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9/11 Ground Zero Fight, Border Phone Wipe Case, L.A. Homelessness & America’s Marriage Divide | TMI Ep 429 · The TMI Show with Ted Rall and Manila Chan

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Hello everybody, I think y 'all can see us. Oh
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my lordy We got some glitchery going on right
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now boys and girls We do we do I Don't see Manila
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I Don't see you. I think what's going on. I think
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that we are all Okay, so there I am I think that
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what it is is this So I think that we're all
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logged in as TMI, instead of being invited in
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as our normal Rumble channels. So there's Manila.
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Let me see if I can fix her. I wonder if we have
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multiple feeds. I don't know. I'm going to go
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look. I don't see multiple feeds. All right,
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good. I don't see any feed. Oh, I see. Yeah,
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no, we're on Rumble on YouTube. That's a blessing.
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Yeah, no, for sure. Now let's see how to get
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Manila on. Oh yeah, her. Hilarious. So what we
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need to do after this show is that we need to
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do a little dry run so we can. Clearly. Yeah,
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so we're sure how to use this. Where do you think
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Manila is? I don't know. She's like, how do I
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get on screen? There she is. OK. Oh, you're muted.
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Manila, you are muted. Just the way we like all
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our women. Facts. All right, guys, so we're trying
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out just using Rumble Studio. I think this is
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working. Hold on, let's... Yeah, it's working.
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Yeah, it's working. Yeah, it's working. It's
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all good. Yeah, looks great, too. Okay, can you
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guys all see it? You might want to change the
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layout so that we're side -by -side, but this
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is still cool. I don't know how to do that layout.
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That's too advanced for me. Also, we don't have,
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where's the, where's the stuff like the, the
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logos and stuff? I don't see any of that. That's,
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that's too advanced for me. Is that stuff not
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in the, I mean, I created the TMI room. It has
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all that shit. Did you create a new one? I don't
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know. I don't know. I was just setting it up.
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And you didn't even take 10 years to get your
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college degree like I did, so I don't understand.
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No, I did. I think I took like eight and a half,
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but that's in and out. That's a year and a half
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faster than me. I was in and out. OK, so I think
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you guys can hear us and see us. You should make
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Robbie and I both administrators so we can see
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what the fuck is going on. Well, the problem
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is that we are. Well, Ted, I think you're on
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the you're on your normal rumble. You're on the
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Ted Rawl account. Yeah, if you if you should
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be right. Yeah, ideally, because I'm on TMI.
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So what I will do is I will jump out and then
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I will come in as Putin, but then you just make
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me an administrator once. Yes. In the meantime,
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please make me an administrator. Click on me.
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You'll see little three little dots. Click me
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as a remote to moderator. Not moderator, administrator.
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It only says moderator. All right then, whatever.
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Okay, that works. Just give them all of the toys
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and I will go away then I'll come back. Okay,
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Robbie's gonna jump out and come back as Putinbot
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and then I can make that account a moderator.
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See, we're trying to figure out the glitches
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live because you guys can tell us in feedback,
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like you guys give us live feedback. So, does
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it look very clear? Oh, it looks fantastic. Oh,
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it's like night and day. Yeah, no question. Is
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it really? Yeah, it doesn't look like we're on
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VHS anymore. Okay. Oh, it's beautiful. Go ahead
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and jump out and I'll see if I can. You could
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probably read the titles on the books behind
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me. It's like amazing. Interesting. Okay. I think
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Robbie jumped out. Look. Robbie did jump out.
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Okay. Okay, but like definitely with us folks.
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Yeah, definitely when Robbie comes but see you
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didn't make me an Administrator did you I did
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though I did look Okay All right, let me add
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jaws in there Yeah, but I should be able to see
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the elements and stuff and I can't but all right.
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All right. It says make you a moderator That's
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all that's here. This is all right option. It
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gives me So anyway, we're I'll just say good
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morning. Good Tuesday to everybody out there.
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It's July 28th. I'm Manila Chan. That'd be Ted
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Raul. Producer Robbie is rejoining us after we
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figure out because normally we go through this
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roundabout way with a different program to run
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the show. Here comes Robbie. Let him in. There's
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Robbie. Promote to moderator. Okay. I think Robbie's
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in. You got to click on him. You got to click
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on him and let him in. Success. Okay, we should
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and what about the other TMI show wish we should
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kick out, right? No, that's fine because it still
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has to run the the that account has to run the
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program Yeah, it's cuz basically what we'll do
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is whenever we go to a new show. We'll just update
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this room every time This show doesn't but this
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room doesn't have the what happened to the bells
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and whistles. I don't know Rumble studio. Well,
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well because he I think no It's because you're
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on the wrong room. So So if you go into, so if
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you go into rumble, like I did a super cut last
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night as TMI super cuts, what you would have
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done is that you'd have clicked on that room
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that's already made, clicked on edit. Okay. Well,
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the listeners don't want to hear about this.
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Oh, that's what she did. She created a new room.
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She made a new room. That's why there's no elements.
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That's, you're not supposed to do that. Okay,
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well, none of you told me this yesterday. Well,
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that's like... Okay, we didn't know you were
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female. So, you know, yeah None of you told me
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this yesterday when I'm the so every day what
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you do is is very simple You always just edit
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the same room and which in this case is the great
6:17
TMI supercut You always that's the room and it's
6:23
always the same and you edit it every day And
6:25
then the next day you just see yesterday's room
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and you edit that and then you schedule from
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there So I know how to do that part, but you
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guys can tell me that you have to reuse the room
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or whatever. Okay, well now you know. I'm trying.
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I'm trying this out. It's like a hotel room.
6:43
I have the jaws in there. With all the spooge
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stains all over the sheets. So we do this right
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here live. 10 a .m. Monday through Friday. So
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please today somewhat less live than it should
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be. Yeah, it's not as lively. That's different
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Live is just a brain alive. That is well, okay
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before I jump to all the stories a couple of
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things that are worth mentioning Zelensky and
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BB both here where I am in Washington DC Yeah,
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you can you can keep them both as far as i'm
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concerned. They're they're both here and you
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know what? It is a cloudy ugly stormy looking
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day because they are both here and it's lindsey
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graham's first funeral service He will have tomorrow
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on wednesday. Wait, is he gonna be brought back
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to life and then killed again? What's the story?
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No, they're they're having the first funeral
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service Here today with all the dignitaries and
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whatever whoever else you know, whatever war
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hawks are gonna be at the National Cathedral
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or whatever. And then they're going to have his
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family services tomorrow in South Carolina. But
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Bibi and Zelensky will both take their time to
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meet with President Trump later after today's
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services. And Ted, we always talk about real
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estate on this show, right? We do. Guess who
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just moved into her luxury brand new mansion
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yesterday? Who? Former Vice President Kamala
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Harris has reportedly moved into her new mansion
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in the exclusive Malibu seaside community of
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Point Doom. D -U -M -E. Doom. She's in Malibu?
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Malibu. I guess this is one of the ones that
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didn't go down. Is she going to be surfing? Maybe
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she got a killer deal because every all the other
8:36
properties around or burnt down. I don't know
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Yeah, and what didn't burn down it's gonna be
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washed away in the next tsunami Yes, or the cliff
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is gonna fall down or whatever. Yeah So census
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records show that over 80 % of Point Doom residents
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are white, with black Doomers making up less
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than 3 % of the population. On a national level,
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roughly 14 % are black. Kamala's move does not
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change the racial demographics of Malibu. She's
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not black at all. She's as black as I am. She's
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as black as Clovis. She ran on being black? She
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never ever talks about being Asian. Yeah, because
9:17
politicians never lie. She else around being
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human. Well, she never ever acknowledged being
9:24
half Indian, ever, during her days of campaign.
9:25
She meant on being joyful, remember? Yeah, that's
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true. Well, she did bring the joy to death row,
9:31
by adding more people to it. By bringing the
9:33
joy and shitting on black men for not supporting
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her. Look, some people believe in the death penalty.
9:39
She's such a fervent believer in the death penalty
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that she'll even send you if you're innocent.
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You got to keep the death industrial complex
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going. Got it. Manila, you have a question from
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Daddy of Triplets. He wants to know, can you
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give your thoughts about Arizona State University
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offering a content creation degree? Oh, God,
10:02
really? A whole degree on that? You want to get
10:05
yourself in debt? No, I'm going to say that's...
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a whole bunch of bullshit. I don't know if it
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qualifies, if it's under the Walter Cronkite
10:15
School of Journalism. If it is, shame. Why can't
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we be in what? Put us in the, put us in duo mode.
10:19
Here we go. Wait, wait, we need more. Yeah, but
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then Robbie can't be there. Why can't we be all
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three in side by side? Robbie and I are like,
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are like mini me. And like, you're like, you
10:29
get to be big girl there and you're like, I don't
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know how to do it. Well, I'm only one woman and
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there's two men. So there you go. In this room,
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again, we're disadvantaged. The issue is, is
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that with this room, we don't have the ability
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to go in and change layouts. Oh, I see. Okay.
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Well, I'll learn that. Well, wait, I do. That's
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not true. I do rumble studio. for D program and
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we're all three side by side. I know, but if
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you look here at the bottom where our boxes are,
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because typically, well, one thing I know, this
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studio is even completely weird. This is not
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the normal layout. No. And they're at the bottom
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where you have. Cheers to you. Where you have
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the boxes. They're just, they're not even there.
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So anyway, those are the two, those are the two
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stories. Um, or three, two, two. This is BB's
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eighth trip to DC. I was right. Number eight.
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It is actually a lucky number in the Asian culture,
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by the way. I will fix this after the show. Yeah.
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Yeah, you will. You and I both. I will need y
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'all to both log in with your personal accounts
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in the Team My Supercut room. So that way I can
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fix this. Yeah. Immediately after this show.
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Are you free to do that? Yeah, immediately. Yeah,
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we'll figure this out after the show. But for
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now at least I got the jaws in here Oh, Robbie,
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do we have to do an ad before we jump to stories?
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Let me see if I can How do I check this? I don't
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think there's gonna be an ad. I'm trying to learn
12:06
the rumble room guys this room Well, this is
12:08
not the room to learn because this room is all
12:10
fucked up. Yeah, this is like this is like Spock
12:13
with a beard. It's an alternate universe This
12:17
rule this room will die like pains Do not learn
12:21
this room. Okay, this room is like an alternate
12:24
universe where the libertarian party is the dominant
12:26
party or something. This room will die like a
12:28
Palestinian child. It will just die. Right, it
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Let me show you what my What Thomas got me? A
13:37
knife. Can you see who's on it? No. No, you got
13:42
to go closer because you're in tiny mode. It's
13:46
Robert E. Lee. Oh. Your favorite. Well, they've
13:50
renamed everything that was named after him here.
13:53
So. Well, all right. You just him, but he is
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one. He is one of my heroes. Know and that's
14:02
why Robbie's mad that everything's renamed here.
14:04
So Lee seventh grade ID All right, I'm gonna
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I'm gonna jaws it and get to the stories are
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we doing stories today we are I Didn't know we
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were doing stories today Okay, all right, so
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first story official story hence the thumbnail
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guys So some 9 -11 families want New York's mayor
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kept away from Ground Zero for this year's ceremonies.
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So a group of relatives of people killed in the
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9 -11 attacks is campaigning to keep New York
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City Mayor Zoran Mamdani away from this year's
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25th anniversary ceremony at Ground Zero. He's
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the mayor. They can't stop him. Hold on. Hold
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on. A petition organized by Giovanni Galanti.
14:57
by a guy called Giovanni Galanti, whose wife,
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Grace, was killed at the Trade Center, reportedly
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has more than 14 ,000 verified signatures, including
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roughly 350 relatives. It describes Mamdani as,
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quote, an unwelcome guest and argues that his
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political associations and past statements make
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his presence inappropriate for this solemn event.
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Critics have pointed to Mamdani's relationships
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with controversial political figures and his
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emphasis on anti -Muslim discrimination after
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9 -11. Among the concerns raised for the organizers,
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were how the mayor, quote, blamed the United
15:39
States for radicalizing Anwar al -Awlaki and
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al -Qaeda propagandists linked to the 9 -11 hijackers.
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They also noted that Mamdani appointed Ramzi
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Qassem, who previously represented Ahmed al -Darby
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convicted in an al -Qaeda tanker bombing plot.
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God forbid that someone should provide. legal
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representation, which is something that every
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American has a right to. And I guess this lawyer
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praised Brooklyn Imam Siraj Wahaj, who has been
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linked to radical Islam and was named an alleged
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co -conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center
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bombing. So, all right, so this lawyer is being
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shit on for being a lawyer. As you know, I mean,
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there's there's a case to be made for that. Sure.
16:30
But I get it. The National September 11 Memorial
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and Museum says the annual ceremony is intentionally
16:37
kept free of politics. Elected officials traditionally
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attend, but they do not give political speeches.
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The focus remains on reading the victims names.
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Mamdani has already participated in official
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9 -11 memorial events as mayor during a May visit
16:52
with the city agency leaders. He praised first
16:55
responders and called for New Yorkers to return
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to the unity demonstrated after the attacks.
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That leaves organizers with an impossible assignment.
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Preserve a non -political ceremony while deciding
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whether an elected mayor has become too political
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to attend it. 25 years later, Ground Zero, by
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the way, Mamdani was six years old when that
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happened, Ground Zero remains sacred ground.
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It also, still New York, meaning Even the guest
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list. If Ground Zero was sacred ground, they
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wouldn't have excavated it. They would have left
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it as is. Yeah, instead of building a memorial
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hole there. A beautiful, glorious hole. The glory
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hole? Yes, indeed. So, you know, at first blush,
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my knee -jerk reaction was, this is racist as
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shit. He is... He is... The first Muslim mayor
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of the city and I know a lot of people have a
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hard time with that because they link You know
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all Muslims to 9 -eleven Which is unfair obviously,
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but that's it. This dude was six years old when
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this happened He could not have helped planet
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people. He was six years old Racism I don't think
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plays in because Islam is not a race Islamophobia
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plays in. There's no such thing as Islamophobia
18:21
either. That's bullshit. What are you talking
18:23
about? There's no such thing as Islamophobia.
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What? Tell it to the Muslims who've been killed
18:28
by people who hate them just for being Muslim.
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Pointing out the fact that Islam is a inherently
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violent religion that teaches conversion by the
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sword. Yeah, Christianity has never done that
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at all. There were Muslims who were killed. Christianity
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has always been nothing but peaceful. There were
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Muslims who were killed at 9 -11 and there are
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Muslim families that go to the 9 -11 ceremony
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every year. I understand that, but here's the
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difference. There are Muslim American soldiers
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who went and fought, you know, the people who
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were not responsible for 9 -11. Well, no, I get
18:56
that. But here's the big difference, though.
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Jesus taught peace. The Catholic Church is what
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taught war. That is a very distinct difference.
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Whereas if you go and if you read the writings
19:08
of Mohammed, piss me upon him. He was a genocidal
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slaver. He was a warlord. He was a warmonger
19:17
of the highest... He would fit in beautifully
19:20
into the present administration. That's the point
19:22
that I'm trying to make. So to say that Islam...
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is a peaceful religion, is laughable on his face
19:29
when Emperor Alexios himself said Islam has always
19:31
been propagated by the sword. The point is that
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Mamdani is not, why should the city mayor of
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the city of New York be excluded from such an
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important New York event? Well then let me answer
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the question. If you just like the two of you
19:52
just now they just had to post me up on the on
19:55
the teachings of Islam said this Islamophobia
19:58
by teaching the history of Islamophobia. I mean
20:02
Islamophobia is is is obviously just what it
20:05
sounds like. It's not of Islam. It's the fear
20:10
of Islamic people of Muslim people. Okay, so
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did anything I just say is any of it factually
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untrue? No, but it's not related to what we're
20:19
talking about. But it is because... What does
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Mamdani have to do with that, though? He's the
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mayor. I understand. I mean, this is Islamophobic,
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no? It depends on how much you're trying to say.
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I mean, how I would go out and I would handle
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this and say, listen, I am a practicing Muslim.
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I was elected by the people of the city I'm going
20:39
to attend. If you don't like it, that's a you
20:41
problem, not a me problem. OK. Let me pose this
20:44
to you. What if he were... Jewish mayor and and
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and he has the same the same background he appointed
20:53
the same people to his administration what if
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he was a Jew a white Jewish kid from Brooklyn
20:57
and he did all the other same things he appointed
21:01
so -and -so this particular lawyer to chief counsel
21:04
at New York and he did all this other stuff do
21:07
you think they would welcome him if he were I
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don't know ma 'am Einstein Was it Jews that flew
21:18
those planes into the World Trade Center or was
21:20
it Muslims? Remind me. Again, what's the issue
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here? That's my point. Other than him being Muslim,
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why would you not want this to go? It's literally
21:31
guilt by association by definition. It's literally
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like Muslims, literally, it's like all the racist
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shit I've been seeing on social media by people
21:40
like Laura Loomer after 9 -11 and, you know,
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by Muslims, then how could New Yorkers have elected
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Mamdani? It's like, OK, so what is the presumption
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of that statement? And that question is that
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all Muslims are guilty by association for the
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9 -11 attacks. And that had better not be true,
22:04
because as a white male, I don't want to be guilty
22:07
by association for everything that dumbass white
22:10
dudes do all over the world. But you're guilty
22:13
about that. If you point out that the rest of
22:17
the world does not have the right to immigrate
22:19
to Europe, then you're immediately called a racist
22:21
or a xenophobe. If you point out the fact that
22:24
while colonialism doubled the life expectancy
22:28
of people in Africa, you're going to be called
22:31
a racist and a white supremacist. Again, you're
22:34
not addressing my point head on, which is to
22:36
say that you are not responsible for people in
22:40
your class. If some dumbass from Montana who
22:44
used to be from Florida does something stupid,
22:47
that doesn't mean everybody who used to be from
22:48
Florida now lives in Montana, including you,
22:51
is to be blamed for that. And so, similarly,
22:56
I mean, what does Mondani have to do with 9 -11?
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Nothing. Except that he's a co -religionist of
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the perpetrators of the 9 -11 attacks. And so
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fucking what? Yeah. No, I get it. I have Mongolian
23:09
ancestry. Should I be fucking blamed for Genghis
23:11
Khan and all of his conquests? And if so, you
23:16
should get the... Where's the credit? You should
23:18
also control a mighty empire stretching from
23:22
Samarkand all the way to Austria. I guess we
23:26
just depend on the... on your take, right? Because
23:30
white people were consistently blamed for slavery,
23:33
despite being involved in the slave trade for
23:35
300 years. And I call bullshit on that too. I
23:38
understand. I think that's not fair. So why condemn
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Mamdani, who is the elected mayor of the city,
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why not allow him to go? Why would these families
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take offense of him being there? He's the freaking
23:52
mayor. I understand. And no, listen, at the end
23:56
of the day, though, If this is a private ceremony,
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if you don't have an invitation, he should honor
24:01
the request of the families and not go. It's
24:02
not a private ceremony. Is this watched by the
24:06
city? If it is, then he should go. I mean, he's
24:10
the mayor. Yeah. I mean, he's the mayor. Well,
24:13
I think the city obviously gives permits and
24:16
does whatever the city does. And then I think
24:19
the 9 -11 families association or whatever, there's
24:23
like an association or foundation or whatever
24:26
they have. They put together the thing every
24:28
year and they fly some people in and whatever
24:31
So it's like a co -mix of the city and their
24:35
association. Oh Thanks to PW Walker for the donation
24:39
Walker says because people need something to
24:42
be outraged over because outrage gives their
24:44
lives meaning True. Oh, yeah, but the thing is
24:48
I mean, it's also just racism, right? So there's
24:52
that Yeah, it's good old good old good old -fashioned
24:56
racism and and again, let me just say ma 'am
24:59
Donnie was six years old at the time of 9 -eleven
25:03
I Highly doubt highly. I'm not sure. Well, he
25:08
could have been highly doubt. He could have been
25:09
a member of it He I think he might have been
25:12
a member of Al Qaeda. Oh Well, here's the thing
25:17
I mean, we clearly don't have a problem with
25:19
Al -Qaeda. I mean, we installed an Al -Qaeda
25:21
head shopper to run Syria. So that's not even
25:23
the issue. And I don't understand why y 'all
25:25
keep saying racism. For one thing, New York elected
25:30
a foreigner from India who practices Islam. South
25:35
Africa, I think. No, Kenya, no. Uganda. Uganda.
25:39
So you can't say that this is a reaction to racism
25:42
because they elected this buffoon. But we're
25:45
saying these people... The people of New York
25:49
demonstrated non -racism by electing him. But
25:52
these mooky 9 -11 asshole families... They're
25:57
the specific ones here. Well, they're probably
26:00
pissed off about the idea. I mean, just like,
26:02
for example... By the way, he's also speaking.
26:04
He purports to speak for all 9 -11 families.
26:07
I'll give you this. If you can get like 95 %
26:11
of all 9 -11 survivors to agree with him that
26:15
like Mamdani shouldn't be there, then I'd be
26:16
like, maybe Mamdani should bail out. Survivor
26:18
families? Yeah. I don't think you're going to
26:20
get that. I don't think so. I mean, I don't think
26:23
it's these are like, there's there's a huge political,
26:26
you know, split between the 911 families. A bunch
26:29
of them are right wingers and a bunch of them
26:31
are not. And child, thank you for the donation.
26:35
I'm with you. Next story. Ted and I are two to
26:38
one against Robbie here. Yes. Well, it's really
26:42
one and a half to one half because of the size
26:44
of the screen. Oh, it's more than that. I mean,
26:46
I have definitely pissed off. I dominate the
26:48
screen. With a unpopular. Opinion here. So but
26:52
that's why I'm here. I guess it's Look the 9
26:55
-eleven families like that is shitty of them.
26:58
Mom Donnie had nothing to do with it and it's
27:00
it's just Like bottom line if he if he if he
27:03
had its gales in and he was any other religion
27:06
they wouldn't have a difficult time allowing
27:09
the mayor to attend and and Make some you know,
27:13
like nice comments and be done with it. That's
27:15
it What? No Jaws? Alright Ted, I did the Jaws,
27:23
but there was no sound. Well, it was Jaws. It
27:27
was Silent Jaws. The deadliest of all Jaws. It's
27:32
Shark Week, by the way. All right. Don't forget,
27:36
we have to hang on after this and fix this room
27:38
because it's driving me nuts. All right. Anyway,
27:40
a Georgia dude is facing federal charges after
27:43
allegedly giving border agents, I love this story,
27:47
a password that erased his smartphone instead
27:50
of unlocking it. Samuel Tunick was returning
27:54
to the United States. I didn't realize he was
27:56
an American. I think that matters. through the
28:00
airport in Atlanta in January of last year, 2025,
28:04
when CBP, Customs and Border Patrol Dick Beans,
28:08
pulled him aside and demanded access to his phone.
28:12
Prosecutors said that Tunick then entered a special
28:15
duress password that caused the device to delete
28:19
its contents and restart. He has pled not guilty.
28:25
The feature comes from Graphene OS, G R A P H
28:29
E N E O S, which should become a sponsor of the
28:33
TMI show because we love you. A privacy focused
28:37
operating system available for Google Pixel phones.
28:40
Oh, that sucks. Nothing for Apple. If anyone
28:43
knows if you can do this for iOS, let us know.
28:47
Users can create an alternate pin that wipes
28:50
the device when entered, essentially a digital
28:53
self -destruct button. So you can be like Captain
28:55
Kirk and fuck you Klingons, I'm blowing this
28:58
up. Minus the smoke and dramatic countdown. federal
29:02
prosecutors charged Tunick under a obscure law
29:05
prohibiting the destruction of property intended
29:08
for government seizure. That's amazing. By the
29:13
way, it's not really government whatever. A conviction
29:17
can carry up to five years in prison. Bring it
29:20
bitches. But Tunick's attorneys argue that the
29:23
governance search was unconstitutional from the
29:25
beginning. They say agents detained him without
29:28
allowing him access to an attorney and used supposed
29:31
concerns about illegal imagery as a pretext to
29:36
investigate his alleged connections to activists
29:38
who opposed Atlanta's controversial cop city.
29:42
police training complex. So in other words, he
29:45
was targeted because he was a lefty. He's an
29:48
activist. The case appears to be the first U
29:50
.S. prosecution involving a phone's duress swipe
29:53
feature, and it could force courts to confront
29:56
an uncomfortable question. Does protecting your
29:58
private data become a federal crime the moment
30:01
an officer wants it? At America's border, constitutional
30:04
protections have always been thinner within a
30:07
hundred miles of the border, right? Two million.
30:10
Now, I think it's 100. But that's where over
30:15
half of Americans live within 100 miles of an
30:18
international border. But prosecutors are testing
30:23
whether your right to digital privacy disappears
30:25
entirely when your phone lands in government
30:28
hands. This is a fascinating story. Obviously,
30:34
TMI show is totally on Team Tunic. and Team Graphene
30:40
OS. Go Tunic. Can you guys please make an Apple
30:44
version? Is there an Apple version? We have to
30:48
find out. They're easy to find. Also, I'm curious
30:51
to know if like the, you know, this inspector
30:53
gadget self -destruct mode. Yeah, it's awesome.
30:57
If you do that, like, is your stuff backed up
30:59
to the cloud so you can have it self -destruct
31:02
wiped, you know, when let's say a cop is trying
31:04
to open the phone? Oh, I'm sure. But then you
31:05
can redownload all your shit. It doesn't erase
31:07
your cloud. Yeah. Now, I mean, what would happen
31:10
is that as soon as let's just say you bought
31:12
a let's just say you're like you either they
31:14
give you back your phone or you buy a new one.
31:18
If it's Apple, it would just automatically repopulate
31:20
your phone as soon as you reconnect to the Internet.
31:22
Yeah. So yeah. So I think the lawyer is absolutely
31:27
right. By the way, if you don't have iOS, if
31:30
you don't have Graphene, what you do when you
31:32
cross a border like this is they can open your
31:36
phone if it's powered up. So when you go through
31:41
customs, power your phone down completely. They
31:44
can't turn it on. They can't get it. on without
31:48
the password, right? Right. Like, if it's on,
31:50
they can get it without the password. They can
31:52
hold it up to your face and turn it on. Right.
31:55
I don't use that. But your point is that they
31:59
need the password when it's starting from powered
32:02
down. And if you refuse to give it to them, which
32:04
if you have any ovaries or balls at all you don't
32:08
do, then they're fucked and they can't get access.
32:13
I would say. I don't use a facial recognition
32:15
thing because of. Well, that's good. I don't
32:17
like biometric stuff. But they will pressure
32:20
you and they'll say like, oh, we'll keep you
32:22
blah, blah, blah. I'd be like, keep me. Keep
32:24
me. You guys are so. I need my lawyer. You guys
32:27
are awesome. I love hanging with you. Like, yeah,
32:30
I'm going to make myself comfortable right here.
32:33
Yeah, like get my lawyer. Like, dude, this guy.
32:35
I could sleep anywhere. Awesome. Good for him.
32:38
Good for Tunik. I think his attorney is right
32:41
that this This is an illegal search and seizure
32:44
from the jump. Right, because first of all, there's
32:48
no reason. First of all, there's no probable
32:49
cause, right? I mean, right. Like what? And by
32:52
the way, the fact is, I mean, the protections
32:54
for a foreign national seeking to enter the United
32:58
States, which is a privilege, are very low. But
33:01
this is a U .S. citizen coming home, right? Now
33:05
they do have the right to try to search your
33:07
devices, but you have the right not to let them.
33:11
You absolutely have the right, this is just a
33:14
refusal is all it is. It's literally, if the
33:17
same guy had done what I just advised and had
33:20
the phone powered down and refused to turn over
33:22
the password, they couldn't have touched him.
33:24
So what this is about is about the specific technology.
33:27
It pissed them off because he was totally like.
33:33
Right. Right. He did the Bart Simpson. Nelson.
33:36
Sorry, Nelson. Nelson. The Nelson. And that pissed
33:41
him off. And you know, Ted, anytime you want
33:45
up law enforcement, they really hate that. We
33:49
are very angry. We will get you. They really,
33:52
really hate that. But I would like to see this.
33:58
It's illegal search and seizure from the jump.
34:01
And it's against his constitutional rights. I
34:04
think this is like gonna be fairly easy. I don't
34:07
know what court this is gonna go to It's a federal
34:12
federal prosecutors, I guess because he was with
34:16
with CB more customs I guess right when you're
34:20
coming through the airport so Federal so this
34:23
would could end up in a federal court or it will
34:25
end up in a federal court. Oh it will How which
34:29
one though is what? matters. If it ends up here
34:32
where I am in Northern Virginia. Well, I would
34:34
imagine it's going to be, you know, whatever
34:37
the district is for Georgia, right? I guess.
34:43
I mean, how did this happen in Atlanta? Oh, did
34:45
it? Well, it's a Georgia man. Oh, through Atlanta's
34:48
airport. Okay. So it is, yeah. It'll be, I was
34:51
going to say if he's like coming through here
34:52
or something and he ends up in Northern Virginia,
34:56
the court. Oh, so yeah, it'll be the Northern,
34:57
there's a court in Atlanta. There's the Northern
34:59
District of Georgia. Oh, OK. So federal court,
35:04
I don't know what they sound like there, but
35:05
if it were here in in Alexandria, Virginia, you
35:11
know this court is notorious for siding with.
35:14
It's pretty much a rubber stamp that you're guilty.
35:17
Whatever the feds bring done. Have you come to
35:20
Northern Virginia Federal Court? You're done.
35:23
You're done, Zoman. That's true. But no worries.
35:26
That's not going to be the issue here. Maybe
35:29
I hope not. All right. No, I mean, it just won't.
35:31
It won't. I hope. They just don't change jurisdictions
35:36
like that. Illegal from the jump. Go Team Tunic.
35:41
Like Cop City. I haven't thought about that in
35:43
a while. I wonder how that's coming along because
35:45
they are building it. And it means that he's
35:46
on a fucking list, right? Oh, yeah. All of us
35:49
lefties. Oh, there's a list for everything, Ted.
35:54
Like, I always... Less so now, but definitely,
35:59
you know, in the past 15 years, I was used to
36:04
getting extra scrutiny going through the airport.
36:06
I'd get the quadruple S's on my boarding pass.
36:09
And I'm like, all right, here comes my anal cavity
36:12
search. Some people pay good money for that,
36:16
you know? Because I'm a journalist. And at one
36:21
point, you know, I was in and out of the Middle
36:22
East a lot. That probably seemed suspicious to
36:25
them. And then I worked for RT for a decade.
36:29
That was suspicious to them, obviously, and they
36:32
go through everything. So there's always a list.
36:36
There's always a list. If you're any sort of
36:40
antagonist to whoever the ruling party is, which
36:45
as a journalist, you should be an antagonist
36:49
to any and all power. So I was always harassed
36:53
at the airports, but less so these days, thankfully.
36:55
But I also aren't playing very much. But yeah,
36:58
there's a list for everybody. There's a list
37:00
for everything. So if you're a lefty or a righty,
37:03
it just depends on who's in power, Ted. Yep.
37:07
Yep. That's it. And by the way, the audience
37:13
says they can hear the Jaws sound. We can't.
37:16
Oh, which is weird. Well, that's all that matters,
37:18
really. I don't need to hear it. I know what
37:20
it sounds like. I hear the jobs. You hear it?
37:23
Yeah, I hear it. Oh, OK. OK, well, that's good.
37:28
OK, back to my motherland of Los Angeles. The
37:32
homeless population is rising again and the housing
37:36
pipeline is clogged. Yay. The numbers are going
37:39
up. After two years of modest progress, homelessness
37:44
is rising again in Los Angeles. The homelessness
37:48
shall rise again. Good. We need more homeless
37:51
people. We got to have them. We got to have them.
37:54
Nothing says advanced industrial democracy like
37:59
people sleeping outside. Yes. 2026 homeless count
38:04
found approximately. Approximately. And when
38:07
I say approximate, I mean, it's not even approximate.
38:09
This is like the loosest number that they can
38:12
get their hands around. 73 ,000. unhoused people
38:16
across most of LA County. That's up 1 .2 % from
38:21
last year. Within the city of LA itself, homelessness
38:25
has increased by 3 .4%. That's some 45 ,000 people.
38:31
So just in the city proper, where I used to live,
38:33
like I live downtown, that's like 60 % of the
38:38
Southern California is like homeless population.
38:41
The most troubling number is on the streets.
38:44
Unsheltered homelessness. I feel like that's...
38:48
Isn't it? No, that's opposed to sheltered homelessness,
38:51
like people couch surfing at their friend's house.
38:54
Oh, okay. Unsheltered homelessness is the term
38:58
jumped by near jumped nearly 8 % inside the city
39:02
meaning roughly 29 ,000 new people are now living
39:06
in tents vehicles or other places not meant for
39:09
Habitation officials say the problem is not simply
39:12
that more people are entering homelessness It's
39:14
that fewer people are getting out. Funding cuts
39:18
forced LA to reduce enrollment in temporary rental
39:21
subsidy programs that help people move from shelters
39:24
into permanent apartments. Thankfully, my family
39:27
member was one of those people some three years
39:30
ago. And so I know about this, the programs that
39:35
move you through, you know, whatever programs
39:37
into a shelter, into like group housing and then
39:40
permanent homes, or not semi -permanent. apartments.
39:44
That number of people housed through those subsidies
39:47
fell from more than 10 ,000 in 2024 to about
39:53
6 ,600 last year. That created a bottleneck when
39:57
people cannot leave temporary shelters beds do
40:00
not open for those still sleeping outside. Moves
40:04
from interim housing into permanent homes dropped
40:06
36 % while the number of people returning from
40:09
temporary housing to the streets increased by
40:12
24%. Meanwhile, LA remains catastrophically expensive.
40:17
Officials estimate a household must earn approximately
40:21
$110 ,000 annually to afford the county's average
40:26
monthly rent This is the average of $2 ,745.
40:30
$2 ,745 for rent. Yeah, cry me a river. In New
40:35
York City, the average rent is over $5 ,000 a
40:39
month. And in order to qualify for it, you must
40:43
earn at least $200 ,000 a year and be able to
40:46
prove it. Well, nearly 6 in 10 newly homeless
40:51
residents blamed economic hardship, duh. And
40:55
for every person LA permanently housed, more
40:58
than two others entered or reentered the homelessness
41:01
system. That's the larger lesson here. Clearing
41:04
encampments may change what a sidewalk looks
41:07
like, but unless people can move into stable
41:08
housing, the problem is merely a problem just
41:13
being rearranged. Yeah, you get shuffled around,
41:16
right? That's really all it is. And this is going
41:18
to prove to be a thing that's going to dog Gavin
41:22
Newsom in 2028. Uh, this crisis, obviously with
41:27
mayor Karen Bass, like who was still ahead in
41:30
the polls, like for her reelection, right? For,
41:33
forget, I don't, I don't want to re, relitigate
41:38
the whole, um, Spencer Pratt and Nathia Ramen
41:41
or whatever her name is. Her last name is Ramen.
41:43
Um, how all these like midnight mail -in ballots
41:47
came in and the homelessness, homeless encampments
41:51
getting, you know, fake registered to vote. Um,
41:55
but this is not going to look good for the people
41:58
who are the status quo. Um, but because LA has
42:02
that, that rank choice voter thing, the status
42:06
quo, you can vote for status quo a or status
42:09
quo B, but they're all part of the status quo.
42:12
And then for Gavin Newsom, this is definitely
42:14
going to dog him in 2028. Cause I assure you
42:18
he will be the nominee. Well, I've got some good
42:20
news. I can't do anything about homelessness.
42:22
But the TMI show, and I'll go away after this,
42:25
we are number nine on Rumble right now. We moved
42:29
up. We're number nine. We're number nine. We're
42:34
number nine. There's a, I think the real reason
42:37
that we're trending is because of the whole Islam
42:39
thing, the whole Islam angle. So while you and
42:42
the chat are blasting me for being a right -wing
42:47
fascist, Christian, Christo -Nationalist, whatever
42:50
it is y 'all going to do. Rumble is showing us
42:54
some serious love right here. So y 'all can,
42:57
y 'all can love me against my populism, but this
43:00
is a hell I will die on when it comes to, to
43:02
religion. I want to get, I want to get Muslim
43:04
saved and converted to Christianity. Look, the
43:08
authenticity is there, Robbie. Everybody knows
43:10
you mean what you're saying. That's why. That's
43:14
why they watch and whether they hate what you're
43:17
saying or not, one thing they cannot and no one
43:20
will ever take from you is that you are authentic
43:23
and that is who you be. And people know that.
43:27
We are now number five. We are number five right
43:31
now. All right, let's keep talking. Let's keep
43:33
the needle moving, babes. Let's do it. Number
43:36
five. All right, thanks. Number five, boys and
43:38
girls. You got to take a screenshot of that.
43:41
We got to frame it. We are number five. We're
43:44
number five. All right. Jaws. Jaws it. OK, I
43:51
guess I'm going to assume that I heard that.
43:54
OK, so America's education gap is reshaping the
43:58
marriage market, and women without college degrees
44:01
are taking the biggest hit. A new working paper
44:05
from the National Bureau of Economic Research
44:08
finds that College -educated women are increasingly
44:12
marrying men who don't have four -year degrees,
44:16
but they're not choosing randomly. They're pairing
44:19
up with the highest earning dudes in that group.
44:23
So we'll have to break that down. The share of
44:25
marriages involving a college -educated wife
44:27
and a husband without a degree quadrupled across
44:32
the generation studied, rising from 2 .3 % among
44:36
women born back in 1930 to 9 .6 % among those
44:41
born in 1980. Those husbands earned an average
44:45
of about 68 grand a year. Meanwhile, Less educated
44:49
dudes who didn't marry college graduates, averaged
44:53
about 46 K, roughly 10 ,000 less than comparable
44:57
men in earlier generations. So this is a little
44:59
hard to follow, especially for those of us who
45:01
are not college educated. In other words, college
45:04
educated women are crossing educational lines,
45:07
but primarily for guys with steady careers and
45:10
solid incomes. They're going for - Billy Joel,
45:12
hello. Uptown girl. They're going for - They're
45:16
going for business owners, electricians, HVAC
45:19
technicians, and podcasters, and other skilled
45:23
workers who might lack diplomas but not earning
45:26
power. That has sharply reduced the pool of economically
45:30
stable guys available to women without degrees.
45:34
The study estimates that the share of marriageable,
45:37
I hate that term, non -college men... Marryable?
45:41
Well, no, I mean, marriageable is the correct
45:44
term grammatically. I hate the idea that someone
45:47
could be considered not marriageable because
45:49
of their socioeconomic status. Oh, I thought
45:52
you meant the word itself. No, but it fell from
45:55
73 % to about 35 % across the generations examined.
45:59
Marriage rates among college -educated women
46:02
remain above 70%. For chicks without degrees,
46:05
they plunge from 79%, that's nearly 80%, to about
46:09
52%. Researchers say one trend did not necessarily
46:13
cause the other, but when working -class men
46:16
lose economic ground, working -class women lose
46:20
potential partners. Marriage may be personal,
46:23
but macroeconomics is destiny. I gotta say though,
46:27
Manoa, what's interesting here is think about
46:30
like 50 years ago or a hundred years ago it was
46:35
not at all uncommon for a man to have a college
46:37
to have a nice job and Maybe working in office
46:40
and have a college degree to be married to a
46:43
woman who didn't It was like a waitress or something.
46:46
Let's say sure. Yeah, she's and so that's that's
46:50
it's interesting to me that like There are for
46:53
the guys who are still left who are you know
46:57
successful financially? that they're less willing
47:01
to pair up with working class women, that white
47:05
collar guys. Well, you want to marry up too.
47:08
Yeah. By the way, marrying up is gay. OK, so
47:11
I just want to say, like when I got engaged,
47:14
the receptionist at my office, she was like,
47:18
wanted to know what my fiance looked like. And
47:22
I showed her. a picture and she said, oh, she's
47:25
Asian. She said, that's the only way that you
47:28
as a white guy can marry up. And I was like,
47:31
what the fuck are you even talking about? And
47:34
she's like, yeah, yeah, she was Latina. I'm sure
47:37
she still is. And might not be these days, you
47:41
never know. And so it was just it was so it was
47:45
funny to me. But yeah, that idea is gross. Okay,
47:50
like it's gross. I mean, people carrying off
47:53
economically is disgusting. Look, I'm talking
47:56
about like the class system, right? Like, yeah,
47:58
the class system is disgusting. Like, not not
48:02
by race, though, you're not inherently higher
48:05
class because of race, I'm saying, like, by socioeconomic
48:08
class. Right, right, right. I know. So like,
48:12
like I've I've dated car salesmen, I've dated
48:17
Cops I've dated whatever I've gone on dates with
48:20
whoever like I've never been one to discriminate
48:22
as long as you weren't stupid, right? About so
48:26
in other words you weren't dating in the United
48:27
States As long as they weren't as long as they
48:31
weren't dumb. I look I've known guys I've dated
48:33
guys that had college degrees that were fucking
48:36
dumb as a bag of dicks like just dumb like Really
48:41
dumb. Okay, so that's so interesting to me. I
48:45
Like, as soon as I'd suss out that a chick was
48:47
dumb, we're done. Like, like that date is finished.
48:53
Well, I mean, no, no. You find out before the
48:55
date, usually. Yeah, kind of. But but I mean,
48:59
for a girl, you kind of you're like, well, but
49:01
he's cute and he's sweet and he makes me laugh.
49:04
Really? And yeah, I dated this guy and I was
49:08
thinking about this story this morning as I was
49:10
stirring my coffee and I was like, I'm not going
49:11
to I'm not going to name him poor guy. But Name
49:15
him, name him, name him. He was half, he was
49:17
half Japanese, right? So he's, he's Hapa, right?
49:20
Good looking guy, tall, good looking. Um, and,
49:25
and I remember he, he chased me from California
49:28
to DC. I moved out here and he chased. So I was
49:33
like, sure, come out. You've never been to DC.
49:35
Fine. You want to make a vacation of it. And,
49:38
and we go to the natural history museum. We,
49:41
we do the museum circuit, right? I'm fairly new
49:44
here. He's never been. So I'm like, okay, let's
49:46
go. We go. And when we're walking back to my
49:51
apartment, first thing, first inkling where I
49:56
was like, oh, he saw the EPA building. We're
50:02
waiting to cross Constitution Ave. He sees the
50:04
EPA building and he's like, environmental protection
50:08
agency. I wonder what they do there. Oh, God.
50:12
And I was like, what? He was joking, right? No,
50:15
I was, I laughed and I was like, uh -huh. Was
50:17
he fluent in English? He was born and raised
50:20
in Hawaii. So, Pidge in English? No. No, but
50:25
he's been on the mainland since college. So,
50:28
I was like, I laughed and I thought he was being,
50:31
you know, kind of smarmy and funny. So, I was
50:33
like, I laughed and I was like, I was like, you're
50:37
kidding, right? He worked for Toyota, Ted. And
50:41
I was like, shouldn't you know what the EPA,
50:44
it's on the window stickers of every fucking
50:47
car. Like EPA suggested or mileage or whatever
50:52
per gallon, right? And that was my first inkling.
50:56
We're walking back to my apartment and I'm like,
50:59
that's in my brain. So we get to my apartment,
51:02
then he's like - But you're thinking like, he'd
51:04
better be a good coxman at this point. So I'm
51:06
like, gosh, like, is he dumb? No, he can't be
51:11
dumb. He's, he's Japanese. He can't be dumb.
51:14
That's true. Well, I did know I worked for a
51:17
Japanese bank and I did have some dumb colleagues.
51:21
Yeah. So I, you know, I, my agent there was this
51:24
guy, I'll call him Kozaki because his name was
51:27
Kozaki and he was dumb as a rock. Yeah. So, so
51:30
get this. So, so I was like, so what did you
51:33
think? What did you think of the, the, you know,
51:35
like, um, the evolution? installation at the
51:39
Smithsonian. And he was like, yeah, that was
51:43
pretty cool to see, you know, like the figures
51:46
and stuff, like the homo sapiens and whatever.
51:50
He's like, but I don't get it. I was like, what?
51:53
Oh no. We're having a cigarette and a drink.
51:55
I'm like, what? Oh no. What don't you get? I'm
51:58
scared. And he's like, yeah, I know. He goes,
52:02
how do they even know how old these creatures
52:06
were? and I was like what do you mean he's like
52:09
the bones like the fossils like how how do they
52:12
know how old these dinosaur bones and stuff were
52:15
whoa thank you for the donation bh longbow thank
52:21
you very much the heads up on rumble previous
52:24
thank you very much um so he he's having the
52:27
cigarette with me and i'm still looking at him
52:29
perplexed because i'm thinking where's the punch
52:30
line and he goes how can they tell how old these
52:34
things are and i Again, I go, you're joking,
52:37
right? And I said, there's this thing called
52:41
carbon dating. And he was like, but yeah, but
52:45
how do they know? I mean, I think it would have
52:47
been so scary for these like Neanderthals to
52:49
be running away from saber -toothed tigers and
52:52
dinosaurs. And I was like, did you walk through
52:57
the same installation? This could have been a
52:59
devout, this is a Robbie question. This is a
53:03
creationist. No, no, no. He wasn't religious
53:05
at all. And so he was like, he was like, yeah,
53:08
don't you think it would have been scary to run
53:10
away from saber -toothed tigers and, like, dinosaurs?
53:13
Well, I think saber -toothed tigers did live
53:15
at the same time as human beings. I don't know.
53:19
Saber -toothed tigers are not that old. But he
53:22
said running away from T -Rex. I could be wrong.
53:25
I'm gonna look that up. I could be totally wrong.
53:26
He said running away from fucking T -Rex. And
53:28
I said, you know, they didn't live at the same
53:31
time he goes but how do they know and i said
53:33
carbon dating oh i'm totally i'm totally wrong
53:35
yeah i didn't think they did but so again i go
53:38
carbon dating did you walk through the same installation
53:41
that i walked through actually no i'm not wrong
53:44
they they lived um the the until about eight
53:48
thousand years ago so yeah but the dude said
53:51
he was like i mean saber -toothed tigers have
53:54
attacked human beings they have but dude was
53:56
talking about running away from t -rex like this
53:59
is in the jurassic park movie and i was like
54:01
right and i'm now i'm mortified right and i feel
54:05
bad because the guy flew cross country to have
54:09
a date with me like he well you know i've got
54:12
to ask did he get lucky no i was so turned off
54:17
it was like the biggest boner kill ever because
54:20
i realized he's sweet and he's funny and he's
54:23
thoughtful and the few dates that we went on
54:25
back in California. Did you think like he's so
54:28
cute maybe I could educate him? No it was such
54:32
a turn off that I just suddenly the smells that
54:35
emanated from him that just the way he spoke
54:38
I saw every little spittle of saliva everything
54:40
suddenly was like oh no I can't stand you and
54:45
then we got in an argument about fucking carbon
54:48
dating. And I went, I'm sorry, this is not going
54:51
to work out. Like, you got to go. So then you
54:55
said there'd never be a future with you and me
54:58
then. If you guys both get divorced. You know
55:03
what the EPA is. You know what? Look at what
55:06
happened to to to Morning Joe after Nika and
55:11
Joe got together. You know, that show never that
55:14
great to begin with only got worse. Yeah. Well,
55:17
the thing is... Look at what happened when Chrissy
55:21
Hynde married Jim Kerr. Again, two great bands
55:24
got destroyed, the Pretenders and the Simple
55:26
Minds. If it was one thing, it might be like,
55:31
okay, well, everybody has a brain fart. But it
55:33
was like a series of things all compounded into
55:35
one day when I realized, oh, he has a college
55:39
degree. but he has a blue collar job so it was
55:42
kind of a toss -up and I was like oh we have
55:44
like the the ethnic thing going for us I don't
55:46
have to explain anything about culture and Asian
55:48
like he gets it right like food's not gonna be
55:50
weird Japanese people are are racist and they
55:55
have racial superiority and they look down on
55:58
you guys they're like oh Laotians are just there
56:01
to be eaten or whatever yeah but he grew up in
56:03
Hawaii so you know he's from Hawaii so So he
56:06
looked at me as like a local girl, like a brown
56:10
Asian girl. So he's like, oh, you look like home.
56:13
And no, no. So I would advise though, don't take
56:19
my story, every single woman out there, that
56:22
look, he was college educated and made good money,
56:28
but he was still dumb. Yeah, dumb is a non -starter
56:32
if you're Because I mean, it's just, it's depressing,
56:36
right? Like, it's okay if someone isn't well
56:42
-versed in your particular area, right? It's
56:45
totally like... I don't need them to be a political
56:47
or whatever, right? Although there has to be
56:50
equal respect. I dated a lady who was a very
56:53
accomplished scientist and she was... incredible,
56:57
not very smart about politics, but she was always
56:59
asking me about politics. So that helped her.
57:02
But when I was asking her about science, she
57:05
kind of like didn't want to talk about it, because
57:06
basically, she thought I was a science tard.
57:09
And compared to her, I was. And so, you know,
57:13
it wasn't things weren't equal there. And I was
57:15
kind of feeling like, you're just like, You're
57:18
like a brain. You're like a brain tumor. You're
57:21
just sucking my brains out for your own greater
57:24
glory. But I'm not getting anything out of this
57:26
relationship. I'm not learning anything. OK,
57:29
so I've got so I've got to know. And I'm trying
57:35
to think of a way to phrase this, it doesn't
57:36
make me sound like your Japanese friend who is
57:38
a complete and utter retard. Neither of you believes
57:44
in carbon dating, so you have that. Well, I mean,
57:46
that's where I'm going, right? So I mean, where
57:48
do you draw that line? Because there's plenty
57:51
of people who would go out of their way, because
57:54
they have, to call me stupid, because I don't
57:58
believe in carbon dating. I don't believe in
57:59
the idea of an old earth. I believe that the
58:01
earth is young. It was created. So in the scale
58:06
of retardation, Where do I land on that spectrum?
58:12
I don't know. It's not that he believed in it.
58:13
I'm so happy I don't have to answer this question,
58:15
Manila. You do. It's not that he had to believe
58:19
in carbon dating. That's different. He didn't
58:22
even understand where to begin with what carbon
58:26
dating was. He didn't know what the EPA was.
58:29
He didn't understand the theory of it, or even
58:31
that it existed. He didn't even understand. He
58:35
didn't believe it. He didn't believe in the new
58:37
the new the young earth. Right. So he just didn't
58:40
understand it. He had no wherewithal of like,
58:46
I guess he slept through this part of like, science
58:49
or history class or something in high school
58:51
or I don't know. But that's when I realized I
58:54
was like, Oh, my God, we walked through the same
58:57
thing and we did not see the same installation
59:01
like I was like, did you read the plaques on
59:05
the thing? Like, did you, did you read English?
59:09
That's what I'm saying. That's why with, with
59:13
college educated women, like I've, I've dated
59:17
a Burger King worker. I've never discriminated
59:20
as, cause I've known very smart people to come
59:22
from all walks of life, right? Like surprisingly,
59:25
like, hello, like Robbie, very smart dude, right?
59:28
True, true. Some redneck from. from the gulf
59:31
side of florida who'da thunk one of the most
59:35
intelligent people i know true ditto so i've
59:37
never discriminated but for what i find fascinating
59:42
about this story is that the college let's say
59:44
she's a lawyer let's say you know manila you're
59:46
ducking robbie's question though well you're
59:49
what was what was my what was the question i
59:51
answered it no you didn't robbie's question was
59:54
do you know do you because robbie doesn't believe
59:57
in carbon dating Would you look down on him as
1:00:01
a, you know, someone like him as a potential
1:00:05
dating partner because he believes the earth
1:00:08
is 6 ,000 odd years old. Believing in something
1:00:11
is different than not even being aware of it.
1:00:15
That's very different. I'm going to be mean here.
1:00:20
He's rejecting carbon dating. So in other words,
1:00:23
you would say it's okay to understand something
1:00:26
and then reject it. and reject it, than it is
1:00:30
to just be too stupid to understand it. Okay,
1:00:33
I get that, actually. Be completely unfucking
1:00:35
aware. You're unaware of what the EPA is. Well,
1:00:38
he never even heard of carbon dating. He didn't
1:00:40
even know. It was like you were like, so there's
1:00:42
a thing called... You're like in your 30s, and
1:00:44
you'd never ever heard of carbon dating? Like,
1:00:48
what's that? And I literally got so mean. And
1:00:51
it's not dating carbon. Yeah, I literally got
1:00:52
mean. Dating carbon -based creatures. I felt
1:00:55
so bad after I said this like before I told him
1:00:57
to get out. I was like, what the fuck are you
1:01:00
talking about? I was like You know, the Flintstones
1:01:03
is not a documentary, right? I Literally said
1:01:07
that to him and the moment it's tumbled out of
1:01:10
my mouth. I felt I Felt so bad. I was like, oh
1:01:15
no, like I mean and he said I could see the look
1:01:18
on his face He was just crushed and I was like
1:01:21
but no No, this cannot go any further. No, I
1:01:26
cannot procreate with you. I do not want to have
1:01:29
sex with you. No. No. Oh boy. Oh boy. Oh boy.
1:01:35
Bye. Meow meow. Guys, speaking of this, this
1:01:39
segues well with our breaking news about my favorite
1:01:42
California governor and also least favorite California
1:01:46
governor, Gavin Newsom. So an aide who had an
1:01:49
affair with Gavin Newsom. More than 20 years
1:01:52
ago, when he was the mayor of San Francisco,
1:01:55
has written a detailed account of the relationship
1:01:58
for Vanity Fair. The first person essay by the
1:02:02
aide, Ruby Rippey, who was his appointments secretary
1:02:06
at the time. And he was like, will you, will
1:02:09
you, can you pencil him in my pencil? Was published
1:02:15
just as he finishes his final year blah blah
1:02:18
blah prepares to run for president blah blah
1:02:20
blah blah blah blah so He had an affair with
1:02:25
Rippy She was the wife of Alex Tork a close friend
1:02:29
who was then serving as his reelection campaign
1:02:32
manager After previously working as his deputy
1:02:35
chief of staff. No was he married to Kim Guilfoyle
1:02:37
at that time? Probably not Turk had just told
1:02:41
Newsom he was resigning after learning about
1:02:43
the affair from his wife. In her essay, she doesn't
1:02:46
describe she doesn't use Newsom's name, but she
1:02:49
describes him as the mayor of San Francisco and
1:02:52
a man often described as Kennedy -esque. Obviously,
1:02:55
it's him. She blames herself for betraying her
1:02:58
husband and says that her life spiraled out of
1:03:01
control because she was drinking a lot and she
1:03:03
was coked up. She also Appears to blame Newsome
1:03:07
for holding so much power over her I'm getting
1:03:10
bored with this narrative ladies and for proceeding
1:03:13
with the affair. Anyway, she writes that Me too
1:03:16
everybody that their relationship began in the
1:03:19
summer of 05 went on for a few months off and
1:03:22
on I always go to him his penthouse in Russian
1:03:24
Hill a private back room at a North Beach bar
1:03:27
the W in Los Angeles she writes in her essay
1:03:30
we meet and we drink there is sex but it isn't
1:03:33
the point the point is proximity to power to
1:03:36
being chosen. So there's more and more detail.
1:03:40
So what is wrong with like a mechanic guy marrying
1:03:44
the uptown girl like Billy Joel says? Nothing.
1:03:50
Nothing at all. I mean, women for centuries have
1:03:52
done this for millennia have done this. Well,
1:03:55
no, it's usually gone the other way around. Historically,
1:03:58
it's always been, you know, most, I hate this
1:04:02
term, but most men have married down class -wise.
1:04:05
It's not been the other way around. But nowadays,
1:04:08
it has to be the other way around because men
1:04:10
and boys have fallen off a cliff. Women have
1:04:12
historically married up, right? Like a waitress
1:04:16
marries a lawyer, right? A flight attendant.
1:04:20
But now the wrinkle is you're marrying down,
1:04:23
but here's the question. What is class? Right?
1:04:26
So If a dude makes $500 ,000 a year, like I know
1:04:31
a dude who makes $500 ,000 a year. He's technically
1:04:34
a working class guy, but what's his job? He repairs
1:04:37
yachts and super yachts for people in the Hamptons,
1:04:40
OK? And he's one of the few people in the world
1:04:43
who can do this, right? So he's making bank.
1:04:46
He's a very smart guy, but he doesn't have a
1:04:48
Harvard degree. If you marry him, are you marrying
1:04:52
down because he's working class or are you marrying
1:04:54
up because he's rich? I mean, I don't know the
1:04:56
answer to that. Or if you marry a poet who makes
1:05:00
no money at all, but, you know, has a PhD from
1:05:04
and, you know, went to Iowa Writers Program,
1:05:07
blah, blah, blah, has a bunch of books. Are you
1:05:09
marrying up even though, you know, he's making,
1:05:12
you know, $20 ,000 a year? I know guys like that
1:05:14
too. Yeah. I look, I'm a realist. And I know
1:05:20
that that you also can't marry just a forever
1:05:24
dreamer like let's say an out of work actor right
1:05:27
and and let's say you are a high powered attorney
1:05:30
or whatever no you can but it ain't gonna work
1:05:33
because you're at some point gonna feel sick
1:05:36
as a woman you're gonna feel sick and tired of
1:05:40
of carrying the burden and i think a lot of men
1:05:42
feel this way too but less so more for the woman
1:05:45
because of a millennia of training women to feel
1:05:50
like They're the ones that should be taken care
1:05:52
of so even if you are the one quote wearing the
1:05:55
pants and you're a girl You're the one wearing
1:05:57
the pants and your dude is like some dreamy poet
1:06:00
He's so cute and he's so like romantic, but he
1:06:04
earns like, you know Ten bucks a day, you're
1:06:08
reading poetry outside of the 87 87th Street
1:06:11
Metro exit subway exit then Like you're probably
1:06:15
going to get sick of that. Like it just might
1:06:17
not. You might be like I knew a girl. She she
1:06:20
went to Harvard. She has a great job. She's a
1:06:23
top executive at a major NGO. She's making money.
1:06:27
She married a dreamy pot smoking, very good looking,
1:06:32
very sweet man. And, you know, and they have
1:06:37
lots of sex and he takes great care of their
1:06:39
kid. He's a stay at home dad. He just smokes
1:06:42
weed and plays video games. That's it. That's
1:06:46
the exception. He's a weed smoking kept man.
1:06:49
I know people like that too. The very rare rare
1:06:54
rare times you ever meet people like that. Those
1:06:56
are the exceptions Not the rule generally speaking
1:06:59
money is the number one reason people get divorced.
1:07:02
So while I While I support Women to not Not pigeonhole
1:07:12
anyone based on what they speak like what they
1:07:15
do for a living what they whatever I've always
1:07:18
been very open -minded about who I dated you
1:07:20
know went on and when i say dated i don't mean
1:07:23
like necessarily as my boyfriend but i mean going
1:07:25
on dates um i've never been closed minded about
1:07:28
that or any race any color there's some disabilities
1:07:32
in there i've never like it's never that's never
1:07:35
bothered me but for us girls we have to troubleshoot
1:07:38
rumble rumble studio we have to troubleshoot
1:07:40
um but this is what we're doing and ted you know
1:07:43
why they're marrying not cartoonists hey you
1:07:49
know why Because we're po because fucking AI
1:07:53
is stealing all the white collar jobs. So she
1:07:56
is going to want to marry the HVAC repair man.
1:07:59
She is going to want to, you know, that guy will
1:08:01
always have a job with the younger generation.
1:08:04
They know this might be a coxman. Did you all
1:08:07
see that? Don't pay the bills. Ted, the pain.
1:08:11
Don't pay the bills. Did you all see Elon's interview
1:08:14
that he did? I think it was last week talking
1:08:16
about he's predicting, but then 10 to 15 years.
1:08:19
There'll be no need to work at all. Yeah, AI
1:08:22
robotics. Well, no need to work. I mean, sure,
1:08:26
but they're just not going to give you any money
1:08:28
because we live under this horrible system. That's
1:08:30
an important prop. Seriously, Robbie, put a put
1:08:33
a pin in that. I want to talk about it like tomorrow.
1:08:36
I'm with Matina. Matina says I expect a man to
1:08:39
lead in the relationship. My sister. Though is
1:08:43
the boss in her family. She married for money
1:08:45
and now he's laid off. That happens too. That
1:08:48
can happen. Marrying for money is a mistake because
1:08:51
money may or may not last. Yep. And you know
1:08:54
what? Good looks fade. Stupid is forever. Yeah,
1:09:00
but coxmanship is forever too. You can't pay
1:09:04
the bills with the peen, Ted. I don't care how
1:09:07
well you lay pipe. If you ain't out on the street
1:09:10
or at a construction site doing it, I don't I
1:09:12
don't want to hear about it. The end. All right.
1:09:15
All right. So hit the thing and then we'll stay
1:09:18
on. We'll stay on. I'm learning. So the big red
1:09:22
button that says end stream. End stream. And
1:09:25
then does that kick us all out? No, we'll all
1:09:27
be here. If I hit end stream, does that play
1:09:30
the outro video or do I have to play the outro?
1:09:32
No. So here's how this is going to work. It's
1:09:34
an abrupt end. Yeah, because we don't have the
1:09:37
stuff in this room. No, I have it. So what we're
1:09:40
going to do. Uh, we're going to end the stream.
1:09:43
I'm going to log into, uh, to the TMI channel.
1:09:46
Manila. You log into Manila. You log into your
1:09:49
personal account, Ted being your personal account.
1:09:53
I will send you both the invite. I'll make you
1:09:54
both admins and I will fix this clusterfuck.
1:09:57
Thank you. Okay. Okay. I'm going to play. I'm
1:09:59
going to play the outro and then hit the end
1:10:02
stream. Yes. And it's hitting the end stream.
1:10:05
Manila is a two -part process. You hit the button
1:10:07
and then it's going to be like, are you really
1:10:09
sure? And you have to hit that. Want to end?
1:10:12
No, I want to keep talking forever on rumble
1:10:14
the whole fucking day. Happy Tuesday, guys. Bye.
1:10:19
See you tomorrow. Bye. You got to hit that button.
1:10:30
You got to push. It's not playing. It's playing.
1:10:34
Yeah, it's playing. We don't even see it. I see
1:10:37
it.