Travis Kelce & Andy Reid contracts, CZ gets 4 months, Tesla making Bots in 2025, Margot Robbie Monopoly movie, and time travel formula discovered - #28

Welcome to Episode 28 of the irl Media NEWS Podcast. I'm your host Chris Thompson, and today we discuss Travis Kelce & Andy Reid Score huge contracts with Kansas City Chiefs, CZ gets 4 months, Tesla making Bots in 2025, Margot Robbie making Monopoly, and time travel formula discovered.

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Welcome to Episode 28 of the irl Media NEWS Podcast. I'm your host Chris Thompson, and today we discuss Travis Kelce & Andy Reid Score huge contracts with Kansas City Chiefs, CZ gets 4 months, Tesla making Bots in 2025, Margot Robbie making Monopoly, and time travel formula discovered.

​​All that and more in today's episode of the irl Media NEWS Podcast. Let’s get into it.

Crypto

After offering to put up his entire network of $4.5   Billion dollars as collateral for bail in order to visit his family in China before beginning his jail sentence, Changpeng “CZ” Zhao found out he’ll only be spending 4 months in prison!

As a reminder CZ pleaded guilty to money laundering on Nov. 21, 2023 and is currently free on a $175 million bond in the United States, but he isn’t allowed to leave the country. He was facing up to 18 months in jail, but the rich rarely ever serve long jail terms; I’m guessing due to their expensive lawyers and probably a healthy amount of greasing the palms before sentencing.

What did CZ do to get in so much trouble? When he pleaded guilty last year to a money-laundering violation he acknowledged that his company Binance allowed terrorist groups and other criminals to have access to its platform.

Woops!

So now he’ll go away for 4 months, which I believe he could still get out early for “good behavior”, so the length of his incarceration could be less than half that time.

At his sentencing, Judge Jones said to Changpeng Zhao “Your conduct does not warrant a 36-month sentence”, and called him a “a dedicated family man and a giving person”, then went on to praise his “staggering accomplishment” in building Binance.

Anyone else find it a little odd that the judge, sentencing him for admitting to money laundering and allowing terrorists and criminals to use his Binance crypto platform, would go so easy on him and praise him?

Yea, the DA might want to look into that.

Tech

The robot revolution could start in 2025 at Tesla, according to Elon Musk.

Even though Tesla’s Optimus bot is still being designed in the lab, Elon Musk is boasting it could be ready to enter production as early as 2025.

Ahead of that ambitious date, Elon Musk shared with investors that he believes the Tesla Optimus bot could begin working in Tesla factories by the end of 2024.

Elon Musk is on record as saying that he believes robot sales could be bigger than Tesla’s vehicle business.

Think about that for a minute.

Then factor in that Tesla is so much more than “just” a car manufacturer. They also make battery storage devices, solar panels, solar roofing shingles, EV charging stations, autonomous driving software and the AI algorithms that enable hands free driving, and now Optimus robots.

As a Tesla shareholder, when I think about the company I’ve invested in I don’t just think of them as a car manufacturer. They’ve vertically integrated so much of their manufacturing and supply chains all toward their mission statement of “accelerating the world's transition to sustainable energy through increasingly affordable electric vehicles in addition to renewable energy generation and storage.”

Tesla’s Optimus robots are just the next evolution in their mission to usher in EVs and make renewable energy the world’s number one energy source.

Entertainment

It looks like Margot Robbie is looking to add another franchise to her already impressive career.

News broke recently that Margot Robbie’s production company, LuckyChap, along with Hasbro Entertainment, are producing a live-action feature film based on the real estate-inspired Monopoly board game.

“Monopoly is the world’s most popular board game brand, with 99% global awareness. It’s available in more than 100 countries across the globe, selling nearly half a billion copies going back to 1935.”

Fresh off the heels of her wildly successful Barbie movie, Margot Robbie’s star is certainly rising.

It is a little ironic though, that given all of the iconic acting roles she's had in 28 movies she’s appeared in, it turns out a role in a fluff movie like Barbie is the one that catapults her into the broader public’s consciousness.

I guess it’s just Margot Robbie’s world, and we all just live in it, and that’s kenough for me.

Sports

Are the Kansas City Chiefs looking to make it three Super Bowl wins in a row?

That's what it seems like if you take a look at what their front office has just done. They've offered tight end Travis Kelce a record-breaking two-year $34.25 million contract that runs through 2027, and comes out to an NFL record $17.125 million per year making him the highest paid tight end in the league.

Then they went and extended Andy Reid’s contract as head coach, locking him up for a 5-year extension until 2029 that will see him earn around $100 million dollars over the length of his extension. That comes out to $20 million dollars a year, which is now the highest head coach salary in the NFL, with Sean Payton of the Denver Broncos coming in at second place at $18 million dollars a year.

You don't pay this kind of money in the off season if you're not trying to repeat the previous year's success.

Then add to all of that the rumors, or wishful thinking, that Travis Kelce may be on the verge of popping the question to Taylor Swift. You know she's bound to make a couple of appearances at both Kansas City Chiefs home games at Arrowhead stadium, as well as following the team on the road. That is, when she's not touring Europe as part of the second year of her Era's Tour.

It looks like it’s going to be another great year for the Kansas City Chiefs!

Science

Astrophysicist Ron Mallet claims he’s figured out the equation for time travel.

Let me go back in time to get you up to speed on time travel.

It’s not possible! There, now you know everything you need to know about any equation for time travel.

How do I know this? People much smarter than me have said so.

A few of the arguments against time travel include the snarky quip that time travel must not be possible otherwise we’d already be doing it. I’m not a fan of this one, because it could just be an incredibly well kept secret, like the recipe for KFC’s fried chicken, and what really happened in Roswell, New Mexico.

The next argument for time travel being impossible is the second law of thermodynamics, which says that heat can’t move from a reservoir of lower temperature to a reservoir of higher temperature in a cyclic process.

Then we have Albert Einstein's special theory of relativity that states that the same laws of physics hold true in all inertial reference frames, and that the speed of light is the same for all observers, even those moving with respect to one another.

Hard to argue against Einstein!

Then we have a common sense argument against time travel. Even if it “was possible” it would require an insane amount of energy, and the world simply doesn’t have the excess capacity that would be needed to actually conduct time travel even if it was possible.

Back to Astrophysicist Ron Mallet and his formula. 

Ron Mallet “says that his idea of a time machine centers around an “intense and continuous rotating beam of light” that can manipulate gravity. A device built by him, following his equation, would use a ring of lasers to mimic the effects of a black hole, which appears to distort space and time around them.”

I’m not buying what he’s selling, and besides, has he even thought about the “consistency paradox” or “grandfather paradox” which occurs when the past is changed in any way which then creates a contradiction. The most common example that people use in their arguments against time travel is that if you somehow do travel into the past and do something to alter what happened in the past like saving Ron Mallet’s father from dying, then that would affect the future. If his father never died, then he wouldn’t have had any reason to ever dedicate his life to creating a time machine to go back and save his father. 

You can’t escape the time travel conundrum.

That's it for our show today. We really appreciate you sticking around to the end. 

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I’m your host Chris Thompson, and this has been an irl Media NEWS Podcast.