The government has been shut down since midnight, and both sides seem to be nowhere near a deal. Plus, Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert appeared on each other s shows last night, where they played the I'm a millionaire victim card. Joining me to react to all of this and more is Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and host of Rumble's System Update, Glenn Greenwald.
00:00:51.800Plus, Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert appeared on each other's shows last night, where they once again played the I'm a millionaire victim card.
00:02:30.220So they weren't able to strike a deal.
00:02:32.480To me, it's so galling because it's like what the Democrats are saying is we want you to undo some of the things that just passed in the big, beautiful bill.
00:02:46.180And they're like, we're not going to fund the government unless you reverse pieces of your law.
00:02:50.760And the Republicans are like, that's not how legislation is done or undone.
00:02:56.420And that's not how spending is negotiated.
00:02:59.560And I think as near as I can tell, the Democrats are trying to follow the Ezra Klein rule where he was like, we've got to get out there and fight.
00:26:23.840Aren't Democrats demanding healthcare for illegal aliens?
00:26:26.080Democrats are demanding healthcare for everybody. We want to save lives. We want to make sure that
00:26:36.300healthcare is available to those who would die, but having the help of their government. You don't
00:26:45.620need to ask that question. You're just trying to get controversy here. You're not going to get it
00:26:49.880for me. We want to save healthcare for all people.
00:26:55.600I, how are we supposed to help those who won't help themselves, Glenn? I don't, I can't, I got nothing.
00:26:59.900Yeah. I mean, and that's somebody who is in as safe a seat as you could possibly be in, right? Like each party should want these kind of like bomb throwers, the ones who just go kind of far.
00:27:11.720And I know like, you know, sometimes they're, you know, each side has them like the Democrats have Jasmine Crockett. I think one of the reasons they like her is because she does throw those bombs and, and, and Republicans have had people like
00:27:21.940that who do that for a while, plays well on TV, et cetera. Maxine Waters is the ultimate case of somebody who could do that. She's like, she's going to, even after she dies, I'm convinced she's going to keep getting reelected. And they're going to like prop her up in that chair the way they did with Dianne Feinstein.
00:27:34.760And, and so like, why is she of all people afraid to just say like, yeah, we want healthcare for people who are in this country, who are contributing to our country, who are working and we don't want them dying in our streets, you know, because we cruelly deny people life-saving care. Like why not make that argument instead of acting all offended that you've been asked it?
00:27:52.560We, uh, do we have the Caitlin Collins, Mike Johnson soundbite guys? Okay. Cause he went on, uh, speaker Mike Johnson went on with Caitlin Collins last night. I just want to play the exchange. Here it is.
00:28:06.720As you know, people who are here in the United States legally have never been eligible for the Obamacare subsidies for Medicare, for Medicaid. Um, so what exactly are you saying that they're trying to do when you talk about giving free healthcare to them?
00:28:19.080I'm so glad you asked. Okay. So when we passed the one big, beautiful bill, the working families tax cut, we had Medicaid reforms in the bill. You and I talked about it on the air. What we did was to eliminate fraud, waste and abuse. There were a lot of people on the program who were enrolled in the program who were never eligible to be there. Medicaid is intended for eligible U.S. citizens, not illegal aliens, not also U.S. citizens who are able-bodied workers like young men.
00:28:42.940So we passed the law. The president signed it into law. Democrats voted against it, of course. And it's been wildly successful. The CBO, the Congressional Budget Office, which is the neutral arbiter of all these things, released a report a few weeks ago, earlier this month. And they said, you know what? The bill has had its intended purpose. Premiums are coming down. Listen, because 2.3 million ineligible enrollees had been kicked off of Medicaid, which helps to save the program, prop it up. And $185 billion has been saved already.
00:29:09.920So basically, she's obstinate on it, like refusing to understand what he's saying. It's been explained by him. It's in the bill. I'll tell you the three specific sections that Democrats want to roll back entirely from the big, beautiful bill, which I love. The Republicans are now calling the working families tax cut. It's like the names on Capitol Hill, right? Like somebody realized, oh, one big, beautiful bill doesn't really telegraph anything that helps our side. Let's call it working families tax cut. The next bill will be called, we'll help you live forever.
00:29:39.920Tax bill, whatever. Like, just shove any.
00:29:43.140I dare you to vote against that. Yeah, yeah, exactly.
00:29:45.120Right? Exactly. Just choose the selection from the land of Eden. So here are the three specific sections that they want to roll back entirely, as if they hadn't been enacted. And this would allow free health care to illegal aliens.
00:29:57.440One, it's Section 71109, alien Medicaid eligibility. Restricts Medicaid and other coverage starting in fiscal year 27 to U.S. citizens, to lawful permanent residents, to certain Cuban-Haitian entrants, and others.
00:30:13.820Okay, but it says exceptions remain for emergency services and certain care for lawfully present children and pregnant women. That's what I was getting to before. The law already requires you to take care of certain people like that, even if they're illegal and they come into the emergency room, and it still does.
00:30:27.860Okay, then there's Section 7110, expansion FMAP for emergency Medicaid. Reduces the federal Medicaid federal match rate for emergency services provided to illegal immigrants in states that expanded Medicaid.
00:30:42.860And then the last one is 71301, permitting premium tax credit only for certain individuals. Restricts eligibility for premium tax credits under the Obamacare law to lawful permanent residents, Cuban and Haitian entrants, and individuals lawfully present under certain agreements.
00:31:00.700They point out that Biden's administration circumvented this by granting legal status to groups like parolees and asylees. And basically what they did was they created an incentive system for hospitals to get reimbursed more if it's an illegal. They can get reimbursed more. You get this premium tax credit if you treat an illegal.
00:31:21.820And they reduce that saying, no, now you can only get this premium tax credit if the person you're treating is a U.S. citizen or somebody who's here lawfully. That's what they're fighting over.
00:31:29.740The Democrats want all of those repealed. And the Republicans are like, no. In any event, you're not going to hear any of that on, you know, mainstream media or on CNN, certainly, though Mike Johnson certainly tried to explain it to her.
00:31:42.400Here's J.D. Vance, by the way, taking a shot on Fox and Friends today and doing a good job of it. SOT7.
00:31:47.380They say we're not actually trying to give health care benefits to illegal aliens. And here's why it's not true.
00:31:52.220There are two Biden era programs that explicitly gave the taxpayer health care money to illegal aliens that we turned off when President Trump took over in January.
00:32:03.920Program number one is there's a lot of emergency health care at hospitals that are provided to illegal aliens that was funded by the federal government.
00:32:12.180We turned off that funding because, of course, we want American citizens to benefit from those hospital services, not to be taxed and then to have those hospital services go to illegal aliens.
00:32:22.360The second of which is the Biden administration gave mass parole to millions upon millions of illegal aliens, and then they simultaneously made those parolees eligible for health care benefits funded by taxpayers.
00:32:36.480In the one big, beautiful bill, President Trump and congressional Republicans turned off that money to health care funding for illegal aliens.
00:32:44.200The Democrats want to turn it back on.
00:32:45.640He's so effective, Glenn. There's there is no Democrat counterpart to J.D. Vance right now.
00:32:54.320Yeah, I mean, I'm a little at a disadvantage because I'm not the expert in these health care debates and in these legislative details.
00:33:02.320But, you know, I think the Democrats have kind of a conceptual argument, which is that one of the priorities of the Trump administration was to make sure that the tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans,
00:33:15.100for corporate America got cut even further, or at least the tax cuts remained and got extended.
00:33:20.880And then at the same time, they're trying to pay for those tax cuts by throwing people off of Medicaid.
00:33:26.500The argument of the Republicans is, no, we just want to make sure that there's no abuse going on with Medicaid.
00:33:30.460I think we can all agree that, you know, you leave it to like a bunch of regulators.
00:33:33.700Some people who maybe should be on Medicaid or have the right to be on Medicaid are going to get kicked off Medicaid.
00:33:38.240So you have a kind of you could create a conceptual argument that's based on a political ideology.
00:33:45.460The problem and this is the problem for Democrats, like if you have the populist wing of our Democratic Party, because populism has worked for Republicans to come in and say exactly that.
00:33:54.100That might be an effective understanding for Americans.
00:33:57.180The problem is, is that the donor base of the Democratic Party does not allow them to speak in populist terms because the donor base of the Democratic Party wants those Trump tax cuts as much as, you know, the corporations on the Republican side.
00:34:09.220And that leaves them with these like bureaucratic squabbles that are very difficult for people to understand and that ultimately do seem like, you know, they're they're arguing for more benefits for for people who are in the country illegally.
00:34:20.820And that's the problem that Democrats have on top of what you said, like J.D. Vance, you know, I think he's an extremely effective political communicator.
00:34:28.060And I also don't see a counterpart, as you said.
00:34:31.700I mean, you saw what happened when Tim Walts tried to go against him.
00:34:34.340And that was one of the biggest blowouts of a debate I've ever seen, the way that J.D. Vance handled that.
00:34:39.880And he only gets better the more you know, he's still a newly arrived person on the political scene and he's only getting better.
00:34:44.960And I think that's a big problem for Democrats as well.
00:34:47.140You know, you know, what J.D. does that is so effective is he does not run from the danger.
00:34:51.680He stays right over the target and he'll speak in very frank terms about it, which is very disconcerting for the other side.
00:34:59.060He doesn't telegraph fear at all by bridging away, by giving like a pat answer and then bridging to something more comfortable.
00:35:05.140He stays right over the target and completely exploits his own rationale and those of his side for why they're doing what they're doing.
00:35:15.500It's why people over time do come to see him as a truth teller, because he'll take you on no matter what you ask him, even if you think he's vulnerable when you pitch the question.
00:35:42.700All over where we go, people say, well, why can't you stop illegal immigrants or others from coming here?
00:35:52.700And the number one answer we give our constituents is when they come here, they can get jobs, get benefits against the law because of fraud.
00:36:00.580Yes, that's a problem, which now we're attempting to fix.
00:36:07.120But the Republicans have held steady on it and the Dems have switched their tune.
00:36:10.980OK, on the subject of J.D. and Gavin Newsom.
00:36:15.300So Hakeem Jeffries did not respond with an A.I. video of his own.
00:36:19.040He did not like jokingly show up with a little like one of those.
00:36:41.540And instead of taking aim at Trump, he takes aim at J.D. Vance, resurrecting a photo from J.D., I think, in law school at a costume party or a Halloween party.
00:39:02.980And now like now Gavin Newsom thinks that people have a working knowledge of this, that it's real and that he can use it to make fun of J.D.
00:39:11.920Like if I don't have a working knowledge of it for as much time as I spend online, for as much time as I spend paying attention to political discourse, as much time as I spend working on it because it's my job.
00:39:20.500How many people beyond like the hardest core of the hardcore like resistance liberal base even understands this reference?
00:39:30.420There's also this weird thing of like simultaneously trying to insist that, you know, being trans and experimenting with gender ideology is this wonderful liberating thing.
00:39:38.220But that I'm like mocking J.D. Vance for having done it.
00:39:47.920There are liberals and people on the left who are real people who actually speak in a real way, who understand things, who who have a set of opinions that they're not afraid to express.
00:39:56.060Those aren't the people who rise within Democratic Party ranks, though.
00:39:59.020And they're stuck with these like very state establishment figures trying to be something that they're not.
00:40:33.520They covered the Trump A.I. video for the listening audience on screen left.
00:40:37.900It's a screen grab of the Chuck Schumer standing next to Hakeem Jeffries wearing the sombrero and the fake Mexican mustache.
00:40:46.040And then on the right, they're interviewing Speaker Johnson.
00:40:48.420So that's why the screen grab shows him.
00:40:49.660But over the Schumer, Hakeem Jeffries sombrero shot, they've added the words A.I. generated image because they this is what they think of their audience, Glenn.
00:41:06.480They need to be told that Hakeem Jeffries did not grow a huge Mexican mustache overnight and show up in a sombrero next to Chuck Schumer.
00:41:17.660Well, also, you know what, Megan, part of this whole like self seriousness that's so pathetic is I saw a few MSNBC clips and they were, of course, they wanted to talk about the outrageous racism involved in this video.
00:41:30.780But they kept making a point of saying, like, look, we are a news organization and we will not show you this video.
00:41:43.700If like a politician is saying something you think is false, you can absolutely show the footage of the politician saying that it's false and then debunk it.
00:41:50.100But they were like, you know, remember when they used to like show Trump speeches and then Rachel Maddow would cut in and she, OK, enough, enough.
00:41:58.820And it's like you think because you're MSNBC and you're going to cut off Trump's speech or a comp, you know, it's just it's like the self seriousness that nobody.
00:42:06.960It's very, it is like it's very schoolmarm-y behavior.
00:42:11.400And the more Trump mocked it, the more they fall into it.
00:43:22.740Megan, the reason if you want to set it up, go ahead.
00:43:24.980But I have a very specific comment to make about this because it really amazed me since I was on your show two weeks ago and we talked about exactly this.
00:43:34.740I get off the air yesterday and I see, oh, my team sent it to me saying this is on Mediaite, which is a website that covers media right now.
00:43:45.200And it was like headline is Megyn Kelly seen as CBS News that I might be going to CBS News.
00:43:49.960And it's got my old pal Bernie Goldberg, who I love and who is great and worked at CBS, but with bad info, talking to another guy named John Daly, who I also know a little.
00:44:00.880And they're breaking the news that Newsflash, I was seen at CBS for a, quote, screen test and that I'm going to CBS News as part of like their attempt to become more fair and balanced over there now that they're under new ownership.
00:44:17.580And by the way, this hit without me even having been asked about it, like I got off the air and there it was.
00:44:25.620You know, typical journalistic practice would require that you call the target of your reporting to say, is this true?
00:44:30.620So then I find out later the guy who wrote it up for Mediaite sent a note to my producer while we were live on the air saying, is this true?
00:44:41.020And when he didn't receive a response back within an hour, posted it.
00:45:32.020And I do wonder why people were so excited to publish this after it was just a speculative report by Bernie, who has since retracted it, apologized and offered now an addendum on his own podcast saying he was wrong.
00:45:46.580Yeah, and it was also, like, it was so detailed, too.
00:45:51.860It was, like, that you had gone and done a screen test as though, like, CBS would need you to, like, let's see what Megyn Kelly looks like in front of a camera.
00:45:59.260Like, let's try and test how she might seem.
00:46:01.160But the thing personally that made me so amazed by it was that I was on your show, I don't know, two, three weeks ago, and one of the topics we discussed was Barry Weiss and the reports that she might go to CBS News or seems on her way to CBS News to assume some kind of editorial position.
00:46:17.160And you asked me about it, and I had my own views relating to the Ellison family and why they were buying up these properties.
00:46:22.540But your view on it, which you and I ended up discussing and agreeing on, was, like, why would you be an independent media, which is the place where everything is growing, everything is vibrant, it's the future of media, you're your own boss, you can do everything you want, you operate without constraints.
00:46:36.060Why would you give that up, especially if you have a large audience, you're having a successful independent media outfit, and go and submit to all the suffocating constraints that comes from working within a gigantic media conglomerate, only one unit of which is the media.
00:46:52.440And you were basically saying that as a friend of Barry's, you don't understand why she's doing it.
00:46:57.780So the fact that I just listened to you three weeks ago in a very passionate way say, you think it's crazy to give up a successful career in independent media where all the impact is, where all the growth is, to go and work for a dying corporate news outlet, to then, you know, open my computer and see Megyn Kelly is doing a screen test at CBS News because she wants to go there.
00:47:19.400You know, I just instantly knew it was false because you just told me three weeks ago how crazy you thought it was.
00:47:41.000But, you know, I just want to quickly say, like, you know, a lot of people distrust the media for good reasons.
00:47:45.880A lot of people understand that the media often spreads false claims.
00:47:49.680But I remember, like, the first time I was really at the center of a major international media story was when I did the Snowden reporting.
00:47:55.000And that's what, you know, it's one thing to, like, read in the newspaper things that you think are false.
00:47:59.920But so often I would read things in, you know, the most established procedures journals about things I did, things I said, things that happened in the middle that I was involved in.
00:48:08.840And they were said in the most authoritative tone.
00:48:12.560And it was, like, constant one after the next.
00:48:14.560And there's nothing like having the media say false things about you that makes you realize, like, the true depth and pervasiveness of how often they just fabricate and mislead and deceive.
00:48:27.820And I think that the reason that they ran with it and it went viral so quickly is because this organization, Mediate and others like it, want it to be true.
00:48:38.860They want some sort of affirmation from people in our lane that this is the wrong lane, that these other more traditional media entities are the right lane and the better lane.
00:48:51.100And my, like, returning to broadcast news would be an acknowledgment that this was just, like, the ugly redheaded stepchild over here as opposed to the prom queen, which is allegedly CBS News, when it's exactly the opposite.
00:49:06.340Yeah, like, we're all just waiting for the day that we can get back into corporate media and we're all pretending not to like corporate media.
00:49:12.160But the reality is we're just praying and hoping for the day when, like, we can go work.
00:49:16.220Like, imagine just going, like, entering the CBS corporate building and knowing that you have all these editorial bosses in comparison to what you're doing now.
00:49:22.900And it would be one thing if, like, we were reaching small numbers of people, but the way you reach the largest numbers of people now is by doing independent media.
00:50:12.120I'm sorry, with all due respect to her, it's not.
00:50:14.780And so it's just these sort of dinosaurs who are in that industry and cover that industry who still think that, you know, it's the sun and we all revolve around it and think that we're in just this lane that's just sort of odd or fringy.
00:50:26.920And that's great because those people are still going to be left behind while we're, you know, far ahead, actually making news and changing lives, like changing the whole presidential cycle.
00:50:36.280In any event, it's very fun to think about.
00:50:38.560And I'm here to tell you, there is zero chance I'm going to CBS News.
00:50:42.860And even Abby was like, did you go to a building near CBS?
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00:56:23.300Just FYI, the National Institute of Justice in 2022 did an analysis of the latest 172 mass shootings.
00:56:30.660Show that they were 52% white, 20.9% black, 8.1% Latino, and 6.4% Asian.
00:56:42.180Okay, so whites made up the majority, 52%, and blacks had 20% of the mass shootings,
00:56:50.460even though there are only 6% of the population black men.
00:56:56.480On top of that, Don Lemon conveniently excludes from his analysis what we're seeing when it comes to gang violence.
00:57:03.000And by the way, so do all of the stats.
00:57:06.000No stat that puts together who's committing the violence in America counts gang violence.
00:57:12.420And I say this almost eerily, Glenn, because it's a point that Charlie Kirk had literally just made before they shot him.
00:57:21.960That was a point he was raising about who's committing the mass shootings, that we don't have all the accurate data because they exclude gang violence.
00:57:30.640And moments later, his life was taken.
01:22:34.860And then you take away like any kind of spirituality to people and put them solely in a material world in like this environment of nihilism where they don't believe in anything.
01:22:47.920I don't think it's surprising that this is producing mass sickness.
01:22:51.400And, you know, all the data in Western democracy show depression and anxiety and addiction and suicide and suicidal ideation.
01:23:00.580Like all these are at very alarming and increasing rates.
01:23:04.220And I think it comes from this like spiritual malady that precisely because it is so complex, it is very difficult to to figure out how to resolve.
01:23:13.540But I also think it's important not to bracket that out because I think in a lot of ways it's at the root of so much.
01:23:18.720And what you're talking about, about like not seeing these people as real and talking about the fact that we mentioned because you and I are going to see each other on the tour for the first time in person, which is crazy that we haven't we haven't done an interview in person.
01:23:31.560I mean, we've been talking to each other for years.
01:23:33.840And there was you know how like sometimes just the one comment you see online bothers you and it can be like a total minority comment.
01:23:40.380But and normally I don't pay any mind to these, but this one did bother me.
01:23:44.260Somebody was like, how can you say you're a good friend of Charlie's when you also openly admitted when I was on with Tucker the other week that I never had dinner with Charlie like I didn't go out to lunch with Charlie.
01:23:53.960And I I would love to speak to that like you and I have never seen each other in person.
01:24:02.240I have actual friends in my life who I see socially, who I have not explored so many issues with the way you and I talk, whose views on the world and life and love and culture and politics and all of it.
01:24:13.760I have no idea about in the way I I know yours and like actual friendships can be born in in doing what we are doing right here at like really meaningful relationships.
01:24:25.680God forbid anything were ever to happen to you.
01:24:29.600And like I don't understand why people don't get that.
01:24:32.260You know, I did see Charlie in person many times and we talked behind the scenes and we did get to know each other very, very well on camera and off.
01:24:38.640But I never had social time with him in that way, like over a meal.
01:24:41.820And I think in part because Charlie didn't make any bones about the fact that he kind of had the who whose rule was that it was Mike Pence.
01:24:50.260The Mike Pence rule of not spending one on one time alone with a woman not named Erica Kirk, which is not a bad policy, by the way.
01:24:59.080I've been thinking a lot about it, about the people who come on the show regularly, who I really love, who I am going to see for the first time on this tour.
01:25:04.940It's meaningful, Glenn, in a way that I can't quite describe, but it is.
01:25:14.580And I will say, like, like, you know, I know you get criticism for having me on or for having Tucker on or for having whoever on.
01:25:24.000Obviously, you know, people say to me, like, oh, you claim that you think what's going on in Gaza is genocide.
01:25:28.420And you're constantly talking to Megan Kelly and complimenting her and she's supportive of Israel, which is ironic that you're getting accused for not when you are actually an Israel supporter.
01:25:37.040And, you know, what one of the things that I see this in terms of Charlie, too, like I didn't know Charlie well.
01:25:42.180But like he was always extremely generous with me, like very complimentary, just like very friendly, even though we were worlds apart in so many obvious ways.
01:25:50.060And one of the things I think can happen, too, like in terms of online presentation is that you can do so easy to pick the worst of people or the parts that make them seem the worst and put it together and make it seem like these are horrible people.
01:26:06.100Like if you're in public life enough, anyone can make you look like a horrible person based on things you've said that are real, that you regret making things that you said totally out of context.
01:26:14.260And so when people say to me, like, how can you talk to Megan Kelly? She supports these things you think are horrible.
01:26:18.800Like my my answer is, is because I know Megan Kelly, like I think she's a very good person, even though we have very strong disagreements that, you know, that we're able to go on and and debate often vehemently.
01:26:30.720And it doesn't affect our relationship with with one another. And I think that is what so much of what we're missing, that that's so much of what we're missing is the idea of humanity.
01:26:40.720You know, like just the fact that other than like psychopaths and sociopaths and people who are totally like ill and alienated, most of us have a common humanity that we want the same things.
01:26:52.140We have the same values. We crave the same things. And if you focus on that common humanity, as opposed to the minute somebody has a difference of opinion than I do on an important political issue, I consider them my enemy.
01:27:03.640I just think that makes the world like a much better place, not only like socially, but for each individual as well.
01:27:11.040And yeah, I do think it comes from exploring values, you know, like you get to know somebody from having these conversations long enough.
01:27:17.200And those are really important ways that that you can bridge the gap between why somebody thinks this and why you think that.
01:27:25.240And, you know, that's part of what I saw in Charlie, too.
01:27:27.300Like the Charlie that I knew personally was so gravely different than the Charlie that they're attempting to depict, that it really makes you understand how easy it is to lose sight of people's core humanity.
01:27:39.420And it's often done on purpose as well.
01:27:41.240So, yeah, this is why I'm putting together this this little rebuttal of what's being done to him, because I did know him.
01:27:47.720We talked about a lot of the controversies that would be around him many times on this show.
01:27:52.640I knew who he was and I refused to let his legacy be totally bastardized the way it's starting to be on the left as they're starting to push back against turning points.
01:28:02.740That's ongoing strength has, you know, more and more student groups sign up to join it.
01:28:07.420Last check was over one hundred and twenty two thousand, which is incredible because they only had two thousand on the day Charlie was killed.
01:28:13.220Two thousand between high school and college now over one hundred and twenty two thousand have applied.
01:28:17.720And I think they're feeling the threat of his growing legacy and they don't like it.
01:28:22.380And I don't know that not not staying on the left right front, but staying on like the assassin versus normal human front.
01:28:33.760It's no accident to me that the most recent acts of violence have have included two attacks on churches.
01:28:40.260The one in which the guy actually saw himself as a demon in the mirror target practice against the face of Jesus.
01:28:46.140I do. I just feel like there's something spiritual underfoot right now, something spiritually wrong.
01:28:52.260And that's something else that Charlie gave to us in his passing, which is like a renewed commitment to faith, a reminder that its absence entirely almost from the public square is not a good thing.
01:29:01.940It doesn't lead the society any place good.
01:29:04.860And that's also being fought by some sort of a force.
01:29:08.640You know, you can call it left or right.
01:29:59.500Yeah, you take some time at the top of that and you think about this world and how it exists other than in your, you know, immediate radius or do a cold plunge in a lake.
01:30:14.920Any of this stuff, it dwarfs you and your own individual humanity, which is a good thing.
01:30:22.380It reminds you how small you are in this world.
01:30:24.280You don't always need to be reminded of how big you are.
01:30:26.160Or you're small, you are but a cog in the wheel, and this thing is going to go on long after you.
01:30:31.520Maybe spend some time thinking about that, about like who else out there might be suffering, how you can help them.
01:30:37.020They always say like charitable works, doing something for others, no matter how much you have or don't have, is actually a direct route to happiness.
01:30:47.060Exercise is another way where you can improve the amount of serotonin in your brain and your feelings day to day that make you feel just a little bit more generous towards your fellow man.
01:30:57.060They look like small things, but they're not.
01:31:08.940I know you didn't, but I'll have the highlights for you.
01:31:11.340Let's get serious about what you're cooking with at home.
01:31:15.340You might not know this, but ultra-processed vegetable oils like canola, they're industrial byproducts once considered unfit for human consumption.
01:31:24.220Big food companies push these seed oils as healthy, sidelining the natural animal fats our families thrived on for generations.
01:31:31.300That's why I want to tell you about Golden Age Fats.
01:31:34.740Their 100% American-made grass-fed beef tallow brings back that wholesome tradition.
01:31:40.360This is the stuff that RFKJ fries his turkey in at Thanksgiving.
01:31:45.160You ever wonder, like, where does one get beef tallow?