1 00:00:04,510 --> 00:00:05,510 Start the clock. 2 00:00:43,180 --> 00:00:44,260 Thank you very much, people. 3 00:00:46,620 --> 00:00:48,380 I appreciate it. How you doing? 4 00:00:51,080 --> 00:00:52,740 Thank you. Thank you. 5 00:00:54,040 --> 00:01:00,900 Thank you so much. All right. I appreciate it, but 6 00:01:00,900 --> 00:01:01,900 we have to start. 7 00:01:05,900 --> 00:01:09,340 Have to start. There's so much news to get to. I'm not even going to tell you 8 00:01:09,340 --> 00:01:12,700 what happened with the Iran situation this week because you'll think it's a 9 00:01:12,700 --> 00:01:14,120 rerun and turn the show off. 10 00:01:15,580 --> 00:01:22,440 Really. I'm telling you. This is not a rerun. I mean, unless they're 11 00:01:22,440 --> 00:01:26,380 showing it in a couple of months, then I guess it is a rerun. But it's May 29th 12 00:01:26,380 --> 00:01:29,520 today. That's where the day is. But every week it's the same day. We're so 13 00:01:29,520 --> 00:01:31,340 close. We're so close. 14 00:01:32,270 --> 00:01:35,850 We're like that store that's been going out of business for 10 years. You know, 15 00:01:35,890 --> 00:01:37,610 just every week, out of business. 16 00:01:38,430 --> 00:01:43,430 And the rhetoric, it's just getting uncomfortably sexual for me. 17 00:01:44,670 --> 00:01:46,810 We're so close. They're begging for it. 18 00:01:48,410 --> 00:01:51,330 They want it so bad. We're almost there. Jesus Christ. 19 00:02:01,100 --> 00:02:04,280 I need a cold shower after I watch Jake Tapper now. It's just ridiculous. 20 00:02:07,120 --> 00:02:12,460 Trump says Iran is negotiating on fumes. Yes, and we're driving on them. 21 00:02:14,660 --> 00:02:21,500 But a little good news, a little light at the end of the tunnel. For the first 22 00:02:21,500 --> 00:02:24,160 time in 88 days, Iran got their Internet back. 23 00:02:24,540 --> 00:02:28,440 They had been living without any Internet, and everybody in the country 24 00:02:28,440 --> 00:02:29,440 and said the same thing. 25 00:02:29,840 --> 00:02:32,220 Spencer Pratt is going to be the mayor of Los Angeles? 26 00:02:33,200 --> 00:02:34,600 I just didn't know. 27 00:02:37,880 --> 00:02:44,240 But I tell you, due to the war and the gas prices, unlike nine other things, 28 00:02:44,680 --> 00:02:50,700 Trump's approval rating, lowest ever, 34%. Even underwater with white 29 00:02:50,700 --> 00:02:55,640 people who did not go to college. That was always his base. That's like Taco 30 00:02:55,640 --> 00:02:56,860 Bell losing stoners. 31 00:02:59,340 --> 00:03:00,660 I mean, really. 32 00:03:03,120 --> 00:03:09,400 Losing the... Losing the non -college -educated white people? What do you have 33 00:03:09,400 --> 00:03:11,480 to do? Stage UFC fights on the lawn? 34 00:03:12,420 --> 00:03:16,080 Oh, we're doing that. I forgot. We actually are doing that. That's right. 35 00:03:16,460 --> 00:03:18,040 My bad. I forgot. 36 00:03:18,260 --> 00:03:20,460 But, oh, no, not just that. 37 00:03:20,680 --> 00:03:22,200 A lot of exciting things. 38 00:03:23,340 --> 00:03:28,220 We're having a big 250th birthday party for America concert. 39 00:03:28,500 --> 00:03:29,860 They announced the lineup. 40 00:03:30,800 --> 00:03:31,800 Vanilla Ice. 41 00:03:33,000 --> 00:03:37,940 I'm not making that. Vanilla Ice, Milli Vanilli, Morris Day, Bret Michaels. 42 00:03:38,420 --> 00:03:42,600 I think this is very admirable about the president. It shows he's concerned for 43 00:03:42,600 --> 00:03:43,600 the unemployed. 44 00:03:46,880 --> 00:03:50,820 And then... And then... 45 00:03:51,120 --> 00:03:55,460 After they announced this all -star lineup, a lot of them said, no, what are 46 00:03:55,460 --> 00:03:56,700 talking about? We're not playing. 47 00:03:59,420 --> 00:04:03,540 That's got to hurt a lot when you can't close the deal with Milli Vanilli. 48 00:04:07,080 --> 00:04:08,980 And I guess 49 00:04:08,980 --> 00:04:15,820 we should have seen this coming, given the 50 00:04:15,820 --> 00:04:16,920 pattern of this administration. 51 00:04:18,269 --> 00:04:22,710 Justice Department is opening criminal investigation into E. Jean Carroll, the 52 00:04:22,710 --> 00:04:26,870 woman who sued Trump successfully about sexual harassment and defamation. 53 00:04:27,130 --> 00:04:31,770 And Trump is mum on it. He says he cannot comment on an ongoing 54 00:04:35,350 --> 00:04:40,010 But... Okay, but... 55 00:04:41,390 --> 00:04:45,830 This is such a pattern. If you cross Donald Trump, oh my gosh, they will come 56 00:04:45,830 --> 00:04:46,910 after you with anything. 57 00:04:47,230 --> 00:04:51,750 They will find anything. They're going after E. Jean Carroll for alleged 58 00:04:51,750 --> 00:04:56,130 and also bringing more than four items into the changing room. I mean... 59 00:04:56,130 --> 00:05:01,070 And, oh... 60 00:05:01,070 --> 00:05:07,830 There's something in the category of, wow, we never used to be this country. 61 00:05:08,890 --> 00:05:09,890 Trump... 62 00:05:10,849 --> 00:05:16,570 They're putting out a $250 bill with Trump's face on it. 63 00:05:18,130 --> 00:05:21,310 I guess it's commemorative, but I think maybe you can also say, I don't know, 64 00:05:21,370 --> 00:05:24,790 Republicans in Congress are thrilled about it. They cannot wait to carry it 65 00:05:24,790 --> 00:05:28,250 their wallet. What a switcheroo, having Trump's face next to their ass. 66 00:05:30,810 --> 00:05:32,130 Oh, we kid. 67 00:05:32,890 --> 00:05:33,950 Gentle good humor. 68 00:05:35,470 --> 00:05:37,290 Gentle good humor. That's right. 69 00:05:39,530 --> 00:05:43,230 And look, sorry I have to report this. This is horrible news, but I have to 70 00:05:43,230 --> 00:05:44,890 report. People get their news from this show. 71 00:05:45,250 --> 00:05:50,710 Ebola is in Africa, and it's apparently not completely under control. 72 00:05:51,710 --> 00:05:55,890 Started in a gold mining town. Trump is very concerned. He asked today, is the 73 00:05:55,890 --> 00:05:56,890 gold okay? 74 00:06:06,030 --> 00:06:10,850 This is especially concerning because the heads of our health departments are 75 00:06:10,850 --> 00:06:12,870 Bobby Kennedy and Dr. Oz. 76 00:06:13,290 --> 00:06:19,170 Well, they are. And there was a video of them this week. They were hanging out 77 00:06:19,170 --> 00:06:19,729 at Dr. 78 00:06:19,730 --> 00:06:23,950 Oz's house, and Bobby Kennedy is wrangling snakes. I don't know if 79 00:06:24,520 --> 00:06:27,580 Pet snakes, or they just found them in the garage. But there's Bobby Kennedy 80 00:06:27,580 --> 00:06:33,160 wrangling snakes. And I have two questions. One, is it right for the 81 00:06:33,160 --> 00:06:36,660 of Health and Human Services to be engaging in such risky behavior? 82 00:06:37,180 --> 00:06:41,460 And has Bobby ever come across an animal and just left it the fuck alone? 83 00:06:43,220 --> 00:06:46,600 All right, we've got a great show. We have former Speaker of the House, Kevin 84 00:06:46,600 --> 00:06:47,640 McCarthy. Wow. 85 00:06:47,860 --> 00:06:52,820 And Katie Terrar here. But first up, he is an astrophysicist and director of the 86 00:06:52,820 --> 00:06:53,880 Hayden Planetarium. 87 00:06:54,460 --> 00:06:58,520 His new book is called Take Me to Your Leader, Perspectives on Your First Alien 88 00:06:58,520 --> 00:07:01,680 Encounter. Neil deGrasse Tyson, there he is. 89 00:07:08,260 --> 00:07:09,900 My brother, how are you? 90 00:07:12,960 --> 00:07:15,400 Wow, you really brought it tonight. 91 00:07:16,340 --> 00:07:20,440 Wow. I must lead off by congratulating you. 92 00:07:20,840 --> 00:07:25,540 on the Mark Twain program. Oh, thank you very much. I feel this. I appreciate 93 00:07:25,540 --> 00:07:26,540 it. 94 00:07:27,260 --> 00:07:34,240 It goes to people who simultaneously piss you off, inform you, and 95 00:07:34,240 --> 00:07:36,420 make you laugh. Yeah. And you do this uniquely. 96 00:07:36,660 --> 00:07:38,540 Well, I piss 97 00:07:38,540 --> 00:07:45,540 them off because I'm 98 00:07:45,540 --> 00:07:46,540 right. But anyway. 99 00:07:47,780 --> 00:07:50,900 But I got to get right back at you because, you know, I've read all your 100 00:07:50,960 --> 00:07:53,980 And this one, I feel like you hit your stride. I think they're all good. But 101 00:07:53,980 --> 00:07:57,500 this one, I think, is your best. And I think you don't get the shine you 102 00:07:57,500 --> 00:07:59,820 as a writer because you became a TV star. 103 00:08:00,040 --> 00:08:00,959 You did. 104 00:08:00,960 --> 00:08:05,580 And people forget that only happens because the books come first, because 105 00:08:05,580 --> 00:08:08,740 real work is there. I feel like this is your best one. First of all, it's the 106 00:08:08,740 --> 00:08:09,739 most personal. 107 00:08:09,740 --> 00:08:13,900 To me, it was. I mean, the fact that you, for example, say when you were a 108 00:08:14,060 --> 00:08:15,560 you wanted to be. 109 00:08:16,160 --> 00:08:17,880 abducted by aliens. Yeah, oh yeah. 110 00:08:19,340 --> 00:08:22,980 Not to leave Earth. I mean, I like Earth. 111 00:08:23,520 --> 00:08:24,520 The Bronx. 112 00:08:24,860 --> 00:08:26,640 It was the Bronx, New York. 113 00:08:27,060 --> 00:08:30,820 I just thought the immensity of the universe called to me. 114 00:08:31,080 --> 00:08:35,080 And the only way I can get there, given the state of any science or technology 115 00:08:35,080 --> 00:08:37,280 on Earth, I would need help from aliens. 116 00:08:37,559 --> 00:08:40,900 So I wanted a beam of light to come down from the sky and take me away. 117 00:08:41,340 --> 00:08:42,340 Yeah. 118 00:08:43,440 --> 00:08:47,480 So you're disappointed that didn't happen? Yeah, kind of. A little bit. A 119 00:08:47,480 --> 00:08:50,640 bit. Yeah. Even after reading what they do to people? No. 120 00:08:52,060 --> 00:08:58,840 I'm just... All right. I'm just... Maybe that was before 121 00:08:58,840 --> 00:09:01,540 I read about the body orifice. Okay. Curiosity. 122 00:09:01,740 --> 00:09:07,140 But you've got to admit, it's odd that aliens would cross the galaxy to go look 123 00:09:07,140 --> 00:09:11,700 in your butthole. That would just be... No, it's not. 124 00:09:12,020 --> 00:09:13,020 Oh, it's not? 125 00:09:15,240 --> 00:09:16,720 That's where you would look. 126 00:09:17,340 --> 00:09:18,340 Wait, 127 00:09:18,780 --> 00:09:19,880 up through there. 128 00:09:21,820 --> 00:09:26,800 Medically, that's what we do anyway. We look in there, and it's, yes. 129 00:09:28,560 --> 00:09:34,060 Okay, so dogs do it. Dogs go up the butthole. No, they just sniff there. We 130 00:09:34,060 --> 00:09:35,520 instruments. They have instruments. 131 00:09:35,920 --> 00:09:39,720 It's not about the butthole. It's about getting inside the body through the 132 00:09:39,720 --> 00:09:44,030 butthole. What would be interesting is if... The aliens have some of these dog 133 00:09:44,030 --> 00:09:47,010 elements to them, and you greet them, and the first thing they want to do is 134 00:09:47,010 --> 00:09:48,290 around and sniff your butt. Let's talk. 135 00:09:48,650 --> 00:09:49,690 No, no, I'm serious. 136 00:09:50,410 --> 00:09:54,210 We, they might have habits that would be strange to us. Okay. 137 00:09:57,810 --> 00:09:58,810 Don't blow a gasket. 138 00:09:58,870 --> 00:09:59,870 I have so many. 139 00:10:01,130 --> 00:10:03,950 I knew we were waylaid with this. Okay, go. 140 00:10:04,390 --> 00:10:09,950 Because the book is so timely. We are on this precipice. I've done editorials 141 00:10:09,950 --> 00:10:12,730 about this. I love that editorial you did. Thank you. I appreciate it. Because 142 00:10:12,730 --> 00:10:15,990 we've talked about it here before. It was on every point. Right. And you 143 00:10:15,990 --> 00:10:20,610 actually say there's a near certainty that there is alien life in the galaxy. 144 00:10:20,610 --> 00:10:24,410 know you're more skeptical about what we're seeing now, some of the things 145 00:10:24,410 --> 00:10:27,910 talked about that. You're more skeptical about the fact that, I mean, it has 146 00:10:27,910 --> 00:10:32,300 changed. The very serious people are. saying these things. The narratives have 147 00:10:32,300 --> 00:10:38,220 shifted significantly from the farmer's back 40 saying he saw something floating 148 00:10:38,220 --> 00:10:43,760 over his crops to revelers coming out of the bar at 2 a .m. So that was decades 149 00:10:43,760 --> 00:10:48,300 ago, and now we have high -ranking people who, speaking sincerely, under 150 00:10:48,500 --> 00:10:52,640 saying they've got aliens in the back shed or reverse -engineered 151 00:10:53,140 --> 00:10:58,120 crashed saucers, alien body parts. So what it says to me is... 152 00:10:58,440 --> 00:11:04,220 Okay. Is it now too much to ask to say, bring out the aliens? 153 00:11:05,620 --> 00:11:06,840 Am I... 154 00:11:10,210 --> 00:11:15,190 I mean, that makes a point in the documentary, the disclosure documentary 155 00:11:15,190 --> 00:11:17,450 covered. Age of Disclosure. 156 00:11:17,690 --> 00:11:18,489 Age of Disclosure. 157 00:11:18,490 --> 00:11:23,270 It's not even the president who seems to have the authority. It seems to be 158 00:11:23,270 --> 00:11:25,030 disparate throughout the government. 159 00:11:25,270 --> 00:11:28,710 Even the president himself doesn't. And I don't know what that means, but I'm 160 00:11:28,710 --> 00:11:32,150 not sure that that's not very possible with the way our government works. If 161 00:11:32,150 --> 00:11:35,010 there was a cover -up, of course the president would be in on it. That's not 162 00:11:35,010 --> 00:11:37,110 news to me that that's a possibility. 163 00:11:37,370 --> 00:11:38,590 All I'm saying is... 164 00:11:38,830 --> 00:11:42,510 We have enough information to the point where if they did bring out the alien, 165 00:11:42,650 --> 00:11:47,270 it would be almost anticlimactic, given what's been described about it and given 166 00:11:47,270 --> 00:11:52,750 how we've been treated to every possible imagined alien that you can come up 167 00:11:52,750 --> 00:11:55,670 with in a century of storytelling on that subject. 168 00:11:55,890 --> 00:11:59,510 So you know what would surprise me? If they did bring out the alien and it was 169 00:11:59,510 --> 00:12:03,890 humanoid, because that's weird, most life on Earth... 170 00:12:04,110 --> 00:12:09,230 does not look human with whom we have DNA in common. We have 20 -25 % 171 00:12:09,230 --> 00:12:10,770 genes with a banana. 172 00:12:11,490 --> 00:12:17,510 So an alien from another galaxy that has no genes at all should look at least as 173 00:12:17,510 --> 00:12:20,650 different from us as we and bananas look from each other. 174 00:12:24,030 --> 00:12:25,030 The same. 175 00:12:26,330 --> 00:12:28,110 So be creative. 176 00:12:28,490 --> 00:12:32,630 Be creative. And if it actually looks humanoid, I would be shocked. But fine, 177 00:12:32,790 --> 00:12:33,790 I'll accept it. 178 00:12:33,960 --> 00:12:37,440 But I'm waiting for that to happen. And it would be anticlimactic because I've 179 00:12:37,440 --> 00:12:41,100 already told you it's there. It is amazing the lack of imagination that we 180 00:12:41,100 --> 00:12:42,100 when we make movies. 181 00:12:42,240 --> 00:12:46,260 And the aliens are always just some variation. They look like us, but 182 00:12:46,260 --> 00:12:50,140 got weird ears or they've got, you know, ridges. Or four fingers identified. 183 00:12:50,420 --> 00:12:54,500 Something like that. Did you see Project Hail Mary? 184 00:12:54,700 --> 00:12:59,740 Yes, I did. So that was Andy Weir, the author, also wrote The Martian. 185 00:12:59,940 --> 00:13:03,380 And actually he handed me one of my highest compliments ever. 186 00:13:03,770 --> 00:13:07,190 He's a software engineer turned novelist. He was writing The Martian. 187 00:13:07,450 --> 00:13:10,610 There's a lot of science in that. When he was going to play loosey -goosey with 188 00:13:10,610 --> 00:13:14,810 the physics, he imagined I was looking over his shoulder. And he didn't want me 189 00:13:14,810 --> 00:13:15,810 tweeting about it. 190 00:13:16,390 --> 00:13:18,590 So he doubled down on the science. 191 00:13:18,870 --> 00:13:24,290 Really? Well, on The Martian with Project Hail Mary, which is kind of like 192 00:13:24,290 --> 00:13:25,290 Alien Buddy movie. 193 00:13:25,530 --> 00:13:26,830 Yes, with a rock. 194 00:13:27,070 --> 00:13:28,070 With a rock, okay. 195 00:13:28,270 --> 00:13:34,050 Rocky was his name. So what I liked about it was he tried to break open the 196 00:13:34,050 --> 00:13:37,150 Hollywood trope of the humanoid alien. 197 00:13:37,350 --> 00:13:41,570 This was craboid, and it was made of rocks, and it lived in a different air 198 00:13:41,570 --> 00:13:48,310 pressure and ammonia atmosphere. So he's just trying to break the mold. You 199 00:13:48,310 --> 00:13:51,890 shouldn't fault him for doing that. No, but it still seems like whenever they go 200 00:13:51,890 --> 00:13:55,870 to another planet in a distant part of the universe, it still looks like San 201 00:13:55,870 --> 00:13:56,870 Bernardino. 202 00:13:59,619 --> 00:14:01,700 I mean, that was the end. All right. 203 00:14:04,780 --> 00:14:11,180 But I read in your book that every broadcast that we've ever made has gone 204 00:14:11,180 --> 00:14:15,220 space, like anything that was put out in the airwaves. Yes, some airwaves will 205 00:14:15,220 --> 00:14:18,240 go out better than others, like FM goes straight out. 206 00:14:18,460 --> 00:14:21,760 Remember in the old days, you could hear AM radio stations. 207 00:14:22,350 --> 00:14:26,010 from neighboring cities, but FM you couldn't. On a clear night. On a clear 208 00:14:26,010 --> 00:14:27,290 night. You could hear Atlanta. 209 00:14:27,670 --> 00:14:33,010 So these are waves bouncing off one of the layers of the atmosphere. So not all 210 00:14:33,010 --> 00:14:37,850 waves would get out, but television would, FM would, and other sorts of 211 00:14:37,850 --> 00:14:42,850 broadcasts. So everything that's been on TV, or a speech by Hitler, is out 212 00:14:42,850 --> 00:14:44,690 there. Coms are out there. Yes. 213 00:14:45,590 --> 00:14:49,270 Honeymooners. There's shows out here. Well, not if you were cable most of your 214 00:14:49,270 --> 00:14:51,860 life. No, I did a show on Politically Incorrect. 215 00:14:52,300 --> 00:14:53,740 That's correct. 216 00:14:54,460 --> 00:14:59,760 All your cable work is hidden from the aliens. 217 00:15:00,100 --> 00:15:05,080 But they might like my earlier work. 218 00:15:07,020 --> 00:15:08,640 So it's a radio bubble. 219 00:15:09,680 --> 00:15:12,040 You think they like me, Doc? 220 00:15:12,800 --> 00:15:14,180 I hear they're a little woke. 221 00:15:14,720 --> 00:15:17,360 No, they don't know to like or dislike. 222 00:15:17,620 --> 00:15:18,620 They will use you. 223 00:15:19,100 --> 00:15:25,000 the early signals that are available to them, as an emissary of what it is to be 224 00:15:25,000 --> 00:15:26,000 human on Earth. 225 00:15:27,720 --> 00:15:34,200 Okay, now, what preceded you was like the Honeymooners and Howdy Doody. And 226 00:15:34,200 --> 00:15:39,760 Honeymooners, remember, we all laughed when Ralph Cramden threatened to punch 227 00:15:39,760 --> 00:15:44,040 his wife to the moon. And that was considered funny. 228 00:15:44,240 --> 00:15:48,280 If the aliens first get a hold of that, I don't know. 229 00:15:48,880 --> 00:15:50,320 What they'll think of us. I know. 230 00:15:51,520 --> 00:15:58,400 I mean, if they're that smart, they'll see that, and then 231 00:15:58,400 --> 00:16:00,880 they'll see everybody loves Raymond, and they'll go, okay. 232 00:16:02,280 --> 00:16:07,100 They grew up. They advanced. Okay, I would like to think that. But if they 233 00:16:07,100 --> 00:16:11,860 visit and really looked around the world, what forms most of your content 234 00:16:11,860 --> 00:16:16,360 your... The monologue would be evidence to the alien that there's no sign of 235 00:16:16,360 --> 00:16:22,980 intelligent life on Earth. Is that why they're not here? Because they 236 00:16:22,980 --> 00:16:24,520 immediately went back home. 237 00:16:25,020 --> 00:16:29,500 One of the points I made in that editorial I did was that we used to 238 00:16:29,500 --> 00:16:31,580 them coming here, and now I welcome it. 239 00:16:32,649 --> 00:16:36,730 Because one of the reports said that they may have stopped, you know, they 240 00:16:36,730 --> 00:16:39,790 dis... What? You're making that face up. No, no, I'm listening. 241 00:16:40,010 --> 00:16:40,529 I'm speaking. 242 00:16:40,530 --> 00:16:47,430 They said it hovered over this Air Force base and it absolutely 243 00:16:47,430 --> 00:16:49,830 made the nuclear missiles unable to fire. 244 00:16:50,370 --> 00:16:52,670 If they're doing that, I say bring it on. 245 00:16:52,870 --> 00:16:56,890 Yeah, and in fact, that's the subtext of the original and the subsequent... 246 00:16:57,180 --> 00:17:00,480 filmed the day the Earth stood still. The aliens found out that we had 247 00:17:00,480 --> 00:17:05,240 nuclear power in 1951, and they said this destabilizes the solar system and 248 00:17:05,240 --> 00:17:08,339 other life forms, and they came here to stop it. Right. So this has been a 249 00:17:08,339 --> 00:17:11,420 subtext for quite some time. Right. You don't want the Keanu Reeves, sorry, 250 00:17:11,500 --> 00:17:12,800 but... Oh, yeah. 251 00:17:13,859 --> 00:17:17,640 That was a different one, because we were a source of biodiversity, and we 252 00:17:17,640 --> 00:17:20,400 destroying them. They couldn't use the nuke angle, because the times had 253 00:17:20,400 --> 00:17:22,500 changed. All right. Last question, AI. 254 00:17:22,780 --> 00:17:24,520 I've got to ask you, what is the connection? 255 00:17:25,280 --> 00:17:28,240 Broad question, but AI and aliens. 256 00:17:28,440 --> 00:17:32,780 I mean, is there any connection? You think they're more present possibly here 257 00:17:32,780 --> 00:17:37,980 because we got onto AI and this worries them or it encourages them or is there a 258 00:17:37,980 --> 00:17:42,720 connection? In the book, I make a very simple point that if AI is the exemplar 259 00:17:42,720 --> 00:17:48,760 of human intellect and the alien is much smarter than us, that's a pretty low 260 00:17:48,760 --> 00:17:49,980 bar for them to be worried. 261 00:17:50,620 --> 00:17:52,600 Okay? It impresses us. 262 00:17:53,110 --> 00:17:56,170 that computers can be the sum of all of our intelligence. 263 00:17:56,550 --> 00:18:02,730 But if we are, if chimps are to us what we are to aliens, 264 00:18:02,770 --> 00:18:06,450 consider it. We have 98 % identical DNA with chimps. 265 00:18:06,670 --> 00:18:13,130 So there's a lot going on in that 2%. So imagine an alien species that's 2 % 266 00:18:13,130 --> 00:18:14,910 beyond us in that same vector. 267 00:18:15,250 --> 00:18:20,130 What would we look like to them? We might be babbling chimps in their 268 00:18:20,620 --> 00:18:25,080 And so if we say, oh, we've got this AI and it's brilliant, they'll just laugh 269 00:18:25,080 --> 00:18:26,080 us off the street. 270 00:18:31,560 --> 00:18:36,340 It'd be like the chimps building an apparatus to reach the bananas instead 271 00:18:36,340 --> 00:18:40,120 them having to stack boxes to do so, and they'd be really proud of it, and 272 00:18:40,120 --> 00:18:42,920 that'd be their Einstein chimp, and then we'd just look at that and laugh 273 00:18:42,920 --> 00:18:44,300 because our toddlers can do that. 274 00:18:44,520 --> 00:18:45,720 That's what we would look like. 275 00:18:46,040 --> 00:18:51,300 So the idea that let's look for other intelligent life in the universe comes 276 00:18:51,300 --> 00:18:54,300 with a really big assumption, that we're intelligent. 277 00:18:54,500 --> 00:18:56,300 And who said we're intelligent? 278 00:18:56,780 --> 00:18:58,280 We did, okay? 279 00:18:59,020 --> 00:19:03,820 Not some exterior measure of our life form versus others. Well, I don't know. 280 00:19:04,080 --> 00:19:07,580 Everything I've learned about science after sixth grade, I know from you. 281 00:19:08,200 --> 00:19:10,180 So I'm just going to take that as gospel. 282 00:19:10,440 --> 00:19:11,840 All right, I've got to get to the panel. 283 00:19:12,060 --> 00:19:15,680 It's always good to see you, Mike. Thank you so much. It's a great call. 284 00:19:15,960 --> 00:19:18,500 Everybody should read it. All right, let's get to our panel. 285 00:19:24,140 --> 00:19:25,140 Hi. 286 00:19:26,190 --> 00:19:29,810 Kevin's back. All right. He's a former Republican congressman who represented 287 00:19:29,810 --> 00:19:33,870 California's 20th district and served as the 55th Speaker of the House, and he 288 00:19:33,870 --> 00:19:35,530 came back to this show. Kevin McCarthy. 289 00:19:36,330 --> 00:19:37,330 Unbelievable. 290 00:19:39,330 --> 00:19:43,790 And she's the anchor of MSNOW's Katie Turr Reports and best -selling author of 291 00:19:43,790 --> 00:19:47,590 Unbelievable. Her new show, The Moment with Katie Turr, launches Monday, June 292 00:19:47,590 --> 00:19:49,870 15th. Katie Turr. Great to see you. 293 00:19:50,070 --> 00:19:51,070 Thanks for having me. 294 00:19:51,810 --> 00:19:52,810 Okay. 295 00:19:54,640 --> 00:19:59,240 All right, I want to start with Texas tonight because it's all political news 296 00:19:59,240 --> 00:20:03,360 for people who don't, junkies who follow this. There was a primary down there, 297 00:20:03,440 --> 00:20:08,460 and I think it tells us a lot because, you know, a lot of what I read and hear 298 00:20:08,460 --> 00:20:12,040 is just bullshit. It's just people's opinions and this and that. Elections 299 00:20:12,040 --> 00:20:16,500 real. That is the one thing that's real. It tells us what people are thinking 300 00:20:16,500 --> 00:20:17,820 and what matters to them. 301 00:20:18,220 --> 00:20:20,620 Okay, so they had an election, a Republican primary. 302 00:20:20,860 --> 00:20:21,900 John Cornyn. 303 00:20:22,380 --> 00:20:26,660 He was the old school, there he is, yes, the Crocker German, like this guy, you 304 00:20:26,660 --> 00:20:30,980 know, like very, what was he, a judge or something before this? Attorney 305 00:20:30,980 --> 00:20:34,620 General. Attorney General, and four terms, and he's Republican classic. 306 00:20:35,060 --> 00:20:41,120 He lost by almost 30 points to the nut. I'm sorry, but he is. Ken Paxton. 307 00:20:41,440 --> 00:20:44,820 The current Attorney General. The current Attorney General. And this guy 308 00:20:44,820 --> 00:20:47,400 right over till the hun. I mean, I'll just... 309 00:20:47,870 --> 00:20:52,810 If you watch Emmett now all the time, turn the sound down for 30 seconds 310 00:20:52,810 --> 00:20:55,770 I'm going to tell you what he believes in and it'll blow your fucking mind. 311 00:20:56,030 --> 00:20:58,110 Near total abortion ban. 312 00:20:58,370 --> 00:21:01,030 80 % of Americans are against that. 313 00:21:01,850 --> 00:21:04,730 He sued five cities that decriminalized marijuana. 314 00:21:05,410 --> 00:21:06,870 I take that personally. 315 00:21:09,830 --> 00:21:14,570 Gay marriage. Said county clerks had religious objections they could opt out 316 00:21:15,160 --> 00:21:20,100 Issuing them 69 % of Americans are for gay marriage. Okay. And he still won. 317 00:21:20,240 --> 00:21:25,400 Also an election denier. Still won by almost 30 points. 318 00:21:25,660 --> 00:21:27,360 Now he's going to face the Democrat. 319 00:21:27,680 --> 00:21:30,880 They've been saying forever a Democrat could win. 320 00:21:31,220 --> 00:21:33,420 Is this the time it could happen? 321 00:21:33,790 --> 00:21:36,990 I mean, if you're going to talk about a perfect storm, isn't this the moment? 322 00:21:37,050 --> 00:21:42,930 Yes, I would put my own money that the Democrats... That's not 323 00:21:42,930 --> 00:21:47,030 so out of step with Texas. 324 00:21:47,550 --> 00:21:52,390 But at the same time, he's been accused of fraud and corruption over and over 325 00:21:52,390 --> 00:21:56,390 again by his own party in Texas. 326 00:21:57,470 --> 00:22:03,030 He's not the ideal candidate for them. You know this. John Cornyn was the 327 00:22:03,120 --> 00:22:04,460 safe candidate. 328 00:22:04,680 --> 00:22:10,560 The Cook Political Report, the second that Paxton won, went from likely to 329 00:22:10,560 --> 00:22:13,040 Republican. That's a decent swing. 330 00:22:13,560 --> 00:22:17,560 The internal conversation, and you tell me if I'm wrong about this, because you 331 00:22:17,560 --> 00:22:23,780 probably know better than I do, $250 million to protect Paxton in that race. 332 00:22:24,879 --> 00:22:30,200 $250 million that can't be spent on Georgia or North Carolina or Alaska, so 333 00:22:30,200 --> 00:22:33,420 maybe not Texas? Well, you're saying the Republicans have to spend that to 334 00:22:33,420 --> 00:22:38,620 defend Texas? They have to spend that to defend Paxton against James Tallarico. 335 00:22:38,640 --> 00:22:41,660 They don't need to spend that money normally. They can put that money 336 00:22:41,900 --> 00:22:45,220 I mean, as Trump better than anybody knows, money doesn't really win the 337 00:22:45,220 --> 00:22:49,640 elections. No. Hillary outspent him by a fortune in 2016. But in some places it 338 00:22:49,640 --> 00:22:51,240 will. But if you're going to play money... 339 00:22:51,660 --> 00:22:55,140 Look, I like Cornyn. I thought Cornyn did a tremendous job, came close to 340 00:22:55,140 --> 00:22:58,140 7 million. But there comes a point when maybe you serve too long. 341 00:22:58,820 --> 00:23:03,660 He spent $100 million and still lost. Now, remember what this is. This is a 342 00:23:03,660 --> 00:23:06,640 runoff from a primary, so there's fewer voters going in. No, wait a second. But 343 00:23:06,640 --> 00:23:08,260 he overwhelmingly lost. 344 00:23:08,520 --> 00:23:09,540 He lost because Trump. 345 00:23:09,860 --> 00:23:14,480 Trump endorsed him. He voted with Trump 97 % of the time, or as Trump calls it, 346 00:23:14,520 --> 00:23:15,520 not good enough. 347 00:23:17,740 --> 00:23:19,740 And Trump wanted the other guy. 348 00:23:20,420 --> 00:23:23,840 So again, just one more thing and then I'll shut up. 349 00:23:24,080 --> 00:23:26,800 Again, to my point about elections tell us things. 350 00:23:27,000 --> 00:23:31,600 What does this tell us? That Trump said, I throw my thunderbolt at John Cornyn 351 00:23:31,600 --> 00:23:32,620 and the people obey. 352 00:23:32,860 --> 00:23:37,620 So you're reading into Paxton. What it really means is President Trump is 353 00:23:37,620 --> 00:23:41,620 probably stronger than any president in our lifetime. Stronger than Ronald 354 00:23:41,620 --> 00:23:45,740 Reagan in a Republican. There's another election that took place there that. 355 00:23:46,170 --> 00:23:50,470 It was Chip Roy, who was a congressman, who was running for attorney general. 356 00:23:50,810 --> 00:23:52,270 Trump did not endorse. 357 00:23:52,530 --> 00:23:54,970 Simply by not endorsing, he lost. 358 00:23:55,350 --> 00:23:58,610 Ted Cruz was 100 % behind him out there campaigning. 359 00:23:58,910 --> 00:24:03,830 The president can determine who's going to win in a Republican primary. Yeah, 360 00:24:03,830 --> 00:24:08,910 but is that going to win a general election? I would bet the Republicans 361 00:24:08,910 --> 00:24:13,830 Texas. Really? It would be closer than it should be. But this is a problem. You 362 00:24:13,830 --> 00:24:14,830 have to read into it. 363 00:24:15,100 --> 00:24:19,720 If Republicans are spending money in Texas, that means it's less money for 364 00:24:20,040 --> 00:24:23,960 Iowa. Yeah, yeah. And money's not equal in politics. 365 00:24:24,220 --> 00:24:28,440 The Democrat is raising a lot. The more money the candidate raises, the stronger 366 00:24:28,440 --> 00:24:30,360 you are because you get TV time at a lower rate. 367 00:24:30,840 --> 00:24:33,340 Paxton doesn't raise great money, so the party has come in. 368 00:24:33,600 --> 00:24:36,640 But if you currently add up all the money from all the parties... 369 00:24:37,980 --> 00:24:38,980 Republican versus Democrat? 370 00:24:39,180 --> 00:24:41,200 Republicans have 800. Do the Democrats 200? 371 00:24:41,840 --> 00:24:45,620 Republicans may have a negative feeling. Democrats are 10 points lower. 372 00:24:45,980 --> 00:24:50,380 Democrats are in the hole money -wise. They put out a report that they denounce 373 00:24:50,380 --> 00:24:51,740 about why they lost the races. 374 00:24:51,940 --> 00:24:56,700 Their leaders are very unpopular. This should be a year where the Democrats 375 00:24:56,700 --> 00:24:59,780 this unbelievable year, and they're not going to have that. 376 00:24:59,980 --> 00:25:03,240 They can win the House, but not by a year. 377 00:25:03,680 --> 00:25:07,520 but for the redistricting that's been happening. If you asked me this question 378 00:25:07,520 --> 00:25:10,000 month ago, I'd say Democrats are going to win the House. 379 00:25:10,460 --> 00:25:13,720 Now what's going to happen, though, Republicans just added nine more points. 380 00:25:13,820 --> 00:25:15,540 Now, I don't like this redistricting idea. 381 00:25:15,760 --> 00:25:19,860 My first bill in the state legislature was to put it with a commission. 382 00:25:20,060 --> 00:25:21,060 I like competition. 383 00:25:21,200 --> 00:25:24,860 When I became leader in the Republicans, Pelosi became speaker. 384 00:25:25,060 --> 00:25:26,780 What are you looking at me for to stop me? 385 00:25:27,460 --> 00:25:30,780 Stop him, Bill. Stop him. This is what I want you to understand. 386 00:25:31,520 --> 00:25:35,680 Four years later, we won the majority by five seats. I picked up five more seats 387 00:25:35,680 --> 00:25:37,440 in California and didn't have to redraw the lines. 388 00:25:37,920 --> 00:25:42,320 So it makes you have better candidates, better message. You should have 389 00:25:42,320 --> 00:25:45,340 competition. It's the way the founders designed America. 390 00:25:45,560 --> 00:25:47,900 Why are you calling President Trump and telling him that? 391 00:25:48,520 --> 00:25:52,060 I fought it the whole time. But for the same point. 392 00:25:52,950 --> 00:25:56,310 For the same point, why didn't we call New Mexico when they did it? Why didn't 393 00:25:56,310 --> 00:25:59,850 we do Illinois when they did it? Why didn't we do in New York when they did 394 00:25:59,850 --> 00:26:03,430 This has been going on by both parties for a long time, but I've called it out. 395 00:26:03,430 --> 00:26:06,250 That's true, and now they took it to another level. Yeah, and it's going to 396 00:26:06,250 --> 00:26:09,830 the country because there's less than 20 seats. Okay, can I get back to Texas 397 00:26:09,830 --> 00:26:10,830 for a second? 398 00:26:11,210 --> 00:26:14,610 Because we didn't talk about who he's running against, Paxton. 399 00:26:14,890 --> 00:26:17,010 Okay, so you have Attila the Hun on this side. 400 00:26:17,900 --> 00:26:21,280 Then we have this guy, James Tallarico. We had him on the show recently. 401 00:26:21,560 --> 00:26:24,460 I mean, he seemed like a nice guy. He seems very reasonable. 402 00:26:24,700 --> 00:26:26,420 They're spreading rumors that he's gay. 403 00:26:26,740 --> 00:26:28,060 Or even worse, vegan. 404 00:26:29,820 --> 00:26:31,780 In fact, vegan is worse. 405 00:26:32,320 --> 00:26:33,600 No, I'm telling you. 406 00:26:34,000 --> 00:26:36,620 He said he ran a vegan campaign. 407 00:26:37,160 --> 00:26:40,340 What? He said what? He's on video running a vegan campaign. 408 00:26:40,750 --> 00:26:46,890 That doesn't play well in Texas. No, he said some things that don't play well in 409 00:26:46,890 --> 00:26:48,650 Texas, like God is non -binary. 410 00:26:48,950 --> 00:26:53,010 He's taken that back. He said it was a silly thing for him to say. It is a 411 00:26:53,010 --> 00:26:56,890 thing to say because it just looks bad on a poster or an ad. 412 00:26:57,110 --> 00:27:01,790 Okay, but listen to this. So Stephen Miller of the Trump administration, 413 00:27:01,790 --> 00:27:06,910 there with Attila, he said the Democrats made history by nominating their first 414 00:27:06,910 --> 00:27:10,850 transgender Senate candidate. That he's just pulling out. of his ass. Even if 415 00:27:10,850 --> 00:27:15,350 they did, it should not be disqualifying. I mean, Jewish for the 416 00:27:15,450 --> 00:27:16,570 but not transgender. 417 00:27:17,810 --> 00:27:22,730 Then the Democratic Twitter account fired back, shut up, you ugly fuck. 418 00:27:23,950 --> 00:27:26,370 This is the official Democratic Twitter account. 419 00:27:26,610 --> 00:27:30,670 And then Stephen Miller's wife fired back at the woman who ran the Twitter 420 00:27:30,670 --> 00:27:33,530 account and said, she's 30, unmarried, no kids. 421 00:27:34,890 --> 00:27:38,110 First of all, I love it that that's the worst insult they can think of. 422 00:27:44,929 --> 00:27:48,470 Everybody I know who's unmarried with no kids, you know, that's good. 423 00:27:49,910 --> 00:27:54,590 It's so ugly. And our politics, I mean, listen, politics has always been dirty 424 00:27:54,590 --> 00:27:59,650 to a degree, but it is so much uglier now than it ever was. And there is one 425 00:27:59,650 --> 00:28:03,630 person that opened the door to that. The question is, how do we get it back? And 426 00:28:03,630 --> 00:28:07,530 especially right now, I don't think Americans, there might have been a time 427 00:28:07,530 --> 00:28:09,290 where people were amused by that. 428 00:28:10,010 --> 00:28:15,710 But they're paying $4 .50 for a gallon of gas in most places, much more here in 429 00:28:15,710 --> 00:28:17,590 Los Angeles, as everyone in the crowd knows. 430 00:28:18,510 --> 00:28:19,530 Much more here. 431 00:28:20,370 --> 00:28:22,890 $6 .99. But how do we get out of that? 432 00:28:23,110 --> 00:28:27,750 I think you have to look for somebody that's going to help you rise above it. 433 00:28:27,750 --> 00:28:32,410 mean, the Hungarian election that happened just the other day, ousting 434 00:28:32,410 --> 00:28:37,770 Orban. This guy came in, he went county to county, sometimes multiple times, and 435 00:28:37,770 --> 00:28:39,030 he told them that... 436 00:28:39,340 --> 00:28:40,340 The leader is corrupt. 437 00:28:40,440 --> 00:28:44,360 They are stealing from you. They're taking money from you. They're making 438 00:28:44,360 --> 00:28:45,540 life worse. 439 00:28:45,940 --> 00:28:49,640 I'm going to bring this country back together. And he had a more inspiring 440 00:28:49,640 --> 00:28:55,220 message, not getting down into the mud the way that a lot of Democrats have 441 00:28:55,220 --> 00:28:59,380 doing with Donald Trump. I think it's going to take somebody who comes in and 442 00:28:59,380 --> 00:29:01,180 finds a way to bring us all together. 443 00:29:01,380 --> 00:29:02,620 What about Matthew McConaughey? 444 00:29:05,020 --> 00:29:07,260 I don't know. He makes good movies. 445 00:29:08,710 --> 00:29:11,950 You knew you said that out loud. I know. I've been thinking it. I thought that 446 00:29:11,950 --> 00:29:14,670 maybe that was just your inner voice. Hey, Matthew McConaughey. 447 00:29:15,250 --> 00:29:16,249 All right. 448 00:29:16,250 --> 00:29:17,290 I have to move on. 449 00:29:17,490 --> 00:29:21,150 I had Spencer Pratt on my podcast the other day. What did you think? 450 00:29:21,890 --> 00:29:23,910 You know what? I know I'm supposed to hate him. I don't. 451 00:29:24,190 --> 00:29:25,190 He runs great ads. 452 00:29:25,250 --> 00:29:27,290 Yeah, I mean, he's a nice guy. 453 00:29:28,610 --> 00:29:30,910 What's charming about him is he has no advisors. 454 00:29:31,270 --> 00:29:35,910 I mean, I confronted him on, like, you know, this and this you're going to have 455 00:29:35,910 --> 00:29:39,190 to think about. No, I only care about the issues I care about. So he's very 456 00:29:39,190 --> 00:29:40,190 honest about that. 457 00:29:40,830 --> 00:29:44,590 It's funny because he's running as a Republican and doing quite well. 458 00:29:44,590 --> 00:29:48,030 out here is like, what do you think of Benson Pratt? He's on everybody's mind. 459 00:29:48,030 --> 00:29:49,030 was asking him about that. 460 00:29:49,430 --> 00:29:52,990 He's very un -Californian in that way for a guy who's from California. 461 00:29:53,820 --> 00:29:57,580 But then I found out he's actually very Californian because he sells crystals. 462 00:29:58,380 --> 00:30:03,240 He sells, I'm not kidding, he sells healing crystals. 463 00:30:05,360 --> 00:30:09,660 Yeah, I mean, things like this, which, look, people have gifted me with these. 464 00:30:10,100 --> 00:30:13,240 I should try them a little under the weather this week. Maybe I'll go home 465 00:30:13,240 --> 00:30:14,720 sit on it. I don't know how you... 466 00:30:15,290 --> 00:30:19,830 But maybe they work like, this is real, like clear courts. They say it's always 467 00:30:19,830 --> 00:30:23,210 a little vague. Good for amplifying energy and focusing intentions. 468 00:30:24,170 --> 00:30:26,190 Amethyst promotes tranquility. 469 00:30:26,450 --> 00:30:28,050 Citrine invites wealth. 470 00:30:28,350 --> 00:30:32,430 Well, those aren't all of them. Would you like to hear the, oh, I thought you 471 00:30:32,430 --> 00:30:34,750 would. There's so many crystals. There really are. 472 00:30:35,560 --> 00:30:38,880 And here's what some of them will do. You might want to get in on this. Like 473 00:30:38,880 --> 00:30:43,440 Himalayan salt naturalizes the dark energy in your home after your in -laws 474 00:30:43,440 --> 00:30:44,680 watch Tucker Carlson. 475 00:30:46,380 --> 00:30:47,780 That could be very valuable. 476 00:30:51,100 --> 00:30:55,140 Sapphire clears mystical pathways that allow you to recognize when your 477 00:30:55,140 --> 00:30:56,220 girlfriend gets a haircut. 478 00:31:00,320 --> 00:31:01,800 Oh, pink. 479 00:31:02,250 --> 00:31:06,310 Pink calcite. That's good. Brings alignment with forces that silence your 480 00:31:06,310 --> 00:31:07,310 driver. 481 00:31:10,130 --> 00:31:16,570 Oh, opal. Very good. Helps you stay grounded when your chatbot starts 482 00:31:16,570 --> 00:31:18,030 smoke up your ass. 483 00:31:23,450 --> 00:31:24,450 Tiger's eye. 484 00:31:24,490 --> 00:31:28,590 Absorbs negative thoughts to make shower sex seem slightly less awkward and 485 00:31:28,590 --> 00:31:29,590 disappointing. 486 00:31:35,280 --> 00:31:40,180 This myth removes resonant blockages so you can read the redacted names in the 487 00:31:40,180 --> 00:31:41,180 Epstein file. 488 00:31:46,640 --> 00:31:51,480 Lithium light quartz harmonizes all of the natural world to make your dog shit 489 00:31:51,480 --> 00:31:52,500 quickly when it's raining. 490 00:31:57,560 --> 00:31:58,780 And Micah. 491 00:31:59,320 --> 00:32:03,280 Harness his spiritual energy in a way that keeps your Gwyneth Paltrow vagina 492 00:32:03,280 --> 00:32:05,740 candle from starting a wildfire. All right. 493 00:32:07,160 --> 00:32:09,720 That's all right, because we could. 494 00:32:14,000 --> 00:32:18,540 So, not to be picking on Donald Trump all the time, but, you know, what can I 495 00:32:18,540 --> 00:32:23,080 say? Even after 10 years, I must say, he does things that you'd think after all 496 00:32:23,080 --> 00:32:27,220 this time we would see coming, you know, things that nobody ever did, but he 497 00:32:27,220 --> 00:32:28,220 still thinks of them. 498 00:32:28,460 --> 00:32:33,840 that a president could do that nobody did as president, and one of them now is 499 00:32:33,840 --> 00:32:37,100 suing the country that he is leading. 500 00:32:38,540 --> 00:32:42,280 This was the big story this week, if you don't know about it. Now, there was a 501 00:32:42,280 --> 00:32:46,740 crime here. I mean, somebody leaked his tax, not just his, by the way. They 502 00:32:46,740 --> 00:32:50,600 leaked a lot of rich people's tax. And this guy's gone to jail for five years. 503 00:32:50,760 --> 00:32:55,820 Yeah, okay, not supposed to do that. But a president suing his own government, 504 00:32:55,960 --> 00:32:56,960 so he's the... 505 00:32:57,230 --> 00:32:58,230 And then he settled. 506 00:32:58,730 --> 00:33:00,170 He settled with himself. 507 00:33:01,190 --> 00:33:03,410 A lot easier than settling with Iran, apparently. 508 00:33:04,790 --> 00:33:10,830 But he's both... He's 509 00:33:10,830 --> 00:33:15,010 both, would we say, the suey and the sewer. 510 00:33:15,430 --> 00:33:16,870 No, we're living in the sewer. 511 00:33:17,090 --> 00:33:18,069 I don't know. 512 00:33:18,070 --> 00:33:23,250 But this... Okay, so anyway, he settled. And now the money is going instead 513 00:33:23,250 --> 00:33:26,890 of... what the lawsuit was. It was for $10 billion. 514 00:33:27,150 --> 00:33:28,530 He said, nope, we don't have to do that. 515 00:33:28,730 --> 00:33:32,530 But the money is going to what they're calling an anti -weaponization fund. 516 00:33:32,850 --> 00:33:36,070 A judge has already stopped it, but probably the Supreme Court will let it 517 00:33:36,070 --> 00:33:42,950 through, which will go to the people he thinks have been victims of 518 00:33:42,950 --> 00:33:45,190 lawfare, would we call it? 519 00:33:45,410 --> 00:33:49,530 So that means the January 6th people. It means the January 6th people. 520 00:33:49,790 --> 00:33:53,880 Now, not only did they get a pardon, Now they're getting paid. 521 00:33:54,780 --> 00:33:57,500 They're getting paid for attacking the Capitol. 522 00:33:57,740 --> 00:34:00,680 Is this the right incentivization, Kevin McCarthy? 523 00:34:02,620 --> 00:34:08,780 Okay, I believe this. 524 00:34:09,480 --> 00:34:14,080 You can condemn the violence on January 6th and still believe some of these 525 00:34:14,080 --> 00:34:18,820 defendants had excess persecution and political treatment. 526 00:34:19,239 --> 00:34:23,100 Because I do. I do both of those. They don't automatically get any money. Give 527 00:34:23,100 --> 00:34:24,100 me one example. 528 00:34:24,540 --> 00:34:28,620 People who were put in solitary confinement, not allowed to get out. 529 00:34:29,080 --> 00:34:33,100 Look, there are people on January 6th that I condemn that violence. But there 530 00:34:33,100 --> 00:34:35,179 were some people that were caught up just walking through. 531 00:34:35,520 --> 00:34:37,179 But let me give you something else. How do you go back to your government? Were 532 00:34:37,179 --> 00:34:37,918 you there that day? 533 00:34:37,920 --> 00:34:41,800 Were you still in Congress? Yeah, I was escorted out. Okay, let me ask you this. 534 00:34:41,980 --> 00:34:45,639 What if your government, say you are in power, you control the presidency, you 535 00:34:45,639 --> 00:34:48,060 control the Senate, the other party has the House. 536 00:34:48,780 --> 00:34:53,139 You have an individual that wants to go after these people, so they go after the 537 00:34:53,139 --> 00:34:58,300 speaker's cell phone. But they don't tell the carrier who the person is. They 538 00:34:58,300 --> 00:35:02,320 don't even tell the judge who the number is, because when they get asked, they 539 00:35:02,320 --> 00:35:06,340 say, we're afraid of the person leaving the country, even though they have 24 540 00:35:06,340 --> 00:35:07,340 hours surveillance. 541 00:35:07,680 --> 00:35:08,960 You know who that person was? Me. 542 00:35:09,820 --> 00:35:15,440 So on my own government, when after my cell phone records, when I became 543 00:35:15,440 --> 00:35:19,570 of the House, When I was the highest -ranking Republican, never asked me for 544 00:35:19,570 --> 00:35:22,970 them. I'd hand them to you, but I think we had separation of powers. 545 00:35:23,630 --> 00:35:27,630 What recourse does anybody have? I'm not going to sue, but how do you make sure 546 00:35:27,630 --> 00:35:30,210 that doesn't happen to somebody else? If they would go after the Speaker of the 547 00:35:30,210 --> 00:35:32,710 House, the second in line to the President, they can go after anybody. 548 00:35:32,930 --> 00:35:36,290 And if they can lie to the judge and say, I can't tell you who the number is 549 00:35:36,290 --> 00:35:38,270 because I'm afraid this person is going to leave the country? 550 00:35:39,490 --> 00:35:43,910 I think we're stretching that. Was this in regards to investigating January 6th? 551 00:35:44,050 --> 00:35:47,750 But they didn't get the information in your conversations. It was just the 552 00:35:47,750 --> 00:35:51,710 that were made between you and the White House. No, they went for the whole 553 00:35:51,710 --> 00:35:54,110 month. They never told me. They never asked for it. But they didn't get the 554 00:35:54,110 --> 00:35:57,150 content of the call, did they? But why do they have the right to my number as 555 00:35:57,150 --> 00:36:00,330 is? But weren't they investigating Donald Trump and they were just trying 556 00:36:00,330 --> 00:36:03,890 find out what he did on that day and the sequence of events? Then why did they 557 00:36:03,890 --> 00:36:06,190 ask for the whole month and why did they wait to the... 558 00:36:07,230 --> 00:36:10,610 the highest -ranking Republican, the Speaker of the House, the second in line 559 00:36:10,610 --> 00:36:15,210 the presidency, and you think, not even asking him for it, but you lie to a 560 00:36:15,210 --> 00:36:19,130 judge whose number it is, you lie to the carrier who it is, and then when you 561 00:36:19,130 --> 00:36:22,550 get asked about it, well, we had to lie to you because we were afraid they would 562 00:36:22,550 --> 00:36:23,550 leave the country. 563 00:36:24,090 --> 00:36:27,810 That's a concern with all the power that prosecutor has. But if the 564 00:36:27,810 --> 00:36:32,230 administration wanted to say, okay, we don't think that was fair, and we're 565 00:36:32,230 --> 00:36:34,730 going to look into it. Or did they hide it? How do we ever find it out? I'm 566 00:36:34,730 --> 00:36:35,730 talking about this administration. 567 00:36:36,140 --> 00:36:40,180 then why are they not saying, we want to create this fund, but the January 6th 568 00:36:40,180 --> 00:36:45,200 rioters, the ones who beat up cops, are not allowed to apply for this? Why not 569 00:36:45,200 --> 00:36:49,000 put a structure around it, guardrails around it? I think you have three 570 00:36:49,000 --> 00:36:53,220 questions here, okay? And why pardon all of them, blanketly? Well, okay, the 571 00:36:53,220 --> 00:36:54,880 president has a pardon right. I don't... 572 00:36:55,180 --> 00:36:56,260 That's a difference of opinion. 573 00:36:56,480 --> 00:37:00,400 Do you agree with it? No, I have a difference of opinion of what happened 574 00:37:00,400 --> 00:37:05,220 January 6th. But the first thing that has to happen is, who is allowed to get 575 00:37:05,220 --> 00:37:06,480 recourse from this? 576 00:37:07,240 --> 00:37:08,760 Who makes that decision? 577 00:37:10,060 --> 00:37:14,160 What type of money does it come from? And does Congress authorize it? I think 578 00:37:14,160 --> 00:37:17,580 that's the criteria. I think you're bringing it to a different place. What 579 00:37:17,580 --> 00:37:18,860 making this so... 580 00:37:19,470 --> 00:37:23,790 insane for a lot of people, is that the January 6th rioters are clearly who this 581 00:37:23,790 --> 00:37:27,610 is intended for because the administration keeps saying, of course 582 00:37:27,610 --> 00:37:30,870 allowed to apply, we're going to consider each case. They're not saying 583 00:37:30,870 --> 00:37:35,270 like Patrick, or I'm sorry, David Dempsey, who stomped on an officer's 584 00:37:35,310 --> 00:37:40,250 went on an hour -long rampage, beating up officers, using metal poles, pepper 585 00:37:40,250 --> 00:37:43,030 spray, broken furniture to go after cops. 586 00:37:43,390 --> 00:37:47,490 Sentenced to 20 years in prison, Donald Trump pardoned him. 587 00:37:47,900 --> 00:37:49,760 And now we're going to pay him? 588 00:37:50,160 --> 00:37:54,100 Nothing says. But nothing says. You're in trouble. Nothing says we're going to 589 00:37:54,100 --> 00:37:56,420 pay him. Nothing says we're going to pay him. 590 00:37:57,000 --> 00:38:02,080 Why is the administration not saying, of course we're not going to pay this guy. 591 00:38:02,180 --> 00:38:04,220 Of course we're not going to pay Andrew Paul Johnson, 592 00:38:05,240 --> 00:38:09,100 who was molesting children and telling them. The president does not get to 593 00:38:09,100 --> 00:38:10,100 decide who it is. 594 00:38:10,140 --> 00:38:15,600 The president gets to dismiss any one of these panelists if he so chooses. 595 00:38:16,140 --> 00:38:18,260 So how does he not get to be the ultimate decider? 596 00:38:18,480 --> 00:38:23,400 You get a $10 billion lawsuit settling here. I think the Senate is correct in 597 00:38:23,400 --> 00:38:26,560 asking the criteria. It doesn't make sense that they would not put any 598 00:38:26,560 --> 00:38:27,640 guardrails around it. 599 00:38:27,960 --> 00:38:30,000 They wouldn't say an independent panel. 600 00:38:30,280 --> 00:38:33,380 They wouldn't say a judgment. No, it doesn't make sense that Biden didn't 601 00:38:33,380 --> 00:38:37,040 go after my cell phone numbers, went after a number of Republican senators, 602 00:38:37,100 --> 00:38:38,100 Didn't go after any Democrat. 603 00:38:38,300 --> 00:38:42,240 And then didn't ask them. Didn't ask them and didn't tell us. We had to find 604 00:38:42,240 --> 00:38:44,860 after we took the majority. But let me ask you a political question. 605 00:38:45,080 --> 00:38:46,560 Yeah. Because I'm starting to get bored. 606 00:38:52,000 --> 00:38:58,320 Does this kind of thing hurt him? I mean, his approval rating is the lowest 607 00:38:58,320 --> 00:39:04,000 ever. I feel like that's because the people, even his people, sense there's 608 00:39:04,000 --> 00:39:06,160 so much self -dealing. 609 00:39:06,460 --> 00:39:09,860 So much stuff like, I mean, stock trades. 610 00:39:10,380 --> 00:39:14,580 Money managers for the president made more than 3 ,700 trades in the first 611 00:39:14,580 --> 00:39:20,280 quarter, including, for example, NVIDIA on January 6th, coincidentally. A week 612 00:39:20,280 --> 00:39:22,380 later, they cleared NVIDIA. 613 00:39:22,880 --> 00:39:26,480 to sell chips to China, which we always said was something we really shouldn't 614 00:39:26,480 --> 00:39:28,860 do. You know, China, not exactly our best friend. 615 00:39:29,200 --> 00:39:33,780 I mean, stuff like that. Look, I never traded one stock, individual stock, when 616 00:39:33,780 --> 00:39:37,660 I was a member. I'm not talking about you. I know, but I watch Nancy Pelosi do 617 00:39:37,660 --> 00:39:40,880 quite well. I don't think any member should trade stock, and I don't think 618 00:39:40,880 --> 00:39:45,920 should be able to. Okay, I'm just saying, something like this. 619 00:39:47,320 --> 00:39:49,920 You know, I mean, I know Martha Stewart's pissed. 620 00:39:53,210 --> 00:39:57,130 The thing that hurts most is the price of gas is going to determine a lot 621 00:39:57,130 --> 00:39:58,130 going to happen in this election. 622 00:39:58,310 --> 00:40:00,150 Where is the price of gas going to be? 623 00:40:00,470 --> 00:40:03,190 Where is the economy at? 624 00:40:03,490 --> 00:40:06,570 And people are going to have questions. But that's rightfully so why the 625 00:40:06,570 --> 00:40:08,850 Republicans in the Senate are asking the questions they're asking. 626 00:40:09,050 --> 00:40:13,690 I think 49 % of the population uses the word corrupt around Donald Trump. I 627 00:40:13,690 --> 00:40:14,428 think they see it. 628 00:40:14,430 --> 00:40:16,150 They're not comfortable with it. Yeah. 629 00:40:16,650 --> 00:40:19,750 I think they do. I think they see that there's always a side deal. There's 630 00:40:19,750 --> 00:40:22,650 always something for the family. It looks like he has this idea in his head, 631 00:40:22,690 --> 00:40:26,730 like, I'm doing this job. I could be just relaxing in Mar -a -Lago, but I'm 632 00:40:26,730 --> 00:40:27,730 doing this job. 633 00:40:27,770 --> 00:40:29,370 I've got to wet my beak a little. 634 00:40:30,090 --> 00:40:31,090 It's not a little. 635 00:40:31,270 --> 00:40:33,830 No, it's not a little. He's pouring the whole swamp on his head. Well, in his 636 00:40:33,830 --> 00:40:34,830 mind, maybe. 637 00:40:39,760 --> 00:40:42,080 How does the Republican Party run against that? 638 00:40:42,820 --> 00:40:46,460 They're not doing well right now in the polls. I know Democrats aren't doing 639 00:40:46,460 --> 00:40:50,440 well either, but the Democrats will have the opportunity to say, Donald Trump is 640 00:40:50,440 --> 00:40:51,840 self -dealing, look at these stock trades. 641 00:40:52,300 --> 00:40:57,220 They'll have the opportunity to say that... I want to see Nancy Pelosi make 642 00:40:57,220 --> 00:40:59,240 argument. I would love to see her. 643 00:40:59,680 --> 00:41:03,340 Nancy Pelosi is not the leader. Yes, she is. Not the leader. She still tells 644 00:41:03,340 --> 00:41:04,340 Democrats. 645 00:41:04,780 --> 00:41:05,780 Really? Yeah. 646 00:41:05,900 --> 00:41:07,420 You ever been to the floor and watched? 647 00:41:08,250 --> 00:41:10,590 I don't think Hakeem needs anything. So the Republicans are going to continue to 648 00:41:10,590 --> 00:41:12,450 run against Nancy Pelosi. That's the strategy. 649 00:41:12,850 --> 00:41:15,590 No. I look forward to Nancy deciding. 650 00:41:16,290 --> 00:41:17,910 I don't know where the majority go. 651 00:41:19,530 --> 00:41:20,348 All right. 652 00:41:20,350 --> 00:41:23,210 I have one final issue I want to get to. The Pope. 653 00:41:23,910 --> 00:41:27,830 Whenever me and the Pope agree on something, I feel like there's something 654 00:41:27,830 --> 00:41:30,130 the planets going on. I don't know what it is. 655 00:41:30,640 --> 00:41:35,340 But, I mean, I've been all over this AI thing. I said a few weeks ago, a month, 656 00:41:35,440 --> 00:41:38,280 I don't know when it was, but I said, like, of all the issues I've ever 657 00:41:38,380 --> 00:41:40,560 this is the one I find literally the most alarming. 658 00:41:40,820 --> 00:41:46,980 When the father of AI, Jeffrey Hinton, says it is a 10 % to 20 % possibility of 659 00:41:46,980 --> 00:41:52,840 an extinction event, an extinction event, and the Pope is on my page. The 660 00:41:52,840 --> 00:41:54,040 put out an encyclical. 661 00:41:54,770 --> 00:41:59,030 And artificial intelligence needs to be disarmed, he said. 662 00:41:59,270 --> 00:42:02,730 Also, I thought really interesting, the commencement addresses are going on in 663 00:42:02,730 --> 00:42:07,450 colleges right now around the country. And people got some rude awakenings who 664 00:42:07,450 --> 00:42:10,710 were doing the speaking because they thought, oh, the kids, kids love new 665 00:42:10,790 --> 00:42:11,790 I'll bring up AI. 666 00:42:11,830 --> 00:42:12,830 Boo! 667 00:42:13,070 --> 00:42:15,310 The kids are booing AI. 668 00:42:15,650 --> 00:42:18,810 The kids don't like it. They get it that they're going to take all their jobs. 669 00:42:19,450 --> 00:42:20,450 Yeah. 670 00:42:20,840 --> 00:42:24,660 Listen, you have all these tech CEOs, these AI CEOs coming out and saying 20 % 671 00:42:24,660 --> 00:42:27,880 of the jobs are going to be gone. This is going to change everything. You're 672 00:42:27,880 --> 00:42:28,779 going to need workers. 673 00:42:28,780 --> 00:42:34,560 Well, how do you expect the population to confront that and to accept it? Also, 674 00:42:34,600 --> 00:42:36,740 we can end the world. Okay, great. Let's keep going. 675 00:42:39,050 --> 00:42:43,130 What is the plan? You're right. Dario Amodi, he's the CEO of Anthropic. 676 00:42:43,530 --> 00:42:47,710 Unemployment, he says, could spike to 10 % to 20%. That's what it was in the 677 00:42:47,710 --> 00:42:54,450 Depression, 20%. Ford, CEO, said AI will leave a lot of white 678 00:42:54,450 --> 00:42:55,510 -collar people behind. 679 00:42:56,130 --> 00:42:58,910 Could replace half of all white -collar workers. 680 00:42:59,560 --> 00:43:03,620 I mean, and what is the plan? I don't get it. It's like, oh, well, no one will 681 00:43:03,620 --> 00:43:06,920 work anymore, so we'll give them a universal basic income. 682 00:43:07,380 --> 00:43:11,060 With what? If they don't work, that money has to come from the government. 683 00:43:11,360 --> 00:43:14,060 How are they going to get it to the government if the people aren't paying 684 00:43:14,060 --> 00:43:16,900 taxes? I think Kevin will agree with this. I think people want, it's not even 685 00:43:16,900 --> 00:43:20,680 just a universal basic income in a way that doesn't make sense. People want a 686 00:43:20,680 --> 00:43:23,680 purpose. They don't want to sit around and do nothing. They want to do 687 00:43:23,680 --> 00:43:26,700 with their lives. They want to feel like they're useful. This is literally an 688 00:43:26,700 --> 00:43:27,700 industrial revolution. 689 00:43:29,040 --> 00:43:32,640 A lot of them don't. No, I think they do. I think that's cynical. 690 00:43:33,000 --> 00:43:37,300 Well, there's 7 million young men who are not unemployed. 691 00:43:37,800 --> 00:43:38,800 They're not working. 692 00:43:39,020 --> 00:43:42,960 But unemployed is you want to work and you can't find a job. 693 00:43:43,180 --> 00:43:48,640 7 million people who are just what they call nilf, not in the labor force, not 694 00:43:48,640 --> 00:43:50,180 working, not looking. 695 00:43:50,820 --> 00:43:53,420 So not all of them think this is a bad thing. 696 00:43:53,960 --> 00:43:57,580 But we're living through an industrial revolution that's going to be faster 697 00:43:57,580 --> 00:43:58,580 we watched before. 698 00:43:58,840 --> 00:44:02,080 Our policies are not keeping up with it. This is going to be a real challenge. 699 00:44:02,140 --> 00:44:06,920 For all the fear you have of AI, there's also positive things that can happen 700 00:44:06,920 --> 00:44:11,340 too. So I think what you really need, you need the policymakers to get ahead 701 00:44:11,340 --> 00:44:16,480 this, create a formation that you still allow AI to grow here in America, but at 702 00:44:16,480 --> 00:44:20,440 the same protections at the time. But there is going to be disruption, and you 703 00:44:20,440 --> 00:44:24,380 ought to acknowledge it and find the policies ahead of time to get ahead of 704 00:44:24,680 --> 00:44:25,780 We'll have to leave it there. 705 00:44:26,040 --> 00:44:27,360 Time for new rules, everybody. 706 00:44:28,320 --> 00:44:29,320 No. 707 00:44:30,520 --> 00:44:31,520 Okay. 708 00:44:36,000 --> 00:44:41,580 All right. 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You probably heard the party released their autopsy on the November 744 00:47:42,750 --> 00:47:47,010 loss last week in May of 2026. 745 00:47:48,259 --> 00:47:52,200 Because the Democrats are like Don Corleone. They insist on hearing bad 746 00:47:52,200 --> 00:47:53,200 immediately. 747 00:47:54,240 --> 00:47:56,080 Oh, nobody remembers the movie, huh? 748 00:47:57,080 --> 00:47:58,080 What a shame. 749 00:47:59,000 --> 00:48:00,820 You ought to check it out. It's very good. 750 00:48:03,320 --> 00:48:07,300 Well, I've spent a good part of my life trying to get straight answers out of 751 00:48:07,300 --> 00:48:08,300 politicians. 752 00:48:08,960 --> 00:48:15,060 And I got to tell you, while they're in office, you kind of have to trick them. 753 00:48:15,530 --> 00:48:18,790 This statement from the administration, the president had the constitutional 754 00:48:18,790 --> 00:48:22,450 authority to direct the use of military force because he could reasonably 755 00:48:22,450 --> 00:48:26,850 determine that such use of force was in the national interest. That's too vague 756 00:48:26,850 --> 00:48:27,788 for you? 757 00:48:27,790 --> 00:48:29,030 Totally vague. 758 00:48:29,350 --> 00:48:30,470 Okay, because that's from Obama. 759 00:48:34,030 --> 00:48:35,550 And he's one of the good ones. 760 00:48:36,970 --> 00:48:41,310 But you know when politicians get super honest when they're retiring, or even 761 00:48:41,310 --> 00:48:42,310 better, dying? 762 00:48:42,590 --> 00:48:44,250 And especially when they're dying politically. 763 00:48:44,510 --> 00:48:48,810 If you're at 4 % in the polls, oh, goodbye bullshit, hello Bullworth. 764 00:48:53,810 --> 00:48:59,430 Make you talk? We can't get you to shut up then. 765 00:49:00,170 --> 00:49:01,470 I see it here all the time. 766 00:49:01,670 --> 00:49:05,930 Politicians who are intransigent partisans or lackey water carriers, and 767 00:49:05,930 --> 00:49:09,450 they're out of office, and it's read my book where I say all the things I should 768 00:49:09,450 --> 00:49:12,530 have said but didn't during my 500 years in office. 769 00:49:20,410 --> 00:49:24,510 Recently, the press has gotten very excited about some Republican senators 770 00:49:24,510 --> 00:49:27,310 who've had just about enough of Trump shenanigan. 771 00:49:28,270 --> 00:49:29,910 Yeah, because they're retiring. 772 00:49:30,590 --> 00:49:33,650 Like Senator Tom Tillis. Ooh, Tom's mad. 773 00:49:33,890 --> 00:49:39,630 Tom is mad these days. As we were previously discussing, the January 6th 774 00:49:39,630 --> 00:49:44,350 are now going to get paid for participating in the lucrative new field 775 00:49:44,350 --> 00:49:45,350 insurrecting. 776 00:49:46,970 --> 00:49:51,890 And Tom Tillis is all over the news now saying this is stupid on stilts. 777 00:49:51,890 --> 00:49:56,070 Suddenly Tom doesn't give a damn what anyone thinks. You can tell by his tie. 778 00:50:04,080 --> 00:50:08,340 Same with Senator Bill Cassidy, who lost his primary, so now he found the 779 00:50:08,340 --> 00:50:10,340 courage to say the words slush fund. 780 00:50:10,620 --> 00:50:16,200 And Mitch McConnell, who coincidentally also has nothing to lose, goes even 781 00:50:16,200 --> 00:50:20,780 further and says it's a slush fund to pay people who assault cops, and that 782 00:50:20,780 --> 00:50:22,700 utterly stupid and morally wrong. 783 00:50:22,980 --> 00:50:25,480 And for once, he means in a bad way. 784 00:50:34,480 --> 00:50:38,260 And that's progress, I guess. I just wish he talked that way when he was 785 00:50:41,700 --> 00:50:48,700 These guys are all 786 00:50:48,700 --> 00:50:52,260 the same. They're like the serial killer who's about to get the chair, so he 787 00:50:52,260 --> 00:50:56,100 figures, what the hell, I might as well tell the cops about the other 20 girls I 788 00:50:56,100 --> 00:50:57,100 buried in the woods. 789 00:50:59,500 --> 00:51:03,240 Republican Lee Atwater and Democrat George Wallace. 790 00:51:03,690 --> 00:51:08,290 were both lifelong racists who somehow found the courage late in life to 791 00:51:08,290 --> 00:51:09,330 renounce those beliefs. 792 00:51:09,530 --> 00:51:13,770 And when I say late in life, I mean after they got shot and after they 793 00:51:13,770 --> 00:51:16,070 a diagnosis of inoperable brain cancer. 794 00:51:16,610 --> 00:51:20,810 Two -term President General Dwight Eisenhower delivered one of the most 795 00:51:20,810 --> 00:51:25,330 important messages a president has ever uttered when he said we should beware 796 00:51:25,330 --> 00:51:27,650 the military -industrial complex. 797 00:51:27,910 --> 00:51:30,190 He said it forcibly. He said it clearly. 798 00:51:30,880 --> 00:51:33,260 And he said it three days before he left office. 799 00:51:34,320 --> 00:51:37,560 He's the guy who yelled, fuck you, as the elevator door closed. 800 00:51:46,480 --> 00:51:50,600 You know, maybe instead of asking what would Jesus do, people should ask, what 801 00:51:50,600 --> 00:51:52,340 would I do if I were in hospice? 802 00:51:53,040 --> 00:51:57,940 A frequent guest of this show, who I always called my favorite congressman, 803 00:51:57,940 --> 00:51:59,340 in hospice recently. 804 00:51:59,660 --> 00:52:04,660 Barney Frank died this month. But on the way out, he said, I want to use my 805 00:52:04,660 --> 00:52:08,400 unfortunate situation to say something that I think is very important. 806 00:52:08,620 --> 00:52:14,800 He said the key to liberal democracy being able to come back is to get rid of 807 00:52:14,800 --> 00:52:15,800 the perception. 808 00:52:15,930 --> 00:52:20,650 that we have allowed to grow, that the entire Democratic Party is committed to 809 00:52:20,650 --> 00:52:25,750 series of very drastic social reconstructions that go beyond the 810 00:52:25,750 --> 00:52:31,730 acceptable. And there, in one sentence, is the autopsy the Democrats have been 811 00:52:31,730 --> 00:52:33,350 so desperately searching for. 812 00:52:38,270 --> 00:52:41,810 From a guy who delivered it right before he needed one himself. 813 00:52:42,920 --> 00:52:46,180 It sounds a lot like what Obama said after he left office. 814 00:52:46,400 --> 00:52:50,500 The average American doesn't think we have to completely tear down the system 815 00:52:50,500 --> 00:52:53,780 and remake it. They just don't want to see crazy stuff. 816 00:52:54,100 --> 00:52:57,380 Is this really so hard a message for Democrats to say? 817 00:52:57,990 --> 00:53:02,190 There's a Democrat who's running for governor here in California now who's 818 00:53:02,190 --> 00:53:04,790 saying it, San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan. 819 00:53:05,090 --> 00:53:07,790 Yeah, because he's at 4 % in the polls. 820 00:53:08,050 --> 00:53:11,530 Everybody has been calling me lately saying, you've got to have this guy on. 821 00:53:11,570 --> 00:53:15,690 He's the sensible Democrat we've been looking for. To which I tell them, one, 822 00:53:15,910 --> 00:53:19,610 this is a national show. It's not all about you and your life in California. 823 00:53:21,410 --> 00:53:23,350 Two, how did you get this number? 824 00:53:26,920 --> 00:53:30,400 And three, what's his plan to get the leaf blowers to shut the fuck up in the 825 00:53:30,400 --> 00:53:31,400 morning? 826 00:53:37,700 --> 00:53:41,040 But also, you're right. He does sound sensible. 827 00:53:41,280 --> 00:53:47,320 Because he's at 4%. That's when everybody's brave. If he got to 40%, 828 00:53:47,320 --> 00:53:52,320 still be saying, as he does say, we need Democratic leaders in California who 829 00:53:52,320 --> 00:53:55,000 are willing to say no to their friends. 830 00:53:55,760 --> 00:54:00,980 Hmm. That would be the unions, the bureaucrats, the lawyers, the 831 00:54:01,280 --> 00:54:05,840 the regulators, and all the special interest friends who make living in this 832 00:54:05,840 --> 00:54:08,760 state such a frustrating, maddening experience. 833 00:54:09,260 --> 00:54:14,000 It's why the railroads don't get built, the potholes don't get filled, the 834 00:54:14,000 --> 00:54:17,000 homeless don't get housed, the kids don't learn. 835 00:54:17,500 --> 00:54:22,300 Did you know that a black fourth grader in Mississippi is two and a half times 836 00:54:22,300 --> 00:54:23,300 as likely? 837 00:54:23,630 --> 00:54:26,470 To be proficient in math and reading as one in California? 838 00:54:27,050 --> 00:54:29,810 Mississippi is kicking our ass in education. 839 00:54:30,230 --> 00:54:31,570 And for way less money. 840 00:54:32,070 --> 00:54:35,550 We're 37th in fourth grade reading. They're 9th. 841 00:54:36,230 --> 00:54:38,610 Texas is kicking our ass in green energy. 842 00:54:38,870 --> 00:54:42,910 The average time to get solar panels connected there is three to four months. 843 00:54:43,050 --> 00:54:47,150 About a thousand days faster than it took me. Remember when I was trying to 844 00:54:47,150 --> 00:54:48,770 my solar hooked up? 845 00:54:56,300 --> 00:54:58,260 It would have been quicker to build a windmill. 846 00:55:01,800 --> 00:55:07,200 So Texas has passed California in solar and blows away California when it comes 847 00:55:07,200 --> 00:55:08,640 to wind and energy storage. 848 00:55:08,860 --> 00:55:13,840 How does a state with no pro -climate policies produce better climate results 849 00:55:13,840 --> 00:55:18,740 than a state where here, even though we have so much better stickers on our 850 00:55:18,740 --> 00:55:19,760 bumper priuses. 851 00:55:21,500 --> 00:55:24,280 Bumper stickers on our priuses. You know what I'm saying. 852 00:55:28,380 --> 00:55:32,960 I'll tell you why. Because you're allowed to build there. Because every 853 00:55:32,960 --> 00:55:38,020 person in Texas isn't someone whose job it is to make sure nothing gets done. 854 00:55:38,520 --> 00:55:40,500 Democrats, these are your issues. 855 00:55:40,840 --> 00:55:46,020 Education, race, the environment. And I say this with love. You're losing to the 856 00:55:46,020 --> 00:55:48,100 Waffle House car on the lawn states. 857 00:55:48,560 --> 00:55:49,820 All right. That's our show. 858 00:55:50,060 --> 00:55:51,160 I want to thank my guests. 859 00:55:51,530 --> 00:55:55,710 Homer speaker Kevin McCroskey, Katie Church, and Neil deGrasse Tyson. 860 00:55:55,950 --> 00:55:59,470 Club Random drops every Monday on YouTube, or listen wherever you get your 861 00:55:59,470 --> 00:56:02,070 podcasts. Don't go watch overtime on YouTube. 862 00:56:02,370 --> 00:56:04,450 And I thank you, ladies and gentlemen. 863 00:56:04,690 --> 00:56:05,930 Thank you very much.