Latest / The Alex Marlow Show / The A.I. Overlords Have No Riz, Sydney Sweeney Saves Americana,& Milo Goes Muslim w/ Emma-Jo Morris
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- 0:05Speaker 1: All right, best moment of the week. Emma Jo Morris
- 0:07Speaker 1: is here for her weekly check-in, which we did miss
- 0:10Speaker 1: last week. I was on vacation. I did miss it.
- 0:13Speaker 1: And so did I. I did hear from some of you.
- 0:15Speaker 1: But we are back. And check out this run of show.
- 0:17Speaker 1: We've got Hasan Piker's crash out online continuing. We've got
- 0:22Speaker 1: Hunter Biden attempting to dunk on Don Jr. That's coming up.
- 0:25Speaker 1: We will play the full racy Sidney Sweeney ad and
- 0:28Speaker 1: give you our take on that. Of course, I'm going
- 0:31Speaker 1: to give you Emma's latest take on the round of
- 0:33Speaker 1: AI doomerism. And we will start with our lead story today,
- 0:37Speaker 1: which is Milo Yiannopoulos, who was a Catholic gay and
- 0:43Speaker 1: then became a ex-gay Catholic and is now a ex-American Muslim.
- 0:49Speaker 1: Here's the image that came out. He had put out
- 0:54Speaker 1: multiple images of him praying in a mosque. He's definitely
- 0:57Speaker 1: getting the Al-Qaeda beard going. He's got the full KSM
- 1:01Speaker 1: vibes going on in this photo. You almost, you got
- 1:07Speaker 1: to laugh at the performance art of it all. And
- 1:10Speaker 1: the fact that he will play the part to the
- 1:13Speaker 1: most extreme degree. If I was really prepared for the show,
- 1:16Speaker 1: and I am prepared, but if I was really prepared,
- 1:19Speaker 1: there's a viral clip of Milo online when he was
- 1:23Speaker 1: really going trad Catholic for a while when he was
- 1:25Speaker 1: starting his gay conversion. where he was helping these Catholic
- 1:29Speaker 1: nuns sell figurines of the Virgin Mary and stuff. And
- 1:33Speaker 1: he sells it so well, I mean, I almost bought one.
- 1:38Speaker 1: And I know him as well as I think anyone
- 1:40Speaker 1: in America just about. This is after his unceremonious deportation
- 1:47Speaker 1: when his, I guess, his homosexual marriage, which I think
- 1:52Speaker 1: was sensibly still going on, was not good enough to
- 1:55Speaker 1: keep him in the country. He gets kicked out of
- 1:58Speaker 1: the country, and now he's a Muslim. What did you
- 2:00Speaker 1: make of this when you saw it?
- 2:01Speaker 2: Yeah, there's so much Milo lore that, like, you can't...
- 2:06Speaker 2: You can barely talk about him on a podcast that's, like, ostensibly... Like,
- 2:10Speaker 2: for people who ostensibly have a job that doesn't require, like,
- 2:12Speaker 2: a significant amount of time on Twitter all the time,
- 2:16Speaker 2: every day for, like, years, which is what is required
- 2:19Speaker 2: to keep up with this conversation.
- 2:20Speaker 3: But, yeah, I mean.
- 2:22Speaker 2: No, I think, first of all, just to correct you,
- 2:23Speaker 2: I think when he was gay, he was Jewish.
- 2:25Speaker 1: Oh, I'm so sorry.
- 2:29Speaker 2: You know, Alex and I both go back with Milo,
- 2:32Speaker 2: which makes this so perfect. We were on the phone,
- 2:34Speaker 2: I think, the day he got deported, and it was
- 2:36Speaker 2: the day after we taped our last show.
- 2:38Speaker 3: And it was a total, like, I was imploding.
- 2:42Speaker 2: I was getting postpartum psychosis on that phone call because
- 2:45Speaker 2: I knew that we had already taped the show yesterday.
- 2:48Speaker 1: So this is one where when we get really organized,
- 2:52Speaker 1: I think I did learn it from you because even
- 2:54Speaker 1: though I'm on the computer the vast majority of the day,
- 2:56Speaker 1: you did catch me at a time where I was
- 2:58Speaker 1: doing children's stuff and trying not to look at my screens.
- 3:02Speaker 1: And I so I do think you broke it to
- 3:04Speaker 1: me that he was getting deported. And this is the
- 3:06Speaker 1: one where if we're really organized, we've got a camera
- 3:09Speaker 1: rolling to get my live reaction because I want the
- 3:12Speaker 1: public to see because Milo is one of he's one
- 3:15Speaker 1: of the ones that got away for me. He was
- 3:17Speaker 1: one of the most talented people I ever worked with.
- 3:19Speaker 1: He had so many attributes of just the absolute superstar person.
- 3:24Speaker 1: And I thought, I hope for so long he had
- 3:26Speaker 1: the ability to keep it between the two buns. The
- 3:31Speaker 1: expression is somewhat intentional. But he couldn't do it. He
- 3:35Speaker 1: couldn't do it. The sandwich had to spill out the
- 3:37Speaker 1: side of the breads. And he couldn't figure out how
- 3:42Speaker 1: to manage money. And he had to always one-up everyone.
- 3:45Speaker 1: And he always had to make it so that everyone
- 3:48Speaker 1: knew he was the alpha in the room no matter what.
- 3:50Speaker 1: And he also really did have that legitimate anti-Semitic streak,
- 3:53Speaker 1: which I think was largely performance art, but not entirely.
- 3:56Speaker 1: I was sad to learn. It was one of those
- 4:00Speaker 1: things where he could have had it all and he
- 4:02Speaker 1: just threw it all away. And yet still, Emma, when
- 4:04Speaker 1: you gave me this news, I did smile. It was
- 4:06Speaker 1: too funny not to acknowledge it, that it was funny.
- 4:09Speaker 2: Well, so, yeah, like, I think that whole description of him,
- 4:12Speaker 2: which is exactly accurate, is probably the reason he got deported, too,
- 4:16Speaker 2: because there's actually lore behind the deportation, apparently, which was
- 4:20Speaker 2: instigated by Laura Loomer.
- 4:22Speaker 3: Yeah. Because him and Laura Loomer hate each other.
- 4:25Speaker 2: The reason is, like, something to the effect of that he, like,
- 4:32Speaker 2: stayed a groiper after she, like, decided she wasn't going
- 4:36Speaker 2: to be a groiper anymore, presumably because.
- 4:41Speaker 2: She was being paid by some like political operative, like
- 4:43Speaker 2: bottom feeder as a third party from some other group
- 4:46Speaker 2: that needed her to not be a groiper, but which
- 4:49Speaker 2: is kind of how all personalities online who don't have
- 4:52Speaker 2: real jobs work. But in any case, so, you know,
- 4:56Speaker 2: he and Loomer had this huge, I think, groiper related beef,
- 5:01Speaker 2: which entailed him publishing the opposition research from her congressional campaign. So,
- 5:06Speaker 2: you know, if you're not in politics, when somebody runs
- 5:08Speaker 2: for office, like, you know, in a bigger election, like
- 5:12Speaker 2: in a federal election, they produce an opposition research document
- 5:17Speaker 2: on themselves so that they can anticipate anything that their
- 5:21Speaker 2: opponent might find and figure out what their, like, PR
- 5:24Speaker 2: strategy is going to be for whatever it is. And
- 5:27Speaker 2: so he was running her Florida congressional campaign, and he kept... Which,
- 5:34Speaker 2: I mean, how do you let, I mean, am I
- 5:37Speaker 2: allowed to use the word, the F word that ends
- 5:39Speaker 2: with a T if it's like a proper noun?
- 5:42Speaker 1: Yeah, you're allowed to use it. I just give Misty
- 5:44Speaker 1: a heads up for some of our syndicators, but it's the, yes. No,
- 5:47Speaker 1: but this is a podcast. This is free form.
- 5:50Speaker 2: Like you're gonna give this chaotic faggot your like opposition
- 5:54Speaker 2: research document to keep which was an interesting choice but
- 5:57Speaker 2: anyway so after they hated each other he published all
- 5:59Speaker 2: this stuff from that document um which was basically uh
- 6:03Speaker 2: detailing you know multiple like psychiatric crises where she ended
- 6:07Speaker 2: up in some sort of like mental hospital.
- 6:09Speaker 3: She can't own a gun.
- 6:10Speaker 2: Another one was about how she's not really Jewish and
- 6:14Speaker 2: how she had adopted that as like an online persona
- 6:18Speaker 2: so that she could like talk shit about Muslims. Um,
- 6:22Speaker 2: So he dumped all this oppo on her and that
- 6:24Speaker 2: really escalated the fight. And then I guess she had
- 6:26Speaker 2: been simmering about that for like years. And eventually when
- 6:31Speaker 2: Trump got into office, this all went down when Biden
- 6:33Speaker 2: was in office. When Trump got into office, she apparently
- 6:35Speaker 2: was like pestering ICE to deport him. Had been calling
- 6:40Speaker 2: him an illegal alien for months. And then finally she
- 6:43Speaker 2: breaks the news like on Twitter that he has been deported.
- 6:48Speaker 2: And his situation in this is like kind of also
- 6:51Speaker 2: funny because So, I'm pretty sure he was living in, like,
- 6:54Speaker 2: Dove Charney's house in L.A., who filed for Chapter 11, like,
- 6:58Speaker 2: years ago. And I think if you have a squatter
- 7:00Speaker 2: in your house, it, like, delays, like, possession. So, he
- 7:07Speaker 2: had been just kind of hanging out at Dove Charney's house.
- 7:12Speaker 1: So, this was the guy who was behind American Apparel, right?
- 7:15Speaker 1: Who was really controversial and had a bunch of allegations
- 7:18Speaker 1: against him for... These are the ads, they literally have
- 7:21Speaker 1: nudity in the ads, but obviously that was a signal
- 7:25Speaker 1: that there was darker stuff going on. Marketing genius, obviously.
- 7:29Speaker 1: I don't really have a lot of it committed to memory,
- 7:32Speaker 1: so I don't know if he's a bad guy or
- 7:34Speaker 1: a horrible guy, you can tell me, but I think
- 7:35Speaker 1: he had some real serious sexual harassment allegations. But also
- 7:39Speaker 1: reminds you, LA's squatter laws basically favor the squatter over
- 7:44Speaker 1: whoever owns the place, which is just We laugh so
- 7:47Speaker 1: we don't cry, but it's like, if you're the squatter,
- 7:49Speaker 1: it's like, welcome home. Like, this is your place now.
- 7:52Speaker 3: Well, that's it.
- 7:53Speaker 2: And like, you know, you can't like technically, exactly like
- 7:55Speaker 2: you can't, it takes, there's this huge amount of process
- 8:00Speaker 2: that goes into evicting a squatter, especially a squatter that
- 8:03Speaker 2: has the permission of the person who owns the home
- 8:05Speaker 2: to squat there in order to delay like foreclosure proceedings.
- 8:09Speaker 3: So, this is all allegedly, allegedly that was going on.
- 8:13Speaker 2: In the meantime, he's becoming like a total panic in,
- 8:16Speaker 2: and he is like, you know, going insane on Twitter
- 8:19Speaker 2: at Trump all day long about every single thing, basically
- 8:22Speaker 2: saying like, you know, it's so over. And, and apparently
- 8:27Speaker 2: truly believed that because then he walks into an airport
- 8:31Speaker 2: with a final deportation order and and is, like, promptly arrested.
- 8:36Speaker 2: And there's something kind of perfect about the fact that,
- 8:42Speaker 2: you know, he just decided not to, like, trust the plan,
- 8:46Speaker 2: and it ended up getting him on a plane to London, obviously,
- 8:52Speaker 2: which is where he comes from. But my favorite thing
- 8:54Speaker 2: about this, it's like, you know, I've had a few
- 8:56Speaker 2: weeks to think about it, and if you think about it,
- 8:59Speaker 2: The original sin was not the beef with Loomer and
- 9:03Speaker 2: was not being a doomer, which you would think, as
- 9:06Speaker 2: I just outlined, were the steps that preceded this outcome.
- 9:10Speaker 2: But it was actually becoming ex-gay, which is his latest thing,
- 9:15Speaker 2: where we left off before he converted to Islam. If
- 9:19Speaker 2: he had stayed gay, because he was apparently married while
- 9:22Speaker 2: he was here, and I think that that was legit.
- 9:25Speaker 3: Yeah. At least at the time that they were married.
- 9:27Speaker 2: And, you know, if we play out the alternative scenario
- 9:30Speaker 2: of him staying gay and not getting divorced for, like,
- 9:33Speaker 2: being annoying, you know, he stays gay, stays married, presumably
- 9:40Speaker 2: keeps his immigration status, but instead he became a straight
- 9:44Speaker 2: white male, the most persecuted group in the country, in
- 9:47Speaker 2: the world.
- 9:49Speaker 3: And now he's been deported.
- 9:53Speaker 1: So much in there for me to add. First of all,
- 9:55Speaker 1: we also learned in a recent round of text messages
- 9:58Speaker 1: that he did use the n-word to his black spouse,
- 10:01Speaker 1: which I thought was just like.
- 10:03Speaker 3: Very abusive.
- 10:04Speaker 1: Unbelievable to put that down in writing. Given that all
- 10:07Speaker 1: the stuff gets leaked out, and he's had a history
- 10:09Speaker 1: of getting stuff leaked out, is that when he and
- 10:14Speaker 1: I were loosely working together, of course he worked for
- 10:16Speaker 1: me at Breitbart, but then he started Milo Inc., which I...
- 10:20Speaker 1: was offered a very nice title and a really nice
- 10:22Speaker 1: paycheck to work for, which I did not accept because
- 10:25Speaker 1: I did not trust that what was going on was
- 10:28Speaker 1: going to be above board. But he basically turned over
- 10:31Speaker 1: all the keys of the kingdom to some 18-year-old intern
- 10:33Speaker 1: at all the passwords and all the codes. And then
- 10:36Speaker 1: he ended up leaking everything to BuzzFeed. And this is
- 10:38Speaker 1: a longer story. This is worth a whole documentary, this story.
- 10:43Speaker 1: But he should have known better. And he's still texting
- 10:47Speaker 1: the N-word to his husband, who was a black person.
- 10:51Speaker 3: Part R.
- 10:52Speaker 1: But I don't know if they're married still.
- 10:57Speaker 2: Well, he did this, like, performance at one point when
- 10:59Speaker 2: he was proclaiming himself ex-gay.
- 11:01Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 11:03Speaker 3: Where he, like, threw the ring.
- 11:06Speaker 2: And actually, it's funny that you bring up the BuzzFeed
- 11:09Speaker 2: leak because I know somebody who was, like, a victim
- 11:11Speaker 2: of that through, like, collateral damage who actually saw Milo
- 11:14Speaker 2: pretty recently and was talking about how when he walks
- 11:18Speaker 2: into the room, his purse is, like, rattling.
- 11:23Speaker 1: With drugs in it?
- 11:24Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 11:25Speaker 1: Oh, okay, with the pills. Yeah, no, no, I know.
- 11:27Speaker 1: And he was getting into that stuff at the end
- 11:29Speaker 1: of my time with him, too, which is... One of
- 11:31Speaker 1: many reasons why I couldn't work with him anymore. But
- 11:34Speaker 1: it's the... It is... There's a sadness to it. But
- 11:37Speaker 1: it's funny. I ran into Loomer right after. And she
- 11:40Speaker 1: was pretty stoked on this. And I was just thinking
- 11:42Speaker 1: about the ruthlessness of it. There's an episode in, like,
- 11:45Speaker 1: the fifth season of South Park. So, you know, we're
- 11:47Speaker 1: talking 20 years ago. That was infamous at the time.
- 11:51Speaker 1: Scott Tannerman must die. Where Cartman gets... Some bully bullies Cartman.
- 11:55Speaker 1: And so.
- 12:00Speaker 1: Cartman has his parents killed and then feeds it to
- 12:03Speaker 1: the kid in Chile. And it was like the sort
- 12:05Speaker 1: of thing, like we never seen this on TV before,
- 12:07Speaker 1: the darkness of it. And then Cartman literally is licking
- 12:10Speaker 1: his tears at the end of the episode. And it
- 12:13Speaker 1: just shows you that that is the level of, do
- 12:16Speaker 1: not cross Laura Loomer. I think that is a clear
- 12:19Speaker 1: takeaway on this because you will get deported and that
- 12:22Speaker 1: will be, And just one of the career-worst mugshots of
- 12:27Speaker 1: all time.
- 12:28Speaker 3: Oh, yeah, brutal, brutal, brutal.
- 12:30Speaker 1: I mean, again, second Khalid Sheikh Mohammed reference of the day,
- 12:35Speaker 1: but worse than his mugshot. I mean, the most famous
- 12:37Speaker 1: bad mugshot of all time. We have multiple Khalid Sheikh
- 12:40Speaker 1: Mohammeds in the first 13 minutes.
- 12:42Speaker 3: Of our show.
- 12:44Speaker 2: We haven't even gotten to the Hasan Piker segment yet. But, yeah, no,
- 12:47Speaker 2: I wonder— I wonder when you go to London, like,
- 12:50Speaker 2: you know, like here when you get like a DUI,
- 12:52Speaker 2: they make you like pick up trash and like, and like,
- 12:56Speaker 2: you know, do community.
- 12:57Speaker 3: Service or whatever.
- 12:59Speaker 2: Is it like in London, if you break like Twitter
- 13:02Speaker 2: or like Facebook online posting rules, they make you convert
- 13:07Speaker 2: to Islam or visit a mosque?
- 13:10Speaker 1: Oh, I have to say, though, I have to say
- 13:13Speaker 1: that if you look at this photo that Milo getting
- 13:16Speaker 1: to London and immediately converting to Islam, being a Muslim
- 13:22Speaker 1: in London, is there anything more British than that right
- 13:25Speaker 1: now than a British guy in London? No, nothing. That's
- 13:29Speaker 1: the most British thing in the year of our Lord, 2026. So,
- 13:33Speaker 1: but what do you.
- 13:33Speaker 5: Make of it?
- 13:33Speaker 1: Is there anything serious here, or is it just performance
- 13:37Speaker 1: art from a guy who could have been, you know,
- 13:40Speaker 1: the cultural icon of the right and is now just
- 13:44Speaker 1: the worst flame-out stand-up comedian who's now a Brit?
- 13:49Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I think that the flame-out happened, you know,
- 13:51Speaker 2: preceded this many years before. I'll probably get, like, an
- 13:55Speaker 2: angry text when this airs for saying that, but, like...
- 14:01Speaker 2: At a certain point, you know, he's not going to get, like,
- 14:05Speaker 2: a real job, so he just has to perpetuate his
- 14:10Speaker 2: bit forever.
- 14:13Speaker 3: And this is just more of that, I think. Like,
- 14:15Speaker 3: what is he going to do? Like, go work at
- 14:19Speaker 3: The Gap? No. Like, he just has to be.
- 14:24Speaker 1: No, consulting.
- 14:25Speaker 3: Consulting. He just has to, like, tweet from there.
- 14:28Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah. They'll do some consulting. He'll figure it out. Anyway,
- 14:32Speaker 1: it's worth keeping an eye on, but there is a
- 14:35Speaker 1: parallel figure on the left who is even more inflammatory
- 14:42Speaker 1: and repulsive in his views, which is Hassan Piker, the
- 14:44Speaker 1: face of the Democrat Party, who... I've been documenting on
- 14:48Speaker 1: the live show, Emma, which I know you are a...
- 14:50Speaker 1: a diligent listener, which I appreciate that. Genuinely, it's not
- 14:53Speaker 1: a requirement for you to come on with me on
- 14:55Speaker 1: the podcast, but I know you keep up with it.
- 14:57Speaker 1: I've been playing some of his flame out, and I've
- 14:58Speaker 1: just concluded he really is like the Democrats gave their
- 15:02Speaker 1: party over to a Borat character. He's like a Borat character.
- 15:07Speaker 1: He's impersonating a caricature of a spoiled, overly macho rich
- 15:15Speaker 1: nepo baby uh from who comes into america and then
- 15:19Speaker 1: shits all over america like it's not there is a
- 15:22Speaker 1: huge performance element the democrats like no let's just put
- 15:25Speaker 1: this guy in charge it's a big tent this is
- 15:27Speaker 1: the he's the real deal and this is the type
- 15:29Speaker 1: of stuff he's still saying there's a fresh interview from
- 15:31Speaker 1: axios check this out.
- 15:34Speaker 6: Said that america is the top dog in terrorism yes
- 15:38Speaker 6: do you think america then is worse than al-qaeda Pound
- 15:42Speaker 6: for pound, as far as the number of deaths, yes,
- 15:45Speaker 6: we have caused tremendous terror all around the world. I
- 15:48Speaker 6: think that that is not only terror that we are
- 15:51Speaker 6: waging on regular civilians in nations in the periphery, but
- 15:56Speaker 6: it's also having consequences on ourselves. It's having dramatic consequences
- 16:01Speaker 6: on the home front.
- 16:03Speaker 3: Yeah, he just cares about America.
- 16:05Speaker 1: Break it down, Emma.
- 16:07Speaker 3: Well, so yeah, I like went nuts when I saw this.
- 16:10Speaker 3: This is a very, like.
- 16:11Speaker 2: You know, he's, like many on the left, he's very
- 16:15Speaker 2: clever and he's very savvy, but he is really not smart.
- 16:20Speaker 2: And unfortunately, I want to say that, yeah, like this
- 16:24Speaker 2: is a bit to get attention, but I think that
- 16:27Speaker 2: this is actually like mainstream slop on the left. And
- 16:33Speaker 2: you can walk into pretty much any faculty lounge on
- 16:36Speaker 2: any university campus in this country and find similar conversation
- 16:39Speaker 2: in a similar point or that same point um and
- 16:42Speaker 2: you know i wanted to address this because there's just
- 16:46Speaker 2: so much wrong with it that even okay you know
- 16:49Speaker 2: anyone who like understands like has taken like a 101
- 16:52Speaker 2: like i don't even think you have to have gone
- 16:54Speaker 2: to college to take this class of like ethics and
- 16:57Speaker 2: morality would say that like okay All killing is not equal.
- 17:02Speaker 2: If you walk out on the street and kill a
- 17:05Speaker 2: man that you see walking past your house versus if
- 17:07Speaker 2: you kill someone who has broken into your house with
- 17:09Speaker 2: your wife and kids inside, that's different, morally different killing, right? Obviously,
- 17:14Speaker 2: killing on a battlefield is also morally different than killing,
- 17:18Speaker 2: you know, in your town. So he says the phrase
- 17:23Speaker 2: pound for pound, which is so stupid in this context
- 17:26Speaker 2: if you're talking about American, let's say, deaths inflicted by America,
- 17:30Speaker 2: because what he's referring to, obviously, is us in... like,
- 17:35Speaker 2: theater of war, and then he uses Al-Qaeda as the
- 17:41Speaker 2: comparison for our killings. So, I figured I would take,
- 17:45Speaker 2: let's take the moral relativism aside and say that, like,
- 17:49Speaker 2: you know, killing in American interest is, you know, like,
- 17:53Speaker 2: morally the same as killing in interest of, like, the
- 17:56Speaker 2: caliphate or whatever Al-Qaeda wants or whatever.
- 17:59Speaker 3: If you were to.
- 18:00Speaker 2: Just look at American You know, the ratio of American
- 18:05Speaker 2: killings in war from post-World War II, you have, you know,
- 18:12Speaker 2: the highest is the Gulf War in 1991 with one
- 18:16Speaker 2: civilian death per five to seven combatants. And then the
- 18:19Speaker 2: second highest is like ISIS, which was 4.5 to eight
- 18:24Speaker 2: combatants per one civilian death. And that's obviously, we're talking about,
- 18:29Speaker 2: you know, a theater that is like a densely urban
- 18:31Speaker 2: environment where it's like these guys are hiding in apartment
- 18:35Speaker 2: buildings where there's a hundred, you know, you have 50
- 18:37Speaker 2: ISIS fighters hiding in an apartment building where there's 200,
- 18:40Speaker 2: let's say, civilians inside of it. And even if you
- 18:44Speaker 2: wanted to go on the highest estimate of how many
- 18:48Speaker 2: civilian deaths we had in the campaign against ISIS, you
- 18:52Speaker 2: could go highest is 41%, lowest is 9% of the
- 18:58Speaker 2: civilian to enemy combatant ratio. Now, if you wanted to
- 19:04Speaker 2: compare that to Al-Qaeda, Al-Qaeda is hard because they don't
- 19:07Speaker 2: have like wars that they fight, and they're not a military. But,
- 19:11Speaker 2: you know, let's say 9-11 is like their flagship attack.
- 19:16Speaker 2: They literally crashed a plane into the Pentagon, which you
- 19:19Speaker 2: would imagine would have you know, let's say the highest
- 19:22Speaker 2: ratio of military people as targets, dead versus civilians. And
- 19:31Speaker 2: in the Pentagon, they killed 55 military personnel and 70 civilians.
- 19:39Speaker 3: And in all of 9-11, the.
- 19:43Speaker 2: Ratio is 53 civilian non-military deaths for every one military
- 19:48Speaker 2: member killed. Fifty to 1. So to say that pound
- 19:53Speaker 2: for pound, even though that's not a real comparison, as
- 19:55Speaker 2: I just explained, not all death is equal, but pound
- 19:58Speaker 2: for pound, that's still not true.
- 20:00Speaker 3: That's still not true. But, you know, the thing is,
- 20:03Speaker 3: that's the troll. And I feel like I'm getting had
- 20:06Speaker 3: by him by even engaging in this. Yeah.
- 20:08Speaker 1: The point isn't to be right. I found myself doing
- 20:09Speaker 1: this on a live show today. The point is to
- 20:12Speaker 1: hate America. Yeah, which you wouldn't have listened to. I
- 20:14Speaker 1: did the thing that I've been resisting, which is like,
- 20:16Speaker 1: I was kind of like responding to the arguments.
- 20:18Speaker 3: Yes, exactly. And I'm like, wait, what am I doing?
- 20:20Speaker 1: Yeah, but the point is, it is kind of a stupid,
- 20:24Speaker 1: it's a stupid man's take because he is equating all
- 20:28Speaker 1: military deaths with, flying planes filled with innocent people into
- 20:33Speaker 1: office buildings filled with innocent people and the rapes and
- 20:36Speaker 1: murders of innocent people as they went to a music festival.
- 20:40Speaker 1: And the fact that this was something that is considered
- 20:44Speaker 1: mainstream now through the Democrats is frightening, but it really
- 20:48Speaker 1: shouldn't be. I mean, I feel like when people listen
- 20:51Speaker 1: to this guy through the eyes of, is he doing
- 20:52Speaker 1: a Borat routine? Is he doing a Sacha Baron Cohen character?
- 20:55Speaker 1: I then all of a sudden it actually makes more sense. Now,
- 20:58Speaker 1: does he totally know that? I don't know. He's totally nuts.
- 21:00Speaker 1: But the point is that that's how it should be apprised.
- 21:05Speaker 1: But we've become, I think, increasingly unserious over time. And
- 21:11Speaker 1: what's ironic about this is I really do still blame
- 21:13Speaker 1: the American left, our media, in the fact that we
- 21:17Speaker 1: tolerated so much idiotic thought for so long. And then
- 21:21Speaker 1: they spent the people who were saying, wait a minute,
- 21:23Speaker 1: we're doing a bunch of idiotic stuff like keeping the
- 21:26Speaker 1: border open and getting rolled on trade and getting into
- 21:28Speaker 1: a billion foreign wars and all that stuff embodied by
- 21:31Speaker 1: the Trump administration and importing a bunch of fentanyl and
- 21:33Speaker 1: illegal aliens that we can't afford. Our debts going through
- 21:36Speaker 1: the roof, all this stuff that people were saying this.
- 21:39Speaker 1: And then we were all called fascists and Nazis were
- 21:41Speaker 1: doing that. And so I think those people just completely
- 21:44Speaker 1: lost their compass.
- 21:45Speaker 2: Well, yeah, it's like the left is and we've discussed
- 21:48Speaker 2: this a lot, like with the Mamdani stuff. It's like
- 21:50Speaker 2: all this is is like a project in like venting resentment.
- 21:54Speaker 2: And that's why you have people talking about it. And
- 21:57Speaker 2: by the way, I don't believe I think it's the
- 21:58Speaker 2: opposite way. Like, I don't believe the Democrat Party, you know,
- 22:01Speaker 2: like we're a large tent. Let in Hassan Piker. I
- 22:05Speaker 2: think it was more the opposite. I think it was
- 22:07Speaker 2: more like Hassan Piker just did this hostile takeover of
- 22:10Speaker 2: the Democratic Party despite their resistance.
- 22:13Speaker 3: And because he was more popular because.
- 22:15Speaker 2: He is echoing, first of all, what they've heard in
- 22:19Speaker 2: their years of indoctrination in our education system. And then
- 22:21Speaker 2: second of all, is embodying and acting out the resentment
- 22:27Speaker 2: that they feel because they're downwardly mobile, overeducated, majorly indebted,
- 22:33Speaker 2: with nothing, like no joy in their life. And this
- 22:36Speaker 2: is how they feel. The way he talks is exactly
- 22:37Speaker 2: how they feel. Maybe I'm too cynical and maybe I'm
- 22:41Speaker 2: not seeing like the joke. It's possible that I just
- 22:43Speaker 2: don't have like a good enough sense of humor or like,
- 22:45Speaker 2: creative mind to understand the bit. But like, I feel
- 22:49Speaker 2: like this guy actually reflects exactly the way your garden
- 22:55Speaker 2: variety leftist actually views the world in this country. I mean,
- 22:59Speaker 2: this is like letter to America style. You brought 9-11
- 23:03Speaker 2: onto yourself. Al-Qaeda is just as righteous as the American army.
- 23:07Speaker 2: And they're just retaliating because hurt people hurt people, as
- 23:10Speaker 2: his favorite candidate said in Michigan. So yeah, no, I
- 23:14Speaker 2: think that he's like more like more real than a
- 23:19Speaker 2: performance artist. Like I think Milo is a performance artist.
- 23:22Speaker 2: I don't think Hassan is. And I think he's reflecting
- 23:25Speaker 2: something really ugly.
- 23:26Speaker 1: This is kind of, but this is really relevant because
- 23:29Speaker 1: I feel like Milo was way more real than performance
- 23:36Speaker 1: art for a while. And then him, you know, being
- 23:38Speaker 1: a Muslim in the, in a mosque in London is
- 23:41Speaker 1: obviously pure performance art from my vantage point. But I
- 23:43Speaker 1: think for a while and, and striking that balance is really,
- 23:48Speaker 1: I think what can compel an audience is that how
- 23:50Speaker 1: much of this is reality TV and how much of
- 23:52Speaker 1: this is, is real life. And I think that really
- 23:55Speaker 1: does compel people. And I just felt like a little
- 23:57Speaker 1: bit of this, we're actually worse than Al Qaeda stuff.
- 24:00Speaker 1: It's the America that really did deserve 9-11. I'm not
- 24:03Speaker 1: taking it back. It's, it feels like we're towing the
- 24:06Speaker 1: line and not towing the line. That's the, that's the
- 24:08Speaker 1: wrong expression. Uh, we're, we're finding the, the limits of
- 24:12Speaker 1: maybe what people can tolerate. And this is good timing
- 24:15Speaker 1: for Republicans heading into November where we should, by all measures,
- 24:20Speaker 1: be getting our clocks cleaned by the Democrats. And we're not,
- 24:23Speaker 1: I think that's part of the reason why is right here. Yeah. Yeah.
- 24:28Speaker 3: Um, Yeah, I think that's basically right.
- 24:31Speaker 2: I also think that there's a subset of the population, though,
- 24:34Speaker 2: that is radicalized and that what you and me would
- 24:36Speaker 2: consider the line reflects something that isn't the line for
- 24:45Speaker 2: a lot of people. And I think that Republicans, at
- 24:48Speaker 2: their most productive, and J.D. Vance kind of sometimes gets
- 24:53Speaker 2: closer to He gets much closer, talking about how we
- 24:58Speaker 2: address the downwardly mobile professional, the person who paid six
- 25:04Speaker 2: figures for an education they couldn't afford and then gets
- 25:08Speaker 2: into the workforce and realizes that it's kind of monopoly money,
- 25:12Speaker 2: that they can't get the house, they can't have the kids,
- 25:14Speaker 2: it's just not feasible, and that instills misery.
- 25:17Speaker 1: Let me set up a formal segue here in the
- 25:20Speaker 1: next section, because... I want to talk a little bit
- 25:23Speaker 1: about the Trump $ 5, 000 handout, but only if you vote Republicans,
- 25:29Speaker 1: which to me is, it's sort of alarming the more
- 25:32Speaker 1: I think about it. I didn't like it at first,
- 25:33Speaker 1: and then now the more I think about it, I'm
- 25:36Speaker 1: getting increasingly alarmed by it because it does make me
- 25:38Speaker 1: feel like that there's no good economic message that's coming.
- 25:42Speaker 1: People are spending like it's a jubilee, as I've been
- 25:45Speaker 1: saying in my show. So the unemployment level is perfect
- 25:49Speaker 1: at 4.1%. We're at an all-time low for certain demographics
- 25:54Speaker 1: for poverty. We're seeing wage growth at a pretty quick rate.
- 25:59Speaker 1: And people still are under the impression the economy is
- 26:02Speaker 1: absolutely horrific. And we're going to give you a super
- 26:04Speaker 1: inflationary $ 5, 000 check, but only if you vote for me.
- 26:07Speaker 1: And you only get $ 5, 000 no matter what you do
- 26:09Speaker 1: or your state of life or how much work you
- 26:12Speaker 1: put in. It's not my favorite look. Can you help
- 26:16Speaker 1: me make sense of it and give me your reaction?
- 26:19Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I think he's doing exactly what the Democrats
- 26:21Speaker 2: always do, especially like he's from New York. And it's like,
- 26:23Speaker 2: you know, these buses pull up and they offer everyone
- 26:25Speaker 2: like a ham sandwich to get on and come cast
- 26:29Speaker 2: your vote, which we have no idea who it's going
- 26:31Speaker 2: to be for. The Democrats kind of do just like
- 26:34Speaker 2: straight up bribe voters.
- 26:35Speaker 3: And I guess he's like, well, I can bribe, you know.
- 26:39Speaker 2: So I think that that's probably like he's probably coming
- 26:42Speaker 2: to it from a more glib place.
- 26:44Speaker 3: But you're right.
- 26:44Speaker 2: I mean, that's such a smart point and something that
- 26:46Speaker 2: didn't come to me, but connects with exactly what I'm saying,
- 26:50Speaker 2: which is it's pretty scary that that has to be
- 26:54Speaker 2: the economic message. And it's because, yes, I agree that
- 26:57Speaker 2: the economy is basically good, even with the rise in
- 27:00Speaker 2: gas prices, like, for the most part, like people aren't
- 27:03Speaker 2: revolting and the system has been able to absorb that
- 27:08Speaker 2: shock relatively well. But at the same time, there's this
- 27:12Speaker 2: underlying systemic, I guess like malaise, which is that starter
- 27:19Speaker 2: homes aren't available or if they are, they can't.
- 27:24Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly. Like it's just, they can't, it's impossible. This
- 27:28Speaker 3: is impossible.
- 27:29Speaker 2: And so, you know, you could, you could look at
- 27:31Speaker 2: all of the traditional metrics, which you do every day.
- 27:33Speaker 2: And I know Carney has, you know, the most excellent
- 27:36Speaker 2: analysis of that literally every day.
- 27:38Speaker 1: John Carney, not Mark Carney, just for the record.
- 27:41Speaker 2: John Carney, the good economist, not Mark Carney, the bad economist.
- 27:46Speaker 2: But yeah, like, you know, you could look at all
- 27:48Speaker 2: those metrics and say that they're right. But it, but
- 27:51Speaker 2: they don't address the underlying purchasing power issue for young
- 27:55Speaker 2: people who are trying to experience family formation. And unlike
- 28:00Speaker 2: you and me, who are like probably stupid in that
- 28:03Speaker 2: we have kids before we have everything figured out.
- 28:07Speaker 3: Most people don't operate like that.
- 28:08Speaker 2: It gives them tremendous anxiety and they don't think that
- 28:10Speaker 2: that's realistic or smart. And they will wait until they
- 28:15Speaker 2: have all their ducks in a row financially before they
- 28:17Speaker 2: begin to, you know, get married and build a family. And,
- 28:21Speaker 2: if the ducks can never get in a row because
- 28:22Speaker 2: you can never get on, on into the.
- 28:24Speaker 1: Property ladder and you.
- 28:26Speaker 3: Can never build up the down payment, even though you
- 28:29Speaker 3: have a good job and you did everything right. And
- 28:33Speaker 3: nobody is addressing that. Like the Republicans aren't addressing that.
- 28:37Speaker 3: They just aren't.
- 28:38Speaker 2: And the reason is obviously because if you were to
- 28:40Speaker 2: lower the prices of homes, let's say somehow, which I'm sure.
- 28:43Speaker 3: There are ways.
- 28:46Speaker 2: You're going to absolutely kill the boomers who own those homes.
- 28:51Speaker 2: It's like the person's interest who owns the home currently
- 28:53Speaker 2: also has to be factored into this calculation. I don't
- 28:57Speaker 2: think that there's the same moral weight in those considerations,
- 29:00Speaker 2: but obviously any politician who wants to win any elections
- 29:04Speaker 2: has to. And that's the reason why, but that's creating
- 29:08Speaker 2: really bad problems. Yeah, it is just a total... So
- 29:13Speaker 2: there's so much in there that's important.
- 29:15Speaker 1: And we've been discussing this, though, it feels like for
- 29:17Speaker 1: years without really any sort of reasonable, any sort of
- 29:21Speaker 1: solutions put forward at all. And I feel like... Well,
- 29:24Speaker 1: that's the.
- 29:25Speaker 3: Reason why, is because you're caught in between the current
- 29:27Speaker 3: homeowners and the prospective homeowners, and they have opposite interests.
- 29:31Speaker 1: Yeah, they do have opposite interests. And it does feel
- 29:34Speaker 1: like that even people like J.D. Vance, who I know
- 29:37Speaker 1: has been very conscious of this stuff, I know he
- 29:39Speaker 1: was out there having suggesting that maybe we need to
- 29:42Speaker 1: have some sort of a dividend or a stipend for
- 29:46Speaker 1: moms who stay home to raise their own kids, which is.
- 29:49Speaker 1: I like anything that's pro-natalist and maybe that's how it
- 29:52Speaker 1: would work out if you, I haven't seen the models
- 29:55Speaker 1: and I imagine we could have reasonable models, try to
- 29:57Speaker 1: figure out if that's true. But I got to say
- 30:00Speaker 1: that I would feel a little hosed in that because
- 30:02Speaker 1: we banked big on this is the system, this is
- 30:04Speaker 1: the way it works, it's the people who do the
- 30:06Speaker 1: best have two working parents. And so we found a
- 30:10Speaker 1: very nurturing role for the more nurturing of the two
- 30:13Speaker 1: of us. And she is that role in the community.
- 30:15Speaker 1: And just like, you know, we would have got paid
- 30:17Speaker 1: for it and not have a job is just, It
- 30:20Speaker 1: doesn't feel like that's it to me. It's the, I
- 30:22Speaker 1: like the thought, we got to start thinking about stuff,
- 30:24Speaker 1: but are there any solutions that are out there? Is
- 30:26Speaker 1: anyone talking seriously about this stuff in a way that
- 30:29Speaker 1: isn't retarded?
- 30:30Speaker 3: Yeah, well, I think like.
- 30:31Speaker 2: What he's gesturing toward is like kind of something more
- 30:34Speaker 2: like symbolic than literally paying, like I think it was
- 30:37Speaker 2: like $ 9, 000 a year per kid or something, which isn't,
- 30:40Speaker 2: you know, as we can just discuss, like isn't a
- 30:43Speaker 2: real amount of money for raising a family. I mean,
- 30:45Speaker 2: it can be, but it's like very- It's a very
- 30:48Speaker 2: basic incentive. You know, I don't know that that replaces like.
- 30:52Speaker 1: A woman having a full-time job.
- 30:55Speaker 3: I don't know.
- 30:56Speaker 2: But, you know, I think what he's gesturing at symbolically is,
- 31:00Speaker 2: you know, creating a system where we are using our
- 31:05Speaker 2: tax code and our government to incentivize behavior we want.
- 31:11Speaker 2: And I don't think that there's anything wrong with that.
- 31:13Speaker 2: I think for a long time, conservatives either wanted to
- 31:15Speaker 2: pretend shrink government, which was never happening and has never happened,
- 31:19Speaker 2: or they wanted to see government as.
- 31:22Speaker 3: A neutral force that That's just.
- 31:27Speaker 2: There that has no morality and no will, which obviously
- 31:31Speaker 2: isn't the case. And, you know, we have tons of
- 31:34Speaker 2: like our laws are an example of that.
- 31:37Speaker 3: We don't like legislate arbitrarily.
- 31:39Speaker 2: We legislate based on like shared values in our society
- 31:42Speaker 2: and the things that we want to incentivize and the
- 31:44Speaker 2: things that we want to prohibit.
- 31:46Speaker 3: And curb. So we do that all the time.
- 31:48Speaker 2: So he's trying to insert a new virtue that our
- 31:53Speaker 2: government is going to try to push people in the
- 31:55Speaker 2: direction of, which is child rearing and having children.
- 31:58Speaker 3: So I think that that's probably like what he means.
- 32:00Speaker 2: It's like more of like a, yeah, it's like a symbol,
- 32:04Speaker 2: but that's what the symbol is. It's like, let's use
- 32:06Speaker 2: government to force people to act in a way that
- 32:09Speaker 2: we want them to, and that's to have children. And
- 32:12Speaker 2: I mean, I think it'll de-radicalize people from the left,
- 32:14Speaker 2: but it's just not the way. Like $ 9, 000 isn't going
- 32:17Speaker 2: to be the way. I don't know what the solution is.
- 32:19Speaker 2: I pay, as I've said in the show many times,
- 32:23Speaker 2: but no one solves the problem. No one cares about
- 32:25Speaker 2: the problem. I have to pay full-time help because my
- 32:28Speaker 2: wife and I work. And even though she owes a
- 32:31Speaker 2: bunch of money in student loans, so that's our second
- 32:33Speaker 2: biggest check every month behind mortgage is her student loan payment.
- 32:38Speaker 1: And we both work full-time. And we have four children.
- 32:42Speaker 1: And part of that means because I have a full-time
- 32:44Speaker 1: domestic associate, shall we say, a nanny, that's full-time. And
- 32:49Speaker 1: I'm only allowed to write off the taxes that she pays.
- 32:51Speaker 1: So I cannot write her off. If I lied to
- 32:54Speaker 1: the government and called her, you know, the head of
- 32:58Speaker 1: research for my research company, then I could write off
- 33:01Speaker 1: the whole work. But I don't do that because that's dishonest,
- 33:05Speaker 1: not true. So, uh, so I get penalized for that.
- 33:07Speaker 1: And so they wouldn't even solve that. So it's the,
- 33:09Speaker 1: then you're gonna give me $ 9, 000. Like if my wife
- 33:11Speaker 1: quits her medical job and stays home, that doesn't make
- 33:14Speaker 1: any sense. Also, where did JD meet his wife? Uh,
- 33:16Speaker 1: was it Yale law school? Like, like was that, and, and, and, and, uh, look,
- 33:21Speaker 1: it's where you meet good, good spouses, places like that
- 33:23Speaker 1: is my wife's highly educated, more educated than me. So again,
- 33:26Speaker 1: but I actually admire him for daring to say anything
- 33:29Speaker 1: because no one's even thinking about this much less. suggesting
- 33:32Speaker 1: anything but it is tough and we are not far
- 33:35Speaker 1: along on this and that is we're going to hemorrhage
- 33:37Speaker 1: voters um to whichever party will have the most stomach
- 33:42Speaker 1: to promise stuff they can't deliver and we know that's
- 33:44Speaker 1: not us we know that's the left who's way better
- 33:46Speaker 1: at that stuff Yeah, well, yes.
- 33:49Speaker 2: And I don't think it needs $ 9, 000. There's other ways.
- 33:55Speaker 2: The thing is, people don't consider what the real reasons are,
- 33:59Speaker 2: or I should say what real hurdles are to having
- 34:02Speaker 2: children if you were to never change your life circumstance
- 34:05Speaker 2: and never become a homeowner again. What comes to mind
- 34:08Speaker 2: and something that I think about is educating them.
- 34:10Speaker 1: Okay.
- 34:12Speaker 2: If you live in a major city because you have
- 34:15Speaker 2: a job that's a good job because you live there,
- 34:19Speaker 2: which is a reality for a lot of people. Somebody
- 34:22Speaker 2: like Ben Shapiro will get burned at the stake for
- 34:26Speaker 2: saying otherwise, but it's just true that sometimes you do
- 34:29Speaker 2: have to live in an expensive city. So let's say
- 34:31Speaker 2: you want to have kids in the city where you live.
- 34:34Speaker 1: Yeah, there's a lot of jobs in these expensive cities.
- 34:37Speaker 1: And in fact, there's a lot of working class people
- 34:40Speaker 1: who are more, have less mobility. Some of the white
- 34:42Speaker 1: collar people have more mobility. Like I was just, and
- 34:45Speaker 1: I'm going to be doing some podcasting on this. I'm
- 34:46Speaker 1: sorry to cut you off. This is important. But on
- 34:48Speaker 1: a local landfill in my area, you want to work
- 34:50Speaker 1: at the landfill, which are good jobs, engineering jobs, not
- 34:53Speaker 1: just trash jobs. These are engineering jobs. You need to
- 34:57Speaker 1: go to the landfill. Like you can't virtually commute. Of course.
- 35:01Speaker 3: Yeah, of course.
- 35:02Speaker 2: Like the people who live here tend to have jobs
- 35:04Speaker 2: that are here and they're better jobs for them or whatever. Anyway,
- 35:09Speaker 2: you know, the hurdles, a big hurdle is the fact
- 35:12Speaker 2: that the schools are unusable and they're mostly unusable because of.
- 35:19Speaker 3: Obviously the unions and crime.
- 35:22Speaker 2: There's a lot of crime that happened in city public
- 35:25Speaker 2: schools that we refuse to enforce because it's like racist
- 35:29Speaker 2: or something. You know, if public schools were usable in
- 35:32Speaker 2: the city and school fees didn't range from $ 30, 000 to
- 35:36Speaker 2: $ 70, 000 a year per child, which is what they are
- 35:38Speaker 2: for private school in L.A. and New York City, maybe
- 35:43Speaker 2: people would be more willing to start thinking about, you know,
- 35:46Speaker 2: just putting kids in an apartment.
- 35:48Speaker 3: And just sending them to school and it being fine.
- 35:51Speaker 2: But there has to be this exorbitant fee to just
- 35:57Speaker 2: basically uh let them start their life in the most
- 35:59Speaker 2: basic level that it freaks people out um i know
- 36:03Speaker 2: multiple cases where it's just totally freak people out because
- 36:05Speaker 2: they don't believe that they can uproot their life to
- 36:07Speaker 2: go to a place where a district is you know
- 36:10Speaker 2: a little better uh and then they can't imagine sending
- 36:13Speaker 2: their kids to the public schools which are like dangerous
- 36:16Speaker 2: and then they also can't fathom how they can afford
- 36:18Speaker 2: 50 let's say thousand dollars a head per kid so
- 36:22Speaker 2: You know, something like that, I think, could be, if
- 36:25Speaker 2: you're going to create, like, use the government to create incentives,
- 36:28Speaker 2: it's like, how about, like, start, like, prosecuting crime?
- 36:32Speaker 3: Yeah, that'd be nice.
- 36:35Speaker 2: And maybe revisit whether people have incentive to bring kids
- 36:39Speaker 2: into an environment.
- 36:41Speaker 1: Okay. We might need, there's one politician who might be
- 36:45Speaker 1: able to get us out of this jam. There's only one.
- 36:47Speaker 1: And his name is Hunter Biden, who was, might be
- 36:51Speaker 1: running for president. You see, this is so, it's really
- 36:54Speaker 1: funny how the, these cycles go on and it shows
- 36:58Speaker 1: how long I've been in the news business is that
- 37:00Speaker 1: I've been calling half tongue in cheek for Hunter Biden
- 37:04Speaker 1: to be in the presidential ticket for so many years. Emma,
- 37:07Speaker 1: it's gotta be close to a decade. I once called
- 37:09Speaker 1: for a Biden, Biden ticket. I thought that would be
- 37:11Speaker 1: pretty cool. I'm not telling you who should be the top. Yeah,
- 37:14Speaker 1: that was their, And as the only cool Democrat, and
- 37:17Speaker 1: now I think he's the lamest Democrat around, but he
- 37:19Speaker 1: said he may have to run for president. I don't
- 37:23Speaker 1: know why he would feel like he would be a
- 37:26Speaker 1: good fit for that. So here's some of the stuff
- 37:29Speaker 1: he's up to. He's the only one who gets it. Yeah,
- 37:32Speaker 1: he gets it. Here's a clip of a post from
- 37:35Speaker 1: him on the Everything app, which was formerly known as
- 37:39Speaker 1: a tweet. He's making fun of Don Jr., who apparently
- 37:42Speaker 1: a Russian oligarch friend paid for parts of Don Jr.
- 37:45Speaker 1: 's wedding that he had recently or parts of the reception.
- 37:49Speaker 1: And he says Don Jr. needed a Russian oligarch, two
- 37:52Speaker 1: islands and a firework show. I just got married on
- 37:55Speaker 1: the rooftop of an apartment building in West Hollywood. It
- 37:57Speaker 1: was so much cooler. And so, again, remember, he's a
- 38:00Speaker 1: deadbeat dad who kept his baby mama, at least one
- 38:04Speaker 1: of them, on his payroll, even though he would not
- 38:07Speaker 1: acknowledge to the public she existed. He does not acknowledge
- 38:09Speaker 1: their kid together. Um, he also had a sexual relationship
- 38:16Speaker 1: with his brother's widow, like really close to after when
- 38:18Speaker 1: his brother died, even though they were allegedly best friends.
- 38:21Speaker 1: So this guy does not have what's known as sexual
- 38:23Speaker 1: morals at all. Uh, and he should not be commenting
- 38:25Speaker 1: on anyone's relationships in family values, but he does this.
- 38:29Speaker 1: And this is the woman who he said he loved
- 38:31Speaker 1: on the first date. I think that we covered on
- 38:33Speaker 1: our long podcast. Yeah.
- 38:35Speaker 3: It was the first time he saw her.
- 38:37Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 38:38Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 38:38Speaker 1: The first time he saw her, he said he loved her. Uh,
- 38:40Speaker 1: what was your reaction to this? to this post i mean.
- 38:43Speaker 2: I actually i got married on the roof of my
- 38:45Speaker 2: apartment um so same uh but yeah so this is
- 38:50Speaker 2: like so amazing because it literally was posted the exact
- 38:53Speaker 2: same week that he did a rug pull that he
- 38:57Speaker 2: tried to say wasn't a rug pull that i'm convinced
- 38:59Speaker 2: was maybe even a little bit of fraud uh because
- 39:03Speaker 2: he so he started this shit coin again proper noun
- 39:07Speaker 2: um i'm not swearing It is a term for a
- 39:11Speaker 2: crypto coin that is worthless and that the person who
- 39:16Speaker 2: creates it basically buys up a lot of the coin
- 39:20Speaker 2: ahead of its launch or right at its launch, jacks
- 39:23Speaker 2: up the price, creates hype around it to get other
- 39:26Speaker 2: people to buy it in to further inflate the price,
- 39:28Speaker 2: and then sells off a lot. lot of it all
- 39:30Speaker 2: at once to basically cash in in like a very short,
- 39:34Speaker 2: like 24 hour period and leave everybody else holding the bag.
- 39:40Speaker 3: So that was what he had done.
- 39:41Speaker 2: Literally like 48 hours or something before this was posted
- 39:46Speaker 2: about how down to earth he is and like, chill
- 39:49Speaker 2: he is and right you know uh totally above board
- 39:53Speaker 2: and also like a monk and so just in case
- 39:58Speaker 2: anyone needed like a little more of the picture around
- 40:01Speaker 2: this tweet that is the context in which it was
- 40:04Speaker 2: posted and i just can't stand him because whatever you
- 40:09Speaker 2: know look i'm not gonna comment on um.
- 40:13Speaker 3: Whatever that story on ProPublica was. I don't know about it.
- 40:17Speaker 3: I don't know.
- 40:18Speaker 2: But all I know, I do know about Hunter Biden
- 40:20Speaker 2: because I have his laptop actually in the drawer right
- 40:23Speaker 2: next to me where I'm sitting right now. And to
- 40:26Speaker 2: say that he's unfamiliar with Russian oligarchs is.
- 40:31Speaker 3: Very funny. That's a very funny joke.
- 40:35Speaker 2: I can't imagine why he would think to wade into
- 40:39Speaker 2: this and call attention to And force everyone to remember
- 40:43Speaker 2: the fact that he was hanging with oligarchs and he
- 40:46Speaker 2: was hanging with oligarchs in multiple countries at a time,
- 40:48Speaker 2: but he was too retarded and crack addicted to think
- 40:53Speaker 2: to charge properly for the people he was hanging out with.
- 40:56Speaker 1: Yeah, that also came up in our last Deep Dive
- 40:58Speaker 1: Hunter podcast that may be evidence that he's not a
- 41:00Speaker 1: genius is that he could have got way more money
- 41:02Speaker 1: out of the people.
- 41:04Speaker 3: A million bucks and your dad's the vice president.
- 41:06Speaker 1: But to circle back on the first thing you said,
- 41:08Speaker 1: I do think I'm in the camp. I think I
- 41:10Speaker 1: would have preferred Hunter's wedding to Don Jr. 's, but
- 41:11Speaker 1: I do think that's a hard wiring. And I think
- 41:14Speaker 1: that if Hunter could have pulled off a wedding like
- 41:15Speaker 1: Don Jr. 's, I think he would have done it. So,
- 41:18Speaker 1: but I do agree with you.
- 41:19Speaker 3: Yeah, he was a Don Jr. He'd been trying like
- 41:23Speaker 3: that's the thing about the Bidens that you know better
- 41:25Speaker 3: than anyone. And you wrote about this in your book,
- 41:27Speaker 3: Breaking Biden, where like.
- 41:29Speaker 2: For generations, their whole like reason for existence has been
- 41:34Speaker 2: striving to be like the people who they admire, who
- 41:38Speaker 2: are rich. That's their entire MO is striving to be
- 41:44Speaker 2: rich because that's something that they see as an admirable
- 41:47Speaker 2: quality or lifestyle.
- 41:49Speaker 1: Yeah, and I've been trying to do a dive. I
- 41:51Speaker 1: haven't spent a lot of showtime on it because I
- 41:54Speaker 1: don't see really what to do about it yet, but
- 41:57Speaker 1: I'll bring it up briefly here. I've been spending some
- 41:59Speaker 1: time on the alleged Trump corruption that goes on, and
- 42:04Speaker 1: there's a lot of Trump business deals that are going on,
- 42:06Speaker 1: some of which I have zero problem with, some of
- 42:08Speaker 1: which I think are not good looks. But overall, it
- 42:11Speaker 1: doesn't sound like they're doing anything illegal. And I listened
- 42:14Speaker 1: to a really big podcast on The New York Times,
- 42:16Speaker 1: which I think was a Harvard professor, was kind of
- 42:18Speaker 1: presenting a bunch of anti-Trump evidence. But he ultimately concluded,
- 42:22Speaker 1: I don't think they got him on anything. They just
- 42:24Speaker 1: got him on, obviously, the family members are taking advantage
- 42:28Speaker 1: of their perch. But, you know, they tried to shoot
- 42:31Speaker 1: their dad. They tried to put them all in jail.
- 42:33Speaker 1: It's not going to be me who's going to be
- 42:35Speaker 1: the one who's going to spend a lot of time
- 42:37Speaker 1: investigating them. But I do raise it as a thing
- 42:39Speaker 1: that politically, the Democrats think they have a winner framing
- 42:43Speaker 1: up the Trumps as the corrupt family. And the fact
- 42:46Speaker 1: that Hunter Biden is getting in on it is pretty
- 42:49Speaker 1: delish as the face of the Biden family corruption. Well, exactly.
- 42:54Speaker 2: And that's, but you know, like, it's probably not illegal
- 42:55Speaker 2: the same way what Hunter was doing was technically not illegal.
- 42:58Speaker 2: And we've been saying this, I mean, for like years
- 43:00Speaker 2: that there should be a law passed, which they'll never
- 43:02Speaker 2: do because it would decimate the entire city of Washington
- 43:05Speaker 2: and surrounding zip codes, you know, that no one who
- 43:09Speaker 2: is a blood relative or a spouse is allowed to
- 43:14Speaker 2: do business in Washington either, like, you know, or whatever,
- 43:18Speaker 2: you know, you would have to frame it obviously more specifically,
- 43:20Speaker 2: but you know, that's, that's the loophole that they all
- 43:23Speaker 2: get around is that like bribery is illegal, but your
- 43:25Speaker 2: son getting all kinds of deals all of a sudden,
- 43:29Speaker 2: once the father is in office is not illegal because
- 43:33Speaker 2: the son is the son and the father is the
- 43:34Speaker 2: father and the law distinguishes between them. Um, you know,
- 43:37Speaker 2: but the thing is like, that's, that is anything that
- 43:41Speaker 2: the Trumps are doing, you know, I don't know what
- 43:44Speaker 2: the details are, but It's totally— this is not invented by
- 43:49Speaker 2: Don Jr.
- 43:50Speaker 1: Or anyone.
- 43:51Speaker 3: And frankly, it hasn't been invented by Hunter.
- 43:53Speaker 2: He was just poorly following in the footsteps of an
- 43:57Speaker 2: age-old tradition in Washington, which is that the sons of
- 44:01Speaker 2: whoever has some office somewhere makes a lot of money
- 44:04Speaker 2: and gets into the industries in Washington that exist for
- 44:06Speaker 2: the sake of basically enriching everybody who lives there and
- 44:09Speaker 2: nothing else. So this is like, you know— As American
- 44:14Speaker 2: as apple pie, unfortunately. And Hunter has taken part in
- 44:18Speaker 2: it just as much. He's tried to do it better,
- 44:20Speaker 2: failed because he can't do anything right, and is honestly
- 44:24Speaker 2: just total degenerate.
- 44:26Speaker 3: Maybe Don Jr. is doing it better. I don't know.
- 44:28Speaker 3: I don't know. Maybe him and Umar really are friends.
- 44:31Speaker 3: I don't know.
- 44:32Speaker 2: But, you know, Umar seems great. He buys you, like, fireworks,
- 44:35Speaker 2: which is epic. So I'd be his friend, actually, immediately.
- 44:40Speaker 2: I think he also rented one of the islands, which
- 44:42Speaker 2: is like— Umar, aloha to AlexMarlow.com.
- 44:44Speaker 3: Who's saying no, actually? Yeah, reach out. Yeah, so, you know,
- 44:48Speaker 3: I don't know.
- 44:49Speaker 2: But this is all totally commonplace, and it's nauseating, yes.
- 44:52Speaker 2: But we have uncomfortable truths we must face about our
- 44:57Speaker 2: political system. Maybe Hunter Biden will run for president and
- 45:00Speaker 2: fix it.
- 45:01Speaker 1: Well, I'll tell you, Don Jr. right now is polling
- 45:04Speaker 1: second in all the presidential polls. So if J.D. ever
- 45:07Speaker 1: decided he doesn't want to run, then Don Jr. could
- 45:09Speaker 1: be like the frontrunner for 2028. And I like Don
- 45:12Speaker 1: quite a bit, first of all. Super based. But I
- 45:15Speaker 1: want to see influencer Bettina Trump to be the first lady. Like,
- 45:19Speaker 1: I could get down with that. I think that would
- 45:21Speaker 1: be pretty amusing. And I don't say entirely tongue-in-cheek. I
- 45:24Speaker 1: think it would make the left's head explode, and I
- 45:27Speaker 1: find that also to be absolutely delish. Okay, let me...
- 45:31Speaker 1: I got one more Hunter clip. This is him. Now
- 45:35Speaker 1: he's a very serious thought leader, by the way.
- 45:37Speaker 3: He always is.
- 45:39Speaker 1: From his busy schedule of... Remember, last week we were playing, he's...
- 45:44Speaker 1: On the live show I played that he's a 48% gay,
- 45:47Speaker 1: which is... So he said that... So let's see his...
- 45:52Speaker 1: Intelligent commentary for the week.
- 45:53Speaker 4: Everyone that has looked at this over the course of
- 45:56Speaker 4: since October 7th event, which was horrific, horrific. And Hamas
- 46:02Speaker 4: is horrific as as looked at it. And they've said
- 46:06Speaker 4: this is that they knew. They knew what was coming,
- 46:11Speaker 4: and they allowed it to happen for the purposes of
- 46:14Speaker 4: being able to execute on a plan that no one
- 46:16Speaker 4: would have ever, ever given them the green light to
- 46:19Speaker 4: do without it.
- 46:20Speaker 1: That is certainly a horrific thought.
- 46:24Speaker 2: He's in the podcaster space and now is doing the
- 46:27Speaker 2: thing that the podcasters do, which is pretend to have
- 46:30Speaker 2: some sort of privileged knowledge based on his astute observations
- 46:35Speaker 2: that BB conspired.
- 46:39Speaker 3: To do October 7th. Of course.
- 46:43Speaker 2: Look, there are legitimate questions about how that security failure
- 46:46Speaker 2: happened if which was a catastrophic security failure. I don't
- 46:49Speaker 2: think any sane person would say otherwise. That was not
- 46:52Speaker 2: a moderate moment. But who is this?
- 46:58Speaker 1: Like, what is he? Who is this?
- 47:02Speaker 3: Hunter Biden knows?
- 47:05Speaker 1: I am. I think that it's a very it is
- 47:11Speaker 1: a good point that you don't need to entirely dismiss
- 47:13Speaker 1: that the. security was really bad. But also, you know,
- 47:16Speaker 1: we got a major national security apparatus that missed two
- 47:19Speaker 1: planes driving into our Twin Towers. And it's like, this
- 47:24Speaker 1: is like, Clinton said their whole administration, Bush, had a
- 47:27Speaker 1: good eight months to try to figure out if any
- 47:29Speaker 1: of this is happening. And, you know, they almost, they
- 47:32Speaker 1: hit our Pentagon. And it's like, we know deterrence at
- 47:36Speaker 1: all for that. So, you know, it's not like, it's
- 47:40Speaker 1: not possible that a terror attack can't happen but it
- 47:43Speaker 1: is i always enjoy when hunter biden while podcasting from
- 47:48Speaker 1: you know tucker carlson's main cabin or from uh a
- 47:53Speaker 1: rooftop in la like he's gonna be the one who
- 47:55Speaker 1: gets to the bottom of it i just i always
- 47:57Speaker 1: find that to be so amusing the sanctimoniousness of the podcaster.
- 48:01Speaker 2: Yes exactly they just think that they have like they
- 48:05Speaker 2: they get it they get it and they just have
- 48:07Speaker 2: to explain it to you but it's so clear.
- 48:11Speaker 1: Yeah and i'm not saying that we got the best
- 48:14Speaker 1: explanation i'm not i'm not saying that hunter who's going
- 48:17Speaker 1: to run for president on his platform of marriages i
- 48:20Speaker 1: didn't even show you am i even make light of
- 48:24Speaker 1: this i should have he's got a uh there's a
- 48:27Speaker 1: skull and crossbones there's a jolly roger on his belt
- 48:30Speaker 1: in here i don't know if misty's able to zoom
- 48:31Speaker 1: in but there's like a little Jolly Roger on the
- 48:34Speaker 1: belt in this, in this image, this wedding image. Um,
- 48:37Speaker 1: so it, it is, it really is. It really is
- 48:41Speaker 1: something that that's, that's where I was Hunter.
- 48:43Speaker 3: Okay.
- 48:43Speaker 1: Um, a couple other ones that I want to touch
- 48:46Speaker 1: on in the time we have remaining, um, the, the, I,
- 48:53Speaker 1: I didn't pull the photo. Um, but I, because I
- 48:57Speaker 1: made an error, um, in prep here, but, There's a
- 49:01Speaker 1: Lizzie Clancy photo that was submitted as evidence of her
- 49:04Speaker 1: allegedly slitting her wrists. They're literally one arm. So I
- 49:07Speaker 1: don't know what the second arm is. And there was
- 49:09Speaker 1: a bloody knife. So the bloody knife, I don't know
- 49:11Speaker 1: what that was. That was from what got the knife bloodied.
- 49:16Speaker 1: um but what i i don't know but it does
- 49:19Speaker 1: seem like based on this image that she had a
- 49:23Speaker 1: couple of like fork stab marks in her arm it
- 49:25Speaker 1: did not look like necessarily that this was a sincere
- 49:29Speaker 1: suicide time she did jump out of her her second
- 49:32Speaker 1: story which is kind of dumb it doesn't seem like
- 49:36Speaker 1: that would be if i was trying to off myself
- 49:37Speaker 1: like that it seems more likely if i was trying
- 49:39Speaker 1: to you know, get away from one of my kids
- 49:43Speaker 1: swinging a baseball bat at me. I jumped from the
- 49:45Speaker 1: second story. That wouldn't be my preferred choice for actually
- 49:47Speaker 1: turning off myself.
- 49:48Speaker 3: You're just like, you're trying to like break your leg.
- 49:50Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly. It's like, I'm trying to like make sure
- 49:53Speaker 1: that I spray, turn an ankle like that. That would
- 49:55Speaker 1: be the move. She did that, which is dumb, but
- 49:58Speaker 1: maybe sincere. I don't know. But this is an alarming
- 50:01Speaker 1: image because this is a pretty weak effort. This is
- 50:03Speaker 1: supposed to be some sort of effort of suicide. Yeah,
- 50:08Speaker 1: I know.
- 50:08Speaker 3: I found that so fascinating. I put it in, I
- 50:11Speaker 3: threw it in the notes.
- 50:11Speaker 2: I mean, I've been compiling those notes, to be fair,
- 50:15Speaker 2: because we were off for two weeks, so I've been
- 50:16Speaker 2: compiling them for a while.
- 50:17Speaker 3: But I just found that so interesting.
- 50:19Speaker 2: And the more that I watch this case, I have built,
- 50:23Speaker 2: as being a podcaster, I've built my own expert theory
- 50:27Speaker 2: on Lindsay Clancy and now will proclaim to know the.
- 50:29Speaker 3: Truth of.
- 50:31Speaker 2: What was going on in the deepest recesses of her
- 50:35Speaker 2: mind while she was murdering.
- 50:36Speaker 3: Her three children. which is, you know, I can't help.
- 50:40Speaker 2: I mean, aside from like this, the pure evil, some
- 50:44Speaker 2: things about this are really interesting to me. And I
- 50:46Speaker 2: wonder if like, first of all, I thought that the
- 50:51Speaker 2: suicide attempt was interesting. Like, I'm just trying to organize
- 50:53Speaker 2: how I want to present this, but I thought the
- 50:55Speaker 2: suicide attempt was interesting because it looks so fake. And
- 50:59Speaker 2: I saw some people speculating that she was just kind
- 51:01Speaker 2: of doing it for attention because after she had murdered
- 51:03Speaker 2: her kids, she had to make it look like, you know,
- 51:05Speaker 2: she had tried to kill herself so that, Maybe she
- 51:07Speaker 2: would get a reduced sentence or something.
- 51:09Speaker 3: Or sympathy or whatever.
- 51:10Speaker 2: And I thought it was not that. I thought it
- 51:16Speaker 2: was ambivalence about killing herself because her survival instinct is intact,
- 51:24Speaker 2: as all human beings have. It's like, you know, if
- 51:26Speaker 2: you stand up right now, like if you're listening to
- 51:28Speaker 2: the show, stand up right now and try to fall
- 51:31Speaker 2: on your face. like try to fall face down and say,
- 51:34Speaker 2: I am intentionally not trying to fall on my face.
- 51:37Speaker 3: You can't do it.
- 51:38Speaker 2: Your leg is going to extend out or your hands
- 51:41Speaker 2: will extend out to break your fall. It'll happen like
- 51:44Speaker 2: every single time. You cannot intentionally fall on your face.
- 51:47Speaker 2: And I think that that probably happened here where I
- 51:50Speaker 2: think she probably, I mean, I'll take it face value
- 51:54Speaker 2: because I have no reason to think otherwise that she
- 51:56Speaker 2: was genuinely trying to kill herself. But I also think
- 51:58Speaker 2: that there was this competing instinct of I can't kill
- 52:03Speaker 2: myself because I have to survive because I'm a human
- 52:05Speaker 2: being and that's part of my wiring is to survive.
- 52:08Speaker 2: We have a very strong biological instinct there. So I
- 52:14Speaker 2: thought that this was interesting and maybe I have a
- 52:16Speaker 2: less cynical take. I also have a less cynical take
- 52:19Speaker 2: about the murder itself because I think that especially after
- 52:24Speaker 2: thinking about the mass support that she's received from the
- 52:29Speaker 2: army of foids who are claiming that she's just like
- 52:33Speaker 2: us and we totally relate and all of this makes
- 52:35Speaker 2: total sense to us and she did the natural thing
- 52:39Speaker 2: that you do. I think that she, or at least
- 52:44Speaker 2: I think this is the interpretation that's being had by
- 52:46Speaker 2: these women, aside from the feminist lens that they view
- 52:54Speaker 2: her through, that they've all been inculcated in that ideology
- 52:57Speaker 2: for the last, like, probably 20 years of their life.
- 53:00Speaker 2: But I think that she... When you're neurotic, everything has
- 53:07Speaker 2: to go in the way that you need it to go.
- 53:09Speaker 2: And if it doesn't, you have to... Like, that will create...
- 53:15Speaker 2: escalating intensity in the way you feel in a situation
- 53:18Speaker 2: and um i think that that i don't know if
- 53:22Speaker 2: it was her per se like again i you can't
- 53:24Speaker 2: discount just pure evil being possessed by some sort of
- 53:27Speaker 2: demon or something but i at least think that the
- 53:29Speaker 2: way that they relate to her is because these women
- 53:32Speaker 2: are just totally neurotic and i think that there's a
- 53:34Speaker 2: non-insignificant percentage of women who um you know, are the
- 53:40Speaker 2: same kind of like careerists, feminists. This is like a
- 53:42Speaker 2: personality trait among them where it's like, they're extremely not
- 53:46Speaker 2: necessarily type a and that they're like clean and tidy,
- 53:49Speaker 2: but they have demands of the world around them and
- 53:52Speaker 2: of themselves that are extremely, um, um, high standard and rigid.
- 53:57Speaker 2: And as you know, you have young kids and I
- 54:00Speaker 2: have young kids and you look at them and it's like,
- 54:02Speaker 2: you're not getting them into that like program.
- 54:05Speaker 3: Um, and, and, Right, right.
- 54:29Speaker 2: And I have to relate to them as a toddler
- 54:31Speaker 2: or you can escalate in anger toward them for not
- 54:34Speaker 2: getting on the program that you want for this day
- 54:37Speaker 2: or for this behavior or for this meal. And every
- 54:40Speaker 2: time they don't do it, you can either let it
- 54:42Speaker 2: go and love them or you can get angry at
- 54:44Speaker 2: them and build resentment and build escalation of anger inside yourself.
- 54:49Speaker 2: And I wonder if like, you know, Again, I feel
- 54:53Speaker 2: like describing it this way almost like minimizes the act
- 54:56Speaker 2: and the evil of it. And I don't mean to
- 54:57Speaker 2: do that, obviously. I've said a thousand times on the
- 55:00Speaker 2: show that it was just pure demonic action. But I
- 55:04Speaker 2: wonder if like the psychological or something like precipitous for
- 55:09Speaker 2: it was just her being this like nutty woman who
- 55:13Speaker 2: couldn't accept that she couldn't correct, you know, in her
- 55:19Speaker 2: perception what her kids were. And that at a certain
- 55:23Speaker 2: point it became, if they don't do what I say,
- 55:25Speaker 2: then I'm gonna, you know, which is how crazy, you know,
- 55:28Speaker 2: people who are escalating speak and then eventually execute.
- 55:33Speaker 3: And that the women.
- 55:34Speaker 1: Who follow her have the same way about them. Yeah,
- 55:38Speaker 1: it doesn't sound like that was anything that was close
- 55:39Speaker 1: to what the defense offered. It sounds like what the
- 55:41Speaker 1: defense offered was.
- 55:42Speaker 2: Well, they can't say that because that says basically I
- 55:45Speaker 2: wanted to kill my kids because they drove me insane.
- 55:47Speaker 2: She has to say, no, I had no control over
- 55:49Speaker 2: my behavior unless she wants to rot in jail for
- 55:51Speaker 2: the rest of her life.
- 55:52Speaker 1: Exactly.
- 55:53Speaker 3: I think the postpartum psychosis claim is absolutely absurd. Of course.
- 55:56Speaker 3: And then that said, it's like.
- 55:57Speaker 2: So, you know, you relieve the stress that is producing
- 56:01Speaker 2: that escalation, and then you say, okay, well, now I
- 56:03Speaker 2: have to go kill myself.
- 56:05Speaker 3: But your survival instinct doesn't really let you.
- 56:07Speaker 1: Yeah, and that's what is interesting here is because the—
- 56:15Speaker 1: the argument that was put forward by the defense is
- 56:18Speaker 1: that she had complete control of her faculties when it
- 56:23Speaker 1: came to carrying out the execution and distracting the husband
- 56:26Speaker 1: but she was totally psychotic when it came to the
- 56:30Speaker 1: the urge to kill and yet also she got regained
- 56:33Speaker 1: her faculties and she's trying to kill herself to the
- 56:35Speaker 1: point where again they're her and i totally accept that
- 56:39Speaker 1: there's it must be challenging to kill yourself it's the
- 56:41Speaker 1: it's not something i've tried but i imagine just there
- 56:44Speaker 1: are a lot of physical mental hurdles to doing that.
- 56:46Speaker 1: I don't think it's an easy thing to do for
- 56:49Speaker 1: a number of reasons. So I buy that she wasn't
- 56:53Speaker 1: that psychotic, but isn't that the whole point of the
- 56:55Speaker 1: argument is that she had no decision-making ability aside from, but, but,
- 57:00Speaker 1: but she had the decision-making ability in all elements of
- 57:03Speaker 1: her life other than the slaughtering of the children.
- 57:05Speaker 3: And that's probably.
- 57:07Speaker 2: More like she had so much decision-making ability that it,
- 57:10Speaker 2: that it, that it became the thing that, like, you know,
- 57:15Speaker 2: that was the exact trait that led to this behavior.
- 57:18Speaker 2: You know, it's funny, like, I guess, like, you know,
- 57:19Speaker 2: I think that part of the obsession around this case
- 57:23Speaker 2: for so many people is, like, at least for me,
- 57:25Speaker 2: is because the justification that they've given for this act
- 57:29Speaker 2: that is so crazy, to say the least, does not
- 57:35Speaker 2: hang together. The whole thing doesn't hang together. And any observer...
- 57:40Speaker 2: who's trying to understand this in earnest and with an
- 57:43Speaker 2: open mind can't look at that and say that makes
- 57:46Speaker 2: sense it's impossible so then what happens is your brain
- 57:48Speaker 2: starts turning it over over and over again trying to
- 57:51Speaker 2: make sense of it because it's such an extreme act
- 57:54Speaker 2: that it's like you especially if you have kids it's
- 57:58Speaker 2: like you need to understand like how did that happen
- 58:00Speaker 2: and the justification you're giving is so is so insufficient
- 58:04Speaker 2: for something so extreme that it like puts your mind
- 58:07Speaker 2: into almost like an obsessive.
- 58:09Speaker 3: Loop trying to square it.
- 58:12Speaker 2: And I think that that's what is going on on
- 58:13Speaker 2: social media with all these people, millions of people weighing
- 58:17Speaker 2: in and trying to flesh it out and trying to understand.
- 58:21Speaker 2: It's like it does something to your brain that makes
- 58:24Speaker 2: you kind of nuts in getting obsessed with trying to
- 58:27Speaker 2: relate to it in some way because the explanation is
- 58:30Speaker 2: so drastically beneath what actually happened.
- 58:35Speaker 1: Okay, let's close with a little chaser here.
- 58:42Speaker 3: Oh, no, no, no, no. We have to give it.
- 58:44Speaker 2: Alex, please let us break your rule of one hour
- 58:47Speaker 2: or you get retarded because I'm dying to talk about
- 58:50Speaker 2: the AI stuff.
- 58:51Speaker 3: I think this is such an interesting issue. It's a
- 58:53Speaker 3: political issue that is so important to me.
- 58:55Speaker 2: Or at least I think is an important issue as
- 58:58Speaker 2: somebody who used to be an editor. I would decide
- 59:01Speaker 2: that that was a homepage issue.
- 59:03Speaker 1: I'm trying to decide, this is funny, we'll work this
- 59:06Speaker 1: out in real time. What is the, if you're a
- 59:09Speaker 1: podcast consumer and I'm doing a sample size of exactly
- 59:11Speaker 1: two people because I can't focus group anyone else at
- 59:13Speaker 1: the moment, would you rather have one episode that's an
- 59:17Speaker 1: hour and 20 minutes, let's say, or would you rather
- 59:20Speaker 1: have me, because I've got a 20 three-minute interview I'm
- 59:23Speaker 1: sitting on. I'm trying to figure out what to do.
- 59:25Speaker 1: Should I release that by itself? Or should we do
- 59:28Speaker 1: a second interview? And so there's two Emma Jo episodes,
- 59:32Speaker 1: but one of them is just shorter. That feels dumber
- 59:34Speaker 1: to me, but I don't really know. There's probably... Someone's
- 59:36Speaker 1: probably done this math before. What is the length of
- 59:39Speaker 1: podcast that people click on?
- 59:40Speaker 4: Is it.
- 59:42Speaker 1: Maybe it is. Maybe people like an hour and 20.
- 59:44Speaker 1: I don't know. We'll roll for it. Okay, so AI.
- 59:47Speaker 2: I would imagine the conversation, what makes me stay with
- 59:49Speaker 2: a podcast is the conversation's interesting. When it gets boring, like,
- 59:53Speaker 2: you know, the reason why the Hunter Tucker one made
- 59:55Speaker 2: me want to shoot myself by like 40 minutes was
- 59:57Speaker 2: because the conversation had really died, but they were like,
- 1:00:00Speaker 2: Like they were just resuscitating.
- 1:00:02Speaker 1: It for the sake of time. Yeah. But that was
- 1:00:05Speaker 1: where it got really good for me because I really
- 1:00:08Speaker 1: realized how Hunter just is absolutely nothing. Okay. Informative in
- 1:00:12Speaker 1: a different way. All right. Let's do some AI. I've
- 1:00:16Speaker 1: been speaking all week about AI, so I think we
- 1:00:18Speaker 1: can do this in an efficient manner, largely because I
- 1:00:22Speaker 1: think I've said what I need to say this week
- 1:00:24Speaker 1: on the subject, and I'll have more to say next
- 1:00:25Speaker 1: week on it. But I will open with a... I
- 1:00:31Speaker 1: will open with, it feels like I've never seen such
- 1:00:36Speaker 1: smart people sound so retarded in my life. I feel
- 1:00:39Speaker 1: like everyone is messaging horribly on AI. So what do
- 1:00:42Speaker 1: you think the real stories are right now as the
- 1:00:46Speaker 1: doomerism has broken contained this week?
- 1:00:49Speaker 2: Well, I think that this is, you know, it's funny
- 1:00:52Speaker 2: when something, who did that quote? Like, if something doesn't
- 1:00:56Speaker 2: make sense, it's probably not true. Um, this is an
- 1:00:59Speaker 2: example of that in that.
- 1:01:01Speaker 1: I'm going to use AI to try to figure that
- 1:01:02Speaker 1: out while you're talking.
- 1:01:03Speaker 3: Exactly.
- 1:01:04Speaker 2: Throw up tragic, anthropic, throw up Claude. Um, but, uh,
- 1:01:09Speaker 2: it doesn't make sense because it's not what it appears.
- 1:01:12Speaker 2: I think this is a total op and this is
- 1:01:14Speaker 2: actually a different take. Well, it's not a different take
- 1:01:17Speaker 2: than the one you've had on radio all week, um,
- 1:01:19Speaker 2: which I've been listening and I've been really curious on
- 1:01:21Speaker 2: your thoughts on this. I was like keenly awaiting you
- 1:01:23Speaker 2: to come back from vacation because I wanted to hear
- 1:01:25Speaker 2: your AI, uh, um um assessment but or at least
- 1:01:29Speaker 2: for this news cycle um you were talking about like
- 1:01:33Speaker 2: open versus closed we're like right now it's open and
- 1:01:37Speaker 2: big giants in ai like anthropic and open ai the
- 1:01:39Speaker 2: ones who are getting on the band bandwagon with this
- 1:01:42Speaker 2: guy jacob coxon i think his name is um who
- 1:01:44Speaker 2: has come out as the whistleblower about anthropic and the
- 1:01:47Speaker 2: danger of ai and the frontiers of ai um so
- 1:01:50Speaker 2: so uh It's in their interest to have a closed system,
- 1:01:57Speaker 2: I guess. What's the term that you used?
- 1:01:59Speaker 1: Yeah, so closed-weight and open-weight. Open-weight is the ones where
- 1:02:05Speaker 1: there's going to be access for the public is going
- 1:02:07Speaker 1: to be able to do this, can edit it, can
- 1:02:10Speaker 1: take advantage of it in a lot of ways, the models.
- 1:02:13Speaker 1: Whereas the closed-weight is sort of a black box for
- 1:02:17Speaker 1: the people who are already founders. Well, right, exactly.
- 1:02:21Speaker 2: So I think that that's true, but I think that that's, um, one, like,
- 1:02:25Speaker 2: like one aspect of it that, um, doesn't include the
- 1:02:30Speaker 2: whole picture about why they're doing this. Um, and I
- 1:02:32Speaker 2: think that the full picture has a philosophical basis. No,
- 1:02:35Speaker 2: I think it, it does. Um, and it's really interesting
- 1:02:38Speaker 2: and you haven't spoken about it on your show yet.
- 1:02:40Speaker 2: So that's like, I guess, like one of the practical
- 1:02:42Speaker 2: outcomes that they're looking for. Um, And the second one, obviously, is,
- 1:02:48Speaker 2: you know, if the government, it's the same as the banks, actually,
- 1:02:50Speaker 2: which you also brought up on your show, I think, where,
- 1:02:52Speaker 2: you know, if the government makes these like reams of
- 1:02:55Speaker 2: regulations of a certain industry, it makes it virtually impossible
- 1:02:58Speaker 2: for a small company to enter the industry because they
- 1:03:01Speaker 2: simply can't hire enough lawyers and compliance officers to keep
- 1:03:05Speaker 2: up with all the regulation. So it allows people like
- 1:03:07Speaker 2: OpenAI and Anthropic to basically remain the only real companies
- 1:03:11Speaker 2: doing this because they're the only ones who can manage
- 1:03:14Speaker 2: the burden of the regulations and actually navigate them with
- 1:03:20Speaker 2: enough competent lawyers on staff. So those are, I think,
- 1:03:26Speaker 2: the two practical outcomes that they seek in the doomerism
- 1:03:29Speaker 2: and in creating panic. But I think then from there,
- 1:03:36Speaker 2: what they want to do is obviously become the most
- 1:03:38Speaker 2: powerful companies in the world, which allows them to obviously
- 1:03:43Speaker 2: make the most money, but then.
- 1:03:45Speaker 3: To employ what is called effective altruism. Do you know
- 1:03:50Speaker 3: that term?
- 1:03:51Speaker 1: Yeah, of course. Yeah, we discussed it a bit at
- 1:03:53Speaker 1: the show with Winton. Okay, right.
- 1:03:56Speaker 3: So this is like their religion.
- 1:03:58Speaker 2: Effective altruism is, yes, yeah, this was in Winton's book,
- 1:04:02Speaker 2: and I think that this is what originally set off
- 1:04:04Speaker 2: my antenna to like not being a doomer on AI
- 1:04:08Speaker 2: because I saw it immediately, which is that basically effective
- 1:04:12Speaker 2: altruism is like a quasi-religious ideology that seeks maximum control
- 1:04:20Speaker 2: over every human being's life because if we can control
- 1:04:26Speaker 2: the way people act, then we can effectively maximize the
- 1:04:31Speaker 2: amount of good in the world, which is what effective
- 1:04:35Speaker 2: altruism seeks to do. And that's why it is like
- 1:04:37Speaker 2: a sort of religion because it moves from philanthropic giving
- 1:04:43Speaker 2: because you want to spread good To making philanthropic giving
- 1:04:48Speaker 2: almost like treating it as a business where you must
- 1:04:52Speaker 2: maximize efficiency of each dollar given to philanthropy. And what
- 1:04:56Speaker 2: that ends up turning into in its logical conclusion is
- 1:05:00Speaker 2: just control over what people can do because then you
- 1:05:03Speaker 2: can make them good. And then you minimize harm and
- 1:05:06Speaker 2: maximize altruism. And that's what effective altruism seeks to do.
- 1:05:11Speaker 2: And so this is a really interesting thing. It's a
- 1:05:13Speaker 2: new thing that people aren't really talking about. And it
- 1:05:15Speaker 2: puts Soros, frankly, to shame in how destructive it is
- 1:05:20Speaker 2: in terms of, you know, billionaire advocacy. So Anthropic is
- 1:05:29Speaker 2: run by Dario Amadei.
- 1:05:31Speaker 3: Is that his name?
- 1:05:32Speaker 2: So his sister is a woman named Daniela Amadei, and
- 1:05:36Speaker 2: she's an executive at Anthropic as well. Basically everyone, and
- 1:05:40Speaker 2: this is something that needs to be serious on Breitbart and,
- 1:05:42Speaker 2: you know, maybe if I can take a week off
- 1:05:44Speaker 2: or something, I'll write a story or two about it
- 1:05:47Speaker 2: because it takes time and it's very, um, but it's, it's,
- 1:05:50Speaker 2: it's extensively documented. Just nobody has really compiled it into
- 1:05:53Speaker 2: one story that I've seen. Um, Daniela Amadei. So every
- 1:05:57Speaker 2: anthropic is littered with effective altruists. This has been going
- 1:06:00Speaker 2: on for years. Actually, in Daniela Amadei's wedding website, you know,
- 1:06:06Speaker 2: some people make like a website for their wedding where
- 1:06:08Speaker 2: people like RSVP and like their registry and see the
- 1:06:11Speaker 2: theme of the wedding and stuff like that. This site
- 1:06:14Speaker 2: has actually been taken down, but it's still available on
- 1:06:17Speaker 2: Wayback Machine. So, you know, this has to be on Breitbart.
- 1:06:21Speaker 2: I'm going to like call Winton after we get off
- 1:06:23Speaker 2: the show. But, um, so her wedding website is still
- 1:06:28Speaker 2: available on Wayback Machine. And she is married to a
- 1:06:31Speaker 2: guy named Holden Karnofsky. And he is the co-founder of, um,
- 1:06:35Speaker 2: GiveWell and Open Philanthropy, which are like the two big
- 1:06:38Speaker 2: effective altruism organizations. And, um, On their wedding website, in
- 1:06:44Speaker 2: the themes.
- 1:06:45Speaker 3: Section, which is so weird, by the way. These people
- 1:06:48Speaker 3: are so weird.
- 1:06:49Speaker 2: The wedding website is filled with these weird pictures of
- 1:06:51Speaker 2: stuffed animals that they love. All these stuffed animals that
- 1:06:55Speaker 2: they love. It's like the freaks in Silicon Valley. It
- 1:06:58Speaker 2: cannot be overstated. But there's a little tab on their,
- 1:07:03Speaker 2: a little section on their wedding website called Effective Altruism.
- 1:07:07Speaker 2: And they say, we are both excited about effective altruism
- 1:07:10Speaker 2: using evidence and reason to figure out how to benefit
- 1:07:13Speaker 2: others as much as possible and taking action on that basis.
- 1:07:16Speaker 2: For gifts, we're asking for donations to charities recommended by GiveWell,
- 1:07:20Speaker 2: an organization Holden, her husband, co-founded. So this is an
- 1:07:24Speaker 2: executive at Anthropic. This is the sister of the CEO
- 1:07:28Speaker 2: of Anthropic.
- 1:07:29Speaker 1: Saying this.
- 1:07:30Speaker 2: And, you know, Dario Amadei also shared an apartment with
- 1:07:35Speaker 2: this guy Holden, who is his brother-in-law, the husband of
- 1:07:39Speaker 2: his sister, who is this executive at the company. Anthropic
- 1:07:44Speaker 2: founder Ben Mann wrote a blog called Why I Now
- 1:07:48Speaker 2: Identify As An Effective Altruist. These people are absolute freaks,
- 1:07:53Speaker 2: and they are the people who are running Which is
- 1:07:57Speaker 2: at the epicenter.
- 1:07:58Speaker 3: Of this new fear that like we're all going to die.
- 1:08:02Speaker 2: What happens, I asked our audience, every time we're told
- 1:08:05Speaker 2: we're all going to die, what happens is you lose
- 1:08:09Speaker 2: your rights and someone who knows better than you now
- 1:08:12Speaker 2: has to tell you how to not die. And that's
- 1:08:14Speaker 2: exactly what's going on here. This is literally their ideology,
- 1:08:18Speaker 2: and it's not even like their political ideology. It's like
- 1:08:21Speaker 2: their spiritual ideology. And that is absolutely the end goal
- 1:08:25Speaker 2: of this. I mean, the first order goal is to
- 1:08:28Speaker 2: get control of AI for themselves, and fence out anyone
- 1:08:35Speaker 2: who wants to be an upstart in that industry and
- 1:08:38Speaker 2: perhaps utilize that technology for their own end. And then
- 1:08:41Speaker 2: the second step is, To exert control over the masses,
- 1:08:46Speaker 2: which is how they see you.
- 1:08:47Speaker 1: Yeah, that's, I think, pretty much in line with Winton's,
- 1:08:53Speaker 1: Winton writes in Code Red. He covers Karnofsky quite a bit,
- 1:08:56Speaker 1: and he does frame up the effective altruist movement as
- 1:08:59Speaker 1: really an influence. play and very much a similar model
- 1:09:03Speaker 1: to the climate change model that, again, today as we're
- 1:09:06Speaker 1: having this conversation, this will be a day or two
- 1:09:08Speaker 1: before this comes out. But I mentioned on the live show.
- 1:09:10Speaker 1: how the UN is now in on it, and they
- 1:09:13Speaker 1: think they need to have a big, robust part of
- 1:09:15Speaker 1: framing up the global governance. And you saw who Dario
- 1:09:18Speaker 1: Amadei put forward as the people who should be on
- 1:09:20Speaker 1: the initial panel to determine what AI safety is. It
- 1:09:24Speaker 1: is his sister, and it's her, Daniela, and her husband,
- 1:09:29Speaker 1: Holden Karnofsky. So these are the people who are, it
- 1:09:32Speaker 1: is a cult-like thing. It's super scary. The question, I guess, Emma,
- 1:09:35Speaker 1: that's most interesting, especially for people who are above midwit
- 1:09:38Speaker 1: level intelligence on this, is it feels like, ironically, partially
- 1:09:42Speaker 1: because of AI, but also because so many of us
- 1:09:44Speaker 1: stay online so much, it really does feel like we
- 1:09:49Speaker 1: can sort this out faster. It feels like people say,
- 1:09:52Speaker 1: wait a minute, we see this as a game here,
- 1:09:56Speaker 1: this is a power play, and we've been down this
- 1:09:58Speaker 1: road too many times. I don't know if I see
- 1:10:01Speaker 1: anyone falling for this. I don't see anyone who's looking
- 1:10:03Speaker 1: at Dario Amadei as if he's some sort of immoral person.
- 1:10:06Speaker 1: deacon and it feels like a lot of people think
- 1:10:09Speaker 1: he seems like a total goofball.
- 1:10:11Speaker 3: Well that's it thank god you know we've been made
- 1:10:15Speaker 3: wise to this play like you said climate change was
- 1:10:19Speaker 3: the first time they they whatever the first time this
- 1:10:22Speaker 3: tactic was tried covid was another time this tactic was
- 1:10:25Speaker 3: tried it kind of worked both times um at least
- 1:10:30Speaker 3: to varying degrees and in various you know levels of
- 1:10:34Speaker 3: society but This time, it's a third time. You're not
- 1:10:40Speaker 3: going to fall for that again. The language is too similar.
- 1:10:42Speaker 2: And that's why I think everybody is looking at these people,
- 1:10:45Speaker 2: let alone the fact that they're just weirdos. You know,
- 1:10:49Speaker 2: Clavicular went to the All In Summit. This is what
- 1:10:51Speaker 2: makes me think of it. Clavicular went to the All
- 1:10:53Speaker 2: In Summit. I don't know if you saw his report
- 1:10:56Speaker 2: of how it went, but I saw not only his
- 1:10:59Speaker 2: report of how it went, but other people who were
- 1:11:00Speaker 2: there were posting about this confirming Clavicular's version of events.
- 1:11:06Speaker 2: where basically he goes to this event of people who
- 1:11:10Speaker 2: he calls BC cells, aka venture capitalist obsessives and like nerds.
- 1:11:17Speaker 2: He goes to this event and they're much richer than him,
- 1:11:20Speaker 2: but he's much hotter than them.
- 1:11:22Speaker 3: And he walked into the after party and he said he...
- 1:11:30Speaker 3: I won't quote him.
- 1:11:31Speaker 2: Exactly because it's a bit crass, but he basically left
- 1:11:34Speaker 2: with the hottest girl at the party despite being the
- 1:11:36Speaker 2: poorest guy there. Because everybody in that space, in the
- 1:11:40Speaker 2: Silicon Valley space, in the VC space, in the AI space,
- 1:11:43Speaker 2: are just such weirdos. And it doesn't help that not
- 1:11:46Speaker 2: only are people wise to like this, like, performance that
- 1:11:52Speaker 2: we're all going to die or whatever. But the messengers
- 1:11:56Speaker 2: are just really cringe and really unlikable. There's like negative charm.
- 1:12:03Speaker 3: And so it doesn't help. I mean, at least Al
- 1:12:05Speaker 3: Gore was a politician.
- 1:12:07Speaker 2: So he had this kind of polished way about him.
- 1:12:11Speaker 2: Whereas these guys just like crawled out of the basement
- 1:12:14Speaker 2: at Anthropic and all of a sudden are in front
- 1:12:16Speaker 2: of a TV screen and it's like the lights hurt
- 1:12:18Speaker 2: his eyes.
- 1:12:19Speaker 1: Yeah, it's some of these guys so interesting because some
- 1:12:22Speaker 1: of these guys have negative RIS and you look at the,
- 1:12:26Speaker 1: and you look at the, some of them who are
- 1:12:29Speaker 1: really hitting their stride now, you know, in their early
- 1:12:31Speaker 1: to late 40s is sort of the range and they've
- 1:12:35Speaker 1: got no social skills, it appears, and they just have
- 1:12:39Speaker 1: been on a computer for their entire adulthood because again,
- 1:12:42Speaker 1: this is where internet becoming a big thing when they're
- 1:12:45Speaker 1: teenagers and these guys have just been I've spent a
- 1:12:48Speaker 1: lot of time on the internet. These guys have dwarfed
- 1:12:50Speaker 1: the amount of time I've spent on the internet. And, um, there,
- 1:12:53Speaker 1: it just, I do find that pretty interesting and it's
- 1:12:57Speaker 1: going to hurt them because I think the people are
- 1:13:01Speaker 1: just not inclined to it. It's the, it's the proverbial.
- 1:13:06Speaker 1: So many examples of the me too movement. If it
- 1:13:09Speaker 1: was George Clooney making the type of passes at women
- 1:13:11Speaker 1: that we were hearing about, like it wouldn't have been harassment.
- 1:13:14Speaker 1: Like it would have just been cool for them, but it's,
- 1:13:16Speaker 1: it's that, Some of these guys have no way with women.
- 1:13:22Speaker 1: They have no ability to charm. They have no charisma.
- 1:13:25Speaker 1: So it's really interesting to see if some of the
- 1:13:27Speaker 1: least charismatic people on earth are going to get people
- 1:13:29Speaker 1: to follow them into this totally new era that we're
- 1:13:33Speaker 1: just beginning to comprehend.
- 1:13:35Speaker 2: It's like nobody's following for it. Trump already tweeted like
- 1:13:38Speaker 2: seven times being like.
- 1:13:41Speaker 3: This is no, like, no, we're not doing whatever these
- 1:13:44Speaker 3: people are talking about.
- 1:13:45Speaker 2: I mean, the Department of War is like tweeting out
- 1:13:47Speaker 2: these memes that are saying, which are very good, actually,
- 1:13:51Speaker 2: Americanism over effective altruism. So they have them nailed on
- 1:13:56Speaker 2: exactly what they're doing and exactly what the philosophy is
- 1:13:58Speaker 2: behind all of these propositions. And then the people who
- 1:14:04Speaker 2: are advocating for it are just the least likable people
- 1:14:07Speaker 2: on earth.
- 1:14:07Speaker 3: And we've talked about this with regard to data centers.
- 1:14:11Speaker 3: Where you don't want to put too much weight on
- 1:14:13Speaker 3: the messenger because sometimes.
- 1:14:16Speaker 2: You can be distracted by that and actually miss, you know,
- 1:14:19Speaker 2: the point. But in this case, the point is ugly.
- 1:14:25Speaker 2: And then the person stating it is stating it in
- 1:14:28Speaker 2: a way that grates on you.
- 1:14:30Speaker 1: An ugly person making.
- 1:14:32Speaker 3: An ugly point.
- 1:14:33Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly.
- 1:14:34Speaker 3: This was a shot and a miss.
- 1:14:36Speaker 2: I'm grateful for it because it's so sinister.
- 1:14:39Speaker 1: So I have a, we're doing way, way, way more
- 1:14:42Speaker 1: content on this, and I'm sure I'm going to come
- 1:14:45Speaker 1: up again, but I still can't believe that this guy,
- 1:14:47Speaker 1: Dario Amadei, a negative Riz figure, coming out and saying
- 1:14:53Speaker 1: there's a fairly decent likelihood that my technology is going
- 1:14:56Speaker 1: to destroy all of civilization, but I need the government
- 1:15:00Speaker 1: to step in for me to slow down. Like, I
- 1:15:03Speaker 1: want to slow down, but I can't unless the government
- 1:15:05Speaker 1: steps in. And you should also follow me in a
- 1:15:07Speaker 1: bunch of stuff. And also mostly my products. Great. It's
- 1:15:11Speaker 1: just like that. That was the messaging. Just going that
- 1:15:13Speaker 1: who signed off on this? Was there anyone else who
- 1:15:17Speaker 1: was in the room who said, listen, Dario, this is
- 1:15:20Speaker 1: not coherent. This is not going to gain the trust
- 1:15:22Speaker 1: of the people. This is actually going to make a
- 1:15:25Speaker 1: lot of people wise enough to the game, the power
- 1:15:27Speaker 1: play games you're making to try to get your effective
- 1:15:30Speaker 1: altruist stuff as the new religion of the moment.
- 1:15:34Speaker 3: Yeah, that's it. So mask off. But that's it.
- 1:15:36Speaker 2: It's like the Occam's razor doesn't it doesn't pass the
- 1:15:41Speaker 2: Occam's razor test. It's like it doesn't really like hang together.
- 1:15:46Speaker 2: And therefore it comes off as like a lie.
- 1:15:51Speaker 1: All right, Emma, I promised a chaser at the end
- 1:15:53Speaker 1: of the episode, and now it's here. Now it's time
- 1:15:56Speaker 1: for Are You Sitting Down? I hope you are in
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- 1:16:01Speaker 1: and her bottom off as well in this one, and
- 1:16:03Speaker 1: she has gotten everyone's attention yet again with her immaculate physique.
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- 1:16:32Speaker 5: You can trade this sport and this sport. How about this?
- 1:16:41Speaker 3: This sport too. Or this? Sports.
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- 1:17:01Speaker 5: Just you, your takes on sports.
- 1:17:15Speaker 1: Okay, and so this was met with the requisite public
- 1:17:17Speaker 1: freak-out by all sorts of different people who also lack riz.
- 1:17:22Speaker 1: Some Olympian named Ariarn Titmus. Somewhat ironic there. Ariarn Titmus
- 1:17:29Speaker 1: calling it a kick in the face to every woman. Titmus,
- 1:17:32Speaker 1: that does sound like a Christmas-themed erotic club. I gotta admit.
- 1:17:38Speaker 1: But it's a... Ariane Titmuss is a kick in the
- 1:17:42Speaker 1: face to every woman who has dedicated her life to
- 1:17:44Speaker 1: perfecting her craft and infuriated her. A British sprinter named
- 1:17:50Speaker 1: Amy Hunt, still catching her breath after a 200-meter final,
- 1:17:56Speaker 1: according to one report, told a BBC reporter that this
- 1:18:03Speaker 1: is what women in sports look like. And then she
- 1:18:06Speaker 1: apparently repeated her time and said she has muscles and
- 1:18:09Speaker 1: hard work. And I don't know. It's kind of sporty
- 1:18:13Speaker 1: for Sydney Sweeney to keep her body that tight. Like,
- 1:18:15Speaker 1: is that really the dunk on her? But this is
- 1:18:18Speaker 1: the first time. People are just waking up to the
- 1:18:22Speaker 1: idea that Sydney Sweeney takes her clothes off to get attention.
- 1:18:24Speaker 1: And it seems to work. And we're outraged about this.
- 1:18:27Speaker 1: Your thoughts?
- 1:18:28Speaker 2: Yeah, like I quickly also like looked up like the
- 1:18:31Speaker 2: news on this ad of when you said that you
- 1:18:33Speaker 2: wanted to hit it on the show. And it was
- 1:18:35Speaker 2: like the first thing is like an AP thing. Female
- 1:18:37Speaker 2: athletes accused Sydney Sweeney ad of sexualizing women in sports.
- 1:18:42Speaker 2: And I actually hadn't seen the ad until you just
- 1:18:44Speaker 2: played it. I mean, I could figure what it was,
- 1:18:47Speaker 2: and it did pretty much end up being what I thought.
- 1:18:51Speaker 3: But, you know, that's why people don't watch.
- 1:18:54Speaker 2: This isn't me being like, saying a diss, by the way,
- 1:18:58Speaker 2: this is just objectively true. People do not watch women's
- 1:19:02Speaker 2: sports and a million people or whatever have in the
- 1:19:06Speaker 2: last 24 hours watched this, which is the point.
- 1:19:10Speaker 3: You know, it's like these people just are so, like,
- 1:19:14Speaker 3: you wonder if they're just, like, intentionally obtuse because they're
- 1:19:17Speaker 3: trying to virtue signal, and you obviously can't have any
- 1:19:20Speaker 3: humor or lightness or joy when you're doing that.
- 1:19:23Speaker 1: You can't.
- 1:19:24Speaker 2: But, yeah, this is a commercial for sports betting, which
- 1:19:29Speaker 2: appeals to men, and what also appeals to men is
- 1:19:32Speaker 2: the image that we have next to us on screen.
- 1:19:35Speaker 2: So the point was to market to men, and sex
- 1:19:39Speaker 2: does that. It's like, I feel like I'm talking to
- 1:19:42Speaker 2: like a kindergarten kid. It's like, OK, so today we're
- 1:19:44Speaker 2: going to talk about.
- 1:19:46Speaker 3: Yeah. And it's like, yeah, the point is that it
- 1:19:50Speaker 3: objectifies women.
- 1:19:52Speaker 1: Let me roll through my points. I'll try to I'll
- 1:19:56Speaker 1: try to get more interesting ones at the end. But
- 1:19:57Speaker 1: it's just like to make obvious points. Of course, you're
- 1:19:59Speaker 1: trying to get men. Who's betting on sports? It's not women.
- 1:20:01Speaker 1: It's not respecting women in sports. This is about convincing
- 1:20:04Speaker 1: men to sign up for gambling site. Second of all,
- 1:20:07Speaker 1: Sidney Sweeney is fun. That's part of what we like
- 1:20:09Speaker 1: about her. It's not that she's got big breasts. People
- 1:20:12Speaker 1: have always liked big breasts. We acted like we didn't
- 1:20:15Speaker 1: for 20 minutes. And we do do this from time
- 1:20:17Speaker 1: to time. We're like, oh, no, we're really into really
- 1:20:20Speaker 1: paper-thin models for 20 minutes. But a lot of that
- 1:20:23Speaker 1: is the modeling industry, which is run by gay men.
- 1:20:25Speaker 1: That's sort of what it is.
- 1:20:27Speaker 3: Oh, my God, that's so smart.
- 1:20:28Speaker 1: They make them into twinks. Yeah, every once in a while,
- 1:20:31Speaker 1: every once in a while, we're told, no, the real
- 1:20:33Speaker 1: sex symbol is Timothee Chalamet. Like, he's the one, he's
- 1:20:35Speaker 1: really the same. I don't know about that.
- 1:20:37Speaker 3: It's so smart.
- 1:20:46Speaker 1: It's primal. This is literally lizard brain type stuff. It
- 1:20:49Speaker 1: shows female fertility. That's why we're attracted to it. And
- 1:20:52Speaker 1: that's not stopping. And she's smart enough to know that
- 1:20:55Speaker 1: if I can market this, I'm going to make tons
- 1:20:57Speaker 1: and tons of money. It's not going to last forever.
- 1:20:59Speaker 1: It's a finite window when a woman can tone their
- 1:21:02Speaker 1: body to this level. And so she's taking advantage and
- 1:21:05Speaker 1: she's way more fun than all of her haters. And
- 1:21:08Speaker 1: she's printing money. And what I don't get is that
- 1:21:11Speaker 1: a lot of these women's sports, if they were more fun,
- 1:21:13Speaker 1: if they took themselves less seriously, I think we'd probably
- 1:21:16Speaker 1: watch more. But here's the main thing. We are so
- 1:21:19Speaker 1: overporned in our country. And we used to have the
- 1:21:23Speaker 1: America we all pine for, you know, the 80s, the 90s,
- 1:21:26Speaker 1: things like that. There was a fair bit of sexual
- 1:21:29Speaker 1: titillation in mainstream content. But we weren't in this super
- 1:21:34Speaker 1: aggressive porn mode where every 14 year olds got access
- 1:21:37Speaker 1: to it on their phone, which is completely appalling that
- 1:21:40Speaker 1: we live in that world that I have to worry about.
- 1:21:43Speaker 1: You know, I have an eight year old boy now
- 1:21:44Speaker 1: and I have to worry about how close we are
- 1:21:47Speaker 1: to me having to try to shield him from the
- 1:21:50Speaker 1: just completely horrific stuff that's in every single phone and
- 1:21:53Speaker 1: our device. And that's not the discussion at all. It's
- 1:21:56Speaker 1: a city. Sweetie's under boob. And finally, final point, Emma,
- 1:22:00Speaker 1: and then I promise you get to talk to you
- 1:22:02Speaker 1: in a second. The final point, the sports betting, that's
- 1:22:06Speaker 1: highly addictive and people are going completely broke on this.
- 1:22:08Speaker 1: They think they can beat sports betting, beat sports books.
- 1:22:11Speaker 1: People can't beat sports books. It's maybe 5% of people
- 1:22:14Speaker 1: if you're a genius and want to commit your life
- 1:22:16Speaker 1: to it. Everyone else is losing money and that's not
- 1:22:19Speaker 1: the outrage. People are getting addicted to this thing. They
- 1:22:21Speaker 1: think the problem is, oh, she's got a football over
- 1:22:24Speaker 1: her crotch. That's the problem.
- 1:22:27Speaker 3: Yeah, that's smart. And that's a good point. It's true.
- 1:22:29Speaker 2: If anything objectifies female athletes, it's people obsessively betting over
- 1:22:34Speaker 2: every single thing they do and not watching because they
- 1:22:37Speaker 2: care about, you know, female athletic achievement, but because they
- 1:22:40Speaker 2: might make a thousand bucks. That's such a good point.
- 1:22:43Speaker 2: But also, you know, it's so funny. Like I think
- 1:22:45Speaker 2: about this and like feminism has really done this weird
- 1:22:48Speaker 2: thing where like you know, in second wave feminism, the
- 1:22:52Speaker 2: whole thing was like kind of like sexual liberation and
- 1:22:55Speaker 2: like taking your bra off and burning your bra. I
- 1:22:58Speaker 2: don't know if you ever learned about that. That was
- 1:23:00Speaker 2: a thing. That was a huge symbol. And it was
- 1:23:03Speaker 2: like to say like, you know, we're not going to,
- 1:23:06Speaker 2: let's say, conceal ourselves anymore because that is a demand
- 1:23:10Speaker 2: of men and a male-dominated society and female liberation is
- 1:23:14Speaker 2: burning your bra. And now all of a sudden we've
- 1:23:17Speaker 2: like come We've exhausted that, so it's like you have
- 1:23:19Speaker 2: to come back around to, how dare Sidney Sweeney show
- 1:23:24Speaker 2: her body? It's like, I'm sorry, what do they have
- 1:23:30Speaker 2: in Saudi Arabia that enforces Sharia law?
- 1:23:32Speaker 3: That's what these women sound like, but they're, they're feminists.
- 1:23:36Speaker 1: Okay.
- 1:23:36Speaker 3: They're feminists.
- 1:23:37Speaker 2: It's like, just to show what, what this movement has
- 1:23:40Speaker 2: come to. It's like, I thought we were supposed to celebrate, um,
- 1:23:44Speaker 2: the liberation right now of Sydney Sweeney that I'm looking
- 1:23:47Speaker 2: at with her, uh, completely like she's completely naked except
- 1:23:52Speaker 2: for a football over her crotch. And like, I don't
- 1:23:55Speaker 2: know even what that's called. There's like a little thing
- 1:23:57Speaker 2: over her chest that is.
- 1:23:59Speaker 1: Yeah, it's about a quarter of a t-shirt. It's a
- 1:24:02Speaker 1: freeze frame that we're looking at as we're recording. I
- 1:24:04Speaker 1: don't know what Missy's going to have up at this
- 1:24:05Speaker 1: point when she puts the show together.
- 1:24:08Speaker 4: I mean, I.
- 1:24:08Speaker 1: Thought that this was a feminist icon. Yeah, but it's
- 1:24:12Speaker 1: like she's got a child's extra small shoulder pads on.
- 1:24:17Speaker 1: It's hilarious. It's like legitimately funny. Are we allowed to
- 1:24:21Speaker 1: be funny? It's obviously titillating a lot of, particularly men,
- 1:24:25Speaker 1: which is the cross-section that's going to use this thing
- 1:24:28Speaker 1: and why are we so prudish on this stuff and
- 1:24:31Speaker 1: then we're completely tolerant about so.
- 1:24:34Speaker 2: Much it's a huge vulnerability of the left i think
- 1:24:37Speaker 2: it's a big part of the reason why they're losing
- 1:24:40Speaker 2: the culture so badly now like we're really competing for
- 1:24:43Speaker 2: cultural dominance now and it's because of stuff like this
- 1:24:45Speaker 2: because you have these like hectoring like annoying women always
- 1:24:49Speaker 2: just like bursting into every time anyone who's like you
- 1:24:54Speaker 2: know remotely enjoying themselves. These women have to come in and, like,
- 1:25:00Speaker 2: make sure you know what the microaggression is that you're
- 1:25:03Speaker 2: doing by looking at a hot woman or whatever.
- 1:25:06Speaker 3: It's like, oh, my God. Long live Sidney Sweeney.
- 1:25:11Speaker 1: A couple other things I thought of that I think
- 1:25:14Speaker 1: are important here is that you mentioned the liberal women thing.
- 1:25:20Speaker 1: This is really big. Sydney Sweeney right now is the
- 1:25:23Speaker 1: single biggest defender of Americana we've got in this country.
- 1:25:26Speaker 1: And it's because she's MAGA adjacent. It seems like she's
- 1:25:30Speaker 1: got MAGA family members. I don't really know what her
- 1:25:32Speaker 1: politics are. I get the impression she's probably voting for
- 1:25:35Speaker 1: Trump and Trump back candidates if she's bothering to vote.
- 1:25:38Speaker 1: But she's completely state of politics, which is the right move.
- 1:25:41Speaker 1: But she is unwilling to bend the knee to the
- 1:25:44Speaker 1: woke mob. And that's got to drive them absolutely crazy.
- 1:25:50Speaker 1: Second of all, next point is the outrage against Sidney
- 1:25:55Speaker 1: Sweeney was significantly higher than the outrage against Lindsay Clancy.
- 1:25:59Speaker 1: And that is 100% a fact.
- 1:26:00Speaker 3: I'll tell you why.
- 1:26:01Speaker 2: The outrage was always, it's always like this cohort of
- 1:26:05Speaker 2: like psycho women. And the reason is because Sidney Sweeney
- 1:26:10Speaker 2: is hotter than them, whereas Lindsay Clancy is mid. So
- 1:26:13Speaker 2: we can support someone... We can support a mid who
- 1:26:17Speaker 2: murdered her three children, but Sydney Sweeney doing a commercial
- 1:26:22Speaker 2: that she's paid to do that, like, gestures at nudity
- 1:26:26Speaker 2: is unacceptable.
- 1:26:28Speaker 1: Why?
- 1:26:29Speaker 3: Because the critics don't look like this.
- 1:26:32Speaker 1: Emma, did we cover the waterfront? I feel like we
- 1:26:34Speaker 1: could do 20 more minutes on the Sydney Sweeney topless ad,
- 1:26:36Speaker 1: but I think that... You have to.
- 1:26:38Speaker 2: Know the female brain. The female brain is a very
- 1:26:41Speaker 2: interesting place.
- 1:26:44Speaker 1: It certainly is. And it's interesting how I feel like
- 1:26:48Speaker 1: I put this stuff together and I feel like it's
- 1:26:52Speaker 1: I know I live and breathe the news every day,
- 1:26:53Speaker 1: and I'm like a news AI that I'm really good
- 1:26:56Speaker 1: at pattern recognition, but it just does feel like it's
- 1:26:59Speaker 1: got a dawn on something. Like, wait a minute, we're
- 1:27:00Speaker 1: freaking out. Like, which one of these are we freaking
- 1:27:02Speaker 1: out over? The woman who strangled her kids as they
- 1:27:05Speaker 1: ran away?
- 1:27:05Speaker 2: Nothing matters more than whether someone is hotter than you.
- 1:27:10Speaker 1: Yeah, and then we're also not super outraged at the
- 1:27:13Speaker 1: ubiquitous porn that's ruining sex lives of all the normal people.
- 1:27:18Speaker 1: um mainstream couples like all over the country and just
- 1:27:20Speaker 1: we don't talk about it at all like we're not
- 1:27:22Speaker 1: like we do we do no discussion on that and
- 1:27:24Speaker 1: we but we're gonna do day after day on this
- 1:27:27Speaker 1: it's the we're not doing any discussion the gambling like
- 1:27:29Speaker 1: the gambling addictions and we're not doing that yeah we're
- 1:27:32Speaker 1: doing no the under boob that's the issue the under
- 1:27:34Speaker 1: boob that's what's so disrespectful all right um it's always
- 1:27:39Speaker 1: a pleasure when you're on the marlo show which runs
- 1:27:40Speaker 1: just about every week and as well as your ex
- 1:27:44Speaker 1: account is one of the best around at emma joe
- 1:27:46Speaker 1: nyc for that one and if you need her consultancy
- 1:27:50Speaker 1: for beck and stone you can look her up i
- 1:27:52Speaker 1: think everything app is a good good place to start
- 1:27:54Speaker 1: thank you emma thank you misty for putting this together
- 1:27:57Speaker 1: go in peace to love and serve the lord