[laughs]

Oh, 'cause California, I'm just gonna say that.

Freaking California.

Which is the bane of my existence, you know.

I, I would much rather be in the middle of y'all's God country.

Matter of fact, I got guys up there right now, too, that, that, you know, the nearest gas station is 100 miles away.

And for anybody who's never visited their part of the world, that, that can be a thing.

[laughs]

Why are cooked bones so dangerous? People used to give their dogs leftover roast bone from the Sunday carvery all the time.

They did, and it caused thousands of vet emergencies.

When you cook a bone, whether it's baked, boiled, or smoked, the heat draws all the natural moisture and collagen out of it.

It changes the molecular structure, turning the bone hard, brittle, and dry.

When a dog bites down on a cooked bone, it shatters and splinters like glass.

Those sharp shards are what cause internal punctures and choking.

But what about raw bones? How are they different?

Raw bones are completely different.

Up next, uh, Daniel for his work as our public policy chair.

Um, I guess a couple things.

So, um, yeah, so I'm a public policy chair.

My background is in, uh, flight safety, aerospace safety.

So, um, it's a lot of direction.

But I would like to say, uh, well, I work at USC, and when my colleagues, uh, said contracting, um-

[laughs]

Um, and like I'm actually going out some Greek, um, a lot going on, not Mount Fraser, no manufacturing Fraser locations there.

Who knows? I mean, I know he had throat cancer, right? And, uh, is it-- What? Did he not have throat cancer?

Yeah, in the end, yeah, that's what it, what it was.

Yeah, he, he had a series of mini strokes that really deteriorated his health, um, towards the end of his life after he came out with this book and be- and a little bit before when he was in the Disclosure Project.

Um, and that's kinda, kinda ties into where Derek and I, um, our involvement.

We, you know, he didn't start talking about this until the mid-nineties, late nineties, and we were teenagers.

We would see him, you know, a couple weeks at a time in the summertime, uh, just for a visit, and he just started coming up with this information about UFOs.

And at that time, we didn't know what to think.

So, yeah.

What was your, what was your thoughts looking at it over the past two weeks?

I think it, like you already said, it just allowed for storylines to develop, right? More opportunities for upsets, and I think that is what men's volleyball needs.

It's, there's so many great teams that should be in the tournament that, you know, missed out, Irvine for many years, and just to allow for those upsets to happen and those teams that were left out in, in some tournaments to show what they're capable of doing, um, when the bright lights are on, I think that was the greatest thing about the expansion.

Our, our only thing that we should have to focus on is trying to go win this national championship, but instead you're also worrying about, you know, your, your freshmen that are getting, getting backdoor information from someone else about, "Hey, you should tr- get in the portal so we can get you X, Y, and Z." What's your guys' thoughts there? Is that a, is that a, a rational, rational take of, uh, legislation that we should try and see NCAA enact? Start with you, Daniel, since you've got the NCAA background, uh, a little bit deeper than Chad's.

Uh, I mean, I think you touched on it already.

It's looking at it from the two perspective of the student athlete and the coach.

Athletes, they're finishing up school, you know, all of this transfer stuff is...

There's a lot of moving parts to it, and they gotta figure out sooner than later for their peace of mind.

You made a bet that if you won the Creek Cup, you would jump into the ocean.

I told April specifically if she made another hole in one, I would do it for her and her, her only.

... that happened?

It wasn't, like, a group thing.

I was like, "April, if you make another hole in one, I'll jump in the ocean." So man of my word.

... you are.

No.

I, I'm growing, and so I use voice-to-text in my notes.

But I wrote down, "Ruth, a Moabite who was an outsider, became the grandmother of a king included in the bloodline of Jesus.

Just shows that God welcomes outsiders into His redemptive story."

It is a love story, but it's more of a redemption story.

Yeah.

I hope people feel challenged, uh, when they read scripture, that they can f- look for Jesus in what they're reading, 'cause all scripture points to Jesus.

O sea, ¿te parece correcto?

No, o sea, sí.

Yo no, bueno, no estoy diciendo que no sé qué hacer.

O sea, soy consciente de la responsabilidad, de lo que tengo que hacer.

O sea, tener un hijo no es nada fácil, pero sé la responsabilidad, sé lo que conlleva.

Y háblame fuerte, por favor, que casi no te escucho.

No, pues sí, le digo.

Lo entiendo, lo entiendo y lo comprendo, pero yo creo que dele una, una oportunidad, pues a lo mejor sé que ya le he dado varias, pero pues dele una, una oportunidad más y de todos modos nosotros nos vamos a hacer responsables.

Ouais.

T'sais, parce que là, il a été vraiment gêné, vraiment bon, ça se passe, mais oui, je reviens, elle est partie.

Puis comme, t'sais, c'est sûr, j'y crois pas que cette personne-là le sait pas à ce point-là, mettons.

Peut-être que elle, ça la dérange pas, ça, c'est problématique.

Mais ce que je trouve fascinant, c'est que, c'est que je peux pas croire que cette personne avait pas un peu de honte, puis potentiellement, qu'elle a pas encore eu le temps de l'exprimer dans la situation qu'on a devant nous, parce que je faisais référence un peu à, aux gens qu'on voit qui sont ordered.

T'sais, c'est comme au début, ils sont comme réfra-, souvent réfractaires à se faire dire ça.

Puis ils sont comme : « Non, non, j'ai pas un problème ».

Ouais.

Yeah, it's a shame

... my gameplay on Plant Banner is just you take a flank.

I love, I love, uh, setting up a couple guys on one s- flank of the board my first, uh, deployment, just get my opponent to react on that side.

And then my first activation with those guys is just to bolt them to the middle, and then over to the next side.

So I'll usually fake out one side and then go to the other, and that's where, where, uh, Plant Banner comes in, and I'm already stacked up on that side to where I can protect it.

You can come out and challenge it, but hopefully, and this is one of the counterplays to them, you just don't kill them.

You don't kill them until turning point three.

Daniel, tell us a little bit about the Triad Kill Team community.

Mi pregunta es: ¿cómo ayudan los alimentos fermentados al microbioma?

Otra pregunta superinteresante.

La comida influye mucho porque los microorganismos comen lo que nosotros comemos.

Las frutas, verduras y alimentos con fibra ayudan a los microorganismos buenos.

Los alimentos fermentados, como el yogur o la leche, también pueden ser beneficiosos.

Pero algunos alimentos, como las golosinas o muy dulces, hacen que estos microorganismos, por ejemplo, en nuestras bocas, liberen ácidos debilitando nuestros dientes.

Por eso siempre tenemos que recordar que lo que comemos no solo nos alimenta a nosotros mismos, sino que también a nuestros microorganismos.

Pero en ese entonces nadie sabía realmente qué eran esos seres ni lo importantes que llegarían a ser.

But what about our dogs? Does a dog's gut health matter as much as ours?

Hi, Alex.

It matters incredibly.

In fact, the science of the canine microbiome is probably the most exciting frontier in pet health right now.

Just like in humans, a dog's gut is home to trillions of bacteria, fungi, and other microbes.

And here is the mind-blowing statistic: roughly 70 to 80% of your dog's entire immune system actually lives in their gut.

Are there other benefits besides the probiotics?

Yes, it is packed with raw digestive enzymes.

Yeah, Dan, go ahead.

Okay.

So Peter, um, is, as, as Derek mentioned, once you're in the level 12 classification of the ACIO that, um, you have that clearance and can have access to the Labeth Group, which is a, you know, technology transfer group with, um, us and the, the ETs.

And so he has that level, um, and he is very much, uh, a part of the secret space program and kind of, uh, he still goes on missions and things like that.

Uh, and he has access to, you know, these pretty, um, in-depth databases of, you know, s- anything you can think of that, you know, with different timelines involved and, um, you know, o- out- other dimensional type of stuff that he's involved with.

Um, as far as anyone that we are aware of that's active in the ACIO, he's the highest, uh, ranking person that we are aware of.

Um, and so yeah, um, our experience with him, uh, started with, you know, getting into this Wingmakers.

Yeah, but let's go into the, the suppression and everything that I guess is ultimately still part of the Wing Makers material, but ...

We'd love to.

The challenge for us, yeah, the challenge for us is that when that book came out in 2003, our grandfather had started having a couple strokes by that time, and his health was really deteriorating, and he, he passed away a couple years later.

Um, so at that point in time we really weren't able to really have good conversations with him about the book or talk about it or have him elaborate or go into depth on anything.

So it's really unfortunate the timing of all that of when we, you know, found, found this out.

Um, besides, you know, when we were younger in, like in the '90s, and just him telling us stories when we'd go visit him out in New Mexico for the summer and, you know, hearing him talk about, you know, uh, Nazis in Antarctica and, um, different things like that, you know.

It was, uh, we- at that time, we were, I, I, I did, I didn't know what kind of questions to ask him or I didn't know if I truly believed it.

And, you know, I, I shared some of that with my friends one time, and I remember they were just like, their minds were blown, and it was just like...

Warner, Warner Robins, or yeah.

Yeah

... um, you know, a typical truck around here, I get 22 miles per gallon in my van, so that saves me five bucks every time I ride with them.

Like, I'm gonna go in with a birthday party, and I'm gonna ride with them, and that's gonna save me five bucks-

[laughs]

But it's, but so, so if we, if we think outside our own little box, and we think about a neighbor, why not ask them, "Hey, I go every Fridays to the store.

Do you need anything? Do you wanna go?" How to save that, I, I've seen some neighbors, they drive into Pima and go to the dollar store four or five times a day.

... signing that offer letter, what does that look like?

Yeah.

Uh, so for me, I started at the Munk School last year, and my first year of my dual degree is fully at the Global Affairs School.

So at the time, I knew I was interested in consulting, and I knew what McKinsey was, but like very surface level, right? And so, um, first thing I did was, like, I actually saw there were some alumni from Munk and Rotman who worked at the company then, and I reached out.

I, uh, I reached out to them and just, like, I was very honest about, like, where I stood right now and, like, what I knew, uh, and just asked them to help fill in a lot of the gaps.

And, like, I had so many questions of like, "What do you guys really do?" And like, "Tell me about, like, what your, like, life kinda looks like in- when you're working there," and like, "Why do you like it? Why are you there?" Like, "What makes you, like, get out of bed and wanna go to work," right? So, um, it was sort of-- I, I had that sort of like, I call it my buffer year to, like, really, like, learn about more about the industry and, uh, like, you know, connect with a lot of people who work at the firm.

And that was sort of the first step, and then you come into the MBA year, and, uh, from September to November, it's, like, very fast-paced.

Uh, we'll start there, and then I'll have a few follow-ups.

Now wait, was that a line or did you really think you recognized her?

No, I really did.

And I kept saying, "I, this isn't a pickup, but I, I feel like I know you from somewhere." And I kept listing off the places where I thought I could know her, you know?

Yeah, but they went to a bar together, right? Oh, yeah.

Yeah, we did, and we had a great time.

And this is the question.

I don't understand why she hasn't responded to the texts I sent.

Like, I get it, it's a weird meeting, but it was also kismet.

I was, "Wait, was that a line or did you really think you recognized her?"

No, I really did.

And I kept saying, "I, uh, this isn't a pickup, but I, I feel like I know you from somewhere." And I kept listing off the places where I thought I could know her, you know?

Yeah, but they went to a bar together, right? Oh, yeah.

Yeah, we did, and we had a great time, and this is the question.

I don't understand why she hasn't responded to the texts I sent.

Like, I get it.

It's a weird meeting, but it was also kismet.

It was very enjoyable to watch this.

Um, yeah.

I matched with this woman on Tinder.

Uh, this was many years ago.

And, uh, we were flirting, and she said something about wanting to hang out, and I think at the time, like, m- my place was, like, really...

There, there was something going on with my place where I didn't wanna have her over.

And I was like...

Mm-hmm.

[laughs]

Unplug your hearing aids.

Uh, uh, yeah.

I-- A little update from when I was on the podcast before, um, I'm a mid-30s, uh, bi white dude from the Bay Area.

I'm a therapist specializing in working with non-monogamous clients.

My background in this is that I essentially grew up at a hippie poly commune, um, that was entirely run by single moms.

Um, but there was a lot of non-traditional relationship styles, non-traditional body styles around.

Yeah.

So I would, I would love to go ahead and just toss it right over to you, and you're welcome to, to share what you've experienced over the years.

Sure.

Well, you know, when I was 12 years old, I lived in Graham, Washington.

That's, that's where I'm originally from.

I was born in Belgium.

My dad was stationed over there.

Got back to Washington State, and, uh, that's pretty much where I grew up.

Did you ever talk to your dad about this when you were an adult or when you were older?

Where am I? What is this? Why the fuck am I doing this? And who the fuck is Jerry? [dramatic music] [tape player clicking]

[ominous music] Time is out of joint.

Things are going badly.

The city streets are full of people, and the people, oh, they are furious.

Something is wrong with this city, they are saying.

Something must be done.

Now is the time to act, to change.

He's messing with our minds.

Right

... somebody that needs concrete proof, so we separate.She moves in with her aunt and the two oldest, the twins, and myself and Noah actually move into a cousin's house temporarily.

When we did so, I separated everything.

She worked, but I made more money.

We had the debt for the back rent payments that we had not paid, some utilities, and then we had a bankruptcy payment.

So anybody that's never been in bankruptcy, the one we filed, the way it works is they don't erase your debt, they consolidate it all.

So when we make that payment every month, you come out and your credit's better and all of that stuff.

Of course

Thank you.

Um, and at the time, it challenged a lot of traditional marketing thinking and put me on a path into digital marketing.

Thank you for that.

I'm very humbled.

Um, on the theme of challenging marketing thinking, what's your most contrarian bet about commerce over the next twenty-four months that most executives here would disagree with you on?

Please, for all our sakes, please.

Fine, I'll buy one.

How much is it?

[laughs] So buy a Gorblefunk and never give the wrong present again.

Happy birthday, June.

I got you this.