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Beyond the Blockchain 9-17-24 Our panel deals w robotics in the service industry and everywhere else
- Welcome to Beyond the Blockchain with Scott Tindall, a discussion of blockchain technology, cryptocurrency, and why it matters to you. - Hey folks, welcome into Beyond the Blockchain here on Tuesday night with the live. Like we normally do, we miss last Tuesday night due to the presidential debate. You know, we figured people would listen that more nuts, but always happy to have the Johnny Gwen in the studio with us, Johnny. How you doing, my friend? - Good evening, I'm fine. Hello people out there. - Hello, people of the world. - Yes. - Philip keeping us between the white and yellow. We have Sierra with us as well, I think. Sierra, how are you, my friend? - Whoops. - Hello. - Whoops, Sierra. Anyway, we'll get with Sierra in a minute. Johnny's been some interesting things going on in this past week. We had the presidential debate, which I think took up a lot of people's time, energy and bandwidth. And one of the things we learned is that former president Donald Trump believes that immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, eat, or eat in the pets. - Who knows anymore? - You know what's really interesting to me? - Maybe someone ate something, I don't know. - There's now a TikTok trend, which is brilliant. - Yeah. - And it's remixes, right? - Remixes. - And there's a lot of lesbians that have this remix. - Can you sit down on the radio? - I think so. - Okay. - I think that's the proper- - I'm kidding, I'm kidding. - And the remix goes eat the cat. Eat, eat the cat. - I don't know what that means. - Apparently it's an inside joke. - Oh, okay, okay. - Yeah, I don't know, maybe very inside. - Well, would I do love to watch people, like the memes of former president Trump with the cats and the dogs, watching senators lose their minds. - It's interesting. - Talk about how we need to destroy the memes. We have so much- - Meme culture is taken over the world. - And to watch people who I think are foolish to begin with, but then they, again, it's the ultimate troll to watch someone become the entertainment. That is so amazing. - And that's what is discouraging about this whole conversation about misinformation. - Oh, right. - It's like who determines this? - Who determines this? - I would say the biggest provider of misinformation has been the US government in the media. I mean, think about all the things they have got wrong in just the last six years. - But did they get it wrong? - Or were they intentionally wrong? - I think a little bit of both. I think they're fools and they're master manipulators. - I mean, there's no way that we have, I heard this on, I can't remember where I heard it, but it was like, how do alien spacecraft make it trillions of miles and then just happen to crash on earth? Are they like just drunk driving and like hit the rails there at the end? - But don't you think aliens avoid this planet? - Of course they do. - This is like the most ghetto. - Yeah, you'd have to look what we do to ourselves. - You would have to be rabid, scary, violent species. - You would have to be like one of those people that just wants to go look at great white sharks in the ocean for the front of it. - They're storm hunters. - Without a cage? - They're storm hunters. - Yeah, storm hunters. - That's a good example. - You know, it's like the people like, look, if there's no reason why you want to hang around with an F-4th or NATO and you want to drive to the edge of it. So there's people out there who are in, if you're in a spacecraft, you're probably a little daredevilist, you're begin with it in any species though. - That's great. - But again, the idea of misinformation in the day of AI, anyone now with Grok, anyone now with certain AI, with a very little bit of, with any AI platform, with very little amount of computer savvy, can now make things video and audio and pictures that look more real than reality. So the idea of, you know, it's gonna get to the point where no one can believe anything they see or hear. - So you're telling me that the picture I posted a day of Data Source playing poker was not real? - Right. (laughs) It could be totally true and maybe that happened. We don't know. It could be a good artist's rendition of-- - All I'm saying is I asked Grok, can you give me an image of Data Source playing poker? I don't know that they created it. Maybe it was when the Data Source existed and they were playing poker. - Who knows? - I don't know. We do live in crazy times and you have, I would say pundits right now and people like the Hillary Clinton of the world, she does carry weight, but she has no longer an elected official. But when she's out there talking about, you know, putting people in jail for misinformation, I think Tim Walz, the current Vice President candidate, I think he mentioned there's no such thing as first amendment when it comes to misinformation. - Yeah, it's terrifying. - It's terrifying. - What does misinformation mean? - What does misinformation mean? - And the fun part of it is I like the people who are poking them so much and to watch them dance like a bunch of fools. - Yeah, poke the bear. - Again, I mean, that's what the internet is actually meant to do. I mean, someone always says the internet, I'm like, you know what the internet is? I mean, it's every bit of information you can imagine at your fingertips. The other thing is, it's just a big massive prank call. - Yeah. - You know, at a huge level. - Yeah. - It's the jerky boys that like, you know, times of bazillion. - Trolling times a million. - Yeah. - All right, folks, when we come back, come be on the blockchain. We'll talk more about whatever we have on our mind. (laughing) (upbeat music) - Welcome back to Beyond the Blockchain with Scott Tindall. - Hey folks, welcome back into the show. You're listening to Beyond the Blockchain here on every Tuesday night. Tuesday, Tuesday with Johnny Gwen. These Johnny Gwen fill on the boards and these Sierra Catalina. See, actually, not these Sierra Catalina. Sierra Catalina one. - That's right. - Can't be confused with you Johnny Gwen and Sierra Catalina one. - There she is. Sierra joining us from the New Jersey studio. We're excited to have you here. - Yes. - Sierra, there was a big kind of monumental happening in the future of humanity that did not get covered very well this week, but it helps us move toward interstellar travel. And do you want to talk about Polaris Dawn and kind of what happened with this this week? - Yeah, so Polaris Dawn is now a historic space walk mission. It is the highest orbit for a crew spacecraft since the Apollo mission. And it was a civilian crew. They had a mixed background of business and military and some space operations. And one of the crew members is the youngest person to perform a space walk. So a whole lot of first happened with this mission. It was really exciting to watch the coverage of it. The live footage was incredible. So if you have the opportunity to check that out, it's all over X and on the Polaris Dawn website. But they were able to conduct, I believe over 30 different experiments, including stuff on human health in space, which is gonna be super important as we move forward into space exploration. The mission lasted five days and ended with a slash in the Gulf of Mexico. And it's just really exciting. - I think it's really cool on a number of different fronts, one of which we've had the first civilian space walk. So if I read this correctly, this is now only the fourth ever enterprise that's ever done a space walk. You have NASA, you've got the Russian version of NASA, the Chinese version of NASA, and now SpaceX, a private company. That's pretty remarkable. And when we look at the future of humanity and maybe interstellar travel, the fact that a civilian company can send people three times the distance at the International Space Station. It's pretty remarkable. I think we are just, we're looking at something and thinking that it is ordinary and that is anything other than ordinary. Johnny. - I'm just amazed that they were able to do what they did and they came back, which is a very important thing. - Well, unlike some people. - And reusable, right? - Again, in reusable technology. - Look, a commercial venture that does something a hundred times better than the government. That has been the one thing I've been believing in 20 years. It is just wonderful to see a better product done well and done smarter. And what's the name of the, the name of the mission again? - Polaris Dallin. - Again, not, it was covered well on X, which makes sense because it's an Elon Musk product. But I would say I don't, I didn't see it breaking the mainstream media. Like it was maybe mentioned, but they didn't cover it very much. 'Cause we don't cover that, those kind of things anymore. We kind of cover like the soap opera of. - Well, we want to talk about whatever somebody has to say bad about somebody else at the moment. - But again, to see that, it's something that-- - It's inspiring to me. - Well, it is. And to the point of look how far we've gone in this time, it's only to get exponentially faster of all the things you're going to do leading to, you know-- - And cheaper. - Right. And also, I mean, the main thing is getting to Mars, right? That's his main goal, right, and flourishing. - So I saw where Elon posted on X the other day that, Sierra, you can correct me if I'm wrong, if I get the math wrong. I think he said that within four years, we're going to be sending equipment to Mars and shortly thereafter we'll be sending humans to Mars. Is that about right? - I actually have to double check to see what the most recent thing that he has said was. But he, no, it was within two years. - Oh, so sorry, two years of recenting equipment, four years of sending humans? - I got to follow up on the human target, I believe. So, yes, we can-- - Permission as early as 2029, that's wild to me. What's also wild to me is that Elon said, by 2030, the Tesla robot will be producing a million units a year at $20,000 a unit. If you don't think that's going to start replacing jobs, you're not paying attention. - Wow. - Optimists, is that right? - Yeah, optimists. - Did he commit to the $20,000? - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - I quickly said that? - Yeah, because X1's price point is going to be $16,000. And he said that the optimist will be $20,000. - Right, I agree. - At a million units a year. - Wow. - Which is, if you don't think that's going to replace jobs, you're not paying attention. - Right. Yep, and I mean, there's a lot of jobs where people better, we got to figure out what this is going to look like for the future of humanity. - Basic income, universal income, UBI, whatever this is gonna be, we better figure it out fast. 'Cause these robots are gonna get here faster than Congress and politicians. - Oh, they won't, they won't understand it. - Why are we so eager? - I mean, it already is. - 'Cause it's expensive, got people. - Because businesses are going to replace us for cheaper options, yeah. - In some scenarios, there's also human safety. So very ironically, on Sunday night, I had dinner with a friend who works in line striping. So construction line striping on the road. You don't really think about this at all, but there are people that paint the line on the roadways that we drive on. And over dinner, he was explaining one part of his job to me and I love when people are like, well, my job will never be automated because, and they go into all of the intricacies of their work. And I'm like, hmm, it's like a database. We'll know that it's hard for humans to store data in their brains, like all the specific scenarios where lines have to be, I don't know, a certain way. But less than 24 hours later, I saw, because my ex-algo is so good, a robot, that does line striping. I'm pretty falsely using computer vision. Less than 24 hours after I was like, oh, it's going to get automated pretty quickly. Like maybe you should try and do it. - Line striping seems like the perfect business to get it automated, right? - Actually it's repetitive, there are rules. - And it's dangerous. - If a car hits the robot, it's unfortunate. - It's civil. - But it's not-- - It's a civil issue. - It's not a tragedy, yeah. - Right, it's not so costly. - Like it's very labor intensive. I've been friends with this person for a number of years, and whenever they talk about like how many people are on their job sites, I'm always floored. And they work a lot, long hours, lots of days a week, so-- - There's nothing that tells me robots aren't going to replace humans more than going by a job site for like the mobile waterworks. And there's seven guys standing around a hole in one guy digging constantly. - I'm like, does it take eight of us to, 'cause they're all just taking turns, digging the hole. - And they're giving me a robot union. - Yeah, give me a robot, and that robot will dig that hole until the end of the world. - So two things that I saw this week about the robot, robot workers was, you want to learn something here, do you know what QFS is? - I don't think so. - Quick food service, that's the-- - Okay, I do know what quick food service is. - Chick-fil-a, I learned that this week, on business, Fox Business, QFS, because one of the main reasons, this has been in the work for a while, but they'd put it on the back burner, was the idea of working in the kitchen, robots working in the kitchen, right? Or some type of service, especially cleaning, right? Cleaning takes a while. - On the fryer. - So the idea was, California makes that minimum wage jump to $20 an hour, well now it doesn't make any sense of put to keep that on the shelf. Now Chipotle, this is not even quick food service, it's like the next level up. I think I still quick food service. There are now incorporating a pilot test now in half of their stores in California in the next year to use this robot in the kitchen. The other thing is, and this is huge, and trust me, I'm dealing with this right now with my family, robots working in the nursing home business and assisted living. Let me tell you what people, that it's gonna be huge for everybody. One, they're gonna be strong as heck. They can pick up things, they can do things, no one sleeps. But the idea of that is, they're having such a hard time with putting people in those facilities to have. Look. - 'Cause they're also paying these CNAs like $7 an hour. - It's incredible, right, and also some of them are very expensive. My family had a private person because my grandmother needed an extra person that we brought into a facility. That was expensive, it was unbelievable. I mean it was expensive. The idea of having this collaboration between the trained staff, because I think it will be very jarring to people at first to have these robots. - Well, someone's gonna have to manage the robot. - Of course, you have to collaborate with them. But this is like my goodness. And the healthcare industry, especially that nurse security, will get government money, there's money there. There is money there for you to see, oh my gosh, this could actually work immediately. And if menial tasks, they're not taking care of these people, they're cleaning behind them. That was the thing, we're gonna be cleaning and cooking. Now, gosh, no, down the road 30 years from now, they might be doing everything. But at first, it's like the things that these staff shouldn't be doing or they're wasting budget on, the idea is you can get it done this way and get it done 24/7, that to me is fascinating. - Yeah, and it's especially gonna be things that humans don't want to do, like dealing with human waste. - Cleaning, general, I don't want to clean anything. - Cleaning anything, right. But you're gonna say, you're gonna see this in hospitality and tourism, you're gonna find that the fry cook is going to get replaced by the fry bot. - Because it's a repetitive task. Anything, so the bots even now, before they get AI generative and get real good, anything that's a repetitive task, like I saw a bot this week that could clean a hotel room and fold clothes. - Yeah, I saw that saying to you. - That is going to replace the cleaning staff of hotels. If you can get an AI bot, let's say you get e-lons for $20,000 and you're currently paying $15 or $20 an hour in six months or four months when you figure in taxes, you have replaced that human and you're net positive going forward after four to six months. - My question is maintenance though. Are there enough workers to be able to repair these suckers? - Well, that's going to be an entire unit. - If I had a child, which Sarah would probably back me up with that's 'cause I think she's doing this, if you have a child right now and not learning robotics, you're crazy. - Yeah, that's the next industry is managing the robots, preparing the robots, repairing the robots, robots will repair each other. There you go, eventually. - We won't get to a point where they will be self-correcting and even the assembly lines for the building of the bots will be automated. So we're just going to have robots building robots building robots. - We're just moderating terrifying. - It's Futurama. - And I think an interesting industry that's going to come up is as they enter as we're seeing robots deal with food and healthcare scenarios, they're going to need like BPE, like gloves and stuff. I don't want robot hands up in my chipotle, you know. - Sanitation, robots, sanitation. They have to be sanitary too, they're just like a vat. They have to be sanitary too. - Just 'cause they get a metal handle, I mean, they can't transmit E. coli. Aluminum is silver, it's got properties of, but yeah, that's the interesting. How do you protect? I mean, there's got to be some lubricant. - Yeah, you gotta teach the robot to wash its hands. - It's like this. - I mean, that's the number-- - Okay, whoever comes up with gloves for the first couple humanoid robots are going to do phenomenal. - The number one safety feature. - Although they'll have to be able to put them on. - Yeah, the number one safety feature of a restaurant is wash your hands. - Yeah, oh yeah, that's the first one. - That's the first one, and the number one hundred. - Yeah. - Just wash your hands. Which is also-- - Maybe they'll switch out their hands. - Right, they'll put the-- - One gets washed, they grab another hand. - Put the hands. - They'll put one hand in a dishwasher. - Yeah. - They'll grab a new hand out of somewhere else. - But you know, like I said-- - I mean, that's not crazy, honestly. - But there's some minerals or some steaming hands. - That are anti-bacterial stuff, that's interesting too. But yeah, you're right. - Anti-microbial, yeah. - But again, some Smartie's going to figure that out. Hopefully it's on point, because you can't have the stereo, you know. - Somebody's going to figure this out. - 'Cause they have a little jets on their hands that'll spray their hands. - Heat, that's right, heat and cold, we'll do that too. - All right, folks, when we come back on me on the blockchain, we'll talk more about robots, aliens, and all things of interest. - And robot gloves. - And robot gloves. - Yes. (laughing) (upbeat music) - Welcome back to Beyond the Blockchain, with Scott Tyndall. - Hey folks, welcome back into this show. We listened to Beyond the Blockchain. I mean, I hope Scott Tyndall here with the Johnny Quinn, the old studio. We got Sierra Catalina 1 in the New Jersey studio, and we got Philip on the board. - Hiya. - Hey, I thought it was pretty good for the first half of the show. Sierra, thanks for filling us in on Polaris Dawn, and all that's going on with SpaceX. We could talk about this for hours. The one regret I have about the show is it's not a four-hour show, 'cause I think we could just cover so much more. - And you finally got to the hotel service industry. You mean, we were just-- - Oh, we've been doing this for like a month. - We did, and we just touched it. - You just touched it. But for like a month, it's a big-- - Eight pages of notes, and you gave it eight seconds. - Just a tease. - Yeah, just-- - You're going to do a deep dive. - We got just the tip of the conversation. Johnny, there's some interesting stuff going on in the Middle East that is technology related that I think we should talk about, because we talk about emerging technologies all the time. We talk about all these just new, innovative ways of doing things, and now the IDF, the Israeli Defense Force, may have created a new way of engaging in, tomfoolery in a way-- - Destruction and destruction. - And a masking of agents. - Tell us more. - So today, or yesterday, massage by agency planted a small amount of explosives inside 5,000 Taiwan-made pagers ordered by the Lebanese group, Hezbollah, months before today's detonation, a senior Lebanese security source and another source told routers. So what they did, the reason why Hezbollah, so what I'm guessing is, someone leaked that Israelis could track Hezbollah agents and operatives in their phones. - Right. - The idea was-- - That makes sense. - You gotta get rid of your phones. So they got rid of their phones that we all have. - They think we're going back. - And we'll go lay low-tech. They went to beepers and pagers, and these are text pagers, so it's not just like the little beeper you got, it was like a little bigger little thing, and the idea is you can get text messages on a bit super low low-tech. - In 1995, I got a pager, and my dad said the only two people-- - Well, you had drug dealer? - Yeah. - My dad said the only two people that have pagers are doctors and drug dealers. - And drug dealers, yes. - Which one are you? - Yes. - And I was like-- - And you ain't smart enough to be no doctor. - Yeah, and I was like, I'm a high schooler. - Yes. And what's amazing is, what a, and again, they're saying there's no civilian casualties, I, there's no way that didn't, 'cause people were standing next to these people, and these things blew up. People were driving a car when it blew up, and nine died, and thousands are in the hospital, and people, these beepers live in people's pockets. - Yeah. - So if you were, you were blowing up-- - You might have asked, you might have lost your manhood. - Yeah. - So the idea is, but what struck me as so-- - Do you tell me that a couple of hundred lost their eyes? - Five hundred lost their eyes, because again, how crafty this is, they sent the text. And with it, like a probably 10, 15 second delay, so you pick up to see the text, and while you're picking up next to your face, it blows up. So again, I just said a couple of days ago, how warfare, how we're so uncreative, and how you do warfare. And now here, this thing, and I'm like, well, that's pretty creative, and that is also, what patience and what planning, when, can you imagine if you knew this was in play, the IDF in my side to wait to the right time when you can say, we can do this anytime we want? - So I would love to be inside the conversation of now. - When to do it. - Yeah, like not yesterday, not tomorrow now. - Well, supposedly they were waiting for a Vietnam, there was a lot of troop movement, there was a lot of planes, so there was a lot of communication between this organization. So the idea was they're more apt to be wearing it again, so they were waiting for the right moment to be able to say there are more people now that are looking at this thing more importantly, right? - That's interesting. - And there was also an Iranian ambassador. - Correct, and again, it keeps going. The unmasking of who's involved with these people is easy to see now. I mean, you didn't expose a list on a database. These people are sitting in a hospital somewhere, and they're laying in their mid-parts or blown to bits. So again, but it goes back to me, and someone wrote this on Twitter that was fascinating, it was imagine what people can do with a beeper, what the heck could they do if they ever hacked an iPhone or a Cybertruck. So again, something to think about this idea of, I'm carrying around something in my pocket right now, but the idea was these are not beepers where the battery blew up. There was a three ounce charge that was added to this device in the production of it. So it's not just malwearing the device, heating it up, and then having the lithium battery blow up. So before I freak out and buy some weird bomb case for my iPhone, this isn't just a regular consumer product. - Yeah, well, I just assume they don't get me when they want me. They being whoever they are. - Well, you're on the radio spout and the inefficiencies of government, you're already on something. - I'm on all the list. - I don't think you're not that door. - Yeah, we're definitely on all the lists. - You're not that important, dude. - We're not in mobile Alabama. You know, unimportant we are. - I didn't say we're high up on the list. I just say we got added to the list. - But do you like the best for if they get really bored? - If you read Sierra's Ex post, she's on way up higher, of course, than we are. - Definitely, probably, yeah, on the list for all of these. - Oh, I do, Sierra, I do appreciate you. Sierra, I do appreciate you looking out for Elon and telling him not to put a password on his live stream today. That was a good day. - Well, apparently Joe caught me 'cause he was trolling everyone, which I thought that he probably was. So what Scott's talking about is today, Elon was testing some sort of live stream and on live while he was streaming on his screen, Ex was asking him to log in again, so you could visibly see, like enter your username and password, and it was giving me anxiety, just looking at it. 'Cause if, like, are you even human if you have not accidentally shared the wrong window during like a Zoom call or a Google Meet call, so then he started typing in it and he like typed out a password with the keyboard, like not locked, where you can have a, if you hit the little I and it comes up after it says, instead of characters, no, you could full on see, like numerical and letters. And I thought for sure that he didn't know that he was doing it, but apparently he was joking, which makes sense in retrospect because it was a really funny password, but it freaked me to heck out. I was like, somebody contact Elon and so I'll just stop putting that in there. If you did it three times. And I'm like, does he think that it's on a different screening? But the joke is on me, he knew. And I wonder if they're like, would be ironic if it was like a honey pot and they banned anyone who like, when tried to log in with that password. - Oh, that's my idea. - Again, I'm messaging people. Again, the importance of finding out who is with you and who is against you. - So, Sierra, this is a good question for you. I saw today where somebody posted that several giant accounts with multi-million followers were banned today for soliciting and basically being paid for shares. How did X figure out who those fraudulent users were and how did they know they were being paid for reposts and shares? - Oh, I actually didn't see this. So I am not sure, but that's great news. - So, yeah, I mean, it's great news. And maybe something we can talk about next week, but so the basic premise is there were 10, 12, 15 accounts that were banned today because they have multi-million users and they were-- - They're getting paid big bucks. - They were getting paid big bucks to do shares like-- - Like their retweets. - Yeah. - And they got caught as being-- - They got caught as being bot farms. - Well, I think we can talk about the guy on Spotify who stole over $10 million. - That guy's a genius, right? - Yes, and they also say it's a future-- - Wow, Dream in his own stats. - Dream in his own-- - It was streaming AI stuff. - Well, first of all, it was a bunch of stuff. It was his because he's a songwriter too. So this guy used AI to do this, like thousands of his own songs and then doing like Drake, Elvis Costello, everybody else, and then using bot farms to play these songs and whatever counts he has. And over, it took Spotify years to find this guy and it was over 10 million days in North Carolina. And everybody kept saying, this is what's gonna happen to the music industry. That this guy was the first one to crack the code and it's gonna get easier and easier. So these platforms have to get smarter and smarter to catch them earlier and earlier. - That's two things come to mind. One, that's remarkable. And two, I'm surprised it hasn't been done already. - Well, the other thing too is it's bound to happen. If someone is smart enough, they can create these things to do that because they know how to create these automated responses. But again, the idea of taking the time of, again, I'd love to see what it, what would it-- - What is the time? - How much time would it take to do thousands of original songs, create thousands of original songs to AI? Again, there's a great question. - I can't think about this, the amount of energy and computing power it takes to do for that one guy did, like a small city. - Well, it's why that X has now got over 100,000 video XPUs running Grock. - Right, and that's when I was a thousand, yeah. - I mean, I think I read that 100,000 XPUs is like third place amongst all the AI companies. We're now gonna have to start creating energy. We're gonna have to start creating nuclear energy. - Of course. - Just to power AI because the normal grid won't be able to power. - Dude, there's rolling blackouts now in California and Texas without all this. - Without all this. - And look, I think people can go without a lot of things. You take away their streaming services. They will actually, you wanna talk about civil war. - Yeah, that'd be a riot. - That brings the civil war. You don't let someone get their Hulu and their Netflix, they're taking the streets, baby. - Yeah, look, you can take away my free running water. You take away my Netflix, we had another problem. That's why I'm reloading on my VHS tape collection. - Oh. - So. - See, I thought you would be like a-- - I have a blue right here. - I thought you would be like a-- - I have laser display. - Batamax kind of man. - Oh no, no, VHS is so easy, but my dad just gave me his VHS that I mind broke, so. - You know, Batam would have made it if they'd have taken up porn. - Sony and porn, that's right. - That's what Batamax-- - Sony decided-- - That's what put Batamax. - Sony decided about thinking it was the porn industry decided that we were going with the VHS format. - Put 'em in the grave. - Yep. But so, yes, I am keeping-- - You know what the lesson there is? - I'm an analog curator because I think there will come some time when you better. Look, there's still albums that are not available on any digital format at all. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, there's tons of 'em. And the ones I've had. So that's why I love the idea of having-- I don't let these people just say one or the other. You know what my idea is, if you like music, then get it any way you can get it. - Like it was like-- - But there are things out there, especially like Eddie and the Cruisers were my favorite movies, right? Eddie and the Cruisers has royalty problems. The only way you can watch it is VHS. - Well, when we come back on "Be on the Blockchain," we'll talk more about Eddie and the Cruisers. - Ha ha! (upbeat music) - Welcome back to "Beyond the Blockchain" with Scott Tindall. - Hey folks, welcome back into this show. We're gonna listen to "Be on the Blockchain." - I've never seen Philip move as fast as he's ever been, just more than two seconds ago. He literally moved. Somehow, he's only got 10 fingers. Somehow, he moved 12 tracks at once. I don't know how he did it, but he didn't. - I was impressed, I'll tell you that. - That was, that was like, "Oh, wait!" And then he just said-- - Oh, he's impressed. - And he's already drew another appendage on both hands. - Well, what people don't get to experience is, the show behind the show is the best part of the show. When we're off the air, that's the best part of the show. Then we come back on the air and we all gotta get special again. They say nobody cares how you make the sauce. They only care about the sauce. - I only care what it tastes like. - I guess only the true fans want to go to the plant and to see all the spices and all the-- - Yeah, they would be disappointed. - The skin casings, like-- - Nobody. - Everybody that loves canneca would-- - I was gonna say, you need to send Sierra a package of canneca sausage from this part of the world, 'cause it will ruin sausage for you forever, Sierra. You will never be able to ever eat sausage again after you have canneca sausage. I will say. - That's a really great selling point. I definitely want sausage ruined forever. (laughing) - I don't want this sausage ruined. - Canneca sausage, everything else? A shadow of the greatness of canneca sausage. And that's not an advertisement, 'cause these are not a sponsor of the show. - Canneca, you'd like to sponsor the show. Scott, Tyndall, be taking your phone call anytime you want. - You can get me yet, Scott. Tyndallwedgmail.co. - Right, right up the road, I've stopped many of them. They have a great bathroom, too, on the way up, right off the interstate, right there. And a gift shop, gift shop, and a bathroom. - Sierra, I don't have this up in the northeast, but down here, southern delicacy, buckies. Buckies has become-- - Oh, I know about the buckies. - Buckies is a Texas-based organization. There's now, they aren't like a plague spreading across the southeast in the most glorious way possible. - It's no asus on the highway. - Yeah, it is amazing. Like, people are like, "Oh, it's just the buckies." - We're for starters. So I hear a lot about the buckies. - Oh, yeah. - Apparently the Tesla community is very happy with that. - Oh, 'cause they-- - Oh, I didn't realize buckies will tell us they're superchargers. - I don't know if it's made it down these parts. - They probably do. They probably do. - Well, it's such a big parking lot. If you don't look, you'll just-- - You would never know. - I will tell you, I have never waited longer than 30 seconds, no matter how crowded that place is, to get checked out of that place. - They know what? - 30 seconds. - And there'll be a thousand people in there. - Oh, it's unbelievable. - It's like, this is not a gas station. This is a life experience. - Yeah, no, to me, it reminds me of like, if we ever go to space, and there's like one of those space ports up there, there's hundreds of gas pumps. And then there's everyone in there buying everything from grills to beaver nuggets. - Yeah, beaver nuggets. - Beaver nuggets. - Oh, yeah. - And I always get the slushy, the taco and the little bag of beaver nuggets. - So they still have-- - I always look for the rebel flag bandana. - No, they don't have those anymore. They're there, they don't have those anymore. - And from buckies. - Yes, no, they're not-- - They got-- - They don't land up in that hot mess, so. - Well, at least like to say they have a human touch with the checkout, at least they're trying to be human about it. - Dude, they got eight people there on eight registers. I was like, I mean, again, you see how much people, how much they make to work at buckies. - And you get paid a good salary to work at buckies. - It's like $120,000 for assistant manager there. - But you know what else they have? They have a three strike rule. - Well, if you're late three times-- - Well, good for them. - You're fired, no matter good, bad and different. Good matter of your mama's hair's on fire, you out of here. - Wow. - You should go to Catholic school, they teach you that real early. (laughing) You ain't never, you are. If you're two minutes early, you are, you are. - Four minutes late. - Three minutes late. - Yeah. - Yes, so. - That's all right, look. I'm sure there's a way like if you get, you know, caught, even if you're like caught in traffic or something. - No, no, I think it's like, Grandmama's hair caught on fire. That's too bad, that's your one. - Yeah. - You got two more to go. - You got two more to go. - That means they must have a line of people a lot enough to work for them. - Yes, they have a metric ton of people begging for those jobs. It's the same way Disney is able to do what they do. So, one of my mentors in hospitality and tourism is a guy named Lee Cockrell. And Lee Cockrell's thing, and when I was starting a restaurant, I consulted with Lee and he was like, here's the deal. If people aren't doing what you need 'em to do, you just get rid of 'em 'cause you got the next one up. And my answer to him was, at Disney, you have a hundred people begging to be the next one up. And in real life, you do not have a hundred people begging to be the next person in your kitchen. - Like, you've got to start to pivot and you've got to start to do the best you can because what you can do at Disney is not what you can do in real life. - I used to own a bar and you couldn't give me a bar and a hundred thousand dollars to go with it now because I saw what it's like to run into what it's like to run out of my heart. - Yeah, you had to live in it. - And labor was 'cause getting people that you trusted 'cause they steal, steal, everyone's there. Friends of my work for me, friends. Like long, long friends stole from you all the time. So, my dad was one of my silent partners. He went down and took a vacation down on the beach down there, Gulf Shores, and just was having a drink at the guy at the bar. This is an established Gulf Shores, been there for forever. I can't remember which one it is. I mean, it might be Margarita Ville, for all I know. I don't know, I don't know. So, he was talking to the owner and then they get talking about it and we had lost like so much money. When, you know, my other partner was, I had two sets of books. So, my dad's were going through this. We realized how much money had been lost in the year and the guy tells my dad, he goes, "Sir, "I've been running this business for 40 years." And he goes, "See that lady over there?" And he said, "Nice looking blonde here lady." He goes, "That right there is the manager I have "and also my girlfriend. "And I know for a fact, this is my girlfriend "and general manager. "She steals at least $30,000 cash from me every year "and I'm willing to put up with it "because it's cheaper than anybody else I've had around." - Oh my gosh. - Can you imagine that? He literally said, "I'm sleeping with this person. "She's my general manager "and she at least steals $30,000 cash from me "and she thinks I don't know. "And I still won't fire her "because she's better than the last ones I had." Wow. - Yeah, I mean, that's the restaurant business. - That is the restaurant business. Unless you-- - Robot, swamp steel. - Robot, well, until they learn, I'm just kidding. What are they? - They don't need money. - Until somebody augments their A.I. to put some money in their pocket and deliver it to them. - Oh, CB. - It's the, never assumed one robot-- - You got digital money, though. - No, no, no. - You gotta assume that the robots don't trust human. - If the robots ever get humanized-- - How much do you tell each other if you don't tip-read? - They will put that money in their pocket and they'll give it to whoever programmed them to put the money in the back pocket. Look, again, they're gonna, look, it all ends up with lasers and walking on human skulls. We understand this. But for a while, it'll be a glorious service business for a while until they become aware. So, but it will be interesting to watch. - The tasters. - It's only going to get more interesting. I'll tell you that. - The things that I see every day, the simple, especially in the construction business, look, one summer I had to work by being apprenticed to put up drywall. Wasn't for me and I wasn't very good at it. It's very difficult to put up good drywall. - Sure. - I watched this machine put up. It was a time-lapse thing. It did the work of four people. - Oh, I bet a robot. - And it did it. - A robot could just kill it. - 24/7. All you had to know was how to set it up properly and how to maintain it. - You know what else it doesn't? It never calls off. - And it doesn't get high on the job. - Think you're high on the job? - It never calls off. - My takers, painters and drywall people. Whoo! Them suckers know how to smoke some weed. - That's part of the benefit of being a painter and drywall worker. - That's why they can't work at Austin. They can't work at these, you know, air boss and all these other things. They cannot pass those tests. They cannot. And God bless 'em. - Good luck. - You look. - Good luck, I bless 'em. - You find a good job. You can do what you want during the day. You're not bothering nobody. I say God bless you. - I say the same thing. - Yeah. - Well, again. - What a great way to end the show, Johnny. - No paranormal stuff we're talking about, you know. - You know, we can stay-- - We can stay-- - We can do paranormal next week, you know. - Well, next week, let's make Sierra come up with the paranormal coming up. - I like that too. - I like it. - I like it. - Alright, we'll see you next week on Beyond the Bluck Tree. - Ciao. (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music)