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Luigi Mangione Plea Twist, Manhattan Rent Shock & a Solar Storm Warning | TMI Ep442 · The TMI Show with Ted Rall and Manila Chan

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  Good morning, happy Friday everybody. Welcome
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  to another episode of the TMI show. It's Friday,
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  August 14th, 2026. I'm Manila Chan. That'd be
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  Ted Raul, producer Robbie lurking in the background.
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  If everybody pitched in five bucks a month, we
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  could actually make a living imagine that Ted.
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  That's true Yeah, I mean, you know people people
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  know they have to pay for content now. They do
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  know, you know Yeah, I guess it's if you want
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  way to make sure that we can keep doing this.
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  Anyway, before we get into more serious news,
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  Ted, I want to file this for Fun Friday. I'm
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  going to add this to the stage about how AI and
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  autonomous robots are definitely Not ready for
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  prime time this just seen last night yesterday
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  In Washington DC downtown by New York Avenue
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  so look at this Coco food delivery robot look
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  it's trying to struggle. It's struggling trying
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  to cross the street there it goes But look bump
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  Well, I don't know I haven't finished watching
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  the video But look, it can't figure out as pedestrians
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  are crossing. It's trying to zoom across. It's
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  like the Ed 209 from RoboCop trying to handle
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  the stairs. A part of me feels bad for it. I
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  shouldn't because it's a freaking robot. In New
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  York, someone would steal it or vandalize it.
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  So look, it's trying. OK, it gets through that
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  center median crosswalk thing and it's waiting.
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  And it's like. shifting its wheels and everyone's
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  just kind of staring at it as it passes by. So
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  it can't really get across the street. That's
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  pretty funny. Thank you for sharing that. Stupid
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  little human Manila feels bad for it. Yeah, that
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  is stupid. I know I shouldn't feel bad for it
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  because it's like it's not. It must die. I know
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  it must. It's evil. I want one of the RoboWolves.
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  Do you remember the RoboWolf story from Manila
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  was out sick? Those were the Japanese ones. It
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  was. I want one of those. What is a Robo -Wolf?
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  When I get a lot of money, I'm going to get you
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  a Robo -Wolf. Dead serious. Yeah, it's a robotic
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  wolf. They're made and sold in Japan. And they're
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  crazy looking. And they howl. Basically, they're
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  kind of like scarecrows is what they're made
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  to do. What is their job? They're fighting off
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  bears. Bears, yeah. In Japan? Well, you know
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  Japan has a massive bear attack problem. No!
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  You don't know this? I mean, the co -host of
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  the TMI show should know this. This is a major
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  TMI topic. And you're Asian. We have beef with
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  Japan. This show followed the bear attack situation
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  for like the better part of a month. So I'm not
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  even kidding. Okay, so I mean, I know I joke
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  around, but like this is actually true. There
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  are... thousands of bear and human interactions
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  in Japan every year. The bears are living like
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  on top of the humans and they're more aggressive
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  there than they are in the US. They attack people
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  like all the time. So especially farmers, in
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  Japan, farms are right outside of cities, right?
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  The bears be coming up. And they're scaring the,
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  and not to mention they're attacking animals.
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  So they're scaring the shit out of farmers. So
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  they developed these glowing eye, you know, scare,
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  robo scare, scare, scare wolves. Scare wolf,
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  okay. Although they're really, they're really
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  scared. Does it work? Do the bears like get scared
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  off? Oh yeah. Bears and wolves do not get along
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  at all. Oh. Yeah. And so, but no, I want to get
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  one and I want to, I want to walk it down Main
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  Street, Kalispell on a leash. You think I jest?
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  No, I am dead serious. That's what you want to
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  do with all the millions that Rumble is going
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  to pay us? That's going to be, yeah, that's,
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  that's, that's it. And Man Child, thank you for
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  the donation. Man Child says, time to create
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  that OnlyFans account, y 'all. Yeah, I guess
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  we got to think about that We're still you know,
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  this is like a new thing that rumble is doing
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  so we got to kind of wait and see how the payout
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  shakes out and how many content creators they've
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  They've called Cold yes, that's a nice way to
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  put it the number of traders that they call does
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  not affect does not affect our payroll Unfortunately,
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  we thought it was going to. We were kind of misled
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  into believing that. Because we were told one
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  thing, the math though is something entirely
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  different. Rumble is really pushing more into
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  a subscription model, at least until next year
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  when you can allow Rumble's new AI system that
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  they call Quake to train using the video and
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  audio from the live streams. We're going to teach
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  their AI about poop. Obviously. Obviously. That's
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  right. All right. Let's get into it. I know Ted's
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  got... Also, biology can be used to protect your
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  country against migrants. You just wolves, pranas,
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  bears, you do all these things. And so this is...
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  India is already doing it with Bangladesh. If
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  it works for them and it's not racist, then obviously
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  it works for us. It's not racist either. I'm
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  for the American gladiators border. Border crossing
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  that's I'm just saying I think it'll be and we
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  can televise it and make money Like it can go
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  to America's coffers only to use within America
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  It cannot be repurposed to like send out to Israel
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  or be sent out to whatever like Whatever DOD
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  program it has to be used for like purposes within
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  our borders If we do the American gladiators
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  border story or not sorry border plan it's non
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  -lethal and fun so all right let's get to the
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  news First things up, so Luigi Mangione, guys,
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  back in court today, he may be about to make
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  a major legal move and potentially complicate
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  the murder case against him in the process. Mangione,
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  now 28, is expected to plead guilty today in
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  a Manhattan federal court to charges connected
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  to the 2024 killing of the United Health CEO,
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  Brian Thompson, according to folks familiar with
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  the negotiation between him and the feds. But
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  here's the wrinkle. Mangione is not charged with
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  murder in the federal case. The federal charges
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  center on stalking that resulted in Thompson's
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  death, and that carries the possibility of life
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  in prison. Mangione had been scheduled to go
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  to trial on those charges back in January. Meanwhile,
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  his separate state murder trial starts September
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  8th. So that means federal guilty plea could
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  set off an immediate fight over whether New York
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  the state of New York can prosecute him for murder
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  okay Ted you got a mute you got a mute it's picking
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  up every every okay especially your sniffs that's
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  what it's picking up So, Mangione's attorneys
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  have argued from the beginning that the state
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  and federal cases are built on essentially the
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  same facts or evidence and that trying him twice
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  amounts to the government getting, as they put
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  it, two bites at the same apple. Prosecutors,
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  however, disagree. The Manhattan DA is expected
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  to argue that murder and federal stalking are
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  legally distinct offenses. protecting different
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  interests, meaning the state case can continue
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  without violating double jeopardy protection.
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  And both prosecutions have already been trimmed
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  down. A federal judge earlier had dismissed two
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  charges, including one that could have exposed
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  Mangione to the death penalty. Now in the state
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  case, a terrorism charge was also tossed. for
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  insufficient evidence. What remains is a second
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  degree murder charge carrying a potential sentence
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  of 25 to life. The case has been politically
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  and culturally explosive from the start, fueled
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  by public anger over the health insurance industry
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  and an uncomfortable wave of support from Angioni.
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  But Friday, today, this may change the legal
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  chessboard entirely, a guilty plea. would not
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  end the case, it could simply move the biggest
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  fight from whether Mangione committed the crime
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  to how many times the government gets to prosecute
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  him for it. So it's confusing, Ted, because I
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  do agree with his attorneys, with Luigi's attorneys,
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  that this feels like the government's trying
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  to get two bites at the apple because one is
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  the feds and one's the state. But if he pleads
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  guilty to the federal charges of stalking that
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  results in death, that I think is a merely a
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  ploy, I guess, to, I don't know, would that secure
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  him in a federal pen versus like the New York
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  jail system? Oh, of course. Yeah, if he's convicted,
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  yeah, he would definitely go to federal prison.
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  Rather than he of course he could end up in supermax,
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  right? but I think it's unlikely because it's
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  his first offense and You know, it's not like
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  he killed more than one person So he would yeah,
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  he would end up in a maximum security probably
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  in a maximum security federal penitentiary Right
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  somewhere who could be anywhere in the United
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  would that be better than any of New York State's?
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  Probably Yeah, the New York state prisons are
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  old and, you know, it's not as shitty as California
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  where it's all run by gangs, but it's like, but
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  it's definitely shitty. So, you know, if you're
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  looking at it as a quality of life perspective,
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  definitely you prefer. I mean, the hierarchy
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  of the prison experience in the US is like local
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  jails are the absolute worst. Really? They're
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  the most dangerous, they're the most foul, and
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  they're the most abusive. Then you go up the
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  chain. The state prison systems suck. Obviously,
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  the South is worse than the North, et cetera,
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  and the West is worse than the East. But basically,
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  the Fed is the least bad scenario. Yeah, that's
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  what I feel like would be, like if I were Luigi's
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  mom, You know, if my kid was gonna get carted
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  off to the clink I would hope it's the it's the
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  federal system and You're less likely even even
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  if if the death penalty were on the table, even
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  if it was on the table You're less likely to
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  be to be offed by the feds than you are in the
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  states Last bless you. I think the last federal
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  The last federal execution might've been over
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  a decade ago. Whereas states, I don't know about
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  New York in particular, but states off people
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  all the time. So like you were in the South,
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  like Florida, Alabama, Georgia, they're like
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  getting rid of death row very quickly. That is
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  not true. I wish it was. They are very slow.
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  They're both slow, but the feds haven't... haven't
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  executed somebody in over a decade. Epstein disagrees
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  because just because there's no official, just
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  because you're taking out an official execution.
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  Robbie, if we want to say that, then we're going
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  to say that the fucking CIA off people every
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  fucking day. That's not what we're saying here.
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  That's not what we're saying here. We're talking
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  about a proper federal execution on the books.
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  It hasn't happened in over a decade. So we know
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  that We're not talking about Epstein here. We're
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  talking about a true actual execution. Do they
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  off people in prison all the time? Of course.
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  Of course. Off the books. He was executed. Yeah,
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  yeah, yeah. But he wasn't executed. He was murdered.
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  You know what we're talking about here. So don't
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  convolute the topic. Go away. Goodbye. So I don't
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  know, anything else you want to want to add to
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  that, Ted, other than we're watching the case?
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  I mean, look, that could very well break while
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  we're on the air. Look, you got to say, I mean,
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  I'm going to avoid repeating my usual joke about
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  how this incident was a victimless crime. But
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  it is nevertheless. Look, Luigi Mangione is a
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  resistance fighter. He is accused of killing
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  one of the worst people in the world You know
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  the CEOs of these health care. I mean it's I
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  shouldn't say it's not a health care company.
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  It's a Health insurance. It's a health rationing
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  company that basically prevents people from getting
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  health care. It's a health prevention company
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  So it's literally a sickness, it's a sickness
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  illness profiteer is what it is. So for someone
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  who is a top, any top executive at these companies,
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  I want to put this in a way that will not cause
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  problems on the internet. They will not be missed
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  if they are unalived. Let's put it that way.
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  And the world is a better place without them.
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  Look, Brian Thompson is not Brian Thompson. He's
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  one of a zillion suits that will replace him.
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  That's correct. However, so, I mean, look, obviously,
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  if this happened more often, right, like, you
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  know, you need, this isn't the revolution. It's
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  an act of, you know, I guess you could say it's
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  an act of resistance or an act of terrorism,
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  depending on how you look at it. But imagine
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  if people, this, it happened so often. that like,
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  let's say someone called you and said, hey Manila,
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  you want to be a top, you want to earn a million
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  dollars a year as a healthcare executive? And
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  you were like, literally had to tell your husband
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  and your kids, the good news is I've been offered
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  a million dollars. The bad news is there's a
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  good chance I'll be murdered. More like $26 million.
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  Okay. Bigel Mad Al money. Well, let's say it's
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  $26 million a year, but let's just say the chances
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  were 20, were 50%. that you won't live a year.
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  Are you going to take that money? Like anytime
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  I walk out the door, there's a 50 -50 chance
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  I might be dead. Right. You're probably, I'm
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  going to say a lot of people are going to just
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  not do that job anymore. And that's going to
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  force some changes. It would have to become that
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  dangerous. It's not that dangerous. It happened
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  to one guy. You know, all the healthcare CEOs
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  took their names and photos down from their company
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  websites. They've hired some, you know, they
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  certainly have enough money to beef up their
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  security and hire a giant and buy a giant dog
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  and put in more motion detectors in there. Maybe
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  a robo wolf. Maybe a couple of robo wolves. Yeah.
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  So There you know so they have that ability so
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  But you know you see I mean I guess the whole
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  point that you know what the death of Brian Thompson's
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  like It's like that old joke about like what
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  do you call a thousand lawyers at the bottom
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  of the ocean a good start? It's like that right.
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  I mean it's a start, but you know I got a wonder
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  yeah The Brian Thompson, I think at the time
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  that he died, I think he was like 46 or so. I
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  mean, he's right around. He was right around
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  my age. You would not think like when the case
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  broke, when the news broke, I was expecting to
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  see a grizzled old man. Right. Somebody that
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  looked like Steny Hoyer. Right. Wow. OK. Yeah.
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  Yeah. That's what I mean. Like I was expecting
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  to see like if you're a top health care executive,
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  I was expecting to see somebody that looks like
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  Any any senator from Capitol Hill, right? I was
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  not expecting to see like a middle -aged a 45
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  46 year old man young guy, right? Not a gray
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  hair on his head. I I gotta wonder how somebody
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  that young Climbed up the ladder that quickly
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  like what do you got to do to? What do you what
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  do you do to climb up the health care executive
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  you flip beds? That's how you do it. It's all
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  about the numbers. So seriously, that's how you
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  do it. Like at the insurer level, like you're,
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  how, how did he become an executive so young?
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  It's not like he was a rookie executive either.
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  So let's assume he was like 40 when he got to
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  the C level. How does, how does somebody that
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  young, like what, how do you define precocious
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  in that industry? Like how do you, how do you
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  get there to that level? by being ruthless. I
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  mean, it's all about profit. Listen, Luigi did
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  not commit murder, in my opinion. What he did
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  was an act of self -defense. That's how I look
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  at it. Because Brian Thompson, the people like
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  him, directly profit off of the pain, misery
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  and death of other people. That is the industry.
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  And he does engage in an act of preemptive self
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  -defense for all those people who are being victimized.
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  The problem is that we don't have enough Luigis.
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  We thousands of Luigis, tens of thousands of
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  Luigis. But to answer your question, that's how
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  you get there. You get there by not having a
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  soul, by... What, like you have like caseloads
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  or something as you build up the career and then
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  you're like decline that person, decline that...
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  Like is that how you move up in that industry?
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  Like what? 100%. Because you got to show a profit.
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  So like for example, Let's just say, for example,
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  if you're an adjuster at UnitedHealthcare, you
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  have a quota. Like a regular, like a car insurance
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  adjuster? Is that like a similar thing? Yeah.
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  So the insurance claim comes in from Logan Health
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  or wherever else. You go through, you view all
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  the claims, you're looking for errors, things
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  you're able to reject. You have a quota for the
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  number of people you have to reject every single
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  month. You have a quota. Rejection? Yes, you
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  have a rejection quote. It is the only industry
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  where a customer pays for a service that you
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  then have no obligation to provide. Matter of
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  fact, you are penalized if you provide it. And
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  that's how you excel. That is the business model.
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  In terms of the specifics of how you get to be
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  a CEO of a company like UnitedHealthcare, it's
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  like any company, right? It's like Robbie said.
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  a junior executive and you show that you have
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  new innovative ways to increase profits, they're
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  gonna elevate you, right? I mean, they're gonna
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  say, oh, good job, like you thought of that.
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  I've never been part of the corporate world,
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  so I don't know how that works. Yeah, when you
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  have big ideas. When you have big ideas. Like,
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  for example, when I was at the syndicate, I was,
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  I guess, the number four executive, third or
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  fourth executive there. And at one point, it
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  did cross my mind that the president was getting
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  old and was looking to retire. And I was like,
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  oh, what if I wanted to be president? Well, I
• 27:58
  had a big idea. My big idea, and I did do this,
• 28:02
  was to take some of our comic strips. turn them
• 28:06
  into graphic novels, and then license those to
• 28:10
  Hollywood and take a cut of the movie income.
• 28:14
  And we did that with a couple of things. But,
• 28:16
  you know, it was like while the company was kind
• 28:19
  of like spinning out of control and, you know,
• 28:22
  and I kind of decided I didn't really want to
• 28:24
  be president of a company. It just wasn't for
• 28:27
  me, for a variety of reasons. But, you know,
• 28:31
  that's sort of like... I mean, that's, that's
• 28:33
  fairly innocent, right? I mean, that's like,
• 28:35
  okay, I mean, nothing bad would happen. I mean,
• 28:37
  people, the cartoonists would make more money.
• 28:40
  We would have made more money. It would have
• 28:42
  been a win win for everybody. It wasn't going
• 28:43
  to screw anyone over. But you know, if you work
• 28:46
  for a health care, you know, the thing is the
• 28:48
  entire nature of that, this is not an added value
• 28:51
  industry, right? Like if all health insurers,
• 28:54
  let's just say, you know, We had, you know, Ted
• 28:56
  gets his way and we have national health care
• 28:59
  and all doctors and nurses and hospitals work
• 29:01
  for the federal government from now on. Well,
• 29:03
  the insurance companies based in Hartford and
• 29:05
  in Minnesota, they all go out, they all go out
• 29:07
  of business, right? Do we miss them? No, the
• 29:11
  American people do not miss them at all. They
• 29:14
  provide no value whatsoever. It's not like a
• 29:17
  company that makes cars. A company that makes
• 29:19
  cars takes metal and plastic and knowledge and
• 29:25
  builds cars and distributes cars and puts people
• 29:28
  in cars and allows people to get to work every
• 29:31
  day, right? That's added value. But like, in
• 29:35
  this case... Oh, I see. Yeah, I see what you're
• 29:37
  saying. It's literally a... Yeah, like one of
• 29:41
  the commenters said, it's a protection racket.
• 29:44
  It's literally like if you don't pay this money,
• 29:48
  you could get a terrible disease and die. So
• 29:51
  you have to pay this money. In other words, it's
• 29:56
  like you're forced to pay for it. It's like a
• 29:59
  property tax. You don't want to pay it. I guess
• 30:04
  maybe people who have kids in the local school
• 30:06
  district, some of them might want to pay. But
• 30:09
  most people, they're just forced to, otherwise
• 30:11
  the town's going to take their house. So this
• 30:16
  is not like, hey, that's a nice sweater. I'd
• 30:20
  like to buy that sweater. Then I'm going to get
• 30:22
  to wear that sweater. That's added value. It's
• 30:25
  a voluntary economic transaction. This is like
• 30:29
  nobody buys health insurance because they want
• 30:32
  to. Right. Well, we were at a point in time during
• 30:37
  the Obamacare years, we were forced to or else
• 30:40
  it was a crime not to. Remember that? Yeah, that's
• 30:45
  right. Yeah. The government cartel forced you.
• 30:51
  It's still on the books. What's so interesting
• 30:52
  is that technically a crime to not have insurance.
• 30:56
  Yeah. Like if you when you do your taxes every
• 30:58
  year, you're supposed to fill out Form 1098 and
• 31:02
  submit that with your taxes, even though nothing
• 31:05
  happens if you didn't have insurance. So what
• 31:07
  Trump did is Trump didn't eliminate the requirement.
• 31:11
  He just took away the punishment. So there's
• 31:16
  no punishment, but you still are supposed to
• 31:17
  do it. Just to notify the federal government
• 31:21
  that yeah, I mean, yeah, I guess yeah What a
• 31:26
  weird I mean just it's such a strange convoluted
• 31:28
  system that we have here and obviously, you know
• 31:31
  like Luigi I'm not a fan of vigilante ism. I'm
• 31:36
  not a fan of acts of violence, but I do understand
• 31:40
  based on history that When you live in a period
• 31:46
  of like extreme inequality, and this is coming
• 31:49
  from a rich kid that went to an Ivy League school,
• 31:52
  by the way. Like, let's not forget, Luigi Mangione
• 31:55
  comes from a wealthy family out here, like in
• 31:57
  the DC Metro. Well, he wasn't poor and he didn't
• 32:00
  suffer. He's not a poor kid. Yeah. No, no, no.
• 32:02
  He had some, I think some health, some long -term
• 32:05
  health, like ailments or something, like some
• 32:07
  physical ailment that was like creeping up on
• 32:09
  him. He's young. He's only 28. But when we have
• 32:13
  seen all through history that when you have extreme
• 32:16
  inequality, um and obviously declining trust
• 32:19
  in in these institutions such as i don't know
• 32:22
  like the nih for example after covid thanks dr
• 32:25
  facci um we obviously distrust the corporations
• 32:30
  and increasingly are distrustful of the government
• 32:33
  when you have those all of the confluence of
• 32:36
  things happening at once you are gonna produce
• 32:40
  the luigi's like that's that's what's gonna happen
• 32:43
  so yeah true If the folks on Capitol Hill, what
• 32:47
  it boils down to is that the folks on Capitol
• 32:49
  Hill, talking to you Bernie Sanders, like I haven't
• 32:53
  heard you mention Medicare for all in 10 years.
• 32:57
  Or the squad, where are you squad? You talked
• 33:00
  about that too. Where's that? Now you all are
• 33:03
  comfortably in your seats, right? They haven't
• 33:06
  talked about Medicare for all. Not untrue, not
• 33:08
  untrue. They haven't said a fucking word. Well,
• 33:12
  they've said a little bit. I mean, I shouldn't
• 33:14
  say that. I mean, it's not, it's, they, they
• 33:15
  certainly, um, you know, in the, in the recent
• 33:19
  primaries, like in, uh, you know, Wisconsin and
• 33:22
  Minnesota and those places, they definitely,
• 33:26
  you know, health care did come up as a topic.
• 33:29
  The incumbents or, or the people primarying them.
• 33:32
  Oh, the challengers. Yeah. Not the incumbents.
• 33:34
  That's what I'm saying. Yeah. You're talking
• 33:35
  about. Good point. I'm talking about the incumbents
• 33:39
  who are now part of the establishment, because
• 33:41
  as I used to say on Radio Sputnik, I said Mama
• 33:44
  Bear Nancy, she would raise her eyebrow and pull
• 33:48
  out the whip, and the girls, AOC, back then it
• 33:51
  was like AOC, Ayanna Pressley, Cory Bush, she
• 33:55
  pulled out the whip and the girls got in line.
• 33:57
  Real quick, Ted, real quick. True, true, true.
• 34:01
  And now you don't hear a fucking word out of
• 34:04
  those. Well, some of those women are gone, but
• 34:06
  AOC is not and she's over here. I took it. I
• 34:09
  took some offense. As looking at her start like
• 34:14
  starting her her journey of egg freezing or whatever,
• 34:18
  and it's like, bitch, you have top tier health
• 34:20
  care insurance like you have top insurance. What
• 34:23
  about all the poor people who are also your age
• 34:26
  who want to have children and can't afford IVF?
• 34:30
  They can't afford to freeze their eggs. But you
• 34:34
  can, and you haven't said a fucking word in at
• 34:38
  least five years about Medicare for All. And
• 34:41
  that was something that brought you to this office.
• 34:44
  And this girl hasn't said a peep about Medicare
• 34:47
  for All, and neither has Bernie. So I don't have
• 34:51
  any faith that any of this is gonna change, but
• 34:52
  I just thought it was awfully tone deaf of AOC.
• 34:57
  I felt like it was almost flaunting. like, flaunting
• 35:01
  that she can do egg freezing because she can
• 35:04
  afford it. Yeah, because she had, well, she claims
• 35:07
  that it took her years to save up $8 ,000. Oh,
• 35:11
  whatever. I mean, come on. Well, then you're
• 35:12
  making 200 grand a year. I'm like, yeah, where,
• 35:15
  yeah, do you have a full comment? What are you
• 35:16
  putting your money in? Yeah, where's your money
• 35:19
  going? Yeah. I mean, I know that, like, there
• 35:21
  is the theory that, like, You have to maintain
• 35:24
  a home in New York and in Washington, right?
• 35:27
  Remember that complaint from a few years ago?
• 35:29
  There was even a TV show that was written by
• 35:34
  Gary Trudeau, who was a Doonesbury cartoonist,
• 35:37
  which was about a poor congressman forced to
• 35:41
  shack up together in D .C. Yes, he has. Yes,
• 35:46
  which I guess is a phenomenon. But I mean, I'm
• 35:48
  pretty sure she has like. affordable rent in
• 35:52
  New York, right? So I'm sure. Well, and look,
• 35:55
  they still do this. You know, TMZ has opened
• 35:59
  a DC branch. Did you know that? No, that's awesome,
• 36:03
  though. Yeah. And I and I've been saying this
• 36:06
  for like months because they were talking about
• 36:08
  it. So this is like inside baseball. They haven't
• 36:11
  even put it on their TMZ website. You have to
• 36:14
  specifically search TMZ DC in TMZ search bar.
• 36:18
  But because I've worked in this industry, I knew
• 36:21
  this was coming. And I've been telling people
• 36:23
  for months, I was like, oh, just wait, just wait
• 36:27
  until the paps, the paparazzi flock to DC. Capitol
• 36:33
  Hill is gonna change, baby, because they are
• 36:37
  gonna catch everybody cheating and hooking up
• 36:41
  with prostitutes. They're gonna catch everything
• 36:43
  because these aren't journalists, they're paparazzis.
• 36:46
  They're good at everything. So, recently, just,
• 36:50
  I don't know, a couple days ago, when Mitch McConnell
• 36:53
  was released from whatever nursing home he was
• 36:57
  at... Yeah, if in fact that happened, because
• 37:00
  there's no video at all. Whatever. Yeah, whatever.
• 37:04
  Maybe, right? Maybe. TMZ was at his property,
• 37:08
  or at least one of them. McConnell has a couple
• 37:11
  of properties in and around the Capitol. Had,
• 37:14
  before he died. Yes, before he vanished TMZ was
• 37:20
  staked out at the property nearest to the Capitol
• 37:23
  and and They were staked out and and I guess
• 37:27
  Tom Tillis didn't know that they were there and
• 37:30
  they come busting out because Tom Tillis has
• 37:33
  seen red -handed key in hole turning the the
• 37:37
  doorknob and the TMZ Pap was like was like Mr.
• 37:44
  Tillis, Mr. Tillis What are you doing at Mitch
• 37:47
  McConnell's house? Why do you have a key and
• 37:50
  he says oh? gay lover I Rent a room with Mitch
• 37:58
  what? He's like air be like he's Airbnb So like
• 38:05
  I think like he admitted it because the way the
• 38:09
  paparazzi just obviously ambushed him They just
• 38:11
  he had to come up with some answer and he was
• 38:13
  just like And because he was, despite being a
• 38:18
  congressman, he just told the truth. Yeah, he
• 38:20
  was just like, I live here. I rent a room from
• 38:25
  Mitch McConnell. That's so droll. It's so strange.
• 38:31
  But that's exactly what happens. So to your Doonesbury
• 38:35
  cartoon, it's true. So they do that. But anyway.
• 38:40
  You know, we obviously like went off the point
• 38:43
  here. My anger was that as As a woman who obviously
• 38:48
  by bias whatever you want to call it either a
• 38:51
  stroke of luck or or I was doomed or whatever
• 38:54
  I had a second surprise baby very late in life
• 38:58
  I'm obviously much older than AOC. I'm almost
• 39:01
  ten years older than her and You know, I didn't
• 39:05
  have to go that route and I wasn't gonna go that
• 39:06
  route anyway like we I wanted a second kid closer
• 39:10
  to this you know, after my my son was born, but
• 39:12
  that didn't happen. So the surprise baby came.
• 39:15
  But AOC, the folks, the folks in Congress have
• 39:20
  top shelf insurance. And I felt like it was very
• 39:25
  disrespectful of her to be like, oh, I'm just
• 39:29
  showing my journey with you. I'm just this is
• 39:33
  so painful. You know, these the shots I have
• 39:35
  to give myself. It's so painful. And now I don't
• 39:38
  have a partner. And well, by the way, is she
• 39:41
  I don't know about you, but man, if I were, you
• 39:46
  know, like, let's say I met her at like for a
• 39:50
  date and I googled her and I found that like
• 39:54
  she's like doing this egg thing. I'd be like
• 39:57
  scared. I'd be so scared. Like who wants to date
• 40:00
  someone who's got eggs frozen? I mean. I had
• 40:05
  a friend who who started dating this this woman
• 40:08
  This is a couple years back because she I think
• 40:11
  she might have been 40 or 41 So she was a little
• 40:14
  late to the egg freezing game. Anyways, I guess
• 40:17
  freezing would be worse because then it's like
• 40:19
  you're not even the dad You're like you're you're
• 40:22
  you're pre -cut kind of right? So this is this
• 40:25
  is like just egg freezing and he he really liked
• 40:29
  the woman. So he He shared with me that he was
• 40:32
  a little And I was like, well, yeah, dude, because
• 40:36
  it means she wants to have a family. She's obviously
• 40:40
  hurt that her marriage fell apart. So she's trying
• 40:43
  to save what eggs she has left, right? Like she's
• 40:46
  over 40. So she wants to be a mom. So I was like,
• 40:51
  if you're not going to take her seriously, you
• 40:53
  fucking playboy, don't fuck around with her.
• 40:56
  She's over 40. Her actions show that she wants
• 41:00
  a family. And if you're not... on that same track
• 41:03
  necessarily with her, but I mean, if you're not
• 41:06
  on that track, don't fuck around with women who
• 41:08
  are doing stuff like that, because that clearly
• 41:10
  indicates that they're at a different mental
• 41:13
  phase, emotional phase in their life. Well, it
• 41:15
  goes both ways, too. I mean, I dated a girl who
• 41:18
  she was, you know, at some point, she's sort
• 41:22
  of like, by the way, I really, really, really,
• 41:24
  really, really, really want to have a kid. And
• 41:27
  I was like, I don't. I did that. Don't want to
• 41:31
  have any more. And we broke up over it, you know,
• 41:35
  amicably, but she really pressured. She was kind
• 41:39
  of like, come on, come on, come on. Like, you
• 41:42
  know, you want to. It would be great. It would
• 41:45
  be great. You'd love it. Come on. And it was
• 41:48
  like, no, I don't think it was just before or
• 41:50
  after you had your son already after. Oh, OK.
• 41:55
  And you're like, I already have many years, many,
• 41:57
  many years after many. Oh. You're like, I have
• 42:01
  a little human like it's not even little anymore.
• 42:03
  Yeah. Oh, like I have a grown human. I'm good.
• 42:08
  Yeah. I mean, yeah. Yeah. So it's like, you know,
• 42:11
  I mean, the point is, like, biological clock
• 42:15
  ticking women often get very pressurey. Oh, I
• 42:20
  can I can see that. I can see that. Both of my
• 42:22
  kids were surprised. I didn't I didn't I was
• 42:25
  like, I would like to have one. If it doesn't
• 42:27
  happen, it's not meant to be. That was with my
• 42:29
  son. Then I wanted to have… Maybe Bluthfunk,
• 42:32
  she says something smart in the comments. She
• 42:33
  said, better talk about kids sooner than later.
• 42:36
  And that's, it's really true. I mean, she's right.
• 42:39
  Like, I did pre -Kana because I got married in
• 42:42
  the Catholic Church and it's a weekend or it
• 42:46
  could be, for in our case, it was an intense
• 42:48
  weekend. And one of the exercises they did, they
• 42:50
  had all the couples in a big room together and
• 42:54
  they said, if you'd like to have zero kids or
• 42:57
  one kid. go to the left side of the room. And
• 43:00
  if you'd like to have two or more kids, go to
• 43:02
  the right side of the room. And then it's like,
• 43:05
  are you on the same side of the room as your
• 43:08
  fiance? If not, you have some talking to do.
• 43:12
  And these are people who were engaged to be married
• 43:14
  and had a date set and a church reserved. And
• 43:18
  there were many of us who were not on the same
• 43:21
  side of the room as our partners. People don't
• 43:25
  talk about it enough. I mean people should talk
• 43:27
  about kids. They should talk about money I talked
• 43:30
  about all the uncomfortable retirement all that
• 43:33
  stuff. I talked about all that uncomfortable
• 43:36
  shit I mean for all we know that could be why
• 43:39
  AOC's fiance she and her fiance split up Oh,
• 43:42
  yeah, maybe maybe she wanted kids and he didn't
• 43:45
  right and she's like I'm 36 years old Well at
• 43:48
  the time they broke up apparently they've been
• 43:49
  broken up for two years. Well, maybe people don't
• 43:52
  know Yes. Yeah, nobody knows anything. But and
• 43:57
  Sir Bikes a lot. Thank you for the donation.
• 43:58
  Sir Bikes a lot says, hey, you got to interview
• 44:01
  Evan Barker, former Democratic operative and
• 44:04
  author of Nothing Left. She was recently on Jimmy
• 44:09
  Dore and was on the inside witnessing the betrayal
• 44:11
  of the left. Oh, I've got to look up. I thought
• 44:14
  Evan would be a boy. Evan Barker, female. Everyone's
• 44:18
  one of those. No, no, I know a female Evan. Oh,
• 44:21
  really? Okay. Okay. Well, anyway. It's like Jean.
• 44:24
  It's one of those. It's like a trans name. The
• 44:28
  name is itself trans. You don't have to be trans
• 44:31
  to have it. But yeah. Well, you know what? I
• 44:33
  knew a male Kim. Well, and like Shannon. There's
• 44:38
  kim .com, right? Yes, kim .com. Shannon is a
• 44:41
  boy or girl name. Typically, I think girl but.
• 44:44
  Yeah, one of my best friends is a male Shannon.
• 44:47
  Boy Shannon. Yeah, there's boy Shannon. So, you
• 44:50
  know. It's not a nice thing to do to your children,
• 44:53
  by the way. No, no. But I mean, in in twenty
• 44:56
  twenty six, Ted, if you have you can you can
• 44:58
  just pick a name like that and wait for the child
• 45:02
  to decide what gender they want to do. Right,
• 45:07
  right, right. What a joy. What a joy that would
• 45:10
  be. It's joy parenting in this new new millennium.
• 45:14
  I guess that's the thing, right? The gender reveal
• 45:16
  can happen multiple times in your life now. Oh,
• 45:20
  yeah, yeah. Or you can just wait till the kid
• 45:22
  decides. What I'm saying is the gender reveal
• 45:24
  can be several times for the same person. Well,
• 45:27
  I know. I know. I know that. I'm saying that
• 45:29
  the kid, because you know, six -year -olds make
• 45:32
  the best decisions. So we can just wait till
• 45:36
  they're six. All right. Let's go to the next
• 45:38
  topic, because you probably have DMZ after this,
• 45:40
  yeah? No DMZ today, doing it tomorrow. Stantus
• 45:45
  is not free today. Saturday? Yeah, we're doing
• 45:47
  it tomorrow. A Saturday? Satur -yay. Okay. Alright,
• 45:52
  we better, we better, we better, we better, we
• 45:54
  better do some stories. That's your turn, Teddy.
• 46:05
  Is it? Wait, is it? Alright, here, you read this
• 46:07
  one, because I'm having a hard time getting it.
• 46:08
  Okay, just, just do it. Oh, this is Ted's Manhattan
• 46:12
  story. Like, this is bad. Skip to the next one,
• 46:15
  and I've got to like, I'm having tech issues
• 46:17
  here. Okay, okay, I'm gonna do I'm gonna do a
• 46:20
  little a little sciencey science history story.
• 46:23
  Okay, so thousands of years ago Something blasted
• 46:27
  earth with an enormous dose of high energy particles.
• 46:30
  There were no satellites to record it Obviously
• 46:33
  except for the alien ones. I just want to write
• 46:36
  right they were there like we just don't know
• 46:40
  how to Like crack the code to get the alien satellites
• 46:44
  and all of that. It's it's it's true All true.
• 46:47
  So human satellites weren't there to record it.
• 46:51
  So no scientists back then to measure it. No
• 46:54
  electric grids to fail. But the trees noticed.
• 46:57
  This is a Dr. Reese type story. Scientists have
• 47:00
  discovered sudden spikes of radioactive carbon
• 47:04
  -14 preserved in ancient tree rings. Now 14.
• 47:09
  I had to look this up, too, because I didn't
• 47:10
  have Dr. Reese to ask. 14 is the isotope mass
• 47:15
  number. So carbon -14, preserved in ancient tree
• 47:18
  rings. When energetic particles from space strike
• 47:21
  Earth's atmosphere, they trigger reactions that
• 47:24
  create carbon -14. Trees absorb that carbon as
• 47:27
  they grow, effectively preserving a year -by
• 47:30
  -year record of extreme events in the sky. These
• 47:35
  spikes are known as Miyake events. after the
• 47:39
  physicist Fusa Miyake, whose team discovered
• 47:42
  an enormous jump dating more or less around 775
• 47:47
  common era. Hate that. You hate the common era?
• 47:52
  I hate that they're going with CE instead of
• 47:55
  like AD, like whatever. All right, common era.
• 47:59
  So evidence from tree rings and polar ice strongly
• 48:02
  indicates several were caused by extreme solar
• 48:05
  particle storms. The 774 event alone appears
• 48:10
  to have been at least five times stronger than
• 48:13
  anything directly measured during the modern
• 48:15
  scientific era. And researchers have found that
• 48:18
  even bigger events further back in time, including
• 48:21
  one that was roughly 14 ,300 years ago. So what
• 48:26
  happens if one hits us now? That's the question.
• 48:29
  First, this would not mean people suddenly dropping
• 48:33
  from radiation sickness. So that's good. That's
• 48:36
  something. So that's good. That's something to
• 48:38
  look forward to. Earth's atmosphere and magnetic
• 48:42
  field provide powerful enough protection, at
• 48:44
  least at ground level. Not saying no toxicity,
• 48:47
  by the way. The article doesn't say. Just more
• 48:50
  sunscreen. Just not no toxicity to humans. But
• 48:54
  if this happens again, you're not going to drop
• 48:57
  dead. So it's not like an instant boom blast
• 48:59
  from the sun and we're dead. But for the tech,
• 49:03
  for technology, that's a different. thing. An
• 49:05
  extreme particle storm could damage or disable
• 49:08
  satellites, corrupt onboard computers, degrade
• 49:12
  solar panels, and disrupt GPS communications
• 49:15
  and navigation. Astronauts could face dangerous
• 49:19
  radiation exposure while high altitude polar
• 49:23
  flights could require rerouting because passengers
• 49:26
  and crew would receive elevated doses. Well,
• 49:29
  not to mention the planes would be falling out
• 49:32
  of the sky and running into each other because
• 49:34
  of the GPS and the navigation. Like, what the
• 49:37
  fuck? But at least we're not dropping dead. The
• 49:40
  planes might drop. But, you know, Ted, it's Fun
• 49:43
  Friday. We're trying to have good news here.
• 49:46
  Well, this is not good news. OK, anyway. Yeah,
• 49:50
  well, I mean, if you can avoid the thousands
• 49:51
  of planes dropping from the sky, if this happens
• 49:54
  again, then then it's good news. The atmosphere
• 49:57
  itself could also take a hit. Modeling suggests
• 49:59
  exceptionally powerful solar proton storms can
• 50:04
  chemically deplete the ozone. Oh, that's fun.
• 50:08
  That's not good. Temporarily, though. So it's
• 50:12
  a giant can of Lysol is what it is. Or Aquanet.
• 50:17
  Or like... Australia has that hole in the ozone,
• 50:20
  right? So, like, their sun can be especially
• 50:22
  toxic for you. I think I'm like 2 % Aquanet from
• 50:24
  being around my mom when she would spray it in
• 50:27
  the bathroom with the door closed. That's what
• 50:30
  gave you the asthma, Ted. There's so many candidates
• 50:35
  for what gave me asthma. I mean, was it driving
• 50:37
  a taxi? Was it, you know, with no air conditioning?
• 50:41
  70s, 80s Aquanet. I promise you. Could have been
• 50:44
  the Aquanet. 70s Aquanet. Obviously, if the ozone
• 50:48
  depletes, you're going to get huge doses of UV
• 50:52
  radiation. One study estimated global ozone losses
• 50:56
  of around 4 % lasting two to three years in an
• 51:00
  extreme historical scale scenario. And if such
• 51:04
  a particle blast arrived alongside a powerful
• 51:06
  coronal mass ejection, the resulting geomagnetic
• 51:12
  storm could additionally threaten electrical
• 51:15
  grids and transformers. But I thought the Russians
• 51:18
  already do that, Ted. That's right. Rachel Maddow
• 51:22
  has been telling us that for 10 years. That distinction
• 51:25
  matters because the particle radiation and the
• 51:28
  grid damaging geomagnetic storms are related
• 51:32
  solar hazards, but they're not the same thing.
• 51:35
  Scientists cannot predict when the next Miyake
• 51:38
  event will happen, but ancient trees are telling
• 51:41
  us that it can happen because it did happen.
• 51:46
  How about that? So all these ancient trees that
• 51:51
  they're cutting out the rings and doing the carbon
• 51:54
  dating, and you please break up with the person
• 51:56
  if they don't understand, or at least know that
• 51:59
  carbon dating exists. Well, no, but Robbie doesn't
• 52:03
  believe in carbon dating. No, he doesn't believe
• 52:05
  in it. That's different than acknowledging that
• 52:08
  such technology exists. Rejecting it is different.
• 52:13
  So that's a different. But anyway, that's kind
• 52:17
  of purifying. Look, if it happened before, right,
• 52:20
  when you talk about the big earthquakes like
• 52:23
  in California, like if the big one has hit before
• 52:26
  cameras were invented, then surely a big one
• 52:29
  is going to happen again. No, we know it's going
• 52:32
  to happen. I mean, there's no question. I mean,
• 52:35
  of course, it's that thing where it's like, well,
• 52:36
  we don't know when, but we know it will. So this
• 52:40
  big solar particle blast that the sun decides
• 52:44
  to give. Like, it's like a big solar burp. Yeah,
• 52:51
  yeah. When somebody that kind of burps in your
• 52:53
  face and you're like, Oh, God, like, Oh, my God,
• 52:56
  stop, stop. God, turn away. The sun did that
• 53:02
  to Earth. That's the thing is we we think of
• 53:05
  I mean, that's the thing, right? We think of
• 53:06
  like, the ecosystem is all being like sort of
• 53:10
  We don't think about shit coming from outer space,
• 53:12
  right? I mean, but this, you know, we get, there's
• 53:15
  solar flares. There's this story, meteors, meteorites.
• 53:22
  Right now we're in the middle of the Perseid
• 53:24
  meteor showers, right? Which is a reminder that
• 53:27
  the earth is constantly being bombarded by rocks
• 53:30
  and other debris from outer space. So it's, I
• 53:34
  mean, we're not alone here. It feels like we're
• 53:36
  alone, but we're not. I just thought that was
• 53:39
  an interesting Friday science -y story of like,
• 53:42
  hey, among the list of a gajillion things that
• 53:46
  can kill you, the sun might kill you. And I thought
• 53:50
  Mr. Miyake was a nice guy. Little did I know.
• 53:53
  No, Miyake. Oh, OK, right. That's Miyagi. Miyagi,
• 53:58
  from the karate kids, a different guy. Yeah,
• 54:01
  yeah. This is Miyake. Miyake. Cattle grasshopper.
• 54:04
  OK. All right. All right. Now Ted's story. New
• 54:10
  York has always been expensive. Manhattan has
• 54:12
  now decided that expensive needs to get pricier.
• 54:16
  The average Manhattan apartment rented last month,
• 54:20
  July, for $6 ,655. I'm going to linger that on
• 54:24
  that a little bit. $6 ,600 is the average Manhattan
• 54:28
  apartment rental. That is 10 % higher than a
• 54:32
  year ago. I got to say. If memory serves just
• 54:35
  about three four years ago, it was only five
• 54:37
  thousand a month, right? So the rent is too damn
• 54:40
  high that works out to nearly eighty thousand
• 54:42
  dollars a year And that's of course you have
• 54:45
  to have you have to earn that money and pay taxes
• 54:48
  on it So it's you probably have to make about
• 54:50
  a hundred and twenty hundred and thirty thousand
• 54:52
  dollars a year to pay that eighty thousand dollars
• 54:55
  a year before food utilities transportation or
• 54:58
  the privilege of maybe leaving your apartment.
• 55:01
  Studios now average $4 ,088 a month. A one -bedroom
• 55:06
  is $5 ,486. A two -bedroom is $8 ,054. And the
• 55:12
  average three -bedroom, assuming you could find
• 55:14
  one in New York City because there are not very
• 55:17
  many of them, they run $12 ,228 a fucking month.
• 55:25
  Averages can get pulled upwards by luxury apartments,
• 55:28
  so the median gives you a better idea of what
• 55:31
  a typical renter is encountering as opposed to
• 55:34
  the average. That's also pretty shitty. Corcoran
• 55:38
  puts the median rent in New York City at $5 ,000.
• 55:41
  Maybe that's what I was thinking about. I must
• 55:43
  have been thinking about that. $5 ,000 a month
• 55:45
  was the median rent. $5 ,295 a month, up 6 %
• 55:51
  from last year. Basically, part of the problem
• 55:54
  is supply. There were only 5 ,200 active rental
• 55:59
  listings last month, down 22 % from a year earlier.
• 56:02
  The vacancy rate is only 1 .5 % supposedly, meaning
• 56:06
  that only three apartments out of every 200 are
• 56:10
  listed as available. That doesn't mean that they're
• 56:12
  not empty, just available. Higher mortgage rates
• 56:16
  are also keeping some buyers in rentals longer,
• 56:20
  which creates more competition. Meanwhile, New
• 56:23
  York is continuing to debate whether regulations,
• 56:25
  construction barriers, and recent housing policies
• 56:27
  are affecting the supply. Brooklyn isn't much
• 56:31
  cheaper. Their median rent in Brooklyn is now
• 56:34
  $42 .57 in the month of July. So basically, this
• 56:40
  is horrid. Now, I want to also make people aware
• 56:45
  of something else. In New York City, in order
• 56:47
  to qualify, to rent an apartment, you have to
• 56:51
  earn 40 times or more a year the monthly rent.
• 56:56
  So let's say you rent an apartment for 5 ,000
• 56:58
  a month. You have to pay 5 ,000 times 40 is 200
• 57:02
  ,000. You have to earn, you have to show on your
• 57:05
  tax returns that as an individual, you earn $200
• 57:08
  ,000 or more. If you're self -employed, that
• 57:11
  means you have to earn, let's say you deduct
• 57:14
  $50 ,000. in stuff, then you must show that you
• 57:20
  earn over $250 ,000 gross income. So basically,
• 57:26
  you have to have a real salary of $200K or more
• 57:31
  for a $5 ,000 a month apartment. For that $12
• 57:35
  ,000 a month apartment, you have to earn $480
• 57:39
  ,000 a year. in order to qualify for it. Even
• 57:43
  if, let's just say, you're like, oh, I inherited
• 57:46
  $10 million from my grandmother. To get the apartment,
• 57:51
  you have to show that income. Holy moly. It's
• 57:57
  insane. It's insane. I got to ask you this. Relative
• 58:03
  to the 90s versus now, the friend's apartment.
• 58:09
  Right, which was obviously a set, right? Obviously,
• 58:14
  but if that were a real apartment in Manhattan
• 58:16
  where they supposedly lived. Well, how many roommates
• 58:19
  were there? Three? No, no, they only had the
• 58:22
  two bedrooms, but you saw how big the. Right,
• 58:25
  so the two bedroom apartment. Well, so according
• 58:27
  to. In the 90s. Do you remember what neighborhood
• 58:30
  that was supposed to be in? I don't think they
• 58:33
  ever specified if they were like. Like Midtown
• 58:37
  Upper East Upper West. I don't know. They never
• 58:39
  really specified. Yeah, it's sort of like in
• 58:41
  Seinfeld They don't really okay. Oh my god. Okay,
• 58:44
  so it's in though It's in the West Village the
• 58:47
  Friends apartment apartment was supposed to be
• 58:49
  West Village Yeah, it's like it's on Bedford
• 58:51
  Street and Grove Of course, it was filmed at
• 58:54
  a soundstage. The actual address is 90 Bedford
• 58:57
  Street in New York City. Okay, so Okay, so that's
• 59:01
  hilarious. Okay, so a two -bedroom there It's
• 59:06
  hard to imagine how it would be under $10 ,000
• 59:08
  a month. I mean, it's the West Village. I mean,
• 59:11
  it's one of the most desirable neighborhoods
• 59:13
  in New York City. I know. I know. So that's what's
• 59:16
  funny to me because, I mean, in the 90s, what
• 59:19
  would that have cost? In the 90s. In the 90s,
• 59:24
  95. I think back then it would have been about
• 59:27
  $4 ,000 or $3 ,500. Wow. And I think they referenced
• 59:34
  That it was rent controlled or something and
• 59:38
  that one of their grandma like Okay, so that
• 59:41
  helps explain it. I do know someone who lives
• 59:43
  in a very small apartment in a studio in the
• 59:48
  West Village and He has this place that he got
• 59:51
  from his grandmother rent controlled not rent
• 59:54
  stabilized rent control is different so rent
• 59:57
  stabilization it only applies to a certain number
• 1:00:00
  of apartments in New York City not very many
• 1:00:02
  actually and Every year, the rent control board
• 1:00:07
  gets together and sets the renewal rate for one
• 1:00:12
  and two -year leases. And so typically, it's
• 1:00:15
  like 3 % increase or 6%. But basically, you'll
• 1:00:18
  get the apartment, you know that it can't go
• 1:00:21
  up more than what the rent control board. There's
• 1:00:23
  a ceiling. The rent stabilization board does.
• 1:00:26
  Rent control means the rent is frozen like a
• 1:00:31
  lump. in frozen in time, right? So the only way
• 1:00:35
  it can increase is under very limited circumstances.
• 1:00:39
  So it basically doesn't happen. I have a friend
• 1:00:41
  who has a rent control. Those haven't increased
• 1:00:44
  since the early 1970s. Rent control was abolished
• 1:00:48
  in the 1970s. So those are grandfathered in.
• 1:00:52
  So there is no rent control in New York City.
• 1:00:55
  There's old rent control, but like no market
• 1:00:58
  rate. Yeah, I think that was the theory. Like
• 1:01:01
  in friends fandom, which, which you can. Like
• 1:01:05
  I have a friend, he has a studio that he pays
• 1:01:08
  three hundred dollars a month for in the village,
• 1:01:11
  which would easily be like thirty five hundred
• 1:01:14
  or four thousand dollars a month now. Holy moly.
• 1:01:16
  Yeah, they they mentioned they mentioned at one
• 1:01:19
  time early in the series that it was like, I
• 1:01:22
  don't know, Rachel's grandmother's apartment.
• 1:01:25
  not Rachel, sorry, Monica's grandmother's apartment
• 1:01:28
  and that she and she and Ross inherited from
• 1:01:31
  grandma and that it was rent controlled. Right.
• 1:01:37
  So that OK, so that's feasible. I mean, I got
• 1:01:40
  to tell you. So do you remember single white
• 1:01:42
  female with what was it? Jennifer Jason Lee,
• 1:01:46
  Jennifer Jason Lee. And was it Bridget Fonda
• 1:01:48
  and Bridget Fonda and Bridget Fonda. Right. And
• 1:01:52
  anyway, I saw that. at a movie theater on the
• 1:01:54
  Upper West Side. And then, you know, as the reveal
• 1:02:00
  of where the apartment is becomes clear, it's
• 1:02:03
  at the Aptthorp, which is this incredibly luxurious
• 1:02:07
  old school apartment building on Broadway. It's
• 1:02:13
  beyond. OK, it's like Gilded Age. It literally
• 1:02:16
  has an interior courtyard so you can bring your
• 1:02:18
  horse and carriage in. Oh, wow. with the big
• 1:02:22
  gates and stuff. There's only like a handful
• 1:02:24
  of buildings like that. I don't think there's
• 1:02:26
  even 10 buildings like that in all of New York
• 1:02:28
  City. And people start, the audience start howling.
• 1:02:35
  With laughter like no comment, right? Nobody
• 1:02:38
  says like These were supposed to be two girls
• 1:02:43
  who moved from the Midwest to be interns Like
• 1:02:48
  this is an apartment at the time the movie came
• 1:02:51
  out like you couldn't like get in there for under
• 1:02:54
  10 million dollars today It would be 30 or 40
• 1:02:56
  million dollars for the unit Okay, so like the
• 1:03:01
  place has these cavernous ceilings that are like
• 1:03:03
  25 feet high You're like, are you kidding me?
• 1:03:07
  Like like a Saudi sheik would have to like deep
• 1:03:11
  into the seat cushions to get that place, you
• 1:03:14
  know, like it was just I even knew in California
• 1:03:20
  that even in the 90s when I was watching Friends
• 1:03:23
  that I couldn't fully suspend disbelief because
• 1:03:27
  you know, as a kid growing up in a big city,
• 1:03:29
  like in Los Angeles, like you're always aware
• 1:03:31
  of how much things cost, right? Sure. Like, because
• 1:03:35
  you can't, especially growing up relatively poor,
• 1:03:39
  hearing your parents talk about how much things
• 1:03:41
  cost. So in high school, watching Friends, I'm
• 1:03:44
  like, how the fuck would Rachel being a coffee
• 1:03:49
  shop waitress and Monica being a low level, maybe
• 1:03:55
  at most she was a sous chef, Right? How can they
• 1:03:59
  afford this ginormous apartment that looked bigger
• 1:04:02
  than the house I grew up in? Like... Yeah, it's
• 1:04:05
  like, stop. Just stop. And so this just, you
• 1:04:08
  know, tells you right there how much... Now,
• 1:04:11
  here's the thing, right? Like, about this story,
• 1:04:15
  I don't understand how this makes any fucking
• 1:04:17
  sense, okay? I mean, New York City has a... I
• 1:04:20
  mean, okay, a lot of rich people live in New
• 1:04:22
  York City, but... The point is that it's a city
• 1:04:25
  that has a lot of working class people, right?
• 1:04:28
  I mean, it's like, and not to mention, a city
• 1:04:31
  can't function without people who have normal
• 1:04:36
  jobs. And normal jobs don't pay $200 ,000 a year
• 1:04:40
  or more. But if you move from, you know, flyover
• 1:04:44
  country to New York, even if you're, okay, so.
• 1:04:50
  I would, my advice for someone who's like 21,
• 1:04:52
  like, you know, I want to live in New York. It
• 1:04:55
  would be like, oh, I want to live in Manhattan.
• 1:04:56
  Okay. Well, you can't live in Manhattan, right?
• 1:04:58
  Like you can't even live in Inwood, which is
• 1:05:01
  upper Manhattan. It's like, OK, you can live
• 1:05:04
  out in like Canarsie, which is eastern Brooklyn.
• 1:05:07
  You can live in Ozone Park, which is eastern
• 1:05:10
  Queens out by the airport. Can you live up? Can
• 1:05:13
  you afford like up by the Apollo, like going
• 1:05:15
  way up the 90s? Oh, no, that's my old neighborhood.
• 1:05:18
  No, no fucking way. I mean, no, I mean, I had
• 1:05:22
  a two bedroom and I was paying five thousand
• 1:05:27
  one hundred and fifty dollars and it was considered
• 1:05:29
  a bargain. Oh, I know. It still hurts. It's just
• 1:05:33
  when I hear it. They increased. They jacked up
• 1:05:36
  the rent when I left to $5 ,800. And I was in
• 1:05:42
  the hundreds, OK? And the neighborhood had gone
• 1:05:46
  to shit. The Apollo is on 125th Street. But Harlem
• 1:05:49
  is, forget Harlem. I mean, even East Harlem,
• 1:05:52
  which used to be affordable, is not. anymore.
• 1:05:56
  Manhattan is over. Who does that leave moving
• 1:06:02
  in? New York's not New York. Only rich people
• 1:06:05
  can do it. Rich old people and like douchey Wall
• 1:06:09
  Street guys. Yeah, it's bros. It's like, yeah,
• 1:06:13
  it's assholes. Yeah, because what would New York
• 1:06:15
  be without the... At one point, I dreamt of being...
• 1:06:18
  Normal people, waiters, right? I dreamt of being
• 1:06:22
  one of those girls. I used to dream of working
• 1:06:24
  for the New York Times when I was a kid, when
• 1:06:27
  I respected the New York Times. And the New York
• 1:06:30
  Times doesn't pay an entry -level reporter $200
• 1:06:33
  ,000 a year. Right. They pay maybe $60 ,000.
• 1:06:37
  What would New York City even be without people
• 1:06:40
  like that, though, if this is what... That's
• 1:06:43
  the big question. And the answer is it's going
• 1:06:46
  to be, look, it's a city that has, I've watched
• 1:06:49
  it throughout my life become less interesting,
• 1:06:55
  less diverse. You know, I mean, like, so there's
• 1:06:58
  more chain stores. There's no, you know, there's,
• 1:07:01
  it's kind of like - Time Square has become fucking
• 1:07:04
  Disney -fied. And everything has. Disney. It's
• 1:07:07
  Disney. I mean, look, you know, there's a there's
• 1:07:10
  a target. There's a, you know, there's a there's
• 1:07:13
  a there's an eminence. There's an eminence on
• 1:07:16
  23rd Street. There's I mean, it's just like that
• 1:07:18
  shit's not supposed to be in Manhattan. I know
• 1:07:21
  Times Square. Even if I I miss the days of Times
• 1:07:24
  Square still being like grimy where I have to
• 1:07:27
  like clutch my backpack against my body to look
• 1:07:30
  around and be like, yes, it's not like I'm going
• 1:07:33
  to shiv you. I know, Dwayne Reid. It's like nothing
• 1:07:36
  is local. There's no little, there's no more
• 1:07:40
  quirky boutiques, used vintage clothing stores.
• 1:07:44
  There's no vintage clothing stores. There are
• 1:07:46
  no, I mean, used bookstores are a thing of the
• 1:07:49
  past. All that stuff. Only work. Diners are in
• 1:07:52
  deep trouble. I mean, there's hardly any diners
• 1:07:54
  left. They used to be everywhere. So, you know.
• 1:07:57
  Or buy the slice pizza shops like I used to.
• 1:08:00
  Those are still around. Not in the same numbers,
• 1:08:04
  but yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I just, it saddens me to
• 1:08:07
  hear that those numbers and people are like,
• 1:08:09
  oh yeah, New York's. There's a lot of empty.
• 1:08:11
  I mean, look, I don't think it's sustainable.
• 1:08:13
  And I think New York is ground zero for like
• 1:08:17
  what I've described here as the city problem,
• 1:08:20
  which is post COVID, what is the point of a city?
• 1:08:24
  I mean, if you just think about it, what is urbanization?
• 1:08:28
  Urbanization is a model where people aggregate
• 1:08:31
  because all the jobs and major employers are
• 1:08:34
  in one place. They all want to live near them.
• 1:08:37
  So all of those are in one place. Then people
• 1:08:39
  buy homes or rent homes near there. And then
• 1:08:42
  that's a city, right? And then a city creates.
• 1:08:45
  But if you're working at home, you don't need
• 1:08:49
  to be in the city. So the only reason to be in
• 1:08:51
  the city then is like what? To shop at interesting
• 1:08:55
  stores. and to date and to eat at interesting
• 1:08:58
  restaurants. Go to bars and stuff like that.
• 1:08:59
  Well, the thing is, okay, nowadays there's very
• 1:09:02
  few interesting restaurants in New York City
• 1:09:04
  the way there used to be. And also with farm
• 1:09:07
  to table shit, like even existing in like flyover
• 1:09:10
  country and in small towns, like you can move
• 1:09:13
  out and still have those experiences. Cool dining.
• 1:09:16
  Yeah, yeah. Dating is online. It's not at bars.
• 1:09:19
  So you can, again, I mean, obviously you, you
• 1:09:22
  know, higher population density means you have
• 1:09:24
  more choices, but then you meet your person,
• 1:09:26
  you partner up, you get married, then what? You
• 1:09:28
  don't need to be in the city. Amazon, you can
• 1:09:33
  buy anything interesting you want and it'll come
• 1:09:35
  straight to your door. So what is the point of
• 1:09:40
  a city? I mean, a vibe is not, there is a vibe,
• 1:09:44
  but it's not, the vibe's not as intense as it
• 1:09:47
  used to be. And it's, so it's like, the vibe
• 1:09:50
  is all there is. Right. And the question is,
• 1:09:52
  can you charge $5 ,000 a month for Vibe? I don't
• 1:09:57
  think so. I don't think so. I don't think not
• 1:09:59
  over time. I don't think you can. Who can afford
• 1:10:01
  that? And McCadden says or McCadden says Monica
• 1:10:05
  illegally sublet it under her grandmother's rent
• 1:10:08
  control. Well, so the thing is funny is actually
• 1:10:13
  you can inherit a rent controlled apartment.
• 1:10:16
  That's what happened on Friends. But it wouldn't
• 1:10:18
  be it would not be illegal, is my point. Oh,
• 1:10:21
  it's not? No, if like Monica's grandmother gave
• 1:10:24
  it to her mom and then her mom gave it to her,
• 1:10:27
  then it would be legal. I don't know. I didn't
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  watch the show, so I don't know how it worked.
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  Yeah. I'm a frenzy. So it was handed down. Like
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  in the odd couple was a far more realistic apartment
• 1:10:37
  because like they were both pretty well off.
• 1:10:41
  They had good jobs, right? Or like bosom buddies?
• 1:10:46
  Nobody talks about bosom buddies. I don't know.
• 1:10:48
  I've never heard of bosom buddies. You don't
• 1:10:49
  know bosom buddies? Ted, it was Tom Hanks on
• 1:10:52
  the small screen and I forget. What? Yeah, look
• 1:10:55
  at that. I never even heard of this thing. Oh
• 1:10:57
  my God. Please look it up. Buzz and buddies.
• 1:10:59
  It wasn't very it didn't last very long, but
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  I forget what their jobs were. But this is like
• 1:11:04
  young, post -collegiate Tom Hanks. And I forget
• 1:11:07
  the co -star. He had a little bit of a career
• 1:11:10
  after, but they were supposed to be like young,
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  young dudes. I don't know if they're working
• 1:11:15
  on Wall Street. I don't know what. I don't remember.
• 1:11:16
  But they were supposed to be in New York City.
• 1:11:18
  And their apartment was kind of like this dumpy,
• 1:11:21
  you know, what you expect some young 20 -somethings
• 1:11:24
  to get in New York City. Like, two dudes. So
• 1:11:28
  it's bosom buddies. I can't believe you don't
• 1:11:30
  know. This is like... Don't know it. Late 70s,
• 1:11:33
  early 80s. We got to keep going. But like, yeah,
• 1:11:36
  no, I don't know it at all. That's weird. The
• 1:11:38
  other apartment I'm trying to think of is that
• 1:11:40
  was like, was the Seinfeld apartment. they lived
• 1:11:44
  on the east side and it was kind of like hard
• 1:11:46
  to see like how they could afford to live there
• 1:11:50
  you know given the fact that they uh no no actually
• 1:11:53
  i guess they lived on the west side but um it
• 1:11:56
  was just weird because he's a comedian it's like
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  comedians don't really make any money i don't
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  know no he was still supposed to be a relatively
• 1:12:04
  famous comedian like that was the point like
• 1:12:06
  like because he was talking about getting a tv
• 1:12:08
  show with nbc and stuff right so that's He was
• 1:12:12
  supposed to be famous enough so He would have
• 1:12:16
  made some money Elaine Elaine I don't know how
• 1:12:18
  Elaine would have afforded her apartment being
• 1:12:20
  a you know a book editor a trend, you know, she
• 1:12:23
  oh, yeah, there was no way and And then what
• 1:12:26
  about oh my how Kramer afforded his apartment?
• 1:12:29
  Yeah. Yeah. Well, that's I think that's okay
• 1:12:32
  because the whole Kramer thing was meant to be
• 1:12:34
  like his character is like Who knows what's up
• 1:12:37
  with him? He's yeah And it's like, everyone knows
• 1:12:40
  that guy, right? So we all just assumed, right?
• 1:12:43
  We have to just assume that Kramer was independently
• 1:12:46
  wealthy. Right. Or had some kind of insane grift
• 1:12:49
  or something. Something. But anyway. All right.
• 1:12:52
  That's that's fun. But let's go back. Let's go
• 1:12:55
  back to my story. And then we're the end of New
• 1:12:57
  York City. OK, let's do the last one. And 82.
• 1:13:02
  D jaws, D jaws. An 82 year old lady in Bologna,
• 1:13:06
  Italy went to the hospital with four days of
• 1:13:09
  worsening abdominal pain, constipation, nausea
• 1:13:11
  and vomiting. Doctors quickly found the problem.
• 1:13:14
  Donald Trump is the president of the United States.
• 1:13:16
  No, no, no. Something was blocking her small
• 1:13:19
  intestine. What they did not expect was for that
• 1:13:22
  something to jump out during surgery. Ah! Scan
• 1:13:26
  showed a solid mass lodged in the woman's bowel
• 1:13:30
  creating a small bowel obstruction, a potentially
• 1:13:33
  dangerous condition that can cut off blood flow
• 1:13:36
  and kill intestinal tissue, if not relieved.
• 1:13:39
  They operated and removed a mass about two inches
• 1:13:42
  long. It was a phytobasor. No, bezoar. Remember
• 1:13:47
  we talked about this? Oh my god, bezoar. A phytobasor.
• 1:13:51
  Phytobasor. A tightly packed clump of undigested
• 1:13:56
  plant material. And apparently it had a little
• 1:14:00
  friend. As surgeons lifted the mass out, a small
• 1:14:03
  living creature leapt out and began crawling
• 1:14:06
  up the sterile surgical drapes. The team trapped
• 1:14:10
  it and sent it for identification. It wasn't
• 1:14:13
  a bug. It was a terrestrial isopod, the crustacean
• 1:14:18
  group that includes pill bugs, sew bugs. Sal
• 1:14:22
  bugs? So bugs? I don't know what that is. And
• 1:14:24
  the backyard favorite known as the roly -poly.
• 1:14:28
  No, pill bugs and the roly -poly. Roly -poly
• 1:14:30
  is a pill bug. It's the same thing. Yeah, I say
• 1:14:32
  roly -poly where I'm from. Roly -poly is a pill
• 1:14:35
  bug. Anyway, which by the way, they are apparently
• 1:14:38
  related to trilobites, you know, those fossils.
• 1:14:43
  In other words, a relative of crabs and shrimp
• 1:14:45
  had sometimes somehow survived inside a human
• 1:14:48
  digestive tract. Doctors think the lady probably
• 1:14:52
  swallowed the animal accidentally, while I'm
• 1:14:55
  sure it was not on purpose, while eating unwashed
• 1:14:57
  fruit or vegetables. Maybe from Taco Bell? Normally,
• 1:15:01
  something that small would be destroyed by stomach
• 1:15:03
  acid and digestive enzymes, but this dense mass
• 1:15:08
  of plant material formed a shelter around it,
• 1:15:11
  allowing it to survive. It's not a parasite.
• 1:15:15
  They don't infect people. And there's no evidence
• 1:15:18
  that the creature caused the obstruction. The
• 1:15:22
  bazzoar did that. The woman recovered and is
• 1:15:26
  doing awesome 18 months later. At 82? Now she's
• 1:15:31
  83 and a half? Yep. But what happened to the
• 1:15:34
  roly -poly? Was it protected? Has it been given
• 1:15:37
  a new lease on life so it had to live in a very
• 1:15:40
  dark place? What did happen to the roly -poly?
• 1:15:44
  I don't know. That's the important thing. Listen,
• 1:15:49
  old people come and go. Roly -polies, they're
• 1:15:52
  forever. That's true. We have to take into consideration
• 1:15:58
  the welfare of the roly -poly. It was evicted
• 1:16:00
  from its home. It was not asked. His consent
• 1:16:02
  was not given. It was an innocent victim. Yeah,
• 1:16:05
  it was. And that roly poly should... Who speaks
• 1:16:09
  for the roly polys? Well, I will. If no one else
• 1:16:12
  will speak for the roly poly, I will do it. That's
• 1:16:14
  very big of you. Yeah. I appreciate that. I spoke
• 1:16:18
  for the missing Ted Roll this morning on Deep
• 1:16:19
  Program. I appreciate that too. I'm like, I was
• 1:16:22
  like a roly poly this morning. Sierra Juliet
• 1:16:25
  Mike says they're pronounced B -zor. Okay. I
• 1:16:31
  thought they were called potato bugs, says Mama
• 1:16:33
  Turtle. Potato bugs are different. I don't know
• 1:16:36
  that one. They're like big lady bugs, but a different
• 1:16:43
  color. They're not red. They're kind of like
• 1:16:45
  yellow. Yellow with stripes. I don't know how
• 1:16:49
  many creatures fall into the isopod. This is
• 1:16:54
  a JDC question in the chat. I don't know how
• 1:16:57
  many creatures fall into the isopod. Well, pill
• 1:16:59
  bugs are descended from trilobites, and they
• 1:17:03
  were a sea creature. Interesting. And they have
• 1:17:08
  evolved to live on land. Interesting. Much like
• 1:17:14
  Pete Hegseth. Gross. Who came from deep inside
• 1:17:20
  the swamp. Like, remember Swamp Thing? that like
• 1:17:25
  the show yeah yeah that's this um but this i
• 1:17:28
  just thought that was a it had a nice happy ending
• 1:17:33
  for an old lady obviously she got the beezer
• 1:17:37
  out of her can you imagine by the way that you
• 1:17:40
  know there you are operating and you know you're
• 1:17:42
  just like And you see the thing moving? And these
• 1:17:46
  obstructions are, like, not unusual. I mean,
• 1:17:49
  I know that people, especially when people are
• 1:17:51
  older, they can get them. And it is something
• 1:17:53
  to be aware of. And then you're like, and suddenly
• 1:17:56
  he's like, it's moving! And then it's like, boom,
• 1:17:59
  I gotta go! And it darts out of there. But how
• 1:18:02
  did, does that mean the old lady didn't chew
• 1:18:05
  her salad or something? Like, how? How? Yeah,
• 1:18:10
  well, I mean, I'm sure it wasn't huge, right?
• 1:18:13
  So she probably just... I just, I don't know.
• 1:18:17
  Make sure to chew thoroughly. I hope Grandma
• 1:18:19
  had her dentures in when she was eating the salad
• 1:18:22
  or whatever. Like, I just don't know. How does
• 1:18:26
  that happen? Oh my God. And I hate thinking about...
• 1:18:29
  I'm a... Are you a super salad washer? I am.
• 1:18:33
  No, I'm not. This could happen to me. Yeah. What
• 1:18:36
  is a super what what is a super salad washer?
• 1:18:39
  What What does that mean? I like you carefully
• 1:18:41
  carefully wash like every fucking leaf. I Oh,
• 1:18:45
  absolutely not. I do. I always think Oh, no.
• 1:18:48
  No, this is how the whole cyclospora thing came
• 1:18:52
  about is because it was watered with shit water
• 1:18:55
  from Mexico. So buy American food goes to your
• 1:18:59
  farmers. I ate a salad yesterday for the first
• 1:19:02
  time in like Not to mention, this was like most
• 1:19:05
  people who got it initially got it from Taco
• 1:19:07
  Bell, right? Yeah, because of the salad that
• 1:19:09
  you used in the burrito. You don't take your
• 1:19:12
  shit apart and then wash it and then eat it,
• 1:19:14
  right? No, no, that's different. I'm saying for
• 1:19:16
  me as a salad, like eating a salad, I ate a salad
• 1:19:19
  for the first time in six weeks and I went through...
• 1:19:22
  TeraPredis says grow your own, but when you do
• 1:19:25
  that, trust me, I grow my own. There's bugs.
• 1:19:28
  You got to wash. I have some. No, the bugs, I
• 1:19:29
  don't mind. But for the cyclospora, I made sure
• 1:19:35
  I sourced the salad from California. This is
• 1:19:41
  like grown in the Salinas Valley. You guys would
• 1:19:44
  be shocked. So they say, I mean, they just put
• 1:19:46
  a sticker on it. I know, I did research. Not
• 1:19:49
  from Mexico, not from Mexico, not from Mexico.
• 1:19:51
  No, I researched, like I literally researched
• 1:19:53
  down. And so I found out all of these different
• 1:19:57
  brands, like Taylor Farms is to blame, right?
• 1:20:01
  But all of these other secondary brands like
• 1:20:05
  even if you're you think you're paying eight
• 1:20:06
  dollars for bagged salad at Whole Foods and it's
• 1:20:09
  organic or whatever Taylor Farms it's Taylor
• 1:20:11
  Farms Amazon because Amazon owns Whole Foods
• 1:20:14
  Amazon's own brand whatever Amazon's own brand
• 1:20:18
  is called I forget um that's also Taylor Farms
• 1:20:22
  um Walmart's brand market side Also, Taylor Farms
• 1:20:26
  that's sold on the shelves at Walmart next to
• 1:20:29
  Taylor Farms. So you can buy Taylor Farms with
• 1:20:31
  the label Taylor Farms and pay a little bit more,
• 1:20:33
  or you pay the Walmart brand, which is market
• 1:20:37
  side, pay a little less, but it's all Taylor
• 1:20:39
  Farms. Everything is Taylor Farms. Everything.
• 1:20:43
  So I sourced, I found this one that is a non
• 1:20:48
  -Taylor Farms. Like it's getting harder and harder
• 1:20:50
  when you're talking about Big Ag and Big Food.
• 1:20:54
  where it's like a monopoly. Taylor Farms is apparently
• 1:20:57
  like, has monopolized our food system. Like they
• 1:20:59
  are the food. They are the greens of at least
• 1:21:04
  big city America. Like it's terrifying. Yesterday,
• 1:21:08
  me and Kizzie went to the rodeo. I don't know
• 1:21:09
  if you saw the pictures I sent on the chat. So
• 1:21:13
  this will freak some of the people out. So it's
• 1:21:17
  Little County Fair is where the rodeo is. And
• 1:21:19
  we had pulled pork sandwiches that they gave
• 1:21:22
  us for price of admission. And it was local.
• 1:21:26
  And the way that I know it was local beef is
• 1:21:28
  because we watched them kill the cows, gut the
• 1:21:30
  cows, strip the cows, and then cook the cow.
• 1:21:34
  Like from start to finish, processing them right
• 1:21:37
  there. When the cowboys got done with the cows,
• 1:21:39
  down she goes, to the butcher it goes, and it
• 1:21:43
  was just a great time. That's the best way to
• 1:21:46
  get your food. Yeah. Ted, you're muted. Oh, Ted,
• 1:21:52
  you're muted. All natural. Breaking this, Luigi
• 1:21:56
  Mangione says he intends to plead guilty. Don't
• 1:22:00
  do it, Luigi. I mean, we already said he would.
• 1:22:04
  It sucks. I mean, it sucks because this is a
• 1:22:08
  political act, and a political act needs a political
• 1:22:13
  trial, and it needs Luigi. to stand up in court
• 1:22:17
  and explain himself. And that's not going to
• 1:22:21
  happen now. Well, I mean, we'll we'll see. Obviously,
• 1:22:25
  this is in an effort to. To get away from death
• 1:22:32
  row. Yeah, yeah. So I don't I don't blame them
• 1:22:37
  like if this is your only way out to escape death
• 1:22:40
  row. Shouldn't have gone to that McDonald's.
• 1:22:43
  Shouldn't have taken his mask off to flirt with
• 1:22:46
  the chick at the... He got Karen'd. Yeah, he
• 1:22:51
  got Karen'd by his son. The McDonald's manager
• 1:22:53
  was a lady. I heard the call. It was a lady.
• 1:22:57
  So, you got Karen'd. There's this guy right there
• 1:23:02
  that looks like... I think it's that guy that
• 1:23:05
  you're looking for. I think it's the guy you're
• 1:23:06
  looking for who killed that nice gentleman. He's
• 1:23:09
  got the big eyebrows. I've got breaking news
• 1:23:13
  too. Someone for the very first time, my very
• 1:23:16
  first ever order, someone ordered a Putin Mike
• 1:23:18
  gaming shirt from my room. Congratulations. Thank
• 1:23:22
  you. Did they ask for it in large cat size? Just
• 1:23:27
  wondering if it's a certain. Oh, you should make
• 1:23:29
  pet. You should make pet shirts. Yes. For Clovis.
• 1:23:34
  Pet shirts. That would be cute. That'd be really
• 1:23:38
  cute. Anyway, that doesn't rest this Friday.
• 1:23:41
  uh happy weekend um hopefully we we stay clear
• 1:23:44
  of these whatever what is that solar storm thing
• 1:23:47
  called ted what what was it the particle storm
• 1:23:50
  the Miyake the Miyake event so now we just have
• 1:23:55
  to hope not to get a Miyake event doesn't that
• 1:23:56
  sound like a 1970s uh movie the Miyake effect
• 1:24:01
  the Miyake event event yeah yeah the Miyake happening
• 1:24:06
  show it watch it at the same time as the Osterman
• 1:24:08
  weekend We can write that. I was just complaining
• 1:24:12
  with somebody yesterday, some friends, foreign
• 1:24:16
  friends, and they were saying the best thing
• 1:24:18
  that America used to do and no longer was give
• 1:24:23
  the world great movies. Yeah, that's true. That's
• 1:24:27
  the one thing. We also created great rock and
• 1:24:32
  roll, too. They loved our movies and they were
• 1:24:36
  like, yeah, here in India, you go to any any
• 1:24:40
  gym and they like we still have like rocky posters
• 1:24:44
  up they said yeah how how else how else how else
• 1:24:52
  did anybody still like americans because you
• 1:24:54
  guys only drop bombs on us or give us movies
• 1:24:57
  so the movies won us over even though you drop
• 1:24:59
  bombs on us and now there's just now it's just
• 1:25:01
  the bombs sorry actually though the good news
• 1:25:04
  is we're out of those Well, we're temporarily
• 1:25:07
  but it still doesn't answer that we're not producing
• 1:25:09
  great content anymore We're not producing anything
• 1:25:13
  anymore. We don't make it So our movies suck
• 1:25:17
  go enjoy an old movie this weekend everybody
• 1:25:19
  Come back the new Mortal Kombat 2 movie was good.
• 1:25:23
  Most video game movies suck. That was good It
• 1:25:26
  was not bad. I just thought And Ted, you still
• 1:25:29
  got to watch The Gray Awakening. I know you have
• 1:25:30
  not watched it yet. I will. And I keep pounding
• 1:25:33
  you about it. And you promised me that you would
• 1:25:35
  watch it. And you have yet to deliver. All right.
• 1:25:37
  All right. Yet to deliver. Bye. Bye. Bye. Adios,
• 1:25:40
  amigos. Bye. Ciao.