WEBVTT 00:00:00.010 --> 00:00:01.170 Hold on a second. 00:00:02.130 --> 00:00:03.130 There we go. 00:00:04.450 --> 00:00:09.330 Okay. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Blah. All good? 00:00:09.850 --> 00:00:10.190 Yep. 00:00:10.290 --> 00:00:10.530 Blah. 00:00:10.990 --> 00:00:11.510 Blah. 00:00:11.750 --> 00:00:17.450 Let's do this. Hold on. I'm booking something in the other window. 00:00:18.930 --> 00:00:19.470 Booking. 00:00:20.130 --> 00:00:21.790 Booking. Booking. 00:00:23.810 --> 00:00:24.350 Schedule. 00:00:26.570 --> 00:00:30.190 Okay. Did that. I should put it in my calendar. 00:00:33.200 --> 00:00:42.800 you know that's annoying okay there it is plus paste let's see if this does it right, 00:00:44.980 --> 00:00:53.460 sorry give me one second 15 this becomes 23 okay good good good good okay ready 00:00:53.460 --> 00:00:58.840 to go or do we have preliminaries to work out first you're kind of blurry and frozen right now Oh. 00:00:59.240 --> 00:01:03.240 I, I, okay. I think I know why. Hold on. You see something. 00:01:04.040 --> 00:01:07.700 Oh, what am I doing? Okay. No, close. Okay. Let's see. 00:01:08.760 --> 00:01:10.840 Blurry and frozen. I. 00:01:10.940 --> 00:01:11.360 Oh, let me. 00:01:11.480 --> 00:01:12.000 Okay. I. 00:01:12.140 --> 00:01:13.320 Back to the right window. 00:01:13.920 --> 00:01:16.300 Well, I, I, I mean, I'm looking at my video. Looks fine. 00:01:16.940 --> 00:01:22.140 Okay. Let me look at what. Yeah. On, on YouTube, you look. Wait, 00:01:22.200 --> 00:01:24.580 now we both look good. We look amazing. 00:01:25.980 --> 00:01:31.200 It's almost like. It's only. You mean, not that we look good. 00:01:31.320 --> 00:01:35.100 You mean the signal quality is, the video quality is good. 00:01:35.620 --> 00:01:38.580 Oh, no. I mean, we're horribly attractive people. 00:01:39.160 --> 00:01:44.420 Oh, yeah. Sure. Yeah. You know, I got to, you know, as I walk through the mall, 00:01:44.560 --> 00:01:46.220 I'm just like, you know, pushing them away. 00:01:46.800 --> 00:01:48.360 Of course. Of course. 00:01:48.560 --> 00:01:52.020 That's how it works. Like, look, I'm married. Get off of me. 00:01:52.100 --> 00:01:53.900 What are you doing? Jesus Christ, you know. 00:01:55.880 --> 00:01:56.320 Okay. 00:01:56.480 --> 00:01:58.460 Both men and women. All of them, you know? 00:01:58.580 --> 00:02:04.120 Of course. Of course. And probably the reindeer at the Santa display, too. 00:02:04.340 --> 00:02:06.080 Oh, yes. Yes. And the dogs. 00:02:06.480 --> 00:02:14.320 And the dogs. Yes. They all love you. Shall we get started before this goes south any further? 00:02:14.720 --> 00:02:15.280 Yes. 00:02:16.240 --> 00:02:17.180 Here we go. 00:02:17.920 --> 00:02:19.100 Oh, fuck. Oh, fuck. 00:02:40.630 --> 00:02:48.710 Welcome to Curmudgeon's Corner for Thursday, December 11th, 2025. 00:02:49.290 --> 00:02:54.130 It's just after 22 UTC as we are starting to record. 00:02:54.490 --> 00:02:58.410 And yeah, that's the thing. 00:02:58.650 --> 00:03:05.290 Before I forget, before I forget, I'm going to give something I promised last time. 00:03:05.810 --> 00:03:10.090 And I will be mentioning this every week until the time comes. 00:03:10.630 --> 00:03:18.010 which is that the Google Doc for making suggestions of things for us to predict 00:03:18.010 --> 00:03:20.890 on our annual prediction show is now up. 00:03:21.330 --> 00:03:29.950 The URL is tinyurl.com slash ccpred2026. 00:03:31.180 --> 00:03:36.560 So I expect all of you out there listening to go in and start dropping in. 00:03:36.860 --> 00:03:38.600 And flood it. 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Add stuff that you want us to predict. 00:05:02.140 --> 00:05:02.720 Things. 00:05:03.000 --> 00:05:06.280 It'll be exciting. Exiting. Exiting. 00:05:06.880 --> 00:05:10.720 I mean, I don't understand. How the fuck are you supposed to know the difference 00:05:10.720 --> 00:05:12.140 between exciting, exiting? 00:05:12.660 --> 00:05:16.780 Say you're a new person coming to the language. Actually, they don't. 00:05:16.920 --> 00:05:18.320 This is the problem with English. 00:05:18.600 --> 00:05:22.220 It's very different. Many times, it's now phonetic. 00:05:23.130 --> 00:05:23.910 Unlike Spanish. 00:05:24.130 --> 00:05:25.190 It's contextual. 00:05:25.750 --> 00:05:27.470 Yeah. Well, not even that. 00:05:28.050 --> 00:05:32.290 Well, usually you can tell the difference between exiting and exciting by the 00:05:32.290 --> 00:05:33.490 sentence that's around it. 00:05:34.510 --> 00:05:37.410 Well, the pronunciation isn't automatic. 00:05:37.930 --> 00:05:42.970 But if you're looking, let's say, but yeah, true. The context helps. 00:05:43.170 --> 00:05:47.190 But if you're looking at a list of words, say you're new to the language. 00:05:47.190 --> 00:05:54.170 is I remember we had these quizzes for language to learn new words at school, 00:05:54.190 --> 00:05:58.570 and they just gave you this list of 10, 20, 30 words to learn for this week. 00:05:59.550 --> 00:06:05.290 I mean, if, you know, unless you had pronunciation guides, you had no idea really 00:06:05.290 --> 00:06:06.370 how to pronounce a lot of words. 00:06:06.550 --> 00:06:10.270 Well, yes, and I will point out those two words are spelled differently. 00:06:10.770 --> 00:06:14.330 They are spelled differently, but the reality is that you could read them in 00:06:14.330 --> 00:06:17.590 either way. I mean, if you don't know the language that well. 00:06:18.410 --> 00:06:22.570 Yeah. I mean, there's the extra letter in exciting. 00:06:22.990 --> 00:06:24.070 Yeah, but still. 00:06:24.070 --> 00:06:29.070 So it's the sound. So it's X-citing versus. Or sitting. X-itting. 00:06:29.070 --> 00:06:29.590 But it's a C. 00:06:29.830 --> 00:06:34.690 It is a C. And Cs can be different things depending on all kinds of different things. 00:06:35.050 --> 00:06:35.230 Exactly. 00:06:35.430 --> 00:06:40.870 There are some letters that have like four or five different ways to say them depending on the word. 00:06:40.870 --> 00:06:45.810 But one thing but the one thing is that what I'm saying it's in Spanish you 00:06:45.810 --> 00:06:51.810 know we take English and Spanish I mean you just you know all the letters sound 00:06:51.810 --> 00:06:55.690 the same you learn the sounds and you put them together and you read it and 00:06:55.690 --> 00:06:58.770 you should be able to you know read the words, 00:06:59.650 --> 00:07:06.070 so that's the thing which brings me to like my but first Sam you're. 00:07:06.070 --> 00:07:07.290 Go for it yes yes. 00:07:07.290 --> 00:07:10.210 My son laughing, 00:07:11.690 --> 00:07:14.170 Appears to know Japanese. 00:07:15.210 --> 00:07:17.130 Now, how did this happen, Yvonne? 00:07:17.150 --> 00:07:18.110 I'm pretty confident. 00:07:18.410 --> 00:07:22.590 Now, I swear, I saw a TikTok about another little kid who, like, 00:07:23.250 --> 00:07:29.170 was not speaking English, but, like, it turns out, oh, they picked up Japanese from TV. 00:07:30.030 --> 00:07:38.650 Yeah. Well, I guess I shouldn't be surprised that he learned language that way. 00:07:38.650 --> 00:07:43.790 Look, I learned English by just watching TV as well when I was little. 00:07:44.970 --> 00:07:48.690 Have you had him watching all kinds of Japanese TV shows in Japanese? 00:07:48.990 --> 00:07:56.850 I haven't, but he has been on YouTube watching a lot of YouTube videos in Japanese 00:07:56.850 --> 00:07:59.190 about stuff that he likes. 00:07:59.190 --> 00:08:03.450 He kept finding all these videos about vehicles and things and whatever, 00:08:03.930 --> 00:08:11.970 and these people playing with toy construction vehicles, all sorts of, 00:08:12.070 --> 00:08:17.630 you know, all these videos about stuff that he likes in Japanese. 00:08:19.850 --> 00:08:23.030 and you know i knew he knew words in japanese you 00:08:23.030 --> 00:08:25.890 know because i had quizzed him on because i know that he saw and you 00:08:25.890 --> 00:08:30.210 could i could ask him all sorts of construction vehicles and words and things 00:08:30.210 --> 00:08:34.890 like you know and he he knew the right words okay i i checked the words and 00:08:34.890 --> 00:08:38.530 i was like oh no so you know what a fire truck is a police car this way so i 00:08:38.530 --> 00:08:45.790 was like you know but i wasn't I wasn't taking that he knew just the words into full sentences, 00:08:46.430 --> 00:08:51.110 okay, into just language, into watching a clip from a Japanese TV show and knowing 00:08:51.110 --> 00:08:52.090 what the fuck they're saying. 00:08:53.470 --> 00:08:56.790 But the, but the thing is that I recently kept watching them, 00:08:57.190 --> 00:09:03.590 you know, it came up that I stumbled across a video that visually was funny 00:09:03.590 --> 00:09:08.930 from, you know, from these crazy Japanese game shows. Okay. All right. 00:09:09.030 --> 00:09:09.310 Okay. 00:09:09.610 --> 00:09:13.470 Where they do all sorts of really crazy stuff. Okay. 00:09:14.230 --> 00:09:19.270 And I saw this, and this was this thing about this person walking into an elevator. 00:09:19.770 --> 00:09:24.050 Okay. thinking it's an elevator. And then all of a sudden, as she is just standing 00:09:24.050 --> 00:09:28.950 there, the floor opens and they go down to slide into another room out of, 00:09:29.170 --> 00:09:31.630 you know, to completely take it by surprise. 00:09:32.010 --> 00:09:32.890 Okay, interesting. 00:09:32.950 --> 00:09:38.850 Yes. And so it was hilarious. And Manu watches the video and I hear him repeating what it says. 00:09:39.010 --> 00:09:42.530 And then out of curiosity, because I'm hearing him really pronounce very well 00:09:42.530 --> 00:09:44.190 what the Japanese announcers say. 00:09:45.070 --> 00:09:49.750 And I ask him, hey, what is he saying in English? And he went very quickly and 00:09:49.750 --> 00:09:52.850 translated what he said. And I checked, see if it was correct. 00:09:53.810 --> 00:09:55.810 And lo and behold, yes, it was. 00:09:57.250 --> 00:10:00.390 And, you know, just to be clear. 00:10:00.550 --> 00:10:03.070 By checking, how did you check? 00:10:03.470 --> 00:10:07.230 I found something that there was a translation, subtitles or whatever, 00:10:07.370 --> 00:10:09.970 where I could see what the fuck the guy was saying and it translated. 00:10:10.250 --> 00:10:13.590 And it was, you know, it was what the guy was saying. It was right. 00:10:14.330 --> 00:10:15.590 So now what I'm... 00:10:15.590 --> 00:10:19.390 And I found some other clips, whatever, and I found another clip But I asked 00:10:19.390 --> 00:10:21.470 him again, hey, what does this guy say? 00:10:22.610 --> 00:10:22.950 Boom. 00:10:23.450 --> 00:10:25.210 Translated what the fuck the guy was saying, too. 00:10:26.990 --> 00:10:30.530 So, here's the thing, right? 00:10:31.870 --> 00:10:37.850 So, you know, I had him watch a lot of videos in Spanish when he was growing up. 00:10:37.930 --> 00:10:44.690 But I don't think that the material itself was the stuff that he really liked. Okay? 00:10:44.870 --> 00:10:45.110 Right. 00:10:46.350 --> 00:10:50.950 So, he found this stuff that he really liked wasn't Japanese. 00:10:51.790 --> 00:10:59.570 And so his Spanish is far, his Spanish is way worse than the Japanese. 00:11:02.010 --> 00:11:06.370 Now, what I suggested on the curmudgeon's corner slack when you first mentioned 00:11:06.370 --> 00:11:12.490 this is when are you going to find a native Japanese speaker to go have lunch with or something? 00:11:12.490 --> 00:11:17.610 You know, I have, as a matter of fact, a few weeks ago, not a native Japanese 00:11:17.610 --> 00:11:22.790 speaker, but I have a, I have a friend who worked with me. 00:11:22.990 --> 00:11:28.410 I, I, I actually, I, I helped him with his career a couple of times, 00:11:28.430 --> 00:11:33.710 you know, from Puerto Rico who lived in Japan for a couple of years and speaks Japanese. Okay. 00:11:34.410 --> 00:11:38.930 I got to go and like get him to say, to, to, to, to talk to him. 00:11:39.670 --> 00:11:44.650 Yeah. Go, go have lunch or something. and like, you know, see how, see how it goes. 00:11:45.010 --> 00:11:45.530 Yeah. 00:11:45.830 --> 00:11:51.470 Yeah. Yeah. You never know. Like it, it may unlock things that like, 00:11:51.710 --> 00:11:54.930 you know, he may, he may have conversations in Japanese that he's not willing 00:11:54.930 --> 00:11:56.890 to have in English. Right. 00:11:59.250 --> 00:12:01.070 I'm not fucking moving to Japan. 00:12:02.910 --> 00:12:06.570 Hey, I know you're, you're working on the whole Spain thing, 00:12:06.710 --> 00:12:08.530 but Japan just wasn't on your agenda. 00:12:08.890 --> 00:12:09.090 No. 00:12:11.470 --> 00:12:14.450 I don't speak the language. What, now I got to learn Japanese? 00:12:14.830 --> 00:12:15.710 I mean, I guess I could try. 00:12:16.470 --> 00:12:19.810 Manu will translate for you. You're all cool. You don't have to know it yourself. 00:12:20.370 --> 00:12:25.290 I could get those AirPods with a simultaneous translation. So I guess, 00:12:25.370 --> 00:12:26.190 you know, that is a thing. 00:12:26.950 --> 00:12:27.510 Yeah. Yeah. 00:12:28.150 --> 00:12:34.250 So anyway, I, you know, yeah. You know, Japanese. 00:12:34.970 --> 00:12:43.530 I don't, I, you know, he's struggled with language. a lot it's been hard you 00:12:43.530 --> 00:12:45.790 know he still has speech regularly. 00:12:46.230 --> 00:12:49.430 You just weren't talking about the stuff that he was he was interested in. 00:12:49.430 --> 00:12:50.490 Apparently not. 00:12:51.110 --> 00:12:54.250 You know so Japanese it is. 00:12:54.790 --> 00:12:55.810 Japanese it is. 00:12:57.990 --> 00:13:02.870 So the other thing I was going to mention I put this down as a topic but I put 00:13:02.870 --> 00:13:06.050 it down more because I was going to talk about it a little bit like more duh, 00:13:06.550 --> 00:13:11.650 but first is that I went to this I took my car to the shop that I had worked 00:13:11.650 --> 00:13:14.770 on it done before for like the, the, the, 00:13:16.140 --> 00:13:20.160 bullshit that I do to Karst anyway. Nothing really important what it is. 00:13:21.080 --> 00:13:24.000 This guy is a Colombian immigrant. He's been here for a couple of years. 00:13:24.300 --> 00:13:29.880 I was waiting for my wife to arrive, and we're talking about what the hell's going on with stuff. 00:13:30.100 --> 00:13:35.880 I can't remember how this came up, but we started talking about everything that's 00:13:35.880 --> 00:13:40.140 going on with immigration and health and some other stuff and whatever. 00:13:41.520 --> 00:13:47.360 One thing that he told me, him as a business owner, He is from Columbia. He is here legally. 00:13:48.340 --> 00:13:52.860 The thing is, he has a business in it, and it sells a pretty decent amount a month. 00:13:53.100 --> 00:13:58.780 But, you know, he's telling me that because, you know, it's his own business, 00:13:59.540 --> 00:14:03.780 health insurance is so expensive that he basically, you know, 00:14:03.940 --> 00:14:06.940 he had gotten a quote just for himself. Okay. 00:14:07.820 --> 00:14:12.040 And it's like $1,500 a month, something like that. Okay. 00:14:12.220 --> 00:14:17.880 So for him and his wife, it was over $3,000 a month, something crazy. Okay. 00:14:19.480 --> 00:14:23.720 So, but he told me that his solution that he is doing in terms of for a catastrophe 00:14:23.720 --> 00:14:27.900 or something that he gets, say he gets diagnosed with cancer or something like that, for example. 00:14:28.040 --> 00:14:28.220 Right. 00:14:28.720 --> 00:14:31.680 So how, what's the solution to get treatment? Well, he told me that, 00:14:31.760 --> 00:14:38.060 look, he keeps paying premiums for health insurance back in Columbia. 00:14:38.880 --> 00:14:42.480 He has an active health insurance policy in Columbia. 00:14:43.140 --> 00:14:47.280 And so his plan is, look, if I get diagnosed with something like that, 00:14:47.460 --> 00:14:52.760 I'm going to go home to go get treatment because the premiums over there are 00:14:52.760 --> 00:15:00.920 so much lower that I can afford to pay that and be covered just in case I have a catastrophe. Okay? 00:15:01.200 --> 00:15:01.680 Right. Okay. 00:15:02.400 --> 00:15:05.780 But look at the ridiculous shit. 00:15:07.130 --> 00:15:13.010 The extent that people have to go in order to get health insurance in this fucking country. 00:15:13.270 --> 00:15:17.030 Okay. It's crazy. I just, you know, he told me that. And then one of the things 00:15:17.030 --> 00:15:21.910 he was also talking is that he has as employees, two people that have been granted 00:15:21.910 --> 00:15:25.070 asylum, I believe from Venezuela. Okay. 00:15:26.600 --> 00:15:32.160 And the thing is that they have hearings at court next year for their asylum cases, okay? 00:15:32.700 --> 00:15:35.280 And they entered, they were granted asylum. They came in legally. 00:15:35.540 --> 00:15:38.060 They got granted. They were granted asylum. They came in legally or whatever. 00:15:39.080 --> 00:15:45.340 They right now are almost, they're like, they don't want to go to the hearing. 00:15:45.940 --> 00:15:51.440 Right. Because they've been picking up people who have done everything right, 00:15:51.760 --> 00:15:56.160 jumped through every hoop they were asked for, picking them up at hearings and 00:15:56.160 --> 00:15:58.660 or even the naturalization ceremony. 00:15:59.360 --> 00:15:59.500 Yeah. 00:15:59.960 --> 00:16:01.960 And picking them up and... 00:16:01.960 --> 00:16:06.640 I haven't heard about naturalization ceremony. What I've heard is more like 00:16:06.640 --> 00:16:09.320 the final green card interviews. 00:16:09.620 --> 00:16:12.520 They've done the green card interviews, but there was also an article, 00:16:12.520 --> 00:16:17.900 it was in Massachusetts where it happened most recently, where they... 00:16:17.900 --> 00:16:23.520 They I don't think they actually picked them up at the naturalization ceremony, 00:16:23.520 --> 00:16:28.880 but they canceled the naturalization ceremony at the last moment and then issued 00:16:28.880 --> 00:16:30.260 orders for them to be deported. 00:16:30.840 --> 00:16:33.620 That's no that's that's that's wait. 00:16:33.780 --> 00:16:38.680 But but I don't mean that's not even legal. You know, the reality is the ceremony 00:16:38.680 --> 00:16:43.140 is more formality than anything else at that point. They've already been granted citizenship. 00:16:43.540 --> 00:16:47.340 They've got papers that say they're granted citizenship. You go to the ceremony, 00:16:47.520 --> 00:16:51.700 it's like, you know, you know, we talk about going to, you know, 00:16:51.820 --> 00:16:55.660 when you go to that the president is president, even if he's we don't swear. 00:16:55.760 --> 00:16:57.880 Even if they haven't. Yes. Yes. 00:16:58.140 --> 00:17:01.740 I mean, what I understood is the ceremony is basically kind of like that. 00:17:01.880 --> 00:17:05.820 You already been granted fucking citizenship. It's not, you know. 00:17:05.820 --> 00:17:09.400 This was this was a couple of weeks ago where I saw an article, so I don't have it handy. 00:17:09.400 --> 00:17:15.600 But yeah, no, they were they were rescinding at the very last possible moment 00:17:15.600 --> 00:17:23.380 of someone who was like about to do the last legal steps, including the ceremony and and. 00:17:25.490 --> 00:17:26.710 Torpedoing it at the last second. 00:17:27.850 --> 00:17:31.390 So, yeah, I mean, and the one thing that he told me was like, 00:17:32.670 --> 00:17:38.070 OK, if I can't, if these guys can't stay here legally, OK, he's struggling to 00:17:38.070 --> 00:17:40.170 figure out how the fuck he's going to hire people for the business. 00:17:40.730 --> 00:17:44.890 He said it's like, I mean, I'm sorry, but it's not like I've got like, 00:17:45.050 --> 00:17:48.110 it's not like I'm turning away U.S. 00:17:48.190 --> 00:17:49.250 citizens for this job. 00:17:49.770 --> 00:17:50.170 Right. 00:17:50.870 --> 00:17:53.830 You know, it's the kind of work that U.S. 00:17:53.850 --> 00:17:58.870 citizens really are going out there and really, you know, banging at the door to get. 00:17:59.730 --> 00:18:00.210 Okay. 00:18:00.650 --> 00:18:08.850 And so, yeah, that was just like my morning convo with, about that. It's just how, you know. 00:18:08.990 --> 00:18:10.010 What industry are we talking? 00:18:10.570 --> 00:18:15.430 It's in the car detailing industry. Car, you know, they do car detailing, 00:18:15.570 --> 00:18:18.870 they do car treatments and stuff or whatever. It's just aftermarket stuff. 00:18:19.010 --> 00:18:23.850 You know, they work on expensive cars and things and they just do stuff to them. 00:18:23.850 --> 00:18:26.050 But just, but it's just, it's... 00:18:26.050 --> 00:18:29.110 It feels like that, like, I mean... 00:18:30.640 --> 00:18:33.400 It feels like you could get Americans in that job. 00:18:33.520 --> 00:18:38.580 You could. But there's not as many, is my point. 00:18:38.580 --> 00:18:39.780 No, yeah, I understand. 00:18:39.820 --> 00:18:44.060 It makes it far more difficult to recruit and keep. 00:18:44.060 --> 00:18:47.880 Well, in a lot of these things, the answer, of course, is you probably could, 00:18:48.080 --> 00:18:53.700 but you'd have to pay them so much that it becomes uneconomical or something. 00:18:53.700 --> 00:18:58.120 Well, the thing is that a lot of people, look, these were legal immigrants, 00:18:58.280 --> 00:18:59.840 okay, that are doing this work, okay? 00:18:59.840 --> 00:19:03.100 And it's just, it's one of those things that, it's one of those things that 00:19:03.100 --> 00:19:06.840 people that, especially if they're struggling still with the language, 00:19:07.080 --> 00:19:09.580 you're struggling with getting acclimated to the country, they don't, 00:19:09.640 --> 00:19:13.140 they maybe not, don't have the right certifications, education or whatever. 00:19:13.380 --> 00:19:17.740 It's the kind of jobs that a lot of these people go for. And it's like what we're talking about, 00:19:18.000 --> 00:19:22.300 you know, we're talking a little bit about how they go and they try to say that, 00:19:22.380 --> 00:19:26.280 you know, that these people this week, they were talking about how these people 00:19:26.280 --> 00:19:31.460 are coming in and why is the price of houses so expensive? 00:19:31.780 --> 00:19:35.480 Oh, because they're coming in and buying the houses. Look, let me tell you something. 00:19:35.700 --> 00:19:40.980 None of these people are coming in and buying $700,000 houses. 00:19:41.500 --> 00:19:46.740 You know, they can't get mortgages. They don't grant mortgages to non-U.S. 00:19:47.120 --> 00:19:51.100 citizens. It's one of the requirements of fucking getting a damn mortgage is 00:19:51.100 --> 00:19:54.980 you've got to show citizenship or legal. 00:19:55.380 --> 00:19:58.820 You know, you have to have, you know, you need legal status. 00:19:59.540 --> 00:20:02.800 I'm sure your illegal migrants are just paying cash for them. 00:20:02.860 --> 00:20:07.120 Oh, yeah. Oh, yes. And that was the funny thing. We're saying they're paying 00:20:07.120 --> 00:20:10.160 cash. But at the same time, somehow they're all on welfare, too. 00:20:10.520 --> 00:20:16.540 Right. Oh, of course. Yes. You know, they're using their welfare checks to buy to. 00:20:16.540 --> 00:20:18.680 Go buy the $700,000 houses. 00:20:18.940 --> 00:20:19.340 Yes. 00:20:19.840 --> 00:20:20.500 In cash. 00:20:20.720 --> 00:20:21.460 In cash. 00:20:23.460 --> 00:20:31.900 And it's just, you know, and, you know, and what he said is he was talking about, man, 00:20:33.000 --> 00:20:39.120 you know, him as an immigrant himself, okay, just talking about these fucking 00:20:39.120 --> 00:20:41.780 people talk like we're a whole bunch of lazy fucks coming over here, 00:20:42.220 --> 00:20:44.580 just leeching, mooching off the government. 00:20:45.740 --> 00:20:50.120 It's nothing even remotely, not even remotely close. They can't even get health care, Sam. 00:20:50.620 --> 00:20:51.100 Right. 00:20:51.820 --> 00:20:53.160 They can't even get fucking health care. 00:20:54.200 --> 00:21:00.820 So, yeah, as I've said many times when we end up talking about immigration, 00:21:01.080 --> 00:21:05.120 the people who actually have the 00:21:05.120 --> 00:21:08.860 motivation and fortitude to pick 00:21:08.860 --> 00:21:14.460 up their entire lives and move across the world to a whole different country 00:21:14.460 --> 00:21:20.260 where often they don't know the language and are starting from scratch are the 00:21:20.260 --> 00:21:25.780 people who show the kind of qualities that you want. 00:21:26.020 --> 00:21:29.660 They are the guys that really believe in the American dream. 00:21:30.220 --> 00:21:30.680 Yeah. 00:21:30.840 --> 00:21:36.020 Like, I mean, they really believe in it, you know? And it's an American dream, 00:21:36.180 --> 00:21:38.420 you know, on the back of hard work. 00:21:38.940 --> 00:21:44.140 Not, you know, not giveaways. Hard work. 00:21:44.140 --> 00:21:47.340 you know but this guy 00:21:47.340 --> 00:21:50.500 i'm not you know well i 00:21:50.500 --> 00:21:53.300 am actually he's here legally nobody did johnny who i was talking 00:21:53.300 --> 00:21:56.160 to today and you know he's built 00:21:56.160 --> 00:22:02.520 up a business with him his wife you know his kids sometimes work there you know 00:22:02.520 --> 00:22:06.840 because it started from a smaller shop built it into a bigger shop he's got 00:22:06.840 --> 00:22:11.920 to be doing like right now like you know over a million dollars in business 00:22:11.920 --> 00:22:14.720 over there you know, doing work on cars and stuff or whatever, 00:22:15.520 --> 00:22:19.940 you know, hard work every day in the shop every day. Yeah. 00:22:20.400 --> 00:22:24.740 And you know, what I hear from these people, you know, you hear how they're, 00:22:24.840 --> 00:22:29.780 they're taking their jobs, taking our homes or taking our whatever every fucking day. 00:22:30.340 --> 00:22:33.940 There's nothing, nothing even remotely of the sort. There's people just coming 00:22:33.940 --> 00:22:37.220 over to go break their backs, doing jobs that most Americans don't want. 00:22:37.860 --> 00:22:40.020 Simple as that. Simple as that. 00:22:41.110 --> 00:22:48.890 So, yeah, so that was my morning convo after I jumped my son off to lunch, 00:22:49.350 --> 00:22:51.490 you know. So, I mean to lunch. 00:22:51.630 --> 00:22:54.730 To school. To school. To school. Lunch school. 00:22:55.230 --> 00:22:58.710 Well, yeah, there was lunch afterwards. Yeah, I took him lunch bag. 00:22:58.970 --> 00:23:01.950 I sent him, well, because of his food allergies, we sent his food. 00:23:02.190 --> 00:23:04.770 That's one of, so he'd pack his lunch. 00:23:05.490 --> 00:23:15.390 There you go. So meanwhile, my son is not at school right now because he decided to stay up all night. 00:23:16.030 --> 00:23:19.170 Like we all fell asleep. He was up all night. 00:23:20.110 --> 00:23:26.210 He was still awake at eight in the morning, you know, and then he finally like 00:23:26.210 --> 00:23:30.790 went to sleep around eight, eight 30 in the morning and there was no getting him up again. 00:23:31.230 --> 00:23:35.070 So school did not happen today. I sent in a note to school. 00:23:35.430 --> 00:23:41.550 Oh, wow. So anyway, we got more movies, Sam. 00:23:41.730 --> 00:23:43.050 We got more movies. 00:23:43.470 --> 00:23:43.970 All right. 00:23:44.090 --> 00:23:47.970 Let's let's let's first stop that I watched at the end of January. 00:23:48.810 --> 00:23:51.890 Oh, of course. Now my son's waking up. 00:23:52.150 --> 00:23:52.370 Yes. 00:23:52.510 --> 00:23:59.830 He's here now. Anyway, first up watched at the end of January from 1977. 00:24:01.410 --> 00:24:02.470 Oh, God. 00:24:03.250 --> 00:24:04.470 Oh, my God. 00:24:05.590 --> 00:24:07.650 There you go. Exactly. With George Burns. 00:24:07.830 --> 00:24:08.850 George Burns. 00:24:09.090 --> 00:24:10.170 George Burns. 00:24:10.410 --> 00:24:12.250 I remember watching that movie. 00:24:12.950 --> 00:24:13.310 Yeah. 00:24:13.430 --> 00:24:16.830 Wait, back when? I'm pretty sure I haven't watched it since then. 00:24:18.230 --> 00:24:24.150 Yeah, I think this is one of the ones where I had probably seen parts of it, like, over the years. 00:24:24.430 --> 00:24:25.630 Well, I know that I watched the whole movie. 00:24:25.870 --> 00:24:27.810 I don't know that I'd seen the whole thing. 00:24:27.890 --> 00:24:31.710 This one, I'm positive I watched the whole movie. It was on HBO. 00:24:31.810 --> 00:24:32.970 That's where I watched it. 00:24:33.350 --> 00:24:33.970 Yeah. Yeah. 00:24:34.470 --> 00:24:34.610 Yeah. 00:24:34.750 --> 00:24:34.930 And? 00:24:35.250 --> 00:24:36.910 That was when we had the little HBO. 00:24:36.930 --> 00:24:37.410 Do you have thoughts about the movie? 00:24:37.410 --> 00:24:42.670 By the way, the one thing that we had, this is at the time, where HBO was like 00:24:42.670 --> 00:24:45.190 on channel like three, something like that. 00:24:45.330 --> 00:24:48.890 But you needed this little decoder thing that you plugged into. 00:24:49.810 --> 00:24:52.570 The cable came in and you plugged it in. 00:24:52.850 --> 00:24:57.710 And then you, the cable coming down from that went to that little Y splitter thing. 00:24:57.850 --> 00:25:02.690 You remember we had that little box thing that was like the little Y things 00:25:02.690 --> 00:25:06.890 that went into the back of the TV, you know, because you were used to plug in an antenna. 00:25:07.130 --> 00:25:13.850 So that was how that went into the TV. And so this box, all the sole function 00:25:13.850 --> 00:25:18.390 of this box is when you tune to the channel where HBO was, it was kind of fuzzy. 00:25:19.190 --> 00:25:25.490 So you turn the box to on and it unscrambled the signal. Okay. 00:25:26.150 --> 00:25:29.310 Right. So that was like how you got HBO back then. 00:25:29.410 --> 00:25:29.790 Right. Right. 00:25:29.890 --> 00:25:32.690 At least in Puerto Rico in the late 70s. Okay. 00:25:32.830 --> 00:25:33.330 Yes. Okay. 00:25:33.370 --> 00:25:38.970 And so I watched the movie and what I remember, I remember it was funny. 00:25:39.250 --> 00:25:43.370 Okay. All right. a whole bunch of things happened to what was his name uh the 00:25:43.370 --> 00:25:50.930 the blonde guy the whatever uh oh god was what was the guy's name the the john denver it. 00:25:50.930 --> 00:25:52.430 Was john denver uh. 00:25:52.430 --> 00:25:56.250 Yes i thought you were reaching for the character name no no no no for john 00:25:56.250 --> 00:26:00.390 john denver all the stupid follies that happened to him like during the time 00:26:00.390 --> 00:26:04.170 and everybody thought that he was completely crazy and you know the movie is 00:26:04.170 --> 00:26:06.270 what i remember the movie was funny, 00:26:07.130 --> 00:26:12.550 For my memory, I would give it a thumbs up, but I haven't watched it in like 00:26:12.550 --> 00:26:15.490 40 years. Holy shit. Almost 40 years. 00:26:16.830 --> 00:26:20.690 Yeah. I think my thought, I'm not going to give it a thumbs up. 00:26:20.830 --> 00:26:29.070 I mean, it was okay, I guess, but it really did feel very dated. It did not feel like. 00:26:29.070 --> 00:26:30.030 Also 1977. 00:26:30.030 --> 00:26:38.170 I know it's 1977, but like some old movies really hold up and some don't. 00:26:38.290 --> 00:26:41.970 It wasn't an Academy Award winning movie from 1977. 00:26:42.510 --> 00:26:42.830 Well, no. 00:26:43.310 --> 00:26:45.550 Did it get any awards by any chance? 00:26:45.850 --> 00:26:48.390 Did it get any awards? Let me scroll down. 00:26:48.410 --> 00:26:48.850 Yes. 00:26:49.430 --> 00:26:54.450 It received an Oscar nomination for best adapted screenplay. 00:26:54.630 --> 00:26:57.250 Oh, look at that. Holy shit. I didn't realize that. 00:26:57.250 --> 00:27:04.150 A Saturn Award for Best Writing, the Writers Guild Award for Best Comedy Adapted 00:27:04.150 --> 00:27:05.910 from Another Medium. So I guess like. 00:27:06.070 --> 00:27:10.630 Okay, shit. So, okay. So it was more regarded than I recall. Okay. 00:27:10.810 --> 00:27:13.870 And it was adapted. So like what? Was it a book? 00:27:14.530 --> 00:27:15.410 Or a play? What was this? 00:27:15.570 --> 00:27:21.930 A play? What was this? Based on the 1971 novel by Avery Corman. So, okay. 00:27:22.070 --> 00:27:22.270 Okay. 00:27:22.630 --> 00:27:27.490 So it was a book at some point. Yeah, like, I just felt like, 00:27:28.190 --> 00:27:32.370 I don't know. Like you could see where some of the stuff might've been funny 00:27:32.370 --> 00:27:36.830 or whatever, but like, I felt like it was. 00:27:36.910 --> 00:27:41.570 The one scene that I remember was funny was the one where the car got flooded where he wanted Ray. 00:27:41.730 --> 00:27:42.030 Yes. 00:27:42.090 --> 00:27:43.650 There was a scene in his car. 00:27:44.470 --> 00:27:45.170 Yes. Yes. 00:27:45.290 --> 00:27:46.010 That was funny. 00:27:46.690 --> 00:27:52.110 I, you know, and you know, the other thing that got me and this, 00:27:52.230 --> 00:27:56.590 this is coming from me as a very secular, non-religious person. 00:27:57.310 --> 00:28:00.210 the fact that it actually took sort of 00:28:00.210 --> 00:28:04.250 the religious part of this somewhat seriously like 00:28:04.250 --> 00:28:07.110 the you know god came down and was giving a 00:28:07.110 --> 00:28:11.590 new message to the people and all this kind of stuff so it was a comedy and 00:28:11.590 --> 00:28:19.170 all but you know it it treated the religious aspects with i don't know i'm sure 00:28:19.170 --> 00:28:24.250 it was controversial anyway for not like being not treating god as seriously 00:28:24.250 --> 00:28:26.650 as they could But at the same time, 00:28:26.870 --> 00:28:28.790 it was sort of like, 00:28:29.090 --> 00:28:37.870 I don't know, if they tried to make this today, it would be different, I think, 00:28:38.450 --> 00:28:40.270 you know, in a variety of different ways. 00:28:40.270 --> 00:28:44.530 Well, I don't think you could get the movie made today. I got to tell you that right now. 00:28:44.570 --> 00:28:46.250 Probably not. Yeah. 00:28:46.650 --> 00:28:51.310 In large part because they didn't take that, even though they did include the 00:28:51.310 --> 00:28:54.210 religious aspect, they didn't really take God that seriously. 00:28:54.210 --> 00:28:59.590 Well, because here's what you had back then. You had a significant part of the 00:28:59.590 --> 00:29:05.230 population that were quote-unquote mainstream Christianity, 00:29:05.690 --> 00:29:12.850 whereas you still have some of that, but the percentage of the population has declined. 00:29:12.850 --> 00:29:16.370 And what you've had is a divergence into either folks that, 00:29:19.070 --> 00:29:25.370 Or are sort of the crazy right-wing Christians. And the people who are in the middle. 00:29:25.430 --> 00:29:31.450 So nobody would be happy with this movie. Right. None of them would be happy. 00:29:32.470 --> 00:29:39.330 This was aimed squarely at folks who were sort of religious in the sense of 00:29:39.330 --> 00:29:41.810 going to the church all the time. 00:29:41.810 --> 00:29:47.750 and sort of had the general beliefs but weren't dogmatic about it and weren't 00:29:47.750 --> 00:29:55.690 wanting to impose their beliefs on everybody necessarily and weren't the literalists 00:29:55.690 --> 00:29:57.870 or, you know, or whatever. 00:29:58.150 --> 00:30:01.350 You know, it was sort of—and that group, it still exists. I mean, 00:30:01.450 --> 00:30:06.110 the denomination my mother is a part of is that kind of, you know, 00:30:06.730 --> 00:30:11.690 mainstream sort of liberal-ish Christianity or centrist Christianity even. 00:30:11.810 --> 00:30:18.310 But those groups have declined relative to conservative Christians and the secular 00:30:18.310 --> 00:30:20.310 folks who aren't religious at all. 00:30:20.630 --> 00:30:26.570 And and so, like, this kind of thing, I think that that might be part of the 00:30:26.570 --> 00:30:32.450 reason it feels dated, in fact, like that it represents this sort of this view 00:30:32.450 --> 00:30:34.410 of religion that is something that just. 00:30:34.410 --> 00:30:37.170 Really doesn't exist that much anymore. Yeah. 00:30:38.460 --> 00:30:46.360 Yeah, I mean, I don't want to. It does still exist. It's just it's declined since the 70s. 00:30:46.460 --> 00:30:49.720 It's declined a lot, Sam, a lot. 00:30:50.460 --> 00:30:57.160 And, you know, and I don't know, like maybe it's just I didn't appreciate the 00:30:57.160 --> 00:30:59.120 specific types of humor as well. 00:30:59.240 --> 00:31:02.980 I mean, I'm not saying it was bad, so maybe I'll give it a thumb sideways, 00:31:02.980 --> 00:31:06.700 but not a thumbs up. I wasn't like coming out of it. 00:31:06.740 --> 00:31:11.780 I wasn't laughing out loud. I wasn't like, oh man, that was awesome. I want to see it again. 00:31:12.000 --> 00:31:16.240 You know, the sequels are now on my list. Of course, there are two sequels. 00:31:16.420 --> 00:31:17.420 Oh God, book two from 1980. 00:31:17.420 --> 00:31:18.920 I remember the sequels were not. 00:31:18.920 --> 00:31:20.620 And Oh God, you devil from 84. 00:31:20.620 --> 00:31:21.360 The sequels were not. 00:31:22.620 --> 00:31:26.800 None of those sequels are very good. I mean, that I recall, compared to the 00:31:26.800 --> 00:31:33.120 original one, look, if you didn't like this one, you're not going to like the sequels. 00:31:34.520 --> 00:31:37.500 I got to tell you that right off the bat. 00:31:37.840 --> 00:31:42.940 Oh, and I've neglected reading the beginning of the plot summary from Wikipedia, so I should do that. 00:31:43.380 --> 00:31:48.840 God appears as a kindly old man to Jerry Landers, an assistant supermarket manager. 00:31:48.840 --> 00:31:54.040 He tells Jerry that he has been selected to be his messenger to the modern world, 00:31:54.400 --> 00:31:56.400 much like a contemporary Moses. 00:31:57.060 --> 00:32:01.480 Landers tells his wife, children, and a religious editor of the Los Angeles 00:32:01.480 --> 00:32:07.040 Times of his encounters with God and becomes a natural icon of comedic fodder. 00:32:08.040 --> 00:32:12.860 Jerry appears on television with Dinah Shore. Yes, national icon. 00:32:12.860 --> 00:32:18.840 and describes the look God takes when he encounters him the next day after Jerry 00:32:18.840 --> 00:32:20.220 is stranded from a car break down. 00:32:20.240 --> 00:32:25.300 Yeah, and they do a sketch on the show. Yeah, and then they showed a movie, 00:32:25.340 --> 00:32:29.000 and then the audience is like, burst out laughing because nobody believed him. 00:32:29.380 --> 00:32:30.760 They all thought he was nuts. 00:32:31.560 --> 00:32:35.200 God appears as a taxi driver to take him home where they are met by a bunch 00:32:35.200 --> 00:32:36.500 of chanting religious nuts. 00:32:36.840 --> 00:32:41.380 Before he disappears, God consoles Jerry that he has the strength that comes from knowing. 00:32:42.100 --> 00:32:46.920 Landers finds his life turned upside down as a group of theologians attempt to discredit him. 00:32:47.120 --> 00:32:52.240 They challenge him to answer a series of questions in Aramaic while locked in 00:32:52.240 --> 00:32:55.800 a hotel room alone to prove God is contacting him directly. 00:32:56.060 --> 00:33:02.460 After an agonizing wait, God delivers food to Jerry and answers the questions, dot, dot, dot. 00:33:02.700 --> 00:33:06.640 It continues, et cetera, and, you know, adventures ensue. 00:33:07.480 --> 00:33:10.100 Yeah, so thumb sideways for Oh God. 00:33:10.760 --> 00:33:14.700 And one more, one more movie, because I'm trying desperately to catch up. 00:33:15.740 --> 00:33:23.880 From 1946, this time from the AFI list, 1998 rank number 11. 00:33:24.220 --> 00:33:28.240 For the 2000 list, it has slipped to number 20. 00:33:28.520 --> 00:33:35.880 Oh, and by the way, updates on the 2000 list, or the 2007 list, 00:33:36.240 --> 00:33:39.660 Alex and I are already up to, or down to 93. 00:33:40.260 --> 00:33:41.900 And I'll also give another update. 00:33:42.560 --> 00:33:46.100 We're working our way through Law and Order as well. We just finished season five. 00:33:47.300 --> 00:33:49.080 So we're working our way. 00:33:49.260 --> 00:33:53.340 Jesus Christ. Only season five. Okay. Well, that's not bad, actually, considering. 00:33:53.540 --> 00:34:01.700 Yeah. I think we're going faster than one season per year. Yeah. So. 00:34:01.840 --> 00:34:05.320 Well, I guess maybe, you know, you have some extra time lately to catch up. 00:34:07.020 --> 00:34:14.340 Well, and also right now, at the moment, three of the shows we were watching, we finished. 00:34:14.600 --> 00:34:19.260 But because I'm behind in logging my stuff, we haven't replaced them yet. 00:34:19.260 --> 00:34:22.420 So there are fewer shows to pick from when we're picking shows. 00:34:22.560 --> 00:34:24.920 So each one of them is moving faster as well. 00:34:25.220 --> 00:34:32.400 So anyway, this movie from 1946, ranked 11 on the 1998 list, 00:34:32.560 --> 00:34:34.340 is It's a Wonderful Life. 00:34:35.890 --> 00:34:40.110 You know what? I'm not sure I've watched It's a Wonderful Life. 00:34:40.870 --> 00:34:45.590 This is another one where I'm going to answer. You don't think so? 00:34:46.910 --> 00:34:51.650 Probably I've seen, I've been like with you, where I saw clips, but not the movie. 00:34:51.970 --> 00:34:54.490 Right. And I think that was my case with It's a Wonderful Life 2. 00:34:54.630 --> 00:34:56.570 I'm pretty sure I'd seen bits and pieces of it. 00:34:56.770 --> 00:35:01.390 I'd probably seen the ending after flipping through channels and I watched the 00:35:01.390 --> 00:35:04.590 end. And, you know, I may have seen little bits back and forth, 00:35:04.690 --> 00:35:07.390 but I don't think I'd seen it end to end. 00:35:07.970 --> 00:35:08.550 Yeah, yeah. 00:35:08.690 --> 00:35:15.070 Anyway, classic Christmas movie. Let me start this time with the plot summary, the beginning of it. 00:35:16.050 --> 00:35:22.630 On Christmas Eve, 1945, in Bedford Falls, New York, George Bailey contemplates suicide. 00:35:23.010 --> 00:35:27.590 The prayers of his family and friends reach heaven, where guardian angel second 00:35:27.590 --> 00:35:33.790 class Claris Oddbody is assigned to save George in order to earn his wings. 00:35:34.370 --> 00:35:37.190 Clarence has shown flashbacks of George's life. 00:35:37.390 --> 00:35:41.350 He watches 12-year-old George rescue his younger brother Harry from drowning 00:35:41.350 --> 00:35:44.950 in a frozen pond, leaving George with deafness in his left ear. 00:35:45.570 --> 00:35:49.790 George later saves pharmacist Mr. Gower from accidentally poisoning a customer. 00:35:50.210 --> 00:35:55.550 In 1928, George plans a world tour before college. He is reintroduced to Mary 00:35:55.550 --> 00:35:57.410 Hatch, who has loved him since childhood. 00:35:57.750 --> 00:36:02.330 When his father dies from a stroke, George postpones his travel to settle the 00:36:02.330 --> 00:36:04.650 family business, Bailey Brothers Building and Loan. 00:36:05.870 --> 00:36:10.290 Avaricious board member Henry F. Potter, who owns most of the town, 00:36:10.450 --> 00:36:14.610 seeks to dissolve the company, but the board of directors votes to keep it open if George runs it. 00:36:14.950 --> 00:36:18.870 George works alongside his uncle Billy, giving his tuition savings to Harry 00:36:18.870 --> 00:36:22.690 with the understanding that Harry will take over the company when he returns. 00:36:23.650 --> 00:36:27.970 One more paragraph. Harry returns from college married and with a job offer 00:36:27.970 --> 00:36:32.470 from his father-in-law, and George resigns himself to running the building and loan. 00:36:32.810 --> 00:36:36.730 George and Mary rekindle their relationship in Mary, but abandon their honeymoon 00:36:36.730 --> 00:36:40.190 to use the savings to keep the company solvent. 00:36:40.430 --> 00:36:43.730 During a run on the bank, dot, dot, dot, things continue. 00:36:44.990 --> 00:36:47.410 And spoilers, it does have a happy ending. 00:36:48.290 --> 00:36:52.750 Anyway, you know, this is a classic Christmas movie. I think it's a classic 00:36:52.750 --> 00:36:54.590 Christmas movie for a reason. 00:36:56.150 --> 00:36:56.830 It's good. 00:36:59.570 --> 00:37:04.490 It's definitely like we're talking about dated movies. This is dated, but in a different way. 00:37:04.810 --> 00:37:09.590 This is dated in that, oh, okay, this is obviously set in the 1940s. 00:37:09.590 --> 00:37:16.250 You know, it's not a modern movie. It's a little bit slower in the style, 00:37:16.930 --> 00:37:18.410 you know, etc., etc., etc. 00:37:18.810 --> 00:37:26.890 But it still hits the emotional strings it's supposed to. 00:37:27.030 --> 00:37:29.150 You still feel sympathetic to the characters. 00:37:29.670 --> 00:37:32.990 This one has a little bit of a religious undertone, too. I mean, 00:37:33.070 --> 00:37:34.770 there are angels in it, for God's sake. 00:37:35.150 --> 00:37:38.110 But, you know, it's not overwhelming. 00:37:38.710 --> 00:37:41.050 And, you know, it basically... 00:37:42.810 --> 00:37:47.830 Again, spoilers for anybody who hasn't seen this movie from, you know, 80 years ago. 00:37:49.330 --> 00:37:52.890 It's, this guy is all down on himself because he didn't get out, 00:37:53.110 --> 00:37:54.570 get what he wanted out of life. 00:37:54.790 --> 00:37:59.870 But then, you know, he's basically shown the positive effect he's had on the 00:37:59.870 --> 00:38:01.690 life of so many other people. 00:38:02.370 --> 00:38:08.950 You know, and teaches a little lesson, makes you feel like a little warm inside. 00:38:08.950 --> 00:38:12.850 The guy, like, you know, feels better about himself at the end, etc. 00:38:13.450 --> 00:38:17.790 You know, it's and it is stylized like movies of that time. 00:38:17.990 --> 00:38:23.250 But, you know, it's a fine movie. Thumbs up. Thumbs up. 00:38:23.830 --> 00:38:29.390 OK, I will make one other note. There is a point where there are two characters 00:38:29.390 --> 00:38:33.510 talking to each other that are not the main character. 00:38:33.730 --> 00:38:39.510 They're sort of side characters, but they're talking to each other and they're named Bert and Ernie. 00:38:40.090 --> 00:38:40.770 Ah! 00:38:41.810 --> 00:38:47.670 And they're bantering back and forth and you realize that, wait a second, 00:38:48.530 --> 00:38:56.010 this, like, some of how they interact with each other quite possibly was an 00:38:56.010 --> 00:38:59.050 inspiration for the Sesame Street characters. 00:38:59.410 --> 00:38:59.830 Interesting. 00:39:00.070 --> 00:39:08.390 Okay. And then I saw recently a clip of a Sesame Street holiday special, 00:39:09.210 --> 00:39:16.430 where Bert and Ernie walk past a TV in the shop that is playing the scene of 00:39:16.430 --> 00:39:18.650 Bert and Ernie in this movie talking to each other. 00:39:19.270 --> 00:39:19.670 Nice! 00:39:20.150 --> 00:39:23.630 Anyway, so, fun stuff. 00:39:23.850 --> 00:39:28.230 I loved Bert and Ernie. I remember they were one of my favorites when I was 00:39:28.230 --> 00:39:29.570 growing up, I must admit. 00:39:30.830 --> 00:39:32.770 They're they're they're good. 00:39:32.770 --> 00:39:36.670 They're good hilarious love to watch burton ernie. 00:39:38.130 --> 00:39:41.990 Yeah i i'm definitely like yes and 00:39:41.990 --> 00:39:46.750 and of course there are other you know you you can you can you can map them 00:39:46.750 --> 00:39:51.450 towards the odd couple as well yeah yeah yeah there are a variety of other sort 00:39:51.450 --> 00:39:56.610 of characters you can map into and then of course there's been the age old you 00:39:56.610 --> 00:39:59.930 know are burton Ernie gay? Are they a couple? 00:40:00.810 --> 00:40:04.890 And of course there's a whole, you know, there are people who like, 00:40:05.310 --> 00:40:07.090 you know, give all the evidence for. 00:40:07.250 --> 00:40:11.530 Now, Sesame Street's official position is that they are puppets. 00:40:12.310 --> 00:40:12.490 Right! 00:40:13.110 --> 00:40:17.690 Thank you very much. And that you don't need to think quite this deeply about 00:40:17.690 --> 00:40:20.670 this question. Yes. But, anyway. 00:40:20.990 --> 00:40:26.730 Let's just say the odd couple. I was watching it the other day for some reason. It was on TV. 00:40:26.730 --> 00:40:29.710 Now, there have been many versions of the article. 00:40:29.710 --> 00:40:32.290 Too. Well, I'm talking about the Walter Matthau, Jack Lepp. 00:40:32.370 --> 00:40:34.370 Oh, the movie version, not the TV version. 00:40:34.570 --> 00:40:40.170 Yeah, the movie version. I got to say that if Sam and I had lived together, 00:40:40.390 --> 00:40:42.730 that may have been us. Oh, my God. 00:40:43.370 --> 00:40:45.370 Oh, my God. It would have been. 00:40:46.330 --> 00:40:52.970 I mean, that would have been. Yeah. I was like, what the hell? Jesus Christ. 00:40:54.130 --> 00:40:59.330 But look, I was wise. I saw how Sam lived on his own. 00:41:01.450 --> 00:41:07.090 Unless I was in poverty in some way that I could not afford my own place. 00:41:07.270 --> 00:41:11.530 And I'm sure that Sam would not have let me sleep on the streets. I'm pretty sure. 00:41:12.470 --> 00:41:15.410 I'm pretty confident that, you know, that that would have happened. 00:41:15.730 --> 00:41:18.830 That, you know, I would not have moved in with him. However, 00:41:19.090 --> 00:41:21.870 I know that I would have driven him crazy if I lived there because... 00:41:22.980 --> 00:41:28.180 I would have been, hell, I drive my wife crazy because I'm, you know, 00:41:28.320 --> 00:41:31.880 I'm constantly like, why the fuck is this thing over here? 00:41:31.980 --> 00:41:36.240 Why did you, like, just everything must be, by the way, in that, 00:41:36.300 --> 00:41:40.060 in that note, aside from my son learning Japanese the same way I learned English, 00:41:40.640 --> 00:41:42.720 he also keeps picking up after his mom. 00:41:43.360 --> 00:41:43.800 Okay. 00:41:43.980 --> 00:41:44.240 Also. 00:41:44.460 --> 00:41:44.580 Yeah. 00:41:44.600 --> 00:41:46.480 So he's got both, he's like, he got both. 00:41:49.880 --> 00:41:53.600 She'll forget to close a door in a closet and Madhu was like right behind her, 00:41:53.780 --> 00:41:55.460 wham, they're closing. What are you doing? 00:41:55.560 --> 00:42:00.520 I will say it would be nice actually to have somebody in the family who was 00:42:00.520 --> 00:42:08.000 a neat freak because while I am not capable of actually keeping things nice 00:42:08.000 --> 00:42:10.520 and tidy, I have come to learn that about myself. 00:42:10.600 --> 00:42:15.820 I do appreciate a place that is and I feel better when I am in a place that is. 00:42:15.900 --> 00:42:22.040 I will say that Sam, the times that I came into his place and I did go and do 00:42:22.040 --> 00:42:26.000 cleaning, was not really displeased. 00:42:26.640 --> 00:42:27.080 Right. 00:42:27.420 --> 00:42:27.820 Yeah. 00:42:28.020 --> 00:42:30.940 Like, it's not like I hate a clean place. 00:42:31.140 --> 00:42:34.220 It's just that it doesn't come out of you naturally. 00:42:34.460 --> 00:42:36.180 It does not come out of you naturally. 00:42:36.180 --> 00:42:39.280 And if I left it for you clean, you would be like, oh, this is nice. 00:42:39.760 --> 00:42:40.200 Yes. 00:42:40.200 --> 00:42:40.560 I like this. 00:42:40.860 --> 00:42:45.580 And it would last for approximately three hours, and then it would be trashed. But, you know. 00:42:46.060 --> 00:42:49.100 No, no, no. Some of the things I did last a lot longer. 00:42:49.480 --> 00:42:53.680 Oh, yeah. And yes, anyway, 00:42:53.940 --> 00:43:01.940 it's, you know, I, and, you know, a few, and I actually don't necessarily mind 00:43:01.940 --> 00:43:04.800 the physical acts of cleaning either. 00:43:05.220 --> 00:43:11.440 However, what, what I and everybody in this household is missing is the ability 00:43:11.440 --> 00:43:16.680 to do that sort of spontaneously as other things go on. 00:43:16.820 --> 00:43:19.260 And on a consistent basis, right. 00:43:19.260 --> 00:43:21.120 Right, as opposed to, like... 00:43:22.200 --> 00:43:27.480 If I decide, okay, I am cleaning now, I will go spend some time cleaning. 00:43:27.680 --> 00:43:29.520 I will clean a specific area out. 00:43:29.840 --> 00:43:37.220 But that is an entirely different skill than, you know, I finish something and 00:43:37.220 --> 00:43:42.300 when I'm finished, I put it away instead of just dropping it where it is until 00:43:42.300 --> 00:43:43.440 the next time I actually am cleaning. 00:43:43.440 --> 00:43:47.460 And it's a thing of like your method of like working through your task list. 00:43:47.620 --> 00:43:52.400 Look, I realized the other day that you said that you were going to do Wordle. Okay. All right. 00:43:52.800 --> 00:43:56.300 And that you put it on your task list. And I realized that a number of days 00:43:56.300 --> 00:43:58.060 have elapsed that you have not done it. 00:43:58.260 --> 00:44:03.360 And I realized that it's on his task list. And because of the way and method 00:44:03.360 --> 00:44:09.540 that he arrives at doing things, he may not do Wordle again until 2026. 00:44:10.540 --> 00:44:16.440 Right now, Wordle, and we talked a few weeks ago about my to-do list mechanism 00:44:16.440 --> 00:44:17.860 and the randomization and all that. 00:44:18.140 --> 00:44:22.160 It has been two days, 20 hours, and eight minutes since the last time I did Wordle. 00:44:22.520 --> 00:44:29.420 And if I would roll to pick a task to do right now, Wordle has a .296 chance 00:44:29.420 --> 00:44:31.440 of coming up as the task gets picked. 00:44:31.460 --> 00:44:35.500 Yeah, so I'm accurate. It's highly likely that I will not see you do another 00:44:35.500 --> 00:44:39.140 Wordle until 2026, given the few number of days. 00:44:39.540 --> 00:44:43.640 It's only a few weeks away. So, yeah, it's possible. 00:44:43.940 --> 00:44:50.900 I mean, I am picking tasks most days, like, you know, maybe 15, 20 times. 00:44:51.140 --> 00:44:55.320 So, like, something that has, like, a .2, .3 chance can come up. 00:44:55.420 --> 00:45:00.060 It can come up, but I got a good shot at seeing you at 2026. 00:45:00.460 --> 00:45:02.100 You do. You do indeed. 00:45:03.860 --> 00:45:04.540 All right. 00:45:04.840 --> 00:45:07.220 Okay, I think that's time for our break. 00:45:07.400 --> 00:45:07.580 Yeah. 00:45:08.640 --> 00:45:11.300 Than to talk about, you know, other stuffs. 00:45:11.900 --> 00:45:12.460 Stuff. 00:45:12.660 --> 00:45:19.960 So, stuffs. So I have to pick. Here comes the break. Enjoy. Enjoy, enjoy. 00:45:21.080 --> 00:45:25.240 Okie dokie. Here it comes. T-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t. 00:45:29.630 --> 00:45:32.990 It was just my internet being stupid. 00:45:33.310 --> 00:45:38.390 My internet being stupid is a new song we will make. 00:45:38.390 --> 00:46:08.370 do believe in the morning balloon, 00:46:11.590 --> 00:46:18.910 i'm tired what's wrong i'm i'm really tired you you you it's it's amazing to 00:46:18.910 --> 00:46:25.710 get the show on the road there's a road there's a road oh my god there's a road. 00:46:25.710 --> 00:46:33.050 Okay all right here we are we're back we're back so you know up until like an 00:46:33.050 --> 00:46:37.510 hour before we recorded this show there was like, 00:46:38.030 --> 00:46:42.270 almost nothing on our list for this week and then both yvonne and i dropped 00:46:42.270 --> 00:46:45.930 some things in real quick because we're also doing this a little bit earlier 00:46:45.930 --> 00:46:47.250 in the week than we usually do, 00:46:48.510 --> 00:46:52.730 even when we do it thursday night u.s time we usually do it thursday night u.s 00:46:52.730 --> 00:46:56.350 we're doing it thursday well thursday afternoon here for me on the west coast 00:46:56.350 --> 00:47:02.070 it's like after what almost six o'clock there it's almost yeah yeah yeah but 00:47:02.070 --> 00:47:07.730 um east coast west coast north coast south coast whatever you know there could be a. 00:47:07.730 --> 00:47:08.750 North coast south coast. 00:47:08.750 --> 00:47:13.190 There is a south coast there is a north coast yeah. 00:47:13.190 --> 00:47:15.150 There's you know it's coast all over the place. 00:47:15.150 --> 00:47:16.250 Go up to hudson bay. 00:47:17.590 --> 00:47:18.530 That's a good point. Yeah. 00:47:19.150 --> 00:47:21.930 So anyway, what do you want to talk about, Yvonne? 00:47:23.170 --> 00:47:27.850 Oh, let's see. We did put a whole bunch of things down, but let's see. 00:47:30.730 --> 00:47:35.230 Talk a little bit about some elections politics kind of a thing, 00:47:35.290 --> 00:47:37.510 because there's a couple of things in here related to those. 00:47:37.770 --> 00:47:40.050 Election politics kind of a thing. 00:47:40.370 --> 00:47:45.490 Yes. So, well, the reason I mentioned both, I'll talk first. Well, we just had this. 00:47:45.630 --> 00:47:50.990 This just happened as we were just before we started recording that Indiana 00:47:50.990 --> 00:47:58.850 rejected the redistricting that that Trump was pushing and rejected it by fairly substantial margin. 00:48:00.230 --> 00:48:05.770 I saw over here that the vote was 19 to 31 to defeat it. 00:48:05.850 --> 00:48:09.210 So it wasn't even like it's not like it was close to passing. 00:48:09.630 --> 00:48:12.290 It was quite a wide margin. 00:48:13.350 --> 00:48:21.270 And so I did see that Trump was using his usual charm to try to get the people 00:48:21.270 --> 00:48:22.850 in Indiana to vote for him. 00:48:23.010 --> 00:48:28.310 I pulled this up on one that says President Trump has made it clear to Indiana leaders. 00:48:29.230 --> 00:48:35.650 If the Indiana Senate fails to pass the map, all federal funding will be stripped from the state. 00:48:36.290 --> 00:48:40.510 Roads will not be paved. Guard bases will close. 00:48:41.070 --> 00:48:46.510 Major projects will stop. There are stakes and every no vote will be to blame. 00:48:47.650 --> 00:48:48.690 It sounds really democratic. 00:48:49.050 --> 00:48:51.530 Is that not how things are supposed to work, Yvonne? 00:48:52.230 --> 00:48:56.970 I mean, I guess it depends where, I guess it's how things are supposed to work 00:48:56.970 --> 00:49:01.430 depends on where you're, where you've lived for all your life, I guess. 00:49:02.030 --> 00:49:07.190 Well, I'm thinking Indiana for this. Yeah. Is it not how things are supposed to work in Indiana? 00:49:07.430 --> 00:49:09.710 It's not how things have worked in the past. This is kind of like the, 00:49:09.710 --> 00:49:12.790 this is kind of like the Trump's administration requirement that people provide 00:49:12.790 --> 00:49:15.750 with no details how this is supposed to happen. 00:49:15.750 --> 00:49:19.610 But five years of social media history when they are doing their electronic 00:49:19.610 --> 00:49:23.830 visa application, which is like something that is like for people that are that 00:49:23.830 --> 00:49:27.270 already, you know, they have like visa free access. 00:49:27.550 --> 00:49:32.890 You do this ESTA form, which is just electronic like thing that you submit to do that. 00:49:33.270 --> 00:49:37.730 And, you know, it says that you're supposed to do it with no explanation as to how. 00:49:38.810 --> 00:49:46.170 You know, right. How do you provide five? I don't. How do I provide five years? So what do I, I would. 00:49:46.390 --> 00:49:47.470 You print it out, Yvonne. 00:49:47.730 --> 00:49:48.390 You print it out. 00:49:48.470 --> 00:49:49.630 You take it with you to the airport. 00:49:49.970 --> 00:49:53.890 Yeah, you show up and I'm like, here you go. Okay, here is, you know, 00:49:54.350 --> 00:49:59.230 there's a crate, I guess, in cargo that has five years of my printed social media history. 00:49:59.410 --> 00:50:01.530 So go knock yourself out, start looking through it. 00:50:01.890 --> 00:50:08.710 Anyway, but yeah, I mean, this has been the threat that it really seems like 00:50:08.710 --> 00:50:11.310 from what I was reading that. 00:50:12.490 --> 00:50:15.130 Basically, the threats just pissed off people. 00:50:15.850 --> 00:50:16.330 Right. 00:50:17.030 --> 00:50:21.150 This wasn't like any encouragement. It was just, you know, this is what you're 00:50:21.150 --> 00:50:24.570 threatening. You know, we need to, you know, do this. 00:50:24.650 --> 00:50:28.390 And I guess that it seemed that they were only going to be able to pick up. 00:50:28.510 --> 00:50:33.710 Did I understand that basically that they could have maybe picked up like one seat? 00:50:34.610 --> 00:50:39.590 Two from Indiana. There are two Democratic seats in Indiana right now. 00:50:39.750 --> 00:50:41.730 And our goal was to wipe them both out. 00:50:41.930 --> 00:50:46.230 Yeah. But I saw I was seeing that maybe they thought that even like with this, 00:50:46.290 --> 00:50:49.270 maybe they could get realistically in the end, like one. 00:50:49.430 --> 00:50:53.790 But but I'm just, you know. 00:50:55.830 --> 00:51:00.990 I do think that this is part of a little bit of Donald Trump is turning into 00:51:00.990 --> 00:51:01.990 a little bit of a lame duck. 00:51:02.510 --> 00:51:07.470 Oh, a little bit. I think that's accelerating very quickly, you know, 00:51:07.670 --> 00:51:09.430 because people are starting. 00:51:10.170 --> 00:51:16.870 You know, the whole thing about Donald Trump capturing the Republican Party 00:51:16.870 --> 00:51:22.110 was that everybody was afraid of him and afraid of his supporters. 00:51:22.430 --> 00:51:29.430 Right. OK, but what's happening so far in this second term, I mean, a couple of things. 00:51:29.550 --> 00:51:33.770 I mean, one, he's becoming increasingly unpopular, even among Republicans. 00:51:34.070 --> 00:51:38.950 Now, to be clear, he's still got a lot of support among Republicans, 00:51:39.110 --> 00:51:41.770 but it's less than it was by a decent amount. 00:51:42.230 --> 00:51:49.670 And and two, he's showing himself more and more to be less effective. 00:51:49.670 --> 00:51:57.110 And when people have gone against him, they haven't necessarily suffered the 00:51:57.110 --> 00:51:59.290 same sort of negative consequences. 00:51:59.930 --> 00:52:05.710 Now, you do have even like MTG is resigning Congress. She's not fighting there. 00:52:05.910 --> 00:52:08.990 She's not trying to stay. so there 00:52:08.990 --> 00:52:12.550 you could say there are still negative consequences but 00:52:12.550 --> 00:52:15.270 his endorsement hasn't meant as much as it has 00:52:15.270 --> 00:52:19.750 in the past he's endorsed people who have lost he has not endorsed people who 00:52:19.750 --> 00:52:25.870 have gone on to win and it's just showing his weakening power and you expect 00:52:25.870 --> 00:52:30.430 that as you approach the lame as you approach the second half of a presidential 00:52:30.430 --> 00:52:34.870 of a second presidential term anyway but i think. 00:52:35.990 --> 00:52:41.710 There is more and more of the Republican Party who's starting to actively think 00:52:41.710 --> 00:52:49.530 about, well, what's next after him and are starting to position themselves for that. 00:52:50.190 --> 00:52:58.010 And so, yeah, 100 percent lame lame duckness is increasing as time goes on. 00:52:58.010 --> 00:53:02.930 And it doesn't help that like half the time these days he's looking confused 00:53:02.930 --> 00:53:06.550 and like he doesn't know where he is and he's falling asleep in cabinet meetings 00:53:06.550 --> 00:53:08.210 and all this kind of crap. 00:53:08.410 --> 00:53:13.790 He went on this like to do this speech somewhere that apparently like it was 00:53:13.790 --> 00:53:19.030 in a tiny place that not a lot of people actually showed up to do something on affordability. 00:53:19.230 --> 00:53:22.550 And then they decided, oh, we're going to bring a working person to show over 00:53:22.550 --> 00:53:25.010 here how this whole affordability thing is a hoax. 00:53:25.010 --> 00:53:29.430 And the person that they brought up on stage basically just ripped them to, 00:53:29.570 --> 00:53:35.510 I mean, it was, they, they basically came up and just said, I just get a paycheck 00:53:35.510 --> 00:53:39.910 and I, all my money goes out to pay bills and I can't afford anything. 00:53:41.530 --> 00:53:44.230 So it looked very well planned. 00:53:45.640 --> 00:53:49.740 Indeed, what the hell they did like this week was just, you know, 00:53:49.880 --> 00:53:55.720 ridiculous, you know, this entire thing, you know, and but but the fact nobody showed up. 00:53:55.960 --> 00:54:03.480 This was just I this is the the contrast versus how it used to be whenever Trump 00:54:03.480 --> 00:54:07.480 went somewhere or whatever and how this thing just, 00:54:07.660 --> 00:54:11.720 you know, he went off the rails as usual, but that's not unexpected. I mean, whatever. 00:54:11.740 --> 00:54:15.100 He was just talking like meandering and whatever, whatnot. That is a big deal. 00:54:15.300 --> 00:54:18.340 But the fact that very little, very few people showed up and, 00:54:18.360 --> 00:54:26.080 and, and look, in a demonstration of how, uh, the, he is a lame duck and he 00:54:26.080 --> 00:54:29.520 is struggling with support and aligning people. 00:54:29.760 --> 00:54:33.620 Well, what happened here in this, in the city of Miami? So let me start first 00:54:33.620 --> 00:54:36.000 by explaining what the hell the city of Miami is. 00:54:36.080 --> 00:54:38.620 Which is not Miami-Dade County. Because we had yet more elections. 00:54:38.920 --> 00:54:42.780 We had yet more, like we had elections a few weeks ago. We got even more now. 00:54:42.780 --> 00:54:47.760 In Florida, there were like three state Senate, you know, state legislature 00:54:47.760 --> 00:54:51.640 seats that, by the way, they all swung heavily Democratic. 00:54:52.180 --> 00:54:55.740 Right. I mean, by my substantial margins. 00:54:56.120 --> 00:55:02.540 Like, I mean, they, you know, Florida last election cycle, all the places that 00:55:02.540 --> 00:55:07.440 I knew that were heavily blue, they really, really, really had been a lot redder 00:55:07.440 --> 00:55:10.080 than they ever had been, ever. Okay. 00:55:10.740 --> 00:55:15.660 But that apparently has self-corrected quite quickly with everything that's 00:55:15.660 --> 00:55:19.380 been going on, especially because they talk about affordability and whatever, 00:55:19.480 --> 00:55:20.640 and it's a blue state problem. 00:55:20.820 --> 00:55:26.960 Look, Florida is the epicenter of shitty affordability. OK, all right. 00:55:27.980 --> 00:55:32.280 I mean, this is this is ground zero to this right now, especially because there's 00:55:32.280 --> 00:55:35.540 never any Medicaid expansion. This is the reason why I was talking earlier about 00:55:35.540 --> 00:55:40.260 the guy I talked about and health insurance and how nobody can afford fucking 00:55:40.260 --> 00:55:41.920 health insurance in this state, okay? 00:55:42.360 --> 00:55:46.600 If you're earning 60-some-odd thousand dollars a year, 00:55:47.610 --> 00:55:50.170 Which, by the way, is not enough to live in this state. Basically, 00:55:51.230 --> 00:55:57.970 when median rents are $2,000 a month, all of a sudden, we have the worst housing 00:55:57.970 --> 00:56:02.210 affordability right now in the nation, in this state. 00:56:02.890 --> 00:56:05.670 This is just the reality. 00:56:06.870 --> 00:56:10.170 One of the things that happened also is with the city of Miami. 00:56:10.330 --> 00:56:14.410 And look, the city of Miami, which is not Miami-Dade County. 00:56:14.530 --> 00:56:19.570 Miami-Dade County is 3 million people, has a lot of cities. City of Miami Beach is a separate city. 00:56:19.850 --> 00:56:24.210 City of Miami Lakes or City of Doral, where Doral has his fucking golf course. 00:56:24.630 --> 00:56:30.690 City of Miami itself is the downtown Miami area. It includes a little Havana and whatever. 00:56:31.070 --> 00:56:35.430 It's got about 600,000 people, OK, out of three million plus. 00:56:35.650 --> 00:56:39.570 That is the entire Miami-Dade County. And by the way, the reason they changed 00:56:39.570 --> 00:56:43.290 the name from Dade County to Miami-Dade County is people didn't know where the 00:56:43.290 --> 00:56:46.370 fuck is Dade County for a while. 00:56:46.370 --> 00:56:51.490 So many years ago, they changed it to Miami-Dade County. So you knew what the hell it was. OK. 00:56:52.530 --> 00:56:56.610 Right. City of Miami had not elected a Democrat to the mayor. 00:56:57.350 --> 00:57:01.890 30 years, Sam. 30 fucking years, okay? 00:57:01.950 --> 00:57:02.150 Right. 00:57:02.350 --> 00:57:08.270 And they elected a Democrat, and it was by an overwhelming margin that they 00:57:08.270 --> 00:57:09.730 elected a Democrat, okay? 00:57:10.050 --> 00:57:13.490 Not just that, the one thing that happened with this last cycle, 00:57:13.690 --> 00:57:22.550 there was a series of Cuban Republican family dynasties that were in government 00:57:22.550 --> 00:57:27.070 both at the county level and at the city of Miami level. 00:57:27.350 --> 00:57:30.370 There are the Carollos, OK, number one. 00:57:30.570 --> 00:57:35.670 OK, these guys are awful people. OK, Joe Carollo is mayor of Miami. 00:57:36.010 --> 00:57:41.870 He was in the he was the city council in Miami. He had been in power there for 30 years. 00:57:42.130 --> 00:57:47.570 This is a guy that that, you know, did so much corruption and never. 00:57:47.670 --> 00:57:50.110 I mean, he had been tried in federal court. 00:57:50.290 --> 00:57:55.470 He lost the case, a civil suit that a bard had against a ball and chain for 00:57:55.470 --> 00:58:00.210 abusing city resources. to basically try to shut down a business that annoyed 00:58:00.210 --> 00:58:02.010 him personally. That's it. 00:58:02.630 --> 00:58:07.410 There's nothing else. He lost a lawsuit. They were foreclosing on his house. 00:58:07.570 --> 00:58:10.430 They were trying to take everything. He figured out some fucking way. 00:58:10.530 --> 00:58:17.070 I think Trump also and their DOJ helped and him not being able to have taken all his stuff away. 00:58:17.310 --> 00:58:22.570 But he had been, you know, he had, you know, this guy wound up being back in 00:58:22.570 --> 00:58:25.510 government every time. It's like you could never get rid of him, okay? 00:58:26.330 --> 00:58:31.010 And so they set a new term limit thing so the thing that the Corollos would 00:58:31.010 --> 00:58:32.810 do oh I'm not running I'm going to put my brother, 00:58:33.460 --> 00:58:37.360 They would keep flipping back and forth, okay? His brother or him. 00:58:37.580 --> 00:58:39.220 Well, guess what? They all lost. 00:58:39.480 --> 00:58:42.220 Term limits got put in. His brother lost. He lost. 00:58:42.780 --> 00:58:47.180 The Suarez's, there was this guy who kept appearing with Trump recently. 00:58:47.320 --> 00:58:51.560 He was the mayor of the city of Miami who was a crypto bro, okay? 00:58:51.700 --> 00:58:54.300 All right? He was the son of the old fucking mayor, okay? 00:58:54.520 --> 00:58:57.720 And if you go with Francis Suarez, this guy, look, you looked at him as the 00:58:57.720 --> 00:59:02.400 prototypical slick-haired crypto bro that you see these days. 00:59:02.400 --> 00:59:05.240 That guy, the Suarez's, also, they got booted out. 00:59:06.640 --> 00:59:10.200 They lost their power as well. There's another one I'm forgetting, 00:59:10.240 --> 00:59:14.020 like right now, that also, but the thing is that they also put, 00:59:14.160 --> 00:59:19.760 finally, in the city of Miami, for the first time, okay, real term limits. 00:59:20.400 --> 00:59:24.220 Lifetime term limits. Not that you can't, you know, forget about this thing 00:59:24.220 --> 00:59:27.160 because the way we do is, oh, two terms or whatever. 00:59:27.360 --> 00:59:30.560 Now it's like, yeah, because then, oh, well, I skipped one term because I put 00:59:30.560 --> 00:59:33.900 my brother and then I can come back, right? No, that's it. 00:59:34.480 --> 00:59:38.140 Done. No more fucking term limits. OK. All right. They're done. 00:59:38.300 --> 00:59:40.780 They're over. Finally, for fucking once. OK. 00:59:41.080 --> 00:59:44.160 The opposite. Not no more term limits. We have real term limits. 00:59:44.180 --> 00:59:46.960 I mean, no. Yeah. I mean, yeah, the opposite. Yeah. No more. 00:59:47.100 --> 00:59:51.040 Yeah, exactly. No more. No more lifetime terms for these people. They're done. OK. 00:59:51.260 --> 00:59:56.620 They finally were able to pass the term limits in a real way that their lifetime 00:59:56.620 --> 01:00:01.000 term limits that you can't find some loophole or to get get get a turn around. 01:00:01.000 --> 01:00:03.860 You know, there was this family, the Escalonas, for example. 01:00:04.160 --> 01:00:08.800 Okay. Well, actually, the Escalonas got a broke Corolla streak. 01:00:09.060 --> 01:00:15.680 The Corolla family had a 16-year streak occupying the District 3 seat in the city council. 01:00:16.000 --> 01:00:18.080 16 years. Okay. 01:00:18.500 --> 01:00:21.600 That they were there. And this guy's also mayor and whatever. 01:00:22.160 --> 01:00:25.600 Mayor Francis Suarez, who was the guy that I told you, the crypto bro, 01:00:25.880 --> 01:00:30.700 he came in sixth where he was running. Okay. Okay. 01:00:31.370 --> 01:00:36.930 And so under Regalados, Regalado was also a guy that was a mayor of Miami and 01:00:36.930 --> 01:00:40.550 his brother was also running for something and he lost the special election as well. 01:00:41.110 --> 01:00:46.070 So these were like families that had, you know, the Regalados, 01:00:46.410 --> 01:00:48.510 the Suarez's, the Corollos. 01:00:48.790 --> 01:00:57.130 They, man, you know, they had power in Miami that had transcended decades and decades. 01:00:57.470 --> 01:01:01.150 And these guys were all Cuban. They were Republicans. OK, that's the main thing. 01:01:01.370 --> 01:01:09.530 And all of them, finally, all gone in one fell swoop, completely. So... 01:01:11.750 --> 01:01:17.290 For that to happen, when you got rid of those three dynasties in Miami, 01:01:17.710 --> 01:01:24.470 and how the margin for the Democratic— Man, this has been like razor-thin margins 01:01:24.470 --> 01:01:26.330 there, you know, all this time. 01:01:26.550 --> 01:01:31.590 The margin was so overwhelming for the Democrat that— I think you're getting—I 01:01:31.590 --> 01:01:34.470 think that the people in Miami, with everything that's happened, 01:01:34.570 --> 01:01:39.850 especially with— Listen, especially with the affordability crisis, okay? 01:01:39.990 --> 01:01:46.830 All right. Because the city of Miami is in Miami-Dade County is the place of the state. 01:01:46.990 --> 01:01:54.130 The affordability is just just gone like off the deep end because you had so 01:01:54.130 --> 01:01:57.910 many of these people from Wall Street and other places that came in and, 01:01:57.930 --> 01:02:00.930 you know, and started bidding everything up. 01:02:01.170 --> 01:02:06.250 OK, and all these people that were following Trump's coattails because he's down here in Doral. 01:02:06.490 --> 01:02:09.090 He keeps spending all this time down here, whatever. where all these people 01:02:09.090 --> 01:02:13.730 fall in his coattails. I mean, there were tens of, they came in with a lot of money. 01:02:14.550 --> 01:02:18.310 And a lot of them were selling from higher property states that come down here. 01:02:18.530 --> 01:02:21.310 They bid up everything. They've made everything unaffordable. 01:02:21.950 --> 01:02:25.810 Salaries don't go up because this state doesn't believe in like raising people's salaries. 01:02:26.390 --> 01:02:30.170 Fuck the healthcare or whatever. So they can't afford to live. 01:02:30.330 --> 01:02:33.730 They don't have enough wages or whatever. Man, they all got fed up. 01:02:34.570 --> 01:02:36.330 And they just voted all these people out. 01:02:37.770 --> 01:02:41.710 So I didn't see what happened in other states, but I was paying close attention 01:02:41.710 --> 01:02:42.630 to what happened down here. 01:02:43.250 --> 01:02:49.390 It was just quite surprising given the swing that happened from just a year ago. 01:02:50.380 --> 01:02:57.720 It was, it was, it was a swings over 10 plus points in a lot of places. And, um, right. 01:02:57.900 --> 01:03:03.900 So I, I, I had given a summary from, from Tanneel, who is at, 01:03:03.900 --> 01:03:08.780 I have mentioned him before, it is a publication called bolts does a lot of 01:03:08.780 --> 01:03:11.780 local coverage of local politics all across the country. 01:03:12.020 --> 01:03:16.300 Anyway, the summary of his huge nights, huge night for Democrats, 01:03:16.660 --> 01:03:20.360 starting with what you mentioned. They flipped Miami's mayorship. 01:03:20.940 --> 01:03:26.920 They flipped a state house district in Georgia that had voted for Trump by 13%. 01:03:26.920 --> 01:03:27.560 Jesus. 01:03:28.320 --> 01:03:31.540 And this was posted right after Tuesday. I haven't looked at the follow-up. 01:03:31.620 --> 01:03:37.060 They were on track to keep the Albuquerque mayorship while a liberal faction 01:03:37.060 --> 01:03:38.620 flips the city council there. 01:03:39.260 --> 01:03:43.560 And big overperformance in the two Florida specials you mentioned, 01:03:43.800 --> 01:03:46.740 plus 17 and plus 22 in the two. 01:03:47.700 --> 01:03:52.360 And this is one of the themes as we go through these specials is even if the 01:03:52.360 --> 01:03:58.060 Democrats don't win, they're doing huge amounts better than the Democrat is 01:03:58.060 --> 01:04:02.020 quote unquote expected to do in regions all across the country. 01:04:02.160 --> 01:04:10.160 And it's one where if you translate that same amount of movement into all of 01:04:10.160 --> 01:04:13.480 the races that are supposed to be in 2026, 01:04:14.140 --> 01:04:17.500 you're talking a big blue wave if this continues. 01:04:17.740 --> 01:04:24.240 Now, we're 11 months out yet from that election. Lots of stuff can happen in 11 months. 01:04:24.680 --> 01:04:28.280 Here's the one thing. But the stuff that's happening as we're recording, 01:04:28.460 --> 01:04:33.340 the fucking Senate basically told everybody, fuck you, it told everybody, 01:04:33.640 --> 01:04:36.900 oh, your health premiums, fuck you, they're going up and we don't care. 01:04:37.950 --> 01:04:41.190 So why don't you start talking about that? What's... 01:04:41.190 --> 01:04:43.390 Well, in the Senate... 01:04:43.390 --> 01:04:49.870 I will start. I will start. Remember the Democrats' deal to end the government 01:04:49.870 --> 01:04:54.810 shutdown was that they would get a vote on these health care premium things. 01:04:55.310 --> 01:05:02.430 Well, the vote happened today. And as expected, nothing passed. nothing. 01:05:02.910 --> 01:05:10.250 It was, it was a 50, you know, 54, they got 54 votes if I remember correctly, 53 or 52 votes. Okay. 01:05:10.450 --> 01:05:14.270 This is why when you make a deal, you don't, 01:05:14.930 --> 01:05:20.790 The cost of the deal shouldn't be you get a vote on something that you don't 01:05:20.790 --> 01:05:21.650 think you're going to win. 01:05:21.850 --> 01:05:26.770 If you actually want that thing, you have to make that part of the deal in the 01:05:26.770 --> 01:05:31.930 first place, not, oh, we'll have a vote a few months from now. Yeah. Come on. 01:05:32.090 --> 01:05:40.250 And so, yeah, this was not good. But, I mean, politically, who's getting killed are the Republicans. 01:05:40.330 --> 01:05:43.030 Are the Republicans regardless. And this is honestly. 01:05:43.250 --> 01:05:47.870 Honestly, that was part of the justification for the deal was like, 01:05:47.930 --> 01:05:51.350 look, this is just going to be bad for the Republicans anyway. 01:05:51.970 --> 01:05:56.790 So but I didn't want people to get killed without their health insurance premiums. 01:05:56.890 --> 01:06:00.610 You see, my thing is, and I get it, that politically, strategically, 01:06:00.930 --> 01:06:04.630 yes, this was better. But the reality is I'm not into this. 01:06:04.890 --> 01:06:08.350 I'm not into a lot of this shit for the just for the politics, 01:06:08.530 --> 01:06:14.890 just for that. I mean, I, you know, I really wanted people not to have their 01:06:14.890 --> 01:06:16.690 insurance premiums soaring. 01:06:16.970 --> 01:06:20.870 The calculation was the Republicans were never actually going to cave on that. 01:06:20.990 --> 01:06:23.970 And so the question was just how long the government stays closed. 01:06:24.610 --> 01:06:26.170 Now, having said that. 01:06:26.630 --> 01:06:30.910 The final vote was 51 to 48. So they presented both the Democrats, 01:06:30.930 --> 01:06:37.170 which is extend the health care subsidies for three years. and the idiotic fucking 01:06:37.170 --> 01:06:40.650 like Republican proposal, which basically did nothing. 01:06:40.870 --> 01:06:46.450 It gave you like, oh, here, I'll give you $2,000 now so you can try to afford 01:06:46.450 --> 01:06:48.810 your $3,000 a month premiums. 01:06:48.970 --> 01:06:51.290 Not really exactly that helpful. 01:06:51.890 --> 01:06:55.730 Yeah, no, I was just going to say, back to the government shutdown ending, 01:06:56.430 --> 01:07:00.990 the thing that got me about it is the timing because at the moment they capitulated, 01:07:00.990 --> 01:07:04.890 it looked like the Republicans actually were on the ropes and were starting to crack. 01:07:05.370 --> 01:07:07.450 And that was the moment they decided to like. 01:07:08.320 --> 01:07:13.680 But but OK, but but here is the thing. If if what we're talking about is a one year cost. 01:07:14.800 --> 01:07:18.240 Because we think we could turn this back later, but I don't know. 01:07:18.380 --> 01:07:22.440 The Senate really map isn't changing that much. You know, is the problem. 01:07:23.220 --> 01:07:26.480 Yeah, I mean, well, the the best case scenario. 01:07:26.800 --> 01:07:32.560 Well, I'd say at this point with the numbers we're seeing, rather than the Senate 01:07:32.560 --> 01:07:37.160 being a lost cause for the Democrats, is at least a chance. but they're certainly 01:07:37.160 --> 01:07:38.340 not favored in the Senate. 01:07:38.540 --> 01:07:41.540 I think the, and we'll have our prediction show coming up very soon. 01:07:41.660 --> 01:07:44.300 And I'm sure one of the predictions is what's going to happen to now in the 01:07:44.300 --> 01:07:50.260 Senate, but it's looking like the Democrats have a very, very good chance of flipping the House. 01:07:50.940 --> 01:07:56.600 The Senate is still a long shot, but they've got a better chance now than it 01:07:56.600 --> 01:07:58.260 seemed like they would have a few months ago. 01:08:00.360 --> 01:08:03.360 So, and of course, even if they flip both the House and the Senate, 01:08:03.360 --> 01:08:06.580 it, you know, Donald Trump's going to veto anything they want to do anyway. 01:08:06.780 --> 01:08:11.920 So it's not like they'll be able to legislate and get things done necessarily. 01:08:12.780 --> 01:08:15.980 Well, exactly. It's not like they're going to get 60 votes in the Senate is my point. 01:08:16.320 --> 01:08:19.640 And they probably won't have enough. Even if they get a majority, 01:08:19.820 --> 01:08:22.040 they're probably not going to have enough to kill the filibuster either. 01:08:23.260 --> 01:08:26.500 So because, you know, lots of Democrats don't want that anyway. 01:08:27.530 --> 01:08:31.770 I mean, it's just there are so few here that is even possible. 01:08:31.950 --> 01:08:35.930 It's just, yeah, I mean, all you've got is a little bit where you can get, 01:08:36.010 --> 01:08:38.190 just get a little bit over 50, but that's it. 01:08:38.250 --> 01:08:41.210 I mean, it's not like, I mean, they're not going to get, well, 01:08:41.470 --> 01:08:45.930 but no, it's just not, they're not enough seats to, you know, 01:08:45.970 --> 01:08:51.630 there's just, you know, you're not going to get, well, I mean, we did get Alabama once. 01:08:52.250 --> 01:08:52.610 Once. 01:08:52.610 --> 01:08:53.190 I say that. 01:08:53.650 --> 01:08:55.150 There were special circumstances. 01:08:55.150 --> 01:08:57.890 There's one Kentucky Open. There's an Alabama Open one. 01:08:58.530 --> 01:09:03.390 It looks like the Democrats have the best shot at Maine that they've had in a long time. Yeah. 01:09:03.630 --> 01:09:10.790 I mean, it's one of those things where I guess it's possible, 01:09:10.890 --> 01:09:16.990 but it's highly, highly, highly, highly, highly, highly unlikely. 01:09:17.490 --> 01:09:22.970 Unless, you know, it's just, I mean, I don't know. But it's just, 01:09:23.430 --> 01:09:27.810 basically, I'm not putting money on it that we could get to, 01:09:27.970 --> 01:09:30.970 we could turn the clock back to 2008. 01:09:31.570 --> 01:09:32.050 Right. 01:09:32.450 --> 01:09:35.830 But the way, you do realize the way that, you know, of course, 01:09:35.950 --> 01:09:41.850 which, again, because I don't like people getting hurt, I'm not advocating for this. 01:09:42.330 --> 01:09:47.590 The way that we got to 60 votes in 2008 was because basically the Republicans 01:09:47.590 --> 01:09:49.670 finished destroying the academy. 01:09:50.630 --> 01:09:55.770 Mm-hmm. And they nominated a few real clunkers for their Senate races as well. 01:09:55.990 --> 01:09:56.110 Right. 01:09:56.470 --> 01:10:01.410 I mean, you mentioned Alabama. They nominated somebody who then, 01:10:01.410 --> 01:10:04.630 who was revealed, was like molesting children or something. 01:10:06.230 --> 01:10:09.970 And so you never know. 01:10:10.110 --> 01:10:14.810 Let's face it. I mean, I don't know. We've got a child molesting president right 01:10:14.810 --> 01:10:17.750 now anyway, as far as we was, you know, it's pretty clear. 01:10:18.990 --> 01:10:21.250 So not like that's been a showstopper. 01:10:21.950 --> 01:10:23.450 Ah, yes. 01:10:24.700 --> 01:10:28.440 So anyway, anything else that we got in politics like right now, 01:10:28.520 --> 01:10:31.200 I don't know. Anything else that happened, let me see. 01:10:33.280 --> 01:10:39.680 I mean, Venezuela is not. I mean, I don't know what the fuck. Are we going to war, Sam? 01:10:40.620 --> 01:10:42.500 Are we talking Venezuela? If 01:10:42.500 --> 01:10:44.960 we're going to talk Venezuela, let's take a break and then do that. Okay. 01:10:45.200 --> 01:10:48.660 All right. Let's take a break. Let's talk about whatever the fuck else is on 01:10:48.660 --> 01:10:50.340 here. Okay. All right. 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But since we brought it up, 01:12:42.470 --> 01:12:43.710 let's talk about Venezuela. 01:12:44.450 --> 01:12:48.430 you know we've had first of all we've had my question is simple. 01:12:48.430 --> 01:12:49.350 Are we going to war. 01:12:50.420 --> 01:12:55.180 I, you know, I am torn at this point between. 01:12:55.420 --> 01:13:00.740 I'm not saying if you like the war. I ain't going to war. 01:13:00.760 --> 01:13:04.120 I'm not answering what, you know, do I want to go to war? 01:13:04.300 --> 01:13:08.140 I'm not answering like, you know, if I was president, would I go to war? 01:13:08.320 --> 01:13:13.640 I'm your question is, will we? And I'm still torn about that because on the 01:13:13.640 --> 01:13:15.320 one hand, you have Donald Trump. 01:13:15.660 --> 01:13:18.700 You know, as we mentioned, there are all kinds of reasons where it's seeming 01:13:18.700 --> 01:13:20.140 like he's more and more ineffective. 01:13:20.800 --> 01:13:25.920 Well, the one place where he can sort of just do stuff and, 01:13:26.320 --> 01:13:32.160 well, it's not the only place, but like he could decide to do this as a way 01:13:32.160 --> 01:13:37.420 to show his manliness and to show he's in charge and to, you know, make them stop me. 01:13:37.640 --> 01:13:40.820 I mean, we've got that little controversy over that double tap. 01:13:40.820 --> 01:13:45.000 I gotta be honest, I'd rather have him like pull out his pee-pee in public in 01:13:45.000 --> 01:13:47.220 order if he wants to do that instead of going to war. 01:13:48.030 --> 01:13:55.550 But on the other hand, we've got taco from Always Chickens Out. That's true. 01:13:56.530 --> 01:14:02.470 And so, you know, we apparently, like, what was the most recent thing? 01:14:03.310 --> 01:14:10.050 We boarded a tanker and took over a tanker that we said was sending oil to Iran or whatever. 01:14:10.390 --> 01:14:14.010 We've got these continued attacks on boats. 01:14:14.550 --> 01:14:19.570 Is that something about, it was a sanctioned... Sanctioned, it had sanctioned oil, they said. 01:14:20.310 --> 01:14:25.510 Yes. Well, the story is that it was intended to deliver oil to Iran, 01:14:25.510 --> 01:14:29.270 which is not allowed under the Iranian sanctions, and that's why they boarded it. 01:14:29.430 --> 01:14:32.910 I don't know what proof they do or do not have on that. 01:14:33.110 --> 01:14:37.490 Who knows? It might be. They might be telling the truth. I don't know. 01:14:38.490 --> 01:14:42.570 But, and then they keep attacking these boats that they say are drug boats, 01:14:42.570 --> 01:14:44.070 and we've got The whole thing about 01:14:44.070 --> 01:14:49.470 the killing of the two survivors that Hegseth ordered, that has been, 01:14:50.310 --> 01:14:54.550 you know, I think that had already happened by the time we talked last week, I forget. 01:14:54.790 --> 01:14:59.050 But, like, it has not gone away in the intervening time. 01:14:59.450 --> 01:15:04.150 People are still talking about it and the circumstances and will they release 01:15:04.150 --> 01:15:07.750 the video. At one point, Donald Trump said they would, and then they sort of 01:15:07.750 --> 01:15:12.450 seemed to back down from that. And you've got Republicans saying that, 01:15:12.670 --> 01:15:14.250 oh, it was completely justified anyway. 01:15:14.410 --> 01:15:18.750 They were still a threat. And then the Democrats saying that when they watched 01:15:18.750 --> 01:15:20.790 the video, it certainly didn't look like that to them. 01:15:21.110 --> 01:15:25.330 You know, they were two barely alive survivors hanging on to the wreckage and 01:15:25.330 --> 01:15:30.630 trying not to drown and then went back for a second attack and killed them. 01:15:32.310 --> 01:15:42.910 It's a mess. And if there is a Trump always chickening out moment, I don't think it's yet. 01:15:43.090 --> 01:15:47.270 I think we escalate further before we back down. 01:15:47.530 --> 01:15:51.410 And Donald Trump has been saying he's like all four going in, 01:15:51.610 --> 01:15:59.390 not just boats, but attacking on land, using the Air Force, going after the regime. 01:15:59.390 --> 01:16:03.690 Well, apparently one thing is that with U.S. 01:16:03.790 --> 01:16:09.350 help, it has been claimed, the lady that was a presidential candidate that actually 01:16:09.350 --> 01:16:17.950 got the Nobel Peace Prize, they helped her escape to, I guess she was in Oslo. 01:16:18.470 --> 01:16:23.990 Is this what they were showing her like today? So, yeah, they helped her escape 01:16:23.990 --> 01:16:29.110 from Venezuela. And she said that it was like the U.S. helped her escape. 01:16:29.840 --> 01:16:31.580 Right. Yes, I had heard that. 01:16:32.140 --> 01:16:37.540 So, I mean, so that was a, but obviously that's another action that seems to 01:16:37.540 --> 01:16:41.520 insinuate that we have infiltrated the country. That's what I'm saying. 01:16:41.760 --> 01:16:44.460 Physically with like people somehow. 01:16:45.220 --> 01:16:46.520 Not sure what kind of. 01:16:46.520 --> 01:16:53.160 I'm sure. Donald Trump publicly signed an authorization for CIA covert action 01:16:53.160 --> 01:16:56.060 within Venezuela like almost two months ago. 01:16:56.360 --> 01:16:56.900 Yeah, yeah. 01:16:56.900 --> 01:17:01.460 And normally, you sign an authorization for covert action. It's supposed to 01:17:01.460 --> 01:17:04.280 be covert, and you don't announce that you've done so. 01:17:04.400 --> 01:17:08.960 Oh, so that's the way that works. You don't go and say, hey, 01:17:09.240 --> 01:17:13.680 people, I'm doing covert actions over here. 01:17:14.580 --> 01:17:18.420 Yes. Now, I suppose the individual actions are still, they're trying to do it 01:17:18.420 --> 01:17:20.420 undercover and stealth and all that kind of stuff. 01:17:20.640 --> 01:17:20.960 Still. 01:17:21.120 --> 01:17:26.580 But it's been acknowledged that we are doing that. So, yes, I'm absolutely sure 01:17:26.580 --> 01:17:32.600 there are covert CIA agents and quite possibly covert military of various sorts 01:17:32.600 --> 01:17:35.800 operating within Venezuelan borders. 01:17:35.800 --> 01:17:40.520 The question is, what exactly do they do? 01:17:40.640 --> 01:17:42.980 And do we escalate to overt? 01:17:43.380 --> 01:17:48.280 Do we have the Air Force explicitly bombing targets? 01:17:48.540 --> 01:17:56.260 Do we have ground troops going in specifically to try to take over pieces of territory? 01:17:56.600 --> 01:17:59.780 Do we do that kind of escalation or no? Yeah. 01:18:00.420 --> 01:18:07.760 And like I said, I feel like this is one of those cases where Donald Trump can 01:18:07.760 --> 01:18:10.900 still make that call in the end, 01:18:10.900 --> 01:18:15.640 but Donald Trump is unstable. And what he does. 01:18:16.360 --> 01:18:22.260 Wait, Donald Trump is unstable? So wait, they're going to hold a 25th Amendment? 01:18:23.360 --> 01:18:27.000 No, of course not. But they will. Well, yeah. 01:18:27.400 --> 01:18:30.440 And a lot of stuff is going to happen because like, you know, 01:18:30.540 --> 01:18:34.880 we all know, we've talked about for years how like it's the last person who whispers in his ear. 01:18:35.100 --> 01:18:38.720 So they're going to try to control very carefully who's the last person who 01:18:38.720 --> 01:18:45.100 whispers in his ear and have it be the one who does the things that whoever, 01:18:45.800 --> 01:18:50.780 you know, whether it's Miller or who, whoever, like there are people. 01:18:50.780 --> 01:18:59.460 Well, it seems fairly obvious at this point that the folks in the Trump administration, 01:18:59.460 --> 01:19:05.800 in the various zones of the administration, are basically running their own 01:19:05.800 --> 01:19:09.140 areas because they can whisper in Trump's ear, 01:19:09.300 --> 01:19:12.820 say what they want to say, and he'll just say, yeah, go ahead. 01:19:14.220 --> 01:19:20.560 Well, but I'm sure that everything will be solved by the switch in fonts at the State Department. 01:19:21.060 --> 01:19:25.060 You know, I figured you would save that for the what's something we talked about 01:19:25.060 --> 01:19:26.920 on the Slack that we haven't talked about on the show. 01:19:27.180 --> 01:19:30.300 I thought that was a critical thing for a nation's security. 01:19:31.600 --> 01:19:35.520 This is how Rubio is making his big mark on the State Department. 01:19:36.380 --> 01:19:42.280 Because we have to go back to using Times New Roman instead of the sissy font 01:19:42.280 --> 01:19:45.300 they decided to use instead. Like, you know. 01:19:46.180 --> 01:19:52.120 I'm sure they said it was woke and gay. they did say it was woke oh they said 01:19:52.120 --> 01:19:56.580 it was woke oh shit okay I was only half right well. 01:19:56.580 --> 01:19:58.340 The whole yeah, 01:20:00.300 --> 01:20:04.040 On the one hand, who gives a shit about the stupid font? 01:20:04.220 --> 01:20:08.580 On the other, it actually was changed for a specific reason, 01:20:08.580 --> 01:20:11.320 which is that it's easier to read. 01:20:11.820 --> 01:20:12.060 Yes! 01:20:12.380 --> 01:20:17.380 Which, by the way, it's easier to read for everyone, but it specifically makes 01:20:17.380 --> 01:20:21.900 a difference for people who have trouble with things like dyslexia. 01:20:22.740 --> 01:20:28.680 But it's easier for everyone, including the dyslexics. But it was done to make 01:20:28.680 --> 01:20:33.540 it easier for people to read who had, like, reading impairments of various sorts 01:20:33.540 --> 01:20:34.980 and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. 01:20:35.380 --> 01:20:37.760 And so, of course, we need to undo that. 01:20:38.000 --> 01:20:38.540 Of course. 01:20:38.860 --> 01:20:40.080 To bring back Times New Roman. 01:20:40.480 --> 01:20:40.660 Yes. 01:20:40.680 --> 01:20:43.660 Because Times New Roman, it's the Romans. 01:20:43.660 --> 01:20:44.800 It's a real manly font. 01:20:44.980 --> 01:20:49.020 It's manly. It's the Romans. It's got those twiddly little serifs. 01:20:49.560 --> 01:20:51.620 Yes. Yes. Yes, of course. 01:20:51.700 --> 01:20:54.100 And that's, of course, very manly when you have the little twiddly font. 01:20:54.100 --> 01:20:58.840 I mean, you want a real manly font. You don't want like the sissy, you know, woke... 01:20:59.700 --> 01:21:04.220 Font at the State Department. Yeah, when you're getting a letter from the State 01:21:04.220 --> 01:21:07.160 Department, it needs to not be woke. 01:21:07.440 --> 01:21:12.020 It needs to be, you know, it needs to have Department of War vibes, 01:21:12.420 --> 01:21:13.780 not Department of Defense. 01:21:14.100 --> 01:21:16.900 It needs to be war, Sam. You understand? 01:21:18.000 --> 01:21:21.740 You know, given that, you know. 01:21:21.740 --> 01:21:24.240 You're in the fucking dumbest timeline, Sam. 01:21:24.780 --> 01:21:29.720 Yeah, it should it should be like one of those fonts that looks like the old military stencils. 01:21:30.540 --> 01:21:33.180 I mean, if they wanted that, they should have gone to Courier. 01:21:33.840 --> 01:21:35.440 Honestly, fuck this shit. 01:21:35.660 --> 01:21:39.160 No, I'm thinking more like, you know, the logo for the A-team. 01:21:39.700 --> 01:21:43.880 Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah. That, you know, damn it. That would have been. 01:21:45.020 --> 01:21:47.300 Let's not say this too loud because all of a sudden. 01:21:47.780 --> 01:21:50.000 For everything, not just the titles and stuff. 01:21:50.300 --> 01:21:53.800 Right. Why are we giving ideas? because this is like, you know, 01:21:53.860 --> 01:21:55.480 they'll hear this. They're like, oh, yes. 01:21:56.280 --> 01:21:56.800 Yeah. 01:21:57.360 --> 01:22:01.320 Anyway, this is the dumbest fuck. 01:22:01.500 --> 01:22:10.460 I mean, every fucking day, these assholes take their time to attend to the dumbest, 01:22:10.720 --> 01:22:19.120 most useless shit just to make some kind of score, some kind of points with, 01:22:19.420 --> 01:22:23.340 you know, I don't know. incels. 01:22:25.630 --> 01:22:26.330 I don't know. 01:22:29.090 --> 01:22:33.270 It's all, you're right. It's all dumb. It's all performative. Well, not all. 01:22:34.230 --> 01:22:41.630 Look, the problem is the performative dumbness is done in a way that actively hurts people. 01:22:41.830 --> 01:22:45.670 It's made to hurt people. Yes. It's made absolutely, absolutely. 01:22:45.670 --> 01:22:50.290 It's not just, like, if they were just changing the font and that was all the 01:22:50.290 --> 01:22:53.430 stuff they were doing, then, okay, whatever. 01:22:53.690 --> 01:22:59.270 Change the damn font. but it's everything. And it's like, even the font change 01:22:59.270 --> 01:23:05.230 is specifically like, Oh, people who have trouble reading, fuck them. 01:23:05.430 --> 01:23:05.990 Yeah. 01:23:06.110 --> 01:23:13.810 You know, but everything else. Oh, let's, let's attract, attack random boats near Venezuela. 01:23:14.150 --> 01:23:17.110 You know, let's, let's do, 01:23:18.180 --> 01:23:19.240 The most. 01:23:20.060 --> 01:23:21.020 But Sam. 01:23:21.200 --> 01:23:25.100 Let's do deportations in the most harmful way we possibly could. 01:23:25.280 --> 01:23:29.920 Trump said that they're full of drugs. Oh, yes. Coming to the U.S. 01:23:30.360 --> 01:23:32.220 You know, with all these terrorists. 01:23:32.960 --> 01:23:33.760 I mean, you know. 01:23:33.780 --> 01:23:35.900 They check they check the boats, you know. 01:23:36.180 --> 01:23:39.640 Well, and I was talking to you. I was mentioning harmful things that I keep 01:23:39.640 --> 01:23:47.580 thinking in between shows like the we've talked about the the harmful way. 01:23:47.580 --> 01:23:49.400 they're doing deportations and stuff. 01:23:49.560 --> 01:23:55.900 But I think it does not get enough attention that we've got tens of thousands, 01:23:56.320 --> 01:24:00.560 getting close to hundreds of thousands, of people under detention because they 01:24:00.560 --> 01:24:01.960 can't deport them immediately. 01:24:02.440 --> 01:24:06.480 We're just pulling people off the street who don't have their papers 100% in 01:24:06.480 --> 01:24:09.500 order and putting them into really... 01:24:09.500 --> 01:24:14.100 And people who... Wait, wait, wait. We're pulling people who have their papers 01:24:14.100 --> 01:24:17.360 in order, but they decided that they don't want them on the street anymore. 01:24:17.580 --> 01:24:23.020 That's true. And even occasionally rounding up American citizens in the process. 01:24:23.560 --> 01:24:23.640 Yeah. 01:24:24.120 --> 01:24:33.260 But from all reports, these detention centers are absolutely horrid in terms of the conditions. 01:24:33.520 --> 01:24:35.020 Oh, so they're not the Ritz-Carlton, Sam, is what you're saying. 01:24:35.020 --> 01:24:40.540 They're not the Ritz-Carlton. They're not even close. They're worse than most 01:24:40.540 --> 01:24:42.940 prisons. And prisons are bad. 01:24:43.140 --> 01:24:44.160 And prisons are bad. 01:24:44.720 --> 01:24:46.380 You know, and— I mean. 01:24:46.500 --> 01:24:50.380 Actually, you know what? It would be a favor to send him to a regular federal prison. 01:24:50.960 --> 01:24:52.220 In many cases, yeah. 01:24:52.700 --> 01:24:52.860 Yeah. 01:24:54.440 --> 01:24:56.220 And we, because... 01:24:57.570 --> 01:25:03.530 Because we can't keep up with everything and we can't maintain a continuous 01:25:03.530 --> 01:25:09.510 level of outrage over everything all the time, I feel like some of these atrocities 01:25:09.510 --> 01:25:11.510 that are happening on a regular, 01:25:11.850 --> 01:25:15.110 everyday basis sort of fade into the background. 01:25:15.110 --> 01:25:20.410 And I don't know the right way to combat that, but I feel like some of these 01:25:20.410 --> 01:25:23.790 things aren't getting enough attention because the new shiny thing gets attention 01:25:23.790 --> 01:25:29.630 instead. But, like, I mean, we've got fucking concentration camps, essentially. 01:25:30.290 --> 01:25:30.690 Yep. 01:25:31.250 --> 01:25:35.450 You know, and, you know, I've heard some stuff recently. 01:25:35.870 --> 01:25:39.890 You know, I guess I have not listened to it, but Rachel Maddow put out a new 01:25:39.890 --> 01:25:46.030 podcast in the last couple weeks about the history of the Japanese internment 01:25:46.030 --> 01:25:49.810 camps during World War II and some of the debate and back and forth that went on with that. 01:25:49.810 --> 01:25:53.630 And I'm actually listening to an audio book right now that covered some of the 01:25:53.630 --> 01:25:57.610 same ground in some of the chapters I was listening to recently in terms of 01:25:57.610 --> 01:26:01.650 the debates that happened over that and how basically the folks that were against 01:26:01.650 --> 01:26:02.910 it just lost out completely. 01:26:03.130 --> 01:26:09.310 And we're 100% there again right now. You know, it's atrocious. 01:26:09.550 --> 01:26:14.770 And the problem is there's so many things that are atrocious. What do you do? 01:26:14.770 --> 01:26:17.650 Uh but i i mean it 01:26:17.650 --> 01:26:20.270 it look it it's it's hard other than 01:26:20.270 --> 01:26:23.170 what we do and talk about you know i i think 01:26:23.170 --> 01:26:27.090 that we're we're trying to keep the visibility of this every week where we talk 01:26:27.090 --> 01:26:32.690 about it in our tiny little podcast and but but also it's difficult to have 01:26:32.690 --> 01:26:37.330 people look it's it's what happens to everybody in general when look if you're 01:26:37.330 --> 01:26:41.370 being subjected to to miserable conditions every day. 01:26:41.970 --> 01:26:44.830 Eventually, at some point, you start actually getting used to the miserable 01:26:44.830 --> 01:26:46.290 conditions. Okay? All right? 01:26:47.330 --> 01:26:51.150 It's just, you turn numb to it, to a certain extent. 01:26:51.410 --> 01:26:55.190 I mean, this is what people were talking about eight years ago with, like, normalization. 01:26:55.610 --> 01:27:00.030 Right. You know? And, you know, we spend time here, 01:27:01.640 --> 01:27:05.200 every week and we keep pounding 01:27:05.200 --> 01:27:12.180 the pavement on it because i don't want people to feel that this is normal people 01:27:12.180 --> 01:27:16.940 shouldn't feel that this is normal and i see you know like i said today look 01:27:16.940 --> 01:27:21.940 i had my time that i spent today talking to people that for real are getting really hurt by this shit, 01:27:25.220 --> 01:27:30.240 Yeah, and I do spend my time talking to people that are getting hurt by this 01:27:30.240 --> 01:27:33.000 regularly, unfortunately. 01:27:33.600 --> 01:27:37.460 You know, people that are scared to drive around. They're just scared to drive 01:27:37.460 --> 01:27:40.400 around. They don't want to go to events. They don't want to do anything. 01:27:40.980 --> 01:27:49.280 Even though, again, in many cases here, these people are here legally. 01:27:49.920 --> 01:27:50.440 Yeah. 01:27:50.700 --> 01:27:53.580 But they don't have a green card. They don't have citizenship. 01:27:53.580 --> 01:27:58.720 And they are scared to go and live their normal lives. 01:27:59.000 --> 01:28:03.420 Which, by the way, seems to be a significant part of the goal. 01:28:03.580 --> 01:28:05.240 That's exactly what they want. 01:28:06.120 --> 01:28:08.560 They want folks to become less visible. 01:28:08.700 --> 01:28:10.840 I know. And it's horrible. 01:28:11.220 --> 01:28:14.620 This applies to immigration. This also applies to the trans issue. 01:28:14.760 --> 01:28:17.040 They just want these people to go back into hiding. 01:28:18.020 --> 01:28:22.060 They don't want this to be visible as something you see. 01:28:22.060 --> 01:28:24.980 they you know whether whether it's gay 01:28:24.980 --> 01:28:28.480 and trans people or whether especially trans 01:28:28.480 --> 01:28:32.700 they've sort of seems like the republicans are almost used to gay folks at this 01:28:32.700 --> 01:28:37.400 point but you know they feel like they can still win on trans they they don't 01:28:37.400 --> 01:28:42.820 want that to be a visible part of what they see when they go outside and they 01:28:42.820 --> 01:28:47.580 don't want to see not people who aren't white either you know yeah They. 01:28:47.580 --> 01:28:53.980 Definitely don't want people that are not white or to speak another language, for that matter. 01:28:54.260 --> 01:29:00.040 Oh, yeah. That's not acceptable. You've got to speak American around here. 01:29:00.320 --> 01:29:03.400 Yeah, you've got to speak American, yes. Very American. 01:29:04.480 --> 01:29:09.540 Okay, so let's see. What else do we have on the list here? I think we've—oh, 01:29:09.560 --> 01:29:11.460 well, what do you think is going to happen in Venezuela? 01:29:11.700 --> 01:29:14.220 You asked me, but you didn't. What's your own thought? 01:29:17.010 --> 01:29:20.910 I keep thinking that Trump is going to get tempted into bumping off Maduro. 01:29:21.250 --> 01:29:28.610 And by the way, here is one thing. In terms of, I would like to see Maduro gone. Okay? 01:29:28.790 --> 01:29:29.650 Because you don't like him either. 01:29:30.150 --> 01:29:33.870 It's not just that I don't like him either. He's made millions of Venezuelans suffer. 01:29:34.070 --> 01:29:39.830 I mean, the massive exodus of Venezuelans to places around the world because 01:29:39.830 --> 01:29:45.170 of how his regime has made conditions in Venezuela untenable. 01:29:46.370 --> 01:29:49.450 Forget about even if you're aligned with him politically. 01:29:50.710 --> 01:29:54.950 Venezuela, violence that went through the roof. 01:29:55.250 --> 01:29:59.990 Venezuela has had shortages of everything possible. The economy has imploded. 01:30:00.470 --> 01:30:03.730 Safety is not there. you know, 01:30:03.870 --> 01:30:11.390 they went through this process of destroying all the institutions and Maduro 01:30:11.390 --> 01:30:18.770 violently attacks anybody who expresses dissent as well. 01:30:18.950 --> 01:30:22.970 So it's not like Maduro is some kind of benevolent dictator. 01:30:23.170 --> 01:30:27.190 Look, Maduro has been holding on to power illegally for a long time. 01:30:28.910 --> 01:30:34.350 and so if you ask me in an abstract what do i want maduro gone yes i want maduro gone, 01:30:35.290 --> 01:30:39.210 i would like it to see if it could be done through diplomatic channels there 01:30:39.210 --> 01:30:45.210 had been some indications that he had been willing to leave given the pressure 01:30:45.210 --> 01:30:48.650 that had been put on but my concern is that, 01:30:50.280 --> 01:30:54.260 What Trump is doing isn't in 01:30:54.260 --> 01:30:59.520 any way really inclined to do something good because he never does that. 01:30:59.680 --> 01:31:04.680 I'll just say you're absolutely right about Donald Trump. But even more generally, the U.S. 01:31:04.720 --> 01:31:10.600 has such an amazing record over the last, you know, 50, 60 years. 01:31:10.600 --> 01:31:16.140 Listen, the last time that we do interventions for regime change, 01:31:16.380 --> 01:31:21.560 whether it's in Latin America or the Middle East or anywhere else. 01:31:21.580 --> 01:31:22.180 Here's the thing. 01:31:22.540 --> 01:31:24.080 We don't have a good record. 01:31:24.540 --> 01:31:30.060 No, we don't, which is a problem. But the last time that we did one in Latin 01:31:30.060 --> 01:31:36.980 America, it actually turned out positive, okay, which was in Panama when we arrested Noriega. 01:31:36.980 --> 01:31:42.240 If you ask the Panamanian people, are they better off without Noriega, 01:31:42.520 --> 01:31:45.340 their resounding answer is a yes, okay? 01:31:45.660 --> 01:31:50.140 They thank God that the U.S. got rid of Noriega, okay? Okay. 01:31:51.380 --> 01:31:56.720 So, so, so do you have that, but at the same time, a couple of times we tried 01:31:56.720 --> 01:32:01.480 to do an intervention in Haiti, it never really, never really worked. 01:32:01.700 --> 01:32:03.660 Nothing really positive came up, came of that. 01:32:04.400 --> 01:32:07.340 Haiti is still in crisis. Actually, the crisis has gotten worse. 01:32:07.800 --> 01:32:11.280 I don't think it really had to do with any intervention. So it would have been 01:32:11.280 --> 01:32:13.020 just as bad if we had intervened, Whatever. 01:32:13.260 --> 01:32:17.200 I think that that one, whatever we did had no effect. 01:32:17.900 --> 01:32:23.340 But then you think about what's happened in Iraq, for example, 01:32:23.560 --> 01:32:27.340 and, you know, all we did was chaos. 01:32:27.640 --> 01:32:31.060 But the reality is that there has been no country. 01:32:31.060 --> 01:32:38.860 I'm just going to give you one quick comparison in terms of if you want somebody 01:32:38.860 --> 01:32:44.640 to have a chance of not completely screwing up a foreign engagement. 01:32:46.560 --> 01:32:51.040 Who would you prefer, Donald Trump or George H.W. Bush? 01:32:51.840 --> 01:32:56.180 Fuck, I'm voting with Bush. H.W. or W? 01:32:56.500 --> 01:33:00.380 H.W. We were talking Panama. That was H.W.. 01:33:00.380 --> 01:33:03.900 Right? Exactly. Well, yes, H.W. did that. Exactly right. 01:33:04.500 --> 01:33:08.380 And look, I'm not saying that I approve of everything George H.W. Bush did. 01:33:09.060 --> 01:33:12.840 However, like, put on a comparison. 01:33:13.440 --> 01:33:16.120 There's no comparison. I mean, there's no fucking comparison. 01:33:16.120 --> 01:33:20.060 I mean, frankly, with his son, either. I mean, George H.W. 01:33:20.560 --> 01:33:23.980 Fuck, I'd say W. probably still over Trump doing this. 01:33:24.780 --> 01:33:28.740 Because even W. in his misguided idiocy. 01:33:28.980 --> 01:33:35.480 Wait, wait, wait. But here, W. in his misguided idiocy actually wanted something positive. 01:33:35.700 --> 01:33:38.880 It was just misguided and stupid and naive as all hell. 01:33:39.880 --> 01:33:46.580 Yeah, I mean, look, we've said before. I mean, pick any random person off the street. 01:33:46.660 --> 01:33:50.800 You've got a 95% chance they'll do better than Donald Trump. 01:33:50.900 --> 01:33:51.920 Donald Trump, yes. 01:33:52.100 --> 01:33:57.860 You know, could you find worse? Yes, but you'd have to work at it. 01:33:58.020 --> 01:34:03.900 You'd have to work at it, yes. You'd be hard-pressed. Yeah, so that's my problem. 01:34:04.000 --> 01:34:06.160 The problem is it's so much to go. 01:34:06.820 --> 01:34:10.600 You've been going around in circles. What do you think is going to happen in Venezuela? 01:34:10.600 --> 01:34:15.060 I think he's going to do it. i think the bastard's gonna do it you know i think 01:34:15.060 --> 01:34:18.860 the bastard's gonna do it because this is trump 2.0 unchained unchained right 01:34:18.860 --> 01:34:24.240 so right now his popularity is in the shit what what but what do you think though. 01:34:24.240 --> 01:34:29.160 Are you predicting sort of targeted assassination or are you talking like full. 01:34:29.160 --> 01:34:35.820 Out right no i think he's gonna do the decapitation thing okay just knock you 01:34:35.820 --> 01:34:36.960 know just just fucking like, 01:34:37.720 --> 01:34:39.020 You know, take out Maduro. 01:34:39.340 --> 01:34:42.120 Maybe he learns from his mentor and he falls out a window. 01:34:42.660 --> 01:34:45.920 Maybe. There you go. That could be. Yes. 01:34:47.040 --> 01:34:50.580 Because that always keeps happening. Trump signs executive order for single 01:34:50.580 --> 01:34:53.080 national AI regulation framework. 01:34:53.320 --> 01:34:56.820 What the fuck? Does he even know what he's talking about? 01:34:56.980 --> 01:35:02.220 I saw something about that happening like a day or two ago. Did he actually sign it just now? 01:35:02.300 --> 01:35:04.000 Apparently, he just signed it just now. 01:35:04.640 --> 01:35:04.900 Okay. 01:35:04.980 --> 01:35:06.040 Does he even know what he's signing? 01:35:06.740 --> 01:35:07.800 I'm sure he doesn't. 01:35:08.140 --> 01:35:10.340 Yeah, I'm sure he doesn't either. 01:35:10.840 --> 01:35:16.700 You remember that, what country was it the former president of that he just 01:35:16.700 --> 01:35:18.360 pardoned for drug charges? 01:35:18.560 --> 01:35:22.280 Oh, my God. The Honduran guy. 01:35:22.960 --> 01:35:28.120 Jesus Christ. Now, when asked about the specifics of that scenario, 01:35:28.920 --> 01:35:32.640 Donald Trump very, no qualms whatsoever. 01:35:32.640 --> 01:35:36.160 He said, like, oh, I don't know about the details of the case, 01:35:36.260 --> 01:35:42.940 but people I trust told me he was railroaded just like I was railroaded. 01:35:42.940 --> 01:35:48.540 And it was weaponization of politics and the people who, you know, 01:35:48.640 --> 01:35:52.240 his opponents didn't like him. And that's what this was. 01:35:52.360 --> 01:35:59.120 And that's why I pardoned him. but it didn't even pretend to know any details 01:35:59.120 --> 01:36:03.680 whatsoever about the situation or even who the guy was. 01:36:03.900 --> 01:36:08.840 Same thing. He pardoned some crypto guy, uh, like last month or whatever. 01:36:09.100 --> 01:36:14.040 Just criming. Like, you know, well, actually no, the one that last month, right. 01:36:14.200 --> 01:36:16.840 But, but there's a guy that he pardoned like about, you know, 01:36:16.980 --> 01:36:21.600 I can't remember when it was like recently that you just went back to fraud, like right away. Yeah. 01:36:22.520 --> 01:36:26.200 Is there another reason you'd pardon them? You want them to do that, 01:36:26.320 --> 01:36:28.380 right? I don't know. Like. 01:36:29.380 --> 01:36:35.140 Well, by the way, here's one thing. Honduras itself has issued an arrest warrant 01:36:35.140 --> 01:36:38.460 to go and throw this guy in jail. 01:36:38.620 --> 01:36:43.680 You know what would be really amusing? The guy apparently, the Honduran president 01:36:43.680 --> 01:36:46.400 who was released, was released for a prison in Kentucky or whatever. 01:36:46.760 --> 01:36:52.000 So I guess he's just wandering around in Kentucky right now or something like 01:36:52.000 --> 01:36:54.700 that. But it would be really hilarious if ICE picks him up now. 01:36:55.180 --> 01:36:56.920 That would be great. That would be hilarious. 01:36:57.540 --> 01:36:58.120 You know? 01:36:58.620 --> 01:37:00.120 And they deport him to Honduras. 01:37:00.360 --> 01:37:02.880 What is exactly his visa situation at the moment? 01:37:02.980 --> 01:37:04.220 Yeah, that's what I'm saying. 01:37:05.260 --> 01:37:06.420 Does he have a work permit? 01:37:06.600 --> 01:37:09.900 No, no, no, no, no. You know what he's going to do? He's going to, 01:37:10.080 --> 01:37:13.220 you know, they opened that Trump gold card thing this week. 01:37:13.420 --> 01:37:14.340 Oh, yes, yes. 01:37:14.340 --> 01:37:17.000 So he's just going to buy a Trump gold card and that's it. Problem solved. 01:37:17.580 --> 01:37:17.960 Okay. 01:37:18.660 --> 01:37:22.720 There you go. Listen, here's the amazing thing. Right now, we won't give asylum, 01:37:22.980 --> 01:37:29.520 we won't do anything, whatever, but, but, but, if you buy a Trump gold card 01:37:29.520 --> 01:37:32.200 and you go to Mar-a-Lago and buy a membership, 01:37:32.720 --> 01:37:34.520 damn it, we're going to give you citizenship, Sam. 01:37:35.520 --> 01:37:36.300 Right away. 01:37:36.740 --> 01:37:44.280 Of course. Yes. Of course, one of the things that there were new stats and polls 01:37:44.280 --> 01:37:47.780 on this recently, but it's been building for a long time. 01:37:48.280 --> 01:37:51.820 The number of people who actually want to come is, of course, 01:37:51.960 --> 01:37:54.560 plummeting, which is, of course, what these guys want. 01:37:54.680 --> 01:37:57.520 Right. They don't want people to want to come. They want them to stay away. 01:37:57.700 --> 01:38:01.460 But it's working like tourism is down dramatically. 01:38:01.840 --> 01:38:06.720 Oh, my God. Tourism. We have lost so much money. We've lost about $30 billion. 01:38:06.720 --> 01:38:10.160 People don't want to go to university. People don't want to go to university here anymore. 01:38:10.620 --> 01:38:14.800 People don't want to visit here for tourism. People aren't wanting to come for 01:38:14.800 --> 01:38:18.760 jobs, you know, because we're making it a hostile place. 01:38:19.180 --> 01:38:22.760 Well, look, there is a reduction in demand. It's not like nobody's coming. Okay. 01:38:22.920 --> 01:38:26.680 Well, yes, there is a reduction. It's not going to zero. No. 01:38:26.960 --> 01:38:28.380 But there is definitely... 01:38:29.260 --> 01:38:34.960 I mean, we're driving people away. We're driving money away. Okay? 01:38:35.200 --> 01:38:40.740 We're driving students away. And it's just, my whole thing is that they're all 01:38:40.740 --> 01:38:44.000 framing this somehow as a positive to the economy. 01:38:44.300 --> 01:38:46.060 And it never has been. 01:38:46.660 --> 01:38:53.000 All the nations that we know around the world that have low immigration, 01:38:53.400 --> 01:38:57.000 their economies have been in the shit. Okay? Okay. 01:38:57.920 --> 01:39:03.720 Immigration, almost everything you see has been a net positive for the economy. 01:39:04.380 --> 01:39:08.580 And so, you know, when they try to, you know, now they're trying to blame immigration 01:39:08.580 --> 01:39:11.920 for all the problems when they, now that they deport all the people to make 01:39:11.920 --> 01:39:14.020 economy worse, what are they going to blame it on now? Well, 01:39:14.040 --> 01:39:14.920 they're going to blame Biden. 01:39:16.220 --> 01:39:18.780 Obviously, that's the first person they're going to blame. It's just going to 01:39:18.780 --> 01:39:21.080 blame Biden. But you still got to blame Biden. 01:39:21.080 --> 01:39:27.680 No, you blame Biden, but then you start blaming the internal folks who don't 01:39:27.680 --> 01:39:28.900 fit the mold that you want. 01:39:29.080 --> 01:39:33.540 You're going to blame non-white people. You're going to blame the gays. 01:39:33.680 --> 01:39:34.600 You're going to blame the trans. 01:39:34.840 --> 01:39:38.220 You're going to blame non-Christians. You're going to blame, 01:39:38.580 --> 01:39:40.880 you know, whatever. And of course, the liberals. 01:39:41.160 --> 01:39:46.180 Anybody who's liberal, progressive, you're obviously a traitorous third column, 01:39:46.360 --> 01:39:48.920 right? You know, and yeah. 01:39:48.920 --> 01:39:51.380 But my point is, yeah, yeah, but, but, but, okay. 01:39:51.460 --> 01:39:55.320 This is how these kinds of regimes work, right? Like they, the, 01:39:55.400 --> 01:39:58.220 the, the universe of who's the enemy grows. 01:39:59.720 --> 01:40:03.060 But I hate to break it to you, Sam, that doesn't make you a lot more popular. 01:40:04.840 --> 01:40:13.480 No. Which is why it is often paired with increasingly brutal crackdowns as you 01:40:13.480 --> 01:40:16.320 narrow that universe of who the good guys are. 01:40:17.200 --> 01:40:21.580 And then one way or another, hopefully you snap out of it at some point. 01:40:21.580 --> 01:40:24.920 One of the things that I'm starting to see, 01:40:25.080 --> 01:40:32.320 like, it's just that for one of our advantages in these scenarios, 01:40:32.320 --> 01:40:35.080 because even as they spend all this money and whatever, 01:40:35.140 --> 01:40:39.120 because you've seen how they're struggling to hire competent people, 01:40:39.120 --> 01:40:43.260 like for this massive budgetary expansion for ICE and whatever. 01:40:43.260 --> 01:40:46.740 I mean, like right now, they're basically just hiring. I mean, they're hiring. 01:40:47.060 --> 01:40:52.020 They're down to hiring, like, you know, just totally unqualified people. 01:40:52.160 --> 01:40:54.520 They can't even do the job. No training whatsoever. 01:40:56.720 --> 01:40:58.380 Yvonne, I am job hunting. 01:40:59.220 --> 01:41:03.700 Nice. Hey, they got $50,000. You know, I'll tell you what. I'll tell you what. 01:41:04.360 --> 01:41:09.820 They got that $50,000 bonus. Okay. All right. Find out what you got to do to 01:41:09.820 --> 01:41:12.100 get the $50,000 bonus and then quit. 01:41:12.100 --> 01:41:13.100 And then immediately quit. 01:41:13.260 --> 01:41:13.760 Yes. 01:41:13.960 --> 01:41:14.120 Yeah. 01:41:14.600 --> 01:41:17.040 I do like this thought. Yeah. 01:41:17.360 --> 01:41:24.280 I disrupt from within by like intentionally being incompetent and unable to 01:41:24.280 --> 01:41:25.860 do the things they want you to do. 01:41:27.200 --> 01:41:31.840 You know, I think, you know, the problem is, Sam, that they're not struggling 01:41:31.840 --> 01:41:33.840 at fighting those people. Can I be honest? 01:41:34.920 --> 01:41:41.780 They're already nicely incompetent. No, I don't think that that is something 01:41:41.780 --> 01:41:44.220 I could consider. It's just like morally Republican. 01:41:44.500 --> 01:41:49.660 The thing is, what I'm saying is that because the United States doesn't really 01:41:49.660 --> 01:41:51.860 have like a lot of other countries—, 01:41:53.240 --> 01:42:01.180 Police, the largest law enforcement is a federal police, a national police. Okay. All right. 01:42:02.460 --> 01:42:07.560 Russia has a national police. Okay. This is not in control of like individual 01:42:07.560 --> 01:42:09.600 like states, governments, or whatever, whatnot. 01:42:10.120 --> 01:42:12.520 By comparison, like the FBI is small. 01:42:13.480 --> 01:42:18.760 The FBI is tiny. Okay. The FBI is like, you know, I think total employees like 01:42:18.760 --> 01:42:20.180 10,000, something like that. 01:42:20.320 --> 01:42:22.840 It's not a hell of a whole lot of people. Okay. 01:42:23.240 --> 01:42:25.460 FBI is a tiny organization, okay? 01:42:25.980 --> 01:42:29.560 So whereas, you know, you go to like, I'm going to look up like, 01:42:29.680 --> 01:42:30.940 say, Russian National Police. 01:42:31.160 --> 01:42:37.080 I mean, that's got to be larger than Army, you know, for example. 01:42:37.500 --> 01:42:46.460 And so the one positive thing that you have is that we don't have that structure, okay? 01:42:46.620 --> 01:42:52.980 They have 900,000 people in the Russian National Police, for example. 01:42:52.980 --> 01:42:55.300 900,000, almost a million people. 01:42:55.720 --> 01:43:00.160 And national police forces are of that kind of a size, you know, 01:43:00.600 --> 01:43:02.940 a million people, 2 million, you know. 01:43:03.320 --> 01:43:07.300 And so he doesn't have that, okay, at his disposal. 01:43:07.320 --> 01:43:11.320 And so that's the benefit of, so it makes it more difficult. 01:43:11.500 --> 01:43:17.940 He is obviously trying to inflict pain from all the points that he can to make 01:43:17.940 --> 01:43:21.880 it miserable for people. But it's difficult in the U.S. 01:43:22.040 --> 01:43:25.680 as a president, as much as you want to try. 01:43:26.360 --> 01:43:31.120 And, you know, that's one thing that the Constitution didn't fuck up, 01:43:31.260 --> 01:43:37.780 to be honest, that it does make it difficult for a president to be as repressive 01:43:37.780 --> 01:43:39.600 as they are in other countries. 01:43:39.600 --> 01:43:44.280 They just don't have the scope of the control that's all the way down. 01:43:44.420 --> 01:43:49.420 Obviously, it's not like they haven't made it miserable so far. but I do think. 01:43:50.850 --> 01:43:56.190 These guys, they're trying all this shit. A lot of people are not happy with them. 01:43:58.480 --> 01:44:03.200 Even with all the threats that he did to Indiana, they went and they said, 01:44:03.240 --> 01:44:04.820 no, we're not doing this. 01:44:05.980 --> 01:44:08.640 And like we talked about, we talked about the lame duck thing. 01:44:08.980 --> 01:44:13.440 The lame duck thing has an effect. So, you know, he can go and like there's still. 01:44:13.860 --> 01:44:19.300 Listen, I'm not saying that he is not going to continue to inflict misery on us because he will. 01:44:22.400 --> 01:44:27.400 Unfortunately, for the foreseeable future. But it's just his, 01:44:27.800 --> 01:44:35.260 you know, he is not, thankfully, I think that his effectiveness at doing this 01:44:35.260 --> 01:44:38.000 is weakening to a certain extent. 01:44:38.820 --> 01:44:45.820 Right. Okay. Anything else we want to cover here before we start wrapping things up? 01:44:46.540 --> 01:44:50.900 Let me see. Anything? Well, I'll mention one thing. 01:44:51.580 --> 01:44:56.100 They couldn't reindict Letitia James, huh? No matter how much they tried, huh? 01:44:58.120 --> 01:45:04.220 Well, who knows? They may try again. So far, two grand juries have said that 01:45:04.220 --> 01:45:05.600 they're not going to indict her. 01:45:07.500 --> 01:45:12.280 They tried once, like, last week, and they just tried again today, 01:45:12.460 --> 01:45:18.700 apparently, and the new grand jury backed up what the first one said and was 01:45:18.700 --> 01:45:21.440 like, are you kidding me? No. So. 01:45:21.780 --> 01:45:23.260 That's pretty pathetic. 01:45:24.240 --> 01:45:31.440 Just in general, the increase of, like, you know, the standard line that people 01:45:31.440 --> 01:45:35.740 repeat over and over again is grand juries will indict a ham sandwich. 01:45:35.940 --> 01:45:38.780 They're just a rubber stamp off whatever the prosecutors want. 01:45:39.080 --> 01:45:45.980 And it's not really an effective step in the process because it's very close 01:45:45.980 --> 01:45:51.900 to a rubber stamp. Over the last few months, this administration has been showing, 01:45:53.390 --> 01:46:00.610 Well, the reason that's true is because, in general, prosecutors do their job 01:46:00.610 --> 01:46:06.870 well and don't even take it to a grand jury unless they're fairly sure they've got a really good, 01:46:07.310 --> 01:46:09.190 unless there's really a case. 01:46:09.350 --> 01:46:15.170 Over and over and over again, over the last couple months, this administration 01:46:15.170 --> 01:46:19.470 has been trying to indict people for one thing or another, and grand juries 01:46:19.470 --> 01:46:21.490 have been saying, no, are you kidding me? 01:46:22.090 --> 01:46:24.450 They wouldn't indict that sandwich-throwing guy. 01:46:24.710 --> 01:46:24.870 Nope. 01:46:24.970 --> 01:46:31.050 They're not indicting James. And this was after, of course, the first indictment 01:46:31.050 --> 01:46:33.830 where they did get an indictment over both James and Comey. 01:46:33.830 --> 01:46:34.590 And then those got dismissed. 01:46:34.930 --> 01:46:35.830 Comey, was it? 01:46:36.430 --> 01:46:36.590 Yeah. 01:46:36.930 --> 01:46:41.610 Well, those were thrown out because the prosecutor was illegally appointed. 01:46:41.950 --> 01:46:42.190 Right. 01:46:42.330 --> 01:46:44.930 Because they didn't even follow the right procedures for that. 01:46:45.670 --> 01:46:53.150 Although apparently I heard today earlier they have actually nominated her officially 01:46:53.150 --> 01:46:55.090 to go through the Senate process. 01:46:55.390 --> 01:46:58.470 So we'll see what happens there. And apparently they did it a while ago, 01:46:58.470 --> 01:47:01.670 but they just didn't issue a press release on it. 01:47:01.890 --> 01:47:06.310 Like normally, whenever the president nominates somebody for some position. 01:47:06.530 --> 01:47:08.030 They make a big deal out of it. 01:47:08.170 --> 01:47:12.770 They make a press release. They introduce blah, blah, blah. Apparently, weeks ago, 01:47:13.170 --> 01:47:21.070 they sent over this nomination to the Senate without mentioning it in any other 01:47:21.070 --> 01:47:25.970 way other than transmitting the nomination to the Senate committee who needs to receive it. 01:47:26.500 --> 01:47:33.000 That's it. So they, but they are apparently trying to do that at this point 01:47:33.000 --> 01:47:38.660 because, you know, you know, cause, but here's, let's be clear. 01:47:38.860 --> 01:47:40.980 This is not the only person they've appointed illegally. 01:47:41.200 --> 01:47:44.340 They're, they're not getting, but my point is that look, this is another part 01:47:44.340 --> 01:47:48.760 of it. Look, it's not getting, listen, he's been trying, he's been trying for months. 01:47:49.180 --> 01:47:54.240 Okay. To get these people like to, to like court, the closest he got was, 01:47:54.420 --> 01:47:58.320 you know, to, to show up at court and to have, the case dismissed like right out of hand. 01:47:58.320 --> 01:48:01.360 Right i i'm 01:48:01.360 --> 01:48:04.820 still waiting for the the indictments 01:48:04.820 --> 01:48:08.160 of hillary clinton and and biden 01:48:08.160 --> 01:48:12.700 and obama and all of those kinds for some reason he's being slow with those 01:48:12.700 --> 01:48:19.220 i don't i don't know why yeah maybe maybe he'll skip that part entirely and 01:48:19.220 --> 01:48:24.840 invite them to see if maybe they'll accidentally be on a boat north of Venezuela. 01:48:27.400 --> 01:48:32.260 They're going to decide to take a cruise on a boat north of Venezuela. 01:48:32.480 --> 01:48:35.100 That's what you're saying. Hey, we got a little, 01:48:37.300 --> 01:48:42.400 boat. We're going to go north of Venezuela. The discussion I was having about 01:48:42.400 --> 01:48:45.580 this, this is something I mentioned when I was over in Guyana. 01:48:45.700 --> 01:48:48.900 I was talking about people like, you know, they're afraid to go on their fucking 01:48:48.900 --> 01:48:50.900 boats just to go fishing around there, okay? 01:48:51.900 --> 01:48:53.020 Right, of course. 01:48:53.420 --> 01:48:56.280 I mean, they're all, like, just freaked out. They're like, well, 01:48:56.460 --> 01:48:58.160 shit, I might get blown out of the water. 01:48:59.530 --> 01:49:01.930 This is a ridiculous shit that this president does. 01:49:02.570 --> 01:49:07.670 Well, and so far the administration has not actually provided any proof that 01:49:07.670 --> 01:49:10.570 these boats are what they say they are at all. They just like trust us. 01:49:10.690 --> 01:49:11.030 You know. 01:49:11.130 --> 01:49:13.210 And of course, they're the most trustworthy in the world. 01:49:13.470 --> 01:49:18.270 You know, every fucking day that I see these people with a false equivalency 01:49:18.270 --> 01:49:22.130 saying, well, Obama executed people, you know, with drones. 01:49:22.590 --> 01:49:27.470 And I'm like, look, in each one of those, there was some kind of process where 01:49:27.470 --> 01:49:29.110 there was a finding done. 01:49:29.350 --> 01:49:33.070 Who is it that we're targeting? Why are we targeting? They went through a process. 01:49:33.270 --> 01:49:36.850 They didn't just go and just randomly shoot some fucking boats in the water. 01:49:37.050 --> 01:49:42.050 And look, you can still and you may still argue that that was an illegal act. 01:49:42.570 --> 01:49:47.550 But the reality is that if you go to every single one of those, 01:49:47.730 --> 01:49:49.910 this was not just, you know, 01:49:50.210 --> 01:49:53.910 out of pulling out of your ass, deciding, hey, there's a boat over there, 01:49:54.110 --> 01:49:59.170 looks like drug runners, let me just shoot at it. That's not what was done. 01:50:00.250 --> 01:50:04.110 Yes, they had a process, and they did make some mistakes. They killed some civilians 01:50:04.110 --> 01:50:06.670 that they shouldn't have, but in most cases, they admitted it, 01:50:06.770 --> 01:50:12.510 they apologized, they sent money, blah, blah, blah, you know, et cetera. 01:50:13.550 --> 01:50:18.410 But yes, there was a process. They were criticized that the process was too heavy and too slow. 01:50:19.430 --> 01:50:23.030 And, of course, that's part of the reaction in the Trump administration is against 01:50:23.030 --> 01:50:25.990 some of that stuff. You know, they don't want a process. 01:50:26.550 --> 01:50:28.210 They want to just be able to do whatever—. 01:50:29.090 --> 01:50:32.790 Exactly. Do whatever the hell we want, and we don't have to follow rules. 01:50:33.090 --> 01:50:36.290 That's the whole point of almost everything they do. 01:50:36.630 --> 01:50:37.110 Rules? 01:50:37.370 --> 01:50:43.830 Yeah. They don't believe that the presidency should be constrained by rules 01:50:43.830 --> 01:50:46.630 or process imposed from outside. At all. 01:50:47.090 --> 01:50:47.430 Yeah. 01:50:47.770 --> 01:50:53.150 Yeah. That's the whole idea behind the whole unitary executive thing that the 01:50:53.150 --> 01:50:55.370 Supreme Court seems to like a lot at the moment. 01:50:56.050 --> 01:50:56.590 Yeah. 01:50:57.310 --> 01:50:59.590 Okay. Can we wrap it up? 01:51:00.230 --> 01:51:00.650 Yes. 01:51:01.550 --> 01:51:02.030 Okay. 01:51:04.890 --> 01:51:10.210 Go to curmudgeon-corner.com. You can see all our stuff, all the ways to contact 01:51:10.210 --> 01:51:13.830 us, all our old shows, transcripts of shows. 01:51:14.010 --> 01:51:19.230 You know, I was talking to somebody at one of these Snohomish podcast thing 01:51:19.230 --> 01:51:24.830 events yesterday who said they don't have time to listen to our show. 01:51:24.830 --> 01:51:27.670 It's too long, but they read the transcript. 01:51:28.550 --> 01:51:33.230 Oh, you know, that I've done that with certain shows that I'm like, 01:51:33.310 --> 01:51:37.030 well, I don't have time to read, but I'll read a transcript of the show. Yeah. 01:51:37.630 --> 01:51:38.350 I'll do that. 01:51:38.630 --> 01:51:43.310 So I'm like, okay, cool. I guess I'm glad I added those. 01:51:43.890 --> 01:51:47.830 Thanks to Pete for suggesting it a few years back. 01:51:48.070 --> 01:51:54.790 But yeah, no, I kind of laughed. Like, okay, fine. That's fine. You can do that. 01:51:55.530 --> 01:51:59.630 But anyway, yes, our transcripts are on there, all the ways to contact us, 01:51:59.810 --> 01:52:01.230 old shows, blah, blah, blah. 01:52:02.130 --> 01:52:05.530 and uh alex wants me to tell 01:52:05.530 --> 01:52:08.570 people that at that event i 01:52:08.570 --> 01:52:12.210 did wear an ugly sweater that he made there and 01:52:12.210 --> 01:52:17.890 uh emily from the no serve podcast posted it on her instagram i believe if you 01:52:17.890 --> 01:52:22.670 want to go searching for that but basically i'd been this this meeting was supposed 01:52:22.670 --> 01:52:27.370 to have like an ugly sweater theme for like ugly christmas sweaters and as i 01:52:27.370 --> 01:52:30.050 was getting ready to go i'd been telling Alex, you know, 01:52:30.270 --> 01:52:33.750 I looked through my sweaters and none were sufficiently ugly. 01:52:34.370 --> 01:52:38.490 I mean, I'm not to say that none were ugly at all, but none were sufficiently 01:52:38.490 --> 01:52:40.230 ugly for that kind of theme. 01:52:40.710 --> 01:52:46.550 So of course he pulled out an old ratty, one of his sweaters and decorated it 01:52:46.550 --> 01:52:48.970 by hand in various ways to make it even uglier. 01:52:49.070 --> 01:52:52.890 I gotta admit that he did a great, he did a great job of painting the Abel's May symbol on it too. 01:52:53.090 --> 01:52:56.010 He did paint the Abel's May symbol on it. And on the back 01:52:56.010 --> 01:52:59.210 of it it had like the pattern from a minecraft 01:52:59.210 --> 01:53:05.370 character i had from the skin and then there were some like some some sort of 01:53:05.370 --> 01:53:12.090 fluffy stuff that looked like a vaguely santa-like blob on it that was all glued 01:53:12.090 --> 01:53:17.330 on it in various ways anyway i won the ugly sweater contest yeah oh god yeah. 01:53:17.330 --> 01:53:20.610 Well i you should yeah damn yeah if you didn't win. 01:53:20.610 --> 01:53:23.750 With that i mean fuck yeah so anyway 01:53:23.750 --> 01:53:32.030 so yes anyway importantly also on curmudgeon-corner.com you can do what. 01:53:32.030 --> 01:53:33.150 Oh yes. 01:53:33.150 --> 01:53:34.770 You can give us money patreon. 01:53:34.770 --> 01:53:40.830 At money yeah at this point and right now we need we sure need it. 01:53:43.750 --> 01:53:46.770 That is right it is important 01:53:46.770 --> 01:53:50.030 give us tons tons and tons 01:53:50.030 --> 01:53:57.950 of cash and let's see there we go and yeah so at various levels get mentioned 01:53:57.950 --> 01:54:00.950 on the show we can ring a bell we can send you a postcard we could send you 01:54:00.950 --> 01:54:07.050 a mug but at two dollars a month or more or if you just ask us we will invite you 01:54:07.140 --> 01:54:11.740 to Curmudgeon's Corner Slack, where Yvonne and I and a bunch of listeners are 01:54:11.740 --> 01:54:13.760 sharing links and chatting throughout the week. 01:54:13.920 --> 01:54:18.780 So, Yvonne, what is something that has been talked about on the Curmudgeon's 01:54:18.780 --> 01:54:23.320 Corner Slack over the last week that we have not mentioned on the show? 01:54:24.040 --> 01:54:28.780 Woman-hating podcaster admits that he's never slept with a woman. 01:54:29.120 --> 01:54:34.480 Nick Fuentes addresses intimate affairs as he sparred with conservative pundit Pierce Morgan. 01:54:34.640 --> 01:54:40.480 So, Nick Fuentes goes on some kind of show with Piers Morgan, not exactly like Mr. 01:54:42.380 --> 01:54:48.080 Paragon of Journalism guy here, and admitted under questioning that he, 01:54:48.280 --> 01:54:52.700 by the way, if I remember correctly, he's the first guy that said, your body, my choice. 01:54:53.280 --> 01:54:55.200 Okay. That was him. 01:54:56.180 --> 01:54:59.340 So Mr. Your body, my choice, basically. 01:55:00.060 --> 01:55:03.760 No, no, no. I'm remembering the phrase. I know he's the one that said it, 01:55:03.760 --> 01:55:07.180 But I was trying to say, yeah, it's your body, my choice. That's what he said. 01:55:07.420 --> 01:55:10.920 So he said this shit. Well, guess what? 01:55:11.920 --> 01:55:17.500 Apparently, no, he hasn't had any choice with anybody because no woman will sleep with him. 01:55:18.040 --> 01:55:20.460 Now, is he an incel or is he gay? 01:55:21.080 --> 01:55:25.280 He said he's an incel. Basically, he said he said he's not gay. 01:55:25.580 --> 01:55:26.860 He declared that he's not gay. 01:55:27.980 --> 01:55:30.840 Well, do you trust that coming out of these kind of folks? 01:55:32.850 --> 01:55:37.010 So, but he could be both. He could be both. 01:55:37.530 --> 01:55:38.030 Yeah. 01:55:38.370 --> 01:55:45.350 Now, he did not say he did not have sex with men. He only apparently said he didn't with women. So. 01:55:46.380 --> 01:55:52.180 Okay. And, you know, so, but yeah, but this is the, this is the, uh. 01:55:52.360 --> 01:55:55.860 And back when, back when that whole Kirk thing came up, like the guy who shot 01:55:55.860 --> 01:55:57.540 Kirk and they were talking about like, 01:55:58.260 --> 01:56:03.240 uh, apparently there, there's stuff that came out about that sub various subcultures 01:56:03.240 --> 01:56:08.180 that I did not know about before, but apparently on the conservative side of 01:56:08.180 --> 01:56:11.440 things, there is a subculture. 01:56:11.740 --> 01:56:14.240 What do I know about now that you're going to tell me? 01:56:14.240 --> 01:56:22.040 This is the subculture of femboys who are not, they distinguish themselves from 01:56:22.040 --> 01:56:24.360 trans people. Yeah, yeah, yeah. 01:56:24.360 --> 01:56:27.120 But that's, okay, but what has it got to do with conservatives? 01:56:27.300 --> 01:56:28.200 I mean, yeah, those exist. 01:56:28.220 --> 01:56:37.100 No, it's because you have these conservative incels who, because of their positions 01:56:37.100 --> 01:56:40.320 and their attitude towards women, are actually repulsive towards women. 01:56:40.320 --> 01:56:45.780 But they are actually attracted towards women. So there's this culture of femboys 01:56:45.780 --> 01:56:54.200 who will dress up as and act as women to be the sex object of these conservative 01:56:54.200 --> 01:56:57.880 incels because they can't get actual women, 01:56:58.020 --> 01:57:03.140 but they can get men who pretend to be women, but who aren't trans and who aren't 01:57:03.140 --> 01:57:05.740 otherwise identifying themselves that way, 01:57:05.900 --> 01:57:09.920 but who—they will say they're men. 01:57:09.920 --> 01:57:15.580 They will say, I am a man, but I am a man who likes to dress as a woman and 01:57:15.580 --> 01:57:19.620 act like a woman and be as feminine as I possibly can. 01:57:20.980 --> 01:57:29.320 And these conservatives who are otherwise incels feel that, well, 01:57:29.440 --> 01:57:30.860 at least I can get these femboys. 01:57:31.460 --> 01:57:36.280 And I'm not gay either. I'm not gay. I'm not gay at all. But because, 01:57:36.440 --> 01:57:38.020 you know, they act like women. 01:57:38.820 --> 01:57:43.440 And this was one of the things that came up after the whole Charlie Kirk thing 01:57:43.440 --> 01:57:46.840 is that there's apparently this whole subculture of this kind of stuff going on, too. 01:57:47.300 --> 01:57:51.880 Wait, why does this have to do with Charlie Kirk? Why did this have to do with Charlie Kirk? 01:57:51.880 --> 01:57:56.640 Oh, because they were talking about how the guy who killed him had a boyfriend 01:57:56.640 --> 01:58:00.680 who was trans or had a girlfriend who was a trans woman. 01:58:00.920 --> 01:58:04.140 But then there were people saying, no, no, she was not a trans woman. 01:58:04.300 --> 01:58:06.700 She was a femboy or he was a femboy. 01:58:07.240 --> 01:58:08.260 Okay, so that's what. 01:58:08.260 --> 01:58:11.860 And that's where the connection comes in and people were talking. 01:58:12.060 --> 01:58:17.900 Now, none of this was necessarily verified at the time, but people got into these. 01:58:18.000 --> 01:58:20.120 That was the conversation, okay? Came up about these. 01:58:20.220 --> 01:58:23.440 The conversation started talking about this subculture that exists there, 01:58:23.660 --> 01:58:31.520 which, of course, all seems to tie into very highly repressed people who just 01:58:31.520 --> 01:58:37.380 can't admit, like, their actual orientation and preferences because they believe it's wrong. 01:58:37.380 --> 01:58:43.040 So they jump through all these hoops to try to like, oh, I'm I'm not actually gay. 01:58:43.380 --> 01:58:48.200 This is a femboy or whatever, or somehow justify to themselves like, 01:58:48.760 --> 01:58:50.480 you know, whatever is going on. 01:58:50.640 --> 01:58:58.200 And it's just or I'm not whatever, you know, it's just it was a bizarre subculture 01:58:58.200 --> 01:59:00.200 that I had not known anything going through. 01:59:00.480 --> 01:59:05.020 These are the hoops that they're going through in order to try to say that they're not gay. 01:59:05.020 --> 01:59:07.980 They're not gay they're not trans they're whatever 01:59:07.980 --> 01:59:13.060 instead there are these other subcategories and and look i i'm not denying that 01:59:13.060 --> 01:59:17.340 there may be all kinds of subcategories that people that are valuable and people 01:59:17.340 --> 01:59:22.880 should pay attention to but this just seems like high just like highly repressed 01:59:22.880 --> 01:59:25.280 people trying like somebody. 01:59:25.280 --> 01:59:26.660 Said that basically. 01:59:26.660 --> 01:59:27.500 I don't know just. 01:59:27.500 --> 01:59:28.320 Went that like, 01:59:30.360 --> 01:59:32.380 I mean, are you telling me that 01:59:32.380 --> 01:59:35.920 the fucking solution is just to get all these people laid in some way? 01:59:36.100 --> 01:59:39.580 No, apparently not, because the problem is that they feel guilty about it. 01:59:39.660 --> 01:59:41.640 Because this is the big problem about 01:59:41.640 --> 01:59:47.880 this and why this entire thing about anti-trans is so bad, okay, to me. 01:59:48.500 --> 01:59:53.420 One of many reasons, but yes. But one of the big reasons is because how it drives 01:59:53.420 --> 01:59:59.580 these people into actually questioning their own personhood, 01:59:59.860 --> 02:00:04.000 into questioning what they like and what they don't like and make them depressed 02:00:04.000 --> 02:00:08.240 about how they feel because they make them feel like it's wrong. Okay? 02:00:08.520 --> 02:00:13.440 And this is the reason why, unfortunately, trans people have such a high rate of suicide. 02:00:13.940 --> 02:00:14.620 Mm-hmm. 02:00:14.620 --> 02:00:19.600 And it's assholes like this driving this stupid bullshit, you know, 02:00:20.000 --> 02:00:26.160 narrative, acting like this, talking like this, being the, you know, the whatever macho guy. 02:00:26.160 --> 02:00:30.940 And all you are is just somebody who has been so fucked in the head, 02:00:31.140 --> 02:00:35.360 you know, with all these thoughts that you're just lashing out at society and everybody else. 02:00:36.000 --> 02:00:37.860 Yeah. I mean... 02:00:38.530 --> 02:00:46.790 All of this stuff, like, shame-based culture and purity-based culture and all 02:00:46.790 --> 02:00:49.390 of this kinds of thing is just incredibly toxic. 02:00:50.150 --> 02:00:54.690 Just as long as nobody's hurting anybody else or doing something non-consensual. 02:00:54.830 --> 02:00:55.590 Don't knock yourself out. 02:00:55.650 --> 02:00:59.890 Then let people do whatever the hell they want to do. But you do realize that 02:00:59.890 --> 02:01:02.350 most of the people that behave like this thick cuentas. 02:01:02.490 --> 02:01:06.770 They're a combination of either these incels. or you've got the other ones that 02:01:06.770 --> 02:01:10.330 I said or the female abusers. 02:01:10.970 --> 02:01:13.090 It's one or the other. It's one or the other. 02:01:14.070 --> 02:01:18.250 This is this group. They're all like Trump, Epstein and all these people that 02:01:18.250 --> 02:01:24.090 abuse women, treat them like they're less than men or whatever. 02:01:24.630 --> 02:01:30.030 I want to be absolutely clear when I said consensual, fully consensual among 02:01:30.030 --> 02:01:31.410 adults, blah, blah, blah. Right. 02:01:31.630 --> 02:01:34.670 That is not saying go and do whatever the hell you feel like, 02:01:34.750 --> 02:01:36.590 including if you want to rape children. No. 02:01:36.970 --> 02:01:40.730 No, no, no, no, no. Consensual amongst adults is what I'm saying. 02:01:40.830 --> 02:01:44.530 Anything consensual amongst the adults, well, consensual against teenagers, 02:01:44.750 --> 02:01:48.430 because teenagers will do, you know, you know, stuff. 02:01:48.610 --> 02:01:51.050 I mean, you know, look, I mean, that's a reality. 02:01:51.230 --> 02:01:54.730 But the reality is that you can't shame these people into what they feel. 02:01:54.750 --> 02:01:59.950 Well, it's a completely different thing with two 17-year-olds doing something 02:01:59.950 --> 02:02:03.870 consensual versus, you know, the 45-year-old and the 17-year-old. 02:02:03.870 --> 02:02:08.170 You know yeah and and and and and why it's so difficult to explain to people 02:02:08.170 --> 02:02:10.730 why that is so it's just i just, 02:02:11.660 --> 02:02:20.240 Oh, anyway. Anyway, I thought I found something more funny. Don't we have something more fun? 02:02:20.360 --> 02:02:23.160 Yeah, I was about to say, can we have something more funny? I mean, 02:02:23.260 --> 02:02:26.380 you were trying to make fun of him because he admitted, yo, but. 02:02:26.380 --> 02:02:30.020 Well, I was just trying to bring up the fact that the hypocrisy. 02:02:30.420 --> 02:02:31.940 Well, I will say something more funny. 02:02:32.060 --> 02:02:38.440 I posted this thing where I put our electric car to charge, 02:02:38.460 --> 02:02:42.700 and they have idle fees for some reason overnight, which I think is stupid because 02:02:42.700 --> 02:02:47.400 it's so what I did is in order to not have to pay the idle fee, 02:02:47.540 --> 02:02:50.520 I can adjust the speed of charging on the car. 02:02:51.140 --> 02:02:56.500 So I slowed it down. So it was charging slow enough that in the morning it was going to be ready. 02:02:57.340 --> 02:02:57.800 Okay. 02:02:59.840 --> 02:03:03.920 Very clever of you. Get back at the new people in charge, right? 02:03:04.180 --> 02:03:05.560 Yeah, basically, yes. 02:03:05.700 --> 02:03:08.880 Because they took over from you when you resigned. 02:03:08.900 --> 02:03:11.580 Right, and I didn't use to charge such kind of fees. So, like, 02:03:11.660 --> 02:03:14.120 these assholes are starting to charge an idle fee at night. 02:03:14.220 --> 02:03:17.460 You know, it's like, who the hell is going to go plug in at 2 in the morning? You idiots. 02:03:18.120 --> 02:03:22.360 You know, why are you charging me an idle fee at 2 in the morning? Okay. 02:03:23.200 --> 02:03:24.660 You never know if someone could. 02:03:25.720 --> 02:03:33.680 I actually watched a video you know, check surveillance for many reasons no, rarely no, never. 02:03:34.500 --> 02:03:38.960 I will mention one more thing from the curmudgeon score slack and then we can 02:03:38.960 --> 02:03:46.940 shut up I posted an article about Bill Gates' daughter securing $30 million in funding for an AI app. 02:03:46.940 --> 02:03:54.320 That must have been so difficult for Bill Gates' daughter to secure that funding oh my god. 02:03:54.880 --> 02:04:02.340 Sam. Yes. All I'm saying is if anybody wants to give me $30 million for my to-do 02:04:02.340 --> 02:04:08.800 list thing, for Robin Letter, for Juke Potter, for any of these things, I'm wide open. 02:04:09.140 --> 02:04:12.000 You know, send me the check. I will make good use of it. 02:04:12.320 --> 02:04:15.340 Listen, I think that your first start is to call Bill Gates's daughter. 02:04:17.520 --> 02:04:23.440 You know, I remember talking to somebody a few years ago, like when When my 02:04:23.440 --> 02:04:25.360 daughter was at a prep school around here, 02:04:25.540 --> 02:04:31.160 she never actually met Bill Gates' daughter, but she had friends that were friends 02:04:31.160 --> 02:04:32.820 with Bill Gates' daughter. 02:04:33.380 --> 02:04:34.340 So there you go. 02:04:35.330 --> 02:04:40.150 Yeah, so, anyway, she, yeah, but I never got introduced, you know, 02:04:40.310 --> 02:04:44.250 I should have, you know, it would have been a good thing. 02:04:44.250 --> 02:04:46.630 That's your missed opportunity right there at your funding. I mean, 02:04:46.750 --> 02:04:49.790 come on, man, you had the golden ticket right in front of you. 02:04:52.350 --> 02:04:56.690 Yeah, yeah. You know, I heard every once in a while Bill Gates just, 02:04:56.850 --> 02:05:01.070 like, goes up to hamburger places and orders a burger in line and stuff, 02:05:01.070 --> 02:05:05.090 and I should just go stalk those places waiting for him to show up. 02:05:05.330 --> 02:05:10.330 right does that work yeah yeah yeah that's what you got to do i'll be i'm sure 02:05:10.330 --> 02:05:14.490 i'm sure if i found him he would immediately hand me a 30 million he just. 02:05:14.490 --> 02:05:17.050 Exactly he would just pull it out of his pocket no. 02:05:17.050 --> 02:05:17.810 No no. 02:05:17.810 --> 02:05:19.110 No cash cash. 02:05:19.110 --> 02:05:25.950 Exactly oh yeah cash that'd be awesome like get the big briefcase or or even 02:05:25.950 --> 02:05:29.810 better like the scrooge rick duck money bags yeah. 02:05:29.810 --> 02:05:31.290 Yeah yeah yeah yeah. 02:05:31.290 --> 02:05:40.050 Okay 30 million in pennies okay uh okay we're clearly well past done thank you 02:05:40.050 --> 02:05:44.890 every for thank you everyone for joining us have a great week stay safe have 02:05:44.890 --> 02:05:46.870 fun blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah, 02:05:47.650 --> 02:05:50.830 and we are out of here goodbye bye, 02:06:23.750 --> 02:06:26.830 Okay. Thanks, Yvonne. We'll talk to you later. 02:06:27.110 --> 02:06:27.750 Okay. Bye. 02:06:28.150 --> 02:06:28.610 Bye.