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at. Today is Thursday, February the

2:04

13th, a day before Valentine's Day,

2:07

less than a month of the

2:09

Trump administration. Less than month. I

2:11

see some working from home today.

2:13

Recording from home because there is

2:15

an influenza strain burning its way

2:18

through America right now and also

2:20

through my heart and my home.

2:22

Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I

2:24

was catching strays. You never catching

2:27

a break, Tom. That's true, my

2:29

friend. That is very true. So

2:31

I don't want to get Cecil

2:33

sick. So here we are recording

2:35

from a fire. According separately, that's

2:38

okay. I am, I am heartened

2:40

to know that today when we

2:42

recorded this RFK Jr. he of

2:44

the whalehead upon his car, the

2:47

dead bear in Central Park, the

2:49

brainworm. Let me ask you, Tom,

2:51

new office, HHS, which is, which

2:53

is on his wall, the dead

2:56

bear or the whale or both,

2:58

and behind him or on his

3:00

desk somewhere there has to be

3:02

a small. like pencil holder that

3:04

is also a brainworm. I feel.

3:07

Well, so obviously, I see, so

3:09

obviously on his door, it's the

3:11

whalehead that says, whale come in.

3:13

Whale come. And then on the

3:16

other side of the door, it's

3:18

like, I can't bear that you're

3:20

leaving. Yes, there you go. Oh,

3:22

gosh. What have we gotten ourself

3:24

into? This is a fresh hell

3:27

every week. It's brand new fresh

3:29

hell every week. It's fucking crazy.

3:31

Do you listen to the daily?

3:33

You know what Tom? I don't

3:36

anymore. Oh brother. I wish like

3:38

the daily like broke back mountains

3:40

me like I just wish I

3:42

could quit I can't I just

3:44

like I just can't quit I'm

3:47

not so I haven't there's some

3:49

news programs I used to watch

3:51

on television I don't watch anymore

3:53

there's some you know certainly some

3:56

new sites I used to visit

3:58

a lot more than I do

4:00

far I still do I still

4:02

do plenty of research for the

4:05

show but but I am spacing

4:07

out some of the things that

4:09

I used to consume all the

4:11

time beforehand when it wasn't just

4:13

a deluge of terrible information that's

4:16

coming in every single day. Dude,

4:18

there was an episode today where

4:20

they were talking to somebody and

4:22

like, hey, you know, we're talking

4:25

about like the bird flu and

4:27

like we've talked to you a

4:29

few times about bird flu and

4:31

you've always said like, ah, don't

4:33

worry about it, I'll tell you

4:36

when to be worried about it.

4:38

And she's like, and I thought

4:40

it was really concerning when you

4:42

called me and said, okay, it's

4:45

time to worry, it's time to

4:47

worry, And I was just like,

4:49

fuck me! Like, like, I'm not

4:51

gonna go into the show, because

4:53

it's a whole show you could

4:56

just fucking listen to, but it's

4:58

like, we're, we've got, we've got

5:00

this moment in time, another potential

5:02

inflection point in American virus history,

5:05

or world virus history. And again,

5:07

we've got Trump in charge. And

5:09

now we've got RFK Jr. Fauchy's

5:11

gone. Like, all the grown-ups are

5:14

gone, and now it's like. And

5:16

the whole time I'm like just

5:18

kill all the birds just every

5:20

single one of them like whatever

5:22

you got to do it feels

5:25

like do this again It feels

5:27

like There's a bunch of germs

5:29

on the sideline and then as

5:31

soon as we put in Trump

5:34

They're like, okay, second string, come

5:36

on in, get in, get in

5:38

here, bird flu. Hey, it's their

5:40

new COVID strain. Hey, what about

5:42

influenza? Can we make sure our

5:45

vaccine doesn't work this time? Let's

5:47

send them in. It's like crazy

5:49

to me that these are the

5:51

people who are in charge and

5:54

they're the worst at it. They

5:56

were so bad at it before.

5:58

It's just insane. The guys in

6:00

charge, this is how crazy it

6:02

is. of America don't believe in

6:05

the value of being in charge

6:07

of America. Amazing. Amazing. That's untrue.

6:09

They're just like, you know, the

6:11

best way to lead would be

6:14

by dismantling the thing we're in

6:16

charge of. Yeah, and they're doing,

6:18

they're speed running the dismantling too.

6:20

There's like Mario speed runners like,

6:23

damn. I didn't realize you could

6:25

do it that fast. Fun. I

6:27

feel like they're just like walking

6:29

in and just like shattering the

6:31

urinals with a hammer for it.

6:34

It's like, break everything! Break everything!

6:36

Something else. I know I just

6:38

met you, but I'll do anything

6:40

to be with you. I'll leave

6:43

my husband, my kid. Baby, baby,

6:45

I'm sorry. I can't. You know

6:47

I want to tap that ass,

6:49

right? You know that. But it

6:51

just, it just, it wouldn't be

6:54

right. I love you. Sh shut

6:56

up. It's over. The

6:58

story comes from The Daily Beast. This

7:00

is, this is the story of the

7:02

week. Trump humiliated in the most powerless

7:05

image ever of a US president. And

7:07

this is referring of course to when

7:09

Elon Musk showed up to the fucking

7:11

oval office with his kid picking his

7:13

fucking nose. Elon Musk wearing a fucking

7:16

hat indoors. Yeah. You cannot look straight

7:18

up. Straight up. You cannot trust somebody

7:20

who wears a fucking half gold. That's

7:22

a grown-ass man. Like, if you're over

7:25

25, you're over 25, and you fucking

7:27

wear a baseball camp indoors, get the

7:29

fuck out of it. E'Len Musk is

7:31

my age, man. What do you even

7:33

know? What are you doing? I absolutely

7:36

agree. And if you show up to

7:38

dinner without your dinner jacket on at

7:40

home, they should just throw you out.

7:42

Like your wife should just escort you

7:44

out. I can't even. I fucking can't

7:47

with this fucking shit. I thought the

7:49

apocalypse. would have a better sense of

7:51

style. I thought so too. Man, his

7:53

style is like definitely, it's definitely like,

7:55

I just went to college and now

7:58

I'm goth look. That's definitely his guy's

8:00

look. I want to talk about that

8:02

image though. So now if you haven't

8:04

seen it, Donald Trump is at a

8:07

desk. The resolute desk that the kid

8:09

is wiping his bugers on. And he's

8:11

sitting there and Elon Musk is standing

8:13

and Elon Musk talks for. 10 straight

8:15

minutes to the crowd and Donald Trump

8:18

says nothing the entire time. Nothing. There's

8:20

never been a more neutered version. If

8:22

this would have happened to Biden, could

8:24

you imagine the amount of press that

8:26

that would have got? If it would

8:29

have happened to anybody, if it had

8:31

happened to Clinton, pick any Democratic president

8:33

and talk about what it would look

8:35

like. if they were behind that desk

8:37

and someone else were out there. You're

8:40

not seeing really a lot of that

8:42

at all. What you're seeing is, you

8:44

know, like from from outlets like this,

8:46

you know, these are people who are

8:49

quoting, you know, what is like, O'Donnell

8:51

or whatever, from, uh, from MS NBC.

8:53

So it's like, of course, they're going

8:55

to say something that's snarky. But most

8:57

media I haven't seen be as snarky

9:00

as they should be about. this particular

9:02

image and how it looks. It looks

9:04

like Musk is running the show. And

9:06

I want to lean into this. I

9:08

want everybody to lean into this. I

9:11

want to constantly lean into... You know,

9:13

I, one of the senators this week

9:15

or a Congress person was up there

9:17

and he called it the Trump Musk

9:20

presidency. And I think like, yes, you

9:22

need to keep saying that. I would

9:24

actually switch it. I would call it

9:26

the Musk Trump presidency. I would do

9:28

that constantly if I was in power

9:31

right now to make sure that I

9:33

hammered that point home over and over

9:35

and over again. What the right values

9:37

is image. They value image. And when

9:39

the image is bad. It looks bad

9:42

for them. That's when they're vulnerable. So

9:44

make sure to put this everywhere. Because

9:46

it's the most vain thing to be,

9:48

I guess, injured by, but that doesn't

9:50

matter. Like it doesn't matter. We've got

9:53

to make sure that we put any

9:55

inroads you can. And if you can

9:57

create a rift between these two people,

9:59

you can stop or slow down the

10:02

destruction of the government. And it's your

10:04

job to do that if you're in

10:06

government or if you're in the news

10:08

right now. A thousand percent. We have

10:10

to do what we have to do

10:13

to leverage the egos of these maniacs,

10:15

right? These are ego maniacs. We need

10:17

to leverage their egos so that they

10:19

are fighting against each other because the

10:21

reality is like, Musk is leading the

10:24

government right now. This is a power

10:26

play. Like I'm making fun of his

10:28

fucking hat, but like I'm doing it

10:30

on purpose because O'Donnell is right in

10:33

this article and it's worth saying that,

10:35

you know, if I go to work

10:37

and I'm going to meet with my

10:39

boss, no. If I go to work

10:41

and I'm going to meet my boss's

10:44

boss, no, if I go to work

10:46

and I'm going to go to the

10:48

corporate headquarters and I'm going to meet

10:50

with the president of my company, I'm

10:52

going to dress accordingly. But if I

10:55

want to power play that guy, I'll

10:57

dress down. Here's Elon Musk in a

10:59

fucking t-shirt. He's at the Oval Office

11:01

standing while Trump is sitting. These are

11:03

people that like, none of this is

11:06

an accident. None of this is not

11:08

rehearsed. Who's in charge? Who's in charge

11:10

if I'm in a room and I'm

11:12

standing and you're sitting and I'm talking

11:15

and you're dressed up and I'm dressed

11:17

down? Who's in charge in that? And

11:19

I'm quiet sitting the whole time. Yeah.

11:21

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I didn't. Like

11:23

if I got if I got invited

11:26

me, Tom, stupid fucking Tom, it doesn't

11:28

mean shit about fuck. If I got

11:30

invited to the Oval Office, I dressed

11:32

to the Nine. I would dress for

11:34

that. I would dress for that. I

11:37

would not do that if I wanted

11:39

to. If I wanted to disrespect. If

11:41

I wanted to disrespect. There's a point

11:43

here that's being made. It's not like

11:45

must doesn't have suit. So Donald makes

11:48

this point. It's actually a good point

11:50

the like I actually think that if

11:52

Trump Trump wants to get rid of

11:54

Musk, here's my worry. I don't think

11:57

he can. I don't think he can

11:59

just, I don't think he can just

12:01

jettison that guy. I think that's a

12:03

real problem. I think he's in for

12:05

a penny, he's in for a pound,

12:08

I think Musk sticks around. I think

12:10

that he cannot afford to alienate the

12:12

richest man in the world. I don't

12:14

think he can afford to alienate a

12:16

guy who owns Starlink and can turn

12:19

it on and off. I think he's

12:21

totally as bitch. Trump does not have

12:23

the option, I don't think, of being

12:25

like, all right, I've had a fucking

12:28

enough of you, Musk. And I think

12:30

Musk is gonna, I think people are

12:32

waiting for Musk to overplay his hand

12:34

and what they're not realizing is he

12:36

has all the cards. That's illegal in

12:39

some states, you know? I thought you

12:41

federal agents were straight honorable guys. Does

12:43

your wife know about this? All right,

12:45

speaking of the breakdown and destruction of

12:47

the government piece by piece, this story

12:50

comes from CBS News. Democratic FCC chair

12:52

Ellen Weintrob says Trump fired her. She

12:54

says it's not legal. Cecil, it sounds

12:56

from my end of reading the story.

12:58

Not legal. It sounds like just doing

13:01

something because you said you did it.

13:03

Yeah. This is a strange situation because

13:05

the... the council or the you know

13:07

the the she's a chair of this

13:10

of this particular group of people but

13:12

this group of people has to have

13:14

three democrats and three republicans on it

13:16

currently there's they're missing one Republican that

13:18

hasn't been appointed but he can appoint

13:21

that person because there's a missing seat

13:23

but instead he wants to fire her

13:25

and he can't actually do that she

13:27

has to be replaced through a congressional

13:29

process there has to be like a

13:32

whole process to replace her and she

13:34

can't just be replaced with like a

13:36

Republican or someone he chooses has to

13:38

be like I say like there's a

13:40

whole congressional process that has to happen

13:43

and this is something that's going to

13:45

happen. and I think, and is happening

13:47

to a couple of other people. We've

13:49

seen a couple of other people sort

13:52

of say, you can't fire me even

13:54

when he's asked for resignations. Like, no,

13:56

you can't, that's not how this works.

13:58

Like, he doesn't know how it works,

14:00

because he doesn't care how it works.

14:03

All he wants is what he wants,

14:05

and he wants it done as fast

14:07

as possible. This feels like, the term

14:09

that I've got going in my head

14:11

as I'm watching all of this stuff

14:14

happen as I'm watching all of this

14:16

stuff happen is. He's testing the fences

14:18

constant. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, you know,

14:20

it's like he's like walking around testing

14:23

the perimeter fences constantly to see where

14:25

there's any weak links or any weak

14:27

shing in the armor Because like what

14:29

what is going to happen is he

14:31

knows he can't fire these people, right?

14:34

He knows he's violating the rules and

14:36

he fires all those inspector generals. Yeah,

14:38

and so he does it anyway because

14:40

then he waits he sits back and

14:42

he waits and he waits and he

14:45

watches and then they say all right

14:47

who's gonna raise a fuss. Nobody raises

14:49

a fuss. And you did an illegal

14:51

thing. It doesn't matter anymore. You got

14:53

away with it. So what's the next

14:56

thing you're going to get away with?

14:58

And the next thing you're going to

15:00

get away with. You know, now they're

15:02

talking about, you know, J.D. Vance is

15:05

proposing a theory that, you know, if

15:07

the president, if the if the judiciary

15:09

says that the president can't do something,

15:11

but the president earnestly seems to believe

15:13

that it's within his executive authority that

15:16

he's free to ignore the judiciary. A

15:18

theory that says the president is a

15:20

monarch. That is a monarch. Sure. Yeah.

15:22

That removes the check and balance process

15:24

entirely. Because our system is based on

15:27

the courts. If you don't like something,

15:29

if you think something's illegal, if you

15:31

think somebody doesn't have power, who decides

15:33

it? You go to the courts. Well,

15:36

if you just disregard the courts afterwards,

15:38

then like the courts ultimately can't do

15:40

something else. Yeah. What do you do?

15:42

Take it to court. Take it to

15:44

court. They're already to court, man. There's

15:47

nothing else. This feels like... Did I

15:49

ever tell you the story about when

15:51

I fired my own boss? No. Back

15:53

at the first title company I worked

15:55

at, which was the most insane... title

15:58

company, the most insane business that's ever

16:00

I think happened ever. So I worked

16:02

at this really terrible company, first title

16:04

insurance company I ever worked at. They're

16:06

out of business now because they set

16:09

their building on fire to hide their

16:11

fraud. It's in the Chicago Tribune, a

16:13

whole fucking thing. Laws were passed afterwards

16:15

to prevent them from doing the things

16:18

that they did. Yeah. So we have

16:20

we have whole laws now in Illinois

16:22

based on their actions. But it was

16:24

a train wreck of a company and

16:26

I worked there and I worked, my

16:29

boss was this guy named Rich. And

16:31

they wanted to fire Rich. They wanted

16:33

to get rid of Rich. So one

16:35

of the owners of the company, this

16:37

guy Tony, comes into my office, he

16:40

says, hey, I need you to fire

16:42

Rich. And I was like, I can't

16:44

fire Rich. Tony is that, I'm 25

16:46

years old, by the way. I don't

16:48

know shit about anything. I don't think

16:51

I can fire Rich, Tony. Tony. He's

16:53

my boss. He's my boss. Good

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58:02

medical technology

58:04

ever guess how many people

58:06

worldwide receives an

58:08

MRNA COVID vaccine I'm gonna

58:11

go with like four billion

58:13

five point five eight

58:15

billion okay people sure didn't

58:17

even know it 72% of the

58:19

world's population got an

58:22

MRNA where's all the fucking

58:24

dead if it's fucking dead if

58:26

it's Five and a half billion people

58:28

all took one of the most deadly

58:30

fucking wrong. It's fucking worse than sharks

58:33

in your face. Like it's just like,

58:35

it's so scary. It's like crashing a

58:37

skateboard while you're on fire out of

58:40

an airplane with electric eels biting your

58:42

nuts or whatever. It's so scarce nothing

58:44

you could do that's scarier than a

58:47

five and a half billion people.

58:49

And we're all still chugging along. And

58:51

I will point. Tom got four billion of

58:53

those shots himself. I've got so many of

58:55

them, man! I've literally gotten every shot of

58:58

proof for use in the United States. I

59:00

think the thing is, is that initially you

59:02

gave yourself harder with me, but all the

59:04

rest of the shots put it back in

59:06

order. Yeah, you just got it back in

59:08

order. You just Mr. Burns it. Yeah, you

59:10

got to balance it all out, bro. You got

59:12

to balance it all out. I just kept pouring

59:14

five W30 in there until it. This

59:17

started at 5.30 this morning. A

59:20

piano player has been following me

59:22

around and playing to make it

59:24

sound like I'm in the musical.

59:26

I'm not in a musical. Who

59:29

else has had this problem where

59:31

somebody's playing the piano and just

59:33

making your whole life feel like

59:35

a musical? How

59:38

do you get somebody that's

59:40

stopped? I hate this. I

59:42

don't like musicals. And now

59:45

my life is becoming a

59:47

musical because this idiot piano

59:50

player won't stop playing when

59:52

I'm talking. Stop! This is

59:54

driving me nuts! Please help!

59:57

If you see this, please

59:59

send help! All

1:00:02

right this last story comes from

1:00:04

New Republic Mega has total meltdown

1:00:07

over Kendrick Lamar's Super Bowl halftime

1:00:09

show Cecil I'm about to surprise

1:00:11

you like you've never been surprised

1:00:13

before I watched that half half-time

1:00:16

show I bet you did you

1:00:18

watch a lot of the halftime

1:00:20

shows I'm sure yeah I watched

1:00:22

the halftime show like they had

1:00:24

it on YouTube and we found

1:00:26

it and we're like I watched

1:00:28

the halftime show sure yeah it

1:00:30

was I don't really I personally

1:00:32

like I Don't like Kendrick Lamar's

1:00:34

style. Like it's not my style.

1:00:36

I know he's great. I always

1:00:38

want to pull it surprised. Don't

1:00:40

send me your emails about how

1:00:42

I don't appreciate him. Like it's

1:00:44

my fault. I just don't like

1:00:46

it. I'm sure it's amazing. It's

1:00:48

just a style I can't get

1:00:50

into. Love the show though. The

1:00:52

show was amazing. Show was great.

1:00:54

Like there's so much great symbolism

1:00:56

in there, like a lot going

1:00:58

on. It was really an interesting

1:01:00

show. Music's not for me, but

1:01:02

like fucking great show. I have

1:01:04

a Kendrick Lamar station on Pandora

1:01:06

that I listen to all the

1:01:08

time. So like I yeah, I

1:01:10

like I like his stuff. So

1:01:12

I'm I actively like his stuff.

1:01:14

And so I listen to that

1:01:17

and like there's a it actually

1:01:19

because it's Pandora it does its

1:01:21

thing so it starts picking things

1:01:23

out and then of course it

1:01:25

drops itself back to like 90s

1:01:27

rap starts working its way in

1:01:29

there too. So it's actually really

1:01:31

cool. It's got a lot of.

1:01:33

what I would think of his

1:01:35

new rap and then a lot

1:01:37

of older stuff and it kind

1:01:39

of it's Pandora so it mixes

1:01:41

it all up and it's a

1:01:43

lot of fun so but yeah

1:01:45

I know his work and I

1:01:47

and I listen to it and

1:01:49

I enjoy it I thought that

1:01:51

the sound quality on that was

1:01:53

terrible for the live show I

1:01:55

didn't watch a YouTube video of

1:01:57

it so I don't know if

1:01:59

it's better it was really bad

1:02:01

in that sense. And so if

1:02:03

someone were to say, technically I

1:02:05

didn't think that this was a

1:02:07

good thing, that's fine. But what

1:02:09

you have is the whitest people

1:02:11

you know saying that Mayo is

1:02:13

extra spicy. what's happening here. Exactly

1:02:15

it. One of the things that

1:02:17

I read this week that I

1:02:19

think is really, and I think

1:02:21

it was something even Barack Obama

1:02:24

had said years ago, and it's

1:02:26

like, any authentic American culture is

1:02:28

black culture. Like the rest of

1:02:30

it is all, if it's like,

1:02:32

especially because black people have been

1:02:34

here longer. than most people, like

1:02:36

certainly longer than me, like my

1:02:38

my ancestors, like we, I'm a

1:02:40

second generation person. So most black

1:02:42

people have been here for, you

1:02:44

know, another two or three hundred

1:02:46

years longer than I've been here,

1:02:48

or my parents were, their, my

1:02:50

grandparents showed up on a boat.

1:02:52

So it's like, you know, the

1:02:54

real authentic stuff that we have

1:02:56

in this unit, in the United

1:02:58

States, the stuff that's worth anything,

1:03:00

the music, the dancing, the food.

1:03:02

A lot of that can be

1:03:04

attributed to black culture. Sure. And

1:03:06

I think, you know, we're seeing

1:03:08

this rubber band snap back right

1:03:10

now where people are like really

1:03:12

up in arms about, you know,

1:03:14

giving... black people any space right

1:03:16

there there's you know you see

1:03:18

the pushback on DEA you see

1:03:20

all this pushback this this sort

1:03:22

of white centering that's happening and

1:03:24

this was just a big slap

1:03:26

in the face to them and

1:03:29

they fucking hated it and you

1:03:31

could see how much they fucking

1:03:33

hated it yeah and like I

1:03:35

want to I want to let

1:03:37

them say how much they hated

1:03:39

it so I'm gonna read right

1:03:41

from this fucking article this fucking

1:03:43

horrible racist shit it's not like

1:03:45

it's not like when I start

1:03:47

off from saying like Kendrick Lamar's

1:03:49

music is not for me. That's

1:03:51

a taste thing, right? That's not

1:03:53

what these guys are criticizing. That's

1:03:55

not what they're saying. Here's what

1:03:57

they said. The halftime show you

1:03:59

just watched is clearly the regime's

1:04:01

response to Trump's historic gains with

1:04:03

black people. That makes no sense.

1:04:05

Matt Gates wrote it. Raise your

1:04:07

hand. It makes no sense at

1:04:09

all. The regime. What regime? What

1:04:11

regime? your hand if you survive

1:04:13

the black nationalist Super Bowl halftime

1:04:15

show. That was Eric Doherty. Nice.

1:04:17

Hey, NFL, the Trump won. We

1:04:19

no longer let talentless, mumbling, pagans,

1:04:21

satanic cultists do halftime shows and

1:04:23

pretend like people like it. That's

1:04:25

Benny Johnson. Fucking yikes. Yep. This

1:04:27

is nothing to do with like,

1:04:29

hey, sometimes things just aren't my

1:04:31

taste. That's fine. That's fine. Not

1:04:33

everything's your fucking cup of tea.

1:04:36

I get that. There's going to

1:04:38

be people that don't like the

1:04:40

things you like. The way that

1:04:42

they're talking, they're like, hey, I

1:04:44

don't like that a black guy

1:04:46

was doing it. I don't like

1:04:48

that there was a black guy

1:04:50

up there with a strong message

1:04:52

about America. Like the dance, if

1:04:54

you guys didn't see it, like

1:04:56

the dance numbers, the dancers were

1:04:58

all wearing red, white and blue.

1:05:00

And they were moving in and

1:05:02

out of these like... formations as

1:05:04

they were dancing. And the formations

1:05:06

were incredibly powerfully symbolic. There were

1:05:08

parts of it that matched with

1:05:10

the music where the American flag

1:05:12

would, through the dancers that formed

1:05:14

it, would separate or divide to

1:05:16

represent a divided America. It's very

1:05:18

clever. Yeah. They do not want

1:05:20

to see a black man. And

1:05:22

also, by the way, all of

1:05:24

the dancers were black and all

1:05:26

the performers were black. Sam Jackson

1:05:28

was Uncle Sam. Uncle Sam and

1:05:30

Uncle Tom. So he was playing

1:05:32

a dual role there. There's a

1:05:34

lot of clever shit going on.

1:05:36

Like, and then like yet Serena

1:05:38

Williams up there, Serena Williams was

1:05:40

out there dancing. Like, you know

1:05:43

why she was there? I don't

1:05:45

know why she was there, no.

1:05:47

So this is a little dig

1:05:49

at Drake. She used to be,

1:05:51

I think, date Drake. And that

1:05:53

whole song, that whole song is

1:05:55

a disc track on Drake, and

1:05:57

she was creep walking during that

1:05:59

song during that song. That's why

1:06:01

he's attacking there's X out so

1:06:03

that he's right man. It's like

1:06:05

kind of amazing actually it's really

1:06:07

like I mean Like, like, when

1:06:09

you think about how intricate all

1:06:11

that stuff was, it was really

1:06:13

intricate. And they, like, the, the,

1:06:15

the Republican white establishment does not

1:06:17

want to see a powerful black

1:06:19

man making a commentary about America.

1:06:21

Yeah. And unapologetically black commentary. Yep.

1:06:23

Yep. Yes. Yep. Exactly. Exactly. They

1:06:25

fucking cannot handle that. Because it

1:06:27

threatens their hegemony. All

1:06:33

right, that's going to wrap

1:06:36

it up for this week.

1:06:38

We're going to have a

1:06:40

long form show that's kind

1:06:43

of about loneliness. Oh, oh

1:06:45

no, we can't do anything

1:06:47

really positive, but hey, there's

1:06:50

going to be a- Why

1:06:52

are we recording this one

1:06:55

from a far too? There's

1:06:57

going to be a patron

1:06:59

one that's going to be

1:07:02

coming out in a week

1:07:04

after that. So if you're

1:07:06

a patron, you'll get a

1:07:09

funny show next time, but

1:07:11

we're going to be doing

1:07:14

this article from the Atlantic.

1:07:16

on the antisocial media and

1:07:18

so that's going to be

1:07:21

coming out on Thursday. Tom's

1:07:23

going to read that article

1:07:25

for patrons so if you're

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we're going to leave you

1:07:40

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1:07:42

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