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Is MAGA Breaking Apart? Workforce Warning & One Unbelievable Cure | TMI Ep 344 · The TMI Show with Ted Rall and Manila Chan

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Hey Robbie, how are you? Howdy, I'm jumping on
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in. I'm going to do some interference. Let's
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go ahead and turn this off. Good idea. All right.
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So you're watching everyone. Thanks for tuning
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in. You're watching the TMI show. That's the
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Ted Manila Information Show. Of course. Yeah,
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I just added. Manila, we see you! Can you hear
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us? Manila! Manila! Manila, we see you! She looks
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very confused, and her glasses look really big.
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They do, but they are cute, though. Yeah, they're
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not bad, but they're big. Well, it's because
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she has those big Asian eyes. That's right the
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big googly age the famously googly Asian eyes
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What's what's with it? You know with I mean,
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I guess I'm as the cartoonist here. I should
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know the answer to this I don't understand why
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in manga, right? Which is done by Japanese people
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originally. They all have giant eyes like what's
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with that? It's because big eyes are less threatening.
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So the villain has small narrow eyes whereas
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the hero or the or the the innocent the goody
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the goody two -shoe person. If you have big eyes,
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you're considered less threatening. Yep. Yep.
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All right. Well, I don't know what we should
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do here. I mean, it's kind of hard to do it without
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Manila. I mean, it can. We have, but we kind
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of planned on her. Okay. What is she saying here?
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I think she's to reboot her computer. She's not
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getting audio or you know what? I bet her tab
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is muted. I asked her if her tab is muted. She
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said no. And so I told her close out the web
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browser and it still doesn't have any audio.
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So what I think probably is going on is that
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her audio driver is hung up. So maybe she's listening
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to music, watching a video or she was on street
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guard from meeting. That driver get hung up by
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another. Yeah, you and I have had that problem
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before. Yeah. All right. Well, that means obviously
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we should talk about these lions that died at
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the zoo in Tokyo. Of course. So for people who
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are not following this, four lions died at the
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Tokyo Zoo of heat stroke. And Robbie, I didn't
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get your take over on Deep Program about that,
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but I mean, that's pretty shocking. I mean, look,
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it gets hot in Japan, but it doesn't get to be
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108 degrees Fahrenheit, 40 degrees Celsius or
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more. It just doesn't. You know, I mean, are
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you finally going to concede that man -made climate
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change is a thing? I'll concede that climate
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changes. I'm not going to concede that humans
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are a net cause behind it because a volcano erupting
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creates more pollution than what humans do. Now,
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that being said, there are things that we should
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mitigate. We should plant more trees. We should
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be good stewards of the environment. We should
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take out the resources that we have. But to say
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that me and my 2011 Dodge Dakota pickup truck
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is systematically destroying the planet is a
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bit much, especially to have governments blowing
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up other countries, blowing up oil tankers, blowing
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up oil refineries. Well, it's a whole pile of
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shit that's all contributing to it, right? Not
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to mention the wildfires that you're a victim
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of right now. It's so wild. I mean, you can't
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even see the sun right now. But of course, the
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wildfires are like this classic example of a
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doom loop. We heat up the planet, that dries
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things out and causes drought. And then you end
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up with, you know, then you end up with fires
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that heat up the planet more. Well, the best
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way to handle the forest fires, honestly, is
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with logging, going through and cutting down
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dead and dying trees, basing them out. True,
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but that's very, very hard, right? It's not very
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hard. It's a major industry. It's one of the
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biggest industries here in Montana, and lefty
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tree -hugging environmentalists killed that industry,
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and now we have massive fires going on. The Bob
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Marshall collect, oh no, you can't cut down the
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sick trees. Instead, we're just going to let
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everything burn up instead. There's nothing hard
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about it. There are some problems that capitalism
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is able to solve. Cutting down dead trees is
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one of them. That's true. Capitalism isn't entirely
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useless. But it sets the basis for socialism
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and then communism. So for that reason, we like
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capitalism. Manila, what are you doing? Oh, it
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takes a long time to boot up a computer. Should
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we just start the show? Let's just do it. Let's
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just go. Because I mean, listen, at the end of
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the day, while Manila is the face of the show,
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she's definitely the beauty. That's true. Yeah,
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it's certainly not me. perfectly capable of driving
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this ship into the iceberg ourselves. Okay, Manila
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rebooted, so we'll see her soon. All right, here
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we go. I'll go ahead and read story number one.
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Let's see if I can even... No, I don't have access
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to... I don't have access to the jaws. Can you
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make me an administrator? She never made me an
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administrator. You could if you're an administrator,
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right? I can't hold on. Let me go to the other
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computer over here. Okay. Thank you The Republican
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Party may have a new headache a weekend meeting
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between Tucker Carlson a former representative
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Marjorie Taylor green representative Tom Massey
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and several other anti Trump America first figures
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has sparked speculation that a new political
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movement or maybe a third party could well be
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taking shape. I see Manila back. Green posted
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a photo from the gathering declaring the movement
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has begun, while Carlson has openly discussed
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the need for an alternative to today's Republican
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Party. What's driving the split? Not taxes or
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immigration. It's foreign policy. Carlson, Green,
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and Massey argue that Trump has drifted from
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America first by involving the US in stupid wars,
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especially in Iran. Green accuses Trump of betraying
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the movement that returned him to office, while
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Massey has broken with Trump over military intervention
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and spending. Whether this becomes a real political
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party is obviously a very open question. Launching
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a viable third party in the United States is
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notoriously hard. Every state has different very
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different ballot access rules, fundraising is
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brutal, and the electoral college strongly favors
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the two -party system when you're talking about
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national presidential races. History is not encouraging.
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From Ross Perot's Reform Party in 1992 to the
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Libertarians and the Green Party, third parties
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have influenced elections far more than they've
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actually won, but I guess the big exception would
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be 1860. The people involved already command
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enormous online audiences. Carlson alone reaches
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millions through podcasts and social media. Massey
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and Green have loyal grassroots followings. In
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today's political environment, Influence no longer
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requires a TV network or even a party. The bigger
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question is whether this is the birth of a new
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party or simply leverage against the Republican
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establishment. If enough conservative voters
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conclude that Trump has abandoned America first,
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the movement could reshape GOP primaries even
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without fielding its own presidential candidate.
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For now, one thing is clear. The loudest fight
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on the right is no longer Republicans versus
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Democrats. It's MAGA versus MAGA. Yeah, for sure.
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I mean, we've been talking about this for a while.
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I mean, Trump blew up his coalition. This isn't
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a surprise. It's the Said effect going on the
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other side. Yeah, it certainly is. It's interesting
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how analogous it is. In both the Democratic and
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Republican big towns, you have a corporatist
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center so -called, although I wouldn't say that
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starting wars against anyone and everyone is
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necessarily a centrist or moderate policy. But
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anyway, these corporatists, who are in bed with
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the Fortune 500 and with Israel and with the
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military industrial complex, basically they think
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that their duty is just to start wars and collect
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money for their friends at the expense of the
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American people. Meanwhile, on the left side
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of the aisle for the Democrats, the progressives,
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the socialists, the DSA people, the commies,
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etc. Those people, as well as the America first
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right, the OG mega people, populist right who
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want to put the needs of the American people
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first, those people are splitting off. And that's
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where all the energy is in both parties. And
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so it's ironic because you have all the ideas
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and dynamism coming from the people who are not
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allowed to drive the car. Um, so basically it's
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like dead grandpa is running, is, is, is running
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things. Uh, and like the, you know, the kid who's
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fully caffeinated and ready to go is not, not
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being allowed to, you know, to take the wheel.
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It's, it's, it's really frustrating on both sides.
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I mean, okay, let's, let's talk about this particular
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confab though. Um, look, um, you know, the movement
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has begun, like that's a tweet. Okay. Like whatever.
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Um, The question is, do you think that a third
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party is in the works from the likes of these
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guys or that they're up to something else? And
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that's part question number one. And question
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number two is, as an OG America first or Robbie,
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do you believe that a third party is what's needed
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for people who share your politics? We have a
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parliamentary system. First and foremost, the
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two party systems got to be replaced. I mean,
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that's what has to happen. Now, are the, are
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the America of first or people like Tucker Carlson
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are, you could make the case maybe for Candice
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Owens, Dave Smith, these other people, will they
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form a third party? I don't know. I think that
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for that to happen is that you would have to
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have enough overlap between the populist left
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and the populist right to be able to make a difference.
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And the right -wingers by themselves, you're
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not going to have enough power to do it. It will
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evolve both wings coming together and saying
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nudge to the establishment working together and
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agree to settle their issues later on. The question
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is, can the left and the right do that, but both
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sides willing to compromise on things that they
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must have with their respective parts? Immigration
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is going to be a key part of that conversation.
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Will the populist left get behind the populist
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right on immigration? If they do, it's viable.
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If they won't. I think it's possible because
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the pop, the thing is that the big push for open
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borders didn't come from the far left. It always,
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the far left always wanted walls and controlled
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borders and wanted to protect American jobs.
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That's where, you know, you can look up, you
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know, I'm far left. You can look at columns that
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I wrote 15 years ago, calling for a border wall.
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So that's not, I don't think that's a gap. I
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guess, you know, from a practical point of view,
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probably because there are meaningful differences,
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obviously, between the far left and the far right,
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you know, to use this shorthand, a single party,
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a uniform, like, you know, populist party where
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we bury our left versus right differences would
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not last long and would likely split. And probably
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the smart move would be to have two new parties,
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one for the populist left, one for the populist
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right, where in a parliamentary system they were
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able to form coalitions and come together. The
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way, you know, that's how parliamentary systems
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work overseas and be able to vote on things like
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immigration policy and jobs and so on and protecting
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workers and be able to form alliances as needed
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in order to get things done over the heads of
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the corporatists. That'd be the only way it could
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work, I think, is agree to work together whenever
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you can. And the thing is, I think there's enough
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energy to do it. The question is, Will enough,
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and I hate the phrase, normal people get off
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their blessed assurances and go and support these
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reformers who are trying to hijack the system.
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Because at the end of the day, if you have 20,
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24, 28, no 30 year old people who just sit on
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their phone and complain all day, but never actually
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get out and do the work to push through change,
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it's going to die on the vine. That's probably
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what the Republicans and Democrats are waiting
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for. is for it just to just fail to launch and
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just go away. If people are motivated, if people
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realize that self -governance requires work,
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and that means you have to be an active participant,
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not just a spectator, we can have real reform.
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But that's what it's going to take. Yeah, I would
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agree with that. Hey, so, Robbie, do you have
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access to the elements, like could you shut down
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the stream if you had to? Yeah, I can kill it.
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Okay. So were you able to add me as an administrator?
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You are an administrator. Oh, that's really weird.
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I still don't see that stuff. I don't have the
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jaws either here on my side either. I see Manila
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coming up here. All right. So do you want to
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read the next story? I don't have it pulled up.
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Okay, I'll do it. Or I can do it. I was woefully
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unprepared. Oh, hold on. I might have the jaws.
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We have a comment here though. I do have the
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jaws. You've got the power. I do. I just appropriated
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the Asian. And there we go. All right. We have
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a comment from PW Walker and a donation. Thank
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you, PW. Trump is truly the Obama of the right.
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I've been saying this since 2019, both campaigned
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on hope and change, failed to deliver, then sent
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minions online to blame everyone, but they're
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fearless leader. Yep. I agree. Yeah. And fairness,
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I mean, the Republicans do the same thing. You
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always have fear of the other. And I know that's
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going to sound crazy coming from me because I
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am vehemently closed to borders and mass deportation.
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But that's not because I'm afraid of the immigrant.
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I understand why they're here. Listen, if I was
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a Mexican or an El Salvadoran or something, you
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could bet your butt I'd be doing my best to get
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here. I blame my leaders for doing this because
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they're not doing it for the benefit of the American
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people at large. They're doing this stuff to
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enrich the oligarch class, the Epstein class
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that runs the country. That's what it is. And
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so it's not a racial thing for me. It's a class
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and economics thing. If work doesn't pay what
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it did, then how could you possibly, like to
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your point, you said Japan is imploding because
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they don't have any place to get married and
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screw and have kids. Yeah, it's a problem. Well,
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we're running into the same problem here. If
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you can't have a house, then where are you going
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to screw and have kids? How are you going to
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continue the society? And then the suicide rate
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is increasing every single year, especially among
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men. No one cares. No one talks about it. Meanwhile,
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no, the answer from Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy
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and the Republicans and the Democrats is just
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like, oh, more immigration. That's a good thing.
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No, it's not. If your society is literally killing
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itself, that's not a good thing. Well, of course,
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Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy are pro -immigrant.
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They are immigrants. And they should be the first
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ones deported, preferably from the planet. I
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would not miss them at all. Yeah, no, it's it's
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it's uh, yeah. No, I mean look that that's obviously
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Unimpeachable pun intended. Um, but yeah, that's
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that's where we are. All right. Shall we move
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on? What's going on with me? I don't understand.
17:43
I keep telling her she should just use the phone
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I don't know. Oh, do you want to send Manila
17:47
the link? So, you know that so that she can just
17:50
come on via her phone. That's probably that's
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probably smart. So this is why Ted this is why
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we got to have you because I'm a tard. Yeah,
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that's so, we all know that's not true. Yesterday
18:03
I was accused of humble bragging because our,
18:05
remember Caleb Malpin? Yeah. So he was talking
18:09
about how college is a, you know, he felt like
18:11
it was a tremendous waste of money. And I was
18:13
like, I, all I replied on ecstasy is like, look,
18:16
I wouldn't go that far. I think Columbia was
18:19
a good experience, but I would say it was not
18:21
worth what it cost. And then people accused me
18:24
of humble bragging for having Claimed that I'd
18:27
gone to Columbia and I'm like, yeah, but you
18:30
did go to Columbia. It's not a claim No, it's
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yeah, but you know, it's just for yeah, I can
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I can claim I went to Harvard Yeah, people do
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people do lie about shit like that But you know
18:43
and nobody usually checks especially nowadays
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we live in an era where nobody puts their diplomas
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up on their wall unless they're gay but Okay,
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manila put your knee. Oh my god Manila, stop
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saying that. Yeah. Manila, go to your phone.
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Put the link into Safari. Please, now. God, the
19:18
show's half over. I mean, Jesus Christ. All right.
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Are you trying to say you don't join me as a
19:23
co -host, Ted? I enjoy you. I just like it's
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kind of like wait. She what she did Yeah, that's
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not true. That's just not true That I just don't
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know I'm not gonna answer that okay, I have to
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download rubble app. No No Go to Safari. This
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is just like dr. Reese doesn't she have a laptop?
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Maybe I don't know what the fuck she's you doing
19:59
She's claiming that like Safari is not letting
20:01
her use the link without the rumble app. I guess
20:05
that must be true, right? It must be. All right.
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So I've always been on this end. Yeah, I don't
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know. Yeah. I mean, I mean, that shouldn't be
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the case. I mean, obviously, what if people you
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have to be able to. All right. Anyway. All right.
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For only the. third time in modern American history,
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women now hold more payroll jobs than men. Unlike
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the brief reversals during the Great Recession
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of 2008 to 2010, the COVID shutdowns, economists
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say that this shift appears to reflect something
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much deeper. The American economy is changing,
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but millions of men are not along for the ride.
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The numbers are striking. Over the past year,
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Women added nearly 300 ,000 jobs. Men lost 142
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,000. So basically that is a net gap of 440 ,000
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jobs in just one year. The male labor force participation
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rate, that's the rate at which people are either
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have a job or are looking for a job, has fallen
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dramatically from its post -war peak, while in
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post -war we mean World War II here, while women
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continue to make gains in fields that barely
21:21
existed at today's scale a generation ago. It's
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tempting to chalk it up to cultural stereotypes,
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young men living in their parents' basements,
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which, by the way, is true, 50 % or more of kids
21:35
who graduated from college live in their parents'
21:38
basements until they're 30, playing video games
21:42
while girlfriends pay the rent. There's some
21:44
evidence that prime -age men who have left the
21:47
workforce spend substantially more on recreational
21:50
screen use than previous generations, but That
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doesn't really explain the whole thing. The real
21:58
story is structural. America no longer runs on
22:01
steel mills and assembly lines. The fastest growing
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industries are healthcare, elder care, education,
22:07
social assistance, and professional services,
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occupations that are pink -collared ghettos where
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women have been historically overrepresented.
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The aging boomer population guarantees that many
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of those jobs will continue to expand for decades.
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At the same time, many of the sectors that used
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to offer stable careers for dudes, manufacturing,
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technology, finance, transportation, media, have
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either gotten automated, outsourced, or slowed
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their hiring. The economy increasingly rewards
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interpersonal skills. What are you saying? Us
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guys aren't interpersonal? Caregiving? You're
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saying we're not caring? and advanced credentials
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over physical labor. Education has widened the
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divide. Women now earn most bachelor's and graduate
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degrees in the U .S., giving them an advantage,
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entering many of the professions driving today's
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economy. Meanwhile, young men are enrolling in
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and completing college at lower rates than women.
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shrinking their pipeline into high -growth careers.
23:08
So it's not necessarily that women have won the
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workplace. Women still earn less on average than
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dudes, remain underrepresented in the C -suite,
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and continue to shoulder a disproportionate share
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of caregiving responsibilities at home. Women
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are becoming more numerous in the workforce,
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but they're not really getting more of the money
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in a very big way. So the question is, what happens
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in a country where A growing number of working
23:36
age guys simply can't work. Economists have long
23:40
warned about the rise of men without work, not
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to be confused with the 1980s band Men Without
23:45
Hats, prime age men who are neither employed
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nor actively seeking employment. While retirees
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account for a lot of the nation's growing population
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outside the workforce, millions of working age
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guys have also disappeared from the employment
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roles, raising concerns that the issue is social
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as much as economic. The real question, though,
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is whether America is preparing workers, especially
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young men, for an economy that's very different
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from the one that their dads went into. The jobs
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of the future reward empathy as much as efficiency,
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communication as much as technical ability, and
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lifelong adaptation over lifelong specialization.
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Yeah, these are big, big computer, these are
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big, big structural problems. And this society
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is not set up to deal with them. Well, that society's
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collapse. I mean, honestly, that's what it is.
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It's men that need to have something to do. Men
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need to have work. And if they don't have that,
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then either they Get depressed and they off themselves
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or they get violence or breaking things. It's
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it's one of those two things That's that's the
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that's the story of humanity in a nutshell. Yep
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Men got to have a mission. It's just how we're
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built. I mean, yeah, we do know your mission
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is is of Trying to have a communist revolution
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and writing books Mine is writing an AI and producing
25:19
shows while doing a gaming channel, but just
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quite fun But at the end of the day though, I
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mean, you got to have something to do. You do.
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And the problem is, I don't know how you solve
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this because if you have men and women competing
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against each other and then you have a growing
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segment in each of those two spheres, you have
25:43
women say, I don't need no man. And then you
25:45
have men saying, I don't want to get married,
25:47
screw those women. That is a bigger structural
25:51
problem than racism. then class inequality, anything
25:55
else, because that is foundational. That is the
25:58
foundation. It is foundational. And then once
26:00
that breaks apart. It's also bizarre. Yeah, it
26:04
is. It sucks. And I don't know what the fix is.
26:09
Because of the Andrew Tate's on one side. Be
26:14
a macho man. His idea of a macho man is very
26:18
different than mine. The guy's a He's a pimp
26:22
of the highest order who frankly should honestly
26:25
be... I'm generally opposed to prison. He's one
26:29
guy who I think should spend the rest of his
26:31
mortal days in one as he's just... Oh, I don't
26:34
think there's any doubt about that. Yeah, that
26:37
is where he belongs. There's no question. Yeah.
26:41
But then what you do on the other side of the
26:43
aisle, like you have the rabid feminists who
26:45
say that women can do everything that men can
26:47
do. I don't need men. It's about women's liberation.
26:50
do whatever I want to do. I know men are the
26:54
enemy. I don't know how you fix this. I think
27:01
this is. Yeah, I mean, I think you would need
27:04
a radical. I mean, OK, you might. I've always
27:06
thought that we needed a revolution in order
27:09
to make society more equal, but we might just
27:13
need a revolution just to make society make more
27:15
sense, just because we're going to need a new
27:18
system that can. where basically people are paying
27:22
attention to the real problems we have in some
27:25
kind of intelligent way, which we currently don't
27:28
have. I mean, I guess what I'm trying to say
27:30
is it might not be as important to have a left
27:33
-wing revolution as it is important just to throw
27:36
out the existing system because it's so incompetent
27:38
and dysfunctional that there's literally no one
27:41
trying to figure out these giant structural problems
27:44
like this. It's not even a question of a society
27:47
having the wrong priorities, which of course
27:49
it does. It's a society that literally doesn't
27:53
even do the base. I mean, what is a political
27:55
system supposed to do? It's supposed to be like
27:58
a society has a set of concerns that it elects
28:01
elected representatives to address and try to
28:04
resolve. And also a political class that anticipates
28:08
new problems and recognizes problems that already
28:11
exist that may or may not have come to the attention
28:14
of the population at large. And also try to figure
28:17
out how to resolve those using the communal resources
28:21
that are available to something as big as the
28:23
government, but are not available to even big
28:26
corporations or much less to individuals. And
28:29
I don't think that, you know, we don't have that
28:32
system. We have a system where literally they
28:35
don't even talk about the shit that matters.
28:38
So of course, obviously, it's never going to
28:41
get resolved. I mean, it's not going to get resolved
28:43
unless it gets resolved accidentally. like taking
28:46
a wrong turn off the freeway. It's just not going
28:48
to happen. I mean, the only way I can think of
28:52
we could fix this, Ted, is by putting such a
28:56
premium on college and bring back vocational
29:00
schools. And that means you're going to have
29:01
to have jobs for those workers because not everybody
29:04
is going to be a plumber or an electrician or
29:05
a mechanic. You've got to restore manufacturing.
29:09
We've got to bring back the... We've got to bring
29:12
the jobs back. Well, or we just have to bring
29:14
back something that has the same effect as those
29:16
manufacturing jobs. Well, what would that be?
29:19
Because because even if you gave people it could
29:22
be UBI. Well, UBI doesn't solve the problem about
29:26
about men still needing something to do because
29:28
idol men do stupid things. Let's say you got
29:34
a UBI and let's say it was like good. Let's say
29:37
you and I both got like, I don't know, seventy
29:39
five thousand dollars a year from the federal
29:41
government. Right. I don't know about you, but
29:44
if I had nothing better to do... I would definitely,
29:47
my little monkey brain, would be thinking of
29:49
like new businesses to start, new art projects,
29:52
new this, new that, and I'm pretty sure you're
29:55
the same. You wouldn't just be sitting at home
29:57
with your thumb up your ass. You're a busy, ambitious
30:01
dude, and you wouldn't just be watching TV, you'd
30:05
be bored doing that. So, I mean, you know what
30:07
I mean? I think a lot of Americans, it would
30:10
feed entrepreneurship if they had that that ability
30:15
to pay their bills and maybe even save a little
30:17
bit and capitalize a new business. Yeah. Well,
30:21
I mean, in a way, the call to action that we've
30:23
got people doing, you know, going through watching
30:25
the playlist and stuff is a UBI. True. Now, by
30:29
the way, just a reminder to just remind everyone
30:31
what we're talking about there. Well, let's see
30:35
if Manila is able to talk. Manila, can you hear
30:37
us? I can finally hear you. Success. We got the
30:43
host back. Robbie fixed it. How did he fix it?
30:48
Was it like you doing dumb girl things? No, Ted.
30:53
I was doing dumb Ted things, how you always lose
30:55
audio and... Well, that's when I'm like technologically
31:00
trans. Yes. However, I'm trying to correct one
31:08
thing. I can hear you guys. I guess you can see
31:10
me. Yeah, we see it. Yeah, it's just the banner
31:12
is up on the washboard, but no, we're all on
31:15
the screen. We can see each other and people
31:18
on the stream can see us too. Robbie fixed it,
31:21
sent me a whole step -by -step, check this, check
31:24
that, check that, check that. What did it turn
31:26
out to be out of curiosity? I don't know where,
31:29
at what point, but it started sending the audio
31:34
to my microphone. Ah, that happens. Yeah. Because
31:40
what will happen is that if you have a USB microphone
31:43
Do you then sometime if you're using a if you're
31:47
using a Bluetooth heads a headset? Then sometimes
31:50
it'll happen is that the Bluetooth will drop
31:52
off and it routes everything to the mic It sent
31:55
everything to the microphone. I never would have
31:57
thought to check there No, the mic was on But
32:02
it's I don't have headsets connected to it So
32:07
if Robbie hadn't sent me check this check this
32:10
check this I went to fix it So I don't actually
32:13
know where you guys are at on anything Well,
32:16
we haven't been able to hear we basically killed
32:18
the first two stories. So you're in time to read
32:21
story number three Yeah, you killed the first
32:24
two. We did Right now we're talking about the
32:32
Putin bot gaming and how Robbie has a UBI going
32:34
on. Yeah, Robbie, why don't you tell everyone
32:36
about Putin bot gaming again? And then we'll
32:38
go straight into Diet Coke. Yeah. So for so for
32:43
Putin bot gaming, because in order to keep doing
32:47
producer stuff and troubleshooting audio, going
32:50
to microphones, I've got to be able to pay my
32:52
bills. And the one way is you're able to pay
32:54
my bills doesn't cost you a dime is go to Putin
32:57
bot gaming on either Rumble or YouTube. Rumble
33:00
pays more, but I am 100 % willing to take that
33:03
sweet lucre from YouTube. Fire up a playlist
33:06
and let that puppy go so I'm able to farm watch
33:08
hours and stuff. Whenever I go live on a stream
33:12
on Rumble, if you would just come and just drop
33:17
a unique chat. I've got seven unique chatters
33:19
so far for the month. I need 75. So if I go live,
33:22
just come by and say hi. Call me a Nazi or white
33:23
supremacist. I seriously don't care. Just drop
33:26
a turd. It makes no difference. And that way
33:29
I can pay my bills and keep helping Manila not
33:32
throw a computer in the trash. That's right.
33:34
And this isn't that old. This is a computer Robbie
33:37
recommended. It's a Windows thing. It's not the
33:40
computer. Well, because what happened? What happens?
33:44
Well, what happens is the audio bus. I talked
33:46
to you about it off camera, but it happens. OK,
33:50
so you guys didn't do story one or two? No, we
33:53
did both. We did both of those. Oh, okay. I was
33:56
like, you guys did it. What have you been talking
33:57
about for 38 minutes? Okay. But I'm in time for
34:00
number three. Okay. Okay. So it's a, it's a medical
34:03
thing. Wait, I gotta, I gotta do this for posterity.
34:14
Huh? Did that work, Robbie? It did. It worked.
34:18
Just make sure that you just make sure to click
34:21
it off. I did. I did. And do you want to? Did
34:25
you guys already address Sir Bikes A Lot? No,
34:30
it just came through. Sir Bikes A Lot, thank
34:32
you for the $2. A UBI would work properly, he
34:36
says, if it's double for those who have a job
34:39
or perform volunteer work. Why do you think the
34:42
Epstein class wants to launch a ground invasion
34:44
of Iran? See, I missed all of that conversation,
34:50
so I don't know what to say about that. But well,
34:52
all I can say is that Robbie and I were fucking
34:55
brilliant. And I can't believe you missed it.
34:58
Ted was brilliant. I was just my microphone hurt
35:01
at all. I was troubleshooting. So, yeah, my microphone
35:05
was seriously jealous. Yeah. All right. So medical
35:11
stuff. For decades, parents have warned children
35:14
that soda could eat through their stomach lining,
35:17
dissolve their teeth, and possibly strip paint
35:20
off a Buick, which is actually very true because
35:23
I've seen videos like in real time of people
35:26
cleaning toilets with Coca -Cola. Just saying.
35:30
And in the deep south, they cook with it, right?
35:33
There's all kinds of stuff you can do with Coke.
35:36
So it turns out dissolving things is exactly
35:38
why doctors prescribed it. A 63 -year -old Massachusetts
35:43
woman went to the hospital after about a month
35:46
of nausea, vomiting, poor appetite, and burning
35:50
abdominal pain. Initial scans showed she had
35:55
material sitting in her stomach, but doctors
35:57
needed a closer look, so they performed an upper
36:00
endoscopy. That's even more fun. Guiding a camera
36:04
through her mouth into her stomach. There...
36:06
In full gastrointestinal glory was a large gastric
36:11
bezoar, a tightly packed mass of partially digested
36:16
food that had essentially taken up residence
36:19
without paying rent. Eww, a bezoar? I thought
36:23
that was like a, sounds like an alien creature
36:25
from a sci -fi movie. Bezoar. Bezoars are genuinely
36:29
rare. They're found in fewer than 0 .5 % of upper
36:33
gastrointestinal endoscopies. And they never
36:36
be found in me is all I ask. I don't ask God
36:39
for much, but I'm going to ask for that. Not
36:41
for that. Don't have impacted food. That means
36:45
even the most, even the most gastroenterologist
36:54
are far more likely to find ulcers, inflammation,
36:58
or reflux damage than a giant food boulder. Oh,
37:02
the woman had been taking. It's like basically
37:05
having hairballs. Yes. So the woman had been
37:09
using semaglutides, the active ingredient used
37:12
in GLP -1 drugs such as Ozempic and Wagovi. These
37:16
medications, slow gastric emptying, helping people
37:20
feel fuller longer. Maybe they just feel fuller
37:24
because they have a bezoar. Well, no, that's
37:26
because they're not digesting their food. That's
37:28
what these they just have a giant hairball in
37:30
their tums. The food just doesn't get digested.
37:33
So they that's what makes them not hungry. So
37:35
in unusual cases, however, food may remain in
37:39
the stomach long enough to collect compact and
37:43
form the Bezoar. Doctors stop the medication.
37:48
That's the word of the day. Bezoar. Doctors stopped
37:52
that medication and considered how to remove
37:54
the mass. Surgery and endoscopy breakup are options,
37:58
but physicians often try to dissolve food -based
38:02
Bezoars chemically. Enter the diet coke. Because
38:05
the patient had diabetes, doctors chose sugar
38:09
-free cola. So diet coke. The usual reported
38:13
treatment can involve as much as three liters
38:15
in the course of 12 hours, but because she disliked
38:19
carbonated drinks, What? She received, I know
38:21
who dislikes carbonated drinks. I've never met
38:23
anyone who dislikes carbonated drinks. Everybody
38:26
likes carbonated drinks. Okay, but whatever.
38:28
I mean, this is part of why she had the Bazooie.
38:31
She received a prescription for only one and
38:34
a half liters by the second day. Wait, wait,
38:37
wait, wait. So you're telling me, like, the doctor
38:39
prescribed something, but because you don't think
38:42
it's tasty, they're like, you got that by 50%.
38:45
I hate carbonated drinks. It's cool. Yeah. Like,
38:48
oh, I don't really care for chemotherapy. Can
38:54
I have Habsies? I don't know what kind of doctor
38:59
this was, but her gastro doc was like, all right,
39:03
fine. We'll just do one and a half liters of
39:06
Coke. Don't worry, Ted, instead of charging $3
39:10
for that two liter, insurance is being charged
39:14
$700. $700. It's the cost of a toilet seat for
39:18
the Pentagon. $700. By the second day, she felt
39:21
a tugging sensation followed by relief from the
39:24
nausea and pain. Then came the proof. Doctors
39:27
performed another endoscopy. The Bezoar was gone.
39:32
Researchers still do not fully understand whether
39:34
cola works. And came out as ginormous poo, I
39:37
imagine. No, it broke apart. So they don't know.
39:40
Doctors and scientists still don't know, Ted,
39:43
if it's the why soda works or cola in particular.
39:47
They don't know if it's because of the acidity,
39:49
the carbonation or some chemical tag team involving
39:52
both. But case reports have documented its use
39:55
for years as an inexpensive, relatively low risk
39:59
first line treatment for certain. plant -based
40:02
Bezoars. This does not mean Diet Coke is a home
40:05
remedy for stomach pain. A Bezoar must be properly
40:09
diagnosed and severe cases can cause bleeding,
40:13
obstruction, or even perforation. But the irony
40:16
is magnificent. The one time that soda legitimately
40:20
dissolves something inside a human stomach, the
40:23
doctors considered that excellent news. So usually
40:26
it has like the opposite effect. Right is like
40:29
you drink soda and it literally gets bloated
40:32
and it gives you the diabetes that she had. I
40:35
mean, she was an overweight lady. She lost like
40:38
40 pounds, I guess, in the last several months.
40:41
Well, the GLP's are, I guess, working at some
40:43
point. Yeah. Right. Except it impacted the food.
40:47
So like this is we keep I feel like it's every
40:51
week, Ted, we're finding out new bizarre side
40:56
effects of like ozempic. Yesterday we were talking
41:01
about the plastic surgery. And now suddenly,
41:04
tens of millions of Americans are on it. So of
41:07
course, we're learning all sorts of weird shit.
41:10
But like, what the fuck? So I looked up, I was
41:15
like, Bezoar, what the fuck is that? So that's
41:18
what cats, cat fur balls are Bezoar. They're
41:21
cat, they're feline Bezoars. That's what I said!
41:23
Yeah. they're they're feline bezoars and apparently
41:27
yeah yeah that's right apparently there there's
41:32
a human version of that because there's like
41:34
a whole list of like medically categorized bezoars
41:37
what about amber just you know from wales is
41:40
that like uh whale what You know, like what,
41:44
you know, they, they, they. Oh, what the Japanese?
41:47
It's puke. It's puke. Whale puke is used for
41:50
perfume, or at least used to be. Oh, yes. And
41:53
it's very expensive. And it's a very valuable.
41:57
Like people would look for it on the beach and
41:59
then like, oh, I found a bunch of this. I don't
42:00
think you're eating that, though. I'm rich, I'm
42:02
rich. Well, one guy just recently got like, he
42:06
sold millions of dollars worth of like this.
42:09
Rock thing like I don't remember. I don't remember
42:12
where it was that was different, right? The dude
42:14
but that's not a bet. That's not a whale bezoar.
42:17
It is amber. This is a animal bezoar. It is Well,
42:23
it develops around sharp indigestible squid be
42:27
Okay squid beaks. So all these other animals
42:32
can get better in order to put it's in order
42:34
to protect the whale's gut so in other words
42:37
you know, it eats a giant squid. The squid beak
42:41
is pointy, so you can't have that, you know,
42:43
whale's a mammal. So if it goes through their
42:47
digestive tract, it could pierce, or it could
42:49
perforate their intestine and kill them from
42:52
internal bleeding. So the basuar forms around
42:56
it, kind of like sand around a pearl, and it
43:00
allows the whale to pass. The beak of the sperm
43:05
whale of this of the check this out. Yeah, that's
43:08
cool Check this out under like human bezoar conditions
43:12
one of the known documented things is I forget
43:17
the scientific name for it, but it's a it's a
43:20
hair bezoar specific to people that have that
43:23
weird That weird fetid no, it's not fetish a
43:27
weird What do we call it They have that weird
43:35
proclivity to eating their own hair. Oh, is that
43:38
coprophagia? That's eating dirt, I think. Yeah,
43:42
I think that's dirt. But there's a hair one.
43:45
So apparently gastroenterologists, I don't know
43:47
what I was reading about, like some gastroenterology
43:50
magazine online. Gastro today? Yeah, gastro month.
44:01
This week in gassy news And there's a whole subsection
44:07
about people with like the mental health issues
44:10
about eating their own hair and they form human
44:14
versions of cat fur balls or hair balls So anyway
44:19
this woman you like I Personally, I know it says
44:24
that it's 0 .5 % of gastros will find a bezoar
44:28
in a patient's stomach. But I think with this
44:31
rapid increase, rise in usage of Ozempic and
44:36
Wigovia and all these GLP ones, I think you're
44:38
gonna see more of these bezoars. I'd never heard
44:42
of this before until yesterday. I went, oh God,
44:44
that's disgusting. Just a ball of impacted hard
44:48
food in your stomach. And the woman waited a
44:51
whole month? I don't know anything about Bezoars,
44:54
but I do have good news for us. What's here right
44:56
now? We are number 11 on Rumble and Politics.
45:01
Nice. Oh, we are there. And this is the fourth
45:05
of the month and we are at 43 of our 75 unique
45:09
chatters. So more unique chats, please don't
45:12
work in the background. Drop us a poop emoji
45:15
or call Robbie a Nazi. It's all fun and games.
45:19
Or a communist. Call him a communist. Or that,
45:22
yeah, or that, or that. A deacon in my church
45:25
called me a communist on Sunday. You should thank
45:28
him. That's a compliment. It's just like some
45:33
whatever. It's funny. Robbie, have you in your
45:37
years of working at the hospital, did you ever
45:40
see a patient case of a Bezoar? Not that I can
45:43
recall. So maybe it is super rare. Well, obviously
45:49
it's not things. I mean, we're pretty well read
45:51
and we You know follow a lot of news and we've
45:54
never heard of this. So yeah, it's clearly rare
45:57
Well, I don't think it's gonna be rare anymore
46:00
is my point. I know after I mean, this is everyone
46:04
on the on Listen to this show you could die because
46:08
you might not know what's going on to you You
46:10
might never if you don't listen to the show you
46:12
deserve to die You will learn some weird health
46:17
shit on this show, let me just say. Typically,
46:20
a lot of the things that I saw that people consider
46:23
off the mainstream is - Every year, by the way,
46:25
most people who die are people who don't listen
46:27
to this show. That's true. Think about that.
46:30
That means there's a direct correlation. Is it
46:33
causal? I don't know, but correlation? It's real.
46:36
But is it caused? Yes, it is. It is a definite
46:39
150%. This show will save face. Yeah, you will
46:43
die if you don't listen to the show. I mean,
46:45
I guarantee you, everyone who doesn't listen
46:48
to this show will eventually die. That's a strong
46:53
guarantee. Well, what were we going to say, Robbie?
46:56
I was just going to say a lot. Now, a lot of
46:57
the treatments I saw there out of the mainstream
46:59
is using honey for burns, maggots to clear out
47:02
dead flesh. Now you should put maggots and wounds
47:04
because maggots, they don't eat living tissue.
47:08
And so that's how they would go through and get
47:10
them to actually incredibly cool and interesting.
47:12
No, it is. And I mean, seriously, that's one
47:14
of the things that that's one of the things that
47:16
they would do, especially if someone was out
47:18
in the bush and they're in an ATV accident and
47:21
like four days where they got to the hospital
47:22
and they have major fractures or something. So
47:25
then the tissue dies. And so they would use maggots
47:30
to go through. Like there's is there such a thing
47:33
as medical grade maggots? Yeah, there are. Yeah.
47:36
Well, it's just maggots. Well, there's like medical
47:38
leeches. It's the same thing. It's the same thing.
47:41
I mean, they use - We still use leeches? No,
47:44
you don't know about this, you of all people?
47:45
No, I mean, no, historically, yes, but currently?
47:48
No, no, no, leeches are used now more than ever.
47:52
No, people have a lot of, especially with diabetics,
47:55
have a lot of just really just gnarly foot swelling
47:58
or something. It's because the fluids get trapped
48:00
in there, so they put leeches on them. Yeah,
48:02
it's edema. Yeah. So they let leeches. The leeches
48:05
take blood, not the fluid. They do. The problem
48:09
is that, well, this isn't universal, I'm about
48:12
to say, but a lot of people will happen because
48:14
especially if you have COPD, like your heart's
48:17
not strong enough to pump the blood from your
48:19
feet up to your head. So it just pulls in your
48:22
feet because of gravity. And then how do you
48:24
get this stuff out? Leeches. That's how they
48:28
do it. And then you get a $7 ,000 medical bill.
48:32
For leech therapy. Right. Yes, you do. So in
48:34
this case, I really am curious. But I guess the
48:36
leeches are relatively, it's really like, it's
48:38
like surgery. It's relatively painless. There's
48:42
no pain. I'm really curious as to like, did the
48:45
doctor actually prescribe like right on a prescription
48:48
pad to be like, like four liters of Diet Coke?
48:53
Probably. Because you gotta have an order. Well,
48:55
you gotta have an order. Everything has to be
48:58
written down. It's just like you know with the
49:00
burn victims that I would see is that they would
49:02
say No use localized honey, and they would just
49:07
put the honey over the burns because honey is
49:09
a natural antiseptic But that even especially
49:13
with the bees come and sting you so you really
49:16
think the doctor wrote on a script Diet Coke
49:19
hundred percent. Yeah, guarantee it. They have
49:22
to Everything has to be written down. Yeah, that
49:25
that's what the mode he tried to cure you with
49:28
Yeah, honest to God, that's what they do. It's
49:30
just like, if you get ibuprofen, they write ibuprofen
49:34
or acetaminophen or whatever. Yeah, I mean, listen,
49:39
if you have corrosion on the connectors of your
49:42
battery, the best thing to use is a toothbrush
49:45
and some Coke. Just pour some Coke on it, use
49:47
a toothbrush. Yeah, just brush it off. It's the
49:50
same concept. It's the same thing. Hey, so Stormborn
49:53
says, I use medical grade honey for my patient's
49:56
wounds. Yeah, honey. Well, Dr. Reese is, you
49:59
know, big on that. I learned all about the honey
50:01
stuff from Dr. Reese. Manuka honey, he says,
50:03
because he went to, I don't know, graduate school
50:06
or postdoctoral in Australia. And so I guess
50:10
they have like superb, the supremest of honey
50:15
in Australia. The bees down there are apparently
50:18
top notch. That's because they go counterclockwise.
50:23
That's it. All right. One last quick one. I have
50:26
something to say about this story, Ted. I read
50:28
it the other day. Well, I should certainly hope
50:30
that you should have something to say about every
50:32
story. I mean, it is a radio show, sort of. Podcast,
50:36
Ted. It's a podcast. The kids call it a podcast.
50:39
I know. It's what they call it. Although it's
50:42
so legacy, Manila. You know, we don't have iPods
50:45
anymore. We actually don't like tape on videotape.
50:51
Right. That's true. And we still dial someone.
50:58
iPods are coming back though. And the whole retro
51:01
craze, iPods are making a comeback. And Creative
51:04
Labs is actually starting to come out with their
51:06
own MP3 player. I have an iPod. I have my old
51:09
iPod. Having this isn't enough. I could sell
51:11
it for 700 or 800 bucks. Yeah, it's a collector's
51:15
item. Well, because the thing is, it's not just
51:17
the nostalgia. It has more space on it. if you
51:22
have a big one, which I did, then your phone
51:25
is for music. So if you're like me and you have
51:29
a lot of music. Oh, geez, Ted. Or, you know.
51:38
Oh, and your records. Yeah. Yeah, then you need
51:40
to, yeah. Then you need a big iPod. Ted has been
51:44
to my apartment and he can tell you. I don't
51:48
have much in the way of records, like I have
51:51
exactly zero, but I've got four bookshelves just
51:54
groaning with books. Yeah, that makes sense.
51:59
That makes sense. All right. This is Ted's story.
52:03
Oh, this is mine. OK, sorry. This is yours. All
52:06
right. The country of Nauaru is now a thing of
52:11
the past. The roughly 12 ,000 person Pacific
52:15
Island's country hasn't changed its name to the
52:18
Republic of Nauru. Nauero. Nauero. What? Nauero.
52:25
Nauero. Matching the spelling and pronunciation
52:27
in the national language of Doreen Nauror. Nauero.
52:33
Nauero. Nauero. Beautiful Nauero Lodge. You don't
52:37
know that reference. The switch will change the
52:40
country's international code from N -R -U to
52:43
N -R -O. They could have just left it. And its
52:47
people will, I mean, Newark is E -W -R, like
52:50
what? And its people will be known as De Nowero
52:55
instead of Nowero. The new name is spoken as
53:00
Nowero. Nowero gained its independence back in
53:06
1968 after years of German and Australian colonial
53:10
rule. It gained huge wealth. through phosphate
53:14
mining in the 1970s before reaching the brink
53:17
of economic ruin in the 90s when that industry
53:20
collapsed. The name change indicates the beginning
53:23
of renewed national pride, that according to
53:25
President David Adeyong last week. The African
53:31
kingdom of Eswatini also reverted to its historic
53:35
name in recent years. It used to be called Swaziland
53:38
until 2018. Eswatini is a lot cooler, I think.
53:45
But now Aero... Eswatini sounds like a drink.
53:47
I know. That sounds delicious. Like, I'll have
53:50
an Eswatini, please. People are like, is that
53:53
kind of a girly drink? You're like, yeah, but
53:56
it's green. It's nice and cool on a hot day.
53:59
Yeah, it really does. I'll take an Eswatini.
54:02
But now Aero... Okay. So, my peoples be from...
54:08
I have a question, though. Laos. It turns out
54:11
that 90 % of the of the population of this country
54:16
are going 12 ,000 people are going to be washed
54:19
away by rising oceans due to climate change.
54:22
Well, that's probably true. So shouldn't they
54:25
be probably this is probably not a time to cause
54:28
confusion in their name. Like kind of like when
54:33
you're asked, you know, you really don't want
54:34
to be asking international donors, hey, you know,
54:37
you might have heard of our old name Naoru, like
54:41
we're like Tuvalu and Vanuatu. But now we're
54:46
called something you can't even pronounce. And
54:49
can you write it? This is, it's very close, Ted.
54:52
It's not, they didn't like, it's not like when
54:54
Prince changed his name to the symbol that no
54:59
one could pronounce. Just build bigger dikes,
55:02
they'll be fine. Just like New Orleans does.
55:04
Just build bigger walls, you'll be okay. Like
55:10
the congressman in Texas that said Guam was gonna
55:13
tip over Like I wonder if he's retired I forget
55:20
his name I gotta look him up again, but anyway,
55:23
so now arrow Okay, so I get you know me being
55:30
being a Lao person. By the way, you can you can
55:34
buy citizenship to Nowero for $90 ,000. But then
55:42
you'll be washed away into the ocean. What benefit
55:45
does that get me? Why would I want their passport?
55:47
Anyway. No, no, are you kidding? I mean, it's
55:49
paradise. I mean, have you seen pictures of this
55:51
place? No. I mean, it is. Oh, my God. I mean,
55:54
holy shit. Listen, listen. This is about your
55:56
French people and my Lao people. So. So it was
56:01
the Seven Kingdoms of the Lao people, right?
56:06
When France decided to come in, you know, in
56:08
the 1800s or whatever and was like, oh, we will
56:11
make you a colony. But it's, you know, it was
56:15
a fractured, historically it was a fractured
56:17
multiple, oh wow, multiple kingdoms. So when
56:21
the French translated, they meant the Laos, right?
56:26
Like plural, the S at the end of Laos is. actually
56:29
laos as in more than more than one lao right
56:33
because there was like seven kingdoms of laos
56:36
um and then when when they gave them you know
56:39
they the the cartographers made the new maps
56:42
named it laos but they didn't realize the french
56:45
meant plural laos and then the americans thank
56:50
you jfk um he went in there and called said laos
56:54
and then called the people laotian when the people
56:58
are, the French know this, the people are the
57:01
Laos, like Lao people, right? We're not Laotian,
57:05
but JFK, because he was JFK, popularized the
57:09
term Laotian, and so King of the Hill went on
57:13
to call it Laotian people, so it has stuck. Now,
57:19
the Lao people could protest and be like, fuck
57:23
you, Whitey, you've gotten it all wrong for 65
57:26
years, We are Lao. The country is Lao, L -A -O.
57:32
No S. The S was meant as a plurality, not the
57:36
people. And the people are not Laotian. We're
57:39
Lao people. You got the ocean in your Laotian.
57:43
But right, we're a landlocked country, right?
57:45
And on top of it, here's the thing. You don't
57:48
see Laos bitching and screaming about, I want
57:53
you to change all map. must be Lao only. That's
58:00
because Laos is on the terrorist watch list.
58:02
I mean, your people are banned from entering
58:04
the country. Oh, and also it's... And rightly
58:06
so. And also is Congressman Hank Johnson, who
58:09
was worried about Guam capsizing, and he's still
58:12
serving today. He's still serving? I thought
58:15
he retired. Oh, no, no, he is still serving.
58:18
He is... Well, he's desperately trying to save
58:20
Guam. Oh my God, Hank Johnson. Yeah, he, he,
58:25
sir. He represents Georgia's fourth congressional
58:28
district. I'm sorry, Texas. I'm sorry, Texas.
58:34
Where is the fourth congressional district? It's
58:38
in Georgia. I don't know where. What, what city?
58:40
Well, okay. Hank Johnson. And yes, Ted shared
58:45
a picture of Now Arrow. That looks amazing, but
58:50
only 12 ,000 people live there anyway. My whole
58:54
point is, why go rocking your little tiny boat?
58:58
Laos has like 6 million people. And nobody, not
59:02
even Lao Americans like me, are like, I'm offended,
59:05
you guys are calling us Laos and Laotian, like
59:08
we're gonna change our name to what our historic
59:11
whatever. The Lao people are like, whatever,
59:14
like you guys know us as Laos, we'll be Laos,
59:18
whatever, don't care. They just leave, your map
59:21
stays current. Have I love like I don't collect
59:24
many things and I wouldn't even say I have a
59:26
collection of maps But I like old globes and
59:29
those old You remember those old maps that were
59:32
like plastered on a big board that you'd see
59:34
in school or college Giant the giant one scrolls
59:39
that you pull down No, no, the big hard ones
59:41
under epoxy like a wooden one that are like really
59:45
nice and glossy like real pretty big Like wall
59:49
size. You didn't have those? You had a even poorer
59:52
school than me, Ted. Oh, that would not surprise
59:55
me. We had a nice big epoxy. Anyway, I found
59:59
one at a yard sale and it was probably from like
1:00:01
the 1980s. and I got it for like two bucks or
1:00:04
I like I like the old pull down ones especially
1:00:06
if it's a map that's like yeah things have changed
1:00:09
like the old lines yes so for posterity I if
1:00:12
I find cool like old maps or globes or whatever
1:00:16
I like to pick them up like if I see them at
1:00:18
a yard sale or whatever I'll pull over and go
1:00:19
get a map or you know a globe or something from
1:00:23
somebody's estate sale and um obviously it says
1:00:28
now ru the old the old name because I looked
1:00:33
at the ones I have upstairs and I went oh so
1:00:36
that's okay why change it is my point I get that
1:00:42
it's like your language or whatever but like
1:00:45
why like why why same same argument Robbie you've
1:00:50
defended this many times around where I live
1:00:53
like people protesting the Jefferson Davis Highway
1:00:56
US 1 they want to change it to I don't know God
1:00:59
knows what They hate Clovis International Parkway.
1:01:04
They hate Robert E. Lee Rec Center. It's called
1:01:09
something else now. Why can't they just leave
1:01:12
names alone? I'm on the camp of leave names alone.
1:01:17
Just leave it. Because you're not woke. I mean,
1:01:19
honestly, that's what it is. I mean, come on,
1:01:22
if it was Hitler Road, you'd advocate changing
1:01:25
it. Why would I? No, I wouldn't. Absolutely not.
1:01:29
because that strikes of a conversation or how
1:01:31
about death to the jews parkway uh definitely
1:01:35
well i mean considering the fact they're all
1:01:37
about genociding the palestinians and stuff um
1:01:40
or how about the palestinians parkway uh that's
1:01:43
in jerusalem right now i mean i mean bin gavir
1:01:47
for his birthday party his wife gave him a cake
1:01:50
with a noose on it so he's a lovely fellow So
1:01:56
if that's going to be your moral standing of
1:02:00
peak behavior, I get to have my Hitler road.
1:02:06
But the now -ero people are saying, like, we
1:02:11
don't want colonial master names, so we want
1:02:15
to change it to our language. Then they can give
1:02:19
away more of the colonial power plants. I believe
1:02:21
you can call anything that... Countries should
1:02:24
be able to... to call themselves anything they
1:02:26
want. Everybody dutifully follow along as the
1:02:31
Congo became Zaire, became just Congo again.
1:02:35
Everyone followed dutifully along from Cambodia
1:02:37
to Kampuchea back to Cambodia. Somehow we will
1:02:42
not follow dutifully along to allow Burma, which
1:02:46
changed Myanmar in 1980, but somehow we won't
1:02:50
admit that. Czechoslovakia is now Czechia. Well,
1:02:56
Czechoslovakia ceased to exist. I know. It became
1:02:59
the Czech Republic and Slovakia. But now it's
1:03:02
Czechia. So I have a question. So it's not Czechoslovakia.
1:03:05
It's the Czech Republic that changed to Czechia.
1:03:08
And then there's Turkey. So I have a question
1:03:11
for you all. So unless I'm mistaken, wasn't it
1:03:15
the kingdom of Siam that controlled Vietnam and
1:03:19
Laos and Thailand? Yeah. I don't know, did Siam
1:03:24
control Vietnam? I don't think it did. I think
1:03:26
parts of it into Cambodia, yeah. Yeah, those
1:03:31
Indo -Chinese borders are kind of arbitrary.
1:03:35
Well, they were made by the French. Yes, and
1:03:37
then the lines were drawn by the French, and
1:03:40
then the French jumped ship. But then after that,
1:03:44
after the French jumped ship from the area. Because
1:03:46
you guys were too rambunctious to hang out with.
1:03:48
My point is, none of those countries We're like,
1:03:53
we don't like the French colonial names. We're
1:03:55
going to change it to something unpronounceable.
1:03:57
After the 1960s, they're like, eh, leave it.
1:04:00
It's fine. The branding's there. Just leave it.
1:04:03
I'm just going to say that, look, now, I don't
1:04:05
want to now -ro -splain, nor -ro -splain. But
1:04:10
seriously, your country in grave crisis that
1:04:14
is facing. True. total destruction. All these
1:04:17
Pacific Island nations have been at the UN talking
1:04:21
about how they're going to need perhaps their
1:04:23
entire populations resettled because they may
1:04:25
be wiped off the face of the earth by rising
1:04:27
ocean waters. So when you have a dire situation
1:04:32
like that, probably confusion in the marketplace
1:04:35
is not a good idea. And maybe like the name change
1:04:39
should have been shelved. That's what I'm saying.
1:04:42
Leave your branding. I think maybe the sun baked
1:04:45
their brains and they weren't thinking straight,
1:04:47
but I don't know. Leave your branding, especially
1:04:49
when you're a tiny, teeny, tiny, tiny island
1:04:52
of 12 ,000 people. Leave your branding. You're
1:04:55
in economic dire straits and climate change is
1:04:58
about to swallow your home. But I am. Well, if
1:05:01
you guys fly me there for a fact finding mission,
1:05:04
I'll be happy to. I will join you. You guys should
1:05:09
look up, God. The TMI show could be broadcast
1:05:12
from there, although I don't think they have
1:05:13
internet. The island that I want to go to, and
1:05:15
I mean this sincerely because of the history
1:05:18
and beauty there, is Saipan. I've always wanted
1:05:23
to go to Saipan. I've never looked at, like I
1:05:26
just don't often look up these little islands,
1:05:28
but you guys ought to look this stuff up. I mean,
1:05:30
everywhere in the South Pacific. Well, Saipan
1:05:32
was one of the, like my uncle. All of these Pacific
1:05:36
islands are beautiful. No, we'll go way after
1:05:39
this, I guess. But my uncle, he was at Pearl
1:05:41
Harbor when it got bombed. And so, I mean, he
1:05:44
went all the way through World War II and he
1:05:46
was at Saipan. The Japanese government and my
1:05:50
uncle... So it's part of the United States, you
1:05:51
wouldn't even have to... Oh, I didn't know that.
1:05:56
It's the Marianas Islands, which is ethnically
1:05:58
very Chinese. My uncle, I mean, he never forgave
1:06:02
the Japanese for this. is that they told the
1:06:06
population there, because it was a colony, that
1:06:08
the Marines would kill them and eat their bodies.
1:06:12
And so when the Imperial Army was defeated, there's
1:06:18
this cliff there. It's called Suicide Cliff.
1:06:20
And the Japanese are jumping off this cliff.
1:06:23
And he was up there in his diary. He always told
1:06:25
me about it once. So this girl, she's maybe 20,
1:06:29
21. with a little baby. His beggars are, please,
1:06:32
please don't do this. We're not going to hurt
1:06:34
you. Please don't. She threw her baby off the
1:06:36
cliff and then jumped off the cliff. And for
1:06:39
him, that was the point. He's like, I hate these
1:06:41
people. I absolutely hate them. Oh boy. Way to
1:06:46
end the show, Robbie. Yeah. On and up. Mr. Cheery.
1:06:50
Geez. I know, right? But I mean just to go there
1:06:53
and just see the history and stuff and then see
1:06:55
how much has changed. By the way, the Northern
1:06:56
Marianas Islands is where there's a lot of sweatshops.
1:06:59
So often when you go to like the Gap or Old Navy
1:07:02
and your t -shirt is like $19 and you're like,
1:07:06
that's so great. It's $19. And it's made in America
1:07:09
with a US flag on the label, Marianas Islands.
1:07:14
Yep. Oh, yeah. I just prefer like my human exploitation
1:07:19
to be direct and be like, made in Vietnam by
1:07:21
tiny little nine -year -old fingers. Just be
1:07:26
honest about it. All right. Did Ted freeze? Ted
1:07:30
is frozen. He is just there, just gazing off
1:07:33
in the space. All right. With that, we'll end
1:07:37
it there. Gamer to raid and we'll go away and
1:07:43
then I'll end it there and I'll see if I can
1:07:45
help you with dr. Reese Yeah, we got to call
1:07:48
dr. Reese in just a minute. Yeah, I'll have to
1:07:51
his his problem Troubleshooting everyone's rumble
1:07:55
studio problems. I have to talk to Susie first
1:07:58
and then once I get done I'll reach out to you
1:08:00
and let you know and Then we will see all right
1:08:03
up getting him put together. So let's see here
1:08:06
Ted be frozen there. At least it's a good shot
1:08:08
Let's pick one at random, Robbie. Let's make
1:08:10
someone's day. Something that I'm looking for
1:08:12
some schmuck that has these has like an audience
1:08:15
of one. Oh, so someone who will appreciate it.
1:08:22
So, oh, this is this is Squall. OK, so we'll
1:08:27
we'll read Squall. I know this guy. All right.
1:08:29
All right. Let's do that. Thanks for tuning in.
1:08:32
Thank you for bearing through the technical difficulties
1:08:35
like. It's live podcasting. This is what happens.
1:08:40
Thank you all. Adios, amigos.