1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:03,040 Speaker 1: On the Jordan Harbinger Show, You'll hear amazing stories from 2 00:00:03,080 --> 00:00:06,200 Speaker 1: people that have lived them, from spies to CEOs, even 3 00:00:06,240 --> 00:00:10,119 Speaker 1: an undercover agent who infiltrated the Gambino crime family. You're 4 00:00:10,160 --> 00:00:12,440 Speaker 1: about to hear a preview of The Jordan Harbinger Show 5 00:00:12,480 --> 00:00:15,400 Speaker 1: with Jack Garcia, who did just that. My career was 6 00:00:15,440 --> 00:00:19,200 Speaker 1: twenty four out of twenty six years was solely dedicated 7 00:00:19,280 --> 00:00:22,160 Speaker 1: working on the cover. I walk in, I'm in the bar. 8 00:00:22,640 --> 00:00:25,120 Speaker 1: How there's a bar made? Dare good looking young lady 9 00:00:25,440 --> 00:00:27,240 Speaker 1: see serving me? Joey, Hey, what would you like? I 10 00:00:27,360 --> 00:00:29,920 Speaker 1: usually my frank was give me a kettle, one martini, 11 00:00:30,240 --> 00:00:33,479 Speaker 1: three olives, class of water on the side. I finished 12 00:00:33,479 --> 00:00:36,320 Speaker 1: the drink. The guys come in. I'm gonna go go 13 00:00:36,440 --> 00:00:39,680 Speaker 1: in my pocket, take out the big wad of money. Hey, am, 14 00:00:39,680 --> 00:00:42,200 Speaker 1: I give her one hundred hours. If you're with the mob, 15 00:00:42,400 --> 00:00:45,400 Speaker 1: I say, hey, Jordan, you're on record with us. That 16 00:00:45,479 --> 00:00:48,400 Speaker 1: means we protect you. Nobody could shake you down. We 17 00:00:48,440 --> 00:00:50,879 Speaker 1: could shake you down. Oh, you're on record with us. 18 00:00:51,280 --> 00:00:53,640 Speaker 1: For more on how Jack became so trusted in the 19 00:00:53,680 --> 00:00:57,440 Speaker 1: highest levels of the Gambino organization, check out episode three 20 00:00:57,600 --> 00:01:11,200 Speaker 1: ninety two of the Jordan Harbinger show. This is a 21 00:01:11,360 --> 00:01:25,160 Speaker 1: Jesse Kelly show. It is Monday. Let us begin with 22 00:01:25,280 --> 00:01:29,360 Speaker 1: a happy story today, the story of joy. See, we're 23 00:01:29,360 --> 00:01:34,200 Speaker 1: gonna talk about you for a moment. Then I want 24 00:01:34,200 --> 00:01:38,559 Speaker 1: to I want to put you in a hypothetical situation here, 25 00:01:39,520 --> 00:01:43,160 Speaker 1: So just kick back, close your eyes, think about this. 26 00:01:45,560 --> 00:01:50,360 Speaker 1: It's party time for you. We're going to sit you 27 00:01:50,480 --> 00:01:53,040 Speaker 1: at the head of the table and we are going 28 00:01:53,120 --> 00:01:58,800 Speaker 1: to throw a massive, massive party for you. And this 29 00:01:58,840 --> 00:02:00,680 Speaker 1: is gonna take you some time time, So I need 30 00:02:00,840 --> 00:02:05,000 Speaker 1: to I need you to brew on this. We are 31 00:02:05,040 --> 00:02:11,920 Speaker 1: going to invite and obligate them to attend. Every single 32 00:02:12,160 --> 00:02:19,600 Speaker 1: person you know, friends, family, co workers. There's no excuses, 33 00:02:19,639 --> 00:02:24,040 Speaker 1: there's no little Johnny got sick tonight. Every single one 34 00:02:24,080 --> 00:02:29,680 Speaker 1: of them are coming to this party. Thinking about them, 35 00:02:30,600 --> 00:02:38,240 Speaker 1: all of them, wife, kids, cousins, uncles that lady had 36 00:02:38,280 --> 00:02:42,480 Speaker 1: your eye on. They're all there. How many are at 37 00:02:42,520 --> 00:02:47,640 Speaker 1: that table, everybody you know, not some people. That table's 38 00:02:47,680 --> 00:02:50,080 Speaker 1: going to vary in size, but I want you to 39 00:02:50,120 --> 00:02:54,280 Speaker 1: picture this. The table was one of those big, long, 40 00:02:54,639 --> 00:03:00,760 Speaker 1: rectangular banquet tables. You are seated at the head of it, 41 00:03:02,320 --> 00:03:09,080 Speaker 1: and you're looking down all the people you know, bunch 42 00:03:09,120 --> 00:03:11,040 Speaker 1: of them on one side of the table, bunch on 43 00:03:11,080 --> 00:03:13,160 Speaker 1: the other side of the table. How long is that table? 44 00:03:15,560 --> 00:03:20,120 Speaker 1: How many faces do you see there? How many people 45 00:03:20,120 --> 00:03:29,520 Speaker 1: do you know? And you're sitting there looking at everyone, 46 00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:33,480 Speaker 1: thinking about your life and all the people you know, 47 00:03:34,960 --> 00:03:41,800 Speaker 1: and the left side of the table, all of them, 48 00:03:41,800 --> 00:03:53,200 Speaker 1: every face dies on the spot. That's not some hypothetical 49 00:03:53,280 --> 00:03:59,600 Speaker 1: that nobody's ever experienced before. That gave you a tiny, 50 00:03:59,640 --> 00:04:06,080 Speaker 1: tiny preview of the Black Death. You see, we think 51 00:04:06,120 --> 00:04:13,160 Speaker 1: we know carnage, suffering pain, and maybe you do to 52 00:04:13,280 --> 00:04:15,480 Speaker 1: some extent, don't we all, I suppose at some level, 53 00:04:18,160 --> 00:04:22,840 Speaker 1: But you don't know, and I don't know the apocalypse. 54 00:04:25,000 --> 00:04:28,520 Speaker 1: The closest you've ever come to experience in that kind 55 00:04:28,560 --> 00:04:31,960 Speaker 1: of kind of loss is watching Thanos snap his fingers 56 00:04:31,960 --> 00:04:34,599 Speaker 1: in the Avengers movie and having half the Earth disappear. 57 00:04:35,520 --> 00:04:40,600 Speaker 1: Because that wasn't a hypothetical. During the Black Death, half 58 00:04:40,640 --> 00:04:46,040 Speaker 1: of the people you knew died, half of Europe, half, 59 00:04:47,680 --> 00:04:51,120 Speaker 1: more than half of entire cities, the major city more 60 00:04:51,120 --> 00:04:54,719 Speaker 1: than half sixty seventy percent are the estimates of a 61 00:04:54,800 --> 00:05:03,880 Speaker 1: city gone. That was the Black Death. It's the bubonic plague, 62 00:05:04,400 --> 00:05:09,640 Speaker 1: and actually a couple other kind of plagues combined, and 63 00:05:09,839 --> 00:05:12,600 Speaker 1: it was in an era, this is the thirteen hundreds. 64 00:05:13,320 --> 00:05:16,280 Speaker 1: In fact, there were several outbreaks for a couple of 65 00:05:16,320 --> 00:05:19,200 Speaker 1: centuries after this. London had a big one in the 66 00:05:19,240 --> 00:05:21,719 Speaker 1: sixteen hundreds that wiped out a third of its population. 67 00:05:21,760 --> 00:05:28,000 Speaker 1: But anyway, the thirteen hundreds, and you really could not 68 00:05:28,440 --> 00:05:33,320 Speaker 1: create a better scenario for a deadly vire or deadly 69 00:05:33,360 --> 00:05:43,000 Speaker 1: bacteria to wipe out that many people. You see, everybody 70 00:05:43,080 --> 00:05:51,680 Speaker 1: was crowded in together. People did not understand things like microbiology, 71 00:05:53,520 --> 00:05:57,560 Speaker 1: and they didn't understand how things spread and where things spread. 72 00:05:57,560 --> 00:06:00,000 Speaker 1: And understand this because we don't talk about this enough, 73 00:06:00,040 --> 00:06:04,920 Speaker 1: the specifics of the black plague or this mainly it 74 00:06:05,000 --> 00:06:07,840 Speaker 1: was carried by fleas. Now again when I said there's 75 00:06:07,880 --> 00:06:10,280 Speaker 1: more than one kind of plague, there was a lot 76 00:06:10,320 --> 00:06:12,839 Speaker 1: of people died of this kind of plague. Another died 77 00:06:12,920 --> 00:06:15,280 Speaker 1: of the airborne kind where it got in your lungs 78 00:06:15,480 --> 00:06:19,480 Speaker 1: you cough, someone breathe it in Dayda too. But this 79 00:06:19,480 --> 00:06:24,960 Speaker 1: one was mainly carried by fleas, fleas that traveled on animals. 80 00:06:25,480 --> 00:06:28,520 Speaker 1: Obviously you've heard about rats. It was mainly black rats. 81 00:06:28,520 --> 00:06:31,200 Speaker 1: There are several different kinds of rats, but black rats, 82 00:06:31,240 --> 00:06:33,760 Speaker 1: of course, are the kind of rats that prefer to 83 00:06:33,839 --> 00:06:36,600 Speaker 1: live around humans. They feed off the things humans feed 84 00:06:36,600 --> 00:06:40,480 Speaker 1: off of. Well, the rats die of the plague too, 85 00:06:41,440 --> 00:06:47,560 Speaker 1: and the fleas. The fleas they don't. But in order 86 00:06:47,560 --> 00:06:49,640 Speaker 1: to get you really grossed out. First thing on a 87 00:06:49,720 --> 00:06:53,960 Speaker 1: Monday morning, the fleas, it's not just them biting you 88 00:06:54,040 --> 00:06:58,200 Speaker 1: that gives you the plague. It's them vomiting in you 89 00:06:58,279 --> 00:07:03,120 Speaker 1: that gives you the plague. Plague grows inside of them, 90 00:07:03,200 --> 00:07:07,040 Speaker 1: they vomited it back out. You get sick. Now. The 91 00:07:07,080 --> 00:07:09,800 Speaker 1: reason they call it the black plague was this, once 92 00:07:09,840 --> 00:07:14,120 Speaker 1: you get bitten, your lymph nodes in your body, as 93 00:07:14,120 --> 00:07:16,560 Speaker 1: they do today with any kind of infection like that, 94 00:07:16,600 --> 00:07:19,200 Speaker 1: will try to fight it. You have lymph nodes in 95 00:07:19,240 --> 00:07:21,440 Speaker 1: your armpits, you have lymph nodes in your neck, you 96 00:07:21,440 --> 00:07:25,120 Speaker 1: have lymph nodes in your groin. Once you get the 97 00:07:25,120 --> 00:07:31,120 Speaker 1: black plague, that was the sign. A swollen, extremely painful 98 00:07:31,240 --> 00:07:39,280 Speaker 1: lymph node in your neck, armpits, or groin area. Eighty 99 00:07:39,320 --> 00:07:47,800 Speaker 1: percent death rate eighty percent. They didn't know what it was, 100 00:07:49,280 --> 00:07:51,240 Speaker 1: they didn't know how to attack it. This was an 101 00:07:51,240 --> 00:07:56,120 Speaker 1: extremely religious time. And when I say religious, I don't 102 00:07:56,200 --> 00:07:58,559 Speaker 1: mean you know just woh, he's got a really close 103 00:07:58,600 --> 00:08:02,320 Speaker 1: relationship with God. I mean, there was the pope, and 104 00:08:02,360 --> 00:08:04,520 Speaker 1: there was the clergy, and this was the hierarchy, and 105 00:08:05,480 --> 00:08:07,800 Speaker 1: bad things only happen to bad people, and I guess 106 00:08:07,800 --> 00:08:10,720 Speaker 1: we just haven't prayed enough. And it was that kind 107 00:08:10,720 --> 00:08:16,000 Speaker 1: of time again, not a time where they understood bacteria. 108 00:08:16,200 --> 00:08:20,720 Speaker 1: So some cities they killed all the cats and dogs, 109 00:08:20,880 --> 00:08:24,000 Speaker 1: thinking that would help them stop the plague. They thought 110 00:08:24,240 --> 00:08:27,440 Speaker 1: the fleas were infecting the animals, which may have been 111 00:08:27,480 --> 00:08:29,960 Speaker 1: true to some extent, but remember what the fleas were 112 00:08:29,960 --> 00:08:35,080 Speaker 1: mainly infecting. You remember the rats? What's what's the best 113 00:08:35,080 --> 00:08:37,679 Speaker 1: way to get rid of rats? Any farmer will tell 114 00:08:37,720 --> 00:08:44,680 Speaker 1: you cats. If you have a rat problem, what you 115 00:08:44,720 --> 00:08:48,079 Speaker 1: want or cats? And if you go around and kill 116 00:08:48,120 --> 00:08:52,200 Speaker 1: all the cats, you've officially taken away the only predator 117 00:08:52,320 --> 00:08:56,280 Speaker 1: a city dwelling rat, even hats. And so they multiply 118 00:08:56,400 --> 00:08:59,560 Speaker 1: more and multiply more. I forget the name of the 119 00:08:59,559 --> 00:09:01,760 Speaker 1: pope now. I actually told this story one time, but 120 00:09:02,480 --> 00:09:07,200 Speaker 1: one pope virtually doomed his area of authority because he 121 00:09:07,320 --> 00:09:09,640 Speaker 1: viewed black cats. This is before the plague came down. 122 00:09:09,679 --> 00:09:12,200 Speaker 1: He viewed black cats, and all cats really as being 123 00:09:12,720 --> 00:09:15,400 Speaker 1: the spawn of Satan and ordered them all killed, actually 124 00:09:15,480 --> 00:09:18,960 Speaker 1: offered a bounty for them. And the rats came with 125 00:09:19,040 --> 00:09:26,120 Speaker 1: the plague, and there was nothing to kill the rats. Then, 126 00:09:26,600 --> 00:09:31,680 Speaker 1: I guess, as in now disease, plagues like this were 127 00:09:32,120 --> 00:09:36,439 Speaker 1: felt by the poor. Yes, plenty of rich people died 128 00:09:36,960 --> 00:09:41,840 Speaker 1: of the Black plague, no question. But what would you 129 00:09:41,960 --> 00:09:45,760 Speaker 1: do if you were super wealthy and you had a 130 00:09:45,880 --> 00:09:49,000 Speaker 1: horrible outbreak in the city where you lived. And this 131 00:09:49,120 --> 00:09:52,199 Speaker 1: was again not only to the cities, it spread other places, 132 00:09:52,200 --> 00:09:54,560 Speaker 1: But the cities were the ones where you'd have sixty 133 00:09:54,640 --> 00:09:58,080 Speaker 1: seventy percent of the place gone. And what would you 134 00:09:58,120 --> 00:10:02,680 Speaker 1: do if you're rich? Well, same thing I would do, right, honey, 135 00:10:03,400 --> 00:10:05,319 Speaker 1: pack up the kids. It's time to head to the 136 00:10:05,400 --> 00:10:08,040 Speaker 1: lake house for the summer. I'm not faulting them for it. 137 00:10:08,120 --> 00:10:12,199 Speaker 1: Good for you. The poor people don't have that luxury. 138 00:10:13,440 --> 00:10:16,080 Speaker 1: The poor people were stuck in the dirt and the 139 00:10:16,160 --> 00:10:23,839 Speaker 1: squalor and oh dirt. I forgot to mention about the dirt. 140 00:10:23,880 --> 00:10:31,640 Speaker 1: You see, we picture streets a certain way. Hang on, 141 00:10:31,720 --> 00:10:49,920 Speaker 1: I'll tell you how we should be picturing streets. How 142 00:10:50,040 --> 00:10:53,480 Speaker 1: God on nat Him only thought on me. Jessie Kelly 143 00:10:53,920 --> 00:11:20,040 Speaker 1: don't listening to the Jessie Kelly Show. When we picture streets, 144 00:11:20,160 --> 00:11:22,760 Speaker 1: when we talk about streets back in the day, cities, 145 00:11:22,800 --> 00:11:26,680 Speaker 1: back in the day, London, you know, Paris, we all 146 00:11:26,720 --> 00:11:30,680 Speaker 1: picture the same thing because that's our it's our nature, 147 00:11:30,720 --> 00:11:35,559 Speaker 1: it's it's our experience. We picture, I mean, pavement, concrete, 148 00:11:36,600 --> 00:11:39,080 Speaker 1: even if we don't picture that, maybe maybe a lovely 149 00:11:39,160 --> 00:11:44,960 Speaker 1: cobblestone as somebody rides a carriage down it. Um. Streets 150 00:11:45,000 --> 00:11:47,679 Speaker 1: were basically the grossest thing you've ever seen in your 151 00:11:47,800 --> 00:11:49,880 Speaker 1: entire life. Back in the day. You see, this is 152 00:11:49,920 --> 00:11:54,360 Speaker 1: an era before automobiles, and it wasn't a little oil 153 00:11:54,400 --> 00:11:58,840 Speaker 1: in any freeze in the streets. The streets were filled 154 00:11:59,600 --> 00:12:07,280 Speaker 1: and basically made up of poop, lots of it, human 155 00:12:07,320 --> 00:12:13,640 Speaker 1: poop that got thrown out, metric tons of horsepoop that 156 00:12:13,760 --> 00:12:19,800 Speaker 1: people used to go to and fro dog poop, cat poop, 157 00:12:20,120 --> 00:12:24,120 Speaker 1: rat poop. Your street was not a lovely dirt street. 158 00:12:24,160 --> 00:12:27,600 Speaker 1: It was not a lovely paved street. Streets were supposed 159 00:12:27,640 --> 00:12:33,360 Speaker 1: to be the rankest, smelling, foulest thing ever, and of 160 00:12:33,400 --> 00:12:39,079 Speaker 1: course they would be right puts into context those old 161 00:12:39,120 --> 00:12:41,840 Speaker 1: westerns you used to watch, doesn't it where John Wayne 162 00:12:41,880 --> 00:12:45,600 Speaker 1: fells down in a muddy street that wasn't mud where 163 00:12:45,640 --> 00:12:53,959 Speaker 1: he fell out, and they didn't know what to do. 164 00:12:54,000 --> 00:12:56,079 Speaker 1: You would think the world was coming to an end. 165 00:12:56,120 --> 00:12:59,960 Speaker 1: You know. Multiple times they would sail out to an 166 00:13:00,160 --> 00:13:02,840 Speaker 1: to a ship that looked like it wasn't doing anything, 167 00:13:02,840 --> 00:13:05,880 Speaker 1: and they would they would board the ship and find 168 00:13:06,520 --> 00:13:10,120 Speaker 1: a ghost ship with every single person on board dead 169 00:13:10,280 --> 00:13:13,040 Speaker 1: from the black plague, just sailing in the ocean. Would 170 00:13:13,040 --> 00:13:18,080 Speaker 1: that not be something creepy? Children, I just read a 171 00:13:18,080 --> 00:13:22,640 Speaker 1: story this morning. You see they they nailed you in 172 00:13:22,760 --> 00:13:27,360 Speaker 1: your home lots of the time. I come home tonight, 173 00:13:27,440 --> 00:13:33,079 Speaker 1: it's it's the thirteenth century. I'm oh, feel the neck there. 174 00:13:33,080 --> 00:13:34,920 Speaker 1: It looks like I got a swollen lymph. Note, I 175 00:13:34,920 --> 00:13:38,720 Speaker 1: think I got the plague. Somebody pops by says, oh, man, 176 00:13:38,760 --> 00:13:40,640 Speaker 1: he's got the plague. Do you know the next sound 177 00:13:40,679 --> 00:13:44,520 Speaker 1: I would hear this is a reality. The next sound 178 00:13:44,559 --> 00:13:47,679 Speaker 1: I would hear would be the town blacksmith putting a 179 00:13:47,679 --> 00:13:51,760 Speaker 1: padlock on my front door and the police stationing somebody 180 00:13:51,840 --> 00:13:56,640 Speaker 1: out front. So nobody, not wife, not kids, nobody is 181 00:13:56,679 --> 00:14:00,080 Speaker 1: allowed to leave my home. And when you're dealing with 182 00:14:00,160 --> 00:14:05,080 Speaker 1: the disease, it spreads like that. They're all gonna die. 183 00:14:09,240 --> 00:14:12,240 Speaker 1: As one person put it, from that era, infection may 184 00:14:12,280 --> 00:14:15,920 Speaker 1: have killed its thousands, but shutting up, it's ten thousands. 185 00:14:16,000 --> 00:14:18,600 Speaker 1: You see. The rich packed up in their carriage carriages 186 00:14:18,640 --> 00:14:21,760 Speaker 1: and rode off to the country homes. The poor got 187 00:14:21,800 --> 00:14:28,560 Speaker 1: locked inside their homes to die. Even the clergy left. 188 00:14:29,920 --> 00:14:32,520 Speaker 1: You see, this is not like today where for the 189 00:14:32,600 --> 00:14:38,160 Speaker 1: most part, pastors were not some rich celebrity types. See 190 00:14:38,680 --> 00:14:41,520 Speaker 1: back then they were pastors were the rich celebrity types. 191 00:14:41,560 --> 00:14:44,040 Speaker 1: Today that's not the case. I mean again, furthermost part 192 00:14:45,600 --> 00:14:47,600 Speaker 1: they packed up and left with the other rich people. 193 00:14:52,440 --> 00:14:55,160 Speaker 1: They were emphatic about how you were buried. Back then. 194 00:14:55,280 --> 00:14:58,240 Speaker 1: We still care about it today, but nothing nothing like 195 00:14:58,360 --> 00:15:02,400 Speaker 1: Back then, being buried was a sacred thing because it's 196 00:15:02,520 --> 00:15:03,920 Speaker 1: part of how you got to have it. It It was 197 00:15:04,000 --> 00:15:07,480 Speaker 1: part of your tradition. It was part of this. And 198 00:15:07,600 --> 00:15:10,560 Speaker 1: so many people died they stopped caring and there was 199 00:15:10,600 --> 00:15:13,480 Speaker 1: no one to bury them. And they would just dig 200 00:15:13,640 --> 00:15:17,240 Speaker 1: massive trenches by the churches and shovel all the bodies 201 00:15:17,240 --> 00:15:19,920 Speaker 1: into it and throw a layer of dirt on top 202 00:15:19,960 --> 00:15:21,680 Speaker 1: of it to get ready for the next morning, where 203 00:15:21,680 --> 00:15:23,640 Speaker 1: they had to shovel more bodies on top of it. 204 00:15:25,280 --> 00:15:33,560 Speaker 1: They estimate worldwide. They estimate a hundred million. They estimate 205 00:15:33,640 --> 00:15:37,920 Speaker 1: the worldwide population not even making this up, dropped by 206 00:15:38,000 --> 00:15:45,520 Speaker 1: twenty five percent during the Black Plague, again the worst 207 00:15:45,920 --> 00:15:50,520 Speaker 1: by a mile, the worst disaster ever visited on the 208 00:15:50,520 --> 00:15:52,880 Speaker 1: face of the planet, if you don't count God's flood 209 00:15:52,880 --> 00:16:01,200 Speaker 1: that killed everyone. But Noah in the fam everybody, remember 210 00:16:01,240 --> 00:16:07,680 Speaker 1: half your table, the left side's gone. Everybody on top 211 00:16:07,720 --> 00:16:10,640 Speaker 1: of the tearing apart of the social fabric. You see, 212 00:16:10,680 --> 00:16:13,240 Speaker 1: so many people died. You know how we get on 213 00:16:13,240 --> 00:16:15,480 Speaker 1: the news every day to day. We see Donald Trump 214 00:16:15,480 --> 00:16:18,000 Speaker 1: at the press conference, and then the governor will get 215 00:16:18,080 --> 00:16:20,400 Speaker 1: up and say something that afternoon, and oh, hey, the 216 00:16:20,480 --> 00:16:23,040 Speaker 1: mayor's doing a little state of the city thing. So 217 00:16:23,080 --> 00:16:28,080 Speaker 1: many people died. They couldn't replace the politicians fast enough, 218 00:16:28,120 --> 00:16:31,000 Speaker 1: and some places just went without government because they all died. 219 00:16:33,760 --> 00:16:43,360 Speaker 1: Everyone dead. Oh then I mentioned anti Semitism came along 220 00:16:43,360 --> 00:16:47,120 Speaker 1: with it. You see, a society will tear itself apart 221 00:16:48,360 --> 00:16:52,120 Speaker 1: in horrible ways when something like this comes down. They 222 00:16:52,160 --> 00:16:55,120 Speaker 1: blame the Jews for this. Now, there's a long history 223 00:16:55,640 --> 00:17:00,720 Speaker 1: to this. Part of this was Catholicism was big, big, big, big, 224 00:17:00,760 --> 00:17:02,320 Speaker 1: big black thing. You think it's big now, it was 225 00:17:02,400 --> 00:17:09,800 Speaker 1: big back then. Part of this era's Catholicism barred Catholics 226 00:17:09,840 --> 00:17:12,359 Speaker 1: from handling money. They viewed it as basically a sin, 227 00:17:13,000 --> 00:17:15,760 Speaker 1: which is why you get the stereotype Jewish banker thing. 228 00:17:15,800 --> 00:17:18,520 Speaker 1: You know, Jews control all the money because Jews obviously 229 00:17:18,560 --> 00:17:20,800 Speaker 1: stepped up and was like, oh, well, somebody needs to 230 00:17:20,840 --> 00:17:25,440 Speaker 1: run a freaking bank here. And if you've been told 231 00:17:25,480 --> 00:17:29,960 Speaker 1: your whole life that handling money is sinful, and everywhere 232 00:17:30,000 --> 00:17:33,399 Speaker 1: you look there's a Jew running a bank, what are 233 00:17:33,440 --> 00:17:39,080 Speaker 1: you gonna think? Plus few people kill Jesus Chris Hack. 234 00:17:39,200 --> 00:17:44,600 Speaker 1: But anyway, so they would Strasburg, Germany, for instance, they 235 00:17:44,640 --> 00:17:47,199 Speaker 1: just rounded up right after the Black Plague. They just 236 00:17:47,320 --> 00:17:50,560 Speaker 1: rounded up two thousand Jews and tortured them all until 237 00:17:50,600 --> 00:17:53,280 Speaker 1: they admitted to poisoning the whales with black plague, and 238 00:17:53,280 --> 00:17:58,280 Speaker 1: then they burned them at the stake. Yes, it's not 239 00:17:58,359 --> 00:18:02,000 Speaker 1: a lesson in anti Semitism today. It's just a that's 240 00:18:02,040 --> 00:18:07,560 Speaker 1: what happens, that's what we do. But believe it or not, 241 00:18:07,680 --> 00:18:13,040 Speaker 1: this is not really a black plague story. Do you 242 00:18:13,080 --> 00:18:18,399 Speaker 1: know how all this began, how it really began, the 243 00:18:18,480 --> 00:18:24,639 Speaker 1: wiping out of Europe with an argument, just a little 244 00:18:24,720 --> 00:18:28,760 Speaker 1: argument between a couple of bros, a little religious argument. 245 00:18:29,800 --> 00:18:33,040 Speaker 1: Let us backtrack just a little bit to the Mongols. 246 00:18:33,040 --> 00:18:35,360 Speaker 1: You remember I've told you about the Mongols before Genghis 247 00:18:35,440 --> 00:18:38,320 Speaker 1: Khan and the greatest kingdom ever, the greatest conqueror ever. 248 00:18:39,640 --> 00:18:42,720 Speaker 1: Fast forward about a hundred years after Genghis Khan is 249 00:18:42,760 --> 00:18:48,080 Speaker 1: done slaughtering everybody on Earth, the Mongol Empire is broken 250 00:18:48,200 --> 00:18:52,120 Speaker 1: up into differing empires. Now you should know, no, it 251 00:18:52,200 --> 00:18:56,160 Speaker 1: is nowhere near the glory of the Genghis Khan reign 252 00:18:56,240 --> 00:19:00,399 Speaker 1: as far as power goes. However, the broken up pieces 253 00:19:00,400 --> 00:19:04,199 Speaker 1: of the Mongol era still really really powerful, and I 254 00:19:04,280 --> 00:19:08,200 Speaker 1: mean really powerful. One of, if not maybe the most 255 00:19:08,240 --> 00:19:11,480 Speaker 1: powerful portion of it was called the Golden Horde. I 256 00:19:11,560 --> 00:19:13,320 Speaker 1: know it's a sweet name. I just wanted to say it. 257 00:19:15,720 --> 00:19:19,240 Speaker 1: That made up the northwestern portion of what was once 258 00:19:19,320 --> 00:19:24,160 Speaker 1: Genghis Khan's entire empire. Now, remember Genghis Khan was actually, 259 00:19:24,359 --> 00:19:29,160 Speaker 1: for all the millions he slaughtered, extremely religiously tolerant. That 260 00:19:29,200 --> 00:19:34,000 Speaker 1: didn't necessarily carry over with all of the broken up 261 00:19:34,000 --> 00:19:37,840 Speaker 1: mongo empires. The Golden Horde was a Muslim empire for 262 00:19:37,920 --> 00:19:41,760 Speaker 1: the most part, not super anti Christian, but a little, 263 00:19:42,480 --> 00:19:45,920 Speaker 1: not super anti jew but a little. It was a 264 00:19:45,960 --> 00:19:54,159 Speaker 1: bustle empire. You see. Up in the city of Kaffa, 265 00:19:54,359 --> 00:19:57,320 Speaker 1: or close to the city of Kaffa, the Mongols had 266 00:19:57,359 --> 00:20:01,520 Speaker 1: these Italian tradesmen. The tradesmen were from Genoa, and they 267 00:20:01,600 --> 00:20:04,880 Speaker 1: told the tradesmen, look, I understand your Christians, it's all good, 268 00:20:06,240 --> 00:20:09,119 Speaker 1: but you do no trade. And you're right here on 269 00:20:09,200 --> 00:20:11,480 Speaker 1: the Black Sea. You can get a map and see 270 00:20:11,520 --> 00:20:14,159 Speaker 1: the Black Sea. It's a major major trading hub. You 271 00:20:14,240 --> 00:20:15,879 Speaker 1: see your city's right here on the Black Sea. So 272 00:20:15,960 --> 00:20:18,199 Speaker 1: here's what we're gonna do. You're really good at trade. 273 00:20:18,680 --> 00:20:22,040 Speaker 1: You handle all the trade here on the Black Sea. 274 00:20:22,640 --> 00:20:25,400 Speaker 1: Obviously you're gonna pay us our a little money off 275 00:20:25,400 --> 00:20:29,320 Speaker 1: the top, and everybody will win. You get rich, we 276 00:20:29,359 --> 00:20:32,520 Speaker 1: get rich. Everybody wins. Right, And for a while everybody 277 00:20:32,640 --> 00:20:37,240 Speaker 1: was running the Golden Horde was reeling it in until 278 00:20:37,280 --> 00:21:10,760 Speaker 1: that argument. Hey very close to the port city of Kaffa, 279 00:21:10,920 --> 00:21:15,480 Speaker 1: back in thirteen forty five, thirteen forty three, I thought 280 00:21:15,480 --> 00:21:18,719 Speaker 1: the city was there the whole time. Is a tiny 281 00:21:18,800 --> 00:21:21,919 Speaker 1: city called Tanna, tiny little town. And in this town, 282 00:21:23,720 --> 00:21:26,439 Speaker 1: some of those merchants, those tradesmen who were running the 283 00:21:26,480 --> 00:21:30,640 Speaker 1: ports of Kaffa, making a fortune for themselves. In the Mongols, 284 00:21:33,320 --> 00:21:37,240 Speaker 1: they got in an argument with a Muslim dude. No 285 00:21:37,320 --> 00:21:43,000 Speaker 1: one knows the circumstances how it happened, but the Muslim 286 00:21:43,040 --> 00:21:48,440 Speaker 1: dude ended up dead. Not the end of the world. 287 00:21:49,200 --> 00:21:51,080 Speaker 1: And if you're wondering how this is going to tie 288 00:21:51,119 --> 00:21:53,879 Speaker 1: in with the Black plague, well you're just gonna have 289 00:21:53,920 --> 00:21:57,960 Speaker 1: to be patient for a second. You see, those merchants 290 00:21:58,000 --> 00:22:01,080 Speaker 1: then knew they were in a bit of trouble. One, 291 00:22:01,200 --> 00:22:04,720 Speaker 1: a Muslim dude was dead and the Golden Horde was Muslim. Two. 292 00:22:05,359 --> 00:22:08,840 Speaker 1: As you may remember from previous shows, the Mongols did 293 00:22:08,880 --> 00:22:14,720 Speaker 1: not play around with the law. These are people who 294 00:22:14,760 --> 00:22:20,320 Speaker 1: would slaughter their own men happily for disobeying even slightly. 295 00:22:25,200 --> 00:22:27,800 Speaker 1: They took off, the merchants did, and they ran to 296 00:22:27,880 --> 00:22:31,840 Speaker 1: the big city of Kaffa and said, hey, can you 297 00:22:31,880 --> 00:22:34,280 Speaker 1: protect us. I'm sure the Muslims are I'm sure the 298 00:22:34,320 --> 00:22:36,399 Speaker 1: Mongols are coming to kill us, And the seat of 299 00:22:36,480 --> 00:22:40,720 Speaker 1: the city of Kaffa, for better or for worse, said sure, 300 00:22:40,960 --> 00:22:45,360 Speaker 1: come on and screw them. Generally, if you know your 301 00:22:45,400 --> 00:22:48,840 Speaker 1: history at all, not a great not a great decision. 302 00:22:51,280 --> 00:23:00,199 Speaker 1: So here's the deal. The Mongols sent an army and 303 00:23:00,320 --> 00:23:03,000 Speaker 1: they knocked on the door or the city and said, 304 00:23:03,320 --> 00:23:05,679 Speaker 1: go ahead, so those guys out, because we need to 305 00:23:05,720 --> 00:23:08,200 Speaker 1: kill them. And the city said no, I don't think 306 00:23:08,200 --> 00:23:12,480 Speaker 1: we will. And the Mongols well said okay, then you're 307 00:23:12,560 --> 00:23:14,800 Speaker 1: under attack. And the Mongols laid siege to the city 308 00:23:14,840 --> 00:23:17,840 Speaker 1: and they lost. Like I said, this is not the 309 00:23:17,880 --> 00:23:20,240 Speaker 1: Genghis Khan era. They were very powerful, but they were 310 00:23:20,280 --> 00:23:23,480 Speaker 1: not all powerful. They actually lost about fifteen thousand men. 311 00:23:24,680 --> 00:23:27,080 Speaker 1: Finally gave up, took off, said all right, we're done. 312 00:23:27,240 --> 00:23:30,919 Speaker 1: Only I mean they're still Mongols, so they're still mad. 313 00:23:32,200 --> 00:23:34,320 Speaker 1: And they gathered up another army and came back and 314 00:23:34,400 --> 00:23:39,040 Speaker 1: laid siege again. And this time it's not going very 315 00:23:39,080 --> 00:23:42,639 Speaker 1: well again, only it's not going very well for a 316 00:23:42,760 --> 00:23:48,160 Speaker 1: very different reason. You see, the plague was tearing through 317 00:23:48,240 --> 00:23:51,480 Speaker 1: China at the time, was tearing through the Asian step 318 00:23:51,560 --> 00:23:58,440 Speaker 1: at the time, and unbeknownst to them, the Mongols brought 319 00:23:58,480 --> 00:24:03,000 Speaker 1: it to the Black Sea. And when the Mongols brought 320 00:24:03,000 --> 00:24:05,200 Speaker 1: it to the Black Sea and they were laying siege 321 00:24:05,240 --> 00:24:11,520 Speaker 1: to the city of Kafa, their men started dying, a 322 00:24:11,560 --> 00:24:16,239 Speaker 1: lot of them and this was not going well, and 323 00:24:17,160 --> 00:24:19,920 Speaker 1: let's be honest, they're still Mongols. These are not people 324 00:24:19,960 --> 00:24:23,399 Speaker 1: who obeyed the rules of warfare. There's not people who 325 00:24:23,480 --> 00:24:33,720 Speaker 1: lose lying down. So they stopped throwing rocks and trees 326 00:24:34,119 --> 00:24:36,920 Speaker 1: with their catapults into the city, trying to knock down 327 00:24:37,000 --> 00:24:40,880 Speaker 1: the walls, trying to knock down the buildings. Instead, they 328 00:24:40,960 --> 00:24:43,800 Speaker 1: loaded up each in every person who had died of 329 00:24:43,880 --> 00:24:47,919 Speaker 1: plague into a catapult and began launching them over the 330 00:24:47,960 --> 00:24:51,840 Speaker 1: city walls into kafa. Now, try to picture this moment 331 00:24:51,920 --> 00:24:55,560 Speaker 1: as best you can. I don't mean one or two people, 332 00:24:56,640 --> 00:25:04,160 Speaker 1: I mean for a month a month, all day, every day. 333 00:25:04,200 --> 00:25:06,720 Speaker 1: If you look up in the sky, you can see 334 00:25:06,880 --> 00:25:12,960 Speaker 1: a dead, smelly, rotting corpse hurling over your city walls 335 00:25:13,000 --> 00:25:16,800 Speaker 1: to splatter on your streets, in buildings and spread plague 336 00:25:17,000 --> 00:25:25,720 Speaker 1: all over the place. Mongols gave it up again because 337 00:25:25,760 --> 00:25:30,439 Speaker 1: their army was dying, packed it up, went home. The 338 00:25:30,600 --> 00:25:35,720 Speaker 1: problem is people in Caffa, they didn't. They packed it 339 00:25:35,840 --> 00:25:39,600 Speaker 1: up and hopped onto ships, and the rats that had 340 00:25:39,600 --> 00:25:42,639 Speaker 1: the fleas with the plague hopped onto the ships, and 341 00:25:42,880 --> 00:25:46,000 Speaker 1: people with the plague hopped onto the ships, and they 342 00:25:46,040 --> 00:25:50,320 Speaker 1: sailed everywhere. But really the main problem is they sailed 343 00:25:50,359 --> 00:25:54,120 Speaker 1: to the city of Constantinople. Now that doesn't mean anything 344 00:25:54,160 --> 00:25:57,800 Speaker 1: to you, but know this, If you could roll Los Angeles, 345 00:25:57,880 --> 00:26:02,960 Speaker 1: New York City, Hong Kong, Shanghai, London all up into one, 346 00:26:03,280 --> 00:26:05,600 Speaker 1: it still wouldn't be as big of a deal as 347 00:26:05,680 --> 00:26:09,680 Speaker 1: Constantinople was back in the day. It was the trading 348 00:26:09,800 --> 00:26:12,520 Speaker 1: hub of the planet. And as soon as that place 349 00:26:12,600 --> 00:26:18,359 Speaker 1: gets the plague, everywhere gets the plague. And those Italians 350 00:26:18,400 --> 00:26:23,600 Speaker 1: sailing from Kafa into Constantinople, unbeknownst to them, brought about 351 00:26:23,640 --> 00:26:36,600 Speaker 1: the death of half of Europe, half of Europe. These things, 352 00:26:38,440 --> 00:26:46,360 Speaker 1: the terrible things that happen in history, especially diseases, They 353 00:26:46,400 --> 00:26:52,280 Speaker 1: almost always start the same way, slightly different circumstances, but 354 00:26:52,320 --> 00:26:56,800 Speaker 1: they almost always start the same way, and they almost 355 00:26:56,880 --> 00:27:05,480 Speaker 1: always play out the same way. Something small happens, someone 356 00:27:05,520 --> 00:27:11,200 Speaker 1: gets sick, that someone who's sick doesn't realize what they have. 357 00:27:11,640 --> 00:27:15,600 Speaker 1: The quote experts and doctors of the time don't realize 358 00:27:15,680 --> 00:27:19,640 Speaker 1: exactly what they have or how they have it. So 359 00:27:19,760 --> 00:27:27,680 Speaker 1: what do they do Without enough information? They panic, They 360 00:27:27,720 --> 00:27:37,359 Speaker 1: make decisions decisions that inevitably doom other people. Quick there's 361 00:27:37,359 --> 00:27:41,640 Speaker 1: a black plague out. It's super infectious. Everybody, get inside 362 00:27:41,640 --> 00:27:48,720 Speaker 1: and lock your doors. Wait, what does that sound familiar 363 00:27:48,720 --> 00:27:55,240 Speaker 1: at all? We have an infectious disease right now. We 364 00:27:55,440 --> 00:27:59,320 Speaker 1: know this from things like the Spanish flu and surprise, surprise, 365 00:27:59,720 --> 00:28:03,160 Speaker 1: God did it right. Fresh air and sunshine are excellent 366 00:28:03,240 --> 00:28:05,040 Speaker 1: for people who are sick. I know you're gonna find 367 00:28:05,080 --> 00:28:09,119 Speaker 1: that shocking. So what do we do? Everyone get inside? 368 00:28:10,480 --> 00:28:12,320 Speaker 1: Go ahead and let me catch you on the beach. 369 00:28:12,600 --> 00:28:16,399 Speaker 1: You'll be placed under arrest. I'll tell you what we're doing. 370 00:28:16,640 --> 00:28:20,560 Speaker 1: We're closing down the state, the state parks and walking trails. 371 00:28:22,160 --> 00:28:25,560 Speaker 1: I have video today of I believe it's Venice Beach 372 00:28:26,119 --> 00:28:29,120 Speaker 1: them taking this gigantic skate park. It's one of those 373 00:28:29,160 --> 00:28:32,160 Speaker 1: big concrete areas where skateboarders go and ramps and things 374 00:28:32,200 --> 00:28:38,200 Speaker 1: like that, you know, outdoors, sunshine, fresh air, exercise. They 375 00:28:38,280 --> 00:28:41,280 Speaker 1: filled it up with sands so the skateboarders couldn't skate anymore. 376 00:28:44,160 --> 00:28:48,240 Speaker 1: And on top of the panic and the terrible's decisions 377 00:28:48,240 --> 00:28:50,960 Speaker 1: made by the experts that make everything worse. You remember 378 00:28:50,960 --> 00:28:57,080 Speaker 1: the killing of the cats as well, well, they make 379 00:28:57,120 --> 00:29:02,360 Speaker 1: everybody less healthy. Get inside, order takeout, watch Netflix. The 380 00:29:02,480 --> 00:29:04,640 Speaker 1: gyms are closed. Do you know what they ordered? The 381 00:29:04,680 --> 00:29:09,520 Speaker 1: people to do during the plague. They ordered them to smoke. 382 00:29:11,160 --> 00:29:17,880 Speaker 1: I'm not I'm not making that up. They viewed bad 383 00:29:18,160 --> 00:29:20,960 Speaker 1: air as being the cause of the Black plague. And 384 00:29:21,000 --> 00:29:23,200 Speaker 1: I don't mean, you know, the infectious part that comes 385 00:29:23,200 --> 00:29:26,400 Speaker 1: out of somebody's lungs. They actually viewed some air that 386 00:29:26,520 --> 00:29:30,280 Speaker 1: came out of the earth as being bad and so 387 00:29:30,360 --> 00:29:33,280 Speaker 1: they wanted to cover that up. And they thought smoking 388 00:29:33,440 --> 00:29:36,560 Speaker 1: would actually help. And what I say they wanted you 389 00:29:36,640 --> 00:29:38,479 Speaker 1: to smoke. I don't mean they said, hey, you might 390 00:29:38,560 --> 00:29:41,960 Speaker 1: want to think about smoking. I mean they ordered children 391 00:29:42,080 --> 00:29:45,680 Speaker 1: to smoke. Here, smoke this, and the children who refused 392 00:29:45,760 --> 00:29:50,200 Speaker 1: were beaten. When I say they don't, I don't just 393 00:29:50,280 --> 00:29:58,640 Speaker 1: mean anybody. That was the experts, That was the physicians, 394 00:30:00,160 --> 00:30:04,760 Speaker 1: those worthy, learned men of the day. Just do what 395 00:30:04,800 --> 00:30:09,800 Speaker 1: you're told, peasant. You can't even read, trust me, I'm 396 00:30:09,840 --> 00:30:16,200 Speaker 1: a doctor. Oh you remember when I told you about 397 00:30:16,240 --> 00:30:21,600 Speaker 1: the rich people packed up and left? Yeah, hang on, 398 00:30:21,600 --> 00:30:52,160 Speaker 1: I've got something on that the Jesse Kelly Show. Remember 399 00:30:52,240 --> 00:30:55,280 Speaker 1: the rich people who packed up and left town during 400 00:30:55,320 --> 00:30:59,880 Speaker 1: the Black Plague? Good luck, poors, you're on your own. 401 00:31:02,160 --> 00:31:07,440 Speaker 1: This is a tweet from Patton Oswald, famous comedian actor 402 00:31:09,160 --> 00:31:11,960 Speaker 1: I'm not exaggerating here. This is what he tweeted. This 403 00:31:12,040 --> 00:31:15,120 Speaker 1: is verbatim. I won't I won't fluff it up. Quote 404 00:31:16,640 --> 00:31:20,000 Speaker 1: Anne Frank spent two years hiding in an attic, and 405 00:31:20,160 --> 00:31:23,440 Speaker 1: we've been home for just over a month with Netflix, 406 00:31:23,640 --> 00:31:27,400 Speaker 1: food delivery, and video games. And there are people risking 407 00:31:27,600 --> 00:31:32,400 Speaker 1: viral death by storming state capitol buildings and screaming open 408 00:31:32,560 --> 00:31:43,960 Speaker 1: food ruckers. They don't understand the separation, and people don't 409 00:31:44,040 --> 00:31:46,960 Speaker 1: understand how you live. And let me reinforce this again. 410 00:31:49,320 --> 00:31:55,120 Speaker 1: I've been disgusted by politicians and people still getting a 411 00:31:55,120 --> 00:32:01,240 Speaker 1: paycheck throughout this process, scolding working people about wanting to 412 00:32:01,240 --> 00:32:03,880 Speaker 1: get back to work, telling them to shut up go home. 413 00:32:04,000 --> 00:32:06,479 Speaker 1: That that's so easy to say. But the thing is, 414 00:32:06,560 --> 00:32:09,920 Speaker 1: I don't begrudge them the money. I'm not that guy. 415 00:32:11,520 --> 00:32:15,200 Speaker 1: Get rich, get famous, do it. I'm rooting for you. 416 00:32:15,320 --> 00:32:19,280 Speaker 1: I'm rooting for Patton Oswald. I don't want him poor 417 00:32:19,360 --> 00:32:21,560 Speaker 1: and destitute. I want him out there making it. I 418 00:32:21,600 --> 00:32:23,760 Speaker 1: hope the next ten people that make it, I hope 419 00:32:23,800 --> 00:32:28,520 Speaker 1: you make it. It's not that. What bothers me is 420 00:32:28,560 --> 00:32:32,840 Speaker 1: when you get to that point and one you all 421 00:32:32,880 --> 00:32:35,960 Speaker 1: of a sudden feel like you're better than normal people. 422 00:32:37,400 --> 00:32:42,840 Speaker 1: And two, you don't even bother trying to put yourself 423 00:32:42,880 --> 00:32:46,400 Speaker 1: in the shoes of someone else. We're all home with 424 00:32:46,520 --> 00:32:51,360 Speaker 1: Netflix and food delivery and video games. You remember that 425 00:32:51,560 --> 00:32:54,480 Speaker 1: food I told you about I ordered on Friday night 426 00:32:54,520 --> 00:32:58,040 Speaker 1: for a date night with my wife. We had a 427 00:32:58,040 --> 00:33:01,120 Speaker 1: little date night in the house. We made the kids 428 00:33:01,160 --> 00:33:02,960 Speaker 1: wait tables and stuff like that. By the way, it 429 00:33:03,000 --> 00:33:05,880 Speaker 1: turned out awesome, Chris, turned out absolutely awesome. I'll get 430 00:33:05,880 --> 00:33:10,480 Speaker 1: to that in a second. It costs fifty eight dollars. 431 00:33:13,160 --> 00:33:18,160 Speaker 1: Now I realized, fifty eight dollars. There's nothing to Patton Oswald. 432 00:33:18,200 --> 00:33:26,000 Speaker 1: But I'm not doing that every night? Are you doing 433 00:33:26,000 --> 00:33:29,000 Speaker 1: that every night? And even if you are, again, I 434 00:33:29,040 --> 00:33:31,520 Speaker 1: don't begrudge it to you. That's fine. Do it, deliver 435 00:33:31,600 --> 00:33:33,280 Speaker 1: it up. The restaurants need the business. If you can 436 00:33:33,320 --> 00:33:35,720 Speaker 1: afford to do it and love it, do it. I've 437 00:33:35,760 --> 00:33:38,120 Speaker 1: always said, if I ever get mega rich, I'm not 438 00:33:38,160 --> 00:33:42,720 Speaker 1: a big material guy. It makes me sound really, really, 439 00:33:42,760 --> 00:33:45,800 Speaker 1: really righteous, Chris, I'm not a materialistic person. No, I'm 440 00:33:45,840 --> 00:33:48,280 Speaker 1: the worst person on earth. I just don't value boats 441 00:33:48,280 --> 00:33:50,640 Speaker 1: and jet skis and fancy cars. I wouldn't sell my 442 00:33:50,680 --> 00:33:52,800 Speaker 1: house or my pickup. I just that's just not who 443 00:33:52,880 --> 00:33:55,160 Speaker 1: I am. But I would eat out, like every single meal. 444 00:33:55,280 --> 00:33:57,480 Speaker 1: I love eating out. I just can't afford it, so 445 00:33:57,480 --> 00:34:02,840 Speaker 1: I don't. So if you can, that's fine. But again, 446 00:34:03,280 --> 00:34:09,640 Speaker 1: understand something. Other people are waiting in line for hours 447 00:34:09,760 --> 00:34:16,920 Speaker 1: at the local food bank to get emergency food. This disconnect, 448 00:34:17,280 --> 00:34:23,200 Speaker 1: it doesn't work. Know what you don't know. And you 449 00:34:23,320 --> 00:34:25,560 Speaker 1: heard we had a guest on the other day. You 450 00:34:25,680 --> 00:34:29,719 Speaker 1: heard her talk about this disconnect. And here's the deal. 451 00:34:32,560 --> 00:34:35,360 Speaker 1: The journalists go through it too. The truth of the 452 00:34:35,440 --> 00:34:40,880 Speaker 1: matter is this, because journalism doesn't pay a lot, especially 453 00:34:41,000 --> 00:34:45,360 Speaker 1: right out of college. The people who go into journalism 454 00:34:45,400 --> 00:34:48,080 Speaker 1: are not just the people who want to be journalists. 455 00:34:48,320 --> 00:34:51,719 Speaker 1: It's the people who can afford meeting their families can 456 00:34:51,800 --> 00:34:57,640 Speaker 1: afford to have them grow go into journalism. If you 457 00:34:57,719 --> 00:35:02,960 Speaker 1: grew up poor, you don't have the option to go 458 00:35:03,040 --> 00:35:06,560 Speaker 1: be a freaking journalist when you go to college, if 459 00:35:06,600 --> 00:35:09,880 Speaker 1: you even get to go to college. Brother, when you graduate, 460 00:35:09,960 --> 00:35:13,160 Speaker 1: I gotta make some money. If I don't make money, 461 00:35:13,200 --> 00:35:17,160 Speaker 1: I don't eat. So what you have in the journalism field, 462 00:35:17,880 --> 00:35:20,239 Speaker 1: it's a bunch of you know, let's be honest, It's 463 00:35:20,280 --> 00:35:23,760 Speaker 1: like sixty sixty five percent upper middle class white kids. 464 00:35:27,080 --> 00:35:30,920 Speaker 1: So they don't understand working people, which again is fine 465 00:35:30,960 --> 00:35:33,200 Speaker 1: if that was your life, if your whole life was 466 00:35:33,239 --> 00:35:37,120 Speaker 1: you know, fancy cars at sixteen and sip and mimosas, 467 00:35:37,200 --> 00:35:41,000 Speaker 1: that's fine, But understand that you don't understand how working 468 00:35:41,040 --> 00:35:45,840 Speaker 1: people actually live. You don't understand. And I'm not saying 469 00:35:46,080 --> 00:35:48,680 Speaker 1: open up everything tomorrow and everyone will go back to work. 470 00:35:48,680 --> 00:35:51,160 Speaker 1: That's absurd. Of course they won't. A lot of people 471 00:35:51,200 --> 00:35:53,480 Speaker 1: will stay home like they did during the Spanish flu. 472 00:35:55,400 --> 00:36:00,720 Speaker 1: When we didn't shut down the entire economy. We hurt 473 00:36:01,000 --> 00:36:03,600 Speaker 1: the economy because of the flu, but we gave people 474 00:36:03,640 --> 00:36:08,160 Speaker 1: the freedom to make that choice, and these huge factories 475 00:36:08,160 --> 00:36:11,440 Speaker 1: would open up. Half the people would stay home too scared, 476 00:36:11,640 --> 00:36:16,920 Speaker 1: but half would go to work. Why well, it's my 477 00:36:17,040 --> 00:36:20,359 Speaker 1: job to provide for my family. If we can't eat, 478 00:36:22,640 --> 00:36:24,479 Speaker 1: I am going to risk the virus to go to work. 479 00:36:25,280 --> 00:36:28,680 Speaker 1: My family has to eat, we have to stay alive. 480 00:36:30,880 --> 00:36:35,680 Speaker 1: So again, I'm happy, totally happy for people who succeed, 481 00:36:35,840 --> 00:36:39,439 Speaker 1: even people I don't like. I'm not that guy. I'm 482 00:36:39,560 --> 00:36:42,880 Speaker 1: filthy rich people. I'm not that guy. Maybe i'll be 483 00:36:42,920 --> 00:36:45,160 Speaker 1: one one day. It's not my overarching life goal. But 484 00:36:45,200 --> 00:36:48,600 Speaker 1: it's fine. I'm not that guy. But if you are 485 00:36:48,680 --> 00:36:52,319 Speaker 1: in that situation, especially during times like this, and you've 486 00:36:52,320 --> 00:36:54,520 Speaker 1: thrown the family and the carriage to head to the 487 00:36:54,600 --> 00:36:58,040 Speaker 1: lake house while these poors deal with the plague, that's fine. 488 00:36:58,080 --> 00:37:00,520 Speaker 1: Good for you. I do the same thing for my family. 489 00:37:00,680 --> 00:37:03,799 Speaker 1: But at least no that you don't then get to 490 00:37:03,880 --> 00:37:07,200 Speaker 1: from your lake house send memos out scolding everyone else 491 00:37:07,239 --> 00:37:09,640 Speaker 1: how they should be happy with how they're living right now. 492 00:37:12,520 --> 00:37:15,239 Speaker 1: Stop this. We're all in this together, cramp. We're not. 493 00:37:16,160 --> 00:37:19,640 Speaker 1: We all have very very very different situations right now. 494 00:37:21,000 --> 00:37:22,839 Speaker 1: All right, I'll tell you about that date night, Chris, 495 00:37:22,880 --> 00:37:25,160 Speaker 1: and I'll tell you about this sweet new show I found. 496 00:37:25,520 --> 00:37:31,799 Speaker 1: Hang On. You don't have to dip forever. You know that, right. 497 00:37:32,200 --> 00:37:35,040 Speaker 1: You don't have to smoke forever. And the reason I 498 00:37:35,040 --> 00:37:37,439 Speaker 1: say it like that is I have been that guy. 499 00:37:37,960 --> 00:37:40,840 Speaker 1: I've been that guy. I dipped for so long. And 500 00:37:40,920 --> 00:37:42,799 Speaker 1: what would happen is I would decide I'm gonna quit. 501 00:37:42,960 --> 00:37:45,080 Speaker 1: That's bad for me. I'm gonna quit. I'm a man, 502 00:37:45,120 --> 00:37:47,360 Speaker 1: I don't need any help. 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