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Speaker 1: ever somehow three years in. Oh, it's Tuesday, it's February.
Speaker 1: The weather outside is whatever. It's like wherever you are, Welcome,
Speaker 1: wildly impredictable where you from. What's your weather like? Yeah,
Speaker 1: say it out loudly. How are you doing boiling your
Speaker 1: water again in Texas? Yeah? Yeah, gosh, golly, goddamn. At
Speaker 1: least it was here. We are again competency, negligence and
Speaker 1: not uh like the weather. I mean that it was
Speaker 1: also due to the weather, I think, so, Yeah, it
Speaker 1: seems a little bit like human human error or the weather.
Speaker 1: They say, they say it's unrelated. City officials in Austin
Speaker 1: have been very careful to say, like, this has nothing
Speaker 1: to do, this is not another grid problem, this is
Speaker 1: just incompetent. So that's yeah, that's it's like a new
Speaker 1: nothing to see here. Folks were just unqualified. I would
Speaker 1: talk shit about them, but it came out and no
Speaker 1: one really cared. But it came out like a month
Speaker 1: ago that the same person who blew the whistle on
Speaker 1: the water in Flint, Michigan having highlight levels is like Portland,
Speaker 1: Oregon is much worse. There's so much it's it's a
Speaker 1: real huge problem. And everyone was like, that's cool. Let's
Speaker 1: let's fund kicking houseless people out of encampments instead. You, Yeah,
Speaker 1: we can afford our brit of filter systems or whatever,
Speaker 1: And I don't think most people have. Portland was kind
Speaker 1: of famous for having really good public tap water. Apparently
Speaker 1: this has been a problem forever. But people were like,
Speaker 1: but the water is so clean, it comes how the
Speaker 1: river were great? Why is it famous for clean water
Speaker 1: if it's been a problem for the water that's flowing
Speaker 1: into pipes is great. But the pipes are like copper
Speaker 1: with lead solder and do a variety of facts. The
Speaker 1: lead is wearing away into the water. Like, it's not
Speaker 1: we shouldn't have a lead problem here, but because of
Speaker 1: things that were done in the construction of the water
Speaker 1: system in the city, there's a lead problem. Put that
Speaker 1: goo in the pipes and then expand the google you've
Speaker 1: got to get to do in there. Yeah, the coup
Speaker 1: of the gators into what there's like a there's like
Speaker 1: goo tubes you put in the pipes and then you
Speaker 1: expand them and then it makes the pipes usable and not. Okay,
Speaker 1: and so what like what kind of chemicals are in
Speaker 1: the back and floam? Probably right, yeah, probably most your
Speaker 1: standard contaminants. Yeah, but like that's like we can like
Speaker 1: we can hand mean get their daily minimum dose of flow. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you need to get your flow, and no better way
Speaker 1: than to go up your pipes. Right. Oh boy, that's correct.
Speaker 1: I just got a UM text message that says tall
Speaker 1: evil booms show. Okay, click that talking about check that
Speaker 1: out flowing up your Wait what does the text say?
Speaker 1: It says it's like it's some from a random number. Nope,
Speaker 1: t a L dot dot dot Eva eva boobs show.
Speaker 1: Oh are you going to click on it? It's a link. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you should click on that. You should click on the link.
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't think I will click on the link.
Speaker 1: I think it was I think that they're looking for
Speaker 1: someone else that's not going to steal your bit coin
Speaker 1: wall at Katie. That's what I'll tell you about that.
Speaker 1: Like is are are you are you referencing what happened there?
Speaker 1: Is that couple. I have not read the story. So
Speaker 1: there's this lady and her boyfriend. And her boyfriend we
Speaker 1: don't know if he's the hat. Basically, like back in
Speaker 1: one of the crypto banks, you know how there's banks
Speaker 1: for cryptocurrency, like like exchanges. I think they call them
Speaker 1: their banks essentially, except that they're unregulated and have no
Speaker 1: security a lot of the time. So basically all of
Speaker 1: them at some point get get robbed for absurd amounts
Speaker 1: of money. Back in this one, I think it might
Speaker 1: have been bit Finance, I forget the name. They're all indistinguishable.
Speaker 1: It got robbed for what is now four and a
Speaker 1: half billion dollars worth of cryptocurrency um. And this wound up.
Speaker 1: We don't know if he was the one who did
Speaker 1: the hack or if he just got passed the money
Speaker 1: to launder it, but it wound up in this guy,
Speaker 1: Eliah Lichtenstein, wound up being the dude who was like
Speaker 1: laundering it along with his now wife. Her first name
Speaker 1: is Heather. She's goes by the name of razzle khn
Speaker 1: and his easily the worst rap artist I've ever heard.
Speaker 1: She's like, she's also like a writer, you know what,
Speaker 1: you know what? She is. We'll talk about that in
Speaker 1: a second, but first Dane'll give us thirty seconds of
Speaker 1: the razzle kN music video. Yeah please, has Russell knot Win,
Speaker 1: come real far, but don't know where I'm heading? Motherfucking crocodile,
Speaker 1: Wall Street, Soper on my fingers and boots on my feet.
Speaker 1: Always be a dot, not a gut damn sheet, email me,
Speaker 1: suck your message and the beet sept Oh. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: she's did you guys listen? Did you guys ever listen
Speaker 1: to Crai Shan? No, some people will, and she sounds
Speaker 1: like if Crayshawn had a fatal head injury, that's how
Speaker 1: she would sound. Um, it's it's really like, it's fascinatingly bad.
Speaker 1: Like I've listened to like six of her music videos
Speaker 1: because the lyrics. There's one in the lyrics of one
Speaker 1: which is about like, I don't know self defense. I
Speaker 1: guess she talks about stealing from people's bitcoin wallets, which
Speaker 1: is really fun. Writes you know, yeah, she writes what
Speaker 1: she knows, so she like and it's all like filled
Speaker 1: with cultural appropriation. She's apparently claiming to be Turkish, but
Speaker 1: her like rap presence is a versagy Bedouin. Um, it's
Speaker 1: all like really cringe, terrible, terrible shit. She also has
Speaker 1: like a TikTok where she's just like, here's what I do,
Speaker 1: my entrepreneur, Like, as an entrepreneur, here's my business. So
Speaker 1: she is a CEO of a company she started that
Speaker 1: basically does email cold calls. They will write them for
Speaker 1: your company. So if your company wants to send out
Speaker 1: a bunch of mass emails to try to convinced people
Speaker 1: to buy some stupid bullshit or watch some stupid video,
Speaker 1: she'll write them. U there's there's been at least one
Speaker 1: person on Twitter we invented I'm sorry, we just we
Speaker 1: invented so many fucking stupid jobs. She invented this stupid job.
Speaker 1: But that's like she's not the only one that does that.
Speaker 1: We just have so many whatever. I love this. She
Speaker 1: did claim to have invented the field. And again, I'm
Speaker 1: pretty sure I was getting these emails twenty years ago
Speaker 1: when she was like nine. But but you know what,
Speaker 1: he claims to have invented email cultivator. She's also a
Speaker 1: four A Forbes contributor, like Woad of Forbes'd like articles
Speaker 1: and I love this. She for advising burnt out execs
Speaker 1: to try rapping in order to recharge their batteries. Give
Speaker 1: it a shot. It really worked for Rastlecock. What. It's
Speaker 1: very funny. That article is really worth a read. She
Speaker 1: is just the worst. Somebody points online who was verified
Speaker 1: so maybe they were actually telling the truth, said that
Speaker 1: they hired They realized after this broke that they had
Speaker 1: hired her a couple of years back to write like
Speaker 1: emails for their company to send out, and it was
Speaker 1: like they were terrible. Everything was misspelled. It was really
Speaker 1: clear that she was just taking their money and then
Speaker 1: outsourcing it to someone who did not write English very well. Um,
Speaker 1: to try and make a profit. Um. So she's just
Speaker 1: a grifter who decided to become a terrible rap artist,
Speaker 1: hoping that like the winds of virality would carry her.
Speaker 1: But none of what she does is any good. Um,
Speaker 1: it's it's the worst. She's so bad. It's not it's
Speaker 1: through the world that being utterly mediocre. It's one of
Speaker 1: those blown up Yeah. I don't think she was good
Speaker 1: at grifting either. So her music was so bad, it
Speaker 1: wasn't so bad, It wasn't quite so bad. It's good.
Speaker 1: It was too bad to be so bad. It's good,
Speaker 1: except now she's gotten arrested by the FEDS for helping
Speaker 1: to launder four and a half billion dollars and somehow
Speaker 1: that pushed it over the edge, and now it's amazing.
Speaker 1: M yeah, every everything. Yeah, there's no other reason you
Speaker 1: would enjoy watching watching that, or listening to that other
Speaker 1: than knowing everything else about her. Yeah, Daniel here put
Speaker 1: in thirty more seconds of another razzle con video. Just
Speaker 1: pick one. It's okay. She can't sue us. She's in
Speaker 1: federal CUSTODYA don't rob, don't be, don't Oh yeah, that's
Speaker 1: the best slaps slaps, as the kids say. Oh so,
Speaker 1: she and her partner are looking it up to twenty
Speaker 1: five years in prison for again trying to launder the
Speaker 1: most money anyone has ever been arrested for trying. Going
Speaker 1: to be really hard on their marriage. I think maybe
Speaker 1: it'll bring together physically. You know. Sometimes I feel like
Speaker 1: we host a radio morning show. Oh yeah, boys, I
Speaker 1: don't know, yeah, um, I don't know. It's extremely funny
Speaker 1: to be It's funny to me because it says a
Speaker 1: lot about cryptocurrency, which, like in a normal world without
Speaker 1: this nonsense floating around someone like Razzle Khan would have
Speaker 1: you know, had her embarrassing videos at her like shitty
Speaker 1: s e O company, she would have like been kind
Speaker 1: of profited minimally from fucking up the internet just a
Speaker 1: little bit, and like that would have been kind of
Speaker 1: the most she could hope for. Maybe she would have
Speaker 1: tried to launch like a juice type thing or like
Speaker 1: a super food blend, but it would not have taken off.
Speaker 1: She doesn't have the kind of charisma to sell that stuff,
Speaker 1: so probably would have been just kind of drifting around
Speaker 1: the edges of e commerce. But because of cryptocurrency, she
Speaker 1: was able to commit the largest financial crime that anyone
Speaker 1: has ever been a rest Have you seen this? Did
Speaker 1: you see this yesterday? I just pull it back up again.
Speaker 1: It was on Twitter for a bit. The specific island
Speaker 1: Paradise wants you to become a crypto serious, right, yeah,
Speaker 1: welcome about there. It's turning to crypto to boost its
Speaker 1: economy or whatever. And basically, you guys, if you if
Speaker 1: you do this just for two forty eight dollars, anyone
Speaker 1: anywhere can apply for for a limited edition n F
Speaker 1: T I D I D card. This means they can
Speaker 1: use a palen business address, apply to change their name,
Speaker 1: legally open online accounts to trade cryptocurrencies based in this
Speaker 1: little island, But you don't get to actually be a hummer.
Speaker 1: What about changing your name? Well it says you're not
Speaker 1: automatically resident. Uh yeah, but you can change your name.
Speaker 1: Um yeah. The scheme could provide prove handy for for
Speaker 1: Chinese and other investors. Use nations don't allow crypto trading,
Speaker 1: So yeah, that's fun. Yeah, I mean, you know, I uh,
Speaker 1: if Palau can make a profit off of this before
Speaker 1: it collapses, I guess good for them, Good for them. Join.
Speaker 1: I'll be honest, if there was an easy way to
Speaker 1: spend two d f T and get legal residency in
Speaker 1: a country that right to the United States, it would
Speaker 1: just be good to have in your back pond. Maybe
Speaker 1: it's not automatically residents, but uh, you know, this is
Speaker 1: just the highlights. There might be some some fine print
Speaker 1: that I am well, but what about my avatar, my
Speaker 1: metatar or whatever? Would they have residency? These are questions
Speaker 1: to explore. You're a little sprite, metaverse, sprite whatever my
Speaker 1: um demon is m is that how we pronounce it?
Speaker 1: Just demon? Yeah? I think Paula might extradite. So anyhoy, Yeah,
Speaker 1: so yeah it's useless. Um yeah, what do we? What
Speaker 1: do we? Okay? So the Supreme Court five four ruling
Speaker 1: that overturned an attempt in Alabama from a lower court
Speaker 1: to force the state to redraw congressional districting maps maps.
Speaker 1: According to that lower court, quote, um, black voters have
Speaker 1: less opportunity than other Alabamas to elect candidates of their
Speaker 1: choice to Congress. Alabama appealed this decision, and the Supreme
Speaker 1: Court was like, yeah, you guys can be as racist
Speaker 1: as you want. Um. Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote in an
Speaker 1: opinion joined by Samuel Alito, quote, when an election is
Speaker 1: close at hand, the rules of the road must be
Speaker 1: clear and settled. Late judicial tinkering with election laws can
Speaker 1: lead to disruption and unanticipated and unfair consequences for candidates.
Speaker 1: Political parties, and it or among others want things to
Speaker 1: be unfair, y'all, you wouldn't want things to be unfair
Speaker 1: in a different way too close to the election. That's
Speaker 1: not really what he's saying is that, like it's so
Speaker 1: gaverny things to be unfair, we wouldn't want them to
Speaker 1: be unfair in a way different than how they're currently
Speaker 1: unfair when the elections coming up. It's incredible because it's
Speaker 1: also like to a little more from from our our
Speaker 1: buddy Kavanaugh. On top of that, state and local election
Speaker 1: officials needs substantial time to plan for elections. Running elections
Speaker 1: statewide is extraordinarily complicated and difficult. Those elections require enormous
Speaker 1: advanced preparations by state and local officials and post significant
Speaker 1: logistical challenges. The district court's order would require heroic efforts
Speaker 1: by those state and local authorities in the next few weeks.
Speaker 1: He's just saying it's a little hard. Yeah, it's hard.
Speaker 1: It's a little it's tough, Yeah tough. It's not that
Speaker 1: it should like it should happen, but it's tough. We
Speaker 1: got it saying this is this will be a little
Speaker 1: hard for white people, so we got to disenfranchise black people.
Speaker 1: That's wild the argument with its hat off, you know,
Speaker 1: Um yeah, I mean again, the whole redistricting thing on
Speaker 1: the whole has gone better nationally than most of us anticipated. Um.
Speaker 1: This is a disturbing ruling both because of what it
Speaker 1: means for people in Alabama, where, um, while black folks
Speaker 1: of the state, they're only represented in uh, one of
Speaker 1: seven fourteen percent of congressional districts, which is sucked up. Um.
Speaker 1: So this is like horrible for Alabama, and it's horrible
Speaker 1: because of like it rewrites a lot of precedents, a
Speaker 1: lot of court precedent on the Voting Rights Act. Um.
Speaker 1: And so there's a really unsettling sort of um effect
Speaker 1: this will have nationwide. Potentially, maybe we're not going to
Speaker 1: see the worst of that quite soon because most of
Speaker 1: the redistricting I think has already gone down. Um, but
Speaker 1: you know, well we'll see this is this is yet
Speaker 1: another thing that like it might not be a this
Speaker 1: year or problem, but is like it's one of those
Speaker 1: things those seeds that get planted all over everywhere. Obviously,
Speaker 1: this is an immediate problem for for Alabama, but this
Speaker 1: is like I think, also a very long term and
Speaker 1: it's easy to lose track of. It's easy to forget
Speaker 1: about how these little pieces ultimately end up into being
Speaker 1: a big problem. And it's not a little thing either.
Speaker 1: I don't no, no, it's not a little thing. I
Speaker 1: don't I'm not trying to minimize it saying that like
Speaker 1: the worst of this hasn't happened yet and and will
Speaker 1: it will be the worst of this will be slowly
Speaker 1: unfolding for like the rest of our natural lives, unless
Speaker 1: the Supreme Court gets yeah. Yeah, um, and I'll say
Speaker 1: that the worst of this episode is yet to come.
Speaker 1: But we should probably uh break for ads before starting
Speaker 1: the topic together. Everything, we're back. Nice. You know what
Speaker 1: you want to talk about? Mask mandates being lifted? Oh? Yeah,
Speaker 1: well we did it. That's happening. It's happening. Yeah, California
Speaker 1: is lifting its universal mask mandate for indoor public spaces
Speaker 1: next week. Um, get it on, except not in major cities.
Speaker 1: Sacramento makeout party, I think Sacramento. It's still other places
Speaker 1: like l A County where we are have not lifted.
Speaker 1: That's I think it is. I think it is wise.
Speaker 1: I mean, I just in the past few weeks, I've
Speaker 1: known so many people with COVID, just so many people
Speaker 1: really sick with COVID, and all of a sudden, I
Speaker 1: don't know that many people with COVID anymore. And that's reassuring,
Speaker 1: but I still know they didn't die, they survived as
Speaker 1: far as I know, and then all of a sudden
Speaker 1: they work. Yeah. Yeah, because it seems like I don't
Speaker 1: know peak over Um Spike spoke. Um, it's happening all
Speaker 1: over the place, but not here. I don't mind it here. Uh,
Speaker 1: it's still I'm still like in that phase where it's
Speaker 1: like I don't care. I'll put it on I don't care. Uh.
Speaker 1: In California, I guess residents are fully vaccinated and two
Speaker 1: and five residents have received a booster. But that's like statewide,
Speaker 1: big state. We're in l A. It's you are fully vaccinated.
Speaker 1: To be honest, I think some people say seems low
Speaker 1: for Los Angeles. Given the amount of time I've spending
Speaker 1: juice bars in l A, it seems high. I actually
Speaker 1: what reading that was like, that's better than I expected. Uh,
Speaker 1: surprisingly pleased with us l A. Um, you know it
Speaker 1: just just this last week I was seeing and we
Speaker 1: all follow very different people on social media. I'm on Instagram,
Speaker 1: and I happen to see a lot of moms, you know,
Speaker 1: from my my Over my ten fifteen years of in
Speaker 1: l A. You know, people have gone in all over
Speaker 1: the world in California, and so I have a big
Speaker 1: cross section that of people that I see on there,
Speaker 1: and like so many people complaining about California mask mandates
Speaker 1: and I've just been getting into it with a series
Speaker 1: of moms where I'm like, just chill. I think like
Speaker 1: there's there's a petition going around to like lift the
Speaker 1: mask mandates and whatever, and like I've just said, like
Speaker 1: I understand you're frustrated, but it's just a big state.
Speaker 1: It's a big spike. Hospitals are overloaded. I bet if
Speaker 1: you have a patient, I think in like a couple
Speaker 1: of weeks, it'll be different. It's the profit. If you
Speaker 1: want to be in California and not have to worry
Speaker 1: about public health rules. There's reading, baby, It's always there
Speaker 1: for you move to Redding. They don't. They have not been.
Speaker 1: I was in reading in and let me tell you
Speaker 1: they were not wearing masks. I mean, you know, it's hard.
Speaker 1: It's easy to lose sight of like how vast I
Speaker 1: mean this country is, but this state is, and how
Speaker 1: many different geographies and demographics it's comprised of, and it
Speaker 1: is really hard to you know, tailored to different areas
Speaker 1: that are so completely different in their different um Anyway,
Speaker 1: that's something hooray everybody. We seem to be doing it
Speaker 1: elsewhere too, across the country. Yeah, I'm I mean, it's
Speaker 1: whatever they're going to do with whatever, it'll either be
Speaker 1: fine or we'll have another horrible COVID wave again and
Speaker 1: this will just be the rest of our lives. One
Speaker 1: of those two things is going to happen. Um, and
Speaker 1: I say, let's roll them dice, baby m hm put that.
Speaker 1: Let's let's blow hot air and spit on those dice
Speaker 1: and then roll them out. Everybody go out and tongue
Speaker 1: funk a stranger right now, I really would like ms anymore.
Speaker 1: There was no more germs. We did it, We got them.
Speaker 1: There were no germs, and then there was one germ,
Speaker 1: but then we defeated. It is pretty funny that this
Speaker 1: is like both in you know, Canada with the convoy situation,
Speaker 1: and here, um, like se of of everybody is like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I gotta get vaccinated. I'll try to wear a mask
Speaker 1: when I'm in a business like that seems reasonable, and
Speaker 1: thirty percent are like, I will murder everyone else on
Speaker 1: planet Earth. You think about another person for a second,
Speaker 1: and it's it's pretty funny. Um, it's pretty dope that
Speaker 1: that's like a completely intractable problem. Instead of hear me
Speaker 1: out here, we just all roll on them, you know,
Speaker 1: just give him, give him a titty twister, like seventy
Speaker 1: percent of the country gives thirty percent of the country
Speaker 1: just like a big old purple nerple, you know, swirlies
Speaker 1: stick their head in the toilets like we dedicated Yeah,
Speaker 1: like far in their faith and we're done. Yeah, exactly,
Speaker 1: Like really them up a little bit. How is that's
Speaker 1: the way the Civil war pans out? Um? Yeah, we
Speaker 1: just got a bully them. You know, that's what it's
Speaker 1: gonna take. We're all going to have to bully the
Speaker 1: third of this country that are insistent upon being ship
Speaker 1: heads about this. Yeah, I guess that's I guess that's
Speaker 1: what's got to happen. I've been like arguing with people
Speaker 1: on next door to oh, don't do that, don't go
Speaker 1: on just next door, don't go on next door, don't
Speaker 1: talk to people on next door. Well it feels like
Speaker 1: a better place to argue with people than on Twitter.
Speaker 1: I don't know, Yes, I don't know. Are you getting
Speaker 1: making progress? I mean I get a lot of people
Speaker 1: cheering me on comments, but then like somebody, one person
Speaker 1: deleted my comments from their posts. Yeah, log back on
Speaker 1: in a few days. About power? What else should we
Speaker 1: talk about? I want to briefly mention and talk about
Speaker 1: our former big wet boy, yeah, President Donald John President,
Speaker 1: And how do you want to talk about him in
Speaker 1: what capacity? Well, I just wanted to mention um that
Speaker 1: Trump took a bunch of records with him, a bunch
Speaker 1: of tomorrow and Nacial Archives had to go get them.
Speaker 1: And I think it's it's only funny to me, And
Speaker 1: maybe it's a big deal. I understand if you're upset
Speaker 1: about it, um, because like he broke the law. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he broke the law, is like obviously, like his lawlessness
Speaker 1: knows no bounds. But I think it's funny because I
Speaker 1: think that he just didn't know he couldn't do that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Like it's not like it's yeah, it's not like, oh,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take the records that they they're not gonna archives. Like, No,
Speaker 1: he wanted his letter from Kim Jong Oon. He wanted
Speaker 1: his Obama letter, So he put them all a box
Speaker 1: and he took he was gonna he was gonna m
Speaker 1: journal about it, you know, like his his whatever they
Speaker 1: call him books, what do they? Uh, Yeah, precious memories,
Speaker 1: a precious memories collection, A scrap book, right, a scrap
Speaker 1: book if you will, that's what he was gonna do,
Speaker 1: and maybe a vision board for his next run. I
Speaker 1: don't know, Cody, Katie. This is a crime, right, like
Speaker 1: like like a taken these things, all the bags they
Speaker 1: were He wasn't allowed to do that. That's not that's
Speaker 1: not a that's not a thing you're supposed to be doing.
Speaker 1: So what what's the what what's going to happen? Probably nothing,
Speaker 1: Oh he's no one's ever going to mention it again.
Speaker 1: This is this is this, this moment on this podcast
Speaker 1: is the last time any he's going to run for
Speaker 1: office again, and everybody will have forgotten everything. Yeah. We
Speaker 1: we just need to remember that crime exists for for example, influencer, hacker,
Speaker 1: rap stars who steal bitcoin. Not for the president, oh
Speaker 1: heavens no, not former presidents or current presidents. Yeah, any
Speaker 1: kind any kind of any kind of president. We're good.
Speaker 1: And now who was it that fucking was? Was Comy
Speaker 1: who was talking about how we ought to Biden ought
Speaker 1: to preemptively pardon Donald Trump? Yeah, James Comy, fucking gigantic idiot.
Speaker 1: Just fucking stop talking, Jay, Like you've never been right
Speaker 1: about anything. You're always wrong, bad and stupid and have
Speaker 1: long been proven wrong. Away go away, are bad, bad
Speaker 1: bad m I hate him that. Yeah, it just happened.
Speaker 1: He was being interviewed by I think it's ABC. Um,
Speaker 1: I'm looking that up where it was on right now,
Speaker 1: But yeah, he was. He was like, yeah, he should
Speaker 1: consider it, you know, um for the to the country
Speaker 1: and ship. Yeah, he was like, Trump belongs in jail,
Speaker 1: but actually doing that isn't in the best interests of
Speaker 1: the country that ship. Oh my god, yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: the best interests of the country. James, comey, um, were
Speaker 1: you making millions of dollars off a book deal for
Speaker 1: your stupid book taking pictures of dirt roads? Yeah, for
Speaker 1: your secret Twitter prick, you super tall prick. Yeah. It
Speaker 1: is better for the country that presidents are not held
Speaker 1: accountable for the crime. Yeah, that's what everybody wants, is
Speaker 1: for elected leaders to be not accountable for the horrible
Speaker 1: things that they do. That. Speaking of that, probably good
Speaker 1: time to talk about the Republican Party. Oh, they're doing good,
Speaker 1: doing real good. They're live and kicking, making some solid choices.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about how the how January six was legitimate
Speaker 1: political discourse? Apparently apparently last week, Yeah, the National Republican
Speaker 1: National Committee whatever. The Republican Party, uh censured Liz Cheney
Speaker 1: and Adam Kinsinger for being a part of the janiory,
Speaker 1: the Congressional January six investigation. Um, and you know the
Speaker 1: capital attack and Donald Trump's attempt to overturn the presidential election,
Speaker 1: which last week we saw lots of evidence about how
Speaker 1: he was entertaining different ideas of how to do it. Um.
Speaker 1: Any who, Uh, yeah, they they censured them and accused
Speaker 1: them of participating in a Democrat led persecution of ordinary
Speaker 1: citizens engaged in legitimate political discourse. I'm sorry, I and
Speaker 1: realize that was legitimate political discourse. There were thousands of
Speaker 1: people stealing ship, peeing all over. I mean, look, peeing
Speaker 1: and stealing ship can be parts of legitimate political discourse.
Speaker 1: I didn't I see that. I didn't know before. Well no,
Speaker 1: I mean I I don't disagree with that. Like, for example,
Speaker 1: if you have if your your city is occupied by
Speaker 1: a violent, unaccountable paramilitary force UM that does violence and
Speaker 1: steals from you and also gets paid your tax dollars,
Speaker 1: and you were to damage their buildings and urinate on them,
Speaker 1: I would call that an act of legitimate political discourse
Speaker 1: because you are resisting an occupying force in your community.
Speaker 1: I would say what makes it not legitimate is when
Speaker 1: you go elsewhere, far away from where you live and
Speaker 1: attempt to through force, impose your specific will on people
Speaker 1: who live nowhere near you through violence. That I think
Speaker 1: is kind of the key separation here. I don't agree
Speaker 1: with people who are like violence and property destruction aren't
Speaker 1: legitimate political discourse. Violence and property destruction are two of
Speaker 1: the most common successful and the blood of our nation. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's what it's it is the reason for which
Speaker 1: you're doing those things. Is it in order to deal
Speaker 1: with an actual direct threat to yourself and your community,
Speaker 1: or is it an order to impose your will violently
Speaker 1: on people who live nowhere near you. One of those
Speaker 1: things is valid, would would be my my contention. But um,
Speaker 1: apparently UH used to break in and UH call for
Speaker 1: the hanging of the vice president. Yeah, travel from miles
Speaker 1: away by thousands of dollars in weaponry and assault people
Speaker 1: who were elected by folks in other states to represent them. Um.
Speaker 1: That is. You know, it's interesting though, because a lot
Speaker 1: of uh actual you know, senators are in here trying
Speaker 1: to not all of them though, but many are trying
Speaker 1: to distance themselves from uh specifically, well, let me pull up.
Speaker 1: I guess it is Romney, but like, yeah, Mitt Romney,
Speaker 1: and I think Lindsay Graham actually also um distance about
Speaker 1: themselves from it a bit, but you know, it's it's
Speaker 1: it's a big question about what the future of this
Speaker 1: party is continues to be. People are worried about re election,
Speaker 1: but the you know, the Republican Party is pretty firmly
Speaker 1: taking the side of Donald Trump here, and the future
Speaker 1: is Donald Trump. There's a statement released today or yesterday, sorry,
Speaker 1: from various Republican leaders former officials condemning this statement about
Speaker 1: political discourse. So wasn't it the statement from Ronald McDaniel,
Speaker 1: Romney's niece or whatever. Oh I don't know she signed
Speaker 1: it an way, But it's just interesting because it's there's,
Speaker 1: you know, this list of names, um, and virtually every
Speaker 1: single one has the name the word former before their
Speaker 1: position or title. It's all like, yeah, as a former congressman,
Speaker 1: a former member of CORESS, former communication director. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: Anthony scar Mouci is involved. Um. But it's just that
Speaker 1: stark difference of like, yeah, we don't we're not part
Speaker 1: we're not in the club anymore because we don't agree
Speaker 1: with this kind of thing. So we're gonna loudly say
Speaker 1: how dare you? But like we're not, We're not involved anymore.
Speaker 1: We're we're the old We're the old folks, um the
Speaker 1: new folks. They love trying to get Mike Pence hanged?
Speaker 1: What is there to say and do? What is there
Speaker 1: to say? And do I feel that way? On even
Speaker 1: more News we were talking about it when we're talking
Speaker 1: about Trump last week. You fucking have to, but you
Speaker 1: don't want to because it's like, what's the point is
Speaker 1: fucking guy shrug? What is it? Like? I don't know
Speaker 1: what to say, but you also have to talk about it.
Speaker 1: It's like I see this train crash happening, the wreck,
Speaker 1: but I don't I don't know how I save it
Speaker 1: except for acknowledging that the fucking thing is happening. It's
Speaker 1: a trap, is what it is, in a in a
Speaker 1: similar way to like how the Joe Rogan discourse is
Speaker 1: a trap where getting involved, even if you're like even
Speaker 1: attacking them online, all you're doing is like helping them.
Speaker 1: That's why I'm trying as much as possible not to
Speaker 1: at least not to mention their names. Um, I made
Speaker 1: like an oblique joke about Joe Rogan that I even
Speaker 1: kind of regret because like the going like Fux, Spotify
Speaker 1: and stuff, go go go after them, but going after
Speaker 1: them and the guys are trying to get them to
Speaker 1: drop Joe Rogan will do nothing but help them. It
Speaker 1: is impossible to do anything that help him, will only
Speaker 1: expand his reach. Like what And whenever you talk about
Speaker 1: this stuff, people like, what should we be doing? Like don't, Like,
Speaker 1: I think that's a nonsense for sponse, Like what you
Speaker 1: should be doing is is not not aiding and abetting
Speaker 1: him by uh keeping his profile up and keeping his
Speaker 1: name in the news. Um, it's not that he's been
Speaker 1: on Twitter for the last like two weeks solid weeks
Speaker 1: every day, not making him the big story. And you
Speaker 1: can do that by just just let it go like
Speaker 1: he is rich and powerful, Uh not, because he's not
Speaker 1: like an isn't even like an Alex Jones thing where
Speaker 1: he got artificially inflated by a bunch of algorithms. Joe
Speaker 1: Rogan has been plugging away doing his thing for as
Speaker 1: long as there have been podcasts, and he has several
Speaker 1: million million people who will follow him anywhere he goes wherever,
Speaker 1: and he's been offered that this whole other was that's nonsense.
Speaker 1: But at the end of the day, yeah, regardless, he's
Speaker 1: got opportunities. It's not about Spotify. But yeah, don't let
Speaker 1: him be the center of the discourse. But if course
Speaker 1: there's money in that, there's money and being like the
Speaker 1: you know, the centrist and liberal and left writers writing
Speaker 1: think pieces about how bad he is and let money
Speaker 1: and and I don't it's one of those things. I
Speaker 1: don't mean that it's bad to be pointing out like, hey,
Speaker 1: Joe Rogan says the in word an awful lot on
Speaker 1: his show um Worth pointing out worth noting, But that's
Speaker 1: not what like most of the discourse around him is.
Speaker 1: And yeah, of course started with Neil Young saying I'm
Speaker 1: gonna unless you drop him. I tweeted about this, but
Speaker 1: I didn't tweet it, right. But I keep thinking about
Speaker 1: Neil Young just being like on his fucking expensive ass
Speaker 1: ranch in northern California, smoking a joint on a rocking chair,
Speaker 1: watching all this ship happen all around and being like, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, but like he's fine. Neil Young doesn't matter,
Speaker 1: and he pulled his ship from Spotify to plug Amazon's music.
Speaker 1: Don't don't fall for this. Um, it's not it's not.
Speaker 1: I don't know. Yeah, it could happen here later. I'm
Speaker 1: just very frustrated by the thing. Yeah, and how long
Speaker 1: it is? Yeah, yeah, I even Yeah, I tweeted a
Speaker 1: joker too, and I deleted them pretty quickly, like I
Speaker 1: don't want to. I just can't participate. Yeah, sorry, just
Speaker 1: if you actually want to do things that help commit
Speaker 1: to not using his name on social media or yeah,
Speaker 1: but like worth, you know, worth pointing out that like
Speaker 1: certain things like yeah, like he says this word, him
Speaker 1: saying the black people of different brains than people like
Speaker 1: that ship, Like that's like, yeah, it's good that that
Speaker 1: clip is out there and people know that he said
Speaker 1: that and probably still thinks it. Well, because because Joe
Speaker 1: Rogan specifically, he's kind of a cross section, right, because
Speaker 1: there are a lot of people that listen to Joe
Speaker 1: Rogan that aren't like implicitly that don't necessarily support Donald Trump,
Speaker 1: aren't necessarily Republican, doesn't support Donald's fromp right exactly. I mean,
Speaker 1: he's got a cross section of people. So there's a
Speaker 1: lot of people that are technically liberals or you know,
Speaker 1: all thinkers, that it's dangerous. He can normalize things very easily,
Speaker 1: and it is important to call out the things that
Speaker 1: are happening and acknowledge what it is. But it's a
Speaker 1: delicate dance because we're up in an uproar and again
Speaker 1: you're giving an oxygen. You're paying attention to everything and
Speaker 1: the thing that gives it oxygen. Again, not not actual
Speaker 1: like analysis in research, but the the me too. I
Speaker 1: gotta I gotta make everyone. I gotta make it known
Speaker 1: that like I don't like Joe Rogan that I don't,
Speaker 1: I have to chime in. I have to dunk on
Speaker 1: him too, and could amplify it. We cancel your fucking Spotify.
Speaker 1: Don't tag Joe Rogan and that ship. Don't like. Yeah,
Speaker 1: maybe it'll hurt like Spotify a little bit. But you
Speaker 1: can hurt Spotify without helping Joe Rogan. We can, we
Speaker 1: can do that. Um yeah, every time the episode description
Speaker 1: or the episode like, yeah, delete Spotify because of like
Speaker 1: how they treat the musicians, not because Neil Young has
Speaker 1: to share has to share space with Joe Rogan. Um
Speaker 1: like that's weird. Uh. Well, we got to take another
Speaker 1: ad break. Yeah, we get to together everything. Oh boy,
Speaker 1: we are back and guys, I've been talking a lot
Speaker 1: about the news today. I just I just found something
Speaker 1: that I want you all to look at. M m hmm. Yeah,
Speaker 1: what is this? What is this? Our little buddy Ben
Speaker 1: Shapiro launched a thing through the Daily Wire called the
Speaker 1: Third Thursday book Club, which is where you get to
Speaker 1: read once a month the Classics along with Ben Shapiro,
Speaker 1: and so they have classic books, each of which comes
Speaker 1: with abridged notes by Ben Shapiro or purportedly by Ben Shapiro,
Speaker 1: And so they're the first one has like how many
Speaker 1: pages to this fucking thing looks like it's like twenty
Speaker 1: or thirty pages of notes and study questions or you know,
Speaker 1: it's it's tied pages of notes and study questions by
Speaker 1: Ben Shapiro summarizing four which I am fascinated to read
Speaker 1: watching you. The main theme of is the danger of totalitarianism.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, communist anyway, this is fun? What a treat?
Speaker 1: Who gave this to you? Yeah? I just found it
Speaker 1: because I learned that he has he has a book club.
Speaker 1: He will be apparently publishing a sci fi novel later
Speaker 1: this year, which, by god, I'm excited to get into. Um.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I learned that there's this book club that
Speaker 1: you pay for, but apparently some people have found ways
Speaker 1: to get access to the first of these for free.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you send that one out for
Speaker 1: free as a teaser. It is unclear to me at
Speaker 1: the moment, because it's just like people on his subreddit
Speaker 1: that shared the link. But yeah, there's apparently will be
Speaker 1: one of these. I mean, after we read his nineteen
Speaker 1: four inspired short story, UM, I am going to be
Speaker 1: excited to see what he got from that, or if
Speaker 1: he just hired someone to write a bridge notes and
Speaker 1: there is Oh I love this Orwell's answer powers right
Speaker 1: and he's wrong. Awesome. I just like, because Ben, he
Speaker 1: went to Harvard Law School and like your political comment, Like,
Speaker 1: what the funk are you doing with this book club ship?
Speaker 1: Like get a fucking like English teacher, get like a
Speaker 1: like what is this ship? Like it's someone else do
Speaker 1: book club for you? Like why are you doing this?
Speaker 1: What do you like? What is your fucking like? I
Speaker 1: probably it's just like I don't even have complete sentence
Speaker 1: about why this baffles me so much? He just wants
Speaker 1: to wear like so many different hats and it's like, Buddy,
Speaker 1: I bet someone else wrote this anyway, Yes, I agree.
Speaker 1: Here we are talking about Ben Shapiro. When we thought
Speaker 1: we were done with Ben Shapiro and his books. I
Speaker 1: will never be done, especially not when his sucking next
Speaker 1: novel comes out. Oh boy, I can't wait, said Summer.
Speaker 1: Mm hmmma. No, no, okay, not that I'm aware of.
Speaker 1: But it's coming. It's eventually. Maybe we'll see, we'll see
Speaker 1: if it actually ends Kitty's Pilot. What else you guys
Speaker 1: want to talk about? Movies? I want to read this,
Speaker 1: but it's no time. We can't not to. Do you
Speaker 1: want to talk about a chicken? Didn't you want to? Yeah?
Speaker 1: The chicken who got through? Uh? The chicken was caught
Speaker 1: sneaking around a security area the Pentagon and they apprehended
Speaker 1: that chicken and it is dead now or being tortured. No,
Speaker 1: it's the chicken is probably fine. Um. Yeah, this is
Speaker 1: like I don't eat and the chicken. I have nothing,
Speaker 1: like nothing to say about this. Uh, there's this story
Speaker 1: where yeah, chicken got to a security checkpoint of the Pentagon.
Speaker 1: They will not tell us where or you know how
Speaker 1: they found it. Top secret information all the details or
Speaker 1: top secret. But um, the bird was spotted. Um, it
Speaker 1: was taken into custody, was spotted like had spots or
Speaker 1: the bird was spotted, the bird was seen. Okay, the
Speaker 1: the the the exact bird. Uh, it's a hen. It's
Speaker 1: brown feathers and a red comb. He means it's a girl, right, Uh,
Speaker 1: it's a it's a Rhode Island red not not spotted. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think I got one or two of those. Oh good?
Speaker 1: Um was it? Wait? Was it your hend? No? No,
Speaker 1: my chickens did in full trade the Kremlin at one point,
Speaker 1: but that was unrelated. Okay, yeah, no, that's doesn't sound
Speaker 1: like the same thing at all. Um did are they Okay? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: it was a sex thing. It's fine, okay, so successful,
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, get it chickens um uh yeah. So it's
Speaker 1: just a it's a nothing story. Um, but somebody made
Speaker 1: it a story. So now that this article about how
Speaker 1: a fucking chicken was wandering around the Pentagon and we
Speaker 1: need news. Yeah uh. A little note from from Garrison
Speaker 1: at the Department Defense is expected to request an extra
Speaker 1: twelve billion in funding to prevent further poultry related threat
Speaker 1: to homeland security. Um yeah, I mean I think we've
Speaker 1: got to cancel a couple of bridge repairs for this one. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: a few more bridges. You less wandering chickens. That's the
Speaker 1: build back. Better promise slogan rights itself better, right, boys
Speaker 1: coding you know what? Good for you, Thank you, thank
Speaker 1: you very much. Ukraine. No, I mean, there's there's not
Speaker 1: much to say other than the Russian military build up continues.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of unsettling stuff there. Don't they have
Speaker 1: occupation forces in addition to like you know, um well,
Speaker 1: like two weeks ago they didn't all the artillery and
Speaker 1: stuff was there. But now they're about of personnel that yeah,
Speaker 1: based on some calculation. That calculations, but they from what
Speaker 1: I understand of enough people to do a full scale
Speaker 1: invasion of what this one group of analysts think would
Speaker 1: be necessary for them to carry out a full scale
Speaker 1: attack of Ukraine. Like, I don't know, um, I I
Speaker 1: don't know that anyone again, because if this happens, if
Speaker 1: this all goes really hot, um, this will be kind
Speaker 1: of up the first example in our lives of like
Speaker 1: to broadly peer forces meeting on the battlefield in in
Speaker 1: in this kind of way. So I don't know that
Speaker 1: anyone really has a good handle on how many troops
Speaker 1: the Russians need for an occupation or like what percentage
Speaker 1: Like well, I mean I don't, but I hear you.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm sure they're probably they may have some
Speaker 1: intel that this is what the Russians think, you know,
Speaker 1: based on what the Russians think that they would need
Speaker 1: for that. Uh, it's it's still really unclear what's going
Speaker 1: to happen or if again, like even Putin has a
Speaker 1: clear idea of what's going to happen. Because it's entirely
Speaker 1: possible that this is so possible. I'm kind of some
Speaker 1: brinksmanship ship. Yeah, absolutely, the end hasn't been settled. Being
Speaker 1: with Macron now heard um that there are a couple
Speaker 1: I mean I was listening to the Daily earlier, but
Speaker 1: um uh yeah, a couple of dates. Theoretically like he
Speaker 1: might wait until after the Olympics are over. Yeah, you
Speaker 1: want to get that. You want to get that news, bump,
Speaker 1: you know, you want to get that news well and
Speaker 1: also because you know, to not like detract from China's
Speaker 1: moment or what have you, Um, this moment of having
Speaker 1: fucking in an industrial thank god. Yeah, there's some great shots.
Speaker 1: Um and again people keep well, what would you want
Speaker 1: them to do? You know, you know, bulldoze somebody's home
Speaker 1: and like, you know, destroy a pristine place. And I
Speaker 1: would want them to do is not the Olympics because
Speaker 1: nobody should do them? Or how about this I was reading,
Speaker 1: I kind of want to since we're towards the end,
Speaker 1: I think I'll talk more about this on even more
Speaker 1: news later in the week, but just doing some reading
Speaker 1: before the idea. I mean, like for years and years
Speaker 1: and years, it's always a problem like, yes, we have
Speaker 1: to make snow in a lot of locations, but there
Speaker 1: are environmental repercussions for all of that. And then just
Speaker 1: in general, the the effect of the Olympics. We talked
Speaker 1: about this ad nauseum six months ago when the Summer
Speaker 1: Olympics happened. But but my point here being like a
Speaker 1: different way to approach the Olympics would be to not
Speaker 1: have them like this, or it could be a series
Speaker 1: of smaller events set up. But you can have competitions,
Speaker 1: but smaller ones set up in places that already like
Speaker 1: ski resorts, are already have the infrastructure of us to
Speaker 1: host smaller amounts of guests from out of town, and
Speaker 1: that would actually be good for there. There there's an
Speaker 1: argument to be made for that. So we're not talking
Speaker 1: about a large scale Olympic thing with a huge environmental impact.
Speaker 1: We're talking about like normal competitions anyway, Just more on
Speaker 1: that some other time Trump should have bought Greenland and
Speaker 1: then we turned that into the Olympics place. All the
Speaker 1: Olympics happen in Greenland. Speaking of a country with a
Speaker 1: kind of similar name to green Land, this is related
Speaker 1: to Ukraine. One of the things that's very frustrating in
Speaker 1: this meeting that mcron had with Putin, mccron talked about
Speaker 1: being open to the Finland desation of Ukraine, which I
Speaker 1: don't think he consulted Ukraine on. Finlandization is a term
Speaker 1: for kind of what the Soviet Union in post World
Speaker 1: War two did to Finland. If you if you know
Speaker 1: a little bit about that history. USSR before World War
Speaker 1: two tried to take over Finland. It wasn't that didn't
Speaker 1: go the best for them. It could have gone um
Speaker 1: and so after World War Two there's this arrangement made
Speaker 1: that's like all right, Finland, you guys, get to keep
Speaker 1: your own government and political system, but you have to
Speaker 1: do what we want or do nothing in foreign policy.
Speaker 1: Like either you don't say ship or you you stay
Speaker 1: in line with us in foreign policy, and like that's
Speaker 1: the agreement. We won't funk with you will let you
Speaker 1: keep doing what you need to do politically, but you
Speaker 1: don't say ship um, which I don't know, like, to
Speaker 1: be honest, I think there's a decent chunk of people
Speaker 1: in Ukraine wh would probably go for something like that
Speaker 1: if that's not another devastating war. Not a great deal,
Speaker 1: but what's the alternative? It does be getting carpet bombed. Sure,
Speaker 1: they are in a terrible situation. They're surrounded by troops,
Speaker 1: you know, like there there. I mean, yeah, politically that
Speaker 1: might be a good yeah, I mean it might be
Speaker 1: what they do, um like, but it is just like
Speaker 1: this thing that keeps happening with these discussions world leaders
Speaker 1: are having with Putin where it's like, okay, you said
Speaker 1: this thing about what's acceptable. Did you like talk to
Speaker 1: anyone in Ukraine about this or are we just having
Speaker 1: this conversation over their heads? You know? Like I think
Speaker 1: there's a probable answer to that, which is the last
Speaker 1: thing you said, yeah, which is nobody really gives an
Speaker 1: about Ukraine, which is why all of this has been
Speaker 1: happening for again ten years, very close to ten years. Alright,
Speaker 1: So I think we did it. I think we talked
Speaker 1: about all the news that there is in the land. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's nothing else going on. Um, So check back in
Speaker 1: next week where we will spend three hours reading every
Speaker 1: word of been Shapiro's analysis of nineteen We'll read, Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: we'll get our our quotes ready, We'll we'll get the
Speaker 1: passages to support our answers. I'll figure out how to
Speaker 1: say totalitarianism. It does end with a bunch of with
Speaker 1: a bunch of like blank question boxes for you to
Speaker 1: answer things. It's just like like again, like fucking like
Speaker 1: go to school, Like what like what is this fucking
Speaker 1: worksheet you're making for people to pay to learn about
Speaker 1: from Ben Shapiro? What is just read the book yourself,
Speaker 1: read the book and like look at like this so
Speaker 1: weird that he's doing this like study questions for people.
Speaker 1: We should I mean I should we should have compared
Speaker 1: this to actual study questions. Yeah, let's see if this
Speaker 1: is just the spark notes. Oh my god, what do
Speaker 1: you fucking paying for school? Work? From Ben Shapiro, What
Speaker 1: the hell? It's extremely funny. People make decisions I'll never understand,
Speaker 1: which is why we need to live in a totalitarian state.
Speaker 1: That that stops this happening. The official line of worst
Speaker 1: Year ever, uh, eliminate the human capacity for thought. There
Speaker 1: it is, regulate double pane windows. That's right, that's that'll
Speaker 1: end star seeing? Yeah, star gazing. Sorry, live in a
Speaker 1: place where it's unclear if they can see the giant
Speaker 1: mountain outside based on text on two days only tuesdays. Okay,
Speaker 1: we're done. You know what? Every Everything? Worst Year Ever
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