In this episode of the podcast, I talk about the 5 languages of love, and how to deal with the fact that you don't know any of the news you're talking about. Also, I try to figure out why there's no audio on the Locals only platform.
00:03:08.080So I saw on Twitter, somebody asked, well, somebody was pointing out that they were talking to a high-level executive at some big company that was unnamed.
00:03:19.940And the executive of the big company that was unnamed was unaware of almost any of the stories that we talk about.
00:03:28.680You know, I mean, obviously, everybody knows there's a Ukraine-Russia thing.
00:03:33.020But beyond that, most of the things that we talk about, never heard of them.
00:03:39.440And I'm not talking about didn't have an informed opinion.
00:03:42.780I'm talking about didn't even know it was a thing.
00:06:05.680How many of you have friends who don't know what any of the news is, except for the biggest part of the news?
00:06:13.160How many of you have actually know, like, you talk to your friends and you want to talk about the things you were talking about on Twitter, and they don't know any of the topics?
00:06:34.140My experience is that as soon as I'm not talking to a digital medium, I don't know anybody who even knows about any of the topics I talk about.
00:06:48.500Well, I can't even think of anybody off the top of my head.
00:06:53.400Well, actually, I guess anybody I know who's watching my live stream would know about these topics.
00:06:58.520But, for the most part, people don't really have any idea what's going on in the news.
00:07:05.160So, here's a question for you, especially if you're not following the news.
00:07:09.500Is the war that's happening now with Russia and Ukraine, what is the best way to frame it, if you're going to describe it to somebody?
00:07:19.100And one way to look at it is it's turned into a supply line war, wouldn't you say?
00:07:25.540It turned into a pure logistics war, because right now it looks like the Ukrainians are trying to starve the Russians and deprive them of food and gas, which is pretty good.
00:07:41.180But they're laying siege to the siegers.
00:08:30.040Well, like I was saying, it's definitely the most common strategy in the world.
00:08:34.380But if you had to bet on it just on that, let's say I said to you that the entire war would be decided by who does the better job of cutting off the supplies from the other.
00:14:23.080So, anyway, Visa and MasterCard and somebody else has suspended operations Russia.
00:14:30.360And so, you might ask yourself, how can the Russian economy survive?
00:14:35.200Well, apparently, people are rapidly signing up for a Chinese version of Visa and MasterCard.
00:14:41.940And what would happen to Russia in terms of their national security if all of their credit card purchases ran through China?
00:14:56.740Could China gather all of the personal spending habits of all the Russians because they would have all the Russian, you know, financial data coming through all the transactions?
00:15:10.140Could they use that data and feed it into their AI to have a crushing advantage over Russia that they have no, there's nothing they can do about it?
00:15:20.700Because the information will just be China's.
00:18:53.040Why are we not talking more about the potential grain shortage?
00:18:56.600Isn't Ukraine the breadbasket, and is it an inconvenience, or is it mass starvation, if the war causes people not to have access to the Ukrainian grain?
00:19:19.500Could one of the unintended consequences of the war be a mass shortage of bread, the type that makes Americans fat,
00:19:31.020and cause actually a reduction in obesity, work with me here, a reduction in obesity such that we save more lives from, you know, natural heart attacks and shit than die in the war?
00:19:47.960I know, I know, it's a rage, it's a rage.
00:19:56.840But what would happen if, like, Americans just stopped eating bread for a year because it was hard to get?
00:20:46.880Oh, wait, before that, one more point.
00:20:50.500Here are some other unintended consequences that's going to come out of all this Ukraine stuff.
00:20:56.380I think the U.S. is eventually going to be energy independent.
00:21:02.520It might require the next president to do that.
00:21:05.380But I think we will be forever energy independent in a few years, getting back to where we were.
00:21:13.300So I think this probably causes a permanent rethink in our whole energy situation, which would be good for us.
00:21:20.320The other thing is that, you know, issues with the pandemic and China and such.
00:21:25.640I feel like the future of manufacturing looks like this.
00:21:31.480That somebody like me, or just a person, could create a manufacturing site in their garage.
00:21:41.040And all they would need would be 3D printers for various materials.
00:21:45.300And that if somebody wanted to buy a certain item, let's say furniture, let's say furniture, they would, instead of shipping it, you'd have it built, you know, within a few blocks of the customer.
00:22:00.840Somebody would actually just build the chair in their own garage.
00:22:05.300And all they would do is, they would bid, they would bid on the order.
00:22:12.340If they get the low bid, the CAD cam plans are downloaded into their printers.
00:22:19.700And it could be, it doesn't have to be printers.
00:22:21.680They could have wood, and they just put it into a cutting machine.
00:22:25.640And the cutting could be also, you know, designated by the CAD.
00:22:30.300So there could be some human intervention, but basically just to move materials onto cutting surfaces.
00:22:36.740So you can get a point where you could order a couch, and the guy three doors down actually makes it.
00:22:45.500Just because he was the low bidder who was also in your zip code.
00:23:02.740When we bring manufacturing back from China, we should be looking to leapfrog the old way of doing things.
00:23:11.440The old way of doing things being more manual.
00:23:14.080So we should be able to bring manufacturing back at the same time our technology allows us to do it completely differently.
00:23:21.120So you'd want to solve your shipping costs by finding ways to distribute the orders electronically and use local materials to build it so all the shipping costs go away.
00:23:34.460You want to be able to use robots and you want to be able to use 3D printing and all that stuff.
00:23:47.280And, you know, automatic cutting of all materials, those sort of things.
00:23:50.840So I think that's where it's going to go.
00:23:54.240And the interesting thing is that you always give the advantage to the person who is leapfrogging the last technology.
00:24:01.900And the last technology was still sort of robots slash people working one place and shipping it to a foreign country.
00:24:09.780Which is, we've got to be able to do better than that.
00:24:13.400All right, well, Trump is making news, of course.
00:24:16.700He was talking to donors and reportedly said, and I say reportedly because, who knows, maybe he didn't say this.
00:24:24.080But reportedly he said, that we, he mused, they say, that we should take our F-22 planes,
00:24:32.660quote, put the Chinese flag on them and bomb the shit out of Russia, quote, and then we say China did it and we didn't do, we didn't do it and China did it.
00:24:43.420And then they start fighting with each other and we sit back and watch.
00:24:47.420And, of course, social media and the news treated that like it was a serious comment.
00:24:54.220Now, I hate to be the Trump-splainer all the time.
00:24:57.660You know, it's like, it's like it's an exhausting job.
00:25:03.100But let me tell you how to, how to interpret this in Trump talk.