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Speaker 1: Spiders are having nightmares about you. Ronnie Chang is going
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Speaker 1: So let's do those people. Let's jump straight into today's headlines.
Speaker 1: All right, Before we get into the big stories, let's
Speaker 1: catch up on a few other things going on in
Speaker 1: the world. First up, Toyota has announced that it is
Speaker 1: recalling its brand new electric suv after discovering that the
Speaker 1: wheels could fall off at any time. Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1: People always say we're gonna do this to the wheels
Speaker 1: fall off, but I don't think we actually meant it. Also,
Speaker 1: you would think wheels falling off a car would be
Speaker 1: a problem that was solved long ago, like when they
Speaker 1: invented cause. Meanwhile, in international news, as heat waves and
Speaker 1: wildfires sweep across Europe, Spain has started using sheep and
Speaker 1: goats to help clear flammable flammable vegetation quickly and cheaply. Yeah,
Speaker 1: if you ask me, sending sheep and goats to five
Speaker 1: fires is a great idea. Yeah, I mean even the
Speaker 1: absolute worst case scenario is just like kebabs, which is
Speaker 1: pretty good. You know. Well, I mean the goats are
Speaker 1: a great idea. I'm not sure about the sheep. I
Speaker 1: just think that's risky, you know, yeah, because the foreman
Speaker 1: is going to be like, Okay, how many sheep are
Speaker 1: we sending out today? One Mr the fire. I slipped
Speaker 1: through a fire. Also, don't know why the US doesn't
Speaker 1: do this. I mean, we have so many goats. Lebron Serena,
Speaker 1: Tom Brady, Simone Biles. Yeah. Yeah, all of those people
Speaker 1: love being called the golf, they love being called the gold.
Speaker 1: Let's see if they're willing to step up when it's
Speaker 1: time to eat six acres of cross. I mean, Lebron
Speaker 1: might be able to eat grass, but back in the
Speaker 1: day Jordan, he could put away an entire shrubbery before
Speaker 1: the shot clock ran out. That's the goat. Oh and
Speaker 1: here's some surprising science news. This won't blew my mind.
Speaker 1: According to a new study, spiders may have dreams. Yeah
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't mean like one day having a
Speaker 1: cute little web by the beach. I mean that when
Speaker 1: spider sleep, they also dream, which blew my mind, because
Speaker 1: what do they dream about? Would wouldn't it be crazy
Speaker 1: if they have the same dreams that we do, Like
Speaker 1: there's a spider that wakes up in the middle of
Speaker 1: the Oh my god, I dreamt that I was covered
Speaker 1: in spiders. It was so hot. I actually shot off
Speaker 1: a web in my dream. Total web dream, Total web dream.
Speaker 1: All right, enough of that, Enough of that. Let's move
Speaker 1: on to the story that is still dominating the headlines,
Speaker 1: and it's about Donald joy Ride Trump. Maybe he wasn't
Speaker 1: the greatest presidents if you go by jobs created, or
Speaker 1: problems solved, or hands washed. But if you go by
Speaker 1: the number of criminal investigations launched against him, then my
Speaker 1: man is the goat, except he's allergic to Green, So
Speaker 1: let's catch up on all his latest person secutions in
Speaker 1: our ongoing segments America's Most tremendously Wanted yea, you know,
Speaker 1: we created that as a joke, but every day Trump
Speaker 1: getting in a shootout with the cops gets closer and
Speaker 1: closer to reality, it feels. Anyway, Remember how last week
Speaker 1: the FBI took an eight hour vacation from Orow Lago
Speaker 1: and went home with the monster souvenirs. Well, we all
Speaker 1: have the same question. What were they looking for at
Speaker 1: Donald Trump's house this weekend? We all found out this
Speaker 1: morning the newly unsealed search warrant shedding light on what
Speaker 1: exactly FBI agents were looking for at Mara Lago and
Speaker 1: what they seized. According to the documents made public by
Speaker 1: a federal judge, agents were searching for evidence of three
Speaker 1: potential crimes, violations of the Espionage Act, unlawful removal of
Speaker 1: public records, and obstruction of justice by concealing, altering, or
Speaker 1: destroying records to impede an investigation. They found twenty seven
Speaker 1: boxes of government records, including eleven sets of classified documents.
Speaker 1: Four sets of documents were marked top secret and one
Speaker 1: marked top secret s C I, a classification reserved for
Speaker 1: some of the most sensitive intelligence and national security information,
Speaker 1: typically only viewed in a highly secure location. Yeah that's right,
Speaker 1: So as Trump didn't just have top secret documents, they
Speaker 1: would top secret s C I. What does s c
Speaker 1: I stand for? You wastch that's also top secret, you dumbass.
Speaker 1: I'll be honest. I didn't even know you could have
Speaker 1: a level of secret above top. Did you know this? Yeah?
Speaker 1: How so? I don't think it makes sense, right, that's
Speaker 1: the point of top. If there's something above top, then
Speaker 1: top his middle, you know, Yeah, top is top. People
Speaker 1: like top gun, he's the best fights to pilot if
Speaker 1: someone else coming, and then they're like, pop a gun,
Speaker 1: I want my money back. That's not what I was
Speaker 1: promised not to mention. If something is top, but then
Speaker 1: we find out that there's something above that, then how
Speaker 1: do we know that that's not the final thing? Then
Speaker 1: there could be something above that, and then how do
Speaker 1: we know that there's not something about that because there's
Speaker 1: no top, Like top has to be the top, then
Speaker 1: there's no end, and then like spacetime is what infinite?
Speaker 1: And then do we even exist? Like what what does
Speaker 1: this mean? Who are we have. I'm remember, I'm having
Speaker 1: a panic attack right now, stop the show. Stop there.
Speaker 1: So it turns out Donald Trump was in possession of
Speaker 1: top secret documents he wasn't supposed to have. And look,
Speaker 1: I'm not victim blaming here, but if you ask me,
Speaker 1: the government is partly too responsible, partly responsible for labeling
Speaker 1: the files top secrets. Yeah, because think about it, nobody
Speaker 1: wants to read boxes of government documents. But if it
Speaker 1: says top secret on it, now everyone's interested. It's the
Speaker 1: same way you don't label your pawn folder pawn, all right.
Speaker 1: The government should do what we do, just put secrets
Speaker 1: in a folder called Texas twelve to twenties seven. I've
Speaker 1: done that my whole life. My only screw up was
Speaker 1: I did this when I was twelve years old and
Speaker 1: then my mother was like, what Texas are you paying
Speaker 1: when you're twelve, and then she busted me for pawn
Speaker 1: and tax evasion. Anyway, the point is, no matter what
Speaker 1: they labeled, Donald Trump wasn't supposed to have these documents
Speaker 1: at his house. And in case you're wondering why these
Speaker 1: documents are top top, top, top secret, will hold onto
Speaker 1: your butts because what Trump took home could blow them
Speaker 1: right off. The Washington Post has reported that among the
Speaker 1: materials sought by federal agents was related to nuclear weapons programs.
Speaker 1: If you get into nuclear related documents, that is the
Speaker 1: highest level. It does not get any more serious than that.
Speaker 1: Some of this could be information about adversaries. Some of
Speaker 1: this could be about nuclear weapon design. Some of this
Speaker 1: could be about our nuclear arsenals or our launch procedures.
Speaker 1: Are you shooting me? Don't know. Trump might have kept
Speaker 1: the world's nuclear secrets in his basement at maral Lago,
Speaker 1: the same place Rudy Giuliani sleeps so avoid the sunlight.
Speaker 1: That is so irresponsible, because you realize the worst case
Speaker 1: scenario with these documents is that Trump sold them to
Speaker 1: like Saudi Arabia. The best case scenario is that he
Speaker 1: just lay in bed with them and rubed him all
Speaker 1: over his naked body. Actually not, I'm gonna flip that
Speaker 1: worst case scenario is that he rubbed them naked on
Speaker 1: his body. Hopefully he just sold him to the SOUD.
Speaker 1: He's hopefully hopefully. Oh and by the way, just today,
Speaker 1: to answer this whole saga, Trump posted that in the
Speaker 1: raid by the FBI of Maral Lago, they stole my
Speaker 1: three passports, one expired along with everything else. And I
Speaker 1: can see why Trump is pissed if they took his passports.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's the guy who wanted to build the
Speaker 1: wall and now he's gonna need to peak into Mexico
Speaker 1: commas a bit. It's just also, also, why does Donald
Speaker 1: Trump even need a passport? There is no one on
Speaker 1: earth that looks or sounds like this man, no one
Speaker 1: he could learn on a distant planet, and the aliens
Speaker 1: that would be We've seen TV welcome down drum. It
Speaker 1: would be like, thank you, now, please take me to
Speaker 1: a three boomed woman. And by the way, you do
Speaker 1: realize there's a chance Trump just misplaced his passport, right,
Speaker 1: It's possible. It happens all the time. You think the
Speaker 1: athlete I took something and you find in your soft drawer. Yeah, like,
Speaker 1: for all you know, maybe Milannia moved them. You know,
Speaker 1: it's like, oh, no, I guess now I have to
Speaker 1: go back to Slovenia by myself, by Donald bye. You know.
Speaker 1: You know it's been the most fun. The most fun
Speaker 1: in all of this is how Trump the Red Caps
Speaker 1: are working so hard to invent new excuses for why
Speaker 1: this crime wasn't a crime, because you remember when when
Speaker 1: the story first broke, they were saying things like, there's
Speaker 1: nothing at Marlago except a bunch of notes from Eric
Speaker 1: and if they did find something, the FBI must have
Speaker 1: planted it. Well, forget all that, forget all of it.
Speaker 1: I was like two days ago. Right, They've got a
Speaker 1: fresh shipment of excuses today, starting with it was homework.
Speaker 1: The foreign president is offering a new line of defense
Speaker 1: for taking these documents to his marlog at home. A
Speaker 1: statement released by Trump's office Friday night contends that everyone
Speaker 1: takes work home sometimes. Yeah, no, now you know what,
Speaker 1: that's true. Everyone does take work home sometimes, but not
Speaker 1: Donald Trump. But man Bailey took work to work. And also,
Speaker 1: by the way, it's not taking work home with you
Speaker 1: if you no longer have the job, all right, can
Speaker 1: we agree on that? All right? You don't have the job,
Speaker 1: you can't take work home with you, Like if you
Speaker 1: get fired from your ad sitting job, but you still
Speaker 1: go pick up the kids from school. That's just kidnapping.
Speaker 1: But if you don't like that excuse, that's fine, that's fine.
Speaker 1: Trump's got another one, like how about Obama? President Trump
Speaker 1: has been making the baseless and false claim that former
Speaker 1: President Obama took more than thirty million classified documents when
Speaker 1: he left the White House. Donald Trump tweeted that President BARAQ,
Speaker 1: who's saying Obama kept thirty three million pages of documents,
Speaker 1: much of them classified. How many of them pertained to
Speaker 1: nuclear word is lots? All right, Okay, first of all,
Speaker 1: this is just completely made up. In fact, the National
Speaker 1: Archives came out and said it is not true. But
Speaker 1: also for the sake of the argument, let's say it
Speaker 1: was true. These people are the same people who have
Speaker 1: spent fifteen years saying Obama is basically the devil. But
Speaker 1: then when they get into trouble, they're like, it's fine,
Speaker 1: we just did the same thing as the devil. And also,
Speaker 1: did you pick up that Barack who's saying Obama has
Speaker 1: a nice little touch, Yeah, just to remind the people
Speaker 1: who he really is. I know what Trump is doing.
Speaker 1: He's trying to drum up old Islamophobia. But everybody knows
Speaker 1: that that's the Barrux's middle name. It doesn't sound nefarious anymore,
Speaker 1: you know, it just sounds like you have his mom, Barrock,
Speaker 1: who's saying Obama, you get down here, and clean up
Speaker 1: this mess right now, come to mom. But but if
Speaker 1: you don't like that excuse, it's cool, baby, it's cool.
Speaker 1: Trump's got another one for you. It's about how he
Speaker 1: declassified these documents in his mind. And a new defense
Speaker 1: emerged overnight from a conservative journalist tied to Trump, who
Speaker 1: read a statement from the former president's office. He had
Speaker 1: a standing order that documents removed from the amal office
Speaker 1: and taking to the residents were deemed to be declassified
Speaker 1: the moment he removed them. Oh, that's an interesting excuse.
Speaker 1: Anything Trump took home with him was automatically declassified because
Speaker 1: he had a standing order. It's also super convenient that
Speaker 1: no one has ever heard about this rule until he
Speaker 1: got busted for having top secret documents at his house.
Speaker 1: But whatever, I've actually heard this defense before. Usually it's
Speaker 1: when people get busted for having an affair. You know,
Speaker 1: they'll be like, no, actually, I didn't cheat on you.
Speaker 1: I had already broken up with you in my mind
Speaker 1: on the way to the house, and then on the
Speaker 1: way home, I decided to give us another chance. Come here, baby,
Speaker 1: I forgive you, I forgive you, I forgive you. So
Speaker 1: there you have it. Three brand new fresh excuses. What, Oh,
Speaker 1: that's not enough for you. Oh you're particular. Okay, see,
Speaker 1: then maybe what you need is a little bit of this.
Speaker 1: And we see as a piece out quoting sources that
Speaker 1: say the chaotic nature of Donald Trump's exit from the
Speaker 1: White House contributed to sensitive documents being taken tomorrow lago,
Speaker 1: and there were reports that Trump packed in a rush.
Speaker 1: Quote when it finally dawn on Donald Trump and the
Speaker 1: twilight of his presidency that he wouldn't be living at
Speaker 1: the White House for another four years. He had a problem.
Speaker 1: He had barely packed and had to move out quickly.
Speaker 1: Oh my god. Oh this is the greatest excuse of
Speaker 1: all the time. Trump's people are saying because he didn't
Speaker 1: think he was leaving the White House, he packed in
Speaker 1: a hurry when he left. Yeah. Yeah, he was so
Speaker 1: busy planning the coup he didn't even think about packing.
Speaker 1: Is that what happened. It's like, guys, I wasn't trying
Speaker 1: to steal these documents. I was trying to steal the
Speaker 1: in that shed. Why would I pack when I thought
Speaker 1: I have another channel twenty years in the White House?
Speaker 1: It makes no sense, how lo. So those are just
Speaker 1: a sample of the excuses Trump has been coming up
Speaker 1: with over the past few days. And it doesn't matter
Speaker 1: that they conflict with each other, that's not the point.
Speaker 1: The point is to flood the zone with so many
Speaker 1: explanations that people just get lost in all the arguments
Speaker 1: and lose interest. Yeah, a few days from now, I
Speaker 1: wouldn't be shocked if they're like Donald Trump was laminating
Speaker 1: those documents to help preserve them as a favor to
Speaker 1: the American people. And also there were no documents, and
Speaker 1: also it was his abl twin. We'll see what it is.
Speaker 1: All right, that's it for the headlines. But before we
Speaker 1: go to a break, it time to check in on
Speaker 1: all the latest social media trends without very own Ronnie
Speaker 1: chatting everybody. Sorry, sorry, it says that social media ship
Speaker 1: makes me buke. All right, let me just dive into
Speaker 1: this cesspool of social media garbage. And what's trending today? Oh,
Speaker 1: it's hashtag National Relaxation Day on a Monday. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: can't wait to kick my feet up and go to
Speaker 1: work for the entire week. And of course this is
Speaker 1: trending on social media, because what's more relaxing than going
Speaker 1: on social media? Go wow? So man, relaxing things happening today? Wow,
Speaker 1: I mean, you've got former president leaking nuclear codes. I
Speaker 1: can feel the tension in my shoulders just smelting away.
Speaker 1: Talk about this also on that whole Trump thing. Why
Speaker 1: would you take a bunch of boxes you're not supposed
Speaker 1: to take when you're leaving the White House? What kind
Speaker 1: of insane person looks at moving day and goes, how
Speaker 1: do I make this even longer? I mean, I would
Speaker 1: throw my family in a garbage if it made moving
Speaker 1: day easier? All right? But yeah, anyway, it's social media
Speaker 1: in a nutshell, right because over here we got a
Speaker 1: hashtag National Relaxation Day. Meanwhile, Toyota is making cars where
Speaker 1: the wheels fall off. Hey, Toyota, maybe you should relax
Speaker 1: a little less, right, like take a spa day. But
Speaker 1: maybe not on the day you attach the wheels to
Speaker 1: the car, because that's kind of a pretty important day,
Speaker 1: all right, you know what, You know what, let's just
Speaker 1: see what what random idiots from social media are saying
Speaker 1: about hashtag National Relaxation Day. All Right, I'm just gonna
Speaker 1: find one of these random people and just see what
Speaker 1: what people are saying about this. All right, So this
Speaker 1: this idiot here right, don't worry, be happy hashtag National
Speaker 1: Relaxation Day on the swimming on water. Clearly this person
Speaker 1: doesn't know what the is going on in the world
Speaker 1: right now? How do I you want to be saying? Asinine?
Speaker 1: Ship like this? Another great treat travel. I can see
Speaker 1: why you have so many followers because your tweets just
Speaker 1: really make us think. You know what? You don't running
Speaker 1: enough of this man, Stop you stop roasting by treats roasting.
Speaker 1: It's National Relaxation Day. Okay, have some respect, Runnie, check everybody.
Speaker 1: I'll go back. All right. When we come back, Runnie,
Speaker 1: it's gonna figure out what Space Force is all about.
Speaker 1: So don't go away, ye, Welcome back to the day Show.
Speaker 1: The US government is so big that it's easy to
Speaker 1: lose track of all the departments and agencies. Luckily, though,
Speaker 1: Ronnie Chang is here to figure out what the government
Speaker 1: actually does one department at a time. Space Force the
Speaker 1: latest branch of the armed forces that, after thirty years
Speaker 1: of planning, finally sprung into existence thanks to the support
Speaker 1: of out last military genius. We are going to have
Speaker 1: the Space Force, But after a rocky launch, most Americans
Speaker 1: still don't know what Space Force actually does until now
Speaker 1: I'm here at the Pentagon to find out what Space Force,
Speaker 1: the six and coolest branch of the U. S. Military, does.
Speaker 1: I'm talking spaceships, lasers, it's the military in space burning.
Speaker 1: Let's go check it out. Don't ask me how I
Speaker 1: got clearance. I'm not even an American citizen. Somehow I
Speaker 1: scored an interview with the very first head of Space Force,
Speaker 1: four Star General j Raymond, at the Geometry Theme headquarters
Speaker 1: of the U. S. Department of Defense. Obviously a space
Speaker 1: military as cool as hell, but I wasn't sure what
Speaker 1: they actually do, so I made sure to prepare for
Speaker 1: this exclusive one on one interview. John Raymond, thank you
Speaker 1: so much for thanks Anny singing in on this um.
Speaker 1: Why is it called the Pentagon? Have you ever seen
Speaker 1: the Pentagon shape? What you're saying, Pentagon is a shape
Speaker 1: like what penton. Take a look at the bully you
Speaker 1: obviously studied hard in school. Okay, General Space Force, we're
Speaker 1: talking lasers, spaceships, rockets, fighting aliens. Absolutely not. The mission
Speaker 1: of the Space Force is really to protect and defend
Speaker 1: the cape bullies that we have in space and to
Speaker 1: deter conflict from beginning in space or extending into space?
Speaker 1: What does space do? Let me give you an example.
Speaker 1: We operate for the world free of charge, the GPS
Speaker 1: constellation that provides you navigation and provides the world a
Speaker 1: timing signal for everybody use. Most people don't know that
Speaker 1: that's provided free of charge by the United States Space Force.
Speaker 1: Space Force gives GPS for free to the world. Sir,
Speaker 1: why don't you open with that? Call yourselves the GPS
Speaker 1: Force that we do a lot more than that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but you go with the thing that people know that
Speaker 1: we do a lot more than that. Communication sllites. We
Speaker 1: have missile warning satellites that detect any kind of launch
Speaker 1: around the globe and provide warning of that. And so
Speaker 1: it's very critical to us, and our competitors or adversaries
Speaker 1: have have watched us and have seen us integrate space
Speaker 1: into everything that we do well. Adversaries, specifically Russian and China,
Speaker 1: they're building space capabilities for their own use. So, for example,
Speaker 1: they have a satellite that they launched in two thousand seventeen.
Speaker 1: I call it a nesting doll satellite. It's a satellite
Speaker 1: that opens up in another satellite comes out and it
Speaker 1: opens up and a projectile comes out. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: designed to kill a satellite. Do all these nations satellites
Speaker 1: adopt their countries cultures, Like there's a Chinese satellite come
Speaker 1: out and chop sticks come out, and like pick on
Speaker 1: the other satellites. China has a satellite that has a
Speaker 1: robotic arm with chopsticks on, a robotic arm that can
Speaker 1: reach out and in the future grabbing other satellite and
Speaker 1: satellite I don't like to be grabbed. What is the
Speaker 1: plan to stop that? I won't go into all the
Speaker 1: details of what we can do, but let's just say
Speaker 1: I'm very comfortable that we can protect and defend ourselves.
Speaker 1: That's all in US as hell. I still wasn't sure
Speaker 1: why America's already bloated military needed a whole new military
Speaker 1: when we already have five other militaries. General, why did
Speaker 1: space source become its own branch of the military. The
Speaker 1: Air Force has a lot of responsibilities that it does.
Speaker 1: It's primarily focused on the air domain, and the thought
Speaker 1: was because space was so critical to us, um we
Speaker 1: had to stand up a separate service to be able
Speaker 1: to focus on it. So atmosphere wise, where does the
Speaker 1: Air Force end space force began. There's really not a firm,
Speaker 1: you know, dedicated recognized clouds. But what we what what
Speaker 1: happens is above clouds space force, below clouds Air force.
Speaker 1: You can think of above where airplanes work, wings work,
Speaker 1: and where orbit on amates takes over roughly about a
Speaker 1: hundred kilometers, So above a hundred kilometers that's where the
Speaker 1: Space Force people are. No. In fact, our forces is
Speaker 1: on the ground. So they come in every day and
Speaker 1: stay behind the computer largely. A lot of their work
Speaker 1: is done behind computers, uh in terminals, operating capabilities, or
Speaker 1: on an optical telescopes looking out in space. So Space
Speaker 1: Force is less starship troopers and more office space. But
Speaker 1: are these keyboard warriors even ready to protect us from
Speaker 1: the real threat facing mankind? Have you considered maybe looking
Speaker 1: a little outwards and looking at the threats that are
Speaker 1: external that might be coming to Earth, for example, aliens
Speaker 1: that might be coming. So again, our mission is a
Speaker 1: little bit closer to home. NASA's mission is more exploratory
Speaker 1: and more science. And so they have gone out and
Speaker 1: I I get it, General Space Force, GPS, NASA, nord Ship.
Speaker 1: But we need some dudes who look as scary as
Speaker 1: you with guns pointing out woods in case aliens calm.
Speaker 1: I'm not naive or or or closed minded to think that, uh,
Speaker 1: there might be something that that would be out there,
Speaker 1: but we're not focused on aliens. All right. Well, it
Speaker 1: just seems like it's a big hole in the national
Speaker 1: defense plan, and if no one's going to plug that hole,
Speaker 1: I just feel like maybe space florces step up and
Speaker 1: you know, maybe provide some orbital defense against aliens. Thanks
Speaker 1: for your advice, Okay, Well, general, thank you for taking
Speaker 1: the time to speak to me. Even though Space Force
Speaker 1: is not gonna do with lasers or aliens or spaceships,
Speaker 1: and I wish it was cooler, I do appreciate the
Speaker 1: need for a GPS system that works. Thank you for
Speaker 1: the opportunity. I couldn't be more proud, And the guardians
Speaker 1: that I appreciate the opportunity to tell their story because
Speaker 1: most Americans don't understand what they do. I agree. So
Speaker 1: even though I'm still not show what it does, Space
Speaker 1: Force represents what the American government does best by new
Speaker 1: ways to give billions of dollars to the military industrial complex.
Speaker 1: But hey, if they're going to offer free GPS, then
Speaker 1: I say Live Law and prosper Space Force. Thank you
Speaker 1: so much for that running check. All right, say too,
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Speaker 1: plus person worried about the future. But that sounds a
Speaker 1: little midle of dramatic. What do you have to worry
Speaker 1: about the future? What the climate partic's caps melting faster
Speaker 1: than expected, President shuffling off classified nuclear secrets to Palm
Speaker 1: Beach Resort. You know, Republican election deniers being elected across
Speaker 1: What do you want? But you, you know, because you
Speaker 1: travel so much and because you've talked so many people
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Speaker 1: It was a hundred and seven degree a hundred and
Speaker 1: seven degrees down there, and what Governor de Santis is
Speaker 1: doing in that state is worthy of a very close examination.
Speaker 1: So we went down there and looked specifically at the
Speaker 1: ways in which Christian nationalism has worked its way into
Speaker 1: Florida public schools, and we're gonna be talking about that
Speaker 1: this week and some of the very alarming things that
Speaker 1: teachers are being trained to teach public school students on. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, I I will say, you should be worried, Trevor, because, um,
Speaker 1: not just this is happening in Florida, but this is
Speaker 1: very much seen as a model for what's happening across
Speaker 1: the rest of the country. Rhonda Santis maybe the Republican
Speaker 1: nominee for president, which which people think of as like
Speaker 1: a good thing because they go like, oh, he's calm,
Speaker 1: you know, he has a demeanor about him. Trump is crazy,
Speaker 1: but it seems like Trump's crazy was the reason he
Speaker 1: couldn't get things done. Yes, Rhonda Sanctis. Everyone says it's like, oh,
Speaker 1: he's he's got all his cards, he's ready to play them,
Speaker 1: and he has a network of conservative activists and donors
Speaker 1: and power players in his corner. I mean, this is
Speaker 1: the result. This is a harvest of multiple years of
Speaker 1: trying to figure out how to re indoctrinate students into
Speaker 1: a certain line of conservative ideology and the Santis has
Speaker 1: made it happen. But he has a lot of people
Speaker 1: behind him, and there are other governors. Carry Lake in
Speaker 1: Arizona is the Republican nominee in Arizona. And she was
Speaker 1: on the stump, I think it was yesterday, praising De
Speaker 1: Santis and saying, am I allowed to say this on
Speaker 1: this family program? That he had big dick energy just
Speaker 1: like Donald Trump? Like, not even kidding, she said, b
Speaker 1: d e if you know, you know, big De Santis energy,
Speaker 1: but really saying that what we needed was more big
Speaker 1: dig energy, the kind that Rhonda Santis and Donald Trump have.
Speaker 1: So that's where we are as a country, Trevor, and
Speaker 1: I'm here to tell you, I'm alarmed you. You are
Speaker 1: going to be the person who is informing so many
Speaker 1: people about what's going on in the country. You know,
Speaker 1: as as as an anchor on a show like yours,
Speaker 1: you're in an interesting position because on the one hand,
Speaker 1: you want people to understand the states of the country.
Speaker 1: On the other hand, you don't want people to exist
Speaker 1: in a perpetual state of panic, because then what happens
Speaker 1: is people stopped getting tired and they're like, I, I
Speaker 1: don't care anymore, nothing is actually happening. How do you
Speaker 1: find that balance? Well, I think you know, I don't
Speaker 1: want to be pollyannish about things. Right when things are bad,
Speaker 1: I'm going to tell you they're bad. But I also
Speaker 1: think we we haven't given up on democracy. And the
Speaker 1: reality is, if you don't like what Governor Rhanda Santis
Speaker 1: is doing. I mean, I spent ten hours in a
Speaker 1: Brevard County school Board meeting, you can run for school
Speaker 1: board and stop some of this stuff from happening. You
Speaker 1: can participate in midterm elections. You can call your senators
Speaker 1: and congressmen. I mean that stuff. As cliche as it sounds,
Speaker 1: as small ball as it sounds, it matters because the
Speaker 1: decision that the Brevard County school Board makes about whether
Speaker 1: or not kids can have book fairs again and read
Speaker 1: certain books and talk about being homosexual or transgender, that
Speaker 1: means something. And those decisions are discreet, but they are
Speaker 1: part of our larger system of governance. And I don't
Speaker 1: want people to ever lose the hope that the project
Speaker 1: of America is a fed a complete and it is
Speaker 1: a rap, because it's not. I mean, and you can
Speaker 1: swing the pendulum back. I still believe that we generally
Speaker 1: take two steps forward and maybe one in three quarter steps.
Speaker 1: Well that's a lot of and that's a lot of
Speaker 1: stops back. I mean, I hope look at look at
Speaker 1: you and me, Trevor. You know, I'm hosting the nine
Speaker 1: pm hour of a very important cable network. You are
Speaker 1: the voice of a generation. Our stories are unlikely. We're
Speaker 1: too brown, people that weren't ever supposed to be in
Speaker 1: these positions of power, and look at us, you know,
Speaker 1: and that's true. But it's it's true sometimes I go
Speaker 1: the fact that it is the exception is what makes
Speaker 1: it scary a little bit sometimes. And so what what's
Speaker 1: interesting about America when when you look at it as
Speaker 1: a whole, is it feels like sometimes like in the
Speaker 1: run up to Donald Trump, it feels like the country
Speaker 1: knew this was happening, and then people on the coast
Speaker 1: were like, oh, that will never happen. Tramp could never have.
Speaker 1: It feels like there's a certain complacency now. Is people relax,
Speaker 1: you know, they want to watch succession, they want to
Speaker 1: read what's happening, wants people enjoy themselves. But it seems
Speaker 1: like conservatives are being told constantly that they're under assault,
Speaker 1: that this is the end of the world, they need
Speaker 1: to run for school boards, and so they believe it
Speaker 1: and they it and so I'd love to know, as
Speaker 1: somebody who's gonna be on MSNBC, you're in a position
Speaker 1: where you have part of your audience which is in
Speaker 1: a bubble many of us. Do you know, how do
Speaker 1: you or do you even think it's possible at the
Speaker 1: stage to just pop out of that bubble? Is there
Speaker 1: a way you can see as Alex Wagner's as the
Speaker 1: journalist who's gone around the country talking to Trump supporters
Speaker 1: and you know, Biden supporters are like, do you think
Speaker 1: there's a way you can get through to people who
Speaker 1: maybe don't agree with you. I'm gonna damn well try.
Speaker 1: I mean, you can't just say we're only We're only
Speaker 1: gonna talk to like liberals and this is for the
Speaker 1: seller corridor, you know, like this is I'm a journalist,
Speaker 1: and you are gonna hear from some Republicans. Sometimes sometimes
Speaker 1: they may be critical of Donald Trump. Sometimes sometimes they
Speaker 1: may not be. But I think it is my job
Speaker 1: to show people what's happening in the world and not
Speaker 1: just what they want to see. I mean, listen to
Speaker 1: the future of the Republican Party matters not just two Republicans,
Speaker 1: but to Democrats and independence too. If one of the
Speaker 1: two parties in this country is forever broken or populated
Speaker 1: by clowns or worse, like, we're not going to get
Speaker 1: anything done done as a country. We are, for better
Speaker 1: or worse in a marriage, and we gotta figure out
Speaker 1: a way to make it work, because we know what
Speaker 1: divorce kind of looks like. We tried it in eighteen
Speaker 1: sixty and like we can't. It didn't go so well.
Speaker 1: So your first episode is tomorrow. It is tomorrow. If
Speaker 1: you on the show today, don't don't give anything away
Speaker 1: because you obviously you will tease anything. But if you
Speaker 1: will on the show today, what would you what will
Speaker 1: be the number one story? Listen, I think for sure
Speaker 1: we're gonna be talking about Trump and mar Lago and
Speaker 1: what exactly he was doing with those papers, and the
Speaker 1: degree to which this is part of a very serious
Speaker 1: investigation at the d o J. But I don't think.
Speaker 1: I mean, the other thing that I want everyone to
Speaker 1: focus on is the fact that we have to significant
Speaker 1: primaries tomorrow happening Liz Cheney and Sarah Palin, And what
Speaker 1: we very well could see this week is the exit
Speaker 1: of Liz Cheney, probably the standard bearer for integrity inside
Speaker 1: the GOP, be escorted off the stage stage right. And
Speaker 1: for Sarah Palin, who in many ways is a proto
Speaker 1: Trump re entering American politics as a Republican congresswoman from Alaska.
Speaker 1: And I think as we take stock of where the
Speaker 1: country is at, we need to take stock of where
Speaker 1: the Republican Party is at. And those two entrances, and
Speaker 1: that entrance and exit tell us a lot about where
Speaker 1: we're headed in the GOP. And I think it's deeply problematic,
Speaker 1: and I think it warrants further investigation and analysis. This
Speaker 1: is why you're the best person to host the show,
Speaker 1: because you know luck, You travel luck, you meet the people,
Speaker 1: um and you don't hang out with you You don't
Speaker 1: get overwhelmed. No, you don't get Thanks for that, I'll
Speaker 1: take it, but no, you don't get overwhelmed. Really, one
Speaker 1: thing I've always admired about you is the fact that
Speaker 1: you don't get overwhelmed by the delusion of information that's
Speaker 1: coming at you. Rather, you find a way to process
Speaker 1: all of it in one of the most fantastic ways
Speaker 1: that I've ever seen. Congratulations on the showing the joining
Speaker 1: me again. We're all going to be watching. Everybody. Don't
Speaker 1: forget Tuesday to Friday, nine pm. Alex Wagner, We're gonna
Speaker 1: take quick break right back off this We're want to
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