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America’s Economy , Organ Donation Scandal, Myspace Returns & TikTok Failure | TMI Ep 436 · The TMI Show with Ted Rall and Manila Chan

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Hello, good morning. Happy Thursday, or it's
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pre Friday in my book. I don't know about you
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guys, but it's Thursday, August 6th, 2026. I'm
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Manila Chan. That'd be Ted Raul, producer. Robbie
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is lurking in the background. Robbie, people
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want to know about the hold music, but I can
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say that our intro music, Ted's, one of Ted's
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brilliant friends in LA, we commissioned them
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to create it just for us, specific. for us, so
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you can't find that anywhere else. That's true.
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That belongs to the TMI show. The hold music?
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No. Well, no, not the hold music. No, the hold
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music. They want to know about the... No, I just
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said, I explained where we got the intro music.
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Where did we get the hold music? Yeah, yeah,
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yeah. That's from my friend in LA. No, no, no.
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The five -minute hold. Oh, that's from the YouTube
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royalty -free open source... music database.
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So if you go to YouTube, they have a whole bunch
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of music that you can just download and that
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That's a unique trait. Cool. But yeah, there's
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some cool stuff out there. Really cool musicians
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a nazi so breaking news the the senate committee
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that was questioning dr anthony fauci the other
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day or last week has just voted officially to
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hold him in contempt of congress And I am all
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for that, although it doesn't mean anything.
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It's not a judicial anything. It's just a congressional
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rebuke of this guy. So it's up to the DOJ if
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they want to bring charges against him, which
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I looked all of this stuff up because I was just
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waiting for today. And based on my research,
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I arrived at the conclusion that they should
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hold him in contempt. are when you're given a
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blanket pardon, it's irrelevant if you were ever
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charged for a crime, if you were ever, you know,
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like imprisoned or gone to court for any crime.
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The fact that you got a presidential pardon that
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was as blanketed just all over for everything
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from 2014 until the day Joe Biden left office,
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which is what Fauci's one page pardon from Joe
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Biden says for anything related to his time at
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the NIH and CDC, wherever. Anything that he did
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in his professional capacity is pardoned. We
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don't know if there was any crimes or whatever.
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So when he was subpoenaed to go to Congress,
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to Senate last week, and he kept taking the fifth,
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that is in contempt because the pardon itself
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holds you holds you harmless to everything. This
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is a fact -finding mission. However, it does
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not protect him from any state -by -state potential
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criminality. I could see why lawyers would advise
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him not to say anything other than take the fifth.
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That's what lawyers always say. Right. Not as
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a federal issue for the fear that One of these
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an activist governor in a state might bring charges
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against him some way somehow, right? But I can
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also see and I applaud Senate for doing this
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for holding him in contempt because You know
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it again. It doesn't cover state crimes, but
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If you are subpoenaed by the Congress the person
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generally must answer questions about the conduct
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that is covered in that time frame. And the time
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frame went all the way back to 2014, Ted. 2020
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was basically when COVID became a big thing.
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And this goes all the way up to when Joe Biden
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left office in 2025. So if Senate asked him about
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any of his dealings in that time frame, he needed
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to answer. Because the pardon removes your Fifth
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Amendment privilege for any potential federal
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threat of prison time or whatever. You can't
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be prosecuted federally. So I don't know. I still
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think it's a good thing that they're holding
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him in contempt. We saw in the past, Steve Bannon,
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Trump's longtime confidant get thrown in the
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pokey for a little bit because he was in contempt,
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but he didn't have a Joe Biden pardon, obviously.
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So, I don't know. What do you think? I mean,
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I don't see how it's contempt of Congress, Manila.
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I mean, here's the thing. Contempt of Congress
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would be like Hunter Biden driving up to the
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Capitol. He's been subpoenaed by the House Oversight
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Committee. He literally gives a contemptuous,
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snotty press conference and drives away. He didn't
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show up. Okay, Dr. Fauci showed up. He refused
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to answer the questions. taking the Fifth Amendment
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is his constitutional right and the Fifth Amendment
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does not apply. That right has been removed.
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That right has been removed by your presidential
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pardon. You basically relinquish that right when
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you accept the pardon. That's what I researched
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this morning. According to According to two USC
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subsection 192, Congress has to clearly reject
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the Fifth Amendment claim and direct the witness
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to answer because you've effectively protected
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yourself from any kind of criminal. Did they
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do that to Fauci? I don't know if anyone, I didn't
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watch the entire thing, but I think Rand Paul,
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I mean, I don't know, he's not a lawyer, he's
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a doctor, but Rand Paul pushed and pushed. The
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quotes from Anthony Fauci last week were, oh,
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Rand Paul is obsessed with me. He wants to embarrass
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me. Well, those do not qualify to protect you
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against answering questions and taking the fifth.
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The fifth does not protect you even if you didn't
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have a presidential pardon, the fifth doesn't
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protect you from embarrassment. But as you said,
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he could have been prosecuted by the state, by
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a state or municipality. That pardon doesn't
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protect him. It only applies to federal offenses.
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he is within his right to plead the Fifth Amendment.
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Which is why I said I get that he was doing that
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because he's probably scared of state by state.
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But the thing is he can't be in contempt of Congress
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for availing himself of a fundamental constitutional
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right. See, this is where it gets murky, which
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is why I say I'm glad that Congress held him
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in contempt because I think they have an argument
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there. They have an argument there because a
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pardon normally removes the Fifth Amendment privilege
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for federal conduct. That's a game, Manila, right?
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So basically, it would be a trap. They bring
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him up there. He has to answer the questions.
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He incriminates himself and then bam, he gets
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charged by the state of Wyoming. I mean, that's
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no good. I can see that too, which is why I get
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that his lawyers said what they said, but I also
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get why Congress or the Senate has mistaken something.
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I mean, I think they I think they're wrong. Yeah,
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I don't know. I think this is too murky unless
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unless somehow Unless somehow You can I don't
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know where this territory leads, but if Congress
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can somehow exempt his statements From use in
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in state -by -state prosecution. I don't know
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if that's even possible, but anyway I'm glad
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that there's some rebuke of Fauci going on because
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clearly there is all kinds of lying as demonstrated
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in his personal diary and now they're about to
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leak the contents of his government iPhone. The
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dude is a narcissist. The dude lied. He's just
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lucky that he's not getting federally prosecuted
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because He just, he lied. He lied multiple times
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to Congress in the past before he got this pardon.
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And then he lied to the American people about
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the vaccine, about, oh, you can't, you're not
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gonna pass it on to grandma if you catch it,
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if you get this vaccine, whatever. But for YouTube
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sake, yes, the vaccine is safe and effective,
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Ted. Still, still, you should get all of them
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like Ted. All 50 ,000. Get it. Get it for your
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cat. Get it for your dog. Yeah, totally. But
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my position on Fauci is I think he's he's a narcissistic
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criminal. Like he is he should he should be criminally
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prosecuted. He won't be. But well, he can be.
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He certainly. Yeah, but he won't be a prosecutor.
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But he was also a million years old. Right. Isn't
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he like 84? He's 85. Speaking of YouTube, YouTube
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killed the feed. They disconnected the show.
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How dare you, how dare you talk about your lord
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and savior, Anthony Fauci. Well, this is why,
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this is why I prefer YouTube. This is why I prefer
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Rumble. They don't pay. Is that Rumble just completely
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just fucked all of us. So Wobshins you have,
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you play the censorship game or what? Right.
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Wow, YouTube killed our feed. I think because
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you said that he lied about all sorts of things.
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Yeah, I'm looking for it right now. I insulted
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Lord Ouchie. Can we add them back to the feed?
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I just tried. It said rejected. This is not advertiser
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friendly content. Wow. So they're still doing
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the COVID era. They are still doing the COVID
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era censorship and still want us to say Anthony
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Fauci is a saint and He's wonder. Wow. Wow. Wow.
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Wow. The algorithm is still in place YouTube
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clearly still sensors. Yeah, I see now are Yeah,
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when we got kicked off the YouTube feed This
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is why I always say fuck YouTube like it's it
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is such a piece of shit Like I know it's a private
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entity and they can you know, no shoes. No shirt.
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No service. Whatever fine but if you want to
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be content platform than all voices of all stripes
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I mean barring calling for you know violence
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which I did not call for violence I just called
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Fauci a liar I'm entitled to my opinion and YouTube
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doesn't like it apparently not they booted apparently
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that's not I'm entitled to it but they don't
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they they don't want to show my opinion because
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they don't agree with it so That's why I always
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say fuck YouTube. What a piece of shit. It's
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like you are entitled to your opinion, which
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we will which we will give you. You're allowed
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to have your own title to my opinion. You can
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even share an opinion provided you're in an empty
18:17
room. Right. They just won't allow diversity
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of thought. I could I mean, I'm just going to
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claim that they're being racist because I'm a
18:27
minority woman. They're just being racist. Look,
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honestly, I think it's funny that this far into
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it. Look, the pandemic is way over, right? At
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this stage, you know, it's kind of like when
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you see some the other day, I saw someone in
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a car driving with their mask on. I was like,
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what a fucking you're fucking what a fucking
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freak, right? Are you serious? Oh, totally. Was
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he by himself? It was a lady. Yeah, she by herself.
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She was by herself. Yeah, of course. And I'm
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just like, okay, so the point is, it's over,
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right? And so at this stage, why would you still
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be censoring people about this topic? It's like,
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it's not important. Right, like I don't get the
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censorship. So obviously their algorithm code
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is still in there And we still that's why I said
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that's why I threw in the the vaccine is safe
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and effective I had to throw that in there because
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I had a feeling they might have that code still
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in there That's searching the interwebs, which
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by the way, they're getting like millions of
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videos every minute being uploaded to YouTube
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By the way, thank you to Tara Petrpreda, who
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said that I sound like I'm far away from my mic.
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Let me know if it sounds any better. I can't
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tell. Sounds fine to me. It sounds fine to me.
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Yeah, it sounds fine to me. Well, anyway, so
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that's going on. And I want to, since I'm fidgeting
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around with... Don't fit the rumble the rumble
20:05
studio. I'm trying to see how I can share a screen
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because I You know my my favorite graphics website
20:15
If you look see see look down below you'll see
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pretty I see start shares screen share exactly
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here This is what you guys need to see let me
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put add to stage I don't know how to move us
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over, but there, okay, there you go. So my favorite
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visual support website, I call it, Visual Capitalist,
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so ranked, the income needed to be happy around
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the world. We're gonna talk about the economy
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next, so this dovetails right in. So how affordable
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is the price of happiness by country? The price
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of happiness is the point at which people reach
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what they call income satiation i .e. when further
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increases in income no longer improve their self
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-reported life evaluation score so okay i don't
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know if you guys can you guys see this do i need
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to make this screen this larger let me see i
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got it i got a double check against rumble okay
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i think you guys can see this okay so slovenia
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scores slovenia scores the highest. The yellow
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represents average wages. The dark blue represents
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the price of happiness. And then on the far right
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column, it shows how close the average wage is
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to the so -called price of happiness in that
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country. So Slovenia is, has almost, has exceeded
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parity, actually. Their average wages are higher
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than the price than the dollar amount needed
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to be happy in that country luxembourg also exceeding
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The the price of happiness like well, no, it's
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or no. No, sorry the other way. It's the other
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way. They're almost they're almost Yeah, they're
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almost at parity but look at the okay. So then
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it's slovenia luxembourg estonia singapore lithuania
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czech republic latvia greece at number eight,
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Belgium, Romania at 10, Poland, Denmark, Malta,
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Netherlands, Norway, Germany, Ireland, Chile,
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Austria, Finland. I see where this is going.
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Keep going, Montenegro, France at 22. They're
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at 57%. Switzerland. Serbia and way down here
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at number 25 is the United States. So average
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wages are about 75 K But here's what you actually
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need To feel like your needs are met and you
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don't have to worry. You need to make about a
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hundred thirty five thousand dollars a year so
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we are at about fifty five percent satisfaction
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of wages weight real wages versus like the necessary
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funds to be happy and feel secure. Ted, we're
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halfway there. Cue Bon Jovi. Look, this does
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explain a lot of the politics of this country
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and why people are so unhappy. It's basic. Everything's
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expensive and wages are too low. Yeah, obviously
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people are going to be displeased, obviously.
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I mean, you know. We're barely at the halfway
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point. That's nuts. Well, so people are, people
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are, yeah, I mean, of course we're, you know,
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we just don't have, we don't make enough money
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to live a decent lifestyle. So there you go.
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That's, yeah, that's what it tells us. So. That's
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why populism has been picking up on the left
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and on the right. Yeah, so. That is frightening.
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I mean, you always talk about, Ted, how wages
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have obviously not kept up with inflation and
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cost of living. Far from it. So this puts it
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into a tangible, like a visual thing. I want
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to remind everyone that if the minimum wage had
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kept up with the official inflation rate, which
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is way understated, the real inflation rate is
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much higher than the official inflation rate.
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The minimum wage in the United States would currently
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be $60 an hour. Wow. I haven't looked into those
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calculations, but according to Scott Bessent,
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I'll get into that story and let me hit the jaws.
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According to Scott Bessent, us poors, we're doing
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better. Yay. Thank you, Scott. Yay, Scotty. Alright,
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so Scott Bassett, the Treasury Secretary, says
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America's divided economy is finally beginning
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to close the gap between the wealthy households,
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we call them the haves, and everybody else. We
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be the pores. He says, quote, I can say here
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definitively the K shaped economy is over when
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he was on CNBC the other day. He now describes
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the country as having a C shaped C letter C,
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C shaped economy, meaning those at the top and
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the bottom. are gradually moving closer together.
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So in plain English, what he's saying is in a
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K -shaped economy, wealthy Americans keep gaining
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while lower income households keep falling behind.
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Stock portfolios and luxury spending rise on
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the upper arm of the K. While rent, groceries,
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debt, all that stuff, that's for us, the poor,
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we are going down. Besant argues that lower paid
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workers are now catching up. He points to wages
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for the lowest paid quarter of full -time employees
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rose five and a half percent over the previous
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year and also cites cooling housing inflation
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and tax provisions covering tips and overtime
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as signs that working households are beginning
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to gain ground. But that depends heavily on which
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numbers you use because as we know you can manipulate
26:31
math. Like yes math is not binary. Federal Reserve
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Bank of Atlanta Their data includes hourly and
26:40
part -time workers actually shows the lowest
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earners have received the weakest wage growth
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since late 2024. Housing costs are still rising
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even though they are rising more slowly. So,
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you know, basically we used to be pedal to the
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metal, right, for like cost of housing. But the
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foot has come off the gas pedal a little bit,
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but it's still, you know, you're still, you're
27:04
still hitting the gas pedal. It's just not. as
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hard. That's basically what the Federal Reserve
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of Atlanta is saying. And consumer spending remains
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sharply divided. Higher income households continue
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to drive growth while spending among the poor
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has increased the least. So the lower branch
27:23
of the K might be stabilizing but not necessarily
27:26
catching up. So Scott Besson is fudging a little
27:29
bit. The larger problem with the economic letter
27:32
grades is that They oversimplify millions of
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very different experiences. Someone with a growing
27:38
retirement account may see a strong economy.
27:41
Someone whose paycheck disappears into rent and
27:44
groceries may see something entirely different.
27:47
Besant may be right that conditions are improving
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at the bottom, but declaring the K dead is premature.
27:53
For many Americans, the economy's shape matters
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less than whether their money lasts until the
27:59
end of the month. And that's what as per the
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huge All these DC types are completely out of
28:07
touch with regular Americans. I think that's
28:10
safe to say. They know about how well their wealthy
28:15
friends are doing with their stock portfolios
28:17
and whatever, but the rest of us poor who are
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scraping by, especially when fucking YouTube
28:25
is trying to take away our pennies and dollars
28:27
that we make there, we're trying to get by. And
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Scott Besson says, y 'all are doing better. Is
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that just insult to injury? Like, I think so.
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I feel like, come on, bro, you're not even acknowledging
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that we're not good. Well, I mean, look, the
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job of a guy like that, you know, obviously involves
28:53
a lot of spinning, right? You know, I mean, in
28:57
a way, I'm not mad. This is to be expected. I
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mean, he's not the first guy with that job to
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make the case that, you know, this is not getting
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worse. But I mean, the problem is, I mean, look.
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The fact is that in the long run, there's so
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much, I think, income disparity and rising, it's
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such a history of rising income disparity, that
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I think what's really going on is that there's
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just not a lot more gap to make. We're kind of
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peaked out at such a, the rate of the increasing
29:37
gap between rich and poor has gotten... Basically,
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it has gone and gone and gone. And I mean, how
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much more gap can there be? So it's like, of
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course, it's gonna stop getting worse because
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you're just gonna get to maximum shitosity. And
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I think that's where we are. Well, we'll just
29:56
join the surf class. And I don't mean like out
29:58
in Huntington Beach Surf City USA. I mean, S
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-E -R. Yeah. I wish, man. I wish we all had that
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kind of life where we're just like, bro, I'm
30:08
gonna go hang out. at Huntington Beach. Just
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go catch a wave like every there would be no
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wars if everybody was just like some stoner in
30:17
Huntington Beach. Just just catching waves. Although
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surfers are pretty aggressive people. Not the
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ones I know. Tulsi Gabbard's a surfer. Oh, yeah.
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But she generally has that like chill, like Hawaiian,
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you know, like. That hang ten vibe. Yeah, it's
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just and then like so that little portion of
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Orange County back home That's what I miss like
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whenever I'd feel like really like about life
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in LA I would just drive down south into HB and
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just hang out for a day put my feet in the sand
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You know then walk up the boardwalk Go grab like
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a margarita or something and just look at the
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surf and then you're around these surfers that
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are just chillin Everybody's so happy there.
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It's great But everybody's living paycheck to
31:06
paycheck um that's out there surfing well that's
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not true because there's a lot of um older surfer
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guys that just by luck of the draw they bought
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their homes and had businesses or whatever before
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the economy went to shit um so they're they're
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doing well you know these guys own like properties
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in orange county california near the beach you're
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doing all right but generally We're going to
31:35
be serfs as E -R -F. Right. That's what's happening
31:41
here. All right. The federal government is moving
31:48
to shut down a Kentucky based organ procurement
31:51
organization following allegations that some
31:54
of its patients were placed on the donation pathway.
31:58
Interesting way to put it, despite showing signs
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of life. Health and Human Services Secretary
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RFK Jr. announced yesterday that the government
32:08
had begun decertifying Network for Hope. They
32:12
coordinated organ donations across Kentucky,
32:16
parts of Indiana, Ohio, West Virginia. Kennedy
32:19
cited what he called persistent failures in clinical
32:23
judgment, oversight, and patient safety. Federal
32:27
investigators looked at hundreds of cases over
32:30
the years 2021 to 2024 in which organ donation
32:35
was authorized but never actually completed.
32:38
They identified worrisome features in about 100
32:42
cases, including 73, who reportedly displayed
32:46
neurological signs incompatible with organ donation.
32:51
In other words, some potential donors were not
32:55
necessarily dead, but they said, hey, let's pull
32:59
out their organs anyway. This is, of course,
33:01
something that everybody who is ever been cynical
33:05
about organ donations worries about. The controversy
33:08
centers around the 2021 case of TJ Hoover, a
33:13
dude from Kentucky hospitalized after he OD'd
33:15
on drugs. His family and medical workers said
33:18
he showed signs that he was not dead yet, waking
33:22
up, in fact, while preparations were underway
33:25
to withdraw life support and cut out his organs.
33:29
They were like, oh, shit. And they canceled the
33:32
operation. Ted, I mean, Pulse. And Rupert sadly
33:35
survived. Sadly, he survived. Pulse, you know,
33:39
it's kind of easy. I don't have a medical degree
33:43
like Dr. Fauci, but I just want to say, Typically,
33:47
if there's like a little bit of brain function
33:50
and a little bit of a faint pulse, that usually
33:54
means they're not dead. I don't know if you if
33:56
you ever learned about that, Ted. I had heard
33:58
that. Yeah. Yeah, there's something. It's like
34:00
like a pulse right here. Regular people can can
34:04
check. You don't even need to be a doctor or
34:06
a nurse. Yeah. Even a cat could probably figure
34:08
it out. Cats know if you're alive or dead. They
34:11
do. Yeah, because they'll eat you if you're dead.
34:14
So if a cat will eat you. Yeah, they see your
34:16
eyes and they're like, we've got to get that.
34:20
So yeah, so we could I mean, so what we're saying
34:22
here is that Clovis would do a better job than
34:24
this company. Anyway, Oregon. procurement organizations
34:28
don't declare patients dead. That belongs to
34:32
hospital physicians, that responsibility. The
34:35
organizations come in later to evaluate the donors,
34:37
locate recipients, and coordinate organ recovery,
34:41
aka the chopping them out of your chest. Network
34:44
for Hope strongly disputes the government's findings
34:47
and says that it'll appeal. Uh -huh. The nonprofit
34:50
says it follows federal transplant policies.
34:53
and has created a procedure allowing medical
34:55
workers or relatives to immediately pause a donation
34:59
if there's a worry like, oh, not dead yet. The
35:03
stakes extend far beyond that one organization.
35:06
More than 100 ,000 people in the United States
35:08
are waiting for transplants. And unfortunately,
35:11
and this is sad, thousands of them die before
35:14
getting the organ that they desperately need.
35:17
But obviously, this whole system relies on public
35:21
trust. So yeah, this is, you know, it's dark.
35:26
It's really dark. Let me pose a question for
35:30
you. So basically what we're being told here
35:32
is that this is the biggest nightmare that could
35:35
possibly happen, which is, you know, like you're
35:39
a good person. You sign on your driver's license
35:42
that you want to donate your organs. And then,
35:46
you know, they're like, oh, look, here comes
35:47
Manila. You know, oh, she's... Man, I bet I like
35:53
the looks. I bet I'd like the looks of her kidneys.
35:57
Right. Her kidneys look like they would fit in
36:00
perfectly. I've got just the place for them.
36:02
And then Manila is like, hey, I'm still here.
36:07
And they're like, did you hear something? I didn't
36:09
hear anything. I didn't hear anything. It's like,
36:11
hey, what about that? Do you hear that? No, I
36:16
didn't hear anything. And it's like, let's go.
36:19
And you just cut them out. Manila could probably
36:23
could probably be transplantable to you know,
36:27
three or four different people here, right? good
36:31
that they killed the YouTube feed, because if
36:33
they hadn't killed it for Fauci, they would kill
36:35
it for this. The fact is there's been a lot of
36:39
concerns that, you know, donation companies are
36:43
a little too rambunctious and a little too eager
36:45
to pull out the organs before the person's dead.
36:48
And you can see a little trigger happy. Look,
36:50
you can see why they would do that. Because the
36:53
thing is, as soon as you croak, your body starts
36:55
to rot and the organs are losing their viability
36:58
seconds count right so you're sitting there thinking
37:01
like okay this person's in a coma you know like
37:04
co -hosting a coma i know i know it's serious
37:08
and then you're like you're like i'm gonna you
37:12
know like like you know i she's not gonna make
37:16
it right we really need those kidneys for that
37:18
kid out in oklahoma and then and then like so
37:22
The problem is that the system is really set
37:26
up to maximize abuse. Oh, sure, sure. Robbie
37:30
talked about this yesterday, right, with people
37:33
at the hospital where, you know, they keep you
37:35
on that little last bit of life support and then
37:37
they, when your family agrees to like move forward
37:40
with it and they do that honor walk for you and
37:43
like, yes, like it's a noble thing to do. I,
37:47
when I was a California resident, my driver's
37:50
license had the little pink dot. I was a donor.
37:52
Um, but then I got deeper into my journalism
37:56
career and, and I uncovered stuff like this too.
37:58
I mean, that we're talking 15 years ago. And
38:02
when I, when came time to renew my driver's license,
38:05
I was like, Nope. Like I actively was Nope. You
38:09
are not putting me on the donor list because
38:11
that incentivizes these assholes to pull the
38:14
plug. And possibly and not, and not treat me
38:20
in a manner in which you might save my life.
38:23
I've seen this before too. I've been doctors
38:25
while they do it. If you are about to peace out
38:28
and if you're not on the list, then what they
38:29
will do is that the doctor will go in with you
38:32
and I've had to do this to basically be a witness
38:34
and they will explain to you how, if they consent
38:38
to allow your organs to be donated. So basically
38:42
they try to strong arm your your husband or your
38:46
next of kin. Yeah, that's what they do. It doesn't
38:49
end just because you don't have that list. Well,
38:52
you could save a life. Your wife is here, she's
38:57
dying. They pressure you. They try to guilt you
38:59
into... A hundred percent. You could save five
39:03
people's lives today if you do this. If you're
39:06
a good person, you'll do this. Right. That's
39:09
why they say shitty things like that to pull
39:11
on the heartstrings or whatever, but at the same
39:13
time, but at the same time, they also scale back
39:17
their level of effort to try to save you. If,
39:20
if, if it's as easy as, Oh, your driver's license
39:23
has the pink dot. They're like, Oh, easy peasy.
39:27
We're just not going to. It depends on your insurance
39:31
too. If you have, if you have a high paying private
39:34
insurance, you're you're fine. But if you're
39:40
one of the poor, like the Republicans are saying
39:42
don't exist anymore, then yeah, then what they're
39:46
going to do, they're going to do everything they
39:48
can to flip that bed. And if they're able to
39:51
harvest your organs, then that's just more public
39:54
for them. Because if you're on Medicare or Medicaid,
39:56
or if you're self pay, they don't expect to ever
39:58
get a paycheck from you anyway. Right. Right.
40:01
You're a net loss. So how do they recoup that?
40:04
You're the product. So let me ask you guys this
40:07
before we move subjects again. is in this country,
40:12
I don't know about other countries, I don't know
40:13
if maybe in Europe or a comparable First World
40:17
Nation, why is it taboo to say you want to sell
40:23
your one other healthy kidney? Like you only
40:25
need one to survive. Why can't you sell your
40:28
organs? Why is that unethical? Why is it unethical?
40:37
Because they're trying to minimize the Like it's
40:41
your own organs. Well, it's not it's not inherently
40:44
unethical. They just have rules against it I
40:46
mean there are countries where it's totally legal
40:48
to do that Right, and I'm not talking like well
40:52
one the black market exists number one, but number
40:55
two Like why why in so -called first world nations?
40:59
Do we frown upon people like we already look?
41:03
You can be a sperm donor. You can cut your hair
41:07
and sell it for whatever to be made into a wig.
41:12
There are high -end places that do that. You
41:15
can basically farm out your hair. And then they
41:19
can say, oh, it's American hair born and raised
41:21
and groomed here in the US. This isn't like Indian
41:25
drain hair wigs. That's a real thing. Don't think
41:30
I'm being racist, you jerks. It's a real thing.
41:33
I've done a story on it. The real human hair
41:36
that comes out of India, it's drain hair. Not
41:40
all of it, but much of it. Look it up. Look it
41:44
up. I swear to God. Why is that gross? Because
41:47
it's the Indian sewer system. Well, it's been
41:52
cleaned and whatever. But anyway, if you're allowed
41:54
to sell your hair, Indian women often cut their
41:57
hair and sell it, right, for these like high
41:59
end wigs. Why is your kidney any different? because
42:03
it's an indictment on your society and it's total
42:06
failure. If the only way that you can survive
42:08
is literally pawning off body parts, then you
42:12
really can't make the case that capitalism is
42:14
the shining city on the hill where everyone's
42:17
able to prosper. I mean, those two things do
42:20
not match together. Yeah, that's what it is.
42:22
And you can only do it once. So if I sell my
42:25
kidney because... No, I have a $6 ,000 medical
42:29
bill for Kizzy that I can't pay right now. There's
42:32
no way. I'm completely fucked. There's nothing
42:34
I do. I'm fucked. So if I sell this kidney, I
42:37
can only do that once. What happens five years
42:41
from now if she has to have another cancer surgery?
42:45
I've only got the one kidney. That's it. But
42:48
I'm just saying the ethics. There's always the
42:53
penis. It's not the ethics. It's the optics.
42:56
You cannot say that I know that that shows that
43:00
our country is shit. If people if all people
43:02
have is their own organs to sell, right? That's
43:07
the only valuable thing they have. But I mean,
43:11
if we're already all tax mules to the government,
43:13
why is it any different for why can't we make
43:16
a dime off of our own self grown? I grew it myself,
43:20
my two kidneys, like because you got to keep
43:23
up the illusion. The illusion is what matters.
43:25
The story we tell ourselves is what matters.
43:27
The mythology is what matters. You can pull yourself
43:30
up. The government makes this illegal. Yeah.
43:33
Well, of course. Well, the reason is because
43:35
they want to own you. You're not your own person.
43:40
Well, that's what that's. So if I stand on the
43:43
same principles as to why I oppose the draft
43:48
in the U .S., meaning you don't own my fucking
43:51
kid like government. Like, I own my kid, right?
43:56
Like, you can't draft my kid. That's my kid.
44:00
You do not own people. Then for the same, if
44:04
I apply that same logic, then the U .S. government,
44:07
you don't own my kidneys. I own my kidneys. Think
44:11
about this. This is the most moral government
44:14
in the world. That's what we like to tell ourselves.
44:16
No, Israel is. That's what they say. That's the
44:21
most moral army. Oh, army. Sorry. Our government
44:25
is the most moral. Sorry. Well, you're assuming
44:27
there's a difference between the American and
44:29
the Israeli government. I maintain they're the
44:30
exact same thing. Well, there's certainly no
44:32
difference between their armies. Yeah. They are
44:34
merging now. I mean, think about this. If a woman
44:37
goes in and you abort your baby, a lot of people
44:40
think that they just throw that baby into a trash
44:42
can, goes to the incinerator and it's done. That's
44:44
not what happens. They harvest the cells from
44:47
that baby. Depending on the age, they harvest
44:49
the organs. They harvest the stem cells. They
44:53
butcher that unborn baby and then they sell it.
44:56
So they incentivize women to murder their children
44:59
so they can carve up that little corpse and do
45:03
whatever it is. They make Dr. Honestly, they
45:06
would make Dr. Fauci look like a fucking saint.
45:09
And I'm in a bad mood today. So you also have
45:12
to I'm going to be a little bit more blunt than
45:14
normal, but I'm serious. Yeah, I think we're
45:17
Robbie, I think we're going to figure this out.
45:19
You know, my my my mind's been spinning ever
45:22
since we got man. Man Child says you can freely
45:25
donate, but you can't sell here in the U .S.
45:30
That's yeah, that's a weird like why can't you
45:32
profit off your own? I'm just saying like so
45:34
I guess I guess I would fall on the more freedom.
45:38
to do what you want with your own body. It's
45:40
your body. The government shouldn't create laws
45:44
around your body. Like, that's it. All right.
45:52
OK. Oh, this is the thumbnail. MySpace might
46:00
be making a comeback in the next couple of months
46:05
here. How? About that it is throwback Thursday.
46:08
Okay, so a little bit of fun news throwback Thursday
46:12
Because it seems like the consensus out in the
46:16
world is that social media has forgotten the
46:19
social part of it and poor old little old MySpace
46:22
Was was social So you guys might recall where
46:28
we're gonna go back to the the y2k era here MySpace
46:31
the website the top Millennials basic HTML truth
46:35
I remember I could do a little bit of that to
46:37
decorate my page. Taught us HTML, friendship,
46:42
diplomacy, and the dangers of autoplay music
46:45
may be preparing for a comeback. According to
46:48
Vogue, Adria, Adria, I don't know how many Vogue
46:51
versions of Vogue are there? I don't know. So
46:54
some version of Vogue. The planet's current owner,
46:58
or the platform rather, the platform's current
47:00
owners plan to revive the once dominant social
47:04
network, although they have not announced an
47:06
official relaunch date or explained exactly what
47:10
the new version would look like. But that has
47:12
not stopped users from dreaming about customizable
47:15
profiles, personal theme songs, and the return
47:18
of the infamous top eight friends list. but the
47:22
excitement appears to be more than Y2K nostalgia.
47:26
Today's social media feeds are increasingly controlled
47:28
by algorithms designed to predict what will keep
47:32
users watching, clicking, and occasionally arguing
47:35
with strangers at 2 a .m. One study cited by
47:38
another media outlet found that only 18 % of
47:42
posts appeared in users' feeds came from people
47:46
you actually know. So less than one in five.
47:48
So you see five things on your social media feed
47:51
Maybe one of them will be from somebody you know.
47:56
The rest largely consisted of recommendations,
48:00
brands, and influencers selected by the machine.
48:04
In other words, social media gradually became
48:06
television programmed by a robot that discovered
48:10
outrage is excellent for ratings. MySpace was
48:13
hardly perfect. Its pages were cluttered, the
48:16
music could be aggressive, and publicly ranking
48:19
your friends created diplomatic crises normally
48:21
reserved for the UN. But users largely decided
48:25
what appeared on their profiles and whom they
48:28
wanted to follow. Modern platforms make those
48:31
decisions for you. Vogue reports that 55 % of
48:35
Americans say they post less frequently, I'm
48:38
one of them, almost non -existent posting, than
48:41
they did five years ago. More than half also
48:44
say maintaining an online presence now feels
48:47
like work. Hell, yes it does. My space revival
48:50
is far from guaranteed its owners have tried
48:53
before and today's market is packed with bigger
48:56
competitors Still the enthusiasm sends a clear
48:59
message people may not miss glitter graphics
49:02
as much as they miss Being online with an algorithm
49:06
Constantly rearranging the furniture. Perhaps
49:09
the future of social media is simply giving users
49:12
their social media back I I do think it is an
49:17
indictment Ted on Everything's been monetized.
49:21
I don't ever go on because I just there's nothing
49:25
but influence clutter and ads and shit on social
49:29
media on on my feed like I just I Don't even
49:32
look anymore because it's I have to think of
49:36
particular people to go directly to their page
49:38
to see what they're up to, to say hi. It's just
49:41
not there anymore. In MySpace, sure, maybe there's
49:44
a little bit of nostalgia of the Y2K era where
49:48
the inner webs were a friendlier place full of
49:52
cat videos and babies. Like, Harry bit my thumb!
50:00
Do you remember those chubby little British kids?
50:03
There's babies. They're all grown men now, but
50:06
it was innocent and the algorithms didn't manipulate
50:11
us. And I think that's what people miss. However,
50:15
the most recent owners I thought that I read
50:18
was so Justin Timberlake had gone in with what
50:22
are those two? The twin guys that were like that
50:27
claim that claim Facebook was stolen by Zuck.
50:31
The German the German the Swedish or something
50:34
like the big Nordic twin boys at Harvard so those
50:39
two guys and Justin Timberlake had apparently
50:41
Were the they were apparently I think the third
50:44
buyers of of my space and then Justin Timberlake
50:48
bailed and it's just those twin dudes and I don't
50:52
know some other small investors in there, but
50:55
those those twin guys are trying to Figure out
50:59
a comeback for myspace and I would welcome it.
51:03
I think it's a brand people still know the ongoing
51:06
joke about Tom being your number one friend,
51:09
you know with his I Think it just brings back
51:12
a lot of joy to people when they think about
51:15
Customizing it's like it's like when you when
51:17
you decorated your your your locker in high school
51:20
like your band or whatever favorite bands on
51:22
your stickers on the on the outside of your locker
51:26
or inside of your locker. Rather, in my school,
51:28
we couldn't do the outside, but we did the inside.
51:30
So when you open your locker, it's like full
51:32
of your favorite band stickers or boyfriend or
51:34
girlfriend pictures. That's basically what a
51:38
MySpace page was, was like the inside of your
51:41
high school locker, but your friends could see.
51:45
And I think that made everyone happy. There were
51:48
more cat videos flying around and you could change
51:51
your music. You know, like it was fully customizable
51:54
and it was an innocent time on social media.
51:58
So if those Nordic twins can figure out how they
52:02
can make money without manipulating the algos
52:05
and letting us see our friends, I think the revival
52:10
is worth a comeback. Well, here's the thing.
52:11
Pickaxe already does that. You don't need MySpace.
52:14
It already exists. And the best part about the
52:16
way the Pickaxe works is that there's no algorithm
52:19
to get between you and your audience. That's
52:21
cool too. If you follow somebody, you see their
52:23
stuff. If someone you follow, if they repost
52:26
something, then they see it. Winklevoss boys.
52:29
Thank you, Man Child. The Winklevosses. It already
52:34
exists. And the best part is it's a free speech
52:36
platform. So there's not a computer game between
52:39
you and your audience. It's awesome. But the
52:42
layout and the purpose of Pickaxe is more created
52:48
towards producing content, whereas MySpace was
52:53
literally just the fucking inside of your locker.
52:55
It's just like, I'm dreaming about this cute
52:59
boy today. That's how Pickaxe is. It works both
53:04
ways. People posting that. Yeah. I mean, you
53:07
don't ever go there. I never go on it. social
53:11
media but like and then and then myspace had
53:13
the whole like you could decorate your page you
53:16
could play music you could have different font
53:18
it's like it's like scribbling on your peachy
53:21
folder right like that's that's what it was an
53:24
it was an online version of scribbling on your
53:27
peachy folder i don't know what a peachy folder
53:29
is yeah what the fuck is a peachy folder you
53:32
know you guys know those those yellow um They're
53:38
I guess they're cardboard. I don't know like
53:40
thick Folders that you stuff your papers in and
53:43
on back in the old days It was like a dark yellowy
53:46
orange color and it always had like some generic
53:48
Sketch of like a dude playing basketball or someone
53:51
playing tennis or something. Look it up. Look
53:53
it up You I guarantee Ted she like like the fruit
53:57
No, I think it's spelled P P E C H E E at the
54:03
end. I think I don't really remember but it's
54:06
peachy peachy folder I guarantee you guys. OK,
54:09
so I'm looking at this now and I have never laid
54:11
eyes on one of these. Not possible. Not possible.
54:16
No, I could see why this was like definitely
54:18
a thing that would, you know, people would feel
54:21
nostalgia about. But I literally have never seen
54:25
one before. There's even a t -shirt. You were
54:28
in college in the 80s? You can even buy a t -shirt
54:30
with a picture of this thing. Yes, like everybody,
54:34
everybody. If you were a kid in the 80s, You
54:38
know, well, this is old it goes back to these
54:40
were developed in 1943 Yes, and the aesthetics
54:44
of it are very 50s Yes, this is what was like
54:49
everywhere in the 1980s PEE CHEE peachy folder
54:54
I wonder if it's like a regional like, you know,
54:57
California thing. Oh Yeah, it's a West Coast
55:00
thing. Is it really? Yeah, it says here. Yeah
55:04
Oh, by the way, it was still used by Mead Paper.
55:07
That was in from my hometown of Dayton. So I
55:10
can't imagine. Oh, so Mead owns PG? Yeah. Yeah,
55:15
they were everywhere. I mean, they were ubiquitous,
55:18
like, at least from what I thought was everything.
55:21
But it was the Western Tablet and Stationery
55:22
Company. I'm going to guess that's what it means,
55:25
Western as in Western United States. No kidding.
55:29
I thought this was like a a nationwide thing.
55:32
Peach, everybody was like ubiquitous with the
55:34
80s and 90s. And and you draw on these. Sometimes
55:37
you draw like I saw boys. OK, so the peachy folder
55:41
was primarily a West Coast phenomenon. Heavily
55:45
concentrated in California, Washington, Oregon
55:47
and nearby Western states, according to the Smithsonian.
55:52
Students growing up in the Midwest, South or
55:54
East Coast had entirely different default stationary
55:59
items. Like, did you guys have Lisa Frank? What's
56:04
that? Well, you're a boy, so you wouldn't have
56:07
had Lisa Frank, but Lisa Frank folder. That's
56:11
what I feel like. That's what I feel. She was
56:14
some kind of like a folder designer, and it was
56:17
always like unicorns and like dreamy type. I
56:22
see. Yeah, no. She was a she was a big she was
56:25
the folder queen of the 90s. Well, I mean, I
56:30
don't know why in the 90s I was working. I don't
56:32
know why I would have seen that So these were
56:35
yeah, they had the Lisa Frank products were national
56:38
Unlike the West Coast centric peachy folder See
56:44
maybe maybe gets it Lisa Frank 100 % Trapper
56:48
keeper. Yeah, Lisa Frank I think Trapper keeper
56:51
is the company and Lisa Frank was like an artist
56:54
and she they would commission her to to design.
56:57
Yeah, I wouldn't have been able to identify a
56:59
peachy folder to save my life. They say Ed Hardy
57:03
got into this scheme as well. Yeah, this was
57:05
like a whole 90s thing. And so going back to
57:08
the story, we had boring, we had boring shit
57:10
in the Midwest. We had like green paper, you
57:12
know, just generic folders. Blue, red, green.
57:17
Yeah, whatever. Yeah. Lame. Yeah. We had lined
57:20
paper. Ted did you guys have white paper or were
57:26
you only like in Ohio? Did you guys know what
57:30
white paper was or was it just like the recycled
57:32
brown? Versus like that recycled brown paper
57:37
that would tear if you try to try to erase on
57:40
it I'm just joking. I'm just like apparently
57:45
none of you guys know what the cool stuff was
57:48
in the 80s and 90s But that's what MySpace was
57:52
for millions and millions of people who are my
57:56
age, give or take some. I mean, I would say between
58:00
50 and 30, between 50 and 35, you loved MySpace
58:08
and you loved its innocence and you loved the
58:12
ability to design it how you want it. And it
58:16
felt very personal, and that's what people liked
58:18
about it. Then why did it die? If people loved
58:21
it, why did it croak? Other things came along,
58:24
and people are always like, the new, the new,
58:27
the shiny. Oh, fucking cool. And then it like,
58:32
why does anything die, Robbie? Something new
58:35
comes and people are just like, oh, shiny thing.
58:37
What's that going over there? Yeah, that's all.
58:41
I had a mustache back in the day. Tom. Your first
58:45
friend. Tom is everybody's friend. Here's something
58:47
from the past. Do you remember this? A ruler?
58:51
It's a slide rule. A slide ruler? Look, Manila,
58:56
look up at your screen. Oh, wow. I haven't seen
59:01
one of those. I just have a regular. And this
59:04
was... Just have a regular ruler. Oh, that's
59:09
useful. I just have a regular ruler. When calculators
59:14
break and electricity goes away, this fucker
59:17
will still work. That's right. I keep the same
59:21
old metal ruler. Wow. Ted, you keep shit forever.
59:28
Oh my God. Remember that? Yes. I have one of
59:32
those somewhere in the garage. You punch your
59:36
name or whatever, label maker. I have one of
59:38
those. Because it wasn't digital you had to like
59:41
squeeze the trigger to to imprint the letters,
59:45
right? Like that's and it the thing spins I have
59:48
one of those like that although I don't know
59:51
that do they even still sell the tape? But anyway,
59:54
okay. Do you know what this weird gadget is?
59:56
We're gonna have a show -and -tell I Can't make
1:00:00
out what it is a DVD player, I don't know correct.
1:00:06
It is a CD DVD attached drive Yeah. I have to
1:00:11
have one of those too, because I have old stuff
1:00:14
and new computers don't have those drives. But
1:00:17
Ted, you keep some old shit. I do keep some old
1:00:21
shit. It's true. All right. We got one more story
1:00:24
to do. Are you doing, um, are you in Stantis
1:00:28
on today or is it Fridays again? Yeah, Fridays.
1:00:32
And? Mont Blanc? I can't, I don't know. No, this
1:00:35
is like, this is the, uh, A quill? This is the
1:00:41
sailor pen that comes in a wooden box. Whatever
1:00:45
Ted, if you don't have the multicolor pen with
1:00:47
the things you slide down like this, you're not
1:00:50
cool. You're not one of the cool kids. Just saying.
1:00:52
Oh no, I've got something that makes cartoonists
1:00:55
salivate. Do you remember these are the Pantone?
1:01:01
Why do you have swatches? These are Pantone colors.
1:01:05
So when you're coloring, in the olden days. And
1:01:09
let's say you're like, oh, the president is this
1:01:12
color. So you like, so you're like, OK, that's
1:01:16
Pantone. That's CMYK 07580, AKA Pantone 60 -2.
1:01:24
You put that into your Photoshop version 1 .0
1:01:27
and then you get that color. No kidding. That's
1:01:33
out of my... Don't leave home without it. Out
1:01:34
of my depth there, I don't know anything about
1:01:37
like cartooning and color swatches, yes. But
1:01:43
not for cartooning. I don't know why I have this
1:01:45
shit around. I just don't want to throw it away
1:01:47
because I like it too much. It's too cool. It's
1:01:50
useless, but you know. Well, you don't use that
1:01:53
anymore, right? That color switch? No, of course
1:01:55
not. No. Well, I mean, we have no - But I'm not
1:01:58
going to throw it away. It's too awesome. But
1:02:00
that's why that's why they're talking about bringing
1:02:03
myspace back because it's it's still there. You
1:02:05
can still use it right now It's just no one's
1:02:07
on there because everyone's migrated to She knows
1:02:11
about the color of the year pants always have
1:02:14
a color. Yeah, I think they still do it Matina
1:02:17
says love Pantone color never heard of it I don't
1:02:19
know so you could still go to myspace now I think
1:02:22
everybody should just migrate over because there's
1:02:24
no fucking algorithm there. That's gonna like
1:02:26
manipulate what you see and you can probably
1:02:31
still decorate your page, your peachy folder,
1:02:33
your online peachy folder. I want to answer Robby's
1:02:37
question before we move on. The big reason that
1:02:39
Myspace basically died was because there was
1:02:43
too much freedom. You basically designed your
1:02:47
own website, your own page on Myspace, and you
1:02:50
could have anything. You could have any graphic,
1:02:54
you could have any kind of font, any kind of
1:02:57
color. any kind of design elements you wanted.
1:03:02
It could be austere, it could be busy, it could
1:03:05
be cluttered, anything you wanted. And when it
1:03:08
loaded up, it could, if you wanted, play music,
1:03:11
right? Yeah. The thing is, most people, when
1:03:15
they have that level of freedom, they throw everything,
1:03:20
including the kitchen sink at it. So there's
1:03:22
gradients and drop shadows and loud saturated
1:03:26
colors and obnoxious annoying music. And so it
1:03:31
was always an unpleasant experience. So it's
1:03:35
kind of like looking at like walking down the
1:03:37
street, like in probably like Ventian or someplace
1:03:40
where, you know, you have like all the signs
1:03:44
are garish. and loud, and like, you know, it's
1:03:48
like design gone wild. And it just got to the
1:03:51
point where people were overwhelmed and so annoyed
1:03:54
that they just like, they're like, fuck this,
1:03:57
I'm not, I'm not, I'm not coming here anymore.
1:03:59
And that's why people stopped coming to my space,
1:04:01
because people had too much freedom. On Facebook,
1:04:04
of course, you don't have any freedom. It's the
1:04:06
same. Everything looks exactly the same. And
1:04:10
in fact, and it's also a really shit, very, very
1:04:13
hinky and shitty website. You're just another
1:04:16
brick in the fucking wall on Facebook. Yeah.
1:04:19
MySpace allowed, Facebook doesn't allow enough
1:04:21
individualism and MySpace allowed too much. And
1:04:25
that's what happened. Gotcha. Cause I mean, Pickaxe
1:04:28
is very Spartan with the way that it's laid out.
1:04:31
Yeah. I like the way it looks, but it looks great.
1:04:33
But you're able to see the people that you follow.
1:04:37
That part is cool. Which is huge. And that's
1:04:40
cool. Full disclosure, Ted, you may want to check
1:04:43
your dashboard. I got my first payout as a creator
1:04:47
over there yesterday. It was awesome. That's
1:04:52
awesome. Yeah, I'm going to see what they're
1:04:56
doing for me. Okay, here's my dashboard. Where
1:04:58
do I go? Do we know? Is it under creator dashboard?
1:05:02
We got to do one last story and we're out of
1:05:05
time. No, no, no. Click on Critter Dashboard.
1:05:09
Click on Critter Dashboard. The viewers cannot
1:05:11
see this shit. It doesn't matter. No, you're
1:05:13
hijacking the show. No, you gotta move. Advertising
1:05:17
revenue. No, no, we gotta finish the story. And
1:05:21
then they're offline. And then they're at the
1:05:23
bottom. You'll see. You did. You did get some
1:05:27
money. Congratulations. Great. The viewers can't
1:05:29
see it. No, because listen, Manila, here's the
1:05:32
thing. The viewers, if they enjoyed Ted Rawls'
1:05:35
content. was hospitalized earlier this week after
1:05:40
harming himself during a TikTok live stream.
1:05:43
One, the platform says its own safety system
1:05:46
did detect but didn't bother to remove. TikTok
1:05:50
says the broadcast remained online for about
1:05:52
15 minutes. It's automated moderation technology
1:05:55
flags the video within minutes, but a human moderator
1:05:59
then fucked up and that delayed the removal and
1:06:02
the suspension of his account. That raises an
1:06:06
obvious question. What the fuck must happen on
1:06:08
TikTok before the emergency button works? Viewers
1:06:11
called 911. The Miami Dade Sheriff's Office received
1:06:16
multiple reports of someone live streaming acts
1:06:18
of self -harm. Deputies found out where Perez
1:06:22
lived, worked to make contact, and got him to
1:06:25
the hospital where he's being cared for, fortunately.
1:06:30
Crisis specialist has also responded to assist
1:06:33
his family. He's receiving treatment and TikTok
1:06:37
has permanently banned his account. So TikTok
1:06:41
operates one of the most sophisticated recommendation
1:06:43
systems ever built. It can ID a song, product,
1:06:47
or political argument that will hold users' attention
1:06:50
and deliver another one within seconds. But during
1:06:53
an obvious mental health emergency, the system
1:06:55
noticed the danger. passed it to a human being
1:06:58
and then apparently waited while the crisis continued
1:07:01
in front of an audience. I'm not really sure,
1:07:04
you know, what ticked. I mean, look, TikTok employee
1:07:07
messed up. But I mean, what more were they supposed
1:07:10
to do? I mean, it doesn't sound like the worst
1:07:11
system. But well, they took it off after a lot
1:07:17
of minutes. Did you see the video, Ted? You saw
1:07:20
it, right? Did you? I sent it last night. It
1:07:22
was. Was it gruesome? It's. I would say it's
1:07:28
superficial self -wounding. What was it? So,
1:07:34
the clips I saw, Perez is fucking nude, but he
1:07:41
doesn't, he doesn't quite show his junk. So the,
1:07:44
the camera stops right, like. So he's not Jeffrey
1:07:47
tubing it. No, no, he's not doing that, but almost,
1:07:51
almost. And he's covered in blood, like, I mean,
1:07:54
all over. And he it looks like he has like a
1:07:57
long razor, you know, like a flat edge razor.
1:08:01
And he's like making superficial cuts all over
1:08:04
himself and slathering his own blood. And he's
1:08:07
making orgasmic sounds. I mean, look, when you're
1:08:11
moaning a certain way, when you're he's moaning
1:08:14
throughout the whole thing, like, like where
1:08:16
it's there's a fine line in your in your brain
1:08:19
between pain and pleasure. Right. Which is why.
1:08:23
Sure. So he's moaning like almost in a sexual
1:08:30
pleasure kind of way, tinged with a little bit
1:08:33
of ouch. God, that's so weird. And he's slathering
1:08:38
his own blood and he's like, oh, this hurts so
1:08:40
good. And he's like just fucking weird. He's
1:08:44
like writhing in his own blood and his face is
1:08:48
all bloody. So strange. Like you have to find
1:08:51
this on Twitter because I think you've told me
1:08:54
enough It's just gross like it's just gross Well,
1:09:01
this is up there this is up there with like the
1:09:04
I mean it's you know I mean look I'm actually
1:09:06
surprised that more people don't live stream
1:09:08
weird shit I mean people do they've live streamed,
1:09:12
you know murder attacks committing all sorts
1:09:15
of crimes armed robberies So, I mean, you know,
1:09:19
this is kind of like that. I mean, in a way,
1:09:22
look, it's this system worked the way it was
1:09:24
supposed to. Here's a man engaged in health in
1:09:27
obviously dealing with a mental health crisis.
1:09:30
He it was a cry to help cry for help. If he didn't
1:09:34
want anyone to help, he would obviously not have
1:09:36
done this on TikTok. And, you know, and then
1:09:40
people his his fans cared and called the authorities
1:09:42
and they responded and they took care of him.
1:09:45
I mean, honestly. This is kind of a good story.
1:09:50
Best case scenario? Yeah. Well, yeah. From what
1:09:53
I could see, the cuts that he was making on himself
1:09:59
were somewhat superficial. I don't think he required
1:10:03
like a gazillion stitches. I think some butterfly
1:10:07
bandages are... Band -aids are enough right like
1:10:11
maybe some I don't they didn't look very deep.
1:10:13
It's not like he's slicing into like down into
1:10:15
the fascia or anything. It's just more than a
1:10:18
paper cut enough to make yourself bleed and Be
1:10:22
gross and and maybe probably leave some some
1:10:25
thin about that pleasure pain thing look It's
1:10:28
not the way I operate but I know I've observed
1:10:31
it I went to a friend asked me years ago to accompany
1:10:35
her to have her belly pierced And she was like,
1:10:39
well, will you just hold my hand while I get
1:10:41
it done? And she literally, when they did it,
1:10:44
all they did was put a needle through, and there
1:10:46
was a cork on the other side, and they put a
1:10:48
needle through. And when they did, she had an
1:10:51
orgasm from that experience. And I was like,
1:10:55
I mean, we were just platonic friends. And I
1:10:58
was like, wow. And the guy, the - Yeah, your
1:11:02
brain doesn't - The piercer said that's not uncommon.
1:11:07
Yeah. There's... In fact, she said that she doesn't
1:11:10
really have... She told me at the time she didn't
1:11:13
normally have orgasms during sex or oral sex.
1:11:17
Well, literally in the wiring in your brain,
1:11:21
there is like... I'm not recommending that anyone
1:11:23
go out and pierce their belly. I'm just saying.
1:11:25
There is literally a fine line of neuro pathway
1:11:30
that tells your brain the distinction between
1:11:33
ouch, this fucking hurts to... Ow, that feels
1:11:37
good. Hurts so good. And sometimes the wires
1:11:43
cross. And that's why so many people are into
1:11:46
like auto asphyxiation. Obviously, you're causing
1:11:49
a little bit of injury by hypoxia, right? Well,
1:11:53
that's a different experience. That's like kind
1:11:55
of like drugging yourself. Well, that's a little
1:11:57
bit of injury, right? You're causing a little
1:11:59
bit of injury. That's not where the pleasure
1:12:01
is coming from. The feeling of someone Potentially
1:12:06
harming you but not but trusting them. It's a
1:12:09
whole thing in I minored an abnormal. I don't
1:12:13
know what they call it today, but 25 years ago.
1:12:15
They called it abnormal psychology With like
1:12:19
I was very interested in deviant psychology So
1:12:23
that was like what I focused on in the minor
1:12:26
was deviant what they called deviant psychology
1:12:28
because now it's all fucking PC And I'm sure
1:12:30
they don't call it that anymore. But anyway,
1:12:33
that's what abnormal, deviant. These are words
1:12:36
that are not allowed to be used anymore. That's
1:12:39
right. And this is in California, mind you. But
1:12:41
but 25 years ago, arcane, deviant, and abnormal
1:12:47
psychology. That was like what I focused on.
1:12:51
So so all the weirdos. So that's how I know,
1:12:53
like, that there are your wires cross. And I
1:12:58
think for Perez He was he was getting some sort
1:13:08
of sexual pleasure out of this there's a lot
1:13:11
of people that say and I'm not totally disagreeing
1:13:15
with this that maybe he's a member of like some
1:13:18
weird satanic cult and maybe he's like just Like
1:13:23
they've you know, basically brainwash cults brainwash
1:13:27
you I have to say okay so about tick -tock I
1:13:30
get that they suspend the account, but permanent
1:13:34
ban? Yeah, permanent. I mean, I know it's like,
1:13:38
OK, he shouldn't be doing that. OK, yeah. But
1:13:40
permanent ban. I mean, they let President Trump
1:13:43
back on the internet. Especially if he's having
1:13:45
a mental break. Especially if Perez is having
1:13:50
a mental break, then that's kind of like a mean
1:13:53
punishment for somebody who's not in control
1:13:55
of his activities. It could actually make it
1:13:56
worse, right? Cause more of a mental health crisis.
1:13:59
I mean, you know, it's like by cutting him off,
1:14:01
it's sort of like how you're not really supposed
1:14:03
to take your kid, your teenage kids phone away
1:14:06
and disconnect them from their friends and stuff,
1:14:09
even though. Like, because a lot of us older
1:14:11
people tend to view cell phones for young people
1:14:14
as a luxury, but it's not. It's essential. It's
1:14:18
an essential for them. And if you don't, if you
1:14:21
cut them off, they just spin out and get even
1:14:23
worse. Oh, yeah. So like, you know, it's just
1:14:26
it's like that. I don't think tick tock. I think
1:14:28
tick tock. I hope tick tock reconsiders that.
1:14:30
I hope they you know, I hope they just basically
1:14:33
say, listen, don't let it happen again. All right.
1:14:35
I mean. Like whatever the case with Perez, like
1:14:38
he's clearly out of his board. If Anthony Wiener
1:14:39
can get a second chance to show his Wiener by
1:14:42
the voters, the voters of New York let him get
1:14:45
away with it once. It's like, it's like... He's
1:14:48
staging a comeback? Yeah, he made a comeback.
1:14:51
Remember, they re -elected him after that. They
1:14:53
were like, we don't care. No, I don't remember
1:14:55
that. Oh, yeah. And then they were like, yeah,
1:14:56
it's fine. I know he has like a radio show on
1:14:59
Sirius or something. I invited him to come out
1:15:01
with ABC. He was very nice about it, but he refused.
1:15:04
I'm kind of like, I think he probably just thought
1:15:07
we would make fun of him. But honestly, he's
1:15:09
a very smart, interesting dude. And I think it
1:15:11
would be gay to make fun of someone like that.
1:15:13
I think it's much more interesting to me is to
1:15:16
just like seriously. like talk to them about
1:15:19
politics and shit. Oh, sure. It's way more fun
1:15:21
to talk about them behind their backs. Hello?
1:15:24
Right. In person. Yeah, in person. I want to
1:15:27
just like actually... I'm kind and friendly in
1:15:30
person. I want to like, what's Huma really like,
1:15:31
Anthony, you know? Right. Are those lips injected?
1:15:35
No, I don't know. What's Hillary Clinton? What's
1:15:36
Hillary Clinton? Yes. What's she really like?
1:15:38
Yeah. Like, how many times did she kick you in
1:15:41
the balls? Did you ever have sex with Hillary
1:15:43
Clinton? Did you enjoy it? Was she part of that
1:15:47
three -way? She probably wanted to choke She
1:15:51
probably wanted to choke him or Huma or anyway,
1:15:54
who must marry to a Soros now? Yeah, she's probably
1:15:58
not missing any meals. Although she misses all
1:16:00
the meals from what I can tell. Yeah from she
1:16:03
looks very yeah Like an Ariana Grande thing,
1:16:06
but that's that's a different conversation Isn't
1:16:11
it kind of weird that a Palestinian lady keeps
1:16:13
getting up with Jewish men Hmm. It's a little
1:16:17
perverted. It's a little perverse. Yeah. I mean,
1:16:20
think about it. Is she Palestinian? I knew she
1:16:22
was Arab, but I didn't know she was Palestinian.
1:16:24
She's a Palestinian. Yeah, she's Palestinian.
1:16:25
Oh. She probably has cousins who got vaporized
1:16:30
by the IDF and she's taken that sweet Jewish
1:16:32
dick. And Anthony Weiner was a big Zionist. Oh,
1:16:36
was he? Oh. No, I hadn't thought. I just I didn't
1:16:40
know she was Palestinian. I knew she was Arab.
1:16:42
Obviously, I just didn't know she was Palestinian.
1:16:45
How strange. Well, I mean, I don't know. I guess
1:16:48
the argument could be made that like love conquers
1:16:50
all. But yeah, I don't know if you're if you're
1:16:53
Palestinian marrying a Zionist, that might be
1:16:56
one of those tantamount to auto asphyxiation.
1:16:59
Ted could be basically, basically. Anyway, that's
1:17:02
it for us. We're over time. I don't know. Are
1:17:06
we supposed to hit any ads? Is there anything
1:17:09
for me? No, let me, how do I check this? The
1:17:12
dollar signed. I don't think there's anything
1:17:15
we have to do today on ads. Okay. So that, I
1:17:18
didn't see it then. Did you see the latest in
1:17:22
our group chat? Yeah, but I don't know who, I
1:17:29
don't know who the they is that they're talking
1:17:31
about. Oh, rumble. Oh, yeah. That explains it.
1:17:34
Yeah, it does well screw YouTube and this is
1:17:39
no screw rumble and rumble to rumble for a different
1:17:42
reason at least they'll they they're not booting
1:17:44
us off the stream because Yeah, they don't anything
1:17:47
anymore. Yeah, according to we didn't kiss Fauci's
1:17:51
are No longer sharing and focusing on height.
1:17:55
They're focusing on the higher -end ad placements
1:17:57
for creators Like douche like Dan Bongino and
1:18:02
Donald Trump jr Wow, that's really shitty considering
1:18:07
it's all the little streamers is what made their
1:18:10
channel made their platform. Well, it's what
1:18:14
gives it strategic depth. Right. I mean, it's
1:18:17
sort of like, you know, if you're running a store,
1:18:19
you might have one or two products that like,
1:18:21
you're like, oh man, this brings in 40 % of our
1:18:24
revenue. When you have a mall, you have anchor
1:18:28
stores. People go to your, yeah. Well, exactly.
1:18:31
Like if you have a mall, you, you know, yeah,
1:18:33
everyone like has, you know, go to Sears or JCPenney
1:18:36
or whatever, or Macy's. You go to the mall, you
1:18:39
go to the mall for Sears to buy some tools and
1:18:41
then you wander over. But you want to go to strawberries
1:18:43
and orange julias, right? Right. That's the whole
1:18:47
point. You can have some anchor stores at the
1:18:49
mall, but then you need to go to Spencer's to
1:18:51
check out what, you know, weird little odd things.
1:18:53
But ultimately, you're not going to go to the
1:18:55
mall if there's only the anchor stores, right?
1:18:59
If there's only Sears or JCPenney. The whole
1:19:02
mall experience is about the variety. It's like,
1:19:05
look, the Rumble channel experience or the YouTube
1:19:09
channel experience is about the fact that there's
1:19:11
a lot of shit on there. And if that's not the
1:19:14
case, you know, I mean, over time, it will weather
1:19:17
and die. Yeah. So all right. Well, we'll talk
1:19:20
about that. We'll figure this out. We're going
1:19:22
to we're going to we're going to we're going
1:19:24
to brainstorm. I mean, I'm not walk away from
1:19:27
Rumble. I'm still be making content there. I'm
1:19:28
still a Rumble partner for whoever it's worth.
1:19:30
I'm just going to be just I'm just going to be
1:19:32
investing more in YouTube as well. And so, I
1:19:37
mean, well, we have to focus on the subscriber
1:19:39
model. And I think that's probably true for Putin,
1:19:42
but to for sure. Well, because YouTube makes
1:19:44
it easier to subscribe because you can become
1:19:46
a paid subscriber on Rumble during a live stream.
1:19:49
That was always dumb. Like if people want to
1:19:54
subscribe and pay. Right. So stupid. Anyway,
1:20:00
a lot of gripes and their Rumble studio is just
1:20:03
not ready for prime time. It's just not. It's
1:20:06
just it's there. I like the Rumble studio. That's
1:20:10
the reason to stick around. It's OK. It's probably
1:20:13
their best feature. It's their best feature.
1:20:16
It's their best feature. Right. I agree that
1:20:19
it's their best feature, but that's not saying
1:20:23
a whole ton. There's it's a lot of. Yeah, I don't
1:20:26
know. It's not much better, honestly. No, it's
1:20:30
it's a ton better with things, you know, automated
1:20:33
things. And this is this is so rudimentary and
1:20:37
like. Anyway, that does it. That's. Thursday,
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Thursday, There was something I was dying to
1:21:09
have us talk about. Well, then you send it to
1:21:11
me in the telegram. But that's it. We say bye
1:21:14
now. You bye now. Oh, come on. We have to do
1:21:19
the Avenal California story. The what? The government
1:21:25
in that little town in the Central Valley of
1:21:28
California, the city government, they all lost?
1:21:32
And they refuse to leave office. Oh, that one.
1:21:35
That one. OK, we can add that. I mean, anyway,
1:21:37
it'll be it's a hilarious story. It's not. It's
1:21:39
not. Yeah. These. Yeah. Nothing dark tomorrow
1:21:42
because we've been talking about weird, heavy,
1:21:45
dark shit all this week. And Perez Hilton, seriously,
1:21:48
get better. Like, yeah, that's seek help, dude.
1:21:52
Seek help. I didn't say the other thing. See,
1:21:55
Robbie, you want to come, you want to stay on
1:21:58
after this and we'll talk. I got I got to bounce.
1:22:00
I'll call you. I'll just call you. Okay. All
1:22:03
right. We'll figure out. We're going to figure
1:22:04
out the program thing. Okay. Bye.