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Lake Mead’s Vanishing Water, School Paddling, Screen Time Science & Police Surveillance | TMI Ep 446 · The TMI Show with Ted Rall and Manila Chan

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Hello, good morning, happy Thursday. It's Thursday,
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August 20th, 2026. I'm Manila Chan. That be producer
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Robbie. Ted Roll is on his extended potty break.
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We won't get into the details as to why because
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then Ted likes to tell us TMI. He's old. He's
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old. He's an old pasty white guy. We'll all get
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there except the white guy part, I think, if
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we're lucky. Robbie. We're not too far behind
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Ted. I mean, let's be honest. We're closer to
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50. He'll always be in the lead. He will. He
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will. I'm Manila Chan. That's producer Robbie
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West, and you are tuned into the TMI show, Ted
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Miller Information Show. For the record, I do
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turn 50 in October. No. Yes. I've got a bit more
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gray in my beard than I used to. Is that right?
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Yeah. I thought you'd be like 48. I thought you
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were only like two years older than me. You're
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turning 50. I turned 50, but no, but as Casey
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likes to point out though, emotionally, I'm still
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like 15, which is true. You and your son right
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there, right there. Speaking of being my son
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like yesterday, it was great. It was the last
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night. I think it's the first time we've ever
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done this. We actually played a game co -op and
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we streamed it. It was so much fun. Oh, cool.
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Just me and him just going through, well, just
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wasting pixels. It was great. And Ray, he popped
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into the chat and said, Robbie, who are you playing
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with? And I told him, no, this is Thomas. And
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it was just, it was a lot of fun. We're going
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to be doing that again today after TMI. Oh, that's
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great. Are we going to raid? Yeah, we're still
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right over. Okay. Very cool. So stick around
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for that to help Robbie and mini Robbie out.
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And of course, we do this show live Monday through
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Friday at 10 a .m. Eastern time. We try to end
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around 11. So somewhere around there, we're going
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to we're going to send you over to Putin bot
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gaming. I see I see Ted walking back with his
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coffee, new cup of coffee. So we'll give him
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a second. We'll jump into the stories. I know,
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Robbie, you're probably pissed about the news
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that. I think Man Child mentioned this yesterday
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that that U .S. debt was going to hit 40 trillion.
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And sure enough, right after Man Child bounced
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from from the chat. Boom. U .S. debt hit 40 trillion.
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Yep. And there's Ted. It's more winning. So is
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it more winning for us? It's more winning, of
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course. It's so much winning. We have the best
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debt. We have the biggest debt. We have the most
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beautiful debt. And also. By the way, the funniest
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anti -Trump line I've heard recently was, you
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know how Trump sent out that image of the Strait
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of Hormuz as a US territory? As someone said,
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Iranian fisherman's wife gives birth in the Strait
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of Hormuz, demands birthright citizenship. That's
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pretty good. That's right, because if Guam is
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a US territory and the people, the Guamanians
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are U .S. citizens and the Puerto Ricans are
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U .S. citizens. You remember John McCain? He
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was born in the Panama Canal zone. Right. So
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same thing. So same thing, right? So if we do
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decide to make it U .S. territory, I think we're
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going to be getting a lot more Muslim -American
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babies. More friends for Robbie. Awesome. There's
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the 40 trillion at work. At work for the American
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people. You're welcome. You're welcome. No, why
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don't we just annex Oman? Oh, Oman's beautiful.
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I would be into that. That's what I'm saying.
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No, we would ruin it if we did that. Of course
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we would, but it'd be nice for a year or two.
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But then we could travel there, Ted. You and
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I have talked about like the annexed cargo. It's
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easy to travel there now. No, I'm saying. Except
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for the fact that it's far away. It's fucking
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18 hours away on a, literally on a nonstop. I've
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done this flight. I know. I've done it before
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too. Yeah. But Oman. I got to say is more beautiful
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than Dubai because it's not it's it's largely
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untouched by commercialization and I mean there's
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some of it there but but the Omanis really like
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to preserve their natural like the look of their
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country being like naturally you still see Bedouins
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out there with their camels and goats and shit
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like it's awesome Oman is beautiful so if you
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if anyone was looking to do a middle east adventure
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Dubai ain't it Dubai is Las Vegas meets Disneyland.
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That's probably the best way to put it, because
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you can't really have alcohol or anything. But
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the Omanis, man, they cut loose. It's beautiful.
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It's natural. Freaking go to Oman. It made me
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so sad when Trump the other day said that he'll
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bomb the shit out of Oman. Because he's insane.
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I was like, are you... What have the Omanis ever
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done to us? Nothing. Nothing at all. No, I mean,
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they've been straight shooters in the Middle
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East, something you can't say for everybody.
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The Omanis are great. They're largely a neutral
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country. They don't really get involved in the
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drama. They just want to chill, have a couple
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of drinks, hang out in the desert. The Omanis
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are great. The people are great. The vibe is
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so different. I love, love, love. True. It's
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very chill. The beach is nice. Love Oman. Oh,
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it's beautiful. Love, love, love, love, love
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Oman. Like probably my favorite place in the
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Gulf. So let's not. Well, that's a little bar.
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The Gulf kind of sucks. They got the best sand.
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They have the most beautiful sand. You have all
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the sand. Like I kind of a part of me is kind
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of like, hey, you know, I'd like to travel there
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without any visa restrictions. but but the more
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it's hardly any visa restrictions hardly for
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americans yeah but but if we had to annex someplace
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close ted i would say not the neighbors to the
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north because it's a fucking mostly a cold tundra
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let's go south And just, let's just start by
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taking Baja. Wait, but wait, Canada, it's not
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gonna be a cold tundra for more than another
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few months. I mean, it's gonna be tropical soon.
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Yeah, but Mexico already has the great climate
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and awesome food and the beaches. True, true.
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So if we're gonna, if we're gonna annex, if we're
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itching to annex somebody, can we annex, let's
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just start with Baja. It's already called Baja
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California, so we already know how to say it.
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Let's just take Baja. Baja, Baja. Baja, we'll
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take Baja, California. It's beautiful country,
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just saying. So anyway, with that. That's true.
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Let's head to the stories, but maybe, you know,
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let's do something, make the 40 trillion worthwhile.
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But the scorpions get voting rights. That's the
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important thing. They're historical lands, Robbie.
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That's funny. They should, they should have the
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same rights as like Native Americans. Or Israelis.
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Yeah. So I mean, yeah, they should influence
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our elections and everything just, just like
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that. May says we should leave the Mexicans alone.
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They have enough problems. Well, Pete Hegseth
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at the start of the administration said that
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we're going to go to war with the cartels and
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we're going to send troops. We have no bombs.
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Next is Annex. I know, but next is Annex. Who
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are we going to go to war with? We're not even
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going to be able to have a civil war. Hegsats
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said last year, because I remember tweeting back
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at him. Talk about full retard. He said that
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we are going to go to war with the cartels because
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the Trump administration has deemed them terrorist
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organizations. And so we're going to go to war
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with them. And they're thinking about boots on
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the ground. I was like, boots on the ground in
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Mexico? Like, seriously? Who do you think they
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are? guys are like Pancho Villa? Like what is
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this like? By the way, Pancho Villa kind of kicked
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us. He was more honest than what we currently
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have. Oh, I just got it. Remember yesterday I
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had that demand by that pastor that I was doing
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some work for from Tennessee. He just saw my
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apology and he just sent me an email. Oh, did
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he really? Yes. What did he have? Did he apologize
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to you for your apology? No, he said that was
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very unprofessional and that our business relationship
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is terminated. And all I can say is that's okay.
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You support the Israelis terminating unborn children.
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So I'm perfectly happy no longer doing work for
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you. Robbie, you're turning into the viral eyebrow
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lady here in Northern Virginia. I sent you guys
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the link the other day. If you guys don't know,
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there's this super hot Like afghan -american
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woman that owns an eyebrow studio here in Northern,
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Virginia Like like for threading and like that.
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Yeah, like like, you know, it's a beauty shop
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basically But like I clicked on the video and
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I was like, oh my god, she's like smoking hot.
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She's beautiful There's some hot. No, there's
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some hot afghan ladies for sure. It's like Smoking
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hot Afghan -American. I think she was probably
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born here based on the way she speaks. I mean,
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you know a lot of Afghans. They're basically
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Iranians, right? They're Persians. Beautiful
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woman. She videotaped when she got into it with
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a customer recently because the customer was
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talking to her as she's getting her brows done
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talking to the lady, the Afghan woman, and saying
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something about Israel and you know, like that
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she's half Jewish or half Israeli, something
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like that. And immediately the Afghan brow lady
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stopped working on her eyebrows, turned on her
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camera and told the customer, I'm sorry, I cannot
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serve you. Like, I do not support Zionist genocidist
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in my shop. Was the lady Jewish or was she Israeli?
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Or maybe both. I don't remember. Well, maybe
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both. But I mean, if she's just Jewish, that's
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really wrong. No, I don't know. Or did she express
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Zionist sentiment? Yes, the customer expressed
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Zionist sentiment to her. And the Afghan woman
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started saying, like, I don't support that here.
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Like, I cannot serve you. And now it's like a
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big kerfuffle, like here in D .C. And I think
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word is starting to spread. It's probably going
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to hit mainstream media very soon. Because see
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why yeah a pack a pack started tweeting about
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her immediately saying that this is what are
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they trying to get? Are they trying to get her
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more business or what? I I don't know but Like
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Kareem II brows, I think is the name of the the
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shop Kareem II brows kari mi and so she said
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I support Palestine and we you know, like I don't
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I Cannot take your money. I cannot do business
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with you please leave my shop and then take your
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furry brows. This guy, I've been doing work for
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him now for like a little over a year. He had
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a little Baptist church in East Tennessee and
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been doing their social media and video editing
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stuff. And so he sent me an email saying that
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he wanted me to repent from my sins for slandering
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God's chosen people, the Jews, and my opposition
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to Israel. And that he expected me to make this,
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to make this apology publicly on the program,
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because that's where I espouse my anti -Semitic,
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anti -Zionist, anti -Israel. By the way, out
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of curiosity, let's just say you were a mega
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pussy and you decided to do this, right? A public
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apology? Let's just say you were like, Oh, I
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really need his like whatever he's paying you
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every month. $100 a month as I'm making, $100
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a month. $100, so let's just say that you really
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needed that $100 a month that bad that you decided
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that you're going to suck Zionist cock and you're
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going to go on D program and do that. Let's just
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say for the sake of argument, why would he be
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satisfied with such a statement knowing that
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it's obviously not only dishonest, but you wouldn't
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really be, I mean, If you, it's not like he changed
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your mind. Not changing hearts and minds. Yeah.
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Yeah. He's just bullying you into, into doing
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what he wants you to do. I mean, doesn't he actually
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want you to change your mind? Of course not.
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It's, it's, it's a humiliation ritual. That's
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what this is. This is about humiliation. This
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is about getting on your knees, publicly apologizing
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for having a, for having an opinion that's different
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from his. And yesterday on the show, I said,
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uh, I do not support your I stand for the cross,
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not the star rim fan, and I'm pretty sure I told
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him to eat a dick. Who is this guy? Like Lindsey
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Graham, part two? $100 a month? Blow me. I mean,
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everyone's got a price, but no one's price is
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$100 a month. You were doing a favor to the church.
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Homeless people get more money than that. Yes.
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In a good day of begging in New York, you're
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going to get more than that. I don't know. You
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guys mark my words, though. Watch what happens
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to the eyebrow lady and see like I I hope she
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said the the eyebrow lady did a follow -up video
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the next day and she said I Actually appreciate,
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you know a pack and all these people tweeting
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about me She's like cuz now I'm gonna take the
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opportunity to let you guys know that I'm opening
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up a go fund me for the cause of Palestine or
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whatever and she's like I'm gonna donate all
14:17
that money to whatever organization she said.
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So, if you guys want to help, help me and help
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Palestine, help Gaza, then you can donate, blah,
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blah, blah. So, she's taking full advantage of
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this Zionist outrage, I guess. So, good on her.
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And she's a local lady. If I paid for services
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like eyebrow stuff, I would go, but I do my own.
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So, I do my own everything. Like a modern -day
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homesteader your eyebrows are fine Thank you.
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Thank you. I'm like a modern -day homesteader
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Listen listen if we were my own brows if we were
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single, I would call you and tell you how sexy
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I think that your eyebrows are We just have all
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kinds of we have all kinds of inappropriate conversations
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I grew these myself. What do you think? Manila,
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are you really that yellow? It was just a camera.
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It's so sexy. It's so beautiful. I had to reinstall
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the thing. So you guys let me know if the color
15:20
looks weird or what. I had to reinstall the camera
15:22
app. You look like a lemon. I don't know what
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to do because it wants to work. Their new camera
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app wants to work with the new camera. I had
15:31
to uninstall, try to find the old version of
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the camera. Just whatever. I'm working through
15:36
it. So, you're going to have to deal with lemonhead
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manila. So, there you go. All right. Let's get
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to the story. Well, you're Asian. It's okay.
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I'm supposed to be yellow, damn it. Is what it
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is. All right. First story, Lake Mead. Back towards
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the motherland. I mean, a lot of people in the
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motherland go to Lake Mead. So, this is like…
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kind of California adjacent. So Lake Mead's shrinking
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water levels are revealing more than just dry
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shoreline. On August 16th, visitors near Boulder
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Beach, I mean that's a little corner of it that
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they call beach, it's not much of a beach, discovered
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what appeared to be human remains including a
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jawbone with teeth still attached in the shallow
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water. Authorities say there's currently no indication
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of foul play. And the Clark County coroner -
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Well, there's probably no indication of much
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of anything at this point. Right, it's a freaking
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job. Okay, so anyway, several sets of human remains
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have surfaced as Lake Mead has receded in recent
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years, including a man found inside a barrel
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in 2022, who investigators believe was shot decades
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ago. Obvious suicide. Obviously he did this to
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himself. But the bigger story is what's happening
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to the lake itself. Lake Mead is now roughly
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180 feet lower than when the reservoir is full.
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It currently holds about 7 million acre feet
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of water compared with more than 26 million acre
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feet at full operating capacity. Yeah, that's
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catastrophic. That's a lot. It's basically at
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about just a little bit over a quarter full.
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That's some good math, Ted. That's why I have
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you here. Put another way. Even I can multiply
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seven times four. Put another way. That's a loss
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of roughly six trillion gallons of stored water.
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The decline has been driven by years of drought
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and unusually dry conditions. It's a freaking
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desert. I was going to say, I don't know how
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unusual it is. I guess it is because it used
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to have 26. you know million acre feet so yeah
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there's poor mountain snowpack intense heat and
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evaporation combined with water being drawn from
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the reservoir faster than it can be replenished
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cue the data centers like meat alone can lose
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roughly 800 000 acre feet about 260 billion gallons
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just to evaporation alone in a typical year the
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result is increasingly visible expanding shorelines,
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a growing white bathtub ring, abandoned infrastructure,
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and objects that have been underwater for decades
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suddenly reappearing. The human remains make
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for a startling headline, but the real story
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is the enormous amount of water that's no longer
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there. So the water part, Ted, you know how much,
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we've talked about this several times, how these
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data centers are trying to pop up everywhere,
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especially, what's his name, Mr. Wonderful or
18:43
whatever on? Yeah. Yeah, Kevin O 'Leary. That's
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it. Kevin O 'Leary. He's like trying to open
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a bunch of data centers out there, like in the
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Vegas region, right? In the vast expanse of the
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desert because Las Vegas does have the electric
18:59
infrastructure needed and Lake Mead is there
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with the water infrastructure. You need water,
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tons, shit tons of water to cool these data centers.
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Lake Mead is a quarter full. Like that's... That's
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no bueno, number one. But number two, the conspiracy
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theorist in me, the West Coaster in me is like,
19:21
ooh, Lake Mead's drying up. What does this mean
19:25
about all the mobster bodies that have gone missing?
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Well, now we know. Well, so the man in the barrel,
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2022, I haven't followed up on the case, but
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I remember going, ooh, that's just the first
19:37
indicator. And I looked this up today and I have
19:40
it. But there are, they still call them myths,
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Ted. I don't know why they insist on calling
19:45
them myths, but they say the mobster myth surrounding
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Lake Mead is like basically when Las Vegas was
19:51
founded and Lake Mead was developed because it's
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man -made. It was made about, they started digging
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roughly almost not quite a hundred years ago,
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but it's operational 90 -ish years. So right
20:05
around when the Las Vegas strip was being developed.
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And then coincidentally, all these people go
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missing, Ted, in the mobster era of Vegas. I
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don't know. Maybe we're just, you know, people
20:18
on the West Coast were drawing conclusions. But
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if the dude in the barrel they think was shot
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decades ago and stuffed in a barrel, it's one...
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Clearly. One guy. There's got to be more like
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him in the lake now that the lake is drying up.
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and like a jawbone washing ashore and like a
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family sitting there like along the shore and
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they're like daddy what's that it's like can't
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be a shark bone so what do you think is there
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going to be more more mysteries unraveled as
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the lake continues to dry out, because we're
21:02
probably going to get to zero pretty soon. And
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it's going to be like the Salton Sea, if you're
21:06
familiar with that. You guys, the patch of desert
21:09
between basically like Eastern San Bernardino
21:13
County of Southern California and the Arizona
21:15
desert. It was called the Salton Sea, and it's
21:20
all dried up now. So that was a natural. That
21:23
was. Well, didn't it come and go? Kind of? Yeah.
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So the waters would come and they would go from
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the rains and it would wash in, it would flood.
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But the point being now is that there is no water
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there ever. Ever. It's gone. Ever. Because I've
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driven through there a million times when I used
21:43
to anchor out of Arizona and drive home to visit
21:47
my mom. The Salton Sea is bone dry. So there's
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not a drop of water in the Salton Sea, but we
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still call it the Salton Sea. I'm sure there
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are mysteries there, as well as some, you know,
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missing persons that'll turn up. There's a couple
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that I read about this just this morning, specifically
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tied to like the Chicago mob that people suspect
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are hidden in Lake Mead, hidden in the... I don't
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know. Well, I have a question for you. I'm sure
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you know the answer to this is... Is Lake Mead
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a drinking reservoir? What is the purpose of
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it? They draw water from it to feed crops. Maybe
22:38
it's not municipal drinking water, but I don't
22:40
know. I was like, are people drinking corpse
22:43
juice? Ew. Oh, I don't know. I don't know if
22:48
they clean it up, but obviously it's used for
22:52
Some other municipal purposes. I don't know where
22:55
the water actually gets drawn to and from But
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it's getting used up. I mean as the article says
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getting used up faster than its filling and the
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natural Modality of filling is not coming. So
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no snowpack no rain But I just want to touch
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on this uh this mobster thing so if they said
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the AI says, whenever a body or bone fragment
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surfaces at Lake Mead, public speculation immediately
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points to Tony the Ant Spolotro, the ruthless
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Chicago mob enforcer. The Ant. The Ant, who inspired
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Joe Pesci's character in Martin Scorsese's film,
23:41
Casino. The lore is that... Was he a small little
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dude? I mean... Joe Pesci is a small little dude,
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so he must be. That's why I'm asking. Rumors
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claim Spolotro or his Hole in the Wall gang personally
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use Lake Mead as their primary dumping ground
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for the 25 plus murders attributed to them. All
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right. But official stories say that Spolotro's
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crew operated heavily in Sin City during that
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timeframe of the barrel guy, but many mob historians
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note that the mafia generally preferred burying
24:27
victims out in the vast open desert. Okay, so
24:33
we're around there. There is one good thing.
24:38
The desert would just seem like a better place
24:40
because it's more easily controlled. Go ahead,
24:44
Robbie. The new AI data centers don't actually
24:47
use water anymore. They are air -cooled now.
24:50
So that's a plus. Now the downside of that is
24:53
that they require even more electricity now for
24:55
the fans of heat sinks than they did before.
24:58
So that's why they're looking at small private
25:02
nuclear reactors. So the water is no longer the
25:09
problem with the data centers. Really what the
25:12
issue is, is that we're building cities and deserts
25:14
where there really shouldn't be in the first
25:16
place. Peter, thank you for the donation. Peter
25:19
says, most of the Colorado River water is used
25:23
for agriculture, but some goes to municipal water
25:26
systems as far away as Phoenix. Yes, and they
25:29
are, for the Colorado River, they are also fighting
25:33
indigenous tribes for water rights because there's
25:37
just the Colorado River's drying up too. I mean,
25:41
at any rate, the data centers, I think the cheapest
25:45
way. Yeah, they are drinking corpse juice. Yeah,
25:48
there's. Oh, no. Oh, yeah. If you live in California,
25:53
Arizona, Nevada or parts of Mexico, you've got
25:57
like that tasty corpse juice. So it's just like
26:03
the girl in the water. the water reservoir thing
26:07
on the rooftop in downtown LA. Exactly. Or like
26:11
the pigeons that I talked about in New York.
26:16
The little Asian girl, all the guests at this
26:20
hotel were complaining that the tap water, when
26:21
they're brushing their teeth or whatever, it's
26:23
like, tastes weird. They're like, oh, it tastes
26:26
like Chinese food. Oh, poor girl. What a strange
26:33
story. They had a whole Netflix thing about that
26:35
girl, by the way. And I assume you've heard these
26:37
stories about the Danube River, particularly
26:42
around Serbia, where the water levels have dropped
26:45
so much due to the drought that old World War
26:49
II sunken Nazi ships that were bombed are resurfacing.
26:54
Well, they're not really resurfacing. They're
26:55
being revealed. Oh, I didn't hear that part.
26:58
I read about the, obviously, the Danube dropping
27:03
to historic lows, but I didn't know that they
27:06
were revealing four mysteries. There's also some
27:07
famous boat that was revealed, I guess it's today.
27:12
So let's see, what was the other thing? Oh, mammoth
27:15
bones have resurfaced from the Danube. Wow. The
27:22
ship called the Slovenian resurfaced from the
27:26
Sava River in Serbia. So this is like... They
27:31
were not talking about Melania Trump. The Slovenian
27:33
was built in 1913. It was a steam -injured vessel
27:39
about 54 meters long. And it was owned by the
27:43
Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenia that eventually
27:47
became Yugoslavia. And it sank... when it hit
27:51
a German mine at the end of World War II in April
27:54
1945. And there it has remained. Oh, speaking
27:59
of that era of like 1913, like pre -World War
28:02
I, I read, and I sent this to you guys, I don't
28:04
know if you guys read it, but apparently in Great
28:08
Britain in that era, pre -World War I, they were
28:13
actually considering, and these were scientists
28:17
at the time, engineers and scientists at the
28:19
time. Were considering making warships out of
28:24
ice Okay, so someone had been smoking some serious
28:32
weed and that they presented it to like, you
28:35
know the higher -ups and whatever and they were
28:36
like They're like dudes. I have this idea It
28:43
was made of they said it would be packed ice
28:45
with like sawdust or for some reason and that
28:49
this is what they would be able to protect the
28:52
cold like Nordic regions with because it's ice
28:57
ship, ice ship. Like I was like, really? You
29:01
guys really thought of this? Like, why if the
29:04
word thought was really the right word? But yeah,
29:07
it was a whole article. Yeah, someone came up
29:09
with this idea and it actually went high enough
29:12
that they almost took it to the Royal Palace
29:16
to be like, like, Your Highness, we've come up
29:19
with a plan to. Good news. Well, you know, there
29:24
you go. Anyway, that's enough with the weird
29:26
water stories or lack thereof. But back then,
29:29
I guess the problem didn't exist, right? In the
29:32
1910s, I guess this drought stuff wasn't like
29:34
an issue. Well, I mean, they had droughts, but
29:36
it wasn't like this. Okay. Well, there you go.
29:41
All right. Jaws it away. All right. If you thought
29:45
that paddling students disappeared with chalkboards
29:48
and overhead projectors, think again. Corporal
29:52
punishment is still legal. You might not know
29:54
this in public schools. That's in 15 states.
29:58
So your teacher or principal can hit a student
30:03
with a wooden paddle as punishment for misbehavior.
30:06
In some districts, parents can opt their children
30:09
out, but in others, policies are varied. And
30:13
this is not merely an old law gathering dust.
30:16
According to the latest federal data, about 24
30:19
,500 public school students, I don't know who's
30:22
counting this, received corporal punishment in
30:26
the 2021 -2022 school year. Black boys represented
30:30
about 8 % of K through 12 employment, but you
30:35
can see where this is going, 20 % of the students
30:38
are subjected to corporal punishment. Supporters
30:41
have long, now I don't know if that's within
30:43
the schools or like, you know, in other words,
30:47
black kids are being disproportionately targeted
30:49
for corporal punishment, or if it's like predominantly
30:54
black schools are more likely to have. Corporal
30:57
punishment. It doesn't say. Anyway, um... What's
31:01
in the South, right? NPR said. But it just sort
31:05
of says overall, right? So, among all. It doesn't
31:08
split the data. Anyway, supporters have long
31:10
argued that paddling provides immediate consequences
31:14
for bad behavior. Well, I mean, that's not an
31:16
argument. That's true. And can offer an alternative
31:19
to suspension, something that NPR highlights
31:22
through one Arkansas mother who was given the
31:24
choice between having her kid paddled or keeping
31:28
him home for three days. She couldn't afford
31:30
to miss work, so she chose the paddling. Medical,
31:34
the American Academy of Pediatrics does not like
31:38
this, however. They say it doesn't improve behavior
31:41
and is associated with increased aggression,
31:44
stress, depression, and lower self -esteem. So
31:48
the question is, why is this still on the books?
31:54
don't believe in corporal punishment, even by
31:56
parents, but I certainly don't think that under
31:59
any circumstance, it's a school bureaucrat's
32:03
job to lay a hand on your kid. No. No, absolutely
32:08
not. I'm not against when they're little, like
32:12
a spanking, but absolutely not. Why when they're
32:15
little? What about when they're 30? No. Well,
32:18
when you're 30 and somebody's saying, call me
32:20
daddy, that's a different subject, Ted. But in
32:26
their little puppy brains, just like with puppies,
32:30
they need immediate consequences because they
32:32
can't connect the dots. So if you punish them,
32:35
if you catch them in the act doing something
32:36
bad, I get that. You need the immediacy because
32:40
they're little ones. And I'm not saying beat
32:42
their ass. I'm saying just a swat and that's
32:45
enough to scare them. But paddling in schools,
32:51
there's enough research to know that this often
32:54
and usually backfires from schools. My mom went
33:00
to... She grew up in Laos going to a French Catholic
33:04
school. Oh, boy. Thanks, Ted. I know where this
33:08
shit goes. This is like the 60s and 70s. The
33:19
nuns with their rulers, she said, was a well
33:24
-known thing in the 60s. So, you know, they start
33:29
with the hand. Yeah, my mom and, you know, back
33:31
then, the rulers were not plastic, they were
33:35
wood. Right. So, yeah, she said that was commonplace
33:41
and she said that, you know, it doesn't happen
33:43
anymore in Laos. Look, how about you? Do you
33:47
ever get paddled at school? At school? No. God
33:51
no. I'm from California. God no. They stopped
33:54
doing that a million years ago. I'm from California.
33:57
It's not like you didn't deserve it. That's probably
34:00
true. No, I was a good kid at school. I saved
34:02
it for off campus. I got paddled at school. You
34:08
guys paddled in Ohio? Yeah. So last time I was,
34:15
I guess this was 10th grade. Yeah. In 10th grade?
34:21
They wanted to paddle me in third grade. Yeah.
34:26
I get it when you - Yeah, I get that when you're
34:27
nine. In third grade, it was for running down
34:29
the hall. Like fine, I get that for like a nine
34:34
-year -old. No, I talked my way out of it. And
34:37
then in the - A fifteen -year -old? No. In junior
34:41
high school, they were crazy about paddling at
34:44
Dwight L. Barnes Junior High School, man. They
34:46
loved that shit. So this is for every grade level
34:48
where you were at? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
34:50
K through 12. And I remember there was one time
34:55
when… So the school was shaped like a horseshoe,
34:57
like a U. And you only had five minutes between
35:01
class, so a lot of kids would cut… between, you
35:05
know, if they had to get from one end of the
35:07
school to the other, it was hard to do that in
35:09
five minutes. So they would like cut across the
35:12
courtyard, right? And that was normally okay.
35:15
But one time they were like, you ended up in
35:16
the gym to do that. And they were like, today
35:19
we're waxing the floor. So don't cut through
35:23
there. And if you do, you will be paddled. We're
35:27
all like, whatever, fuck you. So, you know, we're
35:33
like, you know, our little brains are like 13
35:35
years old. We're like, fuck you, do what we want.
35:37
And of course they just sat there with a clipboard
35:39
and wrote down the names of every kid who went
35:42
through there. And then at gym class, they lined
35:44
us all up and swatted us like down the line,
35:47
boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. Like, see,
35:50
that's, I feel like getting... At the long end
35:54
I remember one kid broke his hand because he
35:56
reached back to try to stop it at the last second
35:59
I mean this was not by the way like a like a
36:02
this was this was not like a sort of Like it's
36:06
not a ceremonial event This is like you ended
36:09
up with a welt that would make it hard to sit
36:11
for like a week. I mean it was like a See, I'm
36:16
not okay with random strangers at fucking school
36:19
laying a finger on you. And it wasn't a ruler,
36:22
either. It was a paddle. It was a, you know.
36:24
Like a proper paddle, yeah. Like a proper paddle,
36:26
probably about half to, I would say half an inch,
36:29
maybe three quarters of an inch thick. Oh, I
36:31
have a paddle. Why? Why? I'll let Robbie explain.
36:37
You can blame me. Robbie convinced me. So when
36:41
he was when my son was little so I mean, we don't
36:43
really use it now like he because it worked You
36:48
apply the spoon of the psychologist of the future
36:51
need an income to Well, you know what if you
36:54
if you have a feral child who does not respect
36:58
you and doesn't respect authority then that kid
37:01
So I think it's simple to run the house and that's
37:03
not how that things works in the real world Sorry,
37:06
Ted. So what you do is that you tell the kids...
37:09
I wonder where the fuck disrespectful children
37:13
could get being sassy genetically from the likes
37:16
of us. How could that have happened? Well, corrective
37:19
action is a thing, as you full well know. And
37:22
so there is a hierarchy of incentives and those
37:26
are positive or negative incentives. And if you
37:29
do this... This made me more likely to try to
37:31
get away with it. That's all. Uh, listen, if
37:35
you were my kid and you were back talking my
37:37
wife, who I married, I would have tanned your
37:42
lily white hide. I would just, no, I wouldn't
37:45
be back talking. I would just be. That wasn't
37:48
my thing. That wasn't my shit. I worked on it
37:51
on the DL always pulling shit. Me too. Me too.
37:55
So I never got in trouble at school. It was at
37:58
home that I was like super mischievous. Um, but
38:01
we're, you know, away from. like prying eyes
38:04
of the adults. But when it comes to school doing
38:08
this, I feel like there's so much opportunity
38:12
for literal abuse. The people that are sick and
38:18
either get turned on by this or they want to
38:24
inflict pain on children, there are just cruel
38:26
people out there in the school system. I don't
38:29
trust some stranger to discipline my kid. That's
38:33
my job. They don't have standing. Right. If you
38:36
want to give them detention, like in my middle
38:39
school, if you were. Detention doesn't do anything.
38:42
How many of these kids? They made us scrape gum.
38:46
They made us clean the school and scrape gum,
38:48
like clean the graffiti off of the desks and
38:50
lockers. We had to scrape nasty gum from underneath.
38:54
Do you feel like it? Do you feel like it did
38:55
you? Did it did anything to improve your behavior
38:58
or your. or improve you in any way, shape, or
39:02
form. It wasn't detention like the way you saw
39:04
in like the breakfast club. This was like, they
39:06
made us do shit. So I don't want to do shit.
39:08
You're not answering my question. It made me
39:12
improve. Like it just made me not get caught.
39:14
Got better at being slick. Yeah, that was my
39:17
main takeaway whenever I got hit. I mean, I think
39:21
the way of doing it would be just instead of
39:24
hiring a janitorial staff, make the kids clean
39:26
the school. That way, if there's a kid who is
39:30
vandalizing something, that kid may end up getting
39:33
a marine shower because he's making life harder
39:35
for everybody else. Marine shower, people don't
39:37
know you put soap in a sock and beat the hell
39:40
out of them with it. So there's different ways
39:44
that you're able to do these kinds of things.
39:48
Listen, I did not have very much formal public
39:51
education. I did get a spanking in elementary
39:54
school because Oh yeah. And elementary school
40:00
by the substitute teacher. She's a black lady.
40:02
She's just really mean, really obnoxious. And
40:03
I dropped the hard R on her. I did. She was just
40:10
mean. She was mean. She was mean, mean, mean.
40:14
And I'd had enough. I'm pretty sure she was racist.
40:17
We had a mean, um, British substitute teacher
40:20
regularly through elementary school. She taught
40:22
every grade Mrs. Sykes. Her name was Sykes and
40:26
she was like - S -Y -K -E -S, yeah. Yes, Mrs.
40:29
Sykes. I still remember her. I still maintain
40:32
my teachers had the best names. There was my
40:36
sex ed teacher in seventh grade, Mrs. Seaman.
40:39
Ted, no, Ted. Yeah, it's true. S -E -A -M -E
40:43
-N. And then there was my math teacher, Mr. Kill.
40:49
Hard to beat. Wow. Well, Mrs. Sykes scared every
40:54
kid, because she had that stern British accent.
40:58
And she would dress the part. She was like the
41:01
squatty and wide, mean old schoolteacher was
41:06
like tightly wound to her hair was tightly wound
41:08
up in the back and she's like making as wide
41:12
as she is tall and she would wear like she would
41:14
always wear like a pencil skirt with like a knit
41:18
sweater top and a blazer. and she was stern and
41:22
she'd always hold the ruler as if she was gonna,
41:25
maybe it was okay in the UK, but the kids here,
41:28
we knew, like you can't touch us, but she was
41:31
always slapping the ruler on her hand as if to
41:34
like, you know. To terrorize you guys. Yeah,
41:38
so I always remember that and I always like disliked
41:41
her. I don't remember one nice memory of that
41:44
lady. And I think like that's not the role of,
41:48
teachers or administrators, like you're there.
41:52
Sure. It's why do you feel, how do you feel about
41:55
that? Do you feel like, um, schools should be
41:57
in the position of, uh, of, of hitting your kid
42:00
or not? No, it's hard to say because a lot of,
42:08
a lot of kids, y 'all both know this, our products
42:10
are broken homes. There's no, there's no disciplines,
42:12
no authority at home. There's no authority figure.
42:15
And so more and more schools are more like a
42:18
daycare. And if the classroom is chaotic, there's
42:22
no learning that's happening because the people
42:25
who don't want to be there, the people who are
42:26
disrupting are just stealing the education for
42:28
everybody else. So either A, you need to enforce
42:32
discipline in the classroom, or B, you just tell
42:34
them, just go someplace else. And by going someplace
42:37
else, I mean put them to work, like make them
42:39
go work in the cotton field, picking cotton.
42:41
Give them an option. So you have the choice.
42:45
to get an education, or you can see what life
42:49
is like without one. You can go dig a ditch.
42:54
You can go pick cotton. There are things that
42:56
you're able to do. You can't just, you got to
43:00
have order in a classroom because without it,
43:02
there's no learning that happens. If we look
43:05
around now at like the Teenage kids now like
43:10
running around doing the knock -knock game so
43:12
they could put it on YouTube, right? Like hitting
43:14
literally running and punching random adults
43:17
like at the mall or on the street or whatever
43:19
those little shit asses probably are the kids
43:23
that would have responded to to immediate enforceable
43:27
punishment like There are certain psychological
43:30
types. That's the thing like not every kid responds
43:34
to Whatever whatever you put before them the
43:37
same Kids are different. They're people. But
43:41
there is a type and the types of kids that I'm
43:45
talking about running around punching strangers
43:47
for social media, those are probably the kids
43:51
that could benefit from swift, immediate punishment.
43:56
And I would say us as a culture, when you're
43:58
handling those kids out in public, yes, I would
44:02
support putting hands on some stranger's teenager.
44:06
They're assaulting you. Yes But but as us as
44:10
a culture, we've been trained like oh don't touch
44:12
other people's kids cuz you're gonna get sued
44:14
Well that instance but in that instance No fucking
44:18
teenager running around doing the the knock -knock
44:21
prank by going to lights out an old man Walking
44:25
at the mall walking a little Asian lady in front
44:28
of a train right personal down the stairs No,
44:32
us as a culture, that's where, you know, there's
44:35
a fine line between immediate repercussions and
44:41
corporal punishment. And I think because we've
44:44
been told corporal punishment is writ large,
44:47
entirely bad, we shouldn't do it, now the entire
44:50
culture is like, oh, I can't respond when someone's
44:53
being an obnoxious asshole and causing physical
44:56
harm to somebody else. So we've created like
44:59
a country of pussies. Well, it's not even that.
45:03
For example, it's not physical harm if you're
45:06
in a classroom and you have 40 kids in the class
45:08
and you have six or eight kids in there who are
45:11
just obnoxious, talking, just being a disruptive
45:15
nuisance. No learning can happen then. Listen,
45:18
either you have order or you don't. You cannot
45:20
have learning without order. You cannot have
45:22
a society without order. And to have order, you
45:25
got to have consequences whenever someone violates
45:27
that order. This isn't a secret. This is the
45:30
human condition. Either you have anarchy or you
45:33
have rules. It's a binary choice. It's kind of
45:35
like being a man or a woman. There is no middle
45:37
ground. It's one or the other. And if you have
45:41
rules, then there have to be consequences for
45:44
violating those rules. While those consequences
45:46
are open for debate, I mean, the way that I would
45:49
do it with the school, I'm serious. These kids
45:53
are just disruptive. I would take them out of
45:54
the classroom. and I would go put them to work
45:57
in a chain gang or something. I would show them,
45:59
this is your future. If you don't avail yourself
46:03
of the education being provided for you by the
46:05
taxpayer, this is the life that you have to look
46:08
forward to. Give them a glimpse into their future.
46:13
I agree, but violence, like immediate violence,
46:17
if you're 12 years old and your teacher takes
46:19
out a paddle to hit you, I'm not okay with that.
46:23
That's not the teacher's place. That's not the
46:25
teacher's place. That's the parent's place. That
46:30
says something about, and somebody said this
46:32
in the chat, it says more about you as a parent
46:36
or as a family if your kid is such an asshole
46:38
that the school wants to paddle your kid. That
46:43
says more about you as a parent that you're raising
46:45
a little shit ass. Agreed. And I think that's
46:48
true. It's one thing to run in the hallway. It's
46:52
another thing to raise the little asshole that's
46:55
going to go punch an old person for social media
46:58
likes. All right. We got to keep going here.
47:00
Let me tell you, we're running way behind here.
47:03
If somebody, and I don't care how old you are,
47:06
if you try to put hands on my wife, I'm going
47:08
to bury you. Well, I think you guys don't live
47:13
in the big city. Let's go. Let's go. All right,
47:21
parents, more kid stuff. Parents have spent years
47:23
hearing the same warning, get the kids off the
47:25
screen. But a new long -term study suggests the
47:29
story may be more complicated and considerably
47:31
less alarming. Researchers in Finland followed
47:35
children for eight years and found that kids
47:38
who accumulate more screen time while growing
47:40
up actually tended to show better cognitive processing
47:44
as teenagers. The study included 260 adolescents,
47:49
that's 124 girls, 136 boys. Seems very binary,
47:53
Ted, boys and girls. With an average age of like
47:57
between 15 and half, let's say. Researchers evaluated
48:01
learning, attention, and working memory and tracked
48:05
physical activity and sedentary behavior. Which
48:11
wouldn't screen time fall into that? And using
48:15
questionnaires as well as devices measuring their
48:18
movement and their heart rate. The important
48:21
catch, scientists are not saying that unlimited
48:23
TikTok, gaming, or doom scrolling makes children
48:26
smarter. Instead, the researchers believe what
48:29
children are doing on their screens may be critically
48:32
important. Activities involving learning, creativity,
48:36
problem -solving, and active thinking could help
48:38
explain the positive association, and the study
48:42
found an association. It did not prove that screen
48:45
times caused better cognition. Physical activity
48:48
still matters. Girls who engage in more light
48:51
physical activity showed better working memory,
48:54
while boys who participated more in guided physical
48:58
activity performed better on working memory tests.
49:01
The research published in Pediatric Exercise
49:05
Science. You gotta love these trade publications.
49:08
I love them. Who titles that like why why? Pes
49:15
pests exercise science offers parents a more
49:20
encouraging message than the familiar Screens
49:23
are bad warning. The goal may not be eliminate
49:25
eliminating screens altogether It may be finding
49:28
a healthy balance and making sure some of the
49:31
screen time actually makes the brain work And
49:33
I'm a big fan of this like especially with as
49:39
many kids that are falling into the spectrum,
49:42
having spectrum disorder, a lot of kids that
49:44
are on the spectrum respond better to screens
49:48
than people, right? Especially the ones that
49:51
are more, that display the more common or well
49:57
-known, I should say, characteristics of like
49:59
autism, for example, without like the human eye
50:00
contact and lack of empathy or unable to show
50:03
the empathy, they respond better. to to screen
50:08
so you can do a lot of learning on screens like
50:10
I I let my son use screens like ever since he
50:12
was little he was a late talker this he like
50:15
but he it's it's dependent on what they do on
50:19
the screen right like like this article like
50:22
this finished study proved was or at least seems
50:26
to allude to is that it's the the It's not just
50:31
quantity of screen time. It's the quality of
50:34
screen time And we did hooked on phonics like
50:38
me and my son, like we did, but hooked on phonics
50:40
has expanded. They do like, they have hooked
50:42
on math, hooked on blah, blah, blah, hooked on
50:45
science. And we did all of that. I let him watch
50:48
all the time. I let him watch different like
50:52
kids science shows. And that he, my kid's like
50:56
a frigging weird eight year old, he's almost
50:59
eight, eight year old tornado expert. Like, he
51:02
loves tornadoes for some reason. And world landmarks
51:07
and stuff like that. Like, he learns better than
51:11
when he's at school. Because he would be one
51:14
of the kids that would get paddled by, you know,
51:15
from the previous story. Because he's bored to
51:18
death by what's being taught at school. So he
51:20
gets up to go, like, play with the science stuff.
51:23
And then when the teacher asks questions, he
51:25
turns around, raises his hands, like, I know,
51:27
I know. Just because he's bored to death. because
51:29
he's actually having quality screen time. He
51:32
has shit quality screen time, too. I do let him
51:34
play some games, but I like for him to use the
51:38
screen because it seems to sink into his little
51:41
child brain better than having a human adult
51:46
explain things to him from a book. So I'm with
51:50
this finished study. I like this, man. Yeah,
51:53
no, I think it makes sense to me. I mean, I don't
51:55
have a lot to add to that. I feel like, yeah,
51:58
you know. It makes sense. Yeah, but you're when
52:01
your son was growing up because he's what 21
52:04
20 now 22 22 holy moly. Um They so they would
52:11
have had iphones and ipads when he was a kid
52:14
like did they have them in school? Uh Yes, they
52:19
did. Yeah, they did but not like um Not until
52:23
if memory serves I could be wrong about this,
52:26
but I think Yeah, I guess they did like starting
52:29
around third, fourth grade. Yeah, it's really
52:32
it's part of the curriculum at my son's school.
52:35
Starting in first grade, they get assigned like
52:37
a Chromebook. Right. And you learn how to use
52:42
computers and laptops and stuff starting in first
52:45
grade. And man, my kid can whiz through that
52:48
thing where like he shows grandma how to do things.
52:51
But. Yes, that's a necessary component of their
52:54
future. And it's not necessarily all bad. And
52:57
I think that's like the takeaway is like, but
52:59
again, the reason my kid looks at quality stuff
53:03
is because I'm an active, nosy parent. So it
53:08
still requires parenting. Don't let the screen.
53:11
Yeah, don't let the screen be your your kids
53:14
babysitter like like our generation would have
53:16
been Ted with like latchkey kids like you came
53:18
home and you're just you turn on the TV. I remember
53:21
General Hospital. That was my babysitter. And
53:29
Susan Lucci. Who doesn't love Susan? We all know
53:32
Susan Lucci. We all love Susan. Did she ever
53:34
win that award? I don't know if she ever got
53:37
the Emmy. But she was like my auntie on TV. I
53:41
have to turn it on to see Susan because she was
53:44
there every day in my childhood because nobody
53:47
else was there. Okay, police departments across
53:55
the United States have installed thousands of
53:57
automated cameras, more than that, capable of
54:00
tracking where vehicles go. But who's watching
54:02
the people doing the watching? A Washington Post
54:05
investigation found that cops accused of using
54:08
automated license plate readers for personal
54:11
purposes, including stalking their spouses, ex
54:15
-partners, and women that they thought were hot.
54:18
The Post identified at least 50 cops who were
54:22
charged with or accused of misusing Flock safety
54:26
cameras. At least 46 of them were Flock cameras,
54:30
50 total. Flock operates a massive network of
54:34
cameras that photo your car and license plates
54:37
as you drive through communities. The cops then
54:40
can search the database to locate vehicles and
54:44
reconstruct where they've been. Of course, obviously,
54:47
these searches leave an audit trail. Yet, the
54:51
Washington Post found that many departments did
54:54
not bother to examine the logs for suspicious
54:56
activity. Only when reporters alerted departments
55:00
to questionable searches did investigations sometimes
55:04
follow and two cops were disciplined. Flock says
55:10
it will require departments to use software designed
55:13
to flag unusual searches. Officers will also
55:17
generally have to provide a criminal case number
55:19
when searching the system. That's actually a
55:22
pretty good idea. And the company's default retention
55:25
period for license plate data is being reduced
55:27
from 30 days to seven. Flock argues that its
55:31
tech helps cops solve serious crimes. And there's
55:34
no dispute that tracking a suspect's vehicle
55:37
could obviously be powerful in criminal investigations.
55:41
Now, the thing is, though, I think that the potential
55:43
for abuse is so grave and so serious and so rampant,
55:48
Manila. that these things shouldn't be permitted
55:51
in any community, and I encourage everybody who
55:54
sees one to go and, you know, subject it to your
55:58
ball peen hammer. They should all be destroyed.
56:02
I think a shotgun is also a useful tool. Do it
56:05
smart, though. Don't face the camera. Creep up
56:10
from behind it. And don't drive up with your
56:12
license plate exposed. Yes! Like, come on. There's
56:16
so many people doing this already, but they're
56:18
not doing it smartly. These cameras are disgusting.
56:21
And they should be banned. And the thing is,
56:25
I know even if that means some people will get
56:27
away with crimes who would not otherwise have,
56:30
that's fine with me. That's fine. I'm more scared
56:32
of the government than I am scared of the occasional
56:35
liquor store robber. We have one slot camera
56:38
here in town in front of the Walmart. And about
56:41
a week ago, somebody shot it with a 45, blew
56:45
it off. We love Montana. It's been vaporized.
56:51
And in the newspaper, every time y 'all put one
56:55
of these up, it's going to be target practice.
56:57
So just stop. Montana's hilarious. Montana's
57:02
hilarious. Well, there was it back in the old
57:04
days before flock cameras, like 20 years ago.
57:06
In LA, there was a there was a traffic camera
57:09
vigilante who would drive all over LA and then
57:13
he had a ladder. He would wear a mask. He'd climb
57:15
up the ladder with a sledgehammer and break the
57:20
traffic cameras. Again, a true hero of America.
57:24
Also, well, what prompted change in LA for our
57:28
traffic cameras, I would say some 15 or 20 years
57:32
ago also, was a rich dude having an affair in
57:37
his car. And he, I guess, ran the light. He blew
57:42
the light, but that wasn't the only thing that
57:43
was being blown. I don't know what I'm saying.
57:46
Because they send the photo. Yeah. Because they
57:48
send the photo. And his wife opened the ticket.
57:52
And there you are with Floozella. Yes. And so
57:57
he, I remember it was the first of his kind,
57:59
of this kind. He sued the city. By the way, these
58:02
cameras, stop light cameras are dangerous. They
58:06
cause a lot of accidents because people who normally
58:10
would, you know, they approach and the light
58:12
turns yellow. In the old days, they just try
58:15
to, you know, and that's what you should do.
58:18
That's the safe thing. But people are so paranoid,
58:21
they slam on the brakes and then get rear -ended.
58:23
Yep. And then can cause a pile up behind them.
58:27
And it's only about money. I mean, like it's
58:29
all that's all it is. It's only a revenue enhancement
58:32
thing. The rich guy, he had the traffic safety
58:34
has nothing to do with anything. No, of course
58:36
not. The rich guy had had the means to sue the
58:39
city for this, obviously. And he argued that
58:42
his windows are tinted and that that the photo
58:47
should not be a photo of inside his car. It should,
58:50
you know, if you're going to take only be of
58:51
the plate. Right. That's how they are here. The
58:55
ones that you get in New York, they're from up
58:58
on top and you don't really see who's driving.
59:02
Well, at the time in LA, it would photograph
59:07
inside your car, all around your car and the
59:10
license plate. And the rich guy won. He beat
59:15
City Hall and said that he argued that he had
59:18
a reasonable He had an argument for reasonable
59:21
privacy within the confines of his own car that
59:26
if it weren't for the camera, no one would otherwise
59:28
have seen him getting a special driving gift,
59:37
road gift from his mistress that arguably You
59:42
would not have seen that and certainly as his
59:44
wife would have never known and he ended up winning
59:47
I don't know what happened to him in court with
59:48
his wife and divorce court, but you know But
59:52
thanks to that guy The camera a lot of the cameras
59:56
came down in LA and and the ones that are up
59:59
only take photos of your license plate So, you
1:00:02
know, sometimes sometimes a little cheating Has
1:00:07
good repercussions for the rest of us Ted But
1:00:12
these flock cameras Dude, they hide them in if
1:00:15
you guys see fake like nothing, but they're real
1:00:18
water barrels like in like the medians of freeways
1:00:23
and stuff and dividers Sometimes flock is hidden
1:00:26
in those now Certainly along the border area
1:00:30
They hide them. It looks like big barrels of
1:00:33
water and they're carved out and they they put
1:00:35
the flock They hide the flock cameras in there.
1:00:37
So when you're whizzing by on them on the freeway
1:00:40
or the interstate or whatever, you don't see
1:00:43
the big pole in the middle of the desert. It's
1:00:45
hidden in a fake water barrel, but it's cameras
1:00:49
monitoring you and monitoring whether there are
1:00:53
migrants coming through or whatever in Arizona.
1:00:56
If the American people have any fucking balls
1:00:59
left, they'll destroy all these cameras. Oh,
1:01:03
one more update about, since we're talking about,
1:01:06
since I brought up the border, Do you know the
1:01:08
shock gloves that we talked about, Ted? Yes,
1:01:11
the ice gloves. The ice shock gloves. It turns
1:01:15
out they've been employed already at the school
1:01:20
system, at a school system in Nebraska. Of all
1:01:24
places. Middle and high school. So I guess this
1:01:26
- You mean by the school cops? Yes. Wow. They've
1:01:30
been using them on middle and high school kids
1:01:32
for the past year. So I guess when the story
1:01:36
broke and went mainstream... Don't run in the
1:01:38
halls there. So some schools, some school district...
1:01:42
A slow anvil will do you fine. Some school district
1:01:45
in Nebraska, I guess some parents contacted the
1:01:48
news and was like, hey, they have those shock
1:01:50
gloves at our schools. And so what do you know,
1:01:54
Nebraska's whatever school district it was have
1:01:56
been shocking kids for the past year. And now
1:01:59
it's prompted that school district to have...
1:02:03
a whole town hall on it and the parents are pissed
1:02:06
because the parents didn't know. The kids were
1:02:09
like, hey, that's happening to us. Timmy over
1:02:12
there got shocked by the school resource officer.
1:02:15
Jesus Christ. That's insane. He tested on the
1:02:19
kids first, Ted, and now we're going to, you
1:02:21
know, $20 million worth of gloves to ice. There
1:02:25
you go. Wow. We talked about it first, I'm just
1:02:28
saying. Good job, Ted. We did. Good job finding
1:02:29
that story. Thank you. It's hilarious and sad
1:02:33
at the same time. Anyway, that does it for us
1:02:35
this Thursday. We'll be back tomorrow for Friday.
1:02:40
Fun Friday. I already got a fun, a fun politics
1:02:43
story for tomorrow planned. I love it. I love
1:02:46
it. It's such a TMI topic. So you guys tune in.
1:02:50
Stay tuned. We're gonna, Robbie, we're gonna,
1:02:52
we're rating you. Yeah. Oh, you're muted. Yeah,
1:03:00
we are going to raid Putin Mike gaming. My son
1:03:03
just informed me he's not feeling well. So may
1:03:06
just end up being the old man because teenagers
1:03:08
are weak and frail. Right. They are today's teenagers.
1:03:14
They are soft. And probably from being beaten
1:03:18
too much as kids. That makes you that makes you
1:03:21
stronger, Ted. You and me approve that. That
1:03:27
makes you stronger. Mentally, physically, stubbornly.
1:03:33
You know, scar tissue is a lot tougher. Scar
1:03:35
tissue is a lot tougher than regular skin, so.
1:03:38
That's what they say. So stay tuned. Help Robbie
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On the stream, we're about to rate. I just need
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Go and chat. Help Robbie out. Drop him a chat.
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Thank you, everybody. We'll see you tomorrow.
1:03:55
Bye.