Latest / overslept w/ chris laker / happy labor day - sep 07 2026
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- Chris Laker: I'm doing video again. I I'll do it for a little while. If anybody watches it then I'll keep doing it. And if not, I'll just stop 'cause I don't I hate it. I hate looking at my s I am doing video again. I said ⁓ I'm doing video again, which I'm not happy about, but if people watch it, I'll keep doing it. For now it's on Substack. You gotta go to my Substack to watch the video. I that's just where it's gonna be, Substack. Eventually maybe it will be on Apple Podcasts, but I gotta set that up and I I don't know if I'll be doing it that long. If you wanna watch this video, go to Substack. That's all I'm saying. Do a video again today, which I'm not happy about. If you want to watch this video If you want to watch the video of this podcast, go to my substack. That's where it lives. And it's where I live. Mm-hmm. If you want to watch the video of today's podcast, which is just me, just my face in front of my blinds while I'm sitting in bed. It's nothing I don't know. But if you'd like to watch that, it's on my Substack. Go over there and otherwise just listen to it. And that's fine too. It's Labor Day, I'm working, Happy Labor Day, which is do people say happy Labor Day? That doesn't sound right. You should. Wish somebody a happy Labor Day today. Wal when you're walking down the street, you see a stranger, make eye contact, stare at them until they make eye contact, say happy Labor Day. And if they don't say happy Labor Day back, say fine, fuck you. Well don't do that. Don't don't be confrontational. I just think it's funny. I don't know why it's even making me laugh. Don't do that. Don't be confrontational. But ⁓ do say happy hey, just don't do that, don't be confrontational. But just give ⁓ yeah. Yeah, don't say fuck you. Give your happy Labor Day freely. You you might not get it back. You probably won't. I don't think if s no somebody said happy Labor Day to me, I would say and to you, sir. No, don't say fuck you. I I'm joking, don't say fuck you. Give your happy Labor Day freely. 'Cause you probably won't get it back. I don't know what I would do if somebody said happy Labor Day to me. I guess I'd say it back. I would be caught off guard. And I would say, What's this person up to? Are they gonna try to get money out of me? Maybe I should act like I didn't even hear them. They People can't see when I have my AirPods in because of my hair. So th they will talk at me and if I ignore them, or like I I can kind of sense somebody's talking at me, but I don't hear them and it's almost like, hey, I'm not stopping to figure out whether somebody I don't know is talking to me. It would be better if I had short hair and they saw the AirPods, then they would know that's what it is. But Why wouldn't they assume that I got AirPods? You can't see my ears. Of course I got AirPods in. What do you think I am? Just walking around with no soundtrack? I need I need music while I'm walking. Although yeah, I don't a lot of times I don't in LA I don't like to have AirPods in all the time because you need to know what's going on. Shit's happened. It's it's it's it's a it's a crazy place. All right. But ⁓ yeah, enjoy your labor day. You got a day off. If you're in the United States, if you're somewhere else, then no, you don't maybe. But you got holidays that we don't have, so that's cool. Hopefully you have more holidays. We should have a holiday every week. There should be a day off and it shouldn't just be three day weekends. It should kind of be sometimes it's Wednesdays off. You know? Mix it up. Every week is a little different. ⁓ There's a there's a lot more holidays that we could we could be celebrating. And I'm But coming out but now late but Monday off is great because now you're going into that short week. Tomorrow, Tuesday, your week's over already. So just you just coast through. I mean now it's summer's over and people are gonna really expect shit. That's fucking This is this is fucking laborious. I am ⁓ hating doing the video. It lo it seeing my face as I'm talking is f really frustrating. And to look aw I can't look away from the camera. I don't know. This is this is probably not gonna last. It and I can't just be talking about the video all the time. All right. It is a it is a short week. Well it is a holiday. I should be off right now and I'm not. So maybe today's a short day and this video is like frustrating. It looking at my face while I'm talking is the worst. So I'm just gonna I'm just gonna get into the news. LG smart TV's caught logging audio with screen off and snooping on local devices. LG This isn't surprising. I still don't know. Why are you listening into people's conversations, LG sp it's it's for the ads. They're gonna they they want ⁓ what are they talking about? Is there products that we can be if I'm talking about the product, I already want the product. So why are you giving me an ad for the thing I'm talking about? Or maybe give me the ads for the things I'm not talking about, or an altern whatever. I'm never gonna buy something off a smart T V ad, although I use Apple TV. I don't get ads. I don't using the in T V Netflix is a terrible experience. Get yourself a set top box, you know, get your You gotta get an Apple T I know Apple products annoying. Apple's a terrible company, but there's no ads yet. They started putting ads in their maps. When it's like Google Maps are already better than you, and now you're gonna make Apple Maps have ads. That is What is why is everybody gotta be snooping? What's what do they think they're gonna find out? By list let me listen in, let me check what else you're doing. ⁓ we gotta serve the ad. I've gone off about this a number of times. We all want all the dumb shit. Just give us the fucking ads. Stop like looking into our goddamn Just give us the ads. It's like there's like how many different kinds of there's the car commercial, there's the drug commercial. We all need cars, we all need drugs. Just g give the commercials. I you know, I don't even know what the drugs do and I already have a car. You really you're looking for people that are sick and currently and All this spying over the commercials. There's like two kinds of commercials. There's car commercials and drug commercials. I don't need any drugs right now and I have a car. You're looking for sick people whose leases are up. And ⁓ why else are you s I'm All this spying over the ads when there's really two kinds of ads. There's car commercials and drug commercials. I don't know what any of those drugs do, and I have a car. You're looking for a sick person whose lease is up. That's who you need to track down. I'm not gonna be and when I g go get a car, I'm gonna get the same, I'm gonna get a Toyota. You can advertise every other car to me. doesn't mean anything. I'm going back to the Toyota dealership and whatever. Hmm. And what am I gonna get out of a you know, yeah. And when my lease is up I'm going back to the Toyota dealership and I'm gonna get like the same thing. I would s ⁓ it's and every other everything with a microphone is constantly listening, I guess. I wanna think that it's not, but boop boop boob boop boop boo I don't have an L G T V I have a Sony. That's probably listening too though. Why wouldn't they? If they hear LG's listening, they're well w well if they're doing it, we better do it. We w they're getting That yeah. I don't have an LG TV, I have a Sony. Sony's probably listening too though. Why wouldn't they? If you got a microphone in the house, you kinda want to listen in. It might not even be about ads. It might just be like, hey, it's fun to listen in to people's conversations. You know, it might be l whoever owns LG is just some guy who wants to eavesdrop. Just likes spying on. Whoever owns LG just might be like a crazy nosy person who likes listening to couples argue. Just keeps scanning through TVs. Hey, what's going on there? ⁓ they're just If I could have a microphone in everybody's house, I would be listening in. I would be I I'm I am like that. If I if I did have a if I had a microphone in everybody's house, I would be listening in. I am I am that's something I would do. Well, if LG if you have an LG TV, just know they're listening and give ⁓ a show. Next time you if you're if you get ⁓ you know Well, if you have an LG, they're listening, so ⁓ give ⁓ a show. Pretend that you're plotting a big heist of If you do have an LG if you have an LG TV, they are listening, so give ⁓ a show. Pretend you're planning a heist and see if the cops show up. Fuel prices at record labor day high in US thanks to Iran war and refinery issue. ⁓ thanks, Iran war and refinery issues. I said refinery issue. ⁓ it's refinery issues. Yesterday I well I'm not even gonna get into mistakes I made yesterday. There was a sometimes I misspeak. It happens. I'm not a real journalist. So fuel prices are at record high. Isn't that exciting? They're whatever you're paying, this is a record. You're a part of you're a part of history. Go ⁓ gas up the the the car. Hope hopefully you have a truck. And it's a lot of gas. And you you pay a lot of money. And that ⁓ helps support oil companies. Far right alternative for German party wins big in regional elections, but falls short of majority. What is it about the far right? Look at what's happening in the United States and it's f dumb shit. It's not e it's just so fucking dumb. And then Germany Germany's far right, I mean come What the f yeah. People are stupid. And that includes me. I'm not acting like I'm smarter than everybody. People are stupid and ⁓ we deserve what we get, I guess. We're we're this is all our doing, all the problems of the world outside of earthquakes. I don't well, even that maybe we might be h might be helping those along a little bit. fracking. So ⁓ yeah even though even even nature i we have a hand in it but yeah whatever whatever we get we get ⁓ Germany that is that's some dumb shit there's i if this is the It feels like America, because I'm so America centric, 'cause this is an American thing to do, is to not look past the United States. It it feels like all the stupid people are here. But they're everywhere. There's just as many stupid people in every country as there is there are in the United States. We might be less educated or than some other countries or more educated, but just fucking Stupid. That is that's I think that's just the same across all populations, the percentage. And it's just enough to fuck things up. Thailand verified for eliminating rubella a public health as a Thailand verified for eliminating rubella as a public health problem. Well Thailand's Thailand verified for eliminating rubella as a public health problem. Well the but now they ⁓ Thailand verified for Thailand verified for eliminating rubella as a public health problem. That's good news for Thailand, but now they all have autism from the vaccines. That's great news for Thailand, but they had to Thailand verified for eliminating rubella as a public health problem. That's great for Thailand, except they had to use the vaccine, which of course gave them all autism. In America, people are dying of in the United States, people are dying of measles, but we're not getting vaccines. That's great that's great for Thailand. Okay, but they all had to get vaccinated, which as we know is really bad for you. And they're gonna die from those vaccines. We in the United States are getting rid of vaccines and people are dying from measles, but I don't fucking know. Thailand verified for eliminat as a public health problem. Great news for Thailand. I don't know. Thailand verified for eliminating rubella as a public health problem. Well, it had hm. Thailand. Thailand verified for eliminating rubella as a public health problem. That is good news for Thailand. They had to do it with vaccines. That's a problem. They all have autism now, but they don't have rubella. I don't know what Rebella is. I was vaccinated for it. I also am obsessed with maps. ⁓ So fucking annoyed by this fucking bullshit. fuck. Fuck I wanna fucking throw this phone. It's so stupid. Okay. US carrier Abraham Lincoln departs Thailand after respite visit. Didn't hear a lot of stories about that. US carrier Abraham Lincoln departs Thailand US carrier Abraham Lincoln departs Thailand after respite? Respite visit respite. US US carrier Abraham Lincoln departs Thailand after respite visit. Thought there was going to be a lot of stories coming from that ⁓ I thought there would be a lot of stories. I don't not negative story but it'd be ⁓ the sailors, they came to town and it was a big party and all this happened. Didn't hear anything. I guess everybody was pretty quiet. You know, they're just fucking happy to get off the boat and not didn't hear a lot about it. I guess everybody was just ch just tired from sitting in that b boat for so long and they just Didn't hear a lot about it. I g I mean that's good. You don't wanna Didn't hear a lot about it. I thought it was gonna be like carrier Abraham Lincoln departs Thailand after a respite visit. I haven't heard a lot about that at all. I thought there'd be all these stories about ⁓ all the sailors came to town, it was a big party and it was a crazy time. ⁓ Everybody's just too tired from being stuck on the boat. You know, you get off and you're like, huh, I don't even wanna party and just wanna eat something that's not like government issue food. ⁓ carrier Abraham Lincoln departs Thailand after a respite visit. That seems like it was a quiet visit. I thought there'd be like all these stories about sailors coming in, a whole place is crazy, this partying. ⁓ know, not maybe negative stories, but something. But it's pretty low key. Everybody must have been kind of just fucking just beating. I guess it's not like pent up energy when you're stuck in like those like those stuck on that shit. You know, it's not you just wanna relax. I guess after all that being pent up in that shit, it's ⁓ it's not like energy being stored up. It's wanna relax, maybe ⁓ ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding thing. Yeah, it's just like Yeah, it's a lot chiller than I would have thought. All right, well, ⁓ guess you're about to go home. You don't wanna do a bunch of crazy shit. Yeah, it's just much chiller than I would have thought. So, ⁓ well Maybe there is a bunch of stories and nobody's talking. Everybody's saying, Hey, let's ⁓ let's be cool. Maybe there is some stories, and everybody is ⁓ very discreet. And hopefully nice stories of ⁓ good times with friends, old and new. FBI investigating leak of over a hundred and fifty million driver's licenses. And other documents to Russia. What's the whole point of everybody getting the real ID if you can just steal a driver's license? Can they just then print it up and now they have my driver's license? And ⁓ if so, what do they do with that? They just drive? They're gonna go get you're not gonna get credit cards with my identification. I guess you could go Drive if you look like me. ⁓ you you put your picture on there, and I don't know. I don't like that. What can you d w what are they doing with the stolen dri so they got everybody's driver's license? The Russians have So Russia has everybody's driver's license and are they gonna just come to the United States and drive with our driver's licenses? What was the point of getting real ID if you could just steal that would never make any sense to me. Because it's not like you can go to DMV and get a driver's license like easy. Like you have to prove who you are. Then you're like, ⁓ I was there a a rash of fake driver's licenses? From the DMV. You you can make fake ones if you're gonna make fake ones. And then you just put the real ID thing. You put the little ⁓ but this is a fake real ID. And that's what they were even saying when pe ICE's like you know, ⁓ and that's even what like ICE was doing w w w they were saying when they would arrest people who had real ID was like, ⁓ it's fake. All right, then what the fuck the point of the real ID in the first place? That was a that was real ID was a scam. That's my conspiracy theory. Not even conspiracy theory. It was it was it w it was at least dumb. And that's ⁓ I don't know who started that. That wasn't I don't think that's even a Trump thing. It might have been did Obama start that? Because it took forever for it to happen. It was stupid, whoever did it. Recall issued for fifteen hundred pounds of pork products recall issued for fifteen hundred pounds of pork products due to possible listeria. ⁓ I would ⁓ not eat any pork, maybe or how do they know which pork to r recall? Like you don't get a like a serial number on your pork. I don't ⁓ not that I rem I can't remember the last time I bought pork, but any meat, you just get it. So you're I would I would stay away from food. I don't know what we're gonna be eating. Everything is g I guess if I guess if you're gonna eat food, go for the salmonella, right? That sal the salmon no salmonella is really bad. listeria, I don't know what that is. That sounds really bad. What the thing the lettuce that was given everybody diarrhea. That sounds like probably the best option is the diarrhea lettuce now. At the time it was ⁓ that's awful. But now there's everything's salmonella and listeria and E. coli and those those are real bad. So I'm going I'm gonna just start eating lettuce. I've been st staying away. And if you have pork, you know, see if you're feeling I mean And if you have pork, ⁓ maybe you're feeling lucky. Give it a shot. It's it's it is a barbecue today. What are you gonna just throw out those sausages you were gonna throw on the barbecue? ⁓ the grilled Italian sausage. I I haven't eaten meat in little while, but ⁓ a grilled Italian sausage. You know what how bad is Listeria? I think look that up and see if you're willing to take a shot.