1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:03,480 Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of the 2 00:00:03,560 --> 00:00:08,559 Speaker 1: Weekly Zeitgeist. These are some of our favorite segments from 3 00:00:08,600 --> 00:00:17,759 Speaker 1: this week, all edited together into one NonStop infotainment last stravaganza. 4 00:00:18,360 --> 00:00:23,919 Speaker 1: Uh yeah, So, without further ado, here is the Weekly Zeitgeist. 5 00:00:25,239 --> 00:00:28,160 Speaker 1: All right, let's get into the stories. Something that's coming 6 00:00:28,240 --> 00:00:31,000 Speaker 1: up this week the Kavanaugh hearing. He is the least 7 00:00:31,040 --> 00:00:35,919 Speaker 1: popular Supreme Court nominee with the public according to polling, 8 00:00:36,479 --> 00:00:40,320 Speaker 1: and that usually usually like the three other least popular 9 00:00:40,560 --> 00:00:44,280 Speaker 1: where people who did not get approved during their hearing, 10 00:00:45,479 --> 00:00:48,760 Speaker 1: we'll see you could be the guy who helps Trump 11 00:00:48,800 --> 00:00:51,600 Speaker 1: if anything goes to the Supreme Court about presidential power. 12 00:00:52,200 --> 00:00:55,240 Speaker 1: It's like you saw this move from the jump, Like 13 00:00:55,280 --> 00:00:58,720 Speaker 1: what the reason was, right, Yeah, because McConnell was like, 14 00:00:58,800 --> 00:01:02,400 Speaker 1: just don't select Kavanaugh because he has the biggest paper 15 00:01:02,400 --> 00:01:05,600 Speaker 1: trail and that's gonna, you know, slow things down. And 16 00:01:05,920 --> 00:01:10,319 Speaker 1: but Kavanaugh was the dude who had that presidential power thing. Yeah, 17 00:01:10,360 --> 00:01:12,720 Speaker 1: you know. Well, and I think when they were talking about, 18 00:01:12,720 --> 00:01:15,840 Speaker 1: you know, when Kagan was being confirmed, they got of 19 00:01:15,880 --> 00:01:18,759 Speaker 1: the documents that like she handled it at the White 20 00:01:18,800 --> 00:01:22,600 Speaker 1: House and with Kavanaughs like something less than ten percent. Yeah, 21 00:01:22,640 --> 00:01:24,840 Speaker 1: because there's just too much. You know, he had his 22 00:01:24,880 --> 00:01:27,160 Speaker 1: hands on all kinds of ship during the Bush administration. 23 00:01:27,200 --> 00:01:31,800 Speaker 1: That they're like, let's make sure, you know, like they're 24 00:01:31,880 --> 00:01:34,000 Speaker 1: hiding so much ship, and that's why everyone's being like, 25 00:01:34,040 --> 00:01:36,319 Speaker 1: what are they hiding? You know, like with the documents, 26 00:01:36,840 --> 00:01:38,520 Speaker 1: and that I think at the very least, if they 27 00:01:38,520 --> 00:01:42,040 Speaker 1: want to have some semblance of like equity here, at 28 00:01:42,120 --> 00:01:44,800 Speaker 1: least let everybody review the documents. But that just shows 29 00:01:44,800 --> 00:01:47,160 Speaker 1: you how underhanded this whole process is. What if they're 30 00:01:47,160 --> 00:01:50,960 Speaker 1: just hiding like Kavanaugh's crayon drawings of George W. Bush, 31 00:01:51,040 --> 00:01:52,280 Speaker 1: you know what I mean, Like what if it's like 32 00:01:52,320 --> 00:01:56,680 Speaker 1: really nothing but yeah, but something but something. Yeah. Apparently 33 00:01:56,720 --> 00:01:59,880 Speaker 1: the like preparations they're going through, they're doing like mock 34 00:02:00,040 --> 00:02:04,160 Speaker 1: hearings and like staging fake protests. Don't let this get 35 00:02:04,200 --> 00:02:06,840 Speaker 1: you off your game when suddenly people are you know, 36 00:02:07,120 --> 00:02:09,800 Speaker 1: like pulling your card about you know, X issue or whatever, 37 00:02:09,880 --> 00:02:13,360 Speaker 1: or inevitably when people will be there to protest because 38 00:02:13,760 --> 00:02:18,000 Speaker 1: there is a Supreme Court steat they stole again, and 39 00:02:18,200 --> 00:02:21,919 Speaker 1: the Democrats are seemingly like, okay to kind of pretend 40 00:02:21,960 --> 00:02:23,840 Speaker 1: like they're going to pose him. But there's been a 41 00:02:23,880 --> 00:02:26,360 Speaker 1: lot of people are like, Okay, we had a good conversation. 42 00:02:26,480 --> 00:02:28,919 Speaker 1: No one's gone full out being like no, I will 43 00:02:28,960 --> 00:02:30,560 Speaker 1: not vote for him, or yes, I will vote for him, 44 00:02:30,560 --> 00:02:33,480 Speaker 1: but I don't know. We'll see the math. The Republicans 45 00:02:33,520 --> 00:02:36,200 Speaker 1: have the votes, right, so, well, yeah, they have fifty seats, 46 00:02:36,200 --> 00:02:37,800 Speaker 1: but I think with John McCaine passing away, now it's 47 00:02:37,840 --> 00:02:42,400 Speaker 1: fifty seats, which is enough, right Yeah? Yeah, So I 48 00:02:42,440 --> 00:02:46,960 Speaker 1: mean they need a defection for him not to get nominated, 49 00:02:47,000 --> 00:02:49,600 Speaker 1: and who knows if that's going to happen. It seems 50 00:02:49,639 --> 00:02:53,720 Speaker 1: like it might just go down party lines. Let's talk 51 00:02:53,720 --> 00:02:57,120 Speaker 1: about what a world class asshole we have in charge 52 00:02:57,160 --> 00:02:59,720 Speaker 1: of the free world, right, So we'll just do it. 53 00:02:59,840 --> 00:03:03,320 Speaker 1: Just whatever you want right now? All right? Uh? Funck 54 00:03:03,400 --> 00:03:09,520 Speaker 1: his hair. No, the political has this story where, I mean, 55 00:03:10,200 --> 00:03:13,280 Speaker 1: we always knew that Donald Trump hated Jeff Sessions because 56 00:03:13,360 --> 00:03:16,640 Speaker 1: he he thinks the attorney general just means the guy 57 00:03:16,720 --> 00:03:20,480 Speaker 1: who will protect you from the law. I guess it's 58 00:03:20,520 --> 00:03:23,359 Speaker 1: like his idea of yeah, or like just guard dog 59 00:03:23,440 --> 00:03:26,560 Speaker 1: will be like any legal trouble. Apparently, the attorney general 60 00:03:26,600 --> 00:03:29,600 Speaker 1: just helps you skate on all that ship. So they 61 00:03:29,639 --> 00:03:32,120 Speaker 1: were talking about, you know, if Sessions recusal. This is 62 00:03:32,120 --> 00:03:34,600 Speaker 1: from political was his original sin. Trump has come to 63 00:03:34,600 --> 00:03:38,040 Speaker 1: present him for other reasons, graping to aids and lawmakers 64 00:03:38,040 --> 00:03:40,720 Speaker 1: that the attorney general doesn't have the Ivy League pedigree. 65 00:03:40,800 --> 00:03:44,160 Speaker 1: The president prefers that he can't stand his Southern accent 66 00:03:44,400 --> 00:03:47,280 Speaker 1: and that Sessions isn't a capable defender of the president 67 00:03:47,360 --> 00:03:50,520 Speaker 1: on television, in part because he quote talks like he 68 00:03:50,560 --> 00:03:56,440 Speaker 1: has marbles in his mouth. Uh that's not Yeah, I mean, look, 69 00:03:56,560 --> 00:03:58,600 Speaker 1: leave legal smuggle alone, you know what I mean, Like 70 00:03:58,640 --> 00:04:00,800 Speaker 1: he's doing what he has to do. Also, no funk 71 00:04:00,840 --> 00:04:03,120 Speaker 1: that guy. But let's be I think what's funny is 72 00:04:03,760 --> 00:04:07,200 Speaker 1: the whole idea that he's like, oh, his Ivy League pedigree, 73 00:04:07,360 --> 00:04:10,480 Speaker 1: when Trump is nowhere even close to being any kind 74 00:04:10,480 --> 00:04:13,560 Speaker 1: of intellectual to to sort of throw that around as 75 00:04:13,560 --> 00:04:16,400 Speaker 1: an insult. Also, you know, Alabama has a lot of 76 00:04:16,440 --> 00:04:19,200 Speaker 1: his supporters there. I'm surprised he thinks he's much more 77 00:04:19,279 --> 00:04:21,440 Speaker 1: well liked than I'm sure Trump is. But who knows. 78 00:04:21,480 --> 00:04:24,279 Speaker 1: I haven't really seen pulling about that. But this whole 79 00:04:24,320 --> 00:04:27,400 Speaker 1: thing of him really hating him is it's just getting 80 00:04:27,480 --> 00:04:29,920 Speaker 1: more and more intense and intense and intense. Do you 81 00:04:29,920 --> 00:04:32,400 Speaker 1: think he's gonna get fired. Well, they think that it 82 00:04:32,400 --> 00:04:34,600 Speaker 1: probably won't happen until after the mid terms because they 83 00:04:34,600 --> 00:04:37,280 Speaker 1: don't want that to become another thing that will just 84 00:04:37,400 --> 00:04:39,960 Speaker 1: mobilize more people to vote against him. And like, look, 85 00:04:39,960 --> 00:04:42,240 Speaker 1: if you're gonna do it, wait for the blue wave 86 00:04:42,320 --> 00:04:44,719 Speaker 1: to crash on the Capitol and then go into full 87 00:04:44,720 --> 00:04:47,280 Speaker 1: panic mode because at that point all bets are off. 88 00:04:47,760 --> 00:04:50,680 Speaker 1: But you know, it's just Trump doing his little hate. 89 00:04:50,760 --> 00:04:53,279 Speaker 1: And there's another thing I was reading that Trump really 90 00:04:53,320 --> 00:04:57,200 Speaker 1: doesn't like his supporters because they're not like pretty people. 91 00:04:57,920 --> 00:05:03,040 Speaker 1: So this all fits into his tortured Yeah. I mean, 92 00:05:03,120 --> 00:05:08,360 Speaker 1: he has that narcissism personality disorder where he's just trying 93 00:05:08,400 --> 00:05:11,040 Speaker 1: to fill a hole that can't be filled with you know, 94 00:05:11,200 --> 00:05:14,920 Speaker 1: with agats with the presidency of the United States. He's 95 00:05:14,920 --> 00:05:19,000 Speaker 1: still just like, why is Hollywood so mean to me? Um, 96 00:05:19,160 --> 00:05:23,160 Speaker 1: but you're an asshole? Yeah, but like the biggest asshole 97 00:05:23,240 --> 00:05:27,320 Speaker 1: maybe in America, the best at being an asshole in 98 00:05:27,360 --> 00:05:32,359 Speaker 1: the country, potentially. There's also the story where he basically said, 99 00:05:32,760 --> 00:05:36,400 Speaker 1: in a room full of reporters to Bloomberg off the record, 100 00:05:36,440 --> 00:05:39,760 Speaker 1: I'm I'm really fucking Canada, you know that, right, Just 101 00:05:39,960 --> 00:05:46,279 Speaker 1: like and they're like, all right, I guess off the 102 00:05:46,480 --> 00:05:49,920 Speaker 1: I mean, I'm anna report this, right, But that's so funny. Though, 103 00:05:50,640 --> 00:05:52,760 Speaker 1: here's the problem. If I say no, the answers no. 104 00:05:52,920 --> 00:05:55,760 Speaker 1: If I say no, then you're gonna put that and 105 00:05:55,880 --> 00:05:58,039 Speaker 1: it's gonna be so insulting. They're not going to be 106 00:05:58,080 --> 00:06:00,479 Speaker 1: able to make a deal. I can't kill these people, 107 00:06:00,560 --> 00:06:04,360 Speaker 1: he said of the Canadian government. Off the record, Canada's 108 00:06:04,400 --> 00:06:06,520 Speaker 1: working their ass off, and every time we have a 109 00:06:06,520 --> 00:06:09,159 Speaker 1: problem with a point, I just put up a picture 110 00:06:09,200 --> 00:06:13,719 Speaker 1: of a Chevrolet Impaula because the impala is produced at 111 00:06:13,800 --> 00:06:18,680 Speaker 1: the General Motors plant in Ontario, Ontario. So yeah, again, 112 00:06:18,839 --> 00:06:21,360 Speaker 1: off the record, they came knocking on our doors last night. 113 00:06:21,720 --> 00:06:25,760 Speaker 1: Let's make a deal please. But dude, this he has 114 00:06:25,839 --> 00:06:28,160 Speaker 1: such an issue of understanding what off the record, on 115 00:06:28,320 --> 00:06:32,320 Speaker 1: the record confidentiality agreement. He just thinks like, okay, off 116 00:06:32,360 --> 00:06:35,560 Speaker 1: the record, Okay, I'm gonna spicy, and this won't get out. Okay. 117 00:06:35,600 --> 00:06:38,400 Speaker 1: So apparently that was said to a Bloomberg reporter. They 118 00:06:38,400 --> 00:06:40,839 Speaker 1: didn't report it, but there are other people in the 119 00:06:40,920 --> 00:06:43,960 Speaker 1: room who heard it and then reported it. Now, I mean, 120 00:06:43,960 --> 00:06:47,400 Speaker 1: there's I guess some sanctity to the journalistic integrity of 121 00:06:47,680 --> 00:06:50,640 Speaker 1: you know, to the off the record, but with this 122 00:06:50,680 --> 00:06:54,039 Speaker 1: fucking guy, I mean it's it's it's so funny and sad, 123 00:06:54,360 --> 00:06:55,960 Speaker 1: you know what I mean. It's it's like you gotta 124 00:06:56,120 --> 00:06:58,960 Speaker 1: laugh instead of cry at this because who the what 125 00:06:59,120 --> 00:07:04,880 Speaker 1: is he like some kind of super villain like Canada What. Yeah, 126 00:07:04,880 --> 00:07:07,160 Speaker 1: I'm just gonna hold a picture of the Impaula. It's like, 127 00:07:07,200 --> 00:07:10,160 Speaker 1: this isn't a fucking loving hip hop reunion show, like 128 00:07:10,200 --> 00:07:13,920 Speaker 1: where you get all fucking messy like this, But he's Mr. 129 00:07:14,000 --> 00:07:16,520 Speaker 1: Reality TV, So I guess he really does think of 130 00:07:16,560 --> 00:07:18,920 Speaker 1: how like it's the kind of way that if you 131 00:07:18,960 --> 00:07:22,160 Speaker 1: were scripting out like a fun way a shitty president 132 00:07:22,160 --> 00:07:24,200 Speaker 1: would act like it's this kind of stuff. And I 133 00:07:24,200 --> 00:07:26,360 Speaker 1: think he's just like, yeah, I'm just gonna hold up 134 00:07:26,360 --> 00:07:29,280 Speaker 1: the picture and that will shut him up. Taman or 135 00:07:29,480 --> 00:07:35,160 Speaker 1: I said, Taman polish, Taman Paula like them too, them too. Yeah, 136 00:07:35,560 --> 00:07:40,200 Speaker 1: he's gonna suck Australia as well. Oh shit might. So. 137 00:07:40,280 --> 00:07:44,440 Speaker 1: Affirmative action is back in the news because there is 138 00:07:44,480 --> 00:07:48,920 Speaker 1: a group that is suing Harvard basically claiming on behalf 139 00:07:48,960 --> 00:07:53,400 Speaker 1: of Asian Americans rejected by Harvard that Harvard has systematically 140 00:07:53,440 --> 00:07:57,160 Speaker 1: discriminated against them by artificially capping the number of qualified 141 00:07:57,160 --> 00:08:01,600 Speaker 1: Asian Americans. Harvard and a lot of Asian American communities 142 00:08:01,600 --> 00:08:05,040 Speaker 1: are also saying like that this group does not speak 143 00:08:05,120 --> 00:08:08,080 Speaker 1: for us, and so they're back in the news because 144 00:08:08,120 --> 00:08:12,240 Speaker 1: the Trump administration Department of Justice just sided with the 145 00:08:12,280 --> 00:08:15,000 Speaker 1: group that is suing too. Basically, they're trying to end 146 00:08:15,000 --> 00:08:20,880 Speaker 1: affirmative action. Good, yeah, so that's cool. They're suing because 147 00:08:21,440 --> 00:08:24,080 Speaker 1: they were tapping the number of Asian American suits. That's 148 00:08:24,080 --> 00:08:28,520 Speaker 1: what they're claiming. And Harvard's admissions board is claiming that 149 00:08:28,680 --> 00:08:32,480 Speaker 1: just race is one of a number of different factors 150 00:08:32,520 --> 00:08:36,280 Speaker 1: that they take into account when you know, considering an applicant. 151 00:08:36,600 --> 00:08:41,920 Speaker 1: But they have not provided like specific details of what 152 00:08:42,120 --> 00:08:45,880 Speaker 1: their admissions policy is or it can't be broken down 153 00:08:45,880 --> 00:08:50,640 Speaker 1: into like a systematized detail based like point based system. 154 00:08:50,960 --> 00:08:53,480 Speaker 1: And they should probably do that though, you know, in general, 155 00:08:54,760 --> 00:08:57,280 Speaker 1: just to eliminate any ambiguity, because then they have the 156 00:08:57,320 --> 00:08:59,720 Speaker 1: defense like, well, that's like one of the other things, 157 00:09:00,160 --> 00:09:02,600 Speaker 1: but like what are those other things? Right? My mood 158 00:09:03,600 --> 00:09:07,320 Speaker 1: like uh yeah, yeah, So I mean they are asking 159 00:09:07,320 --> 00:09:10,760 Speaker 1: them to show their work, and I think Harvard thought 160 00:09:10,800 --> 00:09:15,120 Speaker 1: they did that to a sufficient degree, and anti affirmative 161 00:09:15,160 --> 00:09:18,560 Speaker 1: action people are claiming that they didn't. But I mean 162 00:09:19,320 --> 00:09:22,800 Speaker 1: a statement from a Harvard alumni association set eliminating race 163 00:09:22,840 --> 00:09:27,360 Speaker 1: conscious emissions would disproportionately harm applicants of color, including some 164 00:09:27,480 --> 00:09:32,120 Speaker 1: Asian Americans. And I mean there are other forms of 165 00:09:32,880 --> 00:09:36,720 Speaker 1: affirmative action that are class based that like California and 166 00:09:36,760 --> 00:09:41,720 Speaker 1: Washington State have tried to engineer classes based on class 167 00:09:41,720 --> 00:09:46,400 Speaker 1: based diversity. That is also like important to take into account. So, 168 00:09:47,080 --> 00:09:49,679 Speaker 1: like I was just talking about that dude who was 169 00:09:49,720 --> 00:09:54,680 Speaker 1: talking about, you know how the upper classes solutions for 170 00:09:55,120 --> 00:09:59,360 Speaker 1: inequality and all the problems that ail our government and 171 00:09:59,679 --> 00:10:04,360 Speaker 1: our society are rigged to keep them in power. And 172 00:10:04,400 --> 00:10:07,959 Speaker 1: he was talking about how people point to China and 173 00:10:08,120 --> 00:10:11,960 Speaker 1: India over the past couple of decades as examples of 174 00:10:12,040 --> 00:10:17,439 Speaker 1: capitalism doing good and you know, proving its worth because 175 00:10:17,600 --> 00:10:21,160 Speaker 1: they have like basically you know, shot up out of 176 00:10:21,200 --> 00:10:24,240 Speaker 1: nowhere and had all this success. But he was pointing 177 00:10:24,240 --> 00:10:29,560 Speaker 1: out that there's a massive historic affirmative action program in 178 00:10:29,559 --> 00:10:33,679 Speaker 1: India too, correct for the historic cast system, right, So 179 00:10:33,760 --> 00:10:37,240 Speaker 1: like that's it's a combination of these things in America, 180 00:10:37,320 --> 00:10:42,640 Speaker 1: just thinks, well capitalists its own will do will fix things, 181 00:10:42,679 --> 00:10:47,280 Speaker 1: doesn't take into account human greed. Yeah a factor. Yeah, 182 00:10:47,360 --> 00:10:51,679 Speaker 1: affirmative action. There are examples of it being extremely successful 183 00:10:51,760 --> 00:10:57,679 Speaker 1: and important in you know, market economies and also in education. 184 00:10:57,920 --> 00:11:04,600 Speaker 1: So big story from over the weekend, Colin Kaepernick is 185 00:11:04,640 --> 00:11:08,200 Speaker 1: now the face of the thirtieth anniversary of the Just 186 00:11:08,360 --> 00:11:11,000 Speaker 1: Doit campaign. We were all on the edge of our 187 00:11:11,040 --> 00:11:12,920 Speaker 1: seat being like, who are they going to choose for 188 00:11:12,960 --> 00:11:17,600 Speaker 1: this campaign? No, no, we were not. I didn't know 189 00:11:17,679 --> 00:11:20,120 Speaker 1: that it was the thirtieth anniversary. I guess I didn't know. 190 00:11:20,360 --> 00:11:24,199 Speaker 1: But you know, it's cool that they're siding with Colin 191 00:11:24,280 --> 00:11:28,440 Speaker 1: Kaepernick instead of the evil NFL owners who are you know, 192 00:11:28,720 --> 00:11:32,560 Speaker 1: who pay them to make all of the uniforms right team. Yeah, 193 00:11:32,600 --> 00:11:36,680 Speaker 1: that's kind of cool. They are still a you know, 194 00:11:36,840 --> 00:11:40,480 Speaker 1: giant corporation that has all sorts of problematic things going on, 195 00:11:40,600 --> 00:11:43,600 Speaker 1: but you know, in terms of taking aside in the 196 00:11:43,600 --> 00:11:48,320 Speaker 1: culture war, I think it's been fun to see the 197 00:11:48,400 --> 00:11:52,400 Speaker 1: response from the right mass, so many people, so unpredictable. 198 00:11:52,520 --> 00:11:55,600 Speaker 1: I never never thought they would burn their shoes, right, 199 00:11:56,160 --> 00:12:00,960 Speaker 1: uh yeah, after they burned their other nikeaquipment. I feel 200 00:12:00,960 --> 00:12:05,000 Speaker 1: like Nike when they were like burning their Nike NFL jerseys, 201 00:12:05,120 --> 00:12:09,640 Speaker 1: was like, all right, motherfucker's you've started a fight. We 202 00:12:09,720 --> 00:12:12,880 Speaker 1: just rea to deal with the NFL for eight more exactly. 203 00:12:13,240 --> 00:12:16,320 Speaker 1: You can find those old jerseys from like the early 204 00:12:16,360 --> 00:12:20,920 Speaker 1: two thousands, So yeah, I mean, Fox News was not happy. 205 00:12:21,080 --> 00:12:25,400 Speaker 1: Tucker Carlson is describing this as an attack against America, 206 00:12:25,440 --> 00:12:28,960 Speaker 1: and I think we have audio. It's pretty decadent, actually, 207 00:12:29,120 --> 00:12:31,719 Speaker 1: I think. I mean, first of all, it's factually ludicrous. 208 00:12:31,720 --> 00:12:35,520 Speaker 1: You can't give up everything and maintain a Nike contract. 209 00:12:36,120 --> 00:12:39,760 Speaker 1: But the decadent part isn't even really about Colin Kaepernick. 210 00:12:39,800 --> 00:12:42,640 Speaker 1: He's an athlete at a young guy. You know, I 211 00:12:42,640 --> 00:12:44,840 Speaker 1: would give him a pass. Actually on a lot of this, 212 00:12:44,960 --> 00:12:48,800 Speaker 1: it's the executives profiting from him and his attacks on 213 00:12:48,840 --> 00:12:52,319 Speaker 1: the United States while simultaneously denying that they are attacks 214 00:12:52,679 --> 00:12:55,160 Speaker 1: on the United States. So they're saying, you know, he 215 00:12:55,280 --> 00:12:58,320 Speaker 1: raised the issue of racial discrimination in this country, So 216 00:12:58,320 --> 00:13:01,080 Speaker 1: if it's never been raised before, or if you know, 217 00:13:01,360 --> 00:13:04,439 Speaker 1: the historical problems with that aren't obvious to every single American, 218 00:13:04,480 --> 00:13:08,480 Speaker 1: of course they are. This is an attack on the country. 219 00:13:08,600 --> 00:13:10,080 Speaker 1: So it would be very different if he was saying, 220 00:13:10,080 --> 00:13:13,720 Speaker 1: you know, I'm protesting this politician or this policy, or 221 00:13:13,760 --> 00:13:17,839 Speaker 1: this specific person, this specific thing. But sitting during the 222 00:13:17,920 --> 00:13:22,040 Speaker 1: national anthem is a way of making a broad base 223 00:13:22,200 --> 00:13:27,400 Speaker 1: generalized and therefore impossible to rebut attack against the country 224 00:13:27,440 --> 00:13:30,360 Speaker 1: that made him and Nike rich. And again, there's something 225 00:13:30,360 --> 00:13:33,240 Speaker 1: really definite about that. When the most successful people in 226 00:13:33,280 --> 00:13:36,840 Speaker 1: your society hate the society, you've got a real problem. 227 00:13:36,840 --> 00:13:39,440 Speaker 1: It's a metaphor for our entire ruling class, many of 228 00:13:39,480 --> 00:13:42,560 Speaker 1: whom feel that way. They hate and resent the very 229 00:13:42,679 --> 00:13:46,199 Speaker 1: system that made their prosperity, their success possible. It's a 230 00:13:46,280 --> 00:13:48,960 Speaker 1: huge problem for all of us. The the amount of 231 00:13:49,000 --> 00:13:52,520 Speaker 1: work there he's doing to contort himself so that his 232 00:13:52,600 --> 00:13:59,679 Speaker 1: position of siding with NFL owners is the like, is 233 00:13:59,760 --> 00:14:04,120 Speaker 1: him sticking up for the underdog? Is amazing. Boy, they 234 00:14:04,160 --> 00:14:06,280 Speaker 1: do not like when black people have opinions. Huh No, 235 00:14:06,960 --> 00:14:09,200 Speaker 1: not a fox? Oh my god, I mean this is 236 00:14:09,400 --> 00:14:14,080 Speaker 1: They called this a fucking attack on America. He's exercise. 237 00:14:14,160 --> 00:14:17,480 Speaker 1: He is right to bring awareness to systemic races. You 238 00:14:17,559 --> 00:14:20,560 Speaker 1: can be willfully ignorant, which I would not put past 239 00:14:20,640 --> 00:14:23,320 Speaker 1: anyone there to not know what he's protest, like to 240 00:14:23,320 --> 00:14:25,760 Speaker 1: to say that there's no, there's nothing, there's no topic, 241 00:14:25,880 --> 00:14:27,840 Speaker 1: or yes there's not a specific person, Yes there's not 242 00:14:27,880 --> 00:14:31,240 Speaker 1: a specific whatever. It's a politician. But it's so clear 243 00:14:31,280 --> 00:14:33,120 Speaker 1: that there's a cause. Whether you agree with it or not, 244 00:14:33,240 --> 00:14:35,920 Speaker 1: whether you want to attend to it or not, there's 245 00:14:35,920 --> 00:14:37,760 Speaker 1: a cause. How do you not see that? Well, that's 246 00:14:37,800 --> 00:14:39,880 Speaker 1: the only way they can avoid talking about it is 247 00:14:39,960 --> 00:14:42,440 Speaker 1: by saying, well, I don't want to engage him on 248 00:14:42,520 --> 00:14:45,480 Speaker 1: the basis of him bringing up, you know, the violence 249 00:14:45,480 --> 00:14:47,840 Speaker 1: towards people of color from police or whatever. That is 250 00:14:47,920 --> 00:14:50,360 Speaker 1: just like, well, because it's attack against troops, it's just 251 00:14:50,680 --> 00:14:53,760 Speaker 1: this country, right, Like just be like, if you're really 252 00:14:53,760 --> 00:14:56,840 Speaker 1: gonna look like some sane person or be a social critic, 253 00:14:56,840 --> 00:14:58,640 Speaker 1: why don't you then engage him on the idea of 254 00:14:58,640 --> 00:15:00,040 Speaker 1: what And I know it's not the biggest point, but 255 00:15:00,080 --> 00:15:02,040 Speaker 1: the fact that he said he's sitting during the national anthem, 256 00:15:02,040 --> 00:15:04,200 Speaker 1: where it's so obviously he's kneeling because you know, because 257 00:15:04,240 --> 00:15:08,280 Speaker 1: he chose to kneel based on talking, you know, with 258 00:15:08,280 --> 00:15:10,480 Speaker 1: with someone in the armed forces, so that was more respectful. 259 00:15:11,000 --> 00:15:14,040 Speaker 1: Is again, it's willfully ignorant. It's it's it's trying, it's 260 00:15:14,040 --> 00:15:18,760 Speaker 1: ignoring any any truth of of the issue. And but 261 00:15:18,960 --> 00:15:21,320 Speaker 1: but I have to say, there is something that doesn't 262 00:15:21,400 --> 00:15:23,680 Speaker 1: quite feel right. There's something there does seem something a 263 00:15:23,680 --> 00:15:25,760 Speaker 1: little bit exploitative that I that I guess I would 264 00:15:25,760 --> 00:15:29,200 Speaker 1: agree with a little bit. Uh that like, yes, it's 265 00:15:29,200 --> 00:15:32,400 Speaker 1: certainly better than saying you know pro NFL or pro 266 00:15:32,560 --> 00:15:35,120 Speaker 1: you know, or or or going with this whole you know, 267 00:15:36,000 --> 00:15:38,400 Speaker 1: he's disrespecting the America or the truth. They could have 268 00:15:38,440 --> 00:15:40,760 Speaker 1: shown J. J. Watt like putting his hand over his 269 00:15:41,080 --> 00:15:43,600 Speaker 1: heart like during the national anthem and made that the 270 00:15:43,600 --> 00:15:46,520 Speaker 1: face of their thirty's not a bad guy. Sorry, I 271 00:15:46,560 --> 00:15:48,760 Speaker 1: don't mean to imply that. Yeah, but there is something 272 00:15:48,800 --> 00:15:51,640 Speaker 1: that does feel a little weird of co opting a cause, 273 00:15:51,720 --> 00:15:53,960 Speaker 1: you know. And but but you know, Ni, he has 274 00:15:54,000 --> 00:15:56,120 Speaker 1: done this before, and other big companies do this all 275 00:15:56,160 --> 00:15:57,840 Speaker 1: the time. And again you'd rather have it be on 276 00:15:58,200 --> 00:16:00,120 Speaker 1: the what we think is the correct side of the 277 00:16:00,120 --> 00:16:02,880 Speaker 1: issue or not. The answered all those questions with what 278 00:16:02,920 --> 00:16:05,240 Speaker 1: corporations are going to do is always for profits, so 279 00:16:05,240 --> 00:16:07,200 Speaker 1: they're like, it is more profitable. So on one handy, 280 00:16:07,320 --> 00:16:09,200 Speaker 1: I totally see it's like, okay, nicee as you're doing, 281 00:16:09,200 --> 00:16:11,800 Speaker 1: but also better, it's better to be on the right side, 282 00:16:12,480 --> 00:16:14,680 Speaker 1: and especially when it's actually a real issue. It's not like, 283 00:16:14,720 --> 00:16:17,600 Speaker 1: you know, after nine eleven and Budweiser, you know, running 284 00:16:18,080 --> 00:16:20,760 Speaker 1: you know ads with the American flags and supporting the 285 00:16:20,760 --> 00:16:22,080 Speaker 1: troops and all that. I mean, you know, it's it 286 00:16:22,480 --> 00:16:25,680 Speaker 1: is something that obviously is gonna get a big response. 287 00:16:26,000 --> 00:16:27,520 Speaker 1: But but on the other hand, it's like this also 288 00:16:27,560 --> 00:16:30,360 Speaker 1: means that Colin Kaepernick is getting paid, which well, it's 289 00:16:30,400 --> 00:16:32,520 Speaker 1: not being paid for making foot for for making football 290 00:16:32,560 --> 00:16:33,760 Speaker 1: for what do you go up with the sports in 291 00:16:33,760 --> 00:16:37,560 Speaker 1: the running making making football plays? He did not finish 292 00:16:37,600 --> 00:16:40,160 Speaker 1: my sentence. Uh, he's not for playing football, like he 293 00:16:40,280 --> 00:16:42,280 Speaker 1: is being paid for being an athlete and an activist. 294 00:16:42,400 --> 00:16:44,280 Speaker 1: And you know that I'd rather have that happen than 295 00:16:44,320 --> 00:16:46,680 Speaker 1: not happen. And uh again, I think it'll put it 296 00:16:46,720 --> 00:16:50,320 Speaker 1: back in the conversation. Uh. But obviously, yes, of course, 297 00:16:50,400 --> 00:16:53,600 Speaker 1: of course this was not an uncalculated move where they 298 00:16:53,720 --> 00:16:56,120 Speaker 1: you know, they figured all the free publicity to the 299 00:16:56,120 --> 00:16:58,240 Speaker 1: getting I mean, how much usually would you charge Nike 300 00:16:58,320 --> 00:17:00,000 Speaker 1: to to have a discussion this long on your podcas 301 00:17:00,120 --> 00:17:03,840 Speaker 1: right right, I mean that's billions right there, Yeah, exactly, 302 00:17:03,840 --> 00:17:05,800 Speaker 1: All all the free publicity they're getting you know, they're 303 00:17:05,800 --> 00:17:07,840 Speaker 1: they're they're no dummies over there, right. Yeah. I was 304 00:17:07,840 --> 00:17:11,920 Speaker 1: just gonna say, I mean, the fact that they made 305 00:17:11,920 --> 00:17:17,520 Speaker 1: this decision. You know, their motives were probably purely profit related, 306 00:17:17,840 --> 00:17:22,159 Speaker 1: but the fact that they looked at the issue and said, Okay, 307 00:17:22,200 --> 00:17:23,879 Speaker 1: this is what's going to make us the most money, 308 00:17:23,920 --> 00:17:27,080 Speaker 1: I do think is a sign that at least the 309 00:17:27,160 --> 00:17:30,040 Speaker 1: right side is winning, because I mean, they wouldn't do 310 00:17:30,080 --> 00:17:33,760 Speaker 1: that without doing tons and tons of market research. And 311 00:17:34,280 --> 00:17:38,160 Speaker 1: you know, they looked at the people who are going 312 00:17:38,200 --> 00:17:40,480 Speaker 1: to be behind this decision. They looked at the people 313 00:17:40,520 --> 00:17:44,600 Speaker 1: who are going to cut their socks up. That guy 314 00:17:44,600 --> 00:17:47,240 Speaker 1: who cut his socks up, that'll learn them what the 315 00:17:47,320 --> 00:17:51,000 Speaker 1: funk was he cutting up? At a point on Want Cat, 316 00:17:51,200 --> 00:17:53,719 Speaker 1: the guy was saying like, yeah, because walking with jagged 317 00:17:53,760 --> 00:17:55,879 Speaker 1: ass socks isn't gonna least someone to go, hey, what 318 00:17:55,920 --> 00:17:58,280 Speaker 1: happened to your socks? And they'll be like, oh, you know, Nike, 319 00:17:58,320 --> 00:18:00,800 Speaker 1: because blah blah blah. It's like you're you're inviting more 320 00:18:00,840 --> 00:18:04,679 Speaker 1: discussion about NAT. I kind of feel bad for the 321 00:18:04,760 --> 00:18:06,359 Speaker 1: for the sock cutters, though, I mean, you know, they 322 00:18:06,359 --> 00:18:08,320 Speaker 1: are pretty powerless, Like what can you do? As a consumer, 323 00:18:08,720 --> 00:18:11,280 Speaker 1: Like let's let's say let's say you do legitimately, you know, 324 00:18:11,359 --> 00:18:13,880 Speaker 1: believe that that issue. It's like your your kind of powerless. 325 00:18:13,880 --> 00:18:17,520 Speaker 1: What are you gonna do? You start a hashtag pig socks, 326 00:18:17,880 --> 00:18:20,320 Speaker 1: which is the most confusing hashtag. Well, there's this this 327 00:18:20,400 --> 00:18:23,359 Speaker 1: other thing to remember, like when Curig pulled their advertising 328 00:18:23,359 --> 00:18:25,600 Speaker 1: on certain Fox shows, or like we're throwing our Curig 329 00:18:25,720 --> 00:18:28,120 Speaker 1: machines out and people are saying, like, if you really 330 00:18:28,160 --> 00:18:30,960 Speaker 1: want to suck them over, take your item and then 331 00:18:31,119 --> 00:18:33,600 Speaker 1: sell that. So then you are getting the profits from 332 00:18:33,640 --> 00:18:36,959 Speaker 1: that by destroying something they've already collected your money, right, 333 00:18:37,000 --> 00:18:39,040 Speaker 1: and that you're not doing anything, and that means someone 334 00:18:39,080 --> 00:18:40,600 Speaker 1: won't is less likely to buy a new one because 335 00:18:40,600 --> 00:18:42,439 Speaker 1: I buy that one. But there is a myth on 336 00:18:42,480 --> 00:18:45,880 Speaker 1: the right that the right is trying desperately to perpetrate that, 337 00:18:46,800 --> 00:18:50,520 Speaker 1: you know, going against their beliefs, going against conservative whats 338 00:18:50,520 --> 00:18:55,960 Speaker 1: premises politics is dangerous for businesses, and you know they 339 00:18:56,080 --> 00:18:59,120 Speaker 1: are focused on. One of the headlines on Drudge this 340 00:18:59,160 --> 00:19:03,480 Speaker 1: weekend was NFL ratings expected to go down again this year, 341 00:19:03,760 --> 00:19:06,879 Speaker 1: which would have been true whether or not there was 342 00:19:07,000 --> 00:19:11,520 Speaker 1: this controversy because NFL ratings, along with all TV ratings 343 00:19:11,560 --> 00:19:14,439 Speaker 1: have been going down pretty steadily on average, Like when 344 00:19:14,520 --> 00:19:17,600 Speaker 1: you look at the mean, they've all been going down 345 00:19:17,680 --> 00:19:21,560 Speaker 1: because more and more things are on streaming and uh, 346 00:19:22,000 --> 00:19:24,879 Speaker 1: you know, you can play video games. There's just all 347 00:19:24,920 --> 00:19:27,000 Speaker 1: sorts of reasons TV ratings are going down, but they 348 00:19:27,040 --> 00:19:30,400 Speaker 1: want to focus on that because you know, we'll talk 349 00:19:30,440 --> 00:19:34,080 Speaker 1: a little bit later. But they are the smaller group 350 00:19:34,440 --> 00:19:37,800 Speaker 1: in a cultural landscape where they're having to, you know, 351 00:19:38,280 --> 00:19:40,959 Speaker 1: do a lot of work and a lot of contorting 352 00:19:41,400 --> 00:19:47,000 Speaker 1: to make themselves seem a relevant and important, and you know, 353 00:19:47,200 --> 00:19:51,080 Speaker 1: like they are the underdog. I guess yeah, always the victim, 354 00:19:51,280 --> 00:19:53,840 Speaker 1: always the victim. All right, we're gonna take a quick break. 355 00:19:53,840 --> 00:20:05,280 Speaker 1: We'll be right back, and we're back speaking of things 356 00:20:05,359 --> 00:20:09,280 Speaker 1: that aren't normal. So the book fearby Woodward is out 357 00:20:09,400 --> 00:20:14,920 Speaker 1: Bob Woodward, and it's just full of mind blowing details 358 00:20:15,040 --> 00:20:19,479 Speaker 1: with regards to the Trump White House. So let's just 359 00:20:19,680 --> 00:20:22,240 Speaker 1: take a look at a couple. There are so many, 360 00:20:22,280 --> 00:20:25,040 Speaker 1: there's just so much stuff in here. I'm just gonna 361 00:20:25,040 --> 00:20:27,399 Speaker 1: pull quotes from the Washington Post article because they were 362 00:20:27,400 --> 00:20:30,000 Speaker 1: the ones who had access to the book. Because Woodward 363 00:20:30,320 --> 00:20:33,520 Speaker 1: is obviously a Washington Post reporter. They talked about Trump 364 00:20:33,560 --> 00:20:37,320 Speaker 1: sitting down to a mock interview of like what the 365 00:20:37,400 --> 00:20:40,440 Speaker 1: questions Mueller would ask him and how he would perform. 366 00:20:40,480 --> 00:20:43,159 Speaker 1: So his lawyer Dowd peppered Trump with questions about the 367 00:20:43,200 --> 00:20:50,040 Speaker 1: Russian investigation and kept provoking stumbles, contradictions, and lies until 368 00:20:50,040 --> 00:20:52,960 Speaker 1: the President eventually lost his cool shouted this thing is 369 00:20:52,960 --> 00:20:56,000 Speaker 1: that goddamn hoax, and at the start of a thirty 370 00:20:56,000 --> 00:20:58,480 Speaker 1: minute rant that finished with him saying, I don't really 371 00:20:58,520 --> 00:21:03,120 Speaker 1: want to testify. So the next part of that, when 372 00:21:03,160 --> 00:21:06,399 Speaker 1: they say that Jay Sekulo and John Dowd went to 373 00:21:06,480 --> 00:21:09,720 Speaker 1: Mueller's office to talk about like why they probably don't 374 00:21:09,720 --> 00:21:12,920 Speaker 1: want him to interview, is amazing because he's saying, I'm 375 00:21:12,920 --> 00:21:14,280 Speaker 1: not going to sit there and let him look like 376 00:21:14,320 --> 00:21:17,080 Speaker 1: an idiot. And you published that transcript because everything leaks 377 00:21:17,080 --> 00:21:19,280 Speaker 1: in Washington and the guy's overseas are going to say 378 00:21:19,320 --> 00:21:20,800 Speaker 1: I told you he was an idiot. I told you 379 00:21:20,840 --> 00:21:26,040 Speaker 1: was a goddamn dumbbell. What are we dealing with this idiot? For? John, 380 00:21:26,200 --> 00:21:32,399 Speaker 1: I understand, Mueller replied, So, well understand. Mueller's like, no, 381 00:21:32,520 --> 00:21:35,200 Speaker 1: I mean, I get why you wouldn't want this guy 382 00:21:35,359 --> 00:21:41,159 Speaker 1: but sorry, them's the rules. And anyway, Woodward is the 383 00:21:41,200 --> 00:21:45,919 Speaker 1: guy who brought down Nixon through Watergate and his investigation 384 00:21:46,000 --> 00:21:49,679 Speaker 1: to Watergate, so it's important Dick like this is somebody 385 00:21:49,680 --> 00:21:53,000 Speaker 1: who has some you know, frame of reference of like 386 00:21:53,080 --> 00:21:56,240 Speaker 1: how a corrupt and fucked up White House operators? So 387 00:21:56,560 --> 00:22:01,720 Speaker 1: he also there's a story about how John Kelly would 388 00:22:01,760 --> 00:22:04,800 Speaker 1: frequently lose his temper and told colleagues that he thought 389 00:22:04,800 --> 00:22:08,400 Speaker 1: the president was quote unhinged, and one small group meeting, 390 00:22:08,480 --> 00:22:11,720 Speaker 1: Kelly said of Trump, quote he's an idiot. It's pointless 391 00:22:11,760 --> 00:22:14,040 Speaker 1: to try to convince him of anything. He's gone off 392 00:22:14,080 --> 00:22:17,119 Speaker 1: the rails. We're in crazy town. I don't even know 393 00:22:17,160 --> 00:22:19,639 Speaker 1: why any of us are here. This is the worst 394 00:22:19,720 --> 00:22:25,119 Speaker 1: job I've ever had end quote. Wow. And just just 395 00:22:25,160 --> 00:22:26,679 Speaker 1: to be clear again, this is not like a taco 396 00:22:26,680 --> 00:22:28,400 Speaker 1: bell in Topeka, this is this is the White House, 397 00:22:28,440 --> 00:22:31,919 Speaker 1: this is this is John Kelly like, this is the 398 00:22:31,960 --> 00:22:36,080 Speaker 1: worst job. I hate it. Don't resign? Who care? I mean, 399 00:22:36,080 --> 00:22:38,960 Speaker 1: he's already took He's already shown himself to be a 400 00:22:39,000 --> 00:22:41,520 Speaker 1: disgrace too, So I don't think you know, John, go 401 00:22:41,640 --> 00:22:43,359 Speaker 1: do yourself a favor too, And why don't you resign? 402 00:22:43,400 --> 00:22:45,480 Speaker 1: Because it's not like you're the winner. Was like, oh, 403 00:22:45,520 --> 00:22:49,080 Speaker 1: he's the one holding it all together. Even I don't know, though, 404 00:22:49,200 --> 00:22:52,840 Speaker 1: who the funk would come in and run things. Dennis 405 00:22:52,920 --> 00:22:56,399 Speaker 1: Rodman like, what would it look like like? We would 406 00:22:56,400 --> 00:22:58,879 Speaker 1: we all just be I don't know. I just don't 407 00:22:59,119 --> 00:23:02,960 Speaker 1: know who we want in that role, because it has 408 00:23:03,000 --> 00:23:06,280 Speaker 1: to be someone that Trump respects. Anyone would. But it 409 00:23:06,320 --> 00:23:08,560 Speaker 1: even sounds like John Kelly can't even get him. So 410 00:23:08,680 --> 00:23:11,720 Speaker 1: it's not like there's anyone actually keeping it together. I'm 411 00:23:11,760 --> 00:23:13,760 Speaker 1: John Kelly's like he doesn't even fucking live. What's the 412 00:23:13,760 --> 00:23:18,760 Speaker 1: fucking point. Yeah, no, he's being there anyway. Very frustrated. 413 00:23:19,160 --> 00:23:21,960 Speaker 1: In terms of how Trump thinks about the people around him, 414 00:23:22,440 --> 00:23:26,640 Speaker 1: the book says that he does an impression of General 415 00:23:26,800 --> 00:23:30,639 Speaker 1: hr McMaster behind his back, puffing up his chest and 416 00:23:30,720 --> 00:23:35,040 Speaker 1: exaggerating his breathing as he impersonates him, and he wants 417 00:23:35,080 --> 00:23:38,840 Speaker 1: that McMaster dresses like a beer salesman because he doesn't 418 00:23:39,119 --> 00:23:43,359 Speaker 1: doesn't wear expensive suits. And he'd called Attorney General Jeff 419 00:23:43,440 --> 00:23:47,760 Speaker 1: Sessions a trader, complained everyone's trying to get me, and 420 00:23:48,080 --> 00:23:53,200 Speaker 1: also called Sessions quote mentally retarded. He said, this guy 421 00:23:53,400 --> 00:23:56,680 Speaker 1: is mentally retarded. He's this dumb Southerner. He couldn't even 422 00:23:56,720 --> 00:23:59,840 Speaker 1: be a one person country lawyer down in Alabama. Yeah, 423 00:24:00,040 --> 00:24:03,800 Speaker 1: and who picked him again for exactly the other thing 424 00:24:03,840 --> 00:24:07,199 Speaker 1: about Wilbur Ross, he said, like Trump, Trump told Commerce 425 00:24:07,200 --> 00:24:10,200 Speaker 1: Secretary Wilbur Ross, who actually looks like a person who's 426 00:24:10,320 --> 00:24:13,600 Speaker 1: rotting from greed inside. Uh, he said Trump, he's the 427 00:24:13,600 --> 00:24:16,040 Speaker 1: guy who lied to Forbes, right, Yeah, and who I 428 00:24:16,040 --> 00:24:18,320 Speaker 1: think we talked about. Yeah, how his lies about being 429 00:24:18,320 --> 00:24:20,400 Speaker 1: a billionaire to try and get the Forbes Listen. He's 430 00:24:20,440 --> 00:24:23,280 Speaker 1: actually one of the biggest criminals in that administration, but 431 00:24:23,320 --> 00:24:25,560 Speaker 1: he's been so stealth about it. He's not like the 432 00:24:25,560 --> 00:24:28,359 Speaker 1: Scott Pruett ilk of just doing it out in the open. Anyway. 433 00:24:28,359 --> 00:24:30,960 Speaker 1: He told Wilbur Ross, who's like older than him, goes, 434 00:24:31,119 --> 00:24:32,880 Speaker 1: I don't trust you. I don't want you doing any 435 00:24:32,920 --> 00:24:35,760 Speaker 1: more negotiations your past your prime, which I think that 436 00:24:35,800 --> 00:24:38,120 Speaker 1: makes sense. But again, these are the people that you're 437 00:24:39,720 --> 00:24:41,880 Speaker 1: the other people the other amazing when you said, read 438 00:24:41,880 --> 00:24:45,000 Speaker 1: the one about Gary Khone like stealing stuff off his desk, 439 00:24:46,040 --> 00:24:50,360 Speaker 1: So okay, So Gary Cone has basically because this dude 440 00:24:50,520 --> 00:24:53,400 Speaker 1: is so you know, mentally not there all the time, 441 00:24:53,800 --> 00:24:56,119 Speaker 1: there was a thing he said, according to Woodward, this 442 00:24:56,119 --> 00:24:58,000 Speaker 1: is in the witch Post. Thing he said, quote stole 443 00:24:58,040 --> 00:25:00,520 Speaker 1: a letter off Trump's desk, end quote that the President 444 00:25:00,560 --> 00:25:03,080 Speaker 1: was intending to sign to formally withdraw the United States 445 00:25:03,119 --> 00:25:05,320 Speaker 1: from a trade agreement with South Korea. Cone later told 446 00:25:05,320 --> 00:25:07,639 Speaker 1: an associate that he removed the letter to protect national 447 00:25:07,640 --> 00:25:10,560 Speaker 1: security and that Trump did not notice that it was missing. 448 00:25:11,480 --> 00:25:14,159 Speaker 1: And then and then also report on this more and 449 00:25:14,640 --> 00:25:16,560 Speaker 1: from Cone it said I stole it off his desk. 450 00:25:16,640 --> 00:25:18,960 Speaker 1: Cone told an associate, I wouldn't let him see it. 451 00:25:19,040 --> 00:25:21,119 Speaker 1: He's never going to see that document. Got to protect 452 00:25:21,160 --> 00:25:23,400 Speaker 1: the country. So that's how we're doing. It's just like 453 00:25:24,320 --> 00:25:29,360 Speaker 1: you know, and the reasons, yeah, right, it all. Here's 454 00:25:29,400 --> 00:25:32,760 Speaker 1: an anecdote about why they might be worried about national 455 00:25:32,800 --> 00:25:35,639 Speaker 1: security with him in charge. The president wants fund Defense 456 00:25:35,640 --> 00:25:39,440 Speaker 1: Secretary James Maddis and said, let's fucking kill him. After 457 00:25:39,560 --> 00:25:44,360 Speaker 1: Syrian leader Bishar al Assad launched a chemical attack on civilians, 458 00:25:44,720 --> 00:25:47,920 Speaker 1: let's go in. Let's kill the fucking lot of them. 459 00:25:47,920 --> 00:25:53,280 Speaker 1: Trump said, uh, and yeah, they were like okay. So 460 00:25:53,400 --> 00:25:56,680 Speaker 1: so that's not how this works. That's against international law. Um. 461 00:25:56,840 --> 00:26:01,399 Speaker 1: The way this was reported is because he basically was 462 00:26:01,440 --> 00:26:04,520 Speaker 1: granted interviews by people who were familiar with the situation 463 00:26:04,960 --> 00:26:09,240 Speaker 1: on the condition of what's called deep background, which means 464 00:26:09,359 --> 00:26:12,280 Speaker 1: that he can write what they tell him. He just 465 00:26:12,320 --> 00:26:17,240 Speaker 1: couldn't reveal the particular sources. But he he's like, this 466 00:26:17,440 --> 00:26:20,520 Speaker 1: was a person who was there and saw this. This 467 00:26:20,640 --> 00:26:24,040 Speaker 1: is not like hearsay. This is like direct reporting. I'm 468 00:26:24,080 --> 00:26:26,040 Speaker 1: just not allowed to say. I thought all anonymous sources 469 00:26:26,040 --> 00:26:29,320 Speaker 1: were made up though, right, yeah, that was news. Be careful. 470 00:26:30,240 --> 00:26:32,280 Speaker 1: So whatever this anonymous sources that he needs to go 471 00:26:32,320 --> 00:26:34,439 Speaker 1: to jail. I don't know who this guy is. Can 472 00:26:34,480 --> 00:26:36,240 Speaker 1: we go back to the beer salesman thing? What does 473 00:26:36,240 --> 00:26:38,440 Speaker 1: the how does a beer salesman dress? And how would 474 00:26:38,440 --> 00:26:40,440 Speaker 1: Donald Trump know how would be a salesman dress? He 475 00:26:40,440 --> 00:26:45,960 Speaker 1: doesn't drink, he doesn't pay people profession like a door 476 00:26:46,000 --> 00:26:48,120 Speaker 1: to door because you think he's thinking of a time 477 00:26:48,160 --> 00:26:51,560 Speaker 1: when he's still engaged with the normal world. So like 478 00:26:51,640 --> 00:26:54,120 Speaker 1: in the sixties, were their door to door beer beer 479 00:26:54,160 --> 00:26:56,119 Speaker 1: imagining like one of those kids trying to raise money 480 00:26:56,119 --> 00:26:58,840 Speaker 1: for like they're like a softball field trip right right, right, man, 481 00:26:58,920 --> 00:27:02,000 Speaker 1: my name is and I'm expected by this beer. This 482 00:27:02,160 --> 00:27:05,440 Speaker 1: core's light. Yeah, we have either her, she's chocolate, giant pieces. 483 00:27:05,520 --> 00:27:08,679 Speaker 1: Whatever you want, man, I'm laying that beer. I'm buying 484 00:27:08,760 --> 00:27:11,800 Speaker 1: that beer. Yeah. A lot of these like sort of 485 00:27:11,840 --> 00:27:15,960 Speaker 1: excerpts are jess but also Trump suits are terrible. Doesn't 486 00:27:16,000 --> 00:27:18,000 Speaker 1: dress well. It doesn't. His clothes aren't well. Taylor has 487 00:27:18,040 --> 00:27:21,800 Speaker 1: got these super long jackets, and he does seem to 488 00:27:21,840 --> 00:27:26,480 Speaker 1: have a double standard with regards to other people and himself. Sure, 489 00:27:26,720 --> 00:27:29,640 Speaker 1: I've noticed. I don't know, that's just trademark. One last 490 00:27:29,640 --> 00:27:32,040 Speaker 1: one about Ivanka, though, I bet I really like, is 491 00:27:32,080 --> 00:27:35,400 Speaker 1: that there's an interaction with her and Steve Banny. He goes, 492 00:27:35,440 --> 00:27:38,479 Speaker 1: you're a goddamn staffer. Abandon screamed at her, telling her 493 00:27:38,520 --> 00:27:40,920 Speaker 1: that she had to work through previous like the other aids. 494 00:27:41,320 --> 00:27:43,280 Speaker 1: Quote you walk around this place and act like you're 495 00:27:43,280 --> 00:27:45,639 Speaker 1: in charge and you're not. You're on staff end quote. 496 00:27:45,640 --> 00:27:48,440 Speaker 1: Ivanka Trump, who had special actually the president and worked 497 00:27:48,480 --> 00:27:51,560 Speaker 1: around previous replied quote, I'm not a staffer. I'll never 498 00:27:51,640 --> 00:27:58,680 Speaker 1: be staffer. I'm the first daughter. Speaking of messy drama, 499 00:27:58,720 --> 00:28:01,399 Speaker 1: a lot of ship is going on on Capitol Hill today. 500 00:28:01,960 --> 00:28:06,000 Speaker 1: The Kavanaugh hearings are ongoing, getting pretty contentious. There was 501 00:28:06,640 --> 00:28:11,879 Speaker 1: pet Lay he implying that Kavanaugh was given hacked Democrat 502 00:28:12,000 --> 00:28:16,000 Speaker 1: emails to prep for past hearings. Yeah. Well, so basically 503 00:28:16,040 --> 00:28:18,040 Speaker 1: when Kavana was working at the White House for Bush, 504 00:28:18,119 --> 00:28:21,680 Speaker 1: you know, part of his duties was preparing Bush appointees 505 00:28:21,720 --> 00:28:25,040 Speaker 1: nominees to guide them through the judicial confirmation process. And 506 00:28:25,040 --> 00:28:26,760 Speaker 1: he was saying, like, you know, part of it is 507 00:28:26,800 --> 00:28:29,000 Speaker 1: trying to figure out what senators are going to ask 508 00:28:29,080 --> 00:28:31,760 Speaker 1: during the hearings to kind of make sure everyone's prepared. 509 00:28:31,960 --> 00:28:34,080 Speaker 1: But Pat Lay, he was basically saying, like, you worked 510 00:28:34,080 --> 00:28:36,719 Speaker 1: with the dude who stole emails from me, and you 511 00:28:36,760 --> 00:28:39,400 Speaker 1: gave him and he gave you information on like very 512 00:28:39,440 --> 00:28:42,320 Speaker 1: specific pointed things I wanted to talk about, and you 513 00:28:42,440 --> 00:28:45,200 Speaker 1: use that to like your advantage to kind of figure 514 00:28:45,200 --> 00:28:47,160 Speaker 1: out however you're gonna spin it. And there was like 515 00:28:47,200 --> 00:28:50,040 Speaker 1: this whole very tense back and forth where like Brett 516 00:28:50,080 --> 00:28:52,440 Speaker 1: Kavanaugh was trying to play dumb, but Pat Lay like 517 00:28:52,800 --> 00:28:55,320 Speaker 1: had documents in front of him, was like, is this 518 00:28:55,360 --> 00:28:57,800 Speaker 1: email not from him? Talking about like with my email? 519 00:28:57,800 --> 00:28:59,680 Speaker 1: And then he's like, well let me see, and he 520 00:28:59,800 --> 00:29:03,120 Speaker 1: like just took yeah. Yeah, Like you could tell he 521 00:29:03,160 --> 00:29:04,640 Speaker 1: was doing that thing where he was like, Okay, what 522 00:29:04,720 --> 00:29:06,120 Speaker 1: the bread, what the fund? You want to say here? 523 00:29:07,800 --> 00:29:10,600 Speaker 1: He's like, oh, I'm c Seed here, okay, and Pat 524 00:29:10,680 --> 00:29:13,640 Speaker 1: lay he is so, I mean, he's also someone who 525 00:29:13,800 --> 00:29:16,640 Speaker 1: is slipping into senility before our eyes. Like watching him 526 00:29:16,640 --> 00:29:18,640 Speaker 1: and Chuck Grassley go back and forth, it was very painful. 527 00:29:19,040 --> 00:29:21,160 Speaker 1: But yeah, that was like a very painful moment. There's 528 00:29:21,200 --> 00:29:23,160 Speaker 1: another one where he was saying, like, did you know 529 00:29:23,280 --> 00:29:27,000 Speaker 1: about these warrantless surveillance programs that the Bush White House 530 00:29:27,040 --> 00:29:30,479 Speaker 1: was going to engage in like post nine eleven at right? 531 00:29:30,520 --> 00:29:31,920 Speaker 1: And he was saying like, oh, well, there's there are 532 00:29:31,960 --> 00:29:33,840 Speaker 1: a few I don't know, like in two thousand and four. 533 00:29:33,880 --> 00:29:36,000 Speaker 1: He said he knew nothing of it, and then Lay 534 00:29:36,040 --> 00:29:38,000 Speaker 1: he played him a tape from like two thousand four 535 00:29:38,080 --> 00:29:40,360 Speaker 1: or six or something, and then he was like, so 536 00:29:40,680 --> 00:29:42,280 Speaker 1: at that time, you're saying, that's when you found out 537 00:29:42,320 --> 00:29:43,880 Speaker 1: about it, And he's like yeah, and he's like, well, 538 00:29:43,880 --> 00:29:46,000 Speaker 1: when did you start talking about these kinds of programs? 539 00:29:46,120 --> 00:29:47,960 Speaker 1: Was it maybe after nine eleven? And he's like, oh, 540 00:29:48,080 --> 00:29:50,120 Speaker 1: I don't know. And he looks at Chuck Grassley and 541 00:29:50,200 --> 00:29:53,480 Speaker 1: he's like, well, the Chairman has made some documents basically 542 00:29:53,480 --> 00:29:56,160 Speaker 1: committee confidential, but I believe if this were made public, 543 00:29:56,200 --> 00:29:57,960 Speaker 1: this would jar your memory in a way that you 544 00:29:57,960 --> 00:30:00,400 Speaker 1: would be able to answer me very clearly. And then 545 00:30:00,480 --> 00:30:03,240 Speaker 1: Chuck Grassley was like, it was like this whole remember 546 00:30:03,280 --> 00:30:05,920 Speaker 1: it literally was the sound of that whole thing. Yeah, 547 00:30:06,000 --> 00:30:08,280 Speaker 1: it got a little hot in there. But then then 548 00:30:08,800 --> 00:30:12,520 Speaker 1: Graham on the Republican side, well, you know, Pat Lay, 549 00:30:12,520 --> 00:30:14,480 Speaker 1: He's like, where did you get these? Blah blah blah, 550 00:30:14,560 --> 00:30:17,040 Speaker 1: And then Lindsay Graham's like, did you hug your kids 551 00:30:17,280 --> 00:30:21,680 Speaker 1: last night? And what did you say? Kevinaugh specifically said, 552 00:30:21,760 --> 00:30:24,040 Speaker 1: and this is important information, guys, that he gave his 553 00:30:24,120 --> 00:30:27,160 Speaker 1: daughter a special hug. She gave him, she gave him 554 00:30:27,160 --> 00:30:30,480 Speaker 1: a special hug. But they also keep asking him about 555 00:30:30,560 --> 00:30:33,479 Speaker 1: nine eleven, Like one Republican senator was like, what were 556 00:30:33,480 --> 00:30:35,600 Speaker 1: you doing on nine eleven? And then another was like 557 00:30:36,520 --> 00:30:39,040 Speaker 1: there was that fateful day when two planes struck the 558 00:30:39,040 --> 00:30:42,240 Speaker 1: Twin Towers and one struck the Pentagon down here, Like 559 00:30:42,320 --> 00:30:45,080 Speaker 1: it was like, yeah, no, we remember nine eleven. You 560 00:30:45,080 --> 00:30:50,800 Speaker 1: don't have to jog his memory, which I also saw, 561 00:30:51,280 --> 00:30:52,959 Speaker 1: but yeah, I think he they had to give him 562 00:30:53,000 --> 00:30:56,560 Speaker 1: that breathing space because like, after the Democrats grill him, 563 00:30:56,640 --> 00:30:58,840 Speaker 1: although Diane f. Einstein could have gone a little bit 564 00:30:58,920 --> 00:31:01,560 Speaker 1: harder than they level it off by being like and 565 00:31:01,680 --> 00:31:04,240 Speaker 1: when you read to kill a Mockingbird, you actually didn't 566 00:31:04,240 --> 00:31:05,920 Speaker 1: say the N word even in your head as you 567 00:31:05,920 --> 00:31:08,040 Speaker 1: read it, correct because that's how not raisist you are, 568 00:31:08,080 --> 00:31:10,120 Speaker 1: like they were bringing for some reason he kept talking 569 00:31:10,120 --> 00:31:12,880 Speaker 1: about to kill a mockingbird and how like wokey it's 570 00:31:13,040 --> 00:31:15,520 Speaker 1: it was a strange thing, but again this is all 571 00:31:15,680 --> 00:31:19,640 Speaker 1: it's all, it's all theater, right, and just to kind 572 00:31:19,680 --> 00:31:22,960 Speaker 1: of make the stakes clear because his background, he is 573 00:31:23,120 --> 00:31:28,000 Speaker 1: very anti uh like Trump probably won't have to testify 574 00:31:28,280 --> 00:31:34,360 Speaker 1: or you know, be indicted if he is nominated, right, well, 575 00:31:34,440 --> 00:31:36,280 Speaker 1: yeah that I think That's the other thing is he 576 00:31:36,440 --> 00:31:40,120 Speaker 1: has a very generous view of executive power and basically 577 00:31:40,120 --> 00:31:42,400 Speaker 1: like yeah, when you're president, you're king of everything, so 578 00:31:42,640 --> 00:31:44,560 Speaker 1: or but hiding under the idea of like, well you 579 00:31:44,760 --> 00:31:47,240 Speaker 1: can't be distracted, but this man can't even color the 580 00:31:47,280 --> 00:31:49,880 Speaker 1: American flag correctly. And then apparently there was this case 581 00:31:50,000 --> 00:31:52,520 Speaker 1: Roe v. Wade that people keep talking about. You should 582 00:31:52,520 --> 00:31:55,040 Speaker 1: have heard him basically give the Wikipedia answer to it, 583 00:31:55,080 --> 00:31:57,280 Speaker 1: because like Lindsay Graham was like, you know Roe v. Wade, 584 00:31:57,320 --> 00:31:59,160 Speaker 1: and he was just like v. Wade was a case, 585 00:31:59,400 --> 00:32:01,920 Speaker 1: like it was so odd. We're like, okay, we get it. 586 00:32:01,920 --> 00:32:04,400 Speaker 1: You guys worked on this before. But yeah, there's a 587 00:32:04,400 --> 00:32:07,640 Speaker 1: lot of issues that he would probably be a tie 588 00:32:07,720 --> 00:32:10,760 Speaker 1: breaking vote in the wrong direction, especially when you look 589 00:32:10,800 --> 00:32:13,720 Speaker 1: at things like labor and reproductive rights and the like. 590 00:32:15,080 --> 00:32:17,320 Speaker 1: Let's talk about the anonymous op ed in the New 591 00:32:17,360 --> 00:32:21,560 Speaker 1: York Times, the what so have you heard about this? 592 00:32:21,640 --> 00:32:25,400 Speaker 1: Have you seen this? Have guys seen this? So high 593 00:32:25,480 --> 00:32:29,640 Speaker 1: ranking White House official has taken the drastic step of, uh, 594 00:32:29,760 --> 00:32:34,120 Speaker 1: you know, reporting that they are in a perpetual state 595 00:32:34,200 --> 00:32:37,840 Speaker 1: of like a soft coup where they just protect us 596 00:32:38,000 --> 00:32:43,960 Speaker 1: and the president from his worst inclinations, and that there 597 00:32:43,960 --> 00:32:47,080 Speaker 1: were whispers of the twenty five amendment early on. My 598 00:32:47,200 --> 00:32:51,080 Speaker 1: soft coup is the sound that pigeons make. Yeah, so 599 00:32:51,360 --> 00:32:53,560 Speaker 1: very exactly. It's just kind of nice and white, noisy, 600 00:32:55,000 --> 00:32:57,680 Speaker 1: and so, I mean, this is kicked off a full 601 00:32:57,760 --> 00:33:01,520 Speaker 1: on game of clue in the White House, where people 602 00:33:01,560 --> 00:33:06,400 Speaker 1: are like examining the language. The writer uses the word 603 00:33:06,440 --> 00:33:10,320 Speaker 1: load star, which is kind of a weird and specific 604 00:33:10,360 --> 00:33:15,440 Speaker 1: word that apparently Vice President Pence has used multiple times 605 00:33:15,440 --> 00:33:18,200 Speaker 1: in the past, and he is probably the person who 606 00:33:18,240 --> 00:33:21,600 Speaker 1: would have the most to gain if Trump left office, 607 00:33:21,720 --> 00:33:24,880 Speaker 1: but it's probably also used it most on speeches that 608 00:33:24,920 --> 00:33:29,840 Speaker 1: were like spelled phonetically with pictograms or whatever someone else. Right, Yeah, 609 00:33:29,880 --> 00:33:34,320 Speaker 1: that's very true. But apparently load star is a piece 610 00:33:34,320 --> 00:33:36,920 Speaker 1: of military terminology, so it could also be any of 611 00:33:36,960 --> 00:33:40,640 Speaker 1: the hundreds of people who have military backgrounds. Who. Yeah, 612 00:33:40,640 --> 00:33:43,120 Speaker 1: because the title that they used describe a senior age 613 00:33:43,160 --> 00:33:46,760 Speaker 1: could just be like hundreds of people. Yes, so it's yeah, 614 00:33:46,800 --> 00:33:49,040 Speaker 1: I think it's a it's a large group, could be 615 00:33:49,040 --> 00:33:51,760 Speaker 1: a nobody, it could be a somebody, right, And the 616 00:33:51,760 --> 00:33:56,040 Speaker 1: point is we should be very excited that unelected career bureaucrats, famously, 617 00:33:56,080 --> 00:34:00,600 Speaker 1: the chillist people are shadow running the government. Right, that's 618 00:34:00,800 --> 00:34:06,520 Speaker 1: kind of chose to move to d C. Right. It 619 00:34:06,560 --> 00:34:09,680 Speaker 1: seems like that's what they were expecting or based that. 620 00:34:09,680 --> 00:34:12,920 Speaker 1: That seems to be how people took the intention of 621 00:34:12,920 --> 00:34:15,600 Speaker 1: the op ed is that they just wanted credit for 622 00:34:15,640 --> 00:34:18,520 Speaker 1: the fact that they are doing the right thing. I 623 00:34:18,560 --> 00:34:20,960 Speaker 1: feel like there are plenty of cynical ways that this 624 00:34:21,080 --> 00:34:25,279 Speaker 1: could be viewed, though, either you know, as somebody first 625 00:34:25,320 --> 00:34:29,560 Speaker 1: of all, like planting words specifically to implicate other people. 626 00:34:30,360 --> 00:34:33,320 Speaker 1: I don't know why it's like internal politics within the staff. 627 00:34:33,560 --> 00:34:36,640 Speaker 1: Let's get Prince's speech right or fired. And also, I 628 00:34:36,680 --> 00:34:38,840 Speaker 1: mean this is coming out. I mean, this was submitted 629 00:34:38,920 --> 00:34:41,840 Speaker 1: last week, but it is hitting at the same time 630 00:34:42,000 --> 00:34:45,080 Speaker 1: as the Woodword book, which you know has a bunch 631 00:34:45,080 --> 00:34:48,440 Speaker 1: of specific names talking about the president. So if you 632 00:34:48,440 --> 00:34:51,120 Speaker 1: were behind one of those people, you had some sense 633 00:34:51,160 --> 00:34:53,520 Speaker 1: that this book was coming out that was going to 634 00:34:53,560 --> 00:34:56,359 Speaker 1: make somebody in front of you look bad, and then 635 00:34:56,719 --> 00:34:59,799 Speaker 1: you planted an op ed that seemed like it was 636 00:35:00,080 --> 00:35:02,160 Speaker 1: could have been written by them or just to like 637 00:35:02,600 --> 00:35:05,920 Speaker 1: further infuriate the president that I don't know, it just 638 00:35:05,960 --> 00:35:08,799 Speaker 1: seems weird that we're just kind of taking them at 639 00:35:08,800 --> 00:35:11,120 Speaker 1: their word. And well, yeah, like on one side, I know, 640 00:35:11,239 --> 00:35:13,640 Speaker 1: like a lot of liberal people were like, oh, that's 641 00:35:13,680 --> 00:35:16,400 Speaker 1: fucking dope, man, Like I'm glad they're people trying to 642 00:35:16,400 --> 00:35:18,000 Speaker 1: do it. On the other hand, so you can look 643 00:35:18,000 --> 00:35:20,240 Speaker 1: at and be like, this is also kind of terrifying 644 00:35:20,320 --> 00:35:23,880 Speaker 1: too that that, you know, people that felt the former No, 645 00:35:24,040 --> 00:35:26,640 Speaker 1: I think the initial reaction was sort of like holy 646 00:35:26,760 --> 00:35:30,040 Speaker 1: sh it, man, yeah, like fucking stop this guy or whatever, 647 00:35:30,080 --> 00:35:33,640 Speaker 1: because yeah, because I'm like, you know, when you hear 648 00:35:33,680 --> 00:35:36,759 Speaker 1: about military like generals being like, yeah, they told me 649 00:35:36,800 --> 00:35:38,719 Speaker 1: to do something, but funk that I'm not going to 650 00:35:38,800 --> 00:35:41,319 Speaker 1: do it, which makes sense because they know when their 651 00:35:41,360 --> 00:35:43,680 Speaker 1: military expertise like to take orders from the president when 652 00:35:43,680 --> 00:35:46,680 Speaker 1: he's saying like, yeah, let's just execute heads of state 653 00:35:46,800 --> 00:35:49,920 Speaker 1: or whatever do things like that, that that is completely 654 00:35:50,200 --> 00:35:52,319 Speaker 1: bonk or ship. But at the same time, when you 655 00:35:52,320 --> 00:35:55,200 Speaker 1: hear about like the military not taking orders from like 656 00:35:55,280 --> 00:35:58,080 Speaker 1: the president, like that can slowly turn into some other 657 00:35:58,160 --> 00:36:00,919 Speaker 1: kind of military coup problem and not that that's that's 658 00:36:01,040 --> 00:36:03,160 Speaker 1: really not sort of like, this is such a bizarre 659 00:36:03,239 --> 00:36:05,759 Speaker 1: case because you have someone who is doing things that 660 00:36:05,800 --> 00:36:10,239 Speaker 1: are completely out of the normal and completely divorced from 661 00:36:10,320 --> 00:36:13,720 Speaker 1: the reality of the like the diplomatic situation or whatever 662 00:36:13,800 --> 00:36:16,680 Speaker 1: the actual world situation is that it's hard to sort 663 00:36:16,680 --> 00:36:18,680 Speaker 1: of look in and go like, oh, this is fucked up. 664 00:36:18,719 --> 00:36:21,000 Speaker 1: It's kind of unnerving. Yeah, I mean that that it 665 00:36:21,040 --> 00:36:23,359 Speaker 1: seemed to be as much like it would be one 666 00:36:23,360 --> 00:36:25,120 Speaker 1: thing if they were just like, we think this guy 667 00:36:25,160 --> 00:36:30,200 Speaker 1: makes not sensible decisions that are uninformed, so we're doing 668 00:36:30,239 --> 00:36:32,839 Speaker 1: our best to keep things level headed because he's impetuous 669 00:36:32,920 --> 00:36:35,240 Speaker 1: or whatever. But it seemed to be kind of shadows 670 00:36:35,280 --> 00:36:39,040 Speaker 1: saying like, we believe this man has some form of 671 00:36:39,080 --> 00:36:43,680 Speaker 1: dementia or dissociative like degenerative disease of the brain, but 672 00:36:43,800 --> 00:36:47,160 Speaker 1: don't worry. We're gonna like keep things running until he 673 00:36:47,320 --> 00:36:50,320 Speaker 1: you know, his head explodes, or he's indicted or someone 674 00:36:50,320 --> 00:36:52,680 Speaker 1: else is elected. And it feels like that is actually 675 00:36:52,680 --> 00:36:56,520 Speaker 1: specifically with the amendment, is for like, rather than just 676 00:36:56,560 --> 00:36:59,640 Speaker 1: being like we disagree and he's a bad guy that's mad. Yeah, 677 00:36:59,719 --> 00:37:03,040 Speaker 1: I mean Miles ere saying kind of this could be 678 00:37:03,120 --> 00:37:06,840 Speaker 1: viewed as a cry for help to Congress because they're 679 00:37:06,880 --> 00:37:09,640 Speaker 1: just not doing this. If this is for real, right, 680 00:37:09,719 --> 00:37:12,239 Speaker 1: Congress should be like, hold the funk up. There are 681 00:37:12,280 --> 00:37:14,799 Speaker 1: people in the cabinet or in the White House who 682 00:37:14,800 --> 00:37:18,000 Speaker 1: are just out there being like, yo, this guy is 683 00:37:18,239 --> 00:37:21,080 Speaker 1: wholly unfit. You would call them and be like, please 684 00:37:21,080 --> 00:37:22,799 Speaker 1: tell us about what's going on at the White House. 685 00:37:23,200 --> 00:37:25,160 Speaker 1: Please tell me what you know, what you have seen, 686 00:37:25,400 --> 00:37:28,400 Speaker 1: because as part of the Congress, we can check the 687 00:37:28,440 --> 00:37:31,480 Speaker 1: presidential power and if there if this person is that unfit, 688 00:37:31,640 --> 00:37:33,880 Speaker 1: we need to know so we can do what we 689 00:37:34,000 --> 00:37:37,279 Speaker 1: can to whether impeach that or just figure out bring 690 00:37:37,320 --> 00:37:40,640 Speaker 1: to light what is actually going on. But again, I 691 00:37:40,680 --> 00:37:42,920 Speaker 1: don't think. I think the person who wrote this op ed, like, 692 00:37:42,960 --> 00:37:44,919 Speaker 1: who are they if they really felt like this, who 693 00:37:44,920 --> 00:37:47,959 Speaker 1: are they going to go to in Congress? Especially before 694 00:37:48,000 --> 00:37:51,560 Speaker 1: Kavanaugh is confirmed. I feel like whatever whatever suddenly out 695 00:37:51,560 --> 00:37:54,560 Speaker 1: of nowhere righteous action that might happen, it's not gonna 696 00:37:54,560 --> 00:37:56,640 Speaker 1: happen until they get their supreme And though there's so 697 00:37:56,680 --> 00:38:00,120 Speaker 1: many Trump hacks in Congress that who do you, oh 698 00:38:00,160 --> 00:38:01,799 Speaker 1: you can trust? Is tell that too, and they don't. 699 00:38:01,800 --> 00:38:03,359 Speaker 1: They don't immediately go to White House be like, hey, 700 00:38:03,360 --> 00:38:05,280 Speaker 1: this guy just said this ship. You need to figure 701 00:38:05,320 --> 00:38:07,239 Speaker 1: this out. But I think that that could be the 702 00:38:07,239 --> 00:38:08,799 Speaker 1: other thing too, because I think part of it was saying, 703 00:38:08,840 --> 00:38:11,560 Speaker 1: like the people need to come together too, and maybe 704 00:38:11,600 --> 00:38:14,520 Speaker 1: that's us putting pressure on Congress now to like really 705 00:38:14,560 --> 00:38:17,160 Speaker 1: look into this more. But with everything that we've read 706 00:38:17,200 --> 00:38:20,000 Speaker 1: and even just the last three days, like with the 707 00:38:20,040 --> 00:38:24,719 Speaker 1: Woodward excerts and excerpts and now this, you think that 708 00:38:24,760 --> 00:38:27,759 Speaker 1: Congress would be like it sounds like this guy is 709 00:38:27,920 --> 00:38:31,040 Speaker 1: really fucking up, as if we didn't know that already, 710 00:38:31,080 --> 00:38:32,879 Speaker 1: but now, like, how are they going to hide and 711 00:38:32,920 --> 00:38:37,839 Speaker 1: completely abandon their responsibility to actually have any kind of 712 00:38:38,120 --> 00:38:40,400 Speaker 1: power to look at the presidency and say like, Okay, 713 00:38:40,440 --> 00:38:41,799 Speaker 1: we need to look at this little bit and figure 714 00:38:41,840 --> 00:38:44,160 Speaker 1: out what to do. There was a New York Times 715 00:38:44,239 --> 00:38:48,080 Speaker 1: profile of Paul Ryan a couple of weeks ago where 716 00:38:48,200 --> 00:38:52,360 Speaker 1: he basically expressed a similar thing where he was thinking 717 00:38:52,400 --> 00:38:54,720 Speaker 1: of himself as sort of the last line of defense, 718 00:38:54,760 --> 00:38:57,120 Speaker 1: because he was saying, man, you guys have no idea 719 00:38:57,280 --> 00:39:00,840 Speaker 1: how bad, like how many catastrophes I've of did, like 720 00:39:00,960 --> 00:39:04,520 Speaker 1: essentially right, it could have been way worse, Like I'm 721 00:39:04,600 --> 00:39:07,920 Speaker 1: here to prevent the president from ending the world. It 722 00:39:07,960 --> 00:39:12,080 Speaker 1: seems like that's how everybody on all sides is thinking. 723 00:39:12,480 --> 00:39:16,840 Speaker 1: And I mean, yeah, maybe this person is just trying 724 00:39:16,880 --> 00:39:19,399 Speaker 1: to bring it to a head in some way, because 725 00:39:19,440 --> 00:39:21,760 Speaker 1: there's no way that they wrote this and thought Trump 726 00:39:21,800 --> 00:39:24,960 Speaker 1: wouldn't have a reaction. Yeah yeah, right, um, And mean 727 00:39:25,040 --> 00:39:28,000 Speaker 1: so much of like I feel like right wing use 728 00:39:28,040 --> 00:39:30,880 Speaker 1: of the media is like to communicate with or provoke 729 00:39:31,560 --> 00:39:33,799 Speaker 1: him specifically in a way that you can't in a 730 00:39:33,880 --> 00:39:37,400 Speaker 1: face to face meeting, but like headlines and that is 731 00:39:37,400 --> 00:39:39,520 Speaker 1: how you get to him. So it's like what do 732 00:39:39,600 --> 00:39:41,759 Speaker 1: they want out of him? You know, like and him 733 00:39:41,800 --> 00:39:44,160 Speaker 1: calling like is this treason? Or like the New York 734 00:39:44,160 --> 00:39:46,960 Speaker 1: Times like I'm going to demand them legally that they 735 00:39:47,000 --> 00:39:50,440 Speaker 1: tell me. Or it's like, I don't know where that goes, right. Well, 736 00:39:50,440 --> 00:39:52,840 Speaker 1: other people think maybe like if maybe you could be 737 00:39:52,880 --> 00:39:55,399 Speaker 1: Don mcgainn, because he has a knack for getting things 738 00:39:55,440 --> 00:39:58,560 Speaker 1: out there. And this could also serve as a distraction 739 00:39:58,640 --> 00:40:02,080 Speaker 1: from Kavanaugh's hearings, which aren't going that great. Uh, And 740 00:40:02,160 --> 00:40:04,680 Speaker 1: now everyone's gonna be like, who's the op ed? Right? 741 00:40:04,719 --> 00:40:07,680 Speaker 1: Who is this op ed? Uh? You know, like and 742 00:40:07,680 --> 00:40:10,200 Speaker 1: and because you know, Don McGann is close friends with 743 00:40:10,239 --> 00:40:12,920 Speaker 1: Brett Havana, that people have seen it as a distraction 744 00:40:13,000 --> 00:40:15,560 Speaker 1: to that. People have seen it as a right wing 745 00:40:15,600 --> 00:40:18,160 Speaker 1: way of getting people to believe in this deep state 746 00:40:18,200 --> 00:40:21,520 Speaker 1: conspiracy even more that there is like this other government 747 00:40:21,560 --> 00:40:24,640 Speaker 1: working against Trump too. But at the very least we 748 00:40:24,680 --> 00:40:29,120 Speaker 1: can see that the dysfunction has reached fever pitch. But again, 749 00:40:29,160 --> 00:40:31,280 Speaker 1: it's like one of those things, man, we've been knowing 750 00:40:31,360 --> 00:40:34,759 Speaker 1: how bad this is and how awfully this administration has 751 00:40:34,760 --> 00:40:37,640 Speaker 1: been running that I guess maybe it's just to get 752 00:40:37,880 --> 00:40:40,680 Speaker 1: Congress to run out of like rhetorical defenses as to 753 00:40:40,719 --> 00:40:42,719 Speaker 1: why they don't need to investigate the president or why 754 00:40:42,719 --> 00:40:44,799 Speaker 1: they don't impeach him be like, I'm sorry, I have 755 00:40:44,840 --> 00:40:46,800 Speaker 1: an opened there's an op ed from people in the 756 00:40:46,840 --> 00:40:49,839 Speaker 1: White House saying like, help, this thing is melting down, right, 757 00:40:50,040 --> 00:40:52,279 Speaker 1: and you're still not gonna do anything because I mean, yeah, 758 00:40:52,440 --> 00:40:55,640 Speaker 1: the New York Times credibility has been so well called 759 00:40:55,680 --> 00:40:58,839 Speaker 1: into question and and that sort of fake Trump actualized 760 00:40:58,880 --> 00:41:00,840 Speaker 1: fake news way that I feel like there it's not 761 00:41:00,960 --> 00:41:02,680 Speaker 1: very hard for them to just be like, you know, 762 00:41:02,719 --> 00:41:04,279 Speaker 1: the New York Times refused to say the name. We 763 00:41:04,280 --> 00:41:07,560 Speaker 1: don't believe this is real, right, Yeah, yeah, So, I mean, 764 00:41:07,640 --> 00:41:10,000 Speaker 1: the idea of normalization could be raised in relation to 765 00:41:10,080 --> 00:41:13,920 Speaker 1: basically every Trump story that we're talking about or have 766 00:41:14,080 --> 00:41:16,839 Speaker 1: talked about in the past month on this podcast. But 767 00:41:17,400 --> 00:41:20,960 Speaker 1: I was listening to this podcast, Rational Security that's hosted 768 00:41:20,960 --> 00:41:25,080 Speaker 1: by a bunch of you know, professors and analysts and 769 00:41:25,239 --> 00:41:29,080 Speaker 1: experts on national security and who have worked their whole 770 00:41:29,120 --> 00:41:31,520 Speaker 1: careers in the national security apparatus, and they were just 771 00:41:32,040 --> 00:41:36,960 Speaker 1: marveling over the fact that Trump openly called for Sessions 772 00:41:37,000 --> 00:41:40,720 Speaker 1: to stop going after people who are loyal to Trump 773 00:41:41,120 --> 00:41:45,760 Speaker 1: and like pushing him to go after Democrats because it's 774 00:41:46,400 --> 00:41:49,440 Speaker 1: bad for the Republicans. In the lead up to the 775 00:41:49,480 --> 00:41:52,480 Speaker 1: mid terms and they were just saying, like, that's just 776 00:41:52,840 --> 00:41:57,000 Speaker 1: textbook corruption. That's like, what if this was on some 777 00:41:57,120 --> 00:42:02,040 Speaker 1: secret tape of him telling his attorney general stop going 778 00:42:02,080 --> 00:42:05,160 Speaker 1: after my people, go after these other people because it's 779 00:42:05,400 --> 00:42:09,600 Speaker 1: better for me personally, then it would be grounds for impeachment. 780 00:42:09,680 --> 00:42:12,359 Speaker 1: But because he does it on Twitter and we're so 781 00:42:12,480 --> 00:42:16,560 Speaker 1: used to him just tweeting the wildest ship ever that 782 00:42:16,760 --> 00:42:19,439 Speaker 1: like it just doesn't even register. Like no, they were saying, 783 00:42:19,440 --> 00:42:22,839 Speaker 1: like nobody even wrote about the fact that he did that, right, Yeah, 784 00:42:22,880 --> 00:42:25,359 Speaker 1: because it's just been like, oh, here he goes. That's 785 00:42:25,360 --> 00:42:28,279 Speaker 1: how he was taking like the baby's whining again, when 786 00:42:28,320 --> 00:42:31,160 Speaker 1: it's not like the president is trying to fucking melt 787 00:42:31,200 --> 00:42:35,080 Speaker 1: down the republic. The president profoundly doesn't understand how law 788 00:42:35,360 --> 00:42:40,040 Speaker 1: or morality works. Yeah, like that's how we were approaching it. Yeah, 789 00:42:40,040 --> 00:42:44,080 Speaker 1: it's dummy needs a nap. Yeah. There's this article in 790 00:42:44,320 --> 00:42:47,600 Speaker 1: the New York Review of Books that it was about 791 00:42:47,600 --> 00:42:49,799 Speaker 1: global warming, but it was talking about the fact that 792 00:42:50,360 --> 00:42:52,719 Speaker 1: I'll just read the quote. The great Dutch writer and 793 00:42:52,840 --> 00:42:57,319 Speaker 1: historian Geartmok once told me that in three the Dutch 794 00:42:57,360 --> 00:42:59,920 Speaker 1: newspapers were full of stories of the threat of Nazi 795 00:43:00,040 --> 00:43:03,880 Speaker 1: is them, yet by those same papers were all but 796 00:43:04,000 --> 00:43:07,000 Speaker 1: silent on the subject. Sometimes it seems threats to our 797 00:43:07,040 --> 00:43:09,640 Speaker 1: future becomes so great that we opt to ignore them. 798 00:43:09,960 --> 00:43:13,360 Speaker 1: And also I think it's like sometimes it's just you 799 00:43:13,440 --> 00:43:16,200 Speaker 1: get tired of a story, or you just get used 800 00:43:16,239 --> 00:43:18,160 Speaker 1: to the story, or like the temperature in the room 801 00:43:18,200 --> 00:43:20,600 Speaker 1: gets heightened to a point that you don't even really 802 00:43:20,680 --> 00:43:25,320 Speaker 1: notice when like a certain lion is crossed cooking lobsters 803 00:43:25,360 --> 00:43:28,719 Speaker 1: in cold water, right exactly, Yeah, I don't want it's 804 00:43:28,719 --> 00:43:32,160 Speaker 1: always frogs. They that's you don't you don't eat frogs 805 00:43:32,200 --> 00:43:37,160 Speaker 1: for poor people. Lobster is what you would cook that way? Yeah, 806 00:43:37,200 --> 00:43:39,160 Speaker 1: And then I think that's what also makes me think too, 807 00:43:39,280 --> 00:43:41,880 Speaker 1: you know, like maybe the Republicans do know that the 808 00:43:41,920 --> 00:43:44,120 Speaker 1: clock is taking for Trump, and they do know that 809 00:43:44,200 --> 00:43:46,400 Speaker 1: something is probably gonna go down, and then this is 810 00:43:46,600 --> 00:43:48,920 Speaker 1: the Kavanaugh thing is just the last thing they're going 811 00:43:49,000 --> 00:43:51,480 Speaker 1: to get out of this is just to get him confirmed. 812 00:43:51,640 --> 00:43:53,600 Speaker 1: Like that's another reason why they feel like they've had 813 00:43:53,640 --> 00:43:55,799 Speaker 1: that feeling though for eighteen months, and that they are 814 00:43:55,840 --> 00:43:59,040 Speaker 1: just like people at a casino and one of those 815 00:43:59,080 --> 00:44:01,799 Speaker 1: like cash ab things with a wind tunnel where they 816 00:44:01,840 --> 00:44:04,520 Speaker 1: get a minute to like grab but like they keep 817 00:44:04,520 --> 00:44:07,879 Speaker 1: adding time to it, like this is insane. There's now 818 00:44:07,920 --> 00:44:09,919 Speaker 1: just twenties kind of buried in the corner. I've got 819 00:44:09,960 --> 00:44:11,360 Speaker 1: most of them, but like, I'm obviously not going to 820 00:44:11,440 --> 00:44:13,800 Speaker 1: stop grabbing the twenties until they let me out. But 821 00:44:13,840 --> 00:44:17,239 Speaker 1: oh my god, like keep giving me time. And with 822 00:44:17,280 --> 00:44:22,319 Speaker 1: regards specifically to the Sessions Trump relationship, just a year ago, 823 00:44:22,400 --> 00:44:25,160 Speaker 1: Lindsay Graham was saying it would be the beginning of 824 00:44:25,200 --> 00:44:28,000 Speaker 1: the end of Trump's presidency if he fired Sessions. And 825 00:44:28,040 --> 00:44:31,080 Speaker 1: now he sees that tweet, he sees no one's responding 826 00:44:31,120 --> 00:44:33,120 Speaker 1: to it, and now he's saying, well, he deserves an 827 00:44:33,160 --> 00:44:36,160 Speaker 1: attorney general he can trust. So he's just like, we'll 828 00:44:36,239 --> 00:44:39,600 Speaker 1: let you fire him after after Kevanagh gets approved. I 829 00:44:39,640 --> 00:44:42,240 Speaker 1: don't know what's going on with Lindsay. And apparently Lindsay 830 00:44:42,280 --> 00:44:45,920 Speaker 1: Graham was on some show yesterday saying, uh, sort of 831 00:44:46,000 --> 00:44:50,080 Speaker 1: laying out a more detailed groundwork for the firing of Sessions, 832 00:44:50,080 --> 00:44:53,640 Speaker 1: saying that he bungled the family separation story. So oh, 833 00:44:53,680 --> 00:44:55,279 Speaker 1: I love that they don't give a funk. But then 834 00:44:55,280 --> 00:44:57,839 Speaker 1: they're like, let's just pin it on that guy, right right, Well, 835 00:44:57,880 --> 00:45:00,680 Speaker 1: do we like the idea of the child separation. But 836 00:45:00,680 --> 00:45:03,840 Speaker 1: then let's just act like we don't and then Jeff Sessions, 837 00:45:03,960 --> 00:45:06,759 Speaker 1: from a PR standpoint, it wasn't handled as well as 838 00:45:06,760 --> 00:45:10,279 Speaker 1: it should have. Uh, there's summer camps though, as they 839 00:45:10,280 --> 00:45:12,480 Speaker 1: were saying on Fox, all right, we're gonna take a 840 00:45:12,560 --> 00:45:23,520 Speaker 1: quick break. We'll be right back, and we're back. And 841 00:45:24,040 --> 00:45:26,520 Speaker 1: so there's a story in the Wall Street Journal a 842 00:45:26,560 --> 00:45:31,600 Speaker 1: couple of weeks ago about how Qatar is seeking to 843 00:45:31,800 --> 00:45:37,880 Speaker 1: influence American policy now and basically they've realized that because 844 00:45:37,920 --> 00:45:41,840 Speaker 1: we don't have a process driven institution running the country 845 00:45:41,920 --> 00:45:44,640 Speaker 1: and instead we just have like a cult of personality 846 00:45:44,880 --> 00:45:49,600 Speaker 1: like one adults megalomaniac that like they just need to 847 00:45:49,640 --> 00:45:52,840 Speaker 1: get two people around him. So they've spent thirteen million 848 00:45:52,880 --> 00:45:56,040 Speaker 1: dollars lobbying people who they know just like hang out 849 00:45:56,080 --> 00:45:59,759 Speaker 1: with him, Lobbying people at mar Lago, putting op ed 850 00:45:59,800 --> 00:46:04,000 Speaker 1: pieces where he might see them. It's basically the equivalent 851 00:46:04,120 --> 00:46:08,200 Speaker 1: of putting billboards up in his eye line like that 852 00:46:08,239 --> 00:46:11,719 Speaker 1: you know, or he might see, because it's just that's 853 00:46:11,719 --> 00:46:15,040 Speaker 1: how predictable this time. Yeah, it's just like he's the guy, 854 00:46:15,400 --> 00:46:20,640 Speaker 1: and this is a corrupt, authoritarian style government. So we 855 00:46:20,760 --> 00:46:24,000 Speaker 1: just need to like get in front of him somehow. 856 00:46:24,160 --> 00:46:28,040 Speaker 1: And so they paid for Alan Derschwitz, who has no 857 00:46:28,200 --> 00:46:31,200 Speaker 1: like official role other than like dude, Trump's talks to 858 00:46:31,320 --> 00:46:33,680 Speaker 1: a lot and the guy who just makes up cool 859 00:46:34,080 --> 00:46:36,200 Speaker 1: legal theories to be like, I know, he's cool. Yeah. 860 00:46:37,040 --> 00:46:41,799 Speaker 1: They flew him to Qatar and he wrote a positive 861 00:46:41,880 --> 00:46:46,400 Speaker 1: op ed about them in The Hill and then was 862 00:46:46,480 --> 00:46:48,640 Speaker 1: like when it was discovered that this was all part 863 00:46:48,680 --> 00:46:50,480 Speaker 1: of a lobbying effort, he was like, if I had 864 00:46:50,560 --> 00:46:53,440 Speaker 1: known that they were doing this because they thought I 865 00:46:53,440 --> 00:46:56,920 Speaker 1: would influence the president, I would not have gone. But 866 00:46:57,000 --> 00:47:00,439 Speaker 1: it's just like yeah, yeah, because everyone, yeah, because they've 867 00:47:00,520 --> 00:47:04,000 Speaker 1: the Qatari Board of Tourism really needed the Alan Dershwitz 868 00:47:04,200 --> 00:47:07,360 Speaker 1: fucking Seal of approval to get people the fun is. 869 00:47:07,360 --> 00:47:10,000 Speaker 1: He thinking, Well, he can't hang out in Martha's svineyard anymore, 870 00:47:10,080 --> 00:47:12,000 Speaker 1: so he was like, what's another full place I can 871 00:47:12,000 --> 00:47:16,840 Speaker 1: send summers? Well, cool, I guess Doha is the new Martha's. 872 00:47:18,200 --> 00:47:21,040 Speaker 1: That's what they say. Mike Huckabee is also one of 873 00:47:21,120 --> 00:47:24,360 Speaker 1: his friends that they're trying to influence cool friends. Yes, 874 00:47:24,520 --> 00:47:28,000 Speaker 1: it's yeah, funny dude, I mean because they were also 875 00:47:28,200 --> 00:47:30,279 Speaker 1: you know flirting with the idea of flowt and Jared 876 00:47:30,400 --> 00:47:32,680 Speaker 1: some money to handle his debts too. So you've seen 877 00:47:32,680 --> 00:47:35,200 Speaker 1: how qatars kind of entered the picture here and there 878 00:47:35,480 --> 00:47:38,360 Speaker 1: to to try and get some influence. But man, this 879 00:47:38,520 --> 00:47:41,719 Speaker 1: is so like I guess the game is so elementary 880 00:47:41,760 --> 00:47:44,200 Speaker 1: that you know the tactics here just like dude, just 881 00:47:44,239 --> 00:47:46,799 Speaker 1: get him, get to him through his friends, right, It's 882 00:47:46,800 --> 00:47:49,319 Speaker 1: like how like I think any person starting out trying 883 00:47:49,320 --> 00:47:51,520 Speaker 1: to figure out how to infiltrate something's like, I guess 884 00:47:51,680 --> 00:47:53,399 Speaker 1: I can get through their friends. Like if you if 885 00:47:53,400 --> 00:47:55,719 Speaker 1: you're like a SoundCloud rapper and you're trying to get 886 00:47:55,719 --> 00:47:57,719 Speaker 1: your fucking mixtape heard, You're like, who does Drey hang 887 00:47:57,760 --> 00:48:01,000 Speaker 1: out with? Right, I'm gonna hang outside the Apple offices, 888 00:48:01,360 --> 00:48:03,400 Speaker 1: and I'm gonna offer somebody, every person out there, fifty 889 00:48:03,400 --> 00:48:05,759 Speaker 1: bucks to take my mixtape just to take it, you 890 00:48:05,800 --> 00:48:07,560 Speaker 1: know what I mean. It's the same sort of The 891 00:48:07,640 --> 00:48:10,359 Speaker 1: logic is very simple. He's like taking a catering job 892 00:48:10,400 --> 00:48:13,680 Speaker 1: at like a studio heads daughters like bought mitzvah and 893 00:48:13,680 --> 00:48:17,800 Speaker 1: like signing a script under the toylet or whatever, you know, 894 00:48:17,840 --> 00:48:20,000 Speaker 1: I do drive by this billboard kind of often that 895 00:48:20,120 --> 00:48:21,960 Speaker 1: just has a picture of a dude with a head 896 00:48:22,000 --> 00:48:24,520 Speaker 1: on and it just says at Chaz Fusion and it 897 00:48:24,600 --> 00:48:26,759 Speaker 1: says like I will entertain you, and like I keep 898 00:48:26,840 --> 00:48:28,000 Speaker 1: At the first time, I was like, who is that? 899 00:48:28,040 --> 00:48:30,239 Speaker 1: This is so funny to like, it's such a tall 900 00:48:30,239 --> 00:48:32,680 Speaker 1: billboard and it's in a strange neighborhood that doesn't have 901 00:48:32,719 --> 00:48:34,080 Speaker 1: a lot of billboards. And then I was like, I'm 902 00:48:34,120 --> 00:48:36,840 Speaker 1: kind of interested. Who is jazz Fusion? It seems like 903 00:48:36,840 --> 00:48:39,440 Speaker 1: he could entertain me. Who got my attention? Chat? Did 904 00:48:39,480 --> 00:48:40,960 Speaker 1: you find out? Oh man, we're giving him all this 905 00:48:41,000 --> 00:48:44,560 Speaker 1: free fresh Yeah, and it might be misremembering me handles, 906 00:48:44,560 --> 00:48:46,440 Speaker 1: so don't worry. He'll still have to pay me. I'm 907 00:48:46,480 --> 00:48:53,200 Speaker 1: trying to sign him basically standard. All right, that's gonna 908 00:48:53,239 --> 00:48:57,279 Speaker 1: do it for this week's weekly Zeitgeist. Please like and 909 00:48:57,360 --> 00:49:01,680 Speaker 1: review the show. If you like the show, uh means 910 00:49:01,719 --> 00:49:06,000 Speaker 1: the world of Miles. He needs your validation, folks. I 911 00:49:06,040 --> 00:49:09,160 Speaker 1: hope you're having a great weekend and I will talk 912 00:49:09,160 --> 00:50:00,440 Speaker 1: to him Monday by eight