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GI Bill Scam Schools Exposed, Trump Truth Social Controversy, Newsom's $347M Question | TMI Ep 435 · The TMI Show with Ted Rall and Manila Chan

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Happy Wednesday, August 5th. That's the one.
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Week comes at you fast, man. It's hump day then.
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It's Wednesday, August 5th. I'm Manila Chan.
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That's Ted Raul. You're tuned into the Ted Manila
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on and keep doing this stuff. Talking about poops,
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one of the viewers yesterday was saying that
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it seems like every week we have a poop story.
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She was probably not wrong. We should have more.
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I agree. There's so much to tell. about your
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health and like longevity or whatever in your
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colon. Plus it's poop. It's poop is funny. Which
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by the way, has anyone looked into the cyclosporium
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outbreak in Michigan? Apparently two people died.
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I heard maybe it's up to four. Yeah. How do you
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die from explosive diarrhea? What do you mean?
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I mean, diarrhea kills people a lot. Really?
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I mean, they must have had compromised health
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already. Yeah, they did. They had underlying
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conditions. Diarrhea killed more people in the
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Civil War than bullets did. Diarrhea? Diarrhea
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is very dangerous. Yeah, you die from dehydration.
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Yeah, like in the developing world, diarrhea
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kills millions of people a year. I just figure
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that was part of like a greater health issue
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for people in the developing world. Dehydration
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is brutal. In Michigan? It will kill you. But
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like in Michigan? And they just had their primary
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and Dr. Abdul El -Sayed won. He beat in the primary.
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He primaried sitting Congresswoman Haley Stevens.
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The numbers came in. It's confirmed. He beat
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the four -term Congresswoman Haley Stevens. That
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talk's really weird. He did. He did defeat her.
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Yeah. No, that's official. Yeah, it's official
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now. So I would say, Ted, that this is kind of
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the weather vane of where the Democratic Party
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is leaning this time. And I think they're going
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progressive. I think they're getting tired. They're
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getting tired of the same old, same old DNC -backed,
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Chuck Schumer types. I think for better or worse.
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The thing that's interesting here is that they
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If they, before the DNC and the APAC put their
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greasy thumbs on the scale, Haley Stevens was
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poised to win. She was ahead in the polls by
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between four and six points. You know, a comfortable
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margin. And she would have definitely, she would
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have almost certainly won. Then, Basically the
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the establishment came in full throttle with
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James Clyburn who you might remember me from
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2016 and 2020 fuck Bernie Sanders And all those
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people came in and all the establishment Democrats
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endorsed Her and again came out strong against
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him and online they even They even engaged in
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Islamophobia against a member of their own party,
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right? They even I didn't see those they did.
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Oh, it was disgusting and I mean you would have
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thought they were a bunch of like pro -bush Cheney
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people back after 9 -11 Well remember that party
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did bring back Liz Cheney Kamala Harris brought
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back brought Liz Cheney up. That's true disgusting
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and so And then basically, yeah, and then the
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AIPAC money, $30 million in direct contributions,
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and another $30 million, well, we know where
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it came from. So $60 million total, all dark
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money pouring in from AIPAC. It's the biggest
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amount of money ever spent on a race outside
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of a presidential campaign in the United States.
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crazy amounts of money. And the thing is, all
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he had to do was run ads and say, look at all
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the APAC money. Look at all the establishment.
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And for a lot of Michiganders who were going
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to vote not at all or were going to vote for
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her, they changed their minds and they turned
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out for him because it pissed them off. Because
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they hate the outside interference and or They
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hate Israel and AIPAC. Well, Michigan has the
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biggest Arab communities in the United States,
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like in one collected state, I mean. So Michigan
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is very full of Arabs. So I think a lot of them
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came out. And don't forget, the thing that people
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don't talk about is just you might be white or
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black or something else, but You know, if you
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live in a place and you have your, you know,
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your friends with Arabs, you know, the odds are
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you're also going to you might vote in solidarity
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with your Arab buddies. And so, you know, that's
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that's the thing. It's not like, you know, Arabs
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have no solidarity or that white people don't
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care about the genocide. They do. So it's definitely
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this was the lesson here for the DNC. I don't
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think they're going to take it. And I'm glad
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for that. is because I don't want them to get
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smart. But the lesson should be, probably you
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would do better. You're so unpopular and so despised
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that if you just shut up, your candidates will
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do better. But they just can't help themselves
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because they're loud and they're stupid. Collecting
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that money from APAC just backfired royally.
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I think it's gonna, it's gonna in November. Well,
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we'll see. I mean, look, it's not going to be
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an unchallenging race because Saeed has to beat
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not only a Republican opponent in a swing state
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that has voted for Donald Trump. He's got to
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vote, he's got to vote again, he's got to go
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against his own party who are going to be trying
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to stab him in the back because they would rather
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lose to the Republicans. Well, the seat that
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he's trying to fill is being vacated by by a
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Democrat. Correct. So it's it's very I mean,
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I think it could be a toss up. But I think it'll
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still go in his in the Democrats favor. And in
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this case, it'll be outside. So we'll see. We
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will see. But Haley Stevens, what a weird like
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strange accent. Yeah, and she has a strange,
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strange affect. And also man, there was also,
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there was a candidate quality gap here too, right?
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I mean, like the debate was fucking embarrassing.
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She was horrible. Yeah. The woman is, is not,
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she's just not great. What can I say? Yeah. So
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I was surprised she was elected. I was surprised
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she was elected and that she had this seat in
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the first place. Well, she didn't have this seat.
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She had another seat. Yeah. Well the house still
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that she was an elected official I know it's
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like what so like yeah, you guys voted for her
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So I'm starting to question the Michiganders
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in the first place that Put her in a seat. There
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you go. Not unreasonable. All right, let's hit
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let's hit the topics All right Today's, I think,
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is going to be education heavy, Ted. So the GI
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Bill was created to reward military service by
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helping veterans build a better life. Instead,
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according to a sweeping Washington Post investigation,
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it has become a lucrative hunting ground for
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predatory schools that see veterans less as students
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and more as guaranteed government paychecks.
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The investigation found more than $300 million
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in fraud tied to GI Bill Trade schools remember
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we've been talking about trade schools a lot
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on the show Because call, you know, regular college
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admission is is on the decline while trade schools
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are up like way up So this kind of ties into
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all of that too But there's a lot of fraud tied
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to the GI bill trade schools over roughly the
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past decade So these trade schools have been
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popping up all over the place many of the schemes
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followed the same playbook create an unaccredited
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school, promise veterans a fast path to a high
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paying career, charge eye popping tuition, collect
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taxpayer money, and deliver little or no value.
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Ted, we can do this. fast -growing, take place
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in a fast -growing AI career in your community.
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Yes, that's right. You can, you can come to the
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TMI trade school. It's like, it's for trade machinery
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and industry shows, trade school. Send in your
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money right now. Intelligence. We apply for financial
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aid from the government. And if you, uh, If you
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a veteran, you call right now. You can keep your
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own tools. That's basically what happened. So
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look, let me let me tell you the details. It's
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kind of it was shocking because this was like
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one of those soup like the few times that that
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I am happy to read WAPO when they do investigative
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stuff like this. Those are but these are the
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pay only articles. So, you know, the vast majority
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of the country isn't paying to read The Washington
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Post. Right? So, this is one of those pay articles.
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So, one New Hampshire school charged the Department
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of Veterans Affairs about $15 ,000 to teach veterans
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how to grow. Wait, wait, wait. I think we are
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currently blind. I think you didn't de -jaws
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us. Oh! I thought I clicked. I thought, I know,
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but I thought I unclicked it. Anyway, could they
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hear? Were they able to hear? We're audio only.
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Right now they were able to think you could hear
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us, right? I swear I thought I clicked it, but
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I guess I didn't click it But anyway, I like
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I made it a point to like is it is it is it fixed
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now? Yeah, it's unhighlighted. Can you guys see
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this now? Well, we don't have Robbie by the way,
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because I think the fires Yeah, he's got him
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for a second and then he warned us that the power's
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been But so we don't have Robbie to tell us right
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now because well we have that we have that The
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audience. We have the chatters. It's all good.
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The chatters. Yes. Good looking out chatters.
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Thank you. So. So the school in New Hampshire
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was teaching about 15 K. Ted, you can go to this.
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It'll teach you how to grow organic grass. Grass
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like your lawn, organic grass. Wait, what kind
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of grass is not organic? Is there synthetic grass?
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Well, there is. There is. That's a thing in California.
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People put the fake grass up because of the drought.
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I have lots of friends that did that. They call
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it organic grass in a course lasting five days,
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Ted. This company was making 15 grand per veteran
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for a five -day course on organic grass. Civilians,
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however, were quoted just five grand. for the
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exact same training. Federal investigators later
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conducted an undercover sting after questioning
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whether anyone would willingly pay that price
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without the GI bill. Another school billed the
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VA about $19 ,000 for an eight -day class teaching
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students how to create decorative fake rocks
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out of concrete. It's like a pet rocks all over
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again. Veterans later told investigators they
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spent much of the course performing unpaid labor
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on the owner's commercial job sites rather than
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receiving meaningful instruction. One former
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student summed up the experience bluntly. It
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was all a lie. The largest fraud uncovered the
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largest fraud uncovered involved a Texas HVAC
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trade school. that collected roughly 72 million
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dollars in GI bill money over three years. Prosecutors
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said the owner lied about the school's finances
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and qualifications while veterans described rushed
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inadequate training that left them unprepared
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for real jobs. Meanwhile investigators say the
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owner of this HVAC school bought himself a Lamborghini,
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a Ferrari, a Bentley, a multi -million dollar
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mansion, and admitted spending nearly 200 ,000
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bucks at strip clubs. He's a job creator. What
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an asshole. The investigation argues these weren't
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isolated scams. They were symptoms of a system
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riddled with vulnerabilities. Unlike many federal
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education programs, the GI Bill allows many vocational
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schools to operate without academic accreditation.
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There is no meaningful federal minimum for course
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length, limited oversight of classroom quality,
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and much of the monitoring falls to under -resourced
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state agencies. Schools often self -report enrollment
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numbers and tuition, while compliance inspectors
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are typically scheduled in advance. Veteran advocates
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say those gaps create irresistible opportunities
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for fraudsters. The VA points out that the documented
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fraud represents less than three tenths of a
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percent of overall education spending and says
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it has recently created new fraud detection tools.
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risk scoring systems, and investigative units.
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But former inspectors general and watchdog groups
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told investigators they believe the known cases
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likely represent only a fraction of the abuse
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occurring nationwide. For veterans, the warning
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is simple. Don't assume that a school is legitimate
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just because it accepts the GI Bill. Research
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accreditation, compare tuition with similar programs,
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investigated investigate graduation and job placement
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rates, and ask hard questions before signing
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enrollment paperwork. The GI Bill remains one
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of America's greatest promises to those who serve,
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but this investigation suggests the promise has
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become a target, and veterans are often the last
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to realize that they've been caught in a scam.
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How shitty is that, Ted? Like, what kind of asshole
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are you that, like, You have this veteran that's
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like out of the military. He's trying he or she
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is trying to, you know, started turn a new leaf
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in life and like, you know, go into the private
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sector, civilian life. And like, let me teach
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you how to grow organic grass. And you're going
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to have a great booming lawn industry. What are
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you going to do with that? Yeah, that is a no,
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it's disgusting. I mean, you know, I have to
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admit. I kind of marvel at people whose minds
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think this way, like who literally, you know,
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like the people during the COVID money who are
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like the PPP, like, oh, like, you know, most
16:16
people we just read the story and we're like,
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okay. And then other people are like, all right,
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guys, roll up your sleeves. We're going to figure
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out how we're going to scan some of this government
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money and we're going to steal it for ourselves.
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And who cares if we end up fucking over a bunch
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of people, including veterans. And it's, I mean,
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part of me thinks, okay, obviously they belong
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in prison, that's for sure. And the other part
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of me is like, how does your brain work like
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that? Like, why are you, you know, like if you're
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that smart at scamming, why don't you just start
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a legitimate business for real and invent something
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that people need and sell it to them? I mean,
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it seems like you're pretty crafty, you're pretty
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candy, you should be able to do that. Well, obviously
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the crafty people are on the other end of this
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because how this how the GI bill works in case
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like my husband's a disabled veteran and he he
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used the GI bill and Got multiple graduate degrees
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from real colleges So that's right. He he went
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to regular colleges that have accreditation And
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got like got actual usable degrees Wow So I know
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I'm like, what's that like like finance? How
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do you do that? Please speak English, I don't
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understand right dollar sign divided by pi over
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whatever I don't know He solves stuff like that.
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I don't know. But anyway, he is he he used the
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GI bill and it worked out I mean for the most
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part there are millions and millions of people
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just like him who at least they knew better than
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to sign up for something like the lawn care.
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Because a lot of veterans don't even look into
18:16
what it'll cost the GI program. It is an automatic
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payment. The school, quote unquote, just directly
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bills the VA. So the student, the veteran, never
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ever sees a bill. So he or she never It never
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crosses their mind to even think about that,
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for the most part, right? Like most, it's part
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of your benefits package. Like that's, you know,
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and for a lot of kids that go into the military,
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this is their way to get a college education,
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right? They serve a couple of years, they get
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out, and then they get free education. That's
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the whole point. It's a lot of, you know, underprivileged,
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lower socioeconomic Kids usually 18 years old
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trying to get out of a bad situation and they
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know on the other side of this two three or four
19:09
-year Contract that they signed to be in the
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military on the other side of this they have
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a lifetime of benefits and This is what's happening
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to them. How shitty how shitty like how This
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is this is why the VA budget keeps expanding
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Ted. It's so low it's so like But the problem
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is they just keep throwing more, they keep throwing
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more good money after bad, right? And the VA
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isn't cracking down on it. I just want people
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to, you know, this is good, like for the people
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who watch the TMI show, just a reminder, like,
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tell you and your, you know, for you and yours
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to pay attention and, you know, be aware of...
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You know, like double, triple check before you
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get involved in one of these things. Yeah. Don't
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just sign up for whatever trade school, especially
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because we're talking about that a lot these
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days. All right. Let's move on. Yeah. And if
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you Jaws, you must un -Jaws. I know. It shows
20:04
the highlight, and I thought I took it off. You
20:06
must de -Jaws. In modern financial markets, milliseconds
20:13
matter. Trading firms spend billions of dollars
20:16
building faster networks, servers, and algorithms
20:19
to gain an edge measured in fractions of a second.
20:22
Now Trump has introduced his variation on this,
20:26
his own social media posts. Trump Media and Technology
20:30
Group has now launched Truth API. It's a so -called
20:35
premium service that offers a unique product.
20:38
It tells institutional clients that they will
20:42
get the fastest possible access to Trump's truth
20:45
social posts, including and also those from other
20:49
influential mega accounts. You pay as much as
20:53
100 grand a month or 60 grand a month under multi
20:57
-year contracts. So the posts are not actually
21:01
technically released early. Trump media says
21:03
they appear publicly at exactly the same time,
21:07
but direct data feeds reach automated trading
21:11
systems milliseconds faster than consumer apps,
21:15
browsers, or public internet traffic. Normally
21:17
that really wouldn't matter, but Trump's posts,
21:20
as we know, can move markets. His announcements
21:23
on tariffs, military actions, energy policy,
21:26
and individual companies have repeatedly sent
21:28
stocks, commodities, and currencies sharply higher
21:31
or lower. Investors now monitor his account like
21:34
they watch government economic reports. Obviously,
21:39
there are ethical concerns here. Trump is the
21:41
most important figure by far on Truth Social
21:43
and the largest financial beneficiary of its
21:46
parent company. Every institutional subscription
21:49
raises more money for his grift. Critics and
21:53
it's emolumentastic. Critics say the arrangement
21:57
risks creating a two -tiered market. Hedge funds
22:00
and trading firms are able to spend six figures.
22:03
They gain a speed advantage over ordinary investors
22:06
reacting through news alerts or social media.
22:10
So far, no regulator has said that this violates
22:13
securities laws. Of course, the regulators all
22:15
work for Trump. And Trump Media describes it
22:18
as a standard commercial data product. but maybe
22:22
not so much. Financial firms have long paid for
22:26
faster information, but Truth API builds on this
22:30
trend to transform the public communications
22:34
of the President of the United States into a
22:38
premium Bloomberg -like market feed. Obviously,
22:42
this is a massive conflict of interest. This
22:50
isn't like a conflict of interest like I thought
22:53
well, I thought when you're I thought when you're
22:57
a president that you're supposed to like distance
23:01
yourself from whatever Businesses you may or
23:05
may not have had before or like create like a
23:07
blind trust or whatever But I remember Trump
23:11
doing that the first term. Yeah It's more just
23:18
like, I mean, the thing is one of the more profound
23:21
quotes that I remember when Trump became president
23:24
was some expert saying, we're about to learn
23:27
from Donald Trump how much of the American system
23:29
is not based on law, it's based on norms. And
23:33
it was a norm. that said that presidents shouldn't
23:36
be profiteering from the presidency. But there's
23:39
nothing, I mean, he can do it. It's an emolument,
23:43
okay, which is an impeachable event. But impeachment
23:46
is a political process, not a real, it's not
23:48
a legal process. Right, right. So, you know,
23:51
basically they can decide to impeach if they
23:55
want, but it's not against the law. So unfortunately,
23:58
it ought to be, but it isn't. It's frowned upon,
24:00
is what you're saying. Right, it's gauche. It's
24:04
tacky. Now, adding to this is the Supreme Court
24:06
ruling granting Trump virtual immunity for almost
24:10
anything he does while he's in office. Right.
24:14
But that's also not a law, right? That's just
24:17
the American way. That's a Supreme Court ruling.
24:19
This one is a Supreme Court ruling. How would
24:20
the Supreme Court rule? How would this SCOTUS
24:22
ruling be interpreted if it were challenged in
24:25
court? And that's anybody's guess. You know,
24:28
the question is, if someone were to, let's say,
24:31
like, Let's say there were a civil lawsuit brought
24:34
by an investor who was disadvantaged by something
24:38
like this and sued Trump and said, listen, because
24:42
Trump did this and sold this special access to
24:46
institutional investors, I ended up getting burned
24:49
on a stock trade that I wouldn't have gotten
24:51
burned on. I think you could easily build a case
24:54
like that. Then if it were to come to court,
24:58
the court would have to determine was this was
25:03
Trump rendered immune, I suspect they would say
25:06
no, because the Supreme Court ruling specifically
25:10
relates to, you know, it immunizes Trump, not
25:14
for anything he does. It's just like anything
25:16
he does as president. In other words, as part
25:19
of his presidential duties. This is not part
25:22
of his presidential duties. This is business.
25:24
Right. Side business. So like it's his side hustle.
25:28
It's his side hustle. Right. So So it's like
25:31
I think it would not protect him, but I think
25:34
he thinks it is and that's why he's kind of going
25:36
crazy Right now trying to grift as quickly as
25:40
possible Figuring that some plaintiffs will be
25:43
cowed by this Supreme Court ruling Well, I mean
25:48
doesn't this just open a can of worms for other
25:54
lawmakers and officials in the government who
25:57
can sway markets. It would be like if, well,
26:00
I know Jerome Powell's not in the seat anymore,
26:01
but if he were and he's like, oh, I'm going to
26:04
open my own, I don't know, Twitter like, which
26:08
is what truth social is, right? It's like a knockoff
26:10
of, it's like cheap Twitter. But if Jerome Powell
26:15
decided I'm going to make a social media Site
26:19
and and anyone that joins will you know, I'm
26:21
gonna make comments about the housing market
26:24
there sure like I'm gonna talk about interest
26:28
rates and stuff There's no law that prevents
26:30
him from doing that and and Bloomberg and all
26:32
these people you guys can sign up for sixty thousand
26:35
dollars a month So you'll get the milliseconds
26:38
notice That my tweet is going up because my tweet
26:42
will then be blasted out everywhere else on a
26:46
five second delay, a 10 second delay, right?
26:49
It'll be public. But but you get the 10 second
26:53
access. Yep. That changes markets. The same thing
26:57
with Trump. It's like if I'm going if we're going
26:59
to World War Three with Iran, that will change
27:03
oil futures like literally in a millisecond millisecond.
27:07
Right. If they found out that we were sending,
27:10
you know, like I don't know, B -52 bombers that
27:14
way, they're taken off of whatever base in Germany,
27:17
right, and flying over to Iran right now, and
27:20
Trump tweets it, those milliseconds will literally
27:24
change like oil stock in a heartbeat. Right.
27:29
That's right. And that's what's happening here.
27:31
Yeah, because when this story was initially released,
27:35
the way it was portrayed by major news outlets
27:38
was a little different. They said that basically,
27:42
the people who subscribed to this service would
27:45
receive the truth first. And then the truths
27:51
would go out later to the public, right? The
27:55
same truth. And that was kind of like how that
27:58
was, that's how it was marketed. And that's it?
28:01
That's all they said about it? Yeah. And like
28:03
now it's kind of like, oh, so they all go out
28:05
at the same time, sort of. But because the giant
28:10
companies like hedge funds, they have these supercomputers
28:16
that literally can trigger a trade. They can
28:20
AI and instantaneously say, you know, what does
28:23
this mean? Oh, right. It can calculate what's
28:26
happening. Right. Its own prediction models are
28:30
built in and they can super compute much faster
28:35
than the most experienced Wall Street trader,
28:38
right? Like more than our friend. Bubba Horowitz,
28:42
shout out to Bubba. Bubba's been trading for
28:44
like 45 years, right? These firms that have this
28:49
kind of technology can trade faster than Bubba
28:52
can click. In mass. That's exactly it. This is
29:00
a topic we should probably ask Bubba about. We
29:02
should bring him on. We haven't had Bubba on
29:04
in a long time. Yeah, I'd be curious what he
29:06
thinks. I mean, especially since I think he supports
29:08
the president, so I wonder what he thinks. He
29:09
does. And I wonder where he's at now given Trump
29:13
has made the market so volatile. I mean, the
29:16
highs have been high and the lows have been devastating.
29:20
Yeah, I don't think Bubba is a big fan of volatility,
29:23
as I recall. I don't think so. I think he's a
29:25
pretty steady, steady, even keeled trader. I
29:28
don't think he likes going into taking big risks.
29:32
And Bubba does have his own seminar class about
29:38
teaching you how to trade. That's cool. Yeah.
29:43
I don't think he tries to bilk the GI bill, though.
29:47
Well, you know, that's our job. That's the TMI
29:51
Trade School. It's organic grass. That there
29:55
is Dean Manila and I am Provost Ted and welcome
30:01
to our trade school. And you're going to teach
30:04
cartooning so people, they can then take the
30:08
trade to like Atlantic City. Cartooning is the
30:11
trade of the future. They can go to Atlantic
30:14
City at the Boardwalk. Everybody who draws cartoons
30:17
becomes worth trillions of dollars. Look at Charles
30:21
Schultz. He had that Beagle and that Beagle is
30:25
rich and you can be as rich as that dog. So you
30:30
sign up now. The number 1 -800 -TMI show. Call
30:35
now. Operators are standing by. We accept Discover
30:37
Car. That's the orange one. No one else takes.
30:39
Come on. No, and G .I. Bill. We primarily focus
30:44
on the G .I. Bill because then you can get overcharged.
30:47
You served in Iraq. Now it's time to get back
30:51
at the TMI school. That's right. Of cartooning
30:55
and beauty. I will teach people how to cut their
30:59
own hair. My unaccredited beauty school. I will
31:02
teach you how to use this pan, this one pan and
31:06
you will learn how to draw. You can draw as goodly
31:10
as I can. And you can save thousands by cutting
31:15
your own hair. You will save thousands of Zimbabwean
31:18
dollars. That's right. All right. Here's here's
31:28
another grift. OK, this I guess today's maybe
31:30
it's not about education. The theme is grifting.
31:34
Big, big, big grifts. Always. And none bigger.
31:37
than California. God bless my home state. Gotta
31:42
love Gavin Newsom, man. I mean, like, I say this
31:46
tongue in cheek, but I mean, seriously, Ted,
31:50
the balls on this guy. It just, just wow. Just.
31:56
Wow. Story just comes out that he was like shooping
32:00
his best friend's wife, right? Like all of this
32:02
stuff. And he's like ready to get it. He's prepping
32:05
himself. Come on. Who hasn't who hasn't fucked
32:07
their best wife, their best friend's spouse?
32:09
Oh, my God. Really? Just the balls on this guy.
32:13
You got you really have to kind of commend him
32:16
because of like the big balls on Newsom. So this
32:20
story came out yesterday. So California Governor
32:23
Gavin Newsom is facing renewed scrutiny over
32:26
and often overlooked feature of California politics,
32:31
something called behested payments, a legal system.
32:35
Yeah, right. A leak behested at the behest of
32:39
it's literally like the definition the definition
32:43
of like, at the behest of the governor. A legal
32:47
system that allows elected officials to ask corporations,
32:51
labor unions, native tribes, and other special
32:55
interests to donate unlimited sums of money,
32:59
not to political campaigns, but to charities,
33:02
nonprofits, and public causes that the behestor,
33:07
in this case this would be Gavin Newsom, that
33:10
they ask you to donate to. So so it'd be like
33:15
Gavin Newsom phones up Mark Zuckerberg and this
33:17
is true. This is like part of the investigation
33:19
Zuckerberg is one of the Zuckerberg and Facebook
33:22
are one of the biggest behest did Pay ease in
33:29
the state of California or pay. Yeah pay your
33:31
pay your yours They're one of the biggest pay
33:34
yours in, California So knew some phones up Zuck
33:38
all the time and it's like hey You know, you
33:42
really ought to donate millions of dollars Right
33:47
just like that the governor can do that Here's
33:51
why? So since first winning statewide office
33:54
back in 2011 Newsom has reportedly solicited
33:58
roughly 347 million bucks through this practice
34:02
including more than 340 million. So the bulk
34:06
of it during his tenure right now as governor,
34:10
five million plus while serving as lieutenant
34:13
governor. By comparison, former governor Jerry
34:16
Brown reported only about one -tenth of that
34:19
amount over a comparable period. Unlike campaign
34:23
contributions, behested payments are not subject
34:26
to California's strict contribution limits because
34:29
the money never enters a campaign account. Instead,
34:34
Donors write checks directly to third -party
34:36
organizations identified by the elected official.
34:40
In this case, it's Gavin. Supporters argue the
34:43
system allows governors to mobilize private capital
34:48
quickly for things such as disaster relief, charitable
34:51
initiatives, and public -private partnerships
34:54
without relying solely on the taxpayer dollar.
34:58
Newsom's office has previously pointed to wildfire
35:01
recovery, homelessness initiatives, and nonprofit
35:06
programs as examples of the practice serving
35:09
legitimate public purposes. So yes, they are
35:12
going to good things, but it's still another
35:14
conflict of interest, in my opinion anyway. Critics,
35:18
however, argue the arrangement creates an obvious
35:20
ethical dilemma. Yeah. Many of the organizations
35:25
writing seven and eight figure checks also have
35:29
substantial business before the state. What a
35:34
coincidence. Oh, major corporations, health care
35:38
companies, labor organizations, and tribal governments
35:41
frequently seek regulatory approvals, contracts,
35:45
or favorable policy decisions from California's
35:48
executive branch. While there's no public evidence
35:51
that specific donations produced specific government
35:55
actions, Ethics experts have long warned that
35:58
the appearance of influence alone can erode public
36:01
confidence. The appearance of conflict of interest
36:04
is public, is conflict of interest. Is the conflict
36:07
of, right, the appearance alone. So some of the
36:11
largest individual requests reportedly reached
36:13
into the millions of dollars. Investigations
36:15
have also highlighted approximately five million
36:18
dollars in behested donations. directed to the
36:23
California Partners Project, a nonprofit founded
36:26
by the, they call her, this is so annoying to
36:29
me, the first partner, Jennifer Siebel Newsom.
36:32
Wait, they're married, aren't they? Yes, but
36:35
his California is progressive. She's the first
36:37
chickadee. She's the first lady of California,
36:41
but because they're so progressive, Ted, she's
36:44
just, she identifies as the first partner. I
36:48
hate that. Jen here. Makes her sound like a lesbian.
36:51
I know. She's the first partner. Unless there's
36:54
something about Gavin we don't know. Well, I
36:57
don't know. She self -identifies as the first
37:00
partner, not the first lady. So first partner
37:04
Jennifer Siebel Newsom works alongside her official
37:08
office, although she is not paid by this organization.
37:11
So five million bucks in behested payments went
37:14
to CPP, California Partners Project. She was
37:19
the first partner Ted And yeah, basically she
37:23
yeah, I get it. It's her own little pet project
37:26
five million Her hubby like directed five million
37:30
dollars to basically, you know It's like when
37:34
a rich guy buys his bored wife a Little a boutique
37:38
to run in the strip mall in the suburbs. It's
37:41
like hey honey bunch I'm selling my blown glass.
37:45
I love you. Here's five million dollars. For
37:50
her organization. Yeah. So this issue has taken
37:53
on greater significance as Newsom increasingly
37:55
positions himself as a national Democratic figure
37:58
and a potential 2028 presidential contender.
38:01
At the same time, California's political watchdog
38:03
recently fined the governor 31 ,500 bucks for
38:07
reporting. Five and a half million in behest
38:10
of donations after state disclosure deadlines
38:13
So state disclosure deadlines are 31 days from
38:16
the moment it hits any place like where you make
38:20
the donation and the donation has been made You
38:23
have 31 days. So old Gabby there missed a couple
38:27
of days I guess so he's been fined just over
38:30
30 grand Although the Commission did not allege
38:35
the donations themselves were illegal. It was
38:37
just a penalty for late filing. The broader question
38:42
extends well beyond the governor. Modern politics
38:44
increasingly relies on funding streams that exist
38:47
outside traditional campaign finance laws. Behested
38:50
payments occupy one of those gray areas. Legal,
38:55
transparent through disclosure requirements,
38:58
yet capable of moving hundreds of millions of
39:00
dollars at the request of... the elected official.
39:04
Whether the practice represents efficient public
39:07
-private cooperation or an invitation to pay
39:10
-to -play politics, I'm going to go with the
39:12
latter, remains a matter of fierce debate. But
39:16
with nearly $350 million raised through the system,
39:20
California has become the nation's most prominent
39:22
test case for where legal fundraising ends and
39:26
political influence begins. What do you think
39:30
about that, Ted, behest of demons? No one's ever
39:33
heard of this shit. No, nobody's ever heard of
39:35
it. It's disgusting. You know, California is
39:40
a fucking cesspool of corruption, as I learned,
39:46
as close and personal. And it's amazing to me
39:51
how a state that could purport to be progressive
39:54
and lefty, you know, allows this shit to happen.
39:58
So gross. It's so dirty. But here's the thing,
40:02
Ted. Oh, what is his face from from Illinois?
40:09
The Blagojevich Blago. Yeah. Remember when you
40:13
went to prison, went to prison because allegedly
40:16
he was like, hey, so you want to take the Senate
40:20
seat vacated by Obama? So dude serves like 10
40:25
years or something some ridiculous amount of
40:27
time in prison for What is is tantamount to like
40:33
you scratch my back? I'll scratch yours, but
40:35
there's no heart I don't know I didn't personally
40:37
think there was a lot of hard evidence to say
40:39
that he said I think he was really he was really
40:44
not treated fairly Yeah, I think it was really
40:47
like they really threw the book at him just to
40:49
make an example of him But here you have They
40:53
totally did but here you have my home state governor
40:57
who is greasy AF Greasing getting his palms greased
41:02
like His extended palm, right? It's not it's
41:06
like you can grease my wife's palm and then she'll
41:10
take care of me on the back end right like it's
41:13
your Behested payments are are basically like
41:17
a loophole a workaround to getting what you want
41:20
from the governor. So if you're a Native American
41:23
tribe and you want to, let's say, open another
41:27
casino, because California has a lot of them,
41:31
and it's going to require X amount of water access
41:35
and blah, blah, blah. And state regulations say
41:39
it's going to take you, it's going to take eight
41:40
months before an inspector can get there. But
41:43
then you call the governor and you're like, hey,
41:46
I know you've really been working on this project
41:49
where you want the kids in XYZ district to have
41:53
brand new computers. We're gonna buy brand new
41:56
computers and donate money to the schools. Would
41:58
that make you happy, Governor? The Governor says
42:01
yes. And then the Governor can go on TV and be
42:04
like, in a public -private partnership with Tribe,
42:08
blah, blah, blah, we're doing this. And the kids
42:11
at San Francisco, Rose Elementary, they're all
42:15
getting Private computers laptops blah blah blah
42:19
and the schools getting you know a hundred thousand
42:21
dollars this year Thanks to try blah blah blah,
42:24
and then Sure, it's not a direct bribe to the
42:28
governor But the governor gets his clout and
42:31
then on the back end the governor's like I'm
42:33
just gonna go ahead and approve the water rights
42:35
for this new casino Right like that's that's
42:38
how this works That is how this works. Yeah,
42:41
this is exactly what this is. And I'm not to
42:44
not to blame the Native Americans, obviously,
42:46
but they're it's it's one example of like an
42:53
interest group, if you will. I mean, obviously,
42:55
a tribe is they are an interest group, but, you
42:57
know, broader than that. So trade unions, it
43:01
could be anything. But the governor can literally
43:04
call you called. Mark Zuckerberg being one of
43:08
the prime examples calls duck and is like bro.
43:12
Hey, bro, bro, bro and says You know such -and
43:18
-such project for homelessness in in Silicon
43:22
Valley. We really need some more encampments
43:26
some more Some more tents. Can you donate a few
43:31
million bucks to such -and -such? Nonprofit organization.
43:35
It's like, love you, man. Yeah, bro. And Zuckerberg
43:39
does it. I mean, he was part of like they investigated
43:41
that Facebook and Zuck was the top donor. Mm
43:47
hmm. To behest payments. So yeah, it's so Ted.
43:51
Now we know that's why. That's why they have
43:54
that whole fucking compound happening. This is
43:57
not going to help his his reelection presidential
44:00
campaign in two years. Yeah. Of course not, but
44:03
it's going to look really bad. But now everybody
44:05
knows about behested payments. There are other
44:09
states in the union that do it. California is
44:11
just obviously the most egregious. And probably,
44:16
yeah, highest profile and probably without a
44:18
doubt, biggest scale, right? Yeah. So other states
44:21
do this. Look into your own home state. If you're
44:24
wondering how certain projects are happening
44:26
and whatever interest groups, it might be through
44:29
this. So it's not direct campaign donations and
44:31
it's not, you know, super PAC donations. This
44:34
is a loophole to the super PAC. There you go.
44:41
And last but not least, for residents of Haven
44:44
Plaza in Manhattan's Alphabet City neighborhood,
44:49
the most basic act. Where's that? Lower, let's
44:53
the Lower East Side sort of. Lower East Side,
44:55
okay. So it's basically. Like past Chelsea? So,
44:58
okay, so Chelsea's on the West Side in the 20s.
45:01
Oh. Alphabet City is like the single digits from
45:04
14th Street from down to Houston Street. Oh,
45:08
okay. It's called Alphabet City because it has
45:11
avenues instead of first, second, third. It has
45:14
avenues A, B, C, D. Oh, I've not been to that
45:18
area then because I don't ever remember seeing
45:19
Alphabet Streets in New York. Yeah, so it's well
45:23
it used to be a sketchy area. Not anymore, but
45:27
it used to be. um it was like but it's kind of
45:31
it's kind of the northern lower east side okay
45:34
okay yeah uh for so anyway for residents in that
45:38
area the most basic act of daily life has become
45:41
a public health gamble Tenants in the five -building
45:44
affordable housing complex, Haven Plaza, say
45:48
that they've gone about two months without safely
45:51
using their showers after Legionella bacteria
45:55
were detected in the building's water system.
45:59
Two people who lived there did develop Legionnaires
46:02
within a year, triggering broader testing and
46:05
remediation across the complex's 371 apartment
46:09
units. Legionnaires is a severe form of pneumonia
46:12
that you get by inhaling contaminated water vapor.
46:16
That makes showers a real problem, especially
46:18
for older residents, smokers and people with
46:21
weakened immune systems, or with chronic lung
46:23
disease. So just take a fucking bath. Yet tenants
46:27
say official guidance has been confusing and
46:29
very slow. Shocking that the New York City bureaucracy
46:33
could be like that. Some families have resorted
46:36
to heating pots of water for baths. One mother
46:39
described boiling water simply to keep her eight
46:41
-year -old son from bathing in freezing water.
46:44
Well, yeah. Residents have demanded mobile showers,
46:47
rent relief, and clearer information about when
46:50
their water will eventually be considered safe
46:53
again. Catholic Homes of New York, which owns
46:55
the property, and Wavecrest Management say a
46:59
full testing and treatment program began after
47:02
the second victim was identified. A city approved
47:05
remediation plan reportedly began in late July,
47:09
but residents say they still lacked a firm timetable
47:12
for it to be resolved. Now it's a political crisis.
47:15
Residents and local officials have questioned
47:17
why Zoran Mamdani, the new mayor of New York,
47:21
appears focused on high -profile announcements
47:23
and housing tours while people in Haven Plaza
47:26
struggle for attention. City council leaders
47:29
are now demanding oversight and stronger rules
47:32
for buildings vulnerable to Legionella contamination.
47:36
So basically hundreds of people can't even take
47:40
a friggin shower and no one much seems to care.
47:42
And these aren't unhoused people, Ted, as we
47:45
say in California. No, these are highly housed
47:47
people. Are these, so are these projects or like
47:52
what? No, no. No? Regular apartments? This is
47:55
just an apartment building, yeah. So, okay, so
48:01
we've not heard much from the mayor about this,
48:04
right? No. I've done real estate in California,
48:11
so I know the responsibility of California landlords,
48:15
but what kind of laws are there in New York that
48:19
require the building owner? I mean, somebody
48:23
has to be in charge of the pipes and where the
48:25
water access goes. Yes, the health department.
48:28
The health department supervises it. Obviously,
48:33
the building owners are responsible to provide
48:35
a safe habitation. Clean water is obviously one
48:40
of the basic metrics. Right. Is this water? Is
48:43
this poison water? Is this is this like the the
48:50
source of the water? Have they traced it back?
48:52
Do they know if the source is what's bad? The
48:56
thing is Legionnaires disease has is now it's
48:58
not that's not the only building. OK, lots of
49:01
buildings in New York have now tested positive
49:03
for it. Oh, God. So it's around. Oh god, so is
49:07
it in the water system? Yeah, it's in the water
49:10
system. So it's not the pipes of this building,
49:13
it's in the water system. Oh well, I mean, nobody
49:15
really knows how it's spreading from building
49:18
to building. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. They
49:20
don't know the source. I have a theory though.
49:22
So, so, you know, you know those traditional,
49:24
you know, Edward Hopper paintings that show the
49:27
traditional like water towers on the older buildings
49:30
in New York City that have like the pointed top
49:33
and then there's cylinders underneath. It's very
49:35
like one in LA where the girl was found dead.
49:39
Oh, yeah. So there's a lot of them still in New
49:41
York. Right. And I lived I lived in a building
49:44
on 101st Street that had one of those. And the
49:48
super was confiding to me. that they have to
49:51
be cleaned from time to time, because at the
49:53
point where the roof meets the side, there's
49:56
a gap. And that gap - Is there? So that there
50:01
has to be ventilation. The air has to be able
50:03
to - The water has to be able to aerate, right?
50:06
Sure. Well, where there's gaps, there be - There's
50:09
poop. That's gonna say there's poop! Monsieur
50:13
le pigeon. So, the pigeons - But they don't put
50:17
- fucking screams around the gap? So the pigeons
50:19
get in and they drown in the water all the time,
50:23
all the time. So like one of the super's jobs
50:26
is to go in there with a like pool scooper, a
50:29
pool skimmer and scoop out the dead birds, right?
50:32
So birds obviously spread disease, not just pigeons.
50:36
Pigeons are flying rats. So the thing is, my
50:39
theory is that the Legionnaires is spreading
50:42
as the pigeons who don't drown go from one and
50:46
the reason this is my working theory and you
50:49
know mayors mandani call anytime i'll take your
50:51
call i noticed that none of the buildings involved
50:55
here are modern brand new buildings with without
50:58
those tiny towers so that's my working oh yeah
51:02
i didn't realize there was that many buildings
51:06
with those those old water tower i mean i guess
51:09
it would make sense i guess that makes sense
51:11
i i guess i just never paid attention to those
51:13
residential towers like you're usually looking
51:15
up at the you know the brand new sparkling glass
51:18
buildings and I never looked that far up like
51:21
a residential complex and if anything you admire
51:24
the brown stones or something right like on the
51:26
upper east or whatever you're like oh these are
51:28
beautiful but that would make sense because like
51:32
Los Angeles Like downtown LA, where I lived,
51:36
there are a lot of turn of the century gothic
51:40
and deco style buildings, right? From like the
51:42
1920s or what have you, right? Like right around
51:45
the turn of the century. And it's all those old
51:48
buildings where the rooftops have those weird
51:52
water towers. Like I said, where I mentioned
51:54
the girl, the little Asian girl, woman, young
51:57
woman that went missing, she somehow found herself
52:03
Found her way into that and contaminated the
52:06
water system at a hotel At a hotel famously known
52:11
to have housed, you know in years past like in
52:14
the 1920s 1930s Like silent film actors and people
52:19
often killed themselves like jumping out of that
52:21
It's a whole thing. And then this this girl Climbed
52:25
into the water tower. So I can't even imagine
52:28
I never followed up on it, but I can't imagine
52:30
what kind of diseases a rotting human corpse
52:35
for weeks was giving to the hotel visitors. It
52:42
can't be good, right? I didn't hear that it was
52:45
Legionnaires, but I never paid attention to if
52:50
there were gaps where birds would go leave their
52:53
droppings, or is that how Legionnaires, is that
52:56
how like the disease forms? I'm not clear on
53:01
that. I don't know either. It's a disease you
53:04
rarely hear about. I know it can get into the
53:09
HVAC systems. That's certainly true. So what
53:18
is the remediation? The thing is they have to
53:23
get in and clean all of them. The tough part
53:26
is it gets into all the ducts, all the pipes.
53:31
So all the ducts and the pipes have to be cleaned.
53:34
You know, obviously that's complicated and hard.
53:36
So now you have hundreds of people that are paying
53:38
probably an arm and a leg to live in New York
53:41
City. Sure. Unbathed. And you know the landlords
53:44
are not doing the right thing because they're
53:46
cheap assholes. I'm sure. And they don't want
53:49
to like, what they should do is offer all of
53:52
those people, you go stay in a hotel while we
53:55
work on this. And but they're not going to do
53:57
that. No, no, of course not. But like the building
54:02
owners expect them to be you know jerks about
54:04
it, but Why why isn't the city stepping in because
54:08
if they don't know the source of this and people
54:11
are starting to die? Why isn't the municipality?
54:17
Coming in to investigate and it's been like they
54:19
are investigating with the health department's
54:21
on top of it I mean, oh great people feel real
54:24
safe about that. Well, I mean real content. Look,
54:27
it's New York City, you know Nothing is ever
54:30
done efficiently or well. I mean, that's just
54:32
how it is Well, that's why I read that they that
54:36
people I imagine the people living there were
54:39
requesting like hey, why doesn't the city or
54:42
the building owners? Why don't they give us one
54:44
of those like shower RVs like outside? Well,
54:49
that's a good idea Like that's horrible. So if
54:53
you can't shower in it, you can't cook and drink
54:55
it. My recommendation would be if you're capable
54:57
of handling it, take a bath instead. But why
55:01
would you, but wouldn't that still expose you
55:03
to the disease? No, because of the vaporized
55:05
nature of the water. No, it's a respiratory disease.
55:09
So it's like the micro droplets, but not necessarily
55:12
the steam? Correct. So in other words, if the
55:15
water is not agitated, it's fine. So if you draw
55:20
the bath and then let it sit and come and take
55:23
a bath, you'll be fine. Yeah, I would be hard
55:28
-pressed to, let's say, bathe my newborn infant.
55:32
But if you do what I said. No, just knowing that
55:36
my building had that, oh, hell no. Well, it would
55:39
be really freaky, yeah. Your building basically
55:43
killed you. Yeah, that's awful. All right. Well,
55:48
there's there's your news for Wednesday grifting
55:51
and your building is poisoning you Yeah, so take
55:56
it easy So there you go. So check your water.
55:59
Are we gonna do Perez Hilton tomorrow? Oh, but
56:02
why is that even a story Perez Hilton? Because
56:05
of the way he did it. Oh, I didn't read the details.
56:08
I'm just so disinterested in Perez Hilton. I
56:10
don't give a shit about Perez Hilton, but the
56:13
dude basically decided to try to he basically
56:16
fucked himself up on the air so that's the point
56:21
it's like do you remember like that do you remember
56:22
that famous there were a couple of cases of news
56:25
anchors who basically were like one case where
56:28
a guy's like you guys hear about more gun violence
56:31
but you don't really ever take it seriously well
56:33
i'm bringing the story home and he pulled out
56:35
a gun from under the desk and shot himself on
56:38
the evening news God, that's awful. I do remember
56:47
in California, I would say 1995 or 1996, you
56:55
know, we love high speed chases in the motherland,
56:58
right? We're famous for that. We have whole channels
57:01
dedicated, dedicated to high speed freeway chases
57:04
in California. So the choppers overhead, I forget
57:08
what freeway it is, but I think it's somewhere
57:11
in the valley. The guy... The guy finally stops
57:14
on the freeway. The CHP is involved, the cops
57:18
are involved, and they block off the freeway.
57:20
The guy has a standoff in his little pickup truck,
57:23
in his little old Toyota pickup truck, and it's
57:27
going on for several, several minutes, like 10,
57:29
15, 20 minutes. Finally, dude gets out of his
57:34
little Toyota pickup, shoots his dog live on
57:39
on tv with the chopper's overhead on live tv
57:42
and then and so you get i i was watching this
57:46
i i gasped and then within a moment he does the
57:50
same thing to himself live on tv and the fox
57:56
fox local helicopter people were like oh my god
57:59
and the camera's fumbling and they're like oh
58:01
my god and so that is actually what prompted
58:05
local news at least in california to to institute
58:09
the delay. All right, so listen, I'm kind of
58:13
confusing an incident that inspired Network,
58:16
the movie. So Christine Chubbuck, this actually
58:21
happened in 1974. She was a TV reporter in Sarasota,
58:25
Florida. During her live morning talk show, Suncoast
58:29
Digest, she announced a mock suicide statement,
58:34
pulled out a gun and shot herself on the ear.
58:37
A woman? That was a woman, yeah, Christine Chubbuck,
58:41
unfortunate name. Then there, in 1987, Bud Dwyer,
58:47
1987, the Pennsylvania State Treasurer at the
58:51
time, he called a televised news conference the
58:54
day before his sentencing for bribery. During
58:57
the live broadcast, he shot himself in front
59:01
of the reporters because it was a major news
59:03
event. Several local TV stations broadcast the
59:06
footage unedited. Also in 1998, Dan Jones was
59:12
a guy who was facing severe health complications.
59:16
He had engaged in a standoff on an L .A. freeway.
59:20
Local news stations covered the event live via
59:23
helicopters. He shot himself on live TV. Yep.
59:27
That's the guy I'm talking about. That's the
59:28
one. 95 or 96. And then Allison Parker and Adam
59:33
Ward. This is a little different. They were both
59:36
killed on the air. by their colleague, a former
59:40
employee. So the co -worker went postal and blasted
59:45
everyone? Yeah, basically. Yeah, in Virginia.
59:47
Well, that's very different than self -harm like
59:50
Perez Hilton. Yeah, it's very different. I mean,
59:53
that's mental health issue. I don't know. I don't
59:56
know. I'm not like a fan. Pop culture is not
1:00:00
my world, but that's weird. Obviously, you're
1:00:06
having a mental health crisis in that moment.
1:00:10
So, um, I don't know, I'd have to have to read
1:00:14
it. I guess I never I stay away from like the
1:00:16
gossip rags. And I view Perez Hilton as part
1:00:21
of that world. And I'm not interested in that
1:00:23
world. But, but for this angle, what a yucky.
1:00:27
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