They Don't Need A Warrant Anymore | Negligent Discharge Friday | 9.18.2026
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Michael shares a mix of personal and societal updates, beginning with his jujitsu journey where he now holds a new belt but remains aware of his limited mastery, citing the Dunning-Kruger effect as a key insight into how expertise grows alongside self-perception. He outlines his academic path: earning a bachelor’s degree at MSU in Bozeman, followed by a physical therapy program, with a potential semester abroad in Japan to pursue a Japanese minor in history, culture, and language. A central theme is the increasing threat of government surveillance, with revelations that the Department of Homeland Security and other agencies collect, analyze, and sell personal financial and behavioral data—often through third-party data brokers—bypassing constitutional protections. This creates a growing surveillance state, with Michael warning that privacy is increasingly unattainable in a world where cell phone data, social media, and financial habits are tracked. He emphasizes that while the full scale of this is not yet visible, its cumulative effect is deeply concerning. The conversation also touches on micro-issues like a viral video of a man on a plane biting others and being duct-taped, which illustrates public outrage against violent behavior, and ends with a positive note: the successful recovery of 163 missing children in Florida during Operation Statewide Shield. Amid these serious topics, Michael balances humor and reflection, noting that even small habits—like playing Pokémon—can be part of a fulfilling life, though he acknowledges the cultural and personal tensions around such choices in adulthood. The overarching message is one of caution: society is building a surveillance infrastructure that threatens individual autonomy, and personal responsibility in navigating digital and civic life is more critical than ever.
We are now going just for the record you promised some positivity yeah here I have some okay also let's bring the world up to speed on current life developments for Michael who got a new belt in jujitsu I mean that would be you dipshit don't pretend like you don't know who I'm talking about no I mean I did but it's like yeah whatever you know there are from what I've been told real belts in sympathy belts my was a sympathy belt I didn't say that I might have heard a lot of other people say that no I'm just fucked up but I figured they were just felt bad for me yeah I felt terrible because I couldn't roll like I actually wanted to do the Iron Man but you'll still get to do one I mean the worst thing that could have happened was you go in and you do roll you further injure your shoulder exactly and then you get to take a nice 12 to 18 months off like it's surgically repaired and nobody nobody wants that so yeah no it's definitely a smart thing to do but I just yeah was was do you feel like you have a mastery of jujitsu now that you're want to build away from black belt no I feel like I mean I feel like I not not that I know less but I just know that the gap is so large now what do you know what gap just the gap of what I don't know but what is it called Dunning Krueger yes like I realized that I mean you know when you first start off you're like okay I think I get in the hang of this and then the further you get along the more you realize how much you don't know I realize my life is the Dunning Krueger effect yeah I mean overconfidence and then what is it called the peak of confidence what does Evan say confidently incorrect yeah yeah but yeah that's how I feel about jujitsu currently I still love it but I'm just like man there's so much to know yeah what else so you applied for and got accepted to your program yes not PT specifically but for just for college which really wasn't that they accept everybody so it's like not huh well because the PT program is separate and I still have to do my undergrad before I do that does that mean your bachelor's yeah okay I went to about zero seconds to college so yeah I mean same here besides community college which I don't really count but so you'll have to go you're gonna go to MSU is in Boseman UM UM yep which one's the Bobcats I should know this Bob Boseman okay and then what's UM Gris Gris is more dangerous than a Bobcat I think they are however in football at least MSU has been really good okay have it's been beaten the Gris however I will say in rugby it's not that way UM absolutely demolish the Bobcats okay so you'll have to go get your bachelors that will take three years two years I'm hoping two and a half but honestly I'm not too worried about timing I'm just gonna go and do it and however long it takes that's how long it takes and then your PT program on top of that you were saying was a doctorate program I mean technically yes it's a doctor of physical therapy but it's not like an MD which would be like eight years so it's only three years maybe you can get an honorary doctorate like many people do what's an honorary doctorate I think they just give you a certificate because you donated a tremendous amount of money or you're a person of stature a person of great stature right and I swear I've seen people cruising around who have received honorary doctorates demanding that they be called by doctor oh my god it's like a doctor of what bullshit essentially yes if you ever achieved the title of doctor I would never say it to your face well I would make you how I don't know your weed I would just not respond unless you called me Dr. Shelton I would go like I told you at the Iron Man it would be more like the hangover when they were sitting in the car paging Dr. Fagget yeah their words not mine great see yeah it was a great scene oh I should probably go you probably should go Dr. Fagget how woman played that was so funny she plays that role so well yeah okay yeah and then possibly semester abroad in Japan but still figuring that out okay this would be during your undergraduate how this shows you little I know you would do that just because you like Japan just because I want to do a semester abroad yeah how did you learn in Japan well I want to shoot for a Japanese minor and so if I do a semester abroad that covers a bunch of classes but hold on what does that mean a Japanese like in history of Japan would we talk about just like a general so it covers language history and culture okay and so I was like man I mean if I'm going to learn Japanese yeah I mean those are the classes and so I'm definitely going to take the classes whether or not I learn anything will be a different different conversation but we can count to ten to in Japanese it's not a big deal we don't have to celebrate it I can only get to three you stop it's on yeah she go this is the next two four five wow there you go cool I'll get there I have a lot of really I don't know if you know this she is eight he she he she needs she no don't go she she hot yeah kuju yeah because of octopuses I think hot she first off first off it's not octopuses it's octopi actually I don't think that's true does it matter no it sounds first off but first off if you want to say the word octopuses in this room you go ahead I don't think I did I said octopus singular I did how much do you want to bet I will send you the clip oh here okay here's why you thought I said it because I said octopus is hotgy and so it sounds like I said octopuses because that's what you said no that's not what I said I said octopus what space what's plural of octopus octopuses what's plural of moose it's not me's unfortunately I think it's a me sees yeah all right but okay I have one bad news oh yeah we got off we got off okay hold on I asked for some god damn uplifting information I do okay I do except I'm we have to start off with the cough syrup and then we do yes okay because on the rest will be fun I am prepared okay what do you have all right department of security has been revealed to analyze Americans financial data though rather than excluding maybe visual rest certain units have used information to flake citizens pull this up so everybody can see it stops by local law enforcement pull this up here first off how shocked are you the department of homeland security is revealed that they analyze Americans not shocked exactly at all which is a problem by the way issue it doesn't surprise me okay DHS has been has been revealed to analyze America okay but how hold on rather though rather than excuse me federalist certain units have used information for like this for pretextual traffic sauce okay predictive policing oh man yeah it's not you see okay there's a dumb question I haven't by no exactly minority report yes okay how have you not you know about it but you haven't seen it what do you do with your time other than fish for trouser trout which we discussed last time I don't I just don't watch movies any I mean occasionally and when you watch the dog slash plural now because beans beans yeah he's awesome by the way yeah he is cool I like beans yeah he has a personality he's been going after hobby hobby is uncertain as to whether like that's so awesome actually now I pick up hobby now and it's like are you a great Dean how did you get so large yes oh my he's like a champion wean what the fuck is I talking about okay so my order report yeah but when you wean sit for us primes on like I can see the that you've watched stuff so you have time watch like king of the hill or is that a cartoon uh yeah I don't want to talk to you for the next few minutes okay the hill is amazing stop it okay listen out predictive policing within the u.s. board of patrol operating is an operating in sectors like Spokane Washington and Laredo Texas this program reviews the financial habits spending patterns and travel routes of u.s. is okay how though keyword transaction filtering a house judiciary committee report revealed that federal law enforcement agencies including the FBI and Treasury Department's Fin Sen which I'm going to assume means financial center previously collaborative with major banks god damn it and that's exactly how they do it this is the problem with having third parties aggregating personal information there's no fourth amendment protection in this shit because they just go out and they buy it they use keyword filters to flag trans transaction terms like mega or trump first off yeah what I haven't done a tremendous amount of banking in my life yeah but I am in the banking that I do participate in it's usually transferring money from one place to another yeah maybe there's [BLANK_AUDIO]
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Educate yourself on the requirements of perhaps your profession or social choices, and make sure you make a good decision back to the show. I mean, what would be the argument now that we're not in a surveillance state? We are. So I'm saying, if you had to steal man the other side of this and say, no, we're still good, and we're not in a surveillance state, what would you point at? Cell phone records, forget about it. Tracking you via cell phone, you've already pulled up how, you know, Wi-Fi routers can almost, at this point, you know, it's called a radar or sonar. Financial data, social media data, again, aggregated by third parties that are then purchased by investigatory agencies, circumventing the fourth amendment rights, vehicle data for sure. Yep. I don't know how I would steal man the other side and say that we are not in a surveillance state. Have you heard of, let's see, turn key totalitarianism? No. So like the definition is basically, we have all the separate pillars in place for a complete surveillance state. All that needs to happen is for one person or one entity to come in and connect everything. Turn the key. And then it's there. We have a complete surveillance state. And right now, fortunately, like a lot of these are still disconnected and disjointed. Are they really officially yes? But what happens when somebody comes in and says, okay, we're going to aggregate all of this data from every single point where a data point can be captured on somebody. And now everything you do is monitored. I mean, what opportunity does a civilian have in this type of ecosystem? Are you going to go back to carrier pigeons? Are you going to go back to the storage? I mean, what do you do? I mean, you would essentially have to live in the woods. And then even that is questionable because of how good satellite imagery is. Yeah, but satellite imagery is generally just pictures. You've watched a few too many movies. You're not really tracking people moving by satellites. Right, but even still, like you cannot have complete privacy. What if you live in a cave? A cave could work. You still have to come out of the cave eventually. Says who? I don't know. It's called a door-dash, dude. Right? Stay in that cave forever. But I guess my point, your toilet paper. Yes, my point is, like, what can you do for complete privacy? Like, I don't see there are a lot of options left. Nobody's going to have a problem with these systems and until it is weaponized against their particular, one of their particular core beliefs. And what'd you call it, turn keto, talitarianism? I believe that's the thing. If that swishes thrown, I don't know how you ever get that turned off. Well, no. And I mean, like, the government is not any government. I'm not just saying the American government. Once they have, like, a privilege or a power, they're not going to give it back. Why don't people seem to care about this? Because I believe it's because it doesn't affect their daily life. Is this one of the arguments or reasonings that people use for digital currencies that are outside of banks? Like, other than fiat currencies? Because yes, I mean, I know enough about Bitcoin to understand that the transactions are there, but they're like, they're just millions upon millions upon millions of, you know, what do they call it? The ledger or I have. I have no clue about, I mean, I know. Yeah, I know the word, of course, is escaping me in this moment. But the blockchain, all the transactions stay on the blockchain. Yeah, you'd have to, and I'm sure there are plenty of government agencies and entities or third party, sorry, not the agencies or entities, the third party brokers who have the ability to offer that service as well, but I don't know, maybe that's one of the main arguments for people who want to have a currency that occurs outside of the natural banking system. Yeah, I mean, I don't know like anything about economics or Bitcoin or whatever, but I feel like that could be a good idea, but also, I don't know. I just don't know that if you can fully replace the trust that people haven't fiat currency. And like, I really don't think governments would ever go for it, because that's what essentially keeps the government. One of the main things that the governments would say is we don't like it because we can't regulate it to the degree or look into it like this. Yeah, I don't know, which is why, which is the argument for it. I mean, I'm not a fan. No, it's, and that's the technical definition of turnkey. Turnkey totalitarianism is a political or technical, and technological state in which an all-encompassing infrastructure for master-balance data collection and behavioral control is fully built, waiting only for a leader to turn the key and activate it. Isn't that a pretty good, eh? Yeah, I don't know what we've got going on right now. Yeah. And again, like we've said before, but we built this ourselves. Like, we basically just built our own prison. Yeah. And we're just waiting for somebody to lock it. Well, in the core concepts, the bottom one, shift in power. Privacy advocates argue that once the infrastructure is operational, any future government or administration instantly inherits total power to suppress dissent regardless of political party. Who? Isn't that a little scary? Yeah, yeah, that's incredibly scary. I don't know why we're okay with this. Well, like I said, I think it's a large part because it's not affecting our daily lives. But, and also affecting your daily life until it is, you know, exactly. Like that's like the frog in the boiling pot analogy where you don't know this. Where are we going with this? Oh, as it increases by one year, you don't know this. It's getting hot until you're dead. Really? I mean, has anybody really asked the frog about that? No, maybe. You know, how do we get to know this? Do we give them a 1 to 10 scale to bubble? Diagram fill in, you know? Chance. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, I mean, what's your generation going to do to fix this, Michael? I mean, I don't even know, like, unfortunately, or fortunately, maybe you would need basically a government, some sort of authoritarian, authoritative figure to say, this is enough. Here's a roadblock for all of this. And it's near impossible to take down, but nobody seems to be even interested in, I think one, because we have so many old people in our government, they just don't understand. I'm not even joking you. Like, they just cannot even fathom the risks. I don't want to pick on anybody, but I'm going to have you look something up. Yeah. So Mitch McConnell. I don't exactly know the video you're talking. Please find it.
And then I want somebody in the comments to steal man the argument for me as to why the condition that he is in is fitting for somebody serving in office. And I'm not trying to be a dick. I actually feel horrible for somebody. It's clearly. It's terrible. Yes. Clearly this man is going through it. What it is could be up for debate, not a doctor in case people didn't know. You're talking about the one where he's in the car, right? Recently. I believe this was yesterday. It was I'm trying to find it again. And they basically the person was trying to yell and like give me, you know, give us a thumbs up. Now an argument could be that he didn't hear this or the audio was added afterwards. You know what I mean? Yeah. So I'll throw that out there. Yep. Not allowed to record them as a senator looks increasingly frail with a major dark spot on his hand. That's the way it's this is a close up of a TMZ video showing the McConnell getting in the vehicle essentially motionless and not really responding to folks inside the vehicle. He was then let it's the United States Senate where he was able to vote according to Andrew Desiderio from Punchbowl. He gave remarks briefly outside of the Senate gallery. Reporters were prohibited from recording those remarks, but those that he looked increasingly frail and as he was slow. Reporters were prohibited from recording the remarks of a democratically elected senator. It's insane. I'm trying to find the original video. I don't know if I mean, again, I mean, it's basically him and somebody's yelling at him, hey, show us a thumbs up. And again, I don't know if that audio was added afterwards. But I mean, he it's like he doesn't even register something's happening. No. And honestly, you don't even need to see this video. There's plenty of videos of him vapor locking in public, which you don't need to pull up people concerned because I'm not trying to shit on the guy. I look at that and I see the horrible effects of age. There's coming for all of us, maybe not to that degree. But okay, let's just say my man probably doesn't have a full lap around the track left. What are we doing? Yeah. It's go enjoy whatever it is you have left. We don't have anybody else who we could empower or vote into like maybe it's just a touch younger with a few less medical conditions. Yeah. Fuck. Oh, yeah. And like we brought Mitch McConnell before. And like, again, it's not because we're trying to pick on Mitch McConnell, but it's it's just very representative of how much of a problem having people this old running our country is. How old is Mitch McConnell? Let's guess. Let me look. Well, before you Google it, let's guess. Let me say 91. What? 75. 84. It's a pretty good average, actually. Technically, you won, but you went over, so you lost. True. Okay. What do you have happy wise from the internet? Okay. Yeah. Let's because we can spiral on this. Okay. So this isn't happy. It's funny. It's not like happy. I wouldn't say we shall we shall be the judge was joyful while watching this. Okay. Okay. Have you heard of high rocks? Oh, yeah. And the lady who made national actually global news. Oh my god. Clean up on I old fucking two. Do you want me to show this? Go for it. So you're welcome, everyone. We're just going to play this real quick. First off, do you think she woke up that morning thinking she's this is global news? Yeah. Oh, everybody knows about of all the things that I don't want to make global news for. Shitting my pants with cameras in every possible angle. Yeah. Is pretty high on the list. Yeah. Okay. All right. Ready? I mean, not really. But I rock world record holder Joanna Weichich was banned after losing denial of the ball is during a race. It happened during a high rocks competition in Beijing. Part ways to raise Joanna suddenly developed serious summit problems. Diario was seen running down. Nice. But she did not stop. She kept going through the burpees, rowing and the other shared stations. And that's where the problem started. Because the athletes behind her still had to use the same course enough enough. We're talking about competitive exercise, right? Yes. It's basically it seems like exactly like CrossFit. I don't know what the difference is. Okay. I want people to live the most fulfilling and enriched life possible. I want you to be at the top of the pyramid of whatever it is that you want to do. Climb your way to the top. But if you get to the top and the picture of you is with your own shit running down the back of your legs, I I'm not here to tell people how to party. Some people might be into that. You know, I'm sure there's an urban dictionary term for people who are in to that. Yeah. I'm sure. But that's real gross. Yeah. What the person brought up that it was a relay race and that other people got to travel through that we call the debris that was left behind. That's the part that was because like if you were on your own, nobody had like this is definitely less bad. I still would say this is pretty gross. But when was the last time you share your pants? I was probably seven or eight days. Really? I think I did like two weeks ago. Yeah. Yeah. No. I almost did in Japan actually. You can be careful with the local fare. I know. I don't even know. I didn't even need anything crazy. But I tell you the story about my dad at the lake house. Yeah. Yeah. That's pretty awesome. Would it have been awesome if it was at your lake house? No, but just a imagining the scenario. Yeah. So my dad will hate that I'm telling this story. So here we go. First off, this was retold to me by my sister. I was left out of the communication chain. My dad went to our house to I believe pick up fishing equipment. Now over the 4th of July, we had the Chicago crew out with us. And my dad regaled them with about a 30 minute retelling of this story. And he claims that the reason that he for in the blink of an eye felt nothing coming. And then all of a sudden shit running down the way he described it down my legs and into my socks. It filled my socks is what he said. He said is because well, I had too hot chocolate. Hey, I mean, don't get you. Yeah. So I don't know where he was standing on our property at that point in time. I would like to know so I could get buckets of bleach in a flamethrower and maybe some napalm to clean that up. But he was not alone. He stripped down but naked and had somebody with our outside garden hose treat him like a dog and just every crack in crevice with very, very cold well water. Yeah. Yeah. And then I think he put those clothes back on because I don't think he drove home naked. Yeah. I mean, why would you bring a change of clothes just out your everyday ordinary life? Yeah. So that's the text I got from my sister much shorter than that. Yeah. It was essentially, hey, did you know that dad should his pants at your house, which there are a lot of odd text messages I've got in my life. That's top 10 as subject matters that I wasn't expecting. So it happens. But I don't know why you would keep going. Can you google what they what's the prize for winning high rocks? If it's a million dollars, go shit your pants. Oh, yeah. I would continue. Yeah. I mean, 40,000. Not nothing. There's a large delta between 40,000 and one million dollars. Yeah, but for some people 40,000 is life changing money. 40,000 is a lot of money. I will give you $4,000. If you intentionally shit your pants and let me put it all over the internet of you just standing there. No. Okay. Why not? Because it's not fucking worth it. Yeah, no. No. No, not for $4,000. Okay. But for 40, listen, I don't even 40. I'd be like, uh, live your life however you want to. That is, like I said, of all the reasons why somebody, I mean, they are talking about this. This has been now translated into a variety of foreign languages on foreign news services. There's a lot of things you could be known for. Unfortunately, is that the one right? Because the high rocks aspect of this will be left out of it. Maybe people can associate the two, but that's not the subject matter of what people are discussing. Yeah. Mm.
Mm-hmm. So anyways, on what direction the wind was blowing. I actually would it be better if it was indoors? No, I think outdoors would be better. No, it would be better if it didn't happen. True. Okay. I am glad you think this falls into the positive news category. What else do you have for us today? That sucks. Okay, so this, I think this is pretty positive. Okay, just a quick one. Apple has a way if you take a picture with their phone. Oh, yeah. It has a way to prove that's not AI basically. Oh, interesting. Yeah. Apple created a feature called Apple reference image on the iPhone 18 Pro to prove a photo is real and untampered by artificial intelligence. Okay, how does this work? Pixel level signing. When you shoot in the new opt-in reference mode. See, I'm already out liking this because I feel like this is just another way for them to get, so we had Bill Thompson on yesterday. Yeah, that episode won't be out for a long time. Bill is very, I found the conversation where we were talking about AI. Uh-huh. The, what did he call it? It was original output versus original thought. What was the term that he used though? It wasn't original. Do you listen to anything that happens on these episodes? I look over there and you're fucking drawing pictures, which I'm fine with, by the way. I do. No, I do listen. Yeah. Sometimes novel thought and novel output. Okay. AI, artificial general intelligence. Remember, he was talking about it would have novel thought. The novel outputs that it's putting out are just based off of the reference data that it has, right? And maybe it's looking at it or comparing things. Remember, you don't remember any of this. Do you? No. I remember him hearing, remember hearing him say those words, but I, what were you doing at the time? I don't know, honestly. I mean, maybe looking at this, but not paying attention, maybe drawing. Because sometimes I do zone out, but I'm still switching. Are you? Yes. What exactly do I pay you to do? Oh, that's a really good question. Yeah. I mean, I could stuff a scarecrow over there that would remember more of this conversation. We literally had less than 24 hours ago. And also, I'm just so tired of hearing about AI. I think I just kind of zone it out. Yeah, but if you were listening yesterday, he was explaining at least in his thought process on why all the sudden there's this uproar and upheaval about AGI being on the precipice and it has nothing to do with it actually being on the precipice. It's because, well, actually, I do remember that part. It's because, or I remember the part where he was talking about the tech CEOs urging the slowdown, you know, why? Because not because something crazy is going to happen, but because nobody's basically buying AI. And so they need a reason to say, oh, this is why we're not doing well. Why do I pay you? That's what he said. It is not. It's not that nobody's buying AI. It's not exactly what he said, but it's not even close to what he said. It's that they're not like actually doing as well as they that they're representing. Pick and choose your narrative. First, it was people are not buying AI. Now it's, it's not doing as well, which that's like almost the same thing. Anyways, sorry, we can keep going. You discussed me. No, his theory being that they had been promising artificial general intelligence and then it's been right right on the edge and the cusp for going on somewhere between five to ten years. And the reality is we're nowhere near that close, but they're getting a tremendous amount of pressure from their investors. And rather than admit that we're way farther away than we are, the easier move is to get the government involved to artificially slow it down. And then you could sit there and, you know, you become suckling off the government's tit for the next 10, 20 years. And also you can point to your investors and say, well, what choice do we have? We were forced to slow down. In that conversation, though, he was talking about current AI, which we have, which will give you a novel output, but it's based off of the data set that it's trained upon. And his example was talking about whether or not Newton actually saw an apple fall, right? And extrapolated the theory of gravity associated with that and Einstein's E equals MC squares and the combination of those two things, AI, the current model that we have will reference those because it's in its data set. But absent those being in the data set, it would never come up with those because that's a novel thought. Yeah. Right. So that's the difference between, again, I'm repeating shit that I barely understand at a surface level. The novel outputs that we're getting right now is the level of AG or AI that we're at, right? It's with the LLMs and stuff like that. True artificial general intelligence would give you a novel thought, which it's just not capable of doing. Right. So, but so this is the reason I'm talking about this is when you, you know, this is the warning of people managing their entire life on AI systems. Those companies that we are paying to use their services are actually training their data sets based off of our information. So the more that is given to them via this opt-in, right, you're teaching somebody's model somewhere. So I don't think that this is, I believe this is just marking a photo. And then saying this is a real authentic photo. And maybe they are using it to train an AI model. I don't know. But the good news I thought about this was now you have a way to tell if a photo has been tampered with AI. Yeah. Until a fucking company creates a program that is the next app that's going to come in the app store directly underneath that's want to be like, it'll be the Apple, Apple reference image defeat app. Yeah. I mean, maybe, but sorry, I just thought this was good news. That's, that's all I was saying. But instead, what did we find that you don't pay attention at your job? And the likelihood of you becoming a doctor is really low. Is this going to be your bedside manner? Somebody's going to sit there for 20 minutes and talk to you about what's bothering them and you'll look at them be like, I'm sorry, I wasn't paying attention. Yeah, probably. Yeah. But like you said, your ankle hurt, like no, doc, my, it's not my ankle. It's my neck. Well, that might be, that may be the case. Okay, you own another one. You're due for a performance review. Let me let me see with that guy. You see what I'm saying, though, anytime there's an opt-in or an upload somewhere, given this, and here's the thing, we were talking about the surveillance state that we live in. Let's use Instagram. If you don't think that your Instagram photos are being uploaded, cashade, and sold to these third party aggregators. Yeah. That's what I'm saying. So when it's free, you're the commodity. So people love Instagram. And I like Instagram too. It's pictures, it's cool. It's a way to, you know, you can either show your real life or you can show the filtered portion of your life if you wanted to, whatever you want to do. But it's not consequence-free. It's being sold somewhere. It's teaching the model somewhere. And I just don't think that should ever be forgotten. Yeah. Yeah, I agree. I feel like this isn't free, though, because you're still paying for the phone. And this is just a feature in what you paid for. That you paid for the phone. Yeah. So what's your point? Did you order a new one by the way? A new phone. Yeah, they just came out. This is, didn't she use the iPhone 18 Pro? My mind's still fine. Which one are you rocking? You like my dad the 10? I don't know, 17 maybe, 16. What do you think of the, the folding one? I think it's a terrible, terrible idea. What is the purpose of a folding phone? I don't know, but I feel like in a year, the screen's going to be all worn out from where you've been folding it. I think they are actually a little bit on the nose about that and saying from what I've never seen one in person. And one of the videos showed up in YouTube where a guy was doing a review. I'm like, okay, what do you think? They say right from the beginning, you can see the scene. It looks better than a lot of the other phones. Well, that's okay. So I don't think it's ever supposed to be totally invisible, but from my understanding, 100%. I mean, the constant opening and closing, that's just what happens. Well, and then the other thing too is like, if you get anything caught in that, like sand, dirt and you close it, I mean, your screen is like, it's just going to get so beat up. I just don't think it's, I don't know. So yeah, I would never get one. Is it just a novelty? It seems like just a novelty. I don't know if they're, I don't know. I've never seen anybody use one even. Actually, no, I think about it. I know people who have the Android versions of phone phones, I don't see them that often opening them up to utilize the larger screen. 90, I'm actually just about to make up a stat. At least when I'm watching them, maybe occasionally it happens, but it seems like the vast majority of the time, they're doing it on the closed screen. Right. Or whatever is presented. The one that makes it like a just a normal smartphone. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know. I personally would never get one, but ever. What do they say to you? They're like, Michael, we need you to test this out. I thought you might like it because it's compatible with the Apple pencil and you could draw. Oh, yeah. Maybe I've never actually tried drawing like digitally. Do you have an iPad? No. How come? I just don't really need one. If you want to try, it would, maybe you could help with your art. I know you like that. I'll get you one for Christmas if you want. Okay. I mean, I'm not going to say no.
- How did that for sure? - Yeah, and then right in front of you, give it to somebody else who would fuck and pay attention at their job, be piece of shit. - Thank you. - Re-gift. - Re-gift, yes. - Okay, give it to Julia, who would use it as like a frying pan. - Okay, oh, have you seen John the Hill's interview about the Jiu-Jitsu? - I've seen people talking about his interview fire away. - Yeah, okay, it's funny, yeah, I think it's funny. - But let me ask you something. - Yeah, if we got into it, I would keep up. (audience laughing) - Hip-Haso, that part's demonstrably true. That's Jason Bateman, right? - No clue. - Okay, I'm pretty sure he has no clue how to fight at all. And even a two-stripe white belt would probably mess up somebody who doesn't know how to fight at all. So maybe that part might be true, but let's keep going. - Yeah, and that's the best part of my favorite thing is to run. Oh, John the Hill, a bad guy from Super Bowling. - So famous Hollywood actor. - Okay, then the sketch starts talking. That's basically the whole thing. - So he said, I'm not kidding you, try it. If you see me, try it, dude, bring it. Who's got it? (sighs) - Yeah, that's the part I think that work, it's the little-- - What belt is he in Jiu-Jitsu? - I don't know, let me see. - And can we also just be honest? Regardless of what your belt is in Jiu-Jitsu and your ability to fight or two very different things. It's not magic. At a grappling range, if you practice Jiu-Jitsu or any other grappling art to include wrestling, Judo, I don't know what else would be considered grappling, but whatever, you are going to annihilate people who don't train in that. - Yes. - But if you run up against a golden glove boxer, you're gonna wake up in the ambulance with your black belt tied around your arm in face because they're both broken 'cause you got your ass handed to you or a, what's the one where you can kick in, punch kickboxing? Oh, that'd be a good way to describe that in sport. Yeah, that's not gonna be going good. - White belt, probably with a few stripes. - Stop it, you stop it right now. - He is. - Remember when we were talking about the Dunning Kruger curve? - Yes. (laughs) - Yes I do, yes I do. - I just don't know if it's a good idea ever to throw out there, I would fucking annihilate you dude, I'm not kidding you, try it. If you see me, try it dude, bring it, who's got it? Let me tell you, sir, a lot of people have got it. A lot more than you have got it. Man, I don't know, maybe in your mind you get messed up if for a living you pretend to be other things and other people. Maybe that's how he feels, but the reality check on that one is gonna sting. - Yeah, well I also feel like it might be kind of like a white belt thing of like, oh I know some stuff now. - Does he have a submission email for people who would be interested in trying it? Because I would like to throw my name in the hat. - Yeah, I don't think so, but that's the thing is like, even if you come across somebody who is six, three, two-fifty athletic. - Yeah, it's gonna be a handful. No matter what belt you are. - Correct, like, you know, I don't know, I mean it's like, you'll have a better chance for sure if you're trained, but it's still gonna suck. - You're in grappling range. - Yeah. - And you don't get knocked unconscious by taking it to the ground somehow. - Yeah. - Exactly. - The people I know who are the most capable of violence don't speak like that. The people that I know who are the least capable of violence do. And I'm not judging anyone, but I think there's a correlation there. - Yeah, I would agree. I mean, I don't know. I definitely had more, it's so funny. When I first started training, I had more confidence than I do now in my, oh I'd fuck somebody else. - Hence the done in career. - Yes. - You also know now that it hurts. And even winning a fight, you could still get sued. - Yes. - You could get injured, you could crack your own head on the concrete, you could kill by accident. None of those things are worth it. - No. - No, in my opinion, not worth it. - Just walk away. - Just walk away. - All right. Jonah Hill, you live your life however you want to, man. And he might have been getting caught up in the moment here like I get that. - Yeah. - But yeah, there's a lot more people out there, the train buddy in the modern era. So, be cautious what one wishes for. - Especially, yeah, now, tons of people train. And it's like you don't want to roll up on somebody that's been training MMA for 10 years. - Take a look at people's ears, yeah. - Usually pretty good at it. - Yeah, I don't get in a fight with a dude with cauliflower here. As a general rule. - It's gonna be a ride, yeah. - Yeah, or? - Somebody from a stand. - Yeah. - What else you got? - Let's see here. Okay, this one is really funny. We sort of touched on this the answer day. - Today's episode is brought to you by AG1. There is no right time for better health. There's just now. 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Get a free AG1 flavor sampler and AGZ sampler to try all the flavors. Plus free vitamin D3 and K2, and AG1 welcome kit with your first AG1 subscription order. That's drinkag1.com/clearedhot. Drinkag1.com/clearedhot. Back to the show. Yeah, God, I love this. - This is like Saudi SW and you work New Jersey. I have a look in the books of Vineyard. You see at least two people reported to be passengers having to restrain another passenger. Now that's when one person is seen pulling and tearing strips of duct tape. Still photo show a man wrapped in duct tape from his head all the way down to his chest. His hands are also wrapped. - There are not many things that I dislike about this photo. - It is so funny. - People get weird on airplanes. - Yeah, people do. - I don't know if it's an anxiety thing. - I feel like it is. - The confined space, flying through space at time at hundreds of miles of hour, tens of thousands of feet up in the air. - Not being able to get off until you're done. - Yeah. But that's kind of the same as cars and trains and other things, you know? - Sure, but you have control in the car. - If you're a passenger. - True. - But you're on the ground. I feel like it's just a combination of all everything. - Sometimes people get a little boozy. - True. - The altitude affects them a little bit differently. My understanding was that this individual was in a heated multi-hour conversation. I won't say debate, but conversation with their seatmate on some type of religious topic. And then I don't know why. And perhaps everything I just said is untrue. And regardless, at some point, the Rubicon was crossed. And he lost his mind. I did read the reason his head forehead is expertly and adequately taped. I mean, we're talking we have not only supporting tape here, but as somebody who's had their head taped before completely is called a happy hat, where your hands are taped together, then they're taped to your head. There's a very young new guy. - Sounds fine. - Let me tell you, the tape doesn't come off clean at all. You, it's gonna sting. You can rip it off and one, two, three rip that you hit hurts. It looks like we have, I'm gonna guess we have some eyebrow involvement in there as well, too. Sensitive area. - The picture's just so funny. - It's great. Don't do crazy things on a plane. Oh, so the reason his head is taped, he was trying to bite people. They had taped his shoulders and down, and then he still had some fight in them. So he was trying to bite people, which by the way is super dirty. And not like, hey, that's cheating. I'm talking at a, yeah, it's dangerous. - Biological level, it's gross. - Yeah, well, I don't remember the exact, I think you can get sepsis from that, right? - You're the one who's gonna be a doctor, not me. Why would you assume that I know the answer to that? - I don't know, but I've heard that-- - I feel like you can get a lot of gross things, but being bit, especially if it breaks the skin. So we got some flex ties on there. It does not surprise me that airlines now have those. Even those look like really weird fabric ones, I don't know. Just get some zip ties from your hardware store. It can work just as well. The duct tape, super huge fan. - Yeah. Well deserved, it seems. - No, it would be a challenging environment to grapple. - I was thinking that when this was going around, like you have no space. - You have no space, getting the person into the chair would be tough. Having him sit still to put the tape on would be also difficult. Personally, I would have put
him one row forward, so there was more space behind the chair so you could have just gone wrapped and wrapped and wrapped and wrapped and wrapped and wrapped. Yeah, that would be completely mummified. I would leave him two nostril holes in a mouthful. You know? Yeah. I don't be rude. No, you got to make sure he lives at least. I wonder what charges that person will get. I feel like they're federal at that level. Oh, on the plane, I bet they are, yeah. Yeah. I mean, almost certainly a flight band that I would imagine. Don't do crazy stuff on airplanes. Yeah, it's just also, if what I heard is true and they chatted for two, I'll use the term chatted. Maybe it was heated from the very beginning, but if it took up to two hours to escalate to this level, if you are somebody, let's say you were the seatmate or the person that this individual was talking to, and you can feel of the temperature rising, disengage, you know? And for clarity, maybe this person is just bad shit crazy and they just flipped, you know? But at the same time, escalating physical and verbal disturbance by a first class passenger. What does first class even mean anymore? It's disappointing. It was began shouting racial and homophobic slurs. That's a really good way to get everybody's attention on the aircraft followed by attacking flight staff and placing his hands around the neck of a traveler sitting next to him. First off, you're going to get your ass whipped by every, I mean, I'm sorry, everybody on the plane post on 11, this, this, somebody getting out of control with people just sitting in their seats and allowing that to happen, no, no, no, no, no, no, those days are gone. Reported as a, began hurling vulgarities, used a racial slur against a flight attendant, physically assaulted the passenger and seated next to him by putting his hands around. Wow. Yeah. When the flight attendant and other passengers attempted to intervene, Linda began hitting people and thrashing around. Okay. Cool. We're trying to police officer stepped in, help the crew initially zip ties to secure his wrist. Excellent. duct tape application. Of course, uh, flight attendants provided the duct tape, excellent, diverted to Baltimore. The law enforcement and the FBI met the aircraft, yeah, have fun with that, buddy. Well, and also, and this is like, at this point, the least of his worries. But everybody on the plane now hates you and it's like, are you kidding me? We have to be diverted because he doesn't care about that. No, I know he doesn't. That's why it says the least of his worries. Yeah. It's just like, are you joking, dude? This probably added four or five hours onto their trip for, oh, it could get way worse than that. It could have to sit there long enough that they time out on their duty day. They'd have to get another, you know, to me, like, maybe it's not a hub for that airline, so they have to get a crew. But this could cascade downhill pretty quickly to a multiple day of fair. Would you've hopped in there? Yeah. I mean, I like to say yes, I would. And I like to, you know, it seems like I would do that, but I actually have never been in that situation. So I don't know. But I have a pretty good feeling that I would. Would you take your glasses off first? Oh, I probably wouldn't think about it actually in the moment. Such a child. I know. You're such a child. You know nothing about the world. How can you not think about those things? I just, I honestly, I forget that I'm wearing them all the time. There's become part of my peripheral vision and, okay, yeah. When the situation dictates, man, you need to have situational awareness. I think if I lose my glasses in that scenario, I'll be okay. I am not worried about you losing your glasses. Do you know what happens if you get elbowed on the bridge of your nose with your glasses on? Yeah. Probably not good things. Yeah. I get child. Well, you know, I've made it this far in life. Luck. It's probably the truest thing you said, but what else you got? How long we've been going? 50 minutes. All right. We get time for one more. Let's see here. Your problem would be is if you took your glasses off in the back of the aircraft, do you get in a fight with somebody who wasn't involved? He'd double leg a flight attendant. I'm here to help calm down. Blind is a bat. Oh, man, man, which one do I want to end it on? How many do you have? I have three, I think. All right. Four. Actually, it's your choice. This is probably the goodest, the goodest, the best news. All right. Oh, interesting. 163 missing kids, including dozens of Miami found during operation statewide shield. What is this? Scroll down. Sandra Bullock involved in this somehow. What the hell is going on? Sure. Why is she? Yeah. Who cares about that? No, it's a completely off topic. Get her off the screen. Hit the X. She's fine. But like Sandra. Yeah. Okay. 163 missing children, including dozens of the Miami area, were found in what Ford official call one of the largest child recovery operations in American history. Okay. Operation statewide shield took place from August 17th to 21st and efforts focused on identifying locating and recovering missing children under the age of 18. Children range in age from two months to 17 years old. Whoa. Many head experience various levels of abuse and neglect, exploitation or exposure to other criminal activity. 46 in the Tampa Bay region, 41 of Miami, 32 in Jacksonville, 21 in Orlando, 12 in Fort Meyers, 8 in Pensacola, and 3 in the Tallahassee region. Okay. Scroll down here. How did they, what's going on? Keep going. Uh, the news, the new release to not provide information about possible arrests. Keep going down. God. What site are you on? The number. This is like the local news site. All right. Here's what sucks. Well, it doesn't suck and maybe they shouldn't talk about this. I want to know how they got on to this and why aren't we doing this every single day? Right. Yeah. I mean, especially with our brand new flock cameras, it seems like it's pretty easy to track people nowadays. Uh, maybe the flock cameras have to be able to see you. You might be able to, as an example, a two-month-old, which by the way, anybody trafficking a two-month-old, I got a wood shipper with your name on it, that penalty. You would more unlikely have to focus on the person that is trafficking that person. That's right. Yeah, that's right. You'd have to be identified, you'd have to be able to identify upstream a little bit those who are directly involved. And again, yes, that would be a purpose for the flock cameras that I think everybody would get behind, stop child exploitation. But still, it's not perfect, as nothing is, there are ways that you could avoid surveillance, which I'll leave out of that because I don't want to give anybody ideas. But Florida isn't the only state having this issue. Mm-hmm. I'd say things like this are happening in all 50. I would love to see a way where we could actually make a meaningful impact on that. Yeah. It just seems like, I don't know, it's not like a huge issue for a lot of, yeah, until it's your kid. No, no, that's what I'm saying. It seems like it's not being taken seriously enough. In a world where we are being bombarded by what seems to be existential threats from every direction, unless that is directly touching your life or you work in that ecosystem, it doesn't surprise me that a lot of people are not paying attention to exactly that. Yeah. Because they have their own shit that they're trying to deal with in their own life, which I get, but that doesn't make it any better for these people's lives. No, I agree. I don't know, I feel like the agencies whose job it is to resolve these. Well, it's probably an ancillary job set of those agencies. It's a subcategory of responsibilities. Yeah. But if it's federal, I'm sure the FBI was involved, right, but the FBI does much more than just missing children as well. Yes. So, anyway, so this one was resolved and great news, 163 children. That's pretty, pretty substantial, I feel like. I'll take that as a positive upswing for sure. Oh, right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. What do you think? Call it a day, Michael. We can call it a day. What are you going to do for the weekend? I've got a wedding this weekend. You go to a lot of weddings. This year has been very wedding filled. It's like, I think four or five this summer and fall-ish. Any family members or all just friends? One fan, two family, two friends. Was there another one? There may be another one that I'm forgetting. Maybe it was only four. Have they been good? Yeah. They've all been great. Fans for? Of course. Was your brother emceeing any of them? No. No. Okay. Although he's very good at it. He was. He was working the audience. He was. Yeah. Yeah. You weren't paying attention. You were playing clash of clans, but I was playing Pokemon. Whatever. I wouldn't know the difference between the two, to be honest with you. Why would you as an adult play Pokemon? Because it's fun and nostalgic. I played as a kid a lot. But is there an issue with that? To me, yes. Okay. Well, I want you to be a better person.
- Oh, okay, how is this playing Pokemon make you a bad person? - I feel like the answer is in the question. - No, it's not. (laughs) - As a man in their 20s, that's what you're spending your time doing. - Sometimes? - Yeah. - I'm not ashamed of that. It's a fun game. - You should be. - Well, I don't know what to tell you, I'm not. And you cannot shame me for it, it won't work. It won't stop me from trying. - I know. I'm just saying it won't work. - Be better than Pokemon in your mid 20s. - No, there's nothing bad with it. - Yeah, you could be seen doing it. - Well, I obviously don't care about that. - There is national news of shitting your pants and then you playing Pokemon. They're separated by-- - Look, I'll tell you your old plays Pokemon. - Yeah, they're separated by a thin veil. I mean, there's not much difference between one or the other. - Yeah, they're neck and neck. - Yeah. So anyways. - Is that on your dating profile and Joyce Pokemon? I don't play it that often to be on that stuff. - Don't try it first off. Don't try to put the cart and the horse back in the barn. All right, it's out and it's galloping. So let's just take or first spin around the track. - Perfect. When do you introduce to a potential suitor that you play Pokemon? - For just for clarity, the answer is fucking never. - It's not even that big of a deal in my life to even bring up unless it gets brought up naturally. - I feel like it's one of your core tenets. - Well, it's not. I don't know what to tell you. - You're the one who said it was nostalgic. - It is nostalgic because I played it when I was a child. That doesn't mean it's like core tenet of my life. - You used to wear diapers when you were a child, too. Do you ever put those on? - Nope. - Hmm. - Oh, and nostalgic about some things, huh? - Yeah, I feel like nobody is nostalgic. Well, actually, there are people in this nostalgic moment that take that one back real quick. Have you seen the predator catcher videos? - Yeah. - Yeah. - Sometimes listening to you talk, I have faith in the next generation. And then days like today happen. - Yeah, well. - And when the world needs change, you'll be playing Pokemon. - Yeah, we've just lost all hope. So it's. - Nostalgically. - I will be playing Nostalgically. - Just don't tell anybody that you do, and it'll be better. - Well, it's the cat's out of the bag on that one. - All right, that's all I have for this Friday.
Podcast Summary
Key Points:
Michael reflects on his jujitsu journey, noting he has a new belt but still feels the vast gap in knowledge, acknowledging the Dunning-Kruger effect where confidence grows with experience but ignorance deepens.
He is pursuing a college degree, specifically a bachelor’s at MSU in Bozeman, followed by a physical therapy program, with plans to potentially study abroad in Japan for a Japanese minor.
A major concern raised is the expansion of government surveillance, including financial data analysis by DHS and other agencies using third-party data brokers, bypassing the Fourth Amendment, highlighting a growing "surveillance state" and calling for vigilance on privacy rights.
Summary:
Michael shares a mix of personal and societal updates, beginning with his jujitsu journey where he now holds a new belt but remains aware of his limited mastery, citing the Dunning-Kruger effect as a key insight into how expertise grows alongside self-perception. He outlines his academic path: earning a bachelor’s degree at MSU in Bozeman, followed by a physical therapy program, with a potential semester abroad in Japan to pursue a Japanese minor in history, culture, and language. A central theme is the increasing threat of government surveillance, with revelations that the Department of Homeland Security and other agencies collect, analyze, and sell personal financial and behavioral data—often through third-party data brokers—bypassing constitutional protections.
This creates a growing surveillance state, with Michael warning that privacy is increasingly unattainable in a world where cell phone data, social media, and financial habits are tracked. He emphasizes that while the full scale of this is not yet visible, its cumulative effect is deeply concerning. The conversation also touches on micro-issues like a viral video of a man on a plane biting others and being duct-taped, which illustrates public outrage against violent behavior, and ends with a positive note: the successful recovery of 163 missing children in Florida during Operation Statewide Shield.
Amid these serious topics, Michael balances humor and reflection, noting that even small habits—like playing Pokémon—can be part of a fulfilling life, though he acknowledges the cultural and personal tensions around such choices in adulthood. The overarching message is one of caution: society is building a surveillance infrastructure that threatens individual autonomy, and personal responsibility in navigating digital and civic life is more critical than ever.
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Michael believes he has realized the Dunning-Kruger effect, where early in his training he overestimated his knowledge, but now he understands there's a vast gap between what he knows and what he doesn't.
Michael plans to complete a bachelor's degree at MSU in Bozeman, followed by a three-year Doctor of Physical Therapy program, with a potential semester abroad in Japan to study Japanese language, history, and culture.
Michael is concerned that federal agencies like the DHS, FBI, and Treasury Department are using third-party data brokers to analyze financial data and travel patterns, violating Fourth Amendment rights through predictive policing and bulk data collection.
Michael describes turnkey totalitarianism as a future where all data collection systems are connected, allowing a single entity to activate a complete surveillance state, which he believes is already being built and would make true privacy impossible.
Michael warns that current AI systems only generate 'novel outputs' based on training data, not original thoughts, and that sharing personal data with apps trains these systems, making users unwitting data contributors and increasing surveillance risks.
Michael acknowledges that digital currencies like Bitcoin offer transaction transparency and could reduce government control, but doubts they can fully replace fiat currency due to government resistance and lack of trust in decentralized systems.
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