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Politics Gets Sexy, Medicine Gets Weird & a Cat Outsmarts New Zealand | TMI Ep 447 · The TMI Show with Ted Rall and Manila Chan

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Morning, happy Friyay. I can hear myself. I don't
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know whose speakers I'm hearing myself from,
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but it's Friyay, August 21st, 2026. I'm Manila
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Chan, producer Robbie there, and Ted Rall making
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it just in time. Ted, I think Ted needs to put
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on his headphones. I think that's what it is.
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Yeah, I think you're right. That's really weird
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because this does not happen on deprogram. Well,
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this is not deprogram. It's not, no, I mean,
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I was taken to task for white -splaining to a
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black man. Now we get to the same exact thing
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to an Asian female. So in the hierarchy, which
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one is the more victimized class, the Asian that
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controls, second only to the Jew in control of
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the United States or to the black man who has
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been ground down? The true victim is the innocent
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cat. We've got a great cat story. The only innocent
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cat was Ferdy and she got ate by a mountain lion.
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Oh, poor Ferdy. You need to replace her. Remember,
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that's the thing about love. Love is easily replaced.
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You returned the asshole one that you adopted,
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right? That you tried to adopt. I was either
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that or shoot it. It was one or the other. What
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are you, Kristi Noem? I know exactly. This cat
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was sadistic. He was, he was not a nice cat.
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He didn't even look nice. Anyway, anyway, you
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are turned into the TMI show. That cat was an
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asshole. This is, this is the weird stuff that
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we discuss. There are, there are bad cats, but
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they're also bad. I mean, I don't know. My, my
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formerly, my former friend, he had a cat that
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always biting and hissing at him. And then like
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I had to, there are bad cats. I had to cut. People,
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the animals. But then I cat sat and the cat was
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adorable to me and I came to realize that, like,
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he just didn't handle the cat properly. Oh, it
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was just, it was like commander. Poor commander
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and the bias. Yes, exactly. It was commander
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the cat. Oh, okay. Well, there goes Robbie. Back
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to producer land. And please hit that like button,
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a month to support the show so we can... pay
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our bills, like our interweb bills. At least.
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At least. I mean, come on. And also before we
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start, Ted, I just saw breaking news in the world
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of car salesmen, because, look. What? In my world
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of being, I'm still forever a car dog, as we
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call ourselves, right? That was my first introduction.
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Oh, I never heard that term. Yeah, we're car
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dogs. We're lot lizards. We're just a little
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wee bit slimy, but I'm going to call today a
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victorious day for us lot lizards, the car dogs,
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because in Belgium, a 26 -year -old car salesman
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has just become a Belgian prince. What? Yes.
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You can't be a Belgian prince. Belgium is not
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a kingdom. It is a democracy. Well, he's this,
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no, but they have like a figurehead, like Belgian
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Prince. King Philippe's younger brother, Prince
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Laurent. I thought you were going to talk about
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Prince Harry returning to England with his gorgeous,
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very kind, easygoing bride. She's beautiful,
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but anyway. She's definitely attractive. I wouldn't
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say she's beautiful, but she's good looking.
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I mean, beautiful to me is like, wow. you know.
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Well, I think she's pretty. She's definitely
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easy on the eyes. Pretty, yeah, yeah. But over
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in Belgium, King Philippe's younger brother,
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Prince Laurent, so he's the version of Prince
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Harry over there, right? Laurent. Sorry, Prince
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Laurent, has legally recognized a dude named
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Clement Vanden Kerkhove as his secret illegitimate
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son. It's made official. The new prince has now
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equal inheritance rights, anyway, to Laurent's
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private estate as his half -siblings, the ones
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that he does recognize. Half -sister Princess
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Louise, half -brothers Prince Nicolas, and Prince
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Aymeric. How are they 20, 20, and 19? So this
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kid is 26 years old, so he's much older than
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them. He's apparently like the first child, but
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illegitimate son of Prince Laurent. So obviously
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Prince Laurent was spreading his Laurent around
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at the same time. And this dude's a car, so how
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do you... Can you imagine, Ted, you're like slinging
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used cars in Belgium, and then one day, like,
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some royal guard shows up to your house and is
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like, knock, knock. I have news for you. Yeah,
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but does it mean anything? I mean, is there any
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money in it? Yeah, yeah, he inherits. He has
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equal rights under the under Belgian law to whatever
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Prince Laurent has. So it's now split. What does
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Prince Laurent have? Anything is the question.
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Yeah, I mean, his whole estate of like, I don't
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know, probably castles and vineyards and I don't
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know, unicorns. I mean, he's a he's an heir to
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King Leopold, right? King Leopold. owned the
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entire Congo personally. What, really? Yeah,
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King Leopold, yeah, in the late 1800s. He laid
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claim? No, no, he didn't lay claim. I mean, yeah,
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he laid claim, but it was a Belgian colony. But
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you have to understand, it wasn't like, oh, as
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the king, like, you know, I'm, I claim this for
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Belgium. For the people, right. No, no, no, this
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is like Trump style. It's for me personally.
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Oh, this is mine. This is, yeah, all the profits
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go to me, King Leopold. This is mine, King Leopold.
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Yeah, here's my routing number, here's my bank
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account. Oh, wow. Yeah, every time there's a
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blood diamond, that money goes to me. Well, so
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do you think this is fair that they're the...
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So I wonder how much of that money is left. King
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Philippe is not, I mean, recognizes him obviously
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as genetically his nephew. But King Felipe is
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not granting the new prince a title. Is that
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shitty? I mean, isn't that kind of like how Hunter
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Biden refused to recognize? He could at least
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make him the Lord of the Dance. I don't know.
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He won't grant him a title. It's kind of like
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how Hunter Biden sued the stripper that he had
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the affair with and had that baby, remember?
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But yes, Rachel. Was it Rachel Hunter? No, what
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was her name? That's different. Not someone else.
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No, but they wouldn't. The Bidens were suing
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to make the little girl, the little baby girl
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drop her Biden last name. Right, as if it was,
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by the way, such a prestigious honorific. I mean,
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it's like, it's Biden, OK? I know you have a
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rest area on the Delaware Turnpike after you.
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I've been there. It's a good rest area. It's
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not a bad rest area, yeah. It's not bad. It's
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a big sprawl. It's clean. But yeah, but you know,
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maybe nothing beats the Bon Jovi one a little
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holdout for that one in New Jersey. I'm not seeing
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that one. Yeah, it's in New Jersey. It's on the
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New Jersey Turnpike. And it's a real and yeah,
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it's got the Bon Jovi's music playing in it all
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24 seven and his shit's up in there. Big pictures.
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It's awesome. That's amazing. Well, I can't believe
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there's no Bruce Springsteen one though. That's
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so dumb. Poor Clement, they're not giving him
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a title. He doesn't have any official duties.
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So they're just recognizing him as like the genetic,
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you know, spare sons, one of the whatever. He's
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their Harry. Poor guy. But anyway, so there you
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go. I'm going to say it's a win for one of us.
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There might be cash in it for him. This is a
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win for one of us low life car salesmen, people
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like me. He's the son of some lounge singer lady.
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So Prince Laurent. That could be really sleazy
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or it could be these days very hip and very prestigious.
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Who knows? I don't know. So he's, I guess, Prince
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Laurent hooked up with some lounge singer lady.
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As one does. had Clement. Clement was born in
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the year 2000. So I'm just going to take that
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as a win, put that in the win column for us car
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salesmen that we can become something, Ted. Well,
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thank God for that. More than a car salesman.
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I think that's good to hear. So that's happy
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Friday for me. I was like, wow, look at that.
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Like, I mean, I went on, maybe it's a lateral
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move going from like car salesman to journalist,
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whatever, for me. For sure. But he went. on to
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be a prince, so good on Clement. A prince among
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men, literally. Well, among Belgians. I'm going
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to call him Prince Clement. Yeah, I mean, Belgium's
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not even a real country, though, so whatever.
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I know, but still. But still, that's a cool thing
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to find out before the weekend. You're like,
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now you have a new line to hit on chicks. You're
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like, by the way. I'm a prince. No, really. Do
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you get a card or do you have something you can
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show? Like a courtesy card? I have a question
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for you, Ted. You talk about King Leopold owning
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the Congo. Is that the same Leopold who was the
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king of Austria during the Ottoman siege? I don't
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believe so. I think it's a different Leopold.
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It's a different era, I think, no? I don't know.
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There's so many people named the same thing.
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Yeah, I know. It gets confusing. A lot of recycled
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names in old Europe. That's true. I mean, God,
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I, you know, when I was doing my, uh, genealogy
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a couple of years ago for my son, uh, I was like
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looking at the French side and man, I am so fucking
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tired of all the genres and the, and the Marie's
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in my family tree over and over. And the thing
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is they, they do it, they don't even skip over.
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It's like, The dad is the same name as the father.
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It's like, Jesus Christ, you're not making it
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easy on us, you know. Oh, we had all they don't
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they're not working hard on the American has
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swung the other way. So I'm going to blame. I'm
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going to blame all of this on Gwyneth Paltrow,
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by the way, who named this will be interesting.
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She named her kid Apple, the kid that she had
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with Chris Martin from Coldplay. And then I think,
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oh, what's his name from something Earl? He named
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his kid Inspector pilot, inspector with a K.
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Well, don't forget that Kanye. Kanye. Yes, Kanye
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and Kim's kids all have fucked up names. That's
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why you hate yourself. Elon's, of course, the
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king of the shitty name. Oh, that's true. So
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you can either be, you know, Clement, Leopold,
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Laurent or, you know. Alpha 970 or whatever Elon
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named his kid or Apple or inspector with a K
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True So, I don't know if I had to pick one I'd
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go the European route and just fuck it. Just
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all be named Laurent Clemence But nobody's really
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named Laurent anymore. I think It's kind of an
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arcane archaic name Clement and daughter Louise
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Prince Nicolas and Prince Aymeric, which that
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does not sound... Something should be named Prince
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Poisson. Croissant. Croissant. Croissant, which
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is fish. Oh, God. Yeah. Who speaks for the fish?
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Just give the Gen Z royalty time to name their
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kids, Ted. So, all right, let's get to the stories.
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Let's do it. All right. So, okay. This is fun.
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So forget foreign policy papers and carefully
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staged town halls. One of the Democratic Party's
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newest political strategies appears to be considerably
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simpler. Look hot on the internet. Axios reports
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Democrats are increasingly embracing younger,
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energetic, and yes, physically attractive candidates
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as they battle for attention on social media
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ahead of the 2026 midterms. Welcome to the political
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thirst trap. Senator John Ossoff of Georgia has
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become one of the more obvious examples. His
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increasingly combative online persona has generated
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enormous attention, while Michigan Democratic
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Senate nominee Abdul El -Sayed has cultivated
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his own decidedly casual look, frequently appearing
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in his trademark tight black V -neck, and he's
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bulging his biceps all the time. When he's talking,
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he's doing the flex like Hulk Hogan when he's
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pointing over there. Like bro and and on John
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Ossoff, by the way People may not know this but
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TMZ has officially arrived in DC. They haven't
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made a big splash yet They haven't even made
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like a separate website for them but the paparazzi
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are officially in DC and one of the first Pap
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videos that I saw from TMZ here in DC was Um,
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and Australian, they don't have a lot of paps
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here yet, but the Australian guy, the Aussie,
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um, the Aussie pap that's like, I guess, posted
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the Capitol Hill. He chased down John Ossoff
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and said, Senator, Senator, I hear you have BDE.
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And Ossoff took for a second and was like, Oh
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my God, what? Right. And then it occurred that
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his, he's like big D energy, you know, and Ossoff.
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Gave this smirk like yeah, I do The only that's
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the only appropriate response to a statement
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like that and then he and then he you know got
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back to being a senator and kind of pivoted and
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said something else and Something coy and got
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in the elevator and went away, but this is the
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stuff that only TMZ can do I mean, it's not like
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I'm gonna be on Capitol Hill by the way. I don't
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know. Okay resident head girl here Do you think
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he's a good looking dude? I mean, are we going
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by Capitol Hill standards? No. Oh, by general
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world standards? I mean, do you just do you think
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like, you know, I mean, if you were if you were
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swiping left or swiping right, what would you
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do? Would you be like, man, I got to tap that
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or like, no, no, no, whatever. No, no, no. He
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doesn't make me want to like fling my bra at
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him or anything. Your room key? No, I mean, he's
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cute, I guess. I mean, but again, it's relative.
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I'm in DC. I hear you. DC standards are lower.
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Look, I'm in DC. It's very different than say,
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like he's a DC seven or eight, but he's like
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an LA four. Right? Like Ossoff. He's kind of
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dorky, but kind of cute in that dorky kind of
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a way, you know, but relative to DC standards,
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like, I'm sure he gets, he gets some, some calls,
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right? Like, I'm sure he's not hurting for a
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dinner date, but, but this is, um, I'm not actually
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sure. I don't know. I know he's young. He's like
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38 maybe. Um, I think he's on that. I also gotta
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say he doesn't have the looks that look like
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they're gonna age well, if that makes sense.
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I could see him going the Jeff Goldblum route
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with like the ears getting bigger and the nose
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getting bigger. He looks a little bit like a
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not as good looking Beto O 'Rourke. I don't know,
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I can't pin it, but I gotta say, I did younger,
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young Jeff Goldblum, even now, he's like 70,
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he still looks really good. I still think Jeff
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Goldblum's kinda sexy. I think Jeff Goldblum
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actually looks better as he gets older. I think
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Jeff Goldblum's sexy, so. Yeah, no, well he has
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BD, for sure. Yeah, Jeff Goldblum, the women
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of a certain age. He might all be a lie. Maybe
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Jeff Goldblum's got the Riz. He's got to be married.
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He's got to be married that dude, right? He's
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got to be. Who, Ossoff? No, Goldblum. Goldblum?
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Oh, I don't know. I did know many years ago a
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girlfriend of mine was dating him. Oh, really?
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Well, I'll show she can dish on his penis size.
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She's a British woman. So he was he was, I don't
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know, based out there for some reason, but a
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British friend of mine. But anyway, back to the
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Democrats here. So, oh, he's been married. Man,
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Jeff Goldblum, he's on wife number three. Oh,
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I'm sure he's he was married to Gina Davis. Yes,
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we all knew that in like the late 80s. Yeah,
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that's right. For four years. I didn't know that.
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Now he's married to some name, some dancer. Oh
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my God. So she's not just a dancer like, do you
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think I'm sexy? She's a Canadian, she's a dancer,
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aerialist and contortionist and retired Olympic
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rhythmic gymnast. She won the all around at the
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1999 Pan -American Games, which admittedly I've
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never heard of. Okay. And their children are
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named, are aquatic, have aquatic names. Charlie
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Ocean. and River Joe. River Joe sounds like Steamboat
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Willie, right? Like, what kind of man has sex
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with other men? River Joe. Do you remember the
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old Davy Crockett shows from the 1970s? I remember,
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yeah. The King of the River? Yeah. That's why
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that just took me back. Well, see, see my point
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about celebrities. Who's that man? Who's that
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man eating that raccoon? That there be River
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Joe. The biggest homosexual in these parts, but
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we don't, he don't mean no harm. Poor little
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River Joe. Well, obviously my girlfriend dated
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him many, many, many years ago before I came
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to DC. So this is like, But he's so he's with
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so he's with a 40 she's 43 man, and he's see
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yeah, yeah, and she's He's literally married
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to a contortionist. I mean and literally we get
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it hold it and how old is he? About 70. Yeah,
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let me almost let me look at almost 70 Yeah,
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that's true 73. Oh wow Yeah, that's I you know,
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I mean good for him, I guess but I mean, I feel
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sorry if he looks great I just gotta say unlike
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unlike Capitol Hill What are they gonna have
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to talk about when she's not control Hill? Hold
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on. Capitol Hill is not aging like Jeff Goldblum
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and No, he's certainly the demo look look Ted
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you and I have talked about this many times that
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the Democrats well both parties I should say
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Keep these, you know dinosaurs in office forever.
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So now the Democrats are swinging the other way
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with like people like Oscar. In other words,
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mildly more attractive, mildly less ancient.
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Yeah. All right. So it's part, it's become apparent.
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This is reporting from Axios and they kind of
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got the hook up here. So it's part of a broader
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transformation of politicians into something
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resembling social media creators. Campaigns aren't
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simply selling positions anymore. They're selling
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personality. authenticity, style, and, you know,
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good cheekbones, right? There may actually be
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some science behind it. Researchers have long
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found that physical attractiveness can influence
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how voters perceive a candidate's competence
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and electability. Of course. Meaning looking
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good on Instagram might actually have political
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value beyond collecting likes. Republicans...
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Yeah, JFK did. did not suffer for looking for
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his looks. Yeah. Republicans arguably got there
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first though, during the 2024 election cycle,
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MAGA personalities developed what political observers
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describe as the polished Mar -a -Lago or country
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club aesthetic. I call that over -botoxed and
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over -scaled. I call that the skink aesthetic,
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but all right. All right, like the big lips and
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yeah. While Democrats were more frequently stereotyped
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as either nerdy, poorly styled, unbathed, you
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know, unbathed. Come on. Which Democrats look
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unbathed? What Democrats look unbathed? And conspicuously
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progressive. That is the code term for like the
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purple hair or caped head. Tad. Bernie Sanders
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has never met a shower nor a hairbrush. Let's
21:53
just be honest about it. Let me just say I sat
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right next to him. and for hours at a time on
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a hot summer day. And I wouldn't go so far as
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to say that he made me reconsider my heterosexuality,
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but he was definitely, he smelled good. He smelled
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fine. He smelled fine, yeah. No, we're not saying
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they are. I will say, I will break some news
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here and say he does have dandruff. Oh, oh, well,
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he's like 85. So, you know, he's well, I mean,
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he wasn't 85 at the time. This was he was 75
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or 73. Even still, he's in changes. No, the truth
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is, you know, come on, little head and shoulders
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would take care of that. That's maybe I can see
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I can see that. But my point is, he's a poor
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struggling. True. He's a poor struggling center.
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That's my point is. On the Democratic side, people
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tend to look, you know, like the supporters or
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what have you. They look less polished usually,
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like they're supporters. But now Democrats appear
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determined to give politics the makeover. There's
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no single uniform. Some candidates remain firmly
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attached to suits. We're talking like Zoran Mamdani
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with the skinny ties. Others lean heavily into
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casual clothes and social media friendly presentation.
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but the calculation is unmistakably modern. In
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an election where candidates compete for votes,
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money, and increasingly scarce attention, Democrats
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are testing whether a little sex appeal can stop
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the scroll. Obviously, I think it's happening
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more on the social media front for the Democratic
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side than the Republicans. Obviously, the Biden
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White House, remember, was like contracting these
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social media influencers. So how that happens,
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it wasn't like Biden came up with this idea.
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It's all the Democratic consultants, the political
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consultant types that are like, Mr. President,
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you really got to go and you got to get Dylan
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Mulvaney or whoever. We got to get social media
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influencers. And that has now, I think, literally
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crossed over into the calculation of who they're
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going to pick to run for office. Because I think
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AOC was kind of like a good test of that, right?
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Like she's young, she's full of energy, but she's
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also Latina and sassy and very busty. Yeah. And
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getting bustier too. She's very curvy. And then
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that one guy. I don't know, a year or so ago,
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he got, I don't know, he was, I wouldn't say
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reprimanded, but she scolded him on social media
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because he shouted at her, like, Congresswoman,
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like, something like, who has a bigger booty,
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you or JLo? Yeah, well that's a pretty disgusting
24:54
thing to say. She turned around and gave him
24:57
the dirtiest look. Well, she's right. I mean,
25:01
what the fuck is wrong with him? Asshole. But
25:05
here we are, but now fast forward two years and
25:09
now they're like sexualizing the politicians
25:14
for the youth vote. I mean, come on. I don't
25:18
think you think that there's a plan. Yeah, I
25:21
think the consultants absolutely, absolutely
25:25
are talking to the DNC about this and the DNC
25:28
has gotten the word out. Go look at all the younger
25:31
politicians on the Democratic side. Go look at
25:33
their social media. There's like everyone's trying
25:35
to look cool. Everyone's trying to look hot.
25:38
The Republicans, of course, everyone's like a
25:40
hundred. So they, you know, maybe they might
25:42
have a TikTok. I don't know. But on the Democrat
25:45
side, They absolutely got the memo. This is coming
25:48
top down. I guarantee you it's from the consultants.
25:51
They're telling them you're going to get votes
25:54
if you get... I bet you the post -mortem of the
26:00
midterms or maybe the 2028 elections, the post
26:03
-mortem will say they're going to find a link
26:06
between how many followers you have, how many
26:08
likes you get, to how you carried the election.
26:14
Guarantee you they're going to somebody's going
26:16
to research that and they're going to find a
26:19
link to the two that if you're more active on
26:22
social media, you get more followers, you get
26:24
more likes. It translates. It actually translates
26:27
to more votes. I can, I can almost guarantee
26:30
you somebody's going to research that. It ain't
26:32
going to be me because I don't have the time
26:33
and the resources, but that's what advertising
26:36
works. That's why people buy ads on social media
26:40
platforms. It's the same thing. All you're doing
26:41
is instead of selling a product, you're you're
26:43
you're trying to buy a boat. You're still selling
26:46
a product. You're still selling a product, yeah.
26:48
Yeah, you are the product as a politician. So
26:51
I think somebody is going to have to, you know,
26:54
do the math one of these days, but that's coming.
26:58
And John Ossoff has, after the last couple of
27:02
weeks, is suddenly wearing a little bit tighter
27:05
slacks. OK, after the BDE comment a couple of
27:09
weeks ago. What is his name? Jacob Frey? The
27:14
mayor? Governor? No. What is he? In Minneapolis.
27:20
He's the mayor. He's the mayor. He's the Jewish
27:24
guy who is trying to go out there and do hip
27:26
-hop dance and stuff. Wow, that's kind of crazy.
27:30
Jacob Frey could be the twin of Ossoff. They
27:34
look very similar. They're seriously like identical
27:36
twins. Very similar. Maybe they're Rothschilds.
27:40
They could be cousins. Is Ossoff Jewish? It's
27:45
a Jewish name. You tell me. Ossoff? All right.
27:47
Well, let's find out. I don't know. I mean, what
27:51
is Jewish? He sounds Russian to me. I mean, German
27:54
and Jewish and Russian names are often Jewish.
27:58
He is, in fact, Ossoff is, in fact, Jewish. Grew
28:02
up with Russian and Lithuanian Jewish heritage
28:04
on his dad's side. converted prior to his bar
28:08
mitzvah and is now a member of the temple, a
28:11
reformed synagogue in Atlanta. I'm so shocked.
28:18
I'm amazed that this would happen. However, he
28:21
is not a Zionist. He hangs out with J Street,
28:25
which is the progressive Jewish lobby, not APEC.
28:29
Okay. So that's all the popular thing. Zionists
28:33
criticize him for not being supportive enough
28:35
of Israel. Right. So I'm sure somebody's probably
28:39
called him a self -hating Jew or something. You
28:42
know how that goes, Ted. I'm not going to say
28:46
all of it. The vast majority of the Jews I know,
28:49
but of course these are the Jews that would be
28:51
my friends, the vast majority of the Jews I know
28:54
are anti -Zionist. Oh, yeah. Yeah, me too. Honestly,
28:59
I'm actually don't know that I know any. I know
29:03
some Jews who were Zionist, but not anymore.
29:09
I mean, Israel turned them off. Yeah. I haven't
29:12
checked in on that topic lately, but the ones
29:14
that I do talk to regularly who happen to be
29:18
Jewish by birth, probably mostly non -practicing,
29:22
but Yeah, they're non non Zionist. So I can I
29:26
can see how us off. Okay. So he's this is where
29:30
the Democratic Party is going. You guys just
29:32
just pay attention and watch. Just watch. Just
29:35
watch as we get closer to 2026. It'll be easier
29:37
since everyone's gonna be better looking. Well,
29:41
maybe. But I mean, the Republicans got there
29:43
first, right? Like they brought the sex appeal
29:45
with like, I know, besides her dog killing habits,
29:48
but like Kristi Noem is still she has the crazy
29:50
eyes and like the sexy thing. going right like
29:54
she and we know she likes to bone bobert she's
29:57
she's the one that's tits republicans back there
30:02
first what's the last name of that hispanic paula
30:07
paula luna is that her name oh anna anna paulina
30:11
yeah paula luna i think that's right and anna
30:15
paulina luna let me see yeah she's very pretty
30:17
she's very pretty Yeah, see, Annapolina Luna.
30:24
She's a congressman from Florida. I think she's
30:28
got AOC beat, looks -wise. But I think she's
30:33
more done. Yeah, I was going to say, frankly,
30:36
I don't think she has... I mean, let me put it
30:38
this way. Naked in the morning, no makeup, unshowered,
30:43
AOC is probably a better bet. Yeah, because she
30:46
looks like her real self. Yeah, I mean, just
30:48
because... And I think her real self is going
30:51
to be a better look. You know? Yeah. I mean,
30:53
I'm on air every day with no makeup on. Like,
30:56
I just don't... There's also Paula Luna, who
30:58
is a filmmaker, who is sort of a... Not her.
31:01
...Germanic lady, very stern. Steve, the Republican
31:04
side has that done, that very done look. Do you
31:07
see what I'm saying? Like, the Anna Paulina Lunas
31:10
of the Republican Party, the Kristi Nohms, they
31:12
all have like hair and makeup done. They're all
31:14
like, like their lips are all filled, injected
31:17
and... Like they're all nose jobbed. It's that
31:20
Mar -a -Lago look. It is that. It's like Beverly
31:24
Hills in Florida, like Beverly Hillbillies Florida
31:27
look like. You think that the Dems will try to
31:29
get Jasmine Crockett to run in Texas again? As
31:32
she's she's pretty. Well, they know the Dems
31:35
will not want her to run. She might run, but
31:38
she look, here's the thing. She can make more
31:40
money being out of office as an influencer. And
31:44
the thing, the thing about Jasmine Crockett is
31:46
that. You know, they're embarrassed by her. She's
31:50
overly racist. So that's really well, that's
31:52
never hurt anyone. But I mean, I'm just saying.
31:56
Yeah, this is like that. So the Democrats have
32:00
gotten there. They got the memo, too. So I think
32:02
for better or worse, I would say it's better.
32:07
Even if you go with stupid and good looking people,
32:10
you probably have a better chance. at like change
32:14
than keeping like we got three more stories to
32:16
do guys dinosaurs like we always go too long
32:19
on the first story we go way too long on the
32:21
first story it's fine they can always run the
32:24
mayor from boston the chinese lady what the hell
32:26
is her name you know woo is that her last name
32:29
yeah yeah yeah well francesca hong needs needs
32:32
work yeah she she got spanked not in a good way
32:36
yeah so yeah but they're again they're going
32:39
for sex appeal and they're We'll see we'll see
32:43
in the coming years how this changes. So now
32:45
you got to be good -looking to run Alright, let's
32:49
move I'm making it my next week manila I'm making
32:56
it my my my goal that we're out of the first
32:59
topic 20 minutes in no matter what We've got
33:01
to do it Okay, all right, here we go. All right
33:06
bacteria engineered to sense and reduce glucose
33:09
levels could be the future of type 2 diabetes
33:12
treatments following preclinical trials on animal
33:15
models. And I don't mean like hot animals. By
33:19
inserting a glucose -responsive regulator gene
33:21
into a strain of Escherichia coli, researchers
33:27
from East China Normal University in Shanghai
33:30
created a living peptide, sorry, a living treatment
33:33
that expresses glucagon -like -peptine -1, GLP
33:38
-1s, the hormone mimicked by popular diabetes
33:41
and weight loss drugs like ozempic and WIGOVI.
33:44
The result is a drug delivery system that activates
33:46
only when you need it. This avoids the risk of
33:49
long -term administration of needlessly high
33:51
doses. The oral deliverable probiotic, described
33:55
as a glucose -sensing and functional responsive
33:58
probiotic, or GIFT bridges the divide between
34:02
organ transplantation and conventional pharmaceutical
34:06
treatments. Our probiotics -based living drug
34:09
enables therapeutic dosing in response to real
34:12
-time blood glucose levels, providing a programmable,
34:15
orally deliverable sense and respond platform
34:18
for metabolic therapy without transplantation.
34:22
the researcher said in their recently published
34:25
and very hard to read paper. While GLP -1 analogous
34:29
drugs have US FDA approval for type 2 diabetes
34:33
and weight loss, they still have side effects
34:36
and risks. In theory, tailoring dosages to meet
34:40
the body's needs could mitigate adverse consequences
34:43
for extended use. Our body does this automatically.
34:46
When blood sugar levels reach a certain level,
34:49
a cascade of hormonal responses tells your pancreas
34:52
to release insulin, slow down your digestion,
34:54
and put a hold on the breakdown of glucose stores.
34:57
Once glucose levels go down, the body responds
35:00
by lowering insulin and encouraging the liver
35:02
to release more sugar. For those with type 2
35:04
diabetes, this process goes astray. Cells become
35:09
resistant to insulin, for example, ensuring glucose
35:13
levels remain dangerously high in the bloodstream
35:15
while starving cells of the fuel they need to
35:18
function. Injecting GLP -1 agonists into the
35:22
body could increase insulin levels to overcome
35:26
resistance, supplementing the actions of a hormone
35:28
naturally produced by the small intestine. Yet,
35:32
a daily dose of the drug may not conventionally
35:34
line with the body's minute -by -minute need
35:36
for insulin. GIFT is a novel way, or promises
35:40
to be one, to detect changes in glucose and respond
35:44
right away with a tiny boost of insulin -raising
35:48
hormones. nestled inside bacteria that are already
35:51
suited to the gut. The system can be easily administered
35:54
in a pill and avoids the risk of rejection that
35:58
could come with other cell -based therapies.
36:02
Interesting for sure. One of those things to
36:06
keep your eyes on. This is a JDC thing because
36:08
this is like early trials in mice, so we're,
36:11
you know. That's right. We've got to, we've got
36:15
to infect the mice with everything first. Got
36:18
it. What happens there. Yeah. But don't you think
36:21
that's kind of cool that you can, like, manipulate
36:24
bacteria to... It's incredibly cool. Yeah. No.
36:30
It's very... I think this... Did it mention it?
36:32
I thought the longer version of this, because
36:35
this is obviously a summary version... Yeah,
36:37
yeah. In East China. Why is it called normal
36:40
university? Oh, I can look that up, but that's
36:44
a common thing in China. What does that mean?
36:47
I'll find normal, you know, it doesn't mean something
36:50
or is that the name like someone's name? Normal
36:53
and they don't know it's not no. No, there's
36:55
lots of normal universities Versus like a specialized
36:58
university, maybe Yeah, probably that is it It
37:03
is named after the French school of the French.
37:06
It's a French thing. It called normal It means
37:09
serving as a norm or model. So these are meant
37:13
to These are usually schools that focus on education
37:18
and training teachers. They then have often become
37:24
large universities, but they keep that in the
37:26
name as a historical nod to their roots. So basically
37:31
what it is, is it's like a school that established
37:34
the standard for how to teach a certain thing.
37:37
So let's say, I don't know, the Chinese language.
37:40
And it's like, so this is such and such normal
37:43
university. And I guess it's like a way of saying
37:46
like it's it sets the standard because these
37:49
are China and countries like China and France
37:52
have a more standardized form of education than
37:56
we do. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. OK. So yeah, this university
38:01
is in Shanghai and it's like a how do you pronounce
38:06
this? Esquerica. Escherichia coli? Yeah, I would
38:13
say Escherichia. Escherichia? Escherichia. E
38:20
-S -C -H -E -R -I -C -H -I -A coli. Well, whatever.
38:25
Let's call it E. coli. The other E. coli. Yeah,
38:29
yeah, yeah. The other E. coli. That can be good
38:32
for you. So I'm trying to understand it that
38:37
this... other E. coli could trigger something
38:42
in your body that would then make your body respond
38:46
naturally as if it had a GLP -1 drug in it? Correct.
38:50
Exactly. And that it would not have some of the
38:53
side effects that GLP -1s have. That is... Dude,
38:57
but look, if this... It would be in a pill form,
39:01
so it would be a durable competitor. Although
39:03
there are pills, GLP -1 pills, right? They're
39:06
coming out with those, yeah. But this would then
39:08
be a huge competitor. If the Chinese come up
39:12
with this, dude, it could be a Wagovi killer
39:16
or like an Ozempic killer. Because nobody wants
39:20
to take a shot every week, right? But the GLP
39:24
-1 pills are going to replace the shots in any
39:27
case, right? You think so? Oh, duh. I mean, yeah,
39:31
like next year, nobody's going to be doing these
39:32
shots anymore. People will be doing GLP. They'll
39:35
be doing GLP -1 pills. So the real question is,
39:38
will this thing, if it ever scales up, could
39:42
it become a GLP -1 pill killer? That's the question.
39:46
So if this is something that encourages your
39:50
body to produce its own hormones, right, by triggering
39:54
some receptor, Yeah, obviously that's more natural.
39:58
It's got to be better, right? I mean, rather
39:59
than, like, we've talked about ozempic, like,
40:02
giving you, like, holes in your bones after attending
40:06
youth. Like, this can't be. So, I wonder what
40:08
the side effects of this could there be? I mean,
40:10
I don't know, because if it's a natural, you
40:13
know, like, receptor in your body and it triggers
40:15
that, and what a fascinating discovery by Shanghai.
40:18
It's totally interesting. Let's keep going. Super
40:21
cool. All right. Off to Jeddah. Ha! All right,
40:29
so Saudi Arabia's Jeddah Tower has now reached
40:33
107 floors, roughly 1 ,410 feet. Impressive,
40:38
except the builders are still nowhere near finished.
40:40
The eventual target, more than one kilometer
40:43
high. That's crazy. That's 3 ,280 feet plus.
40:50
So I don't even know... That's over... That is...
40:52
Twice the, isn't that twice the height of the
40:56
Freedom Tower, the World Trade Center? Oh, I
40:59
don't, I think it compares some of it here because
41:01
at some point humanity looked at mountains and
41:03
said, cute, we can do better. When completed,
41:06
so blow it up in Saudi Arabia. I don't know.
41:11
Well, the Saudis want the building to be really
41:13
high because it's a lot of trouble to gut, to
41:17
gut journalists. It's like a fish in a consulate.
41:20
This way you just take people off. Yeah, you
41:22
take people up in an elevator. You just chuck
41:24
them off the observation deck and then they just
41:27
go splat and become like they're like Scrambled
41:30
eggs anyway, that's it. Yeah, they just bake
41:32
they bake in the 125 degree heat the end Well,
41:36
so when completed Jeddah tower will dethrone
41:39
dubai's mere 2717 foot burj khalifa as the tallest
41:45
building in the world plans fall by a lot like
41:49
3200 over about 33, let's say 3 ,300 feet versus
41:54
2 ,700 feet. That's a lot. Plans, call for offices,
42:01
luxury residences, a 200 -room hotel. observation
42:05
areas, a helipad, 59 elevators, and about 5 .7
42:10
million square feet of interior space. Construction
42:14
originally began in 2013, stalled for years at
42:18
the 63rd floor, and finally resumed last year.
42:22
Now the concrete peacock is growing again at
42:25
remarkable speed with completion targeted for
42:28
2028. So the obvious question here, Ted, is Why?
42:32
Because technically, the tower will anchor the
42:35
enormous Jeddah economic city development, helping
42:38
Saudi Arabia attract tourism, investment, international
42:42
business, as the kingdom tries to diversify beyond
42:46
oil. Unofficially, Dubai has the tallest building.
42:50
Saudi Arabia would apparently prefer that Dubai
42:52
used to have the tallest building. There is something
42:55
wonderfully, wonderfully primitive about spending
42:58
billions of dollars on cutting -edge engineering
43:01
to accomplish the architectural equivalent of
43:04
standing on your tiptoes and yelling, I'm taller,
43:07
I'm taller than you. Still, the engineering is
43:11
genuinely extraordinary. At these heights, designers
43:14
have to account for wind loads, building sway,
43:18
material weight and even vertical movement over
43:22
time. And that's why Jeddah Tower matters. It'll
43:25
push skyscraper engineering into genuinely new
43:28
territory. Whether civilization actually needed
43:32
another tall building, one that's like half a
43:37
mile high, remains another question entirely.
43:39
That's why I say, Ted, we file this under the
43:42
why category. Like why, why are we doing this?
43:45
Like, look. The Saudis have all this oil money.
43:49
And I get it. I have a lot of why questions for
43:52
the Saudis. Have you ever traveled to Saudi Arabia?
43:56
I have. Several times. I only have once by accident
43:59
after a Haboub. You were on the Connecticut turnpike
44:03
and you took the wrong turn? Pretty much. A Haboub
44:05
blew in and I just kept following the... I didn't
44:10
know it was my first... sandstorm. I didn't know.
44:14
Sandstorms for people who haven't experienced
44:16
them are incredible. I don't know if I took a
44:21
wrong turn somewhere or whatever, but I ended
44:24
up going from the UAE accidentally into Saudi
44:28
Arabia when all the sand cleared. Then I got
44:32
chased and I just went back the other way into
44:34
my safe zone back to Dubai. Look, the Saudis
44:40
and the Emiratis are like frenemy siblings, maybe
44:47
at the least at cousins, right? Like frenemy
44:49
cousins. I was there when the Burj Khalifa was
44:53
being built. When I left in 2010, it was near
45:02
completion, but then it stalled because they
45:05
ran out of money. and the Saudis bailed them
45:08
out. They like it was supposed to be called something
45:11
else entirely. I forget like the Burj something
45:15
else. It was something something else entirely.
45:17
But then when the Saudis bailed them out and
45:19
helped them finish building the building, that
45:22
became the tallest building in the world. But
45:24
now the Saudis are like, I want in on this tall
45:27
building stuff. I don't know why. But Ted, who's
45:32
going to go? For tourism in Saudi Arabia like
45:37
I get I get I like my my my body non -bonesawed
45:45
I like my body non droned by the Iranians. I
45:50
like my female body being able to get behind
45:54
the wheel of a car without a I think I thought
46:01
they reversed it. I thought they gave it to them
46:03
and then reversed it. I don't know. Is that what
46:04
happened? Yeah, it's a little confusing. Women
46:06
are allowed to drive, but they got to have a
46:08
male chaperone. That's what I'm saying. So I
46:10
don't want my brother. The liberation of Islam
46:15
is complete. So look, they're doing the tourism
46:20
thing. They're trying to build that straight
46:22
one mile strip or whatever the city they're calling
46:25
it, like the strip or something. I don't know
46:26
what they're calling it, but they're basically
46:28
going to build like a Las Vegas strip, right?
46:30
Like everything is on like one monorail that
46:33
goes back and forth all day. Monorail. And they're
46:38
really trying to do what Dubai did. And I saw
46:41
an interesting, I want to say it was a CNBC documentary,
46:45
like a short documentary. uh, where they go talk
46:49
to, um, to Prince Salman, right? About this.
46:55
Um, and Salman, obviously he's a young dude.
46:59
He's like four early forties, I think I want
47:02
to say, right? Like, well, and drinking blood
47:05
does keep you young. He's a millennial. We'll
47:08
say that he's a millennial. He's heir to the
47:09
throne and he's got all these ideas about what
47:13
to do with. the Saudi money in the land. And
47:16
he's moving forward. He doesn't have to wait
47:18
for for pop to die. But but Prince Bonesaw is
47:25
like really going for the gusto with like building
47:29
all the stuff up. But who's going to go there?
47:33
It's one thing to be denied. It might just be
47:35
for I mean, I guess it might be for local consumption,
47:39
but the population of Saudi Arabia is not that
47:40
big. I mean, it's just basically the part that
47:43
I don't get. manila is um what the fuck is there
47:46
to look at from like that high i mean it's saudi
47:50
arabia i mean you've been there there's it's
47:53
it's like literally the landscape is boring okay
47:57
i mean it's scrub and sand right that's it there's
48:02
like nothing to see really it's not like you
48:05
think about like the sears tower or um you know
48:08
Even the Eiffel Tower, which is pretty short
48:11
by comparison. I mean, you know, there's things
48:13
to see. But I mean, what is the point of this?
48:16
Like a big tall building in Beijing, there's
48:18
things to see. It just seems like a complete
48:21
fucking waste. Is he planning for like 40, 50
48:27
years from now that he thinks he's going to have
48:29
a bustling city? Is that? I don't know. He also
48:34
has that weird idea for the line. Yeah, that's
48:37
it. The line. I called it the strip, whatever.
48:40
The line. The line. The strip would actually
48:42
be a better name. He's going to have the monorail.
48:45
That's going to be the monorail. The rail goes
48:46
just back and forth, back and forth. Monorail.
48:50
Sorry. So he's got all these ideas. He's going
48:53
to do, he's investing into building, but who's
48:55
going to live there? Are they trying to do what
48:59
the Emiratis did? I'm going to have to admit,
49:01
I would live in a very, very tall building. I
49:04
just don't want to live anywhere in Saudi Arabia.
49:06
That's what I'm saying. Who does he plant like
49:09
who is he building out these modern cities? I
49:13
mean look part of it is look in fairness a lot
49:17
of times, you know You these are people these
49:20
visionaries and he is a visionary They have this
49:22
build it and they will come mentality and you
49:25
know, like we don't really know what it'll do
49:27
I remember when the Jacob Javits Convention Center
49:29
was planned for New York City New Yorkers thought
49:32
it was a white elephant a boondoggle. They're
49:34
like What the fuck do we need that for? We already
49:37
have the New York Coliseum. But it's used. It's
49:40
a you know, it's used frequently. It's it became
49:42
actually the sort of it's now the center of an
49:47
entirely new neighborhood in New York City called
49:49
Hudson Yards. So it's like there's I mean, things
49:54
can happen. If you look at the original street
49:56
layout of New York City, the street grid of New
49:58
York City, where they decided to put subway stations
50:01
were small streets at the time, those streets
50:05
all became major streets because the subway was
50:08
on those streets and people wanted to be near
50:10
the subway. You build something and sometimes
50:13
people come. If you build it, they will come.
50:16
Sometimes, not always. Like in Turkmenistan,
50:19
sometimes they come. Correct me if I'm wrong,
50:23
as far as I can remember, New York City didn't
50:27
have a law where they are masked killing political
50:32
dissidents. Nope, that's true. We don't do that.
50:35
Even under Mayor Giuliani. By the way, the muggers
50:38
have that as part of their arrangement. So they
50:41
do that. It's not done by the government. There's
50:44
no like mass head chopping happening. No, it's
50:48
strictly privatized. So that's what I'm saying.
50:53
We let the free market take care of the murders.
50:55
That's right. Look, whoever's going to get offed
50:59
in New York City is like It's the capitalist
51:02
way, right? Like only the strong survive. Peter
51:04
Ive has thanks for the dollar says the Jeddah
51:06
Tower looks not unlike the Ryugyong hotel in
51:10
Pyongyang, North Korea, unfinished for over 30
51:12
years. That's the one that looks like the like
51:15
like the bat, right? Like the crazy triangle
51:18
building. You know what I'm talking about. The
51:22
one in Pyongyang, but the Jeddah Tower looks...
51:27
Very much like the one that is on the thumbnail
51:30
like a pointy thing. Yeah. Yeah, the Jetta tower
51:33
space rocket Yeah, that's like sort of how like
51:38
all of those buildings. I mean, it looks like
51:40
a lot of building these days, right? I mean,
51:42
it honestly is like it is a it's it's kind of
51:46
like a well, it's like the it's like the Transamerica
51:52
pyramid in San Francisco. It's that kind of design
51:57
So, I'll say this one last thing and we'll get
51:59
to the last fun story. So, I get that Sheikh
52:08
Mohammed bin Salman is MBS is young and hip and
52:13
whatever. I get it. And he's got all these ideas.
52:18
Oh, he's 40. I just looked it up. Okay, he was
52:20
he's only 40. So he's he's peak millennial peak
52:24
peak. He has a lot more killing to do. God bless
52:27
him. He's he's only 40. He's got all these great
52:31
ideas, but he's got a lot of ideas. But he's
52:36
got look, the thing is, he's the Saudis have
52:39
money burning through the burning a hole in their
52:41
pockets, and they're gonna spend it. That's all.
52:43
And he's he's he's the young shake, right? And,
52:46
and think he's trying to Divert our attention
52:51
from the bone saw stuff divert as one does You
52:56
know, so when you when you have bazillions of
52:58
dollars like shake MBS Then I guess you can try
53:01
to change your image by building You know a big
53:05
phallic symbol in the desert for no exactly So
53:09
there you go. All right last story Okay, last
53:16
story indeed. For three years, conservationists
53:21
in New Zealand were outsmarted by a gray tabby
53:24
cat with the schedule of an international jewel
53:26
thief. They called him nine lives. The feral
53:29
cat first appeared on the Puraria Peninsula in
53:35
2023, shortly after conservationists released
53:37
20 rare Pateki, or brown teal, into the wild.
53:41
Within a week, birds started turning up dead
53:44
and trail cameras ID'd the culprit. Then came
53:49
the hard part, catching the kitty. Nine lives
53:51
had no routine. He'd appear at dusk, midnight,
53:54
dawn, broad daylight. Do cats have routines?
53:56
Oh, cats definitely have routines. Clovis has
53:58
routines. He has very strict routines. Then vanished
54:03
for months. Traps failed. Cameras caught glimpses.
54:07
Conservationists got close, only to watch him
54:09
disappear into the tall grass like a feline Jason
54:13
Bourne. Unfortunately, his talent came with a
54:16
body count. Nine lives is believed to have killed
54:19
dozens of endangered Patekis, about 1 % of the
54:22
species population, along with Kiwi chicks, native
54:25
geckos, and other wildlife. He's a stone cold
54:29
killer, that cat. Finally, in late July, the
54:32
cat made a rare tactical mistake. He came to
54:36
the same place three nights in a row. Conservationists
54:38
moved in with heavy artillery. Salmon, fried
54:42
chicken, and rabbit. They caught him with food.
54:47
On July 30th, He entered a cage, ending one of
54:50
New Zealand Conservation's strangest three -year
54:53
chases. The feral cat was subsequently... What?!
54:56
Euthanized?! Disgusting. A decision that sparked
55:01
criticism from animal lovers. Uh, yeah. They
55:06
killed him? They killed him? Why didn't they
55:08
just fucking give him up for adoption? I mean,
55:11
like, you could just say, like, okay, he has
55:13
to stay indoors. Right. I mean, oh my God, I
55:17
killed him. I guess I didn't finish. They murdered.
55:19
They murderized him. They killed nine lives.
55:22
I wonder if they're afraid that he would stop
55:23
his nine lives. I wonder if they're afraid he
55:26
would kill the human family that adopted him.
55:28
I just see that, you know, like that, that, that
55:31
cat that, that we got after Fernie's unfortunate
55:33
demise. Um, I fully expected one day to wake
55:37
up and have that cat just looking down at me,
55:39
just like, this is your day. You're going to
55:42
die today. They killed the cat. I didn't. I didn't.
55:47
That sits wrong. I mean, the cat's just doing
55:48
his own thing. He's living his own life. He's
55:50
doing what a cat does. That's his job. They killed
55:54
him? Yeah. New Zealand. Shame on you. I want
55:58
to see if there's a picture of him. Shame on
56:02
New Zealand. Oh, there he is. Yeah, there's a
56:04
picture of him. Oh. Oh, he was, well. Oh, well,
56:08
he actually is a pretty fucking gnarly looking
56:11
cat, I got to say. Go put it on the screen, Ted.
56:14
You got to share it. All right. I'm going to
56:17
put it here. Can I just put it up in the chat?
56:20
Can you put it on the screen? Here we go. Sure.
56:28
Yeah, that is a. Mean he's I mean, it's kind
56:33
of like maybe he needed to be No Ted no Based
56:40
on looks alone No, that's like putting down John
56:44
Ossoff because he has big ears. Well, that's
56:47
I would do that. No, no. No. Oh my god. Yeah
56:51
Look at the size of that tail. I mean, it's I
56:54
don't think this is a normal domesticated house
56:57
cat this is some sort of like wild cat. No, that
57:02
can't be. No, I'm looking at a different picture
57:04
from from the Guardian. The Guardian has the
57:08
picture. Yeah, and that's where I got it. He
57:11
looks chubby. He's not like a skinny cat. Well,
57:15
yeah, he ate these fucking rare birds. Yeah,
57:19
I was going to say he's chubby. He's not missing
57:21
any any meals. That's totally the same cat. That's
57:25
him. But the face, the one that you showed in
57:27
our chat, is it is it on there? Hold on. Yeah,
57:30
there is. I'll move him. That looks like a skinny
57:35
face cat. So the one from The Guardian. It's
57:38
just the angle. He's a oh, he's he was an adoptable
57:45
cat. I wonder if he was a looks like he's got
57:48
some bobcat in him. Yeah, I think so, too. Yeah.
57:52
Aw, poor. How could they kill him? He's not just
57:55
a domestic cat. That's awful. I agree with that.
58:01
It is awful. I'm sure he killed a bunch of rare
58:05
birds, Ted. He's not just a tabby. I mean, he's
58:09
not just a tabby. There's something else going
58:11
on. I'm so sad now because I didn't read all
58:15
the way to the end. They shot him. They humanely
58:19
shot him. No, they fucking Christie known him.
58:23
Yeah, they did that according to the Smithsonian
58:26
magazine. Oh I thought we were ending with a
58:32
cute fun fright. No, this is not a cute fun Friday
58:35
story No, I read to the end. I mean, listen I
58:41
say he's the he's the Luigi Mangione of the catwalk
58:44
He was doing he was doing God's work Those those
58:49
birds. Fuck those birds. Fuck those pateke. I
58:55
would have adopted that cat, 100 percent. No,
58:57
I mean, you know, he's a badass. And look, honestly,
59:00
if you have a mouse situation, man, you bring
59:02
that bad boy in there. Forget about it. He's
59:05
cute, chubby, like black and gray striped. He
59:08
looked like that cat. That cat missed no meals.
59:12
You know, he. Well, he caught one percent of
59:15
the pateke. Bird population. There are there's
59:20
there's famous stories about like how like like
59:23
domesticated house cats their death count can
59:25
be extraordinary like British there's British
59:29
shorthairs that have like decimated like the
59:31
songbird population Oh my god, but the birds
59:35
be smarter Rest in peace. Yeah. Well, I mean,
59:38
it's kind of true. It's kind of like guys you
59:40
can fly right like fly away, you know fly What
59:45
the fuck is, what's wrong with you? Why are you
59:47
just sitting around like a toad? Well, I thought
59:51
that was going to be a more fun story. I would
59:52
have adopted that cat too. I thought the ending
59:55
was going to be they caught him and then some
59:57
Kiwi family adopted him and now he's like a reformed
1:00:00
house cat. I gotta say, fuck those conservationists.
1:00:03
They're assholes. Yeah, like, I thought because
1:00:07
they were conservationists, the story was going
1:00:09
to end with them being like nice to nine lives.
1:00:12
They should have trapped him and then offered
1:00:15
him at least give the residents of Christchurch
1:00:21
a chance to adopt him. No, I'm telling you, what
1:00:23
they should have done is caught him, brought
1:00:26
him to New York City, since John has such a large
1:00:28
rat problem, and then let him do what he does
1:00:31
best. Well, that's true. He should have breeded,
1:00:34
had him be a, you know, I'm sure he wasn't fit.
1:00:36
A super predator. You have you just breed with
1:00:39
nine lives and then now you're creating a population
1:00:42
of cats that can like of super hunters Yeah,
1:00:46
like oh What a terrible I'm sorry everyone. I
1:00:49
thought I was putting up I thought the ending
1:00:51
was gonna be oh the conservationist caught him
1:00:53
in the cage and I was like Oh, this is a perfect
1:00:55
Friday story. Happy It's not your it's not your
1:00:59
I mean it is your fault obviously, but They fucking
1:01:04
shot him, no less. They did shoot him. Yeah,
1:01:10
humanely. They shot him humanely. What the fuck
1:01:12
does that mean? No one knows what that means.
1:01:14
Those are just words. The conservationists. Like,
1:01:21
do you hear how absurd that sounds? The conservationists
1:01:25
shot and killed a cat. Well, they're picking
1:01:29
and choosing. you know, which cats get to live
1:01:32
and which cats get to die. Yeah, yeah, that's
1:01:34
how it is. This is one of the reasons why I'm
1:01:37
opposed to eugenics. It's just that you're picking
1:01:42
and choosing like sort of the criticism that
1:01:45
conservatives make of government, like you're
1:01:47
picking winners and losers. I think we have an
1:01:50
Aussie in the house. I think McCaden is an Aussie
1:01:53
and McCaden says kiwis consider cats pests, though.
1:01:58
What? Really? Really? The Kiwis don't like cats?
1:02:06
It's like how Arabs hate dogs, man. They hate
1:02:11
them. It's like in Turkey, cats are everywhere.
1:02:13
Cats are gods in Turkey. Really? Do the Kiwis
1:02:16
hate cats? Special thanks to Ray, our Santa Claus
1:02:21
over a rumble, for gifting the five subs. Yes,
1:02:25
thank you, Ray. Thank you, Ray. Doc McPherson
1:02:27
says from the Guardian story, New Zealand has
1:02:30
one of the highest rates of cat ownership in
1:02:32
the world. Huh. All right. Well, then I don't
1:02:36
know why they didn't bother to fucking have this
1:02:38
cat be added to that. Nine lives adopted. I think
1:02:42
I might have said, like, look, you got it. That
1:02:44
cat's got to be transitioned to kibble from now
1:02:46
on. But, you know. Oh, horrible. Anyway, well,
1:02:50
sorry. What a way to end Friday. Well, Friday.
1:02:56
Maybe it was just temperament. Maybe he was just
1:02:58
too mean to conform. He's just like, no, this
1:03:00
is what, this is who I am. I'm not going to change.
1:03:05
Just say unrepentant murder and just say, no,
1:03:09
I will not comply with your demands. I choose
1:03:12
death. So he's like Mel Gibson. you think the
1:03:21
little the lefty the environmental like dudes
1:03:25
were like like they asked they asked him like
1:03:28
dude we need you to chill man and he's like we
1:03:32
need you to stop eating the pateki no can do
1:03:35
pateki's on the menu i'm on don't call me anything
1:03:39
you want but don't call me late for dinner i'm
1:03:42
there i don't know maybe he's just maybe he's
1:03:47
just too mean for the humans you're just like
1:03:49
This is just not going to comply. And he just
1:03:51
said, no, I choose, I choose death over conformity.
1:03:55
It's like, I'm coming. It's like, oh no, Patek,
1:03:58
I'm coming for you next bitch. Fucking conservative.
1:04:03
It's kind of like your grandfather's comrades
1:04:07
in the French resistance. What would have happened
1:04:08
if the Germans captured them? Are you going to
1:04:10
reform? Are you going to stop? Will you stop
1:04:12
doing this? They're going to say no, this cat.
1:04:14
Nine lives spat in their faces. He's like, live
1:04:20
free or die. Right. He sprayed and was like,
1:04:23
fuck you, kill me then. Like I go to my death.
1:04:28
I give up. I will go to death like my ancestors.
1:04:32
Proud. I give my ninth life. I'm going to die
1:04:35
the way I lived with my stomach full of fatachis.
1:04:41
With like the blood of the Patecki smeared all
1:04:44
over my muzzle. Since we're ending on a terrible
1:04:49
ending anyway, I'm going to add another terrible
1:04:52
ending to the follow up to the Jason R. Day story
1:04:54
that the day after we talked about it, Ted, last
1:04:58
Friday, I think, right? The next day that weird
1:05:02
Cambridge professor dude, Jason R. Day, with
1:05:06
the, you know, running a hundred marathons in
1:05:08
like 10 days or whatever he said he did. He,
1:05:11
you know, bye -bye'd. He took the forever bye
1:05:17
-bye. He did. Yeah, he did. By the way, the Patecki,
1:05:22
by the way, this is hilarious. The Patecki is
1:05:25
actually, no wonder it couldn't escape the cat.
1:05:29
It is, this is hilarious. This is the description.
1:05:31
It is a species of dabbling duck. that can barely
1:05:37
fly. So, you know, the cat just wanders over.
1:05:42
He's like, dinner is served. So it's like a modern
1:05:46
day dodo. It's a duck. It's a dumb duck. It's
1:05:52
a silly duck. Well, there you go. There you go.
1:05:56
A weird guy chose his own way out after being
1:05:59
caught, I would say. But, you know, he did have
1:06:02
the crazy eyes. And nine lives went out the way
1:06:05
he lived, I guess. He died the way he... He wasn't
1:06:10
gonna be anything but nine lives. No, he's like,
1:06:14
that duck, it tastes good. And that's... It's
1:06:18
like, in right now... I'm gonna pry it from my
1:06:20
cold dead paws. In cat heaven, he has all the
1:06:24
patechi he wants. Well, there you go. So, two
1:06:29
deaths. that I wasn't expecting. Well, the Jason
1:06:33
R. Day thing is we talked about it on D program.
1:06:35
It's ugly what happened there. But yeah, but
1:06:39
Ted, we knew he had the crazy eyes. He did have
1:06:42
crazy eyes. That's true. Yeah, me and JT had
1:06:44
a good back and forth about him. You're going
1:06:49
to have to tell me off air because we're out
1:06:51
of time. But anyway, happy weekend, everybody.
1:06:53
You can watch it. It's just like a two minute
1:06:55
blur, maybe like a 30 minute back and forth about
1:06:58
race and everything. Listen, you know me. Oh,
1:07:01
I know. And I know JT too. So happy Friday. Happy
1:07:05
weekend, everybody. Sorry. Sorry to end the story
1:07:09
with. Q &A show, 12 noon. People want you to
1:07:14
come on to the Q &A show. They have questions
1:07:17
for you. Yeah, why don't you come over? I can't,
1:07:20
because I have my gig. All right. All right,
1:07:23
go do your gig. And children. School starts Monday.
1:07:27
I know also about your habit of hunting pateque,
1:07:30
so stop it. And I'm trying to grow my own population
1:07:35
of pateque in my backyard. Rare duck bird. They
1:07:40
can't fly. Yeah, useless. Even ducks can fly.
1:07:45
All right, bye. Bye, y 'all.