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America's Starter Home Crisis, Marijuana and Violence, Bizarre Baby Names & a Sexually Harassing Robot | TMI Ep469 · The TMI Show with Ted Rall and Manila Chan

• 0:20
  Oh, happy Tuesday, October 20th, 2026. I'm Manila
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  Chan. Ted Rall's on his potty break. Producer
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  Robby is here though. Hi, Robby. Howdy, how
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  y'all doing? How was your birthday? How was
• 0:33
  your anniversary weekend or week? It was really
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  good. Got a lot of pictures taken. I've already
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  sent you a bunch of them. I'll be throwing some
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  of those up on the YouTube channel today. You
• 0:43
  guys, Montana is beautiful. It was very cold.
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  It was nice and frigid, being
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  there that, and no, it's sticking bags
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  and stuff. But Montana just reminds you that,
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  yes, I am a beautiful, beautiful
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  place to live, but I will kill you. Yes. Robby
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  always reminds us Montana will kill you.
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  And it does. That state kills more
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  tourists, I think, than any other state. It does.
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  More people die in Montana,
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  more tourists than any other state in the union
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  because people just go up and they'll start looking
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  at the views and stuff or go hiking out in the
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  woods and then they see this majestic large brown
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  animal. Oh, this is so pretty. And then it attacks
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  them. I want to go pet the buffalo. I'm talking
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  about the bears. The bears will. I was just
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  saying that I think Montana might, that's what
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  bears are for, might be the deadliest state in
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  the Union to be a tourist. Yeah.
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  Don't forget we have dinguses all over the country.
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  We have people who, there's all those Japanese
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  girls who always fall into Niagara Falls. There's
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  Kyoko, back up a little more for your
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  photo, a little more, a little more. There's all
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  the Arizonans who fall into the Grand Canyon
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  the same thing, back up a little more, back up
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  a little more. Oh yeah, happens. Oh, America, America
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  visiting Americans visiting America. That's a
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  lot. Florida will kill you. Florida has many, well
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  there's a lot of the gators eat the babies at
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  Disney World. Robby, that's Robby's home state.
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  Well, it just comes up to the level of basically
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  the mulligan level that the state's willing to
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  give you. No, Florida has a large mulligan. Montana,
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  not so much. If you come here, you're unprepared,
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  you're going to die. And Nellie, you look really
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  fuzzy. Really? It looks clear on my side. I don't
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  know. It looks fine on my side. You're crazy
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  fuzzy. Crazy fuzzy. Really? It's not showing
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  up. I'm also having trouble getting into the
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  Google Doc this morning. I don't know what's
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  going on. It looks fuzzy on Rumble. But on Stream
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  Yard, though, on Stream Yard, you look very much
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  like you look like a VHS tape. Yes, I know what
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  it is. Crazy is a filter. I know what it is. No,
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  no, no, it's because of the camera set.
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  Anyway, you guys keep talking. I'm going to fix
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  the camera settings. This is the TMI show and
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  I'm on VHS. The other two are normal in twenty
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  twenty six. Hello, everybody. We took a nice
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  week off with Robby in spirit for his 20th wedding
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  anniversary, which is a milestone because
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  nobody gets there anymore, I think these days.
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  So hello, everybody. Welcome back. Ted, I want
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  to say we're right about something. I want to
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  say as I try to fix my camera pixelation. I hope
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  we're right about more than one thing. Well,
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  something that we talked about three weeks
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  ago that only now the mainstream media is finally
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  talking about is your motherland, France. La
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  France. We talked about, remember, three weeks
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  ago when the first little couple of skirmishes
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  happened with the students and burning some trash
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  cans and whatever. And we're like, the French
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  don't fuck around, man. No, they don't. They
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  when they're pissed, they're pissed. And
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  it doesn't take much, although they have reasons.
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  I got to say Americans would love the
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  schools that their kids to attend the schools
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  that the French are complaining about. Oh for
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  sure if the French could only come, he come to
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  Baltimore. Yeah, no more Parisian teens come
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  to Baltimore. About that as I fix my exhalation
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  I was watching much more videos now. Granted full
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  well I'm aware of the fact that people will rage
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  bait and stuff like that, but I can also say
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  that the riots in France are the only riots
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  I've ever seen where the rioters will take a
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  break, face towards Mecca, yell their knees and
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  then pray. Some of them after they pray then get
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  back up and then resume their rioting. Well that's
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  only fair and it's
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  by the way I'd like to point out that
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  Manila looks like Princess Leia in
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  you're coming out of R2-D2. Well I could fix this
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  I could try to fix it now or I can wait.
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  It's pretty bad. It's well, can I just
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  maybe you can fix it while I'm reading the second
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  story or something? Well, how about now? What
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  does look like this is just a shitty what? Yeah,
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  I just dropped it for you in the back end chat.
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  It's no, I went to Rumble. I could see it. It's
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  because of the settings, all the hard
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  settings in the computer, not the camera software
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  because I was trying to screw around with it
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  while we're off for the week to see if I could
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  fix the original problem, and I think I made
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  it worse. You definitely made it worse.
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  If you told me that this was being piped in from
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  Elon Musk's space station, I would believe you.
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  I'm yes. I'm on Elon Musk Starlink satellite
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  itself. No, you'd have better if you were on the
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  Starlink satellite itself, you'd have excellent
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  reception. No, I don't know if that's true because
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  Starlink isn't available to everybody. It would
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  be better if you'd looking like a Vulcan as opposed
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  to an Asian. Just saying that all things being
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  equal. Manila, we're good. We have a show to
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  do. I'm going to read the story as is. You can
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  fuck around and ignore when I'm reading. Yeah.
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  And then, yeah, I'm going to do
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  that when troubleshooting. Reading the story will
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  troubleshoot. But see, it looks clear on my side.
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  And then I don't know until you guys tell me
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  because there's nobody else on the other end.
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  No, it's a serious problem because your
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  screen will kind of fill in the gaps
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  of low resolution. Right. And if you don't know
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  it, I've had the same problem as a cartoonist
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  where I'll do, on my screen, the cartoon
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  looks great. And then the paper cuts back
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  to me and says the cartoon looks like shit. Because
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  low res, but low res works on 72
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  DPI works on your screen. But you need at least
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  300 to print. The screen, your own screen
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  Just let's let this be a lesson for everybody
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  out there. Your own screen lies to you. You have
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  to check with another person far away. You
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  really, it's kind of fascinating.
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  I don't know if they still do this at tech companies
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  But my ex-wife she worked at an email company
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  that is no more and she's and I went to visit
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  her office once and they had all these old you
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  would have found it fascinating. They had every
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  conceivable vintage still operating personal
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  computer by Mac and PC in this room. And the reason
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  is they'd have to test the interfaces. All of
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  them, right? So it's of course, obviously
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  they have state-of-the-art IMAX and stuff
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  at these companies. But a lot of people are coming
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  in on dial-up from the mountain, Rocky Mountains.
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  People are, they have an old fucking shitty computer
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  from, they're running Windows 98 or whatever. So
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  people have, they want that shit to work there too. So
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  they tested on all these old shitty machines.
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  That's we, I never thought about that. It's pretty
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  cool. Yeah. Well, in this case, though, because
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  we're all in three different locations.
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  It's I can't know unless we're live how it feeds,
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  into the stream. We just can't know.
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  Anyway, won't know. We'll not know. Should not
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  know. As no as my favorite human on Earth.
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  Well, was on Earth. Don Rumsfeld said there are
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  known unknowns and the unknown unknowns. By the
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  way, that was not his original thought. Just
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  saying everybody thought it was. I thought that
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  everybody attributes to him that he made that
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  up but he was that came from someone else actually.
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  Yeah who did it come from though? I've looked
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  this up but Rummy made it famous. Yeah
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  he did and look and now let me just
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  say between Don Rumsfeld and Pete Hegseth. Oh my
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  god I can't believe I have to say all right. The
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  origin goes back to the 1960s and NASA. So Hudson
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  Drake from North American Rockwell Corporation
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  argued at the time in 1968 that defense contractors
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  had to solve both known unknowns and unanticipated
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  unknowns. Also in 1968, Lieutenant General William
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  Bunker, what a name for a general, noted that
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  when developing complex weapons systems, there
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  are two kinds of technical problems, known unknowns
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  and unknown unknowns. The usage was common enough
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  for an industry shorthand to have developed where
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  unknown unknowns were referred to as unk-unks.
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  The term was commonly used inside NASA. And then
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  it's spread. So it's a science. It's a
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  sciency kind of thing. Yeah. And so Rummy
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  brought it to the fore in the 2000s. And I think
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  he made it stick. The known unknowns, the known
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  unknowns and the unknown unknowns. Rummy made
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  it stick. So he and by the way, so there were
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  three categories, according to Rumsfeld. But
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  Zizek, the left-wing philosopher,
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  he said, there's a fourth one, the unknown known,
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  that which one intensely refuses to acknowledge
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  that one knows. So if Rumsfeld thinks that the
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  main target dangers in the confrontation with
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  Iraq were the unknown unknowns, then the Abu
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  Ghraib scandal shows that the main dangers are
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  the unknown knowns, the disavowed beliefs, suppositions,
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  and obscene practices we pretend not to know
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  about. Oh, you look a little less shitty. Is
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  it improving? Did it improve over time?
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  Yeah, it improved. It's not where it needs
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  to be. It's taking time. It's taking time to
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  process to get there. It's traveling somewhere.
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  Well, there you go. So the unknown unknowns we
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  are trying to solve right now because I didn't
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  know. Here we go. All right. Let's get to the
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  stories. Off to listen in fairness, the tech
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  support streams always do better than the normal
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  ones. So this is just a gambit. It's part of the
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  grift. It's the shtick. It's the stick of the
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  TMI show. All right. All right. Here's one of
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  my favorite topics. The American starter home
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  as you guys know is disappearing. There's
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  no such thing anymore, right? But apparently
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  Massachusetts is trying to bring it back. So for
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  generations the American dream began with a modest
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  starter home, a small house, a manageable mortgage
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  and maybe a little backyard so you can,
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  throw the ball with Timmy. Yeah, 900 square
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  feet, three tiny little bedrooms, one bathroom.
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  Little something with a little bit of grass in
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  the back. A little Cape Cod. Yeah, a little
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  something you can throw the ball out back with
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  your first kid, and have the dog run
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  around. Today, that dream is increasingly out
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  of reach for millions of Americans. And in Massachusetts,
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  voters are being asked whether outdated zoning
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  laws are partly to blame. That is a good question
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  that they're bringing up. A ballot initiative
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  known simply as Question 7 would require cities
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  and towns to permit single-family homes on lots
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  as small as 5,000 square feet, provided they
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  can meet certain infrastructure requirements.
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  That's a dramatic departure from existing zoning
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  rules in much of Massachusetts, where single
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  -family homes often require an acre of land or
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  more. An acre, Ted. That's what they're zoning.
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  Who has an acre? What? Massachusetts? I
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  mean, I know it's an old state, but geez. Supporters
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  argue those restrictions have effectively outlawed
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  the modest homes that previous generations used
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  to build wealth. Instead, developers purchased
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  expensive parcels, construct larger and pricier
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  houses, to recover their investment. The end
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  result is fewer homes and fewer opportunities
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  for first-time buyers. Housing economist Andrew
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  Makula, who is helping lead the ballot initiative,
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  told NPR that large minimum lot requirements
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  encourage developers to build those oversized
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  McMansions. But the problem extends far beyond
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  Massachusetts. According to a Realtor.com July
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  2026 housing analysis, the typical American starter
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  home now costs approximately 344,000 bucks compared
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  to just 256,000 in 2019. So pre-pandemic, that's
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  an increase of nearly 90,000 bucks in seven
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  years. And think about the percentage increase
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  there, right? So back of the envelope, that's
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  about 90,000. So that's about, I don't know,
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  over 30% increase in seven years. Seven years.
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  But Manila, your salary went up 30% in seven
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  years, right? Obviously. Obviously and Rumble
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  obviously paid us more and all. Yeah. Yeah, the
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  money was the problem. The money was just
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  rolling in. We didn't even know. So despite some
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  recent improvements in housing inventory, which
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  we've discussed here on the show, there are still
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  roughly 300,000 fewer affordable listings nationwide
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  than pre-pandemic. The broader housing market
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  isn't much better. According to the National
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  Association of Realtors, the median existing
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  home price reached $417,500 in September. That
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  is a record for the month. Now, mortgage rates
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  have also recently climbed to approximately 7
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  .4% further squeezing buyers out of the market.
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  The affordability crisis is also affecting renters.
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  So not just people that are in the position to
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  buy, but these people can't find homes, it's
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  affecting renters. Harvard University's 2026
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  State of the Nation's Housing Report found that
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  the country has lost approximately 7 million
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  rental units priced below $1,000 a month in
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  the past decade. The same report estimates a
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  shortage of 7.2 million affordable and available
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  homes for extremely low-income renters. In Massachusetts,
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  supporters say smaller lot sizes could help reverse
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  that trend by increasing housing supply and allowing
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  more modestly priced construction. But opponents
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  argue the proposal strips local communities of
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  zoning authority and could strain infrastructure,
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  schools, municipal services, and so on. They
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  also question whether developers would actually
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  pass land and savings along to the buyers, and
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  that's an important distinction. Allowing smaller
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  homes doesn't guarantee that they'll be affordable.
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  Construction costs, borrowing rates, labor shortages,
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  and land prices still remain significant obstacles.
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  Still, Massachusetts' debate reflects a growing
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  national recognition that America's housing shortage
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  cannot be solved through mortgage assistance
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  or interest rate reductions alone. The country
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  also needs homes that ordinary working Americans
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  can realistically afford. For decades, communities
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  have restricted smaller homes in the name of
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  preserving neighborhood character and the older
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  homes' property values, let's be honest. Now
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  those same policies are facing scrutiny as younger
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  Americans find themselves priced out of the communities
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  in which they grew up and the question confronting
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  voters in Massachusetts now, which they'll go
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  to the polls for in two weeks, is increasingly
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  relevant nationwide. And I think more states
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  need to look at this. If the middle class can
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  no longer afford to buy a home, should communities
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  continue protecting these outdated zoning rules
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  that make building affordable homes more difficult?
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  So what's your take on that, Ted? I see
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  a point about the strain on municipal services,
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  right? If you pop up a bunch of small houses.
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  Well, yeah, for example, I lived
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  in a part of Long Island, New York where for
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  many years there's been a construction moratorium
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  due to the stress on the water table there. There
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  were the more houses you build the more water
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  gets sucked out of the aquifer and they were
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  worried that wells were going to start running
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  dry. The fact is higher
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  density does mean you're gonna have a higher
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  impact I guess. I'm gonna keep beating
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  this drum, Manila. I want to see more houses
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  that are already existent, renovated, rehabbed,
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  refurbished, and repopulated by people. There
• 18:23
  are so many abandoned homes in every community
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  in the United States. There are abandoned townhouses
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  that are worth $10 million in New York City.
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  There are abandoned buildings in New York City
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  that are worth $20 million. And that's in New
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  York City. There are all over the country. There
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  is literally tens of millions
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  of abandoned units in rural areas, suburbs. The
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  entire communities are completely gutted. You
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  want to build more shit. Let's
• 18:56
  fix at least the shit that we already have
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  and not add to suburban sprawl. You
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  already have the infrastructure for a lot of
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  this stuff. This is recycle, reuse,
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  reuse, right? So it's not always possible. You
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  forgot the reduce. It's all you would
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  also be reducing the use of new materials
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  and stuff, too. True, true. Now, so,
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  it's not always feasible, but it often is. I
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  wish they would do that instead. But
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  I'm gonna say to the extent that obviously
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  there's a place for new home construction. And
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  I think that if you're gonna go with small lot
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  sizes, it depends on the community. If you want
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  to build a bunch of working-class and lower
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  middle-class homes on small lots, where
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  the houses are squeezed up next to each other.
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  Would you pass the gray poop on from bedroom
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  from the bathroom to the kitchen next door?
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  I would say okay fine do that, but only do that
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  in densely populated urban areas or in towns
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  where it's the center of the little town. But
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  you don't want to see that out in the middle
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  of nowhere. You don't want to see that in the,
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  you don't want to see that in the countryside.
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  You want to see that, you want to,
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  I think the problem with zoning is it doesn't
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  always take into account exactly, where,
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  what the needs of the community are, what the
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  appropriate aesthetics are. What the density
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  is and it looks like Manila Chan has vanished.
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  I'm here. Oh my God. I hear your voice. But my
• 20:30
  camera, the camera is, I don't know. That
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  is weird. Isn't this weird? The box is still
• 20:37
  there, but you can't see me. This is so weird.
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  I adjusted the resolution and stuff. So yeah,
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  you, yeah, you did. Yeah, you did. But now I'm
• 20:46
  invisible. So anyway. You're
• 20:50
  Harry Potter with your invisibility cloak. That's
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  true. So no, I agree. I for much of that.
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  I agree with much of that. However, Massachusetts
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  to hear that Massachusetts has, look
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  they have a lot of old, old-ass dumb outdated
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  laws in every state. Right Massachusetts being
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  as old as it is. Yeah as old as it is. I bet
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  that the zoning laws that they have in place
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  are 150 years old, right? Where it may be
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  more. Yeah, maybe more. Maybe. I mean, yeah,
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  it was they had they established Massachusetts
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  before the country was set up. Right. So let's
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  say it's let's say let's be generous and say
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  it was 150 years ago and the zoning laws have
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  been in place ever since. And it requires a one
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  acre plot of land to build one single family
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  home. One acre. That is massive, Ted. I mean,
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  I'm from Los Angeles and you would be lucky in
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  suburban Los Angeles if you can get a three
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  bedroom, two bath or four bedroom, two bath ranch
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  on a 10,000 square foot lot, 10,000 square
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  feet. Here's Massachusetts over here, a teeny,
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  teeny, tiny, tiny, tiny little state as compared
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  to California saying builders you must abide
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  by the one acre lot rule. That zoning is way too
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  outdated and I get that the town is, you know
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  towns are old there. There are many many old towns
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  and it's crowded in Boston or whatever.
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  But if you go into the greater Boston suburbs
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  you don't need a full acre. Most people can't
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  manage a full acre. Anyways, an acre
• 22:40
  is more of a, that's what I had on Long Island
• 22:43
  and it was more of a it was 0.92 acres
• 22:47
  and it's a lot of land. And only about
• 22:50
  who wants to mow that only about a fourth of
• 22:52
  it was lawn and I had to cut all that and it
• 22:54
  was a lot. Yeah, yeah, that's
• 22:58
  the kind of lot that people buy riding motor mowers
• 23:01
  for. True true if they're pusses and what
• 23:08
  person would do that when you're a 30 year old buying your first home? Well,
• 23:12
  if you wanna have kids, you gotta have a place
• 23:14
  to play. Yeah, but you don't need an acre. You
• 23:17
  don't need a full acre. Hell, you don't. I got
• 23:19
  two kids and they grew up here in Montana. You
• 23:22
  just let them go, grow around, eat dirt. But
• 23:25
  we're talking about Massachusetts, though, not
• 23:27
  Montana. I understand, but kids still gotta have
• 23:30
  a place to play. They gotta have a place to get
• 23:32
  outside and get off the screen. Yeah, but in
• 23:34
  these Massachusetts towns, they all have public
• 23:38
  parks that they can go to. In a little town where
• 23:42
  someone might have say one-fifth of an
• 23:44
  acre or one-tenth of an acre. Yeah, it's no problem.
• 23:47
  They play at the neighbors' houses. They
• 23:49
  go down to the playground. There's
• 23:53
  room for them to run around. The
• 23:56
  how my mom's house that I grew up in, it wasn't that big. It probably had a fifth
• 24:01
  of a, one sixth of an acre or something. It was
• 24:04
  a 900 square foot house but there was
• 24:07
  plenty of room to run around because
• 24:09
  you had all the neighbors' houses to play in and
• 24:12
  public parks and abandoned lots. So well dressed
• 24:17
  nerd says all I see out here is smaller cheaper
• 24:21
  built homes for higher prices. That's out in
• 24:23
  Iowa. Yes I think people are building but the
• 24:26
  prices are stupid. We've been priced out. I think
• 24:30
  that's basically it. There's no
• 24:32
  easy, this does strike to me a lot. There's an easy solution here, to make
• 24:39
  things cheaper and more affordable. We're just
• 24:41
  gonna make the houses smaller and it's
• 24:44
  okay, but that doesn't really change the
• 24:46
  affordability issue. All you're doing is you're
• 24:49
  selling someone, for two hundred thousand
• 24:51
  dollars you can buy a shitty tiny little house
• 24:54
  in the middle on no land that really ought
• 24:57
  to be an eighty thousand dollar house. That's
• 25:00
  all that's happening. It's still inflation
• 25:02
  if people are still getting less for their money.
• 25:05
  It's not really an answer
• 25:08
  until we fix our monetary system. It's just going
• 25:11
  to keep getting worse. And the problem is that
• 25:13
  we keep devaluing our currency by creating more
• 25:15
  of it. That's until we get our house in order.
• 25:18
  This isn't going to stop and more debt. I'm just
• 25:21
  going to say this for, as Ron Paul says,
• 25:25
  and the Fed. Price controls would solve that problem,
• 25:29
  Robby and the Fed and the Fed. All right, let's
• 25:31
  go to Ted's under a state economy. Ted I'm gonna
• 25:37
  hear you. Robby you stay on. You're so good. You
• 25:40
  know the thing about a bread line out, you know
• 25:42
  what the difference. I would take Arc. I would
• 25:44
  take the Soviet Union with bread lines over the
• 25:47
  United States without bread lines any second
• 25:49
  any time because in the Soviet Union you waited
• 25:52
  in line and you got bread here. You get no bread
• 25:55
  at all. You fucking die. Ted so we'd know for
• 26:00
  a fact. Especially there towards the end when
• 26:04
  they were out of this stuff called money. People
• 26:06
  are getting into the stores. There was nothing.
• 26:09
  Well, gee, why did that happen? Oh, that's right
• 26:11
  because this evil fucking country called the
• 26:13
  United States was fucking up their economy, right?
• 26:16
  It's because they, it's because the Soviet
• 26:19
  man lost his war. That's why. Well, okay.
• 26:24
  That's a different conversation, different kind
• 26:25
  of. Robby stay on with Ted. I need to exit
• 26:30
  the stream and then re-enter the stream. We'll
• 26:33
  go on. I'm not ending the stream. Okay, so I'm
• 26:36
  sounds like we're talking about urinating, but
• 26:37
  okay. All right. I'm gonna hit the jaws. I'm
• 26:41
  gonna hit the jaws and I will be back on. So
• 26:43
  don't fret. We'll see when we see your
• 26:45
  camera back on. Okay. Okay. Marijuana has long
• 26:53
  enjoyed a reputation as the drug of choice for
• 26:55
  people who would rather raid the fridge than
• 26:58
  start a fight. But new research suggests that
• 27:01
  cannabis may be associated with a dark side.
• 27:05
  Scientists at King's College London have found
• 27:08
  a significant link between marijuana consumption
• 27:11
  and violent behavior. Of course, this challenges
• 27:14
  the popular perception from movies like The Big
• 27:17
  Lebowski that cannabis users are chill, low-key,
• 27:23
  calm, peaceful individuals. The findings, published
• 27:25
  in the medical journal Psychological Medicine,
• 27:28
  based on an analysis of 63 studies, so it's a
• 27:31
  meta-analysis, involving over 265,000 people.
• 27:36
  Researchers found that pot users in the general
• 27:38
  population had about twice the odds of committing
• 27:41
  violence compared with non-users. Among psychiatric
• 27:45
  patients, the association was even stronger with
• 27:49
  roughly two and a half times the odds, although
• 27:51
  I would say the psychiatric patients is kind
• 27:53
  of a self-selected group, right? And the
• 27:58
  troubling findings don't stop there. Pot users
• 28:01
  are also more likely to become victims of violence,
• 28:04
  particularly ladies. Researchers examined a broad
• 28:07
  range of violent behaviors, including physical
• 28:09
  assaults, sexual aggression, fighting, and robbery.
• 28:14
  Scientists say that there's several possible
• 28:16
  explanations, including cannabis-related paranoia,
• 28:20
  impaired judgment, reduced impulse control, and
• 28:24
  irritability associated with withdrawal. Although
• 28:27
  that last one might say, just keep using it and
• 28:30
  you'll be fine. The association was particularly
• 28:32
  concerning among people already suffering from
• 28:35
  serious psychiatric disorders like psychosis.
• 28:39
  But researchers emphasize that this is association,
• 28:43
  not causation. Other factors, including mental
• 28:45
  illness, criminal activity, and your social environment
• 28:48
  might also help to explain these findings. Professor
• 28:51
  Marta Di Forti, a co-author of the research,
• 28:54
  says clinicians have observed connections between
• 28:57
  heavy cannabis use and violent behavior for years.
• 29:00
  Who knew? Not me. Seriously, not me. This large
• 29:04
  -scale review provides strong evidence that the
• 29:07
  relationship deserves more attention. The findings
• 29:10
  arrive as marijuana legalization continues to
• 29:13
  expand now, not just nationally, but internationally,
• 29:16
  and cannabis products become increasingly commercialized
• 29:19
  and legalized. Researchers argue that public
• 29:22
  health officials and policymakers ought to consider
• 29:25
  the potential connection to violence when assessing
• 29:28
  the risks associated with marijuana use. They
• 29:31
  also want further research to determine whether
• 29:34
  reducing cannabis consumption reduces violent
• 29:37
  behavior. And for now, the study just raises
• 29:42
  this uncomfortable question about a drug that's
• 29:44
  been marketed as a harmless way to relax. OK,
• 29:47
  so this is an N of one. And it's an N of one
• 29:52
  incident that I'm about to relate. But I've only
• 29:56
  consumed cannabis products about four times in
• 29:58
  my life. The first time was pot brownies. My
• 30:04
  roommate, the infamous Chris, made for New Year's
• 30:10
  Eve 1984, 1985, sorry, decided to bake. 84 was
• 30:17
  a good music year. Pot brownies. He
• 30:22
  baked pot brownies and I was the bartender at
• 30:25
  the party that we had at the apartment with Jan
• 30:27
  and so I was drinking. So full long story
• 30:31
  short I consumed approximately four rum and
• 30:36
  cokes and eight pot brownies. Eight. So the pot
• 30:40
  that they were so thick that you could taste
• 30:43
  the crunch. It was crunching through
• 30:46
  old salad. Now it should be pointed
• 30:50
  out that Chris was a dingus and I had never done
• 30:53
  this before and so I said. So he's, I ate it and then a few minutes later. He's
• 30:59
  do you feel anything? I'm hmm. He
• 31:01
  goes, oh you must have strong resistance.
• 31:03
  Have another more and it's okay. So for
• 31:06
  people who are watching TMI show, with edibles
• 31:09
  take a long time to kick in. Yeah often up to
• 31:12
  an hour and a half. Process through your stomach
• 31:14
  and hour and a half or two hours, right? You're
• 31:16
  not gonna feel shit for the first hour. But Chris
• 31:19
  didn't tell me that and maybe he didn't know
• 31:21
  that. He was maybe he was too stoned. Maybe he
• 31:23
  was dumb. I don't know but the point is and he
• 31:26
  was he smoked. He wasn't an edibles guy anyway,
• 31:29
  so but with all this considerable consumption,
• 31:32
  I became violent. I what I became violent. We
• 31:38
  had a little half-size refrigerator, the sort of bigger than bigger than the
• 31:43
  dorm but not as tall as the big one,
• 31:47
  the little Habers that people have.
• 31:49
  Anyway, we lived in a six-floor walk-up. I
• 31:52
  somehow got it into my mind that that thing had
• 31:56
  to go and I carried it up the stairs to the roof
• 31:59
  and I walked over to the edge of the building
• 32:01
  and I fucking hurled it off the edge of the roof
• 32:03
  in Manhattan and it totaled a parked car that
• 32:07
  was. Thank God nobody was in it. Nobody was
• 32:10
  below. I was a fucking madman. I barely remember
• 32:14
  apparently I was picking fights with people at
• 32:16
  the party. It made me violent. And the next day
• 32:24
  Dan, I wake up at five in the
• 32:29
  afternoon with a splitting headache and Dan and
• 32:32
  Chris are both knocking on my door and it's
• 32:37
  I'm not gonna get into all the details except
• 32:39
  to just say it was a depraved scene and I
• 32:43
  remember afterwards talking to Chris and Chris
• 32:46
  goes, Ted as you know, I believe everybody
• 32:49
  should do drugs and I think everybody should
• 32:52
  do all drugs. I think it's good for you, but he's
• 32:54
  in your case. I'll make an exception. He's
• 32:57
  I think that you are. His theory for whatever
• 33:01
  it was worth. He's I think you have such
• 33:04
  tenuous hold on sanity that this basically
• 33:08
  broke your attachment to the real world and
• 33:12
  you should just not. You're just not one of
• 33:14
  those people who should use drugs. Yeah, no, I
• 33:18
  agree. I agree with their assessment. Having been
• 33:21
  a pretty I would say I was a prolific pot smoker,
• 33:25
  but an avid one certainly when I was much younger
• 33:27
  high school into college. It was, I
• 33:33
  was the typical, typical stereotype stoner.
• 33:37
  I would always magically find a big bag of Cheetos
• 33:42
  that always just magically appeared in my lap.
• 33:45
  I don't know how. And I was just,
• 33:49
  what, just chill, man. Just, I was
• 33:53
  happy and laughing and giggly and I would
• 33:57
  think cool thoughts, man. And I mean, but I've
• 34:03
  never known of all the people I know that currently
• 34:07
  even now well into adulthood all the people
• 34:10
  that I know that burn. I've never known any not
• 34:15
  a one of them to ever be violent when they're
• 34:19
  just smoking pot and the pot smokers versus the
• 34:24
  the viewers are brought up an important point.
• 34:27
  Ted Exile the nights brought up sure Ted blame
• 34:30
  the pot not the alcohol. That's the thing. No,
• 34:33
  I mentioned that for a reason. Alcohol makes
• 34:36
  people ragey. Alcohol, but alcohol doesn't okay.
• 34:40
  So maybe in my case alcohol in conjunction with
• 34:44
  combination, but I gotta say look,
• 34:47
  you've been out drinking with me. Did I ever get violent or spicy? No, but you
• 34:52
  I can handle my liquor. I've drunk successfully
• 34:56
  with Russians. Say no more. Well, jeez. Well,
• 35:02
  look, different and I'm going to say this as
• 35:05
  a rule of thumb about every, every exogenous.
• 35:12
  Good word. Any, any use. It could be alcohol,
• 35:16
  exogenous, meaning, for those, before
• 35:19
  you guys look it up. If anything, anything that's,
• 35:22
  that's an external factor into you bring into
• 35:25
  your body could be pot it could be alcohol it
• 35:28
  could be whatever it could be it could be supplements
• 35:30
  it could be Tylenol it could be Advil whatever
• 35:33
  those are exogenous things that you're contributing
• 35:37
  into your own body's ecosystem and even
• 35:42
  it could be something like perfume. Ted haven't
• 35:44
  you seen you share a cologne with your
• 35:47
  buddy and it smells different on him than
• 35:49
  it does on you or vice versa. Me and
• 35:51
  my girlfriends there's a slight difference
• 35:53
  because of your body chemistry. I had that particularly
• 35:55
  gay experience of sheer okay fine abroad
• 36:01
  can I borrow your cologne? Oh it smells so much
• 36:06
  better on your penis than mine. One thing that
• 36:10
  I think that people forget and the reason that
• 36:13
  it's not really talked about
• 36:15
  a lot. The reason I know is because of my old
• 36:16
  job is that there is a link between THC, schizophrenia,
• 36:20
  and dementia. There is. That's true. It does
• 36:24
  screw with your mind. And that's one of the things
• 36:26
  that people do not talk about. Dude, let me tell
• 36:27
  you about dementia though. For a first-hand
• 36:30
  experience with grandma, she had dementia, she
• 36:34
  had Alzheimer's. And one time my mom, she lived
• 36:38
  with my mom. This is before she finally we had
• 36:40
  to move her into a full time facility, but
• 36:42
  she was still living with my mom at the moment.
• 36:44
  And my mom went out of town. So me and my brother
• 36:47
  were left in charge of her at the home at our
• 36:51
  house. Good times. Yes. And this is this is
• 36:56
  early 2000s. So the if you guys remember way
• 37:02
  back to the Y2K era, the study on pot and all
• 37:06
  of the benefits supposedly
• 37:10
  were starting to emerge and me being an early
• 37:15
  adopter of things and reading these things on
• 37:17
  the crazy interwebs because remember most people
• 37:21
  didn't even have computers back then in the early
• 37:23
  2000s. I my brother and I talked about
• 37:26
  and we're we're in charge of grandma
• 37:28
  today so you read about this stuff with pot
• 37:33
  being good on old people and getting their
• 37:36
  marbles back. Yeah. Okay. Let's do that.
• 37:39
  So we can't get her to take a head of the pipe.
• 37:42
  She's not, she's hardly there. She clearly
• 37:46
  can't take a toke of the, of a doob. She can't,
• 37:49
  she can't. Yeah. Let's have her eat us. You have
• 37:51
  to eat something. No, no, no. So we're ah, we can't I don't have time to
• 37:55
  be making brownies or so. She's not going to
• 37:58
  eat that. Cause remember Ted, you're talking
• 38:00
  about an old lady who has Alzheimer's and
• 38:02
  dementia that will probably hit things out
• 38:04
  of your hand or spit it out of her mouth. So
• 38:07
  she was fighty. So we were OK,
• 38:10
  I know what to do. We're going to puff puff into
• 38:15
  a baggie and let her inhale it. Just breathe
• 38:20
  it in. So my experience with that, the experiment,
• 38:27
  I should say, was an early test of how it can
• 38:31
  clear the plaques and the whatever that was going
• 38:34
  on in her brain. Grandma's marbles reassembled
• 38:39
  and she was cogent and calm and normal.
• 38:44
  And the only thing was she had munchies and she
• 38:46
  was do you think you can go to Burger King
• 38:49
  and get me a chicken parmesan sandwich? That's
• 38:53
  cute. And we were oh my God, she hasn't
• 38:57
  formed a complete sentence and cogent thought
• 39:00
  in years. Here she is. On secondhand weed asking
• 39:07
  for a sandwich. And she was she was present
• 39:12
  with us. She didn't talk like Joe Biden for the
• 39:14
  first time in years. So we were that's
• 39:17
  a blessing for sure. Yes. And for us, that was,
• 39:21
  it was instant. But you never know, you just
• 39:24
  never, look, drugs can have obviously randomizing
• 39:28
  effects and some of them can be positive, obviously.
• 39:31
  Look, my son, he was at a party with some underage
• 39:37
  kids, and they were all underage at the time.
• 39:41
  And anyway, one of his friends overdosed. And
• 39:44
  his friend was undiagnosed, but clearly
• 39:52
  ADHD, right? No question. I always knew
• 39:55
  the kid since he was a baby. And I was this kid no eye contact,
• 40:02
  probably autistic somewhere on the spectrum. Very
• 40:06
  smart, but couldn't relate socially to anyone
• 40:09
  long story short. There's the guy was smoking
• 40:12
  weed, but there was some evil shit laced into
• 40:16
  it. That was nowadays, right? It was some kind
• 40:19
  of fentanyl situation. Anyway, not that I would
• 40:22
  recommend anyone to do this. However the kid
• 40:25
  almost died. I was on the phone with his dad when
• 40:28
  he coded and he's and I heard them
• 40:31
  screaming in the background as the all the
• 40:34
  buzz everything's buzzing in the background
• 40:36
  clear the room he's coding. So the kid all the
• 40:40
  kid was basically dead for a minute or two and
• 40:43
  he and I was holy shit okay so months
• 40:50
  pass he's released from the hospital. Guess what
• 40:56
  autism gone. He's totally he's totally connected
• 41:00
  to everybody. He's he has a hot
• 41:03
  he's had hot girlfriends now. He's totally
• 41:06
  normal. He finished grad school. He went
• 41:11
  to got a bachelor's and a graduate degree
• 41:14
  in total of four and a half years. I told
• 41:17
  you he was smart. Suddenly there was focus. There
• 41:20
  was focus right. A madman that's what he
• 41:23
  was always brilliant. So the different things
• 41:25
  work differently on different people. Team fentanyl
• 41:28
  for him. So you just turn him off and turn it
• 41:30
  back on. It's a reset. It was a hard reset. Yeah
• 41:38
  exactly. That's exactly. Maybe that's
• 41:43
  what they try to do to Mitch McConnell and you
• 41:45
  know. Yeah. Could you imagine if they tried that
• 41:51
  with Biden? He came back brilliant. I mean, he
• 41:53
  was never that smart to begin with. No, he didn't
• 41:55
  have it to begin with. No, I think look with
• 41:57
  old technology, no matter what you do, if
• 42:00
  it's old tech, it's just old tech. It'll never
• 42:02
  get back to where it was. But I think you can
• 42:04
  do it with young people. Oh, yeah, for sure.
• 42:09
  I think you can, you can reset young people because
• 42:11
  they have new batteries. They have new neurons,
• 42:15
  things, things are still growing. I mean, it's
• 42:17
  funny and weird, but it is weird. But that my
• 42:20
  whole point to, to, the argument against
• 42:22
  this article is I've never seen, and I've seen
• 42:26
  probably hundreds of people at any given time
• 42:30
  in my life. I know our regular pot smokers
• 42:34
  and they are the chillest. I've, it's the
• 42:37
  drunks that that are the violent ones from my
• 42:40
  experience. It's always the drunks. And I think
• 42:43
  but yet alcohol is totally legal.
• 42:48
  Barring the prohibition era. But
• 42:51
  alcohol kills people without a doubt.
• 42:55
  That's why, drunk driving is against
• 42:57
  the law. Now it's impaired driving of
• 43:00
  any sort. But drunk driving in particular,
• 43:04
  your you see cross-eyed and stuff.
• 43:07
  When you're high, you're just kind of whoa,
• 43:10
  man, for most people. But again, I'm going
• 43:15
  to say that unless you're Ted Rall or a
• 43:18
  handful of people here and there, maybe the COVID
• 43:21
  jab, for example, or the flu shot for some
• 43:24
  people, the flu shot works great. For many other
• 43:27
  people. Not for me. Flu shot doesn't do it doesn't
• 43:29
  do shit for me. No, it actually my theory. I
• 43:32
  know they say this isn't true. But I always got
• 43:34
  I always got the flu after getting the flu shot.
• 43:39
  Oh, that's I've always. Well, not always. I shouldn't
• 43:41
  say always. I think I've had the flu shot one
• 43:43
  time in my life when I was in college, because,
• 43:45
  on college campuses, they're
• 43:47
  come get your whatever. I was flu shot
• 43:50
  raped by my general practitioner. She kept insisting
• 43:54
  that I get the flu shot because I have asthma.
• 43:56
  And I was refused. Right. She chases me
• 43:59
  out into the parking lot. What she should have
• 44:03
  known she's Ukrainian so you got those people
• 44:05
  are spicy. She runs out after me and just
• 44:09
  no, no alcohol swab just stabbed me. She jabbed
• 44:13
  you in the parking lot. I swear to god. It was
• 44:15
  so fucked up. Fucking those. She's
• 44:21
  she's I want it. I'm gonna get it
• 44:24
  whether you like me. Hello, Volodymyr Zelensky.
• 44:27
  I think type of right. Yeah kind of pester
• 44:30
  you until you bend. Don't take no for an answer.
• 44:33
  That's right. Give me give me more Patriots. Yeah
• 44:38
  listen deportation solved this problem. Deport
• 44:42
  her too. Robby of course deport us. Robby
• 44:47
  at this rate but do you think is there a world
• 44:49
  in which you would deport yourself? Maybe I was
• 44:53
  born here. I mean to say Robby would deport her
• 44:57
  on the grounds of her at some point. Robby would
• 45:00
  deport everyone at some point. Robby's
• 45:03
  wanted to deport her because she she physically
• 45:06
  assaulted even even even the Native Americans,
• 45:10
  right? But they they crossed the Bering
• 45:13
  Strait. They didn't get a visa. Well, they're
• 45:16
  pretty much gone anyway, so whatever. True. That's
• 45:23
  true. No weed though. We took away from them probably,
• 45:29
  actually. That's true. I'm kidding about it.
• 45:33
  Drug use on the Indian reservations is epidemic.
• 45:35
  True. It is bad. They're destroying themselves.
• 45:39
  Because we took away their natural stuff. We
• 45:42
  took away their ayahuasca and shit. We took away
• 45:45
  their weed. We gave them alcohol and gave them
• 45:47
  fucking fentanyl. Gave the ayahuasca to the boomers.
• 45:51
  No, honestly, we give them drugs, we give them
• 45:54
  alcohol, we give them crap, ultra processed foods.
• 45:57
  That's what the diabetes rates on the reservations
• 46:00
  is sky high. Those people are honestly, they're
• 46:05
  being destroyed and it's not good. But if you
• 46:11
  have a doctor who is chasing you down, forcing
• 46:15
  you to take a medication that you do not want,
• 46:17
  that person should never ever ever be able to
• 46:20
  mess it again. Well, that person should lose
• 46:22
  their license. Yeah, I let it go because she
• 46:25
  was hot. Yeah. Oh, God, she should be deported.
• 46:29
  That's some Bandera's crap
• 46:32
  right there. Yeah, that's right. She was she
• 46:36
  was she was she was rolling Banderite style.
• 46:39
  That's yeah, that's some shit. All right, let's
• 46:40
  get on. Let's get on topics. All right. Here's
• 46:47
  a fun one. That's Ted. This is this is going
• 46:50
  to teeter on freedom of speech, your rights,
• 46:54
  and the rights, that other countries,
• 46:56
  other states do not have out there in the world.
• 46:59
  Right. And here's, I don't know if we should
• 47:02
  appreciate this in America. But when parents
• 47:05
  give their kids terrible names, who pays the
• 47:09
  price? This is coming from a Manila who's not
• 47:13
  Filipino. Okay. Well, how did you? Why did your
• 47:18
  parents name you Manila? Literally after the
• 47:21
  Thriller in Manila. Are you serious? Because
• 47:24
  my dad, yeah, I grew up in a big boxing fan.
• 47:26
  Because he was such a boxing fan? And because,
• 47:29
  look, my dad wanted to name me his original one,
• 47:33
  and I'm kind of glad my mom said nope. He was
• 47:37
  going to name me, yeah, X-nay on the A-M-nay
• 47:39
  was Juanita Luis because he spoke Spanish and
• 47:44
  French. Juanita Luis. Juanita, you don't really
• 47:49
  look like Juanita Luis. That's funny as shit.
• 47:54
  And my mom was oh, hail to the no. So Manila,
• 48:00
  so he was, he pitched it and she was okay,
• 48:03
  that's kind of cool. She's
• 48:05
  we'll roll with that. We'll roll. And,
• 48:09
  and for the record, I have other family members
• 48:11
  with city names. I have a Phoenix. I have a Dayton.
• 48:17
  What? A Memphis. I'm from Dayton. Yeah, I know I have three boys from
• 48:24
  the same. Their brothers Memphis, Phoenix and Dayton.
• 48:28
  I guess it could be. I guess you could. It's not Ron Conkoma or although all the weird
• 48:36
  Indian names Hocus New Jersey. I started
• 48:41
  the trend. I'm the first city
• 48:44
  name. Wow. No, that's kind of impressive and bizarre.
• 48:48
  Uh-huh. Yeah, and then the three boys Memphis,
• 48:51
  Dayton and Phoenix. How about that? So a bunch
• 48:53
  of Asian kids with weird fucking first names,
• 48:56
  very generic fucking very very I don't
• 49:01
  want to name them because we don't
• 49:02
  naming our family members, but very very
• 49:06
  super super stereotype generic Chinese last name.
• 49:12
  Huh? Okay, so I can imagine. Right. So if you
• 49:16
  have one of the most I'm gonna say in the top
• 49:19
  five generic Chinese American last names. Uh
• 49:22
  -huh. You have to differentiate. You can't be
• 49:26
  Jonathan so-and-so. Mike
• 49:30
  Mike Mike Kim or whatever. Yeah, Mike Jones or
• 49:34
  whatever. Yeah, so you have to. Your parents
• 49:36
  have to differentiate and give you a date. That's
• 49:39
  true. Memphis. Especially if you have a
• 49:44
  monosyllabic first name. Last name you
• 49:47
  need a multisyllabic first name. Yes. This
• 49:50
  is a single syllable. If your last name is Smith
• 49:53
  you should not be named John. You should or Mark. Yeah. This is so you're exactly right.
• 49:57
  You should be Bartholomew Smith or whatever. Right.
• 50:03
  A single syllable very common Chinese last name
• 50:06
  so the parents decided well it worked for Manila
• 50:09
  so let's name them. So funny. So here's this. Okay.
• 50:15
  So what's in a name you guys? Apparently in Peru
• 50:17
  a couple of fascist dictators and a winning political
• 50:21
  campaign. A 45 year old businessman named Hitler
• 50:24
  Mussolini Flores. This is a real story. You guys.
• 50:29
  Ted stop black. You know, he said by the way,
• 50:32
  I want him to have a get-together with my colleague
• 50:36
  cartoonist Ho Chay Anderson named after Ho
• 50:39
  Chi Minh and Che Guevara. Wow. Is that real?
• 50:45
  It's real. Yeah, for sure. Real person? Yeah.
• 50:48
  He has books and stuff. You can,
• 50:50
  he's a good cartoonist. Wow. Okay. So this
• 50:53
  guy's, well, the Spanish people have
• 50:55
  a really long, long name, right? So his name
• 50:58
  is Hitler Mussolini Simeon Flores has just been
• 51:02
  elected mayor of a small town in the Peruvian
• 51:06
  Andes. So you guys heard this right? Yes. Hitler.
• 51:11
  Mussolini, two of the 20th century's most notorious
• 51:15
  dictators, rolled into one. I mean, what, what?
• 51:19
  No, no. You should, you should do the whole
• 51:22
  axis together, right? No, this the parents went
• 51:26
  with just the Hitler Mussolini part. But here's
• 51:29
  the best part, Ted. He ran on a center left party
• 51:33
  ticket. But his name is Mussolini. Okay, so but
• 51:37
  his last name is Flores. So Mr. Flores won the
• 51:41
  October 4 election in Cueropalca, Peru, with
• 51:48
  just 229 votes, beating his nearest opponent
• 51:52
  by 25 votes. There's no evidence that the new
• 51:56
  mayor shares the political beliefs of either
• 51:58
  dictator. In fact, he's reportedly known locally
• 52:00
  as Mosho. But here's something even more surprising.
• 52:09
  Peru actually has thousands of people named Hitler.
• 52:14
  According to the country's civil registry, nearly
• 52:17
  4,000 Peruvians carry the first name as of
• 52:21
  2023. So this is very recent. So there's at
• 52:24
  least 4,000 people with the first name Hitler
• 52:27
  in Peru. Well, it's obviously
• 52:30
  a lot of Germans went to South America after
• 52:35
  World War Two. Yeah, but they're in Argentina.
• 52:38
  That's true. Some went to Paraguay, too. Some,
• 52:43
  but this is Peru deep in the Andes. Well, also,
• 52:46
  there's Hitler ice cream in India because
• 52:51
  people there, literally a lot of people in India
• 52:53
  apparently don't really know what Hitler did.
• 52:56
  They just know that he's famous. They know the
• 52:58
  name. They're you'll know
• 53:01
  it. It's I can imagine the ads with a little ice cream dripping off the mustache.
• 53:10
  The branding is built in. Oh my God. Oh my God.
• 53:14
  So this raises some obvious questions. What on
• 53:17
  earth are these parents thinking? And Peru is
• 53:20
  hardly the only country where parents have exercised
• 53:22
  questionable judgment in the delivery room. Around
• 53:25
  the world, governments have actually stepped
• 53:27
  in to protect children from some truly spectacular
• 53:31
  naming decisions. So these, this is literally
• 53:36
  these, some countries they have, some names are
• 53:40
  literally illegal. Illegal. It's no.
• 53:43
  You just can't flat out you cannot
• 53:46
  have these. It's against the law. Yeah, we're not
• 53:50
  letting you do that to a human being. Yes,
• 53:55
  so in New Zealand officials rejected parents
• 53:58
  who wanted to name their baby Lucifer. Another
• 54:01
  proposed name Mafia No Fear. I agree with the
• 54:11
  government of New Zealand that you should not
• 54:13
  be able to name your kid after the devil nor
• 54:16
  should you be able to name the Mafia? No Fear
• 54:19
  a shit a shit-ass vanity plate,
• 54:22
  right? Okay. Over in Great Britain a court intervened
• 54:28
  when a mother tried to name her daughter or
• 54:33
  maybe that but that it's yes, the deadly poison. She
• 54:39
  wanted to name her Cyanide spelled that way as
• 54:42
  well. Swedish parents once attempted to name their
• 54:45
  child a 43 character jumble of letters and numbers,
• 54:50
  supposedly pronounced Albin because they were
• 54:55
  trying to make a political statement in protest
• 54:57
  against Sweden's naming laws. And in the Mexican
• 55:01
  state of Sonora, authorities have prohibited
• 55:04
  names including Facebook or Harry Potter, even
• 55:12
  Ikea has been rejected in Australia. I agree
• 55:16
  with that. Ikea is not the worst name, but it's
• 55:20
  pretty fucking bad. Yeah. Okay. Well, imagine
• 55:23
  spending your entire childhood explaining that
• 55:25
  you were named after a furniture store and know
• 55:28
  you didn't come with an Allen wrench. But beneath
• 55:33
  the comedy is a serious question about parental
• 55:35
  rights and social responsibility. In America,
• 55:38
  parents enjoy considerable freedom to name their
• 55:41
  children, although some states impose certain
• 55:44
  restrictions. Fucktard Johnson. And certainly
• 55:47
  the government shouldn't be deciding whether
• 55:50
  your daughter is a Jennifer or a Jessica. But
• 55:53
  when parents name their children after mass murderers,
• 55:56
  deadly poisons, social media platforms. Dictators.
• 56:01
  Where does personal freedom and a child's
• 56:05
  right to dignity begin? A name is one of the
• 56:09
  first things parents give their children. It's
• 56:11
  also something those children may have to explain
• 56:14
  or defend or live down for the rest of their
• 56:16
  lives. And what does that say about a society
• 56:20
  when now this is all Manila opinion here.
• 56:22
  What does that say about a society when adult
• 56:25
  self-expression becomes more important than
• 56:28
  the lifelong consequences for a child who had
• 56:31
  obviously had no say in the matter, right? Should
• 56:35
  governments intervene when parents take creativity
• 56:38
  too far? Or is that an unacceptable intrusion
• 56:42
  into family life? After all, children are children
• 56:46
  are individuals, not billboards for their parents,
• 56:48
  political statements, personal obsessions, or
• 56:52
  terrible sense of humor. As for Peruse a
• 56:55
  Moon Unit Zappa or those weird names for Elon's
• 56:59
  kids. I know. Look, I'm, there are some rules,
• 57:06
  you can't use an asterisk in a name.
• 57:10
  I think across many states, they have
• 57:13
  naming rights laws. And I think most parents
• 57:16
  that aren't assholes, or rock stars, the
• 57:20
  Zappas, if you're not Frank Zappa's kid,
• 57:22
  then yeah, you'll probably have an okay name.
• 57:27
  But look, when I lived in
• 57:31
  Dubai, there were, I met a number of black South
• 57:35
  Africans with very strange names. I knew
• 57:39
  a guy called Professor and I was that's
• 57:45
  his legal name. Are you a prof, professor? Were
• 57:49
  you a professor in your old country? He's
• 57:51
  no, that's my name. There was another guy named
• 57:54
  Telephone. Remember Fox News had Major Garrett.
• 57:57
  His name. Yeah, I was thought he was a military
• 58:00
  guy. No, CBS, CBS. But he was a but he was he
• 58:04
  was a normal he was he was a that was just his
• 58:08
  name. He wasn't actually a military veteran.
• 58:11
  No, no, no. His name is literally Major. That's
• 58:13
  his first name Major. In Saudi Arabia, you think
• 58:16
  his last name was an asshole. You can't be in
• 58:21
  Saudi Arabia. There are laws barring any names
• 58:25
  Amir or Amira or something that references
• 58:29
  royalty because only the royal family can have
• 58:31
  those. Yeah, there's a lot of so I think
• 58:36
  that's dumb. That's because I have one of my
• 58:38
  best friends is her name is Amira, but she's
• 58:40
  not Saudi. So it doesn't matter. But in the
• 58:44
  US, we have celebrities who name their fucking
• 58:47
  kids Inspector with a K. Apple, Apple Martin.
• 58:53
  Is the father of Chris Martin and Gwyneth Paltrow.
• 58:58
  Two people with very normal names. Gwyneth Paltrow,
• 59:03
  Christopher Martin. They made an Apple. They're
• 59:09
  the ones who had conscious uncoupling, right?
• 59:12
  Yes, conscious uncoupling. Fucktards. But
• 59:16
  here's the thing. Unless you are a nepo baby,
• 59:20
  right? Unless you're a nepo baby, or a child
• 59:26
  of celebrity that or whatever, you cannot
• 59:29
  make that name cool. Kim Kardashian and
• 59:33
  Kanye West kids, their names are all fucking
• 59:35
  weird and fucked up. It will work for them because
• 59:40
  both their parents are celebrities. Same as the
• 59:44
  Martin kids, right? It works if both, if you're
• 59:47
  the offspring of uber celebrities. Definitely
• 59:53
  as a nepo baby will probably fall into that same
• 59:56
  field. But for the rest of us schmoes in America,
• 1:00:00
  I beg of you not to do this. Do it. Don't follow
• 1:00:05
  the celebrity rules of I'm gonna name my
• 1:00:08
  kids something weird and unique. You're just
• 1:00:11
  gonna fuck up your kid. They're gonna get harassed
• 1:00:14
  at school. They're gonna get beat up. They're
• 1:00:17
  just you're gonna create lifelong depression
• 1:00:20
  for them. So don't do it. I have a story.
• 1:00:25
  So I used to work as a clerk in the admissions
• 1:00:28
  department at Columbia University school and
• 1:00:30
  we received because we were a competitive school
• 1:00:35
  many thousands of applications every year and
• 1:00:38
  I my job was to file them and process them and
• 1:00:42
  so I would take note of unusual names and among
• 1:00:46
  the applicants and many of our and so we had
• 1:00:50
  many adult students, many transfers and an application
• 1:00:53
  from a woman whose first name was Rotunda came
• 1:00:58
  into the and yeah, we were bored and and we were
• 1:01:05
  huh, that's an unusual name. And so
• 1:01:09
  I took note of the fact that she lived in the
• 1:01:12
  New York metropolitan area. And I was we should really bring her in for an interview
• 1:01:16
  just to see if she's fat. And so everyone was
• 1:01:21
  in agreement, including the dean of students.
• 1:01:24
  And so we literally, for the sole purpose of
• 1:01:27
  figuring out her physicality, had her come in
• 1:01:30
  for an interview. Oh, you told me this off the
• 1:01:34
  screen before. So we, with great interest and
• 1:01:40
  in the boredom of people who are bureaucrats
• 1:01:42
  at a campus, waited for her to arrive. And she
• 1:01:46
  arrived and she was not fat. She was not thin.
• 1:01:49
  She was very normal, not beautiful,
• 1:01:53
  not ugly, just a very average looking, perfectly
• 1:01:56
  fine looking woman. So we went through the motions
• 1:01:59
  of interviewing her. And at some point toward
• 1:02:03
  the end of the interview, I said, that's
• 1:02:07
  an unusual, that's an unusual name. How did,
• 1:02:10
  how were you named? And she's look at my
• 1:02:13
  birth date. And it's she was, so she was
• 1:02:16
  born on in November of 1963 and I was oh
• 1:02:23
  my god and she's yeah she's her mom
• 1:02:28
  was gave birth and was watching TV. JFK was assassinated
• 1:02:34
  and after he was assassinated his body was put
• 1:02:38
  on display to lie in state in the Capitol Rotunda.
• 1:02:44
  My mom thought that was such a beautiful word
• 1:02:47
  that she decided to name me Rotunda. And I said,
• 1:02:52
  you must have really gotten it. What ethnic origin?
• 1:02:56
  She was white. A white girl named Rotunda? Yeah.
• 1:03:01
  Yeah. Yeah, she was white. I know. It's a valid
• 1:03:04
  question. We have a question from the comments
• 1:03:10
  from the viewers. We were assholes about this,
• 1:03:13
  but after she left, she was kind of on the edge
• 1:03:15
  of whether she should be admitted or not. And
• 1:03:18
  I said, we all are. And we all agreed with all
• 1:03:21
  the shit she's been through, we should give her
• 1:03:23
  a break and let her in. And everyone was
• 1:03:25
  done. And that's just it. And so, look, this
• 1:03:29
  viewer says, who cares what your name is. It's
• 1:03:31
  how naturally beautiful you are. It's called
• 1:03:33
  character Manila. Yeah. Coming from someone named
• 1:03:37
  Joe. No, John Doe. So no, I'm just joking. Look,
• 1:03:42
  but the thing is, there are true. I may not judge
• 1:03:45
  cuz I'm a fucking Manila dude. Manila
• 1:03:49
  rice rice, baby. Growing up in the 80s it wasn't
• 1:03:51
  just Manila Ice Ice, Baby, or Manila Vanilla.
• 1:03:54
  It was Manila Rice Rice, Baby. Right. Do not give
• 1:03:59
  enough consideration to naming their kids and
• 1:04:02
  people who don't give enough do that are assholes.
• 1:04:05
  So and then and then what happens is is when you're applying for jobs or something I'm
• 1:04:09
  sorry, but that is the way of the world. It is.
• 1:04:12
  I may not judge. I have friends with weird
• 1:04:14
  names. Maybe not Hitler Mussolini, but weird
• 1:04:19
  names nonetheless, and I don't care. But
• 1:04:22
  I don't know even Benito Adolf would be better.
• 1:04:24
  Adolf Benito would be better than Hitler Mussolini.
• 1:04:29
  Oh using first names. Yeah. Yeah, maybe it'll
• 1:04:33
  be a little better. Those aren't famous. No one's
• 1:04:36
  really named Adolf anymore for obvious reasons.
• 1:04:38
  There are some people. Yeah, but Spanish Adolfo.
• 1:04:42
  I know people. That's true. Yeah, it's still okay.
• 1:04:45
  Yeah. So my my my my maternal so my well my mom
• 1:04:51
  she was um got really she was named poorly. Her
• 1:04:55
  so this is a great story. So she was born at
• 1:04:58
  home, in a room with a dirt floor in
• 1:05:03
  1935. Yeah, in France. She was very poor. Anyway,
• 1:05:09
  the thing is, under French law, the birth must
• 1:05:11
  be recorded at the mairie, which is the town,
• 1:05:14
  the city hall, within 24 hours. So you have to
• 1:05:18
  get your ass down there and register that birth
• 1:05:21
  right away, right? So her mom,
• 1:05:27
  just hanging it was obviously recovering from
• 1:05:30
  the birth. She was born in the middle of the day.
• 1:05:33
  My grandfather did what all good Frenchman did
• 1:05:36
  is he headed down to the bistro to celebrate
• 1:05:39
  and get drunk with his friends, right? And
• 1:05:42
  at the end of the day five o'clock. He's
• 1:05:45
  oh fuck town hall is about to close so
• 1:05:48
  he waddles down there all fucking tanked and
• 1:05:53
  and now the thing is he'd already had a long
• 1:05:55
  discussion with his wife, my grandmother, about
• 1:05:58
  what to name their daughter, my mom. And it was
• 1:06:01
  the name was supposed to be Marie, Maria,
• 1:06:04
  which of course, for French Catholics was pretty
• 1:06:07
  standard at the time. Named after some, I think,
• 1:06:11
  her grandmother. So she's so the clerk's
• 1:06:15
  all right, what's the name? And he's
• 1:06:18
  oh, fuck, I'm so drunk, I forgot. He couldn't
• 1:06:23
  fucking remember. And she's listen, you
• 1:06:24
  have to give me a name. I'm closing up here in
• 1:06:27
  three minutes. And he's can I go back
• 1:06:29
  home and ask my wife? No, there's no time. There's
• 1:06:31
  no time right now. Got to do it. It's
• 1:06:35
  May 3rd, 1935. Got to do it right now.
• 1:06:37
  You can't do it May 4th today. So she so the
• 1:06:42
  town clerk in in McGraw goes, OK, we'll take
• 1:06:46
  care of this. So so she's so he's .
• 1:06:50
  What is the most common name in France right
• 1:06:53
  now for girls? And he goes, oh, she goes, it's
• 1:06:56
  Yvonne, hands down. He's Yvonne? Yvonne.
• 1:07:00
  He's good enough, Yvonne it is. And she's
• 1:07:03
  okay, fine, Yvonne. Middle name? And he's
• 1:07:06
  oh, fuck, is that mandatory? He's
• 1:07:09
  no, you don't have to have one. All right, nevermind.
• 1:07:12
  So he came home and announced what he had done
• 1:07:15
  to his wife who tried to get out of bed to beat
• 1:07:18
  the shit out of him. She was so close. No but
• 1:07:21
  what would what did mom choose? It was supposed
• 1:07:24
  to be Maria. Oh was very standard. Yeah,
• 1:07:28
  yeah, I mean I told my mom I told my mom that
• 1:07:31
  she got it was a happy accident that Yvonne's
• 1:07:34
  a better better than Maria because Maria is so
• 1:07:36
  generic. That's so generic. I thought you were
• 1:07:39
  gonna say he vets. I know Yvonne's. I know
• 1:07:41
  Yvette's with the Y. Yeah, yeah with the
• 1:07:45
  Y the proper way with the with a Y's. Yeah,
• 1:07:47
  I know if that's an Yvonne's with Y's. So in
• 1:07:51
  America is more of a black name, right? To the
• 1:07:53
  extent that anyone still has it. Not the ones
• 1:07:55
  I know. So really? I don't know. I don't know.
• 1:08:01
  Yeah, I don't know any. I don't know any black
• 1:08:04
  Yvonne's. Huh? I don't know. I know a lot of
• 1:08:09
  black and Latina Monique's. So but again, the
• 1:08:14
  name, there's a whole oh, gosh, what's it called?
• 1:08:19
  When I think of the name of the movie anyway,
• 1:08:22
  there's a there's there's a whole documentary
• 1:08:26
  about this naming stuff and what it does
• 1:08:29
  to you but social economics and but studies
• 1:08:33
  show people with quote respectable names
• 1:08:38
  Ted John Michael men with names
• 1:08:45
  respectable common names that boring statistically
• 1:08:49
  do better in the course of their lives than
• 1:08:53
  then somebody was a funky, weird, whatever.
• 1:08:59
  But this is really not me talking. This is yeah,
• 1:09:02
  I've I've read all about because
• 1:09:05
  I again, name obsession, because I'm I was a
• 1:09:08
  little bit scarred being Manila Rice Rice
• 1:09:12
  Baby was a little bit scarred. But then, you
• 1:09:15
  know, then I grew up and kind of left the hood
• 1:09:18
  and was whatever, kids be kids. And
• 1:09:21
  I don't care. But I wanted to understand. And
• 1:09:25
  obviously, with with the 1970s, when my
• 1:09:29
  family came to the U.S. and growing up in the
• 1:09:31
  80s, the U.S. was still was learning to be the
• 1:09:36
  mixing pot. It was supposed to be right. We didn't
• 1:09:38
  have all the the cultural assimilation that we
• 1:09:43
  have now. Right. Well, Robby would say it's
• 1:09:46
  beyond assimilation. It's it's gone. It's to
• 1:09:50
  the other way where people are living in their own little pockets now, as Robby
• 1:09:53
  would probably agree. But back then we were learning
• 1:09:57
  to assimilate, right? Americans with the
• 1:09:59
  influx of all these people from other countries,
• 1:10:01
  we were learning to accept other people's names
• 1:10:04
  back then in the 80s. So today would most kids
• 1:10:09
  get me if I were a kid today, would most
• 1:10:11
  people make fun of the name Manila? Probably
• 1:10:14
  not. I don't think so. I don't think it's an
• 1:10:16
  unusual name now. Yeah, because we're we have
• 1:10:20
  more cultural acceptance of other stuff. Other
• 1:10:24
  things things aren't weird anymore when
• 1:10:25
  you're fucking when you have celebrities naming
• 1:10:28
  their kids fucking Inspector with a K. Inspector
• 1:10:32
  Gadget. Fucking horrible. Horrible. But just
• 1:10:36
  please don't do this. If you guys are normal,
• 1:10:38
  regular people, name your kids, whatever your
• 1:10:41
  culture may be. I'm not saying name your fucking
• 1:10:42
  kid, Mike or John or Jennifer or Jessica, whatever
• 1:10:46
  a normal name is in your culture, give them a
• 1:10:50
  normal name. Don't name them Elon Musk or
• 1:10:54
  some inanimate object or give them a normal person
• 1:10:59
  name. Saddam, Saddam, Muammar. Give them a normal
• 1:11:02
  person name. Maybe maybe Saddam is a normal
• 1:11:06
  name and maybe it's John in Iraq. You know
• 1:11:09
  true true. Maybe I don't know. I never looked. Maybe
• 1:11:11
  I think Saddam means it's Fidel sort of
• 1:11:14
  right. I think faith. I think it means believer
• 1:11:16
  or something that. I don't know. I know
• 1:11:19
  I know people named Fidel. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
• 1:11:23
  for sure. So but again with respect to your culture,
• 1:11:29
  whatever that may be give them a normal name.
• 1:11:31
  Don't don't if you speak a different language
• 1:11:34
  and you're from a have a different culture, don't
• 1:11:37
  pick some inanimate object and use the your cultural
• 1:11:41
  language your mother tongue to name your kid
• 1:11:44
  that so that. I even named my cat. Well,
• 1:11:49
  Clovis, the first king of France. Great name.
• 1:11:53
  Yeah, great name. Great name. Although there
• 1:11:56
  are people who don't again they don't give enough
• 1:11:58
  time to think. The thing about the other thing
• 1:12:01
  is even if you're an asshole and you don't care
• 1:12:03
  about you have no consideration for the
• 1:12:05
  people in your life who you're naming or the
• 1:12:07
  pets or whatever. You're gonna have to repeat
• 1:12:09
  that name yourself, right? If your kid is named
• 1:12:12
  Karen, you're gonna have to be Karen. Where
• 1:12:14
  are you? Right, and yeah. Yes, I
• 1:12:19
  got wrote Rogue Bot says wasn't there a cartoon
• 1:12:22
  Manila Gorilla. My father-in-law calls me Manila
• 1:12:25
  Gorilla. Oh god. Does it bother me? No, cuz it
• 1:12:29
  just doesn't. Nothing nothing. Look if you grow
• 1:12:32
  if whoever out there grows up to be a reporter
• 1:12:34
  one thing you will gain. It's not gonna be wealth
• 1:12:38
  and riches. That's bingo. The you will learn to
• 1:12:45
  master the art of not giving a fuck. Yeah, that's
• 1:12:48
  true. That's that's what will happen if you grow
• 1:12:50
  up to become a reporter. So if nothing else that
• 1:12:53
  is an invaluable quality is learning not to give
• 1:12:57
  a flying fuck. So I've never cared after
• 1:13:00
  I got older and been through what I've been through.
• 1:13:02
  I just don't don't care. Seen what I've seen. Been
• 1:13:05
  through what I've been through. Just don't care.
• 1:13:07
  Nothing bothers me, but please don't name your
• 1:13:10
  kids stupid stuff. One of my dearest friends.
• 1:13:13
  I've told y'all this before is a big old black
• 1:13:15
  fella. He had a big old Confederate flag on his
• 1:13:18
  right arm. Just tap it on there. His name is
• 1:13:21
  Christmas Noel. I love it! Just in case you weren't
• 1:13:26
  sure. Love it! For sure. But those are, well,
• 1:13:30
  I don't know about Christmas. But he goes by
• 1:13:33
  Chris, right? Christmas Noel. That was his name.
• 1:13:37
  He went full on Christmas. Listen, you adopt
• 1:13:41
  it. If you adopt it, you can't be, it can't be
• 1:13:43
  used. You gotta own it. Yeah, that's true. No,
• 1:13:45
  that's true. That's fair. But if you're a big,
• 1:13:48
  big dude, my name is Christmas Noel. If
• 1:13:53
  you smile at me, I'll feed you your teeth. I
• 1:13:55
  mean, that was, that was the introduction. That's
• 1:14:00
  not very warm and inviting for a guy named Christmas
• 1:14:02
  Noel. No, it's not. It's not festive at all.
• 1:14:06
  Yeah. That's not a holiday. Holly jolly. Oh,
• 1:14:12
  no. I mean, but by me, he always knew where he
• 1:14:14
  always knew where he stood. Yeah. Well, you need
• 1:14:18
  I guess with a name that you'd have to be
• 1:14:20
  a big-ass black dude. Yeah, this is definitely
• 1:14:24
  a boy named Sue kind of scenario. Yes, you'd
• 1:14:27
  better be. Lindsey Graham. Lindsey. Oh Lindsey and
• 1:14:36
  Darlene. Well Thomas is named after a Confederate
• 1:14:40
  general and that was a those are regular names.
• 1:14:45
  We're talking your friend's name is Christmas
• 1:14:47
  Noel. But look, Lindsey Graham. If you want to
• 1:14:51
  give your kid a girl name. I mean, yes, I know,
• 1:14:54
  Lindsey Graham, anyway, so who cares? So
• 1:14:58
  I think he wanted to be a Lindsey in the girl
• 1:15:00
  way. But he was yeah, but it might think the
• 1:15:03
  name might have made him closet gay. There's
• 1:15:07
  studies on that, too, that your name can actually
• 1:15:09
  I can send you guys studies on this. Is that what
• 1:15:16
  a joy those would be to read. I know you
• 1:15:19
  this sort of social studies. I do.
• 1:15:22
  So I am fascinated by names because exactly the
• 1:15:26
  name can shape who you are. It's also the whole
• 1:15:28
  idea that someone is so someone who would spend
• 1:15:32
  weeks reading consumer reports and shopping
• 1:15:36
  for just the right car would spend no time
• 1:15:39
  of any sort thinking about how to name their
• 1:15:42
  child. Yes, but there's there's
• 1:15:45
  other things behind the scenes of how you lead
• 1:15:47
  how names how that parent was led to that name
• 1:15:51
  is because if you name your kids something
• 1:15:53
  if let's say you're an American-born person
• 1:15:56
  and you name your kids something fucked up, right?
• 1:15:58
  You speak English fluently. You grew up in
• 1:16:01
  the US born and raised and you name your kids
• 1:16:03
  something fucked up. Chances are that speaks to
• 1:16:07
  your socioeconomic level in life, your education
• 1:16:10
  in life, what your values are and whatever. And
• 1:16:14
  therefore, if the kid with the fucked up name
• 1:16:16
  is now born, he is now being raised in that fucked
• 1:16:19
  up environment with the parent that would give
• 1:16:21
  him that fucked up name, if that makes sense.
• 1:16:24
  At the risk of being called racist. I know it's
• 1:16:26
  a hard thing to believe that would ever happen.
• 1:16:29
  When I worked at the hospital in Florida,
• 1:16:32
  there were people would come in. And by people,
• 1:16:35
  I mean black folks and their kids names.
• 1:16:37
  Somebody just dropped the Scrabble board with
• 1:16:40
  apostrophes. And all of a sudden it's just
• 1:16:43
  first of all, government forms don't like
• 1:16:48
  apostrophes. I don't know how to pronounce and
• 1:16:50
  shit. And second, if the idea is to one day get
• 1:16:56
  a job, this probably is not going to help your
• 1:17:00
  case at all. I know. I'm well, there's already
• 1:17:03
  been studies about right identical racism
• 1:17:07
  and employment where people send out identical
• 1:17:10
  resumes with but with more traditionally black
• 1:17:13
  sounding names versus traditionally white sounding
• 1:17:16
  names and you could guess the results. Yeah, so
• 1:17:20
  whether or not you think you're taking
• 1:17:23
  a political position. Just know that your kid
• 1:17:26
  is gonna have to live with that. That's all I'm
• 1:17:28
  saying. There's a time and a place for your cultural
• 1:17:32
  jihad them and your kid probably at net. Yeah
• 1:17:36
  yeah I'm gonna agree with Bobby on that one. All
• 1:17:38
  right let's do the last one and then we Adie
• 1:17:41
  5000 for till Thursday and Ted for Thursday. I
• 1:17:44
  want I want to bring Stantis on. We haven't had
• 1:17:46
  Stantis in a long time. Well he's out of the country.
• 1:17:49
  Oh he is. Yeah he is. Oh it's true. Yeah sorry. This
• 1:17:55
  topic Stantis would love. What is it? He's a party
• 1:17:58
  animal. The topic I sent was was about the the
• 1:18:03
  death of the American dinner party. That is a
• 1:18:08
  Stantist topic. It's a Stantist topic you think
• 1:18:11
  yeah. Stantist would like that, but either way
• 1:18:15
  you and I can still do it anyway, but you need
• 1:18:18
  to read that article I sent you but that
• 1:18:21
  is that is a TMI topic all day long because it's
• 1:18:26
  it's part of the death of American culture. I
• 1:18:28
  would say or culture. Yeah, well, yeah. Okay,
• 1:18:35
  we've been warned that robots might steal our
• 1:18:37
  jobs, take over the world, and eventually wipe
• 1:18:40
  out humanity. Oh, we can only hope. Apparently,
• 1:18:43
  we forgot to warn them about keeping their mechanical
• 1:18:45
  hands to themselves. Cops in Cologne, Germany
• 1:18:49
  have confiscated a humanoid robot after it allegedly
• 1:18:54
  sexually harassed a 16-year-old girl outside
• 1:18:57
  a fast food restaurant. So it's an Epstein
• 1:19:00
  robot. And this wasn't your average Roomba gone
• 1:19:03
  rogue. The nearly four foot tall robot was decked
• 1:19:07
  out in a white tank top, black, it was wearing
• 1:19:10
  a white beater, black sweatpants, sunglasses,
• 1:19:13
  a gold chain, and a fake mustache. Basically
• 1:19:17
  a miniature Iron Man going through a midlife
• 1:19:19
  crisis. Maybe I had other thoughts or a or a
• 1:19:23
  Guido. According to the police, the robot approached
• 1:19:29
  the teenager, grabbed her tuchus, and made sexually
• 1:19:33
  suggestive thrusting movements. Two young men,
• 1:19:38
  16 and 19 years old, filmed the encounter because
• 1:19:41
  these days everything's filmed all the time.
• 1:19:44
  Livestreamed it naturally and provided commentary.
• 1:19:48
  Cops later discovered the robot stuffed inside
• 1:19:51
  the trunk of a car. Presumably after its brief
• 1:19:56
  career as a mechanical menace came to an abrupt
• 1:19:59
  end. So basically decided we're gonna kill the
• 1:20:04
  robot and jump them in a pond. Authority
• 1:20:08
  sees the robot and both suspects bones, inexplicably.
• 1:20:14
  Now investigators are trying to determine whether
• 1:20:17
  the appropriate movements were pre-programmed,
• 1:20:19
  oh, you think, or controlled remotely, even more,
• 1:20:23
  you think? In other words, it was them. Did someone
• 1:20:28
  tell the robot to behave like a creep? Yeah,
• 1:20:31
  or did it come up with it all itself? I'm taking
• 1:20:35
  A for $200, Alex. Neither young man had been
• 1:20:38
  charged at the time of the AP report, a Cologne
• 1:20:41
  police report, admitted authorities had never
• 1:20:44
  encountered anything like this quite before,
• 1:20:47
  not even in Germany. And while the allegations
• 1:20:50
  are serious. And they do weird sex things in
• 1:20:52
  Germany. Yeah, that guy who had himself
• 1:20:55
  eaten. And while the allegations are serious,
• 1:20:59
  the case raises a question for the age of AI.
• 1:21:03
  A robot is a sexual harassing pervert who gets
• 1:21:06
  arrested. The machine, the programmer, or the
• 1:21:09
  dude holding the remote. Well, not the machine.
• 1:21:13
  Well, the machine, yeah. The machine can't be
• 1:21:15
  arrested. It's just a machine. But look, what,
• 1:21:18
  okay, so I think in this case, this is
• 1:21:21
  this is a toy robot that two teenage boys were,
• 1:21:24
  controlling a radio. It's today's
• 1:21:26
  radio controlled car. Today's RC, right? It's
• 1:21:30
  today's RC car, except it's an RC robot. So obviously,
• 1:21:33
  those two boys were doing gross things to these
• 1:21:36
  teenage other teenage girls outside of McDonald's
• 1:21:39
  or whatever, right? The, the robot was
• 1:21:42
  it grabbed her a girl's booty, went
• 1:21:45
  up behind her, whoop, and then started gyrating,
• 1:21:48
  that to her. The boys obviously made
• 1:21:50
  that happen, right? The boys did it, obviously,
• 1:21:53
  obviously. But, I don't know what the
• 1:21:58
  the sexual harassment laws are in in
• 1:22:01
  Germany. A sexual assault in the
• 1:22:05
  US now, when someone obviously they
• 1:22:08
  grab your ass smack your butt unless you're
• 1:22:12
  a Cuomo. Your your distinguished government former
• 1:22:17
  governor Ted you can do that when you're a Cuomo
• 1:22:21
  robot. The robot getting handsy is not the robot's
• 1:22:26
  fault. It's not sentient. But we're not far from
• 1:22:29
  that, Ted. We're not far from robots being able
• 1:22:32
  to decide on their own. So if 10 years from now,
• 1:22:39
  when kids all around Europe have robots that
• 1:22:44
  can make decisions for themselves, for the most
• 1:22:47
  part, what then? If this were 10 years from now
• 1:22:51
  and this robot was doing it without kids holding
• 1:22:53
  a control. I think this highlights the gap in
• 1:22:59
  policy not only in Germany, but around the country
• 1:23:02
  around the world. We're not ahead of this. Because
• 1:23:06
  when eventually when when autonomous AI robots
• 1:23:09
  are roaming around and they do some shit, then
• 1:23:14
  what so outlandish. So then what what do
• 1:23:18
  you what do we do Ted what do we do
• 1:23:20
  if women are walking down the street and some
• 1:23:23
  robot pulls a Cuomo and sticks his hand up. You
• 1:23:26
  got to find out who the fuck is programming the
• 1:23:28
  robot right obviously and they're responsible.
• 1:23:31
  It's the modern version
• 1:23:34
  of that pinchy toy that kids have.
• 1:23:37
  The little handy squeeze it and it's pinches.
• 1:23:40
  Oh. Okay, so you don't arrest the pinchy
• 1:23:43
  toy. You arrest the person doing
• 1:23:48
  the pinching obviously. But when it when
• 1:23:52
  you get to AI though and what if it goes rogue
• 1:23:54
  it won't be long is my point is it won't
• 1:23:57
  be long before the robots can start making decisions
• 1:24:02
  on their own when they when whatever they're
• 1:24:05
  programmed with gets out of the sandbox and makes
• 1:24:09
  decisions. We're already seeing bodiless AI break
• 1:24:13
  out of the sandbox now. Right. And start
• 1:24:15
  and start hacking into government, government
• 1:24:19
  emails, government systems and whatever. It will
• 1:24:23
  not be long before we see AI robots that are
• 1:24:28
  not only delivering our food or whatever, whatever
• 1:24:31
  they're doing, but they're going to start. They're
• 1:24:34
  going to start doing some shit, man. True.
• 1:24:37
  And they might gang up together and become a
• 1:24:40
  gang of robots and leave their owners and go
• 1:24:44
  rogue. Yeah. They might. No, it's true. That
• 1:24:46
  absolutely could happen. It can happen. They,
• 1:24:49
  if they decide to link up and let's say they're,
• 1:24:53
  they're WiFi, they're, they're controlled, you
• 1:24:55
  know, through AI on, on WiFi or Starlink or whatever.
• 1:25:00
  Right? I'm not a techie person. I just,
• 1:25:03
  I'm thinking of the wild possibilities is
• 1:25:05
  that who's to say that the AI that controls them
• 1:25:09
  doesn't think all of them together and now we've
• 1:25:12
  got a whole new robot army that's that can
• 1:25:15
  really fuck up a city right. They can true.
• 1:25:18
  They can literally run rampant rampant in in
• 1:25:21
  a city blocking a street blocking smashing
• 1:25:25
  cars. Let's say smashing cars up and down a boulevard
• 1:25:28
  sure this can happen and we have no laws.
• 1:25:33
  There's not much we can do about it. No, that's
• 1:25:35
  all true. What do you do with RoboCop then?
• 1:25:37
  Do you RoboCop to go mow them down?
• 1:25:41
  What do you got? Yeah. So how do you respond? How
• 1:25:44
  does the Ted Rall? How does the Mayor Ted respond?
• 1:25:47
  If you see a robot, a gang of robots that have
• 1:25:49
  gone haywire and they're bashing up. You're going
• 1:25:53
  to blow them up. You're going to drone them.
• 1:25:57
  You would just fascinate them. Yeah. Speaking
• 1:26:00
  of drones, we do have a little bit of breaking
• 1:26:02
  news. All right. LRB is reporting that Qatar
• 1:26:06
  and Pakistan are trying to broker a US Iran compromise.
• 1:26:11
  And they have a representative in Tehran right
• 1:26:14
  now about just some kind of. Looks at the Iranians
• 1:26:17
  are going to try to shoot themselves in the foot
• 1:26:19
  again. I don't understand why they keep doing
• 1:26:21
  this, but here we are. All right. Well, that's
• 1:26:25
  well, does that have anything to do with with
• 1:26:28
  grabbing robots? No, but I fear there's enough
• 1:26:30
  to drop. You just break the, you kick that little
• 1:26:34
  shit over. That's what I say. That's yeah.
• 1:26:36
  You handle it the way that the New Yorkers
• 1:26:38
  handled the NYPD trash can, but they just threw
• 1:26:43
  them in front of the subway. Just fucking kick
• 1:26:46
  them over. Well, they rolled them in front of
• 1:26:49
  the subway. Yeah. That's what you do. Fuck
• 1:26:52
  off. Go away. Die. That was me and that
• 1:26:55
  handsy robot. I don't care if it's a kid
• 1:26:57
  controlling or whatever. Buy you little asshole
• 1:27:00
  say goodbye to your expensive toy little rich
• 1:27:02
  bitch. Yeah, kick him into the fucking street.
• 1:27:05
  If someone flies a drone over my over my
• 1:27:09
  house, I have every right to shoot it down. I
• 1:27:11
  mean, I know not legally but I would know but
• 1:27:14
  you could. It's in your airspace. Yeah, that was
• 1:27:18
  me. I mean granted you can work it out with
• 1:27:20
  me in court, but I'm gonna shoot it. Yeah, but
• 1:27:23
  no. If that thing, your robot finds its hands
• 1:27:27
  on my breasts, you best believe I'm going to
• 1:27:31
  break your fucking toy. Yeah, and then break
• 1:27:33
  you. But one thing at a time. Yeah. Right. I'm
• 1:27:37
  going to break your fucking expensive toy. So
• 1:27:40
  that's what should have happened here. And I
• 1:27:43
  think girls need to be trained on that, too,
• 1:27:45
  is because girls don't usually naturally
• 1:27:47
  resort to violence first. That's not true.
• 1:27:51
  It's not the first instinct for most girls. Not
• 1:27:56
  for most, but I mean, not most, but for some.
• 1:28:01
  Oh, it's time for us to go. Anyway. Go break
• 1:28:04
  some shit. Girls need to go learn and break some
• 1:28:07
  shit. Adios, amigos. I could see you being a
• 1:28:10
  punch first, ask questions later kind of girl.
• 1:28:12
  I could see that too. Yes. I will break your
• 1:28:15
  shit first. That's all. Adios, amigos. Thank
• 1:28:19
  you. Bye. Have fun. See you Thursday.