1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:03,360 Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of The 2 00:00:03,560 --> 00:00:07,880 Speaker 1: Weekly Zeitgeist. Uh. These are some of our favorite segments 3 00:00:08,119 --> 00:00:14,880 Speaker 1: from this week, all edited together into one NonStop infotainment 4 00:00:16,040 --> 00:00:22,440 Speaker 1: laugh stravaganza. Uh. Yeah, So, without further ado, here is 5 00:00:22,680 --> 00:00:28,240 Speaker 1: the Weekly Zeitgeist. Waffle House. Uh. I shouldn't have said 6 00:00:28,280 --> 00:00:32,559 Speaker 1: it in such a joyous way. Um, but waffle house. Uh, 7 00:00:36,159 --> 00:00:38,520 Speaker 1: let's bring it down here. Uh. No, there's a mass 8 00:00:38,560 --> 00:00:43,840 Speaker 1: shooting there. Uh in Nashville waffle house. Uh. The guy 9 00:00:44,000 --> 00:00:48,920 Speaker 1: who the purple has a long history of making threats. Uh. 10 00:00:48,920 --> 00:00:52,440 Speaker 1: He was naked but for a trench coat. Very very 11 00:00:52,440 --> 00:00:57,200 Speaker 1: strange story, but yeah, four people were killed and he 12 00:00:57,320 --> 00:00:59,960 Speaker 1: was wrestled to the ground by like a real life 13 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:03,600 Speaker 1: on McClain action hero. Yeah. Like we're as it was happening, 14 00:01:03,640 --> 00:01:05,280 Speaker 1: you know, they're they're asking him, like, you know, what 15 00:01:05,319 --> 00:01:07,240 Speaker 1: were you thinking? And he just said, I'm going to 16 00:01:07,319 --> 00:01:09,200 Speaker 1: have to try to find some kind of flaw or 17 00:01:09,240 --> 00:01:11,000 Speaker 1: a point in time where I could make it work 18 00:01:11,040 --> 00:01:13,840 Speaker 1: for myself. And by making work for himself, he bum 19 00:01:13,880 --> 00:01:15,920 Speaker 1: rushed this dude and tackled on the ground and got 20 00:01:15,959 --> 00:01:18,520 Speaker 1: the gun away from him, and then the dude eventually 21 00:01:18,680 --> 00:01:21,800 Speaker 1: escaped and as of just recording who we found out 22 00:01:21,800 --> 00:01:26,199 Speaker 1: that he was apprehended. Uh. So yeah, it's interesting to see, 23 00:01:26,240 --> 00:01:28,520 Speaker 1: you know there there was a real hero there. Uh. 24 00:01:28,560 --> 00:01:31,080 Speaker 1: And this guy was also another person who had a 25 00:01:31,200 --> 00:01:35,560 Speaker 1: very clear record of having problems with his mental state. 26 00:01:35,920 --> 00:01:37,880 Speaker 1: And he had his guns taken away, but then they 27 00:01:37,880 --> 00:01:39,760 Speaker 1: were giving back to his father who then just gave 28 00:01:39,800 --> 00:01:42,240 Speaker 1: him back to him. And wait when you look at 29 00:01:42,280 --> 00:01:44,200 Speaker 1: sort of his like he was a known entity to 30 00:01:44,280 --> 00:01:47,240 Speaker 1: law enforcement for like saying stuff like Taylor Swift was 31 00:01:47,319 --> 00:01:50,640 Speaker 1: actually stocking him and ship like that, which I mean, 32 00:01:50,760 --> 00:01:53,640 Speaker 1: we don't know whether to believe that or not, right Like, no, 33 00:01:54,240 --> 00:01:56,240 Speaker 1: I mean I don't know, we don't we don't know. 34 00:01:56,280 --> 00:01:58,640 Speaker 1: But do you remember, I think the last year there 35 00:01:58,680 --> 00:02:00,840 Speaker 1: was a guy who bum rushed the White House lawn 36 00:02:00,880 --> 00:02:03,120 Speaker 1: and try to get into the White House and a 37 00:02:03,160 --> 00:02:06,800 Speaker 1: sovereign citizen. That's this guy. Right. So it's just again 38 00:02:07,240 --> 00:02:09,520 Speaker 1: we need to be doing more about our gun control 39 00:02:09,600 --> 00:02:13,480 Speaker 1: because clearly this is another person who clearly should not 40 00:02:13,600 --> 00:02:16,760 Speaker 1: have been anywhere near any kind of weapon. Obviously a 41 00:02:16,960 --> 00:02:19,680 Speaker 1: gun rights people are going to say, well, he like 42 00:02:19,800 --> 00:02:22,359 Speaker 1: broke the law, but our laws need to be more 43 00:02:22,360 --> 00:02:25,720 Speaker 1: strictly enforced. And I need to work around the fact 44 00:02:25,760 --> 00:02:28,399 Speaker 1: that they're like anybody can get a gun at any time, 45 00:02:28,680 --> 00:02:32,240 Speaker 1: given the current just flood of guns in the United States. 46 00:02:32,240 --> 00:02:34,800 Speaker 1: So yeah, we need to work around that because there 47 00:02:34,800 --> 00:02:36,880 Speaker 1: are a lot of mentally ill people out there, and 48 00:02:37,080 --> 00:02:39,959 Speaker 1: there are a lot of guns out there, And when 49 00:02:40,000 --> 00:02:42,840 Speaker 1: those two ingredients are put together, we're gonna have shipped 50 00:02:42,840 --> 00:02:45,560 Speaker 1: like this until we start getting guns off the street. 51 00:02:45,600 --> 00:02:48,400 Speaker 1: I think, Yeah, it's just weird, how the fucking normal 52 00:02:48,440 --> 00:02:50,080 Speaker 1: this ship is now, you know what I mean. Like, 53 00:02:50,320 --> 00:02:54,000 Speaker 1: even when I saw the the headline, I really thought, oh, 54 00:02:54,080 --> 00:02:58,080 Speaker 1: only four people were killed, and that's terrible place to 55 00:02:58,160 --> 00:03:02,480 Speaker 1: be in mentally, where it's like the calculus in my mind, like, oh, 56 00:03:02,520 --> 00:03:05,880 Speaker 1: is there like a number that makes it a tragedy 57 00:03:05,880 --> 00:03:07,239 Speaker 1: in my mind? Or like that's how I've had to 58 00:03:07,280 --> 00:03:09,280 Speaker 1: compartment you know what I mean. I'm sure it would 59 00:03:09,280 --> 00:03:11,959 Speaker 1: have been more if not for this fucking dude who 60 00:03:12,320 --> 00:03:17,480 Speaker 1: like just had the insane, like non uh instinct for 61 00:03:17,520 --> 00:03:20,760 Speaker 1: self preservation, but just instinct to you know, go do 62 00:03:20,919 --> 00:03:25,000 Speaker 1: the thing that I think nine percent of the population 63 00:03:25,040 --> 00:03:28,000 Speaker 1: would not have the guts to do and like tackle 64 00:03:28,639 --> 00:03:30,560 Speaker 1: and you know, he said he was only looking up 65 00:03:30,639 --> 00:03:32,200 Speaker 1: for himself, but I thought, I'm sure he saved a 66 00:03:32,240 --> 00:03:36,240 Speaker 1: lot of people's lives. Of Republicans that are four guns 67 00:03:36,280 --> 00:03:39,600 Speaker 1: would never do that stuff. They never ever, And I 68 00:03:39,640 --> 00:03:41,280 Speaker 1: don't even think if they had a gun on them 69 00:03:41,320 --> 00:03:43,560 Speaker 1: they would actually shoot another person. Because this is the 70 00:03:43,600 --> 00:03:45,480 Speaker 1: other thing what we're talking about earlier is like I 71 00:03:45,480 --> 00:03:47,760 Speaker 1: don't think at least the gun owners I know, they 72 00:03:47,760 --> 00:03:50,080 Speaker 1: don't own guns because they have a fantasy about using 73 00:03:50,120 --> 00:03:52,440 Speaker 1: them on other people. Like the gun owners I know 74 00:03:52,560 --> 00:03:55,640 Speaker 1: are people who like target shooting or just like are 75 00:03:55,840 --> 00:03:57,880 Speaker 1: part of like a culture of like you know, their 76 00:03:57,920 --> 00:04:01,480 Speaker 1: parents were veterans and things like at or in law enforcement, 77 00:04:01,520 --> 00:04:03,920 Speaker 1: so they just grew up around guns or whatever. But 78 00:04:03,960 --> 00:04:06,520 Speaker 1: they don't this idea of a person who's like always 79 00:04:06,520 --> 00:04:08,920 Speaker 1: packing a pistol or whatever and it's just ready to 80 00:04:09,160 --> 00:04:11,360 Speaker 1: enforce the law on somebody. You know. I think you 81 00:04:11,400 --> 00:04:13,600 Speaker 1: have to really look at our fabricas people, like we're 82 00:04:13,600 --> 00:04:16,080 Speaker 1: not built to be doing shit like that. Yeah, because 83 00:04:16,120 --> 00:04:19,039 Speaker 1: it's batshit crazy. I I wish I heard more from 84 00:04:19,120 --> 00:04:22,200 Speaker 1: sane gun on words like this, because the whole conversation 85 00:04:22,279 --> 00:04:24,760 Speaker 1: is so black and white. It's like either guns go 86 00:04:24,839 --> 00:04:29,200 Speaker 1: away or you have crazy people screaming that I would 87 00:04:29,600 --> 00:04:31,680 Speaker 1: away my guns and I would have killed them. And 88 00:04:31,680 --> 00:04:34,120 Speaker 1: it's just like it would be great to hear from sane, 89 00:04:34,880 --> 00:04:41,160 Speaker 1: regular people who like use guns, right, And I thought 90 00:04:41,320 --> 00:04:43,640 Speaker 1: and think that there should be a lot of laws, 91 00:04:44,000 --> 00:04:46,400 Speaker 1: you know, regulating it. But I don't hear from those. 92 00:04:46,440 --> 00:04:48,600 Speaker 1: Well we did for a second right after Parkland, Right, 93 00:04:48,600 --> 00:04:50,520 Speaker 1: there are a lot of people who were not a lot, 94 00:04:50,560 --> 00:04:53,560 Speaker 1: but there was this there was like this sort of uh, 95 00:04:53,800 --> 00:04:55,599 Speaker 1: it was like fashionable for people to be like I 96 00:04:55,680 --> 00:04:58,080 Speaker 1: was in the military, this is my a r I'm 97 00:04:58,120 --> 00:05:00,760 Speaker 1: breaking it because like you shouldn't have it, And there 98 00:05:00,880 --> 00:05:02,560 Speaker 1: was that kind of thing. But yeah, I feel like 99 00:05:02,800 --> 00:05:04,680 Speaker 1: there could be a lot to this debate when you 100 00:05:05,000 --> 00:05:07,360 Speaker 1: actually have like common sense people or like or even 101 00:05:07,400 --> 00:05:10,240 Speaker 1: gun owners who aren't seen as immediately being these sort 102 00:05:10,240 --> 00:05:12,720 Speaker 1: of like doomsday prepper type people. It's really a shame 103 00:05:12,800 --> 00:05:15,240 Speaker 1: that the n r A has chosen the direction they've chosen, 104 00:05:15,279 --> 00:05:17,880 Speaker 1: because the n r A is when you buy a gun, 105 00:05:18,120 --> 00:05:21,640 Speaker 1: they are you go to a training course immediately that 106 00:05:21,720 --> 00:05:24,240 Speaker 1: is sponsored by the n r A. They are pro 107 00:05:24,680 --> 00:05:29,440 Speaker 1: responsible gun ownership. It's just that their public persona at 108 00:05:29,440 --> 00:05:35,600 Speaker 1: their public brand, has become this like crazy vigilante justice thing. 109 00:05:36,040 --> 00:05:39,640 Speaker 1: And yeah, I mean there are two camps. They're the 110 00:05:39,680 --> 00:05:43,479 Speaker 1: same gun owners who you know, by a gun or 111 00:05:43,560 --> 00:05:46,640 Speaker 1: two and you know keep it in a safe or 112 00:05:46,680 --> 00:05:49,520 Speaker 1: you know, take it to target practice. But then there 113 00:05:49,680 --> 00:05:52,839 Speaker 1: is this gun culture. Like if you look at gun magazines, 114 00:05:53,240 --> 00:05:56,480 Speaker 1: they're all these stories, their ads written to be like, 115 00:05:56,680 --> 00:05:59,719 Speaker 1: you know, protect your family with this like automatic or 116 00:05:59,760 --> 00:06:04,039 Speaker 1: like am I automatic assault rifle? And you know, those 117 00:06:04,120 --> 00:06:06,520 Speaker 1: are the people that the gun industry is focused on 118 00:06:06,600 --> 00:06:09,240 Speaker 1: because those are the people who buy fifty guns, right 119 00:06:09,320 --> 00:06:11,600 Speaker 1: and are going to be the most sort of energetic 120 00:06:11,720 --> 00:06:14,880 Speaker 1: when defending the right to own a weapon, right right, Yeah, 121 00:06:14,920 --> 00:06:17,440 Speaker 1: I guess it really is two camps. It's those people who, yeah, 122 00:06:17,440 --> 00:06:20,159 Speaker 1: they're responsible to other people who are really operating in 123 00:06:20,200 --> 00:06:23,640 Speaker 1: this bizarre fantasy world where they have to protect themselves 124 00:06:23,680 --> 00:06:25,280 Speaker 1: from the evening. I think we need to put pressure. 125 00:06:25,360 --> 00:06:27,960 Speaker 1: Not even a bizarre world, it's like very much a 126 00:06:28,000 --> 00:06:32,800 Speaker 1: world that's been like cultivated by this like xenophobic racist like, uh, 127 00:06:33,400 --> 00:06:37,520 Speaker 1: they're coming to get me white women. It's just like 128 00:06:37,600 --> 00:06:40,000 Speaker 1: just you know, I would love for us to just 129 00:06:40,040 --> 00:06:43,680 Speaker 1: talk more openly about like just call a thing a thing. 130 00:06:43,800 --> 00:06:47,160 Speaker 1: It's just like you guys have been brainwashed with racism 131 00:06:47,160 --> 00:06:52,919 Speaker 1: and xenophobic ideas about I've never been outside of wherever 132 00:06:53,000 --> 00:06:55,800 Speaker 1: you're from, right exactly, you've never met that kind of 133 00:06:55,880 --> 00:06:59,640 Speaker 1: person them and want to shoot them. So it's anyway 134 00:06:59,800 --> 00:07:03,440 Speaker 1: at people, let's put pressure on responsible gun owners to 135 00:07:03,520 --> 00:07:05,599 Speaker 1: kind of have more of a more of a voice, 136 00:07:05,880 --> 00:07:09,440 Speaker 1: like find your own n R because like sane n 137 00:07:09,560 --> 00:07:11,080 Speaker 1: R A s n R A, I want to I 138 00:07:11,080 --> 00:07:13,560 Speaker 1: want to see some people together message me on Twitter 139 00:07:13,600 --> 00:07:16,320 Speaker 1: and Instagram talking about their gun especially around the Parkland 140 00:07:16,360 --> 00:07:18,120 Speaker 1: time when we're talking about is saying like I'm a 141 00:07:18,120 --> 00:07:20,720 Speaker 1: responsible gunner. I don't think people need like this and that, 142 00:07:21,080 --> 00:07:23,680 Speaker 1: but I think, yeah, it's important that we can still 143 00:07:23,720 --> 00:07:26,560 Speaker 1: talk about gun ownership in a way that is divorced 144 00:07:26,560 --> 00:07:29,560 Speaker 1: from this idea that it's either taking all your guns 145 00:07:29,680 --> 00:07:32,480 Speaker 1: or every guns for everybody there is there is the 146 00:07:32,560 --> 00:07:36,560 Speaker 1: same middle ground. The smartest person I've ever talked to 147 00:07:36,640 --> 00:07:39,800 Speaker 1: about gun ownership is this guy Jason Parjeon who writes 148 00:07:40,320 --> 00:07:42,840 Speaker 1: at Cracks as David Wonk, and he's a gun owner, 149 00:07:42,920 --> 00:07:45,800 Speaker 1: but he has this inside look at the gun industry 150 00:07:45,840 --> 00:07:48,280 Speaker 1: because like he grew up around gun magazines and so 151 00:07:48,360 --> 00:07:50,760 Speaker 1: he knows like how crazy that part of it is, 152 00:07:51,080 --> 00:07:53,520 Speaker 1: but you know he's also a responsible gun owner, so 153 00:07:54,160 --> 00:07:56,960 Speaker 1: uh yeah. I think those are the people to sort 154 00:07:57,000 --> 00:08:01,240 Speaker 1: of help us reel this fucking crazy conversation a little bit, 155 00:08:01,280 --> 00:08:03,680 Speaker 1: because I think on the right, many people view people 156 00:08:03,720 --> 00:08:06,360 Speaker 1: on the left is every liberal person wants to take 157 00:08:06,360 --> 00:08:08,320 Speaker 1: away all of your guns. And then there are people 158 00:08:08,360 --> 00:08:10,440 Speaker 1: on the left who think everyone on the right in 159 00:08:10,520 --> 00:08:14,320 Speaker 1: regards to guns are just crazy gun obsessed people who 160 00:08:14,440 --> 00:08:16,760 Speaker 1: just want to keep guns everywhere out in the open. 161 00:08:17,000 --> 00:08:19,280 Speaker 1: And I think people need to understand that it's much 162 00:08:19,320 --> 00:08:21,920 Speaker 1: more nuanced. I feel like, yeah, the discussion is really 163 00:08:22,080 --> 00:08:24,960 Speaker 1: so black or white. It's it's and to me, like 164 00:08:25,080 --> 00:08:27,520 Speaker 1: the saddest part is like whenever I read about it, it 165 00:08:27,440 --> 00:08:30,000 Speaker 1: it looks like it just comes down to sales. It 166 00:08:30,120 --> 00:08:33,680 Speaker 1: just comes down to like if the conversation isn't black 167 00:08:33,720 --> 00:08:36,440 Speaker 1: and white, then it hurts our sales. Right. It's like, 168 00:08:36,960 --> 00:08:39,200 Speaker 1: if we have any kind of sanity going into this, 169 00:08:39,360 --> 00:08:43,720 Speaker 1: then you know our shareholders don't, right, because it's an 170 00:08:43,760 --> 00:08:47,240 Speaker 1: industry where not people are. It's not like a refrigerator 171 00:08:47,400 --> 00:08:49,720 Speaker 1: every home needs one, but they want you to think 172 00:08:49,760 --> 00:08:54,040 Speaker 1: that like if that is what needs to get hurt, 173 00:08:54,080 --> 00:08:56,080 Speaker 1: then that thing needs to get hurt real bad, like 174 00:08:56,120 --> 00:08:58,040 Speaker 1: those sales needs. And that's why you're seeing a lot 175 00:08:58,040 --> 00:09:00,840 Speaker 1: of manufacturers, Like I feel it was Remington or Mossburg 176 00:09:00,920 --> 00:09:02,719 Speaker 1: recently they had to file for bankruptcy. I think it 177 00:09:02,720 --> 00:09:06,120 Speaker 1: was Remington's because yeah, like sales are declining and because 178 00:09:06,160 --> 00:09:07,640 Speaker 1: I think most people are kind of catching what ever, 179 00:09:08,880 --> 00:09:11,320 Speaker 1: But sales aren't declining to the point that I don't know. 180 00:09:11,360 --> 00:09:14,520 Speaker 1: The industry still did really well during the Obama presidency, 181 00:09:14,520 --> 00:09:17,559 Speaker 1: and I think maybe got a little greedy and maybe 182 00:09:17,559 --> 00:09:21,680 Speaker 1: overexpanded and that's why Remington fell down. But yeah, David Hogue, 183 00:09:21,800 --> 00:09:25,160 Speaker 1: the kid from Parkland, has been talking about you know, 184 00:09:25,520 --> 00:09:28,640 Speaker 1: these financial industries like Vanguard and different big banks have 185 00:09:28,720 --> 00:09:31,560 Speaker 1: a lot of their money in the gun industry. And 186 00:09:31,800 --> 00:09:34,240 Speaker 1: you know, if you have your money with them, uh, 187 00:09:34,320 --> 00:09:37,400 Speaker 1: you know, divest or let them know, like you don't 188 00:09:37,400 --> 00:09:39,920 Speaker 1: want any of your money in the gun industry, and 189 00:09:40,160 --> 00:09:42,640 Speaker 1: you know, get get it away from those funds that 190 00:09:42,679 --> 00:09:47,360 Speaker 1: are helping to support this ship. And just real quick, 191 00:09:47,679 --> 00:09:50,960 Speaker 1: we actually have late breaking news because we're doing this 192 00:09:50,960 --> 00:09:53,360 Speaker 1: a little earlier than normal. We just had a story 193 00:09:53,400 --> 00:09:56,440 Speaker 1: added to the dock by our writer on the ground 194 00:09:56,440 --> 00:10:01,000 Speaker 1: in Toronto. Mr j M McNabb. Uh. He lives in Toronto, 195 00:10:01,240 --> 00:10:04,400 Speaker 1: and he was pointing out that. Uh. You know, even 196 00:10:04,440 --> 00:10:07,000 Speaker 1: though racists on Twitter were quick to call the attack 197 00:10:07,080 --> 00:10:09,800 Speaker 1: or a terrorist or a ji hottiest uh and blame 198 00:10:09,880 --> 00:10:13,400 Speaker 1: the city's Muslim population. Uh. People who looked at his 199 00:10:13,440 --> 00:10:16,520 Speaker 1: Facebook post before they were taken down found that he 200 00:10:16,679 --> 00:10:21,720 Speaker 1: had lauded Elliott Roger, the California shooter from two thousand fourteen, 201 00:10:21,800 --> 00:10:25,800 Speaker 1: who raged about a number of women turning down his advances. 202 00:10:26,320 --> 00:10:30,520 Speaker 1: He also used the word in cells, meaning involuntary celibate. Uh. 203 00:10:30,559 --> 00:10:33,760 Speaker 1: He he said, quote the in cell rebellion has already begun. 204 00:10:33,880 --> 00:10:37,360 Speaker 1: We will overthrow all the chads and Stacy's Tucker Carlson 205 00:10:37,880 --> 00:10:40,520 Speaker 1: just had the hardest time understanding how the government of 206 00:10:40,559 --> 00:10:43,600 Speaker 1: Canada could say there was quote no connection to a 207 00:10:44,000 --> 00:10:47,680 Speaker 1: jihadi group. Uh. So this makes a lot more sense 208 00:10:47,720 --> 00:10:50,000 Speaker 1: because I was I was thinking even if there was 209 00:10:50,040 --> 00:10:52,840 Speaker 1: an absence of motive, even if it was just mental illness, 210 00:10:53,320 --> 00:10:56,600 Speaker 1: they would still speculate that he was motivated by ISIS 211 00:10:56,679 --> 00:11:00,280 Speaker 1: or could be they would fill that motive in. They 212 00:11:00,280 --> 00:11:02,199 Speaker 1: did that with the Vegas shooter, for instance. Because we 213 00:11:02,600 --> 00:11:05,319 Speaker 1: like never figured out what he was on about, and 214 00:11:05,640 --> 00:11:08,680 Speaker 1: in this case, they just like completely disappeared the story. 215 00:11:08,960 --> 00:11:12,360 Speaker 1: And I think it's because his politics were the sort 216 00:11:12,360 --> 00:11:15,160 Speaker 1: of weird sort of men's rights kind of ship of 217 00:11:15,240 --> 00:11:19,120 Speaker 1: like blame women for their own shittiness kind of mentality, 218 00:11:19,200 --> 00:11:22,120 Speaker 1: which aligns perfectly with the all right which is crazy 219 00:11:22,120 --> 00:11:24,880 Speaker 1: though too, because chads are like the handsome all the 220 00:11:25,000 --> 00:11:27,120 Speaker 1: peak al right mail, you could be so even the 221 00:11:27,160 --> 00:11:30,360 Speaker 1: fact that he's like, he's clearly so on the insuth 222 00:11:30,400 --> 00:11:33,040 Speaker 1: side that he can't look at anybody who has like 223 00:11:33,280 --> 00:11:36,160 Speaker 1: some kind of sex life or social life. It's yeah, 224 00:11:36,200 --> 00:11:38,559 Speaker 1: I don't think it's red and blue. That's I don't think. 225 00:11:38,640 --> 00:11:40,920 Speaker 1: I mean, I think they're taking a different red pill 226 00:11:40,960 --> 00:11:45,839 Speaker 1: blue pill situation. It's that is a fascinating and so 227 00:11:45,960 --> 00:11:53,360 Speaker 1: sad world, broken lonely people. There's nothing involuntary about your 228 00:11:53,400 --> 00:12:00,240 Speaker 1: celibacy your what's involuntary is the self examination changes that 229 00:12:00,320 --> 00:12:02,400 Speaker 1: you would have to make to progress as a person, 230 00:12:02,640 --> 00:12:05,360 Speaker 1: to not get fucked, dude, but to connect with other 231 00:12:05,480 --> 00:12:09,079 Speaker 1: humans on a physical and emotional level. So you are 232 00:12:09,120 --> 00:12:11,760 Speaker 1: not doing work. You're just not doing the work. You're 233 00:12:11,800 --> 00:12:14,000 Speaker 1: not doing the work. You get a sandwich, made for you. 234 00:12:14,080 --> 00:12:16,800 Speaker 1: If you do the work, people make you sandwiches because 235 00:12:16,840 --> 00:12:20,960 Speaker 1: they love you. Sorry, I just so. We also wanted 236 00:12:21,000 --> 00:12:24,440 Speaker 1: to take a look at Sean Hannity and his real 237 00:12:24,559 --> 00:12:30,880 Speaker 1: estate empire. So it came out that he basically owns 238 00:12:31,080 --> 00:12:36,320 Speaker 1: eight hundred and seventy homes in seven states, which you 239 00:12:36,360 --> 00:12:40,000 Speaker 1: know he had talked about how Michael Cohen helped him 240 00:12:40,040 --> 00:12:43,560 Speaker 1: with real estate stuff, and you assumed it was like, yeah, hey, 241 00:12:43,559 --> 00:12:46,000 Speaker 1: could you look at this contract for with my landlord 242 00:12:46,080 --> 00:12:47,959 Speaker 1: for me or something like the foundation might have a 243 00:12:48,000 --> 00:12:49,440 Speaker 1: crack it is should I go through with this? So 244 00:12:49,559 --> 00:12:52,480 Speaker 1: he's bought like entire like conto. Yeah, so the thing 245 00:12:52,559 --> 00:12:54,520 Speaker 1: is he in the Guardian there was a report that 246 00:12:54,559 --> 00:12:56,320 Speaker 1: show that he basically is in control of these shell 247 00:12:56,400 --> 00:13:00,960 Speaker 1: companies that have spent at least ninety million dollars on 248 00:13:01,679 --> 00:13:04,480 Speaker 1: like properties that are mostly distressed home like you know, 249 00:13:04,679 --> 00:13:06,680 Speaker 1: homes are about to before closed on and it was 250 00:13:06,720 --> 00:13:09,360 Speaker 1: just like mass purchasing them. I think it has two 251 00:13:09,440 --> 00:13:13,319 Speaker 1: condos that actually have agreements with HUD with the Housing 252 00:13:13,360 --> 00:13:16,720 Speaker 1: and Urban Development Department. Uh. Which also makes it weird 253 00:13:16,720 --> 00:13:18,559 Speaker 1: when you have Ben Carson on your show and you 254 00:13:18,880 --> 00:13:21,360 Speaker 1: know you're praising him but not disclosing. It's like I 255 00:13:21,320 --> 00:13:23,400 Speaker 1: always have some buildings that you know, Fox News trying 256 00:13:23,440 --> 00:13:25,880 Speaker 1: to get in that h G t V business, and 257 00:13:26,080 --> 00:13:30,920 Speaker 1: he's going to be flip or flop or flog. So 258 00:13:31,000 --> 00:13:32,640 Speaker 1: you had Ben Carson on what did he talk to 259 00:13:32,720 --> 00:13:34,640 Speaker 1: him about? They're just it was just kind of, oh, 260 00:13:34,720 --> 00:13:36,080 Speaker 1: how great of a job you're do it, just like 261 00:13:36,120 --> 00:13:38,200 Speaker 1: you know, it's just like a softball thing, like just 262 00:13:38,280 --> 00:13:42,120 Speaker 1: making him look really publicity for the housing exactly when 263 00:13:42,120 --> 00:13:46,199 Speaker 1: Ben Carson is fucking up in an insane amount. Uh. 264 00:13:46,240 --> 00:13:48,679 Speaker 1: And then but also then we find out that not 265 00:13:48,720 --> 00:13:51,800 Speaker 1: necessarily that Ben Carson, like you know, put these new 266 00:13:51,960 --> 00:13:56,280 Speaker 1: regulations into effect that the same buildings that Hannity owns, 267 00:13:56,280 --> 00:13:59,800 Speaker 1: like they're part of a program that in like you know, 268 00:14:00,000 --> 00:14:02,199 Speaker 1: they will be allowed to turn it from like subsidized 269 00:14:02,240 --> 00:14:05,800 Speaker 1: housing units into condominiums that they can just package and 270 00:14:05,880 --> 00:14:08,600 Speaker 1: sell but on their own. So before it was like, okay, 271 00:14:08,600 --> 00:14:10,800 Speaker 1: well look we'll give you these loans, we'll subsidize the 272 00:14:10,800 --> 00:14:13,520 Speaker 1: housing if you're allowing people to stay there because they 273 00:14:13,559 --> 00:14:16,600 Speaker 1: need like cheaper housing. But then they're saying, but look, 274 00:14:16,679 --> 00:14:18,360 Speaker 1: just wait a couple of years and then you can 275 00:14:18,360 --> 00:14:21,000 Speaker 1: flip the building coming everybody and then nobody has to 276 00:14:21,000 --> 00:14:22,320 Speaker 1: live there and then they can figure it out on 277 00:14:22,320 --> 00:14:24,560 Speaker 1: their own, so that we in that instance is HUD, 278 00:14:24,680 --> 00:14:28,400 Speaker 1: We're like, we will help finance this so that we 279 00:14:28,480 --> 00:14:32,000 Speaker 1: have cheap housing and then yeah, but that's not necessarily 280 00:14:32,040 --> 00:14:36,480 Speaker 1: the entire game of HUD. But like that's to just Yeah, 281 00:14:36,480 --> 00:14:40,280 Speaker 1: they're supposed to be good. They're trying to. That's what's 282 00:14:40,280 --> 00:14:42,440 Speaker 1: That's what kind of makes it more infuriating when Sean 283 00:14:42,520 --> 00:14:45,560 Speaker 1: Hannity goes up there and it's just that disingenuous, right, 284 00:14:45,560 --> 00:14:47,960 Speaker 1: and just talking about how great Ben Carson is that 285 00:14:48,120 --> 00:14:50,920 Speaker 1: his job when yeah, like you said that HUD is 286 00:14:50,920 --> 00:14:54,000 Speaker 1: supposed to be the good guys who are helping poor 287 00:14:54,120 --> 00:14:57,840 Speaker 1: people who like need places to live and instead, uh, 288 00:14:58,160 --> 00:15:01,560 Speaker 1: even this morning there was a news alert that he 289 00:15:01,880 --> 00:15:06,880 Speaker 1: was suggesting that they raised the rent in subsidized housing 290 00:15:08,280 --> 00:15:12,040 Speaker 1: in subsidized housing and make people like get jobs in 291 00:15:12,160 --> 00:15:15,960 Speaker 1: order to live in places. So basically his read on 292 00:15:15,960 --> 00:15:19,520 Speaker 1: the situation is, well, these poor people are just too lazy. Well, yeah, 293 00:15:19,560 --> 00:15:22,200 Speaker 1: I mean that's that's how all conservatives think though, like 294 00:15:22,320 --> 00:15:28,800 Speaker 1: everything is yeah, just smoke. So I mean he is 295 00:15:29,000 --> 00:15:33,120 Speaker 1: part of this huge trend which all comes from the 296 00:15:33,200 --> 00:15:38,360 Speaker 1: financial crisis in oh eight, oh seven, oh eight, uh, 297 00:15:38,480 --> 00:15:41,080 Speaker 1: where you know, lots of people lost their homes, their 298 00:15:41,120 --> 00:15:45,280 Speaker 1: homes were foreclosed on, and Wall Street just bought up 299 00:15:45,480 --> 00:15:49,400 Speaker 1: all of these houses and then started renting them out 300 00:15:49,640 --> 00:15:53,560 Speaker 1: to people for you know, hiked up rents. So a 301 00:15:53,600 --> 00:15:56,080 Speaker 1: lot of people in Wall Street are making money off 302 00:15:56,120 --> 00:15:59,840 Speaker 1: of these home foreclosures that they caused in the first place. 303 00:16:00,040 --> 00:16:03,400 Speaker 1: But they see a financial crisis as an opportunity to 304 00:16:03,480 --> 00:16:06,560 Speaker 1: make more money off of people who are in crisis. 305 00:16:06,600 --> 00:16:08,960 Speaker 1: Everyone has I don't I don't even know who I'm 306 00:16:09,080 --> 00:16:11,800 Speaker 1: meaning when I say everyone, but like I've heard from 307 00:16:11,880 --> 00:16:14,240 Speaker 1: multiple people in the real estate world, they're like another 308 00:16:14,280 --> 00:16:16,560 Speaker 1: crash is coming. And I'm like, no, I thought that 309 00:16:16,760 --> 00:16:19,760 Speaker 1: you had to put down and then and they're like 310 00:16:19,840 --> 00:16:22,480 Speaker 1: oh no, no, no no, no, Like it's coming. Like if 311 00:16:22,480 --> 00:16:24,640 Speaker 1: you want to buy a house, wait three years because 312 00:16:24,680 --> 00:16:26,720 Speaker 1: it's bottoming out again. And it's I don't know if 313 00:16:26,720 --> 00:16:29,000 Speaker 1: it's gonna be as bad as O seven in a way, 314 00:16:29,280 --> 00:16:31,960 Speaker 1: but like a new wave of it, Like prices in 315 00:16:32,000 --> 00:16:34,640 Speaker 1: New York have already started to drop, and that's like 316 00:16:34,680 --> 00:16:38,040 Speaker 1: an indication of like, oh fuck, it's going to happen. Yeah, well, 317 00:16:38,160 --> 00:16:40,920 Speaker 1: I mean the thing with these companies, like especially you 318 00:16:40,920 --> 00:16:45,520 Speaker 1: know Blackstone is like this huge private equity company that 319 00:16:45,560 --> 00:16:48,000 Speaker 1: they have, They're like one of the biggest offenders like 320 00:16:48,040 --> 00:16:50,880 Speaker 1: of this sort of train. Yeah, well it means it 321 00:16:50,880 --> 00:16:54,120 Speaker 1: sounds like a fucking as Jam mcneticis, a Harry Potter 322 00:16:54,200 --> 00:16:58,080 Speaker 1: bad guy black Stone. Yeah, these companies, there's kind of like, hey, 323 00:16:58,120 --> 00:17:00,000 Speaker 1: look looking at wall She've been like, we have an 324 00:17:00,000 --> 00:17:03,280 Speaker 1: opportunities just buy all these houses that are like going 325 00:17:03,320 --> 00:17:06,159 Speaker 1: on the cheap and in some cases, like someone that 326 00:17:06,240 --> 00:17:08,040 Speaker 1: Hannity was in business when he went to jail for 327 00:17:08,119 --> 00:17:11,440 Speaker 1: like artificially tanking prices at these auctions to be able 328 00:17:11,440 --> 00:17:14,040 Speaker 1: to buy him at lower prices. Who like once those 329 00:17:14,080 --> 00:17:16,280 Speaker 1: houses about that's money that probably could have gone to 330 00:17:16,320 --> 00:17:19,240 Speaker 1: the homeowner, probably to pay back their debt. But anyway, 331 00:17:19,240 --> 00:17:21,000 Speaker 1: and that guy went to jail. But that's aside. The point. 332 00:17:21,280 --> 00:17:23,600 Speaker 1: The thing is a sort of thing that's happening is 333 00:17:23,720 --> 00:17:28,160 Speaker 1: there taking these foreclosed on homes and basically buying them 334 00:17:28,400 --> 00:17:31,919 Speaker 1: up cheap and taking away these assets from the people 335 00:17:31,960 --> 00:17:35,800 Speaker 1: who were victimized by the financial crisis. So Sean Hannity 336 00:17:36,000 --> 00:17:38,680 Speaker 1: is like the guy behind the guy behind the guy 337 00:17:38,760 --> 00:17:41,800 Speaker 1: like making shiploads of money off the people who watch 338 00:17:41,920 --> 00:17:45,320 Speaker 1: his show and are like, there's a normal, everyday American 339 00:17:45,440 --> 00:17:48,480 Speaker 1: right there. Meanwhile in Hannity, he's making money off of 340 00:17:48,480 --> 00:17:50,840 Speaker 1: you and putting you out of your fucking home, or 341 00:17:50,880 --> 00:17:52,880 Speaker 1: even just saying, oh, you know, look at the home 342 00:17:52,880 --> 00:17:56,440 Speaker 1: ownership is going down, Obama, look at these foreclosure rates, 343 00:17:56,480 --> 00:17:58,720 Speaker 1: and it's like, my man, you are the destroyer. You 344 00:17:58,760 --> 00:18:01,800 Speaker 1: are the same person who is taking advantage of this situation. 345 00:18:02,000 --> 00:18:04,680 Speaker 1: So I feel like there is sort of this dialogue 346 00:18:04,680 --> 00:18:07,919 Speaker 1: of like, home ownership is going down because our generation 347 00:18:08,080 --> 00:18:11,879 Speaker 1: is like bad, like we've ruined chain restaurants. It's like, okay, 348 00:18:12,280 --> 00:18:15,240 Speaker 1: they don't want to It's like, yes, we are afraid 349 00:18:15,280 --> 00:18:17,880 Speaker 1: to buy home. That wasn't our fault. We were young, kid, 350 00:18:17,960 --> 00:18:21,359 Speaker 1: we were just like in high school, college and buying 351 00:18:21,400 --> 00:18:24,840 Speaker 1: a home became this catastrophic, terrible thing. So yeah, now 352 00:18:24,880 --> 00:18:26,280 Speaker 1: we don't want want to buy a home, and there 353 00:18:26,280 --> 00:18:28,679 Speaker 1: will be people that are forever renters and guess what, 354 00:18:28,760 --> 00:18:31,119 Speaker 1: we didn't fucking make that happen. You guys did. And 355 00:18:31,160 --> 00:18:34,760 Speaker 1: also the fact is the wages don't really match. Younger 356 00:18:34,800 --> 00:18:37,440 Speaker 1: people aren't making the kind of money you even need 357 00:18:37,480 --> 00:18:40,320 Speaker 1: to begin thinking about buying a home. It depending on where. 358 00:18:40,359 --> 00:18:42,240 Speaker 1: If you live in a huge urban center, I mean 359 00:18:42,400 --> 00:18:44,680 Speaker 1: clearly there are other places where it is more achievable, 360 00:18:44,720 --> 00:18:46,879 Speaker 1: but like for example, California, New York, I mean you 361 00:18:46,920 --> 00:18:50,840 Speaker 1: can't DC. Yeah, it's it's every big cities. It's a 362 00:18:50,880 --> 00:18:53,119 Speaker 1: huge thing. And you know, when they look at like 363 00:18:53,119 --> 00:18:55,399 Speaker 1: when a lot of these houses went to auction, when 364 00:18:55,440 --> 00:18:57,959 Speaker 1: they're being foreclosed on, you know, you'd have people who 365 00:18:58,000 --> 00:18:59,960 Speaker 1: are trying to buy a house, like maybe first time 366 00:19:00,080 --> 00:19:02,400 Speaker 1: homeowners who you know, like maybe your people of color 367 00:19:02,400 --> 00:19:04,840 Speaker 1: who had a really hard time buying a home. You 368 00:19:04,880 --> 00:19:07,240 Speaker 1: have these Wall Street people come in with cash up 369 00:19:07,280 --> 00:19:09,840 Speaker 1: front and go, we'll buy this ship for cash right now. 370 00:19:10,119 --> 00:19:12,760 Speaker 1: And that's already puts people who are traditionally trying to 371 00:19:12,800 --> 00:19:15,600 Speaker 1: buy a home at a tremendous disadvantage. So when they 372 00:19:15,600 --> 00:19:18,480 Speaker 1: buy up all these houses, they amass this like massive 373 00:19:18,520 --> 00:19:21,680 Speaker 1: revenue stream of just renters. Uh. And then they've also 374 00:19:21,760 --> 00:19:24,360 Speaker 1: started selling the bonds of taking all the rent that's 375 00:19:24,400 --> 00:19:27,160 Speaker 1: being paid and selling that off too, and that sets 376 00:19:27,240 --> 00:19:30,880 Speaker 1: that into a bond, which I guess is more sort 377 00:19:30,880 --> 00:19:36,040 Speaker 1: of predictable than the you know, mortgage that they had before, 378 00:19:36,119 --> 00:19:39,200 Speaker 1: like all those shitty mortgages they had before. But uh, 379 00:19:39,280 --> 00:19:43,160 Speaker 1: you know, when you have a home that is essentially 380 00:19:43,200 --> 00:19:45,639 Speaker 1: owned and like tied up in a Wall Street bond, 381 00:19:45,960 --> 00:19:48,479 Speaker 1: like your landlord does not give a funk about you, 382 00:19:48,600 --> 00:19:50,919 Speaker 1: Like they're not in it to help you out, and 383 00:19:50,960 --> 00:19:54,120 Speaker 1: like there are all these horror stories of people who 384 00:19:54,320 --> 00:19:57,480 Speaker 1: you know, have who are paying rent for these houses 385 00:19:57,520 --> 00:20:01,480 Speaker 1: that are owned by giant private act pity firms, who 386 00:20:01,640 --> 00:20:03,560 Speaker 1: like there will be a crack in their ceiling and 387 00:20:03,600 --> 00:20:06,320 Speaker 1: they'll be like, it's getting worse. It's getting worse, guys, 388 00:20:06,720 --> 00:20:08,600 Speaker 1: nobody's been by to look at it. And then they're 389 00:20:08,760 --> 00:20:11,560 Speaker 1: fucking ceiling caves in for like one where there was 390 00:20:11,600 --> 00:20:15,199 Speaker 1: like water squirting through a light fixture. Um, yeah, so 391 00:20:15,320 --> 00:20:18,720 Speaker 1: it just seems dangerous. A live wire with water shooting, Yeah, 392 00:20:18,760 --> 00:20:20,399 Speaker 1: that sounds fine. And then you try and call your 393 00:20:20,440 --> 00:20:23,680 Speaker 1: landley like sorry, look, we're way too massive to look 394 00:20:23,720 --> 00:20:26,560 Speaker 1: at the actual renters. And that's a problem too, because 395 00:20:26,760 --> 00:20:30,080 Speaker 1: if if the renters are not satisfied, they will leave, 396 00:20:30,520 --> 00:20:32,600 Speaker 1: and now that is going to affect the rent that's 397 00:20:32,600 --> 00:20:35,320 Speaker 1: being paid on those properties. Like part of those bonds 398 00:20:35,320 --> 00:20:37,359 Speaker 1: being healthy too, is that you can keep people actually 399 00:20:37,400 --> 00:20:39,560 Speaker 1: in those units, are in those homes, and if they're 400 00:20:39,560 --> 00:20:41,479 Speaker 1: not doing that, that's why a lot of critics are saying, like, 401 00:20:41,680 --> 00:20:43,720 Speaker 1: if you can't even keep people happy or safe in 402 00:20:43,760 --> 00:20:46,840 Speaker 1: their homes, how do you expect to maintain you not 403 00:20:46,920 --> 00:20:50,080 Speaker 1: have super high turnover without a real plan to address that, 404 00:20:50,280 --> 00:20:52,760 Speaker 1: maybe we all got to stay in Like on a Tuesday, 405 00:20:52,760 --> 00:20:56,200 Speaker 1: and rewatch The Big Short, because it's like that just 406 00:20:56,320 --> 00:20:59,240 Speaker 1: came out we already I mean I haven't seen it. 407 00:20:59,280 --> 00:21:02,280 Speaker 1: I fall to say three different times trying to watch 408 00:21:02,280 --> 00:21:05,159 Speaker 1: it on a plane. Um, it's a tough plane movie. 409 00:21:05,359 --> 00:21:07,680 Speaker 1: But it's like, I think it's about this. I think 410 00:21:07,720 --> 00:21:10,160 Speaker 1: we need to I think we need to regroup because 411 00:21:10,160 --> 00:21:13,199 Speaker 1: if this happens again, that's gonna be pretty embarrassing, right, 412 00:21:13,280 --> 00:21:15,880 Speaker 1: And like and one of the reports they say that, like, 413 00:21:15,920 --> 00:21:18,200 Speaker 1: you know, the difference with these sort of other these 414 00:21:18,240 --> 00:21:20,080 Speaker 1: bonds that they're selling now is like, you know, when 415 00:21:20,080 --> 00:21:23,760 Speaker 1: banks will repossess a mortgaged home as collateral, there's at 416 00:21:23,840 --> 00:21:28,080 Speaker 1: least the assumption that the homeowner has probably defaulted on 417 00:21:28,119 --> 00:21:30,439 Speaker 1: the mortgage, and then it makes sense for this person 418 00:21:30,480 --> 00:21:33,000 Speaker 1: to be you know, to be ousted or evicted from 419 00:21:33,000 --> 00:21:35,600 Speaker 1: their home, whereas like in these bonds, like if a 420 00:21:35,640 --> 00:21:38,480 Speaker 1: bond blows up, so many families are tied up in them, 421 00:21:38,640 --> 00:21:41,359 Speaker 1: like one bond melting down could lead to ton of evictions, 422 00:21:41,400 --> 00:21:43,760 Speaker 1: just even if you never were laid on your payments. 423 00:21:44,080 --> 00:21:46,760 Speaker 1: So it's just a very weird situation. I think, what 424 00:21:47,000 --> 00:21:49,399 Speaker 1: you know, obviously it's not it's not that Sean Hannity 425 00:21:49,480 --> 00:21:53,040 Speaker 1: is exactly uh this company, but he's employing the sort 426 00:21:53,080 --> 00:21:55,480 Speaker 1: of same sort of tactics and uh, he saw the 427 00:21:55,520 --> 00:21:58,399 Speaker 1: same lucrative opportunity to do this. And people need to 428 00:21:58,400 --> 00:22:00,320 Speaker 1: be aware that this company black and I I think they 429 00:22:00,320 --> 00:22:03,240 Speaker 1: went up to eighty thou single family homes. That's a 430 00:22:03,280 --> 00:22:05,560 Speaker 1: fucking racket, you know what I mean. And people don't 431 00:22:05,680 --> 00:22:08,800 Speaker 1: realize that. Wow, Like even the housing market created a 432 00:22:08,800 --> 00:22:11,920 Speaker 1: new corporate overlord for your rent. It's like they had 433 00:22:11,920 --> 00:22:13,720 Speaker 1: their eyes on this ship from the start. They're like that, well, 434 00:22:13,760 --> 00:22:15,760 Speaker 1: look the market will bottom out and we can just 435 00:22:15,880 --> 00:22:18,080 Speaker 1: jump in with cash and buy a massive amount of 436 00:22:18,080 --> 00:22:21,959 Speaker 1: properties that once. President Trump has even said before he 437 00:22:22,000 --> 00:22:24,159 Speaker 1: was president, he said he sort of hoped for a 438 00:22:24,160 --> 00:22:27,320 Speaker 1: housing market crash, so quote people like me will go 439 00:22:27,359 --> 00:22:31,639 Speaker 1: in and buy like crazy. So I mean that's right. Yeah, 440 00:22:32,080 --> 00:22:34,520 Speaker 1: that's kind of scary. All Right, we're gonna take a 441 00:22:34,560 --> 00:22:46,600 Speaker 1: quick break. We'll be right and we're back. All right, 442 00:22:46,760 --> 00:22:51,400 Speaker 1: let's talk about the upcoming mid terms. Miles. You talk 443 00:22:51,480 --> 00:22:54,399 Speaker 1: about that. Your headline and our doc is fuck Muller, 444 00:22:54,520 --> 00:22:58,520 Speaker 1: focus on the fucking mid terms. That's right, because again, everybody, 445 00:22:59,040 --> 00:23:03,000 Speaker 1: all the liberal roles were dancing in the streets being like, 446 00:23:03,080 --> 00:23:07,280 Speaker 1: oh man, he's gonna flip, mother's gonna lack. You know, 447 00:23:07,560 --> 00:23:11,080 Speaker 1: I get it. Look, this fucking presidency is a nightmare, 448 00:23:11,359 --> 00:23:13,520 Speaker 1: and we were trying to look at any way to 449 00:23:13,560 --> 00:23:16,040 Speaker 1: get out of it, to end this thing. But I 450 00:23:16,080 --> 00:23:18,440 Speaker 1: think people need to be really realistic, right. I think 451 00:23:18,440 --> 00:23:20,520 Speaker 1: the most important thing is that we have an effective 452 00:23:20,640 --> 00:23:23,399 Speaker 1: check on the executive branch, because right now, with the 453 00:23:23,400 --> 00:23:26,560 Speaker 1: Republicans controlling all the House, all the chambers, that that 454 00:23:26,640 --> 00:23:29,199 Speaker 1: means people can, like in the in the House and 455 00:23:29,240 --> 00:23:31,680 Speaker 1: in the Senate, can use their power to just simply 456 00:23:31,760 --> 00:23:35,680 Speaker 1: obstruct or keep the Democrats from properly investigating or getting 457 00:23:35,680 --> 00:23:38,640 Speaker 1: answers to things, or just generally holding the president or 458 00:23:38,800 --> 00:23:42,600 Speaker 1: his cabinet members accountable. So let's paint a picture that 459 00:23:42,720 --> 00:23:46,440 Speaker 1: is an actual nightmare for Trump. It's twenty nineteen, okay, 460 00:23:46,520 --> 00:23:49,119 Speaker 1: and they are swearing in the whole new batch of 461 00:23:49,119 --> 00:23:52,560 Speaker 1: Democrats that have basically given the Democrats control of the House. 462 00:23:52,840 --> 00:23:56,240 Speaker 1: Nancy Pelosi maybe gets her galvel back if if Nancy 463 00:23:56,240 --> 00:23:59,080 Speaker 1: Pelosi does in fact become the speaker again. And now 464 00:23:59,119 --> 00:24:03,880 Speaker 1: we have why one subpoena wielding House committee chairman waiting 465 00:24:04,160 --> 00:24:07,439 Speaker 1: to just is full on investigation season. So okay. So 466 00:24:07,440 --> 00:24:09,720 Speaker 1: they're twenty one committees in the House where their chairman's 467 00:24:09,760 --> 00:24:13,080 Speaker 1: actually have subpoena power, so they can you know, some 468 00:24:13,160 --> 00:24:16,639 Speaker 1: of them, there's a committee vote or a consultation with 469 00:24:16,680 --> 00:24:20,320 Speaker 1: a ranking minority, remember, but none of them actually give 470 00:24:20,400 --> 00:24:23,359 Speaker 1: the minority like any veto power, as we saw in 471 00:24:23,480 --> 00:24:28,240 Speaker 1: the House's investigation quote unquote into Russia, where Adam Schiff 472 00:24:28,320 --> 00:24:32,280 Speaker 1: was powerless as the ranking minority member. All he could 473 00:24:32,280 --> 00:24:35,480 Speaker 1: do is be like, uh, Devin Noon has is fucking 474 00:24:36,680 --> 00:24:39,399 Speaker 1: and he had no nothing, He could do nothing except 475 00:24:39,480 --> 00:24:42,639 Speaker 1: to just be like they're fucking around. So these twenty 476 00:24:42,640 --> 00:24:45,879 Speaker 1: one different committees are always led by whoever has the 477 00:24:45,920 --> 00:24:49,480 Speaker 1: most wherever the majority party. That means the whatever the 478 00:24:49,560 --> 00:24:52,199 Speaker 1: ranking member is, you've suddenly become the chairperson or you 479 00:24:52,240 --> 00:24:54,679 Speaker 1: become the ranking minority member. So based on the power 480 00:24:55,119 --> 00:24:57,920 Speaker 1: how it's distributed. Now, the crazy thing is when you're 481 00:24:57,960 --> 00:25:00,800 Speaker 1: checking the executive branch, it can be one chamber, like 482 00:25:00,840 --> 00:25:02,600 Speaker 1: the Senate can do that on their own. The House 483 00:25:02,600 --> 00:25:04,280 Speaker 1: can do that on their own. It's not like like 484 00:25:04,520 --> 00:25:06,800 Speaker 1: legislation where they like both houses have to agree on 485 00:25:06,920 --> 00:25:08,960 Speaker 1: the legislation and then you know, has that its own 486 00:25:09,040 --> 00:25:11,640 Speaker 1: process when it comes to accountability and things like that. 487 00:25:11,800 --> 00:25:13,560 Speaker 1: Any one chamber can do that on their own. They 488 00:25:13,560 --> 00:25:16,000 Speaker 1: don't need the other chamber to do that. So that's 489 00:25:16,160 --> 00:25:18,560 Speaker 1: very interesting because right now, as we've seen is that 490 00:25:18,640 --> 00:25:21,400 Speaker 1: basically the GOP has used their power to just come 491 00:25:21,480 --> 00:25:24,720 Speaker 1: up any investigations or they use their subpoena power to 492 00:25:24,720 --> 00:25:29,119 Speaker 1: to get fucking just to obstruct Mueller's investigation or just 493 00:25:29,200 --> 00:25:32,399 Speaker 1: protect the president. But we're starting to see that using 494 00:25:32,520 --> 00:25:35,080 Speaker 1: the you know, using their majority as like a human 495 00:25:35,119 --> 00:25:38,119 Speaker 1: shield is not really the best practice because there are 496 00:25:38,200 --> 00:25:40,800 Speaker 1: many people who are getting off the fucking ship very quickly, 497 00:25:40,800 --> 00:25:42,479 Speaker 1: as you can see with the number of retirements. They 498 00:25:42,480 --> 00:25:45,760 Speaker 1: don't like what's written in the sand. So on the retirements, 499 00:25:45,800 --> 00:25:49,639 Speaker 1: the question I've had is is this just an unprecedented 500 00:25:49,760 --> 00:25:52,960 Speaker 1: number of retirements or are all these people coming to 501 00:25:53,000 --> 00:25:55,240 Speaker 1: a point in their career when you know they might 502 00:25:55,320 --> 00:25:58,280 Speaker 1: normally retire, and it's like an either or thing or 503 00:25:58,560 --> 00:26:01,639 Speaker 1: like I mean, I think a very diplomatic reading of 504 00:26:01,680 --> 00:26:04,600 Speaker 1: it would be there will always be people retiring, there 505 00:26:04,640 --> 00:26:07,320 Speaker 1: will always be people switching offices or looking to get 506 00:26:07,320 --> 00:26:09,960 Speaker 1: other positions that so that always happens. There's always set number. 507 00:26:09,960 --> 00:26:12,840 Speaker 1: I think we're above forty four now, which is actually 508 00:26:13,280 --> 00:26:16,080 Speaker 1: not normal, Like it's the number of it which kind 509 00:26:16,119 --> 00:26:19,080 Speaker 1: of transcends the sort of normal turnover when it comes 510 00:26:19,080 --> 00:26:21,199 Speaker 1: to the Congress. Uh. And now we're seeing a lot 511 00:26:21,240 --> 00:26:24,199 Speaker 1: of people just being like given weird, weird examples, like 512 00:26:24,359 --> 00:26:26,840 Speaker 1: other people be like I'm actually going to go into 513 00:26:26,840 --> 00:26:29,320 Speaker 1: the private sector to do this or whatever to make 514 00:26:29,400 --> 00:26:32,960 Speaker 1: money and exploit exploit my like John Baynard did. Look, 515 00:26:33,440 --> 00:26:34,880 Speaker 1: let me get out a little bit and then I'm 516 00:26:34,880 --> 00:26:36,679 Speaker 1: gonna get all the goop to come around on medical 517 00:26:36,720 --> 00:26:39,960 Speaker 1: marijuana or whatever. Anyway, So you look at like Jason Chafitz, 518 00:26:39,960 --> 00:26:41,359 Speaker 1: he was like, I want to be with my family, 519 00:26:41,480 --> 00:26:42,879 Speaker 1: or like Paul Ryan was like I want to be 520 00:26:42,960 --> 00:26:46,439 Speaker 1: with my family, which I get I get it. But 521 00:26:46,640 --> 00:26:48,720 Speaker 1: everyone wants to be their family, but you know it 522 00:26:48,760 --> 00:26:51,080 Speaker 1: didn't prior to Trump. You seem to have no problem 523 00:26:51,280 --> 00:26:54,720 Speaker 1: like being up, like we're getting my family away from you, 524 00:26:54,600 --> 00:26:57,520 Speaker 1: and you're like I'm showing Kano and DC, you know, 525 00:26:57,600 --> 00:27:00,560 Speaker 1: like whatever. So we're seeing people kind of looking at 526 00:27:00,600 --> 00:27:02,920 Speaker 1: it of being kind of in the GOP in this 527 00:27:02,960 --> 00:27:05,640 Speaker 1: administration is sort of an untenable situation for some people. 528 00:27:05,720 --> 00:27:07,800 Speaker 1: Now that people will spend their reasons for doing it, 529 00:27:07,840 --> 00:27:10,080 Speaker 1: but it's clear to see that some people would rather 530 00:27:10,200 --> 00:27:12,680 Speaker 1: just retire than even try and put up a fight 531 00:27:12,720 --> 00:27:15,280 Speaker 1: for their seat. I'm not letting any of these things 532 00:27:15,280 --> 00:27:16,960 Speaker 1: that I'm seeing give me any kind of hope in 533 00:27:17,000 --> 00:27:19,680 Speaker 1: the Democratic already. I'm still very much waiting to see 534 00:27:19,680 --> 00:27:22,080 Speaker 1: what they do. Even if they do get control of 535 00:27:22,080 --> 00:27:24,040 Speaker 1: the House, Let's see how they use it, because I 536 00:27:24,080 --> 00:27:27,560 Speaker 1: just don't write. So here's a no, yeah totally, because 537 00:27:27,560 --> 00:27:30,560 Speaker 1: I think already the Democrats as a party, the platform 538 00:27:30,720 --> 00:27:34,240 Speaker 1: is fucking whack. It's like, it's not it's not resonating 539 00:27:34,280 --> 00:27:36,920 Speaker 1: with anybody except for the old people over in d 540 00:27:37,000 --> 00:27:39,199 Speaker 1: C who think it's like it's effective. There was a 541 00:27:39,200 --> 00:27:42,640 Speaker 1: front page article in the New York Times yesterday about 542 00:27:42,760 --> 00:27:47,720 Speaker 1: how the Democratic Party is actually like trying to get 543 00:27:47,760 --> 00:27:50,120 Speaker 1: people to drop out of the races so they don't 544 00:27:50,119 --> 00:27:54,160 Speaker 1: like split the Democratic quote essentially, and they're always always 545 00:27:54,240 --> 00:27:58,200 Speaker 1: choosing like the centrist, the person who used to be 546 00:27:58,240 --> 00:28:01,000 Speaker 1: a Republican and now as a Democrat, because that like 547 00:28:01,280 --> 00:28:04,600 Speaker 1: gets them physically aroused, like the idea of like somebody 548 00:28:04,600 --> 00:28:09,800 Speaker 1: who can appeal to both sides, right, and so they're like, 549 00:28:09,880 --> 00:28:12,120 Speaker 1: get the people who they are encouraging to drop out 550 00:28:12,119 --> 00:28:18,480 Speaker 1: are like, you know, outsiders who are and women didn't 551 00:28:18,920 --> 00:28:23,520 Speaker 1: don't aren't like establishment people. And that's bullshit because as 552 00:28:23,560 --> 00:28:27,080 Speaker 1: we saw in two thousands sixteen, like we want outsiders. 553 00:28:27,080 --> 00:28:29,760 Speaker 1: That's what people want right now. But this is exactly why, 554 00:28:31,440 --> 00:28:34,959 Speaker 1: because totally day by day don't show that they've learned 555 00:28:35,080 --> 00:28:38,120 Speaker 1: from at all that most people in the base want 556 00:28:38,120 --> 00:28:40,040 Speaker 1: to go away. You want to go away. You know 557 00:28:40,080 --> 00:28:42,760 Speaker 1: who's surprised the shift out of me? Cynthia Nixon. She 558 00:28:42,880 --> 00:28:47,080 Speaker 1: did this, um, she did this video about legalizing marijuana 559 00:28:47,120 --> 00:28:50,480 Speaker 1: and like called out how racist like Mariana has been 560 00:28:50,600 --> 00:28:53,440 Speaker 1: in the past or whatever arresting black people for it. 561 00:28:53,440 --> 00:28:55,200 Speaker 1: It's been legal for white people for a long time. 562 00:28:55,240 --> 00:28:57,840 Speaker 1: And she literally said that and I was just like, 563 00:28:58,280 --> 00:29:02,080 Speaker 1: you might make me want to vote for celebrity. I 564 00:29:02,160 --> 00:29:09,360 Speaker 1: got nervous second disproportionately affecting people. I was just like, whoa, 565 00:29:09,480 --> 00:29:12,320 Speaker 1: she's really coming out swinging, And I'm just like, that's 566 00:29:12,360 --> 00:29:14,480 Speaker 1: what you have to do to grab our attention, especially 567 00:29:14,520 --> 00:29:17,800 Speaker 1: people of color, because especially with with white candidates, they 568 00:29:18,040 --> 00:29:19,920 Speaker 1: like to dance around ship like that. They'll never full 569 00:29:20,000 --> 00:29:22,560 Speaker 1: throw to be like, hey man, the criminal justice system 570 00:29:22,600 --> 00:29:25,920 Speaker 1: is completely fucking up an entire section of our population. 571 00:29:25,960 --> 00:29:29,280 Speaker 1: If we learned anything from the Trump presidency, it's that 572 00:29:29,880 --> 00:29:33,400 Speaker 1: the majority of the country is not okay with honesty, 573 00:29:33,640 --> 00:29:36,800 Speaker 1: like we are not okay as a country, saying that 574 00:29:36,960 --> 00:29:40,320 Speaker 1: the president is racist, saying that the GOP is racist, 575 00:29:40,320 --> 00:29:43,560 Speaker 1: say or just talking about things as they actually are, 576 00:29:43,960 --> 00:29:47,280 Speaker 1: like we're not okay with reality. And the way that 577 00:29:47,360 --> 00:29:50,440 Speaker 1: the Democratic Party seeing clearly that there is like this 578 00:29:50,520 --> 00:29:52,560 Speaker 1: crop of black women. You know, I'm a black woman, 579 00:29:52,560 --> 00:29:54,400 Speaker 1: so obviously I'm going to talk about the stuff because 580 00:29:54,560 --> 00:29:56,960 Speaker 1: this is what I feel like, is just like looking 581 00:29:57,000 --> 00:29:59,760 Speaker 1: at how the Democratic Party doesn't support an uplift black 582 00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:02,440 Speaker 1: out candidates, even though these people have been on the 583 00:30:02,440 --> 00:30:06,400 Speaker 1: ground and delivering election after election after election for you, 584 00:30:06,920 --> 00:30:10,719 Speaker 1: building your campaigns, volunteering for you, doing all of the grountwork, 585 00:30:10,880 --> 00:30:14,280 Speaker 1: and and yet we're never elevated, even though I think 586 00:30:14,320 --> 00:30:18,040 Speaker 1: that black women could possibly save the party. Oh when 587 00:30:18,080 --> 00:30:21,360 Speaker 1: you have someone like Michelle Obama in the wings who 588 00:30:21,640 --> 00:30:26,560 Speaker 1: literally helped Barack Obama become president, this insane resource that 589 00:30:26,600 --> 00:30:29,080 Speaker 1: you have. There's a record amount of women and women 590 00:30:29,120 --> 00:30:32,920 Speaker 1: of color running for office. This it's crazy because now 591 00:30:32,960 --> 00:30:35,080 Speaker 1: I think people are actually what's great is to see 592 00:30:35,120 --> 00:30:36,840 Speaker 1: people be empowered and go, you know what funk this? 593 00:30:36,920 --> 00:30:38,640 Speaker 1: I can actually do something. I don't give a funk 594 00:30:38,640 --> 00:30:41,360 Speaker 1: about what the traditional knowledge was around this. I know 595 00:30:41,440 --> 00:30:43,400 Speaker 1: what I am cable, I see the energy, and I 596 00:30:43,400 --> 00:30:45,600 Speaker 1: will now apply that to running a camp. Meanwhile, the 597 00:30:45,680 --> 00:30:48,040 Speaker 1: d n c c S test for whether you are 598 00:30:48,080 --> 00:30:50,960 Speaker 1: a viable candidate. They take your phone, they go through 599 00:30:50,960 --> 00:30:52,680 Speaker 1: the list and they're like, Okay, how much could you 600 00:30:52,720 --> 00:30:54,520 Speaker 1: get this person to donate? How much could you get 601 00:30:54,560 --> 00:30:57,440 Speaker 1: that person to donate? Are they like a fundraiser? Are 602 00:30:57,480 --> 00:31:02,240 Speaker 1: they like basically how well connected? Are are you too? Rich? People? Right? Essentially, 603 00:31:02,640 --> 00:31:04,520 Speaker 1: because they're like, look, we can't have any broke people. 604 00:31:04,920 --> 00:31:07,080 Speaker 1: You can be woke, but don't be broke, but the 605 00:31:07,360 --> 00:31:14,120 Speaker 1: job exactly and you're already you know, there are plenty 606 00:31:14,120 --> 00:31:17,120 Speaker 1: of candidates who are raising with small donations or away 607 00:31:17,120 --> 00:31:19,960 Speaker 1: from using super packs. I mean, Kamala Harris just I 608 00:31:19,960 --> 00:31:21,560 Speaker 1: think over the weekend was like, I'm not taking pack 609 00:31:21,640 --> 00:31:25,560 Speaker 1: money anymore because someone's running um. But yeah, there aren't 610 00:31:25,560 --> 00:31:28,320 Speaker 1: plenty of people like I know, Elizabeth Warren raised a 611 00:31:28,440 --> 00:31:30,320 Speaker 1: huge ton of money off small donations. There are a 612 00:31:30,320 --> 00:31:32,520 Speaker 1: lot of people who are able to raise off small 613 00:31:32,600 --> 00:31:36,040 Speaker 1: donor money. Because yes, the reality is in politics, people 614 00:31:36,080 --> 00:31:37,760 Speaker 1: when they look at a candidate, they're like, well, is 615 00:31:37,760 --> 00:31:40,200 Speaker 1: this guy funded? Because if they're not, then the dances go, 616 00:31:40,280 --> 00:31:41,960 Speaker 1: well great, now we're gonna have to fucking pitch in 617 00:31:42,080 --> 00:31:44,160 Speaker 1: or whatever because they don't have their own hookups. But 618 00:31:44,320 --> 00:31:46,040 Speaker 1: if we can get a lot of these candidates to 619 00:31:46,160 --> 00:31:49,200 Speaker 1: not rely on the traditional forms of fundraising or the 620 00:31:49,240 --> 00:31:52,960 Speaker 1: traditional their traditional donors or benefactors, then we can start 621 00:31:53,000 --> 00:31:55,360 Speaker 1: to empower actual candidates that are more you know that 622 00:31:55,440 --> 00:31:58,200 Speaker 1: they reflect the values that I think people want to see. 623 00:31:58,360 --> 00:32:00,640 Speaker 1: And so I would tell you if you see a 624 00:32:00,640 --> 00:32:04,200 Speaker 1: potential candidate that embody the values that resonate with you 625 00:32:04,240 --> 00:32:06,760 Speaker 1: as a voter, I would recommend giving them money because 626 00:32:06,800 --> 00:32:08,719 Speaker 1: the money does add up and you can get them 627 00:32:08,760 --> 00:32:11,200 Speaker 1: off of this idea of having to be beholden to 628 00:32:11,240 --> 00:32:13,840 Speaker 1: a lot of these huge donors and then protect their 629 00:32:13,840 --> 00:32:15,840 Speaker 1: interests once they get into office, because let's be real, 630 00:32:15,880 --> 00:32:18,440 Speaker 1: that's sort of the game right. At the same time, 631 00:32:18,480 --> 00:32:22,280 Speaker 1: if somebody who's not establishment gets the ability to like 632 00:32:22,400 --> 00:32:25,160 Speaker 1: raise money from a super pack or something and they're 633 00:32:25,200 --> 00:32:28,920 Speaker 1: having to compete with like the Koke Brothers, take that ship. Sure, sure, 634 00:32:29,000 --> 00:32:31,280 Speaker 1: but again, all that money comes with strings attached, you 635 00:32:31,280 --> 00:32:33,480 Speaker 1: know what I mean, They're expectations. You know, once you 636 00:32:33,600 --> 00:32:37,000 Speaker 1: once you kiss the rank George Soros, we know what's 637 00:32:37,000 --> 00:32:39,800 Speaker 1: going on. Yeah. I think what they're doing is so 638 00:32:39,840 --> 00:32:43,120 Speaker 1: they see they have this blue wave as people are 639 00:32:43,120 --> 00:32:49,960 Speaker 1: describing it, or a blue tsunami like depending on how excited, okay, 640 00:32:50,000 --> 00:32:55,959 Speaker 1: how excited and motivated voters are totally determines how, you know, 641 00:32:56,240 --> 00:32:59,520 Speaker 1: how many seats the Democrats take, and they're just taking 642 00:32:59,520 --> 00:33:01,320 Speaker 1: it for g that their base is going to come 643 00:33:01,320 --> 00:33:03,800 Speaker 1: out and record number because they're mad at Trump. But 644 00:33:04,240 --> 00:33:06,520 Speaker 1: they should not be taking it for granted, because if 645 00:33:06,560 --> 00:33:11,320 Speaker 1: you have some candidate who is just another inauthentic person 646 00:33:11,480 --> 00:33:14,560 Speaker 1: who is just playing politics. That's not going to do it. 647 00:33:14,600 --> 00:33:16,560 Speaker 1: That's not going to get people out, and the Republicans 648 00:33:16,680 --> 00:33:19,280 Speaker 1: are going to the base they are. And again, the 649 00:33:19,400 --> 00:33:23,640 Speaker 1: Hillary campaign took us for granted. She assumed that we 650 00:33:23,680 --> 00:33:26,160 Speaker 1: would vote for her despite all the ship show that 651 00:33:26,240 --> 00:33:27,520 Speaker 1: was going on in the d n C and those 652 00:33:27,520 --> 00:33:31,200 Speaker 1: emails about, you know, trying to undermine Bernie's campaign, and 653 00:33:31,240 --> 00:33:33,480 Speaker 1: it was just like, we don't like that ship either. 654 00:33:33,760 --> 00:33:37,200 Speaker 1: So it's just like you guys continuing to take things 655 00:33:37,200 --> 00:33:40,760 Speaker 1: for granted, our vote, our voice, or whatever it is. 656 00:33:40,800 --> 00:33:43,920 Speaker 1: And I'm just like, there's clearly no learning. There's been 657 00:33:43,920 --> 00:33:46,560 Speaker 1: no learning, which is the problem with the d n 658 00:33:46,840 --> 00:33:48,960 Speaker 1: with the Democratic Party to me in general, is that 659 00:33:49,240 --> 00:33:51,640 Speaker 1: they don't learn from mistakes. Yeah, well, the left in 660 00:33:51,680 --> 00:33:54,440 Speaker 1: general is like a Thanksgiving dinner where everybody wants to 661 00:33:54,440 --> 00:33:57,080 Speaker 1: say the polite thing about something and nobody's drunk enough 662 00:33:57,120 --> 00:34:00,320 Speaker 1: to just start truth speaking at the table. And right now, 663 00:34:00,480 --> 00:34:02,320 Speaker 1: once we saw a little bit of truth speaking work, 664 00:34:02,320 --> 00:34:04,760 Speaker 1: people like, oh ship, ye, what they have to realize 665 00:34:04,800 --> 00:34:07,040 Speaker 1: now that is actually a very sexy. But there's a 666 00:34:07,080 --> 00:34:11,680 Speaker 1: lot of appeal to say, Yo, the country is fucked, 667 00:34:12,000 --> 00:34:15,000 Speaker 1: we have real fucking solutions. We're not just gonna say, 668 00:34:15,239 --> 00:34:17,120 Speaker 1: hey man, we're gonna get you back to work now. 669 00:34:17,280 --> 00:34:20,520 Speaker 1: Talk about income inequality, talk about like how hard it 670 00:34:20,560 --> 00:34:22,160 Speaker 1: is to own a home as a person of color. 671 00:34:22,200 --> 00:34:24,080 Speaker 1: Talks about how hard it is to go to college 672 00:34:24,120 --> 00:34:26,920 Speaker 1: in this country. You talk about how how like unequal 673 00:34:27,080 --> 00:34:28,960 Speaker 1: education is in this country even if you do go 674 00:34:29,000 --> 00:34:30,600 Speaker 1: to public school. Are you gonna go to a good one? 675 00:34:30,600 --> 00:34:32,719 Speaker 1: Are you gonna got one? Talk about the fact that 676 00:34:32,760 --> 00:34:37,040 Speaker 1: there's no water in an American city, clean water, or 677 00:34:37,080 --> 00:34:40,000 Speaker 1: no power in the commonwealth in Puerto Rico, right, Like, 678 00:34:40,680 --> 00:34:43,320 Speaker 1: talk about how there's people coming up into waffle houses 679 00:34:43,360 --> 00:34:46,400 Speaker 1: and little like schools and little kids and shooting it 680 00:34:46,520 --> 00:34:50,000 Speaker 1: up in movie theaters and like this is bad ship crazy, 681 00:34:50,120 --> 00:34:52,520 Speaker 1: don't don't like paper over the cracks and be like, nah, 682 00:34:53,239 --> 00:34:55,719 Speaker 1: let me talk about let's hold Wall Street accountable, Like 683 00:34:56,040 --> 00:35:03,360 Speaker 1: I'm anyway, Yeah, I'm sure Hillary mentioned all those talking points, 684 00:35:03,400 --> 00:35:05,760 Speaker 1: but then she also met with all these Wall Street 685 00:35:05,800 --> 00:35:07,919 Speaker 1: people and was taking money from them, and you knew 686 00:35:07,960 --> 00:35:09,840 Speaker 1: she wasn't gonna do shit about it. Yeah. Well, I 687 00:35:09,880 --> 00:35:12,520 Speaker 1: mean she never said anything that resonated with people of 688 00:35:12,520 --> 00:35:15,279 Speaker 1: color like once on that campaign. T like that that 689 00:35:15,320 --> 00:35:17,880 Speaker 1: campaign was what reminded me that Hillary was white. I 690 00:35:17,960 --> 00:35:22,399 Speaker 1: was like, oh yeah, like a couple of boiler plate 691 00:35:22,520 --> 00:35:25,360 Speaker 1: sort of like talking points. I was never like, whoa, 692 00:35:25,520 --> 00:35:28,719 Speaker 1: she's she's really talking that, right? And and again that's 693 00:35:28,719 --> 00:35:31,120 Speaker 1: because I think she took for granted that in general, 694 00:35:31,200 --> 00:35:33,279 Speaker 1: it just seemed like an easy choice, like, look, you 695 00:35:33,280 --> 00:35:34,879 Speaker 1: can vote for me, or you can vote for this 696 00:35:34,960 --> 00:35:39,560 Speaker 1: fucking ship. Granted that Bill was the black people's president 697 00:35:39,640 --> 00:35:43,720 Speaker 1: ever since he played and like, and he ain't anymore, 698 00:35:44,400 --> 00:35:47,440 Speaker 1: and I think not. And I think their cat had 699 00:35:47,440 --> 00:35:50,399 Speaker 1: a video game on Genesis the Cat, or at least 700 00:35:50,400 --> 00:35:53,319 Speaker 1: he had a comic book. So I mean, that's what 701 00:35:53,400 --> 00:35:56,320 Speaker 1: a time. How did she lose you after that? I 702 00:35:56,320 --> 00:35:57,839 Speaker 1: don't know. I mean back to what I was saying 703 00:35:57,840 --> 00:36:00,719 Speaker 1: though about the mid term, So, right, so the Democrats 704 00:36:00,800 --> 00:36:03,839 Speaker 1: do take control, right, think about all these committees that 705 00:36:03,920 --> 00:36:06,600 Speaker 1: have the subpoena power and how they can deliver all 706 00:36:06,640 --> 00:36:10,400 Speaker 1: these congressional colonoscopies to the administration, For example, the Ways 707 00:36:10,400 --> 00:36:13,400 Speaker 1: and Means Committee, And this is from an article on Slate. Uh, 708 00:36:13,440 --> 00:36:16,080 Speaker 1: they're talking about all the possible investigations that could happen 709 00:36:16,120 --> 00:36:18,680 Speaker 1: with Democrats in power. The Ways and Means Committee. They 710 00:36:18,680 --> 00:36:21,719 Speaker 1: can sharpen the national discussion around tax fairness and subpoena 711 00:36:21,760 --> 00:36:25,320 Speaker 1: and the president's tax returns. Okay, what about the Financial 712 00:36:25,320 --> 00:36:29,400 Speaker 1: Services Committee that would be chaired by Maxine Waters. I 713 00:36:29,440 --> 00:36:33,160 Speaker 1: have a feeling if she, if she was the fucking chairwoman, 714 00:36:33,360 --> 00:36:35,920 Speaker 1: she was subpoena the ship out of soap for what's 715 00:36:36,000 --> 00:36:39,040 Speaker 1: in their purview. And the Financial Services they have the 716 00:36:39,040 --> 00:36:41,040 Speaker 1: authority to look at like sort of the phenomenon of 717 00:36:41,160 --> 00:36:44,399 Speaker 1: you know, foreign oiligarch's laundering. They're ill gotten gains through 718 00:36:44,440 --> 00:36:47,360 Speaker 1: purchases of luxury condominiums like the ones that are in 719 00:36:47,400 --> 00:36:49,880 Speaker 1: Trump owned buildings in New York, or that weird building 720 00:36:49,920 --> 00:36:53,320 Speaker 1: in Miami that he sold for like a threecent profit inexplicably, 721 00:36:53,760 --> 00:36:55,640 Speaker 1: and you look at even just sort of like the 722 00:36:55,719 --> 00:36:59,319 Speaker 1: Armed Services Committee, they can they can convene like proceedings 723 00:36:59,320 --> 00:37:02,399 Speaker 1: to fucking talk about why it's bad to share state 724 00:37:02,480 --> 00:37:06,160 Speaker 1: secrets with people who don't have security clearances, like basic 725 00:37:06,280 --> 00:37:08,520 Speaker 1: things that Republicans went out like it's not an issue, 726 00:37:08,520 --> 00:37:10,759 Speaker 1: is not an issue. You know, there's the ability to 727 00:37:10,800 --> 00:37:12,279 Speaker 1: actually be like, hold on, you need to come in 728 00:37:12,320 --> 00:37:14,480 Speaker 1: here and explain what the fund is going expose the 729 00:37:14,600 --> 00:37:19,680 Speaker 1: wildly corrupt ship that is happening. Like nobody likes corruption. 730 00:37:20,200 --> 00:37:23,000 Speaker 1: It's gonna be hard to argue with, although Trump supporters 731 00:37:23,040 --> 00:37:26,600 Speaker 1: I'm sure will find a way. But yeah, if Democrats 732 00:37:26,719 --> 00:37:33,000 Speaker 1: are a sober Thanksgiving, Republicans have become like Irish St. 733 00:37:33,040 --> 00:37:36,440 Speaker 1: Patty's Day, like everybody's just fucking wasted and saying the 734 00:37:36,480 --> 00:37:39,120 Speaker 1: first thing that comes to mind, because they are just 735 00:37:39,320 --> 00:37:42,839 Speaker 1: going to the base hard, like they're all of these 736 00:37:42,880 --> 00:37:48,080 Speaker 1: house elections. They're wearing maga hats. They're basically talking about 737 00:37:48,080 --> 00:37:51,520 Speaker 1: how like Trump is their savior of America. Like this 738 00:37:51,640 --> 00:37:54,560 Speaker 1: new crop of candidates for the terms, Yeah, exactly, they're 739 00:37:54,640 --> 00:37:59,399 Speaker 1: like lock her up in their campaign ads. You's you're 740 00:37:59,440 --> 00:38:04,600 Speaker 1: not running against uh what? The guy who said that 741 00:38:04,680 --> 00:38:08,200 Speaker 1: has actually been to jail for killing twenty nine people 742 00:38:08,400 --> 00:38:14,040 Speaker 1: by violating safety standards and the mind that ship, and 743 00:38:14,080 --> 00:38:16,360 Speaker 1: his talking point is we don't need to investigate our president, 744 00:38:16,400 --> 00:38:19,600 Speaker 1: we need to arrest Hillary. So yeah, they're just going 745 00:38:19,600 --> 00:38:22,440 Speaker 1: back to the two thousand and sixteen election, and basically 746 00:38:22,960 --> 00:38:25,239 Speaker 1: the thing that they have going for them is, you know, 747 00:38:25,280 --> 00:38:29,640 Speaker 1: the Democratic Party kind of went away from their authentic 748 00:38:29,800 --> 00:38:34,200 Speaker 1: ground swell of support and the Republicans went with it, 749 00:38:34,320 --> 00:38:39,640 Speaker 1: and they're realizing, Okay, go to this horrible toxic wave 750 00:38:39,880 --> 00:38:43,400 Speaker 1: of you know, aggression that has been bubbling up. What 751 00:38:43,520 --> 00:38:46,279 Speaker 1: a weird I mean, I guess we'll see if this 752 00:38:46,320 --> 00:38:49,080 Speaker 1: two year old campaigning style will still hold up. I mean, 753 00:38:49,080 --> 00:38:52,520 Speaker 1: he clearly didn't work for the countless Republicans that try 754 00:38:52,560 --> 00:38:55,080 Speaker 1: to brand themselves as like Trump clones, uh in the 755 00:38:55,120 --> 00:38:58,279 Speaker 1: special elections in the last eight months. So that's one 756 00:38:58,320 --> 00:39:01,600 Speaker 1: thing to somewhat rest easy about. But yeah, it's it 757 00:39:01,600 --> 00:39:03,439 Speaker 1: feels like they're like, well, fuck it, man, just play 758 00:39:03,480 --> 00:39:06,920 Speaker 1: the greatest hits, you know, maybe they'll maybe they'll keep dancing. Yeah, 759 00:39:07,160 --> 00:39:09,759 Speaker 1: so yeah, I'm not going to play these ads for you. 760 00:39:09,840 --> 00:39:12,840 Speaker 1: But there's just crazy ship where like the guy's spouting 761 00:39:12,880 --> 00:39:16,600 Speaker 1: off about like, uh, a guy running for the Senate 762 00:39:16,680 --> 00:39:20,480 Speaker 1: in Missouri is talking about like how Trump is the 763 00:39:20,480 --> 00:39:23,840 Speaker 1: savior of our country. He has also said that feminists 764 00:39:23,880 --> 00:39:27,080 Speaker 1: have snake filled heads and he hopes his daughters don't 765 00:39:27,120 --> 00:39:30,560 Speaker 1: become she devils. So, uh, this is where we're at. 766 00:39:30,719 --> 00:39:34,279 Speaker 1: And you have a shirt that says feminist on now, yeah, superducer, 767 00:39:35,040 --> 00:39:38,279 Speaker 1: how many snakes you've got in your head? Oh? You 768 00:39:38,800 --> 00:39:41,839 Speaker 1: seven tongues said it all, what then kind of thing 769 00:39:41,880 --> 00:39:44,600 Speaker 1: is that snake head snakes in their heads? These guys 770 00:39:44,640 --> 00:39:47,200 Speaker 1: don't get laid. I don't know what it is about 771 00:39:47,239 --> 00:39:51,600 Speaker 1: Republicans and their fear of women, and like like they 772 00:39:51,680 --> 00:39:54,360 Speaker 1: just it's like a force field they don't understand or 773 00:39:54,400 --> 00:39:58,840 Speaker 1: something like just the way they talk about women is bananas. 774 00:39:58,880 --> 00:40:02,000 Speaker 1: Clearly that's to be like evoke, you know, the garden 775 00:40:02,480 --> 00:40:06,839 Speaker 1: and that's exactly the beast or whatever. It's very like, 776 00:40:06,920 --> 00:40:09,960 Speaker 1: let's play out in their mind, if feminists to control 777 00:40:10,000 --> 00:40:12,239 Speaker 1: of the country, what does that mean? Everyone's penis will 778 00:40:12,320 --> 00:40:15,560 Speaker 1: have to be turned into a vagina and then men 779 00:40:15,760 --> 00:40:17,920 Speaker 1: are like thrown off the like I don't you know 780 00:40:17,960 --> 00:40:20,040 Speaker 1: what I mean, because like it was easy with gay marries. 781 00:40:20,080 --> 00:40:22,239 Speaker 1: They just say ship like, well, what's next, Man's gonna 782 00:40:22,320 --> 00:40:27,520 Speaker 1: marry a horse in a blah blah blah. Like there's 783 00:40:27,560 --> 00:40:30,000 Speaker 1: no argument, right, because this is just a person that's 784 00:40:30,080 --> 00:40:32,160 Speaker 1: dumb or like I don't even want to call them dumb, 785 00:40:32,200 --> 00:40:34,600 Speaker 1: but someone who doesn't have like a real actual point 786 00:40:34,640 --> 00:40:37,799 Speaker 1: of view, sound opinions, right, and then I'm now I'm 787 00:40:37,800 --> 00:40:43,319 Speaker 1: supposed to argue about the legitimacy of women. If I'm 788 00:40:43,360 --> 00:40:46,280 Speaker 1: that candidate I'm debating. I'm like, well, people of Missouri's 789 00:40:46,280 --> 00:40:48,040 Speaker 1: clear to see my opponent. I mean, look at all 790 00:40:48,040 --> 00:40:50,759 Speaker 1: the snakes in her head and I literally have like 791 00:40:51,000 --> 00:40:56,839 Speaker 1: braids in my hair right now, that's my hair style. Well, well, 792 00:40:57,200 --> 00:40:59,680 Speaker 1: you get where I'm coming from, don't you. I'm really 793 00:40:59,680 --> 00:41:01,520 Speaker 1: curious what the fear is is that. I guess it's 794 00:41:01,520 --> 00:41:06,040 Speaker 1: just that men are no longer the dominant force in society. 795 00:41:06,200 --> 00:41:09,520 Speaker 1: Are right, exactly, But but isn't that is that like 796 00:41:09,560 --> 00:41:13,440 Speaker 1: the expiration date that they seeming fear it's the fear 797 00:41:13,600 --> 00:41:17,880 Speaker 1: of their own sexual insecurity or the fear that a 798 00:41:17,920 --> 00:41:19,960 Speaker 1: woman will say because I don't think any man has 799 00:41:20,000 --> 00:41:22,480 Speaker 1: a real fear that a woman will seduce him unless 800 00:41:22,640 --> 00:41:25,799 Speaker 1: he is a basketball player or like, you know, someone 801 00:41:25,920 --> 00:41:28,000 Speaker 1: someone who has actual money that people are coming for 802 00:41:28,160 --> 00:41:32,520 Speaker 1: and can use that excuse for exactly and you literally were. 803 00:41:32,680 --> 00:41:34,759 Speaker 1: But like the average man I don't think has to 804 00:41:34,800 --> 00:41:42,399 Speaker 1: worry about the relationships with women who are less you know, assertive, 805 00:41:42,600 --> 00:41:45,040 Speaker 1: and they might just think, well, I could never like 806 00:41:45,120 --> 00:41:47,440 Speaker 1: deal with a woman who speaks her mind because that's 807 00:41:47,480 --> 00:41:50,759 Speaker 1: too intimidating, and so I don't know, guys, give it 808 00:41:50,800 --> 00:41:55,240 Speaker 1: a try. It's actually very rewarding with women. A person 809 00:41:55,800 --> 00:41:58,839 Speaker 1: number one. Think imagine you were talking to another human 810 00:41:58,880 --> 00:42:05,160 Speaker 1: being and start they just exploded. All right, we're gonna 811 00:42:05,200 --> 00:42:17,080 Speaker 1: take a quick break. We'll be right back, and we're back. Uh. 812 00:42:17,480 --> 00:42:23,440 Speaker 1: Never left. But we wanted to continue with Trump's mental 813 00:42:23,480 --> 00:42:27,000 Speaker 1: illness because there was an article in the Washington Posts 814 00:42:27,200 --> 00:42:31,720 Speaker 1: in the past week from the former reporter who wrote 815 00:42:31,800 --> 00:42:35,280 Speaker 1: the Forbes four hundred list back in the early eighties 816 00:42:35,680 --> 00:42:39,560 Speaker 1: who first put Trump on the list of the four 817 00:42:39,800 --> 00:42:44,319 Speaker 1: dred richest people in America. And the first time that 818 00:42:44,360 --> 00:42:47,040 Speaker 1: he put Trump on the list was because he got 819 00:42:47,120 --> 00:42:50,880 Speaker 1: a call from a Trump employee named John Barron. Uh, 820 00:42:51,280 --> 00:42:57,520 Speaker 1: we're gonna listen to audio from that call. Uh so yeah, 821 00:42:57,560 --> 00:43:00,960 Speaker 1: I mean listen to er meant leo when whatever it 822 00:43:01,040 --> 00:43:02,920 Speaker 1: needs to be something. Whenever you hear there's a call 823 00:43:03,000 --> 00:43:06,400 Speaker 1: from anyone named John is always drub I love John 824 00:43:06,600 --> 00:43:11,640 Speaker 1: Barron because John rich guy would have been the other 825 00:43:12,480 --> 00:43:15,360 Speaker 1: when he talked about when you talked about Marla Maples, 826 00:43:15,440 --> 00:43:17,120 Speaker 1: what was it When he's talking to a tabloid, he 827 00:43:17,200 --> 00:43:19,560 Speaker 1: is a name John something too. He pretended to be 828 00:43:19,600 --> 00:43:22,319 Speaker 1: Marlon Mabels. He was like, hey Marlo, Yeah, good At 829 00:43:22,360 --> 00:43:25,320 Speaker 1: sex and then he was like, yes, you're the best 830 00:43:25,360 --> 00:43:30,200 Speaker 1: I've ever had, and I'm not impotent. The New York 831 00:43:30,239 --> 00:43:32,319 Speaker 1: Post knew that that would sell the ship out of 832 00:43:32,360 --> 00:43:37,480 Speaker 1: a newspaper printed. But anyways, so here is audio of 833 00:43:37,560 --> 00:43:40,440 Speaker 1: the call that got Donald Trump to be known as 834 00:43:40,440 --> 00:43:44,320 Speaker 1: a rich person. This is two. This is when people 835 00:43:44,440 --> 00:43:47,520 Speaker 1: started to think that he was rich. Right, let me 836 00:43:53,040 --> 00:43:57,239 Speaker 1: have been consolidated, and I'd like to talk to you 837 00:43:57,320 --> 00:43:58,880 Speaker 1: up the record if I can, just to make your 838 00:43:58,920 --> 00:44:02,680 Speaker 1: thing easier. Slight. Yeah, that's all right. But I think 839 00:44:02,680 --> 00:44:06,080 Speaker 1: you can really use Donald Trump now and you can disconsolidate. 840 00:44:06,120 --> 00:44:08,040 Speaker 1: I think last year somebody showed me the auticle and 841 00:44:08,080 --> 00:44:10,359 Speaker 1: I think you had two hundred and two hundred, and 842 00:44:10,400 --> 00:44:12,879 Speaker 1: really it's been pretty well consolidated now for the most part. 843 00:44:12,920 --> 00:44:15,399 Speaker 1: As I also think somebody had mentioned that you had 844 00:44:15,560 --> 00:44:18,080 Speaker 1: asked about that or somebody had, and it's been pretty 845 00:44:18,120 --> 00:44:22,040 Speaker 1: well consolidated. Okay, So that's one point that you can 846 00:44:21,880 --> 00:44:27,319 Speaker 1: does does Sessions make many nation decisions. He's the he's 847 00:44:27,400 --> 00:44:32,320 Speaker 1: the chairman, Donald's the president, and and Fred Trump is active. 848 00:44:32,320 --> 00:44:35,759 Speaker 1: He's had made an excellent guy, and you know how 849 00:44:35,800 --> 00:44:38,160 Speaker 1: they're very close. The relationship and the two is as 850 00:44:38,160 --> 00:44:40,080 Speaker 1: you know, very close as you've heard or now, or 851 00:44:40,120 --> 00:44:43,840 Speaker 1: perhaps you don't know, but uh, they're they're Trump is 852 00:44:43,880 --> 00:44:47,880 Speaker 1: active in the business too, So he's basically saying they 853 00:44:47,920 --> 00:44:52,400 Speaker 1: have consolidated all the power under Donald and you know 854 00:44:52,480 --> 00:44:56,040 Speaker 1: that he basically owns the company at this point, which 855 00:44:56,400 --> 00:45:00,239 Speaker 1: was not true. Uh. He actually at that time was 856 00:45:00,239 --> 00:45:03,560 Speaker 1: worth roughly five million dollars, but they included him on 857 00:45:03,600 --> 00:45:07,440 Speaker 1: the list at one million dollars. Uh, because it's consolidated, right, 858 00:45:07,440 --> 00:45:11,800 Speaker 1: because it's all consolidated, And apparently the rule for convincing 859 00:45:11,800 --> 00:45:14,880 Speaker 1: a Forbes reporter of something is just to say it's 860 00:45:14,920 --> 00:45:18,719 Speaker 1: been consolidated, like five times. Also, that dude fucked up 861 00:45:18,760 --> 00:45:20,680 Speaker 1: by putting him on the list. If he was like, 862 00:45:20,880 --> 00:45:22,880 Speaker 1: well I got this call, I mean, so then you 863 00:45:23,040 --> 00:45:25,879 Speaker 1: have to put him on here. So it's also like 864 00:45:26,360 --> 00:45:28,440 Speaker 1: we were talking about how sad Trump is when you 865 00:45:28,440 --> 00:45:31,000 Speaker 1: really look at him from just like a psychological perspective. 866 00:45:31,320 --> 00:45:33,080 Speaker 1: This is a guy who's on the phone with someone 867 00:45:33,200 --> 00:45:35,759 Speaker 1: pretending to be someone else talking about how close his 868 00:45:35,880 --> 00:45:38,040 Speaker 1: dad is to him and how much his dad likes him. 869 00:45:38,080 --> 00:45:41,520 Speaker 1: Weren't they not close? I think he they were okay, 870 00:45:41,560 --> 00:45:43,759 Speaker 1: But it's just a weird. I think his dad was 871 00:45:43,800 --> 00:45:45,960 Speaker 1: a real hardass. Just to underline that, he's like, I mean, 872 00:45:45,960 --> 00:45:47,600 Speaker 1: they're so close. I mean, do you think it was 873 00:45:47,640 --> 00:45:51,279 Speaker 1: like a like a fifties comedy they go on vacation together. Yeah, 874 00:45:51,360 --> 00:45:54,440 Speaker 1: it's like leave it to beaver. Can you imagine like 875 00:45:55,320 --> 00:45:58,360 Speaker 1: you'd have to be an empty shell to be able 876 00:45:58,440 --> 00:46:02,279 Speaker 1: to pick up that phone pretending Miles calling you? So 877 00:46:02,320 --> 00:46:06,080 Speaker 1: I gotta listen, hot guest for your pot. Look, really 878 00:46:06,160 --> 00:46:07,960 Speaker 1: know what you guys are doing. Jay. I really like 879 00:46:08,040 --> 00:46:10,560 Speaker 1: the moves you're making. I want to recommend this is 880 00:46:10,600 --> 00:46:14,600 Speaker 1: not me. This is definitely like you are not talking 881 00:46:14,640 --> 00:46:17,080 Speaker 1: to Caitlyn gil That is my I am a representative. 882 00:46:17,120 --> 00:46:20,960 Speaker 1: My name is My name is Carrie bradg. My name 883 00:46:21,040 --> 00:46:24,520 Speaker 1: is Calfna. Thank you for taking my listen. I am 884 00:46:24,520 --> 00:46:28,560 Speaker 1: a fabulous client. She is just tremendous. She's huge, and 885 00:46:28,640 --> 00:46:31,440 Speaker 1: I mean literally she is six ft one to twenty. 886 00:46:31,520 --> 00:46:33,319 Speaker 1: She's bringing it down. Don't worry about the numbers, but 887 00:46:33,320 --> 00:46:37,319 Speaker 1: those are consolidated numbers. Now listen, what I need you 888 00:46:37,360 --> 00:46:40,600 Speaker 1: to know is that Caitlin is literally the funniest person alive. 889 00:46:40,680 --> 00:46:43,520 Speaker 1: You name a comedian, Okay, they're probably better and more famous. 890 00:46:43,600 --> 00:46:45,680 Speaker 1: But look, look, look what you don't know yet is 891 00:46:45,719 --> 00:46:47,600 Speaker 1: you don't have Caitlin on the list. You don't have 892 00:46:47,640 --> 00:46:50,680 Speaker 1: her up. I am definitely not Caitlin. I am the 893 00:46:50,719 --> 00:46:53,120 Speaker 1: funniest person in the world. It's just that's when I 894 00:46:53,160 --> 00:46:57,279 Speaker 1: go yo, Jack, Caitlin just called no no, no, no no. 895 00:46:57,520 --> 00:47:00,239 Speaker 1: You hear like from a dead zone. Now it's not 896 00:47:01,360 --> 00:47:09,920 Speaker 1: I'm not like your podcast listeners are so engaged shout 897 00:47:09,920 --> 00:47:14,080 Speaker 1: out to the night Gang. It's just the saddest Yeah 898 00:47:14,480 --> 00:47:16,360 Speaker 1: all right, yeah, to take yourself there, because it does 899 00:47:16,400 --> 00:47:18,160 Speaker 1: remind you, Like you we all grew up with kids 900 00:47:18,160 --> 00:47:23,839 Speaker 1: in school who would just lie so aggressive. Yeah, oh 901 00:47:24,000 --> 00:47:30,480 Speaker 1: a hundred percent about the weirdest stuff. My family had, sex, 902 00:47:30,560 --> 00:47:34,040 Speaker 1: things I had definitely not even heard of before. Like 903 00:47:34,160 --> 00:47:37,120 Speaker 1: I absolutely lied to make a work more interesting than 904 00:47:37,160 --> 00:47:39,480 Speaker 1: my own, and then I realized that I make my 905 00:47:39,520 --> 00:47:41,719 Speaker 1: worldn't right. And then you grow. But then you start 906 00:47:41,760 --> 00:47:43,759 Speaker 1: seeing some of those kids don't get past that, and 907 00:47:43,800 --> 00:47:46,160 Speaker 1: then they still do and you're like, oh shit, like 908 00:47:46,239 --> 00:47:49,400 Speaker 1: you really telling people you're a fashion designer, Like like 909 00:47:49,440 --> 00:47:51,080 Speaker 1: I have friends who are still on the I'm like, bro, 910 00:47:51,160 --> 00:47:53,759 Speaker 1: you're wearing a woman's jacket and you'll be like, no, 911 00:47:53,880 --> 00:47:56,880 Speaker 1: this is like a new style like fashion, delighter, eagles shops, 912 00:47:56,920 --> 00:47:59,239 Speaker 1: well at the good Will. Yeah, okay, And then I 913 00:47:59,280 --> 00:48:01,839 Speaker 1: was just like it. Then you start realizing you're like man, like, 914 00:48:02,080 --> 00:48:04,439 Speaker 1: I guess it was different, Like you know, as a kid, 915 00:48:04,480 --> 00:48:05,960 Speaker 1: you say ship like you say to make your own 916 00:48:06,040 --> 00:48:08,680 Speaker 1: life interesting to yourself or for your perception of you 917 00:48:09,000 --> 00:48:11,600 Speaker 1: to other people. But then after a while you realize, oh, 918 00:48:11,640 --> 00:48:13,600 Speaker 1: I have more control over this. I can take agency 919 00:48:13,600 --> 00:48:15,480 Speaker 1: in my life whatever. And then you see the other 920 00:48:15,520 --> 00:48:17,800 Speaker 1: people who have just relied on that for so long 921 00:48:18,280 --> 00:48:20,960 Speaker 1: that they really have just completely, you know, diluted themselves 922 00:48:20,960 --> 00:48:22,680 Speaker 1: into being a place like that. But you just have 923 00:48:22,719 --> 00:48:27,240 Speaker 1: to have such an empty, sucking wound where a soul 924 00:48:27,239 --> 00:48:30,440 Speaker 1: would be to just be that desperate that's got something 925 00:48:30,440 --> 00:48:34,160 Speaker 1: in there the Forbes four hundred list, like that's he 926 00:48:34,280 --> 00:48:36,319 Speaker 1: needed it. Like it was like he was holding his 927 00:48:36,400 --> 00:48:39,719 Speaker 1: breath and until he got on the Forbes four hundred list, 928 00:48:39,760 --> 00:48:42,800 Speaker 1: he couldn't take another breath. It was just desperation. Five 929 00:48:42,880 --> 00:48:47,400 Speaker 1: million dollars. It's just sad he doesn't have a hundred 930 00:48:47,400 --> 00:48:50,280 Speaker 1: million dollars. But I can't imagine that getting a hundred 931 00:48:50,280 --> 00:48:53,000 Speaker 1: million dollars is going to satisfy that person. It just 932 00:48:53,280 --> 00:48:55,680 Speaker 1: is it's said, I'm trying to find some kind of 933 00:48:55,719 --> 00:49:01,680 Speaker 1: compassion because this is obviously a sad person. Right. Uh, 934 00:49:01,760 --> 00:49:05,880 Speaker 1: He's still responsible for his actions now and what he 935 00:49:05,920 --> 00:49:09,920 Speaker 1: does about that. He used that hundred million dollar estimation 936 00:49:10,200 --> 00:49:13,920 Speaker 1: of his wealth, which was a lied, to then start 937 00:49:13,960 --> 00:49:16,839 Speaker 1: securing loans from other people, because he was like, look 938 00:49:16,840 --> 00:49:19,040 Speaker 1: at it. Look for that. They got me mad a 939 00:49:19,080 --> 00:49:23,239 Speaker 1: hundred millions. Can you walk into a bank and just 940 00:49:23,239 --> 00:49:25,440 Speaker 1: slap a Forbes on a desk and be like this 941 00:49:25,520 --> 00:49:28,360 Speaker 1: is better than any formal record. Apparently, when he was 942 00:49:28,400 --> 00:49:31,640 Speaker 1: trying to get one of his casinos, Nick Stump superducers 943 00:49:31,960 --> 00:49:34,160 Speaker 1: reminding us that yes, there is a scene where they're 944 00:49:34,160 --> 00:49:35,719 Speaker 1: talking about how they're worried about how he's going to 945 00:49:35,800 --> 00:49:38,120 Speaker 1: secure approval from the Gambling Commission from his casinos, are like, well, 946 00:49:38,120 --> 00:49:40,200 Speaker 1: are you gonna get funding? He was just like, I'm 947 00:49:40,239 --> 00:49:43,360 Speaker 1: on the Forbes list, don't worry about I'm on the 948 00:49:43,520 --> 00:49:45,480 Speaker 1: I can't get that, And that perception wasn't enough to 949 00:49:45,520 --> 00:49:48,040 Speaker 1: just be like oh okay, right, and then he managed 950 00:49:48,080 --> 00:49:51,240 Speaker 1: to bankrupt a bunch of casinos, which is so hard 951 00:49:51,440 --> 00:49:54,040 Speaker 1: because that is just that is a business where people 952 00:49:54,120 --> 00:49:56,759 Speaker 1: walk in and give you their money and walk out. 953 00:49:57,920 --> 00:50:01,120 Speaker 1: Let's move on to more messing us involving the Trump 954 00:50:01,160 --> 00:50:06,640 Speaker 1: administration because his pick to lead the v A a 955 00:50:06,680 --> 00:50:12,160 Speaker 1: man with very little managerial experience. Dr Ronnie Jackson a 956 00:50:12,320 --> 00:50:15,880 Speaker 1: k a. Ron Ron Jackson Babies a k The funk doctor, 957 00:50:16,000 --> 00:50:21,040 Speaker 1: Mr punk Rocker got the drug stock up in the lunchbox. Yeah, 958 00:50:21,080 --> 00:50:24,400 Speaker 1: so complaints started out with, uh, you know, he handed 959 00:50:24,400 --> 00:50:27,719 Speaker 1: out a couple of ambient on overseas flights to you know, 960 00:50:27,760 --> 00:50:31,480 Speaker 1: the president's staff Obama and Bush's staff, and maybe a 961 00:50:31,520 --> 00:50:34,800 Speaker 1: couple of provigial to help pet people up a little 962 00:50:34,800 --> 00:50:37,719 Speaker 1: bit once they landed somewhere. And you know, maybe he 963 00:50:37,800 --> 00:50:40,040 Speaker 1: got a little too drunk on a couple of those 964 00:50:40,080 --> 00:50:43,239 Speaker 1: trips and couldn't be resuscitated when he was needed to 965 00:50:44,040 --> 00:50:45,919 Speaker 1: like do his job, and so they had to take 966 00:50:45,960 --> 00:50:49,279 Speaker 1: his credentials to another backup doctor. Uh. And you know 967 00:50:49,280 --> 00:50:51,400 Speaker 1: what I mean, he couldn't be resuscitated or he couldn't 968 00:50:51,400 --> 00:50:53,439 Speaker 1: be woken up like he was. He was so drunk 969 00:50:53,440 --> 00:50:57,239 Speaker 1: they couldn't wake him up. That's dope. And and then 970 00:50:57,280 --> 00:50:59,920 Speaker 1: there's also the story where he almost woke President a 971 00:51:00,040 --> 00:51:03,360 Speaker 1: bomb up because he was drunkenly pounding on a female 972 00:51:03,360 --> 00:51:06,719 Speaker 1: subordinates door trying to get her to let him in 973 00:51:06,840 --> 00:51:11,920 Speaker 1: so he could presumably like sexually harass her before passing 974 00:51:11,960 --> 00:51:15,120 Speaker 1: out on her floor. You know, that's not so bad. 975 00:51:15,200 --> 00:51:17,799 Speaker 1: Happens to the best of us. Uh. And the press 976 00:51:17,880 --> 00:51:19,920 Speaker 1: tried to get like back up on a couple of 977 00:51:19,920 --> 00:51:22,000 Speaker 1: those things, and they were like, we're not getting anything 978 00:51:22,040 --> 00:51:25,760 Speaker 1: from the you know, Obama administration officials. They're all saying, 979 00:51:25,800 --> 00:51:28,399 Speaker 1: he's like the best guy. Uh. But it turns out 980 00:51:28,520 --> 00:51:32,400 Speaker 1: like stuff kept coming out. Turns out he not only 981 00:51:32,480 --> 00:51:34,839 Speaker 1: got drunk on the road, he got so drunk at 982 00:51:34,880 --> 00:51:39,320 Speaker 1: a secret Service retirement party that he crashed a government car. 983 00:51:40,160 --> 00:51:44,520 Speaker 1: He was frequently known to like give and take prescription 984 00:51:44,640 --> 00:51:50,120 Speaker 1: drugs like around just the office, uh, including controlled substances 985 00:51:50,160 --> 00:51:57,839 Speaker 1: like percocet uh Ronnie percocet uh they call him. But yeah, 986 00:51:57,920 --> 00:52:00,439 Speaker 1: he was just like an all around fuck up, which 987 00:52:00,480 --> 00:52:03,520 Speaker 1: makes me wonder, Like I think those Obama administration officials 988 00:52:03,560 --> 00:52:05,840 Speaker 1: that they were like trying to get back up from 989 00:52:05,840 --> 00:52:09,400 Speaker 1: where like, man, he hooked it up exactly what the 990 00:52:09,480 --> 00:52:12,239 Speaker 1: other thing too, like your drug deal? Most people were 991 00:52:12,280 --> 00:52:15,319 Speaker 1: like everyone was like, Yo, it's very normal for them 992 00:52:15,320 --> 00:52:17,880 Speaker 1: to hand you sleep aids and provigil on these trips 993 00:52:17,880 --> 00:52:21,480 Speaker 1: because like when you're doing like diplomatic missions and ship, 994 00:52:21,520 --> 00:52:23,799 Speaker 1: you're on a plane, you're in a completely different time zone, 995 00:52:23,800 --> 00:52:25,600 Speaker 1: and then you've got to be ready active to do 996 00:52:25,680 --> 00:52:27,960 Speaker 1: the thing. So most people were kind of like, yes, 997 00:52:28,080 --> 00:52:31,640 Speaker 1: that's actually pretty normal if he's a role that's needed 998 00:52:31,680 --> 00:52:34,799 Speaker 1: in the government. Yeah, he's writing like kind of on 999 00:52:34,840 --> 00:52:37,920 Speaker 1: the fly prescriptions for people, like the same way like 1000 00:52:37,960 --> 00:52:42,920 Speaker 1: providial was invented to help fighter pilots like stay awake 1001 00:52:42,920 --> 00:52:45,120 Speaker 1: while they're like fucking flying around the world to go 1002 00:52:45,160 --> 00:52:46,880 Speaker 1: do missions. So it's not that big a deal if 1003 00:52:46,880 --> 00:52:49,520 Speaker 1: he's given to other people, but if he's prescribing himself 1004 00:52:49,560 --> 00:52:52,280 Speaker 1: percocet like and then like popping pills in the office, 1005 00:52:52,280 --> 00:52:54,799 Speaker 1: and like also just the reports of like what it 1006 00:52:54,880 --> 00:52:57,520 Speaker 1: was like to work for him about like people use 1007 00:52:57,520 --> 00:53:03,560 Speaker 1: the words like toxic, abusive, volatile, vindictive, Like yeahs he 1008 00:53:03,560 --> 00:53:06,840 Speaker 1: he kissed up and kicked down. They said, like he 1009 00:53:06,920 --> 00:53:10,799 Speaker 1: was just a fucking awful the shittiest guy you work with. 1010 00:53:10,920 --> 00:53:13,640 Speaker 1: That's why this ship isn't as like crazy as the 1011 00:53:13,680 --> 00:53:16,800 Speaker 1: fact that this is the White House can't pick people 1012 00:53:16,920 --> 00:53:20,440 Speaker 1: that are appropriate for these jobs. Right there, you could 1013 00:53:20,480 --> 00:53:24,359 Speaker 1: almost argue, Okay, you almost need someone that's basically this 1014 00:53:24,360 --> 00:53:28,360 Speaker 1: guy to be like the dark part of keeping the 1015 00:53:28,400 --> 00:53:31,800 Speaker 1: government running, right, Like, you have to give people speed 1016 00:53:31,840 --> 00:53:35,000 Speaker 1: evidently to run the government. So if that's a given, 1017 00:53:35,040 --> 00:53:38,000 Speaker 1: then that doctor is gonna end up being like this. 1018 00:53:39,360 --> 00:53:41,960 Speaker 1: You just don't promote him, right, you just don't make 1019 00:53:42,040 --> 00:53:45,319 Speaker 1: him the head of the second largest like how many 1020 00:53:45,320 --> 00:53:48,720 Speaker 1: people I think it's And it's not just about medical 1021 00:53:48,760 --> 00:53:51,279 Speaker 1: killer either, it's like a financial body to like of 1022 00:53:51,320 --> 00:53:55,200 Speaker 1: giving assistance to veterans. So he was just wholly unprepared 1023 00:53:55,239 --> 00:53:58,000 Speaker 1: and unqualified for this thing. And it's just again this 1024 00:53:58,120 --> 00:54:00,960 Speaker 1: method of of hiring at the White I was just like, Yo, 1025 00:54:01,040 --> 00:54:05,040 Speaker 1: that dude is chill. Which cabinet should he runs? Which departments? 1026 00:54:05,840 --> 00:54:08,680 Speaker 1: We can control this guy because we've seen him do 1027 00:54:08,719 --> 00:54:11,480 Speaker 1: as much. Yeah, like we were saying, other administrations would 1028 00:54:11,520 --> 00:54:14,240 Speaker 1: have vetted him, sniffed all this ship out like months 1029 00:54:14,239 --> 00:54:17,200 Speaker 1: in advance or weeks in advance. Uh, But instead of 1030 00:54:17,200 --> 00:54:21,040 Speaker 1: doing that, Trump's method was to just be like, yeah, 1031 00:54:21,040 --> 00:54:23,200 Speaker 1: he seems like a good guy, let's use him. And 1032 00:54:23,239 --> 00:54:26,440 Speaker 1: then when the media revealed all the ship. He was like, 1033 00:54:26,480 --> 00:54:29,080 Speaker 1: you know, if I were you, i'd drop out. That 1034 00:54:29,160 --> 00:54:32,560 Speaker 1: was an actual headline, Like Trump gassed me up to 1035 00:54:32,560 --> 00:54:34,560 Speaker 1: get out there with Yeah. But now man, I'm like, 1036 00:54:34,920 --> 00:54:36,879 Speaker 1: I wouldn't. Now it looks like a mistake, ma man. 1037 00:54:37,040 --> 00:54:40,120 Speaker 1: Right for me, Trump is that asshole cousin who like 1038 00:54:40,239 --> 00:54:41,920 Speaker 1: runs up to the edge of the pool and then 1039 00:54:42,000 --> 00:54:46,120 Speaker 1: stop something to jump in. Feel though that, like, I 1040 00:54:46,200 --> 00:54:50,240 Speaker 1: genuinely think there's not that much artifice with these people. 1041 00:54:50,320 --> 00:54:53,200 Speaker 1: They're like they believe it. They're like, yeah, he's our boy. Yeah, 1042 00:54:53,239 --> 00:54:54,640 Speaker 1: he's a boy. We get to do what we want. 1043 00:54:54,680 --> 00:54:56,239 Speaker 1: And then they're like, oh, he's not our boy. I 1044 00:54:56,280 --> 00:55:00,919 Speaker 1: guess hey, you should really drop out my friend, right, yeah, no, yeah, yeah. 1045 00:55:01,000 --> 00:55:04,160 Speaker 1: They just don't know that there's any such thing as 1046 00:55:04,640 --> 00:55:08,160 Speaker 1: a more functional administration. They just think that everybody is 1047 00:55:08,200 --> 00:55:10,759 Speaker 1: as big a funk up as them, so right, and 1048 00:55:10,800 --> 00:55:13,719 Speaker 1: they also don't know any better doctors to be right, 1049 00:55:14,760 --> 00:55:19,280 Speaker 1: Dr Oz will probe you next, I mean anybody named Ronnie. 1050 00:55:20,920 --> 00:55:25,640 Speaker 1: All Right, that's gonna do it for this week's weekly Zeitgeys, 1051 00:55:25,680 --> 00:55:29,480 Speaker 1: please like and review the show. If you like the show, 1052 00:55:30,080 --> 00:55:34,480 Speaker 1: uh means the world to Miles. He needs your validation folks. 1053 00:55:35,080 --> 00:55:38,120 Speaker 1: I hope you're having a great weekend and I will 1054 00:55:38,160 --> 00:56:13,400 Speaker 1: talk to him Monday. By