Latest / The TMI Show with Ted Rall and Manila Chan / WHO Warning Weight-Loss Drugs for Kids, Kim Kardashian’s Five Nannies & Noah’s Ark Search | TMI Ep468
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- 0:20Hello. Good morning, everybody. Happy Thursday,
- 0:23October the 8th, 2026. I'm Manila Chan. Ted Rall
- 0:26will be with us in a moment because he is on
- 0:28his potty break, as you guys know. So we are
- 0:34the TMI show, the Ted Manila Information Show.
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- 0:45that you want us to stay. Producer Robby taking
- 0:47a seat in the background there. FYI, next week
- 0:51TMI is taking all of next week off. So we are
- 0:56not going to be on next week, Tuesday and Thursday,
- 0:59because we don't have a Robby. We don't have
- 1:02a Robby. It is his birthday on Monday. It'll be
- 1:07Robby's birthday on Monday. So it's my, in
- 1:10my 20th wedding anniversary on the 14th. So we
- 1:13are going to be going to Glacier National Park.
- 1:16The low temperature is expected to be in the
- 1:18teens. Watch out for bears. Oh, yeah. I'm taking
- 1:22my rifle and my pistol. So bears go into the
- 1:25cities now. We've seen many articles.
- 1:28They don't live in the forest anymore. Ted,
- 1:31Paddington Bear. They go metro. That's so cute.
- 1:36Going at the cafes. God, talk about how
- 1:39men on the subway get
- 1:42accused of manspreading and taking up two seats.
- 1:45Man, can you imagine the bears, how much room
- 1:47they take up? No, we're serious. Oh, it's, I think
- 1:50it's Fat Bear Week or Fat Bear Month or whatever.
- 1:54Obese bear. We love that. So Robby, Robby hopefully
- 1:57will be spared from all the bears. But so we're
- 2:00taking next week off because it's just, it's just
- 2:03too hard to do all the post-production
- 2:05without Robby. So we will wish him a happy... Oh,
- 2:09really? So we have, wait, we have all next week
- 2:11off. Yeah, well, all next, our two days. So happy
- 2:15early birthday, Robby. Happy anniversary. 20 years
- 2:19is a big milestone. Yeah, true. I don't, I do not
- 2:23know why Kezia stayed with me that long, with
- 2:26me being... Don't, don't jinx it. She could, she could,
- 2:29she could wake up. Well, if she does, Kazakhstan
- 2:34or a small Chinese village is calling my name.
- 2:38That's where you go next. Yeah. So there you
- 2:42go. So next week, we might as well just not be
- 2:45here because it's too hard to do without the
- 2:50Robby, the Robert. Oh, and all right. So let
- 2:53me do a little bit of housekeeping. Done. So as you
- 2:56all know, we've been working on ways, trying to
- 2:58get TMI viable and help out with the program.
- 3:02I did not reveal this on Deprogrammed a little bit
- 3:06ago. So those of you who watch now get to hear
- 3:08this first. For the first time in TMI history,
- 3:12we are being syndicated by the Freedom First
- 3:15Network. Yay, thank you, Mr. Dornick. Yes, thank
- 3:19you, Mr. Dornick. For another show, Jeff Dornick.
- 3:22He is hooking us up, going to be increasing our
- 3:25exposure. And Manila, can I let them know the
- 3:27news tomorrow? Well, it's not big news. I'm just
- 3:31going to be a guest. No, it is big news. Manila,
- 3:35our very own Manila, our formerly pregnant Asian
- 3:41lady. That's my title. Could easily be pregnant
- 3:45again anytime. She very well could be. I'm not going
- 3:48to put it past her at this point. Oh my God,
- 3:51please don't. She will be interviewed by Jeff
- 3:53Dornick tomorrow. About her pregnancy. Well,
- 3:57what it's going to be about is how the Biden
- 4:00administration censored her and has done everything
- 4:02they can to destroy her. How YouTube not only
- 4:06banned her professional channel, but also banned
- 4:08her personal channel, and talked about how the
- 4:11dangers of being a truth-teller means that the
- 4:14oligarchs who run our government try to silence
- 4:16you, and how if you're going to be independent
- 4:20media, then independent platforms are necessary
- 4:22for independent media to work. Yeah. So y'all
- 4:25will want to, y'all will want to be here for
- 4:27that. All true. So I don't, I don't even, I didn't
- 4:31even do any explosive reporting. It's just
- 4:34who I was. It's just because of where I worked.
- 4:38And maybe I've said a few controversial things,
- 4:41but they're all backed by evidence. So yeah,
- 4:44that makes a difference. They don't like that. Yeah.
- 4:48You're not supposed to tell the truth. You're
- 4:50supposed to always lie. I always supplied receipts.
- 4:57Yeah, I always supplied receipts. And I guess
- 5:01they didn't like that. And damn the Russians
- 5:04for letting me say that on their television airwaves.
- 5:09It is a sick world when you have to rely on Russian
- 5:13and Chinese and Arab media to tell you what's
- 5:18going on in your own fucking country. But yeah.
- 5:21Listen, you have freedom of speech so long as
- 5:23it's in an empty room. Yes, that's true. And
- 5:27as long as it's, yeah, yeah, it's as long
- 5:29as it's unheard and unpaid. Then you have free
- 5:34speech. Correct. Correct. As long as you
- 5:37can have your YouTube channel as long
- 5:40as you're not monetized, because if
- 5:42you're monetized, it means you're getting traction
- 5:44and people are hearing about you and the algorithms
- 5:46are sharing you or whatever. So God forbid. Anyway,
- 5:49I guess that's what we're talking about. It's
- 5:51going to be weird because I hate giving interviews,
- 5:54Ted. I do the interviews. I don't give them.
- 5:57So it's going to be weird to be the guest.
- 6:03It's just, you're used to being a guest. It's
- 6:06good. I'm used to being the reporter. Yeah, but
- 6:09it's so, being a guest is, after you've been
- 6:13a host. Being a guest is like being a chef who
- 6:17gets to just show up and eat at someone else's
- 6:20restaurant. It's such a, it's such a real, it's
- 6:23so relaxing and chill. You can roll out of
- 6:26bed one minute before the interview and comb
- 6:30your hair and you're good to go. It's like there's
- 6:33nothing to it. All I would do is show up and answer
- 6:35questions and that's it. It's like, so I think
- 6:38answering questions is the hard part.
- 6:41The host part is. Being the host is hard.
- 6:44I always go back. Naturally, I always go back to
- 6:46when I was, the first time when I got auditioned
- 6:50for radio at KFI and they just looked at me and
- 6:53they just said, keep the needle moving. And that's
- 6:56basically it. Keep the needle moving. Yeah. So
- 7:00I, but it's harder than it sounds. Being a guest
- 7:04is not normal for me. So I've probably done
- 7:07it a couple of times in my whole career. So trust
- 7:10me. It's great. Weird. But Jeff Dornick
- 7:14is great. So I'm happy to hop on board and
- 7:17have him hear about it. Yeah. Have him hear about
- 7:20it. So there we go. So that's what we're doing
- 7:22tomorrow. And I'm doing an interview with Jeff Dornick.
- 7:25So, next week, no TMI. I'm sorry, folks, but
- 7:29there's hundreds of hours. Next week is NMI.
- 7:34What is NMI? Not enough information. There won't
- 7:38be any information. I will be scheduling clips
- 7:41and stuff all next week. So y'all will have
- 7:43your TMI fix, just nothing. Okay. Thank you,
- 7:45Robby. And real quick, not scheduled for, not
- 7:49scheduled on the rundown. We got a hit on this,
- 7:52Ted. Dude, Christa, which you were right. Christa
- 7:55is her name, Christa Pike. Waking up and is,
- 8:02what the F, where am I? And she's walking now.
- 8:04She's walking, she's ambulatory. Well, but I
- 8:07heard her arms aren't working. No, her arms are
- 8:10non-functional. They're basically all inflated
- 8:13because they've been poisoned with both of her
- 8:15arms because they tried to poison both of her
- 8:17arms. And also she can't eat because her esophagus
- 8:21is all fucked up from the shit that they gave
- 8:24her. Is it from that though, or is it because
- 8:27she was intubated? Could be. I don't know,
- 8:31but she was on a ventilator. So yeah, she was
- 8:34on a ventilator. Yeah, this is not to say that
- 8:36we're supporters of what she did or anything.
- 8:39I know it was horrific. I've never heard
- 8:42anyone say that that victim, she
- 8:44sure had it coming. Christa Pike, I get it. She's
- 8:50a convicted murderer, but at the same time, there's
- 8:55no doubt about her guilt. She admits it. She's
- 8:57apologized for it. She admits it. She knows.
- 8:59It's horrible. It's horrific. It happened when
- 9:01she was 18. She's now 50 years old. Look, Ted,
- 9:04if she had done this a few months prior... Oh,
- 9:07by the way, there's a question from someone.
- 9:09What about Deprogrammed? Deprogrammed will be
- 9:11here next week. No problem. Okay. So Christa Pike
- 9:16was 18 when it happened. And if it happened a
- 9:20few months prior, she would have been 17. The
- 9:22law would have been completely different. She
- 9:24would have served her 30 years or whatever, and
- 9:26she'd be walking. She would have walked out.
- 9:29Well, she certainly would not have been executed.
- 9:32No, no. So even if she, the exact same
- 9:36crime, had it happened a few months prior. And
- 9:38to me, that's, to me, in a way, you could just
- 9:41stop having the discussion at that point.
- 9:43If society went, if society liberalizes an offense,
- 9:47then you should get the benefit of that liberalization
- 9:50if you were previously convicted, if you were
- 9:53convicted of selling. I'm friends with the guy
- 9:56who was arguably the biggest marijuana wholesale
- 10:00dealer, importer into the United States all throughout
- 10:04the 1970s. He ran the hip, what they called the
- 10:07hippie mafia. He's written books about it and
- 10:09stuff. Anyway, this guy,
- 10:13okay, so if he was still sitting in
- 10:16prison, he should go.
- 10:21Look, this, I, one, do not believe in the death
- 10:26penalty. It's just not
- 10:30right. It's just not right. I don't believe in
- 10:33the state-sanctioned killing of anyone, not in
- 10:36war. Why not in war? Why not in this one instance?
- 10:41No, I have reasons, but what's your reason? Well,
- 10:43I just don't believe that we should kill each
- 10:45other, number one, and you're fostering, you're
- 10:47fostering a society where, if the state
- 10:50is telling you this is fine, that's inherently
- 10:55the message. We're on the same page. This is the
- 11:00only person I've ever met who opposes the death
- 11:02penalty on the same grounds. I feel that the state
- 11:05should set a high standard for behavior, and obviously
- 11:08killing people is a very low standard of behavior.
- 11:11And so, if the state is trying
- 11:14to tell us what to do and how to behave, the
- 11:17state shouldn't be killing people.
- 11:19It's sort of like cops shouldn't be speeding
- 11:21unless they're going somewhere on a call.
- 11:24How you'll see cops, cops speed, right?
- 11:27Because they're cops. All the time. All the time.
- 11:29They shouldn't. They should be following. Not
- 11:31because the lights are going, brr, brr, brr.
- 11:33They're just going. They should follow the speed
- 11:35limit. I just figured they have to poop. That's
- 11:37what I figured. They're rushing to go poop
- 11:39and they can't. The laws just don't apply to
- 11:42them and they know it. I agree. I think, honestly,
- 11:48at this point, this woman needs to get off of
- 11:50death row even if she never gets out of prison.
- 11:52She needs to be off death row, and she should
- 11:56be able to sue the state at this point. I don't
- 12:01know what they would sue. I guess for cruel and
- 12:03unusual punishment, right? It's definitely,
- 12:06look, this qualifies as cruel and unusual,
- 12:09by definition. Yeah. Ted, pretty wild. Killing
- 12:13someone 30 years later is just cruel. They're
- 12:16not the same person that they were. Yeah,
- 12:18when you're 18. Yeah, who among us is the
- 12:22same person that they are now as at 18?
- 12:25No, it's like if you're, let me just say
- 12:27that I have not. In some ways I'm worse, in some
- 12:30ways I'm better, but I'm not the same person
- 12:33as I was, right? Not the same person. You get
- 12:35convicted of rape or murder. You have six weeks.
- 12:37You have two appeals, and you're done. Your
- 12:39head's on a spike. Just be done. The problem. I could
- 12:42live with that if our government didn't get it
- 12:44wrong all the time. Our system is too flawed.
- 12:46Exactly. Like I said, it's just over and over
- 12:48and over. I've done one too many stories about
- 12:50how flawed the legal justice system is. It's
- 12:55a joke. Unreliable. It's too unreliable.
- 12:57Literally nothing in this
- 13:00case. She admits that she did it. We know it's
- 13:03not even just death. Come on. Everybody
- 13:05who's dealt with the government knows that they
- 13:08fuck up all the time. And everyone who's
- 13:11ever been through the justice system knows that
- 13:14they fuck up all the time. I gotta be, OK. This
- 13:16will sound stupid. I got a traffic camera speeding
- 13:19ticket for speeding through a school zone. OK.
- 13:23I was on an interstate highway. The school was
- 13:29away from the interstate highway.
- 13:33On a map, sure, it's within 500 feet of where
- 13:37I drove by. I was driving the legal limit, okay?
- 13:42So it's just, they can't handle shit like
- 13:46that. You want them to handle life and death?
- 13:48Yeah. So no, no, we're not. We're not playing
- 13:51that game. Our buddy Adrian in France wants to
- 13:55know who did Christa Pike murder because he's
- 13:58in Europe. He doesn't know. So in 1995, I believe,
- 14:03she basically murdered a girl that she
- 14:07thought was stealing her boyfriend. But the boyfriend
- 14:10and another friend helped her kill this girl,
- 14:13a 19-year-old. They lured her out into the woods
- 14:16and did horrific, bashed her head in with stones
- 14:20and horrific, carved on her body. Yeah, the boyfriend
- 14:24showed a piece of the skull, was showing it off
- 14:27to friends. So sick. They were all apparently,
- 14:32everyone involved was high as a kite the entire
- 14:35time. Yeah, I think, but that's why, but the other,
- 14:38the other two, I guess Christa supplied the
- 14:43final death blow, and the other two flipped
- 14:48on her, snitched on her, and so they're living.
- 14:51Well, they weren't
- 14:53facing the death penalty because they were both
- 14:56just under 18. So she's the only one that
- 15:00was 18 and over. So, and also it should be
- 15:04pointed out that she had suffered a well-documented
- 15:07history of horrific sexual and physical abuse.
- 15:11Yeah, all this abuse, and so yeah, so this
- 15:15is not, and that would be, that is, that's
- 15:17right. Rightly or wrongly, that is considered
- 15:19now by Tennessee courts. If you're a victim
- 15:22of abuse, it's set at the sentencing phase. It's
- 15:25not to say, oh, you're getting
- 15:28off the hook, but it's, we're
- 15:30definitely taking it into consideration.
- 15:33Yeah, it may mitigate. And we have to comment,
- 15:36Ted. Have you seen the video of the little boy,
- 15:40the six-year-old first grader that shot his
- 15:42school teacher here in Virginia, and the way he
- 15:45spoke. Woo! I just want to point out one thing,
- 15:48though. Are we sure he's actually six and not
- 15:5216, like Webster? Remember that show, Webster?
- 15:56Emmanuel Lewis is yay big, the size
- 15:58of a troll doll. He was 30 or something.
- 16:04Pint-sized, right? Teeny, teeny tiny.
- 16:07Are we sure? The way that little boy spoke. Forget,
- 16:10forget what he did. Forget that the boy was dropping
- 16:14F-bombs. Look, forget what he did. The way he was
- 16:17talking, the cadence, the certainty, the confidence,
- 16:21that is not something that comes from a six-year-
- 16:24old. My son is barely older than that, right?
- 16:27Oh no, it's crazy. He still talks like a little
- 16:30dude. Myself, and I'm gonna say, even when I think
- 16:32about when you travel in the
- 16:35Middle East, you run into a lot of, in Central
- 16:37and South Asia, you run into a lot of little
- 16:38boys. They run the streets. They run everything,
- 16:41right? They're in charge of everything. I can't
- 16:45tell you how many 10-year-olds I've relied
- 16:48on in Afghanistan. But six-year-olds are different.
- 16:52Even there, six-year-olds aren't like that.
- 16:55Not like that. And I'm from the Mexican barrio.
- 16:59I've seen some ghetto kids, but they're
- 17:02not six. They're 12, maybe 13, maybe. Yeah,
- 17:06it's fucking crazy. The way the kid spoke. That's
- 17:10what I mean. I don't mean the foul language.
- 17:13Literally the way he spoke. Manila, we
- 17:15have a hard out in 40 minutes that we should
- 17:18get going. No, I want to hear about this kid
- 17:19because I don't know what you're talking about.
- 17:22I shared the video yesterday. You got to look
- 17:24at it, Robby. Then you can comment another day.
- 17:26Go look at it. We don't have body cam footage
- 17:29of the six-year-old shooter. I'm mesmerized by
- 17:33the way the kid's. I'm slack-jawed, and I
- 17:35just, unreal, unreal. He's talking like he's a grown
- 17:39man, talking like a grown ghetto-ass man. That's
- 17:43all I can say. Well, you fixed that problem too.
- 17:46Oh, I know. Robby, he has to go look at it. If you
- 17:50guys haven't seen it, go look it up. The
- 17:53six-year-old teacher shooter in Virginia. Just
- 17:56look that up. Abby Zwerner was the victim.
- 17:58All right, here we go. Okay, so first up, the World
- 18:06Health Organization is drawing a firm line on
- 18:09weight-loss drugs for children. This is the real
- 18:14story. Put down the prescription pad and start
- 18:18with comprehensive care, they say. In its first
- 18:22global guidelines for managing childhood and
- 18:25adolescent obesity, the WHO advises against obesity
- 18:29medications, bariatric surgery, and weight-loss
- 18:32devices for children ages nine and younger. For
- 18:36adolescents age 10 through 19, approved medication
- 18:40may be considered, but only after a supervised
- 18:43program involving nutrition, physical activity,
- 18:46and behavioral support fails to produce the desired
- 18:49results. Weight-loss surgery should be reserved
- 18:52for carefully selected adolescents with severe
- 18:56obesity. This comes as drugs, wait, so there were
- 18:59nine-year-olds getting bariatric surgery? I
- 19:03don't know. Your body changes shape as
- 19:06you grow. You're growing. Look, it's
- 19:09normal for children to grow wide before they
- 19:12grow tall. Your body has to amass,
- 19:16it has to store the energy, has energy
- 19:19stores before it stretches. My son grew four
- 19:22inches in the last year. So there's
- 19:26that. So this says, WHO says this is, as Wegovy,
- 19:31and I guess this must be an international
- 19:33version of it, Ted. It's called Saxenda. Saxenda.
- 19:38Another, I guess, weight-loss injectables have transformed
- 19:42obesity treatments in adults. These medications
- 19:45mimic hormones that regulate appetite, helping
- 19:47people feel full sooner and eat less. But children
- 19:50are still growing physically and neurologically,
- 19:53and researchers do not yet have enough evidence
- 19:56about the long-term consequences of using these
- 19:58drugs at younger ages. The WHO is not dismissing
- 20:02childhood obesity as a cosmetic issue or telling
- 20:06parents to simply lock up the cookies. It classifies
- 20:09obesity as a chronic relapsing disease shaped
- 20:13by biology, behavior, mental health, and the
- 20:16environment. And the numbers are pretty serious.
- 20:19In 2024, roughly 170 million children and adolescents
- 20:24between the ages of five and 19 were living with
- 20:28obesity. That's an interesting way to frame it,
- 20:31Ted, living with obesity as if it's their roommate.
- 20:36Well, that's not you. That's like living,
- 20:38riding the subway with those bears, urban bears.
- 20:42You're living with the bears. The article frames
- 20:45it interesting, just living with obesity instead
- 20:48of, instead of, yeah, certain phrases that
- 20:52get stuck in journalism that you
- 20:55see come up, and they kind of, for example,
- 20:58after, it's, died after a long struggle with
- 21:02cancer. It's always the same thing. Died of a long
- 21:06struggle. Yeah, not died. Died after having had,
- 21:10three years after, from
- 21:12cancer or whatever. Died of cancer. Died of complications
- 21:15from cancer, right? It's always after a
- 21:18long struggle with cancer. That's true. They
- 21:20never say a short struggle. You never say,
- 21:22after, or what about, you have that, what about
- 21:26someone who's kind of barely, surely can't
- 21:29be bothered to fight their cancer. They're,
- 21:31after a half-assed struggle with. There are people
- 21:34that just decide not to address their cancer,
- 21:37but in this case, we'll wander on. We will
- 21:40get to that, the poison in food and the water.
- 21:42So it's 170 million kids worldwide, so almost
- 21:48200 million kids, age 19 to 5, all the way
- 21:53up from 19 all the way down to 5 years old. This
- 21:56includes 70 million children, 70 million of them.
- 22:00Wow. Are ages five through nine, so they're little,
- 22:03little, little kids, like the F-bomb thrower,
- 22:07that lethal dude's little guys. The global childhood
- 22:12and adolescent obesity rate, surprised, Ted, has
- 22:15quadrupled since 1990. Hmm, I wonder. Hmm. I really
- 22:21wonder why. Okay. The guidance differs from
- 22:23current practice, the current practices in
- 22:26the United States. The FDA has approved Wegovy
- 22:29for some adolescents age 12 and older that
- 22:34have obesity. Saxenda is also approved beginning
- 22:38at age 12 for qualifying patients. So I don't
- 22:41know who makes Saxenda, but they must be international.
- 22:46The WHO says medication should never become the
- 22:48entire treatment plan. Children need family involvement,
- 22:52nutrition counseling, physical activity, psychological
- 22:55support, and long-term medical follow-up. They
- 22:58also need healthy food and safe places to exercise,
- 23:01the WHO says, which can be difficult to find
- 23:04and/or afford in many communities. In short,
- 23:08the WHO is not saying childhood obesity shouldn't
- 23:11go untreated. It's saying younger children should
- 23:13receive care without turning the medicine cabinet
- 23:17into the first stop. This is not the medicine
- 23:19cabinet. This is some injectable that will lower
- 23:22your bone density, that will keep you a customer
- 23:26for life. So they're saying the WHO is, I would
- 23:30say, kind of browbeating America for giving
- 23:35children Wegovy while their bones are still
- 23:39growing, Ted. We already have data that shows
- 23:44it's creating porous bones in people. Why would
- 23:48you give that to children whose bones are not
- 23:51done forming? It's a good question. This is just
- 23:56unreal. And then citing that childhood obesity
- 24:00rates have quadrupled since 1990. Well, yeah,
- 24:03no duh. Have you seen how the food has changed
- 24:06in America since 1990? We went, everything
- 24:09went to, everything has gone into corn syrup instead
- 24:15of real sugar, right? That's one thing we can
- 24:17point to. Your body doesn't process this
- 24:21the same. There's just so many dietary changes
- 24:26from the FDA that's been approved to be
- 24:29in the food pyramid, and as inverted as it was
- 24:34this entire time. It's still that
- 24:41the US government, good old USG, approved
- 24:46so many chemicals to be in our foods to make
- 24:49us addicted. That's what it is. That's
- 24:53how people just can't stop putting, can't
- 24:56stop putting the Cheetos in their mouths is because
- 24:58there's a chemical in, true, from food
- 25:02scientists that they put into the Cheetos or
- 25:05any, if you can name any food. I don't
- 25:06want to be sued for libel for Cheetos, but Doritos,
- 25:09Cheeto. Oh, wait. That's all Frito-Lay. SunChips,
- 25:16Nilla Wafers. I don't know. Anything. All the food
- 25:19scientists have put some kind of chemical additive
- 25:23in there that really triggers the reward system
- 25:26in your brain that makes you addicted to it, the
- 25:29same way you're addicted to nicotine from cigarettes,
- 25:31the same way you're addicted. It
- 25:33triggers something in your brain, and that's
- 25:35why little kids are getting obese all over the
- 25:41world. Because, America. Ted, one thing. One thing I
- 25:45want to say, anecdotally, from my observation
- 25:48and my time in the Middle East. When I lived
- 25:51in Dubai, it was 2008. The Burj
- 25:54Dubai wasn't even done yet, or the, sorry, the
- 25:58Burj Khalifa. Burj Khalifa. The super-tall
- 26:03building. Yeah, it was a wee building, probably
- 26:0630 stories at the time. When I got there
- 26:12and I'm looking around, and I saw a lot of fat
- 26:16Emirati children, lots of little roly-poly Emirati
- 26:21little cuties with their big chubby cherub cheeks.
- 26:25They're really cute. And the
- 26:27little boys were wearing their white dishdashas,
- 26:29with the whole, trying to
- 26:31chase their little dads along. And they're
- 26:33like these round little roly-poly kids. And I
- 26:35was like, oh, you're so cute. But oh my God,
- 26:37you're so fat. And where they're running to, where
- 26:41they're running to was Taco Bell or KFC
- 26:44or Pizza Hut, because they were everywhere. And
- 26:50it occurred to me. Was thinking, because remember,
- 26:53this is, Obama just got
- 26:55elected. I was still, it was still
- 26:58H, or excuse me, W. Bush. George W. Bush still
- 27:02in office, right? So all I could think was, oh
- 27:06my God, Bush isn't dropping bombs on the UAE.
- 27:11He's killing the Emiratis by bringing in Pizza
- 27:15Hut and killing them with starch, and he's
- 27:20killing them with a long game. You want to
- 27:22kill the Arabs, you kill them with the long
- 27:25game. Bring them American fast food. And that's
- 27:28what they've done. And I gotta say, look
- 27:32across all the developed major cities of
- 27:35the Middle East. Go look at Doha. Go look at Dubai.
- 27:38Go look at any place you can re-spell
- 27:41it, D-O-H-A, Doha. Oh, they are all,
- 27:47they're all in an obesity crisis with children,
- 27:51and it's very sad. It's very sad. And this has
- 27:55to do definitely with the normalization of American
- 27:58crap junk food that we have shipped all around
- 28:01the world. Before they did that, Ted, do you
- 28:04really think there'd be 170 million children
- 28:07around the world that are living with obesity?
- 28:11Methinks not. Perhaps not, no. Me says no. Me
- 28:16says no. All right, let's go. Kim Kardashian
- 28:22has four children and five nannies. That's one
- 28:26more professional child-care professional
- 28:29than actual child. The billionaire told the Sunday
- 28:32Times that five nannies helped to care for North,
- 28:36Saint, Chicago, and Psalm, her poorly named children
- 28:41with ex-husband Kanye West. Kardashian says she
- 28:44still handles school runs and nightly family
- 28:47dinners while managing her businesses, acting
- 28:50career, and legal studies. Cue the outrage, but
- 28:54Kardashian's domestic payroll points to a bigger
- 28:57problem. Having several kids is increasingly
- 29:00becoming a luxury purchase. For decades, economists
- 29:04found that family size tended to go down as income
- 29:08and education went up. Newer demographic research
- 29:11suggests the pattern is now resembling a U. Fertility
- 29:15is relatively high among poor households, goes
- 29:18down in the middle class and in the upper-middle
- 29:21class, then goes up again among the rich. The pattern
- 29:24varies by race, marriage, and culture, for sure,
- 29:27but there's still a general trend. Middle-class
- 29:31parents often earn too much to qualify for assistance,
- 29:34but not enough to hire a support staff. They face
- 29:37expensive housing, limited leave, and child-care
- 29:41bills that can be higher than a mortgage. The
- 29:45national average price of child care went over
- 29:47$13,000 per kid in 2025. Care for two kids cost
- 29:52more than median rent in every state reporting
- 29:56data and was higher than the typical mortgage
- 29:58payments in most states in the U.S. For rich
- 30:02families, another child may mean hiring another
- 30:05nanny or buying a bigger house. For ordinary
- 30:08people, it can mean one parent leaving the workforce,
- 30:12putting off their retirement, or deciding the
- 30:15second or third child simply isn't financially
- 30:17viable. So billionaires aren't the only ones having
- 30:20kids. Poor people do it too. But now we have a
- 30:24system in which the people most able to choose
- 30:26the family size they want are the super rich,
- 30:29like Kim Kardashian. Yeah, isn't that strange?
- 30:36It's a very strange inversion. It's an inversion
- 30:39of, it really is demographic information.
- 30:44Because typically that's based on that
- 30:48great documentary, Idiocracy. Mm-hmm. The more
- 30:52educated you are, the fewer kids you have. But
- 30:57in this society, more often than not, if you are
- 31:02highly educated, a highly educated professional,
- 31:04let's say a lawyer or something, and you
- 31:08make over half a million dollars a year, which
- 31:10is not uncommon for lawyers, especially in this
- 31:13area, that you can have more children, but because
- 31:19you can get more help. And everybody else,
- 31:22middle-class schmo losers, one or two, that's
- 31:28all we can afford. So I don't know, unless we
- 31:33plan on letting Kanye West and Kim Kardashian
- 31:36and all these other billionaires populate the
- 31:38earth, the country is going to be full of nepo
- 31:42babies, Ted, that don't go to college, that don't
- 31:45know how to do anything. Poorly named nepo babies.
- 31:48Horrible. And this is coming from a Manila. So
- 31:54I can talk. I am not in a glass house, so I can
- 31:58talk. So yeah, these are terrible names, nepo
- 32:02babies that usually have no talent, nothing
- 32:07to really give other than they're the blood
- 32:10of Kanye West and Kim Kardashian, and I'm not,
- 32:12I shouldn't say that because these are
- 32:14little kids, but I'm just saying one day they
- 32:16will be adults that really don't serve society
- 32:22in any other way other than to be content creators,
- 32:25I guess, or in their case, they're the content.
- 32:29They are the content. But that's who's gonna populate
- 32:33the earth, Ted, is a bunch of nepo babies.
- 32:35That's not untrue. That is really not
- 32:39untrue. Yeah. No one else can afford children.
- 32:45A little bit of the class divide, Ted. Is this
- 32:49the case everywhere else in the world?
- 32:53I would imagine it's true throughout the West,
- 32:55right? Wouldn't you? Throughout the West, probably.
- 32:59But I'm saying elsewhere in the world.
- 33:02Because you've been to the 'stan countries and
- 33:04all of that. Do the rich out there have
- 33:08a lot of kids? They tend to. Yeah, they tend
- 33:12to. Because these countries are all westernizing
- 33:14so fast. So I don't know. Without
- 33:19having hard data, it's hard to say. Yeah, the
- 33:22data that I saw yesterday showed the super poor
- 33:26and the super rich are the ones that have a lot
- 33:29of kids. Yeah. So that's why this U-shape. So,
- 33:34there you go, Robby. Either we create,
- 33:36or for Ted, in your case, either we create a
- 33:39lot more millionaires and billionaires to save
- 33:42the population, or decimate everyone and
- 33:45put us into abject poverty and we'll all make
- 33:48a lot of babies. It'll be beautiful. What a
- 33:52world to live in, Ted. What a wonderful world.
- 33:59Speaking of a wonderful, wonderful world. Where
- 34:05are we gonna put all the babies? Because America's
- 34:09housing market may finally be getting millions
- 34:12of additional homes. Unfortunately, for first-
- 34:16time buyers, that is, most come with extra bedrooms,
- 34:20bigger yards, higher prices that laugh at your
- 34:25piddly little down payment. A new Realtor.com
- 34:27analysis estimates that nearly 14 million homes
- 34:31owned and occupied by baby boomers and members
- 34:35of the silent generation who are still hanging
- 34:37on will be released between 2026 and 2036. So
- 34:43in the next 10 years. That is three and a half
- 34:46million more homes than older households are
- 34:49expected to relinquish during the current decade.
- 34:53But buyers hunting for an affordable starter
- 34:55home should hold the champagne. Only about 380,000
- 34:59homes with two bedrooms or fewer are expected
- 35:03to become available over the entire 10-year
- 35:06period. That works out to roughly 38,000 annually,
- 35:10equal to just 3.2% of current starter-home
- 35:13listings. The bigger shift will come further
- 35:17up the housing ladder. Older Americans are projected
- 35:20to release roughly 9.9 million family-sized
- 35:23homes. Those are what they, three- and
- 35:26four-bedroom homes. That's what they call a
- 35:28family home. Around 1 million could become available
- 35:32each year, representing nearly one quarter of
- 35:35recent listings in that category. Another 360,000
- 35:39large homes could be released annually,
- 35:42potentially adding significant inventory and
- 35:45weakening prices. Released, however, that term,
- 35:49underscore that, does not always mean listed
- 35:52for sale. Some of these homes will pass to children
- 35:54or other relatives. Many older owners will also
- 35:58stay put longer, particularly if it's a smaller
- 36:02home that they're in, because those are easier
- 36:05and cheaper to maintain. There could still be
- 36:08an indirect benefit for younger buyers if current
- 36:11starter homeowners find affordable family-sized
- 36:15properties. They may sell their smaller homes,
- 36:18and gradually that'll open up inventory at the
- 36:21bottom of the market. So the long-awaited boomer
- 36:25housing wave is coming. It simply may arrive
- 36:29first with the three and four bedrooms, three
- 36:33bathrooms, all that, and a formal dining room
- 36:35that no one's ever used since 2008, which is
- 36:39true. So for first-time buyers, relief may eventually
- 36:43trickle down. Just don't expect grandma's ranch
- 36:46house to hit Zillow tomorrow. So that is, I would
- 36:50say that's good news. Our friend Adrian, who
- 36:53we've talked, actually had as a guest before
- 36:56to talk about real estate. And, given
- 37:00my background, I love this story because I have
- 37:05been waiting for this boomer housing bubble to
- 37:10begin. They are going to start releasing them
- 37:13because of the aging population. It's going to
- 37:16come onto the market. I didn't know the exact number,
- 37:19but it will soften prices because when you have
- 37:22more of something, it's going to soften prices
- 37:23for people. So that's good. Of course. Of course.
- 37:25That's great. But the interest rates suck ass
- 37:29right now. They're hovering at over seven and
- 37:31a half percent right now. Yeah, it's not going
- 37:33to get any better. So will it help? Offset a
- 37:37little bit, sure, if you can get into a house a
- 37:40little bit cheaper. It'll help. We're talking
- 37:43the difference, the difference from where the
- 37:46Fed, the benchmark rate was a couple of weeks
- 37:49ago to where it is now at seven and a half. You're
- 37:54talking two, three, four hundred dollars different
- 37:57on a, let's say, a median house of four hundred
- 38:00thousand dollars in the US, Ted. That's a
- 38:02real difference for American families that
- 38:05are living through inflation right now. That
- 38:06is a month's worth of groceries. That
- 38:09is two months' worth of gas. Maybe
- 38:13a month or so. No, actually, the price is,
- 38:15now it's a month. I literally just filled my tank
- 38:18for five dollars and nine cents a gallon. $5.09
- 38:22per gallon. $5.09 per gallon. Yeah, and this was,
- 38:25how there's the crazy,
- 38:28some service stations that are crazy expensive.
- 38:31And this is not, this was a normal one. You
- 38:34know what I mean? It's gonna start.
- 38:37I think now. There's now gas stations, Manila,
- 38:41in California, in the high desert that are,
- 38:45they have a problem because
- 38:48they don't have enough digits on
- 38:51their gas pumps. They're at $9.99 a gallon and
- 38:54they need to charge more, and they don't know
- 38:57how to do that because they don't have that
- 38:59on their pumps. Everyone's commenting on the dining
- 39:04room that apparently no one uses, except for Adrian
- 39:06says on Christmas or Seder. That's fine. That's
- 39:13no dining room. Dining rooms are a fucking waste.
- 39:16No question there. They are a fucking waste. So
- 39:18I changed my formal dining room into a kids'
- 39:21zone. Yeah, a lot of people do that, or it can
- 39:25be a den or something else. Repurpose it. Pool
- 39:30room, something, an activity room
- 39:33or whatever. But that's, to me, as a former realtor,
- 39:38and I still like to watch the market. This is
- 39:41good news because there's just a major
- 39:45shortage, a housing shortage for first-time buyers,
- 39:51for entry-level buying. Basically the
- 39:54same with cars, right? When you're 16,
- 39:5717, 18 years old, your first car isn't a Rolls-
- 40:00Royce. You go in and buy a Honda Civic or a Toyota
- 40:03Corolla. That's your entry-level car. A starter
- 40:06home is just that. You're a newlywed, and then
- 40:09maybe you have your first kid, and before you
- 40:11get your second kid coming along, you buy a bigger
- 40:14home. That has been stalled because the boomers
- 40:17stopped this. They aren't leaving. They aren't
- 40:21dying. They aren't leaving. They're not
- 40:23moving into. But that's because
- 40:26I don't understand something. Okay, so these
- 40:30were demographic. I understand the
- 40:33whole, we have to wait for the people
- 40:37with the mid-range homes too. So that the
- 40:40upscale homes have to be sold, and then the people
- 40:43who are next in line in their 40s, they have to
- 40:45buy those houses, and then the people who move
- 40:48up the ladder, right? I get it. I get that's
- 40:51pretty obvious, but this was predictable,
- 40:53right? This was something that we
- 40:55knew. Demographers and real estate experts must
- 40:59have known was going to happen years
- 41:03ago because of demography. So why were they caught,
- 41:06how have they been caught by surprise here?
- 41:10Well, COVID, I think COVID really caught the
- 41:15whole world flat-footed. That really put a snag
- 41:19in the chain of production and securing
- 41:22materials and all of that. So that stalled a
- 41:25lot of new housing starts. So that was
- 41:29one issue. The Fed, Jerome Powell at the time, keeping
- 41:35interest rates near zero for too long meant too
- 41:39many people that had the money to buy multiple
- 41:41homes were snapping them up. That's another one,
- 41:45even slightly wealthy. No, I'm not saying
- 41:48uber-rich like Kim Kardashian. I'm saying
- 41:51slightly well-to-do people were putting their
- 41:53money into buying properties. Then you add in how,
- 41:57in that time frame, six, seven years ago, when this
- 42:00happened, I saw that hedge funds were
- 42:05buying up single-family homes to put
- 42:09into their portfolios and making those into rental
- 42:12properties, which was a huge problem. And
- 42:16remember, I just got off of doing real estate
- 42:20on the side of journalism. I just maintained
- 42:22my license, and I still did transactions with
- 42:25a business partner in Los Angeles. So I still
- 42:29hear from my friends, and they say that that was
- 42:31a big problem, that they were in competition,
- 42:34in multiple-offer competitions between hedge
- 42:38funds that were paying cash money to put
- 42:42this house in their portfolio. That's crazy. And
- 42:45so how can a regular person, a regular family,
- 42:48mom, dad, and two kids and a dog, how can
- 42:50they compete with a BlackRock? How can they
- 42:53compete when you're offering cash money? Of course,
- 42:56it's impossible. Yeah, sure. It's 10, 20
- 42:59grand less than the family is offering, but it's
- 43:03cash money. And for a lot of those buyers, they
- 43:05don't have to wait 30 days. They'll waive contingencies.
- 43:08They're like, we will give you the money today.
- 43:11No inspections. We'll buy it today. Yeah, by
- 43:14the way, I used to be so anti,
- 43:16no inspection. But now I've come around
- 43:19to, I've come around to sort of understanding
- 43:21the inspections are bullshit anyway. So they don't
- 43:25ever tell you anything that's actually wrong
- 43:27with your house. No, not me. Not me as a realtor.
- 43:30I was always nitpicky about it. You know
- 43:32what I mean? Yeah, well, yeah, the things
- 43:35that they look at, and if you don't have a good
- 43:37inspector, that's the problem. I knew good inspectors.
- 43:40There are no good inspectors there. That's all
- 43:42bullshit. No, they're not. They're not. And because
- 43:45of where I sold houses, in the Hollywood
- 43:50Hills and Beverly Hills, it literally really
- 43:52is hills. For those of you who don't know,
- 43:55Southern California is very hilly. I had to do
- 43:58a lot of geological surveys. So I had to know
- 44:01that that house that's standing on stilts in
- 44:04the Hollywood Hills cliffs are
- 44:07not going to slide down the hill, right? So you're
- 44:10hiring geologists and shit to come do land surveys.
- 44:13I've learned a whole lot about how far you
- 44:16got to drill piers all the way down. So I wouldn't
- 44:18say it's all bullshit. Some of it, if you get a shoddy
- 44:21inspector. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know. I
- 44:27knew some good ones that I trust, and on my own
- 44:30properties. You know what I mean. That's like
- 44:32saying, oh, I have a good psychologist, or I have
- 44:37a good barber. Very few people do. If you're
- 44:41going to buy a used car, if you have the mechanic
- 44:44you trust, you should take that used car to the
- 44:47mechanic that you trust first before you buy
- 44:49it, because you don't know what you're buying.
- 44:52And a home warranty. I've actually used all of
- 44:55those things as a consumer, not as a realtor.
- 44:58But anyway, back to the why you say
- 45:01they didn't see this coming. I would honestly
- 45:04say it was COVID that put a chink in the chain.
- 45:08That's not a racism that I'm doing.
- 45:12They put a chink in the chain. And COVID
- 45:15put the chink in the chain. And then nobody saw
- 45:18that hedge funds, they usually bought
- 45:21traditionally, they bought big buildings,
- 45:23right, like in REITs and stuff like that. Right.
- 45:25But they didn't do that. In the last 10
- 45:28years, hedge funds are buying up single-family
- 45:31properties. So that's a huge problem. They're
- 45:34buying up the inventory and not letting people
- 45:36be owners. So it's us versus hedge funds. When
- 45:41you're that, that's a big problem. So homes couldn't
- 45:45be built because of COVID, and the hedge funds
- 45:47are competing against regular buyers. That's
- 45:50a big problem. And thirdly, I would say,
- 45:53I'm sorry, the eldest of the boomers, they're
- 45:58just living longer with science, and
- 46:01they're just, well, there's nothing wrong about
- 46:03that. That's good for them,
- 46:06but they're not dying. So I see that
- 46:10probate is down. Probate is down. I knew
- 46:17people that did basically, after somebody,
- 46:22the estate sales, after somebody
- 46:24dies. I knew somebody that did this professionally,
- 46:26where they go in and clean out grandma's house
- 46:28for you, so you don't have to do it, and they
- 46:31help you organize it, and then,
- 46:33is this valuable to your family? Can
- 46:35I put it out for sale? She did all of those things.
- 46:38Even that's down. She's like, they're just not
- 46:41dying. Right, and if we're not dying, they ain't
- 46:45selling their homes. So people aren't able to
- 46:48move up that real estate ladder. So here we are.
- 46:51I would say those are the three main pillars
- 46:53of why we are stalled in buying properties in
- 46:56America. But I guess a few more homes are coming
- 46:59to market in the next couple of years. So let's
- 47:02hope the interest rates come down. But I don't
- 47:05foresee that happening. No, I don't see why it
- 47:09would. The economy is only going to, although
- 47:12they might need to lower interest rates generally,
- 47:15just to stimulate the economy, because it's gonna
- 47:17be in dire trouble. It's, yeah.
- 47:20I don't foresee. Well, Jerome Powell, it
- 47:25started with Jerome Powell sitting at zero for
- 47:27two, at near zero for way too long. Money was too
- 47:30cheap for too long, right? And now we're trying
- 47:34to overcorrect. So, and researchers in Turkey say
- 47:44they may be inching closer to solving one of
- 47:47history's biggest religious mysteries, one that
- 47:50I remember talking about back in the '70s when
- 47:52I was a little kid. Whether a boat-shaped formation
- 47:55near Mount Ararat are the remains of Noah's Ark.
- 47:59For anyone who didn't grow up in Sunday school,
- 48:02here's what the Bible says. In the book of Genesis,
- 48:05God tells Noah that a catastrophic flood is coming.
- 48:09Noah builds a massive wooden vessel, loads up
- 48:12his family and pairs of animals aboard, I guess
- 48:15plants too, and eventually lands in the mountains
- 48:17of Ararat. Noah also appears in the Quran, while
- 48:21other ancient cultures have their own great flood
- 48:23stories. The current investigation centers on
- 48:26the Durupinar formation in eastern Turkey, discovered
- 48:30in an aerial photograph back in 1950. The 538-
- 48:34foot-long geological feature bears an uncanny
- 48:38resemblance to the outline of a ship. Ark enthusiasts
- 48:41have been all about it ever since. Now, a university-
- 48:45backed research team has drilled at more than
- 48:48a dozen locations, reaching depths of roughly
- 48:5160 feet and collecting more than 300 soil samples.
- 48:55Researchers say they found dark, organic-rich
- 48:58soil but no solid bedrock inside the formation.
- 49:02They argue that this weakens the long-standing
- 49:04theory that Durupinar is simply a solid natural
- 49:08rock formation. So that's an earlier testing
- 49:11reportedly found about 40% more organic
- 49:14material inside than outside the formation. Decaying
- 49:18wood could produce that result, but so could
- 49:21other natural processes. Scientists are now conducting
- 49:25lab tests in order to try to determine the material's
- 49:28composition and, of course, its age. And that
- 49:32distinction is important. Finding organic soil
- 49:34isn't the same as finding an ancient wooden ship,
- 49:37much less proving that it carried Noah, his family,
- 49:40and Earth's most ambitious floating zoo. Most
- 49:44geologists have long classified Durupinar as
- 49:47a natural formation shaped by erosion. A 1996
- 49:51geological study concluded that supposed wooden
- 49:54and metal features were just rock and mineral
- 49:57deposits. So is it Noah's Ark? Probably not.
- 50:02But researchers now have physical samples instead
- 50:05of grainy scans, biblical measurements, and wishful
- 50:08thinking. So this should probably settle the
- 50:13issue once and for all. This is a Robby topic.
- 50:16Robby, come on here. It totally is a Robby
- 50:19topic, because I don't know anything about this.
- 50:22So you can sit. So I've heard the argument, right?
- 50:25The basic argument is they could see
- 50:27this from geospatial photos, right, that there's
- 50:32an ark-like shape in Mount Ararat, but
- 50:36now they're digging. Last Thursday, Jeff Dornick
- 50:41on his show. He has a lady, a lady there
- 50:43on site in eastern Turkey. Then they're digging.
- 50:48So they are finding that they're finding particles
- 50:51of wood there. No. Yes. Well, there could still
- 50:56be, there could be wood. It could be
- 50:58from trees. Yeah, for sure. So, but what
- 51:02they're saying is that this is the first time
- 51:03that the Turkish government has ever given permission
- 51:07for a full-on dig to happen there. So it's going
- 51:11to be interesting to see what happens. Is it
- 51:13a natural formation? Is it just an old forest
- 51:16that no longer exists? That area has
- 51:18a lot of history. A lot of warfare has happened
- 51:20there throughout the six thousand years.
- 51:24Who knows what it is? Is it the ark? Is it not?
- 51:27Who can say? What do you think? I have no idea.
- 51:32Really? You don't want to speculate
- 51:33one way or the other? No, faith doesn't require
- 51:36it. My faith doesn't require proof. I believe
- 51:41that happened, but I don't need the ark. I don't
- 51:43need the ark. But yeah, I'm not asking that.
- 51:46I'm not asking. Do you just think this? Do you
- 51:47think this is it? Well, it matches the, it matches
- 51:52the location, because, so here's the cool thing
- 51:54about the ark. It took over a hundred years to
- 51:56build. And so that was, how old was Noah? No, dude,
- 52:03I forget exactly. I know he lived around to be
- 52:07around 900. He obviously didn't sell his house
- 52:09for a long time. People, no, he built the ark.
- 52:14Well, he had FEMA take care of it after it was
- 52:17washed away. No, he built the ark. What time
- 52:21is Manila going to be on tomorrow? She will be
- 52:23on at 1 p.m. Eastern time. So 11 o'clock Mountain.
- 52:30So do the math wherever it is that you are. So
- 52:33now here's the cool thing about Noah's Ark. God
- 52:35is the one that brought the animals to the ark.
- 52:38So then Noah and his family, they're the caretakers.
- 52:41And also, it never rained on the earth before
- 52:43the flood. Every morning, the earth was watered
- 52:46with dew, but it never rained. The first time
- 52:49people ever saw rain was when the flood started,
- 52:52and God Himself closed the door to the ark. And
- 52:55so, it was a global judgment, and it wiped out
- 53:02everybody except for Noah and his immediate family.
- 53:05And so, if they do find the ark, that would be
- 53:11good for people who require proof, who have a
- 53:15scientific interest. For people of faith like
- 53:18me, if they find it, great. If they don't, who
- 53:20cares? It doesn't matter. Well, I'm not even
- 53:25asking as a question of faith, as a matter of
- 53:27faith. I'm just asking, could this actually be
- 53:30it? If you had to guess, if you had to put money
- 53:34on it. Well, the geography matches up, because
- 53:37we know that the ark landed on Mount Ararat.
- 53:40So the geography matches. Okay, there's a big
- 53:45mountain. It's not a little peak.
- 53:48Because the flood, the
- 53:51idea is that the flood was, the waters were so
- 53:53high that it rose up to, because
- 53:57it's the great flood, that the waters rose high
- 54:00enough to bring it to a mountain, which is what,
- 54:03well, a lot of people believe in it and believe
- 54:07this, too, is that mountains didn't exist before
- 54:10the flood happened. Basically, God just increased
- 54:16the volume of water. Personally, I believe that
- 54:18the earth probably had a sphere of water around
- 54:22it. The thing about how Saturn has its rings,
- 54:26a lot of people believe that the earth had a
- 54:30sphere of water around it to help filter out
- 54:32the sunlight. That's one of the reasons why animals
- 54:33and people lived so long. There's less solar
- 54:37radiation getting through. Yeah. And so, God
- 54:39brought that down. He talks about how He took
- 54:42the waters out of the firmaments, and then He
- 54:46opened up the fountains of the deep. But here's
- 54:49what's cool about the way that the Bible says,
- 54:52before the flood, there's never a single mention
- 54:54at all of a mountain. They're only mentioned
- 54:56after the flood. And also in the days of Peleg,
- 55:01that's when the lands were divided. A personal
- 55:05belief is that the mountains rose up after
- 55:07the flood happened, and that's also when the ice
- 55:10age happened because all that water got frozen
- 55:12and it's just been slowly melting ever since.
- 55:15But as far as the geography goes, Mount Ararat's
- 55:18where the ark landed. Hmm. Yeah, I'm not, obviously
- 55:23I'm no biblical scholar. So I have the wrong
- 55:26person to ask about that, but it sounds fascinating
- 55:32and kind of promising, this could actually
- 55:35prove it. So, wow, this, or this
- 55:40could be like a new Shroud of Turin. I don't
- 55:42know. Yeah. Shroud of Turin is
- 55:44probably bullshit. Yeah. No one knows.
- 55:47Yeah, I don't know. How they, but how
- 55:50they've been able to burn that image in the cloth
- 55:51without pigmentation back in the Middle Ages.
- 55:54That technology doesn't exist. Nowadays
- 55:57we can do it with X-rays. I have stains in my
- 56:00clothes I can't get out. Vinegar and baking
- 56:05soda, Ted. It's always vinegar and baking soda.
- 56:07But if anyone is interested, take it from my mom,
- 56:09because we have a hard out now, Ted,
- 56:12and I will be discussing
- 56:15the death penalty tomorrow, 2 p.m. Mountain time.
- 56:18That's right. And so I will be making the biblical
- 56:21case for it, and why I, as a Christian,
- 56:25support it, and why it is a divine
- 56:28law from God. The death penalty is biblical. Oh
- 56:33boy, so that's gonna be a nice casual fun
- 56:36Friday conversation, as always. Yeah. Thanks, guys.
- 56:40Next week, we are off. We'll be back the week
- 56:42after that. Happy birthday and happy anniversary
- 56:45to you and the Mrs., Robby. We'll see you guys
- 56:48back then. That'll be the 20th, Tuesday the 20th,
- 56:53and 22nd. Adios, amigos. Thank you. Ciao. Bye, guys.