On this episode of Pop Culture Crisis, we discuss the latest in the Trump/Biden saga, the California fires, TikTok's ban on TikTok, and much more. Plus, we have our first guest, Rep. Riley Moore (D-VA).
00:00:59.000I watched it, and he was talking a lot about BJJ. It was pretty interesting, a lot of the Brazilian jiu-jitsu talk.
00:01:07.000We've got a story coming out from CNN. Joe Biden is complaining.
00:01:14.000About Mark Zuckerberg and his decision to actually remove the fact checkers and go to a system more like community notes.
00:01:23.000We've got a story about California fires, which obviously that's probably the most morose, terrible thing that's been going on in the country.
00:01:34.000There are talks of people that have been arrested for setting fires for arson.
00:01:41.000There's discussions about how many people have lost their lives and stuff, so we'll cover that.
00:01:47.000And then there was a Supreme Court, it seems likely, to uphold a TikTok ban, and so we'll talk about that tonight.
00:01:58.000But before we get started, go buy some Casperu coffee.
00:02:03.000Two Weeks Till Christmas is available.
00:02:05.000It's got me on the cover looking ridiculous, as usual.
00:02:31.000And pick up the new board, the 28th Amendment, the sexy chicken on it.
00:02:38.000The 28th Amendment, chickens being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear and breed chickens shall not be infringed.
00:02:46.000So you want to run over there and pick that up.
00:02:50.000Before we get started, go on over to our...
00:04:02.000Whenever one of us goes on IRL, Mary talks about how she's like, look, I would do it, but I can't do it without getting everybody banned and in trouble.
00:04:23.000I feel like he's taunting people on X. From the post-millennial, Trump says New York sentencing is a despicable charade and vows to appeal.
00:04:36.000said that the radical Democrats have lost another pathetic and un-American witch hunt after Judge Juan Marchand imposed a sentence of unconditional discharge in the New York falsified business record case Donald Trump said the radical Democrats have lost another pathetic un-American witch hunt after spending tens of millions of dollars wasting over six years of obsessive work that should have been spent on protecting New Yorkers from violent,
00:05:01.000rampant crime that is destroying the city and state, coordinating with the Biden-Harris Department of Injustice and Lawless Weaponization, and bringing completely baseless illegal and fake discharges against your 45th and 47th president, me.
00:05:17.000I was given an unconditional discharge, Trump wrote.
00:05:21.000If you don't know what an unconditional discharge is, it is a sentence in a criminal case that typically means that a defendant is released from all disability arising under a sentence, including probation and parole.
00:05:33.000A sentence of unconditional discharge is imposed when the judge does not believe that it would be helpful to impose any conditions on the defendant.
00:05:39.000Unconditional discharge and eligibility is governed by state laws, which vary by state.
00:05:44.000And if you ask me, this is literally Literally, just so that way the Democrats can say, Donald Trump is a convicted felon and we got him.
00:06:46.000I really do think that it was just about they wanted to be able to say on, you know, because it's really, it's about, it's about the very, very committed progressives, you know, and they want to be able to say this is about, you know, or they want to be able to say on X and on, you know, journalists want to be able to say, hey, you know, we are, what do you got?
00:07:10.000See, he actually is a convicted felon, and now we can officially say it, and it's real, and that means that we kind of won, even though he's back.
00:07:19.000And now we can poo-poo all of the conservatives and anybody that would actually vote for him.
00:07:25.000We can feel great about ourselves while we say, you're a terrible person because you voted for a convicted felon, and I didn't, so I'm so much better than you.
00:07:34.000If it's not overturned by the court, I hope he pardons himself on the way out.
00:07:42.000I don't know if that's ever been tried.
00:07:43.000I know that question has been asked before, but I never got a straight answer.
00:07:46.000So is the point of doing it before the swearing-in ceremony, in your opinion, you think it's because they want to be able to say, you swore in a convicted felon?
00:07:54.000I just find it funny because it's not like that stopped people from having that argument on Twitter, because the same people who are saying that he's a convicted felon before he actually had the conviction are the same people who talk about being an insurrectionist, despite the fact that nobody ever...
00:09:15.000That doesn't matter anyways because they believe there's no truth but power so they love to wield the system against other people despite the fact that they don't believe in the system to begin with.
00:09:33.000It's okay for them to do things, but anyone else that does it, no matter what you do, you're bad, so they're just going to poo-poo you no matter what you do.
00:09:53.000From the guy that just yesterday, when Barack Obama and Donald Trump were sitting next to each other and yucking it up at the funeral of President Carter, he was like, oh, Oh, you know, we should come together and see even they can be civil and et cetera, et cetera.
00:10:08.000And then, of course, today he's like convicted felon.
00:11:08.000Indeed, extraordinary legal protections afforded the office of the chief executive is a factor that overrides all others, he says.
00:11:15.000They do not reduce the seriousness of the crime or justify its commission in any way.
00:11:19.000One power they do not provide is the power to erase a jury verdict.
00:11:24.000Ordinary citizens do not receive those legal protections.
00:11:27.000It is in the office of the president that bestows those to the officeholder.
00:11:32.000It is the citizenry of this nation that recently decided that you should once again receive But, as I was saying earlier, and in case, I mean, we've gone over the conditions of this particular case multiple times, but in case you aren't aware, the felony charges, the 34 felony charges that they love to talk about, that Donald Trump has been charged with, they're not felonies in and of themselves.
00:12:03.000That happened prior to the felonies to raise them from misdemeanors to felonies.
00:12:08.000And there's no crime that anyone has articulated or can articulate that Donald Trump has committed to raise them to felonies.
00:12:17.000So these are all actually misdemeanors.
00:12:19.000And on top of that, the statute of limitations of this particular crime, they had run out and they extended them so that Donald Trump could be charged.
00:12:36.000So anyone that's taking joy, like Brian Krasenstein or anyone else, that takes joy and glee in saying, oh, Donald Trump's now really a convicted felon, these are the people that allow for society to break down from the inside.
00:12:49.000Because if you don't have a judiciary that the people can trust, then you have people deciding that it's not worth going to the police.
00:12:57.000That means that they take the law into their own hands or they don't report crimes.
00:13:02.000And you end up with a downward cycle in your city.
00:13:06.000And you see this in New York now where people aren't reporting crimes.
00:13:13.000They don't feel like the police are going to do anything.
00:13:14.000And it's caused massive uptick in crime.
00:13:19.000It causes a breakdown in society, you know?
00:13:21.000Yeah, I mean, and it also just erodes trust in the entire system and the citizenry, right?
00:13:25.000I mean, there's guys like Maduro down in Venezuela that just stole another election looking at us like, wow, I can't believe they did that.
00:13:31.000You know, I mean, this really erodes our legitimacy.
00:13:40.000Our authority, I guess, as you could say, is the United States of America.
00:13:44.000I mean, it puts us in a really bad position where we're trying to tell maybe perhaps other countries or other people like, hey, maybe don't do this or this or that.
00:14:00.000And the other thing that's annoying about stuff like this is like...
00:14:03.000How far down the timeline, whether it's one of the Krasensteins or anybody else that's like a far left on Twitter, a far leftist on Twitter, how far down their timeline from some tweet about Donald Trump being a convicted felon will I have to go to find something about how great Luigi is.
00:14:55.000I'm just checking what y'all think about that, because I was worried while he was still on the campaign trail, Kind of spacey, kind of tired, and I was concerned that he, like, does he really understand the gravity of the situation for himself?
00:15:15.000And then afterwards, I listened to this interview that Siaka Massaqua gave recently, and he talked about getting persecuted for appearing at January 6th and committing no crime.
00:15:29.000But he was certain that he was going to go to federal prison if Trump didn't win this election.
00:15:44.000He was arrested right after the premiere event for Lady Ballers and it was timed so that there would be as much media coverage as possible.
00:15:53.000And he knew for a fact that he was going to...
00:15:56.000Go to federal prison if Trump didn't win.
00:15:58.000I just felt like there was so much hanging in the balance and we weren't really talking about it.
00:16:22.000I don't completely understand that kind of worry.
00:16:25.000I don't think because Donald Trump has won and it's been certified, even if something happened to Donald Trump, it would be J.D. Vance that would be inaugurated.
00:16:34.000J.D. Vance would become the president.
00:16:35.000And I do believe that J.D. Vance is as competent as Donald Trump or possibly more, if I'm honest.
00:16:42.000I think that J.D. Vance is really, really a sharp guy.
00:16:45.000And I think Donald Trump gets a lot of...
00:16:49.000Things right because he's got good gut instincts, but he's not, you know, he's not reading.
00:16:53.000I would imagine there are a lot of interested parties who like J.D. Vance and don't like Trump.
00:17:00.000Possibly, but so at least the premise of the conversation that we've been having here is the threat of people with conservative or unpopular or counterculture ideas being punished by the government.
00:17:14.000So like you were talking about, I forget the guy's name, I'm sorry, what was his name?
00:17:18.000So I remember when, you know, after, when Donald Trump won, you know, he was walking around the Daily Wire like, I don't have to go to jail!
00:17:42.000Yeah, and so today, we did the culture.
00:17:44.000I did the culture this morning with Kyle Serafin and George Hill, I think was his name, was his last name.
00:17:50.000And that was one of the things that we talked about a lot, is the situation with the FBI and with the government, the way that they've been treating the American people, violating their rights, and completely and totally, you know, completely in the pocket of the...
00:18:10.000The intelligence community, they've been running roughshod over the Fourth Amendment and stuff.
00:18:14.000And I think that the idea that people could have dissenting opinions, if it had been Kamala Harris that won, they would have gone after Elon Musk for having dissenting opinions.
00:19:20.000And on these whole charges, I mean, you know, one of them was him overvaluing like Mar-a-Lago or something like that, and he says, $18 million?
00:19:32.000So real quick about that, the idea of the problems that they said that arose around Mar-a-Lago and the value and stuff like that, that calls into question if your property rights are safe, and if you can rely on the government, and if you don't have...
00:19:47.000Property rights are the engine, are the very foundation of any economy.
00:19:53.000If you cannot trust the government to protect your property rights and Deal fairly with you, then investment stops.
00:20:00.000Kevin Leary was talking about this on, not MSNBC, but the...
00:20:08.000If you don't have a government that will protect property rights for investment, no one's going to invest anything, and your economy will crash.
00:20:15.000And if the United States economy crashes, the whole world economy crashes.
00:20:20.000And people people get wrapped up in the oh, you know, it's only an economic argument.
00:20:25.000If the United States economy crashes, tens of millions, possibly hundreds of millions of people die because the United States gives more money away and gives more food to places that are on the verge of starvation than any other country in the world.
00:20:39.000So the U.S., if the U.S. economy crashes, it's not just, oh, number go down.
00:20:44.000It's millions and millions and millions and millions and millions of dead people.
00:20:49.000So the idea that it's just an economic argument, that is a total farce.
00:20:53.000It is the United States that gives away more money and gives away more food aid than any other country in the world.
00:21:01.000So we were talking about, real quickly, about Zuckerberg and stuff.
00:21:05.000So let's go to this story from Tim Cass News.
00:21:26.000I want to put that in people's heads before we go on.
00:21:29.000Understand the kind of numbers that we're talking about here.
00:21:33.000Now understand you have the pandemic, and then you have...
00:21:38.000The administration is doing something where I think they crossed the line, where it gets really weird, where they're saying what you were saying.
00:21:44.000They were trying to get you to take down vaccine side effects, which is just crazy.
00:21:51.000Yeah, so, I mean, like you're saying, I mean, this is...
00:21:56.000It's so complicated, this system, that I could spend every minute of all of my time doing this and not actually focused on building any of the things that we're trying to do.
00:22:05.000AI, glasses, the future of social media, all that stuff.
00:22:09.000So I get involved in this stuff, but in general, we have a policy team.
00:22:15.000The people are kind of working on this on a day-to-day basis.
00:22:17.000And the interactions that I was just referring to, a lot of this is documented.
00:22:25.000You know, Jim Jordan and the House had this whole investigation and committee into the kind of government censorship around stuff like this.
00:22:33.000And we produced all these documents and it's all in the public domain.
00:22:35.000I mean, basically, these people from the Biden administration would...
00:22:40.000Call up our team and scream at them and curse.
00:22:43.000These documents are all kind of out there.
00:22:46.000Did you record any of those phone calls?
00:23:00.000I'm going to press X to doubt on that one.
00:23:04.000I would love to see those kind of things come out.
00:23:08.000The idea that the federal government leaned so heavily on Facebook, this isn't a surprise to us here, but it is nice to hear someone like Zuckerberg admitting it.
00:23:19.000I mean, the Twitter files came out and you knew what the government was doing at Twitter before Elon Musk got in there.
00:23:28.000And honestly, again, you were talking about divine intervention.
00:23:32.000While I don't share your faith, it is clear that without things like Elon Musk buying Twitter, without things like Donald Trump moving his head just an inch or two, the whole world would be different right now.
00:26:19.000I do like in the future that the people in charge are like, look, if you forget what you're saying, just ask the reporters what they think.
00:27:04.000And that's the system that they're going to...
00:27:07.000Mark Zuckerberg was saying on the Joe Rogan podcast that they're going to be implementing something similar to Community Notes where the actual users...
00:27:16.000The actual users of Facebook, so what do you think you're going to get out of that?
00:27:20.000But the actual users are going to be upvoting and downvoting stuff.
00:27:24.000I assume that maybe he's going to actually, it'll be like, it'll actually be on Instagram where it'll get, you know, normal stuff.
00:27:30.000Because it's just going to be Boomerville on Facebook.
00:27:35.000I will be honest, I don't like the way that community notes are used on X. It seems like the most part they're just kind of used as clapbacks and like sassy little remarks.
00:27:49.000The community notes are turning into memes.
00:27:53.000Before community notes were used, you just looked at the replies to a tweet and saw people refuting it.
00:28:00.000But do you mean like you were asking more of the actual engagement between you and your audience to know that you had to go down through the comments to actually find the truth, whereas now you just looked to the note.
00:28:11.000We didn't need to dumb it down like that.
00:28:13.000And the fact that there were contradicting pieces of information all over the place meant that you go down your timeline and continue reading until you get some amalgamation of what's actually going on.
00:28:23.000If you have more than two brain cells, right?
00:28:27.000Well, do you so do you think that I don't think it's crazy and I think that there's there's probably substance to it.
00:28:35.000But do you think that this system is better than the fact checkers?
00:28:42.000I'm not sure that we do, but I do think that considering the fact that...
00:28:48.000I think that this has come a long way from, you know, approved messaging from the establishment, which is what fact-checkers were.
00:28:59.000I mean, they were, Mark Zuckerberg was saying that they're unquestionably ideological.
00:29:04.000And that they had a specific motivation, and they were telling him that things that were obviously true, that he knew were true, he was saying they were saying things, they're like, no, you have to take this down, and this isn't true and stuff.
00:29:17.000And if that's what fact-checkers are doing, then that flies in the face of everything the old man said.
00:29:44.000Do we believe that Mark Zuckerberg just woke up on the right side of the bed one day and was like – I was wrong about everything.
00:29:52.000The whole point is that once you realize that there's a better business model out there that flies in the face of everything that's been going on for the last 8 to 10 years, the idea is you financially encourage it for them.
00:30:04.000Because the best way to get somebody to believe what you believe or help them see the truth is to make it financially beneficial for them if we're talking in the business market.
00:30:13.000Because that's what they're looking to do.
00:30:15.000They want to make money and they want to continue growing their business.
00:30:36.000As far as Zuckerberg goes, though, I mean, I think, honestly, I think a lot of what, one of the things that Zuckerberg was mentioning was when the United States applies pressure like that, the rest of the world takes notice, and they start applying pressure as well.
00:30:49.000So they couldn't, like, they had to...
00:30:52.000They had to deal with the United States and then the rest of the world decided they were really going to come down on them.
00:30:57.000Because if the United States isn't standing up and saying, no, we don't do this, we don't allow this, there was a time where the United States would step in and defend American companies.
00:31:19.000The United States needs to step in and protect the companies that are American companies.
00:31:23.000And the United States does have the ability to apply significant pressure to other countries and say, look, you can't tell American companies that they have to abide by your rules.
00:31:35.000Well, this is what Tim Cook was saying when he was asked about donating money to Trump's inauguration campaign, is that people were saying, how could you possibly, you know, the head of Apple, a gay man, how could you donate money to Donald Trump's...
00:31:50.000Donald Trump doesn't hate gay people, he just knows.
00:31:52.000But they're ideologically bent, and they don't understand that.
00:31:55.000And he said he's great for business, and he's great for our interests in other countries, and that's the point.
00:32:02.000One of the things that Zuckerberg was saying when he was talking about the pressure that he gets, I think that the change in his attitude is less because of...
00:32:15.000It's less because it's some kind of awakening, because he's referenced the talk that he gave at a college five years ago.
00:32:25.000He referenced it here, and some of the people on the board at Facebook were discussing with press, and they had mentioned that same talk.
00:32:34.000And I think Mark Zuckerberg looks at this as an opportunity.
00:32:40.000With Donald Trump coming in and noticing the kind of change in temperature of society, he's looking at it as an opportunity to take action and do something substantive at Facebook that he believes the United States will help apply.
00:32:58.000Because Facebook is the biggest social media network globally still, if I understand correctly.
00:33:04.000And so places like India, which has 1.5 billion people, there is Facebook in India, if I understand correctly.
00:33:13.000I do believe that Zuckerberg is looking at this through a business opportunity perspective, but I think that he's thinking, I now will have the support of the federal government.
00:33:26.000The United States federal government to actually implement policies globally that will be positive for things like free speech and the free exchange of ideas.
00:33:38.000And I think that he looks at it and says, I'll have the government backing me up as opposed to trying to fight all of these other governments.
00:33:46.000And the United States federal government.
00:33:47.000He's not going to be getting the pressure from the Biden administration anymore.
00:33:51.000He's going to have an administration that isn't hostile to business at all.
00:33:56.000If you listen to the All In podcast, are you familiar with that?
00:34:19.000The left is just generally hostile to business.
00:34:21.000And if you get a person in a position of authority like Donald Trump that isn't hostile to business, there can be great things done for the economy, for the people.
00:34:29.000And again, I understand there's a lot of people right now that are kind of skeptical of, you know, number go up kind of ideas.
00:34:36.000But number go up kind of ideas actually translates to human beings living better lives.
00:34:46.000So I understand, you know, you don't want to, you don't want to, I understand people that are like, look, the United States has to look out for the U.S. first.
00:35:51.000While both the O-1 and H-1B visas allow skilled foreign workers to temporarily work in the U.S., the key difference is that an O-1 visa is for individuals with extraordinary ability in their field, like science, arts, business, or athletics, while an H-1B visa is for professionals in specialty occupations requiring a bachelor's degree, and it's typically employer-specific.
00:36:11.000There is massive abuse of the H-1B visa.
00:36:14.000I'll give you an example, like accountants.
00:36:22.000We have plenty of people in this country that have accounting degrees.
00:36:25.000The difference is that they're going to pay them far less money.
00:36:28.000To bring them in on that H-1B visa, which then the American is not getting that job.
00:36:33.000And so it just doesn't make any sense at all.
00:36:38.000What countries are they looking at for those purposes?
00:36:41.000Well, I mean, it's all over the world, but you get a lot from India, for instance.
00:36:44.000It's just insane to me that Vivek is tweeting about this, getting all mad, and he's like, it just means that the accountants from India are just better at accounting.
00:37:37.000I mean, even just a small fix on it, it would just be, first you went out and sought Americans for these jobs, and then in the absence of being able to fill those positions, then you applied for H-1B visas.
00:37:49.000Fun fact, they brought me into this company on an H-1B visa.
00:38:51.000Thousands of firefighters are battling at least five sprawling wildfires spread around the L.A. area.
00:38:56.000The largest, the Palisades Fire in Pacific Palisade, has scorched over 20,000 acres, destroyed thousands of structures, and is 8% contained.
00:39:06.000The Eaton Fire in Altonita now stands at more than 13,000 acres and 0% contained.
00:39:12.000More than 150,000 people are under evacuation orders.
00:39:17.000This is probably the biggest disaster since Katrina.
00:39:23.000I mean, Katrina was an absolute train wreck of a mess in New Orleans, and this seems to be, you know, I think...
00:39:33.000Worse than the hurricanes from last year?
00:39:37.000I mean, there's a lot of damage in North Carolina, and I think that the government performed—it will shake out that the government performed significantly worse in North Carolina than here because of the people that are affected here.
00:39:54.000I think the federal government's going to be throwing money at the millionaires that have lost their million-dollar homes and stuff.
00:40:01.000But I do think that at the end of the day, you're probably going to see at least a few hundred dead.
00:40:08.000And I don't know exactly how many people died in the hurricanes, but this has impacted a lot more people.
00:40:17.000And again, they're predicting fire, winds picking back up.
00:40:23.000In the next couple days, and with fires that are 8% or 0% contained, these fires have been raging for now three or four days, and they've had no ability to contain them.
00:40:34.000That just means that there's going to be more and more destruction.
00:40:41.000And look, I've been to LA a lot, and these areas, there's a lot of...
00:40:49.000Shrubbery and dry stuff that can burn.
00:41:30.000It's definitely, yeah, that's how you know it's true.
00:41:33.000I have said before, the Venn diagram of mentally ill and homeless is almost a circle.
00:41:41.000And when you get mentally ill people, you know...
00:41:44.000Get them in a dry, shrubby place, things spark.
00:41:48.000Well, you know, the terrible thing on this, too, is so many people did not have home insurance because the insurance companies had dropped them because obviously they did their own kind of empirical study on it and said this place could catch on fire because the state of California stopped the control burns.
00:42:30.000A form of socialism that always leads to terrible unintended consequences.
00:42:35.000Don't forget, they were going to those fire hydrants and there was not any water in them at all because they'd been letting out this water.
00:42:41.000President Trump talked about this to try to protect this specific fish that apparently they voted for in a referendum, I think that's right, like 2010. They voted for this referendum to protect this fish and so they didn't let the water out into the Pacific Ocean.
00:43:45.000When they did whatever it was, the referendum for the fish and letting the water out, did they say that this could be a risk down the line, that there might not be water for the – I don't know that as a fact, but I highly doubt.
00:44:14.000They're running it like a direct democracy over in California, and at the end of the day, the deep state runs the place because everybody is on such short-term limits within the state legislature that the administrative staff that just runs it there, they make the call.
00:44:32.000So then these citizens look at it and say, okay, well, they don't have any clue that they could be at risk.
00:44:38.000You know, the people in the area are like, okay, we'll put ourselves at risk for this fish.
00:44:47.000Well, I mean, it's kind of the same thing as, like, gun control, right?
00:44:50.000Like, you legislate yourself out of the ability to defend yourself because they don't have the ability to think more than one or two steps ahead.
00:44:57.000I mean, think about, okay, outside of the United States, Germany, right?
00:45:00.000This war that's been going on with Ukraine and energy getting shut off there.
00:45:04.000They shifted so quick and so rapidly to this green energy economy over in Germany.
00:45:30.000Phil's point, it's not focused on human flourishing, human good, trying to have the individual be able to maximize their life and their true potential.
00:45:38.000You mentioned Gavin Newsom and about the mismanagement.
00:45:43.000He's calling for an investigation into wildfire water supply.
00:45:48.000So, KTLA is reporting Los Angeles, California Governor Gavin Newsom has ordered an investigation into the Los Angeles Department of Water...
00:45:58.000Of water of power amid reports of a loss of water pressure to fire hydrants and limited water resources in the wildfire zones.
00:46:06.000In the letter addressed to LADWP, Chief Executive Officer and Chief Engineer Janice Quinonez and L.A. County Public Works Director Mark Pastrella Newsom wrote, Of loss of water pressure to some local fire hydrants during the fires and the reported unavailability of water supplies from the Santa Ynez Reservoir are deeply troubling to me and to the community.
00:46:33.000We need answers to how this happened, Newsom continued, explaining his decision to order an independent investigation from state water and fire officials examining the cause of lost water supplies and pressure.
00:46:45.000I am sure they will get to the bottom of it!
00:46:50.000This guy's been in state government forever.
00:46:55.000One of the things that has been discussed regarding California a lot is single-party rule, right?
00:47:02.000And this is one of the things that, again, we're going to kind of tilt back to the, or reference back to your talk about divine intervention.
00:47:09.000One of the things that Elon Musk was concerned with is one-party rule in the United States.
00:47:15.000These are the kind of terrible things that happen when you have one-party rule.
00:47:19.000You look at Mexico, they've had a one-party rule in that country for decades, probably 50 years, right?
00:47:25.000And because of it, the crime is rampant, the corruption is rampant, there's no serious...
00:47:44.000And right to your point, though, about the single party rule, they've locked it in like that now because they have a jungle primary system.
00:47:53.000So for those that aren't familiar, they have this primary where the top two vote getters go on to the general election.
00:48:01.000And many times that just ends up being the top two Democrats running in a general election.
00:48:07.000Just to remind everybody, primaries are their parties nominating somebody to run in a general election.
00:48:27.000So we were going to talk about the arsonist, right?
00:48:34.000So there's video that we have from the New York Post here of a homeless man with a flamethrower, and he's busted on suspicion of arson near L.A.'s Kenneth Fire after residents detained him.
00:48:45.000The residents are taking care of this.
00:49:03.000But, I mean, I don't know for sure that this gentleman is mentally ill, but if you're starting fires when there's massive fires already happening...
00:49:24.000Are a little on the nihilistic side probably feel like it's easier to avoid getting caught well, I'm maybe feel like if you do get caught there's not gonna be significant punishment either because Historically, California has only recently decided to start enforcing the law though.
00:49:40.000There was a referendum that just went just past this past, you know, November where the the Public decided that they want to see people be punished for shoplifting and stuff.
00:49:55.000So, like, it doesn't have to be $900 anymore?
00:49:57.000I don't know when it goes into effect, but that was the referendum.
00:50:01.000They want to see people actually getting punished.
00:50:03.000And I actually saw a little clip from X of two girls in the back of a cruiser, and they were talking about what happened, and one of them was like, whoa, this is a felony?
00:50:32.000I don't know, over the last several thousand years.
00:50:36.000Which goes back to my argument about property rights, right?
00:50:39.000Even if it's the small things like a couple thousand dollars in clothing or bags that they could grab from a department store and run out the door, if you don't actually prosecute that stuff, then people will feel like it's just acceptable to go ahead and steal, and then you'll get more and more of it.
00:50:57.000Thankfully, for California's sake, they decided, hey, this is too much for us.
00:51:08.000And small businesses are the businesses that get hurt the most.
00:51:11.000The mom-and-pop stores, as if it's not hard enough to compete with Walmart.
00:51:15.000Walmart, it doesn't really hurt Walmart much if someone goes in and they grab a boatload of clothes that they paid 35 cents a shirt for or whatever and run out the door.
00:51:24.000Mom-and-pop store doesn't get the same kind of bulk discount and they can't absorb that kind of shrink.
00:51:56.000These really edgy takes about how they deserve this, but in a lot of ways.
00:52:00.000Their voting brought this upon themselves.
00:52:02.000So we're talking about the rampant theft.
00:52:06.000California's fight against rampant retail theft gets a boost in 2025. A series of laws enacted by the legislature and signed by Governor Gavin Newsom will take effect on January 1. So they have gone into effect now.
00:52:18.000They include a new method for calculating the value of stolen goods to meet felony charges, lowering the threshold for police to make arrests for shoplifting and increasing sentences.
00:52:31.000And to Mary's point, like, look, man, California, I mean, we've all been to California, right?
00:52:38.000I love California, but I couldn't live there because of the laws.
00:52:43.000The awesome things about California are why the government gets to behave the way that it does, because people are like, man, the government sucks here.
00:52:54.000But then, like, when you're, you know, in Lakewood, In February, and you look over, and the mountains are snow-capped, and you're wearing shorts because it's 75 degrees.
00:53:05.000You're like, man, this place is badass, man.
00:54:13.000Even Hollywood in the last year now, Gavin Newsom had to introduce new tax credits to try to get them to bring production back to California because during the pandemic, they just started outsourcing everything to other countries, whether it's stuff for post-production, CGI, or even now shooting overseas because they get massive tax credits to films in places like the UK.
00:54:34.000So there, you know, Hollywood being the huge part of the California economy that it is, thousands upon thousands of people are out of work and they're trying to now coax them back.
00:54:43.000But once it's gone, it's very hard to draw them back.
00:54:47.000Yeah, I imagine, you know, if you lived in California, like, you know, the Daily Wire's not going back to California.
00:54:54.000And they moved not just the Daily Wire, all those families and stuff they left.
00:54:59.000If you lived in California and you loved it there and you grew up there and it got so bad that you're like, I'm actually leaving my home and I'm going to go, you know, go to Texas or go to Florida, go to wherever.
00:55:12.000And then, like, It's going to take an immense amount to get you to go back.
00:55:20.000And the funny thing about California, though, in a not-too-distant past, they would periodically elect Republican governors.
00:55:41.000In the future, I mean, if you look at Donald Trump's raw vote total there in California, it moved up.
00:55:47.000I think it was close to 2 million or over 2 million additional votes he got in 2024 as opposed to 2020. So, not saying it's totally impossible, and we do hold congressional seats in California, in Southern California, Orange County.
00:56:22.000That every new home construction must have solar panels on it, which then you layer that cost on top of it, environmental impact study, and all this other thing as it goes into construction, and that's how you get a $2 million home that's the size of the studio.
00:56:37.000Yeah, I've got a friend that's got a nice house.
00:56:44.000By any stretch of the imagination, you wouldn't call it a mansion.
00:56:47.000It's a little bit bigger than my mom's house in Western Mass, and I'm pretty sure that his lot is over a million dollars because it's in Lakewood, and it's a beautiful neighborhood, and the school there is good.
00:57:23.000I mean, some people whose homes are getting destroyed by these fires right now have been offered sums of money that are far less than what would they be offered for their homes.
00:57:33.000They're getting offered the money for the land for after their homes are destroyed.
00:57:37.000I did just want to add to the unfortunate thing is when people from California.
00:57:42.000from California are moving to other states.
00:57:58.000Well, we do that here in West Virginia.
00:58:00.000I mean, it's happening here, too, because of, like, D.C. people coming for this area.
00:58:05.000We do get, you know, there's a lot of people moving into the eastern panhandle of West Virginia.
00:58:09.000But what I'll say is, tale of two Virginias here, Virginia versus West Virginia.
00:58:15.000We are focused on economic growth here in West Virginia, just like Virginia was as well.
00:58:19.000But we've instituted a lot of social policies and laws that are not favorable to the left, that they look at that stuff before they move somewhere.
00:58:30.000And you go to a state like West Virginia where...
00:58:42.000Do you think people that are ostensibly on the left are people from...
00:58:46.000States like California, do you think they look into the gun laws, or do they just think everybody has a gun on them all the time?
00:58:51.000I think they do, and I mean, obviously, West Virginia's got a reputation, which, by the way, anybody listening, we have one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
01:00:43.000Head-scratching moment in the firefight going on right now throughout the city of Los Angeles.
01:00:49.000Sources told NBC4. Is Kristen Crowley the large woman that said, if your husband is in a position where I need to carry him out, he shouldn't have got himself there?
01:01:48.000Yeah, $27 million does matter, and especially when you hear stories about, oh, they're using X amount of dollars for this particular stupid program and X amount of dollars for this other stupid program, some leftist fart-smelling garbage.
01:02:06.000It is worth talking about, but I don't actually think that, as much as I love to go ahead and dunk on the Democrats, I don't think that...
01:02:15.000The cuts are the problem, I think, that the people in the mismanagement are the problem.
01:03:20.000There should be no women in the military, no women in the Secret Service.
01:03:24.000Nancy Mace was here last night saying if the women if women can meet the standard, then they should be allowed and that there should be no change in the standard.
01:03:33.000And while that she come out here, she was here last night.
01:04:00.000Clearly not a woman who has the proper levels of empathy.
01:04:05.000The point that I'm making is I don't think that even if a woman can meet the standards, I don't think that women should be in these roles generally because I think that it's not that there aren't women that possibly could do it or it's not that there aren't women that possibly could be in these positions and perform the jobs well.
01:04:27.000It's that Because women are going to Put the effort in to try, people are going to, invariably, they're going to say, well, she's trying.
01:04:37.000And they're going to, you know, they're going to lower the standards.
01:04:40.000Even if they say, well, we'll just give you a hand to get over the line and just give you a little bit extra.
01:04:46.000And I think that that's something that's innate in humans because people, men defer to women.
01:04:53.000Men are always deferential to women, whether we admit it or want, like it or not.
01:04:57.000Psychologically, when these people are going into like...
01:05:19.000I mean, there are times where if a dude takes a round, if he's running across the street and there's dudes in cover and a dude takes a round and he's out there, you know you're not supposed to go out there because there's someone out there that's going to shoot you too.
01:05:31.000And there's going to be two people laying in the street.
01:05:33.000I just saw pictures from Fallujah of that exact thing happening.
01:05:42.000They're more likely to be like, we gotta get her, as opposed to being like, man, find whoever's shooting and take care of them before you go get the guy out.
01:05:50.000Also, it's not just all these practical concerns, but women have...
01:05:54.000Innate value, and they are not disposable.
01:05:58.000They cannot be sent into these combat situations, life or death situations like this.
01:06:03.000It's kind of lost on people because we're living in this post-birth control age.
01:06:08.000But it's women's physiology that gives them this innate value, and we should not feel okay about sending them into these situations.
01:07:52.000It's just Twitter from 2017. Well, I mean, kind of, kind of.
01:07:57.000They're a little more histrionic now because they've lost a lot.
01:08:01.000So the intensity level of the freakout is a little higher.
01:08:06.000But one of the things that I noticed about TikTok that's actually good...
01:08:13.000Is the way that they encourage creators.
01:08:16.000So if you're doing uncontroversial stuff, like if you're making food videos or you're doing cooking videos or you're building whatever, like little houses out in your yard or birdhouses or whatever, they tell you in clear language how to upload and how to behave.
01:08:38.000To get your account to the point where you're making money and where you're going to attract viewers.
01:08:45.000And for some reason, Instagram still hides that like it's some magical power.
01:08:51.000They don't want people to reach the followers.
01:08:54.000It's far more curated and hands-on on any other platform, and that's what was so mind-blowing to me when I downloaded TikTok in the middle of the pandemic, is just seeing organic virality for the first time as an internet user.
01:09:16.000I mean, I did have Vine when I was in middle school, but like...
01:09:21.000I started using the internet after apps were a thing and everything was user experience optimized and you didn't have to find your own way and figure everything out for yourself and learn to code to make your MySpace layout and stuff.
01:10:35.000I used to have a Facebook page and they got to the point where I had like 60,000 or something like that before I got rid of it.
01:10:40.000And it got to the point where like I would post something and like a couple hundred people would see it.
01:10:46.000And I'm just like, why am I letting you get access to all of my data when you won't even like put the people that follow, you know, put my posts into the...
01:10:56.000Feeds of people that follow me, especially seeing as, you know, I was doing it for the band and stuff, and I understand they're like, oh, you know, we want you to pay us to advertise your band.
01:11:05.000It's like, well, I'm already the product, right?
01:11:07.000You're already stealing all my info and stuff.
01:11:27.000I mean, as we're pointing out here, right, boomers use it, they vote, right?
01:11:31.000Is it, like, is it the specific type of content?
01:11:33.000Meaning, are we talking, like, posts that are written, or are we talking video posts?
01:11:37.000No, it's all of it, because you can be so targeted on your advertising, so you can literally drill all the way down, I mean, inside of, like, a neighborhood if you wanted to, right?
01:11:50.000I mean, you can just drill really far, and this is before they started kind of Tapering some of that back.
01:11:57.000But, I mean, you could, they'll skew for, and you can go in and say, well, I want somebody who's a 404 voter, conservative, lives in the zip code, likely to vote in midterm election, blah, blah, blah, blah.
01:12:13.000And so you can target ads very specific to a group of people that, I mean, Facebook, trends older, those folks are going to vote.
01:12:24.000Instagram, which I guess TikTok would trend the youngest, but like Instagram, remember if you...
01:12:29.000Last year before the election, they put that filter on Instagram where it says, show me less political content, and they automatically turned it on for everybody, and you had to go in there manually to turn it on.
01:13:07.000He has this plan where he's going to make TikTok wonderful, and he's been making his bid to buy it out, buy out the U.S. assets of TikTok alongside Donald Trump or some other benefactors he's trying to crowdfund.
01:13:23.000I'm not exactly sure what the plan is after today.
01:13:26.000But that was like the rub on the whole thing is that the CCP controls TikTok.
01:13:32.000Right, his main point is like this isn't about free speech.
01:13:34.000This is about user privacy and U.S. citizens having control over their data.
01:13:40.000And I don't see how an American entrepreneur owning the U.S. assets of TikTok would give American users any more control over their data.
01:13:51.000I would just like to reiterate, as I brought this up on IRL before, this exchange from instant messages that Mark Zuckerberg sent back in 2004, early days of Facebook.
01:14:03.000He said, yeah, so if you ever need info about anyone at Harvard, just ask.
01:14:08.000I have over 4,000 emails, pictures, addresses, SNs.
01:14:20.000That's what he still thinks of you, and you can guess anyone who controls a social media platform, that's what they think of you and the control you have over your data.
01:14:29.000The fact that it's another American citizen who has control over your data makes no difference.
01:14:34.000They will just sell it to China anyways.
01:14:44.000China has talked about shutting down TikTok, or ByteDance has talked about shutting down TikTok before they'll sell it, which leads me to believe that it's actually an asset for espionage, right?
01:14:58.000So you're not allowed to bring a phone that has TikTok into any government building or installation, if I understand correctly, right?
01:15:06.000But if Riley's kid has TikTok on his phone, that might be something that the CCP looks at as valid.
01:16:02.000It's about a foreign government having basically a spy ring in the United States being operated by 14-year-olds that are the children of...
01:16:21.000Yeah, I mean, they're building data files on every individual in the United States that has TikTok.
01:16:28.000And I mean, you'll see they'll push certain content to see if they can...
01:16:32.000Trigger certain types of emotional responses, making people sad, making people happy, you know, things like that.
01:16:37.000So they're kind of testing us to figure out, well, if we were going to do some disinformation campaign in the United States, what would hit, what would not, what we could do to try to spin.
01:16:48.000So they're garnering and building a massive...
01:16:53.000It's a database of information on the American people, and that's what it's about.
01:17:05.000It's dangerous for us in the long run.
01:17:08.000It is reasonable to think if China decides or realizes that the Secretary of State's nephew has TikTok.
01:17:20.000And then they go ahead and fill his feed with stuff to make him depressed and try to do things that will upset the family to make them stressed out more.
01:17:30.000That's something that's unquestionably real that they would attempt to do.
01:17:34.000If they can attack people's personal lives in the hopes that there are positive results for them in negotiations or in decision-making, I mean, it doesn't take very much for them to say, Make sure that this particular person's algorithm has a little bit of a change and is doing what we can to make them depressed.
01:17:58.000And it will know how to make them depressed.
01:18:02.000It'll know all the things to show them and in just the right quantities so that way they're not going to be like, oh my god, my TikTok just for no reason is just showing me nothing but murder all day long.
01:18:37.000Well, one, you wouldn't have totality of control by any U.S. citizen of TikTok.
01:18:45.000Communist Party of China would still have ownership of the data and the rest of those things, which I think is dangerous for us here in this country.
01:18:57.000There's been a lot of research on this by intelligence agencies and classified information on how detrimental this entire enterprise is for us.
01:19:16.000Yes, psychologically, but then also to Phil's point, I mean, so what if, you know, somebody's kid, I don't know, Secretary of State is on TikTok and all these apps have location devices and they happen to know where that individual is.
01:19:31.000So you mean actual, like, spy rings and things like that?
01:19:40.000I mean, to be honest with you, the idea of, you know, the The sonar thing that they did in The Dark Knight or whatever, that's completely reasonable to think that they can do now.
01:19:51.000Not back when that movie came out, there was no way those phones were holding all that data.
01:20:23.000So everything's compromised, but we're just focusing in on TikTok specifically.
01:20:27.000Yeah, I mean, go back and look at, you all remember Huawei?
01:20:31.000So this is the Chinese telecom company Huawei, and it was...
01:20:36.000Obviously made public now, found that they got contracts in Europe.
01:20:41.000They had some in the United States, but the European example is a good one, where they had gotten a contract with governments in Europe, and all those phones were tapped.
01:22:02.000And I know, I think Vivek came out against the ban on TikTok as well.
01:22:08.000But yeah, look, everybody's got a different opinion on it.
01:22:12.000It is funny that considering how much Biden and the Democrats love to court the TikTok audience, meaning influencers who are specifically using the platform, to then get stabbed in the back by him.
01:22:25.000On that to start to destroy their, you know, one of their forms of income.
01:22:29.000So we're going to take a hard turn here.
01:22:34.000The Daily Mail is reporting, Daily Mail and a few other places, it's all over X now with conflicting reports, but the Daily Mail is reporting breaking news.
01:22:42.000L.A. Fire Chief is dismissed by Mayor Karen Bass after lashing out over department cuts as deadly blazes devastate city.
01:22:50.000Los Angeles Fire Department Kristen...
01:22:53.000Crowley, Los Angeles Fire Department Chief Kristen Crowley, was fired by Mayor Karen Bass on Friday afternoon.
01:22:59.000A source close to the chief's office told DailyMail.com.
01:23:15.000They're not being clear about what actually happened.
01:23:19.000Some people are saying that she's fired.
01:23:21.000A statement from the mayor's office says, The mayor and chief met.
01:23:26.000The priority remains fighting these fires and protecting Angelino.
01:23:29.000So that's not clear as to if she was or was not fired.
01:23:35.000I'm not sure that it matters if she's fired, and if she did get fired, it was an ego thing, which kind of makes me think this is...
01:23:43.000I mean, even if she was, it's not going to be anything substantive, and it's all about catfighting, because they're both bad at their jobs.
01:24:03.000I don't think that this actually matters.
01:24:05.000I think that this – it speaks to the fact that there's incompetence abound in Los Angeles in the fire department and in the – See, if it was satire in a movie, they'd be in a room in an office and there'd be literally flames behind them out the window as she's firing her.
01:26:19.000What's funny is Gavin Newsom's wife was an actress and I just last night watched an episode of a television show where she plays the wife of a corrupt politician who then gets arrested at the end.
01:27:57.000So, yeah, I mean, I don't think that there's anything positive to be said about Karen Bass firing the chief, and I think that it probably speaks to the incompetence going on.
01:28:11.000I'll say one thing about her is many years back, I had worked on the Hill.
01:28:18.000I was a congressional staff member, and I was there when she was there.
01:28:22.000She was one of the most unimpressive members of Congress, and that's saying a lot, that I had ever come across.
01:28:30.000Would Rick Caruso have been a better choice?
01:28:34.000I think anybody would be a better choice at this point.
01:28:37.000That was an interesting thing to follow, because we followed the way celebrities were kind of going into different corners about whether to vote for Karen Bass or Rick Caruso.
01:28:47.000Yeah, I know nothing about Rick Caruso, but...
01:28:50.000That Katy Perry voted for him and that people were mad at her for doing so.
01:28:54.000But when you say she was unimpressive, what's your evidence?
01:33:28.000You know, those are states that do that, and I would be honored to be the person to try to ban that federally.
01:33:35.000It's the most annoying thing in the world when I'm not in the great state of West Virginia, and I'm down in D.C. as I was this week, and I'm like, could I get a bag like six or five cents?
01:33:45.000Maryland is really bad with it too now.
01:33:49.000I feel like that's less of an irritation than when people are just like, can you give me a tip when you went and you got the thing that you wanted in the store?
01:34:33.000The worst is we were at like a Red Wings game over the holiday break and they asked for a tip at the arena where it's already like 10,000% more expensive than anywhere else.
01:34:49.000Well, it's, no, it's the Red Wings, so it's at Little Caesars, so they have, like, multiple Little Caesars booths there.
01:34:57.000So it's like, so I already pay too much because it's not a $5 pizza anymore, and you're paying way more than that at a stadium because they're, like, $8 at a regular location now, so you're paying, like, $15 there, and now you want me to tip you?
01:35:09.000They're putting these employees in such an uncomfortable position.
01:35:33.000Okay, like, I don't know if, like, in this case, like, is he logged in to, like, a specific account on there that's got, like, his pin in there so everybody who tips in there, it goes directly to him?
01:35:43.000Or does it just go to the coffers of the stadium?
01:35:46.000Well, service industry, you'll be happy to hear Donald Trump will eliminate tax on tips.
01:35:52.000That's one of his things he wants to put in the reconciliation package.
01:35:58.000Actually, I want to ask you, do you think that it's better to go with one gigantic omnibus that is guaranteed to have a whole bunch of crap you don't like, but actually get all the stuff you want?
01:36:10.000Or do you think it'd be better to have multiple bills?
01:36:13.000I think, to quote Donald Trump, one beautiful bill.
01:36:55.000Just, not to get on soapbox here, but mandatory spending in your budget, by the way, United States of America, that's 75% of all the money that's spent.
01:37:53.000Broman992 says, Honestly, I'd rather have the left saying Trump is a convicted felon than have them screaming about how he only got off because the Supreme Court is rigged.
01:38:03.000Honestly, I kind of agree with that because they're going to scream about, you know, whatever.
01:38:08.000And if they did have the narrative that it was the Supreme Court that helped Donald Trump.
01:40:01.000I mean, you shouldn't trust any of the big business CEOs, but what you should do is you want to know that the businesses they're running have the financial incentive to act in a way in which benefits you.
01:41:20.000Through executive action, that was talked about in the last administration, last time Trump was president, if I remember correctly.
01:41:28.000You could do that, but the way they're going to go about this is that we're going to have a massive deportation operation that's going to take place here, and they're going to start with the low-hanging fruit, which is the people, all of you...
01:41:45.000Everybody who's watching this or listening to this right now are the criminals, people literally in prison, that you're paying for that are not in this country legally.
01:41:53.000And you'd be shocked at how many thousands and thousands of people that are.
01:42:00.000There's a lot of low-hanging fruit there that's going to be...
01:42:03.000How are you going to find these people?
01:42:05.000It's actually not that hard to find folks who have broken the law in this country.
01:42:12.000Start there and then we'll see where we are.
01:42:15.000I'm going to start with a whole new batch after that because I think the American people have kind of made it clear that they want to see deportations of not just people that have committed other crimes, but they want to see deportations of people that have come here illegally.
01:42:31.000We've seen, you know, poll after poll after poll that people say that there's like 70% of the Americans.
01:42:39.000Yeah, it was 70% of Americans say that.
01:42:41.000They support mass deportations and it's not going to happen.
01:43:49.000Hale Gailey says, crime requires a victim fill.
01:43:53.000The left lane is for hurting the government's feelings.
01:43:55.000The state loves to fine you over their butthurt.
01:43:59.000This is true, but I think it's still a succinct way to tell people to get out of the left lane unless you're going to be going over the speed limit.
01:44:12.000Specifically, a lot over the speed limit.
01:46:21.000The congressional district apportionment happened, and it's literally anybody who is living and breathing in a congressional district is how they count those districts.
01:46:32.000That's why Republicans got over 74 million votes for the House of Representatives, but we have a two-seat majority.
01:46:43.000That's one of the things that I keep, like, I... There's times where we'll be talking about something, and we'll get ideological on something, and I'm like, hold on, guys.
01:46:52.000We've got to remember, we only have a tiny majority, and we're going to have to make deals.
01:46:59.000That's why we have to do one big, beautiful bill, because you don't have enough of a majority to shove things through.
01:47:09.000No matter how much people perceive that Trump has a mandate, Trump doesn't have the votes to say, I'm doing whatever I want.
01:47:17.000If there were 60, you know, if we had 65 senators and 300 people in the Republican Party in the House, it'd be like, all right, it's on.
01:47:25.000Do whatever the heck, you know, the conservatives want that's clearly, you know, let's do it.
01:47:31.000And what we get scared of, and you just kind of touched on this, go back to even when the Democrats had the supermajority under Obama.
01:47:39.000They had all these things they were going to do.
01:47:41.000The end of the day, all they got done was Obamacare.
01:47:50.000They don't stray and could only get one thing.
01:47:53.000That's why I'm concerned about breaking it up into two bills that you'll get one little bill done in the beginning and then you'll never get to the rest of the big stuff.
01:48:02.000Why is it like a lot of people have mentioned like when Roe v.
01:48:05.000Wade was overturned, like why didn't they try to enshrine it?
01:48:11.000Because then they couldn't use it as a cluddle.
01:49:14.000There were tons of people that were making the argument, I'm voting for Kamala Harris because women need to be able to control their health care.
01:49:23.000Even though that is a complete and total farce of an argument, that was still the argument and it convinced low information voters.
01:49:33.000You know, people that were like, oh, you know, 50-year-old women that can't get pregnant are like, oh, I gotta make sure my daughter can kill my granddaughter.
01:49:41.000Low-info voter, just a euphemism for females now.
01:50:53.000And also, the coffee that I'm doing is just a Christmas one, so it's not like a regular coffee, so I'm not worried about the fact that the graphene dream is crushing it, because this is only for a short time, and it's gingerbread-flavored, so it's not like a regular coffee that people are going to be drinking.
01:51:12.000The thing that surprises me is the Alex Stein.
01:52:55.000I can't say that I specifically remember the show, but I remember SOMA. And also, in 2000, we probably only played at SOMA in 2009. One time.
01:53:06.000And I know that it was on the Overcome tour because Overcome came out in 2008. So I don't remember specifically what was happening.
01:53:12.000Like that show, I couldn't remember things that happened.
01:53:15.000But I remember the shows in San Diego were sick.
01:54:47.000Just me so far, but the point would be to, you know, as people are talking about building parks and open spaces and things like that, is take that into consideration and trying to advocate for skate parks as well.
01:55:00.000And just trying to elevate the sport in its own.
01:55:03.000I mean, I've been doing it since I was...
01:55:05.000Twelve, which is a very long time ago.
01:55:07.000Gets people out and gets people moving, right?
01:55:58.000Crowag, the neighbor who they interviewed for the suspected arsonist used words most don't use like citizens arrest and detained, called a blowtorch a flamethrower, then later, what it was, he didn't speak English too, sniff test failed.
01:56:43.000And California's doing this to itself, and they're going to have a real reckoning on this sanctuary city, sanctuary state, whatever they're doing over there.
01:56:54.000The Trump administration is going to show up.
01:56:56.000And there's going to be no more of this anymore.
01:58:50.000I know there are people that feel like because he covers music or covered music on YouTube that he should have been, you know, actually listening to music and, like, living the scene and stuff.
01:59:02.000And I just think that that's a little naive, you know?
01:59:07.000I mean, look, people that do things for a living, a lot of times they do things for a living.
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02:01:53.000Eastern, and Brett's about to tell you to do it again!
02:01:55.000It was literally, it was like, you're screwing up my outro.