Weekly Skews - S6 Ep40: Weekly Skews – Men Overboard

Episode Date: August 19, 2026

 Don Jr. can legally print his own money now. The administration says not to worry about all the sailors jumping off the USS Lincoln because they actually have less guys trying to kill themselves th...an our other aircraft carriers. So that’s nice. Then we get into the growing bipartisan consensus that Flock’s CEO should be [redacted] until he’s [redacted]. Unfortunately, local cops are having a lot of fun using the cameras to run lil’ COINTELPROs on people who are annoying at town council meetings.This episode is sponsored by ZBiotics. Go to https://www.zbiotics.com/SKEW now. You'll get 15% off your first order when you use SKEW at checkoutWeekly Skews is brought to you by Americans United for Separation of Church and State. If you believe religious freedom is supposed to protect everybody, not be weaponized to turn away good families, visit https://www.au.org/crooked to learn more and become a member today. 

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Starting point is 00:00:07 What's up everybody. Welcome back. Happy Scus Day to you. It is August 18th, 2026. We're recording this on Monday, August 17th at about noon 30 on the left coast. It's me and Mark. How are you doing? Mark? You staying cool over there? It's hot. Yeah, it's not that. I mean, I've been outside this morning early to walk my dog. Other than that, I've been, you know, inside. So I would have no idea. So what's your, Trey, what's your favorite biggest corruption scandal in the history of the United States of the last week. Is it the president certifying his own crypto company as a bank, which would allow Don Jr. to mint his own stable coins, which I'm sure will go away. John Jr. to print his own money, what could go wrong, right? Is the $500 million of taxpayer money they spent on 10 used airplanes from a campaign donor who apparently couldn't own them otherwise, who were just sitting parked because there's no one to fly them? Or is it perhaps the Department of Justice forcing, uh,
Starting point is 00:01:07 Mark Walter to sell the Los Angeles Lakers to his, the president's daughter's family. Which one would you like to start with? Is that what happened there with the Walter saying? Because I saw people speculate and I don't know that he was in some kind of shit or something. He is in deep shit. It's from a lot like he obviously like I'm reading about his like financial background. Like he's going to end up either begging for change in a subway station or under federal prison. But like it is crazy to own like the Lakers and the Dodgers or whatever and then find yourself in that kind of.
Starting point is 00:01:37 kind of situation, you know. Yeah, I'm trying to think of like how another president would handle it because Mark Walters is like he basically has been moving money around to inflate his net worth by loaning himself money from his various companies. It looks allegedly it looks like. So he probably like would have had a just government would have would have had him under a microscope that would have made him sell stuff to try to balance his books out. But a regular president would have called his son-in-law's brother and been like, you cannot be the guy who buys them because it makes me look like a fucking Vladimir Putin.
Starting point is 00:02:10 Right. Anyway, so best luck to Mark Walters. It's really funny, like, I was reading about, like, this NBA writer named Henry Abbott wrote a long thing about his finances. It was quoting himself back in, back from like 2012 when he bought the fucking Dodgers. And what Walters is apparently doing is taking insurance money and then using it for to buy sports teams and Carvana and Canadian real estate or whatever.
Starting point is 00:02:36 and an AI company. And it's like he doesn't like, if somebody, if more people than usual redeem their life insurance policies, he's going to have to trade Shohei Otani. That's how fucking hand him out of these. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:02:48 It's always a house of cards, man, apparently. Yeah. My favorite, this didn't read as a financial scandal, even though it is, the president,
Starting point is 00:02:56 like, this happened a couple months ago where he took his like Qatari, like, fake Qatari bribe jet to Turkey for a NATO meeting. Yeah. Please finally explain to me what happened because I know that like
Starting point is 00:03:07 and it's so funny because I could have at any given point looked into it further but you know me I was like well Mark will bring it up at some point it'll be fine but I know it's like some people Marco Rubio got like left on the other plane and shit like that and it was like there were people that were left possibly to die but
Starting point is 00:03:23 no one died and he used he used his own employees and Secretary of State the White House press corps as a human shield while he escaped on an unreported jet right but so What happened? They got over there and then we're told there's a credible threat against you or something.
Starting point is 00:03:40 So they didn't tell half the staff and secretly sent him on a different plane and just left them there to be exploded if it was true. Well, he took his fancy. You got to remember that he got the $400 million free jet from Qatar because, like, Qatar wanted a few things. They wanted basically just the presidential favor, but they also wanted him to attack Iran. So then Trump did so. And then Iran shot at UA, sorry, I'm sorry, I mix up guitar. UAE. They shot at the UAE who apparently thought that was against the rules. And now
Starting point is 00:04:09 they're, please stop attacking Iran, but it's too fucking late. Trump stuck there. So he took the bribe jet to Turkey and then you're not supposed to, should be flyed anyway because it's built out of fucking listening devices. And then when they got there, Israel
Starting point is 00:04:25 told them that, by the way, Iran's going to shoot it down with shoulder mounted missiles when you try to leave, which the CIA says Iran's Israel's fucking lying. Israel's his fucking line. They're making it up to scare you. Anyway, it doesn't matter. Why? Like, to keep it, to, I don't know, keep them mad at Iran or something? Yeah. To keep tensions high. Yeah, right. Same reason they why. If it was true, it's like, you couldn't have told us that before we took off, you know, 12 hours ago or
Starting point is 00:04:51 whatever? Like, how long have you known this, bro? You're just now telling me that. Yeah. I remember when the bride plane came up, there was a thing about how, like, you can't just use this for a president's plane, right? Or you shouldn't be able to. Because, like, Air Force One is like a whole special specific thing that they do. It's not just really fucking sweet with gold all over the place and stuff. It's a traveling military command center with the commander chief of United States armed forces.
Starting point is 00:05:19 But Trump wanted to take the fucking bribe jet because he has gold toilet seats and a hot tub with a plaque commemorating his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein. So he's got to fucking take that, right? So then they get over there and they're like, well, you can't fly out of here in this because it's not safe because it doesn't have all the countermeasures and shit.
Starting point is 00:05:33 the regular Air Force one does. They fly in the old Air Force one, but then decide that's still not safe enough. So they sneak up, they sneak Trump and a few people out like through like, I'm not quite clear on how they load food into Air Force, but it's like a cart they load food in. I'm sure it's like the size of like a pod,
Starting point is 00:05:50 you know, like a moving pod. Yeah. But it's funnier to imagine Trump like climbing into like a hot dog cart. Yeah, I mean, obviously we're talking about Air Force One and not a commercial jet, but I've seen the food carts they load up on the regular.
Starting point is 00:06:03 planes and you know they're not overly spacious for sure. In fact, I'd have trouble imagining Trump even fitting inside one of them. So then they moved Trump to a secret Air Force one because the one, like a smaller military jet, like a private jet. And then they fly to meet regular Air Force one in UK so you can sneak back on to Air Force, old school Air Force one to pretend he was there the whole time while lying about it. And then and then it was like, wait, the White House press court is like, wait, did you leave us to die? Yeah, they didn't know any of that. They were just flying on it like regular, didn't even know he'd done that until he got on later.
Starting point is 00:06:38 Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Now it makes sense. But the thing is like, you think about who, so he left Marco Rubio and Scott Bissett, the Treasury Secretary,
Starting point is 00:06:45 on surface to air missile one. And Caroline left it too, right? Yeah. Right. But the ones he took to the, the one he took to like the, the kids table plane was Walt Nauta, who's his valet,
Starting point is 00:06:58 his fucking golf cat. No, the guy who carries his phone around. Natalie Harp, who's the, his, you know, rumored, the woman who writes, leaves love notes around the White House forum, who like, their race is weird. I don't know. People think they're having an affair. I don't think that's true.
Starting point is 00:07:12 I think she's just a psycho. But her whole job, she carries around a portable printer so she can print off social media posts about what a great job he's doing to show him. Okay, hold on. What? What? He, like, he has social media post printed off on the actual paper that then handed to him? here you go, Mr. President. But I thought didn't the image of him like doom scrolling on his own phone all the time and stuff like that because it seems like he does make his own post and shit.
Starting point is 00:07:40 She types his posts. He dictates them. So, and he also took Dan Scavino, who's his former caddy. He took his caddy, the lady prints articles about what a good job he's doing at his personal valet and left the Secretary of State to fucking die at a flaming fireball with the White House press score in his week. You got to have priorities. Yeah. Anyway, let's go. Let's have a fun get to the show.
Starting point is 00:08:01 All right. Well, I don't know about you, but I'm already having fun, Mark. Let's keep it going with. You guessed it, the Daily Dumbass Matt. Graphic, please. This week's D.D. Wars for famously being far too short, considering everyone involved is always having such a great time. The members of U.S. service members are concerned about the conditions on forces of West. Well, no, that ship is moving. No, they're not. That ship is moving right now. well very shortly and it's being replaced with another very similar ship. No, no, no, not nearly long enough. Thank you, everybody.
Starting point is 00:08:42 All right. He still had the USS Lincoln. He said, like, the families have expressed concerns. Like, no, they have it, but they're stuff they have because they're fucking in the newspaper. So the USS Lincoln and the suffering of these sailors must continue, I guess, until morale improves. Like, the families have gone public with a bunch of complaints about food shortages, plumbing problems and declining mental health among crew members
Starting point is 00:09:05 because somewhere around at least six sailors have tried to jump off the fucking ship. Jesus. I'm going to quote every woman named Karen Bramlett, whose grandson is on the ship. She was talking about, this just made me laugh. She asked NPR not to use his name for fears
Starting point is 00:09:21 so he could face repercussions or harassment from the military. And I'm sorry to tell you, Karen, I bet the military can solve the problem of who Karen Bramlett's grandson is. Yeah. So the administration's, like, defense seems to be some combination of the zoomer sailors have helicopter parents, which is kind of true. Like some of the videos I've seen are like, like they're complaining about the showers are so small. Like I kind of always assume the showers on aircraft carriers were small. One of the reasons among many I didn't join the Navy.
Starting point is 00:09:55 But also another one of their defenses is the troops are pussies. which will probably work because they're in the Navy. But here, I'm not kidding, really. This is Fox News host Joey Jones from this morning, I believe. How weak are you on TV complaining about tuna and noodles? I'm sorry. Part of the problem here has used media blackout with this war, right? We only know what's happening because of what the administration tells us.
Starting point is 00:10:26 and they fucking lie all the time. We don't have the embeds with the troops like they had in the first Gulf War, right? So the only form of news we have about how Iran is going is from Karen Bramlett relaying her grandson's Instagram DMs. We have that and
Starting point is 00:10:42 Trump's word, which is worth as much as, you know, one-plied navy toilet paper that they don't even have. So what we do know, all right, how this came to be where sailors don't have food or deodorant or toothpaste. is freedom tea leaves.
Starting point is 00:11:01 They can't go to port at our big Navy base in Bahrain. They don't have their base. They can't really use the bases in UAE and Oman. So the Navy is enforced to source stores from bases in East Asia and Africa. A C of command has a fleet of logistics ships to deliver food and ammunition, but those ships have to now have to sail thousands of miles. Even at the height of the Second World War, the logistics trained used by the Navy was shorter than the one being used now in the northern
Starting point is 00:11:26 Arabian Sea, right? That's what happens when you go to war with no fucking planning. We chase the, we chase the Japanese Imperial Navy across the biggest ocean in the world without these kind of supply shores in 1943. They can't. It turns out to the downside when you kick all the trans people and fatsoes
Starting point is 00:11:47 with clipboards out of the military, you cannot fucking keep ships gassed up anymore. Right. Is it the, them not being able to use those bases in the Middle East? Is that a result of like underestimating Iran or something? Like they can't use them because they'll be in striking range or something like that. And they thought they'd be able to, but now they're not. Or they just didn't think of that.
Starting point is 00:12:06 Or they didn't think it'd be as big of a factor. Well, we know they've been lying about the damage to the naval base in Bahrain because we have footage of it and doesn't match what they said about it. Right. But the base is apparently, well, when all those sailors got hurt with unmentionable head injuries, we don't have a firm number of it yet. That was a lot of those were at the base in Bahrain. So, remember a couple months? ago when Iran shot a cruise missile at Diego Garcia and it almost and one of them had to be shot down,
Starting point is 00:12:31 which we didn't know they had missiles that could go 4,000, 4,000 miles. Right. Remember that? So that was hailed at the time. It was painted in there and the news as like Iran showing off how far they could reach just for arbitrarily striking Diego Garcia because like it, you know, it's a joint UK-US base. Here's the thing is like after Bahrain got struck, they had to ship supplies through Diego Garcia. that's why Iran was striking it, which we only know now.
Starting point is 00:12:58 We only know Iran was doing it to cut off a logistics hub because of what's, you know, downstream of what's happening with USS Lincoln. What I'm saying is Iran knew that we were faced or troops were facing supply shortages, but they weren't honest with us about it. Usually you'd say they wouldn't tell the news because they don't want the enemy to know,
Starting point is 00:13:16 but the enemy fucking know, they're only not telling us. See what I'm saying? Yeah. And as far as the mental health, the middle strain, like, when you're on it, my understanding is when you're on, like, a ship at sea at the Navy, you work, you basically work 12 hours on, 12 hours off seven days a week. You have no privacy.
Starting point is 00:13:34 You have nothing ready. So it's like, you get burnout pretty quickly, is my point, which is why they have downtime built into the schedule. A typical rule of thumb is you have three or four carriers deployed and one is back refueling, replenishing and resetting, right? The issue in Northern Arabian Sea is that only two carriers are deployed. Does it only two we have? So they're working around the clock, all of them.
Starting point is 00:13:52 even in World War II, the fast carriers would stay at sea for a month at a time. So the Lincoln's 5,000 sailors and Marines have been deployed for more than eight months. So World War II, a warfare survival one month at a time, eight months for this optional war that no one knows what we're fighting. Right. But also, why is it, it sounds like it's like that because there's only two of them over there, but why is there only two of them over there? Don't we have more carriers than the next country, than like all the next countries combined by like a, you know, by double or triple. We have 11 aircraft carrier
Starting point is 00:14:26 battle groups, which is more than the entire rest of the world combined. Yeah, I think China has one. But yeah, 11. So if we have 11, what, there's, you know, what are the other nine doing? Well, some of them are in, we only have one,
Starting point is 00:14:40 we only have one base, Newport News, I think, that can actually refuel nuclear carriers. So like one's there, somewhere in the Pacific. We just, we just pulled one out of like, uh,
Starting point is 00:14:51 uh, the China Sea, I believe, to try to go back one of these up. But we just like, you can't attack the whole world all the time all at once and expect it to go well, which is what we're learning. Like, it seems like common sense, but apparently we thought we were all-powerful God emperors of the earth.
Starting point is 00:15:06 So anyway, yeah, the Lincoln was supposed to, their deployment was supposed to end in May. It is currently now August, mid-August, and they don't have an end date in sight. So no one knows when they're going to be up with. And I just want to dispense with this real quick. I've seen a lot of this criticism. It's like, why should I give a shit?
Starting point is 00:15:21 they signed up to bomb girls schools in exchange for oil and for Israel or whatever and I'm like no they fucking didn't no I hate shit like that as somebody from a small town that's like narratives always bothered me because it's like it's so predatory
Starting point is 00:15:35 in so many ways these dudes are 18 years old you know the stereotype it they just want a Dodge Charger or whatever they're getting this signing bonus but it's also I mean even that's like just the dumb ones but outside of that there's also it's like
Starting point is 00:15:50 there's not a lot of great options for a lot of these dudes. Do you know what I mean? And it's like the military is one of the only, very few options that some of these guys have. They're not going to be able to go.
Starting point is 00:16:00 They can't afford college. They don't have super great grades. They're not an incredible athlete or whatever. But they don't want to just be fucked, trimming trees with their dad for the rest of their life or whatever. Maybe you go to the Marines or, you know what I mean?
Starting point is 00:16:13 It gives people. So it's like, it's just, it's crazy to me to think that like teenagers really are like, all taking into account the ideological implications of this type of decision when they make it. You know, especially considering I know because I remember the hard sale that you are given. You know what I mean? By the recruiters and stuff.
Starting point is 00:16:33 Like it's pretty intense. So I just think that that's complete bullshit, you know? Yeah. It's like you, some of them like, you know, are poor just wanting to do. They want to get a few years, get out of their hometown, maybe see the world. You know, they don't know what they want to do with their lives. you get three or four years to make a decent living while figuring it out and, you know, maybe the lady. There's lots of reasons people join the military.
Starting point is 00:16:59 And like, none of them are like, I, all you got to do is talk to anybody who's in the service. They know full well. They have far more in common with the people that are actually fighting than the people who sent them to do the fighting. Right. I feel like the last time that was true was after 9-11 when people thought that that's what we would be doing. And then a lot of, like, my buddies and shit who got over there and then realized like, oh, this isn't. you know, this isn't what I thought it would be at all. You know what I mean?
Starting point is 00:17:22 Like, we were attacked and they thought they, some of them did sign up to like protect America's freedoms or whatever. And then they end up over there in Iraq and they're like, this is a bunch of horse shit, you know. Pat Tillman. Right, exactly. Yeah. Pat Tillman shot in the back of the head by his own men by accident for complaining about the war,
Starting point is 00:17:40 you know. So, uh, it had an addendum to like, like, like, they signed up for this and, you know,
Starting point is 00:17:46 they didn't. It's like, this is not their fault. This is our. fault. We elected, we as the American people elected the, like, you do not want them doing it. What is the, what, they dissipate what they, they commit a mutiny. Right. They seize control the USS Lincoln. Then what? Right. You can't do that because then they'll send in Jason Statham to put the mutiny down and, uh, then you're all in trouble. I don't know what that new
Starting point is 00:18:10 movie is. Jason Statham has a new movie called mutiny. I don't know. Maybe he's the one doing the mutiny actually. I'm not sure. Real quick, you haven't seen this, Mark. It's from the guy, it's from the guy that made plane, right? So the internet is upset that this movie is not called boat, which I agree with. Look, plane good movie. I like plane. I'm excited for boat. It's called mutiny, but I'm calling it boat just because.
Starting point is 00:18:34 But either way, yeah, looking forward to it. Anyway, go ahead. Like, yeah, I'm not to figure out what I would have called plane. You know, I don't know. A hijack was available at the time, I think, until the TV show took it. But so anyway, so let's get to the attempted suicide part of this. Trigger warning. So, yeah, multiple sailors have tried to jump off this ship.
Starting point is 00:18:58 Let me quote here from a woman whose husband was one of them. Her name's Annabelle Loma. She's spoken with her husband only a few times since he attempted to jump overboard from the USS Abraham Lincoln during his current deployment. She said she initially received a call from the ship's ombudsman after the incident, but has not heard from anyone with the Navy in recent weeks. So it's been weeks since her husband tried to kill himself. They called her to tell her that he did so.
Starting point is 00:19:19 And then she hasn't talked to anyone since. Which, and they're like, they're not really, like I said about six. The six people attempted suicide is coming from their family. It's not for many sort of an official Navy statement. So we only know what the family, like, we don't, we don't know how many people have tried to jump. And like, I got to say, you've got to be extremely desperate. Like, that is a method of suicide seems fucking insane to me. Oh, yeah.
Starting point is 00:19:44 those nightmarish ones dude I feel like just floating out there in the dust ocean like that yeah so it's an extreme craft for help they pull one one guy
Starting point is 00:19:54 actually made it to the water at least one guy made it to the water and they pulled him out after about an hour so like if they hadn't pulled them out he just would have floated there until he thirsted to death I guess
Starting point is 00:20:01 or die out of sunburn or something so let me quote here the Navy did not provide a precise number of sailors who have attempted to go overboard or engage in self-harm aboard Lincoln during the current deployment but can you fucking ball
Starting point is 00:20:14 park it? Like how many people try to kill themselves on this boat? More than 200 family members attended a meeting in San Diego last week with the acting secretary of the Navy, Hung Cow. Are you familiar with Hung Cow's whole thing, Trey? No, no, I'm not. He's a 30-year Navy veteran, retired as a captain, so he's not, you would think he's not stupid. Right. You would like that. I want to play this video clip from him. The guy, he's trying to read a statement here. This is the best take. This is from April when he was first confirmed his acting secretary.
Starting point is 00:20:48 My name's Hongkow. As of 60 hours ago, I'm the acting secretary Navy. I want to take this time to address you and tell you my parties. First and foremost is to take care of you. We will take care of your needs and make sure you can do the mission. Okay.
Starting point is 00:21:04 I'm saying, I have Secretary Navy. We need the platforms we need because we need them. Yeah. That's the best take. Dude, he literally, he sounds like a side character for mediocrisy or something right there. That's what he sounds like. Or like a family guy cutaway or something.
Starting point is 00:21:21 I don't know. So as a native Virginia, now followed Hong Cal for a little bit now because he ran for Senate again. I think he was against 10K. And he lost by a lot. But like, so yeah, this is from his Senate campaign a few weeks ago. This is him. You've got to see this.
Starting point is 00:21:35 Again, it's, you know, we can't let it turn like this. There's a place in Monterey, California, called Lover's Point. Yeah. The original name was, lovers of Christ point. But now it's become they took out the Christ, it's lover's point and it's really Monterey, it's a very dark place now. A lot of witchcraft
Starting point is 00:21:52 and the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, community has really taken over there. He, he, he needed to be elected senator from Virginia, because moderate California has fallen to
Starting point is 00:22:03 witchcraft. Yeah. Well, and by witchcraft, he just means like, goopy, crystal loving white ladies or whatever, which they are legion up there, you know what I mean? Reserve. But I just, but I just, I just don't think it's like, there's not like a cloud of darkness. No, yeah, they're not summoning bile or whatever. So anyway, if you wonder why they can't get lunch meet on the USS Lincoln is because
Starting point is 00:22:25 the Secretary of the Navy thinks the witches did it. So, it'd be cool here also from his campaign. Cal claiming campaign appearances that, quote, I'm 100% disabled, you know, because just from being blown up in combat many times, again, he was a Navy captain. not special forces or anything and he didn't get a Purple Heart or a combat action ribbon so he never even got engaged in combat
Starting point is 00:22:49 and so they asked him what do you mean by gotten blown up he declined to clarify he just you can look at the man as he's not blown up he's like a lonely tune or whatever like a cartoon character or something it's so funny to like
Starting point is 00:23:04 describe it that way yeah 100% service disabled just from being blown up a bunch I got exploded a lot in the Army. I got medals for it. I lost him, though. Yeah, my injury is going to another school in Canada.
Starting point is 00:23:20 You wouldn't know of them. So the public outcry out there from these families has gotten loud enough that the White House sent admiral Brad Cupertor, who's the head of CENTCOM. Sentcom is like the regional command over the Middle East and North Africa. They flew him out there. Do you remember in Hump for the Red October where, like, to get into the submarine, Jack Ryan has to drop from the helicopter to the water? I'm hoping he had to do some shit like that because that would just make me laugh. So he said, my town aboard USS Abraham Lincoln yesterday was all inspiring.
Starting point is 00:23:51 I wish every American could see the crew in action. You would be in with absolute pride when witnessing their camaraderie, teamwork, and resilience. Cidcoms in Tampa, Florida. So they flew him from Tampa, Florida, to the fucking Arabian Sea to look at the, to look at the sailors and promise us they're being fed. is basically what happened. This just made me laugh. I looked up because I was wondering,
Starting point is 00:24:11 are the regional commands, how many of those are in the United States? Because, like, in the Middle Eastern one being in Tampa, seems weird to me. But let me quote here. Of all seven American regional unified combatant commands, CETCOM is among four
Starting point is 00:24:26 that are headquartered outside of their areas of operations. The other free are Afrika, which is in Germany. Southcom, which handles the Caribbean and South America, which is in Miami, which sort of makes sense. And spacecom, which you don't say where it is, but they feel they need to tell us that it's not in space. Not yet, Mark.
Starting point is 00:24:44 Yeah. Sure, Elon's working on it. Let me quote here. So, let me quote it from Admiral Brad. Here's the important fact of the U.S. Navy's 11 active aircraft carriers. The Lincoln currently has among the lowest number of cases related to mental health. What the fuck is going on the air? You see these other boats.
Starting point is 00:25:05 Dropping my prize over there. how many people are killing themselves in the other? But it feels like we need, like, are we having a suicide crisis in the Navy? Like, can we talk about that? So, Cooper's been in charge of CENTCOM for like a little over a year. When the war on Iran first started, remember we talked about Carylla the Guerrilla, who was the last CENTCOM commander? Oh, yeah.
Starting point is 00:25:27 Remember, we were in a hurry to bomb Iran last summer because Carilla was about to retire. They wanted to get into the wire before his time ran out. He really wanted to fight Iran before he had to. He had to put in his paperwork. So there was another army guy who was in line to get sent com command, and they scrapped him and gave it to Cooper instead because Cooper is the Navy guy. They knew they were going to gear up to, like, fight or do a long war against Iran, I guess, and the Navy's important to that task.
Starting point is 00:25:52 But also, Cooper's really close with Israel, and it was more gung-ho about attacking Iran than the other guy. So that's why he got the job. So, I want to note here, like, I went and looked it up because I was like, what are trends with like military suicide? just because I was curious about that kind of thing. What a marked statement that is. During my morning tea the other day, I decided to do some light reading on friends with military suicides and wartime.
Starting point is 00:26:21 Well, I was like, do they go up during wartime, right? Because my cowardly non-trop ass is like they probably go up, right? Yeah, I could see it being the opposite. Because I always get the impression it's like when they come home and they've lost their purpose or don't know what to do with themselves. and the military cast them out and you know throws them in the trash
Starting point is 00:26:39 once they're done using them to shoot at other people and that type of thing and that's what leads to this sort of shit or the jarhead stuff with the fucking
Starting point is 00:26:46 you know on wee and I've like pent up aggression and I know what to do with it and all that type of thing
Starting point is 00:26:51 when you're in combat it's fucking all hurrah go hard well yeah what do I know but yeah so I looked it up
Starting point is 00:27:00 in historians and epidemiologists call it the social integration effect but yeah said simply go down during wartime because they do have a mission, right? So, and I, yes, I'm not being naive here. I know that combat provides more opportunities to make suicides look like not suicides to protect the image of their families and whatnot. But like it, no one seems to think that
Starting point is 00:27:19 all the numbers are fake. It generally does go down. But compare that to this war, it's not going down. It's going up on this war. And I wanted to quote here from an anonymous sailor, sorry, a soldier, I think, to a reporter. Quote, well, people in the media don't understand when they compare past conflicts to this one. This operation has no morale behind it. That makes a world of difference to service members deployed to undesirable locations indefinitely.
Starting point is 00:27:42 Totally makes sense to me. Again, we said from the very beginning, it's like we don't even know what this is for, while we're there, any of that stuff. It's like with the preceding conflicts, there was like at least a stated reason. You know what I mean? Like, well, sometimes it's a lie or whatever,
Starting point is 00:27:57 but there was something there that troops could ostensibly rally behind. But with this, what the fuck is it supposed? to be and I assume you're going to show us soon the graffiti or whatever that they reportedly been doing over there. Yeah, this was viral on Troop Reddit yesterday. It's an image from a, it's a plane
Starting point is 00:28:15 flap from an aircraft. It did where the troops wrote in dust if you throw this up, Matt. A couple, you got a classic, if you can't really make it out, but the picture on the screen. But one of the messages says suck wieners and balls, just a classic. That's classic, yeah. You see that in every war since time and memorial. I've been fucking Roman legionaires
Starting point is 00:28:34 We're riding like Pulo sucks Wainers and balls Or whatever Yeah But then the rest of them BBB's Cuck Me or go with some other messages
Starting point is 00:28:44 Bebees Cucks Operation Epstein Fury Now those are just like Obviously just like Troop irony Like not like an admission or whatever Then you get in some vague some veiled anti-Semitism
Starting point is 00:28:55 Not even veiled It's anti-Semitism Be a good goy and do what Israel tells you to This was quoted in the press I saw somebody read it as God It's somebody's not very Senator savvy.
Starting point is 00:29:05 It's goy. I love Israel. I'm a good goye. And then close to my heart. There's one over there. It says, I heart flock cameras,
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Starting point is 00:32:59 the blood of tech nerds matt so in county want this um i believe that for now is one of the most hated companies in America. They're one of the most corrupt companies in America. And quite frankly, sir, I don't think we can make America great again without hanging your CEO public with your treason. You're all good. You're fucking cooking now, baby. That is a county commission meeting in East Tennessee, Sullivan County.
Starting point is 00:33:31 It's Sullivan County Commissioner Joe Carr. And I don't think he and I would agree on very much, except for fuck the CEO of flock. I personally wouldn't threaten him with death, but then again, I don't have control of a county commission. So, we've talked about flock before. I don't want to recap, you know,
Starting point is 00:33:48 what exactly, I think people now know what flock is, or how rapid it's expanded from zero to 100,000 cameras basically overnight in the past couple years. The lies about what they are. They say they're just license plate readers when they're pointed at fucking hiking trails and children's playgrounds. The security of vulnerability is to let any old neighborhood rapist hack into them just by pushing a reset button.
Starting point is 00:34:11 We also talked about how the CEO called anyone who doesn't like them terrorists. So you and I are terrorists, I believe. But it is kind of funny, like, as we get into this, how American car culture, you look at the commercials, is marketed with, like, a freedom aesthetic. Like, let the wind blow through your hair, drive a truck off road, while cars are kind of like the main component turning the United States into a surveillance state. It's not just your track of where you go in your car, but cars are going to have cameras inside them soon, reporting back when you lick your eyes off the road. Fuck that. I think, like, what feels extremely un-American about them to me besides the surveillance is it turns law enforcement upside down. It makes us all permanent suspects and open-ended investigations.
Starting point is 00:34:58 And making this point better than I can, here's a professor from Ohio State named Viet Tren, who's an expert crime surveillance and policing. He's talking out of city council meeting Columbus, Ohio last week. My name is Dr. Viatrin. I'm a professor at Ohio State University. At the Ohio State University, my area's expertise include crime, surveillance, and policing. I've been doing this research for 14 years now, first at the University of California, and then at Yale, and now in Columbus. It's my professional opinion that flock is the dystopian violation of our rights. And what I mean by that, what I mean by that is that it inverse the very nature of how police are supposed to function.
Starting point is 00:35:42 So in traditional investigations, a crime is supposed to happen first. And then detectives are supposed to identify a list of plausible suspects. And then those suspects are placed under investigation. But under flock, we are all, everybody in this room, every day, every time we get into our cars, we are all under investigation at all times for all crime. So yeah, basically how this is going to work is everyone's going to have an open case file based on your movement proximity and AI will constantly be sorting and building a permanent case against you, right? And this is not hypothetical. Just recently, Wisconsin cops got a warrant and arrested a guy based upon the fact he was driving to Michigan next door regularly.
Starting point is 00:36:26 The whole reason for being suspicious of him was he was going to Michigan because, weeds legal there therefore we suspect this guy for going to michigan and then they got a warrant based upon his movements and did find weed in his car so we did do it but that's not the point the point is they had no reason to suspect this guy other than he was driving a place that did not like him to be driving right um i feel like yeah this is like as close as we can i just show i just watched minority report with my sons recently a couple weeks ago movie hits uh hold holds up and you know
Starting point is 00:36:59 ever more pression because this feels like it's as close as we can come to having like pre-cogs you know right now you got AI pre-cogs watching everybody
Starting point is 00:37:07 at the same time whatever instead of like magical water baby psychics like they have in that movie yeah I mean honestly like like we talk about
Starting point is 00:37:16 dystopia movies being dystopias but I'd write like the precogs at least had magical abilities they do have magical abilities that is true but even that but Mark they can be manipulated
Starting point is 00:37:25 as you see in the in the tale itself. But yeah, right. But this is, yeah, this is like if the precogs were hoaxes the whole time in that movie. Yeah. So, Flok's an interesting case to me, like, like corporate mismanagement. Because, like, first of all, there are other companies who do this thing. Flock's just the most prominent one.
Starting point is 00:37:46 And I feel like what's going to happen here is people are going to, government, state and local are going to make a big deal of giving up flock contracts and pivot to using Axon or something because flock's going to be, you know. Yeah. the name is going to be persona non grata or whatever they say. But like as all these tech companies pivot to doing dystopian shit and like, you know,
Starting point is 00:38:05 tyranny shit because they had no other use cases for their fucking products. It's funny to me, like the CEO of flock apparently got to do the thing. Every other company in the history of the world is done where they gain the public's trust. I guess they thought their customers were just the powerful people and cops
Starting point is 00:38:23 and forgot that there were these things called quote, voters and citizens that they needed to fucking actually manage but they didn't do that at all. They also did that other tech thing where they rolled it out before the bugs were worked out. So they keep getting the wrong people pulled over and almost killed, which isn't great for their PR. I watched a body cam video. Like this poor guy with his girlfriend and their 18 month old kid, the guy gets pulled over because the flock is misread at X and their license plate as a Y. And they're holding a gun on an 18 month old child. And then they're blaming up like, oh, sorry, sir, we're letting you go.
Starting point is 00:38:55 flock messed up. It's like, no, you pointed your gun at a fucking 18-month-old kid. That's why you can't have this technology. You're fucking untrustworthy scumbags. So, it responds to all this backlash, Flok has just announced, talking about that, they forgot through the thing where they made sure it worked before they rolled it out. They just announced a default seven-day data retention period. So they're going to, the promise they're going to delete the data after seven days and not build a permanent case file on you, which I don't fucking believe them until, uh, and does just like legislation that mandates. And even then they'll keep it, even the legislation mandates. It just won't
Starting point is 00:39:25 be admissible in court, which is, I guess, something. But they also, they're actually going to require cops to put in case numbers for investigations to use flock, which they didn't think to do before. You know what I'm saying? Right. You could just use it for whatever they want to. Yeah. I'm sure they probably still can, but like they don't even have to, you know, they have
Starting point is 00:39:47 a pretense for having the legitimate reason to do it. They could just be for whatever. Yeah, before you didn't have to like be a part of an investigation. You just play around it. I wonder a max girlfriend. I wonder my cousin's up to. Where is he at right now? You know, that kind of shit.
Starting point is 00:40:01 So what they're going to do is going to make all their clients or the cops opt into AI auditing. So a paper clip will pop up and say, it appears this woman is committed no crime. It just has a nice rack. Are you sure you want to follow her around? And I'm not really, I'm not even being facetious here. I have an exact case study. It's pretty funny here. This cop in Florida, sheriff's deputy, named Lamar Roman, no longer sheriff's deputy for reasons we're about to find out.
Starting point is 00:40:26 he met a woman while he was working security on the set of Bad Monkey the Apple TV show with Vince Vaughn. Yeah, pretty good show. Yeah, I love the show. She got off a bus, she was an extra, and he saw her and immediately shouted, oh my God, why didn't nobody tell me
Starting point is 00:40:41 they were bringing models to set? Ooh, oh, that can't miss. Surely that one, I did. She didn't know whether or not Roma was a real cop, whether he was just playing a cop on the show, which the answer is neither really. Right.
Starting point is 00:40:59 So after meeting her cat calling her and harassing her for her full name and her Instagram handle, he started illegally looking up her vehicle information. He put her license plate on a surveillance hot list, meaning he'd get a notification of real time anytime she drove by NIA power license plate surveillance camera. This was not a flock one. This was a different one that they were able to abuse.
Starting point is 00:41:20 So then he got a hit in the video. Let me describe. This is all in video that I watched, but I want to describe it for you, all right from this piece in 404 media. Roman speeds 70 miles an hour down a two-lane highway running over a bridge in the Florida Keys. He passes a dump truck in a no passing zone,
Starting point is 00:41:34 then immediately does it again, crossing over a double yellow to pass another truck. He passes a third vehicle, nearly causing a head-on collision with a white pickup truck that has to veer off the road to avoid hitting him. He keeps driving, then sees the woman's SUV. He's been chasing. He flicks on his lights and sirens and pulls her over.
Starting point is 00:41:51 Now, this part's visible from his dash cam, camera, it's pretty funny to watch because he obviously gets rejected and has to do the sad Charlie Brown walk back to his car. Now, she says he asked her why she didn't, like he chased her down, almost killed multiple people to pull her over. And what he asked her was why she hadn't followed him back on Instagram. Yeah. This guy.
Starting point is 00:42:14 Smooth operator, man. Yeah. I can't know none of this stuff worked. Yeah, that's wild to pursue a woman through traffic like that and endanger all these lives and shit just to be like, what's up? You're not checking notifications? Not that it matters.
Starting point is 00:42:30 I have no idea if she was being honest, but she told him multiple times on the set of bad monkey and during the traffic stop that she had a boyfriend. It's not always he violating, you know, you know, laws of politeness and chivalry and of the United States of America and Florida,
Starting point is 00:42:43 but he's also violating brocode. So this lady, she had no idea she was being stalked until he pulled her over, even though he'd been doing it for like a month or two. And he would have totally gotten away with it if she hadn't reported him. There was no oversight for him doing this. But he just pled out.
Starting point is 00:43:00 He just got probation for all this. He just surrendered his law enforcement license. But so he got no jail. We need like a flock for the flock cops, you know? Like, where's the AI that reports when they abuse the AI to do shit like this, you know? Yeah. Who do you call for that so quickly?
Starting point is 00:43:16 Wouldn't line up around the block to put that into place. No. So like, he's got probation and a what do you call a diversion
Starting point is 00:43:29 like a jail diversion or whatever for almost committing vehicular homicide while stalking and abusing his uh abusing his authority
Starting point is 00:43:36 uh be like you said maybe somebody should have been surveilling this motherfucker but like I was thinking I was wondering why he did get
Starting point is 00:43:45 did get more of a book thrown at him then I looked into the sheriff's department they might have bigger frist of fraud because they currently have another deputy who was a 42 year old woman who got arrested for passing similar database information
Starting point is 00:43:56 to her 19-year-old boyfriend who's a drug dealer. Florida cops, baby. That's classic Florida shit right there. Yeah, it's my M-19 is my 42-year-old cop girlfriend who's helping me drug deal. Jesus Christ. Tell us oldest time in Florida.
Starting point is 00:44:15 So all the wrong people love this fucking shit, and this is going to blow your mind, Trey. So this website called FOIA Ball followed a bunch of freedom of, like, Freedom Information at request and apparently found out that a small New Jersey town had their flock cameras paid for by Aaron fucking Rogers. What? Was it like a wealthy suburb he moved into while playing for the Jets or something?
Starting point is 00:44:36 Yes. Yes. Okay. All right. I want to quote here, like, when it's not, when it's Aaron being surveilled, this is a quote from him on where else the Pat McAfee Show, which of course you know it's a Pat McAfee show. It's a sick society, isn't it? What is it with entitlement to information that we're living in society these days?
Starting point is 00:44:53 Months later, Rogers would moaned that he was under constant technological supercharged surveillance, claiming that paparazzi had been flying drones over his house. It got so bad, he said, that he left his longtime Malibu home. This is a guy who, Rogers got married fairly recently. We don't know exactly when because he's kept it all a secret. No one's ever seen his wife, which congratulations to him. I would also like to keep my life private. Right.
Starting point is 00:45:17 But most people keep his wife, Mark. Yeah. We're still doing that whole thing? Okay. Yeah. Now, for anybody doesn't know, there's long running rumors about Aaron Rogers being gay, which I'm just joking about. I'm not saying he actually is.
Starting point is 00:45:29 But he's just a fucking weirdo. So this flock thing was this Aaron Rogers just being like, see, how do you like it? You know what I'm saying? If he bitches so much about constant surveillance, is that way? He was like, I'll surveil them all. Everybody in my neighborhood. Maybe he's trying to bribe the cops to arrest Dr. Fauci? I don't know.
Starting point is 00:45:50 But yeah, he used an LLC cutout to maintain his own privacy. while he bought, like, he used an LLC to keep, to keep his life private while he used his money to buy cameras for cops to stalk other people. Like, I, I know we don't like hypocrisy, like, charges of hypocrisy don't work in this country anymore, but fuck Aaron Rogers for like 500 different reasons, besides the fact he plays for the goddamn Steelers who suck. Right. So I think part of why cops like flock so much, it's not just because it makes their jobs
Starting point is 00:46:22 easier. I watched a clip from the city council meeting where a cop was losing his shit because the town was going to take down the flock cameras
Starting point is 00:46:30 and he was upset basically people imputing his integrity but also he was complaining about he basically the cop in the city council meeting goes well good luck
Starting point is 00:46:38 when your grandma goes missing like he's not even going to look for their grandma because you're taking away his cameras I'm like you're fired
Starting point is 00:46:47 missing person's cases you know up until eight months ago or last year whenever all this shit happened. I don't know, but I guess we can defund this police department because he's not going to do anything anyway. He just announced it.
Starting point is 00:46:59 He basically said he was going to retire if they didn't fucking give him his cock camera. Go look for grandma, dude. I don't know what you think your fucking job is. But like it turns these guys besides the fact that like it allows them to frame people, allows them to put whoever they want. Like it allows you to find someone you want to put in jail and figure out a reason why afterwards. Another way to put that is let them run their own little CIA and FBI Cointel
Starting point is 00:47:22 pro. ops. And they've been caught doing this, at least two times already we're about to talk about. It's a small town called Lenoxa, Kansas. The cops were caught using a license plate reader to track a guy who wrote a critical guest column in the local newspaper. What they did was they followed around using the cameras and figured out he'd hung up posters around the city because he's politically active.
Starting point is 00:47:45 And they charged him with defacing government property because the posters were attached with glue sticks. Is that I'm saying? Mm-hmm. Yeah. These environmentally conscious Kansas cops out here. Yes. Just trying to save the planet, doing the Lord of the work.
Starting point is 00:48:02 The way, what the First Amendment law works is you cannot, you're not supposed to do viewpoint discrimination. Meaning, you can forbid the hang of flyers in your town if you want, but you cannot let a little kid hang a lost dog flyer and not let this guy hang up his anti-cop fliers. Right, yeah. Right. So what they did was try to figure out a way to punish him just to. for his anti-cop flyers where the little lost dog flyers can still be hung up around because the kids I guess used tape while he used a glue stick. You know what I'm saying?
Starting point is 00:48:29 So, but here's another one from just last week. I'm going to play this. This is a news piece in a guy named Bob Sclar who, from North Manchester, Indiana, who's a vocal critic of his local government. There's a guy right there. Bob Sclar believes the government is following him. It's as if the government was tracking you, put a GPS on you, monitored everywhere you went, when you went there.
Starting point is 00:48:51 not just around this small Indiana town, but across the country. This is where the camera is. Right. So Bob and guys like him are American heroes. There are load-bearing pillars of American democracy. The people who go to city council and complain all the time are doing that job for all of us. They're watching the budgets. They're asking why their money is being spent, what the city's doing,
Starting point is 00:49:20 why is the mayor's buddy getting a sweet deal in the city-owned land? Right? That kind of shit. The country falls apart with that guys like this, being super annoying. The local government officials. 100%.
Starting point is 00:49:32 And I want to play this example. What I'm talking about, Bob's very, very proud of his activism. I bet. They often are. Yeah. What's just the budget going up? Bob regularly criticizes
Starting point is 00:49:45 the North Manchester government and its police officers. You speak out at town council meetings. I do. whether or not this is appropriate conduct for a down employee. They've adopted official rules just because of me. There you go. So he started, like, when he realized the cops were following him around,
Starting point is 00:50:04 he followed a bunch of public records requests and got a bunch of files in the police department. He found out, let me quote here. They did have an alert in my vehicle, he said. But the department would not disclose who had been tracking his license plate or for how long or why. So he went to have-up-in-flocked, the website we've talked about before.
Starting point is 00:50:20 He entered his license plate and he found 63 total searches logged against his vehicle from December 2024 through the end of 2025. Hold on. I know you said we talked about this before. If I go to Have I Been Flocked and I type in my license plate, it will tell me the number of times that I've been searched for or that like AI has pinged me or something. How many times you ping the camera? And then it'll tell you if they'll also tell you it. So have I been flocked is dependent upon local records laws for whatever jurisdiction they're in. So if you don't find your license plate does not mean you have not, you have not been flocked.
Starting point is 00:50:54 It just means you've probably been flocked in a jurisdiction that didn't release it to have up and flocked. Okay. But what I'm saying is, is it indicate a human element if you're on there? No. Okay. It could just mean you appear on it. It means you, your license plate. You got logged by the computer for whatever reason.
Starting point is 00:51:12 Right. Yeah. So, yeah, they're obviously trying to find a crime to hang on this guy. And I would advise Bob to delete his hard drive. drive because they're going to find something. One officer, they were able to me just pull him over all the time. Now, Bob, do his credit. It's in the other, like, he will, when he finds a cop following him, he turns his camera on and
Starting point is 00:51:30 ask the cop what they're doing. It's the same cop. One cop falling around all the time. His own personal valet in a police car. So the officer said, one time they pulled him over just to see what he was up to and asked him how his trip to Philadelphia was. He said, how would you know I was in Philly? and the only answer is flock,
Starting point is 00:51:51 but when you ask, how was your trip to Philadelphia, that is a fucking threat. Yeah, yeah, it seems like Bob didn't pick up on that, apparently, or something. But yeah, right, it seems like that was a very deliberate
Starting point is 00:52:03 choice of line of questioning by the cop, you know. He's wanting you to know that he's watching you. Yeah. And so, Slorafaud a public records request to find out who had placed an alert on his vehicle and the town to acknowledge
Starting point is 00:52:16 that an alert existed refuse to identify the officer setting officer safety. So they won't tell him, the officer's following him around to see what he's up to. But if you have to find out what the officer who's following what is up to, you can't know because that's private. Right. No, I know.
Starting point is 00:52:33 Yeah. What you were saying earlier about how they would not let the equivalent of this be done to them. There's no fucking way. You know what I mean? Yeah. It's like a sort of a flip side of that Aaron Rogers situation where he has that happening to him, but still, you know, doesn't care.
Starting point is 00:52:49 In his mind, that's different than what these are doing. The version that's happening to him is bullshit and unfair and un-American. The version that's happening to all his neighbors is just making sure they don't steal his shit or whatever the fuck, you know, get too close to his fence or whatever it is. Yeah, because Aaron is the main character. Right, right. And you're just, your Don Player characters in Aaron's way. Yes, and the cops are, they're the heroes and the good guys and all that.
Starting point is 00:53:13 And, you know, yeah, that would just impede them. And like you said, we're all either bad guys or MPCs waiting to become a bad guy. Or according to the CEO of flock, terrorists. Right. Only a terrorist would not want cops to know where they are 24-7 with a constant updating case file with all your movements and all your behaviors. And, you know, what's changed about your car, yada, yada, yada. You know, I think the funny part is, of all the outrage here, like the, um, The people of most upset about this besides libertarians are mega people.
Starting point is 00:53:50 Because like a lot of these flock cameras are in the parking lots of gun shops. I was just about to say before you even went into this, I was going to be like, dude, how are, because to me, all these new technocrats and stuff have aligned themselves with like at least a version of the rights. And I was going to be like how, I know we started with an East Tennessee County Commissioner threatening to execute. But like, I was going to be like, how is anybody on the right okay with this? Because in my mind, this is exactly the type of shit that most of the. right-wingers that I've known, which is to say, like, the redneck variety would have absolutely fucking hated, you know what I mean? Right.
Starting point is 00:54:23 Like, fervently. We've, they've spent, like, the right in this country, the culture war, right, has spent, like, decades fighting against anything resembling a national, a registry of gun owners, right? This is it. It is here. It's, like, and, like, I think they think it's a government thing, but what you've got to understand is that this is on private property pointing at the parking lot of, a gun store? It's because the gun store put it there.
Starting point is 00:54:49 Now, that does not mean that it won't end up in a government database because I imagine it probably will. But like every one of these companies to stop theft and shoplifting or just to be able to let it know when a criminal is in their parking lot wants to be able to keep track of who's coming and going. You find these, the flock cameras are in Home Depot parking lots and Lowe's parking lots, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, and they've all been caught handing it over the federal government. Like, I think we talked about it before. Like Lowe's in Home Depot were cooperating with ice, you know, to help them catch. Day laborers in the parking lot.
Starting point is 00:55:19 And I don't agree with it, but I understand why Home Depot, they're victims of a lot of shoplifting, right? Because you can just carry a piece of lumber out of lows. No one stops you. You can't like put security tags on boards. So like I get why they want to know if a habitual shoplifters in their parking lot. But sorry, you just got to like keep a better eye on your door. you know that's kind of I feel about it but anyway yeah I just don't like I understand like how
Starting point is 00:55:50 this technology makes hypocrites of everyone because while I like I'm for some measure of more accountability when it comes to gun control but not like this right I don't think like people tracking people coming and going from parking lots of gun stores the right way to go about it it feels like an invasion of privacy and also anybody who's been against a fucking national
Starting point is 00:56:11 gun registry how do you just justify this and like how is it at i don't know i can't make sense of any anymore like like i feel like everybody all americans of all stripes who weren't lazy cops should be against this yeah i know and it seems to me i mean i'm sure they're not i mean again i've seen the clips of jo rogan being convinced that it's a good idea and i think he still has legions of devotees but most most of people i know and it seems like every time i see any i never see anybody being in favor of it Usually it's like people, you know, rant and raving about it. Like I said, even my like back, back home buddies and stuff like that are definitely not big lefties or anything.
Starting point is 00:56:51 But I don't know. If it, if I believed in like the seven days, I don't even too much data retention. I think like, like for the things you would need emergency flock cameras for would be like a kidnapping of a child. I think you need six hours for that. Right. Like, I think that's enough. And then otherwise we can just fucking like it. you can just delete it and whatever.
Starting point is 00:57:16 There might be a version of this that's workable, but this isn't it, man. And like, we're big, and, like, like, like, like,
Starting point is 00:57:21 not getting people's buy-in and not convincing people it's worth it to start with. They're going to end up being banned as illegal because they fucked up the, the roll out of this and then, like, almost got a bunch of,
Starting point is 00:57:30 the amount of people I've seen wrongfully pulled over for this. Like, LA just canceled his flock contract because, like, 36, 37% I think, of the traffic stops they were conducting for alleged stolen vehicles were false. More than a third.
Starting point is 00:57:44 They're wrong the third of the time. They're going to get people killed. It's ridiculous. It is. All right. Well, thank you guys for watching. We appreciate it. Listen, come see me on the road.
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