Red Lobster is preparing to file for bankruptcy, and what does that mean for the election? Plus, why foreign policy matters, and why we should be worried about it. All that and more on this week s episode of the podcast.
00:01:03.000So we're going to talk about that, what that means for the election.
00:01:05.000And then we've got a bunch of other crazy news.
00:01:08.000So if you heard about that portal from Dublin to New York, apparently there was a big livestream and degenerates came and made sure that it was not a thing and so they shut it down.
00:01:16.000Some OnlyFans adult entertainer, I'll be polite, bared all in front of the livestream camera, so they shut that one down, but everyone's laughing about that.
00:01:27.000And then this is pretty big news, actually, but I don't know how much people really care about the foreign policy stuff.
00:01:33.000We were thinking of leading with it, but in Russia, The Russian forces are advancing into Kharkiv.
00:01:44.000just sent them billions of dollars, and the money that was supposed to go to the fortifications went to fake companies that were set up, and tens of millions of dollars, hundreds of millions of U.S.
00:01:57.000This is regular crooks and thieves who pretended to be contractors in the country, took the money, and that's it.
00:02:05.000No one actually wanted to fight, and that's where your dollars are going.
00:02:08.000This story's big, and I think it matters, but it's hard to condense the nuance into a functional headline so that people understand how this economy being crap is, well, a large factor in it is them sending your money to Ukrainian corrupt individuals, stealing it for personal gain, and Russia's winning anyway.
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00:03:46.000Joining us tonight to talk about this and so much more is Michael Seifert.
00:03:51.000I'm Michael Seifert, founder of a company called Public Square, and we are the largest marketplace in the nation of businesses that love our country, our Constitution, and the wonderful values that that document protects.
00:04:03.000We're changing the country through the power of commerce.
00:04:05.000I just showed Michael earlier that Flip Skateboards is on Public Square, and I want people to understand this.
00:04:11.000This is one of the most prominent skateboard companies in the world, and they are on Public Square basically saying that they agree with Our values.
00:04:21.000American values, family values, free speech, all of these really great things.
00:04:26.000You may not care about skateboarding, but this is just a major cultural victory.
00:04:29.000It means pro sports and these massive companies.
00:04:33.000I mean, skateboarding is in the Olympics, so this is tremendous.
00:05:02.000Preparing to file for bankruptcy protection this month.
00:05:05.000Casual dining chain aiming to restructure agreements with landlords and creditors to trim debt.
00:05:10.000Now the crazy thing is, Daily Mail reports, Workers fury as thousands lose their jobs after Red Lobster immediately shutters more than 50 outlets across America without warning.
00:05:21.000Red Lobster staff are furious, the chain let them go with no warning, more than 50 outlets are being shuttered across the country, and the brand has already begun auctioning off kitchen equipment.
00:05:32.000Joe Biden said that people have money to spend and everything's fine.
00:05:36.000Well, you know, the best angle of this whole thing for me is the fact that one of their biggest issues is that they lost apparently $11 million on their endless shrimp campaign.
00:05:46.000Like, they just flew too close to the sun and then they lost it all.
00:05:50.000And I feel like that is just a story for any entrepreneur out there.
00:06:45.000And that's, I mean, you're not, your business is not in a healthy position if you're having to file for bankruptcy protection.
00:06:51.000So if there is going to be a TikTok campaign to save them, it's got to happen in the next month.
00:06:55.000And the hard part too is like, Red Lobster is a staple of sort of the middle class.
00:07:01.000Red Lobster is like a great date night spot for lots of Americans to go out, and the fact that that establishment took the hit is, I think, indicative of a much bigger problem in the economy.
00:07:11.000Like, people do not have disposable income to be able to actually spend on anything outside the bare necessities.
00:07:16.000Now, I thought it was funny to read, to lead with Red Lobster shuttering.
00:07:39.000When local family restaurants shut down.
00:07:41.000So you're looking into this big corporate entity, an octopus with many tentacles, And it screams and you hear it.
00:07:49.000But what no one reports nationally is, here's a list of the 50 mom and pop diners that have shut down across the country, because it's not relevant.
00:07:56.000It's relevant when your chain that you know and you see down the street is closing.
00:08:01.000I'd be willing to bet if you look at local news, small towns, you're seeing Rick's diners closing after 30 years.
00:08:09.000John's family bakery after 80 years is shutting down.
00:08:12.000Yeah, this is just a continuation of a trend, which is, you know, probably started with COVID, I think, you know, when the shutdowns happened and people had to stay, you know, the lockdowns happened.
00:09:09.000I had read an interview with someone who lived in, I think it was Welch, West Virginia, which is one of the poorest areas of the country, and they talked about how they'd lived their whole lives, there used to be a bustling Main Street, industry changed, that got closed down, a Walmart came in, then the Walmart left, and so the communities there have nothing, right?
00:09:27.000Yeah, no, I was just gonna say there's a survey from Slack, actually.
00:09:30.000I was just thinking about this when you guys were talking.
00:09:33.000They did a survey in January, end of January, and released the results that found that 32% of the small business owners that utilize Slack said that they're afraid they're not even gonna make it all of 2024.
00:10:31.000No, Applebee's. I think it's Applebee's.
00:10:33.000I mean, like they're depressed because red lobster closed?
00:10:37.000No, they're saying like, like, life is good.
00:10:39.000Look at this molten lovin' cake from Applebee's.
00:10:42.000Like, people have weird senses of humor.
00:10:43.000If someone could just really market Red Lobster, maybe we could turn this thing around.
00:10:47.000On the other hand, again, I've read this report that this endless shrimp thing, it wasn't good, but there was a moment they were like, but people think it's so funny that they're coming in, so maybe that's working for us.
00:10:57.000Like, maybe we can survive these losses.
00:11:00.000Again, I can't personally eat a Red Lobster, but You have to decide which American iconic chain you want to protect alongside all of the small businesses that depend on your dollar.
00:11:11.000I wonder if, you know, I was just thinking that people need to find a passion.
00:11:17.000They need to find satisfaction in the little things.
00:11:22.000You know, working up to something, be it, if you really enjoy hiking, then you can find a way to turn that into a business, to share your passions.
00:11:30.000Maybe it's a product, maybe it's videos.
00:11:36.000But I wonder if actually this is a contributing factor to part of the economic downturn, is that Gen Z, being hit by two economic crises in their lifetimes, millennials too, that they've basically just been like, I don't really care to pursue things that make money when the system is mismanaged so miserably.
00:11:57.000For millennials, I mean, I imagine someone gets out of college, they're maybe my age, and then immediately after they do, they can't find a job because the market collapse results in... It's a story I told.
00:12:06.000I was looking for a job as a dishwasher, and I'm standing in line, and the guy in front of me is like five years older than me, wearing a suit, applying for these jobs.
00:13:17.000Either way, point being, there's a lot of businesses that are closing.
00:13:22.000This is because of these strains that our economy is seeing.
00:13:25.000And I'm going to say this as much as I can, because it's literally the most important thing that we've got going on right now, is the fact that We have too much money printing and we have an inflationary situation and we have bills coming due with unfunded liabilities.
00:13:42.000The economic threat, the value of the dollar, is the biggest threat to the United States of America going.
00:13:48.000And as long as the government continues to kick the can down the road and not do anything about unfunded liabilities, You can complain about war all you want, you can complain about any of the social situation, any policy you want.
00:14:01.000All of them will get worse if the dollar explodes.
00:14:40.000People need to understand that if the petrodollar collapses, that means the CIA-run sock puppets that make this show look big will be out of work, and then people will realize no one actually watches Tim Kast's IRL.
00:14:51.000Actually, they'll realize that we're just AI, right?
00:15:01.000No, we have, so every month we send out a survey called the Freedom Economy Index.
00:15:06.000We have 80,000 plus small businesses on our platform.
00:15:09.000These people are salt of the earth, family owned and operated, heart of Main Street, and they fill out a survey every month, thousands of them, that share their thoughts on how the economy is going.
00:15:17.000And I think the resounding feedback we get every single month is that they feel gaslit.
00:15:21.000They feel like the Biden administration and the powers that be and Janet Yellen and all of the ivory tower folks that run our economy have told them, you are fine.
00:16:28.00043% of small businesses were unable to pay their rent in April due to economic headwinds.
00:16:32.000So this is unusual Wales, citing Bloomberg's report, the highest rent delinquency since March 2021.
00:16:43.000I think we are looking at the potential for some serious economic downturn.
00:16:48.000And I just hate to be such a naysayer about it, but guys, let me jump to the story and just throw it in the mix as we start the segment off.
00:16:56.000Biden is blasted as clueless and out of touch for claiming Americans, quote, have money to spend when told grocery prices are up 30% in rare sit down.
00:17:43.000My fear is just, The end result of doing that is exactly what causes it.
00:17:50.000What I see with the economic downturn, with Biden going on TV out of his mind saying people have money to spend, is the result of the Titanic has hit the iceberg.
00:18:00.000And someone just said, I'd rather not think about it.
00:18:04.000And it's like, okay, then when this ship cracks in half, you go down with it.
00:18:09.000And the rest of us will be, I admit, ignorance is bliss.
00:18:13.000And for the time being, facing what we're facing and the election in November, we may all be a little bit more tightly wound.
00:18:23.000Because we are thinking about this, we're planning, we're trying to fix it.
00:18:26.000But the most important thing is, what really frustrates me, when I met this guy and he was like, I used to watch every single episode but it's just too negative.
00:19:10.000The biggest takeaway for me out of the past six months is that if you actually call people to action and you give them an actual solution, they'll jump at it.
00:19:44.000Do you want to help the parallel economy emerge?
00:19:47.000If you do, it doesn't take a whole lot of consumer spending to shift it.
00:19:50.000Subtle plug, but I'm just saying, the businesses you've started, the 80,000 on our platform, the incredible community that's rallied around this concept of a parallel economy, free speech platforms like Rumble, great communities that are trying to start up payments solutions, banks, there are a lot of innovators that are trying to fix the problem.
00:20:07.000But if you just, kind of in apathy, continue to go to the Starbucks and continue to put your head down and continue to just scroll Twitter and doom, you're going to feel like your apathy eats you alive.
00:20:28.000You want to help keep them afloat, make sure that you're supporting them instead of these massive monolithic chains that hate you.
00:20:33.000Imagine that the economy just totally collapses.
00:20:36.000But everybody who's buying from public square companies are focused there, so, like, there's an island of businesses still functioning, and they're all American values-supporting businesses.
00:20:50.000Probably everyone could go through their list of, like, weekly purchases, right, and decide that instead of going to a chain or, you know, a different business that doesn't support their values, they're going to intentionally go out of their way to go to the smaller business or to go to a local company that they want to see grow.
00:21:06.000I think about this with, you know, farmers markets or people who are concerned about, you know, meat or different things in their food.
00:21:12.000Like some people are already motivated to do that because of their personal values and they decide that, you know, maybe not being able to just stop at the closest Walmart for something is worth the time and trouble.
00:21:21.000And I think if people did it in minds of like what they want to see survive in their community, treating every Saturday, so to speak, like a small business Saturday, that's the thing they do after Black Friday.
00:21:32.000You know, it would really shift, I think, their personal outlook because it is hard to get constantly, you know, this is going up and this is more expensive and no one can pay anything.
00:21:42.000On the other hand, I think you're totally right.
00:21:43.000It's bad news and it's overwhelming when there's no solutions, when you feel like you are powerless and just letting these things crash down upon you.
00:21:50.000But if you feel like you could potentially affect change, I think people would look at the bad news as sort of a call to action.
00:21:57.000Well, and, you know, people used to use the excuse of, well, McDonald's is just so much cheaper and these chains are so much cheaper.
00:22:05.000But you see, McDonald's is not cheaper and McDonald's is scoring record profits.
00:22:11.000Your small business is now the same price.
00:22:13.000And they're not scoring record profits.
00:22:17.000So we do have to make a call as a society.
00:22:18.000Do you want to live in a society controlled by a few major businesses that are all in bed with a government that's kept them afloat because they prefer their political views?
00:22:40.000There's a really cool startup called From the Farm that's basically helping like Airbnb but for farmer's markets.
00:22:47.000You can actually even some food delivery stuff for local vendors and things.
00:22:51.000I think more things like that are going to happen over the course of the next decade because people I think are really tired of feeling like, why do I continue to feed the beast if all that it does is spit out nonsense at me?
00:23:03.000And I think, at the end of the day, too, like, everybody's pretty frustrated that in the midst of all of this, and I know that we talked about Ukraine earlier in this, like, everybody's pretty frustrated that in the middle of this economic turmoil and feeling like Main Street's a disaster, and that it's closed, closed, closed, closed, one after another of all these businesses that are shuttering.
00:23:21.000We're going to send other countries more of our money.
00:23:23.000Like that really... Hundreds of billions of dollars.
00:23:27.000And that's the deep frustration that I hope people channel into doing something different with their money so you can stop feeding the beast.
00:23:34.000This is the crazy thing about the Russia story though.
00:23:36.000I don't want to get into too much detail but...
00:23:38.000You've got these pundits being like, we must support Ukraine.
00:23:41.000You've got this Democrat in Virginia saying, Ukraine's border is our border.
00:23:46.000And we're learning that the money we send, these people in Ukraine are creating fake companies.
00:23:53.000How do people think the money gets distributed in Ukraine, right?
00:23:56.000A portion goes to the local governments, who then choose to give it to no-name businesses that just started last week, because they're likely in on the corruption.
00:24:35.000economy and laundering it or something like that.
00:24:38.000So what you were talking about in one of the bits today about how the United States is essentially doomed and that the government, it seems like the government and the bureaucracy is just digging into the trough as much as they can to get as much as they can for themselves to, you know, support themselves.
00:24:56.000for an inevitable collapse and it's hard not to think that's true but there is something else that I want to point out about foreign aid that people need to remember foreign aid not only is it inflationary but also like the point the foreign aid is to get more people using or to have more people using dollars so that way it makes the demand for dollars higher which Is inflationary?
00:25:26.000The demand for dollars would make it deflationary.
00:25:29.000But it makes people more likely to continue to use dollars and continue to desire to take out our debt.
00:25:36.000But our debt is the biggest problem we have.
00:25:38.000It's the reason that we have all these issues here with businesses closing.
00:25:43.000Every problem that we have is going to be worse if we don't take care of the debt.
00:25:48.000Well yeah, and that's, I mean, you just nailed it.
00:25:50.000If I'm printing dollars in a way that's inflationary in order to give to countries that'll make us feel good that they still need the dollar, you're not actually solving anything.
00:26:01.000You're just perpetuating the problem further because you're weakening the dollar by making it farther inflationary.
00:26:05.000Like, it's just, it's fascinating to witness the collapse of the United States monetary supply due to its More than the military.
00:26:23.000More than all of the biggest military in human history.
00:26:27.000Like the military that has robots that shoot missiles that are controlled from the other side of the planet.
00:26:34.000We spend more money paying for the interest on our debt than we do for that whole military with aircraft.
00:26:39.000aircraft carriers, nuclear weapons, planes that are invisible to radar and all that stuff
00:26:46.000and we still pay more just for the interest on the debt.
00:28:05.000And yes, many foreign contractors as well.
00:28:07.000And then the countries that are holding U.S.
00:28:09.000debt, thinking that it's going to be worth something in the future if they hold on to it, they've already been realizing for the past 10 plus years, It's not going to be worth it, because the U.S.
00:28:20.000By 2033, NPR reports, Social Security is gone, and then kaboom.
00:28:25.000Aren't you happy you're paying into that, whatever paycheck?
00:28:28.000And also on top of it, what you're talking about, that's why a lot of countries, that's why BRICS is happening, that's why there's the de-dollarization.
00:28:34.000That is a clear and present danger to the United States, because the less stable the U.S.
00:28:40.000dollar is, the less stable the United States is, and the less stable the United States is, the more volatile the rest of the world is.
00:28:53.000This is one of the best headlines I've ever seen because the corporate press is marching away from the Democratic Party.
00:29:01.000It's remarkable from the Bill Maher calling Stormy Daniels a liar.
00:29:06.000MSNBC actually being forced to defend Donald Trump.
00:29:10.000And now Axios saying Biden's in denial and won't accept that he's losing.
00:29:16.000They say President Biden doesn't believe his bad poll numbers, and neither do many of his closest advisors.
00:29:22.000The dismissiveness of the poor polling is sincere, not spin, according to Democrats who have spoken privately with the president and his team.
00:29:28.000That bedrock belief has informed Biden's largely steady-as-she-goes campaign, even as many Democrats outside the White House are agitating for the campaign to change direction.
00:29:37.000In public and private, Biden has been telling anyone who will listen that he's gaining ground and is probably up on Donald Trump.
00:29:44.000Quote, while the press doesn't write about it, the momentum is clearly in our favor with the polls moving towards us and away from Trump, Biden told donors during a West Coast swing last week.
00:29:54.000Confronted with some of his bad poll numbers in a rare interview with CNN, Biden offered a more sweeping indictment of polling methodology.
00:30:00.000The polling data has been wrong all along.
00:30:03.000How many, you guys do a poll at CNN, how many folks you have to call to get one response?
00:30:08.000The latest polling in the six battleground states likely to decide the presidential race, Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, doesn't paint a rosy picture for Biden.
00:31:01.000I think it was double digits in Nevada.
00:31:03.000And Nevada's an interesting state because if you want to look at economic sentiment related to issues like housing or new job growth, you look at Nevada.
00:31:52.000There's a couple of polls that have replicated similar things.
00:31:54.000I mean, to me, these statements remind me of how selective reality really is.
00:31:59.000The fact that he's saying, oh, the mainstream media won't talk about it, but we're actually up.
00:32:04.000No, the mainstream media talked about it all the time.
00:32:06.000December, January, they were always saying, no, no, Biden's way ahead and Trump can't whatever and the primaries and they were always on his side.
00:32:17.000that they're not able to deny the fact, again, some of it is within the margin of error, right?
00:32:21.000Some of it is not that Trump is up by 10, 20 points, it's that it's way more narrow than the
00:32:27.000media had been saying for months and months and months. In fact, it seems to be really shifting
00:32:31.000in Trump's favor. Don't forget to vote.
00:32:34.000You have to vote if you want to see it.
00:32:36.000Because I just think that is – the cynical side of me is, you know, if you can scare conservative-leaning, you know, sort of liberty-minded people into complacency, then you won't see the results of these polls.
00:32:49.000And again, polling data is – it can be totally fallible.
00:32:52.000It really depends on Who's putting out the poll, who they're surveying, sort of their methodology.
00:32:57.000But if it's widespread, if it's repeated by multiple universities and outlets over and over again, it really does seem like Biden is either choosing his own reality or he has bad informants all around him who are not letting him see the fate of his campaign.
00:33:14.000I just want to point out, too, that today's an election day, and we really, I think, collectively, culturally, have stopped caring.
00:33:21.000Because at this point, it's a foregone conclusion.
00:33:51.000It's really interesting because the effect of taking the presidential campaign out during an election year, for some candidates that might be good, right?
00:34:01.000You don't have as many voters going to the polls and voting, but for other candidates who need that wave of energy that having a presidential nominee on the ticket would provide, they could suffer.
00:34:12.000I mean this is the other thing that we only focus on the president, you have to focus on everything down ticket.
00:34:18.000Who your state senator is is probably going to affect you more directly than who your president is, who your congressman is.
00:34:26.000It's not that it won't matter, but in terms of what happens to your local community, that happens to your neighborhood, you need to vote in your state elections above all else.
00:34:34.000And a lot of these polls are actually showing that while Biden is disastrously behind, Democrats are actually favored in many of the contentious Senate races.
00:34:47.000And so to your point, yeah, if all you're thinking about is the presidential election, not a whole lot's going to change.
00:34:55.000People are still conditioned to be like default Democrats.
00:34:58.000And so they're still getting used to the idea that the Democrat policies that they've been living under are actually not working and they're having tangitive negative results in their lives.
00:35:10.000There are so many people out there that for the longest time had just bought into the, well, I'm a Democrat because they're the nice people.
00:35:18.000Those are the moderates that we're actually trying to reach, and those are the people that I say that are like, okay, these are the liberals that we need to reach to get them to come over to our side or whatever.
00:35:28.000And the reason is because you get an entire narrative fed to you for 20 years or more, you know, like just fed to
00:35:39.000you all the time, whether it's, whether it be in the news or whether it be Jon
00:35:44.000Stewart or whether it be in movies, whatever it is, it's always the same narrative.
00:35:50.000And so you've got people that are just now getting comfortable with the idea that's like,
00:35:54.000maybe the Democrats are actually wrong.
00:35:56.000Maybe the policies, maybe it's not just lies from the Republicans.
00:36:00.000Maybe the bad things that we're seeing, that I'm feeling, maybe it's real.
00:36:05.000Maybe it's not just lies from the Republicans.
00:36:07.000Maybe the Republicans aren't just racist.
00:36:09.000Maybe it isn't just that they're the bad guys and we're the good guys.
00:36:13.000Maybe the Democrats are actually wrong.
00:36:15.000So thank goodness that people are waking up, but it's about time.
00:36:18.000So I pulled up 270 to win Senate projection.
00:36:22.000Right now, Republicans are expected in 2024 to get 50 seats in the Senate.
00:37:25.000There's no way he's winning in West Virginia.
00:37:27.000This was a big debate because it was like, is he going to retire?
00:37:30.000Is he going to declare himself independent?
00:37:31.000And then he announced like, I am going to step away.
00:37:33.000And he sort of has toyed with this idea of running like a uniparty ticket.
00:37:36.000You saw him sitting with Romney at the State of the Union.
00:37:39.000It's weird, but I do think that, you know, a Manchin Democrat is very different than an Ilhan Omar Democrat, right?
00:37:47.000Like their party is bifurcated in the way that conservative Republican parties are as well.
00:37:52.000You know, to your point, I think you're totally right.
00:37:53.000I think people are realizing that This idea that like Democrats are the nice people and therefore voting for them is always a vote for the nice thing isn't always right.
00:38:00.000I also think that conservatives have become more discerning of who is running with the R on their ticket.
00:38:07.000I think there were a long time where people would be like, oh, well, I'm you know, let's say I'm an evangelical, so I'm always going to vote for the Republican because they have my values.
00:38:14.000Actually, there are, you know, there are faults in the Republican Party too.
00:38:17.000There are a lot of Republicans who say they're for certain values and they don't actually represent them or they don't vote for them.
00:38:53.000Like in, we mentioned Montana earlier, Jon Tester.
00:38:55.000So Jon Tester is as Democrat progressive as it gets, but every single election cycle, he gets out his old rifle that he's never shot.
00:39:05.000He talks about his farm, he talks about his country upbringing, how he's for down-home Montana values, and then when you re-elect him, he'll go and vote with Ilhan Omar.
00:39:16.000I know he's obviously in the Senate, she's in the House, but they'll have the same sort of agenda on every single thing.
00:39:22.000For a while that would work, because people aren't paying attention after the election, but now with how everything's been blown up in social media, you can't get by anymore kind of faking it, and that's a good example.
00:39:33.000But check this out, so this is the House interactive map, and we can see that Montana's second is strong Republican, and Montana's first is leaning Republican.
00:39:43.000I would say, look, if the House—I understand Tester's got the incumbent advantage, and that's probably why they're saying it's a toss-up.
00:39:52.000Trump supporters are Republicans, and young people are pushing for the Republican Party.
00:39:57.000It is a really good point that everyone's just screaming Trump's name, and people gotta get local and make sure they're focusing on those local races.
00:40:04.000Because you take a look down here at Colorado's—Lauren Boebert.
00:40:08.000She's switching to 04, but that one's leaning red.
00:40:11.000Democrats are going to pull some surprise moves.
00:40:15.000Here's what concerns me about Joe Biden saying I'm actually ahead.
00:40:20.000The reason Joe Biden is saying he's ahead in the polls is not because he's actually ahead in the polls, he's behind, but it's because they got a plan.
00:40:27.000And there's got to be something that happens.
00:40:29.000So remember in 2020, they said the red mirage, watch out for the red mirage because it'll look like Trump's winning.
00:40:35.000But then in the middle of the night, it'll change.
00:40:38.000And then when it happened, they went, see, we told you it was going to happen.
00:40:40.000Doesn't mean there's nothing weird about it.
00:40:43.000It just means you said it was going to happen.
00:40:45.000In fact, that's actually kind of weird that you told us it was going to happen.
00:40:48.000So if you look at Biden now saying, I'm actually ahead of the polls and the polls are wrong, then if something weird happens and Biden ends up winning, he's going to then go, we told you he was ahead the whole time.
00:41:15.000I think the the biggest The other issue is maybe just the apathy and negativity that Americans feel right now.
00:41:22.000Like if you feel like there is no path forward, maybe you are not going to vote because you just feel doomed.
00:41:28.000And I think that sense of this is not something – our economic problems, our cultural tensions – if you feel like there's something you can't overcome by voting, that's the issue I think all candidates have to fight against.
00:41:42.000Well, I think there is some good news in this, and that's that Democrats now, especially younger ones, a lot of these polls are revealed, cannot stand Biden on three key issues.
00:41:52.000Number one, they believe he's totally—these are Dems, by the way.
00:42:27.000So, Gen Z feels like they've been screwed by Biden.
00:42:31.000That's really prevalent among young women.
00:42:34.000Then Gen Z men are leaning more and more conservative, and they're starting to show up at the polls and actually represent their political views that are leaning hard right in a way that we haven't seen in a long time.
00:42:44.000And so my hope would be that Dems have a ton of apathy going into the fall because they feel like Biden hasn't performed and they can't stand the guy.
00:42:51.000You see, by the way, Dems are predicting this, which is why they're rushing to put all this abortion stuff on the state ballots, because they're trying to just get any young Gen Z women to show up, because that's the only demographic they actually want in the midterms.
00:43:02.000So they're trying to drive traffic to the polls.
00:43:05.000It's not translating because they cannot stand Biden.
00:43:08.000Meanwhile, hopefully if conservatives will get up off their butts and not be apathetic and drive young turnout and minority turnout, holy cow, I mean, we could actually, we could actually experience a lot of breakthrough here, but we cannot get apathetic.
00:43:21.000I know we've said that word like 30 times in the show so far, but I really, I feel that so strongly.
00:43:26.000Like we, if we, if we embrace apathy heading into November, cause a lot of people are just tired and pissed off.
00:43:32.000Uh, we're gonna deal with a whole lot worse circumstances in four years where you won't even be able to afford to be apathetic.
00:43:37.000You're gonna be forced to pay attention, and that's not what any of us want.
00:43:40.000I feel like maybe people need to reframe how we're seeing everything and look at it not as despair, but as a grand adventure.
00:44:04.000Some people, so much so, they become warriors who fight on the front lines in physical combat, brave men and women in uniform, going to places that most of us would not go under any circumstances.
00:44:14.000Some people go there for nothing other than the purpose and the need to serve their country.
00:44:20.000Then there are people who engage in public sector life, and I mean good people.
00:45:20.000We are here to ensure a better life for those that come after us.
00:45:24.000If that's not for you and you'd rather hang out, watch the game, then... I feel bad.
00:45:29.000I wish you would stand alongside us, but at the same time, that guy I was mentioning earlier in the show, he just wanted to play poker, he says, the news is too negative for me.
00:45:37.000Covering the news, focusing on it, is the little bit that I do so that you can enjoy a nice game of poker and not have to think twice about it.
00:45:43.000And then I throw it to the men and women in uniform.
00:45:45.000That's why I'm a huge fan of Tunnels to Towers and things like that.
00:45:48.000Because the men and women in uniform are doing the real work.
00:45:51.000Firefighters, yes, police officers, I know Chad's gonna go nuts, but the actual first responders Who are out there every day so that we can sit in a safe room.
00:46:00.000That being said, I do like West Virginia because constitutional carry, better security, big open spaces.
00:46:05.000But there are people who put their lives on the line every single day so that you can sit in your living room and watch the game, hang out with your buddies, and not have to think about it.
00:46:14.000And you can choose to be that, and there's nothing wrong with that.
00:46:16.000Because people are building that world for you.
00:46:20.000Soldiers are fighting battles for you.
00:46:28.000And then other people are called to action.
00:46:30.000So my view is, when you see the news, you should feel resolve.
00:46:34.000When you hear about the economic closures, when you hear about the Democrats' new policy that's going to let more criminals out, you should feel that fire inside you light you up and say, this is why you are here, this is your purpose, and you have a mission.
00:46:51.000It could be a call to action to be a police officer, be a firefighter, to be an EMT, or serve your country.
00:46:56.000Or it can be to be one of the few good people in Congress.
00:46:59.000But if you feel the despair because the news is bad, then maybe it is important that you decide to live the world of comfort that other people will fight for.
00:47:09.000I don't think there's any shame in that.
00:47:11.000I think the brave men and women in uniform, be it from civil service to military service, know full well that they're doing this for you so that you can have a better life.
00:47:23.000I look forward to every day waking up and doing the little bit that we do here, and there are certainly people doing substantially more than we do.
00:47:32.000And speaking of that, let's jump to this next story from NPR.
00:47:36.000Ukraine says corrupt officials stole $40 million meant to buy arms for the war.
00:47:42.000This was first reported January 28th, 2024.
00:48:14.000What they're basically saying is these companies don't exist and were paid out millions or hundreds of millions of dollars and now the Russian forces are actively advancing and the New York Times reporting that a Ukrainian general paints a bleak picture.
00:48:30.000A CIA official said Ukraine could lose by the end of the year.
00:48:35.000And so just a moment ago, for those that did not hear it, I was talking about the brave men and women in uniform, the civil service here in this country, to the military service.
00:48:45.000What bothers me the most about the spending of this money is, one, it rips it from the middle class.
00:48:50.000It takes it from people who I see every day in the chat saying, I'm suffering from cancer.
00:49:09.000and send our brave men and women in uniform to foreign countries in military bases we set up all over the world while our border is cracked wide open.
00:49:17.000We have crime rampant in our streets and the people who are dedicating their lives to serve the people of this country are being redirected to nonsensical endeavors overseas while the people back home are suffering and our tax dollars, our buying power, and our resources are stripped away and sent to corrupt officials and fake companies and criminals Outright criminals in a country most people can't find on a map.
00:49:42.000It's true, more new millionaires in Ukraine created over the last year than in any year of their nation's existence.
00:49:48.000It was almost like it was about getting the money and not about anything else.
00:49:51.000Everyone knew that Ukraine was considered the most corrupt country in Europe, or one of the most corrupt countries in Europe.
00:49:59.000This was baked into the cake as soon as we started sending them cash payments and the support.
00:50:07.000I know that there's been some arms that have gone, But you know there's just been, you know, they've been shoveling dollars into Ukraine like mad.
00:50:15.000And there's been a lot of reports saying that we had no, we weren't tracking it, we didn't know where the money was going, it was being sent.
00:50:20.000Like the fact that, oh, it turns out it wasn't ending up where it was supposed to be is exactly the plotline we all could have predicted.
00:50:28.000It is wild to me because if you're the American people and you're saying like, hey, my city needs a new bridge.
00:50:38.000Hey, this is an issue that's facing my community.
00:50:41.000The federal government said to you, we don't care.
00:50:44.000We'd actually rather just literally throw money away never to see it turn into anything in Ukraine than to help you.
00:50:50.000And that is not a message for a people that is trying to become a strong culture and a strong force in the world.
00:50:57.000Well, and I can't remember who said this but the basic adage was the government needs transparency and the people need freedom.
00:51:05.000The point was it's the goal of a government to protect the freedoms of the people because that's what we the people deserve and then what we expect in turn from the government is transparency because they work for us.
00:51:15.000But what's fascinating is like, so I'm the CEO of a publicly traded company and every quarter we go through a quarterly review on our 10Q and we have auditors look at our financial statements and if we even misplace five dollars it is under the most strict set of review guidance and parameters then you do your end of the year actual formal audit where you have to report your own financial results and they comb through every single line item because they're auditors that's their job
00:51:42.000The SEC has the right to review those forms and hold companies accountable or their auditors accountable if there's anything fraudulent on those forms.
00:51:51.000And so this is a very strict process that we spend lots of money on and time and energy and resources.
00:51:56.000And we're just a company, you know, that's making our way and growing and advancing every day.
00:52:02.000But we're, you know, we're not even a billion dollars.
00:52:07.000government That is in control of all of our lives and billions of dollars that we can send overseas misplaces five billion of it as it's on the way to deliver arms.
00:52:30.000And so they just feel like, I feel like the last 10 years has just been an experiment and how much can they get away with?
00:52:37.000Right, there was, this year during the budget hearings, I think it was the Defense Department was asked, you know, what happened to this several million dollars and they were like, we don't know.
00:53:26.000In all seriousness, though, imagine you're like some gutter crust Ukrainian dude living in the borders of the Donbass, and then you hear in the news that the U.S.
00:53:35.000is giving $100 billion to your country.
00:53:38.000And then your local government says, we're looking for contractors to build fortifications.
00:53:41.000And you're like, uh, I have a company.
00:53:43.000And they're like, how much do you want?
00:53:52.000Well, and I've heard that a lot of the companies actually on the ground that could do the work in Ukraine, that are supposed to be receiving the U.S.
00:54:00.000aid, are not actually the ones receiving the money.
00:54:02.000It's government officials that'll spin up these little shell corps, funnel the money into it that was never real in the first place, not real contractors, and then they flee the country, they head to Monaco, and they buy the yacht with the money.
00:54:11.000So not only is the money being dumped into fruitless endeavors, they're not even real endeavors.
00:54:19.000Like, it'd be one thing if we were taking our money and funding Sergey, the contractor who's got a business near, you know, the Donbass region that's going to build a new bridge.
00:54:32.000But it's a whole other thing when the money never even gets to that guy.
00:54:35.000His quality of life's not improving, so while he's being invaded, his quality of life still sucks and he has no business, even though he's reading the headlines saying, the United States is about to fund me!
00:55:14.000If it's not getting it directly, then they're getting it through Funds going to weapons manufacturers here and then the weapon manufacturers supporting their candidacy or some some version of that or something like that some some other way where the the US pays money to a corporation in order to Ukraine and Ukraine buys weapons and the money gets back to the people that have passed the laws this this is is fairly
00:55:40.000Boilerplate corruption, right? Surely we wouldn't just be sending billions of dollars to Ukraine and Israel if no one
00:55:45.000was making money off it at home Right, like our bodies couldn't be that bad corrupt. The
00:55:50.000thing is stupid with the Israeli money At least you see what you see what they're doing with it
00:55:55.000with the with the Ukraine money You don't see what they're doing with it. They're like, you
00:55:59.000you know, they're losing, you know that they're losing thousands of people
00:56:46.000You know it's interesting too about the Israel versus Ukraine debate when you look at the transparency on where the funding's going.
00:56:52.000I think part of the reason the United States has been able to dump so much money into Ukraine carte blanche without any repercussions or transparency or accountability is because the international community is sort of at this point turned a blind eye.
00:57:03.000The international community now has placed a ton of scrutiny and accountability on Israel, and regardless of how you feel on that issue, the point is the world is paying a lot more attention to what Israel's doing than what Ukraine's doing.
00:57:15.000And so I think it's, you know, Biden, you can argue whether or not he's making an about face on Israel now trying to kind of strip, aid, and fight his own Democrats in the party because he's trying to appease those Gen Z voters we talked about earlier, or is it because He knows he can't just get away with everything now in Israel because they've got a heavy eye on them from the international angle.
00:57:35.000I don't know, because Ukraine's been this money laundering pot that nobody's paying attention to, and the world's focusing on Israel.
00:57:42.000So it doesn't surprise me that Biden's like, ah, let's just keep funneling money to Ukraine, and we're not going to worry too much about continuing to fund Israel, because originally Biden was like all in funding Netanyahu, and now he's all of a sudden making kind of an about face, and it's very interesting to see why.
00:57:57.000I think that's because of his poll numbers.
00:57:59.000I think that he would be funding Israel, or more pro-Israel, if it wasn't for the fact that the young people and the... Yeah, we're turning against him for it.
00:58:10.000Yeah, but it's not just the young people, it's the more far-left, kind of more vocal people in the Democrat party that are turning against him for it, because they're the ones that are actually pro-Hamas and stuff.
00:59:22.000You have actual diehard warmongers that genuinely, I don't know if they believe it, but they
00:59:27.000tell you it like they do, that if Ukraine falls, Putin will invade France.
00:59:32.000And it's like, you clowns can't be serious.
00:59:35.000But they've made Russia into this huge monster, right?
00:59:39.000Like, not to say that Russia is perfect in any way, but it's like, we have to do anything to stop Russia.
00:59:45.000And I will give you several hysterical scenarios of what could happen.
00:59:48.000Like, that's how they were able to say, like, not only do the Ukrainian people need our support, again, loss of life is bad.
00:59:54.000Like, I understand that aspect of it, the empathy, but on top of that, It's actually the collapse of the world, and World War III is upon us all the time.
01:00:01.000I think this is the issue that, you know, whereas, you know, in contrast, the Israel-Palestine-Hamas issue, you know, American voters are much more divided on it, and so you're able to hold a level of scrutiny to how we're spending money.
01:01:21.000Well, and that's where, you know, the United States, my biggest beef with all of this, besides the funding issue from the beginning, because I just don't, like, don't get me wrong, I want peace, and I want people to create these mutually agreeable deals that provide a sense of statesmanship and amicability between nations.
01:01:42.000At the end of the day, like, I don't want to fund it, I don't want to touch it, we have our own problems here, like, have you seen New York recently?
01:02:00.000And they've never had a plan, and the few plans that they've been willing to share about what peace would look like are completely unrealistic.
01:02:15.000So stating that as some sort of realistic expectation or a litmus test for when we will finally back off, it's been irrational from day one.
01:02:29.000They have a naval base there, it's been there forever.
01:02:31.000The U.S., the war we're in now is because the U.S.
01:02:35.000was gaining too much influence with the Ukrainian government, the ouster of Yanukovych, leading to a more favorable EU Western president, puts Russia on high alert, they have their quote-unquote referendum, they take Crimea.
01:03:43.000Given that China hasn't made direct moves, I'd say that a Trump election in the fall, because he's been super bullish on the idea that China cannot touch Taiwan, maybe that is thwarted.
01:03:53.000But are you going to stop the Israel-Gaza conflict now?
01:03:56.000Are you going to stop Ukraine and Russia through an election?
01:04:00.000Let's jump to some domestic news with a tweet from Patrick Bet David who says it's official Chris Cuomo and Dave Smith have agreed to do a sit-down with a live audience PBD podcast May 31st at 6 p.m.
01:04:15.000and the hiring of Chris Cuomo I believe he officially works for PBD I don't get that wrong but I believe he's like officially a part of their crew whatever has been contentious And there's some e-drama, but I think there's an interesting question around the hiring of Cuomo and what you guys think, but we'll start from the beginning here.
01:04:33.000When it was announced that PBD hired Chris Cuomo, I said, I think this is a massive mistake.
01:04:38.000This is a guy who went on his show on CNN, mocked people for eating horse paste, Joked about COVID with gigantic oversized Q-tips.
01:04:46.000His brother was putting sick people in nursing homes, resulting in an estimated 15,000 to 18,000 dead.
01:04:58.000And it's funny because normally I'm not a big fan of the corporate press, but it was so ubiquitous in the press that Trump never said to put sick patients in nursing homes.
01:05:06.000But we saw many Democrat governors do this, and just Democrat governors.
01:05:10.000Here's a guy now, who apparently has gone on, uh, I think he was on PBD, I'm not sure where he was on, saying that he's actually suffering from, uh, side effects, or some kind of, you know, uh, uh, uh, uh, some kind of side effect, or long- I don't know what he's, something like that, and he's taking ivermectin now.
01:05:24.000Now, I certainly do believe in redemption, but...
01:05:28.000It is tough for me, because Chris Cuomo was such an egregious actor as a component of CNN.
01:05:34.000I wonder, what is the purpose of trying to rehabilitate a guy with no following, who offers up nothing other than he would sell you to your death during the lockdowns?
01:05:45.000I don't quite understand why they brought him on.
01:05:48.000Now, Patrick Bette David had said he wants to be more neutral and bring in the other side.
01:05:54.000My rebuttal is Chris Cuomo doesn't represent the other side.
01:06:42.000If we left the show Friday night, I get to the airport at 11, best case scenario, 1130, and then there's no flights to Miami, so the only way we could do a Saturday morning show is if I got a private jet.
01:06:54.000I don't know if that's something they can do.
01:06:56.000And then I hear back from this PR company saying, they said, what about doing a Saturday night debate with Cuomo?
01:07:05.000I'd love to sit down and do this conversation, because I was like, I tweeted these two questions.
01:07:10.000What do you think your son learned from you when he watched you emerge from your basement after faking being in COVID lockdown?
01:07:15.000Do you think he learned more from you or do you think he'll take more after your brother who murdered people and then tried to blame it on Trump?
01:07:31.000Commercial flight, three and a half hours, plus an hour each way in the airport.
01:07:35.000So hour to the airport, hour wait in the airport, you know, security, all that stuff.
01:07:39.000Three and a half hour flight, hour from the airport to the destination to arrive just in time for a podcast, do the debate, go to sleep, wake up, same routine on the plane.
01:07:49.000And I was like, the challenge is by the time I get back Sunday, I have done 14 hours of airline travel in two days, and then I have to record a show on Monday morning.
01:08:38.000Now that that's been addressed, the big question is, is there a redemption arc for someone like Chris Cuomo, knowing everything we know about what he said?
01:08:46.000He's the guy who went on CNN and said, who said protests need to be peaceful?
01:08:51.000While people were burning down police stations, people died.
01:09:43.000But the fact that he's papering over it like he never made those comments shows me that he's a total fraud.
01:09:48.000There's zero redemption arc for someone like this who's not willing to admit they just want to gaslight you into believing they never said these things in the first place.
01:09:57.000And by the way, he's not the only one.
01:09:58.000There are tons of people asking for COVID redemption.
01:10:24.000Or it's like two tweets where one's like, it is important that every business shut down whether they believe they should or not, because we're all in this together.
01:10:31.000And then a year later, be like, I never said that.
01:10:33.000I suppose the question I have, or I suppose my feeling on the issue is, you know, I talked about Joey Salads a while ago.
01:10:42.000He's not really been, you know, in the limelight these past few years, but his big thing was several years ago, he filmed a fake video where he put a car in a parking lot with like Trump stuff inside of it and then hired black dudes to destroy it.
01:10:55.000And he was like, he made a video where he's like, what'll happen if I leave a car in this neighborhood with all this Trump stuff on it and then faked it and someone caught him doing it?
01:11:03.000I insulted him, I said, screw you, you're fake news, you're a liar, you're a bad guy.
01:11:08.000And then I thought about it, he had a lot of fans, and I was like, if this guy has a big following, and he has no redemption opportunities, the only direction he can go is toward the darkness.
01:11:20.000So if we say, I accept your apology, do better, welcome to the right side, then you bring someone to the fold.
01:11:27.000That being said, I don't know if Chris Cuomo is redeemable in that regard.
01:11:33.000Joey Salads was a guy who was just like, this video makes me views, and was kind of bumbling about and just getting wrapped up in chasing algorithms and making fake videos.
01:11:45.000Chris Cuomo is a guy who knowingly goes on a show every night for years and just does what he's told.
01:11:54.000My concern is in the difference, and maybe there's not a big enough difference,
01:11:57.000maybe it is fair to say Cuomo deserves redemption and or Joey didn't or whatever it is.
01:12:01.000My concern is that Chris Cuomo doesn't care at all.
01:12:14.000And now he's trying to make it seem like I'm on your side, guys.
01:12:17.000Someone posted a meme of him, the Steve Buscemi thing, where he's got the skateboard from 30 Rock.
01:12:21.000And it was Chris Cuomo saying, how do you do, fellow conservatives?
01:12:26.000It's pretty clear that he's just trying to save his own neck, or he's doing what he can to save his career.
01:12:30.000I mean, it's... I don't think that... Well, okay, I can't speak for anyone else, but I never expected a whole lot of integrity out of people from CNN, or I haven't expected a lot of integrity out of them.
01:12:45.000I'm not surprised that he's got another job in the media because at the end of the day, it's clicks that people are looking for nowadays.
01:12:53.000And I think that even if he is getting hate clicks, if he's the guy that people hate on PBD's channel, then you can make money off of being clicks, you know, absolutely.
01:13:04.000So, you know, he's and he's going to, you know, he's going to do what he needs to do to try and, you know, pay his bills and make sure that he can, you know, This is something that Ian brought up, which is a really good point, because we talk about Chris Cuomo faking the quarantine.
01:13:18.000I mean, that is like, holy crap, above and beyond.
01:13:22.000And the story for those unfamiliar is Cuomo was on CNN every night being like, I'm here in quarantine, you know, look at me, I've been working out, I'm sweaty.
01:13:29.000And then he goes on his radio show and says, some guy with a fat tire bike is talking to me, don't you talk to me.
01:13:36.000Which kind of exposed him as admitting he had traveled out of quarantine.
01:13:41.000Some guy riding his bike saw him and said, aren't you supposed to be in quarantine?
01:14:15.000When you're like, I'm now gonna go on TV, we're gonna blast this message out
01:14:19.000to a couple hundred people that are watching CNN.
01:14:23.000I'm being a dick, but your kid watches you lie to the world.
01:14:27.000And I wonder if his kid asked him, like, dad, that's not true, why did you say that?
01:14:32.000Or if his kid just says, lying is okay, we should be liars.
01:14:35.000That's the lesson he's learning, certainly.
01:14:37.000I mean, I think, you know, somebody can be really a candidate for a beautiful redemption story, and that doesn't mean you ever put them on TV again.
01:14:46.000So, you know, there are lots of criminals, and by the way, I do think Chris Cuomo is a criminal.
01:14:54.000His rhetoric led to people probably withholding treatment from themselves that could have made them better because they were afraid of looking like a lunatic that took horse pills.
01:15:05.000Well, I want to mention, specifically, is the people who died during the Summer of Love riots.
01:15:21.000I think most importantly is the whole debate at the time, especially around the medical stuff, there was this two-fold scenario where they would go on TV and tell you what to do or not to do.
01:15:37.000And this is a remarkable thing, be it Fauci, be it Cuomo, be it Anderson Cooper, any one of these people on the corporate press, Celebrities would tell you what medical treatment you should get despite not being doctors.
01:15:50.000And if anyone else said something comparable, you'd be banned.
01:16:58.000Anyway, not to get into all that, I guess the big question is that I see a lot of people are on Twitter up in arms about, there are a lot of people who I think are actually Good.
01:17:12.000Are cool with Cuomo being brought on to the PBD network and all that stuff.
01:17:17.000And there are a lot of people that are basically saying he's going full CNN by pulling him in.
01:17:22.000It seems to me, like, if you want redemption, you have to be honest about what happened, right?
01:17:28.000Like, you'd have to acknowledge, like, yes, I said these things, yes, like, I faked being quarantined, or whatever, whatever the problem is, and then, you know, walk everyone through how we got to the other end.
01:17:40.000Otherwise, it just seems like, well, I was getting paid to do one thing, and they're not paying me anymore, so I'm gonna do the other thing, and that's obviously what's disingenuous.
01:17:49.000I I don't follow a ton of Chris Cuomo's content.
01:17:52.000I don't know if someone has directly asked him about these things.
01:18:30.000Ten years ago, most of what Tulsi Gabbard said probably would have repulsed me.
01:18:35.000Today though, and I've witnessed over the last decade, the way that she's become a leader in the movement for human liberties and flourishing in our country, and especially with her position in the military, now speaking out against all this foreign aid, trying to protect our borders.
01:18:49.000She has proven and put the time in over the years that she really is for this movement.
01:18:53.000Chris Cuomo just arose two years later and is like, now I'm going to act like I still deserve a position of authority in your life and I did nothing to earn it.
01:19:01.000I just want to say, though, I think it's a great debate.
01:20:18.000This is what really was really interesting.
01:20:19.000So they shut it down because they're like, people were doing drugs in front of it and just like crazy stuff.
01:20:24.000In New York, you are legally allowed, women are legally allowed to take their tops off and walk around, you know, their boobs flopping around.
01:20:32.000There was a ruling that it is unconstitutional.
01:20:33.000It's a violation of civil human rights law to have different standards for men and women.
01:20:39.000So if men can be shirtless, women can be shirtless.
01:20:41.000I kind of felt like the solution is men should wear shirts, but you know, whatever.
01:20:44.000Yeah, can't we just make men not allowed to be shirtless in New York?
01:20:50.000But anyway, the thing is, what she's doing is not illegal.
01:20:54.000She is in New York, where it is legal to be topless.
01:20:58.000I don't know the law in Dublin, but I was just thinking, like, there are a lot of things in New York that are illegal, that are not legal in Dublin, and vice versa.
01:21:05.000And so that means, what she's doing, like, I don't know, is there a crime being committed?
01:21:12.000Because But are there kids who can see this, maybe?
01:23:23.000They heard frogs croaking at night, so they knew it was near still water, because frogs don't like running water.
01:23:28.000And then they looked at the contrails from planes, and then looked at the- they said a place where frogs are, still water, and two planes are intersecting.
01:23:54.000He can look at one picture anywhere in the world and goes through this whole process of analyzing the picture and ends up finding the spot.
01:24:00.000Is he the guy who did the album cover of the guy in the alley in Louisville?
01:24:12.000The funny thing was like, I watched this video and he goes, here's, I forgot the guy's name of the album cover, but he's like, it's, he's like, the singer's from Louisville, so.
01:25:29.000So this is back in 1965 and it's a guy wearing a suit riding like one of the first prototype skateboards and they're trying to figure out who this guy is because none of it makes sense like he's so comfortable on a board hands are in his pocket skateboards were a new thing how's he riding so well and he's wearing a suit couldn't find him but Point is, someone will send him a photo and be like, I found this photo at a thrift store.
01:25:51.000And then he's like, I'm going to find out who this person is.
01:25:53.000And so then he checks the time, the date, the location.
01:25:56.000He looks at other people who are there, the clothing they're wearing, so he can figure out like the time and all that stuff.
01:26:59.000I don't think it goes that far for me.
01:27:06.000But you know, I didn't say I agree with him.
01:27:11.000It shows that people are inherently optimistic.
01:27:16.000Because whenever you propose these kind of things, the first thing I think of is like all the ways that you can just like, make it a bad idea.
01:27:24.000But someone was like, no, it'll be nice.
01:27:26.000You can see the signs they printed like we love I saw some dudes holding up his phone, he's got porn playing on it.
01:27:33.000Did you guys see the climate scientist who said the only way to stop the emissions is through a pandemic that culls most of humans or something like that?
01:27:42.000Don't let that man anywhere near power.
01:27:46.000These are people saying to cull 5 billion to save 500 million, at least Thanos was like 50-50.
01:28:20.000Yeah, why is the climate crisis a bad thing?
01:28:24.000Well, this is the irony in it, because it affects our population, and it affects the world, and our ability to thrive here, and it affects the ecosystem, people are gonna die, it's gonna make it more expensive, food shortages, which is inherently a love and care for humanity, and wanting to protect our home.
01:28:40.000This is the illogic of the culling human statement that he made.
01:28:44.000If the fear of climate change is that it will kill humans, Killing humans just makes it a moot point.
01:29:10.000And they call it, like it's green on the outside, red on the inside, or whatever, like the green Environmental, environmentalism is the front, but inside it's actually just the front for communism.
01:29:22.000Some type of socialism, eco-socialism, it's always an excuse to just acquire power and to be able to tell people how they have to live their lives and what they should do and etc.
01:29:32.000And they always choose the most sad, depressing spokespeople.
01:31:00.000The birth rate, fertility rate is so low, eventually you get to the point where there's three elderly for every one young person, and that one young person cannot sustain three elderly people.
01:31:42.000You've broken the culture of people taking care of family.
01:31:46.000You've created a dependency on government and now government is failing.
01:31:51.000What I see is older people who are on their own vote way more than younger people.
01:31:56.000So they will vote for whatever they have to vote for to get money.
01:31:59.000And eventually that will lead to a very weird system where I wouldn't be surprised if Social Security failing, older people vote On something as insane as younger people have to give up 100% of their income and live off, you know, young people should live off the welfare and should get government housing and do labor and have no disposable income and then once they're old enough they'll earn it.
01:32:24.000That way we can have our money in our golden years.
01:32:27.000I'm not saying every older person is like that.
01:32:29.000I'm saying that it's just a pressure system.
01:32:33.000Enough older people will be staring down the barrel of, your benefits will expire next week.
01:32:38.000And they're going to say, what can I vote for?
01:32:40.000Well, there's a new system, a new vote that would be in favor of drafting young people into civil service so that we can keep funding the system.
01:32:54.000Yeah, I mean, what happens in 2033 when the people that have paid into this their entire lives are forced to reckon with the fact that it's all a scam?
01:33:04.000Do they feel frustration at the folks that have...
01:33:38.000If we get to the point where they say, okay, fine, universal basic income, the old person's going to walk to the supermarket and there's going to be no one working there.
01:33:43.000They're going to be like, where's the staff?
01:33:45.000They're going to be like, there are none.
01:34:40.000It's like, how short-sighted And how, by the way, narcissistic do you have to be to believe that like, mm, mm, no, my comforts are too, like we used to be, as you described earlier in the show, we used to be a nation where the American dream, or maybe this was before we were recording, but it was brilliant, you said the American dream used to be that a family would come here and they would be willing to live in a tiny studio, they would work all their lives so that their kids one day could own the house in the suburbs.
01:35:53.000So, the way the union organized it was that it was actually really cool.
01:35:57.000You could trade shifts with anyone by logging into the computer.
01:36:00.000They didn't care who was there as long as you were there.
01:36:03.000So, what I ended up doing was I had Monday through Friday off, and I would work Saturday and Sunday from 5.30 till midnight.
01:36:11.000I would sleep at the airport, work 5.30 in the morning, work all the way till night, and then Monday through Friday, I had every day off, and I was getting 30, it was 36 hours, and you'd get mandatory overtime, typically on Saturday nights.
01:36:25.000If you work the night shift, you almost always got, they call it Mando, because planes come, if a plane comes late, and you're on the morning shift, you leave.
01:36:31.000Guys who are coming in will take care of it.
01:36:32.000If you're on the night shift, you're the last shift, a plane comes in, you have to stay, and you get time and a half.
01:36:37.000There was one guy who refused to take any time off, and it was because he moved here from the Philippines.
01:36:47.000He had older teenage kids, and he wanted them to go to college.
01:36:53.000And they said that's the American dream.
01:36:55.000The American dream is that when they were in the Philippines, they were dreaming of coming to America and working for $10 an hour.
01:37:02.000The American dream was that they could come and they could work every waking moment of their lives, but for $10 an hour.
01:37:09.000And their kids would get to go to school and get a job and one day own a house.
01:37:14.000Now you ask young people what's the American dream and they say to make it big on TikTok and then be rich and get to go and party and it's like wow that was never the American dream.
01:37:24.000Ownership of property was that was the thing that people wanted like it used to be where like people the American dream was to be able to have a house and a family and the property was a big part of it because In other countries, property rights weren't as secure as they are in the U.S., and the security of the property rights in the United States is the driver of our economy.
01:37:44.000It's what makes your entire society capable of producing the products and services that you need.
01:37:53.000So property rights are fundamental, and that is really what the American Dream is about, is owning your own little bit of free country where you can be left alone.
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01:40:20.000I'm Not Your Buddy Guy says, you know, Kingsman Secret Service was meant to be an entertaining spy thriller, not a roadmap to solving climate change.
01:40:26.000Isn't that weird that you've got movies like this?
01:42:48.000Right after 9-11 I listened to a ton of MSNBC and I watched MSNBC every day from like 9-11 until like 2010 when it just got to the point where I couldn't watch it anymore because they started actually, the thing that set it off for me was I was just like alright, Morning Joe's starting to make comments about Assault weapons bans and stuff like that.
01:43:08.000I'm like, you're supposed to be a Republican.
01:44:28.000And they're also saying like, we're starting the auctions of the equipment at these 50 places, but that doesn't mean it's exclusive to these 50 places.
01:44:37.000I'd imagine, given that they're filing for bankruptcy protection, this is probably very similar to the Bed Bath & Beyond story, where they sort of announce that they're going bankrupt and then it's a three to four year journey as they roll off stores and try to protect any existing cash flow.
01:44:50.000Are you saying people are going to be able to buy the Red Lobster decor at one point?
01:44:53.000Get your cheddar biscuits while you can.
01:44:55.000No, you could buy, like, the shelves from the clothing Bed Bath & Beyond.
01:44:58.000Like, people could buy the Red Lobster sign in a couple years.
01:45:01.000The little fish tanks where they put the lobsters.
01:45:51.000They had distribution centers already.
01:45:53.000Yep, they could have, but they didn't see the writing on the wall.
01:45:55.000It's sort of the BlackBerry versus iPhone story, which is a great movie, by the way, if you haven't seen it.
01:46:00.000But, yeah, about the BlackBerry story.
01:46:02.000But, you know, BlackBerry had the opportunity to be the iPhone, but they were so tied to the clicking and they thought consumers would never love a touchscreen.
01:46:09.000Steve Jobs was crazy enough to believe that they would and he went after it.
01:46:13.000I can't remember the founder of Blackberry.
01:46:15.000He had been debating for years trying to develop a touchscreen and just wouldn't do it, wouldn't go the smartphone route.
01:46:21.000And then Apple comes onto the scene and blows up.
01:46:23.000Amazon had plenty of those storefronts that could have gone into the digital age.
01:46:28.000It's the same story with Blockbuster versus Netflix.
01:46:31.000People thought Netflix was a joke and Blockbuster's the future.
01:46:34.000Blockbuster stuck to their guns and Netflix saw a future and went after it.
01:46:38.000But here's the other thing to consider.
01:46:40.000The people who are behind these things, the brand may be dead, but the people behind them don't go anywhere.
01:46:46.000So we're all saying, like, wow, how did Sears go out of business?
01:46:50.000I'd imagine that a lot of people retired, very wealthy, who were running this corporation, and they didn't care.
01:46:55.000Younger guys who were heavily invested moved their money over to Amazon in shares and didn't think twice.
01:47:00.000And then when Sears started going under, they said, liquidate it, pull out the cash we can.
01:47:04.000So these individuals who are at the highest level, they don't go anywhere.
01:47:08.000Well, not only that, most of the time when a company's going through a bankruptcy proceeding like this, they'll hire a CEO that's experienced in bankruptcies, that's basically cleaning up all the assets to get ready for a sale.
01:47:17.000And so you're right, all of the existing people, the minute that there's blood in the water, they've detached themselves from it.
01:47:22.000They have no brand loyalty to it anymore.
01:47:25.000And they bring in a team that is there to basically salvage any assets that are remaining.
01:47:33.000the world. I was driving by a mall recently, I can't remember where I was, uh, Indiana.
01:47:38.000I was driving by a mall and half of the mall stores were completely shuttered. There was no more,
01:47:44.000everything was for lease. Nothing was actually occupied other than a few small stores.
01:47:49.000And I do think that there is a massive, uh, awakening coming in the world of sort of commercial
01:47:56.000real estate for a lot of these things. Like it'll be fascinating to see what comes of the old Sears
01:48:00.000buildings as they continue to advance forward. Does anybody even need that space anymore? A lot
01:48:04.000of them are turning into churches or health centers or these different things. But, uh, yeah, I think
01:48:10.000There are cities where unoccupied office buildings, because of the big conversion to remote work, they're now saying like, well, do we turn these, I think it was Boston, it was like, should we turn into apartments?
01:48:21.000You know, anecdotally with the mall, I always find it interesting because there was, when I lived in Dallas, there was one mall that was like, I guess it had been really great back in the day, but the movie theater was still there and it was really inexpensive to go.
01:48:32.000But also the storefronts, it would be like, This is my personal art gallery for the art that I make like it was getting some sort of like weird or like there's a mall nearby that like a church has a storefront in and I just find this deeply fascinating because at a certain point the mall needs someone to be there.
01:48:48.000At what point does it become sort of a more urban cities small town like Main Street Square because they're all right there.
01:48:54.000Is it a salvageable thing or do they have to say like This is something we shut down.
01:48:59.000There was a mall in I'm trying to think what is it somewhere in Rhode Island, there was a big sort of mall type area, but it's a historic structure.
01:49:07.000And they turned the upper level of it into basically tiny home sized apartments, you know, so it'd be like really small, like basically efficiency studio apartments.
01:49:17.000And then they kept the lower level as like this area and it meant that they had residents there who would then go to the coffee shops or stuff that were in the area.
01:49:23.000There's a potential to change these things.
01:49:26.000On the other hand, will we return to the iconic mall era?
01:49:34.000I used to skateboard on the top of a mall in high school on the roof and you'd get in trouble but it was awesome and you'd hang out in the food court for hours and it just it screams classic Americana.
01:49:48.000You know, it's funny because I always remember, like, older generation being like, we had eight tracks, you know, and you'd put it in and you'd play the song.
01:49:58.000And now it's like, now there's a floppy disk icon in programs that young people like these Gen Z kids are like, what is that?
01:50:05.000But outside of all of that technology changes stuff that happens to a lot of people, the You know, up until the internet, every generation had the hanging out at the mall and goofing off and being chased by security guards.
01:50:19.000And there's movies where it's like, you're a kid in the 90s and you're watching a movie where a dude's skating in the 80s, running from a security guard.
01:50:27.000That's so funny that it's like the people who are in that movie are basically our parents today.
01:50:33.000We have a shared experience of what it's like to hang out with our friends at the park.
01:50:35.000And, you know, now it's, it's, that's, that's just not the case a little bit, but it's not the same.
01:50:40.000Think about that scene in Mean Girls where they're at the school, they're like, we're going to the mall and they bring her and then she describes it as if it's sort of like observing the wildlife of teenagers and these people are over there and these people are doing whatever.
01:50:52.000Like that aspect of socialization went away for huge generations of young people and then we wonder why they socialize differently, why they're more anxious.
01:51:01.000Like they aren't doing the things that generations did before them and so they effectively view the world in a very different and ultimately anti-social way.
01:51:08.000I think what I'll do is I'm going to invest all of the money we make into building a device that traps all of humanity in the years of the early 80s when Men at Work were at the top of the charts.
01:51:35.000Just cuz I'm free says I think the Federal Reserve will wait to spike the economy till Trump gets elected Unless he plays ball with the deep state is blackmail the correct term.
01:51:45.000I Won't be surprised the the Fed can deeply control But I don't know if you look at their balance sheet and you look at the like the inflation and stuff I don't know that the the Federal Reserve can actually navigate their way out of this one No, and I don't think that it I don't I think the If you think that the Federal Reserve would harpoon Trump's presidency because it's Trump, I don't think you understand the gravity of the situation.
01:52:13.000When everything falls apart, to call it falling apart is insufficient.
01:52:20.000Like I said, I don't think that the United States loses the dollar and has an economic restructuring without like a world war or without significant wars happening in other parts of the world.
01:52:33.000Because the United States, whether or not people like it or think it's good or not, the United States is essentially the global police force, the way that it essentially works right now.
01:52:45.000And if there's a significant change to the status quo in the United States, you're going to have serious, serious repercussions throughout the whole world.
01:53:09.000I imagine he got some kind of lung punctured, but I will just point this out again, and the reason why I've brought up the idea of how to treat a sucking chest wound, you guys are familiar with what this is, is because when I was a teenager, I think I was probably like early 20s.
01:53:24.000There was a story in my neighborhood of a dude who got into a fight, and someone, he got stabbed in the chest, and got up and ran off, and then a minute and a half later, collapsed dead.
01:53:34.000And it's crazy to think that that strike to the chest, if only he knew to like, man, like hold a credit card over it or even something, he'd be alive!
01:53:44.000And so this is one of the things they teach you in hostile environment courses, first aid courses.
01:53:48.000The general, there's a bunch of complicated ways to do it.
01:53:50.000Some say if you have no choice, you hold a credit card over it to seal the wound.
01:53:54.000But if you get, and definitely consult a medical professional
01:53:57.000because I'm gonna give you the rudimentary, I did first aid hostile environment training.
01:54:01.000You take, if you have plastic wrap, you put it over the wound, you tape down three sides.
01:54:06.000And what that does is when there's a hole in the, where the lung is, when the person tries to inhale,
01:54:12.000There's no pressure differential, so no air actually moves.
01:54:16.000The chest cavity expands and the air that's in there stays in there so the person is asphyxiating while thinking they're breathing and then they just die.
01:54:23.000But if you seal the hole, when they're breathing, then it pulls air in, pushes air out, pulls air in, that's how it works, and what happens when you put the plastic over it, tape it down to three sides, is that when they inhale, it pulls the plastic up to their chest, and when they exhale, I'm sorry, when they inhale, the expanding pressure forces air out of the hole because it can't pull air in, which pushes the pressure back out, allowing them to breathe better.
01:54:48.000It was just a crazy idea because, like, there are these moments where if you just knew the tiniest bit of it, if someone said one sentence to you, someone could be alive.
01:55:44.000When I did hostile environment training, and they're teaching the basis of tourniquets, they were giving instruction on femoral bleed tourniquet, and people put it Close to the knee, they put it, I don't know how you describe it, above or below, but they were like, you have to put the tourniquet above the wound so that the blood doesn't pour out of the body.
01:56:09.000And I was like, I can't believe there were people that did not realize that the purpose of the tourniquet is to cut off the blood flow to pouring out of the bleed.
01:56:17.000Crazy thing, as an aside, is he showed a pig femoral bleed and a guy passed out instantly.
01:56:23.000There's that, I don't know what it's called, but it triggers some nerve when you see the blood flow, and some people faint.
01:56:29.000And he just, he puts on the screen the pig bleeding, and a guy just hits the ground.
01:56:34.000We hear a bang, the chairs flip over, they're folding chairs.
01:56:37.000And then the instructor immediately runs over, grabs his legs, and lifts his legs up, which increases the blood pressure to the brain.
01:56:43.000The guy comes to and tries getting up, and the instructor yells, do not move!
01:57:12.000What I would say is that Utah is actually one of our fastest growing states, which is pretty exciting.
01:57:17.000We have, obviously, two components of the platform.
01:57:19.000So we have the e-commerce side, where you can actually shop from all the different businesses, tens of thousands that are selling their products directly online, so that you can get these products shipped towards your door.
01:57:28.000If you're looking for gauze, if you're looking for tourniquets, if you're looking for coffee, Casper, shout out.
01:57:33.000Or you're looking for flip skateboards, which I didn't even know was on our platform until earlier today, which is awesome.
01:57:41.000On the local side, my recommendation is keep checking back in every few weeks because you'll be amazed at how quickly that local community on the Near Me tab actually blossoms.
01:57:49.000But on top of that, if you know a business that you feel like is probably with us, invite them to the platform because you'll be amazed that not only will that business join, We've seen in the data that they'll likely invite three other businesses to join with them.
01:58:01.000One of the greatest ways that we've actually grown in local communities with our Near Me functionality is when businesses that are already on actually invite other businesses.
01:58:09.000They're creating this sort of chamber of commerce and that's one of the most exciting aspects of this platform.
01:58:14.000We were joking about this because I was saying I want to get my hair cut and the only one in the area is actually like an hour and a half away in D.C.
01:58:20.000And I was like, but I just keep checking.
01:58:21.000There'll be another salon on there eventually.
01:58:43.000But You know, I just, there's a lot of people I know that, the reason why I was saying earlier in the show about having purpose, seeing the news and having it light a fire within you, to be the warrior, is that there's a lot of people who are lost without purpose.
01:58:57.000There's a lot of people wondering why they're here and asking these questions, a lot of young people who are depressed and angry, and some of these kids are going towards the woke cult because it provides a pseudo-purpose.
01:59:07.000Be one of us, join the mission, and it's giving, no, no, no, idle hand's the devil's playground.
01:59:12.000We need to make A more divine playground.
01:59:15.000We need to put into the hands of young people divine purpose, that is, to create life, to protect life, to make the world better, to bring a wholesome dignity to our society, to protect and help it flourish.
01:59:29.000We've got this tremendous force in wokeness that is a chaotic, destructive force that is amoral, it is without morals, and it seeks to pull people who are missing their purpose and their mission into darkness.
01:59:44.000We don't have, I don't believe, a very strong counter-movement.
01:59:46.000We have people who believe in freedom.
01:59:48.000We have people who are like, those people are crazy.
01:59:51.000But we don't have a comparable force of, what's the right word?
02:00:13.000It exists, and I actually think, to put it simply, public square, I think the reason you guys are so important is that that might be the public square of this... It's our goal?
02:00:25.000Well, and we always want to, we want to be known more for what we're for and the vision we're casting for the future rather than what we're against.
02:00:31.000So we get asked all the time, can you guys make a blacklist of all the businesses we should stay away from?
02:00:39.000It's a safe assumption that most of the businesses you shop from, if you're just kind of taking the corporate hand, are probably businesses that are working against you.
02:00:45.000We'd rather spend all of our time, energy, and efforts into showcasing the type of American entrepreneurs you should support.
02:00:50.000I'd rather focus all of my energy on casting a vision for the future we're trying to create.
02:01:14.000You would not be the only one, so come join.
02:01:16.000We do really well with sole proprietors, the creator economy, we're a massive fan.
02:01:20.000And ultimately you'll find that obviously not only is it a great values aligned community, but even differentiated from an Amazon, we have a product in terms of how our platform is actually structured that far, far better serves the small businesses or sole proprietorships, individual content creators, etc.
02:01:36.000The last thing I want to say is just one more thing about Flip Skateboards being on Public Square.
02:01:41.000This is one of the biggest skate companies in the world with some of the most prominent skateboarders.
02:01:45.000These are guys who appeared in Tony Hawk's Pro Skater back in the day.
02:01:48.000The first skateboard I ever owned was a Tom Penny Flip Skateboard.
02:01:52.000And AWH Skateboard Distribution, one of the biggest in the country, as well as Flip Skateboards, being on Public Square, This is Olympic-level professional equipment asserting publicly that they oppose the woke cult garbage selling a product to where they think it matters, and it's absolutely incredible.
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02:03:16.000You're looking for a bite to eat, you open the Public Square app, you look at the map, you see a burger joint, you walk in, the owner's behind the counter making burgers, and you know you can be like, I saw you guys in Public Square, and he's gonna be like, awesome!
02:03:27.000And that means you can talk freely about all of the things you want to talk about because you know this person's not gonna be in a nut job.