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Ep. 112: America’s Greatest Enemy Is...Canada? · The Opinionated Ogre Podcast

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  SPEAKER_02: This is The Opinionated Ogre Podcast,
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  SPEAKER_02: your weekly rampage through current events with a little snark,
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  SPEAKER_02: a bit of foul language, and a lot of strong opinions.
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  SPEAKER_02: There are new episodes every Thursday.
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  SPEAKER_02: They're not safe for work or polite company of any kind whatsoever.
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  SPEAKER_02: I am your podcast host,
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  SPEAKER_02: The Opinionated Ogre,
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  SPEAKER_02: and this is my co-hosts, Florida woman and her little one, Nathan.
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  SPEAKER_02: Hello, Florida woman and Nathan.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hello.
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  SPEAKER_00: Say hi, Nathan.
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  Hi.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hi.
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  SPEAKER_02: Oh, my God.
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  SPEAKER_02: You know,
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  SPEAKER_02: I didn't prepare anything humorous here,
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  SPEAKER_02: but I guess we just have Nathan bouncing up and down in the background.
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  SPEAKER_02: So I guess that'll have to do for today.
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  SPEAKER_02: Parenting.
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  SPEAKER_00: Oh, yeah.
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  SPEAKER_02: All right.
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  SPEAKER_02: This is the recording for September 3rd, 2026.
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  SPEAKER_02: And we have a lot to get to on episode 112 of the Ogpod.
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  SPEAKER_02: We ready to do this?
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  SPEAKER_00: Yes.
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  SPEAKER_02: Apparently, Nathan is ready to do it with us.
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  SPEAKER_02: Woohoo!
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  SPEAKER_02: All right, then let's get to it.
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  SPEAKER_02: It's time for the Ogre Nation news update.
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  SPEAKER_02: Everyone knows by now, presumably, that we are in a new and very damaging trade war with Canada.
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  SPEAKER_02: This is aside from the other trade war that we were already in,
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  SPEAKER_02: and now this is a whole brand new one that is kicking in, and it's awesome, amazing.
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  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_02: Trump threw another one of his temper tantrums and slapped a 50% tariff on tens
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  SPEAKER_02: of billions of dollars in goods coming across the border.
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  SPEAKER_02: Like most of his tariffs,
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  SPEAKER_02: this one's going to turn out to be illegal because I'm
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  SPEAKER_02: a big fat blubbering baby is not And Congress did not give him permission
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  SPEAKER_02: to levy tariffs on Canada.
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  SPEAKER_02: Canada, of course, retaliated with their own tariffs.
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  SPEAKER_02: Yay.
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  SPEAKER_02: The press,
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  SPEAKER_02: like I just mentioned,
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  SPEAKER_02: did an amazing job of not really explaining why Canada walked away at
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  SPEAKER_02: the last minute.
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  SPEAKER_02: It's something that just happened.
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  SPEAKER_02: Negotiations just fell through and these things happen.
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  SPEAKER_02: Oh, well.
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  SPEAKER_02: But that's not what happened at all.
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  SPEAKER_02: There was a deal negotiated after weeks of threats from Trump.
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  SPEAKER_02: It wasn't a great deal, but it was a deal.
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  SPEAKER_02: But what happened was,
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  SPEAKER_02: right before they were getting ready to sign,
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  SPEAKER_02: the regime slapped on a list of demands.
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  SPEAKER_02: And the thought process,
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  SPEAKER_02: presumably,
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  SPEAKER_02: was that Canada would be exhausted after 18 months of bullying and bullshit
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  SPEAKER_02: after bullshit and all this crap, and they would just comply.
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  SPEAKER_02: But they didn't, and they couldn't.
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  SPEAKER_02: So here's the list.
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  SPEAKER_02: It was helpfully explained on Substack by Dean
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  SPEAKER_02: This is what was on this list of demands.
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  SPEAKER_02: One, control over who Canada trades with.
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  SPEAKER_02: Canada,
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  SPEAKER_02: since we've become a super unreliable trading partner and the regime has gone out
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  SPEAKER_02: of its fucking mind.
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  SPEAKER_02: Two, Canada, if you're not aware of this already, has a whole dual language thing going on.
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  SPEAKER_02: What is it?
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  SPEAKER_02: Quebec, right?
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  SPEAKER_02: Quebec is one of the provinces and provinces are like their versions of states.
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  SPEAKER_02: Quebec is mainly French speaking.
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  SPEAKER_02: So everything that gets published in Canada,
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  SPEAKER_02: like by the government is in English and French, right?
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  SPEAKER_02: So they've got a real like, you know, like a lot of people here speak English.
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  SPEAKER_02: Sorry, they speak Spanish.
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  SPEAKER_02: Same idea, except it's actually codified in the law.
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  SPEAKER_00: Wait a second.
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  SPEAKER_02: English and French.
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, I know that because Bill learned French before he went to the F1 race.
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  SPEAKER_00: But we were trying to demand that another country end its dual language.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yes.
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  SPEAKER_02: They told Canada,
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  SPEAKER_02: the regime told Canada that whole dual French,
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  SPEAKER_02: the dual language thing had to end.
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  SPEAKER_02: Excuse me?
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  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_02: I know.
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  SPEAKER_02: It's fucking crazy.
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  SPEAKER_02: Number three, Canada has a huge auto industry.
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  SPEAKER_02: Surprise.
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  SPEAKER_02: And theirs is...
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  SPEAKER_02: Deeply intertwined with ours, right?
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  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_02: We'll see you next time.
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  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_02: When this all started,
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  SPEAKER_02: a lot of Canada just said, yeah, we're not buying American alcohol anymore.
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  SPEAKER_02: They just boycotted American spirits, you know, like American whiskey and scotch and all that.
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  SPEAKER_02: They've been hit really hard because it's been just taken off the shelves.
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  SPEAKER_02: Your face just disappeared in bright light.
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  SPEAKER_02: What happened there?
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  SPEAKER_02: Okay, so, yeah,
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  SPEAKER_02: so the regime said, yeah, no,
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  SPEAKER_02: if we tell you you have to buy our stuff,
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  SPEAKER_02: you have to buy it,
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  SPEAKER_02: even at the provincial level, which, like, that's not how that works.
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  SPEAKER_02: Canada has massive mineral rights, massive mineral rights.
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  SPEAKER_02: Oh, Putin is so good.
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  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, it was okay.
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  SPEAKER_02: We finally had some.
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  SPEAKER_02: And Canada wasn't allowed to retaliate.
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  SPEAKER_00: Can I just say how absolutely fucking absurd this is?
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  SPEAKER_00: Because he's the one who negotiated the last trade deal.
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  SPEAKER_00: The USMCA was his trade deal.
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  SPEAKER_00: And now he's saying, oh, that trade deal is shit.
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  SPEAKER_00: Bitch, you negotiated it.
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  SPEAKER_02: And that's the thing, right?
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  SPEAKER_02: So this wasn't a trade deal.
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  SPEAKER_02: This is what a country signs when it loses a war.
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  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, this is crazy stuff.
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  SPEAKER_02: Right.
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  SPEAKER_02: And that's why Canada's Prime Minister, Mark Carney, told Trump to go fuck himself.
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  SPEAKER_02: And this is why Trump is having his little temper tantrum and he's,
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  SPEAKER_02: you know, the whole Lake America thing.
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  SPEAKER_02: This was an imbecile move that's going to drive inflation up right before
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  SPEAKER_02: the midterms on everyday items.
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  SPEAKER_02: And Carney is going to target,
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  SPEAKER_02: he said, He said it, and so has Doug Ford, who's the guy in charge of Ontario.
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  SPEAKER_02: They're going to target red states and swing states the most because they need...
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  SPEAKER_02: No, that's where you apply the pressure.
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  SPEAKER_02: Carney is a professional economist before he became prime minister,
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  SPEAKER_02: and he's way smarter than fucking Trump,
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  SPEAKER_02: and he knows where to cause maximum pain from MAGA land
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  SPEAKER_02: because he understands how this works.
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  SPEAKER_02: And for their part, Canada's just trolling Trump now.
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  SPEAKER_02: They put up a giant Lake Ontario sign.
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  SPEAKER_00: I know.
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  SPEAKER_00: I wish I'd seen it, but I'm not going now.
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  SPEAKER_02: Right.
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  SPEAKER_02: And I'm sure Trump is going to order an even bigger, more masculine Lake America sign.
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  SPEAKER_02: It's going to cost like $500 million,
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  SPEAKER_02: and the first snowstorm is going to knock it down
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  SPEAKER_02: because everything Trump does is bullshit.
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  SPEAKER_02: Now, We were talking about this on the show.
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  SPEAKER_02: I'm going to put on my tinfoil hat here for a minute.
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  SPEAKER_02: It's true that Trump hates every single one of our allies,
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  SPEAKER_02: and he loves any country that has a violent and brutal dictator in charge.
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  SPEAKER_02: But he seems to I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
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  SPEAKER_02: He's been told to hate Canada.
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  SPEAKER_02: And I said,
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  SPEAKER_02: even back during the first Trump regime,
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  SPEAKER_02: that if we were forced to flee the United States,
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  SPEAKER_02: like me and my family, and people were talking about this, people are still talking.
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  SPEAKER_02: If we had to flee the country because the fascists won,
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  SPEAKER_02: if we fell to a fascist dictatorship and they solidified power,
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  SPEAKER_02: Canada would not be safe.
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  SPEAKER_02: You'd think it would be safe.
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  SPEAKER_02: It's over the border.
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  SPEAKER_02: You can get there.
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  SPEAKER_02: You can But it won't be.
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  SPEAKER_02: At best, it would be a stop before fleeing to Europe.
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  SPEAKER_02: This is what you need to understand.
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  SPEAKER_02: To a fascist American government,
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  SPEAKER_02: Canada represents the same kind of combination threats That's true.
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  SPEAKER_02: Canada and Ukraine is free and open compared to our repressive
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  SPEAKER_02: and increasingly authoritarian dystopia.
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  SPEAKER_02: It also has a lot of natural resources that we can exploit and a vastly inferior military.
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  SPEAKER_02: At least that's what Russia thought until they tried it.
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  SPEAKER_02: They fucked around and found out.
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  SPEAKER_02: But The American military would definitely crush Canada's military.
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  SPEAKER_02: I mean, let's be honest here.
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  SPEAKER_02: To a fascist dictator,
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  SPEAKER_02: Canada is a prize to be taken and used,
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  SPEAKER_02: but it's also a threat that shows how weak and corrupt our government.
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  SPEAKER_02: Why are we the richest country in the world with bread lines five miles away?
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  SPEAKER_02: The answer,
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  SPEAKER_02: of course,
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  SPEAKER_02: is that Canada has a functioning democracy and we have an oligarchy run
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  SPEAKER_02: by fucking pedophiles.
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  SPEAKER_02: Allowing that contrast to continue year after year after year will inevitably lead
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  SPEAKER_02: to people streaming over the border and Canada is a threat to the fascist project
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  SPEAKER_02: the right.
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  SPEAKER_02: Canada is an enemy.
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  SPEAKER_02: And what I think we're seeing here is the beginning of the process to create
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  SPEAKER_02: an antagonist relationship that in several years, President for Life J.D.
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  SPEAKER_02: Vance will have no choice between...
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  SPEAKER_02: I know, that sounds fucking crazy.
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  SPEAKER_02: But this is where I remind you of the news story from January that
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  SPEAKER_02: the Legacy Press just made vanish already.
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  SPEAKER_02: We learned that officials from the Trump regime had been meeting
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  SPEAKER_02: with far-right separatists in Alberta, one of Canada's provinces.
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  SPEAKER_02: The meetings were done in secret, but this is literally exactly the same thing That's right.
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  SPEAKER_02: I wrote this out over the last couple of days, right?
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  SPEAKER_02: I put this in notes the last couple of days.
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  SPEAKER_02: And what should pop up this morning but a poll from the new economist YouGov
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  SPEAKER_02: from August 21st to 31st,
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  SPEAKER_02: August 28th to 31st, they polled people on What they think about Canada.
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  SPEAKER_02: And up, wouldn't you know it, here's the headline.
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  SPEAKER_02: A growing share of Republicans view Canada as unfriendly or an enemy of the United States.
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  SPEAKER_02: From 2021, that was at like 7%.
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  SPEAKER_02: Now, it's up to 38%.
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  SPEAKER_02: That's a huge jump.
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  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, it's up to 38 fucking percent.
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  SPEAKER_02: Democrats, I mean, it's still pretty much the same.
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  SPEAKER_02: It's like somewhere between six and eight percent because,
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  SPEAKER_02: I don't know, some Democrats don't like Canada, I guess.
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  SPEAKER_02: But it's been pretty much stable, doesn't it?
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  SPEAKER_02: Remember, Republicans used to hate Russia.
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  SPEAKER_02: Russia was the enemy.
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  SPEAKER_02: And then Trump told them, Russia's our best friend.
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  SPEAKER_02: Most Republicans love Russia now.
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  SPEAKER_02: Most Republican voters love Russia.
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  SPEAKER_02: They think Russia's awesome.
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  SPEAKER_02: Even though Russia is,
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  SPEAKER_02: you know,
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  SPEAKER_02: a fascist dictatorship that is literally waging war against our country,
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  SPEAKER_02: Trump told them, love Russia, so they didn't.
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  SPEAKER_02: Now Trump is telling them, hate Canada.
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  SPEAKER_02: And he's just creating all of this antagonism towards a country that was just like,
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  SPEAKER_02: what are you doing?
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  SPEAKER_02: We're like your biggest financial fucking ally.
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  SPEAKER_02: We're with you every step of the way.
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  SPEAKER_02: Why are you fucking targeting us?
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  SPEAKER_02: Because they have to create that relationship or destroy that relationship in order
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  SPEAKER_02: to justify down the road someday a military intervention,
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  SPEAKER_02: just like Russia did with Ukraine.
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  SPEAKER_02: So, but you know what?
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  SPEAKER_02: I'm sure I'm just being hysterical because nothing I've ever said about the right
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  SPEAKER_02: over the last 16 years has ever come to pass except almost all of it.
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  SPEAKER_02: So I'm sure there's nothing to worry about here.
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  SPEAKER_00: I actually have seen this in action because I have a lot of,
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  SPEAKER_00: obviously I have a lot of family and friends up north.
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  SPEAKER_00: Since I'm from Niagara Falls, I'm literally from a border town.
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  SPEAKER_00: And one of my family friends literally put Lake America the other day on his Facebook page.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I almost put you fucking traitor underneath it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like, you're literally, you live on Lake Ontario.
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  SPEAKER_00: What are you doing?
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  SPEAKER_00: But I was like, leave it alone.
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  SPEAKER_02: It's just a fucking cult.
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  SPEAKER_02: Leave it alone.
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  SPEAKER_02: When they start telling us about how Canada is being overrun with Nazis,
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  SPEAKER_02: you know that's where they're going with this.
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  SPEAKER_02: I will say, though.
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  SPEAKER_02: Give it a couple years, they will.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I will say, though,
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  SPEAKER_00: the majority of the people that I've seen in the local groups in Niagara Falls
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  SPEAKER_00: and Buffalo are all like, what the fuck are we doing?
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  SPEAKER_00: Why are we messing with Canada?
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  SPEAKER_00: Because for them, it's a very friendly relationship.
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  SPEAKER_00: They live on the border.
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  SPEAKER_00: Canadians come over here to shop and work.
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  SPEAKER_00: Americans go over there.
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  SPEAKER_02: It's Right, but you got all the brain dead MAGA in Texas and Florida.
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  SPEAKER_02: That's the thing.
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  SPEAKER_02: It's like,
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  SPEAKER_02: oh yeah,
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  SPEAKER_02: we're definitely going to have to send a National Guard over there to take care of
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  SPEAKER_02: the Canadians.
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  SPEAKER_02: You know how dangerous they are.
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  SPEAKER_02: They send fentanyl over the border.
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  SPEAKER_02: Remember that?
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  SPEAKER_02: That whole, yeah, Canada's a huge source of fentanyl.
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  SPEAKER_02: It's like, what are you fucking talking about?
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  SPEAKER_02: There's tons of fentanyl coming in from other parts of the world.
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  SPEAKER_02: Canada's like a suitcase worth of fentanyl.
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  SPEAKER_02: What are you even talking about?
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, that's what we're talking about.
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  SPEAKER_00: Civil rights protections,
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  SPEAKER_00: destroyed the Department of Education,
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  SPEAKER_00: which then cuts key services for kids who have IEPs and 504s.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like, hello, I'm homeschooling my son who has a disability.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's cut key services and support.
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  SPEAKER_00: And most recently,
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  SPEAKER_00: they're talking about making changes to a rule that will cause countless people
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  SPEAKER_00: to lose their Supplemental Security Income Benefits, SSI.
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  SPEAKER_00: So SSI provides indigent elderly people and the disabled with That's a good thing.
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  SPEAKER_00: Less than $1,000 a month is not enough to support yourself in America these days.
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  SPEAKER_00: So they continue to live with their parents.
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  SPEAKER_00: In this economy, elderly people have also moved in with their children.
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  SPEAKER_00: And according to ProPublica,
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  SPEAKER_00: those who still live at home will soon be That's really impressive.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: Up to 400,000 Americans could lose some or all of their SSI if the rule goes into effect.
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  SPEAKER_00: Russell Vogt's White House Office of Budget Management is currently reviewing the rule.
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  SPEAKER_00: The regime is, of course, denying the reporting.
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  SPEAKER_02: That means it's true.
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  SPEAKER_00: However, the attempt to reduce or end support for the disabled and elderly isn't new.
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  SPEAKER_00: Last year,
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  SPEAKER_00: Vote and the Social Security Administration abandoned another rule
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  SPEAKER_00: that would have dramatically reduced disability benefits after the media reported
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  SPEAKER_00: about it and revealed that it would mostly impact blue-collar workers in red states.
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  SPEAKER_02: Because they don't even care about their own people.
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  SPEAKER_02: They really don't.
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  SPEAKER_02: They hate them more than anyone else.
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  SPEAKER_00: But they didn't like the reporting, so they got rid of the rule.
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  SPEAKER_02: Hmm.
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  SPEAKER_02: Now, anyone who's been reading,
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  SPEAKER_02: you know,
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  SPEAKER_02: reading what everything I've written or just following us on the podcast for a
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  SPEAKER_02: while knows I have a disabled adult son, right?
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  SPEAKER_02: Jordan's 18 now.
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  SPEAKER_02: And he's never going to be able to take care of himself.
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  SPEAKER_02: He's never going to be able to earn a living.
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  SPEAKER_02: He's going to, for the rest of his life,
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  SPEAKER_02: This rule change won't affect him yet,
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  SPEAKER_02: because it's going to be years before he can access Medicaid or disability
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  SPEAKER_02: of any kind.
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  SPEAKER_02: But this is just...
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  SPEAKER_02: That's the next step in the Republican project to strip all government assistance
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  SPEAKER_02: from the elderly and people like Jordan.
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  SPEAKER_02: Scumfuck dirtbags like Vote will say they're shifting the burden to states, but they know.
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  SPEAKER_02: They fail.
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  SPEAKER_02: They're going to be left homeless.
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  SPEAKER_02: They'll go hungry.
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  SPEAKER_02: They'll die.
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  SPEAKER_02: And that's what they want.
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  SPEAKER_02: This is not about
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  SPEAKER_02: Money.
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  SPEAKER_02: Vogt will sign every blank check to give Trump unlimited money for stupid Trump shit.
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  SPEAKER_02: He will masturbate as he gives the military another half trillion fucking dollars.
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  SPEAKER_02: This is not about money.
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  SPEAKER_02: This is about culling the herd.
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  SPEAKER_02: This is eugenics through paperwork.
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  SPEAKER_02: The sick and the old and the disabled deserve to die because these people are fucking Nazis.
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  SPEAKER_02: And when this regime falls, and it will, Nuremberg them all.
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  SPEAKER_02: They all have to be fucking put on trial.
• 20:27
  SPEAKER_02: All of them.
• 20:27
  SPEAKER_02: All right.
• 20:29
  SPEAKER_02: We are going to move on.
• 20:32
  SPEAKER_02: Here is a helpful list put together by NBC of all the foods
• 20:37
  SPEAKER_02: that will currently make you sick and or kill you.
• 20:40
  SPEAKER_02: We'll have the link in the show notes.
• 20:42
  SPEAKER_02: Lettuce will give you explosive diarrhea.
• 20:46
  SPEAKER_00: I've been trying.
• 20:47
  SPEAKER_00: I haven't gotten it yet.
• 20:49
  SPEAKER_00: Trying to lose at 25 pounds.
• 20:51
  SPEAKER_02: Jalapenos,
• 20:52
  SPEAKER_02: Salmonella,
• 20:53
  SPEAKER_02: Frozen Blueberries and Berry Mixes, E. Coli,
• 20:57
  SPEAKER_02: Alfalfa Sprouts, E.
• 20:58
  SPEAKER_02: Coli and Salmonella,
• 21:00
  SPEAKER_02: Eggs, Salmonella, Outshine Fruit Bars, Possible Glass Contamination.
• 21:05
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, no.
• 21:07
  SPEAKER_02: Amy's Lentil Soup.
• 21:08
  SPEAKER_02: It's going bad early, so don't need it.
• 21:11
  SPEAKER_02: Lido Asian Style Wax Spice Mix.
• 21:14
  SPEAKER_02: Salmonella.
• 21:15
  SPEAKER_02: Walmart Tomato Bisque.
• 21:16
  SPEAKER_02: Listeria.
• 21:17
  SPEAKER_02: Pita Rabbit Organic Fruit Pouches.
• 21:19
  SPEAKER_02: Plastic Contaminated.
• 21:20
  SPEAKER_02: No fucking way.
• 21:22
  SPEAKER_02: Not the kid.
• 21:23
  SPEAKER_02: Yep.
• 21:24
  SPEAKER_02: The kid fruit pouches?
• 21:26
  SPEAKER_02: Yep.
• 21:26
  SPEAKER_02: Apparently the pouches are falling apart and strips of plastic are getting in there.
• 21:32
  SPEAKER_02: Well made.
• 21:33
  SPEAKER_02: Walmart Pistachio Nut Butter.
• 21:35
  SPEAKER_02: Salmonella.
• 21:36
  SPEAKER_02: Leto Shortbread Cookies.
• 21:37
  SPEAKER_02: Now, this isn't a contamination exactly,
• 21:40
  SPEAKER_02: but it has no English ingredients listed,
• 21:42
  SPEAKER_02: so it's a danger to people with food allergies.
• 21:44
  SPEAKER_02: It has wheat, soy, eggs, and milk.
• 21:47
  SPEAKER_02: Lactation granola.
• 21:49
  SPEAKER_02: Salmonella.
• 21:50
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, so maybe you can get salmonella and then give it to your baby.
• 21:53
  SPEAKER_00: Yep.
• 21:54
  SPEAKER_00: Through the breast milk.
• 21:55
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know if that actually happens, but.
• 21:57
  SPEAKER_02: Food to live greens, food to live greens powder, salmonella.
• 22:01
  SPEAKER_02: Buddy, what can we eat?
• 22:03
  SPEAKER_02: Well, beef is still, you still have the screwworm problem.
• 22:06
  SPEAKER_02: Bird flu keeps pumping up and it's getting that much closer to human transmission.
• 22:10
  SPEAKER_02: Looking forward to that.
• 22:12
  SPEAKER_02: Back in April, we stopped safety inspections for grade A milk and milk products.
• 22:17
  SPEAKER_02: So I'm sure nothing bad is going to happen there.
• 22:20
  SPEAKER_02: We crippled all of the agencies and programs that kept this stuff in check,
• 22:24
  SPEAKER_02: and we did it on purpose.
• 22:26
  SPEAKER_02: On top of all that, we have the worst measles outbreak in 30 years, and it's still going on.
• 22:32
  SPEAKER_02: It's still getting worse.
• 22:34
  SPEAKER_02: Children are dying, and we're pretending it's not because of measles, like literally.
• 22:38
  SPEAKER_02: We're actually literally pretending it wasn't the measles that killed them.
• 22:42
  SPEAKER_02: Polio spreading again.
• 22:43
  SPEAKER_02: And it won't be long before a dozen other diseases our parents
• 22:46
  SPEAKER_02: and grandparents lived in mortal fear of tearing through elementary schools
• 22:52
  SPEAKER_02: and graveyards begin to fill up with little tiny tombstones
• 22:55
  SPEAKER_02: in numbers we haven't seen since before the pandemic.
• 22:57
  SPEAKER_02: We've done this before.
• 23:12
  SPEAKER_02: We've been here.
• 23:14
  SPEAKER_02: The free market doesn't regulate a fucking thing.
• 23:19
  SPEAKER_02: These current food problems are all the results of accidents and cutting corners.
• 23:27
  SPEAKER_02: Now, if you're not familiar with food adulteration, allow me to inform you.
• 23:42
  SPEAKER_02: We're really great in America.
• 23:44
  SPEAKER_02: Once upon a time, we sold bread by the pound, right?
• 23:48
  SPEAKER_02: It wasn't by a loaf.
• 23:49
  SPEAKER_02: It was by how much it weighed.
• 23:51
  SPEAKER_02: You went and was like, I need a pound of bread.
• 23:52
  SPEAKER_02: So you bought a pound of bread.
• 23:54
  SPEAKER_02: There was an incentive to make the bread heavier.
• 23:57
  SPEAKER_02: And how did they do that?
• 23:58
  SPEAKER_02: They would add sawdust to the bread or cement because that made it heavier.
• 24:05
  SPEAKER_02: Meat was preserved because they didn't have refrigeration.
• 24:08
  SPEAKER_02: Meat was preserved with borax,
• 24:11
  SPEAKER_02: a toxic chemical that you may be familiar with because it's in laundry detergent
• 24:15
  SPEAKER_02: and you use it to kill roaches.
• 24:17
  SPEAKER_02: That's what they put in your meat.
• 24:19
  SPEAKER_02: They put in All kinds of shit in milk to make one gallon into three gallons or
• 24:25
  SPEAKER_02: to hide the taste of spoiled milk.
• 24:27
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, gross.
• 24:28
  SPEAKER_00: It's like a drug dealer cutting the cocaine with the wrong thing.
• 24:31
  SPEAKER_00: That's exactly what it was.
• 24:34
  SPEAKER_02: This kind of murderous greed is explicitly why we created the FDA in 1906,
• 24:41
  SPEAKER_02: because you couldn't tell what was making you sick.
• 24:45
  SPEAKER_02: You had no idea.
• 24:46
  SPEAKER_02: Was it the milk?
• 24:48
  SPEAKER_02: Was it the eggs?
• 24:49
  SPEAKER_02: Was it the bread?
• 24:50
  SPEAKER_02: You didn't know.
• 24:52
  SPEAKER_02: So they say, oh, well, people will just figure out what's making you sick.
• 24:55
  SPEAKER_02: How?
• 24:56
  SPEAKER_02: You don't know and no one's testing the food because the FDA didn't exist.
• 25:01
  SPEAKER_02: That's why we made it.
• 25:03
  SPEAKER_02: China did not have a version of the FDA and in 2008,
• 25:10
  SPEAKER_02: 300,000 babies were poisoned by deliberately tainted milk.
• 25:15
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, I remember when that happened.
• 25:16
  SPEAKER_02: Yep.
• 25:17
  SPEAKER_02: Six died and a whole lot of others were injured.
• 25:20
  SPEAKER_02: They got kidney damage.
• 25:22
  SPEAKER_02: Permanent.
• 25:22
  SPEAKER_02: That's it.
• 25:23
  SPEAKER_02: That's it.
• 25:23
  SPEAKER_02: They're screwed for life.
• 25:25
  SPEAKER_02: China ended up executing two of the men responsible.
• 25:28
  SPEAKER_02: Here in America,
• 25:29
  SPEAKER_02: they would have gotten a small fine and a guest spot on Fox News to lecture us about
• 25:32
  SPEAKER_02: the big government overreach.
• 25:34
  SPEAKER_02: Libertarians scream about how they want to do away with government regulations.
• 25:38
  SPEAKER_02: That's the entire point of Project 2025.
• 25:41
  SPEAKER_02: Project 2025 is not like conservatism.
• 25:45
  SPEAKER_02: It's libertarianism on steroids.
• 25:48
  SPEAKER_02: This is what the COVID-19 And it's because they never understand why.
• 26:04
  SPEAKER_02: I've
• 26:09
  SPEAKER_02: argued with these people for 15 fucking years.
• 26:12
  SPEAKER_02: They're morons.
• 26:14
  SPEAKER_02: If you ask a libertarian about adulteration,
• 26:17
  SPEAKER_02: you could paint the Mona Lisa They don't know anything.
• 26:24
  SPEAKER_02: They don't know history.
• 26:25
  SPEAKER_02: They don't know what happened in this country.
• 26:28
  SPEAKER_02: They don't know what happened 40 years ago.
• 26:30
  SPEAKER_02: They don't know fucking anything.
• 26:33
  SPEAKER_02: We're literally reliving America 120 years ago and pretending it's
• 26:38
  SPEAKER_02: a bold new experiment in small government.
• 26:41
  SPEAKER_02: That's like building a wheel out of stone
• 26:44
  SPEAKER_02: and pretending you discovered transportation or you You're putting a seed in
• 26:50
  SPEAKER_02: the dirt and saying, I have discovered agriculture.
• 26:54
  SPEAKER_02: No, you didn't.
• 26:55
  SPEAKER_02: None of this is new.
• 26:56
  SPEAKER_02: It's only new to stupid people whose goal is to destroy the federal government
• 27:00
  SPEAKER_02: so they can profit from the chaos and misery.
• 27:03
  SPEAKER_02: Fuck your libertarianism.
• 27:05
  SPEAKER_02: Bring back fucking government that actually works for the people,
• 27:09
  SPEAKER_02: not so corporations and billionaires can make more money while we die.
• 27:14
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• 27:16
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• 27:55
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• 28:03
  SPEAKER_02: All right.
• 28:03
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, actually, sorry, before we even do that, MLR has a good point there.
• 28:07
  SPEAKER_02: Remember,
• 28:08
  SPEAKER_02: one of the project goals of Project 2025 is to drop the population of the country
• 28:12
  SPEAKER_02: from 360 million to 100 billion.
• 28:15
  SPEAKER_02: You can't get to that just from deportations.
• 28:18
  SPEAKER_02: There's not enough people to deport.
• 28:20
  SPEAKER_02: There's not that many non-white people to get rid of.
• 28:23
  SPEAKER_02: You have to do that through partial genocide.
• 28:26
  SPEAKER_02: You have to.
• 28:27
  SPEAKER_01: You know, calling the herd.
• 28:29
  SPEAKER_00: Feeling good, feeling good.
• 28:31
  SPEAKER_00: They started that with COVID.
• 28:33
  SPEAKER_02: Yep.
• 28:34
  SPEAKER_02: Speaking of little Nazi shits,
• 28:37
  SPEAKER_02: once upon a time,
• 28:38
  SPEAKER_02: there was a little Nazi cosplaying piece of filth named Greg Bovino.
• 28:43
  SPEAKER_02: Bovino loved being a Substack, Substack, The Opinionated Ogre, opinionatedogre.com.
• 28:59
  SPEAKER_02: Now, he's doing what every fascist scumbag does when they find themselves disgraced
• 29:04
  SPEAKER_02: and facing probable legal action.
• 29:06
  SPEAKER_02: He's in full grifting mode and making the rounds on far-right media, telling
• 29:25
  SPEAKER_02: Sad, sad tale of victimization during an interview
• 29:29
  SPEAKER_02: with his fellow white nationalist fascist, Tucker Carlson.
• 29:32
  SPEAKER_02: Because you see,
• 29:33
  SPEAKER_02: Bovino is just following orders and now that he's been fired,
• 29:36
  SPEAKER_02: Trump has removed his protective detail because it's obvious
• 29:39
  SPEAKER_02: the regime wants him murdered.
• 29:41
  SPEAKER_02: He's the victim here.
• 29:43
  SPEAKER_02: Don't you know that?
• 29:44
  SPEAKER_02: It's not like no one knows why Bovino would get a protective detail
• 29:49
  SPEAKER_02: after being pushed out of the government.
• 29:51
  SPEAKER_02: No one else gets that.
• 29:52
  SPEAKER_02: But Bovino skips over that part, of course, because it doesn't fit the victim narrative.
• 29:56
  SPEAKER_02: We talked about back in June that Bovino is contemplating a presidential run.
• 30:01
  SPEAKER_02: Please, please, dear God.
• 30:03
  SPEAKER_00: I hope he did right next to the one that we right next to Hegseth.
• 30:06
  SPEAKER_00: God, yes.
• 30:07
  SPEAKER_02: And we talked about how the legacy press somehow didn't notice that he headlined at
• 30:12
  SPEAKER_02: an international conference of neo-Nazis in May.
• 30:15
  SPEAKER_02: They just missed that somehow.
• 30:17
  SPEAKER_00: Right.
• 30:17
  SPEAKER_00: Didn't he literally travel to Europe for this?
• 30:20
  SPEAKER_00: Yes.
• 30:20
  SPEAKER_00: Yes.
• 30:22
  SPEAKER_02: And the press just didn't talk about it for some reason.
• 30:25
  SPEAKER_02: Weird.
• 30:25
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, weird.
• 30:27
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, my gosh.
• 30:28
  SPEAKER_02: This was right after he got pushed out.
• 30:30
  SPEAKER_02: This was like not even a month later.
• 30:32
  SPEAKER_02: And he was at a neo-Nazi conference and the press just didn't talk about it.
• 30:36
  SPEAKER_02: What he's doing here is he's appealing to the conspiracy melted brains of the far right.
• 30:41
  SPEAKER_02: Everything's applied.
• 30:42
  SPEAKER_02: Everyone's out to get them.
• 30:44
  SPEAKER_02: You can't trust the government,
• 30:45
  SPEAKER_02: even when the government's being run by the literal fucking fascists they voted for.
• 30:50
  SPEAKER_02: But you can't.
• 30:51
  SPEAKER_02: Trust Greg Bovino.
• 30:53
  SPEAKER_02: Trust him with your money and maybe even your votes.
• 30:56
  SPEAKER_02: He's an outsider taking on the corrupt system, blah, blah, fucking blah.
• 31:00
  SPEAKER_02: They're always the outsider taking on the establishment,
• 31:03
  SPEAKER_02: even when they were quite literally the very public nonstop.
• 31:06
  SPEAKER_02: Substack, The Opinionated Ogre, opinionatedogre.com.
• 31:21
  SPEAKER_02: Trust them with money and power,
• 31:23
  SPEAKER_02: and they'll take on the swamp that they were in charge of five fucking seconds ago.
• 31:28
  SPEAKER_02: It's the fucking shamelessness of these people.
• 31:31
  SPEAKER_02: That's what pisses me off more than anything else.
• 31:35
  SPEAKER_02: The shamelessness.
• 31:36
  SPEAKER_02: And the legacy press's refusal to hold them accountable for
• 31:39
  SPEAKER_02: a single fucking thing they've ever done.
• 31:43
  SPEAKER_02: We can hear about Hillary's fucking emails for two goddamn years nonstop.
• 31:47
  SPEAKER_02: We can hear all about Joe Biden being old every fucking day.
• 31:51
  SPEAKER_02: But when Bovino runs for president,
• 31:54
  SPEAKER_02: I guarantee the press will not mention Renee Goode or Alex Petty more than a couple
• 31:59
  SPEAKER_02: of times before declaring that topic over and done with.
• 32:03
  SPEAKER_02: That's it.
• 32:04
  SPEAKER_02: We have to talk about real issues now.
• 32:06
  SPEAKER_02: Fuck all of these people.
• 32:08
  SPEAKER_02: Fuck every last one of them.
• 32:10
  SPEAKER_00: Every single one of them.
• 32:12
  SPEAKER_00: Well, in funny news of the week,
• 32:14
  SPEAKER_00: the Trump regime deported former Breitbart writer Mile Yiannopoulos...
• 32:21
  SPEAKER_00: Milo was arrested by ICE agents at an airport in Louisiana on Thursday.
• 32:25
  SPEAKER_00: He was sent to a facility in Louisiana where the regime had sent thousands
• 32:30
  SPEAKER_00: of other migrants after ripping them away from their families.
• 32:32
  SPEAKER_00: It was the last stopping point for migrants.
• 32:35
  SPEAKER_00: Sunday, DHS had confirmed that he had been deported.
• 32:38
  SPEAKER_00: So unlike thousands of other migrants,
• 32:41
  SPEAKER_00: he wasn't held in horrible conditions for months and months and months and months
• 32:45
  SPEAKER_00: and months.
• 32:46
  SPEAKER_00: He was deported really, really fast.
• 32:48
  SPEAKER_00: And he wasn't sent to a third-party country.
• 32:51
  SPEAKER_00: He was sent right back home to England.
• 32:54
  SPEAKER_00: For those of you who may not remember, Milo and I had forgotten why we hated him so much.
• 33:01
  SPEAKER_02: It's been a while since he's been like on name.
• 33:03
  SPEAKER_00: Right.
• 33:04
  SPEAKER_00: Milo is a vile, racist,
• 33:06
  SPEAKER_00: white supremacist piece of shit who spent years spreading hate on the internet.
• 33:10
  SPEAKER_00: Steve Bannon hired him to work for Breitbart back in 2014 as a tech.
• 33:15
  SPEAKER_02: But he was a big part of Gamergate.
• 33:17
  SPEAKER_02: He was one of the big names that got Gamergate together.
• 33:21
  SPEAKER_02: He was one of the people who helped form the alt-right.
• 33:24
  SPEAKER_00: No, he did help.
• 33:25
  SPEAKER_00: And he even wrote a book about it.
• 33:26
  SPEAKER_00: And then Steve Bannon took him under his sweaty wing.
• 33:31
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, bleh.
• 33:32
  SPEAKER_00: And he became a conservative star.
• 33:35
  SPEAKER_00: He was insufferable.
• 33:39
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, my gosh.
• 33:40
  SPEAKER_00: He was one of those, like,
• 33:41
  SPEAKER_00: idiots who would just try to,
• 33:42
  SPEAKER_00: like, you know, get people on the left to say crazy things.
• 33:47
  SPEAKER_02: And also, he just said shocking things to shock people because he was shocking.
• 33:52
  SPEAKER_00: Right, because he was, like, a real First Amendment guy.
• 33:55
  SPEAKER_00: Right.
• 33:56
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, my guy.
• 33:57
  SPEAKER_00: And then in 2017,
• 33:58
  SPEAKER_00: he was fired from Breitbart when a video surfaced of him supporting
• 34:03
  SPEAKER_00: the relationships between older men and significantly younger boys.
• 34:08
  SPEAKER_02: All right, so here's the thing about that.
• 34:12
  SPEAKER_02: If he had talked about this like a normal fucking person,
• 34:17
  SPEAKER_02: instead of trying to be shocking and edgy,
• 34:20
  SPEAKER_02: he probably wouldn't have gotten in trouble for it.
• 34:23
  SPEAKER_02: What he was talking about is that...
• 34:26
  SPEAKER_02: There are a lot of young gay men.
• 34:29
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, they call them twinks, right?
• 34:31
  SPEAKER_02: Well, not that.
• 34:32
  SPEAKER_02: They're boys.
• 34:33
  SPEAKER_02: They're underage.
• 34:34
  SPEAKER_02: They're young gay boys.
• 34:35
  SPEAKER_02: And they turn to older men.
• 34:37
  SPEAKER_02: And the reason they do this,
• 34:39
  SPEAKER_02: and he talked about What happens is,
• 34:41
  SPEAKER_02: because our country is so fucking annoying and so stupid,
• 34:56
  SPEAKER_02: I mean, girls don't have it much easier,
• 35:00
  SPEAKER_02: but we're really vicious towards gay boys, like really vicious.
• 35:05
  SPEAKER_02: Like we're brutally vicious towards gay boys that they have to stay in the closet
• 35:11
  SPEAKER_02: and And the only way they can express themselves at all is to find someone
• 35:17
  SPEAKER_02: who will accept them as gay boys, as just gay, period.
• 35:22
  SPEAKER_02: And that tends to be older men who understand, yeah, I know what you're going through.
• 35:27
  SPEAKER_02: And they kind of take them in.
• 35:30
  SPEAKER_02: And yes, it's inappropriate, but it's what they're forced into.
• 35:36
  SPEAKER_00: Well, I would argue that it's kind of similar.
• 35:38
  SPEAKER_00: Like girls, we usually find older women to learn about things.
• 35:45
  SPEAKER_02: Yes, but not about sex necessarily.
• 35:48
  SPEAKER_02: Not in a sexual way.
• 35:49
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, but about sex too.
• 35:51
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, but you don't actually have sex with them.
• 35:53
  SPEAKER_00: No, you don't have sex with them.
• 35:54
  SPEAKER_00: Are they having sex with these guys?
• 35:56
  SPEAKER_02: Yes.
• 35:57
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, well, that is fucking inappropriate.
• 35:58
  SPEAKER_02: And that's the thing.
• 35:59
  SPEAKER_02: But they're kind of forced into that because there's no other way for them to...
• 36:04
  SPEAKER_02: There's no other outlet.
• 36:05
  SPEAKER_02: And that was the point he was making.
• 36:07
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 36:08
  SPEAKER_02: But he was being so, he was being an edgelord about it.
• 36:12
  SPEAKER_02: And he was saying,
• 36:12
  SPEAKER_02: it's like,
• 36:13
  SPEAKER_02: if we didn't,
• 36:14
  SPEAKER_02: he was trying to say,
• 36:14
  SPEAKER_02: it's like,
• 36:15
  SPEAKER_02: if we didn't force boys into this, then this wouldn't be what they have to do.
• 36:20
  SPEAKER_02: But he couldn't be normal for following.
• 36:23
  SPEAKER_02: Right.
• 36:23
  SPEAKER_02: Right.
• 36:48
  SPEAKER_00: He was trying to criticize society's treatment of gay boys
• 36:54
  SPEAKER_00: and ended up sounding like he was supporting pedophilia.
• 36:56
  SPEAKER_00: Exactly.
• 36:57
  SPEAKER_00: Which you would think was fine with the right, considering everything we've learned.
• 37:02
  SPEAKER_02: They like pedophilia, but not with boys.
• 37:05
  SPEAKER_00: Well, that's what I was going to say.
• 37:06
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 37:08
  SPEAKER_02: Well, yes, TV says ancient Rome man-boy love.
• 37:13
  SPEAKER_02: Yes, kind of like that, but without, you know, he was making it grosser than it needed to be.
• 37:20
  SPEAKER_02: And it's still gross in that sense that,
• 37:22
  SPEAKER_02: you know,
• 37:23
  SPEAKER_02: it's an adult male with an underage kid,
• 37:26
  SPEAKER_02: but he was trying to say,
• 37:28
  SPEAKER_02: this is what they're forced into because of us, because of our society.
• 37:34
  SPEAKER_02: And it was a larger point that he just,
• 37:37
  SPEAKER_02: He evaporated by being a fucking edgelord,
• 37:40
  SPEAKER_02: and he got nuked for it, and he deserved it because he was being gross about it.
• 37:44
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, well, you know.
• 37:47
  SPEAKER_02: So I didn't feel any pity for him.
• 37:48
  SPEAKER_02: I understood his point.
• 37:49
  SPEAKER_02: When I heard it,
• 37:50
  SPEAKER_02: I was like,
• 37:51
  SPEAKER_02: I hear what he's saying,
• 37:52
  SPEAKER_02: but the way he's saying it, yeah, no,
• 37:54
  SPEAKER_02: he deserved everything that happened to him because of the way he was putting it.
• 37:59
  SPEAKER_02: So...
• 38:00
  SPEAKER_02: Well,
• 38:01
  SPEAKER_00: fuck him.
• 38:02
  SPEAKER_00: So according to DHS, he was deported for overstaying his visa.
• 38:06
  SPEAKER_00: Now, while we have no pity for the grifting hate monger,
• 38:09
  SPEAKER_00: it should be noted that Laura Loomer,
• 38:11
  SPEAKER_00: the crazed special friend of Donald Trump, is taking place.
• 38:15
  SPEAKER_00: Yep.
• 38:36
  SPEAKER_00: So let this be a lesson to MAGA land.
• 38:39
  SPEAKER_00: It doesn't matter who you are or what you've done for the regime.
• 38:43
  SPEAKER_00: Mitch McConnell could tell you that.
• 38:45
  SPEAKER_00: There's always someone better connected who can destroy your life with
• 38:49
  SPEAKER_00: a single phone call or tweet.
• 38:50
  SPEAKER_00: There's always one social media post between you wearing the jack boot or having
• 38:56
  SPEAKER_00: the jack boot on your neck.
• 38:58
  SPEAKER_00: So enjoy your fascist fucking government while you can.
• 39:00
  SPEAKER_00: That's what you asked for.
• 39:02
  SPEAKER_00: And I mentioned Mitch McConnell.
• 39:04
  SPEAKER_00: Have we seen him yet?
• 39:05
  SPEAKER_02: Nope, that motherfucker's dead.
• 39:07
  SPEAKER_02: He's either dead or he's just in a coma and they're just lying about it.
• 39:12
  SPEAKER_00: It's definitely going to be a weekend at Bernie's situation when the Senate comes back.
• 39:16
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, they're just going to keep faking it.
• 39:19
  SPEAKER_02: And it's really impressive how the legacy press is just not pursuing this story.
• 39:25
  SPEAKER_02: They're just not looking for him.
• 39:27
  SPEAKER_02: It's been almost three months at this point.
• 39:31
  SPEAKER_02: We're getting towards three months and they're not looking for him.
• 39:36
  SPEAKER_02: If that was a Democratic senator, they would be all over it.
• 39:41
  SPEAKER_02: They would be nonstop.
• 39:42
  SPEAKER_02: We want to know where he is.
• 39:43
  SPEAKER_02: We want to know where he is.
• 39:44
  SPEAKER_02: You have to know where he is.
• 39:45
  SPEAKER_02: It's a scandal that we don't know where he is.
• 39:46
  SPEAKER_02: It would be like the top headline.
• 39:48
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, yeah.
• 39:49
  SPEAKER_00: Every single day.
• 39:50
  SPEAKER_02: Every single day.
• 39:51
  SPEAKER_00: But Republicans are not held to a lower standard.
• 39:54
  SPEAKER_02: They're held to no standard at all.
• 39:55
  SPEAKER_02: All right.
• 39:56
  SPEAKER_02: It is time for Headlines for Short Attention Spans.
• 40:04
  SPEAKER_02: We've talked about the Trump regime targeting journalists with subpoenas
• 40:08
  SPEAKER_02: on previous episodes of the podcast.
• 40:10
  SPEAKER_02: Recently, though,
• 40:11
  SPEAKER_02: reports have indicated the regime is actually using an obscure DHS provision
• 40:17
  SPEAKER_02: that deals with customs imports to try
• 40:24
  SPEAKER_02: The
• 40:28
  SPEAKER_02: law also requires the recipients of the summons to keep it secret,
• 40:32
  SPEAKER_02: and it doesn't require a judge to sign off,
• 40:34
  SPEAKER_02: allowing DHS to completely circumvent the legal system
• 40:37
  SPEAKER_02: that had previously thwarted their tents to get journalist data
• 40:40
  SPEAKER_02: from big tech companies.
• 40:42
  SPEAKER_02: Clearly, they're abusing this.
• 40:44
  SPEAKER_02: John Roth,
• 40:45
  SPEAKER_02: the former inspector general for the DHS under Obama,
• 40:47
  SPEAKER_02: told The Guardian the perversion of federal law by the Trump regime is,
• 40:51
  SPEAKER_02: quote, outrageous conduct on so many levels.
• 40:54
  SPEAKER_02: He went on to say, quote, this is an improper use of a subpoena.
• 40:57
  SPEAKER_02: Under any circumstances, this is not a customs case.
• 41:00
  SPEAKER_02: It's not a customs violation.
• 41:02
  SPEAKER_02: They are not investigating a customs violation.
• 41:05
  SPEAKER_02: And quick note to this story.
• 41:07
  SPEAKER_02: Since this story broke, I,
• 41:09
  SPEAKER_02: because I do keep tabs on these assholes,
• 41:12
  SPEAKER_02: have yet to see either a comment from Glenn Greenwald or Matt Taibbi,
• 41:16
  SPEAKER_02: the super patriots who defend the free press against all threats
• 41:20
  SPEAKER_02: at great personal risk.
• 41:23
  SPEAKER_02: Greenwald's entire Twitter feed is a nonstop stream of pandering
• 41:27
  SPEAKER_02: to anti-Semitic white nationalists,
• 41:29
  SPEAKER_02: and Taibbi can't seem to stop attacking minorities.
• 41:32
  SPEAKER_02: I'm sure they'll notice the regime's assault on the First Amendment sooner or later,
• 41:36
  SPEAKER_02: maybe on January 21st, 2029, but not one second before.
• 41:44
  SPEAKER_00: It's funny because I was listening to Strict Scrutiny and they had a guest on
• 41:49
  SPEAKER_00: who also brought up Matt Taibbi and how he's been really,
• 41:52
  SPEAKER_00: really, really silent about the violations to the First Amendment.
• 41:55
  SPEAKER_00: And I started laughing.
• 41:56
  SPEAKER_00: I was like, oh, Ogre has a kindred soul out there.
• 42:00
  SPEAKER_00: It's so weird, isn't it?
• 42:02
  SPEAKER_00: It's so weird.
• 42:03
  SPEAKER_02: It used to be the most important thing in the world to him.
• 42:05
  SPEAKER_02: And now he's just like, what's the First Amendment?
• 42:08
  SPEAKER_02: Right.
• 42:09
  SPEAKER_00: It's almost like he didn't care about it at all.
• 42:11
  SPEAKER_00: So weird.
• 42:12
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, forgive me.
• 42:14
  SPEAKER_00: I'm so sorry.
• 42:15
  SPEAKER_00: So did everyone catch the news that Republicans are holding a midterm convention?
• 42:20
  SPEAKER_00: The first of its kind.
• 42:22
  SPEAKER_00: Isn't that fucking bizarre?
• 42:24
  SPEAKER_00: First, they did mid-cycle redistricting.
• 42:27
  SPEAKER_00: Now they're holding a convention for the midterms in Dallas.
• 42:31
  SPEAKER_00: Wild.
• 42:32
  SPEAKER_00: Apparently, Trump convinced the Republican National Committee's head, who...
• 42:38
  SPEAKER_02: I don't even know who it is.
• 42:40
  SPEAKER_02: I literally don't even know his name.
• 42:42
  SPEAKER_02: Because it's Trump.
• 42:43
  SPEAKER_02: Trump's the head of the Republican National Committee, so who cares?
• 42:46
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 42:46
  SPEAKER_00: Well, he convinced him to host the convention.
• 42:49
  SPEAKER_00: Now the head of the RNC is calling it Trumpapalooza.
• 42:55
  SPEAKER_00: Thank you.
• 42:56
  SPEAKER_02: Thank you for this generous gift,
• 42:59
  SPEAKER_00: Donald Trump.
• 43:00
  SPEAKER_00: Nobody wants it, guys.
• 43:03
  SPEAKER_02: Democrats do.
• 43:03
  SPEAKER_02: Are you kidding me?
• 43:05
  SPEAKER_00: Well, bizarrely,
• 43:06
  SPEAKER_00: the convention is going to take place on September 9th and 10th,
• 43:09
  SPEAKER_00: which is the same night as the first two NFL games of the season.
• 43:14
  SPEAKER_02: Populism.
• 43:16
  SPEAKER_02: They're populist.
• 43:16
  SPEAKER_02: They know all about the common man.
• 43:18
  SPEAKER_02: It's what they're really into.
• 43:20
  SPEAKER_00: The network that's showing the game on the 9th,
• 43:23
  SPEAKER_00: which is,
• 43:24
  SPEAKER_00: I believe, the Patriots and the Seahawks, is not going to cut away from the game.
• 43:30
  SPEAKER_02: Absolutely not.
• 43:31
  SPEAKER_00: For the convention.
• 43:32
  SPEAKER_00: Absolutely not.
• 43:34
  SPEAKER_00: So I would predict that the only people that are going to even cover
• 43:36
  SPEAKER_00: the convention are cable news shows.
• 43:41
  SPEAKER_00: And not very much of it, except for Fox News.
• 43:44
  SPEAKER_00: You know that they'll be right over there.
• 43:46
  SPEAKER_00: One ball from each person in their mouth.
• 43:48
  SPEAKER_02: There's a good chance that Fox News won't talk about it much either because a lot
• 43:53
  SPEAKER_02: of Republicans, like remember, this is supposed to be the Republican convention.
• 43:57
  SPEAKER_02: A lot of Republicans are already like, yeah, I don't know if I'm going.
• 44:01
  SPEAKER_02: I might be busy washing my hair that night because the They don't want to be there.
• 44:05
  SPEAKER_02: They don't want to be seen worshipping Trump right before the election.
• 44:09
  SPEAKER_00: And that's exactly what it is.
• 44:11
  SPEAKER_00: Trump wants people to go say nice things about him on stage,
• 44:14
  SPEAKER_00: and he's holding it in Dallas because he thinks it's going to get more votes for
• 44:18
  SPEAKER_00: the corrupt dingbat who's running for Senate there, Paxton.
• 44:23
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, yeah, that's definitely not going to help him.
• 44:25
  SPEAKER_00: No, it's not going to help him.
• 44:27
  SPEAKER_00: And nobody's going to watch it because the NFL games are that night.
• 44:31
  SPEAKER_00: And, you know, people like me have been waiting all like six months for an NFL game.
• 44:36
  SPEAKER_00: You think we're going to you think we're going to.
• 44:39
  SPEAKER_00: You think we're going to not watch the game so
• 44:42
  SPEAKER_00: that we can watch Donald Trump have people licking his asshole on TV?
• 44:47
  SPEAKER_00: No.
• 44:48
  SPEAKER_01: Why is it in my head now?
• 44:54
  SPEAKER_00: And Republicans don't even want to go because the starting rate for a ticket is $25,000.
• 45:01
  SPEAKER_02: I love that he's making them pay.
• 45:03
  SPEAKER_00: And he's making them pay for it if they want to attend.
• 45:06
  SPEAKER_00: And that's the starting rate.
• 45:08
  SPEAKER_00: I think it goes up way more.
• 45:10
  SPEAKER_00: It's just really giving a king and his jesters vibe, to be honest.
• 45:17
  SPEAKER_00: I was shocked when I heard about it.
• 45:19
  SPEAKER_00: It's just another huge grift.
• 45:21
  SPEAKER_00: How to make me more money.
• 45:24
  SPEAKER_00: That's exactly it.
• 45:25
  SPEAKER_00: His sons are probably sponsoring it.
• 45:30
  SPEAKER_02: Or their drone companies.
• 45:32
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, their drone companies.
• 45:33
  SPEAKER_00: They're like, hey, donate $25,000 to this drone company.
• 45:40
  SPEAKER_02: Now, speaking of Ken Paxton,
• 45:43
  SPEAKER_02: Texas Republicans are panicking as they watch James Tallarico use Paxton as
• 45:48
  SPEAKER_02: a punching bag.
• 45:49
  SPEAKER_02: It's not going well at all.
• 45:52
  SPEAKER_02: Paxton is not raising much money.
• 45:54
  SPEAKER_02: He's not...
• 45:55
  SPEAKER_02: Not airing any commercials.
• 45:57
  SPEAKER_02: Tellurico's all over the place and he's ahead in the polls.
• 46:01
  SPEAKER_02: So desperate to steal a Senate seat,
• 46:03
  SPEAKER_02: the Texas GOP has suspended 1.2 million voters from the voting rolls with less
• 46:09
  SPEAKER_02: than 70 days before the election.
• 46:10
  SPEAKER_02: That's crazy.
• 46:12
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 46:12
  SPEAKER_02: 6% of the entire Texas electorate.
• 46:14
  SPEAKER_02: They can still vote,
• 46:16
  SPEAKER_02: but they'll have to fill out forms because they don't know
• 46:19
  SPEAKER_02: that they've been suspended because they didn't bother telling anyone.
• 46:22
  SPEAKER_02: They just did it.
• 46:23
  SPEAKER_02: So...
• 46:24
  SPEAKER_02: When Paxton loses,
• 46:26
  SPEAKER_02: which he's going to,
• 46:27
  SPEAKER_02: I guarantee the Texas GOP is just going to try to throw out their votes
• 46:31
  SPEAKER_02: because why not?
• 46:32
  SPEAKER_02: Why have a fair election?
• 46:35
  SPEAKER_02: Now, on top of all that, the cheating cowards in the Lone Star State are planning to close.
• 46:39
  SPEAKER_02: They close 92 polling sites in Tarrant County,
• 46:43
  SPEAKER_02: which, surprise, is heavily populated and very blue.
• 46:47
  SPEAKER_02: That's almost one third of the sites.
• 46:51
  SPEAKER_02: There's like 310 sites or something like that.
• 46:53
  SPEAKER_02: They're closing 92 of them.
• 46:55
  SPEAKER_02: And that's their plan anyway.
• 46:57
  SPEAKER_02: I'm sure they're going to get sued and I'm sure the Supreme Court's going to say,
• 47:00
  SPEAKER_02: well, of course they can do that.
• 47:01
  SPEAKER_02: Why wouldn't they?
• 47:02
  SPEAKER_02: There's two million plus residents in this county,
• 47:06
  SPEAKER_02: and they're going to close about a third of the fucking polling sites.
• 47:08
  SPEAKER_02: And again, less than 70 days before the election.
• 47:11
  SPEAKER_02: This is exactly the sort of thing the Voting Rights Act prevented and exactly why
• 47:16
  SPEAKER_02: the most corrupt justices in American history.
• 47:18
  SPEAKER_02: I have to imagine that if Tallarico still wins with a large enough majority,
• 47:23
  SPEAKER_02: Texas Republicans are simply going to declare the results null and void and demand
• 47:26
  SPEAKER_02: the Supreme Court install Paxton as Senator because it hurt their feelings
• 47:29
  SPEAKER_02: that they lost.
• 47:30
  SPEAKER_02: They cannot allow Tallarico to win.
• 47:32
  SPEAKER_02: They have to do everything possible to stop that.
• 47:47
  SPEAKER_02: You will never see a Republican in the White House again because they cannot lose
• 47:52
  SPEAKER_02: that state and still win the White House.
• 47:55
  SPEAKER_02: They just can't.
• 47:57
  SPEAKER_02: It's too many electoral votes.
• 47:59
  SPEAKER_02: What we're seeing here right now is not a ruthless and clever party of fascists.
• 48:04
  SPEAKER_02: This is blind panic and desperation.
• 48:07
  SPEAKER_00: And I would remind everybody that I know everybody thinks we're crazy thinking
• 48:11
  SPEAKER_00: that we could flip Texas,
• 48:12
  SPEAKER_00: but we got really,
• 48:14
  SPEAKER_00: really close last time when Ted Cruz was running against whatever his name is.
• 48:19
  SPEAKER_00: I can't remember his name right now.
• 48:21
  SPEAKER_02: Shit.
• 48:21
  SPEAKER_00: The guy who traveled in the van around Texas.
• 48:24
  SPEAKER_02: God damn it.
• 48:25
  SPEAKER_02: Oh my God, why'd I don't?
• 48:26
  SPEAKER_02: It was just on the tip of my tongue too.
• 48:28
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it's like right there for me, but I can't remember his name.
• 48:31
  SPEAKER_00: But we got really close, like within a couple of points.
• 48:34
  SPEAKER_02: And they were panicking about it.
• 48:35
  SPEAKER_02: That wasn't even a wave election.
• 48:37
  SPEAKER_02: And they were panicking about that.
• 48:38
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 48:39
  SPEAKER_00: Losing their fucking minds.
• 48:40
  SPEAKER_00: And Paxton is arguably worse than Ted Cruz.
• 48:43
  SPEAKER_00: Beto O'Rourke.
• 48:44
  SPEAKER_00: Beto O'Rourke.
• 48:45
  SPEAKER_00: We had a brain fart.
• 48:48
  SPEAKER_00: We have the names of so many politicians in our head.
• 48:51
  SPEAKER_00: Sometimes they just slip out.
• 48:54
  SPEAKER_00: We could give you a whole history lesson about Steve King.
• 48:58
  SPEAKER_00: And that guy's been gone for years.
• 49:01
  SPEAKER_00: So moving on,
• 49:02
  SPEAKER_00: moving on to,
• 49:03
  SPEAKER_00: oh, please, please, please, please, please, please let this be true and happen.
• 49:09
  SPEAKER_00: According to NBC News,
• 49:10
  SPEAKER_00: Defense Secretary Testosterone and his wife have both been floating the possibility
• 49:16
  SPEAKER_00: of a 2028 presidential run.
• 49:20
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, my God.
• 49:21
  SPEAKER_00: Please let it happen.
• 49:22
  SPEAKER_00: One Republican operative told reporters, quote, Hank Seth is good for men.
• 49:27
  SPEAKER_00: For base voters, he encapsulates the masculinity that Trump captured in 2024.
• 49:32
  SPEAKER_00: Sorry.
• 49:38
  SPEAKER_00: Their idea of masculinity is so fucking funny.
• 49:42
  SPEAKER_00: It's so funny.
• 49:45
  SPEAKER_02: It's all performative.
• 49:46
  SPEAKER_02: They don't actually understand what it means to be masculine.
• 49:50
  SPEAKER_00: Right, exactly.
• 49:51
  SPEAKER_00: All performative masculinity, just like their performative patriotism.
• 49:55
  SPEAKER_00: There's nobody I'd love to see more run for president than Pete Hegseth.
• 50:02
  SPEAKER_00: The Pentagon denied the reporting,
• 50:03
  SPEAKER_00: calling it foolish,
• 50:05
  SPEAKER_00: and Hegseth said it was 100% false,
• 50:08
  SPEAKER_00: which, as we mentioned earlier, means that it's absolutely true.
• 50:12
  SPEAKER_00: So I'm just going to go and get my popcorn ready, because I am loving this.
• 50:18
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, and we mentioned this earlier.
• 50:20
  SPEAKER_02: We would love nothing more than to see Pete Hegseth on the stage
• 50:23
  SPEAKER_02: with Greg Bovino screaming at each other about who's more manly and who has
• 50:27
  SPEAKER_02: a higher testosterone level.
• 50:29
  SPEAKER_02: Oh my God, it would just be amazing.
• 50:30
  SPEAKER_00: The only way that we'll be able to settle that is if we put some pull-up bars there
• 50:35
  SPEAKER_00: and see which one can hold up their body weight.
• 50:37
  SPEAKER_02: Put them in a cage match.
• 50:39
  SPEAKER_02: Let them fight it out.
• 50:40
  SPEAKER_02: That would be awesome.
• 50:42
  SPEAKER_00: God, I hope it happens.
• 50:43
  SPEAKER_00: I hope it happens.
• 50:44
  SPEAKER_02: All right.
• 50:44
  SPEAKER_02: Secretary Whale Juice appeared at a town hall on Fox News over the weekend
• 50:48
  SPEAKER_02: and blamed the press and demagogue politicians for scaring the public about measles
• 50:53
  SPEAKER_02: in order to take away attention from chronic diseases that are being caused
• 50:57
  SPEAKER_02: by big farmer and big food companies.
• 50:59
  SPEAKER_02: Blah, blah, blah.
• 51:00
  SPEAKER_02: Kennedy also claimed that if someone died from measles, it's their doctor's fault, not his.
• 51:07
  SPEAKER_02: Definitely not his for telling people not to get vaccinated.
• 51:10
  SPEAKER_02: Quote, there's no reason that anybody in America should be dying of measles in this day and age.
• 51:15
  SPEAKER_02: There's no reason.
• 51:16
  SPEAKER_02: It's malpractice if that happens.
• 51:18
  SPEAKER_02: Fuck you.
• 51:19
  SPEAKER_02: That might be true if we all had access to the unlimited health care
• 51:22
  SPEAKER_02: that Secretary Raccoon Penis has.
• 51:25
  SPEAKER_02: But we don't.
• 51:27
  SPEAKER_02: Most of us can't disappear from our jobs for three months like Mitch McConnell
• 51:30
  SPEAKER_02: and still collect our salary and have our fucking health care still.
• 51:34
  SPEAKER_02: None of us get experimental weight drugs,
• 51:36
  SPEAKER_02: weight loss drugs like Donald Trump, who's still putting on weight anyway.
• 51:40
  SPEAKER_02: And millions of people have little to no health care thanks to Republicans.
• 51:44
  SPEAKER_02: So fuck off, Kennedy.
• 51:46
  SPEAKER_02: You're a mass murderer.
• 51:48
  SPEAKER_00: The Guardian has reported that doctors in blue states
• 51:52
  SPEAKER_00: without strict abortion laws are seeing women later in their pregnancies
• 51:57
  SPEAKER_00: and those women are sicker as they seek care.
• 52:02
  SPEAKER_00: Later abortions means more money, like sometimes thousands of dollars, because guess what, guys?
• 52:07
  SPEAKER_00: Late-term abortions are very, very, very expensive.
• 52:09
  SPEAKER_00: If a pregnancy is making a woman sick,
• 52:12
  SPEAKER_00: Obviously, the longer she stays pregnant, the riskier it is to her health.
• 52:16
  SPEAKER_00: It would have been like if they were just like,
• 52:17
  SPEAKER_00: hey, go ahead and keep staying pregnant, Florida woman.
• 52:21
  SPEAKER_00: Nothing's going to happen to you and your baby,
• 52:23
  SPEAKER_00: even though you have a blood pressure of 225 over 117.
• 52:29
  SPEAKER_02: Right?
• 52:30
  SPEAKER_02: It's no problem.
• 52:30
  SPEAKER_02: Don't worry.
• 52:31
  SPEAKER_00: No, it's not going to risk your health anymore.
• 52:34
  SPEAKER_00: So in Maryland, there's no gestational limit for abortions.
• 52:38
  SPEAKER_00: In other words, they offer late-term abortions.
• 52:41
  SPEAKER_00: They don't stop them at 20 weeks.
• 52:44
  SPEAKER_00: And because so many people are going there,
• 52:45
  SPEAKER_00: it's harder to get an appointment in Maryland,
• 52:47
  SPEAKER_00: so they have to wait even longer, and it's just a hot fucking mess.
• 53:13
  SPEAKER_00: Which, of course, was the point.
• 53:15
  SPEAKER_00: Exactly the point, because they want women to die.
• 53:17
  SPEAKER_00: Yep.
• 53:18
  SPEAKER_00: It's not just abortion that restricts women from delaying their prenatal care, either.
• 53:24
  SPEAKER_00: Trump's cuts to healthcare have caused 3 to 5 million women's
• 53:28
  SPEAKER_00: So even women who've decided that they want to keep their pregnancies are having
• 53:43
  SPEAKER_00: Difficulty getting prenatal care.
• 53:45
  SPEAKER_00: And as we've mentioned before, clinics are closing around the country.
• 53:49
  SPEAKER_00: Hospitals are closing around the country.
• 53:51
  SPEAKER_00: There's entire towns that don't have OBGYNs.
• 53:54
  SPEAKER_00: So what's happening to women in rural America who don't have access
• 53:58
  SPEAKER_00: to transportation to get to another town to have a checkup?
• 54:02
  SPEAKER_00: What do you think?
• 54:03
  SPEAKER_00: What do you think is happening?
• 54:04
  SPEAKER_02: All sorts of bad things.
• 54:06
  SPEAKER_00: All sorts of bad things.
• 54:07
  SPEAKER_02: This is third world country shit.
• 54:10
  SPEAKER_00: It is.
• 54:10
  SPEAKER_00: We're going to see more dead women,
• 54:12
  SPEAKER_00: more dead babies,
• 54:14
  SPEAKER_00: more babies with birth defects that could have been caught,
• 54:17
  SPEAKER_00: more women going bankrupt to pay for abortions, doctors.
• 54:21
  SPEAKER_00: There's not enough doctors.
• 54:22
  SPEAKER_00: At one point when Dr.
• 54:24
  SPEAKER_00: Tiller was murdered about 20 years ago,
• 54:27
  SPEAKER_00: There was only like five late-term abortion doctors in the entire United States.
• 54:31
  SPEAKER_00: This is not like a profession that a lot of people get into because their lives are in danger.
• 54:36
  SPEAKER_00: So it's really causing stress on the system.
• 54:39
  SPEAKER_00: Again, the point.
• 54:41
  SPEAKER_00: The point.
• 54:42
  SPEAKER_00: It's really what the GOP wanted, so fuck them all.
• 54:46
  SPEAKER_02: No one hates children and women more than a pro-life Republican.
• 54:51
  SPEAKER_02: No one hates pregnant women and children more than a pro-life Republican.
• 54:55
  SPEAKER_02: They're not happy unless they read about one dead woman at least twice a day.
• 55:02
  SPEAKER_02: It's just what they live for.
• 55:04
  SPEAKER_02: They're just fucking monsters.
• 55:06
  SPEAKER_02: All right, let us wrap up some headlines with some much-needed good news.
• 55:10
  SPEAKER_01: Ugh.
• 55:11
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, my God.
• 55:11
  SPEAKER_02: Did he really?
• 55:12
  SPEAKER_02: Yes.
• 55:12
  SPEAKER_02: He's just, I mean...
• 55:40
  SPEAKER_02: He's got a $400 million in his super PAC, and he's not sending money to struggling Republicans.
• 55:47
  SPEAKER_02: He's told them to take out ads about how wonderful he is and about all of his accomplishments.
• 55:55
  SPEAKER_02: And it's amazing.
• 55:57
  SPEAKER_02: I'm so fucking thrilled about this.
• 56:00
  SPEAKER_02: Republicans are not happy about it.
• 56:02
  SPEAKER_02: They don't want him to do this.
• 56:03
  SPEAKER_02: They want him to kind of stay quiet and in the background,
• 56:07
  SPEAKER_02: but they're going to have to go out there and kiss him.
• 56:10
  SPEAKER_02: And if he says,
• 56:16
  SPEAKER_02: I'm the message,
• 56:18
  SPEAKER_02: he's literally said,
• 56:19
  SPEAKER_02: put me on the ballot,
• 56:20
  SPEAKER_02: make the midterms about him,
• 56:23
  SPEAKER_02: which is weird because he's also saying that if Republicans lose,
• 56:28
  SPEAKER_02: it's not his fault, it's their fault.
• 56:32
  SPEAKER_02: So, okay.
• 56:34
  SPEAKER_02: And this really is the single greatest gift to Democrats imaginable.
• 56:40
  SPEAKER_02: Like, for months,
• 56:42
  SPEAKER_02: for months, consultants have been like, you can't make the midterms about Trump.
• 56:46
  SPEAKER_02: You have to beef So he's giving us everything that we need to crush the Republican Party.
• 57:02
  SPEAKER_02: Whatever instincts Trump had to manipulate the narrative, they are long gone.
• 57:09
  SPEAKER_02: He doesn't understand anything about his base anymore.
• 57:17
  SPEAKER_02: He's talking about how affordability is stupid and bullshit.
• 57:20
  SPEAKER_02: All he talks about is his fucking ballroom and how he wants to build more monuments to himself.
• 57:24
  SPEAKER_02: He doesn't care about the price of gas.
• 57:27
  SPEAKER_02: He has J.D.
• 57:27
  SPEAKER_02: Vance going out to say, it's fine, just pay more.
• 57:31
  SPEAKER_02: He's still going He just doesn't understand anything anymore except him, me, me, me,
• 57:36
  SPEAKER_02: me,
• 57:36
  SPEAKER_02: me, me, me, and it's going to be a fucking disaster and it's going to be amazing.
• 57:40
  SPEAKER_02: So good job.
• 57:41
  SPEAKER_02: Go for it.
• 57:57
  SPEAKER_00: Well, speaking of the midterms,
• 57:59
  SPEAKER_00: the weakest candidate,
• 58:01
  SPEAKER_00: Abdul Al-Sayed in Michigan,
• 58:04
  SPEAKER_00: is now leading his Republican opponent by four points,
• 58:07
  SPEAKER_00: and the legacy press just can't seem to gain any traction with their nonstop,
• 58:11
  SPEAKER_00: he's a Muslim, he's a communist, he's a Muslim communist attacks.
• 58:17
  SPEAKER_02: They're trying so very fucking hard.
• 58:19
  SPEAKER_00: Troy Jackson is neck and neck with Susan Collins in Maine,
• 58:22
  SPEAKER_00: but notice how quiet the press is about that.
• 58:24
  SPEAKER_00: I haven't actually heard anything about that.
• 58:26
  SPEAKER_00: I didn't know they were neck and neck because
• 58:27
  SPEAKER_02: that sucks.
• 58:29
  SPEAKER_02: Isn't that weird?
• 58:30
  SPEAKER_02: It's so weird that they're not talking about it.
• 58:32
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it's almost like they don't want to give Jackson any free publicity against
• 58:36
  SPEAKER_00: the deeply unpopular Collins.
• 58:39
  SPEAKER_00: The rest of the Senate races in Texas,
• 58:41
  SPEAKER_00: Georgia, Ohio, Alaska, Iowa,
• 58:42
  SPEAKER_00: North Carolina,
• 58:43
  SPEAKER_00: and New Hampshire are looking good for us and very bad for Republicans.
• 58:47
  SPEAKER_00: And that's before Trump even makes the election all about himself
• 58:50
  SPEAKER_00: and his latest trade war jacks up inflation even more.
• 58:53
  SPEAKER_00: Poor John Fetterman.
• 58:55
  SPEAKER_00: How will he ever collect his bribe if there's no point in him flipping parties?
• 59:00
  SPEAKER_00: I know.
• 59:01
  SPEAKER_00: One has to wonder.
• 59:02
  SPEAKER_02: Man, I feel terrible for him.
• 59:04
  SPEAKER_02: Just awful.
• 59:06
  SPEAKER_02: They were making so much noise about this a couple of weeks ago because before Texas
• 59:12
  SPEAKER_02: and Iowa came into play, he would have been very useful in flipping parties.
• 59:17
  SPEAKER_02: If they picked up four seats, he flips parties.
• 59:20
  SPEAKER_02: Republicans keep control.
• 59:22
  SPEAKER_02: Now it's like, oh, shit.
• 59:24
  SPEAKER_02: Now they have different paths to take in the Senate and things are looking worse
• 59:28
  SPEAKER_02: and worse and worse.
• 59:29
  SPEAKER_02: We don't hear anyone talking about him flipping parties anymore
• 59:32
  SPEAKER_02: because it doesn't matter if he flips parties.
• 59:34
  SPEAKER_00: No.
• 59:36
  SPEAKER_00: Aw, that's just sad.
• 59:38
  SPEAKER_00: Anyway, moving on to self-care of the week.
• 59:42
  SPEAKER_00: So my last week has been spent helping my friend, my lifelong friend, move, pack and move.
• 59:49
  SPEAKER_00: She's moving home to New York,
• 59:51
  SPEAKER_00: which is sad for me,
• 59:52
  SPEAKER_00: but I'm just putting it in a box like I do with all of my other sadness.
• 59:56
  SPEAKER_00: My son called me from college the other day and he said, Mom,
• 1:00:00
  SPEAKER_00: I really would like if you would start coming up here and we have dinner once
• 1:00:05
  SPEAKER_00: a week.
• 1:00:05
  SPEAKER_00: Not just going out to eat dinner or whatever, but just having a family dinner.
• 1:00:10
  SPEAKER_00: And I was like, oh.
• 1:00:11
  SPEAKER_00: He really loves me.
• 1:00:13
  SPEAKER_00: So I guess we're going to do that on Friday, hopefully, if my husband can get off of work.
• 1:00:17
  SPEAKER_02: Is he going to cook or is he waiting for you to show up and cook for him?
• 1:00:20
  SPEAKER_00: Don't be silly.
• 1:00:21
  SPEAKER_00: You know that I'm going to be cooking.
• 1:00:24
  SPEAKER_00: He knows how to cook because I taught him when he was like 13 years old.
• 1:00:26
  SPEAKER_00: I said, I will never raise a son who doesn't know how to feed himself.
• 1:00:29
  SPEAKER_00: But, you know, mommy is going to cook for him.
• 1:00:32
  SPEAKER_00: Don't be crazy.
• 1:00:33
  SPEAKER_00: But it'll be nice to get the boys together and they can have fun.
• 1:00:36
  SPEAKER_00: And the other thing is I have been watching so many movies that I don't want to watch.
• 1:00:44
  SPEAKER_00: Helping Jennifer move.
• 1:00:45
  SPEAKER_00: The other day she forced me to watch.
• 1:00:47
  SPEAKER_00: What is that movie that I told you that I was watching?
• 1:00:49
  SPEAKER_00: The Fifth Element?
• 1:00:50
  SPEAKER_00: The Fifth Element.
• 1:00:51
  SPEAKER_00: I hate that movie.
• 1:00:53
  SPEAKER_02: Ah, you suck.
• 1:00:53
  SPEAKER_00: When I was a kid,
• 1:00:56
  SPEAKER_00: she made me watch that movie so many times because she's like 12 years older than me
• 1:01:01
  SPEAKER_00: and kind of helped my mom when I was younger because I was an asshole.
• 1:01:04
  SPEAKER_00: So I would go over to her house for sometimes like a week at a time and there was no cable.
• 1:01:10
  SPEAKER_00: So she would be putting on these movies, The Fifth Element.
• 1:01:13
  SPEAKER_00: I told her the other day, I said,
• 1:01:14
  SPEAKER_00: I hope this is the last time I ever have to watch this movie in my entire life.
• 1:01:17
  SPEAKER_02: So when you come up to visit, that's what I should put on?
• 1:01:20
  SPEAKER_00: Oh my God, I hate it so much.
• 1:01:21
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know what it is about the movie.
• 1:01:24
  SPEAKER_00: I think it was just honestly that one,
• 1:01:26
  SPEAKER_00: Back to the Future,
• 1:01:27
  SPEAKER_00: because my dad always had us watching Back to the Future when we were growing up.
• 1:01:31
  SPEAKER_00: He loved Back to the Future.
• 1:01:32
  SPEAKER_00: And I liked the first one, but I don't really like the second and the third.
• 1:01:35
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 1:01:37
  SPEAKER_00: I did watch a really funny movie, though, A Million Ways to Die in the West.
• 1:01:42
  SPEAKER_00: I was laughing my ass off.
• 1:01:43
  SPEAKER_02: I saw it once, and I remember being really funny.
• 1:01:45
  SPEAKER_02: I never got around to watching it again.
• 1:01:46
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, you should watch it again.
• 1:01:47
  SPEAKER_00: I was laughing my ass off.
• 1:01:48
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, anything Seth, anything Seth and Parlin does is hilarious.
• 1:01:51
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, so funny.
• 1:01:52
  SPEAKER_00: And they're such a good cast.
• 1:01:54
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, Ryan Reynolds was in it.
• 1:01:56
  SPEAKER_00: Although, you know, his star has dimmed a little bit because of other things.
• 1:02:00
  SPEAKER_00: But Ryan Reynolds was in it and he didn't even talk.
• 1:02:04
  SPEAKER_00: It was literally just a guest appearance.
• 1:02:05
  SPEAKER_00: It was really good.
• 1:02:06
  SPEAKER_00: So that's all I've been doing for the last weekend, Moffat.
• 1:02:11
  SPEAKER_02: Well, the four of us,
• 1:02:14
  SPEAKER_02: me, Mrs. Ogre, Jordan, and Anastasia, drove down to Richmond to see Lila at school.
• 1:02:19
  SPEAKER_02: And I'm like,
• 1:02:21
  SPEAKER_02: I'm going to write about this for this week,
• 1:02:23
  SPEAKER_02: but I did not know how much I needed this trip until I saw my little girl,
• 1:02:27
  SPEAKER_02: the adult college student.
• 1:02:29
  SPEAKER_02: We showed up with a large tin full of chocolate chip cookies Mrs.
• 1:02:33
  SPEAKER_02: Ogre and I made for her and her friends and roommates,
• 1:02:35
  SPEAKER_02: and they've mostly been devoured and very much enjoyed.
• 1:02:37
  SPEAKER_01: Nom, nom, nom, nom.
• 1:02:38
  SPEAKER_02: But we also bought some stuff from home that she needed,
• 1:02:40
  SPEAKER_02: like a heating pad,
• 1:02:41
  SPEAKER_02: some nail polish she'd left behind,
• 1:02:43
  SPEAKER_02: and two of her cosplay outfits because Lila,
• 1:02:47
  SPEAKER_02: the girl who would not join a single club throughout all four years of high school
• 1:02:51
  SPEAKER_02: and was deathly afraid of Anyone finding out that she was into anime or manga
• 1:02:57
  SPEAKER_02: or cosplaying at conventions,
• 1:02:58
  SPEAKER_02: she's joining because she thought she would be bullied and people would make fun
• 1:03:01
  SPEAKER_02: of her,
• 1:03:02
  SPEAKER_02: even though anime is like huge and popular and has been for like 30 years
• 1:03:07
  SPEAKER_02: at this point.
• 1:03:08
  SPEAKER_02: But she just would not allow anyone to know.
• 1:03:10
  SPEAKER_02: She didn't want anyone to know.
• 1:03:12
  SPEAKER_02: She wouldn't even wear an anime t-shirt to school.
• 1:03:14
  SPEAKER_02: She just refused.
• 1:03:15
  SPEAKER_02: But now she's joining a cosplay club on campus with her girlfriend
• 1:03:19
  SPEAKER_02: and She already has anime posters up on her wall.
• 1:03:22
  SPEAKER_02: And I just I'm so fucking happy about this.
• 1:03:25
  SPEAKER_02: After we dropped all the stuff off,
• 1:03:27
  SPEAKER_02: we took Lila and June out to lunch and there was much chatting and laughing
• 1:03:31
  SPEAKER_02: and enjoying yummy food.
• 1:03:32
  SPEAKER_00: We went to a place called First Watch, which is apparently a place called First Watch.
• 1:03:37
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I mean, I know of it.
• 1:03:40
  SPEAKER_02: We haven't been to it before, but apparently it's based out of where you live.
• 1:03:44
  SPEAKER_00: Literally, it's in Sarasota.
• 1:03:45
  SPEAKER_00: It's so funny because First Watch is hugely popular here.
• 1:03:48
  SPEAKER_00: They're all over the place.
• 1:03:50
  SPEAKER_00: I actually don't go to First Watch a lot because I think it's overpriced, but it is really good.
• 1:03:55
  SPEAKER_02: It wasn't too bad.
• 1:03:57
  SPEAKER_02: It was like diner food and it wasn't terrible price-wise.
• 1:04:00
  SPEAKER_00: It's just that sometimes you go to a First Watch and they suck and your potatoes are gross.
• 1:04:05
  SPEAKER_00: But it's really good.
• 1:04:06
  SPEAKER_00: But my friend Chris, the one who passed away two years ago, he worked at First Watch.
• 1:04:10
  SPEAKER_00: He was like a manager.
• 1:04:11
  SPEAKER_00: And it was so funny because he would come over and this was like right.
• 1:04:15
  SPEAKER_00: I didn't realize it at the time,
• 1:04:17
  SPEAKER_00: but it was right when schizophrenia was like starting to show its ugly face.
• 1:04:20
  SPEAKER_00: And he would talk to me about the menu.
• 1:04:23
  SPEAKER_00: And I knew every single detail of the First Watch menu.
• 1:04:26
  SPEAKER_00: And I'm like, wow, I'll never be able to eat there again because you won't shut up.
• 1:04:32
  SPEAKER_02: But First Watch
• 1:04:33
  SPEAKER_00: is good.
• 1:04:33
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, we enjoyed it.
• 1:04:35
  SPEAKER_02: We enjoyed ourselves.
• 1:04:35
  SPEAKER_02: And then we took them grocery shopping at Aldi and Lidl.
• 1:04:38
  SPEAKER_00: I fucking love Aldi.
• 1:04:40
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, they were astonished at how much cheaper everything was compared to Kroger and
• 1:04:44
  SPEAKER_02: the grocery store,
• 1:04:45
  SPEAKER_02: it's grocery store,
• 1:04:46
  SPEAKER_02: grocery street from their dorms, which is explicitly why we took them there.
• 1:04:50
  SPEAKER_02: We wanted to show them how much they could save by shopping smarter because Because,
• 1:04:56
  SPEAKER_02: you know,
• 1:04:57
  SPEAKER_02: we've been shopping at Lidl's and Aldi for years and we get twice as much food
• 1:05:01
  SPEAKER_02: than we do at a regular grocery store.
• 1:05:03
  SPEAKER_02: So this is important because Lila's been,
• 1:05:06
  SPEAKER_02: she has a meal plan,
• 1:05:07
  SPEAKER_02: but she's been cooking a lot of her own food because they don't have
• 1:05:11
  SPEAKER_02: a really good selection of food for her to get with her meal plan,
• 1:05:14
  SPEAKER_02: which is annoying.
• 1:05:15
  SPEAKER_02: Told you.
• 1:05:15
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 1:05:16
  SPEAKER_02: I mean, they said they would.
• 1:05:18
  SPEAKER_02: They promised they would.
• 1:05:18
  SPEAKER_02: And then she actually got into the dining hall and the food that she saw
• 1:05:21
  SPEAKER_02: while they were doing the thing over the weekend, like when they were...
• 1:05:26
  SPEAKER_02: The hell, not the introduction.
• 1:05:27
  SPEAKER_02: Was not the food
• 1:05:28
  SPEAKER_00: there, right?
• 1:05:29
  SPEAKER_00: Yep.
• 1:05:30
  SPEAKER_02: I told you.
• 1:05:30
  SPEAKER_00: Do you remember me telling you that?
• 1:05:32
  SPEAKER_00: Yep.
• 1:05:32
  SPEAKER_00: We get you.
• 1:05:33
  SPEAKER_00: That's what we get you.
• 1:05:34
  SPEAKER_02: It's like, well, this is bullshit.
• 1:05:36
  SPEAKER_02: But she's been cooking dinner for her friends twice a week as like a social bonding thing.
• 1:05:41
  SPEAKER_02: I love that.
• 1:05:42
  SPEAKER_02: Yep.
• 1:05:42
  SPEAKER_02: And this is just a good way to save money doing it.
• 1:05:45
  SPEAKER_02: And the twice a week dinner thing is a big fucking deal for her.
• 1:05:49
  SPEAKER_02: And I cannot tell you how thrilled I am that she picked up that lesson for me
• 1:05:54
  SPEAKER_02: because she did not get it from her mother.
• 1:05:55
  SPEAKER_02: She definitely got it from me.
• 1:05:57
  SPEAKER_02: Cooking for people is a great way to build strong relationships.
• 1:06:01
  SPEAKER_02: I've been doing it for them for years.
• 1:06:04
  SPEAKER_02: And just I love cooking for people.
• 1:06:06
  SPEAKER_02: And she loves cooking.
• 1:06:09
  SPEAKER_02: She loves cooking for her friends and they love coming over and they eat together
• 1:06:13
  SPEAKER_02: and it's a really good time.
• 1:06:15
  SPEAKER_02: And I told her,
• 1:06:16
  SPEAKER_02: now you know why I was always having you guys come over to have a meal with us
• 1:06:19
  SPEAKER_02: because it's fun and it's fun to be together and we do stuff.
• 1:06:23
  SPEAKER_02: And she was like, and I feel like I've passed on something really important to her.
• 1:06:28
  SPEAKER_02: Way earlier than I thought I would.
• 1:06:30
  SPEAKER_02: Like, I didn't think that would kick in until she was in her 20s or maybe 30s.
• 1:06:35
  SPEAKER_02: But no, here it is, right?
• 1:06:37
  SPEAKER_02: She's 18 and she's already figured out.
• 1:06:39
  SPEAKER_02: It's like, oh, shit, no.
• 1:06:40
  SPEAKER_02: Cooking for people and having a meal together, that's like a big deal.
• 1:06:44
  SPEAKER_02: And it was like, yes.
• 1:06:46
  SPEAKER_00: You know,
• 1:06:46
  SPEAKER_00: it's crazy, though,
• 1:06:47
  SPEAKER_00: because if her dad had actually been a good part of her life,
• 1:06:53
  SPEAKER_00: she would know that because the Egyptian culture having dinner together is
• 1:06:56
  SPEAKER_00: a really big deal.
• 1:06:57
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, yeah, absolutely.
• 1:06:59
  SPEAKER_00: Absolutely.
• 1:06:59
  SPEAKER_00: But he's not, so.
• 1:07:01
  SPEAKER_00: He sucks.
• 1:07:02
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, he does.
• 1:07:03
  SPEAKER_02: Anyway, we bought them the groceries,
• 1:07:05
  SPEAKER_02: and then we dropped them off at the dorm, said goodbye, and then we came home.
• 1:07:08
  SPEAKER_02: No tears this time.
• 1:07:09
  SPEAKER_02: And I've been a lot calmer since seeing her, right?
• 1:07:13
  SPEAKER_02: She's happy.
• 1:07:14
  SPEAKER_02: She's stable.
• 1:07:15
  SPEAKER_02: She's not panicking about class.
• 1:07:16
  SPEAKER_02: She's not getting overwhelmed.
• 1:07:18
  SPEAKER_02: She's building a life, and she's finally not afraid to be herself.
• 1:07:22
  SPEAKER_02: Perfect.
• 1:07:23
  SPEAKER_00: That's what college is supposed to do.
• 1:07:25
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 1:07:40
  SPEAKER_02: But she's thriving right now.
• 1:07:42
  SPEAKER_02: And I needed to know that my little girl's okay.
• 1:07:45
  SPEAKER_02: And she is.
• 1:07:47
  SPEAKER_02: And I still miss her every day, but she's okay.
• 1:07:51
  SPEAKER_02: That means everything to me.
• 1:07:54
  SPEAKER_02: So that was my self-care of the week.
• 1:07:56
  SPEAKER_00: We love that.
• 1:07:57
  SPEAKER_00: It gets easier.
• 1:07:59
  SPEAKER_02: I know.
• 1:07:59
  SPEAKER_02: She's going to be home this weekend.
• 1:08:01
  SPEAKER_02: She's coming to visit her mom.
• 1:08:03
  SPEAKER_02: I don't know how much we're going to see her because she's coming to visit her mom.
• 1:08:07
  SPEAKER_02: Right.
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  SPEAKER_02: Us necessary.
• 1:08:09
  SPEAKER_02: Like, I'm sure she's going to stop by and say hi,
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  SPEAKER_02: but we just saw her last weekend,
• 1:08:13
  SPEAKER_02: so she's not going to come and spend time with us because that's not the point
• 1:08:16
  SPEAKER_02: of her being home.
• 1:08:17
  SPEAKER_02: But she wants to see her mom and she wants to see her cat.
• 1:08:21
  SPEAKER_00: Her cat is really cute.
• 1:08:23
  SPEAKER_02: Yo, her cat is really cute in pictures.
• 1:08:26
  SPEAKER_02: Her cat is a big white fluffball named Frodo,
• 1:08:29
  SPEAKER_02: except he doesn't clean himself, so he's actually a grungy, dingy white.
• 1:08:34
  SPEAKER_02: He looks like a used dishrag.
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  SPEAKER_02: When he gets groomed,
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  SPEAKER_02: when he gets cleaned,
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  SPEAKER_02: he's gorgeous and fluffy and white,
• 1:08:42
  SPEAKER_02: and that lasts about two weeks, and then he's back to being dingy.
• 1:08:45
  SPEAKER_02: It's like, goddammit, cat.
• 1:08:47
  SPEAKER_01: He's literally the definition of grungy.
• 1:08:49
  SPEAKER_02: That's funny.
• 1:08:50
  SPEAKER_01: But what are you going to do?
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  SPEAKER_02: All right.
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  SPEAKER_02: The next blue wave is coming.
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