Episode 837: Popes and Dopes

Episode 837: Popes and Dopes

Released Monday, 28th April 2025
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Thursday, April the

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24th. This has been

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the longest April of my

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fucking life. I was talking to my son about

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this the other day. I was like, it has

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been April for about three years. Did he, he,

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Trump passed his first hundred days the other day.

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He did. Yeah. He did pass for

1:53

his first hundred days. Yeah. Yeah.

1:55

That's a something that, you know,

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who didn't pass their freshness date

1:59

was the Pope. Well,

2:02

he is now definitely best

2:05

if poked by they put him

2:07

in a fucking coffin and

2:09

the coffin is like it's kind

2:11

of at an angle and

2:13

he's sort of just like stuck

2:15

in this like coffin and

2:18

all the like like red -headed

2:20

dudes have to come around and

2:22

be like Bro, yep. Yeah,

2:24

that's corpse. So that's what I

2:26

gotta ask you. Yeah, when

2:29

when rush Limbaugh died we played

2:31

the funeral march of those

2:33

guys dancing. Does the pulp

2:35

deserve the funeral march of

2:37

those guys dancing? Does

2:39

the guy who heads up the largest

2:41

child sex trafficking ring in the

2:43

entire world, I think he does. You

2:45

think he deserves I think it

2:47

is. It's a little bit of a

2:49

little bit of what we need

2:51

is, yeah, bring it in buddy. We

2:53

need a little bit of the

2:55

coffin dance. Oh,

3:00

it's not in big and big and

3:02

eight. Get big featuring the Ghana Paul

3:04

bearers. Here we go. It's

3:09

gonna be random. It's

3:11

gonna be random. All right. I don't want to watch

3:13

him get addressed. I love

3:15

this is the official music video.

3:17

It'll be a second. Here we

3:19

go. As I say, don't fast

3:21

forward it before the beat drops. There

3:28

you go, Popey. Tom,

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I want this so bad. You have to fly

3:36

these people in. I got you. I want

3:38

this so bad. I got you. God, I want

3:40

this so bad. Look, I don't know how

3:42

I'm going to do this since we both die

3:44

fighting each other in bulldozers. What I want

3:46

is those guys to pick the bulldozers up and

3:49

carry it like that. Absolutely.

3:51

This is, this is so bad.

3:57

All right. Our video is now

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demonetized. So, um, and all that

4:01

money can go to those God

4:03

of people, crushing it. Yeah.

4:05

That was that. So, so long to

4:07

this, to this pope who was, uh,

4:09

a liberal. had a file hide. Yeah,

4:12

right. You know, I read, I heard

4:14

a lot of stuff. So like, you

4:16

know, all of my daily news stuff,

4:18

obviously when the Pope dies, everything is

4:20

Pope central, right? And

4:23

like the consensus was pretty much that he

4:25

tried to split the baby and he kind

4:27

of just made everybody mad. He wasn't conservative

4:29

enough for the conservative wing of the church.

4:32

And he wasn't progressive enough for the

4:34

progressive wing of the church. And he

4:36

just kind of tried to He wasn't

4:38

a true reformer. He was like reform

4:40

minded, but he was not a true

4:42

reformer. He made gestures in the directions

4:44

of progress, but he didn't make declarations

4:46

toward progress. So he didn't actually make

4:48

a lot of progress. And so

4:50

now he's fucking dead. Wow. And now who

4:52

knows what the fucking next guy is going

4:54

to be. You know, I'll tell you what

4:56

he won't be relevant. Yeah. Well,

4:58

because the church is not, hold

5:00

on though. They were talking about

5:02

possibly a black one. A

5:05

Black Pope? Black Pope, baby.

5:07

A Black Pope? Or an Asian.

5:09

So like the biggest areas

5:12

of the world that are

5:14

now Catholic are not the

5:16

Western countries where most Catholics

5:18

would have come from. Right.

5:20

Now most of those places

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are in Africa or in,

5:25

you know, Indonesia

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or, you know, whatever that is, whatever

5:29

that area is, you know, like the

5:31

South East Asia, South East Asia, that

5:33

sort of thing. There's a ton of

5:35

them out there. And so like those

5:37

people are all really into the Catholic

5:39

church and, you know, the Catholic church,

5:41

to be honest, the shitty stuff they

5:43

do aside, the opportunities

5:47

that they open up for some of

5:49

those people to go learn abroad, to

5:51

learn a different language, to learn skills

5:53

and bring it back to their communities

5:55

is a big deal to them. You

5:57

know, regardless of what we think of

5:59

the church, the church does at least

6:01

create some of these people to go

6:03

back and, you know, be, you know,

6:05

public servants in that area. So

6:08

it's like, you know, I mean, now they're probably

6:10

going to be, you know, playing three card money with

6:12

some pedophile in a, you know, there

6:14

are always There are always people

6:16

on the ground that benefit when

6:18

colonialism takes place, right? And this

6:20

is just the kind of religious

6:23

colonialism. Swooping in

6:25

and like, you know, playing missionary

6:27

to the sort of like great

6:29

unwashed masses of the yet untouched

6:31

regions of the world is you

6:33

know, like obviously hyper xenophobic and,

6:36

you know, like incredibly colonialist and

6:38

paternalistic. And that is the churches

6:40

across the world all would always

6:42

do that. They view parts of

6:44

the world that have not yet

6:46

been touched by Western culture or

6:49

colonized exclusively by Western culture as

6:51

like ripe fruit for the picking.

6:53

And ripe for changing all their

6:55

views, right? Exactly what they want.

6:57

Yeah. I have a theological question.

6:59

I don't know if you know

7:02

the answer. I'm curious. sure

7:04

I know it. Cause Haley and I were talking

7:06

about this the other day and she said to

7:08

me that she thinks that there's like, so like

7:10

the deal with Christianity is we were joking about

7:13

it cause we were talking about Easter, right? And

7:15

our kids, I actually had all four of the

7:17

kids lined up and I was like, Hey, it

7:19

occurs to me that we gave them little Easter

7:21

baskets. Don't you guys know what

7:23

the fuck Easter is all about? Like the story

7:25

of Easter. And I pointed to Aislin who I

7:27

sent to Lutheran school for two years during the

7:29

pandemic. I was like, you don't get to answer.

7:31

You don't get to answer because I know, you

7:33

know, actually she was like bumped. I'm like, do

7:35

you guys even know what Easter is about? And

7:38

Finn figured it out last year. Donovan

7:41

figured it out from his last girlfriend. Like

7:43

I think a couple of years ago. Amon

7:45

had no idea. Sure. Amon's had no idea what

7:47

he was. He's like, it's about, yeah. He's like,

7:50

a bunny related holiday. You know? And of

7:52

course, Aislin knew. And so we were

7:54

talking and you know, Haley said, you know,

7:56

she thinks that there is a loophole

7:58

in Christianity that if you've never heard of

8:00

Christianity, you don't go to hell. That

8:02

like Jesus, Jesus dying for your sins, kind

8:04

of all that stuff kind of doesn't

8:06

count. Yeah. Is that true? Do

8:08

you know if that's true? So I

8:10

think, I think that is religion dependent. I

8:13

think it's religion dependent because I'll tell

8:15

you who doesn't believe that is the Jehovah's

8:17

Witnesses who think that only 144 ,000 people.

8:19

That's right. Yeah. So, so

8:21

clearly there are some sects

8:23

of Christianity who think, fuck

8:25

you. Right. You know, oh, you didn't

8:27

hear about it. Oh, that sounds like a lot

8:29

of your fucking problem, buddy. Because here's what she

8:31

pointed out, which I thought was really interesting. If

8:34

if there is a loophole that says,

8:36

I don't go to hell if I

8:38

didn't hear about it. than actually being

8:40

a missionary is a huge asshole move.

8:43

Yeah, because now you're making them help. Now you're making

8:45

them choose something. Yeah, you're like, especially a missionary

8:47

for like Jehovah's Witness. Right. And I mean, I think

8:49

what's going to happen now is you're going to

8:51

get, we're going to get a bunch of messages from

8:53

people who grew up religious because there's ton of

8:55

people who listen to the show who grew up religious.

8:57

And they're going to say, yeah, in my religion,

8:59

if it didn't matter if you knew or not, and

9:01

other religions, the others would be like, no, if

9:03

you never heard of it, it's fine. Do you know

9:05

what the Catholic stance on that happens to be?

9:07

It's okay. If you don't, I'm just curious. And

9:10

I think it's varied in the

9:12

Catholic Church because from what I've heard,

9:16

the Catholics, the ones

9:18

that I've talked to about it, because

9:20

I've brought up something similar before, and

9:22

the Catholics that I've talked to

9:24

about it, they all suggest that

9:26

basically if you don't have a

9:28

way to talk to God or

9:30

be with God, then you kind

9:33

of live without Him. And then

9:35

that also exists in the afterlife

9:37

too. You're just like, That's it.

9:39

You don't have it. So

9:41

just bad luck. They're just like,

9:43

bad luck. That's up to you.

9:45

Some of them are like that. And

9:47

others are like, no, if you

9:49

don't know, then it's okay. You can

9:51

be a good person and God

9:54

would still accept you. So then I

9:56

think it really is that liberal

9:58

and progressive sides of the church. Because

10:00

what an impossibly crazy religious tenet

10:02

to hold, that if somebody never heard

10:04

of this belief system, they are

10:07

still beholden to that belief system by

10:09

their deity. You know,

10:11

like I lived without God. So then God

10:13

is like, well, I know I created you and

10:15

I know you're a piece of me and

10:17

I know like I'm supposed to love you, but

10:19

I created you in a place where you

10:21

never heard about me. So for all of eternity,

10:23

You will now be bereft of my presence. What

10:26

an asshole thing to do. God is like,

10:28

God is like the, the government when they're like,

10:30

sorry, you can't be ignorant of the law.

10:32

And you're like, what? I didn't know. What I'm

10:34

literally ignorant of it. didn't know that I

10:36

wasn't allowed to have a buggy whip on Sunday.

10:39

It's like too bad. Like I spat on the

10:41

sidewalk while writing on a donkey in a bathtub

10:44

or whatever. Sorry, man. No, that's, that's jail, right

10:46

to jail, right to jail. It's like, it's like

10:48

God is your dad that like went out for

10:50

cigarettes when you were one and you know, remember

10:52

him at all. You know, and he never came

10:54

back and like, you're in trouble because you don't

10:56

love him. You know, like you didn't remember me

10:58

on Father's Day. It's like, what? I don't even

11:00

know who you are. You're right

11:02

up to here, man. What

11:04

do you want from me? Evil

11:43

is being defeated by God.

11:45

Marjorie Taylor Greene celebrates after

11:47

Pope's death. Yes, God. God

11:49

defeated the Pope at 88

11:51

years old. At 88 years

11:53

old. Was it long battle?

11:56

God was like, finally I got him. Pope

11:58

had a long battle with life. Okay,

12:02

look. I don't believe in any of the

12:04

stuff that these people believe in. Oh, yeah, it's

12:06

all fucking stupid. God, I don't believe in,

12:08

I don't believe the pulp was divine. I

12:11

don't believe that, you know, Marjorit Taylor

12:13

Green has a soul. I don't believe

12:15

in these things, right? Right. Yeah. Very

12:17

specifically Marjorit Taylor Green. The last one

12:19

is special. But like, like, I

12:21

don't believe in it, but I know

12:23

she does. And when I look

12:25

at her, I think she's afraid. I think

12:27

she's afraid because of all the exorcism stuff they

12:29

do. If

12:33

there was a

12:35

demon, if a demon

12:37

existed, wouldn't it be

12:39

Marjorie Taylor Greene? Don't you think? No,

12:41

I don't think that a demon would

12:43

bother. I think even a demon would

12:46

be disgusted to be inside of Marjorie

12:48

Taylor Greene. I'm

12:50

not going to stoop

12:52

so low. I'm going

12:54

to go inhabit this

12:56

cricket over here. It's

12:58

like, I know I came from a

13:01

place of eternal torment and suffering. I'd

13:03

rather be there than inside of Marjorie

13:05

Taylor green, which is literally what her

13:07

ex -husband said. She's

13:13

doing burpees and demons are just shooting

13:15

out of her. She's doing

13:17

kip up. pull ups, women are

13:19

shooting across the room. Yeah.

13:23

All this is, is just playing your bass,

13:25

right? It's playing your bass to be

13:27

like, because she knows that there isn't a

13:29

lot of Catholics in her base. There's

13:31

a bunch of evangelicals or Protestants or whatever.

13:33

And to her, this is a win.

13:35

Yeah. So she's going to be, but whatever,

13:37

I don't care that she's, I mean,

13:39

who cares that she's, um, Disrespecting

13:41

the Pope like yeah, who gives a

13:43

shit right like they're like there's an evil

13:46

lady talking about a bad guy Yeah,

13:48

right, and I'm just like okay. of I

13:50

kind of want them just to go

13:52

after each other It's like enemy of my

13:54

enemy like so get him who cares

13:56

oh get him I do think it's hilarious

13:58

when somebody dies of what is clearly

14:00

old age He's 88 years old so old

14:02

these people that these people are like

14:04

as old as George Burns, and you're just

14:06

like dude come on man Nobody won

14:08

anything. Like there's like, well, God made it

14:10

happen. Well, okay. Sure. Or like fucking

14:12

the telomeres were exhausted, right? Like he's fucking

14:14

88 years old. That shit just gives

14:16

out at a certain point. What? Like there's

14:18

like an assumption there. I think that

14:20

like, man, he would, okay. He would literally

14:22

would have lived forever. Like a vampire,

14:25

like a vamp hope that I'll believe that

14:27

right. Yeah, man. There's

14:29

a vamp Pope and he is

14:31

he's got a fucking picture of himself

14:33

that gets older Okay, I win.

14:35

Yeah, it's fucking Dorian Pope. I'm fine

14:37

dude. Yeah, I'm gonna fuck up

14:39

percent But there's been nothing no nothing

14:41

miraculous. He just died of old

14:43

age. Yeah I am extremely willing to

14:45

believe in magic. Somebody just has

14:47

to show me one magic. just want

14:49

a magic. Just one magic. a

14:51

single magic. Give me one magic. Like

14:53

they keep not showing me any

14:55

magic. They keep showing me like, well,

14:57

here's some holy water. You're like,

14:59

that's feces water dripping off a pipe

15:01

into a statue. It's,

15:04

it's something every time. They

15:06

open their mouths and baby birds

15:08

and swallow that shit. It's amazing. All

15:39

right, this is from the New

15:41

Republic. Abraigo Garcia's wife forced to

15:43

go into hiding. Thanks

15:45

to team Trump. This is disgusting. This

15:47

is grotesque. Yeah. So the Trump

15:49

administration is going through great pains to

15:52

do what all racists do, which

15:54

is to paint people of color that

15:56

they want to disparage as violent

15:58

thugs and criminals. You see it every

16:00

single time that like a white

16:02

cop shoots some black kid, all that

16:04

happens is like, not all that

16:06

happens, but a lot of the news

16:08

coverage, especially the right wing news

16:10

coverage will focus on, you know, He

16:12

got suspended from school in eighth

16:14

grade and here's a picture of him,

16:16

you know, like watching a rap

16:19

video or something like this fucking white

16:21

people are afraid of or whatever

16:23

stupid bullshit. It's whatever kind of character

16:25

assassination they can perform in order

16:27

to get the white base worked up.

16:29

in order to say that brown

16:31

guy was always bad. So it's okay

16:33

that we didn't follow the law.

16:35

It's okay that we violated their civil

16:37

rights. It's okay that we, you

16:39

know, didn't allow for due process. It's

16:41

okay that we circumvented all of

16:44

the systems that naturally safeguard each and

16:46

every person residing in the United

16:48

States of America because we did it

16:50

to a brown guy that had

16:52

it coming. Trump administration

16:54

has been doing that. And

16:56

in doing that, they released

16:58

documentation that contained his

17:01

wife's, they're the family home,

17:03

the family home address. The documentation

17:05

was a restraining order was

17:07

never, never fulfilled, right? So

17:10

the restraining order was, was, was written out,

17:12

but then it was, it was submitted.

17:14

And then I guess it was, like she

17:16

said, no, not to do it or

17:18

something like that. It was, it was basically,

17:20

it never was fulfilled, but they had

17:22

the paperwork. So the Trump administration decides to

17:24

just release it, but then they don't

17:26

redact her address. Well, she's currently the poster

17:28

child for both sides. war

17:30

on this, right? She

17:32

wants to get her husband back. I

17:36

imagine anybody on the left not thinking that

17:38

it's a good thing to get the

17:40

person back. In fact, some people on the

17:42

right are even talking about how removing

17:44

due process and doing this stuff is bad.

17:46

So there's a lot of people who

17:49

are against him being sent away, but you

17:51

also know that Trump has a sect

17:53

of people that are crazy and that will

17:55

do insane shit, like, I don't know,

17:57

give pipe bombs away to like, Yeah,

17:59

like media personalities and stuff. So we

18:01

know that there's a group of people that

18:03

are kind of crazy. I mean, they're crazy

18:05

enough to fucking go knock down the doors

18:07

at the at the Capitol during January 6th.

18:10

man. We know that there's a group

18:12

of people out there that are that are

18:14

on the hinge that'll do some crazy shit.

18:16

So she's worried now because they didn't redact

18:18

her address and this is the same place

18:20

where she lives. So now people know where

18:22

she lives just to go to a

18:24

safe house now and live until all this

18:26

stuff blows over because and and there's it You

18:29

could say it's incompetence, but I don't

18:31

think it is. I think they always blame

18:33

incompetence like, oh, we didn't mean to,

18:35

but they do shit to be mean too.

18:37

And I think one, it doesn't matter,

18:39

but I think you always have to lean

18:41

on the side that they're doing this

18:44

as a punitive measure to try to stop

18:46

her from doing this, to try to

18:48

get her to think like, maybe I shouldn't

18:50

be doing this. These people have a

18:52

lot more power than I, and I shouldn't

18:54

be fighting up against them. I also

18:56

think that I think two things are true

18:58

at the same time, which sound like

19:00

they are in opposition to one another, but

19:02

I don't believe they are. I do

19:04

think that there is a staggeringly high level

19:06

of real incompetence within this administration. And

19:09

I also think that

19:11

this administration intentionally embraces incompetence

19:13

and chaos as cover. Because

19:16

if they know that if

19:18

everybody just kind of blows it

19:20

off, as an error, as

19:22

incompetence, as the sort of natural

19:25

chaos of this administration, that

19:27

they're not held accountable the same

19:29

way that competent, mature, responsible

19:31

administrations and professionals would normally be.

19:35

It's part of that shotgun

19:37

effect, but it's also

19:40

this like weaponized incompetence of

19:42

government. It's fucking wild

19:44

to watch an action. I

19:46

hope she sues him. I do

19:48

too. Because I think like, You let

19:50

that, she's part of this media

19:52

attack of the left or on the

19:54

right right now that is going

19:56

after her. They're trying to, and if

19:58

they publicize this sort of thing,

20:00

I hope she sues everybody that publicized

20:02

it in any way. I hope

20:04

she sues them. Go after

20:06

them, man. And I know we talked

20:08

about this before. I do think it

20:11

bears a swift repeating that none of

20:13

this, none of who this guy is,

20:15

and what he's done actually matters. It's

20:17

an important, it's important to note that

20:20

that is always a distraction. I literally

20:22

do not care if he was a

20:24

murdering rapist of children. He's

20:26

still entitled to due process because

20:28

you don't know that he's a

20:30

murdering rapist of children unless you

20:33

go through the due process process.

20:35

What you have is a suspicion. What you

20:38

have is a maybe even a preponderance

20:40

of evidence. What you have is You know,

20:42

a lot of things, but until you

20:44

move through that process, you haven't established anything.

20:46

You've established literally nothing. These

20:48

processes are important to safeguard all of

20:51

us, to make sure that the rule

20:53

of law is what governs and not

20:55

the fucking whims of a dictator. Yeah.

21:15

This is from people, Robert F.

21:17

Kennedy Jr. to launch National Autism

21:19

Registry. Data will be collected from

21:21

pharmacy chains, lab tests, smartwatches and

21:23

more. And I read that and

21:25

I thought, the fuck is

21:27

my smartwatch going to tell somebody I'm

21:30

autistic? You might have

21:32

to enter it in. Yeah, maybe. reason.

21:35

Maybe? I don't know. Question mark? Yeah,

21:37

I don't know. I don't know. Like

21:39

I've got an Apple watch and I

21:41

got a Garmin watch. And I don't

21:43

think either of them have like an

21:45

autism setting on them. Yeah,

21:49

I don't think that there's anything, I

21:51

mean, I don't know. I mean, I

21:53

have no idea what kind of information

21:55

they can glean, but what they're trying

21:57

to get is they're saying that what

21:59

they want to do is use this

22:01

data when they do this sort of

22:03

meta study that they're planning. And the

22:05

meta study that RFK is planning is

22:08

he has already decided. before

22:10

any pen hits anything, that

22:12

the reason why autism

22:14

is rising isn't because we're

22:16

better at recognizing it,

22:18

which is probably why it's

22:20

rising. Instead, he throws

22:22

that out and said, that's not the

22:24

reason. It's an environmental factor. So he

22:27

knows for sure already, before he starts

22:29

any study whatsoever with his new position,

22:31

that it's going to be environmental. So

22:33

what he's gonna do is he's gonna

22:35

have a bunch of people, a bunch

22:37

of data scientists go through a ton

22:39

of different data, and then he's going

22:42

to have an answer. He already has

22:44

it. Unlike other studies where you don't

22:46

know what your conclusion is and don't

22:48

know when you'll finish it, he both

22:50

knows what his conclusion is that it's

22:52

going to be environmental, and he is

22:54

going to finish this study by September. So

22:57

he knows both of those things. That's

22:59

insane. And he's going to present, I

23:02

am willing to bet anybody that

23:04

it's vaccines. I am willing to

23:06

bet anybody right now a crisp

23:08

$100 bill that his environmental factor

23:10

that he's going to pull out

23:12

of thin air is going to

23:15

be vaccines. And so

23:17

he's got a plan already to

23:19

do this. And in order to

23:21

do that, he's going to collect

23:23

this data. Well, there's a couple

23:25

of things that are disturbing about

23:27

this. One is you shouldn't be

23:29

a person who gets to submit

23:31

data when you want to submit

23:33

data. Oh, really? Not just, you

23:36

know, somebody just randomly takes your

23:38

data, but then also a lot

23:40

of people are worried that this

23:42

might create what might amount to

23:44

an autism registry where there would

23:46

just know the names of people

23:48

with autism. And I don't

23:50

have to remind people of

23:52

fascist regimes in the past. of

23:55

doing bad things to people

23:57

they thought were less than. And

23:59

some of those people happen

24:01

to be, you know, in other

24:03

ways, differently abled, right? So,

24:06

I mean, I'm not adding those things together,

24:09

but I'm not saying that they don't

24:11

want to have that information so they could

24:13

disenfranchise those people in some way. In

24:15

some way, yeah. I mean, people with disabilities

24:17

have been put on fucking trains. That

24:19

is a fucking true fact about the world.

24:21

And maybe we don't want the United

24:23

States government to make a registry

24:26

of its undesirables, right? This is not

24:28

good. And like, I don't think people

24:30

with autism are undesirable, but I fucking

24:32

guarantee Robert F. Kennedy Jr does how

24:34

he talks about, I fuck. Yeah. I

24:36

mean, that's not, I'm not, I'm not

24:38

reaching. He doesn't, they use the bathroom.

24:40

Yeah. He is. He's like, he's like,

24:42

they, they, they, they'll never pay. They'll

24:44

never play taxes though. They'll never, they'll

24:46

never write a poem. They won't play

24:48

baseball. They won't fall in love. They

24:50

won't go to those. Some of these

24:52

people even use the bathroom on their

24:54

own. They'll live their whole life in

24:56

care, essentially. He doesn't know that like...

24:58

That it's a spectrum. That it's a

25:00

spectrum. That a huge... And

25:02

it's also like, I was looking into

25:04

this, it's not like there's like... One

25:06

thing that autism is it's like a

25:08

it's a name for a collection of

25:10

things, right? It's not just like you

25:13

know like when we say like I'm

25:15

gonna cure cancer and they're like Yeah,

25:17

but there's a million different types of

25:19

cancer like it's not a meaningful not

25:21

a meaningful thing to say it's the

25:23

same thing It's almost the same thing

25:25

with autism in the sense that like

25:27

we're gonna find the cause of autism

25:29

be like wait a minute Yeah, it's

25:31

just a collection of behaviors that we

25:33

call this thing and so yeah, it

25:35

just what they want to do is

25:37

what they started out to do, which

25:39

is why he was even put off

25:41

is so that they could say vaccines

25:43

are harmful. Trump wanted to do that

25:45

since the beginning. That's why he put

25:47

him in there. He put him in

25:49

there so everybody in the world can

25:51

hear the head of HHS say vaccines

25:53

are harmful. So here's what another thing

25:55

to be afraid of here that I'm

25:57

really nervous about. If

26:00

he goes down that

26:02

road by September, Will

26:04

these vaccines cease to even be

26:06

available to those that want them?

26:09

No idea. There will certainly be,

26:11

there's already, I saw something today

26:13

that I think in the Washington

26:15

Post, it was in the Washington

26:17

Post that in 25 years, if

26:19

we keep at this vaccination rate,

26:22

millions of Americans will have gotten

26:24

measles. Millions of people.

26:27

And that's right now

26:29

in a population that

26:31

is largely vaccinated. But

26:33

if these vaccines not only

26:35

are not required, but aren't even

26:38

available, because genuinely, if we

26:40

get to a point where the

26:42

head of the HHS completes

26:44

a meta study with non -willing

26:46

participants, that's awesome, super cool, very

26:48

chill, low, low, big, not

26:50

a big government thing to do at all

26:53

to just do that, but completes a meta

26:55

study, arrives at a conclusion that was foregone

26:57

and says these vaccines cause autism. Here's a

26:59

causal link. Wouldn't the

27:01

only responsible thing to do if you really

27:03

had that data be to pull those

27:05

products from the shelves? Well, and then what

27:07

does that do for global travel? Because

27:10

suddenly if I want to travel certain

27:12

places in the world, I have to take

27:14

a vaccine from here. If I want

27:16

to travel to a place that might have

27:18

yellow fever, some sort of, you know,

27:20

yellow fever or if I could get dengue

27:22

or I can get I don't even

27:24

know if there's a vaccine for that, but

27:26

you know what I mean? Like one

27:29

of those things, like I have people right

27:31

now traveling to India. They have to

27:33

get shots before they go to India. Yeah.

27:35

But what do you say to people

27:37

who are coming to your country from the

27:39

United States as somebody who is a

27:41

nation that's vaccinated are now we on the

27:43

watch list for their countries where they're

27:46

like, sorry, we, you know, you're not able

27:48

to, you can't come here until you

27:50

get vaccinated, et cetera. Um, because I mean,

27:52

like think about that thing about how

27:54

that interacts. I mean, suddenly we, you know,

27:56

the dollars going down, people aren't coming

27:58

here. And now other people won't even let

28:00

us go there because we're gonna have

28:03

get America vaccines. And like,

28:05

I mean, I would 100 % get

28:07

on an airplane and fly someplace to

28:09

get vaccines. I would, I would be

28:11

a vaccine tourist because I am a

28:13

big believer in vaccines. I am a

28:15

big believer in the radical notion that

28:17

it is better to not be sick

28:20

than to be sick. I know. Fucking

28:22

crazy. Call me, call me crazy. I

28:24

did go to high school biology. So

28:26

I feel like that's a thing. Sure.

28:28

Yeah. So we're just going to create

28:30

an industry of people leaving this country

28:32

to get the most basic medicines that

28:35

are sometimes almost a hundred years old.

28:37

That's insane, dude. It

28:54

was from the Guardian. Fears

28:56

grow that signal leaks make Pete

28:58

Hegseth top espionage target. Experts

29:00

say Pentagon chief has endangered secrets

29:02

of US defense department and

29:04

given assistance to foreign spies. Super

29:07

cool. And like I

29:09

read this article because you put in the

29:11

notes. I read this article and I thought,

29:13

well, no duh. Like if

29:15

I was, if I was some, if

29:17

I was the head of like the

29:19

Chinese intelligence agency, I would look at

29:21

this administration and be like, That dude's

29:23

a bad decision machine. There is a

29:25

weakest link here for sure. Right. Yeah.

29:27

Like this guy is fucking porous as

29:30

a sponge. Are you kidding me?

29:32

That is family. on the same,

29:34

on a different signal. a different signal chat.

29:36

Like his wife and his lawyer and his

29:38

lawyer and a couple other people. It's like,

29:40

dude, do you have like a friends and

29:42

family plan? For real, man. You have to,

29:44

you're, they're included in this. Do they get

29:46

Disney plus two? Like what is

29:48

happening? It's bundled with Hulu. Can you imagine

29:50

somebody so incompetent? And it's insane to

29:53

me that they defend this guy. What you

29:55

should have done initially was just fire

29:57

him. You should have been like, yeah, you

29:59

know what? That my mistake and I'll

30:01

find somebody else. There's another sycophant out there.

30:03

Oh, I know that'll fit the fucking

30:05

bill for this guy. What's that? Why have

30:07

him in there? And the reason why

30:09

is Trump doesn't ever want to admit he

30:11

ever made a mistake ever in his

30:13

life. He's never made a mistake. And so

30:16

what he'll do is he'll be he'll

30:18

fight till the bitter end, even though you

30:20

put what could be one of the

30:22

most incompetent people in in the country in

30:24

this position. Somebody and what did I

30:26

tell? What did I say? I hadn't heard

30:28

anybody talk about it at all. But

30:31

I said, the reason why he

30:33

included all that shit in that text that

30:35

he sent out to all of his, all

30:37

the people on the signal thread that was

30:39

like Tulsi Gabbard and all those other people.

30:41

The reason why he included that. was because

30:43

he wanted to swing dick and show people.

30:45

He didn't have to include the actual shit

30:47

in there. He have to say it was

30:49

an F17 or whatever that flew out here.

30:51

It was, here's these drone packages. Here's this

30:54

stuff. He included the jargon in there because

30:56

he wanted to show how in control he

30:58

was. He wanted to swing dick. He wanted

31:00

to swing dick. He wanted to show how

31:02

tough he was. Look at what I'm doing.

31:04

I'm the one who's facilitating this stuff. That's

31:06

why they're on the signal chain too. You

31:08

got the guy who doesn't believe

31:11

he's been picked and he can't stop

31:13

talking about how important he is

31:15

to all his friends and family. And

31:17

that's why he's involved in this

31:19

too. And that's the worst person I

31:21

have in that position. You want

31:23

somebody who understands the gravity of the

31:25

things that they're doing. That's who

31:28

you want in that position. Yeah, man.

31:30

He's straight up copy pasted shit from the

31:33

one signal chat over into the other

31:35

signal chat. And it was just, it was

31:37

just absolutely a fucking flex. It was

31:39

a fucking friends and family flex. That's what

31:41

it was. Like, look what a, look

31:43

what a big fucking deal I am. Won't

31:45

you guys worship me next Thanksgiving? You

31:47

go to his barbecue and there's just like

31:50

big printouts of those signals, things

31:52

like he's got one on the fridge with

31:54

a magnet on. He's that, he's that guy like

31:56

standing there with that, the fucking girl is

31:58

like, hang on, hang on a minute guys. It's

32:01

set calm. I

32:03

got to take this. Yeah,

32:05

it's central command guys.

32:07

Hold on. Is everybody quiet?

32:09

So I can take

32:11

this call from central command.

32:15

Hello. How you doing? Secretary

32:17

Hexeth, can I help

32:19

you? I also think

32:21

too, this is a little, this is

32:23

a little harder for Trump. to back down

32:25

on because this was the big pony

32:27

he backed when he was picking his cabin.

32:29

This is the one that everybody said

32:31

don't do. Yeah. And this was the one

32:33

they had the most. This was really

32:35

the big political will test. And so there

32:37

was a lot more pushback against Pete

32:39

Hegstaff than everybody else. It was the first

32:41

big one with big pushback. And this

32:44

was the one where he basically twisted every

32:46

arm and broke every back and was

32:48

like, I am flexing my will to get

32:50

this guy. As soon as he gets

32:52

this guy, he's backed them so hard. Now

32:54

we can't back down because he's, he's

32:56

already flexed hard to get this done. So.

32:58

Like, he's kind of fucking stuck. He's

33:01

stuck because he's a narcissist. get me

33:03

wrong. He's not stuck in a decent

33:05

person way. He's not stuck in any

33:07

real way, because any real person would

33:09

just say you're fired. Like, I don't

33:11

know anybody who would accept that kind

33:13

of incompetence from anyone who works. You'd

33:15

be like, no, what are you kidding

33:17

me? CBS

33:51

news. Hegseth orders makeup

33:53

studio installed at the Pentagon.

33:56

So originally he wanted to put

33:58

like a $40 makeup

34:00

studio. Is it soundproof too? So we can

34:03

make calls from it. Like that one guy

34:05

got a sit room or whatever. One of

34:07

those rooms. Oh my God. Like one of

34:09

those like super secure rooms. Super secure rooms.

34:11

Yeah. It's a fucking, it's got to get

34:13

smart doors. You know, he's got to like

34:15

walk down a series of like, I hope

34:17

it's, I hope it's like a poll you

34:19

slide down. And it's like, you know how

34:21

when, when Batman would slide down the poll,

34:23

he'd change costume. I hope when Hexess slides

34:25

down, his face gets painted with makeup. So

34:28

just gets, he gets bronze real quick as he

34:30

goes down. And then when he lands, he's right

34:32

in front of the cameras and he can talk.

34:35

Here I am. I

34:37

love that like we're at a place

34:39

where we are firing like. the entire

34:42

education department. We've laid off like the

34:44

whole fucking CFPB, the consumer financial protection

34:46

bureau. We're firing IRS agents. So we

34:48

collect less revenue from billionaires, but like

34:50

we want to make sure we give

34:52

Pete Hegs at the goddamn glow up,

34:54

right? We got it. We got to

34:56

get his fucking glam squad on. I

34:59

think it's important that, that every member

35:01

of the secretary cabinet has gender affirming

35:03

care. I think that that's

35:05

important. And I'm glad

35:07

the Trump administration agrees. Great. Fucking

35:09

embrace it. Everyone should have gender affirming

35:11

care. Even Pete had Seth and

35:13

for him, that's bronzer and like, and

35:15

yeah, and like they have to

35:17

tattoo in his fucking eyebrows or whatever

35:19

they got to do. They have

35:21

to put a little concealer on his

35:23

white supremacist tattoo. Jesus fucking Christ. What

35:26

a fucking narcissistic piece of

35:29

shit asshole. I love it. I

35:31

love to how They were talking about

35:33

all this fraud and abuse. They're like, oh,

35:35

it's fraud and abuse. We're going to

35:37

cut it. We're going to clean it. And

35:39

they're just like, by the way, can

35:41

I put this on my company card? Can

35:44

I charge this? Is that OK? So

35:46

where's the expense button? I'm expensing this. Super

35:48

excited to be part of this. I

35:50

have this as my job so I can

35:52

expense this beautiful makeup studio. CNN,

36:21

that ends now. Judge overseeing a

36:23

Brego Garcia case knocks Trump administration

36:25

for repeated stonewalling. So the Trump

36:27

administration was supposed to do substantive

36:29

stuff to facilitate the return. If

36:31

they weren't going to do substance

36:33

stuff to facilitate the return of

36:36

a break of Garcia, they were

36:38

supposed to give at least substantive

36:40

answers. And instead they gave a

36:42

bunch of boilerplate bullshit. Nothing answers.

36:44

And the judge was like, this

36:46

is boilerplate bullshit. Nothing. You guys

36:48

are bad at your job. Yeah.

36:50

Basically every time they'd come in,

36:52

they would be. ill -equipped, unprepared,

36:55

bad arguments, and she would just

36:57

be like, what are you doing?

36:59

What is happening? Why are you

37:01

treating this like this? And like

37:03

you suggest, that's a level of

37:05

chaos that they bring to this, right? That

37:08

sort of weaponized incompetence is

37:10

necessary for them. And it

37:12

makes it feel like that

37:14

there's this sort of constant

37:16

low -level hum of chaos

37:19

in the whole administration. They're,

37:22

I mean, just even just look at, we

37:24

can't tell, we don't know, because they

37:26

came in and said it was a mistake

37:28

that he got sent there, but then

37:30

they said it wasn't, and then they said

37:33

it was, and then they said it

37:35

wasn't, and they've been going back and forth

37:37

on whether or not it even is.

37:39

But even if it isn't, it's still bad,

37:41

right? Even if he just got sent

37:43

over, it's still bad. And the judge can't

37:45

even find certain important pieces of this

37:47

out. Like, let's figure out like the best

37:49

way to get it. And I think

37:51

that they're just doing this. You know, they're

37:53

sending in the three stooches and like

37:55

accidentally poking the clerk in the eye. And

37:57

they're like, they're like, you know... like

38:00

smacking each other in the head. They're

38:02

walking through a giant pane of glass

38:04

that guys are carrying down the street.

38:06

Yeah, so he crashes, they're chasing each

38:08

other around the plaintiff table. They're just

38:10

like, yeah, these people, they're not serious

38:12

people. And she, like,

38:14

I think too, I

38:16

just really want to see the hammer

38:18

start coming down. What I want to see

38:21

is the hammer get these people and

38:23

hit these low level people hard. Hit them

38:25

real hard so no one's willing to

38:27

do this work for him. Yeah, you're immune.

38:30

Yeah, you know, these really high up people in your

38:32

in our, in your department are immune, but hit

38:34

them so hard that like. there's nobody

38:36

in the attorney general's office who's willing to go

38:38

down there and talk for them. Pam Bondi's got

38:40

to go court to court. That's what I want

38:42

to see is make her go do the work

38:44

because no one's willing to do it. Everybody's like,

38:46

no, man, they're putting the people in jail. No,

38:48

man, I ain't doing that. I ain't doing that.

38:50

I got a lot family. I'm not

38:52

doing that. Yeah. Yeah. I don't,

38:54

I don't disagree with that take

38:56

like at all. And I do

38:58

think that there's a real problem

39:01

see. So when serious systems try

39:03

to intake unserious people, serious

39:05

systems, like we've built a whole

39:07

series of systems that are built on

39:09

kind of an assumption of orderliness

39:12

and an assumption of like a respect

39:14

for the system that you're engaging. And

39:17

I think there's a real impossibility

39:19

element that we haven't figured out

39:21

when you send these like agents

39:23

of unserious chaos into these orderly

39:25

systems of serious people. The serious

39:27

people don't seem to know how

39:29

to respond to this. There's a

39:32

flummoxing. Yeah, and it's because The

39:35

threat of all the things that you were

39:37

planning to do was enough to keep everyone

39:39

else in line. That's totally enough for everybody

39:41

else to be like, okay, no, I don't

39:43

want to fuck with that person. Like I

39:45

will do what it takes. But we saw,

39:47

even when Trump was out of office, we

39:49

saw these people not respond to summons as

39:51

we saw this in the first one too.

39:54

We should have known, I mean, you should have known. You

39:56

should have known that this was gonna happen. Everyone should

39:58

have known that this was gonna happen. Here's

40:00

the thing, there are no surprises

40:02

here. Nobody, nobody should be, nobody paying attention

40:04

right now has been, I don't think there's

40:06

been a place where if you've been paying

40:08

attention, anything that's happened, you have an ability

40:10

to be like, I didn't see that one

40:12

coming. That wasn't on my bingo card. It's

40:15

all the project 2025 bingo. It's all there. everything

40:32

changed when the fire nation

40:34

attacked. The independent Sarah

40:36

Sanders begs her old boss,

40:38

Trump, to reconsider after president

40:40

rejects Arkansas's request for disaster

40:42

relief funds. The Arkansas

40:44

governor and former Trump White

40:46

House press secretary's request for federal

40:48

support was rejected. Oh, that's

40:51

terrible. Man, that's really tough. You

40:53

know, here's the problem with

40:55

conservatism. They. A

40:59

lot of people would like to think that they

41:01

want to cut these things. They want to cut out

41:03

these things or whatever. And they

41:05

do want to cut them because what they

41:07

don't want is for you to get it,

41:09

right? You should never get this. You're not

41:11

deserving. So they want to cut everything they

41:14

can so that you don't get it. But

41:16

every time they need it, they want it,

41:18

and they get upset when they don't get

41:20

it, right? And they also take advantage

41:22

of everything that they possibly can that is

41:24

government -based. They just don't want you to have

41:26

any of it. And so that's

41:28

the difference. That's what conservatives want. Now,

41:31

I would hope that the people on the left are

41:33

like, yeah, everybody deserves to get this. Of

41:35

the stuff that our tax

41:37

scholars goes to, I'm ecstatic. if

41:39

my tax dollars are going

41:41

to fix somebody's fucking home in

41:44

Arkansas because like a fucking

41:46

twister came through and threw a

41:48

cow through their picture. Like

41:50

I'm like, yeah man, fucking pay

41:52

that dude. Yeah man, fucking A. I'm

41:55

ecstatic when my money goes

41:57

to a tangible thing that

41:59

is actually helping a human

42:01

being here in the States

42:03

that needs our help, fucking

42:05

yes, that's what I wanna

42:07

see. As soon

42:09

as he came in office, he's like,

42:11

no, we're not doing that anymore. Yeah,

42:13

we're not doing it anymore. Like I

42:15

can't wait. I cannot wait for the

42:17

first like real, real widespread disaster, hurricane,

42:19

first real, real widespread, like, you know,

42:21

something big, wildfire, something big is going

42:23

to hit and it's going to be

42:25

so big and it's going to be

42:27

like massive to the point where that

42:30

that money, if that money doesn't come,

42:32

these people are going to be fucked

42:34

and it's not just to be a

42:36

small group. It could be all of

42:38

Florida. It could be hundreds of thousands

42:40

of people in Florida. We saw it

42:42

happen in North Carolina with all these

42:44

people. And Trump believed the narrative

42:46

that those people weren't getting money because that's

42:48

what the Republicans pushed because they wanted

42:50

it to seem like. The Democrats were withholding

42:52

that money or whatever and they weren't

42:54

actually getting that money. I mean, you'll hear

42:56

it constantly working its way through the

42:58

right -wing ecosystem that they say, oh, those

43:00

people never got any money and they want

43:02

to keep that lie up because they

43:05

wanted to get rid of it from the

43:07

first. They wanted to get rid of

43:09

it all. together because they said it's corrupt.

43:11

But it was never corrupt and all

43:13

those people needed that money. They needed it,

43:15

man. They it. All these

43:17

places. And it's going to be the ones

43:19

they're going to suffer the worst are going

43:21

to be the places that are the deep

43:23

red places that just don't have the infrastructure

43:25

to fix it. Yeah, man. The, the, would

43:27

you look at like the areas that are

43:29

most affected by hurricanes most often? These

43:32

are not. Fucking blue States, man. These

43:34

are not blue States. And that Trump and

43:36

Trump came out and was like, yeah,

43:38

if there's a fucking problem in Oklahoma, let

43:40

Oklahoma fix it. He is basically saying,

43:42

let's, let's stop the disaster, federal disaster relief.

43:44

Fuck that. Where's our

43:46

break in our taxes, guys? As

43:49

we like think about, I want

43:51

everybody to always think about this, like,

43:53

and remind your conservative friends of

43:55

this. As we continue to provide less

43:57

and less services, tell me, have

43:59

your taxes changed? Has your paycheck gotten

44:01

any bigger? Check your last check,

44:04

your last two week W2 paycheck. Take

44:06

a look at your paycheck and

44:08

tell me if it's changed because if

44:10

it hasn't changed, all we've gotten

44:12

is nothing but less than all we

44:14

had. You paid the same amount

44:16

for less. Yep. Yeah. Cause I might

44:18

tell you what, like my, my

44:20

fucking bank account did not get any

44:22

fatter and we are getting less

44:24

services. So as we continue to get

44:27

less and less services, I want you guys to keep

44:29

an eye on your paycheck. And if it does

44:31

change, Tell me if it's worth it. Yeah. Tell me

44:33

if it's worth it when that hurricane comes and

44:35

floods out tens of thousands of It's not going to

44:37

change. Yeah. It's not going to change. It's not

44:39

going to change. I know it's not going change. Yeah,

44:41

that money is going to go somewhere. Yeah. And

44:43

it isn't to you. It ain't you. It isn't to

44:45

you. It's never you, man. Because I'll tell you

44:47

what, I'm 47. It's never been me. It's

44:50

been me once when George W.

44:52

Bush gave me $300. The

45:22

new republic panicking Trump walks back

45:24

his attacks on the Fed and China

45:27

Donald Trump seems to have finally

45:29

realized he's sending the economy into a

45:31

tailspin Maybe this will be true

45:33

tomorrow. Maybe it won't maybe it won't

45:35

like who knows fucking like this

45:37

week at one point. He's like It

45:39

can't come soon enough. We got

45:41

to fire Jerome Powell, the federal, federal

45:44

reserve chief and the markets fucking

45:46

implode when they hear that, right? Because

45:48

that's just like, Hey, what we

45:50

need is a grotesque level of instability

45:52

within our economy. And we need

45:54

to like couple together the executive branch

45:56

and the Fed. Important note. Jerome

45:59

Powell's term is up in

46:01

two years. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

46:03

So understand that there will

46:05

be. in the

46:07

in Trump's presidency, unless something

46:10

else happens, maybe he

46:12

doesn't finish his presidency out

46:14

for some reason. But

46:16

let's just presume. don't believe, but I need

46:18

a genuflex. Let's just presume. I have thoughts

46:20

about this. That he's going to finish his

46:23

term. If

46:25

he finishes his term, he will pick a

46:27

new fed chair. I know, man. Well, he

46:29

picked your own power. I know, but like he

46:31

had a person in the room who said,

46:33

pick your own power. Yeah. Well, you know why

46:35

you picked him? Just real quick. Do you

46:37

know why he picked him? Cause he pulled it

46:39

out of the hat and it wasn't a

46:42

practice. You're very close. You're actually very close. He

46:44

picked him because he thought he looked good,

46:46

literally looked good. He sees his comment was he

46:48

looks like a guy straight out of central

46:50

casting. He did. He didn't pick the other person

46:52

because he thought they were too short. That's

46:55

a reason I'm dead serious about this. I

46:57

am dead serious. That is how he picked your

46:59

own Powell. He thought he looked to the

47:02

part of a federal reserve chief. looked

47:04

the part Cecil. I've

47:07

stunned you into silence. That's

47:09

a true fact. I will say that

47:11

doesn't surprise me. You know what? You

47:13

like think you say that and I'm

47:16

like, yeah, no, that's fine. Yeah, that's

47:18

fine. That's that's pretty much what it

47:20

that's pretty much what you voted for

47:22

with 2025. You pretty much voted for

47:24

a. visual based system on

47:26

who you choose for your fed chair.

47:28

Like, yeah, that's fine. I mean, what

47:30

does he do anyway? He just makes

47:32

money. Like who cares? Shemi is going

47:34

to be our next fed chair. Oh

47:36

God. I don't think so. What's,

47:40

fucking insane to me

47:42

is that Jerome Powell

47:44

has actually done. the

47:46

impossible. He did a good job. He

47:48

did more than a great job. He

47:50

did the impossible. So if

47:53

you were following this, any of this

47:55

stuff, what the federal is aiming

47:57

for was what they called a soft

47:59

landing. And the soft landing.

48:01

Soft landing from COVID. Right. Think

48:03

about this, guys. Before Tom finishes,

48:06

COVID, which was an absolute

48:08

disaster around the globe, Trashing

48:11

markets, killing industries, it

48:13

did all kinds of

48:15

awful things. COVID was

48:17

an absolute destroyer of

48:20

markets. And the best we

48:22

could do to get out of it,

48:24

we had to give out a couple of

48:26

stimulus checks. We had to do some

48:28

extra stuff to make sure that people that

48:30

couldn't even do regular work had the

48:32

money to spend. It was insane. and

48:34

then they wanted a soft landing from

48:36

that. They wanted a soft landing. Cause

48:38

it was a disaster. Cause it was

48:40

a fuck it was an enormous international

48:43

economic disaster. And the Fed has a

48:45

dual mandate. So the Fed's mandate is

48:47

to keep unemployment low and to keep

48:49

economic growth high, right? So that's their,

48:51

that's a dual mandate. So those are,

48:53

those two things have to be sort

48:55

of balanced all the time. And the

48:57

soft landing was to grow the economy

48:59

at a rate that also did not

49:01

balloon out inflation. Sure. Inflation began to

49:03

balloon out for a variety of reasons.

49:05

They used the biggest tool in their

49:07

toolbox, which is the interest rates. They

49:09

raised interest rates. They brought them up.

49:11

They brought them down. before this. Powell

49:14

was on before we

49:16

did, before COVID existed

49:18

or was before COVID popped, before there

49:20

was a pandemic. And everybody said,

49:22

that there is almost no way that

49:24

we are going to be able

49:27

to avoid a recession. Everybody was

49:29

like that soft landing was like a myth.

49:31

It was a dream. It was like something

49:33

that was almost certain to not happen. And

49:35

we pulled it off. We pulled

49:37

it off. We brought the

49:39

inflation back down from fucking, you

49:41

know, 9 % to somewhere around

49:43

like 2 .93%, somewhere around there.

49:47

Job growth remains strong. The

49:49

economy continued to grow at

49:51

a reasonable rate. The soft

49:53

landing happened. It was an

49:56

impossible economic historical moment. He's

49:58

not a good fed chair.

50:00

He is historically a miraculously

50:02

good fed chair. And he's

50:04

like getting attacked because Trump in

50:06

a hundred days created a crisis

50:08

that now he needs other grownups

50:10

to try to solve. And he

50:12

doesn't understand how to do it.

50:15

He's like, Make the interest rates

50:17

lower, dummy! Yeah. Which would

50:19

be the wrong thing to do. He's just

50:21

the worst. He's the worst. I don't even

50:23

know what I'm talking about, and I'm a

50:25

thousand times better than he is. You know,

50:27

I was initially a little dubious of Trump's

50:29

selection criteria. But I

50:31

will say, you needed

50:33

somebody who was going to go hard in the paint. and

50:36

be a rim protector, and

50:38

you need a tall guy that.

50:41

You gotta get a tall guy. You can't get

50:43

one of these little Steph Curry guys. He's

50:45

shooting threes. You gotta get one of these

50:47

big boys out there. You need a Shaquille

50:49

O 'Neal, you know, a big

50:51

guy. And so I initially

50:53

dubious of Trump's ideas on a

50:56

tall guy, but now I've

50:58

fallen in line. I've fallen in line. Nice

51:00

tall guy. That's what we needed. We

51:02

need a tall guy. We knew he was

51:04

going to balloon out. He was tall. God. What

51:06

a fucking - Amazing. What a fucking - I

51:08

don't believe I live in this world day. I

51:10

don't believe I live in it either, man.

51:12

Every day I'm like, I don't believe I -

51:14

I don't believe this world's real. I don't believe

51:16

you're real. I'm not real.

51:18

Dude, - I don't care. I look up, I'm

51:20

like, this is the dumbest simulation. I am

51:23

living - Press pause! I'm living in the

51:25

worst Sims game. I

51:27

don't even know if there's tariffs on China anymore.

51:29

I think it doesn't even matter. And

51:32

the thing is, is like, like, from what

51:34

I, what I heard and from what I

51:36

read, you sent me a story this week

51:38

where basically China is like, go fuck yourself. We'll

51:41

be fine. We're going

51:43

to do this on the 25 and

51:45

Trump's like, but wait, I need to

51:47

talk to you. And like, so, so

51:49

because Trump, Trump thinks he's the toughest

51:51

guy on the block, but then the

51:53

moment he got a talking to this

51:55

week by a bunch of CEOs are

51:57

like, you're going to have empty shelves.

51:59

You're going to have empty shelves if

52:01

you don't fucking figure this out. And

52:03

so he's now trying to backpedal and

52:05

he's like, Oh, we've got, we're going

52:07

to have to take those tariffs down

52:09

on China. Even though he's never had

52:12

a conversation with them. This is absurd.

52:14

It's like China's always known that there's

52:16

a midterm coming up in 2026. China's

52:18

not like ignorant of American politics. If

52:20

like they just, they just fucking stonewall

52:22

them until then. And he should have ruined.

52:25

I mean we're in two

52:27

though guys, so it's

52:29

like a bad what a

52:32

fucking idiot what an

52:34

idiot I Come from the

52:36

net through systems peoples

52:38

and cities to this place

52:40

mainframe My format Guardian

52:43

to mend and defend to

52:45

defend my newfound friends

52:47

their hopes and dreams to

52:49

defend them from their

52:51

enemies Stories

52:54

from CBC. I think, I don't

52:56

know. I can't read it. CTV.

52:58

That's what CTV news, some Canadian

53:00

thing. We no longer felt welcome

53:02

nor safe. Canadian snowbirds cashing out

53:04

of us for good. These people

53:06

are buying their, they said that

53:09

they were 13 % of the

53:11

real estate market, foreign real estate

53:13

market. 13 % of that market

53:15

said, nah, most of them are like,

53:17

nah, I'm good. They're not coming back.

53:19

They're not, these people would come here

53:21

every year. And so think about that

53:23

return. Yeah. You know what mean? It's

53:25

not just like a one time trip

53:27

to one place, right? You're not just

53:29

taking a one time trip to Nashville.

53:31

You're taking a every year for three

53:33

months. I'm living in Florida because I'm

53:35

a snow bird. I fly down there.

53:37

I live in Canada. I'm like one

53:39

of the fucking geese, one of those

53:41

angry geese. I fly down there. God,

53:43

I wish those fucking things. They don't

53:45

even migrate anymore. They just hang out.

53:47

They just hang out all winter honking

53:49

at you. just chill. In any

53:51

case, those Canadian geese are going to be

53:53

the only Canadians you see because all the

53:55

rest of them are like, fuck you. And

53:57

they don't want to do it. They're not

53:59

interested in doing it anymore. And I don't

54:01

blame them. And like we talked about before,

54:04

what's going to happen is, is you're going

54:06

to get it, you know, fingers crossed,

54:08

we'll have a new president, fingers crossed. Who

54:10

the fuck knows? Fingers crossed, you have

54:13

a new president. You could even change the

54:15

government. Topsy Turvy, all Democrats or all

54:17

people on the left or whatever. Do

54:20

they trust you now now that they've seen that

54:22

somebody can go hard in the pain against them

54:24

We got a tall guy on our side. It's

54:26

gonna go hard in the pain on him. Now

54:28

what what are they gonna do? They're gonna be

54:30

like I'm okay. We don't,

54:32

you know what? I found it. I found

54:34

a nice place in Europe. I'm going to

54:36

go visit. Oh, instead I built a, I

54:38

built a place in, you know, in some

54:40

other place like Acapulco or something. I

54:42

went somewhere, I went to Costa Rica. It's

54:44

a little longer flight, but you know what?

54:47

It's just, it's, it's nicer down there. Yeah.

54:49

They're not shitting it. I'm in Belize now.

54:51

Right. So. Yeah. Awesome. I love Belize. But

54:53

yeah, like the, the amount of money, if

54:55

I, if I were in Florida right now,

54:57

I would be in a fucking absolute tailspin.

54:59

I would be in a panic. What's

55:01

always amusing to me

55:03

is that these economic effects

55:05

of a lot of

55:07

this stuff, they are not

55:09

proportionally felt. They are

55:11

disproportionately felt, right? So if

55:13

you create a situation

55:15

where, you know, you've got these big

55:18

ass tariffs, you fucking pissed off our neighbors

55:20

to the north, you pissed off our neighbors to

55:22

the south, you pissed off all of our

55:24

neighbors in Western Europe, just everybody's pissed. And you

55:26

start to see things like tourism begin to

55:28

drop. Florida. Florida

55:30

is like a fucking tourist

55:32

Mecca. It is the only

55:35

economy. What does matters

55:37

about Florida? It's got nothing

55:39

but alligator swamps, fucking

55:41

Zika virus, mosquitoes. It's a horrible

55:43

place. It's a horrible

55:45

place. So you

55:47

go there for the tourist stuff

55:49

or you die. There's nothing to do

55:51

in Florida, but die or be

55:53

a tourist. That's the only options that

55:55

you have. Like there's a reason

55:57

my mom lives in Florida. It's trash.

55:59

It's absolute trash. They

56:01

have got to be panicking. Their real

56:03

estate market has got to be

56:05

absolutely panicking. I would be

56:07

desperate if I were in Florida right now.

56:09

And the same is true for many

56:11

other places across this country. a ton of

56:14

places that have so much tourism dollars

56:16

that come in and, you know, gosh, it's,

56:18

it's our, it's our Northern neighbor. They're

56:20

going to come. They're going to show up.

56:22

It's an easy flight. If

56:24

I drive to Toronto and fly down

56:26

to Chicago, it's a two -hour flight.

56:28

Yeah, it's nothing. a

56:30

one -hour flight to New York. It's a three

56:32

-hour flight to Florida. These are

56:34

real easy flights. It's like when you think

56:37

about where you're going to travel, you're like,

56:39

oh, it's only a three -hour flight to Vegas?

56:41

Well, maybe I'll go to Vegas. It's

56:43

okay to go for a weekend even.

56:46

Yeah. All that money's gone. That

56:48

money doesn't come back. And then it might

56:50

not come back next time either. And

56:52

you ruined it. and you ruined it in

56:54

100 days. It took you 100 days

56:56

to ruin it. So, you

56:58

get what you pay for and

57:00

we voted for this and that's what

57:03

we get, but it's a disaster

57:05

for so many people and I'm sad

57:07

because I think that I wish

57:09

that we could still be united with

57:11

that group. I think it's

57:13

awesome that we were for so long

57:15

and it's like, I feel sad about

57:17

it. I'm like, oh, it sucks. It

57:19

sucks that we're not considered their neighbor

57:21

anymore. And I feel distressed too, knowing

57:23

that if I go to Canada, I

57:26

would feel embarrassed to be there.

57:28

I would feel very embarrassed to travel

57:30

the world and be American. I

57:32

would feel like I would need to

57:34

say I'm not that kind of

57:36

American. I'm considering, I'm not

57:38

sure I'm going to do it, buying a

57:40

maple leaf hat because I'm flying

57:42

to Europe this spring or summer. I'm

57:45

going to be going to Europe, I'm

57:47

to go into Scandinavia and I'm considering if

57:50

I get a maple leaf hat

57:52

and I talk English. Politely? And

57:54

I'm still polite. Just apologize a lot.

57:56

You'll be fine. I feel like I might

57:58

be able to avoid shittiness because people will

58:01

be like, you're an American. Fuck you. I

58:03

mean, I kind of don't blame them at

58:05

all. I don't blame them, you know? You

58:07

would want to identify like not MAGA. Yeah.

58:09

Like I just wear a shirt all the

58:11

time. I'm not MAGA. Fuck those people. Yeah.

58:15

If you're evil and you're on the

58:17

rise, you can count on the four

58:19

of us taking you down because we're

58:21

good and evil never beats us. We'll

58:23

win the fight and then go out

58:25

for pizzas. From The Guardian,

58:27

don't believe the doubters. Protest still has

58:29

power. I want to tell you about

58:31

my protest. Tell me about it. Oh,

58:33

so went downtown. My

58:36

wife and I decided to

58:38

drive down. We picked

58:40

up friends of ours and

58:42

they brought their son. And

58:45

all of us went. Their son is

58:47

like, he's like 10 now. And so

58:49

all of us drove down, we got

58:51

out, we had our signs. I

58:54

had a sign that says, they

58:56

want 1939's Germany. Let's give him

58:58

1789 France and it had a

59:00

big. So I

59:02

had that sign. My wife had

59:04

one that said resist the young boy

59:06

who came with us. had one

59:08

that I think said everyone deserves human

59:10

rights and he had written it

59:12

out and so we taped it for

59:14

him and stuff. And then

59:16

we went down and heard Speaker Speak and

59:18

they spoke in Daily Square and it was

59:20

a fucking huge crowd, man. It was big.

59:23

It was so big that we moved out

59:25

to the street. And we just did a

59:27

circle down in the loop, right? So it

59:29

was just a big circle where you walk

59:31

into the loop. And when we're walking, we

59:33

were walking along and we weren't the first

59:35

group to get out into the street, right?

59:37

We weren't early to get out in the

59:39

street. It was a huge plaza. We were

59:41

kind of up by the speakers. So it

59:43

was like an hour of people talking and

59:45

they were all, you know, talking about different

59:47

things like, you know, come next week to

59:49

this other rally. I'm an immigrant. I'm, you

59:51

know, this other people were like pro -Palestine.

59:53

So there were some pro -Palestine speakers there. And

59:55

then We all get to leave. Well, we

59:58

were by the speaker's area. So we were

1:00:00

kind of right by the front. So

1:00:02

it took us a while to get out to

1:00:04

the street. So we get out to the street

1:00:06

and there's still a whole crowd of people behind

1:00:08

us, like a giant crowd. And we start marching.

1:00:10

And as we're marching, my wife looks over and

1:00:12

goes, look at the crowds over there. So it

1:00:14

had gone all the way up the street, turned

1:00:17

around and come all the way back. And it

1:00:19

was, you could see it, which is like huge,

1:00:21

big crowd of people. Like there

1:00:23

was people drumming, we're walking down the street and what

1:00:25

I got a chance to see was just a ton

1:00:27

of people just talking to each other, right? I had

1:00:29

a guy come up to me. I stand in there

1:00:31

with my wife and I had the, you know, a

1:00:33

bunch of people came by, can I take a picture

1:00:35

your sign, can I take picture your sign? Cause Moe

1:00:37

did a really nice job. I'm like, I didn't do

1:00:39

it. My wife did it. She drew a nice guillotine

1:00:41

on it. I assume she made it. It's actually really

1:00:43

cool sign she did for me. So she did the

1:00:45

sign and then she, and she did it with all

1:00:47

the markers and stuff. And it's a big guillotine. She

1:00:50

drew blood on it and stuff. And then she drew

1:00:52

like in block letters, the letters. And whenever anybody saw

1:00:54

it, they're like, can I get a picture of that?

1:00:56

And so I had a bunch of people coming up

1:00:58

and taking pictures of it. And then I had this

1:01:00

one fella come up to me and he had like

1:01:02

15 cameras on him. He's got like so many cameras

1:01:04

and he's walking around and he's like, would you mind

1:01:06

if I took your picture? I said, no, not at

1:01:08

all. And so he took my picture and he's taken,

1:01:10

he's like, are you with her? And I said, yeah.

1:01:12

And so we stood together and he took a picture

1:01:14

and then he comes over and he talks and he's

1:01:16

in it. Got a really deep sort of a thick

1:01:18

Scottish accent. And he says, I'm from Scotland. I

1:01:21

flew over here and I went to the

1:01:23

protest last week and I stayed so I

1:01:25

could go to these ones too. And I'm

1:01:28

just taking pictures and sort of documenting. He's

1:01:30

like, I just want to let you know,

1:01:32

like, like, you know, like I pretty much

1:01:34

everybody in Scotland stands with you. He's like

1:01:36

this. And it was just like

1:01:38

a cool feeling of solidarity in that. And I got

1:01:40

a chance to talk to a couple of other

1:01:42

people and then I could see other people networking and

1:01:44

talking about like, oh, we do this here and

1:01:46

we do this. And so there's just like this awesome,

1:01:48

like, like neat thing

1:01:50

where You have a

1:01:52

thing in common so now you have a reason

1:01:54

to talk to somebody sure and anybody can

1:01:57

talk to anybody in that crowd And so now

1:01:59

you get a chance to meet people and

1:02:01

there's like a that's a cool energy and it

1:02:03

was and it was awesome and people were

1:02:05

really excited about it and You know like the

1:02:07

the concept was like joy as an act

1:02:09

of protest and so that was the that was

1:02:11

the the name of the of the protest

1:02:13

that we went to but it was great and

1:02:15

it was and there was a bunch of

1:02:18

speakers there and so you get a chance to

1:02:20

hear what they had to say. A lot

1:02:22

of them were just sort of rah -rah, but

1:02:24

there was a trans man who spoke, who was

1:02:26

really very moving talking about all the difficulties

1:02:28

that they're now running into. There was a pro

1:02:30

-Palestine person there who was talking about the issues

1:02:32

that are still going on in Palestine. There

1:02:35

was immigration. There was a guy who was

1:02:37

talking about how he's an immigrant and all

1:02:39

the people he knows are immigrants, and they

1:02:41

were the ones who were expendable during COVID.

1:02:43

And now they're expendable now. It's just like

1:02:45

a cool, like, and it's just like a

1:02:47

bunch of stuff to remind you why you're

1:02:49

there. It was awesome, man. I can't, I

1:02:51

can't say enough about it. I thought it

1:02:53

was amazing. And I put this in there

1:02:55

so I would remind myself to tell you

1:02:58

about it. I saw this because I remember

1:03:00

our conversation the other day where I, I

1:03:02

had taken a pretty dim view. Yeah. And

1:03:04

I think, I think what I saw when

1:03:06

I saw people respond They were

1:03:08

kind of split down the middle. Some people thought,

1:03:10

you know, yeah, it's still a good thing.

1:03:12

Other people were like, yeah, I totally see Tom's

1:03:14

point that it's not really. But I think

1:03:16

I'm wrong. Yeah. Like here's the thing. I think

1:03:18

I was wrong. I think like there's no

1:03:21

value to cynicism. And I have to remind myself

1:03:23

of that from time to time. Like a

1:03:25

cynicism doesn't accomplish anything. It's an easy retreat. Right?

1:03:27

I think, I think very often people

1:03:29

will retreat into cynicism because it's self

1:03:32

protective. It's easy. It's a defense mechanism.

1:03:34

And I get it. And I'm actually

1:03:36

not shitting on people that need to

1:03:38

protect their peace. And I think too,

1:03:40

like, like we suggested too is like,

1:03:42

you got to have enough. Energy

1:03:44

in yourself to do it right and if you

1:03:46

don't and you think like I'm just using as

1:03:48

much energy as I can to just get by

1:03:50

then just get by right like Nobody's asking you

1:03:52

to go above and beyond on anything right, but

1:03:54

if you can and you think that it's gonna

1:03:56

be a while do it You know like be

1:03:58

there that's okay like and I do think there

1:04:00

is a positivity to it. I was I'm actually

1:04:02

really happy I did it Um, you know, was a

1:04:04

whole day outing and we drove to Chicago because

1:04:06

I didn't know where any other one was, but

1:04:09

there was a ton of people there. And so

1:04:11

it was super exciting. And I'm glad I, I put

1:04:13

that in the notes very specifically, just so I

1:04:15

would remember to talk about it, just so I

1:04:17

can remember to tell people I was there at

1:04:19

this last one. And I, the next

1:04:21

few that come up, if I can clear my

1:04:23

calendar, I'll be there because there's, there's, there's

1:04:25

every reason to show up. Um, you know, like

1:04:27

you got it. And I think that the

1:04:29

bigger numbers, those big numbers, that shows. There's so

1:04:31

many people that are on the right side.

1:04:34

They're on the right side of history on this.

1:04:36

At least it doesn't make you feel like

1:04:38

the only crazy person. Yeah, right? Okay.

1:05:09

We got to play this. This is a, this is

1:05:11

a, this is one of the playing ones, Tom.

1:05:14

So. Yeah. This is from people

1:05:16

for formerly right -wing watch. William

1:05:18

Wolf says Christians want to see mass deportations.

1:05:20

Isn't that great? Well, at least we're saying

1:05:22

it out loud. Yeah. So let's put this

1:05:24

on the big screen for watch. What

1:05:28

catches everybody eye everybody's eyes are

1:05:30

the pictures whether it's the group of

1:05:32

us praying with Trump or you know

1:05:34

I posted my individual picture with Trump

1:05:36

Which that was wonderful But the the

1:05:38

the most important thing I did that

1:05:41

day on the White House campus was

1:05:43

this roundtable discussion with other faith leaders

1:05:45

with the White House faith office where

1:05:47

we got to actually talk about

1:05:49

and advocate for policy that matters for

1:05:51

this country and for Christians. a

1:05:54

behind the scenes thing. We're not

1:05:56

going to be posting pictures of that.

1:05:58

I'm not at liberty to say

1:06:00

what other people talked about. But, you

1:06:02

know, one of the things I

1:06:04

did in that meeting, Aaron, I think

1:06:06

this is really sort of important

1:06:08

different posture that CBL brings is I

1:06:10

told the White House faith office,

1:06:12

I think Christians want to see mass

1:06:14

deportations. You'll see a lot of

1:06:17

sort of evangelical organizations attacking Trump's immigration.

1:06:19

policies and priorities. They're astroturf. They're

1:06:21

left leaning. They're using evangelical in a

1:06:23

way that is not really historically

1:06:25

accurate. But I'm telling you, I think

1:06:27

Southern Baptists and Christians want to see this

1:06:29

happen. And so the work of CBL is giving

1:06:31

me the opportunity to do things like that.

1:06:33

And that makes much more of a difference, I

1:06:35

hope, in the long run than even a

1:06:37

picture with the president. I

1:06:39

don't disagree with him at all. Yeah. He's

1:06:41

right. He's right. Yeah. He's right. He's 100

1:06:44

% right. I want to show you. a

1:06:46

bunch of racist Southern Baptists are like fucking

1:06:48

happy to see that. Absolutely. Of course. This

1:06:50

guy here on the left. Yeah. Is

1:06:53

he related to the other bald guy

1:06:55

who interviews people? Oh, the blob fish

1:06:57

guy. Is he related to that guy?

1:06:59

Or is that just their style that

1:07:01

they need a guy who looks like

1:07:03

Lex Luthor with glasses? Are we sure

1:07:05

this isn't just like a different larval

1:07:08

form of the same guy? I'm not

1:07:10

sure that I'm not sure that at

1:07:12

all. I have no idea. I just,

1:07:14

I, it just, it just struck me

1:07:16

that he has the same style. He

1:07:18

has like literally the exact stuff. been

1:07:20

getting to wonder if maybe this isn't

1:07:22

just like the pupae stage of the

1:07:24

same life form. That weird blob man.

1:07:26

Yeah, sure. Yeah. It's a death head

1:07:28

moth. That's right. Yeah. He's like, he's

1:07:30

just, he's just emerged from his chrysalis

1:07:32

recently and like sloughed off his transformation

1:07:34

jelly or whatever. This

1:07:37

is, this is a hundred percent

1:07:40

though. Exactly what you would expect from

1:07:42

a group of people who put

1:07:44

Trump in office Oh, yeah, and they're

1:07:46

gonna use their their religion to

1:07:48

get that word out to the

1:07:50

rest of those people To show them

1:07:52

that that's this is this is

1:07:55

what you do if you're a good

1:07:57

Christian This is what you do

1:07:59

if you're a good southern Baptist. You're

1:08:01

okay with us Mass deporting people

1:08:03

from the United States now understand so

1:08:05

far Trump has been putting out

1:08:08

fewer people than other administrations, right?

1:08:10

So fewer people have been sent away

1:08:12

than other administrations. And there have

1:08:14

been way more snafus and way more

1:08:16

people that have been deported wrongly

1:08:18

or sent away wrongly than in this

1:08:20

administration than we've seen before. So

1:08:23

understand they were better at

1:08:25

it in other places. What

1:08:27

they don't care about mass deportations,

1:08:29

they care about the fear that

1:08:31

mass deportations causes. That's

1:08:33

what they want. They don't care

1:08:36

about whether or not these people

1:08:38

leave. They just want them to

1:08:40

be afraid and know who's in

1:08:42

charge. That's what they want. Yeah.

1:08:44

Well, because they want, they understand

1:08:46

that a highly visible cruelty will

1:08:48

accomplish a deterrent effect. which I

1:08:50

think is actually happening on the

1:08:52

southern border. There are a lot

1:08:54

less people coming over because of

1:08:56

course the more cruel and inhospitable

1:08:59

you make your country. You want

1:09:01

to wind up in El Salvador?

1:09:03

Yeah. Yeah. So like no shit

1:09:05

that that's working, right? I also

1:09:07

think it's worth pointing out too

1:09:09

that just another reminder that it

1:09:11

is at this point a meaningless

1:09:13

distinction to draw a distinction between

1:09:15

American evangelical Christian and white Christian

1:09:17

nationalism. Yeah. There is no meaningful

1:09:19

distinction. They are the same thing. The

1:09:22

religion of American Christianity has

1:09:24

become its own sect, its

1:09:26

own cult, its own whatever

1:09:28

you want to call it. It's

1:09:31

got its own tenets. It's

1:09:33

got its own faith traditions.

1:09:35

It's got all of its own

1:09:37

belief systems that are separate

1:09:39

and distinct from any other

1:09:41

forms of Christianity. American, whatever

1:09:44

we want to call

1:09:46

it, some kind of American

1:09:48

Christian nationalism is white

1:09:50

Christian nationalism. They're the same

1:09:52

thing. So these guys

1:09:54

are just trying to take

1:09:56

that Brand it slightly

1:09:58

differently and then you know

1:10:00

sell it large. Yeah

1:10:02

All right, that's gonna wrap

1:10:04

it up for this

1:10:06

week We'll be back on

1:10:08

with a funny show

1:10:10

on Thursday. So check that

1:10:12

out and we're gonna

1:10:14

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1:10:16

do with the skeptics

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