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[00:00:55] Welcome home. Welcome home. So Chad, we're both married. Yeah. And we know that there tends to be some lines you can't cross where it was my wife will say look if you do X,

[00:01:10] we're divorcing right and this is usually cheating, cooking method in the basement, kicking puppies, you know stuff like that. So my wife gave me a new one this week. It was if you buy shares of truth social I will divorce you.

[00:01:31] So this is Donald Trump's lifeline, I think to his economic troubles. I do like the ticker symbol, which is DJT for Donald J. Trump. Anybody think of me? Anything different? I thought that was an interesting ticker symbol to choose. Yeah. Needless to say, although the stock did pretty well along with Reddit this week, although Reddit's coming back to Earth and I'm sure DJT will as well.

[00:02:00] It's a great money laundering scheme is what it is. I mean, I was he they say they have to wait six months to be able to cash out and unless the board who are all his people say that he can go ahead cash out. So yeah, yeah, it's great ultimatum way to go Christine.

[00:02:17] And he thoughts on the Reddit IPO, I was really hopeful that it would sort of break the damn on IPOs, which initially I thought it would and a lot of the pundits were saying so but why why would it break the why would it break the damn.

[00:02:32] I mean, it basically doubled this week and now it's coming back to Earth, but if any IPO that comes out that isn't Birkenstock and it's like tech and it does well. I like stripe is waiting to go public. I mean there.

[00:02:46] It's a message totally so all of these people that I hear talking about like, you know, this is going to be it. This is going to happen. It's going to go to the moon. It's like what where the fuck we're talking about AI. We're talking about some of the most fluid systems of today velocity of tech moving so fast, not this.

[00:03:05] This is not it. This has nothing to do with all of the really cool conversations we've been having so I don't understand why all these quote unquote pundits and again, I mean I'm not giving out financial advice but there's no way in fucking hell. I'm going to put my money into a 1979 grandma. It doesn't make any sense.

[00:03:23] And by the way, their users hate advertising and don't pay a subscription fee for anything doesn't make any sense. I agree. It's although selling the data could be pretty profitable. All these LLMs that need content and stuff to use for that happens. Guess what? All the people are going to eject and there's not going to be any data to be had. So I mean it's just again you're it's a fucking message board dude with sub message boards. I mean come on. It this is this 1990s shit. We did. I'm not pitching reddit to you.

[00:03:53] I am not like pitching it. I just don't get it. I don't understand. There's a lot of money. Yeah, look the IPO market's been dry for a long time. So put it in a good work and stock was the last. The last exciting one people want to spend money. They want an exciting idea.

[00:04:08] We'll get into that. Okay, so somebody who's not excited right now there's some rumors over at smart recruiters. Remember a few weeks ago when smart recruiters acquisition was fumbled we called it botched but it was fumbled. My sources say that CEO Michael D. Simone is out and chief product officer Rebecca Carr is now the interim CEO for context. Michael was announced as CEO about a year ago April 18th 2023.

[00:04:37] So I'm going to serve my is that the fumbled the botched whatever you want to call it acquisition might have been the last straw so good luck to Michael. Sorry man shit like that happens wherever he lands hopefully does well in good luck to Rebecca Carr because she's taking over a shit show right now getting into the head seat. I mean it's it's very turbulent times at smart recruiters one system that we used to see is kind of like new age applicant tracking system with all this new tech.

[00:05:07] That's coming out and then the paradoxes and the shit that the fountains and the hairies and whatnot. I mean they're really recreating what talent acquisition and talent management what not and now she's got to take over this jolopy this grandma. I mean I good luck Rebecca good luck.

[00:05:24] Take over and take off take off we were doing our movie don't wreck our show you are created but okay how many man my memory sucks on this but in the last 24 months

[00:05:36] the number of ATS is that have either lost replaced a CEO is like five-ish I think like big names that we know so it's a tough business. There's no I get in sight for these companies. I mean I see

[00:05:54] that's the same as smart recruiters greenhouse we talked about hype goes like there seems to be no end of the road that's that's positive for these ATSs and you can see it on the management teams but great scoop great scoop.

[00:06:07] Yeah smart recruiters man I got nothing I got nothing let's let's see if I can conjure up a shout out for the for the folks all right Chad we've talked about veritone sponsor the show by the way full disclosure on that one.

[00:06:21] There stock has been meddling to say the least for the last year so well they finally are out of the seller rat style there stock has hit 180% increase in the last month thanks to a positive earnings report demand

[00:06:38] for its developer developer tools they have a nifty API that apparently is is hitting with lot of developers and of course anything with AI on it is going to be doing pretty well in the stock market but look they bought

[00:07:22] in Southern California riding a boat on the water waters and doesn't it eating does eating shrimp cocktail and a cop salad for lunch on said does not hurt shout out to companies who rectify bad hiring decisions what do I mean what do I mean by that well you might have heard that after being ousted from the Republican national committee chair

[00:08:15] and the race when you do the right things it's also about taking action when you fuck stuff up and Caesar fucked some stuff up here and his people knew and they let him know.

[00:08:26] So dumb you are really good for real this is a hot story that I haven't followed at all I my my more left leaning friends were in a tizzy about this one and they're happy about the Exodus of her I don't know what she said did she have a show

[00:08:44] did she like crossfire somebody in a debate like what was it just her past that they said she doesn't deserve to be here.

[00:08:53] She literally was just pushed out of the RNC just pushed out of the RNC and not to mention she's also I think a witness for a lot of the shit that's happening even especially in Michigan.

[00:09:06] Yeah so it was pretty much a bridge too far for any journalist to say that they wanted her on the team right so whether it's right left doesn't matter just it's when you try to overthrow a government and you're leading the charge on that's probably a bridge too far well from one one bad hire to maybe

[00:09:24] a good hire that they could look at on if you see this Mike Tyson is having a moment Mike Tyson is having a moment we talked about him going on Netflix the summer to fight as a Jake Jake Paul or Logan one of the brothers there I think they actually have like a tag team

[00:09:42] set up where they can they can tag in and out I could be wrong really once a legit fighter yeah the other one I don't I don't think Logan is if it's not low I'm sure it's Jake but anyway

[00:09:53] Mike Tyson's having a moment he's probably had a decade or centuries so far the hangover was maybe his peak but anyway you know that I love a good edible chat and based on your story from Vegas you know I'm just admire them well Mike Tyson is as well so New York legalized cannabis so Tyson bites are coming to market now you might want to know what's unique about Tyson bites well if you know anything about Mike Tyson

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[00:15:46] in and bask in the glow of neon while we drink and probably enjoy some edibles love the old hard rock

[00:15:53] sign the guitar yeah and allegedly you're my Vegas news source they're doing a hotel that's

[00:16:02] shaped like a guitar yeah it'll be the new hard rock is it true you heard that too I've heard

[00:16:07] that but I've heard it over and over and over I mean they they have they have hotels with swimming

[00:16:12] swimming pools the shape of guitar they've got I mean it's it's kind of like they're stick so it

[00:16:17] wouldn't surprise me doesn't make me want to stay there anymore but would you stay there if they played

[00:16:24] K.Boo in the lobby would that make you reconsider the minus five experience where you go into

[00:16:32] the cold bar and you put on the coats and stuff like that we're going to be doing that with Omar

[00:16:36] and job pixel in that that K.Boo is almost like great soundtrack for something like that you feel

[00:16:43] like you're in Helsinki you feel like you need to warm up and you need a little K.Boo.

[00:16:48] All right all right all right have you been to the ice bar no no I haven't either I don't

[00:16:54] look awesome yeah very very cool thanks Omar cold stuff

[00:16:58] all right not necessarily breaking news Chad but it's breaking news to us kind of kind of went

[00:17:08] quietly but we've been away yeah we have been away so employee rewards software company blue board

[00:17:16] have you heard of them maybe say about an ex-boyfriend for a million at some point yeah they were

[00:17:21] kind of a thing ten years ago eight years ago anyway they've mysteriously disappeared they've

[00:17:28] laid everybody off and they've they've gone out of business so if you're a blue board client I'm sure

[00:17:33] you're aware of this they hopefully didn't just just walk away anyway they had raised nearly

[00:17:38] $16 million in series a funding founded back in 2014 so the 10 year runway didn't make it I mean

[00:17:45] the employee rewards thing we talk about a lot and it seemed to like kind of hit its stride in the

[00:17:50] pandemic making employees feel nice and special and apparently didn't work out for blue board so I

[00:17:57] kind of wonder all these employee engagement companies are they are they on the same path as

[00:18:02] blue board black beard and blue board decade old company that isn't let's say for instance a

[00:18:09] whole piece of tech yeah I can see that kind of kind of going away or not going idea let's

[00:18:15] just say that yeah 10 years is a pretty long runway to end it for yeah for the platform that's not a

[00:18:21] vital platform it's not a vital point solution I you don't hear companies who are just I mean

[00:18:26] literally looking for RFPs for these types of these types of platforms no but if you're

[00:18:32] looking first some folks that have some experience in this industry go to link to and check out

[00:18:37] the blue board veterans they might be looking looking for work check and if they're looking for

[00:18:42] work they might be on indeed which brings us to our real topics here we go the week the

[00:18:49] indeed rumor mill keeps churn and Chad this time their rumored to change how employers can

[00:18:55] contact veterans sources say starting April second indeed is shifting to resume seats receiving

[00:19:02] 10 complimentary resume contacts a month for veterans down from unlimited outreach messages but

[00:19:09] wait there's more indeed is rumored to be sending letters to add agencies saying organic traffic

[00:19:15] in the US will no longer be a thing don't say we didn't warn you everybody Chad what are your

[00:19:22] thoughts and you might have some additional information as I know that your phone was ringing

[00:19:27] off the hook before the show yes definitely phone was blowing up late yesterday and today so on the

[00:19:34] veteran side of the house I mean it's to me that's a so what scenario they were doing it just for

[00:19:40] pomp and circumstance and fluff in the first place not to mention you know companies have no

[00:19:46] fucking clue with their looking at when they're looking at military resumes so yeah but to me all

[00:19:52] of this literally is nothing but a cry for help from indeed which is what we've seen CPA

[00:19:57] died CPSA died and then they started the the the whole tech community thing and they started

[00:20:04] the the indeed Japan there's just so much that they're doing right now they are throwing every

[00:20:10] piece of spaghetti don't forget john tracker the android app that didn't succeed which all

[00:20:16] over the place right quit to this to me especially the the taking away of organic is just another

[00:20:21] bid to soak companies for more money they're slowly pulling the plug on organic traffic starting in

[00:20:28] in the US all of my contacts have said get ready for organic traffic to go away entirely which

[00:20:35] means what indeed is once again moving toward a 1990s pay to play job board model with the only

[00:20:42] caveat being CPC right because CPC did exist in job boards in 1990s so literally they went from a

[00:20:49] job search engine and they've reverted I mean they've literally regressed back into a job board model

[00:20:56] recruitment at agencies have been instructed due to these changes if your clients jobs are receiving

[00:21:03] less traffic from the free organic well you should probably sponsor jobs yeah no shit sure

[00:21:09] luck indeed also pitching this is really just a rebalancing of traffic so obviously free has gotten

[00:21:18] too much and they needed to get more payment on clicks they needed to push more people to

[00:21:25] clicks so from my standpoint this isn't really a rebalancing this is an old platform that they tried

[00:21:31] and again rumors that I've heard they've tried to put a ceiling on the number of apps candidate

[00:21:39] applications on free jobs it didn't work they couldn't make that work so I guess this old dog

[00:21:46] just isn't gonna hunt what do you think about the whole CPC thing it's not surprising not to mention

[00:21:53] I don't think many recruitment at agencies that aren't a part of programmatic are going to care

[00:21:58] because this is just going to drive up their revenues too 60% of the time it works every time

[00:22:04] my take on this is we've seen this story before part one was called career builder

[00:22:10] and private equity moves in to any significant degree which it did with indeed this is what happens

[00:22:18] they take they sharpen the pencils they they swear we were we wasting money where can we make more money

[00:22:25] working we cut costs trim fat et cetera that's kind of what we're seeing like how do we make the most

[00:22:31] off paper click how do we cut out free stuff how do you make more money on contacting vets

[00:22:38] as a veteran I'm a little surprised you don't care about that but that's that's cool that's your

[00:22:42] progative so it's like how do make more money how do we cut more costs and this is what we're

[00:22:48] saying and mark my words layoffs are coming layoffs are coming to indeed some point in a significant way

[00:22:56] and this is just the the the cadarian the coal mine is all this sort of how do we milk as much profit

[00:23:03] as we possibly can you know the challenge to me they just had an investor meeting i think that they

[00:23:09] they published online there's articles if you guys are interested you know that they're indeed is so concerned about

[00:23:15] the transactional nature of job search like how do we make applying easier how do we like the problem

[00:23:23] with job search isn't that it's too hard it's at it might be that it's too easy but the transactional nature of

[00:23:29] it is to me not a winning strategy for indeed because programmatic is going to out transaction probably

[00:23:36] anything that indeed does it needs to be more personal than transactional we both knock on linked

[00:23:44] in a lot and I think fairly so on you know related jobs and jobs for you and things like that the one

[00:23:50] thing that indeed gets or linkedin gets right is if you search for job on linkedin it will show you who

[00:23:57] you know at the company first degrees i would school this person maybe i'm second degree and they know somebody i know

[00:24:04] because if you if you learn anything from us kids it's not necessarily what you know it's who you know

[00:24:09] and the transactional nature of indeed and other job sites like takes a lot of that personal stuff out of the

[00:24:15] equation linkedin secret sauce is the people that are on the site and i know it you don't engage with it but when people

[00:24:22] change jobs look for jobs they're good they go to linkedin so that network is powerful and it does help people get

[00:24:30] jobs so linkedin to me we're just in a cost-cutting efficiency game at indeed right now and maybe an IPO is coming

[00:24:39] in the future when they maximize profits to echo your sentiment it's more spaghetti at the wall it's more like

[00:24:46] fear they're you know they're driven by fear and what Google's doing what appcast is doing and so it's just more

[00:24:54] being unfocused maybe they are more focused but in the wrong places and we're going to see more craziness from

[00:25:01] indeed way to the layoffs come though so what i'm hearing is they should buy poly work they should buy

[00:25:07] they should buy stepstone and then stepstone should buy career builder

[00:25:10] all right all right all right so one of the things that they actually said during their virtual investor

[00:25:17] update was the global HR matching market composed of job advertising and talent sourcing direct hire

[00:25:24] retain search and turn a recruitment automation and temporary staffing pretty big is almost $330

[00:25:31] billion right the search engine opportunity only represents a portion of that about about 10% right coming in at just

[00:25:40] over $295 billion the global marketplace total addressable market reflects remit the remaining 90%

[00:25:49] so the HR matching market the thing that they're trying to go after and again I just don't see it

[00:25:56] because they don't have the technology unless they actually rebuild infrastructure they can't get it done

[00:26:01] they're matching it shit they're they don't have a network to be able to lean on like like LinkedIn does right

[00:26:07] everything that they could have built and or acquired by this time they just haven't right in it

[00:26:15] just it drives me crazy as you see a company with this much fucking money they have tried to go down funnel

[00:26:22] and they've done a shitty job of it they had they have an interviewing platform that just fucking flopped right

[00:26:29] and they they've pretty much given up on it you can't you've got to double down and find out what the issues are

[00:26:34] and you've got to go down funnel I just these guys I don't know who the fuck is running the ship over there

[00:26:40] but I've said it and I'll say it again Chris Himes needs to fire himself

[00:26:45] I love that their new motto is simplify hiring and they own simply hired like I don't know if that was planned or

[00:26:52] or what that is you know in between you and I cabbage patching and doing the running man in between K-bo

[00:26:59] stance at the e-commerce conference and Amsterdam there was a sentiment of like people won't search for jobs anymore

[00:27:07] jobs will find them and it seems that indeed is is in this sort of misdirection of reinventing what they do

[00:27:14] and I'm not sure they should it's smoke give me a box let me put in some keywords let me go to a site and apply

[00:27:21] like back to basics wouldn't be the worst thing in the world for this company they're not Google

[00:27:26] they don't have the resources it's not that hard to be able to screen up front screen to ensure that people are

[00:27:33] qualified before they actually go on to apply which means you can charge more for that click

[00:27:39] as you know that they're a qualified candidate I mean just the basic shit they can't get the basic

[00:27:45] shit right if you want to be able to build a model build a model to be able to charge more for

[00:27:51] it you have to provide more value you're not providing more value providing shitty matching makes no fucking sense

[00:27:57] because their slaves their slaves to the clicks clicks is money so that's two paying this shit let's

[00:28:03] I mean yeah yeah when you're it's like it's like the blogger slave media company slave to

[00:28:10] clicks it's ridiculous we need to click so it's not about they always preach it's about the user

[00:28:16] they don't give two shits about the user yes and your and your bottom line exactly exactly anyway all

[00:28:22] right all right let's move on talking indeed let's talk about the a i wars man shits heating up

[00:28:28] it's great Mustafa Suulemon co founder of Google's deep mind has been appointed a CEO of Microsoft's

[00:28:35] AI division overseeing consumer products like co-pilot bing and edge Microsoft is competing with open

[00:28:41] AI Google and other big tech companies in the a i race in this move strengthens its strategy yeah

[00:28:47] poaching from Google that'll do it but wait there's more and tropics clawed three opus large

[00:28:52] language model has surpassed open a i's gpt4 on the chat botterina leaderboard that sounds like a party yeah

[00:28:59] that sounds like a party everybody's leaving reddit for the for the chat botterina leaderboard a popular

[00:29:05] crowdsource platform for a i research researchers this marks the first time a non open AI

[00:29:11] model has taken the top spot and Chad the information is reporting mark Zuckerberg is personally

[00:29:18] calling Google's deep mind talent to join meta AI without having to interview for the company

[00:29:25] that's a lot of war and Chad yes what are your thoughts I just think this is a great setup

[00:29:31] for our our next you know side of topics on the HR side yeah this is incredibly hot

[00:29:38] we're going to see a convergence of technology all of this technology that we're talking about

[00:29:44] now the big names the Google's the Microsoft's you know whether it's cloud it's its deep mind

[00:29:50] Gemini doesn't matter all of this is coming to our space period and every there's going to be this amazing overlap

[00:29:57] so when we talk about this outside of the HR side of the house it's because kids it's coming

[00:30:04] real quick I want to add to that you know if you the number of people that do this and and know it

[00:30:09] and can build stuff around it is a small number and they have they have a nice safety net called big tech

[00:30:16] so there's a ton of there's a ton of venture capitalists in the valley and probably elsewhere that says look

[00:30:22] yeah you could go to Microsoft you could go wherever but let let me give you $50 million

[00:30:28] and you guys go build whatever the how you want and then it's yours

[00:30:32] and if it fails you can go work at deep wherever you want if it does fail so to your point a lot of people are going to

[00:30:39] jump ship to big tech but a lot of people are going to say you know what I'm smart enough to run my own company

[00:30:43] here's someone who are willing to write me a check let's let's rock baby and yes you're going to see this in HR

[00:30:48] and every there every other field but let's talk about what we're seeing in our space just this week alone

[00:30:55] Toronto based borderless AI has emerged from stealth with get this $27 million in seed seed funding

[00:31:05] for albernie albernie not the best name I don't know if they're from Alberta and through an in I anyway it's HR power

[00:31:14] it's AI powered HR assistant which automates onboarding management and payment processes for international team members

[00:31:21] and can answer employment law finance and tax queries in 170 languages that's a few jobs that's a few people

[00:31:29] that do those jobs at companies what's more powered by Nvidia your boy

[00:31:35] Hippocratic AI has raised $53 million in series a funding bringing its total to $120 million

[00:31:43] with evaluation of $500 million I think digital nurses who can answer your colonoscopy questions pre and post surgery

[00:31:54] healthcare everything HR AI is coming for everyone Chad what are your thoughts?

[00:32:01] Yeah so right on the the hippocratic holy shit dude did you watch the demo there's an AI discharged nurse

[00:32:08] following up after a surgery and they actually take a call it's amazing and it's incredibly fluid

[00:32:14] the estimated cost of this nurse discharged nurse her name is Linda that's around $9 an hour so I mean again not cheap

[00:32:25] although you've got to remember Linda can scale the bottom into can scale where the human Linda can only do one call at a time

[00:32:33] right so this just makes a hell of a lot of sense plus you do you said the magic word Nvidia I mean Nvidia's in Amen

[00:32:41] I was impressed I was very impressed with just the demo that they had

[00:32:46] and you take a look at borderless I mean what perfect timing to play off the success of deal

[00:32:51] and their latest acquisitions and reporting that they are enjoying 500 million in ARR borderless touts

[00:32:58] that they do payroll benefits taxes compliance all that boring shit that nobody wants to do right and they've got the AI agents

[00:33:06] what you talked about I think from from our standpoint nursing is distressed they need help

[00:33:13] so therefore here comes AI on the HR side there's so many bullshit administrative tasks here comes AI right

[00:33:21] I don't see it taking jobs as much as I see it taking tasks that take those humans away from what they need to be doing

[00:33:28] and that's being more human and working with other humans and employees and so in patients and so on and so forth

[00:33:34] so to me this is all exciting this block just watching and listening and learning about what's happening in AI

[00:33:43] what then watching some of those things start to bleed into our space I say a year after year after year

[00:33:50] and it's still true this year is the most exciting year in the space ever period

[00:33:55] those are big words just getting better so not only can Linda help me figure out what this bump on my ass is

[00:34:02] she can also tell me what my vacation PTO time is for this year

[00:34:08] so the digital clones are coming for every opportunity you know I think to your point we've done two conferences this year already

[00:34:19] and the question are we are all of our jobs gone is it is a typical theme at these conferences

[00:34:28] and it's to me it's amusing how much experts dance around the issue of no we're not losing jobs or only people who don't know AI

[00:34:40] are losing their jobs or no you just have to know AI to augment your job honestly no one probably knows the answer

[00:34:48] but I find it hard to understand where there's not a world where there are fewer people doing some of these jobs

[00:34:55] you just I don't think you'll need as many people now you'll have to have people that understand how to use this shit and do it well

[00:35:02] I don't think it's just going to be a magic wand and all these things are done that's just unfortunately not the case for anything

[00:35:08] but the point is this shit's coming and we got more stories about this and next week we'll have more stories

[00:35:13] and the week after that we'll have more stories not going away by the way me so robotics the flippy company they got new

[00:35:20] they're still rocking we don't talk about them much but they're still doing their thing my concern is that we'll lose listers

[00:35:26] because if there are more recruiters and there are more vendors doing this like I think I think we've got a few years before we have to start worrying about that

[00:35:34] we got a few years which means our advertisers still love us everybody we're gonna take a quick break make sure you listen to the ads

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[00:35:51] let's talk immigration Chad I don't know if you've watched any of the news channels on your TV set but immigration is kind of a big story

[00:36:01] not only here but around the world it's so scary

[00:36:05] yeah so Wall Street Journal story recently kind of clarified that it's maybe not awful the story says despite

[00:36:15] despite the debate around the merits of the current levels of immigration economists at major firms on Wall Street argue

[00:36:22] it has been a major boon for the economy and added trillions of dollars to US gross domestic product

[00:36:30] the benefits of this influx have not escaped the attention of policymakers such as federal reserve chairman J pal who say him

[00:36:38] who say migration has boosted employment field consumer spending and eased post pandemic labor shortages my God Chad

[00:36:47] let's all get off the ledge for a second what are your thoughts I think balances key there's no question but we've got to ask ourselves these questions

[00:36:56] does productivity stall when vital roles aren't fill of course they are productivity plummets will roads pave themselves no well packages deliver themselves

[00:37:09] no will reduce rebuild themselves not today right we can't keep pace and drive an economy if our infrastructure is warned and our products are not being created delivered in service

[00:37:21] and that's a problem right so you're talking about you know your friend what what should they do they should look for the gaps immigrants are filling the gaps in our workforce economy by

[00:37:34] filling positions and driving productivity also in some cases immigrants are performing jobs that Americans just won't do but we need to get them done

[00:37:45] they have to be done so they are filling the gaps last but most importantly this is a more on the somber note but immigrants are performing dangerous jobs like working construction

[00:37:55] on the france france is Scott key bridge in Baltimore where the latest report notes all the construction workers killed when a

[00:38:03] container ship struck the bridge and it fell they're all immigrants so as we want to build a wall and we want to vilify and we want to talk about murders and rapists and all

[00:38:14] other stuff we have to remember there's a balance there yes we do have to do something about immigration can't be a free flow that's very hard but what we need to do is we need to understand that there is a need from our standpoint and they're filling those gaps and they're driving the economy

[00:38:32] and they're probably making half that of what American would make in that in that position fill the gap Chad fill the gap all about what are you doing step bro I enjoy flipping from Fox to MSNBC and the perspective on the the border on each is very very different

[00:38:52] I don't disagree that there's some issues at the border there's people come on like I think there's a concert effort to like fuck shit up the fentanyl thing is real those drugs coming into the like that's a thing but the bigger picture is America needs people I know you like to talk about the world needs less people

[00:39:13] and that's that's fine if productivity if productivity the earth would love us so much more here there we have systems in place that rely on more people at the bottom of the pyramid then there are top the pyramid and that's becoming inverted depending on what country you're in and that that creates some real problems

[00:39:34] we need people to make shit we need people to buy shit we need people to support the things that we do in this country and if we're not having babies the way that we used to those people need to come from somewhere frankly as American we should be pretty happy

[00:39:49] that we're a place that people want to come because there are a lot of places in the world that people do not want to migrate they do not want to go like America is still a place where the perception is if I work hard I obey the law I will have a better life and my children will have a better life

[00:40:07] and we will be citizens that are a plus instead of a minus on society and that is still the majority of people that are walking through war zones and fighting famine and disease and full families coming to this country because they think there's a better life here in many cases that there is so let's stop vilifying immigration

[00:40:32] yes there are problems to fix there gaps to fill as you say but this is going to this is the number one issue in our country this will be the presidential election if it were held today this would be the number one issue on the ballot and I think that vilifying it has been horrible by and large these are really good people that are struggling that want to come to this country make be productive and be a plus on it

[00:40:57] and we need to stop focusing on the five or whatever percent that want to like burn the whole place down amen amen

[00:41:04] let's question is next will cars build themselves go ahead

[00:41:09] will cars build themselves yes let's go back to bots killing all of us so back in January report surface that BMW South Carolina plant would be testing robot workers fast forward to today and it looks like those rumors are true

[00:41:26] they're saying tick tocks and other social media pundits show videos of a robot that looks is has arms and legs like a human it interacts with the human being who says I'm hungry what would you give me and there's an apple on the table so the robot knows apple

[00:41:44] and it's going to give to the table it puts it could it'll put dishes in racks it will like it sort of is I don't I mean I would say it's like it kind of knows it can kind of process the stuff

[00:41:57] and BMW is putting this stuff putting these robots in its factories to build cars your thoughts on the impending robotic takeover Chad

[00:42:09] yeah my cousin works in that plant so yeah he works in that plan yeah he's worked there for well over a decade probably two decades and I asked him I'm like are you worried about this is like hell no we can't find people in the first place

[00:42:22] so you know it's again it's the it's the immigration it's the balance it's all of this and as we start to take a look at some companies who are you know paying immigrants underneath the table which means no taxes right then we have AI and robots taking jobs what about the taxes there we're going to have to restructure how we deal with the border how we do with taxes what jobs actually look like are they remote are they hybrid are they this are they this

[00:42:51] are they that we have a lot of work to do and we can I don't think it's it's it's smart and or safe for us to hope that politicians make the right decisions there right I think as experts in the space we need to

[00:43:07] definitely have these conversations we need to have more of these conversations uh to ensure that you know dumb decisions aren't made moving forward right they need to have the adults in the room

[00:43:18] I couldn't help but watch and wonder how long it'll be before an affordable robot is on the market that can clean my toilets on a regular ongoing basis but that's just me

[00:43:28] talking about Christine giving you an ultimatum of of why leaving your own toilet and let's not talk about what Christine is giving me or not giving me Chad so so part of me wants to temper my fear slash enthusiasm for this stuff

[00:43:43] I mean we've been talking about self-driving cars for over a decade it doesn't seem like they're going to be on the market anytime soon Elon still pushing Google Google is Google's creating pictures of black Nazis on their AI stuff so a lot of there's a lot of work left to be done but then but then I think about

[00:44:02] the famous Ernest Hemingway quote when they asked him how he went backrupt his comment was two ways slowly and then all of a sudden so I feel like this thing keeps building it's flipping burgers it's making tacos it's you making cars one of these days we're going to look up and it's this stuff is going to happen quickly because it's passed all the way

[00:44:30] quickly because it's passed all the regulation stuff for that's finally hit a tipping point of evolution and the robots are going to be here I don't know when but at some point it's going to happen quickly and we're going to look up and go holy shit robots are everywhere they're doing a lot of stuff

[00:44:47] my only concern is the speed at which this is going to happen human beings aren't built to scale like this you know when the car was introduced it took decades before the car like fully became the car right people had some time to adjust I think you be eye has to be on the table at some point

[00:45:06] people are displaced they're going to have to have some sort of a welfare upscaling education like educational resources we're going to have to really rethink how we're training our people and taking care of our people but if this is going to happen it's just a matter of when and get yourself ready get yourself on LinkedIn learning and get the badges people because you're not going to have to have some some new skills or learn to podcast or some shit something that doesn't take some of those take a lot of a lot of intelligence

[00:45:35] just become a become a podcaster all right Chad I know you've been missing some only fans news dude I was at the red light district I was not missing only fans Florida keeps Florida

[00:45:52] I mean that one of a controversy at Liberty Christian Preparatory School in Orlando has led to the expulsion of nine students over a sticker on mom's car promoting her only fans account

[00:46:08] did I just read that oh my god all right my kids are going to listen to these shows when I'm dead the mother Michelle Klein was asked to park off campus due to the sticker and the situation escalated when another mother complained about it on TikTok yeah the you know the subtle like face to face complaint was enough she had to take a detect OK so both mothers

[00:46:34] children were expelled oh that's nice the parents fight in the kids getting trouble and they were given conditions for their children to be re enrolled the children have since been homeschooled

[00:46:46] and I'm sure they're getting a top flight education from their mothers chat what is the world coming to yeah I just have to figure out what mobile home park these guys are out of this is I mean it's it's Florida I mean they're full of

[00:47:00] Liberty is a high school Liberty Christian Preparatory you can't write this shit I just this is a Netflix comedy way into happens it's just the crossover of all of this shit you know it's like I want to send my kid to a good school this one happens to be a Catholic school

[00:47:19] Christian school whatever it is right and then but you know on my time off I've got a little only fans have those private schools aren't cheap you gotta you gotta find the money something right so yeah it's it is it is interesting it is very very interesting and funny that's what I like it

[00:47:37] so so run a podcast she can't say but the the sticker it looks like a home like she bought it on some online service it covers the entire back window this isn't like a bumper sticker with my only fans URL she bought like a billboard sized only fan site and she's driving around with children

[00:48:00] apparently promoting her her site so so there you go only fans you know we talked about a while back they had they brought a new CEO they wanted to go legit they wanted people like normal sort of online celebrities to get on and make money through

[00:48:21] subscriptions whatever I think going legit is out the door for only fans and part of their only part of their going legit thing was like we need to go public at some point and make a ton of money which they would based on their based on their

[00:48:35] if you're watching on YouTube chat is pulled up the car literally the Dodge Caravan only fans hyper fun

[00:48:43] hyper fun it has like racing stripes I mean it's yeah this thing was in a in a mobile home park somewhere landing landing strips racing stripes whatever take your pick they can kiss they can kiss the public markets goodbye unless of course

[00:49:03] they get they get Trump involved and he joins only fans and then they they get a spack and and go public that way there their ticker symbol could be DT BJ you know sad don't Trump BJ all right that's

[00:49:20] we out wow look at you you made it through an entire episode of the chat and chase podcast on maybe you cheated and fast forwarded to the end

[00:49:31] either way there's no doubt you wish you had that time back valuable time you could have used to buy a nutritious meal and talk about enjoy a poor of your favorite whiskey or just watch big booty latinas and bug fights on tick

[00:49:49] no you hung out with these two chuckle heads instead now go take a shower and wash off all the guilt but save some soap because you'll be back like an awful train wreck you can't look away

[00:50:06] and like Chad's favorite western you can't quit the meter we out