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Start the clock.

We have spared all expense.

Apparently. Look at that. If they knew
what the budget was here, I'd tell you.

But, now, this is very exciting. It's
about once every seven years, Halloween

falls on the day we actually do the
show. I always take it as a good omen.

going to be a great Halloween, but I'll
just put it out there.

Wrong year to go as a mariachi band.

Look, it's a fun time.

Also a dangerous time, right? I mean,
we're all aware of that. I mean, last

year, oh, I had a bad time last year.

Someone laced my drugs with candy.

I love the way they get into the act in
Washington.

You know, the White House, they had a
big, he's just back from his trip,

President Trump, and they had a big to
-do over there, a lot of children and

music and playing Thriller and trick -or
-treating and lots of members of the

Trump administration were there. So we
know one thing for sure, the brain

-eating zombies left hungry.

Kid, kid, with love, always with love.

Speaking of going hungry, the food stamp
money runs out tomorrow.

Yeah, this ain't funny. I mean, you
know, the government has been shut down

a month, and so there's this big battle
of chicken in Washington.

Why is that funny? Okay, but they are
playing a game of chicken with each

to see who will blink first.

But this is, you know, people's cards
are going to show up tomorrow.

Saturday and there's going to be nothing
there to buy food. This is not funny.

And yet at the same time, they did find
the administration $40 billion to loan

Argentina. I think I know what America
first means when you're a foreign

and you need money. Ask America first.

Yeah, I dare.

Even the Republicans, the natives are
getting a little restless.

A lot of them are saying, you know, the
president spends a little too much time

thinking about foreign issues and not
enough here at home. He just got back

a big Asian trip, now signed a lot of
deals. Hopefully this is good.

He was in, I tell you, those Asians,
they know how to kiss ass.

He was in South Korea, and the president
there gave him a golden crown.

And Trump was very moved by it. He said,
I know exactly where I'm going to keep

it, on my head.

Oh, yeah.

Well, there's some pretty good news on
that in the King area.

It's a big word these days, King, you
know, because the third term, President

has talked about a third term many
times. You know, he's been in the past.

I think you could do it.

This week, he said, based on what I
read, I guess it's not allowed, but

see what happens.

Well, first of all, I can show you where
you can read about it.

Like 14 words in this thing called the
Constitution.

And then the president said, I can't
comment on an ongoing insurrection.

Here's a kingly move that kind of
happened this week. The Justice

suspended two federal prosecutors
because they wrote a report. And in the

report, they referred to January 6th as
a riot and a mob.

And you know what? In this
administration, you cannot even use

riot. Don't say riot. Don't say mob.
Please.

Act like they rushed the building and
smashed their way in and beat up cops

smeared shit on the walls.

Oh, wait. That's exactly what they did
there. That's right.

No, no, no.

It was not a mob because they're
patriots, and it couldn't have been a

because they were white.

So that's how you... But...

Also, there's a big week for the word

trillions. The president said, you know,
the shutdown of the government, a month

old now, and he said the Democrats, this
is his view of this, they want

trillions. He said, Germans want to take
trillions from the health care system

and give it to others.

And then he said, when he was in Asia,
he said, in Japan, he said, I'm going to

be bringing back trillions from Japan.

Just stop saying numbers.

You know, it reminds

me of the guy who thinks he can speak

French but can't.

Just leave the waiter alone, okay?

And by the way, we wouldn't need
trillions for health care for migrants

would stop hitting them on the head. You
know, that would... Also,

a big week for the word nuclear.

Wow, you know, we have something in this
country called the filibuster. Are you

familiar? I never really got the
concept.

You know, it's a democracy, 100
senators, 51, that should be the rule.

the filibuster, you need 60. So
whoever's in the White House wants to

the filibuster. When it's the Democrats,
they want to. When it's the

Republicans, they want to. Because
that's what lets them already have this

power.

So Trump now, of course, to end the
government, he wants to get rid of the

filibuster. He also announced this week
that we are going to resume nuclear

testing.

He knows the difference between nuclear
and nuclear, doesn't he?

All right, we've got a great show. We
have Michael Moynihan and Republican

Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene.

But first up, he is the producer and
director of the new documentary, The Age

Disclosure, releasing in select theaters
and streaming worldwide on Prime Video

November 21st. Take a look.

We've had repeated instances of
something operating in the airspace over

restricted nuclear facilities, and it's
not ours. These are otherworldly things

that are performing maneuvers that
haven't been seen.

You can kind of see it start to
accelerate, and as it gets in front of

gone. This thing was doing 32 ,000 miles
an hour.

Please welcome Dan Farah.

Dan,

how are you, sir? I appreciate you
having us here.

So I saw your movie. I can't wait to
talk to you about this. Not just because

it's Halloween. I know it's a spooky
subject.

But I've been on your page for quite a
while. I think, you know, I'm old enough

to remember when we talked about UFOs or
what do we call them now? UAP.

UAP. I don't know why we had to make the
change. Unidentified Anomalous

Phenomena.

I thought it was aerial.

No. Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena.

Whatever it is. They're flying saucers.

And, you know, things have changed a
lot. I mean, again, I'm old enough to

remember when it was like it was just
the kooks who thought about this. And I

just want to say, I think if you don't
think this is happening now, I'm not

who the kook is. But I don't think it's
me.

I really don't. It used to be crazy
people or people out in the middle of

nowhere who got anally probed and all
that.

And now it's.

And now it's, I mean, it's not just the
military people and the Defense

Department people, but everybody.

You did a great service with this woman
because you put it all together and you

see all these people, not just Rubio,
it's bipartisan. You see Schumer and

Schiff and senators and very, very
serious people, the people with the buzz

in the military, talking about this and
saying the kind of things that just

cannot be explained.

My first question to you is, could you
go through the six observables? These

the things that you cannot deny that
they are seeing.

Yeah. So a number of the intelligence
officials I interviewed who actively

investigated UAP and non -human
intelligent life for the government,

up with a set of observables, they
called them.

These are basically flight
characteristics.

that we observe UAP doing.

And it's things we can't do. So like
instantaneous acceleration.

Instantaneous acceleration. So like
stopping on a dime and then taking off.

Right. One of the guys in the movie says
they hover around for a few hours and

then it's just gone. Yeah, just absolute
instant going from like zero to

thousands of miles an hour.

Anti -gravity displaying characteristics
that seem as if they are not impacted

by gravity.

Transmedium travel, going from one
medium to another, going from space to

air to the ocean seamlessly.

And traveling in the ocean at speeds we
could never travel in the ocean. It

would be affected by friction of any
kind. Yeah, yeah.

And then hypersonic velocity.

The long and short of it is these things
are doing things that we can't do. Our

most advanced aircraft can't operate
this way.

And they're doing it with impunity in
our most sensitive airspace.

So our training ranges, our military
bases where we have our defense

capabilities, like Vandenberg Air Force
Base up the coast here in California

where we have a heart of our defense
capabilities, UAP activity there

our nuclear weapons bases.

It's a serious issue.

I mean, it could be the most serious
issue. I mean, I feel like they remind

of the aliens a little bit. The guy in
the, you know, the tough guy movie, he

always says, if I wanted you to be dead,
you'd be dead by now.

I feel like people who have this
capability, if they wanted us dead, we

dead by now.

Well, one of the points raised in our
film is...

What if that's been the case for a long
time, but circumstances have changed?

We've evolved technologically very
quickly over the last 80 years, but our

morals have not really evolved.

We're still a violent species.

We're still threatening war.

We're still a dating sovereign nation.

You bring up the point, and I think it's
a great one, that I don't think it's a

coincidence that we started finding
stuff in 1947, right after the dawn of

nuclear age. That's when you have
Roswell. They have found crashes. You

people who say... Yeah, people who say
Roswell happened and it was real.

You have people who say, I saw with my
own eyes an alien body or a spaceship

that crashed.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I think the connection between nuclear
weapons and UAP is fascinating. It's one

of the most interesting things I learned
about making this movie.

In line with our harnessing of nuclear
energy and our technological progress,

UAP activity has increased.

And so it's safe to assume they're
concerned with our progress

I mean, again, I'm just going by what
I'm reading, not just seeing in your

movie, but reading for years now,
certainly the last five to ten years.

It just seems that there is a
progression. At the beginning, they

interested. They were more land -based.

The things we found, there was that
book, Communion.

Somebody wrote about a number of people,
hundreds of people, who had a very

similar experience. It could be a
different psychological phenomenon, but

all seem to be boarded on a spaceship.
They have a vague memory of being probed

in the ass.

Well, that's just how they would look.
It looked like they were studying us.

Like, okay, let's find out what these
people are about. And then they seem to

have ghosted us.

They're not probing us anymore.

You never hear about that. I feel like
they...

Okay, we know who we're dealing with.

I think it's like a turning point in
that I think government officials have

started to acknowledge that this is a
real situation.

Yeah. And it's not a laughing matter.
It's serious.

And it's an issue that should become a
serious national conversation.

Yeah, well, I think it is now. And as
you say, when our technology changes, It

very well may change their attitude
toward us. It seems like, now, they

have been here forever.

Yeah. You seem to think that their bases
are under the ocean, which is the best

place you would hide. We don't know much
about the bottom of the ocean. Yeah.

80 % of the ocean hasn't been explored.
Right.

And they seem to be interested, very
interested, when we started to have

technology. Now we have AI.

Is it possible that we do get to this
level where we're getting...

threatening to them with our
intelligence, and that is when they're

send Keanu Reeves to say... What?

I mean... Clearly they don't want to do
it. Yeah, it does seem like we're

moving towards a crossroad.

We're evolving technologically to the
point where we're close to doing what

do, yet...

Again, our morals have not evolved. So
we could be viewed as a potential

Plainly, we're not close to what they're
doing. Maybe we will with AI, but all

the stuff you're describing, the reason
why it's so alarming is that we're not

close. We don't even know what the fuck
they're, how they pull it off. I mean,

how do you do this stuff?

So maybe we have a few years.

I felt this was a very positive, even
though some people would read it

differently. They seem to have the
technology, I learned from Imre, to turn

or on.

Our nuclear weapons.

There was an instance, was there not?
Yeah, there's been a few events where

activity over nuclear weapons sites has
activated the missiles in some cases and

then turned them off in some cases.

And it's obviously a display of power of
some sort.

Your guess is as good as mine of what
the intention is, but it's concerning.

Well, it's concerning also if they are
going to be able to turn off our nuclear

missiles. I say they can't get here soon
enough.

That, to me, looks like they're saving
it for myself.

Possibly. Yeah, yeah. It could be.

There's been different opinions voiced
in my film, right? Some people say it's

the equivalent of adults taking
matchsticks out of the hands of

That's one way to look at it. Another
way is they're concerned about our

progress nuclearly and they're trying to
deter us from moving forward.

So let me just be devil's advocate here
because I'm sure there are people

saying, you know, well, what about the
other side, the people who have

skepticism and their arguments that they
level against you? It could be, I don't

know, it could be another power like
China or Russia that has this technology

that we don't have. I don't think that's
real. I think it's even more

terrifying. Because we know the
intentions of our adversaries, and

good. So if it turns out China
leapfrogged us technologically by a lot.

didn't. They didn't, right? But the
person who can't wrap their head around

idea that it's non -human intelligence.
Right.

Well, I mean, here's another one I had.

One of the people who's very prominent,
who was early on interested in this

subject and looking into it, was Harry
Reid. He used to be the Democratic

senator from Utah, and he's a Mormon.

and the Mormons believe in planet Kolob.

You know this, right? I don't know that.

You don't know about the Mormons? No, I
don't. Oh, let me tell you. All right.

If you think the Scientologists are
weird... Yes, they believe God is a 6 '2

man, 6 '2. They know his exact height.

And he lives on the planet Kolob.

Where's Kolob?

Well, if you hit orc, you've gone too
far.

That's all I can tell you.

No. This theory is that Harry Reid wants
to legitimize

alien invasion because it makes his
religion make more sense.

I don't think so. Yeah, I don't have to
answer that.

But here's my question.

Is this something that has been hidden
from presidents themselves? Because, you

know, it's been 80 years. I mean,
somehow a lot of this stuff has been

under wraps.

Wouldn't Trump have blabbed about it?

So one of the shocking interviews in my
film is Secretary Rubio going on the

record saying that this has been so
deeply hidden that even presidents are

told all the facts around this topic.
They're sort of given a little bit of

information, and they're told the
direction this is going to go.

but they're kept out of it. And that was
pretty shocking to hear someone at

Rubio's level making that clear.

And there's also the theory I saw in
your movie that possibly when these

take place, they're doing it on purpose
so that we'll be able to absorb their

technology, that we have found their
spacecraft, possibly, and we would

engineer it so we could learn.

Can you think of anything we actually
may have learned from an alien crash?

Like, there's a lot of speculation on
what sort of technology that we've

benefited from has come out of these
situations.

Hang.

Hang.

But one of the really serious reveals in
the film is that intelligence

officials in our government and elected
officials in our government have

uncovered the fact that there is a
deeply hidden UAP crash retrieval

and they've been reverse engineering
UAP.

And there is, in fact, a program at
adversarial nations as well. And so

this essentially high -stakes secret
Cold War race playing out right now to

reverse this technology.

Some of the interview subjects in my
film refer to it as the Manhattan

on steroids because the stakes are so
high, but the public has no idea.

So one of the things I hope comes out of
this film is the public becoming aware

of the situation because these
circumstances impact us all.

But we all, for the most part, think
it's not a serious issue. We think it's

joke. laugh at it. I don't think it's a
joke. I just don't, it does not seem to

me like they have evil intent, at least
not for now.

And, you know, given the state of
humanity, I don't know if anybody could

do worse. I mean, would you, you know,
would you, if you were an advanced non

-human intelligent species, would you
want us showing up on your front lawn?

Let's just leave that for next time.

Thank you very much.

Great work. I appreciate your efforts.

All right, let's meet our panel.

Hey, welcome aboard.

How are you doing?

All right, he co -hosts the Fifth Common
Podcast and is the host of the Mohan

Report interview series. Michael
Moynihan is back with us.

Michael, great to see you.

And she's a Republican congresswoman who
represents Georgia's 14th. Marjorie

Taylor Greene is on our show.

Wow, you brought a big cheering session.

Say it's not so bad here in California.

I have one follow -up question to that.
Because this really could be, when we

look back, the most important issue that
we discussed. Everything else might

seem trivial if the aliens are here and
so forth.

If there was an alien invasion, they
used to always say, if there was, it

unite us.

No. I don't think so either. I think
Democrats and Republicans would both try

recruit it to kill the other one. Yeah,
ICE would go after it. I mean, it

depends.

I don't know, Bill. We can't even fund
the government, so I'm not sure that we

can do anything about UAPs.

But we can do something about it. I
mean, I've heard you say before, and

you reiterated recently, that you think
there's something...

In a national divorce?

You said you want a peaceful national
divorce?

I hope you were just having a bad day
when you said that. No, really, I mean

that. If you had all the death threats I
have, you could understand why it's all

that way sometimes.

Oh, you do?

Yeah. We want a divorce?

Yeah, and I get them from both sides.

Oh, yeah, me too, lately.

Oh, yeah, lately, yeah, yeah.

No, I'm telling you.

But you know that's impossible, right? I
mean, you're from Georgia.

Atlanta's in Georgia.

How could that work if Atlanta, a very
blue city, is in the middle of a red

state? How could that work as a national
divorce?

Well, I'm one of those people that
believe our federal government has grown

big and out of control with $38 trillion
in debt. And, you know, really, over

the decades, it's been both sides of the
aisle that have failed the American

people so much.

that it'd be great to reduce the size
and power of the federal government and

give more power back to the states.

Well, that's traditional Republican
thinking.

That's normal.

Right. Yeah.

Yeah, I'm all for that. I mean, the
national divorce doesn't, I don't know

what's meant by that. I mean, meaning
that we cleave ourselves off into two

of separate countries of liberals and
conservatives. I don't even know these

days what it is to be a conservative. I
don't know what a conservative is

compared to what a conservative was 10
years ago. And I mean, I saw you.

praised by Bernie Sanders the other day
on a CNN town hall. So, I mean, none of

the categories make sense, so I don't
even know what that would look like as

as, like, left and right in a national
divorce.

But we have to talk to each other,
right? I mean, I heard you say recently

that you said we can't even talk to the
left. You're talking to me right now?

Well, that's why I'm here.

So, all right.

That's why I'm here.

In all fairness,

this is the first time I've been invited
to your show, and I showed up. I don't

know about that.

I'm positive.

Well, maybe the people didn't tell you.

Well, maybe not.

Sometimes the message doesn't get
through.

I think we have invited you. Well, this
is the first time I've been.

But I'm glad. I mean, we have to do
that, you know? I mean, because I get

shit, too, because I had dinner with
Trump.

Oh, yeah.

They gave you a hard time about that.
They still do.

Well, I'm sorry. And it's just the
stupidest position in the world. Right.

As if you can go full high school and
say, well, we're not going to invite him

to the lunch table.

That's true.

More people like me should talk to him.

I agree.

You know. I agree.

I mean, you talk to him, right?

He's mad at you now.

He's mad at both of us. I know he's mad
at me.

Actually, I've got a great relationship
with the president. I've always

supported him and gave him my support
for free.

Yeah, but you are finally the one
Republican who's dissenting. I was going

a whole piece on you, and then we find
you booked on the show, so I'll just say

it to you.

Like, for all those people on the left
who have been saying, where is the

Republican who will stand up on issues
against Trump? I mean, they're just such

ass -kissers. They just fall in line.
Well, right here.

I mean, you've dissented on the Epstein
files.

You've dissented on a number of issues.

Health care.

Where's my list?

Okay. ICE.

The government shutdown.

He's spending too much time overseas and
not enough here.

And, you know, the Obamacare one. Let's
talk about that one.

I mean, I would love to know what the
Republicans really want to do about

care, which is the premiums are going to
go up.

Me too. I'm waiting for the plan. I
haven't seen it yet. That's been a lot

angst. So a lot of the things I say are
against my own party, but they're mainly

my frustrations in Congress.

I believe that Congress should be
solving a lot of these problems.

However, Congress is not solving these
problems. And I have Republican

leadership. You know, looking at
Obamacare, it was passed in 2010.

It went into place in 2014, and premiums
have skyrocketed ever since. It was

good for some that couldn't afford
health insurance or couldn't get health

insurance, but for the middle class...

small business owners, people that had
to buy their own insurance, it has

crushed them.

And so I've been demanding... Obamacare
has crushed them?

Obamacare is what's hurt them? Oh, yeah.
I'll tell you, for example, when

Obamacare went into place, it took my
own family of five health insurance

from $800 a month to over $2 ,400 a
month, more than our mortgage payment.

that's what so many people have
experienced over all these years. But

big problem.

It's about to skyrocket in January of
2025.

Here's why I'm angry. The Democrats
passed Obamacare, but yet the

have never done anything to correct the
problems that exist with it. And I blame

my own party. That's absolutely wrong.

And I don't think it's an easy thing to
fix.

However, it's something that we should
have a plan for. And Mike Johnson, for a

month now, cannot give me a single
policy idea. And I'm angry about that.

Is this your understanding of Obamacare
that it raises?

Well, I mean, I have to first start by
saying I didn't suspect

that I would come on. I agree with
Congressman Marjorie Taylor Greene. But

on that. I do on this issue.

I mean, the first thing is the prices
are out of control. We're talking about

these subsidies that were COVID -era
subsidies. They were renewed. And the

entire shutdown is based on these
subsidies. That is what the shutdown is

on. That's what it's based on. For
people who don't know, let me just say,

during COVID, they upped the subsidies.

And then it is a bit of a bait and
switch. I'll give you, it's true on that

You can't say, it's not quite kosher to
say, we're just doing this for the COVID

emergency. And then when the emergency
is over, say, oh, no.

Forever. They are temporary subsidies.

At least be honest about it.

Yeah, be honest about it. But the thing
about it is that these subsidies, they

don't do anything to lower costs.

I mean, the only thing they do is mask
costs, right?

It's the government is paying these
enormous, I mean, my interest, I looked

the other day of how much I pay, is
completely outrageous. I'm paying a

thousand dollars a month myself, and my
employer pays some too, for two people.

This is Obamacare. No, no, this is on
the private market. It happens either

But the crazy thing about what
happens... I don't think it quite

way. Well, the insurance premiums are
going up like a normal... Regardless.

Regardless. Of course.

Everything's always going up in the
health market because people are not

healthy. There is a way to lower costs,
which would be to ask people to

participate in their own health. But we
don't do that in this country.

Here's something that would be really
great.

We need price transparency. Think about
it. Someone goes to the hospital with a

crisis, and then they come out of the
hospital, and for months on end, here

the bills, and the bills keep coming.
And you're never told on the front end

much this is going to cost, and that's
unacceptable. I'm going to agree with

again. It's incredible.

Honestly, you can look at examples of
people getting COVID tests.

Issue 2003 from hospitals, one is $100
and one is $6 ,000.

Look it up. There's a $6 ,000 COVID
test. The Trump administration and the

administration actually had a policy
that passed for price transparency for

hospitals and doctors, but it's so
convoluted and complex that it's not as

you get a menu and you go in. Price
transparency is one thing, a lot of

but it'd be one thing to help lower
costs.

Okay, but just in general, and I'm not
an expert on this, but I do know this. A

lot of people had no health insurance,
and then they got something that was

relative. affordable called Obamacare.
And the Republicans never stopped trying

to kill it. And they kept picking out
different legs of this apparatus.

And yet it's still popular and still
works. And they have this mythical idea

that there's some better, I mean, what
was John Soons? He said the president

would like to over -call Obamacare and
give people health insurance that is

higher quality and more affordable.

Yeah, and I'd like to be able to dunk.

Look.

It's not a mystery.

You keep acting like there's this way
we're going to get to this better

Mitt Romney found this out. The Clintons
found this out. Obama found this out.

There's only a certain way you can do
this, that you can give people health

care. It's the insurance game. And you
act like it's Bigfoot. We're going to

find it. You're not going to find it.
This is it.

I disagree.

I tell you, listen, when you make the
American taxpayer foot the bill, For so

many other people, it's completely
wrong.

And that's what's been happening for
years now.

American taxpayers were even having to
pay for illegal aliens' health

That's completely wrong.

And I do believe, and I believe this
because I come from the private sector.

If people in the private sector can do
things and be successful, then the

government can do things and be
successful too. But the problem is, is

always a fight in Washington, D .C.
between the two. two parties, and they

in their camps, and they never come
together to come up with real solutions.

And when you have the lobbyists in
Washington, D .C., and I see them

and you have them coming in and they're
trying to tell lawmakers, here's how we

need to write the bills, that's the
absolute failure.

And I truly believe that we need to do a
better job, and I wish that Mike

Johnson would call us back into session
so we could actually do our thing.

Okay, well...

First, we have to have Halloween.

It is Halloween. You can see we spent
all the money here for the pumpkins.

And I found out that there's a new
wrinkle in Halloween this year. You

I've gone to haunted houses in the past,
but they're always a commercial

endeavor. Now people are doing it
privately.

I see all these people who, I've seen it
in my own neighborhood. They have their

own.

personal haunted house in their house. I
guess it was inevitable in a

narcissistic society that you'd have to
have your own haunted house. So you

feature the thing that scares you
because it's all about you.

So this is going on all over the
country. This is a new phenomenon. Even

celebrities are doing it. Would you like
to see something else?

I knew you would.

Oh, I knew you would like to see it.

Celebrity hornier hats. For example,
Britney Spears has the Britney Spears

of knives.

Oh,

look at those.

There's J -Lo's vault of ex -husbands
and fiancés.

That's a lot of guns.

Oh, you'll like this one.

Gavin Newsom's haunted house of hat
hair.

Nick Cannon's Corridor of Condoms.

Kendall Jenner's Hall of No Mirror.

Kanye West's Chamber of Jews.

Greta Thunberg's panic room of plastic
straws.

And, of course, right here in
California, we have Katie Porter's cave

staffers who are in her fucking shot.

Okay.

I'm glad we're having a good time
because tomorrow a lot of people are

million people.

are going to lose their food stamps.

Their EBD card, which is what they use
for it, is going to show zero on it.

And what I've been reading is that most
of these people, they kind of coast on

the last two weeks. It really doesn't
cover the whole month.

So the last two weeks are kind of rough
anyway until you get that new, and it's

not going to be on the card.

What is your opinion on this as a member
of Congress? My opinion is I believe we

should fund the government. I voted on
September 18th to fund it. Couldn't we

this without funding the government?
Isn't there an emergency fund that they

just won't let be used?

Well, there was a judge that ruled today
that that money should be used. My

understanding is that's $5 billion, but
it's not quite enough to fund for a full

month, which is $8 to $9 billion.

The best solution, let me tell you,
Bill.

The best solution is for the Democrats
and the Republicans in the Senate to

playing games. The Democrats can vote
and they can fund the government just

that, but the Republicans in the Senate,
they can use the nuclear option,

override the filibuster, and they can
fund the government. Here's my problem

the American people are being used like
a pinata in this situation, and I think

it's completely wrong.

Yeah, the two judges that ruled today
that the administration had said that

those emergency funds were not available
to them. And they said, yes, they can

be available to you, make them
available.

But as the congresswoman said, it's not
the full amount. It's only going to be a

certain amount. So there's a bit of time
being bought here. But the political

game of chicken is kind of infuriating.
And you look at the latest poll, 15

percent of people approve of Congress.

And this is what, 15 percent?

And this is sort of why, because you
have people debating these things and

they're doing. And I saw this, someone
saying this today, Debbie Wasserman

Schultz. You know, they're getting poll
numbers on this.

How is it polling? Are we looking good
in this? The Republicans are looking bad

in this. We're looking good. They're
playing chicken with 42 million people

then we can talk about whether the
astonishing figure that 42 million

a country that has, you know, 4 .5 %
unemployment and is an incredibly

country, that's an enormous number of
people. But as a separate issue, if you

separate that and say...

We're using these people as political
pawns, and someone's going to have to

okay, let's go. You can blame it on
Democrats and Republicans. I blame them

both, not in equal measure. But the fact
that this is what we're debating about,

it is just those extensions of the
Obamacare subsidies, and that is what

playing chicken with. And there's
something really disgusting about it,

people in Congress at 15 % seems too
high to be at this point. It looks bad

this moment that he's giving $40 billion
to Argentina.

Does it not? I disagree with that.
Really?

Look, I'm so far America first. I'm
America only right now. I want good

with other foreign countries, but I
don't want to be involved in their

wars or their bailouts or their foreign
causes or their foreign aid. I think the

American people deserve all the
attention from the government that they

When the president goes overseas and
makes trade deals, that's connected to

domestic situation here in America.

I'll tell you why.

He's not the first president to prefer
foreign affairs.

It's fun.

That's fun.

This shit in America, not fun.

Congress shut down, but when you go over
there and you're getting gold crowns

and talking to the other leaders and you
can just make deals and stuff, that,

you know. But my question about the
presidency was this.

He commands a kind of loyalty I've
rarely seen in American politics.

But it's bending.

I mean, when I look at some of the
statistics, Obamacare premiums, they're

to go up.

Obviously, the food stamp issue we were
just talking about. New car prices going

way up.

Beef prices are up 15%. I mean, he ran
on, I'll get rid of inflation right

Turkey. Thanksgiving can be 40 % more.

I was reading about Iowa, the cost of
tractors and fertilizers is up.

Labor is scarcer because of the
immigration policies.

He's got a beef with wind, which affects
a lot of the people in red

states. My question is, how much can he
bend it before he breaks it?

Well, I represent a district that
everything you just talked about has

them. Very deeply. People are barely
getting by month to month. They're

out their credit cards just to pay their
rent. And it's extremely sad.

I tell you what, I'm a big fan of
President Trump. I really am. I make no

apologies for it.

Here's the issue. Under the Biden
administration in 2022, we saw inflation

9 percent.

And we haven't seen any of these prices.

really come back down, although
inflation is holding right now at 2 .5%.

give the president a lot of credit for
that. Some of that was COVID, was it

Well, it was all the spending that
Congress pumped into the economy, COVID

bailouts. But 100 ,000 small businesses
were shuttered. I mean, I'm very much

against the shutdowns. I was against
them even when the president said two

to slow the spread. I'm with you on that
one, sister.

Yes, bad stuff.

I'm not a fan of COVID policy. Right. So
I tell you, I can't say it loud enough.

My angst is with my colleagues.

And my colleagues, I believe it's
Congress that has failed over and over

over again to the point where my own
children's generation, my kids are in

20s, that generation is actually looking
towards the future with no hope. They

don't think they'll ever be able to buy
a house. They don't want to have

children because they don't know how
they can afford it.

I'm kidding.

I'm kidding. It's Halloween. I love
children on Halloween.

I'm going as sexy Prince Andrew. I'm
going to scare them all away.

For sure.

Okay, but I read this week that a number
of the members of the administration

are now living on a military base.

What? You didn't know this?

No. Oh.

Yeah. Stephen Miller just moved there.

Kristi Noem lives on a military base. J
.D. Vance.

Oh, no, no.

Rubio. Pete Hegseth.

I mean, for people who love America so
much, they seem to be scared of it.

I'm one of those people they call a
conspiracy theorist. When I hear things

that, I'm like, what do they know that I
don't know?

Well...

I don't think it's in the paper, but I
don't know.

What do you think about this? Trump says
he's going to resume nuclear testing.

Bad idea would be my first reaction.

Nuclear testing is very bad for the
atmosphere.

John F. Kennedy dealt with this a long,
long time ago and said, look, we all

breathe the same air.

And we do.

We don't want it full of nuclear
testing. I guess sometimes they do it

underground. But still, I don't know why
we have to do it and why we have to

test it. Is this something that has
reached your desk in the Congress?

Not yet, but I'll tell you, I would vote
no to that. I'm very much against

nuclear testing. I'm very much against
nuclear war. And I think everyone in

history knows what happened to Japan
after nuclear bombs were dropped there.

I think that world peace is the most
important thing that we can strive for.

Well, the president says he has solved
seven or

eight. I mean, the number goes up a lot.
But I will give him this credit. He is

the guy who really does not like war.

And thank goodness. That's one of the
reasons why I've always supported him.

Yeah. I mean, now we're probably about
to attack Venezuela. Yeah, I was going

say.

One wrinkle in that theory, yeah. But
not with troops.

Yeah. You're not going to get any
Americans killed. I mean, if you've got

speedboat. It's still a bad idea to
launch nuclear strikes, or not nuclear

strikes, military strikes inside
Venezuela.

When you're blowing up boats, we don't
know who's on the boats.

No one's given us a name.

And they're small boats that can't get
to America. The complaint is about

fentanyl. The only thing that you get in
Venezuela is via Colombia's cocaine.

So I have no idea what the purpose of
this would be because it's not been

explained to the American people. That
should be something that should be in

hands of Congress.

If an act of war is not declared on a
country like Venezuela, it's madness to

me. So if he doesn't like war, he's not
doing a good job showing it right now.

Well.

Well.

It doesn't like people getting killed in
war. Certainly American people.

I would doubt that he would ever put
American boots on the ground there. What

it's going to be, what it probably,
well, hopefully not, but what it could

the Bay of Pigs. Because it sounds like
the same kind of thing. We didn't want

to put our boys in harm's way in Cuba.

in the early 60s. So we said, okay,
well, we'll work with people in Cuba,

that was the result.

We've been doing that. I mean, we
learned that lesson after Iraq.

We got involved with Libya and the NATO
operation in Libya, in Syria, obviously,

in Iraq, where there are not Americans
fighting directly, in Mosul, Ukraine, of

course. I mean, we're in a lot of
places, and those are not boots on the

I mean, we kind of recalibrated how we
fight wars after Iraq, but we're

in lots of them. So we made a big deal
with... China, which looks like kind of

what we had before all the mishigas
started.

I feel like his big problem with China
is that he can bully the Arabs.

I mean, he did that very well, very
effectively.

He could bully NATO.

He made them pay more. And he was right
about both those situations. There was

slack in the line and he could pull and
get some more concessions.

China's not that.

Okay? China, you know.

It's changed a lot. I think over the
years, China has become extremely

And I can tell you, so in my district,
we have the flooring industry in Dalton.

the biggest companies in the foreign
industry are there. And trade is

important. They need a fair playing
field to be able to sell their

products. It's extremely important to
the construction industry, to hotels.

But here's the problem is there's a lot
of things that are made in China that we

can't make in the United States,
especially when it comes to chemicals.

So tariffs are important to make sure
that the trading is level and fair. I'm

big believer in reciprocity. However,
let me just say this.

We have to have even.

not the up and down, because companies
need time. They need to be able to plan.

If the tariffs are continually going up
and down based on any type of

negotiations that are happening, it
hurts these companies.

And they're telling me this. They're
coming and telling me that they can't

over six months or a year or to two
years. And that's extremely important.

So that's the feedback that I hear from
many of the companies. He said about

China, we are a department store and we
set the price.

But China's the department store.

And who goes to a department store
anymore?

All right, we've got to end it there.

Time for new rules, everybody.

New rules.

Okay,

new rule enough with the fat animal
contest. Jeez.

First it was a fat bear week contest in
Alaska.

Wisconsin has a fat bird week, and now
Texas is doing fat squirrel week?

Stop encouraging these poor creatures.
Look at this fat fuck.

This poor thing can't even see his nuts.

I'm not proud of it.

New Rolston, Disney announced this week
that Fubo has successfully merged with

Hulu, finally.

They have to call the new company Hobo
Goo.

Hobo Goo, since I won't know what it
does, why I'd want it, or how it got on

Hobo Goo is the right name. Hobo Goo.

Like a sticky seat at the train station,
it's just on there.

President Trump must acknowledge that if
you love trolling this much, then it's

always going to be open season on
trolling you.

The president of South Korea gave Trump
a replica of a massive crown worn by

rulers of the ancient Silla Kingdom and
seemed to be laughing about it because

everyone in his country knows the Silla
Kingdom was famous for having female

rulers.

So... It was his way of saying, enjoy

the bling, you old queen.

Every award -winning actress over 40
must make a TV show that starts with a

teenager's bicycle abandoned in the
woods.

A show about a rust belt town that's
full of secrets, some scary, some sad,

always there's been a sex murder and
only a tiny woman in an oversized parka

with a bad haircut or red nose from the
cold and irregular cutaways to an AA

meeting consultant.

Stop saying that it's dystopian that
some public toilets in China, yes, this

true, make you watch an ad in order to
get the toilet paper.

This is just part of the new trend of
making us watch commercials while

streaming.

But if the ads ever become targeted ads,
yes, that will be dystopian.

I don't want to ever be taking a shit
thinking, how does the toilet know it's

me?

And finally, new rule, since it's
Halloween, I must tell you all a ghost

And this one is...

And this one is really scary.

It's not about the kind of ghost that
rattles your chains or turns your lights

on and off or, you know, lends a sensual
helping hand with your pottery.

No, this kind of ghost sells
dishwashers.

Or at least it did. Yes, I'm talking
about a ghost brand.

A ghost brand. That's a company or a
store that... like Sears, still exists,

only as a pathetic shell of its former
self.

The brands that make you say, oh,
they're still making that?

Because they screwed themselves out of
relevance, and now their logos haunt us,

wandering, neither alive nor dead, like
Mitch McConnell.

I'm talking about brands like Kodak,
Polaroid, Radio Shack, GE, Atari, and

They still have value because name
recognition is a huge asset. And so is

nostalgia. You trust Hitachi to make a
magic wand because mom had one.

And let's leave it at that.

But it's not where you want to be as a
business, barely surviving on old

customer habit with just enough juice in
the name to still slap it on something

and sell it somewhere.

That somewhere being a street vendor's
table in Chengdu, where you can get a

Playboy keychain for a dollar.

Yes, the cautionary tale of the ghost
brand is an important one because it

applies not only to business, but also
to politics.

I fear the Democratic Party is at risk
of becoming a ghost brand, too.

Like Sears, it used to be mighty and
ascendant and popular.

Sears once accounted for 1 % of the
entire American economy and 41 % of the

appliance market and built the country's
tallest tower.

Democrats once controlled Congress and
the Supreme Court, or at least

competitive. But now, even at a time
when President Trump is...

turning 250 years of democracy into jean
shorts.

The Democrats have their lowest rating
in 35 years, 63 % unfavorable.

What happened?

I don't know. What happened to Sears? It
used to be synonymous with the American

dream because it kept safe with what the
customer wanted. Did we love Sears? No,

but that was besides the point. You just
went.

It was like an Avatar movie that sold
tools.

It used to be where your family bought
everything, from school clothes to

appliances to your family Christmas
portrait.

Now, Sears is a great place to go if you
want to be alone.

But you better hurry.

Sears used to have 3 ,500 stores, and
now it has five.

Same thing happened to Playboy, except
in silk pajamas and a captain's hat.

For 66 years,

Playboy magazine was also a fact of
American life.

Sears sold your father a mattress, and
Playboy was what he hid under it.

It was a surefire product.

Pictures of tits and then 25 cartoons
about fucking Santa Claus.

Plus real journalism.

You could read an interview with Carter
while enjoying photos of Bush.

But then it started messing

around with the formula.

Like the Democratic Party, Playboy
decided... They didn't need straight men

anymore. They put transgender women and
gay men on the cover, and predictably

sales, like their subscribers' penises,
collapsed.

The staff began using terms like
intersectionality, sex positivity, and

privileging. And in response, Playboy
readers used terms like, no thanks, get

the fuck out of here, and bye -bye.

At one point, Playboy, yes, Playboy,
even dropped the nudity, which is like

Cigar Aficionado announcing, we're
getting rid of the cigars.

It went from entertainment for men to re
-education for nobody, and enlightened

their way to unpopularity. Meanwhile,
Kim Kardashian posed for another

and broke the internet with her ass.

Sometimes you gotta give the people what
they want.

But, for some weird reason...

It's apparently tempting for some people
to not do that, because even Cracker

Barrel recently decided that they felt a
little embarrassed that it was so

popular with bumpkins who salivated the
sight of an old wagon wheel screwed to

the wall.

So they changed it to this, which got
them no new customers while pissing off

the old ones.

It reminded me of when Chuck Schumer
said in 2016 that For every blue -collar

Democrat we lose in western
Pennsylvania, we're going to pick up two

Republicans in the suburbs of Philly,
Ohio, Illinois, and Wisconsin.

Yeah, how'd that work out?

But at least Cracker Barrel had the
sense to immediately say, oh shit,

and put the sling blades back on the
wall.

Democrats don't seem to be doing that.
They still seem to want to be that

upscale store that impresses
celebrities.

Anybody remember Barney's?

It was this store in New York that
started in the 20s, 1920s, as a discount

clothing joint on unfashionable, grimy
7th Avenue, a place where their

customers, though working men, could get
a decent suit at a very reasonable

price. I remember going there in 1993 to
get my wardrobe for a new show Comedy

Central was launching called Politically
Incorrect.

Thank you.

Yeah.

We had no budget, and this was a place
you could buy five suits for two grand.

Well, right after that, they opened a
place on Madison Avenue, Barney's did,

where you could buy one suit for five
grand.

They wanted a party with the cool kids,
and for a while they got to. For a

while. Now they're a ghost brand that
exists as a mini boutique inside one

store. And I'm not making this up just
because it's Halloween, but after

Barney's closed for good in 2020, it
became, yes, a spirit Halloween.

I'm just saying, Democrats need to get
their shit together because America

two political parties, not one party and
one Halloween store.

Thank you very much. That's our show. I
want to thank Michael Moynihan,

Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene,
and Dan Farah. Club Random drops every

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