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Studio A high atop the escarpments of Whitetail Peak.
So what's on your mind tonight?
I mean, you know, I'm going to tell you what's on mine. Let's get started.
Let's, let's bring that up as we are talking right
now. We are. Hopefully there will be a quick turnaround on
this, and I want to get it out before the Inauguration
Day. But we are one week away from
the rerun that 49%
of the country wanted. There are 49% of the voting country
wanted. Not a massive mandate,
not a massive landslide, a bit of
an electoral college landslide. But we've got our beef.
Well, at least I've got my beef with the Electoral College.
Not to put words in your mouth, but yeah, the whole,
everything, I, I was surprised that people found
a way to blame the fires
on alleged diversity hires,
which in, in some ways it's,
you know, like the, the railing people had against
affirmative action in the 90s where they just assumed that if somebody went out
of their way to consider people from a broader spectrum of
backgrounds, that automatically that took away any credentials that they had
before. And, you know, I, I do want to say that I personally
have not seen the resumes of the people in
charge of things, so I can't say whether or not that
they were more or less qualified than other people that got
hired, but it is total bullshit to say that they only got hired
because they were black or gay or something
like that. Yeah. It also might not be the
best, most opportune and sensitive time to even
start throwing political blame around for something like
these wildfires. You know, I do have one
friend that's come. I've got plenty of conservative friends, as you know, but I
got one friend that's so off the rails that he went way out of his
way to message me this morning and say, hey,
look at this, they caught an illegal immigrant walking around a
neighborhood with a blowtorch. So he must have started the
first of the fires. And apparently there was some unhinged
dude. It looks to be true. I've done some research on it. But yeah,
there was some unhinged dude that was going around lighting like trash in
people's yards. Dude, come on. We're over,
what, over a week into the fires here. So do you really
think there was a unified front of illegal immigrants that were
out there methodically plotting and planning all the fires
from the beginning? And of Know, Mel Gibson has his conspiracy
theories that it's a great displacement.
Right. That the. The lib. The lib govern Governor
of California is trying to do so they can free up land now.
Why? I wouldn't know. Because you would think it is more like, you know,
the quote unquote quasi neo conservatives that
would want to do that and displace people that don't have
the means that others have. And my writer,
the people I see. Benefiting most from these LA fires
are landlords because rent on houses and
apartments has gone up 30% in some places.
You know, a lot of wildfires don't really have
an electoral history. They don't have a voting block
or a supporter block. They destroy everyone's houses. They are.
You know, fires are kind of hard to control. And that would also.
Super genius. Marjorie Taylor Greene is
saying that the government needs to just use their weather control powers
to make it rain because they know how to do
it. Is she. Is she really saying that now? Well,
she said something like people need to ask Governor
Newsom or why isn't the government doing this? But she said
they need to do the cloud seeding.
They know how to do it. She specifically brought up cloud seeding.
S E E D I N G not seating and which
I don't know a whole lot about, but it is a thing that you can
do. If there are clouds present, you can
encourage them to go over the
edge to rain. But the clouds have to exist. Nobody can create the
clouds. They have to be there.
She's even getting fact check on Twitter, which that's hard
to do, but. Yeah, well, apparently Facebook
is going to be a lot harder to fact check too. I was.
You've seen the memes, right? Like. Oh yeah. You know,
I'm not really surprised that as soon was.
Because they've got what the incoming
administration has threatened to, you know,
go after them. So he doesn't care. He's going
to give him a bunch of. They what? Jeff Bezos,
Mark Zuckerberg, all these other people are donating to
the inauguration fund. Sure they are. Yeah. A lot of companies
that. That didn't the first time around. Yeah, for sure. I've been
messing around with Blue sky, seeing what that's about.
But that was started by the guy that started Twitter.
But it's all his fucking fault for selling it to Musk in
the first place. Yeah, well, that's true,
you know, to make it. What. What did Musk envision it as?
The free speech town hall alternative or
something? Yeah, it's where you
where a Nazi can be a Nazi. Yeah. So Wikipedia,
things like Wikipedia are a little bit different, right? Like you.
Because Wikipedia, my understanding is that when you go on to
read a Wikipedia article and like I'm over here in,
you know, Florida reading the article and somebody
in Washington state is reading the exact same article.
Whereas from what I understand, when you go into things like,
you know, that are a little bit more, you know, business model that, that don't
rely so much on, you know, people giving like
Wikipedia and things like that do, and these are more like corporate sponsored
big advertising. And my understanding is that
those types of programs because they do cater more to
the commercial crowd and the desire for more,
more money and more things and, and more wealth and more,
you know, power that they tailor the messages,
of course, right. These, these algorithms.
So these things like Wikipedia are kind of starting to disappear.
Like there's, there's a pretty good UK based
news source that I like to read, the Guardian. They also don't
take a whole lot of outside advertising and they rely more on
people donating. So I tend to believe those news
sources a little bit more than the ones that algorithmically
tune precisely what they think I want to see. And it just
seems kind of arbitrary. But at the bottom, at the end of the
day, I think it's like all after your money, right? All after your cash.
Can these things be used? This is one thing we're going to have to worry
about, right? With what's coming in now and with Elon, you know,
being at the right ear of, of the big of of the man himself.
In fact, some ask who's really running things at this point, right?
And I guess that's gonna, that's gonna play out. We're also gonna see when
these two egos that are this big clash, how long can
this bromance last, right? Like it's gotta be doomed from the start.
But yeah, my, my worry is let's, let's hope that they just keep
trying to get our money and don't start trying to like you know,
get our, our souls right and our
literally free speech and our ability to, you know,
disagree and put things out there openly like you and I from
time to time that might be picked up later and maybe trigger a tax
audit or something like that. That's the fear I've got.
Okay, that's a good segue into.
Welcome back everybody. We haven't put
out an episode since before the American presidential
election. I really kind
of thought that we would be here talking about the
up Things that President Harris was doing. But we
are here under the veil.
If you're. If it's your first time listening to the show, I don't know
how much we're going to talk about the movie that is in the title of
the episode. Idiocracy could
have been done a thousand times on the show.
Here we are getting ready for the rerun,
like I said, the rerun that only 49 of
the voters wanted. But we got the.
The 2006 Mike Judge dystopian
dark comedy starring Luke Wilson,
Maya Randolph, Dax Shepard, Terry Crews,
Justin Long. I think it
was directed by Mike Judge, not just written by.
If, if you haven't seen it, what are you doing listening to the episode?
Thinking. We're going to talk in detail about the movie. If you have seen it,
you know why we're talking about it. It's.
It's commentary about the dumbing down of America, the dumbing
down of voters and the totally ludicrous
idea of somebody from the wrestling world becoming
president and the stupidest
people running all of the shows and corporations pretending.
What is it like? Welcome to Blah blah, I love you. Welcome to Blah blah,
I love you. Corporations pretending to care about you. The monetization
of health care. The.
Although I will say what. What was the
full name of Terry Crews's character?
President Camacho. President Dwayne Elizondo.
Mountain Dew. Herbert Camacho. There you go.
Was wise enough to know that he wasn't the smartest person
and he tried to find the smartest person to fix the problems.
That's not going to be what happens. As we've already been talking
about. Doesn't look that way, does it?
So this is about a totally unrealistic future
where the stupidest people are in charge of
everything and intelligence is mocked
and ridiculed. Here we
are totally not looking at anything like that.
And like we were just talking about with wildfires
and we were talking about the
furthering purchase of government power,
which. Welcome to our therapy session. Lance,
as you all know from the Horror Returns, is back.
He's one of the few people soldiering through that. We'll keep talking
about this with me. You're. You're one of the
champions. And I understand a lot of people don't have the
bandwidth to. Yeah, yeah.
Michael. Michael Moore, man, he made some bold predictions that
was toast and that didn't come to pass. And I'm.
I'm so disappointed. Dude. The only, the only episode of his
show that, that we've heard since the election has Just been
one hour of show tunes.
Yeah. And he said, he said, is it really that bad? And he said,
nothing a few show tunes won't cure. And that was the title of his episode.
And I literally kept hitting the fast forward button because I was
waiting for him to start talking and nope, nothing but show tunes.
Start to finish. That's all he had to say. And he hasn't done an episode
since, so. Yeah, man, there's a lot of people that are really, really hurting,
really licking their wounds. I know, right? I know. Right after
the election, man, it was, it was a tough time for a lot of people.
You know, it still is, but now we're coming into the
real deal. So let's, let's see what really happens here.
You know, full, full disclosure,
man, Biden let me down so much and I've talked to
you about this and man, it all started out with
a little promise when he, when he took off that, you know, hey, I know
I'm, I'm not really, I'm not really a young man.
I, I just kind of want to get the country back over to the,
to, to the good guys side again. Right. You can trust me. I'll get
it back to the good guys side and give me four years and
I'll step down and I'll put all of my, all of my
weight and all of my political capital behind another
young next generation type leader. Right.
Well, that didn't happen. And then of course, you had the little promise
that this. Yeah. Made me sick to my stomach. And I'm not going to take
that excuse, you know, that's your child. Anybody would do that for their child.
You can't come right out and say in no uncertain terms,
I am absolutely, positively not going to, not going
to, you know, give my son a pass, you know, because I trust
the justice system. I believe in the justice system. I, I don't
think it's corrupt. I believe everything. And so I'm not going to pardon him.
I'm going to leave at the mercies of the justice system. And then what do
you know, man, he turned around and did that to us too. So,
you know, and he's kept the bank, the First national bank of Israel,
Israel open and in robust business the whole
time, no questions asked. You know, nobody called to the
carpet over any of this stuff. And it's made me sick,
man, so I had to get that off my chest first. I really did.
No, we could, we could go. We could. I actually,
I've got a documentary I think we should
do sometime if you've got the strength for. I haven't
watched it yet, but it just came out the
last couple months about a
lot of the Israel, Palestine stuff. It's called Israelism and
it was made by Jewish filmmakers. But about the
stuff about especially, I would imagine it's going
to delve into American politicians and
the things like very recently, I don't know if
you saw that all the Republicans, except for 1
and 40 something Democrats in the House voted to
sanction the International Criminal Court if it
ever tries to hold anybody from the Israeli government or
military responsible for war crimes.
Wow, that's just like a free pass. It hasn't
gone to the Senate yet and the House is generally
nuttier that. But I
mean if you go through the APAC tracker shows
you all the donations that different politicians
have got and how much like I think the
Israeli government spent over $20 million in donations. If you
put that together among all the politicians that voted for
that bill, but they got like what, 60 something million
the government more recently. So it's like with Musk,
he spent $40 billion to buy Twitter,
but since the election he
has earned over $100 billion.
Sounds like a good, sound, good, sound investment. Yeah.
Biden and I mean it got
talked about a decent amount when Jimmy Carter died because he
had spoken out about against the American
funding of the genocide in Palestine,
but he didn't really do anything to stop it when he was in power.
Yeah, it's got to be, got to be tough to do, man. There's got to
be a lot of, a lot of political resistance. Right. Like more than we
can even imagine. And I got nothing against
Israel being able to have its own, its own country and its own
freedom. And I mean those actions were obviously despicable,
you know, for that group to do that. But you know,
they say an eye for an eye and all that. That's very Old Testament.
And hey, you know, we are talking, you know, the Jewish religion,
again, nothing against the Jewish religion at all. We're talking about the government.
We're talking about the government. And I think that I
would say that the vast majority of Israelis are
not huge fans of Netanyahu. From things that I'm reading
and things that I'm hearing from people both inside
and outside of the country. So, you know, it's not like this
dude is representative of the common man
and woman who lives in that, in that area.
There is a decent amount of resistance all over.
Just like I've been talking about this a lot with my,
my Kid because, you know, he hears snippets of us talking about global
issues. We try to be careful to not go too hardcore because he's
9. But we also don't want to say you're too young
to learn about the world. World. So he, and you
know, a lot of things were, he's been reading a lot about World War
II lately. And he was like, well, are we still enemies
with Germany? He was like, no, you know, this is
how things go. And you know, the German government has made
a lot of efforts to not let that sort of thing happen again.
And then he's like, well, who is the American government fighting
with the most now? They're like, well, largely the
proxy war against Russia and things like
that. And he's like, oh, so all Russia was like, nope, not all Russians.
There's a lot of people, citizens in Russia
that oppose it. They're getting put in prison or falling out of windows
and other things like that.
And so it's, it's been interesting to try to,
you know, they say like, explain it to me like I'm five, but it's,
explain it to someone like they're nine. And it's.
But yeah, like you were saying, there's a lot of people in Israel,
there's a lot of rabbis, there's a lot of religious leaders around the
world that oppose, of course, the mass killing. And you know,
we're talking about the, the thing that you'll hear a lot
is, you know, Israel has a right to defend itself.
And my position on that is they are an invading and occupying force.
And so everything against their military and everything against
their government is an act of resistance. It's not necessarily
an attack. I am not big on, I am not a fan of
killing civilians. But if right
now it is extremely loud, it's like the kid throwing a rock at a
tank and getting killed. And I
think that these casualty numbers are way higher than they're
actually stated. But even in the generally kind
of low ball thing, as of last week in,
in Israel, the casualties are
45, 936 Palestinian casualties
and 1706 Israeli.
So I mean there, there are just towns turned
to rubble. There's over a hundred, almost 200 journalists
been that have been killed by the occupying force.
People like aid workers from
the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian
refugees. There's like so many workers,
people trying to deliver food. Yeah, so there's
a, there's a Michelin star chef that has like, his big
charity is to go to these places. That. That need to be
fed and feed him. And I know that a convoy of his trucks
was bombed. It's pretty indiscriminate, it seems
like unfettered. There we go.
So Biden, I guess we're bringing it a little bit back towards
the idiocracy and the people in power and what they
do with those powers. And a lot of people think that Netanyahu,
he is trying to prolong the war
or the conflict to
stay in power and to avoid prosecution. And, I mean, there's already numerous
countries that have petitioned through the ICC to
have him tried for war crimes. Biden has always been
like this. When he was in the Senate,
and then as a president,
everything that. Everything that the Israeli
military has done, he supports. Even if
he doesn't support it, he's fine with it. Secretary Blinken
is fine with it. Always saying, you know, like, with our police,
they're like, well, we're letting Israel investigate itself and will tell
us if they've done anything wrong. You know,
they'll kill a really bad idea. Yeah. Kill a bunch of
doctors. And all of a sudden, oh, well, they were secretly spies or,
you know, it's. Yeah. You don't. You don't let the police investigate
themselves. And they're refusing to let UN or NATO
investigators go in the children's hospital.
That was housing terrorists underneath, deep in the catacombs.
Right. You know, as they all do.
First it was an accident, then it was on purpose. Like,
actually, it was on purpose. We just didn't want to tell you because we thought
that you'd be okay with it if we said it was an accident. Going back
to Biden letting everybody down in
his time. You know, all the build up to the election was,
fascism's gonna take over all this stuff.
And then after they lost, they all got
chummy together. What? They gave an award to Liz
Cheney. I saw just today.
One week left. So what's really important is
they're going to rename a bridge after George W. Bush officially
made the American bird the bald
eagle. For some reason, that had to be done. I thought that
was done hundreds of years ago for some reason. I guess
not officially. And now it's official.
So important that safe, that safeguard will protect us
now that we have an official national bird. So what
about this. What about this incoming administration? I.
I don't see. I'm trying to figure out what's going on here.
I call all these. These cabinet members that.
That Trump's already talking about appointing and fast tracking through
and trying to get the permission to not have to have Congress vote on it
and all that. Try to get. You could probably tell me more about that,
but I call it the Cabinet of Cur Curiosities.
You said something about a pro wrestler earlier. You said,
surely no one in pro wrestling would actually be involved in
politics. Well, but yet the, the Education secretary,
right? I mean, you want to start there? I mean, you, you tell me,
how do we unpack this? Like, how much is real? How much is
smoke screen? How much is. Let me see if I can throw this crazy
name up there to get away with somebody not quite as crazy.
What are you thinking, man? What's going on here? I think
everybody that's been named first is his first picks. Although he is
such a TV president that it's probably just the most recent
person he saw talking about it. Now, Linda McMahon, who you
alluded to as his nominee for Education Secretary.
She was in his cabinet last time. She was
the Secretary of Small Businesses, which everybody affiliates
the WWF with a small business or wwe.
Well, she's it. Correct me if I'm wrong, but is she or is
she not a billionaire? Oh, she's very much a billionaire. She's got all
of that McMahon money. So. Yeah. And she
doesn't have an education background. It's, it's, it's the same. It's the
same thing all over again. I mean, Robert F. Kennedy for
Health and Human Services, he's never worked in the medical field before.
Okay, okay, okay, real quick. I was telling you this the other day. I was
reading some of his positions, if I can truly believe them.
And, and I like some of what he says, because he is talking
about. He's. He's talking about the way
that here in America we put all these dyes and chemicals like
in the food that they don't put in other countries. And he, he, he at
least says he's against that. See, I can get behind that, but.
He'S not going to do anything about that. Go ahead.
Sorry. That is a problem. That is a problem. Now, I'm just curious if you
think there's anything redeeming about that. I mean, the vaccine stuff.
I'd like to know more about that. I mean, I know he's a big
vaccine skeptic, but is it to the point where he says we should do away
with a polio vaccine? Is that he has. Is that truly
something he believes? In the past, he has suggested getting rid of the polio vaccine,
COVID vaccine. Not sure all which other ones,
but I mean, even before him taking any
sort of control at Health and Human Services, which is, I think.
And that, that would be in charge of the fda, the cdc.
Right, right, sure, that would make sense. Right.
But the, I mean the anti vaxxer movement is huge.
Like the, the,
the level of children getting vaccinated against polio,
measles, the mmr like measles, mulch, rubella and
stuff like that is low enough that we are starting to see
cases of measles and mumps and stuff like,
you know, they always talk about herd immunity. Enough people in
the herd have to be immune for that to work. Sure. He was
talking about how I want. To know because I, I kind of like the guy
a little, I have to admit. I, I kind of like, or I like some,
some talking points. So I need to be known, I need to
know if I'm being fed line of here. Well, it depends.
I mean a broken clock can be right twice a
day. So yeah, our food has additives
and preservatives and in it that other countries don't have
that does contribute to disease and
you know, more obesity and things like that. Because people in other countries can
eat the same sort of food. But it is better however
that he'll never do anything about that. I don't
know if he would if he was the totally in charge. His main thing
for the longest time has been vaccines are bad. Get rid of vaccines.
People shouldn't have to get vaccinated to go to school and stuff
like that. And you saw
how hardcore they went after Michelle Obama
when she was trying to get preservatives and additives out of
food and have less processed food be around.
She was, oh, sure, sure. Unless corn
and everything. Because America has to grow so much
corn and we're subsidized, our farmers are subsidized. So much
money for growing way more corn than we could ever possibly
use. So it's like now we have to find new uses for corn.
So we got to keep American farmers subsidies up. We got
to keep America's farming right? So. Oh,
it can make a really good sweetener. So then they started putting corn syrup
and literally everything and they're like, ah, we can add
it to fuel, make the fuel go further. It doesn't necessarily
burn very clean, you know, and it burns really, really fast because it gets
really hot. But we can add corn to fuel, you know,
and before you know it, hey, we can make, we can make clothing
out of, out of corn, processed corn.
So we got something with all the. Corn children of the corn
so yeah, he, he talks about ultra processed food,
but he has never really done anything. He comes from anti
vaccination. Lot more, A lot more involved in, in that. As far as
action. Yes. Yeah, a lot, a lot more action in that.
A lot of work towards that. A lot more of his funding comes from
that. A lot more of his donations and things.
Today or yesterday. He was talking about how great
it was for him to be on heroin when he was in school.
His grade shot up through the roof when he got on a heroin. It helped
him focus. But vaccines are bad.
He used, he used
to say that you got AIDS if you
were gay and did drugs. That's the only way you could do it.
And in, in all, in all fairness, I lived through the 80s and
early 90s and a lot of people thought that I, I had a lot of
friends that wouldn't sit on a toilet seat. Right. Without wiping
it for fear of catching the dreaded aids. Right.
But he would go so far as to claim that he had,
you know, scientific studies that proved it and things like
that. That's dangerous. Not just, not just.
I don't know. And I'm afraid it's. I know about it.
I should. Yeah. Not that, not the scientific approach,
in other words. Yeah, not, not the scientific approach. Approach. The, the cabinet
people. So he is,
yeah, the nominee for Health
and Human Services after Matt Gates
was set aside because they couldn't
block his, you know, sex crimes investigation from
coming out. Marco Rio is the new nominee.
Okay, so Rubio's from, from my new stamping
grounds. Right. Isn't he from Florida? Yes, he is.
Okay. Florida. He used to hate Trump.
Trump used to call him Little. That's right. I do remember
that. I do remember that. Let's see, Pete has.
Guess I think he was a Fox News guy. He was
in the military. He's nominated for defense. Indeed he was.
Indeed he was. Yeah. So how much military leadership has
he had to speak of? Like his. Is he a four star general
or something like that or what? No, I forget what rank he
had. But there's another person that I think
got nominated for Veterans affairs who
has long complained that veterans get too many benefits.
That's man, if you're not going to take care of your veterans
with as big a defense budget as we have, what are you
going to do? Who are you going to take care of? Right. That's usually the
one that everybody in the government will go for is like, oh, veterans, veterans.
But as you saw with a lot of the, I mean, John Stewart's
at Congress all the time trying to get people
their health care and, you know, veterans that were poisoned in the Iraq
invasion. Sure.
Let's see who else. Pam Bondi is nominated.
Oh, yeah, that's right. Matt Gaetz was going to be nominated
to be attorney general. That's right.
Attorney general. Yeah. For that job.
The entire, the entire legal system. And he's allegedly
going around and having these drug fuel sex parties. Right. Not necessarily
always with people of, of the age of consent.
Yep. Raping kids and doing drugs.
He did find a doctor for the FDA.
Dr. Marty McCary.
Marty McFly. Yeah, almost.
They are professor at John Hopkins University,
author, surgeon, trained cancer specialist.
He, although he was very against masking
and children getting the COVID vaccine.
And it's hard because Trump goes back and forth between claiming
all of the credit for fighting against Covid and I
don't have anything to do with that. The person
I was talking about did. How soon do we forget Operation Warp
Speed? Right, right. It was me that got all those vaccines
out that quickly. I mean, come on,
pick a side, dude. Well, that's, that's the,
the, the brilliance of the cult leaders. You know,
he says everything. So it was before fact checking
went away online. You said you could claim that he
said something and you get fact checked that he actually said something else. But he
said both things. The person I
was trying to come up with that had something to do with
veterans has been nominated to run Veterans Affairs.
Former Georgia congressman Doug Collins,
who was in Congress for eight years,
he's very much been Team Trump and
he was a veteran of the Iraq war
and a chaplain. He ran for Senate
but did not win. Well, we've got Christy Gnome.
They want her in charge of Homeland Security. She would not deploy
the national, the state's National Guard to take care of the flooding.
Probably because it was a liberal hoax. But she did send
a bunch of soldiers to protect.
She's from South Dakota, I think. Yeah, she's a South Dakota governor. Sounds.
Yep, that sounds right. So it was really important to her state
to guard the Mexican border.
Okay. She sent a lot of National Guard to.
But no flood relief. No flood relief.
Another Fox News host, Fox Business host
Sha Duffy to be the transportation secretary take over Pete Buddha
Jed's job.
He. Yeah, there's not a whole lot about him.
Let's see, an oil, another oil exec
to run to be energy secretary. Was this the,
the guy that owned the fracking company? Yep,
yep, yep. Oh, God.
Says climate activists are alarmists and
to push towards renewable energy Sources are
quote, Soviet style communism.
Wow. You've got to be kidding. That might be the worst pick
yet, man. Last year, run down. Oh, yeah.
I wanted to make sure I looked up that because I know that's a big
issue. Big issue for all of us. But you and I have had so many
conversations about that. Yeah. Even last year, for some
reason he posted a video on LinkedIn. I didn't know people still use LinkedIn.
But saying there is no climate crisis
and we're not in the midst of an energy transition.
So why do we want Greenland so badly with all those precious metals
that now that we're melting all the ice around it, we can actually get to
the precious metals and make clean energy batteries and
storage batteries. Because the ice is melted, because we need
the clean energy. Because we have to get this,
you know, put, obviously, look, man,
it's the future. Battery storage is definitely going to
be the future. There's no way that we're going to keep using fossil
fuels forever. So I'm like, does Trump really know that? Is it the crazy
as a fox syndrome and that's why he wants this. But there is,
there is a terrible sick irony. Right. And the fact that the,
it's so much easier to get to and mine those metals now that
so much of the polar ice caps have melted away there. It's like,
it's really bizarre. It's like, what do they call it,
the, the snake eating its own tail or something like that. If I've
got the analogy correct, I've. Definitely seen the
cartoon of it. Treasury Secretary is a Wall
street exec. Of course. Of course.
Well, but they used to work for George Soros. I'm not sure how that's gonna
get through. Say, okay, they all hate anybody that had
anything to do with George Soros. That's usually like tossed out
like a slur, like woke. Soros affiliated,
that all encompassing bugaboo word right there. Right.
Kind of like pizza gate. Yep. Oh,
a former NFL player to run the house, to run
Housing and Urban Development. There's Camacho.
Yeah, I, I note, I looked
in that a little bit because, you know, my wife's a social worker that deals
in housing. Okay,
better find out how that's going to go. And this person,
maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe. Trump would say, see, we didn't put the
letter C on the applications. Here's our proof. I don't know.
But like with the person running Veterans affairs, this person
has advocated against helping people find housing,
which is not a good I, not a good vocation.
For someone in charge of housing. Helping people find housing.
Sure. Gotcha. You know,
but it's all, it's all kind of like
that. Oh, non cabinet positions.
There's, you know, Ohio's own Vivek Ramaswamy
and not Ohio's own Elon Musk.
Two people. Not America's own. By the way,
I'll add two people running a
redundant. The Doge. Whatever thing.
What department on Government Efficiency,
which the whole
mission statement of that department that doesn't exist
but will exist by some sort of, you know,
presidential decree is to do something
that government agencies already do,
but it'll cost more money and they need two people to
do it. Two people to run it to find more.
More efficiency. Well, and I was reading today
they're already walking on a lot of promises like,
well, maybe we can't quite find that
much money to cut out of it, but you know, we'll do what we can.
Do what we can. Our heart's in the right place. Right. I wonder
if that has anything to do with the government contracts that one of those two
people has so much of, particularly having to do with space
exploration. Military, you know,
maybe. Maybe. Could be. Could be. You know
what? Probable CIA agent Tulsi Gabbard
is nominated to be Director of National Intelligence.
Is that the one that said that Russia wasn't so bad after all?
Maybe. Or that we were too aggressive to Russia or something like that?
Yeah, she's very much, she's, she's only for
using the military to kill dark skinned people.
That, that's, that's. That's when she's okay with government.
Seems to be, it seems to be a pattern. Seems to be a pattern.
And you know, she got her. So she's one of those Democrats
that became conservative because of too much wokeness or whatever.
But she started out working for an anti LGBTQ
non profit. She used to work for her dad at one,
so it's kind of the family business. Well, Trump was
a registered Democrat for many, many years.
You know Kennedy, right? Kennedy RFK
Jr yeah, the same way. So Kristen
Simmons Cinema. What John Fetterman
seems like he's going that way.
Which is funny because the Democratic Party
at large is like Republicans in
the 80s,
you know, in general. There's a couple things here and there. But I
mean that. Yeah,
the. I don't know. That's.
Yeah. No, you called it, man. It, it is. I mean there's
like, there's almost no way to. There wouldn't be
any way to tell the two apart. Except that one. One group is,
well, well, now all of a sudden, the conservatives say they're the ones that are
the punk rockers, right? They're the anti establishment. They're.
Let's burn everything down and let's do it by starting with what,
putting nine millionaire, nine billionaires in
a cabinet? Yeah, seriously. Is that being punk
rock? Is that going anti establishment? They do a
damn good job of marketing, dude. I can see how this happened.
Looking back at it, you know, the marketing was amazing. You've got all these.
These bro podcasters that are all jumping on board and said,
hey, man, let's get our free speech back,
man. Those woke people don't let us say the N word anymore. And I
want to say it, you know, I'm not.
I know it is kind of humorous, but it's kind of. It's kind of sad,
man. I mean, that's what happened here. It was the world's big.
You got to hand it to the guy, man. He's a snake oil salesman.
He really is. But let's just hope that all the bankruptcies
that this dude has gone through don't come back. And let's hope bankruptcy
doesn't catch up with us as a country, man, because we can lose
our standing really, really quickly if we start welching on,
you know, things that we owe other people, you know, and that's,
that's, that's not, that's not a happy thought, Darren. That's not a happy
thought. He loves to leave people
holding the bill, which is kind of, you know,
how things ended four years ago. I can't imagine now when,
as far as we know, he isn't
going to be running again. So. Yeah, and I think whatever
is still here in four years, I think a lot of
it'll be chiseled away. I think a lot of there's going to be even more
wealth to disparity if people have their way. But I,
I don't know, like, I have to. I keep thinking that
enough bad is going to happen
that there will be a swing in the opposite way,
but I get less and less confident in how much I believe that
every time it happens. Yeah,
yeah, yeah. Unfortunately, a lot of it has to do with marketing,
but at some point, man, people have to see what's going on.
You know, I was telling one of my, one of my super neocon friends,
I was saying, look, and you, you guys better be careful. You swing
too far that way, you're going to have AOC in four years. Now, do you
want that? He didn't answer me. Usually he has a quick retort
for me, but that time he just kind of went quiet, changed the subject.
So it can happen. It can happen.
I don't want things to be swung too far one way or the other.
But the problem is in this country, I don't think you're ever
going to see the things that we probably should be doing to take
care of our people. Like you're not going to see a true non,
not for profit medical system. How is it, Darren,
that we have not for profit churches wherever
the good reverends have multimillion dollar homes, and yet all
of our medicine, all of our insurance, all of, well, not all of it,
but most of our higher education is all for profit,
you know, and endowments, of course, which. That could be a whole other,
a whole other talk and topic on it on its own.
But like, how is it that those things we don't, how do
we not see that those kind of things that benefit humankind
and like, take care of the people in our own country should be not
for profit? Possibly they should be, you know, in a
way that everybody can benefit and not have to like, stress and battle
and fight and spend hours, and doctors having to
spend hours on the phone with insurance companies, you know, trying to get
the coverage these people have been paying month in and month out for.
How is it that we can do that? And yet we have, quote, unquote,
not for profit churches that are not beholden
to the tax laws. Can you explain that?
Well, it's because,
I mean, it's because of the, the money in government. It's because we don't
have publicly funded elections. The fecklessness of the Democratic
Party as a whole since they ended
up dwiddling, whittling things down to
basically having two functional political parties in America,
it's in their mutual benefit to keep the other parties from power.
There's so much resistance against ranked choice voting.
There's so much resistance
against getting money out of politics. There's.
The Supreme Court has been getting angled right,
really. I mean, fuck, Trump has
stacked the court and he's going to keep stacking the court. It's going to get
worse. Although, who knows,
maybe they'll all die in four years,
but can't count on that because they also have one of the
few publicly funded health care systems that people
have access to in America are people
in Congress, people in the Supreme Court, things like
that. They don't even have a code of ethics that they have
to follow.
And yeah, not to go Back to harping against all
the money that is going to other places that everybody's fine with. We're paying
for government funded health care. It's just for
our government and for a select few.
Yeah. And for Israeli citizens, you know,
they have publicly funded health care. Why can't
we have. You know, it's an angling with
education wise.
The less informed people are, the more likely they are to support
regressive or conservative
called stances. But also the
less informed people are, the more isolated they
feel in the thing. But when you just ask about
government, you know, public health care or free
college that is supported by so many people,
60, 80%, all the other things like that,
like if there was actual representative
government, these policies would exist.
But since the rope ladder people, the people
in the treehouse pulled up the rope ladder and burned the bridge
and there, there's a
big grasp on that power and that privilege
and yeah, it's gonna have to be something
drastic, a radical shift that.
Not really sure what, what would
allow that to happen other than old
age claiming that
subset of people in power and,
or people getting better at marketing like you, you talked about. Marketing is a
great way to put it. And it's about putting it for like the Republican
Party has given their loudest Internet
trolls the platform and the
space to do what they do and get. You know, they, they figured.
They figured it out. They figured it out. I've been following a news
source called Ground News and I think I shared that, that information
with you because I, I try really, really hard, man. I do
want to understand every person's position. I want
understand, you know, the other side, right? Because sometimes I might agree
with, with the quote, unquote, other side on, on certain issues and
you know, I kind of like to stay well rounded. Problem is when I start
going, you know, when I kind of start going down the rabbit hole to some
of those like super conservative sites, right? Because I like to read those articles
as well. Like there's one called the Gateway Pundit.
There's one called the Real Guardian. There's one
called Real American News. You know, these ones I'm talking about. Problem is,
dude, when I click those open and read an article,
I swear to God, I open my email and I'm bombarded with
seven or eight sales pitches. Buy this Trump wall calendar
with him floating on a bald eagle. Buy this Trump gold bar
for $100. It guaranteed to be 10 times its value in a
year. You know, it's just, dude, the marketing is out
of control and I Guess human as human beings, as people.
PT Barnum said it best, man. There's a sucker born every minute.
And I think Americans, we just kind of love playing the part of the sucker
because we want to feel like we're part of that rich subset,
right? We want to feel like we have power with our dollars,
right? So we kind of want to be sold to. I mean, I'm convinced
of it, dude. That's part of it, man. We kind of do this
to ourselves, right? We like being the sucker because it makes
us feel good. They stroke us, they give us nice pretty
advertisements. They tell, they whisper sweet things in our ears.
They tell us, hey, come here. There's a conspiracy.
Nobody else knows about this conspiracy, but I'm going to let you in on it.
Just send me $5 and I'm going to send you. Or more like 500 and
I'm going to send you my book about how to survive the coming apocalypse.
It's. It's crazy, man. And it's
out there, dude. I've been going down the rabbit holes and I see
it. It's. Oh yeah, it's.
I get that more on YouTube because I have a
right leaning libertarian friend that is always sending me stuff.
So anytime I click on anything he sends me, ah, you're hooked.
You click and the fish hook gets in your, in your throat.
And it's the, the few. So few lessons learned.
And the, you know, the, the Democratic Party at large,
like we've talked about is more interested in
the corporate donors as, you know, as things go
similarly with the Republican Party, now that they've got the vote
of all the poor people that were worried about the price of eggs, they're going
to get the Gulf of America or whatever the,
because they want to rename that. They're going to get. We've got.
Let's try to buy Greenland instead of, you know,
that healthcare plan that was supposed to, we were supposed to be told about in
2016, that never happened. Right? There's.
And, and back, back to the, the marketing, the, the show, the entertainment
of it all. You know, you talked about aoc. She was
passed over. You know, Nancy Pelosi
put all of her muscle behind. That's right. Gary Connolly
to. And he said,
got that support. And it was basically, mom says it's my
turn to play. I can't. I haven't got to. I haven't been in charge of
a committee yet. So even though he's like
what, 77 or something like that,
fighting, fighting throat cancer, he's gonna Be in
charge of the most. He's gonna at least
be the Democratic leaders. You know, they. They don't have the majority
in the House or the Senate, but he's going to be the ranking member of
the House Oversight Committee, which has the biggest mouthpiece,
which is supposed to make the bold statements, which is supposed to talk
about the. Supposed to do
the marketing for the party, supposed to display the stance they
went with him over. If that party's going to
have a future, the future of that party.
Why do they keep doing this, man? Why do they keep doing this?
That's. Is it just to line their own pockets? I. A lot
of it is. Right. A lot of it is. And try to keep
the status quo, you know, so they don't lose theirs.
Yeah. So much greed, man. So much personal ambition,
so much power grabbing. So much worried about me and myself
right now. Only the kids, the grandkids, who cares
what's going to happen next? If you want to know what's going to happen,
it's already happening, dude. Global warming is already like.
It's. It's on a scale unlike any of the models forecast.
When you look at these. These fires that are out of control, you know,
you don't. You don't get the hurricanes there that we get, but. Right.
You know, we get the tornadoes firsthand. Yeah, you get the
tornadoes. You know, I don't know how. I don't. I don't know the science.
I'm not a scientist. I. I'm just basically speculating based on
a lot of articles that. That I've read and. And scientists
that I've heard talk about this kind of stuff. And I mean, actual client,
you know, climate scientists that do this for a living, I would think they
might know a little bit more about it than the average Joe. Yeah, right.
Like President Mountain Dew. Camacho.
That's right. Knows that was his
character's name. Oh. Not sure about the
smartest person in the world might have a better idea
that you. What Brondo is what plants crave.
We're gonna get a lot of different versions of Brondo
is what plants crave. Yes, we are. Prepare to be
sold. Continue to be sold. Welcome to Carl's Jr
you&uneducated doctors shoving
the anal probe in the mouth and then vice versa.
It's gonna be interesting. I don't know if how
stressed out we're gonna be. I don't know what sort of escapism
we're gonna need. We definitely need to keep doing what
we do. We definitely need to Keep talking with people
and with each other and it's really easy to feel alone
when that's what the algorithm is trying to,
to tell you. And I've
really been thinking about since this is gonna be a rerun,
although a little bit worse, is just redoing
all the movies that we did the first four years.
Right, right. I don't know. I've, I've really kind of been
struggling with what this show should do now because you
know, like when it's been going
for eight years now,
this, right around now, you know, a lot of my earlier
background was doing, you know,
political punk rock and. Right. Educating people
at shows and writing songs about stuff and getting people registered
to vote and having conversations with younger people and having conversations
with other people about engagement, doing benefits and
anti racism action and protests and things
like that. And then, you know, when the show first started going
a lot of people also were just starting to pay attention. So it was
a little bit more of an educational outreach sort of thing.
And I feel like the people that are still paying attention are pretty
smart people. And so I don't, I, I don't know
what, what,
what would be the best use of the,
the mouthpiece, the megaphone, the soapbox that I've got. Part of it
I think is having chats like this and you know.
Yeah, I think so too. Staying connected with each other.
So. Yeah, there was definitely been a crisis
of identity the last, the last while and I was, I really don't
even always think that anybody
wants to talk about it anymore, but. Well,
there's, there's always, there's always show tunes. That's right.
When all else fails. Right. Yep. We can start doing some more show tunes.
We can. Yeah. I don't know.
That's so, I don't know why I went on that little ramble.
But it's. Yeah,
that's up. It's gonna
be up. It's gonna keep being up.
I don't think the previous or
the current administration will, you'll be able to tell much of a difference
when it comes to is or
corporate. Doesn't seem that way. Interests.
They speaking of the
seemed purpose failures of the Democratic Party,
they had a chance the other day
to secure a two year
extension on the head of the National Labor Relations Board
which like protects unionizing workers and things like
that. That's who you go to when you're like my boss is stealing my money
or not paying me for overtime or we're trying to start a union and
Starbucks is crushing it or Amazon is crushing it or
something like that. People are being arrested in the street because they're
picketing Amazon. Exactly. Are told to work
and they, the, the head
of it right now is actually pretty pro worker and has been
very bad. One of the few things that I've thought that
Biden did well was that appointment and they
had a vote where they could have secured
that person's position for two more years and
they didn't show. They forgot to have Harris come and break the tie
and then Manchin showed back up and voted,
of course, against them. There goes that.
Yeah, there goes that. So it's
like at a point you have to think they
are either both or one or
both of failing on purpose because it's better for fundraising
or too shit for the job
and need to step aside. Yeah, well, look, look on,
look on the bright side, man. Let's, let's, let's, let's go into
this, this happy thought, right? So we know this shit goes
on all the time anyway. We, we know that there's very little distinction
between the parties. Maybe Trump really is the honest one,
man. Maybe he's just getting out there and saying, putting it
front and center, saying, you know what? I'm going to show you what our government
looks like because this is really who's been running shit the whole time anyway.
So now I'm going to give him titles maybe.
That is very generous. I think that he
doesn't, he doesn't care about anyone but himself.
These people kiss his ass and they give him money and
he doesn't care what they do because it'll probably benefit him in the long run.
As soon as it doesn't benefit him, he cuts him loose and
he's against the swamp. But he, there, I don't even like calling it the
swamp. He's against the establishment, but everyone is part
of the establishment or they shouldn't. Okay,
so you're, so you're throwing back at me the Occam's Razor argument.
The. If it looks like that's what's really going on and that looks
like the straightest line, that's probably what's really going on.
But I would love to be wrong. I would love for,
wouldn't that be great for all of a sudden there to be, you know,
tax cuts for people that make under $400,000 a
year, for there to be a beautiful,
brilliant, whatever other words that he said.
Gorgeous, gorgeous. The greatest plan.
Better, better than Obamacare
that so many Trump voters still didn't know is the same thing. As the Affordable
Care act and are very sad that they're going to go after that
or that they're not going to try to slash Social Security.
They, they're already talking about shutting down pbs.
They're. Oh no man, can't do that.
Yeah. I grew up on pbs.
Yeah. So it's
gonna, I've, I, it seems like it's gonna be. What did he say when
he was getting sentenced? It's an injustice
of justice. There you go.
That sums it up rather neatly. So either.
Do you have any parting words for this?
Because I feel like we could either be done right now or we could talk
for another five hours. Yeah, we could maybe.
To be continued. You know,
I mainly just like I said, I, I wanted to, to get your,
your, your advice on. Not your advice but
yeah. Like your view of the cabinet picks. Like for example. All right,
so the one that I heard is in charge of labor. At least
she's like somewhat union friendly. Is that.
I'm trying to think who this, this one is. I'm grasping at
straws, man. Trying to think of somebody who's decent and
that. And that's kind of why I brought up some of the things, at least
the talking points that Kennedy had sounded good.
Let's see, what do we got? Secretary of Labor Lori Chavez
de Ramire. I believe that's the one.
I think that there were some positive things that I read about her.
What have I got? What do I got Right down here.
She's been in Congress,
in Congress since two years ago and she lost.
She lost re election. But she did have
a strong trade union support. However,
a lot of the people in charge of unions go
right wing and people in the unions don't.
And Ah, okay, so,
so you got. To consider what, what side of the bread is buttered
then, right? Yeah, it sort of depends on which union
she had support for. She's, she's one that I hadn't done
that much of a deep dive on. But I, I had heard a couple of
at least somewhat encouraging things like maybe
she voted on a couple of things that. Against party
lines, you know. Yes. For the workers benefit. So probably
why she lost reelection because yeah, she did
vote for, for workers rights and organized labor issues that
go against the general, the general
stance of the Republican party. She was
very enthusiastically backing the pro
act legislation that made it easier to unionize at
the federal level. What else
does she, she co sponsored a piece of legislation that would protect
public sector workers from having their Social Security benefits
docked because of government pension benefits.
Which the party has definitely opposed.
But of course she
will not really be able to flex.
She won't. It's kind of like she won't.
She's unlikely to be giving Trump any bad ideas, but he doesn't listen
to. Women anyway or,
or good ideas at all. Yeah. So,
yeah, yeah, I think the richest pick of all is,
is, is, as you said, the, the guy to head the environmental group
that, that owned a fracking company. That's,
that's a real rooster in the hen house analogy if ever I saw,
saw one. And the anti benefit or
anti Veterans affairs benefits to run the Department of
Veterans Affairs. There you go.
Topsy turvy world. The Cabinet of Curiosities, as you
say. And we're gonna have to deal with it. And you
know, you and I personally will mostly
feel the pain of seeing people we give a.
About being attacked and hurt
and things
like that. Us, you know, are gonna be attacked
later when they've run out of other people to bully.
Right now they've, they've got a lot of people to
go after in the, you know,
for a group of people that like to say that they're against identity
politics, sure do a fucking lot of identity.
Identity politics. I'll tell you what, look, everything's looking up,
dude, because Inauguration Day, as we record, is what, a week away,
A week from today and the Ukraine, Russia war
will be solved. It will be solved. Gas is going to
get cheaper. Eggs are going to get cheaper. The political
political prisoners that did no harm on January6 are all
going to be set free. Oh, yep. They're all going to be pardoned even though
they were FB by FBI antifa black
ops plants trying to make Trump look bad.
So that's very kind of him to want to pardon all the people that he
says are his enemies that are out to get him. It's very magnanimous
of someone who's generally conceived or perceived to be
quite petty and cruel.
So, yeah, that's him. He's reaching across the aisle and
pardoning all of his political enemies.
And he's very much against the weaponization of the Justice Department. So we're
going to see none of that happening. Yeah, that's right.
Finally, finally we're going to break free of that.
So, yep, it's, it's going to be great. RFK Jr.
Is going to get rid of all the processed foods. You know, it's not going
to be like last time where they deregulated all the
meat industry and all of a sudden there's Listeria breakouts and all of the
places, places that aren't getting investigated.
It's really gonna be a return to
the. The common billionaire.
Common billionaire on the street. Right. Common billionaire on the street
is finally going to have a voice in our government.
Yes. Let freedom ring. It's gonna be
just freedom and speech and eggs and
eggs and gasoline and the
end of tyranny. We're seeing the end of tyranny.
We're talking about it right now. It's a very exciting time. Very exciting.
Yeah. Yeah. Musk was quite passionate on the Joe
Rogan Show. He said, if this election isn't won by Trump, he said
it's over. It's over. It's all over
now. It's only just begun.
Well, we'll see if we can get more billionaires and submarines or,
you know, shoot them out into space. Might be all that's
left 10 years from now. Yeah. You know, they'll send
some people to, you know, be canaries in the coal mine.
On the sure. Yeah.
But then it'll just become like alien Romulus and
we'll. We'll be working
the mines. Told we can't leave yet.
Yeah, well, you, well, well, you were due to leave, but you.
You still need 300 more work credits. Yep.
You need 10. 10,000 more Trump dollars
and you can go to Musk Land and get some
ice cream. But no preservatives,
no additives, no processed foods.
It's gonna be. No. No dyes. It's. It's very.
Like I said, I'm left almost speechless thinking about how
glorious it's gonna be.
And we're gonna put lead back in our paint and
take floor out of our water. Yep. So we're gonna have no
teeth and swollen brains so
we can think more with our big swollen brains.
That's something to look forward to. I'm excited.
I know you're excited. We're almost, we're almost here in
tears how excited we are on that happy note.
Thank you for your time, Lance. Thank you, everybody that made it
to the end of this for your time.
It's gonna be interesting. Like we said,
we're gonna be so full of cholesterol
from those cheap eggs that we're going to be happy to have
that wonderful health care plan better than Obamacare
anymore. Now, until next time,
for real, don't forget to duck and cover.
He did what we all must learn to do. You and
you and you and you. Yuck.
And cover.