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Ep. 110: Infinite Money For Stupid Trump Shit · The Opinionated Ogre Podcast

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  SPEAKER_00: Good morning from Canada.
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  SPEAKER_00: Good morning from Florida.
• 0:03
  SPEAKER_01: It's like polar opposites.
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  SPEAKER_01: Canada, pleasant, nice, free, cold.
• 0:09
  SPEAKER_01: Florida, sweaty, fascist hellhole.
• 0:12
  SPEAKER_00: I know.
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  SPEAKER_00: And they just,
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  SPEAKER_00: in the primary last night,
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  SPEAKER_00: Republicans chose Byron Donalds,
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  SPEAKER_00: the guy who wants to put data centers all over the state.
• 0:24
  SPEAKER_01: Of course he does.
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  SPEAKER_00: In a state where we already have problems with water supplies.
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  SPEAKER_01: Wonder how much money he got for that.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's going to be really funny because people on the left and the right hate data centers, right?
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  SPEAKER_01: But Republicans are going to get a lot of money from the tech industry,
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  SPEAKER_01: which means Fox News and the rest of them are going to be like, no,
• 0:47
  SPEAKER_01: data centers are great,
• 0:48
  SPEAKER_01: which means over the next several years,
• 0:51
  SPEAKER_01: the right is going to be like,
• 0:52
  SPEAKER_01: no, we love data centers because Fox News told us data centers are awesome.
• 0:56
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, that's already kind of starting.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's going to be really weird to watch them going out there and literally protesting
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  SPEAKER_01: in favor of data centers.
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  SPEAKER_01: They create jobs!
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, data centers are awesome because they create jobs for billionaires or something.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's going to be so weird to watch.
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  SPEAKER_01: It'll be the tea party for data centers.
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  SPEAKER_01: No, for sure.
• 1:20
  SPEAKER_01: You guys are just a fucking cult.
• 1:22
  SPEAKER_01: You literally will say anything you're told to say,
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  SPEAKER_01: but it's going to be really amazing to watch.
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  SPEAKER_01: A data center ate my jaw, but I love data centers.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's like, okay, okay, cultist.
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  SPEAKER_01: Don't call me a cultist.
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  SPEAKER_01: Okay, but you're wearing a little data center on your head,
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  SPEAKER_01: and you tattooed a data center on your arm, but it's okay.
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  SPEAKER_01: You're not a cultist or anything.
• 1:43
  SPEAKER_01: It's cool.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's cool.
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  SPEAKER_00: You tattooed a data center.
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  SPEAKER_01: I promise you,
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  SPEAKER_01: within four or five years,
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  SPEAKER_01: you're going to see people on the right,
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  SPEAKER_01: they're going to start tattooing data centers on their arms because,
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  SPEAKER_01: you know, just to own the libs.
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  SPEAKER_01: They're going to own the libs by being like pro data center because they're fucking morons.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I love when they try to own the libs and it's always just owning themselves.
• 2:10
  SPEAKER_01: Yep.
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  SPEAKER_01: It'll destroy their communities.
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  SPEAKER_01: It'll destroy their entire future.
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  SPEAKER_01: Their kids won't have jobs.
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  SPEAKER_01: But, you know, I love data centers because Fox News said they're awesome and it makes libs cry.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 2:21
  SPEAKER_00: Well, Thierry,
• 2:23
  SPEAKER_00: so obviously I don't like Byron Donald,
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  SPEAKER_00: who we're talking about right now, who won the Republican nomination.
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  SPEAKER_00: And honestly, I don't.
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  SPEAKER_00: The thing about Florida is like Democrats pick David Jolly,
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  SPEAKER_00: who's a former Republican congressman.
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  SPEAKER_00: And ordinarily I'd be like, fuck that bitch.
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  SPEAKER_00: But in Florida, it might be the only way that we're going to win.
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  SPEAKER_00: And he's like a moderate Republican.
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  SPEAKER_00: He was a moderate Republican who was kicked out of the party because he was a never Trumper.
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  SPEAKER_00: So, I mean, if it's between the two of them, you know, I'll be Jolly Ho.
• 2:57
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 2:59
  SPEAKER_01: Wasn't there something—oh, God, I was just listening this morning to What a Day.
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  SPEAKER_01: One of the Republicans that was running was calling— Oh, fishback?
• 3:12
  SPEAKER_01: One of them was caught rifling through someone's mail while they were out campaigning.
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  SPEAKER_01: And the other person was like, oh, that guy's satanic.
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  SPEAKER_01: And he said something that was, like, really fucking crazy, even for a Republican.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: I think that was Fishback,
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  SPEAKER_00: which is funny because there's a giant flag for him on the side of the highway.
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  SPEAKER_00: So Florida didn't used to always be like this.
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  SPEAKER_00: I would say that after Charlie Crest, that's when things started going awry.
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  SPEAKER_00: So really just two governors.
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  SPEAKER_00: It was after the 20th.
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  SPEAKER_00: It was after the 2010 realigning where the Tea Party took over that Florida got fucked.
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  SPEAKER_01: And they did start attracting large amounts of Republicans.
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  SPEAKER_01: A lot of Republican voters went there.
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  SPEAKER_01: So now the state is very, very bad.
• 4:02
  SPEAKER_00: Because it used to be about even.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's why we were a swing state.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's why we voted for Obama.
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  SPEAKER_00: But then after COVID, so many Republicans flocked here because we were cheaper than California.
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  SPEAKER_00: And nobody wants to go to the Gulf beaches in Louisiana.
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  SPEAKER_00: So we have a lot of beaches.
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  SPEAKER_00: Our beaches are very pretty.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it was more affordable.
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  SPEAKER_00: But the thing is, they made it unaffordable.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's so expensive here now.
• 4:29
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, they really took the one thing they had going for them and destroyed it.
• 4:35
  SPEAKER_01: They did.
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  SPEAKER_01: Why?
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  SPEAKER_01: Who knows?
• 4:37
  SPEAKER_01: Because they're Republicans.
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  SPEAKER_00: But in good news,
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  SPEAKER_00: Sarasota County,
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  SPEAKER_00: their school board has been controlled by Republicans for about four years.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the head of the school board was Bridget Ziegler.
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  SPEAKER_00: Remember her husband was the head of the Republican Party in Florida.
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  SPEAKER_00: And there was like this big scandal that they were swinging and having a threesome.
• 4:58
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, yeah, that whole thing.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, so she was the head of the Sarasota County School Board,
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  SPEAKER_00: and yesterday she was like, oh, you know, look at them campaigning.
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  SPEAKER_00: They have Ziegler derangement syndrome, which,
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  SPEAKER_00: just as an aside,
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  SPEAKER_00: during Obama's administration,
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  SPEAKER_00: we used to say that the Republicans And they're so unoriginal that they had to take
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  SPEAKER_00: that term and twist it for themselves.
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  SPEAKER_00: So you guys couldn't even come up with a new term.
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  SPEAKER_00: So anyways,
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  SPEAKER_00: last night,
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  SPEAKER_00: three Democrats won in Sarasota, and they took back control of the school board.
• 5:31
  SPEAKER_00: So it doesn't matter what happens in November, we have control of the school board.
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't live in Sarasota, but I am happy about that.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yay!
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  SPEAKER_00: Any win is a good win.
• 5:41
  SPEAKER_01: Who was this?
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  SPEAKER_01: Dan Blizzardine?
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  SPEAKER_01: Blizzardine?
• 5:45
  SPEAKER_01: Blizzardine?
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  SPEAKER_01: I don't know who that is.
• 5:48
  SPEAKER_01: I was calling someone this.
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  SPEAKER_01: Oh, this is it.
• 5:50
  SPEAKER_01: I'm sorry.
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  SPEAKER_01: Florida Republican Dan Blizzardine.
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  SPEAKER_01: Blizzardine was challenging incumbent Republican Congressman.
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  SPEAKER_01: He also wondered whether it was worth revisiting Adolf Hitler's opinions.
• 6:17
  SPEAKER_00: What?
• 6:18
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't know where the sixth congressional district is.
• 6:21
  SPEAKER_01: So this is this is yeah, this is this is the Republican Party.
• 6:26
  SPEAKER_01: And these are the people that when you say, you know, you have a you have a Nazi problem.
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  SPEAKER_01: They get really, really mad at you.
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  SPEAKER_01: And it's like, I don't know.
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  SPEAKER_01: Maybe if you didn't have so many fucking Nazis in your party,
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  SPEAKER_01: we wouldn't say you have a Nazi problem.
• 6:39
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's weird.
• 6:41
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, you know what?
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  SPEAKER_00: Florida's 6th Congressional District is up by St. Augustine in Daytona.
• 6:48
  SPEAKER_00: It's like that area over there.
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  SPEAKER_01: Is that a problematic place?
• 6:53
  SPEAKER_00: No, I'm just...
• 6:55
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, my grandma lives in that area, but is she problematic?
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  SPEAKER_00: She is 90 and they gave her her driver's license.
• 7:04
  SPEAKER_00: Lady can barely move.
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  SPEAKER_01: Jesus Christ.
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  SPEAKER_00: Come to Florida.
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  SPEAKER_00: We'll give you a license.
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  SPEAKER_01: For driving and a gun.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: All right.
• 7:16
  SPEAKER_01: This is The Opinionated Ogre podcast,
• 7:18
  SPEAKER_01: your weekly rampage to current events with a little snark,
• 7:21
  SPEAKER_01: a bit of foul And this is my co-host, Florida Woman.
• 7:23
  SPEAKER_01: Hello, Florida Woman.
• 7:23
  SPEAKER_01: Good morning.
• 7:37
  SPEAKER_01: Are you, Florida woman, going to open an account at Trump's new crypto bank?
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm sure it's going to be completely safe and not at all a haven
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  SPEAKER_01: for money laundering for drug cartels and the Russian mob.
• 7:49
  SPEAKER_01: Totally safe.
• 7:50
  SPEAKER_01: Definitely legit.
• 7:52
  SPEAKER_00: No, because I think only morons invest in crypto.
• 7:55
  SPEAKER_01: And I don't think it's just going to be a crypto bank.
• 7:58
  SPEAKER_01: I think it's going to be a regular bank, too.
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  SPEAKER_01: So I'm definitely going to open a checking account at the Trump bank.
• 8:03
  SPEAKER_00: I can't wait to have my money stolen.
• 8:05
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, yeah.
• 8:05
  SPEAKER_01: No, no.
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  SPEAKER_01: That definitely would never happen.
• 8:07
  SPEAKER_01: There's no way that bank is going to like over leverage or do anything shady.
• 8:12
  SPEAKER_01: There's no way.
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  SPEAKER_00: I say only morons invest in crypto.
• 8:18
  SPEAKER_00: And if my husband listens to this episode, he's going to be like, excuse me.
• 8:22
  SPEAKER_01: Wait, he has money in crypto?
• 8:26
  SPEAKER_00: He has crypto.
• 8:28
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, like he plays with it.
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  SPEAKER_00: It goes up and down.
• 8:31
  SPEAKER_00: So hi, Jordan.
• 8:33
  SPEAKER_01: Oh boy.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's not a lot of money.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's not stupid.
• 8:36
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, I would put $5,000 in just to see what happens.
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  SPEAKER_01: Just to watch it go.
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  SPEAKER_01: If I ever had like $5,000 to burn,
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  SPEAKER_01: which I don't,
• 8:45
  SPEAKER_01: but it would be funny just to watch it go up and down and just watch it just
• 8:49
  SPEAKER_01: to see what happens over time.
• 8:51
  SPEAKER_01: Because Jesus Christ, crypto is like the biggest fucking scam
• 8:56
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, for sure.
• 8:58
  SPEAKER_00: You've been really against crypto since like 2010.
• 9:01
  SPEAKER_01: I've been I've been bitching about crypto for so long.
• 9:04
  SPEAKER_01: I forgot I was bitching about crypto.
• 9:07
  SPEAKER_01: You had to remind me I was bitching about it back then.
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  SPEAKER_01: Like back before it was even a thing.
• 9:12
  SPEAKER_01: I forgot I was doing it that long ago.
• 9:15
  SPEAKER_01: I don't even remember bitching about it that long ago.
• 9:18
  SPEAKER_01: That's how long it's been.
• 9:21
  SPEAKER_01: It's weird.
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  SPEAKER_01: Like when you said I was complaining about it back in 2010, I was like, it was?
• 9:26
  SPEAKER_01: Really?
• 9:26
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it was whenever like Bitcoin came out,
• 9:30
  SPEAKER_00: you started, you were like, oh, this is, you know, the biggest scam.
• 9:35
  SPEAKER_00: I honestly do not remember that.
• 9:37
  SPEAKER_00: You would argue about it.
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  SPEAKER_00: It was funny.
• 9:40
  SPEAKER_01: And it's insane.
• 9:42
  SPEAKER_01: It's insane.
• 9:42
  SPEAKER_01: It's just, I'm glad I noticed it from the beginning.
• 9:47
  SPEAKER_01: It was like, oh, yeah, no, this is obviously bullshit.
• 9:50
  SPEAKER_01: My instincts were apparently correct.
• 9:54
  SPEAKER_01: All right.
• 9:55
  SPEAKER_01: This is the recording for August 20th,
• 9:58
  SPEAKER_01: 2026, and we have a lot to get to on episode 110 of the Ogpod.
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  SPEAKER_01: We ready to do this?
• 10:04
  SPEAKER_01: Yes.
• 10:04
  SPEAKER_01: All right, then let's get to it.
• 10:06
  SPEAKER_01: It's time for the Ogre Nation news update.
• 10:10
  SPEAKER_00: Roar.
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  SPEAKER_00: So despite the regime's nonstop whining that we have no money to pay for food
• 10:17
  SPEAKER_00: for hungry kids or Medicare and Medicaid or even Social Security,
• 10:22
  SPEAKER_00: we always seem to have unlimited money for stupid shit.
• 10:26
  SPEAKER_00: For example...
• 10:27
  SPEAKER_00: Trump ordered the Navy to replace the electromagnetic aircraft launch systems
• 10:32
  SPEAKER_00: and weapons elevators in the Gerald R.
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  SPEAKER_00: Ford class of aircraft carriers with steam powered catapults that
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  SPEAKER_00: the military began using in the 1950s.
• 10:42
  SPEAKER_00: So let's just rip out the advanced system and put in the 1950s system.
• 10:48
  SPEAKER_00: That seems smart.
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  SPEAKER_00: Trump began the crusade against the electric launch systems after a sailor praised
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  SPEAKER_00: the steam systems in 2017.
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  SPEAKER_00: So this is almost a decade-long project for him.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Navy resisted the change for years because steam-powered catapults are slower,
• 11:05
  SPEAKER_00: more expensive to maintain,
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  SPEAKER_00: about $100 million per year, and need more sailors to operate.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's about 500 less sailors on each ship,
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  SPEAKER_00: on the ships with the new electromagnetic launch systems.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's significant.
• 11:20
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, especially when you put those ships out to sea and leave them out there for nine months.
• 11:26
  SPEAKER_00: Right.
• 11:27
  SPEAKER_01: Jesus Christ.
• 11:29
  SPEAKER_00: The new executive order will require the Navy to redesign the fourth ship class in
• 11:33
  SPEAKER_00: the Ford class, starting with the USS Doris Miller.
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  SPEAKER_00: But experts have said the president's pet project will cost billions of dollars.
• 11:43
  SPEAKER_00: I am shocked that he's going to spend billions of dollars on something.
• 11:47
  SPEAKER_01: It makes you kind of wonder who's going to get rich off of that.
• 11:51
  SPEAKER_00: Correct.
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  SPEAKER_00: General Atomics,
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  SPEAKER_00: the company that builds the electric system for the Ford class,
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  SPEAKER_00: released a statement saying the work on the Doris Miller is almost 50% complete and,
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  SPEAKER_00: quote,
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  SPEAKER_00: changing course now would introduce significant cost,
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  SPEAKER_00: schedule, and integration risk.
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  SPEAKER_00: Further,
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  SPEAKER_00: the company warned, quote,
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  SPEAKER_00: the decision will have broader implications for carrier readiness,
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  SPEAKER_00: national security,
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  SPEAKER_00: and U.S.
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  SPEAKER_00: technological superiority,
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  SPEAKER_00: potentially creating opportunities for adversaries to close the capability gap.
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  SPEAKER_00: And just to be clear,
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  SPEAKER_00: like China is already using,
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  SPEAKER_00: they're outfitting theirs with electromagnetic launch systems, so.
• 12:31
  SPEAKER_00: We're going back in time and China's going forward.
• 12:35
  SPEAKER_00: And aren't we supposed to be competing with them?
• 12:37
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, basically, he just wants us to have old style ships.
• 12:42
  SPEAKER_01: Also, if he wants us...
• 12:45
  SPEAKER_01: Wait, I don't know if you have this in here.
• 12:46
  SPEAKER_01: Let me take a quick look.
• 12:48
  SPEAKER_01: No, he wants us to move the tower...
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  SPEAKER_01: So you know aircraft carriers have the flight tower.
• 12:56
  SPEAKER_01: He wants them moved back to where they were on the World War II ships.
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  SPEAKER_01: Right now,
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  SPEAKER_01: if I'm remembering this correctly,
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  SPEAKER_01: they've been moved to the He wants them moved back to the middle of the ship
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  SPEAKER_01: because that's how they looked in World War II.
• 13:15
  SPEAKER_01: And there's no reason to do that other than that's how he remembered them
• 13:20
  SPEAKER_01: and that's how he wants them.
• 13:23
  SPEAKER_01: This is just straight up,
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  SPEAKER_01: I don't like the way things are now because I'm old and I want things to go back to
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  SPEAKER_01: the way they were when I was younger and I like things the way they were
• 13:36
  SPEAKER_01: when I was younger.
• 13:37
  SPEAKER_00: Bro, me too, but let's grow up.
• 13:40
  SPEAKER_01: This is just old people shit,
• 13:42
  SPEAKER_01: and he's president,
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  SPEAKER_01: and he's like, well,
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  SPEAKER_01: I don't like this new stuff,
• 13:46
  SPEAKER_01: and I don't like it, so I want it changed, and I'm the president, and I'm staying.
• 13:51
  SPEAKER_01: Did you have to do that?
• 13:56
  SPEAKER_01: And he's just ordering it that way because he thinks he's the fucking king
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  SPEAKER_01: of America and it's just dumb and it's counterproductive and he's going to...
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  SPEAKER_01: to cost us billions and billions of fucking dollars and harm our national defense
• 14:14
  SPEAKER_01: because he's a grumpy old asshole,
• 14:17
  SPEAKER_01: which is fucking insane that everyone around him isn't looking at him saying, No,
• 14:23
  SPEAKER_01: we're not fucking doing that because it's stupid and because you're
• 14:26
  SPEAKER_01: an old grumpy person who just misses his childhood or when he was 20s and 30s
• 14:33
  SPEAKER_01: and that's how it used to be.
• 14:35
  SPEAKER_01: Why can't we go back to that?
• 14:36
  SPEAKER_01: No, that's not how we're fucking doing that.
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  SPEAKER_01: Fuck off.
• 14:39
  SPEAKER_01: It's just stupid.
• 14:40
  SPEAKER_01: But everyone around him saying, oh, yes, sir.
• 14:43
  SPEAKER_01: Yes, sir.
• 14:44
  SPEAKER_01: Because all the adults are gone from the fucking room now.
• 14:47
  SPEAKER_00: Right, there's no more guardrails.
• 14:48
  SPEAKER_00: Moving on to more dumb, expensive shit Trump wants to do.
• 14:52
  SPEAKER_00: Despite the court rulings against him,
• 14:53
  SPEAKER_00: he's still demanding his name be put on the Kennedy Center.
• 14:57
  SPEAKER_00: This time,
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  SPEAKER_00: the Center's board voted to close the Center for two years for renovations and add
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  SPEAKER_00: an inscription under Kennedy's name on the outside of the building that would read,
• 15:07
  SPEAKER_00: quote, Restored and Renovated by President Donald J. Trump.
• 15:11
  SPEAKER_01: He's such a petty little fuck.
• 15:14
  SPEAKER_01: And they still won't take that tarp down.
• 15:16
  SPEAKER_01: It's still up because they don't want anyone to see that his name's not up there.
• 15:20
  SPEAKER_00: That's so stupid.
• 15:21
  SPEAKER_00: I made a wrong turn one time and ended up in the Kennedy Center parking lot and I panicked.
• 15:27
  SPEAKER_00: I was like, what is this important building?
• 15:30
  SPEAKER_00: So the board's vote was a response to a court ruling that forced them
• 15:34
  SPEAKER_00: to remove Trump's name from the building on the basis that only Congress had
• 15:37
  SPEAKER_00: the power to rename it.
• 15:38
  SPEAKER_00: Trump's ego can't let this fight go, of course, because he can't let anything ever go.
• 15:42
  SPEAKER_00: Nope.
• 15:43
  SPEAKER_01: He has to be winner.
• 15:44
  SPEAKER_01: He has to win.
• 15:45
  SPEAKER_01: He has to win.
• 15:46
  SPEAKER_00: Other than starting wars and starving kids,
• 15:48
  SPEAKER_00: his biggest accomplishment will be the vanity projects in D.C. Let's count.
• 15:54
  SPEAKER_00: He's torn down an entire wing of the White House to build a ballroom in a bunker,
• 16:00
  SPEAKER_00: replaced the floor of I don't think it was from New Hampshire,
• 16:04
  SPEAKER_00: but anyways,
• 16:05
  SPEAKER_00: nonetheless,
• 16:06
  SPEAKER_00: the slate was from the United States,
• 16:08
  SPEAKER_00: and now he's imported it from another country,
• 16:11
  SPEAKER_00: even though we have the granite state here, which, whatever, you know, what a moron.
• 16:27
  SPEAKER_00: He added a wall of presidents that degrades those who came before him,
• 16:31
  SPEAKER_00: put gold embellishments everywhere.
• 16:33
  SPEAKER_01: Tacky gold embellishments.
• 16:35
  SPEAKER_00: Including a sign that said the Oval Office that Obama made fun of.
• 16:40
  SPEAKER_00: Painted the statues by the Lincoln Memorial gold.
• 16:43
  SPEAKER_00: Is trying to add a walkway behind the memorial,
• 16:46
  SPEAKER_00: which I still don't understand why he wants to do that because there's literally
• 16:49
  SPEAKER_00: a path that goes down the Potomac River.
• 16:52
  SPEAKER_01: So he can slap his name on it.
• 16:54
  SPEAKER_01: That's true.
• 16:54
  SPEAKER_01: That's all.
• 16:55
  SPEAKER_01: It's just something he can slap his name on.
• 16:57
  SPEAKER_00: Wants to build a massive arch that will block the view of the Lincoln Memorial from
• 17:01
  SPEAKER_00: the Arlington National Cemetery,
• 17:03
  SPEAKER_00: which is really important because when they built Arlington National Cemetery,
• 17:07
  SPEAKER_00: they intentionally had a view that was a straight line from who was the president of
• 17:13
  SPEAKER_00: the Confederacy that's houses there?
• 17:15
  SPEAKER_00: Robert E. Lee?
• 17:16
  SPEAKER_00: From Robert E. Lee's mansion
• 17:19
  SPEAKER_01: to the Lincoln Memorial.
• 17:21
  SPEAKER_00: General Robert E. Lee, I'm so sorry.
• 17:23
  SPEAKER_00: Well, he was the president of the Confederate.
• 17:25
  SPEAKER_00: No, that was Jackson, right?
• 17:27
  SPEAKER_00: Jefferson, David, Jefferson.
• 17:30
  SPEAKER_01: Davis, yeah.
• 17:31
  SPEAKER_00: Davis, Jefferson.
• 17:32
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, he was the losing general.
• 17:34
  SPEAKER_01: That's right.
• 17:35
  SPEAKER_00: Robert E. Lee was a losing general.
• 17:37
  SPEAKER_00: And when they built Arlington,
• 17:38
  SPEAKER_00: they intentionally had a straight line from his mansion to the Lincoln Memorial.
• 17:45
  SPEAKER_00: And now Trump wants to block that view,
• 17:47
  SPEAKER_00: which I understand that a lot of people won't understand the significance,
• 17:51
  SPEAKER_00: but we do.
• 17:52
  SPEAKER_00: We do.
• 17:53
  SPEAKER_00: And now he wants to paint the Eisenhower Building's historic granite white,
• 17:58
  SPEAKER_00: which will degrade the building.
• 18:00
  SPEAKER_00: He's renovating Lafayette Square,
• 18:02
  SPEAKER_00: and I am convinced that the Washington Memorial will soon be named
• 18:06
  SPEAKER_00: the Washington Trump Memorial.
• 18:08
  SPEAKER_00: And honestly,
• 18:09
  SPEAKER_00: that would actually be fitting,
• 18:10
  SPEAKER_00: because if you've ever seen the Washington Memorial and really paid attention to it,
• 18:14
  SPEAKER_00: it low-key looks like a KKK hat.
• 18:17
  SPEAKER_00: So...
• 18:18
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, and didn't he renovate the Lincoln bathroom?
• 18:22
  SPEAKER_00: That's right.
• 18:24
  SPEAKER_00: With all of that ugly marble?
• 18:25
  SPEAKER_00: Yep.
• 18:26
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, Patrick points out that Arlington Cemetery was built on his land.
• 18:30
  SPEAKER_00: Yes, it was built on General Robert E. Lee's land, which, you know, that's hilarious.
• 18:35
  SPEAKER_00: I love the trolling there.
• 18:37
  SPEAKER_00: And then speaking of the fucking ballroom, because God, haven't we all heard enough of that?
• 18:41
  SPEAKER_00: And it wasn't going to cost us anything.
• 18:43
  SPEAKER_00: It wasn't going to cost us anything.
• 19:07
  SPEAKER_00: And then once he realized that the American people wanted nothing to do with
• 19:11
  SPEAKER_00: the monstrosity that will be bigger than the White House itself,
• 19:14
  SPEAKER_00: which is just insane,
• 19:16
  SPEAKER_00: he and his allies announced that a bunker was being built under it to protect him
• 19:21
  SPEAKER_00: and future presidents.
• 19:23
  SPEAKER_00: Last week,
• 19:24
  SPEAKER_00: the regime asked the Supreme Court to allow it to finish the ballroom
• 19:28
  SPEAKER_00: after lower court struck his plans down.
• 19:31
  SPEAKER_01: It's $900 million, not $900 billion.
• 19:35
  SPEAKER_00: 900 million, which I got right here because I put nearly a billion.
• 19:40
  SPEAKER_00: So Trump is now calling those who object to
• 19:43
  SPEAKER_00: the nearly $1 billion vanity project treasonous and disloyal.
• 19:48
  SPEAKER_01: Wait, did he actually use the word treasonous?
• 19:50
  SPEAKER_00: Yes, he did.
• 19:52
  SPEAKER_01: That's not a word though.
• 19:56
  SPEAKER_00: It is now, motherfucker.
• 20:00
  SPEAKER_00: So is Bigly.
• 20:00
  SPEAKER_00: They're Bigly treasonists.
• 20:06
  SPEAKER_01: Before you finish up here,
• 20:08
  SPEAKER_01: his thing that he's going to the Supreme Court about,
• 20:12
  SPEAKER_01: because even though the courts said stop building it,
• 20:15
  SPEAKER_01: he's still having them build it.
• 20:17
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, he is.
• 20:20
  SPEAKER_01: That's the rationale they're using with the Supreme Court.
• 20:23
  SPEAKER_01: That is the whole national security thing.
• 20:47
  SPEAKER_00: We're defying your orders and continuing to do what we're not supposed to be doing.
• 20:51
  SPEAKER_00: Can't tear it down now.
• 20:53
  SPEAKER_00: It reminds me of this guy in my town who built a houseboat.
• 20:58
  SPEAKER_00: Not like a houseboat, but it was like an actual structure out in the intercoastal waterway.
• 21:04
  SPEAKER_00: And when the county was like, hey, that's not legal, he was like, but it's already here.
• 21:09
  SPEAKER_00: And they said, no, we don't care.
• 21:11
  SPEAKER_01: Tear it down.
• 21:14
  SPEAKER_00: So while Americans starve and babies die and we all suffer,
• 21:18
  SPEAKER_00: the federal government is throwing our money at his little projects like they're at
• 21:22
  SPEAKER_00: a strip club and Trump's the one who's dancing on the fucking pole.
• 21:25
  SPEAKER_00: And every single person enabling it needs to go to prison.
• 21:29
  SPEAKER_01: Do you know what the amazing thing is going to be?
• 21:32
  SPEAKER_01: When this regime falls and the Democrats are in charge again
• 21:37
  SPEAKER_01: and we start undoing all of this bullshit,
• 21:42
  SPEAKER_01: Republicans are going to be out there screaming bloody murder.
• 21:47
  SPEAKER_01: You can't waste the money on that.
• 21:49
  SPEAKER_01: That's a waste of taxpayer money, blah, blah, blah.
• 21:51
  SPEAKER_01: And it's like, no, no, no, hold on.
• 21:53
  SPEAKER_01: You gave him a blank check to do this in the first place when the economy,
• 21:57
  SPEAKER_01: like right now,
• 21:59
  SPEAKER_01: we are growing the deficit Not the deficit,
• 22:03
  SPEAKER_01: well, the debt and the deficit at the fastest pace ever in American history.
• 22:09
  SPEAKER_01: We're at, I don't even know where we're at now.
• 22:12
  SPEAKER_01: We're at like, what, $40 trillion or some insane fucking number.
• 22:17
  SPEAKER_01: Remember that Trump has exploded the debt faster than even he did in his first time in office.
• 22:25
  SPEAKER_01: And that was the fastest it had ever grown in American history.
• 22:29
  SPEAKER_01: And Republicans are just writing him blank check after blank check after blank check
• 22:32
  SPEAKER_01: to do all of this.
• 22:34
  SPEAKER_01: And they're going to go, it's like, well, you can't spend that money.
• 22:36
  SPEAKER_01: You can't spend that money.
• 22:37
  SPEAKER_01: That's crazy.
• 22:39
  SPEAKER_01: You can't spend that money to do any of this.
• 22:40
  SPEAKER_01: It's going to be like, you know what?
• 22:42
  SPEAKER_01: Fuck off.
• 22:43
  SPEAKER_00: Just fuck off
• 22:44
  SPEAKER_01: all of that.
• 22:45
  SPEAKER_00: I'm actually surprised that they haven't tried to create a star for him outside of
• 22:49
  SPEAKER_00: the Warner Theater in downtown where the Walk of Fame is in D.C.
• 22:54
  SPEAKER_00: I feel like that's going to be next.
• 22:56
  SPEAKER_01: I'm sure the second Stephen Miller thinks of it,
• 23:00
  SPEAKER_01: he's like, I got to keep my job safe for another week.
• 23:02
  SPEAKER_01: What other things can I suggest to keep him mollified and stop paying attention to me?
• 23:08
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it's crazy.
• 23:10
  SPEAKER_01: TV says the Fuhrer bunker is actually a great idea because you know how
• 23:13
  SPEAKER_01: that Germany guy died in his little vanity project.
• 23:16
  SPEAKER_01: I know.
• 23:17
  SPEAKER_01: All right.
• 23:20
  SPEAKER_01: Let us move on.
• 23:27
  SPEAKER_01: Let us move on to the ogre who saw the future.
• 23:31
  SPEAKER_01: So sit back and let your old uncle ogre tell you a little story.
• 23:35
  SPEAKER_01: Once upon a time,
• 23:37
  SPEAKER_01: during the 2018 blue wave,
• 23:39
  SPEAKER_01: a freshman congresswoman popped up in New York City,
• 23:42
  SPEAKER_01: and her name was Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
• 23:45
  SPEAKER_01: She was part of The Squad,
• 23:47
  SPEAKER_01: a group of enthusiastically progressive elected officials who embraced
• 23:52
  SPEAKER_01: the Democratic Socialism.
• 23:53
  SPEAKER_01: You may have heard of it.
• 23:54
  SPEAKER_01: The GOP went to war against her immediately, and the progressive left loved her.
• 24:01
  SPEAKER_01: So did the alt-left.
• 24:03
  SPEAKER_01: Those are the fake progressives who poisoned the real progressive left.
• 24:06
  SPEAKER_01: But...
• 24:07
  SPEAKER_01: Your old Uncle Ogre knew AOC would become,
• 24:11
  SPEAKER_01: very shortly, public enemy number one of the alt-left.
• 24:16
  SPEAKER_01: There was something about her, you see.
• 24:18
  SPEAKER_01: Something true and sincere.
• 24:21
  SPEAKER_01: Sure.
• 24:21
  SPEAKER_01: Sure.
• 24:22
  SPEAKER_01: She was a Democratic Socialist, and she was not happy with where the Democratic Party was.
• 24:28
  SPEAKER_01: But she wanted to move things to the left, not burn it all down to the ground.
• 24:33
  SPEAKER_01: More importantly,
• 24:35
  SPEAKER_01: she was not interested in centering white And that led me to predict
• 24:39
  SPEAKER_01: with absolute certainty way back in mid-2019 that the alt-left, again,
• 24:48
  SPEAKER_01: the fake progressives poisoning the actual real left,
• 24:51
  SPEAKER_01: that they would Absolutely fucking hate her.
• 24:56
  SPEAKER_01: I knew this as sure as I knew that the sun would rise the next day.
• 25:00
  SPEAKER_01: Time passed, and the old laughed.
• 25:02
  SPEAKER_01: Again, the fake progressives, they soured on AOC.
• 25:07
  SPEAKER_01: But They didn't make too much noise about it because she was the weapon of choice
• 25:12
  SPEAKER_01: for the right to bash Democrats.
• 25:14
  SPEAKER_01: And that was useful for them,
• 25:16
  SPEAKER_01: or at least they thought it was,
• 25:18
  SPEAKER_01: because it didn't really work out for them as much as the geopolitics.
• 25:22
  SPEAKER_01: AOP and the right-wing media screamed and jumped up and down and just,
• 25:27
  SPEAKER_01: oh my God, AOC,
• 25:29
  SPEAKER_01: she's the face of the Democratic Party and she's a socialist and blah,
• 25:33
  SPEAKER_01: blah, blah, blah, blah.
• 25:34
  SPEAKER_01: That didn't really work out.
• 25:36
  SPEAKER_01: Instead of damaging...
• 25:37
  SPEAKER_01: And she used it very, very well.
• 25:39
  SPEAKER_01: She pushed progressive policy
• 25:59
  SPEAKER_01: She never stopped being a democratic socialist,
• 26:03
  SPEAKER_01: but she never became part of the democratic establishment exactly.
• 26:07
  SPEAKER_01: And now she's on the brink of becoming a category five hurricane.
• 26:11
  SPEAKER_01: Oopsie.
• 26:12
  SPEAKER_01: Here's the thing.
• 26:14
  SPEAKER_01: Millennials and Gen Z voters are poised to be the power in the 2028 election,
• 26:20
  SPEAKER_01: easily overwhelming boomers and my generation, which is Gen X.
• 26:25
  SPEAKER_01: And millennials and Gen Z very much like Democrats.
• 26:29
  SPEAKER_01: And Bernie's still their guy.
• 26:32
  SPEAKER_01: Guess who's going to be backing AOC?
• 26:35
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, he's not going to be backing the establishment.
• 26:37
  SPEAKER_01: He's going to be backing her.
• 26:39
  SPEAKER_01: And AOC is making all the right noises for running for president.
• 26:42
  SPEAKER_01: And wouldn't you know it,
• 26:44
  SPEAKER_01: my good friends on the alt-left, again,
• 26:48
  SPEAKER_01: the fake progressives who've been trying to poison the left for decades,
• 26:52
  SPEAKER_01: they're having a...
• 26:53
  SPEAKER_01: Full-blown meltdown over this.
• 26:55
  SPEAKER_01: Post Left Watch on Blue Sky.
• 26:58
  SPEAKER_01: He's also on Twitter.
• 26:59
  SPEAKER_01: Well, I'm assuming it's a he.
• 27:00
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know.
• 27:01
  SPEAKER_01: But Post Left Watch on Blue Sky has been keeping track of the collective freak out
• 27:05
  SPEAKER_01: of the alt-left.
• 27:06
  SPEAKER_01: It's been amazing.
• 27:08
  SPEAKER_01: Elaine Greenwald has been crying to Tucker Carlson that AOC's just another Nancy Pelosi.
• 27:15
  SPEAKER_01: She's not a progressive radical at all.
• 27:17
  SPEAKER_01: And you know who else had AOC pegged back in the day as a phony?
• 27:21
  SPEAKER_01: Marjorie Taylor Greed because...
• 27:23
  SPEAKER_01: Sure, she's trustworthy as a judge of character.
• 27:26
  SPEAKER_01: Cenk Uygur, close personal friend of the pod, wants you to know that AOC is a fraud.
• 27:32
  SPEAKER_01: He's also, he knows she's a fraud.
• 27:34
  SPEAKER_01: She's not an FDR who's going to implement a progressive agenda.
• 27:38
  SPEAKER_01: She's just actually a Christian cinema who's going to sell us out for money and fame.
• 27:43
  SPEAKER_01: And who is Cenk talking to?
• 27:44
  SPEAKER_01: Glenn Greenwald.
• 27:46
  SPEAKER_01: Huh, so weird.
• 27:48
  SPEAKER_01: Brianna Joy Gray, super progressive Brianna Joy Gray.
• 27:52
  SPEAKER_00: Isn't that the one who goes to like award shows wearing MAGA dresses?
• 27:57
  SPEAKER_01: No, does she?
• 27:58
  SPEAKER_01: No, maybe not.
• 27:59
  SPEAKER_01: No, I don't think so.
• 28:00
  SPEAKER_01: But she totally knows so many people on the left who would vote for Tucker Carlson literally.
• 28:07
  SPEAKER_01: So, what's happening here?
• 28:22
  SPEAKER_01: She's a dangerous threat to the alt-left, the fake progressives, in generations.
• 28:28
  SPEAKER_01: She's an actual democratic socialist.
• 28:31
  SPEAKER_01: She's popular.
• 28:32
  SPEAKER_01: She's charismatic.
• 28:33
  SPEAKER_01: She's really fucking smart.
• 28:35
  SPEAKER_01: And she's very well-liked in the party and has a power base in it.
• 28:40
  SPEAKER_01: Younger voters are really hungry for her kind of politics.
• 28:45
  SPEAKER_01: And we're facing a wave election not just this year,
• 28:49
  SPEAKER_01: We're still going to be facing a wave election in 2028,
• 28:52
  SPEAKER_01: where Republicans are going to be massively unpopular after four years
• 28:56
  SPEAKER_01: of violent fascism and failed authoritarian economics.
• 29:00
  SPEAKER_01: By 2028, boomers are going to have lost their electoral power.
• 29:04
  SPEAKER_01: There's going to be less than 60 million of them voting because they're dying.
• 29:09
  SPEAKER_01: Gen X,
• 29:10
  SPEAKER_01: we never had any electoral power because we were never that big of a generation
• 29:15
  SPEAKER_01: and no one pays attention to us anyway.
• 29:17
  SPEAKER_01: AOC running for president.
• 29:19
  SPEAKER_01: And I'll see you next time.
• 29:34
  SPEAKER_01: It exists to rat-fuck the left and keep Republicans in power.
• 29:41
  SPEAKER_01: It exists to divide the left and stop us from fixing the damage Republicans cause.
• 29:46
  SPEAKER_01: They've been doing this for decades.
• 29:49
  SPEAKER_01: They see AOC as an existential threat to their owners in the GOP.
• 29:56
  SPEAKER_01: They will work nonstop between now and November of 2028 to convince younger voters
• 30:03
  SPEAKER_01: that she is a liar and a fraud and a sellout,
• 30:06
  SPEAKER_01: which is exactly what I said they would do seven long fucking years ago.
• 30:13
  SPEAKER_01: Is that going to work?
• 30:14
  SPEAKER_01: Depends on how stupid we are as a company.
• 30:17
  SPEAKER_01: Country?
• 30:18
  SPEAKER_01: What'd I say?
• 30:19
  SPEAKER_01: Company.
• 30:20
  SPEAKER_01: Country.
• 30:21
  SPEAKER_01: Close enough.
• 30:22
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, we are a company, really.
• 30:24
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 30:24
  SPEAKER_01: But when I tell you I know who these people are,
• 30:27
  SPEAKER_01: believe me, I haven't been wrong about them in a fucking decade.
• 30:32
  SPEAKER_01: They're incredibly predictable.
• 30:34
  SPEAKER_01: And once you see them for who they are,
• 30:36
  SPEAKER_01: the Cenk Ugers,
• 30:37
  SPEAKER_01: the Matt Taibis,
• 30:39
  SPEAKER_01: the Glenn The Greenwalls,
• 30:39
  SPEAKER_01: the Brianna Joy Grays, they just do this over and over and over.
• 30:45
  SPEAKER_01: They're Republican rat fuckers.
• 30:48
  SPEAKER_01: And once you see them,
• 30:49
  SPEAKER_01: you'll know exactly what they're going to do literally years before they do it.
• 30:53
  SPEAKER_01: Now, I wrote about this yesterday.
• 30:57
  SPEAKER_01: I don't think it's going to work because too many people want what AOC is going
• 31:04
  SPEAKER_01: to be giving, what she's going to be delivering.
• 31:09
  SPEAKER_01: I want daycare for kids.
• 31:10
  SPEAKER_01: I want this.
• 31:11
  SPEAKER_01: I want that.
• 31:11
  SPEAKER_01: And they're like, no, no, it's not enough.
• 31:13
  SPEAKER_01: They're gonna be like, what are you fucking talking about?
• 31:24
  SPEAKER_01: This is exactly what we've been asking for for the last 10, 15 years.
• 31:28
  SPEAKER_01: What are you talking about?
• 31:30
  SPEAKER_01: No, she's not progressive enough.
• 31:31
  SPEAKER_01: They're going to be like, okay, but you talk to Tucker Carlson.
• 31:34
  SPEAKER_01: Your friends are Tucker Carlson,
• 31:35
  SPEAKER_01: the white nationalist, the fucking Nazi who hangs out with Nick Fuentes.
• 31:40
  SPEAKER_01: Why am I listening to you, cink-fucking-yuger?
• 31:43
  SPEAKER_01: Why am I listening to Anna Kasparian,
• 31:45
  SPEAKER_01: who fucking hates trans women and complains about homeless people
• 31:50
  SPEAKER_01: and thinks they're disgusting and she's terrified of them?
• 31:52
  SPEAKER_01: Why would I ever listen to your fucking dumbass?
• 31:55
  SPEAKER_01: And they're going to be like, yeah, no, I'll go listen to Bernie Sanders and AOC.
• 31:59
  SPEAKER_01: Go fuck yourselves.
• 32:00
  SPEAKER_01: Go fuck off the Fox News and hang out with Glenn Greenwald some more.
• 32:04
  SPEAKER_01: And I'm very much looking forward to that because it's going to be really, really fucking funny.
• 32:10
  SPEAKER_01: And I personally look forward to voting for President AOC, but we're going to see.
• 32:15
  SPEAKER_01: So, yeah.
• 32:16
  SPEAKER_01: All right.
• 32:18
  SPEAKER_01: Story time is over.
• 32:19
  SPEAKER_01: Let us move on.
• 32:21
  SPEAKER_00: Joy Villa is the one who wears the Trump dresses.
• 32:27
  SPEAKER_00: So you've probably heard the news about the surrogacy fight happening in Texas.
• 32:31
  SPEAKER_00: If not, here's what happened.
• 32:42
  SPEAKER_00: The couple entered a contract with West that had a clause giving them the right
• 32:47
  SPEAKER_00: to ask the surrogate to terminate the pregnancy if a fetal anomaly was found.
• 32:52
  SPEAKER_00: Standard clause.
• 32:56
  SPEAKER_00: And the couple that the fetus had hypoplastic left heart syndrome.
• 33:00
  SPEAKER_00: That's a condition where the left side of the heart,
• 33:02
  SPEAKER_00: including the arteries,
• 33:03
  SPEAKER_00: do not develop and leads to painful surgeries for the baby
• 33:09
  SPEAKER_00: and possibly even heart transplantation.
• 33:11
  SPEAKER_00: Of course.
• 33:31
  SPEAKER_00: West then fled to Texas,
• 33:34
  SPEAKER_00: where the state law basically doesn't acknowledge surrogacy,
• 33:37
  SPEAKER_00: and states that the person who gives birth to the baby is the mother.
• 33:41
  SPEAKER_00: She began claiming that she's the mother of the baby, even though she's not, biologically.
• 33:46
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, she kidnapped the baby.
• 33:48
  SPEAKER_00: That's how I feel about that.
• 33:49
  SPEAKER_00: That's impressive.
• 34:08
  SPEAKER_00: Because kidnapping wasn't enough.
• 34:10
  SPEAKER_00: She wanted to legally steal the baby.
• 34:12
  SPEAKER_00: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, yes,
• 34:15
  SPEAKER_00: the same Ken Paxton that is running for the Senate and was tried for fraud
• 34:20
  SPEAKER_00: and all kinds of other corrupt charges,
• 34:22
  SPEAKER_00: got involved and proclaimed that he was going to protect the child in West.
• 34:26
  SPEAKER_00: Well, meh.
• 34:28
  SPEAKER_00: The baby was born in Dallas.
• 34:30
  SPEAKER_00: Wes named the child that isn't hers, Gabriel.
• 34:33
  SPEAKER_00: And as an aside,
• 34:34
  SPEAKER_00: I've actually been disappointed to see legit media sites calling the baby,
• 34:39
  SPEAKER_00: Baby Gabriel.
• 34:40
  SPEAKER_00: That is not his fucking name.
• 34:42
  SPEAKER_00: His real name is Rumi because, you know, he has actual parents.
• 34:47
  SPEAKER_00: The court granted Gilkar and Ahmed physical custody of their child in
• 34:51
  SPEAKER_00: a restraining order against West.
• 34:53
  SPEAKER_00: They are now seeking care for his heart condition.
• 34:56
  SPEAKER_00: I believe he had surgery and he's recovering from it.
• 34:59
  SPEAKER_00: And while they're doing everything to make sure that their child lives,
• 35:03
  SPEAKER_00: Paxton is fighting to give West the right to make medical choices for the child.
• 35:08
  SPEAKER_01: That's fucking creepy as shit.
• 35:10
  SPEAKER_00: Understand what that means.
• 35:11
  SPEAKER_00: A Republican official is attempting to circumvent surrogacy laws in other states,
• 35:17
  SPEAKER_00: because remember,
• 35:17
  SPEAKER_00: West is from Alaska and the parents are from California,
• 35:21
  SPEAKER_00: to allow a lunatic to legally kidnap.
• 35:25
  SPEAKER_00: And right now, it's just in Texas.
• 35:29
  SPEAKER_00: But what happens?
• 35:30
  SPEAKER_00: What happens when that spreads?
• 35:32
  SPEAKER_00: Remember when we said last week that the ideas on the fringe right never stay fringe?
• 35:37
  SPEAKER_00: There's another case in Florida where Where a woman agreed to be the surrogate for
• 35:45
  SPEAKER_00: a Chinese man, a Chinese national.
• 35:47
  SPEAKER_00: He was in China.
• 35:49
  SPEAKER_00: She was pregnant with triplets.
• 35:50
  SPEAKER_00: She gave birth to the triplets.
• 35:52
  SPEAKER_00: He couldn't get over here because of visa reasons to pick up the babies when they were born.
• 35:56
  SPEAKER_00: So she took the triplets home.
• 35:58
  SPEAKER_00: One of them, unfortunately, passed away.
• 36:00
  SPEAKER_00: Oof.
• 36:01
  SPEAKER_00: And then he sent surrogates who actually had,
• 36:04
  SPEAKER_00: like, not a surrogate, like having the baby, but other people for him.
• 36:11
  SPEAKER_00: He gave them permission to pick up his children.
• 36:13
  SPEAKER_00: She refused to hand over the children themselves.
• 36:16
  SPEAKER_00: And now Rick Scott is fighting for her to keep those babies.
• 36:21
  SPEAKER_00: And it's been two years and she hasn't given the kids to the father.
• 36:25
  SPEAKER_00: Wow.
• 36:33
  SPEAKER_00: All while Florida is declaring him a child trafficker and she's saying,
• 36:41
  SPEAKER_00: oh, I believe that he's trafficking those children and all of that stuff.
• 36:45
  SPEAKER_00: So in Texas and in Florida, they're allowing surrogate parents to steal babies.
• 36:50
  SPEAKER_01: You know,
• 36:51
  SPEAKER_01: that's a slippery ass slope because once you can take someone's baby as a surrogate,
• 36:58
  SPEAKER_01: it's just a matter of time.
• 36:59
  SPEAKER_01: It's like, well, I don't think this person's a fit parent.
• 37:02
  SPEAKER_01: So I've declared myself as a proper good Christian to take the baby away
• 37:07
  SPEAKER_01: from those parents because I don't like these parents.
• 37:10
  SPEAKER_01: These gay parents adopted this kid a couple of years ago,
• 37:14
  SPEAKER_01: but I'm a good Christian and I don't think they should have that baby anymore.
• 37:17
  SPEAKER_01: So I'm going to take it away from them.
• 37:19
  SPEAKER_01: I'm going to take this baby and adopt it as my own because I think I'm a more fit parent.
• 37:23
  SPEAKER_01: And as a good Christian,
• 37:25
  SPEAKER_01: I believe it's my Christian duty to save this child from these unfit parents.
• 37:31
  SPEAKER_01: And of course,
• 37:32
  SPEAKER_01: Republicans would be like, well,
• 37:33
  SPEAKER_01: of course,
• 37:34
  SPEAKER_01: it's her religious beliefs,
• 37:35
  SPEAKER_01: her strongly held religious right to save that child from unfit parents.
• 37:40
  SPEAKER_01: This is just like just the groundwork for that sort of thing.
• 37:44
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I mean,
• 37:45
  SPEAKER_00: the fight for baby Ruby in Texas and then the kids in Florida are highlighting
• 37:50
  SPEAKER_00: a major problem with surrogacy laws around the country
• 37:52
  SPEAKER_00: because there are no federal surrogacy laws,
• 37:55
  SPEAKER_00: which means that parents are entering into agreements to have children
• 37:59
  SPEAKER_00: that It could end up in this kind of nightmare because
• 38:02
  SPEAKER_00: the federal government hasn't stepped in to protect biological parents,
• 38:07
  SPEAKER_00: which I find crazy.
• 38:10
  SPEAKER_01: Remember, the Supreme Court loves contract law.
• 38:15
  SPEAKER_01: You always have to uphold contract law,
• 38:18
  SPEAKER_01: except when it's convenient for them not to uphold contracts.
• 38:23
  SPEAKER_01: Then it's like, yeah, no, we don't actually believe in contracts.
• 38:25
  SPEAKER_01: Fuck that shit.
• 38:26
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, and in both of these cases,
• 38:28
  SPEAKER_00: powerful Republican politicians are trying to facilitate the kidnapping
• 38:33
  SPEAKER_00: of someone else's biological children.
• 38:36
  SPEAKER_00: And if they succeed, it would completely upend surrogacy around America.
• 38:42
  SPEAKER_00: And nothing could stop a surrogate from just going to a state like Texas or Florida
• 38:46
  SPEAKER_00: and being like, ah, this is my baby now.
• 38:49
  SPEAKER_00: So it's very, very scary.
• 38:50
  SPEAKER_00: It's very scary.
• 38:52
  SPEAKER_01: These people are the fucking worst.
• 38:54
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 38:55
  SPEAKER_00: You know,
• 38:56
  SPEAKER_01: yeah, fuck them.
• 38:58
  SPEAKER_01: We are now moving on to Florida Woman's favorite segment of the show.
• 39:02
  SPEAKER_01: I scream, you scream, we all scream because of fucking ice.
• 39:13
  SPEAKER_00: So we didn't get to this last week because I wasn't here,
• 39:16
  SPEAKER_00: but I still wanted to talk about it because I think it's really important.
• 39:19
  SPEAKER_00: The regime is now being pressured by their xenophobic,
• 39:22
  SPEAKER_00: racist-ass base to carry out the mass deportations of 350,000 Haitians
• 39:27
  SPEAKER_00: who lost temporary protective status thanks to
• 39:29
  SPEAKER_00: the most corrupt Supreme Court justices in history.
• 39:33
  SPEAKER_00: During the 2024 campaign,
• 39:35
  SPEAKER_00: Trump and Republicans targeted Haitian immigrants with really, really vile rhetoric.
• 39:40
  SPEAKER_00: We all remember the, they're eating the dogs, they're eating the cats, lie from Trump.
• 39:45
  SPEAKER_00: And the right was really,
• 39:47
  SPEAKER_00: really angry about the influx of Haitians in Springfield, Ohio, especially J.D.
• 39:51
  SPEAKER_00: Vance, who, that motherfucker.
• 39:53
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, he literally said he was making up the story about the cats and dogs.
• 39:57
  SPEAKER_00: He did.
• 39:57
  SPEAKER_01: He literally said it.
• 39:58
  SPEAKER_01: He admitted it out loud and they were just like, eh, whatever, who cares?
• 40:01
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 40:02
  SPEAKER_00: So even though the residents in Springfield don't share their racist sentiment,
• 40:09
  SPEAKER_00: they love their neighbors.
• 40:10
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, they love them.
• 40:11
  SPEAKER_01: They helped revitalize that entire area economically.
• 40:14
  SPEAKER_01: They love them there.
• 40:16
  SPEAKER_00: So in the weeks since the racist justices allowed Trump to eliminate TPS for
• 40:21
  SPEAKER_00: the migrants,
• 40:22
  SPEAKER_00: about 50 of them from the Springfield area have been called into immigration
• 40:26
  SPEAKER_00: and given ankle monitors.
• 40:28
  SPEAKER_00: ICE is really only targeting that area right now.
• 40:31
  SPEAKER_00: And there's confusion in DHS and ICE about whether to start targeting them across the country.
• 40:38
  SPEAKER_00: One of the issues is that the island is experiencing severe political violence since
• 40:44
  SPEAKER_00: the assassination of its president a few years ago.
• 40:47
  SPEAKER_00: And gangs have pretty much taken over control.
• 40:49
  SPEAKER_01: I remember one of the reasons that so many of them here in the first place is
• 40:53
  SPEAKER_01: because Haiti got devastated by a massive fucking earthquake
• 40:58
  SPEAKER_01: and it already had political turmoil to begin with.
• 41:01
  SPEAKER_01: The island's a fucking train wreck to begin with.
• 41:04
  SPEAKER_00: And then they got hit by other storms like in recent years.
• 41:09
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, they just had a really,
• 41:10
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, Haiti was never like, you know, in a good place to begin with.
• 41:14
  SPEAKER_01: And they just had a really brutal run of bad luck.
• 41:18
  SPEAKER_00: So the lack of action from ICE is causing people like Steve Bannon.
• 41:22
  SPEAKER_00: Remember the guy who conned people out of millions of dollars to build a wall?
• 41:26
  SPEAKER_00: And then Trump gave him a pardon.
• 41:28
  SPEAKER_00: He's such a nice guy.
• 41:29
  SPEAKER_01: What a nice man.
• 41:31
  SPEAKER_00: He's causing Steve Bannon to lash out at DHS Secretary Mark Wayne Millen, which,
• 41:36
  SPEAKER_00: what a name,
• 41:37
  SPEAKER_00: or Mullen, what a name, I can't even imagine naming my child Mark Wayne.
• 41:42
  SPEAKER_01: They couldn't decide.
• 41:44
  SPEAKER_00: Bannon said the regime should have had buses and planes ready for mass deportations
• 41:49
  SPEAKER_00: of the migrants right away.
• 41:51
  SPEAKER_00: Mullen told News Nation that the regime is giving Haitians the opportunity to leave
• 41:54
  SPEAKER_00: on their own.
• 42:02
  SPEAKER_00: What he didn't mention is that the regime is also facing pressure from Republicans
• 42:06
  SPEAKER_00: who understand the economic ramifications to some industries
• 42:10
  SPEAKER_00: if Haitian migrants are deported en masse.
• 42:12
  SPEAKER_00: It's not just them, though.
• 42:13
  SPEAKER_00: There are migrants from 11 other countries who have seen their TPS eliminated.
• 42:18
  SPEAKER_00: Four others, including my husband's country, will likely lose their status this fall.
• 42:23
  SPEAKER_00: My...
• 42:25
  SPEAKER_00: One of my family members just got her TPS that she applied for last year.
• 42:29
  SPEAKER_00: It's never been this late.
• 42:31
  SPEAKER_00: And because it came so late only a month ago,
• 42:33
  SPEAKER_00: she only has a license until September and then she'll lose it again.
• 42:37
  SPEAKER_00: Yay.
• 42:39
  SPEAKER_00: In total,
• 42:39
  SPEAKER_00: Trump's move to eliminate the humanitarian program that Congress signed into law
• 42:44
  SPEAKER_00: in 1990 will leave over 1.3 immigrants without status.
• 42:49
  SPEAKER_01: 1.3 million.
• 42:51
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, sorry.
• 42:52
  SPEAKER_00: What did I say?
• 42:52
  SPEAKER_01: 1.3.
• 42:53
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, sorry.
• 42:56
  SPEAKER_00: 1.3 million immigrants without status and as we have always said
• 42:59
  SPEAKER_00: the regime never ever ever ever ever cared about whether immigrants were legal
• 43:06
  SPEAKER_00: or not.
• 43:06
  SPEAKER_00: They always intended to go after all of them.
• 43:09
  SPEAKER_01: Unless they're from South Africa.
• 43:12
  SPEAKER_01: They've imported over 10,000 South African white people, of course.
• 43:19
  SPEAKER_01: No one else.
• 43:20
  SPEAKER_01: But 10,000 South African immigrants have been let into the country in the last year.
• 43:26
  SPEAKER_01: That's been pretty much the only immigration they've allowed into the country.
• 43:30
  SPEAKER_01: It's been 10,000 white people.
• 43:32
  SPEAKER_01: Presumably all hardcore white national.
• 43:36
  SPEAKER_00: Which makes you wonder what they're doing with those people.
• 43:41
  SPEAKER_01: Anyway, aside from the murders over the last month,
• 43:45
  SPEAKER_01: you'll notice that ICE has not been in the headlines as much,
• 43:49
  SPEAKER_01: and that has been by design.
• 43:52
  SPEAKER_01: While Stephen Miller and his Nazi flunky Greg Bovino,
• 43:55
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, please, dear God, let him run for president.
• 43:59
  SPEAKER_01: They used ICE to terrorize immigrant communities as loudly as possible.
• 44:05
  SPEAKER_01: Mark Wayne Mullen has been pursuing the white nationalists' agenda of purging America
• 44:17
  SPEAKER_01: Mullen has been trying to be the reasonable Nazi, and it's been pissing Trump off a lot.
• 44:24
  SPEAKER_01: Magdalene's already pissed off, but now so is Trump.
• 44:28
  SPEAKER_01: Mullen's still terrorizing immigrants and deporting terrorists.
• 44:31
  SPEAKER_01: Tens of thousands of people.
• 44:33
  SPEAKER_01: But he's not making his racism big and splashy and performative.
• 44:38
  SPEAKER_01: And without the public cruelty, MAGA can't masturbate themselves to sleep every night.
• 44:44
  SPEAKER_01: And they're getting mad at Trump because it was never about the end result of a whiter America.
• 44:51
  SPEAKER_01: It was always about the violence and the sadism because they're genocidal monsters.
• 44:58
  SPEAKER_01: Never forget that.
• 45:00
  SPEAKER_00: Well, ICE has announced that shooting immigrants and Americans wasn't enough for its agents.
• 45:05
  SPEAKER_00: They'd like to also electrocute them.
• 45:07
  SPEAKER_00: The agency recently announced that it was spending $20 million on a product known
• 45:12
  SPEAKER_00: as GloVe or Generated Low Output Voltage Emitter.
• 45:17
  SPEAKER_00: Like the acronym...
• 45:25
  SPEAKER_01: I'll never live that down.
• 45:27
  SPEAKER_00: Like the acronym indicates,
• 45:31
  SPEAKER_00: these are gloves ICE agents would wear and they would deliver painful shocks
• 45:36
  SPEAKER_00: to suspects.
• 45:37
  SPEAKER_00: ICE claims the tool is necessary as a, quote, distraction and de-escalation device.
• 45:42
  SPEAKER_01: Which is bullshit, but whatever.
• 45:44
  SPEAKER_01: They never de-escalate, so I don't know what the fuck they're talking about.
• 45:47
  SPEAKER_01: They never, ever de-escalate.
• 45:49
  SPEAKER_00: I actually saw a report just really quickly.
• 45:52
  SPEAKER_00: I saw a report recently where they pulled this person out of a car on the side of
• 45:57
  SPEAKER_00: a busy highway.
• 45:58
  SPEAKER_00: And then they claimed that they had to leave the area really quickly because there was...
• 46:04
  SPEAKER_00: Like, violent protesters in the area,
• 46:07
  SPEAKER_00: but there was a local news crew standing on the sidewalk across while
• 46:10
  SPEAKER_00: the arrest was happening,
• 46:11
  SPEAKER_00: and they took footage of it,
• 46:13
  SPEAKER_00: and it never showed anybody there at all except for the news crew and the police,
• 46:16
  SPEAKER_00: or the ICE agents,
• 46:17
  SPEAKER_00: and they left the car,
• 46:18
  SPEAKER_00: the ICE agents left the car in the middle of the street and almost caused accidents
• 46:22
  SPEAKER_00: because people were driving down this busy street and, oh, a car!
• 46:28
  SPEAKER_01: Jesus fucking Christ.
• 46:29
  SPEAKER_01: They're just morons.
• 46:31
  SPEAKER_01: They're so poorly trained,
• 46:33
  SPEAKER_01: they're more dangerous than they would be if they actually were trained,
• 46:37
  SPEAKER_01: which is a problem.
• 46:38
  SPEAKER_01: But they're just morons to begin with.
• 46:40
  SPEAKER_01: But no one ever said Nazis were smart.
• 46:43
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, exactly.
• 46:44
  SPEAKER_00: Well, following outrage from the public,
• 46:46
  SPEAKER_00: Democratic lawmakers began speaking out against the devices.
• 46:50
  SPEAKER_00: Senator Adam Schiff slammed Republicans for not raining in ICE when they had
• 46:54
  SPEAKER_00: the chance,
• 46:55
  SPEAKER_00: but instead giving them billions of dollars after they killed Americans
• 46:58
  SPEAKER_00: and immigrants in our street.
• 47:00
  SPEAKER_00: He said, quote,
• 47:01
  SPEAKER_00: now ICE is looking to purchase electrical shock gloves
• 47:05
  SPEAKER_00: to continue terrorizing our communities,
• 47:07
  SPEAKER_00: and asked, quote, how soon will they be used to inflict further cruelty?
• 47:12
  SPEAKER_00: Well, that's an easy fucking answer immediately.
• 47:17
  SPEAKER_01: The first time there's a video of them using it on like a kid,
• 47:20
  SPEAKER_01: people are going to be like, oh my God, we didn't know they were going to do that.
• 47:22
  SPEAKER_01: It's like, yes, you did.
• 47:24
  SPEAKER_01: We all knew they were going to do that because they're aching.
• 47:27
  SPEAKER_01: They're dying to grab some 16-year-old,
• 47:30
  SPEAKER_01: 15-year-old, 14-year-old kid and shock them because that's what they get off on.
• 47:36
  SPEAKER_01: They think it's hilarious to hurt people.
• 47:38
  SPEAKER_00: Right, I mean,
• 47:39
  SPEAKER_00: ICE is immediately going to use the gloves to inflict further pain
• 47:43
  SPEAKER_00: on whoever they come in contact with.
• 47:45
  SPEAKER_00: Immigrants, abuelas, abuelos, children, pregnant women, protesters.
• 47:51
  SPEAKER_00: Nobody will be safe because cruelty is the fucking point.
• 47:55
  SPEAKER_00: Again, cruelty is the fucking point.
• 47:59
  SPEAKER_00: And when the regime falls, and it will, they must all be held accountable.
• 48:04
  SPEAKER_00: As we always say.
• 48:06
  SPEAKER_01: Nuremberg them all.
• 48:07
  SPEAKER_01: All right.
• 48:11
  SPEAKER_01: So we haven't done this section in a while.
• 48:13
  SPEAKER_01: We haven't done one of these sections in a while,
• 48:15
  SPEAKER_01: but it's time for Scenes from a Crashing Economy.
• 48:25
  SPEAKER_00: Your sound effects remind me of the Friend episode where Ross learns how to play the keyboard.
• 48:30
  SPEAKER_00: You never watched Friends.
• 48:31
  SPEAKER_00: I'm going to have to send it to you.
• 48:32
  SPEAKER_01: No, I haven't looked up that scene because you've mentioned that before.
• 48:35
  SPEAKER_01: It's just you.
• 48:36
  SPEAKER_01: No.
• 48:40
  SPEAKER_01: This is one of those stories most people aren't going to be paying attention to
• 48:44
  SPEAKER_01: because it doesn't mean anything unless you're a bit of a nerd
• 48:48
  SPEAKER_01: or you've been deliberately looking for massive red flags.
• 48:52
  SPEAKER_01: But that is what you have us for.
• 48:54
  SPEAKER_01: The New York Times.
• 48:55
  SPEAKER_01: No, no.
• 49:10
  SPEAKER_01: A firm, one of the most popular Paylater apps,
• 49:12
  SPEAKER_01: has started providing some tenants loans to extend
• 49:26
  SPEAKER_01: Many dentists,
• 49:29
  SPEAKER_01: veterinarians,
• 49:29
  SPEAKER_01: and medical clinics now offer instant pay-later financing,
• 49:34
  SPEAKER_01: and Intuit,
• 49:35
  SPEAKER_01: this year,
• 49:35
  SPEAKER_01: started promoting FileNow pay-later loans to TurboTax users who owe money
• 49:41
  SPEAKER_01: in their tax return.
• 49:43
  SPEAKER_01: Pay-later loans are becoming the, quote,
• 49:45
  SPEAKER_01: working capital for the modern middle class,
• 49:48
  SPEAKER_01: said Karen Webster,
• 49:49
  SPEAKER_01: the chief executive of Payments,
• 49:52
  SPEAKER_01: P-Y-M-N-T-S, a news and marketing research company for the payments industry.
• 49:58
  SPEAKER_01: Consumers are using it for more essential everyday things.
• 50:03
  SPEAKER_01: In 2025, people ran $160 billion in debt through these companies.
• 50:08
  SPEAKER_01: That's on top of the $2-3 trillion in credit card debt American households now hold.
• 50:13
  SPEAKER_01: That's unsustainable.
• 50:19
  SPEAKER_01: And it's what happened in 2008-2009.
• 50:22
  SPEAKER_01: When these companies started to collapse because people couldn't pay what they owed,
• 50:26
  SPEAKER_01: the domino effect is going to happen.
• 50:28
  SPEAKER_01: But that's not going to stop people from losing their jobs and their homes
• 50:31
  SPEAKER_01: and their pensions, because the rich gets
• 50:43
  SPEAKER_01: Socialism, we get a fuck you.
• 50:46
  SPEAKER_01: And that's when a new Tea Party will magically appear to tell us to be mad at
• 50:50
  SPEAKER_01: the Democrats, not Wall Street.
• 50:52
  SPEAKER_01: Except I don't think that's going to work this time.
• 50:55
  SPEAKER_01: And that's when things are going to get sued.
• 50:58
  SPEAKER_01: Super, super fucking ugly.
• 51:00
  SPEAKER_01: And I can't wait.
• 51:01
  SPEAKER_01: One other thing, I didn't put this in the notes because I just saw it last night.
• 51:06
  SPEAKER_01: I saw several videos about this on TikTok,
• 51:09
  SPEAKER_01: which normally I don't go to TikTok for news exactly,
• 51:13
  SPEAKER_01: but the NASDAQ,
• 51:16
  SPEAKER_01: which is one of the things people keep track of for Wall Street,
• 51:20
  SPEAKER_01: people are starting to hedge funds, the big hedge funds, right?
• 51:23
  SPEAKER_01: These are the people with tons and tons of money.
• 51:26
  SPEAKER_01: They...
• 51:27
  SPEAKER_01: Buy stocks.
• 51:27
  SPEAKER_01: They bet on this and the other.
• 51:30
  SPEAKER_01: They're starting to short NASDAQ, which means they're betting against NASDAQ.
• 51:37
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, that's crazy.
• 51:38
  SPEAKER_01: Yes.
• 51:39
  SPEAKER_01: The people with money,
• 51:40
  SPEAKER_01: the people who watch this stuff professionally and move billions
• 51:46
  SPEAKER_01: of dollars are now betting against NASDAQ,
• 51:50
  SPEAKER_01: which means they're expecting NASDAQ to drop.
• 51:53
  SPEAKER_01: A lot because you don't bet against if it's only going to drop a point or two,
• 51:57
  SPEAKER_01: a little bit here, a little bit there.
• 51:59
  SPEAKER_01: You bet when it's going to move So that's not good.
• 52:29
  SPEAKER_01: This is the thing that we've been talking about for quite some time.
• 52:32
  SPEAKER_01: Those bubbles always pop.
• 52:36
  SPEAKER_01: Did we talk about that?
• 52:40
  SPEAKER_01: The government bailing out Japan?
• 52:41
  SPEAKER_01: Did we talk about that on here?
• 52:43
  SPEAKER_01: No.
• 52:44
  SPEAKER_01: We pumped in a whole shitload of money into the Japanese economy
• 52:49
  SPEAKER_01: to keep their economy from collapsing because that keeps our economy propped up
• 52:55
  SPEAKER_01: and it didn't work.
• 52:56
  SPEAKER_01: The Japanese economy is still spiraling out of control.
• 52:59
  SPEAKER_01: Even though we gave them a shit ton of money to bail them out.
• 53:03
  SPEAKER_01: So this is starting to pick up steam.
• 53:08
  SPEAKER_01: And yeah,
• 53:10
  SPEAKER_01: Eric Love,
• 53:10
  SPEAKER_01: Dr. Lovlo over here, Japan's economy is going to collapse by the end of October.
• 53:14
  SPEAKER_01: And that's just one of those domino things.
• 53:17
  SPEAKER_01: They go down.
• 53:18
  SPEAKER_01: It hits us very, very hard.
• 53:21
  SPEAKER_01: And well, that's one of the things that the regime's trying to avoid.
• 53:25
  SPEAKER_01: We're all interconnected and oil prices are still going up
• 53:29
  SPEAKER_01: because no matter how often Trump says the Strait of Hormuz is open,
• 53:33
  SPEAKER_01: it fucking isn't.
• 53:35
  SPEAKER_01: Shipping is not going through the Strait of Hormuz and we can't make Iran open it.
• 53:40
  SPEAKER_01: So the economy is teetering on the edge of kaboom.
• 53:46
  SPEAKER_01: And even though Bob is here to tell us how cute and adorable he is,
• 53:49
  SPEAKER_01: that's not going to help the economy.
• 53:51
  SPEAKER_01: So buckle in, people.
• 53:53
  SPEAKER_01: It's going to be a rough ride.
• 53:55
  SPEAKER_00: All right.
• 53:56
  SPEAKER_01: Time to move on.
• 53:58
  SPEAKER_01: On to headlines for short attention spans.
• 54:01
  SPEAKER_00: So the mees of the world.
• 54:04
  SPEAKER_00: Donald Trump took some time to remind everybody what a creepy pervert he is
• 54:07
  SPEAKER_00: by rambling about beautiful young girls over and over and over and over again
• 54:13
  SPEAKER_00: and how they desperately wanted to meet him at the White House.
• 54:16
  SPEAKER_00: His comments came during a speech in front of a crowd
• 54:18
  SPEAKER_00: of law enforcement officers outside of New York City.
• 54:22
  SPEAKER_00: He started taking credit for the crime rate in D.C., even though it's been dropping for years.
• 54:26
  SPEAKER_00: He claimed that it was actually not dropping for years,
• 54:30
  SPEAKER_00: but it was due to the National Guard deployment in the city.
• 54:33
  SPEAKER_01: It really isn't.
• 54:35
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 54:36
  SPEAKER_00: And as a reminder, he wasn't able to deploy those same troops during the insurrection.
• 54:41
  SPEAKER_00: But, you know.
• 54:42
  SPEAKER_00: So weird.
• 54:43
  SPEAKER_01: So weird.
• 54:43
  SPEAKER_00: Isn't that strange?
• 54:45
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know why that is.
• 54:46
  SPEAKER_00: That was Nancy Pelosi's fault, though.
• 54:47
  SPEAKER_00: My bad.
• 54:49
  SPEAKER_00: The pervert-in-chief claimed,
• 54:50
  SPEAKER_00: quote, every day I come to the White House and people are thanking me.
• 54:55
  SPEAKER_00: Thank you, sir.
• 54:56
  SPEAKER_00: Thank you.
• 54:56
  SPEAKER_00: Thank you, sir.
• 54:57
  SPEAKER_00: You know,
• 54:58
  SPEAKER_00: these young,
• 54:58
  SPEAKER_00: beautiful girls,
• 54:59
  SPEAKER_00: these young, beautiful girls, these young, beautiful girls in the White House.
• 55:04
  SPEAKER_00: It's an actual quote.
• 55:07
  SPEAKER_00: You know, they come in.
• 55:08
  SPEAKER_00: Now, I'm not supposed to say beautiful, but what the hell?
• 55:11
  SPEAKER_01: Wait, do they have tears in their eyes?
• 55:13
  SPEAKER_01: He forgot about tears in their eyes.
• 55:14
  SPEAKER_01: That's the thing with them, tears in his eyes.
• 55:16
  SPEAKER_01: They have tears in their eyes when they say, thank you, sir.
• 55:18
  SPEAKER_01: Thank you.
• 55:18
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, the gross rambling speech reminded me of that one time that a group
• 55:23
  SPEAKER_00: of little girls walked by him at Trump Tower.
• 55:26
  SPEAKER_00: Do you remember that?
• 55:27
  SPEAKER_00: There was a video of it during the 2015 election,
• 55:29
  SPEAKER_00: and he claimed that he'd be dating one of them in 10 years.
• 55:32
  SPEAKER_00: He's just so...
• 55:34
  SPEAKER_01: He's so fucking disgusting.
• 55:35
  SPEAKER_00: Yes.
• 55:36
  SPEAKER_00: And as Antoine Dodson once said from the viral news clip, hide your kids, hide your wife.
• 55:43
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, Dr. Lolo,
• 55:49
  SPEAKER_00: he's bad with names.
• 55:50
  SPEAKER_01: His pick at Palm Beach County Clerk of Courts just got arrested
• 55:53
  SPEAKER_01: for sexually abusing his fucking grandson.
• 55:56
  SPEAKER_01: Wow, what?
• 55:57
  SPEAKER_01: A Republican is a pedophile?
• 56:00
  SPEAKER_01: No fucking way.
• 56:02
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it's actually a huge scandal here right now.
• 56:06
  SPEAKER_01: Hold on.
• 56:06
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, it's a day ending.
• 56:07
  SPEAKER_01: Why?
• 56:08
  SPEAKER_01: Of course the Republicans are pedophile.
• 56:10
  SPEAKER_01: It's just every fucking day with these people.
• 56:14
  SPEAKER_01: You should actually read about that because it's pretty crazy.
• 56:17
  SPEAKER_01: These people are fucking monsters.
• 56:19
  SPEAKER_01: And I'm telling I'm telling you,
• 56:22
  SPEAKER_01: a decade from now,
• 56:24
  SPEAKER_01: they're going to be arguing that this is perfectly natural and biblical
• 56:27
  SPEAKER_01: and why are people so mad about it?
• 56:29
  SPEAKER_01: It's just going to be a thing for them.
• 56:31
  SPEAKER_01: And they're going to be like,
• 56:32
  SPEAKER_01: and the press is going to be like,
• 56:34
  SPEAKER_01: well, it's a matter of opinion on whether or not sex with children is normal.
• 56:40
  SPEAKER_01: Can't wait.
• 56:40
  SPEAKER_01: I'm telling you.
• 56:41
  SPEAKER_01: It's going to be like every time I hear a reporter,
• 56:43
  SPEAKER_01: I'm just going to want to walk up to him and punch him in the face.
• 56:45
  SPEAKER_01: It's like, fuck you.
• 56:47
  SPEAKER_01: Drink fucking bleach.
• 56:48
  SPEAKER_01: Anyway, tech CEOs.
• 56:50
  SPEAKER_00: And that, my friends, is why we don't have any sponsors.
• 56:53
  SPEAKER_01: Yep, pretty much.
• 56:57
  SPEAKER_00: So please send us money.
• 57:02
  SPEAKER_01: Because God knows no one else is going to.
• 57:08
  SPEAKER_01: So tech CEOs are so full of shit, it's embarrassing.
• 57:22
  SPEAKER_01: The only way for these CEOs to keep their companies from collapsing into
• 57:27
  SPEAKER_01: a black hole is to sucker investors into pouring billions into businesses that burn
• 57:35
  SPEAKER_01: through money faster than nerds like me at a never-ending anime convention.
• 57:40
  SPEAKER_01: So, they're not investing in today, you see.
• 57:43
  SPEAKER_01: They're investing in the future profits.
• 57:46
  SPEAKER_01: And those future profits are unlimited.
• 57:50
  SPEAKER_01: So, it only makes sense to give Elon Musk a trillion dollars because Tesla, the company...
• 57:55
  SPEAKER_01: And
• 58:04
  SPEAKER_01: if you believe that,
• 58:06
  SPEAKER_01: Dylan Taylor,
• 58:07
  SPEAKER_01: the billionaire founder and CEO of Voyager Technologies,
• 58:10
  SPEAKER_01: wants to send you to the moon.
• 58:12
  SPEAKER_01: He says we're definitely going to have cities on the moon within a decade.
• 58:15
  SPEAKER_01: On the moon?
• 58:16
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, yeah.
• 58:17
  SPEAKER_01: And that definitely means people should keep investing in his company, his space company.
• 58:22
  SPEAKER_01: Totally legit.
• 58:23
  SPEAKER_01: We're going to be working on the moon and we're going to be mining on the moon
• 58:26
  SPEAKER_01: and people are going to be, you know, just commuting back and forth to the moon.
• 58:31
  SPEAKER_01: So honestly,
• 58:33
  SPEAKER_01: when the Silicon Valley bubble pops and Trump gives these people
• 58:36
  SPEAKER_01: a trillion dollar bailout while bread lines stretch for miles,
• 58:40
  SPEAKER_01: the tech CEOs should all be dragged down to the street and skinned to line.
• 58:46
  SPEAKER_01: And that also is why we don't get any sponsors.
• 58:48
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 58:51
  SPEAKER_00: Again, that's why we're not getting sponsors.
• 58:59
  SPEAKER_01: I'm telling you,
• 58:59
  SPEAKER_01: if there's a company out there that's making fucking guillotines,
• 59:02
  SPEAKER_01: they should be our sponsor.
• 59:05
  SPEAKER_01: We will definitely run a sponsorship for, you know, guillotines are us.
• 59:11
  SPEAKER_01: Because it's not a revolution unless it's French, yo.
• 59:14
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, God.
• 59:15
  SPEAKER_00: Maybe we could borrow the guillotine from the insurrectionists when they wanted to...
• 59:19
  SPEAKER_00: Take care of Mike Pence.
• 59:22
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, got it.
• 59:23
  SPEAKER_00: So the DOJ is still bothering Kilmar Abrego Garcia, because why not?
• 59:28
  SPEAKER_00: On Monday,
• 59:28
  SPEAKER_00: federal prosecutors filed an appeal in the U.S.
• 59:31
  SPEAKER_00: Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit to reinstate the criminal charges
• 59:34
  SPEAKER_00: against Abrego Garcia.
• 59:36
  SPEAKER_00: Now, if you remember, the DOJ had charged him with human trafficking.
• 59:39
  SPEAKER_00: They claimed that he was driving from Maryland to Texas several times a week with his children.
• 59:44
  SPEAKER_00: What?
• 59:46
  SPEAKER_00: In a trip that wasn't even possible.
• 59:50
  SPEAKER_00: It was not possible.
• 59:52
  SPEAKER_00: The district court dropped the case against
• 59:55
  SPEAKER_00: a Salvadoran immigrant earlier this year,
• 59:57
  SPEAKER_00: ruling that it was likely a vindictive prosecution because they were mad
• 1:00:01
  SPEAKER_00: that they had to bring him back from Seacott and treat him like a human being.
• 1:00:07
  SPEAKER_01: What?
• 1:00:07
  SPEAKER_01: That's terrible.
• 1:00:08
  SPEAKER_00: The DOJ claimed that the district court order was erroneous at every step.
• 1:00:14
  SPEAKER_00: Prosecutors also basically admitted that they were prosecuting him because of
• 1:00:18
  SPEAKER_00: the immigration case,
• 1:00:19
  SPEAKER_00: saying the government had an obvious interest in protecting the public
• 1:00:23
  SPEAKER_00: by prosecuting Abrego after the courts ordered his return.
• 1:00:28
  SPEAKER_00: So they're literally admitting that they prosecuted because he was returned to
• 1:00:33
  SPEAKER_00: the United States.
• 1:00:34
  SPEAKER_00: So fuck these people.
• 1:00:36
  SPEAKER_01: And speaking of the DOJ,
• 1:00:39
  SPEAKER_01: let us mark this story under least surprising revelation since we found out
• 1:00:43
  SPEAKER_01: that Trump's name was in the Epstein files more times and Harry Potter's name is in
• 1:00:46
  SPEAKER_01: the entire fucking series about Harry fucking Potter.
• 1:00:51
  SPEAKER_01: CBS reports that a whistleblower who will undoubtedly be investigated and charged
• 1:00:56
  SPEAKER_01: with a made up crime shortly has filed a complaint about
• 1:00:59
  SPEAKER_01: the regime's multiple attacks on universities last year for
• 1:01:03
  SPEAKER_00: anti-Semitism.
• 1:01:05
  SPEAKER_01: This is from CBS.
• 1:01:20
  SPEAKER_01: According to a former Justice Department attorney,
• 1:01:22
  SPEAKER_01: Haley Van Arum,
• 1:01:24
  SPEAKER_01: a longtime attorney,
• 1:01:25
  SPEAKER_01: a lawyer at the Justice Department Civil Rights Division,
• 1:01:28
  SPEAKER_01: accused political leadership at the Department of Health and Human Services and DOJ
• 1:01:32
  SPEAKER_01: of improperly pushing staff to issue accusations.
• 1:01:35
  SPEAKER_01: It was so fucking obvious this was bullshit from the beginning.
• 1:01:37
  SPEAKER_01: And what made it even worse was how the legacy press played along
• 1:01:39
  SPEAKER_01: if systemic anti-Semitism was a real problem on campuses.
• 1:01:57
  SPEAKER_00: Hey, really quickly, didn't they just lose against Harvard?
• 1:02:01
  SPEAKER_00: Yep.
• 1:02:02
  SPEAKER_01: Now, was there a problem with some of the Gaza protests?
• 1:02:05
  SPEAKER_01: Abso-fucking-lutely.
• 1:02:07
  SPEAKER_01: We've talked about this repeatedly for the last two years.
• 1:02:10
  SPEAKER_01: And if you still don't think screaming that...
• 1:02:12
  SPEAKER_01: But that's
• 1:02:19
  SPEAKER_01: not the same as the university engaging in systemic discrimination
• 1:02:23
  SPEAKER_01: and everybody fucking knew it.
• 1:02:26
  SPEAKER_01: The ones that caved will be shamed for eternity.
• 1:02:30
  SPEAKER_01: Columbia, Brown, University of Virginia, etc.
• 1:02:34
  SPEAKER_01: All covered themselves in disgrace.
• 1:02:37
  SPEAKER_01: Harvard told Trump to fuck off.
• 1:02:40
  SPEAKER_01: And he's been losing in court for over a year.
• 1:02:43
  SPEAKER_01: And he just lost again.
• 1:02:45
  SPEAKER_01: You just mentioned it.
• 1:02:46
  SPEAKER_01: Because of course he's lost.
• 1:02:48
  SPEAKER_01: It was all garbage that would never hold up under the slightest bit of scrutiny.
• 1:02:53
  SPEAKER_01: And now we have whistleblowers,
• 1:02:55
  SPEAKER_01: which makes everyone that played along look even more fucking pathetic.
• 1:02:59
  SPEAKER_00: And you know who's playing along real hard?
• 1:03:02
  SPEAKER_00: John fucking Fetterman.
• 1:03:03
  SPEAKER_00: I was telling Ogre about this recently.
• 1:03:06
  SPEAKER_00: I watched the interview between him and Jon Stewart,
• 1:03:10
  SPEAKER_00: and it was a really good interview because you were just like, what the fuck?
• 1:03:15
  SPEAKER_00: I actually believe the stroke did more damage than we initially thought.
• 1:03:19
  SPEAKER_00: During the thing,
• 1:03:20
  SPEAKER_00: he mentioned,
• 1:03:22
  SPEAKER_00: and this is something that I've heard said repeatedly, well,
• 1:03:27
  SPEAKER_00: Israel's not committing a genocide because if they wanted to commit a genocide,
• 1:03:32
  SPEAKER_00: they could do it quickly.
• 1:03:34
  SPEAKER_00: And Jon Stewart was like, it doesn't mean...
• 1:03:37
  SPEAKER_01: Doing it slow doesn't mean it's not...
• 1:03:39
  SPEAKER_00: Doing it slow doesn't mean that you're not killing a group of people.
• 1:03:43
  SPEAKER_01: It took us decades and decades and decades and decades and decades to wipe out
• 1:03:48
  SPEAKER_01: the Native Americans.
• 1:03:48
  SPEAKER_01: It doesn't mean it wasn't a genocide.
• 1:03:50
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 1:03:51
  SPEAKER_00: And then he said, well, there's just collateral damage.
• 1:03:54
  SPEAKER_01: What a fucking piece of shit.
• 1:03:56
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 1:03:56
  SPEAKER_00: So that's our guy.
• 1:03:58
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 1:03:58
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 1:03:59
  SPEAKER_01: Not for much longer.
• 1:04:00
  SPEAKER_01: Not for much longer.
• 1:04:01
  SPEAKER_01: When this whole thing,
• 1:04:03
  SPEAKER_01: when this regime falls and the tribunals begin,
• 1:04:05
  SPEAKER_01: every fucking collaborator should be made to suffer what they've done.
• 1:04:09
  SPEAKER_01: Like we keep saying, never hurt them all.
• 1:04:12
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, that was close.
• 1:04:13
  SPEAKER_00: We almost got that one.
• 1:04:15
  SPEAKER_00: After 110 episodes.
• 1:04:21
  SPEAKER_00: Well, let's wrap up some headlines with some good news.
• 1:04:25
  SPEAKER_00: Democratic turnout through Israel.
• 1:04:26
  SPEAKER_00: According to the AP,
• 1:04:27
  SPEAKER_00: Dems are turning out in numbers not seen in decades in this year's primaries.
• 1:04:30
  SPEAKER_00: For example, in Wisconsin, they cast almost 800,000 votes.
• 1:04:33
  SPEAKER_00: That's the highest total in over 20 years.
• 1:04:35
  SPEAKER_00: Michigan had a record turnout of 1.5 million Democrats.
• 1:04:37
  SPEAKER_00: That was, you know, like I said, a record turnout.
• 1:04:57
  SPEAKER_00: That's great news for us.
• 1:04:59
  SPEAKER_00: As I mentioned earlier on the show,
• 1:05:02
  SPEAKER_00: before the show,
• 1:05:03
  SPEAKER_00: Sarasota County in Florida has been controlled by,
• 1:05:07
  SPEAKER_00: their school board has been controlled by vile,
• 1:05:09
  SPEAKER_00: vile fucking Republicans for four years.
• 1:05:12
  SPEAKER_00: And Republicans just lost control of the school board last night.
• 1:05:16
  SPEAKER_00: So this is outstanding news.
• 1:05:19
  SPEAKER_00: And that's happening in a state where,
• 1:05:21
  SPEAKER_00: or in a county where Republicans outnumber Democrats by almost two to one.
• 1:05:26
  SPEAKER_01: Damn.
• 1:05:27
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 1:05:28
  SPEAKER_00: So hopefully we keep this going in November and stomp those bitches into the ground.
• 1:05:34
  SPEAKER_00: But I mean that figuratively.
• 1:05:36
  SPEAKER_00: So whoever's listening to us, it's a joke.
• 1:05:39
  SPEAKER_00: We don't mean it literally.
• 1:05:41
  SPEAKER_01: Now, the funny thing about that.
• 1:05:43
  SPEAKER_01: We got this from the AP News, right?
• 1:05:46
  SPEAKER_01: The title for that particular article was Democratic primary turnout has soared in some states.
• 1:05:53
  SPEAKER_01: Can it carry over to November?
• 1:05:56
  SPEAKER_01: Which was defunding.
• 1:05:57
  SPEAKER_01: Framing there,
• 1:05:59
  SPEAKER_01: when Republicans are doing really well in primaries,
• 1:06:03
  SPEAKER_01: no one ever asks if it's going to carry over to November.
• 1:06:06
  SPEAKER_01: It's always framed as Democrats are doomed,
• 1:06:09
  SPEAKER_01: Republican primary is up,
• 1:06:11
  SPEAKER_01: the turnout is up, Democrats are fucking doomed, blah, blah, blah.
• 1:06:14
  SPEAKER_01: When Democratic turnout goes through the roof, they don't talk about how Republicans are doomed.
• 1:06:19
  SPEAKER_01: They're like, boy, I don't know.
• 1:06:21
  SPEAKER_01: Can Democrats keep it going?
• 1:06:23
  SPEAKER_01: It's like, you know, man.
• 1:06:25
  SPEAKER_01: When Republicans are doing badly,
• 1:06:27
  SPEAKER_01: it's always a question about whether or not Democrats can keep it going.
• 1:06:30
  SPEAKER_01: When Democrats are doing badly, Democrats are doomed.
• 1:06:33
  SPEAKER_01: It's always the fucking same with the press.
• 1:06:36
  SPEAKER_01: Always the fucking same with them.
• 1:06:38
  SPEAKER_01: It's always the fucking.
• 1:06:40
  SPEAKER_01: The price of gas is up.
• 1:06:41
  SPEAKER_01: That's not the good news.
• 1:06:42
  SPEAKER_01: The good news is that Trump is so fucking stupid that he's telling
• 1:06:46
  SPEAKER_01: the American public to just suck it up and pay more
• 1:06:59
  SPEAKER_01: Mr. Man of the People,
• 1:07:01
  SPEAKER_01: he's so detached from the everyday lived experience of Americans,
• 1:07:06
  SPEAKER_01: he has no idea how he sounds.
• 1:07:09
  SPEAKER_01: This is from Reuters.
• 1:07:11
  SPEAKER_01: He told a political rally in Garden City, New York on Friday.
• 1:07:13
  SPEAKER_01: What the fuck?
• 1:07:43
  SPEAKER_01: These are not the words of a leader.
• 1:07:45
  SPEAKER_01: These are the ramblings of a moron who has no idea how pissed off his own voters are
• 1:07:51
  SPEAKER_01: and how expensive gas is along with everything else.
• 1:07:54
  SPEAKER_01: But what does he care?
• 1:07:56
  SPEAKER_01: It's not his problem.
• 1:07:57
  SPEAKER_01: And the people don't matter anyway.
• 1:07:59
  SPEAKER_01: The little people, who cares about them?
• 1:08:01
  SPEAKER_01: This is definitely a winning message.
• 1:08:04
  SPEAKER_01: Pay more.
• 1:08:05
  SPEAKER_01: It's fine.
• 1:08:06
  SPEAKER_01: Definitely a winning message just 10 weeks before the midterms.
• 1:08:09
  SPEAKER_00: Good job.
• 1:08:10
  SPEAKER_00: And we're paying a lot fucking more, man.
• 1:08:14
  SPEAKER_01: One last bit of good news, this time from Texas.
• 1:08:17
  SPEAKER_01: James Tallarico is raising so much money, he has to keep giving some of it back.
• 1:08:23
  SPEAKER_01: Notice reports that Tallarico has raised over $70 million and so many donors.
• 1:08:29
  SPEAKER_01: He's had to refund about a million so far.
• 1:08:33
  SPEAKER_01: That's an insane amount of enthusiasm in a state that we haven't won
• 1:08:39
  SPEAKER_01: a statewide office in decades.
• 1:08:42
  SPEAKER_01: The regime is overwhelming.
• 1:08:43
  SPEAKER_01: Almost certainly going to try to make a thing about it,
• 1:08:46
  SPEAKER_01: but that's just begging to make the Streisand effect kick in.
• 1:08:51
  SPEAKER_01: Giving a ton of free publicity to a Democrat in a state Republicans cannot afford
• 1:08:56
  SPEAKER_01: to lose,
• 1:08:57
  SPEAKER_01: and he's So, please,
• 1:08:58
  SPEAKER_01: we're begging you, GOP, we dare you to try to make a fucking case about this.
• 1:09:02
  SPEAKER_01: Please.
• 1:09:15
  SPEAKER_01: Please go out and say, oh, he's getting too much money.
• 1:09:20
  SPEAKER_01: Please make a big public fucking scandal about that.
• 1:09:23
  SPEAKER_01: What could possibly go wrong for you?
• 1:09:25
  SPEAKER_01: Teehee.
• 1:09:26
  SPEAKER_01: All right.
• 1:09:27
  SPEAKER_01: It is time to move on.
• 1:09:28
  SPEAKER_01: Let's wrap up the show here with some self-care of the week.
• 1:09:31
  SPEAKER_00: So as you know, I was not here last week.
• 1:09:34
  SPEAKER_00: I know that you all missed me.
• 1:09:36
  SPEAKER_01: Wait, you weren't here last week?
• 1:09:40
  SPEAKER_00: My son broke down.
• 1:09:42
  SPEAKER_00: His car broke down in the interstate while he was driving to work.
• 1:09:46
  SPEAKER_00: He never works during the week.
• 1:09:47
  SPEAKER_00: And of course, the one time he works during the week, his car breaks down.
• 1:09:50
  SPEAKER_00: So I happened to call him at like 630 in the morning because I saw that he was awake.
• 1:09:54
  SPEAKER_00: I was like, oh, that's weird.
• 1:09:55
  SPEAKER_00: And then he was driving.
• 1:09:56
  SPEAKER_00: I was like, let me just call and see how my baby's doing.
• 1:09:59
  SPEAKER_00: And he goes, mom, what do I do when my car is overheated?
• 1:10:02
  SPEAKER_00: And I'm like, pool over.
• 1:10:06
  SPEAKER_00: He goes, I already am.
• 1:10:07
  SPEAKER_00: I was like, oh, thank God.
• 1:10:09
  SPEAKER_00: So my husband and I both took the day off of work and rescued him.
• 1:10:13
  SPEAKER_00: I will say that he was in the worst absolute possible spot and handled it
• 1:10:18
  SPEAKER_00: so much better than I would have.
• 1:10:20
  SPEAKER_00: Well, I mean, I don't think that I would have sat there for two hours, but it's okay.
• 1:10:24
  SPEAKER_00: The poor kid was in the left emergency lane during rush hour traffic at the exit
• 1:10:29
  SPEAKER_00: for downtown Tampa on I-275.
• 1:10:33
  SPEAKER_00: And he said for the first hour, cars were flying by him at like 80 miles per hour.
• 1:10:37
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 1:10:39
  SPEAKER_00: Fortunately, he was all good.
• 1:10:40
  SPEAKER_00: He survived.
• 1:10:42
  SPEAKER_00: His dad replaced the coolant reservoir in his car.
• 1:10:45
  SPEAKER_00: His car is like 10 years old now, and it just hit 120,000 miles.
• 1:10:52
  SPEAKER_00: And it's an American model, so you know how that is.
• 1:10:56
  SPEAKER_00: Stuff starts failing.
• 1:10:57
  SPEAKER_00: I feel like so many things have failed recently.
• 1:11:00
  SPEAKER_00: I'm like, give me a break, kid.
• 1:11:02
  SPEAKER_00: But, uh...
• 1:11:04
  SPEAKER_00: Whatever.
• 1:11:05
  SPEAKER_00: The day after the car incident, I took both him and his brother to Busch Gardens.
• 1:11:10
  SPEAKER_00: Our tiny guy rode big boy roller coasters for the first time.
• 1:11:14
  SPEAKER_00: He went on two of them and then he said he was done.
• 1:11:17
  SPEAKER_00: And his brother was like, no problem.
• 1:11:19
  SPEAKER_00: And he told me later on the way home, mommy, I didn't like the drop.
• 1:11:25
  SPEAKER_00: Like he went on the longest roller coaster at Busch Gardens and it goes up
• 1:11:29
  SPEAKER_00: to like 65 miles per hour.
• 1:11:31
  SPEAKER_00: So it was like, and it does a loop.
• 1:11:34
  SPEAKER_00: So, you know, he did a, you know, he was brave.
• 1:11:38
  SPEAKER_00: We had a great time, but oh my God, it was so hot.
• 1:11:41
  SPEAKER_00: It was so hot.
• 1:11:43
  SPEAKER_00: I've been to Busch Gardens a million times during the summer because we used
• 1:11:46
  SPEAKER_00: to have annual passes.
• 1:11:47
  SPEAKER_00: So during the summer, I would always take Aiden and his friends.
• 1:11:49
  SPEAKER_00: But this time,
• 1:11:51
  SPEAKER_00: the heat index,
• 1:11:52
  SPEAKER_00: I checked the next day because I was like, why was I so hot yesterday?
• 1:11:55
  SPEAKER_00: The heat index was 110 degrees.
• 1:11:59
  SPEAKER_00: We were the hottest we have ever been in our entire lives.
• 1:12:02
  SPEAKER_00: My son lives five minutes away from Busch Gardens.
• 1:12:05
  SPEAKER_00: We went back to his apartment and both of my boys stripped down to their underwear.
• 1:12:13
  SPEAKER_00: And I was laughing because it was like my kids are 21 and 7.
• 1:12:18
  SPEAKER_00: So to see them both standing there in their boxer briefs,
• 1:12:21
  SPEAKER_00: I'm like, oh my god, it's like there's two of you.
• 1:12:25
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I mean?
• 1:12:25
  SPEAKER_00: It's just you guys are the same.
• 1:12:27
  SPEAKER_00: You guys are like mirrors of each other.
• 1:12:29
  SPEAKER_00: The little version and the big version.
• 1:12:31
  SPEAKER_00: Aww.
• 1:12:33
  SPEAKER_00: But it was so hot.
• 1:12:34
  SPEAKER_00: I can't even.
• 1:12:34
  SPEAKER_00: I think I told you later that I was like, I was so hot.
• 1:12:37
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, I sent you a picture of me there.
• 1:12:39
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, you said it was brutal.
• 1:12:41
  SPEAKER_00: It was the sweat was beating on my forehead.
• 1:12:43
  SPEAKER_00: I was like, oh my gosh.
• 1:12:44
  SPEAKER_00: So we have annual passes, but we're not going back until November.
• 1:12:49
  SPEAKER_00: My little one was like, we'll go back in the winter.
• 1:12:51
  SPEAKER_01: Ha ha ha ha ha.
• 1:12:53
  SPEAKER_00: Still, it was really nice to spend the day with my boys.
• 1:12:56
  SPEAKER_00: The big one is in college and he lives on his own.
• 1:12:58
  SPEAKER_00: So I don't really see him that often.
• 1:12:59
  SPEAKER_00: He's always busy, especially this.
• 1:13:02
  SPEAKER_00: He starts classes next week.
• 1:13:03
  SPEAKER_00: And he told me that every hour of his day is scheduled.
• 1:13:07
  SPEAKER_00: And I believe that because he creates a schedule in advance.
• 1:13:10
  SPEAKER_00: And he's one of those few that fills up every,
• 1:13:13
  SPEAKER_00: every hour that he's awake, he has something in it.
• 1:13:15
  SPEAKER_01: Jeez.
• 1:13:16
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 1:13:16
  SPEAKER_00: He's, you know, square.
• 1:13:18
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 1:13:20
  SPEAKER_00: Um, so we don't really see him that often.
• 1:13:22
  SPEAKER_00: And I don't think I've ever gotten to spend the day with just the two of them.
• 1:13:26
  SPEAKER_00: It's always like me and my husband or like,
• 1:13:29
  SPEAKER_00: you know, a friend or his godmother, their godmother.
• 1:13:33
  SPEAKER_00: It's never just been me and both of them at like push gardens.
• 1:13:37
  SPEAKER_00: So that was a lot of fun.
• 1:13:39
  SPEAKER_00: It was really a good treat and totally worth the cost of the $9 waters.
• 1:13:44
  SPEAKER_01: Well, so for me, months ago, I talked to Bob Seska.
• 1:13:49
  SPEAKER_01: I used to work with him at the Banter.
• 1:13:51
  SPEAKER_01: We used to do a podcast together, but...
• 1:13:54
  SPEAKER_01: I talked to him about how he dealt years ago with his semi-adopted daughter leaving
• 1:14:00
  SPEAKER_01: for college, which was really hard for him.
• 1:14:02
  SPEAKER_01: And he told me that helping her move into her dorm really, really helped.
• 1:14:06
  SPEAKER_01: And you know what?
• 1:14:08
  SPEAKER_01: He was right.
• 1:14:09
  SPEAKER_00: It's almost like you have another friend who has a kid in college.
• 1:14:12
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, but that's your actual kid.
• 1:14:16
  SPEAKER_01: So it's not an apples-to-apples comparison.
• 1:14:19
  SPEAKER_01: But moving day was Friday.
• 1:14:22
  SPEAKER_01: And Lila and I spent most of Thursday in bed paralyzed with anxiety and depression.
• 1:14:28
  SPEAKER_01: It was.
• 1:14:29
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 1:14:29
  SPEAKER_01: Honestly, for a kid who's not related to me, it's spooky how much we're alike.
• 1:14:34
  SPEAKER_01: But I don't know if she cried on Thursday, but I did multiple times.
• 1:14:38
  SPEAKER_01: Thursday was not a great day.
• 1:14:40
  SPEAKER_01: But Friday came anyway, as Friday tends to do.
• 1:14:43
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 1:14:44
  SPEAKER_01: Lila drove down with her mother and I drove down with Anastasia
• 1:14:48
  SPEAKER_01: and everything went smooth as butter.
• 1:14:50
  SPEAKER_01: We unpacked most of Lila's stuff.
• 1:14:52
  SPEAKER_01: We set up her room.
• 1:14:53
  SPEAKER_01: I set up the electronics and put together some furniture.
• 1:14:57
  SPEAKER_01: Then we went out for lunch and Anastasia gave Lila like a standup picture frame
• 1:15:01
  SPEAKER_01: that she had made with the collage of family photos from the last decade
• 1:15:05
  SPEAKER_01: and had like little foam knickknacks around the outside of it that she,
• 1:15:08
  SPEAKER_01: that Anastasia cut out and glued on that represented important stuff
• 1:15:12
  SPEAKER_01: that we had done over the years.
• 1:15:14
  SPEAKER_01: Apple picking or a specific video game that the girls had played together that meant
• 1:15:18
  SPEAKER_01: a lot to them.
• 1:15:19
  SPEAKER_01: I love that.
• 1:15:20
  SPEAKER_01: That's so cute.
• 1:15:21
  SPEAKER_01: There was a convention badge on it, that sort of thing.
• 1:15:25
  SPEAKER_01: Lila loved it.
• 1:15:26
  SPEAKER_01: So we finished up and then it was time to go.
• 1:15:29
  SPEAKER_01: Anastasia started to cry and we left her and Lila in the bedroom to talk for a bit.
• 1:15:35
  SPEAKER_01: And then I went in and we talked and I managed to last 30 whole seconds
• 1:15:39
  SPEAKER_01: before I burst into tears.
• 1:15:41
  SPEAKER_01: And then we drove home.
• 1:15:43
  SPEAKER_01: Lila was overwhelmed by the entire day.
• 1:15:46
  SPEAKER_01: So she was just kind of numb the entire time.
• 1:15:50
  SPEAKER_01: She didn't start crying until Saturday the next day.
• 1:15:53
  SPEAKER_01: But she spent Sunday thrift shopping with her friends.
• 1:15:56
  SPEAKER_01: And we were all stressed as fuck.
• 1:16:14
  SPEAKER_01: Because we weren't sure how it was going to go.
• 1:16:15
  SPEAKER_01: Was she going to panic?
• 1:16:16
  SPEAKER_01: But she got the class on time.
• 1:16:19
  SPEAKER_01: She really enjoyed it.
• 1:16:20
  SPEAKER_01: She met some people.
• 1:16:21
  SPEAKER_01: She hung out with them.
• 1:16:22
  SPEAKER_01: And she thinks she's going to make some friends in her classes,
• 1:16:24
  SPEAKER_01: which is wildly optimistic for Lila.
• 1:16:28
  SPEAKER_01: And I have...
• 1:16:28
  SPEAKER_01: I haven't been able to breathe since last week.
• 1:16:30
  SPEAKER_01: So hearing that she really liked her class and she met people that weren't
• 1:16:37
  SPEAKER_01: from her old school,
• 1:16:38
  SPEAKER_01: that was great and something I absolutely needed to hear because I've just been...
• 1:16:45
  SPEAKER_00: A hot mess, guys.
• 1:16:46
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I have not been dealing with this well.
• 1:16:48
  SPEAKER_01: So we're going to see how the first couple of weeks go.
• 1:16:51
  SPEAKER_01: I'm still really sad she's not here,
• 1:16:53
  SPEAKER_01: and I'm still really stressed about how she's going to be and how everything's going
• 1:16:58
  SPEAKER_01: to go.
• 1:16:58
  SPEAKER_01: But I'm really happy that she's starting to settle into her new life and that she's at college.
• 1:17:04
  SPEAKER_01: It's going well so far,
• 1:17:05
  SPEAKER_01: and I'm hoping that we've given her all the tools she needs to thrive,
• 1:17:09
  SPEAKER_01: but it still hurts a lot,
• 1:17:10
  SPEAKER_01: and I miss my little girl,
• 1:17:12
  SPEAKER_01: waiting to see when we can go down and visit,
• 1:17:15
  SPEAKER_01: because,
• 1:17:15
  SPEAKER_01: you know,
• 1:17:16
  SPEAKER_01: we have to wait a while,
• 1:17:16
  SPEAKER_01: we can't just immediately run down there the first weekend,
• 1:17:19
  SPEAKER_01: we have to give the time.
• 1:17:23
  SPEAKER_01: Unless she calls and says, I need you guys to come down on Saturday.
• 1:17:28
  SPEAKER_00: You guys are going to give her space.
• 1:17:30
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I would love to go down this weekend.
• 1:17:34
  SPEAKER_00: Surprise!
• 1:17:35
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, we're not going to crowd her.
• 1:17:38
  SPEAKER_01: We'll figure out something.
• 1:17:39
  SPEAKER_01: We'll get sorted.
• 1:17:40
  SPEAKER_01: Her apartment's really nice.
• 1:17:41
  SPEAKER_01: She actually has an apartment.
• 1:17:43
  SPEAKER_00: Which is crazy.
• 1:17:44
  SPEAKER_00: I told him for a freshman to get an apartment like that.
• 1:17:47
  SPEAKER_00: My son was bunked.
• 1:17:49
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, I sent you pictures of my son's dorm room.
• 1:17:50
  SPEAKER_00: It was small.
• 1:17:52
  SPEAKER_01: No, she's got like a proper kitchen.
• 1:17:56
  SPEAKER_01: There's a living room.
• 1:17:57
  SPEAKER_00: She has a toilet, y'all.
• 1:17:59
  SPEAKER_01: Yep.
• 1:17:59
  SPEAKER_01: In the room.
• 1:18:00
  SPEAKER_01: She's got her own.
• 1:18:01
  SPEAKER_01: She's got a bedroom.
• 1:18:03
  SPEAKER_01: It's a two-person bedroom, but she's got like a bathroom with a shower and everything.
• 1:18:07
  SPEAKER_01: So it's great.
• 1:18:08
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 1:18:09
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I love that for her because really,
• 1:18:11
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, I remember Aiden's first year, he was like, Mom, these people are so gross.
• 1:18:17
  SPEAKER_00: I was like, yeah, buddy, I'm so sorry.
• 1:18:20
  SPEAKER_00: And I knew it because I used the,
• 1:18:22
  SPEAKER_00: you know,
• 1:18:22
  SPEAKER_00: I would go to his dorm,
• 1:18:24
  SPEAKER_00: I would visit him, and I would use like the women's bathroom there.
• 1:18:27
  SPEAKER_00: And I was like, ugh.
• 1:18:29
  SPEAKER_01: Right.
• 1:18:29
  SPEAKER_01: So you can only imagine what the, you know, what the men's was like.
• 1:18:32
  SPEAKER_00: Right.
• 1:18:33
  SPEAKER_00: It's so funny though,
• 1:18:34
  SPEAKER_00: because Lila was so,
• 1:18:36
  SPEAKER_00: you know,
• 1:18:36
  SPEAKER_00: she was so sad or whatever,
• 1:18:37
  SPEAKER_00: when she left, you know, when I sent Aiden to pre-K, I have a picture of him.
• 1:18:42
  SPEAKER_00: He was literally like, bye, like pre-K, bye, mom and left.
• 1:18:49
  SPEAKER_00: And I was like, isn't he going to cry?
• 1:18:54
  SPEAKER_00: Look at all these other kids.
• 1:18:55
  SPEAKER_00: They're crying.
• 1:18:55
  SPEAKER_00: Mine's not crying.
• 1:18:56
  SPEAKER_00: And when we dropped him off at college, he was like, all right, bye.
• 1:19:00
  SPEAKER_00: I was like, isn't he going to cry?
• 1:19:03
  SPEAKER_00: I just joked it was like the same as pre-K, you know, in pre-K as it was in college.
• 1:19:09
  SPEAKER_00: Like, here I am.
• 1:19:10
  SPEAKER_00: Like, hey.
• 1:19:12
  SPEAKER_01: Jordan cried when he first got on the bus to go to school.
• 1:19:16
  SPEAKER_01: Anastasia was just like, wait, other kids.
• 1:19:19
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, that's how
• 1:19:20
  SPEAKER_00: he was too.
• 1:19:22
  SPEAKER_00: Nathan, he wasn't upset like the first day of pre-K, but like as it went on, then he was upset.
• 1:19:28
  SPEAKER_00: But Aiden has always just been my independent kid who's just like, yes, see ya.
• 1:19:34
  SPEAKER_01: We'll see.
• 1:19:34
  SPEAKER_00: And I mean, it's good because you raise your kids to be adults, right?
• 1:19:38
  SPEAKER_00: Right.
• 1:19:38
  SPEAKER_00: And they're adults.
• 1:19:40
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, TV just said the same thing.
• 1:19:42
  SPEAKER_00: We raise them to be adults.
• 1:19:43
  SPEAKER_00: I always look at it that way.
• 1:19:44
  SPEAKER_00: I'm not raising a child.
• 1:19:45
  SPEAKER_00: I'm raising an adult.
• 1:19:46
  SPEAKER_00: But I'm so sorry.
• 1:19:47
  SPEAKER_00: She'll be okay.
• 1:19:48
  SPEAKER_00: You'll be okay.
• 1:19:49
  SPEAKER_00: She'll be okay.
• 1:19:51
  SPEAKER_01: I'm resisting the urge to text her every hour.
• 1:19:54
  SPEAKER_01: Just need to hear from her once or twice a day just to know that she's okay.
• 1:19:59
  SPEAKER_00: It's rougher for you, too, because you're right, because she's not technically your kid.
• 1:20:05
  SPEAKER_00: You can't force her to put Life360 on her phone.
• 1:20:09
  SPEAKER_01: And we don't talk on the phone.
• 1:20:10
  SPEAKER_01: That's not something we do.
• 1:20:12
  SPEAKER_01: We've never talked on the phone because she's always lived next door.
• 1:20:16
  SPEAKER_01: So talking on the phone is not a thing we do.
• 1:20:19
  SPEAKER_00: But with Anastasia,
• 1:20:20
  SPEAKER_00: when she goes to college,
• 1:20:21
  SPEAKER_00: as soon as Anastasia starts driving, I'm telling you, Life360...
• 1:20:25
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, no, we're definitely going to do that.
• 1:20:27
  SPEAKER_00: Because you know how easy it is for me?
• 1:20:29
  SPEAKER_00: I got an alert just really quickly before we end the show.
• 1:20:31
  SPEAKER_00: I got an alert last week and it said,
• 1:20:35
  SPEAKER_00: usually you get an alert with Life360 in the middle of the night
• 1:20:38
  SPEAKER_00: and it's like your kid's phone is dying.
• 1:20:40
  SPEAKER_00: But I got an alert and it said Aiden has arrived home and it was one o'clock in the morning.
• 1:20:44
  SPEAKER_00: I was like, where the fuck has my kid been at one o'clock in the morning?
• 1:20:48
  SPEAKER_00: Doesn't he know that he has a curfew?
• 1:20:52
  SPEAKER_00: And he had gone out to a bar with his friends and now my son doesn't drink.
• 1:20:55
  SPEAKER_01: Right.
• 1:20:56
  SPEAKER_00: Like parents say that, but like my kid literally actually doesn't drink.
• 1:20:59
  SPEAKER_00: He thinks that it's poisoning your body.
• 1:21:01
  SPEAKER_00: He's like one of those people.
• 1:21:02
  SPEAKER_01: I was like, why would you go to a bar?
• 1:21:04
  SPEAKER_01: You don't drink.
• 1:21:05
  SPEAKER_01: Someone's got to drive.
• 1:21:07
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 1:21:07
  SPEAKER_00: And his friends were drinking and they taught him how to play pool.
• 1:21:10
  SPEAKER_00: So like nice, wholesome fun, I guess.
• 1:21:12
  SPEAKER_00: But yeah, life 360, man.
• 1:21:14
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  SPEAKER_01: in American history, and that time will fly by faster than you can possibly imagine.
• 1:22:21
  SPEAKER_01: The regime is still frantically begging the Supreme Court to rig the midterms
• 1:22:26
  SPEAKER_01: because they are fucking weak.
• 1:22:28
  SPEAKER_01: In November, we will show them just how weak they are.
• 1:22:31
  SPEAKER_01: Remember, you are never alone.
• 1:22:34
  SPEAKER_01: Stay strong.
• 1:22:35
  SPEAKER_01: We beat the fascists once and we will fucking do it again.
• 1:22:38
  SPEAKER_01: Adios.
• 1:22:38
  SPEAKER_00: Adios.
• 1:22:39
  SPEAKER_01: All right.
• 1:22:40
  SPEAKER_01: We will see you guys next week.
• 1:22:41
  SPEAKER_00: Thanks, TeeRee.
• 1:22:42
  SPEAKER_00: We appreciate that.
• 1:22:44
  SPEAKER_00: Yep.
• 1:22:44
  SPEAKER_00: Thank you, guys.
• 1:22:45
  SPEAKER_00: Bye.
• 1:22:46
  SPEAKER_00: Bye, guys.