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DOGE vs. America’s Weather System, Jill Stein in Court and California Residents Fight Back | TMI Ep 445 · The TMI Show with Ted Rall and Manila Chan

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Welcome to the TMI show. I am Manila Chan. That
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is not Ted Raul. That's producer Robbie. Ted
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is taking a long potty break this morning in
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between the program and TMI. So that's that is
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the TMI. Well, he's happy because he had those
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skin tags and he's got them removed. So he's
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celebrating. It's a liberating experience. Yeah.
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There's dad. Robbie's right. Oh, my God. It's
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like a different thing, man. I want to retire
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the expression, don't give a shit, because I
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always want to give a shit now. It's like the
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best thing. It's like your butt feels liberated.
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Everybody, you know, like I'm sort of granted
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an F level celebrity, but I kind of think I could,
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I could, I could become an advocate for anal
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skin tag surgery. You know, like I could do,
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I would do ads for the American skin tag surgical
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removal organization. There's gotta be a lobby
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group, Ted. We got to find them for you here
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in DC. Yeah. I mean, you know, I know I would
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get like, $75 a week to work for them. But I
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would be, you know, it's like not a pack. It's
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not a well paid lobby. You might be able to get
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like free toilet paper every month or something.
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True, true, true. Worth it. Things are getting
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expensive though. You'll be jealous of me. That
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is, no, because I have the, the pot, the booty
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sprayers on the toilet seat. Yeah, but the thing
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is, if you have skin tags, even when you have
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the, you know, the sprozzer, it's not quite the
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same. Does it help? Oh, the skin tags are in
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the way, man. Oh, oh, oh. So, well, I'm saying
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like the cleaning portion. Wouldn't the cleaning
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portion have it using the water be better if
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you still retained the skin tag? Sure. But it's
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a workaround. The truth is, nothing really substitutes
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for having hot plasma shot into your anus while
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you're on your hands and knees in the supplicant
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position, because that's how you do it. Like,
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I don't know if I explained this. I had to drop
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trowel. And then, you know, like, so you know,
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there's the examinee, you know how they're what
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an examining table looks like. And, you know,
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there's the proctologist. Well, at anywhere,
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you know how there's the stool and then there's
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like the little stool and you step up and then
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normally you're sitting there facing at the edge
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that they waiting for them to come in. Right.
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And worrying about how much of it's not going
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to be covered by health insurance. So anyway,
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this in this case, you turn around, you face
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it, you get you have to be Your your anus exposed
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you have you're on all fours you you're on all
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fours you sprawl yourself out Your arms forward
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onto the thing and then I didn't know they could
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do this. They can tilt it So maybe that's only
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at the ass doctor, but they can tilt it forward
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and suddenly you're like whoop your ass is up
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in the air like Like you're Donald Trump who
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is right behind you No, all the beds, all the
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beds can do that. So they're all motorized. So
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you can, so you can lower the head or raise the
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legs. Right. So that's great. You can get it
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removed anywhere at the dentist, wherever. I
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mean, it's kind of practice for tax time, honestly.
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They'll come April. Don't you have to be licensed
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for those like specific procedures, Ted? I don't
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think, right, Robbie, I don't think a dentist
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can do this for you. I gotta tell you, honestly.
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Robbie will volunteer. It's fine. I've got you.
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Much less I got this Yeah, I think Ted's What
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is that the razor exacto blade exacto exacto
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knife? There you go. I think Ted's is a little
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gentle. I have skin I've skinned many a critter
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with this If you guys don't know I know what
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they did I could totally do the same thing It's
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not a big deal. They literally just shoot some
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Nova keen in there And then, like, when you don't
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feel it anymore, then... No! Most of us don't
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know. Well, this would be the TMI show, so...
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Yeah, they snip it. That's it. And then what
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they do is... Then you bleed a lot. They put
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a lot of paper in there. And then they tape your
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ass cheeks together. Set it on your merry way.
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Really, if you want to know, basically they have
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this little tool. It looks almost like a screwdriver
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without a head. And so you get in there and it
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has a blade. And so you go in. and then it'll
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close. Oh, so it has like a zipper inside? Yeah,
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so you actually go in, you actually cut out the
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core of whatever it is, or the abscess, whatever,
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and then you pack it with gauze and then you
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tape it. Oh. That's great. Robbie knows all this
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weird medical stuff because of his years at the
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hospital. Well, I've done it before. Oh my God.
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Oh my God. Why? Why? Well, in my situation, because
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we're working in Baptist Hospital in Pensacola,
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we're friends with the doctor. He's just an awesome
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guy. I've done a cardiac massage on people before.
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He's awesome. So anyway, we're just slamming
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this one day. He's like, Robbie, you hunt, right?
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He's like, yes, sir. So blood doesn't bother
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you, not one bit. Okay, perfect. So he showed
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me how to do it. So, okay, I need you to do these.
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These are all those abscesses. You'll pack them,
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put tape over it, and then just leave the chart
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here on the table. I'll sign off on it. Like
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done It's not hard. Yeah, it's not there's not
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there's really no medical I'm sure I could do
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You don't need clinical transplant you don't
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need clinical time would be hard Maybe that maybe
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that but but outside of that some other basic
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stuff There you go. All right. So if you guys
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don't know, this is obviously the TMI show and
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we give you a lot of TMI. Manila Chan, producer
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Robbie, Ted Rall right there. We got a lot of
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stories to get to, but real quick before we jump
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into the stories. So Ted, you saw that long time
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drummer for ZZ Top, Frank Beard, dead. All the
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jokes about how he was the one without the beard.
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Yeah. I know. I know. But that leaves one top
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left. One of the top. Oh, is that true? There's
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only one. Yeah, there's the one with the biggest
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beard. He's the one that's still alive. And is
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that is that correlation or causation? What's
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your favorite ZZ Top song? For me, it's got to
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be Legs. Lagrange. She's got legs and she knows
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how to use them. That's a great song. Lagrange.
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Yeah. Lagrange. Lagrange. Robbie's like, who's
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ZZ Top? I know who they are, but I don't know
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any of their music. So just couldn't. Oh, it's
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so good. So I mean. Yeah, they're great. Yeah,
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I mean, they're they're great. Like they're like
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an Americana rock band, like but they're from
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Texas. And I would argue the genre definitely
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has a glam influence, you know, a little bit
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of glam, a little bit of country. I mean, they're
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they're really American, like really American.
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They're like that's the only way I can describe
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it is like this is this is definitely an American
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rock band. Like there's nobody else out there
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like them like. So it's very sad one out of only
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one out of three tops left But what the fuck
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is wrong with our culture like, you know, like
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if we brought up ZZ top 15 years ago people you'd
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be like, whatever Yeah, it's only when they start
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when you start to kick that they pay attention.
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I know Music lovers like you and me Ted like
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we we know like you know, I was so sad died like
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Tina Turner or like Prince like people have no
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idea how how, no pun intended, instrumental Prince
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is, or even still was or is currently still,
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to present day pop culture and music as we know
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it. He's written so many songs. Do you think
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that's true? You think that the Ziers don't know
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about him? I mean, I don't know the answer. The
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Zoomers? The Zoom kids? Yeah. Thomas is the only
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one in his generation that I know of who knows
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of Charlie Pride, which is just a... a tragedy.
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But he's doing his part. He's been introducing
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people to Charlie Pride. Hmm. Well, I mean, ZZ
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Top, that was like, if you want a sense of like
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national pride or whatever, like there are certain
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American bands that you just have to like give
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respect to. And that's one of them. And like,
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you know, there's some of the actors. Are you
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kidding? That's one of the things we're really.
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Maybe says that Zappa. Yep. Yep. Is music. The
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Charlie Daniels band. Yeah. Thank you for the
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donation, maybe. Yeah, there's... There are some
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just American... Dolly Parton, for example, like
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just super... Dolly Parton's overrated. How can
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you not love Dolly? Everybody loves Dolly Parton.
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She's adorable. Not everybody. Not everybody.
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She's adorable. Wait, do you like any female
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country singers? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. No, for
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sure. Gosh, what the hell... having a brain fart.
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Now you should put me on the spark. Now I'm having
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a brain fart. I need more coffee. Well, anyway,
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I didn't want to stray off too far. Tanya Tucker.
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She's one, if I'm getting the name right. She's
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great. Yeah. I mean, she's definitely one. I'm
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having a blue shirt. When Stevie Nicks goes,
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I'm going to be super sad. Well, yeah, she's
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not country, but she's great. No, I'm just saying
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as far as American music. Oh, yeah, when Christy
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Hind goes, it's going to be a fucking national
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tragedy. I'm going to be so sad when Stevie Nicks
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goes. But there you go. I would say arguably.
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Ted, do you agree? Arguably? The 70s were probably
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the best era for rock music. You know, that's
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I'm going to say, yeah, you're probably right.
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But the thing is, there's a lot of spillover,
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right? Because when you talk about the 60s, you
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have to include garage rock and proto punk, like
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the Stooges and, question mark, the Mysterians
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and and 13th floor elevators and all that stuff.
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You've also got to include all the cool psychedelic
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shit like early Pink Floyd and, you know. Loretta
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Lynn. In general. Loretta Lynn, that's what I
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was thinking of. But the 70s were like the perfect
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culmination of like the inspo from the 60s. Yeah.
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So in general, I would say - If you have to throw
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a dart at something, because that's when punk,
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new wave, glam - Yeah. If I had to pick like
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a decade of music that I could only listen to
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that decade of music, I would pick the 70s. But
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the 80s are so fucking great too. Oh, I love
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the 80s, but I would pick the 70s. It's the glistening
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pop song, you know. I think that's when people
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got to know ZZ Top really was not even when they
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formed in the 70s. It was in the early 80s because
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their music was often used in movies. I think
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the top. Yeah, yeah. So what was your favorite
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Tonya Turner song? I don't know. I don't I didn't
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follow country that much. I mean, obviously she's
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a great. great singer. But I don't know any songs
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off the top of my head. I'm not good at song
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names anyway. I know bands. You're having your
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bluescreen moment? No, I've never been good at
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remembering titles. Like ever. I would say for
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me, it's got to be Love Me Like You Used To.
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I know them if I hear them. That's it. For me,
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and this song had just really kind of haunted
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me when I was a kid. What's Your Mama's Name?
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And so based on the premise of that song was
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that this guy, he walks up to this little girl.
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And he asked her, no, no, what's your mama's
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name? Never mentioned a guy named Buford Wilson
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down in New Orleans gave her some candy. If she
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would tell him long story short, he got arrested.
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And when he, and he was put in prison all of
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his life. When he died, they found this letter
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said, uh, you have a daughter. She has green
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eyes. And so that's basically the premise of
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the story, of the song, is that he was trying
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to find his daughter. And he got snatched up
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by the cops and died in prison for it. He was
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just trying to find his little girl. Country
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music, I always found to be like, woe is me.
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Someone shot my dog. Someone shot my dog and
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I'm drunk. Like that's basically... Yeah, my
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wife left me but I had it coming. Yeah, Peter.
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Thank you for the donation Peter says but the
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70s also included disco and prog prog rock on
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the negative side Well, that's a progressive
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rock progressive rock progressive I I like bands
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like Journey. Okay, and I like ABBA first of
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all, that's 80s. But yeah, the 80s are not 70s
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at all I think they started journey 70s Didn't
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they start in the late 70s, like 78? I guess
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it's 70s, but. Yeah, it would be 70s. I thought
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they peaked out chart wise in the early 80s.
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I could be wrong about that. I mean, you know.
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I like it. OK. They're not. I mean, they're not
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that they're not that bad, but they're certainly
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not good. And I and I and I do like disco. I'm
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not not all of it, but I do. I do like I like
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I like disco. Yeah, there are a lot. There's
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a lot of disco I like. So yeah, I had to pick
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an era at seventies. Ted, I know that you've
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heard Delta Dawn. Yeah, of course. Uh, I have,
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yeah. But probably my, probably my favorite country
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group is Alabama. They're just so, they just,
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all their songs was this always told a story,
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which is awesome. I do like story songs. I'm
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also very partial to a genre of music that doesn't
15:05
get enough attention, which is sort of like the
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British male singer -songwriter types like Nick
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Lowe, Dave Edmonds, Mickey Jupp, Elvis Costello,
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the Bringsley Shorts, Graham Parker, those people.
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We're talking American classic bands, and they
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are dying off, and now we're stuck with like
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K -pop bands. Well, everything's hip -hop. Everything's
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rap now, right? Everything. That's all. Pop.
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No, not rap. Rock is dead. Everything is hip
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-hop or rap, yeah. I don't know. Is rock dead?
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I don't know. I mean, country seems to be having
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a survival. It's off the charts. Revival. Yeah,
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I guess so. I guess no big rock band has come
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up as of recent. Like, everything's like K -pop.
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Yeah, I mean, they cannot. Like, a group like...
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Like say the strokes, you know, you know, they
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can have like a little they can have a little
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bit of a career but they can't they really you
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know, white people will show up to listen to
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them, but Older white people but they will not
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You can't fill stadiums the way that like, you
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know, I can't I can't a big big big American
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rock band anymore like Cody Johnson's doing a
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good job bringing old school country back Because
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they started saying is Peter. Thank you again
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for the donation Peter says Richard Thompson
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and Al Stewart on the British side British the
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year of the cat I Love I love British song British
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bands, but we're talking Americana and and Robbie
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you would like You would like ZZ Top. They're
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not like Ozzy Osbourne. I like that. They're
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not It's great, just great fun American rock
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music. It's true, it's like, yeah, it is. I mean,
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I've heard them, like, no Sharp Dress band, some
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of the other ones like that. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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I've heard them. It's just fun American rock.
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I mean, it's just not bad. They're not harmful.
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They don't say anything nasty or they're perfect.
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They don't talk about anything salacious. They're
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just a fun Americana. But who cares? Yeah, nothing
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profound. They're just fun. They're a fun American
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rock band. But if I'm going to go with anyone,
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for me there is Johnny Cash and then there's
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all others. Yeah, if I had to pick, you know,
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they're all dead. All these great musicians,
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all dead. Like I said, now music henceforth is
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K -pop where boys look like girls. And also the
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music all sounds the same. I mean, I don't care
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how people dress and shit like that. I mean,
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for me, music isn't about like, I know that's
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all important, but I don't care. Like David Bowie
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and all his outfits for me, it's about it's about
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what it sounds like. Oh, yeah, Ziggy was, I mean,
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him dressed as Ziggy Stardust is amazing. It's
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amazing, but I don't care about it. Man Child
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says, check out Ghost. Is that a newer American
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rock band? I don't know. I feel like that used
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to be one of our greatest exports was like our
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film and culture. Oh, for sure. Yeah. we are
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well and truly fucked. We've lost! Because it
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was literally the thing that... That was the
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thing! We wiped the floor with every other country.
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I used to collect, when I traveled, cassettes,
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because most music was just disseminated by cassette
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in the developing world, like music from all
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around the world. It was all like basically ripped
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off from the United States and there would be
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like I have I have cassettes of Burmese rockabilly
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And tie death metal and all sorts of weird awesome
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and like every now and then I'll put this stuff
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on just because it's weird and It's like now.
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There's nothing to rip off anymore. I mean no
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I know ripping us off anymore So that's telling
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that is really telling suck now We suck now.
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Hollywood sucks. They're remaking all of these
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old shows and movies. They're bringing back a
19:05
different world. Do you remember that from the
19:06
80s, Ted? Oh, yeah. Of course. I never saw it,
19:10
but I know what it is. It was a spinoff from
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the Cosby show where the Cosby's eldest daughter
19:16
goes off to college. It's her spinoff show. It's
19:20
basically about an HBCU that she goes to. called
19:24
Hillman college. They're freaking bringing that
19:27
back. Like, dude, you guys haven't like, no one's
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going to copy that. Ted. Let's just say that.
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No, no, no one's going to copy that. No, I'm
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making, I have to say Waylon Jennings is probably
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my all time favorite. And Johnny and Johnny cash
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is a close second, but those are people that
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people emulate. I'm saying Now, the U .S. export
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- Also, Johnny Cash had such a long career. He
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had like two or three comebacks. We don't have
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exports like that anymore because all we work
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on now is like selling bombs. That's what - Apparently,
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we're not good at that anymore. What are we good
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for, really? What are we good for? What album
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was that? No, that's a song. War. What is it
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good for? Whenever we have a big musician like
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this that dies, I think about, gosh, that really
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is like we're trickling down to the end of an
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era. The American cultural era is coming to a
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close. That's how I look at it. It's fucking
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pathetic. Isn't it sad? We blow. It's really
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sad. Elvis, everybody, you can find an Elvis
20:44
impersonator in every freaking country of the
20:46
world, everywhere. That's an American thing Who
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is Elvis? Yeah, who's who is who is the new Elvis
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that everybody else in the world is emulating
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a Michael Jackson Who is emulating a mic like
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there is no we have no more Michael Jackson.
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We have no more Elvis We're not our culture isn't
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producing these Breakout revolutionary type stars
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anymore. Music genres. We just, we don't, God,
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what are we exporting now? Seriously. Now that
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I think of it, I'm like, God, this is so sad.
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Bombs and Zionism. That's how we're exporting.
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I guess. Like I've been starting to listen to
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Kazakh and Chinese music. I can't understand
21:28
a word of what they're saying. Like not a word.
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Like classical stuff or more modern stuff? Just,
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I just pull something up over on Apple and just
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click on something that sounds good. I have no
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idea. What musical? I mean, it could be talking
21:42
about eating, you know, eating your dog. I have
21:44
no idea. Eating the dog. Well, there you go.
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All right, let's get to the stories. But there
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you go. Sorry for weird Wednesday. Weird, weird,
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weird Wednesday. But that's something to think
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about, you know, when a cultural icon like ZZ
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Top, one of the three ZZs is left. You got to
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really think like what... People I mean people
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emulated them to with the big beards and but
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we don't have that Are you kidding all the hipster
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guys? They do Ted I think you're out of touch
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with what the hipsters were trying to look like
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they're trying to look like ZZ top not necessarily
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that long cuz it that is a lot that is Those
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guys are trying to look like they're in like
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the 18th century no, they're trying to look Lumberjack
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ease easy top ish cuz you're you're you still
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want to look rock and roll, right? but you still
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you want to look like a lumberjack so you're
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wearing the the Flannels, right? But then you're
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trying to grow the beard because easy top made
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it cool and and or like the weird long mustache
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Right. That's like as Frank Zappa look So, you
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know, that's music icons kind of shape fashion
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oftentimes so Think that's that's the end of
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it for America. We're just shipping bombs and
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We're not even able to ship bombs anymore. We're
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all out. We're all out We I'm telling you we
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blow Okay, somebody tell us in the chat what
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you I don't know what America makes anymore if
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we're not making movies and we're not making
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We're not making music We're we're slow on bomb
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making What I thought that was our number one
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export was bombs Somebody please tell me. We're
23:35
not even number one in the world in Brazilian
23:38
butt lifts. Are we not? Is that Brazil? Have
23:41
they beaten us up? No, Turkey is the new hotspot
23:46
for all of this stuff. We're probably still number
23:48
one in porn. No. I hope so. No, no, I don't think
23:52
so. No, no, no. I think it's like Ukraine or
23:55
like some other Eastern Slavic -ish European
23:57
country. Yeah, Ukraine is actually big on porn,
24:01
yeah. Ukraine is huge on on porn and Renting
24:06
out the womb You know womb for rent. You know
24:10
what I'm saying? So somebody please tell me Well,
24:13
that's true. Somebody tell me in the chat what
24:17
you guys think America's Thing is now because
24:21
it ain't any of the things I rattled off. So
24:24
ho hum. Happy Wednesday All right Here is the
24:32
planned story. So Doge has apparently broken
24:36
America's weather machine. Now we're all going
24:40
to pay the bill. So for decades, Americans have
24:43
been getting one of the government's more remarkable
24:47
services essentially for free, an enormous nationwide
24:51
environmental intelligence network, constantly
24:53
telling us what the atmosphere, the oceans, the
24:56
rivers, and the climate is doing. Most people
24:58
call it weather. But NOAA, N -O -A -A, NOAA,
25:02
the National Weather Service are considerably
25:05
more important than the little rain cloud icon
25:08
on your iPhone. Commercial fishermen use NOAA,
25:12
use their data to determine whether it's safe
25:14
to leave port. Farmers rely on it to decide when
25:18
to plant and harvest. Airlines use forecasts
25:21
to route flights around dangerous weather. Utilities
25:24
use it to protect power grids. Emergency managers
25:27
use it to prepare for hurricanes, floods, wildfires.
25:30
You guys get the point here. Insurance companies,
25:33
they use it to calculate how badly Mother Nature
25:36
might be preparing to give us a beat down. So
25:40
according to Forbes, that enormous system is
25:43
now beginning to fray after Elon Musk's Department
25:46
of Government Efficiency, known as DOGE, targeted
25:49
NOAA for staffing budget reductions beginning
25:52
last year. The breakdown isn't necessarily dramatic.
25:57
There isn't one giant switch somewhere marked
25:59
America Weather Machine that suddenly got turned
26:02
off. Instead, Forbes is saying that it Was getting
26:06
dismantled like little by little piece by piece
26:08
in inactive weather station here a missing weather
26:12
balloon there outdated map there disappearing
26:15
climate websites over here and fewer experienced
26:19
scientists maintaining and interpreting the data.
26:22
Now that matters because weather affects as much
26:24
as 6 % of the entire U .S. economy, roughly $1
26:28
.34 trillion annually. And this was not exactly
26:32
an expensive government boondoggle. The National
26:35
Weather Service estimated in 2024 that every
26:38
taxpayer dollar spent on the agency generated
26:42
$73 in economic value. So hear that again. every
26:47
dollar from taxpayer dollars that went towards
26:51
like the Weather Service generated $73 in economic
26:56
value in some sort of return on investment. That's
26:59
probably the best return on investment the government
27:01
has made in the past, you know, 50 or 70 years.
27:05
Meanwhile, hundreds of experienced NOAA employees
27:09
reportedly took early retirement last year, representing
27:12
what Forbes calculates as the equivalent of roughly
27:16
27 ,000 years of accumulated expertise. So all
27:21
the scientists and everyone that left, it accumulated
27:24
to 27 ,000 years of... expertise. And the Trump
27:29
administration is now seeking additional NOAA
27:32
budget reductions by at least 25 % more, which
27:36
introduces an interesting wrinkle to the whole
27:39
government efficiency experiment because businesses
27:41
still need weather data. Insurance companies
27:44
still need catastrophe models. Farmers still
27:46
need forecasts. Engineers still need environmental
27:49
measures. Cities still need storm warnings. If
27:52
the government stops collecting that information,
27:55
somebody will eventually have to recreate it.
27:57
Probably private companies. And unlike NOAA,
28:01
they generally don't work for free. So taxpayers
28:04
may indeed spend less maintaining America's public
28:07
weather infrastructure. They may simply wind
28:09
up paying for it somewhere else through insurance
28:13
premiums, food prices, utility bills, airline
28:16
costs, more subscription services, because yay,
28:19
we just need more a la carte services to pay
28:21
for. Turns out the weather does have a cover
28:25
charge, Ted. So we take for granted all of the
28:30
times we look at our phone to be like, oh, the
28:33
weather app, let me see what's going on, right?
28:35
And we really don't think about All of the science
28:38
that goes behind that stupid little app on our
28:41
phone and how much this plays into not only our
28:44
our own little like shitty little lives but For
28:49
all of us collectively it changes the world that
28:52
we live in if we cannot if these things fall
28:56
apart It can truly effectively change life as
29:01
we know it and that's terrifying to think that
29:04
like I mean, look, the Farmer's Almanac, is it
29:08
in its last year or did it just die? I forget.
29:11
We talked about it. I think it was the last year.
29:16
2025 was the last year that it was published.
29:18
How sad. So, like, there's just not... You know,
29:22
in a time where weather catastrophes are increasing,
29:27
I think it's ironic that... We're decreasing
29:31
our scientific investment and tax dollar investment
29:34
into this right where you're seeing a lot of
29:37
climate refugees You're seeing I mean literally
29:40
war for water. You're seeing like When all of
29:44
this is happening, we're cutting Noah by another
29:47
25 % I think that's fucking bat shit crazy Well,
29:53
yeah, I mean it's incredibly stupid I mean I
29:57
can't believe we even have to have the conversation
29:59
to justify why people need to know about weather.
30:04
Farmers alone, we can just stop right there.
30:07
Farmers need to know the weather. The thing is,
30:13
farmers are incredibly sophisticated people for
30:15
people who don't know any or haven't been on
30:18
a farm. I mean, farmers are meteorologists. They
30:21
are hedge fund traders. They are futures market
30:25
experts. They are business experts. I mean, they
30:32
are, of course, agronomists. I mean, farmers
30:34
are, in order to be profitable, they have to
30:38
be very smart about a lot of things that could,
30:42
any one of which could be a full time career.
30:46
But yeah, I mean, Yeah, we need we as Americans
30:50
need to know the fucking weather. And it's we
30:54
as a society comprehension. And what really worries
30:57
me here is if Democrats ever get back into power,
31:01
which who knows, but if they do, you know, they're
31:04
not going to put they're not going to like rehire
31:06
everyone. They're not going to say like, oh,
31:08
they're not going to fix it. This once something
31:11
gets broken like this in government, it stays
31:13
broken. You know, that's the problem. That's
31:16
right. It's like, well, that's always the running
31:20
joke about like anything government run, right?
31:23
Like you can put in a help ticket and you'll
31:25
be there for the next 20 years. Like they say
31:31
about the cops, when seconds count, the cops
31:34
are there in minutes. That's right. And Peter,
31:38
thank you for the donation again. Peter says,
31:41
I drive a tour boat. We rely on the predictions
31:44
of NOAA. They've been getting worse. They've
31:46
been getting worse for the past two years. A
31:49
few weeks ago, they predicted 10 % chance of
31:52
rain in about 75 minutes. It rained hard. So,
31:57
I mean, that's going to impact some businesses.
32:00
My favorite is AccuWeather, my favorite app.
32:02
And it used to be like two years ago, three years
32:05
ago, four years ago, it was eerie how accurate
32:08
it was. Like no matter where you were, it would
32:10
say like rain beginning in seven minutes. And
32:13
you're like, come on. And it would. And like
32:16
a rain ending in 22 minutes. And you're like,
32:20
and it happened. Come on. Yeah. Yeah. Terrifying.
32:24
That's just not true anymore, though. The way
32:27
the article outlined it, you know, this is and
32:30
this is from Forbes is that You don't think about
32:34
it piece by piece of how this whole weather infrastructure
32:37
we have, right? It's a whole thing, right? We
32:41
don't think about it as like, you know, like
32:44
that there's a whole chain. I know, I know, but
32:46
when you really think about it, then you're like,
32:49
holy shit, there's a lot of stuff involved to
32:51
get me this one app on my phone to tell me if
32:54
it's sunny outside, to see if I can go for a
32:56
hike, right? There's a whole lot of people involved.
33:00
and a whole lot more people that it impacts.
33:03
And it's so disheartening to me that we are we
33:10
seem to be straying away from science into I
33:14
don't know what I don't know what we're moving
33:16
towards. I can't even say, oh, we're redirecting
33:20
this money towards. I don't know, because I don't
33:22
know. I really don't know where. So we're cut.
33:25
Are we cutting just for the sake of cutting or?
33:28
Yeah, basically, that's what happened. And the
33:30
thing is, it's not like we're even seeing a reduction
33:35
in the national debt, right? What was this all
33:37
supposed to be about, right? Doge was all supposed
33:39
to be like, we're gonna cut government spending
33:43
and live within our means. I mean, the Trump
33:46
administration's like all of its predecessors,
33:49
with the exception of Bill Clinton, is deficit
33:51
spending like a drunken sailor and cutting taxes
33:55
to the rich and corporations. The point is, The
33:58
U .S. government is broke. We are still spending
34:01
so much money. So what is the point of all of
34:05
these cuts when you're not even ending up with
34:08
in a better, you know, you're not even more solvent
34:10
as a result. There's nothing to show for it.
34:12
There's nothing to show for it. It's like we
34:14
cut a bunch of shit for no reason. Yeah. And
34:17
Man Child, Man Child, thank you for the donation.
34:20
He says reality TV, social media and data centers.
34:24
That's those are what we're exporting. Well,
34:27
data centers, we're not exporting, are we? I
34:29
mean, can we say we're exporting? Because we're
34:31
building it here. We're just stealing up people's
34:34
homes, generational properties for data centers.
34:38
And then Kilroy for Prez says, Russian and Asian
34:43
porn stars are getting huge right now. American
34:46
porn is stagnant. Oh, and Blake says, Teddy man
34:52
milkers in the morning. Let's go. Thank you for
34:56
the $5, Blake. This is his retarded desire to
35:02
see my man boobs. How do you know Blake is a
35:05
man? No, he wants to see my man. I know I'm a
35:09
man. No, I'm saying Blake. How do you know Blake
35:12
is a man? You keep saying he wants to see it.
35:15
Blake sounds like a guy's name. No, because Blake
35:17
Lively is a girl. Blake could be a woman. You
35:24
don't know. True. I'm turning off my camera because
35:26
I have to blow my nose. OK. I'm going to remove
35:29
Ted. Oh, he's turning. OK. So there's that. Well,
35:32
Ted's also. Ted, you got to mute it. We can hear
35:34
the snot. No, I wanted you to hear the snot.
35:38
You just didn't want us to see the blow? Exactly.
35:40
We can hear the blow. That's right. It leads
35:43
more to the imagination. That's for Blake's $5.
35:48
You're like a regular Orson Welles, Ted. I will
35:53
blow no snot before it's time. Alright, next
35:56
topic. Former Green Party presidential candidate
36:03
Jill Stein briefly had an arrest warrant hanging
36:07
over her scrawny little neck this week, which
36:11
sounds considerably more dramatic than what actually
36:13
occurred. So, Jill? failed to show up Monday
36:17
for a hearing in court in St. Louis. This stemmed
36:20
from a 2024 incident where she was arrested while
36:24
attending a pro -Palestinian protest at Washington
36:26
University. She faces misdemeanor trespassing
36:30
and assault charges after the cop said that she
36:33
grabbed an officer's bicycle. I call bullshit
36:36
on that, and kicked another officer during the
36:39
confrontation. I call quadruple bullshit on that.
36:43
Stein has not been convicted of anything, nor
36:46
will she be, because those charges are ridiculous.
36:50
It's bullshit. So bullshit. By the way, the cops
36:52
use their bikes to attack protesters. Yeah, they
36:55
smash protesters with them. Yeah, when the cops
36:59
charge you like this, they're like, your face...
37:02
hurt my fist with your nose. It's like, you know,
37:08
the Simpsons episode where Lisa's like rotating
37:11
her arms and spinning towards Bart and she's
37:14
like, I'm not punching you, but if you walk into
37:17
my fist, you are walking into my fist. It's like
37:22
that. Judge Karma Jackson. Sadly, the story is
37:26
not about the naming of the judge, but Karma
37:29
Jackson issued a failure to appear warrant when
37:32
neither Stein nor her lawyer showed up. Then
37:36
Stein's lawyer did ultimately show up, asked
37:40
the judge to get rid of the warrant. The judge
37:43
said, sure, it is her karma not to have this
37:46
warrant. And now... Stein will appear September
37:50
14th. More than 100 people were arrested when
37:54
the cops cleared the protest in 2024, but she
37:57
was one of the only two people charged. The other
38:02
defendant's case vanished into the ether along
38:06
with our balanced national budget. after his
38:10
attorney challenged whether Washington University
38:12
officers legally qualified, these are campus
38:15
rental cops. Oh, campus cops. Yeah, campus cops,
38:19
whether they legally qualified as police officers
38:21
under Missouri law. Now, I should point out that
38:24
there's been several incidents, for example,
38:26
in Cincinnati where the University of Cincinnati
38:28
rental campus cops tried to arrest people for
38:32
running stop signs and shit in the city of Cincinnati.
38:36
So in the city, like in the city, like off campus.
38:40
They're playing cop. They're playing. Yeah, they're
38:42
like, they're like Bart. What's his name? Bart
38:44
Blat? Rent a cop, whatever his fucking name is.
38:47
Anyway. Anyway, so none of that Paul Blart mall
38:52
cop. Yeah, that's what they're trying to do.
38:55
Anyway. Stein is, of course, a 76 -year -old,
39:01
extremely civilized, thin, small, slight of body,
39:07
petite, and very chill doctor whose alleged criminal
39:12
rampage apparently involved a police bicycle
39:15
during a chaotic protest. But, yeah, personally,
39:19
I would like to see if there's any video evidence.
39:22
Yeah, of course, there's none. But, yes, I've
39:24
interviewed... This is a fucking... The state
39:25
of Missouri... She'd be fucking embarrassed.
39:28
The governor of the state of Missouri, whoever
39:30
the fuck he or she is, should just fucking make
39:32
a call and make this go away before it becomes
39:35
a laughing stock. Seriously, Dr. Stein, I love
39:39
her. Yeah, she's fantastic. She's 76. She's a
39:43
wonderful— Would have been a great president.
39:45
Would have. I supported her before in the past.
39:47
I've interviewed her many times. I know her a
39:50
little bit. She is literally the most nonviolent—
39:54
lovely, lovely, one of the most lovely human
39:57
beings I've ever been able to interview. Even
40:00
Scott Santus, right winger. The doctor. He loved
40:03
her when she came in to talk to the Chicago Tribune
40:05
editorial board and said she was fantastic. What's
40:08
not to love? She's so sweet and kind and smart.
40:13
And Ted, let me just highlight again. She's 76
40:17
years old. Yeah, and look at her. She's petite,
40:21
she's like my size. She probably weighs 110 pounds
40:24
dripping wet. Yeah, she's tiny! Like, cut the
40:27
shit, asshole. She's a tiny, 76 -year -old lady.
40:30
You're gonna fucking say she picked up your bike
40:33
and then kicked cops in the groin? Which, by
40:37
the way, if it's true... on the grounds of awesomeness,
40:42
she should be allowed to walk. Yes. If these
40:46
charges are true, I would give her points in
40:49
the other direction and be like, that's pretty
40:51
badass, Dr. Stein. Pretty badass. Don't let it
40:54
happen again. Wink, wink. Right. But do I actually
40:58
believe it happened? No. No. She's like, so...
41:01
The chances of this are, you know, look, it's
41:03
around here. Ted, why do you think she's only
41:05
one of two people charged during the Gaza protests?
41:08
Oh, obviously, because she was the most ferocious,
41:12
like love don't people don't see if she had shown
41:14
in the 20s. If she had shown during one of her
41:17
campaigns, super action, and I had left into
41:21
and gone into a power pose and beat the shit
41:24
out of like, like showed up at the debate stage
41:29
like, oh, yeah, then that would have been amazing.
41:32
Like then everyone would have been like, Oh,
41:33
my God, she's like, Uma Thurman and kill Bill.
41:37
She could personally defend the United States.
41:40
Her campaign could have been like, we will reduce
41:43
the defense budget by 99 % because we'll have
41:47
me. I will personally kick the ass of any Ruskies,
41:53
any Chinamen, any Canadians, they come across
41:56
that border. I will kick their ass. Right, she
42:00
like that is so not the Jill Stein that I've
42:03
interviewed So all of this so let's watch I hope
42:07
I Obviously, I think this is politically motivated
42:11
obviously Like just like come on the University
42:15
of Missouri should be fucking embarrassed Wash
42:19
you this is that wash you Oh, yeah, it's like
42:21
one of the best medicals at one of the best medical
42:24
schools in the in the country Although she went
42:26
to one a little little more recognizable, Ted.
42:29
Harvard? That medical school? Oh, I've heard
42:32
of that. Yeah. Yeah, I'm not sure maybe you have
42:34
heard of it. I don't know if some people have
42:36
heard of that, but that's where she has a double
42:38
degree from, an MD plus I think her undergrad.
42:41
Well, nice. So, you know, not a dumb lady. No.
42:47
Not a dumb lady. Although she should stop beating
42:49
up the police. Yeah. Dr. Stein, please come talk
42:52
to us. We'll take your side of the story anytime.
42:56
For sure. All right. All right. Back to my motherland
43:04
in Los Angeles, California in Venice. Residents
43:08
are hiring former gang members to do City Hall's
43:12
job. This one's for the homies. California has
43:16
spent years telling the rest of America that
43:19
its progressive approach to homelessness is more
43:21
compassionate, more enlightened, and naturally
43:24
more expensive. Venice residents may have finally
43:27
discovered the punchline according to Red State,
43:30
which is a right -wing publication. Frustrated
43:32
homeowners and business owners are now paying
43:35
at least 300 bucks a month each for private patrols
43:39
from a company called Ghost Town Consultants,
43:43
an unarmed company founded by Venice natives
43:47
Bobby Luna and Ricky Myers. The firm employs
43:51
former gang members and recovering addicts who
43:54
patrol properties and persuade homeless people
43:57
to move their encampments. So, yes, you're hearing
44:00
me correctly. Residents of one of America's wealthiest
44:04
states are hiring former gang bangers to maintain
44:09
public order because their local government cannot
44:13
manage it. One apartment owner described his
44:17
neighborhood as, quote, a war zone with tents
44:20
and fires and needles and open drug use. Calls
44:24
to government agencies reportedly produced little
44:27
relief. Los Angeles officials emphasize that
44:29
Ghost Town isn't working for the city. They're
44:32
like, those are our guys. We didn't contract
44:35
them. So that's not exactly reassuring. I think
44:41
it's like one of those, I don't think that means
44:43
what you think it means. Under Karen Bass and
44:46
Governor Gavin Newsom, California has poured
44:48
enormous political attention and taxpayer dollars
44:51
into homelessness while repeatedly promising
44:54
new programs, new strategies, new initiatives.
44:57
But yet over in Venice, this is like in the Santa
45:00
Monica area, this is the west side. Residents
45:02
are now paying an unofficial second tax to get
45:06
something traditionally considered a fairly basic
45:10
government responsibility. Keep the sidewalks
45:13
usable. And here's the irony. These supposedly
45:17
unsophisticated former gang members appear to
45:20
understand something California's progressive
45:21
ruling class has spent years avoiding. Compassion
45:26
and public order are not mutually exclusive.
45:29
You can help homeless people without surrendering
45:32
neighborhoods to encampments, needles, and chaos.
45:36
When taxpayers fund government, then they have
45:40
to hire somebody else to perform the government's
45:43
job. That is not compassion. It's failure with
45:46
better branding. And whenever I go home, like
45:50
this is, like I lived in downtown LA. Right where
45:54
it was still a little you know in the 20 like
45:57
2010 early 2010s when it was still a little Yeah,
46:01
kind of like um I guess Ted I would say I would
46:05
say early 2000s Hell's Kitchen Kind of like that
46:12
that kind of 1980s Hell's Kitchen Well, I don't
46:15
well. I I didn't travel in Hell's Kitchen. I
46:17
was a kid in the 80s It still had some grit.
46:24
I know, I lived there at the time. But I would
46:28
compare it to that. I would compare downtown
46:30
LA when I lived there in 2010 to the year 2000
46:34
Hell's Kitchen. Yeah, sure, but it's not that
46:36
bad. But no, no, now it's reverted back to the
46:41
baseline. To the 1980s. That's right. Where you
46:46
come up to, you exit the freeway, you exit the
46:48
110, and you get off anywhere. anywhere in downtown
46:52
you're gonna get for sure you're gonna get a
46:54
homeless dude jumping on your windshield spitting
46:57
on it and cleaning it down with an old newspaper
47:00
and asking you for ten dollars i mean that's
47:03
la that's home um shoot them that solves the
47:06
problem no robbie you don't shoot the homeless
47:09
guy that's spitting on your windshield If he's
47:11
jumping on your car harassing you, being a nuisance.
47:15
You would freak out. That's happened to me on
47:17
multiple occasions. It's just part of the environment
47:19
in Los Angeles. It's just what we know. Seriously,
47:23
why do the people who live in the city deal with
47:25
it? I don't want to hurt these people. But so
47:28
anyway, this is like our elected leader. You
47:30
have a mayor. You have a government. I know.
47:32
It's your job to hurt them. So what Karen Bass
47:36
is not doing, obviously she let the city burn
47:38
down. Right at the start of 2025 Gavin Newsom
47:43
same thing. I mean, they're both responsible
47:45
the the state coffers for Handling like he said
47:50
he was gonna build Like I forget how many housing
47:54
units like a couple hundred thousand they haven't
47:57
they haven't achieved even ten thousand so that
47:59
that's not even a fraction of what Newsom said
48:01
the state was gonna fund towards like more affordable
48:04
housing and blah blah blah and we're gonna permit
48:07
more ad use I don't know about NorCal, but SoCal
48:11
is a fucking mess. There's homelessness, homeless
48:16
sprawl. Homelessness, homeless sprawl is everywhere.
48:22
It used to be only concentrated mostly in downtown
48:25
L .A. by where I lived, but where I grew up even
48:28
in Whittier, like born and raised. Even those
48:32
parks in the suburbs were getting homeless and
48:36
camped. It has just spread like a cancer and
48:40
nobody's doing anything about it. And they sweep
48:43
it under the rug because they go and then steal
48:45
the homeless people's stuff, right? And say,
48:48
oh, we cleaned it up. And then a month later,
48:51
everyone's back at it. They've got new tents.
48:53
They've got new whatever. The same thing keeps
48:56
happening. And there's drugs on the streets.
48:59
Again, homelessness is a thing that has impacted
49:02
my immediate family members, and I have helped
49:06
them. I've seen it through firsthand. There are
49:09
ways to do this. What would be your suggested
49:11
solution here? Well, first of all... By the way,
49:14
I should point out that there's a lot of... The
49:17
gang thing is important to sort of contextualize
49:20
here. First of all, gangs are... California is
49:24
no doubt ground zero when it comes to gangs.
49:27
Like New York's got nothing. Washington's got
49:29
nothing by comparison. And so you've got a lot
49:32
of former and present gang members, right? If
49:35
a society is going to say, a society can't say
49:39
we're going to write off 10 percent of our population,
49:41
right? They just can't. So there's so many of
49:45
them. And also there's a culture and frankly,
49:47
a lot of successful examples of former gang bangers
49:51
becoming, you know, very standing members of
49:54
society. And like there's those bakeries that
49:57
are run by former gang bangers. There's various
50:00
actors who used to be in gangs. There's that
50:03
one guy with all the scars who is always in the
50:07
Tarantino movies. I forget his name. Danny Aiello
50:11
or something? Trejo. Trejo. There's a lot of
50:14
guys like that and they're great, right? So the
50:17
point is... It's now on the other hand, you kind
50:19
of want to not end up with a Rolling Stones using
50:23
the bikers at Altamont to provide security. And
50:28
then you end up with chaos because these are
50:30
people who are kind of like, or the Ramones used
50:32
to rely on the Hells Angels also. And there would
50:35
be like sort of random gratuitous stabbings at
50:38
their concerts. I know I witnessed it. And so
50:43
it's like, you do have to measure these things,
50:46
but I guess the point is, it's not that outlandish
50:49
to use people who kind of have some swagger.
50:52
Who knows the street. And who know the streets
50:54
and have some credible, you know, a credible
50:57
threat of violence can often avoid violence.
51:01
And so a guy like that can have a credible, exude
51:06
a credible threat of violence. But seriously,
51:08
What would you do instead about the homelessness?
51:11
If you were the emperor of California, if you
51:15
were Gavin Newsom, but with sweeping powers,
51:17
what would you do? I would end the grift of all
51:21
these fucking fake 501c3 bullshits that claim
51:25
to be helping the homeless people. I would actually
51:30
use state funding to one, not only grease the
51:35
palms of my friends, who claim to be building
51:38
units for people to live in and then affordable
51:41
housing I would actually pay attention to that
51:43
first and foremost is clean up the streets by
51:45
get literally giving people places to live you
51:48
as a governor as Newsom as a governor has has
51:52
sweeping powers to to To you know kind of mockingly
51:57
say if I were the Emperor there are sweeping
52:00
powers that Gavin Newsom has and he won't use
52:02
them you can declare certain abandoned buildings
52:06
or whatever as Temporary necessary whatever housing
52:10
or whatever you can bypass local municipal laws
52:14
and Karen Bass can can also go hand -in -hand
52:16
work hand -in -hand in tandem with Newsome to
52:19
approve temporary housing and blah blah blah
52:21
and you supply you use the money from those coffers
52:25
first wait when you ban the 501 c3s all that
52:28
money all that money would then the people that
52:32
want to help will find a way to help and they'll
52:34
be able to to give it to groups that can go more
52:38
directly these groups that are that claim to
52:40
be nonprofits or whatever they're the people
52:42
the leadership in them make three four five hundred
52:45
thousand dollars a year and You get pennies on
52:49
the dollar. If you're somebody donating to one
52:52
of these so -called help groups or whatever,
52:57
let's say you give a dollar, maybe at the high
53:01
end, 30 cents of your dollar might be going towards
53:04
the homeless population. The other 70 is going
53:06
towards lining the pockets of all of these. these
53:11
so -called presidents of these non -profits.
53:15
They're very profitable. So I would do away with
53:18
the vast majority of them, because they are a
53:22
grift. They are grifts. But all of these grifts
53:24
also work with the governor and also work with
53:27
Sacramento and also work with City Hall, and
53:30
everyone's in on it. That's the thing. That's
53:32
what I discovered. They deliberately make it
53:35
hard for the homeless people to get an ID. They
53:38
make it so that way if you are trying, let's
53:41
say, going through an established group like
53:44
the Salvation Army, for example, that's one I
53:50
could back. I would put more money in them, expand
53:52
beds for them, expand whatever funding the state
53:56
could give them. You've got systemic issues,
53:58
right? There's systemic challenges for homelessness
54:02
in California. I mean, first of all, the weather's
54:06
nice, right? So it's easier to... So they're
54:08
just camping. It's easier to be homeless, honestly.
54:11
It's like, you're not going to get as much homelessness
54:13
in Seattle, let's say, or more to the point,
54:16
Minneapolis, St. Paul, right? It's hard. I mean,
54:19
they have homelessness, but it's like not the
54:21
same. Right. And you're also, you know, there's
54:24
also, you know, the fact that you're near a major
54:28
drug conduit. right by the US -Mexico border,
54:32
which is very porous there in Southern California.
54:38
You've also got extraordinarily high housing
54:41
prices, so it's really easy to fall off. And
54:44
that's why Gavin Newsom is a piece of shit. To
54:45
fall into poverty for even people who are lower
54:48
middle class. He claimed that he was going to
54:51
expand housing some 10 years ago or whatever
54:54
it was when he first got into office as governor.
54:56
You would need hundreds and hundreds of thousands
54:57
of new units, right? He said that that's what
55:01
he was going to do, that that was priority number
55:03
one. They literally are like, we have 80 new
55:06
units. They never do. That's right. And then
55:09
Karen Bass let thousands and thousands of properties
55:13
burn down last year. Burn down. The wells and
55:19
the fire hydrants were tapped out. I think Newsom
55:22
is going to run for president. What do you all
55:24
think? Oh, yeah, I've been saying that. Yeah,
55:26
80 % chance. He's going to be the nominee. He's
55:28
going to be the nominee. No, no, no, no. He won't
55:30
be the nominee, but he will run. I bet you will
55:32
be the nominee. It'll be Pete Buttigieg. Not
55:35
Pete, Ted. Where do you keep getting this? You
55:37
guys don't understand the Democratic Party. Okay,
55:40
no, you guys don't understand the Democratic
55:41
Party. He's an ass pirate. That's not enough.
55:44
Listen, he screws one guy. Newsom screwed an
55:47
entire state. Here's the thing. Newsom is straight
55:51
and he's a white dude. Like, no, this party will
55:57
not nominate, even though he's not, but they
56:03
would not nominate a well -qualified uh white
56:06
dude not to mention he doesn't bring anything
56:08
to the table electoral college like california
56:12
is going to be a democrat all 45 electoral votes
56:14
will be democratic no matter who the nominee
56:18
is either news them or they're gonna put up kamala
56:20
harris again now they're not harris that there's
56:23
zero percent chance of that zero percent saying
56:26
she's gonna i mean it's gonna be a californian
56:28
i'm gonna say that it's gonna be he keeps saying
56:31
she's gonna i'm always right about these things
56:33
every time Uh -huh. Mayor Pete is not it. But
56:37
anyway, anyway, we'll leave that there. We got
56:40
to leave that there. It's our chance to make
56:43
history. Although we got burned with two ladies,
56:45
we're not going to do ladies. They're never going
56:47
to make history with... Pete ain't it. Just like
56:50
Hillary, wasn't it? All right. We have one more
56:51
story. One more story. It's Mayor Pete. You heard
56:58
it here first. All right. Scientists have long
57:00
known that a rough childhood can follow people
57:02
well into adulthood. Oh. I mean, I've read about
57:05
that. I don't know if that personally. Now researchers
57:08
may have found part of the biological reason
57:11
why. A new study published in Neuron suggests
57:15
that early life stress can leave lasting epigenetic
57:18
changes in the brain. Well, we kind of knew that,
57:21
didn't we? Essentially altering how certain genes
57:23
are switched on and off without changing the
57:25
underlying DNA. Researchers focused on the ventral
57:30
tegmental area or VTA part of the brain heavily
57:33
involved in dopamine motivation, reward and response
57:36
to stress in mice exposed to early life stress.
57:39
Scientists found increased activity involving
57:41
an enzyme called SETD7 and a chemical marker
57:46
known as H3K4Me1. Those changes appeared to prime
57:51
brain cells to react more strongly when the animals
57:53
encountered stress again later in life. The effect
57:56
was dramatic when researchers artificially increased
58:00
SETD7 activity in little mouses The percentage
58:05
later classified as stress susceptible jumped
58:09
from 8 to 50 percent. When researchers went the
58:12
other way and reduced it, they found that the
58:16
stress susceptibility plunged from 85 to 33 percent.
58:20
The finding could help explain why childhood
58:23
adversity has long been associated with higher
58:25
rates of depression, anxiety, and substance use
58:28
disorders later in life. Of course, mice are
58:32
not people. Readers have not yet shown that this
58:36
would have similar effects in human beings, but
58:40
nevertheless it's an interesting It's a hard
58:45
thing, Ted, when you see a mouse bummed out smoking
58:49
a cigarette and just like, fuck, man, I had it
58:53
rough when I was one of 10. My mom never paid
58:58
attention to me. Then my mom got killed. She
59:02
was fed to a python. Then my dad got eaten by
59:06
a cat. And then you got JDC who's over there
59:10
committing genocide on the mice. That's true.
59:17
Our own science advisor just genociding the mice
59:22
population. Innocent, pure of heart, noble. They
59:25
say the mouse is the noblest of all animals.
59:28
Speaking of noble animals, I found a gamer chick
59:32
on Rumble with two people watching. So we're
59:34
going to be doing a surprise raid to her. Well,
59:38
what do you guys think? Because look, I think,
59:41
I mean, I had a fairly hard childhood. I lived,
59:45
I grew up in a rough neighborhood being the one
59:47
Asian kid in a heavily Mexican gang community.
59:51
That weren't easy. And also, you know, being
59:54
the first American born of war refugees, we were
59:59
poor. It wasn't easy, just life wasn't easy.
1:00:03
But I would say for me, all of that, it depends,
1:00:06
I think, on how your brain is wired to begin
1:00:08
with. And I don't mean the set D seven cells
1:00:10
or whatever. Like me and my brother, right, we're
1:00:13
from same exact parents, same household, same
1:00:15
everything. For me, when going through all of
1:00:24
the shit that we went through as a kid, It made
1:00:28
me tougher, because I'm just full of spit and
1:00:31
fire. That's just how God made me. I'm hardwired
1:00:36
that way. I'm one of those people that if you
1:00:38
punch me and knock me down, I get up and be like,
1:00:41
all right, motherfucker, you better kill me the
1:00:42
next time. My brother, not so much. We're wired
1:00:49
very differently. So there's got to be other
1:00:52
elements. Set D7 what is how do they define this
1:01:00
the enzyme set D7 enzyme? It can't just be that
1:01:06
that your rough environment Shapes you into sure
1:01:12
maybe the likelihood that you might have you
1:01:14
know depression or whatever as you as you get
1:01:16
older but I had like I was it had the opposite
1:01:20
the inverse effect on me the The tough childhood
1:01:24
upbringing made me tougher as an adult. And it
1:01:28
just put spit and fire in my belly. And I said,
1:01:30
I am not going to be a statistic of where I'm
1:01:34
from. I'm going to do something with my life.
1:01:36
You can be tougher and still be affected by trauma,
1:01:41
right? I don't know. I feel like I'm generally
1:01:44
a happy -go -lucky person. Um, whereas my brother
1:01:48
is actually very sullen and very quiet and keeps
1:01:51
to himself and like we're and we're very different
1:01:54
people. And you beat him on the regular, right?
1:01:57
That's right. Beat the shit out of that little
1:01:59
guy. Try to make him tough. Uh, no, I mean, I'm
1:02:01
a lot, I'm a lot older than him. It's like, you're
1:02:03
welcome, bro. Like, dude, stop being a pussy.
1:02:07
Um, but that's, you know, we're seven years apart.
1:02:10
So I, we didn't really grow up together. We didn't
1:02:13
really become like, friends until we're older,
1:02:16
because I was a lot older than him. But I watched
1:02:20
how he absorbed life, which was very different
1:02:23
than the way I absorbed life. So, you know, do
1:02:28
I believe that these childhood traumas can shape
1:02:32
who you be? Yes, of course. But I also think
1:02:35
attitude plays a big role in how you process
1:02:40
these traumas. Well, look at Robbie. Robbie had
1:02:46
it really bad. I don't know. I mean, I don't
1:02:47
really believe that you can fix this stuff with
1:02:50
your attitude. But I mean, epigenetics are kind
1:02:53
of well established. You know, it's kind of like
1:02:56
you can find that the people who, for example,
1:03:00
are separated at birth from their parents and
1:03:03
don't know anything about like, oh, my parents
1:03:05
survived the Holocaust or whatever, will have
1:03:10
an unexplained trauma responses. I mean, I think
1:03:14
it's epigenetics is actual real science. I think
1:03:18
it's fair to say I'd be curious what JDC has
1:03:20
to say about it. I don't think he's in the chat
1:03:22
today. Peter, thank you for the dono. He's got
1:03:26
some mice to kill. Oh no. Peter says early life
1:03:30
stress explains why Ted is so insistent on booty
1:03:33
judge. No, first of all, just so you know, I
1:03:38
will not vote for him. And I don't think that
1:03:41
he would be... I would not vote for him. I don't
1:03:44
support him. You know, people always mistake
1:03:47
when you predict something, because that's how
1:03:49
things happen now. Like on social media, people
1:03:52
will say, oh, Donald Trump is going to win the
1:03:54
war in Iran or he already has one. And they're
1:03:57
trying to make it like because they want it to
1:03:59
be true. I don't roll that way. I don't say that
1:04:02
when I make a prediction, I just tell you what
1:04:04
I think is going to happen. And what I want to
1:04:07
have happen is an entirely different matter.
1:04:09
And usually those two things have little to do
1:04:11
with each other, because what I want to have
1:04:13
happen almost never happens. So in this particular
1:04:17
case, I would, you know, what would I like to
1:04:20
see happen? I'd like to see, you know, a good
1:04:23
lefty be nominated, but that's not going to happen.
1:04:27
The Democrats? Yeah, it's not going to happen.
1:04:29
That's not going to happen. The reason I think
1:04:33
it's going to be Buttigieg is, first of all,
1:04:38
parties and national elections always tend to
1:04:40
be a response to the tone of a reaction against
1:04:43
the previous president. So what is more opposite
1:04:47
tonally to Trump than Buttigieg in every way?
1:04:52
In the same way that Obama was a big response
1:04:55
To george w bush and trump was a big response
1:04:58
to obama Sure, if that's the case, then you go
1:05:01
with a black ablation woman kamala harris Okay,
1:05:04
first of all, you've got to stop saying that
1:05:06
because there's no world in which she's even
1:05:08
running Okay, it's not gonna happen. She keeps
1:05:10
flirting with it She's trying to get money because
1:05:15
if you create a pack then that money can as we
1:05:18
learned from your other radio wife This is a
1:05:21
grift and she can, you know, if you have a super
1:05:24
PAC, but she's not gonna be the nominee, right?
1:05:25
I mean, Gavin Newsom might be, it's possible.
1:05:29
I think he wants it. Oh, he wants it. But the
1:05:31
point is, I think the party will, they will not
1:05:34
the party wants to make history in a woke way.
1:05:38
They want first black first woman first. the
1:05:41
first this first that they kind of know they
1:05:44
overshot with the with Kamala and Hillary. They
1:05:46
know that they they think that those candidates
1:05:49
lost because they were ladies. That's not true.
1:05:51
But they think that. And so they're like, OK,
1:05:55
well, so we have to go with a dude, but we still
1:05:57
want to make history. And here's Mayor Pete,
1:06:00
who would make history. And he and Mayor Pete
1:06:04
is also, to be fair, extremely something that
1:06:08
Donald Trump is not. Very articulate, very smart.
1:06:13
That I agree with. And he sounds great. And so,
1:06:17
I mean, I think that's why he's going to be impressive
1:06:19
on the campaign trail. If it's any consolation.
1:06:21
Surrounded by the other retards. Ted, if it's
1:06:23
any consolation, in one of the pictures I looked
1:06:26
at for this story about Venice Beach was I literally
1:06:31
for a long time, I was like staring at the photo
1:06:34
and it didn't occur. I was thinking, who is that?
1:06:37
Big old tall lesbian next to Kamala Harris. It
1:06:41
was Gavin Newsom Doesn't feel like as good as
1:06:50
he used to like 20 years ago He looked sharp
1:06:53
man, but that's not true now And that's about
1:06:55
roughly more or less when I met him when he gave
1:06:57
me the the sleaze arm Brett a good ass in the
1:07:01
in the chat But how safe did you feel at home
1:07:04
Manila? That's to me I think when you're born
1:07:08
and raised in the hood, the things that startle
1:07:14
most people that you would see in the news or
1:07:16
whatever, hearing helicopters overhead every
1:07:18
night, gangs shooting outside. Ghetto bird. Yeah,
1:07:22
you get desensitized. Yeah, it was the ghetto
1:07:25
bird. You get desensitized. I remember one time
1:07:28
in particular being terrified in my bed was because
1:07:31
you hear the ghetto bird, you hear police cars
1:07:34
coming, and then And then suddenly you hear you
1:07:38
hear the helicopter of the police chopper ahead
1:07:40
or above you and you hear them saying like, you
1:07:43
know, shouting at the person, the suspect they're
1:07:46
chasing. And apparently the dude was because,
1:07:49
you know, in L .A. houses are real close together.
1:07:52
The dude was jumping from rooftop to rooftop
1:07:54
and he ran across mine and he happened to run
1:07:56
across my bedroom rooftop. And I. That's terrifying.
1:08:02
So that's, I was probably like nine years old.
1:08:04
I still remember that to this day. And I remember
1:08:06
cowering under the sheets. But outside of that,
1:08:11
you really get, you're desensitized to like the
1:08:14
gang violence, the graffiti. That's your norm.
1:08:18
If that's all you know, then why would you be
1:08:20
scared of it? You know what I mean? Like I didn't
1:08:22
know to be scared of it because that's all I
1:08:25
knew. I didn't know that there. were safe communities
1:08:28
outside of Los Angeles. I didn't, I didn't know.
1:08:31
Cause that's not relevant. Right. So I'm saying,
1:08:36
cause that's her question was how safe did I
1:08:38
feel at home? So for me, I actually felt fairly
1:08:41
safe. Cause you don't know any better. Look,
1:08:43
it's like when you're a kid, you only know your
1:08:45
own reality, right? And like, it's like you go
1:08:47
visit other people's houses and you're like,
1:08:50
oh, they do things differently. Their house is
1:08:52
bigger or smaller. It's cleaner or or it's dirtier
1:08:56
or it's safer or it's. I actually I actually
1:09:00
felt safe. And then when I got older, like high
1:09:02
school age ish, it you know, I became I was friends
1:09:07
with a lot of the gangbangers. Yeah, we got to
1:09:09
go. We're 15 minutes over. Ted, that's how you
1:09:13
actually stay safe. Do you know that? Be friends
1:09:16
with the gang bangers. Be cool with them. My
1:09:18
mom always said, make friends in low places.
1:09:20
I made friends with all the gang bangers in the
1:09:23
neighborhood from all the different gangs. My
1:09:25
house never got robbed. Nothing. Never happened.
1:09:29
That is true. You can't beat them, join them.
1:09:32
Yeah. So there you go. I didn't join the gang.
1:09:34
I just befriended them. And you know where I
1:09:37
was useful to them, Ted? I was their tutor in
1:09:41
high school and helped many of them graduate.
1:09:43
Look at you, the jailhouse, the jail, the jail,
1:09:47
the future jailbird helping out the others. So
1:09:50
there you go. You're like a little Martha Stewart.
1:09:53
So that's why the gangbangers didn't rob my house
1:09:55
because I befriended. all of the different gangs
1:09:57
not one I wasn't like loyal to one I was friends
1:10:00
with all that would have been wise yeah I know
1:10:03
I know I tutor them all and they you know help
1:10:05
them graduate so there you go um but anyway that
1:10:08
does it for Weird News Wednesday we are out of
1:10:10
time um and we're Robbie says we're rating into
1:10:13
some little girl rando 45 minutes okay there
1:10:17
you go stay tuned help out this new little person
1:10:20
adios amigos bye