Painkiller Already - PKN 570

Episode Date: July 22, 2025

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Starting point is 00:00:00 I don't even know what time I have. PKN 570. What's up, everybody? How does he get the reference and you don't? Come on, come on, come on. If you're watching this. Quaid. Quaid. Start the reactor.
Starting point is 00:00:15 Is this Star Trek? No. Is this Spock? Try it inside the cube. Spock does one of these. No, not in the tube. Spock is like, you have been and always will be my friend. That's my Spock. This is my quadle.
Starting point is 00:00:32 This is this is a this is a sort of a parasite being that lives on on the body of the one character in Total Recall. And he's like he's got it all figured out. He's telepathic. He's the mastermind and the leader of the Martian resistance. I liked that movie. The Three Titted Woman is the original one
Starting point is 00:00:51 we're talking about? Of course. Yeah. That's the only one I've seen. Yeah, they made a remake. It's PG-13. There's no Three Titted Woman. It's garbage.
Starting point is 00:00:59 You got, it's no midgets. Yeah, Total Recall, Arnold Schwarzenegger. We watched it last night. Girlfriend definitely having nightmares of that little mutant baby going, Quake. When I came to bed, like she went to bed hours after me and I snuck into bed and I swear to God, I went quake and started rubbing her arm. She's like, get the fuck off me. I had a nightmare this morning.
Starting point is 00:01:23 It ruined my day. What was it? Because I've had this too. It was not, dude, first of all, I think all dream stories are boring. They're never consequential. They don't matter. Anytime someone starts telling me about their dreams,
Starting point is 00:01:36 I look forward to the point where they stop telling me about their dreams. But since you asked, real short, I don't know how this happened. In this dream. My father and I were living together and it was like a normal thing. My father's in his upper 70s now. And for some reason he was being bullied by a pair of like 17 year old boys,
Starting point is 00:01:54 like blonde guys. And I've estimated my odds at winning the fight against these two kids at like 20%. But I was like, well, I guess I have to do it. So I went in have to do it. So I went in to defend my father and I was kind of doing this like pump up, regaining my faculties and like the ability to move my arms and legs. And that was the process of me waking up. And that's how the dream ends. I didn't actually fight them. I was just kind of like, all right, I need to fight, you know what this dream first,
Starting point is 00:02:22 I need to move my arms and legs. And then I woke up and I couldn't get back to sleep. But it put you in a funk, didn't it? I was like, I'll get those. I knew that if I tried to operate on like four and a half hours of sleep, like I would have, that I'd just have a terrible day. So I was like stressed about sleeping in the morning, trying to like hurry sleep as if that's a thing you can do.
Starting point is 00:02:46 Like if you just concentrate hard enough, then you'll never sleep. And there I was. So I did take a nap, I'm cool now, but it ruined my day. Dude, it throws you for a loop when you have like a weird dream. But yeah, let's interpret it. I think it means.
Starting point is 00:03:01 I think that it's Woody subconsciously wanting to protect his father from MAGA culture There's these young blonde guys have led his father away and a stray from from goodness And he's worried that he's gonna follow Trump down his insurrectionist road. I took it more literal I don't know cuz up until that point we were raping children So your dad Yeah,-maga, yeah. In for a penny, in for a pound. Jesus. Reprehensible.
Starting point is 00:03:32 No wonder you woke up in a funk. That would have been really funny. I didn't even get to finish. I would have thought it was more literal. Where it was like someone sees their aging loved one and wants to defend them from, you know, youth, like as like a representation of time passing
Starting point is 00:03:52 time is like he's, you know, his time is late seventies getting up there towards the end. I don't know. You said literal, I'm vibing metaphorical in this explanation. Yeah. Yeah. Well, that is metaphorical. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:04:09 I think these blonde men are, blonde men are MAGA influencers. Do you think so? Yes, yes, they represent white supremacy. They represent masculinity, toxic masculinity, perhaps, and he's worried that those are leading his father astray. To me, I was getting like 1980s movie jock bully vibes. Cobra Kai. Yeah, yeah, that works. Cobra Kai kind of thing.
Starting point is 00:04:29 Yeah. This is a Cobra neighborhood. No chance of winning it. What does that mean? I got put in like a one hour funk like until I finished my coffee like a couple of weeks ago. Just having a dream, like you know how words don't make sense in your dream and text doesn't work correctly? Like I'll have that issue. I can know. I'm not
Starting point is 00:04:51 familiar with this, but like if I try to write something on my phone in a dream, it never correlates with the language I'm trying to use. There will be some issue. And I was like trying to text friends or I don't remember who it was, but I kept trying to send this there will be some issue. And I was like trying to text friends, or I don't even remember who it was, but I kept trying to send this text. And like all the letters were coming in jumbled and with like weird little symbols and umlauts and whatnot. And I was like, oh my God.
Starting point is 00:05:15 I love that Taylor's nightmares involve his inability to spell. Yeah, it does. I'm having, my nightmares, I'm having grammar and syntax issues. And I like I woke up like annoyed and I was like, I could fucking and I like I woke up with that dream thing
Starting point is 00:05:32 of like, I got to fix my phone. It's all fucked up and it's not put the inputs aren't coming out correctly when I'm trying to text my friends. And then like immediately I like pulled my phone up while taking my morning shit. And I was like, oh
Starting point is 00:05:52 that thing was no, that was real. Why would you have to text the president about a bomb threat? Like, why would you have to be the first line of defense? Well, that's a much more interesting thing. If where I'd be like, the, you know, a designated survivor level guy where I'm like, Mr. President, look out, the terrorists are coming for you. It's me, Taylor from the Midwest. I've been, uh, I've been trying to think my way into the same dream every night. So this is also a way that I get to sleep. I like by boring the shit out of myself. I imagine that I have suddenly been bestowed with the powers of Superman, but I don't want to be a fucking superhero because that's lame. I'm not saving squirrels. I'm not going to Palestine. I want a job. So I'm
Starting point is 00:06:25 like, I need to get into contact with the president, clearly. But then I'm like, how do I actually make that happen? And like, just trying to figure that out. Think about it. You get one step into it and you're like, all right, let's, all right, I can't, ah, damn, he doesn't really use Twitter anymore. Can I truth them? Can I send them a truth? No, no, no, no, no, no, that works because he won't take you seriously. So I came to the conclusion at late, like I couldn't get to the next step of my fantasy without plausibly getting through that step. So for like a week I thought about it and I'm like, you know, the only way I can do this is to like
Starting point is 00:07:02 fly up to him during a press event and drop and then everybody's gonna freak out because a flying man has appeared. But I'll come in disguise and I'll throw him a letter and then fly away and the letter is like an invitation to negotiate or to talk. And I feel like then I can because there's I had no way to get to the president but I go through the minutiae of like tandem paramotor I'm here to help. This puts me right in sleep.
Starting point is 00:07:26 I swear to God, I go through the minutia of like, what I would want from the federal government in exchange for my services and what my services as a Superman would be for Donald Trump or JD Vance. And many of my ideas, I go straight to Vance because I feel like he's the president to be. He's the one I want to get to work with. Step one, you got he's the president to be. I was your ideas. Step one. Oh, yeah. You got to get the ear of Bibi Netanyahu.
Starting point is 00:07:52 You can parlay that into a relationship with Trump. Yeah, I'll do similar things where I'll like fall asleep thinking like fantasizing about robbing Fort Knox or something. A huge amount of my falling asleep fantasies have to do with like a large scale robberies and thievery. And it'll always come to something like, like what you said, step one, it's like, all right, step one is like, I'm obviously bad ass and not overweight. Step two, step two is I need to get into the main frame, something to do with electronics
Starting point is 00:08:28 and pass codes. All right. The way I get through that is I've got a guy, but he's fat, but I'm still jacked. And so he has to get me in there. And then I get to the point in the fantasy where it's like, what does it even look like in there? And I have to do like a pre-act to construction mentally of what I imagine. Before you can storm the castle. Yeah, exactly. I have to envision like what the robables are, the amount of weight it is,
Starting point is 00:08:57 how I would possibly get away with it. And usually I fall asleep long before I've actually pulled off the heist and I'm like driving down the street in a semi. Really, it's a series of semis because the amount of gold that I would want to take, you can't throw that in one semi. It would collapse immediately.
Starting point is 00:09:14 It's right around the point where I'm negotiating what my rank in the Air Force will be that I totter off to sleep. Well, I mean, it is a fantasy, so I wouldn't want to be like too high. No, I'm, it is a fantasy, so I wouldn't want to be like too high. I'm not like Captain. I think Captain because it sounds cool. We're promoting you to Admiral.
Starting point is 00:09:34 No, you're not. That's gay. We're staying at Captain. No more taxes. It's kind of like that scene in. What's the movie where Bruce Willis blows up the asteroid? The six cents. Yeah. The six cents. Deep impact.
Starting point is 00:09:49 That's the other one. It doesn't matter, but they're negotiating with the government. He's like, yeah. Armageddon. Armageddon. He's like, they don't want to pay taxes ever again. I think we can work something out. It's like, that's part of the deal too.
Starting point is 00:10:03 Yeah. A tremendous number of my dreams are just so, like my bad dreams are so tedious. I can't remember the last time I had a bad dream where I was being like killed or chased. So many people have that trope of like, I can't run fast, I can't punch hard, but I'm never getting into fights or like, it's very rare that I'm running away
Starting point is 00:10:23 and having to run in my dreams. It's just tedium where it's like something won't work. I said, I think I said this on the show. I had like, I woke up in a funk because like some software issue on my computer didn't work and the letters didn't make sense on my monitor. When I would try and input, that's a recurring thing is the information I'm trying to input isn't displayed correctly on some changes. Change your default font to Wingdings or something. Oh, no, it's happened. is the information I'm trying to input isn't displayed correctly on some medium.
Starting point is 00:10:45 It would be glorious to change your default font to Wingdings or something. Oh my god. Oh no, it's happened! No, no. My nightmares are true. Ah, fuck. What's the Star of David, Crescent Moon, Smiley Face? What are these?
Starting point is 00:10:58 What do these mean? But what does it mean? Yeah, I wish I had more exciting nightmares in a way. Actually, no, that's probably a blessing because some people get those night terrors where they wake up screaming. I had those. That would be rough. Yeah. I'm glad I've never dated someone who had that issue, but I imagine like I would also wake up so scared if like the girl in my bed woke up like, ah, ah, ah, I'd be like, be scared.
Starting point is 00:11:32 I don't wake up like with a jolt, but I definitely wake up sometimes and I have like completely sweat through like my shirt or I'll be like, like, um, especially when I was taking more juice, I would wake up. It's something to do with that. Like, like maybe it was one of the, I was, I was taking 35 pills a day or something legit. Something that I was taking was making me wake up with night sweats and I would sweat so profusely. Like, like it's hard to put into words believably. I would soak into the mattress, I'd have to lay a towel down
Starting point is 00:12:08 afterwards, I'd have to change the sheets. Wow, wake up in the middle of the night and just be like, I'd go and like towel off like like the sweat. It wasn't enough to like, like just evaporate off me. I was like, we need to dry off. This isn't saying like the whole like around my ears and the back of my neck would be like the hair would be wet. Like I had just sweated the bed. It was not as embarrassing as pissing the bed, but it was close.
Starting point is 00:12:30 It's like, Hey, wake up, honey. I sweated the bed. Change the covers. Yeah. That's marginally better than pissing. Actually not marginally. It's way better than. Yeah, it is. Yeah it is yeah it is
Starting point is 00:12:45 yeah haven't done that in a long time it was a dream piss it was it i remember it vividly it was i was like not that long ago like eight years ago or something like that i dreamt that i was pissing in my dream and i woke up pissing on myself and i was like ah god honey wake up i pissed the bed Oh God. Honey, wake up. I pissed the bed. Dude, I had a, I had a buddy in college who like we, I'm not going to cause my whole friend group knows who I'm talking about. So I don't want to, don't want to expose him, but you know, piss pants, Mike, we called him that because he got this thing where he would get absolutely
Starting point is 00:13:23 trashed. And when he was trashed, he had this thing where he would get absolutely trashed. And when he was trashed, he had this thing where one eye, not like, you know, like really wasted eyes, you're talking to someone who's trashed. They're not like focused on you, but like they're, they're, they're glassy, but their eyes are looking at you. There's just like no one home. The lights are on, but no one's there. His eyes, one of them would stay right on you and the other one would just drift. And he had no lazy eye whatsoever when he was sober. It was only when he was trashed, not even regular drunk, trashed, where one eye would just be like listing off lazily to the side. And one time in particular, we were back home from college, probably sophomore year summer,
Starting point is 00:14:03 and we were in my mom's basement and we'd been smoking weed and drinking and having a good time getting pretty drunk, had a little, little mini party. And Mike sat on the, the couch and it was this old ratty couch. Didn't really matter. And we had joked sitting around, like passing the bong around watching TV, like, Oh dude, this is end of the night. So everybody's pretty much done drinking. They're at their level of fucked up. And he like passed out sitting up and we're like, Oh, we gotta be is end of the night. So everybody's pretty much done drinking. They're at their level of fucked up. And he like passed out sitting up and we're like, oh, we gotta be careful.
Starting point is 00:14:28 He's going to piss himself like almost jokingly because he would pee all the time. He would like, I remember one time I heard a story where like he was at his frat and he hooked up with this girl and then they fell asleep in bed and he peed all over her in the middle of the night and he said he woke up and he was like, you fucking peed my bed. I double power. Just blamed this poor guy. You nasty whore.
Starting point is 00:14:56 Oh, I guess I did. I guess I did. But he was sitting there on the couch, just like arms folded, like just totally out. And later we all get up. Time for bed. Shake him awake. all get up. Time for bed. Shake him awake. Mike, Mike, time for bed. And he's like, oh, OK. He stands up and there's an enormous
Starting point is 00:15:14 piss spot where he was where he was sitting. And I and my my buddies were like, oh, is your mom going to be mad about this? I'm like, this is like the ratty couch. We put him on there for a reason. No one's going to care. This will evaporate right up and no one will sit there again until the next time Mike gets fucked up. But he was piss pants. Mike, he, if he got trashed, pissed everywhere. I was so hoping your story was he stood up water fountain right
Starting point is 00:15:35 on the spot. No, no, no. He was way too drunk to be achieving an erection, let alone pee through it. It takes a little gumption to pee through that morning erection sometimes. You got to focus. You got to like put your hand on the wall above the toilet and lean forward. Oh, wait, you guys aren't standing four feet from the bathtub? You're just pissing into the bath. Jackie's asking you like, why is this mirror gets, how's it get so dirty?
Starting point is 00:16:03 Jackie's asking you like, why is this mirror gets, how's it get so dirty? Jackie, I use an ammonia based cleaner. That's a fucking smell. Get off my ass. Yeah. Yeah, you do the same. I tell you around that pissed themselves on a regular basis. That's like he was a huge amount of fun. And he never slept over at my place generally. It was it was always fine in that regard.
Starting point is 00:16:29 Pants Mike. His pants. Mike. Yeah. His name is not Mike. I don't throw Mike in there to to save the day. Different guy than dirty Mike, the guy who used to like actually won't say that. That's a weird.
Starting point is 00:16:40 There's probably no statute of limitations on that amount of cocaine. Woody, I saw today, I saw a tweet from you where you were like, someone said in Vagel on my stream and I was like, you dummy, mistype, what are you talking about? And it's been living in my head for three days. And I responded to you, quote tweeted you. I was like, brother, I'm only a text away all times at all times. I know you were even in my mind, like this wouldn't happen to Taylor. I was like in vagal and I thought, I think I was pretty polite about it. I was like, all right, so what, what word could he have really meant there? And all of chat is like, he probably meant in vagal.
Starting point is 00:17:25 Yeah. Yes. He probably meant the word that it is, but that's very funny. And that's not an easy one. Like, so if they were bullying you for not knowing that, then that's on them. Oh, my chat is pretty positive vibe.
Starting point is 00:17:37 Oh, that's good. Yeah. Covfefe, who is that? He's probably going over that Trump, Covfefe. Oh, I remember that. Trump was going off in the Oval Office today. He had the Lord of all the Philippines there sitting next to him. And he just ended up on this rant about Obama and Comey and how like, he's like, I let Crooked Hillary slide.
Starting point is 00:18:02 I shouldn't have. I should have gotten her. But I thought ex-wife of a president probably shouldoked Hillary slide. I shouldn't have, I should have gotten her, but I thought ex-wife of a president probably should let her slide, but no more. He accused Obama of treason and mentioned Pam Bondi and suggested that Obama needed to be arrested. Why is the Philippines guy there? What does he have to do with this? For trade with the Philippines?
Starting point is 00:18:25 He just, he's just riffing while that guy sits there awkwardly. Like, I don't know what this has to do with the mango trade. I'm here for the mangoes. Our mangoes are wonderful. He just wants to do his trade dealer or talk about like, I don't know, strategic stuff and the Indian, the Indian Pacific Ocean or whatever. But he's stuck there like listening to stepdad rant about about. They probably didn't get to the mango part of the discussion yet.
Starting point is 00:18:54 And he's like, I got to sit through this little tight five for the comedy story here before I can talk about the mango tree or whatever we get from what do we buy from Philippines trash mangoes? I'm sure you saw I don't know I don't care but I'm sure you saw where Trump tweeted out that that AI video of like Obama being arrested it's like it's like Trump and Obama in the oval and it's it's the the dun. And the FBI comes in and arrests Obama and throws him down on his knees and like cuffs him there while Trump laughs and stuff. He tweeted that.
Starting point is 00:19:33 Didn't he also tweet a top 25 epic moments montage on his Truth Social? And it's just like the most boomer normie like dude doing a triple front flip off a cliff dive into a lake level stuff or like a truck or something. I didn't see that one. He's trying to do anything to change the topic from his connection with Epstein.
Starting point is 00:19:56 He's just flailing and grasping at straws. If I understand his argument against Obama's, there was an investigation into whether or not Russia changed the votes. And they came away with the conclusion that Russia didn't change any votes. And then there was another investigation as to whether or not Russia used like bots and, you know, posted on social media and stuff like that in an attempt to change opinions. And they came away and said, yes, Russia did do that. They were, you know, there were all sorts of Twitter bots and more to, uh,
Starting point is 00:20:29 to try to, you know, target people on Facebook just by replying and stuff like that. And, uh, they're like, oh yeah, first there's an investigation. Russia did nothing. Then there's an investigation. Russia did something seems fishy to me. It's like now they were, they were looking for different things. Yeah. Yeah, I get it. Like they were at the time though, if you remember, they weren't saying like
Starting point is 00:20:51 Russia made 10,000 posts on Facebook. They were saying like Trump colluded with Vladimir Putin to steal the 2016 election and that is what like, that was a presupposition that the mainstream media operated on. But also at the same time. It's like bro That's not the it's not the story of the week right now Like the story of the week is the fucking Epstein thing and how you're trying to escape it The easiest rhetoric to try and pin it on Democrats would be like, oh
Starting point is 00:21:18 These guys they had this information for so long during the Biden administration. They could have released it then they didn't because they're all implicated. We're all implicated. The only problem with what you said, which I agree with, is well, then why don't you release it? It's like, it feels like the answer is everyone has something to hide. Yeah. And that's why I saw even Nancy Pelosi come out and be like, it's time we move past this. And it's like really, Nancy, really. What did you do, Nancy? Jesus. Right. It's kind of like all of you guys, they're just going to move past it. They're going to keep they're going to play us all for fools. And they're going to pretend like we're going to forget this and we're not.
Starting point is 00:22:01 Yeah, I brought the Barack Hussein Obama. Like, I feel like this is just a curse word to conservatives. And in the same way that you hear Pelosi, you may have like, I don't know what we're talking about, but I know it's bad. He's just sort of dragging out Comey Obama and more to change the topic. Another week, though. Another win for him this week though, another substantial win, Colbert getting fired. The whole show getting taken off the air and it's because Trump wants it to be so and Trump's
Starting point is 00:22:35 celebrating doing the victory laugh on Twitter. No, did you not see how much that show was hemorrhaging? That's not why though. It was like two days after- It's a baffling amount of money they were losing annually. It was 40 million a year. 40 million dollars a year. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:22:52 So it goes, I'm sorry, Kyle, let me- Well, it was the merger between, that CBS wants to get done with Paramount, I think, that Trump would have to, or Trump's FCC would have to, okay, and he's holding them hostage on that one. Everything we've said is true, because I've looked into this also, like one, they're hemorrhaging money, Taylor's right.
Starting point is 00:23:12 Also, they're the number one rated late night show. Apparently they're winning the ratings right now, but their expenses are so high, they can't turn a profit, it would seem. And you never know with this Hollywood accounting, I'm not sure, but what is so expensive about running that show? It seems like a YouTuber could pull that off, but that's neither here nor there. And then what Kyle said, I think is the ultimate reason Trump had some power because they're trying to get this merger approved. And he
Starting point is 00:23:38 asked it for some non-monetary payment this time where Colbert gets fired and he got it. But I'm back to the whole wise man Afghanistan, Charlie Wilson's war thing, which is like we'll see. Because now like his lack of, his like freedom of speech oppression is also one of the topics going on. It's all Jon Stewart wants to talk about. It's all Jimmy Kimmel wants to talk about. People are talking, we're talking about it right now.
Starting point is 00:24:03 Him suppressing free speech of some of us. So he didn't like a comedian. He didn't like a comedian making fun of him. So he got his show knocked off the air. That is absolutely like, you're not the free speech king anymore. You've lost that high ground. Yeah. That's really, that's really fucking gay.
Starting point is 00:24:17 If he's trying to get Colbert off the air because he does like cringe neoliberal content. Like, yeah, okay, but why does it cost so much to run a show that could be done? Like, how much does Colbert make it? Like- I don't know. I remember Jay Leno like took a personal pay cut
Starting point is 00:24:37 that kept his show on the air for a while. And it was like, maybe it was during COVID. I'm not sure, I might have my facts a little messed up. But there's some truth to that. Like, yeah, he took some huge pay cut to allow the whole staff to be funded. And he could still earn a good amount of money and have his staff paid.
Starting point is 00:24:55 I don't know what's expensive. Yeah, I have no idea. It seems like that show, hemorrhaging money doesn't make sense. It seems like a Marty Bird endeavor. Like, oh, we have to do this and that. Like, oh, how much does Colbert make? 40 million maybe?
Starting point is 00:25:12 I don't know. No, oh no, he doesn't make that much. Okay, well, then what's, oh, you're spending $10 million a year on costumes, are we? Okay. And then I go to like, how many movies earn like 250 million at the box office, cost 20 million to make
Starting point is 00:25:26 but haven't turned a profit yet? Yeah. Because. Colbert makes 15 a year. 15, okay well then there's 25 more of in the whole. Seems to me that show needs nothing but writers and like putting on the show physically like the stage operation, that's not expensive.
Starting point is 00:25:46 You don't get to losing tens of millions of dollars after the fact, but it was like- The building was paid off 40 years ago, right? It didn't Johnny Kross work on that building. Like, it was a different show, I think, but yeah. Oh, David Letterman, maybe? Well, that was, I actually don't remember who- It's the late show, right?
Starting point is 00:26:04 I see Jimmy Kimmel's ABC, and this is the late show that was Letterman, I think. Okay. Yeah, I think, I think that's the deal. We don't really have any, like a free speech party at all. Like the Trump side, the Republicans, they are more than happy to both deport and penalize people for like saying certain things about Israel or what have you. Like they're more than happy to. And then the left is more than happy to ban millions upon millions of right-wing social media users just without care.
Starting point is 00:26:34 Like they don't mind. Like that's why Twitter was such a huge resurgence for the right wing is because Elon basically said like, hey, you can post here, all the people who have been banned, like you're allowed here, you're not allowed on Instagram or Facebook or whatever, you've been banned for years.
Starting point is 00:26:50 Since 2018 was like, I remember that, that was the big censorship year where like thousands of accounts, tons of huge people on the right got banned. And there's just no one looking out for like true free speech anymore. Yeah, I was gonna say the other half of that Twitter thing is he started banning reporters and such
Starting point is 00:27:07 who weren't the taken away verified status. I remember that too. People who weren't complimentary of Musk had their freedom of speech started getting attacked. Maybe a couple, most of it, the people who wanted to stay verified, there are stars on there. If you work for the Washington Post
Starting point is 00:27:23 or the New York Times or whatever, you retain that as a public figure. Let's talk about what he's doing to Brazil. That's indefensible. Do you know what's going on in Brazil? Okay so the former president of Brazil is it Bonasera or something like that? Close as I could get. He was the former president he lost his re-election bid but attempted attempted a coup, I believe. And now he's in trouble. Trump doesn't want him to get in trouble in court. He wants him set
Starting point is 00:27:51 free and probably propped back up as the leader of Brazil because he's a Trump ally. So Trump has imposed tariffs on Brazil. Like he's financially attacking the country of Brazil at our expense, mind you, to prop up his buddy there, not to make America great again, to get a crony out of trouble with the law. He's putting basically a sales tax on Americans until Brazil lets their criminals free. Well, one powerful criminal in particular. Yeah. That's what we do. What are we doing? lets their criminals free. Well, one powerful criminal in particular, yeah. It's like, what are we doing?
Starting point is 00:28:26 What does he do? Both Bolsonaro, I believe it or not, I'm the finger on the pulse of Brazilian politics. I believe he lost the election, but he tried to stay in power anyway. He tried to steal the presidency. I know it sounds like a familiar setting, but he tried to maintain the presidency after
Starting point is 00:28:46 losing the election, I believe, was his offense. That's pretty gay. Don't like that. He's really not doing, he's really not getting it. Three and a half more years. Like two days ago was the six month mark, by the way. Oh, he's also convicted of money laundering and corruption. Ah, that's also convicted of money laundering and corruption. Oh, that's just. Convicted par for the course,
Starting point is 00:29:10 money laundering, I mean, come on, what do you guys do? What else? You got a lot of money. Yeah, you don't want dirty money. Jesus Christ. No, it's been a shit show. It's fun to watch. I just thought it was bizarre that he was kind of out there, that he was accusing Obama of treason. They seem like fighting words, You know what I mean? Like it seems like wasn't the claim like, hey, they're releasing information that Obama
Starting point is 00:29:31 did spy on the Trump campaign in 2016 and use the FBI to track him and monitor his communications with key campaign figure. Like I don't know the whole story from back in the day. Well, this was claimed back in the day. And that's what they're saying now is like, Hey, we've got all the evidence now that he did spy on our campaign and this and that. I haven't heard it recently. Back in the day, though, the Obama defenses know we were spying on Russia. It was just you on the other end of the phone. We weren't spying on you because they did meet with the Russians many times. They met with them at Trump tower. They had that.
Starting point is 00:30:05 We have got the dirt on Hillary. I love it was the response from Donald Trump Jr. But you remember this. Sure. So it's not like there is nothing to this, um, but they couldn't prove it or at least Mueller didn't prove it, which side note, this is one of my frustrations. Like when they looked into bill Clinton, they got a Republican, like a tack dog so that no one would think that anyone went soft on them.
Starting point is 00:30:27 And then when they looked into Donald Trump, they got a Republican to look into him so that no one would think that was some sort of vicious attack dog. And then when they looked into Biden, they got a Republican attorney to look at him. And I'm like, the deck feels awfully stacked here where like we get friendly,
Starting point is 00:30:45 prosecutor, special investigators into Republicans and we get antagonistic ones into Democrats. So, yeah. I don't know, Mueller was pretty vocally against Trump. Like most of the Republicans were at that time. Like most people who like had an- He was super tight lipped and barely said a thing. And then when it went time to testify, he was a dud.
Starting point is 00:31:08 Well, they didn't have anything. He just said, refer to my report again and again and again. And he actually said, you know, like, yeah, we've got them on 10 counts of obstruction, but my recommendation is we don't do anything with it. It seemed friendly. If you were on the blue team, you'd be like, this is fucking friendly as fuck.
Starting point is 00:31:24 Probably, but it is politics. And so I was like, I do remember him saying, like, I don't recommend charges be brought. And a huge cope at the time was people being like, oh, he didn't exonerate him. Mueller did not exonerate Trump of these charges. And it's like, that's not what a prosecutor does, dumb fuck. Like they don't exonerate people.
Starting point is 00:31:44 They just decide whether or not there's sufficient evidence to charge someone. He said there was insufficient evidence to charge him on these things and that then nothing else moved forward. But it was used as a cudgel against the first two and a half, three years of his initial term to be like, can we let Trump do this? I love that because he's a Russian asset. Oh, no, I do remember Trump being on stage asking the Russians
Starting point is 00:32:05 to find Hillary's emails and said they'll be greatly rewarded by the media, right? I remember that. Yeah, but if that constitutes collusion, then Obama pre-2012 election where he told Russia to hold off on doing anything in your region until after the election, then that would constitute. Oh, so I don't remember that.
Starting point is 00:32:24 And it's like- Ed Vedev, he was talking constitute. Oh, so you remember that. And it's like, I said, but if he was talking to, yeah, it was. Wait, was it Medvedev? It wasn't Putin. He was sitting across with the ambassador or, uh, I thought it was Medvedev. As a time. No, you're right. It was a master.
Starting point is 00:32:38 It was a higher up. It was an underlink to, to Putin and other news. Boy, and I had a hell of a time watching the UFC fights with the boys this weekend. Tremendous fights, fucking knockdown, drag them out, slobber knockers. We got Max Holloway against Dustin Poirier and Poirier's retirement fight. At the end of the fight, Holloway points at the ground, says, let's do it right here, and just rips to the body like four times so fast. Max Holloway is still fast.
Starting point is 00:33:04 He can still do it. Poirier had the clinch at the end. the body like four times so fast. Max Holloway is still fast. He can still do it. Or you had the clinch at the end. He couldn't stand in the pocket with Holloway. Beautiful fight. It's a good night of fights altogether. Love Holloway. I love Holloway and I love Poirier. People I kept L night.
Starting point is 00:33:17 Who you got? Who you got? I'm like, it's a shame one has to lose. And, uh, it was a great fight. They I'm, I always come back and beat the same drum, which is I admire the courage of these guys. You know, that was five rounds. Four rounds in.
Starting point is 00:33:34 I think Dustin already had three rounds in his pocket. And, oh wait, I said it backwards. Holloway already had three rounds in his pocket. So if I'm Dustin, I'm like, you know what, maybe not do the fifth round, right? Like I don't, I don't feel like it anymore. You've proven your point, but no, he gets out there and he, he, he faces the music and he tries his best and when Dustin points on the ground, he steps forward and takes all the abuse that a man can and then he retires. And I liked it a lot.
Starting point is 00:34:09 Kyle, you're unread it as much as me. You saw the thing with Max's son. Yeah. Yeah. So for people who don't know, Poirier beat Max before. I think he beat him twice. So this is their third fight. Not usually a trilogy fight.
Starting point is 00:34:23 Usually in a trilogy fight, they both have a win and it's the rubber match. This is not the case. But um, Max Holloway son had never seen Max Holloway lose before, but Dustin's a real respectable stand up like good man. And he was consoling his opponent's son. He's like, your dad is okay. Your dad is a champion. Your dad is great. Everything is going to be fine. And then when Dustin lost his son consoled Dustin and he's like, it's okay You're great guy. Like this is all right, and it was a pretty neat full circle moment
Starting point is 00:34:56 Yeah, that was really sweet and Afterwards, I always liked the press conference afterwards Dan get Dana white turning on John Jones press conference afterwards. You get Dana White turning on John Jones, finally turning on John Jones and it's beautiful. They're like, hey, Dana. So John retired and then unretired the next week when he heard there might be a card at the White House next year, July 4th. Is that something that you'd be into arranging for him to come back? He said he'll fight whoever the champion is at the White House.
Starting point is 00:35:22 And he's like, you know, I just don't think I can count on John Jones in big moments anymore. I just don't think he's dependable. Never was. Never was. And it's like, yes. Jones is now quite canceled due to getting caught with steroids, getting caught with cocaine,
Starting point is 00:35:38 and being a coward. Sure, yeah, fair enough. You don't know about the Chael Sonnen one, right? Where they like, he was scheduled to fight Henderson, fair enough. You don't know about the Chael Sonnen one, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. He was scheduled to fight Henderson, I think. Chael Sonnen was a last minute replacement and John Jones is like, nope, I withdraw. Yep, ran away from Chael Sonnen. So I love that.
Starting point is 00:35:58 I love seeing John Jones get told to kick rocks because now Dana's got all the negotiating power. If that happens the way they're promoting it, it will be one of the biggest cards ever. They'll sell over a million pay-per-views. It'll be gigantic. There'll be people watching that who have never watched the UFC fight before. There'll be like just Trump people there. There'll be just people who want to see the spectacle. I think that by that pay-per-view, it'll be huge.
Starting point is 00:36:24 I have a hard time believing they're actually gonna put a cage, an octagon, on the lawn of the White House outdoors. I just can't believe that's gonna happen. Like I had in my head, like it would be dope if it was like torrential rain, but I don't want the fights to cancel. I just want something different, right?
Starting point is 00:36:45 There are outdoor hockey games. I think they still do it every year. And I can remember, I hope I'm remembering this correctly and then I'm not thinking of Mystery Alaska, but that it was so freezing cold that like players are like putting on heavy jackets and have heaters and it's a challenge like not to have frostbite fingers and stuff during the game. Sure.
Starting point is 00:37:08 It was just extra cold in a place that's already extra cold. What would make a UFC fight great? Would it like some sort of weather condition? I don't want any weather conditions because they'll call the shit off. I want it to be just nice and like made it a little weatherproof like at least the cage had a roof or something like I imagined like some sort of like canvas tar light like some sort of like I Don't know like a semi dome above them of tarp and and and like metal or something But but I just think they're gonna fuck it up Like I think whoever's there is like they're like yeah that cost 18 million and Dana's like whoa whoa
Starting point is 00:37:43 What can you do for 1 million? And it's like, well, we can go to the State Farm Arena across town in Washington, DC. That's what we can do. We can fill it full of MAGA supporters, and they'll pay double. Then we do that. Every wins. Autumn leaves, right? Maybe touching the outside of the caves. Just look, I'm here. A sunset involved in the in the flyover. I want to fly over for every fight. You know how you
Starting point is 00:38:17 can save money there as you go. Prepare yourselves audience for a flyover from our stealth B2 bomber fleet. You probably didn't even notice that's our tech anyway. If they actually stick the octagon on the lawn of the White House that will be an incredible spectacle But I just think they'll fuck it up. I think that I heard someone say the octagon weighed like they might have said 30,000 pounds like it's absurdly heavy Like like date the UFC team the production crew has never done this before They've always gone into regular style arenas with a flat level indoor floor and air conditioning and
Starting point is 00:39:08 lighting. This will be is a whole new thing. I know they got a year to plan for it, but I just they usually overwhelmed the last time they didn't underwhelm was the sphere. The sphere was badass that the sphere was cool. I could see that AC thing being a good point. These fighters aren't going to want to fight in a DC swamp outside on July 4th. It's going to be so sticky and muggy and awful. They would want to do it because of the... If you're a professional fighter, it would be
Starting point is 00:39:41 pretty sick to have on your resume, like, oh yeah, I wasn't the main fighter, it would be pretty sick to have on your resume like, Oh, yeah, yeah, I wasn't the main fighter, but I did fight on the White House lawn during the Trump administration verse, you know, Stevie Jackson. That's cool. But it just doesn't seem worth July's Saturday next year. I didn't realize that if people don't know that's when the fights always happen. Oh, okay. That works. That works. It's still on a date. They're talking about, by the way. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:40:06 Yeah. Then July he's, he's wanting to do like a July 4th UFC fight at the white house. I hope they, they do a good job. Like I wish they get GSB to come and fight fucking Khabib or something. You know, I want some dream fights. I don't want that one because I think they're both. Too old crime and yeah. Yeah. I'd be okay with that. I saw Chuck Adell fight Tito.
Starting point is 00:40:29 That's enough. Chuck Adell's fight against Tito has made me talk so much less tough because I'm their age. I'm like, Holy shit. I know what it would look like if I threw a punch. Let's not do that. Yeah. what it would look like if I threw a punch. Let's not do that.
Starting point is 00:40:50 Guy, you screaming at poor old Murph? Yeah, I'm screaming at Murph. He's yappy. He yaps for no reason. I tried to take a nap on the couch yesterday and like just as I was drifting off, he just starts screaming at nothing. Just out of nowhere. Just as loud as he can. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like someone shut a dumpster eight doors down in the fucking cul-de-sac and he hears it indoors and and he loses his fucking mind. He's he's a piece of shit. He's an absolute scumbag.
Starting point is 00:41:17 I I could kill him with one hand and he acts like he's the boss. He's a son of a bitch. He's my favorite of your dogs when it comes to the pictures you share because like Toby is a champion. He's a Titan, wonderful. Love Toby, but man, Murphy is the cutest by a lot, by a huge amount.
Starting point is 00:41:38 He sleeps on my pillow a lot of times at night. When he comes to bed, he sort of like falls against my back and puts his head on my pillow and like like he's had a hard day in the coal mines pulling a little cart or something like all you did was sleep on the couch all day that was your hard day at work like now you're gonna like fall into bed like it's been rough he's a piece of shit he's a son of a bitch that is a crazy thing with dogs we're like you'll be around one and they will
Starting point is 00:42:06 sleep all day and then you'll like get up out of your office or your couch at night later and then go to bed and they follow you and immediately fall asleep. And it's like this dog, this living thing just slept 19 hours in the past day and it's like snoozing soundly. Like it's like all animals abide by. Isn't it like a Marine saying where it's like, don't stand when you can sit, don't sit when you can lay down, don't lay down when you can sleep.
Starting point is 00:42:39 Like always be maximizing your rest potential. I thought that was a big. I mean, that's how I live my life, Taylor, but I. I live my entire life. It's like, what are y'all doing standing? There's also a lot here in the grass for a bit. The dog though, like definitely sleeps at least 14, 16 hours a day, like all day it sleeps lately
Starting point is 00:43:06 I'll be sitting here at my desk and he's on the floor of this little head on my foot just Fucking passed out and then like everything will be quiet and he'll hear a dumpster shut eight doors down and he'll scare Like my heart will be racing get like a full adrenaline dump. I'm Just scare me out of my sleep he's's a piece of shit. He's a piece of shit. There's there's he's never had a reason to tell us you actually not like your dog. I am 50 50. I'm you know, when he's sitting in my lap going like me, me, me, me. He's a good boy. That's because he's so fucking cute.
Starting point is 00:43:41 But when he's yapping, waking me up like like it's six a.m. just losing his fucking mind, wanting to go do battle with the Squirrel King. I can't stand it. Great Danes. All they do is sleep and snuggle. It's their whole life. I couldn't have a Great Dane fart in my house and just just
Starting point is 00:43:58 stink up a whole quadrant. It is a problem. I mean, I want to underplay that. That's a real thing. And heaven forbid, when you house break them. It's a lake. I mean, you're motivated to get the house breaking solved early. Yeah, well, a Pomeranian like it's like a I don't know.
Starting point is 00:44:19 It's like a little rodent pooped or something. You don't even mind that much. Just like, oh, look at that cute little poop. It's not big dogs can hold it longer longer though. Like, they can go eight, 12 hours without peeing after a while. Yeah. But I've always had empathy for dogs in that regard because people will be like, you'll be out with friends or something and you're like, we've been out all day. Like, you got to go let your dog out. And they're like, ah, he can hold it. And in my head, I'm always like, that's, I can't imagine if some alien race owned me. And they were like, ah, no,
Starting point is 00:44:49 he can hold it. We've been away for 10 hours, he can hold it. I'm gonna, he's gonna, he's gonna come home, there's gonna be shit all over my enclosure. And I'm gonna be doing that, like, that like, dog look. where I'm like looking through the corners of my eyes at him when he comes back. No, I wouldn't like that. You got to give them time to poop. You can't just leave them in there forever. Yeah. I, my dogs don't really get left alone too much. They're, uh, I take them out every couple hours at least.
Starting point is 00:45:18 And they're usually able to like free roam of the backyard to do whatever they want. They have a good time. It's super easy for my dog. So we have an electric fence and they can let themselves back in. So you literally just like open the door, close it. And that's the whole job. Then when you observe the dogs in the house, you're like, that Dick never closes the door. And sure enough, it's still open.
Starting point is 00:45:40 You shut it. That's that. Your dogs seem like they could close the door with their mouth. Like they could just turn around to grab the door handle and then just close it because there's so much I could train them. Yeah. I just nudge it with their nose. It would work. Yeah. I don't, I don't think I'll ever go great day mode. That's too much pup for me just to, and I need a little fluff to them. They have to have that nice fluffiness.
Starting point is 00:46:07 Pushing new dog pretty hard, like in June. And, but we were watching Hope's dog. She was working and the dog was a puppy, needed to be watched. Turns out walking the dog in the heat of a North Carolina summer, not that cool. So now this pressure is off until fall. Okay. I would like, like, I would like a, not a great Dane, but just a good day.
Starting point is 00:46:30 You know, any mediocre Danes in here. I'm not that important myself. A great, not necessary. You have a good Dane that's like 70 pounds. Cause cause that thing shits bigger than me Gary Yeah, I guess so. I like wine Mariner's very you like those long-nosed dogs that like or zoi Borzoi I remember you saying you wanted one of those for a bit boy zoi picture Zack boar zoi BOR zioi Do not find these cute. I would not want one. I Find them super cute. What now?
Starting point is 00:47:05 It's too long and narrow. That's what I like. When I went to I was talking to a breeder or someone that had one for cell at least, and they're like, do you know the special requirements for a Borzoi? Do you know how to raise a Borzoi? And it was like really intimidating. I was like, no, I don't. But I'm willing to learn is like she like scoffs at me.
Starting point is 00:47:23 Is this bad hair day normal. It then the winds blowing into him. He's getting all floofed up. He also looks scared. I can see that I convicted a political crime and he's about to be executed or something. I find almost all dogs attractive if they're affectionate enough.
Starting point is 00:47:40 Like that's really how I measure them. Just what kind of like, are they like blood-borne pause? I'm playing that game right now. Yeah, when they start nuzzling and begging for attention and love, I'm here for it. Yeah, those things had like, they have like super, super long legs.
Starting point is 00:47:58 And they said that you couldn't get it fixed for like two years, two and a half years, because they needed the testosterone for their bone density. And they said leg breaks were common if they if you let them roughhouse too much. And I'm like, what am I supposed to do? Like, like, like, like, keep them in a playpen for two years, like wrapped in styrofoam. So I got Toby instead, and he didn't need any special requirements.
Starting point is 00:48:20 This is a very flattering angle for that dog, by the way, because he's turned. I'm serious, he's turned towards you and so his snout doesn't look as long and ridiculous as it does generally. They have very long snoots. There's a subreddit called longboys. Yeah, snoots, they have very long snoots. No, I'm sorry, while you were talking,
Starting point is 00:48:41 I was looking up pictures and I found this one that made me laugh out loud if Zach could show it. Oh, see? My link is the Longboy subreddit. It's not what you think. Ha ha ha. Ha ha ha.
Starting point is 00:48:57 That's the one, I didn't mean to be laughing at you, I just saw it at the time. It's long and then B-O-Y-E-S and it's all boarzoys and you know it's red. See that's I'm sure that's a sweet dog. I'm sure it's a sweet pup. I'm sure he's well mannered. Nothing against him. It's just that is not a dog that I want. That's cute as dog dude. That is not a snuggly puppy. I love that. I want to get his lungs snoot and just scritch the whole thing. What happened here? Is this a weird lens or Photoshop? This is what it looked like.
Starting point is 00:49:28 Yes, see? Here's my link. They have very long snoots. That's not cuddly. That is an anteater. Yeah, yeah. And you find that cute. That's baffling to me. No, this has to be Photoshopped. I'm a wizard, Harry. It has like a Hogwarts professor somehow.
Starting point is 00:49:49 Exactly. He's wearing a scarf. Professor Snoop. Thank you, Woody. He's wearing a scarf. That's an Italian Greyhound and those are sweet dogs. Yes, which kind of looks like a mini Bis Zaur in a lot of ways. They're kind of long and stretched out too. My dad has a couple of Italian Greyhounds and when he goes out of town, I watch them for him. And those are the coldest animals
Starting point is 00:50:17 you've ever seen in your life. They're constantly shivering. There's not an ounce of fat on their entire body. They are freezing all the time. They don't, you know how most dogs will snuggle under a cover sometimes and kind of pull it over them, but their head stays out. I have to, every time I'm watching these dogs, I have to check before I get into bed. I have to check before I like lift a blanket off my other couch to put it onto the main couch I sit on because they will just be hidden under there and they wear all of 11 pounds. They weigh all of 11 pounds.
Starting point is 00:50:47 And so it's like, I'll have to be like, must have crawled under there for war. I'm to be like, Zoe, you under here, Zoe? Oh, so you're a good girl. And like they're good dogs and I like them. But then also, uh, my dad will tell me as a gift, they're giving you trouble. Just, uh, you have a space heater. I'm like, yeah, I have a space me, he's like, yeah, if they're giving you trouble, just you have a space heater. I'm like, yeah, I have a space heater. He's like, just like put a space heater in the corner of the room, turn it on
Starting point is 00:51:10 and like moths to a flame. They will lay so close to the space heater that I'll sometimes go over and be like, is there enough space between you and the space heater right now? Like, are you, how are you not so hot, you're uncomfortable? I, when I shaved Toby down, he, he's all, he goes from having a fur coat to being just a shivery boy and I'll put the electric blanket on the couch and put it on like a low setting
Starting point is 00:51:34 and he just, I call it his incubator. Like y'all number one, I need the incubate. And he just like gets on that thing and huddles on. He loves it. All like he sleeps on that thing like a baby, like a baby chicken who's in an incubator all day. He loves it And it's love love my dog goes wouldn't want any children like when I see people with babies I go through the these YouTube shorts and it's like dogs doing cute stuff and YouTube's like Oh, Betty like see babies do cute stuff and I think no No, I don't want to see babies doing cute stuff. Don I'm like, no, no, I don't want to see babies doing cute stuff. Don't recommend channel.
Starting point is 00:52:06 Yes, I'm sure. I'm out of here with that. And you know what? YouTube is not listening to that recommendation for the most part. Cause I swear to God, I've like clicked, don't recommend so many times. I'll like, you'll send me a video Kyle of some UFC thing
Starting point is 00:52:23 and I'll click that and it'll open in my YouTube. And then next time I go to my front page, it'll be like, do you wanna see the Bryson Herrera versus the Diego Sanchez fight? And I'm like, no, do not recommend. And no matter what, I just keep getting UFC stuff for like a week until they tone it down. It's like, they think they know better than me,
Starting point is 00:52:41 but I wanna watch, I don't like it. I mean, you need to get into it. It's, you know, into a real me, but I want to watch I don't like it I mean you need to get into it. It's you know into a real sport Where the teams mean something you know they don't change their names all willy-nilly like the oh, that's the other new Trump thing Is this a new option is something to oh don't look at the children On your coke and racist sports teams. They're coming back, folks. He wants the Redskins to come back. The Cleveland Indians also.
Starting point is 00:53:10 Not only, he doesn't just want them to. He's not going to approve their new stadium deal, because apparently he has that power, unless they change their name back to the Washington Redskins. And he said, further furthermore the Cleveland Indians better take note because people want those names back. If he is genuinely saying I will not approve a stadium unless you go back to redskins that's maybe the funniest thing he's ever done ever. That's the kind of thing I would do as president like Like as a joke, I'd be like, nah, it's gotta be, and we're not telling you to go back to Redskins, brother. We're not doing that.
Starting point is 00:53:51 They're gonna be the savages. And they put a restriction on them if they don't change the name back to the original Washington Redskins and get rid of the ridiculous moniker Washington Commanders. I won't make a deal for them to build a stadium in Washington. That's hilarious. That is the smallest potatoes nonsense I can possibly imagine when there's like,
Starting point is 00:54:12 we're trying to uncover this global pedophile ring. There's a huge amount of things that need solved. We need the mass deportations to actually go. And he's like, no, you have to go back to that name that he doesn't even care about. Is he a Redskins fan? I don't think so. He was a New York guy, right? So he would like the giants or the, what's the other one? Jets.
Starting point is 00:54:32 Yeah. I got eight fucking sports teams up there. Take your pick. Hmm. They got a lot. Well, there's a lot of people, so you kind of have to. I saw, I think it was like Bill, I saw it was a quote from like Bill Simmons or somebody who I don't know who that is.
Starting point is 00:54:46 I think he's like really to the NBA music guy. Maybe. I think that's Russell Simmons. Maybe you think. But he said, he had this great quote. It was like, would you rather your, your, uh, would you rather your city when a WNBA title or find a $5 bill on the ground? WNBA title or find a $5 bill on the ground. And I went, dude, I'd be excited if I found a fiver on the ground. And maybe as a kid, I found like a buck at the beach one time, but like, I've never found a fiver. At best you found that folded 20 that told you to repent when you opened it.
Starting point is 00:55:21 Wow. It was like kick tracks. Yeah. Yeah, very lame. So I guess you're not on the WNBA players or underpaid bandwagon? Of course not. Did you see all the WNBA players post All-Star game?
Starting point is 00:55:37 They all tried to get into a club and they're like a bunch of bald headed bitches, you know? Like with like, who sound like, they look like pretty black men. And they're like, they're like, yeah, let us in. We from the W. I think she even said that. She looked like an Italian ice. Fucking air was like, I saw it on Reddit.
Starting point is 00:56:01 I don't recognize the players. I can only realize like half a dozen WNBA players, which is six more than most. And it was probably five more than most people know Caitlin Clark. But uh, I guess they had just gone to the All Star game if what if you can believe what you saw on Reddit, they were trying to get in a nightclub and they were just acting like they were super big shots and entitled to get in. And the bouncer even like cut him a break. They're like, all right, you guys can come in. And he thought there were five and then like 13 women
Starting point is 00:56:33 start roll. He's like, no, no, no deals off. Get back out. We're not letting all of you. And we too deep. The funniest thing for that bouncer to do would be like, all right, you played by the same rules as everyone else. You gotta bring girls. One girl for every guy at least. Come on.
Starting point is 00:56:55 Easy. He looks at Brittany Griner. He's like, no, oh, fuck. Why's your voice that deep? So I don't know that WN, I'm sorry, I don't know that NBA teams are making all that much money either. The money is made when you resell the team 10 years later.
Starting point is 00:57:12 I don't think they turn an operational profit all that often, I think. But the WNBA, like dude, the lead is exploding. I know, small numbers double more easily. But their numbers, their attendance is going up, their revenue is going way up, but their profits are not. Is it funny accounting? I don't know, maybe people accuse them of that
Starting point is 00:57:36 and it doesn't seem outrageous to think that there could be funny accounting in this. Well, I guess they have the option to opt out of the contract this year. So it's not like they're going on strike or something. It's do you want to renew the current collective bargaining agreement? And they're like, no, I think we should do a new one.
Starting point is 00:57:52 And there's some proof that the league's becoming worth a lot more because teams that sold for 50 million, like 10 years ago, sold for 450 million this year. And I might even have, I think it was five years ago. Like in the last five years, they've gone up nine times in value. Yet the players are averaging like 75 grand, you know, for their professional athlete salaries.
Starting point is 00:58:15 And it's like, oh, and as a percentage of revenue, nobody's worse. Even the UFC pays more than the WNBA does. And I'm like, I see both sides. If the league's not making money, don't put your palm out asking for cash. What are the advertising revenues like as far as TV deals? Because that would be interesting to me.
Starting point is 00:58:34 I, the NBA subsidizes that league and the NBA does make money. Like it's popular. Even in their huge downturn right now, which is still baffling to me, like 40% reduction in viewership is crazy, but a huge number of companies are buying ads for NBA games, a ton of them.
Starting point is 00:58:52 Who is buying the ads and what do those slots cost for a 30, a 15, a 60, when those are being aired? Because that's a huge rationale for why the players were owed more. Like 10 years ago, 15 years, maybe, I think it was about 10, when the NBA salaries got bananas, a huge rationale for that was like, this is our viewership,
Starting point is 00:59:10 this is the new cost it is to run a 30 during a Timberwolves-Lakers game. And we need to reset our expectations for the players because they are due 50% of net revenue. And so they're making so much more because of their collective bargaining agreement. What is that like for the WNBA? Because outside of like, Caitlin Clark, who else draws? And also it's like a flash in the pan thing. Like four years from now, no one is going to talk about the WNBA because it's like, Kyle, if we put a wig on Kyle
Starting point is 00:59:50 and we were like, all right, we're taking Angel Reese out of the game and we're putting Kyle in a wig and shoe polish and he's gonna be out there playing basketball, no one's gonna say anything and everyone has to agree. And even if Kyle had never played basketball in his life, the announcers wouldn't be like, this is crazy. It's like she's lost every iota of skills she ever had.
Starting point is 01:00:14 They'd be like, Ashley Reese kind of having an off game. I am noticing her speed is up, ironically. Like that's what would happen. Like that even better at rebound somehow, but can't shoot. If the three of us and two other guys from our discord took on the fucking Indiana, whoever's menstrual cycles. And we were, we were facing one V one, you know, team versus team. We would score.
Starting point is 01:00:40 We would be smoked because we don't know anything about basketball. I don't know anything about basketball. I don't know anything about it. We would score. If we played the Lakers, they would dictate every bit of how that game went. We wouldn't score because it'd be like, ah, fuck. You see the thing about this is this guy's seven foot two and I can't shoot over this. God damn, they're also faster and more athletic than me. I guess we are going to lose 100. They would hurt my feelings as I lost
Starting point is 01:01:10 Is that move where one of us gets down on all fours and the other jumps off their back legal You're the one on all fours and I jump off. Why would I be the one on all fours? You're the base. You're closer so clearly to the base. Well, I don't know about that. What About Me screams solid. Everything.
Starting point is 01:01:39 Everything. My basketball knowledge is two out of ten. Woody's the fucking air Woody over there needs the vault off of you. My basketball knowledge is two out of 10, which I think in this group qualifies me as coach. Total expert. Yes.
Starting point is 01:01:54 Absolutely. Taylor, you gotta dribble. How many times? One hand, one hand Taylor, start dribbling with one hand. What do I do with the other one? Yeah, my thing, Coach Woody, is I throw a lot of elbows. Sometimes I don't even have the ball. On their salary, I think it's interesting, we'll watch how it plays out.
Starting point is 01:02:19 I think they're going to make a lot more money, but not as much as they want. That's how it always goes. Yeah, they've got one player like Caitlin Clark is a star and she's all the waters or all the boats are lifting from her heavy flow tide. Glad you said that because there are like Sophie Cunningham became a kind of a star. Maybe you saw her briefly. She's the one that pulled down that player who bullied Caitlin Clark. She played for her high school football team and she's if you're, I don't know what you're picturing, but she's super hot. Um, blonde haired, whatever. Um, there's a couple of angel Reese, of course,
Starting point is 01:02:54 is another one who gets a lot of attention. But like you said, it is just the halo effect of Caitlin Clark lifting people around her. Yeah. I wish that she could go on somewhere else where her talents would be appreciated and let them all fail. I'm gonna get this half right. But I think it was exhibit who had their mixed gender, like basketball league. And he tried to get Caitlin Clark, and she wisely said no, because I think
Starting point is 01:03:21 Oh, it's ice cube. Okay. Half right. Okay. And she said no because I think, oh it's Ice Cube, okay. Half right, okay. And she said no and I think it's a good thing because I've watched WNBA girls get shut down by high school guys. Oh yeah, absolutely. That's how that works. It's, I don't know, Caitlin Clark seems like a nice person. I hope that she's got a future and something good, but I hate to see like
Starting point is 01:03:48 the way they're handling that incredible talent that they have that it doesn't matter how talented she is. Little girls watch her, which means little girls watch your sport now when they didn't before. I just think having a being a rough and tumble thuggish league. Yeah, works for the NBA because dudes are like, fuck yeah, get dominated, slam it in his face. Fucking you see his balls going dudes against dude's ear when he dunked on him.
Starting point is 01:04:13 But little girls don't have that same reaction to like Caitlin Clark getting poked in the eye. She's getting bullied out there. Yeah, honestly, I don't think NBA guys bully as much as WNBA girls do. More respectful. Women are maybe someone who straightens that shit out. I don't know. I don't know. Maybe the refs are not keeping control of the games, but it's.
Starting point is 01:04:38 I did see that like it was it was so funny where, like, ideally, if you're trying to get paid more, you'd present a United front. And I saw some interview with some other WNBA lady who right after they were wearing t-shirts, which is like, give me money, money, please. Money me, money now. Like that. The shirt said, pay us what we're worth. Yeah. And then this girl was being, this player was being interviewed. She's like, and we all thought it was a good idea.
Starting point is 01:05:03 And I will say that the Caitlin Clark team did not have a very big role in setting this up. And it's like, well, in your head, why did you think that was a, like, did you, you still got to do that? Dude, girls are brutal to each other. They can't resist the Snipes. They can't. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:05:23 I just feel like oftentimes they don't do friendship as well. Or like acquaintances. Why is it competitive friendships? Like, like they can't exist in the same environment competing against one another without it being mean spirited. And there can never be any mutual respect. Seemingly. They're just built that way. Well phrased. Yeah. I hope the refs clean up that game. Start throwing people out. That's what you get.
Starting point is 01:05:49 A bunch of made from Adam's rib and born to betray. So true. All right. Lesson learned, PKN 570. Read your Bibles, people.

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