Brandon Aceto

I mean, aside from the fact that jail is no fun, I mean, these are like the most punitive interest rates that you're ever going to see.

I mean, this makes the high credit card rates almost look friendly.

I don't know.

It's interesting thinking about all this in the context of everything else we've kind of been discussing because a lot of this seems like it's a situation where the government has gotten so big and so complex in so many ways that I think a lot of people look at the situation and they're protesting in kind of irrational ways, but in ways that are a response to basically, like, can you unscramble this egg at this point?

because it's, you know, the California thing is interesting because, I mean, I'm a California boy, and I know front and center that one of the big problems, I'm actually surprised they got even as far as they did with that because the regulations to actually put down even probably 10 feet of railroad track in California is,

is like a colossal effort because there's so many competing regulatory agencies involved in everything.

There's so many different rules, different municipalities, localities, all these different agencies.

So, I mean, I went through a two-year process of getting a house permit after we purchased our house.

I had no idea what I was getting myself into in the state of California.

I mean, it took me two years just to get the stamp of approval to start rebuilding –

and tear down a garage, basically.

This is where?

Where in California?

In San Diego County, which, you know, San Diego is arguably one of the more moderate places in all of California.

But the rules are crazy, and the rules conflict with the different localities and the different environmental agencies.

And you get into this situation where you start to realize that, holy cow, we've scrambled this egg, and can you unscramble it at this point?

And so...

I don't know, going back to Doge, one thing I really liked that Trump did was this thing where he was, for every regulation that was new, he would unwind two, something like that, that you start to make the world less and less complex because that's the other thing that's really frustrating about, I think, what a lot of people experience in everyday life is that the world is getting really, really complex.

It's getting more and more complex, harder to navigate in so many different ways.

And then they confront the government where you're just trying to do simple things like get a house permit to remodel a home.