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Speaker 2: America's democracy may not be the strongest.
Speaker 3: But at least it's the oldest.
Speaker 4: They're seems to be soldier of Jerontocracy.
Speaker 2: We have the oldest leaders among rich countries, and we
Speaker 2: love all of them. Joe Biden, Donald Trump, this guy.
Speaker 2: What are their drawbacks to having our leadership? With one
Speaker 2: foot in heaven, I spoke to Mark Fisher, neuropolitics researcher
Speaker 2: at UC Irvine.
Speaker 5: We know the brain function tends to deteriorate with aging.
Speaker 5: One of the first to go of all the cognitive
Speaker 5: functions is called executive function. It's decision making. And what
Speaker 5: can be more important for a political leader than decision making?
Speaker 2: What am I going to have for freaking lunch?
Speaker 4: I'm President of the United States.
Speaker 6: What the heck am I going to have for lunch?
Speaker 2: That's a hard decision, and I hope that I have
Speaker 2: a burger for lunch. I guess I've had this freaky
Speaker 2: misconception that old people are wiser and smarter than me,
Speaker 2: and it feels like what you're telling me is that
Speaker 2: that's not true and I should never trust them.
Speaker 5: Oh, I wouldn't say that. I wouldn't say that.
Speaker 3: No.
Speaker 5: I think that the experience that win gains over the
Speaker 5: course of life time extraordinarily important. But there are some
Speaker 5: measurable cognitive functions that do begin to decline over the
Speaker 5: age of sixties.
Speaker 2: So even though you have more experiences, you are still
Speaker 2: getting dumber.
Speaker 5: I'm a neurologist. Dumb is not a word that we use.
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, I'll say it that and don't worry.
Speaker 2: So having a bunch of old brains in charge might
Speaker 2: be a bit of a problem, but this wise old
Speaker 2: neurologist actually has a solution.
Speaker 5: Or Neuropolitics Center, we came out with a recommendation that
Speaker 5: cognitive testing should be done on all politicians, not just
Speaker 5: older politicians, all politics.
Speaker 6: Woman man can raked.
Speaker 2: Unsurprisingly, Trump says he aced his cognitive test already.
Speaker 7: If you get it in order, you get extra points.
Speaker 5: An individual has given a number of things to remember,
Speaker 5: and then after a period of time three to five minutes,
Speaker 5: they're asked to repeat that.
Speaker 2: I mean, those aren't hard things to remember, right, person
Speaker 2: mom dead.
Speaker 5: It's only one part of the exam, yeah, thank you.
Speaker 5: By itself, it doesn't determine a whole lot. I mean
Speaker 5: you have to look at the entire exam, and you
Speaker 5: have to look.
Speaker 4: At them with personality.
Speaker 2: I mean I have a really good personality.
Speaker 8: Absolutely, thank you.
Speaker 5: But that's not really that's really not assessed in noaltognify.
Speaker 2: It doesn't need to be. Without seeing his test results,
Speaker 2: we can only guess how well or not well Trump's
Speaker 2: brain is doing it.
Speaker 3: By a lot, including obam.
Speaker 9: I'll tell you what.
Speaker 2: But it did make me curious, could my brain be president?
Speaker 2: My name Grace, my date of birth June thirtieth, nineteen
Speaker 2: ninety five.
Speaker 5: This first part of the exam. This isn't scored, so
Speaker 5: this is just identification material.
Speaker 2: Okay, God, I would like to be scored on those
Speaker 2: two actually possible because I think I got them right.
Speaker 2: Do you have more difficulties doing everyday activities due to
Speaker 2: thinking problems? No, I have almost nothing to do on
Speaker 2: a daily basis. At the bottom of the very last page, right,
Speaker 2: I have finished on the blank line provided.
Speaker 6: So this is a test of delayed recall.
Speaker 4: Got it. This one is so easy?
Speaker 2: Can I call my mom to just double check last question?
Speaker 5: In the course of just a few pages, we've covered
Speaker 5: many cognitive domains.
Speaker 2: Sir, did I pass?
Speaker 6: Let's hear it? Brother, Come on, come on, you got it?
Speaker 2: Look now, If only someone could go to Washington and
Speaker 2: get our elected leaders to take this test.
Speaker 4: Okay, fine, I'll do it.
Speaker 6: Hell, hey, how you doing me? Seea you too?
Speaker 2: My name is Grace A.
Speaker 6: Maxwell. I'm looking for a congress person. Well, I am
Speaker 6: a congressman.
Speaker 2: So who does like your your botox or your work?
Speaker 6: You look incredible, oct you. I appreciate it. I'm actually
Speaker 6: twenty seven.
Speaker 2: Yes, most junior congress Person Maxwell Frost is the only
Speaker 2: person who would talk to me for this story. So
Speaker 2: how would you feel about having a cognitive test required
Speaker 2: for politicians?
Speaker 6: I don't think we should have that.
Speaker 2: Okay, why not you worried you'd failed it?
Speaker 6: What is a cognitive test?
Speaker 4: For example?
Speaker 3: I can show you one.
Speaker 6: Yeah, what are these? A rhino and a harp?
Speaker 2: Congratulations, sir, you get to keep your position. They told
Speaker 2: me that if you screw this up that this office
Speaker 2: would be mine.
Speaker 10: I'll be honest, I have to think for like just two
Speaker 10: seconds about what animal that was?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Of course, in this baby politician's view, the issue
Speaker 2: with politics isn't old brains, it's the lack of young ones.
Speaker 10: I do think it's an issue that, Yeah, young people
Speaker 10: aren't as representative. I don't think we should like boot
Speaker 10: out all the old people and just have young people running.
Speaker 4: So you're not agist.
Speaker 6: I'm not an ageist. One.
Speaker 4: Do you feel like you would retire?
Speaker 6: I don't know what I would retire, but I do
Speaker 6: think we need term limits.
Speaker 2: Do you think if you stay in Congress for thirty
Speaker 2: four years you'll be able to bring Congress to term limits.
Speaker 6: Because of how this place works.
Speaker 10: Maybe, but my hops will have it way before that,
Speaker 10: So it's not hopeless.
Speaker 2: We just need our young politicians to stick around until
Speaker 2: they'll be able to change the system, however long it takes.
Speaker 2: You know what, I.
Speaker 4: Think, I'll vote for you.
Speaker 6: You can't.
Speaker 8: Why not?
Speaker 10: Because I live in Orlando. I represent Orlando, Florida. If
Speaker 10: you move to Orlando, I could.
Speaker 2: Go on a paid business trip to Disney World.
Speaker 6: Leave my vote for Yeah. Yeah, that's illegal too.
Speaker 9: Trump's promise in twenty sixteen to bring that manufacturing jobs
Speaker 9: was a major appear in the Upper Midwest, and in
Speaker 9: Trump's first year in office, the artists of deals delivered
Speaker 9: them a masterpiece.
Speaker 6: Fox Con will invest in Southeast Wisconsin.
Speaker 2: Electronics manufacturer of fox Con is opening its first major
Speaker 2: US factory in Wisconsin, investing ten billion dollars of their
Speaker 2: own money to do so.
Speaker 9: That's right, fox Conn, the Taiwan based company that's good
Speaker 9: at making iPhones and great at making their employees jump
Speaker 9: off buildings. The fox Con deal in Mount Pleasant was
Speaker 9: as golden as the shovels Trump brought to the groundbreaking.
Speaker 3: I think we can say this is we can say
Speaker 3: the eighth wonder of the world.
Speaker 9: So to learn more about this eighth wonder of the world,
Speaker 9: I spoke with Alan Young, the business genius responsible for
Speaker 9: bringing fox Cohn to Wiscon See love business, love big business.
Speaker 9: I love great businessmen. You brought manufacturing to Mount Pleasant.
Speaker 9: When you love most about Wisconsin the cheese or the
Speaker 9: high rate of alcoholism.
Speaker 11: It turns out Wisconsin, actually to our benefit, was the
Speaker 11: right choice and the vision really was to create what
Speaker 11: we call Wiscone Valley. The ten billion dollar projects later
Speaker 11: to create up to a thirteen thousand.
Speaker 9: Job, all right, high tech job creation, local country bumpkin,
Speaker 9: Kelly galaher must be exciting.
Speaker 3: Fox Con came to town. They promised us the world.
Speaker 3: Then that hp us because our village officials are morons.
Speaker 9: Look, lady, I came here to do a field good
Speaker 9: puff piece about phone corporations creating jobs for farmers or whatever. Okay,
Speaker 9: are you telling me that's not happening.
Speaker 3: They promised us thirteen thousand jobs and a ten million
Speaker 3: dollar investment. We got a few hundred crappy jobs. We
Speaker 3: bulldozed one hundred homes, moved people out, used eminent domain
Speaker 3: against them, and except for a few buildings that fox
Speaker 3: Con has put there, it's basically empty.
Speaker 9: Well, you can't fault fox Con fault putting money into
Speaker 9: this town and trying to make something happen.
Speaker 3: But they didn't put money in on it. Unfortunately, the
Speaker 3: village of Mount Pleasant decided instead of making fox khn
Speaker 3: by the land that they wanted for their factory are
Speaker 3: part time village trustees. They said, we'll do it for you.
Speaker 3: We borrowed nearly a billion dollars.
Speaker 9: So a bunch of village idiots borrowed a billion dollars
Speaker 9: to get fox don't come there.
Speaker 4: Fox Con comes.
Speaker 9: In and goes, hey, we can give you guys, civilization,
Speaker 9: take you out of the farms.
Speaker 3: Well, we like our farms.
Speaker 9: What was fox Tohn promising to build.
Speaker 3: Well, first they said they were going to build a
Speaker 3: large screen lcdtvs.
Speaker 9: Amazing, I love those.
Speaker 3: A few weeks later they changed it that they were
Speaker 3: going to build small LCD screens, the kinds that you
Speaker 3: get in the car, and.
Speaker 4: So I love those two.
Speaker 5: I love all screens.
Speaker 3: Then they announced that they were going to build coffee robots.
Speaker 9: Okay, but you know what, who doesn't like coffee?
Speaker 3: That didn't happen either, And right now nobody knows what
Speaker 3: they do inside that building. Okay, it's three thousand square
Speaker 3: acres of land. You know how much three thousand square
Speaker 3: acres of land is?
Speaker 6: Of course not. I'm not a dumb panel.
Speaker 3: You should really go check it out.
Speaker 9: Fine, I will. This simple villager wasn't making any sense.
Speaker 9: Allan and fox Conn are showed the residents of Mount
Speaker 9: Pleasant that will be bringing a study tech hop to
Speaker 9: its barren farmland. But instead all fox Conn built was
Speaker 9: a bunch of roads to nowhere, with the help two
Speaker 9: empty warehouses and a lame disco fall in the middle
Speaker 9: of an empty field.
Speaker 3: Hell, I needed answers.
Speaker 2: What the hell is everybody?
Speaker 9: I'll tell us A thousand thousand jobs? Yeah, sorry, So
Speaker 9: just wondering, Well, the job's at the jobs there's fifteen
Speaker 9: thousand jobs. This can't be right. And even if there
Speaker 9: aren't any jobs or products or transparency, surely fox Conn
Speaker 9: has a plan.
Speaker 11: I would say that over the past few years, everybody
Speaker 11: learned a few lessons. I think the storyline is happening.
Speaker 11: A story is a good one. It really is trail
Speaker 11: blazing and making pioneering decisions, even though it might not make.
Speaker 9: Sense, even though it makes absolutely no sense.
Speaker 4: Well, okay, absolutely no sense.
Speaker 11: But right now I think we're in the chapter two
Speaker 11: or chapter three of the whole thing stayed.
Speaker 9: Up eleven of the.
Speaker 11: Oh well you don't want to get there right Well,
Speaker 11: the outcome was job operation. You really shouldn't care if
Speaker 11: you build potato chips or micro chips.
Speaker 9: Potato chips or microchips, who cares? Just make something that's
Speaker 9: what people want for Fox come to make something in
Speaker 9: this factory.
Speaker 4: It takes a village.
Speaker 9: It takes a village to build a factory that makes nothing.
Speaker 4: You got me there.
Speaker 9: Ellen did a great job. It's showing the very thin
Speaker 9: line between genius business plan and scam. Okay, I think
Speaker 9: I see why you're so upset. You got catfished. Do
Speaker 9: you know what catfish is?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 4: I do?
Speaker 2: But what?
Speaker 4: Who?
Speaker 8: What?
Speaker 9: Why did they do this? If it's so bad for everybody?
Speaker 9: Why did this happen?
Speaker 3: Well, it was really Donald Trump? Oh yes, it's the
Speaker 3: largest failed publicly funded economic development project in Wisconsin history,
Speaker 3: possibly in US history, Thank you wish.
Speaker 9: In true Trump fashion, he made a promise, never delivered
Speaker 9: and left someone else holding the bag. Was there any
Speaker 9: way to turn this development disaster around?
Speaker 5: More breaking news now Microsoft could be coming to Mount Pleasant.
Speaker 6: This is a huge win for the village.
Speaker 3: Microsoft came to town and they announced a three point
Speaker 3: three billion dollar investment project and two thousand full time jobs.
Speaker 9: Okay, two thousand is quite a step down from thirteen thousand, but.
Speaker 3: Those thirteen thousand jobs were never real.
Speaker 4: What even making there?
Speaker 3: It's going to be an AI data center.
Speaker 9: Wait, but that if it's Aisent that's going to take jobs,
Speaker 9: They're going to replace workers. You're going to end up
Speaker 9: with less jobs than before.
Speaker 3: Well, it's better than nothing.
Speaker 9: Actually no, because no jobs would be zero. This will
Speaker 9: be negative jobs because it'll be taking other people's jobs.
Speaker 3: All I know is that these are two thousand real jobs.
Speaker 6: Goddamn villages is jobs?
Speaker 4: Man, You guys talked about anything.
Speaker 9: Else here in business. Not everything turns out the way
Speaker 9: you wanted to. But hey, with a little ingenuity and
Speaker 9: some American can do spirit, you too could turn thirteen
Speaker 9: thousand jobs into two thousand and put your whole village
Speaker 9: into debt.
Speaker 12: Great Johnny, There.
Speaker 8: Is no doubt that this election is exhausting, infuriating, and divisive.
Speaker 8: But to some, the endless cycle of insults and partisan
Speaker 8: attacks might actually be a turn on.
Speaker 6: That's right.
Speaker 8: The hottest new fetish is political humiliation, and this correspondent
Speaker 8: is ready to dive in to see political.
Speaker 4: Shaming is the new sexy.
Speaker 6: To find out more.
Speaker 8: About this niche fetish, I traveled to the top spot
Speaker 8: for political shaming, Tampa, Florida, to speak to two of
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Speaker 8: dominatrix who specializes in humiliating liberals, and Goddess.
Speaker 6: Branded All have Small Pieces.
Speaker 8: A dominatrix who specializes in shaming conservatives using her popular
Speaker 8: personas Evonka Tramp and Laura Hilbert. When did you notice
Speaker 8: that people were asking for this political shaming?
Speaker 7: I put up my first video when Trump first went
Speaker 7: into office.
Speaker 13: I had this terrible blonde wig that started off with Avanka.
Speaker 7: They got a lot of exposure and they just flew up,
Speaker 7: especially on my phone line.
Speaker 13: Request started rolling in from there, and I just kind
Speaker 13: of leaned into it and kept going with it.
Speaker 8: So do you think that Trump played a huge part
Speaker 8: in the growth of this need? Oh?
Speaker 7: Absolutely, it didn't exist before him, and I don't think
Speaker 7: it would really exist without him, right.
Speaker 8: I mean, who knew that eighty year old men can
Speaker 8: make people so horny?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 7: I would count on that to pay my bills.
Speaker 2: M hm.
Speaker 8: So what do you concern it is want to be
Speaker 8: sexually humiliated about?
Speaker 13: I definitely focus on what I would consider to be
Speaker 13: like the sensitive subjects like race based topics, feeling and
Speaker 13: adequate to black men, and wanting that may be rubbed
Speaker 13: in their face a little bit gay temptation, the fact
Speaker 13: that a lot of them have issues with like women
Speaker 13: of power.
Speaker 4: What are you saying? Are you saying that rich white
Speaker 4: men are insecure.
Speaker 7: And what turns on globals American anything? Camo again, they
Speaker 7: go absolutely insane for the Confederate bikini. We often end
Speaker 7: up discussing a certain politician's part.
Speaker 4: Who is the popular one?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 7: Sometimes it's Daddy to santistick.
Speaker 8: Okay, it was time to find out firsthand what to
Speaker 8: expect from a political humiliation session.
Speaker 4: So ring ring hello, Hello.
Speaker 3: Troy, how are you tell me about you?
Speaker 4: I am a news anchor.
Speaker 7: No, no, I'm a little sissy liberal bitch and I'm
Speaker 7: calling for you to tell me I'm going to vote
Speaker 7: for Daddy Trump.
Speaker 8: Okay, okay, I'm that was a.
Speaker 4: Long line that you gave me.
Speaker 8: I'm very conservative, as is my penis.
Speaker 13: Stupid, stupid penis. You know what I think you need?
Speaker 4: What do I need? A strap?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 4: That's what I think you need? Like a fanny pack,
Speaker 4: a big what's in the fanny pack?
Speaker 2: Penises?
Speaker 4: Real penises.
Speaker 7: I'm going to put you in a cute little American
Speaker 7: flag diaper and a Trump T shirt and best little
Speaker 7: Mega had a boy could wear.
Speaker 4: Hot.
Speaker 11: Yeah.
Speaker 8: I have a big fanny pack of penises on my
Speaker 8: head and I hate drag queens.
Speaker 4: They're ruining the world with their fun.
Speaker 13: Just trying to mind your own straight business, and these
Speaker 13: temptations are everywhere. You were once entitled to a wife.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and now all.
Speaker 13: Of these fems running around deciding.
Speaker 3: Not to marry white and cell men.
Speaker 13: It's a they need wives and mommies say thank you.
Speaker 8: Daddy, Thank you daddy for letting me vote for chump,
Speaker 8: for letting me vote.
Speaker 4: It's hard to be a straight guy.
Speaker 8: Do you think that those involved get more knowledge on
Speaker 8: their own and opposing political views because of your services?
Speaker 11: I do.
Speaker 7: I think that I inspire them to want to at
Speaker 7: least look something up.
Speaker 13: I mean, their penises are in their hands. I guess
Speaker 13: it would be awesome if you could take a step
Speaker 13: back and think to yourself, like, hmm, are my thoughts
Speaker 13: and opinions obnoxious and hateful?
Speaker 8: Well, I mean you're dealing with shame, so maybe you
Speaker 8: have changed them. But they're a shamed They're just not going.
Speaker 13: To tell me exactly, quietly shamed.
Speaker 8: I needed to understand more about this fetish from a
Speaker 8: psychological standpoint, so I brought sex expert doctor Justin Lee
Speaker 8: Miller to the Museum of Sex to make him feel
Speaker 8: at home and ask if you knew why this fan
Speaker 8: was the one thing that crossed the political aisle right now.
Speaker 14: There's some trauma connected to our politics, and something that
Speaker 14: happens in our fantasies is that it provides this opportunity
Speaker 14: to take control of a previous trauma. So there can
Speaker 14: be something empowering about taking something like shame or humiliation
Speaker 14: and then having complete control over it. There's also some
Speaker 14: sort of humanizing element that happens when people engage in
Speaker 14: this kind of kinky behavior. People can tap into deeper
Speaker 14: elements and aspects of the self.
Speaker 8: Do you think that this fetish could help the country
Speaker 8: come together?
Speaker 4: No, pun intended.
Speaker 14: I don't have any data that could necessarily say that's
Speaker 14: the case.
Speaker 8: Okay, we need the data, and since there is no
Speaker 8: official data on this topic, it's up to me to
Speaker 8: do the research to find out if political humiliation is
Speaker 8: the solution to America's problems just in time for the election.
Speaker 9: I don't know.
Speaker 12: A batch me more of a proboblem that's too hard, Okay,
Speaker 12: I don't don't. I don't know if I'm as slept
Speaker 12: boy for that policy or that policy.
Speaker 9: If you haven't let me but me, let me but
Speaker 9: me Levin, What is your because you've been.
Speaker 8: Going in circle? Did my dad result in a fix
Speaker 8: for the election?
Speaker 3: Talk?
Speaker 14: Was I turned on?
Speaker 6: I'm not sure?
Speaker 4: You know what, Maybe I should just vote independent? Not okay? Actually,
Speaker 4: you know what?
Speaker 8: We might be getting somewhere else with this, But I
Speaker 8: guess no matter what happens in November, in this country,
Speaker 8: there will always be plenty of shame