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Diogenes Club | E8 - A Bundle of Joy · Diogenes Club

• 0:34
  Hey,
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  good morning,
• 0:35
  good afternoon,
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  whatever the hell time of day it is for everyone.
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  SPEAKER_03: Hey, what's up?
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  SPEAKER_03: I'm Nick Pero.
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  SPEAKER_03: This is the Diogenes Club on Sick of the Shit Publications.
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  SPEAKER_03: Hey, a little bit of tech issues for everybody.
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  SPEAKER_03: How's it going, y'all?
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  SPEAKER_03: It's the Diogenes Club.
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  SPEAKER_03: I'm Nick Barrow, not your dad.
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  SPEAKER_03: Diogenes.
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  SPEAKER_03: Diogenes.
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  SPEAKER_03: Diogenes.
• 0:58
  SPEAKER_03: Diogenes.
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  SPEAKER_03: Where are the men?
• 1:01
  SPEAKER_03: Where are the men?
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  SPEAKER_00: Where are the men?
• 1:03
  SPEAKER_03: Well, we found three of them.
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  SPEAKER_03: We got Nick Barrow.
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  SPEAKER_00: Evan's under the weather, everybody.
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  SPEAKER_00: He has a doctor's note.
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  SPEAKER_03: Dr. Eric Lulove, giving Evan a doctor's note.
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  SPEAKER_03: And then down there below, Walter Ryan, level 36 magic user.
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  SPEAKER_03: What is up, guys?
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  SPEAKER_03: It's a fucking hell of a day and a hell of a week.
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  SPEAKER_03: How's it going?
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: Where to begin?
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  It's only Thursday and it's been like,
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  I feel like we're living in constant chaos.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's just constant chaos.
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  SPEAKER_03: Yep.
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  SPEAKER_03: No, no, no, no.
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  SPEAKER_03: I disagree.
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  SPEAKER_03: There's no chaos.
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  SPEAKER_03: What are you talking about?
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  SPEAKER_03: We haven't done anything chaotic recently.
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  SPEAKER_00: I got some land in Saudi Arabia.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'll sell you.
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  SPEAKER_03: Oh gosh.
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  SPEAKER_03: Do you have an Island in Iran?
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  SPEAKER_03: You'd be willing to sell me.
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  SPEAKER_03: Um, it's going to be short.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm sure we could invade.
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  SPEAKER_00: I have one that's currently unpopulated,
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  SPEAKER_00: but roughly in the next week,
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  SPEAKER_00: it might have a population between three to 5,000.
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  Might actually be more because I heard I'd say between five to
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  8,000,
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  maybe.
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  SPEAKER_03: Um,
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  uh is what i hear because you know we've got two uh meus the
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  82nd airborne oh god
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  yeah and thus our next 20-year war begins thus we begin again
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  and we have no shit
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  no good money for us nothing for the american people just
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  profits for tech
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  SPEAKER_03: contractors what
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  SPEAKER_00: Did you see the new debt number that came out this morning?
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  SPEAKER_03: No.
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  SPEAKER_00: I think that's a fake number anyway, so I don't know.
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  SPEAKER_00: How many trillion?
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  SPEAKER_00: 48.7 trillion.
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  He put the debt 10 trillion in about a year and a half,
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  in about a year and 14 months.
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  SPEAKER_00: Wow.
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  SPEAKER_03: Hey, interesting.
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  SPEAKER_03: Interesting how.
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  SPEAKER_00: And we're insolvent.
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  SPEAKER_03: Who's going to pay for all that?
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  SPEAKER_03: You know who's going to pay for all that?
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  SPEAKER_00: Our kids.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_03: Not the billionaires.
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  SPEAKER_00: Our great, great, great grandchildren.
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  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, are great, great.
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  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, and all the profits for Russia.
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  SPEAKER_03: But it's okay to give Russia,
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  SPEAKER_00: you know,
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  SPEAKER_00: ease up the sanctions on Russia so you can keep bombing Kiev.
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  Yeah,
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  and tell them where the soldiers are,
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  which I've heard they've done.
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  SPEAKER_03: The two Lego boxes right there.
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  SPEAKER_03: There's probably a breaker in there.
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  SPEAKER_01: Lego creation in the background.
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  SPEAKER_03: Lego creation in the background.
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  SPEAKER_03: My son's looking for one of the...
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  There's little breakers that can help you take apart Legos so
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  you don't hurt your
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  SPEAKER_03: fingers and have to bite them.
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  Because as kids,
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  you know,
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  we had fingernails and pulled them apart and like...
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  Or like get balsa wood slivers and push them through and like
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  figure out how to get
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  SPEAKER_03: Legos apart.
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  SPEAKER_03: Nowadays, they have cool little tools that take them apart for you.
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  SPEAKER_03: And so you don't have to worry about it.
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  SPEAKER_03: And the technology pieces, the technique pieces are easier.
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  SPEAKER_00: You should see what we have in the surgical.
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  SPEAKER_03: You want to do this a little bit.
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  Have you ever looked at like old surgical instruments at
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  museums and stuff?
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  SPEAKER_01: And it's like, Oh my God.
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  SPEAKER_01: Made out of cast iron.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: This used to be a stapler in the 2000s.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now we use it now to do complete extractions.
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  SPEAKER_02: Oh, man.
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  SPEAKER_03: I remember having to do,
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  SPEAKER_03: like,
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  SPEAKER_03: hole punching and stuff as a kid and,
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  SPEAKER_03: like,
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  punch my paper so that they could fit into the binders so that
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  I could have the
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  SPEAKER_03: protectors and ready to go for class so that I could,
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  SPEAKER_03: like...
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  SPEAKER_03: Everything's organized and...
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  SPEAKER_03: Don't get me started on scissors.
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  SPEAKER_03: I'm left-handed, so don't get me started on scissors.
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  SPEAKER_00: An emergency bone-cutting force-up.
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  SPEAKER_00: Oh, God.
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  SPEAKER_03: God.
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  SPEAKER_03: That would fucking hurt.
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  Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_03: Please don't do that to somebody.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's why you give them Arnica.
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  SPEAKER_00: You give them Arnica before.
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  SPEAKER_00: They're fine.
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  SPEAKER_03: Oh, okay.
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  SPEAKER_03: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_03: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_03: That's fair.
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  SPEAKER_03: That's fair.
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  SPEAKER_00: Don't worry.
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  SPEAKER_00: Better living through anesthesia.
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  SPEAKER_03: No anesthesia required.
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  SPEAKER_03: Open heart surgery, no anesthesia required.
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  SPEAKER_03: Don't be weak.
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  SPEAKER_00: Don't be so weak.
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  SPEAKER_00: This hasn't hurt me in 20 years.
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  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, as a doctor, I've never been hurt by these tools.
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  SPEAKER_03: So what do you mean?
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  SPEAKER_00: My other favorite question is, how many of these have you done?
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  SPEAKER_00: It's my first one, I swear to God.
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  SPEAKER_03: Never tried it before.
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  SPEAKER_03: You are my test subject.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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  Brand new procedure that was invented 150 years ago that I'm
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  doing for the first time right now.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yes.
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  SPEAKER_01: You still do.
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  SPEAKER_01: How old is it?
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  SPEAKER_00: Side effects presented by Nick Peril.
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  SPEAKER_01: Are there procedures that have endured that long, though?
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm curious about that.
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  SPEAKER_01: Oh, yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's a serious question.
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  SPEAKER_00: Really?
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  SPEAKER_01: That are still unchanged?
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  SPEAKER_00: Oh, listen.
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  SPEAKER_00: Amputating an extremity hasn't changed since the Civil War.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's fascinating.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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  you know the same little bone saw like a bone saw well like the
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  saws they used in
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  the civil war were like you know like timber saws right but
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  what came out of that
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  was an was an invention by um a surgeon in germany named giggly
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  and he created
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  what's called the giggly saw so it's basically a thin wire that
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  has barely named
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  SPEAKER_00: yeah you literally just kind of do this
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  So it's basically like a metal saw that you would use in a wood
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  shop or like for
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  SPEAKER_03: carpenters tools.
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  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_03: I probably have the exact same tool.
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  SPEAKER_03: It's similar.
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  SPEAKER_00: Right.
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  SPEAKER_00: Except the ones that I use are sterile.
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  SPEAKER_00: Oh, yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: Mine are not sterile.
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  SPEAKER_03: No, no, no, no, no.
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  SPEAKER_03: Mine are brought to you by Irwin Marbles or something similar.
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  SPEAKER_03: And they are not.
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  SPEAKER_00: Today's surgical instruments are provided by Timber Lumber.
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  SPEAKER_01: What do you do with the bone dust?
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  SPEAKER_01: Where does the bone dust go?
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  SPEAKER_01: Do you have a vacuum that sucks up the bone dust?
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  SPEAKER_01: Well, no, because now we're using power sauce.
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  SPEAKER_00: So it just liquefies with saline.
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  SPEAKER_01: And then that is extracted?
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  SPEAKER_01: Or that just goes right in...
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  SPEAKER_00: No, just get rid of it.
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  SPEAKER_00: We use suction.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, that's what I was wondering.
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  SPEAKER_03: That's actually what they use to feed RFK Jr.
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  SPEAKER_03: so that he can stay alive.
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  SPEAKER_03: And it's what's used for Donald Trump.
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  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_03: Amputee meat.
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  SPEAKER_03: It's great for longevity and healthful recovery.
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  SPEAKER_03: Brought to you by Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump, and the Epstein class.
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  SPEAKER_00: We've secretly replaced RFK's table salt with bone salt.
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  SPEAKER_03: Bone salt.
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  SPEAKER_03: Oh, my God.
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  SPEAKER_00: That would be so fucked up.
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  SPEAKER_00: Human bone salt.
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  SPEAKER_03: Oh, my God.
• 7:56
  SPEAKER_03: That would be so fucked up.
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  SPEAKER_00: This looks like barbecue sauce.
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  SPEAKER_00: However, we've secretly replaced it with bear juice.
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  SPEAKER_03: Bear juice.
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  SPEAKER_00: Rotting bear carcass from the forest.
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  SPEAKER_03: Oh, gross.
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  from the central park of new york it's not imported olive oil
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  from greece this is
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  beer urine just drink it yeah just drink it just drink it yeah
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  deer piss in a
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  bottle smell like man you are a doe anyway you laugh this year
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  three months they'll
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  be teaching this in public schools as like the actual reality
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  so my my inside
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  SPEAKER_00: washington or my inside washington owners
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  SPEAKER_00: are basically telling me he's next on the chopping block.
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  SPEAKER_01: Really?
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: Seems like a lot are next.
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  The hit that the government took from Judge Murphy at the 1st
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  District Boston
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  SPEAKER_00: Federal Court,
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  striking down all the nominations to the ACIP and the
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  vaccination changes that were
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  SPEAKER_00: all done basically illegally,
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  SPEAKER_00: was a little bit too much for Trump to take the big L on.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_00: He doesn't like big L's.
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  SPEAKER_00: He doesn't like big L's.
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  The scarier prospect of all this is the fact that Dr.
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  Oz would become the acting CMS secretary.
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  SPEAKER_00: Gross.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's like a fucking disaster.
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  SPEAKER_00: Gross.
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  SPEAKER_00: Kind of like being banned on TikTok, right, Nick?
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  oh yeah so hey um so hey we started we started a little late
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  today because i didn't
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  realize i had to turn off the channel that is now disconnected
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  on my restream so we
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  SPEAKER_03: for those who don't know we broadcast here onSubstack twitch youtube
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  And had been broadcasting on TikTok until I got my first
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  violation on Tuesday
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  because Walter was talking about election integrity and said
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  something that the
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  SPEAKER_03: TikTok gods do not like and did not want us to put out there.
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  SPEAKER_03: Walter didn't even say at the moment that they captured.
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  I watched the whole little clip and I'm going to see if I can
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  download it and
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  SPEAKER_03: capture it and download it so that I can show it to everyone on like
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  This was the clip that TikTok tried to ban me on because it's
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  fucking stupid.
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  SPEAKER_03: Walter,
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  SPEAKER_03: you didn't even say the you were like,
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  we just need to talk about election security and like safety
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  and integrity.
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  SPEAKER_03: And I was like, what the fuck, Allison?
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  SPEAKER_03: Wow.
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  We are not broadcasting on TikTok today,
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  which is totally fine because fuck you guys.
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  SPEAKER_03: Fuck TikTok.
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  and that bullshit and so we're not broadcasting on them today
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  because they won't
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  let us and I have not appealed the violation yet or taken their
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  little like content
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  moderation course that you have to take when you violate their
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  content rules I was
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  like no thanks I'm not gonna do that right now I'm not in a
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  remedial case study
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  SPEAKER_03: like I signed up to be a user you can just take the clip down or not like
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  okay but so yeah so i got my first social media ban on tiktok
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  uh which i am kind of
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  proud of it was me that got the ban it sounds like you you
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  helped us get the ban
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  walter you it we you and natasha were talking at the moment it
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  had you and natasha
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  SPEAKER_03: talking about the electric stuff yeah
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  SPEAKER_03: It's always Walter's fault.
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  SPEAKER_03: We can blame Walter.
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  SPEAKER_01: 100% my fault.
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  SPEAKER_01: I will not be constrained in what I say by the platforms.
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  SPEAKER_00: He said got Nick banned off of TikTok.
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  SPEAKER_01: Well, once they ban me, it makes me want to form a TikTok site.
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  SPEAKER_01: And all I do is talk about election fraud, but using other words.
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  Like,
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  how long will it take me to get banned on here if I'm just
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  like...
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  You should.
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  SPEAKER_01: I want to go to the menu at Denny's and pick what I want on the menu.
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  But who is the person who is selecting,
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  reading the menu that I filled out?
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  Like,
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  talk about it completely in metaphors for just hours and hours
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  until I get banned.
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  SPEAKER_00: Election fraud metaphors by Walter Ryan.
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  SPEAKER_01: Oh, man.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm born for this shit.
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  SPEAKER_01: I don't say the words I mean ever.
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  SPEAKER_01: Just casting spells.
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  SPEAKER_03: Just magic.
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  SPEAKER_03: Magic.
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  So,
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  hey,
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  we're only broadcasting on three channels today because TikTok
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  said fuck you.
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  SPEAKER_03: And so two-finger salute to you, TikTok.
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  SPEAKER_03: Thank you.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, tick and talk.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, there they are.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's a two-finger...
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  SPEAKER_03: Talk.
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  SPEAKER_03: Motherfucker.
• 12:17
  SPEAKER_03: Tick.
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  SPEAKER_02: Talk.
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  SPEAKER_00: Have that tattooed right on there.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hey, Mr. Ellison, I got a message for you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Tick and talk.
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  SPEAKER_01: I got free speech.
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  SPEAKER_01: Oh, man.
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  SPEAKER_00: So here's the thing.
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  SPEAKER_00: So,
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  SPEAKER_00: Nick,
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  SPEAKER_00: if you had your choice,
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  I'm going to ask you a question that you asked me when I did my
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  intelligent
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  SPEAKER_00: masculinity interview with you.
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  Because I know we're in a different position now than we were
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  two months ago,
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  right?
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  So the question is,
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  if you had the unlimited authority to do day one,
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  January 21,
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  2029.
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  SPEAKER_00: OK.
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  SPEAKER_00: And you're he man with all the power from, you know, Mount Grayskull.
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  SPEAKER_00: Right.
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  SPEAKER_00: OK.
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  SPEAKER_00: Castle Grayskull.
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  SPEAKER_00: What what would you do?
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  SPEAKER_03: Give me five because one's too high.
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  SPEAKER_03: Five things.
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  SPEAKER_03: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_03: Because one is, yeah, one is way.
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  SPEAKER_03: There's so many things.
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  SPEAKER_03: One just scratches.
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  SPEAKER_00: I only have one question for Mr. Mellon in 27 parts.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_03: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_03: Part one.
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  SPEAKER_03: Answer part one.
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  I would immediately place a wealth,
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  institute a wealth cap and wealth minimum.
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  SPEAKER_00: You wouldn't seize all their assets first?
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  SPEAKER_03: Oh, that would be part of instituting a wealth cap and wealth minimum.
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  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_03: That's the broad statement is wealth cap and wealth minimum,
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  meaning we would seize all assets and nationalized systems that
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  are supposed to be
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  SPEAKER_03: government owned.
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  SPEAKER_03: SpaceX, Palantir.
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  For those who might question what I'm saying,
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  yes,
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  this does sound authoritarian.
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  SPEAKER_03: No,
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  it is actually the opposite because it is taking a private
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  entity and turning it
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  SPEAKER_03: into a publicly owned entity.
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  SPEAKER_03: rather than turning public... It's already taking public money.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, we take all of our public money back.
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  We're taking all the public money back that we have given to
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  these assholes.
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  SPEAKER_03: Love you, too.
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  SPEAKER_03: Bye.
• 14:22
  SPEAKER_02: We are... Love you, asshole.
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  SPEAKER_03: We're going to give these... So part of that is we take all their assets.
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  SPEAKER_03: We nationalize SpaceX.
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  SPEAKER_03: We nationalize Starlink.
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  SPEAKER_03: We nationalize...
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  SPEAKER_03: Palantir Palantir
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  SPEAKER_03: There's so many platforms that would be nationalized because of it.
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  We would actually have programs again that could do things
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  because all of our
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  SPEAKER_03: public investment has gone to private corporations that yes,
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  SPEAKER_03: say they're doing it less expensive,
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  but are just eating the profits that otherwise would have been
• 14:59
  used for basic
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  SPEAKER_03: research.
• 15:01
  SPEAKER_03: And so we're just taking back the means for production and the means for
• 15:05
  SPEAKER_03: distribution from private entities into public ownership.
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  SPEAKER_03: Number two,
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  I would force Congress to change the law on how many
• 15:16
  representatives there are in
• 15:17
  SPEAKER_03: the House of Representatives.
• 15:19
  SPEAKER_03: We would proportionally,
• 15:20
  we would increase the number of representatives because the
• 15:24
  representative,
• 15:26
  SPEAKER_03: the number of representatives has been pegged at 435 since 1929.
• 15:32
  SPEAKER_03: And the only thing we do now is we proportionally redistribute
• 15:37
  redistribute all of the existing number of representatives
• 15:42
  between the states the
• 15:44
  constitution originally said for every 30 000 people one
• 15:51
  representative that's the
• 15:53
  SPEAKER_03: original language of the constitution that would equate to like 1500
• 15:59
  or like some like stupid no actually no I have it on I've done
• 16:03
  I've done the math
• 16:04
  on it give me a second congressional representatives so here we
• 16:08
  go this is a fun I
• 16:09
  did this because I wanted to know like what I was about to say
• 16:13
  when I said this we
• 16:15
  would increase if we were to go back to the original 50 or the
• 16:20
  original 30,000
• 16:21
  SPEAKER_03: people for one representative
• 16:24
  SPEAKER_03: we would in the U S have 11,394 representatives.
• 16:32
  SPEAKER_03: That's an absurd number.
• 16:34
  SPEAKER_03: Absurd.
• 16:34
  SPEAKER_03: That is absolutely absurd.
• 16:36
  SPEAKER_03: And it would not work.
• 16:38
  There is a proportional system that Lawrence Winterman has
• 16:41
  talked about and that
• 16:42
  SPEAKER_03: folks have done before.
• 16:44
  SPEAKER_03: There's like an actual proportional, like,
• 16:47
  SPEAKER_03: mathematical formula that comes out to,
• 16:49
  SPEAKER_03: based on your population size,
• 16:51
  here's a proportional representative amount that actually still
• 16:54
  represents the
• 16:55
  SPEAKER_03: populace at large.
• 16:57
  SPEAKER_03: So that would actually peg us closer to 750, 800-ish representatives.
• 17:02
  SPEAKER_03: So it would be a near doubling of what we have.
• 17:04
  SPEAKER_03: So that's number two.
• 17:05
  So those are the first two things because that would solve a
• 17:07
  lot of problems.
• 17:08
  SPEAKER_00: Well, that was the reapportionment act of 1929.
• 17:10
  SPEAKER_00: And that's what kept the house at 435 seats.
• 17:11
  SPEAKER_00: Yes.
• 17:15
  SPEAKER_03: That's just a law that can be changed.
• 17:17
  SPEAKER_00: Right.
• 17:18
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, that's just right.
• 17:19
  I mean,
• 17:19
  so right now it's basically one representative per 761,000
• 17:24
  people.
• 17:24
  SPEAKER_03: Yes.
• 17:25
  SPEAKER_03: Which means,
• 17:26
  SPEAKER_03: say,
• 17:26
  SPEAKER_03: California,
• 17:27
  SPEAKER_03: which is really densely populated in a lot of areas compared to,
• 17:31
  SPEAKER_03: say,
• 17:31
  SPEAKER_03: Montana.
• 17:32
  SPEAKER_03: For every representative in Montana, it's closer to every 500,000 people.
• 17:40
  SPEAKER_03: is a representative compared to California,
• 17:42
  SPEAKER_03: which is close to 750,000 or more people per representative.
• 17:47
  SPEAKER_03: So there's a 250,000 person difference.
• 17:49
  SPEAKER_03: That's not representative democracy.
• 17:52
  There's a proportional system that we could use that would
• 17:54
  actually proportionalize
• 17:55
  SPEAKER_03: our representation and make it not parliamentary,
• 17:59
  SPEAKER_03: because we don't have a parliamentary system in our country.
• 18:02
  We have preset parties that form coalitions ahead of elections
• 18:08
  rather than after elections.
• 18:11
  SPEAKER_03: but that would be what I would do because that would also,
• 18:13
  that would immediately reduce gerrymandering that would
• 18:17
  restrict the ability for,
• 18:20
  SPEAKER_03: um,
• 18:21
  corporations to buy candidates because candidates would have to
• 18:25
  actually represent
• 18:26
  a much smaller population and be much more likely that they
• 18:29
  would get voted out.
• 18:30
  SPEAKER_03: If they started doing stupid shit,
• 18:32
  SPEAKER_03: um,
• 18:32
  it would immediately call for new elections because they would
• 18:34
  have to fill all of
• 18:35
  SPEAKER_03: the empty seats and redo all of the,
• 18:38
  SPEAKER_03: um,
• 18:39
  all of the existing seats so it would fuck up the current
• 18:41
  Congress and that would
• 18:42
  do a lot of really good things and it would allow folks like
• 18:46
  Jasmine Crockett to
• 18:47
  SPEAKER_03: then run again and get back into Congress because she should be there.
• 18:51
  She should not be out of Congress at this moment and it's a
• 18:53
  fucking shame that we
• 18:54
  SPEAKER_00: pushed her out in Texas.
• 18:57
  SPEAKER_00: Here's the scary part behind all these numbers.
• 19:01
  So all the House seats based on the apportionment and what they
• 19:07
  call the balance method
• 19:10
  SPEAKER_00: So apparently in this 2020 census,
• 19:12
  SPEAKER_00: the one that the current president thought was illegal,
• 19:16
  SPEAKER_00: basically,
• 19:17
  SPEAKER_00: so New York lost its seat to Minnesota by 89 people.
• 19:26
  SPEAKER_00: Ah.
• 19:27
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 19:28
  So New York missed keeping its 27th congressional seat by a
• 19:32
  priority value of only,
• 19:33
  SPEAKER_00: I think it was like .00004%.
• 19:35
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 19:37
  SPEAKER_00: Right?
• 19:38
  SPEAKER_00: It was really tiny.
• 19:40
  So the problem is that there's an undercount controversy that
• 19:43
  they think happened.
• 19:45
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 19:45
  SPEAKER_00: And that Florida should have two more seats.
• 19:50
  SPEAKER_00: Texas would have gotten one.
• 19:52
  SPEAKER_00: And Minnesota and Rhode Island would have each lost a seat.
• 19:56
  SPEAKER_03: See,
• 19:56
  the problem with the proportional system that we have is we're
• 20:03
  pitting states
• 20:04
  SPEAKER_03: against each other on the existing number of representatives.
• 20:09
  SPEAKER_03: And our population keeps increasing,
• 20:12
  which means we get less representative every time a new person
• 20:17
  comes into the
• 20:17
  SPEAKER_03: country.
• 20:19
  SPEAKER_03: So instead of fixing the problem,
• 20:21
  which would be increase the number of representatives because
• 20:24
  then districts would
• 20:25
  SPEAKER_03: automatically become smaller.
• 20:27
  SPEAKER_03: And yes,
• 20:28
  SPEAKER_03: states like California,
• 20:30
  SPEAKER_03: Texas,
• 20:31
  SPEAKER_03: Florida,
• 20:31
  SPEAKER_03: New York,
• 20:32
  SPEAKER_03: where large population centers are,
• 20:35
  SPEAKER_03: would gain seats.
• 20:37
  SPEAKER_03: And in Texas,
• 20:38
  SPEAKER_03: that would be a fucking good thing because they're so gerrymandered,
• 20:44
  SPEAKER_03: it would actually mean that
• 20:46
  that folks win the democrats would win because you can't
• 20:50
  gerrymander districts when
• 20:52
  say texas let's i don't know how many districts texas currently
• 20:55
  has let's oh 38
• 20:57
  texas currently has 38 districts if texas went up to 50 let's
• 21:02
  say even more 70.
• 21:05
  They would have a much harder time gerrymandering districts in
• 21:10
  population centers
• 21:11
  SPEAKER_03: because it would require a proportion.
• 21:13
  SPEAKER_03: It would require a set amount of population.
• 21:16
  SPEAKER_03: Oh, they would absolutely figure out ways to try and undercut the system.
• 21:20
  But this would make it so much harder that it would force
• 21:25
  forward progress just by
• 21:27
  SPEAKER_03: making gerrymandering so much harder that they would be like,
• 21:31
  fuck I don't know if I should even try like make it so that
• 21:34
  they don't want to try
• 21:36
  because it's so hard to fucking get around like that's what we
• 21:40
  should be doing so
• 21:40
  that that's just number two like the next one is I would offer
• 21:45
  I would do I would
• 21:47
  then take the money from uh the wealth cap and wealth minimums
• 21:53
  and institute full
• 21:55
  SPEAKER_03: social services across the country like
• 21:59
  Social education,
• 22:00
  socialized education,
• 22:01
  socialized healthcare,
• 22:02
  socialized housing.
• 22:04
  So that we have three of the major basic Maslow's hierarchy of
• 22:10
  needs met because
• 22:13
  the country should be investing in its people because we are
• 22:17
  worth the investment.
• 22:19
  SPEAKER_03: And because the smarter we are as a populace,
• 22:21
  SPEAKER_03: the better and more profitable we are as a country.
• 22:25
  SPEAKER_03: Because if you invest in things, they get better.
• 22:29
  The longer you invest in us,
• 22:31
  it's just like if they want to run us like a corporation.
• 22:35
  SPEAKER_03: Fine, we're not.
• 22:36
  SPEAKER_03: We're not because corporations are about earning profit.
• 22:39
  SPEAKER_03: Governments are about providing services.
• 22:43
  SPEAKER_03: But if they want to run us like a corporation,
• 22:45
  SPEAKER_03: it is less costly,
• 22:47
  SPEAKER_03: it is more cost effective to hold on to a single person for 20 years
• 22:54
  because you can add smaller increments of training that are
• 22:57
  less expensive to
• 22:59
  continually grow their knowledge base than it is to hire new
• 23:04
  people every two to
• 23:05
  SPEAKER_03: three years.
• 23:06
  The tech companies are fucking stupid because they decided that
• 23:12
  corporate support
• 23:15
  SPEAKER_03: and longevity of your employees was no longer important.
• 23:20
  SPEAKER_03: So they lost long-term talent growth.
• 23:23
  SPEAKER_03: And that's less expensive in the near term and the long term.
• 23:28
  SPEAKER_00: Nick, are you familiar with a company called Lincoln Electric?
• 23:32
  SPEAKER_03: Lincoln Electric?
• 23:34
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 23:35
  SPEAKER_03: I feel like I've heard the name before.
• 23:37
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 23:37
  So they're they're basically like a welding company that they
• 23:40
  do power systems and
• 23:41
  SPEAKER_00: welding equipment.
• 23:42
  SPEAKER_00: And they're basically an engineering firm.
• 23:44
  SPEAKER_00: Right.
• 23:45
  SPEAKER_00: So they they hire for life.
• 23:48
  SPEAKER_00: So my friend who graduated University of Michigan,
• 23:51
  SPEAKER_00: you know,
• 23:51
  SPEAKER_00: bachelor's in engineering,
• 23:52
  SPEAKER_00: mechanical engineer back in 1992.
• 23:56
  SPEAKER_00: has been with Lincoln Electric since 1992.
• 23:59
  SPEAKER_00: They hired him right out of college,
• 24:02
  SPEAKER_00: and he's now a district manager in Ohio,
• 24:04
  SPEAKER_00: runs the Columbus division.
• 24:07
  SPEAKER_00: And they kept training him and giving him more.
• 24:09
  SPEAKER_00: And that's what they do.
• 24:10
  SPEAKER_00: They hire in because they figured that it was cheaper back then.
• 24:15
  SPEAKER_00: And this is back in the 80s and 90s they figured this out.
• 24:18
  SPEAKER_00: Versus this, oh, we're just going to fire all our senior salespeople.
• 24:22
  And that's what I never understood about companies that fire
• 24:24
  their sales forces.
• 24:27
  SPEAKER_00: Even when it's really rough economic times, don't fire your salespeople.
• 24:31
  SPEAKER_00: Who's going to bring in the income?
• 24:34
  SPEAKER_02: Who's going to make new salespeople?
• 24:37
  Yeah,
• 24:37
  it's like you don't fire your people who have relationships to
• 24:40
  the business community.
• 24:41
  SPEAKER_00: Like, that's stupid.
• 24:42
  Yeah,
• 24:43
  it's interesting what you're saying to like this idea of what
• 24:45
  we would change.
• 24:46
  And it's it's hard because we are also entrenched in this
• 24:50
  mechanism of corruption.
• 24:51
  SPEAKER_01: Like it infects your thinking.
• 24:53
  So we're actually we also have to recognize we're really
• 24:55
  literally not in a place
• 24:57
  SPEAKER_01: where we could even conceive of a better system yet.
• 24:59
  SPEAKER_01: We have to make some progress towards a better system.
• 25:03
  SPEAKER_01: And then we would have to continue to implement changes.
• 25:06
  And that's actually one of the genius things about the
• 25:08
  Constitution as a framework for that.
• 25:10
  SPEAKER_01: But yeah, we're up against this.
• 25:11
  SPEAKER_01: And the term I've come up with this week is the ingenuity of the corrupt.
• 25:17
  SPEAKER_01: And we just have to accept that.
• 25:19
  SPEAKER_01: We have to start mapping out the ingenuity of the corrupt.
• 25:21
  SPEAKER_01: Because it's like...
• 25:23
  A person who's just trying to get through his life and make
• 25:25
  money for his family,
• 25:25
  SPEAKER_01: he has a certain amount of ingenuity,
• 25:28
  SPEAKER_01: but a person who's trying to cover up some heinous crime,
• 25:31
  SPEAKER_01: all of a sudden they've got this energy beyond what we can even,
• 25:34
  SPEAKER_01: like Eric,
• 25:34
  SPEAKER_01: you and I can't even think about it.
• 25:35
  SPEAKER_01: We can't even imagine it.
• 25:37
  SPEAKER_01: So that's what we have to start recognizing.
• 25:38
  SPEAKER_00: We just don't do it because it's fucking morally wrong.
• 25:40
  SPEAKER_01: Well, it's astonishing, though.
• 25:42
  SPEAKER_01: We're not prepared for it.
• 25:43
  SPEAKER_01: We're just not prepared for that.
• 25:45
  Decent people are not prepared for the tactics of the corrupt
• 25:49
  because we can't
• 25:50
  SPEAKER_01: imagine it because they get so far down the line,
• 25:53
  SPEAKER_01: but then they impose that thinking on the rest of us.
• 25:56
  SPEAKER_00: It's the same reason why I don't commit Medicare fraud.
• 26:02
  SPEAKER_00: Right.
• 26:02
  SPEAKER_00: Why?
• 26:02
  SPEAKER_00: I'm afraid to go to jail.
• 26:03
  SPEAKER_00: I'm afraid of getting an OIG audit.
• 26:05
  SPEAKER_00: OK, I don't want the feds creeping around my house and my office.
• 26:08
  SPEAKER_00: And, you know, I mean, they see what I do anyway.
• 26:10
  SPEAKER_00: It's not right.
• 26:11
  SPEAKER_00: But like there are people who just wake up,
• 26:15
  SPEAKER_00: wake up one morning,
• 26:16
  decide I'm going to defraud the federal government because it's
• 26:18
  going to be five
• 26:18
  SPEAKER_00: years before they figure out where I am.
• 26:21
  SPEAKER_00: Right.
• 26:22
  SPEAKER_00: I don't, I can't live like that.
• 26:24
  SPEAKER_00: I can't,
• 26:24
  SPEAKER_00: I need to go to bed every night with my head on the pillow,
• 26:27
  SPEAKER_00: knowing that I've done the right thing every day.
• 26:29
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, have we all fractured the occasional law too?
• 26:32
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, we all speed, right?
• 26:33
  I mean,
• 26:33
  the speed limit,
• 26:35
  speed limits kind of like,
• 26:36
  it's a guideline,
• 26:36
  right?
• 26:37
  SPEAKER_00: Florida it's optional.
• 26:38
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 26:39
  SPEAKER_00: Speed limit is one thing.
• 26:44
  SPEAKER_00: That's a local one.
• 26:45
  SPEAKER_00: I'm talking about major crimes.
• 26:48
  SPEAKER_00: Major fraud.
• 26:50
  SPEAKER_03: Real infractions that would cause damages and harm to other people.
• 26:54
  But a lot of that is like the white supremacy mindset is always
• 26:57
  the present.
• 26:58
  SPEAKER_01: Oh,
• 26:58
  SPEAKER_01: I'm going to own the libs,
• 26:59
  SPEAKER_01: you know,
• 26:59
  SPEAKER_01: and like the consequences of that,
• 27:02
  SPEAKER_01: you know,
• 27:02
  SPEAKER_01: and it's like I was thinking of like Bernie Madoff,
• 27:05
  SPEAKER_01: where he was just like,
• 27:06
  SPEAKER_01: oh,
• 27:06
  SPEAKER_01: I'm just going to do this little fraud and then the market will correct.
• 27:09
  SPEAKER_01: And then he does a bigger fraud.
• 27:10
  SPEAKER_01: And then and then you get to this point where it's like,
• 27:12
  SPEAKER_01: oh,
• 27:13
  his all of his energy is covering up this fraud that he's done
• 27:16
  until he finally is
• 27:17
  SPEAKER_01: like,
• 27:17
  SPEAKER_01: oh,
• 27:17
  SPEAKER_01: I'm caught.
• 27:18
  You know,
• 27:18
  but the thing is,
• 27:19
  like,
• 27:19
  we can't even say that it's just the baby boomers.
• 27:22
  SPEAKER_00: Sam Friedman did it.
• 27:25
  SPEAKER_00: Zuckerberg's been doing it.
• 27:28
  SPEAKER_00: Peter Thiel.
• 27:28
  SPEAKER_00: These are Gen X, Gen Y, Gen Z. You know what it is?
• 27:33
  SPEAKER_00: It's all people who have financial means to escape accountability.
• 27:40
  SPEAKER_03: It's not a generational thing.
• 27:42
  SPEAKER_03: It's a class thing.
• 27:44
  SPEAKER_03: It's definitely a class thing.
• 27:46
  SPEAKER_03: It's an entitlement ideology.
• 27:48
  SPEAKER_03: The Epstein class of individuals, these billionaires,
• 27:52
  SPEAKER_03: are just corrupt fucking people.
• 27:55
  SPEAKER_03: I'm not saying all of them are inherently corrupt.
• 27:56
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, I think they all are.
• 27:58
  SPEAKER_01: I think every person with how much wealth is.
• 28:01
  No,
• 28:01
  because there's people,
• 28:02
  Walter,
• 28:02
  that do a lot of good with their wealth and they donate.
• 28:05
  SPEAKER_00: They're very philanthropic.
• 28:07
  SPEAKER_00: That's just performative bullshit.
• 28:11
  There are very wealthy people who live around me who are very
• 28:15
  generous with their money.
• 28:16
  SPEAKER_00: It's not saying that they don't spend it on themselves,
• 28:18
  SPEAKER_00: but they don't hurt people with their money.
• 28:24
  I think the easy way to solve it though is we do a wealth cap
• 28:27
  because then you
• 28:28
  never get to the point of monetary like satisfaction where you
• 28:33
  stop being happy
• 28:34
  SPEAKER_03: with anything that you have.
• 28:36
  SPEAKER_03: The thing with like,
• 28:37
  the thing is once you get to a certain point in money is you
• 28:41
  can afford anything.
• 28:43
  SPEAKER_03: So anything is possible.
• 28:45
  SPEAKER_03: Like there's nothing that can stop you.
• 28:49
  SPEAKER_03: Whereas like
• 28:53
  SPEAKER_03: whereas a wealth cap would stop people from getting there.
• 28:57
  SPEAKER_03: I don't think inherently Taylor Swift, let's say, is bad.
• 29:02
  SPEAKER_03: She's a performer.
• 29:03
  SPEAKER_03: So yes, she is performative, absolutely.
• 29:07
  And she was forced into a situation to buy the rights of her
• 29:13
  music back by someone else.
• 29:15
  SPEAKER_03: And so I think she worked really, really hard to get where she was.
• 29:18
  SPEAKER_03: And she does do a lot of good with her money.
• 29:21
  SPEAKER_03: And she does take advantage.
• 29:23
  SPEAKER_03: She's not hurting anybody.
• 29:26
  SPEAKER_03: I don't think she's trying to hurt people.
• 29:28
  SPEAKER_03: And I think the difference is, yes, she makes a lot of money.
• 29:31
  SPEAKER_03: And yes, she does feed off the capitalist system really well.
• 29:35
  SPEAKER_03: And that system needs to go away.
• 29:37
  SPEAKER_03: It's not her fault.
• 29:39
  SPEAKER_03: I think there are certain billionaires that are not off limits,
• 29:44
  SPEAKER_03: but are less damaging as a person rather than the billionaire part of it.
• 29:50
  SPEAKER_01: Like the billionaire part of it, we need to solve that.
• 29:53
  SPEAKER_03: Nobody should ever have that much money.
• 29:55
  SPEAKER_03: Like nobody needs that much money.
• 29:57
  SPEAKER_03: Nobody needs that much inherent power by themselves.
• 30:01
  SPEAKER_03: Like,
• 30:01
  SPEAKER_03: that's really the problem is we've made it so that because like Waj,
• 30:06
  Wajah Ali likes to say is like the true religion in America is
• 30:10
  capitalism and
• 30:11
  SPEAKER_03: green.
• 30:12
  SPEAKER_03: It's not white.
• 30:13
  SPEAKER_03: It's not racism isn't the true motivation.
• 30:17
  SPEAKER_03: It's greed.
• 30:18
  SPEAKER_03: And the capitalist system has run amok and run away in the U.S.
• 30:23
  SPEAKER_03: and is hurting people.
• 30:24
  yeah and we've we've run so far away from a socialized
• 30:29
  democracy or even from like
• 30:32
  unionized capitalism like market share capitalism where unions
• 30:37
  have power we've
• 30:37
  gone so far away from that that it's just corrupted oligarchy
• 30:42
  systems i was just
• 30:44
  reading in the chat not to interrupt you i'm sorry but like
• 30:46
  you've managed to piss
• 30:47
  SPEAKER_00: off tiktok and the swifties in the same week
• 30:50
  SPEAKER_00: Hey, I'm a Swifty.
• 30:52
  SPEAKER_01: I'm a Swifty.
• 30:53
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I'm just going to speak from... No, we speak from our hearts.
• 30:58
  SPEAKER_03: I ain't mad that Walter thinks that all billionaires...
• 31:01
  SPEAKER_03: None of us are mad that Walter thinks all billionaires are evil.
• 31:04
  SPEAKER_01: I'm not going to piss off this week.
• 31:05
  SPEAKER_03: Tune in on Thursday.
• 31:06
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, what are they going to do?
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  They're not going to cancel their subscription to my newsletter
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  because they don't support me.
• 31:11
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, they ain't listening to what I got to say.
• 31:13
  SPEAKER_01: Why do I care for Matt?
• 31:15
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, why do I care?
• 31:16
  SPEAKER_03: They don't have any influence to me.
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  and they're not giving me any money like hey billionaires
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  here's a here's an
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  opportunity you want to see a better you want to see a better
• 31:26
  today and tomorrow
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  how about you donate and subscribing to get us unbanned get us
• 31:32
  unbanned from tiktok
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  billionaires how about that i'll change my tune if we can talk
• 31:36
  about election
• 31:37
  integrity on tiktok yeah well we gotta we gotta get uh larry
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  ellison the ellison's
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  SPEAKER_03: out of there now because fuck uh like
• 31:49
  SPEAKER_03: I mean, I don't really care in the end.
• 31:51
  SPEAKER_03: YouTube hasn't banned me.
• 31:52
  SPEAKER_03: It's a little scary.
• 31:54
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, it's weird, but my primary platforms don't seem to care.
• 32:00
  SPEAKER_03: They're not restricting what I'm saying,
• 32:03
  so I'm not going to stop saying what I have to say because
• 32:06
  y'all in the chat want
• 32:07
  SPEAKER_03: to hear what we've got to say.
• 32:09
  SPEAKER_03: You're here with us.
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  Be happy you're not an employee at CBS right now,
• 32:15
  having to look over your shoulder.
• 32:17
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah,
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  SPEAKER_01: I was based on what Eric was saying,
• 32:20
  SPEAKER_01: too,
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  SPEAKER_01: because I've been thinking about the whole wealth thing.
• 32:21
  SPEAKER_01: Like,
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  SPEAKER_01: like there's people that if you work like as an educator for 50 years,
• 32:27
  SPEAKER_01: you know,
• 32:27
  SPEAKER_01: and you're not like going out and getting drunk every weekend.
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  SPEAKER_01: I mean,
• 32:30
  SPEAKER_01: you can get to the point where you have a million dollar portfolio,
• 32:33
  SPEAKER_01: you know,
• 32:33
  SPEAKER_01: if you're a reasonable and like there is a path to.
• 32:36
  SPEAKER_01: But that's not what we're talking about, you know.
• 32:38
  SPEAKER_01: And those are people too.
• 32:39
  SPEAKER_01: And I see them out there and there's people in that class.
• 32:42
  SPEAKER_01: And I mean, you know, Eric, you're, you're doing, you're a doctor.
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  I know you do all these generous things and you've spent all
• 32:47
  that effort building your practice.
• 32:49
  SPEAKER_01: And yeah,
• 32:49
  SPEAKER_01: that's,
• 32:50
  SPEAKER_01: that's the class of people we want,
• 32:52
  SPEAKER_01: but yeah,
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  there's that class that's above that who literally have enough
• 32:56
  economic power to
• 32:57
  SPEAKER_01: stop all famine in the world.
• 33:00
  SPEAKER_01: I mean,
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  they really actually have that and they maintain their wealth
• 33:03
  at the expense of all
• 33:04
  SPEAKER_01: the people that die.
• 33:05
  SPEAKER_00: It's called fuck you money.
• 33:07
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, that's it.
• 33:08
  SPEAKER_00: We don't have that.
• 33:08
  SPEAKER_00: It's basically called fuck you money.
• 33:11
  SPEAKER_00: It's not even disposable wealth.
• 33:12
  SPEAKER_00: It's fuck you money.
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  The thing is,
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  if we eliminate the idea of fuck you money,
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  that's money that isn't
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  inherently earned in a lot of ways it's just given and
• 33:27
  government or they steal it
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  or they steal it and we should take it back because it's ours
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  it's ours it's our
• 33:34
  SPEAKER_00: money we spend all this money
• 33:38
  SPEAKER_03: The bombing in Iran,
• 33:39
  SPEAKER_03: all of that shit that's going on there,
• 33:41
  SPEAKER_03: that's our fucking money that hasn't been approved to do any of that.
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  We have not apportioned or approved the money to tomahawk a
• 33:49
  school full of fucking girls.
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  This country tells mothers to sacrifice their children and
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  never asks a bomb
• 33:57
  SPEAKER_01: manufacturer to make a bomb for free.
• 33:59
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, it's just...
• 34:03
  SPEAKER_00: Now they just tell women,
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  we're just going to arrest you if you leave the state and have
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  an abortion or you
• 34:10
  SPEAKER_00: have a miscarriage through no fault of your own,
• 34:12
  SPEAKER_00: but we find out about it and we're just going to charge you with murder.
• 34:15
  SPEAKER_00: My question is,
• 34:16
  SPEAKER_01: when an ICE agent shoots a pregnant woman,
• 34:19
  SPEAKER_01: will then he be charged on the abortion laws?
• 34:22
  SPEAKER_01: He should be.
• 34:25
  SPEAKER_01: Well, you see, that doesn't even enter the dialogue, you know?
• 34:29
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, they should be.
• 34:31
  SPEAKER_00: Per white Christian nationalism.
• 34:32
  SPEAKER_01: They wouldn't even charge him for the homicide.
• 34:34
  SPEAKER_01: They just covered all up.
• 34:35
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, Nicole Good murderer is still, nothing's happened with that.
• 34:40
  Had she been pregnant,
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  would they be even,
• 34:43
  there wouldn't be any consequences for that either.
• 34:44
  SPEAKER_01: We're not allowed to talk about these things.
• 34:46
  SPEAKER_03: Minnesota had to sue for that.
• 34:48
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it's ongoing.
• 34:49
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 34:49
  For the fucking documentation and evidence around those murders
• 34:54
  to get from the feds.
• 34:56
  Like the FBI aren't supporting the investigation because in the
• 35:01
  history of DHS,
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  SPEAKER_03: no officer has ever been arrested for murder.
• 35:10
  SPEAKER_03: In the history,
• 35:13
  SPEAKER_03: in the full history of DHS,
• 35:16
  SPEAKER_03: nobody has ever been arrested for murder as an agent for CBP,
• 35:23
  SPEAKER_03: ICE.
• 35:23
  SPEAKER_03: They don't get arrested and charged for those types of crimes.
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  They have cover-up units that falsify evidence and move
• 35:31
  information so that it is
• 35:32
  SPEAKER_03: not available and not correct and that they get off free.
• 35:39
  SPEAKER_03: And yeah, there's some great quotes going on in the chat.
• 35:43
  SPEAKER_03: AJ North is putting in some incredible quotes.
• 35:45
  SPEAKER_01: That Eisenhower speech is wonderful.
• 35:47
  SPEAKER_03: Oh, Eisenhower is amazing.
• 35:49
  SPEAKER_03: And like what Courtney said too.
• 35:51
  SPEAKER_01: He was to the left of AOC, by the way.
• 35:53
  SPEAKER_01: I keep saying that to people because they do not believe it.
• 35:55
  SPEAKER_01: I'm like, that's the same platform.
• 35:57
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 36:01
  Everything over the wealth cap that you could have donated that
• 36:05
  otherwise maybe you
• 36:06
  SPEAKER_03: would have,
• 36:07
  SPEAKER_03: but not everybody's going to give back.
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  We shouldn't be relying on the generosity of others as a
• 36:13
  institutional system to
• 36:15
  SPEAKER_03: support our democracy and our citizenship.
• 36:18
  We should be relying on the systems that we vote on to support
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  us through services.
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  which would mean anything over a certain amount of money goes
• 36:29
  right back into the
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  social services that everyone has access to and they would be
• 36:35
  the highest quality
• 36:37
  SPEAKER_03: in the world yeah we would have so much money yeah plus ai
• 36:45
  SPEAKER_03: in all of its glory,
• 36:47
  SPEAKER_03: if it doesn't pop,
• 36:48
  SPEAKER_03: if the bubble doesn't break,
• 36:50
  SPEAKER_03: and we do make a good breakthrough with AI,
• 36:54
  SPEAKER_03: you know what?
• 36:55
  SPEAKER_03: AI can produce wealth minimums.
• 36:57
  SPEAKER_03: AI can help
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  all of that money come back to the American people because it
• 37:02
  can do so much of the
• 37:03
  basic tasks and get them out of the way that we would otherwise
• 37:07
  be freed up to do
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  creative and human tasks because being a human isn't about
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  working all the time
• 37:15
  SPEAKER_03: being a human is about creating
• 37:18
  and exploring our humanity we should have the freedom to
• 37:23
  explore the arts and our
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  creativity and our humanities which they cut all the funding
• 37:28
  for yeah which they
• 37:30
  cut all the funding for because we are not autonomous worker
• 37:33
  bees we are not a
• 37:34
  SPEAKER_03: colony of ants we do not have a hive mind we are individuals who are in a
• 37:40
  collective system building on that system together and that
• 37:44
  requires a wealth
• 37:45
  SPEAKER_03: minimum
• 37:47
  SPEAKER_01: But in a lot of this,
• 37:48
  SPEAKER_01: though,
• 37:48
  SPEAKER_01: to get there,
• 37:49
  we have to overcome a lot of pro-wealth conditioning we don't
• 37:52
  even know we have.
• 37:52
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, that's why I unapologetically say, yeah, they're just evil.
• 37:56
  SPEAKER_01: And it's like wealth is evil.
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  Wealth is white supremacy,
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  you know,
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  and the whole hierarchy of that,
• 38:01
  the poverty shaming.
• 38:03
  SPEAKER_01: There's that book that author Paul Vigna,
• 38:05
  SPEAKER_01: The Almightier,
• 38:07
  SPEAKER_01: he shows how it evolved since,
• 38:09
  SPEAKER_01: you know,
• 38:10
  SPEAKER_01: Eric's giving me a hard time.
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  But he showed how it evolved through the biblical age where we
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  worship money and we
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  have to spend an equivalent amount of time and effort to
• 38:22
  counter that conditioning
• 38:23
  SPEAKER_01: that makes us just inclined.
• 38:25
  SPEAKER_01: We fall into the rut of our thinking without even knowing why.
• 38:28
  SPEAKER_01: Well, gee, some of them are actually helpful.
• 38:30
  SPEAKER_01: Nope.
• 38:31
  SPEAKER_01: They're all bad.
• 38:31
  SPEAKER_01: They have to go.
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  We cannot save children from being raped unless we ensure they
• 38:35
  have the same
• 38:36
  SPEAKER_01: economic power as everybody else.
• 38:38
  SPEAKER_01: You want to stop child rape?
• 38:40
  It requires giving funds to these kids,
• 38:42
  making sure they have those protections.
• 38:44
  SPEAKER_01: A system of protection is in place.
• 38:46
  SPEAKER_01: And the wealth are going to be sacrificed.
• 38:49
  SPEAKER_00: No, go ahead, Walter.
• 38:50
  SPEAKER_00: Finish.
• 38:50
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, I was done.
• 38:52
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 38:52
  SPEAKER_00: You know, we're coming up on the holiday of Passover next week.
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  SPEAKER_00: And,
• 38:57
  SPEAKER_00: you know,
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  what Walter just kind of said reminds me of the story of the
• 39:00
  Israelites as they
• 39:01
  SPEAKER_00: left Egypt,
• 39:01
  SPEAKER_00: right?
• 39:02
  SPEAKER_00: They get to the Sinai.
• 39:05
  SPEAKER_00: Moses leaves for 40 years, right?
• 39:07
  SPEAKER_00: They go speak to the bush to have the tablets hand carved,
• 39:11
  SPEAKER_00: you know,
• 39:12
  SPEAKER_00: and in that time frame,
• 39:13
  SPEAKER_00: what did the Israelites do?
• 39:14
  SPEAKER_00: They wound up making an idol out of gold.
• 39:18
  SPEAKER_00: They started worshipping the money because they hadn't eaten.
• 39:22
  SPEAKER_00: They're starving.
• 39:24
  SPEAKER_00: They're in the middle of the desert.
• 39:26
  SPEAKER_00: It's the Sam Kinison episode.
• 39:28
  SPEAKER_00: You're in the middle.
• 39:29
  SPEAKER_00: You live in a desert, right?
• 39:32
  SPEAKER_00: But then what happens is Moses comes down with the Ten Commandments,
• 39:36
  SPEAKER_00: sees the idol,
• 39:38
  SPEAKER_00: loses his shit,
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  SPEAKER_00: smashes the tablets,
• 39:43
  SPEAKER_00: and is barred from ever entering the promised land.
• 39:46
  SPEAKER_00: Right.
• 39:47
  SPEAKER_00: But why?
• 39:48
  SPEAKER_00: Why did he do that?
• 39:49
  SPEAKER_00: Right.
• 39:50
  SPEAKER_00: Yes.
• 39:50
  The idol got destroyed,
• 39:52
  but Moses wound up destroying himself at the same time.
• 39:56
  SPEAKER_00: Right.
• 39:57
  SPEAKER_00: So unfortunately,
• 39:58
  SPEAKER_00: as a society,
• 39:59
  SPEAKER_00: this this worship,
• 40:01
  SPEAKER_00: this worshipness that we carry for for financial reward.
• 40:06
  SPEAKER_00: OK.
• 40:08
  SPEAKER_00: Is the punishment.
• 40:11
  SPEAKER_00: It really is.
• 40:11
  SPEAKER_00: We don't have fulfilling lives if we're chasing monetary wealth.
• 40:17
  We're chasing the next influencer item that's on TikTok and
• 40:22
  YouTube and Instagram.
• 40:25
  SPEAKER_00: If we're rushing to Amazon to buy the next little trinket.
• 40:29
  SPEAKER_00: If anybody just wants a little bit of a little funny funny,
• 40:32
  SPEAKER_00: go on Amazon just for shits and giggles and search Banana Slicer.
• 40:37
  yeah i know that one read the comments okay yeah yeah like it's
• 40:41
  really it'll put
• 40:42
  things in perspective like you know banana saver bananas this
• 40:45
  banana thing saved my
• 40:46
  marriage you know stuff like that like it's really funny like
• 40:49
  it's like i couldn't
• 40:50
  get the but it doesn't work through the peel like just like you
• 40:55
  know one of the
• 40:56
  things you said i talked to analiza bruner uh yesterday and it
• 41:00
  was and she was so
• 41:01
  SPEAKER_01: clear about how we have been
• 41:03
  tricked into this false thing what have we given up you know
• 41:06
  and the thing that
• 41:07
  we've gained and what white supremacists have gained is this
• 41:09
  promise oh one day
• 41:10
  you'll be rich and then you'll be the evil person with your
• 41:13
  pedophile island even
• 41:14
  though we don't like even if we got all the things that we were
• 41:17
  promised we
• 41:18
  SPEAKER_01: wouldn't be happy with them but the the
• 41:21
  the caveat is we're never getting that you know but we just if
• 41:24
  we can convey to
• 41:25
  people you have surrendered all this good all these good things
• 41:29
  in your life what
• 41:30
  have you gotten in return and you recognize it's nothing and
• 41:34
  the movie sinners
• 41:34
  keeps coming up and you know it's the vampires a vampire can't
• 41:38
  come into your house
• 41:39
  SPEAKER_01: unless you invite the vampire in right
• 41:41
  so everything about these vampires is tricking the people to be
• 41:44
  like okay come in
• 41:46
  and we're past that point we've already let them in and they're
• 41:49
  killing us and it's
• 41:50
  like we have to remember we have the power to just say you
• 41:52
  can't come in we have
• 41:54
  the power to make a completely different choice and and the
• 41:58
  special elections that
• 41:59
  have gone on the the gubernatorial elections in new jersey and
• 42:02
  virginia last year
• 42:03
  SPEAKER_00: the special elections that just happened in my district
• 42:07
  SPEAKER_00: In Florida, yeah, where Democrats have just been winning.
• 42:09
  SPEAKER_00: Emily Gregory, by the way.
• 42:11
  SPEAKER_00: Up and down.
• 42:11
  SPEAKER_00: I'm trying to get on a cast interview before she takes office.
• 42:17
  SPEAKER_00: Awesome.
• 42:19
  SPEAKER_00: And just basically, like, the momentum is there, right?
• 42:24
  We're showing that we have the power,
• 42:26
  and that's what's scaring the shit out of them.
• 42:29
  SPEAKER_00: And this is the reality that we live in.
• 42:31
  SPEAKER_00: Listen, we have no kings this weekend.
• 42:34
  SPEAKER_00: Not that the no kings rally is not going to solve all the problems,
• 42:38
  SPEAKER_00: but it's going to get your communities together.
• 42:40
  It's going to get your people together that live in the same
• 42:43
  community you are,
• 42:44
  SPEAKER_00: that think the same way,
• 42:45
  SPEAKER_00: that are mobilizing the same way,
• 42:47
  SPEAKER_00: that are just as angry.
• 42:49
  SPEAKER_00: Yes.
• 42:50
  SPEAKER_00: Right?
• 42:50
  SPEAKER_00: And I think if we had to characterize the year of the voter...
• 42:56
  SPEAKER_00: That I think 2026 is the year of the angry voter.
• 43:01
  SPEAKER_00: Where party doesn't matter.
• 43:05
  SPEAKER_00: Where it's really not about political parties.
• 43:07
  SPEAKER_00: It's about stop fucking up my life.
• 43:11
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 43:12
  SPEAKER_01: We have to get that community.
• 43:13
  SPEAKER_01: And we also have to,
• 43:14
  SPEAKER_01: though,
• 43:14
  because there's going to be an effort soon to push back to an
• 43:18
  ineffective status
• 43:19
  SPEAKER_01: quo.
• 43:19
  SPEAKER_01: And we have to be...
• 43:21
  defiant about pushing to all these changes that nick was just
• 43:25
  talking about before
• 43:26
  this because this country didn't work 10 years ago it didn't
• 43:28
  work 20 years ago it
• 43:29
  hasn't worked my whole life and we have to shake off a lot of
• 43:33
  these lies that have
• 43:33
  contributed to this corruption it's institutional and that's
• 43:36
  what's and they're
• 43:37
  going to try to make us forget that's the case and eric is
• 43:40
  right but they're going
• 43:41
  to try to make us forget our anger oh now's the time to heal oh
• 43:45
  they don't make
• 43:46
  SPEAKER_01: They didn't mean that.
• 43:47
  SPEAKER_01: All those people are still dead.
• 43:49
  SPEAKER_01: Doesn't matter what you meant.
• 43:50
  SPEAKER_01: They're still dead.
• 43:51
  SPEAKER_01: You can't bring them back.
• 43:54
  We have 50,000 troops in the theater right now with another
• 44:01
  10,000 going,
• 44:02
  possibly more.
• 44:03
  SPEAKER_00: There are going to be more body bags coming home, everybody.
• 44:07
  SPEAKER_00: Whether you like it or not,
• 44:09
  SPEAKER_00: whether you support what's happening or not,
• 44:12
  more American service member men and women are going to be
• 44:16
  coming home in draped
• 44:18
  SPEAKER_00: flagged coffins on C-130 transports.
• 44:23
  SPEAKER_00: And at some point,
• 44:25
  droopy poopy pants isn't going to be going to Dover anymore to
• 44:31
  honor those service
• 44:32
  SPEAKER_00: members.
• 44:32
  SPEAKER_00: Not that he ever really honored him.
• 44:35
  SPEAKER_03: No.
• 44:35
  SPEAKER_03: And if he's going to be there,
• 44:36
  SPEAKER_03: he's going to use the footage to do campaign and revenue money,
• 44:43
  SPEAKER_03: which is,
• 44:44
  SPEAKER_03: by the way,
• 44:44
  SPEAKER_03: super fucking illegal.
• 44:46
  to use um to use the death of our service members yeah he
• 44:53
  thinks he's above the law
• 44:54
  it's so you know i think we keep coming but you know what we
• 44:56
  keep talking about the
• 44:57
  same things week in week out with how this how this regime and
• 45:00
  the administration
• 45:00
  and the wealthy at the end of the day nick this is what led to
• 45:03
  my original question
• 45:04
  SPEAKER_00: is what the fuck do we do when we finally have power in our
• 45:10
  And we still have the DNC and the senior leadership in
• 45:13
  Washington calling the shots.
• 45:16
  SPEAKER_00: And it's not going to change unless they understand.
• 45:19
  SPEAKER_03: That's why I said we need to change the size of Congress.
• 45:23
  SPEAKER_03: Because if we drastically increase the House of Representatives,
• 45:29
  SPEAKER_03: and then maybe relook at the Senate and how that's set up,
• 45:32
  SPEAKER_03: because that's old and antiquated and stupid.
• 45:35
  SPEAKER_03: But if we immediately...
• 45:39
  SPEAKER_03: If we immediately increase the size of the House of Representatives,
• 45:45
  SPEAKER_03: it doesn't matter who the current senior leadership of the DNC is.
• 45:49
  There would be too many new people who come in out of nowhere
• 45:54
  who are just fed up
• 45:55
  SPEAKER_03: Americans who are like,
• 45:56
  SPEAKER_03: fuck it,
• 45:57
  SPEAKER_03: I'll fucking run.
• 45:58
  And they do,
• 45:59
  and they'll win,
• 46:01
  and it would change because the party is us.
• 46:04
  SPEAKER_03: They aren't the party.
• 46:06
  SPEAKER_03: And we can sustain the wins.
• 46:10
  SPEAKER_03: We can sustain super quick wins too.
• 46:14
  SPEAKER_03: We can get people in office very quickly who are running,
• 46:18
  SPEAKER_03: who want to be there,
• 46:19
  SPEAKER_03: who can press change,
• 46:20
  SPEAKER_03: who can do things.
• 46:22
  And I know,
• 46:23
  like,
• 46:25
  I haven't talked a lot about Lev Parnas running for office.
• 46:29
  SPEAKER_03: Do I think that felons should be able to run for office?
• 46:32
  SPEAKER_03: I think that's a very complicated question because that has been used to
• 46:35
  institutionally suppress black people and others from being
• 46:39
  able to run and
• 46:40
  minority groups from being able to run for office because they
• 46:43
  would make you a
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  SPEAKER_03: felon and then say,
• 46:45
  SPEAKER_03: hey,
• 46:45
  SPEAKER_03: oh,
• 46:46
  SPEAKER_03: you can't run.
• 46:47
  SPEAKER_03: You're not allowed to run.
• 46:48
  SPEAKER_03: We arrested you for some stupid trumped up charge.
• 46:53
  SPEAKER_03: Or a drug possession charge or something.
• 46:56
  SPEAKER_03: Or something.
• 46:59
  SPEAKER_03: and I'll wrap this back to Lev Parnas because I think it's important.
• 47:03
  SPEAKER_03: And you guys can agree, disagree.
• 47:06
  I would love everyone's feedback because I think it's important
• 47:11
  on this issue.
• 47:11
  SPEAKER_03: I know Shane has a different opinion than I do.
• 47:14
  SPEAKER_03: I know Sherrod Sweeney and Gavin favorite Senator America have had
• 47:20
  Lev on for an interview and we have a slightly different
• 47:23
  opinion too and I think
• 47:24
  SPEAKER_03: everybody needs to have their own opinions and form their own opinions.
• 47:28
  I think it's okay that Lev is running for Congress because the
• 47:32
  system allows him to.
• 47:33
  SPEAKER_03: Do I think Lev has done some bad things in the past?
• 47:36
  SPEAKER_03: Abso-fucking-lutely he has.
• 47:39
  SPEAKER_03: Abso-fucking-lutely he has.
• 47:41
  SPEAKER_03: I will not deny that.
• 47:42
  SPEAKER_03: I will not sugarcoat any of that.
• 47:45
  SPEAKER_03: I don't think the things he has done in the past
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  are all his fault either i think he was brought into a system
• 47:53
  and trained into it
• 47:54
  and made into it and yes he perpetrated it he also had others
• 47:58
  who perpetrated
• 47:58
  things that were far worse than what he was doing i think lev
• 48:02
  right now in this
• 48:03
  moment could be and can be an important person for congress
• 48:10
  because he's a wild
• 48:11
  SPEAKER_03: card
• 48:12
  SPEAKER_03: Because he knows us.
• 48:14
  SPEAKER_03: Because we're a part of his community.
• 48:17
  SPEAKER_03: And he has built himself over the last... And it's okay.
• 48:20
  SPEAKER_03: You guys in the audience may disagree with me too.
• 48:22
  SPEAKER_03: I'm totally fine with that.
• 48:23
  SPEAKER_03: I'm not trying to... People are being reasonable.
• 48:25
  SPEAKER_01: I think everybody's saying reasonable things.
• 48:27
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 48:28
  SPEAKER_03: And I think everyone in our audience is very reasonable.
• 48:31
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 48:31
  I think everyone in our audience has very reasonable opinions
• 48:34
  and is willing to
• 48:35
  share their opinions freely and openly in a constructive and
• 48:39
  reasonable way.
• 48:40
  SPEAKER_03: And that's why I'm okay with sharing them here because...
• 48:42
  We are all constructive and reasonable people who want to bring
• 48:45
  things forward.
• 48:46
  SPEAKER_03: And I think Lev has an opportunity to continue to prove himself.
• 48:51
  SPEAKER_03: And why I say continue,
• 48:52
  SPEAKER_03: because he has been working for the last years very openly,
• 48:56
  SPEAKER_03: very blatantly,
• 48:58
  SPEAKER_03: to correct a lot of the wrongs that he has caused.
• 49:01
  SPEAKER_03: And he is working very hard to do it.
• 49:03
  SPEAKER_03: And I can see the work that he's doing.
• 49:05
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 49:06
  And I,
• 49:06
  and I can see the support he's giving to other members in our
• 49:09
  community too.
• 49:10
  SPEAKER_03: That's critical.
• 49:11
  SPEAKER_03: That's a critical.
• 49:12
  SPEAKER_03: I was just going to say that.
• 49:13
  SPEAKER_03: To me,
• 49:14
  that's critical is he is giving back and platforming folks in
• 49:17
  our community and
• 49:18
  SPEAKER_03: building them up.
• 49:20
  SPEAKER_01: He's hopped into a few of my lives.
• 49:22
  SPEAKER_03: I haven't talked to him.
• 49:25
  SPEAKER_03: And I've talked to him.
• 49:25
  SPEAKER_02: I want to go last on this.
• 49:27
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 49:28
  SPEAKER_03: And I totally want us to agree, disagree, have different opinions.
• 49:33
  SPEAKER_03: I think it's okay that he's running for Congress.
• 49:35
  SPEAKER_03: And I'm glad that he is.
• 49:36
  SPEAKER_03: If he wins, good.
• 49:38
  That means he has convinced the people of his district that he
• 49:41
  is the best person
• 49:42
  SPEAKER_03: to represent them in this moment.
• 49:44
  SPEAKER_03: if the other candidate wins who is running,
• 49:47
  I also think that would be a good thing because they would say
• 49:49
  that he is the best
• 49:50
  SPEAKER_03: candidate running.
• 49:51
  SPEAKER_03: And I'm talking about the Democratic candidates, not the Republicans.
• 49:54
  SPEAKER_03: If either one of those,
• 49:55
  SPEAKER_03: if either Lev or his,
• 49:58
  SPEAKER_03: the challengers in the race that he has entered wins and beats,
• 50:05
  SPEAKER_03: what is,
• 50:06
  SPEAKER_03: what's her name?
• 50:07
  SPEAKER_03: The current representative?
• 50:07
  SPEAKER_00: Anna Maria Salazar.
• 50:09
  SPEAKER_03: Anna Maria Salazar.
• 50:10
  SPEAKER_03: If they beat her, that's a good thing.
• 50:13
  SPEAKER_03: And I think
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  So for me,
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  I have no problem with lab running because the system allows it
• 50:19
  to for a reason.
• 50:21
  SPEAKER_03: And I think the idea that having felons not run,
• 50:24
  SPEAKER_03: depending on maybe their crime,
• 50:25
  and that's where we can start talking about how do we fix and
• 50:30
  limit these things?
• 50:31
  SPEAKER_03: How do we reduce the ability for real impactful crimes that are,
• 50:37
  SPEAKER_03: say,
• 50:37
  SPEAKER_03: democracy busting or election busting or things like that?
• 50:40
  SPEAKER_03: How do we make it so that those cannot...
• 50:44
  People who are convicted of certain types of crimes maybe can't
• 50:48
  run for office.
• 50:50
  SPEAKER_03: But then again,
• 50:51
  SPEAKER_03: our system is built on after your time is done,
• 50:54
  SPEAKER_03: you're supposed to be reintegrated back into society.
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  So it's hard to say that a felon shouldn't be able to run for
• 51:01
  Congress because I
• 51:02
  think felons should be able to have the right to vote back
• 51:05
  because I think it's
• 51:07
  disenfranchising for them to lose that right after they've
• 51:10
  served their full time.
• 51:13
  SPEAKER_00: So Malter, do you have a opinion on this one or?
• 51:19
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, please.
• 51:19
  SPEAKER_00: I love opinions on this one.
• 51:22
  SPEAKER_01: No, yeah.
• 51:22
  SPEAKER_01: I totally give him credit for platforming Ellie.
• 51:26
  But I haven't made my mind up about Lev yet because I haven't
• 51:28
  talked to him.
• 51:29
  SPEAKER_01: When I talk to him, then I'll have opinions.
• 51:32
  SPEAKER_01: And like Natasha said, there's some things I want to know.
• 51:34
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 51:34
  SPEAKER_03: Oh, yeah.
• 51:35
  SPEAKER_02: Walter,
• 51:36
  SPEAKER_03: you and I,
• 51:37
  SPEAKER_03: before you give your opinion,
• 51:38
  SPEAKER_03: Walter,
• 51:39
  I'll try and set up a time with Lev to get you to be able to
• 51:42
  talk to him and do a
• 51:42
  SPEAKER_03: candidate interview.
• 51:43
  SPEAKER_03: That'd be nice.
• 51:45
  SPEAKER_03: I think that's important because like I said, I approve of Lev running.
• 51:49
  SPEAKER_03: I don't think it's a problem that Lev is running.
• 51:51
  SPEAKER_03: In fact,
• 51:54
  I'm hopeful that he is being as honest and transparent as he
• 51:58
  says he is because he
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  SPEAKER_03: has supported members in my community.
• 52:03
  SPEAKER_03: He has supported my friends.
• 52:04
  SPEAKER_03: He's supported me in ways.
• 52:06
  SPEAKER_03: He's helped boost me.
• 52:07
  He gives me credit and props and talks about me and he has
• 52:11
  shared my work.
• 52:12
  SPEAKER_03: And I would love to make sure
• 52:14
  SPEAKER_03: that when people form their opinions,
• 52:16
  it's after you have spoken to a person and got to know them and
• 52:21
  interacted with
• 52:22
  SPEAKER_03: them.
• 52:22
  SPEAKER_03: And that's why,
• 52:22
  SPEAKER_03: Walter,
• 52:23
  SPEAKER_03: I super appreciate the fact that you just said,
• 52:25
  SPEAKER_03: I don't really have an opinion because I haven't spoken to the guy.
• 52:29
  You've maybe read and seen his stuff,
• 52:31
  but you've never interacted with him.
• 52:34
  SPEAKER_03: And it's hard to make an opinion on that sometimes.
• 52:38
  SPEAKER_03: Eric?
• 52:39
  SPEAKER_00: Eric has something to say.
• 52:44
  SPEAKER_00: My thought is I'm happy he's running.
• 52:48
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 52:49
  SPEAKER_00: It's not my congressional district.
• 52:51
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 52:54
  SPEAKER_00: I have had the opportunity to physically sit down with Lev face to face.
• 53:00
  SPEAKER_00: You know, he lives 10 minutes from me, right?
• 53:05
  SPEAKER_00: Lev has sat in that chair right there in my office.
• 53:09
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 53:09
  SPEAKER_00: We broke bread over lunch.
• 53:13
  SPEAKER_00: And I asked him a lot of very difficult, hard questions.
• 53:16
  SPEAKER_00: We shot the shit a little bit.
• 53:17
  SPEAKER_00: I asked him some very tough questions.
• 53:19
  SPEAKER_00: I read his book.
• 53:21
  SPEAKER_00: I read his narrative.
• 53:22
  SPEAKER_00: I know his whole story.
• 53:24
  SPEAKER_00: we talked about his upbringing in Brooklyn.
• 53:26
  SPEAKER_00: We talked about how he got involved with his partners and all the,
• 53:29
  SPEAKER_00: all the financial,
• 53:30
  SPEAKER_00: I mean,
• 53:31
  SPEAKER_00: you understand Lev is not a guy that like grew up white collar,
• 53:34
  SPEAKER_00: went to college,
• 53:35
  like these typical fucking white supremacist shitbags that
• 53:38
  think they know how to
• 53:39
  SPEAKER_00: run the country.
• 53:40
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 53:41
  SPEAKER_00: Lev grew up on the streets of Brooklyn.
• 53:43
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 53:44
  Lev grew up like a lot of immigrant families who first came to
• 53:48
  the United States
• 53:49
  SPEAKER_00: and they,
• 53:49
  SPEAKER_00: they were not properly,
• 53:50
  SPEAKER_00: they didn't have proper educations.
• 53:52
  SPEAKER_00: They were not,
• 53:53
  SPEAKER_00: He learned how to be himself because of the way he was raised.
• 53:59
  In his formative years,
• 54:00
  he learned how to scramble and he learned how to hustle.
• 54:05
  SPEAKER_00: And the world has a place for people who know how to hustle.
• 54:10
  SPEAKER_00: The problem is that he did get caught.
• 54:13
  SPEAKER_00: He got caught doing some shit,
• 54:16
  laundering money back and forth through Ukraine that got him
• 54:20
  busted by the FBI when
• 54:21
  SPEAKER_00: they picked him up at Dulles Airport.
• 54:23
  SPEAKER_00: Back in 2019 or whatever it was.
• 54:26
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 54:28
  Since upon his release from prison,
• 54:30
  okay,
• 54:32
  the man has never asked for a pardon.
• 54:34
  SPEAKER_00: He's never even wanted to ask for a pardon.
• 54:37
  SPEAKER_00: He has tried to be there for his family.
• 54:40
  And congratulations to Aaron and his wife for the delivery of
• 54:44
  their baby daughter last night.
• 54:45
  SPEAKER_00: Congratulations.
• 54:46
  SPEAKER_00: Mazel tov.
• 54:47
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, congratulations to the Parnases, to Aaron and his wife.
• 54:49
  SPEAKER_00: The Parnas family and love being a grandpa for the first time.
• 54:53
  SPEAKER_00: That's an amazing feeling.
• 54:54
  SPEAKER_00: Not that I would know that, but I mean...
• 54:57
  SPEAKER_00: I'm hoping I'll get there at some point.
• 54:59
  But like at the end of the day,
• 55:01
  Lev's children and his family mean the world to him.
• 55:04
  SPEAKER_00: You know,
• 55:04
  SPEAKER_00: I mean,
• 55:05
  he's literally he drives in his car with a picture of his
• 55:08
  family on the left side
• 55:09
  SPEAKER_00: of his dashboard.
• 55:11
  SPEAKER_00: Like it's right there.
• 55:13
  OK,
• 55:14
  so,
• 55:15
  you know,
• 55:16
  people show you on Substack who they want you to see.
• 55:19
  SPEAKER_00: OK,
• 55:20
  it's different when you sit across from somebody and they're
• 55:23
  fully exposed about
• 55:25
  what they're talking about and they're probative and you can
• 55:27
  see the facial
• 55:28
  SPEAKER_00: expression and the nonverbal communication and and everything else.
• 55:31
  SPEAKER_00: So with that said, OK,
• 55:35
  SPEAKER_00: Legally, Lev is allowed to run for Congress.
• 55:37
  SPEAKER_00: Legally, he is not allowed to vote in any election.
• 55:40
  SPEAKER_00: He can't even vote for himself, everybody.
• 55:43
  He legally cannot vote for himself in his own primary election
• 55:46
  for Congress.
• 55:47
  But he can vote on appropriation bills if elected and takes the
• 55:51
  oath of office and gets seated.
• 55:53
  like that's this i mean can we change the law at some point
• 55:56
  where maybe if you're
• 55:57
  convicted of a capital crime you shouldn't be allowed to serve
• 56:00
  in congress
• 56:01
  convicted of a white-collar capital crime like severe fraud
• 56:05
  severe you know
• 56:06
  defrauding of whatever it is right but and we can ask those
• 56:11
  questions too yeah like
• 56:13
  would he be willing to support a bill that would in essence
• 56:17
  prevent him from
• 56:17
  SPEAKER_03: running again for congress
• 56:20
  Well,
• 56:20
  he even said that he's not planning on making this a long term
• 56:23
  career opportunity.
• 56:24
  SPEAKER_00: He wants to go in there for two reasons.
• 56:25
  SPEAKER_00: One is to get rid of Trump.
• 56:27
  SPEAKER_00: Right.
• 56:28
  SPEAKER_00: And two, to get the people out that don't need to be there.
• 56:32
  SPEAKER_00: OK.
• 56:33
  SPEAKER_00: And to fix the shit that's going on.
• 56:35
  So whether that takes him one term or two terms,
• 56:38
  I know he does not want to be there long term.
• 56:40
  SPEAKER_00: I specifically asked him that.
• 56:42
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 56:42
  SPEAKER_00: OK.
• 56:43
  And these are good conversations to have,
• 56:45
  regardless of anything else that's going on.
• 56:48
  Every congressional representative or congressional candidate
• 56:52
  running for Congress.
• 56:53
  SPEAKER_00: I know,
• 56:53
  SPEAKER_00: Walter,
• 56:53
  you ask these questions on your shows with your Wisconsin
• 56:56
  delegations running and.
• 56:58
  SPEAKER_00: These are important questions that we have to ask,
• 57:01
  and I really do think that our Democratic candidates need to be
• 57:04
  on this fucking
• 57:05
  SPEAKER_00: platform,
• 57:07
  SPEAKER_00: meeting with all of us,
• 57:09
  SPEAKER_00: speaking out,
• 57:10
  SPEAKER_00: talking,
• 57:11
  SPEAKER_00: having these live interviews,
• 57:12
  not the set-up interviews on CNN or doing the set-up interviews
• 57:17
  with Katie Fang.
• 57:18
  SPEAKER_00: I love Katie, too.
• 57:18
  SPEAKER_00: Don't get me wrong.
• 57:19
  SPEAKER_00: Katie's in Miami.
• 57:20
  SPEAKER_00: She's actually in Love's district.
• 57:22
  SPEAKER_00: Okay?
• 57:22
  SPEAKER_00: And then, like...
• 57:25
  But we should have these substantive conversations and getting
• 57:28
  outside the normal
• 57:29
  mainstream media to get to understand where these candidates
• 57:33
  are and how they need
• 57:34
  SPEAKER_00: to be vocalizing,
• 57:35
  SPEAKER_00: not just their policies,
• 57:37
  SPEAKER_00: but the platforms and what they truly believe.
• 57:39
  Because what I love about Substack and what I love about what we
• 57:42
  do on this show,
• 57:43
  SPEAKER_00: guys,
• 57:43
  SPEAKER_00: is this is unadulterated,
• 57:45
  SPEAKER_00: open ended,
• 57:47
  SPEAKER_00: not scripted.
• 57:49
  SPEAKER_00: We are about as organic as it gets.
• 57:52
  SPEAKER_00: OK, and yes, I agree with Natasha.
• 57:54
  SPEAKER_00: There's a lot more questions I have for love that he has not answered.
• 57:57
  SPEAKER_00: Right.
• 57:58
  And whether I'm the one that asked them or other people asked
• 58:00
  them of him,
• 58:01
  he does need to answer as many questions as possible to be as
• 58:05
  open ended as
• 58:06
  SPEAKER_00: possible.
• 58:07
  SPEAKER_00: Right.
• 58:08
  And we need our leaders and our future leaders to be as
• 58:11
  transparent as possible.
• 58:14
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 58:14
  Not hiding money,
• 58:15
  not hiding what they're doing,
• 58:17
  not hiding their bullshit on the side.
• 58:19
  SPEAKER_00: You know, I mean, yeah.
• 58:20
  Could I have 10 kids and bring them all into the government if
• 58:23
  I'm elected president?
• 58:24
  SPEAKER_00: And there's no rule that says I can't.
• 58:25
  SPEAKER_00: And then the nepotism and the narcissism and the grift.
• 58:27
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, we already have that.
• 58:29
  SPEAKER_00: We're used to that by now.
• 58:30
  SPEAKER_00: Right.
• 58:30
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, but the thing is, we can't normalize this.
• 58:33
  SPEAKER_00: This cannot be normalized anymore.
• 58:37
  I think Lev could be super helpful in promoting a lot of these
• 58:40
  candidates that are
• 58:41
  being ignored by the legacy press because he's got a bigger
• 58:44
  platform than I do,
• 58:45
  and he can put pressure on all these other networks that he's
• 58:49
  involved with.
• 58:50
  SPEAKER_01: I've been a little bit frustrated.
• 58:52
  SPEAKER_00: He's going to travel nationally to a lot of these other districts.
• 58:55
  SPEAKER_00: He said he's going to do that.
• 58:56
  SPEAKER_01: He can do it a half hour from now.
• 58:57
  SPEAKER_01: You know,
• 58:58
  SPEAKER_00: I mean,
• 58:58
  SPEAKER_01: it doesn't have to be,
• 58:59
  SPEAKER_01: I need to see it today is what it really comes down to with me.
• 59:01
  SPEAKER_00: Cause it's like, there's all these guys enjoying his granddaughter.
• 59:05
  SPEAKER_00: So you gotta give him some time for that.
• 59:07
  SPEAKER_01: You know what?
• 59:08
  A lot of people's granddaughters are sitting in nice detention
• 59:10
  centers right now.
• 59:11
  SPEAKER_01: And so it's sort of like, let's get this fixed, you know?
• 59:15
  SPEAKER_03: Actually, he's in D.C.
• 59:17
  SPEAKER_00: right now.
• 59:18
  SPEAKER_03: Aaron's in D.C.
• 59:20
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, he's in D.C.
• 59:20
  SPEAKER_03: right now,
• 59:21
  SPEAKER_03: so he may also be doing multiple things,
• 59:24
  SPEAKER_03: not just with his...
• 59:25
  SPEAKER_01: But that's not just him either.
• 59:27
  SPEAKER_01: That's the entire Substack community.
• 59:28
  SPEAKER_01: I want to see more people promoting these candidates.
• 59:31
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 59:32
  SPEAKER_00: And here's the thing, everybody.
• 59:34
  SPEAKER_00: Just as a final note,
• 59:35
  SPEAKER_00: I know we're running up on the hour here,
• 59:37
  SPEAKER_00: and I've got to get the clinic,
• 59:38
  SPEAKER_00: but listen,
• 59:39
  we should not be harping on somebody like Lev Parnas running
• 59:42
  for Congress.
• 59:43
  SPEAKER_00: when the Senate just approved Markway Mullen,
• 59:46
  SPEAKER_00: a retired,
• 59:46
  a plumber without a bachelor's degree with no national security
• 59:50
  experience to run
• 59:51
  SPEAKER_00: DHS.
• 59:51
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 59:53
  SPEAKER_00: Like this is the last thing we should be complaining about.
• 59:55
  SPEAKER_00: It was a lot of partners running for Congress.
• 59:57
  SPEAKER_01: Well, nobody was complaining.
• 59:58
  SPEAKER_01: I think we were discussing it, but you're right.
• 1:00:00
  SPEAKER_00: We have the most incompetent.
• 1:00:04
  We have the most incompetent administration in the history of
• 1:00:08
  the,
• 1:00:08
  of the Republic of,
• 1:00:10
  SPEAKER_00: But I never thought I would say these two things in the same sentence.
• 1:00:12
  The most incompetent and corrupt in the same sentence with the
• 1:00:17
  same administration.
• 1:00:18
  SPEAKER_00: And we thought Nixon was bad.
• 1:00:20
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, shit.
• 1:00:22
  SPEAKER_00: Like, all the president's men just makes you laugh now.
• 1:00:24
  SPEAKER_01: It's like, oh, yeah, that's cute.
• 1:00:26
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, Watergate Hotel gives a shit about that.
• 1:00:29
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, you lost some tape?
• 1:00:31
  SPEAKER_01: You lost, like, ten minutes of tape?
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  SPEAKER_00: Nothing break-in of tapes, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: There's no big deal.
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  You know,
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  we're only drifting $10 trillion out of the American Treasury
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  without,
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  you know...
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  They got concentration camps where they're raping little kids
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  is what's going on right now.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's like, Jesus fucking Christ.
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  I just wanted everybody to know,
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  and I have donated the maximum to his campaign.
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  I have done that as an individual because that's how much I
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  believe in the man that
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  sat across from me who was honest as much as I could read the
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  man sitting in front
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  SPEAKER_00: of me.
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  so yeah i'm willing to talk and i think that's that's where i
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  go yeah and i think i
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  think that's really the important thing is i i trust you eric
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  you've met him and
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  the man texted me at 10 30 last night to let me know that his
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  daughter that his
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  granddaughter that is sweet i'm like i'm happy for his joy
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  that's wonderful the
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  fact and two got a surprise surprise she's a beautiful baby
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  she's really for a baby
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  SPEAKER_00: she's pretty she's a pretty baby
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  There's ugly babies,
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  and then there's pretty babies,
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  and she's a pretty baby.
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  SPEAKER_03: There's some potato babies out there.
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  SPEAKER_03: There's some odd-shaped potato babies out there.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, congratulations.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hopefully they all grow up,
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  whether they come out potato-shaped or potato head or
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  mushroom-shaped or whatever.
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  SPEAKER_00: They all grow up in a world that sees peace and longevity.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: And full of fruitful life, fruitful educations.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: We got to make it happen.
• 1:02:08
  SPEAKER_01: We got to make it happen.
• 1:02:09
  SPEAKER_00: And ultimately,
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  SPEAKER_00: we want the same things that the Iranians want,
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  SPEAKER_00: that the most people around the world want,
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  SPEAKER_00: which is just let us live and be in peace with our children.
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  SPEAKER_00: We don't need war.
• 1:02:20
  SPEAKER_00: We don't need strife.
• 1:02:21
  SPEAKER_00: We don't need all this bullshit.
• 1:02:23
  SPEAKER_00: And this is what this billionaire plutocratic shit causes us.
• 1:02:27
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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  It's people who are ruining our lives and making decisions for
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  us and fucking with
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  SPEAKER_00: our money and fucking with our national security,
• 1:02:35
  SPEAKER_00: both on the military side,
• 1:02:38
  SPEAKER_00: the border side and health.
• 1:02:41
  SPEAKER_00: What making us poor, sicker and stupider.
• 1:02:45
  SPEAKER_00: Right.
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  SPEAKER_00: Which is shit that people do not need.
• 1:02:48
  SPEAKER_00: This is not this is not what we signed on for.
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  yeah and like what's going on in the chat too is uh people are
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  talking about like
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  the baby needs to stay safe erin's wife needs to be safe
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  because this regime is
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  targeting journalists everybody and everything and he's a he's
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  lev's son erin is
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  left son like that puts a target on his head but it also means
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  lev has a lot to
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  SPEAKER_03: lose
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  SPEAKER_03: Lev has a lot to lose.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's putting everything on the line right now.
• 1:03:20
  SPEAKER_03: He's putting everything on the line right now.
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  SPEAKER_03: And I think that's good.
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  We've been demanding and asking people to step up who have
• 1:03:27
  money or influence or a
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  SPEAKER_03: position where they could do something.
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  SPEAKER_03: And he did.
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  I'm not mad that he listened when we all said,
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  hey,
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  we need more people running.
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  We need people running who might be able to do something with a
• 1:03:41
  powerful voice,
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  who are part of a community that is willing to listen to us
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  because Lev's willing
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  SPEAKER_03: to listen to us.
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  And if as long as that is that continues that type of behavior
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  and growth and
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  community oriented and family focused oriented growth is the
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  like the end result,
• 1:04:03
  SPEAKER_03: then that's what I that's what we want.
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  SPEAKER_03: We want our country to progress forward.
• 1:04:08
  SPEAKER_03: So we're going so far back and all I want to do is go forward.
• 1:04:16
  SPEAKER_03: All I want to do is all we want to do.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know, we only have an infinite.
• 1:04:20
  SPEAKER_00: We all have an infinite amount of time on this planet.
• 1:04:24
  SPEAKER_01: Or finite.
• 1:04:25
  SPEAKER_00: Or finite, excuse me.
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  SPEAKER_00: Oh, screw you, Walter.
• 1:04:28
  SPEAKER_00: I plan on living forever.
• 1:04:29
  SPEAKER_00: I'm right there with you.
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  SPEAKER_01: If I can make it happen, I will, my friend.
• 1:04:34
  SPEAKER_00: We all have a finite amount of time on this planet.
• 1:04:36
  SPEAKER_00: I just turned 55.
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  SPEAKER_00: I realized that I have less years in front of me than behind me.
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  SPEAKER_00: I am aware of my mortality.
• 1:04:45
  SPEAKER_00: you know?
• 1:04:46
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 1:04:47
  SPEAKER_00: Oh yeah, it does.
• 1:04:50
  SPEAKER_00: Especially with my,
• 1:04:51
  SPEAKER_00: especially with my,
• 1:04:51
  SPEAKER_00: my,
• 1:04:52
  SPEAKER_00: my final,
• 1:04:52
  SPEAKER_00: my last one,
• 1:04:53
  SPEAKER_00: finally going to college over the summer.
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  SPEAKER_00: So yeah.
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  Anyway,
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  so it's,
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  it's one of these things where,
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  you know,
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  I want to have just peace in my life.
• 1:05:03
  SPEAKER_00: Like, you know, major mistakes that occur.
• 1:05:06
  SPEAKER_00: I don't want those in my life at this point.
• 1:05:08
  SPEAKER_00: They're hard to recover from.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know,
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  SPEAKER_00: That's why the way I vote,
• 1:05:13
  SPEAKER_00: the way I do my job,
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  SPEAKER_00: the way I make decisions with patients,
• 1:05:17
  the way I make decisions with money and family and with my wife
• 1:05:21
  and those screaming
• 1:05:21
  SPEAKER_00: kids in the back are just killing me right now.
• 1:05:23
  SPEAKER_00: I'm just kidding.
• 1:05:26
  SPEAKER_00: Those little rat bastards.
• 1:05:31
  And I understand how older Americans get more conservative
• 1:05:35
  because it's a bigger
• 1:05:37
  SPEAKER_00: risk as you get older to lose things.
• 1:05:42
  SPEAKER_00: But I'm also looking at what the younger generations are losing,
• 1:05:46
  SPEAKER_00: like how Gen Alpha and Gen Z have lost,
• 1:05:49
  SPEAKER_00: in particular Gen Z,
• 1:05:51
  SPEAKER_00: the years they lost because of COVID and how that's affected these men,
• 1:05:55
  SPEAKER_00: these younger men,
• 1:05:56
  SPEAKER_00: these,
• 1:05:57
  SPEAKER_00: you know,
• 1:05:58
  and they've lost the ability to communicate to women and to not
• 1:06:03
  to not have open
• 1:06:05
  SPEAKER_00: emotional conversations with women to be able to connect to people.
• 1:06:10
  SPEAKER_00: It's just sad.
• 1:06:11
  And that's why we did this show,
• 1:06:13
  because our sick friend couldn't show up again today.
• 1:06:18
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, so Evan's sick, everybody.
• 1:06:20
  SPEAKER_00: Evan's sick today.
• 1:06:21
  SPEAKER_00: We didn't kick him out.
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  We wish him better,
• 1:06:24
  and hopefully he gets his azithromycin and feels better
• 1:06:28
  tomorrow.
• 1:06:30
  SPEAKER_00: Better living through pharmacology.
• 1:06:31
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 1:06:34
  SPEAKER_03: All right.
• 1:06:34
  SPEAKER_03: We're at the top of our hour, and I've got
• 1:06:37
  SPEAKER_03: Eric's got work to do.
• 1:06:38
  SPEAKER_03: I've got another interview here in about 20 minutes with Joe Walsh.
• 1:06:43
  SPEAKER_03: Do an intelligent masculinity with Joe Walsh today.
• 1:06:45
  SPEAKER_00: Tune in to the wild man, Joe Walsh.
• 1:06:48
  SPEAKER_00: And so let's do this final thing, promote ourselves.
• 1:06:51
  SPEAKER_03: Okay, Nick, do me a favor.
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  When you talk to Joe,
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  have him give you the link to who he interviewed,
• 1:06:56
  Rachel,
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  who's Gen Z.
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  He did a phenomenal interview with her today and didn't have
• 1:07:09
  her stuff posted on
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  SPEAKER_00: his,
• 1:07:10
  SPEAKER_00: uh,
• 1:07:11
  SPEAKER_00: on his stream page.
• 1:07:12
  So if you could,
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  if you could get that from him,
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  cause she was amazing today.
• 1:07:15
  SPEAKER_00: She's somebody we got to interview.
• 1:07:17
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 1:07:17
  SPEAKER_00: Awesome.
• 1:07:18
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 1:07:18
  SPEAKER_00: I will talk to him.
• 1:07:19
  SPEAKER_00: I'll see if I can get that from him.
• 1:07:21
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 1:07:21
  SPEAKER_00: Cause that was a great interview he did with her today.
• 1:07:24
  SPEAKER_03: That's such a weird cover.
• 1:07:26
  SPEAKER_03: I don't like that.
• 1:07:27
  SPEAKER_03: All right, let's do this.
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  SPEAKER_03: Let's promote ourselves.
• 1:07:29
  SPEAKER_03: Let's so everybody knows where they can find us.
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  SPEAKER_03: I'll start first.
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  me here at sick of the ship publications come become a paid or
• 1:07:37
  free subscriber at
• 1:07:38
  sick of the ship publications we are actively growing larger
• 1:07:41
  continuing to have
• 1:07:42
  some incredible discussions like i said we've got great
• 1:07:45
  interviews lined up we are
• 1:07:46
  talking about really important things we're pushing back with
• 1:07:49
  each other we're
• 1:07:50
  having open conversations about congressional candidates what
• 1:07:53
  we need to do trying
• 1:07:54
  to plan for the future so that when it comes time for us to
• 1:07:57
  actually take power
• 1:07:58
  SPEAKER_03: back here soon
• 1:07:59
  we have the plan in place because we can't be fumbling around
• 1:08:02
  we can't fumble this
• 1:08:03
  football we've got one chance left so come help me do that help
• 1:08:08
  build our community
• 1:08:09
  influence so that we can continue to make um make ourselves
• 1:08:16
  known but also get
• 1:08:17
  ourselves into the areas where we have the influence yeah just
• 1:08:21
  suck less we're sick
• 1:08:22
  SPEAKER_03: of this ship publications just suck less
• 1:08:25
  You can get our water bottles at the stick of the shop right
• 1:08:27
  over Eric's head.
• 1:08:30
  SPEAKER_03: Just can't get it on TikTok.
• 1:08:31
  Yeah,
• 1:08:32
  you just can't get it on TikTok because we're not allowed there
• 1:08:34
  right now.
• 1:08:35
  We've been banned from TikTok for a little while because they
• 1:08:37
  don't like it when we
• 1:08:38
  SPEAKER_03: talk about elections.
• 1:08:39
  SPEAKER_00: You can talk about elections.
• 1:08:41
  SPEAKER_00: You can't mention election fraud.
• 1:08:43
  SPEAKER_03: We said integrity.
• 1:08:44
  SPEAKER_00: We said fraud.
• 1:08:48
  SPEAKER_03: Oh, yeah.
• 1:08:49
  SPEAKER_03: I don't even think Walter said fraud.
• 1:08:51
  SPEAKER_03: I think he said integrity.
• 1:08:52
  SPEAKER_03: Oh, that's even worse.
• 1:08:53
  SPEAKER_01: I will stand by being banned for speaking about integrity.
• 1:08:56
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, I'm going to stand by being banned because of Walter.
• 1:08:59
  SPEAKER_03: I love it.
• 1:08:59
  SPEAKER_01: So yeah, come join us.
• 1:09:00
  SPEAKER_01: Stand by being banned.
• 1:09:02
  SPEAKER_03: I stand by it.
• 1:09:03
  So come join us where we get banned on TikTok for saying truth
• 1:09:06
  because fuck you,
• 1:09:07
  TikTok.
• 1:09:07
  SPEAKER_03: That's what it is.
• 1:09:09
  SPEAKER_03: And next, come support my friend, Walter Ryan.
• 1:09:12
  SPEAKER_03: Promote yourself.
• 1:09:13
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, thank you guys.
• 1:09:14
  It's always my great privilege to talk with the two of you
• 1:09:18
  fine,
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  upstanding gentlemen.
• 1:09:19
  SPEAKER_01: I appreciate it.
• 1:09:20
  SPEAKER_01: I love you guys.
• 1:09:21
  SPEAKER_01: I like the support.
• 1:09:22
  SPEAKER_01: It makes a big difference.
• 1:09:23
  SPEAKER_01: It's made a huge difference in this last couple of years.
• 1:09:26
  SPEAKER_01: It wouldn't have been possible.
• 1:09:27
  SPEAKER_01: So thank you.
• 1:09:29
  SPEAKER_01: And yeah, come and read my stuff that I'd rather be writing.
• 1:09:33
  SPEAKER_01: And I don't expect anybody to read all of it because there's too much.
• 1:09:37
  SPEAKER_01: Even I can't read it all and I've created it.
• 1:09:39
  SPEAKER_01: So, but I just love to have you there.
• 1:09:41
  SPEAKER_01: Appreciate it.
• 1:09:42
  SPEAKER_01: That's it.
• 1:09:42
  SPEAKER_01: Thank you.
• 1:09:45
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, what's going on in the background?
• 1:09:46
  SPEAKER_01: Something happened?
• 1:09:48
  SPEAKER_00: Why are we having the air raid?
• 1:09:50
  SPEAKER_01: Because of me?
• 1:09:52
  SPEAKER_00: Coming soon, so I ran near you.
• 1:09:56
  SPEAKER_03: Coming soon to Karg Island.
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  SPEAKER_00: Everybody, thank you so much for tuning in today.
• 1:10:02
  You guys can find me here on Substack,
• 1:10:04
  Dr.
• 1:10:04
  Eric Lulove,
• 1:10:05
  and you can find me here at Dr.
• 1:10:06
  Lulove.
• 1:10:06
  SPEAKER_00: You can also find my stuff on Blue Lamp Media,
• 1:10:10
  SPEAKER_00: do my medical policy writings,
• 1:10:12
  SPEAKER_00: my really dry technical writings.
• 1:10:15
  If you're more interested in that,
• 1:10:16
  we didn't do art or poems today,
• 1:10:18
  but that's okay.
• 1:10:19
  SPEAKER_00: Right?
• 1:10:20
  SPEAKER_03: No, that's okay.
• 1:10:20
  SPEAKER_03: We'll, we'll do it next week.
• 1:10:22
  SPEAKER_03: We'll try and work things in.
• 1:10:23
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 1:10:25
  SPEAKER_03: We need a theme for next week.
• 1:10:26
  SPEAKER_03: We'll do that.
• 1:10:27
  SPEAKER_03: We'll, we'll work on a theme for y'all for next week.
• 1:10:30
  SPEAKER_00: Anyway, it was great seeing everybody.
• 1:10:31
  Thanks so much for joining in today and appreciate my two
• 1:10:34
  brothers in arms here
• 1:10:36
  SPEAKER_00: with our missing third leg.
• 1:10:39
  SPEAKER_00: Hey, it happens.
• 1:10:41
  SPEAKER_00: It happens.
• 1:10:42
  SPEAKER_03: Sometimes we're a three-legged stool and not a chair.
• 1:10:46
  SPEAKER_01: Hold you guys up.
• 1:10:47
  SPEAKER_00: Although, I'll be here next week, but I will be out.
• 1:10:50
  SPEAKER_00: Remember, next week is Passover.
• 1:10:51
  If you celebrate Passover,
• 1:10:52
  everybody have a Zazen Pesach,
• 1:10:54
  for those of you that
• 1:10:55
  that celebrate passover next wednesday night um i will be out
• 1:10:59
  of town on uh april
• 1:11:01
  8th april 9th guys i will not be on the show so i will be in
• 1:11:04
  charlotte if i can't
• 1:11:05
  i'll check in if i if i i'll be remote so sounds good okay
• 1:11:10
  thanks hey thanks
• 1:11:12
  everyone in the chat have a great day we'll see you all again
• 1:11:15
  next week for the
• 1:11:15
  SPEAKER_03: diogenes club