00:04:26.640Yeah, you can wear shorts to my wedding.1.00
00:04:28.540Then I had people at my wedding saying, who's that idiot in shorts?1.00
00:04:31.400I said, well, that's my billionaire partner.1.00
00:04:32.980So you can do whatever the fuck you want.0.99
00:04:36.800No, comfort for sure, but it's also a good part of the brand now at this point.0.99
00:04:40.860Yeah. I mean, I, I don't know. I mean, I never, I never got like a, like a branding deal or
00:04:46.540anything. You know, I pay for my own and of course I would have to obviously, but, but no,
00:04:51.480overall it just, it just kind of evolved into that thing. And, and now in some weird thing,
00:04:57.840there was a story when I started there in the Senate at that time, you know, leader Schumer
00:05:04.480announced that they were making, you know, a change in the dress code. And, and I was like,
00:05:10.320oh shit i mean i never asked for that whatever and that became like a huge national story for0.82
00:05:15.800the first time in 240 some years you know there was never a dress code but now people thought that0.99
00:05:22.800i was asking for changes and there was there was kind of like a meltdown there and there and
00:05:30.260everybody just quickly realized that they had to install dress codes so so wait you can't you can't
00:05:37.900wear that when you're in the senate oh well i never was going to as long as i'm on the floor
00:05:43.700on the actual floor and of course i never had the intention of giving a speech on the you know on
00:05:50.040the senate floor in his in the hoodie but but everywhere else people would realize people think
00:05:56.040it's more glamorous than it actually is and you know the vast majority of the the business that
00:06:02.560occurs it's just kind of chill or walking around or just having meetings so it's like it's you
00:06:08.700know comfort is king can i want to dive in a little bit why maybe i was excited to have you
00:06:14.680on today uh john i think i use this analogy on the show a lot uh in this two-party system that
00:06:21.000we've had here in the united states you know since the beginning of time that has really much become
00:06:25.820a game of basketball in the analogy that i use where both teams are uh avidly trying to block
00:06:32.400the other team's shot neither team's really scoring and the crowd's just yelling at everyone
00:06:36.600right uh do you think that that's an accurate depiction of the two-party system in the united
00:06:41.080states right now uh i mean it's for me it's especially after after the president trump
00:06:50.140was elected it became much more than just trying to block shots it just became full-on contact
00:06:56.920about trying to it's like a race to the bottom on how to respond kind of ways and now someone that
00:07:06.960i really wanted to be reasonable for that now if there's you know in my state that i represent
00:07:14.160pennsylvania you know trump carried it in 2024 and won and then also my my my former colleague
00:07:22.360lost. And we, they, we picked up on a new Senator who happened to be Dave McCormick. He's a
00:07:28.280Republican. So I early decided like, do I want to work with people on things that we can agree with
00:07:34.260or respectfully disagree on things? And my views would be reflected in, in my votes or just
00:07:42.180calling people names and describing someone as like, you're a Nazi or trying to destroy
00:07:47.300uh the country and these kind of extremes and i did anticipate that we would eventually end up0.99
00:07:55.100and some democrats now are actually running for office uh running on the the fuck trump0.98
00:08:02.000the fuck i mean literally that's in some of their commercials you know honestly and this idea and if0.99
00:08:07.400you call someone on their side as like they're fascists then that means that people that i know0.99
00:08:14.840one I love that voted for him, you know, that must be their fascists. And they are not. These
00:08:20.380are good people. They love our country no less than they do. It's just having different views
00:08:26.900and, you know, trying to find a way forward in deeply divided country. But now that's amplified
00:08:35.300in the Senate. And Pennsylvania is also unique where we are the only of two states out of 50
00:08:44.540where you have a split ticket we have a democrat and a republican you know it's people forget that
00:08:51.040pennsylvania's voice elected a democrat and a republican and to me that's a statement to say
00:08:57.520find a way to work together with the other side not just you know pick up a folded chair and just
00:09:05.120start beat everybody with it and call people the names and i refuse to do that and if someone on
00:09:11.300my parties angry that i would describe dave mccormick as a great dear friend because yes we
00:09:17.740have different views on some things but we have to find a way to get forward because it's getting
00:09:23.160more and more um it's um it's sad honestly people people forgot that we're all americans and we
00:09:31.520actually need each other yeah it's you you being this uh common i guess they call it even trump
00:09:38.640has called it common sense democrat or common sense person um in a world where division is king
00:09:45.240people run platforms on division people gain voters and constituents on division do you ever
00:09:50.360feel like an outcast being uh in the middle somewhat yeah i mean definitely now because
00:09:57.860a lot of the conversations if if you closely follow politics that those kinds of things come
00:10:04.360from the very deep blue states in my party if you represent just a small congressional district
00:10:12.200like in in new york city for example or if you represent a deep blue state like oregon or
00:10:19.680connecticut or everything you know you can absolutely predict that they will be the most
00:10:25.920liberal and they will be the most vocal and the most divisive about it and then on the other side
00:10:31.380same as on the red side so this idea there's plenty there's a long long line of democrats
00:10:38.020criticizing and attacking the other side but the space that i occupy is i will vote for some things
00:10:45.860and i will not vote and support these kinds of things that's the space that i landed myself but
00:10:51.620i i encounter a lot of people in public and they really appreciate it but as a democrat you know
00:10:59.560what pays the bills, you know, and energize the base are those extreme things. And, uh, I would
00:11:06.660just call that F Trump, uh, approach and, and these things, but I refuse to engaging at that.
00:11:13.820So that's, I love having conversations here and platforms like this because in reach people and
00:11:19.880maybe help them understand what you might be seeing may not understand or have an opportunity
00:11:26.020to explain how things really are on the ground there do you feel do you feel like that often
00:11:31.400like the representation of the world on social media is not an accurate depiction of what what
00:11:38.500is happening in real life yeah absolutely not no um i don't know if you guys participate actively
00:11:44.000on social media but i don't i don't you know like you know it i would rather sit in a room for 45
00:11:51.220minutes and punch myself in the face then then run through social media because it's kind of the0.99
00:11:57.400same thing yeah no it is it's it's it's the it's the worst shit in the world yeah and and now is0.99
00:12:04.880i have three kids and i remind them too uh you know you know when i do events that i talk to0.99
00:12:13.060people i say you know hey if you spend an hour on social media raise your hand if you feel
00:12:21.060better about yourself or the world or anything, you know, no one, no one, everyone just feels
00:12:26.280terrible after that. So it's like, it's like this weird thing. And, and that's not the real world
00:12:31.080for sure. And that's, that's a rule for me too, is like, I will never say something on social media
00:12:37.240that if I wouldn't say to them, if they were sitting me right now in the chair, and if you're
00:12:42.380willing to sit down and talk to someone, you know, if you have a beer with them or just meet with1.00
00:12:47.880it's much harder to just say well yeah you're a piece of shit you know but it's very easy and1.00
00:12:55.120cheap and to be able to say those kind of extreme things on social media and i would encourage1.00
00:13:00.720anybody to remember you are connected to a human being and remind did this person really do anything
00:13:08.800to you or it just becomes just dropping cheap heat there's nothing really behind it and and
00:13:16.300that's that's new and that's an accelerate on the culture and the way we treat and interact with
00:13:24.780people so you ask these people if they feel better or they feel like they're having a better day
00:13:29.900after going on social media and they may say no to that i want to meet the person that says yeah
00:13:34.260that's right i'm uplifted you know i i feel special it's not gonna happen but one thing
00:13:38.920they will tell you is that they might feel more informed okay and and to me that's one of the
00:13:43.940scary things about social media is this is this air is this air of so much misinformation on yeah
00:13:50.200yeah i beg people please if you're following on politics and these things i'm begging people
00:13:57.500you know you have a responsibility to understand there is unlimited slop online especially after
00:14:06.320ai is going to transform not not just the world but especially in politics too and i would also
00:14:13.000encourage people to read the spectrum you know don't put yourself in a bubble and challenge your
00:14:19.880own views and you know find real facts no no people don't want to do that yeah people don't
00:14:26.260want to do that john i i i said this on the last show people will say to themselves out loud others
00:14:34.500and believe things that rationalizes their own beliefs and their own reality that i don't think
00:14:39.860people want to have the difficult conversations or see the opposing point of view.
00:14:44.020Exactly. No one wants to be challenged on that. Exactly. I love to have my views challenged
00:14:48.660and I love to learn new things. And if I can pick up a new perspective, maybe that might
00:14:54.780change things differently. Or if not change your view, but it might soften it or just remind,
00:15:01.100it's like, well, I get that. Or it doesn't mean that they're my enemy. It just means that we
00:15:06.100happen to have committed difference in these kinds of important things that's that's fact
00:15:11.840and like for me i i'm and i'm not promoting it or anything obviously but i i have a membership in
00:15:17.800apple news and and that has an editor which definitely skews left but you can set up and
00:15:25.860you can read the spectrum you know extremes and then i do those things and i challenge it
00:15:32.040and i realize and that's what i encourage people if you if you are agreeing on everything that you
00:15:38.980read you are in your own bubble and this thing so you have you're responsible for an informed view
00:15:48.960and that's i think that's asking a lot um i think it's just asking a lot of the average person who
00:15:54.580just wants to believe what they believe and whose thoughts are reinforced by what they what they
00:16:00.100read and see in here like i i think it's a a lot of people unfortunately fall into either black or
00:16:07.620white and don't understand that the gray area and the nuance which is where everything is by the
00:16:12.680way yeah like that's life everything things aren't that things aren't always that simple like some
00:16:16.860sometimes they are but like yes but man there's there's a lot of nuance to life do you guys ever
00:16:20.820leave a doctor's appointment and just think what just happened dude the guys just told me to drink
00:16:24.160more water and said see you next year no real data no game plan nothing well guess what it does not
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00:30:20.700this oh yeah sure this conversation yeah this is a this is a this is a drone this is using
00:30:27.400captioning you know I had a stroke I had a stroke four years ago that that literally started stopped
00:30:34.260my heart and I nearly died from it and thankfully I was able to recover but I use this as like an
00:30:41.800aid so I can hear and I do can't process thing but when I'm having very specific conversations
00:30:48.680i use this and you can see that it's like you know like wearing glasses i mean yeah i know how to
00:30:54.900read but i use that as a tool whether if i'm driving or i'm reading now i see i see okay thank
00:31:01.380you thank you for clarifying oh it's it's it's transcribing the conversation in real time yeah
00:31:05.720exactly yeah and it's not recorded it's not anything it's just simply like wearing a pair
00:31:12.940glasses. And I've had people ask me, and now then their grandfather or some other people, you know,
00:31:20.480AI, AI made this possible. If this, if this stroke happened, say 10 years ago, you know,
00:31:28.380participating in life the way I do, that would be incredibly difficult for that. So this is,
00:31:35.740you know yes i never thought about captioning or disabilities before that so now i am a member of
00:31:44.160a community that has a disability uh thankfully it's it's relatively modest but because of a
00:31:49.780tool like this i'm able to participate fully for those things ah i see wwe universe we've got some
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00:32:28.680there if Elon Musk wanted to give you a oh yeah I mean like would you would you yeah yeah what a
00:32:36.440great you know like he you know for Elon and I I think I found out right TK he follows me right
00:32:44.100yeah yeah yeah yeah so I mean great like you know I like how he doesn't even know we're like
00:32:49.000like like I I think I uh I'm in awe what he's accomplished you know we're the same age he's so
00:32:57.160far more successful and smarter than i could ever be and then you have you have people you know
00:33:05.620you know the the guy from maine said that he's our first trillionaire let's make sure he's the
00:33:12.620last one and i'm like why do you hate a guy you know he built rockets he builds cars for thing
00:33:17.700you know like yeah i mean how many jobs have you created what it's what you think so so this idea
00:33:25.700that would be like hating on you know thomas edison or these other kind of entrepreneurs
00:33:31.440it actually would it really would he is the modern day thomas a hundred percent and there's
00:33:36.960been other people like before him that had that level of wealth it just looked different in the
00:33:41.900time that it was yeah or a monster musa bro what are you no there's been like there's been like
00:33:45.840i don't think he's motivated by money honestly i don't think if money meant anything to him
00:33:51.140he would have never done that, that going into Doge and getting involved in politics. If you
00:33:56.920want to, you know, it's like, I don't think it's money. I think for, for whatever it is without a
00:34:03.320deal, my, my brother just, just bought a Tesla and that thing drives around by itself. I mean,
00:34:10.620like he, you know, it's, I mean, the technology and the things, these, these kinds of things.
00:34:15.820So his impact in the world will be much more than than I would ever do. So that doesn't mean I agree with him on every one of his views. But if you describe him as a problem of our society, I think, yeah, I think it's an affirming, you know, about what we've we've produced someone to create this change.
00:34:39.080and space is the future obviously i could never build a rocket i could never build a car i could
00:34:47.140never do these kinds of thing and we used to we as democrats we used to love teslas and then we
00:34:55.340got pissed at him and then we start to set him on fire and and and and go after the it's it's it's
00:35:02.260just bizarre but but overall i don't describe billionaires as the problem or the scourge
00:35:07.940whatever they just happen to have more money than me and uh for me i'm not also a guy that
00:35:17.320you know data centers then people you know people assume they think that must be a terrible thing
00:35:22.040whatever and i don't think that because ai will transform the world as it is now i think america
00:35:30.120should be the country that's doing that because if we if we have a moratorium on data centers or
00:35:37.780or i mean look at anthropic you know like if you're following that yeah mythos i mean yes
00:35:44.180i i think that's that's scary they've created something that's becoming more and more closer
00:35:49.780to the singularity and you know once it becomes something that's that's self-aware or it can
00:35:56.840effectively improve or write itself they're getting it's getting close to that i mean that's
00:36:03.520that was just ordered to be shut down correct or well what i'm saying like if you ever seen one of
00:36:09.300those zero day kinds of movies about how something every whatever now now mythos you know they warned
00:36:16.900you know the biggest banks in the country you know that it's like it's it's so dangerous that
00:36:21.980it can quickly identify vulnerabilities you know in and a week where that was the most secure kinds
00:36:29.700of operating systems and things and they can pick it apart just systematically can pick it apart
00:36:36.280so now they they block them from releasing them mythos is that is industrial grade kind of a
00:36:43.660thing thank god it's in our hands imagine if china had something or if someone like iran
00:36:49.240if they could unleash that that the kinds of chaos i don't think it's more than bombs or a war
00:36:55.980it's actually you know zero day kind of things and it would be driven by something like mythos
00:37:04.060because once mythos is is more like that's that's getting they know people agree that there are
00:37:13.460three to five years if not even then the singularity that's defined by you know it becomes
00:37:18.420like it's self-aware thing and and that is i mean when i'm 56 if anyone ever watched
00:37:25.600the movie war games if you remember if you know that movie of course you know like joshua joshua
00:37:31.420was the that was like a that kind of predicted it where it began to be able to think itself
00:37:36.900yep and and it thought well maybe you're you know destroy destroy the world thing and then the then
00:37:42.840it learned and saying, you know, the only way to win is not to play. So it's this idea. So AI,
00:37:50.260that's where front and center it. I don't think it's going to destroy the world. I think it's
00:37:55.020going to change it in profound ways, but we all need to be aware of it. And that makes misinformation
00:38:00.620more front and center. And in politics or on other political issues, you can able to quickly
00:38:08.700overwhelm people with AI slop and do things. I'm Hamza. And I'm Martin. And we're the hosts
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00:39:03.200the iheart radio app apple pods or wherever you get your podcasts hey what's up i'm tony
00:39:07.500gonzalez and i'm october gonzalez but you can call me toby we want you to join us on our new
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00:39:17.900sex divorce and all the nitty-gritty stuff we all think about but just don't say out loud i hate
00:39:22.960that job you're probably just gonna meet some rich guy and he's gonna whisk you away and i'll0.81
00:39:26.700never see you again and oh this is awkward would you say a d-less actor d i don't even know there's
00:40:02.580actually infuriates a certain side of the you know a certain base right like like big government
00:40:09.540stay out of our business right like it's such a time right now where it's so divisive to get
00:40:13.800involved in that type of thing like how do you say like yo this project is too is too good to
00:40:18.780or too smart yeah no i mean it's like you no one can really predict where this is going
00:40:26.920you know just three or four years ago never thought that we could be this close to like
00:40:32.480the singularity and for the first time my in my i'm aware of they well actually if you followed
00:40:39.580that you know the white house just they they they demanded and they blocked anthropic to
00:40:45.100to release that in minutes in minutes like they can't release they can't release you know uh
00:40:51.320did you see all that yeah and then they even included fable fable was a version that that
00:40:55.780they claim to have the appropriate safeguards to prevent it from using it for for hacking or
00:41:02.100thing but you know anyone that's paying attention knows that you know whether it's an operating
00:41:08.600system or a bank system this is some of the most sophisticated and secure things
00:41:13.920mythos can identify thousands of vulnerabilities just in about a week thing it's actually really
00:41:21.040scary yeah it is yeah exactly and and that's the direction where it's it's going and um
00:41:28.340if if you think you can stop that necessarily you can't the best you can do is is be prepared
00:41:35.400and understand that you can't stop these kind of changes but do it in a way to minimize that
00:41:42.660these kinds of changes but yeah i am i am concerned absolutely anyone i i have a question
00:41:49.660i want to ask as a u.s senator senator what is your take on disclosure and the
00:42:01.020looming reality that we may not be alone in the universe oh wow man i mean i grew up you know
00:42:10.300obsessed obsessed with that idea too and i i don't know i mean i am going to go see disclosure day
00:42:16.780if you if you see that i'm probably going to go see that and you know i have this idea i don't
00:42:22.620know and i'm again i'm elated that you know trump released those files and release everything i do
00:42:30.000think if there is evidence but someone that i've i've always been about studying space even when
00:42:37.660i was a kid the vast people don't realize the vast vast thing where there's more stars in the
00:42:44.540universe than grains of sand on earth and that when i was when i was eight or nine years old
00:42:52.100voyager was launched and now just last year it left the solar system it's been traveling for
00:42:58.76055 years just to get out of the social system yeah and that's not even a speck on a speck
00:43:04.980on the head of a pen kind of thing so how vast it is to find earth who knows that thing but
00:43:11.640if if an alien civilization found us then it's incomprehensible the changes and what they've
00:43:21.460understood to find us and that's not even analogous to a pin on a hat on a haystack that is there are
00:43:31.280there are black holes that are 30 billion times this the solar mass you know just and that's still
00:43:40.780insignificant in the universe so so i mean if you agree with it i i don't know if if it exists
00:43:46.660but but if they do then even if they are with us now but they're so sophisticated we don't know
00:43:53.700that but you know you have i don't know i don't know i don't have heard anything any rumblings in
00:43:59.320the government yeah no no i i have no insights no no i i swear i i swear to god i i do i do not
00:44:05.220have seen any special at that and if i would i would absolutely no matter what the penalty is
00:44:12.200like i would release it because people people deserve to know if there is incontrovertible
00:44:17.780evidence that that you know they were here or that we can you know show that thing and it won't be
00:44:23.960like mars attack yeah there is the flag i mean no there's so many john there's so many i had it in
00:44:29.620my hand too i dropped it i dropped it do you have any reason to believe that anyone else in the
00:44:34.860government has that information isn't releasing it uh i i mean or like what do you think i mean
00:44:41.100you you can't keep you can't keep a secret you know i i think if it's if it exists you know
00:44:46.180that's fine you know another one of the thing is the kennedy assassination yeah you know like
00:44:51.240if you if you've seen uh oliver stone's film jkf you know i i i or or jfk yep you know that's my
00:45:00.380uh jkf no that's my initial yeah jfk yeah uh it's impossible how it was just he wasn't
00:45:10.800you know it wasn't just you know oswald i mean you know who knows what it was but i i do not
00:45:16.380believe that he was just a one lone alone you don't you don't believe that i i don't i know
00:45:21.840i believe that they were there were multiple rifles there and and how how the bullets hit
00:45:27.180And if it wasn't for the Zapruder film, you know, people would have assumed and believed it was just that thing.
00:45:33.560So why are we not seeing all of that information, like really getting because because we, you know, people who voted for Trump were promised that they were going to get not, you know, unredacted access to a lot of information.
00:45:50.920well the the simple question is why did why did they even have a block to to to release all of
00:45:59.280it why not release it all immediately after that that that must mean they must know that there were
00:46:05.220forces behind it that could have created mass chaos or some more thing you know like why like
00:46:11.940if there was like a plane class i mean a plane crash you know they would release exactly what
00:46:17.420happened and you don't say well we can't tell you why that plane crashed you know for 40 years later
00:46:22.380you know it's like so there must have been something there and i'm not like a tin i'm not
00:46:26.620a tinfoil hat guy i'm not a conspiracy guy but i mean if you look at the ballistics and you look
00:46:31.660at the facts but without a doubt i you know that's one thing i agree with trump is release everything
00:46:38.140but why is he not but why is he not releasing everything though that's my question like even
00:46:43.240as far as like epstein is concerned like what i i don't know i mean i don't know if if every single
00:46:49.460thing i i don't follow it that closely but but you know whether if it's epstein whether it's
00:46:55.640kennedy or whether it's the aliens release all of the release it all because you know people
00:47:02.060are all entitled to know really what the truth is you know we're not children and pretend that
00:47:07.820some of these things really aren't true hey viewer do you believe aliens exist i certainly do but
00:47:14.680only 15 of traders on polymarket are saying that the u.s is going to confirm that aliens exist
00:47:19.960by the end of this year can you believe that 15 chance it's on polymarket markets on everything
00:47:25.840there's all sorts of stuff there there's world cup there's uh fighting there's all sorts of
00:47:30.760sorts of stuff uh sports politics there's a lot of politics but look polymarket linking the
00:47:37.760description i think we might have a code i've been told we're having a code impulsive 50 right
00:47:42.580impulsive 50 you deposit 20 you get 50 that's a lot of dollars link in the description check it
00:47:48.740out download polymarket markets on everything bang see one of the issues i have too uh and
00:47:53.380i don't know maybe you can relate to this or agree with this is we've also as a people gotten
00:47:58.360quite consumed with storylines and questions around jfk and and aliens and stuff like that and
00:48:04.680it has allowed a large swath of people to turn a blind eye to situations that are actually
00:48:10.700affecting americans like the opiate epidemic something i dealt with i grew up during the
00:48:15.180oxycontin boom of 2000 2003 i was addicted to heroin for 10 years got cleaned by the grace of
00:48:21.200god and working very hard through through it in recovery um what what do you see as a potential
00:48:28.480solution for this opiate epidemic and for you know the the mental illness issue that we deal
00:48:34.340with in america yeah well mental health is a big was was really big you know as someone that
00:48:39.860suffered from depression and you know and i understand why people maybe have turned to opiates
00:48:45.880you know like i mean my gosh oxy oxy was a pharmaceuticalized heroin honestly and if
00:48:53.640anyone's been in real physical pain you would do anything to remove remove yourself from that
00:48:59.840or when I was in the throes of depression you know I started to have the conversation with
00:49:05.520myself to end my life you know and that's you know and you know thank you I'll have the opportunity
00:49:11.520and I beg people listening if you listening to this has an issue with with depression I beg people
00:49:17.460you know if you if you don't do something you will eventually end up with the conversation
00:49:25.040with yourself and depression will figure out to think that the right thing is to just take
00:49:33.100yourself out of that game and i beg people please don't stay in that game i don't know you know
00:49:38.780find help or if nothing else stay in the game and and the opiates thank thankfully the the overdose
00:49:45.580the overdose deaths have started to drop down and something that i happen to agree also with
00:49:53.420the republican side is secure our border where some of these drugs are coming from and holding
00:49:58.700some of these countries accountable that are importing these kinds of poison and putting
00:50:04.160the people appropriately that are selling it with the appropriate kinds of penalty now too
00:50:08.980and to provide the resources that are necessary to help people you are an expert you know if you've
00:50:15.300you've broke free from, from that. You know, I can't describe what addiction is, but I'm an
00:50:21.760expert in depression. And that's why I would describe people and the advice that I give people
00:50:26.220because I know millions of people do struggle with it. I'm Hamza. And I'm Martin. And we're
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00:52:15.080Especially, I mean, you represent, you know, Pennsylvania, a state that absolutely decimated by the opiate epidemic.
00:52:22.500I mean, it was, you guys, I remember Pennsylvania being one of the hardest hit states.
00:52:27.240And I think one of the issues that people have is they don't really know what to do.