Speaker 1: All right, so let's let's have that. That was a
Speaker 1: fun conversation we were just having and I was like,
Speaker 1: we should be recording this. Yeah, so we were talking
Speaker 1: just as we were trying to set the MIC's up
Speaker 1: about Michael's the first time trying fu fuh several years ago.
Speaker 1: This was a long time, teen years ago, fifteen years ago.
Speaker 1: All right, So you said it tastes like you called.
Speaker 2: It dirty dishwater with yard clippings in it.
Speaker 1: That breaks my heart. Yeah, this fa is incredible and
Speaker 1: I can't wait too.
Speaker 2: You're gonna educate me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I'll take you to a spot. But arn
Speaker 1: Raw for those who know who both of us are,
Speaker 1: is the one that first showed me pha years ago.
Speaker 1: He goes, He goes, he's Molly. I was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: he goes, how about you and your daughter come with me.
Speaker 1: I want to teach you how to eat soup with chopsticks.
Speaker 1: It's like, okay, he's married to an Asian woman who
Speaker 1: make fuh. So they picked out a spot that uh
Speaker 1: was really fucking good. And so yeah, it's I'm disappointed here.
Speaker 1: You had a bad experience with him.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I never really went back to a fun
Speaker 3: place and a few times that somebody did take me there.
Speaker 2: I ordered like the chicken cutlet.
Speaker 3: This is going back before I was even vegan, like
Speaker 3: a chicken cutlet at one and like some spring rolls
Speaker 3: in another.
Speaker 2: But I didn't go near that soup.
Speaker 1: Well, this place that you didn't like what you said?
Speaker 1: You talked to the.
Speaker 3: Guy, yeah, And I asked him, I said, what is
Speaker 3: the meat in here? And he didn't speak perfect English.
Speaker 3: Maybe you think he chose the wrong word. I do,
Speaker 3: because he said tendon, animal tendons. And I went, okay,
Speaker 3: we'll take the check, and uh, do.
Speaker 2: You want it wrapped up? Nope, don't Nope, don't wrap
Speaker 2: it up. We're just gonna take the check.
Speaker 3: And we drove to another restaurant and ordered him tried again,
Speaker 3: ordered dinner at a different place.
Speaker 1: I think you paid the check, paid the check, didn't
Speaker 1: take the didn't take the food, eat.
Speaker 2: The food, didn't eat any of the food.
Speaker 1: Okay, So that was.
Speaker 2: And I've never really been back to. I mean, I've
Speaker 2: been with friends who wanted to go to a FU place.
Speaker 3: I've gone, but I have not ordered anything that would
Speaker 3: be considered the traditional FU.
Speaker 2: Always something a little more.
Speaker 1: So I just feel like he didn't have to say
Speaker 1: that specific answer. It could have been right.
Speaker 2: There is.
Speaker 1: A lot of times it's like steak or beef they put.
Speaker 1: There are places that put brisket in it. Sometimes they'll
Speaker 1: have multiple different kinds. Like it's just like Ramen. It's
Speaker 1: like you go and you order and then you can
Speaker 1: get you know, I want mine with chicken or I
Speaker 1: want mine with whatever. But it does say that beef
Speaker 1: tendon is an option, so maybe he was just being
Speaker 1: very specific, you know, and then there's flank, there's fatty brisket.
Speaker 1: But I feel like just being that specific about like why,
Speaker 1: I don't know why he would do it like that,
Speaker 1: Like tendon just makes it sound like, yeah, animal.
Speaker 2: He said tendon.
Speaker 3: Then I remember I was like, Okay, that doesn't sound great,
Speaker 3: and he went animal ten and I went check.
Speaker 1: Wait, like he had to specify. It wasn't like humans
Speaker 1: are animals. But still I was like, these ones is animal?
Speaker 2: Yeah, that wasn't his accent.
Speaker 1: But he wasn't from New Jersey or maybe he was,
Speaker 1: but not Carl. Yeah, but that one over there, no, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean most of the time I've had I mean, look,
Speaker 1: what is tendon? Tendon is.
Speaker 2: Meat. Yeah, I suppose so.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm sure already if you ever eat a
Speaker 1: burger you'll have tendon. I'm guessing it's all ground up.
Speaker 1: You know, there's fat tissue, but like like animal flesh
Speaker 1: or like like there's there are gross ways to describe
Speaker 1: food that would make people not want to eat it.
Speaker 2: Of course, that's why we call it beef and that
Speaker 2: a cow exactly.
Speaker 1: I don't know we say chicken.
Speaker 2: That's true, but there's some differentiating between.
Speaker 1: Sure, yeah, it's it's d I was gonna say dehumanizing,
Speaker 1: but they're not humanized in the first place. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: a there's definitely like a disassociation or separation from from it.
Speaker 1: That's as interesting.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't ever feel bad eating chicken. Chickens will chickens
Speaker 1: will eat you. They wouldn't give a shit you eat
Speaker 1: your face, they wouldn't care.
Speaker 2: I take care of chickens from time to time, as
Speaker 2: you know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, very popular with the you know, I don't know
Speaker 3: what you'd call female chickens. H I'm saying it's popular
Speaker 3: chicken Los Angeles with the wealthy, and I have some
Speaker 3: wealthy friends and sometimes they have a house sit and
Speaker 3: want and so to have a chicken coop in the backyard.
Speaker 3: So your eggs are coming straight from a chickens butt. Yeah,
Speaker 3: in your frying pan when I take care of the chickens.
Speaker 1: And I mean, is it the butt they have like
Speaker 1: one hole? I guess right, it's like it's agina.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I can't even remember the word. Now, do you
Speaker 2: know what I'm talking about?
Speaker 1: I do know what you're talking about, but I'm okay,
Speaker 1: that's it.
Speaker 2: So I've done some cat sitting in my day. I mean,
Speaker 2: love them. God's perfect creatures.
Speaker 1: God's perfect creatures.
Speaker 2: That's right.
Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, dog, I do some dogs sitting and some
Speaker 3: dog walking from time totown.
Speaker 1: Dogs are way sweeter than cats.
Speaker 3: And I mean, I love dogs so much that I'm
Speaker 3: a little bit weird driving in my car, like somebody
Speaker 3: across the street with a cute dog.
Speaker 2: Oh he's a good boy. He's a good boy.
Speaker 3: No, you know, he's a good boy in my car.
Speaker 2: That's how much I love dog.
Speaker 1: No, kid, like, stop talking to my six year old.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Like chickens, I'm like, I'd kill you and not eat you.
Speaker 1: You annoying don't pick me, the assholes, don't pack me.
Speaker 1: I don't like being packed.
Speaker 3: It hurts. I actually have a hole in a pair
Speaker 3: of pants where a chicken was packing my leg.
Speaker 1: You get bullied my chickens a chicken?
Speaker 4: Just what is that?
Speaker 1: Black?
Speaker 2: No, very white man.
Speaker 1: Really white child. There's a there's a there's like a
Speaker 1: history of like black roosters, like big black roosters that.
Speaker 2: Will just terrorize BBRs.
Speaker 1: BBRs. Yeah. Man, if you get serious and you want
Speaker 1: a good beat down, you get you a big black one.
Speaker 1: They will whoo. They're aggressive. I mean that is you
Speaker 1: know the red ones. I think actually the red ones.
Speaker 1: There's so my I'm not I'm not proud to say
Speaker 1: this being an animal lover myself. But my when I
Speaker 1: was a child, like eighty three to eighty seven ish,
Speaker 1: one of my uncles by marriage was like fightings, like
Speaker 1: they did it like at his compound or whatever.
Speaker 2: Thing. Huh, it's a thing.
Speaker 1: It is a thing. And and back then it was
Speaker 1: probably less frowned upon, definitely illegal, but people would bet
Speaker 1: on them. And it's so sad because the chickens go
Speaker 1: in there and they get all ripped up. But his
Speaker 1: like world champion whatever that never lost about was cock,
Speaker 1: big old red cock huge terrified me. Like I think
Speaker 1: back on it now as a kid seeing it and
Speaker 1: I remember being like, that's a goddamn dinosaur. But uh yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a real thing, man. Those things are Those things
Speaker 1: can be brutal. There was there was a really aggressive
Speaker 1: black one that used to chase my kids around.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 1: And I thought it was funny because I know that
Speaker 1: things not like this one wasn't like a fight and
Speaker 1: it was just a regular ass chicken. We were going
Speaker 1: and collecting eggs on the farm in Texas and this
Speaker 1: one rooster would just run around after my kids, And
Speaker 1: I don't know, I'm like, at some point I understand
Speaker 1: you're they're doing what they need to do to protect
Speaker 1: their whatever. But I'm like, you're you're kind of football sized.
Speaker 1: You might want to be careful, you know what I mean, Like,
Speaker 1: I mean whatever. But yeah, so back on the situation.
Speaker 3: Hold, I'm gonna tell you a quick story about chicken
Speaker 3: fighting because oh man, all right.
Speaker 1: Well I just wanted to I wanted to hear you anyway,
Speaker 1: there probably was tendon in there. That was my point
Speaker 1: is that, yeah, things get rendered down. When you make brisket,
Speaker 1: fat gets rendered down, Collagen gets rendered down, you cook
Speaker 1: it slow, you're probably eating you know, muscle intendons. It's
Speaker 1: it's but it's a gross way to say it. It's
Speaker 1: like going.
Speaker 2: It was a gross way to say it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like going.
Speaker 2: I don't think English was his first language.
Speaker 1: Could you imagine if I'm like, hey, I'm smoking cow tits?
Speaker 1: What Yeah, No, it's a brisket. Don't call it that.
Speaker 4: It's not you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: Anyway, So cock fighting.
Speaker 2: Horrible.
Speaker 1: By the way, if you're currently cockfighting.
Speaker 2: Stop, First of all, stop stop.
Speaker 3: I said something snarky about chickens, and now I feel bad.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't kill one and not eat it.
Speaker 1: What Oh I would when I said that, But I would.
Speaker 3: Culturally speaking, there are definitely cultures that still participate.
Speaker 2: In animal fighting. And I only know this because when
Speaker 2: I was the manager at the Mustard Seed Cafe. Hillhurst Avenue.
Speaker 1: Wow, uh, this is one of the streets I turned
Speaker 1: down to.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Hillhurst not far from here, Yeah, not far from
Speaker 2: here at all. Beautiful street. You can take it straight.
Speaker 1: Up to let's talkt to uh still community called super.
Speaker 2: Lake h that's actually lose feelis.
Speaker 1: Well Hillhurst, But Hillhurst runs no Phil Hillhurst, say yours
Speaker 1: to get to Silver Lake?
Speaker 2: Yes, okay, yeah, you'll get there. That's it. So this
Speaker 2: grammar school, somebody representing the grammar.
Speaker 3: School comes in and says, hey, we're having a fun
Speaker 3: fair this weekend.
Speaker 2: Can I hang some posters in the window. I'm like,
Speaker 2: you bet?
Speaker 3: And they hang the posters in the window and the poster,
Speaker 3: the graphic they've used, has a rooster on it, you know, like,
Speaker 3: wake up early Saturday morning and a dishwasher doesn't speak
Speaker 3: any English.
Speaker 2: I think he's from El salad Or.
Speaker 1: He sees the poster and he gets so exciting.
Speaker 2: He goes coming sir, and he's pointing the poster. I'm
Speaker 2: like what what.
Speaker 1: He's like this, this, this, this.
Speaker 3: This, and he's he gets his friend who speaks slightly
Speaker 3: better English, one of the prep cooks. He's like, he
Speaker 3: want Saturday morning off so we can go to this.
Speaker 3: I'm like why he wants to see the chickens fight.
Speaker 1: I'm like.
Speaker 3: No, and there's no chicken fighting at the cramp Suer.
Speaker 1: Saturday Morning Fair Grammar School.
Speaker 2: Causs, it's literally a credent local.
Speaker 3: Grammar school, having been a Saturday morning player.
Speaker 2: Then it shows a picture of a rooster because kids
Speaker 2: like he thought it was an advertisement for a cock.
Speaker 3: Fight and he wanted the day off so he could
Speaker 3: go to it.
Speaker 1: It's like finally something discountry that makes sense. That's awesome
Speaker 1: because it's like.
Speaker 3: No, you cannot have Saturday off, and no, please, if
Speaker 3: you do hear of a cock fight, don't go to it.
Speaker 1: Please please love so sad man, it's so sad.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's just.
Speaker 1: You know what, I was gonna go to one this weekend,
Speaker 1: but instead I'm gonna be in San Diego at the
Speaker 1: Laugh Factory headlining two nights August fourteenth and fifteenth, Friday
Speaker 1: and Saturday at the San Diego Laugh Factory. And yeah,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be fun. I thought I was gonna end
Speaker 1: up doing like forty five minutes and having this huge show,
Speaker 1: and I've decided to just book a bunch of my
Speaker 1: friends on it. So would you like to do a
Speaker 1: spot this weekend?
Speaker 2: Live on the area? You're asking me?
Speaker 1: Yeah, right now in the air, do you wanna?
Speaker 2: I would like a spot? I need a spot. I'm
Speaker 2: going to New York for ten days, Okay, I gotta
Speaker 2: not suck.
Speaker 1: I don't know if I can do both days.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So I don't know the driving situation, but we'll talk
Speaker 1: about that off there.
Speaker 2: We'll talk about the off the air, yeah, san Diego. Yeah,
Speaker 2: my own butt, san Diego.
Speaker 1: If I had to yeah, yeah, I mean because I'm staying,
Speaker 1: I've got two nights in a hotel.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 1: So I just don't want to come back. I mean,
Speaker 1: I got two shows in a row.
Speaker 2: I don't want to make that I had to drive
Speaker 2: down and come back. I've done it many times. San
Speaker 2: Diego is not as far.
Speaker 1: As okay, yeah, we'll talk about it.
Speaker 2: It's not scary far. Yeah. Well that'd be great, thank you. Yeah.
Speaker 1: If any of y'all are out there and you wanna
Speaker 1: see both of us, I don't know, send send Michael
Speaker 1: a message or DM right here on Patreon and uh
Speaker 1: yeah DM on Patreon and Michael will definitely see it.
Speaker 1: And uh, let you know which day he's gonna be there. Ye,
Speaker 1: but yeah, San Diego Laugh Factory. You can get tickets
Speaker 1: to David csmally dot com. I thought originally they only
Speaker 1: wanted me to just headline and they were gonna book
Speaker 1: me openers, and then I saw the actual post for it,
Speaker 1: and it said, uh, David Smalley and friends, and I
Speaker 1: was like, oh cool, y'all are cool if I just
Speaker 1: bring a bunch of people.
Speaker 2: They were like, yeah, go for it, that's awesome.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I don't have to. I don't have to
Speaker 1: like do this big, you know, hour long show. I can.
Speaker 1: It's funny, it's weird, right, Like we're gonna get into
Speaker 1: politics here in just a second. But the last little
Speaker 1: bit on stand up. When I first started, I wanted
Speaker 1: to do all the time in the world. Actually, the
Speaker 1: first when I first first started, I was to five
Speaker 1: minutes because three felt like an eternity. But they didn't
Speaker 1: take long. It was a few weeks in and then
Speaker 1: I was comfortable. And then after that it was like, man,
Speaker 1: I've got I've got a really tight seven and they
Speaker 1: want me to do ten. Should I do crowd work
Speaker 1: for three minutes?
Speaker 2: You know?
Speaker 1: Shit like that. Now that I've filmed an hour twenty one,
Speaker 1: cut it down to thirty five, been doing it for
Speaker 1: ten years, I've got so much material that it feels
Speaker 1: like a job, you know what I mean. Now I'm like,
Speaker 1: can I just do like twenty five or thirty and
Speaker 1: give them to somebody else?
Speaker 2: My time?
Speaker 3: Like, you know, That is funny because that has been
Speaker 3: my experience, having featured many times for much bigger comics,
Speaker 3: the number of times they go, you want an extra
Speaker 3: ten minutes to that?
Speaker 1: Exactly? That's how fucking lazy headliners are. We're like, listen, listen,
Speaker 1: I don't have to be at work until eight. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I've only got to be on stage for forty
Speaker 1: five minutes and then I get.
Speaker 4: To go home.
Speaker 1: I have free food and free drinks all night, and
Speaker 1: I'm gonna make a few grand But can I get
Speaker 1: a ten minute break? Yeah?
Speaker 2: What?
Speaker 1: But it really is, it really is like that.
Speaker 3: My first year doing stand up, I've told you this
Speaker 3: many times, I lucked into a position where I was
Speaker 3: hanging out at a place that you've been that we
Speaker 3: both agree is an aesthetically very beautiful club.
Speaker 1: Called El Sit Yes, gorgeous place, yeah.
Speaker 2: Very And they had an open mic for me.
Speaker 1: That stage is a little tall for stand up.
Speaker 3: A little tall for stand up, for sure, people are
Speaker 3: kind of craning their necks, but it's a did you.
Speaker 1: Know this that it's like a rock club.
Speaker 2: It is a rock club, and I've played some I've
Speaker 2: played some great shows many times.
Speaker 1: Oh cool, I don't even know it was a rock club.
Speaker 1: I've just said that. It feels like that's.
Speaker 2: My whole point.
Speaker 3: It's been a rock club. But you know what else,
Speaker 3: it's been Elle Sid where you and I have both
Speaker 3: performed stand up together. I'm lockting multiple occasions now that
Speaker 3: I think of it.
Speaker 1: I've only been there once. Really, I did Fudge Factor
Speaker 1: one time for there.
Speaker 2: That's the one.
Speaker 1: I'm there year in competition that either of us won. No,
Speaker 1: I came in second.
Speaker 2: I was told excellent, they didn't even. Nobody spoke to
Speaker 2: me after a min.
Speaker 3: That said, so, uh, it's the original hol Roach Studios
Speaker 3: sound stage, hal Roach not hol Roach.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it is Holroach.
Speaker 3: Anyway, our gang Little Rascals that was shot on a
Speaker 3: sound stage that was El Sid that then turned into
Speaker 3: a restaurant. What Yeah, our gang Spanky Alfalfa Buckwe they
Speaker 3: shot that original Rascals in that building.
Speaker 2: That was originally a sound stage.
Speaker 3: And it's around the corner from another Uh like all
Speaker 3: of silver Lake, that's where the original Hollywood was was
Speaker 3: Silver Lake in fact, dude, yeah, in fact, there's a
Speaker 3: famous you know the staircases that run up the hills
Speaker 3: in Shiver Lake which I'm I to find the motivation
Speaker 3: to go walk up and down a little more often
Speaker 3: now that I'm anyway, let's not talk about my weight gain.
Speaker 3: That said, but in Echo Park, which is right outside
Speaker 3: of downtown LA, used to be downtown LA.
Speaker 2: One hundred years ago was LA and then it expanded
Speaker 2: west to.
Speaker 1: The point where these people don't give a shit about it.
Speaker 2: Hollywood. That said.
Speaker 3: There you're walking by a next to a Harley Davidson
Speaker 3: dealer and a Jack in the box in Echo Park, California,
Speaker 3: on a busy, smelly street. There's a plaque and as
Speaker 3: you walk by it, you read the plaque and it
Speaker 3: says it all started here.
Speaker 2: First movie shot on this location, like nineteen oh seven. Wow,
Speaker 2: right there?
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's so cool.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And so anyway, El said, used to be where
Speaker 3: they shot our game, The Little Rascals. That said, So
Speaker 3: my first year of doing stand up, because I used
Speaker 3: to play in rock bands, the booker at the he said, I.
Speaker 5: Want to try a comedy show, will you host it?
Speaker 5: And I had a show called Rigilla Show, and I
Speaker 5: was so stupid. I was gonna be the coolest host
Speaker 5: in the history of stand up And.
Speaker 2: So I tell comics do as much dive as IGUALM. What.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I didn't know I was a musician, Like this
Speaker 1: was a new world. The opener's doing forty seven.
Speaker 2: Hour and forty seven minutes.
Speaker 3: Insane, like to the point where the audience is literally
Speaker 3: like falling asleep.
Speaker 2: Oh Jesus, dude, you can't.
Speaker 3: And the comics oblivious to the fact that no one's
Speaker 3: into it, going into their ninety eighth minute of stand
Speaker 3: up like no, yeah.
Speaker 1: I found. Honestly, headlining is a shitload of pressure. I
Speaker 1: think when Dane Cook, Chris Rock, Eddie Murphy, Richard pryor
Speaker 1: Red Fox, all those guys were coming up, you just
Speaker 1: had to be funny.
Speaker 2: Cream always rises to the crop. That's what Jerry's saying,
Speaker 2: all the top.
Speaker 1: Cream always rises to the top. Yeah, but nowadays you
Speaker 1: you gotta be like the club brought the people and
Speaker 1: you knock their socks off, and then everybody went, oh
Speaker 1: my god, that guy's incredible. I want to follow his career. Now,
Speaker 1: these clubs expect you to bring every fucking body. They
Speaker 1: got two hundred and fifty seats. They want you to
Speaker 1: bring two hundred and fifty fucking ticket sales. So you
Speaker 1: gotta be promo filming, you know, promos all the time,
Speaker 1: doing videos, creative videos that are mentioning the shows, the tours.
Speaker 1: You got to buy Facebook and Instagram ads, TikTok ads.
Speaker 1: I mean it's you have to run your own business,
Speaker 1: do your own marketing. Get It's almost like you run
Speaker 1: the club for that weekend, but you get no under
Speaker 1: the food and beverage money. You only get a portion
Speaker 1: of the ticket sales. So headlining is a lot of pressure.
Speaker 1: Hosting is a lot of work and no respect at all.
Speaker 1: They make you recite, don't forget to tell them on
Speaker 1: Wednesdays we do free veterans and Thursday's Ladies' Night, and
Speaker 1: don't forget to say to tip your staff, and don't
Speaker 1: forget we're gonna do check drop it here, and we're
Speaker 1: gonna do Gello shots for everybody's birthday. Between the feature
Speaker 1: of the headliner and just all these you gotta remember
Speaker 1: all of that plus your ten minutes set. And if
Speaker 1: you go one or two minutes over, the booker's pissed
Speaker 1: because they got two shows to run tonight and you're
Speaker 1: fucking it all up. It's like all this pressure, all
Speaker 1: this stress, and plus you're fairly new to comedy, if
Speaker 1: you're hosting, at least hosting in a regular club, not
Speaker 1: in LA or New York, LA or New York. A
Speaker 1: lot of times headliners are hosting, but it's just a
Speaker 1: lot of pressure and a lot of work without a
Speaker 1: lot of credit. You also go don't get to do
Speaker 1: a lot of time.
Speaker 2: Audience also as not quite well.
Speaker 1: You're going on eat something else. If you're lucky enough
Speaker 1: to have a cold open, they at least break them
Speaker 1: for five or seven minutes. If you don't. In most places,
Speaker 1: if you just go to a random club anywhere between
Speaker 1: California and New York, that host is taking the bullet
Speaker 1: like they're the first person out. People are still ordering drinks,
Speaker 1: they haven't had a sip of alcohol, they don't even
Speaker 1: have waters on their table, they've ordered food, they're excited
Speaker 1: about the pasta coming. And then you walk on stage
Speaker 1: and they're like, what what, I'm here to see Wanda
Speaker 1: Sykes or I'm here to see whatever headliner I bought
Speaker 1: tickets for. They could give a shit left. So you
Speaker 1: got to earn your stripes right going through stand up.
Speaker 1: And I'll say I think the sweetest spot of comedy
Speaker 1: is the feature I once I became a headliner, I
Speaker 1: didn't get to feature for anybody anymore. And I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm doing my own dates, I'm headlining my own stuff,
Speaker 1: I'm working on my own hour. But I'm like, you know,
Speaker 1: what would be a sweet fucking gig to connect with
Speaker 1: one major headliner like a Dane Cook or a Craig
Speaker 1: Robinson or Tiffany Hattish or somebody that's out there selling
Speaker 1: out you know, two thousand, three thousand person venues. Connect
Speaker 1: with that person and just feature and get to work
Speaker 1: on my shit twenty five minutes at a time. Doing
Speaker 1: twenty five to thirty minutes as a feature is such
Speaker 1: a sweet gig. It's low pressure. You've had a couple
Speaker 1: of openers because you got a cold open, and then
Speaker 1: the host you're the first, like to me, it's like,
Speaker 1: you know, as a sports analogy, I'll say this, imagine
Speaker 1: for all you sports guys, imagine being promoted to varsity
Speaker 1: because you dominated JV. You're the starter on varsity, and
Speaker 1: then they go, hey, do you want to come back
Speaker 1: down to JV for the last three games of the season.
Speaker 1: You're like, oh, yeah, I'd love to. So then you
Speaker 1: go back to doing twenty twenty five minute sets. That's
Speaker 1: what I get to do when I work with Phil Medina.
Speaker 1: I do the Covina Laugh Factory. I'm doing anywhere from
Speaker 1: fifteen to twenty minutes. I usually do twenty minute sets.
Speaker 1: But it's also like, dude, you're amazing. Do whatever you want,
Speaker 1: Like they'll give you a light, but if you run
Speaker 1: it a little, it's like it's usually me Phil and
Speaker 1: like two big celebrities, Like last time we did like
Speaker 1: Billy Gardell, and then we had a host I love Phil, Yeah,
Speaker 1: me Phil and Billy. Yeah, Billy's great. And then before
Speaker 1: that it was me Phil, somebody who was just on God,
Speaker 1: I'm blanking on her name, somebody was just on Hulu.
Speaker 1: And then it was Paul Rodriguez, and so I got
Speaker 1: to open for Paul Rodriguez and hang out with them
Speaker 1: in the green room. And so it's just such a
Speaker 1: low pressure. When you've got an hour and twenty one
Speaker 1: minutes of material in your head and you get to
Speaker 1: go out and do twenty five minutes, it just feels
Speaker 1: like swinging with two bats, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: You just feel it just feels so freeing. So and
Speaker 1: then you don't have to promote really you can. Of course,
Speaker 1: it's nice to help sell tickets, but you know, I'll
Speaker 1: get a handful of people to buy tickets to those,
Speaker 1: But mostly it's just, Man, I just get to go
Speaker 1: out and crush. That's the spot that they put you
Speaker 1: in when they go We've got the tickets sold, but
Speaker 1: we want somebody to really break the crowd open before
Speaker 1: the celebrity comes out. Man, I'm that guy. That's the
Speaker 1: spot I want. I would do that for several people.
Speaker 1: There's a handful of people that I've got selected that
Speaker 1: I've reached out to that I'm like, rather than me
Speaker 1: going around the country being responsible for headlining, being responsible
Speaker 1: for doing an hour on stage, or mostly selling the tickets,
Speaker 1: I'd much rather travel with a big name and just
Speaker 1: do twenty twenty five minutes and build my hour in
Speaker 1: twenty minute increments. I really only need three twenty minute
Speaker 1: sets and there's my next special, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: So that's that's my next goal. So if you see
Speaker 1: me pushing that, I'm opening for somebody else instead of headlining.
Speaker 1: That's that's what I'm doing. That's the goal I have.
Speaker 2: That's a good goal. Man.
Speaker 1: It's fun too. It's so low pressure. I'll pay for
Speaker 1: my own flight, I'll book my own hotel. You ain't
Speaker 1: gotta pay me. I'll just show up and have a
Speaker 1: good time. But I'm working on my hour in front
Speaker 1: of a crowd. Somebody else gets to sell out, you know. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a big deal.
Speaker 3: Particularly when that person brings out a crowd that is
Speaker 3: super into them and it's just out to laugh and
Speaker 3: have fun and have a good night.
Speaker 2: That's a fun crowd.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean, dude, the times I've done it with
Speaker 1: names like that, the times I've done it with you know,
Speaker 1: Craig Robinson. We went to Tempee and he sold out
Speaker 1: four shows to Friday to Saturday at the TEMPM prov
Speaker 1: and holds about five hundred people, and there's a whole
Speaker 1: top deck. It feels like you're in a theater. Now
Speaker 1: the top deck doesn't go back. It's only like one
Speaker 1: line of people, but they're probably I'm gonna guess fifty
Speaker 1: to seventy five people upstairs and then like four to
Speaker 1: twenty five on the bottom. It's a huge club, dude.
Speaker 1: You you feel the laughter in two waves. And I
Speaker 1: don't mean top and bottom, I mean back to front. Oh, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I say the punchline and there's a ha right up front,
Speaker 1: and then I feel it come from the back hit
Speaker 1: you back in the chest again. I'm like, damn, that's cool.
Speaker 1: You actually have to pause, you know, to say the
Speaker 1: next line because of the you know, sound waves. It's
Speaker 1: it's an incredible it's an incredible experience.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 6: So when I was featuring for Dana Gould at the
Speaker 6: Irvine Improv, Yeah, that's a deep room.
Speaker 1: I think they hold like seven hundred in that room,
Speaker 1: six or seven hundred.
Speaker 2: It's sold out.
Speaker 1: To god, that's the biggest club I think I've ever
Speaker 1: been in. It's Erbu Improv. It's massive.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: She opened for Zarna too at the Lave Actor in Chicago.
Speaker 1: That hard to be crazy.
Speaker 2: She's that's a different thing altogether. Though. Her audience is
Speaker 2: like they are.
Speaker 3: They love her and if anyone doesn't know she's actually
Speaker 3: she she's an Indian American woman.
Speaker 2: She dresses traditional Indian uh and what does that mean in.
Speaker 3: The garb of the people of India traditionally is dress.
Speaker 3: That's how she dresses with a sorry, I believe that's
Speaker 3: the term for second thing.
Speaker 1: Shawl Uh think.
Speaker 3: It's so uncomfortable because you were trying to make me
Speaker 3: uncomfortable anyway.
Speaker 7: Her audience, yeah, they like she's she was.
Speaker 2: I think she maybe just sold a show or something
Speaker 2: like that.
Speaker 1: I saw that too.
Speaker 8: She was just.
Speaker 1: Crying uncontrollably the other day on Instagram saying I've worked
Speaker 1: so hard, thank you so much, and I was like, wow,
Speaker 1: good for her whatever. I didn't see the actual announcement.
Speaker 2: Saying something amazing, it's happened for her. Yeah, being friends
Speaker 2: with me was.
Speaker 1: The sitcom or something? Who knows.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, all right, I got no good news for
Speaker 3: you in the world of politics.
Speaker 1: I know Todd Blanche was confirmed.
Speaker 2: That's it.
Speaker 1: I mean, I I you know, at night, this is
Speaker 1: probably a bad habit. But at night, when I'm literally
Speaker 1: as I'm falling asleep, I go to the ms now YouTube.
Speaker 2: Channel and uh.
Speaker 1: Put my AirPod in and I clicked my phone off,
Speaker 1: set it to the side, and I just let whatever
Speaker 1: most recent episode play as I'm dozing off, and holy ship, man,
Speaker 1: I just I heard you guys say something the other
Speaker 1: day and I was in and out of consciousness, so
Speaker 1: I maybe this is wrong. That's That's how I'm delivering news.
Speaker 1: I take a melowtone and start going to sleep and
Speaker 1: then I come tell you what I think people said
Speaker 1: as I was going to sleep, That's that's the level
Speaker 1: of this journalism. But no, he said, he was talking
Speaker 1: to uh, one of your favorite ladies, Nicole Wallace. Yes,
Speaker 1: Nicole Wallace Bush huh big crush. Yeah, that that surprised me,
Speaker 1: but I I love that and now and then there's
Speaker 1: the other one that what's short brown.
Speaker 3: Alex Swagner, Yeah, maham s NBC crushes.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So Nicole had a guy on her podcast and they
Speaker 1: and they put it out also on MS NOW, which
Speaker 1: I thought was cool because she's like every time we
Speaker 1: I love the idea behind it. It used to be
Speaker 1: why our podcast will get so much traction is like
Speaker 1: you turn on back then MSNBC and it was just
Speaker 1: segment segment segment segment. You never really got into the
Speaker 1: meat of it. And then you could listen to a
Speaker 1: Dogma debate and you would hear two hours, three hours
Speaker 1: of a genuine conversation. And now they're doing that that
Speaker 1: the big network is caught on and she kind of
Speaker 1: took her took her thunder. But basically she was talking
Speaker 1: to him and he said that essentially a million ballots
Speaker 1: in a recent election were thrown out because either someone
Speaker 1: thought that a signature didn't matter match, or an address
Speaker 1: didn't match the registered address, or like he mentioned in California,
Speaker 1: I think one hundred thousand in a recent election were
Speaker 1: thrown out like just not counted. And then there were
Speaker 1: like three major categories. One was the address not matching,
Speaker 1: the other was the signature didn't appear to match, which
Speaker 1: the guy called junk science. And then the biggest one
Speaker 1: was ah shit, I just had it in my head,
Speaker 1: the signature, the address. I'm blinking on it. I'll say
Speaker 1: it in a second.
Speaker 3: When you said that, it made me very curious because
Speaker 3: when that's called auditing, obviously they audit the election results.
Speaker 2: They know who you voted. Can they see the ballot
Speaker 2: at that point?
Speaker 3: So interesting? Can they see that you voted Democrat? And
Speaker 3: then suddenly they have oh.
Speaker 1: Sorry, I got it. That was the third one, or
Speaker 1: the biggest one. The post office had a delay. So
Speaker 1: if the post office has a delay, mind you the
Speaker 1: post office is now of course it's federally managed. So
Speaker 1: if the post office has you know, uh workers on PTO.
Speaker 1: I'm using air quotes because I'm good at podcasting. Nobody
Speaker 1: to cover that shift, vehicle repairs, a flat, somebody on vacation,
Speaker 1: you name it. Oh no, we didn't get it postmarked
Speaker 1: in time. Sorry. You know, It's just it's crazy. And
Speaker 1: that's why I'm telling you now, I don't my advice
Speaker 1: if y'all give a shit, what my advice is. If
Speaker 1: you want to vote by mail, get your ballot in
Speaker 1: the mail, do your voting, and then take it to
Speaker 1: a dropbox location and drop it off. Don't just mail
Speaker 1: your ballot in you if you can. I know some
Speaker 1: people have accessibility issues, disabilities, and I know you have
Speaker 1: to if you have to, But if there is any way,
Speaker 1: you know, I think for the last election, there's a
Speaker 1: thing on there that says who will be returning my ballot?
Speaker 1: I put my wife's name, and I sign it, and
Speaker 1: then I write my wife's name, and then she takes
Speaker 1: both of our ballots and puts them in a dropbox.
Speaker 1: And she said the last time she went, and this
Speaker 1: is in California, and we are not in a conservative
Speaker 1: party California. We are in the Hollywood area. She said
Speaker 1: she went to drop it off at our local ballot
Speaker 1: box and there was a person standing outside with a
Speaker 1: yellow bag that said just put it in here, no way, yeah,
Speaker 1: and she was like, uh uh, my wife's a little badass.
Speaker 1: She was like, no, I'll put it in the box.
Speaker 1: And the guy was like, I emptied the boxes, like
Speaker 1: I'm gonna pull it out and put it in here anyway.
Speaker 1: She's like, no, thank you, and drove past him and
Speaker 1: put it in the box. So even if he's telling
Speaker 1: the truth, fine, but that's a terrible way to approach people.
Speaker 1: Just give me your ballot and let's play. Trust me,
Speaker 1: bro Absolutely the fuck not don't do that. Make him
Speaker 1: go in there and get it. Don't don't let that
Speaker 1: awkward situation of well, I don't want to just drive
Speaker 1: past the guy he's asking for my ballot. Fuck that.
Speaker 1: I don't care what kind of vest he has on,
Speaker 1: what his label says, or how embroidered his fucking name
Speaker 1: tag is put that shit in a lock box. That
Speaker 1: is legit.
Speaker 2: I only vote in person now. I don't fuck with
Speaker 2: mail in ballad anymore.
Speaker 1: I might I might do that this year. I'm actually
Speaker 1: re concerned. I've never before been concerned about election fraud
Speaker 1: or election safety, but I actually am this.
Speaker 3: Time I'll tell you that when what was that last
Speaker 3: election now I'm having Oh it was for the intentional jerrymandering.
Speaker 2: Yeah, in the state of California.
Speaker 1: Oh no, there was there was one after that.
Speaker 2: Oh, I guess I would have been the primaries. The primaries.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I voted in that too, but yeah, I know
Speaker 1: you're talking.
Speaker 2: About both of those.
Speaker 3: But the one where we did the intentional jerrymandering to
Speaker 3: counter Texas. I went down to my voting place and
Speaker 3: it was a two hour wait.
Speaker 2: And I'll tell.
Speaker 3: You something, Me and the people behind me in line
Speaker 3: and the people in front of me in line, we
Speaker 3: were best friends by the time we got up to
Speaker 3: the voting place.
Speaker 1: Okay, we're sticking this out.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and we exchanged Instagrams and we DM still to
Speaker 3: this day.
Speaker 2: And the line was long. But you know what, after
Speaker 2: I voted, I was like, you know what, I'm glad
Speaker 2: I stood in that line. I got to meet some
Speaker 2: cool people.
Speaker 1: The Some guys in Texas were saying that registered voters
Speaker 1: in Texas it is skyrocketing. The number of people that
Speaker 1: are registering is skyrocketing. Yet Texas is intentionally closing pole places.
Speaker 1: Of course, I mean they're cheating at every possible way
Speaker 1: they can, and you would think, well, that's just more
Speaker 1: Republicans they can't vote too. No, they're strategic about the locations.
Speaker 1: And now think about that. If your politics can be
Speaker 1: accurately predicted based on the zip code you live in,
Speaker 1: do you think it's about what's right and wrong? Or
Speaker 1: is it about what information you have access to? It's
Speaker 1: just like religion. Oh wait, you mean you have the
Speaker 1: exact same religious beliefs as your parents who were raised
Speaker 1: in the time that they were raised in the country
Speaker 1: they were raised in. So weird.
Speaker 2: Weird?
Speaker 1: Do you mean you're born in India in nineteen seventy
Speaker 1: four and you're Indy No way, of course, of course,
Speaker 1: it's about what your parents believe. Of course, it's about
Speaker 1: time and location you were born. It's ridiculous. I just
Speaker 1: wish people would pay more attention to that and stop
Speaker 1: and realize their own biases.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Well, Texas is actually probably the most interesting place in
Speaker 3: the country.
Speaker 1: Right now, I'm gonna say, right now, I think Taller
Speaker 1: Rico's winning. I think he's winning. I think he's actually
Speaker 1: gonna win it.
Speaker 3: And because there has badly because of a perfect storm,
Speaker 3: not because Texas is actually turning blue.
Speaker 1: But it also Ken.
Speaker 3: Paxton couldn't be a worse candidate, right tar Rico couldn't
Speaker 3: be a better candidate.
Speaker 1: And Donald Trump, by the way, they're only about a
Speaker 1: point off, which is insane. Right now, James tallerco a
Speaker 1: Christian who wants healthcare and marijuana. What fucking dream candidate
Speaker 1: for Texas And he's ahead by one fucking point over
Speaker 1: a guy who has assault allegations, who's been impeached by
Speaker 1: his own party, and who has been absolutely admonished for corruption.
Speaker 2: And who does not have a good angle.
Speaker 3: Fact it is one weird looking dude from every angle
Speaker 3: he is. Yeah, that's gonna be a really interesting one.
Speaker 3: And if they flipped Texas, that's the Harbinger man that.
Speaker 1: Is, that's a pretty That's a Jordan Harbinger. I think
Speaker 1: that's a big deal.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And I really do.
Speaker 1: Think Texas I really do think. I'm not saying it's
Speaker 1: gonna go blue in the presidential election, but but I
Speaker 1: think I think tall Rico wins it.
Speaker 3: I feel like so there was reporting both New York Times,
Speaker 3: Watching posts and others that like the and I'm sure
Speaker 3: you saw this. The majority of the MAGA accounts online
Speaker 3: can be traced back to like he's bought farms in Russia.
Speaker 3: They're not real, right, and that the latest polling shows
Speaker 3: that people who consider themselves MAGA has dropped by thirty.
Speaker 1: That's a big jump, big jump.
Speaker 3: And I don't think anybody knows somebody that hasn't left MAGA.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know a couple. We all know my mom
Speaker 1: My mom's left MEGA.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: We all know people, and we all come across people
Speaker 3: who say, yeah, I can't, I can't do it anymore.
Speaker 2: I mean, Trump's lost his mojo, but that makes him dangerous.
Speaker 2: That's when they become dangerous.
Speaker 3: I've said it a thousand times on the show, but
Speaker 3: it bears repeating that. When he doesn't have the base
Speaker 3: behind him anymore, that's when he goes to the really
Speaker 3: dangerous tactics to see to it that he holds onto power.
Speaker 3: Like what, Well, having ice at the polling paces is
Speaker 3: the least of it.
Speaker 1: It's so stupid. He's going immigration enforcement at the polling places.
Speaker 2: It's such a.
Speaker 1: Dumb it just doesn't even make any.
Speaker 2: Sense, know it does?
Speaker 3: It scares away anyone that thinks, well, I look a
Speaker 3: certain way, maybe they'll just grab me and throw me
Speaker 3: in a detention center. And I can't afford be thrown
Speaker 3: into a detention center. I have a job, I have kids.
Speaker 3: It's just not worth it to go down to that
Speaker 3: polling place. So that's one thing that he would do.
Speaker 3: But I mean, like I've said before, I think Mike
Speaker 3: Johnson won't seat anybody.
Speaker 2: Donald Trumpell can test the election. Now Todd blanche is
Speaker 2: going to say the.
Speaker 3: Election was stolen, there was voter fraud, and that the
Speaker 3: Justice Department is investigating it.
Speaker 2: That's a given right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we know they're going to fraudulently claim voter fraud.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're going to fraudulently claim fraud.
Speaker 3: And which gives Mike Johnson the ability to not seat anyone,
Speaker 3: which means that they can't vote on a new Speaker
Speaker 3: of the House, which means that they Mike Johnson hangs
Speaker 3: onto power.
Speaker 1: And I think that would cause a riot. I think
Speaker 1: when Mike Johnson holds out and when we win and
Speaker 1: Mike Johnson refuses to seat any Democrats, I think that's
Speaker 1: when I think that's the turning point in this country.
Speaker 2: Well, he just won't see it to anyone. He'll keep
Speaker 2: the status quo.
Speaker 1: Exactly what I'm saying. I think that Will. I think
Speaker 1: that will. I know that there are people who have
Speaker 1: been online activists, social media activists that will put their
Speaker 1: fucking phones down and go to the streets for that.
Speaker 3: Again, I said it last week, but I truly believe
Speaker 3: that he's forcing our hand, that he's going to close
Speaker 3: every legal avenue for remedying whatever the situation is going
Speaker 3: to be.
Speaker 2: And he's going to leave us because he's already left.
Speaker 3: The Constitution behind himself Trumps Yeah, yeah, and so he's
Speaker 3: going to force us to do the same.
Speaker 2: He's going to make it a street fight.
Speaker 3: He intends to make it a street fight, which is
Speaker 3: why he wants the weaponization of government fund, which is
Speaker 3: going to happen so badly.
Speaker 2: It's a down payment on.
Speaker 3: His proven street soldiers who will come fight, storm the Capitol.
Speaker 1: Be give them a million dollars each so they don't
Speaker 1: have to be bothered with things like jobs and healthcare,
Speaker 1: don't have to do so they can focus on.
Speaker 3: And it also sends them as future rioters and soldiers
Speaker 3: for Trump. There's a paycheck coming for you too, but
Speaker 3: there's every time you riot, I.
Speaker 2: Will pay you a million dollars.
Speaker 3: That is the message he's trying to send them, and
Speaker 3: that is the message that Todd Blanche is willing to
Speaker 3: help him make clear to these people that fund is
Speaker 3: going to happen. They're going to find another way. The
Speaker 3: one point seven seven six billion dollars from a guy
Speaker 3: who made low.
Speaker 2: Ball estimates three billion dollars in the last eleven months.
Speaker 1: I heard two point three and thirteen months. That's what
Speaker 1: that's what your girlfriend said, Nicole. Nicole, Well, she would
Speaker 1: never lie. Yeah, she said two point three and thirteen months.
Speaker 2: Two point three and thirteen months. So it's not like
Speaker 2: he couldn't afford to pay it out of his.
Speaker 7: Own pocket, but he insists it's our money.
Speaker 2: That's how cheap this son of a bitch is.
Speaker 3: He's eighty years old, his health is not well, he
Speaker 3: can't spend all this money in this lifetime, but he.
Speaker 4: Was still won't dig into his own.
Speaker 2: Pocket to pay his own supporters.
Speaker 1: Do you realize how phenomenal, how they could completely flip
Speaker 1: this If Donald Trump right now were to say, just
Speaker 1: imagine this, Imagine what this would do for the world,
Speaker 1: for the country. If he were to say, I'm pledging
Speaker 1: a billion dollars to end homelessness in America out of
Speaker 1: my own pocket. And I'm asking my billionaire friends to
Speaker 1: help me. Let's raise six billion.
Speaker 2: Sixty billion, you do it overnight.
Speaker 1: Whatever. I used six billion because that was the estimate
Speaker 1: that I heard could end homelessness for at least a year. Wow,
Speaker 1: was sixty billion. Literally everyone has a home or is
Speaker 1: housed in some way. Just imagine if Elon Musk and
Speaker 1: Larry Ellison and David Ellison and Jeff Bezels Bezos and
Speaker 1: who is the guy that funded Vance, Oh, Peter Til,
Speaker 1: Peter Til. Imagine those guys came together as an actual
Speaker 1: and it would be I mean, considering what you could make.
Speaker 1: Even if Trump only did five hundred million whatever, Just
Speaker 1: suddenly there's ten billion dollars in a fund to actually
Speaker 1: help the homeless. What would we have to say about
Speaker 1: Trump that would silence so many liberals that he's a
Speaker 1: piece of shit, he's racist, he doesn't care about him
Speaker 1: even though all that stuff is true, That would be
Speaker 1: an uphill battle trying to argue against that for a
Speaker 1: fraction of what he's actually making. He could make it
Speaker 1: very difficult for liberals by actually doing something good for
Speaker 1: the world yet nothing.
Speaker 6: It's quite the opposite, because people, you know, this is
Speaker 6: the worst period of wealth or the most lopsided period
Speaker 6: of wealth since what we call the Gilded Age, the
Speaker 6: robber barons of the turn of the last century, when.
Speaker 2: Basically the government decided they have too much power.
Speaker 1: I didn't, I haven't fact checked this, but I saw
Speaker 1: a thing. So I want to say that to the
Speaker 1: listener and say, maybe y'all can I haven't all have
Speaker 1: to have that time. Y'all go fact check in and
Speaker 1: then let me know. This number sounded high to me,
Speaker 1: but it said for the average person to have the
Speaker 1: same buying power that a gas station attendant had in
Speaker 1: I want to say either nineteen fifty four, nineteen sixty four.
Speaker 1: I want to say fifty four, you have to make
Speaker 1: seven thousand dollars a month. Wow. Like that, Wow, that's
Speaker 1: what that financial freedom would be. Yeah, and I don't
Speaker 1: it sounds a little high, but I still understand. Oh
Speaker 1: that's groceries. I understand where that's coming from. As far
Speaker 1: as if you think about it, back then, a guy
Speaker 1: could have a wife and two kids. The wife wasn't working,
Speaker 1: He could buy a house, buy one car, and probably
Speaker 1: pay cash for that car, don't even have payments on it, yep.
Speaker 1: Continue working for that gas station. Only work eight hour days.
Speaker 1: By the way, we're not talking morning, noon, and night
Speaker 1: like a lot of millennials do today. And when he's
Speaker 1: about forty five, he would have enough money in savings
Speaker 1: to then buy the gas station from his boss as
Speaker 1: his boss is retiring.
Speaker 2: So forget his kids could go to college at sixty five. Sure,
Speaker 2: state school was crazy affordable back then, yep.
Speaker 1: So when we say buying power, we don't just mean
Speaker 1: money being paid in. We also mean the money going out.
Speaker 1: State school was incredibly cheap, gas was incredibly cheap, groceries
Speaker 1: were incredibly cheap. So if you can so now, that's
Speaker 1: why we get so fucking irritated when boomers look at
Speaker 1: us and go, just quit having that latte every day
Speaker 1: and save money, Why can't you live? It's you don't.
Speaker 1: You truly don't understand the world that we had to
Speaker 1: come up in, and that millennials are currently fighting and
Speaker 1: gen z is currently fighting and you know any of
Speaker 1: them will have two full time jobs and multiple roommates.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's that's insane. Nobody should have to deal
Speaker 1: with that.
Speaker 3: At that period of time, which was the largest period
Speaker 3: of growth for the American middle class. You said fifties
Speaker 3: sixties also top tax rate on the individual. Progressive tax
Speaker 3: rate on the individual.
Speaker 1: I guess ninety percent, ninety one, ninety one, ninety one percent.
Speaker 2: Now that is not ninety one percent of ear income.
Speaker 3: No, that's not how progressive taxes work. We all paid
Speaker 3: the same amount of money on the first I think
Speaker 3: right now it's twenty four thousand dollars earned a year,
Speaker 3: zero percent, and then it goes up to you know whatever,
Speaker 3: it is, eighteen percent to fifty thousand dollars.
Speaker 1: So I thought it was zero in like sixteen. Did
Speaker 1: he go up to twenty four for zero?
Speaker 2: Is it? I can't remember.
Speaker 1: Anyway, Yeah, and then it steps up until you get
Speaker 1: to a certain point.
Speaker 3: So ninety one percent kicks in on your million and
Speaker 3: first dollar.
Speaker 2: You didn't pay it ninety one percent on your income.
Speaker 2: It's when you made a million and one dollars.
Speaker 3: That first dollar you make after a million, that's when
Speaker 3: the ninety one kicks in.
Speaker 2: And in the fifties there.
Speaker 7: Were really really rich people, you know what.
Speaker 2: They didn't scream and yell community like theft.
Speaker 7: Like everybody that was the system. You just get used
Speaker 7: to the system that you're in.
Speaker 1: I gotta tell you I wouldn't support that today. The
Speaker 1: dollar amount needs to change because of how much more expensive.
Speaker 2: Oh of course, I'm not saying a million.
Speaker 3: I'm saying but where that ninety one kicks in, And
Speaker 3: I'm not even saying it would be ninety one if
Speaker 3: you were forty one, that would be better than what
Speaker 3: we have right now, which is thirty six percent top
Speaker 3: tax rate.
Speaker 2: But if you paid forty.
Speaker 1: One, I don't think my accounts heard about that. I
Speaker 1: don't think it's thirty six.
Speaker 2: Let's find out.
Speaker 3: Okay, I've never had an account say anything other than
Speaker 3: you get it all back.
Speaker 2: That's the top tax rate right now? Thirty seven?
Speaker 1: Well, is that for W two employees? Just says for
Speaker 1: individuals check for businesses. There are some really low rates
Speaker 1: for businesses, but there are also some self employment taxes
Speaker 1: that get added to It's a very complicated system.
Speaker 2: Fifty two percent top tax rate under Eisenhower. Today it
Speaker 2: is a twenty one percent flat.
Speaker 9: Federal corporate income tax rate. So ninety percent top tax
Speaker 9: rate under Eisenhower for the wealthy, thirty seven percent top
Speaker 9: tax rate for the individual today. Corporations it was fifty
Speaker 9: two percent top tax rate twenty one percent under today.
Speaker 9: But I will tell you no company paid a fifty
Speaker 9: two percent tax rate corporation in the fifties because in
Speaker 9: order to keep it from going into the profits. See,
Speaker 9: if you put it into profits, you pay fifty two
Speaker 9: percent on your profits. But if you take the money
Speaker 9: and reinvest it in personnel, research and development, whatever you
Speaker 9: put if you spend the money on something other than
Speaker 9: taking it home to your yacht, other than the CEO
Speaker 9: taking it home, if you put it into any other category,
Speaker 9: you don't pay those taxes at all.
Speaker 1: And it would incentivise those business expenses.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it would incentivise people to hire more people, do
Speaker 3: more research and development, develop more products, whatever it was.
Speaker 3: And I was also going to say that when we
Speaker 3: were talking about the robber barons, the difference between today
Speaker 3: and back then was that they considered it a civic
Speaker 3: duty to do something with that money because they were
Speaker 3: afraid of how it looked reputationally for them.
Speaker 2: They would open museums, they would buy.
Speaker 3: Wings of hospitals, they would you know, there was a
Speaker 3: number of things that not just the CARNEGIESE. But the
Speaker 3: I mean, these are names we know today from the
Speaker 3: museums and from the.
Speaker 10: Town squares that they bought and paid for Nowadays. Elon
Speaker 10: Musk is literally and Peter Teel same thing written essays
Speaker 10: on the folly of empathy, the empathy trap.
Speaker 3: They call it that having empathy for poor people hurts
Speaker 3: poor people. That is the belief system now that they
Speaker 3: operate on. The empathy is a trap and it turns
Speaker 3: you liberal.
Speaker 2: This is what they believe. Think about it.
Speaker 3: Can you think of Elon Musk was a trillionaire for
Speaker 3: a minute there?
Speaker 1: He was never actually a trillion I'm sure he wasn't,
Speaker 1: but everybody keeps saying that's been irritating me. It was
Speaker 1: a stock purchase situation that was going to be worth
Speaker 1: a trillion in the next ten years. It's still an
Speaker 1: absurd amount. I'm not defending the fucking guy. I can't
Speaker 1: stand him, but he was. He never had a trillion.
Speaker 3: Dollars, so most billionaires don't have a billion dollars liquid
Speaker 3: ready to go either.
Speaker 1: True, So that's it was future, I believe.
Speaker 3: But what charity bill gates a billionaire from yesteryear? Sure,
Speaker 3: back when the idea of a billionaire was a novel concept.
Speaker 3: We know what he does with his moneys as far
Speaker 3: as charities go, the billion Milinda Gates Foundation, a number
Speaker 3: of other things where he puts his money.
Speaker 2: With a billionaire, there's always a.
Speaker 3: Charity tied to them, and you think of it immediately,
Speaker 3: like Mark Cuban, like affordable drugs. That's his entire thing,
Speaker 3: Like he's focused on it. That's what he works towards.
Speaker 3: That's what he wants his legacy to be. Bring down
Speaker 3: the cost of medicine for everybody. Bill and Melinda Gates.
Speaker 3: It's about, you know, people in other countries mostly, but the.
Speaker 2: Schools. Exactly what is it? What is what?
Speaker 3: What?
Speaker 2: Which does he support? What is his cause?
Speaker 1: Oh, it's the charity of overthrowing the United States government
Speaker 1: and faking an election. Charitable gument.
Speaker 2: I'm very charitable.
Speaker 1: I'm a charitable guman.
Speaker 7: He you know what, he gave million dollars to Donald Trump,
Speaker 7: a billionaire. That's the only person he gives us money to,
Speaker 7: poor people.
Speaker 2: Fuck him?
Speaker 1: I want, I want, I want that statement of you
Speaker 1: just isolated poor people. It's hilarious. Uh, Well, Todd blanch
Speaker 1: is probably gonna help Trump accomplish everything he's trying to accomplish.
Speaker 2: Of course, two statements that he's made all you need
Speaker 2: to know.
Speaker 1: I love him, I love you. We got that one
Speaker 1: last time from me.
Speaker 2: And I'm his lawyer.
Speaker 1: I was his lawyer. What was I gonna say? Oh,
Speaker 1: did you see Bill Cassidy's uh speech when he was
Speaker 1: talking about voting for Todd Blanche? No, dude, I hate
Speaker 1: I don't want to sound like a conspiracy guy. I
Speaker 1: don't want that, but I also can't ignore what's right
Speaker 1: in front of me.
Speaker 2: So Bill Cassidy's a senator, he's a doctor.
Speaker 3: I know that he was very skeptical of RFK Junior
Speaker 3: because of his stance on one of the.
Speaker 1: Last remaining Republicans that we thought was sensible.
Speaker 2: There is listen to what Oh.
Speaker 1: All right, listen to this speech, and I wish you
Speaker 1: could see his face.
Speaker 2: Perfect and he will tell you this.
Speaker 11: But the choice is not between mister Blantz is not perfect,
Speaker 11: and he will tell you this.
Speaker 4: But the choice is not between perfection and mister Blanche.
Speaker 2: It is between mister Blanche and another.
Speaker 7: Acting Attorney general who may not run.
Speaker 11: The department effectively under President Trump, and who indeed may
Speaker 11: not be as good as mister Blanche. This puts a
Speaker 11: risk of progress made fighting violent crime, human and drug trafficking.
Speaker 1: And fraud. And so, just to clarify, he was a holdout.
Speaker 1: He wasn't going to vote for Blanche, and then something
Speaker 1: changed his mind. And this is him reading the speech
Speaker 1: giving the answer as to why he's voting yes to
Speaker 1: con firm Donald Trump's personal attorney defense attorney defense attorney
Speaker 1: to be the Attorney General of the United States, because
Speaker 1: this does.
Speaker 2: Not serve the American people.
Speaker 11: Well, this is not a referendum on President Trump. It
Speaker 11: is a decision regarding mister Blanche in very specific circumstances.
Speaker 4: I'll considered I will vote for mister Blanche. I'll be
Speaker 4: criticized for this quote, what's new, But the people who
Speaker 4: is the know.
Speaker 11: Can be assured that I worked hard to understand the
Speaker 11: issue and to make the right decision.
Speaker 2: That I yields perfect.
Speaker 1: That was weird, se him getting emotional. Yeah, he was
Speaker 1: about to cry.
Speaker 2: It looked like he was about to cry like a
Speaker 2: man who's been blackmailed or uh.
Speaker 1: Traped over a balcony.
Speaker 2: Oh, draped over a fucking balcony. I mean that's been
Speaker 2: given the putin.
Speaker 1: I mean, have you heard Marjorie Taylor Green and Lauren
Speaker 1: Bolbert talk about what happened to them behind closed doors
Speaker 1: with Trump? I have, of course, how intimidating and how
Speaker 1: terrified they were. Yeah, how intimidating he was. You gotta
Speaker 1: do this. People are gonna get my friends are gonna
Speaker 1: get hurt.
Speaker 2: You gotta do this.
Speaker 1: There's no telling what they said to Bill Cassidy Todd Blanche.
Speaker 3: Is there for one real reason, in my opinion, yes,
Speaker 3: to do all of Donald trum sturdy word, Yes, to
Speaker 3: help him steal the election that's upcoming.
Speaker 7: It's to make that fucking Epstein thing go away.
Speaker 2: Man. That's the real reason he's there.
Speaker 7: Do you know that he's not participating?
Speaker 3: Do you know there's one open investigation in Epstein No
Speaker 3: New Mexico oh ranch.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, And that.
Speaker 3: The Attorney General for the state of New Mexico is
Speaker 3: suing the Justice Department because they will not help him
Speaker 3: investigate the biggest.
Speaker 7: Serial child sex trafficker in American history. They are stonewalling
Speaker 7: the American The Federal.
Speaker 3: Justice Department is stonewalling New Mexico as they try and
Speaker 3: investigate the Zoro Ranch, which is in New Mexico, where
Speaker 3: Jeffrey Epstein had.
Speaker 7: A compound where he brought victims, and then those very.
Speaker 3: Victims went to Todd Blanche because that was one of
Speaker 3: the stipulations that Tillis and others had, like you have
Speaker 3: to meet with Epstein victims like you've never met, You've
Speaker 3: never even met these people want to be the attorney general.
Speaker 3: And they said he was snippy with them, girls who
Speaker 3: were raped as children now as adults, saying, not only
Speaker 3: was I raped for nippy, but the man who raped
Speaker 3: me is still out there and I want And he
Speaker 3: got snippy with him and said, get to the point.
Speaker 4: Arrest these men.
Speaker 3: I think, may I, without putting words in their mouth,
Speaker 3: may well have been the point that they were trying
Speaker 3: to get to.
Speaker 1: I I want to be I I mean this sincerely.
Speaker 1: There are people out there in comment sections thinking they're anonymous,
Speaker 1: being funny, wishing death to Donald Trump, and I do
Speaker 1: I don't, I honestly don't. I want him to live
Speaker 1: long enough to experience the American Nuremberg. That's what I want.
Speaker 1: I want him to experience accountability. I do not want
Speaker 1: him to escape into death as a billionaire who got
Speaker 1: away with murder. I don't want that.
Speaker 2: Me neither. We're atheists, we don't believe.
Speaker 3: The number one reason I don't believe in the death
Speaker 3: penalty is because I don't think there's.
Speaker 2: A hell for people to go to.
Speaker 7: The only punishment you can get for your crimes is.
Speaker 2: Right here on earth. Yep.
Speaker 1: It's the most fair option. It keeps you safe, it
Speaker 1: keeps us safe from you, It keeps you safe from us,
Speaker 1: and it keeps the door open in case there's exemplary
Speaker 1: evidence that proves your innocence.
Speaker 2: Yep.
Speaker 1: And if you're guilty, it makes damn sure you serve
Speaker 1: out that sentence and pay that price here on earth.
Speaker 1: Then you don't get to escape into death. There's probably
Speaker 1: a statistic out there. I would guess eighty five to
Speaker 1: ninety percent of death row inmates die thinking they're floating
Speaker 1: into heaven with Jesus, fuck that. Let them sit there.
Speaker 1: I've already I've already got my witness impact statement ready
Speaker 1: in case I ever have to give one.
Speaker 2: I'm not even sure what you mean, you know, like.
Speaker 1: Somebody kills your wife or your kid or your co host.
Speaker 7: Oh, thank you for including my murder in this hypothetical
Speaker 7: I'm all inclusive.
Speaker 1: And then the witnesses get the or the victim did
Speaker 1: I say witness impact statement? Yeah, victim impact statement is
Speaker 1: what I meant. Well, the victim gets up and says,
Speaker 1: many of the victims get up and say, my mom
Speaker 1: was this, or my dad was this, My daughter was
Speaker 1: a loving person, my son was And I cry every night,
Speaker 1: and I want you to know how much you hurt me,
Speaker 1: and I want you to know. They're trying to connect
Speaker 1: with this person, and then they almost always go but
Speaker 1: you know what, my faith demands that I forgive you,
Speaker 1: so I'll be praying for you. And I think what
Speaker 1: they're thinking internally is that they're putting this guy on
Speaker 1: some kind of guilt trip. Most of the people that
Speaker 1: do this type of shit are fucking sociopaths anyway, and
Speaker 1: probably probably get off on the fact that you're hurting
Speaker 1: every night, that you're crying, that you're sad, that you
Speaker 1: a day doesn't go by without you sobbing into your pillow.
Speaker 1: They love that kind of power. I would never say
Speaker 1: that my victim impact statement, regardless of who it is.
Speaker 4: Is.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna lean into that mic and I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: a lot of these people here forgive you. I'm not
Speaker 1: a religious person. I'm an atheist. I don't forgive you.
Speaker 1: I don't lay in bed every night crying. I lay
Speaker 1: in bed at night smiling, knowing that your location will
Speaker 1: forever be public information, and that I have plenty of
Speaker 1: disposable income to put on the books of inmates next
Speaker 1: to you that will never get out. Sleep well, motherfucker.
Speaker 1: And I would f I would. I would leave there,
Speaker 1: look up where he's going, and I would find the
Speaker 1: person who has eighty years and six life sentences and go,
Speaker 1: how about ninety honey buns? How about never having to
Speaker 1: buy a cigarette again as long as you live?
Speaker 2: And and that would be my payback.
Speaker 1: I would tiptoe around the Justice department going, I will
Speaker 1: use outside money to get inside revenge every fucking day.
Speaker 1: That dude wouldn't be dead, but he would wish he was.
Speaker 1: I don't want to. I want them to suffer here.
Speaker 2: That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: You can get a lot done for a honeybun in prison.
Speaker 1: Ninety honey buns.
Speaker 2: Bro, bro, Let me tell you.
Speaker 1: Let me just think about three hundred regular dollars.
Speaker 3: Bro.
Speaker 2: It's like like bitcoin in that fucking bro.
Speaker 1: It's like it's like it's like putting money on somebody's
Speaker 1: GTA six books. For twenty dollars, I can get twenty thousand,
Speaker 1: or how about how about a hundred dollars? How about
Speaker 1: a hundred and seventy five dollars? Man, Yeah, I would,
Speaker 1: I would look if criminals can be on the inside
Speaker 1: and make orders for shit to happen out here.
Speaker 4: You think we can't do the opposite.
Speaker 1: Of course, nobody's safe anywhere. Nobody is safe anywhere there there,
Speaker 1: there's enough, no anyway. And you don't even have to
Speaker 1: explicitly say stuff. You would never say, oh this, I
Speaker 1: want you to do this to this guy. No, no, no,
Speaker 1: no no. You just send an email. You can email inmates,
Speaker 1: by the way, and you go, here's uh, I put
Speaker 1: some money on your books. There's five hundred dollars for
Speaker 1: honey buns and cigarettes and lazed potato chips and all
Speaker 1: the fruit you could want.
Speaker 9: You know what they do with fruit in prison, They
Speaker 9: uh ferment it and yet it behind the radiator.
Speaker 1: That's where the party's at.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm ready if I have to go to prison,
Speaker 2: I know how to make my wine.
Speaker 1: I'll get you some honey buns. Michael, don't you worry
Speaker 1: about it?
Speaker 7: If I have to go to prison, it's gonna be
Speaker 7: a bad scene.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't. I don't wish death on on on anybody,
Speaker 1: including Donald Trump. I want him to be held to
Speaker 1: a trial. I want him for the victims, for the
Speaker 1: victims of the Epstein files. I want them to feel
Speaker 1: vindication and accountability. And if he dies before that happens,
Speaker 1: I I I don't. I don't know that they'll ever
Speaker 1: have peace. I don't know if they'll ever have peace anyway,
Speaker 1: But I think him getting away with this and escaping
Speaker 1: into death is not in the best interest for their healing.
Speaker 2: Or for the world.
Speaker 7: Quite frankly, I have a very interesting question.
Speaker 2: I don't know the answer.
Speaker 3: What do you think would have happened with the Epstein
Speaker 3: files under President Kamala Harris.
Speaker 1: I like to hope and that she would round them
Speaker 1: up and put them in prison. I like to hope
Speaker 1: that it would be fast tracked. She was a prosecutor, but.
Speaker 2: It was their issue. Who was a right wing issue.
Speaker 7: They were the ones who gave a shit about the
Speaker 7: Epstein files.
Speaker 1: The conspiracy theorist did.
Speaker 2: But I don't know any.
Speaker 3: Liberals that gave a shit about the Epstein files until
Speaker 3: Trump got reelected and we were like.
Speaker 1: Well, I think we would have never known about it.
Speaker 3: I mean, no one talked about Let me just say
Speaker 3: what I never brought its No, no, no, President Joe Biden.
Speaker 1: Well that's not true. When I don't know if I
Speaker 1: should say this on the show.
Speaker 2: Uh, I'll put it like this.
Speaker 1: I won't say any names. I took you one time
Speaker 1: to work with a person. There's no need to bring
Speaker 1: There's no need because I want to put this out
Speaker 1: for the public. I'll just say it's public information if
Speaker 1: you dig deep enough. But I took you with me
Speaker 1: to work with a person, and at one point I
Speaker 1: was having dinner with him and he flat out told me,
Speaker 1: to my shock and awe, that he was friends with Epstein.
Speaker 3: And Joe Rogan's talked about it about what I'm talking about, specifically,
Speaker 3: what you were talking about.
Speaker 1: All right, all right, calm down. And I just think
Speaker 1: it unfairly implicates people that I don't know if they
Speaker 1: had anything to do with it. So putting names together
Speaker 1: with Epstein is essentially making an accusation in today's society,
Speaker 1: And I don't there's nothing in the files.
Speaker 8: That no, no, no, let me just be clear, and
Speaker 8: I'm not saying anything about this person who you and
Speaker 8: I worked with and hung out with and went out
Speaker 8: to dinner with and had drinks with.
Speaker 3: But the difference is, uh, were you friends with Epstein
Speaker 3: before or after he was convicted?
Speaker 1: Let me tell you. That's what I'm gonna say. That's
Speaker 1: what I We were at this restaurant, it was just
Speaker 1: the two of us, and I said I I made
Speaker 1: some joke about Epstein killing himself, and he goes, he
Speaker 1: didn't kill himself. He goes, I made a joke about
Speaker 1: him not killing himself, and he goes, oh, yes, he
Speaker 1: definitely did. And that's when he revealed to me that
Speaker 1: he was his friend. And I was like, what, like
Speaker 1: you knew him. He's like, oh, yeah, we were friends
Speaker 1: for a while and that I was taken aback and
Speaker 1: I said it and you stayed in contact with him?
Speaker 1: And he goes, I think he killed himself as a
Speaker 1: fuck you to the government. That's what he said to me.
Speaker 1: And I was like, we were done with the project.
Speaker 1: There was nothing to do or distance myself from. The
Speaker 1: project was over. I think you were finalizing your piece.
Speaker 1: We were all done, and like, it's not I could say, oh,
Speaker 1: I'm canceling. I'm not gonna you know.
Speaker 2: It was just.
Speaker 4: And so.
Speaker 1: When the files came out and I you told me
Speaker 1: you sent me a screenshot, I think of an email.
Speaker 2: His name in it.
Speaker 1: I was like, Okay, he's in the files, but it's
Speaker 1: just the email was nothing. It wasn't like he was
Speaker 1: implicating enough. It was but not there was. He wasn't
Speaker 1: ordering human trafficking. It had nothing to do with any
Speaker 1: of that. It was just that his name was included
Speaker 1: in some of the emails. When I knew that he
Speaker 1: had been emailing with him. Where was I going with this?
Speaker 1: People losing my train of thought? Today? Oh I didn't
Speaker 1: get much sleep. Baby got me up at six forty five.
Speaker 1: They'll do that, Yeah, And I checked a monitor and
Speaker 1: I saw that he was just sitting in his crib
Speaker 1: and he was playing with toys in his crib. He's
Speaker 1: being kind of chill. And then I just briefly like
Speaker 1: rewound it and he had been up since six just
Speaker 1: like not crying, but like sitting in his own crib,
Speaker 1: playing with toys for forty five minutes and was finally like, Hey,
Speaker 1: somebody gome get me, And I was like, all right,
Speaker 1: I should go in there. It's not like he had
Speaker 1: just woken up and was being a brat. He had
Speaker 1: been up entertaining himself for a while. So I got
Speaker 1: up and I'm low asleep. I don't know where I
Speaker 1: was going. If I were to go back and listen
Speaker 1: to this, I'll be like, oh damn, I know where
Speaker 1: I was headed with that. But at the end of
Speaker 1: the day, the overall point of this part of the
Speaker 1: conversation is that Jeffrey escaped accountability. Jeffrey escaped accountability through
Speaker 1: this person believes he escaped through suicide. I don't think
Speaker 1: he killed himself. I don't. I think he was like
Speaker 1: he was killed because he was about to flip on everybody,
Speaker 1: like he was going to turn it over. And I
Speaker 1: think you know he died while Trump was president. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: I know.
Speaker 2: All about it.
Speaker 1: And you know that one of the Epstein files as
Speaker 1: Donald Trump talking to a thirteen year old allegedly forcing
Speaker 1: her to do things against her will sexually, and then
Speaker 1: telling her if you tell anybody who will make you
Speaker 1: disappear like redacted, which implies that he had in fact
Speaker 1: also killed another person. That's what the FBI document implies.
Speaker 1: So to now imagine that person president of the United States,
Speaker 1: and then the world's most popular pedophile also happens to
Speaker 1: die in prison. I don't mean popular from a yeah, victim.
Speaker 3: You caught my facial expression when you said popular pedophile.
Speaker 7: Our favorite pedophile, my favorite pedophile.
Speaker 1: That's a good name of a that should be the
Speaker 1: name of Jeffrey Epstein documentary My favorite path. No, like,
Speaker 1: the world's most well known pedophile dies in prison while
Speaker 1: that person's president.
Speaker 2: Sketchy.
Speaker 1: I this isn't This isn't pizza Gate level craziness to me.
Speaker 1: To me, these dots easily connect.
Speaker 2: No, there's no dots.
Speaker 3: There's just straight lines between facts. Here's something that I
Speaker 3: really don't hear anyone talk about, but it's all true.
Speaker 3: So Katie Miller is the alias of a girl, a
Speaker 3: woman who says, as a thirteen year.
Speaker 2: Old girl, she was raped by Donald Trump.
Speaker 7: Her deposition is videotaped and you can see it to
Speaker 7: this day.
Speaker 2: You can go watch it.
Speaker 3: She's wearing a wig, and some of the YouTube videos
Speaker 3: they've blurred her face, but in some of them they
Speaker 3: really haven't.
Speaker 7: Her name is Katie Miller.
Speaker 1: Okay, you can look that up. Ope, our food's been
Speaker 1: sitting there for about eighteen minutes. Okay, for what it's worth,
Speaker 1: either it's ready for us, or a coyote has taken
Speaker 1: it and eaten it, and.
Speaker 3: Then we'll go eat the coyote. Katie Miller says that
Speaker 3: when she was thirteen years old, she was in the
Speaker 3: modeling business with I mean, I.
Speaker 2: Know all these fucking players now.
Speaker 3: Unfortunately, because I've gone down these with Palos and Poly,
Speaker 3: with Jean Luke Brunel, with John Casablancas, all these people
Speaker 3: that were in the teen modeling business.
Speaker 1: She's weird for grown men to be in the should
Speaker 1: only be women doing that.
Speaker 3: That said, so, Katie Miller says she was involved in
Speaker 3: this industry and she was recruited by a woman named Tiffany,
Speaker 3: not Tiffany Trump is a woman named Tiffany, and.
Speaker 1: That min are gross.
Speaker 7: Here's two big points I want to make.
Speaker 1: I saw a comment the other day that said men
Speaker 1: should start in prison and earn their way out.
Speaker 4: It was hilarious.
Speaker 1: I'm like, you know, what if I was born in
Speaker 1: prison and then I learned about what was happening, I go.
Speaker 7: You know what this checks, definitely checks.
Speaker 2: So two big points.
Speaker 7: So Katie Miller gave her deposition in twenty sixteen.
Speaker 3: When Donald Trump was running for president. She was like,
Speaker 3: this guy can't be president. He raped me as a child,
Speaker 3: And she gave her deposition.
Speaker 2: And then.
Speaker 7: I want you to look this up.
Speaker 3: And I want everyone listening to look this up. Go
Speaker 3: look up the Katie Miller interview. I'm not hyperbolic. I'm
Speaker 3: not a conspiracy theorist.
Speaker 2: I'm not a freak.
Speaker 3: So she ends up dropping the charges, or she ends
Speaker 3: up dropping the case altogether, and people say she was
Speaker 3: paid off, she was threatened.
Speaker 2: We don't know.
Speaker 1: That's it.
Speaker 3: She says.
Speaker 7: Two very interesting pieces of information. This is twenty sixteen,
Speaker 7: Donald Trump is running for president.
Speaker 12: Number one, she says that he kept saying to her,
Speaker 12: you remind me of my daughter. You remind me of
Speaker 12: my daughter.
Speaker 3: So there was no way in hell in twenty sixteen
Speaker 3: she could know that three years later, Stormy Daniels would
Speaker 3: finally come out with her story of not being raped
Speaker 3: or anything like that, having consensual sex with Donald Trump.
Speaker 3: But in her testimony about it, she says he kept.
Speaker 2: Saying to her, you remind me of my daughter. You
Speaker 2: remind me of my daughter.
Speaker 3: There's no way that this alias name Katie Miller could
Speaker 3: have known that at the time.
Speaker 7: That's an interesting point.
Speaker 3: Secondly, I have not seen anybody report on this but
Speaker 3: me that in the Epstein files, one of the reports
Speaker 3: is a woman.
Speaker 7: Saying I was not touched by Donald Trump.
Speaker 3: I wasn't raped by Donald Trump, but I watched him
Speaker 3: rape a girl, and her name in the Epstein files.
Speaker 2: In the FBI incident report is Tiffany Doe.
Speaker 3: This woman kept saying that when she was thirteen years old,
Speaker 3: she was recruited by a woman named Tiffany.
Speaker 1: I don't know why I haven't.
Speaker 7: Seen this anywhere else. Maybe I'm missing something.
Speaker 1: You know, he has a daughter named Tiffany. Yeah, I know,
Speaker 1: just just to put a button on that.
Speaker 7: But the daughter that he's attracted to is not Tiffany.
Speaker 2: Oh.
Speaker 7: When he says you remind me of my daughter, he's
Speaker 7: not talking about Tiffany.
Speaker 1: I know, I know he's talking about Sorry, Tiffany, what's
Speaker 1: wrong with you?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I know if your dad's not attracted to you? Sorry? No.
Speaker 1: Yeah, We've seen him on the view talk about his
Speaker 1: daughter's nice legs, and I'd probably be dating her. I'd
Speaker 1: probably be dating her if she was in my daughter.
Speaker 1: It's disturbing anyway. I can't understand for the life of
Speaker 1: me how any single human being still supports this man.
Speaker 3: Nor I But I think that the Epstein files, I
Speaker 3: think we're not wrong to say there's a there there.
Speaker 3: I'm not a conspiracy theorist. I don't know what the
Speaker 3: there there is. But the one last thing I'll say
Speaker 3: about it, because I find this also interesting, is that
Speaker 3: they remember when they claimed Donald Trump turned in Jeffrey Epstein.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he was a he was a covert operative or something.
Speaker 3: You know what we finally found out when the Fstein
Speaker 3: files were released that a sheriff in Paul Beach County
Speaker 3: does recall Donald Trump calling and telling him about Jeffre Epstein.
Speaker 1: You know what, it was.
Speaker 7: A year I've for the investigation and Epstein started, and like.
Speaker 3: Two weeks after it became public that the police were
Speaker 3: investigating Donald I mean investigating jeff Or Epstein, that Donald
Speaker 3: Trump called and thanked them for investigating him and then
Speaker 3: said everybody knew what he was up to.
Speaker 7: That's the sheriff.
Speaker 1: Trying to get out ahead of it, to be like
Speaker 1: caught that guy.
Speaker 3: Once it's announced that your best friend is being investigated
Speaker 3: for raping children, and by the way, you've written him
Speaker 3: a birthday card talking about the secrets you two share,
Speaker 3: you call the police and thank them. So for one,
Speaker 3: you can't turn someone in when they're already when the
Speaker 3: investigations already a year old, you didn't turn them in,
Speaker 3: and you thanked them and said everybody knew.
Speaker 7: And then Donald Trump, under his own fucking.
Speaker 3: Not testimony because it wasn't under oath, but his own recounting,
Speaker 3: says I didn't.
Speaker 2: Know anything about what he was doing. And then, according to.
Speaker 3: The sheriff in Paul Beach County, he called and said,
Speaker 3: I'm thanking you for investigating him.
Speaker 2: Everybody knew what he was up to. It's all so sketchy.
Speaker 7: It's also fucking weird.
Speaker 2: And then you add in the.
Speaker 3: Fact that there's two more details that there was in
Speaker 3: the Epstein report, and this.
Speaker 7: Is actually verified by the actual victims who've.
Speaker 3: Come out and publicly talked about it, that they were
Speaker 3: told at one point that they were going to be
Speaker 3: doing a special modeling event for some big players in
Speaker 3: the modeling business, and they went to the event and
Speaker 3: it was at mar Lago, and it was just teenage girls,
Speaker 3: and the two big modeling agents were Jeffrey Epstein and
Speaker 3: Donald Trump.
Speaker 7: They just brought a bunch of fifties year old girls
Speaker 7: down there and they were the ones.
Speaker 3: Then, in addition, one of the girl's mothers recalls that
Speaker 3: she was brought to a bottling event at mar Lago,
Speaker 3: and that Marlon Maples, donald Trump's wife at the time
Speaker 3: and mother of Tiffany, who Donald Trump doesn't want.
Speaker 1: To fuck for whatever reason. Weird sentence.
Speaker 3: Marlin Aples took this woman aside and said to her,
Speaker 3: don't leave your daughter alone with these men, particularly my husband.
Speaker 1: And then when she said she never said that, No, no, no,
Speaker 1: she denied it.
Speaker 3: No, Marlin Aples, No, no, no, she didn't deny it.
Speaker 3: She said, I don't remember saying it that way. She said,
Speaker 3: I don't remember it that way.
Speaker 1: Well, to me, that's a denial.
Speaker 7: No, no, a denialist that never happened.
Speaker 2: I didn't say that.
Speaker 7: She said, I don't remember it that way.
Speaker 2: I remember it differently.
Speaker 1: It's a mob denial. It's a plausible deniability denial.
Speaker 2: Please don't kill me.
Speaker 7: She kind of denied it.
Speaker 3: She said, I don't remember it quite that way, she said.
Speaker 3: The wording was different, and she remembers saying something.
Speaker 7: To the woman.
Speaker 3: Not much of a deniability. And last thing, final thing,
Speaker 3: Evana Trump, his wife.
Speaker 7: In court filings which you can read to this day,
Speaker 7: and the.
Speaker 2: Circumstances around this are bizarre and weird.
Speaker 7: She recommended.
Speaker 3: This is what it says in the court violence that
Speaker 3: she recommended a plastic surgeon to Donald Trump for scalp
Speaker 3: surgery where they take the bald spot and they sew that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they close it.
Speaker 3: Basically they make a decision and they sew the hair
Speaker 3: on either side of it into the bald spot.
Speaker 2: And gets herd of your bald spot.
Speaker 3: So her plastic surgeon, she recommended her plastic surgeon to
Speaker 3: Donald Trump.
Speaker 7: He had the surgery and it hurt. He was in
Speaker 7: a lot of pain.
Speaker 3: This is what she says in the court violence, and
Speaker 3: that he came into the room, was very upset with her,
Speaker 3: and he angrily raped her.
Speaker 7: So she says in the court file, whoses of Anna
Speaker 7: Trump his wife in their divorce settlement?
Speaker 2: Really?
Speaker 7: Then Donald Trump up the settlement, the divorce settlement, and
Speaker 7: she rescinded it.
Speaker 3: But you can't rescind court documents, the original documents there
Speaker 3: and then the new court documents there. It's still there
Speaker 3: to this day where she says she was raped by
Speaker 3: Donald Trump, her husband, angrily over.
Speaker 1: Some hairshed hold on, does anyone happily rape that was
Speaker 1: joyfully raped?
Speaker 2: No, there's no joyful rape.
Speaker 7: But I'm just saying that it was like some weird
Speaker 7: angry at her.
Speaker 2: And this was punishment.
Speaker 7: This wasn't sex for pleasure.
Speaker 1: This was sex for punishment. I understand it.
Speaker 3: I don't know what else to tell you, man. And
Speaker 3: then the Polo Zampoli, who was a modeling agent worked
Speaker 3: with Trump in the team modeling business in the eighties.
Speaker 3: He and his wife Amanda Ugaro, not wife, baby mama,
Speaker 3: but they were together for twenty seven years. Okay, he
Speaker 3: gets in every Trump administration ambassadorships to the sweetest gigs
Speaker 3: of animal.
Speaker 7: So he's now the United States ambassador to I think
Speaker 7: the Bahamas. Do you want to go live with the
Speaker 7: Bahamas on the US taxpayer's dime? This guy and his
Speaker 7: baby mama, who he's had a.
Speaker 1: Child with, I know what baby mama means.
Speaker 2: They then.
Speaker 7: He gets into a fight with the baby mama.
Speaker 3: This is like just a year ago, asks Trump to
Speaker 3: sick ice on her because she's from Brazil. They deport
Speaker 3: her back to Brazil, and when she gets back to Brazil,
Speaker 3: she goes, okay, fine, I'm done fucking playing games. I'm
Speaker 3: gonna tell you the truth.
Speaker 2: And she was there.
Speaker 7: She had a baby with Palo Zampoli, donald Trump's former
Speaker 7: bottling agent buddy. And she's released pictures of.
Speaker 3: Her like literally two years ago on New Year's Eve
Speaker 3: at mar A Lago and she's sitting at a table
Speaker 3: and the table is Donald Trump, Milania Trump, Palo's Ampoli,
Speaker 3: Amanda like she's in the inner circle, and she.
Speaker 7: Says, here's the truth.
Speaker 3: Milania Trump was an escort working for Jeffrey Epstein and
Speaker 3: he introduced her to Donald Trump.
Speaker 7: And so when people said, what was that weird press
Speaker 7: conference all about?
Speaker 3: When Milania Trump came out and said, like these lies
Speaker 3: about me and Epstein have to stop.
Speaker 7: Her and be like, what is she even talking about?
Speaker 3: And then immediately after Amanda boom Garo or whatever her
Speaker 3: name is came out and said, this is what it's
Speaker 3: all about.
Speaker 2: She was an escort working for Epstein.
Speaker 3: Hearsay, maybe, but we're not talking about some rando here.
Speaker 3: This is somebody who's clearly in the inside.
Speaker 7: I'm just saying it all adds up to what the
Speaker 7: actual fucking fuck.
Speaker 3: So I think Todd Blanche more than anything, his number
Speaker 3: one job is to make this Epstein shit fucking go away.
Speaker 1: And the moral of the story. Yeah, vote blue in
Speaker 1: November like your life depends on.
Speaker 7: It, because it kind of does, or at least your
Speaker 7: country does.
Speaker 2: Your freedom does it kind of does.
Speaker 1: Make them steal millions upon millions of votes, and it
Speaker 1: still make the theft not still not work. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I think I'll borrow a phrase from Donald Trump, make
Speaker 3: it too big to rig.
Speaker 1: I'll borrow phrase from Barry Kats on The Serious Circus podcast.
Speaker 1: Make a noise so big no one can ignore you.
Speaker 1: Let's do it. I feel motivated. Also, our food still
Speaker 1: out there.
Speaker 2: Let's go get it.
Speaker 1: We're gonna go eat until next time. Please drive like
Speaker 1: you know each other.
Speaker 2: I don't remember if we turn this off with me.
Speaker 4: You phone, Oh my god, you almost fell off the roof.
Speaker 1: If this is still recording, you gotta leave it. Man,
Speaker 1: That Mike came an inch and a half from falling
Speaker 1: off the roof. You are one lucky microphone.