1 00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:03,480 Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of The 2 00:00:03,600 --> 00:00:07,880 Speaker 1: Weekly Zeitgeist. Uh. These are some of our favorite segments 3 00:00:08,160 --> 00:00:14,920 Speaker 1: from this week, all edited together into one NonStop infotainment 4 00:00:16,079 --> 00:00:22,799 Speaker 1: last stravaganza. Uhh, So, without further ado, here is the 5 00:00:22,880 --> 00:00:26,840 Speaker 1: Weekly Zeitgeist. First, I wanted to talk real quick about 6 00:00:26,880 --> 00:00:32,880 Speaker 1: Cambridge Analytica, because this story is staying on the headlines. Uh. 7 00:00:33,080 --> 00:00:35,880 Speaker 1: You know, Mark Zuckerberg has yet to come out and 8 00:00:36,120 --> 00:00:40,440 Speaker 1: make an official stage. Was just that he was he 9 00:00:40,520 --> 00:00:45,120 Speaker 1: was kind of conspicuously quiet. Motherfucker's lost like twelve billion 10 00:00:45,120 --> 00:00:49,840 Speaker 1: dollars in so his board can't be two psyched. Um. 11 00:00:49,880 --> 00:00:52,720 Speaker 1: But I wanted to talk first of all about the 12 00:00:52,760 --> 00:00:57,400 Speaker 1: idea that I've heard. I've heard both both sides of this, 13 00:00:57,600 --> 00:01:00,880 Speaker 1: that there is like a Dane jer to them having 14 00:01:00,880 --> 00:01:04,320 Speaker 1: too much access to our information because you know, that 15 00:01:04,400 --> 00:01:07,520 Speaker 1: information is powerful. And then I've heard people be like, nah, 16 00:01:07,560 --> 00:01:09,800 Speaker 1: this is just like some bullshit that they claimed to 17 00:01:09,880 --> 00:01:13,560 Speaker 1: be able to, you know, predict and influence human behavior 18 00:01:14,000 --> 00:01:17,920 Speaker 1: with this sort of data, and you know, I find 19 00:01:17,959 --> 00:01:22,280 Speaker 1: it really convincing. There's Uh. The whole story was that 20 00:01:22,800 --> 00:01:25,319 Speaker 1: the guy who ended up being the whistleblower and spoke 21 00:01:25,360 --> 00:01:28,280 Speaker 1: to The New York Times was a student at Cambridge 22 00:01:28,440 --> 00:01:32,960 Speaker 1: where this guy was doing a graduate study, and uh, 23 00:01:33,000 --> 00:01:35,880 Speaker 1: I remember this study coming out and like writing about 24 00:01:35,920 --> 00:01:40,479 Speaker 1: it when it did. But basically he found that with 25 00:01:40,600 --> 00:01:43,959 Speaker 1: seventy likes from a person's Facebook profile, he was able 26 00:01:44,000 --> 00:01:47,360 Speaker 1: to predict something about that person better than any of 27 00:01:47,400 --> 00:01:50,240 Speaker 1: their friends. With a hundred and fifty likes, he was 28 00:01:50,360 --> 00:01:55,200 Speaker 1: able to predict something about that person better than their parents. 29 00:01:55,400 --> 00:01:57,240 Speaker 1: And with three hundred likes, they were able to do 30 00:01:57,280 --> 00:02:02,400 Speaker 1: it better than they're like romantic or like partner could 31 00:02:01,480 --> 00:02:04,840 Speaker 1: mean things that that person that that person had liked 32 00:02:05,120 --> 00:02:08,600 Speaker 1: or like Yeah, basically you could be posts, it could post. 33 00:02:09,320 --> 00:02:12,040 Speaker 1: That's it not not like here are my three hundred 34 00:02:12,080 --> 00:02:16,000 Speaker 1: favorite things the scraping like three hundred pieces of light 35 00:02:16,200 --> 00:02:18,960 Speaker 1: points off of their Facebook? What do you mean? Why 36 00:02:18,960 --> 00:02:20,920 Speaker 1: would they say they could predict like, what do they 37 00:02:20,919 --> 00:02:23,960 Speaker 1: mean by that? Exactly? I don't. I don't behavioral things 38 00:02:24,000 --> 00:02:26,000 Speaker 1: that probably could be. That's where I think it's like 39 00:02:26,040 --> 00:02:28,960 Speaker 1: behavior they'd vote for in an election. Yeah, what kind 40 00:02:28,960 --> 00:02:32,840 Speaker 1: of messaging would work? That's not exactly. Because this person 41 00:02:32,919 --> 00:02:36,000 Speaker 1: put this information out there, Facebook was immediately like, oh, ship, 42 00:02:36,040 --> 00:02:39,680 Speaker 1: we shouldn't make people's likes public at that point, and 43 00:02:39,760 --> 00:02:43,280 Speaker 1: Cabridge Analytica did a shady thing where they claimed to 44 00:02:43,320 --> 00:02:46,320 Speaker 1: be giving people a psychological questionnaire, and then when they 45 00:02:46,360 --> 00:02:50,000 Speaker 1: signed up for that questionnaire, uh, it gained access to 46 00:02:50,320 --> 00:02:53,919 Speaker 1: all of their Facebook data that way, uh, and also 47 00:02:54,360 --> 00:02:57,440 Speaker 1: a lot of their friends as Facebook data. So they 48 00:02:57,600 --> 00:03:00,680 Speaker 1: kind of went in a roundabout way of getting into 49 00:03:00,840 --> 00:03:06,960 Speaker 1: people's Facebook information. But it's no doubt fucking shady. Uh. 50 00:03:07,040 --> 00:03:09,919 Speaker 1: Whether it works or not, I think it's shady. One 51 00:03:09,960 --> 00:03:14,600 Speaker 1: thing that I'm surprised to find out is that this 52 00:03:14,760 --> 00:03:17,480 Speaker 1: really isn't a partisan thing. I don't think we can 53 00:03:17,520 --> 00:03:19,919 Speaker 1: be like, well, the Trump campaign. This proves that they 54 00:03:19,919 --> 00:03:23,600 Speaker 1: were shady because like, this is the sort of thing 55 00:03:23,680 --> 00:03:27,639 Speaker 1: that both sides have wanted to do and have successfully 56 00:03:27,639 --> 00:03:30,720 Speaker 1: done in the past. And there's this National Review article, 57 00:03:31,440 --> 00:03:33,720 Speaker 1: which I find a lot a lot of their writing, 58 00:03:34,000 --> 00:03:36,640 Speaker 1: you know, to be not that convincing, but I thought 59 00:03:36,680 --> 00:03:41,000 Speaker 1: there's uh, their article about this was pretty convincing. They 60 00:03:41,080 --> 00:03:46,040 Speaker 1: talked about they compared the coverage of Cambridge Analytica and 61 00:03:46,400 --> 00:03:49,640 Speaker 1: you know, this media breach with the coverage of the 62 00:03:49,640 --> 00:03:52,200 Speaker 1: Obama campaign and what they did with Facebook in two 63 00:03:52,240 --> 00:03:56,360 Speaker 1: thousand twelve, and a lot of this stuff is very similar. 64 00:03:56,520 --> 00:04:00,840 Speaker 1: Like they there was a article in I think it 65 00:04:00,880 --> 00:04:03,400 Speaker 1: was like M I T. Tech Review where they talked 66 00:04:03,400 --> 00:04:06,760 Speaker 1: about how Obama's campaign began the election year confident it 67 00:04:06,840 --> 00:04:09,240 Speaker 1: knew the name of every one of the sixty nine 68 00:04:09,280 --> 00:04:13,280 Speaker 1: million Americans who whose votes put them in the White House. Uh, 69 00:04:13,360 --> 00:04:16,920 Speaker 1: pundits talk and abstract about reassembling Obama's two thousand and 70 00:04:17,000 --> 00:04:20,560 Speaker 1: eight coalition, but within the campaign that goal was literal. 71 00:04:21,080 --> 00:04:25,039 Speaker 1: And then they used people's friends to like influence them 72 00:04:25,080 --> 00:04:29,760 Speaker 1: their friends on Facebook, and basically Facebook was like, look, 73 00:04:29,839 --> 00:04:32,920 Speaker 1: this is kind of abusive what you're doing, but we're 74 00:04:32,920 --> 00:04:35,800 Speaker 1: gonna let it slide as long as you stop doing it. 75 00:04:36,000 --> 00:04:40,839 Speaker 1: On November seventh, after elections, after election day, and they 76 00:04:40,839 --> 00:04:44,080 Speaker 1: basically just let it happen. And they they're bragging, Like 77 00:04:44,120 --> 00:04:46,359 Speaker 1: there are articles where they're bragging about this stuff and 78 00:04:46,400 --> 00:04:50,600 Speaker 1: basically saying we were able to use people people's Facebook 79 00:04:50,600 --> 00:04:55,760 Speaker 1: information to change their behavior. Uh, here's the exact quote, 80 00:04:56,120 --> 00:04:58,000 Speaker 1: so it's from this M I T. Article. They said 81 00:04:58,200 --> 00:05:01,520 Speaker 1: the Obama two thousand twelve campaign generated a new political 82 00:05:01,560 --> 00:05:05,920 Speaker 1: currency that predicted the behavior of individual humans. The campaign 83 00:05:05,960 --> 00:05:09,000 Speaker 1: didn't just know who you were. It knew exactly how 84 00:05:09,040 --> 00:05:11,400 Speaker 1: it could turn you into the type of person it 85 00:05:11,520 --> 00:05:14,800 Speaker 1: wanted you to be, which is like exactly what we're 86 00:05:14,839 --> 00:05:18,440 Speaker 1: worried about. And that was in two thousand twelve in 87 00:05:18,440 --> 00:05:21,480 Speaker 1: an article that was like glowing and being like, yeah, 88 00:05:21,880 --> 00:05:26,160 Speaker 1: we did it, so I can totally see how you 89 00:05:26,160 --> 00:05:30,000 Speaker 1: know the right might feel like, well, now because we 90 00:05:30,080 --> 00:05:33,920 Speaker 1: do it, it's a problem. Um, And I think it's 91 00:05:34,640 --> 00:05:37,920 Speaker 1: I get that there's a double standard. I'm okay with 92 00:05:38,000 --> 00:05:40,320 Speaker 1: their being a double standard as long as it causes 93 00:05:40,440 --> 00:05:42,840 Speaker 1: us to stop this ship from happening. I don't think 94 00:05:42,880 --> 00:05:44,840 Speaker 1: either side should be doing this. No, I don't think. 95 00:05:44,880 --> 00:05:48,080 Speaker 1: I think what's scarier is the idea that we that 96 00:05:48,200 --> 00:05:50,080 Speaker 1: this is a way that you can operate a campaign 97 00:05:50,200 --> 00:05:52,600 Speaker 1: or an influence campaign in general, like without just sort 98 00:05:52,640 --> 00:05:55,520 Speaker 1: of giving people facts and letting them decide based on 99 00:05:55,560 --> 00:05:58,719 Speaker 1: the facts, let them come to a conclusion. I just 100 00:05:58,720 --> 00:06:01,680 Speaker 1: think it's all crazy but not surprising that this entire 101 00:06:01,920 --> 00:06:06,600 Speaker 1: thing came from people's endless need for self validation. At 102 00:06:06,640 --> 00:06:08,040 Speaker 1: the end of the day, it all just came from 103 00:06:08,080 --> 00:06:10,320 Speaker 1: people wanting to be on social media so people could 104 00:06:10,360 --> 00:06:12,560 Speaker 1: like their ship. Yeah. No, I think That's one of 105 00:06:12,600 --> 00:06:14,320 Speaker 1: the reasons too when you mentioned that, like why I 106 00:06:14,480 --> 00:06:17,480 Speaker 1: stopped using Facebook because before I would get a high 107 00:06:17,600 --> 00:06:22,160 Speaker 1: off of like a little status or like flexing on Facebook, 108 00:06:22,200 --> 00:06:26,000 Speaker 1: like refreshing your phone the little globe lit up with 109 00:06:26,120 --> 00:06:28,480 Speaker 1: a red little number. I got a notification, and then 110 00:06:28,520 --> 00:06:30,720 Speaker 1: like I was just really kind of I was like, yo, 111 00:06:30,800 --> 00:06:32,760 Speaker 1: I'm sucking over this ship. Like it was cool for 112 00:06:32,800 --> 00:06:35,240 Speaker 1: like a year, like you know, from college to maybe 113 00:06:35,680 --> 00:06:37,960 Speaker 1: a few years out, and then I just didn't have 114 00:06:38,080 --> 00:06:42,039 Speaker 1: the like the energy to like perform on Facebook for people, 115 00:06:42,200 --> 00:06:44,800 Speaker 1: is what it felt like, Like it was performative, and yeah, 116 00:06:44,880 --> 00:06:47,280 Speaker 1: like in that sort of feedback loop of getting likes, 117 00:06:47,400 --> 00:06:50,160 Speaker 1: I think I sort of changed a bit. But yeah, 118 00:06:50,160 --> 00:06:52,720 Speaker 1: I know, like a lot of people who really do 119 00:06:53,000 --> 00:06:54,800 Speaker 1: like I don't know, people who are like will come 120 00:06:54,839 --> 00:06:56,280 Speaker 1: at me like, yo, why don't you like the thing 121 00:06:56,320 --> 00:06:59,719 Speaker 1: that I posted. That's I mean, that's not the normal. 122 00:06:59,760 --> 00:07:02,920 Speaker 1: But I've heard that people you know that you can 123 00:07:02,960 --> 00:07:05,240 Speaker 1: cut them out of your life. Well, that's people who 124 00:07:05,279 --> 00:07:06,520 Speaker 1: I'm like, this is why I don't funk with you, 125 00:07:06,800 --> 00:07:09,360 Speaker 1: because you're you're pressing me about not liking a fucking 126 00:07:09,600 --> 00:07:12,160 Speaker 1: YouTube video you put up. Okay, I think that's a 127 00:07:12,200 --> 00:07:13,880 Speaker 1: sign that you need to be like, all right, man, 128 00:07:14,080 --> 00:07:16,560 Speaker 1: get in here for a hug, like you need some 129 00:07:16,640 --> 00:07:21,080 Speaker 1: actual human context, and then you need to delete Facebook. 130 00:07:21,400 --> 00:07:24,400 Speaker 1: So delete Facebook is something that's trending right now. I 131 00:07:24,440 --> 00:07:30,520 Speaker 1: would just say that that's an easy first step. But um, 132 00:07:31,040 --> 00:07:35,640 Speaker 1: this original study did not focus on Facebook likes only. 133 00:07:35,840 --> 00:07:38,000 Speaker 1: It was focusing on all the data you can get 134 00:07:38,040 --> 00:07:40,600 Speaker 1: from a smartphone. And the guy who designed the study 135 00:07:40,880 --> 00:07:44,880 Speaker 1: in Cambridge, who by the way, Facebook called him the 136 00:07:44,920 --> 00:07:48,200 Speaker 1: day after the study was released and threatened to sue 137 00:07:48,280 --> 00:07:53,600 Speaker 1: him and also offered him a job because I love yeah, 138 00:07:53,800 --> 00:07:56,040 Speaker 1: but we won't sue you if you take this job. 139 00:07:56,760 --> 00:07:59,360 Speaker 1: But he was basically saying it's our smartphones like our 140 00:07:59,400 --> 00:08:04,040 Speaker 1: smartphone are, in his words, a vast psychological questionnaire that 141 00:08:04,080 --> 00:08:07,920 Speaker 1: we are constantly filling out, both consciously and unconsciously. So 142 00:08:07,960 --> 00:08:10,760 Speaker 1: I'm going back to the two way page. You need 143 00:08:10,800 --> 00:08:14,040 Speaker 1: to you need to figure out if you're like because 144 00:08:14,080 --> 00:08:16,880 Speaker 1: they know how fast you're moving. They know so much 145 00:08:17,200 --> 00:08:19,840 Speaker 1: about this is like a fucking I will say to 146 00:08:19,960 --> 00:08:23,960 Speaker 1: the delete Facebook people. Don't overlook the fact that Facebook 147 00:08:23,960 --> 00:08:25,840 Speaker 1: owns Instagram. So if you're gonna be about that, life 148 00:08:25,840 --> 00:08:29,000 Speaker 1: be about that life. You're deleting Facebook deleting right, go 149 00:08:29,120 --> 00:08:31,520 Speaker 1: for it, go hole hog. That's why people just need 150 00:08:31,520 --> 00:08:33,559 Speaker 1: to copy the matrix phone that no Ki is coming 151 00:08:33,600 --> 00:08:36,560 Speaker 1: out with, go back to basics, and then keep you know, 152 00:08:36,679 --> 00:08:39,360 Speaker 1: just do your text. But at the same time, I 153 00:08:39,360 --> 00:08:40,920 Speaker 1: feel like I will kind of lose my mind if 154 00:08:40,920 --> 00:08:42,959 Speaker 1: I didn't have a smart phone. Well, there does seem 155 00:08:43,000 --> 00:08:46,720 Speaker 1: to be room in the sort of zeitgeist for a 156 00:08:46,800 --> 00:08:50,280 Speaker 1: company that is just like straight up really good at 157 00:08:50,360 --> 00:08:52,880 Speaker 1: tech ship. But it is like, we're going back to basics. 158 00:08:53,120 --> 00:08:56,480 Speaker 1: This is untraceable, this is unfunk withrble like no Internet 159 00:08:56,559 --> 00:09:00,320 Speaker 1: on your yeah, essentially, or like very very big sick. 160 00:09:00,360 --> 00:09:02,680 Speaker 1: You've got two G data, my man. You can text, 161 00:09:02,720 --> 00:09:06,679 Speaker 1: you can you can be communicated with to the year nine, 162 00:09:06,720 --> 00:09:11,160 Speaker 1: when libraries and encyclopedias are that new hot shit again, Yeah, 163 00:09:11,160 --> 00:09:13,920 Speaker 1: exactly going analog baby, They're like, yo, is that a 164 00:09:14,160 --> 00:09:19,000 Speaker 1: like a nineteen nineties kids encyclopedia? Yeah, I have a 165 00:09:19,120 --> 00:09:24,080 Speaker 1: original paper encyclopedia. Yeah, we should buy Encyclopedia Britannica. I 166 00:09:24,120 --> 00:09:27,040 Speaker 1: bet that's like costs maybe a couple of thousand dollars 167 00:09:27,120 --> 00:09:29,280 Speaker 1: right now, Like the set for the No no, just 168 00:09:29,360 --> 00:09:32,560 Speaker 1: the you're about to say, Yclopedia Brown, weren't you? I was, 169 00:09:32,880 --> 00:09:37,199 Speaker 1: yet we should buy him? Apparently as a superproducer, Nick 170 00:09:37,280 --> 00:09:39,679 Speaker 1: just hollered in our ears. There is a phone that 171 00:09:39,760 --> 00:09:41,640 Speaker 1: does the back to basics kind of thing called the 172 00:09:41,720 --> 00:09:44,480 Speaker 1: light phone. Uh, and it's a simple four G phone 173 00:09:44,480 --> 00:09:47,360 Speaker 1: with ink messaging and other essential tools. A phone that 174 00:09:47,440 --> 00:09:50,599 Speaker 1: actually respects you. Is my phone disrespected me in my 175 00:09:50,640 --> 00:09:53,160 Speaker 1: phone violence? It might be light Phone l I G 176 00:09:53,440 --> 00:09:56,319 Speaker 1: H T and uh, you can look it up. They're 177 00:09:56,320 --> 00:09:59,840 Speaker 1: doing a funding campaign right now, which they've clearly funded 178 00:10:00,080 --> 00:10:04,920 Speaker 1: well over what they needed. But if you're interested, I 179 00:10:04,960 --> 00:10:09,440 Speaker 1: think Copey are shipping them by April. It says what 180 00:10:09,600 --> 00:10:11,640 Speaker 1: is this? It says, by allowing you to leave behind 181 00:10:11,640 --> 00:10:14,560 Speaker 1: your smartphone, it encourages you to spend quality time doing 182 00:10:14,559 --> 00:10:17,440 Speaker 1: the things you love the most, free of distractions. Uh. 183 00:10:17,480 --> 00:10:19,400 Speaker 1: The life phone too brings essential tools like messaging in 184 00:10:19,400 --> 00:10:21,319 Speaker 1: alarm clock. So it's even usually teach this marphone more 185 00:10:21,360 --> 00:10:25,040 Speaker 1: often for good. Okay, I wanted to talk about the 186 00:10:25,120 --> 00:10:28,320 Speaker 1: Maller investigation because that's that's still out there. I think 187 00:10:28,480 --> 00:10:31,480 Speaker 1: this has been sort of uh, you know the response 188 00:10:31,640 --> 00:10:36,120 Speaker 1: to Trump's tweet storm over the weekend, and then now 189 00:10:36,280 --> 00:10:40,360 Speaker 1: Trump is thinking about uh, you know, remaking his legal 190 00:10:40,400 --> 00:10:45,400 Speaker 1: team to bring on a conservative lawyer who has been 191 00:10:45,480 --> 00:10:51,760 Speaker 1: very vocal claiming that the whole Maller investigation is a sham, 192 00:10:52,080 --> 00:10:57,160 Speaker 1: a conspiracy to frame President Trump by Killery Clinton and 193 00:10:57,360 --> 00:11:01,760 Speaker 1: uh you know Obama, all them all those Yeah, Joe 194 00:11:01,880 --> 00:11:05,240 Speaker 1: Djenova is the new guy sign who's you know again? 195 00:11:05,800 --> 00:11:08,200 Speaker 1: Trump is just picking people he's he's on Fox and 196 00:11:08,280 --> 00:11:11,480 Speaker 1: hiring them because he's on Tucker Carlson Carlson all the time. 197 00:11:11,520 --> 00:11:13,560 Speaker 1: And yet has some of he has some hot takes 198 00:11:13,640 --> 00:11:16,600 Speaker 1: like uh oh, the single most important scandal less fifty 199 00:11:16,679 --> 00:11:19,720 Speaker 1: years because senior deal j and FBI officials engaged in 200 00:11:19,760 --> 00:11:22,440 Speaker 1: conduct that was designed to corrupt an American presidential election. 201 00:11:22,480 --> 00:11:24,720 Speaker 1: It wasn't the Russians who corupted the presidential election, it 202 00:11:24,800 --> 00:11:26,959 Speaker 1: was the American officials at the Department of Justice and 203 00:11:27,000 --> 00:11:29,480 Speaker 1: the FBI. So yes, of course you want this man, 204 00:11:29,559 --> 00:11:32,400 Speaker 1: cape him for you because he believes the same crazy 205 00:11:32,400 --> 00:11:35,439 Speaker 1: ship that you do. Right. One thing, I keep hearing 206 00:11:35,520 --> 00:11:40,199 Speaker 1: from both sides, uh, but especially after Trump's tweet storm, 207 00:11:40,200 --> 00:11:42,800 Speaker 1: I've been hearing it from conservatives. They're like, well, what 208 00:11:42,840 --> 00:11:45,120 Speaker 1: are we just gonna let this go on forever, like 209 00:11:45,160 --> 00:11:48,360 Speaker 1: he's just gonna be able to be investigating the president forever, 210 00:11:48,520 --> 00:11:52,439 Speaker 1: Like I want to see some evidence, and um, the 211 00:11:52,520 --> 00:11:56,320 Speaker 1: so five thirty eight put together a infographic where they 212 00:11:57,160 --> 00:12:02,360 Speaker 1: represented all the different Special Counsel investigations from history with 213 00:12:02,440 --> 00:12:05,880 Speaker 1: like a line and like showed how many years they lasted, 214 00:12:06,280 --> 00:12:11,120 Speaker 1: and then they put circles for each time there was 215 00:12:11,360 --> 00:12:17,520 Speaker 1: an indictment filed. And so Mueller's investigation is actually like 216 00:12:17,679 --> 00:12:22,280 Speaker 1: filing indictments faster than basically any of the ones in 217 00:12:22,320 --> 00:12:29,520 Speaker 1: the past. And every single past investigation has gone, you know, 218 00:12:29,920 --> 00:12:33,680 Speaker 1: years at the very least. The shortest is like nearly 219 00:12:33,800 --> 00:12:37,320 Speaker 1: three or just over three. Yeah, And the Iran contra 220 00:12:38,040 --> 00:12:40,800 Speaker 1: was the other one that had very early indictments, but 221 00:12:40,880 --> 00:12:44,400 Speaker 1: that one lasted six years, Like the indictments are a 222 00:12:44,440 --> 00:12:47,120 Speaker 1: signed that you know, there's something maybe going on here. 223 00:12:47,960 --> 00:12:53,640 Speaker 1: The Valerie Plane investigation during the Bush administration, I think 224 00:12:53,960 --> 00:12:56,240 Speaker 1: that was one of the shortest, that went a little 225 00:12:56,280 --> 00:13:00,600 Speaker 1: over three years, and indictments didn't come till nearly two, right. Yeah. 226 00:13:00,720 --> 00:13:03,000 Speaker 1: So that's one thing that I don't know, I haven't 227 00:13:03,040 --> 00:13:06,240 Speaker 1: seen fully represented when people are talking about this I 228 00:13:06,280 --> 00:13:09,200 Speaker 1: think it's people are just so eager to just figure out, 229 00:13:09,240 --> 00:13:11,480 Speaker 1: Like you know, on the left, people are just so 230 00:13:11,559 --> 00:13:14,319 Speaker 1: horny for like Mueller to come through a handcuffs and 231 00:13:14,360 --> 00:13:17,280 Speaker 1: just cuf everybody up and take everybody out of the nightmare. 232 00:13:17,559 --> 00:13:19,959 Speaker 1: And that's like the left version for wanting this to 233 00:13:20,000 --> 00:13:21,679 Speaker 1: happen faster. And then on the right, it's just sort 234 00:13:21,679 --> 00:13:24,880 Speaker 1: of like, alright, like, let's not keep underlying the fact 235 00:13:24,920 --> 00:13:28,400 Speaker 1: that this guy, I mean, do we have to keep 236 00:13:28,480 --> 00:13:31,560 Speaker 1: just doing this forever he's in synth? What then is 237 00:13:31,559 --> 00:13:34,800 Speaker 1: the problem? Like, I feel like we all know they're 238 00:13:34,840 --> 00:13:38,360 Speaker 1: not in a right They're like making it plainly obvious 239 00:13:38,440 --> 00:13:41,040 Speaker 1: by the with the firings. But I really like what 240 00:13:41,040 --> 00:13:43,760 Speaker 1: you said about what the left is doing about like, 241 00:13:44,200 --> 00:13:47,040 Speaker 1: which is what I feel. I don't I don't have 242 00:13:47,080 --> 00:13:49,720 Speaker 1: any optimism when I look at these investigations, you know, 243 00:13:49,800 --> 00:13:51,640 Speaker 1: because I feel like we're putting all our eggs in 244 00:13:51,640 --> 00:13:54,760 Speaker 1: this basket when this is the issue. I think as 245 00:13:54,760 --> 00:13:57,000 Speaker 1: a country, I feel like we're not learning any lessons 246 00:13:57,000 --> 00:13:59,600 Speaker 1: as a country the way that we're watching and reacting 247 00:13:59,600 --> 00:14:03,160 Speaker 1: to these investigations, which is that we're not trying to 248 00:14:03,840 --> 00:14:06,880 Speaker 1: I mean a little bit with the incoming elections, you know, 249 00:14:06,960 --> 00:14:09,680 Speaker 1: like trying to do this blue wave of like you know, 250 00:14:10,480 --> 00:14:12,600 Speaker 1: Congress and take back Congress and all that other stuff. 251 00:14:12,880 --> 00:14:16,960 Speaker 1: But I really feel like this is the issue with 252 00:14:17,040 --> 00:14:20,320 Speaker 1: us as a country is that we are not We're 253 00:14:20,360 --> 00:14:22,360 Speaker 1: not thinking about like the big picture. We're just like 254 00:14:22,400 --> 00:14:25,640 Speaker 1: waiting for somebody to bail us out. And like, I 255 00:14:25,640 --> 00:14:27,400 Speaker 1: don't know, it's EASi and it's easy for a lot 256 00:14:27,440 --> 00:14:29,200 Speaker 1: of Republicans to sort of sit on their hands right 257 00:14:29,240 --> 00:14:31,880 Speaker 1: now and not do anything. And whether it's like, oh, 258 00:14:31,880 --> 00:14:34,120 Speaker 1: we need to protect Robert Mueller or we need to 259 00:14:34,520 --> 00:14:37,240 Speaker 1: just wait and see what happens. I think this is 260 00:14:37,320 --> 00:14:40,320 Speaker 1: the litmus test on which the left and the right 261 00:14:40,360 --> 00:14:45,680 Speaker 1: are the furthest apart, And if Trump fires Muller, it's 262 00:14:45,720 --> 00:14:48,720 Speaker 1: going to bring that to a head. I don't know 263 00:14:48,800 --> 00:14:51,240 Speaker 1: what happens at that point, but it is going to 264 00:14:51,320 --> 00:14:57,640 Speaker 1: be it's going to be what does that look like? Right? 265 00:14:57,720 --> 00:15:00,520 Speaker 1: So I mean I think on the right they're just 266 00:15:00,600 --> 00:15:03,360 Speaker 1: hoping it looks like the left being outraged and then 267 00:15:03,440 --> 00:15:07,000 Speaker 1: nothing happening. And then on the left, I don't know 268 00:15:07,040 --> 00:15:12,440 Speaker 1: what what's essentially overturning the rule of law and like 269 00:15:12,520 --> 00:15:15,800 Speaker 1: is there going to be a coup that the crisis. Well, 270 00:15:15,880 --> 00:15:18,920 Speaker 1: I think you know, the most calm version, right is like, 271 00:15:19,000 --> 00:15:22,000 Speaker 1: let's say he fires Mueller in the next month, and 272 00:15:22,120 --> 00:15:24,640 Speaker 1: the Republicans just sit on their hands because their strategy 273 00:15:24,680 --> 00:15:27,840 Speaker 1: going toen is basically like, let Trump do his thing 274 00:15:27,880 --> 00:15:32,440 Speaker 1: in every vulnerable district and he'll keep the Senate majority. Um. 275 00:15:32,640 --> 00:15:35,120 Speaker 1: But then I think really the way it would play out, 276 00:15:35,160 --> 00:15:38,200 Speaker 1: obviously people would take the streets and protest, because I 277 00:15:38,200 --> 00:15:40,320 Speaker 1: think most people do realize that it's like a step 278 00:15:40,360 --> 00:15:43,600 Speaker 1: towards Trump just becoming a total dictator, being like, no, 279 00:15:43,680 --> 00:15:46,480 Speaker 1: I'm above the law. But I think the only recourse 280 00:15:46,480 --> 00:15:48,480 Speaker 1: we would have is to really ensure that there is 281 00:15:48,560 --> 00:15:51,200 Speaker 1: some kind of massive democratic wave in the mid terms, 282 00:15:51,280 --> 00:15:53,080 Speaker 1: so at least there's a Congress, a House, and a 283 00:15:53,200 --> 00:15:57,720 Speaker 1: Senate that are diametrically opposed to the president's agenda. I mean, 284 00:15:58,000 --> 00:15:59,600 Speaker 1: I kind of think that, like, I mean, I have 285 00:15:59,640 --> 00:16:02,840 Speaker 1: a very dark view for what's going on. I think 286 00:16:02,880 --> 00:16:05,560 Speaker 1: we're already pretty much in crisis. The fact that we 287 00:16:06,840 --> 00:16:08,920 Speaker 1: like the fact that any of this is happening at all, 288 00:16:09,000 --> 00:16:12,200 Speaker 1: that that the president fires these people at will and 289 00:16:12,280 --> 00:16:15,960 Speaker 1: nothing happens, and the fact that like I don't even 290 00:16:16,000 --> 00:16:20,120 Speaker 1: think what's happening in Congress is what is representative of 291 00:16:20,160 --> 00:16:23,720 Speaker 1: the crisis. I think it's what's happening everywhere else, for instance, 292 00:16:23,800 --> 00:16:27,960 Speaker 1: the Parkland shooting and the protests for that, and how 293 00:16:28,000 --> 00:16:30,280 Speaker 1: the n r A is pushing back and how no 294 00:16:30,320 --> 00:16:34,080 Speaker 1: one is really no one's really standing up for those kids. 295 00:16:34,120 --> 00:16:36,920 Speaker 1: You know. It's just like, I mean, that's that's it. 296 00:16:37,200 --> 00:16:40,440 Speaker 1: It's like that's the crisis. It's that like the people 297 00:16:40,480 --> 00:16:42,640 Speaker 1: can die, no one really stands up for it. It's 298 00:16:42,680 --> 00:16:45,920 Speaker 1: like we could wait for people to stand up, uh 299 00:16:45,960 --> 00:16:49,520 Speaker 1: in Congress, But I've long since lost any hope in 300 00:16:49,560 --> 00:16:52,280 Speaker 1: those guys well because partisan politics has just turned it 301 00:16:52,280 --> 00:16:54,160 Speaker 1: into a game of sort of like I just need 302 00:16:54,200 --> 00:16:56,320 Speaker 1: to get through these elections, and you do whatever I 303 00:16:56,320 --> 00:16:58,080 Speaker 1: need to do, and if that means not rocking the boat, 304 00:16:58,280 --> 00:17:00,680 Speaker 1: to keep my head down and stay in office and 305 00:17:00,720 --> 00:17:02,840 Speaker 1: be the most popular person in my state or whatever 306 00:17:03,120 --> 00:17:05,400 Speaker 1: that so being, And like, yeah, that's where I think 307 00:17:05,520 --> 00:17:07,879 Speaker 1: eventually we'll have to come to a head, because what 308 00:17:08,040 --> 00:17:10,080 Speaker 1: happens then when we really do have a president who 309 00:17:10,160 --> 00:17:13,320 Speaker 1: is saying like I'm doing like wild illegal ship and 310 00:17:13,359 --> 00:17:15,840 Speaker 1: you can't prosecute me. Also It's just like what is 311 00:17:15,920 --> 00:17:18,359 Speaker 1: keeping people in Trump's corner? It's like does he have 312 00:17:18,480 --> 00:17:20,679 Speaker 1: stuff on people? Because it's just like he literally like 313 00:17:20,760 --> 00:17:23,800 Speaker 1: at the drop of a hat will fire or out 314 00:17:23,960 --> 00:17:27,240 Speaker 1: people or like ask them to sacrifice their careers and 315 00:17:27,280 --> 00:17:30,720 Speaker 1: their livelihoods for to keep him safe. And it's like, 316 00:17:30,760 --> 00:17:33,760 Speaker 1: what are they getting. I I don't see anybody getting 317 00:17:33,760 --> 00:17:35,520 Speaker 1: anything out of it. I think some people are just 318 00:17:35,520 --> 00:17:37,760 Speaker 1: so purely focused on power that they get to be 319 00:17:37,840 --> 00:17:40,440 Speaker 1: near it that they everything else goes out the window. 320 00:17:40,440 --> 00:17:42,520 Speaker 1: It's like, oh, yeah, so what I've completely compromised my 321 00:17:42,560 --> 00:17:45,440 Speaker 1: dignity or like I have no moral scruples or whatever. Yeah, 322 00:17:45,440 --> 00:17:47,760 Speaker 1: but like what Scaramucci up to right now? And what 323 00:17:47,800 --> 00:17:50,240 Speaker 1: did he really benefit from the power? I don't know. 324 00:17:50,240 --> 00:17:53,639 Speaker 1: He's following ethnically ambiguous on Twitter, I guess, yeah, that's true, 325 00:17:53,800 --> 00:17:58,000 Speaker 1: and his podcast for like a week and a half. 326 00:17:58,240 --> 00:17:59,680 Speaker 1: But he's got a book, you know. I think that's 327 00:17:59,720 --> 00:18:01,480 Speaker 1: the other think. People are just using this to like, Oh, 328 00:18:01,560 --> 00:18:03,200 Speaker 1: let me just get my name in the news and 329 00:18:03,200 --> 00:18:05,040 Speaker 1: then I'll just do the wild book deal and then 330 00:18:05,040 --> 00:18:07,560 Speaker 1: I'll make money off of being near this president and 331 00:18:07,600 --> 00:18:10,399 Speaker 1: that's how I can do. But yeah, it's uh, you know, 332 00:18:10,520 --> 00:18:12,120 Speaker 1: like they say, there's a lot of articles now that's 333 00:18:12,119 --> 00:18:16,760 Speaker 1: like this will be worse than Watergate, right because in Watergate, 334 00:18:16,880 --> 00:18:21,360 Speaker 1: you know, the Democrats had control of Congress, right, and 335 00:18:21,400 --> 00:18:24,679 Speaker 1: so they were able to enact some sort of well, 336 00:18:24,680 --> 00:18:27,399 Speaker 1: they just had Republicans that were willing to step up 337 00:18:27,440 --> 00:18:29,880 Speaker 1: to their own president and be like, yo, there's got 338 00:18:29,880 --> 00:18:32,520 Speaker 1: to be a line here, like we then that's why 339 00:18:32,680 --> 00:18:35,159 Speaker 1: you know, Nixon eventually was you know, I had to 340 00:18:35,200 --> 00:18:38,200 Speaker 1: resign because there was enough pressure from within his own party. 341 00:18:38,400 --> 00:18:40,200 Speaker 1: This is not going to happen now because there's only 342 00:18:40,200 --> 00:18:42,960 Speaker 1: what maybe four or five tops GOP members of Congress 343 00:18:42,960 --> 00:18:45,399 Speaker 1: that are really being like no, don't work around. And 344 00:18:45,440 --> 00:18:47,800 Speaker 1: even then they're not even the ones that I would 345 00:18:47,800 --> 00:18:51,560 Speaker 1: even believe because they're so inconsistent. Yeah, and I wonder 346 00:18:51,600 --> 00:18:54,560 Speaker 1: if Trump is even responding to pressure. I don't think 347 00:18:54,600 --> 00:18:59,200 Speaker 1: he's like the regular, like lifelong politician or like or 348 00:18:59,240 --> 00:19:02,199 Speaker 1: even someone who understands politics enough to know that he 349 00:19:02,200 --> 00:19:04,960 Speaker 1: should be listening to certain people. Well. Yeah, I mean, 350 00:19:05,000 --> 00:19:07,480 Speaker 1: now that he's got the a team of weird people 351 00:19:07,520 --> 00:19:10,920 Speaker 1: around him, he has no reason to act normal because 352 00:19:10,920 --> 00:19:13,000 Speaker 1: at least he had like the people that he's like 353 00:19:13,480 --> 00:19:15,680 Speaker 1: you know, purged out of the White House where the 354 00:19:15,720 --> 00:19:18,080 Speaker 1: people who would be like you can't really talk like that, 355 00:19:18,160 --> 00:19:20,000 Speaker 1: or like you shouldn't really, we shouldn't go into something 356 00:19:20,040 --> 00:19:22,040 Speaker 1: like this. And now that those we were gone, he's 357 00:19:22,080 --> 00:19:24,399 Speaker 1: like doing whatever the funk he wants. I had no 358 00:19:24,440 --> 00:19:27,080 Speaker 1: idea how much power president had until I watched Trump 359 00:19:27,160 --> 00:19:29,080 Speaker 1: just to whatever he wants to do. I'm like, oh, 360 00:19:29,280 --> 00:19:32,480 Speaker 1: you could do you could do all that. Oh, I 361 00:19:32,520 --> 00:19:34,679 Speaker 1: mean there are a couple of ways in which, like 362 00:19:35,080 --> 00:19:38,719 Speaker 1: thinking forward, whatever happens with the Muller investigation when Trump 363 00:19:38,800 --> 00:19:44,879 Speaker 1: is out of office, hopefully in whoever the next real 364 00:19:45,040 --> 00:19:48,240 Speaker 1: president is like an actual president who like we want 365 00:19:48,280 --> 00:19:51,000 Speaker 1: to be able to do the job of president, Like 366 00:19:51,200 --> 00:19:55,680 Speaker 1: if there is uh special counsel, Like if there's precedent 367 00:19:55,840 --> 00:19:59,760 Speaker 1: to just have a special counsel, who, uh can you 368 00:19:59,840 --> 00:20:02,920 Speaker 1: know just do basically what kind of started to Clinton, 369 00:20:03,200 --> 00:20:06,560 Speaker 1: and you know what we want Mueller to be able 370 00:20:06,560 --> 00:20:09,240 Speaker 1: to do to Trump. Uh that that could also be 371 00:20:09,520 --> 00:20:13,240 Speaker 1: a sort of a shitty precedent. So uh, there are 372 00:20:13,280 --> 00:20:16,920 Speaker 1: things that I don't know. By having Trump in office, 373 00:20:17,080 --> 00:20:20,639 Speaker 1: it's a little bit you know, it sets precedents that 374 00:20:20,800 --> 00:20:25,080 Speaker 1: aren't aren't good and it uses precedents from real presidents 375 00:20:25,160 --> 00:20:31,200 Speaker 1: that uh, you know, make us regret every decision. Cool 376 00:20:31,200 --> 00:20:32,960 Speaker 1: because I think too, like a lot of Republicans, it's 377 00:20:32,960 --> 00:20:34,760 Speaker 1: it's sort of like when the Vikings came through in 378 00:20:34,800 --> 00:20:37,399 Speaker 1: the beginning, like they were just robbing monasteries because they're like, 379 00:20:37,480 --> 00:20:39,199 Speaker 1: y'all got all this gold in these churches and you've 380 00:20:39,200 --> 00:20:42,320 Speaker 1: got these monks protecting it. Meanwhile, we're crazy and will 381 00:20:42,400 --> 00:20:44,560 Speaker 1: kill everybody for gold. And I was like, yo, what 382 00:20:44,560 --> 00:20:46,879 Speaker 1: the funk? Like normally you would respect the church like 383 00:20:46,880 --> 00:20:48,919 Speaker 1: you wouldn't do some wild ship like that. And this 384 00:20:48,960 --> 00:20:50,960 Speaker 1: is kind of what Trump is, just coming through doing 385 00:20:50,960 --> 00:20:53,600 Speaker 1: ship that people are like, whoa wait, what the fuck? 386 00:20:54,119 --> 00:20:57,040 Speaker 1: And I think it's gonna take a second to fully 387 00:20:57,080 --> 00:21:00,000 Speaker 1: be like whenever that line comes. That's the thing. It's 388 00:21:00,040 --> 00:21:04,600 Speaker 1: like people act like Trump as a rational and it's 389 00:21:04,640 --> 00:21:07,280 Speaker 1: just like no, you know, like it's it's like having 390 00:21:07,320 --> 00:21:11,080 Speaker 1: a comedian run the White House? What how do you do? Whatever? 391 00:21:11,080 --> 00:21:12,960 Speaker 1: I want? See? I think this is all just Miles 392 00:21:13,080 --> 00:21:19,680 Speaker 1: is anti Viking propaganda. Vikings, those more Cus and those 393 00:21:19,760 --> 00:21:24,560 Speaker 1: Vikings came through with their masculine, uh, their masculine energy. 394 00:21:25,320 --> 00:21:27,960 Speaker 1: Do you come off your Gold shouts out to Jordan Peterson. 395 00:21:28,240 --> 00:21:30,720 Speaker 1: All Right, we're gonna take a quick break and we'll 396 00:21:30,720 --> 00:21:42,960 Speaker 1: be right back and we're back. All right. What else 397 00:21:43,040 --> 00:21:46,440 Speaker 1: is in the news, Miles? What else? Yeah? Yeah, because 398 00:21:46,440 --> 00:21:50,840 Speaker 1: Donald Trump is a new post malone because telling everybody congratulations. 399 00:21:51,760 --> 00:21:57,200 Speaker 1: Uh so basically putin quote unquote one a quote unquote 400 00:21:57,240 --> 00:22:01,560 Speaker 1: election in quote unquote Russia. Uh when really, I think Russia, 401 00:22:03,680 --> 00:22:06,159 Speaker 1: that's maybe that's you. I don't believe anything. Everything is 402 00:22:06,160 --> 00:22:09,280 Speaker 1: a simulation at this point. But yes, so he won 403 00:22:09,480 --> 00:22:13,520 Speaker 1: of I'm not even a contested election, motherfucker. Basically was like, 404 00:22:13,680 --> 00:22:15,959 Speaker 1: you know, anybody's even coming close to fucking with me 405 00:22:16,040 --> 00:22:18,640 Speaker 1: getting the unanimous victory, get him the funk out here, 406 00:22:18,680 --> 00:22:21,159 Speaker 1: or bar them or you know, expel them from the 407 00:22:21,160 --> 00:22:24,359 Speaker 1: country or threatened their life. So putting one with I 408 00:22:24,400 --> 00:22:26,680 Speaker 1: think over the vote or something like that or something 409 00:22:26,720 --> 00:22:28,960 Speaker 1: like that. Yeah, And there was the hilarious thing is 410 00:22:28,960 --> 00:22:31,359 Speaker 1: that there were so many people complaining about like ballot 411 00:22:31,440 --> 00:22:34,879 Speaker 1: rigging and ship people were stuffing ballot boxes and like 412 00:22:35,040 --> 00:22:38,840 Speaker 1: it was just blatant fuckory with this election because and 413 00:22:38,880 --> 00:22:41,960 Speaker 1: putting one by landslide whatever, there's a crazy because it's Russia. Yeah, 414 00:22:42,040 --> 00:22:44,879 Speaker 1: you can see like there's this video cloth circuit video. 415 00:22:45,280 --> 00:22:47,800 Speaker 1: She's just stuff in the fucking ballot box with just 416 00:22:47,920 --> 00:22:50,639 Speaker 1: crazy votes. Just like fuck it, yo, we're gonna stacked 417 00:22:50,640 --> 00:22:53,560 Speaker 1: the deck anyway. So because of that, a lot of 418 00:22:53,600 --> 00:22:56,320 Speaker 1: Trump's advisors there's really like to call them rational adults. 419 00:22:56,320 --> 00:22:58,720 Speaker 1: Well some are rational, but they told him, yo, my man, 420 00:22:58,920 --> 00:23:03,040 Speaker 1: when you call him, do not congratulate him in all caps, 421 00:23:03,080 --> 00:23:05,520 Speaker 1: like instructions like how do you talk to this man? 422 00:23:05,880 --> 00:23:09,720 Speaker 1: And what does this motherfucker do? Congratulates him on his great, 423 00:23:10,000 --> 00:23:13,800 Speaker 1: you know, wonderful victory because obviously we don't want to 424 00:23:13,840 --> 00:23:16,040 Speaker 1: congratulate him because we're not trying to let him think 425 00:23:16,080 --> 00:23:20,240 Speaker 1: that we believe that he's legitimate. So just his press briefing, 426 00:23:20,320 --> 00:23:24,199 Speaker 1: like from his staff said like on a list of 427 00:23:24,240 --> 00:23:28,399 Speaker 1: things that happened, was like putin one parentheses all caps, 428 00:23:28,480 --> 00:23:32,920 Speaker 1: do not congratulate. And he called him to congratulate him. 429 00:23:33,200 --> 00:23:36,080 Speaker 1: It's just like not, fuck it, don't you want me 430 00:23:36,119 --> 00:23:38,399 Speaker 1: to do? Watch me do this ship hold that lhr 431 00:23:38,480 --> 00:23:41,440 Speaker 1: McMaster because they're sailing with a two year old, right, 432 00:23:41,480 --> 00:23:43,560 Speaker 1: But then don't say the thing you don't want them 433 00:23:43,600 --> 00:23:46,119 Speaker 1: to do, because then they will do that thing but 434 00:23:46,320 --> 00:23:49,240 Speaker 1: they're crazy, Well why do you do it? And someone's 435 00:23:49,240 --> 00:23:52,479 Speaker 1: trying to say, well, hr McMaster didn't explicitly mention it 436 00:23:52,560 --> 00:23:55,919 Speaker 1: out loud while making eye contact with Trump kind of 437 00:23:55,960 --> 00:23:58,080 Speaker 1: thing like are you serious? So you gotta get in 438 00:23:58,119 --> 00:24:01,200 Speaker 1: this dude's face now every time to the most basic shit, 439 00:24:01,800 --> 00:24:04,680 Speaker 1: and didn't specifically bring it up on the phone. Yeah, 440 00:24:04,760 --> 00:24:07,959 Speaker 1: it's insane, and not even then they're like also, they're like, yo, 441 00:24:08,119 --> 00:24:10,919 Speaker 1: let's take a tough stance about the attempt on that 442 00:24:11,000 --> 00:24:13,280 Speaker 1: double agents life on the UK and how we stand 443 00:24:13,320 --> 00:24:15,800 Speaker 1: with the UK on this. No, I didn't mention that 444 00:24:17,000 --> 00:24:19,680 Speaker 1: because he's just an I don't know why he turns 445 00:24:19,680 --> 00:24:23,400 Speaker 1: into such uh scared person whenever he's on the phone 446 00:24:23,400 --> 00:24:25,760 Speaker 1: with Putin unless right, I mean we have to say 447 00:24:25,760 --> 00:24:28,080 Speaker 1: this constantly, What power does he have over him? Because 448 00:24:28,080 --> 00:24:30,159 Speaker 1: clearly doesn't give a funk about the scandals he has 449 00:24:30,200 --> 00:24:32,520 Speaker 1: over here, right, Like, I mean the way he has 450 00:24:32,600 --> 00:24:36,360 Speaker 1: three active like uh, you know, sexual harassment like type 451 00:24:36,440 --> 00:24:40,159 Speaker 1: lawsuits in the right now in America. And but at 452 00:24:40,240 --> 00:24:41,960 Speaker 1: least yeah, when he gets on the phone and put 453 00:24:41,960 --> 00:24:43,400 Speaker 1: and he's like, oh I love you so much, thank 454 00:24:43,400 --> 00:24:48,000 Speaker 1: you so much. That although so you could say that 455 00:24:48,000 --> 00:24:51,000 Speaker 1: this indicates Putin has something over him. It's also in 456 00:24:51,160 --> 00:24:56,800 Speaker 1: keeping with Trump's just general love and respect for dictators 457 00:24:56,840 --> 00:24:59,600 Speaker 1: like to Terrte and you know he also do the 458 00:24:59,600 --> 00:25:02,120 Speaker 1: same thing with Aragon in Turkey, was like he congrats 459 00:25:02,119 --> 00:25:03,760 Speaker 1: on your win. And that was another one that was like, 460 00:25:04,000 --> 00:25:06,560 Speaker 1: I think there's an element outside of the politics. It's 461 00:25:06,600 --> 00:25:09,000 Speaker 1: just on some man ship that Trump realizes Putin could 462 00:25:09,040 --> 00:25:11,600 Speaker 1: suck him up. They just were in the same room 463 00:25:11,680 --> 00:25:13,680 Speaker 1: for no reason. He should. Putin would beat the ship 464 00:25:13,760 --> 00:25:17,240 Speaker 1: out of him. I would pay the seat Putin, smack 465 00:25:17,320 --> 00:25:19,560 Speaker 1: him around a little bit, like what's up Donald? What 466 00:25:19,640 --> 00:25:21,800 Speaker 1: I tell you about them sanctions be He's in that 467 00:25:21,920 --> 00:25:24,199 Speaker 1: video of Putin stretching his hips out where he's just 468 00:25:24,240 --> 00:25:27,240 Speaker 1: like doing the before judo or something, Yeah, before judo. No, 469 00:25:27,600 --> 00:25:30,440 Speaker 1: it's funny. I know he loves the judo, the Puerto 470 00:25:30,480 --> 00:25:32,960 Speaker 1: Rican judo. Oh you don't know what that is? That 471 00:25:33,080 --> 00:25:34,560 Speaker 1: when I say, you don't know who got this game? 472 00:25:34,720 --> 00:25:38,240 Speaker 1: Shout out to Cameron. But again, very disconcerting when you 473 00:25:38,240 --> 00:25:40,760 Speaker 1: think about two we haven't done ship about the meddling 474 00:25:40,840 --> 00:25:43,600 Speaker 1: that's even happening in our country now with despite the 475 00:25:43,640 --> 00:25:47,679 Speaker 1: most blunt calls for action from the intelligence community. And 476 00:25:47,760 --> 00:25:51,200 Speaker 1: still again, yeah, you know, well that that's the present. 477 00:25:52,200 --> 00:25:55,080 Speaker 1: It's annoying and it shouldn't have been done. But at 478 00:25:55,080 --> 00:25:57,280 Speaker 1: the same time, you have to pick your battles. And 479 00:25:57,320 --> 00:25:59,560 Speaker 1: it's like, of all the things that we have to 480 00:25:59,600 --> 00:26:02,040 Speaker 1: deal with with respect to Trump and what's going on 481 00:26:02,240 --> 00:26:06,280 Speaker 1: even with Russia, congratulating Putin is very low on my 482 00:26:06,400 --> 00:26:09,560 Speaker 1: list of priorities of what needs Like, fine, who gives 483 00:26:09,560 --> 00:26:11,560 Speaker 1: an he shouldn't have done it, he did it. Nothing 484 00:26:11,640 --> 00:26:14,520 Speaker 1: actually matters from that, right, I think the only reason 485 00:26:14,560 --> 00:26:17,920 Speaker 1: that's it's concerning is because it's just emboldened Putin, even 486 00:26:18,080 --> 00:26:21,879 Speaker 1: I mean, in a way it legitimizes this quote unquote election. 487 00:26:21,920 --> 00:26:24,480 Speaker 1: But at the same time, whether or not it was 488 00:26:24,520 --> 00:26:27,359 Speaker 1: a legitimate election, the reality of the fact is he 489 00:26:27,560 --> 00:26:30,280 Speaker 1: is six more years in charge of Russia. So you know, 490 00:26:30,320 --> 00:26:32,280 Speaker 1: whether or not you like how he came to seize 491 00:26:32,320 --> 00:26:34,600 Speaker 1: that power, he has that power and that's not changing 492 00:26:34,640 --> 00:26:38,120 Speaker 1: regardless of if Trump says congratulations or doesn't, because it's 493 00:26:38,160 --> 00:26:41,760 Speaker 1: like the nearly intothetical response to when Obama was president, 494 00:26:41,840 --> 00:26:44,480 Speaker 1: Like you know, Hillary Clinton made a point last election, 495 00:26:44,560 --> 00:26:47,000 Speaker 1: be like this is a fucking sham, you know, what 496 00:26:47,000 --> 00:26:49,320 Speaker 1: I mean, that's clearly like one of the reasons why 497 00:26:49,400 --> 00:26:51,639 Speaker 1: in the deck of things Putin hated about Hillary Clinton. 498 00:26:51,800 --> 00:26:53,840 Speaker 1: That was high up there. So it must be really 499 00:26:53,960 --> 00:26:56,080 Speaker 1: nice for Putin to have a nice phone call from 500 00:26:56,119 --> 00:26:58,960 Speaker 1: somebody he knows he got that debot mind control over 501 00:26:59,440 --> 00:27:04,240 Speaker 1: and see I a. Chief Brennan, former CIA director John 502 00:27:04,280 --> 00:27:07,680 Speaker 1: Brennan is just coming out and just saying, like all 503 00:27:07,720 --> 00:27:12,640 Speaker 1: the ship that you know, we say around the water cooler, 504 00:27:12,760 --> 00:27:15,320 Speaker 1: which we don't have a water cooler, but the proverbial 505 00:27:15,400 --> 00:27:19,199 Speaker 1: water cooler. One day, one day, Hey, we're doing all right, 506 00:27:19,200 --> 00:27:21,560 Speaker 1: we might have a water cool Hoobery is about to 507 00:27:21,560 --> 00:27:25,880 Speaker 1: send one a um, but he he was like, you know, 508 00:27:26,119 --> 00:27:29,520 Speaker 1: who knows, maybe the Russians have something personal on Trump. 509 00:27:29,800 --> 00:27:34,000 Speaker 1: So this is the former chief of the CIA. Uh, 510 00:27:34,080 --> 00:27:37,280 Speaker 1: and the right has now been forced to create a 511 00:27:37,359 --> 00:27:42,159 Speaker 1: conspiracy theory where the head of the CIA and Hillary 512 00:27:42,200 --> 00:27:45,200 Speaker 1: Clinton and Obama were all like in on this long, 513 00:27:45,800 --> 00:27:50,760 Speaker 1: long term plan to frame Trump for colluding with Russia. 514 00:27:51,000 --> 00:27:54,399 Speaker 1: So long term, like they were planning that he was 515 00:27:54,440 --> 00:27:58,080 Speaker 1: gonna win. There were sixteen people in the primary, fifteen 516 00:27:58,080 --> 00:28:00,520 Speaker 1: of which we're shooting on Trump. At the time, they 517 00:28:00,520 --> 00:28:03,000 Speaker 1: were the most surprised of any you ever met somebody 518 00:28:03,080 --> 00:28:07,560 Speaker 1: who cannot admit they're wrong and they do anything to 519 00:28:07,640 --> 00:28:10,520 Speaker 1: fucking convince themselves otherwise. It's just crazy to see that 520 00:28:10,560 --> 00:28:13,120 Speaker 1: play out at this level and with a hive mind. 521 00:28:13,640 --> 00:28:16,159 Speaker 1: You know. Yeah, I'm a Jewish comedian. I know a 522 00:28:16,200 --> 00:28:22,120 Speaker 1: few people. The first subject we wanted to talk about 523 00:28:22,200 --> 00:28:23,800 Speaker 1: is a little bit of good news, the fact that 524 00:28:24,040 --> 00:28:27,560 Speaker 1: it's looking like we're going to have viable nuclear fusion 525 00:28:28,280 --> 00:28:31,719 Speaker 1: coming down the line about fifteen years, which is exciting 526 00:28:31,760 --> 00:28:36,919 Speaker 1: for alarm. But that, I mean, that is one of 527 00:28:37,040 --> 00:28:40,720 Speaker 1: the ways that, you know, we could definitely see climate 528 00:28:40,800 --> 00:28:44,360 Speaker 1: change being addressed, as you know. But before we get 529 00:28:44,400 --> 00:28:47,880 Speaker 1: to that, we're just also talking about how deeply cynical 530 00:28:47,920 --> 00:28:52,360 Speaker 1: everything well yeah, I mean, uh, for instance, the idea 531 00:28:52,480 --> 00:28:56,400 Speaker 1: that there is a nuclear option. Charlie, you were saying 532 00:28:56,440 --> 00:28:58,720 Speaker 1: that like I didn't even know that. I didn't know 533 00:28:58,800 --> 00:29:02,160 Speaker 1: that was a thing. Like Miles I was talking about 534 00:29:02,160 --> 00:29:07,160 Speaker 1: how thirties like Democrats have won thirty seven special elections 535 00:29:07,160 --> 00:29:10,280 Speaker 1: and Republicans have only won four, and I was saying, like, 536 00:29:10,360 --> 00:29:12,880 Speaker 1: let me just rain on your parade there, because he 537 00:29:13,000 --> 00:29:15,240 Speaker 1: was trying to make you more hopeful, because I'm like, 538 00:29:15,280 --> 00:29:17,760 Speaker 1: even if the Democrats do take that Congress, I just 539 00:29:17,840 --> 00:29:21,200 Speaker 1: don't see them being ready for power. Like they just 540 00:29:21,320 --> 00:29:24,600 Speaker 1: don't use power the way that the Republicans do in 541 00:29:24,640 --> 00:29:26,479 Speaker 1: the sense that, like the I didn't even know what 542 00:29:26,600 --> 00:29:30,080 Speaker 1: nuclear option was until the Republicans used it on the 543 00:29:30,560 --> 00:29:32,600 Speaker 1: what was it the House floor or something or like, 544 00:29:33,120 --> 00:29:35,680 Speaker 1: I had no idea the kinds of things and tactics 545 00:29:35,680 --> 00:29:39,520 Speaker 1: you could, you know, employ until Republicans did it. So 546 00:29:39,560 --> 00:29:42,200 Speaker 1: I'm just like, are they ready to like, are they 547 00:29:42,240 --> 00:29:44,920 Speaker 1: ready ready to like go balls to the walls? Like 548 00:29:44,960 --> 00:29:47,240 Speaker 1: are they ready to like really push through some things 549 00:29:47,560 --> 00:29:51,800 Speaker 1: the way that the Republicans pushed things through? You know? Yeah. 550 00:29:51,920 --> 00:29:54,760 Speaker 1: I was talking to a friend of mine, very smart guy, 551 00:29:54,960 --> 00:29:56,680 Speaker 1: one of the smartest people I know who happens to 552 00:29:56,720 --> 00:29:59,920 Speaker 1: be a conservative, and just you know, he was mad 553 00:30:00,320 --> 00:30:03,280 Speaker 1: a lot of different points about the Muller investigation, But 554 00:30:03,720 --> 00:30:07,560 Speaker 1: the thing that just kept popping up in my head was, Man, 555 00:30:07,600 --> 00:30:11,400 Speaker 1: if this was Obama, you guys would have been like 556 00:30:11,600 --> 00:30:16,760 Speaker 1: Fox News would have been like losing their mind, and uh, 557 00:30:16,800 --> 00:30:19,520 Speaker 1: you know, we wouldn't have even gotten to where where 558 00:30:19,560 --> 00:30:23,360 Speaker 1: we are in the Trump situation because of just how 559 00:30:23,880 --> 00:30:27,959 Speaker 1: crazy the right wing media would have gone. And um, 560 00:30:28,000 --> 00:30:31,320 Speaker 1: you know, I I do feel like it's just people 561 00:30:31,360 --> 00:30:35,280 Speaker 1: are playing two separate games, and the right wing media 562 00:30:35,480 --> 00:30:40,760 Speaker 1: and the right wing politicians are just so much shrewder 563 00:30:41,040 --> 00:30:45,080 Speaker 1: and yeah, just more more effect. They're still doing Jedi 564 00:30:45,120 --> 00:30:48,640 Speaker 1: mind tricks. The right wing is doing Jedi mind tricks 565 00:30:48,640 --> 00:30:51,680 Speaker 1: and everyone you know, the gaslight the whole gaslighting term 566 00:30:51,720 --> 00:30:55,840 Speaker 1: that started being used. Um, that's what's happening. The n 567 00:30:55,920 --> 00:30:58,240 Speaker 1: r A is doing it, everybody's doing it, and no 568 00:30:58,280 --> 00:31:00,560 Speaker 1: one is being honest. This is what I'm talking about 569 00:31:00,560 --> 00:31:04,080 Speaker 1: with Miles too, Like on the Brake was about how 570 00:31:04,160 --> 00:31:06,760 Speaker 1: Trump is just a symptom of everything else that's going 571 00:31:06,800 --> 00:31:09,840 Speaker 1: on and like of what we've allowed as a country 572 00:31:09,880 --> 00:31:12,880 Speaker 1: to happen. You know, like of course Obama couldn't do 573 00:31:12,880 --> 00:31:15,160 Speaker 1: this because he's black and Trump is white, and and 574 00:31:15,240 --> 00:31:17,360 Speaker 1: this is what the country wants, like the country wants, 575 00:31:17,400 --> 00:31:19,160 Speaker 1: I mean not the country, I don't think, but like 576 00:31:19,600 --> 00:31:21,240 Speaker 1: this is what the people that voted for him want. 577 00:31:21,320 --> 00:31:23,400 Speaker 1: They want their power back, and they're going to be 578 00:31:23,480 --> 00:31:28,080 Speaker 1: using all kinds of backhanded terms and like like all 579 00:31:28,240 --> 00:31:31,040 Speaker 1: right instead of just saying nazee and things like that, 580 00:31:31,080 --> 00:31:33,440 Speaker 1: and the news goes along with it because that's what 581 00:31:33,520 --> 00:31:35,600 Speaker 1: makes money and that's what people watch. So it's like, 582 00:31:36,000 --> 00:31:39,400 Speaker 1: we're just gonna keep doing this little dance until we like, 583 00:31:40,000 --> 00:31:41,720 Speaker 1: you know, I don't think we're ever going to stop 584 00:31:41,720 --> 00:31:43,240 Speaker 1: the bullshit, but I do gotta say. Yeah, with the 585 00:31:43,320 --> 00:31:47,720 Speaker 1: nuclear option that we the Democrats started, Shum was the 586 00:31:47,720 --> 00:31:50,280 Speaker 1: one to use it, Yeah, because it was during the 587 00:31:50,320 --> 00:31:53,800 Speaker 1: time when the Republicans are fucking just obstructing, like count 588 00:31:53,800 --> 00:31:55,760 Speaker 1: gets it done, and I was like, we may have 589 00:31:55,800 --> 00:31:57,880 Speaker 1: to we have to blow this thing up. But yes, 590 00:31:57,960 --> 00:32:00,320 Speaker 1: now it's like anything right because you have to shift 591 00:32:00,360 --> 00:32:02,800 Speaker 1: the rules. Like Jack was just saying before, of like 592 00:32:03,320 --> 00:32:06,520 Speaker 1: Obama had expand powers because Republicans were obstructing, you know, 593 00:32:06,560 --> 00:32:08,880 Speaker 1: his sort of policy goals. And then in the in 594 00:32:09,000 --> 00:32:12,120 Speaker 1: the Senate and things, a lot of uh, procedure was 595 00:32:12,280 --> 00:32:14,320 Speaker 1: altered in things to sort of get around these things. 596 00:32:14,320 --> 00:32:16,600 Speaker 1: And now we're kind of, you know, on the other side. 597 00:32:16,680 --> 00:32:18,880 Speaker 1: But anyway, what about some good news, Jack, You're saying 598 00:32:18,880 --> 00:32:22,480 Speaker 1: some about fusion something that the environment. Yeah, so, um, 599 00:32:22,520 --> 00:32:26,800 Speaker 1: this is something that I had sort of just put 600 00:32:26,840 --> 00:32:31,120 Speaker 1: out of my mind as a possibility nuclear energy being 601 00:32:31,160 --> 00:32:33,280 Speaker 1: a thing, I think, you know, I was raised on 602 00:32:33,320 --> 00:32:37,600 Speaker 1: The Simpsons where Homer works are nuclear power plant and 603 00:32:38,040 --> 00:32:41,240 Speaker 1: uh there's a fish that has three eyes because of 604 00:32:41,240 --> 00:32:45,880 Speaker 1: that nuclear power plant, and um, you know, uh, in 605 00:32:45,960 --> 00:32:50,960 Speaker 1: the late seventies early eighties, there was a movie called 606 00:32:51,040 --> 00:32:56,040 Speaker 1: China Syndrome, which I never knew where that title came from. 607 00:32:56,040 --> 00:32:59,360 Speaker 1: And the idea is that in a if there's a 608 00:32:59,480 --> 00:33:04,560 Speaker 1: nuclear actor melt down, the like core is so hot 609 00:33:04,600 --> 00:33:07,560 Speaker 1: that it will actually burn through the planet and like 610 00:33:07,640 --> 00:33:11,560 Speaker 1: come out the other end in China, which is not 611 00:33:11,640 --> 00:33:15,160 Speaker 1: how gravity works, but right at a certain point, it's 612 00:33:15,200 --> 00:33:17,200 Speaker 1: just gonna be on the other right, it would just stop, 613 00:33:17,240 --> 00:33:21,680 Speaker 1: okay anyway anyways, Um, so that's that's where that's the 614 00:33:21,760 --> 00:33:24,840 Speaker 1: idea there. And there's a lot of just fear. And 615 00:33:26,000 --> 00:33:29,960 Speaker 1: you know, Chernobyl was obviously awful and a lot of 616 00:33:29,960 --> 00:33:35,000 Speaker 1: that ship happened there, but uh, they have made nuclear 617 00:33:35,080 --> 00:33:37,920 Speaker 1: energy much safer than it has been in the past, 618 00:33:38,160 --> 00:33:41,480 Speaker 1: and a lot of the nuclear energy stuff besides Chernobyl 619 00:33:41,560 --> 00:33:46,960 Speaker 1: has really been panic based. And well, Fukushima it didn't 620 00:33:47,040 --> 00:33:49,520 Speaker 1: end up hurting that many people and like people, right, 621 00:33:49,560 --> 00:33:51,920 Speaker 1: but it destroyed the water. I mean, like the effects 622 00:33:51,920 --> 00:33:54,840 Speaker 1: are pretty profound, like to the actual water table in 623 00:33:54,840 --> 00:33:56,840 Speaker 1: the surrounding area and things like that. Yeah, but like 624 00:33:57,320 --> 00:33:59,400 Speaker 1: I guess if you're not talking full blown meltdown, but 625 00:33:59,480 --> 00:34:01,720 Speaker 1: yet I think there's still an inherent risk, was with 626 00:34:01,760 --> 00:34:04,320 Speaker 1: some with some Yeah, no, no, I think there is. 627 00:34:04,360 --> 00:34:07,080 Speaker 1: But I also think the response in the aftermath, like 628 00:34:07,560 --> 00:34:12,600 Speaker 1: Nancy Grace was freaking out about planes coming from uh 629 00:34:12,680 --> 00:34:17,719 Speaker 1: Japan having all this radiation on them and basically saying 630 00:34:17,760 --> 00:34:20,000 Speaker 1: that that was a result of Fukushima and like how 631 00:34:20,040 --> 00:34:23,240 Speaker 1: the water that we were getting was radioactive and stuff, 632 00:34:23,640 --> 00:34:26,440 Speaker 1: and the level of radiation she was talking about was 633 00:34:26,520 --> 00:34:30,520 Speaker 1: actually just from those planes being above the clouds, like 634 00:34:30,600 --> 00:34:33,880 Speaker 1: close to the sun. Like that's like the sun is 635 00:34:34,200 --> 00:34:38,279 Speaker 1: the sun has lots of radiation. Um. But so I 636 00:34:38,360 --> 00:34:42,600 Speaker 1: just think that it's overrated how dangerous nuclear power plants are. 637 00:34:43,080 --> 00:34:48,640 Speaker 1: And you know, now that we're actually seeing some consequences 638 00:34:48,680 --> 00:34:52,120 Speaker 1: to global warming that is killing people, you know, all 639 00:34:52,160 --> 00:34:55,920 Speaker 1: that we're seeing, the stronger storms, we're seeing the civil 640 00:34:55,960 --> 00:34:59,440 Speaker 1: war in Syria was started by a a drought that 641 00:34:59,480 --> 00:35:01,720 Speaker 1: was caused by global warming. Like, now that we're seeing 642 00:35:01,719 --> 00:35:04,840 Speaker 1: stuff like that, it's really time to take a second 643 00:35:04,840 --> 00:35:09,160 Speaker 1: look at nuclear energy, and especially now that some scientists 644 00:35:09,160 --> 00:35:12,000 Speaker 1: have come out. The Guardian just had a report on 645 00:35:12,120 --> 00:35:15,640 Speaker 1: the ninth of March saying that we're only fifteen years 646 00:35:15,760 --> 00:35:20,000 Speaker 1: away from nuclear fusion, which, uh, nuclear fission is what 647 00:35:20,080 --> 00:35:23,160 Speaker 1: we've been working with up to this point. Uh, it's 648 00:35:23,200 --> 00:35:27,480 Speaker 1: got all the you know dangers inherent that uh, you 649 00:35:27,480 --> 00:35:30,320 Speaker 1: know caused Chernobyl and all that all that bad stuff. 650 00:35:30,400 --> 00:35:35,040 Speaker 1: Fusion is basically how the Sun works. It's by fusing 651 00:35:35,080 --> 00:35:39,279 Speaker 1: two atoms together. It creates this like boundless energy, but 652 00:35:39,400 --> 00:35:43,440 Speaker 1: it's much safer, it's much more stable. Uh, it creates 653 00:35:43,719 --> 00:35:48,120 Speaker 1: more energy. It's basically like the holy Grail of energy. 654 00:35:48,160 --> 00:35:50,520 Speaker 1: And they think we're about fifteen years away from it. 655 00:35:51,080 --> 00:35:54,279 Speaker 1: But it's not fashionable to be into nuclear, especially in 656 00:35:54,280 --> 00:35:59,479 Speaker 1: the West, which is kind of because of those things 657 00:35:59,480 --> 00:36:03,040 Speaker 1: that we're talking about, because people associate those cooling towers 658 00:36:03,160 --> 00:36:07,680 Speaker 1: with like nuclear meltdowns and stuff. Um, but it's perfectly 659 00:36:07,960 --> 00:36:11,120 Speaker 1: safe and you know, much better for the planet than 660 00:36:11,600 --> 00:36:15,000 Speaker 1: the things that we're currently using to heat and power 661 00:36:15,480 --> 00:36:18,360 Speaker 1: or electric grid, right because like photo votakes and like 662 00:36:18,400 --> 00:36:21,520 Speaker 1: solar and things like that can only generate so much energy, 663 00:36:21,600 --> 00:36:24,919 Speaker 1: whereas like fusion is like you're saying, like it's an 664 00:36:24,920 --> 00:36:27,279 Speaker 1: insane amount of energy that like enables a lot of 665 00:36:27,280 --> 00:36:29,719 Speaker 1: other things like even de salonization and things like that, 666 00:36:30,120 --> 00:36:32,279 Speaker 1: because like being able to do that, like there are 667 00:36:32,360 --> 00:36:35,000 Speaker 1: knock on effects, if you know, in fifteen years, I'm 668 00:36:35,040 --> 00:36:37,919 Speaker 1: starting to count if they actually do have this full 669 00:36:37,960 --> 00:36:42,080 Speaker 1: on carbon free, you know, scaled fusion power that could 670 00:36:42,120 --> 00:36:46,080 Speaker 1: have like pretty widespread benefits for humanity. But I feel 671 00:36:46,080 --> 00:36:48,760 Speaker 1: like as soon as they make it viable, like somebody's 672 00:36:48,800 --> 00:36:52,399 Speaker 1: going to start selling it, because right now I think 673 00:36:52,400 --> 00:36:54,640 Speaker 1: it's like, you know, it costs like billions of dollars 674 00:36:54,640 --> 00:36:57,160 Speaker 1: just to research it, and they're saying, like, you know, 675 00:36:57,200 --> 00:36:59,680 Speaker 1: the first plants could be tens of billions of dollars, 676 00:36:59,680 --> 00:37:03,320 Speaker 1: maybe trillions more, depending on like you know, how sophisticated 677 00:37:03,360 --> 00:37:06,040 Speaker 1: it is. Because right now, like the whole struggle has 678 00:37:06,080 --> 00:37:09,520 Speaker 1: been like they've been able to uh fuse the atoms 679 00:37:09,680 --> 00:37:11,759 Speaker 1: to sort of create the energy release, but they haven't 680 00:37:11,760 --> 00:37:13,960 Speaker 1: been able to generate more power from the fusion than 681 00:37:14,000 --> 00:37:17,080 Speaker 1: it takes to even create the reaction in the first place. 682 00:37:17,719 --> 00:37:19,479 Speaker 1: So like I think now that they're starting to reach 683 00:37:19,520 --> 00:37:21,440 Speaker 1: that tipping point where they can be like, Okay, we're 684 00:37:21,440 --> 00:37:23,799 Speaker 1: getting a return on the energy we're putting in I 685 00:37:23,800 --> 00:37:26,480 Speaker 1: guess it's becoming more feasible. But I have to say 686 00:37:26,560 --> 00:37:28,600 Speaker 1: that is like the one thing I am looking forward to, 687 00:37:28,760 --> 00:37:33,719 Speaker 1: like unlimited energy technology, Like like Tesla doesn't have any 688 00:37:33,880 --> 00:37:38,000 Speaker 1: huge competition right now as far as their standard of car. 689 00:37:38,200 --> 00:37:40,520 Speaker 1: You know, like if like other when other people get 690 00:37:40,560 --> 00:37:42,080 Speaker 1: in the game and you can get like a cheap 691 00:37:42,080 --> 00:37:45,800 Speaker 1: electric car, that's like really nice, or like we phase 692 00:37:45,840 --> 00:37:49,040 Speaker 1: out gas cars, you know, like which is a long 693 00:37:49,080 --> 00:37:52,520 Speaker 1: time from now, but still totally totally in the distance. 694 00:37:52,560 --> 00:37:55,040 Speaker 1: You know, a lot of countries are trying to phase amount. 695 00:37:55,120 --> 00:37:57,760 Speaker 1: So that's it's it's a sign, it's a step towards 696 00:37:58,320 --> 00:38:01,719 Speaker 1: I think Russia, even though are the site of the 697 00:38:01,760 --> 00:38:05,600 Speaker 1: one nuclear mountdown that has killed lots of people. Uh, 698 00:38:05,640 --> 00:38:09,520 Speaker 1: they have invested more in nuclear power than we have, 699 00:38:09,680 --> 00:38:12,360 Speaker 1: I think purely because we are ruled by the whims 700 00:38:12,400 --> 00:38:15,360 Speaker 1: of the public, you know, and if there's a scary 701 00:38:15,440 --> 00:38:18,520 Speaker 1: movie like the China Syndrome that comes out, that's going 702 00:38:18,560 --> 00:38:22,040 Speaker 1: to determine how viable it is for a community to 703 00:38:22,280 --> 00:38:26,360 Speaker 1: invest in nuclear power. Um, there's this thing I just 704 00:38:26,400 --> 00:38:30,000 Speaker 1: found out about called like the race for the Arctic 705 00:38:30,040 --> 00:38:35,880 Speaker 1: shipping roots, and uh, basically Russia has all these different 706 00:38:35,920 --> 00:38:40,360 Speaker 1: boats that are called nuclear ice breakers that are basically 707 00:38:40,480 --> 00:38:46,360 Speaker 1: nuclear powered boats that breakthrough ice in the northern uh 708 00:38:46,480 --> 00:38:50,640 Speaker 1: like in northern shipping routes, and basically they're going to 709 00:38:50,880 --> 00:38:54,719 Speaker 1: rule all the northern shipping routes once the ice has 710 00:38:54,760 --> 00:38:57,680 Speaker 1: melted enough due to global warming. So they're sort of 711 00:38:58,000 --> 00:39:02,440 Speaker 1: investing for a future that includes global warming, and they're 712 00:39:02,480 --> 00:39:05,279 Speaker 1: able to do it better than us because they can 713 00:39:05,320 --> 00:39:08,560 Speaker 1: invest in nuclear energy and not have these like sort 714 00:39:08,560 --> 00:39:12,520 Speaker 1: of misunderstandings about how safe nuclear energy is. But yeah, 715 00:39:12,560 --> 00:39:15,880 Speaker 1: I mean, super producer Nick Stuff just sent a list 716 00:39:15,920 --> 00:39:21,080 Speaker 1: of energy source mortality rates deaths per year per uh 717 00:39:21,160 --> 00:39:24,080 Speaker 1: T w H, which I'm assuming is like per one 718 00:39:24,160 --> 00:39:28,200 Speaker 1: hundred thousand or something like that. But coal, the world 719 00:39:28,239 --> 00:39:30,480 Speaker 1: average is a hundred and sixty one deaths per year 720 00:39:31,160 --> 00:39:36,040 Speaker 1: coal in China, two seventy eight. In the US it's fifteen, oil, 721 00:39:36,320 --> 00:39:40,760 Speaker 1: thirty six, natural gas four, and nuclear is point zero four. 722 00:39:41,120 --> 00:39:44,839 Speaker 1: So it's basically the safest, Like it's safer than guess, 723 00:39:44,920 --> 00:39:49,480 Speaker 1: rooftop solar. According to this list, rooftop solar, there's they 724 00:39:49,520 --> 00:39:54,160 Speaker 1: caused fires wind. I think I don't actually know how 725 00:39:54,160 --> 00:39:56,880 Speaker 1: wind kills people, kills all the birds it kills a 726 00:39:56,880 --> 00:40:00,120 Speaker 1: lot of trees falling and a lot of table buildings. 727 00:40:00,520 --> 00:40:03,160 Speaker 1: But it's weird to think, you know, like that only 728 00:40:03,239 --> 00:40:05,920 Speaker 1: fifteen people I guess are like ones that they can 729 00:40:06,000 --> 00:40:09,759 Speaker 1: directly relate to coal generated energy essentially? Is that is 730 00:40:09,800 --> 00:40:13,440 Speaker 1: that the idea? So it's deaths per year per tetra 731 00:40:13,600 --> 00:40:17,799 Speaker 1: what hour we think, which is a guess, but we 732 00:40:17,880 --> 00:40:20,759 Speaker 1: think it's like per unit of energy produced. So we're 733 00:40:20,760 --> 00:40:24,600 Speaker 1: not scientists, right, but we're basically saying they're basically saying 734 00:40:24,840 --> 00:40:29,240 Speaker 1: nuclear energy is, per unit of energy, the safest type 735 00:40:29,239 --> 00:40:34,560 Speaker 1: of energy when you compare it to oil, coal, natural gas, biofuel, 736 00:40:34,840 --> 00:40:40,840 Speaker 1: pete uh, solar slash, rooftop wind, and hydro electricity, which 737 00:40:41,360 --> 00:40:43,799 Speaker 1: you know I thought was the safest. Okay, we'll get 738 00:40:43,880 --> 00:40:46,680 Speaker 1: that fusion going, like I said, scientists, you have I 739 00:40:46,719 --> 00:40:50,560 Speaker 1: guess fourteen years and three D sixty three days now. 740 00:40:51,239 --> 00:40:53,640 Speaker 1: But I'm saying, I'm saying, get the fission going to 741 00:40:53,840 --> 00:40:57,040 Speaker 1: like we're too scared of fission. Like this the nuclear 742 00:40:57,160 --> 00:41:00,319 Speaker 1: energy table that we were just looking at, where it 743 00:41:00,360 --> 00:41:03,320 Speaker 1: that says nuclear energy is the safest type of energy 744 00:41:03,560 --> 00:41:07,440 Speaker 1: that's based on nuclear fission, Like that's current, right, right, right, right, so, like, 745 00:41:07,680 --> 00:41:11,520 Speaker 1: just let's start using nuclear energy. This episode brought to 746 00:41:11,560 --> 00:41:16,960 Speaker 1: you by the Atomic Administration. I see, you couldn't even 747 00:41:17,000 --> 00:41:20,360 Speaker 1: come up with a company that's Yeah, that's how shitty 748 00:41:20,360 --> 00:41:23,600 Speaker 1: are nuclear power? Energy? Is all right, we're gonna take 749 00:41:23,680 --> 00:41:34,319 Speaker 1: a quick break and we'll be right back. And we're 750 00:41:34,320 --> 00:41:39,040 Speaker 1: back and uh so, you know, we got accused of 751 00:41:39,080 --> 00:41:44,480 Speaker 1: being a little left dish because we criticize whoever is 752 00:41:44,520 --> 00:41:47,000 Speaker 1: in the White House right now. But uh so we 753 00:41:47,120 --> 00:41:50,600 Speaker 1: wanted to take this opportunity to talk about somebody who's 754 00:41:50,680 --> 00:41:54,400 Speaker 1: on the left who I don't think I could hate 755 00:41:54,560 --> 00:41:58,600 Speaker 1: more or be like more annoyed by, like like I 756 00:41:58,640 --> 00:42:03,399 Speaker 1: have a physical reaction into this guy. It's the Barack Obama. Yeah, 757 00:42:03,480 --> 00:42:10,400 Speaker 1: it's the actor Barack Obama. That's the actor Sean penn Um. 758 00:42:10,520 --> 00:42:14,200 Speaker 1: So he just released or is in the process next 759 00:42:14,200 --> 00:42:19,040 Speaker 1: week apparently sees the release of his first novel, O great, 760 00:42:19,520 --> 00:42:23,040 Speaker 1: uh it is. What's the title? The title is grammatically incorrected. 761 00:42:23,160 --> 00:42:27,359 Speaker 1: Is Bob Honey who just do stuff? So? Uh we're 762 00:42:27,400 --> 00:42:30,800 Speaker 1: pretentious right off the right from the jump, Bob Honey, 763 00:42:30,800 --> 00:42:34,920 Speaker 1: who just do stuff like it's interesting and artistic? Because 764 00:42:34,960 --> 00:42:37,879 Speaker 1: that's not how you say that phrase. Um, yeah, how 765 00:42:38,000 --> 00:42:40,799 Speaker 1: do you say it to make it sound coherent? Just 766 00:42:40,840 --> 00:42:45,120 Speaker 1: does stuff? Right? No? But as written Bob Honey who 767 00:42:45,560 --> 00:42:54,560 Speaker 1: just do stuff? Act? Just do stuff? Just do stuff? Yeah. 768 00:42:54,880 --> 00:42:56,520 Speaker 1: So it's like multiple people need to be in there, 769 00:42:58,200 --> 00:43:00,279 Speaker 1: like you don't know who Bob Honey is, and then 770 00:43:00,280 --> 00:43:04,680 Speaker 1: it's just like just do stuff. Um. Anyway, so this 771 00:43:04,719 --> 00:43:08,399 Speaker 1: book sounds great already because you don't even can't even 772 00:43:08,400 --> 00:43:11,480 Speaker 1: wrap our running scenarios, like a six year old kid 773 00:43:11,560 --> 00:43:19,440 Speaker 1: like Honey who just do stuff? Yeah? Uh So Bob 774 00:43:19,480 --> 00:43:23,200 Speaker 1: Honey has a hard time connecting with other people. He's 775 00:43:23,280 --> 00:43:28,919 Speaker 1: the protagonist, especially since his divorce. He's tired of being 776 00:43:29,000 --> 00:43:32,920 Speaker 1: marketed to every moment well, sick of a world where 777 00:43:33,000 --> 00:43:36,879 Speaker 1: even an orgasm isn't real until it is turned into 778 00:43:36,960 --> 00:43:39,800 Speaker 1: a tweet. Now, what the funk are you talking about? 779 00:43:39,880 --> 00:43:42,520 Speaker 1: Right there? This is in the Amazon description. This is 780 00:43:43,239 --> 00:43:46,160 Speaker 1: this isn't jack riffing. This is an this is the 781 00:43:46,200 --> 00:43:50,760 Speaker 1: product description of a world where even an orgasm isn't 782 00:43:50,840 --> 00:43:54,840 Speaker 1: real until it is turned into a tweet. What the 783 00:43:55,000 --> 00:43:58,280 Speaker 1: fund does that mean? Like? How does someone write that sentence? 784 00:43:58,360 --> 00:44:01,399 Speaker 1: Be like I've summed up Eric, that's like dad beat 785 00:44:01,440 --> 00:44:09,840 Speaker 1: poetry embarrassing um the thing it continues. A paragon of 786 00:44:09,920 --> 00:44:13,960 Speaker 1: old fashioned American entrepreneurship, Bob sells septic tanks to Jehovah's 787 00:44:13,960 --> 00:44:19,000 Speaker 1: witnesses and arranges pyrotechnic displays for foreign dictators. See he's 788 00:44:19,040 --> 00:44:24,960 Speaker 1: on the spectrum. Yeah, uh, let me just skip ahead 789 00:44:25,000 --> 00:44:29,560 Speaker 1: to the end of the description. With treason on everyone's lips, 790 00:44:29,880 --> 00:44:33,960 Speaker 1: terrorism and everyone's sites, an American political life sinking to 791 00:44:34,080 --> 00:44:37,719 Speaker 1: ever lower standards, Bob decides it's time to make a 792 00:44:37,800 --> 00:44:41,880 Speaker 1: change if he doesn't get killed by his mysterious controllers 793 00:44:42,160 --> 00:44:45,520 Speaker 1: were exposed in the rapacious media. First, what do you 794 00:44:45,520 --> 00:44:53,400 Speaker 1: mean killed? The other part we skipped is that e quote. 795 00:44:53,400 --> 00:44:55,520 Speaker 1: He's also a contract killer for an off the book's 796 00:44:55,520 --> 00:44:58,840 Speaker 1: program run by a branch of you that targets the elderly, 797 00:44:58,920 --> 00:45:02,120 Speaker 1: the infirm, and other who drained this consumption driven society 798 00:45:02,120 --> 00:45:06,480 Speaker 1: of its resources. An elderly hit person, right, No, he 799 00:45:06,600 --> 00:45:10,200 Speaker 1: killed Yeah, he kills the old, the elderly because it's 800 00:45:10,320 --> 00:45:14,520 Speaker 1: hurting Americans. Our healthcare system is perfectly They were making 801 00:45:14,800 --> 00:45:19,959 Speaker 1: so much elderly like their ideal targets. Oh my god. 802 00:45:20,400 --> 00:45:24,959 Speaker 1: Uh yeah, And as our writer J. M. McNabb said, 803 00:45:25,239 --> 00:45:28,680 Speaker 1: who better to transition into a career as a satirist 804 00:45:29,080 --> 00:45:32,239 Speaker 1: than Sean Penn, a guy who wrote an angry letter 805 00:45:32,600 --> 00:45:35,719 Speaker 1: to Trey Parker and Met Stone after Team America came 806 00:45:35,760 --> 00:45:39,240 Speaker 1: out offering to fly them to Iraq before they should 807 00:45:39,239 --> 00:45:41,960 Speaker 1: be allowed to make jokes about not voting in an election, 808 00:45:43,080 --> 00:45:46,799 Speaker 1: because yeah, he just took everything they said seriously. He's 809 00:45:46,800 --> 00:45:50,359 Speaker 1: also the guy who when Chris Rock made some joke 810 00:45:50,440 --> 00:45:53,279 Speaker 1: about Jude Law when he hosts the Oscars, Schampang got 811 00:45:53,360 --> 00:45:55,840 Speaker 1: up in his acceptance speech was like, I'll tell you 812 00:45:56,000 --> 00:45:59,720 Speaker 1: who Jude Law is. He's one of our finest working actor. 813 00:46:02,880 --> 00:46:07,840 Speaker 1: Sit down. Um. We also watched a video that I 814 00:46:08,360 --> 00:46:11,279 Speaker 1: don't think you can put into words necessarily. I mean, 815 00:46:11,360 --> 00:46:15,239 Speaker 1: I understand Sean Penn's he's a real activist and really 816 00:46:15,280 --> 00:46:17,960 Speaker 1: trying to fucking heal the wounds of this country. So 817 00:46:18,120 --> 00:46:20,080 Speaker 1: you I had never seen this video, Jackson. You know, 818 00:46:20,120 --> 00:46:22,600 Speaker 1: have you seen the video where Sean Penn and Kid 819 00:46:22,760 --> 00:46:27,640 Speaker 1: Rock are like and they healed the nation? I said, fuck, no, uh, 820 00:46:27,760 --> 00:46:31,399 Speaker 1: we watch it. It's fucking insane. It's it's Sean Penn 821 00:46:31,440 --> 00:46:34,520 Speaker 1: at a bar like watching Mitt Romney introduced Kid Rock 822 00:46:34,600 --> 00:46:36,760 Speaker 1: to do a live performance, and then like the fucking 823 00:46:36,880 --> 00:46:39,120 Speaker 1: shot holds on this kid Rock performance like a good 824 00:46:39,200 --> 00:46:41,880 Speaker 1: twenty seconds more than it needs to be, and then 825 00:46:42,000 --> 00:46:44,840 Speaker 1: suddenly like the Sean Penn's like, can you change it? 826 00:46:45,200 --> 00:46:48,120 Speaker 1: And the bartender does, and then the whole time Kid 827 00:46:48,239 --> 00:46:50,719 Speaker 1: Rock was next to him like drinking really loudly with 828 00:46:50,880 --> 00:46:54,880 Speaker 1: his friends sing yeah, and then then trading that, you know, 829 00:46:55,000 --> 00:46:57,920 Speaker 1: the real tired, stereotypical jabs that the left and right 830 00:46:58,000 --> 00:47:00,000 Speaker 1: have for each other. He's like, you're just a Confederate 831 00:47:00,239 --> 00:47:02,520 Speaker 1: flag hugging blah blah blah, and Kid Rocks, you're just 832 00:47:02,600 --> 00:47:05,960 Speaker 1: the prettiest driving Obama sucking. I don't know what that 833 00:47:06,680 --> 00:47:14,160 Speaker 1: mama missing with that homophobic but uh yeah Obama, uh exactly. 834 00:47:14,200 --> 00:47:17,520 Speaker 1: And then like I don't know if it just underlines 835 00:47:17,520 --> 00:47:19,200 Speaker 1: sort of how out of touch. And by the way, 836 00:47:19,239 --> 00:47:22,279 Speaker 1: both of them Kid Rock, who wrote and I think 837 00:47:22,400 --> 00:47:24,160 Speaker 1: directed or at least had a lot to do with 838 00:47:24,360 --> 00:47:28,160 Speaker 1: the editing of this movie because of like there's a shot, 839 00:47:28,320 --> 00:47:30,920 Speaker 1: like Miles was saying, where he's watching a Kid Rock 840 00:47:31,000 --> 00:47:34,919 Speaker 1: performance completely gratuitous, like there's actually no need for Sean 841 00:47:34,960 --> 00:47:37,080 Speaker 1: Penn to see this kid Rock performance. But then it 842 00:47:37,160 --> 00:47:39,760 Speaker 1: holds on the kid Rock performance for like thirty five seconds, 843 00:47:39,800 --> 00:47:42,520 Speaker 1: so kid Rock can like do the party thinks looks cool. 844 00:47:43,080 --> 00:47:45,680 Speaker 1: But this was clearly like written and edited by him, 845 00:47:45,880 --> 00:47:48,919 Speaker 1: and he never comes around on the gay thing. He's 846 00:47:48,920 --> 00:47:51,480 Speaker 1: still homophobic at the end, like Sean Penn takes a 847 00:47:51,800 --> 00:47:54,600 Speaker 1: gay marriage, which by the way, is like the eighties 848 00:47:54,680 --> 00:47:57,319 Speaker 1: beer commercial version of gay like a guy dressed up 849 00:47:57,360 --> 00:47:59,400 Speaker 1: as a groom and then another guy dressed up as 850 00:47:59,440 --> 00:48:04,319 Speaker 1: a woman with the beard, and then like surprise takes 851 00:48:04,360 --> 00:48:06,440 Speaker 1: the veil away and they start kissing, and Kid Rock 852 00:48:06,480 --> 00:48:11,080 Speaker 1: gos no, no, no way, like really big gesture, right, Yeah, 853 00:48:11,520 --> 00:48:13,279 Speaker 1: what's crazy? Though? Two isn't that bar site And the 854 00:48:13,440 --> 00:48:17,320 Speaker 1: turn happens when they're bickering over their political ideological differences. 855 00:48:17,680 --> 00:48:20,680 Speaker 1: Is when suddenly the news report comes on about a 856 00:48:20,800 --> 00:48:23,759 Speaker 1: few like militant like troops losing their lives in Afghanistan, 857 00:48:23,920 --> 00:48:26,440 Speaker 1: and then like immediately dropped the arguing. They both like 858 00:48:26,560 --> 00:48:29,560 Speaker 1: dropped their heads. John Penn starts sobbing, he starts crying. 859 00:48:29,640 --> 00:48:32,560 Speaker 1: He starts crying, and then it's like, yeah, man, I 860 00:48:32,640 --> 00:48:35,800 Speaker 1: guess we should get along. And then they're like to 861 00:48:35,960 --> 00:48:39,000 Speaker 1: freedom and I think they cheers after they go on 862 00:48:39,120 --> 00:48:41,480 Speaker 1: like an uppertuitous buddy trip where they learn about each 863 00:48:41,480 --> 00:48:45,200 Speaker 1: other on the beach and they people to watch for 864 00:48:45,760 --> 00:48:48,120 Speaker 1: ten longest minutes of your life. I mean people say, 865 00:48:48,600 --> 00:48:52,120 Speaker 1: like the d m T experience of psychedelic ten to 866 00:48:52,239 --> 00:48:56,080 Speaker 1: fifteen minutes, right, and you know, allegedly, and uh, it 867 00:48:56,160 --> 00:48:59,680 Speaker 1: feels like eternity. And I thought, this is like the 868 00:49:00,440 --> 00:49:03,680 Speaker 1: video equivalent of d MT if you had like a 869 00:49:03,840 --> 00:49:06,440 Speaker 1: really bad trip. Yeah, but what this is? What if 870 00:49:06,480 --> 00:49:08,920 Speaker 1: a d MT trip is like right before you smoke 871 00:49:09,000 --> 00:49:11,120 Speaker 1: the d m T, this is your step mom yelling 872 00:49:11,160 --> 00:49:14,960 Speaker 1: at you because your report cards are really bad. Feels 873 00:49:15,000 --> 00:49:18,200 Speaker 1: like it's the longest video you've ever seen in your life. Yeah. Yeah, 874 00:49:18,200 --> 00:49:19,719 Speaker 1: there's just a lot of cool stuff in this, Like, 875 00:49:20,000 --> 00:49:22,480 Speaker 1: but you owe it to yourself to once try psychedelics, 876 00:49:22,560 --> 00:49:24,760 Speaker 1: to like expand your mind. You owe it to yourself 877 00:49:24,840 --> 00:49:28,160 Speaker 1: to at least once watch this video to see, if 878 00:49:28,239 --> 00:49:32,600 Speaker 1: nothing else, the amazing way time can dilate when Sean 879 00:49:32,680 --> 00:49:35,000 Speaker 1: Penn is trying to teach you something about how the 880 00:49:35,040 --> 00:49:37,800 Speaker 1: world works and how full of ship both people on 881 00:49:38,120 --> 00:49:40,719 Speaker 1: on either side can be. Could you pick? Could you 882 00:49:40,960 --> 00:49:44,640 Speaker 1: fantasy draft? Could you choose select with your imagination to 883 00:49:45,800 --> 00:49:49,680 Speaker 1: better slash worst people to represent, like what it means 884 00:49:49,800 --> 00:49:52,840 Speaker 1: for the opposites of America. Sean Ken and Alex Jones 885 00:49:52,880 --> 00:49:55,880 Speaker 1: would be pretty dope, okay, Okay, but Sean Penn is 886 00:49:56,080 --> 00:49:58,799 Speaker 1: our all of those things. Yeah, he's the worst of us. 887 00:49:59,280 --> 00:50:02,960 Speaker 1: He's the worst of it. He's definitely the worst Californians, artists, 888 00:50:03,200 --> 00:50:06,960 Speaker 1: every everything, He's just he embodies it all. Getting back 889 00:50:07,000 --> 00:50:12,760 Speaker 1: to his novel, Uh, so it features an American president 890 00:50:13,480 --> 00:50:16,840 Speaker 1: who might be a stand in for whoever is currently 891 00:50:16,880 --> 00:50:18,960 Speaker 1: in the White House. I don't know. His name is 892 00:50:19,200 --> 00:50:27,080 Speaker 1: Mr Landlord. Okay, so the landlord the president is Mr Landlord. 893 00:50:28,800 --> 00:50:30,520 Speaker 1: I hope there's a dramatic scene in this book where 894 00:50:30,560 --> 00:50:33,120 Speaker 1: it's like, uh, and Bob Honey, he said he's gonna 895 00:50:33,160 --> 00:50:37,560 Speaker 1: takedown Mr Landlord, right right that Yeah, that sentence written out. Yeah, 896 00:50:37,560 --> 00:50:39,480 Speaker 1: and then he's talktally. Yeah. There's the whole thing about 897 00:50:39,520 --> 00:50:42,440 Speaker 1: how the that this president has an unhealthy obsession with 898 00:50:42,560 --> 00:50:45,560 Speaker 1: Twitter and an uncanny ability to spark furious marches by 899 00:50:45,600 --> 00:50:48,720 Speaker 1: women around the world. And then it says also contains 900 00:50:48,840 --> 00:50:53,000 Speaker 1: the killer burn penis adency. Yeah there's Yeah, it's a 901 00:50:53,040 --> 00:50:56,359 Speaker 1: weird thing. Uh Okay, so part of it is he's 902 00:50:56,360 --> 00:50:58,520 Speaker 1: writing a letter. Bob Honey is writing a letter to 903 00:50:58,600 --> 00:51:02,400 Speaker 1: the president, Mr Dear, Mr Landlord. Not. It's probably not 904 00:51:02,440 --> 00:51:06,120 Speaker 1: even President land Many wonderful American people in pain and 905 00:51:06,239 --> 00:51:10,640 Speaker 1: rage elected you. Many Russians did too. Burn Your position 906 00:51:10,880 --> 00:51:17,000 Speaker 1: is an asterisk, accepted as literally as your alternative facts burn, 907 00:51:17,360 --> 00:51:21,480 Speaker 1: though the office will remain real. You never were nor 908 00:51:21,640 --> 00:51:27,759 Speaker 1: will be. A million women so dwarfed. Your penis sedensi, 909 00:51:28,160 --> 00:51:30,600 Speaker 1: which is supposed to be a plan on presidency, even 910 00:51:30,640 --> 00:51:35,480 Speaker 1: though that's penis Uh nope, yeah, oh yeah, no, funnily enough, 911 00:51:35,600 --> 00:51:39,640 Speaker 1: not penis adency on the streets of Washington and around 912 00:51:39,680 --> 00:51:43,239 Speaker 1: the world on the day of your piddley inauguration. That 913 00:51:43,360 --> 00:51:46,000 Speaker 1: sentence doesn't end, and then it just says dot dot 914 00:51:46,080 --> 00:51:50,920 Speaker 1: dot tweet me, bitch, I dare you? That is sharp, 915 00:51:51,400 --> 00:51:54,000 Speaker 1: razor sharp. He's even got fucking heat for the me 916 00:51:54,160 --> 00:51:57,680 Speaker 1: too movement. Yeah, calls the me too movement quote an 917 00:51:57,880 --> 00:52:02,360 Speaker 1: infantilizing term of the day. Is this a toddler's crusade? 918 00:52:02,680 --> 00:52:06,800 Speaker 1: Reducing rape, slept shamming, and suffrage to reckless child's play 919 00:52:07,160 --> 00:52:12,320 Speaker 1: a platform for accusation impunity? Do process has lost its sheen? 920 00:52:12,840 --> 00:52:15,480 Speaker 1: I mean it's crazy too, because, like I was saying, 921 00:52:15,640 --> 00:52:18,560 Speaker 1: he I mean, both him and Madonna deny that like 922 00:52:18,719 --> 00:52:21,480 Speaker 1: he like abused her. But there are plenty of reports 923 00:52:21,520 --> 00:52:24,319 Speaker 1: of people like pulling up to the scene and seeing 924 00:52:24,360 --> 00:52:26,959 Speaker 1: a distraught Madonna who I think was bloodied or whatever, 925 00:52:27,400 --> 00:52:32,000 Speaker 1: supposedly allegedly by seampainn. And yet it's not his fault 926 00:52:32,200 --> 00:52:35,800 Speaker 1: in the sense that he has not lived in anything 927 00:52:35,840 --> 00:52:40,799 Speaker 1: approaching reality for quite some thirty years at the very least. 928 00:52:40,960 --> 00:52:43,680 Speaker 1: And so people who are this famous are just gonna 929 00:52:43,719 --> 00:52:46,920 Speaker 1: do embarrassing ship and you know they definitely don't live 930 00:52:46,960 --> 00:52:49,600 Speaker 1: in That's a tough break. Yeah, I I do. This 931 00:52:49,840 --> 00:52:52,160 Speaker 1: is inevitable. I should say it is his fault, but 932 00:52:52,239 --> 00:52:54,960 Speaker 1: it's inevitable. There's nobody there to be like looking at 933 00:52:55,040 --> 00:52:57,319 Speaker 1: his first draft of this book, even though who knows 934 00:52:57,360 --> 00:52:59,160 Speaker 1: if he even thought he needed someone to look at 935 00:52:59,200 --> 00:53:01,920 Speaker 1: it and be like, this actually isn't very good. We 936 00:53:02,160 --> 00:53:03,960 Speaker 1: maybe need to work on some of the dialogue to 937 00:53:04,000 --> 00:53:06,719 Speaker 1: make it more realistic, like real people talk. This is 938 00:53:06,800 --> 00:53:10,000 Speaker 1: how people talk. Man. I was in the back of 939 00:53:10,040 --> 00:53:13,440 Speaker 1: a Lincoln with Matthew McConaughey yesterday talking about like how 940 00:53:13,560 --> 00:53:15,719 Speaker 1: cool it is to like every once in a while, 941 00:53:15,920 --> 00:53:23,800 Speaker 1: drive like a gas car. Whoa um. And finally, uh so, 942 00:53:24,040 --> 00:53:26,839 Speaker 1: the origin story of the book might be the best part. 943 00:53:26,960 --> 00:53:29,759 Speaker 1: The origins of the book began with an audio book 944 00:53:30,040 --> 00:53:35,680 Speaker 1: Sean Penn performed, claiming it was written by Pappy Pariah, 945 00:53:36,520 --> 00:53:39,520 Speaker 1: a novelist he quote met at a bar and Key 946 00:53:39,600 --> 00:53:47,480 Speaker 1: West is all right. That's gonna do it for this 947 00:53:47,680 --> 00:53:52,279 Speaker 1: week's weekly Zeitgeist. Please like and review the show. If 948 00:53:52,520 --> 00:53:55,920 Speaker 1: you like the show, uh means the world to Miles. 949 00:53:56,080 --> 00:54:00,440 Speaker 1: He needs your validation, folks. I hope here having a 950 00:54:00,560 --> 00:54:03,600 Speaker 1: great weekend and I will talk to you Monday. By