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HEADLINES: Relocating, Severing, Lowering, and Sealing · Nonsense with cj little and Jeff Parker

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  Hi, how are you? I'm great my children were
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  rambling on to talk about Roombas.
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  We bought a new non iRobot Roombas since you know, iRobot
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  now is a thing of the past CES. Is full of them.
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  There's so many Roomba like devices.
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  Everybody just jumped in there, right?
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  But we bought a new Roomba competitor at a Robo Rock, which
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  works really well. I'm actually very impressed that
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  has LIDAR. So my my children were talking
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  about Roombas, comparing it to the new robot that I bought that
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  has LIDAR. The new robot doesn't touch.
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  Any doesn't have to sure. Doesn't RAM into anything and it
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  does an excellent job mapping. I'm very impressed.
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  I'm hoping it's durable because otherwise I, I love the thing.
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  My kids were like, oh, we thought it would be more like
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  the Roomba that would bounce into stuff.
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  And I was like, no, it makes it a lot quieter.
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  Yeah. And my son is it something like,
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  like, that's how the Tesla should work.
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  They should just ram into stuff and then change direction.
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  And I laughed. I thought that was really funny.
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  And I said, oh, I, I said, you know, I'm actually going to use
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  that on the show. I was like, I'm going to use
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  something they said on the show. Good life.
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  My children then laughed at me and said, no, daddy, that's
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  where we got it from. We heard it on your show.
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  And I was like, oh, oh, I see. I don't know you.
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  Better listen to my show than I am because I can't even remember
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  saying that. Quiet, please.
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  Imagine a Tesla trying to make a right turn.
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  It just bounces off like the telephone pole and then backs
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  up. 4 pretty close to what it does. 3 pretty.
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  Much what it does 2. Company presents a truly
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  terrible podcast. Welcome to Nonsense Season 4,
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  Episode 1. Happy New Year.
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  I'm Jeff Parker. I'm still this is our.
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  Take in the week's business, tech and entertainment
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  headlines, this time house by house, brick by brick.
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  How an entire Swedish city is shifting 2 miles to the.
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  East this sounds like the worst IKEA project ever.
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  Ship caught with anchor down after a Finney and Estonian
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  cable severed look as. A guy who's been caught with his
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  anchor down more than once. Let me tell you, the Fins do not
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  take kindly to it. SpaceX moves half its
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  constellation to dodge debris. Oh, I drove.
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  A dodge debris in college that it was a bucket.
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  Also, a big story later this week is about AI's impact on
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  employment and wealth. Impact.
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  What impact? It's going to make everything
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  better. Less work, more money.
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  Right? Give the robots guns.
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  What could go wrong? How's your week going?
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  Week, weeks. It's been weeks.
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  I mean weeks. Weeks.
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  Well, we made it through the holidays.
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  Congratulations. Which was a lot, but we somehow
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  managed to fill the the the rear cargo of of my wife's SUV is 36
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  cubic feet, which is a lot. Yeah, not enough for us.
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  Had to put a Yakima roof box out another 18 cubic feet.
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  Filled all that up just with stuff.
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  Where were you going? Not even far of like a week.
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  Like the kids get gifts and then they got weird.
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  There's snow stuff, so you go to the snow.
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  There was no snow 'cause it's like 60° in Flagstaff.
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  We had fun, we just had too much.
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  Stuff like at the. End of my packing adventure.
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  My in laws are screwing with me and we're like hey here's a bag
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  of corn tortillas but you can't fit these in there And then I
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  would just find space for them and the little just kept going
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  on until we all got bored with it.
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  It was fun though, and it rained a lot.
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  Did it rained in Phoenix? No, almost none.
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  It was like drizzly no but are here.
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  Wow. I watched on the cameras.
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  I'm surprised I came home to a house.
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  I thought it was just going to be like a mudslide.
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  Oh it was insane. It is got to be one of the
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  wettest winters in the last 20 years.
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  Pretty wet last year too. Remember, we had those couple
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  weeks, we got a ton of rain last year and this is even earlier.
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  So yeah. Downtown LA is currently at 312%
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  of normal rainfall. Wow, what's normal by the?
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  Way 100% is. Normal.
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  OK, thank you. Thank you for the math.
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  I'm saying what were the averages of of ever like since
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  we started recording in the 1890s of the past 10 years,
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  correct, correct. OK.
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  Do you wanna hear more about the storm?
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  Do you have more weather facts? 'Cause I've been watching it,
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  I've been obsessed for it. Yeah, we with it.
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  We got like 7 inches of rain in Beverly.
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  Hills. That's a lot of rain in the
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  last. 30 days for Pasadena and the foothills.
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  They got between 10 and 14 inches this.
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  Is like LA story now, isn't it? We're we're doing the weather.
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  We've gone from sports to the weather.
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  This is great. Listen, this is fun.
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  Yeah, the entire California in terms of drought relief, 0% of
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  California's residents are currently in areas classified as
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  in Drought 0. Well, yeah, 'cause it's raining,
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  of course. Good news, almonds and
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  pistachios are gonna be way up this year.
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  I can't wait. Yeah, I did spend a decent
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  amount of time trolling the people that like to troll me,
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  'cause I'm a, a proud Californian.
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  When I saw people over the holiday, before they even say
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  hello, they're like, how's your state doing?
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  What? And of course my response is
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  it's great. Like, it's beautiful.
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  The weather's nice, We're figuring stuff out, you know,
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  and they're just like, mm, hmm. And then I like, I don't engage,
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  they don't engage with me. They, they, they sort of know
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  that, that it's a losing battle. But my favorite was later
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  someone who's eating some pistachios and I was like, hey,
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  where do you guys come from? And they look at, I mean,
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  they're like, like, I don't know, the, the Middle East.
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  No California exactly like pistachios.
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  Middle California. California, you keep beating
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  them California nuts right there.
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  Here's the thing about the rain, as as Jeff mentioned earlier, it
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  rained a ton here. I mean, it was just constant
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  non-stop rain it seemed over the holiday.
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  But somehow, and I swear this is every year that I've been here,
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  when the Rose Bowl hits. Oh, dries right up just.
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  Dries right up. Yeah, usually the clouds part
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  and it's sunny. the Rose Bowl knows that Southern California's
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  gonna be on television. And they're like, oh, OK, fine.
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  Yeah. And then it's just beautiful.
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  Now we did miss the fly over, we didn't get the B2 fly over that
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  we normally get at the Rose Bowl, which was a bummer it.
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  Happened. It happened.
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  It happened. Like halftime, they were just
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  like, well, I mean, I guess we already bought the fuel.
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  So I guess like, go ahead. Sure.
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  And they sent it. But what was really cool and I
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  did, I did see that. I saw that on the telecast.
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  What I missed was apparently after the thing flew over the
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  Rose Bowl, it just went and did like Donuts over the Hollywood
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  sign. And then it flew basically right
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  over my house because my friend sent me video of this plane.
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  They know I'm plane dork and I'm council looking up in the sky.
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  I wasn't thinking the B2 was gonna go cruise around the
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  valley for a while mile, which is exactly what it did tourism,
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  because I got video from people that were like, hey, look at
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  this. What's happening?
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  And I was like, well, that's the B2 from the fly over at the Rose
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  Bowl. Like I don't think we're, I
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  don't think we're bombing Tarzana for as much as I might
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  want to. Like, I don't think that's
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  what's happening. I love everybody in Tarzana.
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  Don't don't send me hate mail. Anyway.
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  Crazy. Just crazy to see that B2 flying
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  around. But unfortunately I missed it.
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  I was fun. I cooked a ton.
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  I made a bunch of food, which was lovely.
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  We had some people over various events.
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  Yeah. And All in all, I got no
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  complaints. It was a lovely break.
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  I didn't do a lot of work as it almost no quote UN quote work.
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  Wow hang out with my kids and my family and and really enjoyed
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  it. Yeah.
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  How about you? How was your holiday I got.
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  The world's most amazing Christmas gift.
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  This actually happened quite to my delight and surprise.
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  A friend of mine sent me the gift of pastrami.
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  Oh, who's that? And.
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  It was insane. Yeah.
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  I mean literally the best pastrami I've ever tasted.
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  Yeah, this was yeah off. The by the way, yeah, pretty
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  cool. You have a commercial grade
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  vacuum seal that that thing came in that was amazing.
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  Totally. When I saw that I was like, wow,
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  this is no one's fooling around here.
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  Don't just. Referring to as I made astronomy
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  for for the holiday and send them some here's what's nuts
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  about that first of all, it's a cured meat, so it lasts forever
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  because that's why we cured the meat.
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  However, I want it to be as fresh as possible when you get
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  it so I I vacuum pack it, which is relatively easy to do here's
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  what's nuts. You know, when you vacuum pack
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  it, you suck all the air out of the bag, Obviously the vacuum
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  part, but you can watch the fat come out of the meat.
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  I'm sure under vacuum. And every time I see it I'm I
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  have this immediate moment of like, oh boy, that's just that's
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  just terribly amazing because it's all the fat rushes out of
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  the meat. It's.
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  So cool. Yeah, it's the better way to
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  send it because you could live in your fridge for like a week
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  or two and it's totally fine. There's no oxygen to to screw it
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  up. I.
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  Think it lasted minutes because my kid was in town yeah.
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  And so I think it lasted here about 6 minutes I.
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  Really desperately wanted to bring it to you in person, but
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  we were under the gun that day to get out of town.
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  So I sent it in an Uber delivery.
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  Jeff and I do not live far apart, however, I just didn't
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  want to take time to get over there.
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  So I sent an Uber delivery and here's what I do.
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  I vacuum pack it and I get an Uber driver.
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  I also give them a small piece because I think it's really
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  mean. Oh, that's.
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  Nice. Be like.
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  Hey, deliver this meat. Oh, by the way, but you don't
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  get any Sure. And I feel like there's a
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  slightly better odds of you getting it if I give them a
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  small piece of it so that they can taste it and have some on
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  the way over. But they were very kind and they
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  they delivered it. I.
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  Got it. I got it quickly, and I also got
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  the Christmas cookies. Thank you very much for that.
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  Ah. Yes, yeah, that was the smaller
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  Christmas cookies. We normally do a much bigger
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  Christmas cookies. We didn't have time this year.
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  There might be some January cookies coming.
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  I don't want to make any commitments that's.
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  Terribly exciting, I am. I'm going to mention also before
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  we get off of how my week was IU football, did they have any
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  game? Did they have a game?
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  Wow. Yeah, the Crimson Tide suffered
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  their worst blowout loss since 1998.
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  Yeah. A pretty good pretty good loss
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  to watch. I enjoyed watching that this.
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  Was Indiana's first ever Rose Bowl victory and their first
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  ever bowl win of any kind since 1991.
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  Yeah, I. Mean it was beyond a bowl of hey
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  it's their first ever bowl anything Indiana that.
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  Game was fun. I watched the game.
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  It was incredible. It was not as enjoyable as
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  watching USC destroy the Sooners.
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  And what was that, 2005? Yeah, that the Orange Bowl.
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  You. Got to go back in time.
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  You got to go back 20 years to remember those.
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  Oh yeah, yeah. Yeah, no, they're terrible now.
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  Now it's just the money pit. The.
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  Hoosiers advance to the semi finals at the Peach Bowl in
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  Atlanta, where they will face #5 Oregon on January 9th at 4:30 PM
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  Pacific Time. I will be watching with snacks
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  in hand. Let's be a rematch of their
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  October regular season meeting which Indiana won 30 to 20.
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  No bets that they went at this because Oregon is really good.
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  Well, the. Finals in Miami in Florida,
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  which is running the finals. Yet this is the semi finals I
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  think. Oregon's gonna be tough, but I
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  think you're gonna do it. Oregon's gonna be here's.
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  The best You know the best part? I think you already know this,
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  but but pretend like you don't. So here's the absolute best
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  thing about this is yeah, if if you guys beat Oregon, which
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  again I believe you will do, but if IU beats Oregon, then that
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  triggers a clause in your head coaches contracts.
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  I know, but he then. Has to be paid in one of the top
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  five GDP nations. He will actually be a member of
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  the G7 after that happens because apparently they somehow
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  let that go through in his contract.
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  Both head coaches, Indiana's Curt Signetti and Oregon's Dan
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  Lanning, are former assistants under Nick Saban.
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  Adding a Saban disciple narrative to the semi final.
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  Yeah. Which I also love watching Nick
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  be the commentator on some of these quarterback.
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  Josh Hoover from Texas. This Christian university has
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  committed to Indiana this weekend.
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  Yeah. Meanwhile, our good pal Lincoln
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  Riley has six more years on his contract at USC.
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  OK. Yeah, you can measure it in
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  years. I like to think of it more as
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  he's got 70 more $1,000,000 on his contract.
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  That's sort of how I think of it.
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  I know you're you're down on Lincoln.
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  I'm still optimistic. I know the the first couple see.
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  Yeah, I think it takes a couple years.
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  Like you want to give them a runway, you want to give them
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  some stride or. Four years into this?
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  How many years in this you? Know, you know, it takes a
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  little while. You don't.
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  You don't rush right into it. You know, just take your time.
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  What are you gonna do? Like we're gonna just pay him
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  out and move somewhere else? It sounds terrible.
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  He's not doing this. OK.
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  Besides doing that. Yeah, I don't.
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  Know let's get to our headlines, shall we?
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  Let's do it the new year. Why not?
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  I'd love to the 2. $1,000,000. Mission to move a city before
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  the ground swallows it. That's.
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  Sounds. Ominous Kiruna, a Swedish city
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  145 kilometers north of the Arctic Circle, is literally on
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  the move. To sustain Europe's largest
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  underground iron ore mine and tap into massive new rare earth
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  deposits, the entire town is being relocated 3 kilometers
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  east. This $2 billion engineering feat
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  involves moving 6000 residents and historic landmarks like the
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  113 year old wooden church to escape the ground sinking caused
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  by mining. The project is a geopolitical
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  pivot. These minerals are critical for
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  EVs and wind turbines as EU races to break its dependence on
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  China. While some residents embrace the
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  modern NEWS CENTER, others face the heartbreak of losing
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  generational homes, highlighting the high human cost of Europe's
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  green energy sovereignty. It's a.
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  Super fast outstanding story. I mean it makes sense.
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  I'm glad they're doing the relocation.
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  We've seen this before right? The folks in in China did this
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  for the Three Gorges Dam. I think what 20 ish years ago?
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  A lot more people I think there you're talking about like 1.3
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  they. Relocated them or did they just
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  flood them out? Nobody.
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  Knows it was China. Either way is more likely.
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  Who knows? Sure, but supposedly they moved
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  1.3 million people over somewhere else.
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  Yeah, again, nobody knows. But what is interesting to me
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  about this is this really shouldn't be a surprise to the
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  folks of of Kiruna, because as you know, Mojang Studios, who
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  makes mine craft, Yeah yeah is out of Sweden and is literally a
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  game about mining stuff. It's out of Beverly Hills now.
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  He lives here now. While he sold Microsoft out of
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  Redmond now, but I feel like this shouldn't be a surprise to
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  them. The mining, maybe that's where
• 11:23
  he got the idea from, was but. This is preemptive moving.
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  This is not moving because of the future mining.
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  This is they're moving because of of mining that has already
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  occurred. Yeah, they know the ground will
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  start to sink because of mining already done.
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  So there's a little bit of an urgency.
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  Totally. There's no better way to get
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  someone to accept your plan of relocation than by already
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  making it terrible. Yeah.
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  I mean you think about the cause and effect there.
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  That's a good a good pass 6. 1000 residents though, that's
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  that's doable. You could move 6000 residents.
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  I don't know. Do they move?
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  Yeah, everybody's individual house.
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  Or do they just say no, it's just one night, equivalent house
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  1. Night, they just come in and
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  move everything and you just wake up the next day it's like
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  it's like Christmas morning. Everything's just moved to a new
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  place. Have.
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  You seen the video of the church?
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  Yes, it's quite a 13 year old church moving.
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  Yeah, I. Had a friend like this when I
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  was a kid who had a house when you when you know he was a kid
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  as well. It's all brick.
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  This is in Michigan. He told these stories of it
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  being moved and I was like, you're not moving a brick house
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  isn't me. And he and they had pictures in
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  the House of what looked like the house being apparently
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  somewhere else, but they had moved it because they were
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  putting the freeway in. Long story short, I remember one
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  day in his garden as like a teenager finding rails.
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  Actual sure like train track rails of.
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  Course, of course and. That was how they moved it.
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  They put it on train track rails and then pulled it with a horses
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  to slide it over, which just broke my brain that that that's
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  feasible, yeah. My uncle used to move buildings
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  like this commercially and you do, and even the best trained
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  people doing this occasionally you do end up with a giant pile
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  of sand You. Know just rubble, you just yeah.
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  You do, you end up with a giant pile of rubble.
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  That's exactly right. I mean, I'm sure this.
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  Happened when when you were at SC, but I remember not knowing
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  this was the thing and coming back from from school one day,
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  you know, living just off campus whatever midnight, 2 in the
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  morning tire bleary eyed and then there would be a house on
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  like Vermont Ave. like a house being.
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  Moved rolling Yeah, on Vermont. Avenue and I was like what is
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  happening right now? Go to.
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  Angelino Heights Angelino Heights allowed them to move all
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  the houses there there right, so you have all these beautiful
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  historical homes yes that are just gorgeous it's.
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  Really cool that you have this now this like community up there
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  of all these houses that got moved.
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  It's it's pretty impressive. I.
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  Drive through on the way to Dodger Stadium.
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  I I love it. What things you?
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  Meant to say was you cut through it on the way to Dodger Stadium
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  I. Wasn't going to say it that way.
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  Now we know what you mean. It is where.
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  They shoot when you need something to sand in for San
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  Francisco, if you don't have the trail.
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  Yeah. And you're making a movie.
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  It's always Angelina High. You don't.
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  Want to look like full house. You shoot it there, right?
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  This is still super interesting that they're doing this.
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  It seems like the right thing to do.
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  I mean, I'm not, yeah, of course, crazy, but I have to
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  relay folks. But my understanding of the
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  history of this town is that it was established as a city for
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  the iron ore mining operation. Like this town didn't exist and
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  they started mining. The town was built to support
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  the mine and the people that worked in the mine.
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  So I feel like it's a little more conducive to need to move.
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  Oh, it's in the north. You're not there unless you are
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  there for the mine. I can't imagine anything else
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  you would want to be doing that far north.
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  It's very cold pickle. And fish.
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  I don't know something you can. Pickle fish on the equator, so I
• 14:04
  would choose that. You're right, you can picklefish
• 14:06
  anywhere, you just choose not to because you have taste buds
• 14:09
  elsewhere. I think is the problem.
• 14:10
  Yeah, sure. By the way.
• 14:11
  Supposedly when the Chinese damned the Yangtes River, that
• 14:15
  was 1.3 million people, 13 cities, yeah, 140 towns and 1300
• 14:20
  plus villages. That was a lot.
• 14:21
  Which I think here my hunt is it's probably like 1 town if you
• 14:24
  were to put on the same scale as the city of towns and villages.
• 14:27
  Much, much smaller, but still pretty cool.
• 14:29
  That's. Why?
• 14:29
  I questioned whether or not they actually moved all 1.3 million
• 14:32
  residents or if they just said you people have to.
• 14:34
  Move the bus was here you get on the bus, you don't get on the
• 14:36
  bus that's up to you yeah like, but at some point you're you're
• 14:39
  not gonna do well when they start backing up the water
• 14:41
  'cause it ain't going down it's only going up and that place
• 14:43
  produces 22 gigawatts of power which.
• 14:47
  Is oh, and it's an environmental disaster also.
• 14:49
  But yes, it does produce an extraordinary amount of
• 14:51
  electrical power. All dams.
• 14:52
  Are disasters no dam? Even the dams that Beavers make
• 14:55
  are disasters. They're not pretty.
• 14:56
  Small disasters, OK. Well, I'm not arguing the size
• 14:58
  of the disaster, I'm just saying stop the water.
• 15:00
  Listen to Ron sent us that story.
• 15:02
  I was I think that was interesting.
• 15:03
  Thank. You, Ron.
• 15:04
  Super interesting Finland. Is a ship suspected of
• 15:06
  aggravated sabotage of subsea cables?
• 15:08
  There's a Nordic episode on. New Year's Eve 2025 Finnish
• 15:11
  authorities seized the cargo vessel Fitberg after a critical
• 15:14
  underseas telecommunication cable connecting Helsinki to
• 15:17
  Estonia was severed. The ship, which had departed
• 15:19
  from Saint Petersburg, was intercepted by a Border Guard
• 15:21
  helicopter in a patrol vessel after it was spotted dragging
• 15:24
  its anchor across the seabed for several miles.
• 15:26
  All 14 crew members, including Russian nationals, were detained
• 15:29
  as police investigated the incident for aggravated sabotage
• 15:32
  and interference with telecommunication.
• 15:34
  This marks the latest a series of suspicious infrastructure
• 15:37
  failures in the Baltic Sea, which NATO allies increasingly
• 15:40
  view as Russian hybrid warfare. While the services have been
• 15:42
  rerouted, the seizure underscores heightened tensions
• 15:45
  as Finland vows to respond decisively to maritime security
• 15:48
  threats. I don't.
• 15:49
  Know how they are going to deal with this.
• 15:51
  Strongly worded letter to Russia.
• 15:53
  That's as far as. That's it.
• 15:54
  That's exactly what it's gonna be.
• 15:55
  Yeah, but like, handwritten so that he actually opens it
• 15:57
  doesn't look like it's spam from some other country that they've
• 16:00
  pissed off. Sure.
• 16:00
  Meanwhile, other countries are shutting down their postal
• 16:02
  system, so they might have to send it as an e-mail.
• 16:04
  Yeah, good point. This is interesting though,
• 16:06
  because if you I'd know anything about the Gulf of Finland.
• 16:09
  So this is part of the Baltic Sea, but as it turns out, you
• 16:12
  have around 12 nautical miles off your coast, right?
• 16:15
  That is considered part of your part of your country.
• 16:17
  Territorial waters, yeah. Past that, it's what it's like.
• 16:20
  It's like an economic zone. You have an.
• 16:21
  Exclusive economic zone, Yeah. So, but but not enforceable
• 16:24
  necessarily by your laws, by your criminal laws.
• 16:26
  It appears that this boat was going right down the middle
• 16:29
  between what would be Estonia and and Finland's waters.
• 16:33
  And somehow, and I again, I don't the details are unclear to
• 16:36
  me. The the Finnish Border Patrol
• 16:38
  got them to go into Finnish waters, Yeah.
• 16:40
  And then they boarded it. So it was bordered when it was
• 16:42
  in Finnish waters because. There was a previous case where
• 16:45
  they arrested hadn't done international water and they
• 16:47
  didn't have the rights to do that.
• 16:48
  But I. Also don't know how, if they
• 16:50
  were, it sort of implies they were dragging their anchor when
• 16:53
  they were in international waters.
• 16:54
  I don't know what you do with that, right?
• 16:56
  Because it's in international waters.
• 16:57
  And the nature of these cables is that they're going to go
• 16:59
  through international waters if they have to, right?
• 17:01
  Because you're going to do separate countries.
• 17:02
  So this just sounds like a very sticky wicket and I don't really
• 17:06
  know what you do to to prevent it.
• 17:08
  I don't it, it seems like a real challenge.
• 17:09
  Well, modern Internet cables, when you put in a modern
• 17:12
  Internet cable, now there's a trench digger that precedes you
• 17:15
  that's so cool. They're literally going under
• 17:17
  the ground, under the ocean, like four or five feet or
• 17:19
  something super deep. Just.
• 17:20
  Enough so that it gets out of the anchor.
• 17:21
  They're making a little, yeah, they're making a trench so that
• 17:24
  you're out of the out of the way of anchors.
• 17:25
  Yeah, that's pretty cool. We'll see how this this works
• 17:27
  out. Does not sound like fun.
• 17:29
  You look at the number of cables I didn't have to pull up the the
• 17:31
  underground submarine cable map for the entire planet.
• 17:33
  Good news is there's a lot of cables between these various
• 17:37
  countries reroute, but I don't know what sort of level of
• 17:40
  consumption they have on those or what sort of, you know,
• 17:41
  amount of potential bandwidth they're using it.
• 17:43
  Just means that the cat pictures arrive a little more slowly and
• 17:45
  a little more. Pixelated, maybe a load a little
• 17:47
  slower, maybe everyone's like skinny Max.
• 17:49
  It's just coming in kind of like, move your head back and
• 17:50
  forth really fast in order to see it.
• 17:52
  Like, what's their response? Like, hey, you're dragging your
• 17:54
  anchor Like what? Like drunk after New Year's?
• 17:56
  What's? Their excuse?
• 17:57
  There's no other reason to drag your anchor except for the fact
• 17:59
  that you're hoping to snag cables.
• 18:00
  Yeah, totally. But like how are you?
• 18:02
  Just like, oh, we forgot it was there.
• 18:04
  Like what? Your your boat is going 1/3 the
• 18:06
  speed it was before, like and. Those cables are all very well
• 18:09
  mapped. So it's not accidental.
• 18:10
  Yeah, yeah. SpaceX defensive maneuver
• 18:13
  relocating more than 4000 satellites to avoid debris that
• 18:16
  caused the debris. But yeah.
• 18:18
  That's not the point. Look, if I go to Yellowstone,
• 18:20
  yeah, and I throw all my Big Gulp cups out the window and
• 18:22
  it's a mess, it's still a mess. Doesn't matter that I made the
• 18:24
  mess. I'm still gonna leave and go
• 18:25
  somewhere else. SpaceX has begun a massive
• 18:27
  reconfiguration of its Starlink constellation.
• 18:30
  Over the course of 2026, the company will lower approximately
• 18:32
  4400 satellites from an altitude of 500 and 50 kilometers to 480
• 18:36
  kilometers. This strategic shift,
• 18:38
  coordinated with the US Space Command, aims to drastically
• 18:41
  reduce collision risks and orbital debris.
• 18:43
  That sounds good. This comes on the heel of a
• 18:44
  December 2025 kinetic event where a Starlink satellite
• 18:47
  malfunctioned and created a small debris cloud.
• 18:50
  Kinetic event? Yes, when.
• 18:51
  When two things in space run into each other and then produce
• 18:54
  a lot more parts when. Two things.
• 18:56
  Anywhere, yeah, run into each other and yeah, create a lot
• 18:58
  more parts. Well.
• 18:58
  The advantage is here you have gravity that kind of keeps those
• 19:01
  things together and somewhat contained.
• 19:03
  That's why they're moving to the lower shell that's.
• 19:05
  Out of the hope, right? Yeah, yeah, it gets pulled in
• 19:07
  faster instead. Of four years of orbiting the
• 19:09
  debris will fall after months yeah, it makes.
• 19:10
  Sense I'll be curious to see what sort of effect this has on
• 19:13
  the night sky. I mean, you're only talking
• 19:15
  about a 10% reduction in height. That's still pretty significant.
• 19:18
  Each satellite will. Be quite a bit brighter, bigger
• 19:20
  and brighter of us on earth, Yes, for.
• 19:22
  Those of us on earth, not for listeners that aren't on earth,
• 19:24
  those ones, they'll see no perceived difference.
• 19:27
  If you're listening from Saturn and then Hello Saturn I.
• 19:30
  Just looked at our analytics the other day.
• 19:31
  Our Mars viewership is excellent.
• 19:33
  It's very odd. Beyond safety, the move is
• 19:34
  expected to sharpen Internet performance, decreasing signal
• 19:37
  latency and boosting customer density.
• 19:39
  So what is really? Nuts about this article was the
• 19:41
  things that I didn't know so that SpaceX already has
• 19:43
  something like 9400 working satellites in orbit.
• 19:46
  Wow. And something like 8000 of them
• 19:48
  are Starlinks that are in operational service.
• 19:50
  That's a lot of birds, right? Yeah.
• 19:52
  The other thing that I didn't know is they're cranking out
• 19:54
  somewhere. That's what SpaceX has said, but
• 19:56
  I have no reason not to believe them that they're cranking out
• 19:57
  something like 10 new Starlink satellites a day.
• 20:00
  That's amazing. That's they're building those up
• 20:01
  in in in Redmond. What I also didn't know.
• 20:04
  There's a lot of here I didn't know.
• 20:05
  Was that their new version 3 satellite platform that they're
• 20:08
  supposed to launch later this year?
• 20:09
  It's too big to fit on the Falcon Nine.
• 20:11
  Yeah, it. Doesn't fit in the Falcon 9, so.
• 20:13
  Those have to be done on their super heavy Starship rockets.
• 20:15
  And I don't know the the specifics and differences, but
• 20:17
  obviously it's much bigger. So I'm assuming it's gonna have
• 20:19
  more bandwidth and and more of the good things and more cost.
• 20:22
  To put it on more. Cost, yeah, for sure.
• 20:24
  So I'll be curious to see how that's evolving.
• 20:25
  But I'm I'm somewhat fascinated by their constellation and the
• 20:28
  other constellations that are coming to to compete with that.
• 20:30
  Yeah, but not the only game that just early in.
• 20:32
  Other space news Russia fixes the leak that wouldn't die.
• 20:35
  After years of mounting tension and hissing hardware, Roscoe's
• 20:38
  Moses finally delivered. The persistent leak in the
• 20:40
  Russian segment of the International Space Station is
• 20:42
  officially sealed. The pre trial module, which has
• 20:45
  been bleeding precious atmosphere and diplomatic
• 20:47
  goodwill for over 2 years, was secured following a high stakes
• 20:49
  series of space walks and surgical applications of a
• 20:52
  specialized epoxy. For Russian space program
• 20:55
  battered by budget cuts and launch failures, this isn't just
• 20:58
  a maintenance win, it's a survival milestone.
• 21:00
  The leak had forced crew members to keep hatches shuttered,
• 21:02
  effectively turning the station into a series of airlocked
• 21:04
  islands. But the pressure stabilized.
• 21:06
  The ISS returns their full operational capacity first of
• 21:09
  all. Leaking any atmosphere when
• 21:11
  you're in space is bad. Bad.
• 21:12
  Like really bad. This wasn't like a recent fix.
• 21:16
  They've been trying to fix this thing for I think something like
• 21:18
  over a decade. Well.
• 21:19
  They think the hole was made when it was on Earth before the
• 21:22
  whole thing was launched. Well.
• 21:23
  I don't actually know. So it's like a 2mm hole.
• 21:26
  They questioned whether it was made on Earth accidentally.
• 21:29
  They don't think it was like sabotage, but they questioned
• 21:31
  was made accidentally and then somebody like putted it over to
• 21:34
  cover it up because. Right, like tried to hide.
• 21:36
  Oops. Drill the hole in the billion
• 21:37
  dollar spacecraft. That's probably a no no OK, so
• 21:40
  whatever they found it years ago.
• 21:42
  And then their approach has included things like they will
• 21:45
  airlock off this particular component, leave it for a while
• 21:48
  and then go in and try to see where the dust has collected.
• 21:51
  They're trying to see where Sir crap was exiting the the
• 21:54
  spacecraft so they could see where like, you know, it was it
• 21:56
  was going out. Don't think they had a lot of
• 21:58
  luck with that. So they did flail this my
• 22:01
  definition flail a little bit like they tried to patch things
• 22:03
  that they thought were holes, not really knowing that they
• 22:05
  were holes. And it sounds like they finally
• 22:07
  found it like we finally got the right one.
• 22:09
  Sure there was no real clarity on oh, it's this thing right?
• 22:12
  This this was the thing we had to go patch it.
• 22:14
  They just kind of kept doing what they were doing and now
• 22:16
  it's not losing pressure anymore, which is a huge win.
• 22:17
  So they. Found it well.
• 22:18
  They did something that seems to have stopped it, found it.
• 22:22
  I mean, I'd have to know more specifics if they feel like it's
• 22:25
  conclusive and they. Did a lot of patches.
• 22:26
  One of them happened to be over the right area I.
• 22:28
  Mean at some, yeah. At some point you just lined the
• 22:31
  whole damn thing. And they patched it from the
• 22:32
  outside. Oh, I didn't.
• 22:33
  Know that was this one on the outside as well they.
• 22:35
  Actually had to do space walks I know they've done.
• 22:37
  Space walks previously. Yeah, that's that's crazy.
• 22:39
  They don't talk about this, but I suspect, remember Butch had
• 22:42
  like another nine months of extended stay up there.
• 22:44
  Sure. I gotta believe one of the
• 22:45
  astronauts just, like, checked up a Makita drill and just poked
• 22:48
  a hole in the side. I said airlock.
• 22:50
  We got airlock. He butch's air to himself, yeah.
• 22:52
  Sorry. Yeah.
• 22:53
  Butch, go hang out in there and we can vent your extra bonus
• 22:56
  atmosphere to the space. On this atmosphere, we think
• 22:59
  Butch like to fart a lot. This hasn't been conclusively
• 23:01
  proved, but we happen to think that's what was going on.
• 23:03
  I don't know. All I know is one day I'm gonna
• 23:05
  get punched in the throat by Butch when he meets me in person
• 23:07
  and I'm gonna deserve it. And that's OK.
• 23:08
  Won't. Know who it is 'cause you want
• 23:10
  no. Idea who it is yeah, it'll be
• 23:11
  like remember when was it somebody yelled at Buzz Aldrin
• 23:13
  about how the moon landing was faked and he like literally
• 23:15
  punched him in the face. I don't remember that.
• 23:17
  I feel like that's what's gonna happen.
• 23:18
  Crazy. Oh, I'm pretty sure it was Buzz
• 23:19
  Aldrin. Some, you know, crackpot was
• 23:21
  yelling one day about how it was faked and he literally punched
• 23:23
  them. Lincoln Show.
• 23:24
  Notes. If it's real, it.
• 23:25
  Was kind of like when Jack Nicholson went after somebody's
• 23:27
  windshield with some golf clubs and you're like, well, that
• 23:29
  happened. With a 9 iron no.
• 23:30
  One's ever gonna piss him off in traffic ever again, right?
• 23:33
  Like, that was a one and done. He he paid for one windshield
• 23:36
  and now that guy gets the red carpet anywhere he's driving in
• 23:39
  LA. Sure I would.
• 23:40
  Oh, no. Please, Mr. Nicholson, please
• 23:41
  pass me on the shoulder. I don't care.
• 23:42
  Just don't attack me with A9 iron.
• 23:44
  OK, now for the headlines begging for the episode we have
• 23:46
  to get out of here. Special thanks to our floor
• 23:47
  director, Eric Figueroa. Oh, thanks.
• 23:49
  For kicking off Season 4, Eric, we'll be back.
• 23:51
  Later this week with our big story how AI disrupts jobs.
• 23:53
  Until then, thank you for listening to all this nonsense.
• 23:56
  I'm Jeff Parker. I'm still I'm the sales Rep for
• 23:58
  flex seal for the ISS. Oh.
• 24:00
  They should have used flex seal. Why they just use flex?
• 24:02
  Seal for a hole in your space station or a whole new space
• 24:04
  station I like. Even building like an ISS out of
• 24:07
  screen. Mesh screen.
• 24:09
  Screen material and then spraying it with flex seal and
• 24:12
  then just getting in space and being like, look, it's fine.
• 24:26
  That's really funny. Citizens of this great Republic,
• 24:28
  are you weary of the clatter and stench of a common stable?
• 24:31
  Huh. Do you tire of the temperamental
• 24:33
  beast and the endless toil of the harness?
• 24:35
  Behold, a miracle of modern science has arrived.
• 24:38
  From the workshops of Des Moines, IA, Mr. William Morrison
• 24:40
  proudly presents the Morrison Electric wagon.
• 24:43
  Marvel at the sight of a carriage that moves not by hoof,
• 24:46
  but by the very lightning of the heavens.
• 24:48
  No steam to scald you, no soot to soil your finest linens, and
• 24:51
  heaven be praised, no oats to buy these.
• 24:54
  Are all problems I currently have.
• 24:55
  Yeah, man, I hate when I just when I get soot all over my
• 24:58
  finest linens. Laughing.
• 24:59
  Do you know what this is? I'm.
• 25:00
  Constantly getting scalded by steam.
• 25:03
  This is amazing, please keep going.
• 25:04
  This is. No mere novelty, friends.
• 25:06
  It's a triumph of American ingenuity.
• 25:08
  With room for six passengers to sit in upholstered dignity, Mr.
• 25:11
  Morrison's carriage glides at a breathtaking 14 mph.
• 25:15
  It is as silent as a shadow and as clean as a whistle.
• 25:18
  Whether you're a man of commerce seeking the future, or a lady of
• 25:21
  society desiring the most elegant conveyance in town, the
• 25:23
  electric wagon is your calling card.
• 25:25
  To the 20th century. The age of the horse is
• 25:27
  galloping away. Step into the age of the
• 25:29
  electron, the Morrison electric carriage, available now for the
• 25:32
  discerning citizen. Inquire at once and lead the
• 25:34
  procession of progress now. I've I've met some of these
• 25:37
  quote ladies of society before, usually late at night at the bar
• 25:41
  in Vegas, and I was always told not to make eye contact with
• 25:43
  them or talk to them. Sure, is that OK?
• 25:45
  I just want to make sure I got probably a good idea.
• 25:47
  Not to, yeah, yeah. Fun fact, obviously this is for
• 25:49
  the first commercially available electric.
• 25:51
  Car. I kind of sort of know a tiny
• 25:54
  bit about this because in the times that I've I've toured Mr.
• 25:58
  Leno's garage, he has at least one of these.
• 26:00
  He. Has a Baker Electric.
• 26:01
  Which is really cool. And I don't, I don't think he
• 26:04
  does it anymore, but he used to take it out like around
• 26:05
  Christmas time, he would go out with his wife and they would
• 26:07
  cruise through the Griffith Park light show, the little Christmas
• 26:10
  light show there. Sure.
• 26:11
  It's it's a really neat. I mean, it looks like a
• 26:13
  carriage, right? It's just a carriage.
• 26:14
  I would tell you that they put some some batteries into like.
• 26:16
  A lead acid battery too. It's not even like a fancy
• 26:19
  battery. Yeah, of course.
• 26:20
  But well, then that was pretty fancy.
• 26:22
  I mean, it stored quote, electricity from the heavens, so
• 26:24
  that's pretty cool. Fun fact.
• 26:26
  Before you guess the year, I. Love fun facts by. 1900 electric
• 26:29
  cars were actually more popular than gasoline cars.
• 26:31
  We. Had more of them they.
• 26:32
  Were quiet, they didn't smell, they didn't require dangerous
• 26:35
  hand cranked start that gas engines did.
• 26:37
  At the turn of the century, about 1/3 of all vehicles in the
• 26:39
  US roads were electric. What a silly.
• 26:41
  Stat in the 1950s mainframes more popular than personal
• 26:44
  computers. OK, sure.
• 26:46
  There you go. That makes sense.
• 26:47
  Well, there were gasoline cars, there just weren't nearly as
• 26:50
  many. And the early 2.
• 26:50
  Thousands. Flip phones were way more
• 26:52
  popular than iPhones. OK, yeah, cool.
• 26:54
  Sure. You didn't give anything away to
• 26:56
  me by saying by the 1900s. My understanding is this was
• 26:58
  like the 1890s is my recollection.
• 27:00
  I want to say 1895, but I don't really know.
• 27:02
  I'm going to guess 1893 just to to to middle. 1898.
• 27:06
  Oh wow. OK, cool.
• 27:07
  So I was a little. Early.
• 27:08
  Just slightly. That's still.
• 27:09
  Fascinating to me there. Were, by the way, electric cars
• 27:11
  earlier. This was just the first
• 27:13
  commercially available. What?
• 27:14
  Does that mean, like, you couldn't buy one?
• 27:15
  Yeah. There were other ones that
• 27:17
  people had created that in very low volume, like what offs.
• 27:19
  Yeah, what are very, you know, oh, interesting low volume
• 27:22
  production and. My hunch is I'm listed to be
• 27:23
  factual, so I don't want to be. I'm going to be sued for for
• 27:25
  libel. My understanding is at least my
• 27:28
  guess is that this Morrison electric wagon we said 1898.
• 27:30
  That was the year. My hunch is the autopilot on it
• 27:33
  probably did better than Tesla for.
• 27:34
  Sure, of course, today. Just slowly run over.
• 27:37
  The problem with these Morrison electric wagons though, is every
• 27:40
  time you you'd pull up like to the the Westfield, the Chargers
• 27:43
  would all be full. Always.
• 27:44
  Be there waiting in line, every of the horses just be feeding
• 27:47
  them oats, just going wherever they wanted.
• 27:49
  Just I could just get oats from anywhere and feed them whatever.
• 27:51
  Lots of oats stations, No place you can charge these things?
• 27:53
  Sure, plenty of. Plenty of oats stations.
• 27:56
  I'm sorry, do you want the unleaded oats or are you getting
• 27:59
  the flavored oats? What is your what is your horse
• 28:00
  prefer? My horse is German.
• 28:01
  It needs the higher grade oats. Please the.
• 28:04
  Morrison Electric carriage, 1898.
• 28:07
  I was so close.