.
• 24:42
  No, I don't even know what it is.
• 24:44
  It's some sort of hackery crapness.
• 24:46
  I don't know. OK.
• 24:47
  OK, anyway. Your job is simple, Jeff.
• 24:49
  Your job is to tell me what year you think this ad and product
• 24:53
  were. But I need to know is this a
• 24:55
  battery? 300 and 500 Watt models?
• 24:57
  I don't know what that is. What kind of capacity of battery
• 24:59
  is that? If it's a battery, that doesn't
• 25:00
  really tell me to look. Look man, I just read the ads
• 25:03
  and host the show. I'm not like a.
• 25:05
  Fact Check. So you don't know you have no.
• 25:06
  Idea. I'm assuming it's a battery.
• 25:07
  I don't know what other kind of magic they would do in order to
• 25:10
  to to do this. If it's a battery, they don't
• 25:12
  give you enough information because you don't know how long
• 25:14
  or how much power this thing is going to.
• 25:16
  They said 300. And 500 Watt.
• 25:18
  Models, yeah, that doesn't tell me anything I don't how many
• 25:21
  Watt hours do I read the. Atom need almost verbatim.
• 25:24
  I mean depends on what you consume right?
• 25:26
  If it's got 300 watts of power and you consume 300 watts, it
• 25:30
  will last for one hour. The fact that it is touting in
• 25:33
  their surge protection capabilities makes me think this
• 25:37
  is mid 80s and I'm guessing probably 1985.
• 25:40
  And I'll tell you why, because a friend of mine who's also a
• 25:44
  friend of yours used to do this thing where we would go and set
• 25:47
  people's computers into other languages.
• 25:49
  Yeah, used to, yeah. Past tense?
• 25:51
  Yeah, Surely I don't do that anymore.
• 25:53
  Nope. And the IT people where we were
• 25:55
  doing this came and looked at the computers and said oh, you
• 25:58
  must have had some static electricity or something.
• 26:01
  It must have been a totally that changed, you know, so that when
• 26:03
  you're typing, you're typing in Korean.
• 26:05
  And so they got everybody, these static pads, Touch me first
• 26:08
  pads. Sure.
• 26:09
  Before you touched your computer, you were supposed to
• 26:11
  touch this pad. Yeah.
• 26:12
  To discharge any, you know. Yeah.
• 26:13
  And basically that was how they dealt with the surge protection
• 26:16
  in those days. So that was 1985.
• 26:18
  So I'll make my guess 1985. By the way, hypothetically this
• 26:22
  same joke still works on on phones.
• 26:24
  Yes, when your friends hypothetically hand you their
• 26:26
  phone. Of course.
• 26:27
  You Sir, could not be closer. 1985 is the year of this ad.
• 26:31
  This was from from Bike magazine.
• 26:33
  Yeah, sure, in 1985. So you could not be closer.