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2:49

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2:51

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2:54

Good, good question, because I was

2:56

just gonna go there, David. And

2:58

I'm noticing that people are freaking

3:00

out. And I'm not just talking

3:02

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3:04

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3:06

This is horrendous. Everything is collapsing

3:08

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3:10

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3:12

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3:14

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3:16

to here in just a second

3:18

when we talk about Donald's joint

3:21

session diarrhea the other night, but

3:23

I'm just noticing people with itchy

3:25

trigger fingers. That's one of

3:27

the concerns when you have a

3:29

destabilizing element who controls. Essentially, Western

3:31

democracy in a sense. And everyone

3:33

starts to feel off balance. It's

3:35

the Stephen White meeting. Yeah, exactly.

3:37

The White House. Yeah, because no

3:39

one knows what's gonna happen next.

3:41

And while it's fun for Donald,

3:44

because that's what he gets off

3:46

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3:48

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3:50

what happens. He loves shaking up the

3:52

ant farm. Just see the ants freak

3:54

out. But we're all expecting some

3:56

sort of stability from our

3:59

elected leadership. Not this whole thing where,

4:01

oh, let's see what this button does, doink.

4:03

Let's just say, oh yeah, let's do this other

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thing, doink, let's look- Now we've all got Ebola.

4:07

Yeah. Donald, because that's what he gets off

4:09

on, he loves the chaos, he loves stirring

4:11

the shitstorm, just to see what happens, he

4:13

loves shaking up the ant farm, just see

4:16

the ants freak out. But we're all

4:18

expecting some sort of stability from our

4:20

elected leadership, not this whole thing where,

4:22

oh, oh, oh, let's what this, let's

4:24

what this button does, doink. Let's just

4:26

see, oh yeah, let's do this other

4:28

thing, goin. Yeah, we've all got Ebola.

4:30

Yeah, let's implement tariffs and what's gonna

4:32

happen to Social Security? I don't know,

4:35

stay tuned to the next episode. You

4:37

can't run the country like a god

4:39

damn reality show. Because then everyone starts

4:41

to feel panicked. Everyone starts to feel

4:43

off balance. No one knows. Everyone starts

4:46

to feel like we're about to get

4:48

voted off the island. Yeah. No one

4:50

knows. I don't have an immunity idol.

4:52

Right. No one knows when the other

4:55

shoe is going to drop. At least

4:57

of all, the three of us. We're

4:59

just trying to hang on here and

5:01

present this information as best we can

5:04

and prioritize things and try to find

5:06

ways to laugh at it. But obviously,

5:08

there's this element of speaking

5:10

for myself, looking over my

5:12

shoulder constantly. Like, what, the

5:14

next time I'm gonna open

5:17

up the window, am I

5:19

gonna see a mushroom cloud?

5:21

Is there gonna be a blinding

5:23

flashing light and then nothing? Yeah,

5:25

you won't see a mushroom star.

5:27

No, you're in way too close

5:29

to DC. Oh, David's been

5:32

vaporized. Ha-ha! So that's where

5:34

my anxiety is right now. Ask

5:36

Jody first. Okay. Then what

5:38

about you Jody? Okay, David

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that too. Okay, yeah, you know

30:04

what? To be perfectly clear about

30:06

where I am today, and I'm

30:08

so glad we started off the

30:10

show where we did because I'm

30:12

obviously... What? At your desk, in

30:15

your studio. Okay, all right. Yes,

30:17

I am. but i'm in an

30:19

anxious place this week and some

30:21

of it has to do with

30:23

the reactions to my post about

30:25

he's lying about the bike race

30:27

but uh... you know sometimes you

30:29

know it doesn't ever i never

30:31

i never hear about these things

30:33

bob until after they're over yeah

30:35

I really want, these days, this

30:37

is happening, throw me a link.

30:39

Okay, I will. And I will

30:41

come stomping in there and just

30:43

start like popping domes. I mean,

30:45

because I have plenty of excess

30:47

aggression to burn off right now.

30:49

Plenty of words I would like

30:52

to call people. Plenty of people

30:54

I would like to say, can

30:56

you say that with no pronouns?

30:58

Here, let me show you how

31:00

that works. Because I'm just over

31:02

it. Well, thank you, my friend.

31:04

someone is immensely upsetting. And just

31:06

only because, as I said, this

31:08

is one of those things that

31:10

I hold near and dear to

31:12

my heart as far as one

31:14

of my top shelf issues, and

31:16

that is. defending the trans community,

31:18

defending the broader LGBTQIA community, and

31:20

certainly now, but going back years

31:22

and years and years. I guess

31:24

the other side of this is

31:26

when I say, well, no, this

31:29

is very obviously me reacting to

31:31

Donald Trump. He's lying, meaning Donald

31:33

Trump is lying. I mean, generally,

31:35

when someone on social media during

31:37

a joint session addressed by Donald

31:39

Trump says he's lying about something,

31:41

the context is very clearly that

31:43

that person is talking about Donald

31:45

Trump. But this is one of

31:47

those areas where my history on

31:49

this issue I think speaks for

31:51

itself. And so that's where I

31:53

was bristling and I felt like

31:55

a little beaten up after that.

31:57

And it wasn't this large scale

31:59

thing. Like we're talking about maybe

32:01

five, six people ultimately. But it

32:04

cut me to the quick because.

32:06

I just I have such empathy

32:08

and compassion for the trans community

32:10

and we sometimes make a mistake

32:12

with our pronouns because we're... But

32:14

that wasn't a mistake with your

32:16

pronouns you weren't even talking about

32:18

them. They came there looking for

32:20

a fight. Exactly, exactly right. And

32:22

this is when you, this is

32:24

a bad faith argument. You don't

32:26

have any obligation to respond to

32:28

that. Okay, right. Well, you're right.

32:30

I'm going to tell you a

32:32

story once where I... Had just

32:34

come from some big convention where

32:36

I hung out with Lindsay Bierstein

32:38

awesome person and we had had

32:41

a cackle over what a terrible

32:43

writer Marlene Dowd is Okay, right

32:45

like this is your job. Yeah,

32:47

Donald the dove is one thing

32:49

that she wrote. Yeah, purportedly to

32:51

be perceptive and funny Which she

32:53

is neither, but maybe you know

32:55

as a Women in the letters

32:57

and you know participated in the

32:59

culture she could come up with

33:01

pop culture references that would be

33:03

relevant or funny No, right? She's

33:05

failing on every conceivable front and

33:07

Lindsay and I agreed on that

33:09

and then right after I got

33:11

back to Athens She did another

33:13

one Maureen and I went to

33:15

Lindsay's Facebook page Where she had

33:18

posted about that and I wrote

33:20

something like I just can't believe

33:22

That the New York Times employs

33:24

such a dullard. You know, someone

33:26

who's just, is this incapable of

33:28

writing? And these two feminist commenter

33:30

girls who weren't even, I don't

33:32

even know if they're friends of

33:34

Lindsay's, immediately said what? Women shouldn't

33:36

be allowed to write? Yeah. No,

33:38

that's not what you said. And

33:40

they totally like playground ganged up

33:42

on me and would let me

33:44

get a word in edgewise and

33:46

everything I said was taken wrong.

33:48

And I was trying to be

33:50

very fair and very reasonable. I

33:52

didn't, you know, even though I

33:55

really wanted to start slinging sea

33:57

bombs and be bombs and be

33:59

like, look, you're just beating me

34:01

up on the playground like other

34:03

ugly girls did when I was

34:05

between their legs. It matters what's

34:07

between their ears. And so it

34:09

just made me livid that I

34:11

had been so grossly mischaracterized and

34:13

then just like attacked. on false

34:15

principles and I'm like y'all I'm

34:17

trying to do a good job

34:19

here yeah and while you're I

34:21

don't know doing whatever you do

34:23

drinking like you know Haley Bieber

34:25

smoothies at Erwan or you know

34:27

getting thousand dollar pedicures I'm over

34:30

here at my typewriter trying to

34:32

fucking I mean my word processor

34:34

trying to figure out what I

34:36

can say that is culturally relevant

34:38

and can move the conversation forward

34:40

yes so yes Bob I hear

34:42

you and I completely understand you

34:44

in this story and I'm sorry

34:46

yeah well thank you for saying

34:48

that I really do appreciate it

34:50

And that should be the other

34:52

person that came after you was

34:54

looking for a bad faith actor

34:56

looking for something to possibly didn't

34:58

miss, possibly accidentally misinterpreted it first.

35:00

Yeah, reread the tweet, realized that

35:02

wasn't what you meant, but then

35:04

decided to go. with their initial

35:07

hostile misinterpretation because it would give

35:09

them some rage farming to do.

35:11

Yeah, yeah, and that tends to

35:13

be the thing and that's the

35:15

thing I always try to bear

35:17

in mind. Like I'm not sitting

35:19

here, I used to, but not

35:21

anymore, I don't sit here in

35:23

field complaints from trolls like I

35:25

used to, but this one in

35:27

particular, as I said, this had

35:29

such an effect on me, had

35:31

an impact on. who I am

35:33

and my positions on things and

35:35

my integrity and my ethics. It'll

35:37

make you feel awful for gay

35:39

sometimes. Oh yeah. Because you're just

35:41

like, have I not established? Yeah,

35:44

right. My bonafides or however you

35:46

say that word, like as a

35:48

progressive ally? Yeah, yeah. Have I

35:50

ever done anything to live? to

35:52

harm any of these groups? No.

35:54

Any sins that you ever might

35:56

have made, Bob, toward trans people

35:58

were accidents. You know, and you

36:00

immediately learned from them and educated

36:02

yourself. Oh yeah, yeah, and I

36:04

have screwed up a couple of

36:06

times in the past, but it

36:08

wasn't anything that was how we

36:10

learned. Certainly wasn't deliberate, yeah, but

36:12

it was... Right. No, it's not

36:14

even close to that. And I'm

36:16

probably making like 13 people on

36:18

threads. Yeah, I'm making a bigger

36:21

deal of it than it probably

36:23

was, but the fact of the

36:25

matter is that it was important

36:27

to me because the issue is

36:29

important to me and No, I

36:31

get it. Anyway, so let's move

36:33

on. Because also when it happened

36:35

to me, I didn't get to

36:37

process it with anybody. Some processing

36:39

with you now and telling you

36:41

how bad or hurt my feelings.

36:43

Donald Trump to pardon Derek Chauvin.

36:45

Yeah, I thought that would get

36:47

a reaction from Jody along those

36:49

lines. Interestingly, I think that's flying

36:51

too close to the sun for

36:53

Donald. and he knows it. I

36:56

don't know. I don't know because

36:58

his people are saying do it,

37:00

do it, do it, do it,

37:02

Elon Musk is agreeing that he

37:04

should do it. First of all,

37:06

it started with Ben. Ben Shapiro

37:08

started, you know, the headline in

37:10

media, it is Ben Shapiro calls

37:12

for Trump to pardon, convicted George

37:14

Floyd killer, Derek Shelvin. It's absolutely

37:16

necessary, Ben Shapiro said, and then...

37:18

But he killed a man with

37:20

his bare hands on television. And

37:22

that I think is why I'll

37:24

never go away. Yeah. Why he

37:26

can't get away with it. Because

37:28

even like Sheriff Arpio, when he

37:30

killed or if he did kill

37:33

people or disappear them, I mean,

37:35

he knew to do it under

37:37

the cover of darkness. Like, because

37:39

the George Floyd thing starts coming

37:41

up again, all of us who

37:43

are horrified are going to begin

37:45

to play that video again. Yeah.

37:47

And let's not forget just what

37:49

that is. Okay. who by the

37:51

way attended the joint session address

37:53

with Matt Walsh appropriately enough because

37:55

they brought him at booster seat

37:57

thank God yeah but yeah exactly

37:59

right I said I said during

38:01

the joint session addresses the only

38:03

reason I'm watching is I'm hoping

38:05

Matt Walsh will fall over the

38:07

railing of the balcony but so

38:10

Ben Shapiro was there obviously to

38:12

take credit because Ben Shapiro Matt

38:14

Walsh went because he's very small

38:16

Exactly, you needed some sort of

38:18

magnifying glass to see Ben Shapiro.

38:20

But upper glasses. They're the reason

38:22

why there is this jihad against

38:24

trans people in the United States.

38:26

It started with Ben Shapiro. It

38:28

started with Matt Walsh. It started

38:30

with who's the other guy Michael

38:32

Knowles, the DailyWire podcasters, that whole

38:34

network of podcasters. The reason why

38:36

they started this explosion in a

38:38

cracker factory. But I think that.

38:40

Ben Shapiro and Joe and whatever

38:42

his name is. Matt Walsh. At

38:44

the right time with the Kansas

38:47

care scene in the matches. Yeah.

38:49

And the Republicans were like, we

38:51

could make a lot of money

38:53

and gain a lot of power

38:55

if we blew up this fireworks

38:57

factory. But they made it politically

38:59

advantageous for the Republicans and Donald

39:01

Trump to latch on to that

39:03

idea. You all right? If you

39:05

remember Donald Trump's convention speech in

39:07

2016, he was announcing loudly that

39:09

he's a great friend to the

39:11

LGBTQIA community. which obviously was a

39:13

lie because his record proves otherwise.

39:15

Oh no, he said friend that

39:17

fucking acts like he's queer, he's

39:19

constantly borrowing money, smokes all your

39:22

cigarettes, uses all your drugs, crashes

39:24

on your floor, and then fucks

39:26

one of your girlfriends and it's

39:28

like, oh I think goodbye. It's

39:30

disgusting. You keep him around I

39:32

guess because you feel sorry for

39:34

him. That's the kind of friend

39:36

he used to the LGBT community.

39:38

So nevertheless, Ben Shapiro is calling

39:40

for this. Elon Musk is endorsing

39:42

the idea and it's just a

39:44

matter of time before Donald Trump

39:46

picks up. on it and goes

39:48

yes okay that I mean for

39:50

God's sake he wants to annex

39:52

Canada and Greenland it's not a

39:54

stretch he's gonna have to climb

39:56

all the way of the suit

39:59

to get on to Trump's shoulder

40:01

to yell at in his ear.

40:03

On top of that, he is,

40:05

you know, three inches tall bench

40:07

period. On top of that, he's

40:09

pissed off at Al Green, who

40:11

happens to be a black man.

40:13

He's actively firing black people from

40:15

the federal government because they're black.

40:17

because he thinks they're DEA hires

40:19

or whatever the excuse might be.

40:21

But he's purging the federal government

40:23

of black people and women for

40:25

that matter and so on and

40:27

so on and so on. So

40:29

this kind of falls into Donald

40:31

Trump's wheelhouse. And if Donald Trump

40:33

does this, if Donald Trump pardons

40:36

Derek Chauvin, it'll also be from

40:38

the perspective of antagonism because he

40:40

knows that people will take to

40:42

the streets and protest against the

40:44

pardoning of Derek Chauvin. It'll be

40:46

like the summer of 2020 again.

40:48

with protests breaking out all over

40:50

in cities all over the country

40:52

at which time Donald Trump then

40:54

sends in the military to put

40:56

the protests down because there will

40:58

be instigators magga instigators in the

41:00

crowds instigating violence Yep. And then

41:02

that leads to, and I don't

41:04

need to go further down the

41:06

road in terms of what that

41:08

means when Donald Trump sends the

41:10

military in, but it obviously could

41:13

end up in the realm of

41:15

martial law and suspending elections and

41:17

all the things we've kind of

41:19

hypothesized about. Does that make any

41:21

sense whatsoever? Or am I being

41:23

conspiratorial? You're right. You're right. You're

41:25

right. But at the very least,

41:27

what Donald Trump is doing is

41:29

tempting more protests this summer. If

41:31

he goes there, that is exactly

41:33

what's going to happen. What happens

41:35

from there, obviously, is a matter

41:37

of circumstance and strategy as far

41:39

as the MAGA infiltrators and Donald

41:41

Trump's reaction to all of that.

41:43

But the fact of the matter

41:45

is that if he does this,

41:48

there will be protests. And so

41:50

we've also seen this week that

41:52

he's declaring protests on college campuses

41:54

essentially to be illegal. And it

41:56

doesn't matter if they're perfectly normal

41:58

and on the level. He can

42:00

just label them indiscriminate. as being

42:02

illegal and act according to his

42:04

whim, he doesn't need them to

42:06

be literally illegal. All he needs

42:08

is the protests themselves. And then

42:10

he can sculpt that. He can

42:12

spin that into being something illegal,

42:14

much like he was going to

42:16

spin the idea of Zalinsky announcing

42:18

an investigation into barisma into something

42:20

step down the road, step down

42:22

the road. Oh yes, Joe Biden

42:25

is corrupt. So this

42:27

is how Donald Trump operates,

42:29

and so what he continues

42:31

to do is generate chaos.

42:34

This is one of those

42:36

things where you can kind

42:39

of see it starting. You

42:41

can kind of see the

42:43

origins of this. Okay, he's

42:46

going to pardon Derek Chauvin,

42:48

or maybe pardon Derek Chauvin.

42:50

I'm lying on the floor

42:53

down. I can give enough.

42:56

Probably, I mean, convince me.

42:58

Okay, this is a reaction

43:01

to what I was saying

43:03

about Derek Chauvin. Is that

43:06

what this is? All right.

43:08

Well, on the upside, Donald

43:11

Trump's about to revoke temporary

43:13

legal status for 240,000 Ukrainians.

43:16

Yeah. He's back out on

43:18

the floor again. Nope mummy

43:21

is very unhappy. No, right

43:23

mummy should David get up

43:26

and talk? See he's indifferent

43:28

about that, too. I'm coming

43:31

after you with some bandage

43:33

scissors But you know this

43:36

is at a wire hanger

43:38

mummy dearest Mm-hmm. But this

43:41

is Donald Trump punishing 240,000

43:43

Ukrainians because Zelenski was allegedly

43:46

mean to him in the

43:48

Oval office last week. He

43:51

was not nearly as mean

43:53

as He should have, I

43:56

mean, what Donald Trump deserved

43:58

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grew up here

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My backyard was

52:10

a mountain Shavu.

52:14

and sagebrush

52:17

Coyotes in the

52:19

yard I

52:22

grew up

52:24

here Still missing

52:26

on the

52:28

weekends Malibu

52:30

trails and

52:32

Topanga wilderness

52:38

Sometimes we burn

52:42

Sometimes we sure Sometimes

52:46

the rain away

52:48

Just won't give

52:50

us a break

52:53

But we reveal

52:58

We move

53:00

on Cause

53:03

we're LA We're

53:06

LA strong I

53:09

grew up

53:12

here High school

53:14

in the valley

53:17

Skip any class

53:20

We drove Topanga

53:22

to the sea I

53:26

grew up

53:28

here My neighbors

53:30

are my

53:32

family We

53:35

helped each

53:38

other in

53:40

emergencies Sometimes

53:42

we

53:44

burn Sometimes

53:46

we shake Sometimes

53:50

the rain away

53:52

Just won't give

53:55

us a break

53:57

But we reveal

54:02

We move

54:04

on, because

54:07

we're LA, we're

54:10

LA strong. I

54:31

grew up

54:33

here, I know

54:35

this community. We

54:39

are sovereign,

54:42

but we will

54:44

not stay down. I

54:47

grew up

54:49

here, in my

54:51

family home. We

54:54

had to

54:56

run, as the

54:58

embers blew

55:00

around. But

55:03

we'll rebel, and

55:07

we'll move

55:09

on. Because

55:12

we're LA, we're

55:15

LA strong. Sometimes

55:19

we burn,

55:22

sometimes we

55:25

shake. Sometimes

55:28

the railway just

55:30

won't give us

55:32

a break. But

55:35

we'll rebel, and

55:40

we'll move

55:42

on. Because we're

55:44

LA, we're

55:47

LA strong.

55:50

Yeah, we're

55:53

LA, we're

55:55

LA strong. Wow.

56:00

I was actually trying to keep

56:02

from giggling to myself the whole

56:04

time. No, I am crying a

56:07

little. Okay. All right. That's not

56:09

of course the full lipness test

56:11

as to the quality of the

56:13

song and what it means, but

56:15

yeah, it's to have to check

56:17

in. But anyway, yeah, again, Karen

56:19

Ash, L.A. Strong, I had a

56:21

link in the description under this

56:24

episode at bobseska.com, also on the

56:26

patron page. So make sure to

56:28

click that link, download the track,

56:30

buy it, and all the proceeds,

56:32

as I said. You know who

56:34

else lost? You know who else

56:36

lost his house? John is not

56:39

in great health. It's not a

56:41

great time for him to be

56:43

moving around. Yeah, yeah. You know

56:45

who else lost his his house

56:47

and all of his guitars was

56:49

Caleb Rappaport from nerd Halen, which

56:51

is Hal's Van Halen tribute band.

56:53

Yeah, my friend Marka from Sugar

56:56

Cult lost his home and his.

56:58

Oh my God. Yeah. So sad.

57:00

And my heart goes out obviously

57:02

to everyone who lost their homes.

57:04

As someone who's lost his home

57:06

a couple of times to fires

57:08

and who came damn close to

57:10

losing his home a third time

57:13

in the Santa Rosa fires. I

57:15

have so much empathy for all

57:17

the people who are looking to

57:19

rebuild their lives right now after

57:21

all of that. So, and certainly

57:23

it's a gigantic challenge in the

57:25

age of Donald Trump who just

57:27

seems to make everything worse, makes

57:30

everything suck, doesn't he? Anyway, you

57:32

should know that like you are

57:34

now like twice fire surviving like.

57:36

Ben, you made your light, okay,

57:38

slow down first and put the

57:40

words together in an order that

57:42

makes sense. The fact that you

57:45

have survived two near death fire

57:47

experiences and then had the big

57:49

fire in paradise stop just feet

57:51

from your house has got Ben

57:53

convinced. now, he's got a whole

57:55

lure around you as like the

57:57

rice survivor of the fire, King

57:59

Bob. Like the kleasy, you know,

58:02

yeah, yeah. Because we were like

58:04

talking to our neighbors last night

58:06

and they were talking about how

58:08

when it's super dry here and

58:10

they cook on the grill like

58:12

they did last night, they are

58:14

extra vigilant about any sparks or

58:16

coals that could possibly get away.

58:19

They have, you know, they're grills

58:21

out in the middle of a...

58:23

Don't just say any gravel. Well,

58:25

I started talking about brush fires

58:27

and Ben was like, oh, David's

58:29

co-worker at the podcast is so

58:31

brave. He survived so many fires.

58:33

And I'm like, Bob, he was

58:36

a kid. He didn't like actually

58:38

like charge back into the fire

58:40

and save his mom. He's like,

58:42

oh no, but fires made the

58:44

huge marks on his life. And

58:46

yeah. Wow. Give Ben a big

58:48

hug for me. That was so

58:51

sweet. I really do appreciate that.

58:53

I got a hug him all

58:55

the time, but I'll make sure

58:57

he knows it's from you. Yeah,

58:59

and I just want to know

59:01

that. And after my sex toy

59:03

named Bob. She's one. That's right.

59:05

That's absolutely true. You did. And

59:08

it was one that yeah, you

59:10

purchased and named after me. But

59:12

you know, everyone's worried about Kimberly

59:14

now because she lives with me

59:16

and I obviously have this history.

59:18

So it's like, run Kimberly, We

59:20

should all be getting her like

59:22

asbestos pandy sets. You know, like

59:25

who says she doesn't already have

59:27

them right? Like flame retardant pajamas.

59:29

That was like day two. I

59:31

was like, okay, well, now if

59:33

we're thinking about moving into me,

59:35

but you know, everyone's worried about

59:37

it. It was a joke. Okay.

59:39

You know, everyone's worried about Kimberly

59:42

now because she lives with me

59:44

and I obviously have this history.

59:46

So it's like run Kimberly run.

59:48

We should all be getting her

59:50

like as best as Pandy sets.

59:52

You know like who says she

59:54

doesn't already have them right like

59:56

flame retardant pajamas That was like

59:59

day two. I was like okay.

1:00:01

Well now if we're thinking about

1:00:03

moving together. You got to make

1:00:05

sure you get the as best

1:00:07

as underpants. Please. I wish I

1:00:09

could remember the exact phrase Ben

1:00:11

used. Okay. Because it was like

1:00:14

thrice stormborne, but it was like

1:00:16

rice, fire. Yeah. Oh shit. All

1:00:18

right. Well, a few more things

1:00:20

here before we wrap up the

1:00:22

free portion of the show at

1:00:24

least. Well, first of all, Elon

1:00:26

Musk is endangering the lives of

1:00:28

judges right now. Yep. Because now

1:00:31

judges, yeah, yeah, I don't. Dangering

1:00:33

the lies of barbers too, apparently.

1:00:35

Yeah. Says here. Or I don't

1:00:37

know, they just stole his kid's

1:00:39

hair and stuck it to his

1:00:41

bald head. It looks like he

1:00:43

got his head shaved and then

1:00:45

just grabbed a two pay and

1:00:48

just got a random two pay,

1:00:50

like the Mr. Tedball two pay

1:00:52

from your mom's show. Yeah. But

1:00:54

according to Reuters here, U.S. Marshals

1:00:56

have warned federal judges of unusually

1:00:58

high threat levels as tech billionaire

1:01:00

Elon Musk and other Trump administration

1:01:02

allies ramp up efforts to discredit

1:01:05

judges who stand in the way

1:01:07

of White House efforts to slash

1:01:09

federal jobs and programs. Said several

1:01:11

judges with knowledge of the warnings.

1:01:13

So this is, you know, again,

1:01:15

Elon Musk, Donald Trump have no

1:01:17

ability to restrain themselves when it

1:01:20

comes to endangering the lives of

1:01:22

people they don't like because they

1:01:24

know. Yeah, they know exactly what

1:01:26

it means when they say things

1:01:28

to their fanboys. So Musk, the

1:01:30

world's richest person, has lambasted judges

1:01:32

in more than 30 posts since

1:01:34

the end of January on his

1:01:37

social media site X, calling them

1:01:39

corrupt radical evil and deriding the

1:01:41

tyranny of the judiciary after judges

1:01:43

block parts of the federal downsizing

1:01:45

that he's led. The test I

1:01:47

feel like calling him the world's

1:01:49

richest. Person is a letdown on

1:01:51

the last word. I mean, I

1:01:54

don't want it to be man

1:01:56

necessarily but how about like the

1:01:58

world's richest ingrowning? You know, that's

1:02:00

that's much better I say yes,

1:02:02

and more accurate. Yeah, exactly. The

1:02:04

world's richest six-week-old deviled egg. So

1:02:06

as though that weren't worse, as

1:02:08

though that weren't terrible, Doge is

1:02:11

now trying to close a facility

1:02:13

that stores nuclear waste. So this

1:02:15

is not going to end well

1:02:17

this particular thing or this could

1:02:19

be one of those things where

1:02:21

they go oops You're like we

1:02:23

were talking about the other day.

1:02:26

We're saying we just moved the

1:02:28

warehouses and leave the race Just

1:02:30

like in Pulitzer guys. Yeah, move

1:02:32

the grace nodes Leave all that

1:02:34

shit underground. Who will ever know?

1:02:36

The world has only one this

1:02:38

is according to the New Mexico

1:02:40

political report The world has only

1:02:43

one working deep geologic repository for

1:02:45

nuclear waste Elon Musk Department of

1:02:47

Government Efficiency is trying to close

1:02:49

down the 90,000 square foot building

1:02:51

in Carlsbad, New Mexico, where workers

1:02:53

are tasked with directly managing the

1:02:55

radioactive waste. Two sources confirm to

1:02:57

notice that the General Services Administration

1:03:00

is trying to end the government's

1:03:02

lease for the skein Whitlock building

1:03:04

in Carlsbad, where at least 200

1:03:06

people work to supervise highly radioactive

1:03:08

waste from the U.S.'s nuclear defense

1:03:10

activities. And you have to ask

1:03:12

the question again, why, why, why,

1:03:14

why, did anyone ask for this

1:03:17

in the election? Was anyone going,

1:03:19

hey, you know what, we need

1:03:21

to shut down those offices that

1:03:23

control nuclear waste? Can't have those.

1:03:25

No one was asking. It's like,

1:03:27

if you were a paid Russia

1:03:29

agent, what exactly would you be

1:03:31

doing to the United States right

1:03:34

now? Exactly. The Akarlesbad building was

1:03:36

developed in the late 1990s, specifically

1:03:38

for the Department of Energy to

1:03:40

run the Waste Isolation Pilot Program,

1:03:42

a storage facility which currently houses

1:03:44

more than 46 million gallons of

1:03:46

nuclear waste in ancient salt beds,

1:03:49

more than 2,000 feet underground. Every

1:03:51

year, waste is shipped from around

1:03:53

the country to be stored there.

1:03:55

Whips, geologic repository itself, is... from

1:03:57

the Carlsbad office building and located

1:03:59

about 25 miles outside the city

1:04:01

and it remains the only operating

1:04:03

deep geologic repository in the world

1:04:06

for nuclear waste. Deep geologic repositories

1:04:08

are the gold standard for long-term

1:04:10

storage. So, uh, you know what

1:04:12

happens if bad actors or terrorists

1:04:14

get their hands on nuclear waste?

1:04:16

You know what happens to that

1:04:18

nuclear waste? Dirty bombs which then

1:04:20

Donald Trump would then provided that

1:04:23

the terrorists don't just kill themselves

1:04:25

Usually that's part of the equation

1:04:27

But the fact of the matter

1:04:29

is that this is something that

1:04:31

if there were a dirty bomb

1:04:33

Let off in some city somewhere

1:04:35

Heaven forbid that Donald Trump said

1:04:37

well, this is Joe Biden's fault.

1:04:40

It was sleepy Joe and everyone

1:04:42

you know 70% of people listening

1:04:44

to his joint session address go.

1:04:46

Yeah, it was sleepy Joe what

1:04:48

Donald Trump said about sleepy Joe

1:04:50

Oh, God damn it. It's a

1:04:52

messaging war. Democrats are losing the

1:04:55

messaging war. Got to do better.

1:04:57

And there are very simple ways

1:04:59

to do that. Anyway, let's see.

1:05:01

Is there anything else I want

1:05:03

to talk about here? Oh yes,

1:05:05

you know what? Let's have some

1:05:07

good news. Got a couple items

1:05:09

of good news before we wrap

1:05:12

up. That's rare. Yeah, I know.

1:05:14

Strangely. A judge has permanently blocked

1:05:16

Arizona's abortion ban. And this is

1:05:18

also a direct result, right, it's

1:05:20

a direct result of voters passing

1:05:22

the state's constitutional amendment to protect

1:05:24

abortion access back in November. So

1:05:26

elections have consequences, voting has consequences.

1:05:29

So that's good news. And also,

1:05:31

one last thing here, Donald reversed

1:05:33

course and won't sign the executive

1:05:35

order eliminating the Department of Education.

1:05:37

For now, today, he's not gonna

1:05:39

do it today. So at least

1:05:41

there's one more day. I'm trying,

1:05:43

I'm trying here folks, I'm trying

1:05:46

to find some sort of a.

1:05:48

Shread some sort of wafer-thin shred

1:05:50

of optimism here. Some reason to

1:05:52

be hopeful. Anyway, so that's that.

1:05:54

Yeah, Elon Musk wants to privatize

1:05:56

everything. He said he wants to

1:05:58

profit off of it. Yes, he

1:06:01

wants to. In the meantime, if

1:06:03

any of you want to come

1:06:05

to my house and have some

1:06:07

banana pudding, there's a lot of

1:06:09

it. Okay. So come on down.

1:06:11

Be careful what you wish for

1:06:13

there, David. These would probably be

1:06:15

the same people that would come

1:06:18

running if I was in trouble.

1:06:20

So it's probably a good thing

1:06:22

to get them all together in

1:06:24

a group and arm them. Okay.

1:06:26

Oh shit. Yeah, but here's what

1:06:28

happens if you privatize government services.

1:06:30

Those services become twice as expensive,

1:06:32

three times as expensive. Why? Because

1:06:35

they have to make a profit.

1:06:37

The private industries have to make

1:06:39

a profit. That's part of the

1:06:41

requirement of having a corporation. You

1:06:43

have to make a profit year

1:06:45

over a year. And if you

1:06:47

stop doing that, then the IRS

1:06:49

goes, hmm, you're not making a

1:06:52

profit. Maybe you shouldn't be getting

1:06:54

these tax incentives and tax breaks

1:06:56

and things like that. The fun

1:06:58

things that you get when you

1:07:00

have a business. So there's that

1:07:02

we do. There's also CEO salaries

1:07:04

and golden parachutes that need to

1:07:07

be financed That's why things are

1:07:09

more expensive. There's significantly greater overhead

1:07:11

with private industry than there is

1:07:13

with government services What's the overhead

1:07:15

for Medicare? Which is government run

1:07:17

health care that everyone loves three

1:07:19

percent three percent? Thank you Jody.

1:07:21

That is that is correct. Yes

1:07:24

three percent private health insurance closer

1:07:26

to what is a ten to

1:07:28

fifteen? Although the Affordable Care Act,

1:07:30

which Donald Trump wants to repeal,

1:07:32

made it illegal to have any

1:07:34

more than a certain amount of

1:07:36

overhead. Yeah, 15 or 20% I

1:07:38

think is what it claims. Yeah.

1:07:41

So you have to spend more,

1:07:43

if you're a health insurer, you

1:07:45

have to spend more on better.

1:07:47

and less on less

1:07:49

on your overhead

1:07:51

and profit margin

1:07:53

and all that thanks

1:07:55

to Barack Obama

1:07:58

and the Affordable

1:08:00

Care Act, which

1:08:02

Donald Trump, again,

1:08:04

as I said,

1:08:06

wants to repeal.

1:08:08

said, wants He thinks

1:08:10

it's just the

1:08:12

just the or the

1:08:15

subsidies or something, but there are

1:08:17

myriad regulations that that he he

1:08:19

the Affordable Care Act would also

1:08:21

go away. Act would also go away. Now I'm

1:08:23

talking about about health we could

1:08:25

do this for another two hours

1:08:27

for least. two hours, at least.