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Ep. 107: Trump Gave America Measles · The Opinionated Ogre Podcast

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SPEAKER_01: We're sorry about the noise, y'all, but the apartment above his is being worked on.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah, if you can hear that,
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SPEAKER_00: they are hammering away in the kitchen right above,
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SPEAKER_00: like the kitchen's behind me,
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SPEAKER_00: and they're hammering away in the kitchen in the apartment above me,
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SPEAKER_00: so that's what you get to listen to today.
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SPEAKER_00: You're so lucky.
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SPEAKER_00: That sounds like a good kind of story.
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SPEAKER_00: This is The Opinionated Ogre Podcast,
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SPEAKER_00: a bit of foul language, and a lot of strong opinions.
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SPEAKER_00: I am your podcast host, The Opinionated Ogre, and this is my co-host, Florida Woman.
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SPEAKER_01: Hello, Florida Woman.
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SPEAKER_01: Good morning, everybody.
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SPEAKER_00: So I have to know,
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SPEAKER_00: are you good and properly terrified of the dreaded communist revolution,
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SPEAKER_00: revolution, communism, that's taking over the Democratic Party?
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SPEAKER_01: If it means that potholes are going to get fixed in my streets
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SPEAKER_01: and maybe there won't be food deserts, I don't think so.
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SPEAKER_01: But communism, communism.
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SPEAKER_01: No, you know.
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SPEAKER_00: You're not afraid of communism?
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SPEAKER_01: Always some kind of ism.
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SPEAKER_00: I know, Jesus Christ.
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SPEAKER_00: It's just, I was talking to my stepmother-in-law, Mrs. Ogre's stepmother.
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SPEAKER_00: That's the non-Trumpy one.
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SPEAKER_00: And she was talking about, well, I don't know about these democratic social people.
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SPEAKER_00: And I was like, oh, Jesus, here we go.
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SPEAKER_00: So we had a 20-minute conversation about that.
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SPEAKER_00: And it's like...
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SPEAKER_00: It's a whole thing because one of them went on Fox News and talking
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SPEAKER_00: about how they're going to get rid of the Supreme Court and they're going to get rid
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SPEAKER_00: of the Senate.
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SPEAKER_00: And I was like, I feel like that's not exactly how the conversation went.
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SPEAKER_00: I have to go watch the interview and I don't know who this person is.
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SPEAKER_00: She's supposed to be one of the national chairs.
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SPEAKER_00: I'm like, yeah, but she's not a Democrat.
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SPEAKER_00: So who cares what she has to say?
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SPEAKER_00: Anyone can be a democratic socialist.
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SPEAKER_00: It doesn't mean she gets to tell them what to do.
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SPEAKER_00: She's not in charge of Zoran Mamdani.
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SPEAKER_01: Wait, she was talking about the person from
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SPEAKER_00: New York?
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah, Megan Romer, I
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SPEAKER_01: think her name is.
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SPEAKER_00: Oh, you know.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah, no, not that other one.
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SPEAKER_00: That other one's like...
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SPEAKER_00: It's crazy.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah, no, she's got some issues.
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SPEAKER_00: But it's like some of them are assholes.
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SPEAKER_00: Some of them are not.
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SPEAKER_00: A lot of them are not.
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SPEAKER_00: So it's like just,
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SPEAKER_00: you know,
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SPEAKER_00: just they're going to they're going to look for the craziest people and tell you.
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SPEAKER_00: Amplify them.
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SPEAKER_00: Right.
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SPEAKER_01: That's what they always do.
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SPEAKER_00: Right.
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SPEAKER_00: And why are they doing that?
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SPEAKER_00: Because that's the point.
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SPEAKER_00: That is the entire point of it.
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SPEAKER_00: It's like maybe maybe not, you know, rely on the word of Fox News.
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SPEAKER_00: Well, you know, that interview.
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SPEAKER_01: Right.
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SPEAKER_01: And that's also how AOC got so powerful her first year.
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SPEAKER_01: And I love AOC.
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SPEAKER_01: But, you know,
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SPEAKER_01: when she was a first year freshman congressman,
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SPEAKER_01: she didn't have that much power or congresswoman.
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SPEAKER_01: She didn't have that much power.
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SPEAKER_01: But listening to Fox News, you would have thought that she was Nancy Pelosi.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_00: They just kept screaming.
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SPEAKER_00: She's, oh, my God, she's the face of these entire Democratic Party.
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SPEAKER_00: It's like, well, she's not.
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SPEAKER_00: But, you know, she was smart enough to capitalize on it and did something good with it.
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SPEAKER_00: It was like, well, good for you.
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SPEAKER_01: Brilliant.
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SPEAKER_00: All right.
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SPEAKER_00: This is the recording for July 30th,
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SPEAKER_00: 2026, and we have a lot to get to on episode 107 of the Ockpod.
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SPEAKER_00: We ready to do this?
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SPEAKER_01: Yes.
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SPEAKER_00: Woo!
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SPEAKER_00: Then let's get to it.
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SPEAKER_00: It's time for the Ogre Nation news update.
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SPEAKER_01: Roar!
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SPEAKER_01: So once upon a time,
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SPEAKER_01: the Republican Party was really,
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SPEAKER_01: really, really mad at President Obama for weaponizing the IRS.
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SPEAKER_01: They claimed the 44th president ordered the agency
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SPEAKER_01: to target conservative organizations for increased scrutiny.
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SPEAKER_01: After many hearings and lots of screaming in the press,
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SPEAKER_01: the Treasury Department's Inspector General,
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SPEAKER_01: during Trump's first term,
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SPEAKER_01: released a report that revealed the Obama IRS used both Democratic
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SPEAKER_01: and Republican-related keywords to target political organizations on both sides of
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SPEAKER_01: the aisle for further scrutiny.
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SPEAKER_01: Because he didn't think that, you know, political groups should be breaking the tax law.
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SPEAKER_01: So scary.
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SPEAKER_01: Then there was the whole Russian scandal.
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SPEAKER_01: After years of investigations,
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SPEAKER_01: including a special counsel ordered by President Trump 1.0 and carried out
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SPEAKER_01: by Robert Mueller,
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SPEAKER_01: evidence showed the allegation that the Obama admin led
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SPEAKER_01: a political witch hunt turned out to be a big old lie as well.
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SPEAKER_00: No.
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SPEAKER_01: So obviously when we learned this week that the Trump regime is targeting states
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SPEAKER_01: that voted for Kamala Harris, we weren't surprised at all.
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SPEAKER_01: After all, as we always say, every Republican accusation is a confession.
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SPEAKER_00: Every single time.
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SPEAKER_01: And actually there was a real confession this time in a July 15th filing in
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SPEAKER_01: a class action lawsuit that was challenging the Trump regime's cuts
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SPEAKER_01: to clean energy projects.
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SPEAKER_01: So you might recall,
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SPEAKER_01: but last year,
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SPEAKER_01: Trump's Department of Energy sent a list of 624 grants to the Office of Management
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SPEAKER_01: and Budget, which is headed by, what is his name?
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SPEAKER_00: Russell Vogt.
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SPEAKER_01: Russell Vogt,
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SPEAKER_01: one of the writers of the Project 2025 blueprint for destroying our
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SPEAKER_00: fucking country.
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SPEAKER_00: He is a true piece of shit.
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SPEAKER_01: True piece of shit.
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SPEAKER_01: So they sent a list of 624 grants to that guy.
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SPEAKER_01: And recommended that they be canceled because they were four recipients in states
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SPEAKER_01: where Kamala Harris won in 2024.
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SPEAKER_01: Almost 300 of those grants were later terminated.
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SPEAKER_01: So in the July filing,
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SPEAKER_01: the Department of Energy said it, quote,
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SPEAKER_01: accepts that the inclusion of grants in the October notice tranche was based solely
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SPEAKER_01: on the political identity of the grant recipient state, i.e.
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SPEAKER_01: whether the recipient's location and or place of performance was in a blue state or
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SPEAKER_01: a non-blue state.
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SPEAKER_00: That's just amazing.
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SPEAKER_00: I just love how they just say it out loud because- Why not?
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SPEAKER_00: Who cares?
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SPEAKER_00: Who's going to do something about it?
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SPEAKER_01: Right.
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SPEAKER_01: They always say the quiet part out loud.
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SPEAKER_01: Jeff Novak,
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SPEAKER_01: the agency's Principal Deputy General Counsel,
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SPEAKER_01: verified that with one exception, Quote,
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SPEAKER_01: the 284 terminated grants had a recipient location and or at least one place
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SPEAKER_01: of performance in a state that awarded its electoral votes to Kamala Harris in
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SPEAKER_01: the 2024 election and has two Democratic caucusing senators.
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SPEAKER_01: Now, we would like you to take note of the silence from the media about this.
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SPEAKER_01: Sure, it was on their websites,
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SPEAKER_01: but there was no wall-to-wall coverage of it on cable news network like there was
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SPEAKER_01: the IRS scandal.
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SPEAKER_00: Yep, that went on for months.
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SPEAKER_01: I mean, Dr. Fauci is testifying today about COVID.
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SPEAKER_01: Right now, as we speak, he's in the Senate testifying.
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SPEAKER_00: It's been five fucking years.
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SPEAKER_01: Yes.
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SPEAKER_01: And every time I open up my phone, guess what I see?
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SPEAKER_01: Dr. Fauci testifying in the Senate.
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SPEAKER_01: And in fact,
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SPEAKER_01: I would wager that Obama's tan suit received more coverage than Trump weaponizing
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SPEAKER_01: the government against blue states.
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SPEAKER_01: Instead of focusing on the actual weaponization,
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SPEAKER_01: the main story over the weekend was about Trump's sad performance at
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SPEAKER_01: the White House Correspondents' Dinner,
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SPEAKER_01: which I don't know about you, but I didn't even know that it was happening again.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I didn't know it happened until after it was done.
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SPEAKER_01: Until after there was wall-to-wall coverage about it.
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SPEAKER_01: Not the weaponization of the U.S. government against blue states.
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SPEAKER_01: Not the federal government attacking states.
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SPEAKER_00: Like openly declaring economic warfare on half of the country.
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SPEAKER_01: Right.
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SPEAKER_01: It was about Donald Trump's speech at the White House Correspondents' Dinner.
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SPEAKER_01: Like, guess what, guys?
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SPEAKER_01: That guy talks all the time.
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SPEAKER_01: We don't give a fuck.
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SPEAKER_01: As Marshawn Lynch once said, that motherfucker says a lot of shit.
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SPEAKER_01: So you know who else is being super, super quiet?
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SPEAKER_01: Ogre's favorite free speech crusaders, Matt Taibbi and Glenn Greenwald.
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SPEAKER_00: Wait, you mean the greatest crusaders against anti-government corruption in all
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SPEAKER_00: of American history?
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah, not a peep.
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SPEAKER_00: Oh, wow.
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SPEAKER_00: That's so weird.
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SPEAKER_01: Now, in an ordinary political climate, this would be the main story for weeks.
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SPEAKER_01: We wouldn't be able to escape this story.
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SPEAKER_01: It would be on every single news screen.
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SPEAKER_01: It would be in the newspapers.
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SPEAKER_01: It would be the front page.
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SPEAKER_00: Yep.
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SPEAKER_00: It would be constant.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah, but not in this America.
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SPEAKER_01: In this America,
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SPEAKER_01: attacking Democrats for nothing burgers is way more profitable than calling out
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SPEAKER_01: the actual weaponization of the federal government.
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SPEAKER_01: As we always say, Republicans are not held to a lower standard.
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SPEAKER_01: They are held to no standard at all.
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SPEAKER_00: It's un-fucking-believable with these people.
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SPEAKER_00: Now, as we enter the sixth month,
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SPEAKER_00: six months,
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SPEAKER_00: Fucking months of Trump's two-week war,
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SPEAKER_00: which is illegal,
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SPEAKER_00: unnecessary,
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SPEAKER_00: unwanted, and still going five months and two weeks after we fucking lost it.
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SPEAKER_00: We were on our third or fourth or tenth pause in hostilities,
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SPEAKER_00: but that ended yesterday when Iran launched a bunch of missiles at American forces
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SPEAKER_00: and we responded.
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SPEAKER_00: I had a joke about not knowing how many ceasefires and pauses that we've had,
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SPEAKER_00: but it was like a whole little bit ahead,
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SPEAKER_00: but it kind of seems pointless at the moment.
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SPEAKER_00: So I'll save it for the fifth or sixth or maybe seventh ceasefire or pause,
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SPEAKER_00: which will come in the next week or so.
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SPEAKER_00: Who fucking knows?
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SPEAKER_01: I saw a joke that said nobody's ever won as many wars as Donald Trump.
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SPEAKER_01: How many times has he beaten Iran?
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SPEAKER_01: Like 40, 50 times now.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I think Hunter Biden made a joke about that.
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SPEAKER_00: It's like he deserves a Nobel Peace Prize.
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SPEAKER_00: He's ended the war with Iran more than anyone else,
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SPEAKER_00: more wars with Iran than anyone has ever had in all of history.
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SPEAKER_01: That's exactly what it was.
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SPEAKER_01: That's who said it.
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SPEAKER_00: On our side,
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SPEAKER_00: we wanted to stop bombing,
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SPEAKER_00: at least partially, because it's still not working, right?
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SPEAKER_00: We've been at this for months, and it's not working at all.
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SPEAKER_00: Missiles and bombs are not enough to break the Iranian government.
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SPEAKER_00: A full ground invasion might,
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SPEAKER_00: but that would cost trillions of dollars,
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SPEAKER_00: cost thousands,
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SPEAKER_00: and I mean thousands of American troops their lives, and it would take Years.
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SPEAKER_00: Like we're talking way longer than we were in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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SPEAKER_00: But maybe if we were looking at another two years
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SPEAKER_00: of bombing them incessantly nonstop, the Iranian government might give in.
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SPEAKER_00: But they're not looking at that.
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SPEAKER_00: They've made it clear they're waiting for Democrats to win in November.
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SPEAKER_00: And they're because they know that Democrats are going to going to apply
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SPEAKER_00: to Maximum pressure on Trump to stop his illegal war.
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SPEAKER_00: Now, you may think to yourself,
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SPEAKER_00: I'm sure people on the right are going to say,
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SPEAKER_00: well, that sounds like Iran's using the war to influence our elections.
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SPEAKER_00: I would like to remind those people that both Russia and Israel did the same thing
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SPEAKER_00: in 2024 to put Trump back into power so all of those people can go fuck themselves.
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SPEAKER_00: Now, a larger part of the war is that we no longer have We literally no longer have
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SPEAKER_00: the weapons to sustain an active campaign.
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SPEAKER_00: The regime's blaming this on Biden,
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SPEAKER_00: but we weren't sending these kinds of long-range weapons to Ukraine,
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SPEAKER_00: and we weren't using them in any real capacity during Biden's time in office.
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SPEAKER_00: Trump, however,
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SPEAKER_00: recklessly spent our long-range missiles like water in the first several weeks
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SPEAKER_00: of his two-week war,
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SPEAKER_00: The idea was so much shock and awe hitting 13,000 targets in rapid succession that
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SPEAKER_00: the Iranian government was
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SPEAKER_00: That didn't fucking work because it was never going to work.
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SPEAKER_00: They've been preparing for this exact type of war for 50 plus years.
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SPEAKER_00: So we blew our wad and now we can either keep lobbying missiles
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SPEAKER_00: and deplete our stock or maintain what we have in case war breaks out somewhere else
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SPEAKER_00: in this newly belligerent global disorder that Trump has created.
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SPEAKER_00: Trump really, really wants to break Iran because...
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SPEAKER_00: He doesn't understand the meaning of the word no, which is why he's raped so many women.
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SPEAKER_01: Allegedly.
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SPEAKER_00: And he can't be seen to be a loser, right?
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SPEAKER_00: Because he's a strong man.
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SPEAKER_00: A strong man can't be a loser.
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SPEAKER_00: But I guarantee even his most bloodthirsty generals...
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SPEAKER_00: And Lindsey Graham, who's dead now.
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SPEAKER_00: But they're telling them how risky it is to go all in on a single war and blow all
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SPEAKER_00: of our missile stock when there's countries like China waiting
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SPEAKER_00: to do whatever they want to do,
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SPEAKER_00: knowing that we no longer have the capacity to step in and get in their way.
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SPEAKER_00: We're going to see.
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SPEAKER_00: On that note, Trump and Netanyahu...
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SPEAKER_00: Met for the first time since the war started a couple of days ago.
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SPEAKER_00: And Netanyahu was the dick who talked Trump into starting the war in the first place.
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SPEAKER_00: Did Trump abuse the shit out of him for lying and pressure and now he's trying
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SPEAKER_00: to pressure Israel to back down?
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SPEAKER_00: Don't be silly.
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SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
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SPEAKER_00: Did Netanyahu convince the dying senior citizen with advanced dementia to escalate the war?
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SPEAKER_00: We don't know.
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SPEAKER_00: No details have been released.
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SPEAKER_00: The meeting was called Positive and protective, but that's all we know.
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SPEAKER_00: And this is where I remind you that this is supposed to be the most transparent government ever.
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SPEAKER_00: Yep, totally true.
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SPEAKER_01: Isn't it interesting how the other presidents before him would provide readouts
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SPEAKER_01: from these meetings?
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah, or just have them semi-public or have cameras.
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SPEAKER_00: But nothing, right?
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SPEAKER_00: We don't get to know anything that they're saying to each other
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SPEAKER_00: because Trump's incoherent and he doesn't want to seem like a fucking drooling idiot
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SPEAKER_00: in front of everybody else.
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SPEAKER_01: Right.
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SPEAKER_00: Now, way back in March on episode 89,
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SPEAKER_00: we talked about how Russia was supplying Iran with satellite imagery
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SPEAKER_00: because it was supposed to be this huge scandal.
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SPEAKER_00: Well, that's back in the news again because Ukraine has definitive proof of it.
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SPEAKER_00: But again, This is not a scandal in and of itself.
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SPEAKER_00: This is what we talked about back in March.
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SPEAKER_00: Russia and Iran have been military allies pretty much my entire life.
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SPEAKER_00: This is going back to the 70s.
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SPEAKER_00: Of course they're going to provide Iran with tactical aid.
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SPEAKER_00: That's not the question here.
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SPEAKER_00: The real scandal is that Donald Trump continues to lick Trump.
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SPEAKER_00: Putin's boots while Putin is directly helping get American troops killed.
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SPEAKER_00: That's the problem.
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SPEAKER_00: Here's the question.
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SPEAKER_00: How much longer is Trump going to be able to keep licking those Russian jackboots?
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SPEAKER_00: Dead Americans are extremely unpopular with Americans, I know, it's so fucking weird.
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SPEAKER_00: And knowing Russia's directly responsible
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SPEAKER_00: for getting help getting them killed is going to make Russia really,
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SPEAKER_00: really unpopular with the murk crowd, right?
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SPEAKER_00: You know, even the ones who lap up tons and tons of Kremlin propaganda.
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SPEAKER_00: What's going to happen there?
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SPEAKER_00: Especially since Russian money doesn't go nearly as far as it used to.
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SPEAKER_00: This is something we're going to discuss later in headlines.
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SPEAKER_00: Trump doesn't like to be associated with losers and this war,
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SPEAKER_00: like Russia's losing their war and our war is dragging Trump down.
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SPEAKER_00: How much more negative attention can he take?
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SPEAKER_00: Speaking of negative attention,
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SPEAKER_00: one last bit of vileness from this fucking disgusting trash heap of regime.
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SPEAKER_00: Last week we talked about how the Pentagon was hiding the number of wounded from
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SPEAKER_00: the public and lying about it when caught.
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SPEAKER_00: They managed to make it worse.
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SPEAKER_00: They escalated in the most disgusting way possible.
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SPEAKER_00: They started to fudge the number of service members killed.
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SPEAKER_00: They reduced it from 18 to 14.
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SPEAKER_00: And the lie behind this was that the ceasefire was in place, so it didn't count.
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SPEAKER_00: Their families would beg to differ.
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SPEAKER_00: And after being caught like no one was going to notice this and
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SPEAKER_00: the public screaming bloody murder about it,
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SPEAKER_00: the Pentagon changed the number back to 18.
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SPEAKER_00: But then they dropped it back down to 14 because
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SPEAKER_00: the four most recent deaths were overseas actions instead of having something to do
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SPEAKER_00: with Trump's illegal idiot war.
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SPEAKER_00: And it's hard to describe just how fucking repulsive this is.
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SPEAKER_00: The idea that they're playing semantics with the dead just to protect Trump's ego is
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SPEAKER_00: about as offensive as it gets.
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SPEAKER_00: Like we talked about last week,
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SPEAKER_00: when there's a sane person who doesn't shit in the diaper and their president
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SPEAKER_00: in 2029, everyone involved in this has to be fired.
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SPEAKER_00: The military has to be purged of all the people who bent the knee to this moral rot.
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SPEAKER_00: They cannot be kept in positions.
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SPEAKER_00: It cannot be.
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SPEAKER_00: They had a choice and they chose wrong,
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SPEAKER_00: which means they are no longer worthy to wear the fucking uniform
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SPEAKER_00: and represent this country.
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SPEAKER_00: They can just all fuck off into the sun and that is it for them.
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SPEAKER_00: All right.
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SPEAKER_00: Let us move on to our favorite, favorite segment.
19:21
SPEAKER_00: I scream, you scream.
19:23
SPEAKER_00: We all scream because of fucking ice.
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SPEAKER_01: I shouldn't laugh, but I always do every time.
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SPEAKER_01: So a few days after ICE agents murdered Lorenzo Silgado Araujo in Houston,
19:40
SPEAKER_01: the Department of Homeland Security attempted to smear the father of three.
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SPEAKER_01: The federal government released information about the FBI seeking a search warrant
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SPEAKER_01: to seize plastic bags that contained crystal-like substances on the dashboard
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SPEAKER_01: of his van.
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SPEAKER_01: And they released pictures of the crystal-like substance, too.
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SPEAKER_01: And it didn't.
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SPEAKER_00: Shocking.
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SPEAKER_01: Predictably, it was nonsense.
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SPEAKER_01: On Friday,
20:07
SPEAKER_01: the office of Harris County District Attorney Sean Tear revealed the tests on
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SPEAKER_01: the substances in a row hose van were negative for narcotics.
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SPEAKER_01: Further, the DA notified the victim's family because they felt it was the right thing to do.
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SPEAKER_00: Ooh, fucking ICE must be so fucking mad about that.
20:25
SPEAKER_01: Oh, yeah.
20:26
SPEAKER_00: I'm surprised they're not trying to,
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SPEAKER_00: like, arrest people for interfering with a federal investigation.
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SPEAKER_01: Blah, blah, Well, David Donati,
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SPEAKER_01: an ACLU lawyer representing the victim's family,
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SPEAKER_01: told the media that the Trump regime was,
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SPEAKER_01: quote, more interested in creating a false narrative than seeking the truth.
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SPEAKER_01: He went on to say, quote, the search has now proven that the Salgado family...
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SPEAKER_01: What the Salgado family has said all along,
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SPEAKER_01: Lorenzo was a hardworking man who made homes for Houston families.
20:56
SPEAKER_00: Now, you said there's pictures?
20:58
SPEAKER_01: There are.
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SPEAKER_01: And the family said that the substance was like an electrolyte, a homemade electrolyte thing.
21:08
SPEAKER_01: It was lemon with salt,
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SPEAKER_01: which makes sense because I don't know if any of you have been to Houston.
21:13
SPEAKER_01: I have.
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SPEAKER_01: It's very, very hot.
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SPEAKER_01: It's just like Florida.
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SPEAKER_01: So when you're working on houses, you're sweating a lot.
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SPEAKER_01: And one of the problems when you're sweating a lot is that you're losing your electrolytes.
21:23
SPEAKER_01: Right.
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SPEAKER_01: And if you lose too much salt, even if you're drinking water, you're going to be dehydrated.
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SPEAKER_01: So they would make their own homemade electrolyte solution so they wouldn't become dehydrated.
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SPEAKER_00: So basically,
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SPEAKER_00: I wrote in the notes that if it turns out to be sugar or salt packets or something,
21:41
SPEAKER_00: so obviously not drug, and it turns out it literally was sugar and salt.
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SPEAKER_01: Yes, exactly.
21:47
SPEAKER_01: Exactly.
21:48
SPEAKER_00: Wow.
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SPEAKER_00: Okay.
21:50
SPEAKER_00: That's really fucking impressive.
21:52
SPEAKER_00: Which means these guys knew they were not looking at fucking crystal meth.
21:56
SPEAKER_00: I have not had a lot of experience with hard drugs.
21:59
SPEAKER_00: I don't know what crystal meth looks like.
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SPEAKER_00: I've only watched Breaking Bad.
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SPEAKER_00: Don't know how accurate it is.
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SPEAKER_00: I feel like if I was in law enforcement though,
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SPEAKER_00: I would be able to tell the difference between sugar and salt and fucking meth.
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SPEAKER_00: I feel like I would have some idea that there was a difference.
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SPEAKER_00: But let's say I'm still really bad at my job.
22:19
SPEAKER_00: I still feel like I would probably test it before I opened my fucking mouth about it.
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SPEAKER_00: And they knew,
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SPEAKER_00: they knew this guy probably didn't have bags of fucking crystal meth sitting
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SPEAKER_00: on his dashboard.
22:31
SPEAKER_00: But they had to say it anyway.
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SPEAKER_00: So when...
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SPEAKER_00: All this is done,
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SPEAKER_00: and again,
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SPEAKER_00: we have real fucking people in office,
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SPEAKER_00: and we have real fucking serious people running our fucking law enforcement.
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SPEAKER_00: Again, everyone involved has to be removed and brought up on fraud charges.
22:50
SPEAKER_00: Examples have to be fucking made that we will no longer tolerate this kind
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SPEAKER_00: of bullshit from law enforcement.
22:56
SPEAKER_00: No more sprinkle crack on the dead guy and hope no one looks too closely.
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SPEAKER_00: None of this shit.
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SPEAKER_00: That's got to fucking end.
23:02
SPEAKER_00: Nuremberg them all.
23:04
SPEAKER_01: Nuremberg them all.
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SPEAKER_00: Nuremberg them all.
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SPEAKER_00: Now, Juan Jairo Coronilla Duran was killed the same week as Araujo,
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SPEAKER_00: and he was in a vehicle that was surrounded by ICE agents in St. Augustine, Florida.
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SPEAKER_00: Terrified of the mass armed agents surrounding the vehicle that he was in,
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SPEAKER_00: the 28-year-old tried to run, and he was struck by a semi-truck, and he died.
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SPEAKER_01: And remember we told you that the semi-truck driver got out of his vehicle
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SPEAKER_01: and performed aid on the victim.
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SPEAKER_00: Right, while the ICE agents just sit there and were like, yeah, whatever, who gives a shit.
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SPEAKER_00: We're now learning that the deceased victim was not an undocumented immigrant
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SPEAKER_00: who was fleeing ICE agents like the DHS narrative would have me believe.
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SPEAKER_00: Instead, he was a visitor to the U.S. on a valid tourist visa.
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SPEAKER_00: Coronio Duran had traveled to Atlanta from Mexico to visit his family.
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SPEAKER_00: He stayed in Georgia for three weeks.
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SPEAKER_00: Then he went to Florida to visit the beaches because Florida has nice beaches,
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SPEAKER_00: even though the rest of the state's a hellhole.
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SPEAKER_00: Sorry, you live there, but you know this.
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SPEAKER_00: St. Augustine is the oldest town in the United States, and it's a hotspot for tourists.
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SPEAKER_00: Instead of visiting the beaches and historic buildings,
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SPEAKER_00: this guy died in the middle of a busy street.
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SPEAKER_00: But why did he run if he was here legally and hasn't broken any laws?
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SPEAKER_00: He should have obeyed the officers and he should have complied.
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SPEAKER_00: Why did he act like a criminal?
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SPEAKER_00: Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
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SPEAKER_00: Because ICE doesn't give a fuck.
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SPEAKER_00: They don't fucking care.
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SPEAKER_00: Stephen Miller's Gestapo does not obey the law.
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SPEAKER_00: They don't respect civil rights or human rights.
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SPEAKER_00: It's a white nationalist death squad whose mandate is to terrorize brown people.
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SPEAKER_00: They hunt, kidnap, and disappear anyone they want.
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SPEAKER_00: And the people, they do not disappear.
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SPEAKER_00: They either beat to a pulp or kill,
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SPEAKER_00: and then they lie about being attacked because they know for
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SPEAKER_00: a fact they will never face fucking accountability.
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SPEAKER_00: Everyone knows this.
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SPEAKER_00: We see it on the news every single day.
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SPEAKER_00: The entire world sees it.
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SPEAKER_00: They know we have roaming mass death squads like any number of third world shitholes
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SPEAKER_00: that are being run by scared little men clinging to power.
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SPEAKER_00: In what universe would Koronea Duran not run from literal bloodthirsty Nazis?
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SPEAKER_00: Why would he ever trust them not to kill him or disappear him into
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SPEAKER_00: a concentration camp to collect a bounty or illegally dump him in another country
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SPEAKER_00: where he would be tortured for money?
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SPEAKER_00: The only sane response is to run or stand your ground
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SPEAKER_00: against unidentified masked men and open fire because who knows who they really are.
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SPEAKER_00: Now, am I advocating for shooting federal officers?
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SPEAKER_00: No, I'm advocating for the people to use the twisted Second Amendment rights and
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SPEAKER_00: the laws that Republicans have forced the rest of us to live with.
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SPEAKER_00: May you and yours be the victims of policies and don't come fucking crying to me
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SPEAKER_00: about it, you little puttas.
26:19
SPEAKER_01: Let me just say that, so yesterday my husband came home and he was kind of irritated, right?
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SPEAKER_01: And he was like, hey,
26:26
SPEAKER_01: I need you to check the car insurance because we had accidentally put it for
26:32
SPEAKER_01: the wrong bank account when we bought it because we bought new insurance
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SPEAKER_01: because our old insurance was too expensive.
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SPEAKER_01: He's like,
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SPEAKER_01: I need you to make sure that it's coming out of the right account
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SPEAKER_01: because I don't want to get pulled over and murdered by fucking ICE.
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SPEAKER_01: And I was like, yikes.
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SPEAKER_01: Okay, babe, let me go do it.
26:51
SPEAKER_01: But that is the reality of living in this country right now or visiting this country
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SPEAKER_01: as an immigrant.
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SPEAKER_00: Yep.
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SPEAKER_00: You're taking your life with your hands just by being here
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SPEAKER_00: because they're fucking murdering death squads.
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SPEAKER_00: They're racist murdering death squads.
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SPEAKER_00: It is now time for headlines for short attention span.
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SPEAKER_01: So Secretary Whaleblood claimed...
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SPEAKER_00: He claimed he wanted to make America healthy,
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SPEAKER_01: but it should come as no surprise that we couldn't take the dude who swims in feces
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SPEAKER_01: and snorts cocaine off of toilet seats seriously.
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SPEAKER_01: Last week,
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SPEAKER_01: the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,
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SPEAKER_01: the CDC, announced that there have been 2,318 recorded cases of measles this year.
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SPEAKER_01: The recorded part is important because we know that there are pockets of people
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SPEAKER_01: who don't report illnesses to the local health officials or even bother
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SPEAKER_01: to get tested, like the Amish, for example.
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SPEAKER_00: And there's also people who don't even realize they have measles.
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SPEAKER_00: Like if they have a mild case.
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SPEAKER_00: Absolutely.
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SPEAKER_00: Because, I mean, not for nothing, measles is not – well, it wasn't.
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SPEAKER_00: Like it hasn't been a common disease in this country in decades.
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SPEAKER_00: Most people don't recognize it when they have it.
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SPEAKER_00: Like why would they?
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SPEAKER_01: I know.
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SPEAKER_01: I keep thinking about the scene from ER,
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SPEAKER_01: you know, 30 years ago where Noah Wiley's character was like, is that measles?
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SPEAKER_01: No, that can't be measles.
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SPEAKER_01: It's been eradicated.
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SPEAKER_01: And now on the pit, it's like...
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SPEAKER_01: They did a whole episode where it was like, oh no, a measles case.
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SPEAKER_01: It was just normal.
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SPEAKER_01: So anyway, the new number exceeds the 2,200 cases that we saw last year.
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SPEAKER_01: That means the last two years of measles cases are more than what we saw from
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SPEAKER_01: the years 2000 to 2024 combined.
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SPEAKER_00: That's fucking impressive.
28:45
SPEAKER_00: That's fucking impressive.
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SPEAKER_00: Over two decades worth of disease, not having disease, just wiped out.
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SPEAKER_00: Thanks, Republicans.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_01: Obviously,
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SPEAKER_01: the reduced vaccination rates are the reason for the skyrocketing cases,
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SPEAKER_01: like all of those crunchy moms who,
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SPEAKER_01: you know,
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SPEAKER_01: don't give their kids vaccines but take breast milk from each other on the internet
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SPEAKER_01: without getting it tested.
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SPEAKER_01: But RFK Jr.
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SPEAKER_01: has done nothing but fearmonger about vaccines,
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SPEAKER_01: which is not helping, especially with his HHS secretary.
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SPEAKER_01: And it's unlikely that he's going to do a single thing to reverse course,
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SPEAKER_01: which means that more kids are going to get sick and die.
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SPEAKER_01: And remember,
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SPEAKER_01: we previously mentioned a case where a child died like nine years
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SPEAKER_01: after he contracted the measles from an always
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SPEAKER_01: So none of this is particularly surprising.
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SPEAKER_01: Unfortunately, it's playing out exactly as we predicted.
29:56
SPEAKER_00: And I don't know if I've ever mentioned this on the podcast.
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SPEAKER_00: I probably have, but it's been a while.
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SPEAKER_00: I wrote back in 2017,
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SPEAKER_00: I think,
30:09
SPEAKER_00: long before COVID popped up,
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SPEAKER_00: that when people were starting to ask about Baron Trump being autistic,
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SPEAKER_00: that we needed to not talk about that.
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SPEAKER_00: Yes, I remember this.
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SPEAKER_00: Yep.
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SPEAKER_00: And the reason I said do not talk about this is because if we forced Donald Trump
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SPEAKER_00: To admit that his son was autistic,
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SPEAKER_00: he would never admit that it was like,
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SPEAKER_00: you know, because of genetics, something like that.
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SPEAKER_00: He would blame it on vaccine.
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SPEAKER_00: And my fear, and I was very explicit about this, is that...
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SPEAKER_00: If he blamed it on vaccine, it would give a huge boost to the anti-vaxxer movement.
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SPEAKER_00: And if the rights picked up the anti-vaxxer torch, because they hadn't done that at the time.
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SPEAKER_00: Back in 2017,
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SPEAKER_00: anti-vaxxerism was mostly a left-wing,
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SPEAKER_00: like a, you know, crunchy granola mom thing, right?
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SPEAKER_01: That was when crunchy granola moms were on our side.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah, that was the crunchy granola moms on the left.
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SPEAKER_00: They hadn't penetrated into the right yet.
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SPEAKER_00: I mean, there was a little bit of it, but not much.
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SPEAKER_00: And I was very, very explicit about this.
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SPEAKER_00: If the right picks up anti-vaxxerism, they will realize exactly how potent a weapon it is.
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SPEAKER_00: And they will go all in on it.
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SPEAKER_00: And when COVID came around and they started talking about the COVID vaccine,
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SPEAKER_00: I was very, very explicit.
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SPEAKER_00: They're not going to stop with the COVID vaccine.
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SPEAKER_00: They're going to generalize it to all vaccines because it's really, really potent.
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SPEAKER_00: And not for nothing, Republicans are a fucking death cult.
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SPEAKER_00: If they can get people sick and dying...
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SPEAKER_00: They will do it at every opportunity.
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SPEAKER_00: And I'm surprised it hadn't occurred to them decades ago to go all in on anti-vaxxer.
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SPEAKER_00: Here we are in 2026, and it's exactly what I was afraid of.
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SPEAKER_00: It's exactly what I saw coming.
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SPEAKER_00: Decade ago.
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SPEAKER_00: And no one believed me.
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SPEAKER_00: No one thought this would happen because what the fuck do I know, right?
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SPEAKER_00: I'm just some schmuck on the internet writing articles.
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SPEAKER_00: I'm like, do you not understand who these fucking people are?
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SPEAKER_00: If their leaders tell them vaccines are bad,
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SPEAKER_00: they will stop taking vaccines and they will let their children die
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SPEAKER_00: because they don't care.
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SPEAKER_00: Because they'll do it just to own the libs.
32:37
SPEAKER_00: Like we've we've told you stories about parents who lost one of their children and
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SPEAKER_00: then said it was God's will and I'm not going to vaccinate my other children.
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SPEAKER_00: But really what they're saying is they're doing it to own the libs because
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SPEAKER_00: the libs say the liberal elite say vaccines are good.
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SPEAKER_00: Therefore, I will not vaccinate my children.
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SPEAKER_00: And if they all die, that's God's will.
32:59
SPEAKER_00: It's God's will.
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SPEAKER_00: That's so weird.
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SPEAKER_00: All right, let us move on.
33:04
SPEAKER_00: Hey, you may have noticed gas prices are on the rise again.
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SPEAKER_00: I don't know why.
33:08
SPEAKER_00: Oh, wait, yes, I do.
33:10
SPEAKER_00: We're back at war with Iran and the Strait of Hormuz is closed again.
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SPEAKER_00: So naturally,
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SPEAKER_00: the affordability has decided that the way to lower prices for
33:19
SPEAKER_00: the American people is by making trade easy.
33:21
SPEAKER_00: Just kidding.
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SPEAKER_00: Measles was roasting my brain.
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SPEAKER_00: Instead of making life more affordable,
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SPEAKER_00: the dipshit squatting in the White House has decided to start his trade war again.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_00: Right before the midterms.
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SPEAKER_00: It's a nightmare scenario for the GOP because they're already dealing with
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SPEAKER_00: the ramifications of an unpopular in Iran,
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SPEAKER_00: dead American tourist members,
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SPEAKER_00: increased health care costs, gas prices, and so on and so on and so on.
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SPEAKER_00: Mark Short,
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SPEAKER_00: Mike Pence's former chief of staff,
34:17
SPEAKER_00: said, quote, this is going to be punishing for Republicans politically.
34:21
SPEAKER_00: And he's right.
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SPEAKER_00: A YouGov poll found that 46 26%
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SPEAKER_00: of respondents says Trump tariffs policies have increased prices a lot.
34:29
SPEAKER_00: And 26% said it's increased prices a little.
34:33
SPEAKER_00: So that's 72% of respondents who have admitted that Trump has made their lives more expensive.
34:38
SPEAKER_00: And we're still haven't gotten to all the really nasty stuff yet.
34:43
SPEAKER_00: I know we keep talking about this,
34:44
SPEAKER_00: but man,
34:45
SPEAKER_00: when it hits, you're going to be like, oh, that's what they've been talking about.
34:49
SPEAKER_01: And we hope it doesn't happen.
34:51
SPEAKER_00: I mean, it'd be great if I would love to be wrong, right?
34:53
SPEAKER_00: I mean, like I would love for the American economy to be robust enough
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SPEAKER_00: that it doesn't explode and we don't end up looking at a great recession to make
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SPEAKER_00: the last one look like a cakewalk.
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SPEAKER_00: Great.
35:06
SPEAKER_00: Wonderful.
35:06
SPEAKER_00: Trump's still going to lose.
35:08
SPEAKER_00: The Republicans are still going to lose.
35:10
SPEAKER_00: But millions of people wouldn't get tossed out of their jobs and lose their homes.
35:13
SPEAKER_00: Awesome.
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SPEAKER_00: That would be great.
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SPEAKER_00: I would be the first to be like, Fuck yes, I was wrong.
35:18
SPEAKER_00: Booyah.
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SPEAKER_00: But I'm pretty sure that's not going to happen.
35:20
SPEAKER_00: Anyway, while Trump is busy fucking up the midterms for Republicans,
35:24
SPEAKER_00: he's also taking aim at the 2028 election and helping us.
35:29
SPEAKER_00: He's an I'm sorry.
35:30
SPEAKER_00: No, no.
35:31
SPEAKER_00: I don't know what the fuck.
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SPEAKER_00: He's announced that there will be 100% tariff on generic drugs imported
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SPEAKER_00: from overseas beginning in the summer of 2028,
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SPEAKER_00: meaning that he's going to cause drug prices to skyrocket right
35:44
SPEAKER_00: before Americans head to the polls to elect the next president, who will not be J.D.
35:49
SPEAKER_00: Vance, and it will not be.
35:50
SPEAKER_00: I have no idea what's going through that corroded,
35:54
SPEAKER_00: syphilitic, dimension-riddled mind of his, but sure, go for it.
35:59
SPEAKER_00: Have fun.
35:59
SPEAKER_01: Well, we saw this coming a mile away.
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SPEAKER_01: Last week,
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SPEAKER_01: Texas GOP Senator John Cornyn,
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SPEAKER_01: one of the senators that Trump pushed out of office,
36:08
SPEAKER_01: or as we like to say,
36:09
SPEAKER_01: a member of the YOLO caucus, decided he was going to get his liquor.
36:15
SPEAKER_01: Now remember,
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SPEAKER_01: we talked about the possibility
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SPEAKER_01: of these lawmakers using what little power they have left to mess with Trump.
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SPEAKER_01: It seems that's exactly what he did.
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SPEAKER_01: Cornyn told Semaphore that he intended to hold up the nominations of Carrie Lake
36:30
SPEAKER_01: for Ambassador of Jamaica and Doug Mastriano as the Ambassador of Slovakia unless
36:38
SPEAKER_01: the regime passed or released the money that was earmocked for
36:42
SPEAKER_01: the President's Emergency Plan for Aid Relief, PEPFAR.
36:45
SPEAKER_01: That's the program to battle AIDS across the globe.
36:48
SPEAKER_01: It was wildly popular when it was implemented by George W.
36:51
SPEAKER_01: Bush and has received bipartisan support over the last two decades except for
36:58
SPEAKER_01: from Trump 2.0.
37:00
SPEAKER_00: And just real quick here, George W. Bush, absolute fucking monster.
37:06
SPEAKER_00: But some part of his brain really deeply understood that preventing the spread
37:12
SPEAKER_00: of disease overseas meant not having to deal with it here.
37:17
SPEAKER_00: Exactly.
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SPEAKER_00: He was actually as bad as he was on so many other things.
37:23
SPEAKER_00: That was one of the things he was actually like,
37:25
SPEAKER_00: yeah, you know, blah, blah, blah, Republican this, Republican that.
37:29
SPEAKER_00: But if we keep that from happening,
37:31
SPEAKER_00: if we keep it from happening there, that means we don't have to.
37:34
SPEAKER_00: Like he was good about that.
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SPEAKER_00: He was good about that with Ebola and just general diseases in general.
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SPEAKER_00: He put effort and money into keeping diseases from spreading in other countries
37:45
SPEAKER_00: because he understood the concept that viruses do not care about borders.
37:52
SPEAKER_00: He was like, we'll stop the diseases.
37:54
SPEAKER_00: We're going to still bomb those motherfuckers, though.
37:57
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it's so weird how,
37:59
SPEAKER_00: because, I mean,
38:01
SPEAKER_00: he was an idiot,
38:02
SPEAKER_00: and yet somehow Republicans managed to get even stupider since then.
38:06
SPEAKER_00: The Republican Party just keeps getting dumber with each iteration,
38:11
SPEAKER_00: which makes me really,
38:12
SPEAKER_00: really worried about how fucking stupid they're going to be in 10 years.
38:17
SPEAKER_00: Like, we're going to be a full-scale idiocracy.
38:19
SPEAKER_01: I think we're already there.
38:21
SPEAKER_01: So Trump heeded Cornyn's warning and released the funding.
38:25
SPEAKER_01: I suppose that Cornyn deserves a little bit of credit for this,
38:28
SPEAKER_01: but really he had no problem hurting people for years in the name of
38:31
SPEAKER_01: the Republican Party, so fuck him.
38:33
SPEAKER_01: And to be clear, this was $270 million dollars.
38:35
SPEAKER_01: We can't afford to feed kids.
38:37
SPEAKER_01: We can't afford to help senior citizens.
38:38
SPEAKER_01: We can't afford to save millions of lives overseas.
39:03
SPEAKER_00: Man, we need that $1.5 trillion for the military.
39:07
SPEAKER_01: Also, he's about to renovate the golf course in D.C. that the public uses.
39:12
SPEAKER_01: And I heard that he might even try to cut down the cherry trees, which would be really bad.
39:17
SPEAKER_00: Anastasia asked me about that.
39:19
SPEAKER_00: I haven't found anything to substantiate that.
39:22
SPEAKER_01: No, I read a whole article about it two weeks ago from a major news organization.
39:28
SPEAKER_00: Okay, so that's a real thing?
39:29
SPEAKER_00: You'll have to send me a link for that because she asked me about that like
39:32
SPEAKER_00: a month ago and I couldn't find anything about it.
39:36
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I think it's because he wants to redo the golf course so people are concerned
39:42
SPEAKER_01: that he might cut down the cherry trees because he wants to make
39:45
SPEAKER_01: a national championship level golf course.
39:50
SPEAKER_00: Oh, so he wants to make it not public anymore?
39:52
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I'm not really sure how that's going to work.
39:55
SPEAKER_00: All right, let us move on.
39:57
SPEAKER_00: We have a very important question that we really need an answer for.
40:01
SPEAKER_00: Is Mitch McConnell sucking Satan's dick in hell?
40:04
SPEAKER_00: The real one, not Donald Trump?
40:06
SPEAKER_00: Is he still alive and plotting how to dismantle our democracy?
40:09
SPEAKER_00: It's hard to tell.
40:11
SPEAKER_00: What we do know is that the world-famous Supreme Court seat thief fell six weeks ago
40:16
SPEAKER_00: and He has not been seen in public since.
40:19
SPEAKER_00: His team won't allow anyone to visit him in hospital,
40:22
SPEAKER_00: although he has released two proof of life pictures that are extremely unconvincing
40:27
SPEAKER_00: because his hair is the wrong color.
40:29
SPEAKER_00: He looks healthier than he did three months ago.
40:32
SPEAKER_00: It's like that's not generally how people who are suffering from a severe injury in
40:37
SPEAKER_00: a hospital, you don't generally look better.
40:40
SPEAKER_01: Can I also just say,
40:41
SPEAKER_01: if you have to,
40:42
SPEAKER_01: if you have to release proof of life pictures,
40:45
SPEAKER_01: like maybe that's just a problem in and of itself.
40:49
SPEAKER_00: It's been suggested repeatedly because that he's suffering some kind of aphasia
40:53
SPEAKER_00: where like he can't speak properly because he had a stroke or something happened
40:59
SPEAKER_00: to him.
40:59
SPEAKER_00: Because if he was actually fine, he would have released a video.
41:03
SPEAKER_00: He would have had,
41:04
SPEAKER_00: like he would just would have had someone put a camera in front of him and say,
41:07
SPEAKER_00: yeah, I'm fine.
41:09
SPEAKER_00: I'm just recuperating.
41:10
SPEAKER_00: I'm still having trouble with walking, but I'm still fine.
41:13
SPEAKER_00: I'm still cognitively here.
41:15
SPEAKER_00: If he was cognitively competent,
41:18
SPEAKER_00: they would have released a video by now just to stop the speculation.
41:21
SPEAKER_00: And they haven't, which tells you there's something wrong with him.
41:26
SPEAKER_01: Right.
41:26
SPEAKER_01: And I mean, even if he had a stroke, it's not like we haven't been through that before.
41:29
SPEAKER_01: Fetterman, we all rallied behind him.
41:32
SPEAKER_01: So he could be like, hey, I had a stroke.
41:34
SPEAKER_01: I'm recovering.
41:35
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, but he's 84 years old.
41:36
SPEAKER_00: You generally don't recover that much of a stroke.
41:39
SPEAKER_01: The fact that they're not releasing a video is really disturbing.
41:43
SPEAKER_00: Now, Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear has repeatedly demanded to speak to the senator,
41:49
SPEAKER_00: and they won't let him.
41:50
SPEAKER_00: Again, that tells you something.
41:53
SPEAKER_00: All they need to have is one Democrat walk in the room and say, hey, how you doing, Mitch?
41:56
SPEAKER_00: Oh, I'm fine.
41:57
SPEAKER_00: Oh, yeah, you good?
41:59
SPEAKER_00: Food's good?
41:59
SPEAKER_00: You're comfortable?
42:00
SPEAKER_00: You're recovering?
42:01
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, just have a five-minute conversation and walk back out and say, yeah, no, he can talk.
42:06
SPEAKER_00: He's fine.
42:07
SPEAKER_00: He's, you know, He's frail, he's old, but he's 84.
42:10
SPEAKER_00: What do you want?
42:10
SPEAKER_00: That's half of our Congress.
42:12
SPEAKER_00: But they will not allow it.
42:13
SPEAKER_00: They will not allow it.
42:15
SPEAKER_00: Now, he was supposed to attend a fancy farm event.
42:20
SPEAKER_00: It's a political event.
42:21
SPEAKER_00: It's very popular in Kentucky.
42:23
SPEAKER_00: He's been to it for the last 40 years.
42:26
SPEAKER_00: But he's not going this time.
42:28
SPEAKER_00: And we're a little sad about that because we were really hoping for a weekend
42:31
SPEAKER_00: at Bernie's thing where they were just kind of moving his body around for him.
42:33
SPEAKER_00: What are you going to do?
42:34
SPEAKER_00: This whole thing is absolutely bullshit.
42:36
SPEAKER_00: Now, I'm of two minds of this.
42:38
SPEAKER_00: Now, originally,
42:39
SPEAKER_00: I was thinking they should just call the special election because they can
42:46
SPEAKER_00: and have voted in statewide Democrats, right?
42:51
SPEAKER_00: Their governor is a Democrat.
42:53
SPEAKER_00: On the other hand, they haven't had a Democratic senator since before I was alive.
42:58
SPEAKER_00: So, or I think so.
43:00
SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
43:01
SPEAKER_00: It's been decades.
43:02
SPEAKER_00: So maybe not.
43:04
SPEAKER_00: But at this point,
43:06
SPEAKER_00: with Mitch McConnell out of the picture,
43:08
SPEAKER_00: that's just one less vote that Republicans have in the Senate.
43:12
SPEAKER_00: Hi, Bob.
43:15
SPEAKER_00: If Mitch McConnell is going to be out of commission for the next four,
43:19
SPEAKER_00: five, six months because he can't speak and they don't.
43:23
SPEAKER_00: They don't want to say that,
43:24
SPEAKER_00: you know,
43:25
SPEAKER_00: he's incompetent or he's physically incapacitated or mentally incapacitated.
43:29
SPEAKER_00: Great.
43:29
SPEAKER_00: Fine.
43:30
SPEAKER_00: He'll just be a blank seat that Republicans cannot use because you can't vote and not be there.
43:37
SPEAKER_00: They made that very specific.
43:39
SPEAKER_00: He can't vote in absentia.
43:41
SPEAKER_00: So now they're down to 52 votes.
43:43
SPEAKER_00: Oh, well.
43:44
SPEAKER_00: Crazy.
43:46
SPEAKER_01: So Trump has a real hard-on for the Smithsonian,
43:49
SPEAKER_01: because he,
43:50
SPEAKER_01: like all little fascists,
43:52
SPEAKER_01: thinks it's really important to hide as much of the country's history as possible.
43:57
SPEAKER_01: And after Republicans did his bidding and lost their collective shits over hats
44:01
SPEAKER_01: that said, Latina power, right?
44:05
SPEAKER_01: The Tin Pot Dictator in the White House signed an executive order requiring
44:09
SPEAKER_01: the government to place new signage outside of the National Museum
44:13
SPEAKER_01: of American History.
44:14
SPEAKER_01: The executive order states that the signs, quote, shall notify visitors.
44:18
SPEAKER_01: The report claimed the museum focused too much on injustices that happened
44:22
SPEAKER_01: in America and not enough on its triumphs.
44:34
SPEAKER_01: Some of the displays that the regime takes issue with is a paper mache Statue
44:39
SPEAKER_01: of Liberty carrying a basket of tomatoes and her arm is raised with a tomato
44:44
SPEAKER_01: in it like the Statue of Liberty's torch.
44:47
SPEAKER_01: That's in a section of the museum that celebrates immigrants.
44:50
SPEAKER_01: They're also super, super angry about the mentions of white supremacy and slavery.
44:55
SPEAKER_01: Now, why would they get mad about that?
44:57
SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
44:58
SPEAKER_00: That's just so weird.
45:00
SPEAKER_01: The signs will also direct visitors of where to go get their Trump-washed American history.
45:06
SPEAKER_01: And I'd just like to add that if you haven't been to
45:08
SPEAKER_01: the Smithsonian's American History Museum, I highly, highly recommend visiting it.
45:15
SPEAKER_01: My husband and I went there in 2023.
45:18
SPEAKER_01: I've talked about this before.
45:19
SPEAKER_01: I was supposed to go to the Holocaust Museum,
45:21
SPEAKER_01: but I couldn't find the parking lot for the Holocaust Museum.
45:23
SPEAKER_01: So I gave up and just parked in front of there and picked a museum to go to.
45:28
SPEAKER_01: And we spent hours looking at the exhibits.
45:31
SPEAKER_01: Not only does it have American history,
45:35
SPEAKER_01: it has this whole room that has all of the campaigns and the buttons and slogans.
45:43
SPEAKER_01: There's TVs of the debates playing.
45:46
SPEAKER_01: It also has a really cool section that has American film and music history.
45:53
SPEAKER_01: And it includes Prince's guitar, Selena stuff.
46:00
SPEAKER_01: It's really, really cool.
46:02
SPEAKER_01: You can spend hours there.
46:03
SPEAKER_01: I highly recommend going.
46:05
SPEAKER_00: You haven't been to the African-American Museum yet, right?
46:07
SPEAKER_01: I have not.
46:08
SPEAKER_01: I've been to – every time I go, I try – because, you know, I'm not there for that long.
46:12
SPEAKER_01: So I try to hit one museum.
46:14
SPEAKER_01: And you know how it is.
46:14
SPEAKER_01: Like it takes hours to go through them.
46:17
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
46:17
SPEAKER_00: That one is brutal.
46:19
SPEAKER_00: It's really good.
46:20
SPEAKER_00: But, man, it's distressing.
46:22
SPEAKER_00: The bottom floor is super distressing.
46:25
SPEAKER_01: Well, you know, the first time I went to D.C. was right when that opened.
46:30
SPEAKER_01: So you couldn't get tickets to it at all.
46:32
SPEAKER_01: Oh, yeah.
46:32
SPEAKER_00: No, it was impossible to get in for like the first year.
46:35
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
46:35
SPEAKER_01: And then when I went back, you know, it was when I was sick.
46:39
SPEAKER_01: So I just I literally just parked and went into whatever I could find.
46:43
SPEAKER_01: But I will say that there's another museum in Baltimore and I was going to drive
46:47
SPEAKER_01: to it one time when I was in D.C. and it's also an African-American.
46:50
SPEAKER_01: African-American History Museum.
46:52
SPEAKER_01: And my friend Derek was like,
46:53
SPEAKER_01: oh yeah,
46:53
SPEAKER_01: you should go to Baltimore because it's only like two hours away and go see
46:57
SPEAKER_01: the African-American Museum there.
46:58
SPEAKER_01: He said that the basement includes all of these relics of slavery that includes like
47:04
SPEAKER_01: the torture devices that they used.
47:06
SPEAKER_00: Oh, they did that in Baltimore too?
47:08
SPEAKER_01: Yes.
47:09
SPEAKER_01: So is that what's in the African-American Museum?
47:11
SPEAKER_00: Yep.
47:11
SPEAKER_00: The entire bottom two floors.
47:14
SPEAKER_00: Well, it's one floor, but it's just really large.
47:16
SPEAKER_01: They have an older museum in Baltimore that has that.
47:19
SPEAKER_00: All right, let us move on.
47:21
SPEAKER_00: This is our future under climate change that doesn't exist, remember.
47:26
SPEAKER_00: In the last 10 to 15 years, most of us should be familiar with the term dome.
47:31
SPEAKER_00: If you're a little fuzzy on the details,
47:33
SPEAKER_00: what happens is This is a high-pressure system that locks into place over an area
47:38
SPEAKER_00: and traps hot air underneath it.
47:41
SPEAKER_00: The heat literally bakes the ground so much that clouds cannot form,
47:47
SPEAKER_00: so the dome prevents It also traps pollution like exhaust and,
47:52
SPEAKER_00: yes, smoke from wildfires.
47:53
SPEAKER_00: So the air quality will degrade if the dome lasts long enough.
48:12
SPEAKER_00: Or happens to form in the path of a smoke cloud,
48:14
SPEAKER_00: like the ones that we've been getting from Canada.
48:16
SPEAKER_00: Isn't that fun?
48:17
SPEAKER_00: Heat domes have become increasingly common,
48:20
SPEAKER_00: even as the climate hasn't changed in the slightest, according to Republicans.
48:24
SPEAKER_00: It's weird, though,
48:24
SPEAKER_00: because the Midwest, where lots of Republicans live, keeps getting hit the hardest.
48:30
SPEAKER_00: From the Gulf Coast to the Great Plains,
48:32
SPEAKER_00: right now,
48:33
SPEAKER_00: millions of Republicans are being subjected to 100 plus degrees of Whether as
48:38
SPEAKER_00: a third heat dome just in July is sending temperatures through the fucking roof.
48:45
SPEAKER_00: But this is what they voted for.
48:48
SPEAKER_00: And it sucks that so many innocent people are trapped in their man-made hell with them.
48:52
SPEAKER_00: But we offer every Republican gasping for breath the liberals.
48:57
SPEAKER_00: May you and yours be the victims of your idea.
49:00
SPEAKER_01: That makes so much sense because remember I walked outside this morning
49:04
SPEAKER_01: and I came back in and I told you that I was that I was really hot.
49:07
SPEAKER_01: Or did I tell you that?
49:08
SPEAKER_00: No.
49:09
SPEAKER_01: Oh, and then I was like and then I was trying to get comfortable again.
49:11
SPEAKER_01: And I was like so hot.
49:14
SPEAKER_01: You guys can probably see a fan behind me.
49:15
SPEAKER_01: I'm like, it's so hot outside.
49:17
SPEAKER_01: It's so fucking humid.
49:20
SPEAKER_00: I don't know if you guys are stuck with the heat dump,
49:22
SPEAKER_00: but man, it is hitting a huge chunk of the country.
49:24
SPEAKER_01: Well, the thing is, is like our temperatures aren't super high.
49:28
SPEAKER_01: Like right now it's 85 because it's been raining a lot.
49:30
SPEAKER_01: So probably not.
49:32
SPEAKER_01: But it is just so humid outside.
49:34
SPEAKER_01: It's very disgusting.
49:36
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, no, if you have rain, you do not have a heat, though.
49:39
SPEAKER_01: 010, do not recommend.
49:42
SPEAKER_01: And you know,
49:44
SPEAKER_01: because you live in the South,
49:45
SPEAKER_01: too, nobody can convince me that our summers are not getting hotter.
49:49
SPEAKER_00: Oh, they obviously are.
49:51
SPEAKER_01: I mean, it is so fucking hot.
49:53
SPEAKER_00: Every year they talk about, well, I mean,
49:54
SPEAKER_00: not so far,
49:55
SPEAKER_00: not here anyway,
49:56
SPEAKER_00: but like every year they talk about the new records are being broken.
49:59
SPEAKER_00: It's like, well, that doesn't happen in a vacuum.
50:01
SPEAKER_01: No, it's so bad.
50:02
SPEAKER_01: Well, onto our LOL of the week.
50:04
SPEAKER_01: Russia's paid propaganda stooges are jumping ship.
50:09
SPEAKER_01: Remember Laura Loomer, the one rumored to be a very special friend of Donald Trump?
50:14
SPEAKER_01: Well, she was also a very special friend to Russia,
50:19
SPEAKER_01: constantly spewing Kremlin talking points,
50:21
SPEAKER_01: so much so that she might as well have been reading them verbatim in
50:25
SPEAKER_01: the original Russian.
50:27
SPEAKER_01: Anyways, that was then, this is now.
50:30
SPEAKER_01: Russia, you see, is not doing too well these days.
50:32
SPEAKER_01: Aww.
50:33
SPEAKER_01: Aww.
50:34
SPEAKER_01: They're losing the war they started with Ukraine.
50:36
SPEAKER_01: You know, the one that they were supposed to win in a week.
50:38
SPEAKER_01: And their economy is imploding because Ukraine has been systematically targeting
50:42
SPEAKER_01: and crippling their oil and commercial infrastructure.
50:48
SPEAKER_01: I guess the checks have stopped coming in because Loomer and a bunch
50:51
SPEAKER_01: of other far-right influencers have suddenly discovered that Russia was
50:55
SPEAKER_01: the bad guy all along.
50:57
SPEAKER_01: Shocking.
50:59
SPEAKER_01: Can you even invade a country anymore without being called the bad guy?
51:03
SPEAKER_00: Only if you're America.
51:05
SPEAKER_01: That's true.
51:06
SPEAKER_01: Which is another way of saying that if you don't pay your puppets,
51:11
SPEAKER_01: they switch to the side that's winning and drop you like one
51:15
SPEAKER_01: of Trump's crusty diapers.
51:25
SPEAKER_00: You're such a nerd.
51:26
SPEAKER_00: Yes, I am.
51:27
SPEAKER_01: And then on to some good news for the week.
51:29
SPEAKER_01: The courts continue to block Trump's efforts to rat fuck the midterms,
51:33
SPEAKER_01: the ones that he's really trying to fuck up with his inflation
51:37
SPEAKER_01: and rising gas prices.
51:39
SPEAKER_01: Nonetheless.
51:40
SPEAKER_01: On Saturday,
51:41
SPEAKER_01: a three-judge panel on the First Circuit Court of Appeals rejected
51:45
SPEAKER_01: the regime's request to lift an injection from a lower court that prohibited them
51:51
SPEAKER_01: from tightening the rules for mail-in voting in 23 states.
51:55
SPEAKER_01: The lower court found parts of Trump's executive order to implement
51:59
SPEAKER_01: the new rules were unconstitutional.
52:02
SPEAKER_01: Now,
52:03
SPEAKER_01: the DOJ argued that the Democratic-led lawsuit against the EO was premature because
52:09
SPEAKER_01: the regime hadn't yet finalized policies to implement the new rules,
52:13
SPEAKER_01: but the judges rejected that argument,
52:16
SPEAKER_01: writing, quote,
52:17
SPEAKER_01: As the district court reasoned,
52:19
SPEAKER_01: the executive order lays out a clear set of rapidly approaching deadlines by
52:25
SPEAKER_01: which states must coordinate with federal officials and comply
52:29
SPEAKER_01: with new voting procedures, all while the states must In other words, nah.
52:50
SPEAKER_00: And they're trying to run to the Supreme Court to have them overturn it
52:59
SPEAKER_00: and just like force states to do what the federal government says.
53:02
SPEAKER_00: But I don't know.
53:03
SPEAKER_00: I don't even know.
53:04
SPEAKER_00: I don't know if – There's if there's five votes on even the Supreme Court
53:09
SPEAKER_00: to just I mean,
53:10
SPEAKER_00: I know they'll ignore the Constitution for a lot of stuff,
53:12
SPEAKER_00: but just to say, oh, yeah,
53:14
SPEAKER_00: no, the federal government cannot control, you know, state controlled elections.
53:18
SPEAKER_00: That's really tricky for them,
53:20
SPEAKER_00: because once they say, yes,
53:22
SPEAKER_00: the federal government has control over state elections,
53:25
SPEAKER_00: they're going to have to turn around later and say, well,
53:26
SPEAKER_00: actually,
53:27
SPEAKER_00: we only meant Republican federal government,
53:29
SPEAKER_00: because if the Democrats get into power again,
53:32
SPEAKER_00: They have control over state elections and Republicans cannot afford that ever
53:38
SPEAKER_00: under any circumstances.
53:39
SPEAKER_00: So I don't know.
53:41
SPEAKER_00: I don't think I don't think the Supreme Court's going to do this.
53:43
SPEAKER_01: Also,
53:43
SPEAKER_01: don't they have to don't they have to like appeal to the full First Circuit Court
53:49
SPEAKER_01: of Appeals before they can go to the Supreme Court?
53:51
SPEAKER_01: Is that how it works?
53:52
SPEAKER_00: Well, yeah, but the Supreme Court's been short-circuiting that constantly.
53:55
SPEAKER_00: The Republicans will just skip all of that and be like, well,
53:58
SPEAKER_00: we need to get this done right now in order to help the regime,
54:00
SPEAKER_00: so we're just going to skip all over that.
54:02
SPEAKER_01: Well, that is not ideal.
54:04
SPEAKER_00: All right.
54:04
SPEAKER_00: So here's some other good news.
54:06
SPEAKER_00: A fun story about Pete Kegger Hegseth shooting himself in the dick, his tiny steroid.
54:11
SPEAKER_01: We love that for him.
54:13
SPEAKER_00: If you recall,
54:15
SPEAKER_00: Hegseth and his master,
54:16
SPEAKER_00: Donald Trump,
54:17
SPEAKER_00: fired the military's trans service members because something,
54:20
SPEAKER_00: something,
54:20
SPEAKER_00: we can't afford to pay for their mental care with our $1.5 trillion budget.
54:24
SPEAKER_00: Hormone replacement therapy was just out of the question.
54:27
SPEAKER_00: But you will also recall that last week we mentioned good old PDG's plan to pump up
54:32
SPEAKER_00: the troops with testosterone.
54:34
SPEAKER_00: And another name for that is hormone replacement therapy.
54:39
SPEAKER_01: Oh, I didn't even think about that.
54:41
SPEAKER_00: Neither did I until someone mentioned it.
54:42
SPEAKER_00: I was just like, goddamn.
54:44
SPEAKER_00: Now, Judge Ana Reyes,
54:45
SPEAKER_00: who is presiding over the lawsuit that several trans service members have brought
54:48
SPEAKER_00: against the military,
54:49
SPEAKER_00: has ordered the Department of Defense to explain the difference
54:52
SPEAKER_00: between hormone replacement therapy for delusional Fox News swilling morons
54:57
SPEAKER_00: and hormone replacement therapy for trans men.
55:00
SPEAKER_00: No doubt that conversation is going to go amazingly well.
55:04
SPEAKER_00: So good luck, Petey, you dumb fuck.
55:06
SPEAKER_01: That is so smart.
55:08
SPEAKER_01: I didn't even think about that.
55:10
SPEAKER_00: Well, that's why we're not judges.
55:11
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, right.
55:15
SPEAKER_01: All right.
55:16
SPEAKER_00: Well, on to self-care of the week.
55:18
SPEAKER_00: All right.
55:18
SPEAKER_00: So this weekend,
55:20
SPEAKER_00: three days, Friday,
55:21
SPEAKER_00: Saturday,
55:21
SPEAKER_00: and Sunday,
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SPEAKER_00: I will have two rooms at the Marriott in DC for the entire weekend for Oticon 2026.
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SPEAKER_00: One room is for the girls.
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SPEAKER_00: It's going to be Lila, June, Anastasia, and Lillian.
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SPEAKER_00: So they're going to be there.
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SPEAKER_00: And the other room,
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SPEAKER_00: here's the fun part, is for me, my donor son, Kyle, and one of his baby mamas.
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SPEAKER_01: Oh, really?
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SPEAKER_00: Yes.
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SPEAKER_01: I knew Kyle was coming, but I didn't know that one of his moms was coming.
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SPEAKER_01: Yep.
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SPEAKER_01: Maria, she's flying.
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SPEAKER_01: I was going to ask, is it our little short friend?
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SPEAKER_00: Yes, it is.
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SPEAKER_00: I'm flying them up from Florida for Kyle's 13th birthday, and he has never been to a convention.
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SPEAKER_00: So I am super excited to take him to the largest one in the DMV area.
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SPEAKER_00: That's DC, Maryland, Virginia.
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SPEAKER_00: And we're going to be in cosplay.
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SPEAKER_00: So on Saturday, me, Anastasia, and Kyle are all going to be characters from Gravity Falls.
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SPEAKER_00: I'm Drunkle Stan.
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SPEAKER_00: Thank you very much.
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SPEAKER_00: And they're going to be the two sibling characters, which is great because they're siblings.
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SPEAKER_00: It's going to be amazing.
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SPEAKER_00: We're going to have a ton of fun.
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SPEAKER_00: We're going to be doing all the stuff that Kyle wants to do.
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SPEAKER_00: I'm going to be running around with Kyle and Maria for the entire time,
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SPEAKER_00: doing whatever Kyle wants to do.
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SPEAKER_00: Anastasia will meet up with us every now and then, and we'll do some other stuff.
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SPEAKER_00: And we'll meet up with Lila and June every now and then.
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SPEAKER_00: We'll do some other stuff.
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SPEAKER_00: And it's going to be awesome.
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SPEAKER_00: This is the first year that Lila is 18.
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SPEAKER_00: So she gets to come with me and do some of the 18 plus stuff that they have at night.
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SPEAKER_00: Like after 10 o'clock,
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SPEAKER_00: they start running 18 plus panels and like just different things
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SPEAKER_00: that she's never been able to go to before.
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SPEAKER_00: And I was able to go last year because we had a hotel.
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SPEAKER_00: It wasn't in the convention center, but it was next to it.
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SPEAKER_00: So since we were there, The girls could go back to their rooms.
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SPEAKER_00: I was able to stay late and do some of the 18 plus stuff, which is fucking hilarious.
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SPEAKER_00: This year, we again have hotel rooms, I get to do that again, and she gets to come with me.
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SPEAKER_00: One of the panels we're going to go through is Titties Through Time
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SPEAKER_00: in Japanese anime, which is going to be really fucking funny.
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SPEAKER_00: So we're all looking forward to some of the really silliest stuff that we get to do.
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SPEAKER_00: But during the daytime, I'll be with Kyle, and his head's going to explode.
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SPEAKER_00: It's going to be amazing.
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SPEAKER_01: It's crazy that Kyle is 13.
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SPEAKER_00: Yep.
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SPEAKER_00: That means we've been down here for 13 years.
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SPEAKER_01: That means that we've known each other for a really long time.
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SPEAKER_00: A really, really
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SPEAKER_01: long time.
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SPEAKER_01: Like a really long time.
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SPEAKER_01: Like probably coming up like maybe like almost 20 years.
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SPEAKER_00: Yep.
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SPEAKER_00: You went from being a stalker to being a podcast co-host.
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SPEAKER_00: Wait, you went from being a stalker to being an employee to being my boss to being
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SPEAKER_00: a podcast co-host.
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SPEAKER_00: Weird how life works.
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SPEAKER_01: I celebrated my 23rd wedding anniversary this week.
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SPEAKER_01: My husband and I got married in 2003 when I was just 18 years old because I was
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SPEAKER_01: a big girl who knew everything.
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SPEAKER_01: It's been quite a journey.
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SPEAKER_01: But two kids later who are 14 years apart.
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SPEAKER_00: I don't know why we
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SPEAKER_01: didn't just have them together.
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SPEAKER_01: I don't know why.
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SPEAKER_01: The two kids later,
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SPEAKER_01: he's really the I think that we love each other more now than we did back then.
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SPEAKER_01: Certainly than in our 20s because we were a hot mess in our fucking
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SPEAKER_00: 20s.
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SPEAKER_00: The less said about that, the better.
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SPEAKER_01: But he is truly the only person that I like to spend extended periods of time with,
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SPEAKER_01: even when I'm bickering with him.
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SPEAKER_01: He's also my favorite travel buddy.
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SPEAKER_01: A lot of people want to go out of town with their friends.
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SPEAKER_01: Like their girlfriends.
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SPEAKER_01: Girls trips are huge things.
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SPEAKER_01: But I really only like to travel with my husband.
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SPEAKER_01: We just have more fun together.
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SPEAKER_01: And also he gives the best foot rubs.
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SPEAKER_01: So I don't know.
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SPEAKER_01: I'll probably keep him for at least 23 more years.
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SPEAKER_00: You'll have to place for him later so he can just roll his eyes.
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SPEAKER_01: Listen, two years I'm having a party.
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SPEAKER_01: When we hit 25 years, it's going to be a party, buddy.
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SPEAKER_01: You'll have to come down here.
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SPEAKER_00: Well, hopefully you won't be living in Florida at that point.
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SPEAKER_00: We can get to you easier.
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SPEAKER_01: God, hopefully it'll be New York.
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SPEAKER_00: All right.
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