It's the end of an era. Howard Stern is no longer the king of the castle. The WNBA is taking bets on the color of the ball being thrown in the court, and we talk about how much money is being bet on the outcome of the WNBA Finals between the Washington Mystics and the Los Angeles Sparks. Plus, some updates on the situation in Texas, an evacuation from Antarctica, and more.
00:02:36.000It is the end of the Howard Stern show after decades.
00:02:40.000At least that's what the reports are claiming.
00:02:42.000It's not guaranteed that a show actually ends.
00:02:44.000But according to The Sun, an inside source says that Sirius is not going to renew his contract, and they're expected to make an offer that he must refuse.
00:02:54.000Just backwards, but I guess the idea is ain't nobody wants to pay this guy $100 million.
00:02:59.000And they're saying politics seems to have played a role.
00:03:02.000Guys, whether you're Colbert, Howard Stern, you cut your audience in half.
00:03:27.000Plus, my friends, the WNBA, more money is being bet on the color of the being thrown in the courts, if you know what I mean, than the actual games themselves.
00:03:38.000And we've actually pulled up some of the polymarket, and oh boy, seems like people are choosing to win this on their own, if you know what I mean.
00:06:24.000I started drinking this Beam Dream, and now it's like 99% in 100, and it's shocking to me.
00:06:29.000What's happening is I'm getting better sleep.
00:06:32.000I had no problem falling asleep, but I'm staying in deep sleep longer, which is good for testosterone production and REM sleep, HGH, or I might have the backwards.
00:06:39.000All I know is I feel like when I wake up, I got lightning surging through me, and I love this stuff.
00:08:05.000It was kind of like a spiritual experience.
00:08:06.000I think that's kind of like the working class ayahuasca trip where it's like take some hot wings, a little tiling on, and then you like start seeing things.
00:08:14.000So if he gets up in the middle of the show, you'll know why.
00:08:17.000The back half of that experience hasn't happened yet.
00:10:00.000I just want to take the opportunity to say this.
00:10:02.000I know the Howard Stern fans are going to get mad, and there are many, but irrespective of Howard Stern, to all the boomers in their 70s and 80s, retire.
00:11:13.000Dude decided to go full Democrat, full woke, full, you know, oh no, I can't defend you because according to reports, he didn't want to offend his A-lister buddies.
00:11:23.000Doesn't seem like he needed to do that either.
00:11:25.000What's interesting is like, it would have been weird.
00:11:27.000I think we were talking about before this show.
00:11:28.000Like if he was still doing the shock jock thing, like into his 60s and he's like, he's pulling out his AARP card while doing the same type of crap he was doing when he was in his 30s.
00:11:38.000But that's not the same thing as kind of planting your flag politically and turning it into something that it doesn't need to be.
00:11:44.000Like you can do a political stuff that still leans into the audience that's there for like drive time radio.
00:11:51.000But he also has like well over 100 employees and he's like of that contract.
00:11:55.000I think I saw estimates anywhere from 77 to 200, 25 to 35 on the main production team and plenty more for post-production and after.
00:12:06.000So with that many writers, that many producers, like that's the same thing with Colbert, right?
00:12:11.000Like they have these huge contracts, but he's paying those employees out of those contracts.
00:12:15.000Like every time you see Stephen Colbert do a bit where he holds up like some article or something, you're like some dude had to paste that out there and that dude probably makes $150k a year to do like one thing.
00:12:27.000So it's just that the art form itself is different and the way it's done now, it's modernized and it's been streamlined.
00:12:33.000I do wonder if you guys think that the situation with Howard Stern is because people have gone to different formats for their entertainment, you know, podcasts as opposed to listening to XM Radio or any kind of radio now.
00:12:49.000Or if you think that it's something to do with the fact that he's gotten so soft and predictable in his old age.
00:12:56.000I think it's probably all the factors.
00:12:58.000I mean, you got to think about Howard Stern, how he became big and all those shock talks and talk radio hosts.
00:13:03.000I mean, because it was, he came up at the same time of Rush Lumball and Rush Lumball when he first came out was considered a shock jock himself, much more so and saying more offensive things that he would say 30 years later.
00:13:14.000But all these guys came out and they were speaking for the man on the street and saying the things that he wished he could say with Howard Stern, whether it was more inappropriate humor or with Rush Limbaugh saying politically incorrect things.
00:13:28.000They're all speaking for that man on the street who's coming back from a hard work or a hard day at work at the construction site or something.
00:13:36.000These were not meant to be liberal people who wanted to hear the same rants they heard from MSNBC.
00:13:42.000And now what he is, he's just old and sounds like an angry MSNBC viewer.
00:13:48.000And no one wants to listen to that on their way back home.
00:13:51.000And if the liberals who are there, they're listening to podcasts.
00:13:54.000They're not listening to Howard Stern.
00:13:56.000And they think he's a male chauvinist and a pig.
00:18:01.000I like to imagine that there's some kind of shadow monster that we can't is imperceptible and it's holding Biden up and it's got this gigantic grin and it's like, you know, like maybe like Ryuk from Death Note or something.
00:18:16.000I was going to say, the thing about Howard Stern, along with all of all of these other shows that target 70-year-olds, it's the only Democrat that hates Trump.
00:18:24.000So if Howard Stern does get canceled, what's that going to do to the pro and anti-Trump narrative?
00:18:31.000All those people protesting in Charlestown are just going to be crushed.
00:23:24.000So if you, if you buy yes, okay, if I'm going to just, I'm going to be very careful here.
00:23:30.000If a person buys yes for the seventh and then goes to a game and then chooses of their own volition to huck a dildo on the court, they will have won that bet, guaranteeing they will double their money.
00:23:46.000But that's what's so dumb about this is being able to make a bet on something you can control the outcome of.
00:23:51.000You know, just as an aside, I remember when we were hanging out with Cassandra in the, I think it was Super Bowl this year or last year, and you can bet on the color of the Gatorade as they do every year.
00:24:01.000And I'm like, that means that there are people who chose the color or saw the color, can't just go make bets and get free money.
00:24:39.000I'm being somewhat facetious, but people literally are watching these compilation videos on YouTube of Caitlin Clark getting beaten.
00:24:47.000The problem is, even if that's what you wanted, next thing you know, someone throws a dildo on the court, and it's just next, they're going to bring on an elephant juggling or some nonsense.
00:24:55.000All the stories I've heard about the WNBA in the last two weeks have nothing to do with the actual sport.
00:25:29.000There was something going around this week where Michelle Obama called sports called ESPN reality TV for men.
00:25:37.000But this is way funnier than anything that ESPN can do.
00:25:40.000I do love that family guy joke where they did a cutaway gag to a WNBA game and there's like so-and-so misses another three-pointer but got close.
00:25:51.000That's why she commands $60,000 a year.
00:25:55.000And then they were like, but Jim, is that amount of money worth it to be so unattractive?
00:27:59.000We did get kind of screwed out of the fact that this didn't happen when Howard Stern was in his prime.
00:28:03.000He could be contributing gold material back in the 90s if this was going on.
00:28:08.000There's a clip that went viral from his show, considering they're talking about canceling him, where he was talking to, I think, was it Anna Nicole?
00:28:26.000I'm trying to keep it a little family friendly.
00:28:27.000But I'm just thinking to myself, this guy was getting 20 million in the ratings.
00:28:31.000Like they were putting him on the radio and he legit said to a woman, I think you weigh 300 pounds, get on the scale and I'll show you my ding-dong.
00:28:54.000All of these things were horribly offensive.
00:28:57.000And then millennials grew up to be like, don't say naughty words.
00:29:01.000Well, I mean, I think that it probably has something to do with the fact that once everyone had the cell phone in their pocket and you could do internet pylons, it became, oh, you know, don't say that.
00:29:10.000Don't say these edgy things because you'll have a boatload of people.
00:29:14.000And even a boatload of people could be 30 people, but it feels like a lot of people when it's, you know, the same 30 people that are just, you know, consistently filling your timeline with you're a bad person, you're a bad person.
00:29:25.000So I think that this probably a lot has to do with the internet.
00:29:27.000You know, corporations still don't understand how that works either.
00:29:31.000Like 30 people say bad stuff about your show or your movie or your company and they freak out and then not realizing that there's a hundred thousand more that are not saying anything.
00:29:40.000So that math doesn't always work for people.
00:29:43.000You couldn't be allowed on the air saying that stuff.
00:29:44.000I mean, WNBA doesn't even allow their fans to boo or jeer because you're talking about the girl who had her wig pulled off her weave and somebody was making fun of her and they sent security out to escort a fan.
00:29:56.000And it's like, can you imagine going to a sporting event where you can't?
00:30:00.000Yeah, I don't know if they're really fans.
00:30:01.000I just, they just kind of hope that some type of object falls on the court and they can and they can laugh about it.
00:30:34.000So I want to give it up to the Simpsons who accurately predicted once again some kind of phenomenon.
00:30:39.000They're actually kicking people out for making fun of a woman whose wig got pulled off.
00:30:43.000This happened in baseball this year when a player got like somebody insulted his mom who died like five years earlier and the player got banned for life.
00:33:15.000But Sir Haver just pointing out if they don't allow you to have your bags in the premise anymore, there's some creative ways people can smuggle those.
00:33:24.000Have you ever seen that famous clip of Kelsey Plum throwing the t-shirt to the top level of the stadium?
00:33:30.000Somebody motion captured a dildo onto it.
00:33:34.000I was at the players start fighting back.
00:33:37.000I was at, I think it might have been the DNC, or it might have been the RNC.
00:33:42.000I was thinking that was at the RNC in Florida, and this is like probably 2015 or something, like some Republican convention.
00:33:48.000And I was invited by a friend who was working on one of the campaigns, and I had my backpack with me with my laptop and my computer.
00:33:55.000And I got stopped by cops as I was walking.
00:33:57.000I was walking around the arena, like taking pictures and stuff, posting on X. And the cops told me that they had to search my bag because someone had smuggled in a double-sided, if you know what I mean.
00:34:07.000And I started laughing and I was like, bro, you can take my bag.
00:35:20.000In a press release, Paxton said the Texas Tribune reporting on Tuesday that O'Rourke's group is funding the travel and fines for the more than 50 Democrats who left Texas this weekend to shut down the legislature.
00:35:33.000If the point of the fine is to deter illicit activities and Beto or Rourke says we'll cover those costs so you have no repercussions, then bribery, because they're taking money in exchange for official duties.
00:35:59.000Otherwise, they're all going to do that and try to disrupt the will of the people.
00:36:03.000I mean, the majority of the people elected the legislators, they passed the redistricting, and the Democrats are actually trying to thwart democracy.
00:37:02.000They basically created this big long strip to combine East St. Louis with Urbana.
00:37:07.000Otherwise, there would be no Democrat district there.
00:37:11.000So basically, you cut off East St. Louis, you cut off Urbana.
00:37:14.000This whole section is all conservative voters who are disenfranchised because they wanted to because those metros are not big enough to sustain a district on their own.
00:37:56.000You've got a state like, you know, Massachusetts, which has no Republicans.
00:38:00.00040% of Massachusetts voted for Donald Trump.
00:38:03.000Something around 40% voted for Donald Trump last election.
00:38:07.000There's not one Republican to represent 40% of the population of the state.
00:38:13.000And it's not like Massachusetts isn't a big state, but it's not a low populist state because Boston's got a lot of people.
00:38:19.000So the idea that the Democrats are actually worried about democracy and worried about representation, it's a farce.
00:38:27.000And the way that they portray this whole debacle about Texas, it's as if there is no gerrymandering going on or it's some new phenomenon.
00:38:36.000And again, they have mastered gerrymandering to the point that you really can't do more as a Democrat and squeeze more Democrat seats out of the country.
00:38:48.000Like they've really maximized the gerrymandering of all the states.
00:39:35.000Because the way you drop the map guarantees there will never be a Republican district in Massachusetts.
00:39:40.000Well, Maryland's another horrible state.
00:39:42.000I want to see their rating for Maryland because Maryland, it should be a couple seats that Republicans should compete in.
00:39:48.000And they ensured it's just one Republican seat, a B. Oh, dude, everybody.
00:39:52.000And yeah, it's like that district should be Republican on the West, but they've ensured that it's not, that it's never going to be.
00:39:58.000Yeah, what they did was by combining, I forgot how I did it, but I was talking to some locals, and it's they by putting Frederick in Western Maryland, it basically ensures because that's a population of like 500,000 in their metro.
00:40:12.000They carved out a portion on the east so that they could add the rest to the western Mary to Western Maryland and convert what is largely Trump country just north of West Virginia into a Democrat district.
00:40:47.000They listen to the rant of CNN and MSNBC, and they never point out that Illinois, Maryland, various other states, and what California is going to do.
00:40:55.000Whenever they hear gerrymandering, they think it's Southern segregationists come back from the 1950s and they're carving up.
00:41:02.000They're like, we're not going to give Democrats this area.
00:42:42.000You're going to draw districts and then you're going to have to choose what percentage will this district be Democrat-Republican or political affiliation.
00:42:49.000I suppose to the founding fathers, they thought there aren't two political parties.
00:42:55.000And also, if they're not even going with the 50-50 block or some type of mathematical formula, it's going to be left to the federal government and liberal bureaucrats to decide.
00:43:05.000And that's taking the power away from the states and the state representatives and senators that the people elected to draw the maps.
00:43:11.000And instead of putting it in the hands of Washington, D.C. bureaucrats to determine, and they're not going to go after Illinois.
00:43:17.000They're not going to go after New Jersey.
00:43:18.000They're not going to go after Rhode Island or any other state.
00:43:21.000They're only going to go after Texas, Tennessee, Kentucky.
00:43:24.000They're only going to go after red states.
00:43:26.000And then they're going to be like, this is bad.
00:43:27.000And we're going to draw it to be more Democratic friendly.
00:43:30.000So whenever they complain about gerrymandering, it's to benefit the Democrats.
00:43:34.000And they'll never go after Republicans for this.
00:43:36.000All that matters is who wins at the state level.
00:43:40.000And then they decide what your representation is going to be.
00:44:33.000So usually if the Democrats are facing the charges and the criminal charges for bribery and all that, I'm going to go up to and assume the one trying to steal power here is the Democrats for which they're breaking the law.
00:44:58.000I think Trump, I think Trump has changed the math because I think people realize like the point of politics isn't principles.
00:45:04.000The point is like winning and Trump wins.
00:45:07.000And it's like you have Republicans have to be confident wielding power.
00:45:11.000And that's been the biggest problem for the last 50 years is Republicans get power and then they're terrified that they have it.
00:45:15.000Trump comes in and he's comfortable wielding power and we need to be confident in ourselves and it's a beautiful thing.
00:45:20.000And I love saying that Texas is like going hard in the paint.
00:45:23.000And the easiest way to please the base right now is to promise to arrest Democrats.
00:45:27.000I mean, look at what Trump's doing with the DOJ.
00:45:29.000They're like, we've got people angry, promised to arrest Obama.
00:45:34.000They're trying to press charges against Adam Schiff and a lot of other people.
00:45:37.000They would like nothing more than to arrest the entire Texas Democrats who fled to Illinois.
00:45:44.000So they're going to, it's not just and Ken Paxon's running for the Senate.
00:45:48.000He wants to show that he's a stronger conservative than Cornyn.
00:45:51.000And what better way to do that than to work with Trump's DOJ to arrest Democrats?
00:45:56.000And that's going to be a big hit within the primary.
00:45:59.000Now, with the general electorate, I don't think they really care that much.
00:46:03.000I mean, what the Democrats did to Trump and people who supported him over the last four years, you know, they already set the precedent.
00:46:11.000And we're now just following the precedent that they set.
00:46:13.000And they're actually committing crimes here and going against the will of the people and trying to steal democracy away from the people of Texas.
00:46:20.000And so they should use all available means.
00:46:22.000I think Republicans would like nothing more than to arrest these people.
00:46:26.000Well, I mean, I'm not so sure that you're right.
00:46:29.000I want that to be the truth, but I don't know that they actually do have the gumption to do it.
00:48:08.000So I guess that's what they need to do.
00:48:10.000Offer free WNBA tickets to reward their service to democracy.
00:48:14.000And they get on a free bus and then that bus takes them back to Austin.
00:48:20.000Look, anything that will allow the Democrats to think that they're going to get some attention, like get, you know, get on TV or get a bunch of clicks or whatever, anything that you can come up with that'll make them feel that way will draw them in, I'm sure, because they're all just grandstanding.
00:48:35.000The whole point of this is grandstanding.
00:48:37.000That's like all those Democratic lawmakers who want to get arrested at the ICE facilities.
00:48:44.000And now they're pressing charges against them that they probably didn't wish for, but they got what they wanted.
00:48:49.000Let's jump to the next story from NPR, ladies and gentlemen.
00:48:52.000After an ex-Doge staffer's assault, Trump threatens to federalize D.C. My friends, big balls has earned not just the name, but the title.
00:49:03.000After, if you guys don't know the story, that guy who goes by Big Balls who worked for Doge, I believe the story is that he saw a young woman being carjacked, intervened to save her, and got mercilessly beaten.
00:49:14.000But as was going on, cops pulled up, the attackers fled, and he had saved this young lady, earning not just the name that he had bestowed upon himself, confirming it, but also the title of having big balls.
00:49:26.000And following this, Trump responded saying that maybe we need to federalize DC, and he should.
00:51:43.000But in all seriousness, you are correct that other capital cities don't look like ours.
00:51:48.000And it is disgusting that this country is the greatest country in the country, a country on the planet, but D.C. is a crime-ridden scumhole.
00:53:56.000It's like, well, we can't make this about racism, but we still can't have citizens, even if they're black, white, Hispanic, or whatever, shooting at criminals.
00:54:03.000And then they convicted him on very serious charges.
00:54:06.000So the only people that they're able to really convict are the few who actually try to stand up for themselves against the criminals.
00:54:12.000Because most of the time, if you know, if Big Balls was not Big Balls, they'd probably just forgotten about this.
00:54:18.000I have had friends who've gotten their cars broken into or their motorcycles stolen, and the cops just say, tough luck.
00:54:24.000And that even happens with assaults and everything.
00:54:26.000And the only reason that this is getting national tensions is because it's pissed off in the United States of America, President of the United States of America.
00:54:32.000Well, that's the thing is, like, I don't even care about protecting D.C. residents or doing anything good for them.
00:54:56.000And there's all these tourists from middle America and they don't want to be attacked and robbed.
00:54:59.000You know, you know, what's happening now is people are fleeing DC and they're moving out here and they're turning the areas purple and they're bringing their dumb politics with them.
00:55:10.000Yo, it's wild the developments that are going on in West Virginia.
00:55:16.000Like, yo, there are plots of land out here that we were looking at years ago and it was like big plot of land, couple million bucks, something.
00:55:25.000They're sold and now there's like 50 houses.
00:55:27.000And it's just each house now selling for half a million dollars.
00:56:50.000And that's a reason to clean it up is that you can have their liberal utopia in DC and they're not moving out to West Virginia or to Virginia.
00:56:58.000Maryland's already blue, but it helps the other states have a competitive advantage and keep and stay red.
00:57:06.000I mean, because that's kind of the, that's kind of this somewhat of a fallacy that Republicans have embraced is like they can just change everyone's minds.
00:57:11.000And it's like, at a certain level, you got to like, you know, daddy's got to lay the hammer down, like the UN chief or the NATO chief called so accurate.
00:57:18.000It's like, you have to lay the hammer down here.
00:57:20.000For people to change their mind, they need to actually have something happen to them, not just move, right?
00:57:33.000When you're born, you're probably going to be a conservative.
00:57:36.000You're probably going to be a liberal.
00:57:38.000If something happens to you, that might change the way you see things.
00:57:41.000Like, you know, if you, if you are a liberal and you get mugged or whatever, you might be like, well, maybe we do need more police or maybe I should, you know, maybe I should support the Second Amendment.
00:57:50.000But there's no guarantee of that because that, you know, there's, you hear stories about people that get mugged and they're like, well, you know, the poor guy that mugged me, he, you know, they start making excuses like he was oppressed or whatever, you know, he had a hard life or whatever.
00:58:03.000So I don't, I don't believe that it's, it's easy to change people's minds or you can really have a conversation and make people say, you know what?
00:58:11.000I do think the left is actually wrong now.
00:58:13.000It's no, it's, it's much harder than that.
00:58:15.000I love that video that James O'Keeve did where they went door to door and he was like, he's like, hi, we're, we're, we're gun control advocates.
00:58:22.000We believe that strong gun laws can prevent violence.
00:58:59.000There was one viral video I saw where some woman bought a gun and then someone in her family, she was secretly recording herself and they were insulting her and calling her stupid for buying a gun, saying it's dangerous.
00:59:29.000And his girlfriend was like, oh, he would have forgave the guy.
00:59:32.000And then she's like stumping for Zoron now.
00:59:34.000So it's like people could literally have the worst thing possible happen right in front of their face and they won't change their population.
00:59:39.000They're that fanatically loyal to these ideas.
00:59:41.000There's a lot of people in DC like that.
00:59:43.000There was a guy that had some, there's one story.
00:59:46.000It was like in 2021 or 2022 when the crime was really bad.
00:59:49.000It's bad now, but it was really bad then.
00:59:52.000And there was some guy who built up a basketball goal for these local youths to play and it was near his house, but they would play late and disrupt his kids sleep.
01:00:00.000He had like a young daughter, and he went out and went nicely to tell them to not play basketball.
01:00:07.000And they're like, they thought he was disrespecting them.
01:00:10.000And then they beat the crap out of him.
01:00:12.000And there was like blood all over the street.
01:00:14.000And then they took down the basketball goal.
01:00:16.000And then, like, we still feel it was bad because, you know, we're white and they were not.
01:00:22.000And we're, you know, we're trying to be sensitive in this.
01:00:25.000And it's like this guy, these kids nearly beat your husband to death, and you still have these views.
01:00:30.000Yeah, that's the suicidal empathy that they talk about these days.
01:00:34.000I don't, I don't believe that that's a real thing, though.
01:00:36.000I think they're just terrified people.
01:01:12.000There are a few insane people who will do that because there's been even stories that they love to highlight post-Floyd, whereas like some daughter reached out to their father's killer.
01:01:23.000And of course, he was from an oppress group and they were, we wanted to reach an understanding with him.
01:01:28.000And there was like even the stuff with Molly Tibbett's family, if you guys remember Molly Tibbetts, who was that University of Iowa student who was raped and murdered by an illegal immigrant.
01:01:37.000And her family spent more of their time defending illegal immigrants and in some ways sympathizing with the killer because they were so upset that Don Jr. and other Trump conservatives were highlighting this case to show the danger of illegal immigration.
01:01:52.000And then they went all board to say, we love illegal immigrants.
01:01:56.000And we won't allow this to be politicized.
01:01:59.000Y'all saw that AI interview that accosted with the puppeteered corpse.
01:02:03.000I like to, I refer to that as Jim Acosta puppeteering a corpse.
01:02:07.000He, for those on it familiar, the family of one of the Parkland victims loaded an image into an AI generator and some prompts to create a version of their facsimile of their son.
01:02:19.000I don't see that as any different than exhuming the corpse and jamming your hand in the back of the skull and puppeteering the face.
01:02:26.000So I think this is all just generally disgusting.
01:02:39.000Federal immigration agents were forced to flee a field office in Yakima, Washington over the weekend after an arson attack damaged the property, according to a report by the New York Post.
01:02:48.000The incident occurred on Saturday when an unidentified suspect reportedly threw a rock into the window of the building before igniting a fire behind the property.
01:02:55.000Flames were seen burning the grass outside the fenced perimeter and a large cloud of smoke formed.
01:02:59.000No injuries were reported in the attack.
01:03:01.000The office is located about 140 miles southeast of Seattle and houses operations for ICE as well as Washington State Department of Social and Health Services.
01:03:10.000The attack comes as ICE personnel have seen an 830% increase in assaults, et cetera.
01:03:15.000You know what's fascinating is I think it was just a guitar lov on the five today saying that the reason ICE is doing all these commercials where they're offering $50,000 sign-on bonus.
01:03:25.000Yeah, and there's like no, like there's no age limit to it now.
01:06:41.000Three years, three years of progressively responsible experience, one year, which will equivalent to the GS4 level or above in the federal government.
01:07:09.000You have to at least have a four-year degree to work for the gov. Let's see.
01:07:12.000It must have been attained by a credit university.
01:07:15.000One-year full-time undergraduate study defined as 30 semester or 45 quarters or combination of education and experience, combinations of successfully completed post-high school education and experience may be used.
01:07:45.000Well, no, you don't, so long as you've got three years' experience at GS4 or above, or you've got combined college and government experience.
01:07:53.000Like, if you've been a cop for three years, you can forego the college degree, I guess.
01:07:58.000Don't most police officers have like some kind of degree, though, like a two-year degree, a bachelor's degree.
01:08:06.000I think like a lot of state troopers require a college degree, but not every police department requires one.
01:08:12.000This is the problem with government in general.
01:08:16.000Like, maybe you wouldn't need to offer $50,000 if you let people actually take a test to see if they're worth hiring.
01:08:25.000The problem I have with this is that as someone who has hired many people and with lots of experience in this, experience is lied about and easily faked, and bachelor's degree prove literal nothing.
01:08:37.000So it's like if you want someone who's going to do the job and passionately and care about it, these are not ways to test for that.
01:08:43.000So now they're like, why would anyone apply?
01:08:47.000Bro, there's a whole bunch of working-class Joes with high school diplomas who would sign up in a heartbeat and would beg for a 50K sign-on bonus, take this job and begin the process, but they're iced out.
01:10:56.000I say there are a lot of people in West Virginia who'd love to get a $50,000 assignment bonus, get their student loans paid for, and they don't got college degrees, you know?
01:11:04.000But don't worry, guys, I will never be an ICE agent.
01:11:12.000Yeah, I don't see why the feds won't actually train people.
01:11:16.000Like, there's no reason that you have to have a college degree, especially if it's not a specific degree that they're looking for.
01:11:25.000It's like, oh, you just went to college some.
01:11:27.000That's like being like, well, you know, you can actually finish your finish work or you actually complete tasks that are given to you.
01:11:34.000The feds should train people because aside from, I mean, I can't imagine that there's anything particularly, you know, necessary.
01:11:43.000Like, no, any, I can't imagine that there's any particularly special knowledge that you need to have that they can't give to you.
01:11:49.000You know, it's like you need to know the law.
01:11:51.000You need to be able to run people down if they're running away, you know, and you have to be able to work on a team to some degree.
01:11:59.000Otherwise, what particular special knowledge do you get from college that they couldn't train, you know, train you up in six months or a year or whatever?
01:12:06.000So someone, Leland Taylor says those are qualifications for GL levels not requisite for employment.
01:12:13.000What is the purpose of including you qualify for GL5 grade if you possess one of the following and it literally lists it as GL5 through seven?
01:12:21.000Does that not mean that this being a GL5 job requires you to meet the GL5 grade level and here are the things that can qualify you for GL5?
01:14:23.000A mosquito-borne virus that infected more than 7,000 people across 13 cities in China has sparked precautions similar to those during COVID, the COVID pandemic, and attempts to stop its spread despite the virus not being transmittable from person to person.
01:14:39.000The Chikungunya virus, which spreads only through the bite of infected mosquitoes and is not fatal, has spread quickly across the more dozen cities in this other Guangdong province, just north of Hong Kong, with almost 3,000 cases in the last week alone.
01:14:54.000So how long until we get the Chikong Gunya vaccine?
01:14:58.000I mean, I suppose That he's making the vaccine.
01:15:02.000I suppose that they have to wait until the mosquitoes can cross the Pacific or they get all the way up through Russia and across Alaska and through Canada to down here.
01:15:59.000He went after a bunch of them saying that we've determined that they have negative health effects, so we're not going to allow them on the market.
01:16:08.000I'm pretty sure, like, what is this one?
01:16:12.000So there's a bunch of stories on this one.
01:16:14.000I would assumed you guys would have read a little bit about it.
01:16:20.000Like, he's basically saying this, and that the data was, there's an addendum to date on these studies, and they're going to be pulling it out.
01:16:28.000I was talking to a doctor about this because, you know, we just had a kid, and I'm like, so what does this mean for vaccines?
01:16:43.000And so my question is: if RFK Jr. is saying the mRNA vaccines are bad and thimerosol is bad, though thimerosol was removed from a lot of vaccines a long time ago.
01:16:53.000Do you trust the government today or yesterday?
01:17:31.000Thimerosol is a mercury-containing organic compound.
01:17:35.000So are they banning it because of the mercury content?
01:17:38.000Because I was under the impression that there was no mercury in vaccines.
01:17:43.000That's the information that I had had most recently.
01:17:47.000But if thimerosol is a mercury-containing organic compound, or carrying the craziest thing in the world to me, I'm just going to bring this up from The Guardian.
01:17:58.000We've got a couple stories related to this one.
01:18:01.000RFK Jr. to remove preservative thimerosol from all U.S. vaccines.
01:18:05.000Anti-vaccine campaigns have targeted thimerosol for a decade despite no evidence of ingredient causing harm.
01:18:11.000I just want to bash my face as hard as I can into this table over and over and over again because the U.S. government made the claim there's no evidence and they all went, oh, then the U.S. government came out and said there is evidence and they still are like, no, our past government gave us the truth.
01:18:42.000Because people are cognitively developmentally disabled.
01:18:47.000Besides, the real RFK story has been all the sugar being banned from snap benefits and everybody freaking see the video today of the lady like at the counter.
01:21:53.000She walks up right before they finish it.
01:21:55.000This is like yesterday when this came out, and she stocked up trying to get a bunch of the stuff before they said they can't do anymore.
01:21:59.000Good for her paying attention to the news and getting one less shopping.
01:22:04.000I just want to say this as like you look at this morbidly obese woman by industrial-sized Nutragrain bar boxes and blow pop boxes.
01:22:13.000I want you just to imagine what it must be like being like some goat farmer in Afghanistan and you see this video on your $20 recycled phone and you're just staring at this morbid obese, morbidly obese American like, I'm going to buy all of this food that's going to kill me.
01:22:26.000And you're sitting there and you look down and then the Taliban guy walks up and he's like, dude, death to America.
01:24:53.000And then I was thinking about like videos like this where the lady is like, I'm going to get an industrial box of Nutragrain bars and eat it all today.
01:25:00.000And I was like, poor people are eating like 15 pancakes and rich people are eating tiny pieces of meat over two hours.
01:28:45.000You go up there and you say, I'd like to go to this restaurant.
01:28:48.000It is kind of creepy what's happening too with population size.
01:28:51.000I think, you know, I know I bring it up a lot, but I feel like people just really aren't paying attention to the social order collapse that is happening around us.
01:28:59.000Just in terms of there's not enough people to sustain the system.
01:30:51.000The fact that there aren't people to replace the people that are dying is going to, it's going to make a big impact on not just finding a spouse or whatever, but like you're going to have a loss of ability to do things.
01:31:04.000Like the ability to maintain the infrastructure is actually in question.
01:31:10.000It's not just a matter of, oh, there's not going to be enough people to pay for Social Security.
01:31:14.000It's there's not going to be enough people to maintain the internet, to maintain the power lines.
01:31:35.000Tell everybody to get abortions, don't have kids, and then we'll open up the borders.
01:31:40.000Yeah, so I think the problem we face right now is Trump may be trying to reverse all of this, but Democrats, whether it was intentional or otherwise, and a lot of people say it was, kick this off, and there is no remedy.
01:31:53.000Certainly Trump can say we're going to deport all these people, but you cannot create 18-year-olds tonight.
01:32:03.000I think there's some things that people are downplaying.
01:32:06.000Like college is going to be really an essential matriculation for young people because it's going to be the last time in your adult life you're going to be surrounded by people your own age.
01:32:14.000So you're seeing a lot of people right now that are skipping college that are Zoomers are like really struggling to meet friends and find spouses and these sorts of things.
01:32:35.000So you combine the fact that Trump is going after their funding and the fact that there's no 18 year olds to actually sign up and they're going to start shutting down.
01:32:46.000I mean, they're shuttering elementary schools and everything.
01:32:48.000I'm actually really excited for this because, you know, I've been to Columbia in New York and I've seen the campus and everything.
01:32:55.000It's going to be really cool when young teenagers are there in like 10 years and they're going to be like, we don't go to the east wing of the campus anymore.
01:33:04.000I heard there's ghosts and it's going to be just like this really creepy rundown place and there's going to be like old man Franks, the old professor of communist theology or whatever they call it because they're religious and it's going to be like lurking in the hallways.
01:33:17.000Some say the old communist professors are still lurking in the hallways and if they catch you, they'll turn you Marxist.
01:33:23.000Well, that's the thing that's going to suck is the cities like New York and LA are not going to shrink.
01:33:28.000Like those cities are going to be huge forever.
01:33:31.000And those schools are probably going to be the ones that are going.
01:33:33.000The most left-wing that's where all the jobs are going to be.
01:34:18.000But no, but yeah, I mean, it's like, okay, yes, the population is declining, but it's like these people, the jobs just aren't there anymore in the smaller towns, especially.
01:34:26.000I mean, like the Rust Belt exhibit A. And those people didn't just vanish.
01:34:52.000Every year, there's warnings that go out like, if people don't hunt the deer, the deer eat all available leaves and garbage, and then there's too many of them, and they're all sickly and like covered in lesions.
01:35:27.000It's like it looks completely different now than it did 10 years ago.
01:35:30.000Yeah, but you're talking about like in-city gardens on rooftops with a bunch of hippies who pay $100 a month to live in a studio apartment.
01:35:35.000Like the population stopped shrinking.
01:35:36.000The thing is, the way that Western liberal democracies are designed is the cities are too big to fail and they can't collapse.
01:35:42.000The only way to collapse a city is like South Africa.
01:35:45.000I mean, there are cities in rapid decline.
01:35:48.000I mean, there are off-market cities that no one wants to move to, like Baltimore.
01:37:27.000Every young person in the UK continues to move to London for work, and they are a net importer of food, like one of the largest net importers of food in the world.
01:38:15.000And now a lot of that stuff has been gentrified.
01:38:17.000And like my, like, I had friends out there who were buying houses back then with like one job and they were then like flipping these houses and becoming rent.
01:38:25.000You know, they were renting out places to people because they got the property for next to nothing.
01:38:28.000And now a lot of those houses have been bought up and it's gentrified in a lot of ways.
01:39:56.000In the U.S., the landscape has shifted since the COVID-19 pandemic.
01:39:59.000Between 2020 and 2021, rural areas are actually growing with net domestic migration around 0.47% compared to negative and near-zero rates in prior years.
01:40:09.000Correspondingly, urban migration rates are dipping.
01:40:12.000Young adults in particular are moving to small towns and rural areas the highest rate in nearly a century, drawn by affordability, natural amenities, and flexibility of remote work.
01:40:25.000So it's like the two years after COVID, everyone.
01:40:27.000Now they're forcing everyone to go back to the office.
01:40:29.000We are seeing population growth in places like Detroit for an obvious reason.
01:40:32.000Joe Biden brought in 10 to 20 million illegal immigrants and started flying them to various cities.
01:40:37.000But if the argument is that rural areas are shrinking and cities are recruiting from rural areas, at least economic research service and New York Post say that is not correct.
01:40:44.000People who live in these cities are actually moving to small towns because the property is cheaper.
01:40:49.000At least that's been the experience I've seen.
01:40:51.000Like, dude, the crazy thing is out here in the middle of nowhere, we got bungalows for half a million dollars.
01:41:18.000And some of the rural increase is actually coming from the same migrants.
01:41:22.000Because, I mean, look at like Springfield, Ohio.
01:41:24.000I mean, that's not quite a small town.
01:41:26.000Or, well, that is a small town, but that's not quite super small town.
01:41:29.000But it's all of its population growth was from all these Haitians showing up.
01:41:33.000I just got to say, I feel like anybody who's been to a big city as of recent has, if you're choosing to pay attention, you've noticed the buildings where you're like, it's a skyscraper.
01:41:45.000And you're like, I wonder what they do in there.
01:41:54.000I was in Chicago for the fourth, and we stay at Trump, and there's a building right next to it.
01:42:00.000And you're like, I wonder what they do in there.
01:42:01.000And then it's just like a bunch of garbage.
01:42:02.000And I always wondered that like in New York under de Blasio, he was talking about basically evacuating these big buildings because of COVID.
01:46:47.000Micah.Johnson says, Phil, regarding two weeks ago, I feel like if people gain weight while in a deficit, they should stop dieting and start powering the grid.
01:47:39.000If you eat a thousand, if you are out there burning 2,000 calories.
01:47:43.000How do you burn 2,000 calories if you don't have protein to move your muscles?
01:47:45.000If you're burning 2,000 calories a day and you're only taking in a thousand calories, you are going to lose weight.
01:47:51.000You will burn your muscles away, yes, but you will lose weight.
01:47:54.000So the problem with this is it is one of these technically correct statements that doesn't help anybody actually lose weight.
01:48:02.000So that's what's the really annoying thing about Neil deGrasse Tyson saying all that matters is calories in, calories out, and you'll lose weight.
01:48:08.000Do people want to burn off their muscle and be fat with no ability to move their skeleton?
01:48:38.000I don't lift weights because I don't want to look bulky, right?
01:48:41.000That is, you're not, that is a, that is a misnomer that you're going to get bulky just by lifting weights.
01:48:47.000You shape your body by lifting weights.
01:48:49.000If you want to have like a nice butt, you have to lift it.
01:48:51.000The point is, if there is someone who is obese and you tell them calories in, calories out is all that matters, do you think they will lose weight?
01:49:00.000If they're obese, they most likely will not just simply lose weight because they have multiple problems.
01:49:05.000But if you're talking about how to lose weight, the amount, what?
01:50:18.000If a person who does not exercise is consuming calories in appropriate numbers of carbs, proteins, and fats, they will put on muscle whether they try to or not.
01:50:28.000Men naturally do, especially young men because of testosterone.
01:50:32.000And you will produce more testosterone or at least the adequate amount you should have from eating fats.
01:50:37.000If you do not have fat and you do not have protein and you're eating lots of carbs, men will not produce adequate amounts of muscle or testosterone because they're not getting the proper balance and the carbs will be stored as fat.
01:50:47.000Calories and calories out is an overly simplistic statement that doesn't actually help anybody.
01:50:53.000Yeah, I still, I disagree because the average person isn't going to make the kind of the macro decisions that you're talking about, right?
01:51:03.000If you're an overweight person and the first steps that you have to take are to reduce your calories if you actually want to lose weight.
01:51:11.000Every single time this conversation comes up, or I should say, you know, not to be hyperbolic, 80% of the time, people tell me like, you know what, man, I was cutting down calories, but I wasn't losing weight and I couldn't figure it out.
01:52:08.000You would not confer to them the requirement of proper nutrition.
01:52:12.000I'm telling you that if you're, if you're would you hire, would you hire, would you hire a personal trainer who says, doesn't matter what you eat, just eat carbs, but don't eat too many.
01:52:21.000No, I wouldn't, I mean, I wouldn't hire a personal trainer in the first place.
01:52:23.000No, no, no, that's, that's not my question.
01:52:25.000Would you go to a gym where the guy says, you, you walk in and say, I'm trying to get, I'm trying to lose weight would you hire a guy who says it doesn't matter what you eat just eat a bunch of carbs as long as you eat 1900 calories of carbs if you're doing 2500 if you're burning if your metabolic rate is burning 2500 calories a day and you're going to take in 1900 calories a day and your goal is to just lose weight then you're going to lose weight again that that's that's you're you're adding context that i'm that i'm this is the point specifically avoiding you're ignoring the point that i'm making
01:52:56.000the average person who wants to lose weight is trying to burn fat It does not help them to say calories in, calories out, have a nice day.
01:53:03.000It does more than allow than saying, oh, just eat whatever you feel like and don't burn any.
01:53:08.000Or you can just say, cut the carbs out, eat more protein.
01:53:13.000You don't know that because if they cut the carbs out and eat more protein, that doesn't mean that they're going to be in a caloric deficit.
01:53:18.000And if they're not in a caloric deficit while getting proper nutrition, they're not going to lose weight.
01:53:23.000So the average young guy who eats nothing but protein will put on a lot of muscle because testosterone naturally will develop muscle.
01:53:33.000There is, of course, an increase in muscle mass you get from lifting and you should be lifting, but men naturally will put on muscle through testosterone.
01:54:02.000So if you are telling a fat person, you can eat whatever you want, just don't eat that much, they're going to remain sick, confused, and understand why it's so hard for them to go for a run.
01:54:11.000They're going to say, runs are painful and I get sick and I throw up and I pass out.
01:54:15.000And you're going to say, you're eating bad food.
01:54:19.000But if they're out of shape, runs are going to be hard and painful anyways.
01:54:22.000If you're in shape, runs are hard and painful.
01:54:24.000So, I mean, like, I understand what you're saying, that nutrients is important.
01:54:27.000But at the end of the day, if you're getting, if you're getting proper nutrients and you're not in a caloric deficit, you won't lose weight.
01:54:34.000So the point is, obviously, you need a caloric deficit, but telling someone who has excess fat, they can eat anything and they will lose a weight and deficit is wrong.
01:54:58.000course you can't if you're if you're not if you're not properly if you're not getting proper new Like that lady we saw with an industrial box of nutrient.
01:55:09.000Usually, well, I mean, it's because they're eating bad food, but also because of the sedentary lifestyle.
01:55:13.000Like if you're eating bad food and sitting around, then you're going to put on a lot of weight.
01:55:16.000And can you reverse a sedentary lifestyle if you're not getting proper protein and fat?
01:55:54.000So if you have some muscle and you start working out, but you're eating no protein, will your muscles eventually break down till you can't work out?
01:56:00.000I mean, it's not going to happen overnight and it's not going to be something that takes, you know, that happens quickly.
01:56:05.000I mean, you're not just going to go ahead and be like, okay, so I started exercising a month ago and I lost all my muscle mass or now I lost all of my ability to move and now I only have body fat and I have bones and body fat.
01:56:17.000Improve your ability to burn calories if your muscles are breaking down.
01:56:20.000You do want to build muscle to help your metabolism.
01:56:23.000So what's the proper recommendation to a person who's overweight?
01:56:26.000The first thing the first thing that you tell people when they're overweight is to start taking walks, right?
01:57:00.000Carbohydrates are used by the cells to produce to power the cells with glucose, the mitochondria.
01:57:05.000So if you're eating nothing but carbs, you're producing excess glucose.
01:57:09.000If you're nothing but protein, your body will build muscle mass till its natural apex and then start converting through gluconeogenesis into sugars to use to burn for your brain.
01:57:16.000Well, it'll start converting to sugars, which it will store.
01:57:53.000If you think that if the argument that you're making is that it takes more than just calories in, calories out to have someone in a healthy way lose weight, then fine.
01:58:04.000That's the problem I have with Neil deGrasse Tyson because then people are like, I had a bowl of frosted flakes, but it was a small bowl and I still feel sick.
01:58:12.000How is it so easy for you guys to skate?
01:59:13.000I don't know when this video is coming up, so I probably should announce this right away, but there's this spot in, I think it's in Inwood, West Virginia.
01:59:19.000It's Stuckey's at Superior Market, and it's this guy.
02:00:26.000He looked like he was going to murder somebody as he was eating the wings because he was just like, and I was like, I think he might pull it off.
02:01:17.000Mason says there are two camps to the don't say naughty words millennials.
02:01:21.000One that went to college and were brainwashed, and the second that watched the unhinged degeneracy of that past decade and are saying, Frick that.
02:02:36.000Kieran the Meatman says, Good Lord, guys, calories and calories out is true, but poor nutrition makes you feel like ish and makes it way harder to cut calories and work out.
02:02:57.000And I'm like, because your hormones are imbalanced, because you're not eating protein, and you're just eating less garbage, but you're still eating garbage.
02:03:05.000Like, you need proper nutrition and balance.
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02:10:08.000You know, I was thinking we should do.
02:10:09.000We should, we're talking to this dude about coming and working weekends because we have only like one or two people here on the weekends, but they're not doing media stuff.
02:10:18.000They're doing like local, they're doing like administrative building stuff.
02:10:22.000But I think it'd be cool if we did like a members-only live stream.
02:10:27.000I don't want to say anything yet because we haven't hired anybody, but it's just like while you're here over the weekend, just go live while you're doing your job.
02:10:33.000No, but for real, because yeah, yeah, we did that that one day with the video games.
02:10:37.000Sorry, we did that one day with the video games.
02:11:35.000You can, in Zelda Tears of the Kingdom, you can build anything you want out of the parts they give you.
02:11:41.000And there are these crazy videos from back when the game first came out of people building fucking crazy shit tanks.
02:11:48.000And now they created this thing where you can make a QR code and share the build with other games, which has just unleashed all hell.
02:11:55.000So people figured out how to inject code into the game using the QR system.
02:12:00.000And so what happened was in the prologue of the game, your link, and he's got all this badass gear, and the sword he has cannot be broken.
02:12:09.000In the game, your weapons break because weapons break.
02:12:12.000So someone found a way to inject the code to make it so that in the normal gameplay, you have an unbreakable sword and you can attach crazy shit to it, making it super powerful and never lose it.
02:12:22.000And so that's just like the first thing people have done to inject code.
02:12:24.000But I bet they could do tons of other fucked up shit.
02:12:37.000You avoided your warranty, but by all means, do whatever the fuck you want.
02:12:40.000Like in Halo 2, when you, like the whole BXR thing where you could use the BR to you could do a hit and then shoot them one time and it'd be like an instant kill.
02:14:17.000And so there were various parts of the map that were inaccessible, but you could jump in a way that would glitch your character up higher and higher.
02:14:25.000And so there were a whole bunch of places you can go.
02:15:20.000And then they were like, we're going to get rid of that.
02:15:22.000The best thing was if you're playing Horde and you knew how to get underneath Stormwind, there was a part of the city where you could jump up and then fall through the wall and you'd be underneath the city yelling.
02:15:32.000And then all the people in the city would be like, what the fuck?