On today's show, we talk about the latest in the Epstein scandal, a possible alien spaceship attack on Earth, and the latest on the Trump/Schumer feud. Hosted by John Rocha ( ) and Matt Knost ( )
00:02:51.000The DOJ has met with Epstein associate Gheelain Maxwell.
00:02:55.000There's conflicting reports, but according to her lawyer and statements, she was asked about 100 individuals and gave up information on whatever she was asked about.
00:03:03.000And for this, the DOJ granted her conditional or limited immunity, which is very interesting.
00:03:10.000Now, apparently, Gheelane Maxwell is going to seek a pardon in exchange for information.
00:03:14.000And where it gets real spicy, Chuck Schumer is losing it.
00:03:19.000He's posting an X that no one should allow the DOJ to be meeting with Gheelane Maxwell.
00:04:46.000Bearskin was cool enough to send us all these amazing fleece hoodies that I actually would wear quite a bit because we usually have the AC to keep all the equipment cool, but it's too hot out right now.
00:04:56.000I think it was like 102 today or some ridiculous number.
00:07:20.000The American people are winning the culture war.
00:07:22.000If we keep going at this pace, our culture is the best and keeps getting better.
00:07:26.000So it's just a matter of holding it together, keeping the country safe, keeping people happy.
00:07:31.000I personally like science, so I use culture to expand my borders while I can then use the production capacity to increase my science output.
00:07:39.000I feel like that's the best victory path.
00:07:41.000All across the world, millions of eyebrows just raised because they have no idea what you mean.
00:07:46.000The culture war is, we're in the process of winning it, so hold it together.
00:07:50.000Keep reality sane and stable to the best of your ability because this American culture, since TV was invented, I mean, it is like a skyrocket, dude.
00:08:13.000Here's a story from the New York Post, ladies and gentlemen.
00:08:16.000Gheelane Maxwell gave DOJ info about 100 different people linked to Jeffrey Epstein, lawyer says.
00:08:24.000Notorious sex criminal Ghylaine Maxwell answered questions in the DOJ about 100 different people linked to Jeffrey Epstein.
00:08:30.000An attorney for the disgraced socialite claimed Friday following two days of interrogation by Todd Blanche.
00:08:36.000David Oscar Marcus told reporters that his client, currently serving a 20-year sentence after being convicted in Manhattan, of federal sex trafficking conspiracy charges, was asked about every possible thing you could imagine.
00:08:47.000This was the first opportunity she's ever been given to answer questions about what happened.
00:08:51.000The truth will come out about what happened with Mr. Epstein, and she's the person who was answering those questions.
00:08:57.000Blanche had every single question answered during the sit-down, Maxwell's attorney also said, with the British-born convict declining to plead the fifth.
00:09:05.000Now, there's also been reporting that she was granted limited immunity.
00:09:13.000Well, yeah, usually it's the other way around.
00:09:14.000Usually what happens is somebody is accused of a crime, and so they come out and they get what's usually called like queen for a day or king for a day status.
00:09:20.000So they get to talk about whatever it is.
00:09:22.000They can't be held liable for whatever they disclose as long as they're helping some other case.
00:09:25.000And that's usually like small fish going after bigger fish, right?
00:09:29.000So you want to get information about something.
00:09:31.000And I don't know that I can think of a good example of where you said, hey, by the way, we've got you in jail for in prison for the next 20 years and you got five years of supervised release after that.
00:09:40.000But we'd also like some other stuff that we never talked to you about previously.
00:09:44.000That limited immunity, I don't know what she would be liable for even because if you go back and read, and I actually pulled it up here because I was curious, the press release about her sentencing, like her crimes go back to 2004.
00:09:58.000The window that she was actually convicted of of trafficking young girls was 1994 in or about to 2004.
00:10:05.000So we're now 21 years away from the crimes.
00:10:07.000There was no statute of limitations on it, but at the end of the day, the only people mentioned in the entire press release, in the sentencing, in the trial, which was a month-long jury trial, people forget, but she actually was tried and convicted by a jury.
00:12:05.000They're on a server hosted in the cloud and they could be accessed from New York or they could be accessed from, you know, the director's office or from the attorney general's office.
00:12:12.000So all this stuff has been kind of playing on there's a bunch of these videos.
00:12:16.000We saw Pam Bondi basically saying over and over again, there's more and more stuff.
00:12:21.000If you watch what happened from the FBI side, though, Bongino and Patel were actually de-escalating.
00:12:27.000Every time they sat down, it looked like they were sitting on pins and needles.
00:12:29.000They were like sitting on like a tackboard and they were really uncomfortable because they were going to have to answer a question that their boss was basically saying there's a bunch of this stuff.
00:12:36.000And then we ended up with that big bombshell that, oh, there's nothing.
00:12:39.000People lost their minds about it, which is reasonable.
00:13:01.000What happens if she gives a statement and Trump and the DOJ come out with new documents from witness testimony that says it was actually Dedamshift or Liz Cheney and Raskin who were coordinating with Epstein?
00:13:16.000And they say, well, this is corroborated witness testimony.
00:13:20.000There's a million and one conspiracies about what's actually going on.
00:13:23.000One of them is that this is the pro-Trump side conspiracy, the Democrats put unverified hearsay in there that smears Trump so that he can't release it because it'll be damaging to him.
00:13:34.000If that is the case, or even if Trump is actually in this, his opportunity now is to go to Guy Lane, have her offer up statements which can overwrite any existing documents and be the documents.
00:13:46.000Or put it in context, which is probably most likely, if I had to guess.
00:13:49.000Like, I'm sure that Trump's name has to be in the same source.
00:13:52.000Yes, but when Trump says, I'm going to release the files, he releases his files that he made right now in his DOJ that implicates his enemies.
00:14:02.000There's a continuum of possible truth because we don't actually have access to any of the things that the FBI has, and they've obviously not decided to share it with us.
00:14:10.000So somewhere on, let's say, the right end of this spectrum is the entirety of the criminal conspiracy was a man and a woman who were sickos that were going after young girls that were post-pubescent, but they were underage.
00:14:22.000And that's what the trafficking operation was.
00:14:28.000The other end of it is, is like this vast criminal conspiracy that stretches across the entire globe where all these global leaders are implicated and everybody is being blackmailed and there's sexual material on all these people.
00:14:39.000And the reason why I think the Americans are so dialed in and why they're not going to let this go, which I think was a miscalculation on the Trump administration's part, I think they saw it and thought something was going to happen.
00:14:48.000They could use some of the influencers and some of the media people to just go, hey, let's just put this to bed.
00:15:55.000So if people want to go see it, DOJ has it out there.
00:15:57.000You can go out and read the press release of what her actual conviction was for.
00:16:00.000But what it is very, very light on, in fact, to the point where there's nothing other than her and Jeffrey Epstein, there's only two people mentioned there.
00:16:07.000There's no co-conspirators, which would substantiate what the FBI put out.
00:16:11.000But at the end of the day, you got a big problem there too, because two of the guys that are running the FBI spent a couple of years telling us something was different, like something very different was true.
00:16:20.000And a lot of people have accepted these things as fact.
00:16:22.000And they've also accepted that this guy is an Intel asset, that Jeffrey Epstein was working on behalf of an intelligence service.
00:16:27.000And whether that's true or not, the actual thing that people continue to quote was something that Alex Acosta said, allegedly, because somebody else quoted him.
00:16:37.000I don't even know how far you go out for hearsay, but it was apparently something he said during a vetting process for a cabinet position in Trump's first administration.
00:16:44.000And everybody hangs their hat and we're like, well, that's definitive.
00:16:47.000It turns out that's actually not evidence.
00:16:48.000That's like some guy said something that he said he thought he heard.
00:17:57.000I think the shame is like, take this, either he's on that list and he's using this to cover that up or something is, he's just living in shame.
00:18:07.000Your point about him being really good at this stuff is well taken because he's a master marketer.
00:18:12.000He comes from the entertainment world where marketing is super important.
00:18:49.000And all we really have is a couple of little documents.
00:18:51.000And one of them says, you know, it's either a Trump donor or a Trump in there.
00:18:54.000And it could be in a totally innocuous thing.
00:18:56.000But just having your name in the quote unquote files that everyone now imagines are these like truckloads of documents, it's a smear at this point.
00:19:04.000Nobody, and it's not like we're dealing with honest operators.
00:19:07.000We're going to be seeing people from the left, which we continue to see throughout the last two or three weeks.
00:19:11.000They suddenly really desperately care, except Chuck Schumer, who now doesn't want it, which, as you said, that's a fun reversal because a few seconds ago, they were screaming about it.
00:19:31.000Democrats were demanding we expose the Epstein files.
00:19:35.000So the DOJ says, we are going to dig into this.
00:19:38.000Trump says, get the grand jury testimony, whatever's credible, put it out there.
00:19:43.000They said, we're going to go talk with Gheelane.
00:19:45.000And now the Democrats are freaking out.
00:19:47.000Could it be that they played a game of chicken with Donald Trump because neither party wants this information released?
00:19:52.000And now they're realizing Trump's going to do it.
00:19:54.000I think that as long as they keep this floating and as long as there's not actual evidence to put it to bed, where it's like, they're not going to get the grand jury testimony out of Florida.
00:20:37.000And that's the way most governments have run for all of my lifetime and all of everybody else's lifetime because you usually don't go and try to adjudicate your successes on Fox News every single night.
00:20:47.000That's not usually the way that these.
00:20:48.000How many times have you ever seen an interview with an attorney general in one month?
00:21:22.000My concern, it's a bit conspiracy oriented, Mike, is that because you mentioned earlier how these girls that Epstein was trafficking and Gheelane were trafficking were, I don't know if trafficking is the right word, but they weren't pre-profit.
00:22:06.000Nobody really makes the distinction in their head.
00:22:08.000People are going to feel, like, the people involved are like, if this kits out, my name gets put on a list and people think I'm a pedophile.
00:22:15.000So they're going to the ends of the earth to cover it up.
00:22:17.000When in reality, 14-year-old women, age of consent in a lot of countries, giving a guy a massage and then he thinks he's 18 and he has sex with her, not pedophilia.
00:22:52.000Typically, when you see people like Stephen King or whoever else, you know, because he wrote those creepy books talking about that stuff, when people are publicly trying to draw a distinction between what it means to be sleeping with underage women, 99.9% of people in this country are like, why are you bringing that up?
00:23:46.000But in the United States, West Virginia, literally.
00:23:48.000We generally look at the age of majority being 18.
00:23:51.000And then anything under whatever the age of consent is, it's almost always a strict liability crime, which means whether you knew it or not, whether she was someone who went through puberty at 11 or 12 and blossomed and looks like a young woman.
00:24:03.000And yeah, everyone's been to like a public pool.
00:24:24.000And the reason is, the reason they do that, which is why 14, by the way, only 13 states have an age of 18 consent.
00:24:31.000But the reason they do that is so that way 18-year-old teenage boys, essentially 17, 18-year-old boys, that if they have sex with their 16-year-old girlfriend, it doesn't ruin their life.
00:24:41.000That's called the Romeo and Juliet exemptions, and they exist in most.
00:24:44.000That's not why that, that's not all they're doing.
00:24:47.000And so I'm pretty sure this is, this is like Illinois is a good example.
00:24:51.000If a 19-year-old is in a relationship with a 16-year-old in Illinois, that's a Romeo and Juliet exemption because they're both going to the same school.
00:25:50.000But at the end of the day, at the United States, the other thing that's really weird too is that child pornography laws come into play sometimes because everybody is involved with smartphones and transmission of images.
00:25:59.000You fall underneath the federal statute under a certain age and you transmit it to someone who's above, now you're in really bad shape, and you may be within the age of consent in your own state.
00:26:22.000And they went after him for child pornography.
00:26:24.000There was a story out of Illinois where two, there's like a 14-year-old girl and a 12-year-old boy, and they were Snapchatting each other.
00:26:33.000And when the parents got angry, and because the parents of the 12-year-old boy, they called the police, the police said, we're going to arrest your son for child pornography too.
00:26:41.000Unless you, if you really want to go down this route, because the law doesn't draw a distinction.
00:26:54.000And so that's when it becomes a federal issue.
00:26:56.000There was a story recently where I think the guy was 20 and he met a woman at a bar who was 17, but she had a fake ID and they went and had sex.
00:27:05.000And then later, I forget how it came to light.
00:27:41.000Again, your distinction is completely immaterial to the fact that there were, let's say a 16-year-old, right, was told by Maxwell, at least this is some of the reported what they were doing, saying, we're wealthy financiers and we can have you model.
00:27:54.000And they would go, wow, come on our private jet.
00:28:07.000But like Andrew, I was saying it was similar to what Andrew Tate was doing with those girls to come be his chat cam girls and then he'd get them there and apparently would keep them against their will or that was maybe the insinuation.
00:28:17.000It's one thing if you make them have sex with someone.
00:28:21.000The challenging thing about the Tate case is that those, I think the charges all failed every time they've brought him up and several women have testified in his defense.
00:28:46.000I don't know the extent of their relationship.
00:28:47.000Yeah, so the way that that, and this is one of the reasons why people ask, because it's like, quote-unquote, unexplained wealth is the big story in Jeffrey Epstein's case.
00:28:55.000So just the quick primer on it is he was a teacher at the Dalton School, which is a very fancy private school in New York.
00:29:01.000He had no college degree, and he theoretically wouldn't even have been in line to be teaching there.
00:29:06.000But he was hired, and this is where you start getting into famous name theater, but he was hired by Donald Barr, who is the attorney, the former attorney general's dad, Bill Barr.
00:29:17.000Okay, so Donald Barr was the headmaster, apparently hired Jeffrey Epstein with no college degree to teach math and physics.
00:29:25.000Jeffrey Epstein started his first terms, was there for a little while.
00:29:28.000And then after he was there for a little bit, he inexplicably makes the leap from non-credentialed high school teacher at very expensive private school to investment banker at Bear Stearns.
00:29:39.000And the claim is, is that the CEO of Bear Stearns' child was either tutored by or one of his friends, his kid's friends was tutored by Epstein, saw talent and brought him in to Bear Stearns.
00:29:52.000Then he jumps into this asset recovery company that he created.
00:29:56.000And then somewhere in that couple years, in the early 1980s, he suddenly is the guy who is in charge of all of Les Wexner's financial investments to the point where in 1991, Les Wechner, who, as you said, owned the limited and then Victoria's Secret was one of the companies as well.
00:30:20.000Somebody will fact check me on that, but it's right around there, which makes no sense whatsoever.
00:30:23.000And Les Wexner also gave him the famous penthouse or the apartment that he had in New York City, which people don't know why he did that.
00:30:31.000It was like a 50-something million-dollar property in the 1990s.
00:30:34.000And he just signed it over to him, free and clear.
00:30:36.000So all of that made people ask questions.
00:30:38.000That's where a lot of the intelligence questions came in, addition to the fact that Maxwell's dad had a bunch of people from the Israeli intelligence service attend his funeral.
00:30:45.000So you've got all these strange things.
00:30:48.000There's very little in the way of concrete facts.
00:30:50.000And nobody knows how the guy became worth like close to a billion dollars if he was, because it's not the way people do business.
00:30:57.000You don't go from being a high school teacher to being a trader to being a guy who is then privately managing a billionaire's wealth.
00:31:06.000And then he also received flat fees in the millions of dollars a year as opposed to based on performance, which is the way most people get.
00:31:17.000So the estate is still out there and it's been contested by a number of the victims that have claimed.
00:31:22.000And there's like something like 150 or 200 victims that have gone out there and filed claims.
00:31:26.000So all the young women that were apparently involved in this, and they're briefly mentioned in Maxwell's, going back to the original topic, they're briefly mentioned.
00:31:34.000I just want to read you, if you don't mind, like from the sentencing document, so you get an idea of what they were saying they did.
00:31:38.000They said that Maxwell attempted to befriend certain victims, asking them about their lives, their schools, their families, taking them to the movies on shopping trips, and then acclimated them to Epstein's conduct by being present as the victims interacted with Epstein, which put the victims at ease, providing a certain amount of assurance and comfort that there was an adult woman there.
00:31:54.000So all this was very grooming-like behavior.
00:31:56.000And then they go on to talk about the things you said, paying for travel, educational opportunities, encourage them to accept Epstein's assistance and whatever it was, making the victims feel like they were indebted.
00:32:05.000So all of this is very like aggressive, grooming type behaviors.
00:32:09.000And it goes back to like 1994 when he's already got a ton of money and he's tied in with the people you were just talking about.
00:32:14.000So the story of Epstein is, I think, fascinating to people mostly because it's a lot of money.
00:32:20.000There's not a lot of explanation why he has it, how he got into those positions, his interest in young women, whether you agree or not, like it's younger than is acceptable by most of American society.
00:32:30.000And then you get to the final place where he goes into a jail cell and 30 days in, kills himself, and there's all this lore around it, which is far more than what you ever see in the court document.
00:33:01.000He like lends somebody some money while he was doing some insider trading stuff to the tune of like 300 grand.
00:33:05.000So he got censored and he had to leave.
00:33:06.000We got a quick addition, not necessarily a correction, but in federal matters pertaining to interstate travel, the age of consent is always 18.
00:33:16.000It goes back to the, which was like a white slave trafficking law.
00:33:20.000And then the weird thing now we're facing is digital information transfer, because if an image is seen in a state and then it goes to a server in Alaska and then comes back to the state, no one ever sees it in Alaska.
00:33:39.000They do that as part of the argument when they do these filings.
00:33:42.000And they actually argue it in court that the servers exist in these places.
00:33:46.000Let's say if you want to do a federal case on guns, for example, they will make the argument that it is a federal matter simply because the gun was not made in the state that you're in and therefore it had to be trafficked in there.
00:33:55.000So if you live in a state outside of Georgia and you have a Glock, then you have now found yourself in an interstate commerce situation.
00:34:06.000It definitely shouldn't be used as justification for federal law enforcement to be able to grab everything that goes outside of the state.
00:34:11.000And so in the case of what you're talking about, anything that touches the telco wires, touches a server, touches a cloud, even if you like theoretically are just you to me, it's assumed to be an interstate matter at that point.
00:34:47.000The New York Post says, a mysterious intergalactic object could potentially be a hostile alien spacecraft that's slated to attack our planet in November, according to a controversial news study by a small group of scientists.
00:34:59.000The consequences, should the hypothesis turn to be correct, could be potentially dire for humanity.
00:35:04.000The researchers wrote in the inflammatory paper, which was published July 16th, to the preprint server, ARXIV, Southwest News Service reported, and here's a picture that proves it.
00:35:30.000You know what's funny is I don't know if that's an I or an L. Dubbed 3L Atlas.
00:35:35.000The interstellar entity was discovered on July 1st rocketing toward the sun at more than 130,000 miles per hour.
00:35:40.000Less than 24 hours later, it was confirmed to be an interstellar object with initial observation suggesting it could be a comet measuring up to 15 miles in diameter, larger than Manhattan.
00:39:41.000Wasn't that Ben Shapiro's quote about Donald Trump that when he dies, his tombstone will say, Donald Trump, you know, he said a lot of things.
00:39:48.000I think he had a more colorful term for it.
00:39:50.000It definitely seems like he's probably thinking, oh my God, I'm going to go through all this and then they're going to use this stupid Epstein thing to get my name because I was there with Epstein because I've known him and they're going to try and do me this way.
00:40:01.000Like that feels what's going on right now.
00:40:04.000Okay, so one of the first things you learn in marketing when you're 18 and you're going to your first college 101 class is they say, in almost every circumstance, your best course of action is to say and do nothing.
00:40:17.000And Trump is like, I'm going to do the opposite and just not shut up for two weeks.
00:41:11.000Didn't they just come out and say, didn't the Democrats just come out and say that they're not interested in impeachment because it would just be...
00:41:34.000I think they were actually very fair and very nice.
00:41:36.000I think it was actually, you know, considering how the media writes about people in this space, I would call it a puff piece, meaning like they didn't insult me.
00:41:43.000But they did say that we veer into conspiracy territory.
00:41:47.000And I was talking to the reporter, I said, she asked me, like, do you think this is conspiracy?
00:41:51.000I said, no, I actually think I completely agree with the entirety of the Democratic Party and the liberal media on the Epstein files needing to be released.
00:41:58.000And for some reason, Trump isn't wanting to.
00:42:00.000So there's potentially some agenda behind this.
00:42:03.000And she still wrote that I was like veering into conspiracy territory.
00:42:05.000But it wasn't like insulting or anything.
00:42:08.000I just think that it is somewhat frustrating that finally the Democrats are screaming conspiracy.
00:42:15.000And we are all still conspiracy theorists now, even if we agree with what they're screaming conspiracy about.
00:42:20.000So this is the discussion I actually had this with your driver on the way in.
00:42:23.000You can agree with people and have totally different motives.
00:42:28.000You could have the idea that you're like, that guy needs to go away and it needs to happen violently.
00:42:33.000And it could be because you want to take all of his money and you're a thief, but it could also be because he did something really terrible in your town or hurt somebody that you know.
00:42:40.000And you could have the same exact goal or end.
00:42:42.000In the case of the government, the Democrats, when it comes to like voting for things, they're like, there's not enough puff and government money here.
00:43:36.000So one of the best, I remember I was driving through Montana and I was listening to Joe Rogan talking to Alex Jones.
00:43:41.000And you ever have one of those things where someone says something and it expands your mind and it'll never go back to the original size?
00:43:45.000He's like, I don't think that there's extraterrestrials.
00:43:48.000I think that all the things that people think are aliens are actually human beings from the future because who else would be more interested in human beings than human beings at some distant point in the future?
00:43:56.000And I was like, oh no, like, I don't know that is true.
00:43:58.000And I don't even know that I believe it's true.
00:44:00.000I just went like, oh, man, I've never thought of that as being a real person.
00:44:02.000Well, the theory is that grays are future humans.
00:44:06.000Okay, do you know the story about the grays with me?
00:44:43.000He's looking at me and he goes, well, you got to pick something.
00:44:46.000And I go, well, I'm not really excited about anything.
00:44:49.000And then I, then I had this little moment about the Dolce base that kicked into my head because one of my buddies, who's also an FBI agent, was really excited about it.
00:44:55.000And so I look over and there's a map of New Mexico.
00:44:57.000I go, maybe I can go up to the Archolita Mesa and do some investigations into the Dolce base.
00:45:01.000Do you think I can get like a travel voucher to get some approved travel a couple days, go ask some questions?
00:45:09.000And he was like, I don't know what that is.
00:45:10.000And I was like, oh, they're the deep underground military bases.
00:45:12.000There's like a dozen of them around New Mexico.
00:45:14.000They're all connected with like, you know, like a cavernous cave system.
00:45:16.000And I just, apparently there was a big fight back in the 80s between Delta Force and some of the Greys.
00:45:20.000And so, you know, apparently an FBI agent was actually killed in the gunfire.
00:45:24.000And so I would like to go and do an investigation of that, see if we can come up with anything and go check out what happened to our brothers.
00:45:29.000And he goes, When you say grays, you mean aliens.
00:46:10.000I think about the spirits, and I think spirits because they control the aliens.
00:46:14.000When you say Seraphina, your spirit airlines.
00:46:16.000Well, I think the spirit is like the guy playing a video game.
00:46:19.000We're the character in the video game, the avatar getting moved around, and the spirit is the controller, the guy watching the TV of us doing our life.
00:46:25.000So when you see the spirits and they see you, and you realize you're, it'd be like if your video game character turns and looks at you and is like, what the fuck?
00:46:33.000And then you can interact with your spirit, which is like all of human spirit combined into this one.
00:47:49.000The actual origin story is that around 2008, not only did Ian have that conversation, but they grabbed him by the head and just twisted it into a permanent.
00:48:55.000T-app that lets women post anonymous dating reviews was hit by a data breach that exposed 72,000 images.
00:49:04.000So maybe you guys have seen It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, where Dennis finds out there's this app where women rate men and he's got like a really low score.
00:50:21.000And that's where they needed to reinforce it.
00:50:22.000And the ones that took damage there, it didn't matter.
00:50:25.000And so the funny thing about this app is I'm sitting here thinking like, yo, if some woman dates a guy and then he's like, I ain't dating her.
00:52:17.000Sometimes you see it too out there in the world where it's like that thing that you're doing that you are so passionate about, I really wish you were doing it for your child because that's what you're trying to do.
00:52:26.000And we're a man-only space in here, so I feel very comfortable saying that.
00:55:10.000There is the fact that because of the way that the federal government has treated our monetary policy, it's tough for individual men to make enough money to pay for a family and stuff.
00:55:22.000The incentive is all there for women to work so that way the government can tax them as well.
00:56:27.000But people do not want to hear it when you say go down to one car.
00:56:31.000And I had my wife take me to work a lot of times as a lawyer after we had my daughter because we couldn't afford a second car at that point.
00:56:39.000And it was so important for me to have my wife stay home with my kid, teach her stuff.
00:56:44.000I mean, dude, my daughter is 13 years old and speaks Japanese, Arabic, and is taking Mandarin right now.
00:58:18.000My mother-in-law actually gave me a copy of it.
00:58:19.000And you don't have to read the whole book.
00:58:20.000You can just read the back and know what it is.
00:58:22.000But essentially, when you have two incomes in the household, so Phil, this actually goes to the structural piece you're talking about.
00:58:26.000When you have two incomes, everything that has to do with children, Which we were talking about a second ago, gets more expensive.
00:58:32.000You're in an arms race with everyone that has two incomes.
00:58:35.000So if I'm a one-income, now I'm competing against two for childcare, for public or private schooling, for the select soccer team, for minivans, for housing that's bigger.
00:58:45.000So all those things become more expensive.
00:58:55.000When you had single-income households, and I actually think she's right about this, which is weird for me to say because she's Elizabeth Warren.
00:59:01.000But when you had single-income households, if the man, the primary income actually failed at some point, the woman could actually pick up the slack and get a temporary job with the skill set that she possessed and actually be a bridge.
00:59:13.000Or she could currently be working in a cottage industry and putting stuff away as long as you lived off the one salary.
00:59:19.000It's happened basically most of my lifetime where we wanted to see both of those salaries go into luxury items and a bunch of like conveniences.
00:59:26.000And now everyone acts like you can't do without a bunch of stuff.
00:59:28.000Like you actually could do without Netflix and you probably could do without Uber Eats.
00:59:32.000You don't have to have to eat out every night.
01:00:44.000Now for the people who have kids, they're going, well, we can no longer go there because we used to go there and the kids would be entertained while we ordered food.
01:00:52.000But more importantly, the bigger example is...
01:00:56.000It's becoming more and more expensive for baby items, for baby clothes, for high chairs, for rubber baby buggy bumpers, because the less people who have kids.
01:01:14.000So what happens is the less people that are buying it, the less volume is sold.
01:01:19.000And so the manufacturers increase cost to make up for a loss in volume, meaning that it's becoming exponentially more expensive to buy the items your child needs, which is a prohibitive factor.
01:01:31.000So young people say, I can't afford what child needs, so I can't have kids.
01:01:35.000Well, then if I don't have kids, there's no demand for the products.
01:01:46.000But even in that regard, what's happening now is people, young, so I was talking about, we've been talking about how Gen Z aren't having kids.
01:01:55.000We've been talking about how there's no 18-year-olds right now.
01:02:49.000I saw a job at on Craigslist for a dishwasher.
01:02:51.000And I walked in and the guy in front of me was wearing a suit with a briefcase.
01:02:54.000And I heard him hand, as I was waiting to talk to the person at the counter, he hands a resume and he goes, I'm here about the dishwasher position.
01:03:01.000And then I turned around and walked out.
01:04:44.000I feel like I have been searching for something in my relationship that we don't have for the whole time we've been married, which has been 10 years.
01:04:52.000There is not a single thing about my husband in and of himself that I do not love.
01:04:58.000He is the most self-disciplined, loyal, hardworking, good person that you could meet on this planet.
01:05:06.000Our relationship and what my expectations are for my marriage and what they always have been are not met.
01:05:27.000Here's the worst thing in all of that.
01:05:28.000She says, I can't be myself around my husband, and I actually don't know who that person is.
01:05:33.000Not one thing that I hear was, I have three children.
01:05:37.000I have an obligation to provide them a stable home, and that those people are the most important thing, that my entire biological purpose is geared towards rearing them and making them successful humans.
01:07:57.000And it's like some dudes are just like, well, I'll go ahead and date whoever.
01:08:01.000But those dudes are becoming fewer and fewer.
01:08:04.000And I met my girlfriend last year and we're super happy and she's great, but she wants to be a stay-at-home mom and she doesn't consider herself a feminist and she's not a progressive.
01:08:15.000And so she checked all the boxes that I was looking for.
01:08:17.000There's more and more liability too, probably going out there.
01:08:20.000If you're just going to be jumping from relationship to relationship or fling to fling in an internet world, in a world of you're immediately assumed to be the aggressor and all kinds of the sort of default positions against you.
01:08:33.000That sounds like I absolutely have so much pity for young men right now that are in this thing and young women too, because they're going to have terrible affluence.
01:08:41.000Look, I've got three daughters and one son.
01:08:46.000And I look around at what's out there when we go to our community pool, when we walk through the grocery store, and I'm like, God bless it.
01:08:54.000You want to go see some wholesome looking people?
01:08:55.000Go to a freaking traditional Latin Mass.
01:08:58.000We went and started doing that down at the cathedral in downtown Austin.
01:09:01.000And you're going to see a totally different caliber of human being.
01:09:04.000They may not always be the most attractive, but the other thing is this, and you tell me this, because this is going to be in your world pretty soon.
01:09:10.000How many of you guys actually remember being taught what the purpose of dating was?
01:09:31.000There's an important point in this in that dating, when I was growing up and I would watch these movies, going steady, dating meant you could be dating 10 guys.
01:09:43.000They would come to your house, you'd go see a movie, and then you'd watch the movie, share popcorn, and he'd be a gentleman and walk you back to your door.
01:09:49.000The next day, you'd go on a date with a different guy.
01:09:51.000Then once you figured out that you really liked one of those guys, the woman would go steady.
01:09:56.000And that would be the Letterman jacket involved in that, maybe.
01:09:59.000And they'd be like, wow, you're going steady?
01:11:25.000That's how I met my wife was through friends.
01:11:27.000But having a rubric to actually evaluate.
01:11:29.000So, okay, you Say, I want a family, but what does that look like?
01:11:31.000It's like we have to share values, we have to share a view of the future, and we have to be willing to like make that other person's view of the future our own.
01:11:40.000If you're not into that, if you don't have those things going, if you can't assess those things, then you don't even know what you're asking.
01:11:45.000You're going out there, and like I said, like, I'll remember, I was a kid in the 80s.
01:11:49.000Your girlfriend was like the prettiest girl that would willingly spend time with you.
01:11:58.000Like, that's not a good criteria when it comes to matching and having a financial future and having a family and raising children in a view.
01:12:06.000And the problem right now is it used to be throughout all of human history that a young boy and young girl grew up in the same place or similar place.
01:12:40.000Meets a woman who is from California, who used to surf all the time.
01:12:44.000And they're like, maybe this will work.
01:12:45.000And it's like, dude, you guys could not be more different.
01:12:48.000But if you had, so yeah, you know, the backstory is part of it.
01:12:51.000But again, if they shared the same values, if they shared the same sort of view of the future, then that maybe works.
01:12:55.000But if they don't have that, if she comes from a different type of family that doesn't actually see that as a value, or maybe he doesn't know that's what he wants or any of the, we're not training our children.
01:13:04.000But I'm describing urban society because if you live in a rural area, you are still more likely to have a similar life to the average human.
01:13:12.000You live in a rural area, probably got backyard chickens, probably still taking care of animals, probably still chopping wood, probably still going to church.
01:13:18.000You live in these cities and you could live one block away from someone and you're a metalhead who works at an accounting firm and you meet a chick who is a, you know, she's a teacher who studied feminist dance and you're like, I went on a date.
01:13:36.000Now, if you live in West Virginia, you're going to have a lot of similarities in the places you go, the things you see and the traditional values.
01:13:46.000This is one of the biggest barriers, I think, to young people right now getting married is how different everyone's become because of the internet, largely.
01:13:53.000I think that living in cities is probably one of the, like everyone tends to go do that when they're younger.
01:13:58.000They think that's where the action is, so they go.
01:14:00.000But I've got a sister who's just a couple of years younger than me.
01:14:22.000Because what you described too is a testosterone differential, too, because testosterone is necessary for certain things.
01:14:27.000And it certainly goes away in a lot of the urban core.
01:14:30.000It doesn't mean there's not dudes that are not masculine, but at the end of the day, it's such a, it's, I can't go into a city anymore and look around and go like, oh yeah, this is good.
01:14:38.000I look around and I see threats to my babies.
01:16:17.000I was in Athens with my wife and daughter, and we were living in Athens for a little bit, and we were walking through like the square, right?
01:16:24.000Athens people protest all the time, Athens, Greece.
01:17:16.000It's such an unnatural and illogical thing for human beings to do in a high threat environment where there's like other people, there's moving objects, there's all this other, like all these things could happen.
01:17:23.000There's holes, there's manholes that are not well secured, and you're just going to walk around and put your face into this thing.
01:17:29.000My nightmare is when I don't know where I'm going in an urban area and I have to look at my phone for like directions.
01:17:34.000And I'm like, oh, God, I hate breaking focus and looking down at that thing because I'm literally all entrenched against the building to do it.
01:17:40.000And like down and up like I'm driving the threats.
01:17:43.000There's potential threats coming at me.
01:17:45.000We just bought a bunch of those anti-choke devices for babies.
01:19:01.000And I remember coming out and one of my parents lost their minds because one of my little siblings, one of my little brothers, was like walking through and he was just eating the snail pellets, just pulling them right out of the rose planter.
01:19:10.000And you're looking over and they're just eating, you know, maybe it was just salt.
01:21:36.000Yeah, they did it when the settlers were settling in the United States.
01:21:40.000They had a bad winter or a series of bad winters and they were calling it the second harvest where they would reuse the feces for the seeds.
01:21:47.000They'd get some more nutrition out of the seeds.
01:22:01.000And I think he's a legit badass, so less to be thought of otherwise.
01:22:04.000I think Bear Grills was a legit badass and whether he stayed in the place and was like, I'm really thirsty right now, so I'm going to be drinking my own urine.
01:22:12.000You're like, no, I don't think you're actually doing that.
01:22:19.000In one episode, purportedly set in the Australian Outback, he drank from a bottle of his urine when no safer hydration source was available.
01:22:26.000I got to go to the bathroom all this talking.
01:22:36.000Hey, let me tell you something about this chick that's on the screen right now.
01:22:39.000She's complaining that no one's talking to her, but as soon as someone starts aggressively talking to her or cat calling, whatever, she's going to start complaining.
01:22:47.000Everybody knows the meme where the suave looking guy in the suit says, hey, darn looking good.
01:23:35.000If you're an attractive person, you can get away with a lot more.
01:23:38.000There's been studies, too, that have actually shown that people attribute more intelligence than more attractive people are.
01:23:43.000So we get like some of these news types that are out there and they have a relatively attractive face and they get credit for being smarter.
01:23:50.000When we listen to them, we know that they're not.
01:23:54.000Sydney Sweeney Sparks' latest meme stock rally is American Eagle Jumps because she's hot and she has big boobs.
01:24:01.000And anybody who ever came to you at a corporate, at any kind of corporation or marketing firm and said, you want to do morbidly obese, ugly people.
01:24:34.000We talked about this on PCC multiple times.
01:24:37.000Like, the idea of showing your product on an unattractive person or with an unattractive person is totally counter to what you're trying to do.
01:24:47.000You're trying to get people to associate your product with positive thoughts.
01:26:40.000They're like, try to make it look like you're smoothing the wrinkles on these mom jeans that are actually not a particularly attractive fit.
01:28:13.000I do think, and this is not a joke, that there is a correlation between in the beginning of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, they have sexy Scarlett Johansson.
01:28:21.000And I mean literally, they dressed her up in sexy clothes, skin-type all-black.
01:28:25.000And then later on, they had girl boss no-butt Brie Larson, you know, conquering her emotions.
01:28:31.000Even the way they're drawn is super sexy in like the 90s comics.
01:28:34.000She went from being like basically the fetish model to like a girl who's going to be lecturing you like in an HR situation.
01:28:39.000And then the Marvels, they were like, nah, we don't want like Phil saying aspirational women who are attractive.
01:28:46.000We want frumpy women, you know, that nobody wants to watch.
01:29:29.000And then the third one, Quantumania, was considered to be a failure.
01:29:34.000You know, when you see women stepping into men's spaces, it's not surprising that men's have decided to return the favor in the last couple years.
01:29:43.000She was like, women went to men's spaces first.
01:29:46.000And the fact that now you've got the problem of bathrooms and all the other questions that was literally adjudicated with the last election and you see executive orders coming out of the White House trying to straighten some of that out.
01:29:56.000It's like, yeah, this is a problem that was really predictable.
01:29:59.000It started a while ago and it's just been going.
01:30:57.000I mean, if you think having a kid is a type of reproduction, which technically it's not, because it's a type of pro-creation, pro-production.
01:37:50.000The day before I was driving home, my mother-in-law made a reference to the movie Splash, which is a weird thing to do, which I thought was Michael Keaton, but it's actually Tom Hanks in it.
01:38:51.000One flu over the cuckoo's nest is about Randall McMurphy being incarcerated for the statutory rip of a 15-year-old girl who he claims he thought was 18.
01:42:00.000This is like one of those flax spins from Top Gun where you just can't recover.
01:42:04.000As the night goes on and viewership generally declines, I've kept up the image of Sidney Sweeney holding her butt so that Tate could periodically flash the screen with that to maintain viewership.
01:42:40.000There are some people that have a negative opinion of the, you know, making aside making asylums something where you can actually involuntarily commit people.
01:42:49.000And it feels like they don't understand that homeless people are not, like, allowing them to languish on the street is not compassionate.
01:43:00.000If you've ever worked with that segment of the population, there are some people that are there by choice for sure.
01:43:05.000But I've had guys come into emergency rooms that have so little sense that they wanted to be committed, right?
01:43:12.000I had a guy that we actually did the evaluation on him.
01:43:15.00024 hours later, we let him out of the psych hold.
01:43:18.000He walked straight out to his car, came back in with a razor blade, cut his wrist, not in a way that was going to kill him, but just made a mess.
01:43:23.000And then he just put blood all over the windows and we had to take him back in because he wanted to be, like he had moments of lucidity where he was like, I need help.
01:43:36.000I'm also people do not understand that the number of homeless people that are homeless because of mental illness is somewhere around 75 or 77%.
01:44:06.000And never mind what it does to the people that have homes or the people that want to go to cities or that have to use the subway or whatever.
01:44:16.000Here's the thing that never mind that.
01:44:17.000Here's the balance of it, though, because one flew over the cuckoo's nest is actually the great example of it.
01:44:22.000That's also a vulnerable population, and a lot of people abuse them in positions of power that should never have been in there.
01:44:27.000So a check and balance system, you know, whenever you put government in charge, you're getting an awful system, even if it's the only system that could do it.
01:44:33.000So you end up with this really nasty thing where it needs checks and balances.
01:44:38.000You need to be able to have people go in there so they're not just private fiefdoms where they're just running amok and hurting people because they're in a place where they want to do that.
01:46:22.000There's a big scandal right now with, you know, I think we talked about it in the members only because we didn't want to go too ham with it.
01:46:28.000But should I tell the story of that journalist who left his wife?
01:47:48.000President Nixon did nothing wrong, says this is a distraction from the fact that Trump can release all thousands of Epstein files DOJ has now.
01:48:12.000And I do think you make a good point about the perception of what the files means, because when I say I want the files released, I'm not talking about a blanket release of every document they have.
01:48:24.000And that's not even to say, like, obviously the victim stuff, you redact.
01:48:27.000But then there's going to be other stuff that could compromise law enforcement that doesn't need to be released either.
01:48:32.000We know that they actually went out there and did all those redactions.
01:48:34.000I've got buddies that were actually working in the Hoover building letting me know in real time that this was happening.
01:49:44.000But at the end of the day, you shouldn't not release something simply because it has an FBI agent's name in it.
01:49:48.000No, I'm just saying it's a hypothetical of there's going to be a bunch of documents that are related to the case, but not relevant to incrimination or involvement of individuals.
01:49:59.000Yeah, there should be a purpose for return.
01:52:56.000I think the issue is the moment a single gay man makes a YouTube video or TikTok where he says this is what it means, everyone backs off like, I don't say that.
01:54:19.000All they're doing is regurgitating the 90s for millennials because the millennial market has, millennials have a little bit of money and Gen Z and Gen Alpha are completely broke and small generations.
01:54:29.000You mentioned a couple nights ago how they're like people are all going to have their own AI programs that they go, show me that Scrubs season three, but with Donald Fazon.
01:54:40.000And everyone will have their own references of culture of what a good song.
01:54:47.000Well, this is a concern I've got, like Pearl Jam, a band I could relate to a girl on, and then I'd be like, I got something in common with this human.
01:54:55.000Now, if everyone's making their own music in their own head.
01:55:12.000The only thing that matters is that I can AI generate a version of Revenge of the Sith where Anakin comes to his senses and Mace Window decides it's probably a bad idea to execute the Chancellor on the spot.
01:55:22.000And then the Jedi come in and arrest him and they hold a trial and he gets arrested and the Republic is saved.
01:56:15.000If you do not have children, you will be the first life form in a multi-billion year long chain of reproduction that did not reproduce.
01:56:25.000And you got to, you know, be gentle with that term family because some people are born to real assholes and they don't think of those people as their family.
01:56:32.000The people that took them in and that raised them are the actual family.
01:56:35.000So just because you don't have kids doesn't, or don't have parents alive doesn't mean you don't have a family of some sort.
01:56:49.000No, seriously, be careful with that because you can die.
01:56:53.000I don't know about June bugs, but you don't eat bugs for a reason.
01:56:56.000I don't know if you guys know the story of— Off the ground, I don't know that you can.
01:57:02.000There was a dude who at a party, he was like 19, and someone grabbed a slug, and then a dare, he dunked it in his beer and slammed it, and he was dead within a week.
01:57:46.000Dude, going with that as being your out, if that's your exit map, rat lung disease, that sounds like the worst thing that you could put in your.
01:57:53.000He was alive for eight years after that, too.
01:58:46.000The Angry Cops, Michael Malis, one, I think, is probably going to sell out.
01:58:49.000So DCComedyLoft.com, get your tickets now.
01:58:52.000Because I think we're close to selling out already.
01:58:55.000If you do want to come to that one, buy your tickets.
01:58:58.000And then August 9th, we're doing the feminism debate, which I was asking if people with tickets that got canceled, but they didn't rebuy because they didn't know, are they able to come show up with their canceled ticket?
01:59:09.000I mean, probably not supposed to, and be like, sorry, I have my name.
02:00:07.000Matan, he appeared talking about Bill Clinton being his rabbi, I think, and then had every indication to me of just being a flash in the pan, young guy, just making a viral hit.
02:00:32.000So it's at a comedy club, and the idea is when we're debating, we're going to be serious, but there's going to be snark and there's going to be heckling.
02:01:09.000I've been on his program where I didn't know what I was getting into, and I didn't know if he was going to do like a straight interview, which is what he ended up doing, or if he was going to go there and just be like Alex Stein, which is what I assumed.
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