Some More News - Streamin' More News: Let's Not Hand It To Tucker Carlson & More!

Episode Date: March 25, 2026

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please contact Connix Ontario at 1866-531-2600 to speak to an advisor free of charge. BetMGM operates pursuant to an operating agreement with Eye Gaming Ontario. Welcome everybody. How you doing? Welcome everybody. Me, Katie, little ragamuffin. Ben. Benjamin. You are? Oh, Cody.

Cody Johnston. Don't worry, Jonathan. Also here. Oh. Hi. Hello. Hi. Okay, Benny. Okay, Benny. That's enough. Thank you, baby.

I know we're all very excited to be back in the stream. The stream team. Check us out on X Premium. streaming live. Just kidding, we can't. It's illegal to stream with air on that website. Who do we have in the chat? Who do we have early adopters to the chat?

Who do we got? It's going too quick. Andrew Perrin. We got left for 20. Okay, we got. Benny, you know what? We got the chat. We got people in the chat. We got comments in the chat. We're reading the chat.

Every time I forget where I look. I have the chat up in one wind. and then I have the chat up here where we're going, and then the chat's scrolling there. I can't read that. It's going to do. I saw Kate the Great. Love your name, Kate the Great.

Fantastic. Ryan is here. Hello, everyone. Thank you for being here. Someone says, Prime McManus says, give me the news funny people. There's no news. I'm so sorry.

There's no news today. I know. Nothing's going on. Finally, no news. What a beautiful gift. Much like the gift that Iran gave our president as he talked about. earlier today. We'll talk about it a little bit.

Neither. These are some of the stuff we're going to talk about in a little bit. Okay, so should we start with the war that is still going on despite... It's not a war? Not a war? I'm willing to talk about the combat operations. But they're not even doing that anymore. They're just doing the war, which Trump says we won. It's over. We won, and we did regime change, by the way,

because there's different people. Right. Yeah. The regime. The people who are. were leading the regime are dead, so regime changed. It's changed. Market. That is how words were. I would love to play a clip of him.

Here's him talking about the gift. They're going to make a deal. They're going to make a deal. They did something yesterday that was amazing, actually. They gave us a present, and the present arrived today. It was a very big present worth a tremendous amount

of money, and I'm not going to tell you what that present is, but it was a very significant prize. And they gave it to us. And they said they were going to give it. So that meant one thing to me would deal with the right people. No, it wasn't nuclear related.

It was oil and gas related. Okay. It was a very nice thing they did. You want to stop. What do you guys think it was? I just, it's a very big gift, a golden, I thought it was a golden shit. I think.

It's gas related. I think he's making it. He's making it up. He's inventing this gift that they gave him. It's a beautiful golden coffin that I will be in. They said soon, I said maybe not so soon. But maybe soon I'll be in. How to get to heaven first?

Yeah. I like the golden shit. Some senior officials leaked to Politico. The quote was, quote, several people close to the White House said they were baffled by the president's remarks. I think in referral to the. talks that are maybe not happening on the war that was won, on the gift. Maybe no one knows what the gift is. Nobody knows what the gift could be a secret gift.

Could be a private secret gift that he didn't tell anybody about. Nobody else knows about it. And he's announcing it to the world. It could be. It could be like in Batman 1989 where the Joker dropped it off and it's going to be a what, a hand, a severed hand. Could be a severed hand. It could be a goofy, disgusting prank.

could be a funny little severed hand prank. Anyway, that's him. Like, piggy blinders, you know, they send a bullet to name. Maybe it's a horseman. Who knows? They lost the war. Yeah. It's our last bullet.

Yeah, I mean, it's, again, the same thing every episode. What's the point in listening to this guy talk? Because there's other stuff that's going on. Because while he's saying we won the war, we're winding it down. Pete over there is mad that we're ending the war. There's reporting from Zateo that he's thinking about sending in ground troops soon and that they might try to

take Karg Island. Even though he has been told that doing so would result in quote considerable US casualties. So there's doing that and then they reportedly sent a 15 point peace plan to Iran. I'm not sure who is getting the plan.

Whoever Kushner's talking to, right? I think Kushners, no, didn't they take it to Kush. Cush as on the sky down. And then they give it to Iran in theory. Yeah, it went through, we ran through Pakistan, but also Iranian sources say they'd rather talk to J.D. Vance. Supposedly. Supposedly is what they say, I think. The sources, the sources.

Who are these sources? Who would rather talk to be in the fans? Right. Regional operatives around what region, around Washington, D.C., around the, the east wing region the sort of the vice president's residence at the naval observatory

yeah just to say just patter around the White House just south of Kekistan for our wonderful awesome poster of a vice president the reports about the troops on the ground versus not everything is just so chaotic and impossible to keep track of

we have heard that several times but to your point of surely he's been told that that would be disastrous and that there would be lots of lives lost. That doesn't mean anything to him. It doesn't mean anything at all. He was apparently told that Iran had a pretty good deal before he declared war. He was told that this war was impossible.

So I, you know. I mean, it's all over the place. He's talking about their nuclear capabilities that he destroyed just a few short months ago. Nuclear capabilities that he destroyed. Well, that's the thing. Like since the leadership is changing, since we don't really know who they're not really but pretending to negotiate with, Trump should just make a deal, make a peace deal with someone whoever he thinks might be a good leader for Iran and say, well, I made a deal with them.

They're the ones running it as far as I'm concerned. And now it doesn't matter. And then the straight will still be closed and the economic turmoil will still happen, but he'll leave. And he'll save face and he'll have to be. he'll be able to. Yeah. Good. I mean, you know, economic turmoil.

Global economic. He'll die and not see the long-term implications of it. And get in that golden coffin. That's Iran sent him. Thank you, Gotamu, for your donation to Wormbo's College Fund. It's doing super short. Oh, thank you. Oh, yes.

Thank you so much. While we're here, at Left for 20, at Elect, et cetera, at Archer Kirby, 300. Hoodie sleeves. Got a mute. Thank you very much. I'm going to try to keep it somewhat centered. We're trying to come back here. Yeah.

But thank you all for being here. Thank you. Anyway. The president sucks. I mean, fuck that guy. In the middle of all this, war is over, but we won, but there's a deal, but I got a gift. He's saying we're going to shoot down a very big electric generation plant, which I thought was the ultimatum thing that he's put off, that of course they shouldn't do, and we're going to shoot it down, even though it's down on the ground.

But not until Friday, right, when the, when the, when the, when the, when the, when the, when the, it's going to wait until the market's closed, right? And then he'll do the threat that he postponed for other reasons. And then magically, about 48 hours later, he'll say, that was a great success and it's all peace now. Like, well, the war will end every Sunday night. Does this little game last? How long does it work?

Because it seems that everybody's got his number. Everybody seems to understand that he's going to say a bunch of stuff over the weekend. And then right before markets open, say the opposite. And so confusion. I think he's got like, I think he's got like two more in him. I think it's like, yeah. I think I, you know, we all know what's going on and we've seen it happen. and this isn't the first time,

and it won't be the last time, but I think like two more, and then people who already don't know might get a little, oh. Wait a minute. There seems to be a pattern. It keeps happening, yeah. But I think he's got a couple more before it, like, really, really starts to harm him politically

any more than it already has, I guess. I mean, yes, he's politically harmed. He's down to below 30% on the economy, specifically, which is lower than Biden. That's less than cult numbers. I think that's Reuters Ipsos. Let me get that. But yes, he finally dipped under 30% just on the economy.

He's at like 36% overall for some reason. Oh, so cult plus. Awesome. Okay. Yeah, it's cold plus. Yeah, let's see. Trump's approval hits 36% low as fuel prices surge amid Iran war. Reuters Ipsos poll fines.

35% approve of U.S. strikes on Iran down from 37%. So a few people were like, maybe. Hipping away. at that. March 19th, 40% approved down to today, 36%. That's like a sharpish dip in the last few weeks. So, he should be shaking in his boots if he wants for running in.

This is the economy one right here. I mean, yikes. That's pretty, and that is a dip too. Well, he should just share the gift with everybody. Just the gift of what he got cheap oil. Whatever was. cheap oil, a golden coffin. Oil related, gas and oil related. Share it.

Share it. Maybe he should. Maybe he won't. I have a hard time trusting polls in general. Fool me once. Fool me twice. Full me ten times kind of situation. I guess that's just the stronghold.

The true blue believers, the MAGA through and throes. Because it just doesn't feel that way. It doesn't feel that way to me. that many people. I mean, it's a bad number. Let's be real. But I'm like, I mean, I really, I, you know, it's 35 is 36, it's 34 or whatever. I don't, I, I, I just don't see it really getting below that 30 much at all. I know. I agree. Even, even, even if he does, like, name a thing that they would like, for example, storm the capital about, uh, if Joe Biden did it or something. I just don't know what's on that list that would.

make that number really, really go blue. That is about where we are. It's about January 7th level of approval. Yeah, right, exactly. And like, that's, you know, that's good. Yeah, that's like right on the, against the line. But, like, they're never going to go, they're never going to go across that line.

I know. I mean, it's not what you want. Change our mind. Pop off in the chat. Right. I'm not pretending. If you vote for Trump three times and you're like, I'm one of the people.

I welcome me. I'm not saying that that's a good poll by any means. It's just, it's always hard to wrap your mind around. I mean, it's, it's just like people think of what they're, like, supposed to say. It's kind of that thing where people, like, in polls of who did you vote for in 2024, Kamala now wins. Like, there are a certain contingent of people who are either pretending or legitimately don't remember and are like, well, the thing's bad now.

I wouldn't vote for bad, so good. Yeah. Surely I didn't do that. And I wouldn't have done that the first time around. Right. And so people in Trump land who may be going through some inner turmoil, I don't know. I can't speak to it. Identity crises.

Perhaps they might still be saying, well, yeah, I approve of Trump. I just don't like all this stuff he's doing. Right. So it's that. You get into the nitty gritty. Because it does seem like so much of it is like, well, I disagree with this. I really don't like that he's doing this war. but he did this, this, this, this, and I love him, and like, he's our guy, and surely he's like,

do they, like, think that, oh, he's got, like, some plan and, like, maybe he'll work through it, and are they, and this is something we keep returning to also is the sort of the next step of, like, I don't really like that he is doing this war with Iran. I thought he was saying this other thing, and now he's doing the opposite. And the hope is that that leads people to these extra thoughts of like, oh, and he's a help. And he lied to us about this and he lied to us about this. And also maybe my impulse to support him for saying these things was actually like a bad impulse. Like I, you know, there's a, like, whether you're being.

Bigger conversation. It's a much bigger conversation. It's important. Yeah. We'll see. How about all of those? I guess my brain works in such a way where I'm like, this is good progress. I'm really, really.

Oh, for sure. I hear this point. And I'm not. I'm ruined the whole evening right now and make this all a conversation about this topic. I might ask a question or I have a follow-up question and let that sit for a bit. I don't think it's my job or any of our jobs to educate people. But if somebody comes to you and expresses what they're feeling and that they're feeling betrayed, I also don't know that it's appropriate to just be like, okay, now apologize.

for everything all I want, because it's a little bit of an onion feel here. I mean, I'm very encouraged if they're using the word betrayed. Like, I don't, I think that's a big leap for a lot of people. Say they're ashamed and they feel betrayed.

And it's like, we'll see. To people say like, Cody, you said like, but JD, that JD Vance, I am positive that's in my future.

I'm positive that those are the conversations I'll have. And they will be so frustrating. Oh, yeah. Have fun. But while people are being vulnerable, enough to say the thing that did it for them. I think that that's an opportunity to say, well, first off, thank you for sharing that

and maybe ask one or two follow-ups as to like, what was it that drew you to him? And then another time talk about, because I think it's a lot of little cracks, at least for people that I know. And I also have to say that, like, I'm not like associating with people that are the terrible, you know, who would be the worst version of it that like, yeah, I think protesters should be shot in the street. That's good. They're horrified by that.

So Maga Light, we don't have that kind of polling data on people who would consider themselves like, well, you know, I don't think, I don't think the shooting should be shot personally. That's nice. But anyway, if any of that resonates for, because there's plenty of us watching the show right now that I'm not alone with that live in communities where their politics are mixed or that you know have family members like I do who voted for Donald Trump a um and not all of those people are going to be reasonable or willing to say that they were betrayed but if somebody extends

you in all of branch and you have the capacity no yeah accepted they're you know and you know and And again, not set yourself up for the idea that you've changed every one of their political opinions. That's our life's work. Exactly. And then when all that work is done, you can be like, so when he said that Mexicans were rapists, that wasn't enough for you? See, that's why I would be so snarky, I couldn't do it. It would be like it has to be you, Katie. I can't do it.

I know, I know. Like it's an impossible task for most people. You're very, very patient and grant people a lot of grace. and I think that's probably why many people feel comfortable even coming to you and saying like, I feel kind of ashamed of this or like I feel a little betrayed. They're not necessarily going to say that to somebody. Like, for example, like Jonathan points out, me or Jonathan,

who might be like, okay, but like when he made fun of that disabled guy, like you were like, hell yeah, man, this is our fucking guy, you know. There's a, I mean, I have, I, I... A suspension of disbelief to a degree where you go, like, okay, I guess maybe that one didn't penetrate. But, you know, these are, these are, valid perspectives.

And that's why I also say that, you know what, you can't handle it, I get it or not can't handle it. But if it's like that is so enraging, then yeah, maybe, maybe dip out because that's valid and it's understandable. Yeah. I want to jump in to acknowledge a few people in the chat. I want to acknowledge more than just super chat people, but I'm going to start with MTN Brally, Jesse T.

Taylor 383, Mavibe, 1889, who says I might be mistaken, but have y'all reported on what's happening in Kansas in regards to trans folk? I think you're referring to the, there's a bathroom bill. Or wait, in Kansas, it was. There was the license thing that we did talk about a few months ago, and now there's another bathroom bill that's going through. But I'm not as up to speed on... List that they're compiling in, not Kansas. Where is it? It's somewhere else. basically like they need like they're requiring like anyone getting any sort any sort of medical treatment and or trans affirming care needs to be put on a list which will eventually become public information so it's ostensibly making a list of

people yeah we've got way too many lists in this administration in general they're putting like people a pro-Palestinian people on a list anyone who criticizes this war that criticizes the Trump administration in general, trans people, Muslims, et cetera lists highly terrifying. Luke Degner, Jesse Taylor, 383, who says we are a dream blunt rotation. Thank you very much. And also I'm trying to scroll back up and found the person who accused this of being pre-recorded and say, no.

This, this hot mess pre-recorded? No way, baby. Or else, how would I know that you said that? That good. But also no. Should we keep talking about some of these? Oh, my gosh. Trump just made a speech about a gift that he got from Iran just now.

Sorry, I'm just doing it as if we were pre-recording it. Yeah, what's going on? What's going on? What's going on? What, more updates on this or other? No, let's keep, we haven't even made it through. No. Pentagon has issued guidance.

Yeah, Ken Klippenstein had a report come out yesterday that dovetailed also with a conversation. We had a brief one yesterday. But he came out with this reporting that, yeah, the Pentagon issued guidance to private satellite companies about what language to use and what information about the war they're allowed to reveal. So that's wild. And none of these companies, they didn't want to go against the United States government because that's a big contract. So they're complying. But that speaks to the lack of information. I mentioned it on the show that came out today

about how, because they kept saying the satellite images, delay it a week, delay it a week, as though Iran and our enemies don't have access to their own imagery. Also, I mean, this is the, again, this is the administration that loves sharing any possible satellite imagery or video so they can cut it together with, I don't know,

a clip from war games or something, whatever they're doing. I would do that. Great social media. What would the private company, like obviously they don't think the private companies would be tweeting out satellite images. Oh, look what they just blew up.

I mean, the example that Ken Klippenstein posted was, and apologies if you just said this because I was checking something else. Incorrect example, strike successfully destroyed the facility. Correct example, imagery shows the structure largely collapsed with debris covering the building footprint. Right. I mean, they would still be, it's still like propaganda, even the incorrect example.

Strike successfully destroyed the facility is still government war propaganda. I don't see. Yeah. But this is them trying to, yeah, downplay things, obscure things. We got to control the narrative. Do not use target destroyed, strike successfully neutralized, mission objective, to make structure. Sorry, this is really fun.

This is, I mean, this is also, I mean, we've heard, we have all heard Secretary of War Pete Hegseth talk about the war. he uses such like big like war language like we we fuck we're going to rain hellfire down on them like he's constantly lethal kinetic strike all that kind of stuff and like no no no just say like the target was neutralized buddy said an example like why are you talking like that if you don't want anyone like that right they should send it they should send this memo to the department of war really um but uh it's not great it is chilling It just underscores what we've been saying this entire time that the information that's available is scarce and it shows why you can't, as if I need to convince anybody here or watching,

that you can't trust the spin from this administration. The, you know, this says 100 companies are licensed by the U.S. government to operate their own reconnaissance satellites, a six to seven billion dollar a year industry that serves military commercial customers with everything from methane detection to bomb damage assessments. But the big four have like names that they would have in a dystopian sci-fi movie. MaxR Intelligence, Planet Labs, Black Sky Technology, and Spire Global. Why would you want people to think of a black sky?

That's ridiculous. Yeah, at least be a little sneaky and call it Palantir for everybody who doesn't know what that's a reference to. You know, it's a bad thing from a book, but it's also a bad spy thing. Yeah. It's Lord of the Rings, Katie. Oh. Oh. They're going to say anything so that I didn't get publicly.

It's from Lord of the Rings. Guys, sooner or later, we are going to watch Lord of the Rings over on the old page. And that sooner is now. Nick, hit it. Everybody go over there. Real quick. Inspire. Sorry.

I'm noticing that we've got significantly more people. watching than have liked this video. Oh. I've been told that it's really helpful to encourage people to like video while we're doing it so that more people see the video in their algorithm. I don't know if that's true, but I just said it. I just said it.

No take back. This is live, baby. Thanks to... These all began with the forging of the great rings. Three were given to the elves, immortal, wisest and fairest of all beings. Seven to the door... I'm not going to continue.

Special thanks were given to Greg Wee in maximum Dracula. My joke, which I'm still going to say. Look at those likes just jumped up. I'm sorry. Is that Spire Global is typo. They meant Spice Global and that's from Dune. Oh, wait. Is it actually a typo?

No, it's Spire Global. Like, I know you said, you preface this by saying you were going to do a joke, but like it could be. Okay. But Spice Global would be the thing multi-global I guess. Or I guess, yeah.

Even more Dunes. We could do that. What's wrong with my mic? When does that movie come out? We have time to do even more dunes. It's coming out December. Currently the same day as Avengers, I think. Do you three in Avengers?

We'll do both. We'll do both. Do we still like Chamelay? Timothy. I like, if I was Chamonleigh. It's not Timothy, right? I think there's some stuff he might, not regret, but sort of like, course correct in some of his public statements.

But I'm okay with generally. the idea of like, yeah, you want to like do a good job. We want to like get your accolades and you want to like be one of the greats. That's fine, sports, whatever. But I do find the competitive aspect of it a little detrimental to the endeavor of creating art and celebrating art and artists. And turning it into like a spectacle. Like, yeah, I'm going to do like a tour. So like win the awards.

Like, well, we're all artists. We're making movies and stuff. I think there's some adjustment that could be made. But, you know, he's talented. Yeah. I'm going to see Dune 3, you know. Nobody answered my question. It's not pronounced Timothy, right?

It's Timothy. I think it's just Timothy. It's Timothy. I was really helping it. I have a friend who is a content. It is Marte Supreme and everyone gets it wrong. Oh, yeah, obviously. It's Marthee Supreme.

Yeah, no, I have a friend who just is convinced it's Timothy. And the amount of times I've said it's Timothy. No, she. She's wrong. I'm sorry. Check your misogyny. They are wrong. They are wrong.

It does have two ease and an accent. I get it. I mean, I think it should be pronounced Timothy. I just don't think that was the... I've heard it pronounced correctly enough where it's... Oh. I think it's just Timothy. Okay, fine.

We can move on from the... I mean, is he watching? Because then we can dig into all this stuff if he's... Hey, yo. I heard Kendall Jenner dumped him. I don't know if that's fake news. Oh. I didn't hear that.

After the Oscars. I'm sure he'll be fine. I don't know if it's true. Okay. We need to take a quick staying here ad break. Oh. Which, Cody, do you have? Cody's doing it.

I can. You know what? I'll be the end, but. Oh, what is the, you know, the situation? I don't know. Oh, my gosh. You know, I don't know about you, but I like keeping my money where I can see it.

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All right. Now for the rest of the stream, talking about the ad. We did it and that was great. Should we move on? Yeah, I think we should definitely move on from the ad part. Because we promote Tucker in the thing. Yeah, I'll talk about the thumbnail. We're going to talk about old tuck prior, Mr. Tucker.

So I'll preface this by saying you don't have to hand it to Tucker. You don't have to be like, you made a good point, Tucker. I hate you, I hate you, I hate you. Ah, ah, ah. Well, you made a good point, but also, ah. It doesn't even really make a great point. Okay. Okay.

He makes a point. He makes a point. It's not unique to him. And he makes it in a smarmy way, but whatever. Do you believe in that Israel's right to exist? Would you consider yourself a Zionist in that narrow definition? What does that mean a right to exist? The existence of the political state of Israel as it is existing.

But it has a right, what does that mean? But you think it should continue in its existence as a state right now. So you do not agree with Iran, for example. Let me just ask, since you asked me the question, it's fair for me to get you to define the term so I can answer it. You've asked two questions. The first was, do you believe Israel is a right to exist? And the second question was, do you believe Israel should continue to go on as a nation state? And those are very different questions.

So I often hear the phrase... Having been created as a political entity in 1948, does that state... Does it have a right to exist? Is that what you're asking? I don't want to get hung up on the right to. No, no. Should it continue to exist? That's how I define narrowly designed.

Because the phrase you used was devised by the Israeli government. Of course, does it have a right to exist? And so my question to you would be, what does that mean? Why don't you answer my question? I don't know what your question is. Are you asking, does it have a right to exist? Or do I want it to exist? Do I seek its destruction?

Fine, answer it that way. Well, of course I don't seek its destruction. I've already said, as you know, because I said it to you, I don't want Israel to be destroyed or have to use nuclear weapons. We've established that you are in that narrow terms of Zionist. I'm in no sense of Zionist. I don't want any country to be destroyed. and I at all, and I don't want people to die,

particularly ones who committed no crime, because I don't believe in killing innocence, period. That's the basis of Western civilization. Eastern civilization is a whole different view. They believe in collective punishment. I don't. Yes, you do. He 100% believes in collective punishment.

Really shitty thing that he said at the end there. Well, Cody, I'll, you know. Yeah, you're at prime. I mean, I just think that, uh, fuck this guy. he's saying something that isn't, again, it's not unique to him. It's not a point that he, like, invented. Also, his, I find his way of doing this

to be really, really smarty and gross and not super helpful, because he's pretending to not understand. He's playing dumb to, like, be like, what do you mean? What do you mean by that? Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, like that kind of thing. And it's more helpful, I think, to be very direct.

He knows the question. He knows why it's being asked. He probably knows how to answer it in a way. like even Mom Dani has been asked this question and he was like very straightforward like well I believe that you know they have right to exist as a secular nation where everybody has equal rights and things like that

if Tucker's really trying to get to the idea that oh like well what nation has a right to exist he should just say that and like get to the point instead of this weird smarmy thing that ends up getting him to this grosser even grosser stuff where he's talking about well the West is this way and he uses this way and they I don't believe in collective punishment

he absolutely does. He's always supporting sanctions and all these sort of acts that are collective punishment. So he does believe in that. Also, we're collectively punishing Cuba right now, our country. Exactly, which he 100% would support

and, like, has, you know, it's just, it's very dishonest. And I think that he knows what he's doing. He has this avenue that he, he's no longer courting, like, the boomers on Fox News. He's courting, like, the Nick Fuentes crowd and, like, all this, like, the people who are online watching his show. Not just the Nick Fuentes crowd, though.

Well, I'm saying like there's overlap. He knows what he's doing. He's taking that. And I think that it's just really, it's not helpful, especially for like any leftist or somebody who like does agree with his point to not be like, oh my God, I can't believe I agree with Tucker. You don't actually. He's got a whole other reason for thinking this. And he's got a whole other project that he's working on.

That's an important. I agree with everything you've said. Because what's tricky about it is that there's this vacuum left. And it's not that nobody said anything or hasn't spoken up, but there is something about Tucker Carlson in particular or when Marjorie Taylor Green says the thing that, yeah, we've been saying it all along. And there's something wild that happens

where you give it more importance perhaps. Or you're like maybe they're changing or what have you. It's like, no, this is actually very linear for him. He's only talking about this one issue. You're right. not talking about what we're doing in Cuba. He's not talking about the atrocities from ice. He's not on your team. But there is a feeling amongst people. And this is what I want to get to because it's, we're at an interesting and dangerous time for many reasons. But this obviously,

this conversation appeals to progressives as well in its own way. And there's a lot of chatter online about like, oh, is Tucker Carlson filling this void and appealing to essentially our crowd? And so everything that you're saying is so important. It's good to see somebody agreeing with us. And you can be like, great, that's fine. Thank you for saying that. And also hold all the awareness and context for who that person is, what their motivations are for saying this. Because that's a key thing.

This is, it's different. We are not the same. Yeah, and like, yeah, there's very clear context to him, and we know, and he's made so many other statements, and this is, it's very clear what he's doing. And he also knows he can have a clip like this, like when he's with Ted Cruz or like Huckabee or whatever. And we love that because not many people are willing to do that. And we hate Ted Cruz and we hate Mike Huckabee. And it's very, you know, it's very similar to the, like the start of when Trump was out there being like little Marco over here. Look at Ted Cruz. And we hate Mike Huckabee. And it's very, you know, it's very similar to the, like, the start of when Trump was out there being like, little Marco over here. Look at Ted Cruz and the sweaty zodiac killer on stage. Like it's just, we love that, but it's all in service of something that is also very bad. And Tucker

knows exactly what he's doing. He is a seasoned propagandist. And I just, I really, really, really caution anybody being like, oh wow, Tucker, wow, finally somebody. No, because everything else around it is part of it. There's this poison pill

he's trying to feed people by coding it with like, right to exist. What does that mean? And then like, well, the West believes this. And actually, like, it's all this other viewpoint. He's not going to criticize Trump for, like, going along with this and doing this. You're like, Israel, trick the president who hates war into doing this. No, he didn't. What are you talking about?

He wants to do this, too. It's really gross. Like, when he is critical, and here they're having this kind of semantic conversation about what the phrase means. But I remember Tanaasi Coates's answer a couple of. years ago talking with the Whiskey Friday guy, Tony DeCopal, about this and he gets this question. And the answer is like, well, I don't think places have the right to exist as an ethno state that treats some people differently based on their ethnicity. And Tucker doesn't say anything about that.

He doesn't say anything about ethno-states at all because he's a white ethno-nationalists and thinks America should be a white ethno-state. He spent years on Fox News railing against a great replacement stuff that he believes in. Like he is a racist, right nationalist propagandist. And also, he doesn't care because he wouldn't be saying any of this if he was still on Fox News because Fox News and Rupert Murdoch, they're all for the war. And he would still be for the war if he still had a very high-paying job. And even though we still see Tucker on our screen,

all the time. He's trying to build up his brand because he does not have the high-paying Fox News job he used to. Jesse Frickin Waters has that job. And so when he's not making the argument of like, hey, maybe it's not right to have an ethno state where some people are treated differently based on their ethnicity, you wonder what else he's, you know, getting at, what else he's upset about. I don't wonder. I know exactly what he's talking about. But I know, I know what you're saying. He doesn't actually care about Palestinians. He might invoke the image of, you know, murdered babies, but he doesn't, I don't get that. I don't, I don't, that's where it's all false. He does his performative, huh? What does that even mean? What does that even mean? I don't know. What are you

talking about? Babies are dying or whatever, but you know, you just, Pick and Jews, I guess. Yes, because of all the things you guys have already articulated. I do think it's worth checking out what they're saying from time to time so that you don't, how am I going to phrase this? Don't have editing. I think it's easy to get seduced by a clip online one way or the other. I think it's easy to take a clip out of context and imbue it with positive meaning and negative meaning. You know, people are like, oh, that's out of context.

with Charlie Kirk. Well, when you pull it back, actually, maybe you add more context, but you also get a fuller picture of who Charlie Kirk was, right? And the same thing with Tucker Carlson. If you're consuming these clips and getting swayed by it

in some capacity online, again, I am not under the impression that the people watching the stream are. But... They're all Tucker fans in there. They won't shut out. I love Tuck. Tuck is my backup.

So, yeah, thanks for the super chat. I love Tuck. tuck is the guy Tucker everlasting Tucker everlasting Okay But yeah no I'll just button it up

And say if you can stomach it And if we're media trained enough To understand and see through the lines And that's I'm not saying Oh everybody go up and consume all this bad content But if somebody is saying stuff It's worth checking it out and then realizing Oh

Same with Joe Rogan He might have a little clip where you're like Hey he's coming around and then you're like Never mind he doesn't In the next sentence he said the opposite. Yeah, obviously. And whatever, like, I think it's like, Home of the Brave is the name of the account that's always like, Tucker said something that, like, most of us would agree with. They really chop it up.

So it's just that thing. I was going to say, yeah, there's a reason, like, you ended up, like, we ended up talking about it. But, like, yeah, all these clips are cutting off where he's like, the West doesn't do collective punishment. And the East does, like, they're cutting out all the stuff that you could interpret. Joe will say these things that'll be like it's kind of crazy that they're just like there's ice everywhere and they're like beating people up

that's not great and then they'll cut the clip and then he'll be like but you got the open borders they let so many people in so you got to do something I don't know they're really in a tough spot or they'll say but what were those protesters doing there you know why are you out there at all

why are you getting roughed up you're putting whatever it is I'm not saying that's what Joe said but everyone's really fascinating time we're living through. But I do acknowledge that there is, although it's already, it's wearing off for me because it's happened enough,

but that first initial rush of Tucker Carlson said something I agree with. My goodness. Again, it's like knowing the context and knowing what his actual goal is and what his actual beliefs are and how he's using his rhetoric to like be a slimy little weasel. Like he's really slimy in that interview, even though he's making a point that people generally agree with

in that narrow way. And it's just good to check in, I think. Also, just to see, because somebody like him specifically, it's like nice to check in on in Rogan, I guess, to be like, what are the idiots saying today? How are they trying to spin their deep shame and regret? But with Tucker, he's much more calculated and viewing the landscape, obviously,

to monetize it more and to make more money and to get more attention. But also, maybe he's, looking for a political lane and he's building out his political lane now via these kinds of clips so that he can be like, I said this back in the day, ha, whatever. And it's just important to note that he is full of shit and he will always be full of shit. Literally the reason he is on TV is because he lied about knowing about the OJ trial and so they put him on TV. That's it. That's how it happened. That's how it happened. He wrote about it proudly. He's just full of shit.

I can't say that I feel pretty confident that things aren't going to really calm down once Trump is gone. We'll have to appreciate. I mean, I'm just. I will not be the first person to be like, we shouldn't be happy because all the bad stuff. We're going to immediately do this for six hours. Oh, no, no. I mean, that's, I've pre-planned several, at least one tweet that I want. when he dies.

That said, I'm just saying the specter in my mind of a future Tucker Carlson political career and whatever J.D. Vance wants to get up to with the help of Peter Thiel and all of that and the fallout from whatever it is we're doing everywhere, all around the world. but it would be a huge relief for at least that one. You think that's bad. Imagine if Phil Specter was in charge. Yie.

Okay, Cody. Do we want to shout out some people? Yeah. I'd love to. Let me jump in some people. Those likes are creeping up. Before we get to the real ones, Dave, ancient debris is at Y-Level 15, I believe.

I believe it's. Oh, Dave's in the chat. Dave's in the chat asking about Minecraft. I believe the answer is 15. The dude 2822 says that I'm already pre-canceled. What? Why? Oh, you can't be tweeting.

I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry. We're going to have to tell your employer what you said about Donald Trump. We got Saint for sale. Thank you. M. Nay, Heiserable. Thank you very much. Sonic P. Man.

We do have a few questions in here. Jonathan, with an H. So different from mine. Jonathan Emery 9301. Sailor Daigurin, 8225 asks, will we ever get plush warmbows in the merch store? And this has come up frequently. It comes up a lot, yeah. And I...

No, go ahead. Oh, no, I think the issue is always just like, we can't do it through our traditional merch store. We would have to like make. We'd have to like bespoke, make them, and sell them separately. And I think there'd be an initial burst. And then I don't know if people would keep buying it. We'd have like a steep decline or statured off, I don't know.

Sitting in all of our garages. But it does feel like a good idea. It's a good idea. What we really need to do, no offense to whatever our merch story is. No, fourth wall. Fourth wall, thank you. What we really should do is bring that all in-house so that we can control the quality of products. and pick and choose.

You're a little bit limited. Put a little, put a few drugs in each one. Put a little drugs in each one. A little LSD, a little bit. And I think, uh, just a treat delivery system. Nick has informed us that our provider of merch does plushes, but I am not sure they would do the quality that we, like, our, we have very high standards for other people.

Like, I don't even have one of those little rodents. Like, there's only a couple of them in existence and does it cheapen them to have so many more. But be nice. So there's also the conversation of is it. He respects him a little more than just some shoddy thrown together, little plush that's going to fall apart and won't have drugs hidden in them. Don't hold him like that. Sorry, he's fine. Strangling him.

This is a different conversation. Full-size warmbos? Or are we doing warm bows? size is like so unreasonable. Like, are you willing to pick that on? I can scruff wormbo. He's fine. I could start my own.

You can't scrub him. You had him around the neck, I think. It looked uncomfortable for him. I mean, he is screaming right now. It makes him comfortable. It makes it reminds him of when he's a little baby and he was picked up by his scruff. And then you would always scream in existential horror. Yeah, but that's how he expresses joy.

I know. I always forget that. It's like with your dog, you know, you project your human emotion. You can't do that to warm-bo. He speaks a different language. And we've got to teach them how to... Of warm-boat order now. I mean, I could start making them, me and Katie Golden, get the Katie's dream team.

If you're by hand doing them, then they are really, like, collector's items, kind of. Anyway, it's something we have thought about to answer your question. And as you can tell from our answer... Noted. Eventually, probably. We know people want them and we're open to it. Because, I mean, come on. Also, but then, like, there's been long time plans

to potentially add additional puppets and characters and stuff. And what would the market be for all of the, like the whole collection of all of the characters that you love but don't yet know? Exactly. Flashlin, Fox, et cetera. She's right there. Exactly.

She's right. I mean, She's in the studio waiting for us to utilize. Yeah. Has that one ever been seen on camera? Nope. Maybe a photo, but yeah, no. When I'm in studio, I play with her a little bit and like try to find a voice and I've taken selfies with her, but I didn't want to post it because I feel like that's

surprised. That's remarkable that there is a secret puppet that nobody here has seen that we have known about for a very long time. Just hanging out. At least four years, I want to say. yeah no i mean i've heard about this puppet for potentially as long as i have been doing this with you i also have i visited my uh home family recently for christmas not that recently a few months ago um and uh i took home a couple of old puppets that my dad had from when we were kids um and i've been slowly like i should introduce these puppets in the show they're very

creepy and I don't know if we should. It might not be the tone. It might not work, but they're very, very creepy and funny and I might, I might whip them out later. We could sell the little baby. The little, yeah, the warm blitz. The warm blitz. Yeah, affectionately called the warm blitz.

Got them pinned up on a board in the office right now. Like butterflies. Those little suckers were around for a while. They were like showing up in every episode for a while, making little, little, Oh, yeah. It was fun. Oh, no. It got to have grown up by now.

Basically, as soon as Warmba ran away and then kind of didn't come back, like, all right, we're done with the bits. We're not going to do bits for a while. He never left. Ah, you're right. Oh, my God. Hey, buddy. Where you been? I mean, I feel like one of these scripts soon just shove a eight-minute long Warmbo segment in there.

Completely irrelevant to the rest of the thing. We can work her into the one that I'm. going to host in the New York. Oh, we actually probably should. You're right. It's not a bad. Not a bad idea, me. And we'll credit you, all of you, for saying and doing it. Do we have any other questions we should get to? Here, let's keep going on another news story real quick and then we'll come back and we will, before we end, we'll answer a bunch of questions. How about that? President non-committal on GOP proposal to fund Homeland Security Department. So what happened was there was this deal, potential deal. We talked to

about it on the last episode where they proposed, okay, we'll fund just the bare bones DHS stuff, we'll get the airport chaos out of the way here, we'll get TSA back on, and ICE, you know, Democrats aren't voting for that, whatever, and we'll push through stuff in budget reconciliation. And apparently Trump rejected that plan. And so then today, they came back with a new plan that all of the Republicans in the Senate were like really excited about Katie Britt. They're all talking about, like, oh, we got it. It's going to be great. But then, and the Democrats were like, I don't know, because you just say you're going to shove through ice stuff in budget reconciliation and add a bunch of Save Act stuff in there to try to slip past

the Senate parliamentarian. I guess if you pay for all the passports, that's part of the budget. I don't know what they're going to try to do to sneak it in there. And then Trump was also like, he said he would take a good, hard look at it. But they're going to print it out. Come on. No. No, he's going to take a ninth good, hard look at the plans for his ballroom and then nap. Like, he's not going to be involved in this. He can read things. And because, like, obviously there's a lot of bad stuff going on, the TSA is causing people a lot of frustration.

There's chaos. Apparently there were two air traffic controllers. There was some misreporting that there was only one when the LaGuardia incident happened that there were two. Still doesn't seem enough to me, but I don't know much about air traffic control. But the point is, politically, the Democrats don't have much of an incentive to cave on this because obviously Trump is getting all of the blame because this is his deal. This is his fucking fault. Yeah.

So it's very, it's highly inconvenient for people who are flying right now. To Schumer's, I suppose, credit, he said, this does not give us the stuff we asked for with ice. even the bare bones stuff. And then trying to shoe shoehorn things in is also just so desperate. Oh, yeah. It's wild. The budget reconciliation thing is nuts. And John Kennedy, not that one, the guy who's a senator right now.

John Kennedy, talking about his, how is that guy. I've never heard of nothing before in my life. That guy. The stereotype of the Southern lawyer guy, like fanning himself as he takes away or right. that we got a global myth here? He was doing, I say, that, well, we're going to give it a bird bath, which is what they say when they're trying to get something in a budget reconciliation to like make it follow the bird, B-Y-R-D rule, which just is basically about how something needs to pertain to the budget if it's going to deal with budget reconciliation. And there's ways they can tinker with and do that so that the Senate parliamentarian, I don't know, so that Trump doesn't sick all of truth. social on them because I think the last one might have been fired.

I don't quite remember that. But still, there's like rules and junk that they would have to. Rules and junk. And they shouldn't just be able to put the save act into that. No, that's Matt. That's that. I'm going to re-rule that feels very anti-Maga. No, it doesn't at all.

It just is like, that's the kind of shit that people hate. Attaching things in all sneaky. I'm sure that they would like. I'm sure plenty of them. They say that they hate that. I'm sure that that 35% wouldn't give a shit, though. Mag, I just famously say a lot of things they don't like. So this is chaos.

This is just absurd. And yeah, he is taking the blame for the mess that he made, as it should be. Good for him. And you're right. I'm glad to hear that detail that that was just so chaotic when news breaks and you're trying to get information. But that said, you're right. That doesn't seem great. Well, and a lot of the investigators couldn't get there quickly because they were stuck in Houston in a four-hour TSA line.

Why? The Democrat shut down. Haven't you heard about the Democrat shutdown? Oh, well, they love shutting stuff down all the time, so I assume they're always shutting stuff down. Speaks to the doging that just happened. We are seeing in real time every day examples of what happens when you gut the government all willy-nilly. You get more efficient and you lower the deficit. it. Right. Oh, not that either. Oh, shit. That's an L. Sorry. I didn't mean to, that's wrong. That's wrong. But, but, but, no, but we're making jokes, but this is very serious, you know. People died, are dying. People are missing flights, which, okay, you missed a flight. But no, if this is your one vacation or you're getting home for work or, you know, your daughter's giving, whatever it is, the thing that you need to fly.

This is hugely disruptive. And again, these, this is, we're trusting our lives with these people when we're flying. And this really underscores, um, just how fucked we are across the board.

I keep thinking about abandoning people in Iran, uh, just declaring war at the drop of a hat and abandoning people. That's not related to this, but chaos, chaos. Yeah, a constant chaos. I mean, But I mean, I mean, you know, it is, it's a, I mean, I think we're talking about this on Monday, too.

It's an opportunity to do more pull-ups at the airport. So I think we can all- I mean, that is true. And, okay, I'm going to spend this real positive, because you're right. I'm going to piggy back off of that. Great. How often do you get to wear your airport finest? You know what I mean? How often do you get to be totally dolled up in the heels, your makeup, and strut your stuff.

because you have to dress for the airport books. You have to dress and present. So, you know, you don't get to. So another way to look at it is that you really are going to get to savor that uncomfortable outfit that you're wearing. You know, get the mileage out of it. Feel yourself. Well, I guess ICE is feeling you when they're their TSA business.

It is hard. It is frustrating to want to make jokes about this very serious thing and want to talk about this in a way that isn't just like, yeah. Because it's enraging. Ice at the airport. I mean, it's a horrifying reality that gets normalized far too quickly the presence of ice around, not to us, but to people in general. Oh, yeah.

And then, okay, so it's weird to have ice at the airport now, and then I get worried about, are they going to leave them there? They're going to leave them there after this is all resolved. Right. Is that, I mean, you've already seen people be like, well, yeah, they do this, and then the ice will be at the polling places. And then everyone's like, so there's illegal immigrants with the polling places? Like, that's not what they're doing it for.

Obviously, they've detained. American citizens and they go after everybody just based on skin color. It's not just like, well, then you're implicitly admitting that there are illegal immigrants who vote. Like, no, it's just a clear intimidation tactic for everybody. And I think Bannon suggested

ICE at the airports. And there was this clip on either News One or like One America or like US-Y, whatever fucking stupid channel is. One of those fucking bullshit channels. And a collar was like, Trump should put, he should put ice in the airports. And I'm just like, so did he see that and do it?

Are they seeing that? Does race questions, how long are they going to be there? And then what's the next step? Because it is his private army that he is just now seeing. I can send him anywhere. I can just send him to any place. Exactly. You need to keep up the ruse that their immigration enforcement

instead of your secret goon squad. That's what they are. And that's what he's doing. people see it at airports. What are these guys doing here? I know, you know, Bannon's like, and this is a test run for, Bannon just says shit.

He doesn't know what's going on. But I'm sure the thought is crossed Trump's mind. Hey, why don't I send my goon squad to polling places? I mean, the problem is, is that there's a lot more polling places than there are international airports. Whatever. They could do it. They can intimidate people.

It's going to be bad. Don't do it. Vote anyway. All that stuff. But, you know, I'm sure Trump is just like send dice to the 20,000 polling places and end the, I should win. What's the problem? Yeah, give me the list of blue states and send them there. Do, do win me.

Make me, I want to be, I'm president. Me be president more. Yeah, me president more. Me president more. You guys know that, Amy Moore Cowboy than you song? Never mind. Somebody out there does. Probably not.

Sound off the comments. substitute in president, whatever. Someone lit up when I said that. Do you guys want to watch Scott Jennings? Oh my God. Jennings? Yeah. Which one did you pick?

I sent Jonathan a couple clips of Scott Jennings today. Would you rather watch this one or the other or this one? Oh, God. They're both dog shit. He's evil. and this is the smarmy version where he's like pretending to not know stuff. This is the evil version where he's pretending to not know stuff. Oh, well, this one's quicker.

We'll do this one first and then see. Okay. Okay. Scott, is that unfair? I mean, to say we're going to bomb our little hearts out? I mean, it would be fine with me if we continue to bomb them. These are the worst people in the world. They've been at war with us for 47 years.

They want nuclear weapons. By the way, the reason that they're saying there are no talks while the president is saying there are is because they lie all the time. They sent their people out in February to say, oh, we would never have long-range missiles. We have no plans. And then what do we find out this weekend? They get 4,000 kilometer range missiles that can reach most of Europe. They missing context.

Why? Missing context. What are you saying, Jonathan? They're terrorists. I mean. So rich. I'm just out of the gate. Before, sorry.

Sorry. Like, I want you, Jonathan, you get to it all. I just have to point out that on day one, we blew up a school. Yeah. kill a bunch of girls. So when you say, of course we'll bomb the crap out of them. They're the worst people in the world.

Well, you're talking about those girls that we bombed to death, Scott, on day one. And then, like, later that day, he was out there tweeting, like, I'm getting word from official administration folks, and they say that there was an imminent attack, and so we had to.

He's just doing disgusting propaganda. He's so smart, smart, mean, gross. He's not even getting texts, by the way. He's just locked. Oh, of course not. making it up a whole cloth, but you go. Talk about, you do you. The thing about, because I was digging through this and we hadn't talked about

Diego Garcia yet, which is this tiny island in the Indian Ocean that has a joint U.S. UK military base and has since the 70s. And missiles hit like near on it but didn't destroy or impact any of the U.S. UK operations there. and then Israeli intelligence said, that was Iran. Look, this is the farthest they've ever fired missiles. It's thousands of miles. So now those missiles can hit Europe.

Europe should join us because Iran can hit you with missiles now. Even the NATO Secretary General, who's like on board with the war and likes the war, was like, well, we haven't been able to independently confirm that these were Iranian missiles. And so, I don't know. I don't know. Oh, Israel did it. It's a false fly. All that stuff.

We don't know that. But the fact of the matter is, is that Iran's capabilities have not been to fire missiles that far previously. And it seems like a dumb thing to do because that's what it would do is get Europe all scared to be like, oh, they can hit us with missiles. Now we could get involved. It seems to only help the U.S. and Israel and doesn't seem to help Iran at all. And it still may end up being them, but it's not confirmed. And Scott Jennings just blowing through that. Jennings is on it that makes me think it's probably not true.

Missing critical context. Whether it's true or not to say these are the worst people in the world and liars or whatever the phrase is can't be trusted. The United States can't be trusted. You can't trust a damn thing out of anybody's else. I'm just sorry. You go out there. Based on what? Based on what, Katie?

Based on what? I mean. You're right. I retract my statement. Thank you. I can't back it up. I mean, based on everything we've said here tonight, Cody. Oh, oh.

Yeah, it's upsetting to watch. I also saw, I did see him like three days ago. He tweeted about that missile. I was like, yeah, so they're capable of doing this. That seems pretty imminent to me. Well, if it all is true and lines up with what you're describing, it wasn't imminent until we bombed them and started the way. war.

So you can't, he's just, he's just, and he's such a bad propaganda. And I guess, in fairness to Scott Jennings, he's not the only one doing this. The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, CNN, it's all, like they're saying, Iran launched missiles at this base.

Their capabilities aren't great because it didn't, like, maybe, right? But it's, like, they jumped so quickly to being like, this is what happened, this is what happened. Whereas and Iran has taken credit for most of the bombing. It's done in the Gulf states here,

and they say, that's not true. We didn't do this one. And maybe they're lying, as Scott Jennings says. But, like, it just feels like we took, like, three weeks before anyone was like, yeah, we did, I mean, not quite three weeks. What was it? Ten days before they were like, yeah, we did the school.

That was us. We did the school. And this one is very, very quick, and we might get other news at some point, and this only happened three days ago. And, you know, I didn't, like, there were so many things, Katie, as we were always talking about, I didn't even know much about Diego Garcia. I know. Can you believe it? I don't know. This is just something I've been thinking about that's not related to everything. Just the overwhelming crush of information all the time and stories and need to have context for everything.

There's just so much happening at any given time. Are you guys, are you guys doing okay? I think I'm doing okay in general, but sometimes I think I'm doing okay in general, but sometimes I'm like, my brain can't handle this. I can't handle this. I'm not taking time. I'm not, and I'm good about taking time, but are you sometimes I, even I catch myself being like, you need to step outside. And yes, folks, touch grass, do something else, whatever it is. I mean, I like to go outside that changes my mood. But whatever it is.

But yeah, it's just, it's like in order to feel, not just feel, to be prepared for the stuff that we do for the meetings, for the different scripts and the episodes and these shows. And there's, you have to be actively researching and learning at the same time constantly. Yeah. Same if you're the president. Same if you're the president. Anyway, I was just giving you space. How you doing? It's good, good.

I appreciate the candor. It helps. It's very obvious also, like, in the situation where, like, Jonathan, you went and you looked into all this stuff. Like, okay, I got to learn about this now. I got to go, but also, I can watch Scott Jennings and go, oh, you're lying. Sure. You know, there's like, there's, like, there's, like, markers. There's not.

But when we're talking about a war with regions that maybe we don't know, and then you want to look into it and learn more. Or you've heard about it. You know something vague, you know. Yeah, you want to be more. Absolutely. But you need to be. Well, and you need to, like. I was being.

Because his overall point had nothing to do really with that specific thing. Oh, they lie all the time and like whatever. Like they're a world government. He never knows what he's saying. He's just, he's just, uh, but it is like, I see something like that. And then I go, oh, I heard about this thing. I should probably know what that's about. And then when I start looking into it, I gauge how much time I should spend on that

because I don't have unlimited time. None of us do. And then I like, sometimes, as you guys know, sometimes I go to, Nick, after the show, and I'm like, hey, I said this thing very confidently. And I was wrong about it. Right. Yeah. And we have to figure out because we want to be buttoned up.

We do that on the show all the time. And it does help as horrendous as everything is to make it work and focus on it as work. Yeah. For sure. I mean, maybe that's cold. No, but it helps compartmentalize yourself instead of being only overwhelmed by all the stuff. It's how you have to, you have to navigate. it somehow. But that's why this like

I don't know. With the live stream there is a bit of a we're all in this together type feeling at least us like us and the people here because you wouldn't watch us for this long if you, I mean I know people who just watch certain shows but Oh yeah. Oh yeah, drop it in the

chat if you're hate watching this right now. Are you hate if you like if you can hate this shit just let us know. Should we throw up another poll? How many people are hate watching? Do you like most of it but sometimes we do that thing we do and you're ah I wish they would stop doing this or like why don't you talk about

how much you love the president more or whatever it is or a lot of people talk about Timcast in the chat actually listen it's hard not to be a fan both things there's got to be people I mean yeah I mean he rhymes heart with heart it's really good

are you hate watching and then the next poll Nick should be did you answer that previous one ironically or were you being serious? No yeah please clarify and then the next one be like okay this is the serious one This is a serious one. For real, and then the final one,

just be like, okay, but like we, you like, you like us, right? You like you very much. Gentlemen,

I'm going to take the advice you've given me so many times, which is to just, like. Get up and pee? When I need to. Thank you for saying it. Nick,

I mean, you know. Take me out of the shot. I could do a, I could do a Wikipedia song real quick while you're gone. Or you could talk about something. I was going to suggest we could play

either another, Scott Jennings clip and not subject Katie to it or do Andreessen now. Oh, we can. I'm open. I don't know if we want to poll that. Would you rather see

us slash Cody specifically mock Scott Jennings further or Mark Andreessen, the guy who knew the people who made Netscape? And we have to make a decision quick because dead air is dead. Let's talk about it. Andreessen.

Okay, great. Scott Jennings. That guy's a piece of shit. Also, before we move on from Jennings, the guy he's talking to in that clip is Miles Taylor, who was in the first Trump administration.

He was, I'm anonymous. We are the people holding the down, we're keeping things strong here. And then he became a forward party guy and he has a, or had Havana syndrome. I don't want to get into that. All right, right.

But he's also, after people kind of shared this clip and he went on CNN last night. He was like, by the way, Scott Jennings during the commercial break is always one of these guys who's just like, yeah. Well, we love doing this. What a good gig I have. I don't have to believe in anything I say. That was a great point you made when you were pointing out that I'm a stupid liar. How full shit I am.

Yeah, you know how I fucking suck? Awesome point. I saw that tweet. It's really, really shameful. him to just be doing that. And also, and we've said this before, we'll watch this stupid clip. CNN, you gotta, you gotta stop.

It is so embarrassing that you keep having that person on and paying him money. You pay him money so that he can lie and then you're like, other people can fact check him. It's such a waste of everybody's time and money, what a fraud, okay, what's this guy say. And Abby Phillips, I think, is the host of that show. she and I assume they have a good rapport because Scott Jennings does not seem to mind that she's like

that's not a that's not true and that's a bad point and here are the reasons why and he just sits there and takes it yeah and then goes on to his next bit of bullshit that's the deal that's because that's they signed like at least she has the job where she gets to do that and she can and she does and she's a good job but like the fact that they just like you're here so that we can do this is just so embarrassing how much do you think he gets paid too much I know he's in I mean it's got to be in Like $200 something,000. Six to seven figures, right? Like, it's up there.

He's on all the time. He's on all the time, though. He just is a smug dick. Whatever. We're here being smug dicks. I guess, but like, we're not, like, when we pause or, like, go, like, are we're going to take a break before the Patreon live stream. We're not like, man, I can't believe they fucking bought it.

Oh, my God. This is so easy to fucking lie. Like, it's just so, fuck that guy. I mean, if we were interested in. doing that we would have changed our philosophical outlook. What a fucking grip. A lot of time ago. Sorry, Katie.

Hey, Katie. Is Mark Andreessen at all? We just kept talking. All right. We're going to watch a 30 second part of this. We're not going to watch this whole thing. Yeah, there's so much to say about this guy. For the word, I was like, maybe not this clip tonight.

This is Mark Andreessen on Smart Tech Guys podcast presented by Ramp or whatever. And you probably know, if you go back, before 100 years ago, it never would have occurred to anybody to be introspective. Like, it's the whole idea. I mean, just all of the modern conceptions around introspection and therapy and all the things that kind of result from that are, you know, kind of a manufacturer of the 1910s, 1920s. Say more about that. Great men of history didn't sit around doing this stuff at any prior point, right? It's all, it's all a new construct.

It was, you know, first Western civilization had to kind of invent the concept of the individual, right? Which was like a new concept, you know, several hundred years ago. What is with these dudes and like Western civilization did all the good? It's a way that they can be racist with without it being too explicit, right? Like, if you divide it from the, like, west and the east, then you can talk about these, like, big cultural ideas without being explicitly racist.

But they all talk like that. It's very, very silly. Also not true, obviously. There's so many great thinkers of the past. Throughout history, hundreds, thousands, thousands of years. Talking about the conversation of introspection and the self. It's very...

It's like thousands of years. Yeah, it's absurd. People are contemplating existence. And also like, and, you know, it's very clear that he is kind of using a lot of these terms interchangeably and not really nailing what introspection actually is. He seems to be talking about like a rumination.

He talks about guilt a lot. Like, well, yeah, like, introspection leaves the guilt. No, it doesn't. unless you have things to feel guilty about, in which case it's fine to like explore that and come out the other end. But it's just on its face a very absurd thing. And this isn't the most important part of it.

But I do think there is this sort of underlying element to this. Because there's also a clip of Peter Thiel talking about this concept of like introspection was invented in like the last 50 to 80 years or something. It's a brand new concept that was pushed by a certain group of people to lead to, like the destruction of the West or whatever. And he's talking about how like, yeah, after like the 50s and 60, like the six, like after Woodstock actually is what he said. After Woodstock, that's when people got introspective.

And that led to all of our problems. And it's just like, A, that's absurd. Also, you're not talking about introspection in an honest way. You're saying it's like if you're introspective, you automatically feel guilty. Why do you think that? And Dresen. And so it's very, very silly. But also it's this sort of weird effort by him and people like Peter Thiel.

who want you to stop thinking about stuff. They want you to use their AI apps and all these like LLMs to do your thinking for you and to do all of your work for you and to outsource all of these things to. So of course they're going to go out and go introspection. It's for losers actually. Real people just do.

And they don't question their decisions. They don't think like, oh, maybe I could have done this differently. There's nothing there. It's just action for action's sake. And again, this isn't important as much, and I just want to read this passage from Umberto Echo's erfascism essay. Tenet number three, irrationalism also depends on the cult of action for actions sake. Action being beautiful in itself.

It must be taken before or without any previous reflection. Thinking is a form of emasculation. Therefore, culture is suspect, and so far as it is identified with cultural attitudes and so on so forth. I just wanted to point out there is an element of this that is like, no, real people just like, they just do stuff. And they don't think about the consequences. They don't think about any aspect of the doing. They just do.

And that's the important part. And I think it's very telling that he and Teal are both saying this and talking about it and trying to communicate to the general public that you shouldn't think. And you shouldn't think about your actions or decisions or introspect at all. It's absurd. It's very silly. there are so many people that have done in the past and he is not a deep thinker at all. Say we give him the benefit of the doubt and say he's talking about rumination instead of introspection.

Great. And then we have to further give him the benefit of the doubt to say like he's talking about societal trends and like after the 1910s and 20s and Freud and stuff, there was a increased emphasis on what was going on internally and internal emotions. And like, sure, we don't know exactly how people in previous society's previous centuries thought about the self and all that stuff. You have to really give him the benefit of the doubt. But he says it wouldn't have occurred to someone to do that.

And he makes it clear. He's talking about individuals. He's saying like the great thinkers of the past wouldn't have done that. And to say that great thinkers didn't ruminate is absurd. Because anyone like Van Gogh had depression, right? Like you don't like you don't need to come up with any examples. It's absurd on its face. And so once you...

I think there are. Therefore, I'm too, I'm too ridden with guilt. That's not how it goes. Yeah. It does feel like ultimately, if you're to read between the lines and unpack it, you guys don't need to worry about the fallout from all this shit. You don't need to think too hardly or overthink what this tech future we're gazing at this abyss, the ramifications. You don't have to overthink this. You don't have to feel guilt or not feel.

It's a new concept. that we care so much about individuals and individual rights, et cetera, it's hard to not feel like that's part of the end game here. There's also something inherent as if these things are bad, that this new development, that this more recent, recent, short, trend of introspection, as if that hasn't vastly improved people's lives, their relationships,

their ability to exist in society in general, to regulate their own emotions, have empathy for each other, connect, find ways out of conflict, all the things that come from being able to have introspection. End of point. Yeah, he's not a deep thinker.

Also, as Jonathan alluded to, before we shared the clip, he claims to have invented Netscape, I believe, is the browser. He was part of a team at a university that got government grants to do that. And he was a part of it.

He doesn't need or deserve the disgusting wealth that he has to give capital to cheating and gambling apps, which is most of what he does. I mean, he was also the co-author of Mosaic, the first web browser, browser to display inline images and co-founded and later sold the software company Opsware to Hewlett Packard and co-founded Ning, a company that provides a platform for social

networking websites. So he should get to decide who lives and who dies. Yeah. That's the deal. That's the deal that he made and he complains about all the time. It's also, sorry, this whole diatribe about like, yeah, like a. Specture's bad and like feeling guilty and like whining like stop he did it for three days after this clip was published he like just freaked out was like I'm actually right and he crashed out and

he's like all these tweets about how yeah feeling guilty or whining is like that's the mark of a bad think or whatever um you complained about how you made a deal with the general public by being like a creator of mosaic I guess and how the public they and that's a case they got rid of the deal. And now, now, like, we don't get anything. And he's made a career now of complaining about how he doesn't get enough respect, which sounds to me like his definition of introspection. So maybe he doesn't know what he's talking about.

Shall we do a quick Q&A here before we jump over to the Patreon exclusive stream? How does that sound? Sounds good. Let me go and look at some of these. We get some questions. That's a yes from someone who says on Twitter. When will Cody play Freebird? I'm going to try to, like that, not that's not a real question.

At Gutak, that's good, but I don't know if he can do that. I do that. I do have a book of every single Beatles song ever from A to Z. So if you have requests that wise, I could give it a shot. But I will not be playing Free Bird ever. He was singing, he was doing Haltor Skelter. I did. Katie was feeling a certain way.

And I was like, Katie, what? song do you want to hear from the Beatles? And she said, Helter Skelter. So I gave that a shot. At hoodie sleeves says, can you shout out my cat, Kibby? Kibby! Kibby! They're doing it. Kibby! Kibby! We love you, Kibby.

Kibby better than Kwibi. Yeah. Okay. At Cannibal Communist asks, how dangerous do you think a Tucker Carlson ticket in 2028 would be. I'll answer. That's the one. Yours is better. Yeah, I don't think

Thank you. Mine's more of a I honestly don't think I mean he's probably going to try, he's probably going to give it to go. He's definitely like carving out his lane. I don't think he can do it. I don't think he's going to be able to pull it off in the way that like

in the way that Donald Trump did. I don't think he really has that ability that Trump does. But I obviously could be wrong. Who's to say? I hope that he doesn't do a good job and can't get the, like his coalition's so weird that he's trying to build. It's like this weird fractured, like, I guess all the like other people, like,

I'll pick you up and you can join me. I just don't know if it's got the juice for it. but that's mostly a hope. I agree. Different kind of juice than Trump has, and I don't think the right juice. I think post-Trump is juice is not the right kind. I don't think it can work.

Probably not, but maybe. I don't know. I honestly, I wouldn't have thought Trump had the juice the first time, and I kind of thought people would go for it. the second time, depressingly, but there's a lot of things that I can't see the future. There are moves needed to make. Yeah.

Alliances, things said that can change the course of, we'll see. I'm nervous about it. I mean, I think, you know, obviously, like, whenever we, like, say anything like that or predict anything, like, yeah, but maybe not, you know, like, here's, like, my assessment and I hope that I'm right, but obviously, like, it could happen. And that would be very, very bad. but I think also there's something about him that is unpleasant in a way like the the Trump unpleasantness it's not the same kind I don't know I don't know

blame on the Dems and the horrible candidates I'm not sure what you're referencing new or Yank 2247 I mean you know I think that obviously there's an issue with like that's why we talk that's why we talk about this right is like well who's going to be the Republican guys, it's going to be Vance, he doesn't have the juice, is it going to be Tucker, whatever, and all of that is part of this other conversation. It's like, well, who are the Democrats actually going to be capable of putting up that is worth like that, you know. That is part of the conversation for sure.

We don't know what the, what any of this is going to look like, what the matchup will be. It all feels so impossible because I don't, I don't look at the field of potential Democratic candidates and feel very enthusiastic. We got Gavin Newsome out there. What did he say today? He didn't say he adores, reveres Israel or something.

He's walking back. He regrets saying apartheid. There was some other phrase. There was a phrase. The thing he said like 10 days ago, like he can't just like all I want is for him to believe in

honestly, not all I want. I want. I want him to change the way he feels about a lot of stuff. Sure. I would like him to just have an opinion and that you could believe that he believes it. Dude. This guy. Like, good luck getting that out of him. Because, man, it's like, the fact that you did that days later, it's like, so you just got,

you just like, you just want to be the president so desperately. Oh, yeah. That's. I'm trying to find the exact quote. But yeah, I hope I said it. No, no. But there was another part of it. There was another part of it, a word choice that particularly pinged me.

that was, I revere the state of Israel or something that. He did say, yeah, I revere the state of Israel. It was revered. I thought I was taking a wrong word. You don't have to do that. Yeah. So when you take into account, what makes the Tucker thing scary, and I don't actually think it's going to be scary.

We've had this conversation tonight. I trust our voters to... I don't know. I don't know. I'm not going to finish the sentence. You trust our voters to do what? The vacuum, speaking of the vacuum, especially on this particular issue,

the vacuum of people, or potential candidates coming out and saying the right things is frustrating. It's very frustrating. Scary. But that doesn't mean that I think Tucker Carlson

will be our next president. I mean, in fairness, Newsom would wipe the floor with him. I just don't like him and I don't want him to be the candidate part where it's like he's like effective politician in the politics part of it and doing that but I just yeah I know at Spone 01 asks any good news you guys are following for a pallet cleanser uh yeah punch as a girlfriend the punch you did you did let us know a couple days ago to punch as a girlfriend Jonathan, you reacted to it.

You hearted it. I did. Punch has a girlfriend, and then I saw another video where his girlfriend was getting harassed by another male monkey, and Punch defended her on her. It was so cute. That's not my real answer,

but it is the first one. Mar-a-Lago flipped. The Demi-Lago. Here I got it. Democrats flip. Florida House seat. They flipped a district. Well, anyway, they did it.

It includes Mar-a-Lago. This was a Trump plus 11 in 2024 district, and then the Democrat one by like a point and a half or something. Yeah, that's all right. Also, the thing I was going to bring up is that Open AI is shutting down SORA, and Disney's like, we were going to give you a billion dollars. Nah. Oh, I thought this was the future.

I thought Hollywood was cooked. Yeah, well, man, they're simmering. Hollywood is simmering. Yeah, it's excellent. A part of the announcement included a, what's the fucking guy's name? Sam Altman. I try to block him out of my brain every couple of days. He did a statement basically seems to imply that they're kind of shutting down all of their video generation.

Mm-hmm. The elements of, yeah. And that is interesting and I think pretty telling. Yeah, the deal's been canceled. They're like, oh, yeah, we're so sorry, but we got to get rid of this. And the fact that they are getting rid of the video generation element of it tells me, A, the push was not effective and people know that it's garbage slop and doesn't actually have the juice to like make money or be worthwhile and be worth people's time.

but also, as we've seen with something like GROC, I think there's probably something there that they were just generating stuff that's really, really disgusting and probably illegal. And they realize, like, they can't put enough safeguards up to prevent that kind of behavior. And so they have to shut it all down, which is great that they have to shut it down.

It's bad that that was happening. But that, I mean, that's speculation, but it does seem like there's probably something there. They realize, like, oh, we can't have this available to people. John Bainbridge points out, to be clear, Sora dropped a video first, then Disney pulled out. That's true. Sora's like, or open eyes like, we can't do this. It's also, I think, way too expensive to generate that much stuff and is not bringing them any sort of profit. Exactly. Yeah, it's not the thing that they said. Oh, yeah, this is the wave of the future. It doesn't help kids cheat on their

homework or adults cheat at their jobs as much as chat chvety does so uh yeah so disney's like great we'll get our billion dollars back and uh we'll make our own slop don't worry yeah did you see this thing that we got the rock doing he's wearing a wig he's standing in front of a big yeah we don't need your garbage we've got our own stinky stinky garbage we have to light it all so painfully flat so that we could do we could put him wherever we want maybe moana will be on the moon Stop making stuff in the volume. Stop it. It looks so bad.

It looks so bad. Stop doing it. So that's the good news that we're talking about. Meta must pay $375 million for violating New Mexico law and child. A lot of these companies are being coming to fruition. Like, oh, because I've seen those headlines like, oh, yeah, Mexico, like all these lawsuits, like they're realizing like, oh, it's really bad for. for young girls. Meta also realizes that they're

bad for young girls and children generally. They always have. They keep doing it and they've known for a very, very, very, very long time and their behavior has not changed. So it's good that they are facing minimal consequences because they also wasted

I'm pretty sure $500 billion on AI trash. So this $375 million for endangering children seems like a drop in the bucket compared to what they're willing to pay to just everybody's brain. It's one of those things that that is good news.

Yeah, I mean, it's good news. We've known the extreme destruction that's been going on for so long and he's worth so many billions and et cetera, et cetera. But this is important and it's technically good. Hey, it's interesting that he dresses differently for the legal deposition than he's, does to go on the Joe Rogan experience. Where's his enormous shirts? Yeah, dude.

You're really not blinging it up here. I thought you were more affable and likable when you're wearing that enormous shirt and chain. Not a lot of masculine energy here in this deposition. Feminine energy coming off his deposition right now. We should go back and be like, we didn't make fun of him enough for this. Let's watch the entire episode and mock Zuckerberg.

Zuckerberg's gotten off so easy because of all the other freaks. Yeah, worse, more vocal people. He knows if I hide a little bit, if I'm not in the public eye as much, then I'm not going to get a lot of heat. Musk is such that we really can't. He sucks up all the energy. Yeah. The oxygen in the room.

I agree. Completely? Everything you're going to say. I agree with you completely. Do you think it's time to switch this party over to Patreon? Yes, let's thank a few more people real quick. A few more people. As many as I can get you.

Nothing is wrong with feminine energy. Thank you. Old Greece. MTN Dog Rally. Ernor 15. Nobody invited you here. Left for 20. Et cetera. Again, thank you. Just juke.

Thank you all so very, very much. Thanks everyone for being here for putting in your questions, for taking part of the chat, for watching us at night. You may be up late. You may be up late. It's like 11 for some people. Afro man is good. Oh, yeah.

Cher do shaggery asked me and I happen to see a genuine question, how can I help engage the average person to be more civil? I love this question and I want to think about it a bit more and answer you at a future date. It requires a lot, so I think it's a nuanced answer. I'll be honest. It does require a little bit of restraint at times

to not just say, you're a fucking idiot. But by asking questions is the first thing I'm going to say is by asking questions and trying to get curious about where they're coming from. And you really cannot predict. I mean, for some people, you might predict what their answer will be. But you might be surprised. And that's, and creating space for it by saying, no, no, no, I, I can judge you. And if there's something that you can reflect back, these are also basic.

skills with relating to people or trying to understand people or just you can rephrase what they've said as a question back. So let me get this right. You're saying this, this, this, did I accurately encapsulate your opinion? And if there is something in there that you can say, like, I see what you're saying about this element to validate and then say what that brings up. for me or that makes me feel XYZ instead of coming at it from a perspective of you were wrong, you did this, you did that, you got to create just for myself, if I'm going to be brought to a point

where I'm going to admit that I've changed my feeling about something or have that shown to me in some way, I need to feel safe. And I think that that's a really hard thing to do. So it really depends on your relationship. And I'm going to keep thinking about this question and give you more answers, but that's my start. Back to the thanks. Thank you. Shear douchbaggery for that question. Just don't be a douchebag.

Or be a douchebag. I don't know. Be a shared douchebag. Yeah, thank you guys so much for all of your support for being here with us. Over the years, I said this on the show. Was it last week? It's all blending together. I feel gaslit all the time.

I feel like, how can I be seeing this? How can I be lied to my face like this? Am I wrong? Am I wrong? And then I realize this community that we have. And I don't feel alone. And it helps ground me. So I genuinely appreciate you guys so much.

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