February 9, 2022 • 50 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to Worst Year Ever, a production of I Heart
Radio Together Everything, So don't don't hello. Alright, cool, we're back, baby,
(00:24):
back for even more of the Worst Year Ever, mixing
up my shows. We're the first and only worst year
ever somehow three years in. Oh, it's Tuesday, it's February.
The weather outside is whatever. It's like wherever you are, Welcome,
wildly impredictable where you from. What's your weather like? Yeah,
(00:47):
say it out loudly. How are you doing boiling your
water again in Texas? Yeah? Yeah, gosh, golly, goddamn. At
least it was here. We are again competency, negligence and
not uh like the weather. I mean that it was
also due to the weather, I think, so, Yeah, it
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seems a little bit like human human error or the weather.
They say, they say it's unrelated. City officials in Austin
have been very careful to say, like, this has nothing
to do, this is not another grid problem, this is
just incompetent. So that's yeah, that's it's like a new
nothing to see here. Folks were just unqualified. I would
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talk shit about them, but it came out and no
one really cared. But it came out like a month
ago that the same person who blew the whistle on
the water in Flint, Michigan having highlight levels is like Portland,
Oregon is much worse. There's so much it's it's a
real huge problem. And everyone was like, that's cool. Let's
(01:52):
let's fund kicking houseless people out of encampments instead. You, Yeah,
we can afford our brit of filter systems or whatever,
And I don't think most people have. Portland was kind
of famous for having really good public tap water. Apparently
this has been a problem forever. But people were like,
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but the water is so clean, it comes how the
river were great? Why is it famous for clean water
if it's been a problem for the water that's flowing
into pipes is great. But the pipes are like copper
with lead solder and do a variety of facts. The
lead is wearing away into the water. Like, it's not
we shouldn't have a lead problem here, but because of
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things that were done in the construction of the water
system in the city, there's a lead problem. Put that
goo in the pipes and then expand the google you've
got to get to do in there. Yeah, the coup
of the gators into what there's like a there's like
goo tubes you put in the pipes and then you
expand them and then it makes the pipes usable and not. Okay,
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and so what like what kind of chemicals are in
the back and floam? Probably right, yeah, probably most your
standard contaminants. Yeah, but like that's like we can like
we can hand mean get their daily minimum dose of flow. Yeah,
you need to get your flow, and no better way
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than to go up your pipes. Right. Oh boy, that's correct.
I just got a UM text message that says tall
evil booms show. Okay, click that talking about check that
out flowing up your Wait what does the text say?
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It says it's like it's some from a random number. Nope,
t a L dot dot dot Eva eva boobs show.
Oh are you going to click on it? It's a link. Yeah,
you should click on that. You should click on the link.
I don't. I don't think I will click on the link.
I think it was I think that they're looking for
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someone else that's not going to steal your bit coin
wall at Katie. That's what I'll tell you about that.
Like is are are you are you referencing what happened there?
Is that couple. I have not read the story. So
there's this lady and her boyfriend. And her boyfriend we
don't know if he's the hat. Basically, like back in
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one of the crypto banks, you know how there's banks
for cryptocurrency, like like exchanges. I think they call them
their banks essentially, except that they're unregulated and have no
security a lot of the time. So basically all of
them at some point get get robbed for absurd amounts
of money. Back in this one, I think it might
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have been bit Finance, I forget the name. They're all indistinguishable.
It got robbed for what is now four and a
half billion dollars worth of cryptocurrency um. And this wound up.
We don't know if he was the one who did
the hack or if he just got passed the money
to launder it, but it wound up in this guy,
Eliah Lichtenstein, wound up being the dude who was like
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laundering it along with his now wife. Her first name
is Heather. She's goes by the name of razzle khn
and his easily the worst rap artist I've ever heard.
She's like, she's also like a writer, you know what,
you know what? She is. We'll talk about that in
a second, but first Dane'll give us thirty seconds of
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the razzle kN music video. Yeah please, has Russell knot Win,
come real far, but don't know where I'm heading? Motherfucking crocodile,
Wall Street, Soper on my fingers and boots on my feet.
Always be a dot, not a gut damn sheet, email me,
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suck your message and the beet sept Oh. Yeah, so
she's did you guys listen? Did you guys ever listen
to Crai Shan? No, some people will, and she sounds
like if Crayshawn had a fatal head injury, that's how
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she would sound. Um, it's it's really like, it's fascinatingly bad.
Like I've listened to like six of her music videos
because the lyrics. There's one in the lyrics of one
which is about like, I don't know self defense. I
guess she talks about stealing from people's bitcoin wallets, which
is really fun. Writes you know, yeah, she writes what
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she knows, so she like and it's all like filled
with cultural appropriation. She's apparently claiming to be Turkish, but
her like rap presence is a versagy Bedouin. Um, it's
all like really cringe, terrible, terrible shit. She also has
like a TikTok where she's just like, here's what I do,
my entrepreneur, Like, as an entrepreneur, here's my business. So
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she is a CEO of a company she started that
basically does email cold calls. They will write them for
your company. So if your company wants to send out
a bunch of mass emails to try to convinced people
to buy some stupid bullshit or watch some stupid video,
she'll write them. U there's there's been at least one
person on Twitter we invented I'm sorry, we just we
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invented so many fucking stupid jobs. She invented this stupid job.
But that's like she's not the only one that does that.
We just have so many whatever. I love this. She
did claim to have invented the field. And again, I'm
pretty sure I was getting these emails twenty years ago
when she was like nine. But but you know what,
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he claims to have invented email cultivator. She's also a
four A Forbes contributor, like Woad of Forbes'd like articles
and I love this. She for advising burnt out execs
to try rapping in order to recharge their batteries. Give
it a shot. It really worked for Rastlecock. What. It's
(07:55):
very funny. That article is really worth a read. She
is just the worst. Somebody points online who was verified
so maybe they were actually telling the truth, said that
they hired They realized after this broke that they had
hired her a couple of years back to write like
emails for their company to send out, and it was
like they were terrible. Everything was misspelled. It was really
clear that she was just taking their money and then
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outsourcing it to someone who did not write English very well. Um,
to try and make a profit. Um. So she's just
a grifter who decided to become a terrible rap artist,
hoping that like the winds of virality would carry her.
But none of what she does is any good. Um,
it's it's the worst. She's so bad. It's not it's
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through the world that being utterly mediocre. It's one of
those blown up Yeah. I don't think she was good
at grifting either. So her music was so bad, it
wasn't so bad, It wasn't quite so bad. It's good.
It was too bad to be so bad. It's good,
except now she's gotten arrested by the FEDS for helping
to launder four and a half billion dollars and somehow
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that pushed it over the edge, and now it's amazing.
M yeah, every everything. Yeah, there's no other reason you
would enjoy watching watching that, or listening to that other
than knowing everything else about her. Yeah, Daniel here put
in thirty more seconds of another razzle con video. Just
pick one. It's okay. She can't sue us. She's in
federal CUSTODYA don't rob, don't be, don't Oh yeah, that's
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the best slaps slaps, as the kids say. Oh so,
she and her partner are looking it up to twenty
five years in prison for again trying to launder the
most money anyone has ever been arrested for trying. Going
to be really hard on their marriage. I think maybe
it'll bring together physically. You know. Sometimes I feel like
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we host a radio morning show. Oh yeah, boys, I
don't know, yeah, um, I don't know. It's extremely funny
to be It's funny to me because it says a
lot about cryptocurrency, which, like in a normal world without
this nonsense floating around someone like Razzle Khan would have
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you know, had her embarrassing videos at her like shitty
s e O company, she would have like been kind
of profited minimally from fucking up the internet just a
little bit, and like that would have been kind of
the most she could hope for. Maybe she would have
tried to launch like a juice type thing or like
a super food blend, but it would not have taken off.
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She doesn't have the kind of charisma to sell that stuff,
so probably would have been just kind of drifting around
the edges of e commerce. But because of cryptocurrency, she
was able to commit the largest financial crime that anyone
has ever been a rest Have you seen this? Did
you see this yesterday? I just pull it back up again.
It was on Twitter for a bit. The specific island
Paradise wants you to become a crypto serious, right, yeah,
(11:27):
welcome about there. It's turning to crypto to boost its
economy or whatever. And basically, you guys, if you if
you do this just for two forty eight dollars, anyone
anywhere can apply for for a limited edition n F
T I D I D card. This means they can
use a palen business address, apply to change their name,
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legally open online accounts to trade cryptocurrencies based in this
little island, But you don't get to actually be a hummer.
What about changing your name? Well it says you're not
automatically resident. Uh yeah, but you can change your name.
Um yeah. The scheme could provide prove handy for for
Chinese and other investors. Use nations don't allow crypto trading,
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So yeah, that's fun. Yeah, I mean, you know, I uh,
if Palau can make a profit off of this before
it collapses, I guess good for them, Good for them. Join.
I'll be honest, if there was an easy way to
spend two d f T and get legal residency in
a country that right to the United States, it would
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just be good to have in your back pond. Maybe
it's not automatically residents, but uh, you know, this is
just the highlights. There might be some some fine print
that I am well, but what about my avatar, my
metatar or whatever? Would they have residency? These are questions
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to explore. You're a little sprite, metaverse, sprite whatever my
um demon is m is that how we pronounce it?
Just demon? Yeah? I think Paula might extradite. So anyhoy, Yeah,
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so yeah it's useless. Um yeah, what do we? What
do we? Okay? So the Supreme Court five four ruling
that overturned an attempt in Alabama from a lower court
to force the state to redraw congressional districting maps maps.
According to that lower court, quote, um, black voters have
less opportunity than other Alabamas to elect candidates of their
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choice to Congress. Alabama appealed this decision, and the Supreme
Court was like, yeah, you guys can be as racist
as you want. Um. Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote in an
opinion joined by Samuel Alito, quote, when an election is
close at hand, the rules of the road must be
clear and settled. Late judicial tinkering with election laws can
lead to disruption and unanticipated and unfair consequences for candidates.
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Political parties, and it or among others want things to
be unfair, y'all, you wouldn't want things to be unfair
in a different way too close to the election. That's
not really what he's saying is that, like it's so
gaverny things to be unfair, we wouldn't want them to
be unfair in a way different than how they're currently
unfair when the elections coming up. It's incredible because it's
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also like to a little more from from our our
buddy Kavanaugh. On top of that, state and local election
officials needs substantial time to plan for elections. Running elections
statewide is extraordinarily complicated and difficult. Those elections require enormous
advanced preparations by state and local officials and post significant
logistical challenges. The district court's order would require heroic efforts
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by those state and local authorities in the next few weeks.
He's just saying it's a little hard. Yeah, it's hard.
It's a little it's tough, Yeah tough. It's not that
it should like it should happen, but it's tough. We
got it saying this is this will be a little
hard for white people, so we got to disenfranchise black people.
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That's wild the argument with its hat off, you know,
Um yeah, I mean again, the whole redistricting thing on
the whole has gone better nationally than most of us anticipated. Um.
This is a disturbing ruling both because of what it
means for people in Alabama, where, um, while black folks
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of the state, they're only represented in uh, one of
seven fourteen percent of congressional districts, which is sucked up. Um.
So this is like horrible for Alabama, and it's horrible
because of like it rewrites a lot of precedents, a
lot of court precedent on the Voting Rights Act. Um.
And so there's a really unsettling sort of um effect
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this will have nationwide. Potentially, maybe we're not going to
see the worst of that quite soon because most of
the redistricting I think has already gone down. Um, but
you know, well we'll see this is this is yet
another thing that like it might not be a this
year or problem, but is like it's one of those
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things those seeds that get planted all over everywhere. Obviously,
this is an immediate problem for for Alabama, but this
is like I think, also a very long term and
it's easy to lose track of. It's easy to forget
about how these little pieces ultimately end up into being
a big problem. And it's not a little thing either.
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I don't no, no, it's not a little thing. I
don't I'm not trying to minimize it saying that like
the worst of this hasn't happened yet and and will
it will be the worst of this will be slowly
unfolding for like the rest of our natural lives, unless
the Supreme Court gets yeah. Yeah, um, and I'll say
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that the worst of this episode is yet to come.
But we should probably uh break for ads before starting
the topic together. Everything, we're back. Nice. You know what
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you want to talk about? Mask mandates being lifted? Oh? Yeah,
well we did it. That's happening. It's happening. Yeah, California
is lifting its universal mask mandate for indoor public spaces
next week. Um, get it on, except not in major cities.
Sacramento makeout party, I think Sacramento. It's still other places
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like l A County where we are have not lifted.
That's I think it is. I think it is wise.
I mean, I just in the past few weeks, I've
known so many people with COVID, just so many people
really sick with COVID, and all of a sudden, I
don't know that many people with COVID anymore. And that's reassuring,
but I still know they didn't die, they survived as
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far as I know, and then all of a sudden
they work. Yeah. Yeah, because it seems like I don't
know peak over Um Spike spoke. Um, it's happening all
over the place, but not here. I don't mind it here. Uh,
it's still I'm still like in that phase where it's
like I don't care. I'll put it on I don't care. Uh.
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In California, I guess residents are fully vaccinated and two
and five residents have received a booster. But that's like statewide,
big state. We're in l A. It's you are fully vaccinated.
To be honest, I think some people say seems low
for Los Angeles. Given the amount of time I've spending
juice bars in l A, it seems high. I actually
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what reading that was like, that's better than I expected. Uh,
surprisingly pleased with us l A. Um, you know it
just just this last week I was seeing and we
all follow very different people on social media. I'm on Instagram,
and I happen to see a lot of moms, you know,
from my my Over my ten fifteen years of in
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l A. You know, people have gone in all over
the world in California, and so I have a big
cross section that of people that I see on there,
and like so many people complaining about California mask mandates
and I've just been getting into it with a series
of moms where I'm like, just chill. I think like
there's there's a petition going around to like lift the
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mask mandates and whatever, and like I've just said, like
I understand you're frustrated, but it's just a big state.
It's a big spike. Hospitals are overloaded. I bet if
you have a patient, I think in like a couple
of weeks, it'll be different. It's the profit. If you
want to be in California and not have to worry
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about public health rules. There's reading, baby, It's always there
for you move to Redding. They don't. They have not been.
I was in reading in and let me tell you
they were not wearing masks. I mean, you know, it's hard.
It's easy to lose sight of like how vast I
mean this country is, but this state is, and how
many different geographies and demographics it's comprised of, and it
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is really hard to you know, tailored to different areas
that are so completely different in their different um Anyway,
that's something hooray everybody. We seem to be doing it
elsewhere too, across the country. Yeah, I'm I mean, it's
whatever they're going to do with whatever, it'll either be
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fine or we'll have another horrible COVID wave again and
this will just be the rest of our lives. One
of those two things is going to happen. Um, and
I say, let's roll them dice, baby m hm put that.
Let's let's blow hot air and spit on those dice
and then roll them out. Everybody go out and tongue
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funk a stranger right now, I really would like ms anymore.
There was no more germs. We did it, We got them.
There were no germs, and then there was one germ,
but then we defeated. It is pretty funny that this
is like both in you know, Canada with the convoy situation,
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and here, um, like se of of everybody is like, yeah,
I gotta get vaccinated. I'll try to wear a mask
when I'm in a business like that seems reasonable, and
thirty percent are like, I will murder everyone else on
planet Earth. You think about another person for a second,
and it's it's pretty funny. Um, it's pretty dope that
that's like a completely intractable problem. Instead of hear me
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out here, we just all roll on them, you know,
just give him, give him a titty twister, like seventy
percent of the country gives thirty percent of the country
just like a big old purple nerple, you know, swirlies
stick their head in the toilets like we dedicated Yeah,
like far in their faith and we're done. Yeah, exactly,
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Like really them up a little bit. How is that's
the way the Civil war pans out? Um? Yeah, we
just got a bully them. You know, that's what it's
gonna take. We're all going to have to bully the
third of this country that are insistent upon being ship
heads about this. Yeah, I guess that's I guess that's
what's got to happen. I've been like arguing with people
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on next door to oh, don't do that, don't go
on just next door, don't go on next door, don't
talk to people on next door. Well it feels like
a better place to argue with people than on Twitter.
I don't know, Yes, I don't know. Are you getting
making progress? I mean I get a lot of people
cheering me on comments, but then like somebody, one person
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deleted my comments from their posts. Yeah, log back on
in a few days. About power? What else should we
talk about? I want to briefly mention and talk about
our former big wet boy, yeah, President Donald John President,
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And how do you want to talk about him in
what capacity? Well, I just wanted to mention um that
Trump took a bunch of records with him, a bunch
of tomorrow and Nacial Archives had to go get them.
And I think it's it's only funny to me, And
maybe it's a big deal. I understand if you're upset
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about it, um, because like he broke the law. Yeah,
he broke the law, is like obviously, like his lawlessness
knows no bounds. But I think it's funny because I
think that he just didn't know he couldn't do that. Yeah,
Like it's not like it's yeah, it's not like, oh,
I'm gonna take the records that they they're not gonna archives. Like, No,
he wanted his letter from Kim Jong Oon. He wanted
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his Obama letter, So he put them all a box
and he took he was gonna he was gonna m
journal about it, you know, like his his whatever they
call him books, what do they? Uh, Yeah, precious memories,
a precious memories collection, A scrap book, right, a scrap
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book if you will, that's what he was gonna do,
and maybe a vision board for his next run. I
don't know, Cody, Katie. This is a crime, right, like
like like a taken these things, all the bags they
were He wasn't allowed to do that. That's not that's
not a that's not a thing you're supposed to be doing.
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So what what's the what what's going to happen? Probably nothing,
Oh he's no one's ever going to mention it again.
This is this is this, this moment on this podcast
is the last time any he's going to run for
office again, and everybody will have forgotten everything. Yeah. We
we just need to remember that crime exists for for example, influencer, hacker,
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rap stars who steal bitcoin. Not for the president, oh
heavens no, not former presidents or current presidents. Yeah, any
kind any kind of any kind of president. We're good.
And now who was it that fucking was? Was Comy
who was talking about how we ought to Biden ought
to preemptively pardon Donald Trump? Yeah, James Comy, fucking gigantic idiot.
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Just fucking stop talking, Jay, Like you've never been right
about anything. You're always wrong, bad and stupid and have
long been proven wrong. Away go away, are bad, bad
bad m I hate him that. Yeah, it just happened.
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He was being interviewed by I think it's ABC. Um,
I'm looking that up where it was on right now,
But yeah, he was. He was like, yeah, he should
consider it, you know, um for the to the country
and ship. Yeah, he was like, Trump belongs in jail,
but actually doing that isn't in the best interests of
the country that ship. Oh my god, yeah, you know,
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the best interests of the country. James, comey, um, were
you making millions of dollars off a book deal for
your stupid book taking pictures of dirt roads? Yeah, for
your secret Twitter prick, you super tall prick. Yeah. It
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is better for the country that presidents are not held
accountable for the crime. Yeah, that's what everybody wants, is
for elected leaders to be not accountable for the horrible
things that they do. That. Speaking of that, probably good
time to talk about the Republican Party. Oh, they're doing good,
(26:54):
doing real good. They're live and kicking, making some solid choices.
Let's talk about how the how January six was legitimate
political discourse? Apparently apparently last week, Yeah, the National Republican
National Committee whatever. The Republican Party, uh censured Liz Cheney
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and Adam Kinsinger for being a part of the janiory,
the Congressional January six investigation. Um, and you know the
capital attack and Donald Trump's attempt to overturn the presidential election,
which last week we saw lots of evidence about how
he was entertaining different ideas of how to do it. Um.
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Any who, Uh, yeah, they they censured them and accused
them of participating in a Democrat led persecution of ordinary
citizens engaged in legitimate political discourse. I'm sorry, I and
realize that was legitimate political discourse. There were thousands of
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people stealing ship, peeing all over. I mean, look, peeing
and stealing ship can be parts of legitimate political discourse.
I didn't I see that. I didn't know before. Well no,
I mean I I don't disagree with that. Like, for example,
if you have if your your city is occupied by
a violent, unaccountable paramilitary force UM that does violence and
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steals from you and also gets paid your tax dollars,
and you were to damage their buildings and urinate on them,
I would call that an act of legitimate political discourse
because you are resisting an occupying force in your community.
I would say what makes it not legitimate is when
you go elsewhere, far away from where you live and
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attempt to through force, impose your specific will on people
who live nowhere near you through violence. That I think
is kind of the key separation here. I don't agree
with people who are like violence and property destruction aren't
legitimate political discourse. Violence and property destruction are two of
the most common successful and the blood of our nation. Yeah,
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it's it's what it's it is the reason for which
you're doing those things. Is it in order to deal
with an actual direct threat to yourself and your community,
or is it an order to impose your will violently
on people who live nowhere near you. One of those
things is valid, would would be my my contention. But um,
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apparently UH used to break in and UH call for
the hanging of the vice president. Yeah, travel from miles
away by thousands of dollars in weaponry and assault people
who were elected by folks in other states to represent them. Um.
That is. You know, it's interesting though, because a lot
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of uh actual you know, senators are in here trying
to not all of them though, but many are trying
to distance themselves from uh specifically, well, let me pull up.
I guess it is Romney, but like, yeah, Mitt Romney,
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and I think Lindsay Graham actually also um distance about
themselves from it a bit, but you know, it's it's
it's a big question about what the future of this
party is continues to be. People are worried about re election,
but the you know, the Republican Party is pretty firmly
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taking the side of Donald Trump here, and the future
is Donald Trump. There's a statement released today or yesterday, sorry,
from various Republican leaders former officials condemning this statement about
political discourse. So wasn't it the statement from Ronald McDaniel,
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Romney's niece or whatever. Oh I don't know she signed
it an way, But it's just interesting because it's there's,
you know, this list of names, um, and virtually every
single one has the name the word former before their
position or title. It's all like, yeah, as a former congressman,
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a former member of CORESS, former communication director. Oh yeah,
Anthony scar Mouci is involved. Um. But it's just that
stark difference of like, yeah, we don't we're not part
we're not in the club anymore because we don't agree
with this kind of thing. So we're gonna loudly say
how dare you? But like we're not, We're not involved anymore.
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We're we're the old We're the old folks, um the
new folks. They love trying to get Mike Pence hanged?
What is there to say and do? What is there
to say? And do I feel that way? On even
more News we were talking about it when we're talking
about Trump last week. You fucking have to, but you
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don't want to because it's like, what's the point is
fucking guy shrug? What is it? Like? I don't know
what to say, but you also have to talk about it.
It's like I see this train crash happening, the wreck,
but I don't I don't know how I save it
except for acknowledging that the fucking thing is happening. It's
a trap, is what it is, in a in a
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similar way to like how the Joe Rogan discourse is
a trap where getting involved, even if you're like even
attacking them online, all you're doing is like helping them.
That's why I'm trying as much as possible not to
at least not to mention their names. Um, I made
like an oblique joke about Joe Rogan that I even
kind of regret because like the going like Fux, Spotify
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and stuff, go go go after them, but going after
them and the guys are trying to get them to
drop Joe Rogan will do nothing but help them. It
is impossible to do anything that help him, will only
expand his reach. Like what And whenever you talk about
this stuff, people like, what should we be doing? Like don't, Like,
I think that's a nonsense for sponse, Like what you
should be doing is is not not aiding and abetting
(33:04):
him by uh keeping his profile up and keeping his
name in the news. Um, it's not that he's been
on Twitter for the last like two weeks solid weeks
every day, not making him the big story. And you
can do that by just just let it go like
he is rich and powerful, Uh not, because he's not
(33:24):
like an isn't even like an Alex Jones thing where
he got artificially inflated by a bunch of algorithms. Joe
Rogan has been plugging away doing his thing for as
long as there have been podcasts, and he has several
million million people who will follow him anywhere he goes wherever,
and he's been offered that this whole other was that's nonsense.
(33:47):
But at the end of the day, yeah, regardless, he's
got opportunities. It's not about Spotify. But yeah, don't let
him be the center of the discourse. But if course
there's money in that, there's money and being like the
you know, the centrist and liberal and left writers writing
think pieces about how bad he is and let money
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and and I don't it's one of those things. I
don't mean that it's bad to be pointing out like, hey,
Joe Rogan says the in word an awful lot on
his show um Worth pointing out worth noting, But that's
not what like most of the discourse around him is.
And yeah, of course started with Neil Young saying I'm
gonna unless you drop him. I tweeted about this, but
(34:31):
I didn't tweet it, right. But I keep thinking about
Neil Young just being like on his fucking expensive ass
ranch in northern California, smoking a joint on a rocking chair,
watching all this ship happen all around and being like, yeah,
you know, but like he's fine. Neil Young doesn't matter,
(34:51):
and he pulled his ship from Spotify to plug Amazon's music.
Don't don't fall for this. Um, it's not it's not.
I don't know. Yeah, it could happen here later. I'm
just very frustrated by the thing. Yeah, and how long
it is? Yeah, yeah, I even Yeah, I tweeted a
(35:13):
joker too, and I deleted them pretty quickly, like I
don't want to. I just can't participate. Yeah, sorry, just
if you actually want to do things that help commit
to not using his name on social media or yeah,
but like worth, you know, worth pointing out that like
certain things like yeah, like he says this word, him
(35:36):
saying the black people of different brains than people like
that ship, Like that's like, yeah, it's good that that
clip is out there and people know that he said
that and probably still thinks it. Well, because because Joe
Rogan specifically, he's kind of a cross section, right, because
there are a lot of people that listen to Joe
Rogan that aren't like implicitly that don't necessarily support Donald Trump,
(35:58):
aren't necessarily Republican, doesn't support Donald's fromp right exactly. I mean,
he's got a cross section of people. So there's a
lot of people that are technically liberals or you know,
all thinkers, that it's dangerous. He can normalize things very easily,
and it is important to call out the things that
are happening and acknowledge what it is. But it's a
(36:19):
delicate dance because we're up in an uproar and again
you're giving an oxygen. You're paying attention to everything and
the thing that gives it oxygen. Again, not not actual
like analysis in research, but the the me too. I
gotta I gotta make everyone. I gotta make it known
that like I don't like Joe Rogan that I don't,
I have to chime in. I have to dunk on
him too, and could amplify it. We cancel your fucking Spotify.
(36:41):
Don't tag Joe Rogan and that ship. Don't like. Yeah,
maybe it'll hurt like Spotify a little bit. But you
can hurt Spotify without helping Joe Rogan. We can, we
can do that. Um yeah, every time the episode description
or the episode like, yeah, delete Spotify because of like
how they treat the musicians, not because Neil Young has
(37:03):
to share has to share space with Joe Rogan. Um
like that's weird. Uh. Well, we got to take another
ad break. Yeah, we get to together everything. Oh boy,
(37:30):
we are back and guys, I've been talking a lot
about the news today. I just I just found something
that I want you all to look at. M m hmm. Yeah,
what is this? What is this? Our little buddy Ben
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Shapiro launched a thing through the Daily Wire called the
Third Thursday book Club, which is where you get to
read once a month the Classics along with Ben Shapiro,
and so they have classic books, each of which comes
with abridged notes by Ben Shapiro or purportedly by Ben Shapiro,
And so they're the first one has like how many
(38:11):
pages to this fucking thing looks like it's like twenty
or thirty pages of notes and study questions or you know,
it's it's tied pages of notes and study questions by
Ben Shapiro summarizing four which I am fascinated to read
watching you. The main theme of is the danger of totalitarianism.
Oh yeah, communist anyway, this is fun? What a treat?
(38:37):
Who gave this to you? Yeah? I just found it
because I learned that he has he has a book club.
He will be apparently publishing a sci fi novel later
this year, which, by god, I'm excited to get into. Um.
But yeah, I learned that there's this book club that
you pay for, but apparently some people have found ways
to get access to the first of these for free.
(38:59):
I don't know if you send that one out for
free as a teaser. It is unclear to me at
the moment, because it's just like people on his subreddit
that shared the link. But yeah, there's apparently will be
one of these. I mean, after we read his nineteen
four inspired short story, UM, I am going to be
excited to see what he got from that, or if
he just hired someone to write a bridge notes and
(39:21):
there is Oh I love this Orwell's answer powers right
and he's wrong. Awesome. I just like, because Ben, he
went to Harvard Law School and like your political comment, Like,
(39:41):
what the funk are you doing with this book club ship?
Like get a fucking like English teacher, get like a
like what is this ship? Like it's someone else do
book club for you? Like why are you doing this?
What do you like? What is your fucking like? I
probably it's just like I don't even have complete sentence
(40:04):
about why this baffles me so much? He just wants
to wear like so many different hats and it's like, Buddy,
I bet someone else wrote this anyway, Yes, I agree.
Here we are talking about Ben Shapiro. When we thought
we were done with Ben Shapiro and his books. I
will never be done, especially not when his sucking next
novel comes out. Oh boy, I can't wait, said Summer.
(40:27):
Mm hmmma. No, no, okay, not that I'm aware of.
But it's coming. It's eventually. Maybe we'll see, we'll see
if it actually ends Kitty's Pilot. What else you guys
want to talk about? Movies? I want to read this,
but it's no time. We can't not to. Do you
(40:48):
want to talk about a chicken? Didn't you want to? Yeah?
The chicken who got through? Uh? The chicken was caught
sneaking around a security area the Pentagon and they apprehended
that chicken and it is dead now or being tortured. No,
it's the chicken is probably fine. Um. Yeah, this is
like I don't eat and the chicken. I have nothing,
(41:11):
like nothing to say about this. Uh, there's this story
where yeah, chicken got to a security checkpoint of the Pentagon.
They will not tell us where or you know how
they found it. Top secret information all the details or
top secret. But um, the bird was spotted. Um, it
was taken into custody, was spotted like had spots or
(41:35):
the bird was spotted, the bird was seen. Okay, the
the the the exact bird. Uh, it's a hen. It's
brown feathers and a red comb. He means it's a girl, right, Uh,
it's a it's a Rhode Island red not not spotted. Yeah,
I think I got one or two of those. Oh good?
Um was it? Wait? Was it your hend? No? No,
(41:58):
my chickens did in full trade the Kremlin at one point,
but that was unrelated. Okay, yeah, no, that's doesn't sound
like the same thing at all. Um did are they Okay? Yeah, yeah,
it was a sex thing. It's fine, okay, so successful,
Yeah yeah, get it chickens um uh yeah. So it's
(42:19):
just a it's a nothing story. Um, but somebody made
it a story. So now that this article about how
a fucking chicken was wandering around the Pentagon and we
need news. Yeah uh. A little note from from Garrison
at the Department Defense is expected to request an extra
twelve billion in funding to prevent further poultry related threat
(42:41):
to homeland security. Um yeah, I mean I think we've
got to cancel a couple of bridge repairs for this one. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
a few more bridges. You less wandering chickens. That's the
build back. Better promise slogan rights itself better, right, boys
coding you know what? Good for you, Thank you, thank
(43:03):
you very much. Ukraine. No, I mean, there's there's not
much to say other than the Russian military build up continues.
There's a lot of unsettling stuff there. Don't they have
occupation forces in addition to like you know, um well,
(43:24):
like two weeks ago they didn't all the artillery and
stuff was there. But now they're about of personnel that yeah,
based on some calculation. That calculations, but they from what
I understand of enough people to do a full scale
(43:45):
invasion of what this one group of analysts think would
be necessary for them to carry out a full scale
attack of Ukraine. Like, I don't know, um, I I
don't know that anyone again, because if this happens, if
this all goes really hot, um, this will be kind
of up the first example in our lives of like
to broadly peer forces meeting on the battlefield in in
(44:09):
in this kind of way. So I don't know that
anyone really has a good handle on how many troops
the Russians need for an occupation or like what percentage
Like well, I mean I don't, but I hear you.
I mean, I'm sure they're probably they may have some
intel that this is what the Russians think, you know,
based on what the Russians think that they would need
for that. Uh, it's it's still really unclear what's going
to happen or if again, like even Putin has a
(44:31):
clear idea of what's going to happen. Because it's entirely
possible that this is so possible. I'm kind of some
brinksmanship ship. Yeah, absolutely, the end hasn't been settled. Being
with Macron now heard um that there are a couple
I mean I was listening to the Daily earlier, but
um uh yeah, a couple of dates. Theoretically like he
(44:56):
might wait until after the Olympics are over. Yeah, you
want to get that. You want to get that news, bump,
you know, you want to get that news well and
also because you know, to not like detract from China's
moment or what have you, Um, this moment of having
fucking in an industrial thank god. Yeah, there's some great shots.
(45:19):
Um and again people keep well, what would you want
them to do? You know, you know, bulldoze somebody's home
and like, you know, destroy a pristine place. And I
would want them to do is not the Olympics because
nobody should do them? Or how about this I was reading,
I kind of want to since we're towards the end,
I think I'll talk more about this on even more
news later in the week, but just doing some reading
(45:42):
before the idea. I mean, like for years and years
and years, it's always a problem like, yes, we have
to make snow in a lot of locations, but there
are environmental repercussions for all of that. And then just
in general, the the effect of the Olympics. We talked
about this ad nauseum six months ago when the Summer
(46:03):
Olympics happened. But but my point here being like a
different way to approach the Olympics would be to not
have them like this, or it could be a series
of smaller events set up. But you can have competitions,
but smaller ones set up in places that already like
ski resorts, are already have the infrastructure of us to
host smaller amounts of guests from out of town, and
(46:24):
that would actually be good for there. There there's an
argument to be made for that. So we're not talking
about a large scale Olympic thing with a huge environmental impact.
We're talking about like normal competitions anyway, Just more on
that some other time Trump should have bought Greenland and
then we turned that into the Olympics place. All the
(46:46):
Olympics happen in Greenland. Speaking of a country with a
kind of similar name to green Land, this is related
to Ukraine. One of the things that's very frustrating in
this meeting that mcron had with Putin, mccron talked about
being open to the Finland desation of Ukraine, which I
don't think he consulted Ukraine on. Finlandization is a term
for kind of what the Soviet Union in post World
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War two did to Finland. If you if you know
a little bit about that history. USSR before World War
two tried to take over Finland. It wasn't that didn't
go the best for them. It could have gone um
and so after World War Two there's this arrangement made
that's like all right, Finland, you guys, get to keep
your own government and political system, but you have to
(47:29):
do what we want or do nothing in foreign policy.
Like either you don't say ship or you you stay
in line with us in foreign policy, and like that's
the agreement. We won't funk with you will let you
keep doing what you need to do politically, but you
don't say ship um, which I don't know, like, to
be honest, I think there's a decent chunk of people
in Ukraine wh would probably go for something like that
if that's not another devastating war. Not a great deal,
(47:51):
but what's the alternative? It does be getting carpet bombed. Sure,
they are in a terrible situation. They're surrounded by troops,
you know, like there there. I mean, yeah, politically that
might be a good yeah, I mean it might be
what they do, um like, but it is just like
this thing that keeps happening with these discussions world leaders
(48:11):
are having with Putin where it's like, okay, you said
this thing about what's acceptable. Did you like talk to
anyone in Ukraine about this or are we just having
this conversation over their heads? You know? Like I think
there's a probable answer to that, which is the last
thing you said, yeah, which is nobody really gives an
about Ukraine, which is why all of this has been
happening for again ten years, very close to ten years. Alright,
(48:37):
So I think we did it. I think we talked
about all the news that there is in the land. Yeah,
there's nothing else going on. Um, So check back in
next week where we will spend three hours reading every
word of been Shapiro's analysis of nineteen We'll read, Yeah, well,
we'll get our our quotes ready, We'll we'll get the
(48:58):
passages to support our answers. I'll figure out how to
say totalitarianism. It does end with a bunch of with
a bunch of like blank question boxes for you to
answer things. It's just like like again, like fucking like
go to school, Like what like what is this fucking
worksheet you're making for people to pay to learn about
(49:19):
from Ben Shapiro? What is just read the book yourself,
read the book and like look at like this so
weird that he's doing this like study questions for people.
We should I mean I should we should have compared
this to actual study questions. Yeah, let's see if this
is just the spark notes. Oh my god, what do
(49:40):
you fucking paying for school? Work? From Ben Shapiro, What
the hell? It's extremely funny. People make decisions I'll never understand,
which is why we need to live in a totalitarian state.
That that stops this happening. The official line of worst
Year ever, uh, eliminate the human capacity for thought. There
(50:04):
it is, regulate double pane windows. That's right, that's that'll
end star seeing? Yeah, star gazing. Sorry, live in a
place where it's unclear if they can see the giant
mountain outside based on text on two days only tuesdays. Okay,
(50:27):
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back for even more of the Worst Year Ever, mixing
up my shows. We're the first and only worst year
ever somehow three years in. Oh, it's Tuesday, it's February.
The weather outside is whatever. It's like wherever you are, Welcome,
wildly impredictable where you from. What's your weather like? Yeah,
(00:47):
say it out loudly. How are you doing boiling your
water again in Texas? Yeah? Yeah, gosh, golly, goddamn. At
least it was here. We are again competency, negligence and
not uh like the weather. I mean that it was
also due to the weather, I think, so, Yeah, it
(01:08):
seems a little bit like human human error or the weather.
They say, they say it's unrelated. City officials in Austin
have been very careful to say, like, this has nothing
to do, this is not another grid problem, this is
just incompetent. So that's yeah, that's it's like a new
nothing to see here. Folks were just unqualified. I would
(01:31):
talk shit about them, but it came out and no
one really cared. But it came out like a month
ago that the same person who blew the whistle on
the water in Flint, Michigan having highlight levels is like Portland,
Oregon is much worse. There's so much it's it's a
real huge problem. And everyone was like, that's cool. Let's
(01:52):
let's fund kicking houseless people out of encampments instead. You, Yeah,
we can afford our brit of filter systems or whatever,
And I don't think most people have. Portland was kind
of famous for having really good public tap water. Apparently
this has been a problem forever. But people were like,
(02:14):
but the water is so clean, it comes how the
river were great? Why is it famous for clean water
if it's been a problem for the water that's flowing
into pipes is great. But the pipes are like copper
with lead solder and do a variety of facts. The
lead is wearing away into the water. Like, it's not
we shouldn't have a lead problem here, but because of
(02:34):
things that were done in the construction of the water
system in the city, there's a lead problem. Put that
goo in the pipes and then expand the google you've
got to get to do in there. Yeah, the coup
of the gators into what there's like a there's like
goo tubes you put in the pipes and then you
expand them and then it makes the pipes usable and not. Okay,
(02:57):
and so what like what kind of chemicals are in
the back and floam? Probably right, yeah, probably most your
standard contaminants. Yeah, but like that's like we can like
we can hand mean get their daily minimum dose of flow. Yeah,
you need to get your flow, and no better way
(03:17):
than to go up your pipes. Right. Oh boy, that's correct.
I just got a UM text message that says tall
evil booms show. Okay, click that talking about check that
out flowing up your Wait what does the text say?
(03:37):
It says it's like it's some from a random number. Nope,
t a L dot dot dot Eva eva boobs show.
Oh are you going to click on it? It's a link. Yeah,
you should click on that. You should click on the link.
I don't. I don't think I will click on the link.
I think it was I think that they're looking for
(03:58):
someone else that's not going to steal your bit coin
wall at Katie. That's what I'll tell you about that.
Like is are are you are you referencing what happened there?
Is that couple. I have not read the story. So
there's this lady and her boyfriend. And her boyfriend we
don't know if he's the hat. Basically, like back in
(04:20):
one of the crypto banks, you know how there's banks
for cryptocurrency, like like exchanges. I think they call them
their banks essentially, except that they're unregulated and have no
security a lot of the time. So basically all of
them at some point get get robbed for absurd amounts
of money. Back in this one, I think it might
(04:41):
have been bit Finance, I forget the name. They're all indistinguishable.
It got robbed for what is now four and a
half billion dollars worth of cryptocurrency um. And this wound up.
We don't know if he was the one who did
the hack or if he just got passed the money
to launder it, but it wound up in this guy,
Eliah Lichtenstein, wound up being the dude who was like
(05:01):
laundering it along with his now wife. Her first name
is Heather. She's goes by the name of razzle khn
and his easily the worst rap artist I've ever heard.
She's like, she's also like a writer, you know what,
you know what? She is. We'll talk about that in
a second, but first Dane'll give us thirty seconds of
(05:22):
the razzle kN music video. Yeah please, has Russell knot Win,
come real far, but don't know where I'm heading? Motherfucking crocodile,
Wall Street, Soper on my fingers and boots on my feet.
Always be a dot, not a gut damn sheet, email me,
(05:44):
suck your message and the beet sept Oh. Yeah, so
she's did you guys listen? Did you guys ever listen
to Crai Shan? No, some people will, and she sounds
like if Crayshawn had a fatal head injury, that's how
(06:05):
she would sound. Um, it's it's really like, it's fascinatingly bad.
Like I've listened to like six of her music videos
because the lyrics. There's one in the lyrics of one
which is about like, I don't know self defense. I
guess she talks about stealing from people's bitcoin wallets, which
is really fun. Writes you know, yeah, she writes what
(06:27):
she knows, so she like and it's all like filled
with cultural appropriation. She's apparently claiming to be Turkish, but
her like rap presence is a versagy Bedouin. Um, it's
all like really cringe, terrible, terrible shit. She also has
like a TikTok where she's just like, here's what I do,
my entrepreneur, Like, as an entrepreneur, here's my business. So
(06:49):
she is a CEO of a company she started that
basically does email cold calls. They will write them for
your company. So if your company wants to send out
a bunch of mass emails to try to convinced people
to buy some stupid bullshit or watch some stupid video,
she'll write them. U there's there's been at least one
person on Twitter we invented I'm sorry, we just we
(07:10):
invented so many fucking stupid jobs. She invented this stupid job.
But that's like she's not the only one that does that.
We just have so many whatever. I love this. She
did claim to have invented the field. And again, I'm
pretty sure I was getting these emails twenty years ago
when she was like nine. But but you know what,
(07:31):
he claims to have invented email cultivator. She's also a
four A Forbes contributor, like Woad of Forbes'd like articles
and I love this. She for advising burnt out execs
to try rapping in order to recharge their batteries. Give
it a shot. It really worked for Rastlecock. What. It's
(07:55):
very funny. That article is really worth a read. She
is just the worst. Somebody points online who was verified
so maybe they were actually telling the truth, said that
they hired They realized after this broke that they had
hired her a couple of years back to write like
emails for their company to send out, and it was
like they were terrible. Everything was misspelled. It was really
clear that she was just taking their money and then
(08:18):
outsourcing it to someone who did not write English very well. Um,
to try and make a profit. Um. So she's just
a grifter who decided to become a terrible rap artist,
hoping that like the winds of virality would carry her.
But none of what she does is any good. Um,
it's it's the worst. She's so bad. It's not it's
(08:39):
through the world that being utterly mediocre. It's one of
those blown up Yeah. I don't think she was good
at grifting either. So her music was so bad, it
wasn't so bad, It wasn't quite so bad. It's good.
It was too bad to be so bad. It's good,
except now she's gotten arrested by the FEDS for helping
to launder four and a half billion dollars and somehow
(09:02):
that pushed it over the edge, and now it's amazing.
M yeah, every everything. Yeah, there's no other reason you
would enjoy watching watching that, or listening to that other
than knowing everything else about her. Yeah, Daniel here put
in thirty more seconds of another razzle con video. Just
pick one. It's okay. She can't sue us. She's in
federal CUSTODYA don't rob, don't be, don't Oh yeah, that's
(09:51):
the best slaps slaps, as the kids say. Oh so,
she and her partner are looking it up to twenty
five years in prison for again trying to launder the
most money anyone has ever been arrested for trying. Going
to be really hard on their marriage. I think maybe
it'll bring together physically. You know. Sometimes I feel like
(10:17):
we host a radio morning show. Oh yeah, boys, I
don't know, yeah, um, I don't know. It's extremely funny
to be It's funny to me because it says a
lot about cryptocurrency, which, like in a normal world without
this nonsense floating around someone like Razzle Khan would have
(10:41):
you know, had her embarrassing videos at her like shitty
s e O company, she would have like been kind
of profited minimally from fucking up the internet just a
little bit, and like that would have been kind of
the most she could hope for. Maybe she would have
tried to launch like a juice type thing or like
a super food blend, but it would not have taken off.
(11:02):
She doesn't have the kind of charisma to sell that stuff,
so probably would have been just kind of drifting around
the edges of e commerce. But because of cryptocurrency, she
was able to commit the largest financial crime that anyone
has ever been a rest Have you seen this? Did
you see this yesterday? I just pull it back up again.
It was on Twitter for a bit. The specific island
Paradise wants you to become a crypto serious, right, yeah,
(11:27):
welcome about there. It's turning to crypto to boost its
economy or whatever. And basically, you guys, if you if
you do this just for two forty eight dollars, anyone
anywhere can apply for for a limited edition n F
T I D I D card. This means they can
use a palen business address, apply to change their name,
(11:47):
legally open online accounts to trade cryptocurrencies based in this
little island, But you don't get to actually be a hummer.
What about changing your name? Well it says you're not
automatically resident. Uh yeah, but you can change your name.
Um yeah. The scheme could provide prove handy for for
Chinese and other investors. Use nations don't allow crypto trading,
(12:10):
So yeah, that's fun. Yeah, I mean, you know, I uh,
if Palau can make a profit off of this before
it collapses, I guess good for them, Good for them. Join.
I'll be honest, if there was an easy way to
spend two d f T and get legal residency in
a country that right to the United States, it would
(12:33):
just be good to have in your back pond. Maybe
it's not automatically residents, but uh, you know, this is
just the highlights. There might be some some fine print
that I am well, but what about my avatar, my
metatar or whatever? Would they have residency? These are questions
(12:54):
to explore. You're a little sprite, metaverse, sprite whatever my
um demon is m is that how we pronounce it?
Just demon? Yeah? I think Paula might extradite. So anyhoy, Yeah,
(13:14):
so yeah it's useless. Um yeah, what do we? What
do we? Okay? So the Supreme Court five four ruling
that overturned an attempt in Alabama from a lower court
to force the state to redraw congressional districting maps maps.
According to that lower court, quote, um, black voters have
less opportunity than other Alabamas to elect candidates of their
(13:36):
choice to Congress. Alabama appealed this decision, and the Supreme
Court was like, yeah, you guys can be as racist
as you want. Um. Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote in an
opinion joined by Samuel Alito, quote, when an election is
close at hand, the rules of the road must be
clear and settled. Late judicial tinkering with election laws can
lead to disruption and unanticipated and unfair consequences for candidates.
(13:58):
Political parties, and it or among others want things to
be unfair, y'all, you wouldn't want things to be unfair
in a different way too close to the election. That's
not really what he's saying is that, like it's so
gaverny things to be unfair, we wouldn't want them to
be unfair in a way different than how they're currently
unfair when the elections coming up. It's incredible because it's
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also like to a little more from from our our
buddy Kavanaugh. On top of that, state and local election
officials needs substantial time to plan for elections. Running elections
statewide is extraordinarily complicated and difficult. Those elections require enormous
advanced preparations by state and local officials and post significant
logistical challenges. The district court's order would require heroic efforts
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by those state and local authorities in the next few weeks.
He's just saying it's a little hard. Yeah, it's hard.
It's a little it's tough, Yeah tough. It's not that
it should like it should happen, but it's tough. We
got it saying this is this will be a little
hard for white people, so we got to disenfranchise black people.
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That's wild the argument with its hat off, you know,
Um yeah, I mean again, the whole redistricting thing on
the whole has gone better nationally than most of us anticipated. Um.
This is a disturbing ruling both because of what it
means for people in Alabama, where, um, while black folks
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of the state, they're only represented in uh, one of
seven fourteen percent of congressional districts, which is sucked up. Um.
So this is like horrible for Alabama, and it's horrible
because of like it rewrites a lot of precedents, a
lot of court precedent on the Voting Rights Act. Um.
And so there's a really unsettling sort of um effect
(15:44):
this will have nationwide. Potentially, maybe we're not going to
see the worst of that quite soon because most of
the redistricting I think has already gone down. Um, but
you know, well we'll see this is this is yet
another thing that like it might not be a this
year or problem, but is like it's one of those
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things those seeds that get planted all over everywhere. Obviously,
this is an immediate problem for for Alabama, but this
is like I think, also a very long term and
it's easy to lose track of. It's easy to forget
about how these little pieces ultimately end up into being
a big problem. And it's not a little thing either.
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I don't no, no, it's not a little thing. I
don't I'm not trying to minimize it saying that like
the worst of this hasn't happened yet and and will
it will be the worst of this will be slowly
unfolding for like the rest of our natural lives, unless
the Supreme Court gets yeah. Yeah, um, and I'll say
(16:50):
that the worst of this episode is yet to come.
But we should probably uh break for ads before starting
the topic together. Everything, we're back. Nice. You know what
(17:13):
you want to talk about? Mask mandates being lifted? Oh? Yeah,
well we did it. That's happening. It's happening. Yeah, California
is lifting its universal mask mandate for indoor public spaces
next week. Um, get it on, except not in major cities.
Sacramento makeout party, I think Sacramento. It's still other places
(17:38):
like l A County where we are have not lifted.
That's I think it is. I think it is wise.
I mean, I just in the past few weeks, I've
known so many people with COVID, just so many people
really sick with COVID, and all of a sudden, I
don't know that many people with COVID anymore. And that's reassuring,
but I still know they didn't die, they survived as
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far as I know, and then all of a sudden
they work. Yeah. Yeah, because it seems like I don't
know peak over Um Spike spoke. Um, it's happening all
over the place, but not here. I don't mind it here. Uh,
it's still I'm still like in that phase where it's
like I don't care. I'll put it on I don't care. Uh.
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In California, I guess residents are fully vaccinated and two
and five residents have received a booster. But that's like statewide,
big state. We're in l A. It's you are fully vaccinated.
To be honest, I think some people say seems low
for Los Angeles. Given the amount of time I've spending
juice bars in l A, it seems high. I actually
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what reading that was like, that's better than I expected. Uh,
surprisingly pleased with us l A. Um, you know it
just just this last week I was seeing and we
all follow very different people on social media. I'm on Instagram,
and I happen to see a lot of moms, you know,
from my my Over my ten fifteen years of in
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l A. You know, people have gone in all over
the world in California, and so I have a big
cross section that of people that I see on there,
and like so many people complaining about California mask mandates
and I've just been getting into it with a series
of moms where I'm like, just chill. I think like
there's there's a petition going around to like lift the
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mask mandates and whatever, and like I've just said, like
I understand you're frustrated, but it's just a big state.
It's a big spike. Hospitals are overloaded. I bet if
you have a patient, I think in like a couple
of weeks, it'll be different. It's the profit. If you
want to be in California and not have to worry
(19:55):
about public health rules. There's reading, baby, It's always there
for you move to Redding. They don't. They have not been.
I was in reading in and let me tell you
they were not wearing masks. I mean, you know, it's hard.
It's easy to lose sight of like how vast I
mean this country is, but this state is, and how
many different geographies and demographics it's comprised of, and it
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is really hard to you know, tailored to different areas
that are so completely different in their different um Anyway,
that's something hooray everybody. We seem to be doing it
elsewhere too, across the country. Yeah, I'm I mean, it's
whatever they're going to do with whatever, it'll either be
(20:42):
fine or we'll have another horrible COVID wave again and
this will just be the rest of our lives. One
of those two things is going to happen. Um, and
I say, let's roll them dice, baby m hm put that.
Let's let's blow hot air and spit on those dice
and then roll them out. Everybody go out and tongue
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funk a stranger right now, I really would like ms anymore.
There was no more germs. We did it, We got them.
There were no germs, and then there was one germ,
but then we defeated. It is pretty funny that this
is like both in you know, Canada with the convoy situation,
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and here, um, like se of of everybody is like, yeah,
I gotta get vaccinated. I'll try to wear a mask
when I'm in a business like that seems reasonable, and
thirty percent are like, I will murder everyone else on
planet Earth. You think about another person for a second,
and it's it's pretty funny. Um, it's pretty dope that
that's like a completely intractable problem. Instead of hear me
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out here, we just all roll on them, you know,
just give him, give him a titty twister, like seventy
percent of the country gives thirty percent of the country
just like a big old purple nerple, you know, swirlies
stick their head in the toilets like we dedicated Yeah,
like far in their faith and we're done. Yeah, exactly,
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Like really them up a little bit. How is that's
the way the Civil war pans out? Um? Yeah, we
just got a bully them. You know, that's what it's
gonna take. We're all going to have to bully the
third of this country that are insistent upon being ship
heads about this. Yeah, I guess that's I guess that's
what's got to happen. I've been like arguing with people
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on next door to oh, don't do that, don't go
on just next door, don't go on next door, don't
talk to people on next door. Well it feels like
a better place to argue with people than on Twitter.
I don't know, Yes, I don't know. Are you getting
making progress? I mean I get a lot of people
cheering me on comments, but then like somebody, one person
(22:54):
deleted my comments from their posts. Yeah, log back on
in a few days. About power? What else should we
talk about? I want to briefly mention and talk about
our former big wet boy, yeah, President Donald John President,
(23:15):
And how do you want to talk about him in
what capacity? Well, I just wanted to mention um that
Trump took a bunch of records with him, a bunch
of tomorrow and Nacial Archives had to go get them.
And I think it's it's only funny to me, And
maybe it's a big deal. I understand if you're upset
(23:36):
about it, um, because like he broke the law. Yeah,
he broke the law, is like obviously, like his lawlessness
knows no bounds. But I think it's funny because I
think that he just didn't know he couldn't do that. Yeah,
Like it's not like it's yeah, it's not like, oh,
I'm gonna take the records that they they're not gonna archives. Like, No,
he wanted his letter from Kim Jong Oon. He wanted
(23:58):
his Obama letter, So he put them all a box
and he took he was gonna he was gonna m
journal about it, you know, like his his whatever they
call him books, what do they? Uh, Yeah, precious memories,
a precious memories collection, A scrap book, right, a scrap
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book if you will, that's what he was gonna do,
and maybe a vision board for his next run. I
don't know, Cody, Katie. This is a crime, right, like
like like a taken these things, all the bags they
were He wasn't allowed to do that. That's not that's
not a that's not a thing you're supposed to be doing.
(24:38):
So what what's the what what's going to happen? Probably nothing,
Oh he's no one's ever going to mention it again.
This is this is this, this moment on this podcast
is the last time any he's going to run for
office again, and everybody will have forgotten everything. Yeah. We
we just need to remember that crime exists for for example, influencer, hacker,
(25:00):
rap stars who steal bitcoin. Not for the president, oh
heavens no, not former presidents or current presidents. Yeah, any
kind any kind of any kind of president. We're good.
And now who was it that fucking was? Was Comy
who was talking about how we ought to Biden ought
to preemptively pardon Donald Trump? Yeah, James Comy, fucking gigantic idiot.
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Just fucking stop talking, Jay, Like you've never been right
about anything. You're always wrong, bad and stupid and have
long been proven wrong. Away go away, are bad, bad
bad m I hate him that. Yeah, it just happened.
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He was being interviewed by I think it's ABC. Um,
I'm looking that up where it was on right now,
But yeah, he was. He was like, yeah, he should
consider it, you know, um for the to the country
and ship. Yeah, he was like, Trump belongs in jail,
but actually doing that isn't in the best interests of
the country that ship. Oh my god, yeah, you know,
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the best interests of the country. James, comey, um, were
you making millions of dollars off a book deal for
your stupid book taking pictures of dirt roads? Yeah, for
your secret Twitter prick, you super tall prick. Yeah. It
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is better for the country that presidents are not held
accountable for the crime. Yeah, that's what everybody wants, is
for elected leaders to be not accountable for the horrible
things that they do. That. Speaking of that, probably good
time to talk about the Republican Party. Oh, they're doing good,
(26:54):
doing real good. They're live and kicking, making some solid choices.
Let's talk about how the how January six was legitimate
political discourse? Apparently apparently last week, Yeah, the National Republican
National Committee whatever. The Republican Party, uh censured Liz Cheney
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and Adam Kinsinger for being a part of the janiory,
the Congressional January six investigation. Um, and you know the
capital attack and Donald Trump's attempt to overturn the presidential election,
which last week we saw lots of evidence about how
he was entertaining different ideas of how to do it. Um.
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Any who, Uh, yeah, they they censured them and accused
them of participating in a Democrat led persecution of ordinary
citizens engaged in legitimate political discourse. I'm sorry, I and
realize that was legitimate political discourse. There were thousands of
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people stealing ship, peeing all over. I mean, look, peeing
and stealing ship can be parts of legitimate political discourse.
I didn't I see that. I didn't know before. Well no,
I mean I I don't disagree with that. Like, for example,
if you have if your your city is occupied by
a violent, unaccountable paramilitary force UM that does violence and
(28:28):
steals from you and also gets paid your tax dollars,
and you were to damage their buildings and urinate on them,
I would call that an act of legitimate political discourse
because you are resisting an occupying force in your community.
I would say what makes it not legitimate is when
you go elsewhere, far away from where you live and
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attempt to through force, impose your specific will on people
who live nowhere near you through violence. That I think
is kind of the key separation here. I don't agree
with people who are like violence and property destruction aren't
legitimate political discourse. Violence and property destruction are two of
the most common successful and the blood of our nation. Yeah,
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it's it's what it's it is the reason for which
you're doing those things. Is it in order to deal
with an actual direct threat to yourself and your community,
or is it an order to impose your will violently
on people who live nowhere near you. One of those
things is valid, would would be my my contention. But um,
(29:30):
apparently UH used to break in and UH call for
the hanging of the vice president. Yeah, travel from miles
away by thousands of dollars in weaponry and assault people
who were elected by folks in other states to represent them. Um.
That is. You know, it's interesting though, because a lot
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of uh actual you know, senators are in here trying
to not all of them though, but many are trying
to distance themselves from uh specifically, well, let me pull up.
I guess it is Romney, but like, yeah, Mitt Romney,
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and I think Lindsay Graham actually also um distance about
themselves from it a bit, but you know, it's it's
it's a big question about what the future of this
party is continues to be. People are worried about re election,
but the you know, the Republican Party is pretty firmly
(30:35):
taking the side of Donald Trump here, and the future
is Donald Trump. There's a statement released today or yesterday, sorry,
from various Republican leaders former officials condemning this statement about
political discourse. So wasn't it the statement from Ronald McDaniel,
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Romney's niece or whatever. Oh I don't know she signed
it an way, But it's just interesting because it's there's,
you know, this list of names, um, and virtually every
single one has the name the word former before their
position or title. It's all like, yeah, as a former congressman,
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a former member of CORESS, former communication director. Oh yeah,
Anthony scar Mouci is involved. Um. But it's just that
stark difference of like, yeah, we don't we're not part
we're not in the club anymore because we don't agree
with this kind of thing. So we're gonna loudly say
how dare you? But like we're not, We're not involved anymore.
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We're we're the old We're the old folks, um the
new folks. They love trying to get Mike Pence hanged?
What is there to say and do? What is there
to say? And do I feel that way? On even
more News we were talking about it when we're talking
about Trump last week. You fucking have to, but you
(31:57):
don't want to because it's like, what's the point is
fucking guy shrug? What is it? Like? I don't know
what to say, but you also have to talk about it.
It's like I see this train crash happening, the wreck,
but I don't I don't know how I save it
except for acknowledging that the fucking thing is happening. It's
a trap, is what it is, in a in a
(32:19):
similar way to like how the Joe Rogan discourse is
a trap where getting involved, even if you're like even
attacking them online, all you're doing is like helping them.
That's why I'm trying as much as possible not to
at least not to mention their names. Um, I made
like an oblique joke about Joe Rogan that I even
kind of regret because like the going like Fux, Spotify
(32:42):
and stuff, go go go after them, but going after
them and the guys are trying to get them to
drop Joe Rogan will do nothing but help them. It
is impossible to do anything that help him, will only
expand his reach. Like what And whenever you talk about
this stuff, people like, what should we be doing? Like don't, Like,
I think that's a nonsense for sponse, Like what you
should be doing is is not not aiding and abetting
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him by uh keeping his profile up and keeping his
name in the news. Um, it's not that he's been
on Twitter for the last like two weeks solid weeks
every day, not making him the big story. And you
can do that by just just let it go like
he is rich and powerful, Uh not, because he's not
(33:24):
like an isn't even like an Alex Jones thing where
he got artificially inflated by a bunch of algorithms. Joe
Rogan has been plugging away doing his thing for as
long as there have been podcasts, and he has several
million million people who will follow him anywhere he goes wherever,
and he's been offered that this whole other was that's nonsense.
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But at the end of the day, yeah, regardless, he's
got opportunities. It's not about Spotify. But yeah, don't let
him be the center of the discourse. But if course
there's money in that, there's money and being like the
you know, the centrist and liberal and left writers writing
think pieces about how bad he is and let money
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and and I don't it's one of those things. I
don't mean that it's bad to be pointing out like, hey,
Joe Rogan says the in word an awful lot on
his show um Worth pointing out worth noting, But that's
not what like most of the discourse around him is.
And yeah, of course started with Neil Young saying I'm
gonna unless you drop him. I tweeted about this, but
(34:31):
I didn't tweet it, right. But I keep thinking about
Neil Young just being like on his fucking expensive ass
ranch in northern California, smoking a joint on a rocking chair,
watching all this ship happen all around and being like, yeah,
you know, but like he's fine. Neil Young doesn't matter,
(34:51):
and he pulled his ship from Spotify to plug Amazon's music.
Don't don't fall for this. Um, it's not it's not.
I don't know. Yeah, it could happen here later. I'm
just very frustrated by the thing. Yeah, and how long
it is? Yeah, yeah, I even Yeah, I tweeted a
(35:13):
joker too, and I deleted them pretty quickly, like I
don't want to. I just can't participate. Yeah, sorry, just
if you actually want to do things that help commit
to not using his name on social media or yeah,
but like worth, you know, worth pointing out that like
certain things like yeah, like he says this word, him
(35:36):
saying the black people of different brains than people like
that ship, Like that's like, yeah, it's good that that
clip is out there and people know that he said
that and probably still thinks it. Well, because because Joe
Rogan specifically, he's kind of a cross section, right, because
there are a lot of people that listen to Joe
Rogan that aren't like implicitly that don't necessarily support Donald Trump,
(35:58):
aren't necessarily Republican, doesn't support Donald's fromp right exactly. I mean,
he's got a cross section of people. So there's a
lot of people that are technically liberals or you know,
all thinkers, that it's dangerous. He can normalize things very easily,
and it is important to call out the things that
are happening and acknowledge what it is. But it's a
(36:19):
delicate dance because we're up in an uproar and again
you're giving an oxygen. You're paying attention to everything and
the thing that gives it oxygen. Again, not not actual
like analysis in research, but the the me too. I
gotta I gotta make everyone. I gotta make it known
that like I don't like Joe Rogan that I don't,
I have to chime in. I have to dunk on
him too, and could amplify it. We cancel your fucking Spotify.
(36:41):
Don't tag Joe Rogan and that ship. Don't like. Yeah,
maybe it'll hurt like Spotify a little bit. But you
can hurt Spotify without helping Joe Rogan. We can, we
can do that. Um yeah, every time the episode description
or the episode like, yeah, delete Spotify because of like
how they treat the musicians, not because Neil Young has
(37:03):
to share has to share space with Joe Rogan. Um
like that's weird. Uh. Well, we got to take another
ad break. Yeah, we get to together everything. Oh boy,
(37:30):
we are back and guys, I've been talking a lot
about the news today. I just I just found something
that I want you all to look at. M m hmm. Yeah,
what is this? What is this? Our little buddy Ben
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Shapiro launched a thing through the Daily Wire called the
Third Thursday book Club, which is where you get to
read once a month the Classics along with Ben Shapiro,
and so they have classic books, each of which comes
with abridged notes by Ben Shapiro or purportedly by Ben Shapiro,
And so they're the first one has like how many
(38:11):
pages to this fucking thing looks like it's like twenty
or thirty pages of notes and study questions or you know,
it's it's tied pages of notes and study questions by
Ben Shapiro summarizing four which I am fascinated to read
watching you. The main theme of is the danger of totalitarianism.
Oh yeah, communist anyway, this is fun? What a treat?
(38:37):
Who gave this to you? Yeah? I just found it
because I learned that he has he has a book club.
He will be apparently publishing a sci fi novel later
this year, which, by god, I'm excited to get into. Um.
But yeah, I learned that there's this book club that
you pay for, but apparently some people have found ways
to get access to the first of these for free.
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I don't know if you send that one out for
free as a teaser. It is unclear to me at
the moment, because it's just like people on his subreddit
that shared the link. But yeah, there's apparently will be
one of these. I mean, after we read his nineteen
four inspired short story, UM, I am going to be
excited to see what he got from that, or if
he just hired someone to write a bridge notes and
(39:21):
there is Oh I love this Orwell's answer powers right
and he's wrong. Awesome. I just like, because Ben, he
went to Harvard Law School and like your political comment, Like,
(39:41):
what the funk are you doing with this book club ship?
Like get a fucking like English teacher, get like a
like what is this ship? Like it's someone else do
book club for you? Like why are you doing this?
What do you like? What is your fucking like? I
probably it's just like I don't even have complete sentence
(40:04):
about why this baffles me so much? He just wants
to wear like so many different hats and it's like, Buddy,
I bet someone else wrote this anyway, Yes, I agree.
Here we are talking about Ben Shapiro. When we thought
we were done with Ben Shapiro and his books. I
will never be done, especially not when his sucking next
novel comes out. Oh boy, I can't wait, said Summer.
(40:27):
Mm hmmma. No, no, okay, not that I'm aware of.
But it's coming. It's eventually. Maybe we'll see, we'll see
if it actually ends Kitty's Pilot. What else you guys
want to talk about? Movies? I want to read this,
but it's no time. We can't not to. Do you
(40:48):
want to talk about a chicken? Didn't you want to? Yeah?
The chicken who got through? Uh? The chicken was caught
sneaking around a security area the Pentagon and they apprehended
that chicken and it is dead now or being tortured. No,
it's the chicken is probably fine. Um. Yeah, this is
like I don't eat and the chicken. I have nothing,
(41:11):
like nothing to say about this. Uh, there's this story
where yeah, chicken got to a security checkpoint of the Pentagon.
They will not tell us where or you know how
they found it. Top secret information all the details or
top secret. But um, the bird was spotted. Um, it
was taken into custody, was spotted like had spots or
(41:35):
the bird was spotted, the bird was seen. Okay, the
the the the exact bird. Uh, it's a hen. It's
brown feathers and a red comb. He means it's a girl, right, Uh,
it's a it's a Rhode Island red not not spotted. Yeah,
I think I got one or two of those. Oh good?
Um was it? Wait? Was it your hend? No? No,
(41:58):
my chickens did in full trade the Kremlin at one point,
but that was unrelated. Okay, yeah, no, that's doesn't sound
like the same thing at all. Um did are they Okay? Yeah, yeah,
it was a sex thing. It's fine, okay, so successful,
Yeah yeah, get it chickens um uh yeah. So it's
(42:19):
just a it's a nothing story. Um, but somebody made
it a story. So now that this article about how
a fucking chicken was wandering around the Pentagon and we
need news. Yeah uh. A little note from from Garrison
at the Department Defense is expected to request an extra
twelve billion in funding to prevent further poultry related threat
(42:41):
to homeland security. Um yeah, I mean I think we've
got to cancel a couple of bridge repairs for this one. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
a few more bridges. You less wandering chickens. That's the
build back. Better promise slogan rights itself better, right, boys
coding you know what? Good for you, Thank you, thank
(43:03):
you very much. Ukraine. No, I mean, there's there's not
much to say other than the Russian military build up continues.
There's a lot of unsettling stuff there. Don't they have
occupation forces in addition to like you know, um well,
(43:24):
like two weeks ago they didn't all the artillery and
stuff was there. But now they're about of personnel that yeah,
based on some calculation. That calculations, but they from what
I understand of enough people to do a full scale
(43:45):
invasion of what this one group of analysts think would
be necessary for them to carry out a full scale
attack of Ukraine. Like, I don't know, um, I I
don't know that anyone again, because if this happens, if
this all goes really hot, um, this will be kind
of up the first example in our lives of like
to broadly peer forces meeting on the battlefield in in
(44:09):
in this kind of way. So I don't know that
anyone really has a good handle on how many troops
the Russians need for an occupation or like what percentage
Like well, I mean I don't, but I hear you.
I mean, I'm sure they're probably they may have some
intel that this is what the Russians think, you know,
based on what the Russians think that they would need
for that. Uh, it's it's still really unclear what's going
to happen or if again, like even Putin has a
(44:31):
clear idea of what's going to happen. Because it's entirely
possible that this is so possible. I'm kind of some
brinksmanship ship. Yeah, absolutely, the end hasn't been settled. Being
with Macron now heard um that there are a couple
I mean I was listening to the Daily earlier, but
um uh yeah, a couple of dates. Theoretically like he
(44:56):
might wait until after the Olympics are over. Yeah, you
want to get that. You want to get that news, bump,
you know, you want to get that news well and
also because you know, to not like detract from China's
moment or what have you, Um, this moment of having
fucking in an industrial thank god. Yeah, there's some great shots.
(45:19):
Um and again people keep well, what would you want
them to do? You know, you know, bulldoze somebody's home
and like, you know, destroy a pristine place. And I
would want them to do is not the Olympics because
nobody should do them? Or how about this I was reading,
I kind of want to since we're towards the end,
I think I'll talk more about this on even more
news later in the week, but just doing some reading
(45:42):
before the idea. I mean, like for years and years
and years, it's always a problem like, yes, we have
to make snow in a lot of locations, but there
are environmental repercussions for all of that. And then just
in general, the the effect of the Olympics. We talked
about this ad nauseum six months ago when the Summer
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Olympics happened. But but my point here being like a
different way to approach the Olympics would be to not
have them like this, or it could be a series
of smaller events set up. But you can have competitions,
but smaller ones set up in places that already like
ski resorts, are already have the infrastructure of us to
host smaller amounts of guests from out of town, and
(46:24):
that would actually be good for there. There there's an
argument to be made for that. So we're not talking
about a large scale Olympic thing with a huge environmental impact.
We're talking about like normal competitions anyway, Just more on
that some other time Trump should have bought Greenland and
then we turned that into the Olympics place. All the
(46:46):
Olympics happen in Greenland. Speaking of a country with a
kind of similar name to green Land, this is related
to Ukraine. One of the things that's very frustrating in
this meeting that mcron had with Putin, mccron talked about
being open to the Finland desation of Ukraine, which I
don't think he consulted Ukraine on. Finlandization is a term
for kind of what the Soviet Union in post World
(47:07):
War two did to Finland. If you if you know
a little bit about that history. USSR before World War
two tried to take over Finland. It wasn't that didn't
go the best for them. It could have gone um
and so after World War Two there's this arrangement made
that's like all right, Finland, you guys, get to keep
your own government and political system, but you have to
(47:29):
do what we want or do nothing in foreign policy.
Like either you don't say ship or you you stay
in line with us in foreign policy, and like that's
the agreement. We won't funk with you will let you
keep doing what you need to do politically, but you
don't say ship um, which I don't know, like, to
be honest, I think there's a decent chunk of people
in Ukraine wh would probably go for something like that
if that's not another devastating war. Not a great deal,
(47:51):
but what's the alternative? It does be getting carpet bombed. Sure,
they are in a terrible situation. They're surrounded by troops,
you know, like there there. I mean, yeah, politically that
might be a good yeah, I mean it might be
what they do, um like, but it is just like
this thing that keeps happening with these discussions world leaders
(48:11):
are having with Putin where it's like, okay, you said
this thing about what's acceptable. Did you like talk to
anyone in Ukraine about this or are we just having
this conversation over their heads? You know? Like I think
there's a probable answer to that, which is the last
thing you said, yeah, which is nobody really gives an
about Ukraine, which is why all of this has been
happening for again ten years, very close to ten years. Alright,
(48:37):
So I think we did it. I think we talked
about all the news that there is in the land. Yeah,
there's nothing else going on. Um, So check back in
next week where we will spend three hours reading every
word of been Shapiro's analysis of nineteen We'll read, Yeah, well,
we'll get our our quotes ready, We'll we'll get the
(48:58):
passages to support our answers. I'll figure out how to
say totalitarianism. It does end with a bunch of with
a bunch of like blank question boxes for you to
answer things. It's just like like again, like fucking like
go to school, Like what like what is this fucking
worksheet you're making for people to pay to learn about
(49:19):
from Ben Shapiro? What is just read the book yourself,
read the book and like look at like this so
weird that he's doing this like study questions for people.
We should I mean I should we should have compared
this to actual study questions. Yeah, let's see if this
is just the spark notes. Oh my god, what do
(49:40):
you fucking paying for school? Work? From Ben Shapiro, What
the hell? It's extremely funny. People make decisions I'll never understand,
which is why we need to live in a totalitarian state.
That that stops this happening. The official line of worst
Year ever, uh, eliminate the human capacity for thought. There
(50:04):
it is, regulate double pane windows. That's right, that's that'll
end star seeing? Yeah, star gazing. Sorry, live in a
place where it's unclear if they can see the giant
mountain outside based on text on two days only tuesdays. Okay,
(50:27):
we're done. You know what? Every Everything? Worst Year Ever
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