 It works okay. Yeah, I'm the technology guy. I'm the technology guy, and I just Wired this together. Okay Well greetings and salutations this is Retsun nor and I'm Calling this program the hither and yawn program. Did you hear that phrase before hither and yawn? Yeah, that's I didn't hear about it until I heard somebody mentioned it on national public radio And I asked a guy at the library about it. He said well that means like Here and beyond and I said oh well that sounds pretty good. I guess yawn beyond so I'm gonna call this hither and beyond because we might be talking about the here and now and the beyond and So this is the name of the program hither and yawn I'm Retsun nor and I'm gonna let my guest introduce himself. Well. My name is hither you're yawn We could do it that way He's hither and I'm yawn here the hither from Hadley And I'm yawn from Hadley. So it's not like a Scandinavian yawn It's it's more like a philosophical kind of yawn I'm giving you a person here that is actually an Ivy League Graduate and I didn't even know what the Ivy League was I said well, what is the Ivy League and he had to explain it to me What is the Ivy League the Ivy League? The Ivy League is comprised of eight prestigious universities all located in the Northeast geographically I Believe it's comprised of Brown University Dartmouth College Princeton Harvard Yale Columbia Cornell and University of Pennsylvania or UPenn Now these colleges are just in the Northeast They don't have like these Ivy League colleges like in California because I was hearing about this Big college scandal and the guy at Stanford was Getting all kinds of money to get kids in his sailing program I couldn't believe that there was a sailing program in college, but Sailing I said who who who does sailing in college like some kind of Ivy League people There's nobody that does sailing So I haven't told you this yawn, but we in the Ivy League never have scandals. They're not technically scandals. They're allegations and strong Strong Okay, well, they were just talking about it on the news today that they were convicting this The sailing coach from Stanford because he accepted like about a half a million dollars Stanford not an Ivy League college. So that's not an Ivy League college. So you're safe. You're safe. Yeah Continue to apply to the Ivy League people that there they really are prestigious and and good I think that there are some things because they're so Established that are just inherently Difficult to deal with these days, but I think everything that has a long history is that way in some some respect or other Well, the Ivy League colleges are like the really expensive colleges. So I'm guessing most of the people that go to these colleges Usually have money. I thought Amherst College was an Ivy League college But you said it's not because it's not one of those Special colleges that have a graduate program, right? Well Ivy there. Okay. So Amherst College is a special college I'll just call it that college That college is a great college. It is considered. I believe a little Ivy because they've taken Let's say freedom with some of the terminology. There's also I think different Ivy like groups in other nations I've heard that there's a consortium or rather. There's a group in England. There are Well-established and equally reputable. That's the whole idea. I guess is they say that's a mixture of prestige academic success and I Know I I heard that some people go to England they're Rhodes scholars and I don't really understand what that is Do you know what that is? No, I think that those are people that study cartology and construction of roads I Think it's Rhodes R. H. I don't even know how to spell R. H. O. D. E Yes, there's something it's the Rhodes scholar. Those are then they must go to England and because that's how they spell Rhodes in England That's the old English. Okay. Well, we have to point out that this guy is a local celebrity He does comedy at some places around the area here. So he is technically a little bit of a character so You'll have to kind of pardon some of the information here We might have some information that might get people annoyed. I know I would say filter the information but To those who are listening and those who aren't listening filter everything Okay, well another impressive fact about this person. That's here He's his name is Martin. He likes me to say I need to park my car and Harvard. Yeah And he said he likes me to say that I don't see anything wrong with that I wouldn't mind going to Harvard, but I'd probably want to go to the divinity school I don't think that I want to go to the regular school because I'm into the paranormal So I'd like to study paranormal stuff at Harvard Divinity, but I don't know if they even offer that That's what I would call the alternative spiritual movement there as opposed to the traditional spiritual movement, which would probably be some of these Established religions that they don't really believe in some of these things, but I happen to believe in some of these kind of paranormal concepts The Indians of course they they tend to Worship ghosts and spirits and things like that, but we all know about the Indians. Don't we? What about the Indians? I'm gonna go with Native Americans, right? Okay, he's that's another thing he likes to point out a political correctness here I don't call it. There's a billion people that call themselves Indians already But I am I do try to push the politically correct button a lot That's because he's an Ivy League He's an Ivy League and what was the college that you went to by the way? It was a university Oh, it was a university. That's right. It was the The greatest Ivy League university, of course the color of my skin the color of the world Brown University Okay, I Remember some guy that wrote a book He was talking on national radio a national public radio. I think about a year or so ago He was talking about some of these Ivy League colleges years ago The students would bring their slaves to the college so they were allowed to bring their slaves to the college when slavery was The the thing to do I guess it's like now like the thousand dollar iPhone You have a thousand dollar iPhone now, but maybe 200 years ago. You'd have a your own personal slave So what's your comment about that idea? I like I like how you brought up a couple of interesting points already the I was looking into the Ivy League and it turns out that Seven of those eight colleges were founded by strong like religious councils and and divinity, you know people of religious orders Calvinists the the Church of England and then For example Brown was Baptist although Brown is the only one that apparently in its con in the way It was written people were not expected to pass any religious tests or have any sort of Particular belief, but the council was headed by a number of Baptists. I believe Protestants and other Christians at the time Except for Cornell Cornell was not established until 1865 I think in celebration or rather in recognition of the battle of Gettysburg Okay, that's unofficial. That's interesting Well official and it's a little bit maybe Inflammatory statement, but I think that it's interesting year, right? And what interesting year they certainly didn't take slaves to campus at that point Your point about slaves being allowed on campus. That's true And in fact, there were not even a mixing of genders not to skip past the race issue too quickly But there was not even mixing of genders so amongst the you know The white elite that went to these schools the women were always kept separately and when I was looking into this It's very interesting to know that Columbia never had a sister school as far as I understand. They were also the Let's just go past that the the seven sisters, which is a mountain range down here they apparently are associated with Seven different all female or mostly female if not all female colleges including Mount Holyoke Smith well as Lee Vassar Barnard There's a couple others and I apologize for not knowing them But the because for example Animal House is a is a satiric story about guys from Dartmouth He sees come down two hours and party at Smith and at Holyoke because that's where they used to have Okay, and I remember because when I went to a school in the 60s a lot of stuff was Separate when I was in elementary school the girls playground was on one side of the school and Boys playground was on the other side of the school there So I grew up from elementary school all the way through college in a sex segregated Sex segregated Educational system even when I went to UMass we had the men's dorms and the women's dorms They didn't have co-ed dorms The co-ed dorms came after I left and I graduated in 1972 by the way at UMass I wasn't really an Ivy League guy, and I just kind of went to one of the regular colleges Of course at that time colleges didn't cost that much in this day and age people are Going to college and paying all outdoors, and I'm not really even sure now if If it's really worthwhile for people to be spending all that money to go to college because I read a book in the 70s the book was called the case against college I thought it was kind of an interesting idea, and I'm thinking that you know in this day and age We don't really need brick and mortar stores because you can order stuff online So why do we need brick and mortar colleges? It's only because the college students tend to be Social junkies they like to be interacting with each other and potting and stuff So they want to go to a regular school. They want to pay all outdoors so they can go potting at these schools So I think that they could just get their education through the computer. What do you think about that idea? I I want to say that partying and socializing is an integral Invaluable part of college education especially in this country with a culture that is so Closed in xenophobia that these children rather this generation of children Don't have a lot of perspective on what's going on out there. So you know what let them mingle so you're you're promoting the idea that when these students at the colleges kind of interact with other Cultures that a kind of gives them a better perspective on things there. It's not like Somebody that has a lot of money and they get in through the side door By paying a sailing coach money to get into Stanford or something like that. It's not that way at all. You're saying that these are Quote regular kind of students that they actually are qualified to go to college They don't really have like parents that want to have a building named after them or something like that Some of them do no doubt some of them absolutely do and some of my classmates when I went to Brown University class of 94 I remember that several people were extremely wealthy and what struck me a member thinking back then was I Didn't even know that some of these people were so wealthy because they just seemed so straightforward and normal and Plus of my I think I would say naivete About the financial situation. I didn't get slipped in the back door. My dad wasn't able to Tip the admissions council of Brown. He did offer to wash the dishes for 16 years and that's how I got into Brown Under the you know bring a meal and a child program to your Ivy League None of that's true. I actually earned my way into Brown. I did really well in in high school and then I discovered Drugs and brown women and I know that sounds bad, but since I went to Brown, we know that we're talking about Well, this is one of those things that's part of our society now that Drugs and women seems to be more on the minds of people than their educational background Can I say real quickly Ivy League drugs top notch Ivy League women? Okay, well when I went to UMass, I was actually kind of not wanting to deal with anybody from Amherst, Mount Holyoke, a Smith I might want to interact with people from Hampshire College because Hampshire Hampshire College was considered kind of an alternative College and that was the focus on the school of education when I went there it was alternative education So I felt comfortable with maybe dealing with Hampshire College people, but these other people I wasn't really comfortable With but now what you're feeling about this Hampshire College situation that they seem to be having financial difficulties my Idea is that because this is not a time where alternative ideas Really kind of like part of the mainstream. They kind of want everybody to be thinking the same They they don't want people thinking outside the box Although the people that think outside the box are probably the more successful people I Think I think that's a good statement. I don't know that I don't know exactly what's going on with Hampshire College I do know that when I went to college and probably to this present day It is or was one of the most expensive colleges. So as far as cost of education That's not exclusive to any of the Ivy Leagues the difference is and I'm gonna say is the tongue-in-cheek It's actually worth it when you go to an Ivy League College for example, Harvard not to pump their spirits, but Has one of the largest endowments of you know, it has the largest endowment of any academic institution in the world You know, so it's not only are they you know fostering an amazing community of Future leaders and and and great Individuals, but they're also, you know getting feedback and money From these people, you know, I think of the last I think I just read the of the last Gosh, it's got to be ten presidents There was maybe not that many but there's been quite a few presidents in a row starting with Bush senior that Went to or were affiliated with went to at some point in Ivy League College was Yale part of that Ivy League Yes, some of them just went to graduate school like law school, for example, right Obama went to Harvard Graduate school not gonna say which one I'm not positive Trump attended as an undergraduate University of Pennsylvania okay, well, I Try not to talk too much about Trump because it's constantly in news on a daily basis And I get kind of tired listening to news about Trump so I try to avoid dealing with a Trump stuff there cuz anytime you turn on National Public Radio, they'll always mention Trump there Six as a matter of fact, I think that our National Public Radio was a little bit biased against Trump because they tend to interview people that Kind of make bad comments about Trump I did get surprised today that they actually had two different perspectives They had a Republican guy in a Democratic a woman that was Talking about a situation So I was surprised that they had actually two different people there because usually they'll just have one person and the one person Is always kind of denigrating Donald Trump But I really don't like to be talking about Donald Trump because you can turn on any talk show radio And they'll talk about Donald Trump So I have only one thing to say for certain about him and that is he really is I'm not sir I was zealous here anymore about having a wall. I say let him have that wall on the one condition that he actually goes out there and builds it Well, Trump has enough money so he can always have somebody know the joke is that he actually should do some work So so you're thinking that he needs to lay down a brick and have a photo session there That's what they do in this day and age. They'll come over and they'll have a photo session No, I think you should literally be out there in blue jeans and a trousers or whatever Let's say overalls and and wicker hat and he should build that wall himself and then he'll get an appreciation of what he's talking about Okay, well Donald Trump has his Bad characteristics as well as everybody else. So I really just think that everybody has some kind of A problem what they're mentioning on the radio was they call this Twitter Twitter trash that people start using Twitter and start trashing each other And you know what kind of wall does work the only wall that could work I'd say they build one big long Walmart along the border and the front will be towards the United States Where everyone loves the shop will be happy and in the back the employees can come in So that's the back door approach to the only wall that's gonna work The back door approach that coming into the United States. Mexicans come in and work anyway to Fund our big corporations like Walmart. So why not make a great Situation where we can go shopping. There's a wall Mart are on the border and in the back That's where the employees come in and go home. Okay. Well Unfortunately, even though I graduated from college On my job since 1975 have been part-time jobs. So I'm kind of leaning more towards the people that are low-income people I Think they call them economically disadvantaged is like you call it the politically correct We're a franchise. I also like that. I my Walmart idea is it's a joke Okay, he's joking well, I Do like the idea of having People coming in to do stuff, but that's what the Saudi Arabians do they kind of hire people from other countries to do stuff and Abuse them and everything because these are rich people the Saudi Arabians But this is a theory that I have say that if ISIS Was as rich as the Saudi Arabians. We'd be praising ISIS. We said, oh, yeah, we love those ISIS people They have all this money and everything we don't like those Saudi Arabians because they're a bunch of trouble makers so if the foot was on the The shoe was on the other foot is If you say that some of these other people might have more money so we're kind of having a more of a Institutional capitalistic approach towards a worldwide Kind of dealings with other people just like they were saying like people in Yemen They're attacking the Saudis. Well, the Saudis have been attacking the Yemenis and the Yemenis are starving That I've heard. Yes. I can only say one thing for certain about the Middle East. I I find it Ironic and perhaps a little bit offensive I don't know to the people of Iran and Iraq that in English we only separate their country names by one letter Okay, I mean they're very different. I Don't really know the difference between Iran and Iraq only I think that one is that one form of a Religion and the other is another form of a religion We don't really want to deal with some of these issues because These are issues that are happening around the world that Everybody has to be dealing with I think one of the reasons why we're having problems with immigration Is that people are trying to get away from some of these Situations that they're experiencing in Africa, South America People are having problems like in South America with gangs and they don't want to be staying there So they're heading up towards the United States. Although we do have gangs in the United States Well, you know, yeah And I think what's also very pertinent to point out is that a lot of the strife and the hardships that they're trying to avoid are caused by guess who the United States of America because we poke our Nose into not only everyone politically, but also financially and we run a lot of the financial market And we dictate a lot of what people experience and how they experience it and we have caused Probably well besides the wars we've caused, you know, I mean People as the last you know means a resort will do what they can to survive and if they think they can come here make something of it ironically because It's so hard in their country and the true irony is that it's probably because of how good it is here You know, it's it's it's it's actually a little bit deeper and I agree that it's something it's hard to really Wrap up into a conversation. It's very very deep. I know that the the economic situation is one of the primary forces for the immigration but We have homeless people in the United States. They can't afford the price of Housing for example, I was going to mention that This last weekend. I saw them actually I use the word attack although they Person told me he wouldn't use the word attack, but I'm using that word that are the homeless people that were in back back of the big Why supermarket? They were kind of attacked they had a big dumpster and they went in and took all their mattresses and everything out from behind the woods there that they were kind of living there for quite a long time these homeless people Big why owns that property? I Guess they were given a warning that they need to get get out of the property there So they gave them notice and then they went in there and took all their stuff out of there So it was kind of like an attack on the homeless people. Of course, they'll just go from one place to another They they might not go on that side where big why is they might go on the opposite side there So they'll just they'll just move from one location to another, but I'm kind of guessing that a homeless people a homeless for a reason because the prices around here for Living is so expensive that Not too many people can afford to be paying the prices. I actually inquired at one of the new Buildings that's being built in this area and I inquired I said well, you know, I have somebody that might be interested in Renting and they gave me information. They wanted to 1950 I'm gonna round it off to two thousand dollars a month for one bedroom place I couldn't believe it. I said you wanted two thousand dollars for a one-bedroom place Then I asked at another place. I said, you know, I was inquiring about getting a place and they said yeah Well, we have a four bedroom house. That's two thousand dollars a month. I said well, that's a little better You have four bedrooms instead of one bedroom, but it's still two thousand dollars a month. So that's actually a Lot of money for people to come up with I'm sure that you pay two thousand dollars a month at your place. Is that what you pay? No, I paid only a thousand dollars for this phone. Oh, yeah, he's got the thousand dollar iPhone I was impressed with that. I I gotta say I figured out the reason you had asked me why was someone by a thousand dollar phone and Honestly, it's because it's a lot easier than carrying a thousand dollars around Okay, well, they might be a particular reason but say if Apple came out with some new fangled phone that would cost two thousand dollars Would you be the first one in line the day after Thanksgiving say you'd stand in line at midnight to go get your two thousand dollar phone You'd be like standing in line say that they got a this is a black Friday special You'll get the two thousand dollar phone for only fifteen hundred dollars And I'm guessing you'd be the first one in line to get one No, that's not necessarily true not necessarily true run with the only caveat that that's one of my superpowers now that I'm Disabled and I use a wheelchair. It's not visible on the screen right now. Is that I don't have to ever ever stand in line Okay, that's another reason he has a new fang old Wheelchair that he uses you were gonna show me this this thing that That you have for the wheelchair. It's some kind of a thing I you know you'll have to explain what the story is because it's kind of a high-tech thing so I made this out of a brick and Mud and spit on my free time last winter That's not true. It's called the smart drive. I was able to get it through Medicare It's been approved as a medical device and what it does is it links right here aren't to any manual chair that Just they kind of give a coupling or they give you some kind of thing you would Attach to the axle of your my manual wheelchair, for example this thing locks on and from here It pushes kind of has a tank like wheel in the sense that it can rotate sideways and forward and backward We don't have the room, but I didn't have I don't have my watch ordinarily it is controlled by Bluetooth signal through my watch and You would tap it to start it It tap it to stop the speed the top speeds about five and a half miles an hour And you have to of course guide it by turning as you ordinarily as I ordinarily would turn my wheelchair I want to point out that although it's called a smart drive It would be happily dumb enough to push me up the cliff if I ask it to yeah You was telling me that they might not not allow Everybody to use this device what would be the reason for that when I went to go Try out the device to see if it was a good fit for me And so they I could ask insurance or through my insurance for it They tested me to make sure that my executive functioning or that my brain was working Well enough to be able to make decisions and because this thing really can cause damage if you're not Conscientious and you're not aware of it. So this is basically an Ivy League item Well, I did go to the Ivy League and it is mine. So technically yes, you're correct I did want to point something out real quick before we passed the the topic too quickly about homeless people And I think that the biggest problem is something I read is not my original idea The biggest problem with the poor is not a lack of character or opportunity. It's a lack of cash there's a great story that talks about Social scientists that went to India on the other side of the world and they They They what they did is they they took IQ tests and they gave the same farmers Different versions of the IQ test when they were furthest away from and when they actually harvested Their whatever I think was sugar cane What they what they had pointed out what they realized was unique about this population was that 60% or more of their income Came in one day of the year So they tested them during this time when they had everything covered and they had money And they also tested them six months before whenever it was in the year They were the least maybe a month before the time they harvest and they found an actual 15 point That's significant. That's an as a statistically significant difference in the same people They found a 15 point difference or increase in IQ Just in that fact alone they were able to Present those findings. I don't know where but well Some of these in other words in other words I think when you don't have money you have to make bad decisions You're forcing to bad decisions and you're forced to I mean everyone has to live right they they no longer can live behind Big why but guess what they're not gonna get an apartment tomorrow. They're gonna have to live somewhere and so in many ways In their challenge is the lack of having cash and it seems that As a as a as a culture work complicit. We're okay with it Who doesn't see a homeless person every day? Well, they mentioned on the news today This was a statistic that they mentioned on national public radio. This he said in Los Angeles 40,000 people found places to stay but 55,000 people were made homeless so the homeless still outdid the Population that did find a place to stay so Not just a difference like a 15,000 people. That's 55,000 people that still don't have homes, right and that's California and I think that that might be true when a lot of the warm weather Areas, but there's people that are homeless in like Massachusetts like I interviewed the guy that was homeless just recently and He's been outside, you know, he stays outside in January with his sleeping bag and everything So he's actually outside and he's 69 years old a homeless person there So there are people that are year-round in Massachusetts homeless They had two people that died over there in Greenfield During the winter time, I guess they had tents set up near McDonald's and I know McDonald's in Greenfield because I'd stopped there once in a while and McDonald's is usually open 24 hours So you can always run to McDonald's to use the bathroom or whatever, but two people were found dead that I Had tents near McDonald's over there and Greenfield So that just goes to show that the homeless population does have a lot of problems with Dealing with the climate here in Massachusetts. I don't know how they could be living outside in January As homeless people, but there are people that are homeless You yourself are not homeless. You have a place to stay. I'm hopeful Okay, I'm hopeful. I have my own place. Yeah. Yeah, and I is it subsidized place or something Yeah, I live in the Hadley Housing Authority or in Golden Showers. I'm sorry Golden Court It's just that everyone pisses all over each other there believe me It's subsidized housing. So it's 30% of my income which is, you know, a fortunate Advantage So if you make more money, they'll charge you more is that basically how that works? Yeah And up to a certain amount there is a market value for that unit And so if you did by chance have a certain amount of income you could learn you could pay up to the maximum amount It's worth. Okay. I noticed that they were building a lot of Units over there in that area. They kind of like having places available for people you think that they're already filled up Those are private Duplexes and or condos So if they either are or not filled up, but they're gonna be privately owned. Oh, so that's a different Thing all together has nothing to do with public housing, right? It just happens to be very Happily luckily next to it. Well, yeah, I was thinking that they were building these Public houses over there because I drive by there. I said, oh look at all these places They're having available to the the public but wait, I wish I would move into one Yeah, they look like they're kind of expensive but You think that they might be charging two thousand dollars a month for one of those places are probably more I Think I'm just gonna say too much They charge too much for those places unless unless you're an Amherst College graduate You probably can't afford to live there and you don't have to pay your student loans Well the student loan thing that's another issue about the college is the case against college I think that people are spending too much money to go to college in my opinion. I think that Sometimes it might not be worth the money to go to college. I'm going back to the college thing I would think that if somebody spends two hundred thousand dollars on a Ferrari As opposed to two hundred thousand dollars for a college education at least down the road They'll still be able to make their two hundred thousand or more back with their Ferrari, but you may not necessarily be able to get your two hundred thousand back that easily from school well, I'll tell you what I think I Don't think a Ferrari would look as good up on my wall as my graduation diploma Well, the the diploma is impressive if you come from an Ivy League school But if you come like from UMass where I went, I think UMass has its good points and bad points When I'm kind of annoyed about with UMass is that they keep building these buildings They're building every every year since I've been there I started there in 1968 and it seems like every year they are always putting up some kind of building there There's constant construction going on there It's the brick-and-mortar concept that I was talking about and I think that You know sooner or later the brick-and-mortar stuff is going to not be as Easy to deal with like in the retail business that most people are now Going instead of going to the brick-and-mortar stores They're ordering stuff online and I'm thinking the college students may say that I don't want to be spending all that kind of money to go to college. I'd rather do something online. It might be More economical you're claiming that the social life in the school is a Good thing. I'm claiming that it may not necessarily be a good thing You remember that they have on St. Patrick's Day around here. They get all Drunk there because I'll tell you a story about my personal college life experience So I was accepted to Amherst College. Okay. I like to call it that college and I didn't go because my older brother was attending there and He was my older brother, you know what I mean? So I went to Brown instead, but I did come to Amherst College and I'll tell you what I met a lovely young lady that first time I came to Amherst College and We ended up, you know really enjoying a nice How was it you can say this cosmic relationship Another seat copulation, that's what it was. Yeah, I never would have had that opportunity had I not gone to a great school And my brother as well. Okay, so you I did a successfully have a Relationship with somebody when I went to college. I think I dated twice when I was at college I'm not really an extrovert. So I really wasn't into that social life That's why I have a kind of a mindset that I'm thinking that the social life is For what I call social junkies But I'm using that as a derogatory term because most people tend to want to be You know outgoing and stuff. I happen to be just the opposite. I'm more of an introvert as opposed to an extrovert So maybe college's life might be good for extroverts, but not necessarily good for introverts Maybe the introvert would be better off just using the computer. I you know, I don't know what to say about that I can tell you One joke that is that it's a good thing that the world is not flat because we would have lost a whole generation of children Staring at their cell phones. They just would have walked off the edge You know because you look at college campuses when I go by UMass, which is one of the places I do comedy When I go by there, I still see what I see in the city and in the bus stops There's no city around here, but you know, I see people staring at their devices at their palms. It gives you a little bit of a of a thought of You talked about the allegory of the caves by Plato and You know, I'm more I wasn't alive when Plato was alive like you were but I think more of Wally and other Jack Reacher These are, you know, some more contemporary versions of something of the same in the Wally picture, you know, although It's you know, not a great corporation that runs it or gave it up put it out there It's an excellent and beautiful story, but it does talk about almost how divisive these devices Are becoming or could become in this story People end up not talking to each other or looking even though that for example, we're nice to each other Right, we would be talking through our phones even at this proximity. It goes on to be a little more, you know Exaggerated in the Jack Reacher example. The idea is that this person who You know, it's a famous. I think series written by somebody by an author. I believe and This gentleman he spent his life, you know It's Fighting for the US military and all that stuff, right? All the great skills that everyone wants to be able to beat someone's ass If they have to, can we say ass? I can always edit stuff out. It depends on how bad it is. I don't have any problem You know, like beat the shit out of somebody Anyhow, so but but he comes back and he's like look around you. Who's really awake? Who's really alive? Who's free of debt? Who's free of? Indignity population 425 million. It's overcrowded. We're underpaid and we're meant to be agitated with each other because we're Retreated terribly and we're put into a situation where Plato's allegory that caves make great sense We are so in ravine Enraptured in it and wrapped inside this technology and our our materialistic accomplishments and our social connections that we don't realize that we're losing touch with each other and our true fundamental civil rights and our true ability to get together and be common and to share things rather than to Distribute them on a digital media that is written down somewhere forever That's not preservation. That's not history. That's paranoia. That's decadence of the elite Well, I I don't personally even carry a phone around with me because I'm from the 60s and I'm not really that interested in those kind of devices. I have seen you at Mountain Farms Mall area, right? Yeah, okay, every single camera that's hooked up through those security devices Eventually we'll have the facial recognition Software to be able to place you believe it or not with or without a cell phone because you do have a cell phone So your Location can be tracked and we've all I think well, I think I think that's one of the problems with the phones I think that people I don't realize that that they are being Attracted by either the government or private corporations They were just mentioning on the news today about some kind of breach with the southern border that They had hacked into Some government files. They were keeping track of the License plates something are going back and forth there and keeping track of that information about the people there And now they're getting that information somewhere else who knows what they're gonna be doing with that information maybe What I'm thinking is that? You know about government surveillance. I'm thinking that people from the United States Might be heading to Mexico to go to the nude beach and the government surveillance wants to Go cover the nude beach. That's my idea. Well, Mexican beaches are hot Okay, that I'm Mexican. Okay. Well, you like those nude beaches. I like beaches. Oh, not necessarily nude beaches I love beaches when they're new to all righty. Are we talking about the same thing? Well, thanks. I mean, we want to talk about real quickly because I got to get going But we wanted to talk about the term Handicap. Oh, yeah, I mentioned that on my notes. You notice that I have a Notebook from the dollar store and he's got a thousand dollar iPhone there. I said, well, you know, I can all write stuff in my little Notebook Microphone is much bigger than yours. I don't know if you noticed. Oh, yeah, I guess they probably figured that that might be Okay, well, so he seemed to be bent out of shape when I use the word handicapped And I said I didn't know what he was talking about. So you need to explain what that our word really means Technically, I wouldn't say I was bent out of shape. I just I'm disabled. So Please I was just what is what what is teasing the the okay So the thing that we talked about was the I did my masters in psychology and so I can verify that These are true facts that the term handicapped is a quip or put together of the terms rather In England in old in England back in the day when someone was disabled The only occupation or possibility of occupation was to put a cap in their hand and beg for alms Eventually that turned into handicapped and that is the origin of the term It's nefarious those of us that are in the trenches. So to speak prefer words such as disabled Maybe it's not a handicapped parking spot. Maybe it's an accessible parking spot. I Personally over at the Goodwin library and Hadley Asked and had them remove the handicapped word from the accessible entrance because I felt it was redundant and also derogatory, but most people don't know that So Actually do it or they were just saying yeah, yeah, yeah, well, they did they actually did it Okay, they agreed with me. There's a sign to a person using a wheelchair as there is usually and then I said Handicapped accessible parkway. I went to the director of the library. I said, I think that is redundant Over does it? I did explain to him the origin of the word handicapped And he was enlightened and kind enough to help my community where I am the unofficial and unelected mayor To remove that word from that sign and I thought that was really awesome and I hope that you know by putting Devices down and talking to people we can you know actually get back in touch with What it's like to be social because it's funny how we talked a little bit about being social in college. These kids don't know How the hell to talk to each other All they can do is go online and tell whether they like each other's cell. Okay another great reason I should say before I go is another great benefit of having a beautiful phone is taking awesome selfies Well, you know what I heard about Selfies just to end the conversation here There's a death by selfie, you know what that was death by selfie Yes, it's when you're really really ugly and you take a selfie and the phone blows up and kills you know What what they mentioned is that people would go to the Grand Canyon and they'd actually go so close to the edge They were taking pictures that they actually fell off and died because they were They were taking pictures of themselves on the edge of the Grand Canyon They they fell to their death the death by selfie. That's I wouldn't call that funny. That's that's really sad It's kind of goofy because they should know that you know, they're going so close to the edge Oh, I have to I have to get the picture here. I'm over here at the Grand Canyon I think you're getting to the edge yawn of Dark humor. Yeah, this is this is a story that I heard on national public radio And this this has been great. I very much. I'm happy. My name is hither I'm really happy to have been here today. Thank you very much yawn hither and yawn show here. We're hither and yawn, so I'm hoping that You pass on the information with your phone there and say that hither and yawn Thumbs up thumbs down, you know in scuba diving this means let's get out of here. It's an emergency Does that mean that there's sharks approaching could be this is actually shark That's what they say when I came down the road because When you're a male shark he actually he told me he studied what oceanography marine biology marine biology So you know all about that stuff. I did You don't really do anything with it now, but you had all kinds of knowledge about terrible thing to say I think all about marine biology all the time. Oh, you think about it all the time. I do. I think that the Devastating litter in our oceans is devastating. I think sharks are our friends and I want to just put this out there I think in this kind of a world instead of trying to just be nice to sharks We need to pick another species in the ocean to make fun of so I just want everyone to know as a marine biologist from Brown University class 94 that Dolphins are dolphins are whores Okay, well, that's his interpretation our friends. Thank you very much. My name has been hither and I'm yawn and we're gonna Sign off I'm gonna give you the peace sign from the 60s. What kind of sign. Oh, he's giving the peace sign I'll give you the If people want to check out my comedy they can go to YouTube Martin Vega comedian you have to know to spell comedian and How do you spell comedian? I spell it correctly, but how do you do is I don't know the thing you should do is don't judge The content by the number of visits. Oh Yeah, because some people are more interested in pornography than regular information Honey, you should say that I do have a song about gonorrhea, but there is no pornography Okay, well, I think that's one of the problems with the with the phones there. I think you know like Oh, you know, I heard on national public radio some some two-year-old Told its mother that she was abomination and This was they were talking about gifted children and this two-year-old told its mother well, you're an abomination I said, well, what the hell, you know, I didn't think two-year-olds would speak like that But obviously they're ready to go to Brown University. They're already on their way from two years old They're ready to go over there I applied when I was two. Yeah. Well, that's what my dad started working in the kitchen so the The pre the preschool stuff is important Make sure you go to one of these $50,000 preschools there has send your kid to the preschool there And they'll be working their way up to Brown. Is that it? I think that's the way to go man. Yeah Yeah, you know that the world is 80% that's the way to go Go to one of these expensive preschools and you're you're on your way To one of these Ivy League schools You don't need to go to the back door there and pay some sailing coach to get in You don't want to pay a sailor and I also want to say it's important to not drink your milk kids Yeah, because there's different forms of milk What is it these coconut milk? You know that we have more choices for milk in the supermarket than we do for presidential candidates in this big ass country Well, I don't know I gotta go. It's been real. Thanks, John