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Thank you, ladies and gentlemen.

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You're very kind.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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Thank you for... Okay.

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Thank you so much.

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Thank you for being in a good mood. We
did have a tough week. Dolly Parton

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died. There was this horrible flooding
in Nepal, and I found out today Canada

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has been treating me very badly.

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Have you seen this? We're in a trade war
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tariffing them, and then they were
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You know, looked like we were heading
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No deal. Why? Because they've been
taking advantage of us. Yeah.

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Fuck yeah, man. Every time... Every time
I see a Canadian, I'm like, this is the

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guy who's been fucking with me all
these... But I just want to...

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And we have a lot of viewers in Canada.
I just wanted to say to our viewers in

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Canada, we're still cool, right?

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It's not all of us. It's not all of us.
We like you.

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Trump is so mad at Canada, he renamed
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Lake America.

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Now I've got to buy a new globe again.

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It's like the fifth time it's happened.

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And liberals are very pissed at this.
They say you can't just go around

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renaming things to suit your political
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person.

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we already kind of have a war.

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We have one more going with a round.
It's not going well. We just can't seem

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to finish. It's like fucking on Coke,
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It's... What? It is.

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It's going... It's going so badly.

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Today, Pete Hegseth said, it looks like
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drinking.

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We can't seem to negotiate with Iran.

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Can't negotiate with Canada.

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I went into a bookstore today. The art
of the deal was in the humor section.

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So, but you know what?

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We have an election coming up and the
people in this country will express

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their opinion on this kind of stuff and
all stuff that's going on. We also have

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coming up a lot of anniversaries. You
know, today is the 63rd anniversary.

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of Martin Luther King's I Have a Dream
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All right, we're off next week. The week
after that, we're on 9-11,

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on the day itself. That's the 25th
anniversary of 9-11.

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Also, this week, the anniversary of
when, during the War of 1812, the

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British burned the White House. That was
back when, if you attacked a federal

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building, you were the bad guys.

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But you know what?

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All this is going on, all America could
really talk about this week was how sad

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it is we lost Dolly Parton. And you see
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around the world. London, they're doing
things.

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The Santa Monica Ferris wheel is lit up
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was put up in pink.

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The sphere in Las Vegas added a nipple.

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You know who did have a good week this
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Parents, you know why?

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Because Meta, that's Facebook and
Instagram, they're going to pony up $18

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billion because, you know, this is big.
This is the first time a court has ruled

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and people have ruled you can't
purposely addict people, especially

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children, to something that's this
harmful, like we did with cigarettes.

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They did the same thing.

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So there are new rules. If you're under
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midnight and 6 a.m. when the kids will
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So progress comes in small steps.

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But also, how about this? The Miss USA
pageant, you all watched it, right?

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We had a first, our first mom.

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You know what? I mean, the fact that
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don't know if that is going to look that
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about, hey, get out here in a bikini and
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Miss USA, about peace. And she said,
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alone, please?

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All right, we've got a great show.

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of Representative Byron Donald and Molly
Jones-Ass.

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But first off, he is the president of
Wesleyan University and author of The

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Student Destroyed History, Michael S.
Roth. Michael, how are you, sir?

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How are you?

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Great to meet you.

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All right, so you are the president of a
university. I am the president of a

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university. An elite university, and
let's be honest, you are a defender of

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elite universities. I have been a critic
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I have been a critic, too.

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Okay, maybe we'll meet in the middle.
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it's not as bad as I think it is. But,
you know, when I see the things, and it

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happens over and over again, where the
criticism comes from, indoctrination

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instead of education.

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is one of them.

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Lack of perspective, especially on world
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Western civilization.

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I think that's true.

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Intolerant of other ideas, not being
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voices.

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Is that all wrong?

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That's why so many of them want to
become investment bankers. They've been

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convinced by the faculty that socialism
is the answer. And I was told not to try

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to make a joke, and that proves they
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No, I mean, the most assigned books in
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remain Plato and Machiavelli and Mary
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There is definitely a leftist tilt.
Those ones aren't that controversial.

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No, they're not. But those are the books
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And Karl Marx. A lot of Karl Marx. And
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That's another one.

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Another joke?

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I'll leave those to you.

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I've been talking for the last 10 years
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at colleges and universities. We have
too much of a political monoculture, and

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we have to work really hard to bring
other ideas into the campus. I do think

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most teachers are not trying to
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trying to get them to think for
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But we have a lot of work to do in that
regard to make it a more open

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environment. At Wesleyan, we've tried
very hard to bring lots more

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conservative voices onto campus. We have
lectures from the editors of

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Christianity Today or from former
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and we have a veterans program.

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But I think we have to be very
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I wrote a piece in the Wall Street
Journal a decade ago calling for an

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affirmative action program for
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And everybody hated this op-ed. The
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meritocracy, and the liberals thought we
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to conservatism.

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I think we have a real problem of bias,
and we have to correct that. But it will

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only get worse if the government tries
to correct that for us. I agree with

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that also. But, I mean, the statistics,
when they've done surveys on this, And

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again, I'm not pushing for the
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place, no matter what it is, and we know
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when one party, when one point of view
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checked. And that's what's happened on
campus. Something like 77 out of 80

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professors vote Democratic.

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Yeah. That's a ridiculous number. That
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Well, I think one of the reasons you
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school for eight to ten years, and
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salary of $70,000.

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Who but a Democrat would accept that
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Look, you did it. You did it.

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You got a good joke.

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I think what has happened is that, you
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school. I was in school around the same
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We asked the professors, why don't you
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And they said, oh, we would hire women
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And it was ridiculous because they were
biased. And today people say to me, oh,

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we would hire conservatives, but we
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And that guy happens to believe the same
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But I believe that when we convince the
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this bias, they will correct.

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Right now we have students and faculty
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students to participate in the elections
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I think the greatest cure.

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for political bias or monoculture is to
get out in the streets and talk to our

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fellow citizens. And you really think
the professors are just saying to the

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kids, vote. Well, I'm not going to put
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vote for. I think that's ridiculous.

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When I went to Cornell...

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I could not tell you. I was trying to
think of it knowing you were coming on

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today. I was trying to think of any
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had who I knew what their politics was.
I can't think of one. They didn't get

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into that. Do you really think that's
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mixed bag.

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I know that, like you, I had professors
who they were just always surprising me

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by making me think about something I
didn't want to think about. But I

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couldn't tell what they really believed
themselves. There was just no politics

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at all. I feel like now it's the
opposite. Like you couldn't even get a

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job if you didn't.

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demonstrate what your politics were. And
it's very much in the classroom. We saw

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it after October 7th. It was the
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it on. Now, of course, most people in
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studying sciences, economics, business,
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I don't think any of this stuff is
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I do think that after October 7th, we
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partisanship, but also moral obtuseness.

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But we also saw a pushback against that.

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And I think that there was, in many
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the best way forward. And I think that
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more debate about the best way forward
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Okay, but, like, since I have been
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East, even before that, Israel was known
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Yes, it was.

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And that's what it was called.

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That was always a good thing.

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Now? I don't think it is. I did an
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that. The Western civilization, they
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Instead of saying Western civilization
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progressive the things they should be
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our students are learning just that in
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The professors are teaching that
message? I think they're learning it

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from my show. I don't think the
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I really don't.

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You are learning it from your show, of
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But the professors watch your show, too,
maybe even more often than an 18-year

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-old. You think I could come on campus
and speak and be welcomed?

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Welcomed? Maybe not, but certainly given
a hearing. Okay, but I shouldn't be

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welcomed? Someone who twice gave the
Democrats a million dollars, that's not

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enough credentials to come on anymore.
Well, if you came to Wesleyan with a

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million dollars, I would welcome you
with open arms. Okay, right. Well, I'm

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not going to be doing that.

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So we had Justice Scalia come to campus.

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Justice Scalia come to campus, and there
were certainly many people, oh, my gosh,

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how could he? We bring him here. He gave
a really good talk. He spent the day on

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campus talking to students. They argued
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Welcome was probably the wrong word, but
they enjoyed the debate. Okay, good. And

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that's what we want. We want people to
enjoy the debate. I would hope so,

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because I worry about your field in
general.

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looks like it's becoming obsolete for
some of the reasons we've been talking

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about, because it's lost a lot of its
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it educates.

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They think it indoctrinates. And also,
I'm sorry, but kids come out and they

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don't know anything. I mentioned the War
of 1812 here in the monologue.

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How many of the kids probably could tell
you what happened in the war? Okay. I

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think we have to do a better job of
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But, Bill, when you were in college,
when I was in college, The old folks

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complained about us, that you don't know
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it's all hippie bullshit.

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And now I don't want to be that old guy
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as much as we knew. I don't remember
anybody saying that when I was at

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Cornell. Really? I was not studying.
Richard Nixon, Spiro Agnew, and the

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people, and Ronald Reagan afterwards,
they all said that. Maybe that's true.

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They all said that. And I worry when I
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I worry that I'm one of those old guys.

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What I should be doing is just teaching
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all kinds of things. And what I do find
is that they're eager to learn.

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We should never indoctrinate students. I
agree with that. But they are eager to

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learn, and we need good teachers to
teach them. Okay, but, okay, so that

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issue is also the debt.

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People get into debt, and then they
find, well, the job isn't there that I

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went into all this debt for, perhaps, or
I'm in debt for so long trying to get

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out of it.

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Maybe it would have been better if
instead of spending $400,000 on

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Wesleyan, they just gave me $400,000
when I got out of high school, and I'd

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be better off and no less uneducated.

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And AI.

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AI is now, we've talked about it on the
show last week, they're only doing the

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kids' tests. They're taking the courses
for the kids.

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How is you going to survive in a world
where you don't actually have to know

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anything anymore? I think people said
the similar thing about how is sports

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going to survive when you can watch it
on TV?

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People love to go to a game. Terrible
analogy.

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I don't think so.

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I don't think so.

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Why would anybody play football if you
could play Madden football?

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People want to learn in their classes.

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They want to do experiments.

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What should happen at a college campus
is not the transfer of information.

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They can get more information on your
show or from their phone than they have

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to get on a college campus. What should
happen is they develop the habits of

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learning and thinking for themselves in
good company. And then they will carry

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those habits with them after they
graduate.

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And I think that's really still
important.

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Colleges all over the country are
welcoming students back.

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They're eager to be there, not so they
can assign their projects to AI, but so

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they can learn to think for themselves.
Exactly when they do surveys of

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employers.

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What they complain about is that the
kids coming out of college, they think,

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have not learned how to think. They were
told what to think, not how to think.

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And they complain about that when they
get to the workplace.

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But let me ask one final question.
Please. Because I used to play colleges

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in the 90s. It was fun. I remember.

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You do?

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Yeah. You were there?

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I remember reading about your show. Oh,
okay.

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Right. I don't know any comic who plays
colleges anymore.

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Because they just don't think the
kids... No, I'm sure there are many who

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do, probably of the much younger
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more sensitive.

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But think about it. They just don't
think the kids have a sense of humor

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that can stand up to political
incorrectness, which is what comedy is.

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I hear that a lot, and I do think that
the students I see at West End, they're

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anything but politically correct.

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They're outlandish.

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They're unconventional. They're critical
of everything.

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But if Rodney Dangerfield came to
Cornell or Don Rickles, they probably

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wouldn't have been welcome with open
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That's what happens.

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Young people don't find older people as
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But we can fight.

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I mean, I don't even think we can fight
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and in our government. And what we have
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especially, is not tell people who to
vote for, but to get students to be less

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cynical, more open-minded, and more
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All right. Well, you've made me feel a
little more optimistic about it. I thank

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you for coming on and sharing that with
me. Thank you so much. Thank you, Doc.

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Let's go.

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All right. Let's meet our panel.

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Hey.

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Hey, guys.

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All right, here's the Republican
congressman from Florida who recently

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became the party's nominee for governor.
Congratulations, Byron Donald.

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And she is the host of Fast Politics
podcast and author of How to Lose Your

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Mother, a daughter's memoir available
now in paperback. Molly's young class,

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great to see you.

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Okay.

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Going to be a busy night for you, Byron.

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Well, because, look, you're running for
governor. You won the primary.

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Congratulations. You would be the first
black Republican

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governor in this country.

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That's the first you've heard that?

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You look very surprised.

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You must have been aware of that. It's a
high honor, but in this campaign, and

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quite frankly, I think in politics
today, it's much more about... the

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vision for your state, the ideas you
have, how you improve people's lives,

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how we lower costs. It's much more about
that. Okay. It wasn't even a question.

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I'm just, here's my question.

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Your slogan is accountable, achievable,
affordable for Florida.

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Not a slogan, but true.

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That's what I read.

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You don't know a lot about your own
campaign, do you?

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You know you're running in Florida,
right? Okay.

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Anyway, I don't feel like the
president's policies are making that

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affordable part easy for you. Even the
Wall Street Journal, which is usually

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pretty far right, calls the trade war
with Canada the dumbest trade war.

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That's the title. It says Republicans
are already getting pounded on the

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campaign trail over his tariffs and
inflation, mostly because of the war.

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Byron, are you getting pounded on the
campaign trail?

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No, I think that people in Florida are
thinking about their pocketbooks. Well,

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that's what's fighting against it. How
can you explain that? Tariff policy,

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let's be very clear, is about
renegotiating certain trade policies and

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trade deals that have not worked in the
interest of the United States for a

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long, long time.

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If you're looking at USMCA, obviously
the president negotiated that one, and

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what he's doing is he's looking at some
of the outcomes and saying, you know

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what, we need to go back into this. And
I think that's where this latest spat

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with Canada is coming from.

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rather have a chief executive that looks
at these deals and engages these other

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countries and fights for Americans than
just lets them roll knowing that they're

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not going to be in the interest of small
businesses. How pissed are you at

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Canada, Molly? Are you as mad as I am?

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Have they been fucking asked as much as
Byron suggests?

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I also would like to add that I... I
thought tariffs were on-shoring

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manufacturing. I thought the goal was to
bring jobs back to America. And I'm

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telling you, we've seen the research and
it hasn't worked.

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So, like, what is Donald Trump doing?
Because I was told that factories were

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going to come back, jobs were going to
come back, and what's happened is that

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everything is just more expensive. Well,
some have. I mean, it works both ways.

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It does work both ways. But in general,
it doesn't look like a winner. It

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doesn't look like a winner at the polls.
It doesn't look like a winner for the

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economy. I'm just, I mean, they asked
him when he changed the name to Lake

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America the other day. They said, what
message was he trying to send Canada?

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And he said, no message. Canada has been
ripping us off for a long time on trade.

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Okay, well, that is a message, first of
all.

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But they're not ripping us off. Are you
not frustrated that you can't... I mean,

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I know you speak to them. I know you're
very friendly.

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They're not ripping us off. I mean,
there's eight times as many of us as

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them. Of course we're going to have a
trade deficit with them.

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We'd have to buy eight... They would
have to buy eight times as much product

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from us. No person could do that in
Canada.

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Don't you wish you could say this to the
president?

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Well, first of all, I actually thought
the Lake America thing was actually

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funny. I really did.

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I thought it was funny.

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First of all, in politics, everybody is
so uptight about so many of these

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things. What I think is far more
important is looking at some of the

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outcomes of USMCA, like I said earlier,
and then going back to the drawing board

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and finding out ways to make them better
deals in favor of the United States.

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When we set up these deals, To be
honest, it's not really about making

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sure that these other nations are
getting a better deal when that actually

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deals with what we're having to manage
economically over the long term in the

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United States. And to your point.

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If you look at what we've done on trade
in the last 40 years in this country,

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that has definitely not brought
manufacturing jobs to the United States.

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They've actually left the United States.
So it's about time somebody said enough

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of that policy.

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Let's try a new way to get a better deal
for the Americans and for our small

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business owners. I mean, Biden did
tariffs. Some tariffs, you know, tariffs

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with a scalpel actually work. That was a
good thought. But tariffs with a

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sledgehammer don't work. And in fact.

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I mean, Maggie and Swan have this book
called Regime Change, which is... Who's

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Maggie and Swan? Maggie Haberbeck and
Jonathan Swan. Just wrote a book, sorry,

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called Regime Change. And in it, they
really document a lot of the tariff

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stuff. And the reporting is that when he
first laid out the tariffs, he forgot

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China.

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Oh, he never forgot China. No, he just
doesn't want to fuck with China. He

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certainly has not forgotten China. But
if you're going to tear up a country, I

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would think China would be one. But now
he wants to punish everybody who is not

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on our side in the Iran war.

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And, you know, we can't be at war with
everybody.

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Well,

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let's talk about Iran for a moment. Oh,
good.

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Let's talk about it. All right.

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Okay.

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I'm going to put aside the core of the
entire situation, which is the Iranians

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cannot have nuclear weapons. Yeah, I
agree. We all agree on that. Well, we

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don't all agree, but I certainly have
been on that. To me, anybody who thinks

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that it's okay for the Iranians to have
a nuke, that makes no geopolitical

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sense. Even the Democrats said it for
years. It makes no sense. But anyway,

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with the Strait of Hormuz, my
frustration is that, yeah, a lot of

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these NATO countries, all they had to do
was come in and help us.

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secure shipping lanes in the strait. The
reason why navies even exist in

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countries is to make sure that
international shipping lines are not

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held hostage by any one nation or any
pirating group.

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That's the whole purpose of navies. And
you have the Europeans are sitting on

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their heels while their oil prices are
higher, their gas prices are higher, and

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them saying, oh, well, we don't have
nothing, no role to play in this. I

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think that is a frustrating part when
you know the Iranians are squeezing the

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strait simply to cause economic harm
across the world. because they're crazy,

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psychotic, and they want nuclear
weapons.

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Isn't that true?

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Sure, but... Well, the regime is crazy
and psychotic. We don't think the

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people... I don't want to cut you off.

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But the people have no ability to
actually take control of this country.

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The regime is psychotic. It's been that
way for 47 years. And then they get a

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nuke? My question is, the strait was
open.

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Wasn't the Strait open? The Strait has
always been the leverage point of the

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Iranians. But the Strait was open before
Donald Trump went to war with Iran,

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never explaining to us why.

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It's such a dumb talking point. Of
course they explained why. Okay, so why?

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To stop them from getting nuclear
weapons.

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And also, they were a terrible actor in
the Middle East. There was no way there

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was ever going to be peace in that part
of the world as long as Iran was funding

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and... But we knew... it was an
unwinnable war.

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Well, we did not know that. What they
did was they fucked up the timing,

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Byron. They should have attacked when
the people were in the streets, during

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the uprising.

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They waited until they got shot, and
then they attacked three months later.

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So, as always, not always, sometimes he
has a good idea, and then the execution

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is fucked up. But I want to move on to
something, because I promised this one

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viewer I would.

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You were endorsed by Donald Trump. Yes.

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Okay. And I said last week, I'm quoting
myself, Trump used to win all his

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endorsements. Now he's winning almost
none of them. I heard from this one

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viewer who was very upset about this,
contacted me directly.

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Well, we text.

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I'm glad we do. I'd rather have
communication.

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I agree. I agree. And he said, well, he
sent me a lot of charts. He sent me a

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lot of information.

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And I said, you know, I promised if this
is not true what I said, I will say it

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on the air.

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He's right.

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I did overstate it.

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Trump used to win all those, but now
he's winning almost none of them. That

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isn't true.

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Overstated. There. Was that so hard to
not be a dick about everything?

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To just sometimes say, and by the way.

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When I say we all shouldn't just dig in
and be a dick about anything, I'm also

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addressing that one viewer.

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But here's the fact, and it's a little
more shaded than that, but yes, 260

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people this election cycle he's
endorsed. He only lost nine, 97%. So he

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still has...

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Very powerful endorsements. But the full
picture is a little more nuanced.

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My point was that the trend looks like
it is going downward on that, because he

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did lose five governorships.

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00:27:58,490 --> 00:28:03,690
Republican primary voters, this is from
CNL, now rejected 10 Trump-endorsed

444
00:28:03,690 --> 00:28:07,850
candidates for statewide offers this
primary season. That's equal to the

445
00:28:07,850 --> 00:28:12,490
number who lost in 2018, 20, and 24
primaries combined.

446
00:28:13,610 --> 00:28:18,610
Now, he says that's because he backs a
lot of ones who were sure losers, but he

447
00:28:18,610 --> 00:28:19,630
did it just out of loyalty.

448
00:28:19,950 --> 00:28:24,070
I don't doubt that some of that is true.
I also think it's true, on the other

449
00:28:24,070 --> 00:28:27,490
side, that he wins some because he
picked some easy winners.

450
00:28:27,730 --> 00:28:31,850
He picked incumbents sometimes and
uncontested people with overwhelming...

451
00:28:31,850 --> 00:28:36,230
Okay, doesn't matter. He just won in
South Carolina, Lindsey Graham's know

452
00:28:36,230 --> 00:28:37,230
-nothing sister.

453
00:28:39,630 --> 00:28:41,270
And he won one in Oklahoma.

454
00:28:42,270 --> 00:28:47,030
He also, when you cross him like Bill
Cassidy, Thomas Massey, and John Cornyn

455
00:28:47,030 --> 00:28:51,890
did. So, okay, when he shows up at a
place like for Lindsay's sister, you

456
00:28:51,890 --> 00:28:53,270
know, he's still a star.

457
00:28:53,490 --> 00:28:56,610
And when you're a star, they let you do
it, okay? And they come out and they

458
00:28:56,610 --> 00:28:59,890
vote for him. So there, that's the
truth. It's a little more nuanced, but

459
00:28:59,890 --> 00:29:02,290
yes, I overstated it. Now stop texting.

460
00:29:10,330 --> 00:29:11,330
I won, though.

461
00:29:12,080 --> 00:29:13,640
You won what? I won the nomination.

462
00:29:14,040 --> 00:29:17,080
I know, I know you, yeah. But you did,
to your point that you were making

463
00:29:17,080 --> 00:29:20,620
earlier, you did lose the redneck
Riviera badly.

464
00:29:21,420 --> 00:29:25,180
And, you know, I think... Uh, okay, go
ahead.

465
00:29:26,560 --> 00:29:30,780
No, I'm just, I think, look, I can't get
with you on a lot of this policy stuff,

466
00:29:30,840 --> 00:29:33,900
but I think it would be great if the
country did have the first black

467
00:29:33,900 --> 00:29:34,900
Republican government.

468
00:29:35,440 --> 00:29:36,840
And I do.

469
00:29:39,690 --> 00:29:44,590
And I also think it's great that you
want to run in the post-racial world

470
00:29:44,590 --> 00:29:48,050
that we imagined years ago. And, you
know, just the character of their

471
00:29:48,050 --> 00:29:52,370
character and not the color of their
skin. We're not quite there yet, though.

472
00:29:52,430 --> 00:29:56,750
Right. I mean, because I think I mean,
the Redneck Riviera, which is the

473
00:29:56,750 --> 00:30:00,510
panhandle. I don't think people can
maybe sometimes picture the map of

474
00:30:00,510 --> 00:30:02,790
Florida, but goes all the way under
Alabama.

475
00:30:03,110 --> 00:30:05,890
Can you imagine how redneck you have to
be to be under Alabama?

476
00:30:09,500 --> 00:30:15,220
It's a beautiful place, man. I know.
It's beautiful. But I think there are

477
00:30:15,220 --> 00:30:16,760
people there who still would not.

478
00:30:16,960 --> 00:30:19,540
You're a Republican. You're a Trumper.
They should love you.

479
00:30:19,760 --> 00:30:23,180
And they don't. I think there is still
racism. I'm going to bring you on the

480
00:30:23,180 --> 00:30:26,160
campaign trail with me. You're going to
find out. Look, let's talk a little bit

481
00:30:26,160 --> 00:30:29,620
about the panhandle. There were counties
we did incredibly well in that we won.

482
00:30:30,010 --> 00:30:32,810
There were some counties that we fell a
little short in. That's okay.

483
00:30:33,010 --> 00:30:37,650
But there was also 11 Republicans on the
ballot, many people who had various

484
00:30:37,650 --> 00:30:38,650
lines of support.

485
00:30:39,150 --> 00:30:45,630
The number one thing overall, we closed
out 48% of the vote. In Florida, 800,000

486
00:30:45,630 --> 00:30:48,980
votes. has gone a long way to becoming
the nominee.

487
00:30:49,240 --> 00:30:53,120
I think Florida really has become the
microcosm of what we all want. It's a

488
00:30:53,120 --> 00:30:56,380
meritocracy, and it's about the best
person with the best views, the best

489
00:30:56,380 --> 00:30:59,920
skills, the best talent moving forward
to represent your state or to represent

490
00:30:59,920 --> 00:31:02,700
a district in your state, and Florida
exemplifies that.

491
00:31:03,860 --> 00:31:04,860
Yes.

492
00:31:06,200 --> 00:31:09,380
You've had to say some stuff.

493
00:31:09,980 --> 00:31:13,360
Like last week on Margaret Brennan's
show, you said,

494
00:31:14,570 --> 00:31:19,890
rampant illegal immigration was the
cause for this measles outbreak and not

495
00:31:19,890 --> 00:31:22,990
being vaccinated.

496
00:31:23,290 --> 00:31:24,109
I'm curious.

497
00:31:24,110 --> 00:31:26,050
I have three kids. You have three kids.

498
00:31:26,350 --> 00:31:28,050
Do you not vaccinate your kids?

499
00:31:28,390 --> 00:31:32,370
I vaccinated mine. Also, Molly, I didn't
realize we were doing a solo interview

500
00:31:32,370 --> 00:31:33,370
of me, but that's okay.

501
00:31:34,590 --> 00:31:36,350
That is okay.

502
00:31:36,630 --> 00:31:37,449
It's a panel.

503
00:31:37,450 --> 00:31:38,690
We're talking to each other.

504
00:31:39,590 --> 00:31:40,610
Translate through me?

505
00:31:48,169 --> 00:31:50,670
There are parents who want to make those
decisions.

506
00:31:51,010 --> 00:31:54,330
They want to be able to make those
decisions about their children. The

507
00:31:54,330 --> 00:31:57,710
other thing is, hold on a second. The
other thing is, my oldest son is 23

508
00:31:57,710 --> 00:31:58,710
years old.

509
00:31:58,970 --> 00:32:03,350
The vaccination schedule for him was
less intense than the vaccination

510
00:32:03,350 --> 00:32:05,030
schedule for my 15-year-old son.

511
00:32:05,760 --> 00:32:09,720
And I think if you talk to my mom, the
vaccine schedule for me being 47 years

512
00:32:09,720 --> 00:32:12,720
old was not nearly as intense as it is
for newborns today.

513
00:32:13,100 --> 00:32:17,340
So I think there are parents, there are
mothers who have real concerns about the

514
00:32:17,340 --> 00:32:22,940
frequency of vaccines for young infants
into just being a toddler. And so I

515
00:32:22,940 --> 00:32:25,900
think some of the order that came out
the other day from the White House was,

516
00:32:26,000 --> 00:32:28,820
well, let's just spread the vaccination
schedule back out.

517
00:32:29,060 --> 00:32:32,440
Let parents have an ability to make
those decisions.

518
00:32:32,970 --> 00:32:34,610
for their children with informed
consent.

519
00:32:34,850 --> 00:32:38,590
And then the last piece is, let's also
make sure that the human body in its

520
00:32:38,590 --> 00:32:42,770
infancy can actually manage the amount
of vaccines that are being put into

521
00:32:42,770 --> 00:32:44,730
their child. I don't think there's
anything wrong with that.

522
00:32:45,530 --> 00:32:46,530
I don't either.

523
00:32:46,750 --> 00:32:48,350
I mean,

524
00:32:49,790 --> 00:32:52,390
we have people dying of measles.

525
00:32:52,890 --> 00:32:58,710
We had two people in Ohio die of
measles. Like, we were almost eradicated

526
00:32:58,710 --> 00:33:01,750
from measles, and now we have measles
again. And there's a reason for that.

527
00:33:03,080 --> 00:33:08,140
I mean, the idea that you said illegal
immigration causes, you understand

528
00:33:08,140 --> 00:33:10,360
that's not what happened.

529
00:33:10,560 --> 00:33:13,560
Under the previous administration, more
than 10 million people came into the

530
00:33:13,560 --> 00:33:14,479
country illegally.

531
00:33:14,480 --> 00:33:17,600
And I know for a fact, just like
everybody else, you can read your notes

532
00:33:17,600 --> 00:33:20,980
too, they weren't checking their
vaccination schedules coming into the

533
00:33:20,980 --> 00:33:24,340
United States. That's a fact. That's
number one. Number two, there was a

534
00:33:24,340 --> 00:33:27,960
measles outbreak in a couple of the
detention facilities on the southern

535
00:33:27,960 --> 00:33:32,160
border. There was a measles outbreak in
El Paso, Texas. There was also one in

536
00:33:32,160 --> 00:33:34,780
Chicago. at another illegal immigration
facility.

537
00:33:35,120 --> 00:33:39,120
Those are the facts. So when you let
that many people come into your country,

538
00:33:39,300 --> 00:33:42,160
well, we already know in other countries
they don't have the vaccination schedule

539
00:33:42,160 --> 00:33:46,000
that we have. And then when the
Department of Health and Human Services

540
00:33:46,000 --> 00:33:50,140
is talking about American children, now
you're finding fault with vaccination

541
00:33:50,140 --> 00:33:53,560
schedules for American children? I don't
think that's an accurate way to look at

542
00:33:53,560 --> 00:33:55,000
it. I don't want to talk about vaccines
anymore.

543
00:33:56,120 --> 00:33:57,560
I had measles.

544
00:33:58,080 --> 00:34:01,040
As a kid, I loved it. I was home for two
weeks. I ate ice cream every day. But,

545
00:34:01,060 --> 00:34:02,380
you know, I get it. It can be bad.

546
00:34:03,200 --> 00:34:06,460
But we're talking about this war that
we're having with Canada. And I just

547
00:34:06,460 --> 00:34:11,120
want to say that in any war, what you
have to do is get the civilian

548
00:34:11,120 --> 00:34:15,460
population on your side. Now, during
World War II, we put out World War II

549
00:34:15,460 --> 00:34:18,500
posters. I'm sure people are familiar
with some of what they look like.

550
00:34:18,820 --> 00:34:23,440
The problem with a war on Canada is that
we don't hate Canada to begin with.

551
00:34:24,330 --> 00:34:27,770
And so they've come up with the
administration has some new posters to

552
00:34:27,770 --> 00:34:32,270
get us to be angry enough at the
Canadians. Would you like to see some of

553
00:34:32,270 --> 00:34:33,449
that? I thought we would.

554
00:34:37,389 --> 00:34:42,270
All right. For example, there's this
one. She's fucking you, but she's

555
00:34:42,270 --> 00:34:43,270
thinking of them.

556
00:34:47,750 --> 00:34:50,270
Yeah, I don't get I don't get them out
of Canada.

557
00:34:51,400 --> 00:34:55,040
Canadian geese crashing our planes into
the Hudson since 2009.

558
00:35:02,240 --> 00:35:04,640
Nickelback, never forget who did this to
us.

559
00:35:11,340 --> 00:35:15,700
Canadian bacon is ham. If they'll lie
about this, what won't they lie about?

560
00:35:21,840 --> 00:35:25,240
When Canada sends its pop stars, they're
not sending their best.

561
00:35:30,060 --> 00:35:36,320
You wanted that job in a comedy troupe,
but it went to a Canadian.

562
00:35:41,040 --> 00:35:47,080
And Canadians are so nice. What's so
nice about stealing Katy Perry?

563
00:35:57,370 --> 00:36:04,230
Well, we here in America, on shows like
this, have been obsessing

564
00:36:04,230 --> 00:36:08,350
about things like war and tariffs. A lot
of America, I noticed this week, was

565
00:36:08,350 --> 00:36:10,690
talking about Lindsay Clancy.

566
00:36:11,330 --> 00:36:16,050
And I must say, I learned a lot this
week. And probably things that you

567
00:36:16,050 --> 00:36:17,050
already know.

568
00:36:17,430 --> 00:36:21,530
Byron, did you learn a lot this week
about moms? And you're a dad, maybe you

569
00:36:21,530 --> 00:36:22,530
do all this stuff.

570
00:36:22,710 --> 00:36:26,870
I've never had kids, and everyone seems
to now agree with me.

571
00:36:27,430 --> 00:36:30,090
It's a hard thing to do, to have kids.

572
00:36:30,790 --> 00:36:36,650
And I just want to ask, this woman,
Lindsay Clancy, she killed her three

573
00:36:36,650 --> 00:36:38,790
children because she had postpartum
depression.

574
00:36:39,790 --> 00:36:44,450
What I learned is that this is a very
prevalent thing. It's very real. I

575
00:36:44,450 --> 00:36:46,630
absolutely don't think she knew what she
was doing.

576
00:36:47,270 --> 00:36:50,610
I get that. What I don't get is, why
does she have fans?

577
00:36:51,290 --> 00:36:55,570
There are so many women now who are,
like, outside the courthouse. It's a

578
00:36:55,570 --> 00:36:56,570
little like Luigi.

579
00:36:56,710 --> 00:36:59,030
Like, I understand the frustration.

580
00:36:59,270 --> 00:37:05,670
Don't understand why the fans, and it's
just because this has been a cause celeb

581
00:37:05,670 --> 00:37:07,790
that has gone under the radar for so
long?

582
00:37:08,090 --> 00:37:12,930
So my guess is that postpartum
psychosis, which is what she had, is

583
00:37:12,930 --> 00:37:17,370
very real. I mean, it's not so common,
but it happens.

584
00:37:17,960 --> 00:37:23,340
And I think that a lot of women, this
has sort of brought up postpartum

585
00:37:23,340 --> 00:37:24,840
psychosis as a topic.

586
00:37:25,160 --> 00:37:29,120
The reporting on this story is horrific.

587
00:37:29,380 --> 00:37:33,600
Like, she keeps putting herself in
mental institutions. She goes to McLean.

588
00:37:33,640 --> 00:37:38,500
She's a labor and delivery nurse. So if
there ever were a person who knows about

589
00:37:38,500 --> 00:37:40,920
postpartum care, it would be her.

590
00:37:41,450 --> 00:37:46,030
In the reporting, it says she doesn't
want to report how bad her symptoms are

591
00:37:46,030 --> 00:37:47,810
because she's worried she's going to
lose her kids.

592
00:37:48,350 --> 00:37:53,690
It is one of the worst stories ever. And
in my mind, you know, she's paralyzed

593
00:37:53,690 --> 00:37:57,150
now. And so she's in this wheelchair
trying.

594
00:37:57,830 --> 00:38:02,170
I'm not sure that the courts are the
answer to a problem like this. But if we

595
00:38:02,170 --> 00:38:06,310
move away from just this extreme
version, which, again, I learned is more

596
00:38:06,310 --> 00:38:07,830
prevalent than I knew before.

597
00:38:09,020 --> 00:38:13,700
What I learned reading about this this
week is, okay, obviously not a lot of

598
00:38:13,700 --> 00:38:16,320
women go to the length of killing their
kid.

599
00:38:17,420 --> 00:38:20,620
But a lot of them are not afraid to say,
I don't like being a mom.

600
00:38:21,140 --> 00:38:24,420
They put up TikToks just talking about
it.

601
00:38:24,640 --> 00:38:31,380
And they seem to be just frustrated with
what, back in the day, I think

602
00:38:31,380 --> 00:38:34,780
mothers just expected was going to
happen when you're having a kid.

603
00:38:35,080 --> 00:38:37,920
And, I mean, I think a lot of it is, you
know.

604
00:38:38,490 --> 00:38:42,030
They did it to themselves because
everything is a negotiation with a kid.

605
00:38:42,130 --> 00:38:46,090
And if you were negotiating everything,
I mean, my mother didn't negotiate with

606
00:38:46,090 --> 00:38:50,150
me. It just wasn't a thing. And, of
course, you weren't as frazzled if you

607
00:38:50,150 --> 00:38:54,170
didn't have to. If you have to negotiate
with a child all day long, look at

608
00:38:54,170 --> 00:38:55,650
Congress. Thank you, ladies and
gentlemen.

609
00:39:05,609 --> 00:39:07,890
smarter than a lot of the members of
Congress.

610
00:39:08,370 --> 00:39:11,210
But I agree. I mean, there are people
who don't want to be parents. That's why

611
00:39:11,210 --> 00:39:14,430
our birth rates are down through the
floor. But part of that is because they

612
00:39:14,430 --> 00:39:18,010
don't have, you know, in a lot of
countries, we have a lot of child care

613
00:39:18,010 --> 00:39:20,950
and we have a lot of, in a lot of
countries, they have scaffolding for

614
00:39:20,950 --> 00:39:24,150
people to have kids. They have child
care. They have health care. We don't

615
00:39:24,150 --> 00:39:25,069
have that here.

616
00:39:25,070 --> 00:39:27,390
I mean, look, three kids are gone.

617
00:39:28,060 --> 00:39:32,940
And as a father, that's just tragic in
and of itself. I think to what this

618
00:39:32,940 --> 00:39:37,480
whole story really has become, it
demonstrates some of the holes that we

619
00:39:37,480 --> 00:39:39,360
do have in mental health in the United
States.

620
00:39:39,820 --> 00:39:43,480
I know in Florida, if you talk to my
sheriffs, half of their population.

621
00:39:44,590 --> 00:39:46,870
is mental health issues in the county
jail system.

622
00:39:47,150 --> 00:39:51,370
There are beds that we need in order to
help provide mental health care to

623
00:39:51,370 --> 00:39:55,050
people who have acute cases, just so
that some of the other resources that

624
00:39:55,050 --> 00:39:58,590
are there are available to people who
might just need some outpatient care.

625
00:39:58,830 --> 00:40:01,330
They might just need a phone call. They
might just need a follow-up, something

626
00:40:01,330 --> 00:40:05,270
to help them get through the day. I
think this story, obviously, is a

627
00:40:05,270 --> 00:40:06,350
tragedy in and of itself.

628
00:40:06,760 --> 00:40:11,460
But it does demonstrate that there are
some real holes in health care. And from

629
00:40:11,460 --> 00:40:16,040
my perspective, we have to really think
about how we're going to deliver it,

630
00:40:16,040 --> 00:40:19,500
especially in some of the real acute
mental health issues that do exist in

631
00:40:19,500 --> 00:40:22,260
the United States. I mean, that's and
obviously, you know, the other social

632
00:40:22,260 --> 00:40:26,600
media stuff that's out there. Social
media, I think, is helping to play into

633
00:40:26,600 --> 00:40:28,940
those mental health issues. They are not
helping abate them.

634
00:40:29,260 --> 00:40:30,500
Can I ask you about another?

635
00:40:37,230 --> 00:40:42,730
Another pop culture issue, sort of. The
owner of the 49ers. Oh, boy.

636
00:40:44,270 --> 00:40:45,270
Beautiful.

637
00:40:45,910 --> 00:40:50,710
Wow, that's all I had to say was the
owner of the 49ers. Looks like he's got

638
00:40:50,710 --> 00:40:51,710
a great team this year.

639
00:40:55,990 --> 00:41:01,730
He's a billionaire. He went back to his
home state of Ohio and was looking for

640
00:41:01,730 --> 00:41:05,810
some action and didn't get it,
basically.

641
00:41:06,710 --> 00:41:11,450
He went to a trailer park and, you know,
what, Byron?

642
00:41:11,650 --> 00:41:12,910
I know nothing about this.

643
00:41:14,870 --> 00:41:16,610
Nothing at all. Well, listen up.

644
00:41:18,270 --> 00:41:19,510
Because I'm going to tell you.

645
00:41:20,170 --> 00:41:21,350
It's not a lot to know.

646
00:41:23,010 --> 00:41:24,190
I can sum it up.

647
00:41:25,000 --> 00:41:29,100
He was back in his home state of Ohio
and kind of a poor area.

648
00:41:29,320 --> 00:41:33,200
And, you know, I guess you'd go on the
Internet and hook up with somebody or

649
00:41:33,200 --> 00:41:39,800
say you'll meet with somebody. And an
undercover cop busted him. It was $160.

650
00:41:40,120 --> 00:41:41,380
There he is getting arrested.

651
00:41:41,700 --> 00:41:43,120
I mean, why?

652
00:41:43,540 --> 00:41:49,120
Why are we, why is this guy, which is
just pathetic, to have a billion dollars

653
00:41:49,120 --> 00:41:50,940
and this is the best hooker you can get?

654
00:41:53,260 --> 00:41:54,300
But why?

655
00:41:58,540 --> 00:42:02,660
Why does America still have a morality
police, basically?

656
00:42:03,300 --> 00:42:08,960
I'm the daughter of Erica John, so I'm
not going to argue with you here. I

657
00:42:08,960 --> 00:42:13,020
agree. I think that, again, we're
arresting all the wrong people for the

658
00:42:13,020 --> 00:42:14,680
wrong stuff, right? Not all.

659
00:42:14,960 --> 00:42:15,960
Well, but I mean.

660
00:42:16,230 --> 00:42:20,110
comes to this this is clearly there's
clearly a lot more to this story also

661
00:42:20,110 --> 00:42:23,790
that we're not totally getting i think
what are we not getting i mean i don't

662
00:42:23,790 --> 00:42:28,870
know he's a billionaire he wanders into
a no i just think with a billion dollars

663
00:42:28,870 --> 00:42:35,770
you ain't wandering let's just yeah i
mean just go to a

664
00:42:35,770 --> 00:42:40,820
bar man just go to a bar That's all I
got to say. Just go to a bar. Well, it

665
00:42:40,820 --> 00:42:44,620
doesn't work that way in bars, Byron.
People, they're not hookers in bars.

666
00:42:46,600 --> 00:42:48,980
Well, I guess there are some hookers in
bars. I don't know.

667
00:42:50,180 --> 00:42:52,000
All right. I'll move on to another
thing.

668
00:42:52,380 --> 00:42:53,380
Hakeem Jeffries.

669
00:42:53,420 --> 00:42:57,620
This is interesting. And this gets to
the president and whether his grip is

670
00:42:57,620 --> 00:42:59,060
slipping a little bit or not.

671
00:43:01,040 --> 00:43:02,040
Jared Kushner.

672
00:43:02,280 --> 00:43:04,900
And when you're meeting with Jared
Kushner, you're meeting with.

673
00:43:05,360 --> 00:43:07,400
as close you can get to the
administration.

674
00:43:07,780 --> 00:43:11,060
I mean, he's his number one boy. He's
obviously the son-in-law.

675
00:43:11,740 --> 00:43:14,360
Whatever the important mission is, he
sends Jared.

676
00:43:14,580 --> 00:43:18,920
He sent him to meet with, or I think
Kushner asked for the meeting, with

677
00:43:18,920 --> 00:43:23,840
Hakeem Jeffries. To me, this says that
the Republicans know Hakeem Jeffries.

678
00:43:24,250 --> 00:43:27,990
who is the House Minority Leader, is
going to be the House Majority Leader

679
00:43:27,990 --> 00:43:31,870
after the Republicans get their ass
kicked in the midterms. It's going to

680
00:43:31,870 --> 00:43:34,890
happen. I'm not saying that. It just is.

681
00:43:37,370 --> 00:43:42,370
And, you know, I'm for this because I'm
always for talking to people. Not

682
00:43:42,370 --> 00:43:43,370
everybody is.

683
00:43:43,830 --> 00:43:47,810
One aide said, of course, off the
record, opening a back channel, I think,

684
00:43:47,830 --> 00:43:50,030
is just a governing reality.

685
00:43:50,350 --> 00:43:51,350
I would agree with that.

686
00:43:51,670 --> 00:43:56,370
James Carville, who I always usually
agree with, he says, no, we don't want

687
00:43:56,370 --> 00:43:59,450
to fuck with them unless we absolutely
have to. Well, James, you do.

688
00:43:59,910 --> 00:44:02,230
They're in office. You have to.

689
00:44:02,570 --> 00:44:03,970
He says, no more meetings.

690
00:44:04,640 --> 00:44:08,520
Okay, you know, it's a meeting, not
dating. And it wasn't on Epstein Island.

691
00:44:11,140 --> 00:44:15,000
You've got to talk to people you don't
like. Not everybody's Dolly Parton,

692
00:44:15,000 --> 00:44:18,780
okay? She's the only one everybody
liked. Everybody else falls short.

693
00:44:19,000 --> 00:44:22,460
That's right. Dolly Parton vaxxed and
gave money. Sorry, sorry. Anyway.

694
00:44:23,240 --> 00:44:24,620
But yes, you're right.

695
00:44:25,260 --> 00:44:30,860
I think one of the most dangerous things
that Democrats do is this idea that we

696
00:44:30,860 --> 00:44:34,860
shouldn't meet people we don't agree
with. We shouldn't go on shows with

697
00:44:34,860 --> 00:44:38,920
people we don't agree with. We should go
everywhere. And we saw that with Harris,

698
00:44:39,040 --> 00:44:42,780
you know, that she didn't want to go on
Rogan. And there was this whole talk

699
00:44:42,780 --> 00:44:43,618
about Rogan.

700
00:44:43,620 --> 00:44:46,580
That was the only way we were going to
get in front of 100 million people.

701
00:44:46,680 --> 00:44:50,840
Like, that was it. So do I think we
should go everywhere? Yes. Now, here's

702
00:44:50,840 --> 00:44:54,220
my question for you. First of all, I
have two questions. One is, who set this

703
00:44:54,220 --> 00:44:55,129
meeting up?

704
00:44:55,130 --> 00:44:58,930
I really want to know. What I read is
that it came from Kushner. I don't think

705
00:44:58,930 --> 00:44:59,930
that's so relevant.

706
00:45:00,070 --> 00:45:03,870
It's very relevant. I think it's
relevant. It's very relevant that the

707
00:45:03,870 --> 00:45:08,870
administration reached out to him. First
of all, Jared obviously is doing stuff

708
00:45:08,870 --> 00:45:12,210
over in the Middle East. I think
everybody kind of knows that. But that

709
00:45:12,210 --> 00:45:16,630
being said, if he is talking to Hakeem
Jeffries and they're having a

710
00:45:16,630 --> 00:45:18,110
conversation, okay.

711
00:45:18,730 --> 00:45:20,150
We're talking about policy. Okay.

712
00:45:20,430 --> 00:45:23,150
How do you think we're going to solve so
many of these issues? I know. We're all

713
00:45:23,150 --> 00:45:24,970
agreeing. We're all agreeing. Talk.
Talk.

714
00:45:25,190 --> 00:45:29,310
Definitely talk. But my question is come
from a place of strength, right?

715
00:45:29,510 --> 00:45:33,010
Jared is having this meeting because
they think they're going to lose the

716
00:45:33,010 --> 00:45:36,210
House. That's right. So why are you
coming in a defensive way? And he did

717
00:45:36,210 --> 00:45:38,450
this video and he says we talked about
affordability.

718
00:45:39,130 --> 00:45:42,110
There is no way they're talking about
affordability. He's coming in a

719
00:45:42,110 --> 00:45:44,370
defensive way because Democrats are
freaking out.

720
00:45:44,770 --> 00:45:46,450
Why are Democrats freaking out?

721
00:45:46,850 --> 00:45:49,670
Republicans aren't freaking out that
Jared had a meeting with Hakeem. It's

722
00:45:49,670 --> 00:45:51,790
been Democrats that are freaking out.
You just said Carmel did.

723
00:45:52,010 --> 00:45:54,410
It's Democrats that were freaking out
about this. It is always the left that

724
00:45:54,410 --> 00:45:56,670
can't stand to talk. And so my attitude
is this. Look.

725
00:45:57,040 --> 00:45:59,300
If you really want to get down to
business, you're going to have to talk

726
00:45:59,300 --> 00:46:03,400
to the other side. Right. I'm working on
legislation right now about opening up

727
00:46:03,400 --> 00:46:06,540
commercial flood because the National
Flood Insurance Program isn't helping

728
00:46:06,540 --> 00:46:09,120
the American people. It's very
expensive. You're not getting very good

729
00:46:09,120 --> 00:46:12,460
coverage. So open up commercial flood.
I'm talking to a Democrat about that,

730
00:46:12,520 --> 00:46:15,600
trying to get that policy done. If
you're going to get some of these common

731
00:46:15,600 --> 00:46:19,240
-sense solutions accomplished, you're
going to have to deal with the other

732
00:46:19,240 --> 00:46:20,240
side of the political aisle.

733
00:46:20,500 --> 00:46:22,600
That's a reality while maintaining your
principles.

734
00:46:22,980 --> 00:46:25,040
Okay. Thank you, guys. Time for New
Rule.

735
00:46:27,200 --> 00:46:28,200
Okay.

736
00:46:31,960 --> 00:46:32,960
All right.

737
00:46:34,980 --> 00:46:39,640
Remember, someone has to explain why the
toilets in Japan are so far superior to

738
00:46:39,640 --> 00:46:40,860
the ones we have here.

739
00:46:42,500 --> 00:46:46,680
If we are the greatest country in the
world, why are we number two at number

740
00:46:46,680 --> 00:46:47,680
two?

741
00:46:54,060 --> 00:46:57,860
Japan looked at wiping your ass with
paper and said, we can do better.

742
00:46:58,080 --> 00:47:00,740
America said, let's make this stuff
thinner.

743
00:47:04,980 --> 00:47:09,520
New Rule. Now that San Francisco 49ers
owner and billionaire Jed York has been

744
00:47:09,520 --> 00:47:12,640
charged with arranging to meet a
prostitute in a trailer park in his

745
00:47:12,640 --> 00:47:17,380
hometown of East Palestine, Ohio, for
$160, let's honor him for putting money

746
00:47:17,380 --> 00:47:19,040
back into vulnerable communities.

747
00:47:26,480 --> 00:47:29,840
This doesn't sound like a crime. It
sounds like a new program called NFL

748
00:47:29,840 --> 00:47:30,840
Cares.

749
00:47:35,840 --> 00:47:41,820
But, Jed, I have to know, what exactly
do you get for $160

750
00:47:41,820 --> 00:47:48,260
in rural Ohio? Because for $160 in San
Francisco, I'm pretty sure all you do is

751
00:47:48,260 --> 00:47:49,260
get to watch.

752
00:47:57,160 --> 00:47:59,080
New Rule... Oh, excuse me.

753
00:48:00,540 --> 00:48:05,980
Since zoos are animal prisons, let's
turn our prisons into zoos. Who wouldn't

754
00:48:05,980 --> 00:48:07,620
want to take the family to the prison
zoo?

755
00:48:09,220 --> 00:48:12,080
Look, they're feeding Harvey Weinstein.

756
00:48:18,640 --> 00:48:19,640
Oh,

757
00:48:20,440 --> 00:48:23,520
a real-life serial killer. They're
endangered, you know.

758
00:48:30,440 --> 00:48:33,940
Quiet, it's a white-collar criminal.
They're very shy and rarely come out of

759
00:48:33,940 --> 00:48:34,940
their enclosure.

760
00:48:41,480 --> 00:48:43,160
Oh my gosh, Ghislaine Maxwell.

761
00:48:43,500 --> 00:48:45,520
Look, now she's being groomed.

762
00:48:50,960 --> 00:48:51,960
New Rule,

763
00:48:55,240 --> 00:48:59,580
now that we know that sound waves
directed at the penis can have a

764
00:48:59,580 --> 00:49:02,860
positive effect for men suffering from
erectile dysfunction.

765
00:49:03,460 --> 00:49:06,760
Doctors have to tell us, is this
something that can only be done at the

766
00:49:06,760 --> 00:49:11,040
office with special equipment, or can
you just tell your partner, try yelling

767
00:49:11,040 --> 00:49:12,040
at it?

768
00:49:17,180 --> 00:49:23,980
Um... Several news outlets reporting on
the Chinese robot that

769
00:49:23,980 --> 00:49:28,020
broke Usain Bolt's 100-meter dash record
must tell the full story.

770
00:49:28,700 --> 00:49:34,100
The robot ended this triumphant sprint
by slamming full speed into a wall.

771
00:49:43,280 --> 00:49:46,600
So it's not a good substitute for Usain
Bolt.

772
00:49:46,860 --> 00:49:49,280
Tiger Woods, yes, but not Usain Bolt.

773
00:49:57,520 --> 00:50:01,300
If you're looking to find out why our
government is so dysfunctional and why

774
00:50:01,300 --> 00:50:05,860
the sensible middle never seems to win
elections, stop. I'm going to tell you.

775
00:50:06,080 --> 00:50:10,040
And as they say in the world of
clickbait, the answer may surprise you.

776
00:50:12,040 --> 00:50:17,100
Because while we've all been obsessing
over the gerontocracy in Washington and

777
00:50:17,100 --> 00:50:21,840
how Congress looks a lot like the 4 p.m.
dinner hour in Boca Raton,

778
00:50:22,000 --> 00:50:25,540
we're missing something important.

779
00:50:26,250 --> 00:50:31,650
The people who actually run the country
aren't old. They're probably too young.

780
00:50:32,090 --> 00:50:36,970
Yes, the public face of the government
may be an 82-year-old almost dead

781
00:50:36,970 --> 00:50:37,970
person.

782
00:50:39,670 --> 00:50:44,750
But the person who's really puppeteering
this lunatocracy of ours, that's this

783
00:50:44,750 --> 00:50:49,570
guy, a 26-year-old congressional staffer
with the Twitter handle Tactical

784
00:50:49,570 --> 00:50:50,570
Amphibian.

785
00:50:51,250 --> 00:50:52,570
Or something like that.

786
00:50:54,610 --> 00:50:55,930
Congressional staffers.

787
00:50:56,250 --> 00:50:59,650
That's who writes the material. The
politicians just perform it.

788
00:51:00,190 --> 00:51:03,910
Did you see the Canadian senator who
recently did this?

789
00:51:04,430 --> 00:51:10,210
Citizens often develop expectations that
exceed the powers actually granted to

790
00:51:10,210 --> 00:51:11,209
those offices.

791
00:51:11,210 --> 00:51:14,750
Here's a more natural flowing version of
that section that reads like a

792
00:51:14,750 --> 00:51:17,050
legislative speech rather than a series
of short points.

793
00:51:17,830 --> 00:51:18,830
Yes.

794
00:51:21,210 --> 00:51:25,590
That's right. He read out loud the part
where the chatbot tells him how not to

795
00:51:25,590 --> 00:51:26,590
sound like a chatbot.

796
00:51:30,270 --> 00:51:37,250
A lot of people these days are asking,
where's

797
00:51:37,250 --> 00:51:38,250
Mitch McConnell?

798
00:51:38,290 --> 00:51:42,270
Oh, I know where he is. In Hades,
arguing with Odysseus about whether it's

799
00:51:42,270 --> 00:51:43,710
better down there or up here.

800
00:51:50,320 --> 00:51:55,360
But his body is still a senator, and
someone's using it to vote. The

801
00:51:55,360 --> 00:52:00,340
Secretary of Education is Lyndon
McMahon, who's 77, and who recently

802
00:52:00,340 --> 00:52:03,420
referred to AI as A1.

803
00:52:07,100 --> 00:52:11,120
Now, she may think the internet is
powered by steak sauce, but...

804
00:52:19,790 --> 00:52:24,070
But her staff of 20-somethings knows
better, and they're the ones who will be

805
00:52:24,070 --> 00:52:26,070
writing the legislation about it.

806
00:52:26,410 --> 00:52:30,210
Which would be okay if the kids were all
right, but the kids are not all right.

807
00:52:30,350 --> 00:52:32,930
At least not the ones in this job, and
not on either side.

808
00:52:33,250 --> 00:52:35,050
Because who gets these staff jobs?

809
00:52:35,610 --> 00:52:42,490
Young, ideologically extreme weirdos who
live online and spend their days either

810
00:52:42,490 --> 00:52:45,690
accusing people of settler colonialism.

811
00:52:46,830 --> 00:52:49,550
Or posting AI memes of Trump riding a
lion.

812
00:52:50,250 --> 00:52:56,650
These are not the kind of people who
have an eye on the art of compromise or

813
00:52:56,650 --> 00:52:58,390
delivering for the American people.

814
00:52:59,170 --> 00:53:02,290
Arriving at solutions, grand bargains,
please.

815
00:53:02,870 --> 00:53:04,610
They grew up on social media.

816
00:53:04,870 --> 00:53:07,370
They're about getting a sick burn to go
viral.

817
00:53:07,850 --> 00:53:12,430
Trolling, owning, destroying,
shitposting, rage baiting, that stuff.

818
00:53:12,910 --> 00:53:13,910
On the right?

819
00:53:14,920 --> 00:53:18,980
Republican leaders in New York State
voted to disband the entire Young

820
00:53:18,980 --> 00:53:24,360
Republican Club because their chats to
each other were so full of truly vile

821
00:53:24,360 --> 00:53:26,340
rhetoric, it embarrassed even them.

822
00:53:27,000 --> 00:53:31,260
It's not surprising, considering that
the conservative estimate of how many

823
00:53:31,260 --> 00:53:37,660
Young Republican staffers are fans of
Nick Fuentes is 40%. It could be as high

824
00:53:37,660 --> 00:53:41,600
as 75%. And Nick says things like,
Hitler is awesome.

825
00:53:42,170 --> 00:53:43,990
And I'm not living around blacks.

826
00:53:44,230 --> 00:53:48,230
And a lot of women want to be raped. And
having sex with women is gay.

827
00:53:49,530 --> 00:53:54,130
I mean... Wait, sex with women is gay?

828
00:53:54,790 --> 00:53:55,910
Okay, I'm lost.

829
00:53:56,110 --> 00:53:59,530
And I know that's the point. But when
you post about how much you love Hitler,

830
00:53:59,670 --> 00:54:03,170
and then you say you're kidding, but
then keep posting it, is it still a

831
00:54:03,170 --> 00:54:06,950
joke? And if I can't tell if you're
joking or not, I don't want you anywhere

832
00:54:06,950 --> 00:54:10,030
near Congress, because Congress is
enough of a joke already.

833
00:54:20,560 --> 00:54:24,220
You know, enthusiastic young
conservatives used to look like this.

834
00:54:25,160 --> 00:54:26,580
Now they look like this.

835
00:54:27,140 --> 00:54:28,140
Yeah.

836
00:54:28,540 --> 00:54:30,060
And ladies, he's single.

837
00:54:32,240 --> 00:54:38,320
Yeah. That's Preston Parra. He's 24, a
former staffer for Republican Senate

838
00:54:38,320 --> 00:54:42,820
candidate Mike Collins of Georgia. And
Preston got into a little trouble this

839
00:54:42,820 --> 00:54:48,140
week because he recently shared images
of his ex-account of a swastika and this

840
00:54:48,140 --> 00:54:49,740
one in Klan robes.

841
00:54:50,410 --> 00:54:54,250
You know, a former generation of
Republicans looked to William F. Buckley

842
00:54:54,250 --> 00:54:55,250
for their philosophy.

843
00:54:55,410 --> 00:54:56,890
This one found it in Kanye.

844
00:54:58,090 --> 00:55:04,450
Always being deliberately offensive,
nihilistic, never caught, being sincere,

845
00:55:04,550 --> 00:55:05,630
only ironic.

846
00:55:05,970 --> 00:55:07,370
Oh, you're Deadpool.

847
00:55:08,010 --> 00:55:11,110
No, you're a shock jock on
whatthefuck.com.

848
00:55:19,530 --> 00:55:24,250
They call it being an edgelord. Normal
people call it being an asshole.

849
00:55:24,770 --> 00:55:30,610
And sadly, the fact that so many people
can't tell the difference is not even a

850
00:55:30,610 --> 00:55:31,610
new phenomenon.

851
00:55:31,830 --> 00:55:36,570
You know, I once did a show called
Politically Incorrect. And people

852
00:55:36,570 --> 00:55:41,610
would... Thank you. And people would
always... And people would always be

853
00:55:41,610 --> 00:55:42,610
asking me...

854
00:55:43,210 --> 00:55:45,670
What does that mean, politically
incorrect?

855
00:55:46,170 --> 00:55:50,450
And I'd say it just means the opposite
of being political, which is being full

856
00:55:50,450 --> 00:55:51,149
of shit.

857
00:55:51,150 --> 00:55:52,990
It means radical honesty.

858
00:55:53,330 --> 00:55:57,610
What it doesn't mean is just saying the
unsayable to get a reaction.

859
00:55:57,890 --> 00:56:01,610
But so many people started doing that
back then. We actually had to have a

860
00:56:01,610 --> 00:56:05,150
contest called politically incorrect or
just stupid.

861
00:56:07,920 --> 00:56:11,260
Today, I don't think politically
incorrect would even stand a chance.

862
00:56:11,360 --> 00:56:12,460
It's all just stupid.

863
00:56:12,760 --> 00:56:17,060
On the right, Nazis, racism, rape, ha ha
ha, all good.

864
00:56:17,440 --> 00:56:21,640
And on the left, just abolish anything
that isn't working perfectly.

865
00:56:21,960 --> 00:56:27,320
Police, prisons, borders, shoplifting
laws, the Senate, the Supreme Court.

866
00:56:28,520 --> 00:56:29,620
Globalize the intifada.

867
00:56:30,140 --> 00:56:33,620
Tampons in the boys' room. You know,
someone is coming up with this crazy.

868
00:56:33,800 --> 00:56:35,800
And it's not Dick Durbin, age 80.

869
00:56:38,920 --> 00:56:45,240
It's the staffers, the perpetually
online, fatwa-curious social justice

870
00:56:45,240 --> 00:56:50,360
suicide squad. Hey, memo to Democrats,
the call is coming from inside the tent.

871
00:56:52,620 --> 00:56:57,900
Democrats never really reckoned with,
why didn't Joe Biden actually give us

872
00:56:57,900 --> 00:56:59,740
the return to normal he promised?

873
00:57:00,020 --> 00:57:04,720
Biden ran in 2020 as a single-issue
candidate, eliminating malarkey.

874
00:57:06,250 --> 00:57:11,010
He wasn't obsessing about intersectional
queer theory when Joe heard the word

875
00:57:11,010 --> 00:57:16,950
trans he thought Pontiac But

876
00:57:16,950 --> 00:57:23,310
his administration

877
00:57:23,310 --> 00:57:28,400
that is the kids he was too feeble to
fight with They made gender identity the

878
00:57:28,400 --> 00:57:32,140
federal government's day one top
concern. They're the ones who told

879
00:57:32,140 --> 00:57:36,980
Kamala Harris that the answer to do you
support tax-funded sex changes for

880
00:57:36,980 --> 00:57:41,480
people in prison was fuck yeah instead
of you're fucking kidding.

881
00:57:42,460 --> 00:57:47,340
Those are the Democrats' edgelords. And
like the ones on the right, they're low

882
00:57:47,340 --> 00:57:49,040
-key running the country now.

883
00:57:49,620 --> 00:57:54,180
So yes, by all means, let's elect some
younger politicians, but maybe.

884
00:57:54,840 --> 00:57:59,760
The problem isn't just the old farts.
Maybe it's also the new little shits.

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00:58:00,580 --> 00:58:05,500
All right. We're off next week. Back on
September 11th, I want to thank

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Representative Byron Donalds, Molly
Young-Fast, and Michael S.

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Rush. Super Random drops every Monday on
YouTube. I listen wherever you get your

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podcasts. Now go watch Overtime on
YouTube. Thank you. You are a great

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audience. I appreciate it.