Speaker 1: Can we get a wellness check on Eric Swallowell place.
Speaker 1: It's one more thing.
Speaker 2: I'm swallow raises his head into podcast cool.
Speaker 3: Before we get to that, though, Elon Musk put human
Speaker 3: beings into space yesterday higher than they have been in
Speaker 3: fifty years, which is a pretty.
Speaker 1: Big Elon Musk, I got to ask, do you mean
Speaker 1: like at a higher altitude or just more stone?
Speaker 3: Excellent point? By higher SpaceX, his rocket company put human
Speaker 3: beings further up in orbit than has happened in a
Speaker 3: half century, back when only governments could do that sort
Speaker 3: of thing. Here's what it sounded like.
Speaker 1: Lift off yesterday, good ten, nine eight?
Speaker 3: Follow or.
Speaker 1: Cop you one? Alpha?
Speaker 2: Do you bults pitching down the range.
Speaker 3: Is dumb?
Speaker 1: I have two observations. Number one, there is not a
Speaker 1: crowd of human beings in the world who does not
Speaker 1: count down too quickly. You always get ahead of the count.
Speaker 1: People get excited. Second thought, everybody counting down gets to
Speaker 1: zero or blast off and cheers like lunatics. Meanwhile, the
Speaker 1: astronauts are thinking this shiznizzle, just start it right right.
Speaker 1: I'm on top of a bomb being thrust into space.
Speaker 3: Hey, nothing ended yet. My thoughts Private companies have more
Speaker 3: showbiz than government scientists by a lot, which you can
Speaker 3: understand why. And I was just thinking dark thought, hope
Speaker 3: it never happens, But EL probably have a tragedy at
Speaker 3: some point like the Apollo and Space Shuttle programs did, right,
Speaker 3: And I wonder how you deal with that as a
Speaker 3: private company.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that's an interesting question on a number of
Speaker 1: levels PR, legal, perception, perception, which is I guess pr
Speaker 1: he's got.
Speaker 3: He does have that advantage of the fail fast thing
Speaker 3: that the government never did, which is just such a
Speaker 3: good idea. Now let's try it, try it, it fails,
Speaker 3: figure out what went wrong. Then fix that fails again,
Speaker 3: fix that as opposed to we got to get right
Speaker 3: the first time, and it taking so long, right, And
Speaker 3: I wonder if doing that, bit by bit by bit
Speaker 3: he cuts back the chance of a really really catasphropic
Speaker 3: catastrophic failure, I hope.
Speaker 4: So.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, I've long maintained, whether it's NASA or SpaceX
Speaker 1: or anybody else, that mankind has to continue to explore.
Speaker 1: We just have to expand our horizons and learn and
Speaker 1: learn and learn. That's what makes us human. If we
Speaker 1: ever retreat into the you know, and This is much
Speaker 1: more popular on the left, This idea of we're just
Speaker 1: gonna hunker down and redistribute money and just not yearn
Speaker 1: for anything anymore.
Speaker 3: Count me out well psychologically, I think you're right. And
Speaker 3: then Elon's belief is that if any life form in
Speaker 3: the universe is going to survive, it needs to be
Speaker 3: multiplanetary because no planet will last forever. And he believes
Speaker 3: if there ever was intelligent life anywhere in the universe,
Speaker 3: it died out because it wasn't multiplanetary. That we will be.
Speaker 3: So we'll be on Earth and Mars. So if Earth
Speaker 3: gets destroyed, we're somewhere else, and then other places also,
Speaker 3: that's his thing.
Speaker 1: I just I demand that everybody involved sign a solemn
Speaker 1: vow not to go to another planet and eat those
Speaker 1: people's pats.
Speaker 3: Wouldn't it be something if you're on Earth and you
Speaker 3: watch the people on Mars. This would be maybe I
Speaker 3: don't know, one hundred years from now, two hunred years
Speaker 3: from now, once they get a decent population and they've
Speaker 3: got to have like cities and government and crime and
Speaker 3: all of the things that exist with humanity, and then
Speaker 3: watch it from this planet or vice versa, where you
Speaker 3: might think, oh, man, that really looks nice there. They
Speaker 3: have a lot less crime or comparisons between systems or something.
Speaker 3: I don't know, that could be really fascinating.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we already kind of have that between countries. Yeah, yeah, huh. Anyway,
Speaker 1: I for one look forward to the future. Getting back
Speaker 1: to pet eating. If you missed the debate on what
Speaker 1: was It Till Tuesday night, the September the tenth, Trump
Speaker 1: discussed the alleged eating of pets by Haitian immigrants in Ohio, AH.
Speaker 1: The specifics of it not important. We went over that
Speaker 1: a good deal. But some online genius noticed the rhythm
Speaker 1: of Trump's comments and it reminded him of a certain
Speaker 1: very popular and well known musical theme.
Speaker 4: They're eating the dogs, the people that came in. They're
Speaker 4: eating the cats, they're eating they're eating of the people
Speaker 4: that live there.
Speaker 3: It's too good.
Speaker 1: It is hilarious. It is hilarious. I know, you know,
Speaker 1: I've spent a lot of time thinking about humor in
Speaker 1: my life. And there are some things that are extra
Speaker 1: funny because they're so smart, and there are some things
Speaker 1: that are just so funny because they're so stupid. And
Speaker 1: if they were smarter, they wouldn't be nearly as funny.
Speaker 1: That is exquisitely dumb.
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, his words match up with the piano rhythm period,
Speaker 3: and the fact that his words are absurd makes it better.
Speaker 3: Play it again.
Speaker 4: They're eating the dogs, the people that came in, they're
Speaker 4: eating the cats, they're eating they're eating of the people
Speaker 4: that live there.
Speaker 3: And it doesn't sound like he edited it at all.
Speaker 1: He or she? No, No, it is perfectly idiotic. God,
Speaker 1: I admire that.
Speaker 3: Hey, I will never be able to do that. Will it?
Speaker 3: That had to come from the human brain. I can't
Speaker 3: believe it.
Speaker 1: But anyway, Yeah, I don't know. Oh, we're going to
Speaker 1: do the other. The Willie Brown profile from nineteen ninety
Speaker 1: five on ABC News. There's only one line in it
Speaker 1: orth hearing. You'll probably catch it. It's clip eleven Michael
Speaker 1: not Tori really for.
Speaker 5: His flamboyant lifestyle, flashy clothes, fancy parties, fine women, and
Speaker 5: fast cars.
Speaker 1: Did you catch it? His flamboyant lifestyle, fine women?
Speaker 3: Are you his daughter?
Speaker 1: Now? I'm not? Who did you recognize that voice? A
Speaker 1: very young Kamala Harris hanging out with slick Willie her
Speaker 1: mentor she didn't.
Speaker 3: Seem to be bothered by asking being asked by a
Speaker 3: reporter if she was his daughter, which implies that he's
Speaker 3: way your boyfriend's way older than you. Didn't even bother
Speaker 3: her any that is? That is something fine? Women, Are
Speaker 3: you his daughter?
Speaker 1: I'm not.
Speaker 3: I'll tell you what that made that that little profile
Speaker 3: because we knew Willie Brown some We did a bunch
Speaker 3: of stuff with Willy Brown years ago, radio shows and
Speaker 3: appearances and stuff like that. It made me want to
Speaker 3: be in his orbit back in the day. That looked
Speaker 3: like a good time. I looked like a really good time,
Speaker 3: be like hanging around Sinatra.
Speaker 1: Yeah, in a lot of ways. I won't get off on.
Speaker 1: You know what kind of guy Willy Brown is. He's
Speaker 1: a complicated man. Anyway.
Speaker 3: Do you spend much time with Willy Brown, Katie, Oh no, No.
Speaker 3: So you know, he was mayor of San Francisco obviously,
Speaker 3: then ran the state for years. I mean he was
Speaker 3: the most powerful guy in the state for years and
Speaker 3: years and years and years.
Speaker 1: Back before term limits. So he was Speaker pro tem
Speaker 1: of the Senator whatever forever.
Speaker 3: And I have a natural repulsion with all politicians. I
Speaker 3: just automatically hate them before I've ever even met them.
Speaker 3: I just hate politicians, and that's just why I'm built.
Speaker 3: He You can't not like him. He's got there's something
Speaker 3: that some people have, and he's got that people say
Speaker 3: that Bill Clinton has that. I've never met Bill Clinton,
Speaker 3: but Willie Brown when is in a room, even everything
Speaker 3: I knew about him in his past, and I'd read
Speaker 3: books about him and watched Docy, everything I knew about
Speaker 3: him when he was in the studio with this. You
Speaker 3: wanted him to like you. You just wanted to be
Speaker 3: kind of like. You wanted him to think you were
Speaker 3: cool for some reason. It's just I don't know what
Speaker 3: that Jedi mind trick is that some people have, but
Speaker 3: he has it.
Speaker 2: Bill Clinton and Willie Brown, I'm both hooking up with
Speaker 2: chicks way younger than.
Speaker 3: That using that skill. Yeah right, I just described on women.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, Hillary knows it was like a big bearded
Speaker 1: Viking anyway. Yeah, Willie enormously charismatic, very gracious. He was
Speaker 1: just a really gracious guy to be around. He would
Speaker 1: make you feel important. That's like they always said about Clinton.
Speaker 1: He would make you think you were the most important
Speaker 1: person in his life at that moment.
Speaker 3: And I have such a high degree of skepticism about
Speaker 3: that sort of thing. I hate it when somebody thinks
Speaker 3: they're playing me and getting away with it, salespeople and
Speaker 3: stuff like that. Oh my god, I hate it more
Speaker 3: than anybody I know. But he it just Hey, Willie Brown,
Speaker 3: I think kind of likes me.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, he's in the very top top tier
Speaker 1: of that sort of thing. He also had an amazing,
Speaker 1: amazing inst for buying real estate right before a giant
Speaker 1: state project would pay a super premium for that land.
Speaker 1: Oh he was gifted in that way, just amazing.
Speaker 3: And fine, women, are you his daughter? No? No, I'm not.
Speaker 1: Okay, So you know what, I'm sorry that kind of
Speaker 1: distracted me. Why don't we just for not because it's
Speaker 1: hilariously stupid, but just to re establish the theme. Give
Speaker 1: me the peanuts thing again.
Speaker 4: They're eating the dogs, they're eating they're eating the.
Speaker 3: Recoiled When he said that during the debate, I.
Speaker 1: Did too, not because I care about whether people are
Speaker 1: discussing it or not, but because it was a missed opportunity.
Speaker 1: But I don't want to relitigate. That was point during
Speaker 1: the debate.
Speaker 4: Did you say, oh, here we go, we're going off
Speaker 4: the rails for me, it was the crowd seconds and I.
Speaker 3: I did with a handshake. I thought, oh that was
Speaker 3: not good.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was the handshake. Yeah. Anyway, I don't want
Speaker 1: to relitigate that. I wanted to do this. So in
Speaker 1: the Homeland Security I can't. Or the one of your
Speaker 1: big committees in the House, the Chairman brought up the
Speaker 1: pet eating in some regard. They're talking about immigration, the
Speaker 1: border and that sort of thing. And Eric Swalwell, swall Well, Swallwell,
Speaker 1: remember that lover of Chinese spies. He reacted badly to it.
Speaker 1: Twelve Michael, what in the hell is this?
Speaker 6: The Chairman tweets protect our ducks and kittens in Ohio
Speaker 6: because he goes some down, goes down some crazy rabbit hole,
Speaker 6: completely debunked that aliens are eating pets. O my god,
Speaker 6: are you okay, mister Chairman, Because last year, for a
Speaker 6: very long time, you tweeted and promoted Kanye West as
Speaker 6: he was calling for genocide against the Jews, and you
Speaker 6: kept it up. And now when we have victims coming here,
Speaker 6: you're tweeting this nonsense.
Speaker 1: I don't know why you would do this. I hope
Speaker 1: you're okay.
Speaker 6: I don't know if the aliens who are eating your
Speaker 6: ducks are in the room with us right now. But
Speaker 6: mister Sherman, this is a serious issue. These people have
Speaker 6: loved ones who have been lost, and you tweeted this.
Speaker 1: I am reminded of Mark Twain's famous statement, say I
Speaker 1: were a congressman or an idiot, but I repeat myself.
Speaker 3: Yeah, first of all, aliens not the preferred nomenclature on
Speaker 3: your side, there, swallowell. And two, that was the worst
Speaker 3: feigned outrage I've ever heard. That was a really horror
Speaker 3: attempt acting like you were.
Speaker 2: Upset well in that slam you heard in the middle
Speaker 2: of the clip with him like very dramatically putting his
Speaker 2: head down on his desk, you know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh yeah. It was straight out of like a
Speaker 1: silent film from nineteen ten, you know, overacting. So the
Speaker 1: fact that the Chairman.
Speaker 3: No, I have sex with a Chinese spot. Yeah, where's
Speaker 3: Fang Fang.
Speaker 1: When you need her? That's right. You know, the fact
Speaker 1: that the Chairman tweeted that out was probably not great judgment,
Speaker 1: but it was one of those AI generated memes that
Speaker 1: were so hilarious of Trump gathering the ducks and cats
Speaker 1: to them and protecting them this is this is the
Speaker 1: greatest superpower on earth. This is our Congress, Article one,
Speaker 1: the first part of the Constitution, Congress, and what it does,
Speaker 1: that's what they do. God save the Union.
Speaker 3: Eating the dogs, they're eating, they're eating the.
Speaker 4: People that came in, they're eating, they're eating the people.
Speaker 3: That live there. That might be my favorite thing ever.
Speaker 1: Nomination for the Clip of the Year.
Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, that'll be hard to beat.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be hearing that all day long. Well, I
Speaker 1: guess that's it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm glad you remembered that clearly high Clip of
Speaker 3: the Year contender.