Overview

A more personal episode today. We delve into an issue that arose with someone Stephen knows and the bigger topic of how we deal with those on the spectrum. And that isn’t the cable company.

Overcoming Negativity and Embracing Diversity The speaker shares his perspective on dealing with criticism, particularly about a man who has stated many times he has Asperger’s but was faced with unfounded criticisms based on a lack of understanding. He also began to share a personal story of his first wife, who took their children to a women’s shelter after they split up. 00:00 Introduction 00:00 The Art of Rebuilding 00:14 Embracing Diversity and Understanding 00:19 The Unseen Struggles of Public Figures 00:34 The Cancel Culture Phenomenon 00:54 Personal Revelations

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[00:00:00] You all

Alan: set? I think I am. Yes. Let me just get as usual, I try to turn off everything, but what we’re doing so that any net or computer exposure. Let’s see.

I don’t that’s

Stephen: okay. Yes. Yeah. The unfairness is I was talking to somebody The other day with Spectrum just like me, and they’re like, oh, yeah. They finally upgraded me above 1 gig above just fiber levels.

I’m like, Shut up. I’m like, why? What do you have? And I’m like, I’m lucky if I get 350 megabits a second. That’s like I’m paying the most I can to get just that much. I’m like, it’s ridiculous.

Alan: Yeah. I’ve been with AT and T with for with fiber with Fios for a while and just saw that Verizon is now offering 2 gig fiber, and I have no loyalty. You know what I mean?

AT and T has been just fine, and I guess I might stick with them because they also give me 1 of those things, maybe free HBO or something like that. But I already use Verizon for our [00:01:00] cell phones and stuff like that. So having it be all in 1 bundle, don’t know if I get a bundling price. And I don’t know. Am I gonna make a decision on my Internet connection speed based on, oh, I get 1 more channel.

Do you know what

Stephen: I mean? At this the good news is it’s only 10 dollars a month For only 3 months, but then after that, it goes up to twice as much. They jump they

Alan: every trick they can find. You know what?

That I don’t know. This is gonna be an ongoing subject of conversation that there’s no true capitalism left in this country where it’s you get all the information you need to compare between parties based on price and utility and all and make a choice. That instead, everything they possibly can do to obscure things, to make it through tying agreements you’re straight out of like antitrust legislation from the early twentieth century, every company is trying to do what they can to make it that you don’t have true mobility when you wanna change to another provider, true full information when you everything I’ve been doing with travel [00:02:00] lately. And I are now retired.

We’re looking forward to all kinds of fun travel. What a swamp the world of travel aggregators has become that they’re the first ones that came out,