1 00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:03,560 Speaker 1: Welcome to Worst Year Ever, a production of I Heart Radio, 2 00:00:06,680 --> 00:00:24,560 Speaker 1: Welcome Together Everything, So don't don't well, come back, ladies 3 00:00:24,680 --> 00:00:31,280 Speaker 1: and step right up and see Worst Year Ever. This 4 00:00:31,400 --> 00:00:35,080 Speaker 1: didn't go well. Kat literally recoiled as I did it, 5 00:00:35,120 --> 00:00:40,839 Speaker 1: and I lost all confidence. Oh I thought you were 6 00:00:40,840 --> 00:00:44,080 Speaker 1: recoiling in horror like I hurt your ear drums. I 7 00:00:44,120 --> 00:00:47,280 Speaker 1: want to note here that Katie is welcoming gentlemen. I 8 00:00:47,360 --> 00:00:51,400 Speaker 1: am not. I I do not support acknowledging or or 9 00:00:51,479 --> 00:00:56,720 Speaker 1: letting gentlemen listen to our podcast only trash pandas you 10 00:00:56,760 --> 00:01:06,120 Speaker 1: have trash pandas a gender um um parakeets literally anything gentleman. 11 00:01:06,480 --> 00:01:08,560 Speaker 1: I mean I didn't. I did not acknowledge any of 12 00:01:08,600 --> 00:01:11,200 Speaker 1: them in the intro. But that goes without saying that 13 00:01:11,240 --> 00:01:13,399 Speaker 1: one would assume. But I think we also need to 14 00:01:13,440 --> 00:01:16,200 Speaker 1: forbid gentlemen from listening. Is it? Is it? No gentleman 15 00:01:16,319 --> 00:01:19,160 Speaker 1: or no men like you? No, no gentleman, no no, 16 00:01:19,160 --> 00:01:24,800 Speaker 1: no pieces of ship men. Absolutely, this is a game 17 00:01:24,959 --> 00:01:30,360 Speaker 1: pro Pieces of ship podcast space for aggressive men. Oh 18 00:01:30,400 --> 00:01:34,040 Speaker 1: for sure. If you're a fun boy, if you're if 19 00:01:34,080 --> 00:01:39,440 Speaker 1: you're a person, bring me your or you're tired, you're 20 00:01:39,480 --> 00:01:44,000 Speaker 1: fun boys yearning to hear a summary of the day's news. 21 00:01:44,080 --> 00:01:48,000 Speaker 1: Also reply guys, welcome as well. Reply absolutely, well you 22 00:01:48,040 --> 00:01:52,120 Speaker 1: can accept the accept the gentle ones, not the gentleman. 23 00:01:52,240 --> 00:01:57,240 Speaker 1: Reply boys none, but if you're a huge ship head, 24 00:01:57,560 --> 00:02:01,400 Speaker 1: welcome aboard. Pile on. Well, we've killed two and a 25 00:02:01,440 --> 00:02:04,800 Speaker 1: half minutes. I know we're already of the way through 26 00:02:04,800 --> 00:02:09,320 Speaker 1: the podcast. I'm going to check out it now. How 27 00:02:09,360 --> 00:02:13,079 Speaker 1: are you guys doing? You know, I never ever asked 28 00:02:13,280 --> 00:02:16,000 Speaker 1: on on our other show. I always ask everybody how 29 00:02:16,000 --> 00:02:18,880 Speaker 1: they're doing, and it's like a nice moment of connection potentially, 30 00:02:18,880 --> 00:02:27,080 Speaker 1: but never do we do that here doing bad? How's 31 00:02:27,080 --> 00:02:32,720 Speaker 1: the new show going? Guys? You're regretting it? Oh god, 32 00:02:32,800 --> 00:02:38,040 Speaker 1: absolutely mistake. I actually love our other show, even though 33 00:02:38,040 --> 00:02:41,640 Speaker 1: it's a horrendous amount of work. I was brushing my teeth, going, 34 00:02:41,720 --> 00:02:44,600 Speaker 1: oh God, Sophie and Robert are already working, you know, 35 00:02:46,080 --> 00:02:49,640 Speaker 1: to be fair, it was probably not already working, but 36 00:02:49,680 --> 00:02:53,640 Speaker 1: I want no I barely work. I just come on 37 00:02:53,960 --> 00:02:57,680 Speaker 1: half asked and wait for Sophie and Garrison and Christopher 38 00:02:57,760 --> 00:03:00,560 Speaker 1: to do things, and then I extract their surplus value 39 00:03:00,639 --> 00:03:07,040 Speaker 1: and turn it into a water bed. Robert, you refrain 40 00:03:07,160 --> 00:03:10,560 Speaker 1: from mentioning this five minutes ago when Cody was asking 41 00:03:10,560 --> 00:03:14,720 Speaker 1: advice for mattresses. What do you got, Cody? You want 42 00:03:14,720 --> 00:03:16,400 Speaker 1: a water bed and can give you advice on getting 43 00:03:16,400 --> 00:03:22,160 Speaker 1: a water bed? How big, biggest? How much work drafted 44 00:03:22,280 --> 00:03:26,079 Speaker 1: to maintain it? Um more than a normal bed. That 45 00:03:26,120 --> 00:03:29,639 Speaker 1: sounds like a lot. It is more than a normal bed. Look, 46 00:03:29,680 --> 00:03:33,080 Speaker 1: that's what the normal water beds. They're not normal beds. 47 00:03:33,080 --> 00:03:36,440 Speaker 1: You gotta put conditioner in them. There's a pump. Now, 48 00:03:36,480 --> 00:03:39,200 Speaker 1: if it's a soft side water bed, this is the benefit, Cody. 49 00:03:39,240 --> 00:03:42,440 Speaker 1: The soft side water beds your pets aren't are very 50 00:03:42,520 --> 00:03:45,880 Speaker 1: unlikely to break because there's there's like a mattress over 51 00:03:46,000 --> 00:03:47,960 Speaker 1: the top. Now, if it's a hard side water bed, 52 00:03:48,000 --> 00:03:50,520 Speaker 1: that sounds more durable. But the top is basically just 53 00:03:50,560 --> 00:03:53,480 Speaker 1: the big blue blue blue water they can get They 54 00:03:53,480 --> 00:03:55,760 Speaker 1: can get through that. I mean, it's still pretty thick plastic. 55 00:03:55,800 --> 00:04:01,320 Speaker 1: But yeah, it's actually happier to puncture. Well one day. 56 00:04:04,720 --> 00:04:07,480 Speaker 1: Water bed is something that I've heard about and never 57 00:04:07,520 --> 00:04:10,800 Speaker 1: seen in person or touched or known anybody. You've never 58 00:04:10,800 --> 00:04:13,600 Speaker 1: seen a water but oh they're rad. When I was 59 00:04:13,640 --> 00:04:17,359 Speaker 1: a kid, my aunt and uncle who lived with us 60 00:04:17,440 --> 00:04:22,800 Speaker 1: intermittently because the economy you know they were. They kept 61 00:04:22,800 --> 00:04:25,599 Speaker 1: their water bed in our garage and I would get 62 00:04:25,600 --> 00:04:30,359 Speaker 1: on it all the time because it's fucking ruled. Yeah. 63 00:04:30,640 --> 00:04:33,360 Speaker 1: All I know about water bed is you can't rent 64 00:04:33,400 --> 00:04:37,359 Speaker 1: with one, you have to can't wet, you can't rent 65 00:04:37,400 --> 00:04:39,240 Speaker 1: all sorts of like you have to like sign a 66 00:04:39,279 --> 00:04:42,200 Speaker 1: waiver or like there's like a bunch of like renter 67 00:04:42,360 --> 00:04:45,839 Speaker 1: restrictions for water beds. Yeah, that's why you find a 68 00:04:45,960 --> 00:04:49,320 Speaker 1: landlord who's a criminal, and a criminal who's scared of 69 00:04:49,360 --> 00:04:52,880 Speaker 1: the police, not a criminal who doesn't have to be scared. 70 00:04:52,920 --> 00:04:55,880 Speaker 1: You find yourself the right kind of slum lord and 71 00:04:55,920 --> 00:04:59,000 Speaker 1: you can have a water bed. Yeah. Fair enough. We 72 00:04:59,000 --> 00:05:04,960 Speaker 1: should talk about the news, shall we? Ka? Wait? Wait, Katie, Cody, 73 00:05:05,080 --> 00:05:13,920 Speaker 1: how are you guys? Alright? Well today? Yeah, because you're 74 00:05:18,080 --> 00:05:21,599 Speaker 1: is today not Monday? It's not, but it could be. 75 00:05:24,640 --> 00:05:27,560 Speaker 1: I think that in general, I'll speak for Cody and myself. 76 00:05:28,000 --> 00:05:31,559 Speaker 1: I don't know. Cody's mentioned a headache. I'll just touch 77 00:05:31,680 --> 00:05:35,440 Speaker 1: on the general feeling that I feel. Whoa that's going 78 00:05:35,480 --> 00:05:38,720 Speaker 1: into a different territory. Um, my throat feels great, but 79 00:05:39,560 --> 00:05:42,479 Speaker 1: I do I do feel a continuing sense of on 80 00:05:42,720 --> 00:05:46,720 Speaker 1: we from a lot of people just general fatigue. I 81 00:05:46,760 --> 00:05:50,000 Speaker 1: think better than this time last year in that at 82 00:05:50,080 --> 00:05:56,920 Speaker 1: least the president isn't literally a monster. Well, how you're 83 00:05:56,960 --> 00:06:01,920 Speaker 1: looking at it, he's not suggested the hurricane. He's not 84 00:06:02,000 --> 00:06:05,120 Speaker 1: on Twitter. Let's let's be honest about the main difference. 85 00:06:05,240 --> 00:06:08,560 Speaker 1: I can't believe I said that and thought, no, he's not. 86 00:06:08,800 --> 00:06:15,760 Speaker 1: He is not on Twitter pictures him walking. You guys, 87 00:06:16,000 --> 00:06:19,280 Speaker 1: You guys get my point though, Um, you know that's 88 00:06:19,360 --> 00:06:23,400 Speaker 1: that's the difference here. But I feel tired. I'm happy 89 00:06:23,400 --> 00:06:25,960 Speaker 1: to see you guys though. Anyway, we really should talk 90 00:06:26,040 --> 00:06:29,520 Speaker 1: about the news and then circle background on whether or 91 00:06:29,560 --> 00:06:33,640 Speaker 1: not the president is a monster. So you want to 92 00:06:33,680 --> 00:06:38,839 Speaker 1: talk about the news so fucking much. What's in the news? Uh? Well, 93 00:06:38,880 --> 00:06:42,560 Speaker 1: the war in Afghanistan for the US is over. Did 94 00:06:42,560 --> 00:06:47,200 Speaker 1: we win? Well, Cody, you know what is what is 95 00:06:47,240 --> 00:06:51,159 Speaker 1: a win of Americans that want to leave out of 96 00:06:51,160 --> 00:06:59,200 Speaker 1: the country. Is that a win? My middle school Jim 97 00:06:59,240 --> 00:07:04,760 Speaker 1: teacher explained that just by playing, you're a winner. And 98 00:07:04,800 --> 00:07:07,800 Speaker 1: I think that's how the war in Afghanistan worked. You know, 99 00:07:08,320 --> 00:07:12,480 Speaker 1: we gotta a participation trophy if you consider purple Hearts 100 00:07:12,480 --> 00:07:16,000 Speaker 1: to participation trip. There's I don't know if I do 101 00:07:16,200 --> 00:07:20,520 Speaker 1: or not. I mean, you definitely participated. Yeah, you're like 102 00:07:20,560 --> 00:07:23,960 Speaker 1: that stabbed himself and tried to get one, but he 103 00:07:24,000 --> 00:07:27,160 Speaker 1: didn't get one. So I don't know. Um, Look, it's 104 00:07:27,240 --> 00:07:30,640 Speaker 1: a it's it's a weird mix of things because for 105 00:07:30,680 --> 00:07:34,560 Speaker 1: the first time in I don't know, somebody I know 106 00:07:34,640 --> 00:07:36,280 Speaker 1: posted like for the first time in my life, I 107 00:07:36,320 --> 00:07:37,600 Speaker 1: woke up in the U. S A isn't at war 108 00:07:37,720 --> 00:07:41,440 Speaker 1: And I guess I don't really think because we're still 109 00:07:41,800 --> 00:07:47,680 Speaker 1: we're still all over the place, right, we're participating in Yeah, 110 00:07:47,840 --> 00:07:50,600 Speaker 1: but for the first time in my adult life, we're 111 00:07:50,640 --> 00:07:54,240 Speaker 1: not at war in Afghanistan. That doesn't get technically, although 112 00:07:54,400 --> 00:07:59,520 Speaker 1: we are threatening retaliations. We did. We killed ten children 113 00:07:59,520 --> 00:08:04,360 Speaker 1: with him or six will be an ongoing thing. They're 114 00:08:04,400 --> 00:08:07,480 Speaker 1: talking about it. There's a lot more kids in Afghanistan's 115 00:08:07,600 --> 00:08:11,320 Speaker 1: gotta target those kids. Well, again, like the true the troops, 116 00:08:11,480 --> 00:08:14,440 Speaker 1: like we we quote we are out of Afghanistan. The 117 00:08:14,520 --> 00:08:18,280 Speaker 1: drones get to stay like, well, the drones are never 118 00:08:18,320 --> 00:08:26,640 Speaker 1: out of anywhere. The war the worst days we have left. Yeah, 119 00:08:26,680 --> 00:08:30,680 Speaker 1: but that's right, that's a that's a participation trophy worthy accomplishment. 120 00:08:31,600 --> 00:08:40,840 Speaker 1: We're being very flip, right, now talking to truly horrific situation. UM, 121 00:08:40,840 --> 00:08:46,400 Speaker 1: as we expected it to be. And uh you guys, yeah, Robert, 122 00:08:46,400 --> 00:08:48,360 Speaker 1: you walk us through some of the stuff that's happened 123 00:08:48,360 --> 00:08:51,520 Speaker 1: in the past week. Maybe no, I don't know. Uh. 124 00:08:51,840 --> 00:08:55,439 Speaker 1: We there's the we we pulled some troops started pulling 125 00:08:55,440 --> 00:08:58,280 Speaker 1: people out. We airlifted and I think Biden's claiming a 126 00:08:59,280 --> 00:09:03,920 Speaker 1: people in the space of about a week out of Afghanistan. Um. 127 00:09:04,040 --> 00:09:07,000 Speaker 1: While we were doing that, we kept about troops mostly 128 00:09:07,000 --> 00:09:10,200 Speaker 1: centered around the Kabul airport, working with the Taliban to 129 00:09:10,240 --> 00:09:13,800 Speaker 1: provide security. Uh. The Islamic State and Khorassan carried out 130 00:09:13,800 --> 00:09:17,000 Speaker 1: an attack a few days ago on the airport that 131 00:09:17,200 --> 00:09:22,360 Speaker 1: killed thirteen US soldiers. And well, we don't know how 132 00:09:22,400 --> 00:09:28,000 Speaker 1: many civilians died just from the Islamic State and Khorassan's attack, 133 00:09:28,120 --> 00:09:33,160 Speaker 1: because certainly dozens UM. But once they set off their 134 00:09:33,160 --> 00:09:35,880 Speaker 1: bombs and started there was also somebody firing, like with 135 00:09:35,960 --> 00:09:39,880 Speaker 1: a rifle. UM. U S troops responded and a number 136 00:09:39,920 --> 00:09:42,800 Speaker 1: we don't really know the number, but a number, potentially 137 00:09:42,920 --> 00:09:45,440 Speaker 1: very significant number of the civilians who were killed were 138 00:09:45,520 --> 00:09:49,079 Speaker 1: killed by US soldiers potentially just kind of panic firing 139 00:09:49,160 --> 00:09:52,080 Speaker 1: into the crowd. Um, and I I've I've there's certainly 140 00:09:52,120 --> 00:09:55,959 Speaker 1: a lot of allegations of that. There's not open source 141 00:09:56,000 --> 00:09:57,719 Speaker 1: information yet that I've been able to see to kind 142 00:09:57,720 --> 00:10:01,440 Speaker 1: of verify to a heart ex stent like exactly what happened, 143 00:10:01,440 --> 00:10:05,040 Speaker 1: But there's a lot of reports. Um, we don't. It'll 144 00:10:05,080 --> 00:10:07,760 Speaker 1: probably be years before we get any kind of comprehensive 145 00:10:07,800 --> 00:10:09,520 Speaker 1: like if we're looking at kind of niss Or Square, 146 00:10:09,520 --> 00:10:11,880 Speaker 1: any of the other times where U. S. Soldiers killed 147 00:10:11,880 --> 00:10:14,760 Speaker 1: a bunch of civilians, it will probably be years before 148 00:10:14,760 --> 00:10:18,400 Speaker 1: we get kind of a comprehensive information about how many 149 00:10:19,200 --> 00:10:21,560 Speaker 1: UM civilians were killed by U S troops in that. 150 00:10:21,600 --> 00:10:24,200 Speaker 1: But like a lot, you know, a lot of a 151 00:10:24,200 --> 00:10:27,439 Speaker 1: lot of Afghan civilians died overall as a result of 152 00:10:27,480 --> 00:10:30,960 Speaker 1: the attack. Um. In the United States, of course, what 153 00:10:31,080 --> 00:10:34,760 Speaker 1: matters is the Americans who died. Who are you're seeing 154 00:10:34,800 --> 00:10:37,600 Speaker 1: a mix of them being lionized and this being spun 155 00:10:37,679 --> 00:10:41,400 Speaker 1: up into you know, Benghazi two point oh. Um. These 156 00:10:41,440 --> 00:10:44,240 Speaker 1: are the first US soldiers who have died in Afghanistan 157 00:10:44,280 --> 00:10:46,679 Speaker 1: in a while that anybody on the right is talking about, 158 00:10:46,760 --> 00:10:49,679 Speaker 1: because we just kind of ignored it for years and years, Um, 159 00:10:49,679 --> 00:10:53,040 Speaker 1: which is cool, that's just the way everything works. Um, 160 00:10:53,080 --> 00:10:56,880 Speaker 1: I don't know that's that's anyway. But we we like yesterday, 161 00:10:57,160 --> 00:11:01,040 Speaker 1: the last troops left. The last guy out is a 162 00:11:01,120 --> 00:11:05,080 Speaker 1: major general, I believe with the eighties swond airborn. Um 163 00:11:05,120 --> 00:11:07,120 Speaker 1: and uh so, Yeah, there's no more US troops in 164 00:11:07,120 --> 00:11:12,160 Speaker 1: Afghanistan for the first time in my adult life. Yeah. 165 00:11:12,320 --> 00:11:16,280 Speaker 1: And some people's lives, yeah, and some people's whole life 166 00:11:16,280 --> 00:11:19,800 Speaker 1: in some in some of the soldiers who died that 167 00:11:19,920 --> 00:11:23,760 Speaker 1: attacks lives, yeah. And a significant number of the children, 168 00:11:24,000 --> 00:11:25,559 Speaker 1: all of the children who were killed in the eight 169 00:11:25,559 --> 00:11:28,920 Speaker 1: retalityatory air strike that we carried out. Babies are not 170 00:11:29,040 --> 00:11:33,000 Speaker 1: born yet. Mhm, Um, mom bid give a speech today 171 00:11:33,200 --> 00:11:36,760 Speaker 1: about it. Did let's talk about that. Um. He's doing 172 00:11:36,800 --> 00:11:42,079 Speaker 1: a job at speaking talk. He's called it a success. 173 00:11:42,480 --> 00:11:47,880 Speaker 1: We love words, folks. It's he's like, it's weird hearing. 174 00:11:48,400 --> 00:11:51,880 Speaker 1: I guess a president used terms like forever war? Um, 175 00:11:52,280 --> 00:11:57,720 Speaker 1: which did Um? And like m h, I don't know, 176 00:11:57,800 --> 00:12:06,640 Speaker 1: it's like adopting language at the appropriate time. Um and uh, 177 00:12:06,679 --> 00:12:09,239 Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know how I feel about that. Um. 178 00:12:09,280 --> 00:12:11,760 Speaker 1: He did say, he said we succeeded in what we 179 00:12:11,800 --> 00:12:13,960 Speaker 1: set out to do in Afghanistan. Over a decade ago. 180 00:12:14,760 --> 00:12:17,720 Speaker 1: He stayed for another decade and found to end the war. Yeah. 181 00:12:18,559 --> 00:12:22,160 Speaker 1: I think what he's referring to is Osama bin Laden dying, right. 182 00:12:22,520 --> 00:12:25,360 Speaker 1: That happened a long time. That's happened in I think 183 00:12:25,480 --> 00:12:30,480 Speaker 1: May of eleven, so technically over a decade ago. Yeah, 184 00:12:30,520 --> 00:12:34,400 Speaker 1: like technically, and I think that's what he's referring to. 185 00:12:34,559 --> 00:12:39,440 Speaker 1: But like, I think it's important to always remember that 186 00:12:39,960 --> 00:12:42,319 Speaker 1: the Taliban offered to give up with someone bin Laden 187 00:12:42,960 --> 00:12:46,480 Speaker 1: in two thousand one, uh and George W. Bush, the 188 00:12:46,520 --> 00:12:49,880 Speaker 1: president at the time, said no, we're gonna keep bombing 189 00:12:49,880 --> 00:12:52,200 Speaker 1: you and we're gonna go get him. And then the 190 00:12:52,240 --> 00:12:56,040 Speaker 1: war happened for twenty years. They offered to give him 191 00:12:56,160 --> 00:13:02,880 Speaker 1: up and we said no, right, Um, he wanted to 192 00:13:02,920 --> 00:13:06,200 Speaker 1: deal with that ship. You know, you want to negotiate 193 00:13:06,320 --> 00:13:13,720 Speaker 1: with terrorists, Cody. Um, isn't that what? Yes? I was 194 00:13:13,840 --> 00:13:19,880 Speaker 1: joking Now, Robert, I don't know. I keep throwing to 195 00:13:19,920 --> 00:13:23,679 Speaker 1: you because you obviously know the most about the region 196 00:13:24,040 --> 00:13:27,840 Speaker 1: and all of these things of the people present, not 197 00:13:27,920 --> 00:13:36,360 Speaker 1: the world. Um. So the attacks at the airport, I'm 198 00:13:37,480 --> 00:13:39,920 Speaker 1: we're from isis k not from the Taliban, well, from 199 00:13:39,920 --> 00:13:43,920 Speaker 1: the Islamic State in Coriban. ISIS is the Islamic It 200 00:13:44,000 --> 00:13:46,959 Speaker 1: can't be isis K because ISIS is the Islamic State 201 00:13:47,000 --> 00:13:50,120 Speaker 1: in Iraq and Syria or Iraq and all show. Um, 202 00:13:52,520 --> 00:13:55,040 Speaker 1: this is just what people I was reading like, I 203 00:13:55,080 --> 00:13:57,440 Speaker 1: need to talk to Robert to clarify. Yeah, and and 204 00:13:57,559 --> 00:14:00,720 Speaker 1: people who were saying that are are incorrect. Um, it's 205 00:14:00,760 --> 00:14:04,960 Speaker 1: it's the Islamic State and Chorussan Province. Umar seeing I 206 00:14:05,240 --> 00:14:08,640 Speaker 1: s k more, I think yeah, I s k is fine, 207 00:14:08,679 --> 00:14:14,040 Speaker 1: I s k p uh. They are so back in 208 00:14:14,120 --> 00:14:17,320 Speaker 1: the day. Actually, the organization that ISIS evolved out of 209 00:14:17,440 --> 00:14:19,960 Speaker 1: was was al Qaeda in Iraq, which was was run 210 00:14:20,000 --> 00:14:22,920 Speaker 1: by a little motherfucker you might have known called Abu 211 00:14:23,040 --> 00:14:25,640 Speaker 1: misables Kali, who was the author of a book called 212 00:14:25,640 --> 00:14:28,040 Speaker 1: The Management of Savagery that is kind of the blueprint 213 00:14:28,240 --> 00:14:31,840 Speaker 1: of it was a blueprint behind ISIS UM and a 214 00:14:31,920 --> 00:14:35,480 Speaker 1: number of other terrorist groups. Um We Zarcati was killed 215 00:14:35,520 --> 00:14:38,560 Speaker 1: back in the mid aughts before ISIS ever came around. 216 00:14:38,640 --> 00:14:40,800 Speaker 1: But ISIS kind of his group is one of the 217 00:14:40,800 --> 00:14:43,800 Speaker 1: things they evolved out of. It was called al Qaida 218 00:14:43,840 --> 00:14:47,320 Speaker 1: in Iraq. Al Qaeda didn't like Zarkhali and it was 219 00:14:47,400 --> 00:14:50,360 Speaker 1: kind of like a tense situation between them, and there 220 00:14:50,400 --> 00:14:52,680 Speaker 1: were some disavowals. You know, it was one of those 221 00:14:52,680 --> 00:14:55,720 Speaker 1: things where they liked they would kind of accept his 222 00:14:55,720 --> 00:14:59,280 Speaker 1: his his, you know, claiming a relationship with them when 223 00:14:59,280 --> 00:15:01,400 Speaker 1: he was doing stuff that they liked and not when 224 00:15:01,400 --> 00:15:02,840 Speaker 1: he was doing stuff that they didn't. But it was 225 00:15:02,960 --> 00:15:05,600 Speaker 1: very like the they disagreed on a lot and the 226 00:15:05,640 --> 00:15:07,960 Speaker 1: reason he he was just kind of had a group 227 00:15:08,000 --> 00:15:12,000 Speaker 1: and called it al Qaeda in Iraq um the Islamic 228 00:15:12,040 --> 00:15:15,720 Speaker 1: State affiliate groups, because there's others outside of Chorisson. It 229 00:15:15,840 --> 00:15:18,320 Speaker 1: is more like that than I think what people are picturing, 230 00:15:18,360 --> 00:15:21,600 Speaker 1: which is that like there's some central Isis leadership carrying 231 00:15:21,600 --> 00:15:24,920 Speaker 1: out all of these shadowy occupations and attacks around the globe, 232 00:15:24,960 --> 00:15:29,160 Speaker 1: and no I s kp is. It would be better 233 00:15:29,200 --> 00:15:32,200 Speaker 1: to view them as a separate but affiliated group from 234 00:15:32,240 --> 00:15:34,640 Speaker 1: the folks in Iraq and Syria that we spent a 235 00:15:34,680 --> 00:15:37,280 Speaker 1: couple of years assisting in the fight against. And there's 236 00:15:37,320 --> 00:15:40,320 Speaker 1: a number of similarities, particularly in tactics they embrace in 237 00:15:40,400 --> 00:15:43,720 Speaker 1: the in the the specific kind of radical Islam that 238 00:15:43,760 --> 00:15:46,680 Speaker 1: they embrace. But it is not like it's not like 239 00:15:46,760 --> 00:15:51,120 Speaker 1: there's some centralized leadership running ISIS operations all around. It's 240 00:15:51,160 --> 00:15:54,520 Speaker 1: more like an affiliate kind of thing where they're like, okay, 241 00:15:54,520 --> 00:15:56,880 Speaker 1: well this is a good branding to have, you know. Um. 242 00:15:57,000 --> 00:16:00,960 Speaker 1: And I s KP has been around for like a 243 00:16:01,000 --> 00:16:03,440 Speaker 1: couple of years at this point, and in fact, last 244 00:16:03,560 --> 00:16:06,720 Speaker 1: year under President Trump, the United States carry started carrying 245 00:16:06,720 --> 00:16:09,640 Speaker 1: out strikes in support of the Taliban in their fight 246 00:16:09,720 --> 00:16:12,600 Speaker 1: against I s k P. Um. So we have been 247 00:16:13,120 --> 00:16:15,400 Speaker 1: four Biden was in office. We have been aiding the 248 00:16:15,440 --> 00:16:19,920 Speaker 1: Taliban fighting these guys. Um. We love that ship. Everything. 249 00:16:20,160 --> 00:16:22,440 Speaker 1: It always just gets stupider and stupider every war we 250 00:16:22,520 --> 00:16:26,400 Speaker 1: get into. So that's obviously what if we are everybody 251 00:16:26,480 --> 00:16:30,680 Speaker 1: and then we arm everybody else and then we it 252 00:16:30,800 --> 00:16:34,560 Speaker 1: just never ends. Yeah, then we'll have peace piece in 253 00:16:34,800 --> 00:16:39,880 Speaker 1: our time. Well, that's how you get peace, right, everybody 254 00:16:39,880 --> 00:16:44,800 Speaker 1: has a gun if everybody's dead. That's I mean, that's 255 00:16:45,360 --> 00:16:48,480 Speaker 1: that's that's what people always say is cool about Empires 256 00:16:48,560 --> 00:16:50,960 Speaker 1: is that they make a desert and call it peace. 257 00:16:51,000 --> 00:16:55,480 Speaker 1: And that's sweet and we like it it. We love it, folks. Um. 258 00:16:55,560 --> 00:16:58,320 Speaker 1: You know, I don't know, it's silly how it's gone. 259 00:16:58,360 --> 00:17:01,720 Speaker 1: Because now like we're getting out of Afghanistan, the Taliban 260 00:17:01,840 --> 00:17:04,280 Speaker 1: is stronger than they've ever been. They're talking about how 261 00:17:04,280 --> 00:17:08,080 Speaker 1: they want positive relationships with the US. Uh, we're relying 262 00:17:08,119 --> 00:17:10,320 Speaker 1: on We relied on them in the end in order 263 00:17:10,359 --> 00:17:15,040 Speaker 1: to help maintain the security situation. Yeah, they did escort missions. 264 00:17:15,720 --> 00:17:18,320 Speaker 1: They did escort missions. Yeah, we had them and and 265 00:17:18,440 --> 00:17:20,400 Speaker 1: they you know, if you look at videos of Taliban 266 00:17:20,560 --> 00:17:24,320 Speaker 1: fighters who were kind of like taking these abandoned US facilities, 267 00:17:24,400 --> 00:17:26,320 Speaker 1: like they all look like US soldiers because they're all 268 00:17:26,359 --> 00:17:30,040 Speaker 1: wearing the same gear because it's like good effective, you 269 00:17:30,119 --> 00:17:32,159 Speaker 1: know gear, but it's also kind of a style thing. 270 00:17:32,280 --> 00:17:35,040 Speaker 1: And it's just that this is this is how war works. 271 00:17:35,280 --> 00:17:38,680 Speaker 1: It's it's really dumb a lot of the time. A 272 00:17:38,840 --> 00:17:43,840 Speaker 1: couple of things. I wanted your your thoughts on UM one. 273 00:17:44,440 --> 00:17:46,000 Speaker 1: I mean, I guess we've talked about this at times. 274 00:17:46,119 --> 00:17:49,359 Speaker 1: Just all the equipment and stuff that we left behind. 275 00:17:50,200 --> 00:17:52,680 Speaker 1: It's a lot less than it's being talked about. People 276 00:17:52,840 --> 00:17:55,080 Speaker 1: throwing out the number eighty eight billion, which is like 277 00:17:55,160 --> 00:17:57,440 Speaker 1: the total number of military amount of military aid we 278 00:17:57,560 --> 00:18:02,040 Speaker 1: gave the Afghan National Army, which included salaries, which obviously, 279 00:18:02,080 --> 00:18:03,920 Speaker 1: I mean obviously the Taliban did get some of that 280 00:18:03,960 --> 00:18:07,159 Speaker 1: because all the corruption but like that's not armaments left behind. 281 00:18:07,680 --> 00:18:10,119 Speaker 1: And then there's all these infographics going around that will 282 00:18:10,160 --> 00:18:12,560 Speaker 1: show all of the vehicles and aircraft and stuff we 283 00:18:12,640 --> 00:18:14,240 Speaker 1: gave the an A as if like that's what the 284 00:18:14,320 --> 00:18:16,159 Speaker 1: Taliban got. But like no one. A lot of that 285 00:18:16,200 --> 00:18:18,960 Speaker 1: stuff was destroyed a lot of that stuff when the 286 00:18:19,240 --> 00:18:22,680 Speaker 1: a n A collapse. They took it to Uzbekistan or 287 00:18:22,680 --> 00:18:25,960 Speaker 1: I think Tashikistan. They took it outside of the country. 288 00:18:26,040 --> 00:18:29,919 Speaker 1: It's not there anymore. They did get some aircraft, including 289 00:18:29,960 --> 00:18:32,800 Speaker 1: some helicopters, and there's video that seems to be legitimate 290 00:18:32,920 --> 00:18:35,440 Speaker 1: of them flying in a black Hawk helicopter. There's also 291 00:18:35,880 --> 00:18:37,960 Speaker 1: false video that they claim as them like hanging people 292 00:18:38,000 --> 00:18:41,159 Speaker 1: from helicopters, as far as I know, has been debunked. Um, 293 00:18:41,960 --> 00:18:43,440 Speaker 1: but they've got like they got, they do have some 294 00:18:43,640 --> 00:18:45,880 Speaker 1: they do have some air assets now, like that's for sure. 295 00:18:46,640 --> 00:18:51,159 Speaker 1: Surveillance stuff, um, you know specifically, I can't remember what 296 00:18:51,280 --> 00:18:53,480 Speaker 1: the systems called, but stuff that we we brought there 297 00:18:53,520 --> 00:18:57,200 Speaker 1: and technology we created over the course of this war, 298 00:18:58,200 --> 00:19:01,720 Speaker 1: uh to you know, track and surveil people and find 299 00:19:01,720 --> 00:19:07,000 Speaker 1: out who's affiliated with you know, the Taliban and who's 300 00:19:07,040 --> 00:19:10,520 Speaker 1: on it's a database also of information that Taliban can 301 00:19:10,640 --> 00:19:14,200 Speaker 1: used to find Americans. Not Americans. Uh oh yeah, the 302 00:19:14,520 --> 00:19:17,800 Speaker 1: bioelect Well, because we had these it was this it's 303 00:19:17,880 --> 00:19:20,679 Speaker 1: this bad security state, bad idea that you see all 304 00:19:20,720 --> 00:19:22,320 Speaker 1: the time where it's like, okay, well we just want 305 00:19:22,320 --> 00:19:25,520 Speaker 1: to have everyone registered in a thing biometrically. Oops, we 306 00:19:25,640 --> 00:19:27,800 Speaker 1: lost it and they have it, and now they have 307 00:19:27,880 --> 00:19:30,760 Speaker 1: an easy way to find everybody who worked with us. Like, yeah, 308 00:19:32,960 --> 00:19:35,080 Speaker 1: but what if you so what if you do it again, 309 00:19:35,240 --> 00:19:38,080 Speaker 1: but you like make it a little bit more secure. Yeah, 310 00:19:38,480 --> 00:19:42,080 Speaker 1: that'll work. It almost worked this time, Cody, that close 311 00:19:42,320 --> 00:19:50,800 Speaker 1: super well if it was. Um speaking of biometrics, is 312 00:19:50,840 --> 00:19:53,920 Speaker 1: that our transition to an ad would love information about 313 00:19:54,000 --> 00:19:58,680 Speaker 1: your body? I would like to buy you know, metrics right, yeah, exactly. 314 00:20:00,240 --> 00:20:04,840 Speaker 1: Listen to these ads, find their email addresses, and then 315 00:20:05,000 --> 00:20:08,159 Speaker 1: send them pictures of your body. That's what all of 316 00:20:08,200 --> 00:20:23,440 Speaker 1: our sponsors request together. All right, we're back. We are 317 00:20:23,600 --> 00:20:28,520 Speaker 1: back before we transition to talking about other things. Well, Robert, 318 00:20:28,520 --> 00:20:30,760 Speaker 1: did you have anything else to say about Afghanistan? Um? 319 00:20:30,920 --> 00:20:33,679 Speaker 1: I think yeah. One of the funny things was there 320 00:20:33,720 --> 00:20:35,280 Speaker 1: are a couple of different comments about all the gear 321 00:20:35,320 --> 00:20:38,320 Speaker 1: the talibanber getting. One was that you know, without the 322 00:20:38,920 --> 00:20:41,440 Speaker 1: spare parts to supply it, they would be fucked, which 323 00:20:41,520 --> 00:20:44,159 Speaker 1: is I mean partially true. Some of the equipment, like 324 00:20:44,280 --> 00:20:47,359 Speaker 1: the Chinooks that they got are famously terrible aircraft that 325 00:20:47,440 --> 00:20:49,840 Speaker 1: I do not think they will be using long because 326 00:20:49,840 --> 00:20:51,919 Speaker 1: they're not worth it in the maintenance is a nightmare. 327 00:20:51,960 --> 00:20:53,720 Speaker 1: But other stuff like the black Hawks, like they'll find 328 00:20:53,760 --> 00:20:56,200 Speaker 1: a way. There's a lot of spare parts already in Afghanistan. 329 00:20:56,720 --> 00:20:59,560 Speaker 1: There's ways to get it fabricated. What was funniest was 330 00:20:59,600 --> 00:21:02,080 Speaker 1: like the people who were insistent like, oh, they don't 331 00:21:02,080 --> 00:21:04,520 Speaker 1: ever figure out how to fight, how to fly these 332 00:21:04,560 --> 00:21:08,440 Speaker 1: helicopters and stuff without without training, And I was like, no, 333 00:21:08,560 --> 00:21:11,359 Speaker 1: they just they've got YouTube, Like you can figure anything 334 00:21:11,480 --> 00:21:14,200 Speaker 1: out with the internet. They shear diad they're up in 335 00:21:14,280 --> 00:21:16,639 Speaker 1: the air. Um. I mean probably they had some A 336 00:21:16,760 --> 00:21:18,800 Speaker 1: and A guys who you know, had flipped to the 337 00:21:18,840 --> 00:21:22,040 Speaker 1: Taliban and gotten training. But I don't. I mean, it's 338 00:21:22,080 --> 00:21:23,919 Speaker 1: not you'll you'll you can learn how to do anything, 339 00:21:24,200 --> 00:21:25,639 Speaker 1: is the is the point of it? Like all of 340 00:21:25,720 --> 00:21:29,240 Speaker 1: this equipment we left behind, none of it's that complicated. 341 00:21:29,520 --> 00:21:32,200 Speaker 1: You know, you know, they don't need to manual to 342 00:21:32,320 --> 00:21:36,240 Speaker 1: have you out, have you ever gone drinking with soldiers. 343 00:21:36,440 --> 00:21:39,360 Speaker 1: They're dumb as shit and they figure it out. Obviously, 344 00:21:39,480 --> 00:21:42,600 Speaker 1: the Taliban would. All military weaponry is made to be 345 00:21:42,760 --> 00:21:46,320 Speaker 1: utilized by people who are the kind of folks who 346 00:21:46,440 --> 00:21:50,640 Speaker 1: get blackout drunk at a bar named Skeeters and by 347 00:21:50,920 --> 00:21:55,359 Speaker 1: a fucking dodge charger at th PR like, and they 348 00:21:55,440 --> 00:22:01,359 Speaker 1: can manage it. It's fine, I specific forever, like, like, 349 00:22:01,440 --> 00:22:04,560 Speaker 1: tell me tell me this about this experience you definitely 350 00:22:04,640 --> 00:22:08,320 Speaker 1: had yourself. Yeah, yeah, yeah, without telling me that you 351 00:22:08,440 --> 00:22:11,719 Speaker 1: definitely had it yourself. But if the Iraqi Army can 352 00:22:11,840 --> 00:22:14,920 Speaker 1: master this stuff, the Taliban like things are made to 353 00:22:15,080 --> 00:22:21,320 Speaker 1: be easy to use. Um war, you don't have time. 354 00:22:21,440 --> 00:22:24,960 Speaker 1: It's like, it's not nuclear science. It's going boom boom, 355 00:22:26,200 --> 00:22:31,800 Speaker 1: pushing button to go there. I mean, yeah, I'm sure 356 00:22:31,840 --> 00:22:34,040 Speaker 1: a lot of them will die in helicopter crashes, but 357 00:22:34,160 --> 00:22:37,560 Speaker 1: so do a lot of US soldiers. Like our helicopters 358 00:22:37,600 --> 00:22:41,600 Speaker 1: crash all the time. One of the things they do there, 359 00:22:41,680 --> 00:22:45,280 Speaker 1: they shouldn't be in the air. Don't get in the helicopter. Fine, god, 360 00:22:47,520 --> 00:22:51,120 Speaker 1: I uh, we do have other stuff to talk about. 361 00:22:51,160 --> 00:22:53,720 Speaker 1: But one last question that you probably won't have an 362 00:22:53,720 --> 00:22:56,840 Speaker 1: answer to, but maybe have insight because this is sticking 363 00:22:56,920 --> 00:22:59,520 Speaker 1: with me right now. Obviously, the Biden just did his 364 00:22:59,600 --> 00:23:03,200 Speaker 1: speech and I jokingly said this at the beginning of 365 00:23:03,280 --> 00:23:12,320 Speaker 1: this conversation, but he's announced that um of American citizens 366 00:23:12,400 --> 00:23:17,320 Speaker 1: who wanted to leave did leave, and you know, there's 367 00:23:17,320 --> 00:23:19,960 Speaker 1: some fuzzy math about how many that means left behind, 368 00:23:20,160 --> 00:23:23,359 Speaker 1: but he's saying one hundred two hundred, which okay, I 369 00:23:23,480 --> 00:23:27,800 Speaker 1: guess is the ten percent. Regardless, Uh, he said they 370 00:23:27,880 --> 00:23:31,720 Speaker 1: still can leave if they want to. But then I'm 371 00:23:31,760 --> 00:23:34,040 Speaker 1: hearing other reports of no, this is it. You know, 372 00:23:34,320 --> 00:23:37,320 Speaker 1: if you haven't left, this is this isn't you're not 373 00:23:37,440 --> 00:23:41,840 Speaker 1: going to um And you know, I just was curious 374 00:23:41,840 --> 00:23:44,359 Speaker 1: if you had any thoughts on that, like would is 375 00:23:44,400 --> 00:23:48,000 Speaker 1: that even possible? Like what would you that require? We're 376 00:23:48,040 --> 00:23:51,679 Speaker 1: not coming in there to evacuate anymore people. Yeah, I mean, 377 00:23:52,320 --> 00:23:54,440 Speaker 1: what do you? I don't know, like it. It's kind 378 00:23:54,480 --> 00:23:56,280 Speaker 1: of silly because it's like if I were to take 379 00:23:56,760 --> 00:23:59,040 Speaker 1: a bunch of people's kids to a grocery store and 380 00:23:59,119 --> 00:24:03,040 Speaker 1: then come back and them made it back, I would 381 00:24:03,119 --> 00:24:05,840 Speaker 1: I would be in prison. You have done a bad job. 382 00:24:06,600 --> 00:24:08,720 Speaker 1: But the president's not a dad, so who can say 383 00:24:08,760 --> 00:24:12,560 Speaker 1: if anything wrong was done. You know, who can say? 384 00:24:14,000 --> 00:24:17,960 Speaker 1: I feel like somebody could say, but I'm not expecting 385 00:24:17,960 --> 00:24:20,600 Speaker 1: anybody to have information or answers on this. It's just 386 00:24:20,760 --> 00:24:24,320 Speaker 1: stuck with me. It's always it's all bad and fucked up, 387 00:24:24,480 --> 00:24:26,120 Speaker 1: and like, I don't know. One of the frustrating things 388 00:24:26,240 --> 00:24:31,800 Speaker 1: is there's I don't want to not hold Joe Biden's 389 00:24:31,840 --> 00:24:34,680 Speaker 1: feet to the fire on this because a lot of 390 00:24:34,760 --> 00:24:37,480 Speaker 1: this was a disaster, but also like it's been a 391 00:24:37,560 --> 00:24:42,040 Speaker 1: disaster since day one. Uh, And it's very frustrating that like, 392 00:24:42,920 --> 00:24:45,600 Speaker 1: after twenty years of war, all of the shade is 393 00:24:45,640 --> 00:24:48,120 Speaker 1: going on this guy for like not getting everyone out 394 00:24:48,240 --> 00:24:50,000 Speaker 1: and like all of these different funk ups and like 395 00:24:50,840 --> 00:24:52,879 Speaker 1: and now people give a ship that we killed a 396 00:24:52,960 --> 00:24:55,360 Speaker 1: bunch of kids in an air strike, which is horrible, 397 00:24:55,560 --> 00:24:57,040 Speaker 1: And I was like, yeah, we've been doing that for 398 00:24:57,160 --> 00:25:00,959 Speaker 1: twenty fucking years. Where were you? Where you? And if 399 00:25:01,000 --> 00:25:03,800 Speaker 1: you if you've been angry for twenties straight years, great, 400 00:25:04,560 --> 00:25:07,200 Speaker 1: I'm just I'm angry mainly about like the mainstream media 401 00:25:07,280 --> 00:25:09,680 Speaker 1: discourse around It's like, oh, now you guys care that 402 00:25:09,800 --> 00:25:12,200 Speaker 1: US soldiers are dying in Afghanistan. Now you guys give 403 00:25:12,200 --> 00:25:14,439 Speaker 1: a ship that kids are getting killed by our missus. Okay, 404 00:25:14,840 --> 00:25:19,960 Speaker 1: I I mean, I I first off, completely agree with you. Um. 405 00:25:20,440 --> 00:25:25,160 Speaker 1: I also feel frustrated that whenever you say, like, wait 406 00:25:25,200 --> 00:25:27,520 Speaker 1: a minute, there's a problem with how this has been going, 407 00:25:27,680 --> 00:25:30,920 Speaker 1: I have a problem with what's happening. I also feel 408 00:25:31,000 --> 00:25:34,520 Speaker 1: like immediately there's a faction of people that are defending 409 00:25:34,600 --> 00:25:38,280 Speaker 1: Biden saying this stuff, and I'm saying, like, both things 410 00:25:38,400 --> 00:25:44,359 Speaker 1: are true. I'm the just because I'm criticizing how he 411 00:25:45,160 --> 00:25:47,720 Speaker 1: has handled this does not mean that I am trying 412 00:25:47,840 --> 00:25:51,119 Speaker 1: to make a case that Biden is to blame for 413 00:25:51,240 --> 00:25:55,200 Speaker 1: everything that's happened. It's both things are true. So there's 414 00:25:55,240 --> 00:25:58,239 Speaker 1: this whole contingency of people online that feel the need 415 00:25:58,320 --> 00:26:01,160 Speaker 1: to go out of their way to say, my president 416 00:26:01,280 --> 00:26:03,879 Speaker 1: has been doing X, Y Z, and my president is 417 00:26:03,960 --> 00:26:06,639 Speaker 1: the only president you know that has done this, and 418 00:26:07,240 --> 00:26:11,200 Speaker 1: you're like, well, have some nuance here. It's not this 419 00:26:11,400 --> 00:26:13,280 Speaker 1: side that side. I mean, we have been saying the 420 00:26:13,359 --> 00:26:15,280 Speaker 1: same kind of argument for the last few weeks as 421 00:26:15,320 --> 00:26:18,719 Speaker 1: this has been unfolding, of course, but it it frustrates 422 00:26:18,840 --> 00:26:24,080 Speaker 1: me continuously. Anyway, shameless plug. We have an episode of 423 00:26:24,119 --> 00:26:27,399 Speaker 1: Somewhere News out today about this exact thing. Um. And 424 00:26:27,680 --> 00:26:31,920 Speaker 1: who is quote to blame uh and spoilers. It's every president, 425 00:26:32,560 --> 00:26:35,639 Speaker 1: every single one of them. Um. We touched on this 426 00:26:35,800 --> 00:26:37,840 Speaker 1: last week on here. I believe when we talked about 427 00:26:37,880 --> 00:26:41,840 Speaker 1: this all the cigar reports, um uh, and like it's 428 00:26:42,040 --> 00:26:44,520 Speaker 1: just so extensive and it's been going on for so 429 00:26:44,640 --> 00:26:47,160 Speaker 1: many years, and every step of the way, every single 430 00:26:47,200 --> 00:26:51,560 Speaker 1: president had access to information saying that it was bad, 431 00:26:51,720 --> 00:26:55,480 Speaker 1: we were doing a bad job. We're failing continuously. Um. 432 00:26:55,560 --> 00:26:59,400 Speaker 1: And nothing changed. And um, yeah, you have like people 433 00:26:59,440 --> 00:27:01,639 Speaker 1: upset now like, well, weren't you, like, aren't you champion 434 00:27:02,000 --> 00:27:06,320 Speaker 1: like the drone program in general, like five years ago, 435 00:27:06,720 --> 00:27:11,480 Speaker 1: seven years ago? Um. So yeah, you can say Biden 436 00:27:11,560 --> 00:27:14,600 Speaker 1: didn't do a good job here, but you can also 437 00:27:14,600 --> 00:27:16,840 Speaker 1: say that about literally every president. Maybe all of them 438 00:27:16,880 --> 00:27:22,040 Speaker 1: should go to prison. Maybe uh give him, hand him 439 00:27:22,080 --> 00:27:24,520 Speaker 1: over to the Taliban, see what happens, to see what 440 00:27:24,720 --> 00:27:30,440 Speaker 1: happens for themselves, what their punishment will be. Um, let's 441 00:27:30,480 --> 00:27:35,880 Speaker 1: move on to other topics, shall we. We're gonna talk 442 00:27:35,960 --> 00:27:41,399 Speaker 1: about the California recall for a little bit. Uh getting 443 00:27:41,440 --> 00:27:44,080 Speaker 1: hot in here, guys. Uh, did you know that we 444 00:27:44,160 --> 00:27:49,000 Speaker 1: have the easiest state to recall govern Yeah, that's pretty cool, real, 445 00:27:49,440 --> 00:27:55,920 Speaker 1: nice little perk of being a Caligornia. Yes, yeah, it's 446 00:27:55,920 --> 00:28:01,280 Speaker 1: actually true that I believe every governor has had to 447 00:28:01,359 --> 00:28:05,480 Speaker 1: recall attept here, but J. Davis was the only one 448 00:28:05,680 --> 00:28:10,720 Speaker 1: where it actually succeeded famously by Arnold Schwarzenheger. So yes, 449 00:28:11,000 --> 00:28:15,840 Speaker 1: it can happen here. Um, shout out. This whole thing 450 00:28:16,280 --> 00:28:18,800 Speaker 1: is so fucking dumb. We have talked about this, but 451 00:28:19,080 --> 00:28:24,200 Speaker 1: it's it's very important. Um. Literally, as soon as he 452 00:28:24,480 --> 00:28:30,080 Speaker 1: was elected, recall attempts began. You know, they were always 453 00:28:30,080 --> 00:28:32,879 Speaker 1: going to begin, and it didn't really get much traction 454 00:28:33,480 --> 00:28:37,480 Speaker 1: until the pandemic. Um. And look, I'm not sitting here 455 00:28:39,280 --> 00:28:42,840 Speaker 1: making a case for Gavin Newsom. I think he has 456 00:28:42,960 --> 00:28:51,000 Speaker 1: been milk toast at best, you know. Um, but yeah, 457 00:28:51,400 --> 00:28:54,520 Speaker 1: it sucks. Sucks you get to deal with COVID in 458 00:28:55,080 --> 00:28:57,640 Speaker 1: uh the middle of your term. Could have done a 459 00:28:57,680 --> 00:28:59,960 Speaker 1: better job. Sucks that you had to do a good job, 460 00:29:00,320 --> 00:29:02,000 Speaker 1: you guys. I still want to know how he got 461 00:29:02,080 --> 00:29:04,720 Speaker 1: access to all that hair gel when nothing was available 462 00:29:04,720 --> 00:29:07,000 Speaker 1: in the middle of the pandemic, because his hair always 463 00:29:07,160 --> 00:29:11,360 Speaker 1: was just I mean, oh, stockpiled, stockpiled it. He stockpiled 464 00:29:11,720 --> 00:29:14,680 Speaker 1: crates and crates back when he was with with Gilfoil. Right. 465 00:29:17,760 --> 00:29:20,280 Speaker 1: I don't think there was ever a shortage of hair gel, 466 00:29:20,520 --> 00:29:25,400 Speaker 1: because that is not a hot ticket right now anywhere. Also, 467 00:29:25,480 --> 00:29:27,600 Speaker 1: you don't know his hair gel could have been hand sanitizers, 468 00:29:28,480 --> 00:29:32,680 Speaker 1: be it could have been honey, I don't know. Anyway, 469 00:29:32,960 --> 00:29:36,480 Speaker 1: not important to gain traction during the pandemic. Um. And 470 00:29:36,560 --> 00:29:39,160 Speaker 1: this is interesting. I guess at some point a judge 471 00:29:40,320 --> 00:29:44,760 Speaker 1: allowed for ordered that I believe they got three or 472 00:29:44,840 --> 00:29:49,520 Speaker 1: four extra weeks to gain signatures. Uh, you know, since 473 00:29:49,680 --> 00:29:54,720 Speaker 1: the pandemic had hindered their petitioning. It's only fair. Uh. 474 00:29:54,920 --> 00:29:58,880 Speaker 1: And and who knows what would have happened. But then 475 00:29:59,200 --> 00:30:03,320 Speaker 1: Gavin Newson during those I believe during those extra weeks, 476 00:30:03,560 --> 00:30:09,400 Speaker 1: was spotted having his infamous unmasked French laundry birthday dinner 477 00:30:09,440 --> 00:30:11,680 Speaker 1: in San Francisco, and it really pissed people off. French 478 00:30:11,760 --> 00:30:16,480 Speaker 1: laundry is like the most expensive of restaurants where you 479 00:30:16,840 --> 00:30:19,840 Speaker 1: have you can never get rest reservations. And there he 480 00:30:20,000 --> 00:30:22,640 Speaker 1: was being unmaxed in the middle of this big search 481 00:30:23,520 --> 00:30:26,840 Speaker 1: um and and it really it piste people off. It 482 00:30:26,960 --> 00:30:30,200 Speaker 1: did it with his conservatives and liberals off. Uh And 483 00:30:30,320 --> 00:30:32,800 Speaker 1: after that, um, it really picked up steam and they 484 00:30:32,920 --> 00:30:39,560 Speaker 1: amass enough signatures to you know, trigger it. Um. So 485 00:30:39,720 --> 00:30:44,120 Speaker 1: really it is a series of unlucky breaks. But also 486 00:30:44,720 --> 00:30:50,560 Speaker 1: he hasn't been a great governor, so a lot of loyalty. Um. 487 00:30:50,960 --> 00:30:56,160 Speaker 1: But at the same time, the opposite would be disastrous. Um. 488 00:30:56,480 --> 00:30:59,480 Speaker 1: And we are in a very precarious situation. It's this 489 00:30:59,640 --> 00:31:03,720 Speaker 1: horror while situation that we keep being in that I 490 00:31:03,840 --> 00:31:07,680 Speaker 1: get why some people reject electoralism entirely. Where you're where 491 00:31:07,680 --> 00:31:11,000 Speaker 1: You're like, well, we've got this guy who completely watched 492 00:31:11,040 --> 00:31:17,000 Speaker 1: the pandemic response, who continues to botch the pandemic response. Um, 493 00:31:17,200 --> 00:31:20,680 Speaker 1: who's been a ship governor who's continuing to allow hydraulic 494 00:31:20,760 --> 00:31:26,640 Speaker 1: fracking and fucking up the fire response and and making Yeah, 495 00:31:27,240 --> 00:31:32,560 Speaker 1: but the alternative is a knife wielding psychopath who wants 496 00:31:32,640 --> 00:31:36,120 Speaker 1: to stab every single Californian in the dick. Um. So 497 00:31:36,280 --> 00:31:38,960 Speaker 1: I guess we have to go And I mean, yeah, 498 00:31:40,280 --> 00:31:43,000 Speaker 1: well we'll get to that real quick. So this is 499 00:31:43,040 --> 00:31:46,520 Speaker 1: a precarious situation. Just so everyone understands, Um, if the 500 00:31:46,680 --> 00:31:52,080 Speaker 1: no votes do not pass the threshold, then one of 501 00:31:52,320 --> 00:31:56,720 Speaker 1: the like forty candidates that are running on the ballot, 502 00:31:57,280 --> 00:31:59,320 Speaker 1: this just one of them has to get a majority, 503 00:32:00,200 --> 00:32:05,560 Speaker 1: and how much it's I think it might be sixty. 504 00:32:05,920 --> 00:32:08,960 Speaker 1: I don't have it actually, right, but yeah, and this 505 00:32:09,160 --> 00:32:12,480 Speaker 1: is allowed, and this is allowed. Also, Gavin Newsom is 506 00:32:12,560 --> 00:32:18,600 Speaker 1: not one of the candidates on that ballot um, which 507 00:32:18,640 --> 00:32:20,960 Speaker 1: I don't know. Maybe the legality he wouldn't be, but 508 00:32:21,080 --> 00:32:22,800 Speaker 1: part of me is like, shouldn't be at least put 509 00:32:22,920 --> 00:32:25,000 Speaker 1: him on there, like if you because if people have 510 00:32:25,080 --> 00:32:27,280 Speaker 1: something else to vote for, so like we we recall 511 00:32:27,360 --> 00:32:31,480 Speaker 1: them and they're like, well, like okay. So here's part 512 00:32:31,520 --> 00:32:35,080 Speaker 1: of the thing that people have seen. I mean, I've 513 00:32:35,080 --> 00:32:36,640 Speaker 1: been saying this all along, but a lot of people 514 00:32:36,680 --> 00:32:40,160 Speaker 1: pushed back at me, so so I shut up for 515 00:32:40,240 --> 00:32:42,800 Speaker 1: a minute. But now more people are saying, which is 516 00:32:43,040 --> 00:32:45,840 Speaker 1: I do not know why. I mean I do know why. 517 00:32:45,960 --> 00:32:49,680 Speaker 1: I know why. The strategy from the governor has been 518 00:32:50,080 --> 00:32:52,480 Speaker 1: just vote no and once you vote no, do not 519 00:32:52,720 --> 00:32:59,720 Speaker 1: choose a replacement, which seems classic Democrats make no backup. 520 00:33:00,040 --> 00:33:08,040 Speaker 1: And well, okay, so here's the plan. It's a plan. Well, 521 00:33:08,440 --> 00:33:13,600 Speaker 1: I just need to say that it's a it's a calculation. Uh, 522 00:33:14,520 --> 00:33:21,560 Speaker 1: because when Governor Gray Davis was recalled recalled in the 523 00:33:21,720 --> 00:33:29,480 Speaker 1: post mortem, they concluded that having the lieutenant governor Cruz Bustamante, 524 00:33:29,880 --> 00:33:32,640 Speaker 1: but then lieutenant governor on the ballot as a backup 525 00:33:32,760 --> 00:33:36,880 Speaker 1: confused all the voters. Uh, and and you know that 526 00:33:37,200 --> 00:33:41,200 Speaker 1: is why not enough people voted no and picked Cruise Bustamante. 527 00:33:41,680 --> 00:33:45,160 Speaker 1: So that's the theory, the working theory that they took 528 00:33:45,240 --> 00:33:47,720 Speaker 1: instead of saying, like, no, let's just be really clear 529 00:33:47,840 --> 00:33:51,400 Speaker 1: with our language. Let's Cody's raising his hands. This is 530 00:33:51,400 --> 00:33:53,760 Speaker 1: an audio format, so I had to say it. Thank you. 531 00:33:53,920 --> 00:33:56,680 Speaker 1: I just this is so like and I feel like 532 00:33:56,720 --> 00:34:00,560 Speaker 1: we've said this before on every podcast exists. One of 533 00:34:00,680 --> 00:34:06,160 Speaker 1: the key elements and features that you want out of 534 00:34:06,160 --> 00:34:10,160 Speaker 1: a leader is communication. That's the thing that leaders should 535 00:34:10,160 --> 00:34:13,120 Speaker 1: be able to do. So if that is the case, 536 00:34:13,600 --> 00:34:17,160 Speaker 1: the solution is to communicate better so that people are 537 00:34:17,280 --> 00:34:20,719 Speaker 1: not confused. If the problem is people are confused by this, 538 00:34:21,480 --> 00:34:25,680 Speaker 1: the solution is communicate to them and make it not confusing. 539 00:34:26,680 --> 00:34:31,000 Speaker 1: I mean, look, I fucking hope that they were right, 540 00:34:32,200 --> 00:34:36,080 Speaker 1: you know, but I don't believe that they are. I 541 00:34:36,239 --> 00:34:39,239 Speaker 1: think it feels very anti democratic to say no. And 542 00:34:39,400 --> 00:34:43,120 Speaker 1: I refuse to choose another pick because now the situation 543 00:34:43,280 --> 00:34:45,919 Speaker 1: is very likely that if it passes, which by the way, 544 00:34:47,480 --> 00:34:51,360 Speaker 1: that the other part of this, Yes, obviously California is 545 00:34:51,600 --> 00:34:58,920 Speaker 1: a demo Democrat state. We are liberal essentially, but there 546 00:34:58,960 --> 00:35:03,240 Speaker 1: are huge pockets. There's a big contingency of of Trump supporters, 547 00:35:03,320 --> 00:35:06,120 Speaker 1: of of conservatives, and they are the people that care 548 00:35:06,160 --> 00:35:11,160 Speaker 1: about this. Meanwhile, Gavin Newsom again not exactly a leader 549 00:35:11,200 --> 00:35:15,719 Speaker 1: who inspires loyalty during a pandemic when everyone's exhausted, and 550 00:35:16,239 --> 00:35:21,120 Speaker 1: you know, they're not even like hammering home the importance 551 00:35:21,360 --> 00:35:24,279 Speaker 1: of what's at stake here. So there's a very very 552 00:35:24,360 --> 00:35:27,600 Speaker 1: high we know that voter turnout in general will be 553 00:35:27,719 --> 00:35:30,239 Speaker 1: low except for within the people that care very much 554 00:35:30,280 --> 00:35:34,239 Speaker 1: about this. So right now it's neck it's literally neck 555 00:35:34,280 --> 00:35:37,800 Speaker 1: and neck um and it's a bad situation because the 556 00:35:37,880 --> 00:35:41,040 Speaker 1: person who is in the front, who's the front runner, 557 00:35:41,120 --> 00:35:45,840 Speaker 1: is Larry Elder. He is a known conservative UH radio 558 00:35:46,200 --> 00:35:51,280 Speaker 1: personality in California for decades. Yes, with within here series 559 00:35:51,320 --> 00:35:56,600 Speaker 1: of abuse and anti climate change, you know, anti women, 560 00:35:56,840 --> 00:36:01,520 Speaker 1: anti science, and and this this right here is perhaps 561 00:36:02,480 --> 00:36:05,840 Speaker 1: even outside of the state of California. The thing that 562 00:36:06,000 --> 00:36:09,560 Speaker 1: everybody needs to pay attention to, why everybody needs to 563 00:36:09,600 --> 00:36:13,120 Speaker 1: be paying attention to this, is that Diane Feinstein is 564 00:36:13,239 --> 00:36:15,800 Speaker 1: on death store. I don't know if that's true, but 565 00:36:15,960 --> 00:36:23,120 Speaker 1: she is like senile, she's old talking about Yes, yes, 566 00:36:23,200 --> 00:36:25,960 Speaker 1: I'm getting to that she's retiring potentially even she might 567 00:36:26,040 --> 00:36:29,040 Speaker 1: decide to retire or she might die at any moment. 568 00:36:29,400 --> 00:36:33,440 Speaker 1: In that case, elder will get to replace her, and 569 00:36:33,680 --> 00:36:41,120 Speaker 1: that will entirely change our marginal you know, majority in 570 00:36:41,200 --> 00:36:45,800 Speaker 1: the Senate. Change the Senate fundamentally changes the Senate. So 571 00:36:45,920 --> 00:36:49,719 Speaker 1: this is why, Yeah, this is why it's important for 572 00:36:49,960 --> 00:36:53,279 Speaker 1: everybody that's listening, and thank you for hearing us talk 573 00:36:53,320 --> 00:36:56,160 Speaker 1: about this so much. It's important. It's important to all 574 00:36:56,239 --> 00:36:59,040 Speaker 1: of us, For all of us. If you have relatives here, 575 00:36:59,200 --> 00:37:01,040 Speaker 1: if you can do anything, if you can talk to 576 00:37:01,160 --> 00:37:03,600 Speaker 1: people to get the word out, we need you to 577 00:37:03,680 --> 00:37:06,759 Speaker 1: do it. So, yeah, it's that's the thing. It's like 578 00:37:07,239 --> 00:37:11,080 Speaker 1: these sort of things that like it does affect the nation. Yeah, 579 00:37:11,920 --> 00:37:15,400 Speaker 1: it's not. It's just a California issue, biggest economy in 580 00:37:15,440 --> 00:37:20,080 Speaker 1: the world. Yeah. And Kate, Katie, to your to your point, 581 00:37:20,160 --> 00:37:23,840 Speaker 1: there have been lots of lots of discussions about Diane 582 00:37:23,880 --> 00:37:28,640 Speaker 1: and rumors of her well being right now. Um, and 583 00:37:28,800 --> 00:37:31,080 Speaker 1: you know, we all of us should have PTSD for 584 00:37:31,200 --> 00:37:36,680 Speaker 1: what happened with RBG. So yeah, and like it's yeah, 585 00:37:37,520 --> 00:37:39,960 Speaker 1: there are like a year or two ago about this. Yeah, 586 00:37:40,280 --> 00:37:43,040 Speaker 1: how and she has a lot left on her term, 587 00:37:43,400 --> 00:37:45,800 Speaker 1: a long time left on her term. I just don't like, 588 00:37:45,960 --> 00:37:49,440 Speaker 1: why would you? Why do you want to like die 589 00:37:49,520 --> 00:37:53,360 Speaker 1: at the office? Yeah? What what is wrong with you? 590 00:37:53,920 --> 00:37:56,279 Speaker 1: What is wrong with you that you cannot see? How 591 00:37:56,440 --> 00:38:00,520 Speaker 1: obvious is it? Is? It as simple as you're like 592 00:38:00,719 --> 00:38:02,960 Speaker 1: you guys, remember people would like George R. Martin had 593 00:38:02,960 --> 00:38:05,360 Speaker 1: a response because people kept expressing worry that he was 594 00:38:05,360 --> 00:38:07,080 Speaker 1: going to die before he get finished the books, and 595 00:38:07,200 --> 00:38:10,360 Speaker 1: his response was basically like fuck you, um, which was 596 00:38:10,600 --> 00:38:13,400 Speaker 1: a fair because it's it was people being worried about 597 00:38:13,480 --> 00:38:15,480 Speaker 1: like whether or not a book would get done when 598 00:38:15,600 --> 00:38:18,040 Speaker 1: talking about like a man with a family, and like, 599 00:38:18,440 --> 00:38:20,759 Speaker 1: very fair response from George R. Martin, who does not 600 00:38:20,840 --> 00:38:24,719 Speaker 1: hold any of our lives in his hands. Um, it 601 00:38:24,880 --> 00:38:27,120 Speaker 1: is in fact a fair response to ask of people 602 00:38:27,160 --> 00:38:30,719 Speaker 1: like Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Um. And in this case because 603 00:38:30,760 --> 00:38:36,240 Speaker 1: it's like yeah, we you if you die in office 604 00:38:36,880 --> 00:38:39,960 Speaker 1: or in the wrong time, it will negatively infect the 605 00:38:40,040 --> 00:38:43,719 Speaker 1: lives of potentially billions of people in terms of certain things. Um, 606 00:38:44,360 --> 00:38:46,400 Speaker 1: So get the funk out. But I think they just 607 00:38:46,520 --> 00:38:49,239 Speaker 1: get angry at like, well, you're saying I'm gonna die, 608 00:38:49,320 --> 00:38:51,120 Speaker 1: like I'm not gonna die now, I'm gonna like I've 609 00:38:51,160 --> 00:38:53,440 Speaker 1: got more time, I'm not out. Like it's this. I 610 00:38:53,520 --> 00:38:56,080 Speaker 1: think it might be as simple as like this very 611 00:38:56,280 --> 00:38:59,319 Speaker 1: human anger at the thought of your own mortality. One 612 00:39:00,040 --> 00:39:04,440 Speaker 1: sent think, which is why it should be illegal to 613 00:39:04,560 --> 00:39:06,879 Speaker 1: be that old. And I think I think, I mean, 614 00:39:06,960 --> 00:39:10,960 Speaker 1: I I definitely agree. I think that people have a 615 00:39:11,280 --> 00:39:15,680 Speaker 1: fear of their own mortality and of you know, their 616 00:39:15,800 --> 00:39:23,600 Speaker 1: legacy and control and they I think it absolutely is 617 00:39:23,840 --> 00:39:28,319 Speaker 1: is people holding on for dear life to their dear life. Yeah, um, yeah, 618 00:39:28,360 --> 00:39:30,879 Speaker 1: because you don't want to face that even though it's 619 00:39:30,960 --> 00:39:34,319 Speaker 1: a fact. I'm sorry, and like maybe like you don't 620 00:39:34,360 --> 00:39:36,279 Speaker 1: want your legacy to be that you held onto power 621 00:39:36,440 --> 00:39:40,200 Speaker 1: till the last minute, died in office and then we're 622 00:39:40,239 --> 00:39:43,720 Speaker 1: replaced by Larry Elder. Yeah. I want to something Katie 623 00:39:43,760 --> 00:39:46,799 Speaker 1: said again, because Katie mentioned like it just seems very 624 00:39:46,960 --> 00:39:49,040 Speaker 1: like lacks of days of cold the approach coming from 625 00:39:49,040 --> 00:39:54,439 Speaker 1: the Democratic Party, and it's like, yeah, I mean, most 626 00:39:54,520 --> 00:39:56,960 Speaker 1: people really are not that keyed in on this, and 627 00:39:57,080 --> 00:40:01,600 Speaker 1: there's not I mean like spending. Yes, Katie mentioned that, uh, 628 00:40:01,760 --> 00:40:05,320 Speaker 1: Newsom spending more than any other candidate, but like, I 629 00:40:05,440 --> 00:40:07,759 Speaker 1: really feel like I haven't seen much besides from like 630 00:40:08,200 --> 00:40:09,799 Speaker 1: and which is why we're talking about it so much, 631 00:40:09,840 --> 00:40:13,880 Speaker 1: because we're not seeing I say that as part of 632 00:40:15,440 --> 00:40:18,200 Speaker 1: the second part of my point is like, yes, Gavin 633 00:40:18,280 --> 00:40:23,680 Speaker 1: Newsom is outspending the other candidates. But Larry Elder, again 634 00:40:25,800 --> 00:40:29,440 Speaker 1: very known, he's he's no, I mean, he's a I 635 00:40:29,520 --> 00:40:32,799 Speaker 1: don't know the data or what he's spending. I'm saying 636 00:40:32,840 --> 00:40:40,640 Speaker 1: that he's a conservative radio host, and you know that 637 00:40:40,800 --> 00:40:43,719 Speaker 1: is campaigning. That is a campaigning. You know, you know 638 00:40:43,800 --> 00:40:46,560 Speaker 1: something Larry Elder. Larry Elder is the guy who allegedly 639 00:40:46,960 --> 00:40:52,840 Speaker 1: convinced Dave Reuben that systemic racism doesn't exist. Dope, I 640 00:40:52,920 --> 00:41:01,239 Speaker 1: think university. I believe Dennis Prager um is involved with 641 00:41:01,440 --> 00:41:04,280 Speaker 1: him somehow. There's no I mean, I would be surprised 642 00:41:04,320 --> 00:41:09,520 Speaker 1: if Larry Elder isn't in a Pregger youth video. Um. Um, yeah, 643 00:41:09,640 --> 00:41:13,720 Speaker 1: he's buddies with Dennis Braeger, and Dennis Prager helped Elder 644 00:41:14,000 --> 00:41:20,960 Speaker 1: get his first job in radio. Here's that we need 645 00:41:21,040 --> 00:41:25,480 Speaker 1: to take another break. Okay, he doesn't fact have many 646 00:41:25,520 --> 00:41:40,959 Speaker 1: Pregger youth videos of course. Well together everything, we're back 647 00:41:42,640 --> 00:41:50,080 Speaker 1: and Cody was just freestyling an epic rap that explains 648 00:41:51,200 --> 00:41:53,960 Speaker 1: how to solve the California recall problem. Cody, do you 649 00:41:54,000 --> 00:41:55,560 Speaker 1: want to just roll roll back in? I'll give you 650 00:41:55,600 --> 00:41:59,480 Speaker 1: a beat. Yeah, thank you. My name is Dennis Breger, 651 00:42:00,160 --> 00:42:09,960 Speaker 1: and here's what you gotta do, recall newsome please thanks sincerely, 652 00:42:10,520 --> 00:42:14,640 Speaker 1: Dennis Cragor nailed it. Well, that's gonna do it for 653 00:42:14,760 --> 00:42:19,080 Speaker 1: hearing of ust. Wait, did we just come back from 654 00:42:19,120 --> 00:42:21,799 Speaker 1: a break to end the episode? One thing? Actually it's 655 00:42:21,800 --> 00:42:25,080 Speaker 1: a freestyle Katie. Yeah. Yeah. We we ended on I 656 00:42:25,160 --> 00:42:28,239 Speaker 1: believe what they call a bang. Okay, we ended on 657 00:42:28,560 --> 00:42:31,200 Speaker 1: a bang. We ended on a banger and on a banger. 658 00:42:31,280 --> 00:42:33,200 Speaker 1: We ended with a bang is what it would. We 659 00:42:33,320 --> 00:42:39,040 Speaker 1: ended with a banger that I think is uh going 660 00:42:39,200 --> 00:42:45,520 Speaker 1: to get Cody his second British Video Music Award. Thank you. 661 00:42:46,280 --> 00:42:49,399 Speaker 1: I'm there's room on the shelf just wait and collecting dust. 662 00:42:49,480 --> 00:42:51,480 Speaker 1: I need to do the second one up there. Room 663 00:42:51,520 --> 00:42:54,200 Speaker 1: on the shelf next to your half of an Emmy. Yeah, 664 00:42:54,800 --> 00:42:57,239 Speaker 1: that you took from John Krasinski when you broke into 665 00:42:57,280 --> 00:42:59,080 Speaker 1: his house that one night. That's right, and I'm going 666 00:42:59,160 --> 00:43:02,759 Speaker 1: to get the other half one day. One day, had 667 00:43:02,840 --> 00:43:07,640 Speaker 1: so much base in your fanny peck, slice it half 668 00:43:08,400 --> 00:43:10,520 Speaker 1: to fit it in with your saw. Well, yeah, I 669 00:43:10,560 --> 00:43:12,680 Speaker 1: mean I didn't prepare that much, but I prepared enough 670 00:43:12,680 --> 00:43:15,160 Speaker 1: to know to bring a saw and have a bag 671 00:43:15,440 --> 00:43:18,960 Speaker 1: and I improvised. You got half of half of John 672 00:43:19,040 --> 00:43:21,800 Speaker 1: Kazynski's Emmy good, he got all of the money for 673 00:43:21,920 --> 00:43:30,560 Speaker 1: your idea. That's right. Quiet place y talking about quiet 674 00:43:30,560 --> 00:43:34,120 Speaker 1: place too? Is he still alive? Not quiet place one? 675 00:43:34,200 --> 00:43:36,919 Speaker 1: Cody had nothing to do, but I had a great 676 00:43:36,960 --> 00:43:40,600 Speaker 1: idea for a sequal. But you were of a quiet place, 677 00:43:40,920 --> 00:43:48,680 Speaker 1: a little quieter, a quiet place too. And I believe 678 00:43:48,719 --> 00:43:51,719 Speaker 1: you pitched that idea to John by driving past his 679 00:43:51,840 --> 00:43:55,080 Speaker 1: house and shushing in the middle of the night, which yeah, 680 00:43:55,400 --> 00:43:58,800 Speaker 1: and I saw the light turn on in the bedroom, 681 00:43:59,040 --> 00:44:01,960 Speaker 1: so he definitely heard it and he definitely heard it. Well, 682 00:44:02,000 --> 00:44:04,520 Speaker 1: you're a famously loud shush or Cody. Everybody says that 683 00:44:05,719 --> 00:44:07,360 Speaker 1: that's how I do it, that's how you do it, 684 00:44:07,480 --> 00:44:10,880 Speaker 1: that's how you do it. Well, Gang, we got anything 685 00:44:10,920 --> 00:44:13,279 Speaker 1: else to say? Um, I didn't want to mention uh 686 00:44:13,920 --> 00:44:15,920 Speaker 1: this earlier when we were talking about the eight five 687 00:44:16,000 --> 00:44:18,920 Speaker 1: billion dollars worth of military equipment is left for the Taliban. 688 00:44:19,680 --> 00:44:26,160 Speaker 1: UM because earlier today, UM, in talking about hurricane damage 689 00:44:27,680 --> 00:44:32,520 Speaker 1: in Louisiana, Representative Clay Higgins said, and I quote, let 690 00:44:32,560 --> 00:44:34,279 Speaker 1: me tell you what would be a good start for 691 00:44:34,320 --> 00:44:38,320 Speaker 1: the people of Louisiana. Billion dollars worth of military equipment 692 00:44:38,360 --> 00:44:43,080 Speaker 1: that was left behind Afghanistan. I just think that's just 693 00:44:43,280 --> 00:44:46,279 Speaker 1: like a fucking incredible piece of art. A couple of 694 00:44:46,480 --> 00:44:51,120 Speaker 1: strikers would have really helped out, just like, yeah, like 695 00:44:52,080 --> 00:44:53,680 Speaker 1: aside from the fact that we already talked about, like 696 00:44:53,719 --> 00:44:56,120 Speaker 1: that's not really accurate and like, come on, man, UM, 697 00:44:56,760 --> 00:44:59,439 Speaker 1: I don't know if that would help them. Actually, Yeah, 698 00:45:00,160 --> 00:45:03,600 Speaker 1: imagine people trying to flee the hurricane wondering, God, if 699 00:45:03,719 --> 00:45:07,759 Speaker 1: only I had a gigantic gas guzzling vehicle that gets 700 00:45:07,840 --> 00:45:11,520 Speaker 1: less than a mile per gallon and breaks down every 701 00:45:11,640 --> 00:45:15,719 Speaker 1: forty five minutes because it's just specifically made in order 702 00:45:15,880 --> 00:45:21,080 Speaker 1: to be endlessly profitable for a fucking contractor. UM, if 703 00:45:21,160 --> 00:45:27,400 Speaker 1: only I like talked to a single US troop about 704 00:45:27,440 --> 00:45:31,840 Speaker 1: how much they love their equipment. Challenge spoilers, All of 705 00:45:31,920 --> 00:45:37,080 Speaker 1: our vehicles are annoying pieces of shit. Fucking strikers and 706 00:45:37,239 --> 00:45:41,360 Speaker 1: m wraps and like hum vs good God, the fucking 707 00:45:41,520 --> 00:45:46,080 Speaker 1: chinook better at killing U. S Marines than any Taliban strike. Um, 708 00:45:47,040 --> 00:45:50,680 Speaker 1: incredible at killing US marines. The chinook real v I 709 00:45:50,880 --> 00:45:56,360 Speaker 1: P of the war against US imperialists. If only we 710 00:45:56,440 --> 00:45:59,200 Speaker 1: could have killed so many citizens of Louisiana, if we'd 711 00:45:59,239 --> 00:46:04,400 Speaker 1: had more shar we got more. We can blame it 712 00:46:04,480 --> 00:46:08,000 Speaker 1: on that instead of hurricane, instead of the fucking which 713 00:46:08,080 --> 00:46:09,880 Speaker 1: also one of the big stories of the hurricane is 714 00:46:09,960 --> 00:46:13,000 Speaker 1: that the massive amount of like levy reconstruction and ship 715 00:46:13,120 --> 00:46:15,080 Speaker 1: that New Orleans did in the year since because Trina 716 00:46:15,400 --> 00:46:19,080 Speaker 1: saved countless lives and stopped massive flooding and was a 717 00:46:19,200 --> 00:46:23,560 Speaker 1: highly successful example of how government funding going towards rebuilding 718 00:46:23,600 --> 00:46:29,399 Speaker 1: efforts and going towards improvement of infrastructure yields calculable benefits. Yeah, 719 00:46:29,600 --> 00:46:31,880 Speaker 1: it's stuff like that. That's um. It's like heartening and 720 00:46:31,960 --> 00:46:35,440 Speaker 1: disheartening because we're still like we don't we don't take 721 00:46:35,480 --> 00:46:38,319 Speaker 1: that lesson go we should do that like way more. Um. 722 00:46:38,560 --> 00:46:40,640 Speaker 1: We've talked about briefly about like you remember you were 723 00:46:40,800 --> 00:46:43,000 Speaker 1: you were the O Zone. I don't know if people 724 00:46:44,040 --> 00:46:46,960 Speaker 1: remember the ozone and how there was that episode of 725 00:46:47,040 --> 00:46:49,920 Speaker 1: Rocco's Modern Life about it exactly already C y C 726 00:46:50,120 --> 00:46:55,400 Speaker 1: L E recycle and so on and so forth. Uh 727 00:46:55,640 --> 00:46:58,040 Speaker 1: and uh, we were like, there's a whole neo zone. 728 00:46:58,080 --> 00:47:02,200 Speaker 1: We gotta we gotta so that ship up and so 729 00:47:02,360 --> 00:47:06,120 Speaker 1: we did that and then it was done and we 730 00:47:06,239 --> 00:47:10,399 Speaker 1: did that. Um, it's like a thing we accomplished because 731 00:47:10,400 --> 00:47:12,880 Speaker 1: we decided to do it. Uh. And it was slightly 732 00:47:12,960 --> 00:47:17,759 Speaker 1: before are are absolute health escape of politics instead of 733 00:47:17,880 --> 00:47:21,440 Speaker 1: the previous like mild healthescape of politics? Um, and this 734 00:47:21,560 --> 00:47:23,520 Speaker 1: is another example of like, well, we just we needed 735 00:47:23,560 --> 00:47:25,719 Speaker 1: to do this thing to prevent other things, and so 736 00:47:25,840 --> 00:47:31,120 Speaker 1: we decided to and we did it, and we can 737 00:47:31,239 --> 00:47:35,000 Speaker 1: do this more way more, um and now like and 738 00:47:35,080 --> 00:47:36,960 Speaker 1: we're stuck with these like New York Times are in 739 00:47:37,040 --> 00:47:39,680 Speaker 1: this article like as a preview of future hurricanes. Ida 740 00:47:39,840 --> 00:47:43,759 Speaker 1: is very scary. Yeah, like as a as a as 741 00:47:43,800 --> 00:47:47,000 Speaker 1: a preview of like now is what's going on now? 742 00:47:47,400 --> 00:47:55,640 Speaker 1: Like like doing like this could be this is a 743 00:47:55,880 --> 00:47:59,520 Speaker 1: sign of bad things to come. Yeah. I just need 744 00:47:59,600 --> 00:48:03,239 Speaker 1: to point out that we do not know, uh the 745 00:48:03,320 --> 00:48:06,120 Speaker 1: extent of the damage at this point in time. We 746 00:48:06,239 --> 00:48:11,080 Speaker 1: do not know, uh, just how many people died. Uh, 747 00:48:11,880 --> 00:48:14,120 Speaker 1: but it is yes, a success and that the levees 748 00:48:14,200 --> 00:48:20,840 Speaker 1: held and we did learn and from specifically. But I 749 00:48:21,040 --> 00:48:27,120 Speaker 1: will point out something which is, um, this was a 750 00:48:27,239 --> 00:48:32,040 Speaker 1: stronger hurricane, but it had more of like wind force. 751 00:48:32,840 --> 00:48:36,440 Speaker 1: But for whatever reason that is beyond me, I know, 752 00:48:38,280 --> 00:48:44,239 Speaker 1: science gal you know, uh, it brought less water. Uh. 753 00:48:44,360 --> 00:48:49,960 Speaker 1: It is actually very terrifying because the severity of the 754 00:48:50,520 --> 00:48:54,520 Speaker 1: pendulum swing, you know how quickly it changes, is increasing 755 00:48:54,680 --> 00:48:59,200 Speaker 1: and and these this the wind from this was much stronger. 756 00:48:59,760 --> 00:49:04,040 Speaker 1: So oh you know, yes, Letty's held. Also there was 757 00:49:04,120 --> 00:49:09,120 Speaker 1: less water, but bigger wids, all these roofs getting torn off. Anyway, 758 00:49:10,600 --> 00:49:13,600 Speaker 1: I agree with all those things that you guys said, Yeah, 759 00:49:13,960 --> 00:49:17,800 Speaker 1: let's build more stuff to help people in the future, 760 00:49:17,960 --> 00:49:21,160 Speaker 1: and maybe not make them like military equipment. I mean. 761 00:49:21,239 --> 00:49:23,759 Speaker 1: And as with every disaster, a decent chunk of the 762 00:49:23,800 --> 00:49:29,200 Speaker 1: relief effort has been uh, just citizens dealing ship the occasion, 763 00:49:29,280 --> 00:49:31,080 Speaker 1: Navy has has pulled a lot of people out of 764 00:49:31,120 --> 00:49:35,279 Speaker 1: bad situations without you know, help from the government. Yeah. 765 00:49:35,920 --> 00:49:37,759 Speaker 1: I just wanted to do a shout out to the 766 00:49:38,840 --> 00:49:41,600 Speaker 1: Casian Navy and kind of citizen relief efforts to to 767 00:49:41,840 --> 00:49:44,440 Speaker 1: pull people out of bad situations, which was a big 768 00:49:44,520 --> 00:49:47,200 Speaker 1: part of what happened at Hurricane Kultrine the last time, 769 00:49:47,239 --> 00:49:49,320 Speaker 1: and a big mitigating factor and a lot of the 770 00:49:49,360 --> 00:49:56,000 Speaker 1: awfulness and yeah, forever, Yeah, rely on each other because yeah, 771 00:49:56,360 --> 00:49:58,400 Speaker 1: I don't know. It seems like a lot of a 772 00:49:58,440 --> 00:50:01,280 Speaker 1: representatives think that military equip would help in a hurricane. 773 00:50:01,400 --> 00:50:03,840 Speaker 1: So it doesn't, and and we're not you know, I'm 774 00:50:03,880 --> 00:50:05,520 Speaker 1: sure at some point we will sit down and talk 775 00:50:05,560 --> 00:50:08,440 Speaker 1: about kind of the the shortcomings and the government response 776 00:50:08,520 --> 00:50:10,719 Speaker 1: to this hurricane and maybe even where they did well. 777 00:50:11,200 --> 00:50:14,160 Speaker 1: But it's just it's ongoing right now, and I don't 778 00:50:14,160 --> 00:50:21,160 Speaker 1: I don't think we know enough of it. Yeah, it 779 00:50:21,280 --> 00:50:25,080 Speaker 1: seems good that we rebuilt those levies. Well, yeah, we 780 00:50:25,120 --> 00:50:29,920 Speaker 1: should probably do more stuff like that. What if what 781 00:50:30,040 --> 00:50:33,080 Speaker 1: if we spent like maybe like one to three point 782 00:50:33,160 --> 00:50:38,279 Speaker 1: five trillion dollars on infrastructure? Well, where would we get 783 00:50:38,360 --> 00:50:40,200 Speaker 1: that money? Cody? Do you have some sort of time 784 00:50:40,280 --> 00:50:42,839 Speaker 1: machine to take us back to before we spent three 785 00:50:43,040 --> 00:50:46,400 Speaker 1: ish trillion dollars in Afghanistan? All I can say is 786 00:50:46,480 --> 00:50:54,400 Speaker 1: that I fixed it, and I do m Oh no, 787 00:50:54,480 --> 00:50:58,440 Speaker 1: it didn't work for some reason. It's because Sophie wouldn't 788 00:50:58,440 --> 00:51:01,200 Speaker 1: listen to your time machine noise is, Sophie, You've doomed 789 00:51:01,200 --> 00:51:03,440 Speaker 1: the United States because you didn't need to listen to 790 00:51:03,560 --> 00:51:06,239 Speaker 1: Cody make time machine noises, and you're just shrugging it off. 791 00:51:06,920 --> 00:51:11,279 Speaker 1: I know Americans listening. If you ever look out into 792 00:51:11,320 --> 00:51:15,440 Speaker 1: the world and say, damn the war on Terror, remember that, Sophie, 793 00:51:16,040 --> 00:51:19,880 Speaker 1: is what stopped Cody from ending it retroactively in the past. 794 00:51:22,040 --> 00:51:29,200 Speaker 1: And that's the news right there. Hearing that noise is 795 00:51:29,280 --> 00:51:32,719 Speaker 1: that Cody is the opposite of Donald Rumpsfeld in two 796 00:51:32,760 --> 00:51:35,839 Speaker 1: thousand one, just in two thousand one, and so if 797 00:51:35,880 --> 00:51:38,480 Speaker 1: he were to have made physical contact with Donald Rumpsfeld 798 00:51:38,520 --> 00:51:39,920 Speaker 1: in two thousand one, it would have set off a 799 00:51:40,000 --> 00:51:45,279 Speaker 1: cascade reaction rebuilding the Twin Towers exactly, and thus there 800 00:51:45,280 --> 00:51:47,640 Speaker 1: would have been no war on Terror. Yeah, the energy, 801 00:51:47,800 --> 00:51:49,880 Speaker 1: the anti energy. Although I would say I'm the opposite 802 00:51:49,880 --> 00:51:55,279 Speaker 1: of Donald Rumpld because I'm alive, all right. That's a 803 00:51:55,320 --> 00:52:02,480 Speaker 1: good note to end an episode on everything so dull. 804 00:52:03,880 --> 00:52:09,040 Speaker 1: Everything is so dull, and it's not again dumb. I tried. 805 00:52:09,960 --> 00:52:13,640 Speaker 1: Daniel Worst Year Ever is a production of I Heart Radio. 806 00:52:13,920 --> 00:52:16,120 Speaker 1: For more podcasts from my Heart Radio, visit the I 807 00:52:16,239 --> 00:52:19,160 Speaker 1: Heart Radio app Apple podcasts, or wherever you listen to 808 00:52:19,239 --> 00:52:20,080 Speaker 1: your favorite shows.