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ll right, here's the news that the president went over to Saudi Arabia and asked them to pump more oil and the Saudis said that they're basically close to capacity so there's not much they can do. Is that the headline you heard? That they're close to capacity so there's not much they can do, right? And then did you read the numbers? So the headline says they're close to capacity, there's not much…
← Previous segment →it but merchandise and TV shows. People are paying a lot of money for that thing you say is the worst thing. Which in this case there's a whole lot of people like it. Humor is subjective. So thanks, Greta, for destroying Germany I guess. Did a little bit less than Hitler but she's making a dent.
I mean I don't think it would be fair, I think you'd agree with this. Can we agree it would be unfair to compare Greta Thunberg to Hitler? Can we all agree on that? That would be completely inappropriate. Do not compare Greta Thunberg to Hitler destroying Germany, right? But can we also agree she's number two? Now if you were going to rank them, the most destructive people in the history of the German country, she's definitely not number one. We're all on the same page, right? Number one, Hitler. But I'm just saying there might be like a long distance between number two but once you get down to like number two, very strongly at the top of the list of all the potential people destroying Germany would be Greta. So I want to be very clear. Do not compare her to Hitler. She's nowhere near that bad. But she's number two. She is number two.
All right, I wondered, as many of you did, when Steve Jobs died would Apple start making worse products? Did you all wonder that? Because it felt like he was the secret sauce, right? Yeah they got all the best designers in the world and you know Ive does this and that and blah blah blah. But you thought, did you think that Steve Jobs was like the ultimate guy who said no that's not good enough?
It is in my imagination that Apple has completely lost the plot with user interface. Like user interface was their thing. But I just tweeted around, I was using an app as a microphone icon and then it's working on top of the iOS, the OS that has a microphone icon right next. There's two microphone icons that do different things. One is to create a voice text and one is to immediately you can send your voice. Now do you think that Steve Jobs would have allowed that there could ever be an app that would have the same icon on it in the App Store as Apple's own icon and right next to it so you wouldn't know what you were doing? You can't even imagine that Steve Jobs would have ever allowed that, right?
And you know, giving you some other examples, it does seem that the... And I told you there's five factorial ways to cancel the incoming phone call. Do you think that Steve Jobs would have allowed five factorial ways to silence a phone call? No.
So let me ask the question. Oh and full disclosure I do own Apple stock so I'm ragging on them but I'm betting the other way. So just be aware I'm betting the other way. So my money says they'll be great for a long time. My opinion is there's something wrong with that. Steve Jobs... So you know just hold both of those as true. And I feel like Apple has lost it in their interface part. What do you think? Is there any other Apple users who think they've gotten too complicated? And I think that's what Jobs would have stopped.
Okay, I'm not going to read that comment. You could tone that down a little bit. Just you know the Locals platform is free speech so nobody's going to get blocked on Locals but I'll give you my opinion that that's an inappropriate comment. You know who you are. All ri
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ght, and everybody's welcome with your inappropriate comments but I'm not going to let it go by without commenting on it. Okay so apparently the Mexican military captured one of the top drug cartel leaders, the leader of the Guadalajara cartel. Now I don't know my cartels too well but that would be maybe the third biggest cartel? I don't know. The Sinaloa might be the biggest. I don't know. Is it…
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