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00:00:00.000I'm still waiting to hear the other narrative.
00:00:03.000I mean, we went over it the other week.
00:00:05.000It is Judeo-Christian because of Abraham?
00:00:08.000Okay, then why are you not teaming up with the Muslims then?
00:00:12.000Oh yeah, because it's only Jews and Christians.
00:00:53.000I thought that, you know, these people would be cool, and maybe they don't agree, maybe they don't love everything that I say, but directionally, maybe we're going in the same direction.
00:01:05.000Or directionally, we're fighting the same fight, I should say.
00:01:09.000But then they all attack me, and now I just have no patience for the nonsense that it's about the Trilateral Commission.
00:01:18.000It's not about the Trilateral Commission, it's about the Jews.
00:01:22.000And it's not about the woke corporations, Tucker, and it's not about, you know, whatever they talk about on the Tucker Show.
00:01:44.000So, I mean, yeah, they all kind of have a point.
00:01:46.000Yeah, you're right, it is the CFR, and it is... You could say it is the Carnegie Endowment, which is an extension of the State Department, but guess what those are both infiltrated by?
00:01:59.000I don't know that you would have the same problem if these people were Catholics.
00:02:44.000And he's got a non-compete clause in the contract which doesn't expire until 2025.
00:02:49.000So if he wants to keep making that money, he cannot go and join up with another network until 2025.
00:02:55.000So there was a lot of talk when he left the show about him attempting to get out of that contract or just walking out of the deal altogether, trying to find some way to make it work.
00:03:09.000And eventually he announced that he'd be taking a show to Twitter and we covered this and at that time I said well this clearly anticipates that Twitter is going to be rolling out some sort of live streaming or video hosting feature soon because just a month ago Twitter didn't have the long form video content the maximum for users was 2 minutes 20 seconds and I think in some cases users could post a longer video
00:03:38.000But now it seems that they're rolling out this long form video hosting.
00:03:43.000I don't know that they're doing video streaming yet.
00:03:45.000I think for now it's just the video hosting.
00:03:48.000Meaning it's not going to be live, but they'll be able to upload longer form videos.
00:03:54.000And so since that announcement, Daily Wire has uploaded all their podcasts to Twitter.
00:03:59.000They uploaded their two-hour What is a Woman movie.
00:04:06.000interview that he did for 24 hours onto Twitter.
00:04:09.000So a lot of people are now taking advantage of the feature.
00:04:13.000And this was a perfect opportunity because apparently, according to sources close to Tucker, Tucker is able to bring his show to Twitter because
00:04:23.000When Tucker made this contract with Fox News, Twitter was not a video hosting platform, so evidently bringing the show to Twitter constitutes something like a loophole.
00:04:33.000He can take the show to Twitter without violating the contract, he could still take the money, and technically he's not in violation of the non-compete clause, but yet he can bring the show in a different form to Twitter.
00:04:46.000And so today he posted the first episode
00:04:50.000And it was ten minutes, and it was about a few things.
00:04:53.000It was about... It was one monologue, and he touched on a few subjects, I should say.
00:04:58.000He talked about Ukraine, he talked about this alien disclosure that's going on, and he talked about the media.
00:09:48.000So, the gist of the show is they're telling us to support Ukraine and that's quite ridiculous.
00:09:54.000The media doesn't want you to be a free thinker.
00:09:56.000And he goes into these questions and says, what about the important questions like what happened on 9-11 and what happened at JFK and how did Jeffrey Epstein die?
00:10:07.000And I'm watching this and I'm like, hang on a second.
00:10:12.000You've been doing Tucker Carlson tonight
00:11:10.000And this is really the grand irony, and it's not just for Tucker Carlson, but it's for all opposition media, all conservative media, and especially this new class of populist types in media, which is asking the question as a rhetorical tool with no intention of answering it.
00:11:36.000Asking a dangerous rhetorical question, dancing right up to the line, with no intention, no desire, no interest in going on the other side of that and delivering the answer.
00:11:52.000That's why he could do a show on Fox News for six years and not talk about 9-11.
00:12:10.000But yet he can go on Twitter and reference those things without getting into them at all to illustrate a broader point, a lame point, which is about how the media doesn't want real journalism.
00:12:23.000Well, that's a little ironic considering you're part of the media and you haven't answered any of those questions in your entire 20-year career either.
00:12:36.000And it's very frustrating as somebody who... I'm 24 years old.
00:12:42.000My father was not a Fed who ran NPR and PBS like Tucker Carlson's dad did.
00:12:57.000And I have gone out on the same timetable
00:13:01.000The same timetable that Tucker Carlson has hosted Tucker Carlson Tonight in the primetime slot on Fox News, I have for the same amount of time hosted this show on YouTube before I was banned, on DLive before I was banned, and now on this platform which I built.
00:13:19.000And for answering all of those questions about Epstein and 9-11 and the Jack Kennedy assassination among the rest,
00:13:31.000I have been condemned by the Republican Party.
00:13:34.000I have been condemned by Kevin McCarthy.
00:13:36.000I have been banned from Turning Point USA.
00:13:39.000I've been banned from Twitter, TikTok, YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, PayPal, Stripe, Bank of America, Chase Bank, three other banks, multiple airlines.
00:13:51.000I've been put on the federal no-fly list.
00:13:55.000Under FBI investigation, subpoenaed by Congress, attacked in public physically, doxxed, swatted, harassed, and Tucker Carlson, I've never gotten a phone call, I've never gotten a text, you know, he'll reach out to that punk kid from UChicago.
00:14:14.000Not only will he not talk about these things, Tucker, with his legacy, his
00:14:20.000Heritage there with his money, with his position in media.
00:14:26.000Not only does he not reach out privately, not only does he refuse to support publicly like Say My Name, but he even goes out of his way to attack me by reaching out to a friend of mine earlier this year for a hit piece by Max Blumenthal's wife for The Grey Zone about how I'm such an anti-semite.
00:15:18.000If his next show or some show in the future is talking about Israel's role in 9-11 or Israel's role in the Jack Kennedy assassination, if he wants to talk about who Jeffrey Epstein really was, then I will give credit where it's due.
00:15:37.000But he comes on the platform and says, the media doesn't like real journalism.
00:15:41.000They don't want you asking these real questions.
00:15:43.000Well, as far as I know, you've been in the media for your entire adult life.
00:15:48.000You've been in the media for 30 years.
00:15:50.000You've been on cable television for almost 20 or more.
00:15:56.000And just like the rest of them, I don't think we've heard a compelling explanation for any of those things from you either.
00:16:04.000But that is the center of the conservative grip.
00:16:06.000To complain about censorship while not being censored.
00:16:10.000To talk about being not politically correct while absolutely being totally politically correct.
00:16:16.000To attack and condemn lobbying and foreign influence
00:16:23.000And then be the prime beneficiary of it.
00:16:26.000To go out there and say journalists will not confront the uncomfortable truth.
00:16:31.000Being a journalist unwilling to confront the uncomfortable truth.
00:16:36.000Because up until recently the media had you by the balls like they had everybody else.
00:16:43.000So I think the whole thing is absolutely ridiculous, and I think it's insulting, and I also think it's suspicious.
00:16:51.000He gives this monologue and says something like, the Ukraine coverage has dominated the media today, but in the meantime there's a big alien story.
00:17:01.000And Tucker's been pushing the alien thing for years.
00:17:06.000The alien thing is extremely suspicious.
00:17:09.000He acts like this is some conspiracy theory.
00:17:12.000He says no one will talk about aliens.
00:20:54.000You wanna sit down and watch Fox News?
00:20:56.000You wanna hear the, uh, you know, these Mike Lindell commercials and drug commercials and then they come back and half the show's about Biden pooping?
00:23:11.000It says, quote, a major breach of the Kokovka hydroelectric dam in Russia's Kursan region inundated huge swathes of land on the banks of the Dnieper River, prompting large-scale evacuation efforts in the area.
00:23:25.000Moscow claimed that the facility was damaged by a Ukrainian strike, while Kiev placed the blame on Russia.
00:23:31.000Built in 1956, the 30-meter-tall and 3.2-kilometer-long Kokovka Hydroelectric Dam contains some 18 cubic kilometers of water, roughly the same volume as the Great Salt Lake in the U.S.
00:23:47.000On Tuesday morning, the mayor of Novaya Kokovka, a city located close to the dam, said that part of the facility had been destroyed by a Ukrainian strike, which reportedly used a multiple-launch rocket system.
00:23:59.000With at least 14 of the dam's 28 spans having collapsed, the mayor said that the water level in the area had risen by more than 10 meters, resulting in the town being flooded.
00:24:12.000Against this backdrop, the local authorities started evacuating residents from several riverside settlements, with some 300 buildings being vacated.
00:24:21.000Kremlin Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov claimed that the incident was caused by deliberate Ukrainian sabotage.
00:24:29.000Warning of dire ramifications for tens of thousands of local residents and the ecosystem.
00:24:35.000He noted that the sabotage was aimed at cutting the water supply to the Russian Crimea peninsula, adding that the strikes appeared to have been linked to the recent large-scale Ukrainian attacks on the Donbass front, which were thwarted by Russian defenses.
00:24:50.000However, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky claimed that the dam was damaged in a Russian terrorist attack
00:24:59.000And his top aide accused Moscow of staging the biggest environmental disaster in Europe in decades.
00:25:05.000He believes the incident was meant to throw a wrench into the much-hyped Ukrainian counteroffensive that Kiev has been promising for months.
00:25:14.000Numerous Western officials took Kiev's side, with European Council President Charles Mitchell writing on Twitter that the destruction of civilian infrastructure clearly qualifies as a war crime, vowing to hold Russia and its proxies accountable.
00:25:31.000So, the Russian side says that Ukraine sabotaged the dam because the people of Crimea rely on the dam for their water.
00:25:42.000It's a dam that is owned by Russia, operated by Russia, and it supplies resources to Crimea, which is occupied by Russians, both Russian civilians and the Russian military.
00:26:00.000That seems to be a pretty airtight case that it would be Ukraine damaging that dam to inflict economic damage and humanitarian damage on Russia and to some extent cause them logistical problems.
00:26:17.000The Ukrainian side says that Russia destroyed their own dam.
00:26:20.000Again, this is a dam that Russia owns, operates.
00:26:23.000It's a dam that Russian citizens, civilians benefit from.
00:26:28.000But Ukraine says that Russia blew up their own dam so that Ukraine would not be able to carry out their counteroffensive.
00:26:38.000And also, they blew up the dam so that they could then blame it on the Ukrainians.
00:26:44.000And that would help them for some reason.
00:26:49.000Clearly it doesn't make much sense that Russia did this.
00:26:52.000It's the same thing with Nord Stream 2.
00:26:54.000Russia built the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, Russia benefited from the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, benefited from the sale of natural gas to Germany, and while it is true that when the Nord Stream 2 pipeline was sabotaged, that Russian gas was not flowing through it, of course at some point in the future when the war had terminated,
00:27:15.000It's conceivable that Germany would once again begin importing natural gas from Russia through the pipeline, which cost lots of money, took extraordinary diplomatic measures to get that project completed.
00:27:29.000Why they would sabotage their own infrastructure that could not be repaired made no sense at that time.
00:27:37.000I mean, even the counter-arguments from America didn't make sense.
00:27:40.000There's only two or three countries in the world that could have carried it out.
00:27:44.000There were Black Hawk American helicopters at the site of the sabotage.
00:27:50.000The Danish and German authorities said it was a sabotage.
00:27:56.000Weighing the fact that Russia paid for it and financially benefited from it and could have turned it on at any point, it just made no sense.
00:28:04.000Especially considering that America celebrated it after the fact and said that they had been talking about it and they directly benefited from it.
00:28:15.000This is a Russian dam that Russia built, Russia owns, operates, they benefit from.
00:28:20.000Why would they blow it up and blame it on the Ukrainians?
00:28:22.000They know that nobody's gonna believe Russia.
00:28:25.000Do they think that the Western media is not gonna run and blame Russia?
00:28:30.000So this whole Patsy idea doesn't make sense.
00:28:34.000And then as far as stopping the counteroffensive, what counteroffensive?
00:28:38.000And this leads me to believe that the Ukrainians blew this up.
00:28:42.000There's sort of a two-fold idea here, and this is something that I'm speculating, which is that there is no real Ukrainian counteroffensive because they just don't have the means for it.
00:28:56.000It was supposed to be a spring counteroffensive.
00:29:02.000They say that there's been some more intense fighting on the Eastern Front, but it's June.
00:29:09.000I mean, the summer solstice is in two weeks, so that's a pretty late spring counteroffensive.
00:29:17.000And in any case, this is part of a much bigger pattern of Ukrainian asymmetrical tactics.
00:29:23.000Which have stepped up just in the last few months, and there's a timeline here.
00:29:27.000Last August, Ukraine killed Alexander Dugin's daughter.
00:29:32.000In April, they assassinated a pro-Russian blogger named Vladlen Tatarsky.
00:29:38.000In May, they sent in a kamikaze drone to blow up the Kremlin.
00:29:42.000Later in May, they sent some 100 insurgents into a Russian border town called Belgorod, which was very quickly put down.
00:29:51.000And then just last week they sent in another drone attack to a residential neighborhood in Moscow targeting Russian intelligence officials.
00:29:59.000So just in the last two months there's been four incidents of assassinations, drone attacks in the Russian homeland, this attempted insurgency.
00:30:11.000And so it seems that the counteroffensive, because it can't take a conventional form, because they lack the logistics, they lack the manpower, they lack the material,
00:30:22.000To wage a true counteroffensive and beat the Russians on the battlefield, it seems like the counteroffensive is more like terrorism.
00:30:30.000They're going to send kamikaze drones.
00:30:32.000They're going to send in a small group to a border town.
00:31:08.000I think that's what they're going for here.
00:31:10.000So understanding this pattern of behavior, the kamikaze drone, the drone strike in Moscow, this Belgorod insurgency,
00:31:20.000Blowing up the dam seems like the next logical step.
00:31:23.000They can't beat the army on the battlefield, but they can sabotage infrastructure.
00:31:28.000They can send in some spies and shoot it with a rocket launcher.
00:31:32.000They can send in a rogue drone and blow up the Kremlin.
00:31:35.000These are things that are within their capability.
00:31:38.000They even tried to take out a ship in the Black Sea this week as well.
00:31:41.000It didn't succeed, but you could count that among the examples of these types of tactics as well.
00:31:47.000I would also say that specifically the narrative, this is the other dimension of it, the dam specifically, is when they talk about the dam and they blame Russia, they've been saying that, well, Russia attacked the dam to slow down and stop the counteroffensive.
00:32:07.000And that, to me, sounds like a really convenient excuse for why this counteroffensive isn't working.
00:32:14.000Because they've been hyping it up, counteroffensive, counteroffensive, we are going to win.
00:32:50.000Very visible, very sensational, very... the spectacle is very provocative.
00:32:57.000And these are meant to be attention-grabbing media pieces, which is meant to create the psychological effect that Ukraine isn't getting rolled here, they're not getting steamrolled in a city like Bakhmut, they're not being slowly devastated, and their equipment destroyed, and having high casualties, and without any ability to mount a significant counter-attack.
00:33:19.000But no, look, they're blowing people up, look, they're doing a drone attack, they're blowing up infrastructure.
00:33:26.000They have said it in the last two weeks.
00:33:28.000They have been figuring out the Russian front line.
00:33:31.000They said that the fighting has begun to intensify.
00:33:34.000The Russians came out today and said that they killed 3,000 Ukrainians in just the last week.
00:33:41.000And so when Ukraine comes out and says, well, Russia blew up their own dam to blame it on us, and the reason they blew up their own dam was to stop our awesome counteroffensive,
00:33:52.000That sounds like a really convenient excuse for why there are no results.
00:33:56.000That sounds like a really convenient... Well, we couldn't do the counteroffensive because the Russians are just cheating now.
00:34:02.000They started blowing up their own stuff.
00:34:37.000I think this is part of a media strategy by Zelensky.
00:34:40.000I think Zelensky knows that if there's no good news out of Ukraine, the Americans are going to want them to negotiate.
00:34:49.000If there's no indication that they're still fighting and they're just done, then I think at some point there's going to be a capitulation.
00:34:58.000So Zelensky, I'm sure in his mind, if they're going out in the media and they're fighting back, they're blowing stuff up, as long as there's fireworks, maybe in his mind it makes it an easier sell to keep it coming.
00:35:11.000And maybe there's some of that in Washington too.
00:35:16.000And this seems to be a continuation of that.
00:35:19.000This tracks with the pattern, with that strategy, and it also, based on what the media is saying about it, well, what was the motivation so Russia could stop this unstoppable counter-offensive?
00:35:31.000Well, it doesn't seem like there is much of one, so that would be a good excuse for why we're not going to see any results, wouldn't it?
00:35:40.000So, that's my take on the Ukraine situation, but
00:35:46.000Like I said, fundamentally, I'm just sort of burnt out on it.
00:35:52.000I don't think the situation on the ground has changed very much at all in the last eight months or something like that.
00:36:00.000And it seems inevitable that Russia is going to, at the least, they are going to be able to annex those four territories at Donbass and then the other two that they took last year.
00:36:14.000And it seems that NATO is never going to have Ukraine as a member state, and I think that's just it.
00:36:19.000I think it's basically as good as done.
00:36:21.000And I don't know, maybe there'll be some other major development, but I think that the major consequences of the Ukraine war, we're already seeing them.
00:36:30.000The big consequences of this are no longer in Ukraine, it's now elsewhere.
00:36:35.000And what I mean by that is, it's like we talked about last year, it's not about even Ukraine.
00:36:41.000It is about the multipolar world order.
00:36:43.000And it's about the idea that Russia could do something in defiance.
00:36:47.000Just total, blatant defiance of the United States.
00:36:50.000Against every soft power mechanism the United States has to enforce compliance, Russia remained defiant and they survived.
00:36:58.000That is the most important thing to come out of this.
00:37:03.000And what's more, the entire international community broke with the United States.
00:37:08.000If you look at the nations that voted against, voted to condemn the Russian invasion and the UN, most of the world's population lives in countries that did not condemn.
00:37:18.000And the same goes for countries that refused to sanction Russia.
00:37:21.000China, India, most of Africa, most of the Middle East, refused to sanction Russia.
00:37:27.000So who's on the side of America, diplomatically, economically, militarily?
00:37:36.000It's Western Europe, it's Canada, Australia, it's Japan, it's South Korea.
00:37:42.000But they are increasingly losing support among these regional powers in Africa, in the Middle East, even in South America, which is a little shocking.
00:37:51.000And they've totally lost with India and China.
00:37:55.000And so you're seeing this now with the currency and how they're denominating trade.
00:38:01.000And you're even seeing it in the diplomacy with countries like Saudi Arabia and Iran, and now Venezuela as recently as last week.
00:38:09.000This is all a product of what happened last year, which is that clearly the United States is not as powerful as it used to be.
00:38:16.000And that has been the emergent reality for the last 10 years.
00:38:22.000That was the reality when Russia stepped up and saved Assad.
00:38:31.000Russia was able to come in and save Iran and across the board as the United States pulls out of Iraq and Afghanistan and all these other developments happening all around the world.
00:38:47.000This has been a metamorphosis which has been in motion for a decade and the Ukraine war was, it was really the beginning of the end, so to speak.
00:38:56.000It had been going on for a long time and now we're in this closing action.
00:39:00.000This is the end of American hegemony, but we've gone over that a lot over the past year.
00:39:04.000That's why I'm sort of burnt out on the day-to-day coverage of
00:39:08.000Ukraine and Russia and today they did this and today they did that.
00:39:11.000But whatever the outcome will be, more or less it will be very predictable.
00:39:15.000I don't see the outcome being much different than what the border looks like today.
00:39:19.000I don't see Russia advancing much further.
00:39:22.000I don't see Ukraine doing much to repel Russia.
00:39:26.000I think this is basically what the status quo will look like, give or take.
00:39:31.000Whenever this thing ends, by the end of this year, by the end of next year, what matters is the diplomatic repercussions which you're seeing in Brazil, India, Saudi Arabia, Western Europe, Africa, China.
00:39:45.000And specifically when you look at the currency, Brazil and India now talking about doing their trade in the Chinese Yuan.
00:39:53.000China and Russia now forming what amounts to effectively a defense alliance.
00:39:58.000Iran and Saudi Arabia brokering a peace through China to the surprise of the United States.
00:40:04.000This is like overturning 80 years of diplomatic precedent.
00:40:15.000That is the real legacy of the war in Ukraine, and that is the interesting part which continues to play out, this tit-for-tat thing going on.
00:40:22.000And maybe to get back to the Tucker Show for a little while, the Tucker Show is about how, well,
00:40:29.000Supporting Ukraine is just like supporting the current thing.
00:41:10.000The neocons have been talking about war with China forever.
00:41:15.000That's Pompeo, the former CIA director.
00:41:19.000That's Peter Thiel, who's from South Africa, like all the other Israeli spies.
00:41:26.000That's Bannon, who is in bed with Guo, who's some sort of a Fed, and the ZOA.
00:41:34.000That's these guys, even like Charles Johnson, who's pretty openly collaborating with federal law enforcement, and he's got this anti-China streak.
00:41:42.000It's when Tucker Carlson goes out there and says, well, you know, they just want you to talk about Ukraine because the media's crazy.
00:42:02.000Essential to understanding the shift in the global balance of power and specifically what's happening in Russia and Ukraine.
00:42:08.000Just in the same way that it was a game changer for the United States to come in unconditionally on the side of Ukraine and how they rallied Western Europe and blah blah blah.
00:42:18.000It was equally if not more significant that China and Russia made that deal earlier this year and described it as an unbreakable bond.
00:44:57.000I don't know if there's one other show like this.
00:45:00.000I don't know if there's one other show where you're getting all this.
00:45:04.000I mean there's other shows and they're more irregular and there's other shows and they're not as entertaining or funny and there's other shows where they only talk about one thing but they're fundamentally wrong about a lot of things.
00:45:15.000This is the only show with this message!
00:45:17.000Which is amazing because I feel like across the conservative landscape there's so many copycats and imitations and it's so hard not to be redundant in the conservative space.
00:45:30.000Like, I feel like there's a hundred guys that do a decent-sized show and they say the same thing that Crowder, Shapiro, or Charlie Kirk is saying, right?
00:45:41.000And there's still maybe 20 or 50 shows, decently sized, that are gonna say the same thing that Tucker Carlson will say.
00:45:50.000How many shows say the same thing that I do?
00:51:53.000I can control my environment, and I'm always in a good mood.
00:51:57.000When other people start coming into the equation, then they start doing stuff that pisses me off, you know?
00:52:02.000When people start coming into the equation, they start talking too much, or they say something that irritates me, or they fuck with my schedule, you know, like little, little, little, little, little things, and then I'm just like, like, I need you to leave.
00:52:22.000Like, the longer I'm alone, the happier I am.
00:52:26.000Because when I'm alone, I could just... I just do my thing.
00:52:31.000I get to go and I get to eat what I want, I get to drink my coffee, I get to work on my projects, I get to work on my place, I get to I get to watch TV, I get to watch movies, I get to do I get to do whatever I want.
00:52:44.000Go for a drive, go for a walk, go see a movie, go shopping.
00:52:49.000Then other people start getting involved and it's like then you got to meet somebody someplace on time.
00:52:55.000You know Pearl wants me to hang out and she's like an hour away from me.
00:53:00.000I'm like, I just got done flying out to London.
00:54:49.000I like texting because I could just put it down whenever I want.
00:54:52.000I'm texting somebody, I could just say, nah, never mind, I'm done.
00:54:55.000If I'm texting somebody, I just put it down.
00:54:58.000When you're on the phone, you gotta... I always reach the point where I'm done before the other person is done, and then you're just stuck on, you're trapped on the phone.
00:56:35.000I can just not say like enjoy the person's company.
00:56:38.000I need like to I need to learn self-talk to sort of like calm myself down because I get very uptight and very anxious and angry like it's just zero to sixty and
00:56:52.000It makes me very unpleasant and I wish I were more pleasant because I love the people around me but I'm often abusing them because They're the closest to me and as such, you know, I'm like, you know, I'm elbowing them.
00:57:05.000I'm like get out of my way, you know Metaphorically speaking the people closest to me they catch the most flack because they're the ones that are suffocating me so I wish I were more like I wish I were more chill
00:58:17.000Because I'm a genius, so it sort of goes with the territory.
00:58:21.000How could a guy like me not be neurotic?
00:58:23.000How could a guy that does this show, like, with everything that comes with it, not be neurotic?
00:58:29.000How could a guy that, like, does this every day and deals with the consequences and says the crazy stuff that I do, and generates content every day, how could I not be totally out of my mind, like, wacko?
00:58:57.000I just realized it's 1 a.m I was gonna go get something to eat after the show those restaurant closes at 1 That's not see that's what I'm talking about Like the other day I was having a great day.
00:59:08.000I was having a good time and then like somebody called me and
01:04:25.000I think it's just a bid to grow their economy because they don't they don't have a very large population have a very significant foreign worker foreign workforce and again all their economies tied up in oil and gas so you know they don't have that they're done and they recognize that so they're making a very concerted effort to transition away I think that's probably what it is
01:06:56.000Yeah, no, I was looking good today so I said I'll wear a nice tie, I'll wear a nice suit.
01:07:01.000Normally I wear cheap suits because I wear them every day and they get all fucked up, you know, so I don't wear a nice suit to do the show.
01:07:09.000Because the elbows get all ruined and I'm not gonna take them to get dry-cleaned every week, so... It's more like a costume.
01:07:18.000But I was feeling myself, so I was like, I'll put on a nice suit.
01:07:22.000Okay, you're not joking, and I don't like you, so I don't know what you're d- I'm glad, I was glad that you went away.
01:08:00.000You said you're not watching the show, so you're done.
01:08:02.000Otherwise, I want, like, a groveling, slavish apology.
01:08:07.000But, you know, people get so- when people are anonymous and they're in the crowd, they're so quick to talk trash, because it's easy, and then you call them out, and then they, yeah, then they don't like that.
01:08:22.000So I always- it's a very high bar for me to forgive somebody who attacked me from the crowd, because it's very easy to do that.
01:14:02.000Last beef sandwich I had, I went to this
01:14:05.000One of these famous places and it just made me sick I mean it was delicious but I don't know maybe it's too greasy I was eating really bad I don't know about a month ago and I started getting into Thai food you know because I when I was in LA my friends there introduced me to this Thai place and I loved it so I've been eating that because it's healthier it's not you know it's not garbage
01:14:33.000But before that I was just binging hot dogs, Italian beef, cheeseburgers, wings, fried chicken.