Latest / The TMI Show with Ted Rall and Manila Chan / Fake Surveillance, Damaged NFL Brains and Allegedly Manipulated DNA | TMI Ep 451
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- 0:21It is Friday, August 28th, 2026. I'm Manila Chan.
- 0:25Ted Raul is on his potty break. Producer Robbie
- 0:28in the background, lurking, chatting, all of
- 0:32that. Happy Friday, everybody. So we are doing
- 0:37Ted's story choices today. However, since he's
- 0:41away taking a potty break, I'm going to go ahead
- 0:44and throw this in here. Let me see. How do I?
- 0:48What is going on here? want to do that okay before
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- 1:10case you guys haven't heard a couple days ago
- 1:13a California man drove cross -country with this
- 1:1912 -foot guillotine strapped to the back of his
- 1:23Toyota Tacoma, his truck. And the other day he
- 1:27made it to Washington and he parked it right
- 1:31behind or in front of the SCOTUS building, right
- 1:36in front of the Supreme Court. And the police
- 1:40were called because of this strange object. There
- 1:43be Ted. Ted, I'm telling the story about guillotine
- 1:47guy. Oh, I love this guy. My only my only mistake.
- 1:51I was kind of sad that it never went into effect.
- 1:54You know, I am French and it comes with the territory.
- 1:57It is a French thing. It's a very French thing.
- 2:01The super French thing like a souffle. It's it's
- 2:04it's France's best invention. Oh, well, I don't
- 2:08know, man. ISIS might might debate you on that.
- 2:12Same effect. Yeah, same effect. Less building
- 2:16of things. You know, if the purpose is head chopping,
- 2:21I mean, we can do we can call us mechanized.
- 2:24I mean, think about like if you're at ISIS, I
- 2:26mean, it's head hewing or the president of Syria
- 2:29takes a lot. I mean, it takes a lot of work.
- 2:32I mean, you know, I've watched some of those
- 2:33videos. It is not, you know, those heads aren't
- 2:36going to chop themselves. It's rough. You got
- 2:38to have some serious muscle power. Yes. The French
- 2:41invention of the guillotine is definitely. a
- 2:45more efficient way if you wanna do mass head
- 2:48chopping. But anyway, there's no evidence that
- 2:50this California guy, he has a rather long Vietnamese
- 2:55guy. His last name is Lee, L -E, Mr. Lee. So
- 2:58we'll just call him Mr. Lee. So Mr. Lee drives
- 3:00from California, makes a couple pit stops according
- 3:02to his Instagram. This is not his Instagram,
- 3:06this is somebody that videotaped this strange
- 3:10thing right in front of SCOTUS. and they posted
- 3:14it on instagram so the guy gets arrested the
- 3:16judge yesterday what is the cause what is the
- 3:19grounds for the arrest well here's okay here's
- 3:22the thing and i i'm with the judge on this and
- 3:24in fact i think all charges should get dropped
- 3:26but here's let me tell you why so the dude drives
- 3:29like he's along the way like stopping at the
- 3:32grand canyon with his guillotine he's like i'm
- 3:35serious he's as one does he's he he made this
- 3:39guillotine by hand He admitted so to the Capitol
- 3:43Police. Does it work? And he's and he's post
- 3:45it's a it's a functioning real guillotine like
- 3:49a real deal. So along the way, as he's driving
- 3:51cross country, he stops at like, you know, he's
- 3:53like at the Arch in St. Louis, like, hey, he's
- 3:57taking pictures on his road trip. So he's not
- 4:00worried. He's not worried. Seems seems harmless
- 4:03to me. Right. So he rolls up. He makes it to
- 4:06the nation's capital the other day, innocently
- 4:09parks. in front of SCOTUS, and then somebody
- 4:13drops a dime on him. By the way, some Karen.
- 4:19Some Karen, right? So they do this, right? So
- 4:22there's the guillotine. It's kind of hard to
- 4:24see, I guess, because, you know, Instagram is
- 4:27like this vertical. So they tow his truck away,
- 4:29they arrest him, and they charge him with like,
- 4:33because, you know, DC is like a no -weapon zone,
- 4:35right? What about cops carry guns, I mean only
- 4:40the cops but I'm talking about like the civilian
- 4:42so wait So you're not allowed to bring in your
- 4:44legally licensed? No armaments. No, not at all
- 4:49and really especially Especially yeah, I have
- 4:51but what about the Supreme Court ruling? Didn't
- 4:54the Supreme Court say that you can get you can
- 4:55have guns anywhere in the United States. No,
- 4:58I thought they did No, I don't know, but you
- 5:01can't have it in DC and I've been here about
- 5:0312 13 years I have friends that are arms trainers
- 5:07and have have concealed carry licenses They they
- 5:12literally check their guns at the Virginia door
- 5:15and then make their way over Okay, this mr. Lee
- 5:22Gets to DC parks there as one does He's like
- 5:28put my I'm just sitting here on the side of the
- 5:31sidewalk having like a you know, an ice cream
- 5:34cone. It's hot next to my guillotine and they
- 5:37come There's no sign right he doesn't have a
- 5:42sign like, you know Indicating there's no but
- 5:46there's no public messaging surrounding No, it's
- 5:51a guillotine and I Ted I haven't had a chance
- 5:54to look and maybe you can do this while I'm telling
- 5:56the story Is there a specific law in Washington
- 6:00DC that bans guillotines in particular, as one
- 6:04of the banned armaments that you are not allowed
- 6:07to carry? I am sure that there is not, but let's
- 6:11find out. Correct. I agree. So on those grounds,
- 6:14I'm with Mr. Lee, not because he's Southeast
- 6:18Asian like me. Oh, any deadly or dangerous weapon.
- 6:22But is the guillotine a weapon? How do you define
- 6:24a weapon? Yeah. That's an interesting thing they're
- 6:28going to have to do they're going to have to
- 6:31define what is a Dangerous. Yeah, what is a dangerous
- 6:37weapon? I mean a knife is a prohibited weapon,
- 6:40but you can't really attack someone with a game,
- 6:43you know You can't I mean you have to I mean
- 6:47you have to hold them in place you have to yeah
- 6:50You have to capture them you have to cap. Yeah
- 6:52And then you know get them to you know, not fight
- 6:55you and get into but anyway, you could just say
- 6:57hey Could you just put your neck over here? And
- 7:02if they're and if they comply then you know,
- 7:04it's kind of a voluntary thing then mr. Lee Has
- 7:08as far as we can tell so far The judge has released
- 7:13him and the judge basically on his own reconnaissance
- 7:17Recognizant pending trial or did he throw out
- 7:19the charge pending trial? No, he hasn't thrown
- 7:21out the charges. He's pending trial. Mr. Lee's
- 7:24lawyers are still like trying to fight the charges
- 7:27in the first place saying that they're you know,
- 7:29they're they're hooey Robbie says it's not a
- 7:32weapon. It's a tool that I would argue that's
- 7:34correct like because it's meant for execution
- 7:36Electric chair be a weapon, right? So if you
- 7:39strapped an electric chair to the back of your
- 7:41truck and park I don't know wherever in front
- 7:43of the US Capitol whatever and on top of it He's
- 7:46on a public street. He's not technically on federal
- 7:49grounds. He's not on SCOTUS grounds. He's not
- 7:52on the Capitol grounds. So technically, he's
- 7:55not carrying, even if this were a weapon, not
- 7:59technically on federal property. He's on public
- 8:01property. He's parked on the sidewalk right there.
- 8:04Well, I think he's having an ice cream or whatever.
- 8:06Also, I think he's protected by First Amendment.
- 8:08Right. And that's what his lawyers are doing.
- 8:11Because clearly, I mean, you and I both know
- 8:13what the message was intended to be here. Right.
- 8:17The message is America is ready for a revolution.
- 8:20There's corruption in the corridors of power.
- 8:23I mean, it's my read. It's I think most people
- 8:26would say that's what he intended to say. Right.
- 8:30So right. So whatever the case, it would have
- 8:31probably helped him if he had a sign on it or
- 8:33something that would have helped his defense.
- 8:36I would I would say not a weapon. Number one.
- 8:38Number two, freedom of speech. But so the judge
- 8:41doesn't throw out the charges. He's pending trial
- 8:44or arraignment or something September 20, sometime
- 8:47late September. But the attorney's trying to
- 8:50get the charges dropped because of whatever.
- 8:53So those couple of things I would say is something
- 8:56for the judge to think about. The judge says,
- 8:58so far, as far as we can tell, the dude has no
- 9:01criminal history. No, as far as we can tell,
- 9:03no psychiatric background, no breaks or whatever.
- 9:07The dude just he's spicy. He called the police
- 9:09as he told the police. He's like, what they said.
- 9:12What are you here for? He's like, I don't know,
- 9:15like people come to the nation's capital. I took
- 9:17a road trip. Yeah, my guillotine. Yeah. Doesn't
- 9:21everyone travel with their guillotine? That's
- 9:23literally what he told me. That was literally
- 9:25my comment when I bought. What are you doing
- 9:27here? When I bought a rug, you know, in Turkmenistan.
- 9:31And, you know, I was worried about having to
- 9:32pay customs duties. And then I had this brilliant
- 9:35idea when I was at JFK airport. And I said, doesn't
- 9:38everyone travel with their own carpet? And I
- 9:41didn't have to pay and I didn't have to pay customs
- 9:43fees. Interesting. You could say it's your prayer.
- 9:48It was my private carpet. A man is allowed to
- 9:51travel with his carpet, isn't he? It's still
- 9:53a free country, sort of. So literally, he spoke
- 9:56to the police, and all he said was, they said,
- 10:00what are you doing here? He said, no reason in
- 10:02particular. I'm just making a trip. Like Chuck
- 10:04Berry, with no particular place to go. No particular
- 10:09reason. I'm just here. And he's never expressed
- 10:12any hatred towards any party left or right center.
- 10:16He's never expressed any hatred for any particular
- 10:19congressman or, you know, getting member of SOTUS.
- 10:25No. So the judge says on those grounds, I'm gonna
- 10:29release Mr. Lee on his own recognizance and and
- 10:33we expect him to be back in court September 28.
- 10:35Goodbye. And that was it. Now where's the key?
- 10:39At least the right thing. They're hanging on
- 10:44to his guillotine and his truck. And the dude's
- 10:47like, but that's my mode of transportation. And
- 10:50potentially my mode of revolution. Right. So
- 10:54he's like, that's my art piece. If I were him,
- 10:57that's what I would have said. Like, this is
- 10:59my art installation. He has a lot of potential
- 11:01venues for defense. I want to contact his attorney
- 11:05and give all kinds of ideas to his attorney.
- 11:08Robbie asked, is a steak knife a weapon? Yeah,
- 11:10it is. Of course it is. It can be, sure. Sure,
- 11:12it can be. I mean, yeah. I mean, evidence lockers
- 11:14in murder cases are full of steak knives, I guarantee
- 11:17you. Yes. So I just thought this was a funny...
- 11:20It's a tool. It's not a weapon. It's both. It
- 11:23can be both, but certainly on 9 -11, a box cutter
- 11:26was more than a tool. Just because something
- 11:29can be doesn't mean that it is. It's just like
- 11:31a nail gun. Is a nail gun, is that a weapon?
- 11:33Yes, it's a tool and a weapon. Oh, Ted McCaden,
- 11:37thank you for the donation. A hammer is a tool
- 11:39or a weapon. Yes, McCaden. Well, I mean, ask
- 11:43Nancy Pelosi's husband. McCaden says... How come
- 11:47this guy gets arrested but not the guy who erected
- 11:50the gallows in front of the capital on j6? Is
- 11:53it french racism? It's francophobia It is francophobia.
- 11:59Yeah, or in this case, it's vietnamophobia vietnamese
- 12:02phobia But remember the french colonized vietnam.
- 12:05So that's true. So it's all kind of related right,
- 12:09so I want to con I'm I feel this need this urge
- 12:14Ted to contact this guy's attorney and be like,
- 12:16look, let me tell you about the Franco colonization
- 12:20of Southeast Asia, circa the seven, you know,
- 12:22late 1700s, and the influence there and that
- 12:25this guy's an artist. He's an installation artist.
- 12:30Look, I've got to think he's going to walk. Oh,
- 12:34yeah. I mean, he's no threats to anybody. He
- 12:37didn't do anything wrong. At all. No Why can't
- 12:41and and and I'm not kidding a man really should
- 12:44be able to bring a guillotine in his pickup truck
- 12:47to washington like why not like You really have
- 12:51to there. There is no harm was no harm and I
- 12:54don't believe and did you look it up Ted? It's
- 12:56a very law against guillotines in no No, no,
- 12:59there's just a law against uh carrying dangerous
- 13:02weapons in dc Right, and and so obviously the
- 13:05argument will be this is a define a weapon Yeah,
- 13:08well, that's a good question, right? Like, how
- 13:12does one? Because it's something that you would
- 13:16have to be able to use in means of like self
- 13:19-defense, right? In federal law, how does one
- 13:22define? And I don't think a guillotine is a means
- 13:25of self -defense at all. It's a means of punishment,
- 13:30but not self -defense. All right, so it's any
- 13:31weapon, device, it's a device, instrument. It's
- 13:36kind of an instrument, too. Material or substance,
- 13:39animate or inanimate, used for or readily capable
- 13:42of causing death or serious bodily injury. By
- 13:45the way, you know, this would mean like any number
- 13:48of large dogs, right? Would be a dangerous thing.
- 13:53Yeah, I mean, you know, they can kill people.
- 13:56They can hurt people. I mean, but then is my
- 13:58car, I mean, yeah, if I were to ram people, then
- 14:01my car would become... a deadly weapon. Yeah,
- 14:03people have definitely been charged with the
- 14:06context of their car being considered a deadly
- 14:08weapon. That has happened. But I mean, if you're
- 14:11in possession of a screwdriver, you're going
- 14:15to charge people with, you know, carrying a deadly
- 14:19weapon because a screwdriver can easily stab
- 14:21somebody in the neck and voila, right? Yes, it
- 14:25can. Yes, it can. Like you said, a hammer, a
- 14:28screwdriver. any household item. If this guy
- 14:31had a work truck and was carrying hammers and
- 14:34screwdrivers in there, you're going to charge
- 14:37him on each count. Like, okay, you had three
- 14:40screwdrivers, the guillotine, three screwdrivers,
- 14:42two hammers, and lots of nails. Yeah, this is
- 14:46a shit case. I mean, look, the thing is, it's
- 14:50kind of like you can see why they charge it like,
- 14:52you know, it's kind of like, oh, that can't be
- 14:55right. Okay, you team like right and like so
- 15:02they're like arrest him Yeah, well, we'll arrest
- 15:04him and figure out the charges later Right. This
- 15:07is some derpy shit and I would say free mr. Lee
- 15:11Now give him back his truck give him back his
- 15:16guillotine. It's a it's an art installation he
- 15:20is making a an avant -garde statement It's an
- 15:28art installation. It's a mobile art installation
- 15:31That is what his attorney needs to to pitch to
- 15:35the judge and the charges need to get dropped
- 15:37like he didn't do anything wrong He didn't threaten
- 15:40anybody. He didn't like great He he wasn't in
- 15:43the throes of like trying to shove somebody into
- 15:45the guillotine when the cops arrested him He
- 15:47was literally sitting on the sidewalk like drinking
- 15:49like a boba tea or something. I'm not joking
- 15:54Yeah, he was literally sitting on the sidewalk.
- 15:57It's cold chillin'. Like, just chillin', just
- 16:00hangin' out, sippin' a drink on the sidewalk.
- 16:03Nothing wrong with that. Yeah, good for him.
- 16:05He didn't, yeah, so... I'm team Mr. Lee. I knew
- 16:09you would be Ted. It's really clear cut. It's
- 16:13just it's cops being gay, you know, I mean, and
- 16:17it's kind of like, look, I can sort of see it
- 16:19away why they felt the need to do this because
- 16:23it's sort of like. Man, if we don't do this,
- 16:28we're going to get in trouble with the boss.
- 16:30It's better to charge the dude and have him walk
- 16:32later than to not charge him, if that makes sense.
- 16:36I mean, if you're one of the Capitol Police,
- 16:38yeah, I'm sure you're like, well, I'm not going
- 16:40to get in trouble for not. Like, obviously, the
- 16:42media is going to get around this if they see
- 16:44a 12 -foot guillotine driving around the Capitol.
- 16:47Yeah, we can't let this go. Well, you know, I
- 16:49mean, if the courts want to let him go, they
- 16:51will, and that'll be that. Sierra Juliet Mike
- 16:54says someone took a guillotine to the Fed building
- 16:58in Portland as part of the ice protests. It was
- 17:01allowed Really? Huh? Yeah, manchild is time to
- 17:10ban all hammers nail guns. Those are pretty good
- 17:12weapons chainsaws If that was the case, I mean
- 17:15Javier Malay walks around with his chainsaw He
- 17:18gifted Elon Musk when I was there for it at CPAC
- 17:22So, you know, yeah, but that was in Maryland,
- 17:25technically across the river. So but anyway,
- 17:27point is, lawyer guy, be smart. Call Mr. Lee,
- 17:33an installation artist. This is a mobile art
- 17:35installation. It's a violation of his first amendment,
- 17:39right? He was on the sidewalk. He should be able
- 17:42to express whatever it is he's trying to express
- 17:44as an artist. But in fairness, D .C. has already
- 17:47violated the Second Amendment and the Fourth
- 17:49Amendment. So why would they give a crap about
- 17:51the First Amendment? Can we stop until the Constitution
- 17:53matters? Fair. It's a la carte. You know, it's
- 17:57like a Chinese restaurant or a Vietnamese restaurant.
- 17:59You take one from column one, two from column.
- 18:02It's dim sum. It's dim sum. Yeah, it's like that.
- 18:05It's dim sum laws in D .C. All right. So with
- 18:08that, let's get to the stories. I just thought
- 18:09that was a great way to start Friday was to find
- 18:12out that Mr. Lee. walked out of the pokey last
- 18:17night. He should not have been in there in the
- 18:20first place, but yeah, okay. I know. So good
- 18:23on Mr. Lee. Contact us. You're welcome on the
- 18:26show. Oh, yeah. Anytime. Open invitation. We
- 18:30think you rock. You are pretty cool, man. And
- 18:34by the way, I'd like to see that guillotine in
- 18:36effect, if you know what I'm saying. Well, as
- 18:39a watermelon chopper, you mean? Yes. Melons winter
- 18:44melons other melons cantaloupes a lot of different
- 18:48kinds of melons available Chopping melons because
- 18:52remember YouTube YouTube wants us to keep it
- 18:55family -friendly. All right, here we go a Florida
- 19:01dude a Florida dude who this is a manila. Oh
- 19:05wait, this is yours. Yeah Okay, okay, so So this
- 19:10is this is these are all Ted stories, though
- 19:12That's why Ted's like anxious because they're
- 19:14all true head choice And we have a we have a
- 19:17heart out at 11 due for DMZ birthday. Okay. Oh
- 19:20DMZ today Okay, so a Florida man who allegedly
- 19:23destroyed what he thought was a police surveillance
- 19:26camera a flock camera now faces three felony
- 19:29counts There's one problem. These are all fake
- 19:33Police in Oviedo say 24 -year -old Evan Meyer
- 19:36approached the device shortly before 1 a .m.
- 19:39on August 20th wearing a mask and carrying pruning
- 19:42shears. Officers watched as he knocked it from
- 19:47the pole and then smashed it. He like stomped
- 19:49on it. The so -called camera was actually a plastic
- 19:54decoy created on an officer's home 3D printer.
- 19:58After several several real flock cameras disappeared
- 20:02from the area. So this thing that he mr. Mr.
- 20:06Mayor Destroyed collected no data. I're nothing
- 20:09Meyer Meyer. Yeah air Meyer Evan Meyer So obviously
- 20:16this is like a phony a phony camera and it apparently
- 20:20cost the taxpayers nothing because the cop decided
- 20:22Hey, I've got this new 3d printer man. Let's
- 20:25make a fake flock camera So that's kind of what
- 20:28happened. So Meyer nevertheless faces charges
- 20:31for grand theft, causing more than $1 ,000 in
- 20:35property damage and damaging computer equipment
- 20:37in a way endangered human life. The final charge
- 20:40is a first degree felony. What computer equipment?
- 20:44Carrying up to 30 years in prison. Wait, what
- 20:46computer equipment? I know, we'll get there,
- 20:48we'll get there. So prosecutors apparently intend
- 20:50to value the homemade plastic prop. as though
- 20:55it were the real deal equipment that Meyer believed
- 20:59he was destroying. It was an unusual legal proposition.
- 21:03The accused man's mistaken belief could potentially
- 21:08determine the value and the function of an object
- 21:10that never - That's ridiculous. I agree. If I
- 21:13steal a cubic zirconium and I thought it's the
- 21:16Hope Diamond, I'm not going to be charged with
- 21:18the value of the Hope Diamond. Right. Okay. So
- 21:22okay, what I thought is neither here nor there
- 21:24is right. It's irrelevant. How do they know what
- 21:26he thought? They don't know what he thought police
- 21:30say Meyer doesn't matter he could say like I
- 21:33thought it was real doesn't matter doesn't matter
- 21:36Police say the guy told investigators that two
- 21:40flock cameras near his home Real ones made him
- 21:42feel as though a constant. I was watching him
- 21:45because it is the automated readers photograph
- 21:49license plates and allow law enforcement agencies
- 21:52to search vehicle movements across a nationwide
- 21:54network. And these are really, really controversial,
- 21:57obviously. Oviedo's mayor defended the operation,
- 22:01arguing that placing city -owned property in
- 22:04public did not constitute entrapment because
- 22:07police never encouraged Mayor Meyer to damage
- 22:11it. Vandalism remains illegal. Entrapment, it's
- 22:15more like baiting. Yeah, but threatening someone
- 22:18with decades in prison for smashing a few dollars
- 22:20worth of plastic raises its own question who
- 22:24Exactly was this sting meant to protect? So that's
- 22:28the thing. It's like it's a fucking fake plastic
- 22:32camera Nothing. Nothing of value was destroyed
- 22:36and certainly not a thousand You can't say you
- 22:38can't claim it's a thousand a value worth of
- 22:40a thousand dollars to charge him with a felony
- 22:42if anything this is like misdemeanor like Don't
- 22:45know like vandalism or something but but again
- 22:49the cops say Some one cop guy printed this on
- 22:54his home camera. So one was this a a an authorized
- 23:00like Not a sting, but it I guess an authorized
- 23:04plot Like did the meaning did did the mayor sanction
- 23:08it did the police chief sanction it who sanctioned?
- 23:11this printing of this fake What it is, it's a
- 23:14sting operation. It's not a, it's not entrapment,
- 23:18right? That's what it is. Right, so who, is it
- 23:21authorized or did the one lone cop that had a
- 23:243D printer, did he just go rogue and was like,
- 23:26I'm gonna create my own sting and I'm gonna make
- 23:28detective? It does sound like he went rogue.
- 23:30Now here's the thing. Okay, I wanna be, there's
- 23:32a bunch of stuff to unwrap, to sort of unpack
- 23:35here. First of all, this guy's gonna walk. And
- 23:38the reason he's gonna walk is on a technicality.
- 23:41The pro I bet there's knowing the cops There
- 23:46is no way that they that the guy the the cop
- 23:49who printed out this thing on this fake camera
- 23:52on his 3d printer Like signed it over and sold
- 23:56it to the city. Okay, right, right So it was
- 23:59not city property. It was this dude's It was
- 24:04this cop, this private citizen's private property,
- 24:08which he relinquished by putting in a public
- 24:11place. He gave it up. He put it up somewhere.
- 24:14It's similar to putting out your old TV on the
- 24:17sidewalk. Correct. That's why any decent attorney
- 24:23is going to get this guy off based on this line
- 24:26of defense. Call TMI. We're just going to say
- 24:29Evan Meyer. Have your attorney call us. We've
- 24:32got ideas, but we'll hook you up Now the thing
- 24:35is I gotta say and also we would love to have
- 24:37your attorney on on the air. Um That said also
- 24:41I want to be very clear here It is your patriotic
- 24:45duty as an american to break every flock camera
- 24:49you see the real ones Okay, if you see one break
- 24:53it now, obviously, you know, you want to cover
- 24:56up wear a mask You know wear a ski mask park
- 24:59far away from the place do it at night so you
- 25:02don't get seen Bring spray paint so you cover
- 25:04it before you do it But like these things are
- 25:07horrible and all the people who are attacking
- 25:09them are American patriots who are trying to
- 25:13protect our privacy rights Although granted this
- 25:15is a bird that has flown away a long time ago
- 25:18still I respect you and love you and think you're
- 25:21great and You know everybody who does that? You
- 25:25know, you are beloved and supported by all Americans
- 25:28of all political stripes. So God bless you God
- 25:34bless America. God bless you And I don't I'm
- 25:37not sarcastic about that at all. I mean, I really
- 25:39mean that And this is such a classic case of
- 25:44overcharging right I mean, okay, they charge
- 25:47the guy like basically like he thought he's breaking
- 25:52The computer equipment leaves. By the way, the
- 25:57piece of plastic is not worth $1 ,000, right?
- 26:00So there's no grand theft by definition. Couldn't
- 26:03be. Even if they signed it over to the city,
- 26:08it's a piece of plastic, piece of shit. It's
- 26:10not worth $1 ,000. Also, how did it endanger
- 26:15human life to break it? I'm dying to hear this,
- 26:20right? He showed up, he wore a mask and carried
- 26:23pruning shears and he fucking, he knocked it
- 26:26from a pole at one o 'clock in the morning and
- 26:29smashed it. Okay, whose human life was endangered?
- 26:33Probably not even his, right? So this is, there's
- 26:39no case. He's going to walk. And but it's like
- 26:44so interesting, right? It's like Evan Meyer.
- 26:46Call us. Have your attorneys call us. P .W. Walker.
- 26:49Thank you so much for two two donations back
- 26:51to back, says P .W. Walker says, so glad those
- 26:55cops went after people who take down flock cameras
- 26:58instead of going after cannibal pedos. And reverse
- 27:01is also true, Ted. You could steal the Hope Diamond
- 27:04and say it has no value because it's just carbon.
- 27:09Right, right there. Fair well, you know, I mean
- 27:14the thing is it obviously you would get experts
- 27:16to say that the Hope diamonds is worth millions
- 27:18of dollars, right? I mean, that's not hard. No,
- 27:21the thing is not good luck for the to the to
- 27:24the prosecutor's office Finding any expert who's
- 27:27going to testify that this thing was worth more
- 27:30than ten bucks. Okay I mean like like I said
- 27:33if anything it is Van if anything and I don't
- 27:38think anything is there but if anything it's
- 27:40it's like vandalism of this cop who went rogue
- 27:43Vandalism of his personal property valued at
- 27:451099 like fuck him. All right, let's move on
- 27:49here We've got more three more stories All right
- 27:55A major new study offers the clearest estimate
- 27:58yet of brain damage among NFL players. Researchers
- 28:01examined 878 former players who died between
- 28:052016 and 2021. Out of the 235 whose brains were
- 28:08donated for examination, more than 91 % showed
- 28:12evidence of chronic, traumatic, encealopo...
- 28:17Pathy, whatever, CTE. Families who suspect neurological
- 28:22problems are more likely to donate a player's
- 28:24brain. So researchers actually think that that's
- 28:28a conservative guess. It's probably higher than
- 28:3191%. They actually don't think it's possible
- 28:33not to have CTE when you play professional football.
- 28:37None of the 643 unexamined players had it. Even
- 28:41under that scenario, 24 .5 % of all deceased
- 28:45players had it. CTE comes from having repeated
- 28:49blows to your head and can only currently be
- 28:52confirmed through an autopsy. So it's a buildup
- 28:56of tau protein in the brain. You get memory loss,
- 29:00impaired judgment, dementia, you can act cray
- 29:02cray, all sorts of bad things happen. 60 % of
- 29:05the brain donors had already been diagnosed with
- 29:07dementia. Among players with stage four CTE,
- 29:10the most advanced form. More than 90 % have had
- 29:12dementia. Researchers found the stage 4 CTE was
- 29:15associated with a 44 % higher prevalence of dementia.
- 29:20The study doesn't predict whether, you know,
- 29:22player A, B, or C will get CTE. It does establish
- 29:26that at least one quarter of former players had
- 29:30it. So the question is what to do. Manila, we
- 29:35talked about this on the program, and Jamal and
- 29:38I Argued and things got spicy. Um, I I think
- 29:43tomorrow should I mean it not tomorrow I think
- 29:45uh, I think football should be bad. Um, I think
- 29:48tomorrow love football. He likes football I think
- 29:50all violent violent contact sports like rugby
- 29:54ice hockey football Should be bad and I think
- 29:57uh, there's cte even in soccer players from headbutting
- 30:01the ball Um, and you could keep soccer just get
- 30:04rid of the headbutting option. Um and but i think
- 30:08it should be it's so fucking i mean when you
- 30:12know obviously boxing pugilism you know should
- 30:15be banned as well i mean this doesn't contribute
- 30:18anything important to society all it does is
- 30:21hurt people therefore you gotta go yeah i i'm
- 30:25i'm gonna play devil's advocate and be on jt's
- 30:28side on this one um i'm gonna say these are grown
- 30:31men um wagering uh life and limb to make millions
- 30:36of dollars. Not all of them make millions, obviously,
- 30:38but many of them do. They know what they're getting
- 30:41into and the risks are apparent, right? However,
- 30:46Ted, let me bring up some scientific statistical
- 30:48data for you. So of the 235 players who died
- 30:52between 2016 and 2021 and had donated their brains,
- 30:56had an average age of death of 66 years old.
- 31:00So that's an important caveat because most played
- 31:03in the NFL. before the NFL began adopting the
- 31:07modern concussion protocols and advanced helmet
- 31:10science. And so I mean, really the helmet stuff,
- 31:14people started using neck rolls and stuff and
- 31:16other ways to kind of prevent such shock to to
- 31:19your brain, kind of in the late 90s. So in the
- 31:23past 30 years, in the early days of football,
- 31:26obviously, people were one weren't wearing anything.
- 31:29And then two, they started wearing like leather
- 31:31cap things that really didn't. Yeah. Busting
- 31:35your head for blood I guess but but Anyway, it's
- 31:39come a long way So I think it's an important
- 31:41thing to point out that that these numbers they
- 31:44sound worse than they are because they're saying
- 31:4691 % of players have CTE that's not entirely
- 31:50true These are only within that small batch of
- 31:53people who were who their families already knew
- 31:56that these people had likely brain damage from
- 32:02playing the sport. However, these people, their
- 32:04families knew that they had Alzheimer's or other
- 32:08age -related illnesses that came on much or diseases
- 32:12that came on probably much earlier because they
- 32:15suffered a lot of head trauma. So you're really
- 32:19narrowing the range of people that you're testing.
- 32:25These are not conclusive numbers. So I don't
- 32:29think we can necessarily call for the banning
- 32:34yet or at all. I would say because again, these
- 32:38are grown ass men that know the risks and if
- 32:41they sign, I'm sure in somebody's NFL contract,
- 32:44I'm sure somebody can pull it up somewhere where
- 32:47it shows that these are the risks involved in
- 32:51playing the sport. I mean, Ted. You can be a
- 32:54marathon runner as the guy, you know, the marathon,
- 32:57the guy that dropped dead. Why the marathons
- 33:01are what 25 point whatever? Yeah, 26 .2 miles.
- 33:05And the point is that like, OK, so look, marathons
- 33:08should be banned also, but they don't kill as
- 33:11many people. They don't kill as many people.
- 33:14Ted, every every sport, everything that's fun,
- 33:17everything that's entertaining, almost everything,
- 33:20almost. Has some level of danger and risk involved
- 33:25or would it be fun? No, I well I don't know about
- 33:28that, but you definitely don't need to crocheting
- 33:31It's not like that many people, you know, a lot
- 33:34of people bowl I don't think there's a lot of
- 33:35like fatal in bowling injuries. I could be wrong
- 33:38But I don't think so and I don't know. I mean,
- 33:42I feel like there's it's The thing is you have
- 33:45to assess like what level of risk is acceptable
- 33:48America's parents have already kind of determined
- 33:51that they don't like it, even in like football,
- 33:55like very - I agree. I won't let my son play
- 33:57it. Well, there you go, right? I mean, a lot
- 33:59of parents don't let their kids play football.
- 34:01Why? Because they think it's what? Dangerous.
- 34:05And so even like in the - He's got a good brain.
- 34:08I don't want to ruin his brain. Even at my kid's
- 34:09high school, which was in a very, you know, which
- 34:13had a popular football team, they couldn't field
- 34:16a real team anymore because there weren't enough
- 34:18kids to play football. Because the parents was
- 34:21just wouldn't let I'm not arguing that the sport
- 34:24ought to be banned because it's it's too fucking
- 34:27dangerous It's like it's like bush kashi I mean,
- 34:31but you can't say it's too dangerous because
- 34:33you're basing it on these numbers that are that
- 34:35are Everybody who plays football professionally
- 34:38get CTE everybody no CTE sure but but to the
- 34:42extent that To the extent that you can't say
- 34:44Alzheimer's begins because of this like all these
- 34:47players are gonna get No, but they can lose their
- 34:51minds and end up shooting out on Park Avenue
- 34:53like that guy We talked about one one guy did
- 34:57it but that's one guy But there's multiple mass
- 35:01shootings of people that don't they beat their
- 35:04wives. They kill their wives. They fucking There's
- 35:07a lot of people that don't play football. Probably
- 35:09fucking had CTE, right? Probably probably get
- 35:13a list of something that you won't Ban that probably
- 35:16yes smaller. So what what is it hunting? Hunting
- 35:20is dangerous hunting is dangerous, but I think
- 35:23hunting we ban that too. Okay, but like hunting
- 35:25with dick cheney if 100 of people if 100 percent
- 35:30of hunters got shot by by dick cheney in the
- 35:33face I would ban hunting 100 percent of football
- 35:37players get cte, which is a very bad disease
- 35:40the end No, no, that's not true. That's not true
- 35:43Just speak no tbi is different than cte's their
- 35:46their class. This is a very narrow cte The one
- 35:50it experts believe there is zero possibility
- 35:53of of avoiding cte as a professional football
- 35:56player says that only of this Small batch of
- 36:01people I read the whole original article. This
- 36:03is the abridged version in the original article.
- 36:05It said what I just said only 200 Like so to
- 36:09have a percentage that high. Yeah, I skimmed
- 36:12through the the original long article too And
- 36:14I still I still say you cannot know that and
- 36:17they and the article even states it there is
- 36:19you cannot know for certain unless All or the
- 36:25vast majority of okay here This is from the NYU
- 36:29Grossman School of Public Health and from Harvard.
- 36:32Okay, you've heard of those Walker 100 % of people
- 36:37who get out of bed die Avoiding getting out of
- 36:39bed. That's ridiculous avoiding cte as an nfl
- 36:43player is nearly impossible Because the disease
- 36:47is is driven by the accumulation of repeated
- 36:50subconcussive hits rather than diagnosed concussions
- 36:53alone. Players absorb thousands of minor collisions
- 36:57to the head during practices of games that do
- 36:59not cause immediate symptoms or blackouts, but
- 37:02still trigger abnormal protein buildup in the
- 37:04brain. By the time an athlete reaches the NFL,
- 37:07they have usually played years of youth high
- 37:09school and college football, accumulating a massive
- 37:12baseline of head trauma. Studies show that the
- 37:15overwhelming majority of former NFL players who
- 37:17donate their brains to research are bound to
- 37:19have CTE. So there is no fucking way to avoid
- 37:25it So even if this is not true hunters, I mean
- 37:29you could hunt your entire fucking life and never
- 37:32hurt yourself or another person. That's not true
- 37:36about playing in the NFL. But even if that's
- 37:39true, these are grown adults that are making
- 37:42decisions for their own lives. They're making
- 37:44retarded decisions after having had their heads
- 37:47bashed over and over. You should not skydive,
- 37:50you should not drive in a car because more people
- 37:52die in car wrecks. You can skydive your entire
- 37:54fucking life and not die. That's not true about
- 37:57football players. But even if you have CTE, what
- 38:00does it matter? It's your own... all the people
- 38:02that smoke smoke you might kill your wife okay
- 38:05that's what matters how many people how many
- 38:07football players have killed their wives besides
- 38:09oj what a few actually i'll look that up it's
- 38:13a very very small number relative to how many
- 38:16people die in a car wreck driving a car is dangerous
- 38:19go ahead robbie last week some guy here in montana
- 38:22snapped and killed his entire family and then
- 38:25killed himself so all that but by that logic
- 38:27if we're going to go full nanny state here uh
- 38:30then Would you support the confiscation and outlaw
- 38:34of firearms? All right. In the past 10 years,
- 38:38dozens of professional football players have
- 38:40been charged with various crimes involving domestic
- 38:42violence, assault and murder of their partners.
- 38:46Tommy Kane, former Seattle Seahawks wide receiver,
- 38:49pled guilty to manslaughter. 2003 meeting and
- 38:51stabbing of his wife, Tamara Shake in Montreal.
- 38:54Anthony McClanahan. former college player. Do
- 38:57you know how many people, how many men in Baltimore
- 38:59literally in the past week are arrested in prison
- 39:03right now because they beat, stabbed, shot, killed
- 39:07their wife or not wife. You could live in Baltimore
- 39:09your entire life and never do that. That's not
- 39:12true about the NFL. The point is you can't control
- 39:15if these are grown. I'm with Robbie. You can't
- 39:17and I'm with Robbie and in the chat. It's the
- 39:23percentage of correlation. It's not a risk. It's
- 39:27literally like a certainty. It's informed consent.
- 39:30If these guys want to take part in this. It's
- 39:31not a risk. It is a certainty. It doesn't matter.
- 39:36Ridiculous. If these guys want to take part.
- 39:37If they want to take part. Do their wives want
- 39:39to be killed? Just so they look informed consent
- 39:43of these men. The wives don't control their bodies
- 39:45in their lives, right? For the same reason, I
- 39:48believe a woman's body is hers. A woman's body
- 39:50is hers to control how she wants the same thing
- 39:53for the football players. If you are Eli Manning
- 39:56and you decide I want to stop playing football.
- 39:59Right, like that's up to you. You decide you
- 40:01want to continue like Tom Brady going in and
- 40:03out. Like, I want to, I want to retire. I want
- 40:06to go back. I want to retire. I want to go back.
- 40:07It's all good fun until he kills his wife, right?
- 40:09That's on him. Abortion kills 99 .8 % of every
- 40:14child that goes in there. Don't have any consent
- 40:16in this. And you're against that, Mr. Nanny State.
- 40:21I am. Okay. Because murder is murder. Now, you
- 40:25dodged the question I had. How many NFL wives
- 40:28are not dead, Ted? But CTE is a hundred percent
- 40:33right so like part of your argument though again
- 40:37You can't tell somebody not to not to watch me
- 40:40risky things no, but there's risk Okay, it's
- 40:43not okay. What is a risk Manoa a risk is something
- 40:47that might happen some that's not a risk We're
- 40:50talking about something that will happen in fact,
- 40:53okay, okay Smoking 100 % of construction workers
- 40:57will be injured. No, that's not true It's like
- 41:00that is true. You can stub you will Ted. Okay,
- 41:03you are nailing a hammer into a board at for
- 41:0730 years if that's your job at some point or
- 41:10another you are gonna smash your That's okay.
- 41:12That's okay. But that's not fatal. It's good.
- 41:14It's my point. A risk is something that might
- 41:18happen if you if you smoke cigarettes your entire
- 41:21life. You might die of cancer. If you're a construction
- 41:27worker, you're guaranteed to at least stub your
- 41:31fucking toe. You're gonna smash your finger with
- 41:34a hammer. You might get a nail gun like through
- 41:37your pinky or whatever. Something we got we got
- 41:41we got we got to move on with your job. You accept
- 41:45your apology. I do not. I'm I wouldn't let my
- 41:48son play it. I wouldn't let my son play it because
- 41:50he has a great brain but If whoever has their
- 41:54head making it to that bell. In other words,
- 41:55hey, it's fine for other retards to have turned
- 41:58their brains into cabbage. If they want to. Not
- 41:59my kid. If they want to. I'm not their mom. I
- 42:03have a house full of guns. What's the risk of
- 42:06me snapping like that dude did and kill my family?
- 42:09Relatively low. Very few people do that. So answer
- 42:12my question. Should firearms be banned? That's
- 42:18probably big ones should be. to find big ones.
- 42:23What does that even mean? Like, like, like AR
- 42:25style, you know, that kind of big guns. They
- 42:28make they they're not really needed for hunting
- 42:33and stuff. So therefore, anything bigger than
- 42:35what you would need for hunting, I would say
- 42:37you don't need what's more powerful, what's more
- 42:40powerful, Ted, a two to three or three. We've
- 42:42got two more stories to go. We've got 13 minutes
- 42:44to go. And I want to talk about I'm holding you
- 42:48to this. Okay, we'll talk about it later. You
- 42:50can't weasel out of this. Watch me Like a slithery
- 42:55little snake How you gonna have your communist
- 42:59revolution without it without a Armed rebellion
- 43:01impossible to impossible. So then you want to
- 43:04empower the state of monopoly. No risk straight
- 43:06away Don't do anything risky kids man child.
- 43:11Thank you for the donation man child says it's
- 43:13called population control We are preventing people
- 43:16from killing themselves early Hashtag live shorter.
- 43:20Peter, thank you for your donation. Do the do
- 43:23the 12 year olds who start have informed consent?
- 43:26I mean, I think that's maybe you can change regulation
- 43:28in terms of like having people really understand
- 43:31what the risks might be. And Walker, again, for
- 43:34your donation, Walker says those injuries they
- 43:38themselves procure must be their school masters.
- 43:41So I mean, I don't know if anybody's forcing
- 43:44necessarily these grown men to play football,
- 43:47professional football at, you know, the best
- 43:50of anybody to make tens of millions. But you
- 43:52know what? I don't know. Tom Brady seems all
- 43:55right. Let's move on. Tom Brady. Jaws. Jaws.
- 44:02All right. So Mansu's DNA analyst after serving
- 44:06seven and a half years for allegedly attempted
- 44:08rape. So DNA evidence is often presented to juries
- 44:13as the gold standard of criminal proof. Alexis,
- 44:17Alexis being a male, Alexis Rodriguez says New
- 44:21York City scientists manufactured that gold.
- 44:24Rodriguez now 42 has filed a federal lawsuit
- 44:27against the city and two forensic analysts alleging
- 44:30they manipulated DNA evidence that led to his
- 44:332014 conviction for attempted rape, attempted
- 44:36kidnapping and weapons possessions. Um, the victim
- 44:40had not identified rodriguez in a lineup She
- 44:43described her attacker as approximately five
- 44:46foot five while rodriguez stands at more than
- 44:49six feet tall The dna analysis was the only evidence
- 44:52connecting him to the 2010 2010 attack So, okay,
- 44:58that was there's a four -year gap according to
- 45:00the lawsuit analyst it takes a while According
- 45:05to the lawsuit, analysts used a sample that was
- 45:08too small and complex to produce a reliable profile.
- 45:12Rodriguez claims they altered their interpretation
- 45:15to make the attacker's DNA resemble his profile,
- 45:20which had previously been entered into a state
- 45:23database. The jury convicted him. A judge sentenced
- 45:26him to 15 years. Rodriguez served seven and a
- 45:29half before his conviction was vacated in 2021
- 45:32because his trial attorney had failed to consult
- 45:36an independent DNA expert. An appeals court upheld
- 45:40that decision and prosecutors dismissed the case
- 45:43in 2023. The lawsuit arrives years after a state
- 45:48inspector general found troubling errors within
- 45:50the medical examiner's lab, including suppressed
- 45:54disagreements among the analysts, subjective
- 45:57interpretations presented as scientific findings.
- 46:00One analyst named in Rodriguez's suit resigned
- 46:04after investigators found she had violated lab
- 46:07protocols. The medical examiner's office denies
- 46:10allegations and says it followed accepted forensic
- 46:14practices. Rodriguez's lawsuit still must prove
- 46:17deliberate fabrication, but his case exposes
- 46:21an uncomfortable reality. DNA does not testify
- 46:24in court. Analysts do. And when jurors hear science,
- 46:28they rarely expect the evidence itself. may have
- 46:31been edited to fit the suspect. And that's precisely
- 46:35at people when they hear science, they see you
- 46:37a white lab coat. Oh, we got to trust you. Right.
- 46:40I mean, maybe maybe that's been shaken since
- 46:42like, since COVID. The trust in people in the
- 46:46white lab coats, like where there's a little
- 46:47more skepticism, I think, when people talk nowadays,
- 46:50like from a white lab coat from their ivory towers.
- 46:54But this like, yeah, this is really shitty. Mr.
- 46:57Rodriguez, like he deserves to win that. mean
- 47:01a guy that's my if the raper alleged raper is
- 47:06rapist is my size like five five five foot six
- 47:10and Rodriguez is over six feet tall I mean that
- 47:13alone come on like and the and the woman the
- 47:17victim couldn't I didn't didn't identify him
- 47:20no so no I mean the woman did not identify him.
- 47:26Look, I mean, it's very disturbing, right? Because
- 47:28it's just like you said, Manila. I mean, you
- 47:30know, if I'm on a jury, I'm skeptical of the
- 47:32prosecution in general. I don't believe necessarily
- 47:35what they have to say. But, you know, when you
- 47:37hear DNA evidence, it's like, come on. I mean,
- 47:40first of all, you know, the jury, the jurors
- 47:42don't really understand it. The fact that they
- 47:45didn't understand it in its infancy is part of
- 47:47the reason why OJ walked. and but now they do
- 47:50and they sort of we've gone from one extreme
- 47:52to the other where they take it for you know
- 47:55we just sort of assume like well the dna matched
- 47:57that means that's the dude right i mean if his
- 48:00bodily fluid was found uh you know on this woman
- 48:03then obviously that's him and if they're making
- 48:07shit up like this i mean how many to me this
- 48:11completely throws into question all DNA evidence
- 48:15everywhere. I'm never going to believe it at
- 48:18face value ever again because of like hijinks
- 48:21at the lab, right? It's like, yeah, I mean, it's
- 48:24absolutely disgusting. And like Papantonio often
- 48:28called these scientists, he calls them biostitutes.
- 48:32And a lot of that's that's good. I mean, a lot
- 48:35of these a lot of these, you know, things that
- 48:37we like we now know that, for example, fingerprints
- 48:40are not unique. We thought they were they're
- 48:42not um, you know, they're not unique -ish Yeah,
- 48:46yeah, they're on you. They're ish, but you definitely
- 48:49there are people with identical Um, you know
- 48:51in the in your state there are people have the
- 48:53same exact fingerprints. Do you do? Um, so you
- 48:57know, it's a useful thing Um in it's a good investigatory
- 49:01tool, but I don't know that I would want to send
- 49:04someone to prison and convict them, right? Uh
- 49:07based on this evidence on that i'd need more
- 49:09You know, yeah and sir bites a lot. Thank you
- 49:12for the donation He's talking about the the last
- 49:14topic of football ken ken bern said it best about
- 49:17football It's an all -american game. It's filled
- 49:20with short spurts of violence With long committee
- 49:24meetings. It's more dangerous than rugby which
- 49:27has less injuries And walker says oj walked because
- 49:32the fbi crime lab was constantly faking evidence
- 49:35and got caught Yes Well, also the jury didn't
- 49:39really understand DNA, but yeah. Right, that
- 49:42was the early, it was the 90s. And there was
- 49:44the whole Mark Fuhrman thing. Anyway, let's keep
- 49:46moving on. We only have two minutes left. We
- 49:47didn't know. We didn't know. No, we didn't know.
- 49:49I gotta hit the draws. Vegas has apparently found
- 49:55a new way to make things disappear, the hotel
- 49:58itself. Utah resident Ariana Patino booked a
- 50:01weekend away at something called Palette Las
- 50:03Vegas through booking .com. She... avoided the
- 50:07Oyo Hotel and Casino because it had shitty reviews.
- 50:10When the two sisters arrived, however, Pallet
- 50:13was nowhere to be found. They spent 45 minutes
- 50:15driving around Vegas and then finally they decided
- 50:19to go next door to the Oyo and they recognized
- 50:22the same registration desk that's in the picture
- 50:25for so -called Pallet Las Vegas. She said, she
- 50:29told ABC News that an employee confirmed the
- 50:31two properties are the same, explaining that
- 50:34different listings and ads had been posted to
- 50:36determine which attracted more customers. OYO
- 50:40said it had been considering whether different
- 50:42room blocks could operate under separate brands.
- 50:46Uh -huh. But the palette listing accidentally
- 50:49went live before renovations and signage were
- 50:51completed. So... The hotel, the new hotel, was
- 50:55open for reservations before it existed. Patino
- 50:58filed complaints with Bookings .com, her bank,
- 51:01and the Better Business Bureau. Following an
- 51:04internal investigation, Booking .com kicked Pallette
- 51:06Vegas out and began processing her refund. So
- 51:11this was pretty crazy. I didn't know this would
- 51:15happen. I mean, I've heard of some pretty shitty
- 51:17things happening. That is shady AF. It is shady
- 51:22AF. How is that legal at all? It's fraud. Absolutely.
- 51:29I'm glad Booking refunded her though. Yeah, they
- 51:32did the right thing. They did the right thing.
- 51:35However, this hotel and many of, I mean, I'm
- 51:39that scary to think. I mean, at least this is
- 51:42Utah to Las Vegas. Imagine if I went to Iceland.
- 51:46imagine if i went to iceland thinking i'm staying
- 51:48at like a brand that i recognized and wanted
- 51:51to stay at and i show up and it's like You're
- 51:54the brand that that is owned by the nazi like
- 51:59generational nazi owners not since the time yeah
- 52:01not since the time i arrived in almaty kazakhstan
- 52:04and uh i was coming to a hotel that was uh listed
- 52:08in lonely planet and found that it had been hit
- 52:11by uh rpg fire the night before Well, that's
- 52:17not their fault that's not really their fault.
- 52:19Yeah, they insurgency wasn't something that they
- 52:21planned for you Yeah, that's that's that's not
- 52:23their fault and they can't plan their marketing
- 52:25around RPGs. Obviously No, but this in this case
- 52:29that is shitty and they're like There's got to
- 52:33be laws around I mean, there's got to be right.
- 52:35I mean it seems to Comically asinine for there
- 52:39to not be Well, you know one of those things
- 52:43where they just didn't think That anybody could
- 52:45be such colossal assholes that they would do
- 52:49something like this, right? It's like the german
- 52:51guy who posted the ad saying hey come to my house
- 52:53and i'll kill you and eat you and right And people
- 52:56did and then germany had to pass a law to like
- 52:59make it illegal to do that, right? It's like
- 53:02oh shit, even in germany. There are things we
- 53:04haven't thought of in terms of atrocities. Um,
- 53:07like you do How is it possible that a business
- 53:10can, I mean, this is literal bait and switch.
- 53:13Like I know companies rebrand all the time, like
- 53:16Blackwater, right? We still call it the historical
- 53:19name, Blackwater, but Eric Prince has renamed
- 53:21it five, six, seven different times, but it's
- 53:24still Eric Prince's Blackwater. It's still Blackwater.
- 53:29It's still the same owner, the same company that
- 53:32committed all those atrocities in Iraq. Like
- 53:35you're still Blackwater. I don't care what you
- 53:37you can call you can rename yourself like, you
- 53:40know purple rainbow hearts and love federation
- 53:44But you're still black water and slaughtered
- 53:47whole villages of innocent people in iraq like
- 53:50yeah You're still the same thing but that's different
- 53:52because you've renamed your whole thing. It's
- 53:53not like you have two different This is more
- 53:56like this is more like catfishing Where it's
- 53:59like, you know, it's sort of like adding putting
- 54:03the filter you're putting the filter on right
- 54:05like I like oh I'm 29 years old and I'm and I'm
- 54:08ripped and I have a six -pack and I'm a millionaire
- 54:11and I have my own hedge fund and Like my cat
- 54:14is an internet star. Well that part's true And
- 54:18so sort of like, you know, this is it the oil
- 54:21hotel put on a filter and was like corporate
- 54:23It's we're awesome. We're palette. I go by palette
- 54:27now Everyone loved everyone loves to stay at
- 54:30palette Vegas. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah identifies
- 54:32us palette Right and was like hey, baby come
- 54:37stay here I gotta go 1059. We gotta go. So there
- 54:45you go. Happy Friday everybody. Have a good weekend.
- 54:49Stay tuned We're going straight live. I guess
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- 54:56America with Scott Stantis. All right. Adios
- 54:59amigos. Say hi to Stantis. I will have a good
- 55:01weekend. Bye. Bye.