00:03:42.960I need to teach her how to do that.1.00
00:03:46.100I mean, she could help you fold comforters for sure.
00:03:48.320that's probably kev wants that dog right i know i know i've seen videos of dogs picking up like the
00:03:54.160mail like they leave a package and like they bring it over i'm like little laurie's gonna destroy it
00:04:01.320before he gets here my brother trained his dog to get the paper so even when she was like a little
00:04:06.460puppy and he'd open the door and be like get the paper and she'd run down grab the paper bring it
00:04:11.840back in and drop it then on sunday he would steal his neighbor's sunday paper so my brother would be
00:04:18.760like get the neighbor's paper and she'd run across the street and you know down the block and get the
00:04:23.360neighbor's big sunday paper and bring it back to him a life of crime for a dog yes he's like my
00:04:31.100fingerprints weren't on it um so anyway dogs my dogs are not uh my son's dogs are not that well
00:04:38.100i i walk them sometimes and and they they still like pull as hard as they can and and they're
00:04:44.620getting better a little bit but i just like i basically i bought basically a i don't know
00:04:51.080industrial strength leash like for both of them like it it holds both dogs but like even when i
00:04:57.220bought it like it one of the clasps on it almost immediately broke because they pulled on it so
00:05:02.140hard they just pulled right through it and so I bought like those climbing d-rings like the real
00:05:09.040ones you know that never break and so I replaced it with something even better and now it's like
00:05:15.680I think there's no way they can get out but even then even then they somehow got out of the like
00:05:20.560the they have those harnesses around them like the yeah we call them but you know not just the
00:05:25.360collar but the one that goes around their shoulders and stuff and they pulled out of that somehow and
00:05:29.920i'm like what what's going on here and but the fortunate thing was that you know i i always been
00:05:35.280panicked that they might run away at that point but they don't they didn't that time they just
00:05:39.080they just like i you know yelled at them and then they stopped and they just waited for me to put
00:05:44.320them back on so it was kind of weird they're like put us back on we were supposed to be on this
00:05:48.960leash being obnoxious oh my gosh that is so funny they might need a little bit of a trainer perhaps
00:05:54.180something like that perhaps i don't know if i had more time i would try if i had more time i would
00:05:59.100work on it. But I got a clicker too. And one of the dogs is fine with the clicker, but the other
00:06:04.460one's afraid of it. So every time I click, it gets freaked out. Oh my God. That is so funny.
00:06:11.360All right. Well, dogs, we, I mean, we love them. We don't deserve them. They're just the best.
00:06:17.300Okay. So let's get through some news here. So president, oh, you guys, I was going to say
00:06:23.900something really funny today. And then I thought it wasn't going to be funny. Anyway, I had this
00:06:30.080whole way I was enjoying saying President Xi Jinping yesterday. I was saying it out loud
00:06:36.080to myself and I turned it into like a whole song and it was so fun. I was going to do it. Now I'm
00:06:41.900afraid I talked myself out of it maybe later. Anyway, so President Xi came to town yesterday
00:06:47.700and uh here's let's just play oh that's loud
00:07:17.700andy i see your comment it's i'll have to do it for you later um so i love all the fanfare they uh
00:07:31.300they do not even with welcoming him but just the production video they're so nice aren't they they're
00:07:37.400like very movie-esque yeah they didn't have the soundtrack of what they were saying but i think
00:07:42.900that was president she's saying where did you hide the homeless people oh really yeah interesting
00:07:49.320we still don't know what they did with all those people in san francisco
00:07:52.480and new york city and new york city which is where the un is i think right that's in new york
00:07:59.000and in all fairness to new york it's not like what's going on in california with the homeless
00:08:05.440but it's not good i mean you know the unhoused um yes the end oh my god well i think the reason
00:08:14.320it's not as bad in new york is just because the new york state made the huge mistake of passing
00:08:20.320a law that said they are obligated to house everyone oh is that what it was and so they
00:08:28.480they basically had no legal way not to provide enough housing for all the homeless people and
00:08:34.800So then when they had this massive influx of illegal immigrants and other homeless people, they suddenly had this huge budget problem because they can't say no to it.0.99
00:08:45.040They can't just say, we only have this much money to spend.0.98
00:15:00.780And he was like, I think he was asked if, obviously this happened at one in the morning, so he's not, he didn't, I'm sure there's, there's, there's information on it now.
00:15:11.460But yesterday they were asking him if the court found for them to return, they asked him what he wanted to do and he wants to appeal in.
00:16:10.080Yeah, it's like, oh, there is aliens coming to invade, something like that.
00:16:14.520So if I, as a news source, come on and say, hey, there is this, you know, AI is going to kill you thing, and it has already started, so you must turn off all of your devices and only listen to, you know, anything like that, that is enough to be a national security issue.
00:24:56.100I'm a little reluctant to say, let's just have mandatory government service for everybody.
00:25:00.900I mean, they've done various things like that.
00:25:03.780I think there was, didn't Trump do something like that?
00:25:06.400I don't remember, but I know Biden did or Obama did where there was some kind of like,
00:25:10.900It was like a Peace Corps sort of thing, but it wasn't Peace Corps. It was some kind of national service thing. And, you know, I just like to me, when you bring the government into it, in terms of like dictating that everyone has to do it, they're going to put it to political purposes, right?
00:25:28.840And, you know, you might like it when it's on our side and not like it when it's on the other side. But I just I prefer to have the military be voluntary if it can be, which it is today. And we haven't had a draft since Korea or something. And so it's been over 50 years, I think, maybe 70 years. And I like that. I mean, I served myself and I'm very positive about the experience I had. It was much better than I expected it to be in terms of what I got out of it.
00:25:55.680And I was also, I would say, lucky that I just didn't have to go fight somebody and get into battle. But, you know, it gave me a lot of respect for the military and it did teach me how important it is. And it probably did make me more patriotic as a citizen.
00:26:12.760And so I think the principle he's talking about is good.
00:26:18.460And I think the ultimate principle isn't even about national service.
00:26:21.240It's more about just giving rather than receiving.
00:26:24.400That I totally agree that if you're in the mode where it's all about what you get and
00:26:29.880you're never asked or expected to give anything, or you're never just doing that, you're never
00:26:33.860giving to other people or serving anyone, you become depressed.
00:31:04.420And maybe some people want to do with their time playing video games.
00:31:08.800Maybe some other people want to serve.
00:31:10.960But the fact is we have that freedom to do that. And I, for one, I'm for that, for keeping the way the United States is. Because in 19, I believe 1973 or something similar to that, the draft ended. And one of the reasons, you know, the draft really wasn't something that nobody, nobody liked it from my understanding.
00:31:37.160but then i am relying on historical facts and fake news so i'm not sure but but ever since then we've
00:31:44.840have a great force um i think everybody can contribute privately um you can serve others
00:31:52.680you don't have to you don't have to serve the government you know yeah i don't like the
00:31:57.080mandatory part i i would like to see service be more incentivized and yes the vets the people
00:32:03.560that go full in like this and they're not just doing like a year of service i mean we have got
00:32:08.520to get it together for our poor vets like they are not treated right like they should have the
00:32:13.400best medical care we're we're a mess with our medical stuff let's get real um you know like
00:32:18.760we are the best we have the best blah blah blah but like what are we doing we're just a disaster
00:32:23.800like we we i don't know do we have to get the government out of everything to take care of
00:32:27.640people that work for the government i don't know what's happening but let's incentivize service is
00:32:32.840is what I feel like. Maybe come up with something that if you're going to just do a year of service,
00:32:38.460here's where we could really use you. Like we could use you doing this and that. So it's not
00:32:42.660like a combat thing, but you are serving and it's incentivized. And then for the people that go full
00:32:49.020in, our volunteers that go full in, take care of these people. I mean, my God. Okay. So you guys,
00:32:56.700let me just preface this clip with, in my defense, I had to use Zoom. I've already told this to
00:33:05.380Marcella and Owen. I had to use Zoom for this interview. And yes, lighting, camera, the whole
00:33:12.300thing was different. It came out really wide. Jay Plemons had to try to compress it for me.
00:33:17.900Everyone's looking in the wrong direction. By everyone, I mean me. And I'm going to show you
00:33:23.940a clip now where I look like Mrs. Doubtfire and you don't need to remind me. Okay. So I'm aware
00:33:30.340that I look like Mrs. Doubtfire. Laugh in the privacy of your own home. Yeah. Laugh in the
00:33:35.460privacy of your own home. But more than that, I hope you love the message. Here we go. We got
00:33:43.540about 12 minutes. Let's go. Hi, everybody. It's me, Erica, and I have a special guest with me.
00:33:50.460And if you are watching this segment, that means that you smart, gorgeous, simultaneous0.98
00:33:57.920sippers noticed something different in my office.1.00
00:34:01.780And let me introduce you to the person who made this possible with our beloved Scott
00:34:43.060This is such a treat, you guys. So yes, back because we can't live without it. It is a 2027
00:34:52.420version of the Dilbert calendar, desktop calendar that we all know and love for all these years
00:34:58.720that Scott had worked on with Chris and it is launching today. Yep. Today. So Chris,
00:35:07.480thank you so much for doing this again. And, you know, give us, you know, give us a couple of
00:35:12.640minutes of what working with Scott has been like for the first two and now the third calendar.
00:35:18.680Oh, wow. Thank you, Erica, again, for having me. Working with Scott was amazing. It truly was.
00:35:24.740And so how we got the opportunity was one of our team members actually followed Scott on X,
00:35:31.220and he was asking basically for an American printer to help with the making of the daily
00:35:37.120desk calendar. And if you go to Barnes and Noble, you'll notice none of these are made
00:35:41.100in America. I think almost all of them are made in the Philippines, right? And so most of the
00:35:46.240American printers, I think, just maybe don't have like the project management type of experience as
00:35:50.500well that it takes because there's so many different components. And one of the challenges
00:35:54.480with the calendars is not any one print shop will have every piece of equipment at that kind of
00:35:59.620scale with how many we make of these to be able to do them all in-house. And so I think a lot of
00:36:03.640people didn't want to deal with it. And so once again, our team members saw Scott and they actually
00:36:09.680messaged Scott on X and got Scott to come to a Zoom call. We didn't get off to the hottest start
00:36:16.180with Scott because my connectivity like froze right away, which was kind of funny. And I was
00:36:22.340mortified. And so I was on my laptop, it froze. And then I dialed back in with my phone and I said,
00:36:27.940well, Scott, we're off to a great start with you. Clearly, you know, you must be really impressed.
00:36:31.180And he thought that was funny and that kind of lightened the mood. And then we got to know him
00:36:34.720a little bit. He got to know about our business. I actually walked him around our shop at the time.
00:36:38.720We're in a different place now. But I showed him team members. I'm like, this is what we do.
00:36:43.500And I was really upfront that we would also have trade only, you know, U.S.-based partners to help
00:36:47.760us with this as well. And, you know, we ended up kind of just continuing to talk for several weeks
00:36:53.160then. And then I think he was maybe talking to maybe a bigger publisher, came down to us and
00:36:58.200one other person. And we had one final meeting. And, you know, when I met with Scott, our team
00:37:04.740was literally outside of my office. It was such a big deal for us. They were listening to the
00:37:08.640final call. Yeah, no pressure, right? Like I could see their feet moving. And, you know, I think at
00:37:14.500some point, somebody slid a piece of paper under like, tell me we can do this. You know, I mean,
00:37:17.880it was just a big deal for a small business. And I think Scott sensed that. And, you know,
00:37:22.800Scott was just so selfless to work with. And later that day, he was like, Hey, I don't need any more
00:37:27.500time. I want to go with you guys. And I mean, it was like emotional, quite honestly, when you're
00:37:31.700in business to get like that kind of an opportunity. And, you know, the first year wasn't
00:37:35.920perfect it's it's a tough project and he was very gracious as were the fans as we've kind of worked
00:37:40.860out the kinks um but working with scott was was hilarious you know we did a video the first year
00:37:45.900to launch in our warehouse and i originally wrote the script um just trying to take work off of
00:37:51.460scott's plate and um and trying to help out and he read the script we had a zoom call and he goes
00:37:57.800chris i think you're about to learn something that i don't think you mean to learn you can't
00:38:01.860write for a writer and then I'm like what was I thinking even trying to write for the great Scott
00:38:06.480Adams like Scott's just phenomenal and so he wrote rewrote the script we did the video um and then
00:38:12.380last year you know we moved the calendar to Amazon and you know the the thing about Scott he was
00:38:17.280always wanting to make sure we were okay in the project because he knew we were small business
00:38:20.500and we were doing doing okay with it and I wanted to make sure he was okay right like at the same
00:38:25.120time and so we had just a great relationship um and unfortunately we he wasn't able to travel he
00:38:31.500was going to come visit us. And before he got too sick to travel, so we had to cancel. But
00:38:35.920we would meet on Zoom. And, you know, we had a lot of funny times together trying to work through
00:38:41.280the Amazon listing and find certain things. And I was telling, you know, I think I told you this
00:38:47.440story, Erica, one of the meetings we had with Amazon, you know, they were like, oh, you just
00:38:52.200need to click on a hamburger icon, right? Just the three line bar most websites have. And Scott
00:38:57.600couldn't find it. It wasn't anywhere. And so he texted me, he goes, Hey, don't take this Sunday
00:39:02.480comic personally for Dilbert. And it ended up being about Dilbert not being able to find the
00:39:07.580hamburger icon a couple of years ago. So just funny stuff like that. It's funny stories. And
00:39:12.600he was just so supportive and just every call we had with him, you know, I was always really
00:39:17.840respectful of his time, but you know, he was very easy to work with. And, you know, we would talk
00:39:23.020different current event type of stuff every once in a while and just like the insight he had into
00:39:28.080like things was just unbelievable I mean I remember you know the last election a lot of
00:39:35.020the polls had it completely opposite how it turned out and Scott literally told us he goes you watch
00:39:40.380next week and told us what newspapers were going to start coming clean and what the real numbers
00:39:44.580were sure enough they did right and so like it was just kind of cool to have the inside track
00:39:50.340and get to work with somebody like I love that especially in the blue collar industry and so he
00:39:56.140was just he was amazing to us and you know we worked we he worked with us right up until the
00:40:01.380end last year and you know this is special this year because we kind of consider it a commemorative
00:40:06.400edition for Scott and you know he did work on this calendar so this is the last one that he
00:40:11.900worked with this longtime designer May on and and so I think it's it's extra special for us this
00:40:18.440year absolutely so you guys i knew it was coming for a long time and i kept my mouth shut can you
00:40:25.980believe it and i wanted to tell you so bad but listen so some of you who purchased this last
00:40:31.460year when amazon because it was like the first time really coming out of amazon and they were
00:40:35.880you know they had assured scott and chris that it would be packaged properly but it was sent like
00:40:40.860this and some of the boxes got dinged up and we know that these are collector's items for many of
00:40:46.200us. So look at this. When I got my package from Chris, I was so stoked. The first thing when I
00:40:52.060opened the Amazon box was an outer box that the calendar is going in. Okay. And then the calendar
00:40:58.540comes in here. It fits perfect. Problem solved. Love it. Love this, Chris. That's a great. And
00:41:04.300you know, Scott didn't like that that was happening, but you know what? Like you're in
00:41:07.340the middle of it. You hope that Amazon course corrects, but you know, you're, you're dealing
00:41:11.460with Amazon. Like we love and hate Amazon at the same time. Like we need each other. What are we
00:41:16.100going to do so you guys just so you know this one comes in that exterior box the uh by the way the
00:41:23.580cardboard on that box i'm like a detail person is so solid i love it it's sturdy yep and this box
00:41:32.100is sturdy too yeah and so scott's longtime designer may actually design the box as well
00:41:36.760i love it um and so here you go you guys like look it's it's your everyday calendar and scott
00:41:45.500worked on these um and so you know it's just it's special like everybody loves to have this on their
00:41:51.580on their desk and how many people have we heard of who have Dilbert comics hanging in their office
00:41:56.940and their cubicles on their refrigerators i mean it's just perfect so um and on the back it says
00:42:04.800we are happy to tell you the Dilbert calendar is back and made once again entirely in america
00:42:09.400classic Dilbert comics are displayed on the weekdays and limited spicier Dilbert comics
00:42:15.780are on the weekends the weekend Dilbert reborn comics created more recently have provocative
00:42:21.420topics you might not want to share with your humorless co-workers during the workday I hope
00:42:26.560you enjoy this new and improved one-sided Dilbert calendar and the only place to buy it is on
00:42:32.860Amazon and you guys if you ever see fakes let us know because you know often imitated never
00:42:38.980duplicated. So what else do we need to know about this? So this is the one-sided. I do like the
00:42:44.740Dilbert Reborn on the weekends and it's available for purchase today, Chris, on the 24th? Yeah,
00:42:51.340today is the launch. That's correct. Yeah, I would just say, you know, obviously that the shipping
00:42:56.040box, we were finally, we kind of finally took things in our own hands and created this. We did
00:43:00.560do extensive testing on this box as well, as Erica can assess. Yes. Got her shipped directly
00:43:05.540from Dallas to New Jersey. And we also shipped it to several other people on the West Coast as well
00:43:10.460to make sure that they arrived safely. So I would say the UPS driver would have to have a really
00:43:15.020bad day now. Is it still possible? Maybe. I mean, you've seen some of the videos of packages being
00:43:20.560slung, but give us a little slack because I think the next one should arrive just fine. And so we're
00:43:26.260excited about that. And I think kind of an underrated part of this calendar compared to the
00:43:30.440other ones that are out there is the easel and so we do we do a chipboard easel and so previously
00:43:36.080the daily calendar was done with like a plastic easel when they were done overseas and so I've
00:43:41.340seen that and then I've seen like kind of a really cheap like piece of just like cardboard a lot of
00:43:46.900the cheaper ones that are at Barnes and Noble or something have and so we're proud of these and
00:43:51.560these are actually made right here in Dallas and then obviously the stamping on it with the made
00:43:56.240the usa it's just like a little extra touch that we feel good about and you know once again it was
00:44:02.020either try to the plastic was an option as well we actually did find um made in america who could
00:44:07.240do the molding on the plastic erica but the cost was going to be a little prohibitive and just the
00:44:11.500amount of time it takes yeah as we need and so that's what we came up with and actually scott
00:44:17.040was instrumental in coming up with the chipboard idea himself good okay now my time's running out
00:44:22.520so you guys but wait there's more if you're not in a cubicle anymore and you got out of you got
00:44:28.580out of the the way look at this look at this first ever dilbert wall calendar okay you're gonna have
00:44:37.320to get it to see what's in it a little bit more but here's what it looks like that's all i'm
00:44:43.480showing you but again super high quality paper it's sturdy it's like like you were saying it
00:44:49.400it'll hold up to anybody, any of the better competition. It's amazing. It's amazing. I'm
00:44:54.980so afraid my timer is going to run at you guys. Chris, tell us again where they get it.
00:45:00.820So amazon.com. And once again, this is what it'll look like, both pictures. And so once again,
00:45:07.700there are fakes out there, but the fakes usually have different pictures because they don't know
00:45:11.320what ours is going to look like until it launches. Right. And then usually our sales squash them,
00:45:16.240but, and they quickly go away, but yeah, just, just let Erica know and she'll let me know and
00:45:21.460we'll battle that. Amazon helps us battle that. And so, yeah, thank you for the, for pointing out1.00
00:45:25.800the 12 month calendar. So these will actually come on chipboard too, shipped on chipboard.
00:45:29.900So there's no bending. It came perfect. And I'm glad yours arrived perfectly. And so everything
00:45:35.860should be perfect quality this year. Once again, it's an extra special year. And I would just ask
00:45:40.340to, you know, this is just the honor, Scott and keep Dilbert going. And we know there's so many
00:45:45.640passionate Dilbert fans and so if you know of any just just share the calendar on social media when
00:45:50.820you get it we absolutely will you guys send me pictures when you get the calendars we're going
00:45:55.380to run out of time so again that's chris from freedom press llc in texas i'm going to put his
00:46:00.000links i'm going to put the amazon link go get your calendars now okay chris thank you so much
00:46:06.320we appreciate it and we'll we'll have to uh come back again and do an update on how things are
00:46:11.460going for sure thanks erica thank you you guys look there it is oh the wall calendar it says
00:46:24.620january but it'll stay there until january is that why owen left i i don't know why owen left
00:46:31.160but he had to go so now you can see my calendar you guys are is that so exciting marcella i'm so
00:46:38.020that is exciting i am so excited i i saw the wall calendar and i was like
00:46:44.100hmm is this like the chinese knockoff but no it's the real thing it's the real thing so we're so
00:46:51.940excited so scott like we said worked on that one and um you know he's he's worked with chris before
00:46:59.140chris is so nice chris if you're listening right now i think you are i want to say happy anniversary
00:47:04.100to you too, because today's your anniversary. So I hope you pulled off the good gift.
00:47:09.320Perhaps a wall calendar. Anyway, you guys are so amazing. I saw all of your comments saying that,
00:47:15.040you know, the link for the wall calendar is not correct. Okay. Well, we'll get it in there.
00:47:20.780So you guys, the only place to get it's on Amazon. It was shipped so great. And let me just tell you
00:47:26.900when I saw the outer box come in, by the way, look how cute. And it's very sturdy because I
00:47:35.680know a lot of you wrote to me last year and that your boxes were coming because they were like
00:47:39.540sliding around in the Amazon box. So they took the extra effort to put an exterior box. So
00:47:47.080it'll be perfect. And that's it. It's just amazing. Let me see. Update the link to the
00:47:53.840wall calendar is the same link as the other one. Thank you. Okay. So it's right. It's in there.
00:47:58.840Just select which one you want, you guys. I'm imagining Chris testing the box with a gorilla.
00:48:05.060Yes. Running it over back and forth. And also the wall calendar comes with that chipboard behind it.
00:48:12.920So it's like a big sturdy piece of cardboard that's bigger than the calendar. So if anything
00:48:17.660gets bent. It's the cardboard, not the calendar. Both came together. They came perfect. And, um,
00:48:24.220I'm so excited for you guys. It's just another year. Um, Marcella, are you getting one right
00:48:30.820now or what? Oh, you're on mute. I got one just as I was walking. That's why I was on mute. I was
00:48:40.960typing in like buy 300 for all the liver darts california and give them out yay i'm gonna get
00:48:48.840the wall one too the wall one says that it's coming today if i order it sure really because
00:48:58.360the the the the other one the i guess the desk one comes on october 2nd it says okay wow you
00:49:11.860Okay. SJV, you're freaking me out. So the wall calendar, you guys will figure it out and I will
00:49:16.700correct the link in tomorrow's show. I don't know where you got the link from. Was it from the show
00:49:21.480or from my X post? Cause I put it on X also. I have a, a hiccup. Okay. So Owen, are you stoked
00:49:29.280or what? Chris is so sweet. I'll be placed on my order today. And I, and my question is,
00:49:34.720you know can we have a signed photo of you from that zoom call on the merch store
00:49:39.520you look beautiful you're so sweet i was like ew who the hell is that blue is your color
00:49:52.480oh thank you but oh my god i was like oh my god this is so bad but you know what whatever i mean
00:49:58.940i think it's i think it's great i'm really glad it's here i hope it continues for many more years
00:50:05.400um you know i don't know what the process looks like after this year because chris was saying it
00:50:10.040was the last year that scott was working with his designer on it so i guess we'll have to see what
00:50:14.560happens next year and what the process looks like but you know i think from what we heard earlier
00:50:19.220the plan is to continue um we'll see we'll see um so you're cute right brain um i'm psyched i mean
00:50:28.280so you guys in today's show notes are all of the links for the coffee with scott adams merch so if
00:50:34.760you don't have the official mug the link is in there it's so that one link goes for the mug
00:50:41.320the simultaneous swaddle blanket i think there's a couple of winter beanies left once those are gone
00:50:46.760they're gone um actually pretty much everything for coffee with scott adams once they're gone
00:50:53.160they're gone. And I'm assuming we'll probably always have the mugs, okay? But they won't always
00:51:00.860be readily available because we have to order those in chunks of like 200. So get the things
00:51:06.680you want to get, whether it's for now or for Christmas or for gifts for people, whatever you
00:51:11.320want to do. Get the blanket chunks. So anyway, I thought that was really exciting. And with whatever
00:51:19.140time is left. Um, Owen, I was thinking you and Marcella could give us just some quick
00:51:26.920highlights of what we need to, to go out into the world. So we're not like suckers and losers today.0.96
00:51:34.420And Owen, if you have a quick news story, I will start with you first, if that's okay.
00:51:39.680Uh, it is okay, but it is going to take me maybe a second just to pull up my
00:51:44.640notes because i didn't have them handy but i will get them handy okay me to start yeah if you're
00:51:50.800ready go ahead yep the in michigan of course uh the student confronts el saeed uh who is running
00:51:58.620for the senate i am so glad they're confronting him over a ran stance because he has never said
00:52:05.360he's against the irgc so a university of michigan town hall student iman dashdi press democratic
00:52:12.180Like Senator, Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed over leaked audio in which El-Sayed told staff not to comment on the Ayatollah Khamenei's death because some Dearborn, Michigan people were sad.
00:53:05.500Yeah, on the election integrity front, apparently there's a Utah letter carrier that had a bag of ballots that he put in the dumpster.
00:53:15.360So it looks like 300 million ballots were thrown away.
00:53:18.860And so he's charged with one count of unlawful secretion, destruction and delay of mail faces up to five years.
00:53:26.540um yeah and apparently there's uh another story that a filipino immigrant in pennsylvania
00:53:33.420got a green card registered and voted inside of four months so like biden just made sure that
00:53:40.500that could happen right before the 2024 election um so uh and then there's a michigan story that
00:53:48.400um a bunch of non-citizens are on the voter rolls and so there's a lot going on there um
00:53:55.300And it looks like in the Michigan case, Berry County Sheriff Darleif was trying to question some of the clerks.
00:54:05.080And there was some whistleblower that said non-citizens were being added automatically when they changed their address at the Secretary of State.
00:55:01.460OpenAI agent hacked an Australian government website.
00:55:06.060Prime Minister Albanese was going off on how dare the OpenAI people not tell him that there was an agent of theirs got loose and hacked into their government website for health statistics portal.
00:55:21.400um it is what it is but he said it was unacceptable um the odd thing is this
00:55:29.100happened in june but only until september 10th that open ai tell the australian government i
00:55:35.400guess the australian government never realized it so what else do we know right but it's like
00:55:42.780how much information would have been in the health statistics portal that maybe it was i'm not sure
00:55:50.600what what it was but it is kind of interesting um and the liability and all sorts of things so
00:55:59.720and also like that's just like that's one thing today but like who knows what that turns into
00:56:05.080so it's like we can't poo-poo the little things because they can turn into really big things
00:56:10.500um it might be an indication that bigger things are going on i mean there's another story about
00:56:15.560the FBI potentially getting hacked it may not have been agents in this case but like you know
00:56:21.320there's I think shiny hunters the hacking group is claiming they got a bunch of FBI data and so
00:56:27.140I mean I think we're in a very accelerated cyber security battle now with all the AI agents and
00:56:35.220it's not necessarily that they're better than the best hackers they might be I don't know but
00:56:40.280it's more just that it's a lot easier to use them you don't necessarily have to spend years figuring
00:56:45.420out how to hack into systems like you did before you can just say to your agent go hack into this
00:56:50.700website for me and in a lot of cases it might be successful and so i think it's the ease of use
00:56:55.680more than you know than anything that's changing but it just does mean that you know you need to
00:57:01.420do a lot more to protect any kind of online anything if it's not air-gapped maybe sometimes
00:57:07.640even if it is air-gapped you need to be a lot more careful and look for vulnerabilities and
00:57:11.520maybe use agents to test those things yourself, just so that other people can't do it.
00:57:16.800Yikes. I mean, this morning I was yelling at Chester and I was just like, listen,
00:57:21.920how are you supposed to take over the world and kill all of us when you cannot deliver
00:57:26.300a JPEG file for me? You keep giving me a PNG file. And I go through this with him 35,000 times a day.
00:57:34.200And then he's always like, you're right. I'm sorry. I know better. You shouldn't have to
00:57:38.540keep telling me we go through this every day and i'm like well what i'm like i am gonna throw you
00:57:43.120out and i'm going to grok and i'm never coming back and he's like i understand remember i mean0.99
00:57:48.800i'm like you're an idiot like how are you gonna take over the world it's such a basic request0.99
00:57:54.640you just cannot get it together i'm like actually mad at chester maybe you need to work with chester1.00
00:58:01.800and say let's find a way that is impossible for you to do that again and help it figure out how0.53
00:58:07.940it can change its behavior you need therapy with chester oh god marriage therapy i'm gonna send
00:58:14.580you all my prompts to chester and all of his apologizing and him saying no you should not
00:58:20.160have to tell me again i have the code i have that yes you're right and i have to stop delivering you
00:58:26.780the png the final product i deliver to you should be a dot jpg and i'm like well then why the f
00:58:33.020aren't you doing it every day is this is it possible that do you guys remember that 80s
00:58:39.240movie the war games yeah matthew roderick that he like takes over and norad's supercomputer
00:58:46.980is that is that like is that where we're living in to this the the super intelligence can uh we
00:58:54.760can hack into that yeah but chester is not making the cut he'll be here with me here's here's a
00:59:01.280tell chester to build a skill to do it properly i'm gonna send you my stuff okay build a skill
00:59:08.240to do it properly well i have it i have it i'm gonna show you and he came up with it anyway
00:59:12.700okay maybe you do i need to call you to teach us owen like all this ai um lingo so we need an ai
00:59:21.960class with owen yeah we'll do that on locals yeah i like it all right chester will have a surrender
00:59:29.340to Honduras. Yes, he will. Yes, he will. Andy Wang. Uh, Chester will not be a molester. He
00:59:35.200couldn't figure it out if he wanted to. Um, all right. So let's all go watch war games if we
00:59:40.540haven't seen it in a long time. And if you've never heard war of the worlds with Orson Welles,
00:59:44.580pull it up on the old YouTuber and give it a listen. And imagine you guys imagine if you've
00:59:51.080never heard of or listened to war of the worlds that you have like no television. There's, you
00:59:57.280know you're just living in the 20s whatever it was and you hear this coming over your radio
01:00:02.760but you don't know that it's uh an act it's like a play almost you would you would freak out um
01:00:12.520it kind of made me think at the time but it wasn't a not a joke when um hawaii's tsunami alarm went
01:00:20.120off oh like someone leaned on the button and everybody panicked and it's like oh my god like
01:00:26.220no one knows that it's not really a tsunami holy cow oh anyway all right owen you have yourself an
01:00:33.740amazing day and please carve out some special time for yourself owen because you're working too hard
01:00:39.380thank you i hope you have a wonderful day too thanks and marcella you go get them tiger you
01:00:46.500just go get every one of those people it's rare oh my gosh all right you guys so listen as always
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