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Biden Burisma Cash, Secret Campaign Payments and the Search for Dark Matter | TMI Ep 455 · The TMI Show with Ted Rall and Manila Chan

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Always I love stripes. Thank you. I love stripy
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shirts. I love stripes, especially when I see
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them on like inmates and stuff Yeah, true What
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an old -timey I think they should bring it back
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instead of the orange jumpsuit. I don't like
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the orange one. No, I don't like the orange one
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either Why do they do orange? I bet they get
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I you know why it gets a cheap price They think
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that if they think it's so stupid they think
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that if they might escape and that way when they're
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like running on the side of the interstate. You're
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like, you're like, they chose a bright color
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that like no one actually wears except the president
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on his skin. So there's like, so people are like,
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oh, like that's easily recognized. I think that's
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really the logic. I mean, who the fuck, right?
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Robbie, don't you think that's why they do it?
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I would think because it's they probably get
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it cheap, like the rolls of fabric to like make
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the jumpsuits. I don't think so. Oh, I don't
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know. The prison industrial complex doesn't source
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things cheaply, Manila. That would defeat the
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purpose, right? Of the grift. No, it's because
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orange is the color of hunters. So whenever you
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hunt, you have to wear like an orange vest or
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something orange. Right. And so that way you're
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on the lookout for that. So people are conditioned.
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If you see that bright hunter orange, then there's
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something here psychological. It draws it draws
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the eye. I mean, yeah, because there's no one
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wears that color. Well, also orange is one of
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the is one of those colors that doesn't appear
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like that in the natural world. You can't. Well,
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there are lilies that are orange, but not that
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hue of oranges was I'm trying to say. So it doesn't
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work as chemical. There's a reason why y 'all
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have orange camouflage. Well, look, unless you're
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in the White House with less your friends with
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Dick Cheney to then you become a target for getting
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shot. So so, you know, but but change I think
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it's fiction that like the prisoners are going
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to are all are they be escaping all the time
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they they they have what was where was it like
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in in I'm asking the internet Yep, this is it
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It's primarily to make it difficult for an escaped
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inmate to hide or blend into a crowd. Why'd they
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dump the big stripes like what I wanted? They
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said, let's see, in the early 20th century, they
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phased out the traditional black and white stripes
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because gangs began adopting them. There are
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no gangs that wear stripes. I know. I don't know
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what they're talking about. What kind of gangs
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are these? wussified fashion gangs. It's the
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Buddha judges. What kind of gangs are rocking
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stripes? Right. Right. No, it's true. Can you
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imagine the Bloods or the Crips wearing stripes?
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Come on. Anyway, this is the TMI show. So you
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learn all kinds of weird stuff and stuff maybe.
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Oh, yeah. And then there's hot pink, too. That's
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what our Pio did. Yeah, because it was to make
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them it was to emasculate them But our Paya what
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he didn't realize was like pink on men became
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like the thing like in the in the early aughts
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of the 2000s like that was like men were wearing
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remember they were wearing like the double polo
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shirts with like pop collars and like pink would
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be on the outside and white would be on the inside
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or something like men were wearing pink like
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it became a fashion statement not for men not
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emasculating. It was like it was a fashion statement.
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So Arpaio got that way wrong. But whatever. Real
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men wear pink. Yeah, I agree. All right. So let's
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chat. Chats are not coming across on Rumble Studio
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stuff. I miss any of y 'all's donations or anything.
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I apologize. Really? Are we on Rumble Live? Yeah,
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we are. Yeah, we're live on Rumble and YouTube.
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I just can't see. Even in the Rumble chat itself?
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I can, but I have to jump over, watch YouTube
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and the stuff individually. So y 'all will be
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robbie -less because I'll be playing the background.
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Okay. Manchild says Bob Barker had a monopoly
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on supplying jails with all their prison goods.
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Soaps, toothbrushes, shoes, et cetera. Really?
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By the way, what is also worth mentioning is
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the death of Gloria Steinem, 92 years old, former
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CIA operative. I confirmed it. It is true. It's
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been reported mainstream sources. So in the late
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50s and early 1960s, she was the head of a CIA
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front organization tasked with basically, say,
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trying to purge leftists out of progressive organizations
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like feminist groups. And basically, she was
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an anti she was a rabid liberal anti communist.
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And she never apologized for this, although she
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later admitted much later in life that maybe
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it was a tactical mistake. She was outed by a
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leftist publication called Ramparts in 1967,
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which discovered this about her and she had kept
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it hidden. So she was a rabid anti -communist
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and basically purged socialists and communists
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out of the feminist movement on behalf of the
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CIA. in order to de -radicalize feminism so that
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feminism would be softer and wouldn't be as militant
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and probably not as effective or radical. Interesting.
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Right, isn't it? And the thing is, I think it's
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like, part of me thinks, okay, well, we all make
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mistakes, right? But if you don't apologize,
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then you don't really think it was a mistake.
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Yeah, if you're unrepentant. Yeah, she's unrepentant.
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So I'm like, to me, that's a problem. I feel
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like that's wrong. So just saying so So she would
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be I don't I don't know. I always thought she
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was like Antithetical to oh gosh, what's her
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name? I'm having i'm having the new mom brain
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farts because of no sleep. Um The conservative
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woman she has a whole family phyllis schlafly
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phyllis schlafly. Thank you. Yes, the orange
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lady She should be like the opposite orange.
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What? Oh, no, someone else. Yeah. Phyllis Schlafly
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was different. Yeah. She was like the pro -Tradwife
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lady. Totally. Yeah, total proto -Tradwife. Yeah.
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Yeah. So I always thought Gloria Steinem was
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like the polar opposite of her, but I guess they
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have the overlap there where they're anti -communist,
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anti -leftist. What is a tradwife? What are you
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talking about? Are you serious? Traditional.
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Trad means traditional. Oh, okay. Traditional.
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Okay, but yeah, so but it's a movement it's an
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online influencer thing and basically it's like
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these ladies who they you know, they put their
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entire lives on Instagram and and whatever to
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talk and basically they're like They dress in
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a very feminine way and they are basically they
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encourage traditional Gender roles and they're
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like, I suppose, you know, I they don't say that
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they don't work. They're like, you know, in fact
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Many of them are making a lot of money through
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this, you know, trad wifey through trad wifey
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online, right? So they're working but they're
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basically saying like, you know I'm gonna honor
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my husband in you know, as the head of the family,
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right? And he does he does the physical shit.
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He has the more traditional job I cook and bake
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cookies and the kids and whatever yeah all these
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trad wives like that's that's pretty much the
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life that Phyllis Schlafly is is the Gloria Steinem
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of the right Right and that's what she'd been
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promoting forever and she didn't live long enough
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obviously to see the trad wife thing come I would
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say as a backlash to the glorious Steinem's of
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the world and We've come I guess full circle
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and by 2026 Peter thank you for the donation
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Peter says Funny how PBS left off the CIA connection
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in their obit for Steinem. They forgot they forgot
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It's so easy to forget these things. Well, I
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mean, I didn't know that. But I'm also not like
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a hardcore Steinem. The thing I'm talking about
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was reported in the New York Times originally.
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So it's not like hard to I don't know. It probably
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wasn't in her. It's not hard to Google. But yeah,
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it's not hard. It's not like I I had been told
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this in in all fairness by some fans and I was
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like, oh, you know, you get shit from your fans
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and you're like, it's not always true. And I
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was like, so, but now that she died, I was like,
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okay, I'm going to like check this out. And it
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is true. Huh? She was in with the CIA. Yeah.
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I mean, she was not just in with the CIA. I mean,
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she was like, in literally in, like if she never,
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if she was an operative and she never rebuked
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them afterwards and never, you know, then She
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probably stayed in. Well, look, I'm going to
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add a conspiracy layer to this. Let me just say,
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let me find the information here. But here it
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is. OK. So Gloria Steinem directed the Independent
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Research Service, initially known as the Independent
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Service for Information. IRS? This was CIA. It
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was a CIA -funded group that organized American
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student delegations to Soviet -backed world youth.
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She worked for the CIA as an anti -communist
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agent full -time from 1958 until at least 1962.
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The goal was to send liberal but anti -communist
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Americans to counter Soviet messaging on topics
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like US race relations and to sanitize American
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democracy. She recruited participants worked
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with CIA contacts and helped run operations.
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Sources describe her as a witting participant.
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She never apologized. Well, that means she was
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a true believer. Yeah. I mean, you know, I'll
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give her props for that. I mean, you know, she
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believed, she believed wrongly, but she believed,
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you know, that's her thing. I never knew that
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about her, but I wasn't like a big Gloria Steinem
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fan, nor was I a Phyllis Schlafly fan. I remember
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my mom getting the very first issue of Ms. Magazine
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in our mailbox. Oh, really? It was a big fucking
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event. I mean, yeah. And literally, we all had
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to learn about Ms. Like, what's a Ms. Like, there
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was never such a thing as a Ms. We all had to
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learn like everyone was Ms. or Mrs. Right. Right.
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And then it's like, oh, a Ms is in between. But
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actually, you know, Ms. is a great. Seriously,
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it is a it's the opposite of they them in trance.
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So they them in trance causes confusion. Right?
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It like creates confusion because you're like,
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are you talking about singular or plural? Like,
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what do you, who's this they? Right? And like,
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but linguistically, the Ms solves a problem.
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It makes things simpler because you don't have
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to know whether some, a woman is married or not
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to, to, to know how to, what her honorific is.
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All females are just miss and so therefore and
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and her identity is it's not necessary To associate
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her identity with her marital status and it also
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you don't have to and then what do you do about
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divorced women? You know, I mean, you're not
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a miss really, right? You're not married. So,
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you know, so this solves a problem So miss solved
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a problem, which is why it took off so much Do
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you know that miss miss usa or miss america?
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I don't know which pageant just happened but
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Miss whatever she is of the U .S. is a 30 -something
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black woman from Virginia who's married with
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children. The first time that we have crowned
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a Mrs. as Miss America or Miss USA. Oh, that's
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so funny. Right, that's so funny. Isn't that
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strange? I was like, don't they have a whole
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separate Mrs. USA category? They do? Yeah, for
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older women. This woman's in her 30s. I mean,
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I guess whatever. Good on her. Competing against
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the 20 something and winning good on her. She
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looks fantastic. Amazing. Whatever She's a you
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know, grown -ass woman in her 30s and a parent
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Amazing good for her, but I just think that's
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really strange I don't even understand like the
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whole like, you know, you're more attractive
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if you're young than if you're old I don't even
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get that I never did I didn't get that when I
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was young great I was just shocked that they
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like if you have a mrs. America pageant or mrs.
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USA pageant Why would Miss USA change the pageant
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rules to include married women? I thought the
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whole point of this was - Manila, it's analogous
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to how there's still Girl Scouts, but you have
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Boy Scouts now allow girls. Right, but the Girl
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Scouts are strictly girls, but the Boy Scouts
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are just Scouts, and you can be a he, a she,
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a they, a them. a miss a missus yeah yeah child
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bride whatever it's confusing yeah yeah this
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is like whatever but anyway glorious i'm very
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confused about how to feel about her i wasn't
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a fan of her you know who i was a fan of and
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i just found out when she died a couple of years
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recently a couple of years ago she lived here
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in alexandria who barbara erenreich Well, barbara
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neary hike I saw her I saw her speak one time
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and she was great. Yeah, I I looked and died
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Yeah, nickel didn't die. What a great book. So
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the difference is okay Barbara Erin, right is
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awesome because she brings a class analysis to
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feminism Whereas I love Barbara signum did not
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bring a class analysis. She was a liberal. She
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was a Democrat she wasn't a marxist. So therefore
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she didn't I mean it's not to say that you You
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can do that. You can't do feminism without a
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class analysis You're just leaving a lot out
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and it's hard to do it right that way. Yeah She
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was a glamour puss she was I mean she was a very
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cool Gloria Steinem was a looking Oh, yeah, she
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was you know, oh, yeah, she she looked like she'd
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be a photographer type, you know, totally like
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like that movie blow up She's like a boho. If
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she was young today, she'd be living in Brooklyn.
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She'd be cool, right? Oh, yeah, but she'd be
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the hottest lady in Brooklyn by far because she's
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not covered with tattoos and nose rings. Oh,
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they've gotten really... Yeah, that's a whole
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different conversation. But if I had to choose
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between the two, if I had to say I was a follower
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of one journalist or another, I would choose
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Barbara Ehrenreich over Steinem any day. Get
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out of the way. I totally couldn't agree more,
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of course. I would go with Ehrenreich all day.
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Had all her books, read all of her books. And
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holy fuck, man. Had I known that she lived here
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in Northern Virginia, I would have tracked her
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down before she died. Yeah, I didn't know she
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was dead. Yeah, she died like, I don't know,
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two years ago. Like not that long ago, two or
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three years ago. She must not have been that
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old, really. Yeah, I don't think so. She's younger
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than Steinem. And I don't remember any articles
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ever saying that she lauded Gloria Steinem for
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opening, I don't know, busting ceilings or whatever
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for women in journalism. I don't know. I don't
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know that she was a big fan. I'm not a big fan
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of Steinem. I know her contributions. I get it.
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But I'm like, you're a CIA rat. Like, mm. Yeah,
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it's not good. Yeah, bad luck. Bad luck, Gloria.
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But RIP, RIP. I mean, you're allowed to be a
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liberal, a liberal stooge of capitalism. But,
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you know, people will call you a liberal stooge
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of capitalism. Yeah. Maybe in the chat says they're
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referencing the author Barbara Ehrenreich, who
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wrote a famous book called Nickel and Dime. How
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about the poor are oh, is this a new a new title
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for the book? How about the poor are more fucked
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into destitution? Yeah. Well, that would be like
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if Barbara was alive today and she like rewrote
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it for 2026. Right? Totally. All right. With
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that, let's hop. Let's hop to the fun stuff.
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Let's do it. All right, so Ted, you and I make
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fun of Hunter a lot and less so now I'm more
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on team hunters in the middle of his rehabilitation
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tour Online, he's becoming a social media influencer
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and he does come off as Pretty charming I will
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say. Yeah, he was surprisingly so I mean Tucker
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Tucker Carlson but But after reading this, I'm
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kind of like, oh, yeah, I remember why I dislike
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you. So Hunter Biden Hunter Biden says money
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from his seat on the board of Ukrainian energy
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company Burisma helped bankroll his crack cocaine
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addiction, including a two month bender at the
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Chateau Marmont. That's in in Los Angeles on
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on the Sunset Strip. I know it well. I know it
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well. It's a cool hip hotel What's -his -face
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Chef Anthony Bourdain, I think that's where he
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also died right like that's Yeah, you know, it's
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a famous. Hey, everybody's got to die somewhere
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Well, I mean he chose Chateau Marmont to be the
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place Yeah. So, you know, but it's a cool fucking
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place. I used to hang out next door, a place
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called Miyagi's. We used to go get drinks before
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or after or next door at Chateau Marmont. It's
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a fantastic place. Beautiful views like it's
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right on the smack center sunset strip. So Hunter
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was apparently holed up there for two months
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on a bender appearing on the Dopey podcast. Weird.
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Biden said he tried to, quote, go out with a
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bang. at the Chateau Marmont. So, see, see, Ted,
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if anybody is anybody and you're gonna, you know,
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end it all, you go to Chateau Marmont. Right.
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That seems reasonable. There's a place to do
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it. There's a place to do it. During that stay,
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but never ran out of cash. That's weird. When
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host Dave Mannheim asked him how he afforded
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it, because it ain't a cheap place. It's pretty
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swanky. Biden pointed to income that was coming
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in, including his Burisma position. Apparently
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rock bottom does come with room service, guys.
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You didn't know this. Biden reportedly earned
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$80 ,000 a month. while serving on Burisma's
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board. He joined the company in 2014 when his
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father, then Vice President Joe Biden, was involved
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in the Obama administration's Ukraine policy.
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Hunter Biden defended his qualifications because
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they pushed back and they're like, yeah, but
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what qualified you to be on the Burisma board?
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That's a valid question, I would say. As far
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as we know, you never had any energy experience
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or whatever. And Hunter went on to say, Yeah,
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but I I already served on 14 other major national
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and international boards. He said that was his
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bona fides. I guess my question is how did that
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happen? Right like um Biden much like because
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that's your name. I mean we do yeah, we do know
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why right? Come on. He rejected the idea that
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he was operating an international criminal enterprise.
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The interview offered a striking glimpse into
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the Biden family's private struggle with Hunter's
21:05
addiction. Hunter said his father once arrived
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at his home with Secret Service agents while
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he was in distress. So you know what that means.
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He was like, like high out of his gourd. Like
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just out of his mind bat shit insane. On drugs.
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He said Joe Biden understood that all he could
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offer at that moment was was love Though hunter
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added that unconditional love does not mean freedom
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from consequences hunter described true addicts
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as unusually resourceful Resilient and mission
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-oriented people. I agree with that. Oh, yeah,
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they'll find a way man. Yeah Without crack cocaine
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he argued those qualities can make recovering
21:54
addicts formidable. That's true, too. It was
21:57
a candy. Addicts in recovery are like they if
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they redirect their lives into, you know, anything
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else, they can be amazing. Yeah. Yeah. With that
22:08
same drive that you like badly wanting the crack.
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Crazy focus. Yeah. Yeah. If you if you can direct
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that into something positive, like that same
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desire for like chasing down crack. another hit.
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Like you really you would be a formidable person.
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It was a candid account of privilege addiction,
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a father trying to reach his son. It confirmed
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one uncomfortable detail. Burisma money did not
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merely finance a lavish lifestyle. By Hunter
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Biden's own telling, it helped keep the costly
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binge going. Now, a lot of I mean, that's not
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exactly okay, go ahead. I mean, it's not surprising.
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Like we know he was making a lot of money. We
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knew he was, we know drugs are expensive and
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we knew he was using a lot of drugs. I mean,
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okay. Well, the one, we all know how he got on
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the Burisma board and how he got on any other
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national board. Due to his incredible expertise
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in the energy sector. Yes, for Burisma, yes,
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he, you know. that PhD that he has in oil sciences,
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Ted. That must be it. Right. They call him the
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petrochemical king of Southern California. So
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we all know how the doors get opened, you know,
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for all these NEPO babies in Washington, D .C.,
23:35
right? Like you never hear about - Let me tell
23:36
you a little inside scoop. I used to work at
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the Industrial Bank of Japan Trust Company in
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New York City in the late 80s as a loan officer.
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They couldn't come up with a snappier name. Yeah,
23:47
it was the second biggest bank in the world,
23:49
so I guess they were doing something right. Anyway,
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back then we had fax machines, and when you wanted
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to send out a fax, you'd go over to the fax machine
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and often there'd be a fax coming in at the same
24:03
time that you wanted to send the fax coming out
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to go out. So you'd have if you were an asshole,
24:08
you'd hit the stop button and like cut off the
24:10
incoming fax. But I was not an asshole. And so
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I would wait for the fax to complete. I'd be
24:17
an asshole if it was like a 50 page fax. Okay.
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Yeah, then I would turn it off. Um, but like
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the thing is so often while you're waiting, like
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there's a fax coming in and of course you have
24:27
nothing to do other than to read the incoming
24:31
fax, right? Cause you're just bored. You're just
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waiting there. And so anyway, um, one time I'm
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waiting to send out a fax and in that context
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of fax came in from a headhunter and it had a
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cover page and a, uh, and, and, and a, uh, resume
24:45
attached, and it was going to HR. And it basically
24:49
said, Hi, IBJ Bank. You know, I'm so and so headhunter.
24:54
I represent this dude. He is basically he's the
24:58
son of a Greek shipping magnet. Of course, he
25:01
is a dissolute, lazy, shiftless, stupid, corrupt
25:08
piece of shit. It's all like kind of like in
25:10
the in the cover page. However, his father who
25:15
is worth billions of dollars and owns a shipping
25:18
a greek shipping company Would really wants his
25:21
son to be gainfully employed Therefore so that
25:25
he you know starts to get a life If you were
25:28
to hire him, we don't really care if he ever
25:31
shows up or has any duties But what we would
25:34
do is you would be viewed very favorably by his
25:38
by the father Who would probably move some of
25:42
his accounts to ibj This is all opening accounts.
25:46
It's all laid out in the so then you so basically
25:48
it's like hire my stupid fucking worthless son
25:51
and I will move hundreds of millions of dollars
25:55
over to your bank as a deposit now as it happened
25:59
I Remember I personally dropped it off at HR
26:03
and she's a lady laughed and she's like we don't
26:06
care fuck fuck him We're the second biggest bank
26:08
in the world now, but I bet a smaller bank would
26:11
care and like Like they would do that. Well,
26:15
they want a clout, right? That's that's the whole
26:17
thing You want the account you want the account
26:20
you want? No, I know I know but I'm saying the
26:22
dad the the shipping dad Oh wanted his son to
26:25
sit at something that was made. He wanted his
26:28
son to launch He wanted his I mean, of course
26:30
what he should have done is get been like go
26:32
work at Starbucks loser But you know, I mean
26:35
even like go You know the the local burton herbert
26:39
bank or whatever as a teller like go like get
26:42
a real fucking job and launch on your own Stupid
26:45
ass, but that's not what rich people do They
26:48
love their like everyone they love their kids
26:50
and they want the best for them even when they
26:52
don't deserve it so So this is look I I get that
26:57
joe biden There's we know that he's like an asshole
27:02
to work with. There are a lot of people that
27:04
have have run away from the Biden administration
27:07
and told on on old Joe, you know, and he puts
27:11
out that persona like he's like Delaware Joe,
27:14
but all shucks or Pennsylvania. Where does he
27:17
say, guys, Scranton, Joe, Grant and Joe. Yeah,
27:22
like that is where, by the way, inexplicably,
27:24
they've renamed one of the interstate highways,
27:27
President Biden. Highway and you're like, okay.
27:31
I mean it should just be I mean even Abe Lincoln
27:34
when there's a Lincoln Expressway It's just called
27:36
Lincoln Expressway. It doesn't say President
27:39
Lincoln. It's like we know he's the fucking president
27:41
How many Joe Biden's are there as opposed to
27:45
mayor Joe Biden as opposed to CEO Joe Biden So
27:50
we know Scranton Joe is a is a persona that he
27:53
puts on right for the voting public and we know
27:56
behind closed doors golly gee He's probably abusive
28:00
to poor Commander, which is why Commander be
28:02
bitey. Right. And try to trick him and break
28:05
his foot. There's video of him kicking Commander,
28:07
so we know he's abusive. So he's not a nice dog
28:12
dad. No, he's an asshole. We don't know if he's
28:16
a nice human dad. No, probably not. But what
28:22
we do know is that whether he... Showed the affection
28:27
that normal, you know, like working -class middle
28:30
-class families show their children. I Mean,
28:33
that's debatable because we're not there behind
28:35
closed doors. So we don't know how he was with
28:39
hunter and bow And then his newest although you
28:42
can you can you can probably it's probably not
28:44
too hard to guess But but hunters over here saying
28:48
my dad had nothing to offer me But but love when
28:51
I was like and my strung out, you know at the
28:54
Chateau Marmont So Biden shows up and he's like
28:57
cracked out of his head. And Biden is offering
29:00
Hunter nothing but love. So I don't know, man.
29:05
I think you were 40 years too late to offer Hunter
29:08
the love because that could have been when he
29:12
was younger. He wouldn't be here now at 55, right?
29:15
Or whatever he is. Joe, of course, opens the
29:22
doors for Hunter. for the same reason that the
29:27
Greek shipping magnate wanted to do that for
29:30
his son, launch him somewhere, give him something
29:33
so he can say he's got some credentials under
29:35
his belt or whatever. But look how weak his response
29:39
was to say when Mannheim asked him, well, what
29:44
were your credentials to be on the Burisma board?
29:47
He's like, look, my credential is I was already
29:49
on 14 boards. I know how to be on a board. I'd
29:55
be boreden. I get bored. I surf board. I board.
30:00
Yeah. All kinds of board. I'm bored in the USA.
30:03
I'm so bored with the USA. I'm like the most
30:05
boarded guy in America. Of course you want to
30:08
put me on on the Burisma board. I've done 14
30:11
of them. By the way, I think pretty much, uh,
30:13
you know, it's kind of like the line in idiocracy.
30:15
Like, but I know how to do this job. It's like,
30:17
Oh, I think we can find someone else to sit on
30:19
ass and watch TV all day. I mean, that's kind
30:23
of like, I mean, come on, sitting on a board,
30:26
really, like, literally, you just go into a conference
30:29
room and sit in a big, big leather seat. And
30:33
you basically just talk and they go around and
30:36
read the minutes. So we know what was happening
30:39
with Burisma. And the and look, I have it on
30:42
good authority from a source who a Ukrainian
30:45
source who worked in the diplomatic arena. like
30:53
in foreign service, right? So I have it on good
30:57
authority that they do love some Coke and crack
31:02
right now, currently, under the Zelensky regime.
31:09
So I don't know what it was like in 2014, because
31:12
Zelensky came to power in like 19, I believe,
31:14
18 or 19. Hunter only recently got booted off
31:20
the board. So this was right after the coup.
31:23
This is at the time of the coup. This is in conjunction
31:27
with the coup. It came with the coup. It was
31:32
literally like, we installed the government and
31:34
by the way, we would like, the Veebs kid needs
31:39
a no -show job. That's it. For 80 grand a month.
31:43
So I'm willing to bet that I'm willing to bet,
31:47
not to bet, but I'm willing to bet that Hunter
31:51
was not only hooked up with 80K a month sitting
31:55
on this no -show job, that the videos of him
32:01
doing blow off of a prostitute's butthole in
32:04
Eastern Europe, the Ukrainians must have really
32:08
helped him work his way around. Eastern Europe.
32:12
Yes, I would think that's true. So I have it
32:15
on pretty good authority that there I trust my
32:18
source. I've known him for many years. And Ukrainian
32:22
national. He knows how things are done. He worked
32:24
in the, you know, Foreign Service for many years.
32:27
He knows how things are done in his motherland.
32:30
And when Hunter came to be, let's just say he
32:34
was hooked up in way more ways than just 80k
32:37
a month. So I would say the the Ukrainians bear
32:41
some responsibility in drugging him up for all
32:45
of these years because they keep you hooked and
32:47
you're you're you're on the you're you're on
32:50
the the the rat wheel right you're just like
32:52
running on the hamster wheel right and once you're
32:56
hooked you're hooked and and hunter couldn't
32:58
get enough eastern european you know drugs right
33:04
drugs drugs i mean drugs people Questions from
33:09
the viewers. Frazzled Dripperoni says, is Jared
33:14
Leto going down legally on criminal charges for
33:16
a sex cult at the top of Lookout Mountain Drive
33:19
in Laurel Canyon? I've heard that. There's a
33:23
push for that. Like I said, I was a waitress
33:27
and he sat when he was dating Cameron Diaz. Was
33:32
it Cameron? Yeah. All the celebrities used to
33:35
go to this restaurant. Yeah, it must have been
33:38
Cameron Diaz. It's like the year 2000 maybe.
33:42
Jared Leto was a prick. Absolute asshole prick
33:46
to me. Cameron Diaz was a sweetheart. But yeah,
33:53
it sounds like he... All the weird stuff in the
33:57
Hollywood Hills, there's a lot of like what's
34:01
allegedly CIA stuff too, Ted, you know, for all
34:05
these like drug testing, you know, like MKUltra
34:09
type shit, because you already have a certain
34:13
type of people that live out there, right, that
34:15
are kind of like, whoa, man, like, that's cool.
34:19
So they're willing to try stuff. And Jared Leto,
34:23
I'm willing to bet was getting down the Hunter
34:27
Biden style. I'm willing to bet. I don't know.
34:30
But I think some charges are coming in. I think
34:35
he probably has taken advantage of women that
34:39
were, you know, not in their right mind at those
34:43
times. He probably, depends how you define rape,
34:48
Ted. That's one way to put it, yeah. It's an
34:53
unfortunate way to put it. Not a good way to
34:55
put it. It depends how you define it. McCaden
34:57
says, my great uncle's Austrian wife, was an
35:01
alcoholic who could find alcohol in post -revolution
35:04
Tehran despite not being able to speak Farsi.
35:07
Yeah when you have an addiction you will find
35:10
a way. That's true. You will find a way and Hunter
35:13
Biden found a way but it got to the point 10
35:15
where all of his teeth like his front of he's
35:18
smoking so much crap that like the front of his
35:21
teeth were crumbling and he had to have you ever
35:26
have you ever seen how they do um veneers? No,
35:31
I don't know how they do that. Oh, you don't
35:32
know So if your tooth isn't is not rotted all
35:37
the way up to the root, right? But it's just
35:40
all fucked up in the like the parts that people
35:43
can see like this they will Basically file down
35:48
your tooth into a fang so that way the root stays
35:51
sturdy and they file it down into a small little
35:54
nubby fang and Then they put the fake tooth Over
35:59
it like cement it in like and put it like over
36:02
like a like a crown. It's not just veneer Sorry,
36:05
this is like crown like full crown hunter Biden
36:07
showed on his vendors He was posting pictures
36:11
of himself on social media with cracked teeth
36:14
and mouth And then and then he finally had to
36:18
go get his teeth fixed because they were literally
36:20
crumbling out of his mouth Like, can you imagine
36:26
how much crap you're smoking? I mean, honestly,
36:28
it must have just been mortifying for, honestly,
36:30
for dad. I do feel bad for Joe that way. I don't
36:34
know if he deserves my pity or anything, but
36:38
as a parent, but as a parent, I do like, God,
36:44
your kid gets to that level as a grown man, has
36:47
multiple children all over the place, making
36:49
shit decisions with his life. What do you do,
36:52
man? But the rich seem to deal with their kids
36:56
differently than than the average schmoes like
36:58
us Ted. So yeah There you go. So I don't feel
37:02
bad for hunter Biden again I'm I'm stopping I
37:05
was starting to get on the train of like maybe
37:08
he's like coming around but now I'm like, oh,
37:11
yeah Thanks for reminding me. You're a douchebag.
37:14
That's why I don't like you And you should pay
37:18
your bills hunter. You still owe the dude In
37:21
the Venice canals for his Airbnb that his house
37:24
that you destroyed pay your bills That's true.
37:29
That's true All right America's use of the death
37:34
penalty is climbing once again Florida is the
37:37
main driver here Florida executed its 14th inmate
37:41
on of the year on Tuesday Continuing its surge
37:45
in capital punishment the state of Florida carried
37:48
out 19 executions last year accounting for more
37:51
than 40 % of those that took place nationwide,
37:55
47 total last year. That was the highest since
37:58
2009. Florida's pace is striking. In July, they
38:04
killed two prisoners within hours of each other,
38:06
something that had not happened in more than
38:08
six decades. Another one's coming up September
38:11
10th. Trump has supported expanding capital punishment,
38:15
although the federal government hasn't carried
38:17
out any executions in five years. Trump signed
38:20
an executive order directing the AG to pursue
38:23
the death penalty and help states obtain lethal
38:26
injection drugs. We can talk about why that's
38:29
difficult these days. While executions are going
38:32
up, new death sentences remain near historic
38:35
lows. Fewer than 25 people were actually sentenced
38:39
to death last year, according to the Death Penalty
38:42
Information Center. During the 90s and early
38:45
aughts... Is that a kiosk? Can you go to the
38:48
Death Penalty Information Center? I think it's
38:51
a website. During the 90s and 2000s, courts handed
38:54
down hundreds of death sentences each year. Public
38:58
support is down. Gallup finds it 52%. Favor death
39:02
penalty, that's the lowest since 1972. So basically
39:06
it's always 52 percent. Yeah, the sport is going
39:09
down. So basically fewer juries are actually
39:14
Sentencing anyone to death row but states are
39:18
moving faster to execute those who've already
39:20
gotten there More than half the states have gotten
39:23
rid of capital punishment entirely or just put
39:26
them on hold effectively like california florida
39:29
is Accelerating while most of the country the
39:32
civilized world is backing away Um, and uh, yeah,
39:37
there we go. Yeah Is florida still the number
39:41
one? Um Put to death state in america like just
39:45
that's what the article says. That's what the
39:47
article them all Has it been that way for? Um
39:51
in texas was way up there remember so they've
39:54
surpassed texas It used to be texas in the 80s.
39:58
The 80s was was texas Texas be killing man, Texas
40:01
speak to they're killing it. Yeah. Yeah for sure
40:04
Robbie's a native Floridian. I'm like, yeah,
40:07
he must remember that I personally am Anti -death
40:10
penalty for the simple reason that that this
40:14
first of all the state makes mistakes and secondly
40:17
The state should be setting the highest Example
40:22
for human behavior and killing people is the
40:25
lowest standard of human behavior um in all cultures
40:29
and the state should not be and and by killing
40:32
people they're endorsing murder and basically
40:35
saying it's okay to kill people as long as you
40:36
get away with it or the question so i'm against
40:39
it it for that reason alone i kind of don't need
40:43
to go beyond that just because quite frankly
40:46
it's the state should set a high standard. It's
40:49
like public officials should be honest. They
40:52
should be following all the laws scrupulously.
40:56
They should be, they should be setting a standard
40:58
where it's like, man, I want to be like that
41:00
guy. And personally, I think it's just more miserable
41:03
for them to stay as a lifer. That's true. In
41:08
many cases. That's true. A lot of them ask for
41:11
it. A lot of you know, fuck you. You stay there
41:14
and you rot. Like, fuck you. You murdered a whole
41:18
family or whatever. You stay there and rot. You
41:21
don't get the easy way out. Like, you get to
41:23
sit there and rot in your cell like a dirty rat.
41:28
Not like a clean rat? No. That would be a lab
41:32
rat. Lab rats are clean. No clean rats. So why
41:35
is the government executing people for murder
41:38
terrible and wrong, but Mao Zedong killing millions
41:42
of his people is just collateral damage? First
41:44
of all. Well, first I never said that you're
41:47
putting your you're shoving words into my mouth
41:49
here I never said that Mao Tse -Tung killing
41:51
that Mao Tse -Tung killing anyone But I mean,
41:54
you know, I was arguing what you're conflating
41:56
things Robbie You always talk about Mao Tse -Tung
41:58
and the famine and everything China has famine.
42:02
It'd be family. It's a family country. They have
42:05
lots of famine and and so it's not fair to say
42:11
like oh like they're, you know, they're, they're,
42:14
you know, Mao Zedong is responsible largely or
42:17
even in large part for the big famine in the
42:21
1950s. I mean, the fact is, at that rate, I mean,
42:25
there's been famines subsequent, you know, since
42:27
the end of communism, there's been, I mean, well,
42:30
there were, and before communism, I mean, you
42:33
can't blame communism for something that happens
42:34
all the time in China. Or you can, but it's not
42:40
fair. No, I'm asking though. Why why is one considered
42:44
a cost of social progress? It's just scale is
42:48
just that many people just it's just too hard
42:50
to count. It just one of the things just happens.
42:53
Whereas the statement is down for him being murdered.
42:55
Well, let me understand because I don't I seriously
42:57
don't understand that. I don't understand why
43:00
one gets a pass. The other one doesn't. Well,
43:02
I mean, first of all, we don't live in China.
43:04
Right? So you're bringing up a different topic.
43:07
You're changing the subject entirely. How do
43:10
you feel about the death penalty here in the
43:11
United States, which is, of course, the topic
43:13
here? They're incredibly too inefficient. They
43:16
should be whacking people much faster than what
43:18
they are. Well, they're doing hiring squad. They're
43:21
bringing those back. There's no reason for someone
43:23
being on death row for 20 years. Justice delayed
43:26
is justice denied. Yeah, but some of those people
43:30
and it's been proven a little too late for some.
43:33
that they shouldn't have been there in the first
43:35
place. I mean, just look at how fucked up our
43:39
criminal justice system is. Look at the, say
43:42
for example, the Central Park Five. Let's take
43:46
them for example, right? It was a setup from
43:49
the beginning. Right, it was a setup from the
43:52
beginning. They didn't do it, yeah. So our system
43:58
is too institutionally fucked up. Are they the
44:02
guys who are accused of raping and killing that
44:04
jogger in Central Park? Yes, correct. Yes. All
44:06
these young black boys, black kids, they were
44:09
kids. They were little kids. So we have too much
44:16
of that. I'm not saying that some of these, I'm
44:19
not saying even, you know, maybe it's half. Let's
44:22
just go with 50 -50. Let's be generous and say
44:24
50 % of these people shouldn't be behind bars
44:27
because it's, you know, like they got set up,
44:30
they got whatever. I'm being overly generous,
44:32
but let's say 50 % deserve to be there because
44:36
they definitely did shoot up a school, they killed
44:39
whoever, they killed grandma and stole her SSI
44:43
checks for 20 years, never reported her dead,
44:46
right? Like whatever. These are bad people, yeah.
44:50
Right, 50 -50 is not a good number, even if it
44:53
was 75. Look, if one innocent person has ever
44:59
died. Due to the death penalty the death penalty
45:01
is should be tossed for that reason. Yeah So
45:04
I I don't believe in in that and number one for
45:07
that and number two ethyl rosenberg Did not know
45:10
anything about what her husband did right both
45:13
support the death penalty for brian thompson
45:16
though Um, no support is a strong word don't
45:22
give a shit that he died maybe could be more
45:25
accurate um, look that Also, don't believe that
45:30
he should have been the judge during execution.
45:32
That is that is still murder Now is it can you
45:35
call it murder one murder to whatever Luigi is
45:38
was in his right mind? It's like it should be
45:41
at least two points on his driver's license And
45:45
probably a very harsh $75 fine Like what's don't
45:51
let it happen again, what's this Charlie Kirk
45:54
guy? What's his name Tyler Robinson? They're
45:57
gonna death penalties on the table. He did not
46:02
do it. I agree. So that's what I'm saying is,
46:07
they're gonna rush to expedite Tyler Robinson.
46:10
That's a good example. He didn't do it, Robbie.
46:12
So are you okay with him being executed? Because
46:14
they will. They will because they want to move.
46:17
They'll do they want to move, get him locked
46:19
up, hold him behind bars for a few months and
46:23
then I think So it all kind of comes down to
46:30
It comes down to on proportionality if you take
46:33
a life and if you're if you are tried and if
46:36
you're convicted by a jury Am I saying that's
46:39
perfect though, but no human institution is What
46:43
I am saying is that there has to be is that there
46:44
has to be? There has to be justice for the for
46:48
the for the for the victim if you kill someone
46:50
there's no restitution I can't pay you back for
46:53
killing you I can't pay you back for raping you.
46:57
That's that's the whole point. That's the whole
46:59
issue. Behind in the pokey for the rest of his
47:04
life. But that's brutal. Why? Why not just why
47:07
not just just hang him and be done with it? That's
47:11
because he way out because you don't know extended
47:13
or suffering. Okay, so it's all right to keep
47:16
someone in a cage really get raped for 50 years
47:21
is more humane than just give me like if you
47:23
murdered my kid I think I definitely I think
47:25
I said I think our sentence our Our prison terms
47:28
are way too long for a host of things, right?
47:32
I mean, okay proper system like look at look
47:35
at that lady the What's your name the the blonde?
47:39
You know the fake blood company? Oh Elizabeth
47:43
Holmes Elizabeth Holmes, right? That lady would
47:47
talk like this. She's in the tank for what nine
47:50
years or something. Yeah, that's a long time.
47:53
And by the way, she she tweeted out yesterday
47:56
something pretty funny. She's like, basically
47:58
like about Milo. Like, hey, buttercup, you were
48:01
only in ice ice custody for a week for a day.
48:04
I've been doing this shit for years, and I'm
48:07
fine. Okay, but the point is, Nine years. I mean
48:13
she doesn't need to be in there for nine fucking
48:15
years. I mean she's a swindler She's a swindler
48:18
and it's bad and all that but I mean six months.
48:23
I mean, right, right it's like There's a lot
48:27
of a lot of these pretty I mean like if you rob
48:29
a bank Do you need to really be in prison for
48:31
20 fucking years really to like just don't do
48:35
it again Like can we make it like a year? You
48:38
know, it's just a lot of stuff like that grand
48:41
theft auto you stole a car. I mean, okay I was
48:46
on a jury and They put you on a jury You will
48:51
it was yeah, it was a long time ago and it basically
48:54
to date the story. It's pre 9 -eleven The case
48:58
was a pickpocketing case in the world trade in
49:01
a diner in the lobby of the World Trade Center
49:04
And like anyway the dude it was like okay granted.
49:07
It was his umpteenth offense So I mean his rap
49:12
sheet was like longer than my book published
49:15
books It's like a CVS like a CVS receipt It really
49:19
seriously was like when we delivered the verdict
49:21
the judge said you made the right call We couldn't
49:25
present this during the trial, but here's his
49:27
rap sheet and held it up like one of those green
49:29
and white, you know, print out like, and it was
49:32
like, all right, fine. Like in other words, don't
49:34
feel bad, even though he had his wife, his kid
49:36
in the courtroom. We sent him to prison for nine
49:39
fucking years for a fucking pickpocketing. Now,
49:42
granted, it was his 517th crime, but still nine
49:46
years. Really? I don't know. Well, he keeps They
49:51
are too long for sure and I think probably one
49:53
of the reasons why I come down so hard on Residivism
49:57
is one thing but the death penalty is another
49:59
so No, there's two things one Ted. I agree with
50:04
you. The sentences are way too long It's because
50:07
we have a for -profit prison system. We have
50:09
more people in prison than Russia does which
50:11
is insane It's the land of the free right? But
50:14
when it comes to but when it comes to murder
50:17
As far as I know, I'm the only person here that's
50:21
actually had to bury a loved one who was murdered.
50:24
There's no getting that back. There's no getting
50:27
my sister back the years that she lost. Seven.
50:30
I know about seven people who have been murdered.
50:33
So they're not my immediate family, but I was
50:36
friends or extended relatives. Well, my sister
50:38
Molly was murdered. She had her throat slit by
50:41
a drug dealer. So for me, from a biblical standpoint
50:45
the bible is very clear if you commit murder
50:47
you get put down because you're killing someone
50:50
that's made the image of god but more than that
50:52
from a personal standpoint she's the mother of
50:54
five kids she had her throat cut by a drug dealer
50:59
yeah obviously she's like the worst kind of her
51:02
never gets those years back so why should that
51:05
guy get to live at the on the taxpayer's expense
51:09
to a ripe old age while her children have to
51:14
grow up without a mom. Explain that to me. How's
51:17
that justice for my family? Well, I'm not saying
51:19
that nothing should happen to him and not to
51:21
mention he should be locked up. Not to mention
51:23
honestly, he's a dangerous guy. I mean, you know,
51:26
like society is not better off with him running
51:29
around, right? I agree. But why should never
51:32
come out? But why should we pay for him? His
51:35
health care, his meals, his housing? For decades.
51:38
Well, I'm gonna say it's as opposed to just even
51:40
a guy like that If he can be redeemed if he can
51:43
if he can be rehabilitated and redeemed he should
51:46
be He needs to go meet Jesus and make peace with
51:49
him Now again, I would have no problem. He might
51:53
be guilty of it. How are we allow Sharia law
51:56
would be better Robbie? Ten of him Ted the guy
52:01
that killed Robbie's sister there could be ten
52:03
of that guy, but if there's one guy in there
52:06
That also gets executed who didn't do it then
52:09
the whole system is too fucking flawed and it's
52:12
not fair Oh, we got to talk about the we got
52:14
to talk about the difficulty of obtaining the
52:17
execution drugs, right? We just we just talked
52:19
about we just talked about a couple days ago,
52:22
right that um That the dna stuff was was tampered
52:27
with right, right the d like d and by And by
52:31
the way fingerprint evidence is not as iron cloud
52:34
as we used to think DNA evidence clearly is not
52:37
because it can it's corrupted routinely at least
52:39
some cases obviously like in Robbie's sister's
52:42
case It was it's open and shut my godmother was
52:45
shot in the face when she opened her front door
52:47
with a sawed -off shotgun blew her fucking face
52:50
off and Yeah, my godbrother Came home opened
52:55
the door and was like thunk thunk Push holy shit,
53:00
and he's never been the same. I'm sure I'm not
53:04
saying these people aren't bad people. I'm just
53:07
saying that like those are open to check cases
53:09
It shouldn't be in the business of killing them
53:12
And that and I mean look there's a move afoot
53:16
across the world I don't think people who are
53:18
against the death penalty are pussies and like
53:21
if Let's just say like we had Sharia law and
53:24
they said like I could be behind that like if
53:27
Robbie's like, you know It offends me that this
53:30
guy draws breath while my sister doesn't So I'm
53:33
gonna I'm gonna I'm gonna whack him and like
53:36
and the Sharia court gives me that right? I'd
53:38
have no problem with that at all. At least then
53:40
it's personal then it's like family is deciding
53:44
the family who was wronged and aggrieved gets
53:47
to Decide what happens to this person? But like,
53:52
you know in the case of the state even if like
53:54
the person who the survivors of the victims are
53:57
anti -death penalty They do it whether you like
54:00
it or not And it's just a couple of it's a couple
54:04
of civil servants who basically like are just
54:06
clocked in They'd have no skin in the game. They
54:09
don't care about this person's crime or whatever
54:12
They weren't affected and they just and then
54:14
they suffocate them to death, which is what they
54:16
do now Yeah, well, that's why they're bringing
54:18
back the firing squad because they can't get
54:20
enough chemicals to because the Europeans won't
54:23
make it and they won't release it to the u .s
54:25
So, you know Well, in Utah, because he's a former
54:28
Mormon, Mormonisms teach that in order to be
54:32
absolved of your sins, blood has to be spilled.
54:34
So it has to do with the drugs. It has to do
54:36
with the Mormon religion. Interesting. Yeah.
54:40
They believe that your blood must stay in the
54:43
ground. So that's why. I mean, sure. I mean,
54:48
Europeans are not making the chemicals. I mean,
54:49
maybe. I'm pretty sure we can make them here.
54:52
And these are the same people that do the...
54:54
The mormons right there the sex through a sheet
54:57
with the hole in it or something, right? Like
54:59
the magic you have the magic underwear and spirit
55:01
prison That's that right. That's mormons. Mormonism
55:04
is a cult And also also well the sex through
55:07
a sheet is also like orthodox jewish couples
55:11
when she's on the rag Oh, okay mormonism Mormonism
55:17
honestly, if you want if you have a have a interesting
55:20
study compare the tennis of islam with mormonism
55:22
because They're incredibly similar, like Mormonism.
55:29
Interesting. Well, okay. So there you go with
55:31
the Utah and the Mormons who run the whole state,
55:35
like literally the Mormon mafia that run the
55:38
whole state in Utah. So we'll see. I don't know.
55:40
But there's that. We have more executions. That's
55:45
takeaway, Ted, because we're way out of time.
55:47
More executions and less support. Isn't that
55:51
strange? Let's be quick here. Alright, here's
55:58
one for tripping out, man. Scientists may have
56:01
recorded the first direct evidence of dark matter,
56:05
which accounts for about 85 % of matter in the
56:08
universe. The potential finding came from the
56:11
Lux Zeppelin experiment, cool name, man, which
56:15
detected one unexplained particle interaction
56:18
that researchers say could have involved a weakly
56:23
interacting Massive particle. They don't mean
56:25
weekly WEE like once this as someone's name W
56:29
E A K L Y weekly interacting massive particle
56:32
or WIMP that's a terrible acronym Okay, so researchers
56:39
say it involves WIMP Yes Physicists name the
56:44
dark matter WIMP Okay, so that's that the detector
56:50
contains 10 tons of ultra pure liquid xenon and
56:56
sits one mile underground at Sanford Underground
57:00
Research Facility in South Dakota. Scientists
57:03
buried it there to shield the experiment from
57:06
cosmic rays and interference. Researchers spent
57:10
months examining explanations for the unusual
57:13
signal. They concluded that it could not be explained
57:16
by the background activity of ordinary matter.
57:21
If the signal came from dark matter, it suggests
57:24
wimps may weigh about 200 times as much as a
57:29
proton. It could mean that these particles interact
57:32
with ordinary matter differently than the simplest
57:36
models predict. But nobody should start rewriting
57:39
physics books just yet. The single event... is
57:42
not statistically strong enough to confirm a
57:45
discovery. Researchers estimate there remains
57:48
a 0 .5 % chance that known background activity
57:52
produced the signal. The LUX Zeppelin team will
57:56
continue collecting data to see whether similar
57:59
events appear because interactions between WIMPs
58:02
and ordinary matter should be rare. Researchers
58:05
say only a handful of matching detections might
58:08
be enough to confirm Dark matter's existence
58:12
scientists have inferred dark matter through
58:15
its gravitational effects for decades But have
58:18
never directly identified what it is the results
58:21
were presented at a 2026 physics conference and
58:25
submitted for publication Dark matter may have
58:28
finally introduced itself So this is like it's
58:31
so crazy to wrap your brain around Ted Like this
58:34
is like one of those things where you like you
58:36
just got a wish that you're stoned or something
58:42
to really wrap your brain around what's happening
58:46
because How can the scientists tell us that they
58:50
believe dark matter is 85 % of the universe?
58:54
But we don't have evidence of what the dark matter
58:59
is or if it even exists and There it's weighted
59:03
differently. And what does that mean? How does
59:05
that change our existential? you know knowing
59:09
of our existence like how does this change it's
59:12
just wild like i can't even i can't wrap my brain
59:15
around it i read the the full article yesterday
59:17
and i was just like whoa man if you've never
59:21
had evidence before so there's dark matter and
59:26
then there's you know there's black holes there's
59:29
um there's another my son my fucking seven -year
59:32
-old um who's really into science Forget like
59:36
there's an opposite of a black hole. I think
59:38
it's called a white hole I don't know but it
59:41
like shoots things out of it. It's literally
59:45
like Black hole sucks in white hole shoots out
59:49
then there's black matte black dark matter. There's
59:53
Antimatter there's all this weird shit that we
59:57
How do you even prove something that doesn't
1:00:01
do something? That makes sense It does make sense,
1:00:06
right? Like how do you prove that? Well, it's
1:00:10
yeah, it's it's a it's an absence. Well, it's
1:00:13
a it's not an absence of something. I mean, you
1:00:16
know what I mean? Well, you know what it is?
1:00:18
It's it's a it's what it is is it's it's dark
1:00:25
matter is a term for stuff that basically we
1:00:28
can't we know is there but we can't explain.
1:00:32
We that we can't identify it yet. So it's a little
1:00:35
bit like before we mapped the we start when we
1:00:38
started mapping the the human genome and there
1:00:42
was this all these Parts of DNA that we were
1:00:45
like, well, we don't know what this is and they
1:00:47
called it remember this junk DNA like Doesn't
1:00:51
do anything now. We know that's not true. It's
1:00:53
the yada yada. You see yada Yeah, it all does
1:00:55
something and like the thing is but you just
1:00:57
didn't we just didn't know what it was So we
1:00:59
claimed it was worthless That's what dark matter
1:01:01
is dark matter will be identified We will it's
1:01:05
probably more than one thing and we will find
1:01:08
out what it is, but we're just not there It's
1:01:10
basically meant to explain like why? The universe
1:01:13
is expanding at the rate that it is and you know,
1:01:15
it's all that we know it's we know some it's
1:01:19
like remember when we were kids there was Remember
1:01:22
there was planet X where like we know there's
1:01:24
something on the outer Part of the solar system.
1:01:26
We don't really know what it is. It's affecting
1:01:29
the orbits of neptune and pluto We call it planet
1:01:32
x, right? Yeah, we know something's there We
1:01:35
just don't know what it's a placeholder and that's
1:01:37
the best way to think about dark matter I guess
1:01:40
so but like I was actually surprised like I know
1:01:43
south dakota is like where we have some of the
1:01:46
um nuclear silos and stuff like deep underground
1:01:49
I had no idea that we had this Crazy quantum
1:01:53
lab. That's a mile down In the ground in South
1:01:58
Dakota, but what else is fucking buried in South
1:02:02
Dakota, man? Oil lots and lots of oil. Oh, that's
1:02:06
North Dakota. Anyway, we should go We gotta we
1:02:10
gotta move on by the way South Dakota where um,
1:02:13
what's her name crazy eyes with the hair? Yeah,
1:02:15
that's where she buries her dogs. Those are buried
1:02:17
a mild dog She must know stuff. She was the governor.
1:02:23
I don't know. Yeah, she was a brilliant lady.
1:02:30
Political campaigns are quietly paid influencers
1:02:33
to promote candidates, often without bothering
1:02:37
to tell their viewers that the glowing endorsement
1:02:39
came with a check. And at this time, I think
1:02:41
I really want to say that Pete Hagseth for president,
1:02:45
2028, Pete Hagseth for president, 2028, he's
1:02:48
the man. Do you want influence? I am not being
1:02:52
paid at all. Traditional campaign ads on TV,
1:02:58
radio, billboards and mailers are supposed to
1:03:01
identify who paid for them. That's why you see
1:03:04
like Americans for good things. Social media
1:03:09
remains a regulatory gray area, however, with
1:03:12
few states requiring influencers to disclose
1:03:15
their political bribes. I mean, payments. Apparently
1:03:18
paid for by becomes optional. once the campaign
1:03:21
ad includes a ring light. Josh Green, who has
1:03:24
nearly 800 ,000 followers across platforms, has
1:03:27
promoted dozens of progressive candidates. AOC,
1:03:32
she's cute and she's great. Vote AOC. I'm not
1:03:38
being paid. The campaign cycle, he reportedly
1:03:42
received money from at least seven politicians
1:03:45
or outside groups. Those payments included $21
1:03:48
,500 from Tom Steyer, he of the plaid jacket,
1:03:53
and money from, or plaid tie, I should say, and
1:03:55
money from a super PAC connected to Michigan
1:03:58
Democratic Senate nominee Dr. Abdul El -Sayed.
1:04:03
Green does not disclose those arrangements to
1:04:05
his viewers. The payments can be found, however,
1:04:08
by digging through campaign finance reports.
1:04:11
Green says he accepts money only from candidates
1:04:13
he already supports anyway. Pete accepts for
1:04:16
president, 2028. But I like Pete. Pete's cute
1:04:22
and not a Nazi at all. And he has rejected offers
1:04:28
from politicians he doesn't support. He acknowledged
1:04:31
that stronger transparency laws are needed, or
1:04:34
he could also... just reveal himself. Yes, and
1:04:38
just say I'm being paid for this. Yes, exactly.
1:04:40
Republican Representative Barry Moore of Alabama
1:04:43
filed an FEC complaint, that's the Federal Election
1:04:46
Commission, alleging that at least eight social
1:04:48
media accounts were paid in order to attack his
1:04:51
military record during a primary. Other reports
1:04:55
ID'd undisclosed influencer activity that supported
1:04:58
Nate Morris, who was a Republican Senate candidate,
1:05:01
and Ken Paxton, who was of course uh Texas AG
1:05:06
so um obviously we can see the problems here
1:05:10
obviously the same rules should apply um on social
1:05:15
media as apply on on tv if you you know it's
1:05:18
like if you are doing. Look, I'm happy to do
1:05:22
an ad, a paid ad for or discussion of a candidate
1:05:26
that I'm in favor of. But like if El -Sayed came
1:05:30
to you and was like, hey, Ted Raul, can you can
1:05:32
you do a 15 minute podcast about how the virtues
1:05:37
of me, how great I am? I could post it on your
1:05:40
socials. And you're like, I like you. Sure, I'll
1:05:43
do that. How much you pay in me. Right. But then
1:05:46
you put the disclaimer at the bottom of the Of
1:05:49
your image yeah thumbnail or whatever following
1:05:52
messages paid for by saeed for for senate right
1:05:55
the end Um, so yeah, I mean, I think you have
1:05:58
to reveal these things. Um, I think it's incredibly
1:06:02
unethical That these influencers don't feel like
1:06:05
they they didn't do this voluntarily. It just
1:06:08
shows a lack of respect for their listeners and
1:06:10
their viewers Oh for sure and and obviously on
1:06:15
congress's part because you know they're all
1:06:17
the average age is like 83 uh they don't know
1:06:21
what are these whippersnappers doing on the social
1:06:24
medias where where are they uh they don't know
1:06:28
how this works and so they they don't realize
1:06:32
that laws need to be made just like the old television
1:06:36
the old tube it's too bad that we need a law
1:06:39
i mean um it's it's fucking common sense yeah
1:06:43
This this is something that should be I think
1:06:45
bipartisan and should be enacted immediately
1:06:48
somebody needs to bring this to both floors of
1:06:51
both houses both chambers and fucking move it
1:06:54
quickly because when 2028 comes around look if
1:06:57
for all the Democrats bitching and moaning about
1:06:59
Donald Trump and how the Manosphere and social
1:07:02
media, you know Baron kind of from what I heard
1:07:05
Baron was like was like the brainchild behind
1:07:07
dad getting into the Manosphere Which makes sense
1:07:11
because he's in the age demographic right that
1:07:12
would be looking at Andrew Tate and all that
1:07:14
shit, right? Joe Rogan and all that stuff. He
1:07:17
fits the age demo So he spearheaded that for
1:07:20
pops Look You you want to get you want to capture
1:07:25
those voters your piss that Donald Trump did?
1:07:28
Well, here's your chance Somebody put forth a
1:07:32
bill that requires the same law be applicable
1:07:35
from TV to social media, all social media platforms.
1:07:39
If you are paid to sponsor somebody to support
1:07:43
somebody, you need to say it in the same way
1:07:46
that these influencers are like, Oh, I don't
1:07:48
know. For example, like, like, I got these, these
1:07:54
vitamins, postnatal pills, you know, because
1:07:56
I just had a baby, like, Hey, Ted, I know you
1:08:00
don't have a uterus or anything, but you should
1:08:02
take these. These are so amazing. Like, And if
1:08:05
I don't tell you that I'm being paid by this
1:08:08
company, these are paid advertisements. They
1:08:12
need to be labeled as such. And same thing for
1:08:15
the election cycle. This is how you're going.
1:08:18
This is you're reaching. Obviously, if you're
1:08:20
you're you're doing paid ads with influencers,
1:08:23
you're aiming for the Gen Z vote. Right. And
1:08:27
it is just unethical on for every it's a bipartisan
1:08:30
issue. It's it's unethical to lie to your Your
1:08:36
followers That you support something Organically
1:08:41
you maybe you do and and you know like this Josh
1:08:44
Green kid I don't know who he is But like Josh
1:08:47
Green says like I wouldn't take a paid ad if
1:08:49
I didn't I actually believe him and I don't think
1:08:53
honestly anyone would would like Diss him or
1:08:57
leave him just because he's here. He was transparent.
1:09:01
Just be transparent. Just fucking reveals just
1:09:03
Give the honesty and I and I think congress needs
1:09:06
to get moving on this somebody needs that they
1:09:09
need to but they won't but you know Well, then
1:09:12
then this is going to continue to happen surreptitiously
1:09:15
Totally for the next couple of cycles. Yes, it
1:09:18
will. There you go. Yes. There you go And with
1:09:20
that and uh, and just uh, and i'll turn off the
1:09:24
rumble room. So you don't have to worry about
1:09:25
that Oh, okay. I logged in to turn it off because
1:09:27
robbie had to bounce wife. The wife needed something
1:09:31
So we said, happy wife, happy life. All right.
1:09:36
That is true. Adios, amigo. See you Friday. No
1:09:38
show Monday because it is Labor Day. It's Monday.
1:09:42
Monday, Labor Day and the TMI show follows and
1:09:47
respects federal holidays. Ted always that we're
1:09:51
known for that. A lot of people turn to us. A
1:09:53
lot of people are like, well, is is Juneteenth
1:09:56
a real holiday? Well, it is respected by the
1:09:58
TMI show. So therefore it is. It must be. Yeah.
1:10:02
People often turn to us for all sorts of things
1:10:05
like that. Like, well, what is the proper speed
1:10:07
limit on State Route 313 in central Ohio? Well,
1:10:11
maybe Ted and Manila's talking about it. My show
1:10:12
says it's 45 miles per hour. Oh, OK. Officer.
1:10:15
That is true. We are like the new Wikipedia.
1:10:18
We are. Yeah. Bye, everybody. Thank you. Thanks
1:10:23
for watching.