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S4 - E4: Bouncing Back: Boeing's Resurgence, Emerging Technologies, and The Impact of Canadians on Hockey
Ever wondered what it takes to bounce back from a series of quality issues? If you're curious, join us as we explore Boeing's remarkable resurgence. Imagine a world where sensors catch wildfires before they spread, and internet connection is as unlimited as the sky above us. What if technology theft was the norm? How would our world change if a company became too big to fail? We'll get into all of these questions and dive into the latest happenings around Washington State and beyond.
But we're not all serious business. Ever pondered about the Canadians' immense contribution to the world of hockey? We certainly did! We're taking a light-hearted detour into the sport of hockey, chuckling over some puck-related humor and showing our appreciation for our neighbors up north. So pull up a chair, pour yourself a cuppa, and join our conversation. Don't forget to subscribe and leave us a comment, and remember: the best is yet to come!
Hello and welcome to Foundation Nation. I'm your host, matthew Cote. Along with Daniel, we're both high school educated, masters of nothing and gifted with a knowledge of well a lot. Today on the podcast, we're going to talk about some interesting recent goings-ons in our beautiful state and maybe even a few things going on in this amazing round thing we call home.
Speaker 2:Let's see what the hell is going on in the world today. We got oh, I know what I wanted to talk about Boeing. So the economy it's a little. How do you feel about the economy right now?
Speaker 3:Economy is done.
Speaker 2:Well, hold on. How do you feel about the economy? I mean in Washington state In Washington state.
Speaker 3:Washington state is fine. Yeah, I feel like we're doing okay right, yeah, we are doing okay, yeah, it feels really strong and healthy and things are moving along.
Speaker 2:Yep, because we are home for many good businesses yeah big time and really actually not just good for everyone, but just great companies in general. So Boeing the good news is Boeing's first quarter was awesome and it's bouncing back. They got all their repairs done and now they're focusing on making money and it's starting to look good.
Speaker 3:Yeah, they had a glitch in March that some of the planes had some quality issues, but they're bouncing back and getting it back. Comparing to airbus, they're a little bit lower out of the door production, but they're getting there.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and they're a great company. I mean, overall, I have nothing to complain about. My entire family has worked for them and still does, even. But Boeing, what are you doing, boeing? Are you being accused of stealing technology for your bolts on rockets and jets and space stations?
Speaker 3:Yeah, any company.
Speaker 2:Please say no. This is not happening. Tell me no.
Speaker 3:When you're too big to fail, you start to believe that you can get away with anything.
Speaker 2:Oh, you know what that reminds me of? I was watching some kind of technology movie. Oh, I remember what it was. Have you watched any of those series on Netflix Black Mirror?
Speaker 3:I wanted to, but no.
Speaker 2:So I won't give any of the plots away or whatever, but all the episodes are about kind of technology involved with humans. So every story is technology, humans related. And this one episode was this guy was talking and there was a problem in the social media network or world and he basically controlled the social media of the whole planet in this episode scenario. And there was a problem. And he said he was sitting at his computer, his laptop, while he was sitting at a vacation place and there was a problem and no one in the whole world can fix it. There was all kinds of problems and really terrible.
Speaker 2:And he said you know what, as he opened up his laptop, every once in a while I get to activate God mode and he gets on his laptop and he just like fixes the whole world with like two clicks. And that's just what this kind of makes me think, you know, because I'm sure they didn't deal the technology by hand. If they stole it maybe they didn't, who knows, but I'm sure they didn't like physically take something. I'm sure it's like digitally moved from one place to another is probably what we're talking about.
Speaker 3:Well, I'm looking at these news. It is actually about some sort of range, torque range, whatever Looks like Boeing really liked the range and they just continued to use it after they broke off with the company which provided it there is a kind of shady story that they're saying that someone misused it or whatever. Maybe the range was too good or actually not that good that it broke or didn't do its job properly or something, and because of that some stuff happened. They mentioned space station, but I haven't heard much about stuff On one side.
Speaker 3:yeah, the design of the tool. Yes, it is your intellectual property. On the other side, who knows, maybe they're just trying to milk money from Boeing.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean, you know that happens all the time. This is a very interesting country we live in.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I would see to it and kind of fall up on a story, but I do believe that this lawsuit is probably going to take years. Yeah yeah, because it's Boeing, they're going to drug everything and if they're guilty, they're going to drug this thing.
Speaker 2:To the end of time. Yeah kind of run them out of money kind of thing maybe Well, that's one negative thing about technology. Here's a positive thing Sensors that can help us catch wildfires before they spread. How cool would that be.
Speaker 3:That is actually really cool news. I just stumbled upon it and I am really amazed that how far people want to go to actually prevent all of these wildfires.
Speaker 1:I'm glad.
Speaker 3:And this is actually really good news, because they are implementing computers to fight wildfires. Yeah, that's awesome. That is awesome, because computer technology nowadays is really good and Elon Musk's internet that is used here also. I do believe it's going to provide internet to places where there's no internet. And these sensors I mean wire can break, whatever can break, but internet is still going to be because it is in space.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think it's super cool yeah you know, because if you have a little fire, you know they can get on it before it's like the size of a city, Not millions, tens of hundreds of millions of dollars a worth of damage. And we really don't need forest fires right now. We could go 10 years without another goddam forest fire.
Speaker 3:Yeah, look in Canada.
Speaker 2:Well, I know they say you know forest fires or make a healthy forest and all that bullshit, but I feel like they're all burning up and they're going to be gone.
Speaker 3:They're burning too much.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's way too much.
Speaker 3:Way too much, especially last year, in Oregon and California, especially Oregon.
Speaker 2:That was a disaster.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:Well, good for them, for you know, figuring out the forest fires and stuff. I mean it's like it's about time somebody figured out how to catch it when it's a little fire, before it's the whole goddam country on fire.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I'm just kind of surprised that they deployed only 10 sensors. Probably these sensors cost a little bit.
Speaker 2:Yeah, or they're not completely figured out with their technology, so it's trying them out, yeah they'll dial them in. Yeah, and then they'll dial them in. I mean, this couldn't be. It wouldn't be that big of a cost, you know, like some kind of system that you could just draw, you know you could almost do is you could take a plane and you could just fly over a forest and just throw sensors out the door.
Speaker 3:Yeah you know, instead of trying to get there on foot.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and you know, you could just like I don't know some kind of like parachuting little triangle that just sits somewhere and it, when it detects a fire, it sends it through the satellite, you know.
Speaker 3:Yeah, on the other hand, you will always. I mean, there is always a person who is going to look like oh what?
Speaker 2:is that that?
Speaker 3:is so, cool. Oh, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:Okay, Okay, I'm going to take it with me, All right, Okay, how about? Okay, how about let me think, how about helicopter be too expensive? But how about let me see, Maybe something? Oh, what about a? Somebody goes in with a truck out in the middle of nowhere and they have a bunch of drones and the drones have like 10 mile radius and on that drone it's carrying a little sensor that they clip onto a tree at the top.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah, in general, all you have to do is just put a big, big fine, like a 200,000 dollar fine If you touch it, if you touch that sensor.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and it will take a picture of you when you're touching it.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah, oh yeah, and immediately it uploads it to iCloud. Yeah, absolutely, like on Insta.
Speaker 2:Instantaneously and you're on the front page of the news for the biggest fire in the planet of the history.
Speaker 3:Uh-huh, I like it so, and I think it would work.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I do too. I think it's, I think they're, they're onto something. I hope they really get good funding and support and get that taken care of, because the forest fires really suck. Oh yeah, and the majority of them I think pretty much all of them are human, started by accident 99% of all the fires are started by humans. Yeah, they ain't no lightning fires anymore.
Speaker 3:And it is all. Oh, I wanted to make some coffee. Oh man, you cannot leave without one 250 million dollar cup of coffee. Uh-huh, yeah. So I heard that one guy just wanted to make a cup of coffee, and that's it.
Speaker 2:That's it. It's just went to town on him. Yeah, yeah, well. So what happens if you find a million pennies?
Speaker 3:Uh, that's a good and bad. Yeah, good that you found some free money, right. Bad how can you spend it?
Speaker 2:A million pennies.
Speaker 3:Just just imagine you're going to the store and buying a TV for 1000 bucks. Uh, you need a truckload of worse of pennies, just and about a hundred people to count them in. Yeah.
Speaker 2:Is it? Is it again? Would a store be able to say no?
Speaker 3:I think they can, because this is something out of uh.
Speaker 2:Like it's crazy, right.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it is super crazy. And uh, I do remember there was a clause that guy was. Guy hated the utility companies, uh-huh, and he decided to pay the debt that they put on him in pennies. Oh damn, yes, he collected these pennies everywhere and finally came up with like a 1500 dollars worth of pennies and he brought them there and he's like here it's all yours and they're like we cannot accept it because we cannot count. Right, we are not going to count and you will have to count them.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 3:On a video camera and that was uh. I mean, he tried to refuse it, but they made him to count every single fucking penny. Oh my, God.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they got kicked in the balls for that one, oh yeah, oh yeah, jesus.
Speaker 3:And the same thing goes to these guys who found a one million pennies in a crow space under the house. I mean, they, they cannot cash it because there is a percentage involved. Right, if you ask professionals to count them, sure, sure. And if you don't want to pay percentage, you have to come up with something like a bring 100 pennies to a bank and change them to a dollar and do it 10,000 times.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so a million pennies. What's that? What is that? 10 grand?
Speaker 3:Yeah, 10 grand, yeah yeah, it's not that big of a money. No but it is quite big.
Speaker 2:It's like it's borderline. What do you do?
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, it's like a should I or should I not yeah.
Speaker 1:Like.
Speaker 3:I would just take a.
Speaker 2:Take that percentage and just give it to them, because it's free money. Well, if you figure like so, 100 pennies in that little roll, if that takes you, let's say that takes you two minutes and you got to do 10,000 rolls.
Speaker 3:That is a lot of minutes.
Speaker 2:Yeah, 10,000 rolls, that's 2000 minutes.
Speaker 3:And in a row.
Speaker 2:In a row.
Speaker 3:No stop.
Speaker 2:No, pn, no, eat nothing.
Speaker 3:Yep, and that is counted in fatigue.
Speaker 2:Yeah. Good luck, yeah, and you know how they check them at the bank. They weigh them, so if you're off they won't take them. Do you know that I turned in a roll of quarters one time? They didn't even check it. They put it in this little thing and it weighs it and they give you it. You know your 20 bucks or whatever. Oh, or I think a roll of quarters is 10 bucks. But whatever it was, they just yeah, they said it on this little thing and waited and gave me the $10.
Speaker 3:Yeah, the thing is If there is a Canadian quarter in there it was little, it was differently. Oh, they probably would check it, they probably could get it yep, and the way thing is going to show you that one of the quarters is off.
Speaker 2:Yeah, what? What idiot came up with money that looks just like ours? That's bad.
Speaker 3:That's a bad neighbor. Canadians, what, what can I say?
Speaker 2:Well, they brought us hockey. Thinking Canadians.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah, yeah, it's hockey. It's really really good.
Speaker 2:All right. Well, that's all I got for you. You got anything else? No, all right, I'm Matthew Cote, and this is Foundation Nation, along with Daniel by them. See ya.
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