Join us as we talk about the Biden administration's response to the California wildfires, Pete Hegseth's confirmation hearings, and more. Plus, we have a special guest, Daniel Negrano, join us on The Mania Podcast.
00:00:00.000So Jimmy Kimmel went on the show and said that we're all a gaggle of scumbags.
00:00:23.000He called the president the alleged president, incoming president, and then said his gaggle of scumbags were criticizing the firefighters for not being white enough or whatever.
00:00:34.000The assumption is, of course, he's talking about personalities who are criticizing the DEI policies, which exacerbated the problems in the California wildfires.
00:00:42.000But thanks, Jimmy, for calling us scumbags, I guess.
00:00:45.000The reality is, well, I won't be so crass.
00:01:15.000You know, I'm watching these, just thinking to myself, it's all fake.
00:01:18.000Tim Kaine going after Hegseth, accusing him of cheating and other nonsense.
00:01:24.000Elizabeth Warren coming after him because he said women shouldn't be in combat.
00:01:27.000I'm like, none of these people are asking real questions that matter for someone who's going to be defending this nation.
00:01:33.000But there was this really funny moment where Senator Mullins called at the Democrats for not saying anything when other senators show up to vote drunk.
00:02:40.000You will get access to the Discord server, which is like a chat room, and you get to call in to our members-only show and talk to us and our guests.
00:03:23.000He brought up some stuff that, you know, I went in saying, this is ridiculous, but by the time I was done with it, like you do with many podcasts, I'm like, I don't know.
00:03:42.000It's so hard in a game like that, you know, because there is luck.
00:03:45.000As you know, you play a little bit of poker.
00:03:46.000It's hard to know who the best is, and there's a lot of young guys today who work a lot harder than I do and are a lot hungrier, so I wouldn't say I'm the best, but I'm among them.
00:03:55.000I would, because what I love about poker is when you figure people out, and you're, for those that don't know, Daniel's famous for all of these videos throughout your career, just nailing people on what the cards they, like, reading their mind, basically, knowing the person better than they know themselves, and then it's funny when they get frustrated and give up.
00:04:12.000Not even a position where they need to, but you've nailed them so well.
00:04:47.000Here's a story from Mediaite to kick things off.
00:04:49.000Jimmy Kimmel breaks down over the fires and bitterly condemns Trump and his quote gaggle of scumbags saying firefighters aren't white enough.
00:04:57.000Well, as everybody who watches this show knows, we've never criticized firefighters for not being white enough.
00:05:03.000We've criticized them for not hiring enough firefighters because they don't want white ones, which is totally different.
00:05:09.000And I assume the gaggle of scumbags comment has to be the supporters of Donald Trump, prominent personalities who have been criticizing DEI policies.
00:06:12.000Everyone who lives in this city knows someone, most of us multiple people, families, friends, colleagues, neighbors whose house is burned down.
00:06:21.000And the truth is we don't even know if it's over.
00:06:23.000We had 100-mile-per-hour winds fueling this nightmare.
00:06:36.000But it's also been, in a lot of ways, a beautiful experience because, once again, we see our fellow men and women coming together to support each other.
00:06:47.000People who lost their own homes were out volunteering in parking lots, helping others who lost theirs.
00:06:54.000And tonight, you know, I don't want to...
00:06:59.000Get into all the vile and irresponsible and stupid things our alleged future president and his gaggle of scumbags chose to say during our darkest and most terrifying hour.
00:07:09.000The fact that they chose to attack our firefighters, who apparently aren't white enough to be out there risking their lives on our behalf, it's disgusting, but it's not surprising.
00:07:19.000Instead, I want to focus on thanking those men and women.
00:07:29.000We gotta call out the lies on the corporate press.
00:07:33.000First of all, let me say, who's his gaggle of scumbags?
00:07:35.000He's not talking about his administration because none of these people are doing press right now.
00:07:39.000He's talking about the supporters, the prominent people in media, people like us, who have rightly criticized that the LA Fire Department is understaffed.
00:07:47.000They've been complaining for years about having too many white people.
00:07:51.000Adam Carolla pointed out that as a white man, he was held back for seven years, and these policies have...
00:07:57.000Made it more difficult to fight these fires.
00:08:05.000So, when I see this video and they're all laughing and cheering and clapping at lies, this has been the problem the whole time.
00:08:13.000With the corporate press, the mainstream narrative, how do we solve the problem of these massive wildfires if the people who live in these areas don't actually know what we're saying, what the problem is?
00:08:25.000I don't know that there is a solution on the horizon for these wildfires because the people in positions of authority are just passing the buck.
00:08:35.000People like Jimmy Kimmel are blaming their political opponents or people that they dislike their politics for being the problem.
00:09:16.000So if hypothetically, if it was all Republicans in one state all the time for three decades, you would get the same kind of falling in line and everyone just going through the same motions all the time.
00:09:27.000Because that kind of ideological uniformity does does nothing but breed corruption.
00:09:33.000We're getting it out of Washington right now.
00:09:35.000Four percent or five percent of D.C. voted for Donald Trump as opposed to Kamala Harris.
00:09:41.000It's a terrible thing when you have uniformity of political opinion because you have people that are terrified to step out of line and say, no, this is a bad policy.
00:09:48.000I'd play devil's advocate just a little bit on this with the one issue here, because.
00:09:52.000For me, it's like about the timing a little bit, right?
00:09:54.000The insensitivity of what happened, right?
00:09:57.000So there has to be a moratorium to some degree of like horrible tragedy, horrible fire.
00:10:01.000And I fear sometimes that we all do this.
00:10:05.000It's like, let's just have empathy for people that are, you know, we don't want to be rooting for this so that we can have an I told you so moment or anything along those lines.
00:10:13.000And obviously, then you look at some of the issues like, why did this happen?
00:10:17.000Then you start to hold the people accountable.
00:10:18.000Maybe we're at that time where we start to look at that and the different reasons, whether there's evidence that specifically the DEI was a culprit here.
00:10:46.000I think the issue here is, I would agree, incompetence plays a much bigger role than diversity, equity, and inclusion.
00:10:52.000They didn't fill the reservoirs, they didn't build new reservoirs, and understaffing may have an issue.
00:10:58.000There may be DEI involved in understaffing to a degree, but the bigger picture is general mismanagement.
00:11:03.000In this regard, though, Jimmy Kimmel's going on a major late-night show, one of the most prominent in the country, and misrepresenting the criticism that we have, which is largely mismanagement, and then trying to make it look like...
00:11:16.000Not specifically me, but the people in this space and Donald Trump are angry that there's too many people who aren't white as firefighters.
00:11:25.000I'd like to focus on how can we get relief?
00:11:28.000And so, shout out to Mike Cernovich and Chef Andrew Gruel, who have been raising money, and Chef Gruel's been providing space and resources for people.
00:11:35.000And I'm not going to rag on the guy for crying over watching his home burn.
00:12:14.000He wants to make it, just a typical Democrat wants to make it racial.
00:12:19.000Our criticisms of them and their situations of mismanagement and getting everything wrong has nothing to do with who firefighters, what kind of racer firefighters you're hiring.
00:12:40.000I mean, again, I do think, though, from what I saw, just perusing social media, the issue was mainly brought up when this was happening.
00:12:47.000I think a lot of maybe bad actors, if you will, were looking to score political points here, and they're like, how can we attack them in every way?
00:14:17.000But, but, so, so let me just, that's the diversity chief for LAFD saying, you got yourself in the wrong place if I got to carry you out of a fire, instead of saying, we will do everything in our power to save your life.
00:14:36.000The End of Race Politics, which I thought was a great book, which sort of, you know, discussed that issue, you know, at, you know, in great depth.
00:14:42.000So, like, I could be, I mean, I'm as anti-DEI as you can be.
00:14:46.000But again, like you said, there's no clear evidence that that's the reason for the fires in this case.
00:15:26.000And so it's critically important that to the extent you can find anything that gives you an ability to be patient in this extremely dangerous and unprecedented crisis that you do.
00:15:42.000And so that of course is Google Translate.
00:16:05.000I need to read it like four times and see the video.
00:16:09.000And you're right, I think she does a...
00:16:11.000And often she actually shoots herself in the foot because sometimes she'll actually have something that she's going to say, but it happens in minute three.
00:16:17.000In the first two minutes, nobody could follow because they're like, what are you talking about now?
00:16:36.000Well, listen, I mean, like I was talking to you before here, you know, I became a U.S. citizen in 2016 specifically to vote for your best friend Hillary Clinton.
00:17:24.000Preyed on his ego and was like, you know, trying to nice, nice to get the best of him.
00:17:28.000But ultimately what that led to was, you know, we had safety.
00:17:32.000And I think as a voter, if you're not prioritizing national security and avoiding nuclear war, all the other stuff seems silly in comparison.
00:17:54.000There was a build-up and a fear of war with Russia and Ukraine under Obama.
00:17:59.000Trump gets in and everything starts settling down.
00:18:02.000Trump crushes ISIS. Trump loses to Biden.
00:18:06.000And we instantly get war, escalation, confident crisis.
00:18:09.000And foreign policy is one of my principal issues.
00:18:13.000And that's why, certainly I'm not going to sit here and pretend that Trump or the people around him are perfect in any way, but certainly better than what we're going to get from Kamala Harris, Joe Biden?
00:18:22.000Well, I think it's not really controversial to say that a large portion of the reason why countries were so aggressive during the Biden administration is because of incompetence.
00:18:36.000Nobody felt like Biden was capable of actually following through on any threats.
00:18:41.000I mean, how many times did he say to Iran, don't, don't, as if that's some kind of deterrent.
00:19:23.000You have to be a little bit crazy to understand some of these people, and it appears as though through his tenure, he kept the bad actors at bay, and then when he was out of office, it appeared as though they saw that as an opportunity.
00:19:35.000So had Kamala won, my concern from those leaders would be like, Well, why would they stop now?
00:19:42.000People in the West, in the US, Canada, and in a lot of parts of Western Europe, they really do believe that the rest of the world is like the West.
00:20:21.000Because Trump, and I'm not saying this to disparage Trump, these are Trump's words, that Putin and Xi feared he might actually nuke their capitals.
00:20:31.000Maybe only 5%, Trump said, but it was enough.
00:21:35.000Trump was specifically playing hardball with Netanyahu.
00:21:38.000It was more a case of he saying, we're going to support you fully to end this war now.
00:21:43.000I think there was a little bit of trepidation.
00:21:45.000Under the Biden administration, there were several measures that they were trying to put on Netanyahu saying, don't go to Rafa, don't do this, don't do this.
00:21:53.000And Trump, clearly of the two sides, was far more...
00:22:19.000What was the moment for you where you were like, I can't vote for these people?
00:22:22.000Okay, so the thing with Hillary was, like her or not, I think she was the most knowledgeable.
00:22:28.000Like, the most quote-unquote prepared for understanding what goes on there, right?
00:22:31.000She's lived her whole life in that, you know, in that avenue.
00:22:34.000For me, I think there was just a, in the last year or two, if you will, my values haven't changed, really, at the core, like a classic liberal.
00:22:44.000But I feel like both sides went sort of farther away from the middle.
00:22:50.000So the question in this election is, like, who's closer to the middle?
00:22:53.000And I think generally, who's closer to the middle?
00:24:14.000Maybe because I was on Twitter, which was in my bubble, which I didn't see those types of things.
00:24:19.000And I don't mean this just disrespectfully, but maybe there's an age gap.
00:24:23.000I'm 38, so people in my age cohort were very heavily into video games, which we saw the beginning of this whole culture war with Gamergate.
00:24:32.000There was this big upswing at the end of the 2000s for all of these diversity terms.
00:24:38.000LexisNexis data shows that every news outlet just saw a massive spike in racism, white privilege, all of these things.
00:24:42.000And so the core issues for people my age at the time, they didn't care about Barack Obama, drone bombs, or anything like that.
00:24:49.000They were talking about why in a video game about World War I, the main character was a purple-haired woman with a missing hand.
00:25:18.000I think, like, you bring up a really good point there, and for me, just sort of being introduced to quote-unquote woke ideology, right?
00:25:23.000And the first experience I had with it, I was on ESPN, myself and Phil Helmuth, we were doing the break desk, and I was just talking about a play, and I said, well, it's not like this guy sucks, right?
00:26:02.000And I was told that that was insensitive and I was using gendered language and I didn't understand what she meant.
00:26:08.000You know, like I just said, man, I got a man up.
00:26:12.000And she felt that was gendered language.
00:26:14.000So that was my first sort of introduction into it.
00:26:16.000And then I sort of saw that sort of avenue towards all these little microaggressions and really creating the divide, making it to the point where you walk around in eggshells with everything you say, you might say the wrong thing.
00:27:05.000Have you ever told that ESPN story before?
00:27:07.000Is that like, wow, I did not know that.
00:27:09.000First of all, I didn't even know that's the origin of the word sucks.
00:27:11.000Yes, I didn't know that either until I was married for the first time.
00:27:15.000I mean, on The Simpsons, there's that famous joke where Bart says, I didn't think it was possible, but this both blows and sucks at the same time.
00:28:02.000I think it was like, it was before the peak, but for me it was the early onset of sort of this ideology that, you know, I was always sort of anti-political correctness my whole life because I think it's silly.
00:28:12.000I grew up in a multicultural world where we all made fun of each other.
00:29:06.000When you constantly talk about this stuff and you introduce it to children who used to play with their friends who were black, brown, and whatever, and they're just their friends.
00:29:14.000But now, no, no, that's not just your friend.
00:31:37.000I view the state as regressive and oppressive.
00:31:44.000When we look at the wildfires right now, the point you bring up about where the tax money is going, clearly it's not being managed properly, but I believe California has the highest taxes in the country.
00:34:23.000175,000 people is what they've said have been displaced in L.A. So, okay, let me do this.
00:34:28.000I think I got the numbers wrong because ChadGPT's math basically says if we stopped funding Ukraine, we could give everybody a million bucks who's been affected by the fires.
00:36:35.000And it's crazy, because I saw an early report that they contained it, but now it's looking like it's not contained at all, and Fox said 0%.
00:36:40.000Why are they calling this the auto fire?
00:36:52.000And car dealerships, so, in that area.
00:36:56.000Man, this stuff just keeps freaking me out, because I... I didn't grow up in this area or anything like that.
00:37:03.000I only lived there for a couple years, but industry-wise, with skateboarding especially and music and TV, I know a lot of people over here.
00:37:50.000And homeless people and mentally ill people is almost a circle of end diagram.
00:37:54.000Like, there are so many people that have mental illness.
00:37:56.000You get a lot of people that have mental illness, and they're just like, well, I can do it too, you know?
00:38:01.000I would not be surprised if at least one of these guys or some element were far-left progressive or far-left extremists because many of these people, their view of revolution is we have to destroy the system by any means necessary to start a new one.
00:38:19.000So when I watch a video of a guy, take a look at this video.
00:38:22.000This guy is literally starting a tree on fire.
00:38:44.000People are angry for a lot of different reasons, right?
00:38:46.000So sometimes people want to just literally burn it all down.
00:38:48.000Well, there's already fires, so they get the opportunity to just be like, oh, no, it's fire, you know, and they get to, like, a lot of angry, like you said, people that are mentally unstable, you know, a lot of people that went through the whole period of isolation and the, you know, the mental health issues, you know, a lot of people suffered from that, the sort of divisive nature of the political climate and social media, like, people get radicalized, right?
00:39:10.000And so if you radicalize, whichever way, Like, you know, it's a hop, step, and a jump towards just burn it all down.
00:39:18.000Well, when we heard the insurance companies pulled out of California and started canceling these policies, the first question we have is, like, why would they do that?
00:39:28.000That's a strategic decision based on information.
00:39:31.000Like, when insurance companies do this, they're like, okay, we make a lot of money doing this.
00:39:54.000But what was the reaction from far leftists when the news broke about the insurance companies?
00:40:00.000They started posting a series of memes of people speed dialing Luigi Mangione.
00:40:04.000Which, of course, is insane because in both cases, it's the government that's actually at fault.
00:40:10.000The reason that the insurance companies pulled out of California was because the government said that they couldn't raise the prices on insurance.
00:40:18.000So the insurance companies said, we're going to lose our butt if something like what is happening now happens.
00:40:24.000And the reason they didn't raise the prices is because the government said you can't.
00:40:27.000And then when it comes to the whole thing with Luigi, the reason that health insurance is so expensive is because there's no market and because the government is involved in healthcare.
00:40:41.000Because of government manipulating the markets and not having an open market that can actually make decisions based on the realities on the ground.
00:40:52.000But yet they're blaming the corporations because they're idiots.
00:41:08.000But basically, you're a moron if you don't believe the wildfires were the result of climate change.
00:41:13.000The likes of DEI or whatever the new Republican thing is on any given basis is simply a misdirection away from the actual reasons as to why anthropogenic climate change is accelerating these extreme weather events.
00:41:33.000Presumably what's going on in L.A. is all because you have a Democratic governor, a Democratic mayor, but then they're going to have to explain why we've had all this terrible flooding and other disasters in very red states all across this country.
00:41:50.000You've got to be a moron not to understand that climate change does not give a damn whether you're a Democrat or a Republican.
00:42:56.000I think the thing about climate change, right?
00:42:58.000So the theory is that the climate's changing, right?
00:43:00.000When in history is the climate like never like it doesn't that isn't that just normal like the climate does change the question really is is it stuff that we're doing right and I don't know that the science is you know I think that there is Some science that suggests, you know, maybe we're playing a role, but, like, whether we play a role or not, the climate's always going to change.
00:43:17.000There'll be floods, there'll be winds, there'll be, you know, all sorts of shifts.
00:43:20.000You're exactly right, and I want to make a point that I continue to make regularly on the show.
00:43:25.000If there is man-made climate change, it is because of China and India, both of which have 1.5 billion people.
00:43:34.000I think the point you make, too, in addition to that, sorry to interrupt you, but is that, you know, even if we did everything right, we recycled everything, we did everything in the U.S., it's irrelevant.
00:43:41.000Because if, you know, large areas like China and India are burning coal or whatever the case may be, they're not they don't stop.
00:44:06.000When you have people that are that poor, that are literally burning animal waste, burning dung to heat their homes and stuff, you can't look at the American people who have made massive progress in...
00:44:20.000Clean energy and changing their lifestyles and people change their light bulbs so they're not using incandescent anymore and they're using LEDs and all these small things that millions and millions and millions and millions of Americans have done on their own, without the government saying you have to, on their own to make changes because they do believe that it's important to at least contribute and help.
00:44:40.000You can't look at them and say, you people are idiots.
00:45:16.000So the question then becomes, if Democrats know climate change is a problem and Democrats have advocated for climate change mitigation, and then you have a Democrat governor and mayor and they don't mitigate the problem they tell us is coming, then they're going to is it the fault of those politicians?
00:47:27.000A boatload of eucalyptus growing everywhere, and it takes a long time for that.
00:47:31.000I've heard that meme, and I don't know if it's actually true, but the story goes that there's a boatload of eucalyptus, and it takes a long time to mature.
00:47:42.000The oils that it secretes is super flammable, and so you've got California full of eucalyptus with this oil that secretes, and they don't clean up the forest floor.
00:47:53.000So, like, literally everything that could go wrong.
00:47:55.000Trump got laughed at for saying that a while back.
00:47:57.000In a lot of things he says he gets from experts, and they make sense to him, so then he just sort of regurgitates it in his own way, right?
00:48:03.000Maybe simplifies it in the sense of saying, like, shouldn't you just clean up the forest?
00:48:07.000And people laughed, like, haha, yeah, I'm sure it's as simple as brewing up, but like...
00:49:36.000I have a friend that used to do, I forget what the name of the job is, but he's a firefighter that would jump out of airplanes to go and fight wildfires way off in the woods and stuff.
00:49:45.000And he was saying, look, man, if those winds are going to kick up like this, 100 miles an hour, even God isn't putting that fire out.
00:49:53.000Because I said to him, I was like, yo, bro, you need to get down to L.A. And he's like, man, even if I went down there, there's nothing that can be done.
00:50:08.000Like, I mean, these homes that all burn down, like, if you use concrete, they don't burn down, right?
00:50:13.000I mean, if you live in an area like that, you maybe have to say, like, okay, if you want to live in this area, you must build this type of home.
00:50:21.000There was a video of metal on fire in the wildfires, and it was a metal frame burning, and I was just like...
00:50:29.000I think maybe when it gets too hot, a lot more burns than you realize.
00:50:33.000But, you know, honestly, I don't know that I know enough to answer definitively whether or not, because what I will say is I've seen seemingly metal skyscrapers on fire.
00:50:45.000Obviously, if you build the house out of wood, it's going to burn, you know, if it ends up happening.
00:50:49.000But I do think that a lot of materials we use, be it insulation or otherwise, things we have to use, carpeting and other things, are going to catch on fire.
00:50:59.000But in Japan, on their roofs, built into the houses, they have this thing where if a fire happens, the roof opens up and sprinklers just fire off.
00:51:08.000And they, like, protect all the homes and stuff like that.
00:51:10.000Japan's the coolest place on earth, man.
00:52:22.000I mean, if you look this one up, I'm pretty sure people were talking about getting one of those pumps that connect to your pool because you literally have whatever it is, 50, 60 gallons of water, you could use immediately.
00:53:15.000It's something like the combined retention of water by a certain amount of people can actually create a catastrophic release of water or something like that.
00:53:25.000So they're like, no one cares about one person doing it.
00:53:27.000They care if literally everybody retained 3,000 gallons of water all at once or something.
00:53:32.000But I'm saying build a PVC system that's just literally pipes you don't attach, you never do anything with.
00:53:40.000If a wildfire starts, you just attach the pipes and turn the sprinkles out above your house to try and prevent the fire.
00:53:46.000This is the type of stuff that if, like, I'm the government and I know the highest risk of safety, and like you said, it happened six years ago, then this is what I'm going to spend all my resources on, is to make sure all these homes have that or have some sort of access to water in a case of emergency like this.
00:54:02.000Because you know this is going to happen again, right?
00:54:04.000So what are we going to do for the next one?
00:54:06.000We should have been thinking about that.
00:54:08.000This is actually a crazy thing when you think about it.
00:54:10.000I mean, all of these houses had plumbing.
00:54:12.000All of these houses had access to water.
00:54:14.000And I'm just like, what if you decentralized firefighting and every house had just like three sprinklers on their roofs that when the fire breaks, every house just sprays itself with a little bit of water.
00:54:26.000That stops the flow in key areas and the fire doesn't burn other areas.
00:54:30.000The amount of water you'd need is minimal.
00:54:32.000Yeah, there's people a lot smarter than all of us in this room that can probably figure out technology Would make a huge difference.
00:54:39.000Like I said, I mean, we have self-driving cars now.
00:54:41.000Like, how do we not have a better way to protect us from the most basic element, which is fire?
00:55:01.000Trump says he will create the external revenue service to collect revenue from foreign sources.
00:55:07.000Now, I'm torn on this because I like the idea of America getting paid what is due, but he's creating another IRS. I don't know if I want to be in that.
00:55:22.000How do you have any jurisdiction over other countries?
00:55:24.000Obviously, you know, you have tariffs and all these things, but you're like, you're going to go after other countries and say you owe us tax money?
00:55:30.000Well, I mean, I guess it wouldn't be the same as the IRS. Like, you don't dispatch guys with guns, although the U.S. does.
00:55:36.000I think it's, if the Internal Revenue Service would, what it would do realistically, keep records and logs of debts and then use that as leverage in trade.
00:56:10.000It's just a negotiating tactic, if you will, essentially what it comes down to.
00:56:13.000In some cases, tariffs can hurt both you and the people that you've applied tariffs to, obviously.
00:56:18.000In other cases, it can be enough to go, okay, okay, okay, okay, I hear you, right?
00:56:21.000So I think a lot of what he does is a little bit blowhard, like he throws things out there, talks a big game, likes to get you riled up, you know, and he does.
00:56:29.000Like, this is something that gets people riled up.
00:56:31.000The whole Canada thing, like, do we really think he's trying to make Canada the 51st state?
00:56:35.000Or was he just mocking Trudeau, right?
00:57:08.000So when you ask somebody, you know, why do you hate Trump?
00:57:11.000They get to the point where, like, they don't know where to start because they forgot the 17 other things that were in the news the other day.
00:57:17.000It's a really good point because Trump creates stories that are flashes in the pan.
01:00:20.000Well, I feel like maybe there are some people that do it for clickbait, but I really, really feel that there are people that want to do everything they can to discredit him because they just hate him with such a visceral...
01:00:30.000Yeah, there's a combination of both, for sure.
01:00:32.000You know, twisting the narrative with clickbait titles works because more people see it, but you're also painting him.
01:00:46.000I did not know that until I actually watched the video.
01:00:48.000And there's a lot of things, I think, you know, with Elon taking over X and, you know, sort of opening that up with the algorithm and community notes.
01:00:56.000Now, when somebody puts something out that's untrue, maybe not right away, you don't see it, but you see it soon enough where you're like, oh.
01:02:47.000But now, obviously, with the resources we have and platforms like yours and others who can dissect and question everything in an authentic way.
01:02:55.000And again, sometimes you're going to get stuff wrong, right?
01:02:57.000But at least you're having the conversation.
01:03:00.000Well, they can't twist the way that they did before.
01:03:02.000And I think there's sort of an anger from legacy media about the idea that...
01:03:06.000Their grasp and their hold on the narrative has slipped away.
01:03:10.000I mean, that goes back to the Jimmy Kimmel thing in the beginning where the criticism of California's largely failed policy and policy that contributed to an understaffing of which diversity, equity, inclusion things played a role.
01:03:23.000And then Jimmy Kimmel plays the game of they...
01:03:27.000That's always been you're racist and you're far right instead of actually addressing the concerns, which is a weird position for so many people like you saying you're a liberal-minded guy, but they're going to call you far right.
01:05:55.000The Canada one was just opposed, but this one and the Panama Canal one are both legitimate arguments about not just national security, but because of these two strategic locations and the melting ice in the polar in the north, that matters.
01:06:14.000So, like, that's going to be a trade route, and the United States has been the, you know, global hegemon for the better part of 75 years, some would argue longer, and the United States has made the whole world a safer place because of it.
01:06:30.000You don't want Russia or China owning or managing those trade routes.
01:06:46.000It's not going to be a military invasion.
01:06:47.000If I understand correctly, there's only like 50,000 people up there, right?
01:06:52.000And the last time, like the U.S. got the U.S. Virgin Islands, because of strategic location compared to the Panama Canal, the U.S. acquired the Virgin Islands from Denmark for $25 million in gold.
01:07:11.000So they are technically their own nation, but they are under, like, I forgot, Admiralty or somewhere.
01:07:19.000Like, Denmark essentially controls their trade and foreign policy, but they are largely autonomous.
01:07:24.000So I don't know if they have a prime minister or whatever, but their leader was basically like, look, we are Greenlandic and we want to be independent from Denmark.
01:09:00.000So, Trump is basically saying, we want to control the global shipping lanes in these areas, which will make us dominant on the world stage.
01:09:08.000Would you guys rather, Greenland or Panama?
01:10:41.000Our allies in recent weeks refusing to rule out using military force to take over Greenland and the Panama Canal and threatening to make Canada the 51st state.
01:10:54.000Would you carry out an order from President Trump to seize Greenland, a territory of our NATO ally Denmark, by force?
01:11:03.000Or would you comply with an order to take over the Panama Canal?
01:11:08.000Senator, I will emphasize that President Trump received 77 million votes to be the lawful commander-in-chief of this country.
01:12:38.000He was saying, you know, 77 million people voted for Donald Trump to make the decisions, and if he gives me a decision to make, I'll make it.
01:12:45.000She cut him off because she wanted the simple answer, like, yep, I can't wait to get Greenland.
01:12:49.000All these hearings are a bunch of BS. It's just, I don't know if they solve anything.
01:13:00.000Well, and also, you know, a lot of these congressmen who want longevity because there are no term limits, they can be there for 20, 30 years, they want to make a name for themselves, right?
01:14:14.000I cannot answer that question, which is, like, a pretty simple question, is what is the definition of a word?
01:14:20.000You know, and there, like, his goal was obvious.
01:14:22.000Like, he knew what was going to happen.
01:14:23.000He's going to put her back up against the wall because she has to appease, like, a certain faction of progressive people who don't want her to say what's true.
01:14:32.000You know, those are the ones that work, and they create those short soundbites.
01:14:36.000This one, she couldn't even get it out well.
01:14:38.000Like, it took her forever to sort of get the sentence out.
01:15:29.000By a lot of activists, I agree with this, is that, and I think Elon Musk and Vivek were talking about it, if you're a general, you should not be allowed to go and work in the private sector, military-industrial companies for at least 10 years.
01:15:56.000I mean, it's not particularly controversial for your average American to be like, yeah, you know, the Secretary of Defense shouldn't get out of the Office of SecDef and then go right to Raytheon.
01:16:08.000It seems like that is something that all Americans agree with.
01:16:14.000And it's, you know, the average American agrees in the banking industry, too.
01:16:20.000You don't want whoever's running the Fed to go to the board of Goldman.
01:16:24.000You know, or go to, you know, the board of Wells Fargo or whatever.
01:16:28.000Wells Fargo might not even have a board.
01:16:31.000But either way, point being, Citibank, you don't want to have people in an industry that is supposed to be regulating.
01:16:39.000Or you don't want people in government that is supposed to be regulating an industry going into that industry when they get out of their job.
01:16:46.000Yeah, nobody likes the fact that our politicians are beholden to who pays their bills.
01:16:50.000Like, one example I can give you, when I was in California, we were trying to pass a legislation for online poker there, and I met with, like, we had this little party, met with, like, all these Republicans, right?
01:17:00.000And to a man, this is when Sheldon Adelson was still alive, and he was super anti-online poker, didn't want anything to do with it.
01:17:10.000So he basically, he was, you know, paying all, you know, he was spending a lot of money with these politicians and they came up to me and frankly to a man, they all said, listen, we'd love to do it, you know?
01:17:20.000But Sheldon flat out said, if I say yes on this bill...
01:17:28.000But a lot of these guys, their whole job in Congress is raising money.
01:17:33.000They spend 40 hours a week raising money for their next election.
01:17:35.000But it is worth noting that the industries or the agencies that are assigned to regulate industries, the people that are the regulators have to understand the industry too.
01:17:49.000So you end up with this You know, this circular situation where the people that are regulating have to know the industry well enough to make intelligent and comprehensive regulations if it's going to be regulated, but you also don't want them to get out of the business of government, get out of the bureaucracy, and then be like, well, the only thing I know how to do...
01:18:14.000Is the business that I was regulating.
01:18:16.000And it's also the business where I can get offered the most money.
01:19:35.000I'm just saying we would all be satisfied with our politicians.
01:19:38.000When you said term limits, I got excited because so many of these politicians that I met, they all literally said that's all they do.
01:19:44.000They don't have time to look at actual issues to help the community because they've got to spend all their time and resources on raising money for their next election.
01:19:54.000I mean, I guess I do understand how you spend a billion dollars.
01:19:58.000On a campaign, I guess if you're paying Meg Stallion and Beyonce to show up, whatever it is, a billion dollars, it's like all this money that the country needs and the people need, why are you begging us to give you money to run campaigns?
01:20:18.000Elizabeth Warren slams Hegseth for refusing to meet with her about his record on women.
01:20:23.000And ultimately, Hegseth had agreed he would support women in combat roles if confirmed, saying that so long as the standard remains high, he would be okay with it.
01:20:34.000So Elizabeth Warren basically is grandstanding, saying you don't want women in combat.
01:20:41.000She's doing it to get a viral clip that her campaign can send out to a bunch of people and say, here's why you should give us money, because I yelled at Pete Hegseth.
01:20:56.000Okay, so at 50 points he said that, and now he's reversed his decision to say that he'd be okay with it if they meet the standards that everyone else...
01:21:53.000This is what you need to do to be a Marine, right?
01:21:56.000If a woman gets through that, just the same one that every other man does, right?
01:21:59.000And she wants to be in a combat role, and she can do the job and isn't a liability, I'm okay with that.
01:22:04.000The psychological aspects that you sort of touched on, I feel like, you know, there could be something there, but at the same time, I feel like, you know, in the military, there's like a brotherhood, right?
01:23:30.000It's also been shown that when standards are high and women continue to not meet the standards, the upper NCOs and brass start looking at the people that are actually training them and saying, what's wrong?
01:23:43.000Why are no women meeting the standards?
01:23:45.000And they end up lowering the standards.
01:24:18.000In all seriousness about women in combat, the stories I've heard from my friends who are veterans and have gone through basic training about how women are treated have nothing to do with the standards.
01:24:27.000So what I've heard is standards might be the same, but they're still not going to hold the women at an individual level to those standards.
01:25:07.000What I heard is that, from a bunch of different guys, is that despite the fact the women were supposed to have the same standards, they would cry.
01:25:14.000And the commanding officers would say, just stop.
01:27:06.000Officers are terrible at what they do.
01:27:08.000They go to officer training school and they come into the Fleet Marine Force and they can't hump and they can't run and they can't hike and we still let them be in charge of us.
01:27:17.000Even though they're falling behind, we gotta help them out.
01:27:19.000Or we let fat bodies, you know, the striped people, if you guys know what I'm talking about, you had striped splatoons, they would have to do another recourse over again, go through boot camp again.
01:27:30.000So we give standards, we let people go all the time, but I agree with you, Daniel.
01:27:34.000If we just said, there's a limit, stop it, done, and if everyone listened to that, it'd be great.
01:27:44.000I want Democrats to champion women in combat.
01:27:47.000And then I want Democrats to confirm that women will be forced to sign up for selective service because it is the fastest way to get the entire female demographic in this country to vote Republican.
01:27:57.000I mean, yeah, if we're going to do that, then I mean, I love women.
01:28:42.000In the Republican Party, you want to make sure that you can be comfortable, that you can live your beautiful life and never have to raise a weapon.
01:28:49.000And Democrats want you on the front lines.
01:28:51.000And I think the sane position should be simply this.
01:30:29.000Every time you make standards that one group consistently misses, there will be people that will make...
01:30:39.000Accommodations, so that way that group passes.
01:30:41.000That's what happened with George Bush's No Child Left Behind.
01:30:46.000No Child Left Behind was instituted, and because people weren't graduating, teachers just started saying, okay, push them on through, push them on through.
01:30:53.000And now, like, 30% of graduating students can't read at all.
01:30:57.000I'd say there's a loud pushback, though, against the whole process.
01:31:00.000Like, when you look at, say, for example, school admissions, right, with the Asian community, right?
01:31:04.000If you're an Asian male and you want to get into an Ivy League school, the road to get there is...
01:31:07.000Almost impossible in comparison to somebody, you know, maybe a person of color or whatever when the standards are different, right?
01:31:12.000So there's been a big pushback where they've changed rules and stuff like that.
01:31:46.000That's what's supposed to happen with No Child Left Behind.
01:31:50.000The point of No Child Left Behind was educate all children.
01:31:54.000But because people are different and because all the kids have different aptitudes, which is totally ignored, they just start shoving people through.
01:32:05.000We are just people that are all different and we all have different abilities and you can't make the Unable, able.
01:32:15.000So what ends up happening is you start letting the unable go do the stuff that the able people are.
01:32:20.000And in a combat situation, that means more deaths, and it also means the United States losing more engagements, and if you lose too many engagements, you lose wars.
01:32:36.000The Marine Corps, if you can shoot rifles, if you can use the mortar rounds, if you can shoot.50 cal, if you can drive a tank, that's great.
01:34:13.000And they're legally required to provide that relief.
01:34:16.000So where guys crawl through the mud and don't get a shower and wear the dirty clothes the next day, they can't do that for women because of potential infections and other things like that.
01:34:25.000And, you know, to bring up, you know, like I said, I'm in a utopian world.
01:34:28.000Maybe, you know, maybe I'm naive in terms of what's possible because there is the added aspect of like you said, like if you're at combat and a woman goes through a menstrual cycle, which they do like every 30 days, their hormone imbalance could lead to like sort of being like, I mean, I've been around like it affects you, you know, hormonally and physically and all these types of things.
01:34:46.000So like if you're in Afghanistan, you know, and you're in this military.
01:34:51.000Combat situation and you have a very bad menstrual cycle, like, what then?
01:35:59.000A pregnant woman can drive a truck for a certain amount of time, and they can accommodate that.
01:36:03.000But there is still an issue that if a man wants to have a child, it's a congratulations, good luck.
01:36:08.000If a woman does, it's a we're taking you out, you're out of commission.
01:36:11.000I mean, yeah, that's an argument to your case.
01:36:12.000Like I said, you know, if a woman is simply not...
01:36:15.000You know, physically unable to be at their best, you know, the entire time and they face challenges that us men were lucky not to, you know, because it's right.
01:36:23.000I mean, I'm thankful that I don't have to go through because I've seen it.
01:36:26.000I've seen women go through intense pain and obviously everyone has varying degrees of menstrual cycles without that.
01:36:31.000This podcast is about menstrual cycles, but but it is, you know, it can be a real issue.
01:36:36.000So on that alone, you know, you already look at male and female body type as a combatant.
01:36:42.000There is potentially liability with one and not the other.
01:36:50.000This is, I know, a small subject of what we're talking about.
01:36:53.000But transgender folks and other stuff like that.
01:36:55.000That if you're not capable to fight, they take you out.
01:36:59.000If you're having surgery, if you had a molar, your molar gets taken out, you can't fight, then you're no good to being in the United States military.
01:37:25.000So I suppose your argument is once we conquer China and end Chinese slave labor practices and clean up their environment, we can do deals with them.
01:37:34.000If we can't do that, then we're competing at an unfair standard and I'm not a fan.
01:38:10.000Well, I mean, if you're saying 20 were thrown out and seven were Democrats and you're making that case, you're sort of making the opposite case.
01:38:17.000The Clapper of Cheek says, this is insane.
01:38:19.000YouTube has been feeding me Negrano poker videos for two weeks.
01:38:34.000Horsehead says, Tim, based on your reaction to finding out Americans' average weight, what do you think about doing a deep dive into that as well as exploring long-term solutions?
01:38:42.000Thanks for covering the UK gangs also.
01:38:45.000I like to annoy Allison because she always gives me advice on health and then I don't listen.
01:38:51.000And then later I'll watch a podcast that says what she told me to do and I'll start doing it and she gets so mad.
01:38:59.000And then no matter what it is, I'll always just say, Luke told me to do it.
01:39:03.000So it's like, I'm like, you know what?
01:40:47.000But then the media started lying to everybody.
01:40:49.000And so what ends up happening is people with these same views that never changed believe things that aren't correct, like the very fine people hoax.
01:40:56.000And then when you realize, like, wait a minute, they lied, you're instantly right-wing.
01:41:03.000Like, I remember, again, specifically the first time it happened, and I was in the bubble when COVID was happening, you know, and if you were Democrat, you thought it came from a bat, and if you're Republican, it came from a lab.
01:41:19.000So why are you racist if you think it came from a lab and you're like righteous if you think it came from a bat?
01:41:25.000It's just like it was such an obvious example to me of how tribal we are and how depending where you got your news this is what you must think.
01:41:33.000But it is now I believe the principal belief among government is lab leak.
01:43:01.000Josh Berg says, how do you feel about some Americans downloading the TikTok alt red note and deleting Facebook, IG, and X to spite the U.S. government?
01:43:56.000I've actually heard both sides of this argument.
01:43:58.000And my first instinct was like, you know, this is a China propaganda machine, TikTok, right?
01:44:03.000They're allied with, you know, our enemies, if you will.
01:44:06.000And they use this to poison the minds of our youth, right?
01:44:10.000And the brand of TikTok that they get in China is very different than the one we get here.
01:44:14.000So on the surface, I feel like, okay, well, yeah, maybe there should be something to be done about that.
01:44:18.000But then the question is, how do you do that while also protecting, you know, other social media companies and others without giving government total overreach where they can just say at any point, well, we're going to shut you down because, you know, for whatever reason.
01:44:33.000The constitutionality of banning TikTok isn't really in question.
01:44:40.000There's no constitutional precedent to give the government the authority to ban something like that.
01:44:45.000Unless You say that it's for national security.
01:44:49.000I do believe that TikTok is a means for the Chinese Communist Party to influence and acquire information on Americans and things that the government's doing.
01:45:11.000The owner of Lockheed Martin or one of the people on the board of Lockheed Martin or someone with a top-secret clearance at Lockheed or Raytheon or whatever, they have a kid and their kid has TikTok on their phone.
01:45:20.000There's no telling what they can access through the phone because I don't know myself what they can access, but I mean, if my phone can start my car...
01:45:35.000I'm sure that some smart Chinese programmers could use any number of apps in the phone if they have access to the phone.
01:45:45.000And if TikTok does get access to the phone the way that we assume that it does, access to the microphone, access to the Bluetooth and stuff like that, I'm sure that there are all kinds of nefarious things they could be doing now.
01:46:00.000I don't have any problem with banning TikTok.
01:46:03.000I don't think that it's a free speech thing.
01:46:06.000I don't think banning is the right approach.
01:46:25.000So, the argument on the free speech of TikTok is that we can't force divestment because it violates the free speech rights of ByteDance and the Chinese partners, and I'm like, why would Chinese nationals in China have free speech in America?
01:46:37.000Yeah, the Founding Fathers were not intending, like, I think if you go to an originalist argument in the Constitution, if you went to the Founding Fathers and said, should foreign countries, particularly adversarial ones, be allowed to leaflet in the United States, they'd say no.
01:51:15.000No, I'm sure my poker stories are like, to compare it to the average person, when the kindergartner comes in with the grand drawing and being like, look what I did.
01:51:24.000I'm telling this guy a poker story, and I'm like, he's heard it.
01:51:26.000Well, I'd say, I love this saying, because it's true, but poker's a lot like sex, in that everybody thinks they're good at it, but most people don't have a clue what they're doing.
01:51:34.000Have you ever met someone who says, hey, are you good in bed?
01:53:37.000That's kind of where I wanted to get in poker, where the people that I play with, they can all afford to lose.
01:53:42.000I don't feel comfortable taking Grandma Betty's last $200 at the table, but rich billionaire tech guy, I'm like, I don't mind.
01:53:50.000With me, it's kind of like hot potato, because I'll goof off, and I'll bet and play wild and loose, and then other people win, but then one person ends up losing that hot potato, and then they feel bad.
01:54:02.000And then the guy's like, everybody else got paid but me.
01:54:18.000If that's the case, then I'd be opposed to that.
01:54:22.000They brought women into combat in 2016 through the Marine Corps, by the way, FOA. Is he sure that statement is based on for combat specifically or just for military service?
01:56:03.000Anthony Johnson says, U.S. Army from 05 to 09. Basic training was in Fort Relax in Jackson.
01:56:08.000Training company had second floor for women, and I heard their troubles in the stairwell and watched how they had another few minutes to finish a two-mile run.
01:56:17.000Oh, another thing is women can't get along.
01:58:32.000Just imagine the guy making the alphabet.
01:58:35.000It's just evidence of the patriarchy and the fact that men have always hated women.
01:58:40.000I will say this based on my own personal anecdotal evidence, but America gets a bad rap as being this really racist nation, where when I go to a lot of other places in the world, it's like sexism and racism is so much more prevalent and just accepted within the culture, and ageism and different things like that.
01:59:58.000It's a very difficult, quantifiable thing.
02:00:00.000So you just look at, like, you know, living standards.
02:00:02.000Like in America, you have a pretty diverse group of people that live in different, you know, financial socioeconomic tiers, if you will, where that's not necessarily the case in a lot of other places, much like, you know, to the same degree that it is here.
02:00:18.000So by that alone, it would suggest that like, OK, listen, racism exists in a lot of different ways, both implicit, institutional and all these things.
02:00:27.000But America is, I think, compare it from now to 1960.
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02:00:57.000Now, the reality is the people who already submitted questions are going to be calling in, so you're probably too late.
02:01:18.000I think that, you know, a lot of people, you know, especially in this country, deal with that sort of stuff and, you know, might get a lot out of it.