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I love my Cage · The Jeffrey and Brian Show

• 0:06
  Audio shared by Testecleese: And now's the time when things are shifting.
• 0:09
  Audio shared by Testecleese: We're gonna… there's gonna be a new world order out there.
• 0:12
  Audio shared by Testecleese: I'm leaving.
• 0:17
  Audio shared by Testecleese: Who are fake news?
• 0:19
  Audio shared by Testecleese: I am not suicidal!
• 0:23
  Audio shared by Testecleese: We'll circle back with you directly. I can circle back, I'll circle back with you.
• 0:28
  Audio shared by Testecleese: Do not come.
• 0:31
  Audio shared by Testecleese: Do not cough.
• 0:33
  Audio shared by Testecleese: I'm gonna come.
• 0:34
  Testecleese: Hello, and welcome to episode 331 of the Jeffrey and Brian Show. I am Jeffrey.
• 0:39
  Brian McFadden: I'm Brian.
• 0:41
  Testecleese: And we're just two guys drinking some beers, talking about what's going on. My video keeps shutting off again, it's weird.
• 0:46
  Brian McFadden: Yep.
• 0:47
  Testecleese: Dude, I think I didn't bring a lighter down here.
• 0:51
  Brian McFadden: Oh, no.
• 0:52
  Testecleese: Yeah, that is a problem, though, isn't it?
• 0:55
  Testecleese: I might have one available, but I don't think any of these other letters work. Of course not.
• 0:59
  Testecleese: Of course not. Right as we get started, I realize I didn't bring a lighter.
• 1:04
  Testecleese: Well… So, we got more,
• 1:11
  Testecleese: COVID stuff. Apparently, the CDC got caught burying the real side effects of the vaccine.
• 1:16
  Brian McFadden: Yep.
• 1:18
  Testecleese: I mean, this was…
• 1:20
  Testecleese: I swear this whole COVID thing, I mean, we talked about it the whole time it was going on, that it was just a giant test to see how compliant the people are.
• 1:26
  Brian McFadden: Right.
• 1:27
  Testecleese: I mean, how many masks can we get people to wear, you know? How many times can we get them to take the same vaccine and tell them it's different each time?
• 1:35
  Brian McFadden: Exactly.
• 1:38
  Testecleese: And nothing's gonna happen, you know this. Who cares if the CDC lied to you? This was a giant experiment.
• 1:45
  Testecleese: And I see you went and found the article of that,
• 1:49
  Testecleese: Quadruple amputee that I had mentioned last week.
• 1:54
  Testecleese: Like, did you not re- you do not remember talking about that?
• 1:59
  Brian McFadden: No, I don't remember talking about that.
• 2:00
  Testecleese: Oh, yeah, the guy… first of all, the guy has no arms and no legs.
• 2:06
  Testecleese: He's been… he's being brought up on first-degree murder charges for shooting a guy to death with no arms and no legs, and check this out, did you see how this incident started?
• 2:17
  Brian McFadden: -
• 2:18
  Testecleese: It's a road raid incident! This guy was driving!
• 2:23
  Testecleese: This guy, no arms, no legs, driving a car around, go-go gadget style, I guess, right?
• 2:29
  Brian McFadden: Right.
• 2:30
  Testecleese: Pulls out a gun and kills someone. Now, this guy deserves a freaking medal!
• 2:38
  Testecleese: I just can't imagine this guy trying to fumble with his, like, nub arms, trying to pick a gun up, and you just walk over and take it from him.
• 2:49
  Testecleese: Oh, man.
• 2:53
  Testecleese: Oh, yeah, you got something about the Artemis in here, what's that about?
• 2:57
  Brian McFadden: Yeah, well, it's actually about the, mass communication specialist that,
• 3:02
  Brian McFadden: Took a picture of the astronauts as they were coming back on the,
• 3:08
  Brian McFadden: the ship from Splashdown, and, you know, the pictures… You know, become famous.
• 3:16
  Brian McFadden: And it, you know, it relates… I put it in there because that's what I used to do for a living, so…
• 3:21
  Brian McFadden: You know?
• 3:21
  Testecleese: Yeah, I wasn't sure where to put that. I was thinking maybe military, but I was like, this probably deserves a follow-up, because we've been talking about Artemis a little bit.
• 3:28
  Brian McFadden: Yeah, yeah. And now NASA's committed to doing an Artemis mission every year for, like, the next 3 years, so…
• 3:35
  Testecleese: Why?
• 3:36
  Testecleese: Just to better…
• 3:37
  Brian McFadden: Next year, we're landing on the moon, and the year after that, we are starting to build our moon base.
• 3:45
  Testecleese: Yeah, I'm sure the Russians love that. And the Chinese.
• 3:52
  Testecleese: I even checked the date on this. I swear we just talked about these teens taking over the friggin' shipyard in DC.
• 4:01
  Brian McFadden: Well, this was the Navy Yard, in DC. Yeah. It's not a shipyard, it's a… it's a business district.
• 4:11
  Brian McFadden: But yeah, the things, they're doing it all over the place now, not just…
• 4:15
  Testecleese: S.
• 4:16
  Testecleese: Yes, and I don't know if you've noticed, but it is typically, black teenagers. And no, it's not because they're Black.
• 4:24
  Testecleese: It's because of whatever is causing these folks to do this is in that…
• 4:28
  Testecleese: area that, you know what I mean?
• 4:31
  Testecleese: But I just don't… what kind of parents letting their kids do this shit?
• 4:35
  Brian McFadden: Right.
• 4:38
  Testecleese: Yeah, someone's gonna get hurt. I'm gonna go grab a lighter, Brian. Tell me about more teachers doing more terrible things, and what trend we've noticed.
• 4:47
  Brian McFadden: Yeah, we've definitely noticed this trend over the years of doing the show. We got another teacher, this one in Florida, who's accused of having, sex with a student. She's been arrested.
• 5:00
  Brian McFadden: And, the parents found out, figured it out, because…
• 5:05
  Brian McFadden: This… their son was, not being truthful with him and saying he was at his girlfriend's house, so they tracked his phone.
• 5:13
  Brian McFadden: And found out he was going to a strange house.
• 5:16
  Brian McFadden: And then they put 2 and 2 together, and the rest is history.
• 5:24
  Brian McFadden: I mean, this seems to be happening more and more,
• 5:28
  Brian McFadden: And 9 times out of 10, it's female teachers and male students, so…
• 5:34
  Testecleese: I would say it's more than 9 times out of 10.
• 5:37
  Testecleese: Let's be real, we've… we're not even making it a point of finding this stuff, it's just stumping…
• 5:42
  Testecleese: across our newsfeed.
• 5:44
  Testecleese: And it's always a woman.
• 5:47
  Testecleese: And they're always making the same argument that the LGBT plus community is making. Love is love.
• 5:55
  Testecleese: It's like, we specifically said that this is gonna…
• 5:58
  Testecleese: Hedophiles are gonna use the same argument, And they are. But… you know.
• 6:04
  Testecleese: that's what you get for, you know, paying attention, I guess. You're some kind of bigot for pointing this out. Just like they said that,
• 6:11
  Testecleese: Same-sex marriage wasn't gonna lead us to teaching,
• 6:14
  Testecleese: Kids about gay sex in school, but now we're doing that.
• 6:18
  Testecleese: You know, like, it just seems inappropriate. Do you remember that old SNL skit?
• 6:22
  Testecleese: with the Republicans, like, they're gonna teach our kids about gay sex in school, everyone's laughing, I'm like, oh, you guys are stupid, it'll never happen, it's like…
• 6:29
  Testecleese: It's happened right now.
• 6:31
  Brian McFadden: Yeah.
• 6:32
  Testecleese: And you guys came out and made a big deal saying it would never happen, and I don't understand how the Dems keep doing this. They keep being shocked.
• 6:39
  Testecleese: That the policies they put in place that are told not gonna work because of, and then because of happens, you know?
• 6:45
  Brian McFadden: Yeah.
• 6:47
  Testecleese: Darn it.
• 6:48
  Testecleese: Did you see this shit?
• 6:50
  Testecleese: Oh, yeah.
• 6:51
  Testecleese: Oregon Amazon Warehouse?
• 6:54
  Brian McFadden: Yeah, I saw the article.
• 6:56
  Testecleese: That dude dropped dead on the work floor in the warehouse.
• 7:01
  Testecleese: And the employees were told to just work around him and, you know, just don't look at him while he laid there dead.
• 7:10
  Testecleese: You need to go find a different job, anyone who works in that factory, you know what I mean? That warehouse.
• 7:16
  Testecleese: It's gonna leave you there, dead on the floor?
• 7:23
  Brian McFadden: No, I wouldn't be working for Amazon anymore.
• 7:26
  Testecleese: Yeah, exactly. I'd be like, no way, no way am I working here. If something happens to me, you're just gonna, like, push them out of the way, keep working.
• 7:35
  Testecleese: And this is crazy.
• 7:37
  Testecleese: this Pennsylvania dad, was having a party or something.
• 7:42
  Testecleese: And it ended up getting canceled.
• 7:44
  Testecleese: So he took his homemade, improvised pipe bomb.
• 7:48
  Testecleese: Out from where he had had it, because he thought it'd be fun to blow something up for a party.
• 7:53
  Testecleese: Dude drops it, goes to catch it, It detonates, rips them apart.
• 7:59
  Testecleese: And all the shrapnel they pulled out of his face and hands has been turned over to the police for, evidence of, bomb making.
• 8:09
  Testecleese: I wanna know what kind of crazy explosive this guy had in there that dropping it set it off.
• 8:15
  Testecleese: I mean, it wasn't a gunpowder bomb or something like that, you know what I mean?
• 8:20
  Testecleese: There's only a handful of things that actually detonate from impact.
• 8:25
  Testecleese: Alright, I suppose we should address this…
• 8:29
  Testecleese: Trump picture that everyone's been going berserk over for a while.
• 8:34
  Brian McFadden: I don't think it's that big a deal.
• 8:36
  Testecleese: I honestly don't care. I mean, yeah, it was tasteless, that's for sure, but I would just like to say, for one, Jesus is always depicted with a halo.
• 8:46
  Testecleese: So, I mean, right there, But it was tasteless. And then when Riley Gaines said something, Trump got…
• 8:53
  Testecleese: Trump said some dumb stuff, she's one of his biggest supporters.
• 8:59
  Testecleese: What gets… what gets me, though, is, these lefties.
• 9:03
  Testecleese: Flippin' out, screaming about the stuff, and it's like, hold on, hold on.
• 9:07
  Testecleese: Just a couple years ago, you told us all Christians were radical extremists, and now you're so Christian that you're offended by a false god?
• 9:18
  Testecleese: These folks don't stand on anything. They just have to oppose Trump at any cost.
• 9:24
  Brian McFadden: No.
• 9:26
  Testecleese: And what… and Joy Behar, she's… she's an idiot.
• 9:30
  Testecleese: I see that you snuck the, A view thing in here.
• 9:36
  Testecleese: She was saying how Jesus never went around saying, I'm the Messiah, he's not a narcissist, or whatever. And everyone looked at her, he's like, what are you talking about? He's like, I am the light, I am the way, I will be crucified tomorrow, take my
• 9:48
  Testecleese: and eat them. It's like, what… did you read the book?
• 9:52
  Testecleese: And that's exactly what I'm talking about. They have no idea
• 9:55
  Testecleese: about. They just… they just make shit up because it sounds good to them.
• 10:00
  Brian McFadden: Yes.
• 10:01
  Testecleese: Joy Beher. I can't believe that show's still on TV. I can't believe they haven't been taken down for just making… how often are they getting fact-checked live on air now, you know?
• 10:11
  Brian McFadden: Never.
• 10:13
  Testecleese: Well, they were for a while.
• 10:16
  Brian McFadden: Yeah, I don't think…
• 10:17
  Testecleese: political.
• 10:17
  Brian McFadden: But I think…
• 10:20
  Testecleese: Yeah, your video's a little glitchy, that's weird.
• 10:26
  Testecleese: Oh, it's funny, you're on, Starlink, right?
• 10:30
  Brian McFadden: Yeah.
• 10:30
  Testecleese: Nope.
• 10:31
  Testecleese: Yeah, I want Elon Musk to, sponsor a, I did a rod race.
• 10:41
  Testecleese: a team, you know, the dog sled race across Alaska, it's like a thousand miles.
• 10:46
  Testecleese: I want him to sponsor one of these teams, and hook him up with a Starlink connection so they can livestream the entire friggin' thousand mile race through the wilderness in the tundra, that'd be pretty cool.
• 10:59
  Testecleese: Geez. I know.
• 11:00
  Brian McFadden: Yeah, my internet connection is… Yeah, it's garbage. Great right now.
• 11:05
  Testecleese: I keep wondering if you can hear me or what, because you're just completely frozen most of the time.
• 11:09
  Brian McFadden: I can hear ya.
• 11:12
  Testecleese: Alright. As long as you can hear me.
• 11:15
  Testecleese: Here's interesting, this is a local to Michigan, what's going on?
• 11:19
  Testecleese: With, what happened with Jeopardy here? Let's… how often does this happen?
• 11:24
  Brian McFadden: No, I don't think it happens very often, but all three contestants that were on the Monday episode were all from Michigan. And I don't care who won, but I was… I just thought it was interesting that they were all from Michigan, so…
• 11:36
  Testecleese: Yeah, what are the odds of that, unless they did it on purpose, you know?
• 11:39
  Brian McFadden: Yeah.
• 11:41
  Brian McFadden: No, they're pretty high that that doesn't happen, you know, because there's 50 states, and they get contestants from all 50 states, so…
• 11:48
  Testecleese: Yeah.
• 11:49
  Testecleese: This next one, I'm…
• 11:52
  Testecleese: I'm not sure exactly what this next article is about. I read it twice, and it sounds like someone's just pissed off that this guy decided that his military service is more important than, his school board meetings.
• 12:05
  Testecleese: So, what exactly happened? The guy got, like, deployed overseas with the.
• 12:08
  Brian McFadden: Yeah, he got elected onto the school board, and then ended up getting deployed overseas, and for a while, he was in an area where he was able to zoom into the meetings.
• 12:18
  Testecleese: 8-hour time difference.
• 12:20
  Brian McFadden: Yeah, but now he's in an area where he can't use Zoom anymore, he doesn't have good enough internet connectivity, so… the school board's all freaking out because they're not… he's not there to break ties and, you know, and…
• 12:33
  Brian McFadden: They want him to resign, basically.
• 12:36
  Testecleese: Well, they said he did a disservice to the community, and the community's like, what are you talking about? The guy's a freaking active duty, you know, service member. This… that obviously… it's… go ahead and vote him out of office, that's fine. I'm sure there's a way to take a guy out.
• 12:49
  Brian McFadden: Yeah, but he'll be back before he's up for re-election, I'm sure, so…
• 12:54
  Testecleese: Probably, but there's still gotta be a way to pull someone out if something happens, you know what I mean?
• 12:58
  Brian McFadden: Yeah, I don't think they have enough people to sign on to the recall petition.
• 13:03
  Testecleese: Well, then they should just keep their mouths shut and quit bitchin' then, you know?
• 13:07
  Brian McFadden: Exactly.
• 13:10
  Testecleese: And I guess you're gonna see the… you might be able to see the, Aurora Borealis coming up tonight, is it?
• 13:15
  Brian McFadden: Yeah, yep, probably tonight, hopefully.
• 13:19
  Testecleese: West Virginia was not… Yeah, West Virginia was not on the list, but I am on a mountaintop, but I say that half of West Virginia's on a mountaintop, so they probably would have listed it if they expected it.
• 13:31
  Testecleese: I'll go and have a look anyway.
• 13:34
  Testecleese: Are they saying, yeah, 20 states may see it, tonight?
• 13:37
  Brian McFadden: Yeah.
• 13:38
  Testecleese: How do they predict an upcoming Aurora? Isn't that, like… Solar radiation…
• 13:44
  Brian McFadden: Solar flares, yeah.
• 13:45
  Testecleese: Yeah, bouncing off the magnetosphere at the poles.
• 13:51
  Testecleese: How do you predict this?
• 13:52
  Testecleese: Like, doesn't the solar radiation move at the speed of light?
• 13:56
  Brian McFadden: I don't know.
• 13:59
  Testecleese: Yeah, I'm… Alright, whatever.
• 14:03
  Testecleese: And what's up with,
• 14:06
  Testecleese: See, this is what has always bothered me, is… I don't know a better way to do it, but almost every state has,
• 14:14
  Testecleese: Not even state, like, local community has their own, like, utility company, right?
• 14:18
  Brian McFadden: Yeah.
• 14:20
  Testecleese: Which means there's no competition.
• 14:23
  Brian McFadden: Right.
• 14:24
  Testecleese: And, well, that's what's happening in Michigan right now, apparently, right? The…
• 14:29
  Brian McFadden: Yeah, well, the big deal is that,
• 14:32
  Brian McFadden: There's basically two main power companies in the state, and, they're saying, and they keep asking for increases, and the Michigan State Senate wants to make it so they can only ask for an increase every 3 years.
• 14:48
  Brian McFadden: Now, does that mean… It goes for electricity and natural gas type deal, so…
• 14:53
  Testecleese: Well, see, that's the… that's an issue, though, is because this stuff is market value.
• 14:58
  Testecleese: You know, there's… right now, there's less natural gas… it costs more money for natural gas.
• 15:02
  Testecleese: So it makes sense that it would cost… you know what I mean? It would… the prices would have to go up.
• 15:09
  Testecleese: I don't know a better way to do this besides everyone having their own little power company, you know what I mean? Like, each community having their own, but that seems ridiculous.
• 15:19
  Brian McFadden: Backyard nukes.
• 15:22
  Testecleese: Yes.
• 15:23
  Testecleese: Build my own nuclear reactor in the backyard and wait for the government to come, talk to me real quick.
• 15:32
  Testecleese: Governor Aaron Morrissey, he's talking about a $230 million tax relief package coming through.
• 15:39
  Testecleese: Basically, like, a rebate.
• 15:42
  Testecleese: Because we brought in way more money this year, and I was pretty stoked about that.
• 15:48
  Testecleese: Problem is, $230 million spread out amongst the taxpayers is gonna be significant.
• 15:54
  Testecleese: But what could this money have done instead? Because it's already been collected, you know?
• 16:00
  Testecleese: I just… there's a lot of poverty, there's a lot of drug abuse out here in the middle of nowhere, you know?
• 16:07
  Brian McFadden: Yeah.
• 16:10
  Testecleese: And check this out, the, the spring turkey season has, is beginning, the preparing, and it's for, no adults are allowed to participate, this is for children only.
• 16:21
  Brian McFadden: Hmm. Well, you're gonna have your kids out there hunting?
• 16:25
  Testecleese: I don't trust…
• 16:26
  Testecleese: the eldest yet, with a gun. I can't get her to not squirt people with the hose.
• 16:34
  Testecleese: So I'm not gonna hand her a friggin' shotgun to shoot a turkey, you know?
• 16:37
  Brian McFadden: Probably not a good idea.
• 16:40
  Testecleese: Once she can understand the basics, then maybe… I mean, she's shot before, but I'm not gonna sit there and help her shoot.
• 16:46
  Testecleese: Safely, if we're gonna go turkey hunting.
• 16:48
  Brian McFadden: Yeah.
• 16:50
  Testecleese: Jeez, I don't know what that was.
• 16:53
  Testecleese: Oh, Jesus Christ.
• 16:55
  Testecleese: Alright, what's going on in Virginia, dude? Like…
• 16:58
  Brian McFadden: It's falling apart.
• 17:00
  Testecleese: It's… it's falling apart faster than New York City is.
• 17:03
  Brian McFadden: Yeah.
• 17:05
  Testecleese: What's… well, what… Well, actually, here's an interesting thing.
• 17:10
  Testecleese: Some 18-year-old student.
• 17:14
  Testecleese: Mia Heller, I guess? She invented some kind of filter that'll, remove 95.5% of microplastics.
• 17:22
  Testecleese: Which these… It is, and these microplastics actually, believe it or not, collect in, testicles.
• 17:29
  Testecleese: And it's, causing a big fertility crisis.
• 17:34
  Testecleese: So, I mean, that's pretty cool, I guess.
• 17:38
  Testecleese: And they're doing… part testing?
• 17:42
  Testecleese: Are they having issues testing marijuana for…
• 17:45
  Brian McFadden: Well, they're having issues coming up with standards for tests for marijuana in the.
• 17:50
  Testecleese: What do you mean?
• 17:51
  Brian McFadden: Yeah.
• 17:51
  Testecleese: like a DUI, or like a… Like, how to rate it.
• 17:56
  Brian McFadden: I think it's how to read it, but let me look at the.
• 17:59
  Testecleese: Why don't they just look at what the other states have done?
• 18:01
  Brian McFadden: No, it's DUI. It's DUI.
• 18:04
  Testecleese: Oh, well, you're not gonna find a way, short of a blood test, to find out if someone's stoned right now.
• 18:09
  Testecleese: So, I mean… I don't… I…
• 18:13
  Testecleese: You know, you're not blowing in a tube.
• 18:15
  Testecleese: You know, even a hair sample doesn't say that you're stoned driving right now, it says that you've smoked weed since you've cut your hair, you know what I mean?
• 18:22
  Brian McFadden: Right.
• 18:24
  Testecleese: So I think they're gonna have a big issue with that, and I think the people in Virginia know this.
• 18:30
  Testecleese: And this is a way to, basically commit fraud and take money from the taxpayers.
• 18:36
  Testecleese: Because you know a whole bunch of people are getting paid way too much money to sit around and go, I don't know.
• 18:44
  Testecleese: This is fascinating, by the way.
• 18:47
  Testecleese: Gavin Newsom's Lieutenant Governor.
• 18:52
  Testecleese: I'm sure you heard about this, right?
• 18:55
  Brian McFadden: Yeah.
• 18:56
  Testecleese: Yeah, what's the guy's, fairfax.
• 19:01
  Brian McFadden: Huh.
• 19:02
  Testecleese: Dude is going through, like, a divorce, just got served papers by his wife, so he went down.
• 19:07
  Brian McFadden: We all lived in the house together.
• 19:09
  Testecleese: Yeah, they lived separate rooms.
• 19:11
  Testecleese: He went down into the basement and shot her to death several times, and then killed himself with his two.
• 19:17
  Brian McFadden: I know, that's what really pissed me off, with the teenagers in the house.
• 19:22
  Testecleese: The son went down… well, the son went downstairs and found them and called in the report when he heard gunshots.
• 19:29
  Testecleese: And I'm not gonna go and, you know, dunk on the Dems for this kind of garbage, because this is just…
• 19:35
  Testecleese: It's always sad.
• 19:38
  Testecleese: But… Jeez, Louise. But I will point out that these are the people the Democrats are electing.
• 19:44
  Testecleese: just like Platinner up in Maine, the actual Nazi, you know?
• 19:49
  Brian McFadden: Yeah.
• 19:52
  Testecleese: And… there you go, and
• 19:56
  Testecleese: Spanberger, which I still think this is hilarious.
• 20:00
  Testecleese: They picked the white Jewish lady.
• 20:02
  Testecleese: In a time when it was okay to attack Jews on college campus for being Jewish.
• 20:08
  Testecleese: They picked the white Jewish lady instead of the black woman.
• 20:11
  Testecleese: for a governor in Virginia, which I found very interesting.
• 20:15
  Brian McFadden: Yep.
• 20:15
  Testecleese: And now, like.
• 20:18
  Testecleese: Everyone on her… even her own party, saying that she has no credibility, because she ran on affordability, and everything costs more.
• 20:27
  Brian McFadden: Yup.
• 20:28
  Testecleese: Looks like you got out of there just in the nick of time, dude.
• 20:30
  Brian McFadden: Seems like it, yep.
• 20:32
  Testecleese: You going… you sure you wanna go back?
• 20:37
  Brian McFadden: Not right now.
• 20:38
  Testecleese: Wait for her term to run out.
• 20:41
  Brian McFadden: Yup.
• 20:43
  Testecleese: That's, how long do they stay in office? Is it four? Four.
• 20:47
  Testecleese: That's a long time, to sit and wait. Paying property tax on a house.
• 20:53
  Brian McFadden: Yeah, but… Send it out, so…
• 20:55
  Testecleese: Is that… yeah. That just means that when they, rip the walls out and steal all your copper, you're fucked.
• 21:05
  Testecleese: And okay.
• 21:07
  Testecleese: Virginia Beach, it… It's known for tourism, right?
• 21:14
  Testecleese: Might have lost Brian.
• 21:15
  Brian McFadden: Yes, it is. No, I'm here, I'm here, yeah, no, I'm here.
• 21:19
  Brian McFadden: It is known for tourism, yup,
• 21:21
  Testecleese: And now they're talking about a 9 p.m. curfew?
• 21:24
  Brian McFadden: Changes at 9.30.
• 21:29
  Testecleese: I don't know, huh.
• 21:31
  Testecleese: So, you can't be on the beach after 9.30 PM?
• 21:35
  Brian McFadden: Can't even be at the bars down there on the boardwalk.
• 21:39
  Testecleese: So all those bars have to close, too.
• 21:42
  Brian McFadden: Yeah.
• 21:43
  Testecleese: Oh, there goes all of the revenue for Virginia Beach.
• 21:46
  Brian McFadden: Well, one bar, Peabody's, they decided to close this weekend.
• 21:51
  Brian McFadden: They just flat out said, hey, we're closing down for the whole weekend. It's only… it's like a temporary curfew.
• 21:57
  Brian McFadden: But there's already lawsuits against the curfew, because…
• 22:01
  Brian McFadden: Virginia put a law in place after COVID where it put severe limitations on what local governments could do.
• 22:09
  Brian McFadden: And basically, it has to be, like, a true emergency, and it can only be a temporary change, not, like, for a weekend, or two weekends, or something like that, so we'll see.
• 22:21
  Brian McFadden: If any kind of anything becomes of that.
• 22:24
  Brian McFadden: I mean… curfew for one weekend at 9.30.
• 22:28
  Brian McFadden: what happens next weekend, you know? It all starts over again. Curfew's not solving anything.
• 22:34
  Testecleese: Yeah, just claim the same thing next week. Oh, it's still… because of shootings, right?
• 22:38
  Brian McFadden: Yeah, 9 people got shot in Virginia Beach last weekend.
• 22:42
  Testecleese: Yeah, well, how about you actually fucking use the goddamn police instead of letting these people go when they get… they shoot people, they kill.
• 22:48
  Brian McFadden: They're standing from is the teen takeovers.
• 22:53
  Brian McFadden: You know…
• 22:55
  Brian McFadden: And they're happening so fast that the police haven't… don't have time to mobilize and do what they need to do, so…
• 23:03
  Testecleese: Well, then you need to friggin' figure out this shit, instead of just saying, even you adults can't be out at 9 o'clock at night, are you fucking kidding me?
• 23:11
  Brian McFadden: Right.
• 23:12
  Testecleese: And exactly, like, why would a bar stay open if no one's allowed to be in the bar?
• 23:16
  Brian McFadden: Yeah.
• 23:17
  Testecleese: Like, that just seems ridiculous. And like you said, that one bar, I was just like, screw it, we're just gonna close for the whole weekend.
• 23:22
  Testecleese: But it seems like Spanberg is getting away with whatever she wants to do.
• 23:27
  Testecleese: Oh, yeah. Now… now she's trying to hold, weapons manufacturers liable
• 23:34
  Testecleese: For what wackos do with their product.
• 23:37
  Brian McFadden: Yup.
• 23:39
  Testecleese: Okay, well, I'm serious, then why don't they do that to, like, Jack Daniels and…
• 23:43
  Testecleese: Chevy Motor Company, too.
• 23:47
  Brian McFadden: Right.
• 23:48
  Testecleese: I mean, more people die in drunk driving accidents get shot every year. Why aren't we blaming Budweiser, or jack Daniels, or, you know, Captain Morgan for that?
• 24:01
  Testecleese: And I love their argument, too, it's like, well, that's different, because you chose to get drunk. It's like, yes, you chose to fucking kill somebody, you know? Right.
• 24:09
  Testecleese: Yup? Get it!
• 24:10
  Testecleese: Oh my god. I didn't mean to kill him, yeah, but you did get drunk and get in your car, and then you killed the family of five, and then we're letting these people out on their own recognizance, and they flee the state!
• 24:21
  Brian McFadden: Right.
• 24:24
  Testecleese: And look at this, Virginia, it just… did they just do it, or are they about to? It looks like they just did.
• 24:31
  Testecleese: Them and, like, something, I don't remember.
• 24:33
  Brian McFadden: Oh, no, no, she signed this into law, too.
• 24:36
  Brian McFadden: That, basically, once enough states…
• 24:40
  Brian McFadden: come on to this stupid popular vote compact. They need, like, another uncertain number or more.
• 24:47
  Brian McFadden: No Republican governor or governor of a conservative state has signed on to this stupid thing. Basically, what it is, and we've talked about it before on the show.
• 24:56
  Testecleese: Most states have already done it.
• 24:58
  Brian McFadden: Yeah, nor… all blue states.
• 25:01
  Brian McFadden: Yes. So basically, if you're… whoever wins the popular vote gets that state's electoral votes.
• 25:08
  Brian McFadden: Doesn't matter how… how the state voted.
• 25:12
  Brian McFadden: It's the matter's about the popular, but…
• 25:15
  Testecleese: national popular vote. But the problem is, a bunch of states are already on this, and they did not vote Trump when Trump won the popular vote. Which makes you wonder.
• 25:23
  Brian McFadden: Well, cause it's not in effect yet.
• 25:26
  Testecleese: In Virginia, a whole bunch of other states have already done this.
• 25:29
  Brian McFadden: Yeah, but it doesn't… they're saying it has to be a certain number of states before it goes into effect all the states, so…
• 25:37
  Testecleese: Yeah, so basically, this is their way of sitting…
• 25:40
  Brian McFadden: There's no way of getting around the Electoral college.
• 25:43
  Testecleese: Yeah, exactly. Every time they lose the popular vote, they're gonna claim that it's not in place yet, and as soon as they win the popular vote, but not the Electoral college, they're gonna say, boom, we're voting the other way now.
• 25:52
  Brian McFadden: Yeah.
• 25:53
  Testecleese: This… this is… exactly, dude. You are voiding all…
• 25:57
  Brian McFadden: They're saying now that the national popular…
• 26:02
  Brian McFadden: No, I got an ad playing here someplace.
• 26:05
  Testecleese: Of course it does, right?
• 26:07
  Brian McFadden: But I didn't even click on anything!
• 26:09
  Testecleese: Oh, don't you love that the autoplays, and then you have to scroll down and find the damn thing?
• 26:14
  Brian McFadden: Well, I…
• 26:17
  Testecleese: You can usually just click the little mute icon at the.
• 26:19
  Brian McFadden: I did, I did, I had to find the MuteEye tab up on the tab. I've got a million tabs open, I had to figure it out.
• 26:25
  Testecleese: I know, which one am I in, dammit!
• 26:28
  Brian McFadden: So, yeah, 48 states.
• 26:31
  Brian McFadden: or 48… they need 48 more electoral votes for this agreement to go into effect. I don't know who came up with that.
• 26:40
  Brian McFadden: Why it's that way… But, I'm saying…
• 26:43
  Testecleese: How… how are they doing this state by state, then? That sounds like it would have to be done federally if you… if there's a…
• 26:49
  Testecleese: a limit of how many you have to get before it goes into effect. Either that, or all these states agreed in advance.
• 26:56
  Brian McFadden: I think they're all green in advance.
• 26:58
  Brian McFadden: They're basically saying that, once… it'll go into effect once there's 270 electoral votes assigned in this compact.
• 27:09
  Testecleese: So once they can swing the election, period, and just say, we win it no matter what.
• 27:15
  Brian McFadden: Yeah.
• 27:15
  Testecleese: Because 270 wins, right?
• 27:18
  Brian McFadden: Yup.
• 27:19
  Brian McFadden: Exactly.
• 27:20
  Testecleese: But yeah, dude, oh my god, how many farmers?
• 27:24
  Testecleese: are just gonna be crushed by these policies that the Dems put in. They're gonna be completely washed out in the vote, it's not, you know, we don't care. Look what Virginia is looking to do with their electoral college, their electoral map, alexandria has 5 voting districts in it.
• 27:39
  Brian McFadden: If the thing goes through.
• 27:41
  Testecleese: Huh?
• 27:42
  Brian McFadden: If the new redistricting goes through.
• 27:45
  Testecleese: If it goes through.
• 27:46
  Testecleese: Which, it looks like it may not, at least not in time for midterms.
• 27:51
  Testecleese: But, it's just insane, they're doing anything they can.
• 27:55
  Testecleese: to, okay.
• 27:58
  Testecleese: I'll… I'll say it, steal the election.
• 28:02
  Testecleese: He's like, I don't care how our voters voted, we're gonna go with how frickin' California voted, you know? It's like, well, then why the fuck hold… why hold a vote at all at that point?
• 28:13
  Brian McFadden: And that's what they… Virginia's always… the last time there was a Democrat governor in office, he's the one that signed us on to the…
• 28:20
  Brian McFadden: the California emission standards.
• 28:23
  Testecleese: That was, yeah.
• 28:25
  Brian McFadden: So in, like, 2028 or something like that, they're not gonna be able to sell gasoline parked cars in the state anymore. It's gonna only be electric.
• 28:34
  Testecleese: Yes, and they went… and she just went and put a tax on electric cars, too, didn't she?
• 28:40
  Testecleese: That's what blew my mind. When… when Biden's gas prices were so high, higher than they are now, no one was upset. They said, just buy a Tesla! So everyone goes out and spends 80 grand, buys a fucking Tesla, right? And then, I hate Elon Musk, and they start keying and burning Teslas. It's like, what the hell? And now… oh my god.
• 28:59
  Brian McFadden: Now the states are freaking out, because they're getting… most of the highway money comes from fuel taxes, and nobody's buying fuel, so they gotta come up with another way to fund the road construction, because Teslas drive on the roads, too.
• 29:13
  Testecleese: Yes, yes, exactly.
• 29:15
  Brian McFadden: So that's why all these states are adding electric car taxes now, you know, because of that.
• 29:22
  Testecleese: Dude.
• 29:24
  Brian McFadden: But it doesn't help… they marketed it a totally different way.
• 29:27
  Testecleese: Yeah, they made it sounded
• 29:28
  Testecleese: Everything was gonna be… yeah, we're saving the world, and everything's gonna be cheaper, and then they go and just jack up the price.
• 29:34
  Testecleese: And shit, how many times have we talked about the friggin' strip mine they do for these lithium batteries?
• 29:41
  Testecleese: You know, they're destroying entire African nations.
• 29:44
  Testecleese: To get the materials out of the ground to make the batteries for these cars.
• 29:48
  Brian McFadden: Yup.
• 29:49
  Testecleese: And no one is like, oh, yeah, it's great for the environment. I was like, yeah, unless you live in Africa.
• 29:54
  Testecleese: Right. Then there's just a giant fucking hole baking in the sun, you know?
• 30:01
  Testecleese: Which, and that's another thing, too.
• 30:06
  Testecleese: We need to stop using oil, we need to stop… not tomorrow, not next week, NOW! Right?
• 30:13
  Testecleese: And then Trump goes and shuts off oil into Cuba, and Greta Thunberg's like, you need to give Cuba their oil! It's like, hold on, I thought we were supposed to stop using oil!
• 30:24
  Brian McFadden: Exactly.
• 30:25
  Testecleese: So, again, this is just fuck Trump. It's not, I have a policy. I swear they stand for nothing, dude. I've seen plenty of.
• 30:33
  Brian McFadden: No, no.
• 30:34
  Testecleese: I've seen plenty of news, people asking, it's like, well, what do you stand for? I'm like, I hate Trump. It's like, yeah, yeah, yeah. I get you don't like Trump, but what do you want to see? Anything that Trump's doing is wrong, and it's like…
• 30:43
  Testecleese: What policy would you put in place Differently.
• 30:47
  Brian McFadden: Exactly.
• 30:48
  Testecleese: And just like when they do the.
• 30:49
  Brian McFadden: They don't have any policies to put.
• 30:51
  Testecleese: No, just like…
• 30:52
  Testecleese: And they talk to these people, and they start quoting Obama or Biden, and they tell them it's Trump, and they say it's the most racist thing they ever heard, and then they show them the video of Obama saying it, and like, well, you know, it makes perfect sense, actually, because of this, that, and that, and it's like, what the fuck?
• 31:07
  Testecleese: All… it went from the most racist thing ever to, this is a great idea.
• 31:14
  Testecleese: And don't get me wrong, I got enough issues with Trump right now, because God knows what the fuck is happening in Iran. I got a couple theories…
• 31:20
  Testecleese: But it…
• 31:23
  Testecleese: Are we closing it? Are we opening it? Are we closing it? Are we opening it? What… you know what I mean?
• 31:27
  Brian McFadden: Right.
• 31:28
  Testecleese: We'll definitely get to that.
• 31:31
  Testecleese: Oh, yeah.
• 31:35
  Testecleese: A sheriff, a deputy sheriff in California, in Tulare County, was serving an eviction notice.
• 31:41
  Testecleese: And there was a shootout, and the dude got frickin' killed.
• 31:45
  Brian McFadden: Yeah.
• 31:47
  Testecleese: What the… why… why do so many people think they're entitled to other people's stuff?
• 31:52
  Brian McFadden: You have to pay your bills if you want to keep your stuff.
• 31:56
  Brian McFadden: Yeah. Don't pay your bills, you lose your stuff.
• 32:00
  Testecleese: Well, I recently watched a vid… I recently watched a video of, I wanna say Gen Z?
• 32:07
  Testecleese: Yeah, probably… probably Gen Z.
• 32:09
  Testecleese: Bitchin', and she's talking about how these peasants in the 1600s only had to work, like, 150 days a year.
• 32:16
  Testecleese: And she's like, I gotta pay to register my car, I gotta pay for my driver's license, I gotta pay my rent. And I'm like.
• 32:23
  Testecleese: Okay, heads up, if you lived in the 1600s, you'd work
• 32:27
  Testecleese: 18-hour days on the farm for half the year. You wouldn't have a fucking car, there are no roads, you know, there's no electricity, there's no heat, there's no AC.
• 32:38
  Brian McFadden: Right.
• 32:40
  Testecleese: You would take it half-assed in the summer, go, oh, it's so fucking easy, and then you would die in the winter.
• 32:45
  Testecleese: These folks think they're just entitled to other people's shit, and it blows my mind.
• 32:50
  Brian McFadden: Yup.
• 32:52
  Testecleese: Oh, my God. And you try to explain it to them, and they're like, no, no, it should be free. Like, how do you… how is anything free, dude?
• 32:59
  Brian McFadden: Nothing's free.
• 33:00
  Testecleese: No, it… for… In order for you to not pay for it, that means someone else did.
• 33:06
  Testecleese: Just like they want free healthcare. I'm like, okay, so who's gonna pay, for the prescriptions? Who's gonna pay for the hospital equipment? Who's gonna pay for maintenance and upkeep on it? Who's gonna be the doctors, the nurses, the janitorial staff?
• 33:19
  Brian McFadden: Right.
• 33:20
  Testecleese: And you're like, what do you mean? They're all gonna get paid? Like, by who? If you're not paying for your healthcare, who's paying the people… why would you go to school for 8 years to be a doctor?
• 33:33
  Testecleese: To not get paid.
• 33:35
  Testecleese: They're like, fuck it, I'll just sit on my ass, like everyone else, and get free shit, too.
• 33:42
  Testecleese: Yep. Alright.
• 33:46
  Testecleese: Yeah, and now the, California hotels… are,
• 33:52
  Testecleese: They're all about to start closing up. Minimum wage in hotels and fast food is, like, 30 bucks or something stupid in California.
• 33:58
  Brian McFadden: Huh.
• 34:01
  Testecleese: Which, by the way, I just want to point out, that dude that burned down that warehouse last week we talked about?
• 34:05
  Brian McFadden: Yeah.
• 34:06
  Testecleese: He was getting $27 an hour.
• 34:09
  Testecleese: Saying he wasn't getting enough.
• 34:12
  Testecleese: That is enough. The issue is, you keep voting in more and more regulations and taxes.
• 34:17
  Testecleese: It's not… it's not everyone else's fault that half your paycheck got taken by the government.
• 34:22
  Testecleese: Stop voting for this shit. And if 27 bucks an hour wasn't enough, go fucking work at Burger King and get 30 bucks an hour!
• 34:30
  Brian McFadden: Right.
• 34:33
  Testecleese: This is exactly what we said, it's like, everyone's gonna quit their skilled labor jobs and go work at Burger King, because they're gonna do a better job than the Burger King employee, who's, fuck this, I don't wanna work!
• 34:44
  Testecleese: And then all of a sudden, then you'll see the value of carpenters and mechanics and plumbers go skyrocketing, because no one's doing that work anymore.
• 34:56
  Testecleese: Fuck.
• 34:57
  Testecleese: You know me well, Nebran, you know how much I hate paying people to do shit I can do?
• 35:02
  Brian McFadden: Right.
• 35:03
  Testecleese: You saw that picture I shi- I sent you today.
• 35:05
  Brian McFadden: Yeah, you're climbing a tree.
• 35:07
  Testecleese: Yeah, I bought gear to… with, like, the spurs and the straps to climb trees so I can cut down these trees. They want $1,000 a tree to remove these things.
• 35:17
  Testecleese: And I was like, I was like, these guys can do it, I can do it too.
• 35:22
  Testecleese: And yeah, see, that's the thing, is learn how to do this shit on your own.
• 35:25
  Testecleese: Fuck, make a pot of coffee in the morning, instead of getting a $13 coffee on your way to work, then another one at lunch when you go out for lunch for 40 bucks, you know?
• 35:35
  Testecleese: Maybe that's where all your money's going while you have trouble paying your bills. Have you ever cooked a sandwich? Or you go out to… I'm sorry, have you ever made a sandwich? You go out to eat every day, you know?
• 35:44
  Testecleese: Let me tell you, once I cut, restaurants almost completely out of my diet.
• 35:50
  Testecleese: We saw a massive boost in the money we're keeping in the house.
• 35:54
  Testecleese: It is so… and then you always hear the argument that it's expensive to buy healthy food. Like, no, no, it's not, actually. You can get a head of lettuce, a carrot, I'm sorry, some carrots, a big honkin' cucumbers, a bag of 4 bell peppers, a big honkin' onion, some baco sunflower seeds.
• 36:14
  Testecleese: For, like, less than 20 bucks, and that'll feed, like, 6 people?
• 36:20
  Testecleese: Oh, no, I want the salad dressing, though. It's like, well, then don't say healthy food costs more, because salad dressing is not healthy. You went and took something nutritious and poured oil and fat in it, you know? And I get it if that's… I get it if that's what people like, but don't complain
• 36:35
  Testecleese: That the garbage food you want to eat's expensive.
• 36:40
  Brian McFadden: Exactly.
• 36:41
  Testecleese: Alright.
• 36:43
  Testecleese: Oh, this is interesting. Some pet charity, went through all the steps in California to,
• 36:50
  Testecleese: Spay or neuter dogs.
• 36:53
  Testecleese: And they… their idea was they would rent a space for, like, the weekend.
• 36:58
  Brian McFadden: Right.
• 36:59
  Testecleese: And just knock out as many as they could in a day. It's super cheap to the average person.
• 37:06
  Testecleese: and California's policies…
• 37:09
  Testecleese: made it absolutely impossible. They wanted something like $10,000 for these guys to rent the place for the weekend, and this changed after they got everything approved and started their process. California's like, oh, that's not enough.
• 37:20
  Testecleese: It's like, alright, so… Fuck it, I guess we're just gonna have more stray dogs running around.
• 37:26
  Brian McFadden: Yeah.
• 37:26
  Testecleese: Again, that's what California does. They think they can just…
• 37:31
  Testecleese: tax you and bill you, and it's not gonna affect anything, because apparently businesses just shit money out. They don't actually do anything to get this money, it just magically appears, like.
• 37:40
  Brian McFadden: in the fuck.
• 37:41
  Testecleese: and Federal Reserve.
• 37:44
  Testecleese: And just like the guy who burned down that warehouse.
• 37:48
  Testecleese: I deserve more money. Why do you deserve more money?
• 37:51
  Testecleese: because you're having trouble surviving, that doesn't mean you deserve more money. If you're only bringing in…
• 37:56
  Testecleese: $30 an hour of labor, how can I pay you that much?
• 38:01
  Testecleese: Because then the business isn't making any money.
• 38:03
  Brian McFadden: Christ.
• 38:06
  Testecleese: Oh, this is fascinating. The Republicans are trying to do a,
• 38:12
  Testecleese: probe, which I guess is an investigation, I don't know why they always use the word probe. Oh, I can think of.
• 38:17
  Brian McFadden: when I was, like, 8.
• 38:17
  Testecleese: Aliens probing you, you know?
• 38:19
  Brian McFadden: Yeah.
• 38:20
  Testecleese: But they want to investigate where $180 billion in taxpayer dollars disappeared to. Just poof! Unaccounted for.
• 38:29
  Brian McFadden: Wow.
• 38:31
  Testecleese: And obviously.
• 38:34
  Testecleese: Obviously, California's response to this, instead of saying, yeah, let's find out where all of our money went so we can actually fund these programs we want to do.
• 38:42
  Testecleese: Instead, they tried… they're passing a law to make it illegal to look into fraud.
• 38:47
  Brian McFadden: Yeah, that makes sense to me.
• 38:50
  Testecleese: Yeah, they call it the Stop Nick Shirley Act. If you remember, he was that YouTuber who broke the, I say broke.
• 38:57
  Testecleese: re-showed everyone the evidence of all the, immigration fraud that we see from the Haitian community in Minnesota. Not just immigration fraud, but,
• 39:06
  Testecleese: Healthcare… not healthcare, learning centers and stuff like that.
• 39:12
  Testecleese: But I just, I can't believe that they actually want to make it illegal to even find out where the money went. That lets you know that something real shady is happening, right?
• 39:21
  Brian McFadden: Exactly, yeah. Nothing to see here.
• 39:24
  Testecleese: Well, how come the California vote is not pissed off about that? Like, hey, wait a minute, $180 billion disappeared.
• 39:31
  Brian McFadden: Well, it's because for the last two decades.
• 39:35
  Brian McFadden: that's been in pretty much total Democrat control, even when there was a Republican governor a few times.
• 39:42
  Brian McFadden: the House and the Senate in California are supermajority Democrat, so…
• 39:48
  Testecleese: Yeah, but how come the voters themselves aren't upset about this money disappearing?
• 39:52
  Brian McFadden: Well, I mean, the ones that can, the ones that can are voting with their feet and leaving the state.
• 39:58
  Testecleese: That's a good point. A lot of people are leaving. And you know why they're not… they aren't doing this? It's probably because they're paying all this money to illegal immigrants.
• 40:07
  Testecleese: shit like that. But the problem is it should still be documented, at least Minnesota documented it, and pretended it was a real business, you know?
• 40:16
  Brian McFadden: Yeah.
• 40:18
  Testecleese: Sheesh.
• 40:20
  Testecleese: Oh, On that exact subject, check this out. Woo! In Boston, the mayor?
• 40:27
  Testecleese: She's handing out vouchers, for… for $500!
• 40:33
  Testecleese: $500 vouchers for haircuts and massages.
• 40:37
  Testecleese: Just for illegal immigrants.
• 40:41
  Brian McFadden: Okay.
• 40:43
  Testecleese: The citizens don't get a cut of this?
• 40:45
  Brian McFadden: No. You don't need a haircut and a massage.
• 40:49
  Testecleese: These are the people who paid into the program, and you're just like, no, fuck, Ollie, and this… same thing's happened in Mass, though. Everyone's leaving, aren't they? It's the most fled… most fled state right now, I think.
• 41:01
  Testecleese: Which is funny, because West Virginia's the most moved into state right now, and I left Massachusetts to come to West Virginia.
• 41:10
  Testecleese: Somehow I managed to notice that,
• 41:13
  Testecleese: The right move before it became, common knowledge.
• 41:17
  Brian McFadden: Right.
• 41:20
  Testecleese: So Momdani's been in office for 100 days.
• 41:23
  Brian McFadden: Yeah, woohoo! And he celebrated by bringing Bernie Sanders to town.
• 41:28
  Testecleese: Yeah, I just started one… Yeah, and how he's, like, saved the city, and it's like…
• 41:33
  Testecleese: Dude, everything's gone up in price, everyone's complaining. You've made it against the law to celebrate the 4th of July in New York City.
• 41:42
  Testecleese: And that's pissing everyone off.
• 41:45
  Brian McFadden: Yeah.
• 41:47
  Brian McFadden: Because of FIFA.
• 41:48
  Testecleese: But yeah, yeah, exactly, because of soccer. And did you see… oh, fuck, what was it, yeah, his…
• 41:54
  Testecleese: is, city-run grocery stores.
• 41:59
  Brian McFadden: Yeah, it's gonna be up and running in 3 years. The first one.
• 42:02
  Testecleese: Yeah, $30 million!
• 42:06
  Testecleese: To open up a 9,000 square foot, grocery store.
• 42:10
  Brian McFadden: 9,000 square feet is not a very big grocery store.
• 42:13
  Testecleese: No, it's actually very small, if you haven't been to a…
• 42:17
  Brian McFadden: 7-Eleven?
• 42:18
  Testecleese: Yeah, exactly, exactly. I was like, if you've ever been into, like, a Kroger or a Superstar shop, you don't even have to go to Walmart, because Walmart usually has, like, sporting goods and clothing in it, too.
• 42:28
  Brian McFadden: Yeah.
• 42:29
  Testecleese: But, I mean, we're talking, like, 30,000 square feet.
• 42:33
  Testecleese: for your typical grocery store, and that only cost $9 million to make. So New York City has it smaller, and it's costing more, and only certain goods are gonna be discounted.
• 42:46
  Brian McFadden: worse.
• 42:47
  Testecleese: So, it sounds like he just hooked his buddy up and goes, hey man, I'll give you $30 million to build a little piece of shit. You know?
• 42:53
  Brian McFadden: Yeah.
• 42:56
  Testecleese: And this is… this is an interesting one, too, some… Illegal alien.
• 43:02
  Testecleese: He's been accused of, anyway.
• 43:05
  Testecleese: Setting a fire, burning a building down, and killing 4 people.
• 43:10
  Brian McFadden: Right.
• 43:12
  Testecleese: And New York, oh, my bad. New York just released… no, didn't release, I'm sorry, they're refusing to turn him over to ICE.
• 43:21
  Brian McFadden: Yeah, they're not entering the ICE detainer.
• 43:24
  Brian McFadden: And I didn't put it in here, but I did see another article about New York just recently that, the, Department of Transportation is cutting
• 43:33
  Brian McFadden: billions of dollars from New York's highway funding because of their policies.
• 43:40
  Testecleese: What policies in particular are we talking about.
• 43:42
  Brian McFadden: Oh, sanctuary policy, immigration policy.
• 43:44
  Testecleese: Oh, so New York State's gonna stop funding their roads?
• 43:48
  Brian McFadden: No, the federal government's gonna stop funding New York State throws.
• 43:52
  Testecleese: Good!
• 43:53
  Brian McFadden: You know, because a portion of the roads are paid for with federal funds.
• 43:58
  Testecleese: Well, especially any federal road, like, interstate, you know?
• 44:03
  Brian McFadden: Yeah.
• 44:05
  Testecleese: Excuse me.
• 44:07
  Brian McFadden: But I think all the interstates in New York, most of them, the two major ones are toll roads, so…
• 44:17
  Testecleese: Fair.
• 44:18
  Testecleese: Oh, wow, that one's stung.
• 44:22
  Testecleese: Okay.
• 44:24
  Testecleese: So… Bozberg, or whatever his name is, yeah, Bozberg's back in the news.
• 44:30
  Brian McFadden: Yeah, because I tried to put another rule in place.
• 44:33
  Brian McFadden: And, the full DC Circuit Court blocked his contempt.
• 44:39
  Brian McFadden: Probe again.
• 44:42
  Testecleese: Yeah, what contempt probe are they talking about?
• 44:45
  Brian McFadden: I don't know.
• 44:47
  Testecleese: I know.
• 44:49
  Testecleese: Yeah, DC Circuit blocks Judge Bozberg's contempt probe again.
• 44:55
  Brian McFadden: It's all about deportations.
• 44:57
  Testecleese: Yeah, but this guy seems to think that he can just,
• 45:01
  Testecleese: dictate from the bench, and somehow we've given… what are these.
• 45:05
  Brian McFadden: We've allowed this to happen over the years.
• 45:08
  Testecleese: Yeah, but he doesn't get to overrule the president! That's… that's a… baffles me.
• 45:13
  Testecleese: And somehow, somehow he's on every single case involving my, immigration.
• 45:19
  Brian McFadden: Yeah, it's amazing how that works.
• 45:21
  Testecleese: Like, aren't these supposed to be randomly assigning? Somehow, he gets every single one?
• 45:25
  Brian McFadden: Yeah, they're supposed to be randomly assigned.
• 45:28
  Testecleese: And how many times this guy needs to be turned over by the Supreme Court before they frickin'…
• 45:32
  Testecleese: Disborrow the man.
• 45:36
  Brian McFadden: Probably never be disbarred. I mean, it takes a lot to get somebody disbarred.
• 45:41
  Brian McFadden: One of Trump's attorneys from the election scandal, Had just gotten disbarred.
• 45:48
  Testecleese: Yeah, she's also the one that said she was helping him rig the election or something stupid, because she thought she wasn't gonna get in trouble.
• 45:54
  Brian McFadden: Yeah.
• 45:55
  Testecleese: Yeah, that was… it's like… I don't understand what happened there, either. It is completely legal.
• 46:03
  Testecleese: Do people not understand there's two sets of electors?
• 46:08
  Testecleese: Like, do people not realize that?
• 46:12
  Brian McFadden: Nope, I don't think so.
• 46:13
  Testecleese: say that. I got a feeling your average American doesn't realize that we have electors that actually cast electoral votes.
• 46:20
  Brian McFadden: growing up.
• 46:21
  Testecleese: Yeah, I got a feeling they think it's just,
• 46:24
  Testecleese: states get popular votes and then automatically are cast, versus someone actually has to go physically do it. And this… this is a big problem, is that we're not teaching civics in school anymore. Nobody knows how any of this shit works.
• 46:37
  Testecleese: This is interesting, though. Two immigration judges just got fired.
• 46:43
  Testecleese: Because they ruled against what says… not necessarily because, but they ruled against deporting, Palestinian rights activists.
• 46:52
  Brian McFadden: Yeah, well, immigration judges are a little bit different. They're not, like, They're jumping.
• 46:57
  Testecleese: It's not criminal, it's civil.
• 46:59
  Brian McFadden: Yeah, exactly.
• 47:00
  Testecleese: Yeah, it's more like small claims court than it is like a, a trial.
• 47:04
  Brian McFadden: Yeah, and all they do, all they hear is immigration cases.
• 47:07
  Testecleese: Well, and this is something I've tried to explain to people, too, because they keep talking about due process.
• 47:12
  Testecleese: And I'm like, they're getting the correct due process. I'm like, no, you get a trial. I was like, no.
• 47:17
  Testecleese: No.
• 47:18
  Testecleese: And these are the same people who would say that ICE isn't police.
• 47:22
  Testecleese: it's a civil thing. I'm like, yes, you're right, crossing the border is a civil thing. We're using civil enforcement to do it, and a civil court to try it in. Due process is very different, okay?
• 47:33
  Brian McFadden: Oh,
• 47:34
  Testecleese: Like, if you're getting sued for trespassing, we'll say, right? Not even trespassing, let's just say you're getting sued because you damaged someone's property. It's not a freaking…
• 47:44
  Testecleese: get arrested thing, you know what I mean? You get summonsed to court, you show up, and a judge makes a decision. There's no jury, there's no… there's none of this stuff.
• 47:55
  Brian McFadden: Right, exactly.
• 47:57
  Testecleese: Just, just like… even a speeding ticket!
• 48:02
  Testecleese: There's a problem.
• 48:03
  Brian McFadden: process for that?
• 48:04
  Testecleese: Yeah, if you want to fight a speeding ticket, though, you're not getting a jury, are you?
• 48:08
  Brian McFadden: No.
• 48:09
  Testecleese: You're gonna stand in front of a judge, you're gonna make a case, and if the judge says, yeah, I like it, they'll throw it out.
• 48:14
  Testecleese: And let's be real, your best chance of winning a speeding ticket case is if the cop doesn't show up.
• 48:21
  Brian McFadden: Yes, always a good possibility of that.
• 48:24
  Testecleese: I guess they just got.
• 48:25
  Brian McFadden: Because 9 times out of 10, people just pay the fines and call it a day.
• 48:30
  Testecleese: Especially if they were actually speeding.
• 48:33
  Testecleese: I mean, I've got one speeding ticket before, and I was speeding, and I was like, alright, I'll pay my fine, you know?
• 48:40
  Brian McFadden: Yeah, exactly.
• 48:43
  Testecleese: Yeah, no need to get into a…
• 48:45
  Testecleese: And here's the thing is, if you lose a speeding ticket case, do you just have to pay the speeding ticket, or do you now have to pay court costs, too?
• 48:51
  Brian McFadden: You can pay core costs, too.
• 48:53
  Brian McFadden: They were paying court costs when you pay the ticket, too.
• 48:57
  Brian McFadden: You're still paying a court cost when you pay the ticket up front. You're still paying for the court.
• 49:03
  Testecleese: No, you don't need a court if you pay the ticket.
• 49:05
  Brian McFadden: It's still included, there's still court fees included in your ticket.
• 49:09
  Testecleese: What, so a clerk can file it?
• 49:11
  Brian McFadden: Yes, exactly. Everybody's gotta get paid.
• 49:16
  Testecleese: Did you see this?
• 49:18
  Brian McFadden: It's crazy. I'm starting to catch up.
• 49:19
  Testecleese: I noticed that. It's funny, because it's delayed, like, the dubbing is off in a.
• 49:24
  Brian McFadden: I know! Oh, I looked at some fucking Japanese movie.
• 49:31
  Testecleese: Yeah, you, like, rewind it 3 seconds and see if it lines back up.
• 49:37
  Testecleese: You see this crazy broad who claims that she was detained by ICE for 3 days, as a legal citizen, and she was held in a detention center, et cetera, et cetera?
• 49:46
  Brian McFadden: Right.
• 49:47
  Testecleese: Well, she made a big deal, went online, friggin', like, blew everybody up, started calling people out by name, to include the sheriff. She had her family in on it.
• 49:59
  Testecleese: They freaking looked at her phone location, and found out she was in a hotel across the street for two days, like, went out, this video of her, like, in a restaurant when she was allegedly in ICE custody.
• 50:11
  Brian McFadden: Just trying to draw attention to herself.
• 50:13
  Testecleese: Yeah, well, that's the thing, it's like, if this stuff's happening as common as everyone says it is, then how come we're not… every time we hear about it, it's fake?
• 50:22
  Testecleese: You know, like, if it's happening all the time, it should be very easy to get some evidence of this. And,
• 50:27
  Testecleese: Now, it doesn't say it in the title, but I believe she's being sued by the, sheriff.
• 50:32
  Testecleese: Because she brought him up saying that,
• 50:36
  Testecleese: you know, he was involved in the whole thing, and he's like, I have nothing to do with ICE, I just turn people over if they're here illegally. He's like, you're not in our system, you didn't come through. And then, yeah, so he went and looked all this stuff up, and was like, oh, you're fucked. She might be facing criminal charges.
• 50:52
  Testecleese: This is fun. Something like 76 trans folk.
• 50:58
  Testecleese: have fled the…
• 50:59
  Brian McFadden: I read this article.
• 51:01
  Testecleese: Yes! Well, it…
• 51:02
  Brian McFadden: I thought you might want Claire on the show for this episode, this story.
• 51:08
  Testecleese: I couldn't find a better…
• 51:10
  Brian McFadden: Know her opinion on this, so…
• 51:11
  Testecleese: Yes. I couldn't find a better article, but I had to.
• 51:14
  Brian McFadden: I read pretty much this whole article, and I was like, okay, you know.
• 51:21
  Brian McFadden: And it's hilarious, because the people in the Netherlands are laughing at these people.
• 51:26
  Brian McFadden: Because we're… we all want to go to U.S, we want to go to the US, you know, you guys are fleeing here, and it's not like the Netherlands have a really cushy immigration system, you know? They're living in refugee camps.
• 51:39
  Brian McFadden: Until they're integrated into the system, into the population of the Netherlands.
• 51:43
  Testecleese: no! The Netherlands has denied every single asylum request, saying… quoting all of the stuff that we said, like, first of all, transgenders are not, persecuted in the United States, and like, people look at me funny. It's like, we can't… you can't…
• 51:57
  Testecleese: Well, that's not being persecuted, okay? They're not hanging you because you're trans, okay?
• 52:02
  Brian McFadden: Right,
• 52:04
  Testecleese: And they said, what… and you're supposed to stop at the first safe nation? That would be Canada or Mexico.
• 52:09
  Testecleese: So these people were sleeping in cages, like they claimed Trump did, in sleeping bags, on the dirt, waiting to be deported back to the United States. It just made me laugh, and it made me laugh even more at the people that sold their house, sold their car, quit their job.
• 52:26
  Brian McFadden: Oh, And one of these people had really good jobs.
• 52:31
  Testecleese: And now…
• 52:31
  Brian McFadden: We're gonna go back in.
• 52:33
  Testecleese: Who's gonna wanna hire you after this?
• 52:37
  Brian McFadden: Nobody.
• 52:38
  Testecleese: And exactly, if you were being persecuted, why were you making 100,000… why were you making enough money to be able to just drop everything on a dime and go to frickin' Amsterdam?
• 52:47
  Brian McFadden: Yeah.
• 52:50
  Brian McFadden: I made sure to say that, the refugee camps were nowhere near Amsterdam.
• 52:56
  Testecleese: It says that in the article?
• 52:58
  Brian McFadden: Yeah, it's not anywhere near the tourist areas.
• 53:01
  Testecleese: Oh, of course not. You don't want the tourists to see these people sitting in cages.
• 53:09
  Testecleese: Yeah, I just want AOC to go over there and do her, I'm crying…
• 53:13
  Testecleese: Looking at the cages thing, and then do the… put my hands behind my back and make it look like I got arrested when I'm walking away.
• 53:20
  Testecleese: You remember that shit, right?
• 53:22
  Brian McFadden: Yup.
• 53:24
  Testecleese: oh, this is fascinating!
• 53:29
  Brian McFadden: Who didn't see this coming a mile away?
• 53:32
  Testecleese: Yeah. Dude was being brought up on an $11 million Medicaid fraud scheme, right?
• 53:38
  Brian McFadden: Yup, and he got to keep his passport.
• 53:41
  Testecleese: Judge turned him loose.
• 53:43
  Testecleese: And let him keep his passport. The guy's gone!
• 53:48
  Brian McFadden: Yeah, I don't know how much bail was, but it's… it's…
• 53:52
  Testecleese: less than 11 million!
• 53:53
  Brian McFadden: I would definitely worth less than $11 million.
• 53:58
  Brian McFadden: His bail was $50,000.
• 54:03
  Brian McFadden: It did include surrendering his passport, it did include…
• 54:09
  Brian McFadden: Oh, if he paid $150,000, he got to keep his passport, so he must have paid the $150,000 and kept his passport.
• 54:17
  Testecleese: If I stole $11 million, And all I…
• 54:20
  Brian McFadden: I'd say $150,000.
• 54:21
  Testecleese: Yeah, and I could get away with it for $150,000, I would do that.
• 54:27
  Brian McFadden: Oh, and I wonder what country this guy's from. His name is Abadar Shid Azmil Saeed.
• 54:34
  Testecleese: I believe he's here illegally, but I don'.
• 54:36
  Brian McFadden: In Minnesota!
• 54:38
  Testecleese: Of course he's in Minnesota!
• 54:41
  Testecleese: Yeah, yeah, he's probably… Yeah, almost certainly. It's, Somaliland, right? Somaliland or whatever?
• 54:52
  Testecleese: Oh my god.
• 54:54
  Testecleese: And Lauren's O'Donnell…
• 54:55
  Brian McFadden: Oh, there's an article, I'm like, you're…
• 54:59
  Testecleese: Yeah, he's been saying a lot of dumb shit lately.
• 55:02
  Testecleese: on MS Now, BS Now, whatever you want to call them.
• 55:06
  Testecleese: the network might be in some serious trouble, because he accused Barron Trump of being a felon without evidence.
• 55:15
  Testecleese: Didn't even say what the crime might be, I believe, right?
• 55:19
  Brian McFadden: Barron is about to open up his own, Beverage company.
• 55:26
  Testecleese: That kid's gonna be very successful in life.
• 55:29
  Brian McFadden: Yeah.
• 55:30
  Testecleese: what is he? He's, like, 19 years old, something like that? He's, like, 6'3".
• 55:34
  Brian McFadden: One year in college, if that, you know. He started college and dropped out.
• 55:38
  Testecleese: Yeah, he's like, why am I doing this? You know, plus he's got…
• 55:40
  Brian McFadden: Yeah.
• 55:41
  Testecleese: let's be real, is… even if you hate Trump.
• 55:44
  Testecleese: The man's a billionaire, he's been successful in business.
• 55:46
  Brian McFadden: Yeah. He's the best guy.
• 55:47
  Testecleese: I had to try.
• 55:48
  Brian McFadden: Trump name, exactly. He's got the Trump name, he's got all the connections to start any business he wants to, you know, so…
• 55:55
  Testecleese: Yeah, and he can just go, hey, Dad, can I borrow $50 million to get this business up and running?
• 55:59
  Brian McFadden: Yeah, exactly.
• 56:00
  Testecleese: You know? Just, like, what is it? Donald borrowed $5 million to start his…
• 56:05
  Testecleese: Empire? Was it? Or 1 million?
• 56:09
  Brian McFadden: And Trump's still not taking a salary for being president.
• 56:13
  Testecleese: I'm not surprised by that.
• 56:15
  Brian McFadden: He's still donating his $400,000 every year.
• 56:20
  Testecleese: And, hey, even a billionaire understands that $400,000 is a lot of money.
• 56:26
  Testecleese: Like, even to a billionaire, that's a lot of money.
• 56:30
  Testecleese: And Diaz, let's be real, Donald Trump doesn't have $5 billion sitting in a frickin' bank account.
• 56:36
  Brian McFadden: It's not liquid. No, it's just… The money's not that liquid.
• 56:39
  Testecleese: Solid physical assets.
• 56:41
  Testecleese: Yep. Don't get me wrong, I'm sure he's got enough money in his bank account that his debit card never gets declined, but, you know…
• 56:47
  Brian McFadden: Exactly.
• 56:49
  Testecleese: Jeez, how…
• 56:50
  Brian McFadden: Like, he ever uses his own debit card.
• 56:52
  Testecleese: Damn.
• 56:53
  Brian McFadden: And what do you think about, since we're on Donald Trump here, I don't think we have it in here, but I saw where DoorDash showed up to the White House.
• 57:01
  Brian McFadden: That was so staged. There's… you can't just order DoorDash and have them come up and meet Donald Trump.
• 57:08
  Brian McFadden: It was some grandmother that delivered his McDonald's, because he had McDonald's DoorDash to the White House.
• 57:15
  Brian McFadden: You don't… Secret Service ain't letting random people into the White House to meet Donald Trump.
• 57:20
  Testecleese: This allegedly happened?
• 57:22
  Brian McFadden: It did! There was a whole article about it, big deal, you know, how he gave her a $100 tip for delivering McDonald's to the White House.
• 57:28
  Testecleese: He is no- I will say, he is known for, handing out $100 bills.
• 57:33
  Brian McFadden: Yes, I understand that, but he was in the White House, he wasn't at a random hotel, he wasn't in Mar-a-Lago. Even Mar-a-Lago is, like, locked down like the White House is, you know? You're gonna have.
• 57:45
  Testecleese: Oh, yeah, I mean…
• 57:46
  Brian McFadden: That person had to go through a background check.
• 57:48
  Testecleese: Yes, and… yes, exactly, because, I mean, let's be real, otherwise, I could just say I'm here delivering McDonald's.
• 57:55
  Brian McFadden: to the president.
• 57:56
  Testecleese: and kill him.
• 57:57
  Testecleese: You know?
• 58:00
  Testecleese: There's an actual…
• 58:01
  Brian McFadden: photo of her.
• 58:03
  Brian McFadden: We're in… Trump grandma shirt, or something, something grandma-related shirt.
• 58:10
  Testecleese: Grandpa, grandma.
• 58:11
  Brian McFadden: McDonald's food.
• 58:13
  Testecleese: Yeah, she was probably specifically hired to take the order from the gate into the White House.
• 58:19
  Brian McFadden: Maybe.
• 58:19
  Testecleese: You know what I mean?
• 58:21
  Testecleese: I don't know, I'm just saying it's entirely possible someone else door-dashed it to, like, the gate, like, the guard…
• 58:27
  Testecleese: gate.
• 58:27
  Brian McFadden: Bye.
• 58:28
  Testecleese: And she brought it from there to the president.
• 58:31
  Testecleese: That's more likely.
• 58:34
  Testecleese: Bone.
• 58:35
  Testecleese: Alright.
• 58:37
  Testecleese: I haven't heard a lot about this. I've heard people mention it, but I haven't…
• 58:42
  Testecleese: actually heard Tulsi Gabbard come out and say anything about this. What exactly is going on? Apparently, they're saying the CIA was involved in the Trump impeachment.
• 58:53
  Testecleese: Is that what's going on?
• 58:54
  Brian McFadden: Yeah, in the… in the paperwork that got the Trump impeachment going, they're… they're the ones that…
• 59:02
  Brian McFadden: Yeah, they provided the information that led the impeachment to begin.
• 59:10
  Testecleese: And this is the… which impeachment was this?
• 59:16
  Brian McFadden: The second one. The one for right after… It was all about the Ukrainian phone call, where he was trying to get the Ukrainians to look into the Biden family.
• 59:28
  Testecleese: Mmm!
• 59:29
  Testecleese: Oh, when they…
• 59:30
  Brian McFadden: First one.
• 59:31
  Testecleese: when they played the video of Joe Biden saying, you're gonna do what I say, or we're not gonna give you a billion dollars, I'm like, you're not allowed to mention that, we're gonna impeach you for it! It's like, wait, wait a minute, what?
• 59:42
  Testecleese: The guy, the guy was clearly…
• 59:44
  Brian McFadden: Yeah, well, that was… yeah,
• 59:46
  Testecleese: in a quid.
• 59:47
  Brian McFadden: Okay, so I read the article on the…
• 59:49
  Brian McFadden: Yeah. The Simmons was chosen to deliver food to the White House during a staged photo op.
• 59:57
  Testecleese: There you go.
• 59:58
  Brian McFadden: She said Trump's No Tax on Tips initiative saved her thousands of dollars while her husband is being treated for cancer.
• 1:00:06
  Testecleese: Oh, jeez.
• 1:00:08
  Testecleese: Yeah, no tax on tips only goes so high, right? Like, once you hit a certain threshold, you're supposed to.
• 1:00:13
  Brian McFadden: $25,000.
• 1:00:15
  Testecleese: 25,000!
• 1:00:16
  Brian McFadden: 25,000, you can do it, you can…
• 1:00:19
  Testecleese: Alright, that's a fair amount of money.
• 1:00:21
  Brian McFadden: If you're a waiter and a wait… I mean, for a waiter, waitress type deal, bartender, that's a nice chunk of change, you know, you don't have to pay taxes on.
• 1:00:31
  Testecleese: And let's be real, unless you're a full-time…
• 1:00:35
  Testecleese: Like, every major mealtime or drinking time.
• 1:00:39
  Testecleese: You're probably not hitting that threshold in tips.
• 1:00:42
  Testecleese: Because let's be real, a lot of these waitresses and bartenders are part-timers.
• 1:00:47
  Brian McFadden: Yeah.
• 1:00:48
  Testecleese: Nope.
• 1:00:48
  Testecleese: now, when you start talking about, like, the high-end steakhouses you find in, like, New York City.
• 1:00:53
  Brian McFadden: Oh, well, that's totally different, yeah.
• 1:00:54
  Testecleese: They will be hitting that threshold very easy, but those people get paid, let's be real. Yeah.
• 1:01:00
  Testecleese: And it's funny, because you're actually paying for the status. The food's no better
• 1:01:05
  Testecleese: At these fancy, fancy places than it is at,
• 1:01:10
  Testecleese: upper mid-tier, you know, like, just above Chili's. Like, even Outback Steakhouse ribs…
• 1:01:16
  Testecleese: Chili's ribs. Remember when Chili's used to have the best baby bag ribs?
• 1:01:23
  Testecleese: Great, you're probably not going to a $500 plate of dinner to get ribs and get barbecue sauce all over your tuxedo.
• 1:01:32
  Testecleese: I could see Trump doing that, though.
• 1:01:36
  Testecleese: Oh, and I do…
• 1:01:40
  Testecleese: Before we get into, this next topic here, I just want to play this from years ago.
• 1:01:47
  Brian McFadden: Alright. Going back in the time capsule.
• 1:01:49
  Audio shared by Testecleese: The evidence is uncontradicted that the president used taxpayer dollars to ask the Ukrainians to help him cheat an election. And the complaint that I've heard from Republicans…
• 1:02:00
  Audio shared by Testecleese: once…
• 1:02:00
  Testecleese: Mom.
• 1:02:03
  Audio shared by Testecleese: Chris, so…
• 1:02:04
  Testecleese: Oh, Jesus.
• 1:02:04
  Audio shared by Testecleese: President's…
• 1:02:05
  Testecleese: I closed the wrong.
• 1:02:06
  Audio shared by Testecleese: contradicted.
• 1:02:06
  Testecleese: Closed the wrong, folder.
• 1:02:10
  Brian McFadden: It happens.
• 1:02:12
  Testecleese: Yeah.
• 1:02:13
  Testecleese: Oh, jeez, now I'm trying to click through my tabs in a hurry. I just got a good laugh out of… you remember when that happened, right?
• 1:02:19
  Brian McFadden: Yeah, yeah.
• 1:02:20
  Testecleese: And people were like, you know, that wasn't what it was. Like, the guy paused and leaned to the side to rip a giant fart line.
• 1:02:27
  Brian McFadden: That's so far… Yeah.
• 1:02:30
  Testecleese: Anyway, who was that, Brian?
• 1:02:33
  Brian McFadden: That was, the current Secretary of State wasn't it?
• 1:02:40
  Testecleese: Eric Swalwell.
• 1:02:42
  Brian McFadden: Oh, Eric Swalwell, even better. He's no longer a member of Congress.
• 1:02:47
  Brian McFadden: He has resolved.
• 1:02:49
  Testecleese: So fast, wasn't it?
• 1:02:50
  Brian McFadden: Yep.
• 1:02:53
  Testecleese: Well, yeah, let's…
• 1:02:55
  Brian McFadden: Well, I think it's in here.
• 1:02:57
  Testecleese: Yeah, he's been,
• 1:02:59
  Testecleese: well, he's been accused of illegally paying a nanny with campaign funds. At least that's not the big story.
• 1:03:05
  Testecleese: But they're talking, like, he's been accused of, drugging one of his staffers, and then forcibly raping her at another time.
• 1:03:13
  Testecleese: but what gets me is…
• 1:03:18
  Testecleese: She was… she said she had a couple drinks with him, and then next thing she remembers was waking up in his hotel room.
• 1:03:24
  Testecleese: So 5 years later, she goes to a reward show for him, gets drunk with him, and follows him up to his hotel room.
• 1:03:30
  Testecleese: So I'm like, hmm… But…
• 1:03:33
  Brian McFadden: Yeah.
• 1:03:34
  Testecleese: He's been…
• 1:03:34
  Brian McFadden: It's coming out, it's not… it's what… she waited until now for it to come out?
• 1:03:39
  Testecleese: Right at elections.
• 1:03:40
  Brian McFadden: So when he's running for… running for governor in the state of California?
• 1:03:44
  Testecleese: Well, and you know what's fascinating?
• 1:03:47
  Testecleese: when Swalwell was running for governor, he split the Democrat vote, which… and I don't know how much you know about California elections for governor.
• 1:03:54
  Brian McFadden: I know a lot about it. They use the ranked choice system, and right now, neither… neither Democrat are number… number one or number two on their Ranked Choice system. It's literally looking like it's gonna be two Republicans running against each other in the state of California for governor.
• 1:04:10
  Testecleese: But… wait a week? That's gonna… Drastically changed, because everyone who…
• 1:04:14
  Brian McFadden: What was the psycho that's left. She is wacko.
• 1:04:18
  Testecleese: Yeah, I can't remember her name.
• 1:04:19
  Brian McFadden: popular.
• 1:04:20
  Testecleese: Well… All the votes… she's gonna get all the votes that Swalwell is gonna get.
• 1:04:26
  Brian McFadden: How many votes was swallowell really gonna get?
• 1:04:29
  Testecleese: I don't know, but I'm just saying, he was…
• 1:04:30
  Brian McFadden: Ranked joints. They're not even… Nope, they weren't.
• 1:04:34
  Testecleese: This was the actual election, not the primary. This was to get on the ranked choice ticket.
• 1:04:39
  Brian McFadden: Yeah, well… okay.
• 1:04:40
  Testecleese: Because right now… because right now, number one and number two are both Republicans.
• 1:04:44
  Brian McFadden: No.
• 1:04:46
  Brian McFadden: And therefore, all the dumbs are all freaking out about it. But, I mean, like I said before on the show.
• 1:04:51
  Brian McFadden: Sure, you get a Republican governor in place, but without some Republicans in the House and the Senate in California that have control to make a few changes here, and nothing gets done.
• 1:05:02
  Brian McFadden: All it does is slow down the Democrats from doing more crazy ideas.
• 1:05:07
  Testecleese: That's all the Republicans have done my entire life, except for Trump. Let's be real, dude. All they've ever done is, oh, slow down, democrats! They got no fucking spines.
• 1:05:17
  Testecleese: Besides the MAGA thing that came out recently, frickin' Lindsey Graham had the biggest balls on the Republican Party.
• 1:05:25
  Brian McFadden: Oh, that's horrible.
• 1:05:28
  Testecleese: Dressed!
• 1:05:29
  Testecleese: Yeah, there's a… there's an acronym for him, right?
• 1:05:34
  Testecleese: some kind.
• 1:05:34
  Brian McFadden: I know.
• 1:05:35
  Testecleese: Yeah, yeah.
• 1:05:39
  Testecleese: You know what, I haven't seen a good political cartoon in a while with someone
• 1:05:42
  Testecleese: With, like, a name tag on an actual rhinoceros.
• 1:05:47
  Testecleese: But I don't know how much I believe about…
• 1:05:51
  Testecleese: this… what's going on with Swalwell?
• 1:05:53
  Testecleese: Honestly, in terms of… he's been… this is what the Democrats did to Trump, too. They brought up a whole bunch of sexual abuse.
• 1:06:00
  Brian McFadden: Well, I mean, it was enough for him to… it was enough for him to… I guess… but he's not Trump. Trump's used this kind of shit. He'll… he'll just blow it off, you know?
• 1:06:08
  Testecleese: He got pushed.
• 1:06:09
  Brian McFadden: Copy the proof.
• 1:06:10
  Brian McFadden: They told him…
• 1:06:12
  Testecleese: They told him to leave, like they did to, biden, He said…
• 1:06:17
  Brian McFadden: Because they started?
• 1:06:18
  Brian McFadden: They started expulsion proceedings in the Congress for them.
• 1:06:23
  Brian McFadden: They were gonna expel him from the Congress.
• 1:06:25
  Testecleese: Yeah, they sort of voted him right back in.
• 1:06:28
  Brian McFadden: Probably. The people in California are really smart.
• 1:06:31
  Testecleese: Yes. But that's what I'm saying, is I got a feeling that the Democrats tried to force him out, he said no.
• 1:06:37
  Testecleese: And then… Buying more dirt.
• 1:06:40
  Testecleese: They… they brought this shit up to get him to leave, so that he would stop splitting the Democrat vote, and they could at least unify all of the Democrats. Because let's be real, the Democrats are voting more and more outrageous every time.
• 1:06:52
  Brian McFadden: Yeah.
• 1:06:53
  Testecleese: I think I just got a Discord message, I didn't even realize that was open.
• 1:06:57
  Testecleese: Yeah, but yeah, he's… he's dropped out of the gubernatorial race, he's, resigned from Congress, right?
• 1:07:08
  Testecleese: So, it has ruined this guy's life and ended his career.
• 1:07:13
  Brian McFadden: And they're talking about trying to take away his $22,000 a year retirement pay from Congress.
• 1:07:20
  Testecleese: How do they do that?
• 1:07:22
  Brian McFadden: They voted out, and they got a vote.
• 1:07:24
  Testecleese: Like an impeachment process, basically?
• 1:07:26
  Brian McFadden: Yeah.
• 1:07:28
  Testecleese: That's interesting.
• 1:07:31
  Testecleese: You only get 22 grand a year? I thought you got…
• 1:07:34
  Brian McFadden: It depends on how long you've been around in Congress. I guarantee Nancy Pelosi's not getting $22,000 a year.
• 1:07:41
  Testecleese: No, for some reason, I thought you got full pay the rest of your life, just like if you were president.
• 1:07:45
  Brian McFadden: Well, the article said he was 22,000, so…
• 1:07:48
  Testecleese: Well, look, I learned something, look at that. Even I… even I don't know everything about the government, because it's way too fucking complex, let's be real, right?
• 1:07:56
  Testecleese: Especially when you start getting to state's governments. Like, California has a goofy system to vote.
• 1:08:00
  Testecleese: It's stupid. And they're involved in that stupid…
• 1:08:03
  Testecleese: nationwide popular vote thing, too, aren't they? In Washington State and Colorado.
• 1:08:10
  Testecleese: I think Maine voted it in, but barely. I think it got rammed through by the Dems.
• 1:08:16
  Brian McFadden: Alright, they got two systems. They got the… they're part of the Federal Employees Retirement System for those that were elected after 84, and then the Civil Service Retirement System for those elected before 84.
• 1:08:30
  Testecleese: Civil Service would be the one where you collected the entire.
• 1:08:33
  Brian McFadden: Ours is like a military, it's high 3.
• 1:08:36
  Testecleese: Okay.
• 1:08:38
  Brian McFadden: And then.
• 1:08:40
  Testecleese: Awesome.
• 1:08:41
  Brian McFadden: So, you know, and they also have access to the thrift savings plan, blah blah blah.
• 1:08:46
  Brian McFadden: Blah blah blah.
• 1:08:47
  Testecleese: Wait, wait, wait, you're telling me Congress is using a TSP and not a 401K?
• 1:08:53
  Brian McFadden: Well, that's their 401K.
• 1:08:55
  Testecleese: That's just fascinating, I… Alright, I didn't think the TSP was outside the service.
• 1:09:03
  Brian McFadden: So basically, they're saying, It could be, like, an average salary for High 3.
• 1:09:09
  Brian McFadden: Would be a $34,800 a year pension, so…
• 1:09:16
  Brian McFadden: And it also depends on when they retire, because they can't… they gotta be age 62 at least 5 years, or age 50 with at least 20 years, and any age
• 1:09:26
  Brian McFadden: with 25 years before they start collecting, so I don't know, that…
• 1:09:30
  Brian McFadden: It's not as much as I thought it was, either. I thought… I thought it was like President, where, you know.
• 1:09:36
  Testecleese: Yeah.
• 1:09:36
  Brian McFadden: Once you've done your 4 years, you get that $400,000 for the rest of your life, with a cost of living allowance.
• 1:09:43
  Testecleese: Yeah, exactly. They raise it as the cost of living goes up. Cola, right?
• 1:09:48
  Brian McFadden: Yeah.
• 1:09:49
  Testecleese: Dude, that was, always interesting, getting cola for some reason or that.
• 1:09:54
  Testecleese: And you're like, I'll just stay on the ship, you know?
• 1:10:00
  Testecleese: I don't remember where it was, but I went somewhere, and we got…
• 1:10:03
  Testecleese: I got a big colo boost for some reason, I don't remember what it was. Might have been when we were, dearming the ship.
• 1:10:10
  Testecleese: Unarming the ship? Disarming, I guess, is the right word. I'm not even sure what the right word is. When you unload the munitions.
• 1:10:18
  Testecleese: Where's that, portsmouth?
• 1:10:23
  Testecleese: Is that where the weapon is?
• 1:10:26
  Testecleese: Yorktown, Weapon Station, okay. That's right. I was like, Portsmouth, I was like, I know it's the hospital, do they do the… doesn't sound like you would have the munitions station right next to the hospital, you know?
• 1:10:35
  Brian McFadden: That would not make sense.
• 1:10:40
  Testecleese: That's why I had my brain surgery done, was in Portsmouth, Virginia.
• 1:10:46
  Testecleese: Triminy, dude.
• 1:10:47
  Testecleese: And it was crazy, because I remember talking to the doctor, and he… he kept mispronouncing my last name.
• 1:10:53
  Testecleese: And his name is Revet, it's French, R-I-V-E-T.
• 1:10:57
  Brian McFadden: Sorry to mispronouncing his name.
• 1:10:59
  Testecleese: Yeah, so I was like, oh, okay, Dr. Rivet. He goes, it's Rivet, it's French. And I pronounced my name correctly, I'm like, it's…
• 1:11:06
  Testecleese: It's not French.
• 1:11:09
  Brian McFadden: How are you?
• 1:11:10
  Testecleese: I'd get it right after that, though.
• 1:11:13
  Brian McFadden: That's… yeah, a little subtleness there gets it done.
• 1:11:18
  Testecleese: Yeah, it's like, you made it a point that I'm getting your name right, I'm gonna do the same thing right back at you, you know?
• 1:11:23
  Brian McFadden: Yup.
• 1:11:24
  Testecleese: I'm sure you know how often my last name is pronounced.
• 1:11:27
  Brian McFadden: Oh, yeah, horribly.
• 1:11:29
  Testecleese: I don't know if I want to put my last name out here. I've already given my, my general whereabouts, you don't need my first and last name to find me.
• 1:11:39
  Testecleese: oh, man.
• 1:11:42
  Testecleese: But you…
• 1:11:44
  Testecleese: But yeah, anyway, I decided to talk to him, and he found out I was from the Boston area. He's like, oh, shit, he's like, if you want to go up to Boston.
• 1:11:51
  Testecleese: to get the surgery done. I will not be offended. They are the greatest in the world.
• 1:11:56
  Brian McFadden: Anyways.
• 1:11:56
  Testecleese: He made a point of saying that his specialty is working with young, healthy men that need help now.
• 1:12:03
  Brian McFadden: Not…
• 1:12:04
  Testecleese: not general everything. So I was like, oh.
• 1:12:07
  Brian McFadden: That makes sense, too.
• 1:12:08
  Testecleese: I was like, that's a really good argument, actually. And I've had… I had some issues for a little while, a couple seizures since, but…
• 1:12:16
  Testecleese: Cutting a hunk of my brain out.
• 1:12:18
  Testecleese: ain't gonna necessarily stop seizures, it's just gonna make them less common. And plus, the cavernous meliform angioma would have just continued to grow.
• 1:12:27
  Testecleese: Had it not been removed.
• 1:12:28
  Brian McFadden: Hey, that's what my dad's got.
• 1:12:30
  Testecleese: Cavitous malformation angioma?
• 1:12:33
  Brian McFadden: Yeah, but it's… but they've determined it's benign, just because it's not growing fast enough to be, like, aggressive brain cancer.
• 1:12:41
  Testecleese: Well, yeah, well…
• 1:12:44
  Testecleese: The cavernous malformation is usually something is scrambling your… a piece of your brain, so it's a.
• 1:12:51
  Brian McFadden: Oh, he doesn't have all that, but he's got a mask growing in his brain that he refused to have operated surgically on at the age of 81, so…
• 1:13:02
  Testecleese: I… honestly, at 81, you're more likely to die in the surgery than…
• 1:13:06
  Brian McFadden: Exactly.
• 1:13:07
  Testecleese: Yeah, you may as… even if it is malignant at that point, you may as well just…
• 1:13:11
  Brian McFadden: And he just went through hell with a hip surgery, so he's not going… he's not doing anything else surgery-wise.
• 1:13:18
  Testecleese: So, yeah.
• 1:13:18
  Brian McFadden: While we.
• 1:13:19
  Testecleese: Still recovering from hip.
• 1:13:21
  Testecleese: Brain surgery might actually kill him.
• 1:13:24
  Testecleese: Probably would kill him.
• 1:13:26
  Testecleese: And yeah, like, he's a little 80.
• 1:13:28
  Testecleese: At that point, 81.
• 1:13:31
  Testecleese: not trying to be, nihilistic here, but he doesn't have many years left, let's be real. If you're lucky.
• 1:13:38
  Brian McFadden: Nope.
• 1:13:39
  Testecleese: If you're lucky, 19 years, but that's how often do people make it to 100, right?
• 1:13:46
  Brian McFadden: Fairly often. I'll be here until it happens, so…
• 1:13:50
  Testecleese: Yeah, well, it's actually crazy, because right before the bar closed down down the street, a whole bunch of people showed up when I was actually in the bar. They had just come from a World War II vet's funeral, who was 102 when he died, and I was like, whoa!
• 1:14:07
  Testecleese: I even said, I was like, I wish I had known I would have attended the man's funeral. But you didn't know, I was like, that doesn't matter, I would have.
• 1:14:12
  Brian McFadden: Doesn't matter, yeah.
• 1:14:13
  Testecleese: I would've put on my dress uniform and saluted the man, you know?
• 1:14:16
  Brian McFadden: I can't wear my dress uniform anymore, it won't fit, so…
• 1:14:20
  Testecleese: I could fit into mine, but I didn't retire, so I'm not supposed to wear it.
• 1:14:26
  Brian McFadden: You can wear it for special occasions.
• 1:14:27
  Testecleese: That's the way I see it.
• 1:14:28
  Brian McFadden: Like, if you've marched in the Memorial Day parade, you could wear it.
• 1:14:32
  Testecleese: Yeah, and I remember.
• 1:14:33
  Brian McFadden: I'm actually thinking about, now that I'm in the small town environment again, they're looking for nominations for Grand Marshal for the Memorial Day Parade.
• 1:14:41
  Brian McFadden: And I'm thinking about having Kathy nominate me for the parade as the Grand March, so… Even though I'll do the actual nomination, I'm gonna put her name on it.
• 1:14:52
  Testecleese: Yeah, yeah. What, what exactly does the Grand Master do? Just organize it?
• 1:14:56
  Brian McFadden: You ride in the flow and wave at people! Probably have to say a few words at the cemetery before the 21-gun salute.
• 1:15:04
  Testecleese: That's pretty cool, good, good job,
• 1:15:07
  Testecleese: Michigan, at least you guys are doing something instead of…
• 1:15:11
  Brian McFadden: It has a big… has a big parade every year, so…
• 1:15:15
  Testecleese: That's awesome. We don't have a lot of parades where I live, but there's not enough people to do a parade, you know what I mean?
• 1:15:21
  Brian McFadden: Well, I mean, there's not a lot of people here, but there's a lot of vets. I mean…
• 1:15:26
  Testecleese: We're a vet…
• 1:15:27
  Brian McFadden: Yeah, they're mostly Marines.
• 1:15:29
  Brian McFadden: You've probably recognized that when you were in the service, you know, a lot of people leave Michigan to join the military.
• 1:15:37
  Brian McFadden: And a lot of them come back. I wasn't one of them until now, but yeah, there's… we're very vet… very vet-orientated. Bridge Michigan has a lot of vet programs.
• 1:15:47
  Brian McFadden: To help veterans and stuff, like, none of my retirement pay is taxed.
• 1:15:52
  Brian McFadden: So what's…
• 1:15:53
  Testecleese: What's going on with your government, then, if you have so many vets?
• 1:15:56
  Brian McFadden: They're not voting?
• 1:15:58
  Testecleese: That's actually the big problem.
• 1:16:02
  Testecleese: I know a lot of vets who don't vote.
• 1:16:06
  Testecleese: Because they're like…
• 1:16:07
  Testecleese: I did my part, and I'm like, yeah, but now someone might be getting sent to war because you didn't vote, you know what I mean?
• 1:16:13
  Brian McFadden: Huh.
• 1:16:15
  Testecleese: Just… oh, and what, they're talking about starting the auto-enroll next year for.
• 1:16:21
  Brian McFadden: Yeah, I don't… it's no big deal. I mean, you basically… you had to do it…
• 1:16:25
  Brian McFadden: you were… they were basically on auto-roll before this, you know? It's like, you wanted to go to college, you wanted any college money or anything like that, you had to be, registered in a Selective Service.
• 1:16:37
  Testecleese: Dude, I turned 18!
• 1:16:39
  Testecleese: I went out, first thing I did is I went to the post office, and I registered for the draft, and I was proud to do it, right?
• 1:16:44
  Brian McFadden: Yeah, huh?
• 1:16:45
  Testecleese: And then I went to the convenience store, and I bought a cigar and a Playboy. Nice.
• 1:16:51
  Brian McFadden: Yeah, because you could do that then, back then.
• 1:16:52
  Testecleese: Yeah, I was like, I'm gonna get me a cigar, I'm gonna smoke a cigar and dig through this Playboy and find out why everyone loves it so much. Which…
• 1:16:59
  Brian McFadden: The articles.
• 1:17:01
  Testecleese: Honestly, if you wanted pornography, you'd be doing better than Playboy. You know what I mean?
• 1:17:05
  Brian McFadden: No, no, yeah.
• 1:17:07
  Brian McFadden: And that's amazing.
• 1:17:07
  Testecleese: Because I read it, I was like, some of this stuff is fun, it's okay, like, it's neat.
• 1:17:12
  Testecleese: Actually, remember China from the WWF? WWE?
• 1:17:16
  Brian McFadden: Yeah,
• 1:17:17
  Testecleese: Big John… big monster woman.
• 1:17:18
  Brian McFadden: No, of course.
• 1:17:19
  Testecleese: She was the centerfold in that month's issue.
• 1:17:27
  Testecleese: God, why!
• 1:17:32
  Testecleese: I still have it somewhere. But yeah, if you wanted porn, there was better stuff to buy for porn, and if you wanted to read Cool Argos, there was some fun stuff in there, but it was…
• 1:17:42
  Testecleese: too, like, too much like The New Yorker. Like, I liked when Maxim Magazine was around. There were, like, bathing suit models in it, occasionally, and, like, occasional pictures or whatever. Like, a spread in every issue. But then, like, I don't know, I learned how to roll a frickin' joint with Maxim Magazine. It was one of the articles, like, how to roll a joint.
• 1:18:00
  Brian McFadden: Yeah, she said.
• 1:18:01
  Testecleese: joint, not a cigarette. And I was like, oh, cool!
• 1:18:05
  Testecleese: my mom hated that magazine. She's like, here's your porno! I'm like, have you opened it? It's not a porno. I was like, there's no nudity!
• 1:18:13
  Brian McFadden: Close enough for her.
• 1:18:15
  Brian McFadden: I was like.
• 1:18:16
  Testecleese: Here's a four-page article how to change the timing in your engine, you know what I mean?
• 1:18:24
  Testecleese: This is… this is… I don't know what this means, dude. Russia.
• 1:18:29
  Brian McFadden: Oh, yeah, I put… I shared this article. Basically, it's an aluminum…
• 1:18:34
  Brian McFadden: It's an aluminum factory, they make cans. Yes.
• 1:18:38
  Brian McFadden: And it's American well-owned, it's American-owned, and they decided that even though all the other American businesses diversified and left and got the hell out of Dodge.
• 1:18:51
  Brian McFadden: They weren't impressed with the money that people were offering them to sell, so they decided to try to stick it out.
• 1:18:59
  Testecleese: Yeah, but now Putin went and seized the company?
• 1:19:02
  Brian McFadden: Yep.
• 1:19:05
  Brian McFadden: Using the profits from the company to pay for the war. Help pay for the war, yeah.
• 1:19:10
  Testecleese: Are we…
• 1:19:13
  Brian McFadden: This would be…
• 1:19:14
  Testecleese: Excuse me.
• 1:19:14
  Brian McFadden: And it… this would be a claim…
• 1:19:17
  Brian McFadden: That would be addressed after the ceasefire happens, and after, you know, the negotiations happened, to get this company back in proper control of the people that really own it.
• 1:19:30
  Brian McFadden: And it's…
• 1:19:30
  Testecleese: Yeah, I guess.
• 1:19:31
  Brian McFadden: Well, this is the same kind of deal we got with… same kind of problem we got with Cuba, you know? It's like, we got all these all-American companies that have claims on businesses that they have not had control of in Cuba for the last 30 years, you know?
• 1:19:45
  Testecleese: same issue we had in Venezuela, and look at what happened in Venezuela. Look what's going on in Cuba. Apparently, we're getting ready to literally invade Cuba?
• 1:19:55
  Testecleese: Wow!
• 1:19:57
  Testecleese: But why?
• 1:19:58
  Brian McFadden: Who said that?
• 1:19:59
  Testecleese: Oh, it's, like, it's in here somewhere, actually, I think. No, no. No, maybe not.
• 1:20:07
  Testecleese: I read somewhere…
• 1:20:09
  Brian McFadden: Try to…
• 1:20:09
  Testecleese: something.
• 1:20:10
  Brian McFadden: down on the articles I shared last… from last week, because…
• 1:20:13
  Brian McFadden: I didn't want to do another 4-hour show.
• 1:20:19
  Testecleese: But yeah, I saw something that was.
• 1:20:21
  Brian McFadden: Because I don't know how many people… we don't have that many listeners, and I don't know how many people actually listen for a whole 4 hours.
• 1:20:27
  Testecleese: I don't know how many people listened to the whole show anyway, I got a feeling they listened to the first frickin'…
• 1:20:31
  Testecleese: bit. And that's the thing, is we always… the big topic's always, like, next to last.
• 1:20:37
  Brian McFadden: We even…
• 1:20:37
  Testecleese: I say.
• 1:20:38
  Brian McFadden: We may need to switch that around.
• 1:20:41
  Testecleese: Yeah, so we'll get people to listen for the what's going on in Iran stuff, instead of having to get all the way down to here.
• 1:20:47
  Testecleese: But… Jake Carney!
• 1:20:53
  Brian McFadden: The Prime Minister of Canada?
• 1:20:56
  Testecleese: Yes. He's claiming that they are meeting… that Canadians are meeting the NATO spending requirements,
• 1:21:05
  Testecleese: What… isn't that Trump's doing?
• 1:21:08
  Brian McFadden: Yeah, the 2% rule? Yeah.
• 1:21:09
  Testecleese: Yeah.
• 1:21:10
  Brian McFadden: But the facts say differently that they are not doing it.
• 1:21:17
  Brian McFadden: They've done decades without meeting it, and all of a sudden they're meeting it? Is that what this article's about?
• 1:21:23
  Testecleese: That's what they're saying, is that they went ahead and changed something.
• 1:21:26
  Testecleese: But, I mean, why… why… if you only had to put in 2%, everyone was gonna do it for national defense.
• 1:21:33
  Testecleese: they…
• 1:21:34
  Brian McFadden: They've only done it one year, 2025.
• 1:21:38
  Testecleese: Oh, there you go, there you go, one year.
• 1:21:39
  Brian McFadden: in place.
• 1:21:42
  Testecleese: Since what?
• 1:21:43
  Brian McFadden: So I wouldn't hold my breath on them keeping it up, you know?
• 1:21:47
  Testecleese: I don't know, Trump's threatening to leave NATO because nobody wants to frickin' participate.
• 1:21:52
  Brian McFadden: You know, I…
• 1:21:55
  Brian McFadden: I'm torn with this concept, because, you know, I've dealt with NATO troops, I've done NATO exercises.
• 1:22:02
  Brian McFadden: I understand the importance of it, but… At the same time…
• 1:22:07
  Brian McFadden: I'm tired of being the world's policeman and paying for… paying for, you know, everybody's defense.
• 1:22:15
  Testecleese: Yeah, the world police is a different thing that most people don't realize. That's based on the petrol dollar… petrol dollar.
• 1:22:21
  Testecleese: We agreed to keep the, oceans… the, the passageways, the trade routes clear.
• 1:22:28
  Testecleese: so that oil could be moved, and in exchange, the world would use the American dollar to buy oil. Therefore, the American dollar would never be.
• 1:22:35
  Brian McFadden: Yeah, but thanks to Iraq, that's not working. They're not doing it anymore.
• 1:22:40
  Testecleese: Wonderful.
• 1:22:40
  Brian McFadden: To move to different currencies for that.
• 1:22:43
  Testecleese: Well, some did. Saudi Arabia dropped it, but they're still using American dollars. They'll accept other money, but they're still asking for American dollars. And here's what's fascinating. The three biggest oil producers are, what, Saudi…
• 1:22:57
  Testecleese: Saudi… something… ExxonMobil, And,
• 1:23:04
  Testecleese: Oh, shit, what's the Russian one? Basically, the biggest oil companies in the world are United States, Saudi Arabia, and Russia.
• 1:23:12
  Brian McFadden: Okay.
• 1:23:13
  Testecleese: And… Trump got together with these guys and said, hey, we control the world's oil.
• 1:23:19
  Testecleese: Let's control their economy, too.
• 1:23:22
  Testecleese: And I got a feeling these guys all said, yeah, let's do it, and that's what's going on right now. That's also why… that's also why Trump was talking about taking Canada, right?
• 1:23:32
  Brian McFadden: Huh.
• 1:23:32
  Testecleese: Because there's more untapped oil up there. Greenland is untapped, and is gonna secure the passageways up north.
• 1:23:40
  Brian McFadden: Yeah.
• 1:23:41
  Testecleese: And Venezuela!
• 1:23:43
  Brian McFadden: Yeah.
• 1:23:45
  Brian McFadden: And damn it, I was just gonna say.
• 1:23:47
  Testecleese: Well, we just shut down… we just shut down the Middle East from moving oil in or out.
• 1:23:53
  Brian McFadden: We're about to… we're about to start exporting oil out of the United States to all these countries that can't get it from… because of the Straits of Hormuz.
• 1:24:01
  Testecleese: It's already in progress. Normally, this next month, we get… we average 4 super tankers in the month.
• 1:24:10
  Testecleese: there's already over 7 times as many on order to come out of the United States, because it can't come from the Middle East.
• 1:24:16
  Testecleese: China's getting 50% of their energy from the Middle East.
• 1:24:21
  Testecleese: And that gets…
• 1:24:22
  Brian McFadden: for American businesses.
• 1:24:24
  Testecleese: Yes, it is, and China's weakening.
• 1:24:27
  Testecleese: Because what, China? Does anyone remember? China said 2027 was the year that they were finally gonna be ready to take Taiwan back.
• 1:24:34
  Brian McFadden: Well, they haven't done it yet.
• 1:24:36
  Testecleese: It's not 2027 yet, but also, if we set him back 5 years, Because of,
• 1:24:43
  Testecleese: there's an energy crisis, and then, all of a sudden, they can get energy, but now they have to buy it from the Americans, who are obviously gonna put it straight into the military. It almost…
• 1:24:54
  Testecleese: Almost seems like this was all set up in advance, to weaken China, And… increase the American, capabilities.
• 1:25:08
  Brian McFadden: Huh.
• 1:25:09
  Testecleese: Which, I'm still a little confused what's going on with Cuba, I don't understand why we give a fuck what's going on in Cuba, honestly.
• 1:25:15
  Brian McFadden: It's so close to the U.S.
• 1:25:17
  Testecleese: Are they genuinely afraid that Russia's gonna put missiles down there?
• 1:25:21
  Brian McFadden: Rush has tried to do it before.
• 1:25:24
  Testecleese: Yeah, the Cuban Missile Crisis. That was Canada, right?
• 1:25:27
  Brian McFadden: Yeah.
• 1:25:29
  Brian McFadden: Yeah.
• 1:25:31
  Testecleese: Yeah, hmm…
• 1:25:33
  Testecleese: I mean, I guess at least if we go in and do something now, at least it won't be another Bay of Pigs, right?
• 1:25:39
  Brian McFadden: Right, and there's, you know… Cuba has the potential to be a huge tourism draw.
• 1:25:46
  Brian McFadden: of the world, you know? That used to be where all the rich people in the U.S. flew down to Cuba to, you know, vacation and to party and stuff.
• 1:25:56
  Testecleese: Yeah, and it brought tons of money into Cuba until the communists took over.
• 1:25:59
  Brian McFadden: Yeah.
• 1:26:01
  Testecleese: All they had to do was friggin'…
• 1:26:04
  Testecleese: shake their heads real good, like they're getting out of the pool, and go, alright, let's get back on with the world, and I'm certain, certain they'll be a thriving, country.
• 1:26:15
  Testecleese: Yeah. They're a joke. They're military? Are you kidding me?
• 1:26:20
  Brian McFadden: They've been reliant on China and Russia all these years, and Venezuela, for their support.
• 1:26:28
  Testecleese: Well, let's be real, what's their army, like, 40 guys with pellet guns?
• 1:26:32
  Brian McFadden: Probably.
• 1:26:34
  Testecleese: I've never even heard of a Cuban Navy. Do they have one? They must, right?
• 1:26:38
  Brian McFadden: It's gotta be, like…
• 1:26:41
  Brian McFadden: a tiny little Navy. I mean, our… our Navy forces in Cuba are probably more than their Navy forces are.
• 1:26:48
  Testecleese: Probably, yeah.
• 1:26:50
  Testecleese: Probably… you're probably right, actually. Just what we have in Cuba right now is probably more than everything they have together.
• 1:26:57
  Testecleese: But, as I was saying, Trump was talking about taking all these things that are big.
• 1:27:02
  Testecleese: Oil reserves that aren't being tapped, And now, meanwhile.
• 1:27:07
  Testecleese: the United States, Denmark, and Greenland are…
• 1:27:10
  Testecleese: Apparently on a, quote, good trajectory about Trump taking control of Greenland.
• 1:27:15
  Testecleese: with the talks.
• 1:27:18
  Testecleese: So, I mean…
• 1:27:20
  Brian McFadden: And this is a topic that kind of fell off the face of the earth, you know, with Iran and everything going on, you know. Everybody kind of forgotten about Trump wanting to purchase Greenland.
• 1:27:31
  Testecleese: Yes.
• 1:27:36
  Brian McFadden: See, let's be realistic here. I bet you, if there was a poll taken, or an election taken in Greenland.
• 1:27:43
  Brian McFadden: They'd rather be U.S. citizens of some sort compared to being part of Denmark.
• 1:27:49
  Testecleese: they've done this, actually, and they did say they wanted to be U.S. citizens, and here's the crazy thing is, they're talking about
• 1:27:55
  Testecleese: the United States controlling Greenland, but they're… it not being the United States, which would mean they were still Danish.
• 1:28:02
  Brian McFadden: Yeah.
• 1:28:04
  Testecleese: So don't… don't get the privileges of being an American.
• 1:28:08
  Brian McFadden: No. Yeah.
• 1:28:11
  Testecleese: What the fuck this… what the fuck is… Denmark doing with Greenland anyway?
• 1:28:16
  Brian McFadden: Absolutely nothing.
• 1:28:18
  Testecleese: Something like…
• 1:28:19
  Brian McFadden: What are they doing with Denmark?
• 1:28:21
  Brian McFadden: Nothing.
• 1:28:22
  Testecleese: That's a good point, actually. They're definitely not helping out, in NATO.
• 1:28:29
  Brian McFadden: Maybe they want to keep Greenland so they can… import,
• 1:28:33
  Brian McFadden: immigration, people from… that overflow into Denmark with, to Greenland.
• 1:28:41
  Testecleese: Very good impression.
• 1:28:42
  Brian McFadden: on the island.
• 1:28:44
  Testecleese: That would be great if the United States took all these illegals and just dumped them off in Greenland.
• 1:28:49
  Testecleese: There's… here you go, guys. Tons of room. There's, like, 6,400 people or something like that, that live in Greenland, that giant island?
• 1:28:58
  Brian McFadden: I mean, look at how Australia got started, you know?
• 1:29:01
  Testecleese: actual criminals.
• 1:29:03
  Brian McFadden: Yep.
• 1:29:04
  Testecleese: Which is why I'm still surprised they didn't get… when we revolted, it would have been the perfect time for Australia to do the same thing.
• 1:29:10
  Testecleese: Because there's no way…
• 1:29:12
  Brian McFadden: a revolve.
• 1:29:13
  Testecleese: I… no, definitely not now, but I thought if anyone else was gonna, it would have been Australia, because of their history. But they're like, no, no, no, no, we like our king.
• 1:29:23
  Testecleese: and I still get a giggle every time I watch these Canadians doing No Kings protests.
• 1:29:29
  Testecleese: There's a hand.
• 1:29:30
  Brian McFadden: Trump, I'm like, I'm like.
• 1:29:31
  Testecleese: First of all, you're Canadian, not an American, so Trump doesn't.
• 1:29:34
  Brian McFadden: And you have that much to you.
• 1:29:35
  Testecleese: And you have a king!
• 1:29:40
  Testecleese: You know, we actually went and looked this up, because everyone says the king has no real authority. Didn't the king friggin' dissolve the government, the parliament in Canada in, like, the 80s or something? Or the 90s?
• 1:29:52
  Testecleese: I remember we definitely talked about this before, I was like, no, no, the king actually does have authority, especially in wartime. Like, oh, they need the Inspector General. I was like, yeah, who fucking is the right hand of the king?
• 1:30:02
  Brian McFadden: That's what I think… I think that's what Ron said, you know, it's like, basically…
• 1:30:08
  Brian McFadden: he really only has authority of all the different territories during wartime, you know? He can force them
• 1:30:16
  Brian McFadden: If he decides to go to war.
• 1:30:18
  Testecleese: Like, oh, well, that's just a.
• 1:30:19
  Brian McFadden: They all have…
• 1:30:20
  Testecleese: Not the common…
• 1:30:20
  Brian McFadden: They all have to come and support him.
• 1:30:24
  Testecleese: Which is interesting, does that mean if England declares, will they have to get involved, or is this only a defensive pact?
• 1:30:30
  Testecleese: Like NATO.
• 1:30:31
  Brian McFadden: They declare war.
• 1:30:32
  Testecleese: So if England decided they were gonna take France, because they've been such good friends historically…
• 1:30:41
  Testecleese: Australia, in theory, would have to show up to invade… to.
• 1:30:45
  Brian McFadden: Yup.
• 1:30:45
  Testecleese: re-invade Normandy?
• 1:30:47
  Brian McFadden: Yep, yep.
• 1:30:49
  Testecleese: Could you imagine if that happened, like, Trump would just look at it and be like, no fucking way are we getting involved in that?
• 1:30:55
  Testecleese: You guys…
• 1:30:55
  Brian McFadden: I thought we would, though.
• 1:30:57
  Testecleese: I don't know, it depends on why they were going into France, but it's like, you guys didn't give a shit about helping out in Iran.
• 1:31:02
  Brian McFadden: True, that's true, that's true.
• 1:31:04
  Testecleese: And what's funny is all of the neighboring nations are all involved helping. The Eastern European nations, like Uzbekistan and, Poland even.
• 1:31:15
  Testecleese: are all on board, and they're actually dumping money into NATO.
• 1:31:19
  Brian McFadden: Right.
• 1:31:20
  Testecleese: It's these friggin' Western European nations, like England, France, Spain…
• 1:31:26
  Testecleese: It's almost like they want to turn power over to China.
• 1:31:31
  Brian McFadden: Yeah.
• 1:31:33
  Testecleese: And I actually think that the Democrats were trying to do that for a long time. I think that was… not even Democrats, I think the Uniparty was trying to do that for a long time here, and that's why we had so many wealthy politicians and just wealthy, connected people
• 1:31:46
  Testecleese: investing so heavily in China.
• 1:31:48
  Brian McFadden: I know.
• 1:31:49
  Testecleese: They were gonna live as kings after our economy fell to the… fell to its knees.
• 1:31:54
  Testecleese: Fuck, do you see Obama tried to do that Trans-Pacific Partnership, remember that shit?
• 1:31:59
  Brian McFadden: Yeah.
• 1:32:00
  Testecleese: Like, China to be able to sue you if they don't like the business you did with their citizens. It's like, Trump was like, no, no, that's right in the trash.
• 1:32:10
  Testecleese: Ugh.
• 1:32:11
  Testecleese: Alright, the Eisenhower!
• 1:32:14
  Testecleese: The carrier, the Eisenhower, had a fire.
• 1:32:17
  Testecleese: What's go… what's going on? Why so many fi… why so many fires?
• 1:32:23
  Brian McFadden: Who knows? We don't have a whole lot of details on this.
• 1:32:27
  Testecleese: No, they never tell you what's going on.
• 1:32:29
  Brian McFadden: Not that much, but…
• 1:32:30
  Brian McFadden: But 8 sailors were injured in the fire. They said that between the shipyard fire department and the Eisenhower, you know.
• 1:32:40
  Brian McFadden: Fire people.
• 1:32:42
  Brian McFadden: The fire was put out pretty quickly, but ape sailors were hurt, probably smoke inhalation type thing.
• 1:32:51
  Testecleese: Probably, and this was in the shipyard?
• 1:32:52
  Brian McFadden: I don't really know. It was in the shipyard, yes, in Portsmouth.
• 1:32:57
  Testecleese: How many, how many do we have over there? Didn't the, the Reagan just go into port because of a fire?
• 1:33:05
  Brian McFadden: The Reagan is overseas, still.
• 1:33:08
  Testecleese: Alright, maybe…
• 1:33:08
  Brian McFadden: It's in a foreign… it's in… the… the Reagan with the laundry room fire is in, Crete.
• 1:33:17
  Brian McFadden: Too bad.
• 1:33:18
  Testecleese: I've been to Suda Bay.
• 1:33:21
  Testecleese: It is… oh my god, dude, if you ever get the chance…
• 1:33:26
  Testecleese: Go check out Greece. Crete was amazing.
• 1:33:30
  Testecleese: It was… I met a parrot there,
• 1:33:35
  Testecleese: I was… I went out with a…
• 1:33:38
  Testecleese: a couple people, whatever, for lunch, and this dude sitting down at the little outdoor cafe, which, by the way, I'm sure you've noticed, most of the world doesn't have AC, that's why they eat outside.
• 1:33:48
  Brian McFadden: Yeah.
• 1:33:49
  Testecleese: Because it gets too hot inside. These motherfuckers saying everything should be free. You have air conditioning, you know?
• 1:33:55
  Brian McFadden: Right? Yeah.
• 1:33:56
  Testecleese: Like, the entire nation of Greece doesn't have air conditioning.
• 1:34:01
  Brian McFadden: Well, most of Europe doesn't. That's why they… typically, like in France, they take…
• 1:34:05
  Brian McFadden: 4 to 6 weeks off during the middle of summer and go elsewhere.
• 1:34:09
  Testecleese: Yeah.
• 1:34:10
  Brian McFadden: Great for productivity of the country.
• 1:34:14
  Testecleese: Yeah, and what's crazy is fucking… okay, Florida. You've been to Florida, right?
• 1:34:19
  Brian McFadden: Yeah, of course.
• 1:34:20
  Testecleese: Okay. Hot as the devil's asshole after chili night, right?
• 1:34:24
  Brian McFadden: Yep, it's all human, too.
• 1:34:26
  Testecleese: Oh, human is a motherfucker, because it's literally a swamp. But these motherfuckers get out there and shingle roofs in the sun!
• 1:34:33
  Testecleese: You know?
• 1:34:35
  Brian McFadden: Bill's gotta get paid!
• 1:34:36
  Testecleese: In August!
• 1:34:41
  Testecleese: Yeah, and you got these… exactly. These other places, like, oh no, we're gonna take a month off, we're gonna take 2 months off, or we're gonna… we're gonna take 3 hours off every day in the hot heat of the day. It's like, no wonder why nothing's fucking getting done.
• 1:34:56
  Brian McFadden: Yep. Like the siestas in Spain.
• 1:35:01
  Testecleese: That's exactly what I was talking about, like, we're gonna take, like, 2 or 3 hours off in the middle of the day, because it's hot.
• 1:35:05
  Testecleese: And no, it doesn't mean a nap. I know everyone assumes it's a nap. It just means time off. You go back to work after. You can take a nap if you want, but you could also go play cards.
• 1:35:16
  Brian McFadden: But in Europe, a lot of people do take the NAS, because you don't typically eat dinner until, like, 10 o'clock at night in European countries.
• 1:35:24
  Testecleese: Yeah, I've been arguing with the wife about that a lot, because she likes to eat later. We started eating later when we were enlisted.
• 1:35:31
  Brian McFadden: I… we eat at, like, 5, 6 o'clock on average here, you know.
• 1:35:36
  Testecleese: Growing up, it was 5 o'clock, On the nose, every day.
• 1:35:41
  Testecleese: My father got home from work at 4.30, within a half hour, dinner was on the table, right?
• 1:35:45
  Testecleese: Yup.
• 1:35:47
  Testecleese: Well, my dad's older, and he.
• 1:35:50
  Brian McFadden: He's ready to go to bed at, like… and, you know, because he's not comfortable in the wheelchair, so…
• 1:35:57
  Brian McFadden: We try to… we're having dinner about 5, 6 o'clock at the latest around here, so…
• 1:36:02
  Testecleese: Well, we were getting used to, like, 7 or 8.
• 1:36:05
  Testecleese: And the kids, I keep trying to explain to her, like, we can't eat.
• 1:36:08
  Brian McFadden: Jim.
• 1:36:08
  Testecleese: Yeah, I was like, 8 o'clock is bedtime!
• 1:36:12
  Testecleese: I was like, and if we feed her at 7,
• 1:36:15
  Testecleese: That's just not enough time after dinner, you know?
• 1:36:19
  Brian McFadden: Yeah.
• 1:36:21
  Testecleese: So, yeah, I've taken over most of the, cooking duties.
• 1:36:26
  Testecleese: to me, you know, I just don't want the girl… I just don't want her to eat, and then go right to bed, because then, like, that food just sits there, you know what I mean?
• 1:36:35
  Testecleese: Okay.
• 1:36:37
  Testecleese: The Straight of Hormuz.
• 1:36:39
  Brian McFadden: Yep.
• 1:36:40
  Testecleese: What the fuck is going on? This changed, like, 4 times during this week.
• 1:36:46
  Testecleese: Iran closed it, then we opened it up, and then we blockaded it, and then we opened it up. What's going on right now? Is the blockade.
• 1:36:56
  Brian McFadden: Right now, as of this moment, Before we started the show,
• 1:37:02
  Brian McFadden: The U.S. Navy is not allowing any ships in and out of Iranian ports.
• 1:37:10
  Testecleese: Okay.
• 1:37:11
  Testecleese: So what else is.
• 1:37:12
  Brian McFadden: Whereas… whereas…
• 1:37:16
  Brian McFadden: international ships that just want to transit through are allowed in and out because Iran says they've opened it up. But we're not allowing any of the shadow tankers
• 1:37:29
  Brian McFadden: in and out of Iran ports.
• 1:37:33
  Brian McFadden: And a couple of them tried to leave.
• 1:37:35
  Brian McFadden: We couple them, tried to leave, and we shipped them right on back to port. Otherwise, they're gonna get blown up.
• 1:37:42
  Testecleese: Well, yeah, I guess I heard a lot of people saying the Chinese just went right through the blockade. That's actually not what happened.
• 1:37:49
  Testecleese: The Chinese sent two ships through and got turned around.
• 1:37:52
  Testecleese: Right. I don't know why people keep saying, oh, they broke the blockade. They went… they went out one side and came back right through. It's like, no, they got turned around when they got to the other side by United States Navy destroyers, you know? Did you hear the frickin' message they're blasting out?
• 1:38:08
  Brian McFadden: No.
• 1:38:09
  Testecleese: I think it's in one of these.
• 1:38:09
  Brian McFadden: You got a recording?
• 1:38:11
  Testecleese: I think there is, in one of these articles, it's… I don't even know which one, though, it's…
• 1:38:16
  Testecleese: But, I mean… It's…
• 1:38:19
  Testecleese: Oh, here we go, it might be under effective immediately. Because this was after, allegedly, Iran said that they were gonna sink all of our ships.
• 1:38:27
  Testecleese: And Trump was like.
• 1:38:28
  Brian McFadden: Yeah, and, you know, that was… I thought that was hilarious, too. It's like, Iran said, we're gonna sink your ships with what? They don't got nothing to sink our ships with! And take thousands of hands and houses.
• 1:38:39
  Testecleese: Yeah, they got some, Maybe it's not in this article, whatever.
• 1:38:44
  Testecleese: Pentagon and Congress isn't very helpful.
• 1:38:47
  Testecleese: But yeah, like, would they have some fast attack boats left, everything else got destroyed, and everyone's like, they still got fast attack!
• 1:38:53
  Brian McFadden: We got rid of the… we got rid of all the ships that were dropping mines in the Strait of Hormuz, so…
• 1:38:58
  Testecleese: Do we… are we sure there were ever mines in the Hormuz Strait?
• 1:39:04
  Brian McFadden: I don't know.
• 1:39:06
  Brian McFadden: I mean, it seems like something a desperate country would do if they had monies to drop, you know?
• 1:39:13
  Testecleese: That… that's against all sorts of every rule, right? Sea mines now?
• 1:39:18
  Brian McFadden: But yeah, but they don't follow international law.
• 1:39:22
  Testecleese: Well, then how come the rest of fucking NATO didn't want to.
• 1:39:24
  Brian McFadden: There you go.
• 1:39:25
  Testecleese: Once these guys started putting sea mines down, how come fucking England didn't pull their heads out of their ass? Which is funny, because England, after we start this blockade, they come up, they're like, oh yeah, we, we're with the US on this one. It's like, fuck you! No, you don't get to take credit after all this shit's done, you know?
• 1:39:42
  Testecleese: Right. Because let's be real, what, we cut off…
• 1:39:45
  Testecleese: all oil from the Middle East, basically.
• 1:39:49
  Testecleese: So you're left with the United States, Saudi Arabia, and Russia basically to buy oil from, and you're not allowed to…
• 1:39:54
  Brian McFadden: as well,
• 1:39:55
  Testecleese: oil.
• 1:39:57
  Brian McFadden: In Venezuela.
• 1:39:58
  Testecleese: Who controls the oil in Venezuela?
• 1:40:01
  Brian McFadden: Venezuela.
• 1:40:02
  Testecleese: No.
• 1:40:04
  Testecleese: No, we signed contracts years ago, and that's actually why we went and got Maduro, so we could take the oil back.
• 1:40:10
  Testecleese: And that's exactly the thing.
• 1:40:15
  Testecleese: Yeah, and what you're not allowed to buy Russian oil right now. There's, like, a 5-day window where you're allowed to.
• 1:40:21
  Brian McFadden: Huh.
• 1:40:24
  Testecleese: Jeez, and look at all of a sudden, we're gonna start churning oil out and selling it to the world, why not?
• 1:40:32
  Testecleese: And anyone who's dumb enough to say something like,
• 1:40:37
  Testecleese: We don't need more fossil fuels! Well, then shut the fuck up on this whole thing, because we just shut off, like…
• 1:40:44
  Testecleese: A quarter of the world's fucking fossil fuels, okay?
• 1:40:49
  Brian McFadden: Yeah.
• 1:40:52
  Testecleese: But yeah, oh my god, like I was saying, Trump kept saying out that, oh, negotiations are great. It's like, now we gotta do… I just… I don't know, everything seems backwards, and maybe… maybe he fell…
• 1:41:05
  Testecleese: Slipped on a banana peel, did a perfect backflip, and just kept failing upwards.
• 1:41:11
  Testecleese: But it seems like if you look at all the chess pieces on the board, that the United States is in a great position right now.
• 1:41:18
  Brian McFadden: Yeah.
• 1:41:20
  Testecleese: Shoot.
• 1:41:21
  Brian McFadden: So it almost feels like… When everybody's playing checkers, Trump's playing chess.
• 1:41:27
  Testecleese: Yeah, well, I mean, what, Iran went ahead and blew up Qatar's freaking natural gas… faci- mining.
• 1:41:36
  Testecleese: Because we weren't… we weren't gonna blow up an ally, but hey, look, you just destroyed a bunch of the natural gas, and now they're gonna buy our natural gas.
• 1:41:43
  Testecleese: israel blew up a whole bunch of Iranian oil and natural gas, and Trump was like, what are you doing? That's what we want!
• 1:41:53
  Testecleese: Israel, I think, is the real wild card here.
• 1:41:57
  Testecleese: I think it all depends… ultimately, it comes down to what Israel does, because…
• 1:42:03
  Testecleese: it seems like they don't care that Iran can't do anything anymore, they're just gonna keep Blown shit up.
• 1:42:10
  Brian McFadden: Yep.
• 1:42:13
  Testecleese: I get it, I guess.
• 1:42:20
  Testecleese: Oh, yeah, dude, you shared this.
• 1:42:24
  Testecleese: Iran… has got a UN seat? Did they before?
• 1:42:30
  Brian McFadden: Yeah, yeah, because nobody… we were the only country that objected to them becoming chairman of this…
• 1:42:37
  Brian McFadden: I think it's the Human Relations Committee, or Human… yeah, it's something stupid where they should not be in charge of, but…
• 1:42:46
  Brian McFadden: But, they got backing from the UK, France, Canada, Australia, and we stood alone.
• 1:42:52
  Brian McFadden: And… It is, which committee?
• 1:42:58
  Testecleese: That's because.
• 1:42:59
  Brian McFadden: The United Nations Economic and Social Council.
• 1:43:03
  Brian McFadden: It's a 54-member body that… Well, fuck me.
• 1:43:10
  Testecleese: I'd rather not.
• 1:43:12
  Brian McFadden: It is, I know, but I had… the audio started playing again.
• 1:43:18
  Brian McFadden: So I had… luckily, I found where the tab was quickly. But, yeah, this is a 54-member body that plays a central role in shaping UN policy and staffing committees on human rights abuses. So Iran should definitely be in charge of this committee.
• 1:43:35
  Testecleese: Didn't they just hang on 18.
• 1:43:37
  Brian McFadden: Millions of people, they were trying to kill off all the people that were protesting in the streets. It was only…
• 1:43:44
  Testecleese: I'm just saying, they publicly execute…
• 1:43:45
  Brian McFadden: We're all over again!
• 1:43:48
  Testecleese: Yeah, but I'm just saying they publicly ex… strung this kid up.
• 1:43:52
  Testecleese: And it's like, yes, you're right, they are… they should be making the decisions on what's humanitarian, you're right.
• 1:43:58
  Brian McFadden: Right.
• 1:44:00
  Testecleese: God.
• 1:44:01
  Testecleese: Isn't this, isn't this the name?
• 1:44:03
  Brian McFadden: The UN is… the UN is useless, too. I mean, I wouldn't… I would love it if the United States kicked the UN out of New York City.
• 1:44:13
  Brian McFadden: And just said, go find another country to have your headquarters in, and then pull out of the UN altogether.
• 1:44:20
  Brian McFadden: Pull out.
• 1:44:21
  Testecleese: even better, pull out a UN, and then when they say, well, what about our thing? And you're like, get the fuck out, you don't belong here, none of you have, permission to be in our country.
• 1:44:30
  Brian McFadden: Yeah. I mean, there's an Iranian… the Iranian representative of the UN, he's here now! He's in the United States because he's part of the UN!
• 1:44:40
  Testecleese: Isn't, one of those nations, I think it's Iran.
• 1:44:45
  Testecleese: They're anti-homosexual, but not anti-trans.
• 1:44:50
  Brian McFadden: And by that, I'm…
• 1:44:52
  Testecleese: Well, I think it is Iran. Iran will force you into… gender-changing service.
• 1:44:59
  Brian McFadden: Where was the country that…
• 1:45:00
  Testecleese: You're homosexual.
• 1:45:01
  Brian McFadden: There are no homosexuals in their country.
• 1:45:03
  Testecleese: Because they turned the gay man into a woman.
• 1:45:08
  Testecleese: I'm pretty sure that's what they did.
• 1:45:10
  Testecleese: And if you wouldn't concede, wouldn't take the surgery, I'm pretty sure it was a run anyway, then they would execute you.
• 1:45:19
  Testecleese: Jeez, I mean, what does… what does Allah think of,
• 1:45:23
  Testecleese: these trans surgeries and the homosexuality, you know?
• 1:45:27
  Brian McFadden: Alright.
• 1:45:28
  Testecleese: Because, I mean, these guys are hardcore Muslims, not your, not your Christmas and Easter Christian you find here in the United States, you know?
• 1:45:36
  Brian McFadden: No, -
• 1:45:41
  Testecleese: Jeez Louise.
• 1:45:43
  Testecleese: But yeah, I'm still a little confused what's gonna be going on with Iran. It… is it actually over…
• 1:45:50
  Testecleese: Apparently, the dude who's in charge now has been, in a coma since this whole thing started.
• 1:45:57
  Testecleese: It…
• 1:45:59
  Testecleese: I don't know what you do. I mean, maybe you just have to get them to exhaust their weapons and make sure they don't get more?
• 1:46:06
  Testecleese: But, I mean, I don't want to send in…
• 1:46:09
  Testecleese: 10,000 Marines, because that's just gonna be a mess.
• 1:46:13
  Testecleese: Alright. Brian is busy doing something.
• 1:46:18
  Testecleese: Oh, this is an interesting story, in our leftover section.
• 1:46:23
  Testecleese: some parents… They're being charged with murder in Indiana.
• 1:46:30
  Testecleese: Their, their toddler had starved to death in a filthy, filthy room.
• 1:46:36
  Testecleese: Mind you, the rest of the house was actually clean.
• 1:46:39
  Testecleese: So it's not like they just had a…
• 1:46:41
  Testecleese: They were just dirty or messy people. This is just for the baby.
• 1:46:45
  Testecleese: And the baby in it, apparently, 8 diapers?
• 1:46:51
  Testecleese: Alright, ate his diapers and the drywall.
• 1:46:54
  Testecleese: Because the baby was so hungry and still starved to death, and these parents are… Yes, they should go to prison forever, and possibly be executed.
• 1:47:04
  Brian McFadden: I would… I would totally agree with that.
• 1:47:08
  Testecleese: You know anything about this,
• 1:47:10
  Testecleese: Ohio gubernatorial Democrat candidate here, Amy Acton.
• 1:47:17
  Testecleese: Apparently.
• 1:47:17
  Brian McFadden: No, I think this was, array share. But basically, they're, they're finding…
• 1:47:25
  Brian McFadden: That, there was… she is, like, running for governor, and in the past, they're finding, a report of domestic abuse in the home.
• 1:47:36
  Brian McFadden: And she's the one that's being accused of the domestic abuse.
• 1:47:41
  Testecleese: Yeah, but this was, like…
• 1:47:43
  Brian McFadden: I know, decades ago. Like, a decade ago.
• 1:47:48
  Testecleese: I mean, the internet is.
• 1:47:49
  Brian McFadden: I mean, if you're gonna… if you're gonna run for…
• 1:47:52
  Brian McFadden: A high political office, you gotta be ready for the… the anal scrutiny that goes with it.
• 1:48:00
  Testecleese: Yes.
• 1:48:02
  Testecleese: Yes.
• 1:48:05
  Testecleese: It's funny you say anally, I just heard a story today of these, these… gay couple.
• 1:48:13
  Testecleese: Making fun of their, 6-month-old adopted baby, or surrogate… surrogated baby, or whatever. Because the baby was crying, mama, mama, and they were making fun of the baby, and calling the baby, homophobic.
• 1:48:27
  Testecleese: on a video they published, and what's crazy is one of these dudes, last name is McAnally.
• 1:48:35
  Testecleese: And I was like, oh, okay.
• 1:48:43
  Testecleese: Yeah, I don't know who Erica Schwartz is. I saw she had done something before, but she's the new nomination for CDC.
• 1:48:50
  Testecleese: Director, doesn't mean much to me, I don't know anything about that. Unless you know something.
• 1:49:00
  Testecleese: This next one, though, I thought was interesting.
• 1:49:02
  Testecleese: I think you shared it. Biden… introduced, some black man… It's, Syracuse.
• 1:49:13
  Brian McFadden: Josh. Do we have any…
• 1:49:15
  Testecleese: Call them Obama.
• 1:49:16
  Brian McFadden: Let me see if there's video for this.
• 1:49:19
  Testecleese: All I could think was, like, look, they all look the same, you know?
• 1:49:22
  Brian McFadden: there.
• 1:49:24
  Testecleese: Well, didn't he say something terrible about Obama when they… when Obama was running for office? Like, like, like he's clean or something like that?
• 1:49:33
  Testecleese: Or.
• 1:49:34
  Brian McFadden: The clean and well then.
• 1:49:36
  Testecleese: Yeah, clean away, it's like, what the fuck? Are you assuming that most black people are incapable of this? Like, that's the real racism, you know that, right?
• 1:49:44
  Brian McFadden: Yeah.
• 1:49:45
  Brian McFadden: I think I got… These folks, they…
• 1:49:47
  Testecleese: Oh my god.
• 1:49:49
  Brian McFadden: Let me share the screen…
• 1:49:52
  Testecleese: If there is video or audio of this, I would love to… Participate.
• 1:49:57
  Testecleese: Did you find something?
• 1:49:59
  Brian McFadden: I think so.
• 1:50:01
  Testecleese: Yeah, I saw the picture, and I was like, the guy doesn't NOT look like Obama, but it's definitely.
• 1:50:05
  Brian McFadden: Oh.
• 1:50:06
  Testecleese: Obama.
• 1:50:08
  Testecleese: Here we go.
• 1:50:09
  Audio shared by Brian McFadden: began to build my presidential library and foundation.
• 1:50:12
  Audio shared by Brian McFadden: Hope to pass down to future generations.
• 1:50:15
  Audio shared by Brian McFadden: Of reverence for democracy.
• 1:50:17
  Audio shared by Brian McFadden: And my classmates and I learned here at Syracuse.
• 1:50:21
  Audio shared by Brian McFadden: Because… Whatever, whatever my legacy may be, I hope will be said.
• 1:50:27
  Audio shared by Brian McFadden: that I never stop striving.
• 1:50:30
  Audio shared by Brian McFadden: There's a cause of democracy.
• 1:50:32
  Audio shared by Brian McFadden: And I hope…
• 1:50:33
  Brian McFadden: Blah blah blah.
• 1:50:34
  Audio shared by Brian McFadden: after I'm gone.
• 1:50:36
  Audio shared by Brian McFadden: future classes of Syracuse law students see the portrait.
• 1:50:40
  Audio shared by Brian McFadden: And they're reminded not of me.
• 1:50:42
  Audio shared by Brian McFadden: But of the greatness and power of our democracy.
• 1:50:45
  Audio shared by Brian McFadden: And of their obligation.
• 1:50:48
  Audio shared by Brian McFadden: To do their part.
• 1:50:50
  Audio shared by Brian McFadden: to preserve.
• 1:50:51
  Audio shared by Brian McFadden: protect, defend our Constitution.
• 1:50:56
  Audio shared by Brian McFadden: God bless the students of this university.
• 1:50:59
  Audio shared by Brian McFadden: God bless the United States of America.
• 1:51:02
  Audio shared by Brian McFadden: And may God protect our troops.
• 1:51:04
  Audio shared by Brian McFadden: Mr. Chairman, And, Chancellor-elect, Dean.
• 1:51:10
  Audio shared by Brian McFadden: And by the way, I always want to turn around to one guy and say, Barack, what are you doing?
• 1:51:18
  Audio shared by Brian McFadden: Come on.
• 1:51:19
  Audio shared by Brian McFadden: Come on.
• 1:51:20
  Audio shared by Brian McFadden: Come here. Come here.
• 1:51:25
  Audio shared by Brian McFadden: I feel like he should be standing on the right, and I should be standing on the left. Hey, did you try to look at Barack?
• 1:51:33
  Brian McFadden: No, not that much.
• 1:51:34
  Testecleese: No, he does not look like Varon. You are a racist, racist man.
• 1:51:39
  Brian McFadden: And we've already determined that over the years, the following…
• 1:51:44
  Brian McFadden: Vice President Biden and President Biden, you know? He was all about the racism.
• 1:51:49
  Testecleese: Yes, yes. Wasn't he the one who said he didn't want his children growing up in a jungle? An ethnic jungle?
• 1:51:56
  Testecleese: I believe we actually played that quote several times.
• 1:51:59
  Brian McFadden: Oh, yeah, with Porn Pop.
• 1:52:02
  Testecleese: Corn Pop was just trying to protect those kids, because Joe had him rubbing his legs in the pool and playing.
• 1:52:08
  Brian McFadden: Hairy legs! Hairy legs!
• 1:52:11
  Testecleese: Joe, why would you tell this story, dude? You come across like a pedophile!
• 1:52:15
  Brian McFadden: He is a pedophile! You've seen the photos of him! The grandkids don't even want to be around him, let alone the great-grandkids.
• 1:52:24
  Testecleese: sniffing random people's kids and stuff, you're like, what the fuck is the matter with you, dude?
• 1:52:29
  Brian McFadden: That's what we do as Italians!
• 1:52:32
  Testecleese: Well, oh, that's Cuomo, right? Hey, I'm Italian, what can I say? We grab ass! I'm like, what the fuck!
• 1:52:43
  Testecleese: -Oh, Brian's getting lectured about something, we'll find out here in a minute.
• 1:52:47
  Testecleese: But yeah, that was hilarious. Like, oh, we're very affectionate, we use our hands a lot, you know? And I'm like, that doesn't mean you can grab the woman's ass, dude, and you just accused all Italian men of being grab-asses.
• 1:52:59
  Testecleese: Oh, jeez. Brian's still getting lectured.
• 1:53:03
  Brian McFadden: Yep, I'm back.
• 1:53:05
  Testecleese: Yeah.
• 1:53:06
  Testecleese: I said, I can't believe you brought up the Cuomo saying, I'm Italian, it's okay to grab ass.
• 1:53:10
  Brian McFadden: Yeah, exactly.
• 1:53:14
  Testecleese: It's like, wow, that is a racist thing, too, like…
• 1:53:17
  Brian McFadden: Yeah.
• 1:53:18
  Testecleese: You said it… oh my god. And first, even if Italians do tend to grab ass more, does that make it okay because.
• 1:53:24
  Brian McFadden: No, it does not make it okay.
• 1:53:28
  Testecleese: He was the one who was grabbing fannies and killing grannies, right?
• 1:53:32
  Brian McFadden: Yup!
• 1:53:35
  Testecleese: That was a good title!
• 1:53:38
  Testecleese: And they didn't give a shit that he put all these elderly people…
• 1:53:41
  Brian McFadden: No, they didn't.
• 1:53:42
  Testecleese: Yeah, to get COVID and die, they gave a shit that he grabbed some woman's ass.
• 1:53:47
  Brian McFadden: Yeah.
• 1:53:48
  Testecleese: Oh my god.
• 1:53:51
  Testecleese: Well, this is… this is neat. Oh, I say neat. Have you seen these, they call themselves auditors?
• 1:53:57
  Testecleese: They're usually, podcasters, and by that, like, video podcasting.
• 1:54:02
  Testecleese: But they'll go out and just, like, record stuff in public.
• 1:54:05
  Brian McFadden: Huh.
• 1:54:06
  Testecleese: And if anyone gives them a hard time, the entire point is I have every right to record out in public. You have no reasonable expectation of privacy.
• 1:54:15
  Testecleese: The problem is, a lot of these guys get…
• 1:54:17
  Testecleese: Aggressive and try to start a fight.
• 1:54:20
  Testecleese: This guy picked a fight with a dude who was like, hey man, just leave me alone, which is okay.
• 1:54:28
  Testecleese: Pepper sprayed the guy, right?
• 1:54:30
  Brian McFadden: Nope.
• 1:54:32
  Testecleese: The guy was blind for, like, 5 days.
• 1:54:35
  Testecleese: Because his retinas were damaged with hydraulic needling.
• 1:54:40
  Testecleese: I'm sure you remember learning about hydraulic needle, when you went through.
• 1:54:44
  Brian McFadden: Huh.
• 1:54:45
  Testecleese: Training to carry a weapon on base, right?
• 1:54:48
  Brian McFadden: Yeah.
• 1:54:49
  Testecleese: And, yeah, and anyone who doesn't know what that is, it's the same… hydraulic needling is the same effect that we use to cut steel with water.
• 1:55:00
  Testecleese: It's just a thin, compressed stream, and it'll go right through stuff.
• 1:55:04
  Brian McFadden: Right.
• 1:55:05
  Testecleese: This guy is looking at criminal charges, he's looking at civil charges.
• 1:55:10
  Testecleese: he's… oh, he's in all sorts of trouble, and he's just some idiot running his mouth, saying, You can't tell me not to record! That's great, doesn't mean you can fucking blind people either, you know?
• 1:55:19
  Brian McFadden: No.
• 1:55:23
  Testecleese: Disney's cutting about a thousand jobs.
• 1:55:27
  Testecleese: Whatever.
• 1:55:30
  Testecleese: I wonder how many of those jobs are being replaced because of AI taking over the animation stuff.
• 1:55:39
  Testecleese: And this is crazy, 7-Eleven is gonna close, 645 American stores coming up.
• 1:55:45
  Testecleese: And they're not… Gonna close, close, they're just gonna be gas stations, no convenience store.
• 1:55:52
  Brian McFadden: So, it's gonna be, like… You pay at the pump, or you don't pay at all?
• 1:55:58
  Testecleese: Probably, there probably won't even be a person there, it'll just be open 24 hours and just run your card.
• 1:56:03
  Brian McFadden: Yeah.
• 1:56:05
  Brian McFadden: Well, that's better for 7-Eleven, profit-wise, you know, because you don't have to pay somebody to be in the store, and you don't have to worry about people stealing you blind.
• 1:56:13
  Testecleese: Yeah, the inventory disappearing, keeping it stocked.
• 1:56:18
  Testecleese: You know what I mean? But let's be real, you pull off the expressway in the middle of the night because you're on a long haul, you fill up your tank, you get yourself a free.
• 1:56:26
  Brian McFadden: Well, yeah, because there's no… that's where the money's all made, and profit-wise, you know, is inside the store. There's no, like, real profit being made on gas, it's a loss leader.
• 1:56:38
  Testecleese: Yes, and exactly, the gasoline needs to get you in the store.
• 1:56:41
  Brian McFadden: I guess 7-Eleven's thinking that, they can make profit on gas if there's no employees that they have to pay for.
• 1:56:50
  Testecleese: You can make profit on gasoline, but it's just not much.
• 1:56:54
  Testecleese: Because you can only mark it up so much, because everyone…
• 1:56:56
  Brian McFadden: I also think they've weighed the pros and cons, and they're gonna, by people not stealing them brined.
• 1:57:03
  Brian McFadden: And, you know, not having to pay the, you know, $30 an hour ages in California for minimum wage, you know, that they'll…
• 1:57:10
  Testecleese: It's just…
• 1:57:11
  Brian McFadden: That's funny.
• 1:57:11
  Testecleese: Fast food and, hotels.
• 1:57:13
  Brian McFadden: I know that, I know that, but it's going up. It's… I mean, in Virginia, it's gonna be, like, $25 in a couple of years.
• 1:57:20
  Testecleese: I know, that's insane, and… Okay, I was offered a job at Northrop Grumman.
• 1:57:27
  Testecleese: the shipyard, I applied for it. They offered me a job for 30 bucks an hour, welding together,
• 1:57:34
  Testecleese: Repairing and building warships, right?
• 1:57:38
  Testecleese: Why would I take a job at 30 bucks an hour where there's a good chance I get seriously hurt or killed if just a $5 or less
• 1:57:48
  Testecleese: paycheck.
• 1:57:50
  Testecleese: I could be folding sweaters instead at the Gap.
• 1:57:53
  Testecleese: Exactly. Like, you make your.
• 1:57:55
  Brian McFadden: They're just working. They're no coins.
• 1:57:57
  Testecleese: Yeah, yeah, why take the risk and learn this crazy skill if there's no advantage at all?
• 1:58:04
  Brian McFadden: Oh.
• 1:58:04
  Testecleese: the guys have to work longer hours, I'm probably gonna get hurt sooner or later, almost certainly gonna get burned on a regular basis, you know?
• 1:58:12
  Brian McFadden: Yep.
• 1:58:13
  Testecleese: And I could be working at…
• 1:58:15
  Testecleese: A fucking California Burger King making as much money as a fucking shipbuilder in Virginia.
• 1:58:21
  Brian McFadden: Exactly. It's insane.
• 1:58:23
  Testecleese: Yeah, so why would you do that? Why would anyone… and that's the thing these folks don't get. I brought this up here to you several times. If you increase the minimum wage, are you now increasing every other wage, too?
• 1:58:34
  Testecleese: Or…
• 1:58:35
  Brian McFadden: Eventually, it all goes up.
• 1:58:37
  Testecleese: Yeah, or did you just make your skilled labor minimum wage?
• 1:58:42
  Testecleese: And I don't wanna… yeah, I don't wanna hear anything.
• 1:58:45
  Brian McFadden: Well, I mean…
• 1:58:45
  Testecleese: I was never one.
• 1:58:46
  Brian McFadden: They're gonna be, like.
• 1:58:47
  Testecleese: scale.
• 1:58:47
  Brian McFadden: Unions have contracts, you know, so they're gonna be at that level for a few years, but eventually, they're gonna renegotiate contracts.
• 1:58:55
  Testecleese: Are you gonna demand…
• 1:58:56
  Brian McFadden: And wages above minimum wage. It's gotta be done, you know, it is what it is.
• 1:59:00
  Testecleese: Yeah, they're gonna demand it's 50% more than it already is.
• 1:59:05
  Testecleese: Because, like, again, why would I do this? Why would I go to trade school? Why would I learn how to do this stuff? Get the experience… because, let's be real, they're not just gonna hire some guy out of fucking trade school to work in the shipyard to build ships.
• 1:59:18
  Testecleese: They're gonna go to the guy with experience first, right?
• 1:59:21
  Brian McFadden: Nope.
• 1:59:22
  Testecleese: Why put all this experience in?
• 1:59:24
  Testecleese: Why do any of this?
• 1:59:28
  Testecleese: And yeah, then, exactly. Then the unions negotiate, that goes up, everything else goes up with it, and now people scream that I don't make enough money, and it's like, well, then get a real fucking job, okay? You know, like, no, making fucking Burger King burgers, making Whoppers, is not skilled labor.
• 1:59:48
  Testecleese: It's just not.
• 1:59:50
  Brian McFadden: No. It's supposed to be entry-level, as you're not supposed to be able to feed a family of five working at Burger King.
• 1:59:58
  Testecleese: No! It's supposed to be for, like, teenagers, exactly, learning… just like a paper route.
• 2:00:03
  Brian McFadden: There's no such thing anymore.
• 2:00:06
  Testecleese: No, I actually don't know anyone that actually has a paper… I did a paper route when I was a kid!
• 2:00:10
  Brian McFadden: I did too.
• 2:00:12
  Testecleese: Got a couple bucks, made… made more on tips than I got paid by the newspaper.
• 2:00:18
  Testecleese: And yeah, I walked around, like, 3 blocks in the neighborhood every morning before school.
• 2:00:24
  Testecleese: And I, you know, I was one of the handful of kids in school who actually had, like, cash, you know?
• 2:00:29
  Brian McFadden: I rode my bicycle all around the countryside delivering papers.
• 2:00:34
  Testecleese: You grew up in a little more rural than me. I had houses every… I don't…
• 2:00:40
  Testecleese: a couple hundred feet, you know what I mean?
• 2:00:42
  Brian McFadden: Yeah.
• 2:00:43
  Testecleese: And everyone there read the Patriot Ledger, which is just the local newspaper, you know?
• 2:00:50
  Testecleese: Oh, shit, I didn't set up my, share. Whoopsies.
• 2:00:54
  Brian McFadden: All good.
• 2:00:56
  Testecleese: Yeah.
• 2:00:59
  Testecleese: turd.
• 2:00:59
  Audio shared by Testecleese: She printed.
• 2:01:00
  Testecleese: What's going on?
• 2:01:01
  Audio shared by Testecleese: Okie dokie.