WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.760 --> 00:00:03.600 Phone number eight eight eight nine three four seven eight 2 00:00:03.680 --> 00:00:13.400 seven four. Easily the weirdest emails that I get are overnight. Sorry, 3 00:00:13.519 --> 00:00:17.079 we would just send me the strangest stuff, dude. All right, 4 00:00:17.920 --> 00:00:22.440 so coming up on the show, well it is Thursday, 5 00:00:22.760 --> 00:00:25.559 so you know, got that going for us. Obviously, got 6 00:00:25.600 --> 00:00:28.160 some big weather stuff to talk about. We'll be checking 7 00:00:28.160 --> 00:00:33.200 in with Ray Stagic a couple times this morning obviously 8 00:00:33.280 --> 00:00:38.640 seven forty eight forty five, So folks obviously getting ready 9 00:00:38.640 --> 00:00:42.600 down there in Florida, and ain't gonna be no joke 10 00:00:42.759 --> 00:00:45.600 some parts of North Carolina what we're going to be seen. 11 00:00:45.759 --> 00:00:49.479 So in addition all the political stuff and the wacky 12 00:00:49.560 --> 00:00:55.079 stuff and things like that, we will we will be 13 00:00:55.399 --> 00:00:59.840 getting into all of that coming up as as the 14 00:01:00.240 --> 00:01:06.719 show unfolds. All right, let's see here, I was just 15 00:01:06.799 --> 00:01:10.079 looking at this this morning. We got Steven at eight 16 00:01:10.120 --> 00:01:14.359 o five, right, all right, yeah, yeah, yeah, So we'll 17 00:01:14.439 --> 00:01:20.799 we'll check in with uh NERD correspondent uh uh are 18 00:01:20.840 --> 00:01:23.640 are are are? I call him that out of affection, 19 00:01:24.200 --> 00:01:28.120 just so we're clear, Stephen Kent. But yeah, we got 20 00:01:28.200 --> 00:01:35.920 we gotta talk yet another intersection of culture and uh entertainment. 21 00:01:36.040 --> 00:01:41.799 But is it entertainment or the message. As a critical 22 00:01:41.879 --> 00:01:45.200 drinker likes to say, so, uh, even if you don't 23 00:01:45.200 --> 00:01:47.799 play video games, a lot of this is gonna be 24 00:01:47.799 --> 00:01:51.239 comparable to what you saw with Disney. Okay, and the 25 00:01:51.319 --> 00:01:57.079 snow White movie if you remember obviously all that like 26 00:01:58.480 --> 00:01:59.920 that was one of those that should have been in 27 00:02:00.040 --> 00:02:04.760 easy putt for you know, these live action remakes, but no, 28 00:02:05.159 --> 00:02:09.360 the actresses, one in particular, although both were out there 29 00:02:09.400 --> 00:02:13.800 doing it. Uh. The two main actresses then did a 30 00:02:13.960 --> 00:02:18.199 sit down which was just disastrous, right with the the 31 00:02:18.240 --> 00:02:20.479 one who plays snow White. I don't even remember her 32 00:02:20.520 --> 00:02:23.919 name right now, and I'm okay with that, you know, 33 00:02:24.039 --> 00:02:28.560 out there basically trashing on the story and then and 34 00:02:28.599 --> 00:02:30.319 then telling everyoney, oh, it's going to be different, and 35 00:02:30.360 --> 00:02:33.599 here's how it's going to be different. And the whole 36 00:02:33.639 --> 00:02:37.479 thing was not received well. And if you remember, Disney 37 00:02:37.520 --> 00:02:40.639 had to like stop there to change out the whole 38 00:02:40.759 --> 00:02:44.520 dwarf mechanism in it does that turned into its own thing, 39 00:02:44.599 --> 00:02:48.080 and then you know, eventually we found ourselves with the 40 00:02:48.120 --> 00:02:51.400 delayed movie. This is on the video game side of things, 41 00:02:51.439 --> 00:02:56.960 but one of the big produced video game companies out there, Ubisoft, 42 00:02:57.479 --> 00:03:01.319 They make Assassin's Creed, and we talked about this on 43 00:03:01.360 --> 00:03:04.719 the show previously, But if you don't remember, each iteration 44 00:03:04.840 --> 00:03:10.159 of Assassin's Creed has been thematically set somewhere in time, 45 00:03:11.599 --> 00:03:15.400 So I admit I don't remember all of them. Are 46 00:03:15.479 --> 00:03:17.560 what are a couple of the examples. Sorry, I'm not 47 00:03:17.560 --> 00:03:21.120 an Assassin's Creed player. Well, it's been set in like colonial. 48 00:03:20.599 --> 00:03:24.159 Times was one of them, right, And you know, but 49 00:03:24.520 --> 00:03:26.800 the first game was like a Jerusalem, then it went 50 00:03:26.840 --> 00:03:29.240 to Italy, like Rome, I believe in Venice. 51 00:03:29.919 --> 00:03:32.000 I just remember watching people shoot Red Coach. 52 00:03:32.159 --> 00:03:34.000 Yeah recently, Yeah, I recently played that game. 53 00:03:34.039 --> 00:03:34.199 Yeah. 54 00:03:34.240 --> 00:03:36.240 It takes place during you know, in the Thirteen Colonies. 55 00:03:36.319 --> 00:03:39.280 Yeah yeah, so. But but what the game was screaming 56 00:03:39.319 --> 00:03:41.719 out for, according to fans, at least from what I 57 00:03:41.759 --> 00:03:45.000 can you know, what I can read and understand is 58 00:03:45.919 --> 00:03:48.599 the whole game felt like it had to have a 59 00:03:48.639 --> 00:03:53.960 Samurai thing, right, and so the idea that this current 60 00:03:54.039 --> 00:03:58.080 one that they're getting ready to release, although things have 61 00:03:58.240 --> 00:04:03.080 changed to getting ready to release, would be set in 62 00:04:03.199 --> 00:04:08.560 feudal Japan, right, the the the era of Samurai, of 63 00:04:08.719 --> 00:04:14.960 Shogun of all of that. Uh, the fans were really excited, right, 64 00:04:15.039 --> 00:04:17.600 because this is this is what the game felt like 65 00:04:17.680 --> 00:04:20.800 it was anyway, and now it's going to be. And 66 00:04:20.839 --> 00:04:30.639 then they decide to go with a fictional story. Not 67 00:04:30.800 --> 00:04:33.600 that the not that the the small pieces of it 68 00:04:33.680 --> 00:04:37.519 weren't somewhat accurate. Nobody can tests that there wasn't this 69 00:04:37.639 --> 00:04:43.040 dude who was literally gifted essentially to the Japanese emperor 70 00:04:43.079 --> 00:04:46.319 at the time, largely due to the fact that he 71 00:04:46.480 --> 00:04:49.279 was black and he looked so different and at the time, 72 00:04:49.600 --> 00:04:51.800 anyone who was foreign who got into Japan, they just 73 00:04:51.879 --> 00:04:56.639 killed you. This zup, you're done. But he was received 74 00:04:56.639 --> 00:04:59.519 as a gift. I believe it was from merchants or 75 00:04:59.600 --> 00:05:03.519 travel from Africa or no, I don't remember where they 76 00:05:03.560 --> 00:05:07.040 were from, but anyway, they gifted him. And there is 77 00:05:07.360 --> 00:05:15.199 small historical record of this individual showing up but fighting 78 00:05:15.319 --> 00:05:19.319 in some instances. But it was then romanticized by a 79 00:05:19.439 --> 00:05:23.000 professor who looks like I think he's British or something, 80 00:05:23.319 --> 00:05:26.439 but he teaches over in Japan. Maybe he's an American, 81 00:05:27.480 --> 00:05:32.560 and he basically created this whole story about how he 82 00:05:32.759 --> 00:05:36.480 was the secret first black Samurai and you know he 83 00:05:36.519 --> 00:05:38.680 was he was out leading things and all of that, 84 00:05:38.800 --> 00:05:41.360 and that like none of none of that is backed 85 00:05:41.399 --> 00:05:44.000 up by what we know, which the answer is we 86 00:05:44.040 --> 00:05:50.920 don't know a lot. And but also that was the 87 00:05:50.959 --> 00:05:55.600 wokest decision. And it's not just that it's a bunch 88 00:05:55.639 --> 00:06:01.439 of stuff, because once you irritate the face and remember 89 00:06:01.839 --> 00:06:04.839 this game was expected to be super duper extra big 90 00:06:04.920 --> 00:06:13.639 in Japan, right, And so once you tell your Japanese audience, 91 00:06:14.360 --> 00:06:17.279 forget the Americans just going, you just had to put 92 00:06:17.279 --> 00:06:20.240 the woke stuff in there, didn't you. Once you told 93 00:06:20.279 --> 00:06:23.439 that to the Japanese, they damn near are revolting over 94 00:06:23.480 --> 00:06:23.720 the game. 95 00:06:23.759 --> 00:06:25.639 I mean, this wasn't complicated. You had a game that 96 00:06:25.720 --> 00:06:30.120 was based upon stealth and parkour and hiding in the shadows. Right, 97 00:06:30.160 --> 00:06:33.279 it's an assassin. It's an assassin game. All you needed 98 00:06:33.319 --> 00:06:35.079 to do is put it in Japan and make it 99 00:06:35.120 --> 00:06:36.839 like a ninja thing. That's all you had to do. 100 00:06:37.319 --> 00:06:39.040 And they went, I think there is like a ninja 101 00:06:39.040 --> 00:06:40.879 in the game, but it's like you said, there's a samurai. 102 00:06:40.920 --> 00:06:43.839 But they got every literally everything wrong. They got the 103 00:06:43.920 --> 00:06:47.920 language wrong, they got the customs wrong, the culture wrong, 104 00:06:47.959 --> 00:06:50.920 they got the arch culture wrong, the season's wrong, everything 105 00:06:51.000 --> 00:06:54.120 is wrong. So the Japanese people not all of but 106 00:06:54.160 --> 00:06:55.680 a lot of them are like revolting. They don't eve 107 00:06:55.680 --> 00:06:56.240 want to play the game. 108 00:06:56.240 --> 00:06:58.920 They're like they well wait, but what I'm saying is, 109 00:06:59.160 --> 00:07:01.480 here's the give you an example of the little stuff. 110 00:07:01.519 --> 00:07:04.560 So there's a scene in the trailer where there's bags 111 00:07:04.600 --> 00:07:07.399 of rice open, spilled out on the street and they're 112 00:07:07.480 --> 00:07:10.800 kind of fighting through there. And I think if you 113 00:07:10.920 --> 00:07:15.360 hadn't irritated people with screwing around with the whole main storyline, 114 00:07:15.680 --> 00:07:19.279 you wouldn't have had people in Japan nitpicking it going. 115 00:07:19.439 --> 00:07:21.759 You understand that during that time, rice was a form 116 00:07:21.800 --> 00:07:23.959 of payment to cover your taxes. We would never leave 117 00:07:23.959 --> 00:07:26.079 at willy nilly in the street, or those are the 118 00:07:26.079 --> 00:07:28.600 wrong trees to be in bloom that time of the year. 119 00:07:29.040 --> 00:07:32.279 Those are the things that audiences will kind of put 120 00:07:32.360 --> 00:07:35.800 up with, except for like the really really hardcore. But 121 00:07:35.920 --> 00:07:38.319 once you once you get them triggered over the one thing, 122 00:07:38.600 --> 00:07:40.720 now they're going to chew your game up. 123 00:07:41.000 --> 00:07:42.920 Just it makes no sense. Like I said, the first 124 00:07:42.920 --> 00:07:44.800 game took place in the Middle East at Alta Air. 125 00:07:45.160 --> 00:07:47.639 He was Middle Easter, right, and then then the second one, 126 00:07:47.759 --> 00:07:51.439 Enzio was from Renaissance Italy. He was an Italian and. 127 00:07:52.160 --> 00:07:54.920 We know he was Italian. Well they work at Olive Gardener. 128 00:07:55.000 --> 00:07:58.480 He did. Yeah, oh, because breadsticks move was amazing. But 129 00:07:58.519 --> 00:08:00.920 there and does the third game. The third game, you 130 00:08:01.000 --> 00:08:03.319 had somebody come over from England and he was, you know, 131 00:08:03.360 --> 00:08:04.879 an an English guy in the colonies. 132 00:08:05.439 --> 00:08:06.680 Oh and now. 133 00:08:07.879 --> 00:08:10.240 And now this game you've got right, the main protagonist 134 00:08:10.439 --> 00:08:13.720 is a black dude in feudal Japan. But everything about 135 00:08:13.720 --> 00:08:14.279 it is wrong. 136 00:08:14.759 --> 00:08:21.360 Yeah. So it's so bad that Ubersoft yesterday they're under 137 00:08:21.399 --> 00:08:24.680 attacked by their own shareholders. And you know what, good 138 00:08:26.319 --> 00:08:31.319 good that's because here's the thing. It's not government, it's 139 00:08:31.360 --> 00:08:35.159 it should be the free market. And when you uh, well, 140 00:08:35.200 --> 00:08:37.480 we have news now that they're going to be delaying 141 00:08:37.480 --> 00:08:39.759 the launch of the game at least until February. I 142 00:08:39.759 --> 00:08:41.480 don't know how much you're gonna screw with it. I 143 00:08:41.519 --> 00:08:44.799 don't think you can. I don't think you can take 144 00:08:44.840 --> 00:08:47.240 a big, big, big game like this and rewrite the 145 00:08:47.279 --> 00:08:51.480 whole main protagonist. Can you in in in five months? 146 00:08:52.320 --> 00:08:52.799 No way? 147 00:08:53.279 --> 00:08:55.279 No, especially when they are like three thousand people they 148 00:08:55.279 --> 00:08:57.840 said we're making this game. Yeah, three thousand. 149 00:08:58.200 --> 00:09:03.200 You could just swap that person out, plus the storyline side. 150 00:09:03.639 --> 00:09:07.240 So I don't know. Maybe they're like, maybe they'll forget 151 00:09:07.279 --> 00:09:12.960 by February. I don't know. But this statement is everything 152 00:09:13.120 --> 00:09:17.960 that's wrong that these companies fail to realize. I mean, 153 00:09:18.000 --> 00:09:21.639 the investors are realizing it. Ubisoft got kicked in the 154 00:09:21.720 --> 00:09:26.840 teeth yesterday and that's what prompted this. Ubisoff's executive Committee 155 00:09:26.840 --> 00:09:30.159 and Board of Directors will launch an investigation and a 156 00:09:30.200 --> 00:09:34.320 review of the company. This following the company's release of 157 00:09:34.360 --> 00:09:38.000 a financial statement and update, which included the delay of 158 00:09:38.080 --> 00:09:40.240 Assassin's Creed. Well what do you think that did to 159 00:09:40.279 --> 00:09:45.399 their stock price yesterday? And shockingly, the announcement that Star 160 00:09:45.480 --> 00:09:50.039 Wars Outlaws may have underperformed, which is a very nice 161 00:09:50.600 --> 00:09:56.080 word when you actually realize how much it underperformed. But 162 00:09:58.840 --> 00:10:02.360 let me read this right here we go, I gotta 163 00:10:02.399 --> 00:10:05.039 read their whole statement. Uh, this is from the CEO. 164 00:10:05.159 --> 00:10:08.440 Let me address some of the polarized comments around Ubisoft lately. 165 00:10:08.480 --> 00:10:11.840 I want to reaffirm that we are an entertainment first company, 166 00:10:12.399 --> 00:10:16.440 creating games for the broadest possible audience, and our goal 167 00:10:16.600 --> 00:10:23.960 is not to push any specific agenda. It is it is, 168 00:10:24.159 --> 00:10:27.440 But I here's what I think. I think. I think 169 00:10:27.480 --> 00:10:35.080 it is so baked into what Wall Street or companies 170 00:10:35.120 --> 00:10:38.039 have convinced themselves is the normal. And I'll give you 171 00:10:38.039 --> 00:10:41.039 an example. You ever try to argue with somebody who's 172 00:10:43.879 --> 00:10:46.720 all right, so it's you know, some leftist moon bent 173 00:10:46.840 --> 00:10:49.440 on there and they're arguing the thing, and you're not 174 00:10:49.519 --> 00:10:52.039 even pushing back. You're just kind of you know, you're 175 00:10:52.120 --> 00:10:58.120 using examples of you know, uh, like, here's my opinion, 176 00:10:58.200 --> 00:11:00.879 what's your You're have an actual disco worse, And then 177 00:11:01.519 --> 00:11:04.360 rather than discussing the point, they say something like, look, 178 00:11:04.480 --> 00:11:09.559 this isn't politics, this is human rights, okay, which is 179 00:11:10.039 --> 00:11:14.399 which is an absolute communist intellectual tool. By the way, right, 180 00:11:14.720 --> 00:11:18.320 you want to you want to separate your cause, right, 181 00:11:18.399 --> 00:11:22.200 so it's not comparable or it's not comparable contrastible to 182 00:11:22.840 --> 00:11:26.799 somebody who may have an opposite opinion. Their opinion is 183 00:11:26.799 --> 00:11:32.200 is bad. Your opinion is you're championing human rights that 184 00:11:32.279 --> 00:11:36.360 you you've heard that a thousand times, right. And I 185 00:11:36.960 --> 00:11:39.639 think that there's there's just too many of these idiots 186 00:11:39.720 --> 00:11:43.480 up in management, especially in middle management. I think the CEOs. 187 00:11:43.679 --> 00:11:47.039 Obviously there's some that are cooked, but for the most part, 188 00:11:47.960 --> 00:11:52.039 it's you know, it's so beaten into people's brains at 189 00:11:52.080 --> 00:11:54.679 the university level, within the middle management, you gotta be 190 00:11:54.720 --> 00:11:58.519 down with the DEI all this stuff that they don't like. 191 00:11:58.879 --> 00:12:02.320 It's not normal doing that to a video game. It's 192 00:12:02.399 --> 00:12:08.360 not normal. Giving press uh you know, press conferences, crapping 193 00:12:08.480 --> 00:12:11.919 all over the storyline which is a beloved storyline of 194 00:12:11.960 --> 00:12:17.039 your movie. It's not normal. And yes, if a CEO 195 00:12:17.200 --> 00:12:19.200 or leadership, if they want to go out and they 196 00:12:19.240 --> 00:12:23.039 have some cause azure, then they better be able to 197 00:12:23.080 --> 00:12:26.639 react to people who feel that it is literally screwing 198 00:12:26.720 --> 00:12:31.720 up your product, unnecessary or heavy handed. Look, you know, 199 00:12:31.840 --> 00:12:37.279 iHeart we're a big company if that. Every year they 200 00:12:37.320 --> 00:12:42.200 put out a report and an annual report which is 201 00:12:42.240 --> 00:12:45.919 a public document, and it highlights what was the company 202 00:12:46.000 --> 00:12:49.039 up to. And it also focuses on the charitable stuff, 203 00:12:49.159 --> 00:12:53.360 right and and iHeart does a ton of it, and 204 00:12:53.360 --> 00:12:57.440 and yes we do LGBTQ stuff, but we also do 205 00:12:57.559 --> 00:13:02.840 like police stuff and in girl Scouts and boy Scouts 206 00:13:02.840 --> 00:13:06.440 and and you know it's it's it's a real you 207 00:13:06.440 --> 00:13:09.559 could beat somebody to death with this document. And then 208 00:13:09.600 --> 00:13:13.080 there's some there's some bigger things that that are company. 209 00:13:13.120 --> 00:13:15.320 I'm not speaking on behalf. I'm just pointing out that, like, 210 00:13:15.360 --> 00:13:18.639 we do a lot of this, but also, if you know, 211 00:13:18.679 --> 00:13:24.519 if our CEO decided his pet project is f them kids, right, 212 00:13:25.519 --> 00:13:29.120 And so every every week it's just us highlighting kids 213 00:13:29.159 --> 00:13:31.559 in need and go and f those kids. Right, Maybe 214 00:13:32.200 --> 00:13:34.639 pull your bootstraps, get some gumption, you know that kind 215 00:13:34.679 --> 00:13:38.600 of crap, right, you'd be horrified. Got to be fair, 216 00:13:38.720 --> 00:13:42.399 some kids need to motivate, but it would be it 217 00:13:42.440 --> 00:13:45.919 would be mind numbingly stupid, because for the most part, 218 00:13:45.960 --> 00:13:48.720 people like kids, and for the most part, video game 219 00:13:48.759 --> 00:13:52.519 players like video games that make sense and are not 220 00:13:52.720 --> 00:13:57.399 political because they want to play video games. And so 221 00:13:57.720 --> 00:14:00.240 I think that what I honestly, I think the person 222 00:14:00.279 --> 00:14:03.480 who probably penned this, which wasn't the CEO, but you know, 223 00:14:03.600 --> 00:14:06.759 somebody in that you know, that c suite communications thing, 224 00:14:07.159 --> 00:14:10.919 that person probably can't understand why people are upset. And 225 00:14:10.960 --> 00:14:15.919 when your company's build up with that, you're just asking 226 00:14:15.960 --> 00:14:18.080 for this to be a problem. How much money is 227 00:14:18.159 --> 00:14:21.360 Ubisoft gonna lose? How much money did Sony just lose? 228 00:14:21.600 --> 00:14:25.200 How much money did Disney lose? And I look at 229 00:14:25.200 --> 00:14:28.039 it and all I can think is, are we on 230 00:14:28.240 --> 00:14:31.799 the verge of a potential course correction on some of 231 00:14:31.799 --> 00:14:33.399 this stuff, because at the end of the day, you 232 00:14:33.399 --> 00:14:35.000 can say, I'm not going to do business with this 233 00:14:35.080 --> 00:14:38.919 company anymore. But maybe you like stuff. Maybe you like 234 00:14:39.000 --> 00:14:41.919 the Assassin's Creed game. That's the thing too. They're like 235 00:14:42.360 --> 00:14:44.639 the people who are the most critical. They're saying don't 236 00:14:44.679 --> 00:14:47.080 like the game. No, they do, or they wouldn't care. 237 00:14:47.559 --> 00:14:50.559 They like the way it was. The problem is they're creating, 238 00:14:50.559 --> 00:14:53.440 whether it's movies or video games, they're creating a product 239 00:14:53.440 --> 00:14:56.000 for an audience that doesn't exist well, insulting the audience 240 00:14:56.000 --> 00:14:56.519 that played it. 241 00:14:56.960 --> 00:14:59.919 Yes, started the Star Wars I should call it this 242 00:15:00.039 --> 00:15:04.320 Star Wars strategy or something. I don't know, but like 243 00:15:04.639 --> 00:15:07.840 it's so if I if I just asked the random 244 00:15:07.879 --> 00:15:11.600 person give me five examples this, you probably could. Even 245 00:15:11.600 --> 00:15:14.559 if you're not an entertainment reporter. Somebody's particularly plugged in 246 00:15:14.639 --> 00:15:18.240 because you watch it unfold in real time. So yeah, 247 00:15:18.399 --> 00:15:21.600 I think that the leadership at Ubisoft probably thinks, no, 248 00:15:21.679 --> 00:15:27.120 everything's normal, what's their problem? But the financials don't lie. 249 00:15:27.360 --> 00:15:29.759 The Tokyo Game Show kicks off today. It's for the 250 00:15:29.759 --> 00:15:31.240 next three days and. 251 00:15:31.240 --> 00:15:32.559 They're going protesting there. 252 00:15:32.879 --> 00:15:35.600 What they took. They took away the booth for this 253 00:15:35.759 --> 00:15:38.360 game on the floor that it's not going to be. 254 00:15:38.399 --> 00:15:38.919 That's bad. 255 00:15:39.200 --> 00:15:41.840 These are all really big deals that maybe don't mean 256 00:15:41.879 --> 00:15:44.440 as much to you know, be and you and all that. 257 00:15:45.080 --> 00:15:48.519 But that's that's insane. I don't know if you know 258 00:15:48.559 --> 00:15:53.440 this Tokyo pretty good video game market, big show, right. 259 00:15:53.440 --> 00:15:56.799 I believe that's also in Japan. Correct, let me check 260 00:15:56.879 --> 00:15:58.120 this game is a Japan. 261 00:15:58.120 --> 00:16:01.279 I was a pretty finalist in the geography, that is true, 262 00:16:01.679 --> 00:16:04.279 and I was, but it was also Wyoming, so you know, 263 00:16:05.440 --> 00:16:08.080 Pulse got you there, all right anyway, So yeah, that's 264 00:16:08.080 --> 00:16:11.080 a dumpster fire. We'll be back, that's right, hanging out 265 00:16:11.120 --> 00:16:13.679 with that crew that I probably couldn't pay any of 266 00:16:13.720 --> 00:16:16.320 you a million dollars to spell you probably for a million, 267 00:16:16.360 --> 00:16:20.519 but you know what I mean. And you know these 268 00:16:20.600 --> 00:16:23.559 they talk about all the different issues. They should have 269 00:16:23.559 --> 00:16:26.000 a whole laundry list, and and you know, frankly with 270 00:16:26.120 --> 00:16:29.480 Joe Biden right now, just you know, just spending the 271 00:16:29.519 --> 00:16:33.399 ten minutes or whatever you have, like who's running things, 272 00:16:33.480 --> 00:16:35.840 what's going on? That would be a good use of 273 00:16:35.879 --> 00:16:43.600 ten minutes. And then Stephanie Rule from MSNBC caught herself 274 00:16:43.720 --> 00:16:50.200 a not live pre recorded interview with Kamala Harris, and 275 00:16:54.639 --> 00:16:57.840 we'll get to that. Ross won't stop using the word 276 00:16:57.919 --> 00:17:01.840 holistically though this morning, and it's getting obnoxious. So how 277 00:17:01.840 --> 00:17:03.919 many times you could think you could work the words 278 00:17:04.480 --> 00:17:06.799 just on a normal day? How many times a day 279 00:17:06.839 --> 00:17:09.960 do you think you could work the word holistically into 280 00:17:10.200 --> 00:17:13.519 whatever conversations you have without people going that's weird. 281 00:17:13.640 --> 00:17:15.359 So you want to do like the super Troopers me 282 00:17:15.400 --> 00:17:15.759 out thing. 283 00:17:16.400 --> 00:17:19.440 Yes, I'm just how many before people go gosh, he 284 00:17:19.559 --> 00:17:21.400 uses that word a lot? You know, that's a thing 285 00:17:21.480 --> 00:17:26.680 in radio, h the word crutches or speech crushes, not 286 00:17:26.799 --> 00:17:30.759 just in radio. And literally if a radio guy, here's 287 00:17:30.799 --> 00:17:36.119 another radio guy using a word a lot more than usual, 288 00:17:37.119 --> 00:17:37.960 they'll tell them. 289 00:17:38.359 --> 00:17:40.039 I pointed this out to you about a month ago. 290 00:17:40.319 --> 00:17:43.119 Yeah, the word wild was using wild too much because 291 00:17:43.119 --> 00:17:46.640 because it becomes a crutch and then it like clicks. 292 00:17:46.640 --> 00:17:48.400 The thing what I used to do is I'd write 293 00:17:48.440 --> 00:17:50.240 it down on a piece of paper in front of 294 00:17:50.279 --> 00:17:52.680 me and I'd be like, oh, don't use that word 295 00:17:52.799 --> 00:17:55.480 and what You're just trying to normalize your speaking because 296 00:17:55.519 --> 00:17:56.599 it sounds weird. 297 00:17:56.680 --> 00:17:59.119 I know, I've got like, how many notes do you 298 00:17:59.160 --> 00:18:00.839 think I have here, my boy, I'm counting like at 299 00:18:00.920 --> 00:18:03.640 least like fifty seven or something. They all say olive garden. 300 00:18:04.599 --> 00:18:07.319 All that, though, is watching a fill in the first time. 301 00:18:07.839 --> 00:18:12.400 Look at your board and it's you know, eighteen hundred's quality, 302 00:18:12.839 --> 00:18:16.759 and also all your toys and all your notes, and 303 00:18:17.440 --> 00:18:24.000 it's it's got to be deeply terrifying. So anyway, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, 304 00:18:24.079 --> 00:18:28.079 olive garden is written everywhere and yet won't shut up 305 00:18:28.119 --> 00:18:30.680 about it. So when I'm listening to Kamala Harris at 306 00:18:30.680 --> 00:18:32.480 a softball interview, do this and. 307 00:18:32.480 --> 00:18:36.359 Assistance to state and local governments around transit dollars and 308 00:18:36.400 --> 00:18:41.440 looking holistically at the connection between that and housing, and 309 00:18:41.519 --> 00:18:44.599 looking holistically at the incentives we in the federal government 310 00:18:44.640 --> 00:18:47.759 can create for local and state governments to actually engage 311 00:18:47.759 --> 00:18:52.400 in planning in a holistic manner. That includes prioritizing affordable housing. 312 00:18:53.559 --> 00:18:59.079 Holistic but affordable housing. Right, What does that answer even mean? 313 00:18:59.319 --> 00:19:01.680 And that's not even the dumbest one, that's just the one. 314 00:19:01.720 --> 00:19:04.519 What's like, how did you use holistically three times in there? 315 00:19:05.119 --> 00:19:09.000 Unless this, unless you were talking about the word and 316 00:19:09.039 --> 00:19:13.680 its definition, you used it too many times without ever 317 00:19:13.799 --> 00:19:17.000 answering the question. I'm telling you, are you? Are you 318 00:19:17.079 --> 00:19:27.279 ready center yourself? Center yourself. 319 00:19:30.160 --> 00:19:30.559 For this? 320 00:19:31.000 --> 00:19:33.400 Although hold, I gotta get them over on different channels 321 00:19:34.079 --> 00:19:36.920 due to do Sorry, important technical thing should have been 322 00:19:39.680 --> 00:19:42.279 thank you? All right? Ready, let me get the well, 323 00:19:42.279 --> 00:19:43.519 get the zither music here? 324 00:19:44.519 --> 00:19:46.359 Expanding that child tax credit? 325 00:19:46.680 --> 00:19:49.319 No too loud? Here we go, all right, Kamala, say 326 00:19:49.359 --> 00:19:50.359 something even worse. 327 00:19:50.240 --> 00:19:53.480 Spanding that child tax credit? Or you mentioned housing before 328 00:19:53.599 --> 00:19:56.400 giving that extra money for a first home. If you 329 00:19:56.440 --> 00:19:59.799 can't raise corporate taxes, or if GP takes control of this, 330 00:20:00.599 --> 00:20:02.359 where do you get the money to do that? Do 331 00:20:02.400 --> 00:20:03.799 you still go forward those plans? 332 00:20:03.799 --> 00:20:05.880 And all right? And I'm gonna I'm gonna stop at 333 00:20:05.920 --> 00:20:08.079 what we play, but I need i because I want 334 00:20:08.119 --> 00:20:11.599 you to make no bones about what the question is. 335 00:20:11.799 --> 00:20:13.880 The question is, and it's one that has been asked 336 00:20:13.880 --> 00:20:18.480 a thousand times, a thousand different ways throughout our political system. 337 00:20:19.359 --> 00:20:22.839 If you find yourself in a situation where your party 338 00:20:23.000 --> 00:20:28.960 doesn't control all the levers of government, specifically in this case, 339 00:20:29.720 --> 00:20:34.519 the the Congress and more specifically the House, which has 340 00:20:34.640 --> 00:20:37.759 to originate spending bills, or at least should They've got 341 00:20:37.799 --> 00:20:41.960 a bunch of tricks, But how do you accomplish these 342 00:20:42.000 --> 00:20:43.960 things you say you want to do, they are going 343 00:20:44.039 --> 00:20:47.559 to require a lot of money. That's an incredibly fair question. 344 00:20:48.319 --> 00:20:51.000 What do you want to do if you're not able 345 00:20:51.079 --> 00:20:55.319 to have control of funding and bills, how do you 346 00:20:55.519 --> 00:20:58.039 how do you attempt to accomplish it? And the correct 347 00:20:58.119 --> 00:21:01.440 answer is, you know, we're gonna have to partner, We're 348 00:21:01.440 --> 00:21:03.680 gonna have to uh, we're gonna have to horse trade 349 00:21:03.720 --> 00:21:06.519 or whatever that's used to be what you'd say, and 350 00:21:06.640 --> 00:21:09.079 then people call you a rhino or whatever the Democrat 351 00:21:09.240 --> 00:21:14.519 version of it is, and nobody'd be happy. But you 352 00:21:14.559 --> 00:21:16.759 better have an answer for it, even if it's one 353 00:21:16.880 --> 00:21:20.720 about you know, we have to convince Republicans what we're 354 00:21:20.759 --> 00:21:24.960 doing is that's I know it's boilerplate, but at least 355 00:21:25.119 --> 00:21:26.640 you're addressing the question. 356 00:21:29.440 --> 00:21:32.319 Here we go expanding that child tax credit, or you 357 00:21:32.359 --> 00:21:35.720 mentioned housing before getting that extra money for a first home. 358 00:21:36.200 --> 00:21:39.319 If you can't raise corporate taxes, or if GOP takes 359 00:21:39.319 --> 00:21:41.720 control of the Senate, where do you get the money 360 00:21:41.799 --> 00:21:43.839 to do that? Do you still go forward those plans 361 00:21:43.880 --> 00:21:44.359 and borrow? 362 00:21:45.559 --> 00:21:47.279 Well, but we're gonna. 363 00:21:47.079 --> 00:21:50.920 Have to raise corporate taxes and we're gonna have to raise. 364 00:21:52.240 --> 00:21:55.599 We're gonna have to make sure that the biggest corporations 365 00:21:56.000 --> 00:21:59.920 and billionaires pay their fisher That's just it. It's about 366 00:22:00.079 --> 00:22:01.279 paying their fair share. 367 00:22:03.160 --> 00:22:06.160 Well, I I think Biden could have put a more 368 00:22:06.200 --> 00:22:11.920 coherent answer. I'm serious. It depends on the time of 369 00:22:11.960 --> 00:22:14.400 the day and what's going on around him. I think 370 00:22:14.680 --> 00:22:17.720 I think Biden just with his years and years though 371 00:22:17.759 --> 00:22:23.640 it might be automatic, but you know, he could approach 372 00:22:23.680 --> 00:22:27.880 it in a well, look, I've formulated relationships over the years, 373 00:22:27.920 --> 00:22:30.480 and we're gonna work on those relationships. And if we 374 00:22:30.559 --> 00:22:33.759 need to change the tax coach is I think Congress does, 375 00:22:36.000 --> 00:22:38.720 then we'll make our case. Or he could do the 376 00:22:38.720 --> 00:22:40.720 angry thing. He's like, well, we won't let him, and 377 00:22:40.720 --> 00:22:43.319 we'll hold postage their pet projects. Right, Those are the 378 00:22:43.319 --> 00:22:47.839 two normal Washington answers. She was just asked, if you're 379 00:22:47.839 --> 00:22:49.559 not able to do this thing, what do you do? 380 00:22:49.640 --> 00:22:54.119 And she's like, we do the thing, yeah, but you're 381 00:22:54.119 --> 00:22:56.599 not able to do the thing, So how do you 382 00:22:56.599 --> 00:22:59.079 still accomplish the other thing? Well, we got to do 383 00:22:59.160 --> 00:23:06.400 the thing, and rules like I good enough. Next crazy question. 384 00:23:06.559 --> 00:23:09.640 But if you thought the softballs were getting slung over there, 385 00:23:11.880 --> 00:23:15.440 it took a much weirder turnover on the view. First 386 00:23:15.440 --> 00:23:22.079 of all, Joe Biden, if you're any of kamalists people, 387 00:23:22.640 --> 00:23:25.200 you had to hear this and do the thing like 388 00:23:25.240 --> 00:23:29.799 off stage or go his second air through your gritted teeth. Oh, 389 00:23:29.920 --> 00:23:32.079 don't say that. And his vice president. 390 00:23:32.160 --> 00:23:35.160 There wasn't a single thing that I did that she 391 00:23:35.240 --> 00:23:37.039 couldn't do, and so I was. 392 00:23:37.000 --> 00:23:40.640 Able to delegate her responsibility on everything from foreign policy 393 00:23:40.680 --> 00:23:41.599 domestic policy. 394 00:23:41.680 --> 00:23:44.519 I'm Donald Trump and I approved this man. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, 395 00:23:44.559 --> 00:23:50.319 take that bad boy. Wait, so the person who is 396 00:23:50.359 --> 00:23:54.839 the vice president who is now running to be president 397 00:23:57.319 --> 00:24:00.079 may have been delegated literally what did he say? A 398 00:24:00.319 --> 00:24:04.559 foreign and domestic policy? So that's all the stuff, right ross, 399 00:24:04.599 --> 00:24:08.200 would you check foreign policy and domestic policy? Would that 400 00:24:08.319 --> 00:24:09.480 encompass all policies? 401 00:24:09.519 --> 00:24:11.400