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Diogenes Club | E30 - The Department of Health & Human Sacrifices · Diogenes Club

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  SPEAKER_01: Good afternoon, everyone.
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  SPEAKER_01: Welcome.
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  SPEAKER_01: As you start coming on in, Eric, you need to accept your co-host invite.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's in signal.
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  SPEAKER_01: Why?
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  SPEAKER_00: Why?
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  SPEAKER_01: So people can follow you.
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  SPEAKER_01: Why?
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  SPEAKER_01: So people can follow you.
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  SPEAKER_00: So it doesn't look
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  SPEAKER_00: like it's just...
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm busy.
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  SPEAKER_01: I know.
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  SPEAKER_01: Hey, y'all.
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  SPEAKER_01: Welcome to Sick of this Shit Publications.
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  SPEAKER_01: This is the Diogenes Club.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm Nick Paro, still not your dad.
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  SPEAKER_01: Joined today, as always, by my good friend, Dr. Eric Lulove.
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  SPEAKER_01: Oh, you flubbed that already.
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  SPEAKER_00: We're not even 20 seconds.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then you screwed up my name.
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  SPEAKER_01: Oh, I forgot.
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  SPEAKER_01: I forgot.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'll give you my middle finger has a middle finger for you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Oh, okay.
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  SPEAKER_01: So we've got Dr. Eric Lulove.
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  SPEAKER_00: Dr. Lulove testicle over here, by the way.
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  SPEAKER_01: Wow.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yikes.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's swollen.
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  SPEAKER_01: Contributing medical editor at Blue Ant Media.
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  SPEAKER_01: And we're joined today by Jason O'Dell,
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  SPEAKER_01: the photographer's perspective and a friend of ours
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  SPEAKER_01: who you probably have seen him all around with different photography that he does,
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  SPEAKER_01: really beautiful images,
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  SPEAKER_01: trips that he's posted and talked about, shows that he does himself.
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  SPEAKER_01: Jason, it's good to have you.
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  SPEAKER_02: It's great to be here, guys.
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  SPEAKER_02: And I finally got all my makeup cleaned off from Monday's Latchkey Hour show.
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  SPEAKER_02: I don't know if you saw that one, but...
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  SPEAKER_02: Shayla had me in full frankenfurter mode, so that was really fun, but messy.
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  SPEAKER_00: But it was a wonderful rendition of Jim Curry, by the way.
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  SPEAKER_02: Oh, thanks.
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  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, we felt he needed a little love because,
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  SPEAKER_02: with no disrespect whatsoever to Dolly,
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  SPEAKER_02: but like when you die the next day and everyone's in full Dolly appreciation mode,
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  SPEAKER_02: he kind of got...
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  SPEAKER_02: A little bit left behind.
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  SPEAKER_02: So we just thought it was kind of important to remember him as well,
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  SPEAKER_02: because, boy, he bring us a lot of good times, you know?
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: And it's sad to see people that we respect and all treasure Grovan.
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  SPEAKER_01: There we go.
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  SPEAKER_01: Where did Eric go?
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  SPEAKER_01: There he is.
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  SPEAKER_01: Frozen over there.
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  SPEAKER_02: He's in the Matrix.
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  SPEAKER_02: It's all good.
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  SPEAKER_01: He's pixelating on us.
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  SPEAKER_00: I had like an internet glitch.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, we noticed.
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  SPEAKER_01: You just broke up on us there.
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  SPEAKER_01: But maybe you're back.
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  SPEAKER_01: I see your face moving, so I think you're back with us.
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  SPEAKER_01: So welcome, everyone.
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  SPEAKER_01: We're going to talk.
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  SPEAKER_01: About health and human sacrifices today and RFK Jr. and everything in and around as normal.
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  SPEAKER_01: We like to talk medical pieces and what's going on on the health side.
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  SPEAKER_01: Also, our good friend Naida Green in the chat has posted and I will post it again
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  SPEAKER_01: and I'll put a QR code up for it is the Say No to Crip Crow advocacy Sign up.
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  SPEAKER_01: There's a tiny URL sign up link where you can sign up to be part of the Say No
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  SPEAKER_01: to Crypt Crow effort for the advocacy campaign that's ongoing and sign up
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  SPEAKER_01: for in-person lobbying,
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  SPEAKER_01: phone banking,
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  SPEAKER_01: and meeting with your representatives and legislators so that we can codify
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  SPEAKER_01: the Curtis Wilson Act,
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  SPEAKER_01: which is The codification of
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  SPEAKER_01: Olmsted into the ADA and actually protecting
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  SPEAKER_01: and providing for disability rights and disability freedoms so
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  SPEAKER_01: that they don't get taken away and we all don't get fucked by the government harder
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  SPEAKER_01: than we need to.
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  SPEAKER_01: With that note, what's up, Eric?
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  SPEAKER_01: Now that we've got you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yes.
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  SPEAKER_00: What is up with me?
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  SPEAKER_00: All right.
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  SPEAKER_01: So I am, I am,
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  SPEAKER_00: you hear
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  SPEAKER_01: me?
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  SPEAKER_00: We're good, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: Yes.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yes.
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  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_00: So we are, we are exactly, what time is it?
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  SPEAKER_00: It's, today's the, remember what day it is.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm 27 days and counting to my fall holiday,
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  SPEAKER_00: which will be in Western Europe and Spain and Portugal and Morocco.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I'm looking forward to that little break.
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  SPEAKER_00: Highly recommend.
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  SPEAKER_00: See, Jason, before I started to eye out, I didn't have these.
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  SPEAKER_02: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_02: I used to have hair before I got on Substack.
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  SPEAKER_02: No, I'm just kidding.
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  SPEAKER_00: Oh, no.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it's just,
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  SPEAKER_00: you know,
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm still doing a lot of these ALJ Medicare audits for a lot of these physicians
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  SPEAKER_00: and acting as subject matter.
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  SPEAKER_00: I was showing you guys before the show that we're doing.
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  SPEAKER_00: And, you know,
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  SPEAKER_00: and I think next week I've got,
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  SPEAKER_00: I think next week on the schedule,
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  SPEAKER_00: we have four separate hearings, like during the week.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like it's, it's just, it's crazy.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's just, yeah, I have one, let's see, nothing Monday.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I definitely have one on Tuesday.
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  SPEAKER_00: No, only two next week, Wednesday, Thursday.
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  SPEAKER_00: So, but the week after is going to be hell.
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  SPEAKER_01: So, yeah,
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  SPEAKER_00: make fun.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm glad I don't have to do that.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm glad I don't have to do that.
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  SPEAKER_00: No, guys, honestly, this is the part of the year which always gets stressful.
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  SPEAKER_00: I mean, and because, like,
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  SPEAKER_00: this is when the government releases all of its rulemaking decisions for January.
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  SPEAKER_00: Especially with like HHS,
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  SPEAKER_00: since we're talking about the,
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  SPEAKER_00: you know,
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  SPEAKER_00: the disease of health and human services
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  SPEAKER_00: that is our agency that's being run right now.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it's,
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  SPEAKER_00: you know, they,
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  SPEAKER_00: the physician fee schedule,
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  SPEAKER_00: the outpatient fee schedule,
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  SPEAKER_00: the, you know, blood drive product groups, the hospice and home health payments.
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  SPEAKER_00: I mean, and all this is,
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  SPEAKER_00: all of this is cartwheeling into the same issue of this administration trying
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  SPEAKER_00: to thin the herd.
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  SPEAKER_00: Since they don't believe in herd immunity anyway.
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  SPEAKER_00: So they're literally trying to just eliminate as many line item expenditures out of
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  SPEAKER_00: the government as possible.
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  SPEAKER_00: Whether they do it by provider or by beneficiary or recipient.
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  SPEAKER_02: It seems like to me that the people in charge are looking at
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  SPEAKER_02: the government Not just this department, but everything as sort of a spreadsheet.
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  SPEAKER_02: And they just go, we spend this.
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  SPEAKER_02: And then there's no column for return because those returns are not financial,
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  SPEAKER_02: you know, direct returns.
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  SPEAKER_02: You know,
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  SPEAKER_02: you can't say if we spend a dollar here, I mean,
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  SPEAKER_02: you can say this for certain things,
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  SPEAKER_02: but like,
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  SPEAKER_02: you know,
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  SPEAKER_02: a lot of programs will have benefit that is return, economic benefit, right?
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  SPEAKER_02: When you say if we spend a dollar here,
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  SPEAKER_02: that returns a dollar 20 to the economy for every,
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  SPEAKER_02: you know, so it's 20 cents on a dollar comes back in.
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  SPEAKER_02: But they're not looking at it that way.
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  SPEAKER_02: They're looking at the expense side of the ledger, or at least that's my opinion.
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  SPEAKER_02: And they're just saying, well,
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  SPEAKER_02: why the hell are we spending a million dollars a year here by without looking
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  SPEAKER_02: at not only just the forget the return on the investment.
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  SPEAKER_02: When you talk about health, it's like, you know, a healthy population is a good thing.
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  SPEAKER_02: Unless you're,
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  SPEAKER_02: like Eric says,
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  SPEAKER_02: unless you're somehow trying to put forth a policy that's going to hurt people
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  SPEAKER_02: who you don't think are valuable to society.
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  SPEAKER_02: And by that, I mean non-white, non-rich men and women.
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  SPEAKER_00: Non-white, non-rich, not disabled.
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  SPEAKER_01: If you're not a rich white male or somehow a trad wife female,
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  SPEAKER_01: you don't deserve to get anything.
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  SPEAKER_02: It's getting ridiculous.
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  SPEAKER_02: And people will use, you know, you can call it whatever you want.
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  SPEAKER_02: I know some people like to throw around the term eugenics.
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  SPEAKER_02: I think it's broader than that.
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  SPEAKER_02: I think it's just worse than that.
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  SPEAKER_02: Genetic maintenance.
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  SPEAKER_02: Gene pool maintenance.
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  SPEAKER_02: But it's not your genes, it's your pocketbook.
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  SPEAKER_02: It's what you have in your bank account.
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  SPEAKER_02: Because if you can afford it, you can afford it.
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  SPEAKER_02: I mean, this is just the crazy stuff.
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  SPEAKER_02: That's going on.
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  SPEAKER_02: I mean, we do have a history of eugenics in this country.
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  SPEAKER_02: It never really took off,
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  SPEAKER_02: but there was,
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  SPEAKER_02: you know,
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  SPEAKER_02: back in the 20s and the 30s,
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  SPEAKER_02: there was this whole idea that this was, you know, something.
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  SPEAKER_02: And it came at a time when
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  SPEAKER_02: My degree is in biology,
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  SPEAKER_02: so I'm not Dr. Lulove, MD, but I am Dr. Odell, PhD, so I countered something.
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  SPEAKER_02: But historically speaking,
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  SPEAKER_02: there was a time when evolution and genetics were starting to come together
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  SPEAKER_02: because there was a big gap in time between,
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  SPEAKER_02: historically speaking,
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  SPEAKER_02: they had the concept of genetics,
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  SPEAKER_02: but nobody knew The basis for how it worked biologically.
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  SPEAKER_02: Like it's like the studies that show,
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  SPEAKER_02: like the things that you learned in high school,
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  SPEAKER_02: or if you took college biology,
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  SPEAKER_02: you know,
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  SPEAKER_02: you learned about Gregor Mendel and the peas and you did the little,
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  SPEAKER_02: you know, and he figured out that there must be inheritance.
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  SPEAKER_02: He had no idea what was causing that.
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  SPEAKER_02: And then in the 30s, the evolutionary studies were continuing to improve.
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  SPEAKER_02: And this whole idea of,
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  SPEAKER_02: oh, well, if you can do natural selection, you can do artificial selection.
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  SPEAKER_02: And it's true.
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  SPEAKER_02: I like to joke that people say, well, I don't have genetically modified anything.
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  SPEAKER_02: I say everything is genetically modified.
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  SPEAKER_02: It's just not always done in a lab.
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  SPEAKER_02: You know,
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  SPEAKER_02: breeding plants and animals and livestock
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  SPEAKER_02: by selective breeding is literally genetic modification.
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  SPEAKER_02: It's just you're not doing it, you know, at the lab level.
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  SPEAKER_02: So anyway,
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  SPEAKER_02: this was all coming along and it didn't really get synthesized until the 50s
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  SPEAKER_02: when we figured out how DNA works, you know, so like to put the mechanism to it.
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  SPEAKER_02: But in the 30s, there was this whole thing about eugenics.
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  SPEAKER_02: It was a big topic and it has some popularity.
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  SPEAKER_02: And there was a term,
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  SPEAKER_02: I was reading some papers once,
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  SPEAKER_02: and they referred to people who were less desirable as being the feeble-minded.
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  SPEAKER_02: That was their term.
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  SPEAKER_02: That was literally their term.
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  SPEAKER_02: It was feeble-minded people.
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  SPEAKER_02: And there were sterilization programs.
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  SPEAKER_02: There was hardcore stuff that actually happened,
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  SPEAKER_02: and especially to people of color,
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  SPEAKER_02: you know,
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  SPEAKER_02: those horrible,
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  SPEAKER_02: horrible,
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  SPEAKER_02: you know,
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  SPEAKER_02: experimental studies where the syphilis studies, remember that they were doing?
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  SPEAKER_02: They were injecting people with syphilis to see how it was mostly
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  SPEAKER_02: on African-Americans, I think.
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  SPEAKER_02: So we're not exactly
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  SPEAKER_02: the model for that, but we got better.
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  SPEAKER_02: We figured out that was bad.
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  SPEAKER_02: We kind of fought a war over it at one point.
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  SPEAKER_02: And you go back to the And this is what just disgusts me.
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  SPEAKER_02: You know, you look at the pictures, a couple of things that really stick out in my mind.
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  SPEAKER_02: First of all, go to any cemetery and look at the gravestones before the 1950s.
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  SPEAKER_02: But especially,
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  SPEAKER_02: you know,
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  SPEAKER_02: before that,
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  SPEAKER_02: but even in the 20s, 1800s, and look how many of the graves are of children.
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  SPEAKER_02: Mothers would die in childbirth, but also you had tremendous infant mortality.
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  SPEAKER_02: And these were infants sometimes dying before the age of four or five.
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  SPEAKER_02: And why?
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  SPEAKER_02: Why?
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  SPEAKER_02: Because they were getting things like measles and other diseases and nutrition was bad.
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  SPEAKER_02: And there weren't any safeguards on food and nutritional.
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  SPEAKER_02: I mean, this was the story's You guys read that horrific story about how they used
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  SPEAKER_02: to put chalk in milk to make it look like it was good,
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  SPEAKER_02: right, to make it look white when it wasn't and, you know, not pasteurizing things.
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  SPEAKER_02: And then you have the contrast in the 50s when,
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  SPEAKER_02: you know, I'll just use the polio vaccine as the best example, I think, of this.
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  SPEAKER_02: You see the pictures of people lining up around the block to get that.
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  SPEAKER_02: Because they had friends or relatives who were either paralyzed and in some cases,
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  SPEAKER_02: you know,
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  SPEAKER_02: with the chest paralysis in an iron freaking lung to breathe
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  SPEAKER_02: because their chest muscles,
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  SPEAKER_02: you know, the whole pleural cavity got paralyzed, right?
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  SPEAKER_02: And people were lining up around the block to get that.
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  SPEAKER_02: And you know what I never had?
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  SPEAKER_02: Polio.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: Or measles.
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  SPEAKER_02: I didn't get measles.
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  SPEAKER_02: The only thing that I got that was,
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  SPEAKER_02: you know, that unfortunately there wasn't anything at my generation was chicken pox.
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  SPEAKER_01: Even at my generation, we were still doing chicken pox parties and stuff.
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  SPEAKER_01: We were doing the calamine parties.
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  SPEAKER_02: Oh, calamine lotion.
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  SPEAKER_02: Don't even get me started on that.
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  SPEAKER_00: We were doing the pink calamine party.
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  SPEAKER_00: Speaking of measles, by the way, so the corner in Pennsylvania.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sorry, Nick.
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  SPEAKER_00: Go ahead.
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  SPEAKER_00: No, go ahead, go ahead.
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  SPEAKER_00: So the coroner released
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  SPEAKER_00: two of the pathology results from two of the kids that died
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  SPEAKER_00: in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
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  SPEAKER_00: The first one was a six-week-year-old, was a six-week-old child who died on August 18th.
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  SPEAKER_00: Oh, and guess what she died of?
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  SPEAKER_00: Measles!
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  SPEAKER_00: And then...
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  SPEAKER_00: The other one,
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  SPEAKER_00: the other infant,
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  SPEAKER_00: Ivan Miller,
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  SPEAKER_00: died on August 14th from a ruptured spleen with measles listed as
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  SPEAKER_00: a significant condition.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, why is this so freaking important?
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  SPEAKER_00: Because the Health and Human Secretary,
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  SPEAKER_00: I should just say the dehuman and unhealthy secretary,
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  SPEAKER_00: Bobby Brainworm,
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  SPEAKER_00: had always questioned whether the deaths were actually for measles and
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  SPEAKER_00: if they were fabricated.
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  SPEAKER_00: So the CDC has not officially recognized the fatalities.
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  SPEAKER_02: So this is the same bullshit they pulled with COVID.
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  SPEAKER_02: Well, you know, just because you had COVID didn't mean it killed you.
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  SPEAKER_02: Well, you know what?
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  SPEAKER_02: If you freaking had COVID and you died, it's a COVID death.
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  SPEAKER_02: Full stop.
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  SPEAKER_02: Same with measles, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: Listen, at least we didn't, but at least we acknowledged that COVID existed.
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  SPEAKER_00: We have a government here that doesn't want to acknowledge that measles is even
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  SPEAKER_00: in existence and it's come back because of the anti-vaccine policies.
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, and this all goes back to that.
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  SPEAKER_00: We did a show a couple weeks ago with Dr. Angie, who just kind of went off on this whole thing.
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  SPEAKER_00: We just kind of rode shotgun and let her just ramble for like 45 minutes
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  SPEAKER_00: because it's like her wheelhouse.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because Angie, that's what Angie does.
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  SPEAKER_00: But this is what we're talking about.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is how when you have And I'm just going to at this point,
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm going to say it because it's I can't say it any other way anymore.
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  SPEAKER_00: When you have the dumbest,
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  SPEAKER_00: stupidest fucking people running agencies of government which are responsible
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  SPEAKER_00: to supply services to the American population.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's their fucking charge.
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  SPEAKER_00: Right.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's not to strip them down for whatever parts you can find.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's not to siphon off.
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  SPEAKER_00: Money so that they can get wealthy.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's your goddamn job.
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  SPEAKER_00: And this is what this is why people are so pissed off.
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  SPEAKER_00: On top of the four dollar and twenty five cent gasoline and the price to the roof
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  SPEAKER_00: and gross price of bread going from three ninety nine to six ninety nine.
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  SPEAKER_00: And, you know, every just prices and goods and services going up.
• 17:45
  SPEAKER_00: Thank you to the trade wars that we did not need.
• 17:49
  SPEAKER_00: Right.
• 17:51
  SPEAKER_00: But this is why people are so upset.
• 17:53
  SPEAKER_00: And this is why you're seeing so many people activated at voting,
• 17:56
  SPEAKER_00: which is why if you actually tune in to
• 17:58
  SPEAKER_00: that stupid midterm convention rah-rah party they're having down in Dallas,
• 18:04
  SPEAKER_00: that's why the only time you see the Griff Fest,
• 18:08
  SPEAKER_00: the only time you see anybody in the stadium is when they only shoot a low image of
• 18:13
  SPEAKER_00: the lower bowl because there's nobody in the upper portions of the arena.
• 18:16
  SPEAKER_00: And
• 18:18
  SPEAKER_00: It's, it's just,
• 18:19
  SPEAKER_00: it's the whole thing's like,
• 18:21
  SPEAKER_00: you know,
• 18:21
  SPEAKER_00: what did,
• 18:22
  SPEAKER_00: what did,
• 18:23
  SPEAKER_00: what did the
• 18:25
  SPEAKER_00: chairman last night,
• 18:27
  SPEAKER_00: Richard Steele said something last night on MSNBC when they were doing the week,
• 18:30
  SPEAKER_00: they were doing the weeknight, right?
• 18:31
  SPEAKER_00: He said, when you're sitting on $850 million, it's late money.
• 18:36
  SPEAKER_00: It's not going to help anybody now.
• 18:39
  SPEAKER_00: Like it's too late for that money to do any value to these candidates on the Republican side.
• 18:46
  SPEAKER_00: They're, they're, they're literally fucked.
• 18:48
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, like, You can't go through that door because you turn your back on Trump.
• 18:51
  SPEAKER_00: He'll bury you.
• 18:52
  SPEAKER_00: You can't take the money because it's like they they did this to themselves
• 18:57
  SPEAKER_00: and they all deserve to be voted out of office.
• 18:59
  SPEAKER_00: And this includes all the the rank and file Democrats that are not on board
• 19:04
  SPEAKER_00: with fixing the goddamn problems.
• 19:07
  SPEAKER_00: Like being tone deaf and taking a meeting with with Jared Kushner two weeks ago is tone deaf.
• 19:16
  SPEAKER_01: Well, in all of this, there is a sliver of good news that comes out of all of this.
• 19:21
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, there is?
• 19:22
  SPEAKER_00: There's a sliver?
• 19:23
  SPEAKER_00: Yes.
• 19:25
  SPEAKER_01: We have a sliver of good news through all of this is that nine out of 10,
• 19:30
  SPEAKER_01: this is from recent Gallup polling,
• 19:33
  SPEAKER_01: is nine out of 10 Americans say the government is corrupt.
• 19:37
  SPEAKER_01: Nine out of 10 Americans.
• 19:40
  SPEAKER_01: Because they probably disagree
• 19:41
  SPEAKER_02: on how it's corrupt.
• 19:42
  SPEAKER_02: Yes, we absolutely
• 19:44
  SPEAKER_01: disagree on the type of corruption that is going on.
• 19:49
  SPEAKER_01: And that's something that we should be able to have conversations about.
• 19:54
  SPEAKER_01: But the fact that 90%,
• 19:58
  SPEAKER_01: 89% specifically,
• 20:00
  SPEAKER_01: from Gallup Poll say that across the board,
• 20:03
  SPEAKER_01: and this is the highest it's been in 20 years,
• 20:07
  SPEAKER_01: That corruption is roughly 89% of all adults say that the US government is corrupt.
• 20:13
  SPEAKER_01: From that data,
• 20:15
  SPEAKER_01: 91% of respondents who said the government was corrupt are Democrats,
• 20:21
  SPEAKER_01: 90% are independents, and 83% are Republicans.
• 20:27
  SPEAKER_01: This is one of the first times in a long time that Democrats view
• 20:32
  SPEAKER_01: the government more corruptly than Republicans do.
• 20:38
  SPEAKER_01: And independents sitting at 90%,
• 20:40
  SPEAKER_01: they've gone up from 2024,
• 20:42
  SPEAKER_01: where they were at 78% of independents, are now at 90% of independents.
• 20:48
  SPEAKER_01: From 2024, we go from 57% of Democrats to 91% of Democrats saying that it's corrupt.
• 20:57
  SPEAKER_01: Republicans, on the other hand, are 87 to 83.
• 21:01
  SPEAKER_01: So they went down to 81 and 25 and are back up two points to 2026.
• 21:08
  SPEAKER_01: So everyone's on an upward trend too of viewing the government as corrupt.
• 21:14
  SPEAKER_01: This is at least the sliver of good news in this is
• 21:18
  SPEAKER_01: at least people are fucking seeing it finally.
• 21:21
  SPEAKER_01: Like at least everyone is finally seeing it that there's rampant corruption
• 21:27
  SPEAKER_01: in our government and something needs to fucking change.
• 21:32
  SPEAKER_00: So here's a new here's a Gallup statistic that came out this week,
• 21:35
  SPEAKER_00: which is the approval rating of the Supreme Court is at an all time low
• 21:40
  SPEAKER_00: of 33 percent.
• 21:43
  SPEAKER_00: OK, here's how these numbers parse out.
• 21:46
  SPEAKER_00: So as far as Democrats and independents,
• 21:48
  SPEAKER_00: those numbers really haven't moved since September of last year.
• 21:53
  SPEAKER_00: It's about 35 percent approval.
• 21:55
  SPEAKER_00: But here's the number that's moved.
• 21:57
  SPEAKER_00: In September of last year, the Supreme Court's rating with Republicans was 79% approval.
• 22:03
  SPEAKER_00: It has now dropped 21 points to 58%.
• 22:07
  SPEAKER_00: Interesting.
• 22:10
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 22:10
  SPEAKER_02: Because they don't think they're getting all the rules they want to help them?
• 22:14
  SPEAKER_00: Well, I think a lot of it is on the tariffs.
• 22:20
  SPEAKER_00: A lot of it was about the birthright citizenship.
• 22:23
  SPEAKER_00: You know, the culture issues, right?
• 22:24
  SPEAKER_00: The bullshit culture issues.
• 22:26
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 22:29
  SPEAKER_00: And so here's the thing,
• 22:31
  SPEAKER_00: so that the decline indicates that the rulings unfavorable
• 22:34
  SPEAKER_00: to Trump administration this term,
• 22:36
  SPEAKER_00: such as those on tariffs and birthright citizenship,
• 22:39
  SPEAKER_00: weighed more heavily on Republicans' evaluations of the court than the rulings
• 22:44
  SPEAKER_00: that favored Trump and the GOP.
• 22:47
  SPEAKER_00: And that the current Republican approval rating of now similar
• 22:50
  SPEAKER_00: to their average 56 approval for the entire Gallup trend.
• 22:56
  SPEAKER_00: So to drop 21 points and come back to your baseline is a huge statistic.
• 23:05
  SPEAKER_00: And that's just kind of basically saying that they're cratering.
• 23:09
  SPEAKER_00: Like it's really like, yeah, Trump doesn't have to be on the ballot because he is the ballot.
• 23:17
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, the Republican, well, he's made himself the ballot too.
• 23:21
  SPEAKER_01: Like the...
• 23:23
  SPEAKER_01: Republican Party.
• 23:24
  SPEAKER_01: Exactly.
• 23:25
  SPEAKER_01: He literally said it was, right?
• 23:27
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, like they could let go of him.
• 23:30
  SPEAKER_01: He can't run constitutionally.
• 23:33
  SPEAKER_01: He cannot run
• 23:34
  SPEAKER_00: for office again.
• 23:37
  SPEAKER_01: He's not allowed.
• 23:38
  SPEAKER_01: Apart from the Constitution.
• 23:40
  SPEAKER_01: The Republicans have all the power to just go, yeah, we're done with this dude.
• 23:45
  SPEAKER_01: But they're a bunch of fucking cowards who only want to cling to power because
• 23:49
  SPEAKER_01: Which is why they're trying to restrict our vote,
• 23:51
  SPEAKER_01: which is why they're trying to kill people,
• 23:53
  SPEAKER_01: which is why they are enacting policies that are,
• 23:58
  SPEAKER_01: like we said towards the beginning of the show,
• 24:00
  SPEAKER_01: is really based on your pocketbook,
• 24:02
  SPEAKER_01: is if you don't have the money to afford to live, you just get to die.
• 24:07
  SPEAKER_01: Like, that's the policy.
• 24:08
  SPEAKER_00: That's the policy.
• 24:13
  SPEAKER_00: I want to share something because it has to do with It has to do with the poll that you left.
• 24:20
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 24:20
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 24:23
  SPEAKER_00: And here.
• 24:24
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, here we go.
• 24:25
  SPEAKER_00: So this is the polling that you just mentioned.
• 24:29
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 24:30
  SPEAKER_00: So this line, everybody here, this is Republicans in 2024.
• 24:36
  SPEAKER_00: 87% where they said that government corruption spans the political spectrum.
• 24:42
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 24:43
  SPEAKER_00: Democrats in 2024 said it was only 57%.
• 24:47
  SPEAKER_00: Look at the jump now, 91%.
• 24:49
  SPEAKER_02: And the interesting
• 24:54
  SPEAKER_00: thing with that
• 24:55
  SPEAKER_02: one, Eric.
• 24:56
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, and this is with the independents.
• 24:58
  SPEAKER_00: This is your independent here, this dotted hash line.
• 25:01
  SPEAKER_00: So it went from 80 to 90.
• 25:03
  SPEAKER_00: The biggest jump, though,
• 25:04
  SPEAKER_00: was the Democrats finally realizing that this administration and this person running
• 25:11
  SPEAKER_00: the government is a thief.
• 25:16
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, and I think it also is interesting because there was another poll that came out,
• 25:25
  SPEAKER_02: you know, the magic of the crossing lines, right?
• 25:31
  SPEAKER_02: And this has to do with the economy in general.
• 25:34
  SPEAKER_02: In 2024, every independent measure of the U.S. economy was we were kicking everyone else's ass.
• 25:41
  SPEAKER_02: We were, you know, economically, we were truly the best.
• 25:46
  SPEAKER_02: And...
• 25:46
  SPEAKER_02: But if you asked a Republican if they thought the economy was good, they said it was terrible.
• 25:51
  SPEAKER_02: And why?
• 25:53
  SPEAKER_02: Because they were getting pounded every day from their media sources or source that,
• 26:00
  SPEAKER_02: oh, well, everything is corrupt and everything is terrible.
• 26:02
  SPEAKER_02: So what was more surprising to me is that, yeah, I mean,
• 26:07
  SPEAKER_02: there was a flip right after the election that all of a sudden,
• 26:12
  SPEAKER_02: after the inauguration,
• 26:13
  SPEAKER_02: all of a sudden Republicans thought the economy was pretty good.
• 26:17
  SPEAKER_02: Because, well, we have our guy now, so clearly it's better.
• 26:21
  SPEAKER_02: What I would have expected to see in those lines,
• 26:24
  SPEAKER_02: if this was purely a partisan thing, was that we got our guy.
• 26:28
  SPEAKER_02: The government's not corrupt.
• 26:30
  SPEAKER_02: That's our guy.
• 26:31
  SPEAKER_02: Because that's what a cult person would do, right?
• 26:34
  SPEAKER_02: And you would expect that number on the GOP respondents to go down.
• 26:39
  SPEAKER_02: The fact that it didn't go down, I mean,
• 26:40
  SPEAKER_02: it went down a tick,
• 26:41
  SPEAKER_02: but the fact that it stayed in the mid-80s,
• 26:46
  SPEAKER_02: Tells you that even with this administration being the ones
• 26:50
  SPEAKER_02: that presumably they voted for, they're seeing it as corrupt.
• 26:56
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 26:57
  SPEAKER_01: And it's gone back up from last year, too.
• 27:01
  SPEAKER_01: The trend is...
• 27:02
  SPEAKER_01: Right.
• 27:03
  SPEAKER_01: You're seeing it now.
• 27:05
  SPEAKER_01: For 2025 to 2026, when they retook the poll, more people see the government as corrupt.
• 27:14
  SPEAKER_01: And guess who has control of all three branches of the government?
• 27:18
  SPEAKER_01: Correct.
• 27:18
  SPEAKER_01: The Republicans.
• 27:20
  SPEAKER_02: You can't put this on Chuck Schumer or something.
• 27:25
  SPEAKER_01: You can pin the fecklessness and the bullshit and the waste of opportunities
• 27:31
  SPEAKER_01: to actually be an opposition party and to advocate and to do their jobs.
• 27:38
  SPEAKER_01: You can pin a lot of failures on the Democratic Party and
• 27:43
  SPEAKER_01: It's the Republicans' fault because they own the government right now.
• 27:48
  SPEAKER_01: They have the White House and they have both chambers of Congress.
• 27:53
  SPEAKER_01: They get to make the rules.
• 27:54
  SPEAKER_01: They get to make the timing.
• 27:56
  SPEAKER_01: They get to make the schedule.
• 27:57
  SPEAKER_01: And guess who's been at work for less than 48 percent of the year?
• 28:02
  SPEAKER_01: The Republican Congress.
• 28:05
  SPEAKER_01: They're the ones not doing their jobs.
• 28:07
  SPEAKER_01: They have put idiots on.
• 28:10
  SPEAKER_01: They have put people who are willfully and purposefully ignorant of subjects
• 28:14
  SPEAKER_01: and topics to destroy certain areas of the government.
• 28:18
  SPEAKER_01: It's why we have an anti-vaxxer
• 28:21
  SPEAKER_02: as the head of health and human sacrifice.
• 28:23
  SPEAKER_01: It's why we have an individual who can't say AI and thinks it's a one steak sauce
• 28:29
  SPEAKER_01: because Linda McMahon should not be running the Department of Education.
• 28:33
  SPEAKER_01: It's why we have a war criminal and probably still ongoing alcoholic because,
• 28:38
  SPEAKER_01: one, once you're an alcoholic, you're always an alcoholic.
• 28:41
  SPEAKER_01: You're just either in recovery or you're not.
• 28:44
  SPEAKER_01: And this individual,
• 28:45
  SPEAKER_01: Pete Hegseth,
• 28:46
  SPEAKER_01: is very obviously not in recovery anymore, running the Department of Defense.
• 28:54
  SPEAKER_01: We have people who are ruining our things.
• 28:59
  SPEAKER_01: And RFK Jr. was a heroin addict.
• 29:01
  SPEAKER_01: He's also in recovery.
• 29:03
  SPEAKER_01: Whether he's still in recovery or not is, I don't know.
• 29:08
  SPEAKER_01: I'm not going to make a claim that he's not still in recovery.
• 29:12
  SPEAKER_01: But I've seen drug addicts before.
• 29:14
  SPEAKER_01: And people who are in recovery don't look like that.
• 29:21
  SPEAKER_02: Well, I think there's a three-fold problem.
• 29:23
  SPEAKER_01: Guys always tell the story.
• 29:25
  SPEAKER_02: Okay, so there's...
• 29:25
  SPEAKER_01: The mouth tells the story, too.
• 29:27
  SPEAKER_01: Like, the teeth tell a very telling story of drug addicts.
• 29:30
  SPEAKER_02: Why does he sound like this all the time?
• 29:32
  SPEAKER_02: I can't understand why.
• 29:33
  SPEAKER_01: You know, I mean, like, I don't even sound like that when I'm sick.
• 29:35
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know,
• 29:37
  SPEAKER_01: maybe the...
• 29:38
  SPEAKER_01: I can't even make my voice sound like that.
• 29:40
  SPEAKER_01: Does he, like,
• 29:40
  SPEAKER_02: floss his vocal cords with a raccoon penis bone?
• 29:43
  SPEAKER_02: Or what is going on?
• 29:44
  SPEAKER_02: Like, I don't even know.
• 29:46
  SPEAKER_02: But, I mean...
• 29:47
  SPEAKER_02: See, there's people who are somewhat,
• 29:49
  SPEAKER_02: you know, there's people who are unqualified for their jobs.
• 29:53
  SPEAKER_02: There are people, you know, and then you have people who are willfully ignorant.
• 29:58
  SPEAKER_02: And then you have people who are, who have an agenda.
• 30:03
  SPEAKER_02: And the Venn diagram of that,
• 30:06
  SPEAKER_02: of those types of people is a perfect circle in the Trump administration.
• 30:11
  SPEAKER_02: Because RFK Jr., Let's face it.
• 30:15
  SPEAKER_02: I mean, he's not only unqualified for this job.
• 30:18
  SPEAKER_02: I mean, he's unqualified just straight up.
• 30:21
  SPEAKER_02: He's willfully ignorant.
• 30:23
  SPEAKER_02: But he has an agenda.
• 30:24
  SPEAKER_00: That's an offer.
• 30:27
  SPEAKER_02: Right.
• 30:27
  SPEAKER_02: I mean, I'm not, you know, he's not qualified for the freaking job.
• 30:31
  SPEAKER_02: It's a damn shame that, was it Kennedy down in, who is, Cassidy.
• 30:35
  SPEAKER_02: What the fuck, Bill Cassidy?
• 30:37
  SPEAKER_02: You know, I can't predict what he's going to do later.
• 30:39
  SPEAKER_02: No, no.
• 30:40
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, that's, that's right.
• 30:42
  SPEAKER_02: No, you know, you have an MD.
• 30:45
  SPEAKER_00: Talk about a tone deaf statement.
• 30:48
  SPEAKER_02: Well, it's not even that.
• 30:49
  SPEAKER_02: It's not even that, Eric.
• 30:51
  SPEAKER_02: It's, forget that, you know, no.
• 30:54
  SPEAKER_02: It's willful ignorance and he's just CYA-ing, okay?
• 31:01
  SPEAKER_02: He is just trying to say, you know, how was I supposed to know?
• 31:04
  SPEAKER_02: Well, fuck you, dude.
• 31:05
  SPEAKER_02: You were supposed to know.
• 31:06
  SPEAKER_02: You went to medical school for four years.
• 31:08
  SPEAKER_02: You both did.
• 31:09
  SPEAKER_02: You both theoretically took a Hippocratic oath to do no harm.
• 31:14
  SPEAKER_02: And that action,
• 31:16
  SPEAKER_02: or you probably went more,
• 31:17
  SPEAKER_02: but you know,
• 31:17
  SPEAKER_02: but I'm just saying, like, you know, just the base of the MD school, right?
• 31:21
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, don't ask me about how long I was in graduate school.
• 31:25
  SPEAKER_02: You know, it was more than four years.
• 31:27
  SPEAKER_02: But this guy, his- He's on
• 31:30
  SPEAKER_02: the seven-year plan.
• 31:32
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, right.
• 31:34
  SPEAKER_02: I had a six-year PhD program.
• 31:37
  SPEAKER_02: But- He was literally,
• 31:39
  SPEAKER_02: you know,
• 31:40
  SPEAKER_02: stood there and,
• 31:41
  SPEAKER_02: you know,
• 31:41
  SPEAKER_02: took that oath to do no harm,
• 31:43
  SPEAKER_02: appointing this,
• 31:45
  SPEAKER_02: you know, being the deciding vote for this guy who's not even keeping his right.
• 31:49
  SPEAKER_02: Didn't he get voted out like primaried or something?
• 31:53
  SPEAKER_02: Cassidy or, you know, I mean, so
• 31:56
  SPEAKER_00: how did that work out for you, bro?
• 31:57
  SPEAKER_00: Because he voted.
• 31:59
  SPEAKER_00: He voted to impeach Trump.
• 32:01
  SPEAKER_00: That's why.
• 32:02
  SPEAKER_02: Right, right.
• 32:03
  SPEAKER_02: And that was never going to get,
• 32:06
  SPEAKER_02: you know,
• 32:07
  SPEAKER_02: that stain,
• 32:08
  SPEAKER_02: as far as he was concerned,
• 32:09
  SPEAKER_02: you know,
• 32:09
  SPEAKER_02: as far as MAGA was concerned or whoever, was never going to go away, right?
• 32:14
  SPEAKER_02: So, you know what?
• 32:16
  SPEAKER_02: I'm tired of the, here's what I'm frustrated at.
• 32:22
  SPEAKER_02: My health insurance premium went up 600%.
• 32:26
  SPEAKER_02: Why?
• 32:26
  SPEAKER_02: Because subsidies went away.
• 32:27
  SPEAKER_02: Some of that's because my income is variable and it changes from year to year.
• 32:31
  SPEAKER_02: But not only did it go up 600%,
• 32:33
  SPEAKER_02: I'm lucky I can still afford it,
• 32:35
  SPEAKER_02: but I went from a plan with just your normal,
• 32:38
  SPEAKER_02: here's your deductible,
• 32:38
  SPEAKER_02: here's your copay to,
• 32:40
  SPEAKER_02: oh no, now you have a higher deductible and you have coinsurance.
• 32:43
  SPEAKER_02: I have lab work that I've got to get done next week for my own benefit, some blood work.
• 32:50
  SPEAKER_02: I have to have two separate appointments because it's one of those ones you got
• 32:53
  SPEAKER_02: to go back and check it again.
• 32:55
  SPEAKER_02: I just got the estimate.
• 32:56
  SPEAKER_02: It's $270 each for each one, each appointment that I'm expected to pay.
• 33:03
  SPEAKER_02: Now, mind you,
• 33:03
  SPEAKER_02: that's after they said,
• 33:04
  SPEAKER_02: oh, yes, but by the way, it would have been $900 if you didn't have insurance.
• 33:08
  SPEAKER_02: First of all, that $900 is a funny money number.
• 33:11
  SPEAKER_02: Nobody knows what anybody pays, right?
• 33:13
  SPEAKER_02: But I'm looking at that going,
• 33:16
  SPEAKER_02: you know,
• 33:18
  SPEAKER_02: That sucks,
• 33:19
  SPEAKER_02: but I'll cover it because I want to know what's going on with my blood chemistry
• 33:24
  SPEAKER_02: and it's worth it for me to stay healthy because I can.
• 33:27
  SPEAKER_02: But how many people could look at a one-off,
• 33:32
  SPEAKER_02: an extra $500 or more than that, $540,
• 33:37
  SPEAKER_02: whatever it comes out to be,
• 33:39
  SPEAKER_02: I was never a math major, and say, oh yeah, that's no problem.
• 33:42
  SPEAKER_02: I'll just cover that.
• 33:44
  SPEAKER_02: Most people probably can't.
• 33:48
  SPEAKER_02: Um, how the,
• 33:50
  SPEAKER_02: you know,
• 33:50
  SPEAKER_02: and I'm, I'm,
• 33:51
  SPEAKER_02: I've got a ways before,
• 33:52
  SPEAKER_02: you know,
• 33:53
  SPEAKER_02: assuming there's still,
• 33:54
  SPEAKER_02: you know, uh, Medicare, um, you know, I'm certainly not old enough for that.
• 34:00
  SPEAKER_02: I've got a good 10 years before I'm even, you know, you know, uh, so it's super frustrating.
• 34:09
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 34:10
  SPEAKER_02: And Eric, when you went to medicals, was this something that was even on your radar?
• 34:14
  SPEAKER_02: Like you're all going to be having to do Medicare audit stuff, right?
• 34:17
  SPEAKER_02: I mean, you didn't go to med school for that.
• 34:18
  SPEAKER_02: You went to medical school to freaking help people.
• 34:22
  SPEAKER_00: Right.
• 34:23
  SPEAKER_00: So I'm glad you brought Medicare because something came
• 34:25
  SPEAKER_00: across just recently this week where the Republican Senate,
• 34:31
  SPEAKER_00: the help committee actually announced that
• 34:34
  SPEAKER_00: the Medicare trust fund will be completely bankrupt by 2034.
• 34:40
  SPEAKER_00: So this is their brilliant way of trying to fix it.
• 34:43
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 34:44
  SPEAKER_00: Now keep in mind,
• 34:45
  SPEAKER_00: they raided the trust fund to pay for the war, for the pay for the Gulf War in 2001.
• 34:49
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 34:50
  SPEAKER_00: They raided it again to pay for the Part D prescription plan deal.
• 34:56
  SPEAKER_00: And then Trump raided it to pay for all this other shit.
• 35:00
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 35:01
  SPEAKER_00: So this was their, this is the Republicans plan to fix the trust fund.
• 35:07
  SPEAKER_00: They know they can't raise taxes because that's a big no-no.
• 35:11
  SPEAKER_00: God forbid, because Grover Norquist will have a fucking coronary and blow their shit up, right?
• 35:17
  SPEAKER_00: Remember that fucking name?
• 35:19
  SPEAKER_02: Remember Grover Norquist?
• 35:20
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, yeah.
• 35:20
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, yeah.
• 35:21
  SPEAKER_00: He said that fucking right-wing think tank for the tax, right?
• 35:24
  SPEAKER_00: So their whole plan was to, we're going to quietly increase taxes on employers through the FICA.
• 35:33
  SPEAKER_00: We're going to increase the deduction that comes out of everybody's paychecks.
• 35:38
  SPEAKER_00: So we're going to fund the boomers who have fucked up the economy,
• 35:43
  SPEAKER_00: who are on Medicare right now.
• 35:46
  SPEAKER_00: So we're going to steal from the younger population more money to pay for
• 35:50
  SPEAKER_00: the boomers because of two reasons.
• 35:53
  SPEAKER_00: One, remember, Social Security taxes are capped at $184,000.
• 35:57
  SPEAKER_00: Exactly.
• 35:58
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 36:01
  SPEAKER_00: So instead of raising that threshold.
• 36:03
  SPEAKER_01: Like the first 30
• 36:04
  SPEAKER_00: seconds of the year.
• 36:06
  SPEAKER_00: Right.
• 36:06
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, yeah.
• 36:07
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah.
• 36:08
  SPEAKER_00: So instead of raising that threshold,
• 36:12
  SPEAKER_00: like raise it to 350 where your taxable income isn't capped at 184.
• 36:17
  SPEAKER_01: Raise it to 100 million.
• 36:19
  SPEAKER_01: Raise it to something reasonable.
• 36:21
  SPEAKER_01: If we have all these millionaires that are in this nation,
• 36:24
  SPEAKER_01: fucking raise it to 100 million, even a billion.
• 36:27
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 36:28
  SPEAKER_00: Make it solvent.
• 36:28
  SPEAKER_00: If this does not happen.
• 36:29
  SPEAKER_01: We have the solution.
• 36:31
  SPEAKER_00: Now, I know Nick and I and Jason,
• 36:33
  SPEAKER_00: we all have a lot of senior boomers that follow us on our Substack's.
• 36:38
  SPEAKER_00: So here's the reality of what happens, okay?
• 36:42
  SPEAKER_00: Here's the reality of what happens.
• 36:44
  SPEAKER_00: If they don't enact some sort of change,
• 36:46
  SPEAKER_00: everybody's Social Security check is going to get docked $440.
• 36:52
  SPEAKER_00: You think it's hard enough to survive now?
• 36:55
  SPEAKER_00: Right.
• 36:56
  SPEAKER_00: Cut your income by five grand.
• 37:00
  SPEAKER_00: While prices keep going up.
• 37:02
  SPEAKER_00: Right?
• 37:03
  SPEAKER_02: Because if you're lucky,
• 37:04
  SPEAKER_02: your Social Security check,
• 37:06
  SPEAKER_02: you know,
• 37:06
  SPEAKER_02: depending on how much you've worked and the whole thing,
• 37:08
  SPEAKER_02: you know,
• 37:08
  SPEAKER_02: you're looking at maybe an extra $1,600,
• 37:11
  SPEAKER_02: $1,700 a month in Social Security,
• 37:14
  SPEAKER_02: assuming that,
• 37:15
  SPEAKER_02: you know,
• 37:15
  SPEAKER_02: depending on when you retire and, you know, when you take the benefit, right?
• 37:20
  SPEAKER_02: You know, that's, you know, people forget that.
• 37:27
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 37:28
  SPEAKER_02: Social Security was never supposed to be the retirement solution.
• 37:32
  SPEAKER_02: They had this idea, remember the three-legged stool model?
• 37:38
  SPEAKER_02: You had personal savings, you had employer pensions, and you had Social Security.
• 37:44
  SPEAKER_02: Right, plant pensions.
• 37:47
  SPEAKER_02: So who gets an employer pension?
• 37:48
  SPEAKER_02: Raise your hand if you get an employer pension.
• 37:51
  SPEAKER_02: Okay, because I certainly don't.
• 37:52
  SPEAKER_02: And I'm self-employed, by the way.
• 37:54
  SPEAKER_02: But even when I was working in a corporate job, that was gone.
• 37:57
  SPEAKER_02: No, but what did they do with that?
• 38:00
  SPEAKER_02: Remember what they did with that?
• 38:02
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, sure they did.
• 38:04
  SPEAKER_02: And here's a funny story.
• 38:05
  SPEAKER_02: I think I maybe told you guys this story before.
• 38:07
  SPEAKER_02: When I first got hired.
• 38:08
  SPEAKER_00: Nick's over there.
• 38:10
  SPEAKER_02: No, and I think Shayla's in the chat,
• 38:13
  SPEAKER_02: and I know she was a school principal,
• 38:16
  SPEAKER_02: so she gets,
• 38:17
  SPEAKER_02: you know,
• 38:18
  SPEAKER_02: but I saw a statistic that only 14% of Gen Xers have anything in terms of a pension.
• 38:25
  SPEAKER_02: And, you know,
• 38:26
  SPEAKER_02: they talk about,
• 38:28
  SPEAKER_02: you know,
• 38:28
  SPEAKER_02: and then they use these funny words to describe it, you know, DCP versus DPP.
• 38:38
  SPEAKER_02: DCP, Defined Contribution Plan.
• 38:41
  SPEAKER_02: That means I'm gonna contribute to something, AKA 401K.
• 38:46
  SPEAKER_02: My employer may have a match to that.
• 38:48
  SPEAKER_02: And then it's up to the forces in the market.
• 38:50
  SPEAKER_02: Now, I'm not suggesting that that's a terrible thing, but it wasn't designed for people like us.
• 38:58
  SPEAKER_02: That was a bunch of rich people saying, how can we avoid taxes?
• 39:02
  SPEAKER_02: And they said, oh,
• 39:03
  SPEAKER_02: if we make this retirement vehicle,
• 39:06
  SPEAKER_02: Then all of the capital gains that you earn during that time remain untaxed
• 39:13
  SPEAKER_02: because you're putting in pre-tax dollars,
• 39:18
  SPEAKER_02: which is a fancy way of saying,
• 39:20
  SPEAKER_02: okay, if you contribute to your 401k, that's not taxable income.
• 39:25
  SPEAKER_02: And any growth that happens while it's in that account,
• 39:27
  SPEAKER_02: as long as you wait until you're,
• 39:29
  SPEAKER_02: I think it's 59 and a half, you can take out afterwards without any capital gains.
• 39:35
  SPEAKER_02: If I'm correct, and without any additional tax penalty.
• 39:39
  SPEAKER_02: You still pay tax on what that would be as income,
• 39:41
  SPEAKER_02: but you don't pay any additional capital gains tax.
• 39:46
  SPEAKER_02: Like right now,
• 39:47
  SPEAKER_02: if you own any kind of stock and you sell some,
• 39:50
  SPEAKER_02: if you make money, that's taxed, right?
• 39:52
  SPEAKER_02: That profit is taxed.
• 39:54
  SPEAKER_02: That's in contrast with a defined payment plan, the DPP.
• 39:58
  SPEAKER_02: That's a pension.
• 39:59
  SPEAKER_02: That's where they say if you have 20 years of service with this company and we take
• 40:02
  SPEAKER_02: the last, you know, your highest average salary from the last three.
• 40:08
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, you look chill back there, Eric.
• 40:10
  SPEAKER_02: You're just like frozen.
• 40:12
  SPEAKER_00: It's all good.
• 40:13
  SPEAKER_00: Nick, you hearing the same thing?
• 40:14
  SPEAKER_02: But, you know, that's where they say we're going to pay you.
• 40:17
  SPEAKER_02: $800 a month or $1,500 a month or $3,000 a month,
• 40:20
  SPEAKER_02: whatever it might be, based on a percentage of your highest average salaries.
• 40:27
  SPEAKER_02: 14% of people in my generation receive anything like that.
• 40:32
  SPEAKER_02: That means, you know, the rest of us are kind of in a tight spot.
• 40:38
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, tight spot is, I think, an understatement.
• 40:41
  SPEAKER_01: Here's why this is so important, everybody.
• 40:49
  SPEAKER_00: Right here.
• 40:49
  SPEAKER_00: This is from the Cook Political Report.
• 40:53
  SPEAKER_00: It's right here.
• 40:56
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, hold on.
• 40:57
  SPEAKER_01: These seats
• 40:58
  SPEAKER_00: have to flip.
• 41:01
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, okay.
• 41:03
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 41:05
  SPEAKER_00: Like, these seats have to flip.
• 41:08
  SPEAKER_02: You're talking about the toss-up one here in the middle?
• 41:11
  SPEAKER_00: This is the current makeup of the U.S. Senate.
• 41:16
  SPEAKER_00: So all the seats over here, these are the these are the safe Democratic Senate seats.
• 41:21
  SPEAKER_00: This is the likely Democratic opening seat in Minnesota.
• 41:25
  SPEAKER_00: These are the current three that are leaning Democrat right now.
• 41:27
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, they've taken North Carolina off the board already.
• 41:31
  SPEAKER_00: OK, these are your six toss ups between Alaska, Iowa, Maine, Michigan, Ohio, Texas.
• 41:39
  SPEAKER_00: Nothing's really leaning Republican right now.
• 41:42
  SPEAKER_00: And the two likelies, Kansas, Nebraska.
• 41:46
  SPEAKER_00: And then the solid Republicans with open seats in Oklahoma, Montana, Louisiana, Kentucky.
• 41:55
  SPEAKER_00: Funny how that's an open seat now, isn't it?
• 41:58
  SPEAKER_00: See that?
• 41:59
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, yeah.
• 42:00
  SPEAKER_01: Where's Mitch?
• 42:01
  SPEAKER_00: Where's Mitch?
• 42:01
  SPEAKER_01: Which seat is that?
• 42:03
  SPEAKER_00: Kentucky.
• 42:04
  SPEAKER_00: Well, it was going to be
• 42:06
  SPEAKER_02: an open seat anyway.
• 42:08
  SPEAKER_02: It's McConnell's seat, but that was going to be McConnell's seat.
• 42:11
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 42:12
  SPEAKER_01: He was retiring.
• 42:13
  SPEAKER_02: He was retiring anyway.
• 42:14
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, it has nothing to do with the fact that he's, you know.
• 42:17
  SPEAKER_00: Right.
• 42:18
  SPEAKER_00: So the point being, everybody, is that this seat's probably going to flip, right?
• 42:26
  SPEAKER_00: Shut up, newsletter.
• 42:28
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, Michigan's probably going to stay Democrat.
• 42:31
  SPEAKER_00: Sherrod Brown's probably going to win Ohio.
• 42:34
  SPEAKER_00: Tallarico's up five right now in Texas.
• 42:38
  SPEAKER_00: So this is a flip, flip, flip, flip.
• 42:42
  SPEAKER_02: And I think Petola is very close.
• 42:46
  SPEAKER_02: And the interesting data point with her race is that she's already been in a race
• 42:51
  SPEAKER_02: against her opponent because it was an open primary.
• 42:54
  SPEAKER_02: So she beat that individual.
• 42:55
  SPEAKER_00: She already beat Sullivan, right?
• 42:57
  SPEAKER_02: She's already beat him technically, but now you have the other ones.
• 43:02
  SPEAKER_00: If there is any chance right now to take over the government,
• 43:07
  SPEAKER_00: And we've talked about this, Nick.
• 43:09
  SPEAKER_00: We've mentioned this.
• 43:10
  SPEAKER_00: The magic number for Democrats is 52.
• 43:12
  SPEAKER_00: Right.
• 43:14
  SPEAKER_01: We all saw what happened yesterday.
• 43:16
  SPEAKER_01: He's now appearing at the midterm convention for the Republicans because he's
• 43:21
  SPEAKER_01: a sleazebag and he just needs to either resign or become a quote, independent.
• 43:29
  SPEAKER_01: Fuck you, dude.
• 43:30
  SPEAKER_01: You're wrong.
• 43:32
  SPEAKER_01: Agreeing with fascism and enabling.
• 43:34
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, you're enabling fascism and you're a piece of shit and you've lied
• 43:38
  SPEAKER_01: to your constituents in Pennsylvania and Pennsylvanians deserve better.
• 43:42
  SPEAKER_01: I lived in Pittsburgh and I know people in Pennsylvania and I know the state and it's beautiful.
• 43:47
  SPEAKER_01: And the people in that fucking state deserve so much better than your lying ass.
• 43:52
  SPEAKER_01: Like you disrespected veterans.
• 43:54
  SPEAKER_01: You disrespected disabled veterans.
• 43:56
  SPEAKER_01: You disrespected people with disabilities consistently.
• 43:59
  SPEAKER_01: You have a disability, sir.
• 44:02
  SPEAKER_01: And your disrespect for other people with disabilities is unconscionable and not fucking okay.
• 44:08
  SPEAKER_01: It kind of makes you feel like maybe the government's correct.
• 44:12
  SPEAKER_00: I have a problem with Nick calling him sir.
• 44:14
  SPEAKER_00: I have a real problem with Nick calling him sir.
• 44:17
  SPEAKER_00: I'm sorry.
• 44:18
  SPEAKER_01: Well, I call people sir as an insult when I need to because I was in the army
• 44:22
  SPEAKER_01: and you only call people sir or ma'am when you know they don't work for a living.
• 44:32
  SPEAKER_00: Touche.
• 44:34
  SPEAKER_00: There we go.
• 44:36
  SPEAKER_00: Officers don't work.
• 44:37
  SPEAKER_00: But that's my point, everybody.
• 44:38
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, this is why it's why Nick publishes.
• 44:42
  SPEAKER_00: It's why he broadcasts.
• 44:43
  SPEAKER_00: It's why I write what I write.
• 44:44
  SPEAKER_00: It's why Jason publishes and writes what he writes and does what he does
• 44:50
  SPEAKER_00: when he's not doing photography.
• 44:52
  SPEAKER_00: And we've all taken a stand in our own way for democracy.
• 44:56
  SPEAKER_00: We have all decided...
• 45:03
  SPEAKER_00: To lay down where we're gonna,
• 45:06
  SPEAKER_00: where we're gonna sit on the hill and make our, and make our bones, you know?
• 45:11
  SPEAKER_00: And we, we literally, this is the, and I'm, I'm glad that Americans are waking up.
• 45:17
  SPEAKER_00: I think it's,
• 45:18
  SPEAKER_00: I think people are starting to,
• 45:20
  SPEAKER_00: it's finally starting to hit home
• 45:21
  SPEAKER_00: that this current administration is not your friend.
• 45:25
  SPEAKER_00: They don't care about you.
• 45:26
  SPEAKER_00: There was a story the other day, Nick, did you see that ICE arrested a police officer?
• 45:31
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I think I saw that one.
• 45:33
  SPEAKER_02: I missed that.
• 45:34
  SPEAKER_02: Great.
• 45:35
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it was a police officer.
• 45:38
  SPEAKER_00: They literally was on the job, on the duty police officer, and they arrested him.
• 45:44
  SPEAKER_01: Back in the blue, right?
• 45:46
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, back in the blue.
• 45:47
  SPEAKER_01: You guys are doing a great job back in the
• 45:49
  SPEAKER_00: blue over there.
• 45:51
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, this is when your police departments aren't even safe from these people.
• 45:56
  SPEAKER_00: There's a massive problem.
• 45:59
  SPEAKER_02: You know,
• 45:59
  SPEAKER_02: there's an interesting,
• 46:00
  SPEAKER_02: you know,
• 46:01
  SPEAKER_02: I want to flip back to something on Nick's behalf because he's got
• 46:06
  SPEAKER_02: the QR code up there somewhere.
• 46:09
  SPEAKER_01: Top corner over there.
• 46:10
  SPEAKER_02: Top, top, top, top corner there about say no to Crip Crow.
• 46:14
  SPEAKER_02: And, you know, I live in a very Republican district.
• 46:21
  SPEAKER_02: I'm in Colorado Five, which basically represents now the borders have shrunk in a little bit.
• 46:30
  SPEAKER_02: Because of redistrict, just population growth.
• 46:33
  SPEAKER_02: El Paso County, Colorado, which is Colorado Springs and surrounding areas, which I'm part of.
• 46:41
  SPEAKER_02: I have canvassed for Democratic candidates here.
• 46:47
  SPEAKER_02: We were one of the most
• 46:52
  SPEAKER_02: leftward swinging districts starting in 2020.
• 46:58
  SPEAKER_02: Didn't produce Democrats who won, but in terms of the vote going a certain direction.
• 47:06
  SPEAKER_02: And interestingly enough,
• 47:08
  SPEAKER_02: when things swung back a little bit more to the right in 2024, we didn't.
• 47:14
  SPEAKER_02: Now we still elected an absolute do nothing I'm a very, very,
• 47:20
  SPEAKER_02: very MAGA guy because our previous Congressman was trying to cosplay MAGA
• 47:24
  SPEAKER_02: and it finally just, he got tired of it.
• 47:27
  SPEAKER_02: And he did one really great thing for me.
• 47:31
  SPEAKER_02: I will give Doug Lamborn,
• 47:33
  SPEAKER_02: our former Congressman, The credit that is due, which is I called his office.
• 47:38
  SPEAKER_02: They got me in to take one of my photography groups in to a behind the scenes tour
• 47:43
  SPEAKER_02: of the Capitol in 2015,
• 47:46
  SPEAKER_02: I think,
• 47:48
  SPEAKER_02: which was very cool because they showed us around all the underground places,
• 47:52
  SPEAKER_02: which actually is something that your Congress people and senators will do
• 47:56
  SPEAKER_02: if you know you're going to go to D.C.,
• 48:00
  SPEAKER_02: if you give them enough advance,
• 48:01
  SPEAKER_02: they'll set you up with one of their interns and But anyway, he retired.
• 48:06
  SPEAKER_02: He resigned or retired.
• 48:08
  SPEAKER_02: We have a new MAGA guy.
• 48:10
  SPEAKER_02: Well, Shayla mentioned in the chat that right now the race is within a point.
• 48:16
  SPEAKER_02: We have a candidate named Jessica Killen.
• 48:20
  SPEAKER_02: She is military.
• 48:21
  SPEAKER_02: She was in the Army.
• 48:23
  SPEAKER_02: We're a military town.
• 48:24
  SPEAKER_02: We have the Air Force Academy.
• 48:26
  SPEAKER_02: We have Fort Peterson Air Force Base.
• 48:30
  SPEAKER_02: We have Fort Carson,
• 48:31
  SPEAKER_02: which is one of the You know, you talk about all the people getting deployed.
• 48:35
  SPEAKER_02: They're coming from Fort Carson a lot of the times.
• 48:37
  SPEAKER_02: We also have Schriever Air Force Base,
• 48:40
  SPEAKER_02: which flies all the satellites and stuff that are up there.
• 48:45
  SPEAKER_02: So tremendous military town, tremendous number of retired military town.
• 48:52
  SPEAKER_02: The fact that that race is close right now tells you, you know, I'm not going to hold my breath.
• 48:58
  SPEAKER_02: I'm going to vote the way that is.
• 49:00
  SPEAKER_02: Always vote.
• 49:01
  SPEAKER_02: But I wanted just to say that when the no Crip Crow thing came out,
• 49:06
  SPEAKER_02: I just wanted to point out when I saw that you and Naida had had this going on,
• 49:12
  SPEAKER_02: I reached out to our Democratic side candidate through their website.
• 49:18
  SPEAKER_02: And I said, you know, this has been my, you know, do you guys know about this?
• 49:22
  SPEAKER_02: And so her campaign manager actually called me and I went through those issues
• 49:29
  SPEAKER_02: with her and I,
• 49:30
  SPEAKER_02: You know,
• 49:31
  SPEAKER_02: as far as,
• 49:31
  SPEAKER_02: you know,
• 49:32
  SPEAKER_02: getting a commitment that's,
• 49:34
  SPEAKER_02: you know,
• 49:34
  SPEAKER_02: no candidate has ever,
• 49:36
  SPEAKER_02: you know,
• 49:36
  SPEAKER_02: they never,
• 49:37
  SPEAKER_02: but I mean,
• 49:37
  SPEAKER_02: I brought up these points and I do now have the email address directly
• 49:41
  SPEAKER_02: of Killen's campaign manager.
• 49:44
  SPEAKER_02: So I, you know,
• 49:44
  SPEAKER_02: every now and then I'll just send an email and say,
• 49:46
  SPEAKER_02: have you seen those awful YouTube ads that are running that hurt,
• 49:51
  SPEAKER_02: you know,
• 49:51
  SPEAKER_02: where he's saying, look at me lowering medical costs and getting rid of waste.
• 49:55
  SPEAKER_02: I'm like, bitch, my medical costs have gone up crazy amounts.
• 50:01
  SPEAKER_02: And I'm self-employed.
• 50:02
  SPEAKER_02: Eric, you mentioned FICA.
• 50:08
  SPEAKER_02: When you're self-employed, guess who pays 100% of that?
• 50:10
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, you're getting hit double like I do.
• 50:14
  SPEAKER_02: Right.
• 50:14
  SPEAKER_02: Because when you work a job that has a W-4, W-2 income, your employer matches.
• 50:22
  SPEAKER_02: So you pay, I think, six and a half, whatever the percent is.
• 50:25
  SPEAKER_02: So I'm paying 12.
• 50:28
  SPEAKER_02: Correct.
• 50:29
  SPEAKER_02: Same here.
• 50:29
  SPEAKER_02: So that those are, you know, the struggle is real.
• 50:34
  SPEAKER_02: You know,
• 50:34
  SPEAKER_02: I'm concerned about,
• 50:37
  SPEAKER_02: I just got off the phone with my insurance company today
• 50:41
  SPEAKER_02: because walk-in flu clinics have started.
• 50:46
  SPEAKER_02: And, you know, it's that time of year.
• 50:48
  SPEAKER_02: And I always, I do my flu shot.
• 50:50
  SPEAKER_02: I get everything that I can.
• 50:52
  SPEAKER_02: But my concern was that, you know, every year around this time, I also try to get a COVID shot.
• 50:59
  SPEAKER_02: And this is,
• 51:00
  SPEAKER_02: you know,
• 51:01
  SPEAKER_02: flipping back to the mission of HHS,
• 51:04
  SPEAKER_02: which is,
• 51:05
  SPEAKER_02: I want to read this,
• 51:08
  SPEAKER_02: the mission statement officially I'm going to read this from the Department
• 51:14
  SPEAKER_02: of Health and Human Services.
• 51:15
  SPEAKER_02: To enhance the health and well-being of all Americans by providing
• 51:19
  SPEAKER_02: for effective health and human services and by fostering sound,
• 51:22
  SPEAKER_02: sustained advances in the sciences,
• 51:24
  SPEAKER_02: underlying medicine, public health and social services.
• 51:27
  SPEAKER_02: Do any of you guys think that that's happening right now?
• 51:31
  SPEAKER_02: When they are saying vaccines are suspect, your foods are being tainted by God only knows what.
• 51:38
  SPEAKER_02: And if you want to eat healthy,
• 51:39
  SPEAKER_02: you run the risk of getting listeria or cyclospora or whatever,
• 51:42
  SPEAKER_02: you know, one of these horrible things, right?
• 51:46
  SPEAKER_02: You got a guy who literally is a vaccine denier running the system,
• 51:53
  SPEAKER_02: saying that measles vaccines, well, you know, we don't.
• 51:57
  SPEAKER_02: And here's the part that people forget.
• 51:59
  SPEAKER_02: Let's not forget that our friend RFK,
• 52:02
  SPEAKER_02: not our friend, but,
• 52:02
  SPEAKER_02: you know,
• 52:03
  SPEAKER_02: our enemy RFK,
• 52:04
  SPEAKER_02: He profits on these supplement whatever bullshit
• 52:12
  SPEAKER_02: organic health things.
• 52:16
  SPEAKER_02: He has interest in people taking his products or stuff that he's affiliated with
• 52:22
  SPEAKER_02: or invested in instead of as their clean eating bullshit.
• 52:28
  SPEAKER_02: So what am I going to do?
• 52:29
  SPEAKER_02: Just inject some beef tallow and hope that prevents me from getting sick while I'm,
• 52:34
  SPEAKER_02: you know, traveling?
• 52:37
  SPEAKER_02: Because I wanted to know, I said, you know, A, are you going to have them?
• 52:40
  SPEAKER_02: You know, when are you going to have them?
• 52:41
  SPEAKER_02: Are you going to have them?
• 52:43
  SPEAKER_02: And will my insurance cover it?
• 52:45
  SPEAKER_02: Because, you know, it seems like the rules keep changing.
• 52:51
  SPEAKER_02: And the states have been doing a pretty good job.
• 52:53
  SPEAKER_02: And Colorado...
• 52:57
  SPEAKER_02: People say it's a blue state.
• 52:58
  SPEAKER_02: It's really more purple.
• 53:00
  SPEAKER_02: It's blue on balance,
• 53:01
  SPEAKER_02: but we have our share of crazy,
• 53:05
  SPEAKER_02: crazy people,
• 53:06
  SPEAKER_02: not the least of which is our current governor,
• 53:08
  SPEAKER_02: who is supposedly a Democrat, but he's really a libertarian who leans left.
• 53:14
  SPEAKER_02: And he has made these Faustian bargains in the hope that,
• 53:19
  SPEAKER_02: what, maybe we would get some better treatment?
• 53:23
  SPEAKER_02: But guess what?
• 53:24
  SPEAKER_02: We're not.
• 53:25
  SPEAKER_02: When a disaster happens here, what was the story that just came out?
• 53:30
  SPEAKER_02: They're literally denying aid for things like FEMA and whatever to disasters
• 53:35
  SPEAKER_02: in states that didn't vote for Trump.
• 53:37
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, let's see what happens in Hawaii.
• 53:38
  SPEAKER_01: Well, they're still denying it in places that voted
• 53:41
  SPEAKER_00: for Trump.
• 53:42
  SPEAKER_01: Well, right.
• 53:42
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, it's bad all the way around.
• 53:44
  SPEAKER_01: We're still dealing with FEMA requests from,
• 53:47
  SPEAKER_01: I think it's like two or three years ago now,
• 53:49
  SPEAKER_01: for tornadoes
• 53:50
  SPEAKER_00: that went through our area.
• 53:52
  SPEAKER_00: Like...
• 53:52
  SPEAKER_00: And the people in North Carolina, Western North Carolina, still aren't getting FEMA funds?
• 53:56
  SPEAKER_01: Right.
• 53:57
  SPEAKER_01: And I'm in Arkansas, and we voted.
• 54:00
  SPEAKER_01: Like, our state voted for Trump.
• 54:02
  SPEAKER_01: And we're not getting anything.
• 54:04
  SPEAKER_01: So it's it's across the board, too, as I think that's part of the corruption is people are.
• 54:08
  SPEAKER_02: But I think that's the part that's starting to hit home for people
• 54:11
  SPEAKER_02: because they're saying, well, wait a minute.
• 54:14
  SPEAKER_02: I voted for you.
• 54:15
  SPEAKER_02: Why are you not helping me?
• 54:17
  SPEAKER_02: And it's one thing to say, well,
• 54:18
  SPEAKER_02: fuck the Democrats,
• 54:19
  SPEAKER_02: because, you know, here in Colorado, well, it's those assholes in Denver.
• 54:23
  SPEAKER_02: I hear that all the time.
• 54:24
  SPEAKER_02: Those assholes in Denver,
• 54:25
  SPEAKER_02: meaning, you know, the Democrats in our state legislature and a governor.
• 54:29
  SPEAKER_02: But No,
• 54:31
  SPEAKER_02: when it's like you don't have any excuse if you live in Arkansas and you have
• 54:36
  SPEAKER_02: a hardcore Republican governor and statehouse and senators,
• 54:45
  SPEAKER_02: it's getting hard to avoid.
• 54:46
  SPEAKER_01: You drive past the sign for gas and it's $4.50
• 54:49
  SPEAKER_02: a gallon.
• 54:50
  SPEAKER_01: We're a Republican supermajority.
• 54:53
  SPEAKER_01: There is no excuse.
• 54:54
  SPEAKER_01: It's just like when people in Texas or Texas Republicans go,
• 54:58
  SPEAKER_01: oh, but the Democrats have been hurting you.
• 55:01
  SPEAKER_01: Who's been in charge in Texas for the last 30 fucking years?
• 55:05
  SPEAKER_01: It's Republic.
• 55:06
  SPEAKER_01: I saw a meme.
• 55:06
  SPEAKER_01: I can't verify if it's true.
• 55:09
  SPEAKER_01: They went from like a top education state to near the bottom once they got rid
• 55:15
  SPEAKER_01: of their democratic government.
• 55:17
  SPEAKER_02: They were something like seventh when Ann Richards was governor.
• 55:21
  SPEAKER_01: They were something like seven.
• 55:22
  SPEAKER_01: God forbid something good happened because a woman did it.
• 55:26
  SPEAKER_01: So they had to undo all of it because they're weak and confident men
• 55:29
  SPEAKER_01: who can't stand up to strong women who can lead or anybody who can lead
• 55:34
  SPEAKER_01: and do stuff.
• 55:35
  SPEAKER_01: So they take it all away because we can't have nice things,
• 55:38
  SPEAKER_01: but they can sure as hell steal shit from us.
• 55:41
  SPEAKER_02: I want to go back and take steal something from a comedian.
• 55:47
  SPEAKER_02: God, and I think it was George Carlin who, you know, may he rest ever peacefully.
• 55:54
  SPEAKER_02: I think it was George Carlin,
• 55:55
  SPEAKER_02: but I could be wrong, so don't quote me out, you know, don't hold me to it.
• 55:59
  SPEAKER_02: But he said, you know, Republicans are the party of bad ideas.
• 56:08
  SPEAKER_02: The Democrats are the party of no ideas.
• 56:11
  SPEAKER_02: And that's why we're here.
• 56:14
  SPEAKER_02: Because for 30, 50,
• 56:16
  SPEAKER_02: going back to the late 60s,
• 56:19
  SPEAKER_02: there's been an agenda and whether you bought into it or you just came
• 56:25
  SPEAKER_02: into it sideways because you didn't like abortions or something,
• 56:28
  SPEAKER_02: how are you chose to join the Republican Party?
• 56:31
  SPEAKER_02: They have had a mission and they have been on that mission.
• 56:34
  SPEAKER_02: Playing the long game for 50 plus years.
• 56:39
  SPEAKER_02: The whole thing with,
• 56:40
  SPEAKER_02: you know,
• 56:40
  SPEAKER_02: it's just a matter of what was their mechanism to get involved
• 56:43
  SPEAKER_02: because they couldn't set it up.
• 56:45
  SPEAKER_02: You know, the infrastructure for things like the media landscape wasn't there.
• 56:49
  SPEAKER_02: You know, people talk about, I was thinking about this yesterday.
• 56:54
  SPEAKER_02: People started hating social media because it got political, right?
• 56:58
  SPEAKER_02: You know, getting everything, even Substack has gotten, you know, it is.
• 57:01
  SPEAKER_02: But it's not politics that's the issue here.
• 57:05
  SPEAKER_02: It's Trumpism.
• 57:08
  SPEAKER_02: And, you know, I got on Facebook early, fairly early, like late 2008, 2009, somewhere in there.
• 57:16
  SPEAKER_02: And, you know,
• 57:18
  SPEAKER_02: it was just me and people like playing Farmville and Mafia Wars and whatever
• 57:22
  SPEAKER_02: and reconnecting with dudes from high school who I haven't seen forever
• 57:26
  SPEAKER_02: because we didn't have email to connect with them.
• 57:28
  SPEAKER_02: And there was a short period of time.
• 57:30
  SPEAKER_02: But when,
• 57:33
  SPEAKER_02: it might have even been earlier than that,
• 57:35
  SPEAKER_02: but You know,
• 57:36
  SPEAKER_02: once we had Obama get elected,
• 57:41
  SPEAKER_02: the crazies started showing up and screaming all over social media.
• 57:46
  SPEAKER_02: You know,
• 57:47
  SPEAKER_02: no one was screaming like,
• 57:48
  SPEAKER_02: you know, I mean,
• 57:49
  SPEAKER_02: I was maybe screaming that we wanted better health care or something like that.
• 57:52
  SPEAKER_02: But you notice that it was like it started with,
• 57:54
  SPEAKER_02: you know,
• 57:55
  SPEAKER_02: it was the Tea Party people that,
• 57:56
  SPEAKER_02: you know,
• 57:56
  SPEAKER_02: morphed into the MAGA people, but they really took over social media, you know.
• 58:02
  SPEAKER_02: And look,
• 58:02
  SPEAKER_02: I'm not going to argue that there aren't I'm not going
• 58:05
  SPEAKER_02: to say there's not conspiracy theories on both sides.
• 58:07
  SPEAKER_02: There is.
• 58:08
  SPEAKER_02: There's a lot of,
• 58:09
  SPEAKER_02: you know,
• 58:09
  SPEAKER_02: social media brings out the worst in everybody and it's clickbait,
• 58:14
  SPEAKER_02: you know, rage bait drives your algorithm.
• 58:17
  SPEAKER_02: I left Facebook a couple of years ago and I don't regret it other
• 58:21
  SPEAKER_02: than maybe selling stuff on Facebook marketplace on occasion.
• 58:25
  SPEAKER_02: But, you know, if you think about it, by 2016, those people had gotten rabid.
• 58:31
  SPEAKER_02: It wasn't.
• 58:32
  SPEAKER_02: Politics,
• 58:33
  SPEAKER_02: it was these crazy people screaming about racist memes about Obama and Hillary
• 58:39
  SPEAKER_02: and whatever.
• 58:40
  SPEAKER_02: It was this, you know, 30 odd percent minority that became the loudest voices in the room.
• 58:47
  SPEAKER_02: That's, you know, and we let
• 58:50
  SPEAKER_01: it happen.
• 58:51
  SPEAKER_01: We let it happen is the problem.
• 58:53
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I mean, yeah, we did.
• 58:54
  SPEAKER_02: I mean, but that's the thing.
• 58:57
  SPEAKER_02: So when people say,
• 58:57
  SPEAKER_02: I don't like social media because it's so political,
• 59:00
  SPEAKER_02: it's like, well, yes, you're right.
• 59:01
  SPEAKER_02: But if you look back at the origins of that,
• 59:03
  SPEAKER_02: and I did not do a study on this,
• 59:05
  SPEAKER_02: you know, I didn't do a deep dive or anything like that.
• 59:07
  SPEAKER_01: We don't have peer review research right now.
• 59:10
  SPEAKER_02: No, I have some, but it's not on that topic, unfortunately.
• 59:14
  SPEAKER_02: But, you know, if you think about it, it wasn't people on the left in 20...
• 59:21
  SPEAKER_02: In 2014,
• 59:23
  SPEAKER_02: screaming about we need better healthcare,
• 59:25
  SPEAKER_02: it was people on the right screaming, oh my God, you're trying to make us socialist.
• 59:32
  SPEAKER_02: That was the loudest voices in the room.
• 59:34
  SPEAKER_02: At least it was to me.
• 59:36
  SPEAKER_02: Thinking back on this,
• 59:37
  SPEAKER_02: my memory might be murky,
• 59:39
  SPEAKER_02: but if MAGA were to disappear, who would be making money anymore?
• 59:48
  SPEAKER_02: What would the media be doing?
• 59:50
  SPEAKER_02: If you can't sell outrage, you know.
• 59:53
  SPEAKER_00: They'll sell fear some other way.
• 59:57
  SPEAKER_00: Well, sure.
• 59:57
  SPEAKER_02: But, you know, I mean, somebody.
• 1:00:00
  SPEAKER_00: Fear mongering and stupidity.
• 1:00:05
  SPEAKER_02: And weaponized stupidity.
• 1:00:07
  SPEAKER_00: Listen, this was all part of Project 2025.
• 1:00:09
  SPEAKER_00: And this was going on well before that.
• 1:00:12
  SPEAKER_00: It was make America stupid, make America poor, and make America sick.
• 1:00:20
  SPEAKER_00: And when you do that, you can control the population, okay?
• 1:00:23
  SPEAKER_00: So that you can build shit like this.
• 1:00:29
  SPEAKER_02: And don't educate America either.
• 1:00:30
  SPEAKER_02: I think you're going to need to share this one.
• 1:00:32
  SPEAKER_00: So that you can build shit like this, okay?
• 1:00:36
  SPEAKER_00: There is no reason this needs to be bigger than the fucking Art de Triomphe in Paris.
• 1:00:43
  SPEAKER_01: Also, if they can, with a straight face, say that we don't have money to fund healthcare...
• 1:00:51
  SPEAKER_01: Then this shit isn't necessary.
• 1:00:54
  SPEAKER_01: Then we don't have the money to fund this either.
• 1:00:56
  SPEAKER_01: If we can't fund our health care or
• 1:00:58
  SPEAKER_01: our education system, then we don't need a fucking arc.
• 1:01:04
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 1:01:04
  SPEAKER_00: Well, and here's what bothers me even more.
• 1:01:06
  SPEAKER_00: Everybody's been wondering,
• 1:01:07
  SPEAKER_00: this is how much everything's going to fucking cost when it's all fucking said
• 1:01:10
  SPEAKER_00: and done.
• 1:01:11
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 1:01:12
  SPEAKER_00: The arc is going to cost a hundred million.
• 1:01:15
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 1:01:17
  SPEAKER_01: I'm going to guess it's going to be a lot higher than that.
• 1:01:19
  SPEAKER_00: It's going to be a lot harder than that.
• 1:01:20
  SPEAKER_00: Multiply by five.
• 1:01:22
  SPEAKER_00: We already know the ballroom's at a billion.
• 1:01:25
  SPEAKER_00: Okay?
• 1:01:29
  SPEAKER_00: The Lincoln Memorial reflecting...
• 1:01:32
  SPEAKER_00: This is probably the dumbest fucking thing that was done.
• 1:01:35
  SPEAKER_00: Okay?
• 1:01:37
  SPEAKER_00: And then the Kennedy Center, which, you know, I mean, enough, right?
• 1:01:41
  SPEAKER_00: Like, I'm not saying that the buildings and
• 1:01:43
  SPEAKER_00: the executive office buildings don't need upgrades because you have to upgrade them.
• 1:01:48
  SPEAKER_00: Okay?
• 1:01:48
  SPEAKER_00: Okay?
• 1:01:49
  SPEAKER_00: But the whole point is he's literally changing the entire facade of Washington, D.C. Oh, yeah.
• 1:01:56
  SPEAKER_00: I hate to break it to you.
• 1:01:57
  SPEAKER_00: Nobody's ever going to fucking call it Trump, D.C. anymore.
• 1:02:00
  SPEAKER_00: Like it's always going to be Washington, D.C.,
• 1:02:02
  SPEAKER_00: just like I'll never call fucking PBI those other three fucking letters for
• 1:02:06
  SPEAKER_00: that stupid airport.
• 1:02:07
  SPEAKER_00: OK, my fucking home airport.
• 1:02:09
  SPEAKER_00: OK, National Garden of American Heroes.
• 1:02:14
  SPEAKER_00: Now, we've never I've never even heard of this.
• 1:02:16
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, that's a new one to me.
• 1:02:18
  SPEAKER_00: The plans include 250 life-size statues of famous figures so that birds can shit all over them.
• 1:02:27
  SPEAKER_00: Like Washington, Presley, Ronald Reagan, Kobe Bryant.
• 1:02:32
  SPEAKER_00: Now, if you're going to build something like this, that's fine.
• 1:02:35
  SPEAKER_00: But do it through the proper channels with Congress.
• 1:02:38
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, this is something that I would love to go to.
• 1:02:43
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I actually like visiting DC in the before times because it's one of
• 1:02:48
  SPEAKER_02: the most beautiful cities that we have.
• 1:02:50
  SPEAKER_02: It's the most unique city in America in terms of just how it was laid out.
• 1:02:54
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it's beautiful.
• 1:02:55
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, the Rose Garden,
• 1:02:56
  SPEAKER_00: that's a whole nother, like, that's just going to rub everybody the wrong way.
• 1:03:00
  SPEAKER_00: And then all the projects that are literally causing issues.
• 1:03:03
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, but for all of this,
• 1:03:05
  SPEAKER_00: this total price tag,
• 1:03:06
  SPEAKER_00: everybody, if you're counting, is about $1.5 billion right now.
• 1:03:13
  SPEAKER_00: And this thing's just a,
• 1:03:14
  SPEAKER_00: and by the way,
• 1:03:14
  SPEAKER_00: Nick, didn't we talk about this, what the imagery was with this imagery up here?
• 1:03:19
  SPEAKER_01: It's very, this is all very Nazi-esque.
• 1:03:23
  SPEAKER_02: Yes, it is.
• 1:03:23
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, well, there was the Hitler arch that was going to happen.
• 1:03:26
  SPEAKER_02: Right.
• 1:03:27
  SPEAKER_02: He wants this one to be bigger than that.
• 1:03:29
  SPEAKER_01: Right.
• 1:03:29
  SPEAKER_02: No, it's absolutely, well, I mean, don't even start me on the new Space Force uniforms.
• 1:03:34
  SPEAKER_02: I mean, Jesus God, that's like straight up.
• 1:03:38
  SPEAKER_02: I mean, we can be funny about it.
• 1:03:40
  SPEAKER_02: I mean, you know,
• 1:03:43
  SPEAKER_02: Ellie Leonard,
• 1:03:44
  SPEAKER_02: at least she was the first one who called them Spaceballs uniforms, which I agree.
• 1:03:48
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, it's hysterical.
• 1:03:49
  SPEAKER_02: She was the first one I saw calling them that.
• 1:03:51
  SPEAKER_02: That is hysterical, yeah.
• 1:03:52
  SPEAKER_02: But even if you go with the more commonly accepted Starship Troopers,
• 1:03:57
  SPEAKER_02: which was a terrible movie.
• 1:03:58
  SPEAKER_02: I saw it when it came out, and I only saw that movie for one reason.
• 1:04:04
  SPEAKER_02: And it was because it had the trailer for the,
• 1:04:10
  SPEAKER_02: it was one of the movies that had a trailer for episode one of Star Wars.
• 1:04:15
  SPEAKER_02: I know people probably haven't seen this.
• 1:04:17
  SPEAKER_01: I'm going to push back because I love Starship Troopers
• 1:04:20
  SPEAKER_01: because most people don't realize that it's a parody on fascism.
• 1:04:25
  SPEAKER_01: Like it's an analog on fascism.
• 1:04:29
  SPEAKER_01: And like, Yes,
• 1:04:30
  SPEAKER_01: you're supposed to see the rah-rah in it,
• 1:04:33
  SPEAKER_01: but it is also just specifically about exposing the bullshit that is fascism.
• 1:04:39
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, so Star Troopers, there was another one.
• 1:04:42
  SPEAKER_02: Maybe I'm getting my movies crossed.
• 1:04:45
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, just the fucking Nazi talk of this is just crazy.
• 1:04:50
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, well, I mean, even if Starship Troopers didn't exist...
• 1:04:54
  SPEAKER_02: That's a Nazi fucking uniform.
• 1:04:56
  SPEAKER_02: And it doesn't take a genius to figure this out.
• 1:04:59
  SPEAKER_02: I watched all those shows,
• 1:05:00
  SPEAKER_02: you know, look,
• 1:05:01
  SPEAKER_02: I watched Wonder Woman when I was a kid and she fought Nazis and,
• 1:05:04
  SPEAKER_02: you know,
• 1:05:05
  SPEAKER_02: you know, Captain America punches Nazis and, and they were all dressed that way.
• 1:05:10
  SPEAKER_02: Superman punches Nazis.
• 1:05:13
  SPEAKER_01: Oh yeah.
• 1:05:14
  SPEAKER_01: Like what, like,
• 1:05:16
  SPEAKER_01: All we're doing is making caricatures of ourselves and yeah these are
• 1:05:20
  SPEAKER_01: the most SS like straight up uniforms that you can get.
• 1:05:26
  SPEAKER_01: This is Imperial officers with their shiny high black boots that they're gonna have
• 1:05:30
  SPEAKER_01: to polish because those boots don't stay shiny themselves
• 1:05:34
  SPEAKER_01: so these folks are gonna have to sit there and polish those fucking boots.
• 1:05:37
  SPEAKER_01: We got rid of polished boots a while ago In the military.
• 1:05:42
  SPEAKER_01: Now, welcome back.
• 1:05:43
  SPEAKER_01: You guys get Nazi uniforms.
• 1:05:45
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, the only thing he's missing is a riding fan.
• 1:05:50
  SPEAKER_02: This is insane.
• 1:05:51
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, yeah, like a little
• 1:05:54
  SPEAKER_02: riding crop
• 1:05:56
  SPEAKER_00: or something.
• 1:05:57
  SPEAKER_00: Even the rank insignias.
• 1:05:59
  SPEAKER_00: Look at the 03.
• 1:06:00
  SPEAKER_00: It's way down to bottom.
• 1:06:03
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, so you have the star, and then you've got like the Enterprise.
• 1:06:08
  SPEAKER_02: Right, the Star Trek Delta, right there.
• 1:06:10
  SPEAKER_00: Star Trek, right?
• 1:06:11
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, but look at the service dress.
• 1:06:15
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, that is not an American Eagle.
• 1:06:18
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, that's like, I mean, this is like right out of the Third Reich.
• 1:06:25
  SPEAKER_02: I'm assuming Stephen Miller was the chief fashion designer for these.
• 1:06:32
  SPEAKER_02: I mean, I just got a guess, but I just, you know.
• 1:06:35
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, listen,
• 1:06:36
  SPEAKER_00: we all fought,
• 1:06:37
  SPEAKER_00: like our forefathers and our ancestors fought World War
• 1:06:43
  SPEAKER_00: and our families fought World War II so
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  SPEAKER_00: that this shit would never fucking happen again.
• 1:06:47
  SPEAKER_00: And I will be damned as I breathe air on this planet.
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  SPEAKER_00: If I ever see a uniform like that.
• 1:06:59
  SPEAKER_02: Even the current German military doesn't
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  SPEAKER_00: have that.
• 1:07:04
  SPEAKER_02: Right, right.
• 1:07:06
  SPEAKER_02: I mean, going back to the arch, it's emblematic of How this administration functions.
• 1:07:16
  SPEAKER_02: And I know people are like, but that's illegal under the courts.
• 1:07:19
  SPEAKER_02: And a lot of the,
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  SPEAKER_02: especially the lower courts have been doing tremendous work in terms
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  SPEAKER_02: of attempting this.
• 1:07:26
  SPEAKER_02: They don't care.
• 1:07:28
  SPEAKER_02: The administration
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  SPEAKER_02: operates under that premise of it's better to beg for forgiveness
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  SPEAKER_02: after the fact than ask for permission
• 1:07:41
  SPEAKER_01: They are doing things.
• 1:07:42
  SPEAKER_01: They don't even do that.
• 1:07:43
  SPEAKER_01: They're certainly not even doing that.
• 1:07:45
  SPEAKER_02: But they're basically saying, I dare you to freaking do anything about this.
• 1:07:50
  SPEAKER_02: And by the time the courts do act,
• 1:07:53
  SPEAKER_02: because courts move slow,
• 1:07:54
  SPEAKER_02: even when they're correct, they've got a big asshole on the ground in D.C.
• 1:08:00
  SPEAKER_02: Or next to the White House,
• 1:08:02
  SPEAKER_02: or regardless of whether construction, you know, they're just going to do.
• 1:08:06
  SPEAKER_02: And until somebody on the opposition,
• 1:08:10
  SPEAKER_02: and this is why I think the Democratic Party has a low favorability as a party.
• 1:08:17
  SPEAKER_02: Where is the person throwing the sand in the gears?
• 1:08:20
  SPEAKER_02: Where is the guy who's going to counter Tommy fucking Tuberville,
• 1:08:25
  SPEAKER_02: who has got to be the dumbest box of rocks I've ever seen?
• 1:08:29
  SPEAKER_02: More so than Mark
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  SPEAKER_00: Wayne Mullin?
• 1:08:33
  SPEAKER_02: Well, I mean, there's an ongoing content.
• 1:08:35
  SPEAKER_02: Mark Wayne's not in the Senate anymore.
• 1:08:37
  SPEAKER_02: So in terms of, I think Tommy Toomerville gets to be the worst.
• 1:08:43
  SPEAKER_02: But he was sitting there.
• 1:08:44
  SPEAKER_02: How many military promotions did he block?
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  SPEAKER_02: Simply because unanimous consent is required.
• 1:08:51
  SPEAKER_02: The Senate has rules and they follow those rules.
• 1:08:54
  SPEAKER_02: So fucking use them.
• 1:08:56
  SPEAKER_02: This is why we're pissed at people like Chuck Schumer.
• 1:08:59
  SPEAKER_02: Not because Chuck Schumer doesn't have the right policies.
• 1:09:03
  SPEAKER_02: I probably agree with 90 plus percent of Chuck Schumer's policy stuff.
• 1:09:09
  SPEAKER_02: But why aren't you freaking doing anything?
• 1:09:11
  SPEAKER_02: Well, we wrote another letter.
• 1:09:13
  SPEAKER_00: Because...
• 1:09:15
  SPEAKER_00: Because it's supposed to be the Senate is the intellectual side of government.
• 1:09:19
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, but the Senate used to have duels.
• 1:09:23
  SPEAKER_01: We've had duels.
• 1:09:24
  SPEAKER_01: So they can shut the fuck up about intellectualism.
• 1:09:27
  SPEAKER_01: They shot each other at one point in our history.
• 1:09:30
  SPEAKER_01: And look at that.
• 1:09:34
  SPEAKER_01: I'm not suggesting it comes to that.
• 1:09:37
  SPEAKER_01: No, I'm not suggesting it comes to that either.
• 1:09:40
  SPEAKER_01: But it's like, what are they going to do?
• 1:09:41
  SPEAKER_01: Maybe it should actually.
• 1:09:42
  SPEAKER_01: Maybe it should come
• 1:09:43
  SPEAKER_00: back down to that.
• 1:09:45
  SPEAKER_01: But the unanimous consent is
• 1:09:47
  SPEAKER_02: following the rules.
• 1:09:48
  SPEAKER_01: If a senator ejects the rules
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  SPEAKER_02: to your advantage.
• 1:09:51
  SPEAKER_02: Exactly.
• 1:09:52
  SPEAKER_02: I'm not saying break the rules.
• 1:09:54
  SPEAKER_02: I'm saying just do what the other side is doing, which is using those rules.
• 1:09:59
  SPEAKER_02: Let's not forget why we're here.
• 1:10:01
  SPEAKER_02: We're here because of one man.
• 1:10:04
  SPEAKER_02: And it ain't Donald J. Trump.
• 1:10:06
  SPEAKER_02: It's Mitch fucking McConnell.
• 1:10:09
  SPEAKER_02: We are here because Mitch McConnell implemented everything before Trump was even elected.
• 1:10:16
  SPEAKER_02: He stole Supreme Court seats.
• 1:10:18
  SPEAKER_02: He literally went around the rules.
• 1:10:22
  SPEAKER_02: And nobody had the wherewithal to say, fuck you, push back.
• 1:10:27
  SPEAKER_02: Or, you know, oh, I guess we have to play by the rules because Mitch said, no, screw that guy.
• 1:10:32
  SPEAKER_02: You know, let's not forget all the pictures of Mitch in the 80s with the...
• 1:10:36
  SPEAKER_01: Confederate flag behind him, okay?
• 1:10:39
  SPEAKER_01: Or that he used to be called Moscow Mitch because he took a lot of money from Russia.
• 1:10:43
  SPEAKER_01: So let's not forget about who actually started all of this.
• 1:10:48
  SPEAKER_01: Moscow fucking Mitch McConnell, who's missing.
• 1:10:53
  SPEAKER_01: MIA Mitch.
• 1:10:54
  SPEAKER_01: MIA, possibly KIA, of his own accord because he's old and health problems happen.
• 1:11:03
  SPEAKER_00: He's FIA.
• 1:11:05
  SPEAKER_00: He's NFIA, non-functionally.
• 1:11:10
  SPEAKER_01: Whatever he is, he ain't coming back.
• 1:11:12
  SPEAKER_00: He's not coming back.
• 1:11:17
  SPEAKER_01: This is a precursor to what they're going to do when Trump dies, too.
• 1:11:20
  SPEAKER_00: I posted that 90 fucking days ago he wasn't coming back.
• 1:11:24
  SPEAKER_01: Ever.
• 1:11:24
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, we all knew he wasn't.
• 1:11:26
  SPEAKER_01: This is just a way for them to grift more money.
• 1:11:30
  SPEAKER_01: Well, a lot of people thought they were going to come back.
• 1:11:33
  SPEAKER_02: So he implemented that.
• 1:11:34
  SPEAKER_02: He could have he could have had the Republicans impeach the MFR because he had
• 1:11:40
  SPEAKER_02: that much power in the Senate.
• 1:11:42
  SPEAKER_02: And at that moment,
• 1:11:43
  SPEAKER_02: there wasn't anybody in the Senate who didn't see
• 1:11:45
  SPEAKER_02: with their own two eyes what what had happened on January 6th.
• 1:11:48
  SPEAKER_02: OK, the fact that he caved,
• 1:11:51
  SPEAKER_02: you know, meant that power was more important to him than his country.
• 1:11:55
  SPEAKER_02: So, you know, if there's an anti the
• 1:11:57
  SPEAKER_00: point, no.
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  SPEAKER_00: No, no, it was the Supreme Court.
• 1:12:00
  SPEAKER_00: He wanted the majority on the court before he died.
• 1:12:03
  SPEAKER_00: That was his whole mission.
• 1:12:06
  SPEAKER_00: He was plain as day,
• 1:12:07
  SPEAKER_00: even back in the 80s about that,
• 1:12:09
  SPEAKER_00: how he wanted the court to be a conservative majority for 20 years.
• 1:12:15
  SPEAKER_00: That was his whole plan.
• 1:12:16
  SPEAKER_02: Well, he's got 6'3 right now.
• 1:12:18
  SPEAKER_02: And one of those came in right before the 2020 election.
• 1:12:22
  SPEAKER_02: So hypocrisy is meaningless.
• 1:12:26
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 1:12:30
  SPEAKER_02: Back when I used to be a long-haired metal guy,
• 1:12:36
  SPEAKER_02: one of my favorite bands,
• 1:12:38
  SPEAKER_02: one of the all-time favorite bands,
• 1:12:40
  SPEAKER_02: if you are into heavy metal at all, is Motorhead.
• 1:12:45
  SPEAKER_02: Motorhead, Lemmy, fucking A, man.
• 1:12:49
  SPEAKER_02: I saw them at a club once, I saw them multiple times.
• 1:12:54
  SPEAKER_02: They have an album called And the title is bizarre,
• 1:12:58
  SPEAKER_02: the song title is weird, but bear with me, work with me on this.
• 1:13:03
  SPEAKER_02: Look up the lyrics to a song called Orgasmatron by Motorhead, okay?
• 1:13:11
  SPEAKER_02: It's not what you think.
• 1:13:14
  SPEAKER_02: The name itself is...
• 1:13:18
  SPEAKER_02: This came out in the 80s, I think the early 80s.
• 1:13:23
  SPEAKER_02: The lyrics are fucking on point to all of this because it talks about religion
• 1:13:29
  SPEAKER_02: and politicians and how everyone is a sycophant.
• 1:13:33
  SPEAKER_02: And I swear to freaking God, I used to have that.
• 1:13:37
  SPEAKER_02: I took the lyrics and printed them out on my image writer printer.
• 1:13:41
  SPEAKER_02: You know what the ribbon is?
• 1:13:42
  SPEAKER_02: You know, going through the thing.
• 1:13:45
  SPEAKER_02: In old English font,
• 1:13:47
  SPEAKER_02: in an old English font,
• 1:13:49
  SPEAKER_02: like Lucida Blackletter,
• 1:13:51
  SPEAKER_02: or one of those ones on my Mac in college,
• 1:13:54
  SPEAKER_02: and I tack that thing up to my door because In the hope that people would read it.
• 1:14:02
  SPEAKER_02: And if you read, I'm not making this up.
• 1:14:04
  SPEAKER_02: If you read through that,
• 1:14:06
  SPEAKER_02: it applies to almost every level of our government with maybe the exception of RFK
• 1:14:11
  SPEAKER_02: because they didn't have HHS things, but it talks about all of this.
• 1:14:17
  SPEAKER_02: And if you're a metalhead, just side note, Sepultura has an excellent cover of that song.
• 1:14:23
  SPEAKER_02: So I'll just run out there.
• 1:14:26
  SPEAKER_02: But yeah,
• 1:14:26
  SPEAKER_02: Google those lyrics because it's absolutely on point for this dystopia
• 1:14:32
  SPEAKER_02: that we're living in now.
• 1:14:35
  SPEAKER_02: So, there you go.
• 1:14:36
  SPEAKER_00: I can one-up you, Jason.
• 1:14:37
  SPEAKER_00: I wanted to bring in some pop culture.
• 1:14:38
  SPEAKER_02: How about Fall of Confusion by the Temptation?
• 1:14:42
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, I'll have to look that one up.
• 1:14:43
  SPEAKER_00: Fight the Power, Public Enemy.
• 1:14:45
  SPEAKER_00: Fight the Power, Killing in the Name of Rage.
• 1:14:46
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, yeah, any of those.
• 1:14:48
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, we can go through anything.
• 1:14:49
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, yeah, those are all...
• 1:14:51
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, yeah,
• 1:14:52
  SPEAKER_02: those are all really good,
• 1:14:53
  SPEAKER_02: but I'm partial to the Motorhead one just because of the progression in the,
• 1:14:59
  SPEAKER_02: you know, it wasn't just screaming about one thing.
• 1:15:01
  SPEAKER_02: And then, yeah, and hey, I saw Public Enemy live once with Anthrax.
• 1:15:07
  SPEAKER_02: They did bring the noise together.
• 1:15:10
  SPEAKER_02: It was pretty badass, just saying.
• 1:15:12
  SPEAKER_02: But...
• 1:15:15
  SPEAKER_01: Let's read the middle verse here from Orgasmatron.
• 1:15:19
  SPEAKER_02: I kiss the
• 1:15:20
  SPEAKER_01: truth.
• 1:15:20
  SPEAKER_01: I rule the world.
• 1:15:21
  SPEAKER_01: My crown is called deceit.
• 1:15:23
  SPEAKER_01: I am the emperor of lies.
• 1:15:25
  SPEAKER_01: You grovel at my feet.
• 1:15:27
  SPEAKER_01: I rob you and I slaughter you.
• 1:15:29
  SPEAKER_01: Your downfall is my game.
• 1:15:31
  SPEAKER_01: And still you play the sycophant and revel in your pain.
• 1:15:35
  SPEAKER_01: And all my promises are lies.
• 1:15:37
  SPEAKER_01: All my love is hate.
• 1:15:39
  SPEAKER_01: I am the politician and I decide your fate.
• 1:15:41
  SPEAKER_01: I decide your fate.
• 1:15:43
  SPEAKER_02: Yes, 100%.
• 1:15:45
  SPEAKER_02: See, that's what I'm saying.
• 1:15:46
  SPEAKER_02: And it's even more badass when Lemmy is singing it.
• 1:15:49
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 1:15:49
  SPEAKER_01: And not just me reading it on a bass level.
• 1:15:53
  SPEAKER_01: That's what I'm saying.
• 1:15:54
  SPEAKER_02: That was something that was ingrained into me in the early,
• 1:15:58
  SPEAKER_02: you know,
• 1:15:58
  SPEAKER_02: when I was in college and it had been out for a while,
• 1:16:02
  SPEAKER_02: even before that,
• 1:16:02
  SPEAKER_02: I didn't have that album, but I'm like, boy, that is so on point for things.
• 1:16:07
  SPEAKER_02: And
• 1:16:10
  SPEAKER_02: It's gotten more true as the years have gone by.
• 1:16:14
  SPEAKER_00: But isn't that the case of most of a lot of music?
• 1:16:19
  SPEAKER_00: A lot of the music comes out of political dissidence?
• 1:16:23
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, a lot of
• 1:16:24
  SPEAKER_00: music is about
• 1:16:25
  SPEAKER_02: politics.
• 1:16:25
  SPEAKER_02: I mean, that's a dystopian universe kind of song right there.
• 1:16:29
  SPEAKER_01: Rock opera put out some really good political hits.
• 1:16:34
  SPEAKER_01: Like, if you want a good anti-political or like
• 1:16:40
  SPEAKER_01: Working your way forward is good songs about fascism and different things.
• 1:16:47
  SPEAKER_01: Go to rock operas.
• 1:16:49
  SPEAKER_01: They're the go-to.
• 1:16:52
  SPEAKER_01: Those guys and gals and everywhere in between were like, yeah, I know what I'm doing.
• 1:16:58
  SPEAKER_01: I know the assignment.
• 1:16:59
  SPEAKER_01: I understand the assignment.
• 1:17:01
  SPEAKER_01: Go listen to 2112 by Rush.
• 1:17:03
  SPEAKER_01: That song is literally about a post-fascistic world.
• 1:17:08
  SPEAKER_01: And like the destruction of anything fun and beautiful and pretty.
• 1:17:11
  SPEAKER_01: Like all of it.
• 1:17:14
  SPEAKER_01: Rock opera is about fascism and we need to fight fascism together on that.
• 1:17:19
  SPEAKER_02: I will throw out Operation Mindcrime by Queensryche.
• 1:17:24
  SPEAKER_02: Banger of an album.
• 1:17:25
  SPEAKER_02: It's a rock opera.
• 1:17:26
  SPEAKER_02: Talks about a guy manipulating people.
• 1:17:33
  SPEAKER_01: Rock stars knew what they were doing.
• 1:17:34
  SPEAKER_01: They understood the assignment.
• 1:17:36
  SPEAKER_01: All right, gents.
• 1:17:38
  SPEAKER_01: Well, Eric is off video here.
• 1:17:40
  SPEAKER_01: We are a little longer than our hour, which is pretty awesome.
• 1:17:45
  SPEAKER_01: It's been a great conversation.
• 1:17:46
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 1:17:47
  SPEAKER_01: Sorry, guys.
• 1:17:47
  SPEAKER_00: I had to fill out a physical therapy prescription for a patient.
• 1:17:51
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• 1:17:54
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• 1:17:57
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• 1:17:59
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• 1:18:02
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• 1:18:06
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• 1:18:18
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• 1:18:21
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• 1:19:29
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• 1:20:07
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• 1:20:10
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• 1:20:12
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• 1:20:18
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• 1:20:31
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• 1:20:35
  SPEAKER_00: No, we leave that for Nick and me to talk about every Thursday.
• 1:20:38
  SPEAKER_01: There you go.
• 1:20:39
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• 1:20:39
  SPEAKER_01: I got to be a part of it.
• 1:20:40
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• 1:20:42
  SPEAKER_01: Doc, Eric, how about you, my friend?
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  SPEAKER_00: All right.
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• 1:20:45
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• 1:21:24
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• 1:21:56
  SPEAKER_01: And then finally,
• 1:21:57
  SPEAKER_01: come hang out here if you're not already a subscriber of Sick
• 1:22:01
  SPEAKER_01: of this Shit Publications where we're sick of this shit that's going on.
• 1:22:06
  SPEAKER_01: We're telling people to just suck less and do a little bit more and be a little bit better.
• 1:22:11
  SPEAKER_00: Don't steal my thunder when we talk about the promotional shit.
• 1:22:16
  SPEAKER_00: Come on.
• 1:22:17
  SPEAKER_00: This is my shtick at the end of this show.
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  SPEAKER_00: Do not take my shtick.
• 1:22:20
  SPEAKER_01: See, I have my water bottle too.
• 1:22:23
  SPEAKER_01: I like to bring it around.
• 1:22:24
  SPEAKER_00: You need to just suck less and not interfere with my promo stuff.
• 1:22:28
  SPEAKER_01: Drink more water.
• 1:22:30
  SPEAKER_01: Drink more water with your just suck less water bottle.
• 1:22:32
  SPEAKER_01: But please come support Sick of this Shit Publications and the work that I'm doing.
• 1:22:36
  SPEAKER_01: It helps continue what I'm able to do, grow my audience as well as expand into other platforms.
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  SPEAKER_01: Grow and just get our message out there.
• 1:22:47
  SPEAKER_01: All we really do here on Sick of this Shit Publications is talk
• 1:22:51
  SPEAKER_01: about chronic illness,
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  SPEAKER_01: disability rights and freedoms,
• 1:22:54
  SPEAKER_01: veteran issues,
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  SPEAKER_01: And whatever the hell we talk about here, which is normally medical side anyway.
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  SPEAKER_01: So I'm really concerned about the shit going on.
• 1:23:03
  SPEAKER_01: And I know a lot of you are too.
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  SPEAKER_01: And we stick together as a community because community is how we're going to get
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  SPEAKER_01: through this shit.
• 1:23:10
  SPEAKER_01: So please come support Sick of this Shit Publications however you can.
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  SPEAKER_01: Go support Dr.
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  SPEAKER_01: Eric Lulove and support Jason O'Dell and all of our other friends in the audience
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  SPEAKER_01: who continue to put in really incredible effort and work.
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  SPEAKER_01: Go subscribe to each other.
• 1:23:25
  SPEAKER_01: And then when you're done,
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  SPEAKER_01: when the replay comes out,
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  SPEAKER_01: hit the heart, do the restacks, all the things, and join us.
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  SPEAKER_01: Join us and continue the work and make sure you talk about what we've talked about
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  SPEAKER_01: and spread the issues too for your friends and family.
• 1:23:39
  SPEAKER_01: So thanks everyone.
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  SPEAKER_01: We're done being sick of this shit here.
• 1:23:43
  SPEAKER_01: So now we're doing this shit.
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  SPEAKER_01: Thanks y'all.
• 1:23:47
  SPEAKER_01: I'm on a PC.
• 1:23:47
  SPEAKER_00: I don't do hearts.
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  SPEAKER_00: I can't do animation.
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  SPEAKER_02: We gotta work on you then, sir.
• 1:23:56
  SPEAKER_00: Happy 9-11 tomorrow.
• 1:23:57
  SPEAKER_00: Everybody do what you got to do for your 9-11 support tomorrow.
• 1:24:00
  SPEAKER_00: Stay safe.
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  SPEAKER_00: Remember and memorialize our brave Americans who lost their lives
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  SPEAKER_00: and our brave firefighters in the fire department of New York
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  SPEAKER_00: who sacrificed themselves 25 years ago.
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  SPEAKER_01: And remind people that Donald Trump did nothing but try and steal from
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  SPEAKER_01: the first responders and the people of New York.
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  SPEAKER_01: And is making up bullshit stories
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  SPEAKER_02: about how he got carried away
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  SPEAKER_02: by two big firefighters because he loves
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  SPEAKER_01: telling stories
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  SPEAKER_01: about big burly men carrying him off into the sunset.
• 1:24:28
  SPEAKER_02: Interesting coincidences there.
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  SPEAKER_01: Anyway, have a great day, y'all.
• 1:24:33
  SPEAKER_01: We'll see y'all next week.
• 1:24:34
  SPEAKER_01: Thanks, everyone.
• 1:24:35
  SPEAKER_00: Bye, everybody.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thanks, guys.