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00:09:52.000Yeah, so there's like a tradition where you fill an egg and you put like confetti in it and then you find the egg and then you smash it on someone else.
00:10:57.000I'd never heard of it before, but a drive-in church.
00:10:59.000And there was actually almost like plexiglass.
00:11:01.000It was one of those houses that would be made by a design major, because that's the key word with millennials now is design, all the design.
00:16:44.000This mayor, Lori Lightfoot, she's getting on there and drawing a comparison and she's going to blame the federal government, but yet she's the mayor of the city.
00:17:33.000Which, to eat whatever floats your boat.
00:17:35.000What's funny about Chicago in comparison to Detroit, Detroit, like, they've moved out of Detroit to murder and steal in other places because there's not enough population density.
00:17:42.000In Chicago, if you look at a lot of the violent crime, I'm sure you have the South Side, but you still have crazy muggings in tourist areas.
00:17:49.000They're like, that's where people shop!
00:18:06.000I don't have to go, I don't have to go home to my wife and justify, like, he has to go home to his wife, and she'll be like, why would you say that?
00:19:21.000But like, are we supposed to change prison?
00:19:25.000Are we supposed to have prison reform every time that violent offenders have to deal with an issue that's uncomfortable?
00:19:30.000Like, we all have to deal with coronavirus.
00:19:33.000Let's just take people who have not been a part of civilized society for years, potentially decades, let them loose and see how they fare.
00:19:40.000And tell them they have to come back in a few months when this is all settled back down.
00:19:44.000They have hospital care, but I am of... Here's... Listen, listen.
00:19:48.000This is one of the perks that you no longer have when you serve life in prison.
00:19:52.000If a virus that results in 25 asymptomatic conditions makes its way through Alcatraz, You shouldn't have mugged and killed that old lady as part of the gang initiation.
00:20:04.000And I thought sick people were supposed to stay put.
00:20:30.000Yes, if we're talking about non-violent offenders, people who just committed tax evasion or something like that, or Dinesh D'Souza with a bracelet that he has to blow into, fine.
00:21:03.000That may sound heartless, and that's only because it is.
00:21:06.000Now, this is only applying to people who have murdered or committed violent crimes.
00:21:10.000I am telling you, if they are serving life in prison, they've been fortunate enough to evade justice, the death penalty, COVID-19, at a certain point, I'm...
00:23:11.000So it's a gated community, but effectively, and it's like marble everywhere, it's like- it's like Ben Carson's bathroom, only the whole house.
00:23:18.000and uh there's a bar a wet bar with i don't really know what that means i just know that it said it in the thing i don't know what a wet bar is i expected it to be wet i guess it means a bunch of liquor and then there's effectively an indoor outdoor pool but it might as well just be like half a hot tub indoors it's basically like an entry point where there's glass and you have to kind of like Drop down like Anthony Robbins with his cold plunge pool, and then go outside.
00:24:43.000This is the claim you've been hearing everywhere that, of course, COVID-19 now is disproportionately affecting black Americans because racism.
00:24:50.000It's completely unacceptable to say that because, you know, African-Americans and Latinos have all of these underlying issues, that then there's nothing that could be done now.
00:25:00.000I worked in the medical field at the beginning of the AIDS crisis.
00:26:01.000And if you go back and watch the video in which I tastelessly gave my dog AIDS as part of the sketch where Hopper played Tom Hanks in Philadelphia, and people were really upset by that, Have you watched this show?
00:26:13.000Oprah said something to the effect, I don't have the number in front of me, but it's in that video, like two out of three, or if it's one out of three heterosexual couples will have AIDS by 1993.
00:26:21.000She was so sold on it that she made antiviral treatments a part of her Oprah's favorite things list.
00:26:32.000Um, so she blew that out, and then at this portion, of course, similar, 2.5 million Americans minimum will die.
00:26:36.000Well, then it's 100,000 to 240,000 once social distancing, and now it's like, well, maybe it's 60,000, and now they're saying it could be lower than that.
00:26:42.000So it's not that the virus is a hoax at all.
00:27:37.000Why same thing in a place in a rural area of Kentucky?
00:27:39.000Why is that not as affected as San Francisco?
00:27:41.000That's because, and we've known this, this is not something that I'm not letting the cat out of the bag, that central urban areas where people are just shoved, basically into sardine cans, Be them subways or buses or San Francisco apartments with 19 roommates.
00:27:56.000That is more likely to spread the virus.
00:27:58.000Now, black Americans are far more likely to live in urban areas.
00:28:31.000Black Americans, now we can talk about the reason why.
00:28:34.000I know some people throw out the idea of food deserts, and I would respond with Amazon food cart for five years now.
00:28:40.000You can get any food anywhere in the country, not amid a crisis, but any other time, and you can get it cheaper than you would purchase it locally at your bodega.
00:28:47.000Black Americans have a significantly higher rate of diabetes and obesity.
00:28:50.000Black men, 1.3 times to be as obese as whites, and then black women being 2.3 times more obese than white women.
00:28:56.000They're also far more likely to have pre-existing conditions.
00:29:49.000They have a two times the incident rate of diabetes by midlife.
00:29:52.000This comes from the CDC and Science Daily.
00:29:55.000And a new paper shows that actually obesity is the single biggest determining factor right now that we have available in whether you have a severe case of COVID-19.
00:30:04.000Meaning whether you recover from it or you end up with a hospitalization.
00:30:07.000The stat I have is hospitalization, not death.
00:30:12.000Also, by the way, here's another reason.
00:30:13.000So we have urban areas and then we have pre-genetic health positions.
00:30:18.000And then, of course, this is something, if we want to talk about cultural, black Americans have a far greater distrust for people in positions of authority.
00:30:39.000Listen, people have been championing this cause.
00:30:41.000There's systemic oppression and discrimination where they don't feel represented by their local government, including places like Chicago, even though their mayor is catfish eyes and also black.
00:30:48.000Baltimore, where the entire city council, right, was black.
00:31:06.000We have to take this into account, and not that there's some kind of genetic trait or systemic discrimination right now proactively that is forcing black Americans into coronavirus-ridden graves.
00:32:23.000But here's the thing, in 1918 influenza was not.
00:32:27.000It actually attacked people that were healthy and younger because their immune system overreacted to it.
00:32:32.000The point is that it would be a much better study to look at income level and say, oh, if you're a low-income worker, you're probably not able to not have a job right now.
00:32:40.000You've got to go out and work, which means you're much more likely to be exposed.
00:33:08.000That showed that depending on where you fell in an income bracket, you had maybe three to seven days earlier to start sheltering in place because of the type of job you have without an income impact.
00:33:20.000Especially if you're a tornado chaser.
00:33:25.000It's hard out there for the tornado chasers.
00:33:27.000I just had some really bad ones yesterday, so I don't want to laugh too much.
00:33:30.000But it's an important distinction, because ultimately, the news stories you hear about saying, oh, well, it's disproportionately affecting one race versus the other, again, ignores the other socioeconomic factors that divide us, that lead to more, right?
00:33:44.000The obesity, the income, those other factors.
00:34:47.000I don't know if Gibbon can bring this up, but now there have been a lot of healthcare workers furloughed, or staff has been cut back, particularly in Florida because they were waiting for a surge, and the surge hasn't happened yet.
00:34:56.000Now, it doesn't mean that it won't happen, but it was predicted to have already happened, right?
00:35:00.000So it hasn't happened, and so now they're laying off a lot of health care workers, and they're upset, saying, oh, all right, guys, now it's time to get back to work.
00:35:08.000I think we have this article, I put it, I think I tweeted it the other day, where they're asking for bailouts for local news.
00:35:13.000They said there is no market fix to this right now, because ad revenue has plummeted, and we need, we absolutely need local news.
00:35:20.000You were the one who said that Donald Trump was an idiot to Coal to balance the health of the economy, people's ability to make a living, and keeping people safe.
00:35:29.000And by the way, everyone in news, everyone in journalism, they're still getting their individual checks and they're still a part of the small business loans program.
00:35:35.000Why should you get more when you were the ones telling everybody else they should buck up and deal with a crippled economy?
00:35:42.000Because of the high-quality content that Local News is known for.
00:35:46.000Without their content, where would News be?
00:37:23.000A lot of people, and I don't know if folks out there remember, you can go watch the video where I crashed Cenk, uh, Cenk, Cenk, Cenk's, Cenk Wieger's panel at South by Southwest as Cenk.
00:38:43.000All right, you can cut back and forth between me and that, so that way it's not entirely that, because it looks like it was taped to the table.
00:38:47.000Doesn't Jake look like, you know, if Mark Cuban let himself go?
00:38:53.000Like if there were a magic pumpkin at night that would, you know, or a, what is it, a fairy?
00:38:58.000The magic pumpkin is what she rode to New York.
00:38:59.000There could be some kind of a fairy magic wand who, the moment you deny the Armenian genocide, they, and you look like Mark Cuban, fast forward 50 years.
00:40:27.000I had just done the Fat Pride panel, I think, that day that you guys have also seen.
00:40:30.000Fat Pride, some kind of free speech panel.
00:40:33.000And then I walked past Bill Nye, of all people.
00:40:36.000So, just to make me a little more nervous, I'm walking past Bill Nye, my wife has the whole Chank outfit, padded gut, and I think it was olive oil, could've been actual duck fat, I don't know.
00:40:46.000And so I go into a bathroom to change into Chank wearing a uniform, because we know when this panel starts, okay, I'm gonna wait in the bathroom here, we have a very, very tight schedule, and I get in, change, gut, okay, I take about four minutes, I'm ahead of time, and I'm sitting there just like praying, because I put the olive oil on my face, the gel, alright, I'm getting in the mood.
00:41:25.000So, uh, they see me walking by, they think this is very bizarre, and I go- I start approaching the room, and I realize that whatever room it is, or ballroom, it doesn't exist, or the number doesn't exist.
00:41:35.000I can't remember exactly what it was, maybe it was supposed to be room 402, and I'm like, wait, hold on a second, I'm on the fourth floor, there is no 40 anything!
00:42:19.000So I'm pissing them off, but I also hate myself.
00:42:22.000I have to get into a cab at this point, dressed as Jane Quigar.
00:42:26.000The panel has already started, and I have to get into a cab.
00:42:29.000The only one nearby, I guess because there was some sort of eco-green movement in Austin at this point, is one of those glorified golf carts that looks like it's if a glorified golf cart had sex with a Jetsons car, where it's just all plastic, plexiglass, and you can fit like nine people in it, and it has the same horsepower as an electric bird scooter.
00:42:48.000So I walk out, my wife is there, and she's like, get in, get in, get in.
00:42:50.000I'm like, alright, I think it's all good in, because I'm still in character.
00:42:52.000So I get in, I am driving down, there are lines around the building, right, because there are other panels taking part for people that, you know, the events they actually want to see.
00:43:25.000I'm going across the bridge and I'm just sitting there outside in their, I don't want to go back to this, the gondola, what is it, pergola?
00:43:33.000Whatever it is, but it's outside in front of the hotel and I'm sitting there like this and every now and then I look up and maybe like, of course, Because I can't disrobe.
00:43:44.000And so finally, someone goes into the panel to be kind of a plant.
00:44:48.000And then I stand there, if you haven't seen this segment, where I'm like, OK, I realized in all of this hustle, I had forgotten that I need to actually have something to talk about.
00:44:57.000And I did have a list, but I'd forgotten it.
00:45:42.000He leaves, I sit down, and I just go, so, uh, You want to talk about the Armenian genocide?
00:45:48.000And you just hear a ripple through the audience.
00:45:50.000And then finally security, they just come up and like, you can even see them like, can you please, can you please,
00:45:55.000can you go, like please can you leave.
00:45:57.000They didn't tackle it. And when I walked out, you could hear them laughing.
00:45:59.000They're like, alright, that was a dick move, but we appreciate the commitment.
00:46:04.000I drove back to the other courtyard, went to that bathroom because I knew it was available because we still had someone standing guard, washed off the olive oil, and felt horrible about myself for the rest of the weekend.
00:46:16.000Keep in mind, he was the one who called me out when I had like 20,000 subscribers and refused to ever engage in a debate.
00:47:28.000But with the Chang thing, the reason I will tell you why, it's because at that point, with all of this chaos, we were in the wrong place, and I had to get into this fishbowl.
00:47:38.000All I could cling to was, at least I can do the best damn Cenk Uygur.
00:50:24.000So here's one where she said that, this is a tweet, she said that Trump's xenophobic COVID response was making people too scared to go to the hospital.
00:50:35.000Does it mean that minorities are scared to go to the hospital because Donald Trump is racist?
00:50:39.000I think what she's saying is that all of the first responders who are working their asses off in the hospitals must be so racist that now people won't go to the hospital.
00:50:50.000And that's Trump's fault that all the doctors and nurses are racist.
00:51:54.000Well, so the funny thing, to me, funny again, damn it, I keep saying that.
00:51:58.000The weird thing is, the only thing that's going to make people not go to the hospital is the idea that the hospital is full of people that are incredibly sick and you're going to get sick by going there, right?
00:52:07.000If anything, Donald Trump has been accused of saying, actually it's getting better, the hospitals aren't as overcrowded as we thought and there aren't as many people needed.
00:52:14.000That's the only thing that I can think of that would make sense and she didn't say anything like Well, since none of us can interpret that, we need an AOC interpreter.
00:52:21.000It's like tongues, which we'll talk about in Mass Monday later today, addressing Rhett and Link.
00:52:25.000It's only a gift, a spiritual gift, if someone is there to interpret it.
00:52:28.000AOC is only a comedic gift if someone can make sense of her batshit crazy tweets.
00:52:34.000And unfortunately, that is beyond the scope of my ability.
00:52:52.000And so it's important for us to acknowledge how unnecessary the level of crisis that we are at right now that is due to the incompetence of this administration, that is due to the lack of responsiveness of this administration, and when it comes to the particular cruelty to undocumented immigrants.
00:53:47.000And this is what happens when you have, and I know there's this Trump derangement syndrome we've talked about, but also just you immediately try to politicize everything.
00:53:54.000Keep in mind that illegal immigrants can still go to the emergency room.
00:54:07.000This is one thing people don't think about.
00:54:08.000Like obviously you can't go to a doctor where you have to prove insurance and all that stuff preemptively, but in the emergency room they don't deny you.
00:54:20.000It's a guy named Jorge who's gonna take his spot.
00:54:22.000So, it is remarkable to me that she's like, what does she think is going to happen at this point?
00:54:28.000Well, at the very beginning of what she said, she said Donald Trump is responsible and then she pivoted to all of his administration and started naming different departments and tried to lump them all together because Donald Trump has actually had a pretty good response to this and people are, you know, pretty much approve of how he's doing so far, a majority do.
00:54:43.000And so she couldn't label just him, so she said, everybody else is doing a really bad job.
00:54:46.000And what she didn't take into account is she's saying, oh, well, New York has a lot of cases, and we're having a really big problem with this.
00:54:50.000Well, you have a mayor, you also have a governor of your state that really could have helped you guys out.
00:56:56.000Like, every day you're told, your existence is why your neighbors are suffering, and if you would just sacrifice yourself on the altar of white privilege, then everyone else could live a good life, and then you forget, oh, I don't know, it's like white people could also have poverty levels.
00:57:16.000White people can also require ventilators.
00:58:37.000I think she was saying that if we took care of all these animals instead of people, that's why.
00:58:42.000Oh, I thought you were talking about Pita Pit, which is a franchise like Subway, but with pitas, and I'm pretty sure that they do not follow the same guidelines.
00:58:50.000I usually get it with the alfalfa sprouts, and then you realize it smells like asparagus pea.
00:58:55.000Okay, so environmental racism, Steven, is when you have like trucking and stuff that goes through your neighborhood, and so you have a higher...
00:59:20.000I mean, I know the idea is like if they have, if they have mines in those towns, if they have sort of energy plants, they call that environmental racism that affects people in low income areas.
01:03:37.000And we got overlays, we got the Way of the Warrior Kid podcast, that is for if you're a parent and you don't want, you know, You don't want your kid to listen to Jocko podcast because it's a little bit heavy, but you don't want your kid to be, you know, weak and pathetic.
01:07:21.000You know what, I think the Jocko will be very disappointed in you, but we'll keep having you back because there aren't many people who can come live in studio.
01:07:27.000Alright, Smooth Manny, this has been our Jocko correspondent.
01:11:00.000I realized it was going to be about a joke.
01:11:01.000It was going to be a Joe Biden is a creepy rapist joke, but then I realized in my head that it could come out as though I was a supporter of creepy rape joke.
01:11:08.000There are very few times that you stop yourself mid-swing.
01:11:45.000Having a penis thrust in your face at a drunken party may seem like harmless fun, but when Brett Kavanaugh did it to her, Deborah Ramirez says, it confirmed that she didn't belong at Yale in the first place.
01:11:55.000Actually, it turns out it was her transcripts.
01:12:45.000Now, by the standards of, if a man ever makes you feel sexually uncomfortable and you've asked him to stop, and he doesn't, it's sexual assault.
01:12:50.000And the woman says, I believe that Joe Biden has committed sexual assault against me, New York Times.
01:13:12.000So in other words, there's far more proof of Joe Biden sexually assaulting or at least treating women in a way that would make them uncomfortable than we have ever had of Brett Kavanaugh.
01:13:22.000I'm not saying that any of that should be rape.
01:13:23.000And I don't think that Brett Kavanaugh committed any rape because most of the women, Christine Blasey Ford notwithstanding, Retract it and say, ah, probably didn't happen.
01:13:31.000And then there was no corroboration for Christine Blasey Ford.
01:13:34.000And that may end up being the same thing with Tara Reade.
01:13:36.000But there's, look at that, right there.
01:13:37.000So in other words, if that woman comes forward.
01:13:41.000Any one of those women could come forward and say sexual assault, not rape, and there would be more proof than any sexual misconduct or any unbecoming conduct that Brett Kavanaugh had ever committed.
01:13:55.000I don't even know how with a straight... Fair?
01:13:57.000I agree a hundred percent, but I don't know how with a straight face with all of that evidence that you, in the media, you just go, well that's different.
01:14:03.000How do you, I mean really, how do you have any integrity at all?
01:14:05.000Could you imagine if during the trial someone rolled out, like the old VHS TV like you had in grade school, and it was just like, Your Honor, we don't have proof, or, well I guess I don't know exactly what it was.
01:14:17.000Did they do a trial, or was it just a Senate hearing?
01:14:33.000What I'm about to show you is not proof positive of Christine Blasey's accusations, which have yet to be corroborated, of gang rape.
01:14:42.000But I do believe that it is proof of sexual misconduct on Brett Kavanaugh's part, which should be taken into account.
01:14:50.000And they click play and it's just Brett Kavanaugh with a young girl and he's just going... That would have been played on CNN on a loop like a morphine drip!
01:19:30.000We're going to do a Mass Monday addressing Rhett and Link, and the idea is, is there a biblical basis to be brand-friendly and to want to be popular with the cool crowd, or any crowd, really?
01:19:41.000Is that a biblical principle, to be polite and to be brand-friendly?
01:21:11.000I will say, though, actually, I've spoken with some economists, actually some of them sort of through the grapevine, one of whom is a good friend of Dr. Choi, and they say that long-term, because the fundamentals were so sound here in the United States, and because we'll probably also bring some more manufacturing back, but not before.
01:21:26.000If we had tried to do this before, it would just be, should be made in America, and we
01:21:29.000wouldn't have actually taken into account what we need to do as far as international
01:21:34.000trade agreements to make sure that we can be competitive and it's not an even playing
01:21:37.000field, in which case you just end up with unionized American workers, and it's more
01:21:39.000expensive for, frankly, crappier merchandise a lot of the time.
01:21:43.000And we are looking into American manufacturers for mugs.
01:21:45.000Some people have reached out, but beforehand they chipped.
01:21:51.000They couldn't actually be hand-etched.
01:22:15.000If you go before that sort of pre-agricultural revolution where you had sort of like nomadic
01:22:18.000and agrarian societies and you see how that changed once we crossed over.
01:22:22.000And we haven't always found the best way to balance and this is where sort of Tucker
01:22:27.000Carlson's populism appeals to a lot of Americans whereas the more wonky libertarian like the
01:22:32.000the Thomas Sowell's of the world see automation as something that frees up Americans to do
01:22:36.000But at a certain point, there almost can be no jobs left.
01:22:39.000So it will be interesting after this, I think everyone is going to do a gut check, say, how can we actually strengthen the American economy?
01:22:45.000Look at supporting our American workers first.
01:22:48.000And what do we do to ensure that automation and technology serves the best interests of the American people at large, rather than hampering them?
01:22:56.000And I think the natural cycle would do that, where technology ultimately is a boon.
01:23:00.000But I do think that people weren't necessarily looking at it through that lens.
01:23:04.000And so I think that long term, this has forced us to look back at our priorities.
01:23:09.000And hopefully, hopefully, this shakeup will cause us to be more prepared for the kind
01:23:49.000On the medical front, we'll actually take these things a little bit more seriously.
01:23:52.000Like flu season, we'll wash our hands better, we'll be better about touching and bringing stuff to older people.
01:23:56.000I think this, if nothing else, medically, has taught me not so much about COVID, but that the flu should be taken more seriously than this.
01:25:23.000And we've got to realize that there are businesses here to be protected, not because of some xenophobic hatred about China or China's economy or its products, but just because If we make it here, it's closer, it's easier.
01:25:51.000Like what you just heard here with the joke, that was something that in pitch meeting would have... We've all heard it, and then you... And it would have been rolling down the wall like one of those sticky toys when you're a kid.
01:26:24.000On a personal level, it's also made me very confident in the sense that when I see Trevor Noah and I see... I love David Spade, for example, but I was watching his interviews with Tiger King folks.
01:26:33.000I think he's probably the funniest of the late night hosts out there, Conan.
01:26:36.000And I watch a 20-minute spot and I go, there's only one funny bit here.
01:26:40.000When you remove the 20 writers, the hundreds of production crew members, it's made me feel
01:26:45.000really good about the fact that we can compete.
01:26:47.000We can actually do better because it doesn't have to be hundreds of millions of dollars
01:26:50.000in a network budget or crap with an iPhone microphone without even plugging in a USB
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