1 00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:03,520 Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of the 2 00:00:03,600 --> 00:00:08,120 Speaker 1: Weekly Zeitgeist. Uh. These are some of our favorite segments 3 00:00:08,160 --> 00:00:13,720 Speaker 1: from this week, all edited together into one uh NonStop 4 00:00:13,840 --> 00:00:22,040 Speaker 1: infotainment last stravaganza. Uh yeah, So, without further ado, here 5 00:00:22,320 --> 00:00:27,200 Speaker 1: is the Weekly Zeitgeist. So over the weekend, there was 6 00:00:27,240 --> 00:00:33,240 Speaker 1: a women's march on Saturday that the mainstream media didn't 7 00:00:33,240 --> 00:00:35,840 Speaker 1: make too much of a dent. In the mainstream media. 8 00:00:35,920 --> 00:00:40,560 Speaker 1: Apparently the Sunday shows didn't really cover it, maybe because 9 00:00:40,560 --> 00:00:43,760 Speaker 1: it wasn't quite as big as last year's and so, 10 00:00:44,120 --> 00:00:46,840 Speaker 1: you know, they felt like the you know, the media 11 00:00:46,880 --> 00:00:49,559 Speaker 1: always needs to go bigger and there has to be 12 00:00:49,720 --> 00:00:52,000 Speaker 1: sort of an arc to their story. But it's wild 13 00:00:52,080 --> 00:00:55,720 Speaker 1: how little they actually spoke about it. Like NBC I 14 00:00:55,760 --> 00:00:57,880 Speaker 1: Think I'll Meet the Press. Chuck Todd show had I 15 00:00:57,880 --> 00:01:01,760 Speaker 1: think the longest discuss about it, and it was twenty seconds, 16 00:01:02,280 --> 00:01:05,120 Speaker 1: like other people just had like in the opening monologue 17 00:01:05,120 --> 00:01:07,919 Speaker 1: about yeah and women were marching or like or people 18 00:01:07,959 --> 00:01:10,840 Speaker 1: just referencing the march. But it wasn't like a topic 19 00:01:10,920 --> 00:01:13,680 Speaker 1: that was actually discussed on those shows. And those are 20 00:01:13,760 --> 00:01:15,520 Speaker 1: kind of those A lot of people get their news 21 00:01:15,600 --> 00:01:18,400 Speaker 1: from those Sunday morning shows. So it's a little odd 22 00:01:18,400 --> 00:01:20,480 Speaker 1: that they did that. And then you couple that with 23 00:01:20,600 --> 00:01:22,759 Speaker 1: like the straight fuckory on Fox or they were like 24 00:01:23,280 --> 00:01:27,200 Speaker 1: trying to spend them those marches as being something anything 25 00:01:27,280 --> 00:01:29,920 Speaker 1: other than people pushing back on like what this new 26 00:01:29,959 --> 00:01:34,080 Speaker 1: administration's agenda has been with women? Uh yeah, wait did 27 00:01:34,120 --> 00:01:36,440 Speaker 1: they really try and push that agenda? Yeah? There, Well, 28 00:01:36,480 --> 00:01:42,880 Speaker 1: I know Trump tweeted some ship is like oh yeah, yeah, 29 00:01:42,920 --> 00:01:44,800 Speaker 1: and I think that, I mean, I think on Fox 30 00:01:44,840 --> 00:01:46,760 Speaker 1: they were kind of like walking that tight rope of 31 00:01:46,840 --> 00:01:48,720 Speaker 1: being like is that was that a joke? Or what? 32 00:01:48,920 --> 00:01:51,160 Speaker 1: How are we really talking and blah blah blah. It 33 00:01:51,200 --> 00:01:53,160 Speaker 1: wasn't like that's how they were covering it, if they 34 00:01:53,360 --> 00:01:55,600 Speaker 1: even covered it at all. But that did come up 35 00:01:55,680 --> 00:02:00,000 Speaker 1: once or twice. Yeah, sort of the sarcastic trolling from 36 00:02:00,040 --> 00:02:05,120 Speaker 1: Trump and and uh, the Trump administration's propaganda winning Fox News, 37 00:02:05,480 --> 00:02:09,400 Speaker 1: uh is really tone deaf when you like look at 38 00:02:09,440 --> 00:02:13,120 Speaker 1: it next to that Halsey poem. The artist Halsey like 39 00:02:14,120 --> 00:02:17,959 Speaker 1: unleashed this. You know, it's like a five minute long 40 00:02:18,040 --> 00:02:22,560 Speaker 1: poem of just growing up amid sexual assault and sexual 41 00:02:23,360 --> 00:02:27,280 Speaker 1: uh abuse and just you know, I don't know, it's 42 00:02:27,440 --> 00:02:31,000 Speaker 1: it's pretty affecting and then to to then go over 43 00:02:31,040 --> 00:02:33,600 Speaker 1: to Twitter and read Trump be like ha ha, good 44 00:02:33,639 --> 00:02:35,840 Speaker 1: good day, good weather for all these women to get 45 00:02:35,880 --> 00:02:38,560 Speaker 1: up right there, it's like come on the yah. Yeah, 46 00:02:38,560 --> 00:02:43,239 Speaker 1: that Halsey poem was very moving. I was, I mean, 47 00:02:43,320 --> 00:02:45,760 Speaker 1: she's I haven't really listened to her music, but yeah, 48 00:02:45,800 --> 00:02:48,720 Speaker 1: I mean either, but now I'm gonna force myself to 49 00:02:48,880 --> 00:02:51,959 Speaker 1: because it was pretty dope. Yeah, and it was big 50 00:02:51,960 --> 00:02:54,920 Speaker 1: everywhere too, because like what I think, uh l A 51 00:02:55,040 --> 00:02:58,160 Speaker 1: probably had the biggest showing of all of all the cities, 52 00:02:58,320 --> 00:03:01,919 Speaker 1: right right, said a half million people came out. Yeah, 53 00:03:02,000 --> 00:03:04,640 Speaker 1: I think the estimates where two fifty thousand we're going 54 00:03:04,680 --> 00:03:08,919 Speaker 1: to come and five thousand people showed up. So uh 55 00:03:09,280 --> 00:03:12,360 Speaker 1: I went down there with my wife and her friend 56 00:03:12,440 --> 00:03:16,400 Speaker 1: and our son, and uh it was pretty cool. It 57 00:03:16,480 --> 00:03:19,320 Speaker 1: was it was just cool to be there among you know, 58 00:03:19,360 --> 00:03:24,400 Speaker 1: all that positive energy. Uh. There were some Trump supporters 59 00:03:24,440 --> 00:03:27,560 Speaker 1: standing there with like Trump flags and like don't tread 60 00:03:27,600 --> 00:03:30,880 Speaker 1: on the flags that they were like three blocks away 61 00:03:30,919 --> 00:03:34,720 Speaker 1: from where where any of the people who were marching were. 62 00:03:34,760 --> 00:03:36,840 Speaker 1: It was like really weird and they were like surrounded 63 00:03:36,840 --> 00:03:40,320 Speaker 1: by police barricades, but it wasn't clear like what they 64 00:03:40,360 --> 00:03:43,240 Speaker 1: were being protected from or what they were being held 65 00:03:43,240 --> 00:03:45,600 Speaker 1: back from because nobody was around them. They were just 66 00:03:45,680 --> 00:03:48,760 Speaker 1: on this street corner that was like completely barren and 67 00:03:48,960 --> 00:03:53,840 Speaker 1: like waving their flags yea over here where like literally 68 00:03:53,880 --> 00:03:57,040 Speaker 1: nobody could see you. Um. There any funny signs at 69 00:03:57,040 --> 00:04:00,600 Speaker 1: the protests. Yeah, yeah, there were some good ones. Most 70 00:04:00,600 --> 00:04:06,040 Speaker 1: of the ones that I saw were on Twitter. Um. Uh. 71 00:04:06,240 --> 00:04:09,760 Speaker 1: There was the one of, uh, notice how few Nazis 72 00:04:09,800 --> 00:04:13,440 Speaker 1: are at our march was a strong one. Yeah, I 73 00:04:13,440 --> 00:04:17,359 Speaker 1: think the lack of Nazis. Yeah, yeah, yeah. There was 74 00:04:17,360 --> 00:04:20,520 Speaker 1: some Harry Potter one that was like Harry would have 75 00:04:20,520 --> 00:04:22,560 Speaker 1: been dead in the first book without her mind here 76 00:04:23,120 --> 00:04:27,520 Speaker 1: like that. Uh, that was great. Was just where do 77 00:04:27,600 --> 00:04:33,440 Speaker 1: I even begin? Yeah? Exhausted. There was I hate crowds, 78 00:04:33,480 --> 00:04:36,880 Speaker 1: but I hate Trump more, which is solid fist march 79 00:04:36,960 --> 00:04:40,600 Speaker 1: is about accountability. Fifties seven percent of white women voted 80 00:04:40,680 --> 00:04:44,479 Speaker 1: for misogyny. Well heavy, heavy, Well that's wild because I 81 00:04:44,480 --> 00:04:47,839 Speaker 1: think it was in Vegas, the head of Planned Parenthood, 82 00:04:47,839 --> 00:04:50,800 Speaker 1: Cecil Richards, she kind of made mention to that in 83 00:04:50,880 --> 00:04:54,200 Speaker 1: her the Women's March for Power to the polls, where 84 00:04:54,240 --> 00:04:56,000 Speaker 1: she was kind of saying like, hey, like white women 85 00:04:56,000 --> 00:04:58,760 Speaker 1: need to do better, which is, you know, pretty significant 86 00:04:58,800 --> 00:05:00,920 Speaker 1: considering the sort of Yeah, I think we have a 87 00:05:00,920 --> 00:05:02,160 Speaker 1: clip of it. We can just kind of play one 88 00:05:02,400 --> 00:05:05,359 Speaker 1: part of what you said. All across the country, the 89 00:05:05,400 --> 00:05:08,600 Speaker 1: Women's March inspired doctors and teachers and mothers to become 90 00:05:08,640 --> 00:05:12,200 Speaker 1: activists of organizers and yes, candidates for office. And from 91 00:05:12,279 --> 00:05:16,440 Speaker 1: Virginia to Alabama and to last week in Wisconsin, women 92 00:05:16,480 --> 00:05:21,159 Speaker 1: have beaten the odds to let our own office. That's right, 93 00:05:21,680 --> 00:05:28,000 Speaker 1: women of color, transgender women, rural and urban women. And 94 00:05:28,080 --> 00:05:32,359 Speaker 1: these victories were lead and made possible by women of color. 95 00:05:33,200 --> 00:05:40,960 Speaker 1: So right, so white women, listen up. We've got to 96 00:05:41,040 --> 00:05:44,679 Speaker 1: do better. We've got to do better this you dropped 97 00:05:44,680 --> 00:05:48,400 Speaker 1: the mic, got the funk off stage. Yeah, it was 98 00:05:49,120 --> 00:05:51,640 Speaker 1: just the amount of coverage. It's wild how much if 99 00:05:51,680 --> 00:05:53,720 Speaker 1: you are on Twitter or you have your own way 100 00:05:53,720 --> 00:05:55,919 Speaker 1: of getting news, how much we were hearing about this. 101 00:05:56,440 --> 00:05:58,880 Speaker 1: But yeah, that's what makes the sort of a mission 102 00:05:59,080 --> 00:06:02,440 Speaker 1: of talking about it from these other shows a little odd, 103 00:06:02,600 --> 00:06:04,360 Speaker 1: because I get it. Last year that was technically, I 104 00:06:04,400 --> 00:06:07,080 Speaker 1: think the largest demonstration in the history of the country. 105 00:06:07,240 --> 00:06:09,679 Speaker 1: And I guess what, because there wasn't a superlative this time. 106 00:06:09,720 --> 00:06:12,359 Speaker 1: It wasn't or is this like some kind of weird 107 00:06:12,400 --> 00:06:15,320 Speaker 1: subtle backlash of like, well, I guess we're done talking 108 00:06:15,360 --> 00:06:17,960 Speaker 1: about this. Like are the producers of these shows saying like, 109 00:06:18,200 --> 00:06:24,040 Speaker 1: We're okay, get sexual millions of people et here, you 110 00:06:24,080 --> 00:06:25,520 Speaker 1: don't want to talk about it? Come on, that was 111 00:06:25,640 --> 00:06:29,599 Speaker 1: last week's story. What are we talking about this week? Um? 112 00:06:29,720 --> 00:06:33,039 Speaker 1: There's also my neck, my back, my pussy will grab back. 113 00:06:34,480 --> 00:06:38,600 Speaker 1: I like that. Uh. There was also this episode of 114 00:06:38,720 --> 00:06:43,039 Speaker 1: Black Mirror Sucks, which is pretty good one. Um. Yeah, 115 00:06:43,080 --> 00:06:46,000 Speaker 1: and there were some speeches by Scarlett Johansson who was 116 00:06:46,040 --> 00:06:50,720 Speaker 1: specifically called out I think it was actually implicitly called 117 00:06:50,720 --> 00:06:55,039 Speaker 1: out James Franco uh, and then her publicists confirmed. People 118 00:06:55,040 --> 00:06:58,200 Speaker 1: were like you were talking about James Franco, right, her 119 00:06:58,240 --> 00:07:03,719 Speaker 1: publicists like yes official uh and Viola Davis so uh. 120 00:07:03,839 --> 00:07:07,920 Speaker 1: Those were some people who gave pretty powerful speeches that 121 00:07:08,120 --> 00:07:13,160 Speaker 1: the one in Los Angeles I believe. Uh. So all 122 00:07:13,200 --> 00:07:18,600 Speaker 1: in pretty I don't know, exciting movement and exciting weekend 123 00:07:18,800 --> 00:07:21,880 Speaker 1: that just didn't translate to the mainstream media for some reason. 124 00:07:23,160 --> 00:07:25,800 Speaker 1: Let's move on to better news. Guys, the Super Bowl 125 00:07:25,920 --> 00:07:30,760 Speaker 1: is set or the Big Game? Don't say that's like 126 00:07:30,920 --> 00:07:33,360 Speaker 1: do has anybody ever been sued for saying the Super 127 00:07:33,400 --> 00:07:36,200 Speaker 1: Bowl on like a podcast. Yeah, I don't know, but 128 00:07:36,320 --> 00:07:40,080 Speaker 1: let's try it out. Super Bowl. Super Bow Bowl is 129 00:07:40,280 --> 00:07:47,920 Speaker 1: set Bowl and Philadelphia Uh made it. Um. The stands 130 00:07:48,000 --> 00:07:52,960 Speaker 1: were rowdy, the after party was rowdy. Er. There's a 131 00:07:53,000 --> 00:07:57,960 Speaker 1: great video of a guy running after a train, a 132 00:07:58,000 --> 00:08:01,720 Speaker 1: train that he just missed, and just face planning into 133 00:08:01,760 --> 00:08:05,800 Speaker 1: a into a sign like it's it's literally out of 134 00:08:05,840 --> 00:08:10,480 Speaker 1: like a Fairly Brothers film Wait for Me, and it 135 00:08:10,520 --> 00:08:13,520 Speaker 1: goes right to the steel beams. If you guys, I mean, 136 00:08:14,040 --> 00:08:16,520 Speaker 1: these Eagles fans have been nuts for you a story 137 00:08:16,520 --> 00:08:21,800 Speaker 1: than the seventies they boosted. Yeah, notorious right for having 138 00:08:21,840 --> 00:08:25,800 Speaker 1: like the most like aggressive fans, Like there's nothing worse 139 00:08:25,800 --> 00:08:29,000 Speaker 1: than them hating their own players. Right. Yeah, they booed 140 00:08:29,000 --> 00:08:32,000 Speaker 1: Donovan McNabb when he was drafted. He ended up being 141 00:08:32,240 --> 00:08:36,160 Speaker 1: their best quarterback ever. Um, there wasn't funny. Speaking of 142 00:08:36,160 --> 00:08:39,200 Speaker 1: funny signs, some somebody in the Eagles stand because they're 143 00:08:39,200 --> 00:08:41,880 Speaker 1: playing Minnesota, had a funny sign just they just said 144 00:08:42,120 --> 00:08:52,640 Speaker 1: Prince sucks. God damn. There were signs up around the 145 00:08:52,760 --> 00:08:56,920 Speaker 1: Colosseum or around where where the game was being played 146 00:08:57,280 --> 00:09:01,200 Speaker 1: telling Vikings fans that after they a take off they 147 00:09:01,200 --> 00:09:03,720 Speaker 1: should take off their jersey when leaving so they don't 148 00:09:03,760 --> 00:09:06,720 Speaker 1: get like attacked and beat up. They were like public 149 00:09:06,760 --> 00:09:10,679 Speaker 1: service and apparently they were like throwing stuff at Vikings 150 00:09:10,679 --> 00:09:14,079 Speaker 1: fans as they walked into the game and then they 151 00:09:14,120 --> 00:09:17,679 Speaker 1: just like beat them mercilessly. So were there like were 152 00:09:17,679 --> 00:09:19,760 Speaker 1: they merciful and they're like, hey, look, you obviously took 153 00:09:19,760 --> 00:09:22,200 Speaker 1: it else We're not going to rob you now. Yeah, 154 00:09:22,240 --> 00:09:24,560 Speaker 1: I think they just took it out on light poles. 155 00:09:24,679 --> 00:09:30,040 Speaker 1: Apparently light poles are being concerned because the police took precautions, 156 00:09:30,080 --> 00:09:32,240 Speaker 1: like as the game started getting out of control and 157 00:09:32,360 --> 00:09:34,959 Speaker 1: like this the Eagles were up by a couple of touchdowns, 158 00:09:35,000 --> 00:09:38,840 Speaker 1: the police started greasing up street poles with cans of Frisco. 159 00:09:39,440 --> 00:09:42,440 Speaker 1: H oh. It was apparently at least four hours before 160 00:09:42,480 --> 00:09:46,480 Speaker 1: the game, and like knowing that if the Eagles won, uh, 161 00:09:47,080 --> 00:09:51,560 Speaker 1: everybody would be trying to find that. They're like, and 162 00:09:51,600 --> 00:09:54,080 Speaker 1: do we have our seventy gallons of Chrisco on deby 163 00:09:54,520 --> 00:09:56,520 Speaker 1: or if the case we win, yeah, we've got a 164 00:09:56,559 --> 00:10:00,400 Speaker 1: more on proof of the city. Yeah exactly, man, you know, 165 00:10:00,440 --> 00:10:03,560 Speaker 1: good for the Eagles. I'm not look as most people know, 166 00:10:03,559 --> 00:10:05,720 Speaker 1: I'm not a huge NFL fan because last time I 167 00:10:06,000 --> 00:10:08,600 Speaker 1: checked on the Eagles, do Staley was playing, So that 168 00:10:08,640 --> 00:10:11,640 Speaker 1: shows you were what you're I'm operating from. But good 169 00:10:11,640 --> 00:10:13,440 Speaker 1: to them. Shout out to the homie Chris too, because 170 00:10:13,440 --> 00:10:15,200 Speaker 1: I know that's his team, so you know we're rooting 171 00:10:15,240 --> 00:10:18,000 Speaker 1: for y'all. The Patriots also made it, which do we 172 00:10:18,040 --> 00:10:20,560 Speaker 1: even have to say the only good thing? It was 173 00:10:20,559 --> 00:10:23,720 Speaker 1: actually a really good game and they almost lost. And 174 00:10:23,960 --> 00:10:29,120 Speaker 1: I am a ashamed Patriots fan. Uh since you are? Yeah, yeah, 175 00:10:29,200 --> 00:10:33,280 Speaker 1: since back? You're back before when when they were like 176 00:10:33,320 --> 00:10:36,439 Speaker 1: the underdogs going up against like the unbeatable St. Louis 177 00:10:36,520 --> 00:10:40,440 Speaker 1: Rams offense, and uh, rookie Tom Brady came out of 178 00:10:40,440 --> 00:10:43,040 Speaker 1: nowhere to to beat them. Yeah, but I've been a 179 00:10:43,040 --> 00:10:44,959 Speaker 1: fan since I was in high school. I used to 180 00:10:45,000 --> 00:10:48,480 Speaker 1: go to Patriots games and watch fucking Drew Bledsoe when 181 00:10:48,520 --> 00:10:53,640 Speaker 1: they saw Vinnie Testi Verdian ship. Yeah yeah, so uh yeah, 182 00:10:53,760 --> 00:10:56,000 Speaker 1: I didn't realize. You know, that's so funny because you 183 00:10:57,000 --> 00:10:59,000 Speaker 1: act like you're a neutral and then suddenly you're like, 184 00:10:59,040 --> 00:11:02,679 Speaker 1: I'm an ashamed tut Wow, look at you. It's dark. 185 00:11:02,800 --> 00:11:06,640 Speaker 1: It's it's also Robert Kraft. Yeah, exactly know. But my 186 00:11:06,640 --> 00:11:08,880 Speaker 1: favorite story about him is how Putin fucking straight up 187 00:11:08,920 --> 00:11:11,960 Speaker 1: stole his Super Bowl rate. Right. He Putin asked like 188 00:11:12,120 --> 00:11:15,200 Speaker 1: to see his super Bowl ring like a bullying like 189 00:11:15,600 --> 00:11:18,800 Speaker 1: third grade, but let me see that and just walked 190 00:11:18,840 --> 00:11:21,760 Speaker 1: out and Kraft was like, wait, where's he going? Right? 191 00:11:21,960 --> 00:11:25,720 Speaker 1: And apparently the kgbuys straight up like created like put 192 00:11:25,720 --> 00:11:29,479 Speaker 1: a lock up for him, Like I get out of here. Um, 193 00:11:29,600 --> 00:11:31,560 Speaker 1: here are some things that you could have heard if 194 00:11:31,559 --> 00:11:35,440 Speaker 1: you were listening in on the Philadelphia police uh scanner 195 00:11:35,600 --> 00:11:39,240 Speaker 1: last night. Uh, this is Sports Illustrated. The wait they 196 00:11:39,240 --> 00:11:41,439 Speaker 1: were using they were listening to the police. Yeah, they're 197 00:11:41,480 --> 00:11:44,439 Speaker 1: listening on the police scanner. Uh. Quote, we've got a 198 00:11:44,440 --> 00:11:47,360 Speaker 1: guy climbing a light pole, so that Chris did not work. 199 00:11:50,480 --> 00:11:56,320 Speaker 1: Then immediately like I'm gonna climb that ship. Uh, there's 200 00:11:56,320 --> 00:11:58,480 Speaker 1: a guy running nude. He's carrying a green T shirt 201 00:11:58,480 --> 00:12:01,679 Speaker 1: and a pair of jeans, blackmail and cowboy hat, throwing 202 00:12:01,679 --> 00:12:05,880 Speaker 1: fireworks into the crowd. Uh. Police officers made a call 203 00:12:06,000 --> 00:12:09,640 Speaker 1: for a strike force team. Uh, we're going to get 204 00:12:09,640 --> 00:12:13,360 Speaker 1: people off the statue. Next he's standing on top of 205 00:12:13,400 --> 00:12:17,240 Speaker 1: the bus stand. We lost the intersection like it's like 206 00:12:17,280 --> 00:12:23,280 Speaker 1: a yeah, lost territory. Uh. There was a bus with 207 00:12:23,480 --> 00:12:27,520 Speaker 1: NFL personnel that was stuck in traffic, like they couldn't 208 00:12:27,520 --> 00:12:30,720 Speaker 1: get out of the game because of just the citywide 209 00:12:30,880 --> 00:12:34,040 Speaker 1: riot happening, and the police said, we have a crowd 210 00:12:34,080 --> 00:12:38,080 Speaker 1: breaking out their windows. Nobody got hurt though, right, No, 211 00:12:38,200 --> 00:12:40,200 Speaker 1: I don't think so. I don't know other than that 212 00:12:40,200 --> 00:12:42,680 Speaker 1: guy who faced planted into that. Yeah that was yeah. 213 00:12:42,920 --> 00:12:45,880 Speaker 1: I p that's worth that's worth checking out. Um well, 214 00:12:45,880 --> 00:12:48,960 Speaker 1: that's good. Yeah, yeah, I'm glad that these things to 215 00:12:49,040 --> 00:12:52,240 Speaker 1: be so cathartic for people. So you know, you know, 216 00:12:52,480 --> 00:12:55,880 Speaker 1: despite the Chris go keep keep ascending that pool. Y'all right, 217 00:12:58,360 --> 00:13:02,640 Speaker 1: So we wanna talk again about the government shutdown. We 218 00:13:02,720 --> 00:13:07,840 Speaker 1: mentioned it yesterday. Uh we knew that they had reached 219 00:13:07,840 --> 00:13:11,000 Speaker 1: the deal to end the shutdown. Um people were talking 220 00:13:11,000 --> 00:13:14,719 Speaker 1: about the Democrats caving. Uh So, now that we know 221 00:13:15,000 --> 00:13:17,720 Speaker 1: exactly what the details are the deal, we wanted to 222 00:13:18,480 --> 00:13:23,160 Speaker 1: revisit the shutdown that was. Um so, looking on the 223 00:13:23,200 --> 00:13:28,599 Speaker 1: bright side, Uh, for people who have hearts, I guess 224 00:13:28,720 --> 00:13:32,560 Speaker 1: uh CHIP is funded. Uh so. I mean that's nine 225 00:13:32,600 --> 00:13:39,920 Speaker 1: million vulnerable poor people who now have coverage for healthcare. 226 00:13:40,040 --> 00:13:43,560 Speaker 1: You know, it's children who can now pay for their 227 00:13:43,600 --> 00:13:47,960 Speaker 1: health care. Uh so that's good. Uh. The Democrats are 228 00:13:48,040 --> 00:13:51,520 Speaker 1: kind of spinning that as like the thing that they won, 229 00:13:52,280 --> 00:13:54,160 Speaker 1: or at least I've seen it spun that way in 230 00:13:54,160 --> 00:13:57,080 Speaker 1: a couple of places. And I mean it's important to 231 00:13:57,160 --> 00:14:00,240 Speaker 1: note that that was there on the table a well. 232 00:14:00,280 --> 00:14:05,040 Speaker 1: The Republicans had agreed to fund CHIP before the shutdown. 233 00:14:05,600 --> 00:14:07,920 Speaker 1: The Democrats that said no, we want to shut down 234 00:14:07,920 --> 00:14:13,040 Speaker 1: and hold out for DOCCA, and then they eventually just 235 00:14:13,160 --> 00:14:15,679 Speaker 1: went back to Okay, yeah, we're good with that thing 236 00:14:15,720 --> 00:14:21,320 Speaker 1: you offered before. Um so yeah, why why did they 237 00:14:21,680 --> 00:14:25,040 Speaker 1: do that? It was like sort of a waffle, right, Yeah, well, 238 00:14:25,080 --> 00:14:27,600 Speaker 1: I think clearly it's not like a straight up victory, 239 00:14:27,680 --> 00:14:30,680 Speaker 1: like a master stroke of negotiating tactics, because that was 240 00:14:30,720 --> 00:14:33,160 Speaker 1: always them saying like, hey, just let's fund the government. 241 00:14:33,240 --> 00:14:35,520 Speaker 1: You can get CHIP funded, and the Democrats want a DACA. 242 00:14:35,840 --> 00:14:38,120 Speaker 1: But now that that's off the table, they can no 243 00:14:38,200 --> 00:14:40,200 Speaker 1: longer draw this connection because that was sort of the 244 00:14:40,200 --> 00:14:42,840 Speaker 1: messaging from the GOP two was trying to say, the 245 00:14:43,360 --> 00:14:46,680 Speaker 1: Democrats are choosing these dreamers over American people, like such 246 00:14:46,680 --> 00:14:49,160 Speaker 1: as vulnerable children who need health insurance. So now that 247 00:14:49,160 --> 00:14:51,640 Speaker 1: that's off the table, that can have there can be 248 00:14:51,640 --> 00:14:53,640 Speaker 1: a little bit of a cleaner discussion now when we're 249 00:14:53,640 --> 00:14:56,200 Speaker 1: talking about DOCCA and why if there is another threat 250 00:14:56,240 --> 00:14:59,040 Speaker 1: of a shutdown, like what those stakes are? Yeah, I 251 00:14:59,040 --> 00:15:02,400 Speaker 1: mean the republic Is were always for funding CHIP, but 252 00:15:02,640 --> 00:15:06,680 Speaker 1: by withholding funding for CHIP like whenever they stopped I 253 00:15:07,000 --> 00:15:10,160 Speaker 1: think you were saying it was back in October September, 254 00:15:11,200 --> 00:15:14,400 Speaker 1: they sort of weaponized CHIPS so that they had this 255 00:15:15,680 --> 00:15:19,240 Speaker 1: thing to hang over the Democrats head and say, this 256 00:15:19,640 --> 00:15:23,400 Speaker 1: is you know what you're saying, you don't want to 257 00:15:23,440 --> 00:15:26,840 Speaker 1: fund in favor of DOCCA. So it's you know, it's 258 00:15:26,880 --> 00:15:31,240 Speaker 1: a that they're playing chess better than the Democrats. In 259 00:15:31,280 --> 00:15:35,640 Speaker 1: that case, the Republicans were I understand though, why people 260 00:15:35,880 --> 00:15:39,520 Speaker 1: are kind of get it reacting so negatively to the 261 00:15:39,560 --> 00:15:45,360 Speaker 1: Democrats just immediately caving because the Democrats have historically not 262 00:15:45,840 --> 00:15:49,920 Speaker 1: been able to hold the line on anything like populist. 263 00:15:50,080 --> 00:15:54,200 Speaker 1: They just their immediate instinct is to go centrist. Uh. 264 00:15:54,240 --> 00:15:56,800 Speaker 1: That that was the case with like Hillary Clinton going 265 00:15:56,880 --> 00:16:01,400 Speaker 1: with Hillary over Bernie. Um. I mean, so the Republicans 266 00:16:01,440 --> 00:16:04,640 Speaker 1: have a populist movement, uh, and they have ever since 267 00:16:04,920 --> 00:16:07,200 Speaker 1: the Tea Party kind of burst on the scene and 268 00:16:07,720 --> 00:16:12,320 Speaker 1: started taking advantage of the fact that America's super racist 269 00:16:12,400 --> 00:16:16,440 Speaker 1: and you know, wanted a reason to hate Obama. Uh. 270 00:16:16,720 --> 00:16:22,440 Speaker 1: The Democrats like don't really have a populist movement. I mean, 271 00:16:22,480 --> 00:16:25,440 Speaker 1: they're sort of getting one with this sort of the 272 00:16:25,560 --> 00:16:30,320 Speaker 1: resistance and this left word pool. Uh, but I just 273 00:16:30,360 --> 00:16:33,600 Speaker 1: feel like populism is going to be the wave of 274 00:16:33,640 --> 00:16:36,960 Speaker 1: the next twenty years, like as information is freed and 275 00:16:37,360 --> 00:16:42,080 Speaker 1: more people are more informed and like understand how unjust 276 00:16:42,080 --> 00:16:45,200 Speaker 1: the system is. Like the Democrats like need their own 277 00:16:45,240 --> 00:16:49,920 Speaker 1: tea party equivalent that talks about economic equality inequality, because 278 00:16:49,960 --> 00:16:53,520 Speaker 1: that's like a position that nobody has really staked out 279 00:16:53,600 --> 00:16:56,480 Speaker 1: as their own, and it's like probably the biggest problem 280 00:16:56,520 --> 00:16:59,720 Speaker 1: in America, and it should be a huge advantage. Like 281 00:16:59,760 --> 00:17:02,920 Speaker 1: the you know, Trump talked towards it, but then once 282 00:17:02,920 --> 00:17:07,240 Speaker 1: he got into office, he specifically, like you know, enacted 283 00:17:07,320 --> 00:17:12,600 Speaker 1: policy were completely the exact opposite of it. So it 284 00:17:12,640 --> 00:17:15,280 Speaker 1: seems like it should be a huge advantage for Democrats 285 00:17:15,320 --> 00:17:18,800 Speaker 1: since nobody is filling that role and it has it 286 00:17:18,840 --> 00:17:20,959 Speaker 1: would seem to have the truth on its side. But 287 00:17:21,600 --> 00:17:24,360 Speaker 1: I feel like the Democrats who are in power are 288 00:17:24,840 --> 00:17:29,160 Speaker 1: sort of continuing to play politics. Yeah, it shose are 289 00:17:29,240 --> 00:17:31,960 Speaker 1: like meta strategy that has been for a long time 290 00:17:32,040 --> 00:17:34,880 Speaker 1: of just like we're going to try to gain momentum 291 00:17:34,960 --> 00:17:38,600 Speaker 1: by being the rational party, by uh, you know, finding 292 00:17:38,640 --> 00:17:41,439 Speaker 1: compromise and stuff like that. But it really just ends 293 00:17:41,520 --> 00:17:44,760 Speaker 1: up like our government just goes farther to the right 294 00:17:45,160 --> 00:17:48,000 Speaker 1: when they pave in things like this. Uh, in smaller 295 00:17:48,040 --> 00:17:50,720 Speaker 1: and smaller ways, you can see that, like clearly the 296 00:17:50,800 --> 00:17:55,639 Speaker 1: people who voted no right on this cr yesterday, those 297 00:17:55,640 --> 00:17:57,439 Speaker 1: are the people who are going to be running on 298 00:17:57,480 --> 00:18:00,119 Speaker 1: that populous message like you know, like the Jilla brand is, 299 00:18:00,160 --> 00:18:03,879 Speaker 1: Elizabeth Warrens, the Kamala Harris's, the Corey Booker's, the Bernie 300 00:18:03,920 --> 00:18:07,160 Speaker 1: Sanders of the world. They clearly did that because they 301 00:18:07,200 --> 00:18:10,080 Speaker 1: know that they are going to hang their hat on 302 00:18:10,119 --> 00:18:12,360 Speaker 1: that vote. And they're also going to be like, look, 303 00:18:12,440 --> 00:18:15,280 Speaker 1: I've they know who their basis that they are trying 304 00:18:15,280 --> 00:18:18,000 Speaker 1: to appeal to with that vote. And I think that's why. 305 00:18:18,119 --> 00:18:19,880 Speaker 1: And and it seems and I guess when you see 306 00:18:19,880 --> 00:18:21,400 Speaker 1: that these are kind of the people who are starting 307 00:18:21,440 --> 00:18:24,959 Speaker 1: to emerge as likely people to run in that I 308 00:18:25,000 --> 00:18:27,399 Speaker 1: think that we will see that message come back. I 309 00:18:27,440 --> 00:18:30,200 Speaker 1: mean Elizabeth Warren Is I mean talking about like economic 310 00:18:30,359 --> 00:18:37,320 Speaker 1: inequality for forever right by the way. Yeah, uh was 311 00:18:37,400 --> 00:18:42,200 Speaker 1: Monique st Um. Yeah, there are certainly Democrats who are 312 00:18:42,680 --> 00:18:44,919 Speaker 1: kind of moving in that populous direction. It just seems 313 00:18:44,960 --> 00:18:49,119 Speaker 1: like overall, like whoever is in control of the party, 314 00:18:49,200 --> 00:18:53,000 Speaker 1: like the Schumer's and like the just the Democratic Party 315 00:18:53,560 --> 00:18:57,160 Speaker 1: writ large, tends to always go in the centrist direction. 316 00:18:57,240 --> 00:18:59,880 Speaker 1: Well yeah, because I mean look Tom Perez the head 317 00:18:59,880 --> 00:19:01,800 Speaker 1: of DNC, and he is not he is not of 318 00:19:01,840 --> 00:19:05,560 Speaker 1: this this ilk of Democrat like this is you know, 319 00:19:05,720 --> 00:19:08,280 Speaker 1: I think it's where there's going to be a generational shift. 320 00:19:08,320 --> 00:19:10,520 Speaker 1: I think that's where the next iteration is. That's why 321 00:19:10,560 --> 00:19:13,239 Speaker 1: there's such a you know, for all the fracturing and 322 00:19:13,840 --> 00:19:16,520 Speaker 1: factioning off that's happening in the Republican Party, it's it's 323 00:19:16,640 --> 00:19:19,119 Speaker 1: happening in the Democratic Party too, because there's clearly a 324 00:19:19,359 --> 00:19:21,440 Speaker 1: there's a large group of people who are like, you know, 325 00:19:21,560 --> 00:19:23,560 Speaker 1: we can go, we can go harder, Like we can go, 326 00:19:23,640 --> 00:19:26,200 Speaker 1: we can do better, and we can we can fight 327 00:19:26,240 --> 00:19:28,800 Speaker 1: a little bit harder. Yeah. It just seems crazy to 328 00:19:28,840 --> 00:19:31,359 Speaker 1: me that neither party has been like, we are the 329 00:19:31,440 --> 00:19:34,840 Speaker 1: party that does what's best for the majority. Of the 330 00:19:34,880 --> 00:19:38,240 Speaker 1: country and then like actually does that, Like that's nobody 331 00:19:38,320 --> 00:19:42,520 Speaker 1: nobody has done that like Trump had the you know, 332 00:19:43,720 --> 00:19:46,560 Speaker 1: used some of the talking points to suggest that he 333 00:19:46,600 --> 00:19:50,520 Speaker 1: would do that and then did did the opposite. But yeah, 334 00:19:50,560 --> 00:19:54,840 Speaker 1: nobody has been like, hey, we are both not racist 335 00:19:55,040 --> 00:19:58,080 Speaker 1: and interested in helping the vast majority of the country 336 00:19:58,119 --> 00:20:04,440 Speaker 1: that is poor or poorer than the people who are empowered. Um. 337 00:20:04,520 --> 00:20:07,200 Speaker 1: So I don't know. All right, we gotta take a 338 00:20:07,280 --> 00:20:18,000 Speaker 1: quick break, guess, but we will be right back. And 339 00:20:18,160 --> 00:20:24,800 Speaker 1: we're back, uh speaking of propagandah, so the fake news 340 00:20:24,840 --> 00:20:29,000 Speaker 1: will tell you no. Uh. The Sessions was interviewed by Mueller. 341 00:20:29,119 --> 00:20:33,800 Speaker 1: Apparently we're we're just learning this Trump says she he 342 00:20:33,880 --> 00:20:37,560 Speaker 1: doesn't care. He's totally cool with it. Um but what 343 00:20:37,680 --> 00:20:39,960 Speaker 1: so what what are the details of this man? I 344 00:20:39,960 --> 00:20:44,040 Speaker 1: mean clearly so, yes, Jeff Sessions last week was interviewed 345 00:20:44,080 --> 00:20:46,679 Speaker 1: by Robert Mueller for several hours. And you know, I 346 00:20:46,680 --> 00:20:48,920 Speaker 1: I couldn't think of any reason why you would want 347 00:20:48,920 --> 00:20:51,560 Speaker 1: to interview interview you know, Jeff Sessions, unless it's like 348 00:20:51,840 --> 00:20:54,280 Speaker 1: about the times he was like lying about meeting with 349 00:20:54,359 --> 00:20:58,840 Speaker 1: Russian ambassadors or uh, you know, maybe committing a little 350 00:20:58,880 --> 00:21:01,760 Speaker 1: bit of perjury talking about his Russia connections, or that 351 00:21:01,840 --> 00:21:05,040 Speaker 1: he knew about Jared Kushner and his involvement. And I mean, 352 00:21:05,080 --> 00:21:06,840 Speaker 1: there's many things, but I don't know, I couldn't. I 353 00:21:06,880 --> 00:21:10,520 Speaker 1: couldn't tell you why. But clearly, I mean, yes, I 354 00:21:10,520 --> 00:21:12,879 Speaker 1: have a feeling that Robert Mueller was really putting him 355 00:21:12,880 --> 00:21:14,239 Speaker 1: to the sword to try and get some answers out 356 00:21:14,240 --> 00:21:16,840 Speaker 1: of him, to begin trying to figure out what is 357 00:21:16,880 --> 00:21:19,240 Speaker 1: going on in all this Russia ship. But I ask 358 00:21:19,280 --> 00:21:21,640 Speaker 1: a question, why do we think he's going to tell 359 00:21:21,680 --> 00:21:25,200 Speaker 1: the truth now? I think now it could be easier 360 00:21:25,240 --> 00:21:26,960 Speaker 1: to he's not. He hasn't been in front of a 361 00:21:27,000 --> 00:21:29,000 Speaker 1: grand jury or anything like that. So if he lies, 362 00:21:29,119 --> 00:21:32,160 Speaker 1: it's there, it's less. I think the stakes are lower 363 00:21:32,560 --> 00:21:36,560 Speaker 1: versus now lying to like real federal investigators, because now 364 00:21:36,600 --> 00:21:39,159 Speaker 1: that's that's a completely different bag of worms, because he 365 00:21:39,160 --> 00:21:42,000 Speaker 1: can put a case together be like you actually completely 366 00:21:42,040 --> 00:21:46,360 Speaker 1: deceived this investigation. So I think there's definitely that degree 367 00:21:46,440 --> 00:21:48,760 Speaker 1: of you know that this is a different set of 368 00:21:48,800 --> 00:21:51,720 Speaker 1: circumstances than before, like whether it's a confirmation hearing where 369 00:21:51,720 --> 00:21:54,600 Speaker 1: he first lied things like that, where this is completely 370 00:21:54,600 --> 00:21:56,640 Speaker 1: different because now he's involved in an investor, It wasn't 371 00:21:56,760 --> 00:22:00,760 Speaker 1: everything he said up till now was not against the law. Well, 372 00:22:00,880 --> 00:22:03,680 Speaker 1: I think clearly people are saying that we're making the case, 373 00:22:03,720 --> 00:22:05,719 Speaker 1: but I think now it's it's sort of it's to 374 00:22:05,720 --> 00:22:07,720 Speaker 1: the point where we just want to make sure we 375 00:22:07,760 --> 00:22:10,840 Speaker 1: can get the proper full view of what is happening 376 00:22:10,880 --> 00:22:13,520 Speaker 1: here and and hold everyone responsible from the point of 377 00:22:13,600 --> 00:22:17,680 Speaker 1: view of this investing. Now it's double secret probation. Yeah, exactactly. 378 00:22:17,880 --> 00:22:20,040 Speaker 1: And who knows already because clearly other people have talked 379 00:22:20,040 --> 00:22:22,720 Speaker 1: to Mutherer, people have already made plea deals. So I'm 380 00:22:22,720 --> 00:22:24,640 Speaker 1: sure he has a set of facts that he's operating 381 00:22:24,680 --> 00:22:26,920 Speaker 1: with and trying to sort of juxtapose that with whatever 382 00:22:26,960 --> 00:22:30,400 Speaker 1: Sessions is saying. But what was interesting is that, Yeah, 383 00:22:30,960 --> 00:22:33,879 Speaker 1: the Jeff Sessions actually was really kind of coy about 384 00:22:33,960 --> 00:22:36,560 Speaker 1: this meeting with the White House. Donald Trump was really like, Hey, 385 00:22:36,560 --> 00:22:39,159 Speaker 1: what what you talk about? What were the questions? What 386 00:22:39,200 --> 00:22:41,240 Speaker 1: was on the test? Like did you ask about this thing? 387 00:22:41,920 --> 00:22:44,840 Speaker 1: Who did he vote for? Yeah? Exactly and uh and 388 00:22:44,840 --> 00:22:48,320 Speaker 1: and apparently Jeff Sessions was holding the cards pretty close 389 00:22:48,359 --> 00:22:51,399 Speaker 1: to the chest, so, which is definitely not what the 390 00:22:51,440 --> 00:22:55,440 Speaker 1: president wants to hear, Like, oh, I don't worry about it, nobody, Yeah, exactly, 391 00:22:55,480 --> 00:22:58,840 Speaker 1: just giving like non detailed answers exactly. So that's why 392 00:22:58,840 --> 00:23:01,760 Speaker 1: then you cut to this quote yesterday if they're asking like, hey, 393 00:23:01,800 --> 00:23:03,560 Speaker 1: are you worried about this meeting? So it's like, oh, no, 394 00:23:03,600 --> 00:23:05,800 Speaker 1: absolutely not, I'm not. I'm fine. It's great, it's fine. 395 00:23:05,880 --> 00:23:07,680 Speaker 1: And then and then stop the interviews like Okay, no 396 00:23:07,720 --> 00:23:11,159 Speaker 1: more questions. Why So clearly, you know Trump is a 397 00:23:11,160 --> 00:23:13,960 Speaker 1: little shook. But I guess that feeds into now this 398 00:23:14,080 --> 00:23:17,159 Speaker 1: sort of new attempt from the GOLP to sort of 399 00:23:17,200 --> 00:23:20,239 Speaker 1: really begin discrediting the FBI, because that's like become like 400 00:23:20,400 --> 00:23:23,920 Speaker 1: a huge news lineout the last couple of weeks. Whether 401 00:23:23,960 --> 00:23:27,399 Speaker 1: it's apparently like Trump was leaning on Chris Ray to 402 00:23:27,440 --> 00:23:29,520 Speaker 1: get rid of the deputy director of the FBI had 403 00:23:29,520 --> 00:23:31,960 Speaker 1: a McCabe, and it looks just looks like they're trying 404 00:23:32,000 --> 00:23:34,399 Speaker 1: to you know, clean house a little bit at FBI 405 00:23:34,560 --> 00:23:38,159 Speaker 1: because they're like the one law enforcement agency that has 406 00:23:38,200 --> 00:23:41,080 Speaker 1: the most information, it seems like, or their most vocal 407 00:23:41,119 --> 00:23:44,280 Speaker 1: about their concerns about what was going on. The campaign 408 00:23:44,440 --> 00:23:47,399 Speaker 1: hashtag released the memo, right, yeah, and that the memo 409 00:23:47,720 --> 00:23:50,359 Speaker 1: that so that huge hashtag that got circulated widely. A 410 00:23:50,359 --> 00:23:52,560 Speaker 1: lot of people were speculating like, oh, it's it's Russian 411 00:23:52,600 --> 00:23:55,520 Speaker 1: bots that are are you know, are spreading this. I mean, 412 00:23:55,560 --> 00:23:57,640 Speaker 1: to a certain extent, that may be true. But according 413 00:23:57,640 --> 00:24:00,360 Speaker 1: to like Twitter's internal analysis, someone at toy or said, 414 00:24:00,440 --> 00:24:03,720 Speaker 1: it's it's being you know, retweeted a lot in the States. Um. 415 00:24:03,760 --> 00:24:06,720 Speaker 1: But yeah, this memo that everyone's talking about is this 416 00:24:06,840 --> 00:24:10,920 Speaker 1: report that Republicans and the House Intelligence Committee we're saying 417 00:24:10,960 --> 00:24:14,600 Speaker 1: like they have proof of like widespread surveillance abuse from 418 00:24:14,640 --> 00:24:17,199 Speaker 1: the FBI, and like that the FBI has this corrupt 419 00:24:17,240 --> 00:24:20,439 Speaker 1: agenda to undermine the president and you know, to to 420 00:24:20,800 --> 00:24:24,320 Speaker 1: throw him out of office. And that's makes sense. I 421 00:24:24,320 --> 00:24:26,639 Speaker 1: guess when you're trying to discredit the people who have 422 00:24:26,720 --> 00:24:29,880 Speaker 1: all the receipts and evidence that of all you're wrong doing, 423 00:24:30,480 --> 00:24:32,679 Speaker 1: there's no better way to to try and get no, 424 00:24:32,760 --> 00:24:36,720 Speaker 1: there's no better defense than to say the offense is lying. Um. 425 00:24:36,760 --> 00:24:39,359 Speaker 1: So yeah, So they have this memo that's going around 426 00:24:39,440 --> 00:24:42,200 Speaker 1: and it's just sort of ramping up more and more 427 00:24:42,320 --> 00:24:44,760 Speaker 1: and more, which looks like the actions of people who 428 00:24:44,760 --> 00:24:46,520 Speaker 1: may have something to hide, not people who are on 429 00:24:46,560 --> 00:24:49,159 Speaker 1: the right side of things. It's like roaches complaining that 430 00:24:49,200 --> 00:24:52,120 Speaker 1: you turn the light up. Yeah, right exactly, and then 431 00:24:52,160 --> 00:24:54,600 Speaker 1: saying that the light is lying or like, don't believe 432 00:24:54,600 --> 00:24:56,679 Speaker 1: that this is this is artificial light. We are not 433 00:24:56,760 --> 00:24:59,080 Speaker 1: roaches either, We are human beings, so we should not 434 00:24:59,240 --> 00:25:01,119 Speaker 1: kill us. Like, I don't know how far you can 435 00:25:01,160 --> 00:25:04,800 Speaker 1: go with that, pretty yeah apparently. So now it's just 436 00:25:04,840 --> 00:25:08,199 Speaker 1: getting kind of dangerous because you have actual senators like 437 00:25:08,320 --> 00:25:11,280 Speaker 1: Ron Johnson went on Fox News yesterday and is trying 438 00:25:11,320 --> 00:25:14,440 Speaker 1: to push this like that the FBI has this secret society. 439 00:25:14,840 --> 00:25:17,160 Speaker 1: This is Ron Johnson talking to Brett Bear on Fox 440 00:25:17,240 --> 00:25:19,520 Speaker 1: last night. We haven't we have an informant that's talking 441 00:25:19,560 --> 00:25:22,760 Speaker 1: about a group that were holding secret meetings off site. 442 00:25:23,520 --> 00:25:25,560 Speaker 1: There are there's so much smoke here, there's so much 443 00:25:25,640 --> 00:25:28,880 Speaker 1: special let's let's stop. There a secret society, a secret 444 00:25:29,160 --> 00:25:32,240 Speaker 1: meetings offside of the Justice Department. Correct, And you have 445 00:25:32,280 --> 00:25:36,520 Speaker 1: an informant saying that, yes, is there anything more about 446 00:25:36,520 --> 00:25:39,520 Speaker 1: that we have to dig into? Wait, where is this? 447 00:25:39,520 --> 00:25:41,919 Speaker 1: This is? That's Ron Johnson talking to Brett Bear like 448 00:25:41,960 --> 00:25:43,480 Speaker 1: he's on the hill, like you can clear he's I 449 00:25:43,520 --> 00:25:46,720 Speaker 1: think he's in the Capitol building. Based on that, like echo, um, 450 00:25:46,840 --> 00:25:48,800 Speaker 1: you know who's Brett Bear. What what Oh, he's like 451 00:25:48,840 --> 00:25:52,960 Speaker 1: a Fox News box anchor. Just discount this as oh 452 00:25:53,000 --> 00:25:58,480 Speaker 1: what the comic book said, right, the ministry. So what's 453 00:25:58,480 --> 00:26:00,920 Speaker 1: funny is, yeah, this is him saying, you know, there's 454 00:26:00,920 --> 00:26:03,879 Speaker 1: a secret society, and they're basing it off these texts 455 00:26:04,320 --> 00:26:06,040 Speaker 1: that one of the guys in the FBI had said, 456 00:26:06,080 --> 00:26:08,520 Speaker 1: like the day after the election, that I think could 457 00:26:08,520 --> 00:26:11,639 Speaker 1: have been read pretty flippantly of sort of like oh god, 458 00:26:11,680 --> 00:26:14,360 Speaker 1: like I guess I have these like secret secret society 459 00:26:14,359 --> 00:26:17,000 Speaker 1: meetings now kind of thing. And they've just latched onto 460 00:26:17,000 --> 00:26:19,879 Speaker 1: this one text to sort of justify this idea of 461 00:26:19,920 --> 00:26:23,479 Speaker 1: their being this like other dark entity happening. What they 462 00:26:23,480 --> 00:26:25,720 Speaker 1: don't talk about is that same FBI agent in the 463 00:26:25,760 --> 00:26:28,080 Speaker 1: beginning of it. One of the texts they have was 464 00:26:28,119 --> 00:26:30,480 Speaker 1: also him saying that he wasn't quite sure there was 465 00:26:30,520 --> 00:26:34,000 Speaker 1: any there there with the Russia collusion thing. So it's 466 00:26:34,000 --> 00:26:36,560 Speaker 1: funny they're like, rather than using this text like they 467 00:26:36,560 --> 00:26:38,640 Speaker 1: could hang up like, well, this FBI guy never thought 468 00:26:38,640 --> 00:26:41,000 Speaker 1: there was anything there, being like this FBI guys started 469 00:26:41,040 --> 00:26:44,320 Speaker 1: a secret society to try and undermine the president. Um. 470 00:26:44,359 --> 00:26:48,800 Speaker 1: And now then you cut to Lou Dabbs. Who's my goodness, 471 00:26:48,840 --> 00:26:52,280 Speaker 1: he has fallen quite far. Uh he Trump are very 472 00:26:52,520 --> 00:26:56,320 Speaker 1: very way back talk on a regular basis. Yeah. So 473 00:26:56,720 --> 00:26:59,479 Speaker 1: this is what Lou Dobbs was pushing in his opening 474 00:26:59,480 --> 00:27:03,240 Speaker 1: monologue his show, uh last night, uh for on Fox 475 00:27:03,280 --> 00:27:06,439 Speaker 1: Business Channel. Good evening, everybody. It may be time to 476 00:27:06,520 --> 00:27:10,120 Speaker 1: declare war outright against the deep state and clear out 477 00:27:10,160 --> 00:27:13,119 Speaker 1: the rot in the upper levels of the FBI and 478 00:27:13,200 --> 00:27:16,800 Speaker 1: the Justice Department. Yes, I said the rot. The FBI 479 00:27:16,920 --> 00:27:19,439 Speaker 1: and the d o J have broken the public trust 480 00:27:19,720 --> 00:27:24,200 Speaker 1: by destroying evidence, defying oversight, and actively trying to bring 481 00:27:24,240 --> 00:27:28,399 Speaker 1: down the Trump presidency. Tonight, there are new concerns that 482 00:27:28,560 --> 00:27:33,160 Speaker 1: anti Trump FBI officials formed even a secret society at 483 00:27:33,200 --> 00:27:38,159 Speaker 1: the FBI to subvert the president after his election. So 484 00:27:38,359 --> 00:27:41,040 Speaker 1: this is just like a comic book. Yeah, of course, 485 00:27:41,359 --> 00:27:44,239 Speaker 1: it just sounds like like second rate propaganda, you know, 486 00:27:44,600 --> 00:27:46,760 Speaker 1: and not even good. Yeah, it's not even good. It 487 00:27:46,840 --> 00:27:50,199 Speaker 1: should learn more from the Russians on how to do it, Yeah, exactly. Uh, 488 00:27:50,359 --> 00:27:53,280 Speaker 1: it's just it's just really it's just dangerous. You know 489 00:27:53,320 --> 00:27:55,160 Speaker 1: that this is like if you are living in this 490 00:27:55,359 --> 00:27:58,600 Speaker 1: Fox News bubble that now they're trying to force feed 491 00:27:58,600 --> 00:28:02,360 Speaker 1: this idea that FBI is actually the enemy of the state. Well, 492 00:28:02,440 --> 00:28:04,040 Speaker 1: the only dangerous thing is that a third of the 493 00:28:04,040 --> 00:28:08,480 Speaker 1: country believes this. Yeah, right, it's that concerted kind of 494 00:28:08,560 --> 00:28:12,040 Speaker 1: messaging machine of Fox News. And then when you go 495 00:28:12,119 --> 00:28:15,280 Speaker 1: to a Drudge Report, Uh it is. It has been 496 00:28:15,359 --> 00:28:18,880 Speaker 1: nothing but memo gate ever since, you know, a few 497 00:28:18,960 --> 00:28:22,160 Speaker 1: days ago. Now, Secret Society is one of the top 498 00:28:22,200 --> 00:28:27,120 Speaker 1: headlines on Drudge Report. Whistleblower Colin's Secret Society held off 499 00:28:27,160 --> 00:28:30,639 Speaker 1: site meeting. Uh. This is based on a single text 500 00:28:30,680 --> 00:28:34,000 Speaker 1: message that you know, we don't know what the context 501 00:28:34,080 --> 00:28:38,040 Speaker 1: is at all. Um. There's also five months of miss 502 00:28:38,120 --> 00:28:42,880 Speaker 1: missing messages between two FBI agents I think to Department 503 00:28:42,960 --> 00:28:45,120 Speaker 1: of I mean, yea. At this point, they're just really 504 00:28:45,160 --> 00:28:47,520 Speaker 1: grasping at anything to try and to try and give 505 00:28:47,720 --> 00:28:53,720 Speaker 1: any kind of veracity to right, That's how guilty people act. Yeah, exactly, everybody. 506 00:28:53,760 --> 00:28:55,600 Speaker 1: You know, it's like a rat in a corner. You're 507 00:28:55,680 --> 00:28:59,000 Speaker 1: gonna bite you. Yeah, and they're running out of teeth basically, 508 00:28:59,080 --> 00:29:02,280 Speaker 1: So we'll see how crazy it gets. But yeah, clearly 509 00:29:02,280 --> 00:29:04,960 Speaker 1: the FBI, you know, time and time again, they have 510 00:29:05,040 --> 00:29:07,880 Speaker 1: been the ones to uncover the lies or whenever someone 511 00:29:07,880 --> 00:29:10,320 Speaker 1: has not been honest about their interactions with foreign governments 512 00:29:10,320 --> 00:29:12,480 Speaker 1: and things they ever been willing step into, Like actually, 513 00:29:12,480 --> 00:29:15,400 Speaker 1: we've we've surveilled the phone conversations, and we know that 514 00:29:15,400 --> 00:29:17,920 Speaker 1: for a fact that that's a lie. So that's their 515 00:29:17,920 --> 00:29:20,160 Speaker 1: tactic is like if you descredit the FBI, then maybe 516 00:29:20,160 --> 00:29:22,040 Speaker 1: they can get the whole thing to go away. And 517 00:29:22,080 --> 00:29:26,160 Speaker 1: so the release the memo, Uh what memo are they talking? 518 00:29:26,360 --> 00:29:28,680 Speaker 1: This is the one that the House Intel Committee is saying, like, 519 00:29:29,000 --> 00:29:31,640 Speaker 1: we've been looking at some stuff and we've put together 520 00:29:31,760 --> 00:29:36,520 Speaker 1: this report, this memo, this memorandum outlining all the abuses 521 00:29:36,560 --> 00:29:38,560 Speaker 1: of power that we you know, that the FBI is 522 00:29:38,600 --> 00:29:41,240 Speaker 1: doing and overreaching with surveillance. And they're like, oh, when 523 00:29:41,280 --> 00:29:43,440 Speaker 1: you see this, it's gonna blow your mind. So the 524 00:29:43,480 --> 00:29:47,320 Speaker 1: memo is produced by them, right, it's produced by these 525 00:29:47,320 --> 00:29:50,080 Speaker 1: people who want to claim, who want to discredit the 526 00:29:50,080 --> 00:29:53,560 Speaker 1: FBI's investigation. So they're just saying, oh, man, if only 527 00:29:53,600 --> 00:29:55,920 Speaker 1: you could see this thing we wrote over here, and 528 00:29:56,120 --> 00:29:58,000 Speaker 1: then then they're trying to create like this groundswell of 529 00:29:58,080 --> 00:30:00,840 Speaker 1: people being like you should release it. Then release the memo. 530 00:30:01,160 --> 00:30:04,520 Speaker 1: But I assumed when I saw that hashtag that it 531 00:30:04,680 --> 00:30:08,320 Speaker 1: was some sort of primary document like that. They were like, wait, 532 00:30:08,320 --> 00:30:10,600 Speaker 1: way do you see this memo that we uncovered? But 533 00:30:10,640 --> 00:30:13,640 Speaker 1: it's way do you see this memo that we wait, yeah, 534 00:30:13,680 --> 00:30:17,400 Speaker 1: wait until you see this book report. I did exactly. Okay, 535 00:30:17,720 --> 00:30:19,880 Speaker 1: why don't why don't you just tell us what you 536 00:30:19,920 --> 00:30:24,640 Speaker 1: want to tell us? Um, But anyways, it's all grand theater. Yeah, 537 00:30:24,880 --> 00:30:28,680 Speaker 1: so uh pretty bit theater. Yeah. Is there any occasion 538 00:30:28,800 --> 00:30:33,400 Speaker 1: that this is going to affect the Muller investigation, We'll see. 539 00:30:33,440 --> 00:30:36,440 Speaker 1: I mean, I who's who's to know anymore? Because if 540 00:30:36,720 --> 00:30:39,480 Speaker 1: there's constantly been this thread of Mueller being fired, and 541 00:30:39,520 --> 00:30:41,120 Speaker 1: who knows if it's gonna happen if it doesn't, I 542 00:30:41,120 --> 00:30:44,600 Speaker 1: think Sara Hugby Sanders yesterday said, oh I can't you know, 543 00:30:44,640 --> 00:30:47,000 Speaker 1: we I don't. We're not thinking about firing Mueller because 544 00:30:47,000 --> 00:30:50,040 Speaker 1: the left wing media would go crazy. Yes, Like yeah, 545 00:30:50,080 --> 00:30:53,360 Speaker 1: that's why, because you're you're worried more about the optics 546 00:30:53,440 --> 00:30:55,880 Speaker 1: from the media than you are like the actual investigation. 547 00:30:55,960 --> 00:30:59,160 Speaker 1: So uh well she she's at the like yeah, and 548 00:30:59,400 --> 00:31:03,960 Speaker 1: once again this is a great uh indication of you 549 00:31:03,960 --> 00:31:05,720 Speaker 1: know what I've been talking about the past couple of 550 00:31:05,800 --> 00:31:08,800 Speaker 1: days about how they they talk about there being a 551 00:31:08,920 --> 00:31:12,720 Speaker 1: left wing bias in the media. They actually have a 552 00:31:12,800 --> 00:31:17,360 Speaker 1: whole corporation that is just regurgitating their talking points, like 553 00:31:17,880 --> 00:31:21,080 Speaker 1: straight from like what they want them to say. It's 554 00:31:21,120 --> 00:31:25,040 Speaker 1: going out directly to the audience. And the left doesn't 555 00:31:25,080 --> 00:31:27,880 Speaker 1: have that. The left has people who are trying to 556 00:31:27,920 --> 00:31:31,360 Speaker 1: tell both sides of the story. Uh And I think 557 00:31:31,400 --> 00:31:35,640 Speaker 1: it's a huge disadvantage. I think that's how these crazy 558 00:31:35,680 --> 00:31:40,200 Speaker 1: sort of conspiracy theories suddenly take off, is that there, 559 00:31:40,840 --> 00:31:44,200 Speaker 1: you know, the left has totally It's like watching the 560 00:31:44,280 --> 00:31:48,080 Speaker 1: Democrats try and negotiate with the GOP, and you know, 561 00:31:48,160 --> 00:31:50,880 Speaker 1: the GOP says, oh, well, you guys have a left 562 00:31:50,920 --> 00:31:54,680 Speaker 1: wing bias. And so that's the beginning of the argument 563 00:31:54,760 --> 00:31:58,400 Speaker 1: that like the media is just starts from well, we 564 00:31:58,440 --> 00:32:00,880 Speaker 1: do have left wing bias. But uh the thing you 565 00:32:00,880 --> 00:32:04,840 Speaker 1: have to understand is rather than you know, having their 566 00:32:04,880 --> 00:32:08,600 Speaker 1: own Fox News, uh so, and by left wing they 567 00:32:08,600 --> 00:32:12,760 Speaker 1: mean human right exactly or yeah, or you know, uh 568 00:32:12,960 --> 00:32:18,400 Speaker 1: fact oriented. Now in some news that does seem to 569 00:32:18,520 --> 00:32:22,240 Speaker 1: be bringing us closer to some form of sci fi dystopia. 570 00:32:22,840 --> 00:32:27,320 Speaker 1: Uh So. There's a Reddit user named deep fakes who 571 00:32:27,720 --> 00:32:33,040 Speaker 1: last year started making porn videos that had uh famous 572 00:32:33,080 --> 00:32:40,800 Speaker 1: actresses faces like swapped onto the porn actor's body. And uh. 573 00:32:41,040 --> 00:32:46,640 Speaker 1: He has since created a subreddit, uh where people are 574 00:32:46,720 --> 00:32:50,600 Speaker 1: sharing these videos and it's like using algorithmic learning to 575 00:32:51,480 --> 00:32:55,680 Speaker 1: you know, swap faces of you know, actresses onto porn stars. 576 00:32:55,720 --> 00:32:59,080 Speaker 1: But it seems like the sort of thing that you know, 577 00:32:59,120 --> 00:33:03,640 Speaker 1: we've talked before on the show about how pornography generally 578 00:33:03,800 --> 00:33:07,320 Speaker 1: is like at the forefront of technology, and this is 579 00:33:07,440 --> 00:33:11,160 Speaker 1: probably another instance of that, where, yes, the first thing 580 00:33:11,280 --> 00:33:15,120 Speaker 1: we use this technology for is making pornography with gal 581 00:33:15,160 --> 00:33:19,320 Speaker 1: Gado's face on a porn star's body. But eventually this 582 00:33:19,480 --> 00:33:27,520 Speaker 1: is going to cause the entire meltdown of society because whoa, yo, 583 00:33:27,640 --> 00:33:30,480 Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I did not know what it does look like. 584 00:33:30,880 --> 00:33:34,280 Speaker 1: So I'm sorry, I interjected. I was like, what the 585 00:33:34,320 --> 00:33:39,800 Speaker 1: hell just happened? I did not see that. This yo, there, 586 00:33:39,840 --> 00:33:44,640 Speaker 1: this is scary. It's it's very very very subtle. Like 587 00:33:44,680 --> 00:33:46,560 Speaker 1: it's not like back in the day when I was 588 00:33:46,640 --> 00:33:49,520 Speaker 1: looking at Spice Girl fake nuds as a young teenager 589 00:33:49,520 --> 00:33:53,560 Speaker 1: on Sublime directory. This is like, this is whoa, Okay, 590 00:33:53,560 --> 00:33:55,120 Speaker 1: hold on, I don't even know how to show something 591 00:33:55,160 --> 00:33:58,880 Speaker 1: that doesn't get us all sued. Uh. Yeah, people can 592 00:33:58,960 --> 00:34:00,920 Speaker 1: check it out in their own time. Uh. We were 593 00:34:00,960 --> 00:34:07,440 Speaker 1: also watching Bell. Oh Jesus, well, like that does look 594 00:34:07,480 --> 00:34:11,200 Speaker 1: like Kristin Bell. So they're just using like celebrity still 595 00:34:11,200 --> 00:34:14,520 Speaker 1: images and then using these like algorithms to just project 596 00:34:14,560 --> 00:34:17,400 Speaker 1: to face swap them out right, kind of like they 597 00:34:17,440 --> 00:34:19,960 Speaker 1: did with Tony Soprano's mom and season three. But that 598 00:34:20,040 --> 00:34:25,239 Speaker 1: was terrible. Was like the conductor on Polar Express, those 599 00:34:25,280 --> 00:34:30,200 Speaker 1: dead eyes. It was like, yeah, God, yeah, that was 600 00:34:30,239 --> 00:34:33,560 Speaker 1: so bad. My rest in peace. But yeah, that Kristen 601 00:34:33,600 --> 00:34:37,600 Speaker 1: Bell video that Miles just showed the room and will 602 00:34:37,640 --> 00:34:43,200 Speaker 1: eventually be fired for is very realistic looking. Um. And yeah, 603 00:34:43,239 --> 00:34:46,560 Speaker 1: I mean there's a video went around i think late 604 00:34:46,640 --> 00:34:50,640 Speaker 1: last year that had Obama saying different things, Like they 605 00:34:50,719 --> 00:34:54,120 Speaker 1: had audio from Obama saying something when he was like 606 00:34:54,239 --> 00:34:57,960 Speaker 1: sixteen or something or probably older than that. Uh, and 607 00:34:58,000 --> 00:35:00,640 Speaker 1: then they just like swapped it so that his face 608 00:35:00,760 --> 00:35:04,480 Speaker 1: as the president was saying that, and it you know, 609 00:35:04,640 --> 00:35:09,320 Speaker 1: looked completely realistic. And um, eventually this is going to change, 610 00:35:09,360 --> 00:35:12,960 Speaker 1: how like we won't be able to have videos like 611 00:35:13,000 --> 00:35:17,600 Speaker 1: the Access Hollywood video of Trump, you know, talking his 612 00:35:17,680 --> 00:35:20,200 Speaker 1: ship without people being like, oh, it's a fake video. 613 00:35:20,360 --> 00:35:22,319 Speaker 1: We'll see he was saying it was fake, so maybe 614 00:35:22,320 --> 00:35:24,640 Speaker 1: it's Trump is time traveling. Well yeah, he's like, you 615 00:35:24,680 --> 00:35:27,120 Speaker 1: don't know what I've seen. His problem was that he 616 00:35:27,719 --> 00:35:30,600 Speaker 1: didn't say it was fake until a year later. He 617 00:35:30,680 --> 00:35:34,560 Speaker 1: spent a year saying it was real. Billy Bush was like, yeah, 618 00:35:34,560 --> 00:35:36,400 Speaker 1: I know it's real. And then after a year he 619 00:35:36,440 --> 00:35:40,040 Speaker 1: was like, you know that video might have been fake? Hey, 620 00:35:40,040 --> 00:35:42,520 Speaker 1: can I say it's Billy Bush was like, yo, that 621 00:35:42,560 --> 00:35:44,839 Speaker 1: was but that's scary. Yeah, if you haven't even seen that, 622 00:35:45,040 --> 00:35:48,080 Speaker 1: Like they basically have photoshop for your voice, you know, 623 00:35:48,160 --> 00:35:51,320 Speaker 1: and like combining that with this kind of machine learning. 624 00:35:51,719 --> 00:35:53,960 Speaker 1: I mean, I don't want to predict this, but I'm 625 00:35:53,960 --> 00:35:55,840 Speaker 1: sure at one point there will be some kind of 626 00:35:55,960 --> 00:35:59,479 Speaker 1: massive hoax that like is very very troubling because people 627 00:35:59,480 --> 00:36:01,759 Speaker 1: are gonna like this software getting very sophisticated, and you're 628 00:36:01,760 --> 00:36:03,880 Speaker 1: gonna think you're seeing somebody saying or doing something that 629 00:36:03,920 --> 00:36:07,480 Speaker 1: they absolutely didn't. Oh yeah yeah. Our writer Sam Raubman 630 00:36:07,960 --> 00:36:12,840 Speaker 1: uh quote an expert from the Electronic Frontiers Foundation who said, uh, 631 00:36:12,920 --> 00:36:15,719 Speaker 1: you can make fake videos with neural networks today, but 632 00:36:15,760 --> 00:36:18,000 Speaker 1: people will be able to tell that you've done that 633 00:36:18,120 --> 00:36:21,200 Speaker 1: if you look closely. And some of the techniques involved 634 00:36:21,280 --> 00:36:25,279 Speaker 1: remain pretty advanced, so like it's hard to do, but 635 00:36:25,400 --> 00:36:27,680 Speaker 1: that's not going to stay true for more than a 636 00:36:27,719 --> 00:36:30,160 Speaker 1: year or two. So in a year or two, like 637 00:36:30,920 --> 00:36:34,080 Speaker 1: around the next election, there's going to be the ability 638 00:36:34,200 --> 00:36:36,800 Speaker 1: for everybody, like you won't need to be an expert, 639 00:36:37,239 --> 00:36:40,880 Speaker 1: like look, Bernie smoke and crack right, a lot of 640 00:36:40,920 --> 00:36:44,680 Speaker 1: explaining to do, yes, uh so heay, But that could 641 00:36:44,680 --> 00:36:46,520 Speaker 1: work in the other way too, because people can make 642 00:36:46,520 --> 00:36:48,880 Speaker 1: wild videos of Trump and weird ship too, so you know, 643 00:36:48,920 --> 00:36:51,360 Speaker 1: it'll probably be a very fun smear campaign for everybody. 644 00:36:51,400 --> 00:36:55,080 Speaker 1: The difficulty is there probably are wild videos from like, 645 00:36:55,160 --> 00:36:58,600 Speaker 1: for instance, there's supposedly this video out there from the 646 00:36:58,680 --> 00:37:02,880 Speaker 1: set of The Aprentice where he would just say wildly 647 00:37:03,000 --> 00:37:07,760 Speaker 1: racist things like during the taping of The Apprentice parts 648 00:37:07,880 --> 00:37:10,319 Speaker 1: in the boardroom. Yeah, in the boardroom, just like in 649 00:37:10,360 --> 00:37:15,160 Speaker 1: between shots and uh those you know videos, those audio 650 00:37:15,200 --> 00:37:19,800 Speaker 1: tapes exist somewhere, but by the time they get released, 651 00:37:20,280 --> 00:37:22,160 Speaker 1: he'll be able to be like those are those are fake? 652 00:37:22,719 --> 00:37:31,719 Speaker 1: Not me? Yeah. Republican Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, uh came 653 00:37:31,719 --> 00:37:34,760 Speaker 1: out and pointed out that there was a text message, 654 00:37:34,800 --> 00:37:38,239 Speaker 1: I believe where one FBI agent talked to the other 655 00:37:38,600 --> 00:37:44,120 Speaker 1: about having a secret society meeting and so therefore ergo, uh, 656 00:37:44,520 --> 00:37:48,239 Speaker 1: they are probably had a secret anti Trump society where 657 00:37:48,239 --> 00:37:53,520 Speaker 1: they're planning the takedown of the White House. Huh, it's 658 00:37:53,560 --> 00:37:57,280 Speaker 1: all happening. Uh. So here's Ron Johnson being questioned about 659 00:37:57,320 --> 00:38:00,759 Speaker 1: that on NPR, because when you see the entire context 660 00:38:01,000 --> 00:38:04,520 Speaker 1: of that text message, it appears that they were saying 661 00:38:04,560 --> 00:38:08,000 Speaker 1: that completely ingest. Yeah. Absolutely. It was the day after 662 00:38:08,080 --> 00:38:10,719 Speaker 1: Trump was voted like won the election, and they were like, 663 00:38:11,040 --> 00:38:13,080 Speaker 1: I guess we'll have to have a secret society meeting 664 00:38:13,480 --> 00:38:17,399 Speaker 1: and they just went secret. Oh, here we go, coment pizza. Right. 665 00:38:19,200 --> 00:38:21,600 Speaker 1: So today he was or maybe early this morning, he 666 00:38:21,600 --> 00:38:24,080 Speaker 1: was on NPR asked about these comments that he made 667 00:38:24,120 --> 00:38:27,040 Speaker 1: to Brett Bear. So, first, let's just hear when Ron 668 00:38:27,120 --> 00:38:30,360 Speaker 1: Johnson came out swinging with the secret society ship we 669 00:38:30,800 --> 00:38:33,160 Speaker 1: have we have an informant that's talking about a group 670 00:38:33,400 --> 00:38:36,919 Speaker 1: that were holding secret meetings off site. There are there's 671 00:38:36,920 --> 00:38:39,520 Speaker 1: so much smoke here, there's so much special let's let's stop. 672 00:38:39,520 --> 00:38:42,960 Speaker 1: There a secret society, the secret meetings offside of the 673 00:38:43,000 --> 00:38:46,960 Speaker 1: Justice Department. Correct, And you have an informant saying that, yes, 674 00:38:48,280 --> 00:38:50,360 Speaker 1: is there anything more about that. No, we have to 675 00:38:50,400 --> 00:38:54,160 Speaker 1: dig into it, not but I mean the way he said, 676 00:38:54,480 --> 00:38:59,840 Speaker 1: he said, yes, and you have two informants, yes, yes, yeah. 677 00:39:00,080 --> 00:39:02,480 Speaker 1: So yeah. Then NBR was like, hey, do you know 678 00:39:02,560 --> 00:39:05,160 Speaker 1: that that was like a joke, right and based on 679 00:39:05,200 --> 00:39:07,439 Speaker 1: a text? Yeah, so this is him talking to someone 680 00:39:07,520 --> 00:39:10,640 Speaker 1: that isn't on Fox News. Okay, Well you also you 681 00:39:10,680 --> 00:39:12,520 Speaker 1: also focused on two words from one of the texts, 682 00:39:12,520 --> 00:39:16,120 Speaker 1: which was a secret society. I didn't other people brought 683 00:39:16,200 --> 00:39:18,080 Speaker 1: that up. You suggest that this could this might mean 684 00:39:18,120 --> 00:39:21,880 Speaker 1: a secret group within the FBI holding meetings off site, 685 00:39:21,880 --> 00:39:23,719 Speaker 1: and you went on to say this could mean corruption 686 00:39:23,760 --> 00:39:27,120 Speaker 1: at the highest levels of the FBI. But that reference 687 00:39:27,120 --> 00:39:29,239 Speaker 1: may have been a joke. I'm just wondering if you 688 00:39:29,239 --> 00:39:31,800 Speaker 1: feel you might have jumped to conclusions here. No, all 689 00:39:31,880 --> 00:39:34,520 Speaker 1: I was connecting is we you know, I have all 690 00:39:34,600 --> 00:39:37,160 Speaker 1: kinds of people come in our tour in front of 691 00:39:37,200 --> 00:39:39,880 Speaker 1: our committee giving us information, and I had heard that 692 00:39:39,920 --> 00:39:42,960 Speaker 1: there were off site meetings, So I was just connecting 693 00:39:43,000 --> 00:39:45,399 Speaker 1: the dots there. It could be a joke. Those off 694 00:39:45,440 --> 00:39:49,920 Speaker 1: site meetings could be completely harmless. Oh he didn't mention 695 00:39:49,960 --> 00:39:52,759 Speaker 1: on Fox fucking sticking your fucking chest out on Fox 696 00:39:53,440 --> 00:39:56,399 Speaker 1: Secret societies and they're like, oh yeah, that they could 697 00:39:56,400 --> 00:39:59,799 Speaker 1: be a joke, could completely hardened listening. But that was 698 00:39:59,840 --> 00:40:02,800 Speaker 1: like months later, right, but oh wait no, that interview 699 00:40:03,080 --> 00:40:06,520 Speaker 1: the next next day, so absolutely nothing had changed. And 700 00:40:06,560 --> 00:40:08,120 Speaker 1: the other thing too, I just want to bring up, 701 00:40:08,160 --> 00:40:11,239 Speaker 1: like with Trump, how quickly it was so transparent. He 702 00:40:11,360 --> 00:40:13,520 Speaker 1: is something to hide when when asked like, will you 703 00:40:13,920 --> 00:40:15,759 Speaker 1: you know, speak to was like, I'll go under oath, 704 00:40:16,560 --> 00:40:21,080 Speaker 1: like really really bluff in there, you know. And that's 705 00:40:21,080 --> 00:40:23,759 Speaker 1: say like the second that his lawyers talk to him, 706 00:40:23,840 --> 00:40:26,879 Speaker 1: he's like, well, my lawyers will have to lawyer. Yeah, 707 00:40:26,960 --> 00:40:31,520 Speaker 1: my my attorneys. Maybe I shouldn't do it. I don't know. 708 00:40:31,600 --> 00:40:36,240 Speaker 1: I can't imagine him. If Trump is able to actually 709 00:40:36,239 --> 00:40:38,919 Speaker 1: pull off not fully melting down in front of Robert 710 00:40:39,000 --> 00:40:44,040 Speaker 1: Mueller and self perjurying himself, uh like, then maybe I 711 00:40:44,040 --> 00:40:45,840 Speaker 1: will believe that he has some kind of there is 712 00:40:45,880 --> 00:40:48,680 Speaker 1: some hidden mental capacity in there, because in my mind, 713 00:40:48,719 --> 00:40:50,760 Speaker 1: the way this would play out was him just thinking 714 00:40:50,800 --> 00:40:53,799 Speaker 1: he's talking to somebody that like is under him and 715 00:40:53,800 --> 00:40:55,200 Speaker 1: he can just say whatever the fun he wants to 716 00:40:55,280 --> 00:40:58,600 Speaker 1: without like understanding that he is still this is a 717 00:40:58,680 --> 00:41:01,719 Speaker 1: like criminal thing is and like a hey, like you 718 00:41:01,760 --> 00:41:05,080 Speaker 1: didn't you didn't wire my unit in your building for electricity, 719 00:41:05,120 --> 00:41:07,680 Speaker 1: blah blah blah. Like this is like criminal ship, Like 720 00:41:07,719 --> 00:41:10,200 Speaker 1: this is a very different matter. All Right, we're gonna 721 00:41:10,200 --> 00:41:21,040 Speaker 1: take a quick break and we'll be right back. And 722 00:41:21,160 --> 00:41:24,520 Speaker 1: we're back. We need to talk about what's going on 723 00:41:24,560 --> 00:41:27,759 Speaker 1: in Russia right now. They are trying to you know, 724 00:41:28,000 --> 00:41:32,320 Speaker 1: take down our democracy right uh that and they're also 725 00:41:33,680 --> 00:41:37,440 Speaker 1: filming some pre dope viral videos. So uh, you know, 726 00:41:38,680 --> 00:41:41,680 Speaker 1: we generally the the image of Russia that we get 727 00:41:41,920 --> 00:41:45,479 Speaker 1: is that everybody is loyal to Putin and it's this 728 00:41:46,000 --> 00:41:49,240 Speaker 1: you know, a bunch of hackers doing the bidding of 729 00:41:49,280 --> 00:41:53,640 Speaker 1: their iron fisted leader. Um. And you know, another thing 730 00:41:53,920 --> 00:41:57,960 Speaker 1: that we hear about is how homophobic Russia is. I 731 00:41:58,000 --> 00:42:00,920 Speaker 1: know people who visited there who you know, it was 732 00:42:00,960 --> 00:42:04,960 Speaker 1: a Friday night and Putin's biker gang, who like is 733 00:42:05,000 --> 00:42:09,320 Speaker 1: like secretly his paramilitary force was going around like rounding 734 00:42:09,400 --> 00:42:12,920 Speaker 1: up and beating up gay people in Russia. Just like 735 00:42:13,000 --> 00:42:18,320 Speaker 1: that's how publicly homophobic the culture is over there. Well 736 00:42:18,480 --> 00:42:22,800 Speaker 1: apparently like they don't get buy in on that culture 737 00:42:23,000 --> 00:42:27,600 Speaker 1: from all generations and uh, you know, younger Russians are 738 00:42:27,640 --> 00:42:32,919 Speaker 1: actually sane and they're like, well this is crazy, like uh, 739 00:42:32,960 --> 00:42:38,920 Speaker 1: and so a group of flight students at Russian Pilot 740 00:42:39,000 --> 00:42:44,719 Speaker 1: College Aviation college, uh, the Olyanovsk Institute of Civil Aviation 741 00:42:45,160 --> 00:42:48,440 Speaker 1: filmed themselves as like a bunch of dudes uh in 742 00:42:48,480 --> 00:42:52,799 Speaker 1: their underwear like twerking, and one dude was like deep 743 00:42:52,840 --> 00:43:01,239 Speaker 1: throating a banana over and champ um and uh. It 744 00:43:01,600 --> 00:43:07,280 Speaker 1: went viral immediately, and you know, the public outcry from 745 00:43:07,400 --> 00:43:11,160 Speaker 1: the you know, totally not state controlled media was like 746 00:43:11,280 --> 00:43:15,120 Speaker 1: these people should be ashamed of themselves. They're disgrace to 747 00:43:15,280 --> 00:43:18,319 Speaker 1: the aviation industry. But then like the saying like they're 748 00:43:18,320 --> 00:43:23,680 Speaker 1: probably gay, right, But then all these other colleges started 749 00:43:23,719 --> 00:43:28,239 Speaker 1: filming their own version of this video and like so 750 00:43:28,280 --> 00:43:31,040 Speaker 1: now this is like the hot ship to do in 751 00:43:31,600 --> 00:43:36,359 Speaker 1: Russian college, right, It's the Harlem Shake of Russian colleges, which, 752 00:43:36,400 --> 00:43:38,960 Speaker 1: by the way, I suggest you watched them just because 753 00:43:39,000 --> 00:43:42,959 Speaker 1: they're fun videos, but also because uh you get an 754 00:43:43,000 --> 00:43:47,120 Speaker 1: image of like what Russian college looks like. Yeah, the 755 00:43:47,160 --> 00:43:51,879 Speaker 1: dorm of the nearby agricultural college that are uploaded the 756 00:43:51,960 --> 00:43:56,640 Speaker 1: second tworking video looks like a like haunted, abandoned hospital. 757 00:43:56,960 --> 00:43:59,879 Speaker 1: It looks like the set of the ring. It really does. 758 00:44:00,040 --> 00:44:04,480 Speaker 1: It's like, damn, that's that's college in Russia. Um. But 759 00:44:04,480 --> 00:44:07,239 Speaker 1: it's just wild though too, like you know, because he's 760 00:44:07,360 --> 00:44:09,439 Speaker 1: like they were wearing like bondage outfits, like a couple 761 00:44:09,440 --> 00:44:11,600 Speaker 1: of people had like gear that you're like, oh, okay, 762 00:44:11,640 --> 00:44:15,960 Speaker 1: this might be your thing, but like the because Russia 763 00:44:16,000 --> 00:44:18,560 Speaker 1: is so homophobic, Like I can totally see why this 764 00:44:18,640 --> 00:44:20,520 Speaker 1: kind of thing is going to happen because it's it's 765 00:44:20,560 --> 00:44:23,440 Speaker 1: treated such a taboo, such a taboo that suddenly get 766 00:44:23,440 --> 00:44:25,760 Speaker 1: all these dudes together, like the one of the guys 767 00:44:25,760 --> 00:44:28,120 Speaker 1: like rubbing each other with shaving cream. Like some of 768 00:44:28,160 --> 00:44:31,080 Speaker 1: the videos do a really funny job of like escalating 769 00:44:31,160 --> 00:44:35,520 Speaker 1: like how homo erotic the behaviors. Yeah, yeah, just shout 770 00:44:35,520 --> 00:44:37,960 Speaker 1: out to you guys doing your things and young men 771 00:44:38,520 --> 00:44:41,480 Speaker 1: figuring it out having a good time. I'm always amused 772 00:44:41,480 --> 00:44:44,520 Speaker 1: by like frat boy culture, like how far they're willing 773 00:44:44,560 --> 00:44:48,680 Speaker 1: to take the joke ha ha, we're not gay. He 774 00:44:49,360 --> 00:44:55,640 Speaker 1: kiss some more tongue, though many exactly got him. This 775 00:44:55,680 --> 00:44:57,480 Speaker 1: is just so funny to be that it starts off 776 00:44:57,560 --> 00:45:00,920 Speaker 1: being like this is unbelievable, and then of spreads like 777 00:45:01,040 --> 00:45:03,239 Speaker 1: you're like, you know what we're gonna do the satisfaction 778 00:45:03,320 --> 00:45:06,799 Speaker 1: challenge memes in Russia, don't funk around. There is a 779 00:45:07,960 --> 00:45:11,680 Speaker 1: a meme from probably like five to ten years ago 780 00:45:12,040 --> 00:45:15,080 Speaker 1: that we covered un Cracked about, Like there was some 781 00:45:15,120 --> 00:45:19,000 Speaker 1: photograph of a guy hanging out his window by one 782 00:45:19,120 --> 00:45:23,160 Speaker 1: hand because the husband had just come home and found 783 00:45:23,280 --> 00:45:26,000 Speaker 1: him in bed. So that was like an actual photograph 784 00:45:26,080 --> 00:45:28,919 Speaker 1: that got taken. And then like it became a meme 785 00:45:29,000 --> 00:45:32,000 Speaker 1: to be photographed hanging out of windows like by one arm, 786 00:45:32,320 --> 00:45:35,319 Speaker 1: and like that was like the cool, like fun meme 787 00:45:35,480 --> 00:45:39,399 Speaker 1: to be taken for pretty pretty hardcore. I will play 788 00:45:39,440 --> 00:45:44,160 Speaker 1: with my life for the likes exactly. All right, that's 789 00:45:44,200 --> 00:45:48,360 Speaker 1: gonna do it for this week's weekly Zeitgeist. Please like 790 00:45:48,480 --> 00:45:52,480 Speaker 1: and review the show. If you like the show, Uh 791 00:45:52,719 --> 00:45:56,560 Speaker 1: means the world to Miles. He needs your validation, folks. 792 00:45:57,160 --> 00:46:00,279 Speaker 1: I hope you're having a great weekend and I will 793 00:46:00,280 --> 00:46:41,320 Speaker 1: talk to you Monday. Bye.