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Voter Watchlists, French Teen Protests & NYT Exec Murdered | TMI Ep 466 · The TMI Show with Ted Rall and Manila Chan

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  It is Thursday, October 1st, if you can believe
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  it, 2026. I'm Manila Chan. Ted Raw will be with
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  us in just a moment. You are tuned into the Ted
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  Manila Information Show, TMI show for short,
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  because we bring you way too much information.
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  Today, we are talking about four very different
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  topics. First one up is that DHS, the Department
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  of Homeland Security, is tapping into voter rolls.
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  We'll tell you everything you've got to know
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  about that and you know how it seems like a Little
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  bit of a big reach for government there. I don't
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  know if it's Homeland Security, but alright,
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  we'll explain that Then we'll go over to Ted's
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  motherland or mother's land over in France where
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  More than a thousand people have been arrested
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  the vast majority of them are teenagers for some
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  massive school protests happening there I'm not
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  sure why have they been to American schools?
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  And then a new study out about ADHD, a new way
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  for us to look at that and that quite possibly
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  we've been looking at it all wrong for the last
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  couple generations. We'll dig into that study
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  about ADHD. And last but not least, Ted insists
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  that we talk about this very strange murder case
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  in California. Regarding the New York Times executive
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  that was murdered by his in -laws Turns out it's
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  a divorce thing. It's a trans thing. It's all
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  all the things There be Ted roll, but Ted is
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  excited to talk about that one So we'll get to
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  that hang on till the end of the show for that.
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  So tune in to TMI every Tuesday and Thursday
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  nice headband Thank you. Thank you. I could I
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  could not be bothered to comb my hair today,
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  so. I'm actually kind of a fan of headbands.
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  I like them. It's hard to imagine, but I used
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  to have long hair, and I had kind of an Axl Rose
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  kind of thing going at one point. Yeah, it's
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  true, like late 90s. In college? Late 90s. Oh,
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  90s? Yeah, I still have my, I gave it to my son,
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  because now he has long hair, but I have like,
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  it was like an Axl Rosie, like spider print.
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  Very cool, actually. Of a headband? Yeah. You
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  hang on to everything, Ted. Yeah, I don't know
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  why people throw things away. I still have old
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  N95 masks lying around, you know. Ted has no
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  joke. Ted has his middle school IDs. I do. It's
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  true. I can go get them right now. Yeah, not
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  that I'm going to, but yeah. I don't know why
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  Ted hangs out. I try to get rid of everything
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  that's not useful. Well, that's... There's landfills
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  are full of of people's like you Yeah, I mean
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  look i'm a I think it's from poverty um, when
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  you're when you grow up poor you're kind of like
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  always worried like I'm getting getting rid of
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  something and then you're like, oh what what
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  if I needed or wanted that later? You know, I
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  I that is something I have to fight as well.
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  Um same thing, you know like a poorer upbringing
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  more humble ted and I both um, so I I hung on
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  to a lot of things until I had a family and then
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  other people that wanted to hang on to things
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  and it was like, okay, I gotta draw the line.
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  Gotta draw the line. And if it's not of use,
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  the rules are if it's not of use and it doesn't
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  bring you joy, don't keep it. The Marie Kondo
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  thing. Yeah, Marie Kondo. I mean, I think there's
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  a lot to be said for that. I mean, I've managed
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  to do that for certain things. Big things for
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  me. Well, first of all, I get I don't really
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  buy a lot of clothes. So Like I will as soon
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  as things get like worn out or like there's holes
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  or whatever I'm like you're gone or something
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  where I look at it I'm like, I would never wear
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  that again. It's like it's gone but like I goodwill
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  stuff I had Oh be too and you know those drop
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  boxes on the side of the road the religious ones.
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  I love No, they're actually there goodwill gives
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  you a receipt. It's a tax deductible donation.
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  Yeah. Yeah great Or I give them to other people.
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  I know however, however Ted those dropbox things
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  Do you know there's like a big scam on those?
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  I did know that yeah, so I don't I avoid that's
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  a problem like I don't use books. I'm a huge
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  book whore and thank God for Scott Stantus because
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  Scott and I both read the same kind of history
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  and biography books So uh, when i'm done with
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  one now I used to I hate throwing books away
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  because i'm like it's a Tragedy to throw one
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  away and it's like there's no place that really
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  takes them, right? I mean I used to live near
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  a public library that loved to take old books
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  And I don't know if they kept them all probably
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  not but at least they keep some of them And I
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  had the thought like oh this might end up in
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  their collection and that's cool Um, but anyway
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  now I just throw them all in a box when i'm done
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  reading them. I send them to scott He does the
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  same with me and that way like, you know That's
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  cool. But also, I got rid of all of my old files.
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  I had, as a cartoonist, you know, business files,
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  original cartoon art. I mean, I still do have
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  original cartoon art, but I had boxes and boxes
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  and boxes and boxes of, you know, tear sheets,
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  contest stuff. All the stuff related to my business
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  as a as a cartoonist and I just felt like weird
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  about tossing it But I did but it was also a
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  burden every time I moved long story short The
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  university of texas at austin They have a collection
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  of left -wing uh creators, um, uh, they have
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  jerry they have like I think abby hoffman jerry
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  rubin people like that they have all of their
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  archives and they approached me and I sold them
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  my um archives and so You can oh they buy them
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  people don't donate. Well, you can donate they
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  bought they buy some and they're willing to buy
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  they buy some and they bought mine and so They
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  said that like they liked me because they I was
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  the only even though there's obviously other
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  like socialist and communist great Cartoonists
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  in the 20th century, but there's i'm kind of
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  unique in that i'm as far left as you could possibly
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  be as a cartoonist And have been in mainstream
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  media. So, you know, right on but in the new
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  york times in the washington post and stuff Yeah,
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  that's fair. I mean no doubt the furthest left,
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  right? So the furthest left mainstream that you'll
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  ever see in the mainstream. That's what they
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  wanted So yeah, like jerry rubin, right like
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  mainstream mainstream left like major publishers
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  published him and stuff. So Anyway, the point
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  is it's all there and it was like I so I remember
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  I went to my storage unit in the bronx And I
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  had like 54 boxes of this shit. They sent me
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  fedex packages, um, uh for all of them and these
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  boxes and I brought them and over to the the
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  poor sad FedEx office in the in the in the northeast
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  in the tremont section of the bronx and like
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  dropped all these off and I was like I'm free.
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  I'm free. And the great thing is, you know, if
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  I ever want or need anything out of there, they're
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  all archived, you know, they're all kept in beautiful,
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  like, you know, so in a data center somewhere,
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  they're indexed. Oh, yeah, they're on you can
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  look at them online. I mean, so it's cool. Yeah.
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  So that's really cool. And another another thing.
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  Oh, for me, I had to get rid of my files. But
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  for people that don't know, at least in California,
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  the general rule of thumb, and I would say for
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  anybody you know because you ran your own business
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  basically is that is that if you uh for real
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  estate anyway you have to keep the files at least
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  five years yeah so for all of the like tax returns
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  you should keep three you know three years three
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  is it three i keep them longer but most people
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  keep them longer way too long but like over five
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  years just to be sure in case you ever get sued
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  or whatever audited so i of course if you're
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  a criminal you should toss them right away I
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  had I had binders and binders like bought like
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  office supply boxes of binders and binders and
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  binders of of client transactions Because you
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  you need them you I mean especially with a state
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  like California with people that sue you over
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  like Whatever like your your paperclip prick
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  them They'll sue you so you know I had hang I
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  finally got rid of them like a year or two ago.
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  I was like I felt like that like oh my god I
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  have I have like rafters free in the garage like
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  wow yeah I mean it's it's great like if you if
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  they went to a good home it's sort of like Toy
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  Story is it Toy Story 3 where like he grows up
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  and gives the toys away um and yeah and it's
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  kind of like that it's kind of like I really
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  I realize this it's not that I'm I don't need
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  Don't like if something is valuable. I want someone
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  to get use out of it It doesn't at all have to
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  be me or even someone I know but I just want
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  like even so I don't mind giving things away
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  I just like real estate stuff is not useful.
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  Obviously, it's old deal transactions with like
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  privileged information So I had to destroy everything
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  I had to send it off to one of those shred companies
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  or whatever the take like So because I my poor
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  little shredder here would not be able to handle
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  like thousands of pages. So that's that's but
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  that's what I had to do. But my stuff I try I
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  need to I need to go through stuff again because
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  of the surprise baby. Right. Right. I was in
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  the process of getting rid of all of my son's
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  stuff because it had surpassed the five year
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  mark. And I was like, OK, we're not using this.
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  We're not having more kids. And then surprise.
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  Well, I was I was glad I was catless for a while
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  and I was glad that I didn't get rid of all my
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  cat stuff because it was like There's a lot of
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  there's a lot of cat true trimmons, right? I
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  mean you need you need the carrier and the toys
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  You still have them. Yeah. Well, I had a nice.
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  I had a nice leather carrier I'm like, I'm not
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  throwing that away. You know, it's like it's
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  cozy and comfortable cats like leather like Well,
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  there you go. Oh one more thing I'll mention
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  before we jump to the stories is it is October
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  1st Ted if you can believe it We're in the final
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  stretch of 2026. I feel like this year went by
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  really quickly October is the kickoff of breast
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  cancer awareness month So I feel like that's
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  something really important to mention because
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  as you know, hello survivor Get your get your
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  mammograms get your get your boobies scanned
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  that's That's how even men should be aware of
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  their. Oh, yeah. It can happen of their breast.
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  This is so birth month and anniversary month.
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  So October is a special month. It isn't. Also,
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  this is a bunch for a bunch of important Supreme
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  Court decisions, too. They come out in early
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  October. A month is important for Robbie every
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  month. Every month is Boop month. So, yeah, for
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  sure. I agree with that. Yeah. But for you, for
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  you ladies. on a serious note like seriously
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  I was I mean I was in my early 40s when I was
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  diagnosed so it can happen it like it's at any
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  time younger and younger younger and younger
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  I would say so I I it's weird for me to I lost
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  count of all the women I personally know who
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  have had breast cancer I mean yeah literally
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  I know more people who've had I'm trying to think
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  it might be in terms of major diseases The most
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  common major disease it is like your americans
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  are likely to address cancer Well breast cancer
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  is Out of out of all the cancers that people
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  will be diagnosed with one out of three cancers
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  is breast cancer That's crazy prostate cancer
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  is really common to among older dudes Well for
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  sure one out of three keep this on the ladies
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  right now. We're talking about the ladies Yeah
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  one out of eight women in their lifetimes so
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  Pick a room of eight women just pick eight women.
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  One of them will get diagnosed with breast cancer.
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  Yeah, that's crazy Yeah, that's really high and
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  that number is going up and the ages are coming
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  down I'm i'm one of them although it's never
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  been and it's also never been a better, you know,
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  I mean your outlook is better Oh more optimistic
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  than ever before and and I just want to point
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  out one more thing to anybody if if if we clip
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  this as an advisory for Specifically the ladies
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  out there I mentioned a moment ago about my my
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  surprise baby right at 45 Was that I I chose
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  the double mastectomy route. I only had breast
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  cancer on one side on the left side And it was
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  very early stage stage one zero zero. It had
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  literally just now. Did you have the broccoli
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  gene? No, I was double negative on both bracket.
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  All right, so I mean now it's done so I can I
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  would like without like environment Why didn't
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  why didn't you just sort of say I mean conventional
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  wisdom is okay. You don't have the bracket gene
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  You can just isolate you can let you a lumpectomy.
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  Why didn't you write for them? Because if it's
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  environmental who knows like what they don't
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  know what the scary part look I think it's less
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  scary for me. It felt less scary if I knew it
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  was the BRCA gene. The fact that I didn't know
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  what the source or what triggered the mutations
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  in my body, I wanted to get rid of any possibility
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  that it might come back later because I did all
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  the research at the time. Two years ago, I did
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  all the research at the time. When you're creeping
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  up near a 10 % Possibility not probability possibility
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  that it might return and I had one kid at the
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  time I was like I got to do whatever I got to
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  do to make sure i'm alive for this little guy,
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  right? 10 I mean, you know, it's like you can
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  look at that either way, right? Like on the one
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  hand I forget what i'm sure it's low but it's
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  like 10 generically is low like if like if you
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  were told there's a 10 10 chance that like I
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  don't know 10 chance that you'll have a car accident
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  today. You're probably still gonna go to the
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  mall but like no no sure but like if you told
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  you there's a 10 chance that if you went to the
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  mall someone might shoot you to death you might
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  stay home let me just ask this if i if if i held
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  one of my firearms to your head and i said ted
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  nine out of ten chance everything's gonna be
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  cool will you let me pull the trigger there's
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  there's of i don't know let's just say it's there's
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  there's one bullet out of 10 One in the chamber
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  there. It's not chambered but one it's a ten.
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  It's one of those ten shooters Yeah, right. No,
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  no six shooter your ten shooter. It's a ten shooter
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  Would you let me would you play Russian? Would
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  I play Russian roulette with you? Would we play
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  Russian roulette? Not even if you offered me
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  a million dollars. That's what I'm saying So
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  when I looked at that, you know, it was like
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  eight nine closer to ten percent Depending on
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  the study that you're looking at I was like I'm
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  not willing to play Russian roulette I get it,
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  I get it. Although, okay, just to play devil's
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  advocate here. I mean, if there'd been a return
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  though, you would now as a breast cancer survivor,
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  obviously you would be monitoring and getting,
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  you're on top of it, you're going every six to
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  12 months. So if it returned, you would be aware
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  of it pretty quickly, and then you could deal
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  with it then. But I so you could play whack -a
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  -mole you could do that. I don't want to do like
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  Matina in our chat here She says she had breast
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  cancer twice my dad's younger sister. I'm just
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  wondering was it the same Was it like a different
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  breast each time or was it like right? I don't
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  know my dad my dad's sister in Australia She
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  she had breast cancer twice at two very separate
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  times one in the 80s. And once again, what is
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  it about? Did you in your research? Manila, I
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  don't even know this at all. I'm embarrassed
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  to admit this, but obviously we sort of just
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  know that like breast cancer is really common.
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  But what is it about breast tissue and the ducts
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  and all that that makes the breasts so extra
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  vulnerable to cancer? Because it's so dense.
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  Yeah, it's just that the tissue is just so dense
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  and there's so many glands. There's so there's
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  a Weird network of things happening in there
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  so it can just I don't know if that's that I
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  don't know that that I'm not talking about the
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  detect trouble and detecting Nobody's doing I
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  mean nobody gets knee cancer. You know what I
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  mean? Like why? Well, no one really knows, but
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  the leading theory, though, is because it is
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  so dense, there's so much fluid, there's so many
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  glands and things, there's just so much going
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  on there that the mutation is going to happen.
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  The complexity of the... Yeah, I've heard of
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  things like that. Yeah, it's that the breasts
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  are way more complex than we give it credit for.
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  And the density varies tremendously. I mean,
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  some of them are like literally like light like
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  balloons, and some of them are like heavy like
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  lead. I've seen yeah if you look at people's
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  um like breast exam like x -rays some I had the
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  the Brent the dense breast a tightly woven network
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  of like veins and like the little lines everywhere
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  that's what they call dense breast tissue and
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  then you look at other people's mammogram x -rays
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  and they there's a lot of space and fewer Mean
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  what what looks like veins right like little
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  tree branches like fewer of them sparser of them
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  So it doesn't matter if you're little boobies
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  or big boobies You can have dense breast tissue
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  and giant boobs or in little boobs mine the latter,
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  but it happens it just One and eight women will
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  get it in their lifetimes and that number is
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  going up I mean, I think you made the right choice
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  because you did come back. What would happen
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  if they Thank God you had insurance. Wouldn't
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  happen this time. What would happen if you didn't?
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  It's not like our health care system won't destroy
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  you if you get sick. That's right. So I went
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  the drastic route and one thing I want women
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  to know, especially if you're like on the younger
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  side for the breast cancer scale like me, is
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  that what they didn't explain to me, Ted, and
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  I didn't even think to look this up because I
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  didn't think I would ever have another baby.
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  I thought I was one and done. They did not explain
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  to me that had I gone the lumpectomy route, I
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  would have had to undergo targeted radiation,
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  right? Which can make your boobs all weird and
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  the skin all waxy and like, you know, it can
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  do weird things, right? Radiation does stuff
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  to your skin. I mean, toxic for your skin. It's
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  radiation, literally. Hello, radiation. Or the
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  snip snip lumpectomy. Or the snip snip. But there's
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  so there's those routes. But if I went those
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  routes, they would then have put me on a five
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  -year course of medication that I'd have to take
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  for five years that here's the thing that they
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  don't explain to people that those meds can push
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  you into early menopause they can make you infertile
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  they can change like literally like your cognitive
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  abilities and the way like it can have other
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  physical changes to your body outside of your
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  breasts and I feel like doctors do an insufficient
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  job at explaining to women who are still at childbearing
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  age, right? The changes that can come if you
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  go the route of medication or chemo or whatever.
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  Yeah, well, that's very true, right? Generally
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  speaking, doctors are not good at explaining
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  the long -term implications. And that's because
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  of the nature of our system. We go to see doctors
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  when we're in crisis, when we notice something
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  wrong, you know, but like we don't in between.
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  So like, for example, like doctors always say
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  things like, oh, after this procedure, this will
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  happen. Okay, they don't know that because they
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  never once call you like six months, a year,
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  five years later, and I had a hernia surgery.
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  And the guy was like, I was like, you know, he
• 21:17
  followed up like, you know, a week later and
• 21:19
  he goes, I say everything cool. I go, well, my
• 21:22
  left my left nut is is numb. And he goes, oh,
• 21:25
  that'll go away in 30 days. Well, if by 30 days,
• 21:29
  you mean 10 years. Sure. OK. But like, you know,
• 21:34
  I mean, not really. Yeah. My vision changed I
• 21:37
  had perfect 2020 vision until the final trimester
• 21:40
  of my first my first baby and They're like, oh,
• 21:44
  yeah that happens because you have like 50 %
• 21:46
  more blood volume and there's pressure in your
• 21:48
  eyes It happens to a lot of what one out of three
• 21:50
  women had vision changes You'll be fine after
• 21:52
  you have the baby give it one a couple months
• 21:54
  after the baby your vision will return your blood
• 21:57
  levels return normal Here we are eight years
• 21:59
  later nothing So they will you know that and
• 22:03
  that's honestly one of the things about universal
• 22:05
  health care that we don't consider it's like
• 22:08
  the continuity of like when you're not like Trying
• 22:12
  to when you don't have to parse out your visits
• 22:14
  to the doctor based on what you can afford You're
• 22:16
  more likely to go in for regular checkups and
• 22:20
  they're gonna They're going to find things before
• 22:22
  they get too bad and also and they're going to
• 22:25
  gather that day that more to the point the medical
• 22:28
  establishment will gather all of that collective
• 22:31
  data from the entire society in order to form
• 22:34
  a more realistic picture of what really actually
• 22:38
  happens to us instead of the patchwork quilt
• 22:40
  that we do have. Yeah, and there's like there's
• 22:43
  data which is like, you know, like relies on
• 22:47
  voluntary information. And last thing, we'll
• 22:50
  move on Ted, Matina in the chat says, so women
• 22:55
  get your boobies mammogrammed. I had the one
• 22:58
  that comes on in six months and leaves you dead,
• 23:05
  leaves you dead in two, same breast. Two separate
• 23:10
  types. That's crazy. One was hormonal and one
• 23:13
  wasn't I had mastectomy then reconstruction took
• 23:17
  my belly fat made more boobs Two of those surgeries
• 23:21
  I lost hair with chemo it was all fucked up,
• 23:24
  but I'm alive and Hers was a triple negative
• 23:27
  for the BRCA. So I mean it it just happens. It
• 23:32
  just These mutations so October is the time so
• 23:36
  like if you think you're too young let me Hello,
• 23:40
  I was in my early 40s. Go scan. It's good to
• 23:42
  get into the habit, you know. Go scan. Go scan.
• 23:45
  If you're over 40, go scan. Go, go, go. That's
• 23:49
  why mine didn't get more serious. It was caught
• 23:51
  super stage zero. It had just happened. It just
• 23:54
  formed. And here I am. And now thanks to Obamacare,
• 23:58
  actually, thanks to the ACA and other writers
• 24:01
  that the Obama people attached to it. Previous
• 24:06
  breast cancer. does not count against you as
• 24:09
  a pre -existing condition if you ever change
• 24:11
  insurance. So that's a law, that's a bill that
• 24:14
  passed during Obama and you get whatever insurance
• 24:17
  you have, you will get lifetime breast reconstruction
• 24:23
  replacement. Did you know that Ted? I did not
• 24:26
  know. I can technically go back and whenever
• 24:30
  and be like, you know what, give me the Dolly
• 24:32
  Parton's. Um, that's funny. It's sort of like,
• 24:38
  yeah, I mean, God, but I mean, God being, I don't
• 24:41
  know, there are people who really don't mind
• 24:42
  being operated upon. Um, I'm a champ. I mean,
• 24:46
  I come out of it. Okay. And it's not really that
• 24:48
  big a deal. And I take, I take anesthesia well,
• 24:52
  so it's really not like, I mean, but it's like,
• 24:56
  it's spooky. I think operations are to be avoided.
• 24:59
  I don't want them if I can. Right. I just, so
• 25:02
  I don't want to go back, but technically. Or
• 25:05
  the women that have like botched or it didn't
• 25:08
  turn out quite right or I mean Yeah, just don't
• 25:10
  don't have the test state of tennessee prison
• 25:12
  system do it because apparently they don't even
• 25:14
  know how to kill people I know and did you hear
• 25:17
  about this? Did you hear about that lady? She
• 25:20
  should walk right you agree. Oh, yeah. Yeah.
• 25:23
  Oh, no What's her name pike christina pike? Yeah,
• 25:27
  krista pike Krista krista krista krista no krista
• 25:33
  krista Kristina. Kristina. I don't think so.
• 25:39
  I think it's Kristina. It's like, yeah, it's
• 25:43
  Krista. It's Christ A. Krista. Really? I thought
• 25:47
  it was Kristina. Yeah, I know. Anyway, Pike is
• 25:48
  her last name. Because I've seen Krista, but
• 25:51
  with a K. But Krista, like Christ with an A?
• 25:54
  I think there's probably no name that has more
• 25:58
  variations of spelling in American English than,
• 26:01
  like, Kristine, Krista. Right. There's so many
• 26:04
  different ways. Christ related. Well, she should
• 26:06
  walk. She at this point. I knew a Jewish girl
• 26:09
  named Christine. What's with that? Anyway, her
• 26:12
  parents, her Jewish parents, both Jewish, named
• 26:15
  her Christine. I'm like, well, it's a name. They
• 26:18
  just don't believe that Christ was. It's just
• 26:21
  not the right. Yeah. But it's like, I don't know.
• 26:23
  It's like a it's like a it's like a Muslim dude
• 26:26
  and having his name be like, you know, Jew man.
• 26:33
  What? What? All right. So with that, I would
• 26:37
  say at this point, free Krista or whatever Pike
• 26:40
  in Tennessee. She's earned her walking papers.
• 26:44
  She can go. She can go get your boobies checked
• 26:47
  and tell all your loved ones. Yeah, I think Krista
• 26:50
  Pike should like be let out of prison for this.
• 26:52
  Whatever's left of her brain after they've tried
• 26:54
  to kill her. Look, I'm just not, I know what
• 26:57
  she did was awful when she was 18. The woman's
• 27:00
  50. Yes, horrible. She served her time and there
• 27:03
  was also and they've put her through hell other
• 27:06
  other evidence like at this point You and I have
• 27:08
  joked about this ted and it's come to fruition
• 27:10
  where we said if somebody survives an execution
• 27:13
  attempt They have earned their right to walk.
• 27:16
  That's right. I mean, it's almost yeah, it's
• 27:19
  almost like uh It's almost like a um How do you
• 27:23
  put this? Uh It's like it's almost like Like
• 27:29
  divine yeah, yeah, it's it's like spooky. It's
• 27:33
  like mythological. It's like It's like super
• 27:37
  it's like a superstition like we all kind of
• 27:39
  understand like if Like basically you were the
• 27:44
  state went after you they poisoned you twice
• 27:46
  the Daily Mail called her failed the Satanist
• 27:49
  teenage Satanist killer Well, yeah, well, it
• 27:52
  was her boyfriend who carved the pentagram into
• 27:56
  her body. Yeah Well, so that's what the Daily
• 28:00
  Mail is saying. But so I don't know, whatever
• 28:01
  it may be, whoever, whoever saved stepped in
• 28:05
  and intervened there. So fucked up. I should
• 28:09
  walk at this point. It's already been 30 30 plus
• 28:12
  years. Pike should walk. All right, let's roll.
• 28:19
  All right. So let's roll through these really
• 28:21
  quickly. So Ted, I think this one should should
• 28:23
  frighten you or worry you a little bit. DHS Department
• 28:25
  of Homeland Security, even though Kristi Noem
• 28:29
  isn't in charge anymore. They're still doing
• 28:32
  fucked up shit. They have admitted... Kristi
• 28:35
  Noem, by the way, just filed for divorce from
• 28:38
  her... I know. Ted, you love the crazies. True.
• 28:42
  She's free. The thing is, I'm worried that she
• 28:45
  might be too intelligent for me. Because with
• 28:49
  the... I mean, she'd be talking at such a high
• 28:51
  level. I wouldn't be able to keep up. you like
• 28:54
  the crazy eyes she'd be bored she's not bad looking
• 28:57
  but she's just high maintenance just very she
• 29:00
  has to she walks around with like you know a
• 29:02
  team of hair and makeup people it's very weird
• 29:06
  you know but whatever all right so dhs has admitted
• 29:09
  its effort to identify non -citizens voting illegally
• 29:13
  may have placed american citizens on a federal
• 29:16
  law enforcement watch list by mistake shocking
• 29:19
  The admission came in court filings connected
• 29:22
  to DHS is new. This is the name of it unlawful
• 29:26
  voter initiative the UVI under UVI American something
• 29:32
  that's on your sunglasses, but yeah, okay UVI
• 29:36
  and immigration service or excuse me under UVI
• 29:39
  the US so ice ice Employees can compare state
• 29:44
  voter rolls with the immigration database any
• 29:48
  matches could then be entered into something
• 29:51
  called TEX, T -E -C -S, a federal screening system
• 29:55
  and investigated by Homeland Security agents.
• 29:59
  There was one rather important problem there.
• 30:03
  The immigration database also contains foreign
• 30:05
  -born American citizens and even U .S.-born spouses.
• 30:10
  of those immigrants. DHS acknowledged that quote,
• 30:14
  potential inaccuracies had been discovered and
• 30:17
  conceded that in rare cases, American citizens
• 30:19
  could be misidentified as foreign nationals.
• 30:23
  Officials said safeguards were in place to stop
• 30:25
  agents from mistakenly interrogating citizens,
• 30:28
  but did not explain whether incorrect watch list
• 30:30
  entries had been removed. This is all coming
• 30:33
  from reason .com. So you guys can go look there.
• 30:36
  Nevada offers A troubling example. DHS initially
• 30:40
  claimed it found 15 ,903 non -citizens, they
• 30:46
  say, on the state voter rolls. That number was
• 30:49
  eventually reduced to 185. Then officials, officials,
• 30:55
  wait, wait, wait, there's more. So in other words,
• 30:58
  one percent of what they claim. No, no, no, Ted,
• 31:01
  Ted. So reduced to 185. Then after more scrutiny,
• 31:06
  determined that all 185 were actually US citizens.
• 31:12
  So 15 ,903 became a big fat zero in Nevada. Idiots.
• 31:21
  All the people that DHS had initially claimed
• 31:24
  were non -citizens illegally voting got reduced
• 31:28
  to 185, then reduced to oh zero. So the government
• 31:34
  list of illegal foreign voters went from nearly
• 31:37
  6 ,000 to precisely zero 16 ,000 sorry DHS says
• 31:43
  it has since developed a new method. We've got
• 31:47
  more they said Oh God, we've new method for generating
• 31:50
  investigative leads Though it has not publicly
• 31:54
  explained how the new system works. Well, that's
• 31:57
  because they probably don't know They don't know.
• 32:00
  You don't trust Mark, Wayne, Mullen, Ted. I mean,
• 32:03
  government lawyers also argued that creating
• 32:06
  a text record, the TECS record, does not itself...
• 32:10
  produce legal consequences, but text is used
• 32:14
  during border screenings and shared with tens
• 32:17
  of thousands of officials across federal, state,
• 32:20
  local, and tribal agencies, along with some foreign
• 32:23
  governments and private organizations. Wait,
• 32:26
  private organizations? Why? Yeah, they don't
• 32:28
  outline who or what. What private organizations
• 32:30
  would that be? I don't know. The ADL? Like who?
• 32:35
  Probably. Several California, several California
• 32:38
  local governments and the American Library Association.
• 32:41
  Yes, are now suing. So the state of California
• 32:44
  is now suing, accusing DHS of intimidating legitimate
• 32:48
  voters. They want the department forced into
• 32:52
  disclosing more information about this program
• 32:55
  and what happened to citizens incorrectly entered
• 32:59
  into the system when. Reason .com asked them
• 33:02
  whether DHS could remove mistaken records the
• 33:05
  department declined to answer that one saying
• 33:07
  the issue would not would be handled in court
• 33:09
  apparently finding Imaginary illegal voters is
• 33:12
  easier than explaining how to clear the innocent
• 33:15
  Americans who got swept up in that search I love
• 33:20
  that like the department declined to answer.
• 33:23
  It's like um You're a government entity and this
• 33:27
  is not national security, right? I mean they're
• 33:29
  like we're just They should be required by law
• 33:33
  to answer I mean when when anyone media or otherwise
• 33:37
  calls a government office local state or federal
• 33:41
  and they want something to and You know and they
• 33:45
  ask for information that does not concern national
• 33:47
  security. It should be turned in It should tell
• 33:51
  us about your program what happened to the people
• 33:54
  that were illegitimately put on your text Watch
• 34:00
  list. What happened? Yeah. And they're like,
• 34:04
  we're just not going to answer that. Yeah. So
• 34:06
  when you get pulled up, when you get pulled out
• 34:08
  of line and it's like, excuse me, ma 'am, we're
• 34:11
  going to need to touch your bits to see if you
• 34:15
  have you have any critters in your nether regions.
• 34:19
  Like it's like you'll know why you'll know that
• 34:23
  it's because I mean at least I was born in the
• 34:24
  United States So presumably I wouldn't be on
• 34:26
  this list for whatever. No, no, but it said there's
• 34:29
  like spouses of immigrants that were us Born
• 34:34
  all that's not naturalized people. No, it's only
• 34:36
  people It said people born overseas or people
• 34:40
  who married into US citizenship, right? So the
• 34:43
  spouses of Of oh foreign born. Oh, that would
• 34:47
  be me since I did marry a taiwanese person. Yeah
• 34:50
  Oh, was she not american -born? She's not an
• 34:52
  abc. No. No, she's a taiwan. She's taipei born
• 34:56
  Oh, I didn't know that. I always assumed she
• 34:58
  was an abc. No, she came over when she was like
• 35:00
  five Close to an abc, but not quite. Honestly,
• 35:05
  you could you theoretically could be on this
• 35:07
  list Yeah, that would not surprise me because
• 35:10
  you know, why not? They're just taking precautions
• 35:15
  But Tina goes Clovis would not be safe with Christy.
• 35:19
  Oh, that's for sure. Although he's a very, very
• 35:22
  well -behaved cat. And I would think that even
• 35:24
  someone as deranged as Christy Noem would not
• 35:27
  feel a need to. She only kills dogs. There was
• 35:29
  no, we have no evidence that she kills cats.
• 35:30
  And apparently the dog was feisty according to
• 35:32
  her. Look, Ted, we're journalists. There's no
• 35:35
  evidence that she kills cats. There's only evidence
• 35:38
  that she killed dogs. Right. Yeah, she's not
• 35:40
  a Haitian Ohioan. She's so she's just a lunatic
• 35:44
  from the Dakotas. Yeah, right. So they kill dogs.
• 35:48
  We've all seen old yeller Ted That's right. There
• 35:53
  you go. So check your voter rolls and which could
• 35:55
  be her nickname She's kind of a yeller herself
• 35:58
  old yeller. Yeah So you guys I would say I was
• 36:02
  my nickname for my ex -wife actually was old
• 36:04
  yeller cuz she's yellow No, cuz she was cuz she
• 36:07
  was a yeller Screamer for sure. Oh Ted. So what's
• 36:15
  our takeaway to tell tell the viewers here? Like
• 36:17
  if you if you are perhaps Married to a naturalized
• 36:21
  citizen or whatever Go to the airport an hour
• 36:26
  early because you might be detained So yeah,
• 36:28
  so now this is there The state of California
• 36:32
  is right Ted. I don't often agree with Rob Bonta
• 36:36
  the AG of California, but In this instance, he's
• 36:41
  right. People deserve some answers and I don't
• 36:43
  care who's asking. He's right. He's doing DHS.
• 36:46
  He says you guys are intimidating voters and
• 36:48
  I think that's exactly what this is. I will say
• 36:50
  I would not have had, I still would, Matina is
• 36:53
  right. I wouldn't let Kristy know. No, some people
• 36:57
  should be banned from having pets. Just saying.
• 36:59
  Yeah, yeah. Should there be a pet run? I mean,
• 37:03
  look, she couldn't even be trusted to choose
• 37:05
  a husband who doesn't have big fake breasts.
• 37:08
  Balloon boobs. No, it's balloon boobs, Ted. It's
• 37:11
  not even big fake breasts. It's balloon boobs.
• 37:14
  Please explain the difference. He put, cause
• 37:17
  when you say fake breasts, that requires surgery.
• 37:19
  That makes an effort. Dude just went to 7 -Eleven
• 37:23
  and got balloons and blew them up and put them
• 37:24
  under his top. Oh, I thought it was like a contraption
• 37:28
  that he ordered from some pervert shop. He literally
• 37:30
  had balloons. No, no, no. He literally had two
• 37:33
  of them. I admit that when that image crossed
• 37:36
  my screen, Like I was like I've suffered enough,
• 37:44
  you know, I zoomed in I did the opposite I was
• 37:47
  Already seen too many things. I'm like, no, no,
• 37:51
  I zoomed in I was like are those Party balloons.
• 37:56
  There's a party. There's a party in your shirt
• 37:58
  and you're in my shirt and you're invited Don't
• 38:01
  look Brian. No party balloon boobs. Go look.
• 38:04
  I swear to God. Oh god. Hey, by the way, he's
• 38:06
  free to ladies so You know, you can go and tap
• 38:11
  that. There are girls who might be, I bet there
• 38:14
  are no girls into that. I bet the number of American
• 38:17
  women who would find that appealing is zero.
• 38:20
  I'm just, I'm just betting. That's very unattractive.
• 38:22
  And there's a lot of weird women, but you know,
• 38:25
  especially in the US. That's very unattractive.
• 38:27
  Very, I know. All right. More than a thousand
• 38:34
  people, most of them teenagers, have been detained
• 38:37
  as student protests are spreading across France.
• 38:40
  and some demonstrations have become violent.
• 38:42
  The movement began last week around the city
• 38:45
  of Paris before expanding to hundreds of high
• 38:47
  schools nationwide. Students are blockading campuses
• 38:51
  over teacher shortages, they want more teachers,
• 38:54
  overcrowded classrooms, exhausting schedules
• 38:57
  and deteriorating buildings. At one school in
• 39:00
  the working -class suburb of Saint -Denis, a
• 39:03
  student described classrooms infested with rats
• 39:06
  and roaches, with temperatures veering between
• 39:10
  extreme heat and bitter cold. Other students
• 39:12
  say that schools in poorer communities receive
• 39:15
  far fewer resources than those in more privileged
• 39:18
  ones like central Paris. Most, by the way, this
• 39:22
  is a big, this is not supposed to happen in France's
• 39:25
  highly centralized educational system. They have
• 39:29
  national control of schools and the resources
• 39:32
  that are allocated to a bleak, poor neighborhood
• 39:37
  are supposed to be identical to those that go
• 39:42
  to a rich neighborhood. So this is just not supposed
• 39:46
  to happen. Most demonstrations have remained
• 39:50
  peaceful, but confrontations have erupted in
• 39:53
  several cities. Protesters set garbage containers
• 39:56
  on fire, vandalized property, and threw shit
• 39:59
  at the cops. Authorities say that hydrochloric
• 40:02
  acid was thrown at cops in seven separate incidents.
• 40:05
  Bring that home from the chem lab, kids! Police
• 40:09
  responded with batons and tear gas. Officials
• 40:12
  reported 625 detentions. Yesterday, after more
• 40:16
  than 440 the day before, France's education minister
• 40:19
  said 119 students and school employees have been
• 40:22
  injured since the protests began. The unrest
• 40:25
  quickly became political. Duh, it's France. Interior
• 40:28
  Minister Laurent Nunez accused left -wing activists
• 40:32
  of traveling between schools and encouraging
• 40:35
  violence. Oh, how sad. Members of the France
• 40:39
  Unbowed Party, that's the left -wing party of
• 40:42
  Jean -Luc Mélenchon, have joined demonstrations
• 40:45
  and accused the government of using excessive
• 40:48
  force against kids. President Emmanuel Macron
• 40:51
  acknowledged the problems, but condemned the
• 40:54
  violence, saying that high schools ought to remain
• 40:56
  open rather than being blockaded with burning
• 40:58
  trash cans. The protests have also merged with
• 41:01
  broader public sector unrest. Again, That's the
• 41:04
  way things go in France. Teachers, firefighters,
• 41:08
  and government employees walked off the job Tuesday
• 41:11
  over stagnant wages and expected austerity cuts.
• 41:16
  The government is about to release its 2027 budget,
• 41:19
  and they're under pressure to reduce France's
• 41:22
  deficit. Maybe stop sending money to Ukraine.
• 41:25
  So the students are... Cutting school funding
• 41:28
  is the answer? Yeah, ridiculous. So the students
• 41:33
  are demanding more money for schools just as
• 41:36
  the government is preparing to spend less. So,
• 41:41
  you know, I mean, look, it's just a reminder
• 41:42
  that... France has the spirit of protest and
• 41:46
  they know how to fucking do it. They break things
• 41:49
  They break things they they stop things from
• 41:51
  happening. They're disruptive. They create civil
• 41:54
  unrest and disorder They make a big noise So
• 41:58
  that can't be ignored by the powers that be and
• 42:01
  they have to fucking do something at least to
• 42:04
  pretend to address the problem This is this is
• 42:07
  okay. So You can critique you can criticize the
• 42:10
  the details, but this shit, you know, it gets
• 42:13
  things done. It goes into the work week. It's
• 42:15
  ongoing It's it's a problem for the authorities
• 42:19
  unlike the the really stupid no kings rallies
• 42:24
  which happen every anemic Or the or every three
• 42:28
  to four months i'm not even exaggerating um on
• 42:32
  a sat on a you know on a saturday or a sunday
• 42:34
  when it doesn't inconvenience anyone. It's militantly
• 42:38
  nonviolent. Nothing gets broken. Not a single
• 42:41
  piece of litter is left. Nothing burns. No police
• 42:44
  officers are, you know, even no schmutz is thrown
• 42:48
  at the cops. Nothing happens, right? It's permitted,
• 42:51
  Ted. It's permitted. Yeah, you literally it's
• 42:53
  officially permitted. And then everybody goes
• 42:56
  home peacefully and they stop, but you know,
• 42:59
  they stop at Starbucks for a double mocha latte.
• 43:01
  And that's what they do. I mean, it's like, it's
• 43:04
  still performative and stupid and worthless.
• 43:06
  We have no, we don't, we don't protest at all.
• 43:10
  I was hoping you would go there. What happened
• 43:12
  to America's protest movement? Like you look
• 43:15
  at the shit from the Vietnam war era versus now,
• 43:19
  like what? You the French are still that the
• 43:23
  French are still Vietnam War era protests. There's
• 43:26
  what happened in America They know how to do
• 43:29
  it. No, I mean, well, I mean look it's been a
• 43:32
  slow process basically the protest movement died
• 43:36
  with the end of the Vietnam War and There were
• 43:39
  some there's been some spasms since then, you
• 43:42
  know, there was the anti -reagan protest movement.
• 43:45
  There was the There was Occupy Wall Street in
• 43:49
  2010, 2011. There were the Battle of Seattle.
• 43:54
  I think that was either, that was 1999, if memory
• 43:56
  serves. The anti -globalization, anti -WTO protests.
• 44:02
  Obviously, Black Lives Matter. There were the
• 44:05
  L .A. riots. Although, strictly speaking, those
• 44:07
  really weren't as political. It was more of a,
• 44:11
  but still had a political orientation. It happens,
• 44:16
  we know how to do it. What's lacking now is organization.
• 44:21
  In France, they have organizations, right? Like
• 44:24
  they mentioned a political party, right? France
• 44:26
  Unbowed. That's a political party. It's not just
• 44:29
  even a group. They run candidates for state and
• 44:31
  local office. They are a political party. So,
• 44:36
  you know, they, in fact, There's one party called
• 44:39
  the New Anti -Capitalist Party where it's so
• 44:42
  militant that in order to join, you have to sign
• 44:45
  a promise that when they call you to start revolution,
• 44:49
  you have trained to use weapons and you have
• 44:52
  weapons at home and you are prepared to use them.
• 44:56
  Oh my God! Like a party that you sign on a ballot.
• 45:00
  Yeah, that's right. Official party. Yeah, the
• 45:03
  logo is an AK -47. So it's like... So the point
• 45:07
  is that it's like a Islamic state. Yeah, spicy.
• 45:12
  And so, you know, these are people who they know
• 45:15
  how to do it. You know, ever since the collapse
• 45:19
  of the new left and the Students for a Democratic
• 45:22
  Society, the you know, the left has been nonexistent
• 45:27
  and there's no there's no parties, there's no
• 45:30
  organizations. And I think the biggest problem
• 45:32
  is that capture by the Democratic Party. has
• 45:35
  the Democratic Party has really seized control
• 45:39
  of like all sort of opposition movements in the
• 45:42
  United States and on the left. And so people
• 45:46
  think they can vote their way out. They've been
• 45:49
  conned into thinking they can vote their way
• 45:50
  out of oppression. No, you can protest and you
• 45:54
  can break and you can burn your way out of oppression.
• 45:58
  That's how you can do it. I want to address one
• 46:00
  of the the viewers on YouTube exile of the nights
• 46:03
  is talking about Michael Moore Talk, you know
• 46:07
  comparing French schools to American schools
• 46:09
  or whatever I would say by and large it it's
• 46:13
  mostly true the kids eat Well, I have I have
• 46:15
  family members in France on my dad's side all
• 46:19
  over sprinkled all over France like southern
• 46:21
  France and He has sent me photos of what his
• 46:25
  kids get fed at school Oh, I'm sure. Well, it's
• 46:29
  France. I'm sure it's good. Oh my God. It's fresh
• 46:32
  food, like real food. Like I want to eat that
• 46:35
  school food. Of course. It's France. So I mean,
• 46:39
  like Manila, I stopped. I stopped on the freeway
• 46:41
  on the Oto route, which is like the interstate.
• 46:43
  Right. I stopped at a rest area and I was like,
• 46:45
  Oh God, I'm hungry. I got to get food. This sucks.
• 46:47
  I'm going to have to get fucking gross ass. Like,
• 46:50
  you know, you know, whatever the equivalent to,
• 46:54
  you know, whatever. So I stopped in the gas station.
• 46:57
  Like deli, you know the equivalent of like the
• 46:59
  bp mart and they have uh, and they had these
• 47:03
  like sand They had these baguette sandwiches
• 47:05
  that were wrapped in plastic and i'm like, oh
• 47:07
  god, okay i'll get one of those first of all
• 47:09
  They weren't even that expensive. Um, but I got
• 47:11
  them and it was like Oh, this is pretty fucking
• 47:15
  good. I mean, it's like I mean, it's not as good
• 47:18
  as like a great No, but relative to what I my
• 47:21
  opinion better than anything you could get like
• 47:23
  at a cafe in the united in new york city, you
• 47:26
  know When I was a traveling journalist and and
• 47:32
  one time I know tough assignment I was driving
• 47:34
  through the south of France and same thing I
• 47:37
  had to stop it like at like a roadside gas station
• 47:40
  place and I was starving and they had same thing
• 47:44
  sandwich wrapped up or whatever a baguette and
• 47:46
  I you know I'm asking them like for manate like
• 47:49
  do you have mayonnaise do you have milk and they're
• 47:51
  like no like no sorry you know we don't have
• 47:54
  that and I'm like oh sorry like American mayonnaise
• 47:57
  need man and they're like no we don't carry that
• 47:59
  okay so i'm like oh i'm gonna eat this dry ass
• 48:03
  baguette sandwich from a fucking gas station
• 48:05
  yeah and i i'm starving so i bite into it and
• 48:08
  i'm like huh that's pretty good and they don't
• 48:16
  put anything on this to like they don't slather
• 48:20
  anything like wow i'm eating like ate what I
• 48:23
  would call, as an American, a dry sandwich. And
• 48:26
  it was really good. Right, because here, it's
• 48:31
  like why I started taking, when I was a young
• 48:34
  coffee drinker, I started taking tons of milk
• 48:36
  and sugar because most coffee sucked here. And
• 48:40
  and so you needed lots of sugar and milk to help
• 48:44
  it go down. And like, you know, and like, you
• 48:46
  know, here you need lots of mustard or ketchup
• 48:49
  or mayo or whatever to like get it down because
• 48:51
  it's like you're going to die. It down. Yeah,
• 48:54
  you got to choke it down. Oh, same thing. Like
• 48:56
  when I travel abroad, I can drink black coffee
• 48:59
  abroad. Like where I'm like, oh, yeah, nice.
• 49:02
  I mean, although although like the Turkish stuff
• 49:04
  will, you know, burn your throat, it's worth
• 49:06
  it. No, no, it's but it's meant to like punch
• 49:09
  you in the face. That's, that's the point. Um,
• 49:13
  but I will say like, look, some of, I don't know,
• 49:16
  cause I've not seen the worst, I guess of the
• 49:19
  French schools and why these kids are protesting.
• 49:21
  These are kids, by the way, these are high school
• 49:22
  kids protesting high school. Um, American high
• 49:27
  school kids are not doing that. Let me just point
• 49:29
  out our youth is busy tick -tocking. Well, there's
• 49:31
  been some walkouts. See, there's been some, like
• 49:35
  their hearts are in the right place, right? But
• 49:36
  what's missing is organization. So like in France,
• 49:39
  there's a national organization of students that
• 49:43
  helps organize these things. So when it happens,
• 49:46
  it's national and also the solidarity strikes,
• 49:49
  right? Like the students are on strike and they're
• 49:50
  like, firefighters are like, yeah, let's go too.
• 49:53
  And so it fucks everything up all at the same
• 49:55
  time. Yeah, the supporters go with them. And
• 49:58
  look, I've not been to the poorest schools in
• 50:01
  France, but I have been to some of the poorest
• 50:03
  schools in Baltimore, for example. Holy fuck.
• 50:09
  All I can say is... By the way, I'm sure that
• 50:11
  the rats and the roaches in France don't come
• 50:15
  close to the rats and roaches in Baltimore public
• 50:20
  schools, I'm sure. Let me just tell you. There's...
• 50:24
  Again, I don't know because I've not been to
• 50:26
  the French bad schools, but I have been to Baltimore
• 50:30
  bad schools and Yeah, talk about Defunding some
• 50:35
  shit like you're gonna defund schools of all
• 50:38
  things schools like come on Emmanuel Macron I
• 50:42
  know he has no kids so he has no real skin in
• 50:44
  the game personally, but Come on, dude. Like
• 50:47
  Ted said stop funding Ukraine get your shit in
• 50:50
  order We know you're a lame duck, but like don't
• 50:52
  don't defund the kids Like what? What is wrong
• 50:56
  with people like defunding? It's a good question.
• 50:58
  Yeah, it's a really good question. It's like
• 51:01
  what? Why are we even talking about that? Like
• 51:02
  that should be your first priority is funding
• 51:05
  kids like right. They will vote one day and they
• 51:09
  will work one day. Hopefully, maybe. But maybe
• 51:12
  Emmanuel Macron knows that it's the AI overlords
• 51:16
  are coming. So he's like, fuck these kids. We're
• 51:19
  just going to just let them sit there. Let them
• 51:21
  eat roaches like. Yeah, he's living large with
• 51:26
  his old abusive wife. I'm out of here. Me and
• 51:32
  the missus are out of here. We're going to Monaco.
• 51:36
  Fuck this. How about this one? Speaking of the
• 51:44
  kids, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
• 51:47
  ADHD may have a branding problem. Scientists
• 51:51
  increasingly suspect that the defining issue
• 51:55
  in ADHD is not an inability to pay attention,
• 51:59
  but difficulty staying engaged when the brain
• 52:02
  decides the task is unrewarding. So in that case,
• 52:06
  I think I might have ADHD. A major study published
• 52:09
  in Cell magazine, C -E -L -L, Cell, the science
• 52:14
  magazine. Cell examined how stimulant medications
• 52:17
  affect children's brains. Researchers found that
• 52:21
  drugs such as Ritalin and Adderall influenced
• 52:24
  networks responsible for reward, arousal, and
• 52:28
  determining what feels important. They detected
• 52:31
  no significant effect on the brain networks traditionally
• 52:35
  associated with attention, regardless of whether
• 52:38
  the child had ADHD or not. That could explain
• 52:42
  why stimulants help people remain focused. The
• 52:46
  drugs may make ordinary tasks such as homework,
• 52:49
  spreadsheets, or laundry feel significant enough
• 52:51
  to hold the brain's interest. It could also explain
• 52:55
  why stimulants sometimes calm hyperactive children.
• 52:59
  So like they're the opposite. The inverse effect,
• 53:02
  I should say. If a child becomes restless because
• 53:05
  classroom work provides too little stimulation,
• 53:08
  making the task feel more rewarding may reduce
• 53:12
  the urge to seek stimulation elsewhere. That's
• 53:15
  totally fascinating. Yeah, researchers have questioned
• 53:18
  the attention deficit label for decades. Studies
• 53:22
  now suggest ADHD can involve several overlapping
• 53:26
  difficulties, including impulse control, working
• 53:28
  memory, emotional regulation, motivation, and
• 53:32
  the ability to perceive future consequences.
• 53:35
  That's prefrontal cortex. One quick insertion
• 53:37
  here, Manila. I mean, It's so funny that like
• 53:41
  we look we look we we read something like this
• 53:43
  and we think like I mean This is interesting.
• 53:45
  I want to hear the rest of it. But it's like
• 53:48
  the first thing that pops into my mind is look
• 53:52
  we've created a society where people are bored
• 53:55
  to death doing all sorts of shit that they hate
• 53:58
  doing and They don't find interesting and instead
• 54:02
  of thinking maybe we should do less of that Let's
• 54:07
  medicate them so that they can handle it. Right!
• 54:11
  That's the overprescription problem that America
• 54:13
  has had for decades, especially since like my
• 54:16
  generation, kids that were growing up in the
• 54:18
  80s, that's when it was suddenly like, adderall,
• 54:21
  riddle in, adderall, riddle in. Because, like
• 54:24
  you said, we're not looking at it from the perspective
• 54:27
  of, well, people are different. Well, what's
• 54:29
  the problem? Is the problem the fact that the
• 54:31
  shit's boring and sucks? And so the human mind
• 54:35
  is like, correct. Or it's like, well, no, it's
• 54:40
  like, no, we're going to make you as an individual
• 54:44
  with hopes and loves and dreams. We're going
• 54:46
  to make you adjust your whole life to this boring
• 54:50
  shit we've come up with. So you keep doing. I
• 54:53
  bet this was never a problem during the hunter
• 54:55
  gatherer era. I bet. So psychologist Russell
• 54:59
  Barkley calls one common feature. Time blindness
• 55:03
  that's a common feature across all these people
• 55:06
  that they studied people can become trapped in
• 55:09
  the Immediate moment with tomorrow's deadline
• 55:11
  carrying little weight until it becomes today's
• 55:14
  emergency No single neurological deficit appears
• 55:18
  in everyone with ADHD. However None is exclusive
• 55:22
  to this the disorder either. That's why the why
• 55:26
  brain scans and neuropsychological tests cannot
• 55:29
  definitively diagnose ADHD or back then we called
• 55:33
  ADD. This complicated picture has intensified
• 55:36
  debate over whether ordinary boredom, lateness,
• 55:41
  and disorganization are being medicalized. Modern
• 55:44
  workplaces demand constant multitasking, while
• 55:47
  phones and social media train people to expect
• 55:50
  continuous stimulation. Those conditions may
• 55:53
  make existing ADHD traits considerably more disabling
• 55:58
  to those people that have it. Psychiatrists Still
• 56:01
  broadly agree that ADHD is real and it is treatable.
• 56:05
  Medication has been associated with lower rates
• 56:08
  of accidents, self -harm, substance misuse, and
• 56:12
  other serious outcomes. The emerging science
• 56:15
  suggests ADHD's name may have been misleading
• 56:18
  all along. The central problem may involve motivation
• 56:22
  and self -regulation more than attention itself.
• 56:26
  In short, the brain can pay attention, convincing
• 56:29
  it that this task deserves your attention is
• 56:33
  the harder part. So that is the takeaway, Ted.
• 56:36
  Tara Preto -Wild in the chat says, anyone with
• 56:39
  ADD, what we used to call it back in the day,
• 56:42
  could have told you this decades ago. Also, tons
• 56:45
  of people are not hyperactive. So the newer ADHD
• 56:48
  is also very misleading. That's true. It's not
• 56:52
  that they're bouncing off walls. It's the branding
• 56:55
  is part of the problem, but To Ted's point and
• 56:58
  the conclusion of you know, what we're saying
• 57:00
  here in the article is is like the Mostly this
• 57:08
  comes from teacher recommendations at school,
• 57:10
  right? Saying your kid is fucking bouncing off
• 57:12
  the walls and driving me insane. So go medicate
• 57:14
  your kid Yeah, as opposed to maybe maybe like
• 57:17
  up your up your teaching game. Maybe right like
• 57:21
  this this Parochial style of like here take this
• 57:27
  read this and just memorize it and regurgitate
• 57:29
  it back to me next week in the test Maybe that
• 57:32
  shit sucks Maybe we need we need a reform look
• 57:36
  there would be reforms Ted and this is where
• 57:39
  part of the problem is like the teachers unions
• 57:41
  and stuff want to keep curriculums and Teaching
• 57:44
  styles the way they've always done it because
• 57:47
  it's this like Prussian style, you know like
• 57:49
  Germanic Yah, you must get ready for working
• 57:52
  in the factory. That's just how we've always
• 57:57
  done it. It's a Prussian school. That's where
• 58:00
  school shul comes from, right? Like it's literally
• 58:03
  a Prussian idea of how to train children when
• 58:08
  they're very small to get them ready to work
• 58:11
  in the factory. And that's, you're droning on.
• 58:15
  Society has changed. We need complete reform.
• 58:18
  like instead of saying all of these kids are
• 58:20
  now born with ADHD and all of these kids are
• 58:24
  now born suddenly with whatever you know autism
• 58:28
  or whatever all these different disorders why
• 58:31
  not examine the shit that we're subjecting them
• 58:34
  to and change that yeah clearly just an idea
• 58:39
  so this study i would say a novel study i can't
• 58:43
  believe we're saying it's novel novel study but
• 58:46
  Yeah, the article is kind of like, hey, maybe
• 58:49
  change up your shit. Yeah, I mean, yeah. Maybe
• 58:55
  it's not the kid. No, I mean, the kids, the kids
• 58:59
  are all right. Right. It's like it's your it's
• 59:02
  your shitty school system. It's your it's your
• 59:05
  shitty workplace. I mean, like we should be.
• 59:09
  I mean, this sounds like kind of conversation.
• 59:11
  Look, in the late 1960s, early 1970s, when we
• 59:14
  did have a left, one of the things that they
• 59:16
  considered was like systemic issues like this
• 59:20
  instead of nibbling around the edges and assuming
• 59:23
  that the system itself couldn't be changed and
• 59:25
  trying to just sort of make modifications that
• 59:28
  would allow us to submit to the system more effectively.
• 59:32
  There was a guy named Jim Farber. He wrote a
• 59:34
  book that always stayed with me called The Student
• 59:38
  as Nigger. That's what it was called. And he
• 59:42
  basically talked about how, and I remember one
• 59:45
  of the lines in it was like stayed with me forever.
• 59:48
  He said, basically, it was only the American
• 59:52
  educational system could take something as breathlessly
• 59:55
  fascinating and brilliant as the sweep of history
• 1:00:02
  and turn it into something mind -numbingly dull
• 1:00:06
  and soul -crushingly boring. And it's true. It's
• 1:00:11
  kind of an accomplishment to do that, right?
• 1:00:14
  And it's like there's a lot of stuff, first of
• 1:00:16
  all, that the schools teach. that people really
• 1:00:18
  don't need algebra. No one needs algebra. You
• 1:00:23
  know, I mean, and I'm saying this as someone
• 1:00:24
  who was a brilliant math student. But, you know,
• 1:00:29
  so of course people are bored by it because they
• 1:00:30
  can't see the relevance. My son had no interest
• 1:00:34
  at all in his French classes until I took him
• 1:00:38
  to France. And he was like, you know, oh, there's
• 1:00:41
  all these people who speak this. If I knew French,
• 1:00:43
  I could speak to them. I see it. I get it now.
• 1:00:47
  I see the relevance. Um, and then the way it's
• 1:00:50
  done, like with rote memorization, um, you know,
• 1:00:54
  just the, you know, basically being obsessed
• 1:00:56
  with grades and stupid exams and tests. I mean,
• 1:00:59
  it's not about, it's a really shitty system that
• 1:01:02
  should be completely torn down to the, to the
• 1:01:06
  walls and we should start from scratch. Oh, I
• 1:01:10
  agree. I'm take it down to the studs and, and
• 1:01:13
  just, Make it fit for the 21st century. There's
• 1:01:18
  no I'm not seeing any other developed nation
• 1:01:22
  Ted including France including Germany including
• 1:01:25
  Shanghai including like any name any big city
• 1:01:28
  in Asia I have not seen the same rates of kids
• 1:01:33
  getting diagnosed with ADD or ADHD and autism
• 1:01:36
  spectrum disorders or anything anything the rates
• 1:01:39
  are nowhere near the same as the US and And if
• 1:01:43
  you look at some of these more technical type
• 1:01:46
  schools that kids, little kids, I'm talking about
• 1:01:48
  little ones, can get into in Asia, like those
• 1:01:52
  kids have to kind of test into it. Those kids
• 1:01:56
  like love how they're being taught. It's hands
• 1:01:59
  on, it's not rote memorization. The kids are
• 1:02:03
  actively involved with like engineering from
• 1:02:06
  like age six. Kids are more capable than we give
• 1:02:09
  them credit for than American society. They're
• 1:02:13
  under challenge. They're under challenge. And
• 1:02:15
  we assume that they're not smart. They're smart.
• 1:02:18
  They're as smart as adults, at least as smart
• 1:02:20
  as adults. They're just like not, they just don't
• 1:02:22
  have the experience. I think kids are smarter
• 1:02:26
  than adults, Ted. They haven't had their souls
• 1:02:29
  crushed yet, so their imagination works out ways
• 1:02:32
  to fix things. They just can't verbalize it the
• 1:02:34
  way adults do. And they don't have as many pollutants
• 1:02:35
  in their brains yet. So their brains can think
• 1:02:38
  and adapt wildly, but then we try to force them
• 1:02:41
  into the soul crushing Prussian style rote memorization
• 1:02:46
  sit there and be still in your little desk all
• 1:02:50
  day eight hours a day and We we kill their excellence
• 1:02:54
  We kill children's ability to to think out of
• 1:02:57
  the box and be be as brilliant as as they're
• 1:03:00
  supposed to be true It's because we have an indoctrination
• 1:03:04
  system, not an education system. It's all about
• 1:03:07
  control. Listen, if you have a well -educated
• 1:03:10
  populace, that means you have a population that
• 1:03:14
  demands competency in all things, including government.
• 1:03:17
  How do you make sure, if you have a corrupt government,
• 1:03:20
  that you have a pliant and docile population?
• 1:03:23
  You drug it, you uneducate it, then you divide
• 1:03:27
  it along class, racial, and cultural lines. That's
• 1:03:31
  what we're doing. This is the Indian model. This
• 1:03:34
  has nothing to do with educating our kids. This
• 1:03:36
  has nothing to do with building the future. This
• 1:03:38
  has everything to do with controlling the population
• 1:03:42
  writ large and pretending that we're a republic
• 1:03:44
  when we're anything but that. For sure. I agree.
• 1:03:50
  So it's not a coincidence that we are over -medicalizing
• 1:03:55
  any condition. We're calling it a condition and
• 1:03:58
  then throwing medicine at it and being like,
• 1:04:00
  Sit in your little desk at your desk all day
• 1:04:03
  and just suck it up suck it up junior shut up
• 1:04:06
  true So there you go there. So now look look
• 1:04:09
  that up I find it really fascinating that this
• 1:04:12
  this scientist this doctor is saying Hey, maybe
• 1:04:16
  we should look at this Differently, maybe it's
• 1:04:20
  not the kids Just saying yeah, and last and maybe
• 1:04:28
  least a bitter family conflict in Northern, California
• 1:04:32
  has ended with a New York Times executive dead
• 1:04:35
  and his two old in -laws charged with murder.
• 1:04:39
  This is a very weird story if you haven't heard
• 1:04:41
  it yet. So Jonathan McKinsey, 40 years old, was
• 1:04:45
  the director of engineering for New York Times
• 1:04:48
  games. Now, if you're not familiar with the New
• 1:04:50
  York Times, a major part of their app is their
• 1:04:54
  games, things like Wordle. So it's a major profit
• 1:04:59
  center for the paper. Anyway, on September 26th,
• 1:05:02
  The local police in Northern California in Dublin,
• 1:05:06
  which is in the East Bay of San Francisco Bay
• 1:05:09
  Area, found McKinsey suffering from multiple
• 1:05:12
  gunshot wounds in the parking lot of a sports
• 1:05:15
  complex. Witnesses directed officers toward Shuyang
• 1:05:22
  Zhang and Shili Chen, 77 years old, who were
• 1:05:26
  McKinsey's in -laws. They were immediately arrested.
• 1:05:30
  The prosecutors say that the old couple, the
• 1:05:33
  in -law, mother and father -in -law, acted together.
• 1:05:36
  They waited for McKinsey before opening fire.
• 1:05:39
  Zhang reportedly admitted shooting him during
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  a police interview. By the way, they're alleged
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  to have traded the gun back and forth, Manila.
• 1:05:48
  Like dad -in -law shot, then mother -in -law
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  shot, then like back and forth, back and forth.
• 1:05:53
  Wait, my turn, my turn. Here, your turn, your
• 1:05:56
  turn. Yeah, you can't have it all. Both are of
• 1:06:00
  course charged with murder, personal use of a
• 1:06:03
  firearm, blah blah blah. They faced life and
• 1:06:05
  life without parole. But, you know, they're 77.
• 1:06:08
  It's not going to be that long. Anyway, the shooting
• 1:06:10
  came amid a vicious divorce and custody battle
• 1:06:13
  between McKinsey and the couple's daughter, Candice
• 1:06:17
  Jang. So the two got married in 2011, had three
• 1:06:21
  kids and were living separately. So they were,
• 1:06:25
  I guess now you would say estranged. Both filed
• 1:06:27
  restraining orders against the others and accused
• 1:06:30
  the others of years of emotional and physical
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  abuse. According, Jang said that McKinsey hit
• 1:06:36
  their six -year -old son with an open palm and
• 1:06:40
  once left a toddler home alone. Prosecutors charged
• 1:06:44
  McKinsey, the victim -murder victim here, with
• 1:06:47
  two misdemeanor child abuse offenses. He pled
• 1:06:49
  not guilty, said it was all bullshit, and was
• 1:06:52
  awaiting trial when he died. McKinsey, who was
• 1:06:55
  trans, made equally disturbing allegations against
• 1:06:58
  Jang and her parents. He claimed that Jang weaponized
• 1:07:03
  his gender identity during arguments and, yeah,
• 1:07:06
  said all sorts of things about him being a disgusting
• 1:07:08
  pervert and a sick fuck, and that her father
• 1:07:13
  once punched him in the chest while he was recovering
• 1:07:17
  from a mastectomy. He also accused, I mean, this
• 1:07:21
  is just so off. It's off the hook, right? He
• 1:07:26
  also accused - It's surprising that this is like
• 1:07:28
  an Asian family, like - Oh, no, not to me it's
• 1:07:31
  not. He also accused Chen of directing anti -LGBTQ
• 1:07:35
  slurs at him and one of the children. Jang denied
• 1:07:39
  McKinsey's abuse allegations in court. Additional
• 1:07:42
  records reported by the New York Post show that
• 1:07:46
  McKinsey survived two suicide attempts during
• 1:07:50
  the couple's early years. One was in 2009. under
• 1:07:54
  unclear circumstances. The McKinsey claimed the
• 1:07:57
  second one followed a 2010 argument. Remember,
• 1:08:00
  this is just a year before they got married in
• 1:08:03
  which she allegedly told him that nobody would
• 1:08:06
  want someone transgender and as messed up as
• 1:08:09
  him. He called 911 before losing consciousness
• 1:08:13
  and losing consciousness and survived. We don't
• 1:08:17
  have a motive for the killing. I mean, although
• 1:08:19
  according to The official account they called
• 1:08:23
  him a pervert and a sicko Um because of him being
• 1:08:27
  trans so a relative speculated that custody a
• 1:08:31
  custody battle may have been involved But yeah,
• 1:08:34
  we don't know. Um, so anyway, this is a multi
• 1:08:38
  -layered it is a It is a wildly dysfunctional
• 1:08:43
  Insanely crazy Series of events right like dysfunctional
• 1:08:49
  family for sure so okay first first Let me let
• 1:08:53
  me clarify some of these so some of these names
• 1:08:56
  We're off. We don't have you know we were not
• 1:08:59
  authorized to use their video or whatever um
• 1:09:02
  But the older couples an older Asian couple that
• 1:09:05
  shot their son -in -law Allegedly allegedly allegedly
• 1:09:10
  probably innocent and being framed McKinsey Mackenzie
• 1:09:15
  is also Asian. Wait, Mackenzie is Asian too?
• 1:09:20
  Yeah. How could a Mackenzie be Asian? Maybe they
• 1:09:24
  were adopted when they were born or something.
• 1:09:28
  They were born an Asian female and their name,
• 1:09:32
  I don't know their previous name. Well, he was
• 1:09:34
  a she, right? So she, he, I mean, so he, I mean,
• 1:09:37
  because he did become a he. Mackenzie was a she.
• 1:09:39
  Yeah. But he's not a they. He was, he's a he.
• 1:09:42
  Yeah. Yeah. So this person was born female. When
• 1:09:47
  McKinsey was dating Jang, Jang is self identified
• 1:09:51
  the mother female. Basically, they had a lesbian
• 1:09:53
  relationship to begin a lesbian relationship
• 1:09:55
  to begin with, then McKinsey trans into male
• 1:10:00
  McKinsey, and the dad and the husband. So I don't
• 1:10:04
  know where the three kids came from. But Jang
• 1:10:07
  is is the maternal the physical maternal. It
• 1:10:11
  could be either of them, right? Or it could be
• 1:10:13
  they could be adopted. Could be adopted right
• 1:10:16
  so either but I don't think it I don't believe
• 1:10:19
  McKinsey was the one that carried the children
• 1:10:22
  As far as I could tell from reports, but anyway,
• 1:10:25
  so there's a bitter ugly custody battle involved
• 1:10:28
  look I don't if the if if miss Jang's parents
• 1:10:34
  didn't say such horrible things to McKinsey I
• 1:10:38
  would say this trans thing was a non -issue It
• 1:10:40
  was just an ugly divorce a custody like people
• 1:10:43
  get horrible in custody like they sure do I mean
• 1:10:45
  Yeah, I mean there's There's no limit where I
• 1:10:49
  live. There's no limit. Yeah people I've witnessed
• 1:10:53
  it firsthand. There are other as a as a reporter.
• 1:10:55
  I've seen things and more recently like Gosh,
• 1:10:59
  what was his name? Justin Fairfax? He was like
• 1:11:02
  the lieutenant governor under Ralph Northam here
• 1:11:06
  in in Virginia He very recently very like a month
• 1:11:11
  two months three months ago Do you remember him,
• 1:11:13
  Ted, Justin Fairfax? I do not. Lieutenant Governor.
• 1:11:18
  He was recently going through divorce with his
• 1:11:21
  dentist wife in here in suburban Fairfax County.
• 1:11:26
  And they were apparently filed for divorce. They're
• 1:11:31
  separated, but lived in the same home. He murder,
• 1:11:34
  suicided his wife. Oh, well, very recently. Oh,
• 1:11:38
  I do remember this. This is a crazy story. Yeah,
• 1:11:41
  yeah. Yeah, because they were fighting for custody
• 1:11:44
  of the kids and the divorce was getting ugly
• 1:11:45
  and he like thankfully he didn't hurt the children,
• 1:11:49
  but he did take his wife with him on his way
• 1:11:52
  out. Yeah, you might not be able to take it with
• 1:11:54
  you, but you can take your spouse. So, you know,
• 1:11:59
  one could argue like, OK, this, you know, barring
• 1:12:01
  the trans thing that this is just an ugly custody
• 1:12:04
  thing and the grandparents got involved and shot
• 1:12:08
  up Mackenzie. but then you add the weird like
• 1:12:11
  trans hate stuff from the parents and then you're
• 1:12:14
  kind of like i don't know what this is i don't
• 1:12:17
  know what i don't know what it's fucking it's
• 1:12:20
  fucking asians gone wild man it is old asians
• 1:12:24
  too yeah yeah things get spicy in the east bay
• 1:12:29
  like man yeah seriously like i know some hardcore
• 1:12:33
  or new, I don't currently know, but new, some
• 1:12:36
  hardcore Asian, like gangbangers, like in, especially
• 1:12:39
  in the Bay Area. Yeah. Like, are these parents
• 1:12:42
  like old gangbangers? Like, like how did they
• 1:12:44
  get all like two -packed style? Yeah, they fucking
• 1:12:48
  two -packed. Yeah, it's fucking insane. What?
• 1:12:52
  These are 77 year old Asian grandparents. What
• 1:12:57
  a couple of nuts. I mean, it sounds like everyone
• 1:13:01
  involved is crazy. Right? I mean, yeah, I'm just
• 1:13:04
  like, I'd say McKinsey might, I'm going to say
• 1:13:07
  probably McKinsey is the least crazy of them,
• 1:13:11
  but probably still crazy. Probably still crazy.
• 1:13:15
  Is McKinsey the one that got killed? I can't
• 1:13:17
  keep track. McKinsey is the one that died. She's
• 1:13:19
  the victim. Yeah. Okay. So he's the victim. No,
• 1:13:23
  it's a she. That's here. Well, I think they had
• 1:13:26
  the whole surgery up and down. Yeah Yeah, there
• 1:13:28
  was a the whole thing. I mean, yeah, it's it's
• 1:13:31
  too legit to quit Listen there are there and
• 1:13:34
  if you look at the pictures, they definitely
• 1:13:36
  look like a dude like bearded and hairy in the
• 1:13:39
  chest and that's true like I mean when I had
• 1:13:42
  to really stare at the picture to be like wait
• 1:13:44
  Is is that really a trans person? I mean, yeah,
• 1:13:47
  I saw the pictures of McKinsey pre -op and pre
• 1:13:50
  -transition. So I was like Oh, that's McKinsey.
• 1:13:54
  Oh, I mean, they did a pretty good job, right?
• 1:13:57
  It was McKinsey. Was McKinsey a cute girl before
• 1:13:59
  she destroyed her body? Average. Yeah, meh, meh.
• 1:14:05
  I mean, no, I mean, no, some people think they're
• 1:14:07
  cosplaying, though, to extreme levels. I've seen
• 1:14:09
  those those people who are addicted to body modifications.
• 1:14:13
  They put like ridges in their heads. And yeah,
• 1:14:15
  that's all this. That's all this is this. You
• 1:14:17
  cannot change. You can't change your sex. They're
• 1:14:26
  changing their gender, not their sex. They're
• 1:14:27
  just changing their gender. Although we'll be
• 1:14:29
  able to change. I think we will be able to change
• 1:14:31
  our, at some point with gene splicing, we'll
• 1:14:34
  be able to change our sex. The Japanese having
• 1:14:36
  a way of fixing retardation. What was the official
• 1:14:42
  term of it? You're born with the extra chromosome?
• 1:14:45
  Having a break. Oh the crisper technology. Yeah,
• 1:14:47
  but they came up with Down syndrome. This was
• 1:14:50
  a down downs downs. Yeah Yeah, they can fix it
• 1:14:54
  now. Yeah Crazy designer babies. So I mean talk
• 1:14:59
  about anyway, this was not a designer baby. This
• 1:15:01
  person is you know, 40 years old So the grandparents
• 1:15:05
  took out There there is strange the great strange.
• 1:15:10
  They're strange. No, not the granddaughter son
• 1:15:12
  -in -law son -in -law Oh, OK. Formerly daughter
• 1:15:15
  -in -law. Yes. But we don't know which wound
• 1:15:19
  produced the offspring. It might have been none
• 1:15:23
  of the above. We don't know. Right. For all we
• 1:15:25
  know, the kids were adopted. I don't that. I
• 1:15:27
  don't know. I'm going to assume he was not the
• 1:15:30
  pregnant one. He was not the pregnant one. We
• 1:15:33
  don't know. Yeah. From what I've seen in photos,
• 1:15:36
  McKinsey was not the pregnant one is safe to
• 1:15:38
  assume. I mean, you know, that's it. That's an
• 1:15:40
  amazing story. Right. Like, could you imagine
• 1:15:42
  like you start So you go crying game style you
• 1:15:45
  start dating someone and and you're like like,
• 1:15:49
  let's say it's me and I'm like, okay, well She's
• 1:15:52
  a girl and then she's like so I'm still gonna
• 1:15:56
  be the same person Ted, but I really want to
• 1:15:59
  transition to becoming a guy I mean obviously
• 1:16:01
  that puts everybody involved in a really tough
• 1:16:04
  spot, right? Because you're unless you're extra
• 1:16:07
  unless you're bisexual or extraordinarily even
• 1:16:10
  then extraordinarily um you're attractive you're
• 1:16:16
  you're you're you're you're your taste is extremely
• 1:16:19
  wide right like you're very sexually and otherwise
• 1:16:23
  flexible i'm nervous i'm nervous right like i
• 1:16:27
  mean it's just i mean it's the ultimate bait
• 1:16:29
  i mean bait and switch right it's sort of like
• 1:16:32
  isn't that cheating though i mean aren't you
• 1:16:35
  sampling for both pools Well, no, no, look, no,
• 1:16:38
  this is what happens if you marry a person, though.
• 1:16:41
  Hold on. This is what happened. Almost the Kardashians,
• 1:16:44
  because the mom. What's her name? Jenner mom.
• 1:16:48
  What's his name? Christina Jenner or something?
• 1:16:52
  No, the mom is Chris. Chris Jenner. K. R. I.
• 1:16:57
  S. Chris. Chris Jenner and and Bruce Jenner.
• 1:17:01
  Bruce became a she. Caitlin. Caitlin is what
• 1:17:07
  he calls myself now. Yes, so they split up they
• 1:17:11
  divorced the Jenner's divorce before Bruce became
• 1:17:15
  Caitlin, but They've spoken about this was that
• 1:17:19
  Chris the Bruce consulted Chris Jenner before
• 1:17:24
  This all happened and kind of wanted to save
• 1:17:26
  their marriage and Chris Jenner was like, bro
• 1:17:29
  I married a like triathlete gold medalist fucking
• 1:17:33
  masculine man a dude and had kids with you Gold
• 1:17:38
  and now and now you want boobs. I'm not into
• 1:17:42
  that. I'm not a lesbian I love you, but I'm not
• 1:17:44
  a lesbian like so that's why they're cool, right?
• 1:17:47
  Like they're They still hang you know, like all
• 1:17:52
  the Jenner is still all you know, whatever so
• 1:17:54
  this is not I think you have to I mean, it's
• 1:17:57
  rough I think that like if you if you're in that
• 1:17:58
  situation like you have to be like Chris Chris
• 1:18:01
  Jenner where you have this sort of You have to
• 1:18:03
  sort of say look, you know, you have to go follow
• 1:18:06
  your you got to do what you got to do and you
• 1:18:09
  know, but obviously I don't know if I don't know
• 1:18:14
  if I can transition like my oral sex game quite
• 1:18:17
  that much Yeah, I I actually agree with Chris
• 1:18:20
  Jenner there and she did a very kind thing I
• 1:18:23
  would say was to say look, I love you fly free.
• 1:18:26
  I'm I'm I love you little children together.
• 1:18:29
  We will write go do you We will still be friends.
• 1:18:33
  We are still family. I just can't stay married
• 1:18:36
  to you if you become a woman. Like I'm not a
• 1:18:38
  lesbian. Like I... If you present like a woman,
• 1:18:42
  I think that's not for me. It would obviously
• 1:18:43
  be a little less difficult if there was no...
• 1:18:45
  Now, did he do gender -affirming surgery or not?
• 1:18:50
  I don't know. So I would say if under the skirt
• 1:18:55
  everything's still the same, maybe it wouldn't
• 1:18:57
  make any difference. Either way, Chris... has
• 1:19:02
  spoken about it, and she said that she couldn't
• 1:19:04
  look at Bruce. She married Bruce. That's what
• 1:19:08
  she's attracted to. That's what and that's fair
• 1:19:11
  for her. Oh, it has to be fair for her. It's
• 1:19:15
  so if she can't be attracted to her spouse and
• 1:19:18
  doesn't want to sleep with her. It's amazing
• 1:19:19
  to me that it sometimes works and people are
• 1:19:22
  able to trade stuff. Is this illegal in China,
• 1:19:24
  illegal in Taiwan? Oh, I I'm sure it's legal
• 1:19:29
  in in in Taiwan. Because if it is and if it's
• 1:19:34
  illegal in the mainland because it's more sane
• 1:19:37
  I'm shocked. I'm looking up here Let's see. Oh
• 1:19:43
  so Indian in Taiwan You must you must get proof.
• 1:19:49
  You must get a mental health evaluation Before
• 1:19:53
  you're permitted to do the surgery, but it's
• 1:19:57
  legal In China you oh in china you can't be like
• 1:20:04
  marked you can be you can have your national
• 1:20:06
  id card and household registration changed to
• 1:20:10
  reflect your new gender identity but not if unless
• 1:20:15
  you have gender affirming surgery to go with
• 1:20:17
  it so in other words so you have to go bottom
• 1:20:21
  surgery also you've got to go all in addressed
• 1:20:24
  as yeah the other sex yeah so it is legal So
• 1:20:29
  what you know, I don't know these people are
• 1:20:31
  all Americans. Oh my god. This is interesting
• 1:20:33
  and if you're You also have to receive notarized
• 1:20:37
  consent for or notification from your immediate
• 1:20:40
  family members so it's got to be like Sister
• 1:20:47
  hey sis. So listen, there's something I had to
• 1:20:49
  ask you. How do you like a new sister? They're
• 1:20:54
  like wait mom's too old to have another what?
• 1:21:00
  Hey girlfriend Yeah, and to your point, Manila,
• 1:21:04
  I mean, sure, they're Americans, but I mean,
• 1:21:06
  look at you, your frustration, the Lao American,
• 1:21:10
  the, the, no, your, no, the culture of your parents
• 1:21:13
  is still part of you. It's still part of you.
• 1:21:16
  Sure. I mean, no culture and nationality are
• 1:21:17
  two different things. Nationality is just where
• 1:21:20
  on the map are you born? Your culture is what
• 1:21:22
  matters. Yeah. Uh, I don't think Asian culture
• 1:21:29
  is very like more, more trad, more traditional
• 1:21:36
  than this. Yeah. Usually for sure. Yeah. Yeah,
• 1:21:38
  like very conservative and traditional. Not necessarily
• 1:21:43
  religious, but traditional. I'm willing to bet
• 1:21:45
  you the whole reason why the Chinese miracle
• 1:21:47
  wink and a nod while requiring familial consent
• 1:21:51
  before you go and destroy your body. Well, it
• 1:21:54
  came about because of unification with Hong Kong.
• 1:21:56
  It's like, sure, you can bring your liberal woke
• 1:21:59
  Western values with you, but there's a little
• 1:22:01
  asterisk there. That I don't know. I don't know
• 1:22:05
  where where these people are from. I haven't
• 1:22:07
  done that I just had to zoom in at looking at
• 1:22:10
  McKinsey before and after when I was like, oh
• 1:22:13
  I can see that. Okay, I can see just like you
• 1:22:15
  can look at at Bruce Jenner versus Caitlyn Jenner
• 1:22:18
  today and you're like, oh I can see. Okay, I
• 1:22:21
  can see that. Okay, so I had I couldn't understand
• 1:22:24
  what I was reading when all of this went down.
• 1:22:27
  So I was like wait. Well, it's hard to follow
• 1:22:29
  everything. McKinsey is Asian. It's gonna be
• 1:22:33
  so hard. It's gonna be hard to date nowadays
• 1:22:35
  I have to roll a girl around the flower and flowers
• 1:22:38
  if there's a wet spot or not. I mean Is that
• 1:22:41
  the requirement? Yes, I don't look we gotta go
• 1:22:45
  We got we gotta go. This is a weird. This is
• 1:22:48
  the custody story of 2026 Ted Oh, yeah, you can't
• 1:22:53
  you just can't make it up. It's like it's insane
• 1:22:56
  Asians that don't that aren't Asian named that
• 1:23:00
  aren't necessarily the sex or gender that you
• 1:23:04
  think they are and the killer the alleged killers
• 1:23:07
  are not who you would imagine the killers would
• 1:23:10
  be usually in in NorCal Ted if people are popped
• 1:23:14
  at a park right like it's usually some gangbanger
• 1:23:19
  not 80 year old Asian people no it's just so
• 1:23:24
  it's so crazy California is a social cancer issue
• 1:23:29
  we should have a national mastectomy of California
• 1:23:32
  We be some weird people out there. It's very
• 1:23:35
  colorful. It is weird. Let's go back to Mexico.
• 1:23:42
  Build a wall. So weird. You can have it. It is
• 1:23:47
  beautiful, though. It is. It's a beautiful place
• 1:23:50
  with delicious food full of weird ass people.
• 1:23:54
  That's all I can say. Well, the thing is, if
• 1:23:57
  you have a representative cell of government,
• 1:23:59
  the weird ass people actually is a problem. I
• 1:24:03
  know we don't have time to get into this we gotta
• 1:24:06
  go we gotta go but this this is your story because
• 1:24:08
  it's part it's part we have to squeeze fun friday
• 1:24:11
  into thursday now because we're tuesday and thursday
• 1:24:14
  so i do apologize i do apologize for cheating
• 1:24:16
  on you and ted on tuesday oh well thank you well
• 1:24:21
  yes we it's not cheating if you tell us about
• 1:24:24
  it that's right so it's an open relationship
• 1:24:27
  it's polygamy that's right it's polygamy don't
• 1:24:31
  ask don't tell If people know I was on another
• 1:24:33
  podcast someone's asking Robbie. What did you
• 1:24:35
  do? Well, we'll be we'll be back on Tuesday,
• 1:24:39
  though So look, please share please share share
• 1:24:42
  our clips Robbie is cutting them and sprinkling
• 1:24:45
  them out during the week Although Ted not Ted
• 1:24:47
  Robbie. I'm not sure I I think I read that that
• 1:24:52
  it doesn't matter if you Sprinkle like the consistency
• 1:24:56
  of like is it are you putting out videos every
• 1:24:58
  day every other day? Whatever it matters less
• 1:25:00
  It matters more the time that you're putting
• 1:25:03
  it at both both matters So if you just flood
• 1:25:07
  a bunch of things all at one time, it'll cannibalize
• 1:25:09
  But so you want to spread it out and also look
• 1:25:12
  at the heat map Just the YouTube channel has
• 1:25:14
  been dormant for so long. We don't really have
• 1:25:15
  one yet, right? So we're trying to that's why
• 1:25:18
  we're trying to figure all this stuff out guys.
• 1:25:20
  So thank you for staying with us So there you
• 1:25:24
  are. We are mapping this stuff out. We'll, we'll
• 1:25:26
  have more data in about two months. So we'll
• 1:25:28
  know. I kind of like the schedule to tell you
• 1:25:30
  the truth. I don't mind. I don't mind it. Able
• 1:25:34
  to do some stuff. DMC tomorrow. Don't forget
• 1:25:38
  on Fridays. Look at the message I sent you on
• 1:25:41
  the private chat. Okay. Okay. There we go. Adios
• 1:25:44
  amigos. Thanks for being here. See you on Tuesday.
• 1:25:47
  Everybody. Have a good weekend. Bye guys. Bye
• 1:25:48
  Ted.