1 00:00:04,910 --> 00:00:05,910 Start the clock. 2 00:00:39,180 --> 00:00:40,840 Appreciate it. Thank you very much. 3 00:00:42,240 --> 00:00:43,240 Thank you, people. 4 00:00:45,800 --> 00:00:46,960 Thank you so much. 5 00:00:48,740 --> 00:00:50,220 Thank you, ladies and gentlemen. 6 00:00:51,100 --> 00:00:52,400 I welcome you. 7 00:00:53,800 --> 00:00:54,800 Okay. 8 00:00:57,300 --> 00:00:58,300 All right. 9 00:00:58,420 --> 00:01:02,640 Thank you so much. I can see it in your eyes. 10 00:01:03,440 --> 00:01:05,080 I know why you're happy today. 11 00:01:06,880 --> 00:01:09,620 Meghan Markle and Prince Harry are going back to England. 12 00:01:15,280 --> 00:01:17,920 I tell you, that ice doesn't fuck around, huh? 13 00:01:20,620 --> 00:01:24,580 It's not that. This was Harry's idea. He wants to be closer to the family that's 14 00:01:24,580 --> 00:01:25,580 not speaking to him. 15 00:01:28,180 --> 00:01:30,940 And I think... 16 00:01:32,970 --> 00:01:37,050 I may be getting out just in time. I don't know if you saw this week's big 17 00:01:37,050 --> 00:01:41,690 news. The national debt now has crossed $40 trillion, and not in the right 18 00:01:41,690 --> 00:01:42,690 direction. 19 00:01:43,490 --> 00:01:46,350 This is the only thing that we do in a bipartisan way. 20 00:01:46,790 --> 00:01:51,530 You know, we just spend money we don't have. Both parties are totally into it. 21 00:01:51,590 --> 00:01:56,190 It has doubled in 10 years and quadrupled in the last 20, like Russell 22 00:01:56,190 --> 00:01:57,190 Crowe. 23 00:01:57,850 --> 00:01:59,670 I love Russell Crowe. 24 00:02:04,370 --> 00:02:08,229 But remember, don't freak out about the debt because it only matters when the 25 00:02:08,229 --> 00:02:09,310 Democrats are in power. 26 00:02:12,930 --> 00:02:19,870 Speaking of that, we have a new attorney general. Have you 27 00:02:19,870 --> 00:02:22,830 seen this guy, Todd Blanch? He was on Meet the Press this week. They asked him 28 00:02:22,830 --> 00:02:29,530 if he would refuse to make a pledge that he would act independently from the 29 00:02:29,530 --> 00:02:30,429 White House. 30 00:02:30,430 --> 00:02:31,430 And he refused. 31 00:02:31,760 --> 00:02:35,480 This is sort of the main thing the Attorney General is supposed to do. 32 00:02:36,220 --> 00:02:40,180 I thought it was also very concerning that every time he used the phrase, the 33 00:02:40,180 --> 00:02:41,760 law, he used air quotes. 34 00:02:42,120 --> 00:02:44,700 Is that just me? 35 00:02:46,020 --> 00:02:52,760 But let me tell you, the Democratic Party has a new attack 36 00:02:52,760 --> 00:02:57,080 dog, and he's very good at it, Senator John Ossoff of Georgia. 37 00:02:58,640 --> 00:03:00,460 Okay, he's got fans here. 38 00:03:02,030 --> 00:03:05,450 He really went after Trump this week, and in the middle of it, he mentioned 39 00:03:05,450 --> 00:03:09,370 Natalie Hart. That's the young lady who works for Trump. When he got on the 40 00:03:09,370 --> 00:03:12,870 catering cart, she came with him off the plane. 41 00:03:14,070 --> 00:03:18,850 So this has had all sorts of rumors going on now about their relationship. 42 00:03:19,070 --> 00:03:21,810 Okay, let me tell you, folks, I got sued about this once. 43 00:03:22,830 --> 00:03:24,030 No, not the orangutan. 44 00:03:26,370 --> 00:03:29,970 No, this was just a couple of years ago. Laura Loomer sued me. 45 00:03:30,410 --> 00:03:35,830 Okay, I won, by the way, but... Okay, but... 46 00:03:35,830 --> 00:03:41,750 It's expensive and unpleasant to get sued, so you know what? I took one for 47 00:03:41,750 --> 00:03:43,090 the team on this. You handle it. 48 00:03:45,470 --> 00:03:52,470 All I'm going to say... Now, Natalie is kind of Trump's emotional 49 00:03:52,470 --> 00:03:54,290 support employee. That's true. 50 00:03:57,930 --> 00:03:58,930 Well, she's... 51 00:03:59,150 --> 00:04:03,090 She travels with him everywhere, and she brings a portable wireless printer so 52 00:04:03,090 --> 00:04:06,710 she can print out flattering news articles. Trump is old school. He wants 53 00:04:06,710 --> 00:04:09,070 hard copies of the smoke blowing up his ass. 54 00:04:10,370 --> 00:04:10,810 But 55 00:04:10,810 --> 00:04:17,769 that's 56 00:04:17,769 --> 00:04:18,769 on him. 57 00:04:18,870 --> 00:04:20,550 I don't know why you have to go after her. 58 00:04:21,079 --> 00:04:24,960 You know, she seems incredibly devoted to her job, never takes a day off. 59 00:04:25,160 --> 00:04:27,900 Sometimes when she works so hard, she forgets to eat and sleep. 60 00:04:28,100 --> 00:04:31,440 And now everyone in America is saying the same thing. Why can't I get a 61 00:04:31,440 --> 00:04:32,720 millennial who works like that? 62 00:04:34,720 --> 00:04:41,680 You know, and there is, you know, a little more to the story. She had 63 00:04:41,680 --> 00:04:45,420 bone cancer in her 20s. She likes Trump because he speeded up experimental 64 00:04:45,420 --> 00:04:47,080 treatments, which she believes helped. 65 00:04:47,360 --> 00:04:50,360 Helps her. But, you know, in America, it's just like, oh, good, someone new to 66 00:04:50,360 --> 00:04:51,360 hate. 67 00:04:53,200 --> 00:04:58,000 Trump met, did the podcast of Michael Cohen this week. Remember Michael Cohen, 68 00:04:58,100 --> 00:05:02,440 his fixer, who once called Trump a cheater, a liar, a fraud, a bully, a 69 00:05:02,440 --> 00:05:04,040 racist, a predator, and a con man. 70 00:05:05,640 --> 00:05:11,180 His own vice president, Vance, once said he might be America's Hitler. 71 00:05:11,580 --> 00:05:15,640 His secretary of state, Rubio, at the debate, made fun of his dick size. 72 00:05:18,760 --> 00:05:21,060 Let the man have one fucking friend, okay? 73 00:05:23,640 --> 00:05:24,640 Because, 74 00:05:25,740 --> 00:05:32,380 look, the war is not going well. I mean, we had a 60-day 75 00:05:32,380 --> 00:05:36,760 ceasefire. That ended. So for all our ships in the region, it means battle 76 00:05:36,760 --> 00:05:39,580 stations for those who haven't already jumped overboard. 77 00:05:41,800 --> 00:05:45,120 Well, you know, we had some... 78 00:05:46,540 --> 00:05:50,260 Some bad reports about what's going on in those ships, but it doesn't need to 79 00:05:50,260 --> 00:05:54,720 bother Pete Hegseth. Pete Hegseth, our Secretary of War, he was at the Iowa 80 00:05:54,720 --> 00:05:59,300 State Fair this week, and he said, we do training, not traning. 81 00:06:01,640 --> 00:06:06,080 Well, it went over pretty well with that crowd, although the bearded lady did 82 00:06:06,080 --> 00:06:07,080 walk out. 83 00:06:09,420 --> 00:06:14,260 But, uh... Well, you know... 84 00:06:15,340 --> 00:06:19,440 Our whole argument about the Strait of Hormuz was always that it's 85 00:06:19,440 --> 00:06:21,920 international waters, no country can claim it. 86 00:06:22,600 --> 00:06:24,040 Well, now Trump has claimed it. 87 00:06:24,760 --> 00:06:28,120 Of course. He said, quote, he said, it's new U.S. territory. 88 00:06:29,200 --> 00:06:32,340 The Strait of Hormuz is new U.S. territory. I don't know if this is 89 00:06:32,340 --> 00:06:35,240 related, but today it turned green and the bottom is peeling. 90 00:06:46,190 --> 00:06:50,210 heard about this, they called on Trump, and I quote, they said, accept reality 91 00:06:50,210 --> 00:06:53,870 and defeat and stop indulging in delusions. 92 00:06:55,050 --> 00:06:56,450 Yeah, guys, we tried that. 93 00:06:57,190 --> 00:07:00,470 That didn't work for us. I don't know if it's going to work for you. 94 00:07:00,950 --> 00:07:04,430 But no, Trump says he's not going to do that. He has a new strategy now. 95 00:07:05,490 --> 00:07:06,710 Economic strangulation. 96 00:07:06,950 --> 00:07:08,090 That's where we're going now. 97 00:07:08,450 --> 00:07:10,770 He's done firing missiles, because we don't have any. 98 00:07:14,410 --> 00:07:17,650 He says we're going to destroy their economy, and I'm with the president on 99 00:07:17,650 --> 00:07:20,670 this one. If there's one thing I know he can pull off, it's driving something 100 00:07:20,670 --> 00:07:21,670 into bankruptcy. 101 00:07:22,110 --> 00:07:25,810 All right, we've got a great show. We have Dana Bash and Jeremy Peters. 102 00:07:26,030 --> 00:07:31,070 Wow, what a panel. But first up, he is a contemporary American artist, best 103 00:07:31,070 --> 00:07:34,750 -selling author, and recovery advocate, Hunter Biden. Ladies and gentlemen, 104 00:07:34,910 --> 00:07:35,910 Hunter. 105 00:07:37,130 --> 00:07:38,130 Hello. 106 00:07:39,210 --> 00:07:41,450 Thanks for doing it. Thanks for being here. 107 00:07:42,190 --> 00:07:43,190 All right. 108 00:07:44,140 --> 00:07:45,840 All right. Hunter Budd. 109 00:07:46,980 --> 00:07:48,760 All right. Don't be nervous. 110 00:07:48,980 --> 00:07:50,180 We only have like three minutes. 111 00:07:51,580 --> 00:07:53,800 We only have like 10 or 12 minutes. 112 00:07:54,820 --> 00:07:58,160 I'm so sick of all the things that we get into the weeds with, and I see you 113 00:07:58,160 --> 00:08:02,420 with another. Your laptop, your obituary, the third word will be laptop. 114 00:08:02,740 --> 00:08:07,520 I know everything about the laptop, more things than I want to know. 115 00:08:07,880 --> 00:08:12,680 I've seen you with your dick out. I've seen you with a crack pipe in your 116 00:08:12,680 --> 00:08:14,580 mouth. My question, are you running for president? 117 00:08:29,670 --> 00:08:32,549 Exactly. Have you thought about that? No, I haven't. 118 00:08:33,090 --> 00:08:37,830 Here's my thing. If I announce for president, then somebody should check 119 00:08:37,830 --> 00:08:38,909 and see if I relapsed. 120 00:08:39,669 --> 00:08:46,590 I don't know if everybody is aware, but you have 121 00:08:46,590 --> 00:08:48,590 been completely sober for seven years? 122 00:08:48,970 --> 00:08:50,510 Yeah, June 1st, 2019. 123 00:08:57,290 --> 00:09:03,310 How do you like it? I love it. You do? Yeah, I do. I do. You know, my whole 124 00:09:03,310 --> 00:09:08,070 reason for being out there as much as I have been is, at least from my 125 00:09:08,070 --> 00:09:12,350 perspective, they built this platform to beat the hell out of me for about a 126 00:09:12,350 --> 00:09:13,470 seven-year period of time. 127 00:09:13,990 --> 00:09:18,910 And when the crowd went home, the platform was still there. And, you know, 128 00:09:18,930 --> 00:09:22,670 there's 50 million Americans that are still sick and suffering every day from 129 00:09:22,670 --> 00:09:26,420 addiction. And I get to go out there and I get to speak to them. And even if it's 130 00:09:26,420 --> 00:09:31,480 one person that sends me a message any day and says, you know, I saw your 131 00:09:31,480 --> 00:09:35,140 message and I didn't drink today. And I've done something that I think is 132 00:09:35,140 --> 00:09:41,880 incredibly worthy. I think 133 00:09:41,880 --> 00:09:47,020 I would say to you what I said to Charlie Sheen. You did some bad things, 134 00:09:47,100 --> 00:09:48,740 but I don't think you're a bad guy. 135 00:09:49,280 --> 00:09:50,660 Is that fair? 136 00:09:53,320 --> 00:09:58,680 The thing that has been the most edifying for me over the course of this 137 00:09:58,680 --> 00:10:04,640 last few months is the realization that my addiction isn't something that 138 00:10:04,640 --> 00:10:07,400 disconnects me from people and the experience that I went through. 139 00:10:07,680 --> 00:10:13,180 And the fact that I had to have it all play out on a national stage and then, 140 00:10:13,220 --> 00:10:16,760 you know, I was on the cover of the New York Post more times than I think anyone 141 00:10:16,760 --> 00:10:18,340 ever in the history of the paper. 142 00:10:18,560 --> 00:10:23,000 Right. And the thing about it, though, is what I realized is that All those 143 00:10:23,000 --> 00:10:25,600 things that they thought were going to kill me were the things that people 144 00:10:25,600 --> 00:10:30,620 identified with. And not necessarily, you know, crack or, you know, but, and I 145 00:10:30,620 --> 00:10:35,020 mean, that's like the shocking part, right? When you say that word, it's kind 146 00:10:35,020 --> 00:10:40,460 of like, ugh. But everybody, everybody has a brother who's suffering from 147 00:10:40,460 --> 00:10:45,020 addiction. Everybody, including themselves, have gone through periods in 148 00:10:45,020 --> 00:10:46,480 their life in which they've struggled. 149 00:10:47,930 --> 00:10:50,450 Not just with addiction, but with grief and loss. 150 00:10:50,790 --> 00:10:55,170 You know, I was speaking about my dad's health. And, you know, the thing that is 151 00:10:55,170 --> 00:10:59,110 the most astonishing to me is all of the things that we all experience, these 152 00:10:59,110 --> 00:11:00,110 painful things. 153 00:11:00,520 --> 00:11:03,680 are things that everybody's gone through, but we never speak about it. 154 00:11:03,760 --> 00:11:08,560 And nobody ever comes on a show like this and openly talks about it. Well, I 155 00:11:08,560 --> 00:11:11,600 don't know about that. This is America. We talk about it a lot. Well, I don't 156 00:11:11,600 --> 00:11:14,820 know. Come on, let's be real. We talk about it a lot. We talk about addiction. 157 00:11:14,820 --> 00:11:15,820 We talk about grief. 158 00:11:15,940 --> 00:11:19,880 Yeah. But you know what? I think that we talk about addiction and grief, but not 159 00:11:19,880 --> 00:11:24,760 in terms of our own personal experience in which the vivid technicolor pictures 160 00:11:24,760 --> 00:11:26,700 have been released to the entire world. 161 00:11:27,380 --> 00:11:30,520 And there's that piece of it. That's what I'm talking about. Yeah, well, I 162 00:11:30,520 --> 00:11:34,660 think a fair person, and there's so few left in America, because everyone just 163 00:11:34,660 --> 00:11:38,800 likes to, as I was saying about Natalie, you know, everyone just, oh, good, 164 00:11:38,960 --> 00:11:41,220 someone to hate now. Someone we can hate now. I don't know, Bill. 165 00:11:41,980 --> 00:11:47,100 Here's the thing. Can you imagine if this 35-year-old staffer that wrote this 166 00:11:47,100 --> 00:11:52,140 note that has this relationship, and we were talking about Barack Obama, what 167 00:11:52,140 --> 00:11:53,820 would be the reaction then? 168 00:11:54,280 --> 00:11:58,580 Do you think that there wouldn't be a howl from the right that this is an 169 00:11:58,580 --> 00:12:00,800 inappropriate relationship? Of course, because everybody loves to hate. That's 170 00:12:00,800 --> 00:12:02,380 what I'm saying. Does that make it right? 171 00:12:02,700 --> 00:12:04,140 It doesn't make it right. It's on him. 172 00:12:04,460 --> 00:12:05,460 Okay, 173 00:12:05,980 --> 00:12:07,900 let's not talk about her. That's not the point. 174 00:12:09,140 --> 00:12:14,440 The point I was making is that I think a reasonable person who's not filled with 175 00:12:14,440 --> 00:12:19,120 hate would say, You both took advantage of some of your privileges by being the 176 00:12:19,120 --> 00:12:23,080 son of a president and vice president, and you also were a target in a way that 177 00:12:23,080 --> 00:12:25,360 a normal person would not have been. Is that fair? 178 00:12:25,700 --> 00:12:27,320 There's a part of that that is fair. 179 00:12:27,540 --> 00:12:30,840 One of the things that people, I think, don't understand is that when my dad was 180 00:12:30,840 --> 00:12:33,500 president, I didn't do any business. I sold paintings. 181 00:12:34,040 --> 00:12:37,500 And I sold paintings to people that then had to testify before Congress under 182 00:12:37,500 --> 00:12:41,880 oath. I made an average of $225,000 a year. Would you have been working for an 183 00:12:41,880 --> 00:12:43,720 energy company out of Ukraine? 184 00:12:43,980 --> 00:12:46,820 Was that really the thing you studied in school? 185 00:12:47,580 --> 00:12:49,700 No, you're right. I went to Yale Law School. 186 00:12:49,920 --> 00:12:54,080 You got that job because you went up just a minute. Yeah, 100%. As I've said 187 00:12:54,080 --> 00:12:58,040 on a million interviews is that, you know, I'm incredibly privileged. 188 00:12:58,510 --> 00:13:04,550 I mean, beyond anyone's wildest imagination, not only because of who my 189 00:13:04,550 --> 00:13:07,270 dad was, but because of the father that he was. 190 00:13:07,650 --> 00:13:10,950 And so a lot of privilege comes from that. 191 00:13:11,260 --> 00:13:14,300 And I don't deny that in any way. And also a target on your back. 192 00:13:14,500 --> 00:13:18,660 Yeah. By the way, and also a target on your back. And also a resume, though, 193 00:13:18,700 --> 00:13:23,500 that includes being, you know, I taught at Georgetown University's master's 194 00:13:23,500 --> 00:13:26,320 program in the School of Foreign Service. I served on a dozen boards. 195 00:13:26,560 --> 00:13:27,560 I went to Yale Law School. 196 00:13:27,780 --> 00:13:31,620 I worked for Boy Schiller Flexner. When I took that role, I was the chairman of 197 00:13:31,620 --> 00:13:35,200 the board of the U.S.-U.N. World Food Program at that time, which serves 70 198 00:13:35,200 --> 00:13:38,260 million people in 82 different countries. It's the largest humanitarian 199 00:13:38,260 --> 00:13:41,240 organization in the world. I was chairman of the board. vice chairman of 200 00:13:41,240 --> 00:13:45,540 the board of Amtrak for over five years. And so it wasn't about whether or not I 201 00:13:45,540 --> 00:13:46,199 had experience. 202 00:13:46,200 --> 00:13:52,000 My judgment, however, was absolutely, completely, ridiculously off. I didn't 203 00:13:52,000 --> 00:13:55,000 realize the snake pit, and I was naive in that sense. 204 00:13:55,220 --> 00:13:58,400 And I gave them something on a silver platter. 205 00:13:58,700 --> 00:14:00,820 And by the way, let me also say this. 206 00:14:01,380 --> 00:14:02,620 I did it for the money. 207 00:14:03,230 --> 00:14:07,670 And that's what other people won't say. I absolutely 100% did do it because it 208 00:14:07,670 --> 00:14:11,610 gave me a sense of freedom, particularly when Beau was diagnosed with cancer. But 209 00:14:11,610 --> 00:14:12,790 all for me. 210 00:14:13,050 --> 00:14:19,270 And so 100% all happened when the last year and a half of my father's vice 211 00:14:19,270 --> 00:14:24,470 presidency. None of what happened that they have created and spun up these 212 00:14:24,470 --> 00:14:29,350 conspiracies have anything to do with when my dad was president. And just for 213 00:14:29,350 --> 00:14:33,580 perspective, I mean, whatever you made, it's pennies compared to... Don Jr. 214 00:14:34,040 --> 00:14:36,160 is making, I mean, billions. 215 00:14:36,620 --> 00:14:43,500 In the last 500 216 00:14:43,500 --> 00:14:50,440 days of this administration, Don Jr.'s company has taken in over $3 217 00:14:50,440 --> 00:14:56,800 .4 billion in Department of Defense contracts. He got a $640 million loan. 218 00:14:57,370 --> 00:15:01,770 put through by the White House, the largest single loan to any private 219 00:15:01,770 --> 00:15:04,670 company ever given out by the Department of Defense. 220 00:15:05,070 --> 00:15:08,630 And that's just a fraction of it. Forget about what they've done with 221 00:15:08,630 --> 00:15:12,430 cryptocurrency now, which is a bank in which they are able to go and launder 222 00:15:12,430 --> 00:15:16,390 their money. It is an abomination. And that doesn't even include what Jared is 223 00:15:16,390 --> 00:15:22,970 doing and Ivanka are doing. He gets paid over $100 million in fees by the Saudis, 224 00:15:22,970 --> 00:15:23,970 the Saudis alone. 225 00:15:24,960 --> 00:15:30,000 For a $6.5 billion fund that he controls, which is all Gulf state money, 226 00:15:30,200 --> 00:15:37,040 and he is our unelected, unappointed emissary to the Middle East for a 227 00:15:37,040 --> 00:15:39,920 war that nobody asked for. It is absurd. 228 00:15:40,180 --> 00:15:41,400 It is literally absurd. 229 00:15:41,800 --> 00:15:42,800 Not nobody. 230 00:15:43,160 --> 00:15:44,160 Well, that's true. 231 00:15:44,580 --> 00:15:45,840 Bibi Netanyahu asked for it. 232 00:15:46,220 --> 00:15:51,200 I mean, your father, your father, among every other Democrat. 233 00:15:52,100 --> 00:15:56,700 Excuse me. Every Democrat said Iran can't have nuclear weapons. And every 234 00:15:56,700 --> 00:16:01,660 single Democrat and every president said Jimmy Carter refused what the Israelis 235 00:16:01,660 --> 00:16:05,060 wanted. Refused what the Israelis wanted was to bomb Iran. 236 00:16:05,360 --> 00:16:09,380 Every single one of them. The only person who fell for it was Donald Trump. 237 00:16:09,400 --> 00:16:13,400 Yeah, true. Yeah. Okay. So let me ask you this because you hit on this a 238 00:16:13,400 --> 00:16:14,400 minute ago. 239 00:16:14,620 --> 00:16:19,440 You created a tough situation for your father. Yeah. 240 00:16:21,000 --> 00:16:24,580 Politics is the roughest game there is. They will look for any vulnerability, 241 00:16:24,940 --> 00:16:29,180 any opening. And you kind of gave them one, like you said, on a silver platter. 242 00:16:29,220 --> 00:16:33,120 Did you ever apologize to your father? Every day. Really? You said to him, 243 00:16:33,160 --> 00:16:36,680 look, I know I gave... From the moment it started, every day. 244 00:16:37,320 --> 00:16:41,080 It's one of the greatest heartaches of my life. I talk about this in terms of 245 00:16:41,080 --> 00:16:42,380 the... 246 00:16:44,439 --> 00:16:49,300 The trouble with recovery is this, is I get to get out here and I talk about how 247 00:16:49,300 --> 00:16:53,360 I've been healed, how I'm, you know, I'm stronger than I've ever been. I've taken 248 00:16:53,360 --> 00:16:54,740 all of this and I'm, you know. 249 00:16:55,480 --> 00:17:02,120 The people that get the most hurt, for those of us that survive, those of us, 250 00:17:02,140 --> 00:17:07,319 the addicts that make it through, the rare ones that make it through, the real 251 00:17:07,319 --> 00:17:09,960 harm happened to all of the people around them. 252 00:17:10,319 --> 00:17:14,740 And the trauma for them goes very, very deep. And they don't get to come out on 253 00:17:14,740 --> 00:17:17,319 this show and talk about how well they're doing and everything's all 254 00:17:17,319 --> 00:17:21,500 great. And, you know, I think about my daughters. I think about every day. 255 00:17:22,020 --> 00:17:28,140 And the fact that, you know, for a two-year period of time between 2017 and 256 00:17:28,140 --> 00:17:32,920 2019, they lost the most important person in their life and also the other 257 00:17:32,920 --> 00:17:34,320 most important person, my brother. 258 00:17:34,820 --> 00:17:36,300 And I was not there for them. 259 00:17:36,680 --> 00:17:39,800 And I can never make up for that. And same with my dad. 260 00:17:40,180 --> 00:17:44,380 My dad is unconditional love, is not love without consequences. 261 00:17:44,780 --> 00:17:48,880 It's not a love that doesn't have a limit. 262 00:17:49,200 --> 00:17:53,880 It's a love that is limitless in this, is that no matter what, he would always 263 00:17:53,880 --> 00:17:58,880 be there for me. But it doesn't make up for the fact that, you know, every night 264 00:17:58,880 --> 00:18:01,960 he had to go to sleep when I was in that state and wonder whether or not I was 265 00:18:01,960 --> 00:18:06,200 alive just after losing Beau. And, you know, guilt. 266 00:18:06,650 --> 00:18:07,830 is an appropriate thing. 267 00:18:08,190 --> 00:18:12,530 It's absolutely, as the addict, you've got to go and you've got to make amends 268 00:18:12,530 --> 00:18:17,150 as much as you can. And sometimes the greatest amend that you can make is just 269 00:18:17,150 --> 00:18:19,130 living a life by doing the next right thing. 270 00:18:19,470 --> 00:18:21,370 That's what I hope I'm doing right now. 271 00:18:22,990 --> 00:18:28,570 Well, I know your father is 272 00:18:28,570 --> 00:18:30,930 struggling right now. 273 00:18:31,250 --> 00:18:34,650 Yeah. Would you tell him, myself and the audience, wisdom? 274 00:18:35,390 --> 00:18:38,110 a peaceful rest of his days for us. He's watching it. 275 00:18:41,530 --> 00:18:45,330 I'll see you on my podcast, I hope. All right. 276 00:18:45,770 --> 00:18:46,910 Hunter Biden, everybody. 277 00:18:47,650 --> 00:18:49,410 Thank you, Hunter. Let's meet our panel. 278 00:18:54,830 --> 00:18:56,670 Hey, how are you? 279 00:18:57,550 --> 00:19:00,150 All right, here's the national correspondent for the New York Times and 280 00:19:00,150 --> 00:19:03,930 author of Insurgency, How Republicans Lost Their Party and Got Everything They 281 00:19:03,930 --> 00:19:05,330 Wanted, Jeremy Peters. 282 00:19:09,250 --> 00:19:12,770 Season anchor and chief political correspondent for CNN, whose forthcoming 283 00:19:12,770 --> 00:19:16,090 book, The Elections That Changed the World, is available to pre-order now. 284 00:19:16,350 --> 00:19:17,229 Donna Bass. 285 00:19:17,230 --> 00:19:18,230 Hey, how you doing? 286 00:19:21,919 --> 00:19:25,920 Okay, so it's almost Labor Day. Wow, we blew through another year. I can't 287 00:19:25,920 --> 00:19:28,240 believe it. Merry Christmas, because that's what's coming next. 288 00:19:28,860 --> 00:19:32,560 They say that people don't pay attention until Labor Day, right? So let's pay 289 00:19:32,560 --> 00:19:35,440 attention for them, because we have been having primaries, right? 290 00:19:35,680 --> 00:19:38,480 A lot of them. A lot of primaries, and they do tell us a lot. 291 00:19:39,200 --> 00:19:44,240 I feel like people are reluctant ever to say that, oh, Trump is toast, because 292 00:19:44,240 --> 00:19:47,320 people have said it so many times before, and it's not been true. 293 00:19:48,060 --> 00:19:49,100 I think he's toast. 294 00:19:51,700 --> 00:19:52,820 Because, well, 295 00:19:54,220 --> 00:19:55,560 I'm just going by. 296 00:19:57,580 --> 00:20:02,140 The approval rating now is 33%. That's the floor. 297 00:20:02,360 --> 00:20:03,360 Well, maybe. 298 00:20:03,740 --> 00:20:07,540 No, I think it is. I think that is the people who just absolutely hate 299 00:20:07,540 --> 00:20:09,340 Democrats. So it really doesn't matter. 300 00:20:10,260 --> 00:20:11,260 whatever he does. 301 00:20:11,440 --> 00:20:12,440 It's just that. 302 00:20:12,620 --> 00:20:16,000 I don't think it ever gets... They used to be called birchers, then they were 303 00:20:16,000 --> 00:20:17,320 birthers, their tea party. 304 00:20:17,540 --> 00:20:21,460 That's the 33%. That's also the Democratic Party's approval rating, by 305 00:20:21,460 --> 00:20:25,360 the way. I mean, they're in... As a party. As a party. And Chuck Schumer's 306 00:20:25,360 --> 00:20:29,900 approval rating is actually lower than that. So as a party, they have not 307 00:20:29,900 --> 00:20:34,000 managed to move up in favorability since Trump took the oath the second time 308 00:20:34,000 --> 00:20:35,320 around. And that's pretty damning. 309 00:20:35,920 --> 00:20:36,920 Okay. 310 00:20:37,360 --> 00:20:38,360 Endorsement, though. Yeah. 311 00:20:38,590 --> 00:20:42,370 Trump used to win all his endorsements. Now he's winning almost none of them. 312 00:20:42,410 --> 00:20:47,130 That's right. He lost Wyoming a race there. Five governorships have not gone 313 00:20:47,130 --> 00:20:51,030 his way. Two people in Florida, which he calls his home state. 314 00:20:51,270 --> 00:20:54,090 The people are kind of over the corruption. 315 00:20:54,350 --> 00:20:56,370 That message got through. 316 00:20:57,270 --> 00:21:00,770 Inflation and gas prices, which is what they hated Biden for. 317 00:21:02,270 --> 00:21:05,830 He always got in front of that banner that said promises kept. 318 00:21:06,250 --> 00:21:07,249 The war. 319 00:21:07,250 --> 00:21:08,250 They see that as. 320 00:21:08,590 --> 00:21:12,790 A promise not kept, I won't get you into wars. Epstein, they didn't like that. 321 00:21:13,090 --> 00:21:17,990 I think this election coming up, the midterm, is a referendum on the 322 00:21:17,990 --> 00:21:21,090 president. It almost always is. So I don't think there's any way the 323 00:21:21,090 --> 00:21:24,010 Democrats can possibly blow this, although they will try. 324 00:21:26,870 --> 00:21:33,430 But I feel maybe, I feel like this election is, no, 325 00:21:33,570 --> 00:21:35,370 we have to be mad at Trump first. 326 00:21:36,030 --> 00:21:38,750 And then the Democrats will lose the 2028 president. 327 00:21:39,130 --> 00:21:44,570 Except I agree with you on everything you said about the endorsements, because 328 00:21:44,570 --> 00:21:46,670 I think it's up to 10 or 11 now. 329 00:21:46,990 --> 00:21:51,330 House endorsements, governor's endorsements. He did pretty well in some 330 00:21:51,330 --> 00:21:56,070 races that the Republicans who want to win are really pissed at him about, like 331 00:21:56,070 --> 00:21:57,350 in Texas. 332 00:21:57,630 --> 00:22:00,550 They're really not sure that Ken Paxton is, I mean. 333 00:22:00,960 --> 00:22:04,680 It's Texas, so he'll probably win, but it's not a shoe-in like John Cornyn 334 00:22:04,680 --> 00:22:07,640 would have been. He's a very hard right-winger, Ken Paxton, right? And 335 00:22:07,640 --> 00:22:13,060 he's got some ethical issues, and James Tallarico is... A young Democrat. 336 00:22:14,200 --> 00:22:15,820 Christian, and so forth. 337 00:22:16,020 --> 00:22:20,180 But I will add a... Well. Well, I mean, he wears his faith on his sleeve in a 338 00:22:20,180 --> 00:22:23,420 way that he believes will help him. Well, in the Democratic Party, as long 339 00:22:23,420 --> 00:22:25,520 as that faith isn't Jewish, you're good. 340 00:22:26,750 --> 00:22:30,970 Which, well, you said it, but... Yeah, I said it because it's true. 341 00:22:31,210 --> 00:22:36,970 I do want to put one more data point into your thesis there, and that is that 342 00:22:36,970 --> 00:22:42,170 if you look on the Democratic side, one thing that happened this week is that 343 00:22:42,170 --> 00:22:43,250 Alexander Bindman... 344 00:22:43,600 --> 00:22:45,660 It was a huge surprise. 345 00:22:46,400 --> 00:22:51,160 Let's remind the audience who isn't political junkies. So Alexander Vindman 346 00:22:51,160 --> 00:22:57,380 was in the military, and he went and testified against... 347 00:22:57,800 --> 00:23:02,200 President Trump and Trump won because he heard the phone call between President 348 00:23:02,200 --> 00:23:05,680 Trump. The perfect call. The perfect call between President Trump and the 349 00:23:05,680 --> 00:23:09,680 Ukrainian leader. He's a big hero of the left. Exactly. He is a part. And he 350 00:23:09,680 --> 00:23:13,200 lost. And he lost. But he's a part of the Trump resistance. And another 351 00:23:13,200 --> 00:23:18,200 pattern that we have seen is people who have become prominent in the Democratic 352 00:23:18,200 --> 00:23:21,720 Party as part of the Trump resistance also losing. 353 00:23:22,120 --> 00:23:24,620 So it's not just that the president is. 354 00:23:25,020 --> 00:23:30,080 not doing as well with the people in his base, he's lost his luster with the 355 00:23:30,080 --> 00:23:32,280 people who hate him on the left. 356 00:23:32,660 --> 00:23:35,720 And let's not forget that the Democrats... 357 00:23:36,960 --> 00:23:41,520 have a real enthusiasm problem, right? I mean, a lot of voters are looking at the 358 00:23:41,520 --> 00:23:46,040 Republicans and Trump and the Democrats and saying, I'm not thrilled with either 359 00:23:46,040 --> 00:23:49,820 choice. And so that enthusiasm problem, even though, Bill, you're right, 360 00:23:49,980 --> 00:23:54,280 Democrats would really have to screw something up to lose in this midterm 361 00:23:54,280 --> 00:23:58,850 election. It's really not clear how well they will do even if they have a 362 00:23:58,850 --> 00:24:02,370 majority because the Democrats in the House that I talk to are really worried 363 00:24:02,370 --> 00:24:05,710 that if they don't pick up a dozen seats, they're going to be beholden to 364 00:24:05,710 --> 00:24:09,430 the new squad and this handful of Democratic socialists who will 365 00:24:09,430 --> 00:24:13,710 essentially have veto power over the entire Democratic establishment agenda. 366 00:24:13,930 --> 00:24:14,950 That's a big concern. 367 00:24:15,210 --> 00:24:16,049 Will they? 368 00:24:16,050 --> 00:24:16,929 They will. 369 00:24:16,930 --> 00:24:21,530 If it's a slim majority, just like you're seeing on the right with the Tea 370 00:24:21,530 --> 00:24:26,040 Party and a little bit less so now, if it's a slim majority, minority rules 371 00:24:26,040 --> 00:24:28,520 within the party. 372 00:24:28,760 --> 00:24:34,060 And so if you have, let's say, I mean, you had four members of the squad and 373 00:24:34,060 --> 00:24:37,520 then it was growing. Let's say you have 10 people who are absolutely, I'm not 374 00:24:37,520 --> 00:24:40,400 going to do anything unless you pass Medicare for all, just for example. 375 00:24:41,180 --> 00:24:45,960 Hakeem Jeffries, if he doesn't have a majority more than 10 people, he's 376 00:24:45,960 --> 00:24:49,820 screwed. Almost like a parliamentary government where you bring in, like in 377 00:24:49,820 --> 00:24:54,860 Israel. And the government only exists because they had to bring in like four 378 00:24:54,860 --> 00:24:59,440 or five members of the far, far, far right wing party. And they do control in 379 00:24:59,440 --> 00:25:02,540 a lot of ways what goes on in that government. Yeah, they absolutely do. 380 00:25:02,660 --> 00:25:06,560 And they're not running to be members of the Democratic Party. They're running 381 00:25:06,560 --> 00:25:10,460 many of them anyway, as democratic socialists. It's a totally different 382 00:25:10,460 --> 00:25:11,700 political organization. 383 00:25:12,140 --> 00:25:15,260 And in fact, they want to take out the Democratic Party. I mean, it's their 384 00:25:15,260 --> 00:25:17,620 stated goal. They not only want to take out the Democratic Party, they want to 385 00:25:17,620 --> 00:25:19,280 take out the entire constitutional. 386 00:25:19,790 --> 00:25:23,430 system that the Democratic Party is allowed to participate in government. 387 00:25:23,610 --> 00:25:24,810 And they like communism. 388 00:25:25,030 --> 00:25:29,570 I proved it here a couple of weeks ago just by quoting them. They use the word 389 00:25:29,570 --> 00:25:33,010 a lot. They're not actually trying to hide it, although if you ask them, they 390 00:25:33,010 --> 00:25:34,290 will deny it. Yeah. 391 00:25:34,590 --> 00:25:35,449 It's so interesting. 392 00:25:35,450 --> 00:25:39,750 They will. But some of them, I mean, this is why El-Said did quite well in 393 00:25:39,750 --> 00:25:43,390 Michigan. This is why the woman who is running against Karen Bass as mayor of L 394 00:25:43,390 --> 00:25:46,870 .A. is doing quite well because they've learned how to sand down the rougher 395 00:25:46,870 --> 00:25:50,010 edges and they don't talk about socialism. They don't talk about seizing 396 00:25:50,010 --> 00:25:51,790 the means of production and stuff like that. 397 00:25:52,510 --> 00:25:56,750 They're getting many of them. Some of them are not quite ready for prime time, 398 00:25:56,850 --> 00:26:00,090 let's be clear. But a lot of them have really done a good job of selling 399 00:26:00,090 --> 00:26:02,710 themselves to the public as quite reasonable mainstream politicians. 400 00:26:03,030 --> 00:26:03,899 And that's how. 401 00:26:03,900 --> 00:26:08,500 Angie Nixon, who beat Alexander Vindman in Florida this week. Okay, so explain 402 00:26:08,500 --> 00:26:14,680 who that is. She is a Democratic Socialist who raised like not even a 403 00:26:14,680 --> 00:26:18,000 million dollars. That's right. And he raised about $16 million. 404 00:26:18,280 --> 00:26:22,800 So I'm not a mathematician, but I think that's like 16 to 1. And she crushed 405 00:26:22,800 --> 00:26:24,960 him. In Florida. In Florida. 406 00:26:25,220 --> 00:26:29,260 Which is a red state now. Yes. But this is, of course, the Democratic primary. 407 00:26:29,460 --> 00:26:32,480 It's a Democratic primary. And a lot of people will say. But she did it by, 408 00:26:32,580 --> 00:26:37,740 she's a Democratic socialist, but she did it by really narrowing down her 409 00:26:37,740 --> 00:26:38,740 message about. 410 00:26:40,199 --> 00:26:45,380 about money, about trying to, you know, live the American dream in a way that... 411 00:26:45,380 --> 00:26:49,020 But again, this is a race within the Democratic Party. Correct. So when she 412 00:26:49,020 --> 00:26:52,860 runs in the general against the Republican for governor... It's going to 413 00:26:52,860 --> 00:26:56,460 be very hard. Right. Very hard. She's going to run against Ashley Moody, who's 414 00:26:56,460 --> 00:26:59,540 the sitting Republican senator, and it... 415 00:27:00,460 --> 00:27:04,480 I mean, I don't want to say impossible, but if there is an impossible race, that 416 00:27:04,480 --> 00:27:07,380 could be it. So what do you think of this new star, John Ossoff, I mentioned 417 00:27:07,380 --> 00:27:10,540 in the monologue? I mean, we've mentioned him before. He's been there 418 00:27:10,540 --> 00:27:11,900 for a couple of years in Georgia. 419 00:27:12,120 --> 00:27:17,920 He's kind of Obama-esque when he speaks. And he really lit into Trump in a way 420 00:27:17,920 --> 00:27:20,020 that people seem to be certainly on the left. 421 00:27:20,620 --> 00:27:21,620 thirsting for. 422 00:27:22,340 --> 00:27:25,440 And the problem is he's Jewish. 423 00:27:25,680 --> 00:27:29,940 I mean, I know we don't want to talk about that, but we need to talk about 424 00:27:29,940 --> 00:27:34,280 that because that is the situation in the Democratic Party. 425 00:27:34,700 --> 00:27:37,840 They think Gaza is a genocide. 426 00:27:38,260 --> 00:27:42,780 It is not. There's an actual meaning to the word genocide. It doesn't come 427 00:27:42,780 --> 00:27:46,800 close. But as long as you tag that name, genocide, of course. 428 00:27:47,400 --> 00:27:51,200 What kind of normal person would not hate someone who's responsible for a 429 00:27:51,200 --> 00:27:55,980 genocide? And they've all just signed on to this because they're just big on 430 00:27:55,980 --> 00:27:58,940 buzzwords and long signs and bumper stickers. 431 00:27:59,140 --> 00:28:02,120 That's as deep as they go. And likes on their social media. And like. 432 00:28:02,520 --> 00:28:06,120 So they... You have to say it. 433 00:28:06,600 --> 00:28:07,800 There was a... 434 00:28:08,970 --> 00:28:13,390 Congressman Scott Wiener, he's, I think, going to take Nancy Pelosi's seat in San 435 00:28:13,390 --> 00:28:15,750 Francisco. And he wasn't paying genocide. 436 00:28:16,170 --> 00:28:20,310 And they surrounded him, a mob, and yelled at him and said, you're not gay. 437 00:28:20,450 --> 00:28:21,109 He's gay. 438 00:28:21,110 --> 00:28:24,570 They're not really gay. What the fuck does that have to do with genocide? 439 00:28:25,610 --> 00:28:30,190 Say it. And he did. Because the Democrats are cowards. What a coward. 440 00:28:30,270 --> 00:28:33,450 This is factual. Do you know the only country in the Middle East that has gay 441 00:28:33,450 --> 00:28:38,950 rights? Of course. Yes, that's why the people with the Queers for Palestine t 442 00:28:38,950 --> 00:28:43,770 -shirts are so out of their mind. Can I say one thing about the Jews? Because I 443 00:28:43,770 --> 00:28:48,330 actually, earlier this summer, I interviewed Josh Shapiro, governor of 444 00:28:48,330 --> 00:28:49,330 Pennsylvania, 445 00:28:51,510 --> 00:28:55,790 running for re-election, but also very much in the conversation about 2028. 446 00:28:55,990 --> 00:28:59,230 And I asked him this question point blank. Do you really think that a 447 00:28:59,230 --> 00:29:04,760 Jewish... politician can win a Democratic primary for president in this 448 00:29:04,760 --> 00:29:06,320 environment for Jews. 449 00:29:06,980 --> 00:29:13,640 And he gave an answer about how he's been talking about his faith a lot. He 450 00:29:13,640 --> 00:29:14,640 doesn't hide from it. 451 00:29:15,460 --> 00:29:16,700 Pennsylvania is a purple state. 452 00:29:16,920 --> 00:29:18,820 He's very popular in Pennsylvania. 453 00:29:20,240 --> 00:29:24,260 And, you know, I thought a lot about it. We'll see. But the other thing that I 454 00:29:24,260 --> 00:29:29,050 thought about, Bill, is that even Or maybe despite this climate, you have 455 00:29:29,050 --> 00:29:31,230 Josh Shapiro, John Ossoff. 456 00:29:31,500 --> 00:29:35,380 J.B. Pritzker, Rahm Emanuel. I don't remember a time where there were more 457 00:29:35,380 --> 00:29:39,900 Jews who were even thinking openly about running for president in the Democratic 458 00:29:39,900 --> 00:29:43,000 primary. We'll see what happens when they get asked about Israel. 459 00:29:43,340 --> 00:29:48,080 Bill has a good point that they twist themselves into knots over it because 460 00:29:48,080 --> 00:29:54,420 the activist left has done such a good job of making this a third rail. Like, 461 00:29:54,420 --> 00:29:57,600 you know, you have to buy into the rhetoric, just like you used to have to 462 00:29:57,600 --> 00:30:03,500 say, I want to defund the police or I want. It's a litmus test. Yes, exactly. 463 00:30:03,900 --> 00:30:07,440 And as often the case, and this is something I think Democratic strategists 464 00:30:07,440 --> 00:30:13,360 worry about privately, is the absolutist nature of some of the activism rhetoric 465 00:30:13,360 --> 00:30:18,840 on the left is a real problem because they're always trying to explain it. 466 00:30:19,100 --> 00:30:23,920 away, right? Well, we don't really mean to defund the police. Well, we don't 467 00:30:23,920 --> 00:30:25,800 really mean that Donald Trump is a king. 468 00:30:26,040 --> 00:30:30,940 Or they're using kind of jargony language like, let's, you know, stop the 469 00:30:30,940 --> 00:30:35,100 oligarchy or, you know, whatever that tour is. And ordinary people don't know 470 00:30:35,100 --> 00:30:38,020 what that means. They don't. It just. 471 00:30:38,810 --> 00:30:41,490 It doesn't resonate with them. Or care. Or care, right? 472 00:30:41,750 --> 00:30:48,230 And unless Democrats learn how to talk to voters in a way that is more 473 00:30:48,230 --> 00:30:53,870 to their hearts rather than to their heads and to a political dictionary that 474 00:30:53,870 --> 00:30:57,410 you need to translate what they're saying, this will be a difficult year. 475 00:30:57,690 --> 00:30:59,030 But I think back to what you... 476 00:30:59,880 --> 00:31:04,060 What you said about John Ossoff, that is one of the main reasons why he's taking 477 00:31:04,060 --> 00:31:09,220 off. I watched that whole speech that he gave last Sunday, and it wasn't just the 478 00:31:09,220 --> 00:31:12,000 line that everybody's talking about, about Natalie. 479 00:31:12,200 --> 00:31:18,540 The whole way that he wove in the heart and the soul of 480 00:31:18,540 --> 00:31:23,600 fighting for affordability but also fighting against Donald Trump was 481 00:31:23,600 --> 00:31:25,000 incredibly unique. 482 00:31:26,750 --> 00:31:28,470 Again, these issues like corruption. 483 00:31:28,690 --> 00:31:33,510 I mean, the world financial, is that Trump's crypto? 484 00:31:33,990 --> 00:31:40,010 He's got his own crypto company. And I see today, now they're letting them have 485 00:31:40,010 --> 00:31:41,010 a bank. 486 00:31:41,130 --> 00:31:45,790 It's very close to just backing a truck up to Fort Knox. 487 00:31:46,890 --> 00:31:48,030 And people get that. 488 00:31:48,360 --> 00:31:51,160 You know, it's like we're struggling. You said you were going to stop our 489 00:31:51,160 --> 00:31:54,800 struggling. You said gas prices and inflation were going to go down. They're 490 00:31:54,800 --> 00:31:56,980 not. But you guys are making out great. 491 00:31:57,500 --> 00:31:58,500 All right. 492 00:31:58,720 --> 00:32:00,060 It is back to school time. 493 00:32:00,920 --> 00:32:05,660 So that includes college. And for some reason, college includes Arizona State. 494 00:32:05,780 --> 00:32:07,160 I've never understood that. 495 00:32:14,110 --> 00:32:17,830 They are in the news because they have a Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and 496 00:32:17,830 --> 00:32:18,830 Mass Communication. 497 00:32:18,910 --> 00:32:21,390 Guess what the new curriculum is about? 498 00:32:21,610 --> 00:32:24,270 You're going to be able to get a course in influencing. 499 00:32:26,030 --> 00:32:28,730 I wish I was just making this up. 500 00:32:30,270 --> 00:32:33,650 You can literally get a BS in BS now. Would you like to hear? 501 00:32:35,670 --> 00:32:36,950 Would you like to hear? 502 00:32:40,780 --> 00:32:41,780 a hold of the syllabus. 503 00:32:42,100 --> 00:32:44,200 Would you like to hear some in the course? I'm sure you would. 504 00:32:45,300 --> 00:32:48,880 For example, there's intro to influencing. 505 00:32:49,120 --> 00:32:50,660 Duck lips, peace signs, and you. 506 00:32:51,660 --> 00:32:53,980 You need that intro course. 507 00:32:54,200 --> 00:32:55,200 Of course. 508 00:32:57,060 --> 00:32:59,740 Strategies in making a toilet seat look like a private jet. 509 00:32:59,980 --> 00:33:00,980 Oh, yeah. 510 00:33:05,420 --> 00:33:06,740 Biology 301. 511 00:33:07,000 --> 00:33:09,580 Diagnosing yourself with something you googled this morning. 512 00:33:15,720 --> 00:33:17,620 Math 101, why you don't need it. 513 00:33:22,660 --> 00:33:26,540 Camera phone mechanics, how to make your tits the focus of whatever you're 514 00:33:26,540 --> 00:33:27,540 yammering about. 515 00:33:34,560 --> 00:33:39,160 Unboxing 101, losing your shit over new material goods in an age of socialism. 516 00:33:45,550 --> 00:33:49,050 Intro to public speaking. Tips on shaming people in public who aren't 517 00:33:49,050 --> 00:33:50,110 really even doing anything. 518 00:33:55,870 --> 00:33:59,990 Career development. Explaining to your grandparents what exactly it is you do. 519 00:34:05,350 --> 00:34:07,770 And senior seminar. 520 00:34:07,990 --> 00:34:10,469 When to call it quits and transition to OnlyFans. 521 00:34:19,280 --> 00:34:23,800 Let's talk about higher education, shall we? Because this is not the only story 522 00:34:23,800 --> 00:34:24,940 in the news. Quite a few. 523 00:34:25,440 --> 00:34:26,639 University of Michigan? 524 00:34:27,040 --> 00:34:30,560 Mm-hmm, where I went, yes. That's where you went. I did, yeah. Okay. I wish I 525 00:34:30,560 --> 00:34:33,060 wouldn't have had grades. I would have had grades. Right. 526 00:34:33,300 --> 00:34:37,820 They're going to no grades now. And the reason given? Just as freshmen or for 527 00:34:37,820 --> 00:34:38,820 the whole thing? 528 00:34:39,139 --> 00:34:40,460 I'm not sure about that. 529 00:34:41,139 --> 00:34:42,699 It doesn't matter. 530 00:34:43,150 --> 00:34:46,969 It's ridiculous. And they're saying it because sometimes the kid gets a bad 531 00:34:46,969 --> 00:34:48,630 grade and it makes them sad. 532 00:34:49,070 --> 00:34:51,270 I can't. I'm not making that up. 533 00:34:51,810 --> 00:34:56,250 I mean, no grades. And what does that school cost? It's not cheap, right? It's 534 00:34:56,250 --> 00:34:58,330 not cheap. I can tell you what it was 25 years ago. 535 00:34:59,390 --> 00:35:04,250 No, but look, this is part of the coddling of the American mind effect 536 00:35:04,250 --> 00:35:08,750 that we've been reading about and scholars smarter than I am have been 537 00:35:08,750 --> 00:35:10,710 writing about for 15 years. 538 00:35:11,870 --> 00:35:18,170 I don't see how when you have a student age population that is already losing 539 00:35:18,170 --> 00:35:24,790 its jobs, losing what they trained for to AI, and how they're 540 00:35:24,790 --> 00:35:29,290 basically as a generation having to face what a future looks like on a planet 541 00:35:29,290 --> 00:35:34,870 that is so hot and so inhospitable that it's rejecting human life. I mean, yeah, 542 00:35:34,970 --> 00:35:36,530 it's not a great outlook. 543 00:35:36,890 --> 00:35:38,010 I grew up, I'm Gen X. 544 00:35:38,620 --> 00:35:43,300 So I grew up basically feral, like the rest of our generation. 545 00:35:43,960 --> 00:35:45,380 I'm a boomer. You think you're feral. 546 00:35:45,620 --> 00:35:49,160 Yeah, I mean, and so, yeah. At least you got out of the dump, yes. 547 00:35:49,360 --> 00:35:55,260 I mean, literally. So the idea that we can't, I mean, look, I understand there 548 00:35:55,260 --> 00:35:58,540 are very real mental health challenges that people, not just kids, but people 549 00:35:58,540 --> 00:36:02,660 have for many, many reasons, including their phones, and there's a cultural 550 00:36:02,660 --> 00:36:04,300 issue. But, like, come on. 551 00:36:05,950 --> 00:36:11,230 I mean, I know Trump University is a scam, but when there's no grades, isn't 552 00:36:11,230 --> 00:36:12,230 that a scam, too? 553 00:36:12,370 --> 00:36:19,210 I mean... Well, it... I mean, what... It goes to the question 554 00:36:19,210 --> 00:36:22,750 of what college is, what a four-year degree is really training kids for. 555 00:36:23,010 --> 00:36:26,530 Well, let me answer that. Now, this is... Nothing. 556 00:36:26,950 --> 00:36:28,970 This is the second. This is even scarier. 557 00:36:29,530 --> 00:36:33,810 AI, which in the old days, like two years ago... 558 00:36:34,890 --> 00:36:38,610 Was writing the papers and sometimes grading them. 559 00:36:39,450 --> 00:36:42,830 Now it can take the course all by itself. 560 00:36:43,130 --> 00:36:48,350 This AI taking college courses, this is from your paper, with simple commands 561 00:36:48,350 --> 00:36:51,050 like log in and complete my quiz. 562 00:36:52,590 --> 00:36:59,510 It can lecture, watch lecture videos, take tests, write papers, and chat with 563 00:36:59,510 --> 00:37:01,190 classmates about reading assignments. 564 00:37:02,160 --> 00:37:04,920 Students may never meet with their professors or their peers. 565 00:37:05,800 --> 00:37:07,360 What's the point? What the fuck? 566 00:37:11,760 --> 00:37:16,020 Let me just take a little bit of an unorthodox approach here and defend the 567 00:37:16,020 --> 00:37:19,860 kids because I don't actually think that all of this is their fault. They've been 568 00:37:19,860 --> 00:37:25,280 told by CEOs from AI companies that this technology is going to replace them. So 569 00:37:25,280 --> 00:37:29,940 to a certain degree, it seems like a lot of them, by adapting to this technology 570 00:37:29,940 --> 00:37:32,860 and having it do everything for them, are basically saying, all right, let's 571 00:37:32,860 --> 00:37:33,860 get on with it. 572 00:37:35,640 --> 00:37:40,580 time what they could be doing with this what like how dana uses ai how i try to 573 00:37:40,580 --> 00:37:44,900 use ai how i'm sure you do is to make your make yourself better at the job 574 00:37:44,900 --> 00:37:48,140 that you're doing more efficient i don't use it what they're doing i don't want 575 00:37:48,140 --> 00:37:54,420 it at all nothing i don't want it in my phone the second i the second people 576 00:37:54,420 --> 00:37:58,860 started having it and telling me what it did and and oh it It knows everything 577 00:37:58,860 --> 00:38:01,880 about you. It's in your phone. It sees every one of your pictures. It knows 578 00:38:01,880 --> 00:38:05,140 every text you ever send. You think I want that in my fucking phone? 579 00:38:06,920 --> 00:38:10,560 You people are crazy if you're doing this. You're crazy. 580 00:38:10,960 --> 00:38:13,760 And it can't do my job. 581 00:38:14,220 --> 00:38:15,260 That is for sure. 582 00:38:15,480 --> 00:38:19,060 What people have told... I hope. 583 00:38:19,480 --> 00:38:20,480 Thank you. 584 00:38:23,050 --> 00:38:27,410 What the heads of these AI companies have been all too eager to tell us is 585 00:38:27,410 --> 00:38:31,350 that this technology is going to replace us, that it will do everything that you 586 00:38:31,350 --> 00:38:32,350 used to do. 587 00:38:33,400 --> 00:38:36,600 Really, it's not going to do that. It's never going to replace human beings. 588 00:38:36,640 --> 00:38:41,180 It's going to make our jobs easier and in some ways make workers more 589 00:38:41,180 --> 00:38:45,060 efficient. So people should really, you know, if you're teaching students how to 590 00:38:45,060 --> 00:38:49,160 use this as a way to not do their work instead of using it as a way to improve 591 00:38:49,160 --> 00:38:55,700 their work, it's just not going to ever be a tool that they learn how to use 592 00:38:55,700 --> 00:39:00,020 appropriately. But I think one of the, if there is a benefit from AI, I think 593 00:39:00,020 --> 00:39:01,720 it is if you think about it. 594 00:39:02,200 --> 00:39:06,400 it is a reminder of why human interaction is so important. Like, I 595 00:39:06,400 --> 00:39:10,240 mean, just even here, this is not, you can't have this as an AI experience. 596 00:39:10,340 --> 00:39:14,140 There are real human beings here watching a... 597 00:39:21,720 --> 00:39:25,700 I understand that there are some reasons why students want to go online, but it 598 00:39:25,700 --> 00:39:30,440 is also a reminder of how great it is to have a human interaction with fellow 599 00:39:30,440 --> 00:39:32,420 students in a classroom, with a professor. 600 00:39:33,100 --> 00:39:37,520 There are things that you just can't learn or even pretend to learn if you're 601 00:39:37,520 --> 00:39:40,060 dealing with AI without that human interaction. 602 00:39:40,280 --> 00:39:43,680 I take your point. It's not all their fault. But it's also, I've said this 603 00:39:43,680 --> 00:39:48,000 before when we talked about AI, it is also their place to stop it. 604 00:39:48,380 --> 00:39:51,420 They're the younger generation. When they want to protest against something, 605 00:39:51,640 --> 00:39:57,400 they're not shy about it. Right. Okay? So they're using it. If AI can do the 606 00:39:57,400 --> 00:40:02,680 job of going to school for you completely, why wouldn't it be able to 607 00:40:02,680 --> 00:40:05,600 do the job you were going to get trained for in school? 608 00:40:06,040 --> 00:40:11,440 So you're building your own gallows. It's up to that generation to stand 609 00:40:11,440 --> 00:40:14,000 across history and say, stop. 610 00:40:15,860 --> 00:40:17,860 I don't think you can look. 611 00:40:18,460 --> 00:40:23,360 to the Silicon Valley companies for any type of moral leadership on this issue. 612 00:40:23,580 --> 00:40:26,380 I mean, and that's a big, you know, when you talk to the heads of these 613 00:40:26,380 --> 00:40:30,600 companies, which you and I have both done as part of our jobs, what's 614 00:40:30,600 --> 00:40:36,440 striking is how often they liken their work to a humanitarian cause, to saving 615 00:40:36,440 --> 00:40:39,880 civilization. I'm not kidding. They really see it this way. And if this 616 00:40:39,880 --> 00:40:44,040 doesn't sound too much like Facebook as, you know, the promoter of democracy and 617 00:40:44,040 --> 00:40:47,540 free speech in the town square that was going to be good for us all, then... 618 00:40:47,930 --> 00:40:51,150 You know, I think you should take another look at how you're reading this. 619 00:40:51,430 --> 00:40:57,570 And you also talked about something I think you and I both agree on, that this 620 00:40:57,570 --> 00:41:01,930 is not just the beginning, I mean, the end of the rot in higher education. It 621 00:41:01,930 --> 00:41:06,110 started long ago when they stopped teaching people things because they 622 00:41:06,110 --> 00:41:08,090 became indoctrination centers. 623 00:41:08,330 --> 00:41:13,250 Two stories from this week, I think, will show you that this has now infected 624 00:41:13,250 --> 00:41:14,430 our political discourse. 625 00:41:14,890 --> 00:41:16,670 Megan Romer, she is the... 626 00:41:16,910 --> 00:41:23,010 co-chair of the dsa she was on david remnick's podcast and she talked about 627 00:41:23,010 --> 00:41:27,690 taxing the hell out of them and he said um what do you mean by that and she said 628 00:41:27,690 --> 00:41:32,390 uh well you know i don't really have a solid and then just dribbled off yeah 629 00:41:32,390 --> 00:41:36,530 and he said but shouldn't you shouldn't you be more specific about what taxing 630 00:41:36,530 --> 00:41:42,310 the hell means they don't know anything okay okay then lindsey graham's sister 631 00:41:42,310 --> 00:41:45,550 was running and is now running in south carolina 632 00:41:46,280 --> 00:41:50,640 She was asked about Taiwan, and she said, I'm not that informed on national 633 00:41:50,640 --> 00:41:53,340 security. Well, you're running for the Senate. 634 00:41:53,720 --> 00:41:57,160 That's not an answer that is acceptable. I'm not that informed. 635 00:41:57,860 --> 00:42:01,200 I guess my question is, does it matter that people don't know anything? 636 00:42:01,540 --> 00:42:02,540 Yes. 637 00:42:03,120 --> 00:42:04,500 I'm so glad to hear that. 638 00:42:05,460 --> 00:42:06,600 I'm so glad to hear that. 639 00:42:08,900 --> 00:42:13,400 One word answer, yes, it matters a lot. It matters a lot. But I will say that... 640 00:42:14,460 --> 00:42:19,460 That interview that David Remnick did with the DSA chair is something that 641 00:42:19,460 --> 00:42:24,100 everybody should watch as hopefully an antidote to what you just said. 642 00:42:24,580 --> 00:42:31,060 This is like real life. This isn't just a string of slogans put together. 643 00:42:32,410 --> 00:42:37,110 actual policy that when you get to a place where you're running for elected 644 00:42:37,110 --> 00:42:40,790 office, or if you actually are successful in elected office, you got to 645 00:42:40,790 --> 00:42:41,488 know stuff. 646 00:42:41,490 --> 00:42:44,850 Yeah. And by the way, there's been a slew of interviews just like this, where 647 00:42:44,850 --> 00:42:49,330 candidates who represent the Democratic Socialists of America have really 648 00:42:49,330 --> 00:42:54,590 struggled to articulate how they don't subscribe to communism, whether or not 649 00:42:54,590 --> 00:43:00,210 they really believe in Marxism, and basic facts about how their ideology 650 00:43:00,210 --> 00:43:05,240 would help them govern the United States out of this affordability crisis. 651 00:43:05,520 --> 00:43:08,880 Look, a lot of these people are really talented politically. 652 00:43:09,200 --> 00:43:12,960 I think, you know, Mamdani is a generational political talent. He's out 653 00:43:12,960 --> 00:43:14,560 of the Democratic Socialists of America. 654 00:43:15,300 --> 00:43:19,760 This is Saeed Al-Saeed in Michigan is also very talented. He's not a 655 00:43:19,760 --> 00:43:23,480 Democratic Socialist, although they do claim him as one of their own. 656 00:43:24,080 --> 00:43:27,220 But by and large, a lot of these candidates come out of the activist wing 657 00:43:27,220 --> 00:43:32,460 of the party. They're very academic. They're very into reading Karl Marx and 658 00:43:32,460 --> 00:43:33,800 left-wing theory. 659 00:43:34,100 --> 00:43:38,820 And we've seen time and time again that a lot of them just don't withstand the 660 00:43:38,820 --> 00:43:39,820 scrutiny. 661 00:43:40,940 --> 00:43:44,660 There was a story, I mean... If you're going to talk about academics this week, 662 00:43:44,680 --> 00:43:48,080 I just have to bring this up, this Jason Arday story. He's a professor. Very sad. 663 00:43:48,380 --> 00:43:53,260 Very sad. It was a suicide. I mean, a week ago, it was not that story. 664 00:43:53,520 --> 00:43:59,080 He was the first black professor at Cambridge, I think? Yes. Young. And the 665 00:43:59,080 --> 00:44:00,380 youngest. The youngest. 666 00:44:00,960 --> 00:44:04,320 Okay, whenever I hear a story like this, first of all, I don't believe anything. 667 00:44:04,520 --> 00:44:05,640 I don't believe anything anybody says. 668 00:44:05,860 --> 00:44:09,560 Right. I have to read two or three more articles, do a deep dive. But the first 669 00:44:09,560 --> 00:44:11,080 story was, okay, this guy. 670 00:44:11,710 --> 00:44:15,630 was just wanted by the left to be what they wanted him to be, which was the 671 00:44:15,630 --> 00:44:18,030 first hero professor, black professor. 672 00:44:18,250 --> 00:44:22,210 But really, he was guilty of plagiarism and all sorts of incredible lies. 673 00:44:23,770 --> 00:44:28,570 They're so captivated by DEI and wanting this, they just let him pass. And I 674 00:44:28,570 --> 00:44:31,450 said, well, I'm going to check this out. No, that's exactly what happened. 675 00:44:31,810 --> 00:44:34,110 It's the soft bigotry of low expectations. And it's not just that 676 00:44:34,110 --> 00:44:35,109 they let him pass. 677 00:44:35,110 --> 00:44:40,130 It's that they ignored the glaring red flags, like grammatical errors in his 678 00:44:40,130 --> 00:44:43,990 thesis and things in his backstory that just didn't add up, like running 30 679 00:44:43,990 --> 00:44:45,590 marathons in 35 days. 680 00:44:45,810 --> 00:44:51,970 And to me, Cambridge has a lot of explaining to do about how they seem to 681 00:44:51,970 --> 00:44:56,740 have really... cynically used this person who was obviously struggling with 682 00:44:56,740 --> 00:45:00,760 mental illness to further their own diversity and inclusion goals. 683 00:45:01,320 --> 00:45:07,100 He didn't learn to speak until he was 18, right? He said he was autistic. 684 00:45:07,420 --> 00:45:10,980 He said a number of diseases, he said. 685 00:45:11,560 --> 00:45:14,660 He was, where was... 686 00:45:14,910 --> 00:45:19,550 Oh, I can't find it, but he was just crazy. Oh, he's got testicular cancer, 687 00:45:19,830 --> 00:45:24,210 brain tumor, epilepsy, locked-in syndrome. I don't know what that is. He 688 00:45:24,210 --> 00:45:26,710 said he ran the marathons with a broken leg. 689 00:45:27,850 --> 00:45:34,790 He said he was mute until age 11 and illiterate until 18 and then became the 690 00:45:34,790 --> 00:45:35,709 greatest professor. 691 00:45:35,710 --> 00:45:41,550 I mean, it's like a prank. Like, can we make liberals who want to believe this 692 00:45:41,550 --> 00:45:43,290 actually do it? And they did. 693 00:45:43,740 --> 00:45:47,160 And it's not much more complicated than that. White people are crazy. 694 00:45:52,180 --> 00:45:58,680 And to back that up, what is sad and tragic is, as you said, perhaps 695 00:45:58,680 --> 00:46:03,520 Cambridge let him down. But once this got out and the investigation began, 696 00:46:03,920 --> 00:46:05,660 then the mob went after him. 697 00:46:06,040 --> 00:46:11,500 And it was, you know, in the UK, the press are tough, to say the least. 698 00:46:12,090 --> 00:46:16,730 and kind of what you were talking about before about sort of the hate mob. 699 00:46:17,130 --> 00:46:21,630 And that's what happened to him. Now, if he had underlying, I mean, obviously he 700 00:46:21,630 --> 00:46:25,670 had underlying mental health issues. He took his own life. But it's those two 701 00:46:25,670 --> 00:46:30,010 things combined that is such a cautionary tale of where we are right 702 00:46:30,010 --> 00:46:31,310 now societally and culturally. 703 00:46:31,530 --> 00:46:33,910 The system played a huge role in his death. 704 00:46:34,110 --> 00:46:39,090 And if Cambridge is doing an honest examination of this, they could address 705 00:46:39,090 --> 00:46:42,120 that. All right. Thank you, guys. Time for New Rule. 706 00:46:43,860 --> 00:46:44,860 Okay. 707 00:46:47,900 --> 00:46:49,680 All right. 708 00:46:51,960 --> 00:46:55,860 New Rule. Everyone in the media is having a good time mocking Kaia Gerber 709 00:46:55,860 --> 00:47:00,660 for revealing that when she was a child, she had an exorcism performed on her 710 00:47:00,660 --> 00:47:01,900 with a dirigidue. 711 00:47:02,240 --> 00:47:03,760 Is missing the point. 712 00:47:04,080 --> 00:47:05,080 It works. 713 00:47:11,820 --> 00:47:16,160 Because when some hippie starts playing the dirigidoo, even evil spirits say, 714 00:47:16,220 --> 00:47:17,380 let's get the fuck out of here. 715 00:47:23,920 --> 00:47:27,860 Neuro drug companies have to make at least one ad for prescription medication 716 00:47:27,860 --> 00:47:29,600 where no one becomes a DJ. 717 00:47:38,700 --> 00:47:40,840 Or at least list it as a possible side effect. 718 00:47:41,060 --> 00:47:45,180 Stop using scarizzi if you're a white man in your 40s and you experience the 719 00:47:45,180 --> 00:47:47,340 uncontrollable urge to drop sick beats. 720 00:47:54,620 --> 00:48:00,560 Now that researchers have proven that dogs can tell if people are happy or sad 721 00:48:00,560 --> 00:48:06,040 by reading our faces, they must teach dogs to do that with legs. 722 00:48:15,530 --> 00:48:18,530 They always seem to read as asking for it. 723 00:48:20,170 --> 00:48:24,250 New Rule, don't be surprised that Michael Jackson's daughter, Paris, says 724 00:48:24,250 --> 00:48:27,790 he would make her finish her homework before he'd let her go outside and play. 725 00:48:27,970 --> 00:48:31,350 That was Michael's way. He was always very hard with kids. 726 00:48:40,950 --> 00:48:43,650 New Rule, now that Air France... 727 00:48:43,900 --> 00:48:49,700 decided to close the sauna area in its Paris lounge because passengers were 728 00:48:49,700 --> 00:48:51,660 using it for inappropriate activity. 729 00:48:55,540 --> 00:48:58,600 I have to ask, what happened to you, France? 730 00:49:02,580 --> 00:49:08,880 You gave the world inappropriate 731 00:49:08,880 --> 00:49:09,880 activity. 732 00:49:10,600 --> 00:49:12,000 The French kiss. 733 00:49:12,560 --> 00:49:13,620 The topless beach. 734 00:49:14,260 --> 00:49:16,300 Lingerie. The menage a trois. 735 00:49:18,460 --> 00:49:21,940 That thing where husbands and wives don't ask each other where they were 736 00:49:21,940 --> 00:49:22,940 from five to seven. 737 00:49:24,720 --> 00:49:26,900 And now you're Utah with croissants? 738 00:49:28,940 --> 00:49:33,320 I'm sorry, but if two, possibly three, consenting adults can't do it between 739 00:49:33,320 --> 00:49:38,200 connecting flights in the airport, then maybe Tucker Carlson is right. Why did 740 00:49:38,200 --> 00:49:39,600 we even defeat the Nazis? 741 00:49:46,600 --> 00:49:49,240 New rule, free the workplace romance. 742 00:49:49,660 --> 00:49:53,820 Let's go back to letting love connections happen at the office. It's 743 00:49:53,820 --> 00:49:58,160 funny, all I hear about these days is the loneliness epidemic and how nobody 744 00:49:58,160 --> 00:50:02,240 socializes anymore and Gen Z isn't dating, Gen Z isn't fucking. 745 00:50:03,300 --> 00:50:04,620 Here's a crazy idea. 746 00:50:04,820 --> 00:50:09,580 Stop being overly paranoid about power imbalances in one of the last places 747 00:50:09,580 --> 00:50:14,260 humans actually interact anymore and let people fuck at work. 748 00:50:23,240 --> 00:50:27,480 I don't mean literally have sex in the supply closet, but flirt, acknowledge 749 00:50:27,480 --> 00:50:30,660 mutual attraction, and maybe get into a relationship. 750 00:50:30,980 --> 00:50:32,700 And then have sex in the supply closet. 751 00:50:35,640 --> 00:50:42,480 But that's not really where we are, because America 752 00:50:42,480 --> 00:50:46,540 always overreacts, usually on the side of too much safety. 753 00:50:46,820 --> 00:50:49,100 We did it with overprotecting our children. 754 00:50:49,540 --> 00:50:50,760 We did it with drugs. 755 00:50:51,500 --> 00:50:54,880 Because some people get addicted. For decades, no one was allowed to even 756 00:50:54,880 --> 00:50:55,960 smoke pot legally. 757 00:50:56,620 --> 00:50:57,760 And we do it with sex. 758 00:50:58,140 --> 00:51:02,260 In Congress, they already have a rule that says you can't date anyone in your 759 00:51:02,260 --> 00:51:06,580 own office. And now, they're considering one supported by Speaker Mike Johnson 760 00:51:06,580 --> 00:51:10,480 that would ban members from dating any staffer from any office. 761 00:51:11,180 --> 00:51:14,720 Because telling people who they're allowed to love is repulsive when the 762 00:51:14,720 --> 00:51:18,020 Bible does it. But it's okay when it's a weirdo like Mike Johnson. 763 00:51:24,200 --> 00:51:30,800 Mike Johnson, who has an app on his phone called Covenant Eyes, which scans 764 00:51:30,800 --> 00:51:35,920 everything you open and reports any porn use to a sponsor, which in this case is 765 00:51:35,920 --> 00:51:36,920 his son. 766 00:51:36,960 --> 00:51:37,960 Ew. 767 00:51:39,500 --> 00:51:43,620 But, you know, Mike is not the only one who supports this. It's bipartisan. 768 00:51:44,240 --> 00:51:45,380 AOC agrees. 769 00:51:45,780 --> 00:51:49,620 Yeah. She says no one who works on Capitol Hill should ever date anybody 770 00:51:49,620 --> 00:51:51,880 else who works on Capitol Hill. 771 00:51:52,490 --> 00:51:56,070 Okay, but where else are they supposed to meet? It's where they spend all their 772 00:51:56,070 --> 00:52:02,970 time. They run home to get four hours of sleep, eat a toaster strudel, and run 773 00:52:02,970 --> 00:52:07,010 back to the office to write the actual bills that their bosses, the elected 774 00:52:07,010 --> 00:52:08,650 representatives, don't even read. 775 00:52:09,630 --> 00:52:12,750 But AOC says there are a lot of fish in the sea. 776 00:52:13,070 --> 00:52:17,250 If someone is seeking a part, we don't need to necessarily do that here. 777 00:52:18,160 --> 00:52:21,860 Uh, no, you don't have to, but maybe if you did, your eggs wouldn't be in a 778 00:52:21,860 --> 00:52:23,180 freezer on 14th Street. 779 00:52:31,540 --> 00:52:34,440 Please, I'm all for it. 780 00:52:34,750 --> 00:52:38,510 freezing eggs, or whatever you want to do that's consensual. And that's the 781 00:52:38,510 --> 00:52:43,930 point. Stop punishing all the people who want a consensual relationship because 782 00:52:43,930 --> 00:52:49,790 offices contain some male creep, as does everywhere in life. The question is, is 783 00:52:49,790 --> 00:52:53,830 it the smart thing to throw out the baby-making with the bathwater? 784 00:52:56,030 --> 00:53:02,670 And... According to a recent article in 785 00:53:02,670 --> 00:53:08,550 Inc., called Gen Zers and millennials want workplace romance normalized even 786 00:53:08,550 --> 00:53:09,790 if it breaks company rules. 787 00:53:10,370 --> 00:53:11,570 No, it's not. 788 00:53:11,930 --> 00:53:16,130 Because here's the thing. While there are plenty of fish in the sea, there 789 00:53:16,130 --> 00:53:17,330 aren't a lot of seas. 790 00:53:18,930 --> 00:53:21,050 That is, not a lot of places to meet fish. 791 00:53:22,650 --> 00:53:26,610 The workplace is where most people have always done it. It's where most married 792 00:53:26,610 --> 00:53:27,870 couples caught their fish. 793 00:53:33,870 --> 00:53:38,890 Forbes did a study and found 43% of workplace romances ended in marriage. 794 00:53:39,090 --> 00:53:44,050 The other 57% ended on the jumbotron at a Coldplay concert. 795 00:53:49,390 --> 00:53:56,390 Is the workplace the perfect place 796 00:53:56,390 --> 00:53:57,328 to be? No. 797 00:53:57,330 --> 00:53:58,470 But what's better? 798 00:53:58,790 --> 00:53:59,790 Dating app? 799 00:54:00,350 --> 00:54:04,870 Bars? which are now places where people go out and yet somehow are still on 800 00:54:04,870 --> 00:54:05,870 their phones. 801 00:54:07,650 --> 00:54:12,510 Of course, no woman in an office wants the guy in the next cubicle giving 802 00:54:12,510 --> 00:54:17,590 unsolicited back rubs or making comments about her appearance, unless he's cute, 803 00:54:17,690 --> 00:54:19,110 and then it's, why is he ignoring me? 804 00:54:21,370 --> 00:54:27,230 But that stuff is already, if not outright illegal, very frowned upon. 805 00:54:27,390 --> 00:54:28,650 This is 2026. 806 00:54:29,260 --> 00:54:31,780 Every company has an HR department now. 807 00:54:32,020 --> 00:54:37,280 When a true predator like Eric Swalwell was finally exposed, people said, what 808 00:54:37,280 --> 00:54:38,280 took so long? 809 00:54:38,700 --> 00:54:42,400 Well, what took so long is nobody reported it for a long time. 810 00:54:42,900 --> 00:54:48,720 Now, does it take guts to do that? Sure, yes. But call me a radical feminist, I 811 00:54:48,720 --> 00:54:54,680 think women in 2026 are capable of guts and of handling most clumsy overtures 812 00:54:54,680 --> 00:54:56,400 without an act from Congress. 813 00:55:00,170 --> 00:55:05,490 There is a congressman from North Carolina, Chuck Edwards, Republican, 814 00:55:05,810 --> 00:55:09,830 Christian, married to the same woman for 40 years. Not really my jam. 815 00:55:14,910 --> 00:55:19,050 But I also don't think he should have been forced out of his race, which he 816 00:55:19,050 --> 00:55:21,810 was, for what he did, which wasn't much. 817 00:55:22,110 --> 00:55:27,450 A bipartisan House Ethics Committee did a full investigation and found zero 818 00:55:27,450 --> 00:55:29,070 evidence of sexual activity. 819 00:55:29,770 --> 00:55:32,350 physical contact, or lewd propositions. 820 00:55:32,690 --> 00:55:36,530 No, what Chuck did was buy the women in his office gifts. 821 00:55:36,810 --> 00:55:42,670 A lot of them. He bought shoes, jewelry, purses, cell phones, laptops, massages, 822 00:55:42,810 --> 00:55:44,630 kitchen appliances, spa treatments. 823 00:55:45,010 --> 00:55:46,290 You know, a real monster. 824 00:55:49,830 --> 00:55:50,830 One time. 825 00:55:51,720 --> 00:55:56,660 One time, after a staffer had a bad breakup, Congressman Edwards paid for 826 00:55:56,660 --> 00:55:59,280 her and a friend to go to New York and see Hamilton. 827 00:56:00,800 --> 00:56:02,920 Without him on the trip. 828 00:56:04,140 --> 00:56:07,780 The only thing this guy couldn't keep in his pants was his credit card. 829 00:56:15,880 --> 00:56:20,180 There's a song in Hamilton called The Room Where It Happens, and this tragic 830 00:56:20,180 --> 00:56:23,600 castrato literally couldn't get in the room where it happens. 831 00:56:25,220 --> 00:56:30,480 A room he paid for, which explains his campaign slogan, I still believe in a 832 00:56:30,480 --> 00:56:31,900 place called the friend zone. 833 00:56:38,140 --> 00:56:43,140 I tell you, thank goodness we stopped this sick, demented fuck before he sends 834 00:56:43,140 --> 00:56:45,080 another poor, defenseless woman on a spa. 835 00:56:45,310 --> 00:56:46,310 weekend. 836 00:56:48,430 --> 00:56:54,810 This maniac even once arranged for a singer at a 837 00:56:54,810 --> 00:56:59,670 staffer's birthday party, and this was so traumatic that one staffer confided 838 00:56:59,670 --> 00:57:01,750 in a friend that she was low-key scared. 839 00:57:03,590 --> 00:57:08,490 The congressional panel also found some women were uncomfortable with the gift. 840 00:57:09,350 --> 00:57:11,850 Yeah, but not so uncomfortable they didn't take them. 841 00:57:19,310 --> 00:57:24,210 Maybe let's all try a little more romance and a little less hypocrisy. You 842 00:57:24,210 --> 00:57:28,250 know, we hate it when people have sex in the office, but you know what TV show we 843 00:57:28,250 --> 00:57:29,570 love? The Office. 844 00:57:33,430 --> 00:57:39,170 The most popular sitcom of all time, reproduced all over the world, and the 845 00:57:39,170 --> 00:57:42,250 entire show is an HR department's worst nightmare. 846 00:57:43,290 --> 00:57:47,310 Everybody is either fucking or trying to fuck everybody else, and it doesn't make 847 00:57:47,310 --> 00:57:48,710 anybody low-key scared. 848 00:57:50,750 --> 00:57:55,410 Jim and Pam, Jim and Karen, Michael and Jan, Michael and Holly, Aaron and Gabe, 849 00:57:55,550 --> 00:57:59,250 Aaron and Andy, Aaron and Pete, Ryan and Kelly, Angela and Andy, Angela and 850 00:57:59,250 --> 00:58:00,250 Dwight. 851 00:58:00,330 --> 00:58:03,650 There was less incestuous fucking in Fleetwood Mac. 852 00:58:05,210 --> 00:58:09,230 All right, that's our show. I want to thank Jeremy Peters, Dan Abash, and 853 00:58:09,230 --> 00:58:11,810 Hunter Biden. Club Random drops every Monday on YouTube. 854 00:58:12,620 --> 00:58:16,680 or listen where you get your podcasts, or go watch Overtime on YouTube. Thank 855 00:58:16,680 --> 00:58:18,060 you very much, ladies and gentlemen. 856 00:58:19,560 --> 00:58:20,560 Thank you.