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- 0:01Speaker 1: Tim Dilla comedy.com for all the live dates.
- 0:04Speaker 2: We've got a lot of shows coming up and we're
- 0:08Speaker 2: very excited about them here. We're just going to run
- 0:11Speaker 2: through them right now. And then we're going to put
- 0:12Speaker 2: this in the front of the show, Glasgow, Dublin, London, Jacksonville, Charlotte,
- 0:21Speaker 2: New Orleans, Dallas, Austin, Chicago, Houston, Cincinnati, baby. Northfield, Ohio, Sydney, Australia, Melbourne, Australia, Brisbane, Australia, Adelaide, Australia, Perth, Australia,
- 0:35Speaker 2: and then that is it. This tour's over. We're wrapping
- 0:39Speaker 2: it up. We would love to see you on the road.
- 0:44Speaker 1: Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Tim Dillon Show.
- 0:47Speaker 2: Hillary Clinton has just contracted the disease she created, COVID-19.
- 0:55Speaker 2: Bill tested negative and is feeling fine. This is from
- 0:57Speaker 2: Hillary's Twitter. He's quarantining until our household is fully in
- 1:03Speaker 2: the clear. Movie recommendations appreciated from Hillary Clinton.
- 1:10Speaker 1: And then Jen Psaki tweets at her.
- 1:13Speaker 2: Finally watching Inventing Anna and recommend and highly recommend lots
- 1:18Speaker 2: of water, tea, and juice.
- 1:20Speaker 1: Jen Psaki.
- 1:22Speaker 2: Press secretary for Joe Biden recommending inventing Anna, the show
- 1:28Speaker 2: on Netflix, about a con artist in New York City
- 1:33Speaker 2: to Hillary Clinton.
- 1:35Speaker 1: Interesting.
- 1:36Speaker 2: But a con artist who got caught and was not
- 1:39Speaker 2: able to swindle her way to Chappaqua.
- 1:46Speaker 1: I can say where they live. I mean, people know
- 1:48Speaker 1: where they live.
- 1:48Speaker 3: That's fine.
- 1:48Speaker 1: It's public information. I don't need to be alive. Hillary
- 1:53Speaker 1: is dealing with COVID. She's older. She's an older woman.
- 1:57Speaker 2: So it's always tough when somebody who's an older woman
- 2:01Speaker 2: contracts COVID. And she's a good woman and a woman who, well,
- 2:06Speaker 2: my grandmother loved her. So that counts for something, right?
- 2:09Speaker 2: No matter what this woman's done in her life. My
- 2:12Speaker 2: grandmother really cared about her. And she was like gung-ho
- 2:17Speaker 2: Hillary Clinton. Here with Ben Avery, of course. Everything okay
- 2:21Speaker 2: with you? You have a very odd, you've had a
- 2:23Speaker 2: very weird tone. It's made a lot of people uncomfortable.
- 2:25Speaker 4: I'm so thrown off. I feel like I've been doing... Well,
- 2:29Speaker 4: you have.
- 2:29Speaker 2: A very, like, it's a bossy, like, you get very
- 2:32Speaker 2: bossy to everyone when you're, it's like your studio, and you're, like, very, like.
- 2:36Speaker 1: Oh, come on. Yes, you do.
- 2:38Speaker 2: And everybody realizes it. You have a very kind of bossy,
- 2:42Speaker 2: authoritarian streak.
- 2:43Speaker 4: I feel like I'm intentionally very open, open heart, and
- 2:47Speaker 4: I feel like I'm very encouraging... And I feel like
- 2:50Speaker 4: I bring a lot of, I feel like I light
- 2:52Speaker 4: up a room a little bit. Not like a huge bulb,
- 2:55Speaker 4: like a huge bright bulb of light, like a studio light,
- 2:58Speaker 4: but I definitely, I'm carrying like a candle or like
- 3:01Speaker 4: a torch or something. I come in and I just
- 3:04Speaker 4: feel like, hey, Ben's here, everything's okay.
- 3:06Speaker 5: Okay.
- 3:07Speaker 2: You've now, that is your word quota for the next
- 3:10Speaker 2: three episodes. You're not to.
- 3:13Speaker 1: Utter another word. You are so out of line.
- 3:17Speaker 6: Yeah.
- 3:19Speaker 2: By the way, we were here with Devin and Ida, Richie,
- 3:21Speaker 2: friends of ours. It's late night in the studio, just
- 3:25Speaker 2: hanging out. And the other day, we're.
- 3:28Speaker 1: On a plane. Now, by the way, I sit in
- 3:30Speaker 1: first class. He sits in coach.
- 3:31Speaker 2: It's the way it is. It's the way it is.
- 3:33Speaker 2: It's called capitalism. And I look back. He's sitting in
- 3:41Speaker 2: the row right behind the first class curtain, trolling me, essentially.
- 3:49Speaker 2: sitting in like a comfort seat or some type of
- 3:52Speaker 2: like higher priced seat.
- 3:57Speaker 1: And I'm looking at him. I usually never see him.
- 4:01Speaker 2: And I walk sometimes to the back of the plane
- 4:04Speaker 2: and I give him something that we get in first class,
- 4:06Speaker 2: a hard boiled egg or something. I squirrel it away
- 4:09Speaker 2: to him and he's sitting right up there. But you
- 4:13Speaker 2: know how God punishes him? Tell everyone what happened in
- 4:16Speaker 2: the middle of the flight. Tell everybody what happened.
- 4:19Speaker 4: A younger white man is sitting in the middle seat, fit,
- 4:24Speaker 4: started vomiting all over.
- 4:25Speaker 3: Wait a minute, wait a minute.
- 4:27Speaker 2: How did you describe him, a younger white man? And
- 4:29Speaker 2: then you said fit like he's fit?
- 4:31Speaker 3: He's fit.
- 4:31Speaker 2: Okay, what in God's name does that have to do
- 4:35Speaker 2: with what happens next?
- 4:36Speaker 3: It's not who you would think it would be.
- 4:38Speaker 1: Who would you think it would be?
- 4:42Speaker 3: An older woman.
- 4:45Speaker 1: Of what race?
- 4:46Speaker 3: I don't think the race is important.
- 4:48Speaker 1: Well, you specified race. You brought it up.
- 4:50Speaker 3: That's true. That's kind of weird I did that.
- 4:52Speaker 7: Yeah.
- 4:53Speaker 1: Interesting.
- 4:53Speaker 3: What was a white guy?
- 4:54Speaker 2: It was a white fit man, the enemy. And what
- 4:58Speaker 2: then happened to you?
- 5:00Speaker 4: He like crazy started vomiting all over his groin and
- 5:04Speaker 4: his crotch.
- 5:05Speaker 8: That's right.
- 5:05Speaker 4: And he did it so much, he was flailing around
- 5:08Speaker 4: for the throw-up bags. And he couldn't, there weren't any.
- 5:12Speaker 4: And so he just kept going like about five times.
- 5:15Speaker 4: Went into my Ridge Wallet backpack, went on my shoes,
- 5:18Speaker 4: went on my pants. I'm stuck in the window. The
- 5:20Speaker 4: guy in the aisle jumped up immediately, and I was
- 5:23Speaker 4: just stuck. There was nothing I could do.
- 5:24Speaker 1: Here's then what happens. They send them into first.
- 5:28Speaker 2: I swear to God, they send these dirty pieces of
- 5:32Speaker 2: shit covered in vomit into first class.
- 5:38Speaker 1: To wash themselves off. And I'm like, what the fuck
- 5:43Speaker 1: is going on? I'm not vomiting.
- 5:47Speaker 2: So you bring some schmuck from steerage who's vomiting into,
- 5:53Speaker 2: it's like a $ 2, 000 ticket, and this monster who's vomiting,
- 6:00Speaker 2: you know, and I hope he's okay, because he said
- 6:03Speaker 2: he passed out.
- 6:03Speaker 1: When the plane took off.
- 6:05Speaker 8: Yes.
- 6:05Speaker 1: These are bad signs.
- 6:06Speaker 3: You went unconscious, he said.
- 6:08Speaker 2: We worry about him, and we want him to be okay,
- 6:11Speaker 2: but we don't want him in first class covered in vomit.
- 6:15Speaker 9: Right?
- 6:17Speaker 2: What is Ron DeSantis doing at Disney World killing gay children?
- 6:21Speaker 2: What's going on now? Why is Disney World, Disney World
- 6:26Speaker 2: is in like, have you heard about this, that you can't.
- 6:30Speaker 1: Say gay now?
- 6:31Speaker 3: The don't say gay thing.
- 6:32Speaker 1: In Florida, if you say gay, something happens. I don't know.
- 6:36Speaker 1: What do they do? They get you.
- 6:38Speaker 3: You march or something. Putin loves the don't say gay bill.
- 6:44Speaker 1: Putin's. We want to play Devin's thing. It was so
- 6:47Speaker 1: funny on the show.
- 6:48Speaker 3: Oh, yes, yes. Let me pull it up.
- 6:49Speaker 1: The leaked.
- 6:50Speaker 2: We're going to play this. This is a leaked. This
- 6:53Speaker 2: is the reasons Vladimir Putin invaded the Ukraine. And I
- 6:57Speaker 2: was against the Ukraine invasion in principle until I.
- 7:02Speaker 3: No, keep going. I'm almost there.
- 7:06Speaker 1: Well, why prepare? You know what I mean?
- 7:09Speaker 2: It's 3 o'clock in the morning. We got the time.
- 7:12Speaker 2: We got people breaking into the studio. Persians are coming
- 7:15Speaker 2: in here with kebabs. Heidi's doing Arabian Nights.
- 7:19Speaker 1: Why prepare? Another three hours here. It's all right. He's
- 7:23Speaker 1: been with the dogs all day.
- 7:26Speaker 3: Okay, so this is Devin's video here.
- 7:28Speaker 1: This is not Devin's.
- 7:29Speaker 3: I didn't make this.
- 7:30Speaker 1: This is leaked audio. This is why Russia has invaded
- 7:33Speaker 1: the Ukraine.
- 7:39Speaker 7: Good afternoon, good evening from Ukraine. I would like to
- 7:48Speaker 7: say thank you to George Floyd from Ukraine. What is
- 7:53Speaker 7: your name, Ukraine? I'm Garner. What is your name?
- 7:57Speaker 10: Say their name.
- 7:59Speaker 11: Say their name.
- 7:59Speaker 7: Say their name. Say their name. I don't know what
- 8:10Speaker 7: to say. I don't know what to say. I don't
- 8:13Speaker 7: know what to say. I don't know what to say.
- 8:17Speaker 7: I don't know what to say. I don't know what
- 8:21Speaker 7: to say. Who's going to do it? LeBron's the shop.
- 8:38Speaker 7: Who's going to do it?
- 8:39Speaker 2: Russian.
- 8:40Speaker 7: Who's going to do it? Who's going to do it?
- 8:43Speaker 7: Who's going to do it? Who's going to do it?
- 8:47Speaker 7: Who's going to do it?
- 8:58Speaker 2: You got to watch it, folks. If you are just
- 9:01Speaker 2: listening to the show, you got to watch that as well.
- 9:03Speaker 2: And now, of course, people actually, this is when you
- 9:06Speaker 2: learn the intellect of the American public.
- 9:10Speaker 3: Yeah, it's truly terrifying.
- 9:11Speaker 1: People thought it was real.
- 9:12Speaker 3: Like 50% of people legitimately still think it's real. I'm
- 9:15Speaker 3: still getting messages. Like, Putin doesn't give a fuck about BLM.
- 9:18Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 9:21Speaker 8: Yeah.
- 9:22Speaker 3: I doubt it.
- 9:24Speaker 2: One of my favorite ones is the guy goes, if
- 9:26Speaker 2: this is Putin, we're in real trouble.
- 9:28Speaker 1: It sounds like he's lost his mind.
- 9:32Speaker 2: If this is Putin, we got a lot of problems
- 9:35Speaker 2: on our hands because he seems unwell.
- 9:37Speaker 1: How did you do Russian that well? It sounds like Russian.
- 9:41Speaker 1: I guess.
- 9:42Speaker 12: I mean, I say balala bala at one point, but
- 9:45Speaker 12: I just looked up how to say hello and goodbye,
- 9:47Speaker 12: and it all takes forever just to say one word
- 9:50Speaker 12: in Russian, and then you just add Issa Rae.
- 9:52Speaker 1: Let's do a Ukraine war report.
- 9:55Speaker 2: Where is the Ukraine right now uh in terms of
- 9:59Speaker 2: the we have the Russians who've advanced they've done horrible
- 10:04Speaker 2: things in Maripol they're targeting civilians uh you know Now they're.
- 10:14Speaker 1: Saying it's a stalemate. The media keeps doing this.
- 10:17Speaker 2: By the way, is the media helping the Ukraine? The
- 10:19Speaker 2: media keeps going, the Russians are losing. The next day,
- 10:24Speaker 2: a city gets burned to the ground. Can the media
- 10:29Speaker 2: stop running articles that say, like, Putin's hitting a stalemate?
- 10:35Speaker 2: Immediately after that happens, they just start shelling civilian centers.
- 10:41Speaker 1: How about telling him he's winning?
- 10:44Speaker 2: How about the media writing an article saying, it's over,
- 10:46Speaker 2: you've done a great job.
- 10:49Speaker 1: Like, this isn't working.
- 10:51Speaker 2: This idea of just telling this guy he's losing every five.
- 10:55Speaker 1: Like, if I was in Ukraine, I'd go, tell him
- 10:58Speaker 1: it's good. They're winning. I know. Tell him he doesn't
- 11:02Speaker 1: have to try so hard.
- 11:05Speaker 2: This isn't exactly the best strategy here, to keep telling
- 11:07Speaker 2: the guy... He's... And now we're pushing this coup angle.
- 11:12Speaker 2: We're saying that there's a coup that... And Mark Gagliotti,
- 11:16Speaker 2: who doesn't return my messages anymore, but is a really
- 11:19Speaker 2: great journalist about Russia, and other people have said that
- 11:23Speaker 2: Putin is relatively coup-proof. He's pretty... He's done a pretty
- 11:29Speaker 2: good job of insulating himself. He monitors everybody around him,
- 11:35Speaker 2: and he's... You know, relatively somewhat, you know, as invulnerable
- 11:41Speaker 2: as you can be, even though there's always a chance,
- 11:45Speaker 2: there's a shot.
- 11:48Speaker 1: But now they're saying there's a.
- 11:49Speaker 2: Coup and that the oligarchs are unhappy because they're losing money.
- 11:53Speaker 2: And the new guy is going to be the guy
- 11:56Speaker 2: who's the head of the FSB right now.
- 11:59Speaker 1: And I forget his name.
- 12:01Speaker 2: But they're saying there's a new guy that the oligarchs
- 12:04Speaker 2: in Russia are tapping to replace Vladimir Putin.
- 12:09Speaker 3: Viktor Yanukovych?
- 12:11Speaker 1: Nope. That's not it, Ben.
- 12:14Speaker 3: Okay, let me try again.
- 12:15Speaker 1: Swing and a miss from producer extraordinaire.
- 12:19Speaker 8: Man.
- 12:20Speaker 1: Ben Avery, swing and a miss.
- 12:22Speaker 3: It wasn't the Surge guy either, right?
- 12:24Speaker 2: It's not Shogu. Sergei Shogu, shout out to Shogu. Shogu's
- 12:29Speaker 2: been an early supporter of the show. Ironic that we're
- 12:33Speaker 2: in the position we are now. Of course, this has
- 12:37Speaker 2: been every article. It's the head of the Russian FSB now.
- 12:41Speaker 2: We could just Google that. We could Google head of
- 12:46Speaker 2: the Russian FSB. There it is, Alexander Bortnikov. He is
- 12:55Speaker 2: a Russian intelligence officer who has served as a director
- 12:59Speaker 2: of the Federal Security Service since May 12, 2008. They're
- 13:03Speaker 2: now saying that the oligarchs are mad they're going to
- 13:06Speaker 2: throw Putin out and install Bortnikov. Now, obviously, this is
- 13:10Speaker 2: probably just maybe some propaganda that we're throwing out there to,
- 13:15Speaker 2: you know, insert a little, you know, distrust in the
- 13:20Speaker 2: Putin circle.
- 13:22Speaker 1: Whatever it is. This is from what publication?
- 13:26Speaker 3: This is from the Tribune in India.
- 13:29Speaker 2: The Tribune in India, but they've run it a bunch
- 13:31Speaker 2: of places. Group of Russian elite plans to assassinate Putin
- 13:35Speaker 2: by poison claims Ukrainian intelligence. So Ukrainian intelligence claims that
- 13:41Speaker 2: there's a plot right now to get rid of Putin
- 13:45Speaker 2: and then replace him with the head of the FSB
- 13:48Speaker 2: who will restore economic ties with the West. That is,
- 13:52Speaker 2: you know, I don't know if that's true or not,
- 13:55Speaker 2: but that's Ukrainian intelligence claims. saying that, bring this up, Zelensky,
- 14:00Speaker 2: they're saying his green shirt has become a symbol of defiance.
- 14:07Speaker 2: Zelensky's green shirt. This is the New York Times, by
- 14:10Speaker 2: the way. This isn't, this isn't like a blog written
- 14:17Speaker 2: by a student at Columbia University. It's the man in
- 14:21Speaker 2: the olive tree, how President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine transformed
- 14:27Speaker 2: the meaning of a.
- 14:28Speaker 1: Piece of cotton. Oh, God.
- 14:32Speaker 2: In the beginning, it was just a T-shirt, basic olive green,
- 14:36Speaker 2: the kind worn under military fatigues or hauled out from
- 14:38Speaker 2: the bottom of a wardrobe for workouts and weekends. Sometimes
- 14:42Speaker 2: it was more brown than green. Sometimes it was a
- 14:44Speaker 2: cross over the heart with a coat of arms in
- 14:46Speaker 2: the center. But over the last four weeks, as the
- 14:48Speaker 2: Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, has shed his former Navy suits,
- 14:53Speaker 2: white shirts, and ties, the uniform of the politician for
- 14:56Speaker 2: the T-shirt, wearing it in his daily videos to his
- 14:59Speaker 2: country and his speeches to the European Parliament, to the
- 15:01Speaker 2: British Parliament, to the American Congress, in his interviews over
- 15:04Speaker 2: the weekend with CNN, blah, blah, blah.
- 15:07Speaker 1: A Zoom call with Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis. I mean,
- 15:10Speaker 1: what is happening? What?
- 15:13Speaker 2: He did a Zoom, a widely tweeted Zoom call with
- 15:16Speaker 2: Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis. It is something more, a
- 15:20Speaker 2: symbol of the strength and patriotism of the Ukrainian people,
- 15:22Speaker 2: a host of values.
- 15:24Speaker 1: Here's the deal. I've been up front from the beginning.
- 15:27Speaker 1: The war is a tragedy. Putin's a monster. Invading a
- 15:29Speaker 1: sovereign nation is absolutely wrong.
- 15:31Speaker 2: But Putin has a nuclear arsenal and sadly has done this.
- 15:36Speaker 1: He chose to do this.
- 15:37Speaker 2: He didn't chose to, you know, he didn't choose to
- 15:39Speaker 2: become a chef or a stand-up comedian or whatever. He's
- 15:43Speaker 2: a dictator and he's doing horrible things. He's killing women
- 15:46Speaker 2: and children. This is a horrible thing. Whether it's done
- 15:49Speaker 2: in Ukraine or Iraq or wherever it's done, it's bad.
- 15:52Speaker 2: But it's been done and we're living in that world.
- 15:55Speaker 2: And my problem with the Zelensky thing is what is
- 15:57Speaker 2: the end game here? I mean, we're talking about the
- 15:59Speaker 2: guy's T-shirt and they're shelling cities. Should we not be
- 16:02Speaker 2: trying to pressure the guy into making a deal and saying, hey.
- 16:06Speaker 1: Man, we get it.
- 16:09Speaker 2: You know, the Ukrainian people are tough, but we need
- 16:12Speaker 2: to figure out a way to end this war and not,
- 16:16Speaker 2: you know, make it into some type of.
- 16:21Speaker 1: This isn't a party.
- 16:22Speaker 3: I'm afraid.
- 16:23Speaker 8: Yeah.
- 16:24Speaker 1: No, it is. It's scary.
- 16:26Speaker 3: Can we go back to hating white people?
- 16:28Speaker 2: Right.
- 16:29Speaker 12: I thought this country hated white people. Why is the
- 16:32Speaker 12: media so in love with the white Ukrainians?
- 16:34Speaker 2: Well, when some of them are not, some of them
- 16:36Speaker 2: are legitimately Nazis. The Azov Battalion. They're Sieg Heiland. They're legitimate.
- 16:42Speaker 2: It's not even like maybe they're Nazis. It's like they're
- 16:48Speaker 2: certainly Nazis. Mm-hmm. And they're singing at the Academy Awards,
- 16:54Speaker 2: the Azov Battalion, which is odd, but necessary.
- 17:02Speaker 1: The T-shirt is a reminder of Mr.
- 17:04Speaker 2: Zelensky's origins as a regular guy, a connection between him
- 17:06Speaker 2: and the citizen soldiers fighting on the streets.
- 17:09Speaker 1: I get it.
- 17:11Speaker 2: Listen, Putin's invasion is not justified because they have some
- 17:15Speaker 2: Nazi battalions over there.
- 17:17Speaker 1: But Their Nazi battalions aren't great.
- 17:20Speaker 2: And articles about the Ukraine before the war, and again,
- 17:22Speaker 2: none of this justifies the invasion, but they were like,
- 17:25Speaker 2: it's one of the most corrupt countries.
- 17:26Speaker 1: They've got a huge Nazi problem.
- 17:29Speaker 2: LGBT attacks are becoming more coordinated. These are all things
- 17:34Speaker 2: that were said about the Ukraine. I mean, Ukraine is
- 17:36Speaker 2: probably not a progressive paradise.
- 17:41Speaker 9: You know.
- 17:43Speaker 2: But it still doesn't mean that Putin is seriously denazifying
- 17:48Speaker 2: the country. But I just think we need to push
- 17:52Speaker 2: for some type of... We're getting too into Zelensky as
- 17:56Speaker 2: a guy. And he's getting too into this. It almost
- 18:02Speaker 2: feels like he's like, what happens when they say... It's
- 18:04Speaker 2: like his COVID, where it's like, hey, man, you're going
- 18:09Speaker 2: to have to give Putin some territory.
- 18:11Speaker 1: This is the way it's going to work.
- 18:12Speaker 2: You're not going to get out of this without giving
- 18:13Speaker 2: Putin territory. He's kind of becoming a little Fauci-like, where
- 18:17Speaker 2: he's doing podcast. The country's getting killed, and he's on
- 18:22Speaker 2: My Favorite Murder. I mean, this is a problem, right?
- 18:26Speaker 1: I mean, there's got to be... Some idea.
- 18:31Speaker 2: Of concessions being made by the Ukraine that they're not
- 18:35Speaker 2: going to be happy about because otherwise we're going to
- 18:38Speaker 2: see more death and more chaos and more carnage. And
- 18:42Speaker 2: I understand Zelensky's in a spot and he didn't leave
- 18:46Speaker 2: his people.
- 18:46Speaker 1: He didn't take the airlift out of the country. That's
- 18:50Speaker 1: all respectable. He's to be respected for that. But what
- 18:54Speaker 1: we have to be careful about is we just can't
- 18:56Speaker 1: have a guy who's... kind of, and people are going
- 19:01Speaker 1: to blame you. They're like, well, it's not his fault.
- 19:03Speaker 1: I understand that.
- 19:04Speaker 2: But we can't drag this out forever here because, you know,
- 19:11Speaker 2: people's lives are at stake. And there's already 10 million
- 19:14Speaker 2: people that have left the Ukraine. And we also can't
- 19:16Speaker 2: just have a nuclear war, which I know disappoints a
- 19:19Speaker 2: lot of people in the ruling class that think a
- 19:21Speaker 2: nuclear war would be a great idea. The New York Times,
- 19:24Speaker 2: by the way, this is a great article from the
- 19:26Speaker 2: New York Times about.
- 19:28Speaker 1: They're now preparing you for nuclear war. The New York
- 19:32Speaker 1: Times is now going out and.
- 19:33Speaker 2: Saying, hey, this nuclear war you're all freaked out about
- 19:38Speaker 2: is actually not going to be that bad.
- 19:40Speaker 1: I swear to God.
- 19:42Speaker 2: They're going, hey, this nuclear exchange you've been dreading is
- 19:47Speaker 2: actually not the nuclear exchange of the 50s. It's actually
- 19:52Speaker 2: going to be much cooler than that. And that's a
- 19:57Speaker 2: little disturbing. I don't love that article that they wrote.
- 20:01Speaker 1: Any article that seems to minimize the damage a nuclear
- 20:05Speaker 1: war could do scares me. It's a little scary.
- 20:09Speaker 2: Here we go, New York Times, the smaller bombs that
- 20:12Speaker 2: could turn Ukraine into a nuclear war zone. And the
- 20:18Speaker 2: whole thing here, they had like a subtitle here, which
- 20:24Speaker 2: was basically, and maybe they changed this, but the thing
- 20:28Speaker 2: that I tweeted was essentially they were saying like, Experts
- 20:33Speaker 2: say a new generation of less destructive nuclear arms may
- 20:38Speaker 2: make the prospect of a nuclear strike less unthinkable than
- 20:42Speaker 2: it once was.
- 20:44Speaker 1: So they're like, hey. What's the big deal? You know what,
- 20:55Speaker 1: nuclear war? Is that what you're saying? I mean, I
- 21:00Speaker 1: think the point is like, hey, there.
- 21:03Speaker 2: Could be a few nukes that go off. It's not
- 21:07Speaker 2: a big deal. It's not a big deal. There could
- 21:11Speaker 2: be a few nukes. We don't want it to get
- 21:14Speaker 2: too crazy. Concern about these smaller arms has soared as
- 21:18Speaker 2: Vladimir Putin in the Ukraine war... has warned of his
- 21:21Speaker 2: nuclear might, has put his atomic forces on alert, and
- 21:25Speaker 2: has had his military carry out risky attacks on nuclear
- 21:27Speaker 2: power plants.
- 21:28Speaker 1: The fear is that if Mr.
- 21:29Speaker 2: Putin feels cornered in a conflict, he may choose to
- 21:32Speaker 2: detonate one of the lesser nuclear arms, breaking the taboo
- 21:36Speaker 2: set 76 years ago after Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
- 21:41Speaker 1: Somebody goes, the chances are low but rising. And they are.
- 21:46Speaker 2: They are rising steadily because we, I don't think, fully
- 21:50Speaker 2: understand the sanctions have crippled their economy. And this guy's desperate.
- 21:56Speaker 2: And again, we keep running articles saying he's losing every five.
- 22:00Speaker 2: I mean, it's just not, you know, the whole media
- 22:03Speaker 2: angle here is like, it's over for you.
- 22:07Speaker 12: Every late night shows was talking openly about assassinating him
- 22:10Speaker 12: and people are making jokes about killing him and stuff.
- 22:13Speaker 1: No, it's a great idea. James Corden's out there. Oh,
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- 22:27Speaker 2: It's like, it's a bit, it's a bit much. I
- 22:31Speaker 2: don't know what to think about all of this. I'm
- 22:34Speaker 2: a fan of a non-nuclear arrangement here.
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- 22:43Speaker 12: I mean, doesn't the New York Times writer of this article,
- 22:47Speaker 12: doesn't he know he dies too?
- 22:49Speaker 3: All the people pushing this, isn't it just suicide?
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- 23:00Speaker 2: Yeah, some people have been preparing for this, believe it's
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- 23:09Speaker 1: They also don't, you know, a.
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- 23:18Speaker 12: I read that nuclear war would wipe out like 700
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- 23:22Speaker 1: Hey, that's a real... Hey, by the way, inflation, not
- 23:25Speaker 1: a big problem anymore.
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- 23:35Speaker 2: You get rid of 700 million people, that's a good idea.
- 23:37Speaker 2: All of a sudden, things start to seem, because, you know,
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- 27:32Speaker 2: How bad is the economy right now? I mean, what
- 27:34Speaker 2: is the.
- 27:34Speaker 1: Price of gas?
- 27:38Speaker 3: I saw California, it was six on average. It's 696
- 27:43Speaker 3: near where I live. Average US. Let's see, four.
- 27:47Speaker 1: 696, even in your neighborhood.
- 27:51Speaker 3: And like a little closer to downtown, but yeah. It's
- 27:53Speaker 3: really crazy.
- 27:53Speaker 9: God.
- 27:54Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 27:55Speaker 3: Man, yeah, but it's about four, four, six, four, nine.
- 27:59Speaker 2: National average is 4.2.
- 28:05Speaker 1: Do you have the Colbert bit? Let's get the Colbert
- 28:08Speaker 1: bit up about... I wonder if we can play it.
- 28:10Speaker 1: Can we play it?
- 28:11Speaker 3: What's he doing?
- 28:12Speaker 1: Why can't we play it?
- 28:13Speaker 3: Because it's copyright of, what is that, CBS?
- 28:16Speaker 1: Yeah, they understand. I got an arrangement with them.
- 28:23Speaker 8: I do.
- 28:23Speaker 1: I got an arrangement with Viacom. I'm good.
- 28:28Speaker 2: They don't... No, Colbert, where he tells everybody to go
- 28:33Speaker 2: buy a Tesla.
- 28:35Speaker 3: Oh, that's right.
- 28:40Speaker 11: I'll tell you what, I will never complain about a
- 28:41Speaker 11: destination wedding again. Russia has been hit with a series
- 28:46Speaker 11: of crippling sanctions, and it looks like there's more to
- 28:48Speaker 11: come because the U.S.
- 28:50Speaker 9: And its European.
- 28:51Speaker 11: Allies are now discussing banning imports of Russian oil.
- 28:55Speaker 1: Take that, Putin.
- 28:56Speaker 11: We're not going to buy our gas from a war criminal.
- 28:58Speaker 11: We're going to buy it from the good guys, Saudi Arabia.
- 29:03Speaker 11: But it's going to cost. Since the invasion, oil prices
- 29:07Speaker 11: have skyrocketed. Today, the average gas price in America hit
- 29:11Speaker 11: an all-time record high of over $ 4 per gallon. Okay,
- 29:15Speaker 11: that stings, but a clean conscience is worth a buck
- 29:18Speaker 11: or two.
- 29:20Speaker 1: I'm willing to pay.
- 29:21Speaker 8: It's important. It's important.
- 29:28Speaker 11: I'm willing to pay $ 4 a gallon. Hell, I'll pay
- 29:32Speaker 11: $ 15 a gallon because I drive a Tesla. Right now,
- 29:36Speaker 11: people all over the world are trying to find inventive ways.
- 29:40Speaker 1: To help ordinary.
- 29:42Speaker 1: Yeah, so, I mean, you know, I get it.
- 29:45Speaker 2: This Addy joke's pretty funny, but, you know, telling people
- 29:48Speaker 2: you can spend another dollar or two on a gallon
- 29:50Speaker 2: of gas and, you know, that's not helping, right? I
- 29:54Speaker 2: don't think that really warms the hearts of people in
- 29:57Speaker 2: this country who are destitute.
- 29:59Speaker 3: Makes you furious watching that.
- 30:01Speaker 2: Yeah, it makes you angry watching it because people are
- 30:04Speaker 2: suffering already. And I don't think that there's a real good,
- 30:09Speaker 2: you know, clean conscience. I mean, clean conscience.
- 30:14Speaker 3: What are we doing in, like, Yemen?
- 30:16Speaker 1: Yeah. Pull up Yemen, by the way. See what's going
- 30:20Speaker 1: on over in Yemen.
- 30:21Speaker 3: What's the latest?
- 30:21Speaker 1: Just hit Google Image. Just hit Google Image Yemen.
- 30:25Speaker 9: All righty.
- 30:25Speaker 1: Yeah. Go to the third photo over there.
- 30:30Speaker 8: What's that?
- 30:32Speaker 6: What happened there?
- 30:33Speaker 1: That looks like a scene out of the Bible.
- 30:40Speaker 2: What's going on over there? That seems to be a
- 30:43Speaker 2: problem too. But nobody's talking about a dollar or two
- 30:48Speaker 2: gas for Yemen.
- 30:49Speaker 14: Jesus.
- 30:50Speaker 2: Saudi Arabia has been bombing Yemen with American money and
- 30:55Speaker 2: American equipment for years. They've been carrying out what essentially
- 31:00Speaker 2: amounts to a genocide in Yemen. And this is why
- 31:06Speaker 2: people hate late-night comedy.
- 31:09Speaker 1: They hate performative activism. They hate all this stuff because
- 31:13Speaker 1: they know, they genuinely.
- 31:18Speaker 2: Know that it's fake and that it's very selective and
- 31:22Speaker 2: that it only, you know, it's a zeitgeisty thing.
- 31:25Speaker 1: It's the in thing to do. and they're going to
- 31:28Speaker 1: have a thing on the Academy Awards. And I'm not
- 31:30Speaker 1: saying that.
- 31:30Speaker 2: The Ukraine is not something that you should, you should
- 31:33Speaker 2: feel horrible about and, and notice, but saying, well, you
- 31:37Speaker 2: can have a clean conscience. You should never with the
- 31:40Speaker 2: things this government's done. You should never go to bed
- 31:42Speaker 2: with a clean conscience. If you're paying it, if you've
- 31:45Speaker 2: read a book, no clean conscience at all. Um, Amy
- 31:52Speaker 2: Schumer tried to get Zelinsky on the show. We talked
- 31:53Speaker 2: about this on the Patreon. We're not going to go
- 31:54Speaker 2: over it again. But the Oscars have said no to that.
- 31:59Speaker 2: They've said no, which is sad because I wanted to
- 32:03Speaker 2: see that.
- 32:04Speaker 3: Same.
- 32:04Speaker 1: I wanted to see Zelinsky.
- 32:06Speaker 2: On the Academy Awards doing a comedy bit with Amy
- 32:09Speaker 2: Schumer while his country's being attacked. I think that'd be
- 32:14Speaker 2: a good use of his time to.
- 32:17Speaker 1: Be on the Academy Awards....
- 32:21Speaker 2: Making, doing a bit about the shelling of the country.
- 32:27Speaker 2: What if Zelensky really came on and they just did some, like,
- 32:32Speaker 2: bit that just didn't land about... Now, the Nazis in
- 32:39Speaker 2: the Ukraine, because now they're taping people that are looting
- 32:44Speaker 2: and stuff to things, and people are going, look at them,
- 32:45Speaker 2: they're doing the wrong thing. I mean, by the way,
- 32:47Speaker 2: all the things America's done with the... I mean, taping
- 32:50Speaker 2: people to a pole is not even the least of it.
- 32:53Speaker 2: But they are taping people. You know, it's martial law
- 32:57Speaker 2: over there. It's not great. So if they think somebody
- 33:01Speaker 2: is eluding or something, they're taping them to a pole.
- 33:06Speaker 2: And this has made people very uncomfortable that are watching this,
- 33:14Speaker 2: trying to figure out, you know, what our role should be.
- 33:18Speaker 2: vigilante punishment spreads in Ukraine. And a lot of people
- 33:23Speaker 2: that are doling out these punishments are this Azov battalion
- 33:26Speaker 2: of Nazis.
- 33:30Speaker 1: But they're not the bad Nazis.
- 33:32Speaker 2: They're not like the Nazis like that or like the Charlottesville.
- 33:37Speaker 1: These are like.
- 33:39Speaker 2: There's different kinds of Nazis and people don't realize this.
- 33:46Speaker 1: These Nazis are in.
- 33:49Speaker 1: When a Nazi is hot in this business, they're hot.
- 33:53Speaker 2: Let's get real. When a Nazi has heat in the
- 33:57Speaker 2: entertainment business, they got heat. It's a business about heat.
- 34:02Speaker 2: Not about talent, per se, but it's about heat. And
- 34:06Speaker 2: when you're hot, you're hot. And right now, the Azov
- 34:08Speaker 2: Battalion is hot. We like them. They're in. We want
- 34:14Speaker 2: to know more. We like it. They're patriotic. They're standing
- 34:19Speaker 2: up to Putin. So they're not the Nazis that are out.
- 34:26Speaker 2: There's Nazis that are out that we say they're not marketable.
- 34:31Speaker 2: And let's get them off social. Let's get them off
- 34:34Speaker 2: social media. Let's put them in the back of the room.
- 34:37Speaker 2: Not a fan of those Nazis. But then there are Nazis.
- 34:41Speaker 2: They're a little more cinematic. It's more exciting.
- 34:46Speaker 1: They're more exciting.
- 34:47Speaker 3: The industry kids.
- 34:48Speaker 2: They're industry kids. We hand-picked them. They're selected. You've been selected,
- 34:55Speaker 2: Azov Battalion. They're the Nazis of the moment. They're the
- 35:01Speaker 2: Nazis of the moment. And here's the deal.
- 35:05Speaker 1: And this is, I'm going to, this is going to
- 35:09Speaker 1: come out wrong.
- 35:15Speaker 2: I'm trying to figure out how to say it and
- 35:17Speaker 2: remain with the ability to communicate with large numbers of people.
- 35:22Speaker 1: But here's what I'll say. Every now and then.
- 35:28Speaker 2: You.
- 35:30Speaker 1: Need a cool group of Nazis. Every now and then.
- 35:39Speaker 1: Not a lot. You don't want to overdo it.
- 35:42Speaker 2: But every now and then, You need to overlook some
- 35:46Speaker 2: shit and just elevate a cool group of Nazis. Because, hey,
- 35:57Speaker 2: it's punk rock. It's punk rock. And we forget about that.
- 36:07Speaker 2: We've gotten soft, but... Now, do you... They just... The
- 36:12Speaker 2: Azov Nazi guy literally just was broadcast on CNN.
- 36:17Speaker 1: They had him on. Yeah, they had him on. They
- 36:21Speaker 1: had him on.
- 36:22Speaker 3: Let's see here. They had him on.
- 36:26Speaker 1: They had him on to make his case.
- 36:30Speaker 12: Malcolm Nance on Twitter says there's no Nazis left in
- 36:33Speaker 12: the Azov battalion, that they've been rid of all Nazis.
- 36:37Speaker 1: Well, that's disappointing, isn't it?
- 36:38Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 36:39Speaker 8: And.
- 36:41Speaker 1: Here's what I say about that. I don't believe that.
- 36:45Speaker 2: But maybe after this happens, the Azov Battalion's hearts will
- 36:49Speaker 2: be warmed by Amy Schumer.
- 36:53Speaker 8: Yeah.
- 36:53Speaker 2: What if Amy Schumer convinces the Azov Battalion to stop
- 37:01Speaker 2: being Nazis and start queering the space.
- 37:09Speaker 1: By accepting.
- 37:11Speaker 2: LGBTQIA2 people into their brigade.
- 37:18Speaker 1: Perhaps. So now we have the A's or the head
- 37:21Speaker 1: of the A's off battalion here.
- 37:23Speaker 3: Yeah, his name is Dennis. Dennis, I'm trying to pronounce.
- 37:26Speaker 1: Don't even try with the names. Don't even try with
- 37:29Speaker 1: the names.
- 37:31Speaker 3: Here's the clip here.
- 37:32Speaker 15: Now, CNN has spoken with a commander, a Ukrainian military
- 37:37Speaker 15: commander who's been defending the city from the siege. Take
- 37:41Speaker 15: a listen to what he sent us a day ago.
- 37:46Speaker 6: People are cooking food in the streets, risking their lives
- 37:49Speaker 6: under the.
- 37:50Speaker 1: Now, let me be honest. I get a Nazi vibe.
- 38:04Speaker 1: If it was just based on vibes....
- 38:07Speaker 2: If it was just based on vibes... I get a
- 38:10Speaker 2: Nazi vibe. Not saying what the defending of the city
- 38:14Speaker 2: is bad. Not saying you don't have to make alliances
- 38:17Speaker 2: with people that are nutty. But I get a little
- 38:22Speaker 2: bit of a Nazi vibe from this gentleman.
- 38:25Speaker 1: I could be wrong. Let's see what he has to say.
- 38:29Speaker 6: Bombing. And the temperature is minus five degrees Celsius in
- 38:33Speaker 6: the street. Killing the civilian, the amount of victims grows
- 38:37Speaker 6: every day. Now it is more than 3,000, but nobody
- 38:41Speaker 6: knows the exact amount because people are buried together in
- 38:45Speaker 6: the same dump with no names. Many bodies are just
- 38:48Speaker 6: outside the streets without being buried. Some of people are
- 38:52Speaker 6: under the ruined buildings buried alive. Ukrainian army is trying
- 38:56Speaker 6: to help civilians with food and water, but it's not enough.
- 39:01Speaker 6: There is no safety places for people in Mariupol. The
- 39:04Speaker 6: missiles of the enemy are attacking the houses and people
- 39:08Speaker 6: are dying in their beds.
- 39:11Speaker 2: It's a horrible situation that needs to end, truly. I mean,
- 39:17Speaker 2: you know, this can't, this has to end.
- 39:21Speaker 1: We have to figure a way out of this.
- 39:24Speaker 2: And, you know, you know, I don't want to, you know, we,
- 39:30Speaker 2: can't split hairs here about, you know, yeah, we got,
- 39:32Speaker 2: there's some Nazis there that are, they're.
- 39:35Speaker 1: Doing the work.
- 39:40Speaker 3: They put their head down.
- 39:44Speaker 1: They're doing the work.
- 39:47Speaker 2: The Nazis were very bad, but they weren't inefficient. So
- 39:53Speaker 2: if you could get the Nazis to do things you
- 39:56Speaker 2: want them to do, like what about a Nazi-run steakhouse?
- 40:00Speaker 1: Be great.
- 40:01Speaker 8: Right?
- 40:03Speaker 1: So if we could focus Nazis on other things, we're
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- 43:06Speaker 2: What about this Katenji Brown-Jackson, the woman who's the Supreme Court?
- 43:11Speaker 2: People are getting mad at her because she's, I don't know,
- 43:15Speaker 2: she sentenced some people with child porn to, I don't know, people,
- 43:20Speaker 2: not a lot of, I don't know, people want her
- 43:23Speaker 2: to sentence, it's very late, but people want her to
- 43:25Speaker 2: sentence the people with the child porn for longer periods
- 43:30Speaker 2: of time, but apparently.
- 43:33Speaker 2: So Josh Hawley went at her. And I don't know
- 43:35Speaker 2: if she had a response to that. So she's going
- 43:41Speaker 2: to push back here forcefully. She's a smart woman.
- 43:44Speaker 1: These Supreme Court things. What were you going to say?
- 43:50Speaker 3: She just, like, gave him a slap on the wrist. Like,
- 43:52Speaker 3: it wasn't life.
- 43:53Speaker 1: I think she did, like, three months a few times. Yeah,
- 43:56Speaker 1: it was, you know.
- 43:58Speaker 2: I don't know the circumstances of every case. But I
- 44:02Speaker 2: think she was like, listen, you know.
- 44:06Speaker 3: We all do it.
- 44:08Speaker 1: I think maybe it was.
- 44:10Speaker 3: That's what she said.
- 44:11Speaker 2: I think it was kind of, hey, you know, you
- 44:22Speaker 2: didn't see that stop sign type of thing.
- 44:27Speaker 3: It was a fix it ticket.
- 44:28Speaker 13: Yeah.
- 44:29Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 44:32Speaker 2: You know, they're saying that she sentenced the defendants to
- 44:36Speaker 2: an average of 47% less time than what the prosecutors
- 44:39Speaker 2: asked for.
- 44:40Speaker 1: But let's watch her push back. She firmly pushed back
- 44:43Speaker 1: on that.
- 44:45Speaker 3: Here we go.
- 44:46Speaker 1: Here we go.
- 44:46Speaker 14: Came up yesterday in the opening phase of this nomination hearing.
- 44:53Speaker 14: And it's the issue involving child pornography. I want to
- 44:58Speaker 14: turn to that issue because it was raised multiple times, primarily.
- 45:01Speaker 1: I mean, is this country not beyond over?
- 45:03Speaker 2: I mean, what an, what an embarrassing country to live
- 45:09Speaker 2: in at this point.
- 45:11Speaker 1: It's been the most.
- 45:11Speaker 3: Apocalyptic lineup of topics.
- 45:14Speaker 1: I mean, I mean, can you even imagine this? Okay.
- 45:18Speaker 2: We got the Supreme court nominee and Hey, we want
- 45:22Speaker 2: to cover child porn and you're letting these guys off.
- 45:26Speaker 2: You're letting these guys off to kiddie porn cases.
- 45:29Speaker 1: Explain yourself. I mean, this is the.
- 45:34Speaker 2: And I mean, I hope she's not doing that, but
- 45:36Speaker 2: people are saying she is. Let's see what she says, please.
- 45:40Speaker 14: Senator from Missouri. And he was questioning your sentencing record
- 45:45Speaker 14: in child pornography cases that do not involve the production
- 45:50Speaker 14: of pornographic material. I thought about his charges as I
- 45:53Speaker 14: watched you and your family listening carefully yesterday and what
- 45:58Speaker 14: impact it might have had on you personally.
- 46:00Speaker 16: As a mother and a judge who has had to
- 46:04Speaker 16: deal with these cases, I was thinking that nothing could
- 46:10Speaker 16: be further from the truth.
- 46:14Speaker 1: What we need to do.
- 46:14Speaker 8: Wait a minute.
- 46:15Speaker 1: Oh, wait, wait. That can't be it. Hold on, hold on.
- 46:21Speaker 1: Get this woman's response up, Benjamin, please.
- 46:24Speaker 2: They've leveled a serious accusation.
- 46:27Speaker 4: Yeah, they cut it off. This is the rest of
- 46:29Speaker 4: it here.
- 46:29Speaker 1: Come on.
- 46:31Speaker 3: Yeah, the rest is in text.
- 46:33Speaker 2: I tell them about the adults who are former child
- 46:35Speaker 2: sex abuse victims. Tell me that they will never have
- 46:37Speaker 2: a normal adult relationship because of this abuse. I tell
- 46:40Speaker 2: them about the ones who say I went into prostitution,
- 46:41Speaker 2: I fell into drugs, I was trying to suppress the
- 46:43Speaker 2: hurt that was done to me as an infant. Almost
- 46:46Speaker 2: every one of these sentences, when I look in the
- 46:47Speaker 2: eyes of the defendant who's weeping because I'm giving him
- 46:49Speaker 2: a significant sentence, what I say to him is, do
- 46:52Speaker 2: you know that there is someone who has written to
- 46:53Speaker 2: me and told me that she's developed agoraphobia, she cannot
- 46:56Speaker 2: leave her house because she thinks that everyone she meets
- 46:59Speaker 2: will have seen her, will have seen her pictures on
- 47:02Speaker 2: the internet, they're out there forever, at the most vulnerable
- 47:04Speaker 2: time of her life, so she's paralyzed. She added, I
- 47:07Speaker 2: tell that story to every child porn defense. Did she
- 47:09Speaker 2: just work child porn? Was that it?
- 47:18Speaker 1: Oh, God. Was that all she worked? Was child pornography?
- 47:28Speaker 1: Wasn't there anything else?
- 47:32Speaker 2: Are there no other cases in front of this woman?
- 47:39Speaker 1: And I don't know. They're saying she's been lenient on this,
- 47:42Speaker 1: but I mean.
- 47:44Speaker 1: I don't know. I hope not.
- 47:47Speaker 3: Yeah, I hope not either. That'd be horrible.
- 47:56Speaker 1: But, I mean, here's the deal.
- 47:59Speaker 2: I don't know if these cases are like a 19-year-old
- 48:02Speaker 2: has sex with a 17. I don't know what's going on.
- 48:04Speaker 2: But there was one case, I think, where the guy
- 48:06Speaker 2: was 18 and the person was 8.
- 48:07Speaker 1: That's not good. No, I mean, that's supposedly. That was
- 48:10Speaker 1: one of the cases. I don't know. I don't know.
- 48:14Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean, it's like, you know.
- 48:17Speaker 3: We're progressing as a country.
- 48:20Speaker 8: I mean.
- 48:20Speaker 1: And then they go into the critical race theory.
- 48:25Speaker 7: Yeah.
- 48:25Speaker 1: How about we figure out the child porn first? How
- 48:28Speaker 1: do we just bounce from that?
- 48:31Speaker 2: So now let's talk about the don't say gay in Florida,
- 48:35Speaker 2: because I've solved this issue.
- 48:37Speaker 1: And again, I solved it on YouTube literally last week.
- 48:42Speaker 6: Yep.
- 48:43Speaker 1: Where I said you do a take a tit, leave
- 48:44Speaker 1: a tit, where you give the kids prosthetics, fake dicks,
- 48:47Speaker 1: fake tits.
- 48:48Speaker 2: They don't make irreversible physical changes to their bodies. You
- 48:51Speaker 2: give them prosthetic dicks and tits and pussies, and you
- 48:56Speaker 2: hand them.
- 48:56Speaker 1: Out if they want them.
- 48:59Speaker 3: It's a good idea. It's a great idea.
- 49:01Speaker 1: You go to the guidance counselor, you get a puss
- 49:03Speaker 1: for the day. No, I'm dead serious.
- 49:10Speaker 2: And that way nobody can say they're doing irreversible, and
- 49:12Speaker 2: if they grow out of it, and then when they
- 49:14Speaker 2: get older, if they go, yeah, I want a real puss,
- 49:15Speaker 2: they get a real puss. If they grow out of it,
- 49:17Speaker 2: they give the dick back, and they graduate.
- 49:21Speaker 1: Yeah. Am I nuts, or is that not a humane compromise? Yeah.
- 49:28Speaker 1: The parents on the way to the school, they go,
- 49:29Speaker 1: don't forget your dick. They grab the dick. I know
- 49:34Speaker 1: this sounds like I'm making light of everything, but it's
- 49:37Speaker 1: kind of what I have to do. I mean, I
- 49:41Speaker 1: know that comedy now is about my truth.
- 49:44Speaker 2: This is my truth, my personal truth. It's not about you,
- 49:49Speaker 2: the audience of slobs. Got bust in here. It's about
- 49:55Speaker 2: my own personal truth. I'm plumbing the depths of myself.
- 49:58Speaker 2: I'm so goddamn significant. I need to continually plumb the
- 50:03Speaker 2: depths of myself because there's so much there. There's so much.
- 50:07Speaker 2: I have layers. And they're going to be peeled off.
- 50:13Speaker 2: Peel the layers off one by one.
- 50:17Speaker 1: Make myself vulnerable in front of a room full of people.
- 50:22Speaker 2: Disney workers walked out over the company's response to the
- 50:26Speaker 2: don't say gay bill. Well, what is the company's response
- 50:29Speaker 2: to the don't say gay bill? The recent statements by
- 50:37Speaker 2: the Walt Disney Company leadership recording company The Florida legislature's
- 50:41Speaker 2: recent don't say gay bill have utterly failed to match
- 50:44Speaker 2: the magnitude of the threat posed by the legislation. So
- 50:49Speaker 2: Disney's kind of just going, hey, let's just, Disney's being Disney.
- 50:54Speaker 2: They're not taking a hard stance on this. But Disney's
- 50:57Speaker 2: pretty pro-gay, right? They've been pretty pro-gay. Like Ben Shapiro's
- 51:01Speaker 2: doing these things where he's like, the Disney world, Disney
- 51:04Speaker 2: world has been taken over by LGBTQ people.
- 51:07Speaker 1: Gay people have taken over Disney. Disney's been completely gay forever.
- 51:10Speaker 1: It's been gay. Every single movie is about guys sucking
- 51:13Speaker 1: each other off. That's what it's about.
- 51:19Speaker 2: So now they're saying they can't, employees are calling for
- 51:23Speaker 2: Disney to stop making donations to certain Florida politicians, including
- 51:29Speaker 2: Ron DeSantis, and commit to a plan to protect LGBTQIA
- 51:34Speaker 2: staff From such legislation. So what do you mean protect
- 51:38Speaker 2: the staff? I mean, put them in a magic kingdom.
- 51:42Speaker 2: Put them in a castle. I don't understand how you're
- 51:45Speaker 2: going to protect a gay staff. This bill's about two-year-olds.
- 51:50Speaker 2: It's about second graders not being instructed a gender ideology.
- 51:54Speaker 1: How many second graders are working for Disney? I don't understand.
- 51:59Speaker 1: They go, we're going to protect the staff. It's about kids.
- 52:03Speaker 1: It's like third grade and under.
- 52:08Speaker 2: Organizers of the walkout claimed that some employees of Disneyland
- 52:12Speaker 2: in California who did not feel safe to walk out
- 52:15Speaker 2: Tuesday were told they couldn't wear pride trans Mickey pins,
- 52:22Speaker 2: which they said Disney sells to show their support. I
- 52:26Speaker 2: want a trans Mickey pin. So they're basically saying you
- 52:35Speaker 2: can't wear trans Mickey pins. At Disney World, which I
- 52:39Speaker 2: don't agree with. Let them wear the trans pin of Mickey.
- 52:47Speaker 3: What does that look like, the trans Mickey pin?
- 52:49Speaker 1: Can you get a trans Mickey pin up for Christ?
- 52:52Speaker 3: Trans Mickey pin.
- 52:53Speaker 1: He's always behind the eight ball.
- 52:55Speaker 2: Oh.
- 52:55Speaker 8: Okay.
- 52:56Speaker 3: It's the trans flag.
- 52:58Speaker 1: Flag with a Mickey hat.
- 52:59Speaker 3: I believe that's a trans flag.
- 53:00Speaker 2: Let him wear it. Nobody even knows what it means.
- 53:05Speaker 2: People don't know what that is. Somebody from Alabama is
- 53:09Speaker 2: going to be like, there's pretty colors.
- 53:12Speaker 1: Well, actually, I'm glad it's a trans Mickey pin. What?
- 53:18Speaker 1: It's a trans Mickey pin. Gender's not real.
- 53:23Speaker 2: Just put them on Space Mountain. Why does everything have
- 53:28Speaker 2: to be a big fight? Put them on Space Mountain
- 53:33Speaker 2: and have them eat the shit food, stand in the lines,
- 53:36Speaker 2: spend their money, and leave. So they did this walkout
- 53:42Speaker 2: at Disney World. By the way, I think everyone should
- 53:45Speaker 2: walk out at Disney World. Employees and visitors, and it
- 53:47Speaker 2: should be burned to the ground. I don't understand, as
- 53:55Speaker 2: a gay person who's been out for years, and by
- 53:57Speaker 2: the way, I do want to make an announcement on
- 53:59Speaker 2: the show. I'm coming out as queer because that means
- 54:02Speaker 2: I'm gay, but now I can be in movies.
- 54:05Speaker 1: I'm queer now.
- 54:06Speaker 2: So I'm not gay because that's a little Nazi-ish, but
- 54:11Speaker 2: I'm queer, meaning that I'm gay, but more importantly, I
- 54:17Speaker 2: can be in movies because I'm queer, right? Now, which
- 54:22Speaker 2: doesn't mean, it just means that I can be in
- 54:25Speaker 2: the business again.
- 54:26Speaker 1: I can be in the industry again. I'm queer, I'm other.
- 54:31Speaker 1: I'm different.
- 54:33Speaker 2: Gender's a spectrum. Now, why are they hanging a gay
- 54:38Speaker 2: Mickey now? What is going on here? So, they have
- 54:44Speaker 2: a gay Mickey and they've got tape around his arms.
- 54:50Speaker 2: And he goes, I'm walking out too. So Mickey is
- 54:56Speaker 2: walking out. I'm so confused about everything now.
- 55:05Speaker 4: This is them walking out right here.
- 55:07Speaker 3: And it looks like this is in Burbank.
- 55:15Speaker 1: Okay. All right. I can walk out.
- 55:20Speaker 3: No, it's good.
- 55:21Speaker 2: It's good. I'm somebody who's queer and now has a
- 55:26Speaker 2: career because I'm queer.
- 55:28Speaker 1: Yeah. Queer is different than gay. It's a whole thing.
- 55:36Speaker 1: It's a whole thing.
- 55:37Speaker 2: I get invited now to events. It's a very big change.
- 55:42Speaker 2: Realizing that I was queer... because I can't get anything
- 55:46Speaker 2: in the business made and put on television or in
- 55:49Speaker 2: a movie. So I realized overnight that I was queer
- 55:53Speaker 2: and that I had been suppressing that for a very
- 55:55Speaker 2: long time and I had only kind of been gay,
- 55:58Speaker 2: which doesn't really mean anything.
- 56:01Speaker 1: And I realized that.
- 56:05Speaker 2: Gay is very, it's an archaic concept because it's based
- 56:09Speaker 2: on gender, which we know isn't real. So the idea
- 56:12Speaker 2: that I am attracted to members of my same sex
- 56:15Speaker 2: isn't real because there are no sexes. I'm queer and
- 56:21Speaker 2: now I'm going to be the belle of the ball.
- 56:26Speaker 2: And I'm excited about it because it's going.
- 56:30Speaker 1: To make me money.
- 56:32Speaker 2: My sexuality should make me money. My identity should make
- 56:36Speaker 2: me money. If you're coming out of something now, it
- 56:41Speaker 2: better be to make you money. Don't even, gay doesn't
- 56:45Speaker 2: mean shit. You better come out of something that can
- 56:48Speaker 2: make you money. Please, don't be stupid. So I'm proud
- 56:55Speaker 2: to announce that I am queer, and I refuse to.
- 56:59Speaker 1: Do business with Disney.
- 57:02Speaker 2: Until they let people wear the trans Mickey pin in
- 57:04Speaker 2: the haunted house.
- 57:07Speaker 8: I mean, can.
- 57:09Speaker 2: You imagine Ukraine reading this? There's just people sitting in
- 57:13Speaker 2: a bunker. Their entire lives have been destroyed. Their buildings
- 57:17Speaker 2: are just blowing up. And we're going, no, there's a pin.
- 57:23Speaker 1: It's a Mickey pin, and we were told not to
- 57:25Speaker 1: wear it. A tower of terror.
- 57:30Speaker 2: As a part of the town hall, Disney announced that Mr.
- 57:32Speaker 2: Chappack had postponed a management retreat planned for next week
- 57:36Speaker 2: in Orlando, Florida. He and senior executives would instead use
- 57:40Speaker 2: that time to go on a listening tour at Disney workplaces,
- 57:43Speaker 2: both domestically and overseas.
- 57:45Speaker 8: Good.
- 57:46Speaker 2: Because people are concerned and they should have a listening tour.
- 57:50Speaker 2: They should listen to the employees that are angry. Sit
- 57:53Speaker 2: down and hear them out. Somebody's wearing a shirt that
- 57:59Speaker 2: says gay and tired. Well, it ain't from exercise. Because
- 58:04Speaker 2: she's fat. That's why I made that joke. There's a
- 58:08Speaker 2: fat person.
- 58:10Speaker 1: She's tired. People are angry. Texas has gone nuts.
- 58:14Speaker 2: They're like prosecuting trans kids that are getting medical things.
- 58:19Speaker 2: Whatever you think about that. Texas is now like we
- 58:21Speaker 2: can prosecute their parents. That's insane.
- 58:24Speaker 1: Leave the family alone. Yeah, let them do whatever they want.
- 58:28Speaker 1: Let them do it! I look at it like you
- 58:35Speaker 1: picked the wrong major.
- 58:39Speaker 2: Texas court reinstates injunction blocking probes of transgender kids' parents.
- 58:43Speaker 2: So Greg Abbott's going out of control, but the courts
- 58:47Speaker 2: are stopping him. Because, you know, this is too intrusive here.
- 58:56Speaker 2: They're going hard with the anti-abortion. You can't even have
- 59:00Speaker 2: an abortion at Disney World now.
- 59:02Speaker 1: Do you know this? No, they.
- 59:07Speaker 2: There was an abortion clinic in Disney World. And they're
- 59:13Speaker 2: trying to ban it. You used to be able to
- 59:18Speaker 2: have an abortion and then go to Epcot.
- 59:22Speaker 1: Now you can't.
- 59:23Speaker 2: This is what I mean. It's getting out of hand.
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- 1:00:58Speaker 1: Let's talk about the L.A.
- 1:00:59Speaker 2: Mayor's race here before the end of the show because
- 1:01:01Speaker 2: you brought up a great point.
- 1:01:02Speaker 1: We have a great new mayor or candidate. Yeah, Caruso. Caruso.
- 1:01:09Speaker 2: And I like this guy because Caruso built the Americana
- 1:01:13Speaker 2: in Glendale, which is a disgusting outdoor mall where animals go.
- 1:01:18Speaker 1: And they eat at the Cheesecake Factory.
- 1:01:20Speaker 2: But he's going to build one, another version of it
- 1:01:22Speaker 2: exclusively for homeless people and let them play in the
- 1:01:25Speaker 2: fountains and have fun. and shit wherever they want, and
- 1:01:30Speaker 2: I think that's the move. Can you get up his ad,
- 1:01:33Speaker 2: his advertisement?
- 1:01:34Speaker 3: Oh, yes, yes, yes.
- 1:01:35Speaker 1: They can't get mad at us playing that.
- 1:01:37Speaker 3: No, no, no.
- 1:01:41Speaker 2: Rick Caruso, he's going to be the new mayor of
- 1:01:45Speaker 2: Los Angeles because he is very good at building malls,
- 1:01:51Speaker 2: so he's going to fix the problem because the homeless
- 1:01:55Speaker 2: crisis is really because.
- 1:01:58Speaker 1: They don't have a mall.
- 1:02:01Speaker 3: I don't think he put it on YouTube, but I
- 1:02:02Speaker 3: bet I could find it on his website.
- 1:02:03Speaker 1: He's like, thank you, Ben. You don't have to telegraph
- 1:02:05Speaker 1: what you're doing. You can just deliver.
- 1:02:10Speaker 2: But I like if he goes, he's like, the problem
- 1:02:12Speaker 2: is that they don't, homeless people.
- 1:02:14Speaker 1: Don't have a mall of their own. Give them a mall.
- 1:02:19Speaker 2: Give them an outdoor mall where they can, conduct their business.
- 1:02:24Speaker 3: Yeah, give them a trolley that goes around in anthropology.
- 1:02:27Speaker 1: Something's fun. Something's fun. Clear everyone out of H & M.
- 1:02:31Speaker 1: Let them go in there.
- 1:02:39Speaker 3: Here's an ad he's running called Faith, Family, and Community.
- 1:02:43Speaker 5: Think nobody can clean up L.A.? Yes. Meet Rick Caruso.
- 1:02:47Speaker 2: Uh-oh.
- 1:02:47Speaker 5: Lifelong Angeleno.
- 1:02:49Speaker 8: Husband.
- 1:02:50Speaker 7: Father.
- 1:02:51Speaker 5: Grandson of immigrants, raised to put faith, family, and community first.
- 1:02:56Speaker 5: A lifelong builder and job creator, Rick created the Southland's
- 1:03:00Speaker 5: most beloved community centers, and he always shared that success.
- 1:03:05Speaker 2: What are you talking about? The Americana is a beloved
- 1:03:10Speaker 2: community center? It's a corporate hellscape. It's a beloved community center.
- 1:03:18Speaker 3: People in Glendale don't know where to go.
- 1:03:20Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, it's a big outdoor mall. Community center.
- 1:03:25Speaker 3: He hands out turkeys on Thanksgiving, like Frank Lucas.
- 1:03:27Speaker 1: Rick Caruso's a lifelong Angeleno.
- 1:03:31Speaker 2: He's made billions of dollars building outdoor malls, and now
- 1:03:35Speaker 2: he's ready to build one for the homeless.
- 1:03:38Speaker 1: Keep going, Ben.
- 1:03:41Speaker 5: Giving millions to provide health care and a good education
- 1:03:44Speaker 5: to kids in L.A. 's poorest neighborhoods and giving tirelessly
- 1:03:47Speaker 5: of himself. First appointed by Tom Bradley, he served LA
- 1:03:51Speaker 5: under three different mayors, fought corruption and waste, and cut
- 1:03:55Speaker 5: crime 30%.
- 1:03:57Speaker 10: I'm running for mayor because the city we love is
- 1:04:00Speaker 10: in a state of emergency. Rampant homelessness, people living in
- 1:04:04Speaker 10: fear for their safety, and politicians at City Hall just
- 1:04:08Speaker 10: in it for themselves. My only special interest is Los Angeles,
- 1:04:12Speaker 10: the city we love. It's why I'll work for a
- 1:04:15Speaker 10: dollar a year. And I won't take a dime from
- 1:04:17Speaker 10: special interests.
- 1:04:18Speaker 1: I'm already ready. I'll work for a dollar a year.
- 1:04:25Speaker 1: I'm already loaded.
- 1:04:28Speaker 2: And I'm a little sick of this city getting less
- 1:04:31Speaker 2: comfortable for me and my friends.
- 1:04:33Speaker 1: So I'm going to work for a dollar a year.
- 1:04:35Speaker 1: And we're going to use direct energy weapons on the homeless.
- 1:04:41Speaker 1: You pay me a dollar a year.
- 1:04:44Speaker 2: And I will have the LAPD out there with batons
- 1:04:48Speaker 2: every day. It'll cost the taxpayers only a dollar a
- 1:04:51Speaker 2: year for me to vaporize homeless people in the middle
- 1:04:55Speaker 2: of the night so you can feel safe going to
- 1:04:58Speaker 2: the Americana in Glendale and getting a fucking herb-crusted salmon
- 1:05:05Speaker 2: at the Cheesecake Factory for $ 48. I feel like the
- 1:05:11Speaker 2: people in this don't even know they're in a Rick
- 1:05:13Speaker 2: Caruso ad.
- 1:05:14Speaker 1: He just took photos of people. The city we love.
- 1:05:20Speaker 1: Finish this.
- 1:05:23Speaker 10: We can clean up L.A. Read my action plan at carusocan.com.
- 1:05:30Speaker 5: Rick Caruso can clean up L.A.
- 1:05:34Speaker 2: Now, get an interview of him up before we get
- 1:05:35Speaker 2: out of here, because maybe I'm making fun of this guy.
- 1:05:37Speaker 3: Yeah, I got one right here.
- 1:05:40Speaker 2: Maybe this guy's got it planned because you've lived here forever.
- 1:05:44Speaker 1: Tell people about it real quick.
- 1:05:49Speaker 3: It's a great place. A lot of homeless people.
- 1:05:51Speaker 1: What are the problems?
- 1:05:53Speaker 3: The homeless. And he's going to handle it.
- 1:06:00Speaker 1: Look at this man. He's going to fix it. Rick Caruso.
- 1:06:10Speaker 1: We'll work for a dollar a year. These dumb slogans.
- 1:06:20Speaker 1: I'll work for a dollar a year. Why the dollar?
- 1:06:27Speaker 3: Just saying.
- 1:06:27Speaker 1: I have to make something.
- 1:06:32Speaker 2: I got to be able to go home and look
- 1:06:33Speaker 2: at my wife. So I need at least a dollar
- 1:06:36Speaker 2: a year. Let's see what, maybe I'm wrong.
- 1:06:40Speaker 1: Let's see, Rick.
- 1:06:41Speaker 8: About sort of what separates you, because ultimately this is
- 1:06:45Speaker 8: a job interview, right? And people have got to pick
- 1:06:47Speaker 8: who is the best person for this job. You have
- 1:06:50Speaker 8: a different biography than most of the other people.
- 1:06:53Speaker 1: That are running.
- 1:06:53Speaker 8: Why are you the most qualified person to lead LA
- 1:06:58Speaker 8: when a lot of the people you're running against have
- 1:06:59Speaker 8: a lot more experience in government service?
- 1:07:04Speaker 10: Let me first talk about them generally for a minute,
- 1:07:07Speaker 10: which is an important question that you've asked. They've had
- 1:07:11Speaker 10: a lot of opportunity. They've had decades of public service
- 1:07:14Speaker 10: to get something done, and they haven't.
- 1:07:16Speaker 8: They failed.
- 1:07:17Speaker 9: And I just find it interesting.
- 1:07:19Speaker 10: That you've got a group of people that are tasked
- 1:07:23Speaker 10: with making the city safe and livable, and they've had
- 1:07:27Speaker 10: a decade to get it done. They've failed, but they
- 1:07:29Speaker 10: want a raise and a job promotion. That wouldn't happen
- 1:07:32Speaker 10: anywhere else, right? And so if you think they've done
- 1:07:35Speaker 10: a good job, I'm not your candidate. If you want
- 1:07:37Speaker 10: more of the same, I'm not your candidate. Let me
- 1:07:40Speaker 10: tell you about Rick Caruso. I've worked hard. I'm from
- 1:07:44Speaker 10: humble beginnings.
- 1:07:45Speaker 9: I love life. I love giving back.
- 1:07:47Speaker 10: And I've got a track record of moving into a
- 1:07:50Speaker 10: situation where there's a serious problem or a crisis and
- 1:07:54Speaker 10: fixing it.
- 1:07:55Speaker 9: I came into LAPD.
- 1:07:56Speaker 2: For example, last summer at the Cheesecake Factory at the Americana,
- 1:08:01Speaker 2: there was a crisis. Because one of the chefs was
- 1:08:06Speaker 2: drunk every day, and he was burning the chicken fingers.
- 1:08:11Speaker 2: And if you know anything about the Cheesecake Factory, we
- 1:08:13Speaker 2: got great chicken fingers in there. So what I did
- 1:08:16Speaker 2: was I sent him to a rehabilitation program and brought
- 1:08:19Speaker 2: in another.
- 1:08:20Speaker 1: Chef who was actually my deadbeat cousin.
- 1:08:23Speaker 2: My deadbeat cousin came in there, and he actually did
- 1:08:26Speaker 2: a great job. But that's the kind of experience I have.
- 1:08:32Speaker 10: Under a federal consent decree, run by a federal judge,
- 1:08:36Speaker 10: crime was spiking. I reformed LAPD, hired Bill Bratton, we
- 1:08:41Speaker 10: dropped crime by 30%. That was a crisis situation. Asked
- 1:08:46Speaker 10: to step up at USC. We turned USC around with
- 1:08:49Speaker 10: a lot of help from leadership, but that's a very
- 1:08:52Speaker 10: different enterprise today than.
- 1:08:53Speaker 8: It was before.
- 1:08:53Speaker 2: Because if this works, the only people committing crime in
- 1:08:55Speaker 2: this city will be the cops.
- 1:09:05Speaker 1: If my plan is.
- 1:09:06Speaker 2: Enacted, the only dangerous people in this city will be
- 1:09:10Speaker 2: the police.
- 1:09:12Speaker 3: I want to restore L.A. back to the Rampart PD days.
- 1:09:16Speaker 2: As we know, the LAPD is a great institution that
- 1:09:19Speaker 2: I'm proud, proud to.
- 1:09:21Speaker 1: I reformed them. That involved telling them, hey, hey, do
- 1:09:26Speaker 1: it quietly. I reformed the LAPD with my Do It
- 1:09:33Speaker 1: Quietly program. Do it quietly.
- 1:09:37Speaker 3: Do it quietly.
- 1:09:40Speaker 2: It's my do it quietly program.
- 1:09:46Speaker 1: It's very successful.
- 1:09:50Speaker 2: Where we encourage cops to behave exactly as they were,
- 1:09:55Speaker 2: but quietly. You bust that guy's head in quietly.
- 1:10:00Speaker 1: Don't make a big deal about everything. See the rest
- 1:10:04Speaker 1: of this. You know what? This guy's, I'm starting to
- 1:10:07Speaker 1: believe in him. Yeah, he's good.
- 1:10:10Speaker 10: Four years ago, when I took over as chair, and
- 1:10:13Speaker 10: I have this passion about Los Angeles, and we're in
- 1:10:15Speaker 10: a crisis.
- 1:10:16Speaker 9: That's what it is. Let's say what it is.
- 1:10:19Speaker 10: And I've got a track record of being able to
- 1:10:22Speaker 10: manage through a crisis, lead, I'll hold myself accountable, I'll
- 1:10:26Speaker 10: make tough decisions, and I'm not looking for another job.
- 1:10:30Speaker 10: I want to be mayor. I want to get a
- 1:10:32Speaker 10: job done and go home. I'm not looking at making
- 1:10:34Speaker 10: decisions through a political lens to get reelected. like all
- 1:10:38Speaker 10: of my other candidates who are running are doing.
- 1:10:41Speaker 8: And when you say USC, you were chairman of the
- 1:10:43Speaker 8: board of trustees at USC.
- 1:10:45Speaker 3: Fight on.
- 1:10:45Speaker 8: So let's talk about, because we know the two biggest
- 1:10:49Speaker 8: issues right now, you lead with them in your campaign ad.
- 1:10:52Speaker 1: Why don't we ever see the face of this guy?
- 1:10:54Speaker 1: Is this Milo Yiannopoulos?
- 1:10:57Speaker 6: Why don't we.
- 1:11:05Speaker 2: Why don't we ever see the face of the interviewer?
- 1:11:09Speaker 2: This is incredibly disturbing. Have you ever seen an interview
- 1:11:12Speaker 2: like this? You don't even see the face of the interviewer.
- 1:11:16Speaker 1: I mean, what is happening?
- 1:11:20Speaker 4: I guess Fox 11 only brought one camera or something.
- 1:11:23Speaker 1: And why is he being interviewed in a restaurant?
- 1:11:25Speaker 3: I don't know.
- 1:11:27Speaker 1: What's going on? All right, keep going.
- 1:11:33Speaker 8: All right, all right. I am some of your critics.
- 1:11:36Speaker 8: point to the fact that you supported George Gascon for
- 1:11:40Speaker 8: district attorney. Do you regret that? And do you now
- 1:11:42Speaker 8: support his recall?
- 1:11:45Speaker 10: So I knew George when I was the president of
- 1:11:47Speaker 10: the police commission and he was a deputy chief and
- 1:11:49Speaker 10: he wanted to be chief. I didn't make him chief.
- 1:11:51Speaker 10: He wasn't ready for it at the time. And I
- 1:11:53Speaker 10: hired Bill Bratton. Now he left and became the chief
- 1:11:56Speaker 10: at Mesa, Arizona, then went up to San Francisco.
- 1:11:59Speaker 9: I knew a very different George.
- 1:12:01Speaker 10: Now what happened to George on his journey from Mesa
- 1:12:03Speaker 10: to San Francisco that changed the way he thought about
- 1:12:06Speaker 10: fighting crime is very different than where he was. So
- 1:12:09Speaker 10: early in his campaign, I did support him.
- 1:12:11Speaker 9: He was a friend.
- 1:12:12Speaker 10: I knew him from our time together at LAPD. Once
- 1:12:16Speaker 10: his campaign started rolling out and I was hearing about
- 1:12:19Speaker 10: what his plans were, I quickly pivoted and I gave
- 1:12:23Speaker 10: to Jackie Lacey and I gave her a significant amount
- 1:12:25Speaker 10: of money.
- 1:12:26Speaker 9: To support her.
- 1:12:28Speaker 10: I regret what George has done, and I think George
- 1:12:30Speaker 10: either needs to stand up and say, the policies that
- 1:12:33Speaker 10: I've put into place are harming our communities, and I'm
- 1:12:36Speaker 10: going to change them, or he should step down, and
- 1:12:39Speaker 10: if he doesn't step down, he should be recalled, because
- 1:12:41Speaker 10: he is harming our communities. And I stand with Charlie Beck,
- 1:12:45Speaker 10: and I stand with Bill Bratton that said the same thing.
- 1:12:47Speaker 10: This was a different George than we all knew when
- 1:12:50Speaker 10: we worked at LAPD together.
- 1:12:52Speaker 9: I don't know what's happened. But clearly he's got to change,
- 1:12:55Speaker 9: or he's got to go.
- 1:12:56Speaker 8: The other big issue is homelessness. Number one thing you're
- 1:13:00Speaker 8: going to do that's going to be different than the
- 1:13:02Speaker 8: people that have been in there so far.
- 1:13:04Speaker 10: Day one, declare a state of emergency. Move the authority
- 1:13:08Speaker 10: into the mayor's office. I'll be accountable to fix it.
- 1:13:11Speaker 10: I'm going to build the smartest team in the country
- 1:13:13Speaker 10: to go fix the problem. We're going to go build 30,000
- 1:13:17Speaker 10: temporary beds. We've got excess land throughout the city that's
- 1:13:21Speaker 10: declared surplus land. We're going to give people an option
- 1:13:24Speaker 10: to move into a clean, safe place in a very
- 1:13:26Speaker 10: humane way, give them the right services that they need,
- 1:13:29Speaker 10: mental health, physical health, but you don't get a choice
- 1:13:32Speaker 10: to stay on the street anymore. The minute we have
- 1:13:34Speaker 10: a bed for you, you move into the bed, or
- 1:13:37Speaker 10: otherwise there's a consequence to being on the street. You
- 1:13:40Speaker 10: have to draw a bright line that we've got communities
- 1:13:44Speaker 10: all around Los Angeles. Whatever demographics.
- 1:13:48Speaker 9: What you.
- 1:13:48Speaker 2: Have to do is you have to do the best finishes...
- 1:13:53Speaker 2: You have to really do indoor-outdoor living because a lot
- 1:13:57Speaker 2: of them are outdoor anyway. You have to do indoor-outdoor living.
- 1:14:00Speaker 2: You need large windows, lots of natural light. You need
- 1:14:04Speaker 2: buildings with gyms. We need to move them into luxury.
- 1:14:08Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 1:14:09Speaker 7: Yeah.
- 1:14:10Speaker 2: So we're going to build all these luxury units, and
- 1:14:12Speaker 2: if the homeless people can't afford them, we just sell
- 1:14:15Speaker 2: them to foreign billionaires.
- 1:14:18Speaker 1: But the most important thing.
- 1:14:21Speaker 2: We're going to give the homeless people the option to
- 1:14:23Speaker 2: get a job that pays a lot of money and
- 1:14:26Speaker 2: move into these units for $ 18, 000 a month. And if
- 1:14:29Speaker 2: they can't afford that, we're going to just put these
- 1:14:32Speaker 2: units on the market at market value and we'll leave
- 1:14:35Speaker 2: the homeless exactly where they are.
- 1:14:42Speaker 10: That are severely impacted by encampments. You can't tolerate it anymore.
- 1:14:47Speaker 8: When you say there's a consequence, what does that mean?
- 1:14:49Speaker 8: You're arrested?
- 1:14:50Speaker 9: Probably you're arrested.
- 1:14:52Speaker 10: If we give you a bed and we give you
- 1:14:53Speaker 10: the services and we clean you and we feed you
- 1:14:55Speaker 10: and we support you, and I think there should be
- 1:14:58Speaker 10: retraining programs to get people back on their feet that
- 1:15:00Speaker 10: can get back on their feet, why then should we allow.
- 1:15:03Speaker 9: People to live on the street?
- 1:15:04Speaker 1: Good point.
- 1:15:05Speaker 9: And where do you draw that line?
- 1:15:07Speaker 1: You can't.
- 1:15:08Speaker 10: And that's what's happened with this problem. Everybody has been
- 1:15:11Speaker 10: so politically correct in their mind, whatever that means, to
- 1:15:15Speaker 10: deal with it. The problem has just gotten larger.
- 1:15:19Speaker 8: Let's talk about your place in this race. You live
- 1:15:22Speaker 8: a very comfortable lifestyle after working really hard and being
- 1:15:26Speaker 8: very successful in business. That is the American dream, right?
- 1:15:29Speaker 8: But the average American doesn't live your lifestyle. The average
- 1:15:32Speaker 8: Los Angelino doesn't live your lifestyle. How do you relate
- 1:15:36Speaker 8: to somebody who's struggling to pay the bills?
- 1:15:39Speaker 9: Well, let me tell you.
- 1:15:40Speaker 10: Again, I grew up with immigrant parents from Italy that
- 1:15:43Speaker 10: lived in Boyle Heights, and my grandfather was a gardener,
- 1:15:46Speaker 10: and I remember riding in his truck, and I remember
- 1:15:48Speaker 10: a family that lived from paycheck to paycheck.
- 1:15:51Speaker 9: There was always a meal on the table.
- 1:15:53Speaker 1: My father was an Italian fascist. He was a supporter
- 1:15:58Speaker 1: of Mussolini. How do you relate to the regular people?
- 1:16:02Speaker 2: My father was a fascist who supported Mussolini. They lived
- 1:16:05Speaker 2: paycheck to paycheck, and he used to read books on Hitler.
- 1:16:09Speaker 2: So I know exactly what people in this country are
- 1:16:11Speaker 2: going through right now. I can relate to all of them.
- 1:16:14Speaker 1: Thank you so much. Let's hear the rest of his answer.
- 1:16:18Speaker 10: It's a paycheck. Great pride being an American and great
- 1:16:23Speaker 10: belief in this city. And that's the spirit I do
- 1:16:26Speaker 10: this with. But I have also spent the last 30
- 1:16:29Speaker 10: years working in East LA and working in Watts, supporting
- 1:16:34Speaker 10: the underserved, education and health care, the track record and
- 1:16:38Speaker 10: the understanding and the families that I know down there
- 1:16:41Speaker 10: that my children have worked with, that we become personal
- 1:16:44Speaker 10: friends with.
- 1:16:45Speaker 9: I understand it.
- 1:16:46Speaker 10: I've got people who leave space for me that are
- 1:16:48Speaker 10: small businesses that struggled during the pandemic.
- 1:16:51Speaker 9: We waived all the rent. We wrote everything off. We
- 1:16:54Speaker 9: supported them financially because I started as a small business.
- 1:16:58Speaker 1: I started with.
- 1:16:59Speaker 9: No business and I built it. So I do understand it.
- 1:17:02Speaker 10: So this notion of that I don't connect, I'm probably
- 1:17:06Speaker 10: more connected because of our work in the inner city
- 1:17:10Speaker 10: than most people. And I want to expand helping the
- 1:17:15Speaker 10: great people of the city, especially those that really need
- 1:17:17Speaker 10: help by being mayor. That would be a great gift
- 1:17:20Speaker 10: to me. I'd be honored to do that.
- 1:17:22Speaker 2: All right, that's Rick Caruso. I mean, I don't know,
- 1:17:25Speaker 2: maybe he'll be good.
- 1:17:27Speaker 12: He's the only person with evidence of something that he
- 1:17:30Speaker 12: did that I could, like, go to.
- 1:17:31Speaker 1: How about this one? They're trying to get elected.
- 1:17:33Speaker 2: All my comic friends on the east side, they're trying
- 1:17:36Speaker 2: to get Eunice elected.
- 1:17:38Speaker 1: Let's get Eunice up before we get out of here.
- 1:17:40Speaker 1: Let's see. Eunice, she's running.
- 1:17:46Speaker 3: Sato? No.
- 1:17:48Speaker 6: No.
- 1:17:49Speaker 1: Hold on.
- 1:17:49Speaker 2: I might be pronouncing your name wrong. I'm going to,
- 1:17:53Speaker 2: I'll get it right now. It's for E-U-N-I-S-S-E-S, Eunices. And
- 1:18:06Speaker 2: she is running for, I don't know, city council?
- 1:18:11Speaker 3: Hernandez?
- 1:18:12Speaker 1: Yeah, I believe so.
- 1:18:14Speaker 14: Yes.
- 1:18:16Speaker 1: Now, let's get an interview with her.
- 1:18:20Speaker 2: Okay. Now, I don't think she's running for the same thing.
- 1:18:25Speaker 2: What made- Did she- Let's see her advertisement. Because we're
- 1:18:30Speaker 2: in L.A. now, and we want to protect the people.
- 1:18:33Speaker 2: What were you going to say?
- 1:18:34Speaker 3: What's her mall?
- 1:18:35Speaker 1: She's not built a mall.
- 1:18:37Speaker 3: No.
- 1:18:37Speaker 1: She's not built a mall.
- 1:18:38Speaker 2: She's got a couple of tables set up on the
- 1:18:41Speaker 2: street where they're selling fruit.
- 1:18:42Speaker 1: But that's nice. I like fruit. Keep going.
- 1:18:45Speaker 6: Okay.
- 1:18:46Speaker 4: This is a los angeles for the people her i
- 1:18:48Speaker 4: believe it's an ad.
- 1:18:51Speaker 17: What makes la home to me it's the people i
- 1:18:57Speaker 17: grew up in highland park when i was a kid
- 1:19:00Speaker 17: we knew everybody in the neighborhood But slowly, things started
- 1:19:04Speaker 17: to change.
- 1:19:05Speaker 1: Faggot hipsters came in with their comedy shows. Then another.
- 1:19:09Speaker 1: People started wearing fucking weird hats.
- 1:19:12Speaker 2: Getting on stage and doing these faggot hipster dances. I
- 1:19:17Speaker 2: didn't enjoy that. We wanted to kill those people. But
- 1:19:22Speaker 2: now they tweet about me so they're cool.
- 1:19:24Speaker 8: Kidding.
- 1:19:25Speaker 14: Kidding.
- 1:19:29Speaker 9: Then another.
- 1:19:31Speaker 17: Neighbors, friends, family locked up for things like cannabis or
- 1:19:35Speaker 17: mental health crises when what they needed was care. In
- 1:19:39Speaker 17: my moment of need, I called 911 like.
- 1:19:41Speaker 3: We're told to do.
- 1:19:43Speaker 17: The police came, but they wouldn't even get out of
- 1:19:45Speaker 17: their car. So I went to school to become the
- 1:19:48Speaker 17: law enforcement officer who would have helped me. We spent
- 1:19:52Speaker 17: billions on overstuffed police budgets instead of funding neighborhood services
- 1:19:56Speaker 17: that would help folks stay in their homes. And that's
- 1:19:59Speaker 17: how genderfication and criminalization intersect. In the last 10 years,
- 1:20:04Speaker 17: genderfication has devastated us. But it doesn't have to be
- 1:20:08Speaker 17: this way. I've committed my life to undoing the harm
- 1:20:11Speaker 17: inflicted by this lack of investment in our families, youth,
- 1:20:14Speaker 17: and elders.
- 1:20:16Speaker 1: And we're starting to win. We've passed sentencing.
- 1:20:20Speaker 17: Reforms to liberate our neighbors and reunite families. We stopped
- 1:20:24Speaker 17: the building of two new jails and put that money
- 1:20:26Speaker 17: into our community. During the height of the pandemic, we
- 1:20:30Speaker 17: got millions of people to vote for Measure J, which
- 1:20:33Speaker 17: will fund the life-affirming responses my loved ones and I
- 1:20:36Speaker 17: deserved in our time of need. My family had to
- 1:20:41Speaker 17: fight to stay in our neighborhood, and against all odds,
- 1:20:44Speaker 17: we won. Now, I'm running for city council to make
- 1:20:48Speaker 17: that easier for everybody in District 1 and across LA.
- 1:20:52Speaker 1: The workers, the young.
- 1:20:53Speaker 17: People, LGBTQ plus folks, black people, people of color, immigrants,
- 1:20:58Speaker 17: we are the community. We deserve a city that cares
- 1:21:01Speaker 17: for our residents, that embraces our history, not erases our history.
- 1:21:07Speaker 17: We deserve a city where the responses to our most
- 1:21:10Speaker 17: vulnerable moments are life affirming. We deserve a Los Angeles
- 1:21:15Speaker 17: that's for the people.
- 1:21:19Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't hate her.
- 1:21:20Speaker 2: I think she says a lot of valuable stuff. I
- 1:21:22Speaker 2: don't know if you can abolish the cops. I think
- 1:21:24Speaker 2: she's on that train. I just don't think sending social
- 1:21:29Speaker 2: workers out to, you know, violent crimes is.
- 1:21:33Speaker 1: Probably the way to go.
- 1:21:34Speaker 2: But I think she says a lot of valuable stuff.
- 1:21:36Speaker 2: I think that, you know, you do need to find
- 1:21:40Speaker 2: a way to not have gentrification displace people, turn everything
- 1:21:47Speaker 2: into a corporate mall. take away all the flavor and
- 1:21:50Speaker 2: individuality out of communities. I think she's right about that.
- 1:21:54Speaker 2: I think she's probably got some wacky, batty ideas that
- 1:21:59Speaker 2: will end up getting a lot of people killed. But,
- 1:22:04Speaker 2: you know, see, Patrice Cullors endorses her from BLM. This
- 1:22:08Speaker 2: is the woman who bought four houses.
- 1:22:09Speaker 1: With the money. This is not what we need. Oh,
- 1:22:11Speaker 1: that's her. I believe so.
- 1:22:14Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah. Unless I'm completely wrong about that, but I
- 1:22:18Speaker 2: believe that is the case. Yeah, it's the abolition of
- 1:22:23Speaker 2: the police is.
- 1:22:24Speaker 1: Really the wrong move.
- 1:22:25Speaker 8: Yeah.
- 1:22:26Speaker 2: And in that sense, I don't think this... But a
- 1:22:31Speaker 2: lot of what she's saying, I.
- 1:22:34Speaker 1: Agree with.
- 1:22:36Speaker 2: But I think you need to retrain police, you know,
- 1:22:41Speaker 2: have them be held to different standards... I just don't
- 1:22:47Speaker 2: think getting rid of the cops is a good move here.
- 1:22:53Speaker 2: But I'm all for affordable housing. I think the prison
- 1:22:56Speaker 2: system is a mess. You got to clean that up.
- 1:22:59Speaker 2: I don't think anybody should be going away for cannabis,
- 1:23:02Speaker 2: I think. But I mean, again, you start going into
- 1:23:04Speaker 2: the bail reform and, you know, people get out of jail,
- 1:23:06Speaker 2: then they kill people. You know, so I do think
- 1:23:09Speaker 2: there's got to be a nuanced approach here. It can't
- 1:23:13Speaker 2: be just like, let's let everybody out of the jails
- 1:23:15Speaker 2: and see what happens. It's not just going to be
- 1:23:19Speaker 2: everybody eating tacos on the street with the guitars, which
- 1:23:23Speaker 2: I know because if you watch her, if you watch
- 1:23:26Speaker 2: the thing, it's just everybody playing guitars and eating tacos.
- 1:23:30Speaker 2: There's a fair amount of hell being unleashed in the
- 1:23:32Speaker 2: city right now, too. Fair amount of people being murdered.
- 1:23:37Speaker 2: It's not just all tacos and fun and sing-alongs. But,
- 1:23:41Speaker 2: you know, I don't hate her. Where is she on
- 1:23:45Speaker 2: the issues, Ben? Go up to the issues.
- 1:23:47Speaker 3: Right here. She seemed earnest.
- 1:23:52Speaker 2: Currently, nearly half of LA city budget is allocated to
- 1:23:55Speaker 2: law enforcement statistics and decades of tough on crime policies
- 1:23:59Speaker 2: prove that this does not result in safer communities.
- 1:24:01Speaker 1: That's not true.
- 1:24:03Speaker 2: I mean, literally crime everywhere has gone down except recently
- 1:24:10Speaker 2: LA needs urgent widespread investment in mental health services, public
- 1:24:12Speaker 2: healthcare for, but that's all true.
- 1:24:15Speaker 1: That's all true.
- 1:24:17Speaker 2: But you also need to retrain police with money. You
- 1:24:22Speaker 2: can't suck the funding out of something and then you
- 1:24:25Speaker 2: don't have the resources to retrain cops. You can't replace cops.
- 1:24:31Speaker 2: I don't think that's, you know, you can in certain instances.
- 1:24:35Speaker 1: Homelessness.
- 1:24:36Speaker 2: Many on our streets suffer with untreated mental health needs,
- 1:24:39Speaker 2: problematic substance use, and physical health needs. We must meet
- 1:24:42Speaker 2: the moment with proven and effective services, housing, and strong
- 1:24:45Speaker 2: renter protections.
- 1:24:47Speaker 1: Okay, but, you know, that's not exactly specific.
- 1:24:53Speaker 2: Immigration, I will fight for a fully funded permanent universal
- 1:24:57Speaker 2: justice fund, the right to vote in local elections for
- 1:24:59Speaker 2: all Angelenos, regardless of citizenship status. Yeah, I don't know
- 1:25:04Speaker 2: that people are going to be in for that either, going,
- 1:25:06Speaker 2: if you're not a citizen, you can vote. I mean, again,
- 1:25:08Speaker 2: that doesn't necessarily get people excited about, when you go.
- 1:25:15Speaker 1: Whether you're a citizen or not, you can vote.
- 1:25:19Speaker 2: Because if you take that to its logical conclusion, you'll
- 1:25:23Speaker 2: just have tons of people that aren't citizens coming to
- 1:25:27Speaker 2: the country, being entitled to every benefit, citizens, and then
- 1:25:32Speaker 2: you don't really have a country. You have a grab
- 1:25:35Speaker 2: bag of things that people want that they can just get.
- 1:25:38Speaker 2: And that doesn't mean that a lot of these people
- 1:25:40Speaker 2: won't become great citizens, but it's You know, there's got
- 1:25:42Speaker 2: to be a process to make them citizens, and then
- 1:25:44Speaker 2: when you are a citizen, you're entitled to things, you
- 1:25:47Speaker 2: should vote.
- 1:25:47Speaker 1: I think if you're a non-citizen, you should.
- 1:25:49Speaker 2: Be treated humanely, but I just think there should be some,
- 1:25:54Speaker 2: in every country in the world, there is a distinction
- 1:25:57Speaker 2: between a citizen and a non-citizen. Every single country in
- 1:26:00Speaker 2: the world. It's not America, it's not white supremacy, it's
- 1:26:03Speaker 2: not the patriarchy, it's just what it is.
- 1:26:05Speaker 1: But, hey, who gives a fuck? I live in Austin.
- 1:26:11Speaker 1: Fuck it. gives a shit what happens to this dump.
- 1:26:14Speaker 1: Where does Rick Caruso live?
- 1:26:15Speaker 3: Where's his house at? I bet it's Pasadena.
- 1:26:18Speaker 1: Is he living like a baller?
- 1:26:20Speaker 3: He seems like a Pasadena guy. He's just sick of...
- 1:26:24Speaker 3: Look at this.
- 1:26:27Speaker 2: Rick Caruso pays $ 18. 6 million for the Newport Beach mansion
- 1:26:31Speaker 2: next door.
- 1:26:31Speaker 1: That's what I'm talking about!
- 1:26:33Speaker 2: Nice.
- 1:26:40Speaker 1: Nice!
- 1:26:41Speaker 10: Nice!
- 1:26:44Speaker 3: I think he has a house in Brentwood, too.
- 1:26:50Speaker 1: That's right. Who wants to make the drive?
- 1:26:53Speaker 3: Oh, here's his one in Malibu, Tim.
- 1:26:54Speaker 2: He lists it for $ 40 million. Here's the deal. Malibu's
- 1:27:01Speaker 2: just not the Hamptons. It just isn't when you look
- 1:27:04Speaker 2: at these homes. I mean, I like Malibu. It's pretty,
- 1:27:06Speaker 2: but yeah, it's just not it. It's very pretty. It's
- 1:27:13Speaker 2: just there's no taste. Look at the way the house.
- 1:27:15Speaker 2: It's just no taste.
- 1:27:17Speaker 1: It's a real problem. This is what he should have
- 1:27:19Speaker 1: led with. He should have talked about real estate. Be
- 1:27:25Speaker 1: a gangster.
- 1:27:28Speaker 2: He goes, I listed an oceanfront property in Malibu for
- 1:27:31Speaker 2: $ 40 million.
- 1:27:33Speaker 1: It went over market. We closed at $ 42 million. That's
- 1:27:36Speaker 1: the experience I'm going to bring to L.A. So you
- 1:27:43Speaker 1: got a choice between him, this guy who's got a
- 1:27:46Speaker 1: real estate portfolio that's half the city budget, and then
- 1:27:49Speaker 1: the other girl who goes, and then the other girl
- 1:27:52Speaker 1: who's like, we kill cops. If you see a cop,
- 1:27:56Speaker 1: we kill them.
- 1:27:59Speaker 3: Two extremes.
- 1:28:01Speaker 1: What are the changes you've seen in L.A. since you
- 1:28:03Speaker 1: were a youth?
- 1:28:05Speaker 3: It was about how it is now, like crime-wise, like
- 1:28:08Speaker 3: when I was like a kid.
- 1:28:09Speaker 1: Yeah, it got better.
- 1:28:11Speaker 3: Yeah, and then it got pretty good.
- 1:28:13Speaker 12: Like when I was in high school and up until
- 1:28:16Speaker 12: basically the pandemic. And now it's kind of like back
- 1:28:21Speaker 12: to gunshots and tons of homeless people and more homeless
- 1:28:24Speaker 12: people than I've ever seen in my life. So that's
- 1:28:28Speaker 12: why I'm going to go with Caruso here.
- 1:28:31Speaker 2: Maybe we got to go with Caruso and see what happens.
- 1:28:34Speaker 2: We need an Italian in there. Yeah.
- 1:28:36Speaker 1: We need a guy.
- 1:28:38Speaker 3: He's going to put all the homeless in like an abandoned...
- 1:28:40Speaker 3: Katsuya and just close the door.
- 1:28:43Speaker 2: I'm building another Americana strictly for the homeless so that
- 1:28:47Speaker 2: they can pretend to shop, play in the fountains, take
- 1:28:52Speaker 2: shits wherever they want. We'll have fountains filled with fentanyl
- 1:28:56Speaker 2: in the new outdoor mall strictly for the homeless designed
- 1:29:00Speaker 2: by Rick Caruso. What do you think about Caruso, Ben?
- 1:29:11Speaker 1: Caruso?
- 1:29:11Speaker 3: I mean, he's a rich guy, right? So he's insanely wealthy.
- 1:29:14Speaker 1: And he's bored.
- 1:29:16Speaker 3: He's elderly.
- 1:29:17Speaker 1: And he's bored. Let him fuck around.
- 1:29:20Speaker 3: Yeah, why not?
- 1:29:21Speaker 1: He's rich and he's bored.
- 1:29:23Speaker 2: When rich people get bored, they got to get in
- 1:29:25Speaker 2: there and try to pretend they're going to fix it all.
- 1:29:28Speaker 2: You're bored.
- 1:29:29Speaker 1: What are you going to do? You got $ 20 million
- 1:29:32Speaker 1: in Newport Beach, $ 40 million in Malibu. You're bored.
- 1:29:37Speaker 3: It's the natural progression.
- 1:29:38Speaker 1: It's the natural progression. Go in there and see what
- 1:29:40Speaker 1: you can do. He goes, we're going to give the
- 1:29:46Speaker 1: cops harpoons. Now, what do you think, Rick?
- 1:29:53Speaker 2: How are you going to handle it? We're giving the
- 1:29:55Speaker 2: cops better weapons, direct energy weapons. There's pulses and things
- 1:30:01Speaker 2: you can do. And a lot of my friends at Raytheon,
- 1:30:04Speaker 2: we've been having lunch. over at the Miramar Hotel, the
- 1:30:07Speaker 2: Rosewood Miramar.
- 1:30:08Speaker 1: It's lovely. Get the salmon.
- 1:30:10Speaker 2: And they've been telling me there are direct energy weapons
- 1:30:14Speaker 2: we can use with pulses that will make people instantly
- 1:30:18Speaker 2: drop to the street and start shaking.
- 1:30:23Speaker 1: Thank you, Rick.
- 1:30:27Speaker 2: Devin's got a very funny podcast called Hate Watch, where
- 1:30:30Speaker 2: you watch things you dislike.
- 1:30:33Speaker 3: Yeah, it's kind of like this.
- 1:30:35Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 1:30:35Speaker 17: Yeah.
- 1:30:36Speaker 3: Not your show, but this one in particular.
- 1:30:40Speaker 13: Yeah.
- 1:30:40Speaker 8: Yeah.
- 1:30:41Speaker 3: And you were just on it. It was really great.
- 1:30:43Speaker 1: Yeah, we had a lot of fun. Check out that episode,
- 1:30:45Speaker 1: Hate Watch, with Devin Costa.
- 1:30:46Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 1:30:48Speaker 1: Can we put Ida in the chair and just talk
- 1:30:49Speaker 1: about the Kardashians for five minutes?
- 1:30:50Speaker 7: Yeah, sure.
- 1:30:51Speaker 8: No, no, no.
- 1:30:52Speaker 2: No?
- 1:30:52Speaker 1: I can't be on camera right now. Okay, from off camera,
- 1:30:55Speaker 1: can you discuss that? Sure, sure.
- 1:30:57Speaker 3: Go ahead.
- 1:30:58Speaker 1: Tell us about the new Kardashians.
- 1:30:59Speaker 3: Here, wear it in your sunglasses.
- 1:31:01Speaker 8: Yeah.
- 1:31:02Speaker 1: Can you tell us about the new season? Yeah.
- 1:31:05Speaker 13: I can't say much, but it'll be on Hulu.
- 1:31:09Speaker 1: And it's going to be epic.
- 1:31:09Speaker 2: And what excites you about this family so much? Because
- 1:31:11Speaker 2: you really, now I respect them. They've got a trillion
- 1:31:15Speaker 2: dollars now. They have more money than all of us.
- 1:31:17Speaker 2: They have more money than the country.
- 1:31:19Speaker 13: Yeah, they fascinate me because I think they're the closest
- 1:31:22Speaker 13: thing this country has to a monarchy.
- 1:31:24Speaker 1: That's true. Rightfully so.
- 1:31:25Speaker 13: I mean, they're kind of the epitome of capitalism, but
- 1:31:28Speaker 13: I think that they actually... They've kind of proven themselves
- 1:31:31Speaker 13: in a way.
- 1:31:32Speaker 1: I'm not even kidding. Why not elect them? Yeah, why not?
- 1:31:35Speaker 1: Why not elect Kris Jenner to be the mayor of LA?
- 1:31:40Speaker 3: No one's ever accused her.
- 1:31:41Speaker 2: Or the governor of California. Like, why not elect Kris
- 1:31:45Speaker 2: Jenner to be the mayor? She'll make those homeless people stars.
- 1:31:49Speaker 7: Truly.
- 1:31:51Speaker 1: Yeah, no, 100%.
- 1:31:52Speaker 2: She'll have those homeless people fucking each other on camera.
- 1:31:55Speaker 1: She'll be releasing those tapes. Homeless people just need a show.
- 1:31:59Speaker 13: Yeah.
- 1:32:00Speaker 1: Homeless people really just need a show.
- 1:32:03Speaker 2: And the fact that they don't have one is why
- 1:32:05Speaker 2: they're not getting ahead in this town. And Kris Jenner
- 1:32:08Speaker 2: will show them how to play the game.
- 1:32:12Speaker 1: She's efficient. She's a beast. She gets it done. She
- 1:32:16Speaker 1: absolutely gets it done.
- 1:32:17Speaker 3: This will just be an.
- 1:32:18Speaker 13: Elevated version, I think, of the e-show.
- 1:32:23Speaker 2: Well, now what I liked about the preview is they're
- 1:32:26Speaker 2: threatening people now. They're like, we'll destroy them.
- 1:32:28Speaker 1: Yes. Like, you know... It used to be kind of,
- 1:32:32Speaker 1: you know, in the background.
- 1:32:33Speaker 2: Now they're saying we have the resources and the time
- 1:32:36Speaker 2: to just destroy them all.
- 1:32:38Speaker 3: Yeah, like succession. Yeah, it's succession. For L.A.
- 1:32:42Speaker 1: It's succession for retards. Is what it is. It's succession,
- 1:32:48Speaker 1: but it's about lip gloss. And I think it's important.
- 1:32:52Speaker 1: Play the Hulu. Can you play this, Ben?
- 1:32:54Speaker 3: Yeah, I think we can. If I hear music, though,
- 1:32:56Speaker 3: I'm going to edit this out.
- 1:32:59Speaker 1: Was a big.
- 1:32:59Speaker 2: Change for us.
- 1:33:04Speaker 1: Life without cameras was a big change. What did that last,
- 1:33:06Speaker 1: for two months? I think.
- 1:33:11Speaker 6: Less.
- 1:33:15Speaker 1: It's succession. So how does it feel to be back?
- 1:33:20Speaker 3: We've had so much time off.
- 1:33:21Speaker 4: We've kind of gone into our own world.
- 1:33:25Speaker 1: They own you. You know, this is what I'd have.
- 1:33:27Speaker 1: I'd be like, and you love it.
- 1:33:36Speaker 11: And I've been in this game long enough to know
- 1:33:39Speaker 11: that you just have to be yourself.
- 1:33:41Speaker 9: They're gonna like you for who you are, not what
- 1:33:42Speaker 9: you wear. I'm just kidding, obviously.
- 1:33:46Speaker 1: They're just hot.
- 1:33:49Speaker 9: I feel like.
- 1:33:51Speaker 3: We're being chased.
- 1:33:53Speaker 8: Tristan and I are complicated.
- 1:33:55Speaker 3: Trust takes time.
- 1:33:59Speaker 8: Travis and I want to have a baby.
- 1:34:01Speaker 1: Put the sample in this cup.
- 1:34:03Speaker 2: We'll take our mics off.
- 1:34:04Speaker 8: You don't get the audio.
- 1:34:07Speaker 16: This is a relationship that I don't think anybody saw coming.
- 1:34:15Speaker 9: Who are you texting, Ken?
- 1:34:17Speaker 4: Does his name rhyme with feet?
- 1:34:21Speaker 8: It's so easy to comment on people. We have no
- 1:34:23Speaker 8: idea what they're actually going through.
- 1:34:27Speaker 9: It is really hard with Kanye.
- 1:34:28Speaker 5: He told me my career is over.
- 1:34:30Speaker 1: Why are we always making excuses for the people that
- 1:34:33Speaker 1: traumatize us?
- 1:34:35Speaker 12: I'm out.
- 1:34:35Speaker 15: This is so ridiculous.
- 1:34:37Speaker 8: We have all the time and all of the resources
- 1:34:40Speaker 8: to burn them all to the ground.
- 1:34:42Speaker 3: Never go against the family.
- 1:34:44Speaker 6: Never go against the family.
- 1:34:54Speaker 2: Dude, the last scene should be just Kris Jenner She
- 1:34:59Speaker 2: like sits back, you know, she like rolls back on
- 1:35:03Speaker 2: like a chair and she just sits there and she
- 1:35:05Speaker 2: turns around and she just says, hello, Vladimir.
- 1:35:09Speaker 1: And Putin just.
- 1:35:10Speaker 2: Goes in and they start making out. Kris Jenner and
- 1:35:14Speaker 2: Vladimir Putin just start making out and they're like, never
- 1:35:17Speaker 2: go against the family.