5 Things: Fruit Fly Edition

Well, all Rattle, rattle, right. Not sure who needs to hear this, but you’re gonna hear it, because here we are five things, fruit flies. Edition. You ever curious about fruit flies? Ever thought about fruit flies like not there one day. And then as soon as you bring a piece of fruit into your home and it sits for a couple of days, miraculously they appear to come out of nowhere, seemingly come right out of nowhere. So I thought, what else kind of just seems to come out of nowhere when certain conditions are right, this thing happens. I thought, well, maybe there’s some funny in there somewhere and some tragic in there somewhere. It’s like everything in life, there’s two sides to the whole deal. So fruit fly edition, five things. Let’s go. So I asked chatgpt like, Where Do Fruit Flies come from? And they said, well, they seem to appear out of nowhere, but they actually come from eggs laid by adult fruit flies. Says that they’re attracted to overripe or rotting fruit, fermenting fruit, and that adult females lay their eggs on or near the surface of the overripe, overripe or decaying fruit, hundreds of eggs at a time. They hatch into larva, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. So I think that we’re we’re missing the point, because I get it that fruit flies come from eggs laid by adult female fruit flies. Where do the adult female fruit flies come from? That’s the thing. Are they just always around? Are they? Are they are are they constantly on patrol? Are they like trolling, like, if you are, if you’re fishing, go really kind of slow. It’s kind of driving your boat. Is that? Is that what the program is with fruit flies? Are they just always looking for opportunities, and then they notice, oh, inside that house, right there, there’s a banana. It’s been sitting there for three days, it’s time. It’s time to go lay eggs. It’s a gamble, because maybe they’re going to eat it today, but if they don’t, if they don’t eat that banana today, who? That’s when the eggs are going to hatch. It’s going to be our time. Our time. I don’t know. Super confusing. Judge, E, P, T, today is not helpful is probably more I’m left with more questions than I have answers. But anyway, what else? What else seem to come out of the woodwork or just appear out of nowhere? Number Well, number five. Let’s go with number five. We’ll go go in reverse order with you know, I don’t know if number one is worse than number five, but we have to give things and assign them numbers. So number five politicians, specifically politicians and their interest in their constituents during election season number five, see, politicians don’t actually care about me or you, or at least it doesn’t seem that way. They have a lot of interest in raising money and soliciting donations from people all over the place, not necessarily just their constituents, and so you don’t really hear from your politicians too often up until election season, and then, due to the wonder of technology, all you hear about is these politicians. I mean, how many text messages we’re getting every day during the last election cycle? And how many text messages are you getting right now that the election cycle is over, hmm, just fruit flies gone back to wherever it is that that the political fruit flies hang out number four looters. Oh, my goodness, this is a lot more direct, isn’t it, but something bad happens, they just show up. So God, what’s a better

Speaker 1 4:26
metaphor than a fruit fly for a looter? We

george grombacher 4:30
can probably get really aggressive with it, but it’s got to be the lowest. Love the low. Some of the lowest organisms on planet Earth are constantly, I guess, waiting for the opportunity to go steal stuff. When there’s a natural disaster or fire or whatever, you’ve got looters that show up to try to get money steal property. My gosh, you gotta be a real piece of shit. You. To do that. Maybe that should be number one, but it’s number four, number three, number three. Homeless people. When you allow homelessness, this one’s pretty direct, but again, I don’t know where they necessarily show up right now in Los Angeles, there are, who really knows, who really knows how many homeless people are in Los Angeles, but I grew up in a town in northern Minnesota called Duluth, Minnesota, and there were about 80,000 people in my entire town, and I think that that is about the same number of people that are currently homeless in Los Angeles. If you just took my entire town, which is not a small town, 80,000 people, is a good size area, and just dumped them on the streets of Los Angeles. But here’s the thing, there’s a game recognized game i i get it. I’ve been to Los Angeles, I’ve been to the beach, and I like being at the beach in Los Angeles. So if you allow people to just live at the beach without owning a house at the beach, they’re going to do that. So let’s add another layer to that, and that I’m a pretty successful person, but no way am I anywhere near having the ability to buy real estate on the beach and anywhere, certainly in Los Angeles, California. So the fruit play effect is when you allow one person to live at the beach, on the street without a home, more people are going to come to live at the beach without a home. So that’s pretty direct. Now it’s not, oh my god, that world famous Chris Farley skit the whole van down by the river. What was his name? Shoot, I’m not gonna be able to pull the character’s name. Was it Ned? He’s been drinking coffee down in the basement for a couple hours getting ready to talk to you kids. Shows up. You’re gonna be living in a van down by the river. Well, turns out that that worked. That was an actually pretty motivational message for a lot of people who are now interested in living in vans down by a river, or, in this example, next to the ocean. So you tell me that I can get a van and then get it somehow in front of just on the street and just live there, and that’s fine. Sweet. You know what I’ve talked myself into. It might just show to the podcast. I’m, I’m getting some some beachside real estate pretty soon here. All right. Anyway, number what number we at? That was number three. So number two, number two novel legal theories. When you just got to get somebody, but you have no standing to get that person, you go ahead and go after them. It’s just listening to Mark Zuckerberg on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast, and he was talking about how Elizabeth Warren went after them using some very obscure tactics, I think, like the consumer finance bureau or something like that, which normally deals with banking, and they’re just the whole Russia communist quote was, show me the man and I’ll show you the crime, which obviously, simply means that, you know, we don’t need to have a crime first to try to arrest somebody and throw them in jail. Let’s just arrest him, throw him in jail, and then we’ll come up with the crime afterwards, kind of thing. And obviously whether or not you like Donald Trump or you don’t, looking at some of the prosecutions that were brought against him were pretty head scratching, from my perspective, and from a lot of people’s perspective, maybe not yours. But if you are not able to see that there was some fuckery going on with those, then I think you need to change your aperture a little bit, push back from the table and realize that we with the rule of law in the United States, a big part of that is we need to have court systems that are fair and balanced and blind regardless of who. It is that is standing in the courtroom, we need to give people a fair shake at at beating novel legal theories that people pull out of thin air like fruit flies to get the people that they want to get. Then I get it. I mean, some stuff that Trump says pretty mad name, a lot of stuff that he does will drive you crazy, and it’s broken a lot of people’s brains. All, all things tricky, but if we can just remind ourselves that I certainly wouldn’t want to be in the position where I was being prosecuted and didn’t really have a fair shake at a a fair and balanced trial, whatever, whatever that term might be, so like coming out of the woodwork, show me the man, I will show you the crime. Don’t want to go down that path. I do not think, in fact, I know one of the branches of government is the judiciary, and it’s just such an important thing we need to protect number one. Number one. My five things today, fruit flies edition, are, of course, Grifters. Grifters, yes, people looking to monetarily capitalize on negative things, on on trends. Where is this showing up? I think you could probably point back in the day, not that long ago, to future of work type people. I mean direct offense to you, if you are a future of work expert for many, many, many years, people would, I would tune in to these talks about the future of work, and all they would say is that just work in the future is going to be different than it is today. So we have to be able to pivot. Got it helpful.

Unknown Speaker 12:00
But today we have, of course,

george grombacher 12:01
AI experts, AI experts. And if you are on the platform LinkedIn, you probably have been solicited and hit up by people who are AI experts in whatever your business or industry is. AI experts out of the woodwork like fruit flies springing up out of nowhere. Remember nfts? Do you remember nfts? No, there were a lot of NFT experts, and maybe they’re now a um, oh, are all of our new AI, newly minted AI experts? Are they former NFT experts. And are those former NFT experts, former Future of Work experts? What was the, what’s the next link in the chain? What was the, what was the previous iterations of that? I should have probably thought through that a little bit more, because not probably going to be able to think of what the last thing was, but I’m probably on to something right there. Obviously, I don’t know where crypto fits into that, necessarily. I guess just right before NFT, or right around the same time as NFT, and still, probably a lot of that going on. And of course, we have race Grifters and climate change Grifters. And there’s just people that will come out of the woodwork, regardless of what the thing is, to try to capitalize and make money on it. So there you have it, five things, fruit fly. Addition, I know, I know, I know. I know that I’m probably missing on some of the most obvious ones. I’m forgetting about the most obvious ones. So please let me know. Please let me know what, who I omitted, who I should add in, because it’s kind of a fun exercise to go through. It’s fruit flies. Crazy deal. Come out of nowhere. Now we discovered that they just come from eggs laid by female adult fruit flies who come out of nowhere. What else? What else comes out of nowhere to uh capitalize on, uh, on a certain a certain circumstance are happening. I would love to hear it as always, do you part doing your best? I.

george grombacher 16:00
So if I want my iPhone, and my Tesla and my Bitcoin to work, we need to get the metal out of the ground.

Pierre Leveille 16:07
Absolutely. Without it, we cannot do it.

george grombacher 16:13
Why? Why is there a Why has production been going down.

Pierre Leveille 16:21
Because the large mines that are producing most of the copper in the world, the grades are going down slowly they’re going there, they’re arriving near the end of life. So and of life of mines in general means less production. And in the past, at least 15 years, the exploration expenditure for copper were pretty low, because the price of copper was low. And when the price is low, companies are tending to not invest more so much in exploration, which is what we see today. It’s it’s, it’s not the way to look at it. Because nobody 15 years ago was able to predict that there would be a so massive shortage, or it’s so massive demand coming. But in the past five years, or let’s say since the since 10 years, we have seen that more and more coming. And then the by the time you react start exploring and there’s more money than then ever that is putting in put it in expression at the moment for copper at least. And what we see is that the it takes time, it could take up to 2025 years between the time you find a deposit that it gets in production. So but but the year the time is counted. So it’s it’s very important to so you will see company reopening old mines, what it will push also, which is not bad, it will force to two, it will force to find a it will force to find ways of recalibrating customer, you know the metals, that will be more and more important.

george grombacher 18:07
So finding, okay, so for lack of a better term recycling metals that are just sitting around somewhere extremely important. Yeah. And then going and going back to historic minds that maybe for lack of technology, or just lack of will or reasons, but maybe now because there’s such a demand, there’s an appetite to go back to those.

Pierre Leveille 18:33
Yes, but there will be a lot of failures into that for many reasons. But the ones that will be in that will resume mining it’s just going to be a short term temporary solution. No it’s it’s not going to be you need to find deposit that will that will operate 50 years you know at least it’s 25 to 50 years at least and an old mind that you do in production in general it’s less than 10 years.

george grombacher 19:03
Got it. Oh there we go. Up here. People are ready for your difference making tip What do you have for them

Pierre Leveille 19:14
You mean an investment or

george grombacher 19:17
whatever you’re into, you’ve got so much life experience with raising a family and doing business all over the world and having your kids go to school in Africa so a tip on copper or whatever you’re into.

Pierre Leveille 19:34
But there’s two things I like to see and I was telling my children many times and I always said you know don’t focus on what will bring you specifically money don’t think of Getting Rich. Think of doing what you what you like, what you feel your your your your your, you know you have been born to do so use your most you skills, do what you like, do what you wet well, and good things will happen to you. And I can see them grow in their life. And I can tell you that this is what happens. And sometimes you have setback like I had recently. But if we do things properly, if we do things that we like, and we liked that project, we were very passionate about that project, not only me, all my team, and if we do things properly, if we do things correctly, good things will happen. And we will probably get the project back had to go forward or we will find another big project that will be the launch of a new era. So that’s my most important tip in life. Do what you like, do it with your best scale and do it well and good things will happen.

george grombacher 20:49
Pierre Leveille 21:03
Thank you. I was happy to be with you to today.

george grombacher 21:06
Damn, tell us the websites and where where people can connect and find you.

Pierre Leveille 21:13
The it’s Deep South resources.com. So pretty simple.

george grombacher 21:18
Perfect. Well, if you enjoyed this as much as I did show up here your appreciation and share today’s show with a friend who also appreciate good ideas, go to deep south resources, calm and learn all about what they’re working on and track their progress.

Pierre Leveille 21:32
Thanks. Thanks, have a nice day.

george grombacher 21:36
And until next time, keep fighting the good fight. We’re all in this together.