The Joe Rogan Experience - Joe Rogan Experience #2197 - Mike Baker

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00:00:13.000 All right, we're up, Mr. Baker.

00:00:14.000 How are you, sir?

00:00:15.000 Really, that's it?

00:00:16.000 We're just jumping right in. 1.00

00:00:17.000 Yeah, fuck it. 1.00

00:00:17.000 Oh my god, I just sat down. 1.00

00:00:19.000 Well, there's so many things to talk about.

00:00:21.000 Is there?

00:00:21.000 Anything happen?

00:00:22.000 A few things happen until I saw you.

00:00:24.000 One guy got shot.

00:00:26.000 Some guy.

00:00:27.000 And the guy who shot him, his body vanished.

00:00:30.000 Yeah.

00:00:31.000 No police.

00:00:32.000 Now, did he get shot?

00:00:33.000 Because I've seen a lot of people talk about this, like, no, he didn't get shot.

00:00:37.000 That's hilarious.

00:00:38.000 Oh, my God.

00:00:39.000 Do you think that he cut his ear like a pro wrestler?

00:00:41.000 Yeah.

00:00:41.000 Like, it's all fake?

00:00:42.000 The guy behind him who got murdered?

00:00:44.000 That wasn't real?

00:00:44.000 I saw it.

00:00:45.000 Again, you would think that would be a clue.

00:00:47.000 But I've seen things where they say, no, he didn't have any blood on him.

00:00:51.000 And then he ducked down behind the podium just long enough. 1.00

00:00:53.000 And I'm thinking, are you fucking psycho? 1.00

00:00:55.000 They are psycho. 1.00

00:00:57.000 But then, to be fair, then... 0.99

00:01:00.000 Well, no, that can't be fair.

00:01:01.000 How can you be fair about that?

00:01:02.000 There's no fair.

00:01:03.000 We heard gunshots.

00:01:04.000 We saw a guy get shot who was shooting at him.

00:01:07.000 The guy behind him got murdered.

00:01:09.000 Yeah.

00:01:09.000 A couple other people got injured.

00:01:11.000 Life-changing injuries.

00:01:12.000 Yes.

00:01:13.000 Yeah, serious injuries.

00:01:14.000 Yes, serious injuries.

00:01:15.000 I mean, it 100% happened.

00:01:16.000 To say it didn't happen is insane.

00:01:18.000 And then you had Joy Reid on TV saying, well, Biden got over COVID. This is basically the same thing.

00:01:23.000 Yeah. 1.00

00:01:26.000 People are losing their fucking minds. 1.00

00:01:28.000 And they're afraid. 1.00

00:01:30.000 Everyone's afraid to be objective.

00:01:32.000 Because if you're objective, somehow or another, you're helping the other side.

00:01:35.000 Yeah.

00:01:35.000 Oh, no.

00:01:36.000 If you even try to walk a line that's somewhere near the middle of anything nowadays.

00:01:41.000 That's me.

00:01:42.000 Yeah.

00:01:43.000 Well, there you go then. 1.00

00:01:44.000 You get your ass kicked. 0.99

00:01:45.000 But I was telling Emily, I was telling my wife the other day that I consider that a really good thing because like, oh my God, this is like two minutes into it and I've already mentioned the podcast, The President's Daily Brief. 1.00

00:01:56.000 Look, I'm getting much better at this.

00:01:58.000 Good plug.

00:01:59.000 So on The President's Daily Brief, we try to just walk kind of down the middle.

00:02:02.000 We just tell you the news.

00:02:03.000 Here's the top things that are happening.

00:02:05.000 What I find is, I get angry messages from both sides.

00:02:09.000 Sure.

00:02:10.000 Because I'm not staking out a position.

00:02:12.000 Right.

00:02:12.000 Right?

00:02:12.000 I'm just saying, here's what's happening.

00:02:14.000 And, you know, for the most part, we try to avoid context or atmosphere, for the most part.

00:02:18.000 But you're just pissing everybody off.

00:02:20.000 People want to get mad, first of all.

00:02:22.000 That's the thing.

00:02:23.000 Yeah.

00:02:23.000 Like, Andrew Huberman was talking about that today.

00:02:26.000 The things that, when they study, like, what excites people, what people gravitate towards, It's 100% more potent to get angry about things.

00:02:37.000 Yeah, I think you're right.

00:02:39.000 There must be some sort of chemical release in being outraged that makes people feel good.

00:02:44.000 I think it's in our wiring, in our DNA, because we always had to look out for threats.

00:02:50.000 So you find things that you perceive are threats or things that are going to be a problem, and you get angry about them, and you do it on social media instead of in the jungle.

00:02:59.000 Yeah.

00:03:00.000 I think... 0.99

00:03:02.000 With the Trump thing, though, I was surprised at how, because it was about a day and a half, maybe, maybe it was 36 hours, of, oh, fuck, how could this happen? 0.99

00:03:14.000 Look what we created, this environment. 0.98

00:03:15.000 We have to be more civil with each other.

00:03:17.000 And that was a big push from the Democrats, right?

00:03:19.000 You remember Biden and Harris talking about We've got to be more civil.

00:03:24.000 We've got to dial it back and turn down the temperature.

00:03:26.000 And that lasted, for that side, that lasted almost no time at all.

00:03:30.000 Less than two days.

00:03:31.000 Yeah. 1.00

00:03:31.000 And they were back calling him a piece of shit and a liar. 1.00

00:03:34.000 Yeah, and a threat to democracy, and he's got to be stopped. 1.00

00:03:38.000 Unbelievable.

00:03:38.000 And, you know, now to be fair, neither side really stuck to the idea.

00:03:43.000 I would argue, if Trump...

00:03:45.000 If Trump had just said, you know what, from a strategic point of view, maybe it's not me, maybe it's not what I want to do, but from a strategic point of view, if after that attempt had happened and he had just walked that civil line and said, you know, I've had a reflective moment, and if he had kept the high road,

00:04:02.000 think about the disparity there, because the Democrats, first of all, they would have gone crazy because they wouldn't have known what to do, but they also wouldn't have been able to help themselves.

00:04:10.000 So they would have turned into, you know, they would have thrown the hand grenades again, as usual.

00:04:15.000 And then you would have had Trump over here being the reasonable one and being the reflective and civil one.

00:04:20.000 That would have been a good strategy.

00:04:21.000 Yeah, but it didn't happen.

00:04:22.000 No, it's not in his nature.

00:04:24.000 No, no.

00:04:25.000 That's the scorpion and the frog.

00:04:27.000 I forgot about that story.

00:04:29.000 That's right.

00:04:29.000 The scorpion needs a ride across the pond.

00:04:31.000 Yeah, exactly.

00:04:32.000 It's the same thing. 1.00

00:04:34.000 I mean, that guy loves to talk shit. 0.99

00:04:35.000 He's calling Tim Walz Tampon Tim now. 1.00

00:04:37.000 Yeah.

00:04:40.000 I think I'm so good at it!

00:04:42.000 It's such a good nickname!

00:04:44.000 He's so good at it! 1.00

00:04:45.000 He's so good at that shit. 1.00

00:04:47.000 Oh my god. 1.00

00:04:48.000 T.O. P.O.N. Tim.

00:04:49.000 Look at what we're getting.

00:04:50.000 We're getting Harris and we're getting Walsh.

00:04:53.000 Unbelievable.

00:04:54.000 What do you think about Walsh's descriptions of his military career?

00:05:01.000 Because there's some issues there that people have.

00:05:05.000 I don't know if he flat out ever said that he served in Afghanistan, but he certainly didn't dissuade people from saying that he was... 0.94

00:05:15.000 When they were saying he didn't correct them, there was things...

00:05:18.000 He didn't, and he didn't.

00:05:19.000 And you can look at interviews, and there's no pushback.

00:05:23.000 There's no like, excuse me, I didn't go to Iraq.

00:05:26.000 Exactly.

00:05:26.000 And I retired, you know, as my unit was deploying.

00:05:31.000 And so...

00:05:32.000 Well, you retired a couple months before as unit deployed, right?

00:05:34.000 A couple months before, yes.

00:05:36.000 What is the whole story behind it?

00:05:37.000 But those guys know that they're going, right?

00:05:39.000 Right.

00:05:39.000 It's not like they suddenly get a paper, you know, on one day.

00:05:42.000 There's a buildup to that, and they're aware of it.

00:05:45.000 And so, you know, even his personnel were saying, look, we all knew we were going.

00:05:49.000 He knew he was going.

00:05:50.000 Now, okay, fine.

00:05:51.000 He made the decision, right?

00:05:53.000 But I think...

00:05:54.000 With his, what do you want to call it, padding of his resume, for political purposes, obviously, when he was running for Congress.

00:06:02.000 There's more than one thing, too, right?

00:06:04.000 He said he was a head coach.

00:06:05.000 Yeah, he was a head coach.

00:06:06.000 He was not a head coach.

00:06:07.000 He was an assistant coach, which is an honorable thing.

00:06:10.000 There's nothing wrong with being an assistant coach.

00:06:12.000 Absolutely, yeah.

00:06:12.000 Absolutely.

00:06:13.000 And he also inflated his actual rank, right?

00:06:17.000 He was slated to achieve a certain rank.

00:06:20.000 Right.

00:06:20.000 And how did it go?

00:06:22.000 He had to commit to the fact that he wasn't going to retire in order to achieve his rank?

00:06:27.000 Is that what it was?

00:06:27.000 He didn't finish, essentially, the program, the coursework, for a command sergeant major.

00:06:35.000 Can you explain how that works?

00:06:36.000 Well, I mean, he had the rank, right?

00:06:39.000 He was awarded...

00:06:40.000 I think he had gone to...

00:06:41.000 Where did he go?

00:06:42.000 I think he went to Italy on an assignment.

00:06:44.000 Look, he's in the National Guard, right?

00:06:46.000 So, first of all, there was sort of this, I've served for 24 years.

00:06:50.000 He's not really saying that.

00:06:51.000 His supporters and the people on the Democrat side say, well, he served for 24 years.

00:06:55.000 Yes, he did, okay?

00:06:56.000 But it's the National Guard, and that doesn't mean, I'm not disrespecting at all anyone who serves in the National Guard.

00:07:00.000 It's a very honorable thing to do.

00:07:02.000 I'm just saying, they're kind of conflating, just like he did with his rank or these other things, the idea that somehow he was Over there for 24 years.

00:07:26.000 Isn't unusual, but it's very much, you know, highlighted now.

00:07:31.000 It's 70%?

00:07:32.000 Yeah, yeah.

00:07:33.000 Look, I've got a service line in the company, Portman Square Group.

00:07:37.000 I am a marketing machine.

00:07:39.000 Good job.

00:07:39.000 Thank you.

00:07:40.000 But we have a due diligence group that does nothing but, right?

00:07:44.000 Background investigations, due diligence.

00:07:46.000 And so they spend a lot of time looking at people's CVs or resumes.

00:07:51.000 It's a shocking number of people, and sometimes it's not really nefarious, it's just, okay, maybe I misspoke, or maybe I did put something in and I over-egged the pudding a little bit, but then like 10 or 15 years down the road, you've kind of ridden on that for all that time,

00:08:08.000 and we've seen that happen where people suddenly get called out, right?

00:08:11.000 Yes.

00:08:14.000 You know, I don't read too much into the fact that he padded his resume.

00:08:18.000 I think it is just very disrespectful that he didn't push back on the idea that he was overseas deployed in combat or that he claimed that he retired in a position.

00:08:29.000 I mean, I think they gave him a Master Sergeant title or rank when he retired, which is just one step below.

00:08:35.000 Which is still honorable.

00:08:36.000 Very honorable.

00:08:37.000 And it's nothing to be shameful of.

00:08:40.000 Like, saying that, just stating the actual rank...

00:08:43.000 It doesn't change anybody's opinion of him at all.

00:08:46.000 So it's a lie that doesn't really elevate you. 1.00

00:08:51.000 It doesn't, and when you get called out on it, it just kind of makes you look like a dipshit. 0.98

00:08:56.000 And that's something that he's got to deal with now. 0.99

00:08:59.000 But he did once say, he was talking about assault rifles.

00:09:04.000 Assault, air quotes, assault rifles, for the gun nuts out there.

00:09:07.000 I get it.

00:09:07.000 I'm on your side.

00:09:09.000 But he said...

00:09:12.000 Me too.

00:09:13.000 I mean, you can kind of assault somebody with a BB gun, right?

00:09:15.000 Yeah.

00:09:16.000 But when he was talking about them, he said, weapons of war that I carried...

00:09:22.000 I don't know the exact quote, but it was essentially alluding to the fact...

00:09:27.000 Yeah.

00:09:28.000 Yeah.

00:09:29.000 And again, I don't understand it.

00:09:33.000 Is it necessary?

00:09:34.000 No.

00:09:35.000 Did he feel that it helped in his early days running for a political office?

00:09:39.000 Obviously, right?

00:09:40.000 Well, he's also seen Joe Biden get away with it, right?

00:09:44.000 Joe Biden has gotten away with lying about his record, lying about his accomplishments, from the beginning back when he was running for Senate.

00:09:53.000 I'm sure you've seen that old video where he confronts the guy and tells him he's got a higher IQ than him and how he graduated at the top of his class.

00:10:01.000 All lies.

00:10:02.000 Yeah.

00:10:03.000 No, absolutely.

00:10:03.000 And you're right.

00:10:04.000 He's gotten away with it.

00:10:05.000 Just like, you know, apparently the plagiarism and other issues and certainly now the mental decline.

00:10:09.000 He's still president, I guess.

00:10:11.000 I guess.

00:10:11.000 He's kind of not.

00:10:13.000 He's kind of quit.

00:10:13.000 Who is in charge?

00:10:15.000 That's the question I think a lot of people were wondering.

00:10:17.000 Well, Kamala's on tour, so she can't be doing it.

00:10:21.000 She's out there doing concerts.

00:10:22.000 Oh, she's going to do an interview tomorrow night.

00:10:24.000 With Tim, though.

00:10:25.000 With Tim.

00:10:25.000 With Tim, because she's a strong woman, so she wants a strong man by her side.

00:10:28.000 Yeah, she does not want to be alone out there.

00:10:31.000 No.

00:10:31.000 Which is wild.

00:10:32.000 You have to be alone. 0.99

00:10:34.000 Who the fuck has ever done an interview? 0.99

00:10:36.000 The only interview since they have been nominated by their party, right? 0.99

00:10:41.000 Since they've been chosen.

00:10:42.000 Who has ever...

00:10:44.000 Not done an interview for this long.

00:10:46.000 And then they...

00:10:48.000 I get why.

00:10:50.000 Because they get away with it.

00:10:51.000 Look, they've got a very compliant and incurious media for the most part.

00:10:55.000 And they're just letting it go.

00:10:57.000 Compliant.

00:10:57.000 It's more than compliant.

00:10:59.000 I know.

00:10:59.000 I'm trying to be...

00:11:00.000 Yeah, you're trying to be nice.

00:11:01.000 Yeah, I'm trying to be nice.

00:11:02.000 Complicit is a better word.

00:11:04.000 And so...

00:11:05.000 And it's on CNN. And it's taped.

00:11:08.000 It's not even live.

00:11:10.000 And it's the two of them.

00:11:12.000 And...

00:11:13.000 There is no way in hell.

00:11:14.000 Maybe I'm going to be wrong.

00:11:15.000 I hope I'm wrong.

00:11:16.000 I hope it's a hard-hitting interview where they ask...

00:11:20.000 I tell you what, actually, what I would love to have them ask first is, okay, Vice President.

00:11:27.000 I guess you have to say Madam Vice President.

00:11:30.000 Okay.

00:11:31.000 How long were you aware of President Biden's mental decline?

00:11:36.000 Because right up until the last minute, you were talking about how sharp his attack he was, and how vigorous he was, and how he was better than men half his age.

00:11:49.000 What I don't understand is how people aren't marching on Washington with pitchforks and torches over the fact that this small group, her and who else, Anita Dunn, the Chief of Staff over at the White House, Clayne, a variety of,

00:12:04.000 that cabal's not that big, of people who had daily contact with President Biden.

00:12:11.000 And they just lied to the American public for a significantly long time.

00:12:15.000 They just deceived the American public. 0.99

00:12:17.000 And nobody seems to give a shit, right? 0.99

00:12:20.000 Well, it's also, why was anyone believing it? 0.99

00:12:24.000 That's what was crazy. 0.97

00:12:25.000 And we were getting shit on left and right during the campaign, where I was like, when I compared him, I said, Biden being president is like having a flashlight with a bad battery and going for a long walk in the woods. 0.99

00:12:41.000 There's no fucking way it's not going to make it. 0.99

00:12:46.000 And people were saying, no, don't you know he stutters? 0.98

00:12:49.000 And they were saying, well, there's no evidence of him stuttering when he was younger.

00:12:51.000 This is crazy.

00:12:52.000 Yeah.

00:12:53.000 There's a mental decline there.

00:12:55.000 There's nothing wrong with mental decline.

00:12:56.000 We're all going to experience it someday, kids.

00:12:59.000 But to say that it's not happening just because you don't want the other side to win is bananas.

00:13:03.000 It's really crazy.

00:13:04.000 And that's what it was.

00:13:06.000 Anytime you called it out, because we all saw it, like you said, we're all heading in that direction.

00:13:10.000 It's probably the one thing we all have in common.

00:13:17.000 Yes.

00:13:18.000 Yes.

00:13:34.000 You were just, I mean, you were just kicked in the ass, right? 0.99

00:13:37.000 And suddenly, somehow you were ageist, and you were, you know, hyper-partisan, and you were just, and you were MAGA. The epitome of gaslighting. 1.00

00:13:46.000 Gaslighting to the extreme.

00:13:47.000 Absolutely.

00:13:48.000 Because it was so obvious, and in your face, it's like, no, it's not raining out.

00:13:52.000 Like, what? 0.99

00:13:53.000 It's fucking pouring. 0.99

00:13:55.000 Like, what are you talking about? 1.00

00:13:56.000 Full gaslighting right in front of your face.

00:13:58.000 Yeah.

00:13:58.000 And so, I would love that to be the first, very first question.

00:14:02.000 Can you explain to us...

00:14:03.000 At what point in time you actually became aware that he was in significant mental decline, right?

00:14:10.000 And again, I feel bad for the guy.

00:14:12.000 I feel bad for anybody who's in that position. 0.99

00:14:14.000 But he's the fucking commander-in-chief, right? 0.99

00:14:16.000 He's the leader of the free world. 0.99

00:14:18.000 So I think we have a right to expect more from that situation.

00:14:22.000 But I don't think there's going to be none of those questions. 0.96

00:14:25.000 Well, I think his last fuck you was saying that he wants Harris to take his place. 0.99

00:14:31.000 That was his last fuck you, because from what I understand, they wanted to have a primary, and they wanted to pick their own person, and they didn't want to have Harris. 0.99

00:14:40.000 Yeah, she was nobody's idea of the best, most competent, most qualified candidate. 0.99

00:14:45.000 Up until they orchestrated this, whatever you want to call it, anointment or coronation or...

00:14:50.000 Coup.

00:14:51.000 Yeah, call it a coup.

00:14:52.000 It seems like a coup.

00:14:53.000 Yeah. 0.98

00:14:54.000 So until that point, she wasn't the preferred, but now she's fucking Beyonce and Joan of Arc and... 1.00

00:15:00.000 Well, she had that one speech where she really fucking nailed it. 1.00

00:15:03.000 When she was talking about Trump, and this is after Trump even got shot, when she didn't even address the fact that we have to be more tolerant. 0.97

00:15:10.000 You mean that teleprompter speech? 0.99

00:15:11.000 That teleprompter speech, she fucking nailed it. 1.00

00:15:13.000 She nailed it. 1.00

00:15:14.000 But when you get her off teleprompter, she's fucked. 1.00

00:15:18.000 She's fucked. 1.00

00:15:19.000 Well, I don't know this, and this is sheer speculation on my part, but I would be suspicious. 1.00

00:15:25.000 I love sheer speculation.

00:15:25.000 I know.

00:15:29.000 As opposed to all the other times that I'm not speculating.

00:15:32.000 I don't need facts.

00:15:33.000 Yeah.

00:15:34.000 But there's a chance, maybe, that they will know the questions for tomorrow night's interview ahead of time.

00:15:39.000 Oh, come on. 0.87

00:15:40.000 I know.

00:15:41.000 Do you think CNN would do that?

00:15:43.000 You're right.

00:15:44.000 I take it back because I'm sure it will be a series of hard-hitting questions, and they won't let her get away with anything, and it's all going to work out fine.

00:15:53.000 Look, all she's got to do is beat the Biden debate bar, and people are going to say, yeah, she nailed it. 1.00

00:15:58.000 Yeah.

00:15:59.000 Well, they're supposed to have a debate, right, on ABC. September 10th.

00:16:03.000 And isn't the woman who moderates it a part of the Biden-Harris administration? 1.00

00:16:10.000 Oh my god, I didn't know that.

00:16:11.000 Who is the woman, well, she has some sort of a connection to the Biden-Harris administration, the woman who is, find that out, Jamie, the woman who's moderating the ABC debate.

00:16:21.000 Is it Joe Biden?

00:16:23.000 You did great, Joe!

00:16:25.000 You answered all the questions!

00:16:28.000 And what did he do?

00:16:30.000 He lied! 1.00

00:16:33.000 Poor bastard. 1.00

00:16:34.000 That poor bastard. 1.00

00:16:35.000 If that was my dad, I'd be so fucking angry at her. 1.00

00:16:38.000 I'd be like, what are you doing to dad? 0.98

00:16:40.000 They're just dragging him around, right?

00:16:42.000 Unbelievable.

00:16:42.000 Up until that moment, just drag him around.

00:16:45.000 Juicing him up with Adderall and having him talk or whatever they're giving him.

00:16:48.000 I want to try what he's getting.

00:16:50.000 Good.

00:16:50.000 It's got to be good.

00:16:51.000 It's got to be tremendous.

00:16:53.000 Imagine if you have a day when you're kind of tired and sleeping and your brain's not working that good.

00:16:57.000 Yeah, well I have several of those.

00:16:58.000 Which by the way, I should say this, if you are having one of those days, there's a study that came out about creatine.

00:17:05.000 Creatine, which most people think of as like a muscle supplement, which it is, but creatine actually helps performance when you're sleep deprived, significantly.

00:17:15.000 That's interesting.

00:17:16.000 Yeah.

00:17:16.000 Okay.

00:17:16.000 Well, that's good because I'm constantly sleep deprived.

00:17:18.000 It's also great for cognitive function.

00:17:20.000 Yeah.

00:17:20.000 I started taking it on a regular basis.

00:17:23.000 My boys take it for their workouts.

00:17:25.000 It's great for that, too.

00:17:26.000 Yeah.

00:17:27.000 I didn't know that about that, but I will definitely jump on it because I find myself... 0.95

00:17:32.000 Like this month, August, I've been traveling like a son of a bitch, and I'm probably getting three and a half, four hours of sleep at night. 0.93

00:17:37.000 Yeah, that's not good. 0.97

00:17:39.000 It's not good.

00:17:40.000 It's not good as we get older, too.

00:17:41.000 When I was young, I could bounce back from four hours sleep.

00:17:44.000 Not that bad.

00:17:46.000 But at 57, it's rough.

00:17:48.000 Yeah, well, try my age.

00:17:49.000 Yeah, creatine.

00:17:50.000 Get on some creatine.

00:17:52.000 Yeah, me and Joe Biden.

00:17:54.000 But it is remarkable that...

00:17:59.000 When you look at what's happened over the past month and a half, I mean, nobody...

00:18:04.000 It doesn't seem...

00:18:05.000 Because, again, the media is playing along with this.

00:18:10.000 Nobody's asking questions.

00:18:11.000 Who's running the free world?

00:18:13.000 Who's making the decisions at the White House?

00:18:18.000 It doesn't seem to be a major concern, right?

00:18:21.000 Which is bizarre.

00:18:22.000 Which is bizarre, but the Democrats...

00:18:23.000 I get the Democrats, right?

00:18:24.000 The Democrats are like, well, but Trump...

00:18:27.000 It's always their answer.

00:18:28.000 But Trump. 0.91

00:18:29.000 And, you know, if I point out that maybe Harris, you know, is somewhat of a midwit, you know, but Trump.

00:18:36.000 And so what is your argument back?

00:18:40.000 I mean, what do you say?

00:18:41.000 Well, look, maybe you should focus on just having the best qualified candidate rather than saying, well, we just gotta beat Trump.

00:18:47.000 Right.

00:18:48.000 And I don't know.

00:18:50.000 It's not going to happen.

00:18:50.000 But the fact that there's just nobody asking questions about things like that.

00:18:57.000 When did you know that President Biden was in decline?

00:18:59.000 Who was actually making the decisions?

00:19:02.000 Controversy surrounds ABC News anchor Lindsay Davis as debate moderator due to alleged bias against Trump.

00:19:08.000 But doesn't she have some sort of a connection to the Biden or Harris administration?

00:19:13.000 I didn't see anything about that.

00:19:14.000 No?

00:19:14.000 Okay.

00:19:15.000 Who is Lindsay Davis?

00:19:17.000 Find out who she is.

00:19:18.000 It could be speculation on your part.

00:19:20.000 No, I read something, some connection that someone had made.

00:19:24.000 I should have saved it.

00:19:26.000 I tried looking for that directly.

00:19:28.000 Huh.

00:19:29.000 I didn't see anything.

00:19:30.000 Yeah.

00:19:31.000 So that's the 10th.

00:19:33.000 But again, I would say that, hey, look, it's much like this, you know, this upcoming interview, right?

00:19:39.000 She just got to get through it without a major screw up.

00:19:43.000 And I think they're going to say, look, she did it.

00:19:45.000 She's had her interview.

00:19:46.000 It's all good.

00:19:47.000 Yeah.

00:19:48.000 I just don't think that, you know, people are that curious anymore.

00:19:51.000 And certainly on the Democrat side, the one thing they're always very good at is just doing what they're told and following a message, sticking to the message and worrying about winning.

00:20:02.000 Yeah, I saw Bill Maher and Quentin Tarantino talking about it, whether or not she should do interviews.

00:20:09.000 And Quentin Tarantino's like, it's really important that we just win.

00:20:13.000 That we just win.

00:20:14.000 Like, are we the Dolphins?

00:20:16.000 Are we going against the Raiders? 0.99

00:20:18.000 Or is this the United fucking States of America? 1.00

00:20:21.000 Like, what? 1.00

00:20:21.000 What the hell are you talking about? 1.00

00:20:23.000 Yeah, you'd like to think that people are really concerned about the quality of their leaders, but I think it is more about winning, again, at least on the Democrat side.

00:20:30.000 Sometimes I question whether the Republicans understand that.

00:20:32.000 I think it's on both sides.

00:20:34.000 I really do, because there were some people that posted a deceptive video, deceptively edited video, that made it look like Tim, you know, he has a son that has some disabilities, and it looked like he was yanking his son In a mean way,

00:20:52.000 but he was really just trying to get his son to not hit his head on the teleprompter.

00:20:56.000 So the teleprompter is this clear thing, the kids are walking towards it, and he just gives him a pull this way, like, let's go this way.

00:21:01.000 And they just took that clip, like, oh, I bet he's mean.

00:21:04.000 Look, he's mean to his boy.

00:21:06.000 It's creepy.

00:21:07.000 The level of disinformation and misinformation right now leading up to November is astounding.

00:21:13.000 Astounding. 0.78

00:21:13.000 And it's becoming more and more difficult because, you know, Generative AI and and just a willingness to kind of disappear down a rabbit hole and believe whatever you you want to believe right nobody's questioning all this shit so but it is whether it's coming from Outside influence and you know, 0.78

00:21:30.000 we know the Iranians are very active right now the obviously the Russians and Chinese are always interested in screwing us up so but Yeah, people if they don't do it themselves It's not as if this idea that the government is going to tell you what's good and what's not to read is amazing, 1.00

00:21:50.000 right?

00:21:50.000 They just arrested the Telegram CEO over in Europe.

00:21:53.000 Yeah, isn't that crazy?

00:21:53.000 Yeah.

00:21:54.000 I was going to ask you about that, too.

00:21:56.000 So it seems like they wanted access to...

00:21:59.000 To Telegram's messages because there were certain people that were posting things that had been a part of...

00:22:06.000 There was a terrorist attack in Russia that they tried to get him to give up information about, but then they gave up on that and they left him alone.

00:22:15.000 But now in France they've arrested him.

00:22:18.000 Yeah, they picked him up three days ago, I think four days ago. 0.96

00:22:22.000 And unfortunately, he's got this social media girlfriend who posts pictures everywhere she goes, so they can fucking find him everywhere.

00:22:29.000 Telegram CEO released from custody in Paris. 0.93

00:22:31.000 Aha! 0.94

00:22:32.000 Great!

00:22:33.000 They extended his detention for 48 hours, and then they had to make a decision, I think it was by today, as to what to do with him.

00:22:40.000 Judge Hunt until Wednesday morning to either charge him or release him, so they released him.

00:22:44.000 I think the outrage of the world.

00:22:46.000 Okay, so this is said, dual citizen of France and Russia was taken into custody Saturday.

00:22:51.000 He was detained on an arrest warrant over accusations.

00:22:54.000 The platform was used for money laundering, drug trafficking, and other offenses.

00:22:58.000 Guess what?

00:22:59.000 You could say that about Gmail.

00:23:00.000 Yeah, yeah.

00:23:01.000 Should we arrest Google?

00:23:03.000 Yeah.

00:23:03.000 Because Gmail is used for money laundering and drug sales?

00:23:07.000 Because it certainly is.

00:23:08.000 Yeah, and I think, well, look, honestly, I think there's some people in the States that if they thought they could get away with it, they would.

00:23:15.000 That's what they would be pushing for.

00:23:17.000 But with this, with Pavel Durov, I think they were really upset with a couple of things.

00:23:24.000 One is that Telegram has a history of not cooperating with criminal investigations, right?

00:23:31.000 Not releasing information or complying with requests from whomever it may be, right?

00:23:36.000 Europol, Interpol, anyone.

00:23:38.000 And so they basically figured out a way to say, look, because of your inability or your failure to moderate the content on your platform, on Telegram, We're going to criminally charge you, perhaps.

00:23:51.000 I suspect that's what they're going to do with this, but I think you're right.

00:23:54.000 I think the outrage said, okay, well, let's let him go for now.

00:23:58.000 But he's not...

00:23:59.000 Look, he got sideways with Putin.

00:24:01.000 So he's a dual citizen of...

00:24:05.000 Russia and France.

00:24:07.000 No, France and United Arab Emirates.

00:24:09.000 Oh, really?

00:24:10.000 Yeah.

00:24:11.000 And although the Russians... 0.89

00:24:13.000 The Putin regime was very funny when he got arrested.

00:24:15.000 They were outraged over the fact that they viewed this as a limit on free speech.

00:24:22.000 That's cute.

00:24:23.000 That's the Putin regime, yeah. 0.99

00:24:24.000 Oh my god, because you know how much they value civil liberties and shit. 0.99

00:24:29.000 Especially dissenting opinions. 0.99

00:24:30.000 Yeah, oh, they love.

00:24:31.000 There is nothing better.

00:24:32.000 It's all about free expression over there in Russia.

00:24:37.000 Oh god, Russia. 0.97

00:24:40.000 So let me ask you this before we get off topic about the assassination.

00:24:45.000 Is it normal for there to be an assassination attempt and then no press conference?

00:24:52.000 It is Because we don't have assassination attempts every week, it's kind of hard to say that is it normal to do this.

00:24:59.000 But if there's a major world of that, generally, don't they have press conferences?

00:25:04.000 Yes, and it was, look, the whole thing, the protocols that weren't followed, the process, the fact that it was a cock-up of monumental proportions leading up to Thomas Crooks taking those shots,

00:25:20.000 And then the afterwards, right?

00:25:22.000 Then the way that they handled it was another series of, still to this day, this series of mistakes that there is no justification for.

00:25:32.000 You can't, look, doing security at an event like the Butler Rally back in July where Trump was shot.

00:25:43.000 Right now there's people out there going, I don't think he was shot.

00:25:47.000 I'm pretty sure he wasn't.

00:25:49.000 So I think it's not rocket science, right?

00:25:55.000 It's very labor intensive and detail oriented, but you're not building a spaceship, right?

00:26:03.000 You're going through the same process that you go through every time you have one of these events, right?

00:26:07.000 And so you have a political rally like that.

00:26:10.000 And it's not a national security event.

00:26:13.000 So it's not the DNC. It's not the RNC. It's not the Super Bowl.

00:26:16.000 It's not the Olympics.

00:26:18.000 Those are national security events.

00:26:19.000 You have a year plus to plan and prepare.

00:26:23.000 Get all your resources together and figure out your game plan, your site surveys, all the rest of it.

00:26:28.000 You still have time with these political events.

00:26:31.000 Don't have a year, but you've got sufficient time.

00:26:34.000 And they do it over and over again.

00:26:36.000 And it's not tough.

00:26:38.000 So you do a site survey and you say, okay, he's going to show up at Butler.

00:26:42.000 Let's get out there.

00:26:44.000 And the Secret Service has primacy.

00:26:47.000 They work with local state resources if they need to heavy up the security and they don't have the available resources.

00:26:54.000 But they have the primacy.

00:26:55.000 So they go out and the site survey, that whole process, the risk-threat assessment in the survey, is where you identify your timelines and your resources and your deployment of resources and all the various things, your command and control center,

00:27:12.000 your communications protocols, all those things.

00:27:14.000 But it's over and over and over again.

00:27:17.000 There's a methodology to it.

00:27:18.000 And the Secret Service, you know, they do this all the time.

00:27:23.000 So it does lead you to wonder how many more events in the past have they been, you know, not buttoned up and they just got lucky because there wasn't a shooter.

00:27:31.000 But there's no way to excuse what happened because it was such a breakdown of events.

00:27:39.000 And then afterwards, in the hot washing, in the briefings that they did provide, then going up on Capitol Hill and Kimberly Cheadle, the now departed director, It was a classic lesson in how not to do crisis communications and she should have been the director who's now gone she should have been out on the on the rally grounds that afternoon that evening sorry and with a team and with the agent in charge and it should have been

00:28:09.000 very clear to the press all around that they were out there doing the investigation assessing what had happened And people would be responsible.

00:28:20.000 But none of that happened. 0.99

00:28:22.000 It was just a fucking goat rope. 1.00

00:28:25.000 It's because it's Trump. 1.00

00:28:26.000 If it was anybody else.

00:28:28.000 Yeah.

00:28:28.000 Like, if that had happened, if there's an assassination attempt about Biden.

00:28:32.000 Yeah.

00:28:32.000 Oh.

00:28:33.000 Yeah.

00:28:34.000 Yeah.

00:28:34.000 It would have been crazy.

00:28:35.000 If Biden got winged in the ear the same way, and they took him out, and the whole deal, and, you know, they shoot the guy, and there's an investigation, it would have been...

00:28:47.000 On the news constantly, constantly, for weeks and weeks, it would have been lead story every night.

00:28:54.000 More information in the assassination attempt on President Biden.

00:28:58.000 Day 22. Yeah, it would have been the same thing.

00:29:00.000 Right-wing, far-right activist, registered Republican, Thomas Crooks.

00:29:05.000 Yes.

00:29:06.000 Because apparently he was a registered Republican.

00:29:08.000 Yeah, he had donated, I think, $15 to a Democratic or a progressive group, and he had registered as a Republican, and he was all over the map.

00:29:16.000 He had done research on Biden.

00:29:17.000 He'd done research on Trump.

00:29:21.000 They're trying to posit a motivation, because they haven't been clear about that yet.

00:29:25.000 They're still trying to figure out a motivation, that he was just looking for an opportunity to carry out his vision.

00:29:34.000 We don't even know.

00:29:35.000 Does he have a history of being mentally ill?

00:29:38.000 There was some talk.

00:29:39.000 They're starting to develop a narrative that says, you know, for the past couple of years, people were concerned about his mental health.

00:29:46.000 There were a couple of people, I think, that had an acquaintance with him that were saying, well, we just assumed he was bipolar or depressive.

00:29:53.000 He had researched depressive disorders.

00:29:56.000 That was on some of his electronic gear.

00:30:00.000 And so, yeah, I mean, that could be it. 0.97

00:30:03.000 But again, the bottom line is the whole process, command and control, resource deployment, communications process, all of it just completely fucked up on that day.

00:30:14.000 And usually when you have a problem of that magnitude...

00:30:17.000 With security, it's never just one thing.

00:30:19.000 It's a series of things that compound.

00:30:22.000 And, you know, but then, you know, the acting director, Roe, you know, he goes up there and, you know, it was a few weeks back now, but when he first showed up to say, I'm the acting director and I'm going to go up to Capitol Hill and answer your questions, which he didn't really do, you know,

00:30:37.000 they were talking about, well, it's almost impossible to get all the elements talking on the same frequency, right?

00:30:43.000 The local police are talking on their frequency.

00:30:45.000 Secret Service talking on their frequency, counter-sniper teams, maybe they're operating on a different channel.

00:30:50.000 You can't combine those.

00:30:52.000 Well, of course you can.

00:30:54.000 I'm just telling you for a fact that there are capabilities out there and available to allow you to get everybody talking on the same sheet of music at an event like that.

00:31:07.000 Of course.

00:31:08.000 To say otherwise is nonsense.

00:31:10.000 Yeah.

00:31:11.000 Yeah, and it's also, yeah, it divides logic, but it also...

00:31:14.000 And I think that was the thing about this is why people were so shocked is because...

00:31:20.000 You didn't have to be a security expert to look at this thing in real time.

00:31:24.000 Well, how about the sloped roof thing?

00:31:26.000 Oh, God.

00:31:27.000 We couldn't get agents up there because the roof was sloped, and it could be dangerous.

00:31:32.000 And it's sloped like five degrees. 1.00

00:31:34.000 Yeah, that was the nail in her coffin when she came out with that bullshit. 0.99

00:31:37.000 The whole thing was insane because you had snipers on another roof. 1.00

00:31:41.000 So what are you talking about?

00:31:43.000 Yeah.

00:31:44.000 You had, what did they have?

00:31:45.000 Two counter-sniper teams.

00:31:47.000 And But again, when you go out to a place like that, and you walk the grounds, and you stand and you survey, right?

00:31:53.000 And you fly drones around, and you get a real sense of what you're talking about.

00:31:57.000 In the early stages of a survey or an assessment like that, there are just certain things you look for.

00:32:03.000 Right.

00:32:04.000 Okay, there's the stage.

00:32:05.000 There's a tall building over there.

00:32:07.000 How about the water tower?

00:32:08.000 How about the water tower?

00:32:09.000 Maybe we cover that down, too.

00:32:11.000 And I think the transparency that we have on this right now is pretty much thanks to the local law enforcement.

00:32:20.000 I mean, that's where we've gotten most of our information, right?

00:32:22.000 They've shared body cam images, they've shared radio conversations, and I think, in part, they're doing it because they're so pissed off, right?

00:32:29.000 Yeah, well, their conversations were about how they saw this guy in advance, and they alerted people. 0.99

00:32:33.000 He was walking around with a fucking rangefinder. 0.99

00:32:37.000 That's it! 1.00

00:32:37.000 Is that a clue? 1.00

00:32:38.000 You walk around with a rangefinder, they should just arrest you.

00:32:43.000 It's shocking.

00:32:45.000 And then he was there a couple hours ahead of time flying a drone.

00:32:48.000 Insane.

00:32:48.000 Yeah.

00:32:50.000 But I think that the Secret Service, their go-to in the immediate aftermath was to point fingers at the local law enforcement. 1.00

00:32:56.000 And so I think the local law enforcement was like, fuck you. 1.00

00:32:58.000 Fuck you. 1.00

00:32:58.000 Yeah. 1.00

00:32:59.000 And so they've been transparent where Secret Service hasn't, right?

00:33:03.000 Yeah.

00:33:04.000 Government, I tell you this, government hates to hold a press conference when they don't have all the facts, right?

00:33:10.000 They're just not comfortable with it.

00:33:11.000 And particularly something like this, the idea that the acting director kept saying about, well, we're not going to get out ahead of the investigation.

00:33:18.000 Well, you know what?

00:33:19.000 Sometimes there's times when you need to.

00:33:21.000 Right. 0.93

00:33:22.000 And the fact that they fail to understand the optic of this right in the immediate aftermath and say, man, we've got to be so fucking proactive here.

00:33:30.000 We've got to be more transparent than we've ever been before.

00:33:32.000 Right.

00:33:33.000 There's a lot of other things that disturb me.

00:33:35.000 Here's one.

00:33:36.000 Is it normal for CNN to livestream a Trump press event or a Trump campaign event?

00:33:46.000 They normally, I mean, if they show it, they normally jump out of it after the first 10 seconds or so.

00:33:52.000 Always lying again.

00:33:53.000 We've counted five lies.

00:33:54.000 But I do have to say this, and I say this as a credit to CNN. It seems like they have made a concerted effort to be more balanced.

00:34:03.000 And I think this is in the aftermath of firing Don Lemon and Brian Stelter and all those people over there that people were frustrated with.

00:34:13.000 I think they have made a concerted effort.

00:34:15.000 There was a gentleman who was talking about that everyone's blaming Trump for things, but that the Democrats have been in control of the White House for 12 of the last 16 years.

00:34:27.000 And when he said that, it was like, whoa.

00:34:29.000 Yeah.

00:34:30.000 That was a big moment, and no one had an answer to that.

00:34:32.000 They were like, yeah, but they have the undermining that Trump has done to our democracy and the threats and what he said.

00:34:38.000 He's going to be a dictator.

00:34:39.000 He said he's going to be a dictator.

00:34:40.000 On day one. 1.00

00:34:41.000 Holy shit, man. 1.00

00:34:42.000 He's joking around about closing the border. 1.00

00:34:45.000 Like, he's not going to listen to anybody.

00:34:46.000 He's just going to close the border.

00:34:47.000 At 12 of the last 16 years, And you know what?

00:34:51.000 Kamala Harris, if she wins, she's going to fix the problems. 1.00

00:34:54.000 She's in right now.

00:34:56.000 I know.

00:34:57.000 Which is so crazy.

00:34:58.000 Another part of the whole equation that I'm sure they won't get asked tomorrow night.

00:35:03.000 When you talk about fixing the problems and making America, what have you been doing?

00:35:08.000 Maybe they will, and maybe they've already prepared for that. 0.75

00:35:11.000 Maybe they have some sort of fucking spinny spin they're going to put on that to make it seem like it makes sense. 0.91

00:35:17.000 Somebody, as I guarantee you, put everybody on the polygraph over there and see, like, somebody could just be a researcher or a producer or whatever. 0.97

00:35:27.000 They're talking because you know the DNC and the campaign team have been, ever since they agreed, okay, let's do this interview, somebody's been beating on somebody to say, okay, well, where are you going to go with this?

00:35:40.000 What questions are you going to ask?

00:35:41.000 And somebody's slipping that under the table.

00:35:43.000 There's no way they're not.

00:35:45.000 They're all Democrats.

00:35:46.000 There's no...

00:35:47.000 I mean, if you're working for CNN, you're a Democrat, most likely.

00:35:51.000 There's very few Republicans over there.

00:35:53.000 Yeah, there might be some independents.

00:35:54.000 There might be.

00:35:55.000 Libertarians.

00:35:56.000 Yeah, there's a few.

00:35:57.000 There's a handful.

00:35:58.000 Even though they're liberal-leaning, I think they're...

00:36:01.000 Jake Tapper, I think, is very fair.

00:36:02.000 I think he's probably the most objective out of all of them, even though I'm sure he has his own opinions and biases.

00:36:07.000 Yeah.

00:36:07.000 But they're not acting like journalists.

00:36:09.000 They act like...

00:36:11.000 Advocates for the Democratic Party, and that's where it gets weird, because you're supposed to be the news.

00:36:15.000 Yeah, well, I think what happened, a couple of things is, with CNN moving possibly this idea that they're moving a little bit towards the center, and I will say, you see more negative comments from the left, right, about CNN. I think they're pissed off sometimes with CNN because they're not as hardcore.

00:36:33.000 Because they're trying to move a little bit more.

00:36:35.000 I think that's a revenue issue for them, because I don't think they've made money since they've been around.

00:36:40.000 But I think they're realizing that maybe there's more profit margin a little bit further towards the center than where they've been sitting.

00:36:49.000 Well, if they could convince people that they will actually be objective, people like me will listen.

00:36:54.000 And that's the thing.

00:36:56.000 I'm much more centered than I am anything. 0.99

00:36:59.000 Well, remember, you used to tune in CNN when shit was hitting the fan, right? 0.99

00:37:03.000 Overseas. 0.99

00:37:03.000 Oh, yeah. 0.99

00:37:04.000 Because they had more field offices.

00:37:06.000 They had more bureaus all over the world.

00:37:08.000 And you'd turn on CNN to see what's going on.

00:37:13.000 We used to have it be on if you walked into a station overseas.

00:37:15.000 CNN was always on, right?

00:37:17.000 I mean, it still is for the most part.

00:37:18.000 Was it when Jeff Zucker got involved?

00:37:20.000 Is that when things changed?

00:37:23.000 Uh...

00:37:23.000 You know what?

00:37:24.000 I don't know.

00:37:24.000 I'm not qualified to answer that.

00:37:25.000 Because he put on some good stuff, too.

00:37:27.000 He was the head of NBC when I was over there.

00:37:29.000 Okay.

00:37:30.000 When I was over there for NewsRadio and Fear Factor.

00:37:32.000 Maybe not NewsRadio.

00:37:33.000 No, not NewsRadio.

00:37:34.000 Fear Factor.

00:37:35.000 He was the head guy over there.

00:37:36.000 And when he went over there, he did a bunch of great things.

00:37:38.000 Like the Anthony Bourdain show.

00:37:40.000 They were doing those interesting shows.

00:37:43.000 W. Kamau Bell had a show on there.

00:37:45.000 They were doing some cool stuff that was not just the news.

00:37:49.000 And I was like, oh, I like it.

00:37:50.000 I like it.

00:37:51.000 But then when they became...

00:37:52.000 Don Lemon, at one point in time...

00:37:55.000 Do you remember when Don Lemon had that famous speech about what black people need to do? 0.95

00:37:58.000 Pull your pants up. 1.00

00:37:59.000 Get your shit together. 1.00

00:38:00.000 I was like, fuck yeah, Don Lemon. 1.00

00:38:02.000 And where's that guy? 0.99

00:38:04.000 Where'd that guy go? 0.99

00:38:05.000 That guy fucking vanished. 0.99

00:38:07.000 There was no money in that. 0.99

00:38:08.000 No, no.

00:38:09.000 There is.

00:38:10.000 You just gotta go to Fox. 0.99

00:38:14.000 You can't hang out at CNN with those kind of fucking objective opinions. 0.99

00:38:20.000 Yeah, it'll be... 0.99

00:38:21.000 So, I think...

00:38:25.000 Again, I think this interview that she's going to do, I get it.

00:38:29.000 I understand.

00:38:29.000 Why wouldn't you want to be in a comfortable spot?

00:38:31.000 I think it's very bizarre that she's doing a joint interview with Walt.

00:38:36.000 If you want to show that you're ready for the job and you could possibly be the first woman president of the United States, and then you say, okay, my first big interview, I'm going to sit here with this dude.

00:38:50.000 Could you imagine if Trump did all his interviews with Pence?

00:38:54.000 What?

00:38:55.000 Where is Pence?

00:38:57.000 He's hiding.

00:38:58.000 That dude's hiding.

00:38:59.000 I don't even know where he is.

00:39:00.000 All those QAnon people, they don't like him. 0.99

00:39:02.000 Oh, God, no.

00:39:02.000 No, that's true.

00:39:03.000 Oh, they think he's a traitor.

00:39:05.000 Yeah.

00:39:06.000 They think he's responsible for Trump not being still in office.

00:39:09.000 There's nobody in the middle anymore.

00:39:11.000 Oh my god, no one's in the middle, and if you're in the middle, you're an enemy.

00:39:14.000 You're the enemy. 1.00

00:39:15.000 Pick a fucking side! 1.00

00:39:16.000 Pick a side! 1.00

00:39:16.000 You guys need to stop. 1.00

00:39:18.000 Cut this shit, man. 1.00

00:39:19.000 We need about five different parties that are all relevant. 1.00

00:39:23.000 Goddamn right.

00:39:23.000 And right now we have two.

00:39:25.000 And one of them is way more funded.

00:39:28.000 Like way more funded. 0.99

00:39:29.000 Fucking way more funded. 0.98

00:39:31.000 You see, they've raked in, the Democrats have raked in something like half a billion dollars. 1.00

00:39:36.000 Nuts.

00:39:37.000 Yeah.

00:39:38.000 And they'll probably spend it all.

00:39:39.000 But have you seen the Project Veritas deep dive into that?

00:39:44.000 Where they go to people's houses and they ask them, did you donate $150,000 because he's registered donors?

00:39:50.000 And he's like, goodness, no!

00:39:53.000 I didn't donate any of that money.

00:39:56.000 So there's all these donations that at least Project Veritas is claiming, and these people are claiming, we're not theirs, and that they're throwing money into this pot, and they're attributing it to all these people that probably don't even know it's being attributed to them.

00:40:11.000 I think that's what they're alluding to.

00:40:12.000 If the cost of this campaign is going to be north of a billion, you have to assume.

00:40:19.000 That's so crazy.

00:40:20.000 And you think about, yeah, if there was a way to take money out of it, if there was a way to enact term limits, and there was a way to have a meaningful third and fourth party completely change the landscape here, I would think.

00:40:34.000 And I think for the better.

00:40:35.000 I don't think there's any...

00:40:36.000 I mean, in my mind, I don't think I can be persuaded otherwise, but...

00:40:40.000 I just don't see that happening.

00:40:42.000 Who's gonna vote against their own best interests, right?

00:40:44.000 You look at the money that these politicians can make, and they can walk out the door, multi-millionaires, On salaries, that doesn't make any sense.

00:40:53.000 That's the other thing you need to get out of there is insider trading.

00:40:56.000 Yeah.

00:40:57.000 Well, I think it's important that we all participate.

00:41:00.000 It's a free market.

00:41:01.000 I gotta go.

00:41:02.000 I gotta go.

00:41:03.000 Oh, you know what?

00:41:04.000 My wife is so damn smart. 1.00

00:41:07.000 A hell of a lot smarter than I am. 0.55

00:41:09.000 She's very smart.

00:41:10.000 She is very smart.

00:41:10.000 She's kind of spooky smart.

00:41:11.000 I know, right?

00:41:12.000 You talk to her, you're like, yo.

00:41:14.000 Yeah.

00:41:14.000 This lady's operating at a very high frequency.

00:41:16.000 I know, which makes you wonder, why is she still with me? 0.99

00:41:20.000 That's what they like, a nice dumb guy. 1.00

00:41:22.000 Like a dumb guy, right? 1.00

00:41:23.000 You know, I'm good at picking things up and putting them down. 1.00

00:41:25.000 That's all they need.

00:41:26.000 I can fetch things.

00:41:28.000 They need you to open up mayonnaise jars.

00:41:32.000 Look at this!

00:41:33.000 Hand Mike the pickles.

00:41:34.000 Every now and then I walk over there and I just show her just so she knows what I'm around here for.

00:41:38.000 That's right.

00:41:38.000 Yeah.

00:41:38.000 I can fucking open shit.

00:41:40.000 Goddammit. 1.00

00:41:40.000 I will say this. 1.00

00:41:41.000 The other thing about this is all three of my boys.

00:41:46.000 I just got in from Florida this morning and I was dropping our middle boy back at IMG. He plays basketball down there.

00:41:57.000 He's constantly, and the older one, even the youngest one, they're constantly just hitting me.

00:42:02.000 They're beating on me, right?

00:42:03.000 Every time they walk by.

00:42:03.000 Boy stuff.

00:42:04.000 Yeah, they can't walk by me without hitting me, right?

00:42:06.000 Yeah.

00:42:06.000 And I mean, now they're really putting some effort into it, right?

00:42:11.000 They've got testosterone now.

00:42:12.000 Yeah, they've got testosterone, and they want a title shot, right? 0.99

00:42:15.000 Yeah.

00:42:15.000 And so they're all kind of getting to that point, and they're just like, I'll walk into the elevator yesterday with Sammy, and we get in there, and the door's closed, and he just goes, whales on me.

00:42:25.000 I go, what the fuck? 1.00

00:42:26.000 What the fuck are you doing? 1.00

00:42:27.000 I was talking about this with Huberman, that the difference between a boy of 12 years old and a boy of 17 is only five years. 1.00

00:42:34.000 Yeah.

00:42:35.000 So you and I, in five years, basically probably be pretty close to the same, but hopefully we won't decline too much.

00:42:40.000 Yeah.

00:42:41.000 But from a boy at 12 years old, they can't hurt anybody. 1.00

00:42:44.000 At 17 years old, they can fuck up grown men. 1.00

00:42:46.000 Yeah. 1.00

00:42:46.000 And it happens quick. 1.00

00:42:48.000 It happens quick, and all of a sudden, yeah, it's like with the two oldest ones.

00:42:51.000 I look at them.

00:42:52.000 If I'm away, you know, I travel a fair amount, and I come back.

00:42:55.000 They got muscles.

00:42:57.000 They got muscles.

00:42:57.000 They're bigger.

00:42:58.000 They're taller. 1.00

00:42:58.000 I'm thinking, holy shit. 1.00

00:43:00.000 But it's like living in a house with Kato, remember? 1.00

00:43:05.000 Wait, wait.

00:43:07.000 We're really dating ourselves now.

00:43:08.000 Yeah, exactly.

00:43:09.000 But he'd leap out of nowhere and just attack you. 1.00

00:43:12.000 And I'm thinking, what the fuck? 1.00

00:43:12.000 From the Pink Panther. 1.00

00:43:13.000 God, yeah, exactly.

00:43:15.000 But, so, yeah, anyway, we dropped him off yesterday.

00:43:19.000 He's back there for his next year.

00:43:22.000 And I will say that, you know, but just talking about IMG, they told me a fact yesterday.

00:43:28.000 And I was just talking about it with the guys outside before we started.

00:43:30.000 Which astounds me.

00:43:32.000 They graduated 88 ballplayers last year, basketball players, from seniors and their post-grad program.

00:43:42.000 88 of them.

00:43:43.000 82 of them are now playing college ball.

00:43:46.000 Wow.

00:43:47.000 That's astounding.

00:43:48.000 That's pretty astounding.

00:43:49.000 It's amazing.

00:43:49.000 And that's just the one sport there.

00:43:51.000 They cover most of the sports.

00:43:52.000 That's pretty incredible.

00:43:53.000 It's an amazing program.

00:43:55.000 And so anyway, but moving on.

00:43:57.000 I interrupted you.

00:43:58.000 You were about to say something smart that your wife said. 1.00

00:44:01.000 Goddammit. 0.99

00:44:01.000 I was saying, we were talking about the Trump thing and the objective thing with the news and all that jazz. 0.99

00:44:08.000 Fucking hell. 0.99

00:44:09.000 I'm having a Biden moment now. 0.99

00:44:11.000 What was I talking about?

00:44:11.000 Jamie, you remember what I was going to say?

00:44:13.000 No?

00:44:15.000 It'll come to me later on.

00:44:16.000 Okay.

00:44:17.000 Yeah, I don't even remember what I was about to say.

00:44:20.000 Well, we made a diversion.

00:44:21.000 Yeah, we did.

00:44:22.000 Disappeared down a rabbit hole there.

00:44:23.000 We're essentially just talking about the problem with narratives.

00:44:28.000 That people, there's no one in the middle, and that everyone is, if you're not on one side, you're a traitor.

00:44:33.000 Yeah. 0.98

00:44:34.000 You're an enemy.

00:44:35.000 And you do, I don't know, there's no way... 0.61

00:44:39.000 I don't think there's any way to walk that dog back.

00:44:41.000 We had that moment after the assassination attempt, and like we talked about earlier, people were saying, yeah, we gotta be more civil.

00:44:49.000 It was like a mini 9-11.

00:44:50.000 Remember after 9-11?

00:44:52.000 Everybody was so nice to each other for weeks.

00:44:55.000 That one lasted a long time.

00:44:57.000 I remember coming to New York City, and we filmed Fear Factor after September 11th, and everybody was so nice. 0.99

00:45:05.000 And firemen were treated like fucking heroes. 0.98

00:45:08.000 Firemen got laid more than any other time. 1.00

00:45:10.000 I mean, everybody wanted to bang a fireman.

00:45:13.000 They wanted to help those guys out.

00:45:14.000 Yeah, I grew a mustache and pretended I was a fireman for a while.

00:45:17.000 All the first responders, cops, EMT guys, they all got mad respect.

00:45:21.000 And everybody was a lot more peaceful and civil.

00:45:24.000 And in Los Angeles, it was palpable.

00:45:26.000 You had American flags on everyone's car.

00:45:29.000 It was kind of cool.

00:45:32.000 And then you had the same with the military, right?

00:45:34.000 I mean, shortly after, and then we went into Tora Bora, and then that whole thing kicked off.

00:45:38.000 But there was a period of time, you're right.

00:45:40.000 And usually, not that you want something like that to happen.

00:45:44.000 I mean, look at the pandemic.

00:45:45.000 I mean, the pandemic brought people together for a while.

00:45:47.000 People were so nice to you.

00:45:50.000 In the beginning, I thought it was going to be like 9-11, where everyone's going to realize, hey, we're all together in this.

00:45:55.000 Let's help each other out.

00:45:56.000 Let's get through this.

00:45:57.000 Yeah, that didn't last.

00:45:58.000 No.

00:45:58.000 Well, the thing that didn't last is...

00:46:02.000 In spite of all the evidence that it's not as bad as everybody's saying it is, everybody wanted to say it's killing everybody.

00:46:09.000 Did you see Kamala Harris' speech where she said 220 million Americans died?

00:46:13.000 And she didn't just say it once.

00:46:16.000 She said it more than once.

00:46:17.000 I've got it saved.

00:46:19.000 I could pull it up if Jamie wants to find it.

00:46:21.000 There's two different instances where she said, two different speeches, 220 million Americans died from COVID, which is just insane.

00:46:31.000 We're now just a country of 110 million.

00:46:34.000 That's so crazy to say.

00:46:36.000 And yet we still have a housing shortage.

00:46:38.000 You can misspeak and maybe say 220 million Americans were infected.

00:46:44.000 Fact check.

00:46:45.000 Kamala Harris said 220 million people in the U.S. died of COVID. Here's what she meant to say.

00:46:49.000 Oh, she meant to say this.

00:46:52.000 Oh, Snopes. 0.91

00:46:54.000 Hold her hand.

00:46:55.000 It was a slip of the tongue.

00:46:56.000 She meant, she was saying million instead of thousand.

00:47:01.000 Okay.

00:47:02.000 No.

00:47:03.000 No, that doesn't work anyway.

00:47:05.000 That doesn't work either, because even if you're saying 220,000, that's 220,000 died with COVID. You're not looking at it correctly.

00:47:14.000 If it was four-plus comorbidities for somewhere in the neighborhood of 75% or 80% of the people that died...

00:47:22.000 Yeah.

00:47:24.000 But what we just saw there with that headline is...

00:47:28.000 It's very subtle, but it's important, right?

00:47:32.000 What she meant to say. 0.98

00:47:34.000 How the fuck do you know what she meant to say if she said it twice? 0.98

00:47:36.000 But you see this constantly, right? 0.99

00:47:39.000 And again, it's very subtle.

00:47:40.000 It's not straight-up disinformation, but it's framing it.

00:47:43.000 It's shaping a narrative.

00:47:45.000 It's softening it.

00:47:46.000 And it's definitely taken aside.

00:47:49.000 But a lot of people would read that, and it would just go right past them.

00:47:52.000 But it would be back there somewhere, right?

00:47:54.000 Right.

00:47:54.000 As, you know, if it was Trump, you know, Trump lied about the following.

00:47:58.000 Right.

00:47:58.000 Okay, okay.

00:47:59.000 I mean, that's...

00:48:00.000 Look, it's...

00:48:01.000 First of all, you're gonna misspeak.

00:48:03.000 Yeah.

00:48:03.000 If you're doing those kind of things, and you're working off a script, and you don't have a script, and you're just out there talking to people, you're gonna misspeak.

00:48:09.000 Yeah.

00:48:09.000 And I say the wrong name all the time.

00:48:13.000 I'll say someone's name, and then Jamie will correct me.

00:48:16.000 Did you mean it?

00:48:17.000 I go, what did I say?

00:48:17.000 Like, I don't even realize it when I'm saying it that I'm saying the wrong word.

00:48:21.000 People misspeak.

00:48:22.000 Yeah.

00:48:23.000 It's a normal thing.

00:48:24.000 But...

00:48:25.000 That's a goofy one.

00:48:26.000 And to repeat it, right?

00:48:29.000 But, look, and that's why, again, Everything that we've seen leading up to tomorrow night's interview needs to be factored into this, right?

00:48:42.000 I understand why the Democrats are so wrapped around the axle because they're so worried that Trump might win for whatever reason, right?

00:48:51.000 They just can't fathom that.

00:48:52.000 And so a lot of them are just willing to overlook it. 0.89

00:48:55.000 A lot of them, I think, understand that she's a halfwit, but I think maybe that's not fair. 0.91

00:48:59.000 But look, every time I talk about her, people will say, well, she's so well experienced. 0.97

00:49:04.000 Look at her.

00:49:04.000 She was an attorney general and a senator and a vice president.

00:49:07.000 And I'm thinking, have you never seen people who have failed upwards?

00:49:10.000 I've met a lot of people who have had a lot of experience. 1.00

00:49:13.000 And they're fucking dolts. 1.00

00:49:15.000 They're gormless. 1.00

00:49:16.000 Oh, yeah.

00:49:17.000 Especially in Hollywood.

00:49:19.000 Right?

00:49:20.000 You work on television. 0.99

00:49:21.000 How many fucking executives have you run across? 1.00

00:49:23.000 You're like, how the fuck did you get this job? 1.00

00:49:25.000 And even the people under them don't respect them, but yet they're in control. 0.99

00:49:29.000 For the time being.

00:49:31.000 Then they're all living in fear, right?

00:49:32.000 They're all living in fear of losing that office and those snacks and the assistant.

00:49:37.000 And they will.

00:49:38.000 They eventually lose it.

00:49:39.000 They eventually do.

00:49:41.000 But they're so paralyzed by fear, nobody's buying shows anymore.

00:49:46.000 Right.

00:49:46.000 And it's a remarkable industry right now.

00:49:49.000 That's not what we're talking about, but it is fascinating.

00:49:52.000 Well, it's been gutted by the internet.

00:49:54.000 Yeah, it's completely gutted.

00:49:56.000 People, they lived in fear before, but now nobody wants to greenlight anything.

00:50:01.000 And if they do, they'll say, well, we'll buy six episodes.

00:50:03.000 Right.

00:50:04.000 Really?

00:50:04.000 Okay, that's where your head's at.

00:50:07.000 And then they're terrified of AI. Because AI is going to come along, and that's going to take away who knows how many jobs.

00:50:15.000 I mean, I think Hollywood is going to get hit first.

00:50:17.000 Well, maybe not.

00:50:19.000 No, probably a lot of industries are going to get crippled.

00:50:21.000 But I think Hollywood has got a real problem.

00:50:24.000 They've got a real problem with writers.

00:50:26.000 They've got a real problem with video, editing, all that stuff.

00:50:29.000 It's going to be done through computers way quicker.

00:50:32.000 Way more cost-efficient, probably better.

00:50:35.000 You're going to get exactly what you want.

00:50:37.000 Yeah.

00:50:37.000 It is shocking.

00:50:39.000 I was a little bit late to the game as I usually am on the technology side, right?

00:50:43.000 And so I don't think I really understood just how invasive or, what's the word I'm looking for, for AI in its abilities, right?

00:50:53.000 Even now, right?

00:50:54.000 Yeah.

00:50:54.000 And it's going to be exponentially better here shortly.

00:50:56.000 Yeah.

00:50:57.000 The ability to craft a very tailored message in almost no time at all is shocking.

00:51:08.000 And so you're right.

00:51:11.000 But where my head goes, I mean, anybody with kids I think goes there, is that what I worry about is, okay, so at what point do we just... 0.99

00:51:21.000 Humans don't know how to fucking analyze and write shit anymore, right? 0.99

00:51:25.000 Right. 1.00

00:51:26.000 And you'll have the people who, okay, sure, you've got to program this shit and you've got to, you know, curate all the stuff that it's picking up. 0.99

00:51:32.000 But now it's collecting just AI-generated shit, right? 0.97

00:51:36.000 It's not like it's going out there and getting the world's greatest human literature, right, anymore. 1.00

00:51:40.000 Now it's just scooping up all this shit that AI produced. 0.96

00:51:45.000 But I worry about kids, right? 1.00

00:51:47.000 And, you know, the ease with which they can now put together an essay or a college application or whatever the fuck it is, I think we're just raising, you know, maybe we're just raising the next generation of morons. 0.99

00:51:59.000 Well, definitely the next generation of people that are completely dependent upon technology. 0.99

00:52:03.000 I mean, kids can't even write cursive anymore.

00:52:05.000 They stop teaching that.

00:52:07.000 Yeah.

00:52:08.000 Which is bizarre.

00:52:09.000 I know.

00:52:10.000 That was always my favorite class.

00:52:11.000 That was the only class I did really well in, was cursive.

00:52:15.000 And phys ed.

00:52:15.000 I did really well in phys ed.

00:52:17.000 I guess people think there's no reason to be able to write quickly because now you just type things out.

00:52:22.000 Yeah, you type it out.

00:52:23.000 I still write, you know, Emily's much better than I am, but I still write a letter occasionally.

00:52:28.000 Well, you have to write your name.

00:52:30.000 Your name is in cursive.

00:52:31.000 Yeah, but have you ever seen kids write a sign?

00:52:33.000 You say, here, sign this.

00:52:34.000 No, they just spell it out, not cursive.

00:52:38.000 So they don't have a signature anymore.

00:52:40.000 They don't have a signature.

00:52:41.000 That was a big day when you decided what your signature was going to look like.

00:52:45.000 Yeah, I used to practice mine.

00:52:46.000 I modeled mine after JFK's.

00:52:49.000 Really?

00:52:50.000 Yeah, because no one knows anyway.

00:52:52.000 And so I just like, okay, John F. Kennedy signed it like that.

00:52:55.000 So I practiced for a long time just to get it looking like that.

00:53:00.000 That's a little piece of information I don't think anybody ever had before.

00:53:03.000 Now they do.

00:53:05.000 We're going to be definitely dependent. 0.97

00:53:07.000 My kids have had kids in their class get busted for papers that they wrote on AI because they're so dumb they don't realize like someone could just put the same prompt into AI and get the exact same verbiage.

00:53:19.000 And they do have, I mean, professors and teachers have, you know, the ability to use certain apps that will scan and see whether these things have been pulled together by AI. But I think it's like a lot of other things.

00:53:34.000 Right.

00:53:36.000 Right.

00:53:37.000 Right.

00:53:48.000 But it is.

00:53:49.000 Yeah, I do think, and then going back to what we were talking about, the level of disinformation coming into November is going to be shocking, I think, for some people, even if they haven't been paying attention.

00:53:59.000 But a lot of people don't because a lot of people don't have the time.

00:54:05.000 Yeah, I think when we get there, when we wake up and the election results are announced, you know, three weeks later.

00:54:13.000 Well, Pennsylvania's already saying they're not going to be able to do it on election night. 0.99

00:54:16.000 Yeah, what the fuck? 0.99

00:54:17.000 They used to. 0.99

00:54:18.000 What'd you guys do?

00:54:19.000 You know?

00:54:20.000 We used to.

00:54:20.000 Remember?

00:54:21.000 You go to bed and you knew.

00:54:22.000 You knew when you went to bed if you stayed up late.

00:54:24.000 Well, not only that, there's no pandemic.

00:54:26.000 So why do we have all these mail-in ballots?

00:54:28.000 Hmm. 0.67

00:54:30.000 That seems kind of silly. 0.84

00:54:31.000 We know what else seems silly? 0.59

00:54:34.000 I don't consider this to be voter suppression. 1.00

00:54:36.000 Have a fucking ID to show that you're a US citizen. 1.00

00:54:40.000 That's racist. 1.00

00:54:41.000 I know.

00:54:42.000 I know.

00:54:42.000 I apologize.

00:54:43.000 But I do think it makes sense.

00:54:45.000 It 100% makes sense.

00:54:47.000 I couldn't vote in another country.

00:54:49.000 You should not be able to vote here without an ID. Just like you can't get a driver's license.

00:54:55.000 You have to have your fucking birth certificate. 1.00

00:54:57.000 We have paperwork. 1.00

00:54:59.000 It's there for a reason, because people are full of shit. 1.00

00:55:02.000 There's a lot of fraudsters out there. 1.00

00:55:03.000 And if there's a way to mitigate fraud, and the most important thing that we do, which is choose a leader, it's one of the most important things we do.

00:55:11.000 We exercise our right to vote. 0.99

00:55:13.000 And if you're gonna fuck with that, and if you are willfully making it so that it's easier to deceive people, That's crazy. 0.99

00:55:22.000 That's crazy that we don't put a stop to that. 0.99

00:55:24.000 Yeah, you would think that that would be the default position is how do we mitigate the risk, right?

00:55:29.000 And let's do it, again, fine, without voter suppression.

00:55:33.000 Don't make it, you know, difficult for a particular community or group or whatever to vote.

00:55:38.000 Of course not.

00:55:39.000 But I don't think it's asking too much to just say, okay, proof of citizenship, please.

00:55:46.000 That doesn't seem like a big issue.

00:55:48.000 In Texas, they've...

00:55:51.000 They've canceled out a million potential votes that would have been illegal.

00:55:56.000 See if you can find that.

00:55:57.000 Wow.

00:55:58.000 So they found a bunch of people, I think a half a million that were registered to vote that were dead.

00:56:03.000 And then there's a bunch of other people that were registered that were ineligible.

00:56:07.000 And so the way they're framing it in Texas, the way I saw it framed in one newspaper that Ken Paxton is going after Latinos because he doesn't want them to vote.

00:56:16.000 1.1 million ineligible voters removed from Texas voter rolls.

00:56:22.000 So Texas has removed 1.1 million.

00:56:24.000 That's a lot, folks.

00:56:25.000 Look at that, 457,000 were deceased.

00:56:28.000 Yes, 457,000 deceased people, 6,500 potential non-citizens.

00:56:34.000 And so the top Texas Republicans have dedicated significant time and resources to targeting voter fraud, though cases in Texas are exceedingly rare.

00:56:43.000 Well, I mean, the thing is...

00:56:46.000 Just the fact that that's going on, that they found a million people that shouldn't be eligible. 0.97

00:56:53.000 Goddamn, that could shift an election. 0.91

00:56:55.000 How many people vote? 0.98

00:56:56.000 Well, look, Georgia was decided by, what, 12,000, 1,200 votes?

00:57:00.000 It was some ridiculously small number, right?

00:57:02.000 And that's the way this is going to be in November.

00:57:04.000 The only people that matter going into November, frankly, are the undecideds.

00:57:10.000 When you look at the accusations of voter fraud in 2020, does any of it stick?

00:57:14.000 Does any of it – will you look at it and go, that is weird?

00:57:17.000 I would say that in our current system – I don't have any evidence of actual – I can't point to actual moments and say, yeah, look at that.

00:57:26.000 That was voter fraud.

00:57:27.000 But I will say this.

00:57:29.000 You may have heard me mention that I have a company, Portman Square Group, that does a lot of things, including fraud investigations.

00:57:36.000 You know, the President's Daily Brief, by the way, our YouTube channel, at President's Daily Brief, is killing it.

00:57:42.000 I'm told.

00:57:44.000 I'm not sure.

00:57:44.000 So, in terms of our system, I interrupt you to tell you how awesome you are, but the system that we have, is there any evidence that you can point to that says, this doesn't look right?

00:57:59.000 Well, what I was going to say was that, while I don't have evidence to a particular moment in time, As someone who's done a lot of fraud investigations, you look for the opportunity to commit fraud, right?

00:58:13.000 And it's like what you were just saying a moment ago, right?

00:58:15.000 If you can button it up and make it more secure, why wouldn't you, right?

00:58:20.000 And so we've created an environment where there's definitely potential for fraud There's no doubt about it.

00:58:27.000 More so than if you had voter ID, or just you had to provide ID to show citizenship, and if you did it in person, and if you got the results, and you didn't have massive early voting, and you didn't have drop boxes and ballot harvesting,

00:58:46.000 but...

00:58:47.000 So we've got a process now that has created a wider playing field for people who may want to commit fraud.

00:58:57.000 And so I'm a cynical person, so that to me says, yeah, there's going to be fraud, or there has been fraud.

00:59:04.000 Don't have specific examples, but I just know from looking at a lot of fraud over the years, That's the way it works.

00:59:11.000 Well, voter fraud has always been a thing.

00:59:14.000 Yeah.

00:59:14.000 Right?

00:59:14.000 Voter fraud has been a real problem from the beginning of voting because people are creepy and people like to game the system and they like to cheat and they like to steal and they like to do things where their side wins and if they can figure out...

00:59:29.000 Look, just think about the way they talk about Trump, the existential threat to democracy, kleptocrat, all these crazy terms that they use.

00:59:36.000 They can call him Hitler And then everything you do to keep Hitler from being in power is a good thing, including fraud. 0.93

00:59:45.000 Yeah, you're justified because you're saving democracy. 0.99

00:59:48.000 Yeah, that's where it gets scary because then, guess what, fuckface? 0.98

00:59:51.000 You set a precedent and now if the Republicans get in power and they do the same thing and use the same playbook, then they're stealing it. 0.99

00:59:59.000 And you can't fucking do that if you care about America. 0.97

01:00:03.000 If you really are a patriot, you can't do that. 0.98

01:00:06.000 We had a moment in time with the pandemic where, obviously, you had to make some adjustments to the way that people could vote, right?

01:00:14.000 To accommodate the fact that you had...

01:00:16.000 A once-in-a-generation, hopefully, pandemic.

01:00:19.000 I'm sure we're going to have another one. 0.98

01:00:21.000 Goddammit. 0.91

01:00:21.000 The WHO has declared a global health crisis for Africa, for monkeypox. 0.91

01:00:26.000 They released that.

01:00:27.000 They stopped.

01:00:27.000 They stopped it.

01:00:28.000 Okay.

01:00:28.000 Let's try.

01:00:30.000 Let's look at that.

01:00:31.000 Because I think that's also because of pushback.

01:00:33.000 Because people are like, first of all, what are you talking about?

01:00:36.000 Who's getting this?

01:00:37.000 Yeah.

01:00:38.000 Well, it's...

01:00:40.000 I think they even pushed back on the name, Monkeypox.

01:00:45.000 It's Mpox.

01:00:46.000 Mpox.

01:00:47.000 Mpox.

01:00:48.000 Okay.

01:00:48.000 Because it's offensive to monkeys.

01:00:49.000 Okay.

01:00:50.000 To blame them for this.

01:00:51.000 Well, it was primarily an issue with the gay community in the beginning.

01:00:56.000 So in the beginning, when they tried to call it a national health emergency, they tried to do this a couple of years ago.

01:01:02.000 In the middle of COVID, when people were starting to be a little bit more active and less worried about COVID, they tried to push this monkeypox thing.

01:01:09.000 But there's only four people died from it.

01:01:11.000 And it was primarily spread sexually.

01:01:16.000 Yeah, and they did say that the most recent, which was just, you know, within the past couple of weeks, I believe, alert or crisis alert for the entire continent of Africa was because it was more virulent.

01:01:35.000 It was more aggressive.

01:01:36.000 I think they're saying it's spread airborne now.

01:01:38.000 Yeah, and so because it was going to be more aggressive or because it was proving to be more aggressive than they call it, but I forgot that they changed the name to MPOX. Did they drop the national or world health emergency?

01:01:50.000 Did they drop that?

01:01:52.000 I was reading some things that said they did.

01:01:55.000 When I googled it, it's only showing me like two days ago there was some uptick in New York City.

01:02:02.000 Oh god.

01:02:03.000 Yeah, I wonder where.

01:02:05.000 It's a bathhouse disease all of a sudden.

01:02:07.000 Wall Street?

01:02:08.000 Yeah.

01:02:09.000 Where?

01:02:10.000 I just see from like two weeks ago they had the alert, but I don't see anything about a recall or like a withdrawal or anything.

01:02:16.000 Hmm.

01:02:17.000 Yeah.

01:02:18.000 Would the word be a withdrawal?

01:02:19.000 Recall.

01:02:20.000 Recall?

01:02:20.000 Yeah.

01:02:21.000 I mean, I Googled that.

01:02:22.000 But I digress.

01:02:23.000 Maybe try withdrawal.

01:02:24.000 So we expanded the voting parameters or the ability to vote for that moment in time for the pandemic.

01:02:30.000 And yes, you would think reasonable people would say, we don't have the pandemic.

01:02:35.000 Let's at least go back to where we were before the pandemic, right?

01:02:38.000 In terms of when we could vote and how.

01:02:40.000 Right.

01:02:41.000 But that didn't happen.

01:02:42.000 And so then you have to ask yourself, being a reasonable person, well, why?

01:02:47.000 Would people just love the new process so much that they thought, oh my god, we have to keep this?

01:02:52.000 Or was there some benefit to it that they saw?

01:02:56.000 Anyway, again, I would be speculating if I pointed to a particular state or incident and say that was, you know, an obvious case of voter fraud.

01:03:06.000 But I do know for a fact that when you expand the playing field for fraud, someone's going to fill that gap.

01:03:13.000 They're going to come in and take advantage of it. 0.77

01:03:15.000 And like you said, you know, people want to win.

01:03:19.000 I'm just scared because of the rhetoric.

01:03:21.000 And I'm not just scared because I want one side to win.

01:03:25.000 I'm scared because I think that by overzealously wanting their side to win and doing it so in a way that really isn't fair, that you set up a precedent where anybody can do that in the future.

01:03:40.000 And they think they're justified in doing that.

01:03:43.000 There's a lot of people that think 2020 was stolen, and Trump has said it over and over again.

01:03:47.000 But by the way, Hillary said it in 2016, over and over again.

01:03:51.000 For several years.

01:03:53.000 Yeah, they said Russia.

01:03:54.000 And then there's always people saying he's a Russian plant, Russia put him into power, Russian disinformation is why he got...

01:04:04.000 They were actively doing disinformation on their own, especially with the Biden laptop thing. 0.97

01:04:10.000 Zuckerberg coming out and saying that thing yesterday was fucking huge. 0.94

01:04:15.000 That was huge. 0.96

01:04:16.000 And releasing that statement, because Mayorkas, when he was testifying, he said they didn't do that under oath.

01:04:27.000 So is that perjury?

01:04:28.000 Yeah, well...

01:04:30.000 You know, not being a lawyer, but I would think that you had conflicting things because you would also have someone in government, you know, almost bragging about the fact that, you know, look, we're getting this disinformation taken down during the pandemic.

01:04:49.000 And so, yeah, Zuckerberg coming out and making this statement, I agree with you, it is huge.

01:04:56.000 It's sort of Zuckerberg going, eh, what are you going to do?

01:04:59.000 We're going to do better next time.

01:05:01.000 Well, he said, we're not going to engage in that anymore.

01:05:03.000 We're going to push back.

01:05:03.000 And he said, they're not going to promote one side or the other.

01:05:08.000 There's a brilliant thought. 0.95

01:05:09.000 Crazy.

01:05:10.000 Yeah.

01:05:11.000 Crazy.

01:05:11.000 Oh, my God.

01:05:12.000 Really?

01:05:12.000 So you run a free speech platform and you're not going to promote one or the other.

01:05:16.000 Well, what a fucking douchebag to now come up with the idea, right? 0.99

01:05:21.000 And I'm sure he's a smart fellow. 1.00

01:05:23.000 He's a smart fellow, but I think he's also in an enormous corporation.

01:05:27.000 And it's not like he's the only guy pulling strings over there.

01:05:30.000 Yeah, I'm sure that's true.

01:05:31.000 That's like when Musk took over Twitter.

01:05:35.000 And you had a lot of people jump and ship just, oh, I'm so upset.

01:05:38.000 Because now I can't engage in this censorship that I've been engaged in.

01:05:42.000 Yeah, exactly.

01:05:43.000 But it is a cesspool over there now. 1.00

01:05:46.000 You see some wild shit on Twitter, but you have to see the horrible shit if you want to see everything. 1.00

01:05:53.000 If you want to see everything, that means even things you don't agree with and don't like. 1.00

01:05:57.000 That's part of free speech.

01:05:58.000 And this is what Musk has been saying, and I 100% agree with him.

01:06:02.000 And I wonder where we would be if he hadn't bought Twitter.

01:06:05.000 I really do.

01:06:06.000 Because there wouldn't be a platform like that where anybody can freely talk about anything and not worry about being Your account getting taken down and getting in trouble with the government.

01:06:17.000 Yeah.

01:06:17.000 I mean, I don't think people would have migrated en masse to what's Trump's thing?

01:06:21.000 Truth Social.

01:06:22.000 That didn't work.

01:06:23.000 That didn't work out.

01:06:24.000 He's got 90 million followers, I read, on X now.

01:06:28.000 Oh yeah, he's back on X. But he's already up to 90 million.

01:06:31.000 Yeah, it's not shocking.

01:06:33.000 And you look at polls on X, and they've done, I think Musk might have done one.

01:06:38.000 I think there's a few of them.

01:06:39.000 It's like 73% said they're voting for Trump.

01:06:42.000 But you look on the polls that you see on television, Harris is ahead.

01:06:47.000 About three points or four points.

01:06:48.000 Exactly.

01:06:49.000 I was going to say, it's neck and neck, or Trump may have a two-point or three-point lead in a place like Georgia, but for the most part, she's pulled even and is slightly ahead.

01:06:58.000 Yeah.

01:06:59.000 Yeah. 0.99

01:07:00.000 But who the fuck are they polling? 0.99

01:07:02.000 This is the problem. 0.99

01:07:03.000 Yeah.

01:07:04.000 Again, and...

01:07:07.000 There were a lot of people arguing about how accurate any polling is anymore.

01:07:11.000 Well, look, in 2016, it wasn't accurate at all, right?

01:07:14.000 Because Hillary Clinton was like 84% to win. 1.00

01:07:16.000 Well, somebody knocks on your door, they call you up and say, are you going to vote for Trump?

01:07:19.000 You know, there's a lot of people out there that, you know, may decide, okay, I'm going to vote for Trump, but I'm not going to tell you I'm going to vote for Trump.

01:07:25.000 No, I would never vote for him.

01:07:27.000 No, that seems unreasonable.

01:07:28.000 So, yeah, again, I don't know that you can trust a lot of the polls for either side.

01:07:34.000 Right.

01:07:34.000 But I will say there's going to be one unhappy group regardless of the result.

01:07:38.000 That's what I'm scared of.

01:07:39.000 I'm scared of the violence.

01:07:41.000 I'm scared that whichever side loses, they might erupt. 1.00

01:07:46.000 They just got to keep their shit together. 1.00

01:07:48.000 But I think even above and beyond, if people can do that and keep their shit together and not get into a violent situation, we're still going to be dealing then with four years of Of just dysfunctional bullshit, right? 1.00

01:08:03.000 From one side or the other. 0.99

01:08:04.000 Right.

01:08:05.000 Just harping on this and people having investigations and committees up on Capitol Hill.

01:08:09.000 And you get to this point where it's just paralysis.

01:08:12.000 Right. 1.00

01:08:12.000 Shit doesn't get done. 1.00

01:08:14.000 And, you know, I don't know. 1.00

01:08:16.000 I think this one...

01:08:18.000 I say this and then I piss off a lot of people who are very pro-Trump, but I'm really worried that...

01:08:24.000 You know, because again, I... I don't have a dog in the hunt for either individual.

01:08:29.000 I just like policies, right?

01:08:30.000 And particularly I like national security issues and homeland security concerns and things like that.

01:08:35.000 You can't really argue that the Republicans are the party of small government or fiscal responsibility anymore.

01:08:41.000 But I think certainly for border concerns, for national security, I'm definitely on that side.

01:08:49.000 So I'm worried that, you know, Trump is, he's got a ceiling, right?

01:08:56.000 He's got all the people who are always going to vote for him.

01:08:59.000 There's no doubt about that.

01:09:00.000 But you don't really have to care about them.

01:09:01.000 I mean, you do care about them, but you don't have to worry about them, right?

01:09:05.000 That ceiling only gets higher and allows him to win if he gets some of those moderates and the undecideds.

01:09:11.000 Well, I think that's where RFK Jr. comes in.

01:09:14.000 It could be.

01:09:16.000 And Tulsi Gabbard now as well.

01:09:17.000 Tulsi Gabbard, yeah.

01:09:18.000 What do you think about that?

01:09:19.000 That's interesting.

01:09:19.000 It's pretty powerful.

01:09:20.000 Yeah.

01:09:21.000 I mean, a Democrat, Senator, she was a Congresswoman for eight years. 0.79

01:09:27.000 I think she could actually move to Nita more than RFK Jr. But she definitely moves to Nita. 1.00

01:09:32.000 And I think maybe either one of those would be a great choice for Vice President, which I was kind of surprised she went with Vance. 0.88

01:09:38.000 I think Trump and RFK Jr. together would be a wild ticket.

01:09:43.000 That's a wild ticket.

01:09:44.000 It would definitely be a wild ticket.

01:09:45.000 That's a wild ticket.

01:09:47.000 I don't know that it would have opened the door for a victory.

01:09:51.000 Look, I like RFK Jr. because I think that he believes what he believes, and that's hard to find anymore.

01:09:58.000 I always said this about Bernie Sanders, which is crazy, but I at least appreciate the fact that Bernie Sanders is consistent in his socialist beliefs.

01:10:08.000 But I think...

01:10:12.000 Was J.D. Vance the best choice?

01:10:14.000 Eh, I don't know.

01:10:16.000 I mean, he's Ohio.

01:10:17.000 Were we in danger of losing Ohio?

01:10:19.000 I don't think so, but...

01:10:21.000 I think Trump likes a weak middle act.

01:10:24.000 I don't think, you know, as a headliner, I don't think he wants someone to upstage him.

01:10:28.000 You know?

01:10:29.000 It's like a lot of comics like that.

01:10:31.000 They take a guy in the row with him.

01:10:32.000 You want him to do okay, but not great.

01:10:35.000 Exactly.

01:10:36.000 I don't want to be back there and hear this standing ovation.

01:10:39.000 Yeah, Ron White will fire a strong middle act.

01:10:43.000 He's open about it.

01:10:45.000 He talks about it all the time.

01:10:47.000 I want to be the funniest person on that stage, and if I'm not, you gotta go.

01:10:53.000 I love the honesty.

01:10:55.000 So maybe that was it, but I was puzzled.

01:10:59.000 I thought he might pick a female for his running mate. 0.99

01:11:02.000 Yeah, I thought so, too, maybe.

01:11:03.000 But I think maybe he's worried about, you know, some Republican men don't want a female.

01:11:09.000 Or some people that are on the fence don't want a female. 1.00

01:11:11.000 Yeah.

01:11:12.000 It depends if it's a hot female. 1.00

01:11:14.000 Like who?

01:11:16.000 Scarlett Johansson.

01:11:17.000 Whoa.

01:11:18.000 I don't think she's voting Republican.

01:11:19.000 Oh, yeah.

01:11:20.000 Good point.

01:11:22.000 She's not going to flop over to the other side. 1.00

01:11:24.000 Who's like a hot Republican female that's famous? 1.00

01:11:30.000 Amber Rose.

01:11:31.000 She's all pro-Trump now.

01:11:32.000 Never heard of her.

01:11:33.000 You don't know who she is? 0.91

01:11:34.000 No.

01:11:35.000 Sydney Sweeney.

01:11:37.000 Is Sydney Sweeney a Republican?

01:11:38.000 I doubt it.

01:11:39.000 She just hosted SNL. But meanwhile, Trump did at one point in time, too.

01:11:42.000 Yeah, yeah.

01:11:43.000 That's what's really crazy when you watch Trump on The View from like 2015 when they all loved him.

01:11:47.000 Yeah, that's right.

01:11:48.000 Played that the other day.

01:11:49.000 Fantastic.

01:11:50.000 It's nuts.

01:11:51.000 They're all like being cute with them.

01:11:54.000 How about Oprah?

01:11:55.000 Oprah was talking about her and Trump running together.

01:11:57.000 Yeah.

01:11:58.000 I know.

01:11:59.000 And now she's speaking to the DNC that he's a threat to democracy.

01:12:02.000 It's gonna end it.

01:12:03.000 And she's up there talking about income inequality.

01:12:05.000 Like, hey lady. 0.98

01:12:06.000 Yeah, I know. 1.00

01:12:07.000 You're rich as fuck. 1.00

01:12:09.000 Like, how is that equal? 1.00

01:12:11.000 And also, when Michelle Obama was saying, you know, I think she was saying her mother or grandmother was always suspicious of people who took more than they needed.

01:12:19.000 Like, you're worth so much money!

01:12:22.000 I'm kidding me.

01:12:23.000 That's so crazy.

01:12:25.000 God.

01:12:25.000 You did it on a civil servant's salary, which is insane.

01:12:28.000 Oh, they all do, right?

01:12:29.000 Yeah.

01:12:29.000 Look at, you know, I haven't seen the latest figures, but I'd love to know the current personal wealth of AOC. You know, the bartender who turned congresswoman.

01:12:41.000 Probably doing pretty well.

01:12:42.000 I think she's doing quite well.

01:12:43.000 Ilhan Omar.

01:12:45.000 I think they're all doing fairly well.

01:12:46.000 Even, to be fair, Bernie Sanders, who I just said stood on principle.

01:12:49.000 But, you know, hey, he's making bank.

01:12:53.000 Yeah, I... I don't know.

01:12:55.000 Maybe I'm drawing a blank on hot Republican women other than my wife. 1.00

01:13:02.000 Want to see a picture of Amber Rose?

01:13:03.000 Sure!

01:13:04.000 Show them Amber Rose.

01:13:05.000 Oh, I thought you were going to show me your phone.

01:13:06.000 No!

01:13:08.000 I didn't know where you were going with that.

01:13:10.000 Take out a piece of a photograph that you tore out of a magazine.

01:13:13.000 What does she do? 1.00

01:13:15.000 What is her actual job, Jamie?

01:13:17.000 She had a baby with Wiz Khalifa.

01:13:20.000 I would say you could call her a model probably. 1.00

01:13:22.000 A model.

01:13:22.000 Influencer model.

01:13:23.000 Okay.

01:13:24.000 Influencer slash model.

01:13:26.000 Maybe model first, influencer second.

01:13:29.000 Does she have vlogger? 0.97

01:13:30.000 Here, that's a thing.

01:13:31.000 She's got a forehead tattoo.

01:13:33.000 What does it say?

01:13:35.000 Bash Stash.

01:13:36.000 No regrets.

01:13:37.000 Something Slash.

01:13:39.000 It says Bash Stash.

01:13:40.000 Slash.

01:13:41.000 Slash.

01:13:42.000 Bash.

01:13:43.000 Slash.

01:13:44.000 Anyway, pretty hot.

01:13:46.000 Yeah.

01:13:47.000 Well, no, for sure.

01:13:48.000 I'm not sure about the forehead tattoo, though.

01:13:50.000 Yeah, I think that's got to go, but they can laser that off later.

01:13:53.000 But she likes Trump.

01:13:55.000 So that might be the hottest one currently available.

01:13:59.000 Okay.

01:14:00.000 Oh, she spoke at the RNC. Look at her there. 0.99

01:14:03.000 Okay.

01:14:04.000 Pretty hot.

01:14:05.000 Yeah.

01:14:05.000 There you go.

01:14:06.000 Look, her forehead tattoo was in cursive. 0.99

01:14:08.000 So, you know, there was some tattoo artist out there who still knows cursive.

01:14:11.000 Back in the day.

01:14:12.000 Yeah.

01:14:13.000 Probably an older guy.

01:14:15.000 Some grizzled guy with a Popeye on his arm.

01:14:18.000 Yeah.

01:14:19.000 Yeah.

01:14:19.000 Anyway, Middle East on fire.

01:14:23.000 Yeah.

01:14:23.000 I wish we'd probably talk about that a little bit, maybe.

01:14:26.000 Yeah, yeah. 1.00

01:14:26.000 Fucking Middle East. 1.00

01:14:27.000 Yeah, well, obviously there's Gaza, but there's also a lot of hot spots popping off. 1.00

01:14:35.000 Yeah. 0.53

01:14:36.000 Yeah, there's a shit ton of hot spots going on right now, and it's all down to Iran. 1.00

01:14:42.000 I think we've talked about this once or twice before, and I think I've been accused of promoting regime change, which I'm not.

01:14:48.000 I'm saying, well, okay, I am.

01:14:50.000 But it should happen inside, right, from within.

01:14:53.000 And you'd like to think that one day, and I'm sure that every administration in the U.S. for decades now has been imagining that it would happen, that it'd be a popular uprising that would actually change the regime.

01:15:05.000 And then you might actually get something that could resemble long-term peace.

01:15:11.000 But right now, all this crap that's happening related to Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, Islamic Jihad, militias in Iraq and Syria, it's all down to Iran. 0.87

01:15:26.000 And just over the past four days, this past weekend, Hezbollah and Israel had the largest exchange of fire that they've had in ages.

01:15:41.000 And you have to go back to actual war between the two.

01:15:47.000 And I will say, this is the amazing thing.

01:15:49.000 And this is why I think people always say, well, how come Iran hasn't retaliated for the death of Ishmael Hanyeh when they took him out in Tehran?

01:15:58.000 Part of me thinks that the reason they haven't is because that operation to take out Chania in Tehran, he was in a safe house on an IRGC compound in Tehran, right?

01:16:09.000 So you would imagine that's a pretty secure place, right?

01:16:13.000 It's pretty buttoned up and it's a safe house that Chania had been to in the past on a handful of occasions.

01:16:19.000 So The idea that Mossad and other elements of Israeli intelligence could develop assets in Tehran within the IRGC that allowed them to carry out that operation,

01:16:37.000 if they did, I'm not saying they did, but if they did, It's remarkable and it shows the depth of their abilities in terms of identifying targets for possible recruitment and then working those targets and then recruiting them and then tasking them.

01:16:53.000 You had to get inside a safe house in an IRGC-guarded compound in Tehran.

01:16:59.000 They had to have assets who were willing to walk in there with explosive devices, because there's more than one, and put them in there.

01:17:06.000 Those folks, you know, got off the X. They got out of country, you know, you would think.

01:17:12.000 And they had to have a trigger there.

01:17:15.000 They still had to have an asset who could say, you know, go or no go, because Kanye is now is back in the safe house at, you know, midnight or 1 a.m.

01:17:22.000 or 2 a.m.

01:17:23.000 And so it's time to, you know, cross the red wire with the green wire.

01:17:28.000 And...

01:17:30.000 That's, you know, amazing.

01:17:32.000 And so I think, in part, that has completely, you know, freaked out.

01:17:37.000 Maybe it says, how old am I? Freaked out.

01:17:40.000 They're so freaked out.

01:17:42.000 The Iranian leadership and the IRGC, they don't know what the depth of that penetration is by Mossad and others.

01:17:48.000 And so the idea that, you know, this is happening, and I guess the point there is, Then you look at what they did to the Hezbollah commander, Fuad Shukr, in Beirut.

01:18:01.000 Getting him to move, he was in a building, a multi-story building, and they wanted him to move up to his residence, which was on the top floor.

01:18:08.000 And he was in his office, which was, I think, the second floor of that building.

01:18:12.000 And they were able to orchestrate a call To get him to go up to the top deck so he could be an easier target and they could minimize casualties and took him out.

01:18:25.000 So now you've got that ability.

01:18:28.000 You've got that sort of thing going on.

01:18:29.000 How did they do that?

01:18:32.000 Well, you have to have assets.

01:18:34.000 You have to recruit people who are in a position to be able to do that, who have access, who can tell you things, who can identify something as simple as, you know, his routine.

01:18:43.000 You know, he typically goes upstairs to the top deck at 7 o'clock or whatever.

01:18:48.000 Or you have to have someone who's willing and has got access to make that call to get him to go upstairs.

01:18:54.000 And how'd they get him when he went upstairs?

01:18:56.000 Drone strike.

01:18:59.000 And drones have completely changed the game.

01:19:03.000 Everything.

01:19:04.000 But then, this massive barrage that took place over the weekend between Hezbollah and Israel.

01:19:13.000 Amazingly, the leader of Hezbollah, a fellow named Nasrallah, he has said, in the wake of that, he's talked about their attack, and he said that the timing of it was a quarter after 5 in the morning.

01:19:30.000 5.15 in the morning, we're going to launch this barrage.

01:19:33.000 At 4.55 in the morning, Israel sends about 100 jets Over the border to attack launch sites, right? 0.55

01:19:41.000 So once again, they had this intelligence, this advanced knowledge, right?

01:19:45.000 So I think that and a variety of other hits that they've been able to accomplish, Muhammad Deef and some of these other characters.

01:19:55.000 I think that the Iranian regime and the RGC, they're just, right now, there's a level of paranoia.

01:20:00.000 It's like the old IRA days. 0.95

01:20:01.000 The IRA was worried about infiltration, you know, back in the Troubles.

01:20:05.000 And it created a lot of infighting, right?

01:20:08.000 It created a lot of disappearances.

01:20:10.000 And you're getting that, too.

01:20:15.000 A number of IRGC people were interrogated about, you know, they were trying to figure out where's the leaks here.

01:20:22.000 And that just leads to an ever-widening circle of interrogations and disappearances.

01:20:30.000 So, and that infighting, I'm not saying it's bad.

01:20:34.000 You know, it's like getting a cartel to infight, right?

01:20:37.000 Start killing each other.

01:20:39.000 Anyway, so that's one thing that I'm thinking, because people are always asking, how come Iran hasn't retaliated for the Hanye hit yet?

01:20:47.000 And part of it is also, I think they're worried about legitimately getting into a direct conflict with Israel.

01:20:53.000 They understand that the U.S., regardless of where the Biden administration may be and how less they would like not to be in that conflict, they're going to have to be in the conflict.

01:21:01.000 And so Iran can't win that.

01:21:03.000 And so I think they're worried about that as well.

01:21:05.000 So there's reasons behind it.

01:21:06.000 But, you know, there's a lot going on.

01:21:10.000 Israel's just launched a massive operation in West Bank.

01:21:16.000 So they're up in the northern portion of the West Bank going after militants up there.

01:21:19.000 And Hamas and Islamic Jihad and some others operate in the West Bank, even though the Palestinian Authority runs it.

01:21:26.000 So they're up north.

01:21:28.000 They've just moved in overnight, basically.

01:21:31.000 And they're going after terrorist elements up there.

01:21:35.000 But Iran has been shoving weapons into the West Bank, you know, because what they want to do is, if you think about where Israel is, you think about Gaza's on the west side, Hezbollah's up north, West Bank's over on the east.

01:21:47.000 They want to create more of a front on the east side, right?

01:21:50.000 And they basically got them You know, engulfed, right?

01:21:54.000 And so they want to, they've been funneling weapons and resources into the West Bank for, well, for several years.

01:22:01.000 They've got smuggling routes going through Lebanon, going through Syria, going through Jordan. 0.98

01:22:07.000 So I guess my point being, all this shit is down to the Iranian regime and the IRGC. So when people talk about, we've got to get a ceasefire, we've got to work for a lasting peace. 0.98

01:22:17.000 Unless you get rid of those guys, there's no lasting peace.

01:22:19.000 Now, what happened during when Biden was in office, I guess he's kind of still in office, where they released somewhere in the neighborhood of $6 billion to Iran that they had tied up?

01:22:36.000 Yeah.

01:22:36.000 Yeah, they released it.

01:22:38.000 And their point was, well, we're controlling it.

01:22:41.000 We're not really releasing it.

01:22:42.000 It's sitting over in Qatar.

01:22:45.000 And it can be used for humanitarian purposes only.

01:22:48.000 And we're doing that in part because, look, they've had a policy of appeasement towards Iran for the entire Biden administration.

01:22:56.000 And, you know, they've been desperate and they've been very open about wanting to get back into the, you know, the 2015 nuclear agreement that was created under the Obama administration.

01:23:11.000 But the idea is, look, they essentially gave $6 billion, they advised the Iranian regime that you now have $6 billion available to you for humanitarian purposes, which, you know, it's all fungible, so it frees up other money, right,

01:23:26.000 that they can now use to Help to resource the Houthis or help to resource Hezbollah or Hamas.

01:23:33.000 They don't make a secret of it, right?

01:23:35.000 It's like Putin talking about how he wants to recreate the old Soviet Union in some fashion.

01:23:40.000 The Iranian regime has stated over and over again they want the destruction of Israel.

01:23:44.000 And that's why they built up all these terrorist elements.

01:23:47.000 They've got the same objective because their puppet master is Iran. 0.99

01:23:50.000 I don't want to oversimplify this, but it's not that hard to oversimplify because it's just the way it is.

01:23:58.000 Iran is at the top of this thing and they're causing all of this instability because ultimately they want to see Israel removed from the map. 1.00

01:24:08.000 Which sounds to me like genocide, but, you know, it's Israel that's constantly accused of genocide.

01:24:14.000 They're driving the narrative.

01:24:15.000 The other side, Palestinian supporters and others have been very good at driving the narrative.

01:24:21.000 And so, I don't know. 0.99

01:24:23.000 So, anyway, point being, is the Middle East is a bit of a fucked up mess. 1.00

01:24:27.000 It is a bit of a fucked up mess. 1.00

01:24:28.000 And it's kind of always a fucked up mess. 0.99

01:24:31.000 There's never been a time in my life where you weren't worried about something popping off in the Middle East. 1.00

01:24:36.000 Yeah.

01:24:36.000 Well, in part because we've had the same bad actors there with the same objective for all these years, right?

01:24:42.000 And...

01:24:44.000 There's no indication that that's going to change anytime soon, right?

01:24:48.000 I mean, nobody wants to get in the game anymore of regime change.

01:24:54.000 It never seems to work out so good.

01:24:56.000 It's a problem sometimes.

01:24:58.000 Oh, God.

01:24:59.000 Yeah.

01:25:00.000 Nobody ever says Libya, right?

01:25:01.000 So I give you a lot of credit because nobody ever talks about Libya anymore.

01:25:04.000 It's a hot mess.

01:25:06.000 And we kind of agreed with the French and Italians to go in there and get rid of Gaddafi, even though he was, you know, for a while, he was helping us out in counterterrorism.

01:25:15.000 I don't want to make more than that that it is, but, you know, he was there and he would provide some assistance related to counterterrorism.

01:25:24.000 Suddenly it would say, oh, sure, we'll help the French and Italians.

01:25:26.000 They were the only ones with any national interests in Libya to speak of.

01:25:30.000 And now it's a disaster.

01:25:31.000 What did Qaddafi do to piss them off?

01:25:33.000 Well...

01:25:36.000 God, I'm having a Biden moment.

01:25:39.000 You'd have to go back and I'd have to look and see what they were arguing about.

01:25:44.000 There has to be something with money.

01:25:45.000 Yeah, I'm sure it was.

01:25:47.000 Look, Libya has been kind of a... 0.96

01:25:50.000 The revenue stream coming out of Libya, such as it is for oil and gas, has always been...

01:25:58.000 Mostly in the hands of the French, the Italians, their oil companies, so Total and others.

01:26:05.000 I think right now, the place has 130 plus tribes.

01:26:12.000 There's no central government.

01:26:13.000 It's a massive place, right, to be fair.

01:26:16.000 There's no central government.

01:26:17.000 There's warring factions now constantly.

01:26:20.000 But I guess the point being that nobody ever talks about it anymore.

01:26:23.000 Yeah.

01:26:24.000 So we just disappear.

01:26:25.000 We just let it go.

01:26:26.000 It's like Afghanistan. 0.99

01:26:27.000 I'm tired of it. 1.00

01:26:28.000 Let's get the fuck out. 0.97

01:26:29.000 It really got highlighted for two very specific reasons. 0.97

01:26:32.000 One, the Hillary Clinton moment where she was being interviewed and she got a phone call or a text message saying that there is apparently an un...

01:26:42.000 It wasn't completely confirmed, an unconfirmed report that Gaddafi had been captured.

01:26:50.000 Mm-hmm.

01:26:50.000 And then he was dead.

01:26:52.000 And so while she's doing the thing, we came, we saw he died, and she's laughing.

01:26:56.000 Which is just a terrible look for anybody.

01:27:02.000 Forget about someone who's the Secretary of State, but someone who...

01:27:06.000 It's a person who's talking about some guy that they just had killed, and she's laughing.

01:27:12.000 It was just a crazy moment. 0.99

01:27:13.000 So then everybody's like, well, what the fuck happened in Libya? 1.00

01:27:16.000 And then there was the video of Qaddafi actually being captured by the rebels where they stick that bayonet up his ass, and they're like, yo. 1.00

01:27:23.000 Yeah, yeah. 0.99

01:27:24.000 Like, that is a crazy video.

01:27:27.000 It's like hanging Mussolini upside down and, you know, beating him.

01:27:30.000 We don't have high-res photos of that.

01:27:32.000 We don't have video.

01:27:34.000 The video is crazy.

01:27:35.000 When they're parading him around, you see the look in his eyes when he knows it's over, when they've got him.

01:27:40.000 Well, look, I mean, he was nobody's idea of a benevolent leader.

01:27:43.000 Yeah, there he is right there.

01:27:44.000 They're beating him up.

01:27:45.000 See if you can get the video.

01:27:47.000 The video is what's crazy. 0.99

01:27:50.000 The look in his eyes, the fucking terror in that guy's eyes. 0.99

01:27:54.000 What's the real reason why they killed Muammar Gaddafi? 0.99

01:28:00.000 If you could just go to videos or anything of it?

01:28:02.000 It was a bunch of other videos.

01:28:04.000 That's why it looked like it was people doing their own commentary on it.

01:28:08.000 Yeah. 1.00

01:28:11.000 Killed by a bullet in the stomach and a bayonet up his ass. 1.00

01:28:17.000 Yeah, it's a crazy video, man. 1.00

01:28:19.000 The video is very strange.

01:28:20.000 Who shot Gaddafi?

01:28:21.000 Probably everybody shot him eventually.

01:28:25.000 Interesting.

01:28:30.000 Well, video certainly exists.

01:28:32.000 You'd probably get it on Telegram, of all places.

01:28:34.000 Which is where I would go. 0.89

01:28:36.000 That's where I'd go if, like, when there was Ukraine footage, a lot of crazy shit that you could see, you'd get it on Telegram, because they wouldn't censor it.

01:28:45.000 And I don't exactly know how Telegram works, because I don't use it that much, but I guess you could start a channel, and then anybody can kind of go to your channel, and you could post things.

01:28:54.000 Is this it right here?

01:28:55.000 Yeah, this is it.

01:28:59.000 Decoding Qaddafi's death.

01:29:01.000 I can help you with that. 0.98

01:29:04.000 So this is just them having him captured and he's bleeding and they're beating the shit out of him.

01:29:14.000 Yeah, they're not...

01:29:16.000 Are they showing the thing or are you doing that?

01:29:18.000 I'm not doing it.

01:29:19.000 It's all in stop motion.

01:29:19.000 So it's almost like stop motion video.

01:29:22.000 I think someone's probably talking.

01:29:23.000 It says decoding the thing.

01:29:26.000 This is the end when he's already dead.

01:29:28.000 That video that said the real reason.

01:29:32.000 Suggestions say he was trying to start a global currency for Africa or something. 0.99

01:29:36.000 Ah, well, that'll get you killed. 0.99

01:29:38.000 Yeah. 0.96

01:29:38.000 That's why I never got into that project. 0.96

01:29:42.000 Yeah, fuck all that. 1.00

01:29:43.000 Holy shit. 1.00

01:29:44.000 Yeah, fuck that. 1.00

01:29:46.000 But, yeah, I mean, to that point, we do tend to, you know, get in, get out. 1.00

01:29:53.000 There might be a mess left behind.

01:29:54.000 Yeah, it never works out well.

01:29:56.000 Yeah.

01:29:57.000 I mean, even Iraq.

01:29:58.000 Look at Iraq. 0.93

01:29:59.000 The chaos, the fact that they didn't know that the Sunnis and the Shias were going to fight is nuts. 0.98

01:30:06.000 How do you not understand there's two competing factors of Islam that are there?

01:30:11.000 Or the idea that we would think, okay, well, I guess the Taliban is going to keep their promise and they're going to worry about women's rights. 0.86

01:30:17.000 That's important for them.

01:30:18.000 Yeah, that's been one of their cornerstones.

01:30:21.000 Well, what's really important, we left them $6 billion worth of weapons.

01:30:25.000 When they had that parade the other day when they're flying around?

01:30:28.000 A lot more than that in terms of monetary value. 0.99

01:30:32.000 I mean, shit, you could go upwards of maybe $80 billion in gear. 0.99

01:30:36.000 Really? 1.00

01:30:37.000 All in, right?

01:30:38.000 All in.

01:30:40.000 When they had a parade the other day and they got tanks and Blackhawks, you're like, what?

01:30:44.000 Yeah.

01:30:45.000 So they know how to fly that stuff?

01:30:47.000 So maybe, who knows, maybe they'll ask that tomorrow night.

01:30:51.000 Because I think it was Biden who said that- Yeah, here it is.

01:30:54.000 Here's their parade.

01:30:56.000 It's like... 1.00

01:30:57.000 This is fucking bananas. 1.00

01:31:01.000 This is all our stuff. 1.00

01:31:03.000 And they're all driving around with our stuff with fucking missiles. 1.00

01:31:06.000 Like, they have missiles? 1.00

01:31:08.000 They didn't have missiles.

01:31:10.000 Now they do? 1.00

01:31:12.000 This is fucking bananas. 0.99

01:31:13.000 The fact that this is all our gear. 0.99

01:31:15.000 Taxpayers paid for all this stuff.

01:31:17.000 They keep it in pretty good shape, too.

01:31:19.000 Looks good.

01:31:20.000 Nice white walls.

01:31:21.000 Look at that.

01:31:22.000 Clean tires, armored.

01:31:26.000 Well, it's a parade, you know. 1.00

01:31:27.000 What the fuck? 1.00

01:31:28.000 It's a parade. 1.00

01:31:28.000 What the fuck? 1.00

01:31:29.000 They have so much stuff. 1.00

01:31:30.000 God damn it. 0.99

01:31:31.000 That's so crazy that these people were basically like tribal mountain warlords and now they've got Blackhawks. 0.99

01:31:36.000 Yeah, yeah.

01:31:37.000 Well, again, going back to at the beginning and what kind of interview we're going to be looking at for tomorrow evening with Harrison Walls.

01:31:45.000 You'd like to think that they say, look, you've been here now for a while, and you've been around, and you've kind of seen a lot.

01:31:54.000 Would you like to talk about the Afghan withdrawal, maybe?

01:31:57.000 Just talk about what's your policy towards the Middle East?

01:32:01.000 Ask some serious, legitimate questions, but who knows?

01:32:05.000 Again, I hope that happens.

01:32:06.000 I just don't think it will.

01:32:08.000 I think they picked this for a reason.

01:32:10.000 Yeah, I think this is going to be a nice little softball pitch.

01:32:14.000 Nice and underhand lobs.

01:32:18.000 We know where the ball's coming.

01:32:20.000 You knock it out of the park.

01:32:22.000 They're game planning right now, planning it out.

01:32:25.000 Yeah, I just...

01:32:26.000 Again, it's the lack of...

01:32:30.000 It's that thing.

01:32:31.000 I understand it.

01:32:33.000 I keep saying the same thing.

01:32:34.000 I get it.

01:32:35.000 Their argument is always the same.

01:32:36.000 But Trump. 0.99

01:32:39.000 But you would think, okay, set that fucking thing aside for a minute and ask yourself, is this the best choice you've got? 0.99

01:32:47.000 Does this make sense compared to what you thought a month and a half ago? 0.99

01:32:50.000 But now, again, they're very good at this.

01:32:52.000 So that's the thought I have, is if the Republicans think somehow...

01:32:57.000 And they thought it was a cakewalk, right?

01:32:59.000 When it was Biden, to be fair, it was.

01:33:03.000 Everything got real complicated after she had that one good speech.

01:33:07.000 Yep, yep.

01:33:08.000 Because that's all people need to see.

01:33:10.000 Someone who seems younger, more vital, and acts presidential.

01:33:13.000 Right.

01:33:14.000 Or acts like a leader.

01:33:15.000 Yeah.

01:33:16.000 Yeah, that's the part I'm having a hard time with.

01:33:19.000 A leader.

01:33:20.000 Well, just act like one in this small speech, and most people are low-information voters.

01:33:26.000 Right?

01:33:26.000 Wouldn't you think the majority of people are headline readers?

01:33:29.000 They're not reading the whole article.

01:33:30.000 Low information voters.

01:33:33.000 Yeah, well, and certainly, yeah, you're right.

01:33:38.000 You get consumed with this, right?

01:33:40.000 But then you have to assume that the vast majority of people, to your point, don't, right?

01:33:44.000 They take a couple of headlines, they take a couple of things, and they go, fine, I've made my choice.

01:33:49.000 I can't be bothered to think about it anymore because it's fucking boring, or I've got too much else to do, I've got to put food on the table.

01:33:55.000 So, yeah, I suppose so.

01:33:58.000 Yeah, and they're also, ideologically, they're committed to a team.

01:34:03.000 And it's very difficult to get people to switch teams.

01:34:06.000 Especially when the guy on the other side is someone like Trump.

01:34:10.000 You know, if you have someone who's, like, a little bit more balanced, like Vivek.

01:34:15.000 Let's say Trump didn't exist and Vivek makes it to...

01:34:18.000 That's a much more reasonable person for most people.

01:34:23.000 He's got great temperament.

01:34:24.000 He's really good at staying calm in the middle of heated debates and recognizing a person's point and then adding on to it.

01:34:32.000 I think he's amazing at it.

01:34:34.000 Yeah.

01:34:35.000 He's much more...

01:34:35.000 He sounds more familiar in the sense that he's eloquent about when he talks.

01:34:42.000 I was surprised that Trump didn't pick him as VP. Yeah, yeah.

01:34:45.000 Maybe he didn't want to.

01:34:46.000 He said he didn't want to be VP. Maybe he's telling the truth.

01:34:48.000 Maybe he wants to be president and he feels like this is not the time if he doesn't get the nomination.

01:34:53.000 Yeah, yeah.

01:34:54.000 That guy's brilliant.

01:34:55.000 I think he said that.

01:34:56.000 Didn't Trump say that he's going to put Gabbard and RFK Jr. on his campaign, on his advisory?

01:35:05.000 Something.

01:35:05.000 It was more than just like an advisor or something.

01:35:07.000 It was a fairly senior role in the campaign.

01:35:11.000 Yeah.

01:35:12.000 Well, they're out there with him.

01:35:13.000 Yeah.

01:35:14.000 So it seems like that's the case.

01:35:16.000 And that's a wise move on his part.

01:35:18.000 Yeah.

01:35:19.000 You know, because they're dealing with a massive propaganda machine that's been propped up to support Kamala.

01:35:25.000 And they've done it in a weird way where they were just a few months ago talking about her as being a problem.

01:35:33.000 She was a liability at one point.

01:35:35.000 Oh, yeah.

01:35:36.000 No, for quite a long time.

01:35:37.000 They openly discussed her as a liability.

01:35:40.000 Yeah.

01:35:41.000 And just in a short period of time, if all you do is look at what she's saying in a limited fashion, because she hasn't said much, about her positions on things, compared to what she did say, again, same thing.

01:35:56.000 Leading into this interview, you would think that's a lot of fodder for the person that's handling the interview, Dana Bash or whoever.

01:36:02.000 Yeah.

01:36:03.000 To say, well, okay, wait a minute.

01:36:04.000 You were all in on pick something.

01:36:07.000 Oh, tax on tips.

01:36:08.000 Tax on tips, yeah.

01:36:09.000 She was the deciding vote where they were going to go after waitresses for taxes on tips. 1.00

01:36:15.000 He comes along and says, I'm not going to tax tips.

01:36:19.000 And then she comes along just a short...

01:36:22.000 Time period afterwards.

01:36:24.000 And parrots the exact same things that he said.

01:36:26.000 And now the most recent one, she's going to build a border wall. 1.00

01:36:30.000 She's going to build a border wall. 1.00

01:36:31.000 She's all in on the border wall.

01:36:32.000 You know, $685 million, you know, get that done.

01:36:36.000 When she had called it a complete scam and waste of taxpayer money just a handful of years ago, she was all in on EVs, right?

01:36:44.000 We're going to get rid of fossil fuels. 1.00

01:36:45.000 You're not going to be able to drive that fucking gas truck. 1.00

01:36:50.000 Somebody smashed into my truck, by the way, the other day. 1.00

01:36:52.000 Yeah, I just got completely T-boned.

01:36:55.000 This guy just pulled out into the road, didn't even look.

01:36:57.000 I was staring at him.

01:36:58.000 Probably on his phone.

01:36:59.000 Watch his TikToks about Kamala Harris.

01:37:02.000 God, I love that Kamala Harris. 1.00

01:37:04.000 And then he just, bam, right into my truck.

01:37:06.000 And I swerved.

01:37:07.000 Luckily, there was nobody on my left-hand side, but I swerved so I wouldn't hit him head-on, you know, engine block to engine block.

01:37:13.000 So he caught the right driver's side front panel, and because I was swerving, it just took the whole side of that truck, because he was still going.

01:37:21.000 Was this in Idaho?

01:37:22.000 This was in Idaho, yeah.

01:37:23.000 Normally, I always think we've got great drivers in Idaho, but anyway, so that happened.

01:37:28.000 How was the interaction between you and the guy?

01:37:30.000 I was really angry.

01:37:32.000 I was really angry. 0.91

01:37:33.000 I pulled over, and he pulled over, and I was fucking livid because I could look at him, but I was moving. 0.84

01:37:40.000 I was doing about 35 miles on a decent-sized road, right? 0.84

01:37:44.000 And there's two lanes on that road and two lanes on the other side going the opposite direction.

01:37:47.000 And he just didn't even bother to say he was going to exit and come out onto the road and join the traffic.

01:37:52.000 He just didn't even bother to wait.

01:37:53.000 He just pulled right in front.

01:37:55.000 So to your point, he was busy doing something else.

01:37:58.000 And so I park, and I'm just steaming.

01:38:01.000 I'm getting out of the truck, and luckily Emily was there.

01:38:03.000 Luckily she wasn't hurt because she was in the passenger side.

01:38:06.000 And she said, no, no, no.

01:38:08.000 You sit here.

01:38:09.000 I'll take care of this.

01:38:10.000 Oh, wow.

01:38:10.000 Because I was just so angry.

01:38:12.000 And...

01:38:14.000 In part because she was in the car, right?

01:38:15.000 And in part because I was driving to the vet to pick up my big dog, the golden retriever.

01:38:19.000 And thank God he wasn't in the back of the truck, right?

01:38:21.000 Right.

01:38:22.000 When we got hit.

01:38:24.000 So anyway, but I calmed down after a while.

01:38:27.000 The guy was, you know, fine.

01:38:28.000 He was nice enough.

01:38:29.000 He was very apologetic and all that.

01:38:31.000 Anyway, so, man, I can disappear down a rabbit hole quicker than anybody.

01:38:36.000 So she's all in on EVs just a handful of years ago.

01:38:40.000 She's, goddammit, we got to be all electric vehicles by 2035 or 2040. And she's on news shows talking about this.

01:38:48.000 This is my policy.

01:38:49.000 This is what I want.

01:38:50.000 And now her staff is saying, oh, no, she never did that.

01:38:54.000 They just, they don't see anything wrong with telling people Here's the truth.

01:39:02.000 Don't pay attention to anything that we did before.

01:39:05.000 Don't pay attention to the fact that she's been vice president for all this time.

01:39:08.000 She has nothing to do with the Biden administration decisions, even though she was there, even though President Biden said, oh, usually she's the last person in the room when we talk about these important things. 0.99

01:39:17.000 And now they just want everybody to buy this bullshit, right? 0.88

01:39:20.000 Because she's younger and she's a woman and there's a good vibe. 0.99

01:39:24.000 I wish that he would go and do a tell-all.

01:39:28.000 Who, Biden?

01:39:29.000 Yeah.

01:39:30.000 Tell us what happened.

01:39:31.000 If you can remember.

01:39:32.000 How'd they get you out of there?

01:39:33.000 I was in Vietnam.

01:39:35.000 And I was fighting the Smurfs. 0.89

01:39:37.000 I was in a foxhole with Corn Pop. 0.55

01:39:40.000 And, duh.

01:39:42.000 Cannibals ate my uncle.

01:39:43.000 Uncle Posey.

01:39:44.000 I think it was Uncle Posey.

01:39:46.000 I mean, but if you could get him lucid enough for him to explain what they did and how they did it and who came to him and what they said.

01:39:54.000 You know what they did?

01:39:55.000 You know what it is?

01:39:56.000 It's the Democrats.

01:39:58.000 I hadn't thought about this before, but they got a kind of a habit of this.

01:40:01.000 Look what they did to RFK Jr. Look what they did to Bernie Sanders.

01:40:04.000 Remember him?

01:40:04.000 Oh, yeah.

01:40:06.000 Oh, yeah.

01:40:08.000 So this is kind of in their playbook.

01:40:11.000 Yeah.

01:40:11.000 So pushing Biden out, they just turned the chapter back.

01:40:14.000 Let's see, what did we do with Sanders?

01:40:15.000 I would have to say that it's very undemocratic.

01:40:19.000 Oh.

01:40:19.000 It seems.

01:40:20.000 They're just doing this to save democracy.

01:40:22.000 By subverting democracy.

01:40:24.000 You've got to save democracy.

01:40:26.000 Yeah.

01:40:26.000 By putting someone into the position to be running for president that nobody voted for.

01:40:32.000 God.

01:40:32.000 Which is really wild.

01:40:33.000 Yeah.

01:40:34.000 Nobody voted for that.

01:40:35.000 Well, yeah. 1.00

01:40:37.000 I think Biden fucked them. 1.00

01:40:38.000 I think by endorsing her when he was leaving, he fucked them. 1.00

01:40:42.000 That's just my theory. 0.99

01:40:43.000 But think about this.

01:40:44.000 How would they have come up with any other decision?

01:40:48.000 Because if you think about, what's his name, Shapiro in Pennsylvania, or Wes Moore, or these other candidates, even Gavin Newsom, although he doesn't have a hope in hell, Pete Buttigieg, who I think always fancies himself to be president.

01:41:04.000 Good luck.

01:41:04.000 Right.

01:41:05.000 All these people, though, that, well, what do they have in common?

01:41:08.000 Well, they're white men. 0.66

01:41:09.000 Okay.

01:41:10.000 How could they possibly throw their hat in the ring against Kamala Harris? 1.00

01:41:16.000 Right.

01:41:16.000 And have a political future for the next election.

01:41:19.000 Right, right, right.

01:41:20.000 And not get labeled.

01:41:21.000 Exactly.

01:41:22.000 Yeah.

01:41:23.000 And so they would have gotten the RFK Jr. treatment.

01:41:25.000 Right.

01:41:26.000 And they knew that was probably sort of the death call for their political career in the Dem Party.

01:41:32.000 So they may not have had really any option.

01:41:36.000 But wasn't there also something about the campaign war chest?

01:41:41.000 Like, to get access to the money that was already in there, you had to be a part of the ticket?

01:41:47.000 Yeah, and so that was...

01:41:48.000 I'm sure...

01:41:49.000 Okay, this sounds odd to say that cash might have played a role in politics.

01:41:54.000 You think?

01:41:56.000 It doesn't sound right.

01:41:57.000 It's legal, isn't it?

01:41:58.000 It doesn't sound right.

01:41:59.000 I think it's...

01:42:00.000 Yeah, so you're right.

01:42:02.000 That was a part of it.

01:42:03.000 But the point being is maybe it's...

01:42:05.000 You know, it wasn't so much a...

01:42:07.000 It was a very calculated, obviously, thing that...

01:42:13.000 Nobody really cared about on the Democratic side.

01:42:15.000 They were just waiting for someone to tell them what to do, right?

01:42:19.000 Right.

01:42:19.000 And once they did and said, okay, it's Kamala, everyone was like, oh my God, she's fabulous.

01:42:25.000 She's the best ever.

01:42:26.000 She's the best ever.

01:42:27.000 I know I said she was a midwit who's failed upward spectacularly before, but now she's fantastic. 1.00

01:42:33.000 And they've all lined up in really impressive fashion.

01:42:38.000 So anyway, that's- Their previous statements are all on record, unfortunately.

01:42:42.000 Yeah.

01:42:42.000 Yeah, nothing dies anymore on the internet except for Gaddafi.

01:42:46.000 He definitely died on the internet.

01:42:49.000 We came, we saw, he died.

01:42:52.000 Although I remember Trump. 1.00

01:42:55.000 He died like a dog.

01:42:57.000 You ever seen Shane Gillis' bit on that?

01:42:59.000 Yes, it's fantastic.

01:43:00.000 So good.

01:43:02.000 It's so good.

01:43:03.000 He has the best Trump impression.

01:43:05.000 It is.

01:43:06.000 It is really. 0.99

01:43:07.000 Fucking dead on. 0.98

01:43:08.000 I wonder how long he had to work on that. 0.99

01:43:10.000 He's really good.

01:43:10.000 Yeah.

01:43:11.000 He's really good at impressions.

01:43:12.000 That one in particular.

01:43:13.000 He doesn't do a lot of impressions, but the ones he can do.

01:43:17.000 I mean, it's not like Rich Little.

01:43:18.000 Right.

01:43:19.000 Right.

01:43:19.000 But he can make the noises, the Trump noises.

01:43:23.000 He does the sucking in, showing the lower teeth.

01:43:28.000 It's so good.

01:43:29.000 Oh, Baghdadi. 1.00

01:43:32.000 Die like a dog. 1.00

01:43:34.000 We have beautiful dogs.

01:43:38.000 That's the name of his specials, Beautiful Dogs.

01:43:40.000 I know this sounds wrong, because what I really want is I want the Republican policies, again, for national security and other purposes, to be in place and to actually focus on important things down the road.

01:43:54.000 And I don't want price controls.

01:43:56.000 That's another thing, by the way, that she's walked back.

01:43:58.000 Or her team has walked back.

01:44:00.000 She came out with the price control idea for food, for groceries. 1.00

01:44:03.000 Which is fucking communism. 1.00

01:44:04.000 Fucking communism. 1.00

01:44:05.000 And also, we've got plenty of case studies that show it doesn't work. 0.99

01:44:08.000 And not only does it not work, it fails really badly.

01:44:11.000 And no case studies that show it does work.

01:44:12.000 And they're walking it back already.

01:44:14.000 They're walking it back.

01:44:15.000 That's a week ago.

01:44:16.000 Yeah.

01:44:17.000 She reminds me, there was a Peter Sellers, we talked about Pink Panther, there was a Peter Sellers movie called Being There.

01:44:25.000 And she reminds me of his character in Being There called Chance the Gardener.

01:44:29.000 And he was basically just this dolt But people kind of poured their ideas onto him, right?

01:44:38.000 And then imagined that he was brilliant and insightful and a visionary. 0.98

01:44:42.000 Right.

01:44:42.000 Back to Cato.

01:44:43.000 Yeah.

01:44:45.000 I can never get enough of that.

01:44:46.000 So, anyway.

01:44:49.000 God.

01:44:50.000 We haven't even talked about Russia.

01:44:52.000 Russia, Russia.

01:44:53.000 Yeah.

01:44:55.000 Well, that's spooky shit that's going on now, too, because Ukraine is now in Russia attacking. 0.99

01:45:01.000 That's it. 0.99

01:45:01.000 Yeah. 0.99

01:45:03.000 If you had said, when we got together last time, if you said, you think Ukraine might invade Russia?

01:45:07.000 Right.

01:45:08.000 Yeah.

01:45:08.000 First time they've had an invading army on their turf since World War II. Crazy.

01:45:14.000 And now, apparently, it looks like they hold up to, Ukrainian military is holding up to about 500 square miles of territory.

01:45:22.000 Wow.

01:45:23.000 And they've just made some moves in a different section of Russia.

01:45:29.000 Not the Kursk region, but the Belgorod region.

01:45:34.000 And so they've had some incursions into there, like they may think about, maybe we're going to open up a second front.

01:45:39.000 And it's, I mean, it is fascinating.

01:45:41.000 The Russians have had, Putin initially kind of dismissed it a little bit.

01:45:44.000 You know, he was sort of like, ah, it's just a one-time thing.

01:45:47.000 Then they hung in there, and then they've established supply lines, and now there's 200,000 plus residents in that region, the Kursk region, that have been displaced.

01:45:58.000 So what do you got?

01:45:59.000 You got a lot of population upset about this, right?

01:46:01.000 So now you got more news internally that isn't a good thing for Putin.

01:46:07.000 He's always worried about, you know, sort of popular unrest like any dictator would be.

01:46:12.000 And so, I mean, it is fascinating.

01:46:15.000 And they've been, you know, they've been using U.S. and NATO munitions So remember there was a first two years, the Biden White House was like, nope, you can't use U.S. munitions for striking targets inside of Russia.

01:46:29.000 And then recently, it was, okay, just along the border. 0.97

01:46:33.000 And now, you know, fuck it, they're well into the Kursk region. 0.98

01:46:38.000 And, you know, so it's very fascinating. 0.99

01:46:45.000 It's also very worrisome, right?

01:46:48.000 You've got Belarus has put a third of their military on the border that they have with Ukraine.

01:46:55.000 And Belarus is run by a guy named Lukashenko, who's basically a Putin puppet.

01:47:01.000 So, you have to wonder, are they going to try to, you know, stretch Ukraine resources thin?

01:47:06.000 How long can they hold territory inside Russia?

01:47:09.000 I mean, I would argue that basically this is a ploy, and it seems like that's the way it's playing out with some comments from Zelensky over the past couple of days, that it's a move to try to strengthen their hand, you know, force Putin to the table to come up with some type of negotiated settlement, right?

01:47:25.000 And Zelensky came out and said, look, I've got a proposal that I'm going to present to Biden or whomever's in charge at the UN General Assembly Week in September, I think it is, in New York.

01:47:38.000 And he's being more open about now in the past day or so of talking about how this move into Russia is all about creating a better negotiating situation for them.

01:47:49.000 And he's right, right?

01:47:50.000 The only way you get Putin to the table And get something meaningful for Ukraine is if he's feeling pain.

01:47:56.000 And this is causing him some pain, right?

01:47:59.000 This is causing him to kind of rethink strategy, to worry about, again, sort of internal some dissent.

01:48:06.000 So it's a fascinating time.

01:48:08.000 Now, Trump has said that he can solve this quick.

01:48:10.000 In the first day.

01:48:12.000 First day in office.

01:48:13.000 How is that possible?

01:48:15.000 I don't think it is.

01:48:16.000 I mean, look, he speaks in hyperbole, right?

01:48:19.000 So he's just doing that again.

01:48:20.000 He's just like, I'm going to solve this problem. 0.91

01:48:22.000 But that's a self-inflicted wound because then it gives the Democrats a chance to say, well, he's just talking crazy.

01:48:28.000 Also, if he gets into office and he doesn't solve it in a day, then it's more of a problem.

01:48:33.000 Yeah.

01:48:33.000 I mean, maybe it takes him two days, in which case, you know, he'll be criticized.

01:48:37.000 He really would be.

01:48:38.000 A full 24 hours after he promised, yeah.

01:48:43.000 Once again, he lied.

01:48:45.000 Do you think it's possible to resolve?

01:48:47.000 Like, what would be the ideal resolution?

01:48:50.000 Well, I think it is possible to resolve it, as long as, again, as long as Putin feels like he needs to find a settlement.

01:48:57.000 If he was making headway...

01:48:59.000 Look, don't get me wrong.

01:49:01.000 They've had some successes in the eastern side of Ukraine, where they've been, you know, making an offensive against the Ukrainian military.

01:49:10.000 So while the Ukrainian military has been advancing and having some success taking and holding some territory inside Russia, at the same time, they've been having some real difficulties in the Donetsk region and on the eastern side of Ukraine.

01:49:26.000 And, but if Putin feels sufficient pain, then yeah, he'll, they'll find a settlement.

01:49:32.000 I think that settlement is going to look frustratingly like what the lines looked like before this whole conflict started.

01:49:42.000 They're not going to give up, Russia's not going to give up Crimea.

01:49:45.000 They're not going to pull all their military, all their personnel out of the eastern side of Ukraine.

01:49:54.000 And so I think at the end of the day, and this will probably frustrate a lot of people who've been putting Ukrainian flags on their Twitter handles and waving flags and saying, we stand with Ukraine.

01:50:08.000 It's not going to look like Ukraine gets all its territory back.

01:50:11.000 It's not realistic.

01:50:13.000 So I think that's what the settlement's going to look like.

01:50:18.000 But look, I look at this from, there's a lot of people out there, right?

01:50:24.000 Rightly so, there's a lot of people who dissent with the whole idea of why are we helping Ukraine, right?

01:50:30.000 I'm not going to wander into that minefield, right?

01:50:34.000 I'm just looking at it from an operational perspective.

01:50:36.000 If the US wasn't helping Ukraine, Putin would own Ukraine by now, for sure.

01:50:41.000 There's just no two ways about it, right?

01:50:43.000 Even with NATO support, NATO's been very good, EU's been very good.

01:50:48.000 Without US support, Putin would have Ukraine.

01:50:51.000 So some people could care less about that.

01:50:55.000 Okay, it's based on your experiences.

01:50:58.000 Other people think that's a horrible thing.

01:51:00.000 And so I don't know, I'm just saying operationally, you know, if you look at it, you go, okay, our decision is we can't afford to lose Ukraine to Putin.

01:51:08.000 So therefore, we're going to dump a lot of resource and assistance in there.

01:51:12.000 You know, so, you know, Bob's your uncle.

01:51:16.000 I personally don't think, you know, Putin's the sort of person who stops when he gets something, right?

01:51:22.000 His next thought is, okay, now what?

01:51:24.000 Because he's been very clear.

01:51:26.000 Just like the Iranians are clear about wanting to destroy Israel, Putin's been talking for years about trying to rebuild the Soviet Union in some fashion, right? 0.81

01:51:32.000 Not the whole thing.

01:51:34.000 So, you know, I take him at his word.

01:51:36.000 I think he's pretty serious about it. 0.99

01:51:39.000 But I also get the point why people say, well, holy fuck, why are we spending all this money on Ukraine? 0.99

01:51:44.000 You know, that's why I'm not running for president. 0.99

01:51:47.000 Yeah, I mean, it is a lot of fucking money, and we have to pay that money. 0.97

01:51:52.000 That money's not, I mean, just printing money, it has consequences. 0.98

01:51:56.000 It's not that simple.

01:51:58.000 You know what I love, though, is I do love Democrats now.

01:52:00.000 I've heard some Democrats say, well, but actually, look, this is a good thing, and these are Democrats saying, this is a good thing, because...

01:52:07.000 That money?

01:52:07.000 Well, in reality, the things that we're providing Ukraine are manufactured by U.S. companies.

01:52:12.000 So they're making money, and that's a good thing for the economy. 1.00

01:52:16.000 Yeah, that's what Eisenhower warned you about, stupid. 1.00

01:52:18.000 Exactly. 1.00

01:52:19.000 What the fuck are you talking about? 1.00

01:52:20.000 I do love that argument, though. 1.00

01:52:22.000 Well, that's a new tact to take for the Democrats, is to argue on behalf of the military-industrial complex.

01:52:29.000 It's such a strange way of rationalizing things when the left has always been anti-war.

01:52:34.000 I mean, that's where things got real weird.

01:52:36.000 The left has always been pro-free speech and anti-war. 0.88

01:52:39.000 And they're essentially the party that's trying to silence people under the guise of misinformation and disinformation, which a lot of that shit turned out to not be misinformation and not be disinformation.

01:52:51.000 Especially the COVID stuff with Jay Bhattacharya and Martin Koldoff, all these different people that got Removed from Twitter and censored, Alex Berenson, who's in a lawsuit right now with the Biden administration. 0.55

01:53:04.000 You know, all those people, without Elon Musk buying Twitter, they would essentially have been silenced.

01:53:09.000 So all these dissenting opinions were legitimate people from Stanford and Harvard, and all these people were labeled as kooks. 0.99

01:53:17.000 Which is just goddamn crazy and very fucking dangerous. 0.99

01:53:21.000 Very fucking dangerous. 0.99

01:53:23.000 You're allowing corporations to dictate what is true and not true, depending upon how it's gonna reflect their bottom line. 0.99

01:53:30.000 Yeah.

01:53:30.000 And that's scary.

01:53:31.000 I think people hate having this pointed out.

01:53:35.000 I mean, people of a certain persuasion.

01:53:37.000 When you say things like, you know what, a lot of the things that people on the opposite side, from where the progressives and the left sit, They turn out to be right, right?

01:53:47.000 Whether it's Hunter Biden's laptop, whether it's the bullshit of the Russian dossier, whether it's issues related to COVID, right?

01:53:54.000 And the idea that people aren't able to speak their mind, right? 0.76

01:53:59.000 And that somehow the Democrats have decided that they're okay with censorship, because really, the government needs to tell you what's safe to hear.

01:54:09.000 It's like the Democrats supporting the war and the Republicans questioning whether it's a good idea.

01:54:15.000 Topsy-turvy.

01:54:16.000 Yeah, it's bass-ackwards.

01:54:17.000 It's an upside-down world.

01:54:18.000 It's an upside-down world.

01:54:19.000 That's what I'm trying to say.

01:54:21.000 Very strange.

01:54:22.000 It's just strange to see how people just immediately abandon all their principles and side with whatever their party's saying.

01:54:28.000 That's when you realize that it really is just a tribal thing.

01:54:32.000 Because the left silencing free speech and the left not recognizing that they were lied to by these corporations because they had originally sided with them and they had made these statements and they don't want to walk these statements back and it's too difficult to say that you were wrong.

01:54:47.000 And then the pro-war stuff, it's just the whole thing is...

01:54:51.000 And the fact that...

01:54:52.000 You didn't have better use for that $175 billion?

01:54:55.000 You don't think they could have done it to help up?

01:54:58.000 What about our infrastructure?

01:54:59.000 What about our inner cities?

01:55:01.000 That money couldn't have been invested in the United States?

01:55:04.000 Yeah.

01:55:04.000 You want better policing?

01:55:05.000 Invest in better training and hiring, right?

01:55:08.000 More consistent training.

01:55:09.000 Subsidies for manufacturing, incentives to have manufacturing.

01:55:14.000 That's something we really should have learned during COVID. Like, oh my god, we're so dependent upon other countries for our goods.

01:55:20.000 Oh, for pharmaceuticals?

01:55:21.000 Yes, all that stuff. 1.00

01:55:22.000 Holy shit. 1.00

01:55:22.000 Yeah, yeah. 1.00

01:55:22.000 Yes, it's fucking super difficult to get during COVID. Well, and it's still difficult to get. 1.00

01:55:27.000 There's still shortages.

01:55:28.000 I was reading about, what's it called?

01:55:31.000 Adderall.

01:55:31.000 Adderall shortage, yeah.

01:55:32.000 Well, I think I know why there's an Adderall shortage.

01:55:34.000 I think some people are taking it that really don't need it.

01:55:37.000 Is that like Ozempic?

01:55:38.000 They're just, they're just, yeah.

01:55:40.000 God.

01:55:41.000 Well, Zempick at least is helping people that are super fat lose weight, which is really important.

01:55:46.000 We have a gigantic health crisis in this country.

01:55:48.000 We're eating poisoned food and too much of it, and people are...

01:55:51.000 I mean, the obesity crisis in this country is unparalleled.

01:55:54.000 There's never been a time in this country where half the people were technically obese.

01:55:59.000 And I'm not talking about the body mass index thing either, which is like, I'm obese, according to that.

01:56:04.000 Are you?

01:56:05.000 Yeah.

01:56:05.000 I'm 5'8", not even 5'8".

01:56:07.000 I'm under 5'8", and I weigh 202 pounds.

01:56:11.000 I'm fat.

01:56:12.000 I used to be 5'8".

01:56:13.000 I'm shrinking.

01:56:14.000 You're shrinking?

01:56:14.000 Yeah.

01:56:15.000 Like, disc degeneration, which is what happens to old people.

01:56:18.000 They're just smaller and smaller. 0.98

01:56:19.000 And I want to deny that I'm older, but goddammit, I'm fucking shrinking. 0.98

01:56:23.000 And my back hurts. 0.98

01:56:24.000 And one of the reasons why my back...

01:56:26.000 It's like years of jiu-jitsu, too, and weightlifting, but your discs get smaller.

01:56:30.000 They get smushed-er, and your spinal column gets closer and closer together.

01:56:35.000 And, like, there was a race car driver, and...

01:56:39.000 He was one of the guys who did Le Mans back in the day, and they got him in his original race car to take a lap around Le Mans, and he couldn't fit the pedals anymore because he had shrunk four inches since the time that he had...

01:56:50.000 Because everybody just shrivels up.

01:56:53.000 It's gravity wins.

01:56:54.000 It's aging.

01:56:55.000 It all happens.

01:56:56.000 Gravity wins.

01:56:57.000 Yeah, one of my brothers flew jets in Vietnam. 0.98

01:57:00.000 And that fucked up his back. 0.81

01:57:01.000 His discs, good God, the G-forces and all that. 0.96

01:57:04.000 Oh yeah, I couldn't imagine.

01:57:05.000 But the point is, we have a massive health crisis in this country.

01:57:09.000 The obesity crisis is really legitimate.

01:57:12.000 And it's terrifying that it's so prevalent and that no one's doing anything about it.

01:57:17.000 And this is one of the things that RFK wants to do when he gets into office. 0.95

01:57:21.000 He's talking about seed oils and he's talking about a lot of different things that are like terrible for health that are ubiquitous in our diet and to put some regulations on that stuff and to recognize that these are real issues and to inform people that these are real issues and not just let these big food companies just keep I saw a fucking article today in Time magazine Wait a minute, 0.57

01:57:43.000 Time Magazine is still out there?

01:57:44.000 Time Magazine is still out there.

01:57:46.000 Wow.

01:57:47.000 See if you can find this cover, this article.

01:57:52.000 It was, are super processed foods really bad for you? 1.00

01:57:56.000 Oh, fuck. 1.00

01:57:57.000 Seriously. 1.00

01:57:57.000 This is the question. 1.00

01:57:59.000 Instead of saying, wouldn't it be better to eat healthy, which everybody would agree, are super processed foods really that bad for you?

01:58:11.000 Well, I can help you out there real quick.

01:58:15.000 Yes.

01:58:17.000 No?

01:58:17.000 It says why they are.

01:58:19.000 Oh.

01:58:19.000 No, no, no.

01:58:20.000 No, no, no.

01:58:21.000 No, no, no.

01:58:21.000 That's not what I saw.

01:58:22.000 That is not what I saw.

01:58:24.000 I saw something very different than that, and I can find it.

01:58:27.000 I'll find it in two seconds.

01:58:29.000 Hold on. 0.99

01:58:30.000 Give me a second, because I know I saved it, because I was like, what the fuck? 0.99

01:58:34.000 Are ultra-processed foods bad for us? 0.99

01:58:37.000 Hold on.

01:58:38.000 Here's one that says, what if they aren't as bad as you think?

01:58:42.000 Here it is.

01:58:43.000 From yesterday.

01:58:44.000 Aren't as bad as you think.

01:58:45.000 Oh, what if ultra-processed food aren't as bad as you think.

01:58:48.000 That's it.

01:58:49.000 Well, they're not!

01:58:50.000 They're a lot worse. 1.00

01:58:52.000 They're fucking terrible for you. 1.00

01:58:54.000 What kind of bullshit argument is this? 1.00

01:58:55.000 This is real. 1.00

01:58:57.000 They are really bad for you.

01:58:59.000 Jessica is passionate about the pupusas from Costco.

01:59:01.000 Oh, God, Jessica.

01:59:03.000 How about have a banana? 1.00

01:59:05.000 Get on the treadmill, you fucking idiot. 1.00

01:59:08.000 Like, what are you talking about? 1.00

01:59:09.000 I got a bag of pupusas. 1.00

01:59:11.000 We're eating shit that's really bad for you. 0.99

01:59:14.000 That's sort of what the next thing says, I guess. 1.00

01:59:17.000 Okay.

01:59:18.000 It all started in the summer of 2023 when author and infectious disease physician, Dr. Chris Von Tuleken, was promoting his book, Ultra Processed People.

01:59:27.000 While writing it, Von Tuleken spent a month eating mostly foods like chip soda, bagged bread, frozen food, and cereal.

01:59:34.000 What happened to me is exactly what the research says would happen to everyone.

01:59:37.000 Von Tuleken says he felt worse, he gained weight, his hormone levels went crazy, and before and after MRI scans showed signs of changes in his brain.

01:59:46.000 As Von Tuleken saw it, the experiment highlighted the terrible emergency of society's love affair with ultra-processed foods.

01:59:54.000 Okay, but this next part is also really Wilson.

01:59:57.000 Who specialized in working with clients from marginalized groups, oh, marginalized groups, was irked.

02:00:03.000 She felt that Von Tuleken's experiment was Over-sensationalized.

02:00:08.000 That news coverage of it shamed people who regularly eat processed food.

02:00:12.000 Shamed them.

02:00:14.000 That's what you got. 1.00

02:00:14.000 That kind of fucking language drives me goddamn crazy. 1.00

02:00:17.000 In other words, the vast majority of Americans, particularly the millions who are food insecure or have limited access to fresh food, they also tend to be lower income and people of color. 1.00

02:00:30.000 Yeah, they fucking covered the whole spectrum. 0.84

02:00:32.000 Wilson felt the buzz ignored this food apartheid. 0.99

02:00:35.000 Food apartheid! 1.00

02:00:36.000 Fucking crazy! 0.99

02:00:37.000 As well as the massive diversity of foods that can be considered ultra-processed, a category that includes everything from vegan meat replacements, which by the way, are really fucking bad for you, and non-dairy milks, which by the way, are really fucking bad for you. 0.99

02:00:52.000 To potato chips and candy, which, by the way, are really fucking bad for you.

02:00:57.000 How can this entire category of foods be something we're supposed to avoid? 1.00

02:00:59.000 Because it's not fucking food! 0.99

02:01:02.000 It's not nutritious food! 1.00

02:01:04.000 And if you eat non-nutritious food, you get fucking sick. 0.98

02:01:07.000 Imagine, like, linking that to racism and inequality. 0.97

02:01:11.000 It also said she got 80% of her calories from processed foods.

02:01:16.000 Yeah, I'd like to see what that lady looks like naked. 1.00

02:01:19.000 Oh, it was an experiment. 0.73

02:01:21.000 Oh, okay.

02:01:22.000 Just an experiment for 40 years.

02:01:25.000 I'm still running with data.

02:01:27.000 I'm experimenting with cheeseburgers today.

02:01:29.000 And I'm going to have an experimental coke.

02:01:32.000 It marginalizes and shames people.

02:01:35.000 Marginalizing? 1.00

02:01:35.000 That kind of fucking language is so divisive. 1.00

02:01:38.000 I will say there's obviously a problem with, what do they call them, food deserts, right? 1.00

02:01:42.000 Yes, absolutely.

02:01:43.000 With the inability of communities to access fresh foods, there's no doubt about it.

02:01:48.000 If you want to eat healthy, it can cost more.

02:01:51.000 Right, but the solution is not to not tell people those foods are bad.

02:01:55.000 The solution is to try to figure out maybe some of that $175 billion could have helped.

02:02:02.000 You know how many free meals they could have given people?

02:02:04.000 Free, healthy meals with $175 billion?

02:02:08.000 If you really cared, the problem with this is a real problem.

02:02:12.000 Those foods are delicious.

02:02:14.000 Oh, they are delicious.

02:02:15.000 Cool Ranch Doritos and a nice cold Coca-Cola on ice.

02:02:19.000 McDonald's sausage McGriddle.

02:02:21.000 Oh, my goodness.

02:02:22.000 Now you're talking my language. 1.00

02:02:24.000 Those fucking McGriddles are delicious. 1.00

02:02:26.000 It's a dessert with sausage in it. 1.00

02:02:29.000 I'm going to tell you a quick story.

02:02:31.000 I won't bore you with this one.

02:02:32.000 Well, I will probably bore you with this one.

02:02:34.000 I was in the airport in DFW, Dallas-Fort Worth Airport.

02:02:39.000 I was transiting through the airport with my wife.

02:02:43.000 Thank God she was there.

02:02:44.000 And we're kind of running to get to the flight to go to Puerto Rico.

02:02:49.000 I was going to give a speech there.

02:02:52.000 We hadn't had anything to eat all morning. 0.97

02:02:53.000 And so we passed by McDonald's and I go, God damn it, I'm just gonna, you know, stop. 0.94

02:02:57.000 You know, I'll just get a quick thing. 0.97

02:02:58.000 So I got a sausage McGriddle.

02:03:00.000 And I take a bite of it as we're kind of dashing towards the next flight.

02:03:05.000 And I took a bite and I thought, Oh no, no.

02:03:09.000 It tastes too good, right?

02:03:10.000 Like I can't eat this whole thing because I have this mentality that says I'm gonna have to throw this away, right?

02:03:16.000 Because it's so damn good, I'm gonna want one every day.

02:03:18.000 And so I literally tossed the rest of it in there.

02:03:21.000 That was the last thing I'd eaten.

02:03:23.000 I got on the plane, had the Widowmaker, massive heart attack, went out, right?

02:03:28.000 They had to get the plane off the tarmac.

02:03:29.000 Oh, that was when that happened?

02:03:30.000 That was when that happened. 1.00

02:03:31.000 The last thing I had eaten was a bite of that fucking McGriddle. 1.00

02:03:35.000 If you ate the whole thing, you would have survived. 1.00

02:03:37.000 If I ate the whole thing, I probably would have been okay.

02:03:39.000 I couldn't believe it.

02:03:41.000 So I haven't had anything like that ever since.

02:03:45.000 God, they're so good, though.

02:03:46.000 I remember it.

02:03:47.000 Still to this day, I remember it. 0.98

02:03:49.000 McGriddles are fucking delicious. 0.99

02:03:50.000 Crazy. 1.00

02:03:51.000 They're so good.

02:03:52.000 If I'm just going to have a cheat meal of a breakfast food, I'm going McGriddle all the way.

02:03:56.000 They nailed it.

02:03:57.000 I know it's bad for you. 0.99

02:03:58.000 I'm not saying you should eat it, but god damn it's good. 0.99

02:04:00.000 They knocked that one right out of the fucking park. 0.99

02:04:03.000 There's something about the cheese with the sausage and the... 1.00

02:04:06.000 The syrup in the...

02:04:07.000 Yes!

02:04:08.000 The muffin thing.

02:04:09.000 In the muffin thing. 1.00

02:04:10.000 God damn it. 0.99

02:04:10.000 I know. 0.99

02:04:11.000 It's a beautiful invention.

02:04:13.000 Someone online took the McGriddles and went to Chick-fil-A and got a chicken breast and put it in the middle.

02:04:18.000 They made like an almost chicken and waffle sandwich.

02:04:20.000 Oh my god, that must be incredible.

02:04:22.000 Sounds really good.

02:04:23.000 What a great idea.

02:04:24.000 I'm going to make a note of that.

02:04:25.000 What a great idea.

02:04:27.000 Chick-fil-A is so good that even gays buy it. 1.00

02:04:34.000 They know that the Chick-fil-A people don't like the gays, and they're like, I don't give a fuck. 1.00

02:04:40.000 Give me that Chick-fil-A. I would like to know how many of the gays avoid Chick-fil-A. I bet it's like a very small percentage. 0.99

02:04:47.000 They're like, fuck these people. 1.00

02:04:48.000 They make a hell of a chicken sandwich. 1.00

02:04:49.000 God damn it. 0.99

02:04:50.000 I should be more upset than I am. 0.99

02:04:52.000 It's too good.

02:04:53.000 It's too good.

02:04:54.000 Where are we going to go? 0.99

02:04:55.000 They're so good, they close on Sundays and no one gives a fuck. 0.99

02:04:58.000 Yeah. 0.99

02:04:59.000 No, they don't.

02:04:59.000 They're like, we don't even want that Sunday money, which would be...

02:05:02.000 Billions of dollars!

02:05:03.000 I know.

02:05:04.000 They pass on billions of dollars of profit.

02:05:06.000 One-seventh of a potential revenue stream for the week, and they just throw it to the curb.

02:05:10.000 And one of the most successful fast food chains in the country.

02:05:13.000 And they're like, nope, we like Jesus more than we like money. 0.81

02:05:16.000 And the gays are saying, we're not really into the gays.

02:05:19.000 We like Chick-fil-A more than we care about.

02:05:21.000 I went into a Chick-fil-A the other day, and the fella that was serving me, I have a feeling that fella might have been a part of the Alphabet Posse.

02:05:31.000 Really?

02:05:31.000 Yep.

02:05:32.000 And he's working at the Chick-fil-A. So maybe he doesn't care.

02:05:34.000 Or he's an asset, right?

02:05:36.000 They put him in there.

02:05:37.000 He's an intelligence asset.

02:05:39.000 Or maybe.

02:05:40.000 That could be.

02:05:40.000 Or maybe he's like Uncle Tom.

02:05:43.000 You know, that kind of a deal.

02:05:46.000 They probably don't use that term.

02:05:48.000 It'll be Uncle Bruce.

02:05:52.000 Remember Bruce used to be a name for gay guys?

02:05:55.000 It's not really anymore.

02:05:56.000 It's not.

02:05:57.000 It wasn't in Australia, because everybody's a Bruce or a Sheila.

02:05:59.000 So you couldn't do that.

02:06:01.000 But you know what else?

02:06:02.000 Well, never mind.

02:06:02.000 I was about to start talking about words you can't say.

02:06:06.000 I got in trouble with my kids because I was driving down the road and I said something and the oldest boy was like, Dad, I don't think we can say that anymore.

02:06:14.000 And I said, really?

02:06:16.000 And then I found myself like George Carlin driving in the truck with all three of the boys just reeling off words and they were horrified.

02:06:25.000 Because they've grown up now in this environment, right?

02:06:28.000 This woke environment. 1.00

02:06:28.000 We didn't have that shit. 1.00

02:06:29.000 I'll tell you what, they don't have that in Texas. 1.00

02:06:32.000 High school kids are the most unwoke kids I've ever been around in my fucking life. 0.99

02:06:38.000 It's crazy listening to these kids talk. 1.00

02:06:42.000 They're saying wild shit because it's a rebellion. 1.00

02:06:45.000 So they're like little punk rockers. 1.00

02:06:47.000 It's also crazy to hear them talk because they've invented a whole new fucking language. 1.00

02:06:50.000 Oh, yeah. 1.00

02:06:51.000 Like, skibbity. 0.99

02:06:52.000 Oh, yeah, skibbity! 1.00

02:06:52.000 What the hell skibbity? 1.00

02:06:53.000 Exactly! 0.81

02:06:54.000 What is, what is, do you know?

02:06:56.000 I don't know.

02:06:57.000 I don't know.

02:06:58.000 Also, Sigma.

02:06:59.000 Sigma? 0.70

02:07:00.000 Yeah, I've heard that.

02:07:00.000 They say Sigma, which apparently is cool, I think.

02:07:04.000 It's confusing?

02:07:05.000 You're so sigma? 1.00

02:07:07.000 Yeah, I think sigma is good.

02:07:08.000 I think it's good?

02:07:09.000 I'm confused over what skibbity is, but there's a whole language.

02:07:13.000 Gyat. 0.82

02:07:14.000 I like sus.

02:07:16.000 I like they say sus.

02:07:18.000 Oh, here we go.

02:07:19.000 Do you understand the meaning of skibbity?

02:07:20.000 Skibbity is a term relating to restlessness, paranoia, and inescapable dread.

02:07:25.000 What?

02:07:26.000 I don't think they're using it the right way.

02:07:27.000 That doesn't sound right.

02:07:29.000 It could also mean good or best.

02:07:32.000 I've heard skibbity toilet come out of a couple of my kids. 1.00

02:07:35.000 Oh boy, the best shit? 1.00

02:07:37.000 They took a skibbity toilet? 1.00

02:07:38.000 What the hell is skibbity toilet?

02:07:38.000 Oh yeah.

02:07:39.000 What does that mean?

02:07:39.000 Page not found.

02:07:40.000 Too hard.

02:07:41.000 The government is censoring this skibbity information. 0.88

02:07:45.000 This is not good.

02:07:46.000 Skippy, Ohio.

02:07:48.000 Rizzler?

02:07:48.000 Rizzler.

02:07:49.000 Rizz.

02:07:49.000 I know about this.

02:07:50.000 What's that?

02:07:51.000 Rizz is when you got game.

02:07:52.000 When you're a player.

02:07:53.000 Charisma.

02:07:53.000 When you're a player.

02:07:54.000 Charisma.

02:07:54.000 That's right.

02:07:54.000 There's slang for charisma and a Rizzler has a lot of charisma.

02:07:57.000 Oh, I want to be a Rizzler. 1.00

02:07:58.000 There's that kid.

02:07:59.000 That's his name.

02:08:00.000 Oh, wait.

02:08:00.000 The Rizzler.

02:08:01.000 The little kid.

02:08:03.000 He's always doing like this.

02:08:05.000 He's always kind of like looking at the camera going like that.

02:08:07.000 Yeah.

02:08:07.000 I like that.

02:08:08.000 My kids have pointed that out to me.

02:08:09.000 I like some of that.

02:08:10.000 There he is.

02:08:10.000 Yeah.

02:08:11.000 Look at that fella. 1.00

02:08:12.000 And his buddy, Justice, I think is his buddy's name.

02:08:14.000 Unstoppable defense alignment.

02:08:15.000 Look at him.

02:08:17.000 I like he's got the pose.

02:08:18.000 He's got the wrist, right.

02:08:19.000 He's a little concerned.

02:08:20.000 I'm quite concerned.

02:08:22.000 He looks like a Jersey mob boss in a way.

02:08:24.000 Like a son of a Jersey mob boss.

02:08:26.000 Yeah, yeah.

02:08:26.000 Like John Gotti V. Yeah, so they...

02:08:29.000 Yeah, but going back to that fucking thing about processed foods, that sort of shit is what I hate because you're absolutely right. 0.99

02:08:36.000 Rather than try to help people by talking the truth... 1.00

02:08:40.000 God forbid, right?

02:08:42.000 We say, well, we've got to protect them.

02:08:44.000 We don't want to shame them.

02:08:45.000 We don't want to marginalize them.

02:08:48.000 So instead of talking and saying, look, we know that you have, you know, that it costs more or whatever, but here's the honest to God's truth about it.

02:08:55.000 These foods are, it's a slow walk to death, right?

02:08:59.000 Right.

02:09:00.000 And so, yeah, but, you know, I think there's...

02:09:10.000 What's her name?

02:09:11.000 She's going to be doing an interview tomorrow night.

02:09:13.000 We've talked about it.

02:09:13.000 Dana Bash?

02:09:14.000 Kamala Harris?

02:09:14.000 No, Harris.

02:09:15.000 Kamala Harris.

02:09:17.000 You had a Biden moment.

02:09:19.000 See, that's why I can't criticize Biden.

02:09:21.000 You need creatine.

02:09:22.000 I walk along.

02:09:23.000 I do need creatine.

02:09:25.000 But anyway, so she talks about these price controls on food as if somehow that magically is going to sort problems out.

02:09:34.000 It will just make this whole issue of access to food worse.

02:09:38.000 It just fucks things up in terms of the supply chain.

02:09:42.000 And so that's why, I mean, she's not doing it, but her team is already walking this back, an idea that she had just thrown out at the DNC. We're going to do this.

02:09:51.000 The other bullshit, all these other ideas, but $25,000 for first-time homebuyers. 0.98

02:09:55.000 What are they doing in California? 0.99

02:09:57.000 Have you seen this proposal to give loans to illegal immigrants?

02:10:01.000 Yeah.

02:10:02.000 I saw a top line headline for it.

02:10:05.000 Are they just flat out buying votes?

02:10:06.000 Like, what are you doing when you're doing that?

02:10:07.000 Well, what are you doing when you cancel debt for students, right?

02:10:12.000 But what about the citizens that want home loans?

02:10:15.000 Yeah.

02:10:17.000 You're incentivizing people to be illegal aliens, is what you're doing. 0.76

02:10:20.000 100% full stop.

02:10:22.000 If you allow that, you're incentivizing people to become illegal aliens.

02:10:25.000 Well, you're also incentivizing people to raise the price of their home.

02:10:27.000 You tell me that we've got a program now to give $25,000 to first-time homebuyers.

02:10:31.000 Now, suddenly, my $300,000 house is $325,000.

02:10:34.000 Thank you very much.

02:10:35.000 Exactly.

02:10:36.000 It's a nonsense proposal.

02:10:38.000 All these things, they're saying it just to win the election.

02:10:43.000 And that's why they're walking them back so quickly as soon as people push back against it.

02:10:47.000 There's a wild thrashing going on right now publicly.

02:10:51.000 And it's so fascinating to watch them just trying to lick their finger and find out which way the wind's blowing.

02:10:58.000 Which is what they're doing.

02:10:59.000 They're throwing ideas against the wall.

02:11:00.000 Normally you would do that behind closed doors and come up with a platform with all your policies.

02:11:05.000 You still go to their website.

02:11:07.000 They still don't have their platform with all their policies and what we're going to do for major issues of the day. 0.99

02:11:13.000 So instead, they're just throwing this shit on the wall in public. 0.99

02:11:17.000 And if the public likes it, then they stick with it. 0.99

02:11:19.000 If they don't, like with the price controls or the EV idea, then they back it off, right?

02:11:26.000 In full view, as if we're just supposed to go with it.

02:11:30.000 And a lot of people do.

02:11:32.000 And a lot of people do.

02:11:33.000 The blind allegiance towards your party is so real, particularly from the Democrat side. 0.99

02:11:37.000 It's so fucking real. 0.99

02:11:39.000 At least Republicans have a thing called a rhino. 1.00

02:11:42.000 Right?

02:11:42.000 Republican in name only.

02:11:44.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

02:11:44.000 So at least they're suspicious of people that aren't, like, they seem to think that there's some infiltrators into the organization.

02:11:51.000 They're not entirely on board with everything that all the Republicans agree with, and they'll have some infighting about that.

02:11:57.000 Well, we got all sorts of categories now.

02:11:59.000 We got the Never Trumpers, right?

02:12:00.000 We got them.

02:12:03.000 Outfits like the Lincoln Project, which as far as I can tell is just a grift, right?

02:12:08.000 These guys have just figured out that there's cash to be made by lining up with the Democrats, right?

02:12:13.000 And we can get all sorts of donations by saying, look, we're former Republicans and we'd never want Trump, right?

02:12:19.000 There's money in those hills, right?

02:12:21.000 You can mine that for a while and they've managed to.

02:12:23.000 Especially politicians.

02:12:25.000 Yeah, yeah.

02:12:26.000 Which are not exactly the most... 0.96

02:12:28.000 I mean, there's some fucking shenanigans going on there, I don't have to tell you. 0.91

02:12:34.000 It's like, these aren't the people that are like... 0.99

02:12:36.000 Sad speculation again.

02:12:37.000 ...the most character-driven statements.

02:12:40.000 Yeah.

02:12:40.000 They're not like...

02:12:41.000 Oh, God.

02:12:42.000 But you can't...

02:12:44.000 I guess I get cynical because I don't see how it changes.

02:12:48.000 I look around and I think, well, how does it get any better, I guess is the question, right?

02:12:54.000 And it's certainly not going to get better in the next...

02:12:58.000 Short-term cycle right and I maybe Maybe if well, I don't know I don't know how you I don't know how you get people out of the trenches right now It's like World War one and you get them to kind of stand up and at least make a little bit of move towards each other and Say okay, 0.95

02:13:14.000 we gotta we gotta figure this shit out. 0.97

02:13:16.000 We got a lot of serious problems There's more crises overseas right now that we had in a very long time shit that could really really Get fucked up pretty quick, right? 1.00

02:13:26.000 Whether it's what's going on in Russia and, you know, something happens, the next thing you know, Putin decides, ah, fuck it, you guys are lobbing U.S. missiles deeper into Russia. 0.99

02:13:36.000 I think it's time for us to, you know, deploy something. 0.99

02:13:39.000 Yeah.

02:13:40.000 And whether it's that or whether it's Xi Jinping deciding, screw it.

02:13:44.000 Time to go into Taiwan. 0.67

02:13:46.000 Time to go into Taiwan. 0.67

02:13:46.000 We don't even know who's running the White House, so let's give it a go. 0.67

02:13:51.000 I don't know.

02:13:52.000 And you've got the Middle East, which I think people always assumed, well, that's a self-contained problem.

02:13:57.000 It's just there.

02:13:59.000 The chance for that to go sideways, you know, right now, right?

02:14:03.000 I mean, if they're successful in, you know, encircling Israel, by meaning that, you know, they dump enough weapons into the West Bank and they get some of their militant elements there to take, suddenly you got a three-front war with Israel?

02:14:18.000 At some point, there's going to be some really undue pressure on any US administration to step in. 0.99

02:14:24.000 That shit gets ugly. 0.99

02:14:26.000 We got thousands of people crossing the border who probably have really bad nefarious intent that we don't even know who they are. 1.00

02:14:33.000 Millions, but I'm just saying, in terms of actual people who may be on the terror watch list, you got a lot of people who have come across.

02:14:39.000 The vetting that goes on on the southern border is minimal at best.

02:14:43.000 They don't have access to international databases.

02:14:45.000 It's not like they're getting people crossing in from China or crossing in from, you know, Turkey or Pakistan or, you know, I'm not picking on any particular country, but pick a spot and work with those home country liaison personnel to say, what do you got on these people, right?

02:15:01.000 They simply are checking to see whether they're listed in the U.S. criminal database.

02:15:05.000 And if they're not, it's like, fine, here's your appointment.

02:15:08.000 You know, we'll see you in court in a year and a half or whatever.

02:15:10.000 You're free to go.

02:15:12.000 It's not even a year and a half.

02:15:13.000 It's like five years.

02:15:14.000 Five years, yeah.

02:15:15.000 It's really sad.

02:15:18.000 There's tens of thousands of kids they can't account for.

02:15:23.000 And again, the White House or the Harris team wants to act as if she had nothing to do with anything.

02:15:31.000 She was the border czar.

02:15:32.000 Remember when they tried to say that she wasn't the border czar?

02:15:35.000 The same people who called her the Borders are on TV. But this is what's so crazy is that they don't know that they said that?

02:15:42.000 Do they not know that people are going to find it and they're going to post it?

02:15:45.000 Do they think that somehow or another those videos are hidden from the public?

02:15:49.000 I think, again, they don't care.

02:15:51.000 They understand, I think, that most Americans have a very short attention span.

02:15:57.000 And we live in a world where you can ride out just about any storm.

02:16:02.000 Right?

02:16:03.000 I mean, and redemption is just around the corner, right?

02:16:05.000 I mean, you know, look, what's his name?

02:16:08.000 Jeffrey Toobin whacks off on, you know, a Zoom call.

02:16:11.000 It wasn't that long ago, really, in the scheme of things.

02:16:14.000 He was off TV for like a year.

02:16:16.000 Yeah, now he's back.

02:16:17.000 Now he's back.

02:16:18.000 You know, so, you know, that gives hope to all those people out there who can't control themselves.

02:16:25.000 God, that was a weird...

02:16:27.000 I suspect he's not the only one, right?

02:16:30.000 Oh, they dropped like flies.

02:16:31.000 It was a big problem.

02:16:35.000 That's the problem with working from home.

02:16:37.000 You had a camera on a guy with a computer in a locked office.

02:16:42.000 Yeah.

02:16:42.000 But I mean, I've never been on a Zoom call where I felt like that was...

02:16:45.000 That ever, you know, you're not like...

02:16:47.000 Well, it makes you wonder, like, how...

02:16:49.000 What kind of control do you have over your life if you have to whack off so bad that you do it in the middle of the day while you're on a call?

02:16:56.000 On a call.

02:16:57.000 You don't even wait till the call end.

02:17:00.000 Alright, now, Bob's gonna run through the second quarter numbers. 0.99

02:17:03.000 Oh, fuck yeah. 1.00

02:17:05.000 Second quarter fucking numbers. 1.00

02:17:07.000 What is in your mind, you fucking psychopath? 1.00

02:17:10.000 Oh, God. 1.00

02:17:11.000 It's weird.

02:17:13.000 But it also just shows you that these people that are holding themselves up to be these, like, moral authorities. 1.00

02:17:18.000 No, you're just a fucking pervert. 1.00

02:17:20.000 You're just another nut. 1.00

02:17:21.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah. 1.00

02:17:22.000 Another nut who's putting on a mask when you get on television and pretending you're something great.

02:17:30.000 Yeah.

02:17:30.000 So I think that's what it is.

02:17:31.000 I think there's this sense that it doesn't matter, right?

02:17:34.000 You can say anything, you can get away with it, because people aren't going to really care at the end of the day.

02:17:39.000 Right.

02:17:39.000 And, you know, so while common sense would make you think, well, I'm sure actually they'll be, you know, they'll be fact-checking themselves, and they'll be thinking about these things, and they'll be more reflective and more analytical.

02:17:50.000 That's just, that's all bullshit. 0.95

02:17:51.000 It doesn't actually work that way. 1.00

02:17:53.000 Yeah, it's all bullshit. 1.00

02:17:54.000 Yeah, yeah. 1.00

02:17:55.000 It's all bullshit. 1.00

02:18:00.000 I don't know. 1.00

02:18:02.000 I'm just thinking about the aftermath of the election.

02:18:06.000 Well, I'm scared.

02:18:07.000 What I'm scared is that people become accustomed to the fact that the president's not in control of the government anymore and that that's okay.

02:18:14.000 That's a scary thing, too, because whether you like Biden or don't like Biden, like Trump or don't like Trump, at least you attributed the commander-in-chief.

02:18:22.000 You were like, that's the guy.

02:18:24.000 That's the president.

02:18:25.000 And now it's like, well, if he's not the president, because he keeps going on vacation now.

02:18:29.000 He's not even talking anymore.

02:18:32.000 He's probably disgruntled.

02:18:34.000 And we got a bunch of months to go, kids.

02:18:37.000 We're sitting here talking in August.

02:18:39.000 We got whole of September, whole of October.

02:18:42.000 Into November with no president.

02:18:44.000 Yeah.

02:18:44.000 And again, you know, I guarantee there won't be that question tomorrow night with one of the two potential successors to be the leader of the free world, supposedly.

02:18:57.000 That question won't exist.

02:18:59.000 It won't be, well, who?

02:19:00.000 Tell me about the decision-making process.

02:19:02.000 If the president some time ago said that, or the White House said that he's really good from 10 to 4, you know, 10 a.m.

02:19:08.000 to 4 p.m., And things don't get better over time.

02:19:12.000 They get worse.

02:19:13.000 How is he doing now?

02:19:15.000 And if that's the case, what's the decision-making process like at the White House?

02:19:19.000 And what kind of role are you playing in it?

02:19:22.000 And by the way, can we ask one more time, when did you know that he was in decline, and were you just telling the American public the complete opposite? 0.91

02:19:31.000 He's not fucking Sharper's attack.

02:19:33.000 So when did you know that, and what was the decision process around that in terms of deceiving the American public? 0.60

02:19:39.000 How did they go with him even back in 2020?

02:19:43.000 How did they do that?

02:19:45.000 How did they not see what everybody saw?

02:19:49.000 How was that the best option to win?

02:19:52.000 It wasn't as bad, to be fair.

02:19:54.000 It was not as bad.

02:19:55.000 But it was bad.

02:19:57.000 Well, you could kind of predict it, right?

02:20:00.000 Oh, I predicted it.

02:20:04.000 I saw it coming.

02:20:05.000 I was like, come on, man.

02:20:07.000 He's not going to get better.

02:20:08.000 He's not as good as he used to be.

02:20:09.000 Yeah.

02:20:10.000 When he was the vice president, he was way better.

02:20:12.000 Yeah.

02:20:13.000 I'm not as good as I once was.

02:20:14.000 Yeah.

02:20:15.000 I'm as good once as I ever was.

02:20:17.000 Thank you, Toby Keith.

02:20:19.000 Yeah, I think he was the safe bet, right?

02:20:22.000 They certainly weren't going to go with Sanders.

02:20:24.000 They already kicked him out once four years before.

02:20:25.000 Yeah, they weren't going to go with Sanders.

02:20:26.000 But there's a lot of other people that could have stepped up.

02:20:28.000 There's a lot of governors who could have...

02:20:30.000 I mean, Bill Clinton kind of came out of nowhere.

02:20:33.000 Yeah.

02:20:34.000 Yeah, but, you know, Bill Clinton, yeah, that's true.

02:20:37.000 That's true.

02:20:37.000 But it was, I would also argue, even that recent time, it was a different time, right?

02:20:43.000 Well, not only that, but I think Clinton probably wouldn't have won if it wasn't for Ross Perot.

02:20:48.000 I think Ross Perot, a lot of people who were more conservative, right-leaning, went with Ross Perot.

02:20:55.000 And afterwards, they changed the whole criteria for being involved in the debates.

02:21:01.000 Because they're like, we can't have this happen again.

02:21:03.000 They've got to shift that game.

02:21:05.000 Yeah, the whole Commission for Presidential Debate shifted, which is, by the way, a privately funded thing, which is crazy, too.

02:21:11.000 I think there's also this upcoming debate.

02:21:15.000 Look, one of the things that Trump should be very thankful for is the rules that they established for that first debate with Biden, the only debate with Biden, where they said, okay, we're going to cut the microphones off, you're not allowed to speak.

02:21:26.000 That worked like a charm.

02:21:27.000 It did.

02:21:28.000 Kept him in check.

02:21:29.000 Yeah.

02:21:30.000 And so I'm not sure whether that's the case for the 10th September debate with Harris, but it does look like now her campaign team is arguing that she should be able to have notes, right?

02:21:41.000 And they didn't have notes previously, right?

02:21:43.000 They were just like, show up.

02:21:45.000 She needs notes. 0.96

02:21:46.000 So I think they're pushing for that.

02:21:47.000 Let me tell you something as a comedian.

02:21:51.000 Notes are not good.

02:21:53.000 Here's the problem with notes.

02:21:55.000 You know you have those notes.

02:21:56.000 So you're thinking about those notes while you're talking.

02:21:59.000 And you go to those notes, you think about the...

02:22:01.000 I mean, you can write notes while you're debating.

02:22:03.000 Like, they gave them a pad.

02:22:05.000 You're allowed to write things down, but it's a blank pad.

02:22:07.000 But if you have those notes, you're gonna be looking for them, and that's an added distraction. 0.99

02:22:11.000 You gotta be so dialed in that you don't need those fucking notes. 0.99

02:22:16.000 Especially on television. 1.00

02:22:17.000 Because the pressure is clearly something that gets to her.

02:22:21.000 Yeah, that laugh comes out.

02:22:23.000 Well, it doesn't come out in debate, but she's much better at talking if you don't have pressure and lights on her. 1.00

02:22:30.000 I know people that know her that say she's intelligent.

02:22:34.000 So it could be that she locks up when she has to talk, which is a real thing.

02:22:39.000 People, they freak out also.

02:22:44.000 Imagine the kind of criticism that lady experiences on a daily basis. 1.00

02:22:47.000 If she just reads comments on Twitter, her fucking head would spin, right? 0.99

02:22:51.000 So all day long, she knows how many people hate her, how many people think she's a nincompoop, how many people think she's terrible. 1.00

02:22:57.000 You could say the same thing for Trump, though.

02:22:59.000 100%, but it obviously doesn't affect him.

02:23:00.000 It doesn't affect him, that's true.

02:23:01.000 He's used to being famous.

02:23:02.000 Fair enough, yeah. 1.00

02:23:02.000 He's been famous his whole life, so for him, he's like, just fucking water off the duck's back. 1.00

02:23:06.000 But she's been in the limelight for a long time. 0.99

02:23:09.000 Yeah, but she ain't good at it. 1.00

02:23:10.000 She ain't good at it. 1.00

02:23:10.000 Some people are not good at it. 1.00

02:23:11.000 There's a lot of people that are famous forever and the anxiety accentuates over time.

02:23:16.000 Yeah.

02:23:16.000 It heightens.

02:23:17.000 It gets worse.

02:23:18.000 Yeah.

02:23:18.000 Because now the pressure of all these people hating them actually starts to freak them out.

02:23:23.000 You know, it sounds like you're going to vote for her.

02:23:25.000 Is that what it sounds like?

02:23:26.000 That's what MSNBC did. 0.97

02:23:27.000 You know what MSNBC did?

02:23:29.000 Do you know that?

02:23:29.000 No.

02:23:30.000 They took a clip of me talking well about Tulsi Gabbard, and they tried to attribute it to Kamala Harris.

02:23:36.000 They edited it, and they posted it on their TikTok. 0.99

02:23:38.000 Holy shit. 0.99

02:23:39.000 Yeah. 0.98

02:23:40.000 Oh, and then my stepdad called me up because he texted me that he was glad that I was suing MSNBC because there's this article that I'm suing them.

02:23:50.000 I was like, I'm not suing them.

02:23:52.000 But they did do that.

02:23:53.000 They did do that.

02:23:54.000 I saw that part that people were losing their minds because they said you had endorsed RFK Jr. Yeah.

02:23:59.000 They like him.

02:23:59.000 Yeah.

02:24:00.000 That's all I said.

02:24:00.000 I said he speaks reasonably and he talks about the issues.

02:24:02.000 He doesn't attack people.

02:24:03.000 I think we could all use more of that in this world. 0.99

02:24:05.000 That's all I fucking said. 0.99

02:24:06.000 Shocking statement. 1.00

02:24:07.000 Yeah.

02:24:08.000 And they're like, he's endorsing.

02:24:09.000 He's endorsing.

02:24:11.000 See, they want you to have a side.

02:24:13.000 Yeah, exactly.

02:24:14.000 And again, going back to what you said, it's tribal.

02:24:18.000 But okay, you know what?

02:24:19.000 Hey, I'm glad to hear that people that know her are saying she's intelligent because one of them is going to win.

02:24:24.000 And so for the good of the country...

02:24:26.000 She's got to have some intelligence to have climbed the ladder the way she climbed the ladder.

02:24:31.000 Like at least some intelligence knowing Willie Brown's a good guy to become friends with.

02:24:38.000 I mean, she's got to have, there's no way you get that far without something going on.

02:24:44.000 I just think she's real bad at talking.

02:24:46.000 Yeah.

02:24:47.000 And especially talk, well, real good in that one speech, though.

02:24:50.000 That was another thing people got mad at me.

02:24:51.000 Because I was talking about how great that speech was. 0.99

02:24:53.000 Because it was fucking great. 1.00

02:24:55.000 Say it to my face! 1.00

02:24:57.000 And the whole place went, yeah!

02:24:58.000 But if you've got a teleprompter, and you've rehearsed it, and you've got speech instructors there talking to you, Emphasize this.

02:25:08.000 Try it again.

02:25:08.000 Try it one more time.

02:25:09.000 Of course you're going to give a great speech.

02:25:12.000 You're going to give a knockout speech.

02:25:14.000 That's all people need.

02:25:16.000 But that's not critical thinking.

02:25:17.000 It's not the ability to analyze.

02:25:19.000 It's not the ability to make quick decisions.

02:25:21.000 It's not the ability to show leadership.

02:25:23.000 And that's all of those things.

02:25:24.000 And again, people will keep going the same thing every time I say this.

02:25:28.000 Trump!

02:25:29.000 Look, I'm not talking about Trump right now.

02:25:31.000 I'm talking about over here.

02:25:33.000 I'm talking about the other contender.

02:25:35.000 And I don't know.

02:25:38.000 And more than that, I just worry about the policies that, again, they haven't enunciated many of them, but I do worry about what they've thrown against the wall so far.

02:25:48.000 Yeah.

02:25:48.000 A lot of these socialist-leaning ideas are very disturbing.

02:25:53.000 And there's another thing that she's talked about, about equity as opposed to equality, and literally talking about equal outcomes, which is fucking insane. 0.73

02:26:03.000 That's insane talk that doesn't work, because you're not going to have equal effort.

02:26:07.000 The whole reason why this country works, the whole reason why capitalism works, is because of competition.

02:26:12.000 That competition should be fair, but there is a reason why some people succeed more than others, and a lot of it has to do with effort.

02:26:20.000 There's a lot of luck involved, there's a lot of nepotism involved, but also hard work.

02:26:26.000 And if you want to have equality of outcome, you're going to have no incentive for people to work hard.

02:26:33.000 You know what, to that point, my youngest boy, Muggsy, was telling me, he came home from school, this was towards the end of last year, And he was kind of chuckling to myself.

02:26:44.000 I said, what are you laughing about?

02:26:46.000 He goes, oh god, it was funny.

02:26:47.000 And he talks just like this.

02:26:49.000 He says, it was very funny.

02:26:51.000 He says, we had a project in class where the teacher, I forget which subject it was, but anyway, the teacher handed out A paper, a test.

02:27:02.000 And he explained, okay, here's a test.

02:27:04.000 I know it's a snap test.

02:27:05.000 I know you guys weren't expecting it.

02:27:06.000 You know, just, you know, but I want you to, you know, do your best.

02:27:10.000 He says, and, you know, you weren't expecting it, so I'm going to take all the scores and I'm going to average them out, right?

02:27:15.000 And that'll be, you know, how you do. 0.99

02:27:19.000 So my boy sits in the back there and just doesn't do fuck off. 1.00

02:27:25.000 He got like one question answered and he was like, well, fuck it. 1.00

02:27:28.000 Because he's smart enough to think, all right, you know, fine. 0.99

02:27:33.000 If all we're going to do is take all the results and smoosh them together and everyone's going to...

02:27:37.000 That's so crazy.

02:27:37.000 Yeah.

02:27:37.000 And so there were some people in there that were really pissed off, which was the teacher's point.

02:27:42.000 Right?

02:27:42.000 Right.

02:27:43.000 And when they found out what had happened, because they had really tried it, and they had gotten very good grades, and then there's Jack with like a two out of a 100, and he gets the same result that they did.

02:27:52.000 Exactly.

02:27:52.000 He was like, look at me!

02:27:53.000 So he said, no effort, I got what you got.

02:27:56.000 But he saw it, right?

02:27:57.000 And I thought, well, I'm not sure whether I'm proud of that or not, but I think it's entertaining. 0.56

02:28:02.000 Well, if he's not dumb, and he doesn't like the class, and he thought it'd be fun to just like get a good grade by doing nothing, he gamed the system. 0.76

02:28:10.000 He gamed the system. 0.99

02:28:10.000 And the system sucks. 0.99

02:28:11.000 Which is how this whole thing would work when you talk about, you know, equal... 0.99

02:28:17.000 At the end of the day...

02:28:18.000 It's just nonsense talk, and it's only talk for voters.

02:28:20.000 It's talk to try to get people who aren't doing well to say, well, with her, I'm going to do well.

02:28:26.000 Everything's going to be fine.

02:28:27.000 Look what they're giving me.

02:28:28.000 They're canceling my debt.

02:28:29.000 Oh, they're talking about canceling my debt.

02:28:30.000 They're talking about giving me a first-time home payment.

02:28:33.000 They're talking about sticking it to the rich people.

02:28:37.000 They're talking about price controls.

02:28:39.000 They're talking about rent controls.

02:28:41.000 Good guy. 0.99

02:28:41.000 We start doing all that shit. 0.99

02:28:43.000 You think the economy has some issues? 1.00

02:28:45.000 I mean...

02:28:47.000 No one who's an economic advisor thinks that's a good idea.

02:28:52.000 No one who understands the economy.

02:28:54.000 I mean, I think that one thing that they're obviously Probably somewhat happy about, they gotta be happy about it, is that moving into the election, you know, it does look like the Fed's gonna cut rates, right?

02:29:07.000 And I'm sure there's gonna be a lot of people on the right who are gonna say, oh, of course, the Fed's doing that for political reasons, right?

02:29:12.000 Well, it's good for the country.

02:29:14.000 It's good for the country, yeah.

02:29:15.000 And that's where we've gotten away to. 0.96

02:29:17.000 Interest rates are fucking crazy right now. 0.97

02:29:19.000 Oh, God. 0.99

02:29:20.000 Yeah. 0.99

02:29:20.000 They're crazy. 0.99

02:29:21.000 Home buying, car loans, everything. 1.00

02:29:24.000 It's fucking nuts. 0.98

02:29:25.000 Yeah. 1.00

02:29:25.000 And that's another problem. 1.00

02:29:26.000 You talk about, you know, sort of the perception.

02:29:29.000 Everybody's got...

02:29:30.000 Not everybody.

02:29:30.000 That's not right.

02:29:31.000 But right now, the perception of the economy is it sucks, right? 0.96

02:29:37.000 It's not good. 0.97

02:29:38.000 It's not good.

02:29:38.000 I'm not comfortable.

02:29:40.000 I'm not saving money.

02:29:42.000 I'm spending more money on everything.

02:29:45.000 But for the past year or so, you've had the White House telling them just the opposite.

02:29:50.000 Right?

02:29:50.000 Things are looking good.

02:29:52.000 We're really doing well.

02:29:54.000 And so there's this lack of credibility that exists, not just from the White House or from this particular administration.

02:30:02.000 I guess a bigger point is people just don't have a lot of trust in a lot of things related to the government.

02:30:08.000 They don't believe they're politicians.

02:30:09.000 They don't believe they're government agencies.

02:30:12.000 I mean, look at everybody talking about it.

02:30:13.000 We've got to disband the FBI. We've got to shut down the Secret Service.

02:30:16.000 No, the Secret Service didn't do any favors for themselves. 1.00

02:30:19.000 Holy fuck. 0.99

02:30:21.000 But yeah, the CIA, they're talking about getting rid of the IRS. Okay, and substituting it with what? 1.00

02:30:27.000 Yeah, what are you going to do?

02:30:28.000 Yeah, what?

02:30:29.000 You're going to rebuild it from the ground up?

02:30:30.000 You don't think you're going to have the same problems?

02:30:32.000 Yeah.

02:30:33.000 And what are you going to do with all the things that they're investigating overseas?

02:30:36.000 What are you going to do?

02:30:37.000 What are you going to do?

02:30:38.000 What are you going to do with all the national security threats?

02:30:40.000 Yeah, we're going to tear down, we've got to shut down the CIA. Okay, so you think we live in a benevolent world, right?

02:30:46.000 You think that, okay, of course, it's a human endeavor, so it can always stand improving.

02:30:52.000 Of course.

02:30:52.000 And same with all the other government agencies out there.

02:30:55.000 With everything.

02:30:55.000 Yeah, but you've got this idea that you've got to tear institutions down because you're pissed off about, you know, Whatever it might be.

02:31:04.000 Let me ask you this when you're speaking of that.

02:31:06.000 One of the things that Trump said was that he was, I think it was Pompeo that talked him into not releasing the Kennedy files.

02:31:13.000 Yeah, yeah.

02:31:14.000 And he, Trump said that if you saw what they showed me, you wouldn't release it either.

02:31:20.000 Yeah, I know.

02:31:21.000 I saw all of that.

02:31:23.000 And honest to God, I don't have a secret that I can reveal.

02:31:30.000 But what do you think it is, though?

02:31:31.000 When you hear things like that, do you get concerned?

02:31:34.000 What's in there?

02:31:36.000 I mean, to me, it sounds a little bit like, you know, National Treasure, that movie with Nicolas Cage, where, you know, the secret book that they have, and they open the book, and they read what all the presidents have told them about things.

02:31:46.000 You should watch it.

02:31:47.000 It's actually a very funny movie.

02:31:49.000 But, yeah, what do I think it means?

02:31:52.000 I don't know.

02:31:52.000 Is Trump speaking in hyperbole, or is there some...

02:31:57.000 Well, there's got to be a reason why they don't want to release it.

02:31:59.000 Well, yeah.

02:32:00.000 So what could a reasonable reason be?

02:32:02.000 Yeah, I think part of it is...

02:32:08.000 I think that there's this tendency on the government's part.

02:32:11.000 Once they classify anything, it's really tough to get them to back off of that.

02:32:19.000 It's really tough to get them to declassify information.

02:32:25.000 I would argue they should, right?

02:32:28.000 At this point, nobody is still alive, right?

02:32:32.000 And so you would think at this point, they'd say, ah, okay, fine.

02:32:35.000 There can't be a sources and methods issue here, right?

02:32:38.000 They can't be like, well, we're worried about if we open up this file, even if there's not like some smoking gun that said, You know, they did it, right?

02:32:46.000 But even if it's just on the margins, like Lee Harvey Oswald went down to Mexico.

02:32:52.000 We know that because, you know, meet with the Russian embassy down there.

02:32:54.000 We know that because we had an asset who, you know, reported on it from inside the Russian embassy, whatever it may be.

02:33:00.000 They're all dead.

02:33:02.000 Right? 0.99

02:33:03.000 So I would argue just, yeah, fucking declassify it, let it go. 0.96

02:33:06.000 So I don't know. 0.95

02:33:07.000 I don't have a good explanation for it.

02:33:08.000 But what if it says that the CIA killed Kennedy?

02:33:11.000 If it says that, and it's backed up, then that's a come-to-Jesus meeting for me.

02:33:20.000 Literally.

02:33:23.000 I'm probably going to have to rethink my position on a lot of things.

02:33:27.000 Yeah, but I think that's what they're worried about.

02:33:29.000 And if that's what he's saying, and that's what they're actually worried about, that would be a real problem.

02:33:35.000 It would be a real problem that could undermine a lot of the national security issues that we do have. 0.99

02:33:39.000 Oh, fuck yeah. 0.99

02:33:40.000 Sure, absolutely. 1.00

02:33:41.000 And the power that the CIA has.

02:33:42.000 Yeah, if that was the case.

02:33:43.000 But think about this.

02:33:45.000 We talked about this before.

02:33:46.000 I've always felt like the MLK, like Martin Luther King's, was more unsettled.

02:33:54.000 There was just something from an intuitive point of view, from an investigator's point of view.

02:33:58.000 And it's not investigated the same way JFK is.

02:34:00.000 Was not, no.

02:34:01.000 And you don't hear about it the same way you hear about JFK. Right.

02:34:03.000 And it was more of a...

02:34:06.000 There was more of a sort of a local thing, right?

02:34:11.000 You just felt like there was more of an element of, I don't know, various local players engaged in it.

02:34:23.000 Local police, state police, whatever it might be.

02:34:26.000 And possibly federal side.

02:34:28.000 It was just something unsettling about that whole incident.

02:34:32.000 So Yeah, I mean, look, any of these things would significantly undermine, past where it is now, I mean, already people have distrust, but...

02:34:44.000 But if it was proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that the CIA killed Kennedy, that would be a giant issue.

02:34:50.000 It'd be a giant issue.

02:34:51.000 And then...

02:34:52.000 That would be to me...

02:34:52.000 Then what happens?

02:34:53.000 Then what do you do?

02:34:54.000 Then at that point, who knows?

02:34:56.000 Because look, I'll be honest with you.

02:34:57.000 Look, the agency...

02:34:58.000 Of course, I'm going to say what everybody expects me to say.

02:35:01.000 The agency, and I can only speak from that point of view.

02:35:05.000 I can't talk about the Bureau or Secret Service or others, but the agency does some tremendous work in pursuit of protecting national security interests.

02:35:14.000 I believe that.

02:35:15.000 And I believe that most of the people that are involved are patriots. 0.98

02:35:18.000 Yeah, but I will say, if that were to be proven without a doubt, because they declassified that paperwork, none of that shit's going to matter. 0.95

02:35:26.000 All that good work, right? 0.96

02:35:28.000 All that...

02:35:30.000 I don't even know where you'd go with it, right?

02:35:31.000 I mean, the church, you know, they basically wanted to disband the agency at that point, right?

02:35:37.000 That was in what year was that?

02:35:38.000 That was the 70s, yeah.

02:35:40.000 And that was, you know, look, Carter put Stansfield-Turner into the agency basically to try to...

02:35:47.000 You know, I would argue dismantle it, right?

02:35:50.000 And that was, so there was a period of time when, and also after, of course, after World War II, they just shut down OSS. It was like, yeah, we don't need it, right?

02:36:00.000 So would that create a moment where the public is saying, fuck this, we don't need it, we'll just maybe, you know, we'll see. 0.99

02:36:06.000 But I guarantee you, something bad would then happen. 0.99

02:36:09.000 And they would say, well, we need to reconstitute it in some fashion.

02:36:12.000 Let's do it.

02:36:13.000 Especially if it's publicly known that it's not there anymore and foreign actors know this.

02:36:19.000 You've got to have these organizations.

02:36:23.000 So that's a hypothetical.

02:36:25.000 But it's like every organization.

02:36:26.000 You're going to have bad apples in the organization.

02:36:29.000 Like cops.

02:36:31.000 I think cops are overall very important and very good.

02:36:33.000 But when you have a bad cop...

02:36:36.000 That bad cop, especially if it's on video, now people think of cops as only being that one bad cop.

02:36:41.000 Right, right.

02:36:42.000 Defund the police.

02:36:43.000 Yeah.

02:36:43.000 And by the way, Kamala Harris.

02:36:45.000 Kamala Harris, yeah. 0.87

02:36:46.000 She was a big part of that.

02:36:47.000 You know what?

02:36:49.000 This part always surprised me.

02:36:51.000 Defund the police.

02:36:52.000 So we don't want as many police on the streets.

02:36:54.000 Okay, first of all, the logic train on that one, because somehow, what, all the bad guys go away then.

02:36:58.000 Well, there's no police, so I don't need to commit any crimes.

02:37:01.000 Everything will be better.

02:37:02.000 Or we put community people in there, social workers and whatever.

02:37:05.000 Instead of saying, in a logical fashion, saying, okay, clearly we had some bad eggs, What we need is better police.

02:37:14.000 What's that going to mean?

02:37:15.000 That's going to mean more money.

02:37:16.000 We need to actually fund the police.

02:37:18.000 You need more training.

02:37:19.000 The police need more training anyway.

02:37:21.000 Look at the Secret Service.

02:37:23.000 Good God.

02:37:23.000 Those guys, in terms of their amount of actual consistent on-the-job training they get is...

02:37:29.000 It's minimal at best.

02:37:32.000 And so it's the same with the police.

02:37:34.000 The first thing to always go is the training budget, right?

02:37:37.000 So to me, that never made any sense.

02:37:41.000 But you're right.

02:37:41.000 Harris was also on the side of defund the police.

02:37:43.000 I don't think she would ever bring that up again.

02:37:46.000 I think that moment in time has passed.

02:37:48.000 Well, we've seen the disastrous results.

02:37:51.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

02:37:53.000 And Tim Wells, speaking of...

02:37:55.000 You know, look at Minnesota, Minneapolis, right?

02:37:58.000 That was kind of ground zero for defunding the police.

02:38:00.000 But at least you put tampons in the boys' room.

02:38:03.000 Yes, you know, because...

02:38:04.000 Yeah, my God, don't get me started.

02:38:06.000 That was another thing.

02:38:07.000 My boys...

02:38:08.000 All right, boys are constantly...

02:38:09.000 Thank God for them, because that's how I learned what not to say and get myself in trouble.

02:38:14.000 Right, you've got to know the temperature of the young kids today.

02:38:16.000 I've got to say, look, is this skibbity or is this not? 0.98

02:38:19.000 You know? 1.00

02:38:19.000 What the fuck? 1.00

02:38:21.000 Is this Sigma? 1.00

02:38:22.000 What's going on here?

02:38:23.000 Got the riz going.

02:38:26.000 Well, Mike, I don't know if we resolved anything.

02:38:29.000 I think we might have a couple of small issues.

02:38:32.000 What's your prediction?

02:38:33.000 Can I ask that?

02:38:34.000 What's your prediction for the election in November?

02:38:36.000 What do you think is going to happen?

02:38:37.000 I don't know because I think there's a lot of time between now and then.

02:38:41.000 And look, someone Whether that guy was acting alone or whether or not he had help, someone tried to kill Trump at least once.

02:38:50.000 There was an interview where Trump was outside talking to someone and said, I've been told we shouldn't even be out here.

02:38:55.000 We shouldn't be outside.

02:38:58.000 There's some issues.

02:38:59.000 So there's probably other threats.

02:39:01.000 We know that there was an Iran assassination attempt.

02:39:05.000 There was something involved in that that was stopped.

02:39:08.000 I guarantee there's people that want him gone.

02:39:12.000 And to say now, I know what's gonna happen in November, things change so quickly, and it's so nuts, and our memory's so short, and everything happens so fast, and the news cycle is just flooded with new things constantly. 0.98

02:39:27.000 I don't know what the fuck is gonna happen. 0.64

02:39:29.000 Look at the short window of time from Let's go with the 13th of July, the rally when it was shot, through the RNC, right? 0.99

02:39:41.000 From the perception, I was out in Milwaukee for something else, but I was out there during the RNC. Everybody, 100%, was convinced we got this in the bag.

02:39:52.000 Short period of time later, Harris is supposedly in the lead.

02:39:56.000 Biden's gone.

02:39:56.000 He's pushed off the surface there, and she's in.

02:40:00.000 So you're right. 0.99

02:40:02.000 Between now and then, fucking anything, maybe the aliens visit. 0.99

02:40:05.000 Maybe that's the only thing that's going to save us. 1.00

02:40:07.000 The aliens?

02:40:08.000 Yeah.

02:40:09.000 Maybe that's the only thing.

02:40:10.000 I don't even know how I feel about that.

02:40:12.000 The more I talk about it, the more I feel like someone's lying to me.

02:40:14.000 The more people I have on that talk to me about aliens, the more I feel like there's some nonsense going on.

02:40:19.000 There's a layer of nonsense in that stuff.

02:40:21.000 Yeah.

02:40:22.000 I saw that interview you did with- Lou Elizondo?

02:40:24.000 Yeah, Elizondo.

02:40:25.000 Yeah, yeah. 0.88

02:40:26.000 Well, if what he's saying is true, pretty fucking fascinating.

02:40:28.000 There really is something bigger than an oil rig that's going 500 knots underneath the ocean, and they have video of it. 0.64

02:40:35.000 It'd be kind of nice if you released that.

02:40:36.000 They really do have 4K video of these crafts moving at insane speeds that are very high resolution and you can see exactly what you're looking at.

02:40:44.000 That'd be nice.

02:40:45.000 I saw his explanation for why they wouldn't was because, well, we don't want to tip off the aliens, you know, that we know about it.

02:40:53.000 I'm thinking...

02:40:54.000 Is that the explanation?

02:40:55.000 If we alert the public, then suddenly they'll know about it and they may move up their plans to attack us sooner.

02:41:03.000 And my thought was, I'm pretty sure if they can...

02:41:09.000 Build what they're building and move that way.

02:41:12.000 They probably know what we're doing already, right?

02:41:15.000 Yeah, and they probably have the ability to stop anything we're trying to do.

02:41:19.000 We're talking about something that can get here from another galaxy.

02:41:21.000 I have a feeling they're a little bit more advanced than us.

02:41:24.000 You know, when you go to the Amazon jungle and you visit an uncontacted tribe, you're not really worried about arrows if you have a tank.

02:41:31.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

02:41:33.000 Goddammit, I was promised in the 60s, late 60s, admittedly, I was young, a jetpack.

02:41:37.000 We're all going to have jetpacks.

02:41:39.000 Flying cars, remember?

02:41:39.000 Flying cars.

02:41:40.000 It didn't happen to this day.

02:41:42.000 I'm still pissed off about it.

02:41:43.000 Yeah.

02:41:45.000 But anyway.

02:41:46.000 Well, can you imagine how bad people drive? 1.00

02:41:47.000 They were just flying around, thinking about that idiot that T-boned you. 1.00

02:41:51.000 Look at that idiot's in the sky, checking his phone, and he slams into you, and you both go crashing into a target. 1.00

02:41:55.000 My truck would be a fucking mess at this point. 1.00

02:41:57.000 Both sides. 0.99

02:41:58.000 Not just one side.

02:41:59.000 Both sides.

02:42:02.000 No.

02:42:03.000 I think we did solve a couple of things.

02:42:05.000 I think we had a fun conversation.

02:42:07.000 That's all I expect.

02:42:08.000 But I always wanted to get your perspective on things because you're one of the few people that actually knows what they're talking about with these things.

02:42:14.000 So I appreciate you very much.

02:42:16.000 Thank you.

02:42:16.000 And if you don't mind me mentioning one more time.

02:42:20.000 Yeah.

02:42:22.000 Thank you for the invite that we had for UFC 303. I took my boy out there.

02:42:28.000 Nice.

02:42:29.000 He had the time of his life.

02:42:31.000 He hadn't been to the fights before, and he's a UFC fan, so he knows what he's doing, or he knows the players, and he had a great time out there.

02:42:38.000 Oh, good.

02:42:39.000 It was a great card.

02:42:39.000 Glad you had fun.

02:42:40.000 That was a great card, too.

02:42:41.000 Oh, 303. It looked like it might not be.

02:42:43.000 Right, but it pulled up.

02:42:44.000 Yeah, yeah.

02:42:44.000 Pulled up at the end.

02:42:45.000 Really?

02:42:46.000 Yeah.

02:42:46.000 Very nice.

02:42:47.000 Yeah, that final one with Pereira was great.

02:42:49.000 Yeah, God. 0.99

02:42:49.000 That's fucking terrifying. 0.99

02:42:51.000 Holy shit. 1.00

02:42:52.000 He's so terrifying. 1.00

02:42:54.000 Oh my god.

02:42:55.000 Yeah.

02:42:55.000 No, it was really good.

02:42:56.000 And I thought one of the best ones was, what's her name?

02:42:59.000 Macy.

02:43:00.000 Oh yeah, that was a great fight too.

02:43:01.000 Yeah, she did really well.

02:43:04.000 Yeah, it was a great card.

02:43:06.000 Yeah.

02:43:06.000 Anyway, the Vegas fights are always fun.

02:43:08.000 Yeah, but thank you.

02:43:08.000 I appreciate that.

02:43:09.000 You and your boy had a good time.

02:43:09.000 My pleasure, brother.

02:43:10.000 All right.

02:43:11.000 Tell everybody one more time, your podcast, how to get a hold of everything.

02:43:14.000 Yeah, it's the President's Daily Brief.

02:43:17.000 It's available on all podcast platforms.

02:43:19.000 It's twice a day.

02:43:21.000 You're in, you're out.

02:43:22.000 We tell you the key things.

02:43:23.000 We don't take up a lot of your time.

02:43:25.000 And then Bob's your uncle.

02:43:26.000 And then we do a weekend show.

02:43:28.000 And you can find that on our YouTube channel, at President's Daily Brief.

02:43:32.000 And it's also on the first TV. So we're kind of all over the place.

02:43:36.000 It's doing very well.

02:43:37.000 And I think it's doing well because of what we talked about.

02:43:39.000 It's just the news, right?

02:43:41.000 Yes.

02:43:41.000 And it's concise.

02:43:42.000 And it's just the top three or four issues going on at that moment.

02:43:46.000 But it's just the news.

02:43:47.000 It's not like some opinion thing where I'm spending a lot of time telling people how to think about it.

02:43:51.000 Yeah.

02:43:52.000 You know, I mean, occasionally I might let something slip, but for the most part.

02:43:56.000 So I think there's an appetite for that.

02:43:58.000 There certainly is.

02:43:59.000 There's a thing we were talking about yesterday.

02:44:00.000 I said the name wrong.

02:44:01.000 It's the 1440 project, right?

02:44:03.000 Isn't that what it is?

02:44:05.000 1440?

02:44:06.000 This is like objective news.

02:44:08.000 I get an email.

02:44:10.000 I'm on the email list.

02:44:11.000 Yeah, that's it.

02:44:12.000 Okay.

02:44:12.000 I recommend that.

02:44:13.000 It's very good.

02:44:14.000 Excellent.

02:44:14.000 Mike Baker, thank you very much, brother.

02:44:16.000 Appreciate you.

02:44:17.000 Likewise.

02:44:17.000 Bye, everybody.

The Joe Rogan Experience - August 29, 2024

Joe Rogan Experience #2197 - Mike Baker

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