LED bulbs, civil asset forfeiture, and TSA loose change

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There's a lot more mercury in those tubes. I'm saying it's a shame that you can't use those as like lightsaber grenades, you know, the little compact fluorescents. Yeah. And just throw them in like that. Boosh. Have them blow up. Yeah. You know what I mean? Which, in order to prevent those things from breaking, they started encapsulating those compact fluorescents in a plastic shell that looked like an incandescent bulb. I just screwed one in today. Right. I just put one in today. Okay, so let me look at what the actual over-the-year, right, operating cost per bulb is, all right? So a traditional incandescent bulb, a traditional one, let's say that's going to be a 65-watt incandescent bulb. It's going to cost you about $4.80 for the whole year to operate. Is that eight hours a day? Who the fuck knows? Who the fuck knows how they get these statistics, man? So I'm going to get to that. I'm going to get to that. So a halogen incandescent bulb, which we didn't get into, a halogen incandescent bulb. A halogen is, it's a bigger housing, and it usually has a ceramic base, but the actual little bulb is contained, the nichrome is contained inside of a little bulb within a bigger bulb. And it emits sharper light, and it consumes less. And it emits less power. And that's because it's in a certain type of gas? No, no, no. There's no gas in there. It's just, you've seen them. They're like really thick. They look like small floodlights, but inside, there's like a smaller bulb type of thing. I don't know. It has to, they get hot. That's all I know. They get really fucking hot. Really hot. So those are about $3.50 a year. And this is per bulb. $3.50 a year? To operate, you know, the electricity. Okay, so that's a little less. Right. Okay. So now, the Energy Star compact fluorescent light. $1.20 to operate a year. Okay. Now, keep in mind that, and then I'll get into what the Energy Star LEDs. Well, the Energy Star LEDs, the light emitting diode lamps, are $1 a year to operate. Okay. Now, the attractiveness to these compact fluorescents and LEDs is that the initial investment, meaning what it costs to buy one of these bulbs, is a lot more than an incandescent bulb. An incandescent bulb can cost. It can cost you, you know, between $50 to a dollar. Depending on, like, if you get, like, the ones that only work once, those are about $0.50, like the ones you get in Mexico. Right. You know? No, no, no. I mean, obviously, you guys know how much the fucking incandescent bulb, a four-pack will probably cost you like $4 or $3 or whatever the fuck it is. Or if you buy them in bulk, they cost a little less. Mm-hmm. The Energy Star compact fluorescents would cost you a couple of dollars each, so probably twice as much. Right. As a regular incandescent. An LED can cost you as much as four or five times as much. You know, anywhere between, when they first came out, they were like fucking $20 a bulb. Yeah. Right? Mm-hmm. And now they've gone down in price a little bit. They have. They've gone down dramatically. Right. The last time I was looking at them, they were like less than $10 a bulb for a 60-watt. Right. Well, that's not bad. You can go to Fry's. I got a really good one, you know, for like $10. Well, here's the deal. Here's the deal. So, they cost more money. Right. Right. Right. Right. Right. Right. Right. Right. Right. Right. Right. Right. The principle is that they use way less power and give off a lot more light. Mm-hmm. Now, LEDs, can they be dimmed? So, here's the other issue. Compact fluorescent lights could not be dimmed because of- Until recently. The past couple of years, you can get dimmable CFLs. Oh, they made dimmable ones. Yeah. Okay. So, the incandescent bulb, again, the nichrome wire absorbs the electricity. So, when you dim it, you're basically reducing the amount of electricity, the current, that's going through the positive and being absorbed through the nichrome and then going back. And so, that's what makes it- You're using a different resistor. Right. You're using a potentiometer in the wall. In the wall. At the wall. At the source. You're cutting it at the source. Mm-hmm. So, my thing is this. So, this is for 60-watt replacement bulbs based on two hours a day of usage shown in U.S. dollars. So, 480 for incandescent, 350 halogen incandescent, 120 energy star CFL. And $1 energy star LED. So, my thing is this, man. It's like, the reason we're, you know, I guess the government wants to come in and step in and say, we're going to phase these out and we're going to replace them with these higher energy efficient bulbs. It'll save on electricity. And I forgot what else they were saying that it would save. Carbon footprint. Carbon footprint. Exactly. If you're saving on electricity, it's less coal or it's less whatever they have to use to make electricity. So, the less electricity that you use in general, the less carbon footprint you're going to leave. Well, let Uncle Ness fill you in on something. The more you shut your fucking lights off when they're not in use. That's the biggest culprit. That's really the fucking issue. The more you shut your fucking lights off when they're not being used, the more money you save, the more energy you're fucking conserving, and the less of a carbon footprint you're putting out there. So, it comes back down to this, right? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. The issue is the education of the fucking retards. And that's not just people. We're talking about businesses. I just came from Palm Springs. How many times do you walk by an office building, and it's daytime, and the fucking bulbs are on. The lights are on. Yeah. It's like, that's really the issue. You know what I mean? Right. If they really wanted to make a difference, and instead of... You know, remember LADWP sent out free CFLs. Yeah. I get a couple of those. L.A. Department of Water and Power. Yeah. They're our local... Con Edison and Power Company. So they sent out free CFLs. Oh, great. Awesome. One of them like burned up on me or whatever. They were like, they're shitty cheap ones. But anyway, so they sent these out. But if they really want to make a difference, fucking come in and replace your light switch with a motion sensor light switch in your bathroom. If you want to do that. No, that's the best way of doing it. If you want to do it. Give you the option to do it. Train yourself to turn the fucking light off when you're not in the room. It's that simple. People are lazy. They just want to get back to Matlock. They want to get back to Matlock to find out. Well, that's the problem. It's like the reason all these public bathrooms now have these fucking lightsaber censored faucets. It's like now I soak myself up and I don't know what, I'm passing my hand, waving it, and no water's coming out, right? That's because somebody flicked a booger on the sensor. No, it's just fucking bullshit. Or the ones before that, you used to press, a knob or a push button, and then the water just keeps coming out whether you need it or not, right? As opposed to, if you listen to one of our other episodes about conserving water, just fucking turning the water on, using it, turning it off, and it's that simple. But people are responsible, man. It all comes down to irresponsibility. You know what I mean? Yeah. Just irresponsibility. But, you know, you're not going to train everybody anymore. I mean, they've pretty much trained them. You know, they just, people got lazy. They just stopped caring. I'm going to give a quick big up. I was reading this article, because we just, like, bitched up a lot, man. I got to give a big up here, man. I got to give a big up. Big the fuck up, you bomba-clod, pussy-clod! Light-saving motherfucker! Anyway, I want to give a big up to this dude, J.C. Huizenga. Now, this is pretty wild, okay? J.C. Huizenga, all right? Let me find out. Homeboy. Homeboy, J.C. Huizenga bought JR Automation Technologies in 95, right? The company had annual revenues of $14 million and less than 100 employees. That's 95. Two decades later, the Holland-based manufacturer of custom automation equipment had morphed into the mid-sized company with annual sales of $170 million and a workforce. Of 500 employees. Guess what? Guess what? J.C. Huizenga did. So he sold his manufacturing company. He decided to give a little something to his employees. The Michigan businessman handed out nearly $6 million in unexpected bonuses to his 575 workers, with recent hires getting $500 and long-standing employees up to $50,000. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Yeah. I don't even know what the fuck your last name means, but yo, big up. That's amazing. That's admirable. That's awesome. That is. Big up. That's beautiful. Well, this dude, I mean, Google is company. I mean, he automated, he makes pretty much robots that like, you know, assist in manufacturing other things. The company is JR Automation Technologies. And he has a group of, what is it? JC Automation Group. So he's got other companies, so he don't give a shit, but he's actually an entrepreneur and a philanthropist and obviously an awesome ex-boss. Could you imagine that shit? Oh, man. 50,000 bonus, I'd quit. I'd be like, yo, hold on a second. Yo, you just bought the company. I want to know what your fucking profit sharing intentions are going to be if I'm going to stay on. You know what I mean? Because if you ain't going to match JC Huizenga's shit, I'm out. You know what I mean? Anyway, so. The other thing we were taught, we were, well, accidentally, I came upon this article, which was unreal. Okay? So this happened just recently. So the DEA seizes $16,000 from a Midwesterner coming to LA to make a music video. All right? Ridiculous. A young man hopped on a train from Michigan, which, by the way, JC Huizenga's company was from Michigan, to Los Angeles. He was carrying $16,000 in cash and a dream of becoming a music video producer. Then the DEA decided he must be a drug dealer and took it all. So Joseph Rivers, 22, left his home in Romulus, Michigan, and boarded an Amtrak train headed west on April 15th. He switched trains in Albuquerque, the Albuquerque Journal reports. He was carrying a luggage that contained, among other essentials, 16K in an envelope. He had raised this money with the help of his family. He had a family in order to follow his dream of becoming a music video producer. He decided not to deposit it until he got to LA because he had experienced issues in the past trying to withdraw large sums of cash from out-of-state banks. Soon after, DEA agents also got on the train and began looking for train-riding drug traffickers. Hold on a second. I need to, at that point, I need to... I need to put that in. Yeah. Rivers said that the agents questioned passengers seemingly at random, but that he was the only passenger they decided to search. He said he was also the only black passenger in his train car. Rivers agreed to the search, not thinking anything bad would happen. When the officers found the cash, however... They took it on suspicion that it could possibly be tied in some way to drugs. Rivers told the agents what he was really up to, even calling his mother to speak with the agents and confirm. It didn't make a difference to the DEA. I told the agents I had no money and no means to survive in LA if they took my money away. They informed me that it was my responsibility to figure out how I was going to do that, he told the Journal. They left Rivers broke in New Mexico. His dream stalled. A passenger on the train who requested to remain anonymous witnessed the incident. He helped Rivers return to Michigan and contacted reporter Jolene Gutierrez Kruger at the Albuquerque Journal to tell Rivers' story. This happens more than you might think. It's called civil asset forfeiture and it's perfectly legal. It's a perfectly legal way that law enforcement can just take your money or property if they suspect it may be related to a crime. They don't have to prove that you're doing anything wrong or that you're running a drug. They just have to prove that you're doing something wrong. They just have to prove that you're doing something wrong or that you're running a drug. The police won't even charge you unless you're in the middle of the drug trafficking ring and they won't even detain or charge you. If you want your money back or your stuff back or your property you have to prove that you're innocent and going through that process often involves racking up legal fees and it can take a long time. And it isn't just cash. They can take your car, your house or anything. They think you may have purchased with dirty money or used while committing crimes. If you're wondering what would have happened if Rivers had refused to let officer searches bag. It's equally negative. The officers would have been able to hold the bags until they could get a search warrant. Once the agents got the warrant, they still likely would have found and seized Rivers' cash. Since 9-11, there have been 61,998 seizures of cash amounting to over $2.5 billion. Many of the people who have had money taken from them are like Rivers, minorities. Many of them were on their way to buy a new car, business, or other major purchase when they were pulled over, searched, and had an officer whisked away their money. What gets me here is that it's perfectly legal. The government can do this. I didn't know this. So, you know, a police officer can pull you over for a taillight. And by the way, how much money are you carrying? In excess of $500, you have $2,000 in cash that can take your money away. Since when has it become illegal? It's not illegal as a U.S. citizen to carry your own cash. It's fucking ludicrous. It's not illegal. It's just suspect. And now your money is suspect, not you. That's the fucked up part about it. Because they take the blame off of you, which you personally have rights, but your money doesn't have any rights because it's an inanimate object. The problem that I have with it is that they treat the money like it is a person because they're prosecuting it like a real person. That's what we're going to find out. I'm going to play. I'm going to play. I'm going to play a clip, which, by the way, I'm going to play a clip from John Oliver's Last Week Tonight. Oh, yeah. This guy happens to be my new fucking idol. I love this dude. The guy's hilarious. If you don't know, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, it's a show on HBO. It's fucking brilliant. So I'm going to play that. And let me see if it comes up faster than I was hoping it would. I have it saved. I have it saved. And then it's. You know, keep working on that. But, you know, I think about a year ago we did a thing. Remember, there was a stripper coming from Detroit to L.A. with like $50,000 or something that she earned. Yeah. And that got seized because it had drug residue on it. Right. Because it's money that she got. So they automatically. But it's tip money from a strip club. Where do you sit? What do you think? People aren't going to be doing coke at a strip club. Of course, that money is late. With fucking drugs. It doesn't mean she's doing drugs. But they seize that just because the money had it on there. Right. You know, because, you know, because the money had the coke on or the coke was on the money. So. Right. It's, you know. Well, I mean, I think the thing that gets me is like, like you said, it's it's it's it's money is inanimate. Your house, as you can see, if I can get this. But see, businesses are inanimate, too. But businesses have the rights as. Right. So as an individual, they have individual rights. Right. So normally what would happen is you'd get arrested. You'd be charged. Right. Right. You'd be charged with a crime. And then any kind of property that you have in your possession would be taken as evidence. Right. So let me see if this damn thing comes up. And so with this thing, it's it's it's a completely different thing. The police, they protect us, they serve us, and they provide us with an endless source of TV show one liners. Rock, paper, scissors. Gun. Well, I know Serena Williams, but I know one thing. It's all in the wrist. Who'd want to cut your penis off? Take a number. OK. Now, you laugh, but admit it. You want to watch the rest of that episode right now. Now, look, public trust in the police is one of the most vital elements in a civilized society. But for many Americans, that trust has been undermined by a procedure called civil forfeiture. Now, I know it sounds like a Gwyneth Paltrow euphemism for divorce, but but incredibly, it's actually even worse than that. Civil asset forfeiture is really a mechanism. By which the state and federal government can seize people's property without having to convict them of a crime. Most people can't afford to hire a lawyer to challenge it. It's really legalized robbery by law enforcement. And think about it. That is a tough crime to report to the police. Give me a description of what the guy looked like. Well, to be honest, he looked a lot like the guy currently asking me what the guy looked like. And if you think this sounds bad, just wait until you see how it looks. Because the Washington Post recently published a major investigation featuring stories like that of this man, who was driving from Michigan to San Francisco with $2,400 in cash that his dad had lent him to start a new job when he was pulled over in Nevada. I gave him my license and registration. And then as he was looking at that information, he asked me how much money I was traveling with. Lee told him about the money his dad gave him, which he kept in the trunk. He told me to turn on my air vents on high and roll up my windows. And get out of the car because he was going to run a canine around it. Dove didn't find drugs, but he did find the $2,400. He said, no, I'm going to keep the money because I've concluded through my investigation here that you are traveling from Michigan to California to purchase drugs. Wow. There is so much wrong there, including the fact that any policeman who genuinely believes you need to travel from Michigan to California to purchase drugs needs to be introduced to the concept of the University of Wisconsin. Okay? It's right there. And the problem is, stories like that are surprisingly common. In fact, since 9-11, under just one program, police have taken $2.5 billion in the course of over 61,000 seizures of cash alone from people who, and this is the mind-blowing part, were not charged with a crime. That is the sort of police behavior that we laugh at other countries for, along with their accents and silly hats. And I'm not saying that's a crime. I'm saying that's a crime. And I'm not saying that's a crime. I'm saying that's a crime. I'm saying that's a crime. I'm saying that's a crime. I'm saying that's a crime. I'm saying that's a crime. The way civil forfeiture generally works is that if the police believe they have a preponderance of the evidence that suggests your property was or could be used in a crime, they may confiscate it. And it gets even weirder. Many folks are unfamiliar with the idea of civil forfeiture, which is actually a case brought against, directly against a piece of property where you don't need to be proven guilty of a crime for your goods to be taken away. Exactly, you don't need to be charged with a crime because it's not you that's on trial, it's your stuff. That's why these cases have historically had eye-catching names such as, and all of these are real, United States versus $8,850 in US currency, United States versus an article consisting of 50,000 cardboard boxes more or less each containing one pair of clacker balls, and United States versus approximately $64,690 in cash. And the court case is a case that's been going on for years. And it's also worth noting that your possessions generally have fewer protections under the law than you do. You're not guilty. You're not guilty. You're not guilty. You're not guilty. You're not guilty until you prove it innocent. How can that be possible? At this point, I'm surprised objects don't have their own civil rights leader, like Martin Scooter King, or Harvey Carton of Milk. Now to be fair, civil forfeiture laws have had some positive consequences. They've crippled powerful drug traffic organizations, thwarted criminals, and returned billions of dollars to victims. The problem is... that many police departments are allowed to keep most or all of the money they seize. And knowing that starts to make you wonder about the motivations of these kinds of questions. Is there any large amounts of cash in the vehicle? Are there any large sums of money over $5,000 in cash in the vehicle? How much money you got? We got a little technical difficulty with the video. No, it's the video. It's just... I'll take whatever cash you got in there. And is that a Slurpee in the cup? Hold it. What flavor? Grape? Never mind. Do you know what? I will take it. I'll take it. The question, do you have cash in the vehicle, is surprisingly common in traffic stops. And the police are prepared. They're prepared to overcome any language barrier to ask it. Teni mucho mucho dinero in... ...Sutruckee trailer? Fuck yeah. Let's be clear. He just said, teni mucho mucho dinero in Sutruckee trailer. Which sounds like an alien's first attempt to communicate with humans after crash landing in a Taco Bell. In fact, let's all just pause for a moment to enjoy that sentence. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. because every single word of it is funny. First, Teni, pronounced incorrectly. Mucho, one of the few words he knows in Spanish. Mucho, repeated word. De Niro, a famed actor. In, a rapid shift to English. Su, rapid shift back to Spanish. Truckee trailer. Truckee trailer. It's magnificent. Oh my God. This fucking video is just rendering, this motherfucker is capital R to the TARDID. Anyway, this fucking thing is rendering. I wanted to keep going here. Anyway, you know what? I'm just gonna pause it. Because sometimes when you need YouTube to work, it doesn't work. But anyway, you guys got the idea. It's actually ludicrous what goes on with DEA agents and your fucking rights, really. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. It's like, you can't buy bulbs, and now you can't fucking carry cash. Like cash. Like I knew that when you fly, right, that before you come into America, let's say, or before you go into another country, customs ask you to declare if you're carrying currency over $10,000. They always ask you that. Right. And I'm not sure why that is. I'm assuming that, and I can do some research on this, I'm assuming that it's because, for instance, our government doesn't want you taking money out of our country and having some sort of offshore banking account or whatever. Because they want to know where, quote unquote, your money, their money is at all times. Or vice versa. Or vice versa. They don't want you bringing a million dollars into this country. And it's, and it's not being taxed. And it's not being taxed. Right. Or if you're taking money out of this country, you know, if you're making money. But how do you know if it's taxed? I mean, so anyway, I mean, how do you know? However my vice, whatever the vice versa was of that, I lost my place. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, I get it. I get it. But my thing is, is like, for instance, so when I was going to Cuba, I had to carry cash. I had to carry whatever money I was gonna bring in to the country, because they don't take credit cards and cash. Right. So that means technically, I could have been asked, how many truckie trailers am I carrying? And I could have just said, I'm not sure what the question is. And then they could have just said, how much mucho, mucho dinero in your pocket, pocket bowl CEO. And eventually I would have played dumb and they would have taken my money and I would have been like, fucked. Right. You know what I'm saying? So I didn't know this. I thought that was kind of crazy. Which by the way, there was another story here, I wish I can fucking play it if this thing fucking, gets a Shiite together. There was a guy carrying, I think $28,000 in cash from one state to the other, because he was in eBay and he had a copy of the eBay transaction and the whole nine yards, because he's buying a car. He's basically buying a car. And basically they said, okay, cool. And then the majority of the people that have been, that have been stopped, I believe it said, they were minorities, right? Cause they automatically assume if you're black and you're carrying fucking anything over a $5 bill, you're obviously selling drugs or some shit. You know what I mean? So, or Latino for that matter. But a couple of the examples that John Oliver showed, they were actually white dudes. And the dude I'm talking about with the $28,000, he's a white dude and he had a fucking eBay, $28,000. And he was like, I'm gonna buy a car. I'm gonna buy a car. I'm gonna buy a car. I'm gonna buy a car. I'm gonna use thationalionalionalionalionalionalionalionalionalionalionalionalionalionalionalionalionalionalionalionalionalionalionalionalionalionalionalionalionalionalionalionalionalionalionalionalionalionalionalionalionalionalionalionalionalionalionalionalionalionalionalionalionalionalionalionalionalionalionalional!ionalional!ionalionalionalionalional They took the parents' house because they said that, you know, that house was being used for selling drugs. Right. No evidence, no subpoena. That was in Philadelphia, I think. Yep, you're right. Yeah, man, it's ridiculous. And the real reason behind that is because who's getting the money? Well, the interesting thing is that that whole snippet goes on to say that the local law enforcement gets to keep whatever money they seize. So it's not even like it goes into some sort of court system or whatever. Let's say, you know, the sheriff's office of bumfuck truckie truckie Georgia, you know, doesn't arrest you, just takes $28,000 of your money. That local precinct gets to keep it, right? And unless you prove that it was innocent, you know, for lack of a better way of putting it, eventually they get to spend it. That fucking, that's the crazy thing about it. Right. They get to spend that money. Yeah. Here, let me read. Civil asset forfeiture gives law enforcement the power to take property away from someone who has not been convicted of a crime. And this property can be cash, cars, homes, and anything else, like a simple gold cross. Okay. That the law enforcement believes is connected to a crime. Yes, a woman had her gold cross necklace seized when she was pulled over for a minor traffic violation. And how does one go about getting a necklace or money or a car or a house back? Well, often they don't. Due process requirements don't require judicial hearings. More than 60% of federal forfeitures were uncontested over the past few years. Wow. Yeah. And when the property owners do get notice and muster the courage. To go against the government, they find the deck is stacked against them. Property owners bear the cost of going to court and the burden of proving their property's innocence. And almost all instances, property owners are not entitled to counsel. Holy shit. They're not entitled. The property should be entitled to counsel. Right. If they're treating the property. Suck my cock. Unbelievable. Since 2008, state and local police have made more than 55,000 seizures of cash and property. Worth $3 billion. With the help of the federal government. And in 2014 alone, federal forfeiture laws were used to take in $4.5 billion. This is why civil... This is coming from the ACLU website. The ACLU has kind of stepped in. And I believe this article is from April 20th, 2015. So it's from this year. Well, the thing is that civil assets forfeiture works. It works. At some level, right? Because if they're like big drug cartels, you know, trafficking, you know, large forms of drugs, obviously it's a cash only business. They're going through state line, yada, yada, yada. But I don't think, you know, an average citizen should be subject to this type of shit without the local law enforcement or the federal government having to, you know, prove more than just, you know, your drug, that's drug money. We're taking it away. I mean... If you're going to take somebody's money... If you're going to take somebody's personal property, I think you should have to arrest that person. The reason why they don't arrest that person is because they don't have anything on them. They don't have any evidence. They don't have any evidence and they're just using that. So a nice kind of balance of the thing is, okay, fine. If you arrest the money, you have to arrest the person carrying the money as well because the money is connected to the person who you think is doing this nefarious act. But also once you get into arresting someone... But if you arrest the person... No, no, but... Then the person has the rights... Of course. And they could turn around and sue. Of course. But once... Well, you can still sue with the money, but you need lawyers. You're not going to get... You're going to lose. Once you arrest a person, that detains or delays the whole thing because then in order for you to do whatever the fuck you want with the money, that has to be taken in as evidence. Whereas this doesn't have to be taken into evidence and it does not have to be entered into any kind of court of law. You basically just hold on to it at your local precinct. Right. Right. Right. Wherever the fuck the DEA does, you know, the Drug Enforcement Agency in Guantanamo, wherever, you know, Virginia or... So here's what you do. If you're carrying a large sum of cash, like, you know, $2,500, $25,000, and the cop seizes your cash, right? Right. And he says, ah, I think this is for whatever. Punch the cop in the face as hard as you can. No. No, punch him in the face because you'll just get a... You'll get a charge for punching the cop in the face. Here's the thing. Here's the thing. Here's the thing. But then they'll have to... They'll have to use the money as evidence because that's why he pulled you over. If you're carrying large sums of money, let's say anything over $1,000, put cocaine residue on it, then they have to fucking arrest you for drug trafficking, and then your money has to be... But then you get busted for cocaine. It's okay. But then you have a call. You call your lawyer. Your lawyer bails you out. The money now is entered into court. They find that it wasn't drug money. It was... You were actually stripping for a living. Right. And... Ah, use that as a... Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But it'll take you about a year to get it back because how long did it take the strippers to get it back? About a year. About a year. But you'll get your money back. Right. All right? Here's something... Here's something that I read that's fucking outrageous. Okay? So last year, the TSA... Right? TSA... You know those assholes at the airport that fucking check your asshole and every... You know... Check your ass... The guys that forget to turn the machine on. Right. So... So... So... So last year, the TSA collected $674,841.06 in loose change at airport security checkpoints across the country. How much was that again? $674,841.06. That's a big-ass fucking change jar, man. That's almost $1 million. Almost $1 million. Just a little shy of three-quarters of a million dollars, right? That they collected in loose change at airport security checkpoints. Basically, another way of putting this is that idiot air passengers left almost three-quarters of a million dollars in loose change in those trays or wherever. All right? And this is the thing. The TSA gets to keep every penny. So whatever they find, whatever's left, they get. They get to keep, right? So in 2013, the number was $638,142.64. That was how much it was in 2013. In 2012, it was $531,395.22. Okay? And in 2010, the agency raked in a mere $400,000. Now, here's the kicker. Travelers at New York's JFK. Airport left the most change totaling $42,450. This is in one year. Wow. They left the most change. Do me a favor, guys. If you travel, there's a little advice from Uncle Ness. If you travel frequently like I do, as soon as you go to the airport, take your fucking money out of your pocket. Take your change. Take everything and put it in a compartment in your carry-on. You know, in a zippered compartment. Everyone has a laptop bag. Put all your shit there. Take your watch off. Take, you know, take all that stuff in there. Keep it in one compartment. That way, you know where it is. Once you go through the other side, you'll know to take it out. You'll get your watch out of there, whatever. Simplify. Keep that shit in there the whole time. It's very simple. You don't need any of that stuff while you're walking through the airport. No, but what happens is, what happens is what I call the bagel with cream cheese syndrome, right? You're going to the bagel shop, right? Now, you're talking shit with your friend or you're just like waiting in line. And then you wait till you get to the fucking counter. And then you wait till you get to the fucking counter. And then you wait till you get to the fucking counter to decipher what you want. And the woman says, well, what can I help you with? And then you'll be like, what kind of bagels do you have? You fucking asshole. You've been waiting in line for an hour. You've seen the fucking board. You see what they have. Right. You know, be prepared. I mean, don't wait till the last minute for all that stuff. Anyway, that's the conclusion of our show. Let me just wrap up by saying that Rich, Rich, you're going to be leaving our show June, like in a couple of weeks. No? Not yet? Not yet. Okay. Not yet. All right. So forget that. Scratch that out. Not yet. Scratch that. 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