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Hi folks for the download button on our survivalist podcast and as always folks you can catch all of our old shows at survivalistpodcast.org
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survivalistpodcast.org I also got my own website and all places where fine podcasts are available
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also two folks go ahead and don’t forget about our wonderful Mastodon group especially like Twitter but our own little private group
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kind of like true social I guess it’s built on the same platform but like I said rebelsocial.media is the site
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and go ahead and join up there you can chat with all of us there we go pretty good group and we keep on growing
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so don’t forget about us over there so I’m using my new rig I got a Tascam rig for mobile recording when I’m on the go
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so I can bring this quality podcast to you so if the sound is a little bit different than what you’re normally hearing
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that’s because I’m not using my very expensive rig that I usually use at my home but like I said I am on the go this week for work
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we got so much going on between my business and my two businesses and some other stuff we have going on it’s just unbelievable
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we are going Monday to Friday, Saturday and Sunday it’s been pretty pretty nuts thank goodness for my wife she’s kind of keeping everything running
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and I can’t thank her enough I know she doesn’t listen to the show but thank you honey I appreciate everything you do for me
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so a couple things I wanted to talk about a lot of things going on apparently the FCC is going to be going ahead and actually investigating TikTok
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they are saying now that it’s possibly going to be a pretty big thing they’re saying that they’re worried about the Chinese government
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which is the kind of owns TikTok in China when you start a business the government kind of owns part of it so that’s going on there
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and now they’re concerned with what’s going on so the FCC is going to look into TikTok to see if they can possibly doing stuff with election influencing
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how they’re influencing Americans and all that stuff is actually rather interesting been keeping an eye on that
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there’s going to be a lot going on with that over the next couple of couple of years anything with the legal system and the government always takes so freaking long
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but they’re going to go ahead and investigate that and see we know that TikTok has been manipulating videos of that to not show what’s going on with their workers in their warehouse
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so welding people in and this COVID policy stuff and the rebellions and all that kind of stuff that’s going on we know for a fact that they are using TikTok
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to really to I mean just that they’re manipulating it and using it and to kind of you know look make it look different so there’s that
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and it’s unbelievable just how you know what’s going on over there they’re basically locking these workers in and there’s no food there’s not enough food there’s not enough water
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I mean it’s unbelievable what’s going on over there and I mean yeah it’s over in China but nobody deserves no factory workers China any country America deserves to be treated that way
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I mean they’re locking these people in against the willows people can’t go home and see the fit they’re just you stay here and work
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just so we don’t you know that’s a dictatorship so anybody that you know we all bitch about America and I mean there are times where in this country you know things like oh my goodness you know you can’t believe it but look at what those people are going through over there
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they’re basically being forced to stay there and work and they have no other choice so you know really unbelievable watching these people and we feel bad for all of them
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but you know thank God we live in this country and you know we have our shortcomings obviously but I can’t imagine I mean trying something like this in America where welding doors shut the factory and telling people you stay in there you work and you’re not coming out because of covid
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and it’s just unbelievable what’s going on over there and they’re using TikTok to they’re saying the Chinese government says they’re filtering out videos and all that that they don’t want people to see these workers in these factories
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and we can see them here in America but not over there in China they use their the way their internet set up they can filter that kind of stuff out plus two again the government owns part of TikTok so that’s been going on over there and you know they’re also saying Twitter they’re actually trying to manipulate Twitter so that people can’t see this stuff and it’s just really unbelievable what they’re doing over there and that’s a big reason why they definitely don’t want Facebook in there because they can’t manipulate Facebook like they can their own social media
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they’re manipulating WeChat so people don’t see it began they’re trying to make it they’re trying to keep the rebel the the uprising stuff out of the news and and they’re really using social media to try you know and manipulating it to kind of cover it up and you know it’s just really unbelievable what’s going on over there it’s crazy but that’s been I mean going on for I mean years now I mean but now it’s really coming to a head and I feel the people are going to be really up in an uproar
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I mean we I hope you know we all hope that Russia would be in an uproar over what was going on but that really didn’t change any of those sanctions really I mean didn’t make much of a difference at all in Russia which is really sad but fortunately it’s just the way it is and I think those people are going to be I just don’t know they don’t have enough power they really can’t do anything about it it’s just a combination of just a bunch of different things and it’s really sad to see so but the sanctions not
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really have the the effects that they hope to you know hope to hope to have but like I said you know it’s really sad seems going people over in over in China so I actually want we’re talking about things going on over there let’s talk about things going on over here obviously if you hear the that’s me trying to see what Opie the Wonder Dog is doing he’s uh you coming in boy or not
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Opie the Wonder Dog is uh driving me a little nuts he doesn’t know what he wants to do in out like I said I’m on the go today trying to get this podcast done while I’m trying to get stuff done around the homestead I got stuff going on my rentals my business so I’m trying to trying to quote this on the go folks and Opie the Wonder Dog is not making that any easier I actually Opie the Wonder Dog it’s gonna be three years that we have him coming up here in a couple of weeks
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we got him around Christmas time a couple years ago so he’s been with us a couple years now took a lot of training a lot of practice and all that but he is becoming you know kind of the family favorite here which is good we have all our pets but he’s become quite quickly a family favorite especially with the girls like him as he chases them and beagles are always great family dogs but like I said there’s a whole podcast on Opie the Wonder Dog if you look back on our all our stuff you’ll see it’s a lot of fun
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all our stuff you’ll see it speaking of things that the FCC is also looking into that put the ban back on Huawei I think it’s Hikvision ZTE
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if you remember the sanctions were taken off but after Biden came in now they’re all being put back on all these Chinese companies a little list if you go to whitehouse.gov make sure .gov.com by the way and you can see all the all the different things that they’re doing all the different companies I think there’s panda cloud and there’s a bunch of other stuff as well so there’s a whole list of it
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so Elon Musk you know in the news seems like every week he’s in the news with Twitter but he was in the news this week I guess he’s having a few I guess Apple was talking about taking his thing off of the talking taking the Twitter app off of the App Store and he had a beef with them and you know it’s him he’s had an issue over the years
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you know we’ve had epic games obviously Fortnite we all remember that Spotify has been having an issue over the years with not so much with with well they’ve had issues with with Apple for years with Apple promoting Apple Music or Spotify which is is wrong they’re doing the same muscle position that Microsoft in the 90s but and then also to we always we all remember
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what happened I will remember but I remember there was a big issue but two years ago where Spotify wasn’t allowed to have a watch app even though they made it there wasn’t being approved there’s been a lot of issues over the years but with any of these with music services or any kind of real service
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that Apple doesn’t want on their platform but the company should be on the platform you know Apple’s got special rules for everybody and and you know I’ve had I’ve had talking about that I’ve had issues recently over the last couple of months with that with not so much with Apple but with Google
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with them being kind of the gatekeepers of the internet. We actually had an issue recently with Google where it kept taking our business listings down because people report them and then and then they would come down with the repost them and then it was just getting to be a nightmare and we heard our business for a while about it we finally get a little taken care of but
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you know who is Google to be the gatekeepers of the internet and you know who you know Apple is specially as the gatekeeper of the app world for for their devices which I get it but it isn’t it’s not really right because like me with all these problems like how much business I lost because Google had us listed as business closed or or business suspended or grew I mean we went on this one on for almost two three weeks and now granted we got it fixed but
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those two three weeks I mean who knows how much business we lost and who is them to do that to Google to become the geek yes you know I mean I understand why they are but it’s not right either and it hurts business it hurts you know a lot of people with what their their ways and what they do and it’s just not right and we had a lot of issues
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I had a lot of people who have had issues with with Google and and delisting them like we did and then you hear people all the time with with with other companies just it’s just I you know I understand especially I understand that these companies yes their private companies and that and in America they have the right to do these things but it’s also really not fair because when they’re the gatekeepers internet because they are you have to go through them and because they don’t have
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you know the best support or the best with that that that particular piece of it is not their primary focus but it’s your primary focus because it’s a big part of your business it’s it really isn’t cool and it really makes the whole situation really bad like you know it’s like
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us with these Google listings, that’s not Google’s main business. Google maintains it,
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but it’s not their main business. So the support for it isn’t great, but yet that’s how everybody
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finds us. So it was just a real big issue, and I remember saying, like Google, you guys
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want to be the gatekeepers of the internet for this stuff, but you’re also, it’s not
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your primary concerns, but people use it to find it. And it’s just, like you’re talking
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to support people. You tell them from another country, they don’t care. And I understand
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they’re just doing the job, but they don’t understand that they’re hurting your business.
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They’re hurting what’s going on, and it’s just really bad. And they just, you know,
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when you’re in a situation like Google or Apple is, where you’re in charge of the app
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store, you’re in charge of the search, you’re in charge of these local listings, when you
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don’t, if that’s not your primary concern, but you’re still taking care of it, you have
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to have the ability in place for people to reach out to these people. And Google and
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Apple, Apple’s a little bit better with it, but Google especially, like you keep struggling
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with getting your listing set up and struggling to get it posted, and all of a sudden, well
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why? Can you reach out and you can’t get ahold of anybody, or you do, and it takes 10 days
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to get an email. But I mean, you know, this is some of these, some of these people’s business
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rely on this. You put this in place, you know, you, you, you cause places like yellowpages.com
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to go out of business because you did this, but yet you’re not maintaining it now. And
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that’s a big issue. You know, especially when you’re talking about companies like Prime
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example, look at, and I’m not, I mean, this isn’t, you know, I mean, as big of a deal,
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but like look at Amazon, talking about what their Alexa devices or their Echo devices,
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they said they lost billions of dollars. They’re cutting, they’re cutting staff. They’re cutting
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this, they’re cutting that. But there are people who have apps on there that make a
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lot of that actually like make money with their apps. Stuff like dominoes, Uber, things
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like that. People that have built part of their business off of this, this platform
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you made, you encourage people now, so you’re losing interest in it because you’re not making
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money. Okay, well, what about all the people that have built part of their business on
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this and built part of their, part of their businesses on this? You encourage them to
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come there. They came there, they did exactly, they built on top of your platform and now
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you’re abandoning it or you’re losing interest in it. And now these people are going to suffer
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because of it. I mean, it’s, it’s, it’s not right. There needs to be something in place.
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Maybe, maybe not in the heights of government regulations because I hate that so much, but
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you know, something in place to say, okay, we need to look at the, how this is being
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handled because people have built their businesses on this and now all of a sudden this is being
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people, this company’s losing interest in it. And now, I mean, you know, some, you know,
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we, you know, there’s gotta be something in place for this. A prime example, look at the,
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there’s a website called Google graveyard where you can find all the stuff that Google
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has ever abandoned. And I mean, all that stuff has hurt other people. You have people that
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built brands and stuff on top of these, these platforms. And then look at prime example,
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and I’m not trying to get too techie here, but look at prime example of something called
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Google Stadia, which is their big online gaming platform. You had game companies build entire
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games on top of this platform. And then Google just says, yeah, we’re looking at the way
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we wanted it. It’s not as big as we thought it was going to be. Forget it. We’re abandoning
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it. Well, now you had a business that spent, you know, probably, you know, two and three,
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you know, probably a couple of people’s salaries for a year or two to build this game on that
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platform. And now they’re just demanding it. It’s not right. I mean, it really isn’t. And
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that’s sometimes my issue with anything in business. The reason why I’m bringing something
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up is because about business, but kind of my big thing in business is starting a business
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or relying on a business that is dependent on something else. A prime example of this
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is just local, just, just, and this is any business. It’s not any old business or other
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businesses, but a primary sample is there is a bagel place. I know specifically that
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used to, they didn’t have the facilities to bake the bagels. So they used to get it from
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another place. Well, that other place went out of business. So now they either have to
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do two, one of two things. They have to find another place to get their bagels or shut
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down. It’s very tough to build a business when you’re so reliant on another company.
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We see this going on right now with the supply chain issues, especially in places like the
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automotive industry, where you have automotive, you have, you know, mechanics and stuff that,
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okay, my business is repairing cars, but I can’t get the parts to repair the car, which
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is tough because you’re, yes, you’re providing a service, but if you can’t get the materials
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to provide the service, you know, you’re dependent on being able to get the parts. And we see
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that in, that’s not just a mechanic, just mechanics in general, but I’m seeing that
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in the appliance businesses now. We’re seeing it in the computer industry. I mean, especially,
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I mean, prime example of this right now going on is obviously when you go to talk about
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Apple, what the Apple’s going through right now. I mean, their, their iPhone production
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is going to be affected by this thing in China because again, they’re, they’re dependent
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on Foxconn to manufacture the products that they make. And now the iPhone production is
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going to be down by 20% because of the cold COVID thing and locking people in these factories
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and people kind of escaping the factories and running away because they don’t want to
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deal with it. I mean, all that is going to seriously affect Apple’s production again,
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cause they’re dependent on Foxconn. Apple doesn’t, Apple does the research and development
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and designs increase the box, but at the end of the day, they need somebody to mass produce
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it. So they were dependent upon them. And it’s really, you know, it’s, it’s a tough
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situation when your business is dependent on another business, especially solely like
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a platform like, like, like Amazon or Google or Apple. I mean, that’s, you know, I mean,
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look at Spotify as a prime example of this, the app where a lot of people listen to podcasts
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and music. We do as well, but we’re on there as well, by the way. But you know, they’re,
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their biggest part of their business relies on Apple and Google. And if they have an issue,
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not so much a Google with Apple, it affects their whole business because it’s a big chunk
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of their listeners, a big chunk of their user base is using Apple products. So they’re dependent
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upon Apple to approve their apps and all that. And it’s, it’s a very tough situation when
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you’re in business to be dependent on another business. And when that business is, is messing,
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is not doing what they should or not doing the right thing, or it really affects your
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business. And anytime you think about when you’re out in the world and you’re trying
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to come up with a business or a side hustle, you have to think about that. How much of
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my business is dependent upon this business? And sometimes you have to be prepared. That’s
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why I was getting into survivalist preppers. Sometimes you need to think a little bit ahead
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and say, okay, things are great now, but what happens if I can’t get these parts? What happens
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if I can’t rent this machine? What if I can’t, you know, if you’re, you know, a prime example
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of mine, he’s a buddy of mine, very good friend of mine. He’s got a good excavating business,
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but he does, he always rents his equipment. Well, the problem, when then when the rental
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place he used for a while had issues and had to net the machines he needed, all his jobs
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got pushed back. So eventually he turned out and bought machines, you know, which is a
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big outlay, but he decided it was time to do it. He couldn’t be dependent upon another
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business, you know, so he bought his own machines, which is fine. But for the longest time he
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was dependent upon renting these machines. And then when he couldn’t anymore, he had
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a company, he already had a backup plan of, okay, I have to get these machines, you know,
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he had to come up with a backup plan. And we saw a lot of that during COVID and stuff
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and that, but it’s a big part of business is being prepared for the next step and what
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you’re going to do and how you’re going to do it. And, you know, kind of always having
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a backup plan for what happens if I can’t get this product, what happens if I can’t
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get my thing manufactured, what happens if I can’t, you know, you kind of have to use,
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you know, a lot of times when you’re in business, the prepper mindset is a big part of it only
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because you have to sometimes prepare, you have to have a backup plan. You know, people
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don’t realize that sometimes, you know, preparation, sometimes prepper skills and business go together
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very, very well. And especially in business when you’re, you know, you have to sometimes
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think of, okay, what’s next, what’s next, what’s next, what could happen? You have to
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plan for the unexpected. You have to plan for, you know, it’s a very, a lot of times
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a lot of people don’t realize, people say I’m not a prepper, but they don’t realize
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they use a lot of the same prepper skills. So a very interesting, you know, thing I was
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thinking about with that the other day, how much is unbelievable, how much prepper skills
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and business go together to a certain degree. So some other news I didn’t want to talk about
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that I saw the other day, Cyber Monday sales hit 11 billion, up quite a bit from the previous
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year, which is, you know, which is much better. So it’s the economy still, still going strong.
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Some other, some other interesting news stories. Again, this might be a short podcast today
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just because I got so much going on, but I do want to get this out and I do want to get
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it out every week and I’ll have my little mobile recorder. I’m recording on the go here
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as I go to my next thing. This thing was the best hundred bucks I ever spent. I got it
00:20:54.940 –> 00:21:00.440
on Black Friday because it’s a Tascam, T-I-S-C-A-M device. You can get it for less than a hundred
00:21:00.440 –> 00:21:05.020
bucks and it really is really good, good sound quality, good audio, much better than recording
00:21:05.020 –> 00:21:10.580
on your iPhone or anything like that because it is, like I said, it’s designed to block
00:21:10.580 –> 00:21:16.840
out ambient noise. It’s designed to, the way it records on an SD card, the microphones
00:21:16.840 –> 00:21:21.740
are more professional grade. It really is, like I said, a really great device if you
00:21:21.740 –> 00:21:28.740
can, if you want one and can afford one. So some other things, like I said, we all know
00:21:28.740 –> 00:21:33.100
about the, if those of you who don’t know, there’s the Georgia runoff elections coming
00:21:33.100 –> 00:21:38.660
up. Herschel Walker obviously is in those and a bunch of other, and I forget who’s running
00:21:38.660 –> 00:21:43.380
me it is, but that is going to be, of course, Georgia has the, like I said, the runoff election.
00:21:43.380 –> 00:21:47.360
Nobody got 50% of the votes, so they have to have a runoff election. That’s coming up,
00:21:47.360 –> 00:21:52.260
I believe this week. So we will see what happens with that if we’re going to get a Republican
00:21:52.260 –> 00:22:00.180
or a Democrat in Georgia, it’ll be interesting to see. I don’t want to say, I think it’s
00:22:00.180 –> 00:22:05.500
going to go Democrat, even though he’s huge. I don’t know, I just can’t, he seems like
00:22:05.500 –> 00:22:10.220
a dumb, he’s like a box of, he seems like a, as dumb as a box of rocks, but we’ll see
00:22:10.220 –> 00:22:19.020
what happens with that. So talking about True Social, I want to talk about that for a minute.
00:22:19.020 –> 00:22:23.300
True Social actually, I guess they’re saying that they’re, they’re starting, they’re rolling
00:22:23.300 –> 00:22:27.140
out, they’ve been rolling out their ad platform, but apparently, well, they rolled that out
00:22:27.140 –> 00:22:31.500
in July, but apparently that didn’t work out. So now they’re joining Rumble, for those of
00:22:31.500 –> 00:22:38.940
you that have heard of that, Rumble, it’s another, it’s basically a right wing YouTube
00:22:38.940 –> 00:22:47.060
videos sign of, YouTube like kind of video site. But apparently they’re joining their
00:22:47.060 –> 00:22:56.860
ad program to try to monetize a little bit of what’s, you know, monetize True Social
00:22:56.860 –> 00:23:01.340
and at least maybe breaking even on, I know they spent, they’ve been, it’s been costing
00:23:01.340 –> 00:23:05.900
them to run it, but now they’re hoping to monetize it, make money. I don’t know, they’re
00:23:05.900 –> 00:23:10.700
saying they have, you know, several, they have a couple million active, they have a
00:23:10.700 –> 00:23:14.280
couple million active users, they’re saying in this article a month and they’re hoping
00:23:14.280 –> 00:23:20.020
to monetize it. We will have to see what happens with that. I don’t know. I just, I just, I
00:23:20.020 –> 00:23:22.780
think it’s going to be tougher than the monetize. I don’t think they have enough people yet.
00:23:22.780 –> 00:23:29.220
I mean, they do have a bunch of people that listen or, you know, listen, watch, whatever
00:23:29.220 –> 00:23:35.700
you want to call it, active users. But I don’t know. I just don’t see, I just don’t see it
00:23:35.700 –> 00:23:40.140
being maybe they’ll break even, but I just don’t see that ever making money for him.
00:23:40.140 –> 00:23:43.260
But I mean, like I said, they joined the Rumble platform this way, they don’t have to build
00:23:43.260 –> 00:23:47.520
their own ad platform. Sure, that’s going to save them money. And also too, it’ll help
00:23:47.520 –> 00:23:51.760
Rumble out as well, because it’s such a niche market for the, you know, in, in that space.
00:23:51.760 –> 00:23:56.680
And you know, I just picture a whole bunch of my pillow ads.
00:23:56.680 –> 00:24:05.780
Um, Kanye was on Alex Jones praising Hitler. We all saw that video. That guy says he’s
00:24:05.780 –> 00:24:14.300
running for president. I just, you know, we all know he has some mental issues. I really
00:24:14.300 –> 00:24:22.720
hope he gets help. I feel, I really feel bad for his children in the sense of, I can only
00:24:22.720 –> 00:24:27.220
imagine the blowback they’re going to get in school over their father saying to, you
00:24:27.220 –> 00:24:32.660
know, Hitler was a good, Hitler had, was a good person or had good intentions. I don’t
00:24:32.660 –> 00:24:37.300
know, whatever he said, it was every day. Even Alex Jones cringed a little bit. Um,
00:24:37.300 –> 00:24:40.700
but I feel bad for his kids. I can only imagine what they’re going to, the crap they’re going
00:24:40.700 –> 00:24:44.700
to eat for the stuff he’s been saying. Um, I thought he was buying parlor too. I don’t
00:24:44.700 –> 00:24:49.400
know whatever happened with that. I, or if he’s, or he was going to buy gab or parlor
00:24:49.400 –> 00:24:51.860
or one of those, but I don’t know whatever happened with that. I kind of just, I don’t
00:24:51.860 –> 00:24:58.500
know if it just fell to the wayside or, um, or what, but, uh, apparently that, uh, we
00:24:58.500 –> 00:25:02.540
haven’t heard much about that front. I’m curious to see what happens with that.
00:25:02.540 –> 00:25:09.460
So also this week, it was kind of funny. Uh, Alyssa Milano, who we all remember her during
00:25:09.460 –> 00:25:14.900
the Kavanaugh thing, which was ridiculous. Um, she said that she’s giving, she’s getting
00:25:14.900 –> 00:25:23.180
rid of her Tesla, um, and going to Volkswagen, which is okay. That’s fine. But she also,
00:25:23.180 –> 00:25:31.420
you know, said it on Twitter. So who, I mean, I just don’t get it. I mean, if she’s saying
00:25:31.420 –> 00:25:36.460
she, she won’t support Elon, but yet she’s still tweeting and she’s still making, she
00:25:36.460 –> 00:25:39.020
made the announcement on Twitter. So what was the, I don’t understand what the point
00:25:39.020 –> 00:25:44.020
of that was, but, um, I said that was in, that was trending today. I’m like, but you’re
00:25:44.020 –> 00:25:48.820
still using Twitter. So I don’t know about that. And it’s just going to Volkswagen, which
00:25:48.820 –> 00:25:53.580
is, I don’t know. I mean, it’s a great company and all that, but I mean, if you still get
00:25:53.580 –> 00:25:56.620
into their history, I’m sure you’re going to find things that you’re not super Uber
00:25:56.620 –> 00:26:00.700
happy with, especially when it comes to World War II. So I don’t know about that. I think
00:26:00.700 –> 00:26:05.140
it’s the, you know, one of those things where I guess if you, if you dig deep enough, any
00:26:05.140 –> 00:26:08.260
company you’re going to find something you don’t like. And the fact that she said it
00:26:08.260 –> 00:26:15.420
on Twitter made me kind of laugh a little bit. Google is, uh, Google has said they’re
00:26:15.420 –> 00:26:20.340
doing their, their partner, Google and YouTube are going to, are they still, they don’t want
00:26:20.340 –> 00:26:24.820
to face us. They just said they’re going to be starting a fact checking network group.
00:26:24.820 –> 00:26:28.160
I don’t know what that means. They haven’t been very descriptive about it. Uh, curious
00:26:28.160 –> 00:26:33.420
to curious to see here, what’s here and see what anything is anything else that comes
00:26:33.420 –> 00:26:42.480
out with that. Um, I’m curious to see, uh, so speaking of, of things that are fact check,
00:26:42.480 –> 00:26:48.420
apparently, uh, Joe Rogan, apparently this is, this is a, just came out the other day
00:26:48.420 –> 00:26:56.400
on a podcast network. Apparently it costs a million dollars to, to run an ad on Joe
00:26:56.400 –> 00:27:01.700
Rogan. So in other words, Spotify charges a million dollars trying to add on Joe Rogan.
00:27:01.700 –> 00:27:09.500
That is crazy. Uh, I think he’s lost a lot of steam since he came on Spotify. I think
00:27:09.500 –> 00:27:16.700
he lost a lot of steam as well when he moved from his home in LA to Texas. Um, I don’t
00:27:16.700 –> 00:27:21.340
think the show is as really as good as it used to be. Uh, as far as he doesn’t get really
00:27:21.340 –> 00:27:26.240
a list celebrities anymore. Um, I really don’t, I mean, I think the whole show is really good
00:27:26.240 –> 00:27:29.220
and I’m not, and I’m not saying that because I don’t like Joe because I do, I like his
00:27:29.220 –> 00:27:35.840
show, but, um, lately the guests have been, um, subpar at best. And I just don’t think
00:27:35.840 –> 00:27:40.960
it’s the show is not anywhere near what it used to be. And I think he’s lost a lot of
00:27:40.960 –> 00:27:46.180
steam. Um, I don’t think at any point that he’s going to, you know, sort of, he’s going
00:27:46.180 –> 00:27:52.620
to split waves with them, but I do think the show is not what it used to be lately. I don’t
00:27:52.620 –> 00:27:56.780
really, I don’t really, I’m from being honest with you. I don’t really, you guys know it
00:27:56.780 –> 00:28:01.180
was honest with you guys. I don’t really listen to Rogan really as much as I used to once
00:28:01.180 –> 00:28:05.540
in a while, I’ll grab a clip here or there, but, um, mostly I’ve been listened to serious.
00:28:05.540 –> 00:28:12.940
Um, if I’m being honest with you, um, I listened to Megan, the Megan Kelly show, uh, quite
00:28:12.940 –> 00:28:16.500
a, quite a bit. I like her show. Uh, she was actually doing a podcast and it got picked
00:28:16.500 –> 00:28:23.620
up by, um, serious exam and it’s still a podcast. It’s just, she’s live on serious from 12 to
00:28:23.620 –> 00:28:28.940
two. And then after that she goes to, you know, it goes to the podcast format. Um, as
00:28:28.940 –> 00:28:35.100
well as I listened to her, um, I listened to, well Glenn Beck is on there. I don’t listen
00:28:35.100 –> 00:28:40.380
to him too much. Um, I do listen to Stern. I like Stern a lot. Um, not as, I mean, he’s
00:28:40.380 –> 00:28:47.900
on my morning show. I listened to, uh, Mark Levin. I like his show. I do learn to get,
00:28:47.900 –> 00:28:51.580
I used to listen to Gavin McGinnis, but now the show is all behind the paywall, but he,
00:28:51.580 –> 00:28:57.500
I do listen to sometimes get off my lawn, which is on serious. Um, I don’t listen. There’s
00:28:57.500 –> 00:29:01.740
a lot, you know, there’s a triumph, there’s a good triumph channel. Glenn Beck is on there
00:29:01.740 –> 00:29:06.700
too. I don’t listen to him that much, but mostly Megan Kelly, but, um, and some called
00:29:06.700 –> 00:29:12.100
triumph. Uh, Dave Ramsey’s on triumph too. They’ve serious XM. I believe it’s channel
00:29:12.100 –> 00:29:19.260
111, but, um, triumph, it’s a great channel on satellite. It’s only on satellite, but
00:29:19.260 –> 00:29:25.500
a lot of good people on there. Megan Kelly, like I said, Glenn Beck, uh, Dave Ramsey,
00:29:25.500 –> 00:29:29.540
which I’m not, I don’t listen to him that much, but do listen to him once in a while.
00:29:29.540 –> 00:29:34.820
And Mark Levin, a lot of great people on that channel. I really like it. And that’s kind
00:29:34.820 –> 00:29:38.460
of what I’ve been listening to. I don’t listen to Rogan and those guys as much as I used
00:29:38.460 –> 00:29:43.700
to. Um, just because I don’t know, I’m just, his show isn’t what it used to be. And another
00:29:43.700 –> 00:29:49.620
thing too is, um, I like, I like those shows that are a little more, you know, down the,
00:29:49.620 –> 00:29:55.100
down the middle a little bit more, uh, you know, Levin is, is a little more down the
00:29:55.100 –> 00:30:00.740
middle. Kelly’s a little more down the middle. Uh, you know, there’s not as, you know, and
00:30:00.740 –> 00:30:05.300
then, you know, it’s a little more, I like that channel a little more than the Fox news
00:30:05.300 –> 00:30:10.020
radio channel, which used to be very good. I used to listen to not so much Fox news,
00:30:10.020 –> 00:30:16.780
but Fox news, the Fox news radio. Um, it’s like a, it was like a, it was Fox, then it
00:30:16.780 –> 00:30:21.160
went to just politics, um, which is, which is one 25 on Sirius, which is a really good
00:30:21.160 –> 00:30:27.380
channel too. I like that. But, um, I don’t like Hannity, but, but you staff, um, well,
00:30:27.380 –> 00:30:34.280
Levin used to be on there and then used to have, um, uh, coast to coast, I am on there.
00:30:34.280 –> 00:30:38.380
I still like coast. I still listen to coast when I’m, I don’t listen as much as I used
00:30:38.380 –> 00:30:42.180
to, but I do listen to it once in a while. I still like it. Um, I like, I like Nori’s
00:30:42.180 –> 00:30:46.260
take on some of the politics of that. I like the less shows that are more down the middle
00:30:46.260 –> 00:30:49.900
that kind of talk about both sides. It just because I think that’s what we need in this
00:30:49.900 –> 00:30:54.620
country right now. You need to hear both sides of any good argument, um, to really make a
00:30:54.620 –> 00:30:59.620
decision, you know, an informed decision. Um, also to one of the other things we’re
00:30:59.620 –> 00:31:05.260
talking about, talking about Twitter, I want to get back to something a little bit interesting.
00:31:05.260 –> 00:31:12.700
I found a hypocritical, hip, hip, uh, yeah, hypocritical in this. Um, they were, uh, interesting.
00:31:12.700 –> 00:31:17.820
They, people were saying that they’re leaving Twitter because of Elon Musk and brand safety.
00:31:17.820 –> 00:31:21.340
I mean, they’re saying they need to protect their brand. People like Nike and stuff like
00:31:21.340 –> 00:31:28.060
that. We need to protect our brand, protect our brand. Okay. You’re, you’re protecting
00:31:28.060 –> 00:31:35.100
your brand because of getting off Twitter because of Elon Musk. But you were on Twitter
00:31:35.100 –> 00:31:40.300
before. Oh, well Twitter is going to be too, Twitter is going to be just crazy. I’m moderating
00:31:40.300 –> 00:31:47.700
that. Right. But okay. But Twitter has always allowed porn. Twitter has always allowed,
00:31:47.700 –> 00:31:55.300
um, certain things on the platform, even before Musk, you know, people are like, oh, there’s
00:31:55.300 –> 00:32:00.380
going to be too much right wing talk. Well, there was right wing stuff on there before,
00:32:00.380 –> 00:32:06.900
along with the porn and all that stuff. It’s like, like, like I don’t understand, you know,
00:32:06.900 –> 00:32:13.900
there’s always been, you know, he hasn’t changed the rules that much. Um, you know, there’s
00:32:13.900 –> 00:32:18.900
always been, there’s always been, I think people are just noticing that there’s like
00:32:18.900 –> 00:32:22.820
people like, well, there’s adult content on there now. There’s always been adult content
00:32:22.820 –> 00:32:29.540
on there. There’s always been an issue with people, things that people have said on there.
00:32:29.540 –> 00:32:34.180
There’s always been people attacking other people on Twitter. I mean, Twitter has always
00:32:34.180 –> 00:32:39.020
been this. It’s not something new just because Musk took it over. It has been that way for
00:32:39.020 –> 00:32:47.140
years. Um, I just, I don’t understand him buying it. He didn’t change any of that stuff
00:32:47.140 –> 00:32:52.740
at all. It’s always been that way. Um, I mean, do I think the reinstating of certain accounts
00:32:52.740 –> 00:32:58.820
is an, you know, I mean, we played Ben Kanye again this week, but that was even, even he’s
00:32:58.820 –> 00:33:04.700
a little too extreme for Elon, but, um, you know, there’s always been, you know, people
00:33:04.700 –> 00:33:08.300
say, oh, there’s, there’s people are attacking other people on Twitter now that Elon, no
00:33:08.300 –> 00:33:12.860
people always attacked other people on Twitter. Okay. That’s nothing new. There’s always been
00:33:12.860 –> 00:33:16.820
porn on there. There’s always been adult content on there. There’s all, all that stuff has
00:33:16.820 –> 00:33:21.360
always been there. It just hasn’t been in maybe brought to light as much now. And now
00:33:21.360 –> 00:33:25.380
that Elon owns it, there’s always been bots on there. There’s always been trolls on there.
00:33:25.380 –> 00:33:29.220
I mean, but, but, you know, and I hate to, you know, I hate to bring it up, but you know,
00:33:29.220 –> 00:33:33.180
being somebody who’s been in a program for most of my life when I used to, you know,
00:33:33.180 –> 00:33:38.500
even before social media on, on any of these message boards or what they call the mail
00:33:38.500 –> 00:33:42.820
groups or any of this stuff back in the late nineties, some of that, or even the AOL chat
00:33:42.820 –> 00:33:48.920
rooms, there was always these problems with, with any kind of media when it came to chat
00:33:48.920 –> 00:33:54.200
rooms, they, well, when it came to news groups, when it came to mailings, when it came to
00:33:54.200 –> 00:33:57.660
all this stuff, there was, there was always this problem. And he, ever since the internet
00:33:57.660 –> 00:34:01.300
weam online, there’s been issues with the way people talk to each other, people treat
00:34:01.300 –> 00:34:09.940
each other, the content that’s up there. This is nothing new. It really isn’t. I don’t understand
00:34:09.940 –> 00:34:14.980
to a certain degree, maybe now it’s more amplified because of social media or maybe more brought
00:34:14.980 –> 00:34:20.340
in the limelight now because politicians are up in arms about it, but there has always
00:34:20.340 –> 00:34:29.300
been a problem with, with news groups. I mean, Usenet, I mean, back in the day AOL chat rooms,
00:34:29.300 –> 00:34:37.700
forums, there’s always been a problem with, with being people attacking or things people
00:34:37.700 –> 00:34:44.620
said or things people do online trolling people, attacking people, spamming people. Like I
00:34:44.620 –> 00:34:53.580
said, it, this is nothing new. It’s just now being more publicized, more brought to light
00:34:53.580 –> 00:35:01.620
because of politicians. I don’t know what else. I don’t know how else to explain it.
00:35:01.620 –> 00:35:10.140
It’s not new. It’s nothing. It’s not, what is going on is not new. It is just more brought
00:35:10.140 –> 00:35:20.700
into light now. And I think it’s, it’s really a shame that this stuff happens online since
00:35:20.700 –> 00:35:24.820
the internet can be such a powerful tool, but I don’t think it’s going to change anytime
00:35:24.820 –> 00:35:32.020
soon. And I think that, you know, the politicians can scream about it all they want and people
00:35:32.020 –> 00:35:37.340
can yell about, you know, free speech all they want. There’s still limits to everything.
00:35:37.340 –> 00:35:41.100
And I don’t think, unfortunately I don’t think Elon’s going to change it by owning Twitter.
00:35:41.100 –> 00:35:45.220
I think he can try, but I don’t think, I just think it’s, these problems have been on since
00:35:45.220 –> 00:35:51.180
the dawn of the internet and I don’t think they’re going to change overnight if at all.
00:35:51.180 –> 00:35:57.620
But one thing I do want to say though, that is important to me when it comes to people
00:35:57.620 –> 00:36:03.100
talking about communicating with other people and people talking about people seeing their,
00:36:03.100 –> 00:36:07.900
about just, just all the stuff, you know, people reading other people’s messages and
00:36:07.900 –> 00:36:14.300
all that kind of stuff. If you want to communicate to anybody in, in, in not a public manner
00:36:14.300 –> 00:36:18.420
and you want it to be secure and nobody’s going to see it, read it and be able to throw
00:36:18.420 –> 00:36:25.140
it in your face. Signal is a great app for that. That’s on Android and Twitter. It’s
00:36:25.140 –> 00:36:29.380
secure. Android hidden iPhone. It’s secure. It’s not like Twitter. When you message somebody,
00:36:29.380 –> 00:36:37.300
it is end to end encrypted. iMessage on the iPhone is secure and end encrypted. There’s
00:36:37.300 –> 00:36:43.360
a security, people don’t know this, secure email. Like when you send things and Google
00:36:43.360 –> 00:36:48.160
does read your emails. I mean that, that is fact. They read email headers and all that
00:36:48.160 –> 00:36:54.940
kind of stuff. Email is, you know, for the free gmail.com accounts are not, you know,
00:36:54.940 –> 00:36:58.900
be book, you know, Google can still see that stuff. There’s the headers. So there’s a Terra
00:36:58.900 –> 00:37:05.260
Nota, which is a, a big, it’s an encrypted email service. Your Google drive, your Google
00:37:05.260 –> 00:37:11.380
files is mega. Somebody here wrote in, wrote into me the other day asking about WhatsApp.
00:37:11.380 –> 00:37:15.000
Apparently WhatsApp has, ever since Facebook bought it, it’s not as secure as it used to
00:37:15.000 –> 00:37:19.520
be. It is end to end encrypted. But they’ve been having their issues with getting hacked
00:37:19.520 –> 00:37:24.760
and all that. I don’t think WhatsApp is secure as it should be. I would stay away from that
00:37:24.760 –> 00:37:31.780
one. The one I tell people to go with is either Signal, which is 100% secure and it’s ran
00:37:31.780 –> 00:37:38.140
by the guys that used to run WhatsApp. Like I said, or what Signal is the one I tell people
00:37:38.140 –> 00:37:45.380
to go with. Mega is one I tell people to go with for end to end encryption. iMessage is
00:37:45.380 –> 00:37:52.440
very secure. Anything like Facebook Messenger or anything like that, any private messengers
00:37:52.440 –> 00:37:57.520
on Mastodon, on Twitter, just because they’re private, they can be read by the people that
00:37:57.520 –> 00:38:01.040
run the servers. Those are not secure. Cause I know a lot of people have been upset about
00:38:01.040 –> 00:38:04.400
that, saying that, well I private messaged somebody on Twitter and somehow somebody found
00:38:04.400 –> 00:38:09.980
out about it. Well yeah, because if people can still read it. Like I said, I would stay
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away from WhatsApp. I like WhatsApp, but I don’t trust their end to end security as much
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as I used to. Especially with the recent hack in the last couple of weeks. Like I said,
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Signal, if you’re worried about your email, don’t use that gmail.com or at outlook.com.
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Use something like ProtonMail or Terranota. That’s a securely encrypted email service
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that they can’t even see your messages. Like I said, Mega for cloud storage. There are
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a lot of things you can use that are encrypted. They’re not necessarily the cheapest, they’re
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not exactly free. But if you’re worried about Google Drive or Dropbox, they’re not 100%.
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They’re end to end encrypted, but when they’re on the server, they can read them. Google
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Drive, Google can see what’s in your drive. Dropbox, you’ve seen your drive. Something
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like Mega or something like Spider Oak. All those are good for secure encrypted messages.
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That like I said, even the people running the servers can’t read. That’s what I usually
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recommend. PGP email, something called Mailvelope, which you can send encrypted email from people
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to people. There’s a lot of good things. Like I said, a lot of people are worried about
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privacy, especially people nowadays that are… I think especially more than anything, journalists,
00:39:36.220 –> 00:39:41.740
people that work with whistleblowers, people that necessarily… I think encryption and
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privacy is a basic right that we all should have in this country. But unfortunately, especially
00:39:48.480 –> 00:39:53.360
people like politicians… Not politicians, should be using encrypted messages. Anybody
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who’s working, any journalists that are working on stories that need to secure their stuff
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should be using encryption. There’s so many people that should be using encryption, but
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they don’t. But especially journalists, politicians, anybody with trade secrets, all that kind
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of stuff should be securely stored and working with people should be… Something like Discord
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or Slack are not secured. I mean, yes, they’re secured, but they’re not end to end encrypted.
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People can read them. Any of that stuff is just not safe, so you shouldn’t be using it.
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That’s just… Unfortunately, that’s just the way things are in the world. Privacy is
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a basic human right. And unfortunately, it’s one of those things where it’s just… Unfortunately,
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in this day and age, there’s just a lot of people… The government doesn’t want you
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to use encryption. They don’t want you to use those things because, hey, they want you…
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They want to be able to read your messages. How is the CIA and FBI going to read your
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messages, right? But I will say this. If you’re going to store anything up in iCloud, be very
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careful with iCloud. I know Apple touts security, but Apple just came out a couple of years
00:41:04.060 –> 00:41:09.100
ago and said, “Hey, you know the backups on iCloud are not encrypted.” And somebody said,
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“Well, why can’t we?” And they had said, “Well, the FBI asked us not to.” So just so you know,
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if you are storing a copy of your phone in the cloud, it’s not secure, just so you know
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that. Apple or any of your contacts, all that stuff, well, Apple touts security and things
00:41:24.260 –> 00:41:29.700
are very secure at Apple, especially with two-factor authentication. There are certain
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things that Apple doesn’t tell you, and that is one of them that, hey, guess what? Your
00:41:36.200 –> 00:41:43.200
stuff, especially your iCloud backups and your iPhone cloud backups are not 100% secure,
00:41:43.200 –> 00:41:50.740
just so you know that Apple was going to encrypt them. The only way to encrypt your phone backup
00:41:50.740 –> 00:41:57.300
is to actually plug your phone into your computer and fire up iTunes and say, “Back up your
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phone.” It will say, “There’s a check box that says, ‘Would you like to encrypt these
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backups?'” Yes, and it will do it. If not, it’s stored on your computer, by the way,
00:42:06.660 –> 00:42:13.660
too, unencrypted. People don’t know that. But yeah, that’s what I’m saying. It’s unbelievable.
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These are the things that nobody tells you that only people like me that are in the industry
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can tell you, and that’s the scary part about it. People say to me all the time, “Well,
00:42:28.380 –> 00:42:35.380
I’m using Dropbox. That’s secure.” Well, it is secure, but it’s not HIPAA compliant. Someone’s
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like, “What do you mean? It’s HIPAA compliant.” No, no, no. The personal Dropbox is not HIPAA
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compliant. The business one is, but the personal one is not. People don’t have to like, “Well,
00:42:47.620 –> 00:42:53.100
I use the professional version of Dropbox, so it’s secure.” Okay, but the professional
00:42:53.100 –> 00:42:59.460
version is only the business version. You can have the professional one, you can have
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the professional paid, all that, but that’s not HIPAA compliant. The same thing with Google.
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Google touts security. Google touts privacy. But look at Google’s policy when it comes
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to storing your data, and only their G Suite is HIPAA compliant, not any of their Google
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Drive ones. Just like with the way Google has been caught for many, many … This is
00:43:25.940 –> 00:43:31.220
something else people don’t realize too, is Google especially, definitely without a doubt,
00:43:31.220 –> 00:43:36.340
it’s gotten their hands caught in the cookie jar a few times. Think about this. Google
00:43:36.340 –> 00:43:40.960
sells you the … I mean, we all know that stuff like Amazon Echo and all those things
00:43:40.960 –> 00:43:46.960
are listening. That’s kind of old news, but prime example, Google sells the Google router,
00:43:46.960 –> 00:43:53.960
Google says that they do collect the data, but only for research purposes. Yeah, okay.
00:43:53.960 –> 00:44:00.680
Same thing with the Google Wi-Fi mesh network. Don’t tell me that Google’s not collecting
00:44:00.680 –> 00:44:07.680
that data and sending it back. Maybe for research, but they’re still collecting data on you.
00:44:07.680 –> 00:44:16.520
The same thing goes for the Google VPN that they just released on their website. They
00:44:16.520 –> 00:44:21.960
just released on their phone saying, “Everybody that buys the Pixel gets a free VPN.” Yeah.
00:44:21.960 –> 00:44:27.360
Well, Google’s admitted a few times that when the VPN is on, they’re still looking at your
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data. I’m just picking on Google, but there’s been issues for years with this kind of stuff.
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It’s just unbelievable. Same thing. And the same thing goes with … Now, the people talk
00:44:46.200 –> 00:44:51.000
about these password managers, like LastPass and LastPass should know the security breach,
00:44:51.000 –> 00:44:56.520
but apparently, the way they handle the password encryption has still been secure. I wouldn’t
00:44:56.520 –> 00:45:02.240
say don’t go crazy yet, but they do things a little bit differently in the sense of the
00:45:02.240 –> 00:45:08.320
way they code the blob and the way they do those things. It is a little bit different.
00:45:08.320 –> 00:45:15.320
I wouldn’t panic just yet, but that’s a prime example of … There’s been issues over the
00:45:15.400 –> 00:45:19.720
years with them, but they’ve been able to keep the security pretty tight. But there
00:45:19.720 –> 00:45:25.240
again, another company that … There’s a security company. And the same thing with
00:45:25.240 –> 00:45:31.720
any of those remote desktop companies, like Anydesk or Cisco. Well, Cisco doesn’t have
00:45:31.720 –> 00:45:38.720
a free version anymore, but Anydesk or TeamViewer, those sharing are secure, but when you get
00:45:39.920 –> 00:45:46.920
the pro version, they’re more secure. You got to watch, because some of these companies,
00:45:46.920 –> 00:45:53.520
they give you something, but then the pay version is where the more … You got to watch,
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because it’s not … Just because it’s free doesn’t mean it’s always secure. Or sometimes
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if it is secure, it’s more secure if you get the pay version. They’re very tricky with
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the wording in these kinds of things, which is why you have to be so, so careful with
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these companies. And if you do have any questions, like I said, I do my main job is security
00:46:11.840 –> 00:46:19.200
programming, stuff like that. So you feel free to go to survivalistpodcast.org, and
00:46:19.200 –> 00:46:24.160
my email’s right there. Also to our Mastodon link, you can feel free if you guys have any
00:46:24.160 –> 00:46:30.400
questions to jump in the community or to reach out to me on a Mastodon or anything like that,
00:46:30.400 –> 00:46:33.960
and I can answer any questions you have. Tell me you’re a podcast listener. I’m sure I’ll
00:46:33.960 –> 00:46:39.800
be thrilled to help you. But like I said, like I said, I think I’m going to go ahead
00:46:39.800 –> 00:46:45.800
and I might wrap it up a little bit less than normal, but it’s about 45, 46 minutes. Like
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I said, I’m glad I’m able to … Now that I have this new device, I’m able to kind of
00:46:49.840 –> 00:46:55.520
do the podcast on the go, which makes me really, really happy. Forgive me if the audio quality
00:46:55.520 –> 00:47:01.440
isn’t exactly as good as it usually is. My home rig, like I said, I’m using a Heil microphone
00:47:01.440 –> 00:47:07.500
and a premium mixer. Anyway, my microphone alone at home is a couple hundred dollars.
00:47:07.500 –> 00:47:12.800
It’s a pro mic. It’s actually a pro microphone. If you watch some of the shows on Sirius,
00:47:12.800 –> 00:47:19.800
they actually use Heil mics. Twitch uses Heil microphones, and they use Heil mixers, and
00:47:19.800 –> 00:47:25.520
we do it pro audio stuff, and I love it. It’s so great. I’m so happy. I’m grateful I’m able
00:47:25.520 –> 00:47:29.600
to afford it and have it. But unfortunately, sometimes I do, especially with my busy schedule,
00:47:29.600 –> 00:47:33.120
because next month and a half it’s going to be very busy for me. I’m glad I’m able to
00:47:33.120 –> 00:47:37.600
have this recorder so I can do the show on the go and get it out there for you guys,
00:47:37.600 –> 00:47:43.320
because I do enjoy talking to you guys. This is great too, because the podcast for me is
00:47:43.320 –> 00:47:48.320
almost like therapy in the sense of I’m able to watch the news and stuff, and throw ideas
00:47:48.320 –> 00:47:54.600
out to you guys, and you guys are always great with getting back to me on the shows. I get
00:47:54.600 –> 00:47:58.680
a lot of feedback on the shows, and it’s really cool, and I get a lot of good ideas for other
00:47:58.680 –> 00:48:05.680
shows. So I want to thank everybody for listening, and we will see you on the next episode. Thank
00:48:05.680 –> 00:48:06.960
you very much.
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