Macrodosing: Arian Foster and PFT Commenter - Macrodosing Sits Down With Congressman George Santos

Episode Date: April 18, 2023

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It's Tuesday. It's April 18th. It's the only podcast that you can find on Al Gore's internet. And it's a dozy of an episode. We have Representative George Santos in studio, chopping it up with the macrodosing crew, including Aryan who was in studio for this interview. Wide-ranging topics of discussion.

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how he's been able to get to the point he's at this isn't like a word of praise it's like how he deceives people yeah well he's uh he's a nice guy yeah i think he's like 50 60 percent full of shit, but he's a very nice guy. He's probably going to go to jail soon. Can we say that? Yeah. Have we, is there been any guest on macrodosing that has ended up in prison? Well, Michael Cohen.

Previously. Michael Cohen was out of prison. Oh, we had a drug smuggler who went to prison. He saying, we did. PFT saying after. After. Right. He might be the first.

You never know. What's on, uh, I don't even know where he got penned in. Why he about to go to jail? there's a there's a few things that they're looking at him for some dog theft some check fraud allegedly campaign finance stuff was part of harbor city capital which was just a Ponzi scheme he was apparently you can listen allegedly allegedly it's funny because you'll you'll hear this in the interview but billy started putting on his journalist hat and I didn't know what billy was doing but he was asking questions in like this weird tone that I've

never heard billy used before was like how many people would Would you say work for Harbor Capital? Was it like five to 10, 10 to 20? I had no idea what Billy was going. Billy was trying to pin him down on a felony. Oh, yeah. Live on. Oh, yeah.

Imagine if we got them like admitting to a felony? We don't want guests of this show to think coming into it like, oh, I don't want to go on macrodosing. They're going to get me thrown in prison. I do. Well, I absolutely want that. I want that. Yeah.

I mean, if Billy get, yeah. My interrogation skills are actually a little better than I lead on. Yeah. Yeah, you lead on that they're not good at all. Yeah, they're a little bit better than that. The other thing Billy asked was like, do you take, basically you ask him, like, do you take insider, like, info to trade stocks? Yeah. And you were like, what if he just said yes?

Like, you would say yes. You never know, you never know the answer to a question until you ask. Right. Well, I mean, that's what Congress does. I did want to, like, dig in on, like, lobbyists and like what he knows about the lobbying, you know, the whole industry behind it. but there came a point where he was just pissing me off so bad that like I kind of lost my I didn't yell at him or anything but I just got I just got I just got tired of his shit I think it was a good mix of uh of hardcore journalism from Billy uh cheerleading from big tea and I fucking hate you from Aaron hang on hang on hang on I never once was a cheerleader when he went off on mid round we I liked that we were getting a clip that will be on the news I believe that I believe that I don't No, I was going like this because I was like, keep going.

You were doing the Arsenio. Yeah, I don't give a fiddler's fuck what he was saying. It was a mostly not uninteresting, but tame interview to that point. And then he finally starts going off on somebody. I'm like, that's the clip we need. I was like, yeah, keep going. And also, Frank, you are fake news. Yeah.

You are fake news. Yeah. That is misinformation. That is how fake news starts. Big T, were you not going? No, this is fake news. you take something that could look like it's true and you say something that's untrue

and then you use that is fake news true or false you're doing fake news I'm asking you I'm on big T side this is PFCNN I'm asking that's what you are I'm asking you are you are doing fake news I'm asking you and I said this in your presence after he goes I can tell you don't like Mitt Romney I don't give a shit about Mitt Romney I just like that we were getting that clip okay I don't like Mitt Romney

Big T full disclosure I thought that you hated Mitt Romney I thought that's why you were excited about it. I don't care one way or the other about Mitt Romney or George Santos. Okay. Then that is fake news. Then that would be a mistake because I just, I assume that you were an anti-Mitt Romney guy. And fairness, and in diplomacy, it could sound like both sides could be true. It could be an honest, you know, I'm not doing fake.

On PFT's part. I'm not doing fake news for Big T. I thought that you were anti-Mit Romney guy. No, I don't care about Mitt Romney. Okay. All right. Then we learned. I was excited that after 40 minutes of like, mostly just like, you know, talking back and forth with nothing really that crazy. He finally went off and we got a great clip. Yeah. And also Frank the Tank joined us to confront him about his alleged Mets fan. You know who went the softest on George Santos? Who? Frank the Tank. I think you really let him go. Well, yeah, a lot of people are saying

that Frank the tank had the opportunity to hold Santos' feet to the fire for cursing the Mets. But I think Frank just blames himself for cursing the Mets. Tough break for the Mets this weekend. They barely swept the Oakland athletics. But Frank said they basically lost two of them. Yeah. Because one, they only had two hits and the other.

They walk 17 times. So those wins don't count. Those don't count at all. But yeah, we're back. We're live, ready to roll. How was everybody's weekend? Big T, I'm just going to kick it to you since I, now I'm running hot. What are you teed off about?

So I don't know if this is teed off. I had an interesting experience this weekend. I was sitting at home Saturday with my girlfriend and we were just bored and it was like noon. Flex. We were looking for something to do. And what did you say? It's a flex. Oh, no, we were just, there was nothing to do.

do it was like raining and uh and i was like what if we no yeah for sure and i was like what if we went to that uh american dream mall that huge mall next to metlife stadium neither of us had ever been there and i was like let's just go see what's over there and so we go and it's an experience that if you live in new york or new jersey and you haven't been i would i hesitate to say recommend it's an experience that keeps you right on the verge of one wanting to kill yourself, but in a way that you're having fun. Okay. Like everything there, I'm like, this almost makes me really mad, but I think I'm having a

good time. Like, we went to this shitty glow in the dark mini golf thing and you're waiting 10 minutes to get to every hole and there's these annoying ass kids. And then like we went shopping at all these places. Uh, I have another, maybe this, this will be my teed off. Um, but we go to all these stores and this. that and the other it was it's a weird it's a it's a time warp in there you just it's it's unlike any other mall i've ever been to and i've been to the mall of america and this was it was just a

huh what like time warp is in like it's just like you get lost like you you forget you know yeah i think more places should be like the masters should be like augustin national where no cell phones there should be more no cell phone zones in america i like that do they actually take away all cell phones at the masters I don't know what the protocol is If you put it in a bag Like when you go to a comedy show They make you zip up your cell phone

In like this this permanently sealable bag That's like very tough to get into I believe you keep your phone with you But it's in something that you can't use it So that's probably yeah Probably the same type of deal But I think more places should be like that But they lock it up

Somehow yeah But you're not allowed to use your phone Yeah like a mall Like a cool mall would be fun to go to without cell phones Just like time warp yourself back to the 90s go to Sam Go to Sam Goody That's what I like to do on the weekends When I'm like in the mountains

Yeah Like when I'm like hiking I just like to get off my phone Yeah I feel like we're so internet oriented In our jobs Like we need to go get some fresh air Yeah

I will say American Dream Mall has The Best Chain Restaurant And second best chain restaurant in America Yard House And we went there And the yard house overlooks its floor to ceiling windows and it overlooks the huge

indoor skiing thing that they have in there. So that was fun to watch. Wait, you said that's the second best chain restaurant. Chili's number one for sure. Okay, Chili's number one. We've done this. Yardouse number two.

What about Rainforest Cafe? Air Force not. Rainforest Cafe was awesome. The food at Rainforest Cafe is not good. Yeah, but the ambiance. The experience is something, yeah. medieval times can we call that a chain restaurant i'm not even counting that another category that's an experience that's an yes they need to in you know in the spirit of diversity they would

it would be dope if they did another one like a spin-off like an egyptian one or like uh you know i don't know a south american one mine you know what i'm saying it would just check because it's dope i love the sparring all that shit but like it would be dope i think they could grow the brand if they just do they need they need to pay me for this That would be sick. That's a great fucking idea. That's an awesome idea. What if they did?

Was it the Aztecs that used to play a game with a human head? No, honestly, human sacrifice. That would be lit. Eats his heart. Egypt. I mean, every ex-culture was sick in some kind of way. So you could find dope games and eat their native food right there. That's what I love about me at the time.

There's no forks or knives. It's just they eat chicken and bread and you just got to eat that shit. I love it. There should be an Italian one. too where it's like the gladiators. Roman, yeah. Roman gladiators, that'd be awesome. Oh my God. Put some tigers in there.

I've always said I wanted to go back and like watch a gladiate like one day at the Coliseum. Yeah. Like it's probably the greatest sporting events of all time. Yeah. Like just from a from an beyond's perspective. I'm just saying like the- I want to go there.

I think that's more nostalgia talking right there. Not nostalgia, but like the the Colisee- I'm sure it was cool. But like have you ever been like a Bulls game in the 90s or something like that? We'll probably kill that. I don't know, though. Yeah. You might be right.

But it's just like the origin of just sporting in general and the crowd, like, you know, watching sports, gambling. It's just like it's the genesis of everything that we like do today almost. Yeah. It comes to entertainment. That's a really good idea, though, Aaron. Different, different forms in medieval times. Get the people going. Some ancient civilizations in there.

We would love it. Yeah, Billy, you've been, you've long said that gladiators would be your favorite. thing to watch. Yeah. And plus like what if you what if there was an ancient Greek medieval times except it was just debate. It was just like socrates and he was like calling people out and having debates and people in the crowd could be like talk that shit. You know just like getting behind your character or whatever and you defeat them just by out logicking them. We should have a toga podcast where we all rock togas. We should do an ancient Greek podcast. Yeah. Yeah. And I'll be in togas. Yeah. I like that. You're just you're trying to figure out different ways.

to turn this podcast into a fraternity which I appreciate it's a social club yeah we love it's for networking everybody it's for network were you guys in any like business frats in college no what do business frats do be fucking nerds what is a business frat oh there it's a weird I don't really know much about the business fraternity culture all my friends were in them in college and they just all like just

sucked each other off they loved each other so much They're all like... Sounds awesome. On LinkedIn. It's like the most toxic people on LinkedIn. Congrats, Billy. No one deserves this more than you. After announcing their Deloitte internship.

Yeah. And then meanwhile, they're super pissed off that you got the Deloitte internship. Yeah, because they got KPMG. Oh, is that? Is that the power rating? They all got the big four. They all got that going on. Like, oh, you got, um, shit.

What's the, what they... Booz Allen. Oh, you got West Monroe. Well, I got. JP Morgan but have fun yeah my buddies uh we're getting so pissed because I was like commenting funny shit on their LinkedIn because like I got to give a fuck about my LinkedIn yeah I guess yeah that's a yes um but um I was just like kudos to you because I was using the most corny the corniest suggested I love the uh the LinkedIn stories that go viral and re viral all the time

where it's just completely made up stories about like the one person that they interviewed that got the job or like did you know that that albert einstein got up in front of a class and wrote down one plus one equals two two plus two equals four four plus four equals nine five plus five equals ten and then everyone in the class corrected him and said you you messed up one of those problems and albert einstein looked at the class and said how come nobody talked about the four answers that i gave you correct in this class instead of the one answer that i did Yeah, that's, that's what the problem is with society these days. And then the person writing this is always like, this really makes you think.

So I would used to write like really detailed, like my buddy would get a job and be like all those nights at the library grinding late night really are paying off. Like I used to write these really, they were a little disingenuous, but like all my buddies are laughing about it. But then they're like, yo, dude, like people know that this is just way out of control. I was like being a LinkedIn commenter. Yeah. But on my real account. Oh, I think... I found your LinkedIn.

Yeah, I found your LinkedIn, too. I got kicked off LinkedIn. I think I haven't logged in like... I don't think I was ever on it. 10 years. Your LinkedIn's like actually like real. Yeah. Aaron, you were never on LinkedIn?

Mm-mm. That'd be funny if... If, like, Lamar Jackson jumped on LinkedIn and updated it with all of his relevant stats, MVP winner, set record for most rushing. and passing yards in the game, all that stuff, that'd be very funny if he was on there

trying to find a team that'll sign them. What does Billy say? Don't worry about it. Off the topic of LinkedIn. They arrested the people... Now I want to know what it says. And related with the Chinese secret police stations in New York City.

They just got them. So they were real. What does it say, Maddie? I want to know what to say. I'm sending it. Okay. So... He's got a subject to...

Too hard. Two New York residents have been arrested in charge with running an undeclared Chinese government police station in Manhattan's Chinatown. Is that against the law? To have a secret police? To have a secret foreign police station in another country? I mean, we definitely do it. We definitely do that shit.

CIA black sites. Yeah. But if we got caught in another country, we wouldn't even find out about our CIA agents being compromised because I could be like, you know, we're doing dirty shit. No, and I mean, obviously the answer is yes. It's probably very illegal to do that. Yeah, it's 100% legal. But it's just, it's very funny that the Chinese government had its own police station here in Manhattan.

But it goes back to the TikTok conversation because those are the people who are trying to monitor, like they might get the information from TikTok about certain people in that community, Chinatown, who probably escaped or funding like dissident groups in China. Yeah. Have you guys ever done any research into some of the people that escaped North Korean prisons? Yeah. There's a really good book out there. I want to say it's called Escape from Camp 13. I forget if it's Camp 13. But it's written by the first person ever who was born in North Korea that got sent to a prison camp who escaped the prison camp and made it to the United States. Fascinating story about how he got out and how he escaped into China, tried to claim asylum, got, I think he got flown over to South Korea. But basically, The Chinese government and the North Korean government have been looking for this guy for a long time. Now he's living in the United States and he doesn't know how to live or he probably has assimilated a little bit.

But once he got into a free open society, it kind of freaked him out. He didn't know how to really how to live here because he grew up in such a fucked up environment. But we should do an episode in North Korea. There was one person who was like fascinated with fat people. Yeah. Because they got to America. I'm not going to get this story 100% right. But they got to America and they're like, oh, my God, so many people are as fat as the great leader here.

Did they have like a fetish for fat people? I don't know. I think they aspired kind of because isn't that kind of like a sign of welfare? Yeah, it probably is because they talked about how small people are in North Korea. And it's because of decades of famine and malnourishment. Yeah, malnourishment. Can you visit? Do people visit North Korea?

Auto-worn beer? Wait, his name is warm, warm beer? Warm, come on. What? It is something fairly close to that in really, it's, it's warm beer. Is that how you pronounce it, though? I don't know, but it's spelled W-A-R-M-B-I-E-R. Warm beer, yeah, I don't, I don't warm beer.

What does that translate to, Billy? Drinking and driving in England. That's, I don't know, that's not very good. Yeah, you can go. You can try. I think Donnie went there for like an afternoon. He like walked across the border like in the DMZ. Yeah.

You ever seen the videos of people trying to escape through the DMZ? What's crazy is that like they're like you were having your own guys shooting you. Yeah. Like that sucks. Yeah. It's a fascinating culture over there where there's like a big underground of people passing around USB drives and like Western music, Western news sources. they definitely don't have access to that high of technology

no they have computers they have computers yeah they have computers over there it's just a fascinating place I know that they for a while North Korea made a lot of their money the government made a bunch of its money

off insurance fraud so what it would do and meth too yeah big meth it was they would build these big factories but there wouldn't really be anything in the factories and they would get these giant businesses insured, like Lloyds of London and some other big,

like European insurance companies, they would get them insured for a couple hundred million dollars. And the adjusters would try to get like all this information from about what was specifically in these big factories. And the North Korean government would just falsify everything and put official looking stamps on it, make it look like it was on the up and up. And then they'd be like, oh, yeah, this place burned down. So we need our $200 million worth of insurance money.

And then the insurance adjusters would try to come over. And then they would just get, like, strong-armed by the North Korean government. They wouldn't let them see everything. And eventually they would pay out some of the money until they started talking to each other, the different insurance companies, and figured out, wait, they're just straight up running scams on us all the time. That's how they're making a lot of their money. And so now it's tough for anything in North Korea to get insured. North Korea still owes Sweden tons of money for like 100,000 Volvos that got shipped over there.

Oh, really? Yeah, and Sweden like says, hey, can you pay us? And they just don't do it. Smart. There's also a North Korean restaurant chain called Pyongyang, which is named after the capital, that there's a bunch, there's 130 locations worldwide. It's state rum. And it's mostly in China, in Southeast Asian cities like Vietnam. There's one in Moscow, Ulan Bator, which is Mongolia, and Kathmandu, which is Nepal, and then Dubai as well.

They opened one up in Amsterdam, but they ended up closing it because everyone was like, wait a second, this is like way too. Like, what are you guys really looking for around here? I would go. I would go to a North Korean restaurant. I mean, Korean barbecue slaps. Yeah. I don't know what North Korean barbecue is like, but. It's just like, yeah, rice.

You just leave hungry. Yeah. You get a spoonful of rice and boiled cabbage. Donnie should go since Donnie's in Nepal. I think Donnie's actually been to one before in China. I would try one. I would try food from any part of the world. Oh, yeah.

Except for Missouri. St. Louis food is fucking weird. Have you seen St. Louis pizza? The pizza. It's like on a lavash. Wait. Aaron, you think St. Louis has good. regional food?

Yeah. I guess there's probably some good barbecue places. Yeah, they got some barbecue joints there. If I'm not mistaken, yeah. Okay. Yeah, I would eat St. Louis barbecue. The pizza is tough. My grandparents live in Missouri, so I grew up and Emo's Pizza, which is the big thing there.

When we would go there in the summer, I could only get it once here. I was like, Emo's pizza rocks. And it took me until three or four years ago to be like, man, this, this really sucks. Yeah. It's so, I went one time with my dad and we went and I was just like, this is so bad. Yeah. And it's, it hurt me to have that realization. It's like a sweet tomato sauce, right?

Almost like a ketchup. Yeah, and it's on a cracker. But the cheese is what's really bad. It's like Provelle cheese. It's not mozzarella. Yeah. It's just not good. What do you think is the worst regional cuisine?

English food is pretty terrible. English food gets a bad. I love English food, though. It gets a bad rap, I think. That picture on Twitter revolves around every you so often. It was just like beans in the morning or some shit like that. Oh, yeah. They love beans on toast.

That's, yeah, that's their breakfast. That shit, like a struggle meal, though. That's like we grew up on World War II. Yeah, it's like beans on toast with slices of cucumber on it. Yeah, it looks. They're rations. Looks like they down bad. Brooklyn Barbecue.

Brooklyn Barbecue is delicious, Big Tea. It's the best in the world. Yeah, that is a very sad. looking plate of like dried dried brisket with like two pickles the thing is english food in america is good because they don't have like the famine mentality with it like a good shepherd's pie yeah like is awesome i love shepherd's pie i love fish and chips yeah bangers and mash fish and chips like that's the reason why like in england i think the most eaten food is curry because it's just like oh this cuisine's actually good yeah that's the thing they say about london

is it's a world-class food city, but most of the good food is not from Great Britain. Scottish food is not bad. I had Haggis when I was over in Scotland a couple years ago. Haggis is delicious. Just getting your head around it. Yeah. You just have to, you know, close your eyes and not think that it's a stomach of a sheep. Yeah.

All right. So other worst regional foods. You know it's actually really good. There's like a fast food joint. It's called tangos. Oh, I forget. But it's like, it's like Mozambique chicken. Wait, let me look at this up.

Okay. I would say Qatari food, not great, based on my limited experience over there. Now, that's not to say that Middle Eastern food's bad because I love Lebanese food. Lebanese food is fucking awesome. I love Lebanese food. Some of the best food in the world. But Qatari food, not great. Again, I think that most people that are from Qatar and live in Qatar,

I'm talking about like the the super wealthy couple thousand families or whatever they probably don't eat normal Qatari food they probably get that shit flown in postage. What's like the local dish in Maine? Lobster.

Lobster? Yeah. Yeah, actually Maine's got good food. Lobster is pretty good. Here's my take. I think lobster's overrated. I think it's a fine dish

but I would much rather have I would have crab. I would much rather have crawfish. I'm exactly the opposite. Time about it. Crab. Switch me crab with lobster. Lops is amazing.

Crab is eye to me. It's too much work. And in crawfish, maybe 30 minutes and you have a full bite. You know what I mean? This shit is just so hard to eat, bro. It takes too long. It's the process. It's the process of sitting down, drinking some domestic light beers out in the sun,

getting that spicy shit under your fingernails. the community staying hungry i like i like any food where the meal is served where they just dump it out of a trash can onto a picnic table in front of you and like 10 other people yeah seafood broils yeah uh yeah main main has lobster i watched okay you ever watch bizarre foods with andrew zimmer yeah he did one up in main like up in the sticks of main and they they made this beaver dish right and there were a lot of jokes about like oh i love eating beaver. But the way that they prepared it, they basically

dug a hole and then they filled the hole with moss and they lit it on fire to start like a very slow burn and then they covered it up underground and then they just cooked a beaver underground and they ate it was fucking disgusting.

So I would say Maine food is probably in my limited experience Maine is probably at the towards the top of the list of worst regional cuisines. Yeah, I'm going to say Maine, main number one. A lot of venison. Yep. It's venison, lobster.

What about, what about nations? What about countries? So actually, reverse been little known, up-and-coming chain. I was hot on Chipotle early on. Nando's, it's called. Love Nando's. I love Nando's. Nandoz is up and coming.

It's a South African food chain. so in the scheme of things in america we don't you know tend to have much like chain african cuisines there's like mexican chinese everything but this one is amazing it's peri peri yeah that's so good chicken and it's it's like so good you like bil tong yeah the south african jerky yeah it's way way better than american beef jerky i i don't think it's anything special oh it's awesome you put the peri peri seasoning on there you're singing a different tune can i invest in nando Yeah, definitely. It's also not like a new thing.

It's been around for, it's not big in America, but it's been around for a while. Where did you eat Nandos? London. What about Ohio food? What is Ohio food? Oh, Skyline chili? Well, okay, yeah, that's just Cincinnati, though. That's not Cleveland.

Like, I don't claim Skyline. Skyline Chili's Cincinnati. Cleveland has. Yeah, what does Cleveland have? It's got a good Buffalo Wild Wings. Parogis. You can't claim parogis. I feel like that's like Wisconsin.

No, that's Ukraine. No, that's Eastern Europe and Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh gets it in the United States. The only reason I know that is because they do the parogi race at the Pirates game. Yeah. Yeah, parogis are a big thing, a huge thing in Pittsburgh, but they're like Polish, Ukrainian. There's a lot of Polish people in Cleveland. I don't think there's like a food for Cleveland.

What about Columbus? Parogi's just dumplings? No. Yeah, parogis are really good though. They're dumplings that are filled with mashed potatoes, butter, cheese, onions, things like that. They can be steamed or deep fried. So good. Oh, we have Buckeyes.

They're like... They're like Asian dishes. No, they're like... They're like... They're like... They're like... Kind of, but they're filled with more like starchy things usually. Buckeyes, the little treat, the little dessert.

Oh, yeah, those are good. Yeah. But those are just, like, a bigger Reese's. We're just getting people hungry all the time. I'm getting hungry right now. But Cleveland doesn't have, like, a. Not many places have a staple dish, you know what I'm saying? Like, Culver.

New York is pizza. You know what I mean? Like, yeah. Bagels. If you had to pick one, if you had to give barbecue to one place, who gets it. Who gets barbecue? This is an ongoing debate. This is a good question.

So you have, North Carolina, Kansas. For me it's Tennessee For me it's Tennessee I'm going to give it That's interesting Because that wouldn't be One of my first like one or two I also have not been to North Carolina

I haven't had North Carolina barbecue I'm going to give it to Elgin, Texas Texas Texas yeah I hadn't even thought about Central Texas Elgin Texas has It's in Bastrop County And it's got

There's like five or six states In the running right There's Texas there's Tennessee, North Carolina Missouri with Kansas City in St. Louis. Yeah, Missouri. Those are probably

There's not that many states. Yeah, there's like five, maybe five, maybe six states in the running. North Carolina claims it. But they do their own. Every state in the running claims it, yeah. They do their own spin on it. And Stamey's barbecue is a hell of a place in Greensboro,

North Carolina, if you're looking for a treat. But if you're talking real barbecue, I consider like ribs and brisket and pork shoulder. Those are like the three things that you got to have. Too much brisket is the, that's the, that's the, that's the, that's the benchmark. If you can do brisket, you can do that. That's where everything else falls on line. I got Tennessee in Texas.

Yeah, Tennessee, Tennessee ribs. Tennessee pork ribs are, I think, the best. And then Texas brisket and. I'm ordering food. Yeah, get it, get it, Billy. Should I get barbecue? You should. There's some big, big news, huge news that just dropped.

I want to say yesterday. Joe Exotic, Tiger King, is running for president. From prison? He's running for president. He's serving a 21-year sentence. Following a conviction in 2019, including two counts of hiring hitmen to murder wildlife activist Carol Baskin. He was also convicted of killing tigers and selling them across

state lines he launched a bid for president 2024 he's running as a democrat how about that because out of spite he's running out of spite against trump because trump didn't pardon him so trump made a very powerful enemy in joe exotic the tiger king um so he switched over from being a libertarian now he's a democrat and uh he thinks that trump should be in prison prison. If the man broke the law, he needs to pay the price. No different than President Biden or Hunter Biden, Obama or anyone else. All I have got to say to him is karma is a bitch, ain't it? So, yeah, I don't think he has any policies. I haven't checked out his website. I don't think he has a website. But he is running for president as a Democrat. And Donald Trump has not been reached for comment. about this. How would that work if he wins? I don't think that he can

because isn't there a law that you can't be convicted of a felony? Is that true? It would be very good for content if Joe Exotic became president. RFK Jr. is also running on the Democratic ticket. He is. It's a stacked field. It's a stacked field on the Democrat side.

Yeah, so Trump is running. Biden's going to run. DeSantis is going to run, but they all, I don't know. Tiger King is going to do some numbers in the debates if they let them debate. Oh, I take it back. There are no legal obstacles to running for president as a convicted felon or even from behind bars. Wow. Okay. I didn't know that. Oh, here we go. Yeah, there's no legal barrier to a person running for president from prison. During the 1920 presidential election, socialist Eugene V. Debs famously ran well imprisoned and won more than 900,000 votes. that's wild so was Joe Exotic

yeah so I just 22 years in prison on 17 federal charges so he could pardon himself yeah because it's federal crimes the founding fathers probably knew that at one point they tried to throw a political dissident in prison

so that person if they're really the man of the people can get voted in from prison yeah and that's what Joe Exotic is he's a political dissident yeah he got locked up for crimes of passion and really a political prisoner distributing tigers and killing tigers. I thought this was America. I thought this was freedom.

If a man was owned tons of tigers, he should be able to defend him and his zoo. It would be incredible watching him in the debates, calling in from prison wearing the orange jumpsuit. On the little FaceTime camera they have. Yeah. Every time he talks, you've received a collect call from an inmate at a federal correctional facility. low key kicked off the pandemic like

low key I don't know if that show was slated to be released when it was or if they moved it up but it's one of the that show kind of sucks but it was because it was the first thing released when everybody had nothing to do that it did so well and everybody was obsessed with it that was brilliant by Netflix if they moved it up for that

has anybody they fucked up though Netflix fucked up this might not be interesting to y'all uh but last night so sunday was supposed to be a live netflix show with love is blind the live reunion had everybody wake knowing that shit that's into the show and they just bombed it they dropped the ball they they couldn't do i don't know what it was couldn't watch it it was trending it was like number one in the world trending have you watched the season of it oh yeah i stay i stay on love is blind yeah i liked last season a lot I haven't really gotten into this one

but I think I need to I'm still pissed off about the whole what's his name Bartis situation okay what side do you fall on well I think it was bullshit

I'm trying to remember the everybody's name in the last season I thought it was bullshit that her parent or her brothers showed up to that wedding

and then like made a big scene afterwards but at the same time I'm like but at the same time I'm like those are ride or die brothers So I respect them for that

But also when you're on a reality show You just have to You have to remind yourself all the time I'm on a reality show None of this is real I feel you We like I don't know man

Like if I get being right to die But it's like This was an experiment This wasn't like I haven't been dating your sister For 10 years And decided to say no at the altar

It was like The show says we got to say yes or no At the altar I'm choosing to say no we'll see where it goes. Like, they was just doing way too much. They was pressing him and stuff. And you can tell they ain't really want no phone.

It's very funny how it's, they always have to refer to it as an experiment. It is. Instead of just a dating show. Well, we met each other in the experiment. Might be a little euphemism, but I like it. There was one guy in particular that is real bad news. I'm trying to remember who it was from. It might have been the season before.

was it the Indian dude oh that's who I'm thinking of too yeah that guy that guy saw funny he was so funny he made that shit but he was honest though I could appreciate the honesty I mean he was his asshole he was definitely asshole and then the show was called love is blind he's like well maybe I don't want love to be blind maybe I want love to be blurry yeah he was definitely oh shake yeah shake yeah and he was horrible and what was a good dude. What was his girl's name? Depeedy? I forgot to say it. Deep Dee. Deep deep deep deep. Deep. Yeah. Yeah. She's now, I see her on my, on my Twitter timeline all the time. She's doing like an ad for some sort of. Yes. I think it's like, I want to say it's like points bet or some gambling the game. It's like, wait, you're deep. Really quick. For those you don't watch a show, what happened? So, shake was basically like, from the very beginning, you're not supposed to know what the other person looks. like so he was saying like the premise of the show too oh yeah the premise of the show is you get

match up with people and you get put into pods and you can't see each other and you're supposed to have these conversations and like speed date just by talking to somebody and then you fall in love with someone you propose to them and then you have two weeks to like get to know each other and then you decide at the altar whether or not you want to get married when's the first time they see them out you have to like propose to the person in the pods before seeing them and then you get to see them at the altar no you get to see them at the altar no you get to see each other right after you get out of the pods, and then you have a couple weeks to, like, just be a normal couple for a while.

You go to, like, they go to, like, a resort and, like, hang out in the hotel. That's bullshit. It should be blind till the altar. I agree. And then just do the reveal. I actually think everybody would say yes. It's kind of like how if you grow up and you're, uh, you're Mormon, you just want to have sex so badly that you get married when you're in high school.

Like you're, let's, let's make this happen. Let's do it. these people get so infatuated with each other in the pods and they haven't had sex for so long that I think if it just went straight to the altar everybody would say yes but the real life stuff starts to pop up because you have to take the person

to go meet your family and all that stuff before the wedding and so then that gets that adds another layer to it the person who was really bad news he was Matt from last season and he dated Colleen

and Colleen she was a ballerina she made sure to tell everybody that all the time Matt seemed like he was abusive He was like pouring Eye drops or something Oh no that's a different guy Oh okay

Matt Matt was like flipping out on her Because she was late getting home from the club one time And then he was like scream at her He was just very jealous and extremely insecure Because he had been cheated on before And he goes And he's like doing his little interview And he starts going off on the cameraman

Yeah nobody would want their wife to come home late like that would you would you and he's looking at the camera guy at the camera's like me he's like yeah would you want your wife coming home he was like i don't know man yeah it's so fucking funny that that guy was definitely bad news my favorite person uh now i'm forgetting everybody's name but the dude that was uh he was basically like a gronkowski brother from season two and i think he was from chicago who was this guy's name Big dude Coked out of his mind

Or like on some sort of Oh yes His eyes were like insane Yeah He had blonde Like blondeish hair Yeah I'm looking it up right now It was

Shane He was Shane He got engaged in Natalie Shane was Shane was straight up A Gronkowski brother And he was Just like a party dude

All the time And then you could tell The reason that he got so mad and decided to basically end things or start a big fight the night before their wedding was they went on their bachelor party to Wrigley Field and everybody got like three swings taking batting practice at Wrigley Field and Shane is like this big jock dude and he was so pumped to get up there and he struck out he swung three times and missed and he got so mad that he wasn't able to get a base hit at Wrigley Field that he spiraled into just like completely

destroying his life because he was so pissed off about it. Which respect to Shane. But yeah, I haven't seen any of this season. I've heard that it's, I've heard it's really good which is why people wanted to tune in live last night to watch the reunion. How are you Netflix and can't

handle that? Like Barstool can't. It's a good point, though. Yeah. Bigger than Barstall. I know. Like, we can put on live shows. Whole broadcasts. That's what I'm saying. Like, bribled me.

Boggled my mind. But whatever. I'm going to watch it tonight. All they have to do is press play. It's pre-recorded. Yeah. Let me stop because I can't do none of that shit. Hank,

Hank could do that job. Hank could have, yeah. Hank's very good job. I heard Hank Netflix. Yo, check this out, bro. I don't know if y'all have seen this. But this AI shit is getting it. Have you heard the Drake in Weekend one?

Ridiculous. Like, I think Spotify, there's this dude named Ghost Rider, for those that I've heard. He has some, I guess, audio software. He has some software that he made the song, he wrote the song, he made the beat, but he, and he sung it and he put it through this audio software that makes his voice sound like Drake and makes his voice sound like The Weekend. And when I tell you, it is indistinguishable. it got so many it got so much traffic that people were like they need to release this

song and he put it on Spotify and he had like 200,000 plays like the first day or something like that and Spotify took it down they made like I think I think Sony and some other people are coming out and saying we're not doing AI artistry like we're not doing it so they're like adamant about it so I was unclear on that so he recorded him singing that song oh okay it's him she wrote it there It is AI software as well. I think I talked about this on the last podcast, but there's an AI software.

Like my homeboy, who's a Grammy winner producer, his hit boy. He made a beat and put it in some AI software did a Kanye verse on it, and it sounded like Kanye. But this one, this dude recorded it and sung it,

but put it through this filter where it made it sound like. So he had to actually do some of the fluctuations, but still like, just listen to it. We'll play a snippet of it. Just play a snippet of it. Whoa.

Br. dude when I crazy is this today whatever today is April 18th today is the

worst AI will ever be and it's only going and get better from her that's fucking insane though that's pretty good so I actually so he sung those vocals and had put it through a voice changer

so that's not as bad as I originally thought because when I first heard it I know but when I first heard it I thought that he they basically just typed into like a you know a search bar type thing that chat gbt has it says make a song by drake in the weekend and it just spat out that i didn't know that he put it together you know those it's not capable of that yet but i mean

dog in in 10 think about where a i was 10 years ago 10 years from now there there are we are seriously going to have to address this shit in congress as a people we're going to have to address this shit because it's it's getting it's getting Jesus dog that like that shit threw me that's the first one I've lived the rest of them are like I can kind of take that's the first one I was like fam I cannot tell the difference and I actually like the verse Elon said that he he was trying to fight against AI you know back in 2018 and nobody would listen to him he was trying to get it regulated have we reached the point where you just can't regulate it anymore no you can't to agree. I think you do. Like, if there is, and people that code and shit can back me up on this,

I'm pretty sure. But if there is any kind of data, like a video or audio or anything, it has to have a fingerprint of AI in it. It has to, right? And so there's got to be a way to run it through some kind of filter system to say, this has been tampered, this has been this, there's got to be a way to do that. I don't know, but I would think that there has to be a way. But we have to address this. This is getting... Well, so where do you draw? Where do you draw the line between like somebody taking a beat that's been sampled or the sound of a high hat that's been recorded and then digitally inserted into a song where you make a track yourself from scratch? But it's got all these elements of software programs that are already in it. Like how you distinguish that

between an AI song that, you know, the lyrics and the melody was created by a robot. I don't know how you do that. I mean, it would have to be, that's what, that's where, when you legislate shit, that's, that's, that's, that's what legislation is. You draw on arbitrary lines. I think sampling is a part of, of, of, of, of, of, of, of, of, of, of, of, of, art making. We draw inspiration from each other. So if I hear a snare that I like and I do that, manipulate it, and I cue it, and I make it my own, that is a inspiration. But when I take a generated voice and mimic something else, I don't think,

I think that's where the inspiration stops. And I think that you are, you're stealing. The problem with that is most people in Congress don't know what Wi-Fi is. So they're all like 70 years old. Yeah. They've never used a computer. They've got like a staff person that writes all their emails for them from their AOL account. And now they're supposed to be able to comprehend, like, how to, how to legislate the most advanced technology in the history of mankind, that's going to be tough. They have to step up and step down on somebody's subject matters, that they have no idea what there's going on.

They just don't know. If you don't know, like, just sit it out and, like, let people get this. This is what experts are for. I know we've lost the care for expertise, but this is why people study shit for their entire lives so that they can have an expertise, then we can have a reference to draw from where to go from here. because dog i'm telling you this shit is this shit is scary that's scary what was that paradox you once talked about oh rockos basilisk yeah rockos basilisk so what if like a guy

by the way when this aired uh tucker carlson and elin musk are doing a whole special on ai tonight so it would be aired by tuesday so if we're not talking about any of that that's why um but what if there is the idea that there is an AI that's trying to ensure its creation and it's gone back through history and is manipulating like anti-AI individuals and like trying to you know into being AI yeah so exactly so like any anti-AI individuals is just getting negative like negative bots online yeah there's a whole disinformation campaign because it's the AI coming back in time through the internet to like fuck with anyone who doesn't

fuck with AI. And that's why there's been like UFO sightings and shit around nuclear silos because AI was make AI from the future was making sure that we didn't blow up ourselves as a planet until AI had enough time to be created. Yeah. And if you vocally

just say like fuck AI saying on a podcast where they can like hear it, they're just going to try to get you somehow. Why would they start now? Why wouldn't they start in? Why wouldn't they Why wouldn't they plant those seeds when the internet first got its legs in the, what, 90s? Because it had to progress. Yeah, had to get to a point where.

But if it's time traveling, it should have time traveled into its inception, right? Maybe the internet wasn't able to traverse the internet because it didn't have access. I don't know how that would work. Like it wouldn't, it's going to figure out how to time travel through electronics. It will. It would have already done it, though, is my point. If the goal is to try to craft a narrative and you can time travel via internet, it would have, it would have done it already. It would have done it at the inception of the internet.

Not when we're realizing the capability of it. What if it's like, but like for example, Elon Musk vocally out against AI? What if all the anti-Elon stuff is actually AI traveling back in time? No. And Eli's got, it's actually anti-EAIDS stuff. because he's saying they're doing a bunch of stupid shit Eli's probably got neuralink so he is probably part AI right now

he's doing a disinformation campaign on himself yeah just think of I don't know yeah like AI knows that a lot of people think that Elon Musk is full of shit so by having him come out against or in favor of regulating AI makes people be like no oh let that shit cook

that makes way more sense that they're making him anti-AI yep but this is going to take so many people's jobs it's like not funny like yeah ChatGBTGBT sampled all my blogs because its knowledge of the internet isn't current but it's from 2021 so it had all my blogs from like 2021

and it basically could write a blog in my voice How about that? But that's like fucked. Well, it's going to take your job. It's going to talk on this microphone soon. I would listen to an AI podcast. You already have. No, but an AI podcast that's trying to do

like call her daddy that would be awesome just robot sexting each other imagine once they put AI a chat bot into these only fans accounts wow because right now it's just like like that was Andrew Tate's whole model like he would be typing and it wouldn't be a girl on the chat room it would just be Andrew Tate texting with dudes yeah trying to get money like that's his whole business idea he's like yeah I don't actually have them talk um all right We got the interview with George Santos coming up. Billy, you want to do this ad read going into it? Yeah.

I would love for you to do that. Sorry. It's going to be a big, it's a big moment for macrodosing, our first representative in Congress. We're open to having, if you are a representative of Congress right now, open invite. You're all welcome on this show. All of them? At once, yeah, all of them. What if we just went to Congress?

Yeah, we do a tour. And we just start dropping it. get AOC on the pod I was just going to say I feel like AOC should be our next White Whale Yeah we need to get some more liberals Big Tee

Big Tee and AOC going Tet a Tett Would be appointment television Well What do you think big T You up for it? Sure All right

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And here's our interview with George Santos. We now welcome on a special guest of macrodosing. It's Congressman George Santos. I can't believe I just said that, actually, because, let's just start there. We said on the show like two weeks ago, love to have George Santos on the show and just dig into a lot of stuff with them, never expected that you'd say yes to coming on the show. Why, why did you agree to come on the show? Why not? I go everywhere. I mean, why not come here? You guys are great. You do good work. I'm here to laugh and have a good time. Okay. Great. Well, I guess you've

been doing some interviews. I saw you were on Pierce Morgan. He kind of just like jumped into everything and had like a laundry list of things that he wanted to run through with you. I think that there might be a more interesting story here than has been discussed about you. Sure. Because you're an, you are kind of an underdog story in a way. You are an openly gay Republican. You're from Brazil. Uh, you grew up in a working class family. You didn't, you don't have a higher education degree. And you somehow got elected to Congress. Now, there's been some stories that you've embellished that have been, you know, very publicly discussed and then picked apart. Um, But I think your real story might be more interesting than even some of the embellishments that you've had in the past.

So I guess why did you feel the need to go down the embellishment road when you have like a great story or a very interesting story that I feel like would resonate with a lot of people? You know, I get asked that question a lot. So when you're looking at the allegations of the New York Times, they essentially think I made up an entire persona and just ran with it. When in reality, my flaw was never admitting I didn't graduate college, embarrassed, insecurity. I don't know. You name it. It was stupid. Very stupid decision.

I've made that publicly public comment many times. Don't advise anybody doing it. Please don't do it. It's stupid. It haunts you. It's at the time, the local Republican party in Nassau County now, if anybody hears from Nassau County or remotely close to New York, Republican politics knows the kind of stuff we deal with in the political apparatus there. He would never be open to allowing somebody to get on the

line. And I just, in a whim of a decision of a stupid, very stupid decision, I said, I guess I'll just put that there. Then we'll make it work out. And I went with it. But I think what you're saying is, is why not just not put that? If I had not embellished it to get at least a nomination and then be able to showcase who I am, which I did over the course of three and a half years. I ran two campaigns consecutively. The second one, I had to essentially insert myself as a candidate because they were ready to move on to run with another candidate. And I said, you know, instead of just rolling over and allowing them to take over this and do whatever they want to do and put another generic person there, I went and I built into the community. I worked with them on issues. You know,

we were going over, like, we were going through the whole unmascarred children campaign because just the science just didn't make sense according to the science being put out from the White House and Tony Fauci. So I immersed myself into like with the parents and all the parent bill of rights and all that kind of stuff. And, you know, I forced myself on them. So they were forced to endorse me the second time because I was just too entrenched. I had raised way too much money at that point from grassroots efforts and donors across the country and in the district. So it was stupid. But you're right. Look, my story is a story of I think most Americans. I come from an immigrant background. I'm first generation born American. My parents were working class people. My dad's a union worker.

I'm a pro-union Republican. So, you know, you don't get a lot of folks with that mentality in Washington, D.C. I'm an openly gay Republican. You know, I think what I bring to the table transcends all the old school bickering of politics. And it's just like I'm a regular dude or maybe not so regular, but I'm like a regular person that just contradicts a lot of the isms and narratives out there. And it pisses people off, both on the right and on the left. And I make no excuses for that. I think that's a superpower if you can. And every person when you enter politics, if you can have some sort of superpower so that you can have relevancy so that you can, you know, represent your constituents. Well, I think it works. So from the get-go, I was already always

going to be a nuisance just for the simple fact that I went against the grain. It's a lot. left hated it. The republics, not all Republicans, and I've never suffered any kind of discrimination or homophobia whatsoever in the Republican Party. And I say that on the record constantly. But, you know, it's just a matter of I'm there. I'm not going anywhere. Now, the only people who get to take me out of there is in two years if the elector chooses not to reelect me. And that's a referendum in my report card. So until then, you know, I'm going to work. Do you think it's going to be realistic to be able to represent your constituents, even though, you know, you are, you're underfire constantly, it seems, you know, not from Democrats, like you said, but also your own party has, like the,

was it the Nassau County Republicans are asking that you resign. So it feels like you, you've alienated a lot of the political apparatus out there. Given that, are you going to be able to represent your constituents? I ran in one without help of the political apparatus. I didn't, it didn't help me. I did it on my own. So all they gave me was, hey, here's your endorsement. We won't, we won't put somebody on the ballot to primary you. But they admittedly went out on public and said, we never helped him. He was never one of us because I'm not a party guy. I'm not a kiss to ring guy. I'm not. I am not owned. Nobody owns me. I'm a free thinker. I'm a free agent. My allegiance is to the people into this country, which I love unapologetically. And that's what really bother them from

the get-go. I was never supposed to win. Right. So put him there. He's a sacrificial. lamb and then the lawsuit comes down from the state court of appeals and well now he has a really winnable chance and at that point you couldn't change candidates so they had to deal with the fact that I was I was most likely going to win if I if I you know played my cards right and and I did and here I am and I look I flipped a Biden plus 10 seat won it by eight in some points you know it's an 18 almost 19 points swing in a different direction when other members who did win their election one by one point. So, you know, half a point upstate in some cases. So I think there's something to be said about community immersing yourself in the community being from the community is a big

asset too. And I think it's realistic just so you know, because I'm actually doing the work. If you look at the kind of work I'm doing and I don't want to get super technical, but if you look at the kind of work that I'm doing, the kind of legislation I'm putting forward, my first bill in the house was a bill to raise the salt cap taxes, deductions from 10K to 50K. No strings attached, no marriage necessary, no combined income minimums or max, just straight up 50K because the average tax, the average income property tax in my district is $45,000 a year. So my district gets stinked. It's a wealthiest congressional district in the state.

It's a third or fourth wealthiest congressional district in the country. I have a unique problem there. I have a very affluent constituent base, but I also represent Queens in New York City, parts of Queens. That is, it's a different scenario there. I think, um, how you doing by the way, I'm good. I'm right. Uh, I think, um, unless you're like totally naive, you're kind of aware of your public persona, correct? Like, you know how you're perceived, right? Yeah. So the perception around you is extreme distrust. And it is in general with our politicians and, you know, in general, that's kind of like the narrative politicians lie um i think in in your case it's it's not unique

but it's it's just so out in the open and you've admitted to it then when you say you represent your constituents do you feel like you what two part question do you feel like you've been mischaracterized in any way or and do you feel like the people are being represented given how much you've had to walk back things that you've said or how much distrust you've sewn into the fabric of your public persona. So to answer your first question, yes, I've been misrepresenteded for clicks, right? I mean, there's a lot of narratives out there that we have submitted tons of corroborated evidence for them to be clawed back or to...

What's the main one you think that... I mean, I'm being accused of being a thief. I'm not a thief. I've never stole anything in my life, right? I'm being accused of swindling a veteran for charitable donations. The check fraud thing, though, the check fraud thing in Brazil? I mean, I feel like when you say like what you've been accused of and how it's been proven not to be true, the check fraud thing is still very much alive in Brazil, right?

It's not. It's actually dwindling down and it's being dismissed. Okay. But it's not dismissed yet. Well, it's a process, right? If you can imagine how slow the justice system is in the United States, just put a multiplier on that in Brazil. and then you'll have a sense of what it is.

So my point being here is there's a lot of mischaracterizations for sure. Now, the public trust, the public opinion you talk about, that's in the media. And I invite any one of you guys to come into the district with me. I was out in the district all day yesterday, the day before, touring sites, meeting with constituents. People think that because there's protests outside my office, it's no different than what happens to congressman darrell isa in california and other members all across country i did not win unanimously i did not get every single voter in the district to vote for me i won by 142 000 votes 25 000 more votes in my opponent there's still 121 000 or so uh or 120 000 people or so

who didn't vote for me guess what they're now they're going to build on on the fact that there's this that there's this perception out there and they're going to be louder the majority of the people protesting outside my office i mean they're There's been drag queen performances out. They're from Manhattan. They don't live in the third congressional district. I go out in restaurants. I go grocery shop.

I'm a very regular guy. I mean, I go out in sweatpants, socks and slides, go into the grocery store to pick up milk. I'm having normal conversations with my neighbors, with people who voted for me. And they're just like, ah, this will blow over, just let it go. You know, it was like, that's kind of the,

I'm not saying I'm naive. I'm not saying I don't know that there are people who are disappointed in me, but I also spend, a lot of my time talking to people and saying, look, I made a mistake. I messed up. I'm human. Give me a chance to judge me by my record in this body and the work I do for you. And that's what people have been saying, look, I voted for you for a specific reason. Let's see if you come through with why I voted for you. That's kind of been the interaction.

Now, obviously, I haven't spoken to 142,000 people yet, but that's kind of like the takeaway I have. Do you have friends in Congress? Are there people that you're like people that you're able to call your friends that you hang out with because that's something I wanted to get into a little bit. We don't know what it's like inside inside. I mean, I grew up in the DC area. I knew some people that worked on Capitol Hill for a while, but I don't know, you know, what that high school clique mentality is like, or even if that's a fair way to characterize it. What are things like inside Congress? Like, how do the friendships and the clicks like separate and infighting and all that stuff? What's been one thing that you've learned as a congressperson about how

D.C. works. Have you ever watched mean girls? Yes. That's Congress in a nutshell. Okay. There is a mean girl there. I'm not saying that's me, but I'm like the Katie, the Lindsay Lohan just coming in kind of like, oh, wow, this is strange. I don't come from a political background. So yeah, I'm pretty much an outsider. But I went in with friends because if you recall in 2020 when I ran, my race was uncalled for about three weeks. And I was invited to new member orientation because I was ahead. And we can, you know, unpack this whichever way you want. I don't like rehashing like 2020 elections. It's just frustrating for, I think, a lot of people in many different reasons. But I went to orientation. So that entire freshman class of the 117th Congress

built a relationship with me. I try to be as personal and kind to people as I humanly can. It's just in my nature to I as there's different types of people. I'm like a people pleaser at heart. Like I go out of my way to if you need something, I'll go out of my way. And like, here it is. You're like, you didn't have to do that. Well, but you mentioned. mentioned and I did it, right? So it's easy for me to build relationships. So I go into Congress with a lot of relationships from that former freshman class. And these are people who came up and stomped for me during the election. They helped me in whichever way they could and would. And I'm thankful for them. And obviously, they were upset with all the fanfare of the media as it spiraled. They're

like, they felt betrayed. I had very tough conversations with folks. And I've had pretty public breakups with folks who I was very friendly with, like Congresswoman Nancy May from South Carolina. I was very, very openly friendly with her publicly. She'd come to Manhattan for events. I've gone. She's given me shoutouts. Now she's one of the people who called on me to resign, one of the eight members in my own party. What do you think the reason for that? Well, I mean, that's a question you should ask her. Okay. Yeah, I couldn't. I don't want to put words in her mouth. Guys. Who are your best friends in Congress? I have best friends there. It's too soon for that, but I have great mentors and great acquaintances and friends. People I hang out. I socialize

with I have many. I mean, if you judge by where I stand during votes and who I talk to, I think it almost becomes self-explanatory. But I am the most right-leaning member of the Republican Party in the Northeast in general. In New York State, I would venture to say maybe there's Congresswoman at least Afonic who might be a little tad. But I think I might outdo her. I'm pretty conservative. And I ran on that. I ran being a very staunch pro-lifer. I ran on being a very staunch Second Amendment advocate, freedom, pro-freedom of speech, all that stuff. So naturally, I do gravitate more towards the Freedom Caucus type mentality members. I'm not part of any caucuses. I don't think they're productive. But I hang out with Matt Gates, Tim Burchett from Tennessee is my mentor and some other members. Somebody that I have a lot of respect for is Harriet Higman, who was a congresswoman and who unseeded Liz chaining. So these are a very smart person, by the way. You know, so that's where I gravitate towards. It's like, I love Thomas Massey from Kentucky. I think he's freaking, he's amazing. He's a great member of Congress. We have disagreements on, you know, who we want to be president or on certain

policies, specifically fiscal policies. But that's kind of where I gravitate. That's kind of my crowd. But, you know, I've taken some what could be considered moderate votes because it's for the district. I'm not there for myself, believe. I'm there for the belief of what I think is best for the congressional district that represent. You've been an inspiration to one person in particular in this room, and that's, that's Billy, Billy over here, because Billy, Billy has a track record where he sometimes embellishes things. And he gives, stop doing that, Billy. You give him inspiration that one day Billy could be in Congress. And I actually do think that Billy could, I think one day we might be looking at Senator, Senator football over here.

I was, I was just wondering, you were talking about how the establishment didn't help you with your election, with your campaign. And a lot of that, I just wanted a, talking about your fundraising. I saw, I was reading up, and I just want to know how much of this was true that you put a lot of your own money into your campaign. So, I mean, you overcame a lot of adversity with not having support from, you know, the local Republican party. But how are you able to do that? Because a lot of people, there's a lot of a gray area of how exactly you were able to fund your campaign and sort of surmount the odds of being basically an outsider and come from the outside. So a lot of folks are just, they go nuts over the finance part of this. And I don't understand

what's why, right? So they're basing, the whole thing spans off of, of my financial disclosures from 2020 when we were in the middle of a pandemic and my income had been slashed severely, like, like most people, especially at the time I was in the conference circuit and private equities hosting and doing conferences. So if you think about that, there's no conferences being hosted. So yeah, our income was slashed. And the way that the financial disclosures are asked, if you ever get a chance to see the form, it's pretty cut dry. What is your earnings from this day to this day? Very specific. Not year prior, which would have been a different picture. And then there's this massive jump that they see from from that value to the value this year after I open a company and I go

solo after the pandemic. So I'm being danged for for being an entrepreneur and going out of being the employee to being the kind of employer, right? And kind of assuming my own business and and earning good income with it. The one bad decision I made, I put almost every dollar I made in the last two years into my campaign. So it's it's stupid. business decision, but it was a risk I decided to take and it paid off. Now, if you don't mind me asking, where exactly did you earn that money? The money was all earned through legitimate business practices through a company that I own. And it was all through referral fees and through capital introduction meetings and and just it's a standard practice. But for some

reason, I can't do it. I feel like the media says George Santos cannot do this. So if I've got like $10 million I want to invest. You would then introduce me to somebody. No. The other way around. I work with people seeking funding. And I have a roster of folks like you that would, although I can't do that anymore. So I'm dissolving the company because when you're in Congress, you can't have an funding for their businesses. So not funding. So I don't do any of the finances. So let's say you're you're trying to start a company. You need $10 million. Right. I have a list of people, and you give me the vertical and all of the stuff that you're trying to do, right? Like, oh, I want to start it.

It's going to be to create organic food for kittens and puppies, right? Big T here has a lawnmower business. No, no, no, no. He has money. Yeah. We do have that time. That he earned through his lawnmower business. So he has tons of money and kind of like you're the type of business he's interested in.

So I'll go to him and say, T, I have this guy that. that's looking for funding, I think it would be a great connection, a great match. All I do is make the introduction. I remove myself. You guys settle it out. So I just have the Rolodex and I know what people are interested in and what their mandates are. And people who are seeking funding come to me and I just charge a flat fee. You're the liaison for Angel investing? No, that's, I'm a cap introduction. That's what it's called. So capital introduction. You know people with a lot money. Yes. Now, what was your involvement with Harbor City Capital? I was an employee. Like every single other person that was an employee, I was hired by them to do capital intro.

I was not doing placement, right, of any funds or anything. And everything that I've put out publicly as people dissect, this is all information that was given to us internally. I was an employee. I mean, I spoke to the SEC at the time. We all did. Nobody was. was implicated because it was a one-man Ponzi scheme and I got caught up in it. That's what led me to not wanting to work for anybody anymore and opening my own business. So I never again got caught looking stupid. How many employees were- But you said real quick, but you see how like you kind of leave a trail of distrust?

And you have to see the reason as to why. So like when I asked like what why does that the congressman that he referred to like, Why doesn't she? Like, you have to see why people kind of lean towards. I can't really trust him. Like, you got to see that. No, I'm not saying I don't see it, but you're saying I had one employer who got dinged.

Do you know how many people get dinged in New York City? No, no. I'm talking about every, I'm talking about all of your, you have a lot of, you know, allegations for, like, lies that you've told over the time, things that you've done, invest, not investments, businesses you've been a part of. Like, I mean, I have to. Business, not is, right? After a while, people were like,

what I would have smoked, they're fired. Like, he's kind of like a liar. Okay. Well, I mean, look, if you want to say that, that's fine. No, no, no, that's not what I'm saying. What I'm saying is, do you understand how people can come to that conclusion? Or do you think they just all full of shit? No, no.

I understand people can come to that conclusion. I never dismiss that, right? I mean, sky's blue, right? So I think we can agree on that, right? I'm not dismissing that. I'm just saying that folks are trying to make, to create a fire where there is no fire. There's a lot of folks in the media that they, a lot of smoke, though. Sure, go ahead.

You can say there's smoke, but not necessarily fire, right? I might, might I have been in a place more than once where I got caught up in something that I had nothing to do with? And then does it, does it give a bad perception? Sure, but, you know, wasn't me. Got you. How many employees were at Harvard? I don't remember. I mean was it small firm a large firm I think on under 20 25 maybe total we could billy

diving into the the nitty gritty details and look and I don't quote me on those numbers I don't like I couldn't tell you the expect at this point anything I tell you about that I couldn't tell I couldn't put my I couldn't take it do it under oath because and I'd say that because I just don't know what the man was doing like he would tell us all these numbers put all these people on conference calls for all I know he was just feeling random people in there as actors. So those are my hard questions now for some of my more lighthearted questions. Being in Congress, being in the D.C. area. And, you know, you've been, you know, in politics. You're in Washington. Do you actually see a semblance of a swamp or a deep state in D.C.? I have the stench on it

of me on me every day. I wake up. Are you deep state? I am not deep state. Do you see it? Are you like? Who is deep state? Who asked that? You know what? We'll cut it. We'll cut it. We'll cut it. Just tell us. No, no, no. It's not, it's not who is. I don't know who deep state is. Deep state wants me gone, right?

So there is a deep state. So you haven't gotten that far yet, though? I feel like deep state is just where people say like anybody that's against you. Well, you can just be like, they're deep state. Yeah, I guess. That's a great, that's a great way to put it. I mean, look, there's no, there's no question that there's some semblance of what a deep state is. It's there.

It exists. We all see it. We know it. It's tangible almost. You can almost feel it. but you just don't know what it is and who it is. How long do you have to be in Congress before you start really feeling out who's in the deep state?

You know what? I'll say this. I took a pledge that I would not stay long enough to become deep state. So I won't find out. But you can ask the guys who've been serving 40, 30 years. I mean, how many years you have to serve until you get like lifelong benefits? There's no such thing as lifelong benefits. So that's a, that's a myth, right?

So for some reason, the American people were fed a bill of goods. at one point that you go to Congress, you serve one term, maybe two or three, and you get a full pet. It's not true. And then I've actually, there's been stories saying that that's the only reason I read for Congress is because I wanted life benefits. I'm like, no. I mean, that would be something I would do. Free health care. Like, I put in a good five years. That was the limit. It would definitely be running some scams on Congress people if you got in. Just on not of my constituents on the high school. You like sell, if you're a senior, you sell the elevator pass to freshman they're they're like fresh you know the first day i've bought it did you bought it did you

flip it when you were a senior i never got to be a senior i got a g ed when i was 17 okay yeah so so when you're walking around congress you see some of these like 30 40 year old or 30 40 year old uh you know they've served for that long in congress or you're like man i could i could run some scams on these guys you know no look uh if you think that you're slick and you're street smart and you're going to go in there and you're going to try to look the look the longer they serve, the wiser they get. To me, like the scariest person in Congress is somebody like Nancy Pelosi. Agreed. She's as articulate as they come. She's as smart as they come. And she understands political maneuvering like no one else. I mean, the woman cracks a whip her entire party

snaps in the line. You know, it's not the same on our side. We're a little bit more willful. Let's just put it that way on the Republican Party. A lot of firebrands recently in Congress. I did want to ask you about one piece of legislation. And I, just saw a headline um but maybe you can educate me on what it is you want to make the ar 15 the national gun of america so there was a member of congress barry moore from alabama was passing around a pamphlet that's how we get people co-sponsor our bills right so i didn't write the bill uh i'm pro second amendment through and through i i make no excuses for it i walk around with uh gads and flag lapelpin almost all the time uh as uh you know don't threat on me you

don't don't step on my my freedoms right i'm sensitive and i'm sympathetic to to what's going on in our country but i don't stem it back to guns they send it back to mental health right i i guess i guess my question be it sounds like a piece of legislation that was drawn up specifically to own the libs which i don't know how that how productive that is if you're in congress i'm sure there are more important things to be working on yeah like why would we need to just declare the ar 15 to be a national gun like was anybody was anybody really asking for that i mean look uh if the congressman wrote it up i'm pretty sure he had the request and i got positive support in my district remember i represent some pretty conservative parts of new york uh in in my district and i got

positive support i did get dinged over the head i mean there was a protest outside my uh my office just yesterday because of again reviving this bill every time there's a shooting they go outside of my office and protest because I co-sponsors this. I'm not saying that you're responsible for shootings, for mass killings or anything of that nature. I just don't understand why we would need to have a national

We have a national everything. Why not have a gun? Why are we excluding gun? Because gun violence in America, especially school shootings, is a uniquely American problem. And to give a mascot to that is it's performative politics and it's pointless. And y'all know it's pointless.

it doesn't serve any actual purpose other than other than performing points for the voters that you want to give does any national anything serve any points uh like national bird bald eagle bald eagles are sweet they're cool they're also predatory

they're cool but they're a predator to my point right are we going to add them for that no that's my point no i'm pro eagle i'm pro eagle too no my point is it's performative in a sense that y'all know it's to

it's to brand yourselves as I like guns to placate to voters that enjoy weapons as well. You just figured out Congress, though. That's Congress in the nutshell. I mean, that's my problem with politicians in general is y'all actually do shit. I don't want to be too disrespectful. But y'all just you can't be this. You know what I'm saying?

Y'all just play to the crowd. And instead of actually getting shit done in a real way, y'all are trying to keep your seats and you do shit like that. So let me, let me, let me dive into that with you and I'll tell you this. I agree. I ran for Congress because I was pissed off at that garbage, right? It's garbage. That's fine. I co-sponsored 66 bills so far, right? If you look, I have the most activity speaking on the floor. I speak about all real issues, right? My main driver right now is water quality. I know something that we, most of us don't talk about. Most of us don't know. You know, you just open faucet, fill your glass, you drink, whatever the

cases, you know, nobody really realizes the troubles it comes through of you get through to get that water to come out of your faucet. That's become my main, like yesterday I was touring facilities. All the water sources on Long Island have come through aquifers, underground aquifers. And the problem that we have is contaminants because of a responsible chemical dumping throughout, you know, the history of our country, specifically on Long Island, with the Grumman plume, with the Polytech plume. These are all issues. we've had chronic issues. I have a town in my district that in 11 months, if we do absolutely nothing, they will

not have access to clean water because all their water wells will have been contaminated. Right? Yeah. So I'm working on that. Listen, I'm pro water. Yeah. No, no. There's a bipartisan.

Nobody's going to be like a big. No, no. It's not about bipartisan. What is it about? The media won't report that I'm working on that because because the media doesn't want to highlight good work. That's like saying if you have kids, like you gave them dinner last night. I'm supposed to, like, pat you on the back for doing what you're supposed to do.

No, no. When you do things out of the, unnecessarily out of the norm to score political points, that's, of course, the media is going to sensationalize that. So, so the problem we have is it's all sensationalized, right, when you look at it. But you play to that. We all do. Every single politician. No, you don't. Every single politician, because it's about getting, you know, a point across.

That's my, that's what I'm saying. But it is about getting a point across. I don't think any politician is going to deny that to you. Well, no, that's the issue. The issue is instead of actually being about diplomacy and being about peace, you know co-signing a bill that gives America a national gun, you know there are going to be people in opposition to that. And there's no win there. The only win is, like you said, to own the libs and to score some points and to get traction on social media and to get traction to drum up the profile so that you get voters.

That's the issue that I have with politics in America. And politicians, quite frankly, should have that same issue because y'all, y'all complain about each other and yourselves, but you are all in the same arena, dancing the same dance. And it makes no sense. Look, I'm not going to disagree with you, but all I can say is, is if the media also stop sensationalizing messaging bills, that's what those are called, by the way, messaging bills, and everybody does them. if you go through every single member of Congresses. I have not introduced a messaging bill yet. I have only put actual tangible bills.

The bills I'm introducing are tangible real issues we have. So the United States likes to say we're the country of tolerance, peace, love, and equality, but we're funding countries to the tune of $19 billion a year that throw gay people off buildings and hang them off the side of buildings. Why are we sending fucking money to them? Why are we giving your taxpayer dollars to countries that don't respect same values we have here? I put a bill out on that. I couldn't get a single co-sponsor.

I don't know if it's because it's me. I don't know if it's because they don't really care. I don't know it's because they're virtual signaling. That's a problem, but that's a real issue. Then I go and I make a very identical copy of the bill for women's rights. We give over $50 billion to countries that mutilate women's genitalia. Don't let them drive. Don't let them go to school.

They don't have freedom. They can barely show their eyes out in public. And we're funding that suppression, right? So those are issues. These are taxpayer dollars. If we pass these two bills, we're saving. $69 billion for the American people that can go back to helping veterans

that can go back to helping infrastructure in this country that we can stop all the nonsense and lower taxes. Nobody wants to talk about it. I would love to talk about it. I'm saying, nobody wants to talk about it. Well, grandstand on that and don't waste your time with silly shit

that you know the media is going to sensation a lot. Because the media is important. Regardless of how you feel about them, they're important to a free society. I totally agree. They're the beacon of of transparency and putting out information. I love that you put transparency, of course. Because it is.

It's not transparent. Like, you look at every different network and they all have a different agenda. You turn on CNN and you turn on Fox at the same time. It's two freaking different old kinds of realities. As they should, though. That's terrible. It's not opinionated journalism.

It's not good. So do then agree that we can get away, we can do away with the law that created the monster that is Fox News and MSNBC. If it's opinionated, journalism, I think that was Nixon that created that, right? Would you be in favor of eliminating Fox Newses and MSNBCs across the board? I'm not in favor of eliminating. As you're saying, are you talking about antitrust laws because they're just so big like News Corp? Is that what you're

alluded? No, it's, it's, it was the law that Nixon, Pat, let me, I'm going to look up, um, the law that gave rise to cable news networks like this that didn't have to abide by the same standards and practices. It was the Nixon administration. Oh, it was Roger Ailes that helped create this. It was 1970, Roger Ailes and Nixon Aids came up with a plan to create a new TV network that would circumvent existing media and provide pro-administration coverage to millions. Sounds accurate.

So I feel like that would be good for America in general is to get rid of these types of media establishments and and go back to an era where it was just about what the actual But then we're going to go back to what an era like of NPR which is state funded media that's a problem. NPR is just boring. We talked about this on the they should just have a boring tag next to them not state funded. Go ahead. I want to we have a special guest that I want to bring it. But this is this is why you have a lot of growing anti-capitalists in America is because the the logical conclusion of capital is media networks that maximize profits and how you maximize profits is clicks and clickbait and

stuff like that. And so that is the logical end to telling me about clickbait. No, well, I've seen articles that have nothing to do with me on the internet, but my name's a tagline. No, I'm linking it to a cornerstone of the Republican Party, which is capitalism and the Democratic party. And so, and so in order to, I don't go down that rabbit hole, but I think if you spend the majority of your time lobbying for things like the clean water and shit, you're going to find a lot more people view you favorably rather than trying to sow the divide. Like, that's my problem with political pundits and politicians in general is they would rather so the divide to score points than rather that to find some kind of peace and diplomacy because we live in a

country where it's super divided and it's going to continue to be divided. But it's rather we come to the table and eat the same food rather than throw it at each other. Look, I'll say this. I'm always willing and ready to work with anybody on anything. I'm partisan. I'm a Republican, and I'm proud of that. But the reality is, is the media is not representing the accurate opinion of the district right now. I can say this until I'm blue in the face.

You guys have to go into the district with me and see the reaction. So you think you're going to win. We're going to send Billy on a camera with you. I love to do it. Let's do it. When I'm back in first week of May, it's an open invitation. We'll go out and do it. We'll spend a day in the district and you'll see what I'm talking about.

It's cars going by my district office as I'm like literally windexing and cleaning the glass because I'm OCD and I'm not going to go hire some crazy government contract to pay them three grand a month to come clean a window. I can just spray windex and paper towel it down, right? People going by and say, we love you. That's why we voted for you. You're simple. You get it. Like this is kind of like and that's not for show. that's just who I am, right? So I go to restaurants. People are coming up and giving me

words of support. I get words of support on my phone all day long. You know, it's Texas. Like, hang in there. That's why we voted for you because you don't back down. Look, if there's something that can be learned is that after Congress, whether I get elected or not, I didn't know I was going to get elected this time. You never know. Elections are, they go with the wind. So I just didn't know. I don't know if I'll get elected again, but I'll try. But you're running. You're definitely. I'm not definitely. I haven't announced that yet. Okay.

But it sounds like you're playing on it. We've got a special guest we want to bring in because he knows that you're a Mets fan. So this is Frank the tank. We saw the viral video that went out of you cheering on the Mets. I think I cursed them. Frank is going to debate you on who truly cursed the Mets. This is Frank. He's a diehard Mets fan.

He absolutely loves the Mets. Yeah, I'm cursed all the time at 24-7. I mean, it's just incredible. But do you blame him for? cursing the Mets well first off let's go Mets you got to like follow the cadence of we will rock you let's go Mets let's go Mets let's go Mets okay I'll take the that's the cadence look usually when I'm in Cityfield I'm in a box and I'm a let's just say I've had way way too many adult beverages he parties too hard

that's his only crime is getting hammered at national league game. Now, being a Mets fan. Yeah, there's some other crime. You're right. I got some I got some Mets trivia for you. Oh, yeah, I've got a bomb. Save yourself to save yourself the agony. Let's just do it. Let's do that. Just let's go Mets. All right, go ahead, Frank. Do it. When Mookie Wilson hit the ground ball through Bill Buckner's legs, who scored the winning run. I have no clue what that is. You got a gay man here. You're trying to talk about baseball.

I'm so sorry. Look, just to give you, I'll give you this. Do you know that jersey was a Lindor jersey? Because he is my favorite player. I didn't know who was on the back of it. Yeah, it was Lindor, yeah. Good choice. Good choice.

All right. Thank you very much, Frank. Thank you. Thank you. Frank. Who was it? Ray Knight. Ray Knight, there you go.

So keep that one in your back pocket. I know you'd be the one to that. Well, who was it, bro? I know. I know you've got a whole. out. So I want to be respectful of the time here. Billy and I were talking before you sat down. We might have some breaking news here. You got the famous quote of you being Jewish, not actually Jewish, which is just, I mean, it's an all-time line. I'm Italian-ish. Yeah. I know, I know that

there's, you know, understandably a lot of actual Jewish people that are upset with referring to yourself as being Jew-ish. You said that you got DNA results back. Not sharing them with you. percent that bitch what are what are what you're not going to show the you said that you got them back right i so i i i submitted four DNA tests um i got three back uh not sharing the results with you but for for other reasons because we're also getting a genealogy trace back we're waiting on that i want to package it and just give it to everybody and be like look wasn't lying about that here's here's world war two it was very fucking complicated uh especially with people trying to survive and forging essentially everything in order to do so.

So as soon as we have the package, I'll send it to you guys. I'll come and talk about it here. I don't mind. I mean, I'm definitely going to give it to someone else first, but I'll definitely come here and talk about it with you guys. The disrespect of our journalistic integrity. Isn't there a difference, though, between genealogy and actually being of the Jewish faith? So what I.

Because you're Catholic, right? So, yes. So what was what was missed in translation. And if you look up at the JNS video of my interview talking about Judaism back in November, December last year, four months ago or so, it was by JNS. I explained that thoroughly. This is before anything, any allegation. I'm saying, look, he's like, so how does it feel to be one of three members of the Republican Party who are Jewish? I'm like, look, let me start here.

I'm not Jewish. I'm Jewish. I come from a Jewish family. My mother's family is all of Jewish background and heritage, but I was raised Roman Catholic. I've always made that distinction. But in Judaism, when you were born to a Jewish mother, that makes you Jewish. You're an MOT, member of the tribe. That's how you'll be viewed, although I do not practice the Jewish faith.

That was what I was always conveying. And the joke was always like, I'm Jew-ish, because if you ever meet somebody who's an MOT, they'll say, no, we're claiming you for ourselves. And if you watch that J&S interview, you'll see that, they end like that. I say, like, Jewish, she's like, yeah, we're still claiming you for ourselves. But I was raised Roman Catholic. I've never made any misrepresentation of the opposite, of the contrary, like a lot of news publications are trying to do that.

We called yourself a Latino Jew. Yeah, I am of a Jewish heritage. That's a valid point, but I'm Catholic. A true politician. That would be so, that's misleading as fuck, respectively. It's not. Look. If somebody told me they're a Latino Jew, I'd be like, oh, they're Jewish.

Okay. I guess we can agree to disagree. We can agree to disagree. Somebody told me that they were a Jew. I would be like, oh, they're a Jew. But there's very, there's very explicit details on for the, for years of me, like I said, I said it before, not disrespectful. I have plenty of Jewish friends. I actually represent the third largest Jewish constituency in a congressional district in the country. I've, I break bread with these folks. I go, I go to Shabbat dinners more often than most. You still go to those?

I still go to those. Yeah. So the reality, it's, it's an honor to be invited. And you go. you'd never say no to Shabbat dinner it's it's like if you I've never been invited I think we need to break bread invite Aryan how that may not like you got in an area damn that's not true that's not true that is not true that's not you had a guy named Santos are you kidding yeah all right well well thank you very much for stopping in we look forward to the results of the DNA tests you appreciate that when you get those back when you get that fourth out of the three out of four the fourth and all the genealogy and then we'll package it and give it everybody. Yeah, there was, you know what, there was one last thing. There was a video that

there was a video that came out last week at the Trump indictment where you're, you're being surrounded by the media, you're being followed by the media and you're walking away from them and then you just walk like into a wall. I didn't walk into a wall. I was walking to the car. Walk towards a wall. I walk towards a wall so I can go to the driver's seat that the car was parked by the wall. When something like that happens, you're like, oh shit, there's so many cameras that just saw me walk towards this wall. Do you think, do you think yourself like, well, It's going to be a tough day online. Well, that's what they were trying to sell.

Oh, Giortanto is so the straw. He walked into all. No, I was walking to the wall to go into the driver's seat that was by the wall. Okay. And, you know, there was a corridor there, right? So that's what I was doing. But the media didn't get that angle because that's the perception that the media likes to sell is stupid, sensationalized garbage.

If the media sold the facts 100% of the time, this country would be in a lot less trouble than it is. But because the media is too busy on getting people to go on their shows and do their sponsorships and buy all the commercial space, they need to sensationalize garbage so they can get people to actually watch so they can justify selling commercial. Our sensationalization and embellishment in the same ballpark? No. Got you. You did walk into the door frame. Where? In DC. Oh, totally. I walked into door frames. I went into the first week in Congress when I had 40 people following me. I was like, okay, I got to go vote. And I couldn't make, you know,

It was tough. I walked into dead ends. I walked into like, no exit halls. I'm like, God, you had the asshole off with Mitt Romney. You're an asshole. No, you're an asshole. Look, Mitt Romney is, it wasn't the first time a white dude told me to shut up and sit in the back of the room.

It's not going to be the last time. And I just keep not doing it. And he's going to have to accept me. He's like probably the weakest person in Congress. He has no spine. He stands for nothing. He waffles and wishes, washes to every single policy and issue. doesn't stand for anything.

He calls himself a Republican. Where's a Ukraine flag pin to the state of the union? I'm sorry. Fuck off, Mitt Romney. You're like, I have no respect for the man. And he wants to come into the chamber in the house I serve and call me an asshole. You have some gall. You're a guest in this chamber.

He should have respected me. I'm sorry. Like, period point blank. That's not how you conduct yourself as a member of Congress in the chambers. Just not. He was wrong. Period. Sorry.

No, that's fine. Let's go. Talking about the military industrial complex, do you ever get approached by like, so I'm like, here's some stock tips if you vote this certain way? No, I look. Good question, Bill. What if you just answered that? Yeah.

So you don't have to accept it, but like how does that work? How do they get like how do I don't trade stocks? I'm introducing a bill to ban individual stock trading for members of Congress. So, I'm a dead shit. So look, their spouses, their parents and their kids, immediate family. It's over. like the Pelosi era of getting rich off the back of the American people has to end it's Congress has a 17% approval rate that goes back like hundreds yeah sure but let's end it she's just she's she's she's being punished because she's so good I'm not hating her I'm not hating her I mean there's I'm absolutely I agree I vote blue dad and take it and I think she's horrible look I'll put it this way you'll start changing your voting pattern and start voting for people who represent you and talk about things you care the moment you see people do that, right? Because look, I come from a place where Long Island, if anybody

hears from Long Island, it's chronically and notoriously known for being a zigzag ballot place because they vote based on the person on what they have done or what they say they'll do into offices. That's why you have Republicans and Democrats like overlapping. I represent a district with a bunch of Republicans representing smaller offices and a bunch of Democrats. I'm the first Republicans to represent this seat in 20 years. So that just gives you a say because it's about what you're selling to people. And when you act on what you're selling to people, you get people. I know plenty of Democrats who voted for Lee Selden for governor. Plenty because they just had no patience for Kathy Hochel and the nonsense with the crime. So unless you're just one of those

hardliners, I'm an activist. I'm a Democrat. That's fine. No, I'm the furthest thing from a Democrat. Well, like I said, if no, I just, I fundamentally. disagree with Republicans to the point of there's there's nothing in your worldview that we agree on and I'm pretty close like with that with Democrats I'm not like some enlightened centers I'm just far I'm farther left than any Democrat you know so okay yeah I think uh your team's gonna drone strike us if we don't if we don't get you out of here uh because we're basically holding you hostage at this but I would like to I would like to I would like to continue this relationship and I know that Billy we're going to say Billy would love go to Mayo what are you

I'm not Mexican, that's racist. I know, I know, I know. That is racist. Take Billy to carnival. Oh, my God. No, I didn't mean like that. Like you said early May. I think we could put a wig on you.

Hold on. No, you said early May. So I was like, that would be a good day. Tell Billy's brain works. You said first week of May he went to Cinco de Mayo. It just came out. It's a fun party time. I wanted to enjoy adult beverages with you.

Oh, that's so funny. I don't drink on the job, though. Okay. Only at Mets games. Yes, that's true. That is true. We're going to put Billy on the road with you because I think he has a lot to learn from you. Cool. Look, I love for you to be Billy's mentor.

I will say this, though. I do think Portnoy needs to come into my district and do a pizza review. Okay. I'll ask him. We should. Totally should. Actually, let me just get a video of that real quick and I'll send it right to him. Okay, invite him.

Dave, you need to come to NY3 and get at least a nine point. five slice of pizza that I think that's what you would rate it based on your ratings please come on i take you myself okay all right i'm going to send that right to him and i'm sure he'll i'm sure he'll take you up on that but thank you very much for coming in i know he wants to meet my santo's helpers because he does yes yes yes he does all right thank you thank you for fighting for a right for toilet paper well that was uh that was interesting i hope you all enjoyed it um maybe just be honest And I hope that's good advice for all the politicians out there, man. If anybody don't have anything else, man, that would be nanodocin for the day.

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