1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:02,920 Speaker 1: Are you gonna make me show my Blockbuster card too? 2 00:00:03,320 --> 00:00:04,200 Speaker 1: It's one more thing. 3 00:00:05,559 --> 00:00:10,520 Speaker 2: I'm one more thing. I like when you use your 4 00:00:10,600 --> 00:00:15,120 Speaker 2: valley guy voice. I know, an old surfer dude. Yeah, 5 00:00:15,240 --> 00:00:18,840 Speaker 2: he's got to be pushing eighty, still has blonde hair, 6 00:00:19,040 --> 00:00:21,160 Speaker 2: still wears at shaggy la. I've seen pictures of when 7 00:00:21,160 --> 00:00:24,720 Speaker 2: he was young. He was like your classic beach boys 8 00:00:25,160 --> 00:00:28,320 Speaker 2: on the beach surfer guy, you know, when California was 9 00:00:28,360 --> 00:00:30,680 Speaker 2: actually cool and everybody wanted to live here. And he 10 00:00:30,840 --> 00:00:34,040 Speaker 2: says he talks like that, and he says for sure 11 00:00:34,159 --> 00:00:36,920 Speaker 2: all the time, actually does well. 12 00:00:36,920 --> 00:00:39,199 Speaker 1: And we have a mutual friend who answers that description too. 13 00:00:39,200 --> 00:00:40,520 Speaker 1: He's one of my favorite guys on Earth. 14 00:00:40,560 --> 00:00:43,240 Speaker 2: I'd never known anybody who actually said for sure other 15 00:00:43,280 --> 00:00:45,879 Speaker 2: than you know, oh yeah, for sure, for sure. And 16 00:00:45,880 --> 00:00:46,440 Speaker 2: he's like eighty. 17 00:00:46,560 --> 00:00:49,199 Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a lot to you, bro. Yeah, it's beautiful. 18 00:00:49,479 --> 00:00:52,560 Speaker 1: So let's play the audio first and then we can 19 00:00:52,600 --> 00:00:53,519 Speaker 1: comment on it. 20 00:00:54,160 --> 00:00:54,279 Speaker 2: Uh. 21 00:00:54,640 --> 00:00:58,240 Speaker 1: This is Jim Acosta, who normally is a vomit worthy 22 00:00:58,280 --> 00:01:01,720 Speaker 1: presence on the American scene. A boil really on the 23 00:01:01,760 --> 00:01:03,560 Speaker 1: fani American media. 24 00:01:04,000 --> 00:01:08,120 Speaker 2: Boil this is not a good podcast. Put an explicit 25 00:01:08,160 --> 00:01:12,440 Speaker 2: warning on this or it's for medical I'm a wardsmith. 26 00:01:12,520 --> 00:01:15,280 Speaker 1: That was the only description. Yeah, you had the option. 27 00:01:15,360 --> 00:01:17,399 Speaker 2: You act like your Yeah, you act like you're You 28 00:01:17,520 --> 00:01:20,480 Speaker 2: got one narrow choice, and that is boils on heinees. 29 00:01:21,080 --> 00:01:24,480 Speaker 1: You know what, folks, Folks, people just don't appreciate greatness 30 00:01:24,560 --> 00:01:29,520 Speaker 1: until after it's gone. So anyway, six play as sixty four, Michael. 31 00:01:29,800 --> 00:01:32,560 Speaker 3: I mean, one interesting development that has emerged here in 32 00:01:32,680 --> 00:01:34,840 Speaker 3: Nevada is they're running into a problem with some of 33 00:01:34,880 --> 00:01:37,000 Speaker 3: the mail in ballots that have come in so far. 34 00:01:37,120 --> 00:01:40,400 Speaker 3: Some of the signatures have been an issue, and election 35 00:01:40,480 --> 00:01:42,360 Speaker 3: workers are now reaching out to some of those folks 36 00:01:42,360 --> 00:01:44,959 Speaker 3: out there who have signature issues. Your signatures need to 37 00:01:45,000 --> 00:01:47,120 Speaker 3: match those that are on file with the state. And 38 00:01:47,440 --> 00:01:50,040 Speaker 3: an interesting anecdote here, one of the problems that they're 39 00:01:50,080 --> 00:01:53,240 Speaker 3: running into is that a lot of young voters don't 40 00:01:53,280 --> 00:01:55,280 Speaker 3: know how to sign their names, and so when they've 41 00:01:55,320 --> 00:01:58,040 Speaker 3: signed their names onto some of these ballots, they are 42 00:01:58,080 --> 00:02:00,880 Speaker 3: not jiving with what state officials have on file. And 43 00:02:00,920 --> 00:02:02,600 Speaker 3: so what they're doing at this point is sort of 44 00:02:02,600 --> 00:02:05,600 Speaker 3: frantically reaching out to a lot of young voters across 45 00:02:05,600 --> 00:02:07,400 Speaker 3: the state of Devaded and saying, hey, wait a minute, 46 00:02:07,400 --> 00:02:09,040 Speaker 3: there's a problem with your ballot. You need to check 47 00:02:09,080 --> 00:02:11,120 Speaker 3: in with the state and make sure that your signature 48 00:02:11,160 --> 00:02:11,799 Speaker 3: is verified. 49 00:02:12,639 --> 00:02:15,440 Speaker 1: So, as a guy who's been a curmudgeon since the 50 00:02:15,520 --> 00:02:19,000 Speaker 1: age of sixteen, you know, I hate to miss a 51 00:02:19,120 --> 00:02:23,959 Speaker 1: chance to kick the young. But a couple of things. 52 00:02:24,680 --> 00:02:29,359 Speaker 1: The idea that your signature is your password is so outdated. 53 00:02:30,000 --> 00:02:32,360 Speaker 1: Number one, as a young person, you haven't developed a 54 00:02:32,400 --> 00:02:35,239 Speaker 1: signature that's consistent if you're eighteen nineteen. 55 00:02:35,480 --> 00:02:38,040 Speaker 2: I was speaking of being a curmudgeon. I came up 56 00:02:38,040 --> 00:02:40,320 Speaker 2: with one. Practiced it all for high school. I went 57 00:02:40,360 --> 00:02:42,560 Speaker 2: back and forth a couple of times, finally settled on 58 00:02:42,560 --> 00:02:43,680 Speaker 2: one when I was about seventeen. 59 00:02:44,560 --> 00:02:48,639 Speaker 1: Right, I did too. Actually, I practice signing autographs, which 60 00:02:48,680 --> 00:02:52,120 Speaker 1: is a weird thing to do. But I would say, 61 00:02:52,160 --> 00:02:55,239 Speaker 1: particularly although mine evolved. 62 00:02:54,720 --> 00:02:56,680 Speaker 2: In your mind, in your mind at the time, what 63 00:02:56,680 --> 00:03:01,120 Speaker 2: were you signing autographs for? Oh, gosh, music, art? 64 00:03:01,880 --> 00:03:03,040 Speaker 1: Maybe I don't know. 65 00:03:03,400 --> 00:03:05,640 Speaker 2: You're just famous, just kind of generally famous. 66 00:03:06,040 --> 00:03:11,639 Speaker 1: It's really really multifaceted fame, you know, just a red 67 00:03:11,680 --> 00:03:15,000 Speaker 1: carpet walk kind of a thing. Ladies and gentlemen. The 68 00:03:15,440 --> 00:03:18,160 Speaker 1: Senator from the Great State of California, you know him 69 00:03:18,160 --> 00:03:21,480 Speaker 1: from such silver screen classics as this and that, four 70 00:03:21,560 --> 00:03:26,160 Speaker 1: time Grammy winner and Major League pitcher Joe Getty. 71 00:03:29,600 --> 00:03:34,080 Speaker 2: And uh and a great purveyor of descriptive euphemisms for 72 00:03:34,200 --> 00:03:35,560 Speaker 2: things like boils on a. 73 00:03:37,400 --> 00:03:42,040 Speaker 1: Right. Yeah yeah see Katie, Yeah he kicks me, but 74 00:03:42,120 --> 00:03:48,040 Speaker 1: we see your game anyway. I just I argue that 75 00:03:48,080 --> 00:03:50,000 Speaker 1: a lot of young people haven't developed what is quote 76 00:03:50,040 --> 00:03:52,800 Speaker 1: unquote a permanent signature. And I will tell you this 77 00:03:52,840 --> 00:03:54,880 Speaker 1: because it happened to me the other day. We had 78 00:03:54,880 --> 00:03:58,040 Speaker 1: to sign some forms my beloved bride and I and 79 00:03:58,240 --> 00:04:03,440 Speaker 1: I sign my name so frequently these days, it's all online. 80 00:04:03,440 --> 00:04:06,720 Speaker 1: It's all doc you sign or type in your name, 81 00:04:06,800 --> 00:04:10,360 Speaker 1: this will be your online signature, and imply and you 82 00:04:10,440 --> 00:04:13,360 Speaker 1: have agreed, blah blah blah. I just mine's gotten kind 83 00:04:13,360 --> 00:04:16,400 Speaker 1: of sloppy and inconsistent on it, honestly. So I just 84 00:04:16,440 --> 00:04:20,200 Speaker 1: think the use of the signature as you're like ID 85 00:04:21,040 --> 00:04:23,719 Speaker 1: is an antiquated notion. It's of a bygone era. 86 00:04:24,000 --> 00:04:27,160 Speaker 2: I got rejected at a bank a couple of years 87 00:04:27,200 --> 00:04:28,919 Speaker 2: ago because I was trying to close an account and 88 00:04:28,960 --> 00:04:31,039 Speaker 2: to do it, I had to sign my name and 89 00:04:31,080 --> 00:04:34,679 Speaker 2: I had apparently signed it differently. My signatures didn't match 90 00:04:34,800 --> 00:04:37,640 Speaker 2: and they wouldn't show me the old one, so I 91 00:04:37,640 --> 00:04:41,680 Speaker 2: didn't remember, and like I apparently had changed over the 92 00:04:41,760 --> 00:04:46,279 Speaker 2: last fifteen years or something, became a real hassle. That's dumb, 93 00:04:46,960 --> 00:04:50,040 Speaker 2: Like you just said, really, yeah, I'm not doing anything. 94 00:04:50,080 --> 00:04:51,520 Speaker 2: I'm not trying to commit a crime. I just don't 95 00:04:51,560 --> 00:04:53,640 Speaker 2: remember how I signed my name fifteen years ago. 96 00:04:54,320 --> 00:04:57,800 Speaker 1: But in the days of I unlocked my computer with 97 00:04:57,839 --> 00:05:01,160 Speaker 1: my fingerprint, and there's face recognition and then iris scans 98 00:05:01,240 --> 00:05:03,479 Speaker 1: and and the rest of it. You're going to test 99 00:05:03,560 --> 00:05:06,080 Speaker 1: my ability to write my name the same way I 100 00:05:06,080 --> 00:05:09,680 Speaker 1: always write it. I just seems silly. I don't know etiquated. 101 00:05:09,800 --> 00:05:12,599 Speaker 2: Do you put an eye over any it's you gotta 102 00:05:13,760 --> 00:05:16,240 Speaker 2: you don't have an eye in your name? Or no, 103 00:05:16,240 --> 00:05:17,560 Speaker 2: how do you spell Katie? I don't even know how 104 00:05:17,600 --> 00:05:19,960 Speaker 2: you spell Katie k A T I E. Okay. Do 105 00:05:20,000 --> 00:05:21,000 Speaker 2: you put a heart over the eye. 106 00:05:21,600 --> 00:05:22,640 Speaker 1: No, I'm not twelve. 107 00:05:22,760 --> 00:05:25,280 Speaker 2: No, some people do. Some women do. 108 00:05:25,800 --> 00:05:27,719 Speaker 1: When I when I was younger, and I thought it 109 00:05:27,760 --> 00:05:30,479 Speaker 1: was cute. Yeah, but no, I'm I'm an adult. Thank you. 110 00:05:32,080 --> 00:05:35,400 Speaker 1: That's what's sweet about little girls. I love it. I please, 111 00:05:35,600 --> 00:05:37,599 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, the e at the end, the little swirl 112 00:05:37,680 --> 00:05:38,120 Speaker 1: all of it. 113 00:05:39,240 --> 00:05:41,600 Speaker 2: I thought that this story was going to be about 114 00:05:41,600 --> 00:05:43,800 Speaker 2: how they don't teach cursive in school anymore. 115 00:05:45,120 --> 00:05:49,080 Speaker 1: No, which we've learned. Neuroscientists say there's something amazing about 116 00:05:49,080 --> 00:05:52,200 Speaker 1: writing and cursive, that it connects the artistic part of 117 00:05:52,240 --> 00:05:55,479 Speaker 1: your brain and like the more practical, mathematic, physical part 118 00:05:55,520 --> 00:05:57,840 Speaker 1: of your brain in a way that virtually nothing else does. 119 00:05:57,920 --> 00:06:00,599 Speaker 1: I find that fascinating. I don't think there's any need 120 00:06:00,640 --> 00:06:03,279 Speaker 1: for cursive writing in the modern world anymore. I just 121 00:06:03,320 --> 00:06:07,560 Speaker 1: found that, in a neurological way really intriguing. 122 00:06:07,680 --> 00:06:09,800 Speaker 2: Neither one of my kids learned cursive in school, and 123 00:06:09,880 --> 00:06:11,320 Speaker 2: I haven't worried about it at all. 124 00:06:11,680 --> 00:06:14,719 Speaker 1: I could see the connect between not learning cursive and 125 00:06:14,760 --> 00:06:16,520 Speaker 1: not knowing how to sign your name though. 126 00:06:16,520 --> 00:06:20,120 Speaker 2: Yeah that kind of hand. Yeah, well yeah, you'd have 127 00:06:20,160 --> 00:06:22,960 Speaker 2: to come up with a signature kind of out of nowhere. Yeah. 128 00:06:23,000 --> 00:06:25,000 Speaker 2: If you never learned cursive, right. 129 00:06:25,760 --> 00:06:28,680 Speaker 1: You know what, that's my signature. I can still do 130 00:06:28,720 --> 00:06:29,320 Speaker 1: it pretty well. 131 00:06:29,760 --> 00:06:30,599 Speaker 2: Congratulations. 132 00:06:31,000 --> 00:06:33,279 Speaker 1: Hang on a second, I got to write best wishes. 133 00:06:34,600 --> 00:06:39,440 Speaker 1: Thanks for coming to my movie Slash Ball Game Slash Inauguration. 134 00:06:42,000 --> 00:06:45,599 Speaker 2: Weather's here. Wish you were beautiful, Yes, Katie, No. 135 00:06:45,720 --> 00:06:47,800 Speaker 1: I was, I mean for some reason. I guess when 136 00:06:47,839 --> 00:06:49,200 Speaker 1: I heard this, it kind of blew my mind because 137 00:06:49,200 --> 00:06:51,360 Speaker 1: I'm thinking, by the time you're voting age you don't 138 00:06:51,400 --> 00:06:53,640 Speaker 1: have a signature. 139 00:06:53,640 --> 00:06:56,800 Speaker 2: In the modern world, you might not all be. Anything 140 00:06:56,839 --> 00:06:59,920 Speaker 2: you would ever sign is probably docu sign like Joe. 141 00:07:00,080 --> 00:07:03,800 Speaker 1: Yeah, you're right. That's just so strange to me. I 142 00:07:03,839 --> 00:07:05,200 Speaker 1: don't know. I can't wrap my head around it. 143 00:07:05,160 --> 00:07:05,680 Speaker 2: And you ain't right. 144 00:07:05,800 --> 00:07:09,560 Speaker 1: What's hilarious is I got my Social Security card when 145 00:07:09,600 --> 00:07:12,240 Speaker 1: I was a child. I can't even remember how old 146 00:07:12,280 --> 00:07:15,280 Speaker 1: I was, but and they have you signed the front 147 00:07:15,920 --> 00:07:19,040 Speaker 1: as a little child, right, I'm still going to be 148 00:07:19,040 --> 00:07:20,880 Speaker 1: signing my name like that at age fifty. 149 00:07:21,000 --> 00:07:23,400 Speaker 2: That's pretty funny. Yeah, my soci Security card has my 150 00:07:23,720 --> 00:07:27,680 Speaker 2: ridiculous signature that I had at that age. 151 00:07:28,560 --> 00:07:33,280 Speaker 1: Yeah, that wasn't that young. The d's look like the No, 152 00:07:33,360 --> 00:07:38,520 Speaker 1: what wasn't the point of that? So anyway, Nevada and 153 00:07:38,560 --> 00:07:42,560 Speaker 1: other other states are having problems with trying to figure 154 00:07:42,560 --> 00:07:45,960 Speaker 1: out this Joe Getty doesn't look anything like the Joe 155 00:07:46,040 --> 00:07:48,640 Speaker 1: Getty when he registered to vote twenty eight years ago 156 00:07:48,760 --> 00:07:51,760 Speaker 1: or whatever. And it's silly. Let's move on. 157 00:07:51,840 --> 00:07:53,560 Speaker 2: Have you ever seen Trumps signature? I ate to be 158 00:07:53,560 --> 00:07:55,680 Speaker 2: all about Trump on this day after election. Have you 159 00:07:55,680 --> 00:07:56,600 Speaker 2: seen trump signature? 160 00:07:56,880 --> 00:07:58,320 Speaker 1: We have him squiggle. 161 00:07:58,400 --> 00:08:00,240 Speaker 2: He signed a letter for my son when he was 162 00:08:00,240 --> 00:08:05,520 Speaker 2: getting medical care, and that we keep in a safe 163 00:08:05,520 --> 00:08:08,000 Speaker 2: place because I think he'll appreciate it someday that he's 164 00:08:08,000 --> 00:08:10,840 Speaker 2: got a signed letter from the President. I know you're 165 00:08:10,880 --> 00:08:12,360 Speaker 2: going through a thing today, Henry, good luck with that. 166 00:08:12,400 --> 00:08:13,760 Speaker 2: Blah blah blah blah. And he signed it. But his 167 00:08:13,800 --> 00:08:17,680 Speaker 2: signature is really wacky. It's like a how many times 168 00:08:17,680 --> 00:08:20,080 Speaker 2: has Donald Trump signed his name through the years of 169 00:08:20,080 --> 00:08:22,920 Speaker 2: all the legal stuff and being a celebrity. Holy goal. 170 00:08:23,000 --> 00:08:26,000 Speaker 2: You would have to come up with a weird signature, right, And. 171 00:08:25,920 --> 00:08:28,720 Speaker 1: Your signature can be anything you want it to be. Too, 172 00:08:29,240 --> 00:08:32,360 Speaker 1: need not resemble the letters in your name at all. 173 00:08:32,600 --> 00:08:34,840 Speaker 1: If you just replicate it. Maybe I'll come up with 174 00:08:34,880 --> 00:08:40,160 Speaker 1: some prints like symbols, become my signature, some umlats and 175 00:08:40,240 --> 00:08:45,560 Speaker 1: squiggles and hard a beaver whatever you want, a pair 176 00:08:45,600 --> 00:08:52,800 Speaker 1: of pants pants right of panted beaver decency to cover 177 00:08:52,880 --> 00:08:56,520 Speaker 1: up his genitals? Ah, what was I going to say? 178 00:08:56,520 --> 00:08:59,199 Speaker 1: I had one more thought on this. It's just a signature, 179 00:08:59,400 --> 00:09:05,640 Speaker 1: a squiggle. Nope, what's gone? Have anything to do? With 180 00:09:05,679 --> 00:09:09,600 Speaker 1: boils now and now you now. 181 00:09:09,600 --> 00:09:13,720 Speaker 2: We gotta get out at two kt with a heart 182 00:09:13,720 --> 00:09:14,040 Speaker 2: over it. 183 00:09:16,000 --> 00:09:19,240 Speaker 1: I just signed my name in an X and in 184 00:09:19,400 --> 00:09:21,559 Speaker 1: kran Well, I guess that's it.