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Speaker 2: Now let's kick things off with some news about cryptocurrency. Historically,
Speaker 2: it's the best investment if you're looking to have your
Speaker 2: money stolen by a guy whose mattress is one hundred
Speaker 2: percent for sure on the floor. But now there's one
Speaker 2: less place for Americans to trade it.
Speaker 3: This morning, another major blow to the cryptocurrency industry as
Speaker 3: the leader of the world's largest crypto exchange pleads guilty
Speaker 3: to multiple US violations, including money laundering.
Speaker 4: The FEDS accused Binance and its CEO, Changpeng Joo, of
Speaker 4: processing more than one hundred thousand transactions by child abusers,
Speaker 4: cyber criminals, and even terrorists.
Speaker 3: Joo has agreed to pay more than four billion dollars in.
Speaker 4: Fines and step down as CEO, and Binance will no
Speaker 4: longer do business within the US.
Speaker 2: WHA, no, you're telling me the crypto guys I was shady.
Speaker 5: The crypto guy was shady, so weird.
Speaker 2: He was so nice when you sold me the weapons
Speaker 2: on the black market.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm shocked, you know, but you know there is
Speaker 6: that one thing that you always say, Oh, that's.
Speaker 2: Right, though, the one thing.
Speaker 5: What is it? Oh?
Speaker 2: Oh, everyone in crypto is shady. Have you ever talked
Speaker 2: to someone who's into crypto and thought to yourself, Wow,
Speaker 2: what an upstanding human citizen. I definitely would prefer talking
Speaker 2: to them rather than shooting myself in the face. But yes,
Speaker 2: Binance is going to have to shut down in the US,
Speaker 2: which could jeopardize any American who has money there. To
Speaker 2: be fair, if you're a non criminal who's lost money
Speaker 2: in this, that's on you, because at this point, investing
Speaker 2: in crypto is like playing r Kelly at your wedding.
Speaker 5: You should know it's not a good choice.
Speaker 6: I gotta say I saw this coming from a mile away.
Speaker 6: I knew this company sounded fishy from the moment I
Speaker 6: heard its name.
Speaker 2: The name Binance alone, it just it sounds like a
Speaker 2: four year old trying to say finance.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it sounds like a woke economics course at Oberlin.
Speaker 6: I haven't really picked a currency. I'm more financial.
Speaker 2: Basically a guy with a fake mustache trying to get
Speaker 2: away with something.
Speaker 5: Are you guys doing finance? What? No, we do biinance
Speaker 5: with money? Yeah? No, thank you.
Speaker 6: I'm gonna leave my money in the real banks where
Speaker 6: nothing bad ever happens. Moving on to President Biden pulls
Speaker 6: show that he's not doing well with young people, who
Speaker 6: apparently find him suss mid and deficient in ris all
Speaker 6: words I a young person know quite well. But Biden
Speaker 6: has a new policy to win them back.
Speaker 7: The Biden administration once eliminate so called cord cutting fees.
Speaker 7: It would be done through a new proposed rule from
Speaker 7: the FCC which would require k and Soundllite TV operators
Speaker 7: to get rid of those early termination fees for subscribers.
Speaker 7: The agency says those fees really limit a customer's ability
Speaker 7: to choose the service they want.
Speaker 6: Well, okay, so so Biden wants to make it easier
Speaker 6: for people to cancel cable.
Speaker 2: This is a bad idea. And I am not just
Speaker 2: saying that because we're on cable.
Speaker 5: No, absolutely not.
Speaker 6: You're saying it because cable is the lifeblood of the
Speaker 6: American experience.
Speaker 5: Cable is about family, tradition.
Speaker 2: The Bible, the Constitution, the.
Speaker 6: Four oh one ks for the on air hosts. You
Speaker 6: know we get that, right.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we do, we do. Nice. These fees are essential.
Speaker 5: I mean, we can't just get rid of them. Maybe
Speaker 5: you know, maybe we even double them, yeah.
Speaker 2: Or canceling cable should just be illegal. Maybe the death
Speaker 2: penalty is that too much.
Speaker 5: It's not too much, definitely not too much.
Speaker 2: I don't even think we should be talking about this
Speaker 2: right now.
Speaker 6: I don't think we should talk about TODAYA Let's move okay, let's.
Speaker 2: Move on to some public safety news. Recent studies show
Speaker 2: that women are more likely to be hurt in car
Speaker 2: crashes and Jordan. The reason is obvious, women.
Speaker 5: Are bad drivers. What you said, it's what you said.
Speaker 2: It's sexismism, Yeah, sexism, and now the auto industry is
Speaker 2: finally starting to do something about it.
Speaker 1: When it comes to designing crash test dummies, researchers say
Speaker 1: it's time to get smarter.
Speaker 5: This is the average female.
Speaker 1: Engineers in Sweden have developed a dummy based on a
Speaker 1: woman's body.
Speaker 6: More narrow shoulder area and a wider hip area.
Speaker 1: It's also lighter and has a lower center of gravity,
Speaker 1: all things experts say are important to consider when testing
Speaker 1: collisions at high speeds.
Speaker 2: Wow, what a surprise. The cars are designed to be
Speaker 2: safe for crash test dummies, and the dummies are design
Speaker 2: to represent men's bodies. Although to be fair, it's not
Speaker 2: just the dummies. The study also revealed that right before
Speaker 2: a crash. Men tense up, while women usually whisper. Sorry, sorry, sorry,
Speaker 2: sorry sorry. I will say I'm glad they're finally making
Speaker 2: changes to the dummies. But if we were worried about accuracy,
Speaker 2: let's go all the way with this. Why not fill
Speaker 2: the car with half eaten takeout containers and a hockey
Speaker 2: stick that was left in the back seat for the
Speaker 2: last three months, no matter how many times you told
Speaker 2: them to bring it in the fighting house.
Speaker 5: Let's see what happens.
Speaker 2: When that hits the wall at sixty miles an hour. Sorry, Jordan,
Speaker 2: it's been a tough week.
Speaker 5: Yeah, no worries. Thanks again for driving me to hockey practice. Yeah,
Speaker 5: no product.
Speaker 2: So thanks to the scientists, and congrats on designing a
Speaker 2: mannequin that men won't dream about having sex with.
Speaker 5: Right, right, right, totally, totally.
Speaker 6: Totally, definitely so spot on, spot on, Spota spot Can
Speaker 6: we move on?
Speaker 5: Please?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Right yeah.
Speaker 6: Our guest Tonight is a former prosecutor and veterans serving
Speaker 6: his first term in Congress. He represents North Carolina's fourteenth
Speaker 6: congressional district, and he's running for Attorney General in North Carolina.
Speaker 2: Please welcome Democratic Representative Jeff Jackson.
Speaker 3: Who Crow.
Speaker 2: Congress and Jackson, thank you for being here. Thank you
Speaker 2: so excited to have you. You are an incredibly successful politician,
Speaker 2: but most people know you from your TikTok videos. You
Speaker 2: do these incredible explainers that distill down pretty complex issues
Speaker 2: in a really clear, digestible way. Is the intent to
Speaker 2: simplify these issues for people and get that engagement? Are
Speaker 2: you really just posting foot picks?
Speaker 8: Every consultant in DC told me to go the foot direction. Yes,
Speaker 8: I said, that's not what I'm about.
Speaker 5: No, you're a hands guy. We know you are. I
Speaker 5: love a good hand.
Speaker 6: TikTok Oh showed me that that Vogue arrow.
Speaker 5: Give me some of this.
Speaker 6: Lauren Bobert had a great hands video a few months ago. Great, great,
Speaker 6: is that what you're talking about.
Speaker 8: I'm a kitchen table guy, right, I have a kitchen table.
Speaker 8: I put a camera on the other side, I look
Speaker 8: into it, I say, here's the most interesting thing that
Speaker 8: happened to me in Congress this week, and then I
Speaker 8: posted to a bunch of different social media platforms. I
Speaker 8: have been really surprised by the level of interest in
Speaker 8: this political environment where everyone is yelling at each other
Speaker 8: all the time to be able to you can a
Speaker 8: normal tone of voice and try to convey some of
Speaker 8: the complexity and some of the nuance that there would
Speaker 8: be broad interest for.
Speaker 3: That.
Speaker 8: I think is really encouraging. I think it's a good signing.
Speaker 5: I now I.
Speaker 6: Feel though the platforms that we have our conversations on
Speaker 6: dictate the types of conversations we have, and TikTok is
Speaker 6: a short attention span platform, Like, what does it say
Speaker 6: about our democracy that this is where the conversations are happening.
Speaker 8: I've been surprised. I wouldn't have expected that. So I
Speaker 8: post to TikTok, but also Facebook, readitt Twitter. The place
Speaker 8: where most people view is TikTok. When I'm home in
Speaker 8: my district, constituents come up and they say, hey, I
Speaker 8: appreciate what you posted on TikTok. I would not have
Speaker 8: predicted that. I will tell you I've got seven hundred
Speaker 8: and sixty thousand some odd constituents my senses, about three
Speaker 8: hundred thousand of them are on TikTok.
Speaker 5: No.
Speaker 8: I know TikTok's got all kinds of issues, but I
Speaker 8: think that reaching my constituents where they are is also
Speaker 8: something of real value. It should be normal and expected
Speaker 8: that your elected officials try and use social media to
Speaker 8: keep you posted about what they're doing. It should be
Speaker 8: part of our job.
Speaker 5: You think.
Speaker 6: You think, though half of your constituents are on TikTok,
Speaker 6: how many high schools do you have in your district?
Speaker 8: You know, I've got a lot of young people. But look,
Speaker 8: there are people of all ages on all of these
Speaker 8: social media platforms. And every once in a while you
Speaker 8: meet a gramdma who comes up and says, I really
Speaker 8: love you on TikTok.
Speaker 1: Sweet.
Speaker 8: Usually they mentioned Facebook, but sometimes TikTok.
Speaker 2: So you were talking about some of the issues with TikTok.
Speaker 2: Nikki Haley has just openly spoken about banning TikTok and
Speaker 2: the security concerns. Do you have those concerns?
Speaker 8: Yeah, those concerns are all legit. Look, I have a
Speaker 8: phone that has one app on it, and that app
Speaker 8: is TikTok, and that's how I handle that.
Speaker 6: And that's because you fear what could happen. I mean,
Speaker 6: because the overall threat is that essentially the Chinese government
Speaker 6: has access to your information and can influence the disc
Speaker 6: course because of it.
Speaker 8: Those are all absolutely credible concerns as long as roughly
Speaker 8: half of my constituents are there. I'm gonna try and
Speaker 8: use it for good and keep them posted about what
Speaker 8: I'm doing.
Speaker 6: I want to talk about some of the people you
Speaker 6: work with. You called out on your famous TikTok videos
Speaker 6: that a lot of the people in Congress you sense
Speaker 6: are faking this outrage, that what we're seeing at home
Speaker 6: is essentially a bunch of people faking it.
Speaker 5: Who would you put on blasts? Who are you talking about?
Speaker 2: And does it rhyme with Schmerjorie, Schmahler Schmid.
Speaker 8: All I will say is this, It's not George Santos.
Speaker 5: Never, He's not faking it.
Speaker 8: Never a false word from that gentleman. Then I'll tell
Speaker 8: you this. I've been in committees and I have watched
Speaker 8: when the camera turns on, people's personalities change completely right
Speaker 8: before your eyes. It's really jarring. It is literal theater.
Speaker 8: And you've got a handful of people there who are
Speaker 8: in competition with each other every day to be the
Speaker 8: most outrageous, which is why it feels like when you
Speaker 8: look at Congress, they're on this escalator that's just increasingly
Speaker 8: crazy and angry. It's because they're playing a very specific
Speaker 8: game to try and get the attention of a very
Speaker 8: specific group of people, and it's awful and exhausting. Most
Speaker 8: of people up there aren't playing that game. The people
Speaker 8: we keep getting served up, they're playing the Outrage Olympics
Speaker 8: every day. That's how they treat their job in Congress
Speaker 8: as the day we tryouts for the Outrage Olympics.
Speaker 6: I find it interesting because you have found the success.
Speaker 6: You don't seem like the outraged kind of guy.
Speaker 2: You know, you always seem like you're at like an
Speaker 2: even five.
Speaker 5: You got like a nice dad energy. But Dad, I'm not.
Speaker 2: Going to drink with you, but I will pick you
Speaker 2: up if you drink too much.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I will, no questions, ask, give me a call, right,
Speaker 6: I'm that guy? Yeah yeah, why do you think?
Speaker 5: Let me tell you something else?
Speaker 8: I think right now, that's the data American needs.
Speaker 6: I could also say, kind of a tipsy uncle who
Speaker 6: can whip this country back into shape?
Speaker 3: To it all?
Speaker 5: We're dangerously close. Yeah, just like uncle is gonna turn
Speaker 5: on us. We better shape up.
Speaker 2: What does boil your blood? Does anything get you going outright?
Speaker 8: Political corruption? For example, my state North Carolina a horrible
Speaker 8: history with jerrymandering. Jerry mandering is just letting politicians draw
Speaker 8: their own districts, because when you do that, they're all
Speaker 8: gonna cheat. My party. When my party had the ability
Speaker 8: to draw the districts in North Carolina, they always cheated.
Speaker 8: When I was in the state legislature, the first bill
Speaker 8: I ever filed was to end jerry mandering, and they
Speaker 8: sent it to a committee that hasn't met in twenty years.
Speaker 8: We can't let politicians draw their own districts because they
Speaker 8: screw the voters every single time. No more gerry mandering
Speaker 8: across the entire country.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's.
Speaker 2: A huge issue, But how do we fix this cancer
Speaker 2: on political discourse? How do you solve that?
Speaker 8: Don't vote for anyone who isn't explicitly committed to independent redistricting.
Speaker 8: Independent redistricting is how you solve jerry mandering. If there
Speaker 8: is any elected official or a candidate who says, well,
Speaker 8: I don't know if I'm forward, maybe maybe not, uh uh,
Speaker 8: we should just have a bright wine. Jerry Mandering is unethical.
Speaker 8: There is never a defense for drawing districts to favor
Speaker 8: one party or the other. Don't vote for anyone who
Speaker 8: would ever engage in that behavior. That's how we solve
Speaker 8: it now.
Speaker 6: Well, you've been you've been in Congress for about eleven
Speaker 6: months now, and you're you're planning on getting jerry mandered out,
Speaker 6: and you're running for attorney general.
Speaker 5: Attorneys general, attorneys general.
Speaker 8: It's very awkward.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: Could you do an explainer on why it's attorneys.
Speaker 6: General and TikTok length because it's easier to understand, and
Speaker 6: also I think I would get bored more for more
Speaker 6: than thirty seconds about.
Speaker 8: It's a bad decision that someone made a long time ago.
Speaker 5: Oh okay, well you're welcome.
Speaker 6: But even your new role that you're running for right now,
Speaker 6: would you be able to address jerry mandry?
Speaker 8: Absolutely? Look, the attorney general's job is standing up for people.
Speaker 8: It's sort of the opposite of what you see a
Speaker 8: lot of in Congress. It's not about the theatrics. It's
Speaker 8: not about the left or the right. It's just about
Speaker 8: doing what's right, standing up against political corruption, against business corruption,
Speaker 8: especially when consumers are getting screwed, and organized crime. We
Speaker 8: got a huge fentanyl problem in North Carolina, we got
Speaker 8: it across the entire country. The attorney general gets to
Speaker 8: be directly involved in handling all of that it's a
Speaker 8: really wonderful job.
Speaker 5: Thank you on the job.
Speaker 2: You seem like the perfect guy for the job, that's
Speaker 2: for sure. Give it up for Representative Jack.
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