1 00:00:00,360 --> 00:00:03,840 Speaker 1: With all of that being said, beautiful people, let's take 2 00:00:03,880 --> 00:00:06,640 Speaker 1: a little bit of a journey back in time to 3 00:00:06,680 --> 00:00:10,640 Speaker 1: the beginning of this year, and let's retravel the ground 4 00:00:10,680 --> 00:00:13,119 Speaker 1: and the road that we have followed this year, all 5 00:00:13,119 --> 00:00:16,720 Speaker 1: of us communally together. We were originally going to do 6 00:00:16,840 --> 00:00:19,160 Speaker 1: like a political story of the year and an economic 7 00:00:19,200 --> 00:00:21,160 Speaker 1: story of the year, but as we started to sketch 8 00:00:21,160 --> 00:00:23,720 Speaker 1: it out, we realized they were way too intertwined. I mean, 9 00:00:23,760 --> 00:00:27,880 Speaker 1: it really was all one sort of complex, interesting, surprising, 10 00:00:28,080 --> 00:00:31,360 Speaker 1: bizarre picture as we put it together. So we thought 11 00:00:31,360 --> 00:00:34,280 Speaker 1: we would walk back through to think about how we 12 00:00:34,400 --> 00:00:36,000 Speaker 1: got here. And we also want to give you a 13 00:00:36,040 --> 00:00:38,520 Speaker 1: little bit of information about the way that the Breaking 14 00:00:38,560 --> 00:00:42,400 Speaker 1: Points community grew this year, because that's what we were 15 00:00:42,440 --> 00:00:45,240 Speaker 1: all a part of. So let's start with the less 16 00:00:45,240 --> 00:00:47,960 Speaker 1: important part than the Breaking Points community, the national and 17 00:00:48,040 --> 00:00:51,080 Speaker 1: international picture of what the year was all about. Let's 18 00:00:51,080 --> 00:00:53,120 Speaker 1: go and put this first part up on the screen here. 19 00:00:53,159 --> 00:00:57,360 Speaker 1: So this is the presidential approval rating. So if you're 20 00:00:57,400 --> 00:00:59,680 Speaker 1: looking at this, it starts actually in twenty twenty one, 21 00:00:59,720 --> 00:01:03,520 Speaker 1: and where the lines cross and Biden goes underwater in 22 00:01:03,600 --> 00:01:06,560 Speaker 1: terms of his approval rating and really never recovers. I mean, 23 00:01:06,560 --> 00:01:08,360 Speaker 1: there's little bits of up and down, but more or 24 00:01:08,440 --> 00:01:11,959 Speaker 1: less he's significantly underwater. That really started at the beginning 25 00:01:12,360 --> 00:01:15,600 Speaker 1: of twenty twenty two, and we started with this because 26 00:01:15,640 --> 00:01:20,960 Speaker 1: there is not a more sort of fundamental baseline political 27 00:01:21,000 --> 00:01:24,720 Speaker 1: metric than how people feel about the president of the 28 00:01:24,800 --> 00:01:28,240 Speaker 1: United States. And the picture based on this chart was 29 00:01:28,280 --> 00:01:31,840 Speaker 1: not pretty. And when you think about that, you're like, Okay, well, 30 00:01:31,840 --> 00:01:34,520 Speaker 1: the entire year seems basically set right, it's going to 31 00:01:34,560 --> 00:01:36,960 Speaker 1: be easy. You have twenty twenty one, a terrible year 32 00:01:37,160 --> 00:01:40,759 Speaker 1: for the Biden administration. Nothing gets done, the legislation falls apart, 33 00:01:40,760 --> 00:01:44,680 Speaker 1: inflation is sky high. It seems to be a national story. 34 00:01:44,880 --> 00:01:48,920 Speaker 1: But then Russian troops began going on the border of 35 00:01:49,040 --> 00:01:52,320 Speaker 1: Ukraine and some of us ended up being completely wrong. Griffin, 36 00:01:52,400 --> 00:01:53,880 Speaker 1: let's go ahead and put that up there on the screen. 37 00:01:54,280 --> 00:01:56,240 Speaker 1: Not one of the better moments happened to do. One 38 00:01:56,240 --> 00:01:58,560 Speaker 1: of these shows turned out though it is actually one 39 00:01:58,560 --> 00:02:00,480 Speaker 1: of our biggest shows of the entire year. We make 40 00:02:00,520 --> 00:02:03,160 Speaker 1: a show of the entire year, which I just want 41 00:02:03,160 --> 00:02:04,720 Speaker 1: to pause to say, we're going to get more into 42 00:02:04,720 --> 00:02:09,200 Speaker 1: the specifics of breaking points, but I feel incredibly proud 43 00:02:09,520 --> 00:02:12,120 Speaker 1: that you all and many other people across the country 44 00:02:12,160 --> 00:02:15,640 Speaker 1: and around the world trusted us in that moment to 45 00:02:15,760 --> 00:02:18,920 Speaker 1: try to make sense of what was happening, because this 46 00:02:18,960 --> 00:02:21,399 Speaker 1: is something we struggle with in foreign affairs coverage too. 47 00:02:21,880 --> 00:02:27,000 Speaker 1: It is the most difficult area to find actual, real 48 00:02:27,480 --> 00:02:30,560 Speaker 1: credible information. Everybody's got an ax to grind. They're getting 49 00:02:30,600 --> 00:02:33,239 Speaker 1: lenks from the CIA, they're getting links from the Pentagon, 50 00:02:33,360 --> 00:02:36,440 Speaker 1: they're trying to promote this agenda or that agenda. And 51 00:02:36,520 --> 00:02:38,760 Speaker 1: so it has been a real point of pride for 52 00:02:38,840 --> 00:02:41,080 Speaker 1: us this year and something that we have done our 53 00:02:41,160 --> 00:02:44,919 Speaker 1: damnedest to live up to that people have trusted us 54 00:02:45,160 --> 00:02:48,040 Speaker 1: to understand the realities of what is happening with this war. 55 00:02:48,080 --> 00:02:50,400 Speaker 1: So I want to say thank you guys for making 56 00:02:50,440 --> 00:02:55,680 Speaker 1: that the case. Thank you. But I think this underscore 57 00:02:55,760 --> 00:02:58,480 Speaker 1: is this show both with you guys and just to 58 00:02:58,520 --> 00:03:01,600 Speaker 1: this year. What an insane year was The day that happened, 59 00:03:01,800 --> 00:03:04,079 Speaker 1: it just felt like everything was up for grabs, and 60 00:03:04,080 --> 00:03:05,680 Speaker 1: not in a good way. Now, all of a sudden, 61 00:03:05,680 --> 00:03:07,440 Speaker 1: we're talking about nuclear war for the first time in 62 00:03:07,520 --> 00:03:10,400 Speaker 1: forty years. It's China get to invade Taiwan. What does 63 00:03:10,400 --> 00:03:14,840 Speaker 1: this mean? Dictatorship? Autocracy America? What is our role, are 64 00:03:14,880 --> 00:03:17,280 Speaker 1: the actual you know, NATO, is it set in stone? 65 00:03:17,360 --> 00:03:21,240 Speaker 1: Is it going forward? What's happening Germany? Gas prices. When 66 00:03:21,280 --> 00:03:23,760 Speaker 1: you consider the impact that this single event had on 67 00:03:23,800 --> 00:03:27,400 Speaker 1: this entire year, it scrambled everything and that's why it 68 00:03:27,520 --> 00:03:30,160 Speaker 1: was such a difficult but I think an impactful year 69 00:03:30,200 --> 00:03:33,240 Speaker 1: to learn so much about politics. Yeah, So speaking of 70 00:03:33,280 --> 00:03:37,200 Speaker 1: gas prices, that was another important story obviously of this year, 71 00:03:37,280 --> 00:03:40,560 Speaker 1: both politically, economically, and everything else in between. We had 72 00:03:40,600 --> 00:03:44,440 Speaker 1: gas prices spike up over five dollars a gallon, that 73 00:03:44,560 --> 00:03:50,120 Speaker 1: was the average nationwide. Now that has a tremendous direct 74 00:03:50,200 --> 00:03:53,600 Speaker 1: impact on people's wallets. It's really tough to make ends meet. 75 00:03:53,840 --> 00:03:55,800 Speaker 1: It makes you feel like you're drowning when you see 76 00:03:55,800 --> 00:03:58,480 Speaker 1: that price ticking up and up and up every time 77 00:03:58,480 --> 00:04:00,000 Speaker 1: you go to fill up the tank in your car. 78 00:04:00,080 --> 00:04:03,640 Speaker 1: Are and also has massive political ramifications. I mean, between 79 00:04:03,680 --> 00:04:07,320 Speaker 1: this and the low approval rating, seems like an open 80 00:04:07,360 --> 00:04:10,120 Speaker 1: and shutcase in terms of what is likely to happen. 81 00:04:10,120 --> 00:04:12,480 Speaker 1: And this was reportedly something the White House was very 82 00:04:12,520 --> 00:04:15,400 Speaker 1: concerned about as well, and went to some extraordinary lengths 83 00:04:15,440 --> 00:04:18,080 Speaker 1: to try to bring down not that and now gas 84 00:04:18,160 --> 00:04:20,480 Speaker 1: prices have come down some I'm not sure you can 85 00:04:20,520 --> 00:04:23,480 Speaker 1: really attribute it that much to what the Biden administration did, 86 00:04:23,800 --> 00:04:26,840 Speaker 1: but suffice it to say they were worried about it. Yeah, 87 00:04:26,839 --> 00:04:28,680 Speaker 1: and they should have been, because Griffin, let's hit it. 88 00:04:28,720 --> 00:04:32,119 Speaker 1: What happened. Well, again, it's not a particularly difficult story. 89 00:04:32,160 --> 00:04:34,440 Speaker 1: You've got bad approval rating, you've got some crazy shit 90 00:04:34,520 --> 00:04:36,640 Speaker 1: going on in the rest of the world. Gas prices 91 00:04:36,680 --> 00:04:39,000 Speaker 1: are five dollars a gallon. What's going to happen? Well, 92 00:04:39,000 --> 00:04:41,520 Speaker 1: it's obvious. You know, the baked in political theory that 93 00:04:41,560 --> 00:04:43,360 Speaker 1: all of us are operating on is that this means 94 00:04:43,360 --> 00:04:45,200 Speaker 1: that there's going to be the red wave. The red 95 00:04:45,200 --> 00:04:48,080 Speaker 1: wave is baked in famously in Chicago. I think I 96 00:04:48,120 --> 00:04:49,960 Speaker 1: did a prediction. I was like full red wave, every 97 00:04:49,960 --> 00:04:54,159 Speaker 1: single one. We'll get into that I did. I did 98 00:04:54,279 --> 00:04:55,920 Speaker 1: moderate that a little bit. I just want to give 99 00:04:55,920 --> 00:04:57,479 Speaker 1: myself a little bit of credit. Well, that's why this 100 00:04:57,560 --> 00:05:00,880 Speaker 1: done the dou of us. But look, this was and 101 00:05:00,960 --> 00:05:03,960 Speaker 1: has was up until election day. This was the guiding 102 00:05:03,960 --> 00:05:06,520 Speaker 1: philosophy for the way that we thought about stuff because 103 00:05:06,600 --> 00:05:09,919 Speaker 1: it was about fundamentals. And I think again, a really 104 00:05:10,000 --> 00:05:12,440 Speaker 1: amazing and interesting story of this year is it wasn't 105 00:05:12,440 --> 00:05:15,440 Speaker 1: about fundamentals, and that's interesting. Well, and here's another fundamental 106 00:05:15,480 --> 00:05:18,640 Speaker 1: that was looking very dire for the Democratic Party and 107 00:05:18,720 --> 00:05:21,839 Speaker 1: more importantly for people everywhere in the country, which is, 108 00:05:22,080 --> 00:05:26,680 Speaker 1: we had the highest inflation since nineteen seventy nine. In particular, 109 00:05:26,760 --> 00:05:29,600 Speaker 1: food prices skyrocket. I know, you guys saw it with 110 00:05:29,680 --> 00:05:33,840 Speaker 1: your grocery bills, meat in particular, chicken. I mean, everything 111 00:05:33,960 --> 00:05:35,520 Speaker 1: was just going up and up and up. Now, there 112 00:05:35,520 --> 00:05:38,080 Speaker 1: were a variety of reasons for that, corporate price gouging 113 00:05:38,160 --> 00:05:42,120 Speaker 1: among them, but the reality was this really hurt and 114 00:05:42,920 --> 00:05:45,359 Speaker 1: you know, people continue to struggle with the fact that 115 00:05:45,440 --> 00:05:48,400 Speaker 1: prices have been so elevated, and you know, going back 116 00:05:48,440 --> 00:05:50,640 Speaker 1: to the politics of it, it really painted quite a 117 00:05:50,640 --> 00:05:54,880 Speaker 1: dire picture for the Biden administration. For Democrats, it looked 118 00:05:54,880 --> 00:05:57,159 Speaker 1: like it was going to be a total historic level 119 00:05:57,240 --> 00:05:59,120 Speaker 1: wide bound. I think one of the things unlocked too 120 00:05:59,520 --> 00:06:01,240 Speaker 1: is we'll go to the next one here is about 121 00:06:01,279 --> 00:06:03,680 Speaker 1: the Federal Reserve. Is that when Washington was faced with 122 00:06:03,760 --> 00:06:07,039 Speaker 1: nineteen seventy nine the highest flition since nineteen seventy nine, 123 00:06:07,200 --> 00:06:10,360 Speaker 1: what happened nothing. The government actually didn't do all of anything, 124 00:06:10,400 --> 00:06:13,640 Speaker 1: except for the FED with the explicit target of raising 125 00:06:13,640 --> 00:06:16,599 Speaker 1: interest rates and increasing the unemployment rate. That's something that 126 00:06:16,640 --> 00:06:19,559 Speaker 1: we have spent so much time on the show talking 127 00:06:19,600 --> 00:06:22,000 Speaker 1: about because we think it's so important to underscore that 128 00:06:22,200 --> 00:06:24,480 Speaker 1: the only element of the government that was doing anything 129 00:06:24,520 --> 00:06:27,640 Speaker 1: about this was to try to increase the unemployment rate. 130 00:06:27,839 --> 00:06:30,240 Speaker 1: Now why does that Because they want to drive down 131 00:06:30,240 --> 00:06:32,760 Speaker 1: consumer spending, They want everybody to stay home, they want 132 00:06:32,760 --> 00:06:35,440 Speaker 1: to reduce gas demand. That's the way that they miraculous 133 00:06:35,480 --> 00:06:38,599 Speaker 1: plan to save gas prices, and it's just fundamentally bad. 134 00:06:38,839 --> 00:06:41,520 Speaker 1: And they wanted to discipline labor, which was getting a 135 00:06:41,560 --> 00:06:45,200 Speaker 1: little up at you with these strikes and work or organizing, etc. 136 00:06:45,560 --> 00:06:49,080 Speaker 1: Can't have that need to have a totally compliant workforce, 137 00:06:49,200 --> 00:06:52,320 Speaker 1: So that was another goal of this FED policy, and 138 00:06:52,360 --> 00:06:55,280 Speaker 1: I mean they all but stated it explicitly that you know, 139 00:06:55,520 --> 00:06:57,240 Speaker 1: Larry Summer's out there saying we need to have ten 140 00:06:57,279 --> 00:07:01,760 Speaker 1: percent unemployment. I mean, imagine the level of sociopathy to 141 00:07:01,920 --> 00:07:04,400 Speaker 1: say something like that and the pain that that would 142 00:07:04,400 --> 00:07:07,840 Speaker 1: cause to people across the country. So, while there was 143 00:07:07,960 --> 00:07:12,000 Speaker 1: so much that the federal government could have done to 144 00:07:12,160 --> 00:07:15,200 Speaker 1: deal with an inflation that was caused by corporate price galloging, 145 00:07:15,240 --> 00:07:18,600 Speaker 1: by supply chain issues, instead they turned to the FED 146 00:07:18,840 --> 00:07:22,840 Speaker 1: to effectively crush workers and make people suffer as an 147 00:07:22,960 --> 00:07:29,360 Speaker 1: explicit policy goal. As part of that whole situation, markets 148 00:07:29,400 --> 00:07:33,960 Speaker 1: start to tank and that was led by crypto, which 149 00:07:34,560 --> 00:07:39,320 Speaker 1: some of us suffered, has remained relevant, some of us 150 00:07:39,360 --> 00:07:44,160 Speaker 1: personally suffered, has continued to remain relevant. And you know, 151 00:07:44,320 --> 00:07:46,600 Speaker 1: not only actually I mean, I feel bad for Soccer, 152 00:07:46,640 --> 00:07:48,960 Speaker 1: but he's going to be fine. I genuinely do feel 153 00:07:50,560 --> 00:07:53,320 Speaker 1: feel bad for people who have lost a lot of 154 00:07:53,400 --> 00:07:58,320 Speaker 1: money in not just FDx but other crypto schemes. And 155 00:07:58,440 --> 00:08:03,680 Speaker 1: at the same timet mask off moment for elites in DC, 156 00:08:04,320 --> 00:08:07,920 Speaker 1: for elites in the press, especially the business press that 157 00:08:08,120 --> 00:08:11,880 Speaker 1: you know, let Sam Bangmun Freed and others, but especially 158 00:08:11,960 --> 00:08:15,080 Speaker 1: him total con Man. Never got asked any questions. Total 159 00:08:15,120 --> 00:08:17,600 Speaker 1: puff pieces. We'll talk about that more later in the show, 160 00:08:17,640 --> 00:08:20,040 Speaker 1: but that is one of the important stories of this year, 161 00:08:20,240 --> 00:08:23,200 Speaker 1: is the collapse of crypto and everything that has gone 162 00:08:23,240 --> 00:08:25,120 Speaker 1: down with it. So why do we do this right 163 00:08:25,240 --> 00:08:27,280 Speaker 1: this up until this point, which is it's a basic story. 164 00:08:27,280 --> 00:08:29,640 Speaker 1: You got geopeople say, you got high inflation all this, 165 00:08:30,040 --> 00:08:34,319 Speaker 1: but then why did the fundamentals not become fundamental this time? Well, 166 00:08:34,640 --> 00:08:37,960 Speaker 1: the dobs decision, The Dobs decision in June genuinely did 167 00:08:38,080 --> 00:08:40,920 Speaker 1: change everything, and it was really interesting to watch. And 168 00:08:40,960 --> 00:08:42,720 Speaker 1: I had a friend at the time who was a 169 00:08:42,720 --> 00:08:44,560 Speaker 1: big Supreme Court watcher, and he was like, you know, 170 00:08:44,880 --> 00:08:46,760 Speaker 1: a lot of people are sleeping and we have one 171 00:08:46,800 --> 00:08:49,480 Speaker 1: of the most culturally significant decisions of our entire lifetime 172 00:08:49,679 --> 00:08:52,720 Speaker 1: that is happening just three months out before the general election. 173 00:08:53,200 --> 00:08:55,120 Speaker 1: The thing was, though, is that even when it came 174 00:08:55,160 --> 00:08:56,880 Speaker 1: out and you saw and we'll talk about some of 175 00:08:56,880 --> 00:08:59,000 Speaker 1: the confounding variables that were a little bit of a 176 00:08:59,080 --> 00:09:01,960 Speaker 1: prediction of what was to come, there was this fundamental 177 00:09:01,960 --> 00:09:03,880 Speaker 1: tension in the way that we were looking at the politics. 178 00:09:03,920 --> 00:09:07,720 Speaker 1: We're like, well, Dobbs, okay, abortion, it's like sixty thirty. 179 00:09:08,040 --> 00:09:10,520 Speaker 1: But ultimately, you know, it's one of those things where 180 00:09:10,520 --> 00:09:14,200 Speaker 1: it doesn't necessarily touch everybody. The economy does. Gas prices, 181 00:09:14,240 --> 00:09:16,319 Speaker 1: I don't have to tell people here living in Massachusetts. 182 00:09:16,360 --> 00:09:18,880 Speaker 1: I check your guys's average gas price over the last 183 00:09:18,880 --> 00:09:21,959 Speaker 1: couple of months. It's been tough. The weather's hard enough 184 00:09:22,040 --> 00:09:25,920 Speaker 1: up here, man, So it was it was a tough 185 00:09:25,960 --> 00:09:28,400 Speaker 1: time for everybody across the entire country. You know, we 186 00:09:28,440 --> 00:09:31,440 Speaker 1: have you know, California, one of the biggest audiences for 187 00:09:31,559 --> 00:09:34,440 Speaker 1: breaking points still at five dollars a gallon, almost six 188 00:09:34,440 --> 00:09:37,000 Speaker 1: dollars a gallon. That was out there, and we were considering, like, 189 00:09:37,080 --> 00:09:40,120 Speaker 1: this is something that affects everybody. How much is this 190 00:09:40,280 --> 00:09:43,840 Speaker 1: ultimately going to matter? That was the biggest question involved well, 191 00:09:43,840 --> 00:09:46,520 Speaker 1: and we got some early indications that the answer was 192 00:09:46,679 --> 00:09:50,240 Speaker 1: a whole fucking lot. It's gonna matter a lot. So 193 00:09:50,600 --> 00:09:54,840 Speaker 1: these two election results ended up maybe being the most 194 00:09:54,880 --> 00:09:57,080 Speaker 1: accurate sort of canaries in the coal mine for what 195 00:09:57,120 --> 00:09:59,800 Speaker 1: would happen in the fall. You had an abortion referendum 196 00:09:59,840 --> 00:10:03,240 Speaker 1: in in Kansas. Kansas is kind of a red state. 197 00:10:03,840 --> 00:10:08,120 Speaker 1: Might have heard went overwhelming. It wasn't even close double 198 00:10:08,160 --> 00:10:12,680 Speaker 1: digits for the pro choice position in Kansas. So we're like, 199 00:10:13,320 --> 00:10:16,360 Speaker 1: that was interesting, that was surprising. I thought it would 200 00:10:16,360 --> 00:10:18,920 Speaker 1: be close, but I did not think it would be 201 00:10:19,240 --> 00:10:22,199 Speaker 1: a blowout for the pro choice side. So, like, you know, 202 00:10:22,280 --> 00:10:25,319 Speaker 1: we thought this was directly on the question of abortion. 203 00:10:25,600 --> 00:10:27,120 Speaker 1: Is it going to be the same thing when you're 204 00:10:27,120 --> 00:10:30,680 Speaker 1: talking about random congressional district in let's say New York. 205 00:10:31,080 --> 00:10:34,880 Speaker 1: The answer was yes. You had a special election, you 206 00:10:35,000 --> 00:10:38,120 Speaker 1: had a Republican candidate who was heavily favored both in 207 00:10:38,240 --> 00:10:40,880 Speaker 1: the polls and also based on the pundits. It was 208 00:10:40,920 --> 00:10:43,480 Speaker 1: a district that I think Biden won very narrowly by 209 00:10:43,520 --> 00:10:45,839 Speaker 1: like maybe one point. So if you're looking at red wave, 210 00:10:46,240 --> 00:10:49,920 Speaker 1: this district is gone. So and Pat Ryan was the 211 00:10:49,920 --> 00:10:53,080 Speaker 1: candidate that ran there the Democrats now member of Congress. 212 00:10:53,440 --> 00:10:57,240 Speaker 1: He wins outperforms the polls, which, as you guys know, 213 00:10:57,840 --> 00:11:01,120 Speaker 1: Democrats haven't been normally do that. And so that was 214 00:11:01,160 --> 00:11:05,559 Speaker 1: another real head scratching moment of hmm, maybe the stops 215 00:11:05,559 --> 00:11:11,040 Speaker 1: decision really did turn this whole election on its head. 216 00:11:12,080 --> 00:11:15,040 Speaker 1: As if twenty twenty two wasn't crazy enough, Trump mar 217 00:11:15,080 --> 00:11:19,360 Speaker 1: a Lago raid happens. It's like European war, biggest since 218 00:11:19,360 --> 00:11:21,720 Speaker 1: World War Two, highest inflations of nineteen seventy nine, the 219 00:11:21,720 --> 00:11:23,760 Speaker 1: overturnay of rovers is waged. Yeah, no, let's go ahead 220 00:11:23,800 --> 00:11:26,240 Speaker 1: and have the FBI raid the Foreign President's house. And 221 00:11:26,280 --> 00:11:29,400 Speaker 1: so now we're like, oh, now, what the fuck is 222 00:11:29,440 --> 00:11:32,920 Speaker 1: going on? So this was again though an interesting moment 223 00:11:32,960 --> 00:11:35,559 Speaker 1: for the people here who care about the GOP. Why well, 224 00:11:35,720 --> 00:11:38,000 Speaker 1: immediately Ron de Santis comes out and he's like, this 225 00:11:38,040 --> 00:11:41,160 Speaker 1: is egregious. As solved by the FBI, Glenn Youngkin comes 226 00:11:41,160 --> 00:11:43,520 Speaker 1: out and speaks Trump was never more powerful in the 227 00:11:43,559 --> 00:11:46,319 Speaker 1: GOP than this day, and it remains to be seen. 228 00:11:46,600 --> 00:11:48,520 Speaker 1: Is that the case if he does get indicted, which 229 00:11:48,520 --> 00:11:50,920 Speaker 1: we'll talk a little bit about what exactly is his 230 00:11:51,000 --> 00:11:53,959 Speaker 1: power to the extent, do GOP voters care about electability? 231 00:11:54,080 --> 00:11:57,760 Speaker 1: Do they care about persecution? But regardless, this is an 232 00:11:57,880 --> 00:12:02,640 Speaker 1: unprecedented situation. You Cable likes to use those words like historic, unprecedent. 233 00:12:02,679 --> 00:12:04,920 Speaker 1: It's like, yeah, all right, but like every once in 234 00:12:04,960 --> 00:12:07,000 Speaker 1: a while you look at like, oh shit, this actually 235 00:12:07,120 --> 00:12:11,559 Speaker 1: is historical. This actually is unprecedent. Having his house rated 236 00:12:11,600 --> 00:12:13,959 Speaker 1: by the FBI, Yeah, I'd say that qualifies. I'd say 237 00:12:13,960 --> 00:12:17,560 Speaker 1: that one does qualify. So Democrats, obviously they've been doing 238 00:12:17,600 --> 00:12:21,040 Speaker 1: the January sixth Commission, leaning into the case that democracy 239 00:12:21,200 --> 00:12:25,000 Speaker 1: is on the ballot, and once you had not only 240 00:12:25,040 --> 00:12:28,440 Speaker 1: the specter of the FBI rating Trump's house and the 241 00:12:28,480 --> 00:12:32,760 Speaker 1: increasing likelihood that the former president was going to be indicted, 242 00:12:33,120 --> 00:12:37,400 Speaker 1: they leaned even more into a message about GOP extremism, 243 00:12:37,440 --> 00:12:42,280 Speaker 1: which encompassed the abortion decision and also threats to democracy 244 00:12:42,320 --> 00:12:44,720 Speaker 1: and also, by the way, some candidate quality issues that 245 00:12:44,760 --> 00:12:47,400 Speaker 1: will get to in a moment. This all led to 246 00:12:47,800 --> 00:12:54,320 Speaker 1: a very memorable speech with some controversial lighting choices. Take 247 00:12:54,320 --> 00:13:00,199 Speaker 1: a listen, Donald Trump and the MIGA Republicans represented extremism 248 00:13:00,600 --> 00:13:07,240 Speaker 1: that threatens the very foundations of our republic. So it's 249 00:13:07,280 --> 00:13:09,920 Speaker 1: the red lighting. The red lighting. I mean, personally, I 250 00:13:09,920 --> 00:13:11,560 Speaker 1: didn't have a problem with it. He just went full 251 00:13:11,640 --> 00:13:14,400 Speaker 1: dark brand in. He was feeling himself right then. He 252 00:13:14,559 --> 00:13:18,080 Speaker 1: just went for it. But you know, I was skeptical. 253 00:13:18,160 --> 00:13:22,200 Speaker 1: I was pulling my hair out, like, talk about the economy, 254 00:13:22,320 --> 00:13:24,840 Speaker 1: my god, like people are struggling. They're telling you they're 255 00:13:24,880 --> 00:13:27,080 Speaker 1: number one into the economy. Where is your plan? What 256 00:13:27,120 --> 00:13:29,640 Speaker 1: are you going to do? And they're you know, doing 257 00:13:29,679 --> 00:13:32,880 Speaker 1: these major primetime speeches focused I'm not saying it's not important, 258 00:13:32,880 --> 00:13:36,439 Speaker 1: but focus exclusively on MAGA extremism. And I just thought, 259 00:13:36,640 --> 00:13:38,600 Speaker 1: I don't know if this is the right strategy. And 260 00:13:38,679 --> 00:13:40,920 Speaker 1: yet it's as if the Republicans could didn't want to 261 00:13:40,960 --> 00:13:43,800 Speaker 1: do everything they could to shoot themselves in the foot. 262 00:13:43,800 --> 00:13:48,320 Speaker 1: And with certain candidate quality issues, one of those being 263 00:13:48,559 --> 00:13:56,760 Speaker 1: a certain trip to the grocery store for vegetables. Some 264 00:13:56,800 --> 00:13:59,760 Speaker 1: people have another word for it. I personally learned that 265 00:14:00,000 --> 00:14:03,839 Speaker 1: word for it. Ripping. Play it for the people. I thought, 266 00:14:03,920 --> 00:14:06,959 Speaker 1: there's a grocery shopping. I'm at Wegnars. My wife wants 267 00:14:07,160 --> 00:14:13,720 Speaker 1: some cruditae. Right, So here's a broccoli that's two bucks. 268 00:14:14,480 --> 00:14:20,080 Speaker 1: There's an asparagus that's four dollars. Yep, Carrots that's four 269 00:14:20,160 --> 00:14:23,920 Speaker 1: more dollars. That's ten dollars of best. Again, we need 270 00:14:23,960 --> 00:14:31,800 Speaker 1: some guacamoli. That's four dollars more. She loves saucy faragus 271 00:14:31,840 --> 00:14:35,880 Speaker 1: and salty shorts. Are salsa, guys, that's twenty dollars for cruditae. 272 00:14:35,880 --> 00:14:39,000 Speaker 1: And this doesn't include the quila. I mean, it's not right. 273 00:14:39,560 --> 00:14:44,400 Speaker 1: You got to bid. Thanks. We've watched that a thousand 274 00:14:44,440 --> 00:14:48,120 Speaker 1: times at this point, and there still so many questions. 275 00:14:48,160 --> 00:14:52,040 Speaker 1: It hits every time, it hits no basket. Why are 276 00:14:52,080 --> 00:14:55,160 Speaker 1: you buying it all separate? We have veggie trace. Where's 277 00:14:55,160 --> 00:14:58,160 Speaker 1: the ranch? You know? Low key? My My favorite part 278 00:14:58,240 --> 00:15:00,720 Speaker 1: at this point is what he walks and hes confidently, 279 00:15:00,840 --> 00:15:04,880 Speaker 1: like I'm here. Wegner's no, you're not. It's not a thing. 280 00:15:06,680 --> 00:15:10,320 Speaker 1: So anyway, there were some candidate quality issues that were 281 00:15:10,360 --> 00:15:12,880 Speaker 1: unfolding on the Republican side. I think we had a 282 00:15:12,920 --> 00:15:15,920 Speaker 1: reminder a sort of like last reverberation of that last 283 00:15:16,000 --> 00:15:23,040 Speaker 1: night in Georgia with Raphael Warnock defeating herschel Walker and 284 00:15:23,920 --> 00:15:28,640 Speaker 1: at the same time, shockingly Biden. The Democrats actually started 285 00:15:28,680 --> 00:15:32,360 Speaker 1: to do a few things legislatively. So you had the 286 00:15:32,440 --> 00:15:36,080 Speaker 1: Chips Act that passed bipartisan. You had the Inflation Reduction Act, 287 00:15:36,720 --> 00:15:39,320 Speaker 1: you had the PAS Act, and you had student loan 288 00:15:39,560 --> 00:15:42,000 Speaker 1: debt relief, which is something that Biden had been dragging 289 00:15:42,000 --> 00:15:43,880 Speaker 1: his heels on and that I think ultimately, you know, 290 00:15:43,920 --> 00:15:45,720 Speaker 1: when you look at the margin among young people may 291 00:15:45,760 --> 00:15:48,040 Speaker 1: have been quite decisive in a lot of these races. 292 00:15:48,080 --> 00:15:51,040 Speaker 1: So you're starting to look at this and say, hmm, 293 00:15:51,400 --> 00:15:53,920 Speaker 1: maybe this is going to be a lot different than 294 00:15:54,120 --> 00:15:58,520 Speaker 1: the red wave that was originally predicted. But yeah, as 295 00:15:58,560 --> 00:16:02,440 Speaker 1: with the Joyo of twenty two two, well, we talked 296 00:16:02,480 --> 00:16:05,120 Speaker 1: about the Federal Reserve. What about housing? You know, it's 297 00:16:05,160 --> 00:16:08,040 Speaker 1: interesting for an inside so YouTube just launched this, i 298 00:16:08,040 --> 00:16:10,600 Speaker 1: would say, quasi creepy feature where we could actually see 299 00:16:10,640 --> 00:16:13,520 Speaker 1: what you guys are searching for on the research tab. 300 00:16:13,840 --> 00:16:15,440 Speaker 1: It's not actually as bad as you would think. You 301 00:16:15,480 --> 00:16:18,200 Speaker 1: know what the number one search term is almost every 302 00:16:18,280 --> 00:16:22,360 Speaker 1: single day, housing, housing market, housing crash, and it really 303 00:16:22,560 --> 00:16:25,520 Speaker 1: makes us and helps us understand about how so many 304 00:16:25,560 --> 00:16:28,040 Speaker 1: of you are in pursuit of an American dream which 305 00:16:28,080 --> 00:16:30,760 Speaker 1: is lost, and we magnify it. Not just out from 306 00:16:30,800 --> 00:16:33,560 Speaker 1: what's here the Boston now they have to tell everybody 307 00:16:33,600 --> 00:16:37,040 Speaker 1: here about high rend prices or high real estate, but 308 00:16:37,400 --> 00:16:40,880 Speaker 1: across the entire country Boise, Idaho rent is up thirty percent. 309 00:16:41,000 --> 00:16:44,000 Speaker 1: People there are struggling, you know, in the Catskill mount 310 00:16:44,120 --> 00:16:47,320 Speaker 1: like in rural areas, the average home price is now 311 00:16:47,320 --> 00:16:49,600 Speaker 1: at a point where it's you need one hundred thousand 312 00:16:49,640 --> 00:16:52,080 Speaker 1: dollars a year to even make it, and then that's 313 00:16:52,120 --> 00:16:55,200 Speaker 1: if you're lucky to have the twenty percent down payment. 314 00:16:55,280 --> 00:16:57,320 Speaker 1: How are people supposed to make any of that work? 315 00:16:57,600 --> 00:16:59,880 Speaker 1: And we see it consistently, And part of the reason 316 00:17:00,080 --> 00:17:02,720 Speaker 1: why I would still bet I was betting then is 317 00:17:02,760 --> 00:17:04,960 Speaker 1: I was like, I've never seen this level of just 318 00:17:05,080 --> 00:17:08,920 Speaker 1: massive dissatisfaction, Like the American dream never has seemed more 319 00:17:09,000 --> 00:17:12,240 Speaker 1: out of out of reach. Whenever you have high inflation, 320 00:17:12,359 --> 00:17:14,560 Speaker 1: high gas, you can't buy a house. The warst tone 321 00:17:14,560 --> 00:17:17,800 Speaker 1: of my house in forty years, like this is a catastrophe, 322 00:17:17,840 --> 00:17:20,199 Speaker 1: and maybe, just maybe that's going to be enough to 323 00:17:20,240 --> 00:17:22,920 Speaker 1: put the GOP over the edge. Yeah, and not only that, 324 00:17:23,040 --> 00:17:27,000 Speaker 1: but voters were routinely telling pollsters that, you know, the 325 00:17:27,080 --> 00:17:31,919 Speaker 1: economy really sucks, it's terrible, and it's our number one issue. 326 00:17:32,000 --> 00:17:33,959 Speaker 1: This is what we care about in the fall. And 327 00:17:34,080 --> 00:17:35,800 Speaker 1: by the way, we think the Republicans are better than 328 00:17:35,800 --> 00:17:38,760 Speaker 1: the Democrats on this issue. And so when you look 329 00:17:39,000 --> 00:17:41,639 Speaker 1: at all of that, you start to thinking, well, Dobbs 330 00:17:41,760 --> 00:17:44,440 Speaker 1: was a while ago. You know, maybe some of the 331 00:17:44,480 --> 00:17:48,440 Speaker 1: potency and the raw emotion of the overturning of Roe 332 00:17:48,520 --> 00:17:50,679 Speaker 1: versus Wad, maybe that's kind of faded. Maybe some of 333 00:17:50,720 --> 00:17:54,720 Speaker 1: these other factors are going to be what ultimately wins 334 00:17:54,920 --> 00:17:58,919 Speaker 1: the day. But that's not the story of what happens. No, 335 00:17:59,400 --> 00:18:01,479 Speaker 1: put it up there. It turns out some of us 336 00:18:01,520 --> 00:18:03,399 Speaker 1: have egg on their face for the millionth time this 337 00:18:03,520 --> 00:18:07,840 Speaker 1: year Democrats hold the Senate. What aren insane? Story? And 338 00:18:08,200 --> 00:18:11,360 Speaker 1: one of the reasons why again is the fundamentals were 339 00:18:11,359 --> 00:18:13,399 Speaker 1: not the fundamentals this time. And there's a lot of 340 00:18:13,480 --> 00:18:15,680 Speaker 1: questions that are raised as to why did people vote 341 00:18:15,680 --> 00:18:17,840 Speaker 1: the way that they did with the economy and all that, 342 00:18:17,920 --> 00:18:19,520 Speaker 1: And I think it arises a couple of things which 343 00:18:19,520 --> 00:18:21,840 Speaker 1: we'll talk about. Candidate quality, of course, Crew de tae 344 00:18:21,880 --> 00:18:24,680 Speaker 1: certainly doesn't help, but it's not the only one. It's 345 00:18:24,720 --> 00:18:27,439 Speaker 1: the entire Senate. You know, what was it? This is 346 00:18:27,480 --> 00:18:31,440 Speaker 1: the first time that the Democrats have kept every single 347 00:18:31,520 --> 00:18:34,280 Speaker 1: Senate seat, or any president in the has kept every 348 00:18:34,280 --> 00:18:38,360 Speaker 1: single Senate seat since FDR in nineteen thirty four. Yes, 349 00:18:38,480 --> 00:18:41,760 Speaker 1: that's how extraordinary what happened in November. And it's also 350 00:18:41,840 --> 00:18:45,840 Speaker 1: the first time, based on last night's results, that a 351 00:18:46,119 --> 00:18:50,760 Speaker 1: party in power both gained seats in the Senate and 352 00:18:51,040 --> 00:18:54,159 Speaker 1: gained governorships. So, I mean, you can look at this 353 00:18:54,480 --> 00:18:56,600 Speaker 1: in a couple of ways, because on the one hand, 354 00:18:56,600 --> 00:18:58,760 Speaker 1: you're like, yeah, but they still lost the House, So 355 00:18:58,800 --> 00:19:02,240 Speaker 1: I mean, baggrate, you know, aren't you kind of over 356 00:19:02,320 --> 00:19:04,520 Speaker 1: selling it? And I think that's fair. We do take 357 00:19:04,560 --> 00:19:07,320 Speaker 1: for granted now this like divided government, that yoyo's back 358 00:19:07,359 --> 00:19:09,399 Speaker 1: and forth, and it's always going to be this close margin. 359 00:19:09,680 --> 00:19:11,960 Speaker 1: It was not always the case. So I do think that, 360 00:19:12,200 --> 00:19:14,720 Speaker 1: you know, both parties should aim hire to have a 361 00:19:14,840 --> 00:19:17,920 Speaker 1: durable majority based on working class values and actually delivering 362 00:19:17,920 --> 00:19:22,359 Speaker 1: for people. But given recent history, there's just no doubt 363 00:19:22,480 --> 00:19:25,240 Speaker 1: that Biden defied the odds. I mean, he had a 364 00:19:25,720 --> 00:19:29,040 Speaker 1: way better midterms than Barack Obama did, who was supposed 365 00:19:29,080 --> 00:19:32,159 Speaker 1: to be the political savant. So, I mean that's an 366 00:19:32,160 --> 00:19:34,760 Speaker 1: interesting sort of plot twist there in and of itself. 367 00:19:35,160 --> 00:19:38,200 Speaker 1: And then, as if we needed anymore added on top 368 00:19:38,240 --> 00:19:40,720 Speaker 1: of this year, Donald Trump went ahead and announced for 369 00:19:40,760 --> 00:19:44,600 Speaker 1: a president. So here we go again. I mean, it's 370 00:19:44,640 --> 00:19:47,679 Speaker 1: the rematch that absolutely no one in the country wants 371 00:19:48,520 --> 00:19:51,959 Speaker 1: Biden versus Trump. Right, if you ask the American people 372 00:19:52,320 --> 00:19:54,520 Speaker 1: like do you want Biden? Do you want Trump? They're like, 373 00:19:54,680 --> 00:19:57,159 Speaker 1: abs of fucking lutely not. And the parties are like, 374 00:19:57,320 --> 00:20:00,080 Speaker 1: how about Biden and Trump? What do you say? So 375 00:20:00,200 --> 00:20:01,879 Speaker 1: here we go again. I guess that's all I can 376 00:20:01,880 --> 00:20:04,720 Speaker 1: say about that. Yeah, I mean it's it is stunning. 377 00:20:04,800 --> 00:20:06,600 Speaker 1: It's like so much has changed in the last seven 378 00:20:06,680 --> 00:20:09,280 Speaker 1: years and also like nothing has changed at all. And 379 00:20:09,520 --> 00:20:12,120 Speaker 1: when you see Trump, you know, the most boring announcement 380 00:20:12,119 --> 00:20:14,040 Speaker 1: speech that we've seen in quite a long time. I 381 00:20:14,080 --> 00:20:15,840 Speaker 1: did say though, if for those of you who are 382 00:20:15,840 --> 00:20:17,560 Speaker 1: watching our live stream, I was like, you know, he 383 00:20:17,560 --> 00:20:19,960 Speaker 1: can't hold this in and lo and behold. Within the 384 00:20:20,000 --> 00:20:23,119 Speaker 1: two weeks the co over too in the Constitution tweet, 385 00:20:23,160 --> 00:20:26,600 Speaker 1: Dinner with Kanye, the Nick fuenttest thing, I never even 386 00:20:26,680 --> 00:20:30,240 Speaker 1: knew the guy already back to shit posting QAnon memes. 387 00:20:30,240 --> 00:20:32,359 Speaker 1: So I was like, there's the man, there's the Donnie 388 00:20:32,920 --> 00:20:34,800 Speaker 1: that we know, and well, that's right, Well people care 389 00:20:35,000 --> 00:20:37,800 Speaker 1: I don't know, you know, in twenty twenty, not really ish, 390 00:20:37,880 --> 00:20:40,560 Speaker 1: I mean, who lost by forty thousand votes. This time around, 391 00:20:40,640 --> 00:20:43,080 Speaker 1: They're like, eh, yes, so this is a little fucking crazy, 392 00:20:43,640 --> 00:20:46,320 Speaker 1: like so sure, this might kind of care at this point. 393 00:20:46,480 --> 00:20:48,760 Speaker 1: This is Look, it's a jump question of we have 394 00:20:48,800 --> 00:20:50,480 Speaker 1: no idea. And that's part of the why it's so 395 00:20:50,600 --> 00:20:52,920 Speaker 1: fun to do this show and to learn and experience 396 00:20:52,920 --> 00:20:54,880 Speaker 1: so much of this with all of you, is that 397 00:20:54,920 --> 00:20:57,080 Speaker 1: we're all just trying to make sense of this shit together. 398 00:20:57,640 --> 00:21:00,520 Speaker 1: You know, Sometimes the fundamentals manner, sometimes they don't at all. 399 00:21:00,600 --> 00:21:02,439 Speaker 1: Sometimes exactly what you think is going to happen. You 400 00:21:02,440 --> 00:21:04,800 Speaker 1: can even call the last presidential election could be totally 401 00:21:04,840 --> 00:21:06,640 Speaker 1: wrong all the next one. You could call the last 402 00:21:06,680 --> 00:21:08,919 Speaker 1: twenty and you could still be wrong with this. And 403 00:21:09,119 --> 00:21:11,800 Speaker 1: it's given me actually just an even more like interest 404 00:21:11,840 --> 00:21:14,600 Speaker 1: and faith in democray. It was almost like a return 405 00:21:14,720 --> 00:21:18,080 Speaker 1: to some of the old political rules. It's like during 406 00:21:18,119 --> 00:21:21,360 Speaker 1: the Trump era, political gravity has sort of been suspended, 407 00:21:21,640 --> 00:21:25,399 Speaker 1: like all of the previous truisms of politics were thrown 408 00:21:25,440 --> 00:21:27,240 Speaker 1: out the window and we had to learn a whole 409 00:21:27,320 --> 00:21:30,879 Speaker 1: new idea of how politics worked. One of those things was, 410 00:21:30,960 --> 00:21:32,879 Speaker 1: you know, it used to be all politics as local. 411 00:21:33,080 --> 00:21:35,960 Speaker 1: During the Trump era, all politics has been national. These 412 00:21:36,040 --> 00:21:39,359 Speaker 1: midterm results were highly regional. I mean, if you just 413 00:21:39,400 --> 00:21:41,600 Speaker 1: look at Florida, the red wave was in full effect. 414 00:21:41,760 --> 00:21:45,600 Speaker 1: New York as well had you know, significant gains for Republicans, 415 00:21:45,600 --> 00:21:47,600 Speaker 1: and then the entire rest of the country goes in 416 00:21:47,640 --> 00:21:50,880 Speaker 1: a different direction. The industrial Midwest actually was the strongest 417 00:21:50,880 --> 00:21:54,600 Speaker 1: region the entire country for Democrats. You had ticket splitters. 418 00:21:54,720 --> 00:21:56,960 Speaker 1: This is again something that was like a dying breed 419 00:21:57,040 --> 00:22:00,480 Speaker 1: where someone would go and vote for Brian Kemple, let's say, 420 00:22:00,600 --> 00:22:03,280 Speaker 1: for governor of Georgia, and then go vote for Rafael 421 00:22:03,320 --> 00:22:06,240 Speaker 1: Warnock for Senate. These are things that we're supposed to 422 00:22:06,320 --> 00:22:09,920 Speaker 1: be done over with, and you had a return of 423 00:22:10,000 --> 00:22:14,000 Speaker 1: a sort to some older political norms and rules. Do 424 00:22:14,080 --> 00:22:16,320 Speaker 1: they last as it change? Whence Donald Trump's back on 425 00:22:16,359 --> 00:22:19,879 Speaker 1: the ballot, I don't have a clue. And that is 426 00:22:19,920 --> 00:22:22,720 Speaker 1: one thing I shouldn't say this now, because we're about 427 00:22:22,720 --> 00:22:24,960 Speaker 1: to make fools of ourselves and make predictions for the 428 00:22:24,960 --> 00:22:29,560 Speaker 1: next year. But I am going to take a lot 429 00:22:29,560 --> 00:22:33,320 Speaker 1: of humility from these results because even the polls, right, 430 00:22:33,760 --> 00:22:35,400 Speaker 1: I mean, we were looking at the polls that were 431 00:22:35,400 --> 00:22:37,919 Speaker 1: coming in and we're saying, okay, but in the last 432 00:22:37,960 --> 00:22:41,760 Speaker 1: few elections, they have always understated Republicans. So I'm going 433 00:22:41,800 --> 00:22:44,199 Speaker 1: to add in a few points for Republicans because that 434 00:22:44,400 --> 00:22:47,320 Speaker 1: just is based on the previous trend, what makes sense 435 00:22:47,359 --> 00:22:49,600 Speaker 1: and what seems to be responsible. And then you have 436 00:22:49,720 --> 00:22:53,520 Speaker 1: Democrats out performing the polls in certain places like New Hampshire, 437 00:22:53,680 --> 00:22:56,760 Speaker 1: places like Pennsylvania, places that really ultimately mattered. It's like, 438 00:22:56,800 --> 00:23:00,360 Speaker 1: all right, well now I just have no idea, so 439 00:23:00,640 --> 00:23:04,919 Speaker 1: we just have to all take it as it comes. 440 00:23:07,000 --> 00:23:09,239 Speaker 1: With all of that being said, we did want to 441 00:23:09,520 --> 00:23:13,520 Speaker 1: go ahead and throw some wildlie predictions out there so 442 00:23:13,560 --> 00:23:17,960 Speaker 1: that you know that's what I done. Is it if 443 00:23:17,960 --> 00:23:20,159 Speaker 1: we can't make total fools of ourselves in like a 444 00:23:20,200 --> 00:23:22,399 Speaker 1: short period of time, that you guys can hold against us. 445 00:23:22,440 --> 00:23:24,720 Speaker 1: But anyway, here goes, Yeah, clip it, go ahead and 446 00:23:24,760 --> 00:23:26,359 Speaker 1: hold it against us as you all like to do. 447 00:23:26,440 --> 00:23:28,480 Speaker 1: In the comments. Yes, I occasionally do you you read them. 448 00:23:28,760 --> 00:23:31,960 Speaker 1: We'll take our medicine don't worry. Okay, number one will 449 00:23:32,000 --> 00:23:34,080 Speaker 1: not shock you. Great minds think alike. We both had 450 00:23:34,200 --> 00:23:39,080 Speaker 1: the same one. Trump will likely be indicted, indicted in 451 00:23:39,480 --> 00:23:42,360 Speaker 1: sometime in the year twenty twenty three. But for those 452 00:23:42,400 --> 00:23:44,560 Speaker 1: who are clapping, it may not be the result that 453 00:23:44,600 --> 00:23:48,320 Speaker 1: you want, because let's lay out a couple of different scenarios. Okay, 454 00:23:48,359 --> 00:23:51,600 Speaker 1: Trump is indicted, well now, he is stronger in the 455 00:23:51,600 --> 00:23:53,840 Speaker 1: GOP than ever was before, like he was during the 456 00:23:53,880 --> 00:23:56,680 Speaker 1: mar Lago raid, squeezes out anybody from evening attempting to 457 00:23:56,720 --> 00:23:59,239 Speaker 1: run against him. He raises one hundred million dollars on 458 00:23:59,320 --> 00:24:03,520 Speaker 1: persecution and very easily sales to winning the primary or 459 00:24:03,560 --> 00:24:07,840 Speaker 1: being completely and totally uncontested. Possible, very possible. But yeah, 460 00:24:07,880 --> 00:24:09,800 Speaker 1: I mean, if you look at now, you've got this 461 00:24:10,280 --> 00:24:12,320 Speaker 1: special castle whose name I can never remember because it's 462 00:24:12,359 --> 00:24:14,399 Speaker 1: so blain. Is it Jack Smith? Is that the dude's name, 463 00:24:14,520 --> 00:24:18,399 Speaker 1: Jack Smith? So he seems like he's moving pretty quick. 464 00:24:18,560 --> 00:24:21,080 Speaker 1: He just issued a number of subpoenas to election officials 465 00:24:21,080 --> 00:24:25,240 Speaker 1: in places like Wisconsin and Arizona. The riding looks like 466 00:24:25,280 --> 00:24:28,520 Speaker 1: it's pretty much on the wall here. So this of 467 00:24:28,840 --> 00:24:31,240 Speaker 1: my predictions, this is the one I feel sort of 468 00:24:31,240 --> 00:24:34,280 Speaker 1: the most confident about it's very likely to be tried 469 00:24:34,280 --> 00:24:36,920 Speaker 1: in DC. I think that's a very unfavorable climate for him, 470 00:24:37,000 --> 00:24:40,520 Speaker 1: So not looking good for him on the legal front. 471 00:24:41,480 --> 00:24:45,480 Speaker 1: My second prediction, it might be more of a hope 472 00:24:45,640 --> 00:24:50,360 Speaker 1: than an actual real prediction, But I am hopeful that 473 00:24:50,440 --> 00:24:59,359 Speaker 1: the war in Ukraine will end this year. And you 474 00:24:59,400 --> 00:25:03,680 Speaker 1: know what I base my educated hope on. I guess 475 00:25:03,760 --> 00:25:06,400 Speaker 1: I would say, is the fact that you have had 476 00:25:06,440 --> 00:25:08,919 Speaker 1: a clear shift in the Biden administration's position. I saw 477 00:25:09,000 --> 00:25:11,159 Speaker 1: of all kinds of critiques of Theirs, but at the 478 00:25:11,200 --> 00:25:14,639 Speaker 1: beginning of this war, they were saying openly regime change. Effectively, 479 00:25:14,760 --> 00:25:16,800 Speaker 1: Now they've said they're open to some sort of talks 480 00:25:16,800 --> 00:25:19,040 Speaker 1: and pushing for There are some in the administration at 481 00:25:19,119 --> 00:25:23,280 Speaker 1: least openly pushing for diplomacy. That's good. You have Russia 482 00:25:23,320 --> 00:25:25,080 Speaker 1: saying the same thing. I mean, listen, you can't take 483 00:25:25,119 --> 00:25:27,240 Speaker 1: any of these people at their word, but at least 484 00:25:27,280 --> 00:25:30,680 Speaker 1: there is some verbal indication that they might be open 485 00:25:30,840 --> 00:25:33,520 Speaker 1: to negotiations. And at the same time, in both the 486 00:25:33,600 --> 00:25:36,680 Speaker 1: US and Russia, you have public opinions starting to turn. 487 00:25:36,800 --> 00:25:40,440 Speaker 1: In Russia, public opinion has turned, whereas there was initially 488 00:25:40,680 --> 00:25:44,280 Speaker 1: strong majority support for the quote unquote special military operation 489 00:25:44,680 --> 00:25:47,240 Speaker 1: that has now flipped completely on its head, and you 490 00:25:47,359 --> 00:25:51,160 Speaker 1: have a public that is now done with this thing entirely. Yes, 491 00:25:51,240 --> 00:25:54,119 Speaker 1: Putin is an autocrat, but he still is subject to 492 00:25:54,320 --> 00:25:58,480 Speaker 1: political domestic pressure. So that's there here. You also have 493 00:25:58,600 --> 00:26:02,040 Speaker 1: a softening in support work for endless blank checks, you 494 00:26:02,119 --> 00:26:05,560 Speaker 1: have it falling on the list of priorities for Americans. 495 00:26:05,640 --> 00:26:08,320 Speaker 1: And of course you have continued high energy prices which 496 00:26:08,359 --> 00:26:11,840 Speaker 1: put pressure here, put pressure especially on Europe. And I 497 00:26:11,840 --> 00:26:15,160 Speaker 1: think the European nations have always been basically following our lead, 498 00:26:15,320 --> 00:26:18,040 Speaker 1: and we're always more open to diplomacy to start with, 499 00:26:18,160 --> 00:26:22,080 Speaker 1: especially France and Germany. So those pieces together, and then 500 00:26:22,119 --> 00:26:25,840 Speaker 1: when you combine it with a really brutal, awful negative one, 501 00:26:25,880 --> 00:26:29,320 Speaker 1: which is that with these hits on Ukraine's infrastructure, they 502 00:26:29,359 --> 00:26:35,359 Speaker 1: are facing a brutal, cold, hard, difficult winter. I am 503 00:26:35,600 --> 00:26:38,320 Speaker 1: just praying that we can come to some sort of 504 00:26:38,320 --> 00:26:42,640 Speaker 1: a resolution to this horrific tragedy in the coming year. 505 00:26:42,720 --> 00:26:44,640 Speaker 1: That's what I'm hoping for. I share that hope too. 506 00:26:48,240 --> 00:26:50,920 Speaker 1: I have a much more lighthearted second prediction. I'll save 507 00:26:50,960 --> 00:26:55,240 Speaker 1: my hopium for third. My second one is for the 508 00:26:55,280 --> 00:26:57,520 Speaker 1: Trump fans. Trump wins Iowa. I think he's going to 509 00:26:57,560 --> 00:27:00,240 Speaker 1: win the Iowa caucuses based on exactly what I said. 510 00:27:00,440 --> 00:27:02,159 Speaker 1: I think the I think he is going to be indicted, 511 00:27:02,200 --> 00:27:04,159 Speaker 1: and I think that's going to help him in the GOP. 512 00:27:04,359 --> 00:27:06,400 Speaker 1: There might be some dissantis stance who are out there 513 00:27:06,400 --> 00:27:08,200 Speaker 1: in the audience. We see them every once in a while, 514 00:27:08,800 --> 00:27:11,200 Speaker 1: and look, I get it, I get what you're going for. 515 00:27:11,480 --> 00:27:15,000 Speaker 1: The issue is is that I just with Trump the 516 00:27:15,160 --> 00:27:19,040 Speaker 1: X factor. Yes, he certainly was boring in his announcement speech, 517 00:27:19,119 --> 00:27:21,000 Speaker 1: but when he wants to turn it on, he's the 518 00:27:21,080 --> 00:27:25,119 Speaker 1: single most popular figure in the Republican Party since Ronald Reagan. 519 00:27:25,280 --> 00:27:27,720 Speaker 1: Like it's almost a religion. There are people out there 520 00:27:27,760 --> 00:27:30,880 Speaker 1: almost half the Republican Party identifies more as Trump Republicans 521 00:27:31,080 --> 00:27:34,159 Speaker 1: than as actual Republicans. Can you actually beat that in 522 00:27:34,240 --> 00:27:36,240 Speaker 1: head to head? Also, remember it's not just going to 523 00:27:36,280 --> 00:27:38,600 Speaker 1: be one guy. Mike Pence says he wants to run 524 00:27:38,640 --> 00:27:43,040 Speaker 1: for president. Good luck. John Bolton says he wants to 525 00:27:43,119 --> 00:27:47,000 Speaker 1: run for Mike Pompeo. Mickey Haley, We've got a whole 526 00:27:47,080 --> 00:27:50,360 Speaker 1: cast of war criminals immediate ready to step up. Will 527 00:27:50,440 --> 00:27:54,800 Speaker 1: spare everyone. I tried yesterday to make Kyle choose between 528 00:27:54,800 --> 00:27:57,360 Speaker 1: if you could only have Trump or John Bolton, which 529 00:27:57,400 --> 00:28:00,479 Speaker 1: would he would not play along. I not get an 530 00:28:00,480 --> 00:28:02,640 Speaker 1: answer on it. It's a tough choice, I gotta say. 531 00:28:04,680 --> 00:28:09,480 Speaker 1: My third and final prediction is that neither the FED 532 00:28:09,960 --> 00:28:14,960 Speaker 1: nor the strike breaking Joe Biden will be able to 533 00:28:15,080 --> 00:28:26,200 Speaker 1: crush the growing grassroots labor movement this year. I think 534 00:28:26,400 --> 00:28:31,320 Speaker 1: after the pandemic, when workers realize their bosses would literally 535 00:28:31,400 --> 00:28:34,080 Speaker 1: kill them for profit, that was a bit of a 536 00:28:34,080 --> 00:28:36,680 Speaker 1: game changer. And not only that, you got the American 537 00:28:36,720 --> 00:28:41,520 Speaker 1: people wholly behind workers. They were behind the rail workers 538 00:28:41,720 --> 00:28:44,840 Speaker 1: even when they were told that, hey, if they strike 539 00:28:44,880 --> 00:28:46,880 Speaker 1: it it'll be tough with the economy, and they so 540 00:28:47,160 --> 00:28:49,560 Speaker 1: we don't care. We back them. They deserve sick days. 541 00:28:49,920 --> 00:29:00,320 Speaker 1: So I do not see that militancy diminishing across you know, 542 00:29:00,560 --> 00:29:04,880 Speaker 1: white collar, blue collar service sector. I think that could 543 00:29:04,880 --> 00:29:08,280 Speaker 1: be the single most transformative thing that we see in 544 00:29:08,320 --> 00:29:10,920 Speaker 1: our politics in our nation for working class people over 545 00:29:10,960 --> 00:29:13,200 Speaker 1: the next decade, and I am so glad as hell 546 00:29:13,280 --> 00:29:23,600 Speaker 1: to see it. My final hopium the economy gets better. 547 00:29:23,920 --> 00:29:26,560 Speaker 1: The stock market rate yay, some of us are some 548 00:29:26,640 --> 00:29:29,080 Speaker 1: of us recently lost thousands of dollars on a failed 549 00:29:29,160 --> 00:29:35,520 Speaker 1: crypto exchange, so this might be biased. Look the inflation, 550 00:29:35,720 --> 00:29:39,800 Speaker 1: it's still bad, it's slightly cooling, that's what they say. Europe. 551 00:29:39,800 --> 00:29:42,000 Speaker 1: It seems to be going down. Gas is like back 552 00:29:42,040 --> 00:29:44,560 Speaker 1: to three sixty. Not great, but it was three thirty 553 00:29:44,600 --> 00:29:47,680 Speaker 1: before Russia invaded Ukraine. The FED we talked about how 554 00:29:47,680 --> 00:29:49,680 Speaker 1: painful it has been over the last year. Well they 555 00:29:49,680 --> 00:29:52,360 Speaker 1: say they'll still raise but not as much. Look, we 556 00:29:52,480 --> 00:29:54,520 Speaker 1: have no choice but to hope. And I think that's 557 00:29:54,560 --> 00:29:57,400 Speaker 1: my from the year twenty twenty two. It was shitty 558 00:29:57,440 --> 00:29:59,200 Speaker 1: in a lot of ways, but it was also amazing. 559 00:29:59,520 --> 00:30:01,720 Speaker 1: It was a while. It was just that sane and 560 00:30:01,760 --> 00:30:03,720 Speaker 1: like for all of the pain and someone you know, 561 00:30:03,840 --> 00:30:06,320 Speaker 1: the coming out of the pandemic and the fucking culture 562 00:30:06,360 --> 00:30:09,000 Speaker 1: wars over the mass and all that dropping it for 563 00:30:09,040 --> 00:30:11,680 Speaker 1: the new ones and then getting through it. I just 564 00:30:11,800 --> 00:30:13,960 Speaker 1: see no choice but to look at our history and say, like, 565 00:30:14,000 --> 00:30:18,040 Speaker 1: America obviously can come back and come out better for this. 566 00:30:18,160 --> 00:30:20,440 Speaker 1: So look, there's a lot of bad signs. We talk 567 00:30:20,520 --> 00:30:22,840 Speaker 1: about it a lot. I think newscasters, you know, even 568 00:30:22,960 --> 00:30:25,040 Speaker 1: us can sometimes be guilty of like cherry picking and 569 00:30:25,040 --> 00:30:27,600 Speaker 1: looking at the bad But you know, in the uptimes, 570 00:30:27,640 --> 00:30:29,560 Speaker 1: in the boom times, or maybe even just in the 571 00:30:29,600 --> 00:30:32,400 Speaker 1: moderate times and return to normal. It can be a 572 00:30:32,440 --> 00:30:35,080 Speaker 1: fun story. So that's my hope for twenty twenty three. 573 00:30:35,120 --> 00:30:37,400 Speaker 1: The economy gets better, all of your lives get better, 574 00:30:37,680 --> 00:30:40,280 Speaker 1: It drinks get a little cheaper. There you go, all 575 00:30:40,320 --> 00:30:44,520 Speaker 1: of that, all of that, it is time for our 576 00:30:44,880 --> 00:30:50,040 Speaker 1: year and superlatives. And I know you all are gonna 577 00:30:50,080 --> 00:30:52,720 Speaker 1: love this all right, So here's what we did. We 578 00:30:52,800 --> 00:30:54,760 Speaker 1: came up with a variety of categories, and so we 579 00:30:54,800 --> 00:30:58,280 Speaker 1: wouldn't keep you here all night. Each two of us 580 00:30:58,360 --> 00:31:00,240 Speaker 1: will answer each of them, and then the end we 581 00:31:00,280 --> 00:31:02,400 Speaker 1: have a sort of like finale one that will all answer. 582 00:31:02,920 --> 00:31:08,320 Speaker 1: So our very first category is biggest plot Twist, and 583 00:31:08,520 --> 00:31:12,480 Speaker 1: our respondents in this category will be Kyle and Marshall. Kyle, 584 00:31:12,560 --> 00:31:15,440 Speaker 1: you are up first. Yeah, So for the biggest plot twist, 585 00:31:15,560 --> 00:31:19,720 Speaker 1: I'm going how Teflon Don is no longer teflon Don 586 00:31:20,160 --> 00:31:26,280 Speaker 1: and he's now morphed into Sharman Don. Well, because because look, 587 00:31:26,280 --> 00:31:28,080 Speaker 1: I mean the numbers showed right here now. To be fair, 588 00:31:28,080 --> 00:31:30,320 Speaker 1: there are other polls that have Trump ahead still, but 589 00:31:30,400 --> 00:31:32,440 Speaker 1: the fact that Ron DeSantis is up over him in 590 00:31:32,560 --> 00:31:36,160 Speaker 1: any polls is kind of amazing. So, I mean, because 591 00:31:36,200 --> 00:31:39,000 Speaker 1: there was a time when he genuinely was Teflon and 592 00:31:39,040 --> 00:31:41,640 Speaker 1: everybody would say, oh, he's done, he's not going to win, 593 00:31:41,760 --> 00:31:45,920 Speaker 1: and then he won and he sort of defied expectations 594 00:31:45,920 --> 00:31:47,760 Speaker 1: every step of the way. But now we have the 595 00:31:47,760 --> 00:31:51,800 Speaker 1: twenty eighteen election, Republicans lost, twenty twenty same thing, twenty 596 00:31:51,840 --> 00:31:55,240 Speaker 1: twenty two, same thing, and you know, the candidates have 597 00:31:55,880 --> 00:31:58,560 Speaker 1: his stench on him, and so now I think the 598 00:31:58,600 --> 00:32:02,040 Speaker 1: conventional wisdom really needs to flip that this guy, he's 599 00:32:02,040 --> 00:32:04,800 Speaker 1: the problem. And there was a time in you know, 600 00:32:04,960 --> 00:32:07,560 Speaker 1: probably around twenty eighteen, maybe even after that, where people 601 00:32:07,560 --> 00:32:09,080 Speaker 1: would think, no, this is never going to end the 602 00:32:09,080 --> 00:32:12,240 Speaker 1: Teflon don era. He's going to get indicted and he 603 00:32:12,280 --> 00:32:15,720 Speaker 1: may well be convicted. So it's over. Now it's over, 604 00:32:16,200 --> 00:32:20,160 Speaker 1: I think. But when you say it's over, what precisely 605 00:32:20,200 --> 00:32:21,880 Speaker 1: do you mean by that? Because okay, i'll tell you, 606 00:32:21,920 --> 00:32:24,840 Speaker 1: I'll tell you. Yeah, I'll answer, Okay, less than one 607 00:32:24,880 --> 00:32:30,440 Speaker 1: percent chance he can win a general election. Climp it. 608 00:32:30,840 --> 00:32:33,360 Speaker 1: You're booing me, but I'm going to be right. You're 609 00:32:33,360 --> 00:32:36,760 Speaker 1: booing me, but I'm going to be right. And less 610 00:32:36,800 --> 00:32:38,560 Speaker 1: than one look right, into the camera right over there, 611 00:32:38,560 --> 00:32:44,600 Speaker 1: and I think, I think at this moment he probably 612 00:32:44,680 --> 00:32:46,400 Speaker 1: is not even the favorite to get through the primary. 613 00:32:47,840 --> 00:32:54,000 Speaker 1: I think so. I think, so you're booing me, but 614 00:32:54,040 --> 00:32:58,240 Speaker 1: I'm right. You'll see, You'll see, Kyle and I have 615 00:32:58,280 --> 00:33:01,280 Speaker 1: had this debate approximately one million times, so some of 616 00:33:01,280 --> 00:33:04,240 Speaker 1: you have probably seen that already. But you know, this 617 00:33:04,320 --> 00:33:06,920 Speaker 1: man has made the Republican Party in his image. He 618 00:33:06,960 --> 00:33:10,600 Speaker 1: has made they lost, stop the steal lost, But no, 619 00:33:10,680 --> 00:33:14,360 Speaker 1: they didn't. It was it was rigged, Kyle, it was rigged. 620 00:33:16,760 --> 00:33:19,800 Speaker 1: I mean, but listen, that's literally what they think. So 621 00:33:19,840 --> 00:33:22,320 Speaker 1: if you're talking about general election, his stench on them, 622 00:33:22,400 --> 00:33:25,400 Speaker 1: it's a disaster. No argument for me whatsoever. I'm one 623 00:33:25,400 --> 00:33:28,080 Speaker 1: percent chance would I would quibble with that. But do 624 00:33:28,160 --> 00:33:30,120 Speaker 1: I think he's a problem in the general election. Absolutely. 625 00:33:31,040 --> 00:33:33,760 Speaker 1: In the primary, it's still has to lose because it's 626 00:33:33,800 --> 00:33:38,080 Speaker 1: a very different thing to theoretically be Ron de Santa's 627 00:33:38,160 --> 00:33:40,840 Speaker 1: hanging out here and doing some things and getting some 628 00:33:41,120 --> 00:33:43,520 Speaker 1: love from the conservative base. It's another thing to have 629 00:33:43,600 --> 00:33:46,160 Speaker 1: to go head to head with this guy, and he 630 00:33:46,240 --> 00:33:49,000 Speaker 1: has made it in the Republican Party where he defines 631 00:33:49,200 --> 00:33:52,160 Speaker 1: whether you are a true believer or a Rhino who 632 00:33:52,240 --> 00:33:54,680 Speaker 1: needs to be kicked out of the party. So I 633 00:33:54,760 --> 00:33:58,160 Speaker 1: find it hard to picture how Desantus is able to 634 00:33:58,200 --> 00:34:01,000 Speaker 1: go head to head against him and actually take him 635 00:34:01,040 --> 00:34:03,600 Speaker 1: down when it counts. I think it fits h Marge Wanning, 636 00:34:03,640 --> 00:34:06,040 Speaker 1: you go ahead, because yours actually facing in discuss. I 637 00:34:06,040 --> 00:34:07,960 Speaker 1: was gonna say my my plot twist was going to 638 00:34:08,000 --> 00:34:09,920 Speaker 1: be stopped the steel Crystal. That would have been like 639 00:34:09,960 --> 00:34:12,840 Speaker 1: a fun like fit that we got that second, but no, 640 00:34:12,920 --> 00:34:15,480 Speaker 1: so mine was something we talked about this and I'd 641 00:34:15,520 --> 00:34:17,520 Speaker 1: love to hear your crystal your version of this too. 642 00:34:17,920 --> 00:34:21,080 Speaker 1: Last night where Plats was Democrats actually doing much better 643 00:34:21,360 --> 00:34:24,280 Speaker 1: in the mid terms. If you were watching the full 644 00:34:24,440 --> 00:34:29,279 Speaker 1: extended mid terms night showing of breaking points, we were 645 00:34:29,280 --> 00:34:31,920 Speaker 1: really like, yeah, Dems are gonna lose. They're gonna lose 646 00:34:31,960 --> 00:34:34,319 Speaker 1: the House, They're gonna lose the Senate. We had a 647 00:34:34,719 --> 00:34:37,360 Speaker 1: live skype in from a Federman rally that wasn't a 648 00:34:37,520 --> 00:34:40,239 Speaker 1: very high energy and we're nodding solemnly like, oh, you know, 649 00:34:40,280 --> 00:34:43,280 Speaker 1: he's gonna lose. The voters didn't care. The early returns 650 00:34:43,520 --> 00:34:47,080 Speaker 1: were DeSantis country, so Florida is doing for Republicans, and 651 00:34:47,080 --> 00:34:50,160 Speaker 1: then halfway through, holy shit, like Lauren Bobert may lose 652 00:34:50,160 --> 00:34:52,279 Speaker 1: like that was a real Like that was crazy. I 653 00:34:52,320 --> 00:34:54,440 Speaker 1: didn't It makes sense like after the fact, but like 654 00:34:54,719 --> 00:34:57,480 Speaker 1: you see that coming. Didn't see that. So we totally 655 00:34:57,520 --> 00:34:58,920 Speaker 1: need to rewrite the way we think about the next 656 00:34:58,960 --> 00:35:01,480 Speaker 1: two years. Right to your point, Kyle, the Teflon thing 657 00:35:01,520 --> 00:35:05,719 Speaker 1: comes from that, not just taking voters for granteds and 658 00:35:05,800 --> 00:35:07,600 Speaker 1: not just thinking, oh yeah, voters just don't really give 659 00:35:07,600 --> 00:35:10,040 Speaker 1: a shit. They're just pissed off. And if they're pissed off, 660 00:35:10,080 --> 00:35:12,880 Speaker 1: you could just move to Pennsylvania at the last second 661 00:35:12,880 --> 00:35:14,960 Speaker 1: and become a senator. That's not true. And I think 662 00:35:14,960 --> 00:35:18,279 Speaker 1: that's a good thing. But that's a dynamic. No, I 663 00:35:18,280 --> 00:35:19,840 Speaker 1: think you're right. And I look on the stop of 664 00:35:19,880 --> 00:35:22,560 Speaker 1: Steel thing again, I don't know, because look, Carrie Lake, 665 00:35:22,680 --> 00:35:25,480 Speaker 1: she's still enormously popular with the GOP. She's been She 666 00:35:25,560 --> 00:35:28,239 Speaker 1: basically lives at mar A Lago now. She seems to 667 00:35:28,280 --> 00:35:30,640 Speaker 1: be there every single night from what I can tell, 668 00:35:30,800 --> 00:35:34,120 Speaker 1: while contesting the state of Arizona. And I look, Kyle, 669 00:35:34,160 --> 00:35:37,080 Speaker 1: I think you know. Yes, he suffered in the twenty 670 00:35:37,120 --> 00:35:40,400 Speaker 1: eighteen mid terms, almost won the general election in twenty twenty, 671 00:35:40,440 --> 00:35:43,799 Speaker 1: but he didn't. Okay, But he almost did, and he 672 00:35:43,920 --> 00:35:48,200 Speaker 1: was the GOP nominee. Though right there's there's definitely still 673 00:35:48,200 --> 00:35:50,920 Speaker 1: a chance he's the GOP nominee. But he just two 674 00:35:51,000 --> 00:35:55,680 Speaker 1: days ago was like terminate the Constitution. And I feel 675 00:35:55,680 --> 00:35:59,520 Speaker 1: like his insanity is now actually like these are strikes 676 00:35:59,520 --> 00:36:02,719 Speaker 1: against him now, whereas previously when he said crazy things 677 00:36:02,760 --> 00:36:05,040 Speaker 1: would be like, ah, that's just Trump. Trump's being Trump. 678 00:36:05,200 --> 00:36:08,000 Speaker 1: Now people seemingly across the board except like maybe twenty 679 00:36:08,080 --> 00:36:13,040 Speaker 1: or third cent of country or like this dude's fucking crazy. 680 00:36:13,080 --> 00:36:15,040 Speaker 1: This is the issue though, which is And look, there's 681 00:36:15,040 --> 00:36:16,720 Speaker 1: a lot of people in the audience here by probably 682 00:36:16,719 --> 00:36:20,839 Speaker 1: like open primary people you're making general election arguments. There's 683 00:36:20,840 --> 00:36:22,640 Speaker 1: a lot of like, oh, like Democrats are the same, 684 00:36:22,680 --> 00:36:25,480 Speaker 1: like Republicans are the same. There's like overlap there on 685 00:36:25,520 --> 00:36:28,120 Speaker 1: like policy issues, but like the voting bases are different, 686 00:36:28,160 --> 00:36:31,400 Speaker 1: like Democratic Party in twenty twenty cared about one question 687 00:36:31,440 --> 00:36:34,319 Speaker 1: that wasn't your position on healthcare. It wasn't Okay, what's 688 00:36:34,320 --> 00:36:36,799 Speaker 1: going to happen in Afghanistan next year? It was are 689 00:36:36,840 --> 00:36:39,320 Speaker 1: you going to beat Donald Trump? That was a scenario 690 00:36:39,400 --> 00:36:42,400 Speaker 1: which Joe Biden one under in twenty twenty four. Republican 691 00:36:42,440 --> 00:36:45,400 Speaker 1: primary voters because they're not thinking straight from my perspective, 692 00:36:45,560 --> 00:36:47,960 Speaker 1: are not asking themselves who is going to win in 693 00:36:48,000 --> 00:36:49,680 Speaker 1: a post twenty two in a environment they're saying, who 694 00:36:49,719 --> 00:36:52,280 Speaker 1: do we like them? That's our Trump, But that's our disagreement, 695 00:36:52,320 --> 00:36:55,279 Speaker 1: because my point is they might they might actually finally go, 696 00:36:55,440 --> 00:36:58,319 Speaker 1: you know what, electability concerns are kind of important. And 697 00:36:58,400 --> 00:37:00,399 Speaker 1: maybe I'm being too kind to the Republican base when 698 00:37:00,400 --> 00:37:02,319 Speaker 1: I say that that's very possible, but I think that 699 00:37:02,320 --> 00:37:04,000 Speaker 1: that now might actually be a thought in their heads. 700 00:37:04,000 --> 00:37:07,279 Speaker 1: I genuinely believe that. Well, the other confounding factor here 701 00:37:07,440 --> 00:37:10,279 Speaker 1: is you are unlikely to have just Trump versus DeSantis, 702 00:37:10,320 --> 00:37:13,719 Speaker 1: and that's a problem Trump vi DeSantis, Mike Pence, Mike 703 00:37:14,360 --> 00:37:18,279 Speaker 1: Nikki Hale, John Bolton, Liz Chaney. I mean, you're going 704 00:37:18,360 --> 00:37:21,799 Speaker 1: to have a whole cast of characters, and I mean 705 00:37:21,840 --> 00:37:25,480 Speaker 1: that's exactly the scenario that he won under in twenty Correctea. No, 706 00:37:25,560 --> 00:37:27,279 Speaker 1: so you're right, he could. He could definitely get through 707 00:37:27,320 --> 00:37:29,719 Speaker 1: the primary. But if they can, if the Republican Party 708 00:37:29,719 --> 00:37:32,120 Speaker 1: could get it together enough to be like the Democratic 709 00:37:32,160 --> 00:37:34,240 Speaker 1: Party was when they screwed Bernie at the last second, 710 00:37:34,560 --> 00:37:36,399 Speaker 1: Like if they can actually get together in a smoke 711 00:37:36,400 --> 00:37:39,400 Speaker 1: filled backer room and have all those giant egos go, look, guys, 712 00:37:39,960 --> 00:37:41,440 Speaker 1: you're not all going to be president. We're going to 713 00:37:41,480 --> 00:37:42,799 Speaker 1: pick one of you, and we all need to get 714 00:37:42,840 --> 00:37:46,040 Speaker 1: around you. If they have that you amount of an 715 00:37:46,080 --> 00:37:48,960 Speaker 1: ability to do organization, then then they could actually take 716 00:37:49,040 --> 00:37:50,520 Speaker 1: him down. But I agree with you, there's definitely a 717 00:37:50,560 --> 00:37:53,040 Speaker 1: chance he gets through the primary, but I just don't 718 00:37:53,040 --> 00:37:54,960 Speaker 1: see it in the general. I just don't see it anymore. 719 00:37:55,080 --> 00:37:57,200 Speaker 1: One critic thing before we go on, we get on 720 00:37:57,239 --> 00:38:01,000 Speaker 1: the record on this. If DeSantis beats up in the primary, 721 00:38:01,160 --> 00:38:04,120 Speaker 1: does Trump run third party? And sink to say absolutely. 722 00:38:04,160 --> 00:38:07,680 Speaker 1: That's the thing is, I think the Republicans are totally 723 00:38:07,719 --> 00:38:10,560 Speaker 1: fucked whether Trump is the nominee or not, because if 724 00:38:10,560 --> 00:38:13,160 Speaker 1: he's the nominee, they lose, and if he's not the nominee, 725 00:38:13,200 --> 00:38:16,880 Speaker 1: he blows up the nominee and they still so. I mean, 726 00:38:16,920 --> 00:38:18,840 Speaker 1: I'm not sure which is a worse scenario for what 727 00:38:18,880 --> 00:38:22,360 Speaker 1: does everybody remember, aside from the you've called women pigs 728 00:38:22,360 --> 00:38:24,560 Speaker 1: and he says only Rosie O'Donnell, what was the second 729 00:38:24,640 --> 00:38:27,840 Speaker 1: question at the GOP debate, like, will anybody here commit 730 00:38:27,920 --> 00:38:30,719 Speaker 1: to not running third party? He refused to raise his 731 00:38:30,760 --> 00:38:34,200 Speaker 1: hand was arguably the most iconic moment aside from that 732 00:38:34,600 --> 00:38:37,120 Speaker 1: of the GOP primary. So I don't think that the 733 00:38:37,160 --> 00:38:42,160 Speaker 1: man he's going to quietly be like, great race, run, congratulations, 734 00:38:42,840 --> 00:38:48,239 Speaker 1: have my support. I'm in a campaign country. Do you 735 00:38:48,239 --> 00:38:50,799 Speaker 1: guys that one? Do you guys remember when he talked 736 00:38:50,800 --> 00:38:52,600 Speaker 1: about his dick on stage in the middle of the debate, 737 00:38:52,600 --> 00:38:59,680 Speaker 1: course Marco started it. They keep saying I have tiny hands. 738 00:38:59,680 --> 00:39:02,239 Speaker 1: I don't have tiny hands. I promise you. They say, 739 00:39:02,239 --> 00:39:04,319 Speaker 1: if that's small, other things are small. I promise you. 740 00:39:04,360 --> 00:39:07,920 Speaker 1: There's no problem. I'm gonna be honest. I missed that energy. Okay, 741 00:39:08,120 --> 00:39:14,239 Speaker 1: all right, next category hard hard hard turn here. The 742 00:39:14,280 --> 00:39:18,360 Speaker 1: next category is unsung hero, Saga and I have picks 743 00:39:18,400 --> 00:39:20,920 Speaker 1: in this category, Sager, go ahead. So this is a 744 00:39:20,960 --> 00:39:23,000 Speaker 1: woman I've thought a lot about. This was one of 745 00:39:23,000 --> 00:39:26,160 Speaker 1: the most impactful stories actually for breaking points that a 746 00:39:26,200 --> 00:39:28,160 Speaker 1: lot of you. It really resonated with. And what I 747 00:39:28,200 --> 00:39:30,719 Speaker 1: loved about it is it was one of those universal 748 00:39:30,760 --> 00:39:33,680 Speaker 1: moments where in a tragedy, all of us could come 749 00:39:33,719 --> 00:39:38,160 Speaker 1: together and just say one thing. Fuck the Uvaldi PD 750 00:39:38,840 --> 00:39:48,000 Speaker 1: and the unsung hero of the year to me is 751 00:39:48,040 --> 00:39:51,200 Speaker 1: the mother who came to the school and dragged her 752 00:39:51,280 --> 00:40:01,560 Speaker 1: kids out and was placed under a less Let's play 753 00:40:01,600 --> 00:40:03,759 Speaker 1: the initial interview with her. So we are hearing this 754 00:40:03,840 --> 00:40:06,920 Speaker 1: morning from a mother who ran inside the school in Uvaldi, 755 00:40:06,960 --> 00:40:09,359 Speaker 1: Texas to protect her kids. She says that police held 756 00:40:09,400 --> 00:40:12,959 Speaker 1: her back and handcuffed her as the shooting unfolded. Right away. 757 00:40:13,000 --> 00:40:16,040 Speaker 1: As I parked us, Marshall started coming toward my car 758 00:40:16,080 --> 00:40:18,200 Speaker 1: and saying that I wasn't allowed to be parked there. 759 00:40:18,280 --> 00:40:20,680 Speaker 1: And he said, well, we're gonna have to arrestue because 760 00:40:20,680 --> 00:40:23,640 Speaker 1: you're being very uncooperative. I said, well, you're gonna have 761 00:40:23,640 --> 00:40:25,640 Speaker 1: to arrest them because I'm going in there. And I'm 762 00:40:25,680 --> 00:40:27,839 Speaker 1: telling you right now, I will see none of y'all 763 00:40:27,840 --> 00:40:30,399 Speaker 1: in there. Y'all are standing with snipers. Then y'all are 764 00:40:30,440 --> 00:40:32,759 Speaker 1: far away. I'm y'all, don't go in there. I'm going 765 00:40:32,800 --> 00:40:36,680 Speaker 1: in there. That woman, I mean, and you know, the 766 00:40:36,920 --> 00:40:40,680 Speaker 1: backstory is even crazier. She heard about the shooting, got 767 00:40:40,719 --> 00:40:44,920 Speaker 1: in her car, drove thirty five minutes, was placed under arrest, 768 00:40:45,239 --> 00:40:49,240 Speaker 1: was placed not under arrest, went into the school, grabbed 769 00:40:49,239 --> 00:40:54,320 Speaker 1: her children, came out, all before the Uvaldipde border patrol 770 00:40:54,360 --> 00:40:57,759 Speaker 1: of federal agents FBI and all these other gi Joe 771 00:40:57,800 --> 00:41:01,520 Speaker 1: motherfucker's decided to go in there and actually kill the shooter. 772 00:41:01,680 --> 00:41:05,279 Speaker 1: It remains one of the most shameful elements of one 773 00:41:05,280 --> 00:41:07,759 Speaker 1: of the most shameful stories of the entire country. Yeah, 774 00:41:07,920 --> 00:41:10,000 Speaker 1: will never be over it. Oh, we can never be 775 00:41:10,040 --> 00:41:13,080 Speaker 1: over it. And it also underscores accountability. Did any of 776 00:41:13,080 --> 00:41:16,040 Speaker 1: these people get fired? No data? You know, that's the 777 00:41:16,080 --> 00:41:18,319 Speaker 1: amazing thing I've learned about a Supreme Court case that 778 00:41:18,360 --> 00:41:21,440 Speaker 1: apparently the police actually don't have a responsibility to protect you. 779 00:41:21,640 --> 00:41:25,360 Speaker 1: And we're like, well, that's really interesting. Whoever we consider, 780 00:41:25,840 --> 00:41:28,400 Speaker 1: especially in that town, how much these guys were getting paid, 781 00:41:28,640 --> 00:41:31,799 Speaker 1: how incompetent they were, and just that video which we 782 00:41:31,840 --> 00:41:33,600 Speaker 1: also played on our show of a husband who was 783 00:41:33,600 --> 00:41:37,200 Speaker 1: literally held back, and the level of political cover up, 784 00:41:37,239 --> 00:41:41,120 Speaker 1: oh yeah too, to try to cover their asses after 785 00:41:41,160 --> 00:41:45,719 Speaker 1: they stood around for minutes and minutes and minutes as 786 00:41:45,800 --> 00:41:48,880 Speaker 1: precious babies were being murdered. Unbelievable. And you know what 787 00:41:48,960 --> 00:41:53,160 Speaker 1: else after this, because she was speaking to the media, 788 00:41:53,239 --> 00:41:56,879 Speaker 1: the police went and harassed her at her house, were 789 00:41:56,920 --> 00:41:59,839 Speaker 1: outside with their sirens, their lights, harassing and trying to 790 00:41:59,840 --> 00:42:02,320 Speaker 1: intimidate her to get her to stop talking to the media. 791 00:42:02,480 --> 00:42:04,799 Speaker 1: It's crazy to me that the Uvaldi cops are not 792 00:42:04,920 --> 00:42:07,600 Speaker 1: in jail, and I know that there was a previous 793 00:42:07,600 --> 00:42:10,120 Speaker 1: case where the police weren't locked up, So I feel 794 00:42:10,120 --> 00:42:13,560 Speaker 1: like they should pass a new law and says, you know, 795 00:42:13,600 --> 00:42:15,839 Speaker 1: if there's a mass shooting and the cops don't want 796 00:42:15,840 --> 00:42:17,720 Speaker 1: into the building to do their damn jobs, they should 797 00:42:17,760 --> 00:42:21,719 Speaker 1: be in prison, not just fired. Yeah, that's right. And 798 00:42:21,760 --> 00:42:24,520 Speaker 1: you know, unfortunately, there was a recent another mass shooting 799 00:42:24,680 --> 00:42:28,120 Speaker 1: at the club que in Colorado, and what happened. An 800 00:42:28,760 --> 00:42:32,480 Speaker 1: army veteran immediately sprung into action, wrestled the gun out 801 00:42:32,520 --> 00:42:35,040 Speaker 1: of the guy's hand and said fuck you and beat 802 00:42:35,120 --> 00:42:38,320 Speaker 1: him over the head with it. Yeah, and while a 803 00:42:38,400 --> 00:42:40,480 Speaker 1: drag queen was kicking him in the head with their stiletto. 804 00:42:40,560 --> 00:42:45,560 Speaker 1: Heel mine is I guess a little lighter hearted, but 805 00:42:45,640 --> 00:42:49,080 Speaker 1: still a serious topic. You all might be aware that 806 00:42:49,120 --> 00:42:52,359 Speaker 1: Elon Musk bought Twitter. You might have heard that, and 807 00:42:53,040 --> 00:42:57,920 Speaker 1: for a brief moment in time, he made one of 808 00:42:57,960 --> 00:43:00,680 Speaker 1: his crazy decisions and decided that you would let, for 809 00:43:00,760 --> 00:43:04,279 Speaker 1: eight dollars anyone pretend to be anything on the platform. 810 00:43:04,719 --> 00:43:09,640 Speaker 1: And it was amazing. So one of the people that 811 00:43:10,400 --> 00:43:23,240 Speaker 1: took advantage of this little brief windows. The guy named Sean, 812 00:43:25,160 --> 00:43:27,319 Speaker 1: he works in more Perfect Union, and he set up 813 00:43:27,320 --> 00:43:28,799 Speaker 1: an account. He went through it. It It took like no 814 00:43:28,880 --> 00:43:31,400 Speaker 1: time whatsoever. He paid his eight dollars. He became Eli 815 00:43:31,440 --> 00:43:34,480 Speaker 1: Lilly and Company and he's waited out. We are excited 816 00:43:34,480 --> 00:43:40,400 Speaker 1: to announce insulin is free now. And what you see 817 00:43:40,400 --> 00:43:44,040 Speaker 1: there over on this side is Eli Lilly's stock price 818 00:43:45,200 --> 00:43:49,120 Speaker 1: as they lost billions of market cap like that. And oh, 819 00:43:49,160 --> 00:43:51,319 Speaker 1: by the way, it wasn't just Eli Lilly that is 820 00:43:51,360 --> 00:43:55,240 Speaker 1: the top maker of insulin. It was every insulin maker 821 00:43:55,560 --> 00:44:01,359 Speaker 1: saw their stock price plumit. It was glorious, all right, 822 00:44:03,239 --> 00:44:07,839 Speaker 1: Speaking of criminals who should be in prison. Yeah, there 823 00:44:07,880 --> 00:44:10,239 Speaker 1: were people in the UK who were watching one of 824 00:44:10,239 --> 00:44:12,960 Speaker 1: the presidential debates one time. I saw this whole thing 825 00:44:13,000 --> 00:44:15,680 Speaker 1: unfold on Twitter, and when they learned for the first 826 00:44:15,680 --> 00:44:19,480 Speaker 1: time that we actually have pharmaceutical ads in our country, 827 00:44:19,800 --> 00:44:23,879 Speaker 1: they were like, what the fuck is this? Why would 828 00:44:23,880 --> 00:44:26,720 Speaker 1: they allow? Why would I ask my doctor? Yeah, because 829 00:44:27,200 --> 00:44:29,399 Speaker 1: when you get sick, you go to the doctor, they'll 830 00:44:29,440 --> 00:44:32,279 Speaker 1: just tell you what to take, right like they why 831 00:44:32,280 --> 00:44:33,719 Speaker 1: are you doing? Like you know, when I add for 832 00:44:33,760 --> 00:44:36,200 Speaker 1: lung cancer medicine or something like it's crazy it is. 833 00:44:36,400 --> 00:44:39,160 Speaker 1: I want to add one quick suplerip to this. We 834 00:44:39,200 --> 00:44:44,400 Speaker 1: need the Unsung Corporate Heroes award. And the unsung corporate 835 00:44:44,440 --> 00:44:46,600 Speaker 1: heroes I brought this up last night of this entire 836 00:44:46,640 --> 00:44:51,200 Speaker 1: disaster were the social media managers who in a fifteen 837 00:44:51,239 --> 00:44:54,800 Speaker 1: minute period obviously had to sit down and get every 838 00:44:54,880 --> 00:44:58,920 Speaker 1: single possible permutation of their company, Like you know, this happened, 839 00:44:58,920 --> 00:45:03,640 Speaker 1: like they lost billions of dollars like Nike and jump Man, Nike, 840 00:45:04,040 --> 00:45:12,319 Speaker 1: Dot Too and co Underscore. Right, that was like I actually, like, 841 00:45:12,560 --> 00:45:14,560 Speaker 1: I'm very even joking. He right, that was like probably 842 00:45:14,560 --> 00:45:17,279 Speaker 1: the worst forty eight hours of their career. Just so 843 00:45:17,760 --> 00:45:20,840 Speaker 1: they are the angstun corporate here still, just says Deepa. 844 00:45:21,200 --> 00:45:24,440 Speaker 1: Were like the worst goals in the entire country. It's 845 00:45:24,480 --> 00:45:28,200 Speaker 1: just our social media managers our biggest resource. We have 846 00:45:28,280 --> 00:45:36,680 Speaker 1: to keep themself. Next up, our next category is biggest 847 00:45:36,920 --> 00:45:41,520 Speaker 1: media fail. Kyle, what do you got here? Yeah, So 848 00:45:41,760 --> 00:45:44,280 Speaker 1: there's a guy by the name of Sam Bankman Freed 849 00:45:47,160 --> 00:45:50,040 Speaker 1: and he uh, he gave a lot of money to 850 00:45:50,160 --> 00:45:53,279 Speaker 1: a lot of different media outlets and he effectively got 851 00:45:53,360 --> 00:45:56,279 Speaker 1: like puff piece coverage coverage as a result, of it, 852 00:45:56,520 --> 00:45:58,400 Speaker 1: and so you guys can see it's up on the 853 00:45:58,440 --> 00:46:02,200 Speaker 1: screen there that did a workout. Somebody did a workout 854 00:46:02,239 --> 00:46:03,759 Speaker 1: in the New York Times puff piece and you could 855 00:46:03,760 --> 00:46:06,880 Speaker 1: see like the stuff he actually did wasn't said, but 856 00:46:06,920 --> 00:46:09,239 Speaker 1: they talked about, oh is he getting good sleep? Bro? 857 00:46:09,360 --> 00:46:11,279 Speaker 1: I wonder is he all right? Is he doing okay? 858 00:46:12,880 --> 00:46:15,160 Speaker 1: And then you know, they go with the like eccentric 859 00:46:15,320 --> 00:46:18,520 Speaker 1: genius line and they try to act like this guy's amazing. 860 00:46:18,600 --> 00:46:21,759 Speaker 1: And you know what I find incredible is that I'm 861 00:46:21,800 --> 00:46:23,279 Speaker 1: not the smartest guy in the world. I'm just a 862 00:46:23,280 --> 00:46:27,000 Speaker 1: regular dude and something smelled fishy all along to me. 863 00:46:27,320 --> 00:46:30,319 Speaker 1: But then you have these like giant media outlets that 864 00:46:30,360 --> 00:46:34,240 Speaker 1: are responsible for giving everybody good information and they're sucking 865 00:46:34,320 --> 00:46:36,919 Speaker 1: off the fraud man, Like what are we doing here? 866 00:46:37,840 --> 00:46:41,279 Speaker 1: So the fact that the fact that there were you know, 867 00:46:41,600 --> 00:46:43,799 Speaker 1: so many positive pieces about him, like oh, look at 868 00:46:43,800 --> 00:46:45,600 Speaker 1: this genius. I mean that tells me everything I need 869 00:46:45,600 --> 00:46:49,080 Speaker 1: to know about corporate media and that there's a real 870 00:46:49,200 --> 00:46:52,000 Speaker 1: conflict of interest when they're funded by these same people 871 00:46:52,040 --> 00:46:54,480 Speaker 1: that they're supposed to be objectively covering. You know, another 872 00:46:54,520 --> 00:46:56,960 Speaker 1: thing is it underscores these people are not actually even 873 00:46:57,000 --> 00:47:00,279 Speaker 1: good at their jobs. So look, consider this. I did 874 00:47:00,320 --> 00:47:02,080 Speaker 1: a monologue. Maybe some of you guys might have seen it. 875 00:47:02,080 --> 00:47:04,840 Speaker 1: There was a short seller named Mark Ahaitis who literally 876 00:47:04,880 --> 00:47:08,280 Speaker 1: brought a story in July to Bloomberg and he was like, Hey, guys, 877 00:47:08,440 --> 00:47:11,319 Speaker 1: I'm telling you FTX is totally full of shit. Here 878 00:47:11,320 --> 00:47:13,520 Speaker 1: are the documents. Here are the exact questions that you 879 00:47:13,560 --> 00:47:17,400 Speaker 1: need to ask. SPF. Bloomberg had five people working full time, 880 00:47:17,640 --> 00:47:20,480 Speaker 1: literally full time, to cover FTX into crypto. You know what. 881 00:47:20,520 --> 00:47:22,840 Speaker 1: They told him, It'll take too much time. He wouldn't 882 00:47:22,840 --> 00:47:26,920 Speaker 1: answer our questions. It would be bad for business. And 883 00:47:27,080 --> 00:47:28,600 Speaker 1: if there are any Crypto people in the audience, And 884 00:47:28,640 --> 00:47:31,440 Speaker 1: I still consider myself like I'm halfway over there, and 885 00:47:31,440 --> 00:47:34,440 Speaker 1: guess what. It's actually the crypto media are the people 886 00:47:34,440 --> 00:47:36,920 Speaker 1: who broke the story. They're the ones who got the 887 00:47:37,000 --> 00:47:40,840 Speaker 1: leak documents, not the Times, not Bloomberg, not any of 888 00:47:40,880 --> 00:47:44,399 Speaker 1: the major financial journalists who publish. Oh, it turns out 889 00:47:44,480 --> 00:47:47,640 Speaker 1: the balance sheet is total bullshit, which is what caused 890 00:47:47,719 --> 00:47:50,480 Speaker 1: the entire thing to fold. So it's not just to fail, 891 00:47:50,560 --> 00:47:53,000 Speaker 1: like it's a massive incompetence that in the fact that 892 00:47:53,040 --> 00:47:57,840 Speaker 1: crypto has just made up numbers on a spreadsheet too. 893 00:47:58,719 --> 00:48:01,120 Speaker 1: That was another sort of core to with all cryptos 894 00:48:01,320 --> 00:48:04,520 Speaker 1: SBF situation, But I mean, there's a few things to say. 895 00:48:04,760 --> 00:48:08,440 Speaker 1: It really does remind me the media angle of the Fharahos. 896 00:48:08,600 --> 00:48:13,800 Speaker 1: Elizabeth Holmes and her personal She cultivated this specific look. 897 00:48:14,400 --> 00:48:17,359 Speaker 1: She was trying to copy Steve Jobs. She thought this 898 00:48:17,400 --> 00:48:19,760 Speaker 1: would be the thing that would sell herself to elite 899 00:48:19,760 --> 00:48:21,520 Speaker 1: so she could get these investors in, and then once 900 00:48:21,560 --> 00:48:24,880 Speaker 1: you got the elite classes start buying in. That stood 901 00:48:24,920 --> 00:48:27,879 Speaker 1: in place of anyone doing any due diligence. It was like, oh, 902 00:48:27,920 --> 00:48:29,840 Speaker 1: you have that person who's an investor, you have that 903 00:48:29,880 --> 00:48:31,640 Speaker 1: person on the board. It must be above board. It 904 00:48:31,680 --> 00:48:34,600 Speaker 1: must be above board. And so saying Sam Megman free 905 00:48:34,680 --> 00:48:39,160 Speaker 1: just basically like bought the positive coverage, bought the politicians, 906 00:48:39,520 --> 00:48:42,680 Speaker 1: and was able to escape any scrutiny we listened to. 907 00:48:43,000 --> 00:48:47,480 Speaker 1: He went on a Bloomberg podcast where the host listened 908 00:48:47,480 --> 00:48:49,839 Speaker 1: to him describe what he was doing and was like, 909 00:48:50,160 --> 00:48:52,640 Speaker 1: it sounds like you're in the business of Ponzi schemes, 910 00:48:54,400 --> 00:48:57,319 Speaker 1: and SBF was you know, used a lot of fancy words, 911 00:48:57,360 --> 00:49:01,560 Speaker 1: but basically was like, yes, you're in between tweaking out 912 00:49:01,719 --> 00:49:03,960 Speaker 1: I said, Yah, yeah, after that, you know, you still 913 00:49:03,960 --> 00:49:06,399 Speaker 1: get in the understated genius look blah blah blah. He's 914 00:49:06,400 --> 00:49:08,440 Speaker 1: still being welcomed on Capitol Hill in all of this 915 00:49:08,800 --> 00:49:12,920 Speaker 1: mask off moment for a whole set of elites, not 916 00:49:13,000 --> 00:49:16,640 Speaker 1: just Sam Beakman Freed. By the way, Marshall Biggest. I 917 00:49:16,719 --> 00:49:18,520 Speaker 1: was glad that Kyle and I were combined for this 918 00:49:18,560 --> 00:49:21,880 Speaker 1: one because his critique is very like structural, like the 919 00:49:22,040 --> 00:49:26,000 Speaker 1: entire media ecosystem from Bloomberg to CNBC, just like blew 920 00:49:26,000 --> 00:49:30,360 Speaker 1: this one. I picked a very literal and individual level. 921 00:49:30,440 --> 00:49:33,239 Speaker 1: So folks know obviously that Elon Musk acquired Twitter this 922 00:49:33,360 --> 00:49:39,520 Speaker 1: year and a individual reporter d Drobosa of CNBC fell 923 00:49:39,600 --> 00:49:44,960 Speaker 1: for the rahual ligma uh controversy. Do you want to 924 00:49:44,960 --> 00:49:47,200 Speaker 1: tell the people with ligma stands? Yeah, So this is 925 00:49:47,280 --> 00:49:49,400 Speaker 1: I said this before. This is a PG thirteen show, 926 00:49:49,600 --> 00:49:53,200 Speaker 1: So I'm not gonna explain what Johnson means, but I 927 00:49:53,320 --> 00:49:58,000 Speaker 1: suggest we use our critical thinking caps and once again, 928 00:49:58,200 --> 00:50:03,200 Speaker 1: more more empathy. Like I just she's kind of like, oh, 929 00:50:03,600 --> 00:50:05,120 Speaker 1: just say it, you just say it. This is the 930 00:50:05,160 --> 00:50:07,000 Speaker 1: story that ever was just deeply afraid of. Like it 931 00:50:07,040 --> 00:50:08,759 Speaker 1: sounds kind of stupid, but like I don't want to 932 00:50:08,760 --> 00:50:12,120 Speaker 1: be like I don't know Rho Ligma, Like I'm I'm 933 00:50:12,120 --> 00:50:14,040 Speaker 1: not going to like assume it's like not a real name, 934 00:50:14,200 --> 00:50:19,239 Speaker 1: like sir is not actually are you actually from here? Sir? 935 00:50:19,560 --> 00:50:21,520 Speaker 1: Like You're just not going to do that. So the 936 00:50:21,560 --> 00:50:25,520 Speaker 1: other dead giveaway though, was him having Michelle Obama's memoir 937 00:50:26,080 --> 00:50:29,400 Speaker 1: in his nineteen nineties like I'm leaving my job thing 938 00:50:30,280 --> 00:50:32,560 Speaker 1: not probably was another right now we're talking about that 939 00:50:32,640 --> 00:50:34,840 Speaker 1: last night, were like do people even have those boxes anymore? 940 00:50:34,880 --> 00:50:36,879 Speaker 1: They actually should have been a dead giveaway within ten 941 00:50:36,920 --> 00:50:40,080 Speaker 1: minutes of you show, right this party worst employee fired 942 00:50:40,120 --> 00:50:43,880 Speaker 1: within ten minutes with his box. This got picked up 943 00:50:43,920 --> 00:50:46,200 Speaker 1: all kinds of places, I mean, because it fit the 944 00:50:46,320 --> 00:50:49,640 Speaker 1: narrative and the moment so perfectly, and they just took 945 00:50:49,680 --> 00:50:52,040 Speaker 1: the bait like nobody's did they all they all put 946 00:50:52,040 --> 00:50:53,960 Speaker 1: the name in there too, Oh yeah, yeah they're like 947 00:50:54,040 --> 00:50:58,680 Speaker 1: all the headlines were like Lagma Johnson is that's unbelievable. 948 00:50:59,560 --> 00:51:04,080 Speaker 1: Sorry for the spouse's girlfriends, etc. Who would drag to amazing? All? Right? 949 00:51:04,520 --> 00:51:10,759 Speaker 1: Next up, we have worst midterm ad. Sager has a 950 00:51:10,880 --> 00:51:12,920 Speaker 1: very uncomfortable one that he has chosen to go ahead. 951 00:51:12,920 --> 00:51:15,239 Speaker 1: So here's a warning. This is weird. I had to 952 00:51:15,239 --> 00:51:17,799 Speaker 1: be convinced Steven playing it's long too. It's a little 953 00:51:17,840 --> 00:51:23,960 Speaker 1: long length. It's important. It has asmr involved. It's odd 954 00:51:24,560 --> 00:51:29,080 Speaker 1: and that oddness probably contributed to a certain gentleman losing 955 00:51:29,120 --> 00:51:32,480 Speaker 1: the Senate race in Arizona. Griffin, let's play it for 956 00:51:32,600 --> 00:51:39,440 Speaker 1: the people. This is a Walter PPK, otherwise known as 957 00:51:39,480 --> 00:51:42,080 Speaker 1: the James Bond gun. This is chambered in twenty two 958 00:51:42,880 --> 00:51:45,120 Speaker 1: LR and I've got a dead air mask silencer on it. 959 00:51:45,800 --> 00:51:48,160 Speaker 1: I wanted this gun for a long time, ever since 960 00:51:48,160 --> 00:51:50,680 Speaker 1: I was a little kid. Made in Germany, double O 961 00:51:50,800 --> 00:51:53,399 Speaker 1: seven gun. Why would you not want this? Let's load 962 00:51:53,440 --> 00:51:59,719 Speaker 1: it up and see how it shoots. Silencers sometimes get 963 00:51:59,760 --> 00:52:02,239 Speaker 1: a beat a rat. People want to pretend that it 964 00:52:02,280 --> 00:52:04,239 Speaker 1: makes it easy to commit crime or something like that. 965 00:52:04,520 --> 00:52:06,879 Speaker 1: Why would you think that actually shooting with the silencer 966 00:52:08,080 --> 00:52:11,000 Speaker 1: just makes it a whole lot more pleasant to shoot 967 00:52:11,040 --> 00:52:14,880 Speaker 1: because you don't have to worry about giant ear protection. 968 00:52:19,440 --> 00:52:43,239 Speaker 1: This man belongs in the US Senate. Wow, hopefully you 969 00:52:43,280 --> 00:52:49,959 Speaker 1: can hear how quiet that is. I think the key 970 00:52:50,000 --> 00:52:53,640 Speaker 1: things going. The key thing here is that through the 971 00:52:53,680 --> 00:52:57,360 Speaker 1: projector through him losing his Senate race, like I legitimately 972 00:52:57,360 --> 00:53:00,640 Speaker 1: have like a fight or a flight or fight. Yeah 973 00:53:00,840 --> 00:53:04,359 Speaker 1: to this, like this feels deeply threatening. If you're scared 974 00:53:04,400 --> 00:53:08,759 Speaker 1: of my where's my where's my wife? Where's my This 975 00:53:08,840 --> 00:53:12,400 Speaker 1: is this not the the vo everybody standing up with 976 00:53:13,160 --> 00:53:17,240 Speaker 1: unpopular opinion. I appreciate that he leaned into his true 977 00:53:17,280 --> 00:53:20,200 Speaker 1: serial killer vibes. It's just like, you know what, I'm 978 00:53:20,239 --> 00:53:23,160 Speaker 1: gonna own it. Yeah, if you watch, also says the 979 00:53:23,160 --> 00:53:26,320 Speaker 1: word German like five times. He's like made in Germany. 980 00:53:26,840 --> 00:53:29,839 Speaker 1: It kind of it kind of suffers from the same 981 00:53:29,920 --> 00:53:32,759 Speaker 1: problem that Kamala was having in that clip. Marshall, he 982 00:53:32,840 --> 00:53:34,640 Speaker 1: had this thought of, like I'm gonna make an ad. 983 00:53:34,840 --> 00:53:37,160 Speaker 1: It's gonna be different. It's gonna be deep, it's gonna 984 00:53:37,160 --> 00:53:39,200 Speaker 1: be profound. I'm going to comment on guns, so I'm 985 00:53:39,200 --> 00:53:41,560 Speaker 1: gonna tell where this gun's from, people, going to take 986 00:53:41,560 --> 00:53:43,799 Speaker 1: people on your journey. It's gonna be it's not gonna 987 00:53:43,840 --> 00:53:46,040 Speaker 1: be like your typical political ad, and it's like, you 988 00:53:46,080 --> 00:53:48,640 Speaker 1: know what you should have done the typical political ladder, 989 00:53:48,719 --> 00:53:52,960 Speaker 1: probably just not run for office because you're a weird creep. Stop. Yeah, 990 00:53:53,000 --> 00:53:56,359 Speaker 1: he's got he's got in cell vibes. For sure. That's 991 00:53:56,360 --> 00:54:00,839 Speaker 1: not like the nicest thing you can say about him, honestly, yeast. So, 992 00:54:02,239 --> 00:54:06,480 Speaker 1: mister DeSantis made a number of ads this election cycle 993 00:54:06,600 --> 00:54:09,640 Speaker 1: that could have won in this category, but this one 994 00:54:09,719 --> 00:54:14,000 Speaker 1: to me, just for the sheer self righteousness and kind 995 00:54:14,000 --> 00:54:17,120 Speaker 1: of like bitter o'rouric I'm born to be in it vibes, 996 00:54:17,360 --> 00:54:21,000 Speaker 1: this one really took the cake. It's called God made 997 00:54:21,000 --> 00:54:27,359 Speaker 1: a Fighter. And on the eighth day God looked down 998 00:54:27,400 --> 00:54:31,719 Speaker 1: on his planned paradise and said, I need a protector. 999 00:54:33,040 --> 00:54:37,480 Speaker 1: So God made a fighter. God said, I need somebody 1000 00:54:37,520 --> 00:54:40,600 Speaker 1: willing to get up before dawn, kiss his family goodbye, 1001 00:54:40,880 --> 00:54:43,799 Speaker 1: travel thousands of miles for no other reason than to 1002 00:54:43,880 --> 00:54:48,760 Speaker 1: serve the people, to save their jobs, their livelihoods, their liberty, 1003 00:54:49,040 --> 00:54:57,040 Speaker 1: their happiness. So God made a fighter. Yeah. Yeah, the 1004 00:54:57,239 --> 00:55:01,319 Speaker 1: level of ego on these two, I just will never 1005 00:55:01,400 --> 00:55:04,520 Speaker 1: understand the Messiah complex too, Like, who told you that 1006 00:55:04,600 --> 00:55:06,920 Speaker 1: this was a good idea? Apparently this is the ad 1007 00:55:07,080 --> 00:55:11,799 Speaker 1: that gave Trump the idea of the dysanctimonious nickname. Yeah, 1008 00:55:11,840 --> 00:55:14,000 Speaker 1: he nailed that right, And now when I hear it, 1009 00:55:14,040 --> 00:55:15,759 Speaker 1: I'm like, you know what you did kind of nail it? 1010 00:55:15,800 --> 00:55:18,520 Speaker 1: That does kind of look, but like, who's the audience 1011 00:55:18,600 --> 00:55:21,680 Speaker 1: for this? Like, are there Florida grandpa's and grandmas who 1012 00:55:21,680 --> 00:55:23,480 Speaker 1: are like, there's boomers out there. Brought it to your 1013 00:55:23,520 --> 00:55:28,600 Speaker 1: to my uh liked it? His wife might have liked it. Yeah, 1014 00:55:28,640 --> 00:55:30,319 Speaker 1: I doubt it. I don't think his wife liked it. 1015 00:55:31,400 --> 00:55:34,000 Speaker 1: My runner upper way I picked. Basically this last Night 1016 00:55:34,200 --> 00:55:38,560 Speaker 1: is Dan Cringshaw getting into the Dolore and going back 1017 00:55:38,640 --> 00:55:42,080 Speaker 1: to nineteen eighty five meeting a fake Ronald Reagan who 1018 00:55:42,120 --> 00:55:44,960 Speaker 1: shakes his hand and said that he was the Messiah 1019 00:55:45,280 --> 00:55:48,160 Speaker 1: born to carry on the legacy. So Mike again to 1020 00:55:48,480 --> 00:55:52,080 Speaker 1: underscore these people who are the most mediocre have the 1021 00:55:52,120 --> 00:55:55,759 Speaker 1: biggest egos are green repers. One thing I'm like fascinated 1022 00:55:55,760 --> 00:55:59,680 Speaker 1: by the first ad is one hundred percent on Blake Masters. 1023 00:55:59,719 --> 00:56:01,920 Speaker 1: Like that clearly was he pulls off the side of 1024 00:56:01,920 --> 00:56:04,239 Speaker 1: the road, He's like, what's gonna Let's tape this ship. 1025 00:56:06,120 --> 00:56:10,879 Speaker 1: Let's tape this. Also another quick note on that too. 1026 00:56:11,000 --> 00:56:13,160 Speaker 1: What I love about it too is he he raises 1027 00:56:13,160 --> 00:56:17,080 Speaker 1: a very valid concern about silencers and murder. He doesn't 1028 00:56:17,080 --> 00:56:19,319 Speaker 1: actually refute it, he just has it's more fun. So 1029 00:56:19,680 --> 00:56:24,000 Speaker 1: the actual implication is it does make murder easier, but 1030 00:56:24,000 --> 00:56:27,799 Speaker 1: it also makes murder a little more fun, more more satisfying. 1031 00:56:27,800 --> 00:56:29,239 Speaker 1: Is that we said are more pleasant. I don't know 1032 00:56:29,280 --> 00:56:32,200 Speaker 1: whatever with but with Desanta's like that was a team 1033 00:56:32,239 --> 00:56:34,520 Speaker 1: of people, right, like Ron DeSantis did not like start 1034 00:56:34,560 --> 00:56:37,160 Speaker 1: sketching on his whiteboard, like I'm gone, like an actual 1035 00:56:37,160 --> 00:56:38,960 Speaker 1: team of people like Satin the right guys. We're gonna 1036 00:56:38,960 --> 00:56:41,799 Speaker 1: win by fucking fifteen points. And what we're gonna do 1037 00:56:41,880 --> 00:56:44,399 Speaker 1: here is we're gonna put God on it. And that 1038 00:56:44,480 --> 00:56:46,480 Speaker 1: happened in a meeting and it's kind of just like incredible. 1039 00:56:46,480 --> 00:56:49,040 Speaker 1: It is. It is a trend with the Republican politicians. 1040 00:56:49,080 --> 00:56:51,960 Speaker 1: We I mean Rick Santorum he said God chose him. 1041 00:56:52,160 --> 00:56:55,440 Speaker 1: Mike Huckabee, he said God chose him. Uh Mitt Romney. 1042 00:56:55,680 --> 00:56:59,919 Speaker 1: Are there any that I'm missing pen Pence for sure? Definitely. Yeah, 1043 00:57:00,040 --> 00:57:01,880 Speaker 1: I don't know what it is. I don't know. That 1044 00:57:01,960 --> 00:57:05,680 Speaker 1: seems like such a bold, clean you know, and I don't. 1045 00:57:05,719 --> 00:57:08,359 Speaker 1: I don't think it's just the Republican politicians. I think 1046 00:57:08,360 --> 00:57:10,360 Speaker 1: they wear it a little more overtly. But yeah, my 1047 00:57:10,440 --> 00:57:12,239 Speaker 1: mind went to Beto when I saw that, when he 1048 00:57:12,280 --> 00:57:21,560 Speaker 1: did that covert and he thinks he's picked by somebody 1049 00:57:21,800 --> 00:57:25,200 Speaker 1: on top. What's this? I can tell you that all right. 1050 00:57:25,480 --> 00:57:30,160 Speaker 1: In the next category, we had a unanimous decision from 1051 00:57:30,240 --> 00:57:36,000 Speaker 1: Kyle and Marshall. In the category of worst public humiliation, 1052 00:57:36,680 --> 00:57:41,240 Speaker 1: it went to Kanye West. Let's take a listen the 1053 00:57:41,280 --> 00:57:43,720 Speaker 1: thing about the red hat that drove me to a 1054 00:57:43,760 --> 00:57:49,640 Speaker 1: point of exhaustion, which was misdiagnosed by a I'm not 1055 00:57:49,720 --> 00:57:54,680 Speaker 1: going to say what race, what people, uh doctor and 1056 00:57:54,800 --> 00:57:58,000 Speaker 1: what hospital and what media went to. We know I 1057 00:57:58,040 --> 00:58:04,880 Speaker 1: can't say that it was a Jewish doctor right now. 1058 00:58:06,040 --> 00:58:12,200 Speaker 1: N't do this. I'm going to say things you cannot 1059 00:58:12,320 --> 00:58:15,640 Speaker 1: catch that. We have to control the history books, we 1060 00:58:15,760 --> 00:58:17,720 Speaker 1: have to control the banks, and we have to go 1061 00:58:17,960 --> 00:58:29,680 Speaker 1: and kill people. Absolutely, even Alice Jones doesn't know what 1062 00:58:29,800 --> 00:58:32,040 Speaker 1: to do at that point. He actually got him to 1063 00:58:32,080 --> 00:58:37,320 Speaker 1: break character. Even Alice was like, oh, you know, my favorite, 1064 00:58:37,520 --> 00:58:41,520 Speaker 1: my favorite take about the first Kanye clip beyond just 1065 00:58:41,600 --> 00:58:44,360 Speaker 1: like the anti semitism and the disastrous nature of it. 1066 00:58:44,560 --> 00:58:47,880 Speaker 1: So point out Kanye has great comedic delivery the way 1067 00:58:47,960 --> 00:58:49,919 Speaker 1: he do you notice that he says that he sets 1068 00:58:49,960 --> 00:58:52,960 Speaker 1: it up like it was a Jewish doctor. I got 1069 00:58:53,120 --> 00:58:55,720 Speaker 1: he like, this is this is this is why he 1070 00:58:55,720 --> 00:58:57,960 Speaker 1: gets the genius talk. This is a man who was like, 1071 00:58:58,400 --> 00:59:01,240 Speaker 1: he's but Bo Jackson, he was born to like act 1072 00:59:01,360 --> 00:59:08,360 Speaker 1: he's born, he was born down. The ironic thing is 1073 00:59:08,440 --> 00:59:11,640 Speaker 1: that if he listened to that Jewish doctor, then he'd 1074 00:59:11,680 --> 00:59:13,840 Speaker 1: be in a much better place right now, because it 1075 00:59:13,880 --> 00:59:16,280 Speaker 1: wouldn't be all the public humiliation that we've seen, you know, 1076 00:59:16,600 --> 00:59:19,600 Speaker 1: and uh that Jewish doctor was looking out for him. Yeah. Sure. 1077 00:59:19,760 --> 00:59:22,320 Speaker 1: And the easy point, like everybody already says, is Alex 1078 00:59:22,440 --> 00:59:26,480 Speaker 1: Jones genuinely comes across looking moderate and reasonable in that interview, 1079 00:59:26,560 --> 00:59:29,640 Speaker 1: and it's like, this is the dude who denied said 1080 00:59:29,680 --> 00:59:31,720 Speaker 1: Sandy Hook was a hoax. But he gave him so 1081 00:59:31,800 --> 00:59:34,080 Speaker 1: many outs too. He was like, He's like, you just 1082 00:59:34,200 --> 00:59:36,480 Speaker 1: mean the Nazi uniforms, right, And he's like, no, I 1083 00:59:36,720 --> 00:59:41,920 Speaker 1: love Hitler where I saw thing? Could you could you 1084 00:59:42,040 --> 00:59:45,040 Speaker 1: tell people who he was actually impersonating? Oh yeah, second 1085 00:59:45,040 --> 00:59:46,880 Speaker 1: clip because I was kind of incoherent and yah who 1086 00:59:47,000 --> 00:59:50,640 Speaker 1: uh okay, So they it's a net and he also 1087 00:59:50,720 --> 00:59:54,680 Speaker 1: had a a you who Chocolate mill, So we had 1088 00:59:54,720 --> 00:59:59,480 Speaker 1: a net and you chocolate milk, so net Ton Yahoo 1089 01:00:00,560 --> 01:00:03,880 Speaker 1: together using the net anyway, and I like how we're 1090 01:00:03,920 --> 01:00:06,520 Speaker 1: not even commenting on the gimp mask because everything else 1091 01:00:06,600 --> 01:00:10,440 Speaker 1: is here. Yeah, he's wearing a gim mask. Everybody's like, 1092 01:00:10,640 --> 01:00:12,920 Speaker 1: just don't even comment on that. That's thirteenth on the 1093 01:00:13,000 --> 01:00:15,480 Speaker 1: list of interesting things, but the least of what's going 1094 01:00:15,520 --> 01:00:19,320 Speaker 1: on here. Yeah, I mean it really is a testament too, 1095 01:00:19,720 --> 01:00:23,160 Speaker 1: because he's a celebrity, because he is rich, or at 1096 01:00:23,200 --> 01:00:26,520 Speaker 1: least was rich, because we've been told like, oh, these 1097 01:00:26,560 --> 01:00:28,840 Speaker 1: are people to look up to and they're genius, and 1098 01:00:28,920 --> 01:00:32,000 Speaker 1: they're operating on this other level that people don't see 1099 01:00:32,200 --> 01:00:34,360 Speaker 1: what is clearly and obviously going on here, which is 1100 01:00:34,440 --> 01:00:37,280 Speaker 1: this man has untreated mental illness. That is not an 1101 01:00:37,320 --> 01:00:39,160 Speaker 1: excuse for the hate and the bigotry. There are plenty 1102 01:00:39,160 --> 01:00:43,040 Speaker 1: of people are bipolar who are not Nazis, But I mean, 1103 01:00:43,520 --> 01:00:49,360 Speaker 1: you're witnessing a mental breakdown live on repeated podcast platforms, 1104 01:00:49,480 --> 01:00:51,480 Speaker 1: and it's like, what else do you think that you're 1105 01:00:51,520 --> 01:00:53,600 Speaker 1: going to get out of this man at this point? 1106 01:00:53,760 --> 01:00:56,560 Speaker 1: Why are you continuing to talk to him and like 1107 01:00:57,040 --> 01:00:58,880 Speaker 1: just let him spew on about how much he loves 1108 01:00:58,960 --> 01:01:01,080 Speaker 1: Hitler and not, Okay, we get it, dude, go take 1109 01:01:01,120 --> 01:01:04,120 Speaker 1: your meds. Until calling for a total and complete shutdown 1110 01:01:04,200 --> 01:01:06,960 Speaker 1: of Kanye interviews until we can figure out what they 1111 01:01:07,000 --> 01:01:18,880 Speaker 1: am men. Next category. Next up, we have strangest Bedfellows Sager. 1112 01:01:19,040 --> 01:01:21,040 Speaker 1: What do you got for us? So let's go ahead 1113 01:01:21,080 --> 01:01:23,920 Speaker 1: and play this. I chose a possibly hopeful story. This 1114 01:01:24,360 --> 01:01:27,080 Speaker 1: was right after the railway workers vote in the US 1115 01:01:27,160 --> 01:01:29,840 Speaker 1: Senate Ted Cruz. We actually had our team zoom in 1116 01:01:29,960 --> 01:01:32,600 Speaker 1: here went over to Bernie to give him a fist 1117 01:01:32,640 --> 01:01:35,760 Speaker 1: bump after voting for paid sick leave and railway workers. 1118 01:01:36,440 --> 01:01:38,480 Speaker 1: And it actually looks like Bernie rejects him there a 1119 01:01:38,520 --> 01:01:41,160 Speaker 1: little bit, and then he goes for the for the 1120 01:01:41,200 --> 01:01:43,200 Speaker 1: fist pump. But the reason I chose this one is 1121 01:01:43,680 --> 01:01:46,920 Speaker 1: it's an interesting story, which is, look, do I believe 1122 01:01:47,000 --> 01:01:49,520 Speaker 1: that the seven Republicans who voted on the paid sick 1123 01:01:49,600 --> 01:01:54,080 Speaker 1: leave were acting necessarily in the best faith? No? Do 1124 01:01:54,400 --> 01:01:56,480 Speaker 1: we care though, because at the end of the day, 1125 01:01:56,640 --> 01:01:59,320 Speaker 1: we're talking here about what I think should be basic. Yeah, 1126 01:01:59,360 --> 01:02:01,120 Speaker 1: I think that the people make this country work should 1127 01:02:01,160 --> 01:02:03,840 Speaker 1: get sick leave. And I don't think that And even 1128 01:02:03,880 --> 01:02:07,040 Speaker 1: if you're a republic libertarian, even the idea that you 1129 01:02:07,240 --> 01:02:10,160 Speaker 1: have a deal negotiated with a company and that you 1130 01:02:10,440 --> 01:02:13,160 Speaker 1: personally don't want to work, and that the fucking government 1131 01:02:13,480 --> 01:02:16,280 Speaker 1: can come in and force you to have your work 1132 01:02:16,320 --> 01:02:19,360 Speaker 1: conditions that you don't want to have, and you have 1133 01:02:19,560 --> 01:02:22,040 Speaker 1: no recourse to do that. To have six or seven 1134 01:02:22,080 --> 01:02:25,760 Speaker 1: Republicans join on that vote, it's extraordinary. That's one of 1135 01:02:25,800 --> 01:02:31,280 Speaker 1: those things where is it cynical? Maybe should we care? No, 1136 01:02:31,880 --> 01:02:33,720 Speaker 1: Something that we have really come to crystal is like 1137 01:02:33,800 --> 01:02:36,080 Speaker 1: politicians don't act in our interests. What you have to 1138 01:02:36,120 --> 01:02:39,520 Speaker 1: do is make it in their best interest, cynical best 1139 01:02:39,560 --> 01:02:42,080 Speaker 1: interests to do the right thing. So if we can 1140 01:02:42,120 --> 01:02:45,160 Speaker 1: align conditions in the right way, that's how change actually 1141 01:02:45,160 --> 01:02:47,960 Speaker 1: happens in this country. And we should point out that 1142 01:02:48,320 --> 01:02:51,720 Speaker 1: this failed with I think it was fifty one or 1143 01:02:51,880 --> 01:02:55,560 Speaker 1: fifty two votes. Yes, so it got the most votes 1144 01:02:56,200 --> 01:02:58,920 Speaker 1: and it lost. Because we have a permanent filibuster, we 1145 01:02:59,040 --> 01:03:02,360 Speaker 1: need to get to sixty vote. The only area I 1146 01:03:02,480 --> 01:03:04,400 Speaker 1: disagree is that I do think if it really came 1147 01:03:04,480 --> 01:03:06,640 Speaker 1: down to Ted Cruise's vote to get to that sixty number, 1148 01:03:06,680 --> 01:03:08,200 Speaker 1: I think you would have voted the other way. Maybe 1149 01:03:08,240 --> 01:03:09,960 Speaker 1: I think he was virtue signaling to be like I 1150 01:03:10,160 --> 01:03:14,040 Speaker 1: like workers. You don't, No, you don't with true, but 1151 01:03:15,280 --> 01:03:18,080 Speaker 1: what is more hopeful to me even than you know 1152 01:03:18,400 --> 01:03:21,800 Speaker 1: what Ted Cruz did here? Or you know, Marco Ruvio, 1153 01:03:22,120 --> 01:03:25,960 Speaker 1: like conditionally under one circumstanceing maybe I support this one 1154 01:03:26,080 --> 01:03:28,720 Speaker 1: union drive. What I find really hopeful is you see 1155 01:03:28,760 --> 01:03:32,360 Speaker 1: the numbers in the Republican base have shifted dramatically on 1156 01:03:32,520 --> 01:03:37,040 Speaker 1: issues of corporate power, on issues of labor unions. And 1157 01:03:37,720 --> 01:03:41,120 Speaker 1: that in and of itself is extraordinary. I mean, there 1158 01:03:41,160 --> 01:03:47,120 Speaker 1: has been there has been a sea change recognition bipartisan 1159 01:03:47,320 --> 01:03:51,680 Speaker 1: across the country. Elites are not about who exactly is 1160 01:03:51,760 --> 01:03:55,160 Speaker 1: screwing you and holding you down? And at some point 1161 01:03:55,520 --> 01:03:59,560 Speaker 1: that's sort of seventy percent eighty percent massive people. They 1162 01:03:59,640 --> 01:04:01,760 Speaker 1: are going to be heard in some sort of way. 1163 01:04:01,800 --> 01:04:03,360 Speaker 1: They are going to cause a shift in some sort 1164 01:04:03,360 --> 01:04:05,880 Speaker 1: of way. We're already seeing it with the Grossers labor 1165 01:04:05,960 --> 01:04:12,600 Speaker 1: movement that swept the country. Don't you think though, because 1166 01:04:12,680 --> 01:04:15,800 Speaker 1: like the polls have been on you know, the side 1167 01:04:15,840 --> 01:04:18,880 Speaker 1: of the issues that I prefer for a really long time, 1168 01:04:18,920 --> 01:04:22,120 Speaker 1: not on unions, not okay, that's fair, not on unions. 1169 01:04:22,200 --> 01:04:25,440 Speaker 1: But like even like you know, seven years ago, if 1170 01:04:25,480 --> 01:04:28,240 Speaker 1: you do a poll and you ask Republican voters, hey, 1171 01:04:28,280 --> 01:04:30,440 Speaker 1: should we raise taxes on the top one percent? They 1172 01:04:30,520 --> 01:04:33,360 Speaker 1: say yes, And like that just doesn't seem to translate 1173 01:04:33,440 --> 01:04:36,360 Speaker 1: into actually getting it through on the specific issues of 1174 01:04:36,880 --> 01:04:41,680 Speaker 1: unions and also on curbing corporate power like the antitrust 1175 01:04:41,880 --> 01:04:45,840 Speaker 1: anti monopoly movement, there has been a major major shift. 1176 01:04:46,560 --> 01:04:48,920 Speaker 1: So like, Okay, I'd love to bring up this example 1177 01:04:49,040 --> 01:04:51,960 Speaker 1: in I forget when the election was, but anyway, I 1178 01:04:52,000 --> 01:04:55,040 Speaker 1: got sixty percent in Florida in a direct bout initiative 1179 01:04:55,080 --> 01:04:57,560 Speaker 1: to raise the minimum wage, right, And so I guess 1180 01:04:57,640 --> 01:05:00,440 Speaker 1: my point is, I think that's always been there, but 1181 01:05:00,760 --> 01:05:02,840 Speaker 1: it doesn't seem to translate and get through. And then 1182 01:05:02,920 --> 01:05:04,800 Speaker 1: also these same people who might be correct on the 1183 01:05:04,880 --> 01:05:08,120 Speaker 1: individual issues might then turn aroundable for Donald Trump or 1184 01:05:08,160 --> 01:05:10,360 Speaker 1: Rond Santis. So there's like a disconnect there is my point. 1185 01:05:10,400 --> 01:05:12,760 Speaker 1: The disconnect is there. Change takes a long bucket time. 1186 01:05:13,320 --> 01:05:15,240 Speaker 1: That said, look you look at that. I have no 1187 01:05:15,400 --> 01:05:19,920 Speaker 1: choice but to hope that's the end of So for 1188 01:05:20,160 --> 01:05:23,160 Speaker 1: my strangest bedfellows, I'm sorry I had to go back 1189 01:05:23,200 --> 01:05:26,480 Speaker 1: to the Kanye well because I was not expecting to 1190 01:05:26,560 --> 01:05:31,880 Speaker 1: see new black nationalists Kanye along with white nationalists. Nick Fuentes, 1191 01:05:32,120 --> 01:05:35,320 Speaker 1: Let's take a look. A lot was said, and the 1192 01:05:35,400 --> 01:05:39,040 Speaker 1: big headline is, of course the most provocative stuff and 1193 01:05:39,840 --> 01:05:42,200 Speaker 1: I kind of don't like this about the interview. I 1194 01:05:42,280 --> 01:05:45,040 Speaker 1: thought the interview was like a movie. It was a 1195 01:05:45,120 --> 01:05:49,000 Speaker 1: great interview. The whole three hours are totally compelling. It's funny, 1196 01:05:49,280 --> 01:05:53,400 Speaker 1: it's informative, it's interesting. But the media, of course, is 1197 01:05:53,480 --> 01:05:56,200 Speaker 1: only focusing on the part where he said he loved Hitler, 1198 01:05:57,440 --> 01:06:00,520 Speaker 1: So what's that all about? He said other things too, 1199 01:06:02,760 --> 01:06:04,959 Speaker 1: He said, I want I don't know why y'all can't 1200 01:06:05,040 --> 01:06:08,240 Speaker 1: just get over this whole Hitler Nazi Holocaust denial, bang, 1201 01:06:08,440 --> 01:06:11,520 Speaker 1: what's the big deal? It was kind of funny. We 1202 01:06:11,600 --> 01:06:16,760 Speaker 1: were watching earlier today Stephen Crowder interviewing Alex Jones, Like 1203 01:06:16,920 --> 01:06:21,720 Speaker 1: after this all went down and even they Crowder was like, 1204 01:06:22,080 --> 01:06:24,360 Speaker 1: you know, sometimes media is not right about things. They 1205 01:06:24,400 --> 01:06:26,800 Speaker 1: throw these terms around, they're not accurate doing their whole thing. 1206 01:06:26,920 --> 01:06:29,600 Speaker 1: But he's like, weren't they right kind of right about 1207 01:06:29,680 --> 01:06:32,640 Speaker 1: this one? And Conny and an anti that might Alex 1208 01:06:32,720 --> 01:06:36,120 Speaker 1: went on some whole other tangent, but the answer was basically, yes, yes, 1209 01:06:36,320 --> 01:06:38,840 Speaker 1: it's kind of undeniable at this point. Yeah, all right, 1210 01:06:38,880 --> 01:06:42,960 Speaker 1: we'll spare you the sanctimony about grifters using mentally ill 1211 01:06:43,080 --> 01:06:45,640 Speaker 1: billionaires for their own purposes. I have though I have 1212 01:06:45,760 --> 01:06:48,000 Speaker 1: a quick runner up in this category that we don't 1213 01:06:48,040 --> 01:06:50,080 Speaker 1: have an element for, but that I thought of early 1214 01:06:50,200 --> 01:06:53,240 Speaker 1: today and belonged to the show, especially since Sager and 1215 01:06:53,480 --> 01:06:56,400 Speaker 1: I are both big Swifties, which I think. Another strange 1216 01:06:56,440 --> 01:06:59,920 Speaker 1: bedfellow this year was Taylor Swift and the anti trust 1217 01:07:00,080 --> 01:07:07,200 Speaker 1: movement coming together fuck Ticketmaster and pressuring Ticketmaster, and indeed, 1218 01:07:07,320 --> 01:07:10,200 Speaker 1: as we are all gathered here today having all personally 1219 01:07:10,320 --> 01:07:15,120 Speaker 1: been gouged by ticket masters, yeah wait, fuck Ticketmaster. They 1220 01:07:15,200 --> 01:07:17,160 Speaker 1: might drone strike us. We need to shut up. Yeah, 1221 01:07:17,240 --> 01:07:19,680 Speaker 1: go ahead, we don't need you any more. House. We 1222 01:07:19,760 --> 01:07:23,880 Speaker 1: sold the fucking tickets. That's actually a great point, though, 1223 01:07:24,280 --> 01:07:26,760 Speaker 1: because that was one where it actually hit in the 1224 01:07:26,800 --> 01:07:31,040 Speaker 1: cultural zeitgeist in a way that everybody knows. Fucking processing fees. 1225 01:07:31,240 --> 01:07:32,680 Speaker 1: What just so I can get this on my phone, 1226 01:07:32,760 --> 01:07:35,400 Speaker 1: it's twenty twenty two. How is that even possible? But 1227 01:07:35,880 --> 01:07:38,080 Speaker 1: for that to reach that level, the DOJ to come 1228 01:07:38,120 --> 01:07:39,880 Speaker 1: in and say like, hey, actually, it is kind of 1229 01:07:39,920 --> 01:07:42,280 Speaker 1: messed up to have this merger and all these hidden 1230 01:07:42,320 --> 01:07:46,040 Speaker 1: processing fees, and you're making huge promises to artists and 1231 01:07:46,120 --> 01:07:48,240 Speaker 1: to others, and you know, look, we said this openly 1232 01:07:48,320 --> 01:07:50,360 Speaker 1: on the show, like you'd be shocked at what the 1233 01:07:50,440 --> 01:07:53,200 Speaker 1: actual cuts are and the way that these all things work. 1234 01:07:53,520 --> 01:07:55,320 Speaker 1: It's not right, and it shows you that you can 1235 01:07:55,360 --> 01:07:57,480 Speaker 1: be one of the biggest artists in the world. I mean, 1236 01:07:57,560 --> 01:07:59,680 Speaker 1: it's not even just about us, Crystal. Imagine the people 1237 01:07:59,720 --> 01:08:02,640 Speaker 1: who do this is their only job. Imagine if you're 1238 01:08:02,920 --> 01:08:04,920 Speaker 1: selling out a theater something like this and you have 1239 01:08:05,000 --> 01:08:07,120 Speaker 1: to do it every single night in order to try 1240 01:08:07,360 --> 01:08:10,000 Speaker 1: and make a living because you're working against horses that 1241 01:08:10,120 --> 01:08:14,240 Speaker 1: you have not one iota of control and side benefit. 1242 01:08:14,600 --> 01:08:18,680 Speaker 1: I have never seen Matt Stoller so excited. He was 1243 01:08:18,680 --> 01:08:22,960 Speaker 1: a big, big moment, big swifty. That guy is all right. 1244 01:08:23,120 --> 01:08:27,080 Speaker 1: The last category that we all have entries in is 1245 01:08:27,880 --> 01:08:30,800 Speaker 1: best News of the Year. We thought this would be 1246 01:08:30,840 --> 01:08:33,000 Speaker 1: a good place for us to end the show on 1247 01:08:33,080 --> 01:08:35,519 Speaker 1: a hopeful note. I am optimistic about twenty twenty three 1248 01:08:35,560 --> 01:08:40,800 Speaker 1: Ultimate Life. So Kyle, why don't you kick us off? 1249 01:08:40,840 --> 01:08:43,479 Speaker 1: What was your best news this year? Yeah? So mine 1250 01:08:43,560 --> 01:08:51,680 Speaker 1: was pretty simple. It was us getting engaged. Yes, that 1251 01:08:51,880 --> 01:08:55,080 Speaker 1: is the correct answer. I agree with what she said. 1252 01:08:57,560 --> 01:09:03,840 Speaker 1: Fetterman beating Oz to me was phenomenal because, honestly, I 1253 01:09:03,880 --> 01:09:06,240 Speaker 1: think the fact that he had the stroke and then 1254 01:09:06,280 --> 01:09:08,840 Speaker 1: he struggled in the debate and then he still went 1255 01:09:08,880 --> 01:09:11,639 Speaker 1: on to win. That was definitely a moment of hope 1256 01:09:11,680 --> 01:09:14,519 Speaker 1: for me because it shows me that voters can sort 1257 01:09:14,520 --> 01:09:17,479 Speaker 1: of overlook the stuff that doesn't matter that much and 1258 01:09:17,640 --> 01:09:20,600 Speaker 1: just get to like, where's this person's heart at, Like 1259 01:09:20,680 --> 01:09:25,200 Speaker 1: what do they really care about? And find out Speaking 1260 01:09:25,320 --> 01:09:30,639 Speaker 1: of run the clip ladies and gentlemen, the man himself, doctor, 1261 01:09:31,360 --> 01:09:58,640 Speaker 1: I mean, how you out which people think different? So, uh, 1262 01:09:59,240 --> 01:10:01,439 Speaker 1: you know, picking the who's in favor of fifteen dollar 1263 01:10:01,479 --> 01:10:04,240 Speaker 1: minimum wage, who's in favor of unions over the snake 1264 01:10:04,280 --> 01:10:07,599 Speaker 1: oil salesman on TV? That made me very happy. Yeah. 1265 01:10:08,000 --> 01:10:11,760 Speaker 1: And the way Fetterman won also he ran this very 1266 01:10:11,880 --> 01:10:15,120 Speaker 1: economically populist campaign. He had been a steel town mayor, 1267 01:10:15,200 --> 01:10:17,439 Speaker 1: and the places that he picked up the most ground 1268 01:10:17,840 --> 01:10:21,679 Speaker 1: were like these rural counties with large working class voting 1269 01:10:21,760 --> 01:10:23,920 Speaker 1: bases that had moved really far to Trump and they 1270 01:10:23,960 --> 01:10:26,120 Speaker 1: didn't move all the way back, but he picked up 1271 01:10:26,280 --> 01:10:29,040 Speaker 1: enough ground there to win, and it wasn't ultimately even 1272 01:10:29,240 --> 01:10:32,400 Speaker 1: all that close, So it was there was a lot 1273 01:10:32,840 --> 01:10:36,519 Speaker 1: to take note of in that particular campaign. Very interesting, Marshall, 1274 01:10:36,600 --> 01:10:41,680 Speaker 1: what about you mine is very basic, very straightforward, Republican 1275 01:10:41,760 --> 01:10:47,000 Speaker 1: voters not voting straight ticket for Republican candidates who were 1276 01:10:47,120 --> 01:10:51,600 Speaker 1: stopped steal so like Kerry Lake in Arizona, Doug Mastriano 1277 01:10:51,680 --> 01:10:54,240 Speaker 1: in Pennsylvania. I was like thinking about this, like a 1278 01:10:54,320 --> 01:10:56,479 Speaker 1: lot of our politics and like the shows, we do 1279 01:10:57,120 --> 01:10:59,160 Speaker 1: come out of that twenty fifteen twenty sixteen where it 1280 01:10:59,200 --> 01:11:01,200 Speaker 1: felt like there were just no rules, like holy shit, 1281 01:11:01,280 --> 01:11:04,000 Speaker 1: like we woke up one day and Brexit happened. Holy 1282 01:11:04,080 --> 01:11:06,840 Speaker 1: shit Trump is running for president. Holy shit Trump won 1283 01:11:06,880 --> 01:11:09,800 Speaker 1: the primary. Holy shit Trump is now president. It kind 1284 01:11:09,840 --> 01:11:11,439 Speaker 1: of made us feel as if there was just like 1285 01:11:11,840 --> 01:11:13,439 Speaker 1: no bottom and I just bottom in the says of 1286 01:11:13,520 --> 01:11:17,000 Speaker 1: like morality, but anything was possible. So I think going 1287 01:11:17,040 --> 01:11:19,120 Speaker 1: into twenty twenty two going to these metters, a lot 1288 01:11:19,160 --> 01:11:21,400 Speaker 1: of people were like, look that it ain't gonna happen. 1289 01:11:21,520 --> 01:11:24,400 Speaker 1: You could just psychotically say you're not going to endorse 1290 01:11:24,479 --> 01:11:27,960 Speaker 1: results because you want that much of ambition for power. 1291 01:11:28,080 --> 01:11:30,200 Speaker 1: But there actually was a line, And I think it's 1292 01:11:30,200 --> 01:11:32,840 Speaker 1: actually really good that there's now just clear benchmark the 1293 01:11:32,920 --> 01:11:34,760 Speaker 1: republic is not to consider for the next two years, 1294 01:11:34,800 --> 01:11:37,160 Speaker 1: which is, hey, black and bla blasters, you cannot have 1295 01:11:37,240 --> 01:11:40,280 Speaker 1: a primary ad that says I think Donald Trump won 1296 01:11:40,320 --> 01:11:42,920 Speaker 1: in twenty twenty, Like, that was crazy that that happened. 1297 01:11:43,120 --> 01:11:45,160 Speaker 1: And now there'sus clear evidence that that just doesn't work. 1298 01:11:45,240 --> 01:11:47,080 Speaker 1: And now actually we have even more evidence in Marshall's 1299 01:11:47,080 --> 01:11:50,559 Speaker 1: favor because Warnock won the election last night. Yeah. Yeah. 1300 01:11:50,800 --> 01:11:53,560 Speaker 1: And what's even crazier is we were looking at a 1301 01:11:53,640 --> 01:11:57,880 Speaker 1: breakdown of the governor wins by eight points. You had 1302 01:11:57,960 --> 01:12:00,200 Speaker 1: like the lieutenant governor won by five points. All of 1303 01:12:00,200 --> 01:12:04,320 Speaker 1: these are Republicans, the Agricultural commissioner, almost every single down ballot. 1304 01:12:04,479 --> 01:12:08,759 Speaker 1: The only person to win as a Democrat was Raphael Warnock, 1305 01:12:08,840 --> 01:12:10,479 Speaker 1: and he won by what is it three and a 1306 01:12:10,520 --> 01:12:13,280 Speaker 1: half points, It was going to be around three. Yeah. 1307 01:12:13,439 --> 01:12:17,000 Speaker 1: That is a overperformance of eleven which means that eleven 1308 01:12:17,080 --> 01:12:20,120 Speaker 1: percent of voters in the state of Georgia actually split 1309 01:12:20,160 --> 01:12:22,320 Speaker 1: their ticket. It's I mean, we haven't seen that in 1310 01:12:22,400 --> 01:12:25,400 Speaker 1: American politics as what at least for the last decade. 1311 01:12:25,479 --> 01:12:28,000 Speaker 1: It's really crazy. Yes, yeah. And at the same time 1312 01:12:28,080 --> 01:12:32,680 Speaker 1: that Fetterman was winning, Josh Shapiro, the gubernatorial cannon in Pennsylvania, 1313 01:12:32,680 --> 01:12:34,879 Speaker 1: who was up against a true cycle in Doug Mastrial. 1314 01:12:35,240 --> 01:12:37,920 Speaker 1: He won by double digits in Pennsylvania, so he was 1315 01:12:38,000 --> 01:12:40,720 Speaker 1: at January sixth. That guy, Yeah, he was there on 1316 01:12:40,840 --> 01:12:43,200 Speaker 1: the day and he was like plotting with Trump and 1317 01:12:43,240 --> 01:12:45,200 Speaker 1: the fake elector stuff. I mean he was he was 1318 01:12:45,520 --> 01:12:49,800 Speaker 1: all in So yes, yes, all of that, all of 1319 01:12:49,880 --> 01:12:54,560 Speaker 1: those things. For my best news, I am going to 1320 01:12:55,120 --> 01:12:58,679 Speaker 1: let the man himself lay it out. Christian mother flock. 1321 01:13:00,560 --> 01:13:02,479 Speaker 1: We got to juggle it. We went for the jugglate 1322 01:13:02,560 --> 01:13:05,120 Speaker 1: homega and we went for the top dog because we 1323 01:13:05,240 --> 01:13:08,680 Speaker 1: want every other industry, every other business to know that 1324 01:13:09,920 --> 01:13:12,840 Speaker 1: gangs are changed. Well, we're gonna unionize. I'm not gonna 1325 01:13:12,880 --> 01:13:16,360 Speaker 1: quit our jobs anymore. And uh, you know, this is 1326 01:13:16,400 --> 01:13:20,280 Speaker 1: a prime example of what the power that people have 1327 01:13:20,439 --> 01:13:27,559 Speaker 1: when they come together. Oh, they're gonna have to negotiate 1328 01:13:27,600 --> 01:13:29,840 Speaker 1: with their workers now. You know. My message is that 1329 01:13:30,040 --> 01:13:32,160 Speaker 1: now we have a union that they're gonna have to 1330 01:13:32,280 --> 01:13:38,080 Speaker 1: collective bargain with and between chrismals at Amazon labor union, 1331 01:13:38,240 --> 01:13:41,479 Speaker 1: defying history, beating one of the richest men on the 1332 01:13:41,520 --> 01:13:44,960 Speaker 1: planet in Jeff Bezos. Then you have the Starbucks workers 1333 01:13:45,200 --> 01:13:48,360 Speaker 1: that continuing to pick up speed. We've seen grassroots organizing 1334 01:13:48,400 --> 01:13:51,880 Speaker 1: efforts across the country and you all know, in my view, 1335 01:13:52,000 --> 01:13:54,760 Speaker 1: this is one of, if not the most hopeful thing 1336 01:13:54,920 --> 01:13:57,639 Speaker 1: that is happening in the entire country because what Chris 1337 01:13:57,720 --> 01:14:01,439 Speaker 1: says there, Oh, we're not quitting our jobs anymore. We're 1338 01:14:01,479 --> 01:14:04,720 Speaker 1: going to organize. That is a whole revolution in and 1339 01:14:04,840 --> 01:14:12,920 Speaker 1: of itself. He's that cool in real life too. We 1340 01:14:13,320 --> 01:14:15,720 Speaker 1: met him in real life and he's he's Brystol and 1341 01:14:15,880 --> 01:14:19,920 Speaker 1: Marshall and Ile all picked very well thought out, well meaning, 1342 01:14:20,439 --> 01:14:24,240 Speaker 1: deeper ones. I decided to go for the easy one, 1343 01:14:24,320 --> 01:14:25,960 Speaker 1: but the one that I just had to do the 1344 01:14:26,120 --> 01:14:30,000 Speaker 1: best news for me twenty twenty two. Put it up there, 1345 01:14:30,080 --> 01:14:40,040 Speaker 1: Ry Griffin, the failure of CNN was. It brings a smile, 1346 01:14:40,680 --> 01:14:44,639 Speaker 1: a grin to my face every single time, warms my heart. 1347 01:14:44,880 --> 01:14:47,439 Speaker 1: One of the best we were able to do is 1348 01:14:47,840 --> 01:14:50,799 Speaker 1: you're with your hard earned money pre describers. We purchased 1349 01:14:50,960 --> 01:14:54,080 Speaker 1: the NFT from the CNN vault, which, by the way, 1350 01:14:54,120 --> 01:14:57,320 Speaker 1: they have since discontinued, so you are remain proud owners 1351 01:14:57,360 --> 01:14:59,479 Speaker 1: of that of what they hailed as the biggest moment 1352 01:15:00,160 --> 01:15:04,000 Speaker 1: CNN history since the launch of the network. But okay, 1353 01:15:04,320 --> 01:15:07,000 Speaker 1: don't they were right, just not in the way they thought. 1354 01:15:07,240 --> 01:15:11,200 Speaker 1: Oh they were right, Yeah, a big moment. I asked 1355 01:15:11,280 --> 01:15:13,000 Speaker 1: us in Atlanta I forgot to ask us in New York, 1356 01:15:13,120 --> 01:15:17,679 Speaker 1: how many people here subscribed to CNN Plus? Are you serious? 1357 01:15:17,800 --> 01:15:21,479 Speaker 1: I subscribed to CNM plus as usual, as you new. 1358 01:15:22,880 --> 01:15:25,559 Speaker 1: The defense of me on this one is on HBO Max. 1359 01:15:26,120 --> 01:15:28,640 Speaker 1: CNN makes really good documentaries. I mean it, like I 1360 01:15:28,800 --> 01:15:31,559 Speaker 1: like the decades, the nineties, actually sixties, seventies, eighty. They 1361 01:15:31,600 --> 01:15:33,960 Speaker 1: took them off HBO Max. So I was like, okay, 1362 01:15:34,080 --> 01:15:36,439 Speaker 1: I'll take a you know, a subscription, and then they 1363 01:15:36,479 --> 01:15:39,040 Speaker 1: took they got rid of them. So I've been on this. 1364 01:15:39,800 --> 01:15:41,479 Speaker 1: I didn't even do that though. Didn't they do like, 1365 01:15:42,040 --> 01:15:45,280 Speaker 1: you know, Raising Kids with Anderson Cooper? Oh? Yes, hey, 1366 01:15:45,560 --> 01:15:48,360 Speaker 1: that was the additional the exclusive subscriber. That's extra stuff. 1367 01:15:48,439 --> 01:15:50,840 Speaker 1: Oh look, I just wanted my content. They took it 1368 01:15:50,920 --> 01:15:54,599 Speaker 1: for me. You you were there for Jake Tapper's book 1369 01:15:54,640 --> 01:16:00,320 Speaker 1: club and we also a Marshall stop lying. On a 1370 01:16:00,400 --> 01:16:03,120 Speaker 1: serious note, though it has been an insane year on 1371 01:16:03,240 --> 01:16:05,960 Speaker 1: a media front, we had our year interview for you guys, 1372 01:16:06,080 --> 01:16:09,160 Speaker 1: fifty five percent new audience in twenty twenty two increase 1373 01:16:09,200 --> 01:16:11,439 Speaker 1: in views. Thanks to the premium subs. We were able 1374 01:16:11,479 --> 01:16:15,320 Speaker 1: to hire an ad show. CNN spent three hundred million 1375 01:16:15,400 --> 01:16:19,400 Speaker 1: dollars on this bullshit to fail in three days. Yeah, 1376 01:16:19,760 --> 01:16:26,160 Speaker 1: three days, CNN, Fox, MSNBC collective ratings are down by 1377 01:16:26,240 --> 01:16:32,040 Speaker 1: almost forty percent across the board. This and this isn't 1378 01:16:32,120 --> 01:16:35,960 Speaker 1: just about breaking points. It's about the entire internet. Independent 1379 01:16:36,080 --> 01:16:39,439 Speaker 1: media is actually thriving more than ever before. So look, 1380 01:16:39,520 --> 01:16:41,640 Speaker 1: I know there's a lot of media failure going on 1381 01:16:41,840 --> 01:16:44,479 Speaker 1: out there, but it's at the it really is at 1382 01:16:44,520 --> 01:16:47,760 Speaker 1: the structural level for the people who fucking deserve it. 1383 01:16:48,080 --> 01:16:50,400 Speaker 1: And I once again want to say, just as a 1384 01:16:50,479 --> 01:16:53,040 Speaker 1: closing thing, look around at all of you. There are 1385 01:16:53,080 --> 01:16:56,360 Speaker 1: people here who probably voted for different parties who never 1386 01:16:56,400 --> 01:16:59,040 Speaker 1: would be in the same room otherwise, and that is 1387 01:16:59,120 --> 01:17:02,559 Speaker 1: a testament to something that these people spent the last 1388 01:17:02,680 --> 01:17:06,600 Speaker 1: twenty five years of our lives working against, trying to 1389 01:17:06,680 --> 01:17:09,200 Speaker 1: split us up, to make it so that this entire 1390 01:17:09,439 --> 01:17:13,679 Speaker 1: thing is impossible. And we consider it the great privilege 1391 01:17:13,680 --> 01:17:17,400 Speaker 1: of our life to have an audience like all of 1392 01:17:17,520 --> 01:17:21,080 Speaker 1: you to show up for us in this way. So 1393 01:17:22,080 --> 01:17:24,760 Speaker 1: with that, thank you to Kyle and Marshall. Thank you 1394 01:17:24,880 --> 01:17:27,519 Speaker 1: to Griffin, our new producer who you guys helped to hire. 1395 01:17:27,760 --> 01:17:29,680 Speaker 1: Shout out to Griffin who was running all of this 1396 01:17:31,040 --> 01:17:33,960 Speaker 1: Thank you to all the crew here tonight and guys 1397 01:17:34,320 --> 01:17:36,720 Speaker 1: twenty twenty three. I think it's going to be a 1398 01:17:36,800 --> 01:17:39,160 Speaker 1: great year thanks to you all and what we're all 1399 01:17:39,240 --> 01:17:42,559 Speaker 1: building together. So thank you guys. We love you all 1400 01:17:42,920 --> 01:17:45,200 Speaker 1: so much and we'll see you from the Breaking Point 1401 01:17:45,240 --> 01:17:49,400 Speaker 1: studio on Monday. Thanks, thank you, Auten Nicker. We love you. 1402 01:17:50,000 --> 01:18:01,840 Speaker 1: Great crowd. I can't a man by