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TWR | Christmas Special 2023 · The Whitfield Report

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  Now broadcasting from the Next Gen. conservative studio in
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  sunny South Florida, bringing you the latest in politics,
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  current events and pop culture. This is the Whitfield Report
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  with Sam Whitfield. Well, good evening ladies and
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  gentlemen, and Merry Christmas Eve to you all.
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  I am your host, Sam Whitfield, streaming here on a Christmas
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  Eve a little impromptu show. This isn't going to be a real
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  long one. Merry Christmas Eve to you all.
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  And if you're listening to this either on Christmas, I don't
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  know why you would be. Hopefully you have family or
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  friends that you're spending time with.
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  You know, hopefully you're spending time with them.
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  Or maybe you're listening to this on Tuesday.
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  You know, the day after maybe you've opened presents, you know
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  and you have time and you're you're turning into this
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  podcast. Either way, I appreciate the
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  fact that you are here with us for your Christmas Eve and or
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  Christmas Day and they're honored to have you here.
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  So I'm going to keep the show pretty low key and light
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  tonight, but they're just are a couple of things I want to
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  cover. Since I won't be doing a Monday
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  show tomorrow with being a holiday, I figured I would do
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  the show for you tonight. That usually would be done on
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  Monday. So anyway, first thing is first,
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  ladies and gentlemen. We mentioned this a bit on
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  Wednesday's show, but the Colorado Supreme Court has
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  decided not to put Donald Trump's name on the Colorado
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  primary ballot. They have struck Trump's name
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  from the primary ballot in Colorado.
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  And many conservatives are upset that this is, you know,
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  unconstitutional, which it absolutely is.
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  And you know, it's a dirty tactic from the left to keep
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  Trump off the ballot. I get that.
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  However, you know, what's going to happen is this matter is
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  going to go to the Supreme Court.
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  The Supreme Court is most likely going to decide that what
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  Colorado is doing is unconstitutional and they cannot
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  do it. So they'll probably strike down
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  Colorado's decision and force them to put Trump on the primary
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  ballot if they do uphold it. Though I know that some states,
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  including Georgia and Arizona, are threatening to, or not so
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  much threatening but saying they're going to remove Joe
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  Biden's name from the ballot. Because hey, if Colorado can
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  remove Trump's name from the ballot for the primaries, then
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  what's to say that the more red states can't do the same for
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  Biden? Now Colorado is obviously, you
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  know, citing the January 6th insurrection quote, UN quote, as
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  the reason why they removed Trump's name from the primary
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  ballot. Even though Trump was not
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  officially convicted of anything.
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  They're still going with that, you know the narrative that he
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  let an insurrection. So that's the excuse that the
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  Colorado Supreme Courts are using.
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  More conservative states like Texas and Georgia and Arizona
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  are saying that they're going to remove Bynes name from the
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  ballot they're citing. They're basically citing the
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  fact that Biden has let illegals cross the border, which in Texas
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  I believe that constitutes treason and a couple other
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  states are going along with that.
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  So basically the Democrats have said that, you know, they're
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  going to remove a candidate from the primary ballot.
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  And the Republicans are saying, well, if this gets upheld by the
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  Supreme Court, then we can do the same.
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  And you know what? Like, I'm all for that.
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  If the Democrats want to play dirty that way, then the
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  Republicans can play dirty too. But my prediction is that that
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  that this is going to go to the Supreme Court.
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  This is going to get struck down.
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  Trump's name will be on the ballot for the prime primaries
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  nationwide, irregardless. And even, like Bill Barr and
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  even Gavin Newsom have said this is bad precedent.
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  So you know that when Gavin Newsom is saying it's bad, that
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  it is bad. Now, I'm not saying that like
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  that's good per SE, that Gavin is saying that.
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  I know he has ulterior motives. The reason why he's saying that,
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  it's because he wants to be the one to face off against Trump in
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  2024. And you know, he wants to be the
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  one to take to take down Trump. And if you don't think that
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  Gavin Newsom is going to run, well, I've got, you know, news
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  for you. I've got an igloo in Florida
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  that I can sell you. So anyway, Adam, right.
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  I don't want to get too much into politics since it is
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  Christmas Eve, but I didn't really get much of a chance to
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  talk too much about Colorado, so I briefly wanted to cover that
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  for folks and just kind of let people know my input on that.
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  So, moving on to lighter topics and a little bit of humor,
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  Tucker Carlson put out a Christmas episode of his show, a
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  Christmas Eve special. I've seen it and many other
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  people have, but for those who haven't, maybe they've been busy
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  shopping all day. Last minute gifts, yada yada.
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  You might not have seen this and I I want to do some commentary
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  on it because to me it is humorous, it is satirical and I
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  think a lot of people are kind of over analyzing it.
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  So you know, people have asked my opinion on this.
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  So we're going to go through this and do some analysis on it.
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  By the way, Max Sand is in chat. He says Merry Christmas.
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  And he also says you didn't get much chance to talk about it due
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  to our five hour conversation. Yes, our five hour conversation
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  with Mr. Craig, Bob, very good episode, especially considering
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  it's the end of the year practically.
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  And by the way, Max, if you want to come on the show, I can send
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  you the link to hop on real quick.
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  You weren't on Gilded or you were you were showing as
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  invisible or offline. So I didn't message you because
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  I assumed that you might be doing some dad stuff.
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  You can jump on a few. OK, well, let me then send you
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  the link. And hold on folks.
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  This is what happens when you in fact do a live show.
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  OK, let me let me go into, let me go into Gilded here and I'll
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  send Max the link. So OK Max, the link is sent.
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  I'm sure you saw it. So just, you know, pop on and
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  when you're ready and all what you, you know, I'll bring you
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  on. Of course.
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  Now back to kind of our light hearted show.
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  So Tucker Carlson did a Christmas special episode.
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  It's only 7 minutes long. I I know a lot of people have
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  seen this. You know, if if you've been
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  online today, so this isn't going to be exactly a live
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  reaction. I've seen it.
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  It's still pretty funny. I actually didn't know that
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  Tucker Carlson could do comedy, but apparently he can.
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  And Merry Christmas, Mr. Max. How are you doing?
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  Excellent. Merry Christmas, Sam and
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  everybody else. I I had to jump in for just a
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  just a few moments at least. You know, if we're doing a
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  Christmas Eve special, you know, make sure you guys are, you know
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  you got plans tomorrow and if you don't do something special
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  for yourself, you know. Yeah and I have some words of
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  wisdom kind about the end of the show.
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  I was going to pre record this but then I checked Rumble and
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  like everyone else is streaming tonight.
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  So I figured, well, if everyone else is streaming, why not?
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  You know, I? Was I was wrapping gifts and
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  watching the Pot awful merch episode, You know, fun fact,
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  Sam, I was, I was looking through old pot awful episodes,
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  'cause I'm in the pizza fun and I was like, I just want a merch
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  episode, right? And there it was.
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  You know, I'm just, I had it on in the background.
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  I was doing other stuff and I just heard.
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  And he had he he, he goes into war with Sam Whitfield.
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  And I was like, oh, oh, it's that OK?
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  Oh, did did he actually do an episode on that?
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  Because, like I I've not seen that one.
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  So I might. Have It's a pizza fund only
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  $12.00 episode and without spoiling anything, he's like,
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  he's like, yeah, we've made fun of Sam and he just laughs.
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  Well, I was like, yeah, that sounds right.
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  Well, yeah. Speaking of make, make fun and
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  laughing. I'm not sure if you've if you've
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  seen this though, but Tucker did an episode today and the amount
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  of people who just don't get comedy it, it's really shocking
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  how many people take things literally online.
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  I The funny thing with me is he was like, you'll know the guest
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  by his face. And I was like, who the fuck is
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  this 'cause I'm not a movie guy. Oh, oh, so you hadn't you hadn't
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  seen this yet, so. I I saw like a few, like a
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  minute 30 and he was like, everybody will know my guest by
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  how he looks. And I was like, I have no idea
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  who this is. So, in other words, you haven't
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  watched House of Cards then on. I have not.
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  No. Never.
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  Heard. Well, OK, so I I can kind of, I
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  guess, walk you through this. This will act be fun because I
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  can explain some of the meta jokes to you then.
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  So yeah, I already kind of spoiled it.
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  But you know, for the folks watching, here it is. 2024 has
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  not even begun yet, and it does seem like the presidential race
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  is effectively frozen in place, if not over.
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  We know who the candidates are. It's too late for another to get
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  in. Some have already dropped out.
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  But is it too late? Is there anyone in this country
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  of 350 million people who could jump in at this late date and
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  rescramble the calculus of electoral politics?
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  Well, there may be someone. And in fact, you already know
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  him, you know his face. And the question is, will he get
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  in this cycle? And that's my question for you.
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  Well, that's really a decision for the people, Tucker.
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  It's not something that I really think about or want to do.
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  And Merry Christmas to you too. OK, so for those of you
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  listening on audio, Tucker has Kevin Spacey, who's playing his
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  character Frank Underwood from How.
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  Oh, it's Kevin Spacey. I get it.
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  I didn't recognize him, you know, without him trying to
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  molest the little boy. Yeah.
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  Oh, so, yeah. OK.
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  So that's a good one. Sorry.
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  Sorry, I had to no. No, yeah.
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  No, I get what you mean by people not understanding a joke,
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  but a lot of what I saw people saying is, don't you know that
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  he's a gay pedophile? Well, a what?
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  Allegedly. And that that's the whole thing.
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  Yeah, allegedly. Yeah.
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  Yeah, but not his character from some show like Kevin Spacey
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  himself. Right.
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  Right. If it was a character on the
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  show, I would have made that joke right?
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  Right. Well, that well, that's, that's
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  the thing. I don't think people realize.
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  Basically. I'll just kind of get to the
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  point right away. I don't think, I don't think a
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  lot of people realize that Tucker was interviewing a
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  character. People were getting mad that
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  Tucker was had Kevin Spacey on because, oh, you're Platform.
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  You're platforming A pedophile. He is.
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  He is, yeah. Allegedly but.
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  Allegedly. Yeah, I mean, but that's not
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  untrue. Right.
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  So these but these same people who are getting upset that you
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  know that some people won't platform, you know Nazis are
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  getting upset that Tucker's platforming and alleged
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  pedophile, so have you. Don't believe in the no platform
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  thing at all. I think it's stupid.
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  I'm just when you have a guy like this on, character or not,
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  that's the first thing. It's the last bit of news.
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  They know about him. Yeah, and also, and also I I
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  hate to say this. Well, I mean, I don't.
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  I want to point out he would get the same reaction if he had
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  Michael Jackson on. Yes.
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  Well, I also. I also.
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  Want to? I also want to point this out
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  too. Like, I'm not endorsing anything
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  that Kevin Spacey allegedly did, but I can also separate art from
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  the person. Sure.
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  And Kevin Spacey has been in several movies and shows, House
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  of Cards being one of them that I absolutely love.
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  Well, look, hey, if you're never going to watch anything that was
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  produced with any pedophile again, then you just have to do
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  what I do and not watch any movies.
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  Right. And I hate to break this to you
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  all, but that's the that's the reality of it.
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  If you're watching a film, somebody involved from
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  Hollywood, especially somebody involved with that film, is a
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  kid diddler. Yeah.
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  Like, certainly. And probably everybody knows it
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  too. Yeah.
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  So you know, and and we used to be able, we actually talked
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  about this recently like separating art from you know
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  people like we'd actually talked about this kind of verbatim so.
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  The one, the one time it becomes almost impossible for people
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  though, is when it's pedophilia involved.
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  Yeah. Whether whether it's allegations
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  or not, I mean, like you can say what you want about Michael
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  Jackson, right? But in the courts, he was always
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  found innocent. You know, At what point does
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  that matter? To the average person, it
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  doesn't seem to, because they'll still tell you that he was a Kid
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  Diddler, right? Well, and and say and same thing
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  with Kevin Spacey. Like he was actually found not
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  guilty of all charges from, I understand, right, right.
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  And then but the average consensus is not going to be to
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  follow all of that they're. Just right.
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  They're just gonna like I did there.
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  And that's why I did it that way.
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  I was like, oh, right. I didn't recognize them without
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  him trying to molest the little boy.
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  That's. The average person's mentality
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  on people like that and. That.
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  One that there is one thing that will make separating the art
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  from the artist hard and it and it's when you're when you're
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  nasty to children. Yeah, I.
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  Think for a lot of people actually.
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  Also, you know harming animals is another one, that they will
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  not separate the art from the artist.
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  Or. Or murdering or murdering women.
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  OJ Simpson comes to mind specifically specifically with
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  that. Or.
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  Or Chris Benoit, right. A lot of wrestling fans, yeah,
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  will tell you, Oh, but he was a great wrestler and he was, he
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  was one of the best. I would.
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  Me and my brother would get Mark out when his music hit because
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  you knew you were in for a good match.
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  Yeah, but I can't. I'm sorry, I can't separate that
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  art and artist from the from the man who murdered his wife and
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  autistic son. I was watching a Jingle all the
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  way last night which which has the late oh I'm, I'm blanking.
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  I'm blank. Oh Phil Hartman.
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  And Phil Hartman wasn't a criminal or anything.
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  But you know, sadly, Phil Hartman is known because he was
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  murdered. Suicide and by its wife and I,
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  yeah. After Andy, Dick gave his wife a
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  whole bunch of coke. I mean, never mind.
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  Yeah. Never mind Hollywood shit.
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  Yeah, yeah, the kind of. See, that's the kind of thing,
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  though. None of us live lives like that,
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  right? The only Hollywood people can.
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  And we just accept that. Like none of us are like this.
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  Like we. It's very unlikely you're going
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  to get the Kevin Spacey accusation, you know what I
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  mean? It's very unlikely because you
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  just don't put yourself in situations that might even look
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  weird. But like Hollywood people, I, I,
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  I truly believe this, that there's a an element of like
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  never, ever being held to account for their actions.
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  And so when they do, when when people do see something wrong,
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  that's why they have a hard time separating art from the artist.
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  Because these people don't get held accountable generally.
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  And we all know they're shitty people.
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  Like we all know, these A List actors are mostly really shitty
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  people. Yeah, yeah, we, we.
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  But we give them a pass anyway. Why?
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  Because they can read a script. Good.
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  Well, I mean, I don't necessarily give them a pass.
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  For you watch their movies. What?
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  What? They did, yeah.
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  Right. That's a pass.
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  You're still you're still employing them.
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  Essentially, you're buying their product.
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  Yeah, Well, I mean unless you unless you like bought their
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  product before they were accused is that's kind of what what I
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  mean. So like.
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  I I think for a lot of people, they won't go back and watch old
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  Kevin Spacey shit either, you know what I'm saying?
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  Like they. Yeah.
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  And, and, and I'm not even saying they're right for this
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  kind of line of thinking, but that's just how it is, you know?
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  Yeah, you get that kind. Of accusation.
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  And it's going to fucking follow you for the rest of your life,
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  whether it's true or not. Yeah, I mean, I it's.
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  Going to be that one guy at a party who, you know, he's not
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  very funny, he's not very smart, but he's got 3 Kevin Spacey
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  jokes like. Yeah.
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  And that's his whole identity. He's the guy at the party that
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  has the Kevin Spacey jokes or the Michael Jackson jokes or
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  whatever. You know, insert fallen
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  celebrity here, right? There's one guy who those are
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  the only jokes he'll ever come up with, and he tells the same
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  ones at every party he goes to. Yeah.
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  And and and if and if that would only continue to work if people
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  don't suddenly say, well, yeah, but I heard Kevin Smith was
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  acquitted. That ruins the joke.
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  But nobody does that, so he doesn't have to worry about his
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  joke being ruined because nobody looks into it.
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  They're like, yeah, he's a he's a pedo.
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  And then they would go, but they would go and watch his new movie
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  too. Yeah, now what?
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  I what? I don't at first.
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  Maybe I at first maybe I thought that this was just like a like a
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  green screen or something. Like all the clips from the show
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  that you mentioned. Yeah, or some or something or.
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  Something no it it doesn't seem to be really got em.
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  Yeah. Which like I, I guess one thing
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  I'll give Tucker on this like props for like keeping this
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  under wraps, yeah. Well, to be fair, again, with
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  the reputation the guy has now, yeah, it's easier to get him if
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  you're Tucker. You know what I'm saying?
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  Like Tucker wouldn't have got him ten years ago.
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  Yeah. So here's the thing about Kevin
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  Spacey that I would like to point out.
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  He was not an overtly political guy as a celebrity.
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  Right. You know, but he got ran afoul
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  of whatever, you know, whether by his own actions or they just
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  wanted to say he did this. See, that's the thing.
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  Is it? Quit it or not, It's a little
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  fucking weird. Yeah, well it's also, I I will
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  say too like it is weird because like for the past few
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  Christmases, he's done weird like videos like on YouTube.
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  Aren't they in this character too?
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  Yes. And and so that and so that's
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  what make, that's what makes it. Maybe he's lost his mind.
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  Yeah. Maybe he actually is like living
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  this character now on a day-to-day because it's just the
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  pressure got to, I don't know. Yeah, but like, so have you all
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  jokes joking. Like, aside from your comment
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  though, like have you seen House of House of Cards at all or do I
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  need to fill you? In I have literally never heard
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  of it. OK, so basically he he plays a
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  Southern Democrat congressman who basically basically it's him
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  and his wife and they're basically the Clintons.
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  And you noticed at the beginning of the clip, like he talks to
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  Tucker and then he talks to the camera like a fourth wall break.
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  That's all from the show too. So this is fun because I get to
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  explain like pop culture to you, no?
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  I get it. I get it.
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  And then. And then Tucker's bit is
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  pretending like his character on the show isn't a scumbag
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  politician. Yeah, I get what's going on.
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  I I suppose you'd have to be into that show to fucking truly
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  get it. Yeah, well, I mean, it was a it
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  was a huge cultural phenomenon. I'm.
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  I'm but I've always been that. I'm not saying because I didn't
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  hear of it, that it wasn't huge. I just live in a bubble away
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  from one of my shit. Yeah.
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  No, I mean. Intentionally so.
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  Listen, I listen if it if it makes you feel any better, like
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  Taylor Swift I guess One Time magazine like Times person of
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  the Year and that doesn't mean anything to me because like I've
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  like I can only name one song of her which is like which is Romeo
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  and Juliet and I I don't even know how that song goes.
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  So here's the thing from music perspective of Taylor Swift, she
• 28:22
  is quite talented. Yeah, not.
• 28:25
  There's there's no way around that.
• 28:27
  It's not my genre of music, but obviously if you follow the
• 28:31
  music business at all, you can't ignore what she's accomplished.
• 28:35
  And then on the add to that, of course that she's highly
• 28:39
  political, which is why they're pushing her so hard now.
• 28:43
  Ever. Since she endorsed the race like
• 28:45
  two years ago, now she's decided she's full on politics and the
• 28:50
  media is going to push her down every, you know, teen to mid 20
• 28:55
  girls throat as the greatest thing ever.
• 28:59
  Musically, her writing is is bad, right?
• 29:02
  It's bad. Yeah.
• 29:04
  It's written like the 14 year old girl she was when she wrote
• 29:08
  a lot of it and and even her newer stuff is still written
• 29:11
  like a 14 year old girl wrote it.
• 29:13
  Here's the thing, if it's 14 year old girls listening to it,
• 29:17
  that's fine. But also, you know, again as as
• 29:22
  a guy that's spent a lot of time in the music industry, you have
• 29:25
  to give credit to a girl that writes her own songs.
• 29:27
  I don't know if you knew this, Sam, but almost every major pop
• 29:31
  hit in the last 25 years was written by one Swedish guy, so
• 29:36
  it's nice to see people who write their own music, even if I
• 29:39
  fucking can't stand it. Yeah.
• 29:41
  No, I'm not. I'm not.
• 29:42
  I'm not denying her that. I'm.
• 29:44
  I'm not like. You know, I wanted just, I
• 29:46
  wanted to be fair, you know, just just from a fair
• 29:49
  perspective, what she's accomplished is quite
• 29:51
  impressive. Personally, I hope she I hope
• 29:58
  she fails at everything she does.
• 30:00
  But. Is it?
• 30:01
  Unlikely. Yeah.
• 30:03
  Is it person? Is it Person of the Year
• 30:05
  material though? I'm not sure anyway though.
• 30:10
  Well, it's not me, so it's clearly wrong.
• 30:13
  Right, right. So.
• 30:16
  Can only be one person of the year, right?
• 30:19
  And obviously every year they're wrong because they don't pick
• 30:22
  me. Well, no, the per, the PER, I
• 30:24
  think the Person of the Year should be Curt Doolittle, but
• 30:28
  that's, you know, that's just my opinion.
• 30:32
  He's certainly doing something, you know, interesting, but.
• 30:36
  I mean, heck, I I would, I would put Craig as Person of the Year,
• 30:43
  which, by the way, it's appropriate that your name is.
• 30:46
  Blame Max Sand on Twitter because I blame you for turning
• 30:51
  me into a fan of Of the Untitled.
• 30:57
  The fake untitled podcast. Yeah, it's so worth a listen.
• 31:02
  Them guys, man, some of their science debates are just fucking
• 31:05
  hilarious and they always like, I forget the other guy's name,
• 31:10
  but he's always like in opposition to anything, Craig
• 31:13
  says. And it's just so funny.
• 31:16
  Yeah, Evan or? No, the other guy.
• 31:21
  The other guy, Evan Evan, is more.
• 31:23
  Like Steve. Yeah, Steve, those two will just
• 31:26
  sit there and fucking. Like, if you find some of the
• 31:28
  older episodes, they'll scream at each other about like,
• 31:31
  science. It's great.
• 31:33
  I'm, I'm actually going to get Steve on the show at some point
• 31:38
  in 2024 because we're both from. I well, I I want to point out to
• 31:44
  him, and I will that like what what he does by making Craig
• 31:48
  crazy is the greatest thing on the Internet.
• 31:51
  Yeah. And he does it unintentionally.
• 31:54
  It's great. OK, yeah.
• 31:57
  So we're watching. So yeah, So this is a character
• 32:01
  from a show where he's playing a corrupt politician.
• 32:05
  And. Tucker's bit here is he's going
• 32:08
  to support this corrupt politician.
• 32:11
  Now he's just. I don't know.
• 32:14
  I don't know what Tucker's. See, that's the interesting
• 32:17
  thing is like, what is Tucker? What is Tucker?
• 32:20
  'S media. But he's the media who tells you
• 32:25
  that this is fine. And even though you know he
• 32:27
  knows otherwise, that's it. That's my take.
• 32:31
  Yeah, well, let's see. Believe that nothing should be
• 32:35
  off the table in life or an odd I think we could both agree that
• 32:39
  we need to get some adults back in the room.
• 32:41
  So if that means taking on the chief executive role, well,
• 32:44
  that's a sacrifice I'm willing to make for this great nation.
• 32:47
  Adults in the room. I love it.
• 32:48
  I could see there's a bumper sticker.
• 32:49
  Is that your campaign slogan? Well, that's not a bad idea.
• 32:52
  Look, I think first our country needs to stop apologizing and
• 32:56
  stiffen up. I mean, look, we got so many
• 32:58
  people running around with so many different issues, like gun
• 33:01
  control, an important issue. But let's be honest, the truth
• 33:04
  is more people are killed by online trolls every day.
• 33:08
  That may be true, actually, but then they're protected by the
• 33:10
  1st Amendment. They can say whatever they want.
• 33:13
  You believe in the First Amendment, I assume?
• 33:14
  Of course I do. Look, people spewing ridiculous
• 33:17
  ideas is nothing new, and they should always have that right.
• 33:21
  Even though in the show he kills like multiple journalists who
• 33:25
  try to expose his corruption. So a little inside joke there.
• 33:34
  Well, they had information that might lead to the arrest of
• 33:37
  Hillary. Nevermind.
• 33:38
  Yeah, yeah, exactly. But the problem is some are on
• 33:42
  the way. We started listening and we
• 33:44
  should remember the salient words of Benjamin Franklin, who
• 33:47
  said do not believe anything of what you hear and only half of
• 33:52
  what you see. He wasn't telling people to stop
• 33:54
  talking, he was telling us to stop listening.
• 33:56
  So let's stop blaming bots and college kids and start telling
• 34:00
  leaders what leadership really means.
• 34:03
  I love it, but how do you do that?
• 34:05
  Well, this country admired so much contradiction and
• 34:08
  confusion, we don't even know how we can help anyone anymore
• 34:11
  because we can't agree. Who needs help?
• 34:14
  I mean, what doesn't come with a trigger warning these days?
• 34:16
  I mean, Tucker, we are far too close to having a beanbag chair
• 34:20
  in the Oval Office. We coddled.
• 34:21
  Everybody. OK?
• 34:22
  You think you're a rabbit, that's fine.
• 34:24
  But let me tell you something. You sure as hell aren't going to
• 34:27
  see someone walking through my White House in Bunny ears and a
• 34:29
  tail. Unless it's Easter.
• 34:31
  Why, Ben? But how do you think we got here
• 34:33
  in the first place? Fear, fear, and then some more
• 34:37
  fear. That's been the consistent theme
• 34:39
  fear, and that's why I'm going to keep saying we need to get
• 34:42
  some adults back in the room. Sounds like you're running.
• 34:44
  If you did run, I assume it would be as an independent.
• 34:47
  Well, I've always been independent my whole life, no
• 34:50
  matter what my party affiliation, even though at the
• 34:52
  moment I don't quite recognize my old party.
• 34:55
  So at what point would you get in if you did?
• 34:58
  Well, I think there's time. I've never been afraid to show
• 35:01
  up a little late for the dance. But lots of people want to be
• 35:04
  president. What would you specifically
• 35:06
  bring that others aren't? Well, I think I have a long and
• 35:10
  very solid relationship with the public, and that's a bond that
• 35:13
  has never been broken. I mean, I've almost felt like I
• 35:16
  can talk to them directly. But I mean, you do talk to them
• 35:19
  every Christmas you give a statement.
• 35:21
  It is Christmas Eve. What is your statement
• 35:24
  specifically this year? You know, Tucker, I think it's
• 35:26
  just good enough to sip some eggnog and decorate the tree and
• 35:30
  listen to White Christmas and embrace all the things that make
• 35:33
  this such a special day. The truth is, I love nothing
• 35:37
  better on this day than to do a line of blow, drink a whiskey
• 35:40
  and Coke, hit a reindeer with my car and wish you all the
• 35:43
  naughtiest Christmas ever. You know, you and I have
• 35:45
  something in common, actually. Oh yes, we both got canned by
• 35:49
  our network. True, but they actually tried to
• 35:51
  kill you. Yes, but here we are, Tucker,
• 35:54
  bigger than ever. So looking back on all the
• 35:56
  drama, do you think that Legacy Media played a role in what
• 36:00
  happened to you? Look, I think they're trying to
• 36:02
  do their best to stay relevant. Look, platforms like X, I mean,
• 36:06
  you move information around so quick that everybody else is
• 36:08
  just playing catch up. Legacy Media's diligence has
• 36:11
  turned out to be they just cut and paste what some trusted
• 36:14
  outlet does. I mean, look, this will be a
• 36:16
  good example. Watch how they report on this
• 36:19
  conversation. There'll be one or two headlines
• 36:21
  that get repeated over and over and over.
• 36:23
  I think actually if legacy media wants to survive, they're going
• 36:26
  to have to start slowing down. That's smart.
• 36:29
  I agree with that. By the way, do you watch Netflix
• 36:31
  anymore? Probably as much as you watch
• 36:33
  Fox. Bear So that doesn't mean that
• 36:38
  you're gone though from Netflix. I don't.
• 36:39
  I don't even know if you're aware of this, But every time a
• 36:43
  person pulls up the Netflix app, you're there in some way.
• 36:47
  Have you seen this? Yes, you know what that is?
• 36:55
  Boom. Boom.
• 36:57
  So it is bizarre that they decided to publicly cut ties
• 37:00
  with me on allegations alone, allegations that have now been
• 37:03
  proven false. Because I don't think there's
• 37:05
  any question Netflix exists because of me.
• 37:09
  I put them on the map and they tried to put me in the ground.
• 37:12
  Do do you think within Netflix in the leadership suites that
• 37:15
  your influence is still felt? Well, according to your
• 37:18
  research, my influence is felt every time every customer opens
• 37:20
  the app. I'd say that's pretty powerful.
• 37:22
  That's true. When are you getting back to
• 37:24
  work, by the way? Oh, I've been back at work from
• 37:26
  the moment we started talking, Tucker.
• 37:29
  So does that mean this is like an episode or is it real?
• 37:33
  Well, it's probably a little of both.
• 37:35
  I mean, Tucker, what's true, What's false?
• 37:39
  What's life, What's art? What's real?
• 37:42
  What's performance? I love it when these things
• 37:45
  intersect, because then it gets interesting.
• 37:49
  What role do you see yourself playing going forward?
• 37:53
  I will play whatever role the public wants me to play.
• 37:57
  And what about you, Tucker? What role do you want to play?
• 37:59
  I mean, if I run, I'm going to need a vice president.
• 38:02
  I'll sleep on it. I mean, people have already
• 38:05
  gotten out of the race. People have dropped out already.
• 38:07
  Have you thought? What do you think of those?
• 38:09
  Well, you know, it's a little bit like jumping in the Jacuzzi
• 38:14
  with a boner, you know, it ain't going to last forever.
• 38:17
  So I wasn't surprised when Mike, a little too pensive, jumped out
• 38:21
  right. Away I wasn't either.
• 38:24
  But what about the candidates who are still in?
• 38:26
  Well, I like Vivek Drain the Ramaswamy, and Nikki Haley is
• 38:33
  tough. She's no doubt learned a thing
• 38:34
  or two by watching me. But I think in the end we need
• 38:39
  someone in the White House who's not afraid like me, not afraid
• 38:43
  to push our country, or a journalist in the right
• 38:47
  direction, if it comes to that. I sure appreciate your coming
• 38:50
  out. It was great to see you.
• 38:51
  Thank you. Well, thank you, Tucker.
• 38:53
  I only showed up because I was told I would get to be on X, not
• 38:56
  the drug, not the platform. I was curious as to what Tucker
• 38:59
  on X might be like. I have never tried that.
• 39:02
  Well, you wouldn't be the first guy to tell me you've never
• 39:04
  tried that before. So that's that broke the
• 39:13
  Internet today, I guess. Yeah, I I just went and typed in
• 39:19
  Kevin Spacey to see what they were saying about it.
• 39:21
  It is pretty funny. Let's see.
• 39:25
  Variety, Kevin and Facey and Tucker released Bizarre
• 39:30
  Christmas video. Huff, PO, Kevin, Spacey and
• 39:34
  Tucker team up and weird. They they'd love to say that.
• 39:36
  It's weird. I agree it is weird.
• 39:39
  It is. But like that, that's Kevin.
• 39:42
  Like, like we said, that's Kevin Spacey's thing now is like doing
• 39:46
  this character and he he does it like every, every Christmas Eve
• 39:51
  like now whether it's so. Can I just say that yes, he he
• 40:00
  didn't get, by the way, it wasn't a criminal charge, so he
• 40:03
  wasn't acquitted. He just won a lawsuit.
• 40:07
  He did admit to the allegations. So I don't feel bad saying gay
• 40:13
  pedophile, he said. He said that I just had it up
• 40:19
  too, but he essentially said that, Oh well, if that happened
• 40:22
  and I was drunk, I'm really sorry.
• 40:26
  And also turns out, yeah, I'm actually gay.
• 40:30
  And now I'm. Oh yeah.
• 40:32
  Oh yeah. I do remember.
• 40:33
  I do remember when that happened.
• 40:35
  So. It was the same thing he said.
• 40:38
  He said that if this happened, the specific allegation being
• 40:42
  levelled against him. He said if that happened, I
• 40:45
  don't remember 'cause I was really drunk and so I owe you
• 40:48
  the sincerest apology. Bro was 14.
• 40:54
  Probably not the best way to put it, but.
• 40:57
  Yeah. He didn't say, oh, that
• 41:00
  definitely didn't happen. He said, Well, if it happened, I
• 41:04
  was drunk. Well, yeah, you know, when I
• 41:06
  raped that kid. Come on.
• 41:11
  Yeah. What an I'm not even saying like
• 41:15
  maybe the guy is making it all up, but you don't do yourself
• 41:19
  any favor when you're like, yeah, I might have been drunk.
• 41:24
  Yeah, yeah, that is a little what what I don't understand,
• 41:31
  it's like, and I'm not saying that you're saying this or that
• 41:36
  anyone else is saying this. I have some, I have seen like
• 41:40
  some bizarre people who are like, well, Tucker platformed A
• 41:45
  pedophile. So therefore he must also be a
• 41:48
  pedophile. And that's why I say Hollywood
• 41:53
  are all pedophiles, I guess so. Fair enough, yeah.
• 41:58
  I mean me. I mean me.
• 42:00
  The person that analities I I guess so.
• 42:05
  But anyway, someone wanted people kept like asked me to you
• 42:10
  know comment on that. So I figured rather than write
• 42:13
  like a post about, I would just cover live on the Christmas
• 42:18
  tree. So.
• 42:21
  Am I the only guy in the world that, like, didn't see this
• 42:25
  show? I mean I didn't see until like 2
• 42:32
  hours ago to be fair because I was busy and wiped.
• 42:35
  No, no, I mean the show that the Whatever house.
• 42:38
  Oh, House of Cards. I mean, maybe I.
• 42:44
  It was one of them big Netflix series and that's the thing I
• 42:48
  have not gotten into any Netflix series ever.
• 42:52
  Listen, I. I'm not even sure I have.
• 42:54
  I think we have Netflix, but I wouldn't know how to log into
• 42:59
  it. Listen, people are still upset
• 43:03
  that I've never watched The Walking Dead.
• 43:07
  I've not watched that. I've not watched Game of
• 43:09
  Thrones, which is right up my alley, but those ones are
• 43:12
  different because those ones I didn't watch for a reason.
• 43:17
  You see when the shows were airing, right?
• 43:20
  I'm a gamer and I was playing online games.
• 43:23
  And so when those shows would air, people in the chat would
• 43:27
  talk about the show and spoil it.
• 43:29
  And I would just be like, well, never watching that.
• 43:32
  Oh yeah, yeah. I don't watch shit it like I'm
• 43:36
  not even one of those, like, people that's like, Oh no
• 43:39
  spoilers, oh spoilers is the worst ever.
• 43:41
  But if you spoil it for me, I probably won't watch it.
• 43:46
  Yeah, no, I'm, I'm, I'm the guy where like if you spoil
• 43:50
  something and it's, you know, if you spoil something it's like
• 43:54
  really bad or something, I'm actually glad because then it's
• 43:57
  like, oh you saved me X amount of money or you saved me X
• 44:03
  amount of time or. Well, but.
• 44:06
  So. Excuse me?
• 44:14
  And Max is dying on stream folks.
• 44:20
  Maybe. Got a little, you know, you get
• 44:24
  something in your throat, jeez. That's.
• 44:29
  Just the spoilers weren't for bad things, though.
• 44:33
  That's. Yeah, it's just like, oh, I
• 44:35
  really want everybody else to watch this show.
• 44:38
  So I'm going to tell them everything that happens.
• 44:41
  That seems to be how some people operate.
• 44:43
  That seems to be how some people like to watch shows.
• 44:46
  To be honest, they like to know ahead of time, not me.
• 44:51
  The moment you spoiled anything in The Walking Dead, a character
• 44:54
  I've never heard of dying. I'm just like, well, but now I
• 44:58
  know. But I'm going to be waiting for
• 45:00
  that. And fuck, it's not worth my
• 45:03
  time. I had.
• 45:05
  I had no idea that Meghan Markle or whatever her name, the new,
• 45:10
  like Princess or whatever I had. I had no idea that she was an
• 45:14
  that she was an actor. And people were like, really?
• 45:19
  You didn't know that? And I'm like, no.
• 45:23
  I'm like no. I see no more than anybody,
• 45:29
  right? Like, she could be in, like the
• 45:30
  biggest movie in the world. And I would.
• 45:34
  I literally don't. Aside from this, I'm not a Kevin
• 45:38
  Spacey guy. I know he's huge, right?
• 45:41
  What? Besides Footloose, What was he
• 45:43
  in 'cause I know that one. He was in like LA Confidential.
• 45:52
  Never seen it? He was in seven with Brad Pitt.
• 45:58
  Heard of but not seen it. Yeah.
• 46:03
  You're going to pull movies out that I've never seen for a
• 46:06
  while. I can almost guarantee it.
• 46:08
  Yeah. And yeah, no, those are the only
• 46:11
  two that I can think of off the top of my head.
• 46:14
  But. I know he was in a Call of Duty
• 46:17
  game. Yeah, well, that too.
• 46:23
  If only it fit. You know what I mean?
• 46:26
  I well my I don't know if I told you but like I I was.
• 46:32
  I found out that like my Santa hat like completely
• 46:37
  disintegrated and like and by the time I found out like it was
• 46:46
  it was too late to order off of Amazon and my mom's like I'm not
• 46:50
  running to the to the store to get a Santa hat.
• 46:55
  See see here's what it was is my wife was like.
• 46:58
  Oh, I'll get you one by the the Wednesday, right?
• 47:03
  And then Wednesday was there and she hadn't, and then she had to
• 47:06
  go shopping. And that's why she was so
• 47:09
  excited that she was able to bring it home.
• 47:11
  But this was literally the only one they had.
• 47:13
  So, like, it was either this not fitting one or she wasn't doing
• 47:17
  it. And she paid more for it than I
• 47:19
  think she should have, to be honest with you.
• 47:23
  So I got two out of it. Yeah.
• 47:26
  Well, yeah. Well, I mean, that's good.
• 47:31
  I I'm just letting people know it wasn't for a lack of trying
• 47:34
  on my end. The hat, like I've I've had for
• 47:37
  years, literally disintegrated And so I'm wearing my old man
• 47:44
  winter hat, even though it's you know, even though I live in
• 47:51
  Florida because why not So any like I guess holiday, you know
• 48:03
  it's almost Christmas Day. You're probably going to be
• 48:08
  opening presents. I I guess I'm.
• 48:12
  Getting them out for the night so that they'll be ready for the
• 48:16
  boy in the morning, that's the plan tonight.
• 48:21
  That's good. I had to kick my wife out to
• 48:25
  wrap her present and that was way harder than it should have
• 48:28
  been because I was trying to give her subtle reasons to go
• 48:31
  upstairs. And she had brought the wrapping
• 48:36
  paper down and I was like, Oh yeah, you're really cold down
• 48:39
  here. Maybe you should go upstairs.
• 48:41
  And then it was like I came up with like 14 different reasons
• 48:45
  why she should go upstairs for 5 minutes and.
• 48:48
  Then. Finally, I just had to say, hey
• 48:53
  scram, I'm wrapping your gift. And she was like, Oh well, why
• 48:57
  didn't you just say that? So I buy I I always buy my mom
• 49:04
  books for Christmas because she reads, she's a reader and she's
• 49:11
  into, she's into garden design books.
• 49:14
  But I also bought her Elon Musk's biography because I
• 49:18
  thought she'd like that too. And we were at, we were at
• 49:23
  books-a-million, which is like the local, it's like the
• 49:27
  bookstore chain here in Florida on Black Friday.
• 49:30
  And the the hardest thing was she kept like picking out the
• 49:35
  books that that, like, I had already gotten for her.
• 49:40
  Well, she and my stepdad were abroad.
• 49:43
  And so every time she would pick up like, I'm like, oh, you know,
• 49:48
  I don't like. I I was basically like trying to
• 49:51
  like be like, I don't, you know, like maybe you should wait until
• 49:57
  after Christmas or you know, something to like.
• 50:02
  It's really hard when it's really hard when someone wants
• 50:05
  to buy something for Christmas but like, you've already bought
• 50:09
  it for them. So, like, yeah.
• 50:14
  My big thing this year is, and I I'm probably not getting any
• 50:19
  presents because I specifically asked people like I there's
• 50:24
  nothing I need. So spend that money on my son
• 50:31
  rather than me. That's been my so if you were
• 50:35
  gonna get him a a present and then me something worth $20,
• 50:39
  take that extra $20, put it towards him.
• 50:44
  Well. Because I am not a material.
• 50:46
  I was just having this argument with my wife, 'cause she was
• 50:48
  like, what do you mean, don't get you anything?
• 50:51
  And I'm like, look, if you get me something that's nice, I'm
• 50:54
  not gonna be like, oh fuck you, you got me a present.
• 50:57
  I'm just saying I am at a point in my life as a 40 year old man
• 51:03
  that I don't need things, that on Christmas being together is
• 51:11
  more than enough. For example, I helped her pick a
• 51:14
  present for her mom recently. Her mom has had some issues with
• 51:21
  a friend of hers being a bit too in her space, let's say and.
• 51:30
  Gotcha. Because she she broke her back
• 51:33
  in October. I think I've mentioned this
• 51:35
  before. And so we've all been trying to
• 51:38
  help out and this woman has been coming over and helping out too.
• 51:41
  That lives and she lives in like an old people place by herself.
• 51:45
  And so this other woman there is helping her out.
• 51:47
  I don't like the other woman. But then there became this
• 51:51
  problem somehow. A picture of her, my my
• 51:56
  mother-in-law and my father-in-law from their
• 51:59
  wedding. It's just a picture of them
• 52:01
  holding hands, just their hands on the table during their
• 52:05
  wedding that she had framed and had on her shelf for 35 years,
• 52:12
  magically disappeared when this woman cleaned her house.
• 52:16
  And so my idea for a Christmas present was, well, why don't we
• 52:21
  just get that picture? I was like, first thing I was
• 52:24
  like, well, there's a copy of this picture.
• 52:25
  I hope my wife was like, yes, I have it.
• 52:28
  And I was like, well, why don't we get a nice print of it maybe.
• 52:32
  And and we did in the end put four other pictures like like
• 52:37
  her and and her husband when he was alive.
• 52:41
  The whole family with me and my son and my wife and them, just
• 52:46
  her and my son and just her husband and my son.
• 52:50
  That was the idea. So it's the whole family, right?
• 52:54
  And and frame it real nice. And that gift cost about $3 and
• 53:01
  then another couple dollars for A-frame.
• 53:04
  And it's gonna be the most impactful gift we give this
• 53:07
  year. I guarantee it.
• 53:08
  So yeah, just, you know, if you're out there and if you're
• 53:12
  thinking, man, you know, I gotta spend more money on Christmas.
• 53:16
  Not all, usually. Not actually, except for kids.
• 53:19
  Kids is different. But even kids, when it comes to
• 53:23
  kids, it's like the kid wants something very specific is what
• 53:27
  gets expensive, but everything else can be not, if that makes
• 53:33
  sense, right? Right.
• 53:37
  Of course we don't do, we're not doing big electronics this year.
• 53:41
  I mean, it's a tough year for everybody.
• 53:43
  Yeah. His His big thing he asked for
• 53:46
  was Godzilla. I still have yet to wrap it.
• 53:49
  And I got this. It's Godzilla.
• 53:52
  I I don't know if the glares too much, but it's Godzilla fighting
• 53:56
  King Kong from the news and it has like a diorama city you can
• 54:04
  build that's all blown up. Yeah, well, that's.
• 54:10
  Considering what this is and how big everything is, it really
• 54:14
  shouldn't have been $70. But that's welcome.
• 54:19
  To Bill Biden's America. Yeah.
• 54:22
  Well and well, and that's toy companies for you too.
• 54:25
  So. Well, I.
• 54:27
  The last same thing three years ago would have been 20 bucks,
• 54:30
  but it's, you know, that's that's his big thing right
• 54:34
  there. There's no it's just a toy,
• 54:36
  'cause he likes playing with his Godzilla figures and his he's
• 54:40
  he's got a whole bunch of other, don't get me wrong, he's got to
• 54:43
  have so many fucking presents to open and it's absurd.
• 54:47
  Yeah, well, I. Mean.
• 54:49
  You're also getting a new TV from his grandmother, so I
• 54:52
  guess. Yeah.
• 54:55
  I just get this old and like the pixels, they're starting to wear
• 54:58
  out. Oh my God, that's nice.
• 55:03
  Speaking of grandmothers, So my my grandmother who's 89, she's
• 55:12
  the she's really the only grandparent I have left.
• 55:18
  My my mom's mom bought me some. She actually bought me an early
• 55:24
  Christmas present, which was some writing software that I've
• 55:31
  wanted. And hence that's why I did the
• 55:36
  the reformatting on my book, because I was finally able to
• 55:41
  format it the way I actually wanted to initially with this,
• 55:47
  with this software instead of using the freebie the Amazon.
• 55:54
  So, and for those who have read the book, I dedicated the book
• 56:02
  to to her when it came out in June because she's the one, or
• 56:07
  in July because she's the one that got me into reading Throne
• 56:12
  novels in the 1st place. So.
• 56:15
  You got to be proud, right? Yeah, well, don't you?
• 56:18
  And also, I mean at her age too. Like, I know it's cliche to say
• 56:24
  you don't know how much time you're going to have, but you
• 56:30
  know, like I lost my grandfather, you know, earlier
• 56:35
  this year and. Famously got banned for it.
• 56:41
  Yeah, yeah, yeah, I I explained that.
• 56:45
  I explained that to my mom and and at first she's like, what do
• 56:48
  you mean you got banned off YouTube for talking at my about
• 56:53
  your grandfather, my my dad. And I'm like, well, that's
• 56:57
  specifically what I was talking at when I got banned.
• 57:00
  You weren't. Even specifically talking about
• 57:01
  him, you were talking about, oh, you know, I had a couple weeks
• 57:05
  off. I'm sorry about that.
• 57:07
  I was doing this and I had to go to the funeral and it was like
• 57:10
  it was about your travel more than anything else.
• 57:14
  Yeah, yeah. So you didn't even?
• 57:18
  Curse it's. Like, no.
• 57:22
  So, so you know, and and during that time I was actually writing
• 57:31
  the book. So I'm like, you know what?
• 57:33
  Like she's still alive and I'm going to dedicate this to her
• 57:38
  because a she's the one that got me into thrills, would be like,
• 57:42
  I want her to be able to see it while she's still alive.
• 57:45
  So it means something. And it did.
• 57:49
  So I got her. I got her a reprint of the book
• 57:55
  for Christmas the. Nice new one right under the
• 57:58
  tree. That'd be great.
• 57:59
  She she already has the you know, she already has the
• 58:03
  original edition too. But you know, it'll be nice and
• 58:07
  I buy it. You know, I can buy copies at
• 58:10
  cost. So it, you know, it's not that
• 58:12
  much money, but you know she has everything in the world and so.
• 58:17
  But yeah, it means a lot to her, because what she doesn't have is
• 58:20
  a dedication in an actual novel published by her grandson.
• 58:23
  And now she does. Well, she well, she has it twice
• 58:27
  now. So, yeah, yeah.
• 58:28
  But you know what? I mean, That's a great gift.
• 58:29
  Yeah, that's an absolutely great gift.
• 58:33
  And you know, and also I. Mean for and and like let's
• 58:36
  let's not fucking, let's not beat around the Bush.
• 58:39
  A lot of people probably told her throughout her life that you
• 58:42
  weren't going to amount to anything.
• 58:44
  Right. Right.
• 58:46
  Like and and and and this goes like I give much credit to your
• 58:49
  parents. You know, even if you don't have
• 58:51
  the best relationship with your dad is it doesn't seem like they
• 58:54
  took that mentality. No, I mean and I and I will and
• 58:58
  I and I I will see. People with kids who or or
• 59:02
  disabled in some way, maybe even less than you and they do give
• 59:07
  up on them. So I just, you know that's a
• 59:10
  that's admirable. Yeah, well, and I mean, and the
• 59:13
  other thing that I've always admired both my parents for is
• 59:18
  they could have spent money basically suing the hospital
• 59:23
  where I was born for basically fucking up.
• 59:26
  Because that is basically what happened.
• 59:30
  I I have cerebral palsy because the hospital fucked up and
• 59:36
  they're the most. Common case scenario, right?
• 59:38
  And I and I've actually, I've, I've actually talked about that.
• 59:42
  So if people want to go back in the archives on either Rumble or
• 59:46
  Spotify, it's a few years old. But people can find that
• 59:50
  episode. But irregardless, as I've
• 59:53
  mentioned before, they could have, they could have, they
• 59:57
  could have sued the hospital and spent all that money, but
• 1:00:01
  instead they spent on physical therapy and.
• 1:00:07
  Probably the right call. Yeah.
• 1:00:10
  And people have always said, well, you could have, you could
• 1:00:13
  have gotten so much more money if you had, if you had sued
• 1:00:17
  them. But like they did the math.
• 1:00:19
  If you didn't go in on physical therapy, you might not be here
• 1:00:24
  today. Right.
• 1:00:25
  This is what people don't understand, is that they did
• 1:00:29
  they or did they not tell you that you probably going to die
• 1:00:32
  young, right? Or not you?
• 1:00:33
  But they told your parents that, certainly.
• 1:00:35
  Yeah, well they, well, they they literally said that I'd be a
• 1:00:38
  vegetable my entire life. And you know the prognosis isn't
• 1:00:45
  great. You know if it.
• 1:00:47
  If it's that case, so but. But that doesn't mean it's set
• 1:00:52
  in stone and you're living proof of it.
• 1:00:54
  Right. And and and I'd say I think they
• 1:00:57
  made the right decision because I personally feel that it makes
• 1:01:01
  a lot of sense that if you didn't go all in on physical
• 1:01:04
  therapy and instead we're kind of weighing on the results of a
• 1:01:08
  court battle that could take most of your life, who's who's
• 1:01:11
  to say where you'd be today. Right, exactly.
• 1:01:16
  You know it's not so I'm thankful for both my parents.
• 1:01:20
  I'm also thankful for my white uncle who isn't here, which by
• 1:01:24
  the way that that kind brings me to my other point because there
• 1:01:29
  are a lot of people in this audience, some of whom you may
• 1:01:32
  know of who have either lost relatives and or gone through
• 1:01:39
  divorces and so a a a couple weeks ago.
• 1:01:43
  I'm actually glad that you're here for this acts because some
• 1:01:48
  people, I guess, kind of misunderstood what we were
• 1:01:52
  saying a few weeks ago and we said that the holidays were time
• 1:01:56
  to be jolly and not to be sad because there were people at
• 1:01:59
  because some people said, well. And I get that no, no, don't
• 1:02:03
  don't misread me that if if look if you've lost somebody and the
• 1:02:07
  holidays are hard for you, I understand that.
• 1:02:10
  Yeah. But my advice still remains
• 1:02:14
  because I feel that odds are if you if if the person died, they
• 1:02:20
  probably don't want you to be miserable in their name.
• 1:02:24
  That's my take. That that.
• 1:02:26
  Well, that's exactly what I was going to say because my my uncle
• 1:02:29
  Gary, who I've mentioned before his birthday was, his birthday
• 1:02:36
  is on December 23rd and yeah. That's rough.
• 1:02:41
  Were he still here, he would be. He would be 72 years old, but he
• 1:02:48
  died like he died almost eight years ago and he died two weeks
• 1:02:54
  before Christmas. And you know, I can tell you
• 1:02:59
  from personal experience that Christmas was devastating.
• 1:03:05
  So I get it at the same time. But it's but but it's.
• 1:03:11
  You got to remember, it's the first of many.
• 1:03:15
  Well, and it gets better. I promise you, gentlemen, if
• 1:03:19
  you're the type that's listening to our show, that means that you
• 1:03:22
  in some way, shape or form aren't completely black pilled,
• 1:03:27
  right? And if you're not?
• 1:03:30
  Then you got to remember that next year will be a little
• 1:03:33
  easier in the year after, in the year after.
• 1:03:36
  And look, my grandfather, I I don't talk about the.
• 1:03:39
  I talk about my grandfather a lot.
• 1:03:40
  Actually, 'cause he was the most influential person in my life.
• 1:03:43
  He was the only adult who gave a shit that I was alive, except as
• 1:03:47
  a punching bag from until he died.
• 1:03:50
  And he died right before Christmas, right before, like, I
• 1:03:54
  think it was the 21st. Oh yeah, yeah, that.
• 1:03:59
  That's about when my uncle died, too.
• 1:04:01
  You know, but sitting here almost that 27 years later or
• 1:04:06
  more than 27 years later, I don't think that he would want
• 1:04:11
  me to be depressed about that. I think he would want me to
• 1:04:14
  remember what I do, which is like he was the king of fucking
• 1:04:18
  Christmas, you know, He was the thing of Christmas.
• 1:04:22
  He would bring you the best gifts, you know, at least for I
• 1:04:25
  was his favorite grandchild and he made no secret about that.
• 1:04:28
  So that's one of. Those things, yeah.
• 1:04:30
  Same. Same with.
• 1:04:31
  Same with Gare. I mean, I I I have, I have like
• 1:04:34
  two of the cousin cousins, both of whom are, you know, also boys
• 1:04:39
  or I guess you know, men now. But I have the three I I was the
• 1:04:44
  one who was always his son. But I have.
• 1:04:49
  I have something close to 30 cousins on that side of the
• 1:04:52
  family, and I was his. Like, even if he didn't say I
• 1:04:56
  was his favorite, they all fucking knew it.
• 1:04:59
  Yeah, yeah, yeah, I. Lived with him every summer,
• 1:05:04
  right? Like told everyone I was his
• 1:05:07
  son. He didn't say grandson, he said
• 1:05:09
  I was his and he said I was his only son, which is why my uncle
• 1:05:13
  hates me. That my.
• 1:05:14
  Uncle embarrassed him so. That was, that was kind.
• 1:05:19
  That was kind how Gary Gary never had any kids because he
• 1:05:26
  was, he was an alcoholic. He He was.
• 1:05:31
  He was a. He was, he was a high
• 1:05:34
  functioning alcoholic who knew that he wouldn't be able to
• 1:05:38
  like, be responsible and have kids so.
• 1:05:42
  But my Uncle Joe, he passed this last year.
• 1:05:46
  This is like that too. He was a confirmed bachelor.
• 1:05:49
  He didn't want kids, 'cause he knew he was.
• 1:05:51
  He like drinking and partying, and he really wasn't.
• 1:05:55
  He didn't want to raise kids. But he loved his nephews, and
• 1:05:58
  especially me, because his big thing in life, what he really
• 1:06:02
  wanted to do, was on Fridays and Saturdays he'd go out and party
• 1:06:06
  the week he'd work and he'd just be sitting there reading Star
• 1:06:09
  Trek. Like he loved Star Trek novels.
• 1:06:12
  And me being a reader, when I went over his house, I was a
• 1:06:16
  library. Like he had every Star Trek
• 1:06:19
  novel, which is a. Lot.
• 1:06:21
  A lot. More than he would ever think.
• 1:06:24
  And so I would just get to take a book with me, you know, And he
• 1:06:27
  didn't want kids himself in his case.
• 1:06:30
  And maybe your uncle is is in a similar situation, maybe not.
• 1:06:35
  He did have a long term relationship with a woman when
• 1:06:38
  he was younger and it didn't work out and then after that he
• 1:06:41
  kind of decided that maybe marriage isn't for me.
• 1:06:45
  Gary well, Gary actually was married and they they never
• 1:06:49
  have, they never had kids. And it was one of those things
• 1:06:53
  where between between his alcoholism and the fact that she
• 1:06:58
  didn't have any kids, my aunt at the time, Juliette, wanted she
• 1:07:06
  wanted out of the she wanted out of the marriage.
• 1:07:09
  And my grandparents like hated her for it.
• 1:07:12
  But my dad and I both under understood, and even Gary
• 1:07:17
  understood. Well, that's what I was gonna
• 1:07:19
  say. It sounds a lot like with my
• 1:07:21
  Uncle Joe again. They weren't married, but he was
• 1:07:24
  living that kind of life. He wasn't looking at having kids
• 1:07:28
  anytime soon. She was at a different place and
• 1:07:31
  she couldn't live that kind of confirmed bachelor lifestyle.
• 1:07:36
  I was actually getting into this with you about your friend Nash
• 1:07:39
  not that long ago. He says that his intent is to be
• 1:07:44
  a confirmed bachelor. I actually support that.
• 1:07:46
  The reason you don't hear me talk about it a lot for those
• 1:07:49
  that are in the audience and they're like, Max, I've never
• 1:07:51
  heard you say this before is because I'm talking to guys who
• 1:07:55
  clearly want not to be confirmed bachelors, right?
• 1:08:00
  And I don't want that. So I can't give that advice.
• 1:08:03
  But you have to understand that there's some men aren't family
• 1:08:08
  guys. They just aren't right?
• 1:08:11
  And maybe if they became them, they would actually be bad at
• 1:08:15
  it. Or maybe they just don't want
• 1:08:18
  that. You know, there's nothing,
• 1:08:22
  there's nothing wrong with that except there's a couple ground
• 1:08:25
  rules, right? Is you don't want to go get
• 1:08:27
  getting a bunch of women knocked up.
• 1:08:29
  If you're going to do that right, you don't want to have a
• 1:08:31
  bunch of kids that you're not taking care of.
• 1:08:33
  That's one and then and and then two.
• 1:08:36
  You know, is confirmed. Bachelors tend to get really,
• 1:08:41
  really, really lonely, especially later in life.
• 1:08:44
  And if you're one of the people that can't handle that, then it
• 1:08:46
  might be the that's not the path for you.
• 1:08:50
  But there are some people that they're just fine that way.
• 1:08:53
  And I and I and I will admit that is kind of and if if Nash
• 1:09:00
  is listening to this by by chance I don't know if he is or
• 1:09:04
  not but you know and and since he and since he's not accepting
• 1:09:10
  DMS I'll say this publicly but that is one of my concerns is
• 1:09:14
  yes later in life some of these bachelors do get lonely they
• 1:09:20
  they can't cope and that's exactly what happened to Gary.
• 1:09:25
  So it is a double edged sword. You know with that being said it
• 1:09:31
  was his. I mean, I I was, I was angry at
• 1:09:35
  him when he when he died and it took me kind.
• 1:09:39
  It took me a few years to realize that it was his decision
• 1:09:43
  and I forgave him. And you know, now I try, and now
• 1:09:48
  I try and live, you know? But that's what I was doing.
• 1:09:54
  The one thing about bachelors that I find who seem to have
• 1:09:59
  been happy with that situation, Your uncle's example.
• 1:10:02
  Mine is an example. They found that sense of family
• 1:10:07
  through nephews, nieces, etcetera.
• 1:10:10
  If you can find that sense of being a part of a family still,
• 1:10:15
  it seems like you could. And you're the type of person
• 1:10:18
  that's like, you got to be predisposed to be OK with being
• 1:10:20
  alone anyway. Some guys are right.
• 1:10:24
  Well, that that's that's the thing that was Gary.
• 1:10:28
  I mean it it's it's complex because Gary was at the same
• 1:10:32
  time he had, he dealt with loneliness, which is why he
• 1:10:36
  drank too. So you know, again, it's a
• 1:10:39
  double edged. To to to do the bachelor thing.
• 1:10:44
  The confirmed bachelor right is very, very hard to do without
• 1:10:50
  ending yourself up in like a really depressive state.
• 1:10:53
  And I and I hate that, but there are guys that that like it's
• 1:10:58
  perfect for them so. Yeah.
• 1:11:02
  You know, I don't think that if you're not that guy and most of
• 1:11:05
  the people watching this aren't that guy.
• 1:11:07
  Most of the people I talk to aren't that guy.
• 1:11:09
  Because most guys aren't that guy.
• 1:11:12
  My, my other, my other advice though is if if you've lost a
• 1:11:18
  relative over the holidays, and I do know some people who have
• 1:11:24
  lost relatives today. And in fact, I hate to say this
• 1:11:31
  because it might seem like I'm diminishing what you may be
• 1:11:36
  going through if you're in this situation, but there's a but
• 1:11:39
  there's always there's always someone who in fact has worse.
• 1:11:46
  And what I mean by that is I lost my uncle on December 21st,
• 1:11:51
  8 years ago. And I was really sad and I
• 1:11:55
  thought I was having the worst Christmas ever until like two
• 1:12:00
  years later, two of my friends from high school lost their mom
• 1:12:07
  in a car accident on Christmas Eve.
• 1:12:12
  Now I'm not necessarily saying that like, that losing girl was
• 1:12:18
  any easier, but it's like, wow, they lost her mom on Christmas
• 1:12:24
  Eve. Well, and and you can go further
• 1:12:27
  to that. This is why I always say modern
• 1:12:30
  people are such babies, OK? If you were born in a certain
• 1:12:35
  place in a certain time, you lived your entire life from
• 1:12:40
  birth to death with somebody with a fucking whip behind you
• 1:12:45
  telling you what to do. And that wasn't that long ago.
• 1:12:48
  Or how about this 100 years ago? If you had three children, one
• 1:12:56
  of them is going to die before they reach 18 years old.
• 1:12:59
  That was 100 years ago. Did.
• 1:13:01
  You know that. Yeah.
• 1:13:02
  No, no, I actually did because. But Louis CK actually has a bit
• 1:13:08
  about like that's why so many kids like you'll have back in
• 1:13:13
  the old days were named like sometimes it would be Steven
• 1:13:17
  Steve because one of the Steves would ineptly die.
• 1:13:23
  And so oh, this Steve died. Oh, we have.
• 1:13:27
  We have other Steve though. He made it, you know, or.
• 1:13:33
  But but my point being is like, we in the modern world are the
• 1:13:37
  least likely in human history to be a victim of interpersonal
• 1:13:40
  violence. We're the least likely to be
• 1:13:44
  affected by starvation. And just, you know, a modern,
• 1:13:50
  like, everybody's like, oh, modernity is so, so fucking
• 1:13:53
  terrible. But you're also ignoring a lot
• 1:13:57
  of the fucking side effects of us being modern is that you're
• 1:14:00
  even able to bitch about it. Right.
• 1:14:03
  That's a side effect, right? And yeah, there is, There is war
• 1:14:08
  and whatnot. We're not ignoring that, but
• 1:14:10
  like historically speaking, we do.
• 1:14:13
  Live. Even with all the wars going on
• 1:14:16
  right now, you are still historically less likely to be a
• 1:14:19
  victim of violence at the hands of a human being than ever in
• 1:14:23
  history. Yeah, we are at the most
• 1:14:25
  peaceful time in human civilization and that right
• 1:14:28
  there is a gift in in of itself and.
• 1:14:33
  It's also scary because we see what's out in front of us and
• 1:14:36
  it's like, damn, if it was crazier than this, then that's
• 1:14:39
  kind of the, I mean people feel with it all and I get that.
• 1:14:44
  But you you got to keep things in perspective.
• 1:14:48
  I I say this about people you know like, like with you, right?
• 1:14:51
  Is like what you consider the normal would be a very big
• 1:14:56
  struggle for a lot of people who haven't been through the
• 1:14:59
  conditions. Of life you have right.
• 1:15:02
  You don't. You don't think twice about, OK,
• 1:15:05
  I got to go get something and you just hop down and start
• 1:15:07
  crawling. And to a lot of people, you
• 1:15:11
  know, they couldn't even fathom that.
• 1:15:13
  Right. But to you, that's just OK.
• 1:15:15
  It's Tuesday. Well.
• 1:15:17
  I need a beard. Well, and and part of the reason
• 1:15:20
  for that though was because, and I'm not even trying to toot my
• 1:15:24
  own horn and say I'm a perfect person, but part of that is
• 1:15:27
  because I have seen kids who are vegetables and who are, like far
• 1:15:34
  worse off. I have as well.
• 1:15:36
  And and it's. Kind of.
• 1:15:38
  And at that. I've seen them be labeled as the
• 1:15:41
  exact same thing you've got. Yeah.
• 1:15:44
  You know, I if people want to know what cerebral palsy and its
• 1:15:48
  worst case looks like, it's pretty fucking ugly.
• 1:15:51
  It's pretty. It's pretty heartbreaking It.
• 1:15:54
  It can. It can even be.
• 1:15:55
  It can even be like scary. And in some cases, not so much.
• 1:16:00
  Now I'm an adult, but like as as a kid, I would see, I would see
• 1:16:05
  some, you know, kids. And I mean some of them.
• 1:16:11
  I I hate to say. Am I?
• 1:16:13
  Going to be that one day, How would you know, right?
• 1:16:18
  Yeah. That yeah, I I the pastor for my
• 1:16:23
  my wife's family church. He adopts kids and he's adopted.
• 1:16:28
  They're adults now, but he's adopted several with Down
• 1:16:31
  syndrome. Right.
• 1:16:32
  And that's why I say I know people who have given up on
• 1:16:35
  their kids for less because he he raised those two kids because
• 1:16:40
  they were giving up, because they had Down syndrome and the
• 1:16:43
  parents were we can't fucking handle it, Those two kids now,
• 1:16:47
  by the way, one of them is a head administrator at a homeless
• 1:16:53
  charity and the other one is he is basically the other
• 1:16:58
  understudy with his dad to become the preacher for the
• 1:17:02
  church. Wow, that.
• 1:17:04
  Yeah, that's that's impressive. These these were and they're
• 1:17:08
  then they're wonderful people and they give me the biggest hug
• 1:17:11
  when they see me and everything. It's it's you know, but they are
• 1:17:16
  not the waste case that the parents who abandoned them
• 1:17:22
  thought. They're actually productive
• 1:17:24
  members of society, and in fact probably nicer than the average
• 1:17:28
  person to be honest with you. That's.
• 1:17:31
  Yeah, I know that's. Like a trope.
• 1:17:33
  But it's true that kids with Down syndrome all grown up are
• 1:17:36
  still fucking wonderfully giving and kind and innocent.
• 1:17:42
  Yeah, I mean now, granted. I mean people with Down
• 1:17:46
  syndrome. There There are a few exceptions
• 1:17:48
  to where they can be assholes. Sure, yeah.
• 1:17:52
  And well, no. And what's really funny is it's
• 1:17:54
  almost kind of funny though too, because like, people with Down
• 1:17:59
  syndrome are not as like sometimes.
• 1:18:04
  They're not as intellectually deficient as a lot of people
• 1:18:08
  think. Well, and sometimes they play
• 1:18:12
  the they definitely, they definitely play the the, the
• 1:18:20
  Artard card as as much as possible.
• 1:18:25
  I've had I had a friend in middle school and his name was
• 1:18:30
  Kevin and he not only had Down syndrome, but for whatever he
• 1:18:36
  had other stuff going on, so he had no teeth.
• 1:18:39
  Oh yeah, he was one of those. And you know the teachers would
• 1:18:44
  be like, Oh yeah, the fucking retarded kid blah blah blah.
• 1:18:48
  But like, he would do shit like he'd be like, hey guys, watch
• 1:18:53
  this. And then he jump up on the this
• 1:18:55
  was like in middle school. He jump up on the cafeteria
• 1:18:58
  table in the middle of all of us and just start saying fuck you
• 1:19:01
  to the teachers. And then he would just sit down
• 1:19:04
  and keep eating his lunch and nobody ever did anything.
• 1:19:09
  Right. One day my friend got it in his
• 1:19:12
  head, but he could do it too, because if this kids getting
• 1:19:16
  away with it, right? He.
• 1:19:19
  Got in a lot of trouble. He got a lot of trouble.
• 1:19:25
  Yeah. So he knew.
• 1:19:27
  He knew that if I just do whatever I want, they're gonna
• 1:19:30
  be like, oh, silly retard. Like he wasn't.
• 1:19:33
  He was. He was using you, dummy.
• 1:19:36
  You're the. You know what I mean?
• 1:19:38
  You're the retard teacher, not him.
• 1:19:41
  Yeah, I know that that that that does happen happen.
• 1:19:50
  Yeah, I've, I've, I've had friends like that most of my
• 1:19:53
  life. I had a Midget friend and I say
• 1:19:55
  Midget because if it if I called him anything else he would
• 1:19:58
  fucking be very mad at me. He had he had dwarfism.
• 1:20:03
  So I guess the term technically is dwarf, but I swear to God, if
• 1:20:07
  you ever called him little person, he'd want to fight you.
• 1:20:10
  He'd probably. Yeah, he'd want to fight.
• 1:20:12
  I had AI had a friend who sadly is no longer here because he he
• 1:20:18
  died from primordial dwarfism. Nick is his name.
• 1:20:24
  Great. It's great guy.
• 1:20:27
  One of my fellow, one of my fellow Eagle Eagle Scouts.
• 1:20:31
  But he actually, he actually got to meet the Midget from Game of
• 1:20:44
  Thrones and oh, Peter Dinklage, I guess is his name.
• 1:20:51
  And everyone was like, no way you got to meet Peter Dinklage.
• 1:20:56
  And Nick was like, yeah, and that dude was kind of an
• 1:20:59
  asshole. I'm not gonna lie.
• 1:21:03
  Like, I just, I I remember that because, you know, everyone just
• 1:21:08
  assumes that because, you know, because Peter Dinklage is a
• 1:21:14
  dwarf, he must be nice. But no, he's kind of an ass.
• 1:21:18
  So. Well, I actually had a
• 1:21:21
  conversation with that, in particular with Dylan, Dylan
• 1:21:27
  Postle, I think his name is Hornswoggle from WWE.
• 1:21:33
  Uh huh. He was fucking fuming about that
• 1:21:37
  and I retweeted it on Twitter and it got it to the attention
• 1:21:41
  of a couple of like right wing outlets who don't usually pay
• 1:21:44
  attention to this kind of shit. And so he did.
• 1:21:46
  He did interviews about it and he said look this motherfuckers
• 1:21:49
  putting us out of work. He got his and he pulled the
• 1:21:52
  ladder up behind him. They don't like that at all.
• 1:21:56
  The the, the Midget slash little people slash whatever you want
• 1:22:01
  to call them. Community, if you will, is not a
• 1:22:03
  big fan of him right now. They cost them 7 dream jobs.
• 1:22:09
  As before. That is like a dream job for you
• 1:22:13
  if you are a a a short person, right?
• 1:22:17
  If you're a vertically challenged person and you can
• 1:22:20
  get a job in Disney's Snow White as a dwarf, that's a payday.
• 1:22:26
  And that's a payday. You know what mailbox money is,
• 1:22:30
  right, Sam? It's like an industry term.
• 1:22:32
  Yeah, yeah. Yeah, that means mailbox money
• 1:22:36
  for the rest of your life. That mailbox money audience in
• 1:22:39
  in and see, I get it from the music industry, but it's in the
• 1:22:42
  wrestling industry and the movie.
• 1:22:45
  If you get royalties on a thing that you were in forever, you go
• 1:22:49
  pick up your check at your mailbox.
• 1:22:51
  That's what we mean. And so like Spotify has been
• 1:22:55
  great for this in the music world, right?
• 1:22:57
  Is you just have this constant revenue mailbox money?
• 1:23:01
  Right. Yeah, it's.
• 1:23:02
  Been much easier for a band or an artist if they have that to
• 1:23:07
  count on to then work. What?
• 1:23:09
  OK, what's our next project to act?
• 1:23:11
  Make real money. Because mailbox money.
• 1:23:13
  I'll tell you one thing, unless you were in, I don't know,
• 1:23:16
  Disney's Snow White, it's not gonna be enough to really live
• 1:23:21
  off of for most people. I know that seems weird, but
• 1:23:27
  example, you have a hit song, right?
• 1:23:30
  You have a number one hit song. What what ends up happening is
• 1:23:33
  you make all your money early on with that song and then the
• 1:23:36
  plays on, you know, Spotify accumulate because one guy's
• 1:23:41
  like, oh, I remember that song here and there, right?
• 1:23:43
  And so you get like 50,000 listens a month or whatever on
• 1:23:48
  your song. That equates to a couple pennies
• 1:23:51
  per listener or whatever. You get some, you get a couple
• 1:23:54
  thousand, but that's for the year.
• 1:23:58
  She knew what I'm saying. Like you get a year's worth of
• 1:24:00
  royalties, so you might get 5000, but but you obviously
• 1:24:05
  can't live your whole life off mailbox money.
• 1:24:08
  That's my point. Now, if you're in a film like
• 1:24:11
  the, the problem is, is that movie's going to bomb.
• 1:24:14
  But if they did it right and you were a dwarf actor or a Midget
• 1:24:19
  or a little whatever they want to be called, right, because
• 1:24:21
  they. I'll.
• 1:24:22
  Tell you this when you talk to midgets, little people,
• 1:24:25
  whatever, each and every one of them is going to tell you what
• 1:24:27
  they want to be called, and it's usually not the same as
• 1:24:30
  everybody else. Yeah, No, the, the.
• 1:24:36
  And I'm old and not politically correct, so I default to Midget.
• 1:24:40
  The. My friend told me to call him a
• 1:24:41
  Midget. So, so you've got you've, so
• 1:24:46
  you've got the Midget card then basically.
• 1:24:51
  I guess it's unfortunate with us today to fucking sign that in
• 1:24:57
  paper, but. Yeah.
• 1:24:59
  I'll tell you what, the dude was a legend because this was mostly
• 1:25:03
  in regards to filming my shows in high school.
• 1:25:07
  And one of the bits that we did was to, you know, how high
• 1:25:12
  schools, They'll have the tall lockers, but then they'll have
• 1:25:15
  ones that are like separated into a top and a bottom.
• 1:25:18
  Yeah, yeah, yeah. So we had stuffed a guy in a
• 1:25:23
  locker for a bit before that. And then we were like, wouldn't
• 1:25:27
  it be funny to put the little guy in the half locker?
• 1:25:32
  And he we just like, you know how you spitball comedy ideas,
• 1:25:37
  right? And it's like, Oh yeah, he
• 1:25:40
  latched on to that and he was like, we must do this.
• 1:25:44
  And I was like, OK, well, we could put you in there and then
• 1:25:48
  edit it to make it seem like it had been hours and hours and he
• 1:25:52
  was like, Nah, you got to put me in there for at least three
• 1:25:54
  periods and just leave the camera there and I will talk and
• 1:25:59
  you'll hear it. And sure enough, it made for the
• 1:26:03
  funniest fucking just him in there.
• 1:26:06
  At first. He's like, guys, guys, he's
• 1:26:09
  knocking on the thing. We left the mic in with him.
• 1:26:12
  We we we did a we did a bit with we did a bit with Nick Head oh I
• 1:26:23
  can't believe about I'm about to tell this.
• 1:26:25
  But basically so there was this girl he he liked and he somehow
• 1:26:31
  he knew he knew her locker combo.
• 1:26:36
  And so Nick, like, had a dark sense of humor, and he thought
• 1:26:41
  it would. He thought it would would be
• 1:26:43
  funny to basically, like, hide in this girl's locker and then,
• 1:26:48
  like, scare her. Not a winter heart.
• 1:26:54
  Yeah, well, you know, we were all goofy teenagers though.
• 1:27:01
  I joke, but I've been scaring the shit out of my wife for
• 1:27:04
  almost 20 years. So.
• 1:27:06
  So you know, and and I don't know how, I don't know how
• 1:27:10
  lockers were when you were in school.
• 1:27:15
  But when I was in school, like, I guess locker stuffing had
• 1:27:20
  become like enough of a problem at that point that like someone
• 1:27:24
  decided to make lockers so that if like if people did get stuff,
• 1:27:31
  you could like open them from the inside.
• 1:27:33
  So. Basically, that's dirty.
• 1:27:38
  I've been stuffing people in lockers way too long for them to
• 1:27:42
  come up with a trick like that. This.
• 1:27:44
  I've been saying people need lockers recently.
• 1:27:48
  No, no, no. You're, you're, you're Nick.
• 1:27:49
  Fuentes Nick Fuentes needs to be put in a locker.
• 1:27:53
  Tell me I'm wrong. I mean, you're not.
• 1:27:56
  You're not wrong. You're not wrong.
• 1:27:57
  You. Saw.
• 1:27:58
  You saw when he punched a guy and he fucking tucked his fists.
• 1:28:04
  I did. I did like a rapping, screaming
• 1:28:06
  bit about that. Just like, good Lord, now you
• 1:28:11
  can get out of a locker. Jeez.
• 1:28:13
  No, no but but but but for the spoo.
• 1:28:16
  But they still have padlock spots on them, don't they?
• 1:28:20
  They do, but you can, you can kind of like I get.
• 1:28:25
  I guess you can, kind of. Safety lockers, ladies, and
• 1:28:29
  welcome to the fucking machine. No, no, you'll you'll, you'll,
• 1:28:33
  you'll appreciate that. You'll appreciate this, though.
• 1:28:36
  So we hit him in the locker. He's like, he's like dead quiet,
• 1:28:40
  right. The girl.
• 1:28:43
  The girl comes up like I I think, I think she actually did
• 1:28:47
  have to like unlock the locker if I'm not mistaken.
• 1:28:51
  But she unlocks what she she undoes like the padlock.
• 1:28:56
  All of a sudden Nick just opens the door and and scares her.
• 1:29:03
  Like he opens the door from the inside and just scares her and
• 1:29:07
  we're all laughing our ass ass off about that.
• 1:29:13
  Nowadays, they'd call the cops. Yeah.
• 1:29:19
  What you really need to do though, ladies and gentlemen, is
• 1:29:22
  enjoy the holidays. I think that.
• 1:29:25
  So I'm going to, I'm going to head off, actually.
• 1:29:28
  I got presents to wrap and trees and all that fun stuff before
• 1:29:33
  the jolly guy gets here. Apparently, as I've been talking
• 1:29:37
  to you, my wife was trying to put the boy to bed, but he
• 1:29:40
  didn't want to go to bed because it's Christmas Eve and he fell
• 1:29:46
  asleep on my bed trying to stay up like a big shot.
• 1:29:49
  So now we have the go ahead. We're going to start rapping and
• 1:29:53
  getting crazy and. Well, that's awesome.
• 1:29:57
  I'm actually going to wrap up the show myself because I've got
• 1:30:00
  to. I've got to get into the shower
• 1:30:02
  and get ready for bed. But yeah, I mean, ladies and
• 1:30:06
  gentlemen, just, you know, enjoy the holidays.
• 1:30:09
  If it is tough for you, you know, God bless, but it'll it'll
• 1:30:15
  if you're going through something, it'll get better
• 1:30:17
  time. Holds and I'll tell you,
• 1:30:22
  Christmas will be over Tuesday and then back to the grind.
• 1:30:27
  So if it's if it's rough for you, hey, it was rough for me.
• 1:30:30
  I hated Christmas. I don't know if anybody knows
• 1:30:32
  this. I hated Christmas.
• 1:30:34
  I despised Christmas. It was my least favorite
• 1:30:37
  holiday. And that's 'cause I was raised
• 1:30:40
  in a dysfunctional, abusive household, right where Christmas
• 1:30:44
  meant fist fights, run meetings and alcohol and all that.
• 1:30:51
  And now I love Christmas. It's my favorite holiday and so
• 1:30:57
  I can relate. I can relate.
• 1:30:59
  But when it was tough I would just say and and you know a
• 1:31:03
  couple days it'll be over and then we'll just we'll get back
• 1:31:07
  to the grind. But for me now it's a way to
• 1:31:10
  kind of like make the grind bearable this.
• 1:31:13
  And I went on rants about Thanksgiving and how much it
• 1:31:16
  means to me and and even Halloween people might think is
• 1:31:20
  a silly off day. Now these, these are the things
• 1:31:22
  that keep me going as a father, you know, instilling the same
• 1:31:28
  traditions on him that I wish were instilled properly on me.
• 1:31:32
  You know, I'm, I'm making up for lost time.
• 1:31:34
  I'm making up for mistakes that weren't mine to make.
• 1:31:40
  So yeah, I guess that's the message.
• 1:31:43
  So real quick before Max heads off, I'm going to head off too.
• 1:31:48
  But on Wednesday ladies and gentlemen, and I don't know
• 1:31:52
  whether we'll pre record this or not, but Wednesday we'll have
• 1:31:57
  one of my close personal friends on the podcast who works in
• 1:32:03
  Washington DC. He's home for the holidays in
• 1:32:07
  Colorado right now, but we'll have him on the show Wednesday.
• 1:32:13
  I don't know whether he wants to do the show live or for 1/4.
• 1:32:17
  We might, we might actually have to talk about politics.
• 1:32:22
  Yeah, and we've been mad about that lately.
• 1:32:25
  Well, and and Max, I I I hate to say this, but, like, he's kind
• 1:32:31
  of like an establishment Republican.
• 1:32:33
  And that's fine. So.
• 1:32:35
  So he hates Trump? And well, that's.
• 1:32:38
  Fine too. Like no, it'll it'll be
• 1:32:40
  interesting because I'm the Trump guy.
• 1:32:42
  He hates Trump. So inevitably we're going to
• 1:32:46
  like we're going to clash a little bit for like probably the
• 1:32:49
  first like half hour but then we're going to talk video games
• 1:32:54
  and if if you want to join that that's it'll be it'll be fun
• 1:33:00
  we'll. See Wednesday.
• 1:33:02
  I'm pretty sure I'm penciled in for Wednesday anyway, but.
• 1:33:06
  Yeah. I know we got a whole bunch of
• 1:33:08
  stuff. We're going to go down to the
• 1:33:10
  monastery we're going to. We got to go over and see some
• 1:33:16
  of her family and then then the boy is going to his
• 1:33:22
  grandmother's. That's his biggest Christmas
• 1:33:25
  wish actually, is that he can spend the vacation over her
• 1:33:27
  house because it's totally not because she spoils him rotten or
• 1:33:31
  anything. No.
• 1:33:34
  But you know what? I'm fine because the wife and I
• 1:33:36
  will have a week with him. Not here is the longest I think
• 1:33:43
  we've ever had since he was born.
• 1:33:46
  Oh well. Yeah.
• 1:33:48
  So we're going to have our New Year's Eve and we're going to
• 1:33:53
  have fun. So so basically Max, if if you
• 1:33:56
  want to come on the show and dog and dogpile, I mean have a
• 1:34:01
  plight conversation with my with my neo con I mean.
• 1:34:06
  I know, I know who it is now, right?
• 1:34:09
  And I don't think it's going to be as bad as you're saying.
• 1:34:12
  I think we agree on a lot more than.
• 1:34:15
  Yeah. Yeah.
• 1:34:18
  See the thing it is, is like we agree on 95% of the same.
• 1:34:22
  Stuff we can argue about that five.
• 1:34:25
  Like that's all we can talk about, really.
• 1:34:27
  And then we'll talk out like video games and a hero wants to
• 1:34:31
  talk AI, which, you know that's actually become like a prominent
• 1:34:36
  subject on the show. So I'm he does want to meet you
• 1:34:41
  at some point. So maybe yeah, maybe Wednesday
• 1:34:45
  will be the day for that so, but for you folks at home, there
• 1:34:51
  will be a show on Wednesday, so tune in for that and for anyone
• 1:34:57
  who. And then once I'm done, I would
• 1:35:01
  I I this is my vow to you audience.
• 1:35:03
  I'm going to try and get together like a clip show for
• 1:35:06
  the end of the year, but I got to get through Christmas first
• 1:35:09
  so. Yeah.
• 1:35:12
  It'll be something, even if it's just a YouTube video I put up
• 1:35:15
  with like funny clips of us or insightful or whatever, I'm
• 1:35:19
  going to, I'm going to go through as much of our shit.
• 1:35:21
  It's there's a lot. I didn't realize how much
• 1:35:23
  content we've put out this year. We've we've almost, we've almost
• 1:35:27
  done like 80. We've actually, I've actually
• 1:35:30
  counted because Spotify allows me to.
• 1:35:33
  We've done 81 episodes now at this point, so.
• 1:35:40
  Varying from mostly two hours at the shortest to five hours.
• 1:35:46
  Yeah, it's it's a lot. I originally my goal was I was
• 1:35:49
  going to take one clip from every episode.
• 1:35:52
  That's not going to happen. Yeah, no, I there have been some
• 1:35:57
  shows where like where they've been so long that that's the
• 1:36:02
  other reason why like sometimes I won't up upload the Spotify
• 1:36:06
  podcast for like a day or two is because some of them like take a
• 1:36:10
  day to like download and then like 4 hours to to upload to
• 1:36:16
  Spotify. 'Cause we're so professional,
• 1:36:19
  ladies and gentlemen, we just talk an extra 3 hours, you know?
• 1:36:23
  Yeah, yeah. No, my, my, we always say we're
• 1:36:27
  going to do like 2 1/2 Max and then it's like 5.
• 1:36:32
  At least we have kept pretty consistent with the one thing
• 1:36:36
  this year, which is any more than three's a crowd.
• 1:36:41
  We've been really good about that.
• 1:36:43
  Yeah, and also. If you don't know why, audience,
• 1:36:46
  go listen to a show with four plus people speaking on it and
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  you'll suddenly see that, yeah, four people is about where
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  nobody gets a word in edgewise anymore.
• 1:36:57
  Yeah, and also we we really don't cover E drama all that
• 1:37:02
  much with with rare exceptions like that.
• 1:37:08
  And now I might have to subscribe to the pizza fun now,
• 1:37:11
  because, like, I've actually never seen the episodes.
• 1:37:15
  He watches. He watches the whole thing of
• 1:37:19
  Mersh going at you, which I had never seen.
• 1:37:22
  It's not just the I was nice to you.
• 1:37:25
  It's like a oh. Oh, so you find a?
• 1:37:28
  Minute thing and Jesse and a lot of like the pot off or Hench men
• 1:37:33
  or whatever are commentating on it.
• 1:37:36
  Yeah, Porcelain's on it and Alan Powell's on it.
• 1:37:39
  Oh, oh, so you finally got to like here.
• 1:37:42
  OK. So you know, a little bit of the
• 1:37:44
  Alan Powell boar then. Yeah, I mean, by the way, I did
• 1:37:48
  run a poll like last week as whether or not we should have
• 1:37:54
  Allen on in the new year. 70% of the poll voted.
• 1:38:00
  I was nice to you in the poll. So.
• 1:38:05
  So yeah, that that's a that's a yes.
• 1:38:08
  Funny thing about that. People who who have been here
• 1:38:14
  for a long time know but when Mersh did that rant on me like
• 1:38:21
  Mersh that I was watching but I did not know that he went on
• 1:38:26
  like a two hour rant about me until the day after I had I had
• 1:38:30
  been. Because I at the time, I was
• 1:38:32
  still into college and it was like it was midterms week, so I
• 1:38:36
  was like I was doing college stuff, so.
• 1:38:43
  Well, I'd seen the short version and like I said, I was like, oh,
• 1:38:47
  'cause I watched first and foremost, if you get into pot,
• 1:38:51
  awful pizza, fun. The first thing I would ever
• 1:38:53
  recommend to anybody is the Red Rooms off a Wien this year.
• 1:38:56
  It's fucking one of the funniest things I've ever seen in my
• 1:38:59
  whole life. But then I'd watched a lot of
• 1:39:03
  the stuff. I watched old stuff, and I was
• 1:39:05
  like, oh, here's a mersh one I haven't seen.
• 1:39:07
  And next thing I know, I'm like I said, I'm over on my 'cause I
• 1:39:11
  have multiple screens here. This screen way over here, I had
• 1:39:16
  Pot awful on in this screen I'm playing my game and looking at
• 1:39:19
  and all of a sudden I hear Oh yeah, and that's Sam Whitfield.
• 1:39:22
  He he called into the Sunday show one time.
• 1:39:24
  We made fun of him, but like, it didn't bother him at all.
• 1:39:28
  Yeah, Sam. Yeah.
• 1:39:32
  No. And and like, now I've got like
• 1:39:35
  hot, awful people who who like, make me watch Encino, man.
• 1:39:41
  It like really bad movies, so. It was.
• 1:39:47
  It was. I feel OK with having watched
• 1:39:50
  Encino Man only after I got to assault Pauly Shore with a with
• 1:39:55
  a soda can so. Yeah, we'll have to have, we'll
• 1:39:58
  have to have Nostalgia November on so you can tell that story.
• 1:40:02
  I I feel like I have to get that clip into the fucking end of
• 1:40:07
  year. Show is my Pauly Shore story,
• 1:40:10
  'cause I feel like the first time I told it, it actually went
• 1:40:12
  over really well. I went back and watched it.
• 1:40:14
  I was like, oh, that's better than usually.
• 1:40:16
  Usually when I retailed I, I'd skip it a lot and the build up
• 1:40:22
  is what's important. I think the build up to when I'm
• 1:40:25
  cause in real time in real life. I was literally looking at him
• 1:40:28
  talking shit and then looking down at this can and looking up
• 1:40:32
  at him and yeah, like like a like a caveman putting rocks
• 1:40:38
  together. And I was just like, Oh yeah.
• 1:40:43
  Oh, so, oh, so that's that's very fitting then considering
• 1:40:47
  that, you know, he played a caveman and that there you go.
• 1:40:50
  So. Well, he played a friend of a
• 1:40:52
  caveman. Whatever.
• 1:40:54
  Yeah, but anyway, well. Merry Christmas to all and to
• 1:41:01
  all good night. Yep.
• 1:41:03
  Merry Christmas, folks, To all and to all.
• 1:41:06
  Good night. I've always wanted to say that
• 1:41:09
  on a broadcast. And now I finally do so thank
• 1:41:13
  you, folks. Have a Merry Christmas.
• 1:41:15
  Go easy on the eggnog. And Merry Christmas to all, and
• 1:41:21
  to all a good night. Thanks for listening to the
• 1:41:29
  Whitfield report on the NGC Network.
• 1:41:33
  Please visit Sam's website at www.thesamwhitfield.com and
• 1:41:39
  support Sam on patreon@patreon.com/whitfield
• 1:41:44
  Report Until next time. God bless God, save this great
• 1:41:49
  Nation and God, Freedom, legacy in that order.